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Speaker 3What do you get when you cross a know it all newspaper columnist with an awkward, unsophisticated every man.
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Speaker 5Guna Yaba Gita, Jared god.
Speaker 1Gram, Graham gram Gram.
What's up, buddy.
Speaker 2That's not Spartan speak, by the way, that's that's audio from something else.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, I don't even where that was Spartan speak, Wasn't it?
Was it?
Yeah, we got it.
Speaker 2I actually had to tune into Spartan speak because someone gave me a timestamp and I want to go find it, and it wasn't the correct time stamp.
But I was listening.
It's just basically Slari going on and on and on and couch going But but I but I bet it's a but like you never get into word in edgewise.
Why doesn't Salary just do that by himself?
Speaker 1We used to.
I used to have a gamer, you know, and this is coming from you.
I mean you talk a lot, but fucking Slari man.
So you know how in a board game sometimes you have those little hourglass timers that come with them, and so one of our games, and I'm not even sure what it is, but one of them was missing an hour glass timer because years ago, when we were doing it face, I took an hour glass time or into the LSJ newsroom, and I would say it was a sixty second thing.
I was like both of us, and I said both of us, so you know, he wouldn't be offended.
Both of us have to make our point by the time this hour glass is up.
It's much less back and forth than.
Speaker 2So it was an actual hour or like a minute.
Speaker 1It was a minute class.
Okay, a minute class.
We had sixty seconds to make our point and then that thing was up.
Yeah, and yeah, I'm better at sixty seconds is a long time.
Phil used to take out me jumping in.
Speaker 5But but.
Speaker 1Do you guys do it face to face?
We do it over zoom.
Ah.
The problem if.
Speaker 2You do it over zoom, because we've, like I said before, we've had that problem when you've been on the road, and we've gotten a lot better at it.
But to know when to jump in with someone on zoom, it's just fucking impossible because sometimes there's a delay or.
Speaker 1This this particular week was worse than usual.
I forgot to turn my ceiling fan off for a minute.
And then also the year was a really good US Open tennis match and I had moved the TV around, so I was also watching that.
A bunch of you going, yeah, it sounds good, it sounds explaining all.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, but I couldn't find someone just gave me a timestamp, didn't really tell me what you what was said during that, so I had to kind of skim through it a little bit and I'm like.
Speaker 1My god, you figure it out.
Speaker 2No, I didn't find out what the person was talking about because I was on Spotify.
I know that it varies from different platforms.
Uh right, so interesting, Well maybe they can they can fill you in.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm willing to check it out.
The big the big challenge of the day is the R key on my keyboard is stopped working.
So if your name has an R in it, if you're like Ryan Rockwell and when we do these groovy don it Twitter questions and a little bit, who knows, Jason, what's wrong with your laptop?
I don't know.
Speaker 2Why are you just talking about it like you're just gonna Are you never going to type the letter R again?
Speaker 1Well?
No, it works, you just have to press it hard.
It just started last night in the middle of finishing a com It should he.
Speaker 2Be like, man, I got to figure out what's going on with my laptop and not just hey, Jason heads up, any word with R.
Speaker 1You're ft?
How many groovy donuts have been eaten over this laptop?
What do you what?
Speaker 2I know, but that's what I mean.
But that should have been the discussion.
It's like, we need to get this laptop fixed somehow, some of that air spray stuff in there.
I think you're far beyond that.
Speaker 1Out of time.
Speaker 2You need to take it to the Apple store.
I mean just with town Center.
Speaker 1I'll get a new one, all right.
Speaker 2But I'm saying that should have been the discussion.
Just the heads up for Jason, any word with R in it?
Speaker 1You're Goodlook Ryan rockwell, maybe yayan akwell today, who knows when they go through it.
I'm just saying that if you get to be some things missing, so.
Speaker 2People get up my ass for this reading stuff and now you're making it more challenging, it could.
Speaker 1Be a lot of a lot of missing ours in there.
Usually we begin our end of week show with what we are what we are betting, presented by fire keepers.
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We are going to start with Harry here momentarily and that so there you know, that will be that segment.
We've also got h Graham, Graham, Deets.
I got a double check with Deetter Dits, but I think it's Deats who covers Boston College.
Speaker 2Graham on Graham's Graham on Graham.
Speaker 1And we're gonna chats and get a sense of this Boston College team as well.
And then we have a great batch of groovy donut Twitter questions that we are we're going to dig into in the right after, right after we talked to the other the other Graham.
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Very please, now to be joined by our good friend, the great Harry Gagnon and uh this is I don't know, my favorite few minutes of every of every week other than talking to my wife.
Let's not let's not, let's not put that part down.
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Is that right, big al dot com, harrymar that is.
Speaker 5Correct, guys, big al dot com.
You can catch my free picks on there every day.
You can get my uh you can pursuit tribe and you know, see what I what you like in my other picks that I'm giving out.
We have package deals, three day deals, seven day deals, a month deals, six month deals, whatever you want.
Today, I was just texting you guys, sweating out, not really sweating out, but my free pick of the day.
Obviously, you know, huge week for football.
Don't get me wrong, guys, but Graham, you know that this is a big week in soccer two with World Cup qualifying going on all over the world.
And my free pick today was an international friendly, Norway versus Finland.
I had under three one nothing Norway pizza.
Speaker 1Cake, beautiful final beautiful.
And you were Yaba Gita, Jared, you were on fire on this show last week and all the picks we talked about.
I think it was six and one.
I want to say it last week with the seven and two.
Okay, seven and two with the picks.
Speaker 2Can we get those at f Bill Simmons dot com.
Speaker 5Let's do that too.
Speaker 1Don't get Harry in trouble.
You never know.
You gotta keep relationships.
I said that, you know, yeah, those are my words.
Yeah, you gotta keep keep relationships alive.
You never know when things circle back around in life.
You know.
That's that's that's what I would That's what I would say to that.
Well, first week of the NFL season is finally upon us, so it's it's college.
Speaker 2Let's talk soccer parla, Yes, let's do that.
Speaker 1Well we do have some other yeah, yeah, so yes, he's you know, he just gave you Norway Finland if you'd been on that early.
And he does have a soccer play uh for tomorrow too, so we'll get to that.
This is a tough week from me.
I While I love getting up and watching the early soccer and like Iserbaijan and stuff like that, I I do get upset with the international break happening this quick into the Premier League season and with the US Open tennis.
But anyway, the.
Speaker 2Asian line of Jakarjean, the fuck can we get to a men's sport?
Speaker 5So just throwing this out there, you can't get second half right now, Graham, second half action on Russia versus Jordan.
Speaker 1Might have to do that.
Speaker 2Are you guys trying to get me to quit?
It's like the bit here, I mean starting to work.
Speaker 1All right, Well, let's let's let's do some college football and NFL and then we'll get back to where all our listeners want to be in the soccer.
We've got three college games to get to Michigan.
Michigan's the Michigan State Game of the Michigan Game.
But we're gonna start with one other game first that I think is sort of an interesting bet because it's usually close.
Iowa plus three and a half at Iowa State.
Iowa State looked great last week, Iowa threw the ball for negative seventy five million yards.
They still can't pass.
The world is down on them.
It's a road game, but this game is always close, man, Like I three and a half is a line that they're just I think they're begging you.
I don't even know what they're begging you to bet here, But give me the Hawkeyes with the world down on them right now, in the world up on Iowa State.
Give me the Hawkeyes plus three and a half.
Speaker 2Jason Wurrey, you know, when I first looked at this game, I was like, keep me away from this borfest.
But you're right, Grand this game is always tight, and that three and a half that hook reeled be in Kirk Farence is still ass.
But I gotta say, Harry and the over unders forty one in a hook, Jesus, give me Kirk Farnce with a three and a half.
Speaker 1What do you got.
Speaker 5Yeah, I'm gonna take the three and a half.
Two.
It's always close.
Like you guys mentioned, you know, Iowa States looked very good in their first two games, two and zero against the spread.
Yeah, people seem like they're a little down on Iowa.
I think this is where you got to grab the points here, and traditionally they's kind of won this series too.
But what I'm really looking at, guys, in this game, I really kind of I'm leaning towards the under.
I really like the under forty one and a half.
I know it's a low number here, but again, Iowa States defense shut down that high powered offense of Kansas State week one, week zero.
Actually, if you want to say, what we really say, it is in Ireland who And by the way, Kansas State's a lot of people predicted them to be first in the Big twelve.
Gave up to seven points and two hundred totally art for the South Dakota last week and five of the last six games between these two have gone under forty one and a half points, three in a row and Iowa if you want to date back, if you want to date back to six straight regular season games now, they've held opponents to twenty points or last thirteen points per game over those six games average.
I'm gonna go under forty one and a half and might as well.
If I'm gonna go beyonderre, I might as well take the three and a half.
Speaker 1Yeah.
No, it's it's Iowa football and Iowa State who you know.
Hold your nose and watch it and enjoy.
Okay, Boston College plus four and a half at Michigan State, that line has grown and opened at two and a half.
We're gonna have a Boston College writer around a little bit to talk more about this game and may convince us otherwise of everything we're thinking.
Here are my couple thoughts right now.
One is I think Boston College will be better than a year ago because I believe Bill O'Brien's a good coach, and I think you see this with Michigan State.
You see this with coaches who get more of their guys, especially in this era, get more season programs.
They did lose some key guys, they lost a really good player up front on offense, you know, but their secondary I think their quarterback play is more in line with what he wants They've got a really nice receiver, and so I think they're better.
But Michigan State is better everywhere too, even if it varies how much better.
And Michigan State a year ago on the road had to turn the ball over like four times with three interceptions.
Two really cost the turnovers early in the third quarter to blow this game.
And they played that game without Nick marsh their top receiver.
Like Michigan State was the better football team at that point in the season last year outside of the turnover.
So if the turnovers don't exist, it's at Michigan State as long as they can handle this.
What I think is a mammoth expectations style game.
I just don't think Boston College is probably eclipse them.
The thing is is it is four and a half, Like that's the number.
It's like, yeah, two and a half, seam, when it was under three, it seemed better.
You know, it might be if you can even teasing it down, what do you get two and a half?
That's not great, it's not a great, But then you're teasing it, Yeah, not a great, not a great line.
Next steps one hundred gambler, you know.
In the in the LSJ, I think I picked twenty eight to twenty Michigan State.
We're going to hold you to that.
So I am going to for our purposes here take Michigan State.
That fin not a fan though I would.
What I'm saying is, I would not advise people to bet this one.
I would let.
Speaker 2Graham wants to announce he cannot bet on this game and I cannot cover in this game.
Yeah, okay, as usual?
What do you have Jason?
By the way, that that the game last week, it's pretty simple for me.
The second half against Western Harry, that offense took a piece of my soul.
And I see that four and a half number and it's already gross.
And I got all off season Jonathan Smith.
Oh, we got to give him some time, Jonathan blah blah blah.
And I saw that second half they scored two points off of safety.
I just can't.
Until Michigan State prove to me, I have to take Boston College and I like it a lot.
Give me Boston College plus four and a half.
I hope I'm wrong.
I hope Michigan State proves me wrong.
But until they do, I love Boston College plus four and a half.
Speaker 1What do you got?
Yeah?
Speaker 5Boy, last week.
I mean, I think you guys both went to Michigan State.
Correct me if I'm wrong, and I went the other way with Western Missis.
I mean, just if you had Michigan State.
What a brutal way to lose and not cover it, you know, throwing the pick six.
But in this spot too.
I'm not a big Bill O'Brien fan, never been, never been.
But and I know it's a small sample size of Boston College from last week, but boy, I'll tell you what sixty six points.
I know they played Fordham or whatever, but the five hundred yards of passing.
Meanwhile, Michigan State could only muster about two hundred yards of offense two hundred fifty yards of offense at home in their opener.
Yeah, I just gotta see more out of Michigan State's offense.
I'll take the four and a half with the Eagles there, all right.
Speaker 1Yeah, look, I'm I'm just going on the prediction.
I mean I would, so I'm gonna take it.
But you can't go against your prediction.
Yeah, correct.
I don't feel it was down in print.
I don't feel great about it.
I don't know if it's been published it I could probably change it.
Sometimes I feel so badly about what I put in print that I change it before it goes online.
You have different powers with your pigs.
Yeah, it's not okay.
The the other game of real significance and it's not a great slate in college football.
This week, by the way, Michigan plus five at Oklahoma, which is a good game.
And credit Michigan for the series and going on the road and doing these sort of games.
This is what you want, right They weren't doing it for a while that they are now.
It's uh credit where credits do there?
And it get it's you get Bryce Underwood, freshman quarterback who showed some real promise with very little pressure, had a couple of moments that weren't as great like this will be a real test tough though, Yeah, this will be a test against Brent Venerables defense.
And I don't love this Oklahoma team overall, but I think it's a tough defense, is a tough environment early in the year when hope hope is high, I think.
But it's a really hard game because it's a freshman quarterback playing on the road for the first time.
I think Michigan's a better football team than Oklahoma overall.
And the question is ken Underwood not have the disastrous freshman moment that most freshmen would have here or not?
Just you know, can he be solid?
I think that's much more important for Michigan than he's spectacular at any point.
I'm gonna take Michigan here.
I like the five is a big number of points.
Wwise.
I like Michigan, But you know, I would also caution people against betting it, just because you're dealing with the freshman quarterback and you could have a three interception game where they get to him blit twice and things go haywire and you're on the road, and I just would you know, it's one of those games that could go either way.
What do you have?
Speaker 2Well, you pretty much set it off.
It's more, you know, Underwood first start on the road, Venables, I mean, that guy owes me money, so you know he should pay me back by I just I'm with you.
I think Michigan is the better team.
I don't trust Oklahoma, even though even though it's at home.
I think Michigan protects Underwood make sure he doesn't have to do too much.
Give me Michigan in that weird five plus five.
Speaker 1What do you got here?
Speaker 5Yeah, I'm gonna take the five as well.
But you know, Grega May you guys both make a great points.
I think you know, you definitely have to worry about that.
I think Oklahoma's defense definitely came on in the second half of the season last year, so he's supposed to have a very good defense here.
So I'm worried about, you know, a real screw up that could cost the Michigan point here.
But I'll take the five thrown more.
Going back to where he graduated in two thousand and eight at Oklahoma, I think he wants this defend his teammates.
His team knows this too, uh, and they're gonna play extra special for him here in Norman.
I'm going to take the five here.
It seems like a good number.
And you know, you know, the past couple of years, you don't see them getting points off them, especially more than a field goal.
I'll take the five.
Speaker 1All right.
To the NFL Week one.
This is beautiful.
We're gonna talk four games here, Giants plus six at Commanders and.
Speaker 2Why is this game on here?
But what do you mean to put this game on there?
Speaker 1Because if you look around this is actually one of the To me, it's one of the more interesting games.
There might be better games to make money on, but in terms of interesting games, this is the fourth one.
I wanted a fourth game, and I love this game.
I like the Giants a lot.
I think the Giants roster is as good as the Commander's roster everywhere, but quarterback you got justin Field, you got to like.
I like the Giants pass rush.
I like a lot of things about the Giants.
It's a divisional game out of the gate.
Those are often close, you know.
I don't know that they win this game, but I think it's inside of a score late, and if it's six, then that's got a shot, you know.
So I'm gonna take the Giants here, and I feel pretty pretty good about it too.
So that's why you like it, because that was your jumped off it jumped out, jumped out at I just can't.
Speaker 2I can't bet again with Russell Wilson.
I can't somehow Wait is it Wilson?
Sorry, that's Wilson.
What did you say justin Field?
Is that why you said him?
I was wondering why you said him.
Speaker 1He's with the Jets.
Oh my god, take this back hold on Russell Wilson.
I can't.
I hate Russell Wilson.
Are you fucking serious?
I mixed my New York quarterbacks.
That's horrible.
We fix this in posts.
Speaker 2Now this might go on.
TikTok.
What the fuck you mean?
We're not cutting this out.
So do you want to change your pick?
Speaker 1No, I'll stick.
Speaker 5Checking my notes, make sure.
Speaker 1Yeah, the trade that you didn't know happened.
I'm going to take the Giants for our purposes.
But man, I can't bet anybody in life without with no personality, So I'm not taking uh.
Speaker 2So Justin If Justin Fields were on the Giants, you like it a lot.
But now that it's Russell Wilson that you like the command?
Speaker 1Correct?
Speaker 2What a gambling show.
Speaker 1I think that's the difference between a three point loss and an eight point you know what.
Speaker 2I was gonna go against Russell Wilson, but I think I have to take Russell Wilson in the six points.
Now, Harry, what's going on here?
What's up with your boy?
Speaker 5Yeah?
Look, look, if you look at I'm gonna take the Giants to look over the past.
Oh, let's say seven games, seven games these two teams to division rival to play at each other, only one of them one of them.
Washington's won by more than six points only one out of the last seven meetings.
And if you look, I know Washington was fantastic last year and they'd beat Unfortunately they tripped up Detroit in the playoffs when Detroit was all banged up.
But if you look at Washington's regular season wins and the quarterbacks that they actually beat, they beat nobody.
They really beat nobody.
So in game one of the season, and again six of the last seven times they played each other, Washington is either lost or not won by more than six points more than five points, sorry, more than six point six points.
So I will take the Giants with the points here.
Speaker 1Guys, I gonna get my Super Bowl picking for the Jets now that I realized Justin Fields is on the Jets.
That's no.
I just don't love Fields, but I just think he's more of a playmaker.
At this point in a one game setting with the Giant, should have signed Fields the all right Lions plus two at the Packers.
Look, a lot's been made about Michael Parsons and the Packers are a hot team to pick to win it all.
I you know, and it's on the road.
They could lose this game and it doesn't mean the season's lost or anything like that.
I think there's a great Week one game.
But I think the Lions are gonna have a little bit of a chip on the shoulder.
People are kind of counting them out.
The idea that and maybe the loss of two coordinators is an issue.
But if you see another story about from some national Yahoo who rights that angle, I'm gonna puke like I'm sorry, it's it's it's become a bit too much.
I don't know what that will mean.
I think they're gonna have a chip on the shoulder.
I think they're still one of the best couple of teams in football right now.
And uh, it's good weather in Green Bay, so it's a great time to get the Packers.
Don't love this, but in probably a Homer pick here.
But give me the Lions plus two, Jason Warey, it's our core foundation, man, grip.
Speaker 2Why are we an underdog?
Dan Campbell owns lamb Lambeau.
What are we doing here?
Of course, give me the give me the Lions and getting too Harry?
What are we talking about here?
Speaker 5You are right, Campbell?
Does own the Packers in Lambeau, beating them three straight years.
I think they've beat them four straight overall.
Uh, you know, the Partisans pack up very Yeah, I look, it seems like maybe green Bay gave up too much.
I don't know, but yeah it' I have his fishing and you're right, Jay, Why are the Lions two point underdog here?
With history and how good Detroit was last year and everyone is healthy?
Something is just I don't know, doesn't spell right here?
Love Love has not been very good against Detroit.
A lot of people, including myself, expecting a lot out of him this year.
I don't know.
Fishing game game one, new coordinators for Detroit, I'll say.
Speaker 2Green Bay and doesn't Love have an injury on his left hand too?
That's going to be a nagging problem, you know.
Speaker 5Yeah, well a lot of the times that we've seen that.
That said before a game, and the guy goes out for three fifty and has three touchdowns.
Speaker 2Every time I gamble, pretty much right, it happens every time?
Speaker 1All right, Ravens minus one at Bill's excellent game.
I you know, Josh Allen's the quarterback of Buffalo.
But yeah, yeah, Josh Allen's still there.
Yeah, good to know, to know, you know, look, I like this Bills team.
I love Josh Allen.
The Ravens though, are you know great in the regular season.
I'm not going against Josh Allen here.
I like it one here that doesn't actually the Bills.
But the Bills are one point underdogs.
Favorite.
Yeah, such this game is the biggest coin flip ever.
But I like the Ravens.
What do you gotta hear?
Speaker 5You know, I'm gonna take the Bills.
I'm not really thrilled about their secondary Lamar may be able to toward them.
But last year, yeah, in Baltimore regular season, the Ravens rolled Josh Allen the Bills by twenty five points.
I think it's payback here.
Normally Josh Allen fantastic in the regular season in big games.
He's got a better record in the regular season that he does in the postseason.
And again payback from last year.
Now the game is in Buffalo, will take I will take the Bills, all right.
Speaker 1Lastly, Vikings minus one and a half at the Bears.
This this is part of when we do our favorite picks here.
What my one of my favorite bets of the week, But that is not it straight up here.
I I really don't know what to expect from the Bears.
From the Vikings.
You know, the Vikings quarterback situations interesting, The Bears quarterback situations interesting.
Ben Johnson's interesting, I am.
I think the Vikings roster is pretty good though, and I think a lot of people have shipped on them.
I'm gonna take the Vikings here.
It's just a hunch.
Probably wouldn't put much on it without.
Speaker 2The because they have less interesting stuff going on than the Bears have.
Speaker 1Yeah, and what's funny is I'm gonna go the other way and something I'm about to give out in a second, But for the for this pick, I'm gonna take the Vikings.
Speaker 2Jason Wrrien, I mean, would it be easier just to go what are the best things going on?
Instead of trying to figure out, you know, crushing game tape for the Oh, Harry, see Harry, Harry's like this.
I've had enough of those guys.
Yeah, the new phone line's been working kind of weird here.
Anyway, let me try to get Harry back on or what do.
Speaker 1We do it here?
Yeah, let's let's get Harry if you could, all right?
All right?
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Speaker 2It's going right to voicemail.
So I don't know if he'll call me back.
Speaker 1All right, all right, Well we've lost Harry, so you have your going Vikings.
Huh yeah, give me no, I'm taking the Bears.
Give me the home dog, all right?
Favorite bet is I love this bet.
I love a teaser, A seven point teaser with the Broncos who are minus nine down to two at home against the Titans, and the Bears up to eight and a half at home against the Vikings.
I like that a lot.
You get you pretty much?
Can you get close to a pick them with the with the Broncos at home against the Titans and a rookie quarterback against a great defense, and you get the Bears at home and you're getting you know, two point conversion all that above that at eight and a half.
I think that is my favorite bet of the week.
Do you have a favorite bet?
Jason, Harry, are you back?
Speaker 5I'm back, Well, you guys, it's not even hot here.
I'm in my car and my car.
Took a screenshot my car.
It's too hot.
My phone.
My phone just it was out because my phone was too hot.
Speaker 1Let's talk about your picks.
Well, you live in Arizona, so that that's a that's a that's an issue.
That's the first mistake you made.
Speaker 2Yeah, all right, we'll give you Harry Graham, give your best bet again for Harry.
Speaker 1Okay, for my best bet Harry, and then we'll get we'll get well first of all, Bears Vikings.
Do you have a pick here who you like?
Harry?
Speaker 5Yeah, real quick, I do like I'm leaning.
I don't love it.
I'm leaning towards the Bears.
Uh.
You know, no Addison for three games from Minnesota.
That's gonna hurt McCarthy.
We'll see what he can do.
First game, primetime Monday Night.
A lot of jitters haven't heard a lot of Jefferson either, you know, I know he's even know he's had that injury, uh, banged up with that ankle.
Haven't heard a lot from him.
So I'm gonna trust Cale Williams here.
I'm gonna trust the Bears.
I'm gonna I'm gonna take him here on Monday Night.
Speaker 1All right.
My favorite pick Harry was Broncos and a teaser down to two and Bears in a teaser Update and a half.
Like those two together.
I just think seven point teaser.
I love getting the Broncos down at two against Tennessee and the Bears Update and a half.
Jason, do you have a favorite.
Speaker 2Best Yes, I'm parlaying the games that I that we were talking about earlier.
Give me BC plus four and a half against MSU Iowa, plus three and a half against Iowa and SMU at home versus Baylor.
Money line that pays out plus five fourteen.
Speaker 1Who that's okay?
Yeah, all right, five fourteen had that.
Speaker 2Like you said, I not had a great college slate, So I'm gonna go in three games.
Speaker 1Yep.
Yeah, if you want to go against the Spartans a little little something there.
I don't want to.
They got to prove it.
Do you have a best bet you love this week?
Harry?
Speaker 5This week I do this weekend in college, I'm gonna go to Kansas State.
The game opened up sixteen, now it's seventeen.
They're taking on Army.
I like the quarterback Kansas State Avery Johnson.
He's got three hundred and fifty yards six total touchdowns in the first two weeks.
Army lost to Tarlington State last week Tarlington State.
They gave up one hundred and ninety two yards on the ground to Tarlington State.
Army's quarterback Dlanne Coleman zero touchdown passes, two picks last week against this team and Kansas State has a tough one next week in Tucson at Arizona.
No messing around here for Kansas State like they did last week when they barely got by North Dakota at home as a twenty five point favorite.
They only won that game by three at a score of eight touchdown.
I don't think they mess around here at all.
Speaker 1I think they roll army and quickly.
Harry, your best your soccer bet for tomorrow?
What do you have?
Speaker 5Well, we've got a lot of World Cup qualifying going on all over, Graham, So I'm gonna go with the over two, just over two at minus one twenty five.
How about this one?
South Africa versus Lesotho.
Now listen to Harry, guys and at South Africa's last seven matches, six of them have landed on two goals or more, which includes a three to three tie in their last match three weeks ago.
Graham, of course, I'm sure you had that against Uganda.
Withsotho might not have a lot of offense, but their defense eventually breaks down.
They give up seven goals in the last two games where they haven't scored.
I'm gonna go at least you know, a push is two goals give me over to South Africa Lesotho in World Cup qualifying on Friday.
Speaker 1You are a beautiful man.
Quickly for me.
I like Anasamova over Osaka plus War and thirty five in the night match semi final tonight in the US Open.
Harry, you are a beautiful, beautiful man.
We will talk to you soon.
Man.
Thanks so much.
Speaker 5Always, guys, Thanks, thanks again.
Speaker 1Thanks Harry.
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Very happy now to be joined by somebody who actually knows about Boston College instead of us just thinking we know it in spewing out nonsense to you Graham.
Graham deats another great first name writer who covers Boston College for SI.
Graham.
Thanks for taking some time.
Speaker 4Man, Yeah, thank you Graham.
It's weird saying that out loud, but I'm glad you guys are having me on the show.
I appreciate it and excited a preview this matchup, it's bizarre.
Speaker 1It's going to be confusing for people, but I don't mind that.
I like hearing my name.
It's a great name.
We want to get a sense of this Boston College team from you, and you know, Bill O'Brien's second year seems like it's probably a more season program quarterback who probably fits more what he is looking for and Dylan Londegren and you know, it was a little dinged up early this week.
Looks like he's going to play From everything you read, what's who is he to?
This is a quarterback?
Is he going to start number one?
From what you know?
And what did you take away from his first start against Fordham?
Speaker 4Yeah, so a few times during fall training camp, bill O'Brien would sit some of the current starters just for rest days.
And I think that was kind of his goal and aim with you know, having Loanner Getten sit out of the first day of practice this week.
From what I could tell, he seemed fine when he was back at practice on Tuesday or sorry, excuse me, Wednesday, which was the you know, second day of media that we could attend.
So I think he's going to be good and ready to go and ready to roll to play MSU on the road.
You know, I was looking back at the matchup last year.
Obviously there's a lot of differences between this the past matchup in this one that's upcoming, just you know, the most obvious being the fact that we played at home.
We're going to play on the road against big ten opponent and you know, obviously in primetime hours and the quarterback that's the main difference.
Tommy Cathalanos, who is now at FSU, obviously just pulled off that big upset this past week against Alabama.
I would not compare him in any sort of way to the type of QB that Dylan Loneringen was in Week one against Fordham.
And you know what he's shown through practices, through fall training camp, and you know when he arrived in the winter during spring training, he's exactly what Bill O'Brien was looking for in a quarterback.
And I don't just say that because he recruited Dylan in the first place Alabama before he was at BC.
It's just the intangibles about Dylan that makes him a perfect fit for O'Brien.
It's the quick decision making, getting his you know, reids covered one by one in a timely fashion and getting the ball out quick and knowing to take that checkdown pass if he needs him to.
Is really what I see out of Dylan, who had obviously a tremendous first debut, as you know, in college football for the first time ever.
Speaker 1The when when I look at the receivers here and Lewis Bond as a big game, who are the guys when you look at this Boston College team in terms of playmakers that have a chance to hurt defenses?
Do that?
And is that sort of the question that's still being sort of figured out.
Speaker 4Yeah, no, I don't think it is, to be honest.
They have a lot of depth, but there's a key front three guys between Lewis Bond, Reid Harris, and Jayden Skeat and all all three of those were players.
Is that the Spartans saw last year as well, so this this feels like the second year of really building that receiving core between the three of those guys.
Lewis is obviously the most veteran of the group.
He's you know, been in BC's ranks for now four years and led the team and receiving yards the past two.
But Jaden and Rita made some really big strides this season.
Reid is kind of your typical go up and get it guy.
He's he's great in the red zone because of his size.
He's a six' five receiver who played quarterback in high school and converted to receiver when he got TO.
BC uh From.
Montana, ACTUALLY i think he's the only one on the team From.
Montana And jaden Has jaden has really improved as well this year with his route, running his.
Catching he just if you go back and watch that tape From fordham AND i, know obviously the secondary and second level players Of Michigan, state will you, know don't compare necessarily to those Of.
Fordham if you go back and, look pretty much all three of those guys were getting open on a consistent.
BASIS i Know lewis ended up taking the majority of the reception.
Shares he ended up with about one hundred and forty receiving yards and ranks top ten in the nation right now in receiving, yards which is pretty cool to.
See but, really all three of those guys were constantly, open AND i Think dylan even missed a few, Times jaden Or reid going deep and you, know decided to go To lewis on more of a checkdown throw or something more to the mid tier instead of taking the deep.
Shot but expect all three of those guys to play a really big role in the game This.
Speaker 1Saturday if the concern that jumped out to me was the two point five yards of carry and that you know featured tailback runs sixteen times for forty eight yards and so you're not mulling somebody up, front AND i you, KNOW i know they lost AN nfl offensive.
Lineman there's some new pieces, there like what is that the offensively the biggest question moving?
Speaker 4Forward that is absolutely the biggest question moving.
Forward you hit, that you hit the nail on the head.
There it's it's gonna be obviously a massive, change, uh you, know with who the offensive line is going, up you, know on the front end AGAINST.
Msu the defensive front Between fordham and you know this, matchup and it was not a good.
Showing and O'Brien admitted that right away that that was something that they were going to hone in on this week during, practice is the run blocking, Especially and WHAT i saw during that game was just a lack of making.
Gaps it wasn't necessarily that you, know the defensive front For fordham was, pushing, pushing you know BC's interior guards and center towards you, know the quarterback and into the.
Backfield it was really just the lack of gaps THAT i saw When Turbo richard And jordan, McDonald who are are who you, know featured prominent, backs were taking handoffs and it just didn't it didn't feel LIKE.
Bc they've been a good rushing team the past two.
Seasons like you, said we've had a FEW nfl draft picks that have been featured on the offensive line in the last two.
Years, Uh Christian mahogany two years ago and then last year two draft picks between Ozzych pillows on The bears now And Drew, kendall and you, know they've got they've got, good good size on this.
LINE i think the average size is six five and a left Tackle Jude bowry who has been getting a lot of professional looks during, practice a lot of scouts in THE nfl who are coming to see, him as well As Logan taylor the right.
Guard but just those other, pieces the pieces that have come in for those guys who have gone to THE.
NFL i think they really need to show that they can step up and if, not that's gonna, be you, know a potential area THAT msu is going to take advantage of On.
Speaker 1Saturday the, offensively you, KNOW i like their, secondary it looks like a decent Grow what is the strength of this?
Defense it's really hard and you know you play a Fordum Michigan state is going to go through this next week With Youngstown.
State like you play these teams and you're trying to take things from them that you think you know about an identity and they're really it's you're you're overmatching them in certain.
Ways and So i'm wondering what what you take from that game and what you think you know about this.
Speaker 4Defense, YEAH i think the thing about the defense is it all stems from what defensive Coordinator Tim lewis does with, it and he tends to change up the scheme and formation of the defense pretty much on a weekly, basis WHICH i think that's where the strength of it really comes, from is that sometimes what you'll see one week is not what you're going to see the next.
Week and you, KNOW i think they use that to their advantage with film.
Especially you, know they're trying to you, know play against and play to the disadvantages their.
Opponent AND i think that you, know last, year they they Intercepted Aiden chiles three.
Times they saw that you, know he only had what one hundred and fifty passing, yards and the season opener for The, SPARTANS i think that WITH bc secondary that came away tied for first in interceptions in THE acc last, year has not lost a single player and has in, fact you, know gained multiple guys on that depth chart who you, know The spartans haven't played.
Yet some guys Like Sire Torrence Carter davis has a bigger share of roles in the safety, realm you, know more in that high second tier and you Know omari And, hampton those are guys that you're going to see that you didn't see last year Against, chiles but at the same, time the three guys who intercepted Him Amari, JACKSON i think it Was, Amari Max, tucker and actually it might have Been davis as.
Well those guys are all back as, well so you know that that's kind of the key returning piece FOR.
Bc BUT i really didn't see them create much pressure up.
Front Owen, stuttermeier defensive tackle FOR, bc went down during training camp and was unable to play in that first game Against.
Fordham he has been practicing this, week SO i think it's hopeful that he might make a, return maybe not to full, capacity but in some but that's you, know if they can't generate pressure and just Let childs run, AROUND i, think you, know that's where The spartans offense can really take.
Speaker 1Advantage what Is do you have a pick for this?
Week, Yeah i'm.
Speaker 4Gonna go With Boston college in this.
ONE i DON'T i know that the line.
IS i Think Michigan state is a three and a half point.
FAVORITE i just with the way that the secondary is built up this.
YEAR i think that The eagles continue their wind streak and you, know continue being on the road with a wind streak in This in this, one.
Speaker 1Well graham it.
Is it is always awesome to talk to Another graham AND i, HOPE i hope that name serves you.
Well AND i really appreciate the.
Time.
Speaker 4Man, YEAH i appreciate you guys having me on the.
SHOW i appreciate the questions and thanks for thanks for having.
Speaker 1Me that Is Graham deats and you can follow his work At Graham Underscore deats on ON x and just uh really appreciate that and his his his insight And jason, like, yeah what's your takeer with good guy From.
Speaker 2GRAHAM i was distracted during that whole.
INTERVIEW i have to ADMIT i was sent a a headline from someone's.
Speaker 1Column that came out this.
Speaker 2Morning you want me to read it and you can guess who it, Was Los Dan campbell And Brad.
Holmes seats could get hot If Detroit lions flop again in the.
Playoffs, jesus you to defend your.
Speaker 1BOY i got.
NOTHING i use a great guy to have dinner.
WITH i got nothing other.
Speaker 2One the comments are something.
ELSE i, mean if you're gonna tell me, that you know it gets, response you know gets a.
Response there's one hundred and ninety six.
Replies that's not what this is supposed to be.
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Speaker 1Not so.
Speaker 2Sorry you, Know graham seems like he was a nice, kid BUT i was so distracted from people sending that to, me going, like let's Hear graham defend his boy.
Loose now let me come, on.
Dude, yeah that's.
Tough that's.
Speaker 1Tough no it uh take away from.
Speaker 2That Mona rez is single handedly causing the newspapers to go.
Under that's not.
True that's my hot take For.
Monday that's a preview For.
Monday, okay get him on the show and defend this.
Speaker 1Shit.
Lows come, on that is.
Speaker 2Ridiculous it's, embarrassing it's Not i'm, sorry, dude but you KNOW i love the newspaper.
Industry that headline HAS i mean, that that's the problem is the.
HEADLINE i GOTTA i gotta read what.
THAT i gotta read.
That what could he possibly write in there too where you'd be, like, oh you know, what los does have some point like how could you even defend what he's?
Speaker 1Saying?
No, YEAH i mean you, right you.
Can you can write something that's a little more, nuanced like this is a test of, uh you, Know Dan campbell's ability to move on with new coordinator And Brad holmes to move on without making the big.
Trade and that's a fair.
Assessment that's a fair thing to.
Say the hot seat, ship it's the school, ball you, know trek school balls out of the Cy young ord and anyone like he's just a.
Speaker 2Blanket who DOESN'T i don't.
KNOW i don't talk To, lows but HE i don't know if he MEANS i understand.
That but he sucks at sports.
Writing he sucks at what he's.
Doing it isn't.
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Is it's not if you don't believe.
That there's no way what could happen this season Where Dan campbell And Brad holmes their seats are both, hot what could?
Happen a Mel tucker sex phone sex fucking?
Scandal they'd have to be on The epstein.
Speaker 1List, yeah.
Speaker 2Exactly why doesn't he write that fucking?
Headline Dan campbell And Brad holmes could be on The epstein?
List why?
Not Why why are we stopping at what he?
Speaker 1Did did this?
Morning?
Anyway Graham deets was a, great great kid.
Though, yea, yeah you have him one.
Again, no he was good and there's some good insight, there AND i do, think you, KNOW i, AM i think The boston colleg defense is gonna be pretty.
Good and the MORE i read, LIKE i think my pick is probably too.
High twenty eight twenty is WHAT i.
PICKED i think this is gonna be a lower Scoring can we get a.
Speaker 2Pick from you right now to that your you're firm on that you want to.
Speaker 1Just make it your.
Speaker 2PICK i picked it so, bad like he's give, ON i can have some confidence of Your, YEAH i, MEAN i just the MORE i don't Let Carlos monz ruined this pick for.
Speaker 1You so here's the.
Thing BECAUSE i Think Michigan state is not does not have much of a kicking game right, NOW i think they will be more aggressive on fourth.
Downs there's an argument that that limits, them but it also can wind up being more.
Points to, me it could wind up being a you, know a twenty one seventeen type, game could wind up being twenty eight.
Twenty BUT i do, THINK i do Think Boston college's defense will be maybe the strength of the.
Team i'm curious to see.
Though yeah, again The fordham, game It's i'm you, KNOW i think it's best For Michigan state that they don't lead with that game for.
THEM i don't think that helps a, team, REALLY i really.
DON'T i think it's gonna Hurt Boston college this week that they Played fordham last.
WEEK i think it would Hurt Michigan state they Played Youngstown state last.
Week it doesn't hurt you necessarily to the point you can't.
WIN i just don't think it helps.
YOU i think you're better off at least playing like a middle of the ROAD mac team and playing somebody that's got the same amount of scholarships with, you a little closer to your, budget all that sort of.
Stuff all, right let's we have a lot of really good groovy do on A twitter questions we need to dig.
Into oh that's, right we still have those, yes, yes OH i thought the show was.
Over, no, no.
Enough but are you ready to dig?
Speaker 5In?
Speaker 2Sir, yeah let's do.
It ghost Of George perlis up.
FIRST i Know graham loves to say that The spartans will go as far as the offensive line can take, Them but isn't the Truth they will go as far As Aiden childs can take.
Them and from Suburban spartan dat DOES msu actually Need Aiden childs to be?
Great to go eight and four this.
Year are there enough other complimentary pieces that he could finish with like a twenty, touchdown twelve, interception sixty percent completion rate and this team still wins eight?
Games or does he need.
Speaker 1To be truly?
Special?
Yeah SO i don't know why a couple of these two, together but they're on the same.
Topic SO i, did AND i don't, think, like, yes there is a component of this where this team will go as far As Aiden childs can take, Them BUT i don't think outside of like IF msu was to truly exceed, expectations like beyond anybody's wildest teams, dreams it would Take Aiden childs taking them.
PLACES i think what he has to become is a pretty solid quarterback and his athletic gifts will will allow him to make plays and do other.
THINGS i think he's got decent playmakers around.
Him if they can run the football a little, bit it'll help a ton and the defense might be.
Speaker 2Okay LIKE I i don't, know if you're going to try to win ten, games your quarterback has to be spe if you're getting.
There but truly, so the question points in the season as far as you're gonna take like you, know if eight and, four LIKE i, do think there's a chance That Michigan sate could go eight and four and he could be a TWENTY T d TWELVE i AND t guy who you, know more often than not doesn't make the extra special, play makes it once in a.
While but the real QUESTION i have for him is not can he make the special?
Play does he make it in?
Moments does he make the big play when they really need?
It and that's what we don't know, Yet AND i think we're going to find out so much about him this.
WEEK i really, do because it feels like it's one of those games where there was a lot last week that left you, going hm, hmm that's, better that's, Okay well that's not, Great like the second half, happened.
Speaker 1Well, yeah and once the pass rush started getting to him and he's dropping his head a little, bit like that's that's a, thing, right what's that going to look?
Like and the pass rush is part of, that and the offensive line is part of.
That they got him in rhythm right.
Away they didn't really do a lot With nick marsh.
Deep they didn't do a lot on script deep down the, field like what's that going to look like so there's just so Much this week will be so much more, Telling AND i think how you feel About Aidan chiles and how you feel about This Michigan state football team On monday or after when we're doing this the take show On monday will be so much more real than maybe the inclinations that were had and the feelings that were had a week, ago if that makes.
Speaker 2Sense are you intrigued by The bill O'Brien Jonathan smith kind of relationship Hip bill O'Brien being a, veteran he's been in THE, nfl he's been, around just the, coaching the head to head battle because obviously he's crushing the tape from The western.
Game what Did western do in that second half Against?
Chiles and it's going to be fun to see What Jonathan smith does to combat, that, right it blits the shit out Of.
Speaker 1Chiles and then also if you if if you purposely held some things back and they and they rotated some guys in LIKE i don't Think Elijah Taal tolliver is you're you're running back in a Close can you.
Speaker 2Really not score Against western and say that you were holding plays?
BACK i, mean come, on it's a fair.
Question all Right herett Was newsky AND asu football needs this, win like.
Breathing, uh Will Aiden chiles and the offense redeem themselves and lead this team to.
Speaker 1VICTORY i, Mean i'm picking.
IT i don't feel great about, it but it is a mammoth game because it feels like it.
Speaker 2Just went back and forth like four times during the.
Speaker 1Show it does feel like it affects the trajectory of this.
Season, NO i think they will be a better.
TEAM i, mean you, KNOW i, MEAN i don't know if you heard the the few the wiis there from our Friend, Graham, yeah, Yeah AND i dig, that And i'm you, know and and it's.
Right he worked for S.
I he's not.
Hiding he's not hiding.
That he's not.
Speaker 2Hiding also, SAID i got money ON.
Bc now what he did not say that for you in that press box, Couch.
Speaker 1So you always have to take that with a little bit of a grain.
Salt that.
Said you, know he talked about the running game for them if they can't run the ball at all In Michigan, State like we talk a lot about the pass rush, defensively but The Michigan state really just shuts down the run to begin.
With that makes everything out so much.
Easier AND i Think Michigan states owned secondary is going to be pretty.
GOOD i think their linebackers is going to be pretty.
GOOD i think their interior line has a chance to be.
GOOD i don't know.
YET i don't want to bank on that After Western.
Michigan but if those things are good and you're just trying to create pressure in a lot of, ways and if the other team can't run the football to, it it just makes life so much.
Easier So i'm very curious to see IF bc can run the football Against Michigan.
Speaker 2State next one From, Kurt will The tigers bring Up clark And mike g for the?
Run absolutely Not, no because that's what we want as.
Speaker 1Fans they wouldn't do it we, want Absolutely and it's service time, too trying to Avoid, yeah they don't want to the attention to service.
Time, WELL i mean, again this is what you're running through With.
Schoobol if you could hold Back schooball and have another year she didn't come up.
Speaker 2For a year, Later, no because we have still we have like two years where this is like a year and a half left and we're already saying our goodbyes to, him so couch on.
Fire The tigers record for the last twenty.
Games do we have any chance of progressing in the playoffs with this pitching motley?
Speaker 1CREW i think the only, thing the only way they do is and, again bad teams get hot in the.
Playoffs not bad, teams but average teams get hot in the playoffs and can win a.
Series but it starts with being one of the top two, teams which they would be, today which means you don't play that wildcard, round which means everybody gets a.
Rest you set your rotation With schooble starting game one and Schoo ball starting game, five and if you get through it before a game, five then you Got schooble game one of the the.
Alcs, like that's the key you Gotta you need your bullpen as rest as they can.
Be you need your pitching staff rested and set up the.
Way do you need the bats?
Speaker 2RESTED i, mean like you want your bats to get kind of hot in that first, Round like.
Speaker 1Sure but you don't want so it carries.
Over you don't want the, chances the odd the Odds tigers are gonna win four playoff series or is like, Zero so the odds that they're gonna win three is like five.
Percent like you'd rather have the five, percent you, know money.
Bag what should concern us about the matchup this?
Week The Boston college is just better than we all really That Graham dats is, saying we, yeah The Boston college is better than we all.
REALIZE i think that that's that like his second Year bill O'Brien, team the secondary is pretty, good the defenses is pretty, good the.
Quarterbacks but the problem is it's just not even worried About Boston.
College i'm worried About Michigan state's.
Offense you, know like that's fair.
Speaker 2Too they're gonna, Say i'm looking at that, first, like are you guys gonna move the ball for sixty fucking?
Speaker 1Minutes let's do.
It but if they, can you, know if if they get To childs and that winds up being something that's in his head and he makes.
Mistakes AND i think it's also just the unknown when when they play for, them you just don't know what's what out of, that you, Know and you can say the same About Western, michigan but it's.
Different there is a big.
Difference Western michigan would would have its way With fordham money.
Speaker 2Bag will The michigan media ever be held?
Accountable will there fans ever wake up and stop giving these guys a platform and add prematurely accusing AN osu player leading to death threats to the long list of lies they've, spread it cause real.
Speaker 1Harm, WELL i think the thing that is tough for people is you have to remember The michigan media that he talks of is not REALLY i, mean they're it's not really.
Media it's it's, media but it's not really.
Journalism it's a promotional, act, Right it's and, close it's a promotional.
Act it's a promotional lives people who are in it because they're fans Of.
Michigan they're never going anywhere, else you.
Know and and that's and so you're you're getting people who they're waiting for this moment and then they they carry the, message so to.
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It and that's those people are never gonna be held accountable because what they do is make money off their fan.
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Credibility, Man like if you if you rename yourself like The journal Of College football or, something and then it's.
Different but your spartan mag nobod ring to and nobody cares what you think About.
Michigan they can't because they can't take you seriously on that and they never.
Can and that's just built in the.
Name some people say that about The Lansing State journal because they, think, oh that's you, know have.
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THREAT i had a.
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Anything.
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Basement but this guy is, like, right so in this in the, Newsroom holy, shit.
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Rude you had to fill a like we used to have roles, like, hey you got to fill a column for This.
Sunday you're, like a, shit it's the middle of the.
Summer we have we have dirt track racing.
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Email i've gotten pissed off, people BUT i NEVER i would know Like i'm gonna kill, you, like because that's what a death threat.
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Newsroom, right where's That graham?
Couch you're gonna kill?
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Wednesday come on, here explain?
Yourself?
Then do you want to do?
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Speaker 2You is BC's backup quarterback any?
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Back we don't know if the first team quarterbacks any?
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Be he's obviously was a good.
Guy you, know he's a guy's Recruited, alabama a guy That bill O'Brien.
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Him and sometimes when the coach wants a guy and that you, know that can be a really good.
Fit SO i don't think we know.
Yet as numbers were decent against a bad, team and That i'm talking about the starter.
Here the backup had good numbers again against a really bad.
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Pictures the ones now for even for people like, us do not allow field, access AND i can't remember when that.
Changed we used to be able to go down before the, game last five minutes of the.
Game no field.
Access it says what levels we can be, on and it has our pictures on, them and they're full season.
Things so you're that.
THAT i guarantee you was probably a reaction to somebody being on the field who wasn't supposed to be there and how passes are doled out and and all.
That so my guess is that is what that is when it actually actually had maybe maybe do we have a kicker?
Yet they were pretty coy about that this.
Week my guess is they're going with the Same sislow and equally doing long field goals And sislo short AND i, yeah that that is a.
Speaker 2Concern it sounds like they were pretty honest about.
IT i, MEAN KOI i, mean what do you what?
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Speaker 2It's probably you, KNOW i don't know whoever's better kicker in practice the couple of days, PRIOR i don't, know.
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Speaker 2Jared with The, lions if they keep getting close to the Super bowl but never quite getting there Under Dan, campbell that's the worst case, outcome, Right, well, yeah THEN i.
Did it's up, there.
Yep somebody getting injured and they're all going to.
Shit, yeah, yeah they got to make.
Speaker 1One i'm aware of the worst case, scenario Like i'm aware of what the possibilities.
Speaker 2Are that's WHY i hate.
This that's WHY i want one Super bowl SO i can go down and then just.
Die, jared who is the best coach in THE?
Speaker 1Nfl you had one coach when you can't Be Dan.
Campbell one coach to coach your team The.
Lions Dan campbell tomorrow dies in a sailboat.
Accident who he replaces?
It?
Speaker 2What why is he dying in a sailboat accident just to get hit in the head by.
Somebody it's better than The epstein.
LIST i don't.
Speaker 5KNOW i.
Speaker 1Guess.
Speaker 2OH i really Like Sean.
PAYTON i know everybody hates, Him BUT i, mean if you want to, win if, like If i'm talking about a guy with my kind of team THAT i, like the kind of football THAT i.
ENJOY i Like Sean, payton who's another coach that's pretty much would you go him Over Andy reid just Because Andy reid says nuggies it calls chicken nuggets.
NUGGIES i think you have to Give Andy.
REID i, Mean i'm not Like harry who Calls Andy reid.
Speaker 1As ship head.
Speaker 2Coach What sean, McVay oh, yeah, yeah, sorry excuse.
Me sean McVay is my number one.
Guy Then Sean, Payton, yeah gotta Be, sean you gotta.
Be there's possibilities of Trading Dan campbell for, McVeigh like you could actually have that conversation with me without getting yelled at her making up some fake death Or.
Speaker 1Epstein not Your Jared goff would be thrilled that McVeigh showed back.
Speaker 2Up Alex, mayer what position group will be challenged the most AGAINST?
Speaker 1Bc, yeah that's a good.
QUESTION i don't think we.
Know is to, me it's to, me It's aidan childs, right IT'S i think the defense is pretty.
Decent it's his ability to process things, quickly play in the, pocket make the right, reads use his legs when he, can and not make big.
MISTAKES i do Think Michigan state is probably a little bit better, team and so If Aiden chiles can just not lose the game for, them they're good enough to.
Win AND i think that's it starts.
Speaker 2There next one From alex if you had to play one game Of division one college football at full, speed what position would you choose to?
Speaker 1Play long?
Snapper you can't hit, you, hunter long, snapper they can't hit.
You just kick that ball and get the hell out of the.
Way, yeah long, Snammer.
Speaker 2Yeah, jebediah we're, Pussies.
Jebediaho WOULD msu hire for next season if Jay back goes nuclear and Fires Jonathan smith if they lose the big must win game this.
Speaker 1Weekend, yeah they're not going to do that because they don't have the money for.
It but it would be.
Speaker 2Uh and can you imagine if you wrote a story or a column that's saying that If Jonathan smith doesn't win this, weekend the hot seat could be turned?
Speaker 5Up?
Speaker 1Yeah would you do?
That and the thing, is and the thing is that would be more legitimate than the one it was just and even though it wouldn, be.
Speaker 2It would be some truth to.
Speaker 1IT i don't that went not this.
Early it would take The it would take the steam out of this.
Year it would it would put some pressure on the because the other thing is beyond this, year the money is just not.
Right like the answer to that to me would Be Pat, fitzgerald the Former northwestern coach has sort of been cleared of everything At northwestern AND i think is a really good guy in a season proven, Coach but he would have to coach for free Because Michigan state couldn afford.
Him so as long as he WAS i, mean he's getting a huge payday From, northwestern maybe he would be willing to do.
Speaker 2So, jebediah who will be the breakout player on defense this?
Weekend and he can't Say Jordan.
HALL i was gonna Say Jordan.
Speaker 1Hall, yeah you Know Morrian, smith MAYBE i keep hearing good things about.
HIM i it's gonna be somebody in the secondary That that's WHAT i.
Think somebody's gonna come up with a pick of play back there that's going to make somebody in the.
Speaker 2Secondary jebediah Was graham turning off his fan in the Latest spartan speak the reason AND i could hear his background echo every time he spoke or is that just silary forgetting how technology?
Speaker 1Works?
Again who the hell?
Knows Phil friend left us dry AND i have to edit this stun myself now and so ill we don't redo?
Stuff limited time to fix the.
Audio i'm in charge of.
Editing we don't edit.
Anymore we do a little, bit but it's pretty, basic like IF i know something's.
Wrong but Poor Phil, friend what he must have went through with you, guys he used to listen to the whole thing and you take a lot all the ums and Meet john jumping.
In i'm, LIKE i just listened to.
That i'm not gonna freaking listen to the.
Podcast do you.
Speaker 2Imagine having to listen to a podcast with couch and have to take out every?
Speaker 1Um?
Holy, yeah.
Yeah well the big problem, is like we have amazing equipment, here, Right and one of the great things about this is you can't generally hear my heavy.
Breathing, Right I'M i am grossly out of.
Shape i'm barely you, know like just, moving you.
Know, No i'm just kidding it not that, Bad but grossly.
Speaker 2Is a perfect word for.
It BUT i don't know if you're that.
Speaker 1Bad, No i'm not that.
Bad but WHAT i mean is the mics we have For spartan, speak if we are anywhere near, them it picks up.
Everything they're not, great and so you we really have to remind ourselves when you're not talking back your ass, up don't take, SIPs don't breathe, heavy don't you?
Know and that's the.
Speaker 2Problem Ryan rockwell with Two hours, apparently can you Clip salaris saying Big dooley to play along with his.
Laugh i've never seen a player's nick name you so often by one.
Speaker 1Writer he loves big.
Dooley he just loves saying nobody.
Else it's it's.
Speaker 2Amazing maybe that's what he was telling me to.
CLIP i guess WHEN i had to sift through A spartan, SPEAK i didn't hear Big.
Speaker 1Dooley but my Favorite salari thing that started to happen is we have these these group interviews of players and coaches assistant coaches during the during the, week And i'm not a fan of the, setup but it's it's What Jonathan smith.
Likes it is what they.
Do it's it's harder to do interesting, interviews but to their, credit they're very.
Good if you have a story idea of giving somebody off on their own or a little supparate or.
Something i'm not saying they're Not they're not standing.
Away it's just What john The smith.
Likes it's just different from, say the D'Antonio.
Era so But i'm always in the same interview As slari's What i'm trying to get.
To and whenever that coach leaves or player, leaves he always has some like little quip little in a whole good lucking, class look, good look at, this or you, know or it talks about some sort of baseball thing or.
Whatever the real, well he usually has a parting.
Gift it's usually a partying, gift saying it's kind of, dorky but it also fits the conversation and or how he knows in their.
Relationship every.
Time Now i'm gonna have to start making fun of him because this week it reached a fever.
Speaker 2Pitch maybe you could write them, down just jot them whatever he.
Speaker 1SAYS i like, that like the exit this this Year selari exits yes and isoisms the two THINGS i got to write down every time turn them weite elephant in the.
Speaker 5Room they don't want to deal with the white elephant in the.
Speaker 2Room oh, MAN i love you, guys all, Right, ryan for the fun of.
It after one game of, data who would you rather have a?
Quarterback chiles Or Sam?
Speaker 1Levitt?
Oh i'd rather Have Sam levitt than anybody in college?
Football?
Wow THAT i?
Speaker 5Know?
Speaker 2Right did we sprinkle?
Speaker 1Hot?
Well Maybe nesmyert AT, lsu right?
Speaker 2Right what's?
UH i THINK i looked up his heisman.
Stuff it was like seventeen to, one twenty two to one around that.
Speaker 1Market maybe more than.
THAT i THINK i got it really thirty to.
One MAYBE i have a little on.
IT i but in my Biers childs by the, way love, it love.
It my bias is.
THIS i grew up a Massive lway.
Fan there's a little bit of pigeon.
Towedness there's something About Sam levitt's mannerisms that remind me Of.
Lway and they did right off the, bat and SO i it makes me not an impartial observer because there's something that triggers something When i'm like nine years old AND i just want to watch that guy play football and the way he plays and see NOW i think he's an excellent quarterback, Too but, YEAH i.
WOULD i, Mean chiles is a guy WHO'S i didn't going to have to prove himself to The Sam levitt.
Level So Sam levitt gave You lway vibes and you're just telling us now right away did he wear seven?
To that might have been, it but you're just telling us this.
NOW i Think i've said, that have?
Speaker 2You, Yeah Jed Jepson.
Kenniston, NEXT i just rewatched The western.
Game chile's poise and footwork were great in the first two, drives but after The broncos got, PRESSURE i thought his footwork got lost mostly in the second, half messed up accuracy and.
Timing fix that with THE o line that protects and he'll be.
Dominant.
Speaker 1YEAH i, mean that's the THING i took away from rewatching the game is in there were there were.
THINGS i, MEAN i watched the second.
HALF i watched the times that child seemed too quick to, run but the game was also, Quick like it was like there weren't that MANY i wanted to see.
MORE i almost wish the game was like not that people wanted another second, half but you, know it was almost, Like, okay that was, decent that was there weren't enough examples THAT i was looking to see with, him And I'm i'm curious to see.
More i'm Not i'm not writing Off child's ability to really take it to the next, level BUT i do think when and he admitted, this one of his challenges is his eyes dropped and and you know his tendency is to.
Run that's a hard thing to.
Overcome So i'll be interested see what that looks.
Like, also we missed one From.
Professor i'm, sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah who just SAID i got?
IT i got, oh, YEAH i got.
Speaker 2You If Sam levitt wins the, heisman this is From.
Professor If Sam levitt wins The, heisman will it be held Against smith.
Speaker 1To to something?
Easily, yeah when it depends on What Michigan state situation.
Is, Right If Michigan state's nine and three and and and, obviously If levitt wins The, heisman Then Arizona state's like eleven to one in a.
Playoff but If Michigan state's nine and three and people don't Mind childs AND i feel like the program's head in the right, DIRECTION i think it'll be.
Okay what what you don't want is Like Sam levitt takes, off wins a.
Heisman they go eleven and one.
Layoff, Next John Alway chiles doesn't finish the season as the, starter like the team's five and, Seven like you can't have.
That that would be then it would be like what were you watching and and and when you're evaluating these?
Speaker 2Guys monfield cag.
Next how big a factor do you see the crowd being On saturday?
NIGHT i know the players have told you this game and had been, circled BUT i think fans are looking for revenge as.
Speaker 1Well it should be a big, atmosphere AND i think it will.
BE i think people Are the first game did enough that people are kind of come.
Back you know what.
Speaker 2About those concession, Lines we're gonna get those.
Moveing, well that's Talking Jay batt.
About people know they can't go to the concession.
Line you eat, beforehand you pee, beforehand you're in your.
Seat that's how you solve the.
Problem that's all you can do with.
THIS i WOULDN'T i wouldn't trust.
It guys could just eat before you, come just half of you and then another half could.
Speaker 1Eat they could have like a thing where they point at different sections section four your turn all the section four.
Speaker 2Always screws it up because of the way they got to.
Be you can, order can we order by?
Phone there's got to be a way to order by, phone pick up.
BOOM i think soccer is the way to go.
Here AND i don't mean this to make you.
Sleep i'm just, saying you, know the idea that this is a soccer is a sport where you can't leave your seat because there are no, breaks, right people do.
Speaker 1EVERYTHING i, mean the whole game's a.
Break but they do everything at, halftime and they do it, well and they have things set up and they and people still have time to stand around and drink and eat in the in the in the stands and the and they get you out in two hours or.
So, yeah they know how to do.
It and so you've got to figure out how to staff at the soccer levels because those got people have to be back in their seats by the time that second half starts are really soon, thereafter and everybody leaves at the same, time and that's the only time people are on the.
Concourse so that's IF i were a jay, BATT i would be on a playing to see like An arsenal match next.
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Years Tried Casking company and loved.
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Speaker 2Company Richard, gaine what's the fascination With Jeff.
Smoker it's THE i don't.
Know he's an interesting.
Character played college football while doing.
Cocaine and snippers and had a great life off the on campus.
THERE i, Mean i'd like to hear about.
It he like to hear about those.
Times that's some hard.
Times, yeah and you say, HARD i say.
Fun and he's also still.
Hard the highest rated quarterback they've ever.
Recruited don't say that he's like a top fifteen.
Name we just lie and say it someone Else, Manheim.
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Speaker 1With smoker here one freshman freshman in two, thousand all, right.
Speaker 2The Jeremy bonderman Of Southern.
Speaker 1Maine?
Speaker 2Next have they ruined the live college football watching?
Experience how long until the bubble?
Bursts sitting at, HOME i can flip.
Channels at The western, GAME i was filled with rage every time the red hat guy and the countdown board stepped into the.
Field and From Ralph, ee you were right about commercials in college.
Football was thirty plus YEAR msu football season ticket holder drove eight hours round trip for each.
Game So i'm not a fairweather.
Fan WHEN msu football is ON.
Tv NOW i record the game and join in part way.
Through get to fast forward through commercials and halftime on The INFINITY.
Dvr, yeah nice promo makes the games far more, enjoyable And jason Pro tip did the same thing With Corso's Last Game.
DAY i watched the good parts in a half hour and his picks.
Speaker 1Live one of the great things About infinity is THAT dvr AND i lasted a half, hour AND i love it on my phone as.
Well it is.
ONE i, mean you could be.
IT i think the PHONE dvr From xfinity's is the best.
Feature, uh and use the.
GAMES i use.
It you're a sports.
Fan, yeah it's, absolutely absolutely.
Amazing, YEAH i mean this is an.
Issue it is an, issue and people act like some people act like it's not an, issue but it.
Is people are annoyed by and more and more people are gonna Think i'd rather be at.
Home jason would rather be at.
Home.
Speaker 2ABSOLUTELY i just figure that's my age group, though BECAUSE i even you, know when we went To, Live i'm like with the, PARKING i saw like ten golf.
SHOTS i, mean it was fun to watch my wife ON tv after A bryce and D chambeau.
Drive But i'm just saying everybody wanted to, go you, know wanted me to go to The western game and.
Tailgate BUT i just see if all those people and the lines and all that and Then i'm at home.
Speaker 1With three TVs and it's.
Beautiful it doesn't Mean i'm just saying it doesn't need to be this.
WAY i know they need to pay for, stuff AND i know this this sport is expensive and all, that but there are better ways that you gotta be more.
Creative this is like having just boomers come up with the, idea will more.
COMMERCIALS i guess that's all you do.
It that's till you make the.
Money like there's a more commercials on the red.
Zone let's let's think of creative ways to make the advertising ingratiated in the experience and but not take away from the experience and not slow it down.
Entirely there have to be, ways and you gotta more creative.
Speaker 2There BUT i think you, know as football, VIEWERS i think that we will have to end up boycotting or something.
Like i'm NOT i.
WON'T i will not be able to do.
It LIKE i THINK i could join on at some, point but for me to, Go i'm not watching football or recording ON dvr and jumping halfway through LIKE i could never do.
Speaker 1That the bigger problem for.
College But i'm willing to cheer you on if you're gonna do it.
Well the bigger problem for college football is THE nfl starts this.
Weekend THE nfl is not as.
Bad it's a quicker moving.
Game the COMMERCIALS i.
Speaker 2Know, right So i'm.
DOING i, mean the last thing we had was Was Chris hansen not peen and giving us eight hours of uninterrupted.
Football and they have to ruin, that like how much you gotta squeeze the tit just squeeze it.
Dry for every fucking thing you can't just give us.
RED i used to look forward to That Chris hansen all freaking day right.
There you, know giganic, boner BUT i love, him but you know it's eight hours and he didn't peet one.
Time Parker, weiss is everyone too focused on the performance of the, Offense chiles a, line et cetera that we could be overlooking a potentially very good.
Defense i'm also one of these, people but maybe more stock should be placed on that defensive performance Versus.
Speaker 1Western, no there's a chance of.
It its just, again it's it's not like What Boston college dealt with With, fordham but you just got to see it against not a first time starting quarterback at that, level not an offensive line that's're placing four.
Guys you just got to see it against other.
PEOPLE i think there are lots of things about the defense that are potentially, encouraging but we talked.
Speaker 2About those On monday at The Hot Take.
Show is, First that's what we prefaced it.
With it's, like the defense looked, great the first half was.
Great it's JUST i don't think people are harping on the offense too.
Much it just was.
Speaker 1SHOCKING i do THINK i do think the linebackers and secondary have a chance to, be you, know a really, nice really nice, units AND i do wonder if the interior defensive line can't be so as, well which again opens other things.
Up, look this week could be somewhat, telling and then you got to keep doing it because you, know Maybe Boston college is just horrendous at running the, football and so this week isn't entirely telling on.
That you, know by the Time Michigan state comes back FROM, usc you kind of, know right you played two high major.
OPPONENTS i THINK usc could be a difficult team with a number of number of really electrifying, playmakers and you kind of have a sense of what you are and what your potential might, be AND i think they'll know before they Go Totobraska Parker weiss.
Speaker 2Next my gut tells me that this is either a twenty thirteen type season or a twenty twenty two TYPE msu football.
Season Could saturday be one of the biggest swing games in recent memory in terms of how high or low the fan base will feel, afterwards especially this early in the.
Speaker 1Season for the fan base it, is it'll be.
Interesting what you don't have is a game afterwards you can, lose which is probably, helpful although that's something you've got to be you got to be good.
At you can't have The we saw that even late in the D'Antonio, era where there's you, know they lose that crushing game To Ohio state in twenty nineteen where they'd really just thought it was a measuring sick game and didn't measure up and then they went and just laid an egg At.
Wisconsin we saw that With minnesota coming Into Spartan stadium at one point in two THOUSAND i think that was twenty.
Two but, yeah, no this is a big game, though because to, me this feels like a game that determines Whether michigan state plays the season from five hundred and above or chasing five, hundred and if they win this AND i know they'll get to two and one next, week even if they lose, this but then they go TO, usc then they go To.
Nebraska and if you win this game and you get to three and, zero it takes the pressure off those.
Games it's not the you, know if you can find a way to win one of those games on the, road people will be pretty.
Happy nobody's gonna go TO.
Usc you, know you put up a decent fight and it doesn't doesn't.
Happen it's not gonna you like losing this.
Game and if you're three and two WHEN ucla visits and you BEAT, ucla which just got you, know creamed By utah last, week then you're four and two halfway through the, season and all feels.
Okay if you lose this, game you're going to be three and three probably halfway through the, season and that feels very.
Different that feels, like, okay now you got to beat people to just get to a ball.
Game you got to keep winning the.
State this team's tough the, head you, know and now you got to go To.
Indiana wait a, second if you lose that and Then michigan's net, like if you want to get on the right side of five hundred by a couple of, games and this is how you do.
It you win this, week.
Speaker 2Ben, chu look.
NEXT i miss the days of Playing Notre dame every.
Year but in this college football playoff, era should this non conference schedule be the template moving forward teams from THE MAC fcs and a lower mid level power for SCHOOL.
Speaker 1I don't mind a bigger.
SHOWCASE i think what you want to do is you're.
Scheduling this is hard to do because you schedule way way out and if you can avoid doing, that, Great can we stop?
Speaker 2That by the, way stop scheduling in twenty thirty, five it would make sense ten years.
Speaker 1Out it would make sense to.
Me anytime any games scheduled out more than five, years it's not worth.
Reporting but because half the time that game is going to be canceled at this point, anyway what you ideally want to do is you want to schedule sort of to your.
Level you want TO i think A mac ONE mac ONE fcs is, fine Two mac is, fine whatever it, is but you need to play a powerful conference in that other, game and you want it to be relative to your.
Expectations as you get, better that team should be.
Better you should be trying to create showcase games that make sense for you in that Realm.
Speaker 2Jay, riemenschneider what's the worst game plan urban And Ohio state VERSUS msu in twenty fifteen Or Ryan day In Ohio state Versus michigan last?
Year all things, considered both should have been at least fourteen point wins By Ohio.
Speaker 1State this is a great question From, jay really really good.
QUESTION i would say the worst game plan was last year The Ryan dave Or Ohio state Versus.
Michigan michigan had no quarterback And Ohio state was a team that was capable winning the national, title like they weren't the twenty fifteen that was a Great Ohio state, team and that was a horrible game.
Plan the only thing that's In Ohio state's defense in twenty, fifteen and there's not much because they didn't Run Ezekiel elliott as much as they need to they didn't Is Michigan state hit them with the surprise backup quarterback plan that they weren't ready, for and it happened just As Michigan state's offensive, line which had been banged up like weeks.
Earlier that offensive line was like playing on one leg And Connor cook got knocked down nine times and carried them in a lot of ways to that win Over rutgers on the road was like twenty four to, seventeen and that, game the line was.
Elite For Michigan, state it got healthy at the right.
Time they played a style of, play shortened the game they had.
It just a lot of things went wrong For Ohio.
State still no, excuse but to, me what happened Against michigan is one of the JUST i, mean you had to go on to win a national.
Title otherwise it's again you're, winning like going like forty five and two in a few, years forty five and.
Three like you don't want to say fireable, offense but if You're Ohio state and you can't Beat michigan and then you're also not winning the national, title you have to have a conversation with your, coach like what is the mental hang up?
Here Because Ohio state had so many, Advantages michigan did not have a quarterback and that should not.
HAPPEN i, mean we've seen.
It we Saw Michigan state in twenty, eighteen Play Ohio state And michigan back to back When lawerki was playing with like one arm in those games were like seven seven and seven six late in the third.
Quarter you have great defenses and all, that but's still no excuse which aren't From.
Speaker 2Lawerki jay was In ishpemine area this past, Weekend graham AND i saw a guy who looked to be in his early, twenties and he looked a lot like.
You so are you one hundred percent sure you didn't sire a child and one of your rustic in the Wild market?
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Couldn't this person would have had to move to get, there which is, possible and you had to.
Speaker 2Bang them to have a, kid like you know WHAT i, Mean like you're telling me you just that you've had that much sex where you just there could be a kid out, There Like i'm pretty sure you know every time you could probably like.
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OFF i mean the times you had, Sex, well let me ask you this you have had situations where you had people show up at your house AND i had wine.
DOCUMENT i had one.
Situation, yeah, YEAH i wasn't surprised at that.
MOMENT i was told beforehand that person would show up with that document to.
Sign, okay as the child had been alive for a couple of years prior to.
Speaker 2That, okay SO i knew knew about the.
CHILD i KNEW i was in the Running Maury povich.
STYLE i was just given the offer to sign off on it because there was a new guy in town and he wanted to be a.
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Speaker 2Jackson when we think about all of the challenges m as you faced last year At Boston COLLEGE o line, Injuries No marsh and a couple of other wide outs, injured a defense that was clearly inferior to what we have, Today why isn't everyone more positive about BEATING?
Bc do you agree that just about the only.
Position that is MSU's twenty twenty five team is worse than last season's team is at place kicker and From, Thomas AM i crazy for not FEARING.
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Team don't see what there is to worry about this is this could be the.
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Speaker 1Were you don't know if where teams and programs grow from in terms of seasoning and how much better they could get.
Get Like i'm Picking Michigan state for partly for this.
Reason LIKE i Think michigan's they a year ago was the better team the data we have a year, ago they were the better team other than the.
Turnovers and WHAT i am trusting sort of tentatively is That Aiden childs and this team will not turn the ball over to that, extent and That nick marsh is, playing which he didn't play last, year doesn't Mean Boston college is in a little bit, better But Michigan state to the home they should win this.
Speaker 2Game David, Jackson so is bat gonna Hammer Central michigan or will he release his statement that says we don't care if our cordial neighbor From Mount pleasant screws us over and they cheat to Give michigan an edge OVER.
Msu those are the only two possible choices that exist for.
Speaker 1HIM i would hold out on this card UNTIL i see how the concessions.
Go IF i Were Jay, Batt, oh you, know if things aren't going well and you need a, distraction you, know this is What trump would, do, Right you just you just, Hammer like it's like the you, know just Hammer Central.
Michigan is that an alien could have SWEAR i saw A ufo.
Yesterday that would be my, Play.
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Express do you?
Go and?
Bonus who do you share a bed?
With and WHY.
Speaker 1I don't?
Go Because i'm going as A i'm going as a fan next year my, Buddy.
Scott i've been saving for this and SO i want that.
EXPERIENCE i don't want to Be let's SAY i don't want to be, working you, know let's say you didn't have that relationship with a, Buddy, okay and then we're.
Going so who AM i aside from all?
That but, anyway, yeah you were doing this.
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Low i'm sharing a.
Room it Is.
Lows ACTUALLY i would share a room With.
LOWS i just, think just you better stay up at.
NIGHT i just don't.
UNDERSTAND i would try and talk about where you're coming.
From, yeah BUT i.
Speaker 2WOULD i, think just you mind if we have a chat based on my dinner experience At, LOSS i Think i'd have a be a good.
Roommate, Whatever Chris, eastlick should we just get rid of neutral site?
Games half of them don't make sense on LOCATION ksu And Iowa state and the atmosphere could not be more.
UNDERWHELMING, Lsu clemson And TEXAS osu on campus should be the only illus you.
Speaker 1Need i'm glad people are going away from.
IT i don't mind them With.
EAST i don't mind The ireland game in week zero a little, bit just because it's it's in.
It, YEAH i guess the whole.
Bit, yeah it worked with but why is like THE nfl is playing In, Brazil, like, fuck get out of.
Here, yah that's.
Dumb what are we doing that?
For?
Yeah, no the on campus stuff is just way, Better And i'm glad people have moved away from The Jerry World openers and all that.
Stuff play them on.
Campus people do see the campus thing like the rest of the.
Season so is it really bad sometimes to do like a one?
Off i'm just being grumpy, old BUT i think if you do the one, OFF i actually like What Michigan state's doing at the end of the year when it's colder than dirt and you're Playing maryland and it's played At Ford field or it's, cozy you, know instead of playing your biggest, game taking your biggest game, Away like if if The Penn state, Game Michigan state had The Penn state, game which is their best opponent this, year probably if that Game november fifteenth was taking off, campus that.
Sucks that's that's that's that's the best ticket you.
Got, OH i guess people Think michigan ticket's probably the best, ticket but that's the biggest the best, opponent probably.
Speaker 2Have Chris, graham why are your national colleagues so persistent to prove that see college football isn't ruined by nil and the.
Portal then they try to make the point by using attendance of top ten matchups trying asking fan bases in the Mac Sun belt Or Mountain west how they.
Speaker 1Feel, yeah you got to not.
Go And i'm starting to get a little more aggressive with this.
Online oh, no you gotta stop listening To national to do, that because they you, KNOW i Love Dan, Wetzel but when these guys who pick and choose the big games they go to and the big things they, watch and they think college football is, great that's, fine that's.
Fine he works FOR, espn, Though, Yeah but ultimately there aren't enough.
Fans most people aren't at the beheming, programs and college basketball is a greater example of.
This and it's not that these teams ever had a chance to win it.
All but if you kill the dream and it used to be that that, existed it used to be you could see how you could become A, bois you could see how you've Become Western michigan in twenty.
Sixteen when that's no longer the when that's no longer a, possibility you will lose eyeballs over time when you when kids stop relating, to you, know the, program they stop feeling connected to the football, team when people stop knowing who the players, are will the kids who are twenty, today feel like the kids who are twenty twenty years ago are out in their.
Forties and when they do they come, back are they the alumni or is?
PASSIONATE i don't.
KNOW i think that's a real danger and national media people do not have the pulse of.
This they.
Don't you just got to stop listening to.
Them they're fighting for relevance every day of their.
Lives Bulky.
Speaker 2Bartacamus, next we'd like to have fun dumping on how Weird harbaugh.
Is can we be honest and all acknowledged that Coach Jonathan smith is also a little, weird kind of stiff and, awkward seemingly incapable of expressing strong, emotion not saying it's.
Bad come, on, man he's a.
Speaker 1Lot, well, yeah but there's nothing wrong with being.
WEIRD i know how hard it is to be cool to have.
Swag it is fucking.
Speaker 2Hard, Well i'm just saying to be a head coach and if to have a person analogy like not Everybody's Brian kelly And, dabbo.
Speaker 1Are you thinking back to your high school years right?
NOW i.
Speaker 2Was i've never been.
Cool, ever this show has made me like maybe a minuscule little piece of.
Speaker 1Cool but other than, that, no, no, yeah it's.
Speaker 2But i'm just saying, that you, know to cut these guys some slack and to have to do all the, Speeches that's Why Dan campbell is so.
Great his speeches are, Insane like to have to do those game in game, out, well he has.
Speaker 1It Dan campbell Has that's WHAT i.
Speaker 2Mean BUT i think you can be a good head coach and not have to be this boisterous you.
Speaker 1Know, Well and my issue is never That harbaugh is.
Weird my issue With harbaugh is that he looks through people a little bit and he's just sort of.
DISMANTED i have my issues With harbaugh not new.
WEIRDNESS i like lots of weird.
People i'm.
WEIRD i mean there's no Question i'm.
WEIRD i mean there's a question later on coming out Whether i'm more weird this week Than Elon.
MUSK i, mean so like not at.
All, yeah, yeah you're way.
Speaker 2Weirder Captain, Spark why did you ruin the question SO i have to read it?
Still Captain, Spardi why why is our fan so soft and?
Fragile we looked ten times better than we did last.
Year every position group has improved some by a.
Lot our fan base is acting like we had to pull away in the fourth Against New.
Speaker 1Mexico oh, wait, well it's a battered it's a battered, group you.
Know and UH i love the dig People.
Michigan but, No i'm just, No i'm not even laughing at.
Speaker 2That i'm laughing At Captain, Sparti, like what do you mean you didn't see the second fucking, Half like that's all you had to.
See the offense was just non.
Speaker 1Existing in the last few.
Years it's just hard to trust for, people, Right it's.
HARD i would also be nineteen points last year they scored per.
GAME i would be careful The michigan digs.
Too that more season.
Program, yeah but yeah, Yeah sparty man.
Speaker 2Couch The mony tailgate wasn't a, success as you said it was in the last Show What.
Wire it was For Athletic department pass holders.
Only this isn't back to the glory days when anyone could line up and park.
There this was for the second tier of elites AT, msu not the COMMON msu.
Speaker 1FAN i think it's more accessible to the common issue.
Fan it's.
Not you're, right it has a you can e leap.
Past you can't just pull up, there, Right you do have to pay to go?
In why can't we do that?
Speaker 2Again let's pull, up, Man let's pull up and just have fun, again, right ce dubs ninety.
One why did the tailgate parking costs?
Increase and if they are going to charge more for, parking they at least pay their employees.
More all, Right Jay, Bat we got to get them on the show Next.
Wednesday this is, YEAH i didn't know, this this.
Happened couch is lying to, people and we need to get the facts out.
Speaker 1There he, Say oh, mon it's great if you do have serious issues, though and there have been people who, have you, know reach, it truly reach, out because even IF i don't do, Something i'll bring it up in a news meeting and sometimes stories get.
Done and, like because you, Know i'm never going to know about a tailgating issue unless it's brought to my.
Attention it's JUST i, MEAN i park and we pay for.
It we.
Don't they don't just give us a, spot but we pay for.
It but it's LIKE i don't.
TAILGATE i just show up there and park and go, In SO i don't.
Know it'd be awesome if he.
Did IF i tail, gating, yeah, yeah claim you're not a, fan but you tailgate before you have to go.
Right the new world OF na, beers non alcoholic beers that are really readily.
Speaker 2Available, yeah CRUSHING Na so people walk, BY i, THINK i see you crushing AN na, beer thinking you're getting.
Speaker 1RID i am more likely to tailgate than than ever before BECAUSE i like.
IT i beers AND i you, KNOW i.
CAN i had to.
Speaker 2Quit BECAUSE i had to quit drinking BECAUSE i was gonna.
Die like you can still.
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Speaker 1GAME i GOT i got.
It, yeah what's that of?
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Do start firing lose monorees stories.
Out it's possible if you had a cop to Buzz now there's a real Pretty IF i knew you were you were hammering six beers before a, GAME i would.
READ i would pay.
Nineteen if that's how you go on to get my nineteen ninety nine a, Month i'll bring that couch getting.
Speaker 1Buzzed i'll bring that up to.
Corporate maybe that'll.
Work serious can't be any worse than some of the other ideas.
Sedubs have you asked security At Spartan stadium about bringing a portable treadmill and standing desk desk to games with stories and takes me.
BETTER i would enjoy.
That, Yeah i'm wasting time.
DOWN i don't like.
Speaker 2That six beers a.
Treadmill you know you can walk it.
Off pop a little.
Buzz dinospimoni IS msu, payers, coaches, fans, players, Players, sorry miss.
THAT i thought that it was THE r not THE.
L.
Yeah IS msu, players, coaches and fans referring To michigan as the team down the road a relatively new.
THING i feel LIKE i just started hearing it POST.
Speaker 1COVID i mean there was D'Antonio didn't call them by their.
NAME i don't know what he called.
THEM i can't remember who was the.
Team it's not new calling them this or it's it's it's it's it's been.
Something it's been something as long As i've been covering the, Team SO i don't know where it started or what, this but it's not, New.
Speaker 2Dino the other, Week graham discussed his side effect FROM, covid which was.
Pizza what's the best pizza joint In lanston?
Area someone not from the area doesn't know about.
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Okay there are a couple of places THAT i would.
Recommend there's a local place Called.
Sleepwalker sleepwalker or it's a uh and it's like a brew pub.
Too they make their own.
Beer but they do phenomenal.
Pizza they even have this pickle pizza that you wouldn't think you'd.
Love the had that's so.
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Do don't know from, there But i've had.
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TOWN i also Think corey's is underrated now that, uh what's the place that went Under?
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It people will write in about how like the?
Game what do you think of?
THIS i don't?
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Speaker 2Pizza four Segments scot you WILL msu outscore its FIRST fbs opponent in the second half of a.
Game during The Jonathan smith, era what is the team doing to get better as the game goes on and finished strong in the second?
Half and From izzo For, president why are we so bad in the second half?
Lately, scheme, personnel not making adjustments to whatever our opponent did at, halftime fatigue conditioning not Just smith mel had the same.
Issues and from send to, help have you seen any evidence yet that THIS msu staff can scheme and call plays based on personnel and.
Matchup lack of adaption has been frustrating so far in this.
Speaker 1TENURE i was talking to a salary about, this, yes sir this week On Spartan, speak BECAUSE i think one other thing that's hard to, know because they've been a talent deficit and a real depth deficit late and that's where you wear, down, right when you don't have, depth you don't have.
Talent that is also something that really shows up in the second half of games late in, seasons and so it has not been.
Promising they have not been good late in.
Games they have not been the better team making adjustments very.
Often they have not outscored, People they've barely scored it all in a lot of the second.
Half so the question now is and then the week one of this they weren't very.
Good so the question now becomes now that there is a little more.
Depth now they HAVE i think better playmakers on, offense a little bit better offensive line running the.
BALL i think their defense is a little bit better now that all these things are a little more, Seasoned like what does that look?
Like and this is a game where you know you're gonna have to win some of the second half, adjustments you're gonna have to you might have to be better in the second half to actually win the.
Game SO i think the jury is still.
OUT i but there are reasons it hasn't looked good beyond perhaps just the, coaching but there are arguments that they've been out coached in terms of adjustments in the second, half for.
SURE i mean that The michigan game last year is a, prime prime example of.
Speaker 2That Max next Is Aiden childs shouldering too much of the blame for The Boston college loss last.
Season Nathan carter dropped a touchdown pass and the fourth quarter last year that would have put The spartans up twenty three to.
Speaker 1Sixteen, yeah they made a lot Of they had a lot of, issues and he And foster weren't on the same.
Page and part of that was was running the go routes that would have Been Nick marsh and the speed was, different and you know all that.
Stuff AND i Think childs was trying to do a lot with and it is.
Possible he did have three interceptions, though and and you know one really cossy one early in the second.
Half you throw three interceptions as a, QUARTERBACK i don't mind, Interceptions LIKE i think interceptions are part of taking some chances you don't.
Want people are too risk, adverse you, know but like if you get up to three on the, road, like you're not gonna win football.
Games so he deserves a fair.
Share it was.
Speaker 2More of the, fumbles, right like people are frustrated with those last.
Speaker 1Year you, mean, yeah, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 2Max who gives a f about concession?
Lines we would rather spend our money on a great?
Tailgate, yeah you, know hold it is WHAT i would, say sneak stuff.
In YEAH i did, Here Sorry, jay until you guys get that shit, RECTIFIED i would be sneaking stuff.
Speaker 1IN i did hear from quite a few people BECAUSE i had the take that, well you, know you get like WHAT i used to do is go like in the last minute of the first, half get down there, early get done with the, bathroom use the trough that everybody and then that idea and, no and everybody, said you, know that just doesn't.
Work you, know somebody, said we still did that and we still missed the first six minutes of the second.
Half like that shouldn't be the.
Case if that's the, case then then you got to read vamp everything you're doing down, there because you you ought to be able to leave right at the beginning of the second half or halftime and do two.
Things you ought to be able to do the bathroom and get something out of the concessions and get up in twenty.
Minutes that ought to be a twenty minute.
Project and that needs to be the.
Goal make that experience twenty.
Minutes it's got.
Speaker 2You where Does Luka vincic fit into the lineman?
Rotation was he a starter at right guard or left guard before the.
Speaker 1INJURY i don't, know AND i don't think they've.
Said they've said he's part of the, rotation AND i think he's think he's going to play this, Week so that'll be interesting to see what they, do because they do they do want to whittle things.
Down but Then i've also heard that he is definitely in.
It so, look that's more quality and depth and they're good.
There that all the, Better BUT i don't know exactly where they're going to use him or how they're going to rotate him.
Speaker 2In Austin wolf.
Next does the team that rushes for the most yards win the?
Game and how much will the rotation be tightened up on o?
Line i'd Say.
Speaker 1Michigan state doesn't lead the game in, rushing they're probably gonna lose given that that t seems to be a weakness Of Boston college and, so AND i don't know how much it's gonna be tightened up this.
WEEK i think it will be a little.
Bit BUT i think For Michigan state to, win they've got to win the rushing.
Speaker 2Battle Corey, Ostrom, jason will you please tell me that betting college football will go better for me this?
WEEK i took a bath last.
Week what games are you betting this?
Week, Well, Corey i'm Gonna i'm not gonna lie to.
You maybe you might want to take this week off as, well because there's, like it's not a great couch, said it's not a great.
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HALF i Want Michigan state to prove me Wrong Old miss Versus.
Baylor what was the other?
ONE i do Like michigan getting the.
FIVE i know you probably don't want to bet, that but, yeah those, yeah three games THAT i.
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Doesn't you, know you're just sort of expressing it without Being you're teaching your young one not to do something, That like you can never get that thirty seconds.
Back, yeah but you, can you.
Know, yeah you don't want anything that's going to send it to jail for seventy two.
Days Mojo.
Speaker 2Jojo does The belichick blow out drive him back to THE nfl to go For shula's record or is he?
Cooked side note what an incredible hard knocks askue doc this would?
Be and From Scotty Green's El, camino who looks more disinterested in what they are.
Doing saban on game day Or belichick Coaching North.
Speaker 1CAROLINA i Think saban is sort of getting those, ropes and it's weird to.
See it's uh watching McAfee with his cut off.
Shirt, yeah it's The belichick looks he just hates life, Period like all the.
Time he looks like he's aged even more in the last, year more than have you ever dated a twenty four year?
Old, well it was twenty seven.
Speaker 2Exactly you imagine doing it when you're seventy?
Two, yeah holy, shit what do you talk?
About do you see the balloons that his press are?
Speaker 1Weird?
Oh my child's birthday that Had Jordan hudson all over?
That, Right, Hey, Jordan jordan.
Speaker 4Not talking about?
This, no, no.
Speaker 2Right Scotty green's El Camino.
Rube who's?
Weirder couch Or Elon coucher ruined this already and it's.
Couch that's What i'm.
Not you're weirder Than.
Musk i'm not weird of.
Them you did, Too you'd said it nine questions.
Ago you just threw it in there now it's not worth it.
Speaker 1Now But i'm not weirder Than.
Musk i'm a Weird you're.
WEIRDER i, mean no one gets away because he's so.
Speaker 2Smart you can't stop that brain like you have no excuse from some of your weird.
Speaker 1Shit this man is trying to like sire children with like thirty seven different women a.
Month you, know he's a weird.
Dude he's a weird.
Dude that is.
Speaker 2Weird it's still not weirder than you Original Dark.
Graham have you ever been arrested and went through the whole?
Shebang putting, cuffs back of the police, car, fingerprinted putting a cell, all all of.
It don't recall you ever telling a story of an.
Speaker 1Occurrence unlike The rube, here if that were to happen to, me it would not take to like episode one thousand for me to tell that.
Story we're telling presented By Midtown Brewing.
Company that's WHAT i used to.
Speaker 2Say oh, YEAH i had the whole shebang.
Happened, yeah now, mom can you come pick me?
Speaker 1Up the CLOSEST i CAME i when it was twenty SIX i got pulled over In buffalo for what should have been it could have been a.
Dui and this is before you.
Know i'm using like map quest directions to try and find my way back to the hotel And.
Thedweiser on the other, hand the LUCKILY i HAD i had had a bit to drink, earlier but it had what they call a garbage plate in Upstate New york and hung out with my, cousin who was you, know like twenty one at the, time going to The university Of.
Buffalo and, ANYWAY i WHEN i had to blow on the, THING i fucked with it LIKE i blew like it.
Was it was not like they couldn't get a.
Reading and then the other thing that helped me IS i have Like Barry sanders.
Balance so even when they got out of the, CAR i was great and they let me.
Go SO i was on THE i was.
On so that's your trick for getting out of A.
DUI i didn't know WHAT i was gonna.
DO i was on the.
Job, TECHNICALLY i was up covering A Western Michigan buffalo.
Game it would not have, gone, well.
Speaker 2Should you be admitting?
This what's going on?
Here we'll fix this some posts statute limitations hoping so H T bone's dad who was more likely to be first fired, First belichick or De?
Boor and how much Does bill's crazy Boo Jordan hudson impact the?
Speaker 4Line not talking about.
Speaker 1Fired it would Be.
DEBOR i don't think he'll be fired during the, Season BUT I belichick walk, AWAY i would pick, over you know WHAT i, Mean, like who wasn't There belichick walking?
AWAY i could see, Happening like if it gets, bad bad, Bad but they're not gonna fire them At North carolina during the.
SEASON i don't think it.
Speaker 2Would be one of those Mutual, Yeah bill's decided to spend time with his Face emily and bullshit Lie Matty.
Bee can we Say kaylin de bor is?
Overrated he's twenty one and eleven at THE d one level Without Michael.
Pennix he's lost four games against unrank components already At, alabama he points overrated does not mean, bad but he's not a top ten.
Speaker 1Coach, well the question Is kenny recruit and developed culture over.
Time he has not been places all that long at the top.
Level if you gave him a do, over does he Leave, NO i mean you could still Leave.
Washington does he Pick?
Alabama?
NO i mean following in the footsteps Of.
Saban and you, know one of the things that's interesting Is saban was already talking about one of the reasons he wanted out is his players were, changing the culture was, changing guys were coming in after bowl game losses and asking about.
Money so he wasn't taking over exactly What saban left.
Either he was taking over a changing, program AND i think that's, tough and maybe he's not built for.
THAT i don't know if he would have been great continuing it At.
WASHINGTON i would not have Left.
Washington washington beautiful, campus beautiful.
Stadium living in The Pacific northwest ain't.
Bad do you love The?
South though?
Not destro wouldn't go To alabama for Any i'd need like a person traveling air conditioner walking around me at all, Time Matty.
Speaker 2Bee If couch could only defend the honor of one of the following choices the rest of his, life who would it?
Be Matt, Painter Alan, Haller Jay, johnson And Doug wojick or his.
Speaker 1Wife Or doug wojich wife or my?
Wife oh, YEAH i would defend the honor of my.
Wife that would Be that would be?
It one of the Following why would you?
Not you would you not?
Defend will?
You you picked?
Therees over who?
Over?
Anybody defend?
Her?
Yeah over?
Who Over Matt, Painter Alan, HALLER J?
Johnson, yeah, yeah, Right, okay, Yeah, yeah that's.
It that's for.
Speaker 2You that's a question for, you right, WELL i mean make it towards me AND i don't, know, okay would it?
Be, yeah it doesn't defend me Very Carmen.
Electra i'm Defending Carmen electra too and my wife both.
Speaker 1Together you know WHAT i?
Speaker 2Mean?
Speaker 1That good luck tonight.
Man, yeah, Thanks steve with a?
Speaker 2Coke can you tell us more about these ads calling for a change to The Sports Broadcasting act of nineteen sixty.
One that's the show that's coming up next.
Her, yeah That's.
Ebbling, yeah it's actually changed the name of his show To Sports Broadcasting act of nineteen sixty one With Jack.
Speaker 1EBLING i don't know what this, is But jack will answer your.
Question please tell me.
More, No, steve.
Speaker 2Appreciate your soccer, Enthusiasm.
Speaker 1Glad goohy stay really that's the.
Speaker 2Question after that stayed With palace as.
Well do you think that The Premier league would be better without Var vares decision Against fulham was?
Speaker 1ATROCIOUS i do.
NOT i just don't understand why it messes.
Up this is the replay for people don't know it and there shouldn't be situations where var can correct LIKE i, Mean Aston.
Villa if it wasn't If var should have been able to help them be in Champions.
Legue they had a ruling go against them last year that's affected their whole summer and the vibes there and.
Everything but, no you need it because otherwise guys would flop to no.
Degree you'd get dumb handball calls and a sport where one or two goals decides a.
Game you Need Var Jake.
Speaker 2Hawkins some people are saying not Only saturday night's game is a must, win but also IF msu, loses Coach smith will lose most of the fan, base so he might as well pack up and go back to The West.
Speaker 1Coast thoughts he'll lose him.
Temporarily now he can get them back by winning AT.
Usc but, yeah the next week would be would be it'd be a rough couple of.
Weeks the vibe would not be the vibe would not be great if they lose this, game it just won't.
Be and because they need they you, know not Since iowa has there been a real promising.
Moment then you get the first half and there's a little bit of, that but then you get the second half of The Western michigan, game so like they need, this they need this.
Speaker 2Badly next one from The.
Hawk do you Think Jordan.
Hudson Jordan hudson had any say In North carolina's game and that's Why monday's game fizzled out out of control For Bill belichick to allow forty eight.
Speaker 1Points she went with the prevent.
Defense she's, LIKE i THINK i got.
Something, hey CAN i call it?
Play?
Yeah, yeah The.
Speaker 2Hawk what do you think of the recent news that THE La clippers Owner Steve balmer set up a no show job to Pay Kawhi.
Leonard this is.
Speaker 1Fascinating this Is Pablo torre's, reporting and it'll be interesting to see where this goes because this.
Happened the closest thing to this happening was The Minnesota timberwolves With Joe smith and it was what five first round draft?
Picks oh my.
God, Yeah, so like the penalty of this is true will be severe AND i.
DON'T i.
DON'T i, Mean i'm surprised it doesn't happen more.
Often IF i were an, OWNER i would circumvent the star cap all the time to pay.
Speaker 2Guys balmer has too much, Money like someone's gonna go down for it Not, Balmer yeah, right he just he just created that new stadium like it's gonna be interesting because this is the.
Speaker 1Subsquent whatever the problem, is this is in the collective barning.
Agreement that's what they've been doing.
This and have they made the jokes About kawhi not no show and getting paid?
Figure that was On?
Speaker 2Twitter Uh and finally from The hawk now that THE Nfl Red zone will have full on, commercials which is such.
Bullshit oh, caps are you more likely not to watch it?
Speaker 1Again what are you gonna do with the Red?
Speaker 2ZONE i am, watching.
Dude, listen they have.
Me if you guys want to, PROTEST i want to get behind.
IT i just don't HAVE i, CANNOT i do not have the willpower to not watch.
Football So i'm.
Out i'm not your.
Guy you need.
Right i'm an old.
Soldier leave me.
Alone i'm gonna.
Speaker 1Die come stand with me watching you guys go fight this fucking battle Because i'm behind.
You you're gonna have my.
Support i'm just gonna be sitting there watching the commercials on.
Speaker 2Red zone like an.
Asshole i'm with.
You it's it's it was the last.
Thing WHEN i heard the, NEWS i was really like bummed out BECAUSE i was, like we had one thing left that they couldn't squeeze the tit out.
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