PMS 2.0 1398 - OVERREACTION MONDAY, College Football Recap Week 1, Adam Schefter, Josh Pate, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

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On this Overreaction Monday, September 1st, 2025, this program begins now.

Football!

It's happening.

Oh, it's happening.

On Thursday, obviously, the NFL kicks off, but we're already week zero and a week one full slate of weekend through college ball, and it has been electrifying from jump.

Nebraska, Cincinnati at Arrowhead, electrifying.

Came down to the final drive all the way through last night's games.

And then tonight, North Carolina finishes it off against TCU, where we will be there live for the kickoff show and halftime show.

Lucky to be down there as the Bill Belichick era starts.

But there are storylines all over football already.

Now, granted, the NFL storylines are a little bit, you know, there's a couple guys that have been paid.

We'll certainly celebrate that, but most of it's carryover from last week.

And then as we get into Thursday and then Friday night's games and then Sunday's games, obviously more will develop, but the story of today is mostly college ball.

We're going to debut something here called the first 15.

It's about to hit you right in the mouth.

I mean, this is about to be something that's about to happen.

I've been thinking about it here for like a year or so.

You know, the first 15 minutes of these Monday shows, maybe even every day show, but first 15 to Monday for sure, we need to hit like the top five headlines in our eyes.

And in the NFL and in football, obviously you script the first 15.

So the first 15 minutes are about to be an absolute blizzard.

of information and storylines throughout sports as we cover it in only a way that we can, which is the dumbest out of all parties.

We can't thank you enough for allowing us to do this for a living.

Ohio State was awesome this past weekend.

Maybe it'll be a part of the first 15.

It talks to tables here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt.

Ty, don't look now.

Iowa might be a team.

Granowski looked like he couldn't play quarterback there for a little bit, but then he settled in.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And Iowa did their thing.

Let's go to one half of the hammer.

Cowboys, A.P.

Ton, sports gobblers, how'd we do this weekend?

I saw a top five all lost.

Not good.

Yeah, sports books are up early in the college football season.

Texas, Bama, Notre Dame, Clemson, and Indiana were your most bet on teams for this college football week one, and none of them covered, none of them did what they were supposed to do.

Yeah, large percentages of people betting on those.

And whenever the top five goes the way of the sports books, you can start to expect maybe a little update in the app.

You know,

maybe some new cars purchased for the people that are running the sports book.

But know that the sports books already have a good lead on us.

So we need to catch up.

And we will do so as we learn more about all these teams.

and do we know enough about anybody right now i don't think so but maybe maybe maybe we do maybe these eyes saw some things and made us believe that they're the real deal nine-year nfl vet looking incredibly cool this appears to be a football costume now

this appears to be one that we're looking for uh darius j butler is here

Debus, how you doing, pal?

Good to see you.

You look amazing.

Doing great.

Glad to be back with the boys.

Yeah, football season, great to have you.

Hell yeah.

Hope your daughter did fantastic in her golf tournament, and we will follow that all year.

Hell yeah.

Plum Mustangs lost a heartbreaker.

No.

Football?

Tiny?

Close one?

Yeah, real close.

Yeah, real close.

How close?

Oh, geez.

Not good.

Okay, it'll bounce back.

It's good.

It's probably a good kick.

We got a lot of time.

We got a lot of time.

We'll do it.

Pull the bread.

Can we miss a kick?

Can we miss the kick?

That's how.

Let's get to the top five headlines.

Yeah, I think so.

I was just reading through text.

I wasn't there, you know.

I was following along via textbooks.

Bounce back week.

Yeah.

Let's see what these boys got.

Long season.

It is a long season.

Let's see the grit.

It is a long season.

It was a home opener.

Gotta win that one.

Oh, home in front of the new jumbotronics.

Next tronics, yeah.

Well, I don't know if you know, but in Pennsylvania, they're only allowed like one week of

training camp and like one week off because it's like too hot and too tough and stuff.

So, you know.

It's other states as well, just so we understand.

It's not just Pennsylvania leading the way and looking out for their players' safety.

Now, it doesn't hinder the toughness of a team potentially, but the boys from Plum are always going to be tough, and they're going to show their mental toughness after bouncing back for a Friday night loss.

Got a long season ahead.

Met Daktronics, Jumbotronics said, thing looks spectacular.

Not a lot of highlights to show.

Thing looks spectacular.

So I'm excited for that.

I'm also excited for this.

This will be the top five headlines in our eyes.

Now, granted, will our top five headlines match other people's top five headlines?

Maybe.

But on this particular sports day, the five things that we think you need to hear about, we're going to cover early in the first 15.

So let's put 15 minutes on the clock, please.

Yeah, we got an actual clock.

I mean, things are actually happening.

And let's start with, roll that thing let's go with number five tonight the Bill Belichick era debuts down there in Chapel Bill North Carolina they'll take on TCU in a game that's going to be on ESPN a game that's going to be I think electrifying now with under hit we think so we think what you saw with Matt Patricia against Arch Manning which we will certainly talk about here in a little bit they were saying Matt Patricia basically Bill Belichick Steve Sarkeesian well Bill Belichick is actually now in college ball what will he do to the high-paced TCU offense?

We shall see.

There was an article written on ESPN.com this morning, actually pretty balanced.

Covered, you know, all the things that have basically happened since Bill has become the UNC head coach.

Obviously, there's been some drama.

There's been a lot of drama, but there's been a lot of good in the building as well.

Like, for instance, tonight, I believe Michael Jordan will be on his side.

Julius Peppers, Lawrence Taylor, Eric Church, and Chase Rice, who I was actually there for his last football game as a North Carolina Tar Heel, they lost by one point to the West Virginia Mountaineers.

I remember that.

Hell yeah.

Oh, yeah.

That's great.

It was in North Carolina and Chase Rice will be there, obviously.

Same with Blake Snow.

So whenever you're talking about the who's who of North Carolina, Mia Ham is going to be swinging by.

It's like the attention that this North Carolina football team is getting is obviously at a different level than it had been over the years.

But will they be able to play football immediately?

Will they be a team that will be able to gel quickly like some of these other teams that we've seen around college ball that got a lot of transfer portal people, got a lot of people that maybe didn't know each other just a few months ago come together, play good football?

Or are they going to be a team that got a bunch of people people that don't know each other come back and be bad at football?

TCU is a tough task, but tonight should be electrifying down in North Carolina.

Yeah, 333 wins in the NFL.

I think he's going to be able to figure out in college.

5-11, I think, was his year one record for the Patriots.

So might take a little bit here, but they're going to be in every single game.

Yeah, I think it's going to be an under as well.

I think it's going to get a little tight.

That's the number five headline as they take off on runway 23.

Remember the Michael Jordan sponsorship there?

There is a stat about the betting here for Bill Belichick as an underdog.

Yeah, I do.

From 2000, this is from Hembo, by the way.

I don't want to take this as miles.

Agreed, clock ticking.

From 2001 to 2019, which is the Brady Belichick era, the Patriots were underdogs 53 times.

New England went 32 and 21 with a 604 win percentage in those games, the best record in the NFL as an underdog over that span.

UNC is a dog tonight.

So we assume that this is going to go under because we think Bill Belichick will make it play left-handed.

They said Matt Patricia Belichick.

Steve Sarkeesian.

What does that mean, actually, Debut, as a man who was drafted at the top of the second round to the New England Patriots defense?

That really means the defense is very, very prepared and prepared to show one thing pre-snap and then another thing post-snap.

We're all good liars and we're all on the same page.

A defense is tough to stop, especially for these young quarterbacks.

So you talked about it taking time early on.

He has free agency.

He has the draft already.

Brand new team.

I think they'll be prepared.

I got UNC winning straight up.

Oh, I like that.

Now, he does have connections to,

we all have connections to Lombardi and Belichick, but TCU, great football.

And at the end of last year, they got real hot.

They figured out who they were.

A lot of tempo.

How will Bill Belichick manage that?

We shall see.

Let's go to the number four headline from the weekend.

Hey, special teams are special, special now.

We're not just talking about little special.

We're talking, special.

A lot of great things for the brand across the board.

Let's go down to the Beamer Bowl where we had some Beamer ball.

South Carolina return man, Vakari Swain, takes this thing 80 yards to the crib.

10-8 game.

It was a KG affair.

Both teams looked good, actually.

Lenore Sellers is a guy.

Cannot wait to see what he does in the NFL NFL and also for the rest of the year for South Carolina.

And Vakari Swain is an absolute menace.

He's a DB who great vision, great everything.

And then let's go to immediately after the game.

They're calling this the Beamer Bowl because obviously Frank Beamer, Shane's Padre, is fodder, coached at Virginia Tech for a long time.

Shane Beamer went to Virginia Tech.

Shane Beamer started his entire coaching career at Virginia Tech.

Now he's a head coach of South Carolina with the highest expectations that he's ever had there.

Frank Beamer before the game said he loved seeing Shane live out his dream as a head coach.

And taking on Virginia Tech, obviously going to to be a little bit of tear of heart.

But blood is thicker than legacy, is what Frank Beamer said.

And after the game, this is what Shane came up to say to his old man.

Oh, man.

Glad that one's over.

Yeah, yeah.

Thank you, guys.

What am I?

Thank you.

Love you.

Bammerball and the Beamer Bowl is a magical thing.

Virginia Tech started out much better than they did last year.

They had a lot more question marks around the entirety, but South Carolina gets a big win.

Special teams are going to be good because Bimber Bowl.

Lenore Seller seems to be a guy.

Yes.

They're talking about him being a guy guy now.

He's big, he's strong, great leadership as well, which is great, and he can spin that thing.

I love what South Carolina did here early.

And also, if you're going to get kick returns and punt returns every game, you're going to win those games.

Got to win that third phase.

And you know this better than anyone.

The cardinal sin with special teams is a re-kick on punts.

And that was a re-kick.

Set them up for the DB to do his thing, special, special play.

play in the Bremen Bowl.

On that note,

he elected for them to re-kick.

Not every coach does that.

It was like an illegal formation or something.

Sometimes they'll just take the 10-yard penalty from the end of the spot and move on.

Beamer,

born and baptized in special teams.

That's right.

So we'll do the re-kick.

All the coverage teams tired.

Okay.

Everybody's very tired going down the field.

Now, he hit a good ball.

I'm not saying he did not hit a good ball.

Sometimes your second ball, too, Mulligan can hit a little bit better.

But the people that are trying to cover that thing, they want that second ball.

not returned.

We've already run down the field.

Yeah, we have already done this whole thing again.

And that ball was murdered.

Obviously, I'm not going to blame the punter, but a re-kick, you're right.

It's a great decision by, easy for me to say, a great decision for Shane to make, but also for them to make him punish.

That's a beautiful thing for the Beamer Bowl.

There was also a re-kick in Ruckers and Ohio this weekend as well.

The second one was blocked.

So a couple times this weekend where the re-kick has gotten shoved up someone's ass.

Let's talk about punter Devin Bale, okay, kickoff guy for Arkansas.

Tries to hit a squib kick.

Instead,

boom, right off a guy, over his head.

Excuse me.

Scoops that thing.

Now you can't advance it, but I do like that he got nasty with it.

He put that ball immediately on his outside hand, too.

He wasn't going to get stripped.

He was actually looking to stiff arm folks.

I think he was going to stiff arm a couple people.

Hits a guy right in his thigh or his chest, bounce up over his head, grabs it.

A lot of people say, hey, do this every time.

I agree.

I mean, I agree off the shin, actually, up over his head.

We should do this every single time.

Now, if he avoids that and that ball continues left and goes out of bounds,

this is starting at the 40 as opposed to them getting the ball.

So it's a little bit of a a dangerous situation.

But you rarely see anybody on a kickoff return team standing right in front of a kick.

And that is by design.

That is so that you don't get blasted with the ball.

I respect and appreciate how athletic Devin looked there.

And yeah, if somebody's going to stand in that, go on, Devin.

Now, you have no idea where that's going to bounce.

But if that goes right back to you, if you can master it, that's a good trait to be able to have there, boss.

Yeah, I mean, maybe we changed the rule, too, of not being able to advance the ball.

Because after seeing him catch that, it's like, you know what?

If he was able to execute this, let's let this boy maybe try to run it back for a touchdown.

Could you imagine?

Because it looked like he was ready to.

And he had a bullhead of steam, too.

He was just going.

And he was natural.

That's a punter, by the way.

We looked that up because I was like, damn, very athletic kicker.

No offense to the kickers, but that's a very athletic kicker.

Turns out he's a punter.

That makes a lot more sense.

Sure.

Because as a punter, I'd like to let everybody know within the special teams group, I think we are the far superior athletes.

Now,

the kickers are going to say, yeah, but we're like brain surgeons.

So who's more athletic?

And it's like, yeah, we get it.

But the punter, he's ready to move.

Let's talk about some of these kickers.

Miami last night.

Yes.

Big one.

Kid hits a 47-yarder.

Minute left, fourth and three.

Now, I do not like the conservative play calls.

Okay.

I did not love what Miami did there late.

I think Carson Beck can get you in and out of a play.

I think Carson Beck can execute an offense.

I think they look great.

Carter Davis came in as just a kickoff guy at FAU.

Now he's become the full-time starter.

They put his stats up like, hey, he got a four of 11.

I think they were all real long.

Because he was the kickoff guy.

So I think he was probably the long field goal guy.

And I didn't hear a lot of context being given when he put that stat up there.

Can't do that.

I'd assume he was the big, the big, like.

50-plus.

Yeah, sent him out there for the big one because he had a really strong leg.

But whenever he stepped out there for that 47-yarder, and I only knew that 4 of 11 stat, I thought to myself, I don't know if this one goes through.

Pured this thing.

I mean, absolutely pured it.

Well, it wasn't down to center still.

That was a no-doubter off of his foot.

And that thing is clearing the upright.

I mean, if they would have had the little stat cast thing on it, we're talking probably 60-some yards.

What a beast.

Another kicker, absolute stud.

Iowa kicker, Drew Stevens, hits a 55-yarder over there in Iowa.

Ty, you got Granowski, who didn't look like a quarterback early, but figured it out.

You got a kicker that can hit 55 yarders.

I didn't know that.

Yeah, this is huge.

This is the longest.

I hit the net.

Yeah, oh, yeah.

I mean, that looked like he was good from 65.

It was the longest field goal for Iowa in like 12, 13 years.

Iowa football, like, that is, he's a massive weapon for them, and he delivers time and time again.

So, yeah, Drew Stevens is an absolute stud, and he'll be vital for the Hawks.

Big 10, you got to be be able to beat the wind, you got to have a big leg.

Yeah, he's probably going to have some misses.

I mean, nobody is going to go perfect in a big 10, especially with how hard his kick.

Snap hold, everything operation.

We saw that on display last night, Miami, Notre Dame, with the snap being outside.

It's very difficult to get a snap-hold kickoff with anybody, let alone in college, when it's not a full-time job for everybody.

That's a huge kick.

Who do you got this weekend?

Iowa State Set Hawk.

Yeah, do you know his kicker, Kyle Conrardi?

63 yards.

Opening week.

Oh, wow.

Bang!

Come on.

So clean.

Now, obviously, that put them up 27-7 over South Dakota, but what a ball there.

63 just to execute that.

Once again, snap, hold, block, tick, everything live in a game.

Unbelievable, especially for a college guy.

That was a pure ball as well.

I like what I'm seeing.

Yeah, and he's slowly becoming like a legend at Iowa State.

Last year in the Scihawk game, he hit that walk-off game-winning field goal in Kinnick, 50-plus, and then another 60-plus yarder this week.

Like,

he's unbelievable.

Yeah, I think he has a 62-yarder under his belt as well.

I think they said this would be a record for himself.

I don't know, but they also said the record was 58.

So, I mean, whatever, he's a dog.

I love watching him.

Iowa, Iowa State might come down to the kickers.

We'll see.

And it'll be a showcase event.

And then, obviously, there was an 80-yard punt.

That's the greatest thing I've seen.

Tulsa punter, Agnes Davies from Victoria, Australia, hits this thing 60 yards in the air, lands at about the 34, and then it gets a 24-yard roll.

Unbelievable 80-yard ball, 90 yards from foot to spot.

It stops.

That's that's football.

When I watch that, I get real excited.

How could you not watching a torpedo fly that far?

Everybody in that stadium, 100, 150?

Yeah, yeah, probably around.

Yeah, 150.

Everybody in that stadium.

200,000?

It's a dollar beer number?

It's big, yeah.

Everybody in that stadium.

That's one of those things.

You hit that ball in the stadium, everybody goes, oh,

that's what you're looking for.

When you punny, you hear, oh, that's not good.

That ain't this shit.

You hear a hole, like you just hear air just being kind of sucked.

It's like, yeah, you hit a good one that kid had to feel that immediately coming off the foot and gets a great bounce now

The return team is telling the returner you catch this fucking ball

Okay, you catch the ball, but anytime a punter gets a good bounce They always try to blame the returner He put it over his head on purpose He put it to a place that that guy wouldn't be able to get it so that he would be able to get a 24-yard return Congrats to Angus.

That's a big-time ball.

And I love it.

Special teams are special, special.

Now, let's go around college ball.

Who's real?

Who's real?

Who's real?

Good question.

Who's fake?

His Ohio State all the way back because that defense is seemingly unbelievable.

How about FSU and Thomas Castellanos?

He flipped the entire culture of Boston College.

Is he going down to FSU and doing the same damn thing?

And there might be some sort of record on the line here for Castellanos.

Yeah, funny enough, Thomas Castellanos becomes the first quarterback in the history of football to go into a team as an unranked opponent and beat a ranked opponent, then decide, hey, I'm going to transfer, transfer to the team that he beat, and then that same team that he beat a year later will then play for them and then beat a ranked opponent.

He's the first player ever.

Hashtag stat that.

Yeah, it might be a real stat.

We don't know, but we do know he is real.

And anytime you talk massive amounts of shit about an entire institution and you turn around and back it up, I love it.

Shout out to Thomas Castellanos and Mike Norvell.

Utah, unbelievable.

Powerhouse.

We'll talk about them here in a little bit because their quarterback might be the guy.

Miami, obviously, huge win.

Carson Beck, in and out.

He can get it done.

And CJ Daniels, one of the nicest catches we have ever seen.

Just so happens to come in week one in a massive

to take a lead right before half.

Unbelievable catch.

Carson Beck looks like he's right at home down in Miami.

He's got handshakes for everybody on that team.

Oh, yeah.

I think he's potentially in the second floor getting shoulder rubs down there with the boys.

I think Carson Beck's fitting in very well

with the Miami LSU.

They could be a squad after their huge win with Nussmeier over Clemson.

And then obviously,

anytime you think about

college teams, it could be real.

You think about who's Rich Rod coaching?

WVU.

Sure.

Could be a real deal this year, bro.

No doubt he were buzzing.

They were absolutely buzzing.

Terrible first half.

Hey, it's going to happen.

Week one.

35-zip second half.

Listen, Bobby Moe's not going to just go out there and lay down.

I agree.

Robin Morris is a really good team.

Oh, yes.

Robin Morris is a really good team.

This is Nico Mozzarella here now, Marshiol.

He stuck around.

We thought he would leave.

He did not.

Shout out to him sticking around.

And then we got a couple guys that are all over the field.

Now, if we win this weekend against Ohio University, we're only three-point favorites in Ohio, okay?

Which is certainly something.

I like us a lot in that.

And then Pitt is able to get a big time win.

All eyes are on game day, potentially heading to Morgantown for Pitt, West Virginia.

So who's real at this point?

We're not 100% sure, but we do know there were some highlights that were put across the board.

Let's go to the number two headline from the weekend.

How about some Arch madness?

Or maybe is it Arch sadness?

Oh, no.

I was part of the problem.

I was very loud.

I call him Neo.

I call him the one.

I said, I've known this ball since he's a young man.

He's going to Manning Pass Academy.

He's going to be the one.

I went to bat for him very, very, very, very, very loud.

I think a lot of people did that.

I've seen him play, and obviously, people that think of a Manning and automatically think of some traits.

He's certainly one of them.

But what this Ohio State defense did to him and the Sarkeesian offense as a whole, we have no idea what Arch and Texas are going to look like this year.

That is a fact.

I don't think necessarily Caleb Downs that Ohio State defense is the best way to start the entirety of your your career, but nonetheless, he's going to have to learn quick.

Who do they got this weekend?

San Jose State.

Okay, so he might go crazy this weekend.

We shall see how the rest of the year goes.

Big loss for Texas.

Huge win for Ohio State, who might not give up more than 10 points all year.

And then the number one story from the weekend, Coach Corso's perfect farewell.

Game day was an honor to be a part of.

The people at Ohio State took care of us so well and cheered and celebrated a man who has given so much to sports as a whole.

And he was perfect with his picks.

And he was perfect.

perfect

very close it's perfect pretty damn good pretty damn good

he was perfect uh all the teams that he coached or played for won throughout the weekend so like everything about it seemed like the proper send-off for the sports icon that is coach corso and getting a chance to go out on that 50 and be on that desk as he gave that re, it was

really cool.

Obviously, he was emotional.

A lot of parties had been around him a very long time.

That Friday production meeting, obviously, he's ever present he's always active and you can feel his uh sense of joy of life and energy and everything every single time he will certainly be missed behind the scenes i think everybody will understand that but certainly on television as well as the entire world celebrated one particular person who's given back to a sport and to a show more than maybe anybody in the history so shout out to coach corso shout out to ohio state and uh maybe he could still send a text for his picks because it feels like he's seeing the board pretty good Yeah, certainly.

Sell him, Lee.

Yeah, he should.

What if he makes a sub stack?

That's not a bad idea.

What if he makes a sub stack and puts that thing up there?

That would be classic.

Coach Corsa was OnlyFans.

Just giving out his picks every single weekend.

Coach, you're the man.

I appreciate you.

Went to a luncheon on Friday.

The tail end of it, obviously, because our show is during lunchtime.

So I caught the tail end of it.

Just like Tarico, Tom Jackson.

You're talking about the people that were just there giving thanks and appreciation and then the stories that were being told about him

yeah he's a dog dude always has been always will be and it was an honor to watch him work and see him do his thing so that was our first 15 21 minutes boom

I mean not not to mention the the other things yeah we got a couple other little things we'd like to do every single month

how about uh you probably slept on now there's a couple players that play uh on the west coast yeah and these games started very late.

Very late.

I was up very late on Saturday.

Unexpectedly, 3 a.m.

night on Saturday.

Football's still on.

Okay, football's still on.

These games on the West Coast were happening.

Two guys that you probably were sleeping while we're playing might be the two best guys in the country.

That is just no bullshit.

Now, granted, we haven't seen teams play against great opponents.

Some teams play against great opponents.

We have no idea what they're going to look like.

This dude, Devin Dampier, he's a problem.

Filthy.

He's an absolute problem.

This guy had 19 19 rushing touchdowns last year.

Yeah, 1,200 rushing yards last season.

19.

And now he threw 12 touchdowns and also 12 picks last year as well at New Mexico.

But he ran for 19 touchdowns.

And I'll tell you what, obviously the passes are nice there.

They just give him the rot.

This, he's unstoppable.

It seems like he can't tackle him.

Now, does UCLA suck?

Maybe.

They might.

We have no idea.

They might absolutely suck.

But I know this guy was electrifying.

They went on a 21-play drive that was nine minutes and 44 seconds long.

Jeez.

21 plays.

Just an absolute 21 drive.

I didn't even know that was possible to have 21 play drive.

And I think they had another one that was like 19 plays or something like that.

You're talking about an insanely powerful team.

And you team that up with their defense that they're always going to have in Utah.

It's like, is this the year for the Utes?

Maybe.

Yeah, Kyle Wittingham has only had three losing seasons in his 21 seasons of coaching.

So last year they went five and seven or whatever they did, but they didn't have a quarterback.

Like they had a quarterback, Cam Rising who was supposed to play just never I don't even know if where he's at like he just never showed up last year.

So now they have a quarterback.

They brought him in from New Mexico.

They brought the OC in from New Mexico.

I love when teams do that and they have one of the best offensive lines in the country.

So if they could run the ball and play defense like Utah does could be the favorite in the Big 12.

Okay, could be the favorite in the Big 12.

West Virginia still exists, but watching him late night was certainly a little bit of a scary sight.

You know, this guy's really good.

He seems to have it.

And also, Cal's quarterback, as we know,

Fernando Mendoza.

Mendoza came to Indiana out of Cal.

Freshman from Hawaii here, was committed and enrolled at Oregon before even joining the Oregon football team, goes into the transfer portal.

First time ever.

Senior signs letter of intent, goes to Oregon before football starts, transfers to Cal.

Okay, so I guess letter of intent doesn't mean anything, especially if the transfer, you can transfer before your freshman season.

Yeah, not anymore.

Okay, that happened.

And I'll tell you what, who's happy about that?

Cal.

They got a guy.

Sagopolotele.

Sagapolotele.

Yeah.

Nail it.

Jaron Chiave.

Jaron Chiave, Sagopolotele.

Boom.

This dude might be the one.

He's very tall, very athletic.

And look at these balls.

I mean,

yeah, you're all of them.

All of them.

He started six and six, first game ever.

Yeah,

I don't know how far we are into this highlight, maybe 50 seconds.

Or 50 seconds in, all of these balls are just perfect balls.

Like, that's a runner's ball.

Obviously, that's a touchdown, but that ball is right here.

If that was at the 50 or at the 40 that ball is gone all of the passes are right where they're supposed to be he's tall he's a lefty so it's a little bit awkward sometimes for defense i mean and he's off balance on the run like he's got vic in him he's got two in him he's got some pat white in him because he's able to move i mean he is the real this guy's the guy look at that

oh Yeah, very, very calm.

He could have run

wings

and dropped that thing over the guy's wrong shoulder.

I mean, that guy had no idea that was.

That guy thought it was a back shoulder.

Nope, sorry, it's front shoulder, actually.

You're in drop a rate.

It is, he was outrageous.

And people probably fell asleep and had no, and nobody's going to talk about a Cal Oregon State.

Oregon State now, we don't know what they are either.

Sure.

Okay, their coach was not happy.

Obviously, there was a lot of bickering.

Malik Murphy, who's their quarterback now, formerly a Duke.

He and the coach were getting into it a little bit on the sideline late.

Feels like Oregon State might be in some trouble, football-wise, but can always bounce back.

But these two dudes were playing very, very late night, and you probably didn't see them.

they were a show and it was uh it was a cool way to not fall asleep i guess sunday morning kind of hated these guys sure yeah man sunday morning kind of hated these guys mackenzie's up early how you doing we need breakfast we're up here doing it i'm like you all know last night sang a paul telling me yeah okay dev and damp here we're going crazy i'm so sorry into the early morning i know you're up there snoozing we're very thankful for that we'd like you to continue to do that but boy it was a late night on saturday and i think that's going to continue with these two yeah it will and it's crazy how week one works because everyone was super down on Cal coming in this year.

They had a ton of transfers out, things that just didn't feel like good vibes around the program.

And then this kid comes in week one, and now everyone's super high on him.

They're like, oh, anything can happen this season.

And then on the you know, on the other side, there's teams that just laid an absolute egg this weekend, and their season's done.

Yeah, Oregon State fans probably feeling that way.

Alabama fans are feeling out of that.

Oh, exactly.

Wow.

Well, that was my first time.

Florida State might be real, though.

Yeah,

they might be real, real.

Florida State might be bad.

Bama will be real once Sago,

how do you say his name?

Sagopolotelle.

Yeah, once he's the quarterback for Alabama next year, they'll be real good.

Yeah, well, so that's what happened with Fernando.

He comes over to Indiana.

He was quarterback last year that led Cal into the spotlight, into the, you know, everything that they were in.

And he goes to Indiana.

Kurt Signetti was like, okay, we need to reload.

Let's get a quarterback that has experience, some wins, and some big-time games and everything like that, which is becoming a blueprint for a lot of these teams.

And then now Cal didn't even have a quarterback post-signing day, really.

And then who knows what happens with Sagopolotele?

I assume maybe he thought it was going to be a comp

with Dante Moore, who very good with Oregon, very, very good with Oregon.

Maybe he thought, I need to play right now.

I need to go find another thing.

And then Cal's just sitting there originally his team.

He's right.

And he's like, hey, you need to come.

Yeah.

Dante Moore's a guy.

But Sacapolate is right.

He needs to be on the field because of what you just said there.

I'm not saying Cal's going to lose him.

Ron Rivera is their general manager, right?

Yeah.

Okay.

So he's going to do everything he can to keep him for sure.

And I assume they got a lot of money out of Cal if you can drum up the alums.

sure a lot of finance people out there I think

exactly Aaron Rodgers you want him to give money maybe to keep this kid around maybe

but if they can keep him he's gonna have he's a game changer for them people want to come play with him yeah and I Hawaii a lot of ooses travel to a couple different schools you know BYU obviously Utah why not Cal Oregon gets a lot why not

Boise State gets a lot too so I love what

he's was he like a top quarterback in his class yes he was a four or five star, depending on what site you looked at.

And he actually beat out Ohio State's backup last year, went to Cal, and he beat him out pretty early in Campton.

Yeah, it makes sense.

Yeah, I mean, you're looking at the future of the NFL.

Let's not get it twisted here, Sagapoli.

Very high coverage.

The future.

Yeah, I love this guy.

I mean, it looks like he's

707 against Scout team.

Yeah, that's legit how it looks.

That's exactly right, though.

I wanted to go to bed so bad in the two games that we're on where both these guys just going bananas out of nowhere.

It's 1 a.m.

and these two dudes are just all over the 21

play drive you would think would put you to sleep, but he was on the other, there's two of them playing.

He was on the other one just crushing it.

You look back, Utah still has the ball.

Somebody must be hurt over here.

You're watching this game, Utah still has the ball.

Something must be going on in this game.

No, it's no, we're watching Saga Paul.

And then you look over here and they still have the ball.

21 play drive, 944.

You can do that when the quarterback can run hard and also run outside.

outside it is uh you need a quarterback that can move they they run hard too when they're getting the ball to you know some of their tight ends some of their other receivers those guys are not going down all right let's uh let's change speed a little bit here let's go to the nfl joining us now senior nfl insider for espn ladies and gentlemen adam sheter

shefty sorry we uh we're delayed gentlemen what's going on what are you doing where are you at you're at the open

I'm at the U.S.

Open.

It's become something of a little bit of a trip, like end of summer, take my wife and daughter.

So this is the day we're doing it.

And yeah, nice little day.

Well, I appreciate you calling us in the middle of it.

Hey, hey, sorry.

Go, go, go, go, work a little bit here.

You know, you see where we're at here?

U.S.

Open?

It's the ESPN event?

Yeah.

It's good.

I got to go work.

You know, those situations.

Please tell the family we said thank you for allowing you to have a little bit of time here.

How is the U.S.

Open?

I've heard the Wimbledon's a great vibe.

All right, people, a lot of beers.

U.S.

Open, good time.

What is it like?

You know what?

Last year we came and it was awesome.

Literally, I got here five minutes ago, so they're now wandering and doing whatever they're doing.

I'll join them in progress.

But by the way, I heard you say, we'll see if Florida State is for real.

I watched them on Saturday.

They're going to be for real.

They're going to be for real, Florida State.

I'm just telling you right now, they're good.

Yeah, they're big.

They look big.

I think that was my biggest takeaway: if you see a team that's big and very athletic and they're winning, like Miami, big, very athletic, and winning, it's like, whoa, that team can go.

Florida State, big, athletic, and winning.

Whoa, that team can maybe go ohio state big athletic that team can maybe go

west virginia big athletic that team can go bryce underwood from michigan buddy

big athletic that guy can go it looks like you guys paid the right guy looks like you guys are in a good spot he was very comfortable you know what's amazing that guy he's 18 years old like i met him last summer uh last month he was at that time he was 17 years old and like to come into

all this pressure and money and statin, like at that age, I just, I think that that is incredible.

It's a lot to ask of a young man.

He looked apart on Saturday night.

And you'll see, what time is that game against Oakland on Saturday?

Do we have any idea?

We do have an idea.

It's either at noon, 3.30, or 7.

One or three.

I presume 3.30 or 7 just because it's.

Yeah, it's not going to be big noon.

Yeah.

It is.

Or maybe it's 8.

At 7.30 on ABC.

7.30 on ABC.

Let's go.

That's a big game.

Hey, Venables and the boys over there, very pumped about where they're at.

Underwood gets his first real test.

I like that he's blocking people, too.

He just blindsided blocked the guy.

So big.

The college, so big.

So big.

So big.

Two freshmen.

And you see how comfortable he was?

Oh, yeah.

Like, I know it's New Mexico State.

No offense, New Mexico.

I don't want to say, no, no offense to anybody, okay?

Because some of these smaller teams can give people hell, you know, and I don't think we give them enough credit either when that happens.

But he was just sitting back there and just reading and going through his progressions.

It was like...

That play when he was backed up and close to his own end zone and kind of threw it over the top, I think this tight end 17 over a couple, like that was like some next level stuff.

Yeah, he's really, you guys got a guy.

You guys haven't had a guy in a little bit.

You know, J.J.

Leaves, you ain't got a guy.

Now

God, God.

Hopefully they play.

We pay a lot of money from a guy that owns one of the islands in Hawaii.

And all of a sudden, we got the best guy to ever play football.

That must be fun up there in Michigan, Chefty.

Well, we'll see.

Again, it's early.

And the guy, I think, will have a great career and I don't want to expect too much of him early on but it was an encouraging start.

He looked strong.

He looked apart and we'll see how that plays out.

Okay let's talk about some deals that got done here.

Cowboys and Deron Bland, were they waiting on the micah stuff to pay other people or was this always in the works?

Well, I think when you have all the money that you save on Micah Parsons, you can go allocate that elsewhere.

Like Deron Bland gets done.

I would think at some point he'll wind up signing Tyler Smith to a contract.

And it's a lot easier when you have all this money that you're planning on spending on Micah Parsons to spread it around.

So Deron Bland is the first benefactor.

The fact that Micah didn't get a deal done, he will not be the last one in Dallas.

I'm sure there'll be others that also benefit.

Tyler Smith would be my guest for the next one, and we'll see how that plays out.

But Deron Bland gets a big deal over the week in four years, $92 million.

All right, let's go to the kingdom.

D-Bud has a question for you.

Yes, Dan, with cornerbacks, one of the best cornerbacks in the league, Trent McDuffie.

I saw a report saying a deal may not get done out there in Kansas City.

What's the update there?

Well, again, I think eventually some deal will get done.

They're going to want to keep Trent McDuffie.

He's a frontline elite cornerback, but they're not going to get a deal done before the start of the season.

Nate Taylor reported that for ESPN.com.

And the two sides have not had significant discussions recently.

Not a big surprise that it won't get done.

But again, I would think the Chiefs will revisit it at some point.

They're going to want to keep him.

It's not like they're moving on from the guy.

It just means that they're not going to get the deal done by the time they open the season Friday night in Brazil.

Amazing, right?

It's Monday, and the Chiefs in Chargers play Friday night in Brazil.

We got the Cowboys-Eagles Thursday.

We got the Chargers-Chiefs Friday in Brazil.

Football week is here.

Here we go.

Kind of a neat little thing.

Yeah, we got UNC TCU tonight.

I mean, we're back in ball, brother, and it is great.

Speaking of Cowboys, Eagles, there's a player that will not be playing in that particular game.

He is now playing in Land of Cheese.

Go ahead, Ty.

Yeah, Chefie, kind of like everyone assumed, you know, after Micah Parsons gets traded to the Packers and gets paid, his back is fine.

We got our first glimpse of him at practice, Don and number one for the Packers.

How do we feel?

Should have been zero.

I'm just watching these videos today.

I'm watching him running around.

I'm watching him hit a tackle dummy, and I said, man, it's amazing how much better your back feels when you get $188 million.

Yeah, it's amazing.

I think it's a proven method to fix somebody.

If you've got a little hammy tightness, we know the remedy.

You got a little back tightness or a little soreness that might need a second or third opinion, we know the answer.

This is kind of a sports doctor thing.

This is kind of a sports medicine.

I don't know why everybody else isn't a doctor.

Yeah, you're right.

Give them $100 million.

Yeah, exactly.

To your point, though, I would have appreciated if he was zero and Matthew Golden was one and not the other way around.

But I get it.

First player sends sends Curly Lambo to wear number one.

It's a big deal.

They want to show him like, hey, we wanted you really bad.

So they do that.

But Sheffield, any word on what the Packers' plans are for his usage going into Sunday against the Lions?

Well, they have not committed to using him yet on Sunday.

Again, I'll say this.

As a general rule, if you're getting $188 million,

I would be surprised if he's not out there on Sunday.

Now, they want to make sure that that pack feels okay this week.

Let's remember, he hasn't gone through camp at all, hasn't participated in any of the drills.

He's been working off to the side.

So, obviously, there's going to be a conditioning level.

We'll see whether he can play the whole game.

But I'm going to guess he is out there.

I'm going to guess he is a factor.

And you bring up the numbers, right?

He's wearing number one.

The last time Curly Lambo wore that number was 100 years ago.

100 years.

We haven't seen a Packer in that number in 100 years.

That's pretty incredible to me.

1926 was the last time a Packer wore number one.

Curly Lambo's a G, though.

He is.

Yeah, Curly Lambo got him to some shit.

I mean, Curly Lambo, I did a little research on him as I was going to call, I think, the Lions Packers came about where it was, why it was.

He's the founder of the Packers, basically, and this dude is a dog.

Curly?

Yeah.

Curly Lambo is a dog.

Everybody knows Lambo Field.

Lambo Field.

Curly Lambo started the Packers, I do believe.

And there's some things that happened where he had to be really,

you know.

He's standing on business.

He had to stand on business.

every all of them yeah he wore number one i think he was star position all of them yeah yeah they made him serve ball handler just a recent zero would have been sick though i i think so too and i just i don't love matthew golden wearing zero i i think you got a speedster golden one too that's pretty sweet oh and then micah becomes the first player ever to wear zero for the packers like he's a packer forever problem charlie lambeau fullback, quarterback, and kicker.

Yeah.

Whatever you need.

Of course.

Head coach.

That's Curly Lambo football.

That's right.

And we're expecting the same out of Micah.

It is amazing.

His back is healed.

I'm excited to see.

They haven't said if he's going to go or not.

I would assume.

I saw him bouncing around his house.

I think he's in pretty good shape.

Yeah, I think he's ready to go.

He ain't get blown up there.

Even if he's ready fast.

Pool drain.

Yeah.

Mulligetta, let him know.

We're not going back to Dallas.

You can go ahead and be pretty confident about that entirety.

We have tried to get David Mulligetta on the program.

We think tomorrow we'll get to this champion.

We'll be excited to go behind the scenes on how it all came together.

Let's go to the pittsburgh steelers go hat tone yeah shepty i know there hasn't been any contract adjustments or at least it hasn't been reported is uh cam hayward playing for the pittsburgh steelers on sunday

we're gonna see that he's got a decision to make there it was actually the first thing i thought of when i saw that jalen warren has a new deal yes he does for the next two years tying him to pittsburgh through 2027.

they have not resolved that they have not been able to figure it out and so i would think It's going to be really interesting to see if Cam Hayward is on the practice field on Wednesday as the Steelers get ready to open their season on Sunday against the Jets.

They'll have a decision to make Wednesday.

I would imagine he'll have a decision to make Sunday.

Probably we'll get an idea where he's at on Wednesday.

If he's not practicing, it's not going to be a great sign.

But

I don't know what's going to happen there.

It's kind of lingered out there all summer long.

It has not generated the amount of attention that some of these other issues have, but it's about to get interesting there.

And again, maybe Cameron Hayward says, I'm going to play on this deal.

It didn't sound that way earlier in the summer, but we'll find out.

Cam Hayward not playing for the Steelers this year, holding out because of money with the whole year one B Steeler, you don't think.

Yeah.

It's just like, oh, so much.

That's why whenever you do a podcast and all those things, people are going to hold everything you say against you.

Even if it's out of context or not the same situation at all, they're going to do it.

Cam Hayward knows that.

He puts his big boy bates on.

He'll be in the Pittsburgh Steelers Ring of Honor Hall of Fame, whatever the hell it is, at some point in his life.

It seems to be a little bit of a disconnect disconnect right now.

He's been in practice, though, talking to Coach Tomlin.

He's had pads on this year, but he hasn't.

He's been open about it, but he hasn't really been a distraction.

Interesting.

It's kind of a Trey Hendrickson situation happening right in front of our eyes.

I don't think Cam wants to do this.

Feels obligated to do it because you guys can't just disrespect me because I've been here for so long.

Well, that's the thing.

Probably has people behind him and around him being like, they're taking advantage of you because you're a Pittsburgh stealer.

They have your brother on the team.

Your dad was on a team.

You've been here the second longest tenured guy alongside Mike Webster right behind Ben Rothsberger.

Like, they're going to try to take advantage.

They just paid DK Metcalf 33 million bucks.

That's a lot of money.

Pittsburgh Steelers just paid DK Metcalf 33 million bucks a year.

He's never done anything for Pittsburgh.

You have 45 different foundation events you do every single year.

You go to everything.

You're like a mascot of Steeley McBeam or whatever the hell his name is.

He's not even a mascot.

You are our mascot around town.

Somebody needs Steel Representative, you go.

And his people around him are like, they're taking advantage of all this.

They're just giving him money.

Jalen.

Yeah, you bring up DK Metcalf.

They paid DK Metcalf.

They paid Jalen Ramsey.

They paid John U.

Smith.

Today they paid Jalen Warren, who's been there.

So they've paid a lot.

Darius Slay,

they've paid a lot of different players, not to mention TJ Watt.

And so everybody seems to have gotten paid except Cam Hayward right now.

And by the way, I know it's a different deal, but Chris Boswell's in the same boat, too.

We haven't talked about that either.

I don't know that a kicker is going to walk away and retire before the season begins, but Cam Hayward wants a new deal.

However, he wants it to be addressed.

Chris Boswell wants his deal addressed.

So

it's not just Cam Hayward right now.

Shefty, Pittsburgh Steelers fan and Yenser Tone has

requested the floor.

Pay Chris Boswell $60 million a year.

Okay.

Pay him what, that man, whatever he wants, because he's been the best player besides Ben Rothsberger and TJ Watt for the last, I don't know, however long he's been there.

Yeah, whatever you need to pay him.

What is the kicker number right now?

What is the kicker number right now?

I don't know what he's making, but the top kickers are making five, six million dollars a year, probably.

I think he's like a million below whatever the top is.

So I mean, think about that.

That's one vet min contract.

You can up that thing a million bucks and make him happy.

You know, the Steelers are disrespecting all their vet players.

They're like going all my trying to win for that veteran player.

They don't normally pay people unless it's going in their last year or whatever.

And I believe he has two years left on his contract.

So, you know, they did it with TJ, they did it with Ben, but, you know, they're special people.

They don't usually trade in paywall receivers either.

Well, Well, they also don't normally fire offense coordinators in the middle of the season.

They've been doing a lot over there.

That's a good point.

But will it work out?

Will it win a Super Bowl?

Or will this be the first time in Tomlin's tenure where he's under 500?

Oh, no.

Got the Jets week one.

Justin Fields could have been your quarterback.

Better win that one when the season's over.

Yeah.

I love it.

You were dying right out of the gate.

They don't win week one, the season's over.

All right, on that note, Shefty, last question here.

Shout out to Sunday Ticket, by the way.

I love you.

That was really nice whenever they were having their dispute with, you know, Fox and everything.

Yep.

They came out quickly and were like, Sunday Ticket won't be affected by this really.

Needed to hear that.

Goaded.

Thank you for doing that.

Cannot wait for Scott Hanson to be one of the four and then a Colts game somewhere and disappoint me if I'm not there.

And then the other two.

No, Colts are going to win this year.

That was rude of me to say.

But two of them are always going to be the Colts in the Hanson Red Zone channel.

And then the other two top games, I can't wait for that.

Oh, my God.

I cannot wait to get there.

Shout out to YouTube TV, Sunday Ticket.

Go ahead, bro.

Yeah, I mean, Colts play in Indianapolis this week.

Pretty absurd to think about.

Against the Miami Dolphins need to win that one.

Indy's wealthy.

That's another team probably you could throw in their season.

Into this?

Yeah, into this, Chef.

T.

I'm assuming Indy might be involved in this, but these last two years, you've basically hit the nail on the head when it comes to the projection of how many head coaching openings there will be during the offseason.

Looking at it right now, obviously there's some situations that might happen that could change things.

What's your projection as of now as far as head coach openings go?

When you look at it as a whole, who right now do you know has to win going into the season?

Kyle, what I would say is it doesn't really matter now.

We haven't seen a team lose a game yet.

And so I've seen over and over where a coach looks like he's on the hot seat and that team all of a sudden plays better.

Like, oh, look, I think everybody.

feels like Brian Dable's on the hot seat, but I think the Giants are going to have a better season than people expect.

So all of a a sudden, if they're ripping off wins and playing better, he's off the hot seat.

And somebody else who we weren't expecting is going to be on the hot seat.

I think you have to let the season play out.

But we've seen on average about 6.8 head coaching changes per year.

I believe a couple of years ago, there were 10.

I believe last year it came in lower.

That tells me this year will probably be around at the average, but a little early to ask the question.

I understand why you would.

I'm not prepared to give you an authoritative answer right now.

I would say, just going in, my guess is six to seven is usually the number, and I would imagine we'll be around that number.

But let's see how the season's shaking out before we're putting people on the hot seat and running them off.

All right.

Well, you certainly will do that as soon as the time calls for it, which we appreciate.

Yeah, we do appreciate that.

Have a great time at the U.S.

Open.

Tell your family who said hello, and sorry for keeping you so long.

All good.

Happy Labor Day to you guys.

We'll be in touch next Monday, if not sooner.

Happy Labor Day.

Is there a game happening or a match happening anywhere near you right now?

uh right behind me we're we're about to go into the cocoa golf uh naomi os

which

supposed to begin here about 45 minutes or so all right 45 minutes we appreciate you enjoy yourself man

thank you guys have a great one ladies gentlemen michigan man adam chafu yay

all right a little bit more about those stories that we ran through at the beginning um arch arch manning that was a tough go tough

that was a tough go matt patricia's uh dan Orlovsky did it.

Now, Dan Orlovsky was pro-Arch Manning.

So Dan Orlovsky is going to get on the side of Arch is being screwed here.

Arch being held back.

Sarkeesian is giving him a limited offense, which might be true.

Sarkeesian might have done that.

And then he also pointed out a lot of things that Matt Patricia was doing to Arch Manning.

We've seen numerous film breakdowns now from Dan Orlovsky where Patricia would show one thing, almost like the amoeba defense that the Ravens do.

And then they have somebody hand in dirt, then they're dropping back.

It was kind of like a high-level NFL type defense was taking place for that Ohio State Buckeye defense.

Now they're obviously studs, won the national championship, best defense in the country, I think, last year.

They lose their defensive coordinator.

Ryan Day has to rehire at that position.

Still have studs all over the place.

Lost some guys at the NFL, JTT, Jack Sawyer, amongst those two guys that are gone.

But they were able to reload, and then they bring in Matt Patricia.

And Matt Patricia kind of gets laughed at because at the Detroit Lions, he was horrendous.

Yes.

He was horrendous.

He was out of shape most of it.

He was on quad because he had a broken ankle.

There was really nothing good that came out of his time with the Detroit Lions.

So bad.

Like everything was bad at the Detroit Lions.

We actually got along with him, like friends with him, because Vinitari and him have known each other since he was a ball boy with the New England Patriots.

So I've known him a long time.

I think he's a good dude.

I think he's a funny dude.

I think he's an upbeat dude.

But I think whenever he became a head coach, he might have thought he had to be a hard ass, might have thought he had to be a different person because of how much he saw Bill Belichick and how much he learned from Bill Belichick.

For whatever reason, it didn't work.

And nobody worked in Detroit before MC DC got there.

So, you know, just jot that down as a wash.

Bingo.

Everybody forgets this guy used to draw up plays on every desk that he's ever been at.

Loves ball, addicted to ball.

Whenever he was at the Patriots and Bill Belichick, now everybody talks about Tom Brady getting to learn defenses from Bill Belichick.

Matt Patricia was defense coordinator with Bill Belichick.

You're talking massive brains.

Everybody remembers they should have handed it off to Marshawn Lynch situation where the boys actually practiced this exact situation leading up to the thing because Matt Patricia saw something early, yada, yada, yada.

He's a super genius.

And it was on display on Saturday.

Is that what you're thinking?

And is this a problem for everybody in college football?

Is this the blueprint for Arch?

Other teams just need to do what Matt Patricia did?

Or is this Ohio State defense going to be different than everybody else that Arch is going to see?

Coaching is a huge part of it.

Obviously, having your guys prepared, but having very, very talented guys is another part of it.

And they have very talented defense.

That secondary is probably

the best, if not one of the top three best in the country, the guys that are still there and the guys that that they brought in but uh yeah they show some things pre-snap they show some things post-snap and that third buckey is the biggest one to me pressured him 14 times 12 of which only came with a four-man rush if you can get home with just sending four and having those other seven guys have eyes on the quarterback break on the ball anticipate right routes communicate them pass them off that is a huge huge weapon when you don't have to sacrifice guys from the coverage to get after the quarterback so that was a big deal for Maddie P and the players, you know, taking on us on that.

And he did a great job, but in my opinion, I'm still going to put some more of it more than dan o did on arch you know you got to come out there you got to make throws he's starting quarterback in texas he started quarterback of texas and uh you know he this is his first time being the starter but you know he's a joint he's been there for a couple years and i was surprised that um

how how his mechanics look like his throwing mechanics you know he has off yeah the all i don't i don't mind his sidearm but just the the whole body not stepping into it doing some things off the back foot not something you expect especially from a manning i'm sure uh sark will clean some of that stuff up i don't think you know sark yeah you're going to be somewhat conservative when you're facing a coordinator and defensive talent like you're facing but you still have opportunities all the way up until the end of this game where if he puts that ball you talked about a runner's ball earlier you put that on that receiver across the field who knows what the rest of that drive looks like he did make some big-time throws late in the game we know how athletic he is so long long season i think arch would be just fine but this is a hell of a test to come out of the gates with against Maddie Peanut at Ohio State defense.

Fourth quarter was definitely his best quarter, No question.

And is that because he finally figured out what the hell Matt Patricia was trying to do to him?

Is he like a Manning where he's trying to dissect and learn and go forward?

Or was he just kind of caught in a blender?

And holy shit, we just need to bury the ball and move along.

The Texas defense, too.

Great.

Also, very, very, very, very, very good.

So, I mean, you're talking about these are the two best defenses in the country last year, right?

Texas and Ohio State.

So literally, a lot of carryover in that particular realm.

But what a tough start for both Sane having to take on the Texas defense.

He gets a win.

Congrats, Ohio State.

Congrats to Ryan Day.

Huge.

Tight shirts.

Very tight.

Yeah, he's wearing tight shirts.

We're seeing a lot, coach.

We're seeing a lot.

Every part of your skin.

He's in better shape than he has been in a long time.

He looks very good.

Looks very fit.

Huge win, and I'm excited for him.

Carnell Tate, damn.

What a catch.

Bounce off his chest, off his shin, double grab, catches for a touchdown.

Sane can spin it.

He can certainly do that.

Arch can as well as what everybody was saying.

And that fourth quarter being his best quarter, I think we're kind of looking for like, okay, maybe that'll carry in.

Maybe he just kind of settled in too little, too late.

But also, it's like you're starting quarterback in Texas.

Everybody's expecting you to be great from the jump in this thing.

Yeah, no one cares if your right tackle is a turnstile and he turns around to block the pass rusher with his back, basically.

But it is going to be all on Arch.

But the other thing with Patricia is that's not getting touched about is people are thinking like, hey, Belichick's probably going to do this, you know, tonight with UNC.

With Caleb Downs, it's probably the only reason they can do what they're doing.

Like, you talk talk about amoeba defenses and moving guys all over the place.

Like Caleb Downs is probably the only reason he's allowed or able to do those things because he probably makes up for half of the shit that they're doing.

He's the chess piece that's confusing Arch, and Patricia's just the one letting him do that.

Yeah, he had him down on the line multiple times and he would drop back into coverage.

They only brought pressure, or they got pressure with four man or whatever, 12 times out of 14.

They're showing six though every time.

Like did not blitz him.

It looks like a blitz every single time.

And then who's backing out?

Well, you have to try to decipher who's going where.

And whenever they're showing zero or cover one, and then they're dropping somebody from cover two back there.

Are you and the wide receivers on the same page?

Probably not.

Are you able to have an out of this?

Probably not.

Are you making the right read?

Maybe.

It's like.

I think Sark, Arch, and that Texas offense got a big wake-up call with a very, very talented D-life.

A lot was made off of, you know, they lost their entire D-line.

You talked about Jack Sawyer and JTT and the two boys in the middle.

They lost off.

but Downs is back.

Igbo Nosen was back.

Matthews, who had the interception, those three all started on the back end last year.

So like while they were not as experienced up front in the back, and then Sonny Styles at linebacker, like they were very experienced there off of a championship defense.

Caleb Dons, I met his dad Friday night.

It was cool to meet him.

Has a good presence about him, his dad.

And obviously Caleb and Josh Downs, brother Josh Downs now with the Indianapolis Colts.

I think there's a three-year age difference, I think.

And one of the stories that I was being told is that whenever he was very young, he was taking a picture with his family.

And Josh is like out running away.

And Caleb is like directing him to come back and stand in line.

Mr.

Downs is basically like, Caleb's been like this since he's three years old.

Just has always been very mature.

He's been great at ball.

I guess there was a return or a punt return or a kick return or something whenever he was like a very, very little kid where he was like sitting in the field and cutting back.

And I was like, Because I asked him, when did you know?

He's like, very young.

He did something.

And we were like, oh, we might have a guy here.

And it's like almost been written since he was a kid like this guy is a guy he goes to alabama as soon as he steps foot on the campus they're like that's the one

that is there's a gold jacket on that guy as a true freshman at alabama that was savings alabama too which yeah

boy oh boy it ain't savings alabama anymore no no no it is not this ain't your daddy's alabama this is not oh your daddy that ain't daddy's alabama either i mean it is a uh it is a wild time down there but caleb was a guy as soon as he gets there yeah So when Ohio State gets him plucked up there, it's like they immediately, we got the best player in all college football on the defensive side, wins a national championship, couldn't try to do it again.

It's like, he's the guy, and Matt Patricia knows he has that.

And now it's like, if you can keep that culture on that defensive side, especially Big Ten football.

You can really confuse and beat people up, especially if you're going to continue to get Ohio State type athletes.

Good for them.

Let's talk about that Alabama team.

Do we have to?

Don't do it.

Daniel Orlofsky said he counted 21 loafs.

Yeah.

That means you would have to watch every single game, every single player.

Every single play.

And he did.

21.

And that's why he used to go.

Counted 21 loafs on Alabama State.

Traders.

You got to watch 21 Traders is how Rich Rodriguez would describe that.

But I think that was the biggest takeaway.

It's like, not only are they losing to Florida State, who is completely reloaded.

Yes.

Completely.

And teams have been able to be very good whenever they use the transfer portal hard and get the right guys in there.

Thomas Castellanos, right guy.

Right guy.

Everybody else, insanely athletic.

They brought in five new offensive linemen, felt like Thomas had some time.

They brought in D-linemen, felt like they were getting to the quarterback.

Felt like who they brought in, big, fast, very athletic.

And Thomas Castellanos has to give the entire team a lot of confidence, especially whenever he comes out and says, I ain't got saving there anymore.

I don't know who the fuck's going to stop.

Basically.

He said that?

Then he comes in, and now he's got shirts that say, like, Nick can't save him.

Basically,

it was a wild thing to say, especially because Alabama, still, most five-stars committed to the 2026, still got like one of the best offensive lines in all of college ball, still got five-stars and blue chips all across the board.

Kaylin DeBoer, also another year in his culture, he gets his offensive coordinator back that he had at Washington and he had in Indiana whenever they had a bunch of success.

It's like this is going to be the Alabama team.

And then you're watching it.

It's like,

that's Alabama.

They got bullied.

Beat up.

Yeah.

Lazy.

Yeah.

Lazy.

Wearing the Alabama stuff.

It's like, is there not four or five stars behind every one of those guys waiting to take their spot?

Like, you want to loaf and be lazy?

You better be a fucking Heisman winner.

If you're just another guy on the team, there's four guys behind you that are willing to sprint full speed, even if they're not going to make the play.

It's like all those things kind of made, I think, not only Alabama fans who are obviously disgusted.

Now they're making up stories.

I hear guys are getting DoorDash fast food 1 a.m.

day of

They're walking around on flip-flops after curfew.

Nobody's saying anything.

Who knows?

Yeah, it's like all these things.

It's like now,

if this continues,

those are only going to get more and more because Sabin created a standard there.

Yes.

And that is one standard.

You're going to go.

And if we're going to play like ass, there's only going to be one reaction when you show me on camera.

Says Blue Polo guy.

I don't want to hear.

Telephone.

Legend.

Legend.

Waiting for his moment.

And he moves along.

I like Kalen DeBoer a lot, and we don't know how he is like in practice and behind closed doors, but it seems like he's just emotionless on the sidelines.

You guys always talk about looking behind you, Vinny, always thinking, Hey, I got to do it.

Like, saving those guys were scared to death at all times, so they all always performed with that hard edge or whatever.

It seems like they just don't give a shit.

Yeah, that's what Alabama fans are saying.

Yeah, and you know, we're gonna stop giving a shit, right?

I'm gonna stop giving a piss.

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Football!

This is great.

We're so lucky that we get a chance to chat about tonight.

UNC will take on TCU.

It'll be the debut of Bill Belichick as the head coach of the North Carolina Tari Hill football team.

I, alongside the College Game Day folks, will be doing the kickoff show and the halftime show.

So we will be boots on the ground in Chapel Bill.

We cannot wait to see what this new era of Tar Heel football will look like.

And they're taking on a tough hornfrog squad.

This team moves.

This team's quick.

What will Bill Belichick try to do alongside his boy and an entire team with 70 new transfers?

But stars are going to be out.

Michael Jordan's going to be on the side.

Yeah, that's true.

Julius Pepper is going to be on the side.

Oh, hell yeah.

Mia Ham's going to be on the side.

What?

No more?

Yeah.

No, hopefully.

Okay.

I mean, right?

I hope so.

I hope so.

How about Eric Church?

Hole.

Heard of him?

Talladega?

Talladega.

Here's a hilly.

Go real fast.

What's that?

I don't know that one.

Nine-year NFL.

I don't think we do either.

It's very straightforward.

It's all right.

You won't hear that one.

Lamo's just going to fall around.

Yeah, hey, hey, Spring Seed.

Come on.

Dr.

Stamp is here at Bus Conner and At Tosh Schmidt.

One half of the Hammer.

Don't Cowboys AP Tone is here and joining us live from an attic in Ohio.

Fresh out of a dinner that I'll tell you what, I don't think I've ever seen a group of people like that together before.

AJ was certainly there.

Ladies and gentlemen, AJ Hawk.

AJ, that was awesome.

Were you holding court at that dinner?

What was going on on Friday night?

We just so happened to be getting dinner.

Two separate groups, our backs two feet away from each other.

Okay, he was.

That's incredible.

He's looking one way.

I'm looking the other way.

He seemingly spotlight of that conversation.

Of course.

Not even close.

That's a bold-faced lie.

I barely even spoke at that situation, but yeah.

You were there.

You were at the point of the circle.

In the middle of the situation, he said, nothing either.

It was

awesome.

You look like a very powerful group.

I'm going to let you know.

You look like, shout out to Giuseppe's over there in Columbus.

Great to go.

Wow.

Giuseppe, founder, unbelievable on his road to recovery right now.

Okay.

Just, I don't know how long ago, do you know how long ago it was?

I do not.

No.

Do you know what happened to Giuseppe?

Not really.

Where do you live?

That's like 40 minutes from where I live.

You need to know what happened.

His son was there.

His son was doing great.

Son was doing great.

Giovanni?

Just...

Giovanni just

Giuseppe Paisan that created Giuseppe's.

He and his family.

Wow.

Wonderful Italian.

He was driving home.

You guys are going to feel like assholes right now.

Just want to let you know.

This is going to be a very, very serious story.

I just said we knew it.

He's on his road to recovery.

Not a lot of Giovanni talk over there and a lot of

situation.

Giuseppe got T-boned.

Uh-oh.

Oh, thanks, Connor.

Paralyzed.

Oh, no.

65 years old.

Now he's back walking.

Okay.

65.

He's like, he's going to get his ass back into that restaurant.

I do believe.

Talk to the family.

Obviously, the family is like,

as the story was being told, we're like, holy shit, we're so sorry.

He's like, no, he's going to get back.

Like, that's how it is.

65 years old.

Guy's a grinder.

His food immaculate.

his restaurant packed to the gills on Friday night.

And me and AJ, just like two feet away from each other.

He was talking, I just met Caleb's dad about a minute and a half before that.

So I was the only person I knew at that table.

He's talking to a table of what seemed to be bigwigs.

I mean, we're talking.

This is a big deal over here.

I think I saw some people potentially watching, securing.

Wow.

What's happening here?

And we're just having a light little dinner over here.

You know, a light little dinner on this side.

A light little dinner.

Yeah,

a light little dinner on this side.

You look like you were having a good one, though.

I want to let you know.

I looked over every once in a while.

I'm like, AJ's really chopping it up in there.

A lot of laughs, a lot of big time laughs.

I'm a great listener.

I'm a very good listener.

People say that.

Yeah, but you're dissecting as you're listening.

I'll jump in if I'm asked to or it's needed, but I'm not going to shoehorn myself into conversations I don't know anything about.

Well, I do.

That's made a living out of that.

You know what they say?

The quiet lips, loud brain.

That's right.

That's what they say.

You never know what's going on in there.

Something.

There's words somewhere.

But if they're not coming out of here, where are they?

Let's talk about the words coming out of there for you and all of Ohio State alumni and fans.

How do we feel after week one?

Obviously, huge test against Texas.

Your defense looked phenomenal.

Obviously, Arch did not look good at all.

A lot of people blaming Stark.

A lot of people give him Matt Patricia a lot of credit.

Obviously, the players are insanely good over there at Ohio State.

Julian Sane gets his first start, his first action.

as an Ohio State Buckeye quarterback other than just the spring game.

What do Ohio State fans say?

You guys got to feel great about this national championship repeat, huh?

After week one?

I think people feel pretty good.

Yeah, I mean, I used to talk to Ryan Day going in.

They said, oh, what's your expectation for Julian Sane?

He said, just a win.

Let's go out there and let's get a win.

Let's get a victory.

And they did.

I mean, 14 to 7.

You would like to have a little bit more of a cushion, but I think they like they did everything they needed to.

Texas is an awesome team.

They're number one ranked team in the preseason.

So, of course, anytime you get a victory over a team like that, especially to start the season with all these new guys, some inexperienced guys, I should say, coming in.

Yeah, it's a a good win for the Bucs.

They're going to keep it moving.

But yeah, I think it was a positive situation.

I think so, too.

Great setup.

The tribute and how you guys paid your respects to Coach Corso was cool.

That was really cool.

I think, obviously, the game day people are probably going to send their thanks to the Ohio State folks as they should.

But, you know, everybody we've met over at Ohio State has been very gracious to us, which is why we didn't want to hate them.

Yeah, exactly.

We didn't want to hate them.

We were ready to, though.

We had to.

If we had to, we had to.

It would have been easy.

That's just.

But we didn't.

I don't think it would have been easy.

That's what I'm saying it would have been hard would have been oh so easy

I did not want to do it like genuinely enjoy the the Ohio State the team and also like the players the alumni that you know Will Howard you just talked to him like they were he was very nice to you know us the other guys when we were at the S Piece which is why you're talking about an utter guy I mean Bobby Carpenter's

facility for yeah everybody there very kind to us and has been very kind to us so we're happy that we don't have to act like we don't like them even though connor's like really we can we still act a little bit like that i could i i could go go it was cool it was very cool how the ohio state people treated coach corso that was awesome with the band line up behind him and the whole place i mean that was just uh that was an epic moment and proper send off and him being absolutely perfect on all of his picks and every team that he ever coached or played for uh winning throughout it i think it was a great send-off for sports icon how'd you feel about it as an ohio state fan and did you guys chat about it at all about you know i'm happy our band did I'm assuming your band has never done that for anybody or anything ever before, let alone the horseshoe doing that.

Yeah, I don't think so.

And when you were telling me like the schedule and how they were doing it, you know, okay, of course it's going to come out after the end, all this stuff, I was thinking, man, that's a lot of moving parts.

How in the world do you like put that together logistically?

And they, they nailed it, man.

It was great.

Like, I thought it was, it was a beautiful situation for Coach.

And I love that he wore the tux and then he gets all the picks, right?

All this stuff.

Like, it worked out exactly how it should work out for a legend like Legal.

Yeah, and it very rarely does, right?

Doesn't it feel like that never happens?

You never get the right send-off.

Feels like he he got his flowers and then all his pictures right.

And he's right.

I love that.

That's pretty good.

That's unbelievable.

I love that.

The tuxedo was awesome.

Nobody knew that was coming.

Get up there, see him in the tuxes.

Start.

Yes.

So crazy.

Yes.

Immediately what I said.

You know, he was getting a little emotional, I think, multiple different times.

I kind of taking it all in, as was everybody, you know, because it was like, we're not going to see him around as much anymore.

The Southwest flight thing.

that came out on Thursday or Friday, whenever they paid tribute to him.

I started getting a bunch of messages asking me why Coach Corso is flying Southwest and I'm not.

It's like, I don't know, but I also do know that I think I have offered up for Coach Corso.

And he said, oh, way too much money.

Don't you do that.

Like, Coach Corso is literally like

old school, the oldest of schools.

And like traveling through that airport that he did for the last 30 years through Orlando is like his thing.

Like, I think he loves it.

I think he loves seeing the people.

I think he likes the energy and everything.

And now, granted, if I was Coach Corso or his agent, okay, he was same one.

I met him, same one for 38 years.

It's like, I think we would try to talk him out of that whenever he gets 80 years old.

You know, he's like 90 now, 80 years old or whatever.

But I think Coach Corso is very much like, nope, this is kind of how I operate.

This is the way it goes.

And that's like.

Another, another,

another reason why it's like, this dude is such a legend.

There will never be another one.

Like, there'll never be another Coach Corso.

And there's little storylines like that through everything.

The flight thing made me think of the Peter King story about Lamar Hunt when Lamar Hunt was flying from Kansas City to New York or Dallas, whatever, and he was sitting in like 38B in the middle reading a book, and this guy essentially invented the NFL.

Like, some people are just in their routine and like to travel that way, too.

Yeah, he's a football coach at heart, so he's like a creature of habit and everything.

He's probably been doing that for decades now.

And like you said, you know, I'm sure he enjoys like people see him in the airports, like, holy shit, that's Lee Corso.

You know, like it helps you feel young, and and it's just it's it's what's easy to do So, you know, yeah, I mean if he wanted to fly private I'm sure he'd be flying private Well, that's what I think too now granted should somebody have pushed a little bit here for the last time Maybe yeah, like I think there was a ball drop, but I don't know if Corso would necessarily say right you got it like genuinely I do not know that's the type of guy he is, but I saw I saw the video and I just was like sick.

I'm happy they're celebrating him because we know the backstory.

I didn't even think about everybody being like, because this is how we acted as well.

Yeah.

When we learned of this, I did the same thing.

I went right to the top of the, Coach Corso can't be doing this.

What are we doing?

Like he likes it.

Like he, like, that's like.

It's his social media.

It's like his thing.

And it's like, really?

I didn't know that was the case.

Now, is he just saying that so he doesn't step on any toes?

And he said, because he's always just trying to, you know, dance, who knows?

But other than the South, other than the Southwest thing, it was like, what a perfect.

all of it.

The luncheon that we stopped by was magnificent.

The production meeting on Friday, they captured it.

It was great.

like everything about it was very very good so we'll miss them but what a perfect way to kind of go out and if if you're ever doing anything for a profession for that long and at the end of it every person including the other network yeah wants to say thanks that was cool too you done good you know aj you done good there

he is i mean yeah like lee corso is college football he like he

the juice, the energy, the pageantry that college football is, like Lee has embodied that for, what, 30, 40 years now, at least more than that, most likely.

Yeah.

Good luck to whoever has to follow him.

That would suck.

That would suck.

The whole fucking sport.

Yeah.

Both networks.

Documentaries, more stories coming out about how legendary he is.

Good luck.

Good luck, dude.

Have fun.

Yeah, you're going to do great.

You're going to do great.

I was thinking that as he was doing it, I was like, brothers, no,

how the fuck?

What are you supposed to do there?

Yeah, legend, dude.

You just got 127,000 people to go absolutely crazy.

Even the Texas fans are doing it, you know?

Even the Texas fans are claiming.

Yeah, well, got to do it.

Had to do it.

It's just like, wow.

All right.

What a legend, dude.

He was, he's always been very kind to me, which is what I appreciate, you know?

Because I told this story before, but it's the truth.

When I get dropped into College Game Day full time, It's like week three or whatever, week two, week three, whatever it was.

I get dropped in there.

A lot of people in the SEC hated me because they thought I was taking time from David Pollock.

The people behind the scenes, though, hated me because they knew that I was probably brought in there to potentially one day add the entertainment, the energy, the spice if or when Coach Corso was to step away.

So the SEC fans hated me because one of the greatest players in the history of the Southeastern Conference, David Pollock, was potentially going to lose some time because I was going on there, which once again, David Pollock, incredibly kind to me.

I get along with David Pollock.

I respect David Pollock.

David Pollock was great for college football, and he was a great football player.

Got hurt when he was with Cincinnati Bengals.

So he was all, he's been great.

He was great to me, very nice to me.

But the SEC and Georgia fans, more specifically, boy, they hated me.

You know, big, loud, dumbass from Pittsburgh's coming in here.

And this guy's taking time away from one of the greatest dogs in the history.

Why is this guy here?

They were loud.

Boom, boom, boom.

But what people didn't know is behind the scenes, people hated me.

Not for that.

For

the guy who created this entire sport and the guy who created this show and the guy that created this entire beating is basically you're potentially, you're never going to, basically, you know?

So it was an interesting little thing there for a couple of years up until now and still kind of happening.

So that is certainly, it's been an interesting environment for me.

It's been a very, but like the thought of being on that show is just such an honor.

It's like.

I love the fact that I get to represent football.

Like that is a cool thing getting to do.

And I try to tell Coach Corso that whenever we did like the roundtable shout out session to him and I got a chance to say it on TV and I've said this to him off air too.

It's like he loves ball.

Like that guy loves ball.

Everything about it loves ball.

And it's like, I think that is why I'm initially drawn to him.

And then the way like he goes about it, it's like.

that that guy speaking how i would speak like as a kid growing up watching him so you know i have nothing but respect for these but there's a lot of people who don't have a lot of respect for me being the guy that's coming in there and i've certainly felt it And I will try my best to represent for football is what I'm saying.

And for college football, especially in this magical time that we're in right now, where you have no clue what team is going to become the greatest.

You can be ass, absolute shit a year beforehand and then become a perennial power yet again.

Looking at you, Florida State.

You can be great and then become.

Oh, no, what was that?

Looking at you, Alabama.

Will they be able to find their way back with Crimson Tide?

We shall see.

Top 10 teams competed this weekend, six of them against each other.

So obviously there was going to be at least three top 10 teams with an L.

There were four.

Penn State though, no, haven't talked about them.

They beat the hell out of Nevada.

Drew Aller looked good.

Yeah.

Drew Aller looks like what we wanted him to look like after the terrible ending to his season last year.

He could have either crumbled or used that as motivation to get even better and maybe become top pick in the NFL draft this year.

This Penn State team is for real.

Ohio State, obviously, they get the massive win over Texas.

Texas's defense not getting talked about because Ohio State's defense is getting talked about.

Julian Saint and the boys, couple drops, Claire, Jeremiah Smith, early.

We don't know what that's all about.

We assume that'll get cleaned up.

Heartline, now the OC.

It's like tough sledding against that Texas defense, but I think that's going to be for everybody this year.

Obviously, Clemson loses to LSU in the

Death Valley Bowl.

And

LSU is a real deal.

They are.

Georgia defeats Marshall.

That's Tony Gibson's first game as Marshall's head coach.

Sorry about that.

Sorry about that.

Notre Dame, close to one of Miami, C.J.

Carr.

You know,

he seemingly had some moments where it's like he's a guy.

The run and touchdown, obviously, is crazy.

The scramble all the way back to his own 30 or 40, then the no-look throw for his first touchdown.

I mean, this is filthy.

Watch number eight just go ahead and jump.

Yeah, I got you.

And number two.

No.

Yeah, we're going back that way.

I mean, he just made the guy even more wide open.

And those are throws that a lot of guys can miss, especially in their first start.

Get a little nervous.

The guy's wide open.

And then he does the billionaire strut with the big ball dance.

So I like what CJ Carr showed.

Miami, obviously, all the way back in my eyes.

I can't wait to watch them all season.

I put out a tweet, D-Buddy on this fuck.

I said, we're about 45 minutes away from the month of September starting.

I've only seen four quarters of this Miami team.

I believe in them.

I do.

I believe in them this year.

Not that I didn't last year.

So many miracles last year.

So many.

So many miracles last year.

And, you know, they were back for the first time, long time.

But whenever their fans traveled out to Cal and I got a chance to see them before game day, the Mimon fans were like, this is different.

This is different.

Crystal Ball has got his culture in.

So now you get a new quarterback, get a new everything.

Is Carson Beck going to be able to continue to lead him?

Yeah, he is.

And they're big, strong, and fast.

And if Carson Beck can get them in and out of the huddle, Carson Beck can get everybody lined up on the offensive side.

The defensive side is going to have dudes that can hunt, which they did.

They decided to just end the game.

You got guys making catches like that.

Michael Irvin's losing his shit on the sideline.

I think there was like 60-some thousand people at this game, 66,000 people people at this game.

It's like, is Miami back?

Is the U back?

And then Florida State's back.

Florida's back.

The state of Florida back.

And college ball as a whole.

Hey, we need, especially our age group for me, being a South Florida kid, like that was the glory days for college football.

UM being good, Florida State being good, and then the University of Florida being good.

UM and Florida State beating two top 10 teams opening week.

That's huge.

And then Florida doing their thing against Long Island University, I believe, you know, good start to their season.

So

they'll have a tough schedule.

So we'll see what they're about to lag away.

Still looks like the real deal.

But yeah, if these three teams can be good, which they look like they will be, that'll be huge for college football as a whole.

And for these two new quarterbacks, you know, coming in new places, Carson Beck and Castellanos, like getting wins over top 10 programs, that's huge.

And everything that I heard that has been going on behind the scenes with Carson Beck, I grew up a Hurricanes fan, still a Kanes fan.

So everything I heard that he's done with his teammates and then how he clicked instantly with this OC where he has much more control at the line of scrimmage to get in and out of plays.

Like as a player, I know even as a defender, when we can kind of change and have adjustments to coverages, to bunches to do, that just gives you so much more ownership over the defense or the offense as a player.

So I love what I saw.

Malachi Tony was unbelievable.

He was electric from the jump.

True freshman.

T.Y.

Hilton S for sure.

Great, great player.

So yeah,

everything's looking good.

good for UM right now and the state of Florida as a whole, which is big for college football as a whole, in my opinion.

What are you saying, saying, Gumpy?

You're saying, yeah, let's keep watching the hurricanes, not the Dolphins.

Let's say Hurricanes, Hurricanes, Hurricanes.

Is that what's going on down there in South Florida, Gumps?

Yeah, it was nice to see the defense.

That new DC we got from Minnesota was electric on the sidelines compared to what we had last year.

Just that one bust at the end of the game.

I would have liked they threw it a little bit more.

They got way too conservative in the second half.

I know the defense was playing well, but would have liked to see him kind of end it a little earlier.

I don't like three straight runs there in the fourth quarter when you put the game away, especially when it's only a 47-yard field goal.

Like if that's that's a 27-yard field goal, we got it.

We understand.

That kid makes the kick, obviously, kind of puts him in a better spot than they could have been, but

they did rest on their yawnies there.

They rested on their yawnies a little bit, AJ.

This is a huge ball here, though, opening night with a minute left in the fourth.

47-yarder for a guy that was four of 11 in the past at FAU.

I think they were all very long kicks.

I think he was sent out there for like the long balls.

So not high percentage kicks.

But that graphic didn't say that.

This guy's come out here 11 times.

He only made it four times.

He He had to pot snap earlier, too.

So I know that has to be somewhere.

And then the first extra point almost hits off the up.

I'll tell you what, Mario is a great recruiter.

He's a great coach, but sometimes in that fourth quarter, he gets a little tight.

Yeah.

He does need to get somebody in his ear that lets him know.

That was the thing for Miami, too, that really pushed it over the edge for me was Mario Crispal kind of talking about all the guys being back, like about how much more it means the Notre Dame rivalry for him.

And then like Andre Johnson was there.

I think Clinton Portis was there.

Ray Lewis.

Yeah, Ray Lewis.

Obviously, Michael Irvin, everyone saw like the amount of players that came back.

If all that is happening, I mean, it reminds me of tonight with UNC.

Like all these dudes are going to come back for all their home games and they're going to continue to go.

Miami's a scene, dude.

Yeah.

There's a lot to do afterwards, too.

And I think Carson Beck's doing all that.

For sure.

From the reactions I'm seeing with his team.

Yeah, I hope so, too.

That's quarterback shit.

Yeah.

That literally is.

Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a college football analyst for ESPN, though.

Oh, wow, really?

Founder of Pate State.

Ladies and gentlemen, the host of Josh Page's college football show from On3 Sports and Yahoo Sports, still a thing.

Ladies and gentlemen, Josh Page.

Yay!

Hey, what up, dude?

I watched what you watched last night.

You just hit on, I think, the underrated storyline of college football the past decade.

So you're talking about all these state of Florida teams.

You sit next to Saban every Saturday.

Last title he won was the 2020 year.

You know, he won that with a defensive backfield made up entirely of starters that they got from South Florida because none of the South Florida kids were staying home.

Ohio State's roster has been littered with South Florida kids.

Clemson, Georgia, they all go into Florida.

Not because those kids are dying to get out of the state per se, but because for the past decade, Florida, FSU, Miami combinations thereof have not been able to present a viable path to play for a title to those in-state kids.

So you're right.

If the wheel on that ship is started to turn a little bit, it's the biggest story in college football.

Not just because you may have two or three premier programs back.

Think about what it does to pluck two or three premier players per recruiting cycle off the rosters of the other contenders.

Because that's been the dynamic shift the last decade in the sport.

Who was the name of the guy that had the yachts and thoughts and ended up on a cot eating two hots in a cot?

Nebin.

Shapiro?

Yeah, Nebin Shapiro.

Is he back?

Does Miami have money?

Does Miami have the money to be able to keep up with everybody?

Seemingly.

I mean, they've paid a quarterback now back-to-back years, but are they, do they have enough money to be able to keep up with the likes of the Big Ten?

Dane White was on the sideline, too.

Yeah, his daughter goes there there already.

Just checked her in.

He's become a Miami guy.

Do we know that information about every team before we go into the year?

Because it feels like that is the piece of information that we need as we project what the future looks like for all these parties.

Yeah, so I'd say yes tentatively already to your question.

Then I would say you've got just an utter assassin as your head coach who also happens to recruit 25 hours a day.

But I've always thought of Miami kind of like I think of USC.

Like if you ever were to get the forward momentum, you saw who was in the stands last night at that game.

You You know how deep their pockets are.

You just got to convince these people that, hey, hey, ball's moving.

It's starting to roll downhill because then everyone wants to put their sticker on it.

Everyone wants to, they won't all have the rub with it.

It's just they happen to have deeper pockets there.

So if you initiate Miami, which they've already got a lot of money, but if you really initiate South Florida behind the cause of Miami football, yeah, it's a runaway freight train.

I'll tell you what.

I'm Florida boys are good at football.

Yeah, they are.

They certainly are.

And everybody was really feasting on South Florida.

I still think the big money schools will be able to, but if Cristobal can keep the boys home, I mean, why not?

Norvell is able to just turn over a team and make them big, fast, and strong.

And then Napier's got his culture set in Florida.

Is Florida a good state of football again?

It was must-change television whenever Florida was on.

There for a while.

Must become must-watch.

Let's go to another top 10 school.

Go ahead, Tone.

Yeah, Pete.

Another top 10 matchup we watched on Saturday night was LSU heading to Clemson.

Did we get bamboozled by Clemson again?

You know, we all the returning production.

Um, did that make us forget that they haven't beat an actual good team in probably the last three or four years?

Or is LS, do you think LSU is a really, really good football team?

Both are probably true.

Uh, Tone, let's let's be careful when we say we because I backed off of Clemson a little bit the closer we got to the season.

You made a point, though, that it kind of extended itself into this LSU game.

So, Clemson last year, great year.

Everyone thought they'd build on that this year and returning starters, sometimes an overrated stat, by the way.

If you return guys who have reached their ceiling, you're just banging your head against your ceiling again.

So they faced three SDC teams last year.

They go 0-3.

They go 14 of 40 offensively on third down against them.

They then go three of 12 on third down against LSU.

So they're like 17 of 52 on third down against highest levels of competition they face.

They can't scale up.

They can't scale their competition level.

So what we're probably looking at, just until I see otherwise, we're probably looking at a team that is absolutely capable of doing what they did last year, banging on the door of a playoff spot.

Who knows, maybe they win the ACC again.

I'd be very careful of that trip down to Georgia Tech in two weeks, but I think they're capable of what they did last year.

I just don't know that they're capable of anything more than that.

Your eyes play tricks on you every summer.

You open that preview magazine and you see X number of returning starters.

And then you watch a quarterback coming back.

Oh, he's got his same offensive coordinator, same system, same head coach, best receiver room they've had there in quite a while.

All of those things are true.

You convince yourself that means things just scale up another 20%.

Sometimes you just are who you are.

Ironically, he may have himself, Kay Klebnick, in the same mess that Nussmeyer was in last year.

Nussmeyer was a good quarterback for LSU last year.

He had no run game.

And the other night, Clemson had no run game.

And if that's the case, it's unfair to put those guys in a position to just expect them to you know, mount up and shoulder the entire load.

Nussmeyer threw 12 picks last year because they couldn't run the ball.

Cade had a really good touchdown to INT ratio last year.

This year, my instinct is if they can't run the ball any better than they did the other night, you're going to see him more turnover prone, which will lead to is he a bust conversations.

No, they're just putting him in an unwinnable position if that's the case.

Yeah, desperation will lead you to throw the ball into double teams and shit like that is what I believe Josh Page is talking about at this exact moment.

They need to run the ball with Dabo.

Did you see him?

Yeah, man.

He came out.

Hey, that was one of the better hill runs.

It was.

I've seen.

I mean, that thing was tucked in.

The pants were up to the belly button.

But he was, I mean, he was really strident.

How old is Dabbo?

Can we look up how old this man is?

35.

How old are those hip flexors?

Check the hip flexor.

His stride length has not shrunk.

His stride length is still every bit the same as it was 10 years ago.

And you know good and well he works on that.

55 years old with those hamstrings.

Those are 55-year-old hamstrings.

He played, yeah.

55 years old, you're not supposed to be full.

I mean, you're talking ye.

He was striding that.

Tom Cruise, yeah, but even more forward-lean.

Whoa, yeah, Tom Cruise has got to work on his base because he doesn't know where a bomb is.

That's a good point.

Dabo just knows that he's got to get to that 50 faster than anybody else.

You're trying to catch up to the man in front of him or whatever the takes is, so he's got a little bit more forward-lean, especially because he's coming down that goddamn hill.

That thing hits a little whoop-de-woo there, too.

Oh, yeah, you know, that thing's like what, uh, what's the place?

Cedar Point in Ohio.

That thing is like Cedar Point's best roller coaster.

Now, of course, it's not Kennywood, it's not really.

I saw someone from Kennywood this weekend.

Do they have some sort of event or something?

Yeah, there's a ride outside, too.

It's called Keep Your Head on a Swing.

Oh, yeah.

That's what it was.

Sue us.

We like to booze in fights.

Yeah, sorry.

They will if you booze and fight.

They shut it down, actually.

They shut down Kennywood 21-plus nights because there was six straight nights of fights.

That lady's voice.

Hurry up.

Let's go.

So we get on a ride.

So good.

Inside jokes are jargon.

I'm from rural Georgia.

I know nothing about what you're talking about.

It sounds great, though.

It's this really poopy roller coaster, and there's a fight at it this week.

It's an amusement park called Kennywood, actually.

Here's the hat.

Thank you.

It's in Pittsburgh.

It is the greatest amusement park in the country outside of Disney something.

So if it had Disney before it, it ain't keeping up with it.

But if you want to have a good time with the family, go to one of the day.

Yeah.

You keep that family out of there at night.

You keep that family out of there at night.

I'm going to tell you that.

Go ahead, AJ, back to the paint.

Sorry about it, Bob.

Yeah, Josh, obviously, everyone's talking about Arch Manning, how he performed against that Ohio State defense.

What do you think of Arch's performance?

How's he going to do the rest of the year?

But also the Ohio State defense and Maddie Patricia, what he was able to do with some of these guys that have not played a ton of football so far at the college level.

What do you make of Arch?

And what do you make of this defense Ohio State has?

Yeah, I almost wish you asked the question in reverse, AJ, because a lot of people are leading with Arch.

Arch is not the story here.

Ohio State's defense is the story.

I got to be real with you.

There were two instances this Saturday where I looked and I said, if you didn't know any better, but you just knew the storylines, you wouldn't know which team is which.

Bama FSU is one of those, which we can talk about whenever.

But this one right here, like if I tell you one of these teams just won a title, then they're replacing both coordinators, huge chunk of their roster.

That's an operation that is ripe to have a reality check, especially against a hungry team, equally as talented, still on a mission, got Arch Manning as your quarterback, and they stoned him.

Made him so indecisive.

I'm standing there on the field.

It was one of those games where if you just watch the quarterback, don't even follow the ball.

Don't even look at the secondary, don't look at the line of scrimmage.

You can tell he's got time to throw.

Either he's missing wide open guys or there's a blanket over that Texas wide receiver core, mostly the latter instead of the former.

I don't think they have the kind of speed at receiver they did last year.

They can play that in the building all they want to and let it echo through the halls.

They don't have the kind of speed they had in their wide receiver room last year.

So they're going to have scheme guys open a little bit more.

But dude, there should have been something.

Imagine this time last week if we had Sark just like quad box him here and we said, hey, you're going to hold Ohio State to 14 in the shoe.

Will you take that?

He would have signed his name on whatever dotted line he could.

And it wasn't enough.

That was pretty, that was pretty surprising to me, dude.

Ryan Day has gone from people questioning whether he's the guy for his own job like seven months ago to he's a genius.

He was always the same guy.

Nothing's changed about Ryan Day.

He was always the same guy.

It's just his Wikipedia page is different.

He's thinner.

He's in much better shape now.

He's in much better shape now, tighter clothes.

We all saw it.

We all know what we're talking about, but he is in such great shape right now.

Can we please, can we please?

Someone needs to air this out nationally.

There is a big difference in hard nipple versus nipple ring.

There's a big difference.

That's not us.

That's not him.

We don't need to be doing that.

You go to somebody else and do that whole thing.

We just know that he was jacked up.

And how did you not be?

He had the chills.

Yeah.

Big time.

Yeah, like Dewey.

Who also is slowed down?

Yeah, Dwayne Johnson looking very thin.

He looks like he's becoming like an Ironman type thing.

He might be.

Hey, Rock, whatever you're doing, you look great, Paul.

Might be working out together.

You look good.

Maybe.

You talked about the Alabama FSU game.

You don't know who's who.

That's a good time to talk about this.

Go ahead, Ty.

Yeah, Pate.

How much do you think Kalen DeBoer needs to be worried about keeping his job this year?

Right after the game, we saw that, you know, hey, his buyout's $70 million.

Are we looking at a, you know, hey, Alabama needs to go to the playoff this year?

He's likely out, or how do you see this whole situation panning out?

I don't know if it's that.

I just, I don't know where we are with him.

I mean, that's my national championship pick.

You think Saturday was bad for Bama?

Imagine picking him to win the title, and then that gets thrown in your face.

I think the new reality of college football, okay, is for big-time programs, Bama, Ohio State, Georgia, et cetera, you're used to there being a really high floor.

So like the worst case under Nick Saban ever was going to be nine wins.

Kirby at Georgia, worst it could ever get is like eight or nine wins.

That's what you think.

That's not the reality anymore.

So you're driving down the interstate still, same interstate, but there's no guardrails.

There's no median.

It's just edge of a cliff both ways.

Florida State found this out last year, by the way, where if a tire falls off, there's no limit to how bad it can get.

Like you think Bama can't miss a bowl game.

They absolutely could miss a bowl game, or he could get the ship righted.

But your question is,

is he need to be worried about his job dude?

He needs to be worried about the competitive character of his team.

There's a big difference in, ooh, I mean, Arch Manning, a little inaccurate.

or, you know, your guys miss assignments, they drop balls.

Like the fundamental competitive character being called into question, running backs, stoning your linebackers and basic run fits, can't shed that stuff, turning down blocks in some cases, dropping balls left and right, not because you just misjudged it, but because you maybe turned it down over the middle of the field.

That's like non-negotiable stuff.

That's stuff you took for granted.

under Nick Saban.

It's stuff I take for granted, frankly, as a viewer from every major program.

So that stuff, if it doesn't get corrected, I don't even know what the answer is.

Like $70 million is not even a real number to me.

That's monopoly money.

I don't know what the answer there is.

I just know that that high floor is not in existence anymore.

So there's no limit to how bad it can get if that stuff doesn't get corrected.

You don't look down the road to Georgia.

You don't look past this Saturday.

I don't care if you're favored by five touchdowns.

You don't look past the next opponent.

And we've just been so accustomed to being able to do that with these big-time programs.

I don't know that you can do that right now.

Josh, I don't know if you saw, obviously, the pictures of Coach Sabin's office and then Kalin's office, obviously drastically different.

And then Kalen, the way he goes about doing stuff versus how Sabin goes about doing stuff, multiple different ways of doing things.

You know, like there's a lot of that that had to happen.

And following Coach Saban in Alabama would be a,

like trying to follow Coach Corso on college games.

That would be a very, that'd be a very, very difficult task, I think, with all parties.

Let alone the fact that Sabin still lives there, still has an office in the building, and obviously is still very prevalent in college football world because he is great on television on college game day.

So everything he's saying on college game day, Alabama fans are like, yep, that's what's being said, hopefully to the boys.

That's what's being said right now, because that's what it has been.

But what Kalen DeBoer is doing is trying to build his own legacy at Alabama.

And he's going to be compared to this guy, who is not a,

this guy is out of some never ever land.

This guy unbelievable competitive stamina and an incredible ability to lead, adapt, evolve, listen, let alone gut decisions.

Just in the moment, being able to make a decision that nobody else, I'm going to, yeah, I'm changing quarterbacks halftime national championship, actually.

Bang, put another guy in here multiple times.

I'm going to do that, actually.

And then let alone who goes where, how he recruited.

It's like Kalen had a very tall task of becoming an SEC coach to begin with.

Okay.

That's a tough, tough conference from Washington coming in there.

But then to follow the guy, actually, and then now he is the guy on TV for college football, seemingly an impossible job.

Is he going to be able to, he's had success.

When he was a D3 coach, had success.

Indiana had success.

Washington has success.

We assume he's going to win, but is that just...

Is that the right assumption, I guess, would be the question for you, who's kind of down in the middle of it all down there in the South?

I had the same assumption.

I still think the dude's a stuck.

Like, I think he's a winner.

I mean, I've sat in that renovated office and point blank asked him, taking over for a legend.

Not the stuff you say on TV, like we're off the record, just shoot with me.

That guy's got a lot of intensity.

He's got the right mentality.

Like, the right mentality is this.

All right, in college football and sports for a long time, that thing you just said has existed.

99%ers out there say, boy, you don't want to take over for a legend.

Well,

99%ers aren't qualified for the Alabama job anyway.

So by default, you have to be a 1%er.

You have to be different.

You have to mentally be wired a little different.

He is.

The big secret in college football has always been, yeah, you don't want to take over for a legend because of the situation the legend left.

Paterno at Penn State, forget about the off-the-field stuff, just him on the field.

Yeah, he was a legendary coach, but the program had waned by the time he stepped away.

So if you took the Penn State job, if you took FSU post-Bowden, you were taking sky-high expectations with a rebuild on your hands.

Saban's last game in Alabama was a playoff game.

So he left a pretty full covered.

He left a really good situation.

So guys like DeBoer look at it and say, well, I mean, forget about the expectations.

Forget about people saying take over for a legend, this and that.

I think I'm really good too.

And so I look in the mirror.

I think if I'm given the right resources, I can build my own legacy.

And I think he, yeah, he may have taken a dive into the SEC waters and realized, boy, there's something beneath those shark fins.

Like, yeah, there's, there's a little something more to this conference than I thought there was.

But more so than that, dude, Pat, if you're just getting out executed, if you're getting beat by three at the gun, that happened to Saban occasionally.

It's not that.

It's the non-negotiable stuff.

He didn't have to question this at Washington.

You didn't have to question toughness about his Washington teams.

So that's what I wonder about.

That's why it's such a mystery to me.

I went and watched him scrimmage twice.

I went and watched him in spring.

I watched him a couple of weeks ago.

I had no inclination.

that that FSU result was even possible.

Maybe it's just

a bad day.

Rain was hard.

You know, Tom Segor, Burt Kreischer were out there shirtless.

Sure.

You know, maybe it's just a bad night.

Maybe just laid an egg on opening night.

Maybe they just didn't have energy on opening night.

Maybe they just didn't have maximum focus on opening night.

Maybe that's just what it is.

Maybe this is the one game, breakfast ball.

Yeah, breakfast ball.

Maybe they need a breakfast ball.

Should we give up on Alabama or no?

No, I'm not going to give up on them.

But look, hey, God gives us 11 more games.

So if you're right,

you'll see it.

Like they got Wisconsin coming in.

They go to Georgia in less than a month.

so if that's just a one-off which i have suspicions about but let's just grant the floor to you it is your show if it's a one-off we're gonna find out really really quickly i don't think it's a one-off i am just living in hypotheticals

i did not like what i saw either no and i don't think that's just something you can fix which is why i say some things about some players in the nfl and people get mad at me for pointing out the obvious and then they say still can change it's like i don't know that feels like something that you either got or you don't but if the team can flip the script after getting embarrassed by Florida State, who might be all the way back, maybe Kalen DeBoer makes his own legacy diner.

Maybe.

Maybe he's got a DeBoer Street Diner.

That'd be cool.

Maybe he's the goat diner.

The Boulevard.

Yeah, maybe it is the Boulevard.

Right down Kalen De Boulevard right here.

Yeah, that would be great.

Kalen De.

Boulevard.

Boom.

Yeah, that is a great street name.

I mean, that would be fantastic.

Let's go back to the Big Ten.

You talk about the SEC, how there might be some things underneath the shark hills.

You know, obviously in the South, very competitive for every recruit.

A lot of recruits from the South, we understand that.

The North has the national championships and the North has a lot of money.

Let's go to a school that seemingly has more than anybody could imagine or anybody actually gives them credit for.

Go ahead, AJ.

Yeah, Josh, Penn State obviously feels like they're all in.

Everyone's talking about them, everything they're doing, the resources, whatever, everything about it.

Is James Franco, is this the year he finds a way to go and win those big prime-time matchups, I guess, that we've seen him kind of fall short in the past?

It's the year he better do it.

That's a weird kind of pressure, by the way.

No, that's not what I'm saying.

It's a totally different kind of pressure.

There's the job security pressure, which is when or you're fired.

And then there's just flat-out competitive pressure of I could be the Penn State coach for the next 30 years.

I won't be able to win championships all those 30 years.

This is a year I could win a championship.

I don't know when it's going to come around again.

Maybe I'm wrong, man.

Maybe they could do it every year, but I do view this as sort of a window year.

Look, they're embracing it.

They're all in on it.

We went up there a couple of weeks ago they are not shying away from that at all they went and hit the portal for receivers which and i agree with them on this they thought was the one missing link between them and being dynamic enough to make plays like miami did last night just a few plays 50 50 balls turn into 70 30 balls you win 23 17 on the road in columbus one of these times um

i think they have the pieces they're smart by the way while all the rest of these folks have bullets flying left and right they're up there playing nevada favored by five touchdowns.

They got a couple of tune-ups.

Then they got a bye week.

Then they got Oregon coming in there.

Got a preseason, boys.

That's smart.

That almost makes that.

You got to win that game.

It's the Ohio State game down the road, and you're going to go to the playoff no matter what.

I have no idea how Penn State misses the playoff, but there's like two hurdles he's got to clear.

One of them's winning those big games.

The other one is

at least getting to the national title game.

And at that point, you got to win it.

I don't know.

But yeah, I do think they got the mixture of talent to do it.

I like Drew Allard bouncing back and playing well instead of crumbling you know like that sucks that that's how his season ended last year in the biggest moment a lot of eyes i forget what the ratings were but it was at least 13 14 million people

watching him throw a terrible ball pick yeah this one's over probably yeah i mean that is they should have won that i mean and then he's got to sit all offseason up there in penn state walking around going to class Oh, there's a big tall dip shit.

You blew it.

Thanks.

You working on your slides?

He's trying to go out and have a drink at one of these restaurants.

All these restaurants are right on top of each other.

Obviously, Happy Valley, very, you know, kind of a smaller area.

He gets out, just gets done having a little bit, maybe a saeboy or something like that.

Hey, why don't you stop eating and go practice throwing football?

That's happening every day of his life afterwards as somebody that can speak kind of from experience.

And it's like, which way do you go?

It's like, if he steps up, that's huge.

There's a quarterback, though, for South Carolina that every football team in America is looking to get to him.

I saw a lot of NFL teams pulling for him.

I also saw some XFL teams pulling for him.

I think even some G1 teams were trying to get him to potentially lead the the way.

Go ahead, Conrad.

Yeah, Josh, and I can't believe you just did the whole F1 thing.

That is not a real sport.

We're never talking about it again.

Josh.

Who won?

Who won?

Oscar Pierce.

No one cares.

Josh, let's talk about football.

Josh, hey, Josh, Josh, Josh, Josh.

Just me and you here, brother.

Lenora Sellers, okay, on Sunday, kind of let off the entire game against Virginia Tech.

They walk right down.

He looks massive.

He looks fast.

And he threw the ball about 100 yards to Nick Harbor in the air.

Why shouldn't I believe that Lenora Sellers is going to win the Heisman?

And why isn't South Carolina being talked about as one of these teams that is going to compete for a national championship?

I know they're definitely being talked about as a playoff team, but when we're talking those, you know, top four teams, do you see South Carolina making that run this year?

Yeah, they can.

I mean, that's just foreign language.

People have this preconceived notion in their mind.

Frankly, about a lot of programs that they need to reprogram because the sport has changed.

And so when you get an alien as your quarterback, you got another one out wide, by the way.

I mean, when your fastest player on the field, 6'5, 235 and spells his name Nick with a Y, you just need to pay attention to him.

So that guy has learned to catch the football now, which was so funny.

Like what, what you asked the key about Nick Harbert, wide receiver.

What does he need to learn to do, dude?

If he can learn to catch, man, he's going to be nasty.

Well, he can learn to catch.

Paul America.

Yeah, you got Lenore Sellers, who I know a lot of people are doing the NFL draft talk.

Like, I stick to college football.

I think he could be the best player in college football.

They may have the best offensive and defensive players respectively in the SEC.

This is not Alabama or Georgia.

This is the University of South Carolina that we're talking about.

And they knew they had him.

My only question throughout spring is, why didn't they go attack the portal at wide receiver more?

Like, who do they have behind Harbor?

So to answer your question, the thing that would keep him from winning the Heisman is supporting Cass.

But as the deeper we got into fall camp, all these people from South Carolina, they kept telling me, watch out now.

Our wide receiver room is underrated.

Week one, I don't necessarily know that I saw that, but that's okay.

It's week one.

If even a fraction of what they said is true and that dude just is who he is, you're looking at probably the Heisman Trophy winner this year.

And if that's the case,

you got a ceiling on South Carolina that's way like up here off the screen somewhere.

Someone's going to have to deal with them.

If they don't win it, someone has to have beaten them.

And it's just crazy.

We're talking about South Carolina like this.

They haven't hit their ceiling, by the way.

That was a week one version of them.

So there's probably still some upward mobility with them as well.

And that's a place that's gotten told forever.

Those are players that got told, we don't quite have room for you here.

So go to option B.

Like South Carolina was an option B for some of these guys.

Those defensive guys that went in the draft last year, those weren't all former five-star top 10 guys.

Those were other teams' backup options that Shane Beamer and his staff took, developed them, pumped them to the NFL.

And now, lo and behold, they've backfilled, which you're not supposed to be able to do at South Carolina.

And they shut a fairly good, desperate ACC team down in week one.

So now they dive into conference play.

And now that's just another of those teams, stack of pancakes of these teams in the SEC.

They may not be elite, but they're really good and they're tough outs.

Yeah, and all we're going to hear is you SEC people talk about, oh, you're telling me, South Carolina,

our sixth best team couldn't beat the sixth best team in the Big Ten.

Is that what you're saying?

Welch, come on down here and play stoops in Kentucky at night.

Okay, watch, we'll go to Northwestern one of these games, and then you guys come down here to Kentucky one night.

That's what we'll do.

We'll play a fun little game and that'll happen all year.

But the South Carolina team, remember end of the year, they had a little bit of a gripe to get into the playoffs.

And instead of making big noise, Shane Beamer said, we're just focused on our bowl game.

They had all of everybody play in the bowl game.

It wasn't like they weren't going to play.

Shane Beamer, we showed that the punt return there.

It's like they're always going to play Beamer ball in all three phases, which you can steal a win in college ball or you can lose a game.

in college ball through special teams.

And it's like, they're going to be locked in there because they have so many great athletes.

And the state of South Carolina creates some freaks whenever you talk about athletic ability.

So if Shane Beamer can become the school of the Carolinas, especially down there with in front of a great fan base, when we were down there, I mean, it's hot as shit.

It is thick down there.

It is very thick.

Football town there.

But it is a football.

Cockton

is a football town down there.

I hope they're able to pull it off.

That moment between Shane and Frank afterwards was beautiful.

All right, let's talk about tonight's game.

Obviously, week one wraps up in Chapel.

Bill, go ahead, D-Buzz.

Yeah, go up to North Carolina.

I expect, you know, Bill Belichick team to be prepared.

What I don't know is who these players are.

I know 70 new players, but what are the expectations for this roster?

And can you tell me something about some of these players on this Chapel Bill roster?

And we'll see Don at Baby Blue tonight.

All right, everyone, check in here.

This is your North Carolina breakdown.

Okay.

I got no clue.

I have no clue who any of them are.

I'm not sure.

That's new to ESPN.

This is not what he's normally like.

He normally has all the answers.

He normally has all the answers.

I want people to know that that are watching for the first time, maybe.

Not a lot of people may be seeing Josh Pate for the first time.

As you've seen thus far, he has all the answers.

Very well versed in all the things college ball.

Now, when this pops up here, one of the biggest conversations of the week one season.

Only game tonight.

Only one on Monday night football here.

That's it.

Okay.

He says, let me tell you, I got nothing.

I don't think anybody does know, Josh.

Isn't that kind of the thing?

That's look, if I flashcarded that roster in front of that coaching staff, do you think even they're going to be taking off all those names?

Absolutely not.

Hey, TCU, TCU is one of however many teams are in the Big 12.

Every one of them thinks they can win that league.

TCU is one of them.

They're one of these teams that, you know, like the sneaky better types out there that are getting down legit money in May on team totals.

They were big on TCU.

Most people don't know anything about them either.

I happen to know a little more about TCU.

It's a perfect stage for them.

It's going to be all about Bill Belichick, all about North Carolina.

like this is the one shot that a big 12 team gets on a real real premiere eyes of the world stage on it and

north carolina is such an enigma but yet i watched matt patricia do what he did the other night so it's not like i'm sitting here dumb enough to say oh i don't know belichek i don't know if he can coach these college kids i just don't know the caliber kid he has patricia's got freaks everywhere i don't know that Bill Belichick necessarily is dealing with that in year one at North Carolina.

All right, well, we'll watch tonight.

Part of the kickoff show.

Can't wait to get down there.

We'll all find out.

We will all find out.

and we will judge accordingly is ernie down there what i don't know i hope so night one ernie will be downer he'll be down he'll be down he'll be down

i think lombardi and ernie both on headset yeah for sure

it'll be good to see though the blimp maybe hey did you see that cow kid he's the one

sagapolatele

i it's tough to pronounce sagapolatele yeah it's tough for me he's good though everybody's good

they all keep saying they all keep saying the cow kid and i kept saying no if you're so high on him say his name no no no no no no no just the cow kid that's all you need to know this cow kids dominate yeah i uh yeah he was the talk of the late night he was the talk of the late night for sure very late he wasn't the only one did you see dampier for utah too he went for 19 rushing touchdowns last year with new mexico y'all are doing are y'all going to oklahoma saturday right yes sir Okay, so that was the talk.

Like you get Matir and you get his offensive coordinator and you package them up.

Utah did the same thing.

It was just they went to New Mexico and got the coordinator and the quarterback combo, and no one really paid attention to it.

Utah looks like the best team in the Big 12.

Like they went out there and just balled out.

Everyone saw Wittingham lose one year and they said, oh, he's done.

Ride is Harley off into the sunset.

Maybe he'll retire.

And he's like, no, I think I'm going to stick with it a few more years.

I don't really feel like retiring yet.

I'm going to go get a coordinator and a quarterback from New Mexico, and I'm going to be right back in the picture.

And they are.

Yeah, I mean, they're in West Virginia's conference, you know, and Arizona State obviously has got to do what they got to do.

And let's not even talk about the Cougs, which are right down the road.

That's going to be quite a battle.

But he was awesome to watch.

Where did it start?

The incarnate word, right?

Didn't their OC and quarterback get hired first?

Yeah, and then

I believe, where did they go up?

Was that Washington State with Campbell?

Washington State.

And then, yeah, they went down there.

And then last year with Diego Pavia, that worked out really well for Vandi.

It's happened.

Did UTSA bring someone up to Oregon too?

NIL, but for the OC as well.

It's genius.

Yes.

Yeah.

It's,

well, it looks like you've done a pretty good job, Donner.

Congratulations.

Welcome to the big league.

Come on up here.

It's like what the Knicks were doing to everybody else in the NBA, but happening in big-time college ball versus small-time college teams.

You got to watch yourself.

You can't even develop your coordinators too good.

I know.

They'll be gone.

I love this.

You can't let them talk.

It's the best move in college.

Yeah, these things like to gossip.

Yeah, these things like to gossip.

These things like to hang out.

You can't let them hang out.

You got to keep them isolated in their cage.

Yeah, yeah.

Keep them away from each other.

Keep them in their cage.

They'll start talking and they'll leave you together.

All right, Josh, we appreciate you, man.

Congrats on the ESPN shit.

More of the world needs to to see you.

You're good at what you do, and you obviously love balls, so we appreciate that.

You know, I appreciate you, man.

Anytime, I appreciate you having me.

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If I was to flashcard that roster to those coaches,

you think they get it right?

That's a great call.

That's a great call.

Bill Belichick just called numbers.

His number.

They didn't even have to do it.

Yeah, no.

Yeah, right.

I don't know.

Shit, he was wearing a different.

That had to be something.

Was that in that article, that eight scroller?

I don't know.

There wasn't much about that.

No.

Connor, what do you have to say here about Jose Cuervo?

To be completely honest with you, I drank Jose Cuervo all weekend.

It was the greatest thing ever, and I didn't even get hung over.

Well, Devil's Reserve is the perfect drink for when mischief is on me.

Amen.

It's time to listen to a little devil on your shoulder.

Pour around shots.

Get ready to raise a little hell.

Step to a little hell.

Yes, that's a great thing.

This is my first time.

This is my first time.

I feel like

Ron Burgundy right now reading this.

Yeah, he'll read anything on the top.

But remember, you must be 21 years and over.

Please drink responsibly.

So it says a

Cuervo Devil's Reserve, a sweet, tropical, spicy-infused tequila that is smooth and devilishly good.

Hell yeah.

Devil's Reserve.

Go to your local liquor store, go to Quervo.com to purchase your own bottle of mischief.

Okay.

I'll tell you what, they're sweet.

Bottle of mischief.

They're tropical.

Raising hell.

I was going to say, that's an interesting way to sell off.

I don't know about that, but I like it.

Serving the Devils Reserve.

What's that?

It's probably what they're serving at Kennywood.

Sweet, tropical, and that last one, spicy candy.

Kennywood was a little spicy late night.

I don't know if you saw that.

It's all over next.

You just go ahead and type Kennywood, and then it'll pop up.

A lot of Yansers letting each other know that they weren't happy about the disrespect that you certainly showed while we're on ride for a fucking race.

I hope this doesn't ruin Fright Nights because I'll be so mad.

Yeah,

I thought you went last year, right?

Spanish Fright Nights?

Yeah, I go every year.

Really?

What's your favorite part?

I go for my daughter for a daughter.

Yeah, cool.

You guys drive over there for it

on like Friday or something.

It's in two weeks.

Well, it's actually about to be potentially a direct flight.

Is that right?

Yeah.

If we do recall, yeah, I'm more worried about the one in Nashville.

Huh?

Says who.

Just know we know people.

I've been praying for that on it.

So long.

We know people.

Ladies and gentlemen, we didn't get to it earlier, but we got to get to it.

We watched all the games.

You watch all the games this weekend, Age?

We try to.

Yep.

Oh, yeah.

Watch all the world, everything's going on, world.

Yeah, there's a lot going on.

Yeah, we try to.

We try to watch it all.

And we gathered up what we thought would be the greatest Jeez Louise

moment

of the weekend.

Because we don't want to, you know, just kind of handcuff ourselves to just one moment.

Correct.

So if there's more than one moment, we'll do the moment.

But if not, we'll just do the geez Louise

moment of the weekend.

Ladies and gentlemen, let's dive right in.

You might have seen it.

New Mexico guard Richard Pierce.

They call him Dick Pierce running away after starting a little bit of a brawl with Michigan.

You see him in the middle of a bother, 78, a little late push after they push him back.

He goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, I ain't doing it.

Stumbles, falls all over his face, gets the hell out of there.

I appreciate it.

He said, I'm not fighting.

I'm fighting.

I did one cheap shot after a play.

I'm not doing all the other stuff.

AJ, how do you feel about Richard Pearson?

Do you think the next play, or maybe the next play after that, or another time down the road today, earhole this guy?

How would you have reacted here?

Yeah, I'm sure they tried.

I mean, this is nice.

You always get the flag when you retaliate.

So if you're the first person and then you let them retaliate, hopefully they get the flag and then really turns and runs.

That's the best thing.

I've never seen one turn their back out of a company.

Hey, not a bad hip flip.

No, not at all.

Not a bad hip flip,

debut your thoughts here.

I mean, he got to pick him up, put him down a little bit.

He almost stumbled.

But, I mean, if you're going to do it, stand in there and take the push.

You know,

get the penalty.

You know, if you're going to kill the penalty, he split his wheels.

Did you hear what he said as he turned around?

He said, Jeez.

Let's go to the next one here.

Brian Kelly.

Did a back bump and a full roll getting trucked by a ref.

Smacks his head off the ground, loses his headset.

Wants to chew out the ref, then he quickly realizes he's in the wrong.

I'm not supposed to be standing in the white.

Ref not throwing a flag on him.

Very cool of the ref.

I think the ref saw Brian Kelly's face tumbling around and said, he suffered enough.

We don't need to give another 15.

Our source

have told us that Brian Kelly won in for an MRI this morning.

Really?

Real talk.

Real source.

T's and P's of Brian Kelly.

Congrats on the win.

We hope you're okay.

And our last Jays

of the weekend comes from a duck.

Oh, no.

A mascot.

Montana State taking on Oregon before he even gets on the air.

Oregon duck face face plants loses his head and everybody loses their shit.

Now, there was an alternate angle from the backside here.

What do you think?

Work?

It's closed.

I don't think it's a work.

He cares too much.

Full panic afterwards.

We hope he's okay.

Some would say it's a bad omen.

The Oregon Ducks football team didn't even know it happened.

Nope.

Steamrolled.

Kept a moving clip to that thing.

And that's our, you would think they would.

Yeah, seems like maybe it was.

Nope.

Jeez, Louise.

Moment

of of the weekend.

We continue on digital, but not for long because we've got to hit the road to get down to North Carolina.

Have a great, happy and happy Labor Day.

Be a friend, tell a friend, something nice might change your life.

We'll see you tomorrow.

Goodbye.

Yeah, we got to get down to Chapel Hill pretty soon.

Chapel Bill, if you will.

Do you have Michael Jordan on the show?

He's going to be on ESPN tonight, I guess.

I assume.

I'm a good idea, AJ.

We get to watch in the box with Lombo, right?

Yeah, do we get a headset?

I don't know.

That's what I'm thinking, right?

I'm wondering.

I'm assuming you guys might get a couple.

Hey, let's try the 70-power here.

Oh, we're calling plays.

I'm thinking you're going to.

Remember, this is a Belichick coach team.

He's tattooed on your arm still.

I know.

Remember when I got this tattoo, there's a lot of different things about Bill that are true today.

But again, I do think to your point.

That's pretty sweet, tropical, and spicy of me to say.

Amen.

And the times with Bill were sweet, tropical, and spicy, baby.

But now, I do think there's a massive chance that, you know, this running mobile quarterback Bill's got

Lopez.

They're going to be doing some crazy shit with this fucking guy because Bill's always wanted a mobile quarterback.

Yeah, I mean, they had Cam Newton.

A lot of people were saying, we're watching back, what did he do with Cam?

Cam, I think, would even admit that wasn't the fullest super Cam.

Cam was a Superman on the field, dude.

I watched some of these guys, and obviously, everybody wants to compare everybody to Josh Allen, as you should.

Josh Allen, unbelievable football player as well.

Cam Newton was just, he was a defensive end.

Like, not Josh Allen, he isn't very tall and very athletic and very strong and everything like that.

Cam Newton was a D end, clearly.

His body was made to be a defensive end.

And he just so happened to also be the fastest defensive end that was ever.

And it's just, and oh yeah, he can dissect the defense.

And he has a work ethic.

And he's a phenomenal leader.

And it's like,

me and Venatori, he walked by us preseason.

I think it was preseason or early in the season.

He walked by us rookie year.

And we both just say, if that fucking guy could figure it out football,

we are done.

He's one of those those guys, we are absolutely done, and he did, he did figure it out.

He's one of those guys that's a big guy that, when stands next to other big guys, looks bigger than those big guys.

Yep, yeah, people are talking about him like he's not who he is right now, though, too.

There's a lot of things being said about Kim, and it's like I want an MVP.

You ever see him in real life, too?

I don't think you'd be saying as much as you're saying right now.

I mean, everybody's doing this to Cam Noon.

He gets you too.

We've seen it at the camps.

Yeah, it's not scared to throw down.

Yeah,

he's about it.

Sellers, that was your big thing with sellers.

Sellers is the big boy.

Huge.

If you're huge, I think that's why I like Drew Aller so much.

Drew Will Howard.

That's why I like Will Howard so much.

Especially whenever you're talking about going from college to the NFL.

Like, I think you have to be big.

Like, Drew Brees, I understand.

Hey, Tyler Murray, these are anomalies.

Yeah, these are incredible, incredible athletes and players and everything like that.

But if you're big, you can see, first of all, which is a fucking pretty big, massive thing, but you can also absorb more and you're going to get hit like in the NFL.

Unless you're Peyton, Eli, Tom, who had an incredible ability to,

you know, literally,

just go out.

Nope.

Which not a lot of guys these days are ever going to do because the mobile quarterback is such a thing.

It's like,

yeah, what Cam was, he was special, man.

He was special.

That's a great point about the NFL now, though.

We don't get any more of the like cool.

like ball snapped D end wins quarterback instead of throwing it away or trying to run away just goes down into a ball like that.

It literally looked like they were screaming.

Yeah.

That error is done.

Johnny Hecker had one of those.

The punter.

I forget who.

He pushed somebody.

He was punting.

He was jogging down the field.

Then he pushed somebody.

I remember that.

Elvis Duberville.

That person came running back and he

the full.

You could hear through the video.

I was like, man, I would have done the same thing.

I would have, I mean, you chose to push him.

Yeah, sure.

You set that up there.

I don't know if that would have been the play.

And as soon as you push that guy, eyes are not leaving him.

No, yeah no like that is that is not

favorable play favorable yeah okay pretty good pretty good he's a dog pretty strong yeah and uh

all right let's go wrap up college football tonight aj congrats to your buck guys dude that was cool seeing over there it was hey i i it was great atmosphere i don't know how you felt but yeah like it was it was awesome the lead corso thing like yeah i'm glad it worked out how it did i really

didn't know how well it would shout to the production crew that built a second desk and then also on wheels moved it and had the tech work thought think of the pressure they're on them like if you think about the pressure to move the whole set and then to get it all to work too like there is no time to wait well then they're banned as soon as that corso um tribute is over they're doing the you know script ohio and it's like they literally have no idea what's happening on earth other than what's two inches in front of their face they are just watching each other and the only reason why i know that is because they were like kind of

kind of if you had to go up a hill on a bicycle which you would do like kind of back and back and forth i I guess, to kind of do this.

And they were making their way to us, and Coach Corso was getting off the stage at the time.

And I'm like, holy shit, like this is, because they said immediately afterwards, the band's coming, and they need the whole field.

You guys got a little bit of time, but you need to get out of the way.

That was like a big message as we were leaving the production meeting.

And then as we're getting off, everybody's bullshitting because it was so cool.

What a moment.

Taking pictures.

Go, go, go, go, go, go.

That delayed in getting off the stage.

That delayed in getting off the stage.

So now we had a shortened amount of time.

It got shortened even more by the fuckery of everybody being so happy that it worked and then i i get off and i see that band coming and i see coach gorso literally just like kind of starting to get off the stage i'm like holy fuck how's this gonna work you know like is the ohio the tobattle gonna stop

no no no

what we learned about

yeah what we learned about band members this weekend they get out of their way oh yeah

get out of their way coach you two get out of your way super guys get out of your way the band's a a real deal.

Dogs.

West Virginia has a good band.

I don't ever forget, I was flying back from the Fiesta

because you get a, I forget the amount of money you'd get per mile if you drove.

We played in Arizona, so I drove back home, of course.

It's a good gimmick.

It's a great gimmick.

Holy fuck.

That sucks.

No.

You take the money and you buy a plane ticket.

The cheapest plane ticket.

And you fly back.

Yeah.

So you get like $1,800.

You pay a $300 ticket, $250 ticket.

Now all of a sudden, we got $1,500 extra bucks.

Yeah, we're going downtown.

Yeah, that was the game.

Yeah, we're driving back.

They're going to pay us for every single mile.

I have fear of planes, whatever the fuck it is, who knows?

And I get on the plane, and I'm in the back, and I look like a standard white, you know, just pretty casual, standard.

I think at that time, a lot of people knew he wanted to kill me, but not everybody kind of knew me at that time.

And I'm sitting next to a West Virginia fan, and there's a couple football players scattered throughout.

I mean, we all kind of did the game, you know.

And I asked the lady, I said, were you out here for the Fiesta Bull?

And she goes, yeah, I go, well, how'd it go?

You know?

And she was like, the band did amazing.

The band absolutely crushed it.

And then she said, and the team won.

So that was good.

And I was like, that's awesome.

Like, obviously a family member of bandwinned.

And it was like, literally go to the game, had the band do it, fucking murdered it halftime, no flugs, kept it moving, crushed it.

And then I was like, that was really cool to hear because I think you do and you should.

think of that of like every performance should be our greatest and we should steal the show.

And I think there's some bands you watch, it's like these motherfuckers are, it's like the Tibeto is definitely, everybody's locked in.

It's no doubt about it.

Big production.

Them spelling out Corso straight in this.

I mean, it's like the amount of,

the amount of this shit that they're doing.

They used to practice,

I think it was Plum High School.

They did on a soccer field.

They practiced on a soccer field.

Yeah.

And it just became trenches because

I think our entire practice field just got ruined.

Ruined.

Just completely ruined.

And it was like, we didn't think this through, I guess, because they were practicing our parking lot.

It was too hot.

So they gave them a practice field to march on.

And by like a weekend, it was just fucking literally just paths.

We don't even have, we have a cornfield here, basically.

We should put some seats because of how like militant.

They eventually were able to practice in the football field.

Oh, you guys were kicking them off, huh?

That's why I came back.

We practiced.

I don't know what to tell you.

We did too.

We were running over.

You know what I mean?

The ball's rolling on the ground.

The ball's rolling on.

It's like, oh, shit, are they fucking drawing a goddamn horse?

You know, it was a whole, it's pretty impressive.

That was his high school.

So I got respect for the band.

Also, if they're going to throw some rights,

I like that.

Maybe more of that.

I like it.

We're fighting out there.

All right, let's get down to UNC.

Let's wrap up week one.

I think Rhys Davis and Herb Schooter are on the call.

Yep.

Nice.

That'll be a good call.

Me, I think Saving gonna be done there.

Dez gonna be down there.

Got all those.

I wonder who's hosting.

Yeah, I don't know.

Is the other guy gonna be there i assume

he better be or i'll be on the other channel hey we facetime him real quick will you face time steve the other guy here i'll face time

just see what i'm walking into down here at least

hey who's all down here steve outer guy hosting

he better have a unc polo on we're gonna get a floor statement i know if he don't

We're live.

We're live.

We're live.

You're live.

I was just watching you.

Yeah, we're live.

We're live.

We're still live.

The people are watching.

Not on the ESPN2 anymore.

Are you down in North Carolina or no?

Yeah, yeah, I'm down here.

I'll see you tonight, buddy.

Who's hosting?

Is Rhys hosting?

How's that going?

Are you hosting?

I was going to host, but I think Matt Berry's here.

Okay, okay, okay.

Sick, sick, sick.

All right, I'll see you down there in a little bit.

I'm about to hop on a plane.

All six teams that played in those top 10 matchups are still going to make the playoff.

Love it.

Hell yeah.

Hey, the winners and

the other guys.

All right, we'll see you.

Let's see.

Let's see.

All right, sick.

Okay, cool.

Matt Berry.

There you go.

Outer guy.

Oh, I cannot wait.

Outer guy would have been great, though.

Yeah.

I mean, Matt Berry, this is my first time working live with Matt Berry, right?

Yes.

I think so.

Out of Berry.

I watch him in the TGL.

Yeah, TGL.

Oh, have you seen a European team?

Ryder Cup.

They're ass.

Thanks.

They are, but I just want to know if you've seen them.

Are they good?

They got a pretty good squad.

They got a pretty good squad, yeah.

Yeah, but they left off the guy that cares the most.

You see the guy on the DP World Tour?

I think his name's, I want to say Matt Wallace.

And he gave an interview, and I don't think I've ever seen someone that emotional about not making it.

William Wallace's boy is going to have energy.

Exactly.

Yeah, I mean, that is certainly going to be a thing.

After watching the interview, I thought, oh, okay, so USA is going to win because they left this fucking guy off the team.

Boom.

And this fucking guy wants to win more than anybody.

You saw the European team got a little nervous?

No, I didn't get nervous.

It was just, you know, just saw the names of the players.

The Zoom calls, that was funny to see.

They're a deep team, yeah.

Their team on a Zoom call and our team.

Which team did you like more?

our team had their game faces on so i i'll go yeah europeans much more entertaining i assume a little lighthouse which is why they called us up for world war one and two yeah and also i assume their continent togetherness isn't as good as the country's no it's not no doubt you know they just feel like they're taking on us we feel like we're fighting the world yeah no one says for god and continent

good point

and country brother Be a friend, tell a friend something nice that might change your life.

We're in the same together.

We're heading down to North Carolina.

Should be a blast.

Team on me.

team on three.

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