Josh Allen’s MVP Performance, Michigan’s Loss & Full CFB/NFL Recap | Bussin’ x Greg Olsen

Summary

Bussin' With The Boys – Episode Summary

Episode: Josh Allen’s MVP Performance, Michigan’s Loss & Full CFB/NFL Recap | Bussin’ x Greg Olsen
Date: September 8, 2025
Hosts: Will Compton & Taylor Lewan
Guest: Greg Olsen

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Episode Overview

This special Monday episode marks the start of a new weekly format: college football and NFL recaps, every Monday afternoon during the season. Will, Taylor, and crew break down a wild football weekend, covering everything from Nebraska's huge win to heartbreaks for Michigan and deep-dive NFL analysis—plus, a recurring segment with Greg Olsen giving updates on his youth football coaching and candid NFL takes. The tone is energetic, irreverent, and deeply immersed in player and fan perspectives.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. New Episode Schedule, Format, and Greg Olsen's Weekly Segment

• Monday will feature a dedicated football recap ("football talk and reactions"), dropped early for in-season freshness [03:00].
• Greg Olsen, after positive reception in the summer, joins as a regular for Monday recaps and youth football updates [04:00].
• The show will keep tabs on Greg's 8th-grade Charlotte Christian Knights team, with playful rivalry talk and plans to invite assistant coaches if losses occur [04:10, 61:00].

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2. College Football Deep Dive

Nebraska’s Dominance vs. Akron

• Nebraska demolishes Akron 68–0. Will is joyous but admits "we played a Montessori school" (05:00), emphasizing execution over opponent quality.
• Highlights:
  • No punts, 31 first downs, 700+ yards of offense [05:44].
  • Dylan Raiola: 364 yards, 4 TDs [07:00].
  • Emmett Johnson is a "dog"—“it takes more than one guy to take him down” – A (07:40).
  • “You want to see execution...Offensively, you want to score every drive. We had 31 first downs...” – B (06:04).
  • The tone is joking, self-aware, but genuinely optimistic about Nebraska's future.

Arch Manning’s Shoulder Injury

• Arch playing hurt, showing “grimacing” and “wincing” on throws, stat sheet looks good but concern is growing [09:34].
• “His face…there’s no joy in that…You could tell something's up with that poor bastard, I feel bad…” – A (10:00).

South Carolina’s Struggles and Night Game Hopes

• South Carolina labors past SC State amid late rain delay and O-line worries [10:41].
• “Delays suck. Period.” – B (11:16).
• The hosts debate whether the staff can scheme around a weak OL, with optimism for Sellers (QB) in night games [12:09-12:49].

Iowa’s Identity and Perennial Ceiling

• Iowa gets praise for defensive consistency but roasted for lack of passing game [16:08].
• “It’s where quarterbacks go to die, bro.” – B (16:43).
• “How do you create the forward pass in Iowa?” – A (16:22).
• Relaxed banter establishes Nebraska-Iowa as a lopsided but emotionally charged matchup.

Michigan’s Loss to Oklahoma (The "Bussin Bowl" on Horizon)

• Michigan’s game plan vs. Oklahoma criticized as too conservative, “vanilla,” and designed “not to get embarrassed” [18:03, 20:46].
• Bryce Underwood’s struggles (8/21, 142 yards, -1 rushing) partly blamed on staff [19:38].
• “If I'm trying to do my job as a media journalist ... that's the feel I get from Iowa. Iowa's never going to...feel like they're going to win the national title.” – B (17:11).
• "I kind of loved it ... this kid’s 18 years old ... he didn’t seem overwhelmed ... but you’re gonna get your ass beat with that kind of game plan." – A on Underwood’s sideline fire (22:04).
• Cautious optimism lingers for Michigan, but Will notes: "Heart rate’s a little more elevated than last week" (23:59).
• Early betting lines: Michigan would be -3.5 vs. Nebraska at neutral venue (FanDuel line) [23:59].

Other CFB Storylines

• Arizona State’s loss to Mississippi State draws scheme criticism; “What is Arizona State doing?” – B (24:42).
• Florida upset by USF: Florida fans in open revolt, Billy Napier’s job “hanging by a thread.” [27:07].
• Florida State and Miami get shout-outs for positive momentum [28:26–28:42].
• Oregon's rout of Oklahoma State and Ohio State’s 70-burger: both teams “look good” [29:40, 30:21].
• Kansas State’s loss to Army = “full panic button” [30:54].
• Alabama and other bluebloods’ bounce backs receive quick check-ins [31:12].

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3. NFL Week 1 Recap

Tennessee Titans

• Jack delivers a rant about rookie QB Cam Ward’s solid debut but blasts OC Brian Callahan's play-calling [34:22].
• “Does Callahan know the rules of the NFL?” – C (35:21)
• Special teams and penalties nearly cost them, but kicker Joey Sly gets all the team's offensive points [36:34].

Eagles vs. Cowboys – A Clash That Dallas "Should Have Won"

• Dallas loses narrowly, despite outplaying Philly at times; multiple dropped balls by CeeDee Lamb discussed [39:07, 40:20].
• “CD Lamb ... dropping those balls is tough because he’s a superstar…” – B (40:36).
• Coaching praise: Schottenheimer’s play-calling and time management earn rare Cowboys respect [42:40].
• “Now, I do think the delay kind of threw off the momentum ... but Dallas played their asses off.” – B (39:43).
• Discussion of Dallas's new identity post-Micah Parsons and general NFC East power dynamic.

Other NFL Headlines

• Quick hits on Seahawks/49ers, Dolphins turmoil (McDaniel’s leadership in question), Colts optimism after Daniel Jones move, Bengals’ ugly win, and the Ravens’ meltdown versus Buffalo.
• Josh Allen’s “MVP performance” in comeback win over the Ravens is celebrated [88:34].
• “Did Josh Allen follow up an MVP season with like the greatest week one exclamation point of all time?” – C (89:02).

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4. Guest Segment – Greg Olsen

Youth Football Coaching

• Greg’s Charlotte Christian Knights are 2–0, heading into a bye [50:41].
• Greg goes deep on coaching ethos: “We start with us before we worry about them. That’s kind of our model.” [52:21].
• Stresses toughness, physicality, fundamentals over “big head” syndrome [52:58].
• Discusses opponent scouting, player recruitment (no active recruiting—“let our football do the talking”), and youth sports ethics [57:01–59:40].
• Commitment to accountability: “As the head coach, I gotta stand at the podium” [61:27].
• If the defense falters, Luke Kuechly (assistant) will be made “available to the media” for accountability [61:14]; playful “press conference” jokes ensue.

Coaching Philosophy on Discipline

• Critiques coaches making teams run wind sprints in public after losses: “I don’t love it. That’s not me. You can get your message across to your team ... you don’t have to do wind sprints after the game.” – C (62:00).

NFL Analysis

• Weighs in on Miami Hurricanes’ prospects against surging USF [65:59].
• On the Jalen Carter spitting incident: “I’m not fighting him!”—praises Eagles' internal culture and expects accountability in-house [67:57].
• 49ers: Encouraged by Trent Williams’ return and McCaffrey’s workload. Mild concern over depth and injuries [70:25].
• Brock Purdy: “That’s growth” weathering picks and producing clutch drive (72:29).

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• “We played a Montessori school, and I'm completely aware of that.” – Will, on Nebraska's dominant but cupcake opponent [05:00]
• “His stats look nice. I'm talking nice enough to potentially ... be in that Heisman conversation.” – B, hyping up Dylan Raiola (09:02)
• “It's where quarterbacks go to die, bro.” – Will, about Iowa [16:43]
• “Played that game not to get embarrassed—Dave Portnoy said that, and I agree.” – A, on Michigan's passive game plan vs Oklahoma (20:46)
• “Does Callahan know the rules of the NFL?” – C, Titans play-calling frustration (35:21)
• “CD Lamb ... dropping those balls is tough because he’s a superstar.” – B, on Dallas wideout (40:36)
• Greg Olsen: “We start with us before we worry about them. That's kind of like our model.” [52:21]
• On youth sports recruiting: “We’re not calling kids out of the blue...let our football do the talking.” – Olsen [57:01]
• On discipline: “I don’t love it [public sprints]. That’s not me ... you don’t have to do wind sprints after the game.” – Olsen [62:00]
• “Did Josh Allen follow up an MVP season with like the greatest week one exclamation point of all time?” – C (89:02)

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Notable Timestamps

• Nebraska-Akron recap: 04:55–08:08
• Arch Manning injury talk: 09:32–10:38
• South Carolina struggles: 10:41–12:49
• Iowa/Nebraska rivalry banter: 16:08–17:11
• Michigan/Oklahoma recap & "Bussin Bowl" anticipation: 18:03–23:59
• Arizona State loss confusion: 24:42–26:49
• Florida upset by USF: 27:07–28:07
• Greg Olsen guest segment (youth football, culture, discipline): 50:09–65:34
• Eagles/Cowboys full recap: 39:07–44:25
• Titans frustrations: 34:22–36:34
• NFL rapid fire analysis: 95:40–100:22
• Josh Allen MVP talk: 88:34–89:59

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Additional Notes

• Listeners are encouraged to join Monday recaps by submitting questions/comments with #teartalk.
• The "Bussin Bowl" between Nebraska and Michigan is hyped for September 19th.
• Multiple inside jokes and running gags about coaches' personalities, message boards, and "Montessori" opponents give the episode an inside-baseball, locker room energy.

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Closing Thoughts

For football fans who missed this episode:

• You’ll find a blend of locker-room honesty, banter, deep tactical breakdowns, and sharp comedic moments.
• In-depth analysis on both CFB and NFL, with genuine player perspectives and unfiltered critique.
• Greg Olsen’s weekly input adds coaching wisdom—at both the NFL and youth levels—plus a new recurring thread of youth football storytelling.
• The optimism for Nebraska, the skepticism for Michigan, the ongoing debate over NFL coaching cultures, and the love for spectacular players (Josh Allen, CeeDee Lamb, Derrick Henry) make this a comprehensive, engaging recap of a wild football weekend.

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Transcript

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A lot of great college football games, too.

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A lot of great college football games, too. Especially one in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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The Huskers.

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Huskers. Especially one down in Gainesville, Florida.

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Yeah. Another one that we'll talk about in Norman, Oklahoma. People probably wondering, what are the boys doing in front of my face on a Monday afternoon?

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Yeah.

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Because it is right now, as we record every week when we record our intros for the bus an episode. You're still getting the bus an interview Bus an episode tomorrow, Husker fans, you're going to love it. But we decided, the boys, the unit, the squad here, that, hey, we're reacting to football games. They usually don't drop till Tuesdays. Now that we're in football seasons, if we knock this out Monday mornings, is there a world where we can get the football talk and football reactions and recap out by Monday afternoon the earliest? So what we did is instead of doing like a two to three hour intro before the interview where we talk all games because we're watching college, we're watching NFL. We're now car carving that out and putting it on Monday afternoons. So every Monday afternoon, you're going to be getting busting with the boys. Our football recap, Greg Olson, since he came on the show in the summertime, there's been whispers, there's been conversations. Hey, will you join us to do our football weekend recap every Monday? And we will, because we want to follow your youth football team. Yeah, we want to follow that 8.

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The kids are most important.

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Yes.

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We got to see what Greg Olson's kids are. And there was rumors about. Other coaches have texted, other guys are busting with the boys, saying, I played a great against Greg Olson's son team. And my God, what a juggernaut they got over there.

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Yeah.

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So we're going to keep track of them all year long. With their season ends in October, we're going to keep track of them all the way until October.

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And I want to hear from the coordinators, too. Like to me, this is not like Luke Kikley. If they have a bad defensive performance, I need Luke Kikley to be zoomed in talking about the bad defense.

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He needs to have a conversation. Get those salt packets and the salt and pepper, those little things they do at the little coffee table. They need to dial that whole entire thing. But big, big weekend for football. I only best for bustling with the Boys, we start quick, we start hard, we start fast. Just like the Nebraska Corn Oscars. Will Compton, how do you feel beating Akron 68 0?

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Look, we played a Montessori school, and I'm completely aware of that. But what I personally loved. Loved to see is we didn't punt the ball one time. When you go out there against possibly.

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The best punter in all of college football.

[B]

Right. And his. His family apparently traveled all the way from Australia to watch him, and he didn't even get to showcase that leg a little bit that game.

[A]

I know. Yeah. They gotta be staying for a few weeks, though, right? Bus gotta stay for the next game. I think they are in town for like the first three games. Correct. That's crazy. For the biggest game of the year.

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That would be great. Hopefully it just wasn't a weekend trip from Australia.

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I hope so. Yeah. 18 hours to go. Watch your son stand on the sidelines.

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Yeah, he got. He got a pop, too. When his name got introduced pregame, he got a pop from the crowd.

[A]

And I also love the fact that punters are getting introduced at a game. Bring that back. Normalize that.

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Yeah, normalize that. And now a great call, G. We got to get his family. If they're in town, we got to give them to the live show on September 19.

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Bring them out there.

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The Rococo Theater again. Bus and bowl is coming. Nebraska Vers, Michigan in Lincoln, Nebraska. September 19th is a Friday, and we are doing a live show at the Rococo Theater in Lincoln. Go to BWTB.com to secure your slot. I don't know where tickets are. I know they're selling fast. We might be out. Who knows? I don't know. But it's going to be rocking. We're doing a tailgate the next morning, September 20th. We'll go ahead and get all that promo out of the way. The boys will be tailgating September 20th in the morning at. What's that location? It's like the. The Hay Market. Haymarket Park. We'll be at Haymarket park, tailgating our asses off before that game. But, yeah, dude, what I loved about the Huskers is, you know, as a staff and as a team, if you're playing a bad football team, a little small school from the Maxions coming in to play you guys, you want to see execution. Well, defensively, you want to see a goose egg on that scoreboard. Offensively, you want to. You want to score every drive. We had 31 first downs, 31 first downs. Over 700 yards of total offense. We didn't punt the ball one time. Emmett Johnson's run through people. Ten different receivers are catching the football. The backup quarterbacks getting touchdowns.

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Yeah.

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Dylan Rails throwing it for about What Dylan Throw.

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364 yards and four touchdowns.

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Will 364 yards in four touchdowns.

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And.

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And the offense put up a goose egg.

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Yeah.

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Or in the defense put up a goose egg.

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This is what I liked about that game. We. When we went to Kansas City and we watched them play against Cincinnati Bearcats. Sherman brought this up, and it was a great point. Nebraska Cornholster should have beat the Cincinnati Bearcats by two touchdowns. You walk around, it seems like a very conservative game plan, especially on the offensive side of the ball. Like, hey, let's do our best not to lose this game. You feel like buttholes were a little tight when we were in Kansas City from a Nebraska standpoint. They go in and this week, yes, it's Akron. Yes, it's the Monastery School, School of the deaf and the blind. But it's like, let's open Raiola up. Let's got it running back. Let's put our big uglies on the line of scrimmage and watch them move the line of scrimmage. And they did that every single drive. And that was something. If you're a Nebraska Corn Hustlers fan, you got to be very excited to be like, okay, this is the offense you're not going to expect, you know, 68 points every single game. But, you know, the guys have it. You know, they have the operation. You know, Raiola is the guy you hope you hoped he was going to be. This Emmett Johnson kid. I know he was good last year, but it takes more than one guy to take him down. And the black shirts obviously putting a goose egg on the. On the board as unbelievable. I love to see it.

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Yeah. The weeks after, the week after two, during all the pressers, it's like, when you come out of that cincy game, I wish you would have opened it up. They're saying Dylan executed that game plan to perfection.

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I love that. Holgerson, baby.

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Holgers Holgerson. You see him putting lips in in the middle of the game.

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Oh, yeah, yeah. But he's. He's a bro. He tells a bro.

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Did Dylan put up that tight end to proposing to his girlfriend similar to Travis Kelsey proposing to. I did see that. I did see that. Like, buddy. Yeah. Like, rail is trying to become right. Patrick Mahomes. Because you see the tight end, they get engaged. Travis Kelsey, you can't.

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Yeah. When you Saw Patrick Mahomes lower his shoulder on 23 for the Chargers. I think everybody in their mother thought Nebraska, he's gonna be running out of bounds and he's gonna lower the shoulder on somebody, he's gonna truck somebody, and it's just gonna be like, here we fucking go again.

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I tell you what, his stats look nice.

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His stats look.

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Nice. I'm talking nice enough to potentially in the near future be in that Heisman conversation. Not right now.

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Right?

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Not going to say that right now.

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Right.

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But. But numbers are there.

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Keep your eye on it.

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Keep your eye.

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Keep your eye on it.

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Keep your finger on that pulse.

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You want to be the guy that said Will Compton reported it first. That's what you want. Just like the guy who reported Arch Manning being hurt first was not the mainstream media. It was Jeremy Clump. Jeremy Clump. So what was it before week one? Right.

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No, right.

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Right at the start of week one.

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When he's warming up, I saw him moving his shoulder.

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Moving his shoulder popped over. A little text that, hey, watch out for Arch Manning shoulder. It seems like he's got a little something going on during the game against Ohio State. Holding the ball for a long time. A lot of those passes were dirty to seem a little bit inaccurate. His throwing mechanics seemed a little bit off. He goes in, he has a game. He does against, you know, another Montessori school. Four touchdowns. But, buddy, there's a video, and I hope we get it up on this Monday breakdown of him throwing a pass. And it's. You see his face? There's no joy in that. The wincing, the wincing, the grimacing, the grimacing in his face when he's throwing that football. You could tell something's up with that poor bastard. I feel bad for, for Archmanning right now.

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And it's a bad throw, too, which is more concerning.

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So the injury is impacting him throwing. Right. And if you're something to keep an eye on. Right. And if you, if you're taking the optimism approach, it's like, oh, Arch Manning really is a generational quarterback. He's just hurt right now. Yeah. That's the optimism approach you're going to take. How do we get him healthy? That's a whole nother thing. Now we get a little pessimistic, but optimism wise, it's like, oh, we would have beat Ohio State, but he was hurt. Yeah, that's that. That's the whole look on that.

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I have a. I have a question.

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Go ahead.

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For JP South Carolina Gamecocks. Yeah, talk to me about that game. I didn't watch it. It was a little close in the first half tour. I'm like, what's the deal? South Carolina State against South Carolina State 1. South Carolina State is a team that you want to grab guys from the portal from because they got a. A lot of like they always have this like one receiver that's 6, 4, 2, 25. They just have bad grades in high school. So he ends up there and he's a stud. But the old line play bad. And then the rain delay, I think. Not that you ever want to make an excuse, but the game started at like 9:30pm which is just a long day for anyone.

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Horrible conditions, guys are getting hurt.

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Left delays suck. Period, period. So then to start that late is like nothing good was ever going to happen. Except for Vicari Swain, the guy who returned a punt last. Last week returned to this week. But we got it. We got to clean up the O line. The O line is the number one issue. Are you concerned and worried about the O line because they had some free runners against Virginia Tech. You're talking about the O line left tackle South Carolina State. When they get into these big. I mean you got Vandy. You're hosting Vandy this weekend. Like are you concerned about where the offensive line is at? Definitely. But I think I would be more concerned with the offensive like play calling. Because if you have a battle line, there are ways to scheme around having a battle line and we have. You have a quarterback that you can scheme around it with. And that's been another frustration is like you're kind of.

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It seems like we're forcing Sellers a.

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Little bit to be a pocket passer when it's like he's Cam Newton type. So like we need to be kind of getting them outside moving around instead of like making a bunch of reads and all that stuff.

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So yeah, it's, it's.

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But I'm not worried about this game.

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Is a game this week in South Carolina.

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Yeah, yeah. It's gonna be a great game.

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And you've got a juggernaut coming at you because it. See, I mean Juggernaut was down.

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Yeah, Juggernaut's a little heavy.

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However, Vanderbilt was down 20 to 10 and they end up coming back and. And scoring by beating by multiple touchdowns like Pavia. The boys cade.

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This is gonna be gonna be an awesome game. I'm excited about this one. And you know, night game which plays into our favorite.

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It does because the Sandstorm playing South Carolina, those fans go so hard. We got to Witness it again.

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And we play. We do like fall to the level of our competition. We rise to the level of the competition. We're up and down team. So I think at night under the lights at Willie B. Sellers might have a little, little hot Heisman moment game.

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Anything to say to K?

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I texted K today.

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I says Kate McConnell Hate Week. But it's all love.

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But it's all love.

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But I hope, I hope Cade crushes it like I want. I told him, I said D the he's like, you know actually I won't say this but I told him it's gonna be a great game too for him to get tape out for like NFL stuff because teams watch Dylan Stewart every week and not that he's gonna be matched up on Dylan Stewart but.

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But guys will be watching and if.

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He can hold down. And they got that transfer D tackle though from Bama.

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Correct. Yeah.

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Who's a pretty good one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You hear that Cade facetimed in on Saturday after the game.

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Yeah, he faced in the locker room.

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After music was going crazy and the whole locker room just going nuts.

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We'. Stream. Well not. Yeah. When we were streaming that God forsaken game. Quick.

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Hey. But on the stream though, shout out everybody showing up to the stream. Yeah, everybody tuning in. We did our first Thursday night football stream. We will be streaming every Thursday night football game except for like one or two. It might be like during the holidays.

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Yeah. Christmas and Thanksgiving kick rocks and the.

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College ones will be spotty. I know there's, there's five to deliver. College ones will be spotty. So that won't be like every Saturday. But shout out everybody showing up and showing out for the bus and stream.

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It feels like the next one we're going to stream from college football is going to be Penn State, Oregon night game. Whiteout in Penn State. So that'll be that. I think that's the next stream that's kind of on the horizon. Just a quick blip. Just want to put this out there. Iowa State. If you watch the locker room with Josh pay I believe. Did you take Iowa State or Iowa?

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I took Iowa to cover.

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Okay. So I think you later in the week you won because they ended up going three and a half. Yeah, they ended up covering when we were talking about in the locker room. But Rocco backed boys. Rocco backed.

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Hey, what I say they're up to something. They go through.

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He said it. Reported first from Will Compton, Rocco Becket and Iowa State. They look kind of nice. Gronowski. Gronowski for Iowa with 124 yards and two and two games just in Iowa. Hey, defensive squad, baby.

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That to me is the biggest thing coming out of that game. Just the first couple weeks with Iowa again, you, Iowa, we laugh about it, but they posted this 5 yard out route where he's got, you know, throws a little dime on the five yard out and it's like, fellas, we have a quarterback or Iowa has a quarterback.

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Yeah, it looks like the passing game or something.

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And over two weeks now they have like nobody. Like they haven't played. Iowa State's a good football team, but for him to have statistically the lowest passing yards of any Big Ten quarterback of all time and for it to be at Iowa is, to me, that's the big thing. They're always going to be. I was just going to be Iowa, bro. Like, they're going to get you tough wins. They're going to win about 8 to 10 games depending on schedule. 7 to 10 games depending on schedule. But they're never going to be. There's never going to be optimism for a playoff run year at Iowa, at the Iwa guys, at Iowa, at Iowa, ever. You know what I'm saying? They just got that. They just got this feel that they're just never going to be that contending team. Yeah, like a contender in the Big Ten.

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No, they're always going to be a team that gets a couple in the Big Ten. They're going to every an off year in the Big Ten. They're going to sneak into that Big Ten championship, get dummy, get dummied by the superior team like Kirk France. He's been there for what, three decades.

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Three decades.

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Three decades. And it's like, give him the statue. Give them all the things. But it's like, buddy, how do you create the forward pass in Iowa? How do you create it? Because it just seems like no matter what you do, you could, you could go and get Garrett Nussmeier, take him over from lsu, bring him in Iowa and the kids all of a sudden can be a running quarterback.

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Yeah, they're. They're Cleveland. It's where quarterbacks go to die, bro.

[A]

It's where quarterbacks go to die. It's also where just beefy mullet ridden mustache have an offensive. All Big Ten offensive linemen go to have spicy careers.

[B]

Yeah. That Nebraska needs to get over which hump Iowa.

[A]

Yeah. But if you're a.

[B]

We got to handle our business, right? We absolutely got to beat Iowa's ass. We get set up here, talk all this crazy stuff about them.

[A]

But if I'm being, that's, that's the thing. That's what Iowa does.

[B]

If I'm trying to do my job as a media journalist and cover everybody unbiasedly, that's the feel I get from Iowa. I was never going to come out of the offseason. Feel like they're going to win the national title like the Cornhuskers do in Lincoln. They don't got that about them. We got the light shows in the fourth quarter, lights going off. Just, just being proud of your football team in such a way that we got a real shot this year. I was never going to feel that way. They might own us in the last decade. As far as Huskers versus Iowa goes, we will, we will handle that ass this year. But that's my overall general consensus of the Iowa Hawkeyes. They don't. They will never feel the way we get to feel optimistically, even on the bad years. JP now with Dana Holgerson on the sideline. Well said.

[A]

Update. Iowa is 8 and 2 against Nebraska in the last.

[B]

That's why I said they own us in the last decade.

[A]

I will say that if Nebraska, yeah, it might be impossible for Nebraska to go undefeated with Iowa in the schedule. It might be impossible. But hey, gotta, gotta be really excited about Nebraska. We did a hashtag tear talk. The questions, concerns, all the things and I feel like that's a good bleeding into the next game. Duck at Drunk Duck company Said true or false. Taylor is beginning to feel uneasy about the Bustin Bowl. Hashtag tear talk. Now, for those of you who want to be a part of the conversation on Mondays, you just put a tweet out, question, comment, concern, put hashtag tear talk. We will get to you and we'll have that open conversation. My concern is not about the Nebraska Cornhuskers. My concern is the game plan that took place in Norman, Oklahoma. The gate is the whole thing for Bryce Underwood and the entire media of Michigan going down to Oklahoma was we're going to find out who we have in Bryce Underwood when this game, when this game's all over. Unfortunately, we still don't know what we have in Bryce Underwood. That game, to me, it was vanilla play calling. So run heavy, which I love that because it's like Michigan is going to be a tough and gritty football team that's going to grind you out over and over and over again. We sustained a shitload of injuries. They hide this injury from the tight end, Klein, who was in a, who was kind of practicing before trying out the Ankle ends up being in a boot. Bryce Underwood ends up going 8 for 21 for 160, 142 yards and negative one rushing yard. I didn't love the game plan. I don't think the game plan put Bryce Underwood in a position to be successful. By the time, you know, you feel Oklahoma, it was kind of like the Bills. The Bills, Ravens games, except for the outcome was the. You watch the Ravens the whole game, you're like, oh, they're in control of this game the entire time. It was that feeling to me with Oklahoma was. John Matier is as advertised. He is a dog. Not only is he a dog on the field, I guarantee that boy's going crazy off the field. Crazy. The flow, the moxie, the aura. The kids got absolutely everything going for him. He can dice him up. That kid, Dion Burks, number four from Oklahoma, he's an absolute stud. I think they had. He. I mean, John Mateer put it, put it right into a cover two zone, right on the edge. And, and, and that Burks kid brought it.

[B]

You want to know where John Mateer won me over? Tell me after the game. When he's doing a post game presser and he's talking about number one. He gives credit everywhere else, but he shouted out the fan base because he's like, there's a couple bad moments that we had and coming back out there on the field and you guys cheering us on and everything else. We really appreciate it. I'm fired up that you guys came out, you're supporting me the way you are and everything else. That, that, that tickled the pickle with John Mateer.

[A]

Yeah, he seems like he's great. Seems like he's checked off all the boxes. And I'll say this about Michigan. We can't. That game plan can't happen. We. I mean, it is what it is. You want to be as, as positive as you can with the team that you love. But it's. It felt as though that game was being played. Not to be embarrassed. Dave Portnoy said that. And I, I completely agree with it. Like, he played that game not to get embarrassed because you felt like you were a little, you know, maybe overwhelmed in a talent category. I don't know. I didn't get to watch the receivers. It seemed like Bryce had time. But I think Brent Venables did an amazing job on the defensive side of the ball. Confusing. Bringing seven, showing seven, dropping three. Like he, he did a great, he had a great game plan to confuse a young quarterback. But at the end of the day I don't feel like there was a lot of we want to take over this game. And you see it multiple times on third and six. You're running the ball right up the middle. And so that, that to me is disappointing. Now take this game against, I believe it's Central Michigan. Let's show what we can show. Let's. Let's get the pieces going. Let's get some guys healthy because we get a big one in two weeks. If I'm sitting in Will Compton's position right now, I'm very excited about the Nebraska Cornhosters against the Michigan Wolverines. But at the end of the day.

[B]

Man, what'd you make of Bryce's there? Obviously people are blowing it up, but when he was yelling at that kid, Justice Hayes.

[A]

Yeah, I, it's kind of loved it. I kind of loved it because this kid's 18 years old in 19 days or 20 days, whatever it is at this point, like he just turned 18 years old and he's getting on guys about where they need to be. You can tell. One thing I liked about Bryce is he didn't seem overwhelmed from play calling, from the noise. He seemed like he had poised the entire game even though his stat line didn't show that. But boys, like, you're going to get your ass beat with that type of game plan. You're going to get your ass beat when you're running run on third and six or it's, you know, third and 12 and you're throwing a bubble and we have, we have missed assignments on the blocking and the perimeter. It's just, it's tough and so there's some injuries now. They got to get it figured out. But I am feeling cautiously optimistic about the bus and bowl. Definitely don't feel as good as I did last week, but I feel like as a, from a Michigan standpoint, we're in a show me, don't tell me situation when it comes to calling the games.

[B]

Yeah, that being an 11 point game, it felt way. The margin was much larger and I. What were you guys. Were you guys plus two in turnovers?

[A]

I can't remember.

[B]

I know Oklahoma turned it over a couple times. There are moments and opportunities that you guys had. It's like running the ball on third and six right.

[A]

Like, like Jon Mateer had a day. Don't, don't get twisted. Good quarterbacks are going to do well against defenses, but they did great from the 20 to the 20. I thought the Michigan defense did an amazing job and the, the times they gave up points was a reflection of how the offense couldn't get. Can stay on the field and sustain drives. You go three and out three and out three and out. Eventually your. Your defense is going to get tired. You're putting them in a very bad position that way. So it's got to be. You got to play more complimentary football. And we got to show a level of life back home in the big house against Central Michigan, which I hope to God I'm saying that right at Central Michigan. But to answer the question by drunk Duck co. I'm a little. Yeah. Heart rate's a little more elevated than how I was talking last week. You.

[B]

Yeah, you should. There should still be optimism there. I reached out to our partners over at FanDuel, got the lines, what they would be if they were to give us a line on Nebraska on the bus and bowl. Right now, Michigan is favored by 3 1/2 on a neutral field. They're favored by six and a half over under on that game right now. Again, right now, 45 and a half.

[A]

You got. I mean, we're still favored. Barry, our corner got hurt. We had a safety get hurt. We had our left guard who's a captain. El Hadid, he got hurt. Klein was hurt. I mean, buddy, it was Samaj Morgan. He gets hit late. That should have been a penalty. And he ends up. He didn't seem like himself after he got hit. Yeah, it's tough, man. It's tough. Onward, though, because we got a lot of stuff to cover.

[B]

Arizona State upset by Mississippi State, for the love of God, listen, I would have to go back and look and watch, but I was doing the same thing when I saw this against Texas last year in the College Football Playoff. But that last drive by Arizona State's defense, the play that Mississippi State scored on, there was nobody in the back end. I'm pretty sure they ran a cover zero or a simulated cover zero on that play when they got scored on. And if you go back to the tape against Texas in the College Football Playoff last year, when Texas scored that in OT, they were in a simulated esque Cover Zero as well. And it's kind of like it's Cover Zero and it seems like the DBs are playing some type of zone where they're thinking somebody's going to pass somebody off. I. I have no clue. I don't know. Love Dilly. Love Dilly. But I don't know. That's one where I'm like, what. What is Arizona State doing?

[A]

Yeah, because they. They should have walked Away from that game.

[B]

Winning.

[A]

Winning. They were down. Was it 170 or 14 0? Something. Something like that.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And Dillingham said in his post game press conference, like, we're one or two plays away from being like, what an amazing comeback it was traveling across the country against Mississippi State in the Bulldogs. Like, that is shit that gets you beat. It beat you in the playoffs. You should have beat Texas the playoffs. And now you do the same shit again against an inferior opp.

[B]

And last year when they played the game went to overtime. So it's not like Dilly didn't have anything to pull from either. Going into the week of my guys, this is a. Regardless of their record, like, they. They know how to play ball.

[A]

Mississippi State and asu. Yeah, they went to overtime last year.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I thought they smacked them. I know. Damn.

[B]

That was. Yeah, it blew my mind. I love the optimism. I love the approach on coming over. We're 12 plays away from almost having a huge comeback win going across the country. To me, this says nothing to do with the kid. That with the boys out there, with the kids out there. This is. We're sitting in the film room and it's like, why are we doing this?

[A]

Right? Right. Because you got pieces.

[B]

You got pieces.

[A]

You got pieces. And even if you don't, even if.

[B]

You don't have the pieces, you don't run that play.

[A]

You don't run that play.

[B]

You have the pieces, you don't run the play, you don't have the pieces, you for sure don't run that play either way.

[A]

Yeah, don't fucking run that play.

[B]

On that play.

[A]

Gainesville, Florida. Jack McPherson. We were on the stream. He was doing the Gatorade chomp. Florida upset by USF 1816 last week in the locker room, I said that they were going to get Bonnie Blue swallowed by the Florida defense. That was not the case. Florida Gators Billy N. Billy Napier. He's on the hot seat more than ever. Jack, how do we feel? Let's see it.

[C]

Feel great. Especially with the Vols going into game day against Georgia. We have an opportunity to really push a narrative for Tennessee football. So typically in the past is the first year we play Georgia. In week three, we typically would be playing Florida this week. So honestly, amazing time for us to flip the schedule because the last thing you want to be playing is Florida after losing a usf. There's no doubt they are not a bad football team by any means. Talk about that gets you beat. What a absolute dumb idiot that lineman was for spitting in the guy's face when the game is on the line. It's like, do you have three days after Jalen Carter?

[A]

Do you care 48 hours after.

[C]

And that's Florida and Georgia for you. Just scumbag mentality.

[B]

Easy, Jack, easy. Yeah, Billy Navy, Tennessee bowl speaking, Tennessee Ball speaking.

[A]

Georgia Bulldogs, friends of the show. Yeah, Georgia Bulldogs. They let us into their facility.

[C]

It's Georgia hate, but yeah, Billy Napier absolutely is one bad game away from walking home from a.

[A]

From a game. Yeah, it's.

[C]

It's very close for me.

[B]

Sleep on USF though.

[A]

Usf.

[C]

And they play Miami this week. They beat Miami and beat Florida and Miami. They are the. Well, that you have fsu, obviously. They are right now, the.

[B]

I was gonna say Florida State. I'm starting to get to a spot where I'm like, we gotta flip the script. I. Florida State might be winning the acc.

[A]

Florida State might be winning the acc. If you can get the Castanello. If you can get him Thomas Castanella, if you. If he stays healthy all year long, we got something. Hey, they might be on to something.

[C]

Honestly, a lot of fun programs in Florida right now.

[A]

Yeah, Florida.

[B]

Florida's turning up. Florida's got a lot of shit except for the university.

[C]

It'll be.

[A]

If USF can pull this off.

[C]

USF is a very good football team. I don't know what's gonna happen, but they might get. It's going into Miami. That's a tough place to play. I don't know. It's gonna be fun, though.

[A]

And I'm gonna be looked good. He looked good against Notre Dame. Yeah, dude.

[B]

How about the. How about the boy Laning just putting it lashing on Gundy.

[A]

You knew it was beat like he stole something. You knew it was over when Oklahoma State, I believe Coop said this was their quarterback broke his foot. H. I mean, the moment that happened, you just thought, yeah, the Ducks are about to put 60 on them. I mean, Dan landing the day, the night, the night before the game, Friday night around 11pm Central Time, sends me a video of him, him and Eugene, Oregon in his Bronco top down with Bruce Springsteen playing. And you just know, hey, Lanny's got the juice right now.

[B]

He's got the juice. And again, it's like Oklahoma State say, might not be a good football team. Like, it's Oklahoma State. Like they're in the Big 12. Like they mopped them the way Nebraska did. Akron, Oregon making or Oklahoma State look like that. Yeah, is crazy.

[A]

No doubt about it.

[B]

They look good.

[A]

Monitors now off.

[B]

Who's their quarterback. Who's Oregon? Dante Moore looks good. Yeah, they got, they got, they got talent out there.

[A]

The five star Corey Moore. Five star. Yeah. He's a stud. Oregon Ducks. Oregon Ducks seem like they've got a little something going.

[B]

Ohio state putting up 70.

[A]

Yeah. Julian saying going 15 for 15 to start his game off like Ohio State. Wouldn't you know that they're good again. That's just what happens, man. That's a. That's a good ball club. Kansas State, on the other hand, no good.

[B]

Hey, I mean, it's panic mode.

[A]

It's. You got to be. You lose the army, it's painting like salute our troops. We love them. Thank you for keeping us free. But my God, you've got to figure it out in Kansas State.

[B]

Yeah, that's full. That's full panic button out there in Kansas State.

[A]

Full panic button. Alabama big, big bounce back G against UL Monroe, I think. Who is that number five. He had three touchdowns.

[B]

The third got called back unfortunately, but Jeremy Bernard.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Put a C on his chest.

[A]

My God, I got a Simpson look good out of the pocket. Delaney. Walker's giving you a little hell on that. It came out of the pocket.

[B]

Put a couple things about ball, but.

[A]

Lady knows how to play.

[B]

Sometimes he just wants to say stuff and then he'll see the tape and then he gave ties.

[A]

You want to reflect on Delaney wanting to say stuff? Look, look back at the stream when he's giving us a pump up speech. He telling us all to do our job when we're sitting in a room.

[B]

I mean, you got to do your job.

[C]

I was kind of getting high.

[A]

Yeah. He's like, you do your job. I got you do your job. I'm thinking to myself, bro had an all time crack. Yeah. Yeah, I did play, buddy. Come on. We weren't. We're not doing nothing.

[B]

I know, but we're doing our part by.

[A]

You know, I was getting upset about the game plan. I was getting upset about the game plan. I probably didn't. Delaney didn't deserve that.

[C]

Maybe that should be something. Whenever we're streaming and it's someone's team related to the bus. If you're down, Delaney might have to just give a pump up speech.

[A]

Might have to zone one on you.

[B]

I. I will say it was a little disappointing seeing you tapped out in the third quarter the way you were coming out of halftime.

[A]

I tell you what, dude, it's. You see amount of injuries happening and you see the way the, the game's being called. It's Like, I'm not thinking about this game as much as I'm thinking of the future. We're seeing so many guys get hurt. Yeah. I. I was very disappointed in how that game just went about. And. And how they handled it. Yeah. I just. Yeah, I was pissed. I was pissed, man. I was not happy about it.

[B]

We. We still got two more quarters out here. This. Right, Right. It's a one score ball game right now.

[A]

You're right. You're. You're absolutely right.

[B]

I think it was a two score coming out.

[A]

One of the core values of Bus for the boys, you know, team over me. And I was not doing that. I was not doing that. We were with you, man. Yeah, it was tough. Yeah. I heard snickering in the back between you and Jack Garrett.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Because I was losing money.

[C]

I did. I took Michigan with you. I rode with you.

[A]

No, you did. I did. You did. Heartbreak Hotel. But yeah, two weeks. Two weeks until the possible.

[B]

Delaney told me as the game was in, and he goes, hey, I put money on Oklahoma.

[A]

Did he?

[B]

That's what he said. I don't know if he actually did.

[A]

Yeah. Well, apparently he's got this gambler with him.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Heartbreak. What do we got here?

[C]

We want to talk about Tennessee Titans.

[A]

I love to. I want to talk about all the games, but this monitor is up. Oh, okay.

[B]

Is Greg on?

[C]

No, not yet.

[A]

Yeah. Let's talk about the Tennessee Titans real quick. Jack, how do you feel?

[C]

I have a list I'd like to. That I wrote down.

[B]

The game, please. One of the top Tennessee Titans fans.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

In the country. Speaking right now.

[C]

Going out. Yeah. There's about five of us now left, so. And Garrett's one of them as well.

[A]

So 40 of the teddy Titans fan base is on the bus right now. Yep.

[C]

Playing a mile high. Obviously, you guys know, playing there. Probably one of the most difficult places to play in the NFL.

[A]

Elevation.

[C]

Rookie quarterback going in. A lot of question marks everywhere. I thought Cam Ward looked very poised. I think the. The issues do not rely with Cam Ward. The main issues rely on Brian Callahan. I know that he's a friend of the show, so I'm gonna try and be very nice about this.

[B]

Let me get a quick time friend of the show.

[A]

Let me get a quick time out. Okay. There's a friend of the show.

[C]

I know.

[A]

We live in Nashville, Tennessee. I know.

[C]

I know.

[A]

We both played for the show.

[C]

Go to my Twitter and see what I have to say on this show. I'm. I will be nice about this. I'm not gonna Say the F word. I'm not, I'm gonna say, but I'm not gonna say the F word. So to start off last drive going into half, we have 45 seconds and we're backed up on the 10 yard line. And we decided to throw three random screens and he throws it into the ground zero. Time wasted on the clock. We punt, Broncos go down and score. First touchdown of the half. We could have gone into half.

[A]

Six, three.

[C]

Horrible play calling. What are we doing? Run three halfback drives, go to half, Be happy that you're up.

[A]

Six, three.

[C]

Game plan. Get more things ready for Cam Ward. Anyways, not challenging Alec Ao Manor's catch. Unbelievable. In the press conference, Cali is saying that you have to have not only.

[A]

A body part, but a leg.

[C]

Like, I'm trying to be nice. Does Callahan know the rules of the NFL? So let me, let me read you what defines a catch in the NFL. A catch is completed when a player secures the ball in their hands or arms before it touches the ground, obviously, but it touches the ground inbounds with both feet or any part of the body other than the hands. Why are we not at least throwing the red flag Challenge it. His elbow was clearly at some point right there. I know it could have been indisputable, but at that point we might as well because that was a huge pickup. Fumble recovery on the punt. What do we do? We do not run the ball to.

[A]

Set up a field goal when we're.

[C]

Already down on the 30 yard line. We take like a 15 yard sack, get pushed back, half the punt. The penalties that we got, that goes on the players, obviously. Yeah, there was, there was an all time graphic that was offensive yards, I think was 131. Penalty yards was 129 or something in that realm. That's tough. I think there are question marks about Callahan if you look on Twitter. Tennessee Titans fan base, not too pleased. We'll leave it at that one. We'll leave it on a positive note. Shout out to Joey Sly. Getting all offensive points for the Titans. Truly a beast. And that's really all I have to say. I'm, I, I have more things to say. But because he's a friend of the show, we'll see what happens. We got the home opener this week against a very scary Chargers team game. So if people think that narrative is not gonna like, go away, I, I'll be there though. I'm gonna be in that stadium and I'm pumped to see some football in Nissan Stadium. But yeah, that's really all I have to say before I get.

[B]

That's really all I got to say about that.

[A]

When it comes more look good. Kenmore looked poised. He looked ready to go. He had a couple of rookie mistakes. You talked about drop balls by Calvin.

[C]

I know wide receivers gotta catch.

[A]

They gotta, they gotta catch the ball backed up in your end zone inside the 10 yard line, not running the ball. That is a big no no from a. From a play calling perspective. If you are a quarterback and you have to throw the ball, you have to make quick decisions with that football. Get small chunks. You're not necessarily trying to play for points. You're playing to have a. A better field. When you're in all backed up. If you have to punt, put yourself. Johnny Hecker in a very bad position when he had to punt. That ball ended up turning to Bronco. Bronco points. Second half turnover by the Titans. I think the Titans defense played very well yesterday. I think they did good. You had a lot of questions. Marks at the cornerback position. Snead. He came out a little bit. They kept trying. Buddy number 29. I apologize for not remembering his name. Jarvis thought he stood up when he needed to stand up and he did a good job. Jeffrey Simmons, dumbass. Penalty at the end of the game. However, the kid was a wrecking ball all day. Scary. They're getting home with four. That's something you're excited with when you get the turnover and you're basically in that gray. What Rabel likes to call as the fringe area. Yes, you need to run the football. But if you're Cam Ward and you're. A play is called where you have to throw the football. You cannot take a sack to take yourself out of scoring range. You have to get rid of the football. You have to dirt the football or take a check down, but you can't hold the ball for a very long time. Protection was not great. J.C. latham, I think was he pulled. He kind of got hurt. I don't think. Yeah, I don't think he was pulled. But six sacks on the game. A lot of penalties. From an offensive standpoint. You don't feel great about it. You don't feel great about. But it is the first game. It is Mile High Stadium. Let's have a little bit of optimism going into week two and they're playing the Chargers.

[C]

Yeah, playing the Chargers.

[B]

There was even optimism on the last drive where they can go in and potentially tie it up and get some drops by a big time player in Calvin Ridley, which is brutal.

[A]

Brutal. Let's rip through a couple of these NFL things. We're waiting on Greg Olson. Eagles survived the Cowboys 2420. Your boy took the Cowboys plus eight and a half. Dak Prescott, he's never thrown an interception in. In Philadelphia. That streak continues. I think from an offensive standpoint, Cowboys looked good. I mean, you talk about Eagles, I mean, I think they had a. An off day as far as, like, what they could put together from. From a defensive perspective. And I think a lot of that comes from Jalen Carter from the. Before they even have the first snap.

[B]

From just undisciplined football with that. How many. How many penalties do they have?

[A]

A shitload of.

[B]

Shitload of penalties. Just undisciplined ball.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

Now, I do think the delay kind of threw off the momentum because I think they just got a turnover and then they end up going three and out after the long delay. But just very uncharacteristic style game for the Eagles. I thought Dallas played their asses off. Yeah, Dak looked really good, and they were there, bro. Yeah, like, that's one. Yeah. CD Lamb dropping those balls is tough because, yeah, he's a superstar. He's somebody, you know, just been beating himself up because he's like, this game's on me. Because he has that type of elite talent. That's. Yeah, I couldn't. After that game, I was like, yo, Dallas should have won that football game.

[A]

Dallas should have won that football game. Yeah. CD Land, I'm sure he's. He's taking this week extremely personally when it comes to the preparation going into their next game. He. I mean, but he had over 100 yards receiving. He had two. Two drops and three plays at the end of the game. The last. The last play, three total drops, though, but he.

[B]

Four.

[A]

I think those drops are tough. The first just in the last drive alone. He's going into the middle of the field with a safety barreling down on him. Should have been a catch. He's paid to make that catch. However, it's a very difficult catch. The last one, Dak Prescott put a great touch on the ball. I thought he did an amazing job. Put a little arc on it. However, it's a little far in front of him. CD Being the superstar he is, a lot of times he goes out and gets that ball. Count that as a drop. But, buddy, if you're a Cowboys, you're like, you got a little bit of optimism because the Eagles are the most stacked team, if not for the. The Baltimore Ravens in the entire NFL. They. They looked good. I thought they did a better job than people expected against the run. I thought Kenny Clark had himself a nice night. I thought Dante Fowler did a great job against Jordan. My. A lot of a few times getting pressure.

[B]

Their secondary played really well. Yeah, because I went back and I was like, you know, part of me was like, Jalen hurts. All he does is run around. Like there's got to be guys open. But I'm sitting there reviewing everything and Jalen's making like. Dallas had everybody locked up to where they're taking away his reads. Dallas did had a great game plan on doubling AJ A lot of the times because AJ Only had that one catch, really one target. Jalen played really well protecting the football, not turning it over, running when he needed run. Just he. He beat him with his legs because Dallas's back end did a really good job to where you get coverage sacks in those situations. Dallas, Dallas I think is spicy, shoddy. I think is a head coach. Everybody was kind of wondering what he would be like. I. There wasn't a whole lot of expectation for myself. But even on the first in the first half to where they're driving and being more situationally aware Dallas, whereas in the past they're tossing the ball to the ref, they're not really executing at a high level as far as the operation goes to where it seemed like they had a swagger and Dallas went into Philly expecting to win that game. I felt like you saw it on all the players faces. There was no blinking, none of it. And they were pissed leaving that game, which is I love to actually see see with Dallas because I didn't know what to expect with Dallas with all the drama that they've had with trading away Michael Parsons. You're only here a whole lot. Shoddy new head coach didn't really know what to expect. But I thought Dallas played well.

[A]

I loved Schotten Hummer's press conference when he first took over. It was marrying the run with the past. That was kind of his, his main, you know, vocal point that he was talking about. And he showed it in his game plan. He. He started running the ball frequently. They started to catch a little momentum when it came to winning first and second down. He added in a lot of play action. Pass got Dak moving a little bit. You know, at the end of the day, the thing that fires me up the most about the Dallas Cowboys at the end of the half you have a two minute situation. You have 38 seconds on the clock and we're streaming this game and I'm watching at 38 seconds on the clock, I'm watching that tick down. I'm thinking to myself, why the fuck are you not calling a timeout situation? Turns out they already did call a timeout. The clock was all messed up. They end up getting three points out of that. That is the kind of stuff that you need from the Dallas Cowboys. You have all, all the distractions in the world that we've talked about ad nauseam. But when it comes to situational football, the Cowboys is a team I look at and be like, they never do the right thing when the right thing is needed. From a heady standpoint, and Schottenheimer had those guys prepared to get three points going into half, which was massive in that game. I think, I think the Cowboys, I mean, pressures and sacks wise, they're going to miss Parsons a lot. But from a defensive standpoint, I think, think statistically they will be better. That.

[B]

That's, that's my get what the stat was. But somebody had brought up that it was when they played the Eagles last year with the healthy Micah Parsons. Like there were, you know, no sacks and I don't know if it was five pressures or not, but they had more production out of their pass rush this week.

[A]

I know that that stats the same. It was like one sack and five pressures. That was a Micah Parsons against the Eagles last year. That's the same amount of stats they had this year. They had the same exact stats back to back with Parsons without Parsons.

[B]

Right. So the production is still the same. Like they're still getting production home to the quarterback and getting those coverage sacks.

[A]

We, we have Mr. Olson on.

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[A]

How we doing buddy? Are we? You're just on a full tour right now. Car wash. You had barstool. The whole thing. Full tour?

[C]

Man. I got off my red eye. I was in Seattle last night for the opener of Seahawks 49ers red eyed home jumped on Portnoy's new show on on Fox and obviously looking forward to chatting with you guys. So it's been a, been a big morning.

[B]

Are you going in? Is this week one for the youth football team and please tell us the name of the team. Like we're going to, we're going to be following this thing very closely all year long because you're calling undefeated season.

[C]

This might be my favorite thing that I'm going to do all year. I cannot wait to give you guys recaps on this wild world of youth football. We are two and oh, we've played two games. We have a buy. We have a buy this week. The kid, the entire school are actually out of town. The kids go on like this camp retreat for three days. So we don't play. So we are completely off and yeah, we've gotten off to a pretty good start. We're two zero. We gotta, we got a good team coming up after the bye week so we got some work to do. But yeah, so far. So far so good.

[B]

What's the mascot name?

[C]

We're the Knights. So we're the Charlotte Christian Knights.

[B]

Charlotte Christian Knights. Now do you give, when you're approaching a bye week, are you letting them get out of the building and enjoying their vacation time? Are you still bringing them in and you got to do some self scouting. What's the staff doing on the week of the bye week and then what are you doing with your players? Because you know, in the NFL it's like, hey, are we going to get this vacation time off or is coach going to keep us around? Your thoughts?

[C]

Yeah. So if I, if it was up to me, we'd practice every day.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But the reason we have a buy is the kids aren't here. So the kids, we took them to school this morning. Well, my wife took them to kids. I was flying across the country. They went to school this morning, boarded buses and they took them away. So they're going to be gone. They don't come back until Wednesday afternoon. So. So we'll have no practice today, Tuesday or Wednesday. We'll be back to regular school on Thursday. We'll practice after school like usual, start prepping. We'll kind of do like a hybrid corrections from last week. Get back to our first fundamentals, get back to all of our stuff. We always start with us before we worry about them. That's kind of like our model. So we'll do our corrections, we'll do our fundamentals, we'll do all of our stuff on Thursday. And then we'll start getting into game prep for the teams that we play next week. And then Friday we'll do. We'll come in, we'll do like an hour and a half practice. We'll watch the game film from our first two weeks, like, in person, in the classroom.

[B]

Love that.

[C]

I'll make, like, a mini cut up of, like, the plays we've got to watch that we've got to correct off of. And so that'll wrap. We'll be off on the weekend, and then we'll get back to work on Monday. So that's our, our buy schedule. We'll get two good days in this week.

[A]

Greg, speaking of staying on the bye week, you got a lot of guys. You start two and, oh, you have a very early buy in this season. How do you stop your players from getting big heads and feeling like, like, hey, we're going to roll over everybody this year?

[C]

Yeah, we're pretty good at that. We're pretty good at, like, the humbling approach. Like, we, we've played okay. I wouldn't say we've played great. I think we have a. We have a good team. We have really talented kids. And, like, we're tough and we play hard. Like, all those things, we've been a little sloppy, so we. The nice thing is, you know, it's like, it's no different than what we saw yesterday in week one of the NFL. There's a lot of teams that walked into the locker room 1 0, and the. When that euphoria kind of wears off and you kind of take a deep breath and you come back in and you watch the film, you're like, oh, my God, we're not that good. Like, we got a lot of things to do, but it's a lot easier being 1 0. Coaching off wins. That's the same thing for us. So we've got a lot of things we need to get better at. We've got a lot of things that we can improve on our operation, some ball security. But the one thing I will say, our kids play hard. Like, our kids are physical. They run to the ball. We're not always in the right spot. We've. We overrun some plays. We don't fit the right gaps in the run game. You know, we can coach all that. We run, we hit, we tackle. And that's, that's what we've stressed all summer. As the year goes on, we'll clean up the operation. We'll clean up some of the details, the penalties, the blown assignments. Like, like that's just part of being young. I mean, we saw that yesterday with professionals. So that part we always expect early on. But the one thing we do do is we play fast and we play hard.

[B]

Is the team next week? How, how are they? What is their record? Is this team you got circled on the schedule right now?

[C]

Yeah, they're, they're undefeated. They're a local. They're a local. Their high school is like a local power. So they're a K through 12 private school, like we are. Their high school team is, is really talented. They've got, got kids going all over the country for college and they run a really good program. It's called Providence Day School. Chad Greer, Will Greer's father, is the coach. And so they do a nice job. They've got a nice high school program. So, you know, like anything, it trickles down. Kids come to that school as middle schoolers because they know it's a good high school. That's kind of like what our school is like. Our high school is really talented. We're a little smaller than them. We don't have as many kids, but we're good. Our running backs going to Nebraska, Will, by the way.

[B]

Yes, I remember you saying that on the bus. Shout out Nebraska. Big red. Looking nice too.

[C]

Yeah, good win, nice job. But anyway, so yeah, it's a, it's a big game. They're, they're right up the street from us. They're a mile away. It's a rivalry game and we got.

[B]

To come ready to play rivalry game. I love to how he's, he's doing a good job of lifting up the opponent and not giving him any, any bulletin board material going into the game week.

[A]

No doubt about it. When you play this game, you talk about you're playing two teams that are undefeated and this both high school team are big. Now I know there's been rumors swirling around the Charlotte county area saying that when Greg Olson's kids are old enough, he might be taking over the head coaching job at high school. Those are just rumors at this point.

[B]

They're on the message boards. I've been seeing the message boards. I got a login, I got a.

[A]

Subscription that is, you dive in, those message boards are going hot, right? They're still hot. It's called Reddit. They, they get this going.

[C]

Now, I haven't been on Reddit because it's toxic. But I'll tell you, growing up as a kid, man, you wanted to know where you stood in the New Jersey high school you went to like nj.com. you signed up for a forum.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And you'd be like, is anybody talking about me?

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Type in your name and you're kind.

[A]

Of like, oh, Dave Luan was big time on MGO Blue, which was their message form. Every single week, he had to find out what, hey, what the whole community thought of Luan.

[B]

Red Sea Scrolls.

[C]

Now you don't have to look. Now you don't have to look very far. People will tell you, oh, no.

[A]

Yeah, the bird will tell you everything. You have to know. Know. But you play, you play this team world out there. You play this team, you beat this team. Are you, Keekley and a couple of guys maybe going over to some of those kids saying, hey, you want to be a part of a championship program? This is the place for you. You're only a mile away.

[C]

Not on the field, no.

[A]

Yeah, but once you. But once the juice boxes are in hand and the orange slices are given.

[C]

The oranges. Once the oranges are passed out, then it's free game.

[A]

It looks pretty good out there. I'll tell you what, man, we could use you at cornerback next year here.

[C]

You know what? And, and this is the God's honest truth. And you guys know, like, the high school world nowadays is the wild west. I mean, there are kids transferring during the season, there's kids transferring a week before the season. There's kids that are going to three or four high schools over their four year high school journey and not even blinking. So the idea of movement and the idea of kids bouncing around is obvious. We all understand is just the reality. I will say though, like, we are not like, call. I'm not calling kids out of the blue and pleading for them to come to our school. We do hear from a lot of families that reach out to us, reach out through the school. What we want. Our, our recruiting. I'm just speaking from the middle school. Our recruiting is when you come watch the games, you watch our team play, and you watch your team play. And this isn't always the case. I'm just saying this is our goal. We want you to walk out and be like, my kid loves football. I want him to be coached there. Like, I want him to be on that team. They're organized, they play hard, they're fast, they're multiple. Their kids are playing real, real football. That I could see being a good springboard as my kid gets into high school. Like, to me, that's our recruiting. And we've lost games. We haven't. Like, we haven't won every game by 100. That's the, what we're trying to build, the groundswell we're trying to do. That's our recruiting. And then if you reach out to us and you're interested in coming, we'll see what we can do about getting you in and going through that whole process. But we're not going to apologize for that. Like, we're going to try to put a brand of football that if you care about football and you, your kid cares about football, we want you to see us and say, that's where our kid needs to be.

[B]

If, if your team's worth of shit, your social media person right now, they need to be clipping that, running it for whenever recruits do come into the office, that's the first they see in here.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know what I'm saying? And start kind of building that from the inside out.

[A]

I'll say this, you talked about you. When people want to come in, will you say, we'll see what we can do if they can fit into the culture. Have you had to go through that as a head coach, where you have to look at another kid and be like, hey, there's 12 other teams in this league that are going to want you, but unfortunately it's not this team.

[C]

We. Well, typically the kids that want to come or we know are pretty good players, but at our school, and this is a credit to the school, we don't have a lot of turnover and it's not a very big school. So we got like 110, 115 kids in a grade, give or take. So it's a, it's a relatively small school. So there's only so many spots. Right. You know, you'd say there's 50 boys, 50 to 60 boys in a grade on average. So there's just, there's not a lot of numbers. There's not a lot of empty seats, you know, so. So we could have, we could get 20 new kids to come play football for us next year if we wanted to. Like, it's not hard. It's just hard getting everybody in because kids don't leave our school. So there's a couple spots and obviously admissions does a nice job trying to spread them around and multi sports and guys and girls and performing arts, and there's a lot of nouns that need to be fed. So we are not at a school. Some of the schools around us that we compete against, if a good kid wants to come, it's a 100% admission. They're in, win. That's not the case at our school. So we don't get everybody. We, we probably don't get half the kids who want to come play for us. And that's just the nature of the business. We get as many as we can. The vast majority of our team that we coach are kids that are just at our school. They've been there since they were in kindergarten. They've worked their way up and now they're in seventh and eighth grade and they're eligible to play on the team. That of our 50 kids, I'd say 40 plus have gone to school there their whole life.

[B]

Greg, are you doing a good job of shaking the right hands, going to the right booster events to make sure whenever a kid does come across your radar, you're doing everything you can to get this kid on your football team?

[C]

I'm the booster.

[A]

Oh, okay.

[B]

All right. So some left I. A follow up question. If you guys have a defensive, a bad or a poor defensive performance, will you make Luke Kikley available to the media next week on Busting with the Boys?

[C]

Yes, yes, yes. I think we can get Luke signed up. I think we might have to do like a, like a two shot and.

[A]

We'Ll get, we'll get, yeah.

[C]

Give some analysis of his, of his defensive unit. I think that's a great idea.

[B]

We gotta get down there, bro.

[C]

I gotta head coach, as the head coach, I, I gotta stand at the podium right though and no doubt questions, you guys know that.

[B]

But we'll give you a list. We got, we listen, we gotta speak to Keakley, right?

[A]

If things don't go the way and it didn't go your way because of the defensive game plan, you, you can say all the right things in the world, but at the end of the day, the media wants to talk to the person responsible, responsible for the downfall.

[B]

If the running backs aren't getting to.

[C]

Face that fire, if the running backs.

[B]

Aren'T getting a buck fifty on the ground, Jonathan Stewart, we got to see him at the podium.

[A]

Were you able to see Syracuse get beat and Fran Brown after the game made his team run sprints?

[C]

I did. I didn't love it.

[A]

You didn't love it. That's not you.

[C]

I didn't love it. That's not me. Like. And again, I'm all about accountability. I'm all about, hey, we have a certain standard here. We didn't live up to it and you got to make it known. This is college football is big boy ball now like that. There's no, it's not for the faint of heart. I don't love the idea of doing it right on the game field in front of the crowd. It feels a little like, look at me. We care more than anybody else. Like, I think you can get your message across to your team when you're not happy with the performance, which all coaches do. Like, I've been on both sides of that conversation. I just don't know if it needs to be wind sprints after the game. I don't know.

[A]

Right.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You'd be able to handle it in house. Like, it's still going to get handled.

[A]

It's a touch embarrassing, too. You go back to look at 2004, Cactus Shadows High School versus Pinnacle Peak. We beat them 31 to 3 on Cox 7, and they were running sprints after the game. It's demoralizing. You sit there and you do the next week. Can't even tell you. I'm always onto the next. I'm focused on my team. On my team only, bro. I can't be focused on people. High school.

[B]

Couple openers. We had an opener and we were taking. You got. You got the buses going up to Oakville, and we had a couple guys throwing out, like, apples and, like, different types of, like, trash, like, littering. And our head coach, before the game, comes in and catches wind of who's littering, doing what entire team had to do. Gassers. 10 gassers before the game.

[A]

He doesn't want to win.

[B]

We got mopped.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, obviously your gas tough.

[B]

Yeah, we got mopped. That was a. That was a week one opener. I was a fresh one.

[A]

And you're like, that's tough.

[C]

I always say this. All right, so let's ask ourselves, what. What was the objective of the exercise? Like, I always think back, like, okay, what was the intent? Forget what the perception is. Forget all that. Like, what was the internal intent of making that decision? Did you think that your kids, after they ran, were going to walk off the field and say, you know what? Coach cares. So. And again, I think Fran does a great job. So I'm not, like, personally attacking.

[B]

He has been a great job.

[C]

Like, what did they think? Like, all right, all the mistakes that we made, guys, we can't do them again because I'm embarrassed. Were we trying to embarrass the kids? Were we trying to make them say, I don't want to run gassers because I'm physically tired, so I'm just going to play better out of fear of being punished? Like, I want to show the outside world how much we care. So I'm going to do it now. Like, I don't know what the end game was. That was the fuel of the decision. So like, like, that's the question that if you can't answer, I don't know what the real reasoning behind it was.

[A]

No. Yeah.

[C]

You know what I mean? Like, put yourself in the mind of those kids. You're walking into the locker room and what's your first thought?

[A]

You're probably pissed off. You're like, yo, what do, what are we doing here? What crazy. I mean, I'm here to play a game.

[B]

Yeah, what are we?

[C]

Charlotte Middle School power for football here. And I like, do you think it's going to get your kids to study harder, try harder, play hard? I don't know. I would go back and reevaluate if I don't like my performance in a certain game. How is my practice? Did we practice the right stuff? Are we meeting the right way? Did we walk through the right way? Are we installing too much? Do we have too much X's and O's and not enough fundamental time or meeting times being cut short? Let's go back and look at our installs. Let's go back and look at the personnel we're putting in the game. Like, I just think there's so many things that you could check off before you say, you know what the answer to our issue is, is we have to run after practice.

[A]

I don't know. I know, I agree. I have a. I'm absolutely with you. And one of the one team that's having that conversation today is the Florida Gator because they just got upset against USF by last second field goal. Now that USF team has now be a ranked Boise State team and a ranked Florida team and they're headed down south to your team, University of Miami. What are your thoughts going into that game? Are you a little nervous with the Bulls?

[C]

Yeah, I mean when I, when I certainly, when I looked at Miami schedule to start the season, of course the Notre Dame week one sticks out. And then, you know, you always look at, you know, Florida, Florida State and you know, and the ACC and you know, do they have Clemson on the schedule? And who's your cross, you know, who's your inner conference now that they've changed the acc, it's like a mixed bag of who you play each year. I don't think any of us said, oh, that USF game, that's going to be Bear.

[A]

That game is going to be tough.

[C]

You sit here, they you know, like you said, they beat two ranked opponents, just beat Florida. It could be you either get them on a high of high and they're riding that momentum into, into your place and, and you're in for a fight, or they just had the greatest win and you know, we'll call it program history. I don't know exactly enough about their program, about whether or not it is or not, but let's just say it's one of the best wins of the last 10 years of that program for any of these kids. Is there a little bit of a regression? Is there? Do you catch them kind of on the low end of this, this huge peak energy wise and then they crash a little bit. So I think it could go either way. But I certainly think if you're Miami, you're doing everything. Mario Crystal is doing everything in his power to prop these guys up. Show every win, show every post game press conference, show them celebrating in the locker room, show their coaches running out of the coaches booth in front of them.

[A]

Yeah, that was crazy.

[C]

Celebrating. Yeah, that was awesome. Like I'm showing all of them that, like, are you going to let this happen at our place? Like, are we willing to be on the other side of a moment, someone else's moment? Like it all depends on how you guys get to work. Like that's the messaging I'm sure Mario is doing.

[B]

I love that. Yeah, that juices me up.

[A]

Juices you up.

[B]

A question for you. If you were to see one of your defensive linemen spit on somebody before the game and then get disqualified, how are you handling that as a head coach, seeing Jalen Carter do it against Dallas? Jalen, that, that's a, that's a big boy. I'm curious how that all went down the next day. Like in that organization. Jalen spitting on Dak Prescott.

[C]

Yeah, I mean, I'm not fighting him.

[A]

That'S for damn sure.

[C]

Fighting the guy.

[B]

Hey, Big Dom.

[C]

Can we figure this out? Listen, there, there needs to be accountability and standards and I think what you hope is the case and just from being around, you know, from talking to Sirianni and covering a million of their games and just knowing how they operate, my outsider perspective is you don't need to do anything new. The standards and expectations of the roster, I'm assuming and from all measures, you don't have that success that they're not have been set. Your locker room probably has the personalities that, hey, we have a certain way of holding ourselves accountable around here. That's unacceptable. We don't tolerate it. It. I think there'll be an internal punishment, an internal, you know, accountability type conversation, but I think a guy like Sirianni is going to attack it head on. I think when you're a coach that's had his level of success, I think the coach, the players respect him. It's an easier conversation for a coach to confront a player and hold him accountable when that coach has earned it through the good, the bad, the ups and downs. He's in the fight with you, he's in the grind with you. Like. Like those guys are. They're heard more. I think if it's a coach that guys don't have a lot of respect for or a coach that hasn't proven to, he's got your back and he's not, I think those conversations get a little bit more like defensive from the player side and there's a little more combative nature. So my gut is they're going to handle that internally and it won't be an issue. There's no question he was flat out wrong. I give him credit. He. He owned up to it. He didn't try to excuse it at all in the post game, but like, like, that can't happen. That's inexcusable. I think the culture, locker room and coaching wise in Philly, though, is prepared to handle those kind of things and not let it become bigger than it needs to be.

[A]

Turning your attention to the game that you called yesterday, you're in Seattle watching the 49ers, who by all accounts, people have kind of started to, like, look away from the 49ers. For the last couple years, everyone's been like, this is a Super bowl contending team. And then going into this game, I hear you talk a lot about, like, hey, get back to winning the moment. Get back to winning. First down, Brock Purdy goes out. He has two interceptions, a couple of bad interceptions, could have very well had an interception on his go ahead touchdown against the tight end. With the tight end who had his first four career receptions, what are you seeing from the 49ers offense that gives you hope? And then a couple things that maybe give you a little worry going on the back end.

[C]

Well, it gives me hope is Trent Williams is out there at left tackle and he wasn't. And we talked about this a little bit. I mean, and you know the pet position probably better than I do. But like, like when you talk about the Mount Rushmore of left tackles, besides, obviously yourself, Trent Williams is as good as it gets, right?

[A]

He's right. He's right up there with me. I get it.

[C]

You know, you get, you get what I'm saying, right? So I got you. Get Trent back. Playing left tackle. McCaffrey got 31 touches. Seemed to have left the game no worse for wear. Obviously that's a huge benefit. They lose KD and Purdy, I think was up and down. I think when he needed to be at his best, he was. That last drive to throw to Pierce on the double move was huge.

[B]

Huge.

[C]

The scramble. I'm with you was a. When he threw it, I thought it was going to be picked. Reek Woolen just misplayed it. But you don't apologize. You win however you have to. So I'm a little con. I'm. I'm encouraged because they've got a couple of their dudes out there again. Last year it was kind of Purdy and he had Kittle and then it was really a mixed bag around him. Everyone was pretty much out. It's encouraging there. And on the same side, I'm a little concerned, like, do they have enough firepower? How long is Kittle going to be out with the hamstring?

[A]

Right.

[C]

You know, Pearsall is a good player, but they're not going to get IUK back for a couple weeks. May probably over a month. Like, do they have enough juice or does Purdy continue to have to pull it out? Does he kind of have to continue to carry that offense on his back, which I'm not saying he can't. It's just a very, it's a very hard model to play NFL quarterback when every play is reliant on you. So. So I think they've got some, some things offensively they're still trying to figure out. I think the defense was much improved. I think solid is just a flat out ball coach.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

That guy is just. He can coach defense everywhere he's ever been. So I think the. That was an encouraging sign that they held, you know, Seattle to 13. I thought that was probably the biggest storyline aside from the ending by Purdy on that last drive.

[A]

Yeah. One of my favorite things about Brock Purdy is throwing those two interceptions and not flinching, punching, cut. Every, by every account, could have just gone in the toilet, marches his team down and gets a touchdown. That's unbelievable.

[B]

That's growth too.

[A]

That is.

[B]

That's growth.

[A]

That is growth.

[B]

Yeah. I have a topic I would love to just bring up for all of us.

[A]

Are we. Is this on the game we're talking about right now?

[B]

No. Okay. If you're still saying on 49ers, go ahead and get this. This is a different game.

[A]

Yeah. I want to get your thoughts on Jackson, Smith and Jigba. How. I mean, electric. All my fantasy team is absolutely electric. He had two fumbles in the game, but he was. Was literally all over the place. I thought Sam Donald did an amazing job from. If you're on the Seattle side, if you're in that coaching staff, how are you coaching them today? Being like, guys, listen, the scoreboard didn't say we want it, but it seemed like from the 20s to the 20th, they did a very good job of moving the ball.

[C]

Yeah, they did. They moved the ball. Well, they've got to finish, right. I think both teams, you know, Seattle moved the ball well late. I think through the first half the game, it was a little sluggish on offense. Late in the game, the offense found their groove a little bit more. I would have liked to have seen them be a little bit more aggressive on the fourth down there at the end of the game. So there was like three, three and change left on the clock. Cooper cup just got tackled short of the first down. Sticks by like a foot. It was 10, 10. They settled for a field goal. Didn't love that decision. Would have loved to have seen them be a little bit more aggressive there on offense. But with Seattle, the positive is I thought their defense looked good. I think last year they finished the la. The last half the season, that was the top five defense. I think Mike McDonald's a hell of a defensive coach.

[A]

Coach.

[C]

They've got some real dudes at all three levels. I think they've got a chance by year's end to be a top five seven defense in the entire league over the course of the whole season. Offensively, there's going to be growing pains, right? They got Clint Kubiak, new offensive coordinator. Completely different than Grub from last year who came from Washington, who's now in Alabama. Complete different philosophy. Obviously, they get Sam Darnold. Completely different approach to quarterback than. Than Gino. You know, you want under center, the deep play action, the accuracy downfield, all the things that made Sam so good last year. With Kevin o' Connell in Minnesota is a lot of what Kubiak's trying to bring to Seattle. In Minnesota, he's trying to bring to Seattle. So I think both teams offensively probably have a lot of things that they want to get better at, but I think both teams walk out of that and say our defense played well enough to win the game. I think Jackson, Smith and Jigba is a stud. We had some questions about how they were going to use them. He's always been kind of an interior slot guy with DK and Tyler when they were all there together, are they going to move him to the outside? He did most of his damage again yesterday from that slot position. He is a tough matchup. He's got great feeling zones. He's a nightmare to play one on one and man, he catches the ball. He can run after catch. He. I think now with with DK and Tyler gone, I think Jackson, Smith and Jigba is going to turn into like that next young wave of, of really high level wide receiver across the league.

[A]

Kids seems like an absolute monster.

[B]

Will, I want to bring your guys attention to Miami with the Dolphins. What is your outlook on Coach McDaniels as the head coach? A very, I'll say this up front, a very good, very respected offensive mind in the NFL. But now with the resume that he has, the drama that's went on in training camp, for me on the outside looking in as a player, it seems like a guy that as far as like leadership and head coach ability would be more his win of the day is if the boys like the shoes on his feet more than he does. Like coaching and like being a leader amongst guys who again, there's drama all over the place. You see Tua getting into it with the reporter after getting Tyreek already losing it in game one. You see all the stuff coming out of training camp. Where do you see the pulse in Miami right now with Coach McDaniel?

[C]

Yeah, I think it's a great point. I think, and we all know this from the different teams we've been on, different personalities and whether it's a coach or a player.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

The perception of a coach or a player, in this case a coach and their behavior, their body language, their language, the way they do their press conferences, just their whole vibe and their whole, the way they present themselves is always viewed through the lens of wins and losses. When you're winning, you're cool and it's fun and it's the approach and you're relatable and it's connecting with the players and it's all positive. That exact same guy when you're losing, it's a distraction. He's not focused on what matters. He has no discipline. He doesn't care about the important things. Right. So the unfortunate thing for a guy like McDaniels, and there's a million examples across the league of players and coaches, you fall victim to whether or not. You win or lose, you can wear whatever shoes you want. You can wear glasses. You can give funny press conferences. You can be eccentric. You can be serious. You could be. When Bill Belichick gave his one word really, like petty interviews and they were winning Super Bowls, man, that's just Bill Belichick. He's something. But then all of a sudden, when they weren't good, it's like he comes across in completely different. And the only thing that changed was they weren't winning. So it's kind of the same idea with McDaniel. When you're winning, you can be whatever you want to be. But just understand, if you're going to be outside of the quote unquote box, right, you're going to be a little atypical from what we're accustomed to seeing. Whether it's a head coach or a quarterback or whatever, everyone has this idea of, like, where guys should fit into a box. If you start losing, that is going to be brought into question, and you just have to be prepared for that. I don't think McDaniels, frankly, I don't think he cares. I can't imagine he's spending a lot of time worrying about it. His number one focus right now needs to be how can he turn TUA in that offense into what we saw his first couple years in Miami when they were innovative and high flying and throwing the ball over people's heads on every play. Because for a week one performance, with all the uncertainty and speculation going into the season, that's about as bad as it gets.

[B]

Yeah, I agree with you on all those fronts. It's like, you know, all of a sudden, coach wants you to tuck in your shirt if you start losing. And it's like, why? You know, why are we changing?

[A]

Why are we changing now? Ye.

[B]

And I agree with you. If you got a little quirkiness or something, you're winning and losing. To me, it's like when you're losing and it seems bad, how is the culture? How is the player? Like, what are you seeing from the Miami Dolphins that would reflect him culture wiser as a head coach? And to me, it's all the conversations you see that are public with the players, all the antics you see on the sideline again with like to re kill when he's losing his mind in that. In that in the first quarter. And just all of that to me feels like, okay, he is a little weird. I've loved, like since he got there. I'm like, oh, the boy Kittle. Everybody talks Very highly of him. That's him coming. That's him coming as an oc. So I'm like, optimistic. He's very creative offensively. He is a guy that you would love to play for because he's not that tight ass that is just on you all the time. So you would enjoy that as a player. But now it's gotten to. Now it's kind of felt like a point to where, okay, he is like that. And it is okay if the entire team is rallied around him and buttoned up and the culture seems there and the guy's a little quirky, but he seems a little quirky and it seems like the team's kind of very close. Yeah, very. Seems very much all over the place where I'm like, okay, this could. Like, he might. Maybe he's not the guy that should be in that chair. I don't know what the meetings are like. I don't know what he's like when he is checking guys, is even checking guys, or is he just talking about offense the whole time or talking about play calls and everything else? I don't know those things. But just the ripple effect of seeing all the antics from the players and everything that's out there publicly surrounding a team. We know what a good culture and a good team operates like when you're losing, however Buddy's buttoned up, has each other's back, it doesn't feel like that.

[A]

Miami, no. With Mike McDaniels. The worst part about that is, like, when you have success so early as being a new head coach, you feel like he didn't establish his own culture, like he didn't put his thumb on the pulse, say, this is what we're going to do. This is we're not going to do. And it feels good because you're winning right away. The creativity, all the things. But when stuff starts to spiral, it's exactly what you said about Bill Belichick.

[B]

Check.

[A]

Now the things that made him uniquely him kind of give like a. It's like the step brother say that fart seems kind of up now a little bit. That's kind of like the vibe you're getting in that sense when it comes to the Indianapolis Colts on the other side, though, they're dropping a 30 burger on there with Danny Dimes a couple weeks ago when they made Daniel Jones the starting quarterback for the Colts. Twitter, the whole world is burning the place to the ground now. All of a sudden it seems like it's a good move. How do you feel if you're in the Indianapolis Colts building right now.

[C]

It's another great example. When you win, everything you do is right. Every outfit you wear is fun. Every decision you make is the right one. Like the NFL, really all professional sports, but really the NFL is the ultimate example of winning cures everything. If you're having a bad day and there's chaos going on and you've got conflict and you've got controversy, and the best thing you can do on Sunday is just gonna win because everyone walks back into the, into the locker room and into the offices in the building on Monday, just takes a deep breath, and all of a sudden it's not that big of a deal. And the guy, it just, it alleviates so much of the pressure. So Indianapolis is another great example. They wanted to run Shane Steichen and Ballard out of indie. They wanted to run him out of the country alone. Indianapolis, how do you draft this guy? You give up on him? How do you pick Daniel Jones? We've all seen him and they're like, yeah, guys, we drafted Anthony Richardson. It didn't work. Maybe it works somewhere else. We're taking the hit for that. I give him a lot of credit. Like, that's hard to admit. Mistake. It's hard in the NFL. How many teams and you guys have probably been on teams like this? I know, I've been around it. How many teams have in essence signed their own demise because they refuse to admit they signed the wrong guy, they hired the wrong coach, that they just can't admit failure and say, we're going to rip the band aid off and move forward. They prolong it because they're so sensitive to perception and they're so insecure that they in essence say, we're going to stick to what we trust. He's our guy. He's our guy. And then we all get fired and we all get cut and we all lose our job? So I give them a lot of credit for trusting their instincts. Daniel Jones, in their mind, gave them the best chance to win and certainly yesterday for one week. Now this week.

[B]

Yeah, week.

[C]

One week. They look like they were right and it's going to take a lot of the heat off them in Indianapolis and across the country. And all because you win. Just go win and you can do anything you want.

[A]

Yeah, it's absolutely true. It's a week to week basis.

[B]

It's like two like you we bring up when we're talking about McDaniel and then we have the example of Bill Belichick. It's like, yeah, when the place Was on fire, obviously, until he. He got let go. But when Brady was there, anytime the place was on fire about everything, that's the one thing they did. It's like, oh, Bill check. He's saying this. He's saying that, like, the play, it's way worse off than what he's making it seem to be. But New England went out there and shut everybody up immediately. Yeah.

[A]

I mean, speaking of shutting people up, when you see Aaron Rodgers go 22 for 30 for 244 yards and four touchdowns, do you think to yourself, maybe I should get back out there? No.

[C]

But I am happy for him because I don't know if anybody comes under fire more so than that guy. And I've always liked Aaron. I've always had a good relationship with Aaron. And listen, he. He brings on some of it himself because he, frankly doesn't care. And I always respect that about him. He speaks his mind. He doesn't care if you believe him. He doesn't care if you agree with him. And I. I respect that. I thought his year in New York last year was better than people thought it was.

[B]

Yeah, he almost stood for 4,000 last year.

[C]

So we called his last game in Week 18 last year. They hosted the Dolphins. And Aaron was awesome. I mean, he had a great game. He was ripping it. He looked like Aaron Rodgers of a couple years ago. And I just had a funny feeling leaving that stadium. Like, this guy ain't done yet. Like, he's got too much pride. He cares too much about, like, his legacy and what he's built. So to come out there and get like the full circle moment of going back to New York, beating the jets, playing really well, I was happy for him. I. I think if they could, if that defense gets to where they usually are, I think yesterday, giving up, but they give up 30 to. To the Jets. I think that's probably not their expectation. That defense has been their strength. But if he can play at or near that level, they enter the conversation in the AFC as. As a team that can contend with the big Dogs bucks.

[A]

I mean, you're sitting with two guys that actually picked them to win the AFC north this year.

[C]

Because of that, you're ahead of the. You're ahead of the turf.

[A]

We try to be that way. I got one more. Do you have anything else?

[B]

No, go ahead and do your one more because I would hate to take up, you know, but this week one, I know we're fired up.

[A]

I know we're juiced up and we're already taking.

[B]

He's got to coach some ball this Wednesday night.

[A]

Oh, that's right. No, they have a bye week.

[B]

Oh, they have a bye week.

[A]

But he's got a self scout.

[B]

He's got self scouting to do on his team.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. Joe Burrow and the Bengals. I, I'll first off got to give a couple flowers of Joe Flacco. He had two picks in the game, but the two picks weren't even really his fault. Joe Burrow, for the first time since 2021 is 10 after week one. Are the Bengals back? Are the Bengals going to win at all? Is it, is it over?

[C]

I, I, I'll be honest, I only caught the highlights. I, I saw that, that Cleveland missed an extra point and like a really short field goal.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Is that right?

[A]

That is. That is.

[C]

They could have lost to Cleveland, but they didn't. And again, I'm the first to say you never apologize for how you win. It's so damn hard to win in the NFL. You take them how you can get them. I'm very encouraged at the job Al golden brought in as the new defensive coordinator was at Notre Dame, now comes to the NFL and that was the big question mark is can Cincinnati play a lick of defense to go along with that offense? And then yesterday, at least from the box score and the score again, I didn't catch much of the actual game game, but they didn't put up a ton of points. So I think the encouraging thing is the defense seems to have gotten better again for at least one week. And I know it was the Browns. That offense with Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase, like they're, they're going to get rolling, like they're going to find their stride offensively, I'm confident in that. So that's always been their issue. Can they play complimentary defense to go along with that Joe Burrow led offense and if they can, there's another AFC team. And what we're finding is, is because the AFC has so many good quarterbacks, you're competitive and you are relevant if you have a marquee quarterback and you look at the Chargers and the job that Harbaugh's done with with Justin Herbert in a relatively short amount of time, I thought they looked great this week. There's a lot of really good AFC quarterbacks and it's going to keep a lot of AFC teams relevant as a result.

[B]

I, yeah, I agree. I didn't catch much of the game either. But when you look at the stat sheet and everything else, Joe Burrow did Not have a big game game. Jamar Chase, T. Higgins, very few catches. But then you look at the, the box score and you see two interceptions from the Bengals defense. It's like, oh, defense kind of helped win them that game. To where you're one and oh, and you were talking about it earlier, Greg, to where after week one, you take a big deep breath, you can coach, you can get rolling, you're starting off one and oh, but optimism defensively. I, like, I'm sitting there and I'm looking out, I'm like, oh, Bengals had a couple picks, like their defense might be there. They're going to continue to get better with first year D coordinator coming from Notre Dame. But you already know, like, you sit there and look at the stat sheet with, with T. Higgins, Jamar Chase and Joe Burrow and you don't even worry about that because you're like, these boys are going to get.

[A]

Yeah, they're going to start going in a crazy way. You just got to get that week one out of the way.

[B]

Yeah. Which I. You got to get it out of the way. But you hate to think we got this one out of the way. If you're the Baltimore Ravens blowing a 15 point lead.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Fourth quarter, that's.

[C]

That's a tough one.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

I'll be honest, that was a catastrophe. Killing time to go catch my red eye last night, you know? You know, red eyes, like my game ended at 4 local and my flight was until 11:30. So you're like, you're like seeing backwards. You're like in your room. You're like in the Twilight zone. Killing time to go to the airport. I fell asleep, woke up to go to the airport and didn't even realize the Bills had won until I was driving. I was like, I'm going to check it. I wonder what the final was. And I looked at it like five times. I couldn't even believe that Buffalo came back. Josh Allen is just an absolute.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, I mean, you don't watch that game at all. And at any point until about three minutes left in the fourth, you're like, yeah, the Ravens are running away with this. And then all of a sudden, three minutes left in the fourth, they're like down by like four or five or six, whatever it is. I mean, five minutes before that, my wife's like, hey, are you gonna watch the whole game? I was like, nah, the Ravens are kind of putting it on him. I might as well just go to bed tonight and catch up what happened later. And then I look back and I'm like, oh, my God. But Josh Allen really is him. Also my super bowl pick. Also my super bowl pick.

[C]

Did Josh Allen follow up an MVP season with like the greatest week one exclamation point of all time.

[B]

Of all time.

[A]

Especially against the guy that a lot.

[C]

Of people says against the guy that, you know, half the country thought, you know, it was kind of like a 50, 50 split. And you can make a great argument for Lamar and Josh last year, rightfully so. And then you match up against each other in a prime time shootout out to kick off the season and you win 41, 40. And you are. Every single play was based on Josh Allen.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

And he doesn't get one playoff.

[A]

Yeah, right. Yeah.

[B]

And before the season, it's like based on last year defenses, they have the number one defense. And the conversations going into this season, they seem better on the roster than they were last year. But to put up over 4, that was insane. Married an actress in the off season.

[A]

Yeah. Every reason to go take a knee.

[B]

Guy is on fire.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. Josh is. He's doing crazy things. Friend of the show.

[B]

Friend of the show.

[A]

Friend of the show. Also friend of the show, Greg. Also. Let's give him a round of applause. Thank you for coming on. Dude, you've been incredible. Can't wait to get you every single week on Mondays. Thank you, brother. We'll talk to you soon.

[B]

And, and, and two, we'll have to get in a group chat so we can identify, hey, who's the opponent next week. Start building some good storylines and let's see if we can't get Greg to give us some bullet.

[C]

Some film, please. We can do a little breakdown.

[B]

Yeah, I would love or like something in a speech, something to where we can say. Greg talking a lot of about the. About the Eagles. They're about to play on Wednesday.

[A]

Yeah, it'd be fun to have a.

[C]

Little school bulletin board material. I like that. Shy away. I appreciate you guys.

[B]

Thank you, bro.

[A]

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[C]

See you guys.

[A]

What a guy. Yeah, what a guy.

[B]

I can't wait for the. Just the youth football all season long.

[A]

I know.

[B]

Luke's in that. I. I love it. I wanted to ask him too, like what's in these first couple weeks, have you given a pre game to where you're driving home? You're like that was kind of pee real quick. That got the boys going win because you could, you could, you could you. I. I think he'd be cool with it, but you clip certain parts and like, you know, try to build up some drama and we got to get out there. Have to get out there for one of their games.

[C]

I. I talked to my buddy who is like I told you guys in our pre production meeting. He's in like that Charlotte league.

[A]

He.

[C]

They play each other the week of the bus and bowl.

[B]

September 18th team big week. Are they a good football team?

[C]

My buddy's team?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I have no clue.

[B]

That's what we got to find out. We got to start getting on the inside of this league out there in Charlotte. Will, you had the moment because we couldn't hear the interview. I was curious if you guys could hear the conversation.

[C]

I was trying to put it through my headphones, but it was like it was too quiet.

[B]

But Greg was.

[C]

I don't know.

[B]

Are we even. This is. Are we recording or not?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Greg was talking.

[B]

I don't know what he was talking about. And you have your headphones on so you can't hear yourself either.

[A]

And you hit this.

[B]

Dude.

[C]

It was.

[B]

You keep talking about all these Montessori schools. Top of the class. Sorry. Way too. Way too more developed for my dumbass. Yeah, I was in public just trying to be the line leader. Going to bathroom, going to run into the lunchroom. But yeah, you the. No, he. He was fun, though. He was fun. That'll be. That'll be fun to do. That'll be fun to do. Every week we gotta go to the. Their biggest game of the year. I know.

[C]

Sounds like it's this week.

[B]

Yeah, they're on bye week this week. They're on a bye week. They're on a bye week this week. Next week they play whoever the team is.

[A]

Oh.

[C]

So I guess my boy's team is pretty good because he said like our next week's game is.

[B]

It will be the week of the bus and bowl. Damn, we are close. I didn't realize. I guess September 8th.

[C]

I think my buddy is the ones. He's like wide receivers and running backs coach.

[B]

So I mean, I guess wide receivers and running backs coach skill positions.

[C]

I guess he's got some.

[B]

And two of you for everybody. For everybody listening. Tomorrow is Jared Demon's birthday.

[A]

Jared Demon's birthday.

[C]

Happy birthday's in the chat.

[B]

Oh, just catching up on. Just a good old fashioned Greg hang.

[A]

Dude, he's the man.

[B]

He is the man.

[A]

I love it. I absolutely love it. Seems like he's doing the world tour right now too, which is incredible. Do we want to hit a couple more games before we get out of here or do we want to wrap.

[C]

It up to get.

[A]

You want to hit like one or two more games before you roll.

[B]

We could. We could also do some more tear talk. We only did one tear talk thus far.

[A]

Quickly. I'll just say this with the Chargers and Chiefs. Incredible to see Jim Harbaugh, everyone and their mothers talking about the Chargers. What do they want to do? They want to run the ball. They're going to run down your throats. They opened up that game using Justin Herbert. They threw it all over the yard. Hard. It feels to me, especially with Xavier Worthy going down. The Chiefs might be in a little bit more danger than we expected.

[B]

How about Quentin Johnston?

[A]

How about Quentin Johnston? Two tuddies.

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And I agree with you, it's going to be A shaky year for the Kansas City Chiefs. Just buckle up. Buckle up.

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I don't share the same sentiment. They still have Andy Reid as the head coach. They still have Travis.

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They do.

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They still have Patrick Mahomes. They still have Josh Simmons, 32nd overall pick who I thought had a good game.

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Game.

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Couple of penalties here and there.

[B]

Left guard struggled a little bit.

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Joanne Taylor, he, I mean played with plagued with penalties over and over and over again. But you know what, you're right. But they're gonna have to get grittier wins. Will I get it?

[B]

They haven't had a division. The Raiders offense looks good. Geno Smith and Chip Kelly look good on that Raiders offense. Chargers. You already said it. And the Broncos. The Broncos are going to be nice.

[A]

Broncos didn't look too great. They were what, four and a half point favorites against the Titans?

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I think they were bigger than that. And they struggled against the Titans.

[A]

They struggled against the Titans. But I think the Titans showed up in a big way. I mean they're at home and it's week one. You're never as good as you think you are. You're never as bad as you think you are. After week one, that is, I think.

[B]

With the Chiefs you can kind of peg shaky year.

[A]

I think the AFC west could be the most exciting thing to watch. Ryan Reichel or sorry. Brian Matthew Raquel at Matthew Raquel says thoughts on Aaron Rodgers after week one Dog four touchdowns. That was incredible. Dice him up all over the field. DK Metcalf is going to be huge for him all year. Jono Smith, I think him and that marriage with Arthur Arthur Smith is going to be incredible.

[B]

Just four tuddies, bro. I'm telling you, I said it before the season started. 4000s, 4000 yard season coming for Aaron Rodgers and I love that. The, the, the reporter after the games, ask him and he's like, I'm happy I beat everybody associated with the Jets.

[A]

Anybody associated with the Jets. And there's a lot of things that we're going to say on the show throughout the year that are going to be stupid. Dumb. Picking the Ravens on ESPN probably was one of them.

[B]

No, I, I stand by everything I say. None of them are dumb.

[A]

But one thing we're looking really good on right now is the AFC north champions and that's, that's the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah. Because they get their defense in order, which they will. They're going to be, they're gonna be stunts.

[B]

Tear talk From D Sakura 65 tier talk. I think the boys need to have a milk Check. Play of the week. The one that's standing out and jumping out to me right now is that six yard recession reception from Cam Scaboo.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Trucking. Three guys throwing one to the side.

[C]

Did you guys see the. The catch by the Lions guy? It's kind of garbage time, but yeah, the one hander, the Odell type and got his foot.

[B]

Do we know his name so we can shout him out?

[C]

Isaac.

[A]

Isaac.

[C]

Isaac to slaw.

[B]

Isaac to slaw. Another milk check. Highlight coming out.

[A]

Another milk check. Also going back to Scatter Boo. There was a, There was a pass protection. They slid to the left. A backer came right through that. A gap and he put his face on that.

[C]

He had his crown of his head.

[A]

He put the cr. Yeah, he targeted. He targeted the defender is what he did. Scatter Boo. I'm not sure how long he'll be with us, but buddy, I love seeing it.

[B]

Six yard reception. I came up off the couch with that one.

[A]

Yeah. Tear Talk from Mason Tisdale.04. Derek Henry is about 600 yards, 11,423 yards away from matching his career school stats. 12,000 career high school stats. High school, yeah. High school stats, 12,124 yards. That's a great comment and I agree. I think if you're the Ravens, you look at the run game, you go, we got no problems there, boys. It looked good all around.

[C]

I think you're giving that station that the light it deserves. His high school stats, four years, he's. That's 12, 000 yards in four years. He's been playing in the NFL for like nine, 10 years and he's only.

[A]

At 11, 10 years.

[C]

11,592.

[A]

You see the stat they put up about his touchdowns?

[C]

He scored 55 touchdowns in his senior year.

[A]

Well, yeah, I'm talking about in the NFL as well. Yeah. Him, him in college, him, him in high school, him in NFL. All of it's really good. Like he is. He's the only football player ever run for 2,000 yards in high school school, 2,000 in college, and 2,000 in the NFL. Like the guy is an alien. And when you're watching the Bills, the Bills Ravens game, they put up the stats of his touchdowns, how many? He's like 104, 106. Now, whatever it is, I think he's at 107. Just passed. Okay, 107, 108. And he. Every single person on that docket besides him is in the hall of Fame other than Adrian Peterson, who's not yet Eligible who is not yet eligible. So Derek Henry, first battle hall of famer. Book it. You heard it here first on bust with the boy boys.

[B]

Should there be. This is from D. Fish. Should there be any concern after Ash and Jinty's performance? I personally have none but people are always talking hashtag tear talk. I personally. Absolutely not. To me the question mark is on the offensive line they will need to pack a run game eventually because the Raiders do a incredible job of the play action. Bang eights on that weak cash right over the backer's head. I thought Chip Kelly the way that they're shifting their formations, reloading, motioning everything else. I think the Raiders are going to be tough. But no concern with Ashton Genty. To me the concern is more like getting the old line going.

[A]

Yeah. With the, with the office on Geno Smith the way he was throwing the ball over the yard. If he continues doing that they will earn the right to run the ball. That's Genti because they'll start moving more guys out of the box. I like, I like Ashton Genti.

[B]

Brock Bowers injury though. Yeah, apparently it's nothing. Apparently they came out of the game. Yeah, everything's going to be okay.

[A]

38 yard reception goes down, has a little knee ski and now all of a sudden, sudden they're saying a little tweak. I've seen a couple things didn't come back in rumor. Pete Carroll said in a post game press conference he wanted to go back in the game but the trainers did not let him.

[B]

Thank God we need him. That's a mil check highlight guy right there. We need him for the old white squad. He text me, he said Brock Bowers out. Season over for our fantasy team because everybody at first acl. Yeah acl, acl. But then I saw it could be an MCL sprain. But if he's saying he wanted to go back in the game.

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Game.

[B]

That gives me a lot of. That gives me a lot of a lot of optimism.

[A]

Crazy stat for brock Bowers.

[C]

Through 18 career games he now has more games with 90 plus receiving yards.

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Than he has with games with less.

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Than 57 games over 90 yards and only six under 50 dog.

[A]

Insane dog. And he loves stay. He loves steak. Loves, loves his red meat. Matthew Patrick at Matt Pat zero. Hashtag tear talk. With all the darts I've been inhaling due to the Steelers run defense, do I need to. Do I need a Costco sized carton of cigarettes for the next six months I think the answer is no. I think the answer is No, I think they had an uncharacteristic day. You never overreact in a week one situation. Steelers historically have a great defense. I think they'll get it together.

[B]

Yeah. And Highsmith jumping off the stat sheet with all, you know, all the attention that T.J. watts going to be getting. Highsmith, he's healthy, he's ready to go. And also you don't know what you're going to get get you. You aren't familiar with what you're going to get with coach Aaron Glenn and Justin Fields in that week one from the Jets. I thought the jets played their asses off, played their place well enough to win. They ended up not getting the dub, but I thought Justin Fields looked really good.

[A]

And if you watch the NFL locker room with myself, Will Compton, Delaney Walker, Clay Matthews, somebody who was 67 actually mentioned Alex Highsmith and how much of a game changer he is when he's in the game compared to when T.J. watts in the game. Something to keep in mind when you're looking at your betting scores.

[B]

This one's from zt3758tear talk. Hashtag tear talk. Greatest regular season football games of all time. I think that's a great overreaction on Monday. I will say the games were electric all weekend long, all Sunday long. There are multiple times ruse want me to play? I'm thinking, I'm like, sweetheart, this is. You see these two minute drills on the screen right now. Let's finish these up. Yeah, let's. I'll go hide for you. But by the way, she gives herself up every time when I'm like all right, read it or not, here I come. And she's like you found me. And I'm like, you kind of just ran out of the bantry.

[C]

Falcons Bucks game ending is yeah, my butt. Foul's a Falcons fan and he is ready for younger is gonna be.

[B]

Hey, dude.

[A]

He is gonna be nice. And also shout out Baker Mayfield coming in getting a game winning drive. That's unbelievable. And save the damn parlay. We needed that in a big way.

[B]

Falcons great parlay clump.

[A]

Yeah, fantastic.

[B]

Great parlay for the first.

[A]

Your Sunday night football parlay was amazing. If it was, it wasn't for, you know, 80 points being scored.

[B]

Generational game. Generational game. The under was beating the first half.

[A]

I'll tell you this, next time those two teams see each other, I guarantee. I can't guarantee anything. I can almost promise you it's going to be an under game. Happens every single time you see A couple of years ago with Chiefs, Bills, how they had this massive over game in the playoffs and they go play, everyone's like, over, over, over defensive game. So when you see him in the playoffs, remember it's an under game.

[B]

Outside of that game. It was a massive underdog week, that one.

[A]

Sickening because of the parlay Jets, Pittsburgh game, too.

[C]

Those two games, I think, are the.

[B]

Only two that you over, buddy.

[A]

Week one unders. Week one unders. You're gonna hit so, so much.

[B]

That Peyton Manning commercial with his son Marshall. It truly showed to me, like, the difference in generations of quarterbacks with Eli Manning and Peyton Manning being the Thursday night game and seeing how much more athletic and probably talented Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson are then. Peyton and Eli is crazy.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because it wasn't that long ago, but it's like now these quarterbacks are freaks.

[A]

It's incredible, too, like the mobility of all the quarterbacks like Sam Darnold, Jared Golf. They're kind of the last of a dying breed when it comes to sitting in the pocket. Everybody, dude, everybody in college can run. Everybody who's coming up and is going to be drafted soon can run to some extent, like mobile quarterbacks. You're now playing for 11, not just for 10.

[B]

And when you're in Mahomes having that little sidearm where he was kind of sideways.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

In that Friday night football game.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I saw something, a tweet. I was like, patrick Mahomes is. If everything Jameis Winston tried to do, but it actually worked. Say it again. Like, pat, what Patrick Mahomes do. Like that little play, that little side thing. Like, Jameis Winston has tried that. But he throws a pick on that pick six. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

I mean, Patrick still Patrick, that's why you're like, yeah, you can't count the Chiefs out. But they, they're from a. A talent standpoint, like, they're hurting in a lot of ways right now. Especially if Xavier Worthy shoulders in in trouble. Tyree Kill. Tyree Kill by week five, Tyreek Hill by week five to the Chiefs. I'm calling it now. I'm calling that now. Boys.

[B]

Think about it, right upset.

[A]

They just lost their fastest guy, Xavier Worthy. Who knows how long he'll be out? Have the whole. You get Tyreek Hill back in that chief's uniform. Boys, I'm telling. They might be back.

[C]

They might be back.

[A]

They might be back. All right. Are we good on any. Is there anything you guys want to get out before we get out out?

[B]

I'll just, I'll Share another tear talk. Overreaction. This one comes for Tanner Hagerty. Tear talk is a time for Baltimore to part ways with old Johnny boy. He seems to be holding the team back from succeeding. Seems to take his foot off the gas latent games when play calling, costing the team wins. That's a great overreaction.

[A]

Great overreaction.

[B]

I mean that is a.

[A]

He talking about John Harbaugh.

[B]

That is a, A very, very hard way for the Ravens to. To lose in that fashion. It's like when we were on get up and they're like, is this mentally going to take a toll? And it's like, dude, it's week one. But if any game could have. Could potentially have a mental toll, it would have been the way that they lost that 15 point lead. A terrible fashion to lose a football game. But that roster is loaded. Defense has got to figure it out. You know, it's massive gut check time because you give up over 500 total yards and you got all those pieces.

[A]

You said they were statistically number one in all categories last year.

[B]

Oh yeah. The Ravens defense, I mean they are. They are nasty, bro. So, so gotta watch the tape. Gotta crunch tape.

[A]

Gotta crush tape. I'll say this, if you're a Ravens fan, if you're on the Ravens coaching staff, do your do yourself a favor. Hold on to Kyle Hamilton as long as you can. That kid is a stud. He is all over the field.

[B]

He was a all white team player two years ago.

[A]

Was he?

[B]

Yeah. But then after a game he was on, he did a video, was like, no, he's on the other side.

[A]

Damn. Well, yeah, it's kind of obvious.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But you, Yeah, I see you trying.

[B]

To stop, but again, still. Yeah, still, we still had him for Hamilton. Yeah.

[A]

5A school in Arizona. All right. That's all the time we have for you today. On Monday.

[B]

Yeah. We will be dropping tomorrow. Busting with the boys back tomorrow for our interview. Can we just say who it is or do we got to do.

[A]

No, let's say who it is. Let's say who it is.

[B]

And Dominican Sue.

[A]

And Dominican Sue.

[B]

Husker fans. Yeah. After that weekend are going to love this.

[A]

Yeah. And we do ask them about all those controversial things. You'll get those answers.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. See you tomorrow. Love you. Big hugs, tiny kisses.

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