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What happened there?

How are you feeling about that?

Why'd you get all weird about that?

What happened?

Why'd you look to your right mid-sentence?

Because the mic did not pick up when I started that.

The mic was not on when I said this episode, and it threw me off.

It was.

It was.

It was.

Don't worry about it.

Everybody heard you.

Because sometimes you get a countdown and it'll throw you off.

Don't worry about it.

You threw me off.

Yeah, it did great.

I don't know why so many people are piling on on you.

You nailed that Bills Dolphins game.

Thank you very much, Mike.

I should be used to it by now, but I'm not quite.

It's okay.

I'll get over it.

The Patriots had five turnovers yesterday.

I saw something that I don't often see in that game.

Mike Vrabel, not late in the game, not in a desperate situation.

Fourth and one from his own 16-yard line went for it.

Fourth and one from his own 16.

I still can't get used to some of this stuff.

I know all of these coaches have gone crazy now when it comes to fourth and short.

Most coaches, college and pro, now know that they were doing the math all wrong for, I don't know, a century before that.

And now they all go for it.

Techn one of the 16 is still nervous.

He's a crazy person.

He said he was going to cut off his pecker.

Like, the guy's insane.

He's since walked that back.

Well, he was the Titans coach back then.

He said if they want, he would cut off his

pecker in order to win a Super Bowl.

And now with the Patriots, they had five turnovers yesterday.

Aaron Rodgers ends up winning and going to 2-1, but the Steelers' offense didn't look particularly good.

The Patriots were four for four on fourth down in that game right till the end when they needed the last fourth down conversion and did not get it.

That's one of the five games I would mention is worth talking about yesterday.

I reluctantly will throw Jacksonville and Houston in there.

Houston is the lowest scoring offense in the sport.

How crazy is that?

CJ Stroud sucks, huh?

Get that team off televisions everywhere.

I cannot watch this team.

They are so unpleasant.

I get angry watching them because I do believe them to have talent.

And maybe I should forget what C.J.

Stroud did as a rookie.

We were all on his tip.

He's not that good.

Whoa.

That's a breakdown you're not getting on get up.

He's talking about a pecker.

Getting up?

Whoa.

I mean,

they have some talent right i don't that's a bad organization the jags were trying to lose that game they had five drops in the game the jags do everything wrong at the end of games like everything i saw that game on the schedule i was like no no don't do this to us they they play twice were you actually looking at the run i was i was so hungry for a week and three and you come up with houston and then jags like no no no why is this game this game is an affront to football get this off just skip it the next time they're scheduled to play find two other teams to play it's just bad i hate bad old stinky quarterbacks.

I hate them.

Another half a team.

Another half a team.

Good defense, no offense.

How do you guys feel in general about the limits on offense all over the sport?

All over the sport that you have every quarterback throwing for 160 yards.

Well, I mean, is Houston going up against a great defense every game?

That can't possibly be it.

I saw Tyrod Taylor move the ball against Tampa Bay, which, by the way, good team.

Let's talk for a second about how Aaron Glenn feels about that wonderful celebration after

Baker Mayfield produced not one, but two game-winning drives in that game.

Two game-winning drives in that game.

Baker Mayfield now has four game-winning drives this season, and they've only played three games.

That throw to Abuka.

And the catch.

Abuka's come into the league.

He's wide receiver one.

He is so good.

He's so amazing.

That game was so great.

And by the way, as aesthetically pleasing a game as you could see.

Those white creamsicle uniforms at home.

It just

looks so different.

What is more valuable to a football team if you're not putting up your best effort?

Because we have not seen a complete game from Tampa Bay this year.

They've been in tough betting spots.

What more do you want as a special trait from your quarterback than to do that?

What is more valuable in the final minute?

I know this guy's going to do it perhaps multiple times.

They're injured.

And not only did they do it multiple times at the end of that game, you're mentioning Abuka, but Mike Evans was out.

Like he got injured, and so it's not just that both his tackles are out.

Now Mike Evans' Hall of Fame receivers out and still two game-winning drives against the Jets.

Wasn't it just last week you were talking about Baker Mayfield that he's one of the three or four quarterbacks who they have the ball late in the game.

We think they're going to score.

We all knew how it was going to happen.

You saw how much time was on the clock after while Aaron Glenn is dancing.

And you're like, don't do this.

Don't do this.

he's Baker's got to find a way, and he always finds a way.

But Abuka is a great, that dude is a great player.

And while Mike Evans is off, there's talk that Chris Godwin, who's another one of the great players to watch in this league, so fun to watch.

Godwin's coming back, so hopefully, there isn't that much of a drop-off because they have Philadelphia next, and there has been a thorn in Philadelphia's side over these last few seasons.

Remember, Philadelphia had to reshape their entire offense the last time they played Tampa because they got blown the out.

When I say Baker Mayfield league MVP, I'm not even kidding.

I mean, it used to be words that would be ridiculous in the same sentence, but

the way he's winning games.

It's not ridiculous.

He just has that ability.

I mean, Daniel Jones, Justin Herbert, who are the MVPs right now, I can make an argument for Baker being number one on the list at this point.

And it's not like system plays.

It's not, it is very much.

individual efforts.

He makes plays.

He makes stuff happen.

He becomes Steve Young in certain moments when they need plays with his legs.

And that throw that he made to Book.

It's just it's not many people can do that on this player.

I know that a lot of analysis excludes what I'm about to say, which is one of the reasons that the football got worse in week three here is because people aren't as fresh.

They haven't had months off anymore.

Now they're going week to week again.

Some of the quarterbacks are out.

And so your ability to win games when your team is injured, he's Baker Mayfield is without his tackles.

They're winning games against teams that have pass rush.

And when we're talking about this and you guys are saying Baker Mayfield for MVP, and I'm hearing then, unless you say Daniel Jones,

imagine that conversation.

Two and a half years ago.

Baker was in the MVP conversation like halfway through last season also.

He had a great last season also.

No, I think we're here on Baker Mayfield where we've decided this guy is an upper echelon.

You can win a championship with Baker Mayfield.

There's no more question.

Right, if Baker Mayfield were caught, like this is Baker Mayfield, when maybe there's still some, well, not maybe.

There are probably still some questions about Daniel Jones.

We are here with Baker Mayfield.

But Baker can also lose you a championship, which is why he doesn't win the MVP.

Because Baker is capable of blowing you some games, also, which is what always ends up happening at some point in the season.

And then he takes himself out of the MVP conversation.

I just love that he's fearless and that everyone sort of has to backpedal when he's got the ball at the end of games.

Aaron Glenn was confident.

That was so silly.

Does he not like, I'm on my couch being like, there's a lot of time.

Does he not know that he's coaching the Jets?

You're not going to transcend the Jets.

It's like walking to like Greg Cody in the music.

I know to the couch.

There's two things.

There's two acts of God here.

You're the Jets, and that's Baker Mayfield with time.

They're away.

Why are you dancing?

You got to know that's not going to age.

Well, that is a rookie head coach.

Let me explain to you that Chris Cody, do you know how odd and sort of earth-shaking it is for the Jets to get a lead late and send Chris Cody, who I know to be allergic to books and research, sent him immediately to the internet to wonder whether or not yesterday was a historic day for blocked kicks.

I was like, there are a lot of missed blocks and misses.

I'm like, there's a lot of misses today.

Let me do the numbers.

I'm going to crank the numbers out.

I'm going to go to every game log, see all the kicking stats.

And I learned based off the average, it was just a slightly below average day.

How much time did you spend today?

A good 14 to 17 minutes of going through game logs, doing all the math of all the field goal percentages.

What is that?

Like, what exactly did you do in terms of like the game?

Every game.

I went looked at the kickers' field goals in every game.

So, like, I have it in my phone actually, where in this game, they were four of seven, the kickers were.

In this game, they were three for four.

There was only three games yesterday where the kickers were perfect.

There were misses in every other game.

Some games had like four misses.

It ended up being around 76, 75% yesterday field goal kickers, while the average is slightly above 80%.

But blocked kicks, returned for touchdowns, had to have been historic.

Yeah, I mean, I didn't look up that specific one.

It was more just misses in general.

That's the one that I'm most interested in.

Yeah, that would have been a good one.

In my mind, I was just like, every game I'm watching, that field goal killer

was the returns.

Yeah.

It was also, in my mind, the misses.

And they turned like potentially losses to wins.

They were wins to losses.

That's what the witching hour does.

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Classic witching hour.

By the way, the Dolphins are favorite over the Jets on Monday Night Football.

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Unfortunately.

Scott Hansen actually said yesterday that that Colts Titans game was the game between the most accurate kickers in the league.

And as soon as he said it, they missed three consecutive kicks.

Three consecutive field goals got missed.

Also in the Cleveland game, you could have also had one return, a blocked kick returned for a touchdown, except it took like a funny bounce.

Otherwise, that would have happened there too.

To have the fact that during the witching hour, you had two blocked field goals returned for touchdowns is what made the witching hour erase a truly dreadful day of professional football.

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I think they are.

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This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

I want to talk about some college football here and I'd like to know from the group here what you guys believe to be

the biggest story from the weekend.

The first thing I'm going to do here is play some old Davo Swinney sound, not just the sound from last week, but the famous sound from last year where he was taking calls from a sports radio station and he got mad at some caller

named named Tyler.

I've started as the lowest paid coach in this freaking business, and I'm where I am because I've worked my ass off every single day.

And I ain't gonna let some smart-ass kid get on this phone and bring this stuff.

So, if you got a problem with that, I don't care.

I work for the Board of Trustees, the president, for AD.

And if they're tired of me leaving this program, all they got to do is let me know.

I'll go somewhere else where there is an appreciation.

I'm perfect.

He wants to be fired.

And I am a man of faith.

Absolutely.

I'm 53 years old.

And there ain't one thing in my life.

I have been a part of failure many times.

But there ain't one thing in my life that I ever failed at, Tyler.

Never.

All right.

I wanted to get an education.

I got two degrees.

I wanted to be the first college college in my graduate with my family.

I did it.

I wanted to go play football in Alabama.

I earned a scholarship for every three years.

Worked my ass off.

Won a national championship.

I wanted to get into coaching.

I worked my way to being a head coach.

And when I got this job, I'm sure you didn't want me to get this job.

And 15 years later, I'm still here.

And I say the results are what they are, and I stand on them.

So you don't ever have to call back.

I learned.

Wow.

Greggart.

Well, he's pretty arrogant.

I also imagine that whenever he argues with his wife, he also gives his age and asks her to fire him.

This is becoming a move.

You can get a divorce if you want.

Look, I'm 53 years old.

Okay, I got plenty of time.

You can take half my stuff.

The buyout's only going down.

Let's play the sound from last week because I suspect after losing to Syracuse, we will get some of that arrogance deflated right out of him in tone, temper, and tenor.

But let's play the sound from last week of of Dabo Swinney also being hugely arrogant while he's

cheating people.

I can provide the framework for the audience that I guarantee you he will invoke, he can be fired at any time and that he's still got plenty of time to get fired and go somewhere else and win.

I've been backing up Dabo consistently throughout all these because he turned that program around, but that was a really bad loss that he had to Syracuse.

If they want me gone, if they tired of winning, they can send me on the way because that's all we've done is win.

So if they tired of winning, we've won this league eight out of the last 10 years.

Is that not good?

I'm just asking, is that good?

I don't know if that's good or not to win your league eight out of ten years, to go to the playoffs seven out of ten years, be in four national championships, win it twice.

Yeah, we're a little down right now.

Take your shots, but I got a long memory, in case y'all don't know.

We'll be all right.

We'll bounce back.

This is a program built to last, always has been, always will be.

And I would just say, if you give up on us, if you don't believe on us because we've lost two games down to the last trade and we're one, you didn't believe in us anyway, so it don't matter.

You wasn't all in anyway.

If you're all in, you burn the ships, man.

There ain't no exit strategy.

Like, you're freaking all in.

And hey, listen, I mean, the Clemson's tired of winning, they send me on my way, but I'm going to go somewhere else and coach.

I ain't going to the beach.

Hell, I'm 55.

I got a long way to go.

Y'all going to have to deal with me for a while.

I got a long way to go.

I'm just getting going.

I'm just now good enough to be a head coach.

Okay, but this was after he lost two games.

Then Syracuse comes into Clemson.

They were a double-digit underdog.

Sir, I think they were a 17-point dog in this game, and they lose.

Clemson loses 34-21 at home, and Dabbo doesn't sound, you might not hear fire me now and give his age here.

But why aren't we held to a different standard from all these other teams out there who ain't ever won nothing?

We're not perfect, and we we may suck this year.

We may lay a freaking egg and go six and six.

You're gonna be lucky he gets six and six.

I think Dabbo's realized that the best job isn't coaching college football.

It's being fired from coaching college football.

I mean,

where is Jimbo Fisher right now?

Is he still making he's did you run into him on your campus tour?

Jimbo's out there working for ACC Network.

Nah, I didn't see him.

Let's play the sound of Dabo sounding broken.

You've gotten all of the air against Let Me Hear Broken.

Disappointed.

Painful.

I mean, I hurt.

I mean, I'm human.

I mean,

I'm not a cyborg.

I mean,

this is my life, man.

I mean, I've been here 23 years.

I love this place.

I give this place the very best I got every single day.

Every day.

There's never been a day that I haven't given Clemson every ounce of everything I have.

I hurt.

I mean, I've invested my life here.

And when I don't get the job done, I'm responsible.

I'm 55 years old.

Seriously.

I could be fired at any time.

Not a robot.

And it costs them less if they do it next year, perhaps.

Not really.

Like,

if they fire him now, it's about 60 million.

Next year, it's 57 million.

And after that, they have to pay him everything that's left from 2027 to 2031.

Did he not listen to himself?

He's like, why are we held to a different standard?

I mean, we won a bunch of championships around here.

I won this league 10 times.

That good, I'll know.

Yeah, why aren't they treating us like every other 6-6 ACC team?

Is it because we've won so many of these championships while I was here?

Maybe that's perhaps.

I don't know.

I'm just a 55-year-old man.

I'm just good enough now to be a head coach.

He has special Alabama clauses in his contract also.

So like if he were to leave to coach Alabama, he would have to pay Clemson $6 million.

And if it's any other school, he'd have to pay them $4 million.

And every single year, there's clauses like that.

And it's only Alabama that's higher than every other school in the country.

So when they signed him to this 10-year deal in 2021, they were really afraid of him leaving to go to Alabama when Saban left.

And now they want to get rid.

Now they're hoping Alabama fires their coach and hires him so that he has to pay them instead of the other way around.

You can't run down that hill the way he does and then lose 34-21 to Syracuse.

Put it on the poll at Levittard's show.

Can you run down the hill the way Dabo does and then lose 34-21 to Syracuse?

I do want some college football observations from you guys, especially from Zazzlow, who's a college football expert and was part of ESPN Radio's coverage all week.

And want Mike Ryan's thoughts on game day as well?

Texas Tech looked awfully impressive to me, and somehow their backup quarterback Will Hammond is better than their starter Morton because he came into the game and they all of a sudden started dragging Utah.

But the game for me that I enjoyed most this weekend, by the way, Belichick quietly lost to UCF 34-9 this weekend.

Lost to Jakore Brown, former Miami third-string quarterback.

Yeah, Dan, to your Texas Tech point, they spent so much money this offseason on that defense.

And on College Game Day, they did a breakdown of what this defense does.

You got D-tackles holding guys up with one hand, just kind of pushing them away so they can make a tackle with the other arm.

They got Romello Height from Georgia Tech, who

appears to be a mercenary and a good one.

Texas Tech, that's a team that spent a lot of money and it seems to be working out for them.

I felt the limitations of offense in Auburn and Oklahoma.

and when I looked at the stat sheet Oklahoma had eight sacks at the half and finished with a record for the school 10 sacks but I really did think it was 20.

I'm not joking when I when I tell you I thought that they had more sacks in the second half than they did in the first because of the amount of pressure they kept getting interesting storyline with Jackson Arnold who was quarterback for Oklahoma now did they boom

Auburn yeah they they did kind of weird Oklahoma they cheated to win that game SEC refs admitted they did one of those they admitted they cheated cheated.

They did the, yeah, they blew that call.

Oklahoma tried to be cute.

They ran a guy to the sideline pretending that he was going to sub out.

Oh, I like when they do that.

I like that.

Defense was super confused.

You're not allowed to do this.

It's against the rules.

Calls for timeout were even ignored.

Guy who's pretending to be subbed out stays on the side of the sideline, just

walks into the end.

Why can't you do that?

It was a bad call.

You can't, because it's cheating.

That should be allowed.

Why is it cheating?

He's on the field.

The defense is allowed to substitute, so they're caught in no man's land.

Like, is this guy checking in?

Is he checking out?

He goes into the end zone unguarded.

Yeah, I disagree.

There was also a bad call on a fumble return that should have gone Auburn's way.

It was just really bad.

And then they get the safety at the very end for a back-breaking six and a half, and you know, I was on that.

Now you can hear it.

That's how you can hear it.

There you go.

You're just hearing.

Of course, you can hear it.

They cheated.

That's the cheating right there.

Auburn, for the last two years.

I've been on Auburn against Oklahoma the last two years.

They're inventing ways to lose to this team and not cover.

The best game of the weekend was Arkansas-Memphis.

Arkansas was winning the whole game, and then Memphis took the lead late, and Arkansas had the ball clearly in field goal range inside of the 10-yard line at the end.

Could have just milked the clock, I think could have just knelt, handed the ball to the running back, and he got the ball punched out.

Is Mike Gundy going to last the season?

No.

There's no way.

I can't believe he got out of that building.

Watching that game on Friday, I can't believe he got out of that building.

There were really

like good sources that said mike gundy was out there were there were reports saying that he was out and then at the 11th hour he agreed to some sort of deal that saved his job there is no way mike gundy is still coaching he gave back money he gave yeah that was a deal he gave back money in order to keep his job but uh i thought they were terrible last year and they were i thought they were as bad a big conference team as i saw all of last year but they're worse this year they they just got dragged at home Well, I don't even know.

Was it Tulsa or Tulane?

It was Tulsa.

And Tulane, I guess you can understand it.

Tulane's not a bad football team.

Tulane.

Tulsa is always bad.

Tulsa is not.

Tulsa doesn't belong to be playing on the same surface as Oklahoma.

They're going to get their ass kicked at home next week, too.

They have Baylor.

They're going to lose that game, too.

Put it on the poll

at Lebetard show.

Has Tulsa ever even one time been good at football?

Yes or no?

I just, I want to know because I just associate Tulsa.

You tell me that name, and I'm just always associating that with bad college football.

Also, geographically, strange place to have a hurricane.

I never really got that mascot name for Tulsa.

How about Indiana?

You see Indiana kill Illinois?

Dude, Mendoza might be the real deal.

He's good.

He's from here, right?

Yeah, yeah, he was.

He was a Cal quarterback that gave Miami everything that they could handle.

He was one of those quarterbacks that was linked to Miami in the offseason.

By the way,

John Matier, Mendoza, Carson Beck were the three quarterbacks that Miami was pursuing this offseason.

All three guys are probably

in New York York right now if you were to pull Heisman voters.

How about Indiana though?

Indiana jumped up from number 19 to 11 in the poll after crushing number nine Illinois.

One spot behind, one lost Texas.

That's Indiana.

Look at Indiana's schedule because they always find a way to get these sweetheart schedules.

They'll have some tough conference tests, but to do that to a top 10 team, it seems like Signetti is going to be in that conversation, that playoff conversation.

They've already shown that a Big Ten team, that TCB's like that, they don't need to play anybody non-conference, and that's what he's banking on.

What do you guys think of this Paul Feinbaum quote on Dabbo?

It's time for him to do one of two things.

It's either consider another school, and I think he is hireable if he quits talking, or just get away from football and become a TV guy.

He's very funny.

He'd be very glib.

He's got more credentials than any other non-TV coach out there of the people that could leave coaching and go into TV.

He would be very coveted.

There's another solution.

Fully embrace the portal.

I know it's not part of that program's identity.

I think their best player on the D-line is like the one transfer portal.

They have have what, like, three transfer portal kids, I think, on the team this year, right?

And they're some of the better players on that roster.

Why can't he just adjust?

Just give yourself over to where college football is and stop thinking that you have all the answers.

He very clearly thinks that he does have all the answers from how his program's built to last.

I mean, Paul Feinbaum may be wrong, like, stop talking.

That should be one because he's not doing himself favors.

He's becoming a joke.

Well, you're right.

He should

invest in the portal because teams that do are ranked number two in the nation, to use an example.

But the problem with Feinbaum's comment is Dabbo Sweeney's got a very impressive resume.

So, what are you saying?

He's not allowed a one-on-three start?

Well, he's just three, I think, three of his last four seasons have three losses or more in them.

And so, he, of course, he's allowed a one-on-three start, but this is what the dissent looks like.

It's not up for argument.

He's kind of not allowed a one-on-one.

He won the ACC last season with three losses, and he was in the playoff.

Yeah.

And if you don't believe that, ask Dabo.

He'll be very quick to remind you of that.

It's not just three losses, though, Greg.

You're supposed to get right against Syracuse at home.

Agreed.

It's a bad loss.

And it's not like...

It's not a loss in which everyone's like questioning your...

The difference between this Dabbo team.

It's not a bad team.

No, although their season's probably going to fall off some because Angeli, who's been really good for them, had a non-contact injury that wipes him out for the season.

So that's not going to be a loss at age as well, I don't think.

But usually when he's at these forks in the road where Tyler from Spartanburg's going at him

or they lose to these other teams, he's very good to back up his words with a good performance.

And to lose at home a conference game, 17 and a half point favorite and not have,

they were never in that game.

Syracuse totally controlled that game.

That's not what this season was about for Clemson.

They came in ranked top 10.

Dabo versus Belichick up next.

Syracuse,

Fran Brown, their coach, is a good talker.

He's the one who reminded us last year that he doesn't shower after they lose.

Here he is after beating Dabo and presumptuous, and I presume Tyler as well, Ian Clemson.

I don't care about what Vegas said.

Nah, Vegas said Canelo was about to win.

You know what I'm saying?

Crawford said different.

Does he understand?

Vegas is not like a prediction.

It's not what it is.

No, they try to get action.

Vegas said different.

It's not a prediction.

Vegas said different.

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Is there back in my day?

There is, actually.

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What?

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This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Zaslow, how was your time with Mike Ryan tailgating as part of the ESPN Radio campus tour?

I understand that Willis McGahy was wandering

yammering and yelling into the sky, fueled by

whatever it is that he was enjoying in terms of liquid.

He made one of our videos for ESPN Radio unusable.

Let's just put it that way.

Willis was having a good time, though.

Good for him.

We had a great time tailgating.

I mean, like Mike said, we had a bunch of Florida Panthers who were hanging out with us.

Mike knows how to do a good tailgate.

I'll tell you something.

I've never been to a Mike Ryan tailgate.

He knows how to do it.

Good music.

I mean, it was lacking a little bit of the pearl jam, but whatever.

I'm not a DJ.

Good music, good food, good drinks.

And then, let me tell you something.

I sat with Mike for the game.

Those seats, that's where I sit now.

That's where I sit for all the games.

The recliners and the televisions and all that stuff?

That's where I sit for all the games now.

Okay, you mentioned that, but you didn't give me any further details on what.

Big, comfortable seats, lots of legroom.

Sometimes I like to, you know,

I want to, you know, spread out a little bit.

I want to be comfortable.

I can stand when I want.

I can sit when I want.

Drinks flowing.

There's food.

You got the TVs right there.

What a great.

That's where I sit now.

You mentioned that.

Wait a minute.

Are you a golden cane like Mike?

I mean...

No?

Yeah.

Look, I don't get involved in that minutiae.

I'm just telling you, that's where I sit.

It's for someone else to figure out.

But Sazlo walks into that barn.

That's where he sits.

Michigan won at Nebraska this weekend.

What's the name of their interim coach, Biff Something?

Their interim coach.

How was he going to celebrate after it is that

they beat Nebraska and Matt Ruhl, host of the House Rules podcast?

What are you going to do tonight to celebrate?

I'm going to eat some Haagen-Das coffee ice cream with my wife and smoke a Cuban cigar and then probably go to the hospital.

I love that last part.

He was also great on game day.

Sabin was interviewing him.

He's like, I remember when you were down there at St.

Francis paying players.

He's like, I learned that from you, coach.

When he's at the hospital at the end of the night, he's like, is this a great night?

Yes, let's play it again.

Yes, ice cream and cigars in the hospital.

That's a good night.

That's a good night.

What are you going to do tonight to celebrate?

I'm going to eat some Haagen-Az coffee ice cream with my wife and smoke a Cuban cigar and then probably go to the hospital.

Cigar.

He's high-fiving the nurses, you know?

Probably go to the hospital.

Smoking a cigar in the hospital, like guy.

By the way, Nebraska, don't be afraid to win one of these.

Mike, how was the game day experience?

So I heard from a lot of people at ESPN.

They're like, man,

this is better than 2017.

I didn't think so.

I think 2017 had just by volume, more people there.

And it also happened later in the season, so the weather was better.

Shout out to all those kids over there.

It was a hot one.

Florida, South Florida in particular, especially with a bunch of students from the Northeast, not exactly a hockey town.

Matthew Chuck, clearly hindered by this injury, did his best to get the people there, but it was all about the moment with Pat McAfee and the speedo going off the diving board.

I think overall, it was just a great weekend for the University of Miami.

Shout out to that athletics department, Joe Ed Chabaria, the president, Cam Gorby, the SID.

Chris Ball came off great in his interviews.

The campus looked beautiful on television.

It looked like a place you wanted to be.

And then it's not the prettiest game, but Miami TC Beeson looks physically dominant against an in-state rival.

Just pretty much ends a billion API experience at Florida and looks a certain way.

Looks like a legit contender.

And on a neutral field,

I'd concede to the champs, I think that Ohio State is better than Miami, probably a little bit more experience, more depth.

Certainly, Miami's got to stay healthy.

But the neutral field this year in the national title game is in Miami.

Isn't quarterfinals also here, right?

Miami looks a certain way, and I think they'll have a really good test.

Now, it's a weird schedule for them.

They're only going to play one game in the next 20 days, but that game's against Florida State, which, by the way, not the easiest opponent on Friday when they go up to Charlottesville against Virginia.

That team can move the ball.

I don't think it's going to be a low-scoring one, but I think FSU in this game might fortify some things that will get them feeling good about their offense, but won't exactly be where they can win this game because Miami's going to give you a different energy along those trenches.

As a Keynes fan, you want FSU to beat Virginia, though, right?

I do, but I'm...

Hey, don't overlook the Who's.

Don't overlook Chandler Morris.

They can move the ball.

A couple of things I do want to say, though.

I've known Mario Cristobal, okay, since he was an offensive lineman in college, and I've told you that his brother's a good deal more intense and menacing, his older brother is, than he is.

Mario Cristobal works extraordinarily hard and is usually soaked in an inordinate amount of stress.

The way that he is presently carrying himself in interviews is as a man who is really confident in the players that he has.

Lane Kiffin told us when that group of men were coaching in Alabama that they would walk onto the field and just know that they had the bigger, stronger, faster players every single time that they were walking onto the football field.

Cristobal has had some of that stress pour off of him in these interviews where he doesn't seem nearly as much under duress.

I noticed it too.

He was really kind to me.

He gave me a lot of time over the weekend as well for ESPN.

And he

obviously, it has a lot to do with the current state of the program.

I mean, he was really nice and really forthcoming with me.

It's Mario Christopher go on any show but this one, it seems, huh?

Craig Cody twice, Zazzo for an extended period of time.

You know what?

Mario is so confident in his team right now.

He can't even convey publicly what he thinks of his team.

It's one of those situations where he has to be careful what he says publicly, because I just think he's supremely confident.

I think before the Notre Dame game, he thought he knew he was going to win.

I think before the South Florida game, he knew he was going to win easily.

He can't say that, but I've never seen him so confident in the roster he has.

Would you agree, Mike?

Teams with this type of advantage along the trenches, they're going to be in every game.

You're not going to blow out a team with that offensive line, and now you can add the defensive line.

We kind of said this last year.

You don't blow out teams with that offensive line.

Miami, to their credit, lost two games by a combined nine points.

We're in every game.

It's different this year.

You know, they're not going to abandon the run game like they have last year.

They blew the Syracuse game, which they were leading 21-0, and they were running at seven yards a clip, and they were still

chasing awards and whatnot.

They couldn't break themselves because they were so desperate down here for 20 years to get a quarterback that looked like Cam Ward.

Once he had the toy, your identity was Cam's going to figure it out.

Cam's going to save us.

That's not the identity here.

Carson Beck, I don't have it today.

Let's hand it to Mark Fletcher.

He'll get hit at the line of scrimmage three yards in, and then that line of scrimmage will then move seven more yards.

because everybody in mass is just going to physically dominate the opponent.

Now, granted, the Florida defensive line was depleted by injury a little bit, but I don't think I've ever seen a UM offensive line physically play that well against a good defense.

UM is so complete

all over the field right now.

I just don't see a weakness other than what you mentioned, depth.

But if they're starting 24 are healthy, they're as good as anybody in the country other than OSU.

Speaking,

starting 24?

Punter and kicker.

Pretty important.

Yeah.

Chris did the research this weekend.

Yeah, in fact, this is a little bit delayed, but...

Yo, chicken thine!

I don't believe it was 50 minutes of research!

I don't actually do 50 minutes of research on anything!

Why don't you look up the research

to return to human lives?

Why don't you do something?

Why don't you look at the box turrets?

Are they peaking too soon, Super Ask?

The nervous woman!

The photo that shows every game

and the thing

makes and misses in every game.

Speaking of confidence, in the history of sports media people, how many are there who could pull off what McAfee did this weekend?

Give me the names of the people who do that stuff.

The game day experience, it's hard to transition from Lee Corso to something that is younger and has more energy, but him upping the ante on multi, you know, $100,000, $200,000, $300,000, $500,000 field goal kicks and then- Pathetic kicks this week.

I mean, that is life-changing money for you and your boys, and he gave you a second chance.

Pathetic.

And you can bank it in.

You know, it's legit.

Like, a lot of people just assume, like, ah, ESPN takes care of Pat on the back end.

No, he makes these spur-of-the-moment decisions, and he's the one that fronts the money.

He's got a, on that game, I think that's the best version of Pat McAfee.

I really do.

He leans into what makes that show special.

See him feeding Sabin the Gator sandwich.

He got Nick Sabin on camera to take

out of a huge sandwich.

And for Pat McAfee to pull off that big moment at the end and make it feel big when david pollack did that in 2017

jenna sims did that earlier in the show and it still felt bigger because of the the personality and the and just the general star power that pat mcfee had a star everyone was following him around on game like the crowds of people wherever he would walk to if he was switching stages if he was going over to the field goal contest like he had crowds of people following him everyone had their phones out where's pat where's pat like that guy commands a crowd i did get to speak to to Chucky, though.

If Chucky wasn't fresh off of surgery, Chucky would have been right there up there with him, jumping off that thing.

This guy was tough.

They had that conversation.

That would have been.

That would have been a look.

That would have been a look.

I'm out for two more.

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