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Summary

Bussin' With The Boys – Episode 349

Mario Cristobal Reacts To Miami Win Over FSU & Field Yates Gives Expert NFL Fantasy Tips
Date: October 7, 2025
Hosts: Will Compton & Taylor Lewan

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Main Theme / Purpose

This episode of “Bussin’ With The Boys” blends in-depth college football talk focused on Miami’s key win over Florida State, a big-picture look at the transfer portal era, and an NFL fantasy football masterclass courtesy of ESPN’s Field Yates. Coach Mario Cristobal details Miami’s rise, culture-building amid roster churn, and his reflections on achieving state-champion status. In the second half, Field Yates gives candid advice on fantasy football management—from stressful roster shakeups to creative punishments—and shares behind-the-scenes stories from the ESPN War Room league. The Boys’ signature banter, running bet drama, and “Spooktober” antics infuse humor and camaraderie throughout.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Weekend & Show Recap | Spooktober Vibes

Timestamps: 00:14–22:41

• Will, Taylor, and crew reminisce about a busy week: podcast tapings, ESPN appearances, trips for shows, and family time.
• “Spooktober” traditions are in full effect—Halloween festivities, staycations, pumpkin patches, family fun and the urge to “double up” on missed spooky activities.
• Live show plug: Red River Rivalry weekend in Dallas at Terry Black’s Barbecue (21:09–22:03).
• Early football recap and betting highlights: UFC Power Slap bets, the thrill and heartbreak of group parlays, and conversation about sports book limits.
• “If you’re not learning, you’re dying.” – Taylor, on ongoing lessons (15:07).

Memorable Quote:

“Sometimes that guy’s got a backup camera on him. Like, nobody. Like, he could parallel park anything. You gotta give a lot of credit to JP the way he handled me like a child.”
— Taylor, on being ‘handled’ during production prep (13:20)

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2. Rock Fumble & Redemption Bet

Timestamps: 10:54–14:17

• Taylor describes a painful failed attempt to interact with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson during ESPN taping.
• Sets a “redemption” goal: get The Rock on the Bus as a future guest.
• A running joke about whether to tweet at The Rock daily until he accepts.

Memorable Quote:

“Redemption, to me, looks like this: Got to get The Rock on the show. …We might be looking at a possible Rich Eisen situation. Might be looking at a possible tweet at him every single day situation.”
— Taylor (11:20–12:36)

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3. UFC & Vegas Vlog Tease

Timestamps: 6:22–17:59

• Recap of a wild Vegas weekend and the UFC 320 card.
• Details of high-stakes parlays, both wins and epic losses.
• Group bet was so lopsided, the sportsbook cut off further wagers (17:16–17:43).
• The upcoming Vegas vlog is hyped as “must-see content.”

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4. College Football Segment: Miami’s State Championship & Transfer Portal Era

Guest: Mario Cristobal, Miami Head Coach
Timestamps: 41:28–67:44

A. Culture & Leadership

• Mario Cristobal on flipping Miami’s roster: embracing the “one-year team” reality and how to mold culture amid high transfer portal turnover.
• The secret: “Get them all here early, get them here in January, and then go right to work…” (43:55).
• Importance of recruiting/work-ethic match—“If you don’t like work, you’re going to hate it around here.”

B. Cam Ward Leadership Stories

• Cam Ward’s immediate impact as a transfer QB, setting the tone.
• Quote:

“You want to go throw with Lamar Jackson, he better throw you passes during the year because I ain’t going to throw you squat.”
— Cristobal, relaying Ward’s attitude (41:51)

• Emphasis on honest, transparent culture-building.

C. Building Through the Portal & Recruiting

• Constructing a competitive roster via high school recruits, JUCO, transfers, overseas — even preferred walk-ons.
• “If you’re crazy enough to think that your opponent on a weekly basis doesn’t have enough talent to whoop your ass, you’re out of your mind. Everybody has talent.”

— Cristobal (48:44)

D. State Champs & Rivalries

• Miami’s back-to-back “state champ” status over Florida rivals.
• “As a former Miami Hurricane, as a former player here, this game was everything to us, man.” (49:49)

E. Standout Players

• Francis Mauigoa and Reuben Bain as “Jurassic Park” level trench animals.
• “We call him Cece. His bone density is that like of a brontosaurus. …He’s £350. …This dude’s prehistoric.” (47:42–47:45)
• Malachi Tony (“Baby Jesus”) called “one of the most electrifying players in the country,” praised for his junkyard-dog mentality and run-blocking (56:19–57:47).

F. Reflection & Personal Mission

• Cristobal’s drive to resurrect Miami:

“For 20 years I was so just enraged and pissed at the way the University of Miami was playing football…if I don’t do it, who is going to do it? And I owe Miami…” (59:22–60:42)

• On not aspiring to the NFL: “I’ve always had one destination in mind, that’s the University of Miami. Always.” (64:48)
• Brief detour: Cristobal almost became a Secret Service agent before embracing 80-hour coaching weeks for $4 an hour.

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5. NFL/Fantasy Football with Field Yates (ESPN)

Timestamps: 73:34–102:54

A. Fantasy Football Origin, Approach, & ESPN War Room

• Field’s entry into fantasy: “Kind of by accident…Fantasy football just gets bigger and bigger by the year…” (75:44)
• Admits even the most plugged-in experts win 10–20% of leagues per year due to luck, size, and variance (77:08)
• ESPN’s internal War Room league is fiercely competitive, with only one multiple-time champion in 16 years.

B. Strategic Advice for Listeners

• On what to do when you start 0–4: “Sometimes I’m willing to, and I think others would disagree philosophically, but if I can find a trade that maybe gets me like 85 cents in the dollar because I get two starters… I’m okay with doing that.” (80:36)
• Flexibility and “roster churn” may matter more than name value or recouping “perfect” draft cost.

C. Specific Running Back Advice

• Patience with Derrick Henry: “...Way too good to give up hope on. He definitely is going to have, you know, three, four, five more games this season where he ends up being the player that wins you his week.” (79:49)

D. Fantasy League Controversies & Punishments

• Hypothetical: Should new acquisitions in a midweek trade count for the current week’s points? Field equivocates, leans slightly against it for competitive integrity (84:19–86:22).
• Best/worst league punishments:
  • 24 hours in Waffle House (lose a half hour per waffle eaten)
  • “Run to the bar” tab-running for brewery league losers
  • Bussin’s own: 24-hour stay in the stream room, escalating forfeits and livestreamed torture.

E. Personal/Professional Stories

• Field’s transition: “You can love football, but you definitely have to live it… I love football now—I have interest outside of football that I get to explore now on the career path that we have.” (88:57)
• On Mike Vrabel’s legendary honesty:

“One of the greatest qualities he has—doesn’t matter if you’re best player on the team, last player on the roster, he’s going to tell you exactly how it is…” (92:17)

F. What Would You Do Anything For?

“I would do anything to win the War Room League. …I could go over infinity after one championship if I get that one championship.”
— Field Yates on the elusive ESPN title (100:42)

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6. Running Gags, Fantasy League Collusion & Community

Timestamps: 107:03–113:41

• “Gooner of the Month” award goes to behind-the-scenes team member, with playful intra-league drama about fantasy scoring and trade ‘collusion’ dominating the closing section.
• The boys debate (with tongue-in-cheek accusation and defense) how their fantasy commissioner and fellow league mates should handle trade timing, scoring, and integrity.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• “If you’re not learning, you’re dying. Amen.” – Taylor (15:07)
• “You want to go throw with Lamar Jackson, he better throw you passes during the year because I ain’t going to throw you squat.” – Mario Cristobal, on Cam Ward (41:51)
• “You cut me open, I’m orange and green, man, all the way through.” – Mario Cristobal, on Miami loyalty (65:14)
• “I would do anything to win the War Room League. I could go over infinity after one championship if I get that one championship.” – Field Yates (100:42)
• “Redemption, to me, looks like this: Got to get The Rock on the show…” – Taylor (11:20)
• “If you don’t like work, you’re going to hate it around here.” – Mario Cristobal (43:55)
• “He’s, you know, and we had penne suel when we were out west as well. …We call him Cece. His bone density is that like of a brontosaurus.” – Mario Cristobal (47:42)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Spooktober & Weekend Recap: 00:14–22:41
• The Rock Fumble Story: 10:54–14:17
• UFC & Vegas Bets: 06:22–17:59
• Live Show/Red River Rivalry Plug: 21:09–22:03
• Miami Head Coach Mario Cristobal Interview: 41:28–67:44
• Fantasy Football Segment w/ Field Yates: 73:34–102:54
• Fantasy League Collusion Debate: 107:03–113:41

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Tone and Atmosphere

The show’s tone is lighthearted, conversational, and unfiltered—mixing hard-hitting football analysis with bro-level humor, long-running inside jokes, and a sincere love for the game (and for each other). Both interviews go deep yet never get stuffy, staying true to “Bussin’ With The Boys” roots of authenticity and playful trash-talk.

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For New Listeners

This episode provides:

• A masterclass on building and sustaining college football culture in the transfer-portal era from a top-level coach.
• Hard-won fantasy football tips and insight into how the best analysts handle stress, losing streaks, and league politics.
• Plenty of banter, transparency, and jovial beef typical of a tight-knit, football-obsessed crew.

Skip the ads, enjoy the football talk, and don’t miss the “Spooktober” anecdotes!

Transcript

[A]

All right, we're good.

[B]

Be like busing with the boys, hanging with the fellas, betting on a game. No woman's gonna tell us what to do. And I've been over here just drinking beer and making that noise, baby. I'm hanging with the fellas. Busting with the boys, bro. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Busting with the Boys. This is episode 349. Bust with the Boys is presented by FanDuel Sportsbook, America's number one sports book.

[C]

Yeah, and if you're watching on this spooky little October 7th, you know what that today is Tuesday. But real quick, we want to talk to you about Thursday because Thursdays have been treating the boys very well.

[B]

If you just backtrack a little bit. Last Thursday, busting with the boys, same game parlay. Cash it in the first half, I might add.

[C]

This was the first half and again, this was a full game parlay. Yeah, that hit in the first two quarters.

[B]

Right? We only needed 30 minutes. Teams want to play for 60. We only needed 30. That's what's telling you everything you need to know. Kyron Williams, anytime touchdown CMC. Anytime touchdown CMC. All rushing yards of 30 plus 40 plus. Kyron Williams, 10 plus alt receiving yards. That was plus 518. Like we said before, that cashed in the first half of the game.

[C]

I want to say just north of 10,000 people were happy. But this Thursday, busting with the Boys is cooking up another same game, same game parlay. Stay tuned because we are in the right now.

[B]

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[C]

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[B]

Jackpot just hit fanduel.combuston to gear up for Thursday and the rest of this week's NFL slate. Boys, it was a hell of a weekend, not just for football, but for the boys. I'll, I'll go first listen, but just.

[C]

To recap, if you, if you, all the football talk we're going to have. Like, we got Mario Cristobal on this episode for the interview. We're also interviewing Field Yates for some fantasy football talk. But if you want the entire recap of college football and NFL over the weekend, that was on yesterday's episode we had on Caitlin Deboer we had on Greg Olson. We had a lot of football talk.

[B]

This is an iHeart podcast.

[D]

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[C]

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[B]

Shoes matching.

[C]

I was excited. I took, I took off the shoe. I, I took out the shoes and Rus asked me, oh, daddy, you got new shoes. Audrey's like, oh, you got new shoes. I'm like, no, these have been, you've been in the chamber. They just, it's, it's opportunities throughout the year.

[B]

Opportunities throughout the year. You take advantage of it. These one right here. Dirty boys. I've been rocking these Chucks for the last week straight and to be honest with you, I don't know why it's right now, but my phase of my life, I'm really enjoying Converse.

[C]

Chucks are the move, bro.

[B]

Chucks. That's what they do. They.

[C]

I know you've been a big Vans guy, but I think Chucks are. Chucks are over top of vans.

[B]

You like that right now where I sit, I enjoy wearing Chucks more than Vance. But in my whole totality of life, right. It is vans. It is vans. It'll always be vans for me. Big weekend for the boys, obviously. Let us just tell you real quick how our weeks go. Mondays we do our football talk and then we do our intro for the Bus with the Boys episode. You guys are listening now. Tuesday at 6am Then it's prep city. Right. Because Wednesday we shoot college football gambling show, the locker room with Josh Pate. And then we shoot the NFL locker room gambling show with Walker and Clay Matthews.

[C]

Then hall of Fame nominees.

[B]

Right now. Yeah, both hall of Fame nominees. Then Will and I prep for ESPN, get on a plane at 8:30 at night so we can spend time with our families. Get into New York around midnight, 12:30. Usually put our head in the pillow around 1:00am we wake up at 5:30 in the morning, we go in for a pre production meeting, then we shoot ESPN, get up from 8 Eastern to 10 Eastern. 1045, we're back on a plane to Nashville, get time with our families, then go stream. That's usually how our weeks go.

[E]

You missed one part though.

[B]

What? I miss the Rock. Yes. Well, I was saying this is how.

[C]

The week go down.

[B]

This is how.

[C]

And I usually on weekends will travel to a college town. We got the fall tour. This weekend we are going to the Red river rivalry, which we will talk about that in a second.

[E]

Yeah, three times fast.

[B]

But this week there was a couple more wrinkles. Yes, we'll have the Rock. We'll get into that in just a moment. I listen. Hand up. Fumbled, back fumbled. That was just abysmal by me. You put it on film and you just, you're essentially James Franklin after the UCLA game going, buddy, I don't know what to tell you guys. Yeah, I don't know what to tell you here.

[C]

I'm glad you got to that point because I know the first time we kind of watch, you're like, there's really no coaching points here.

[B]

I don't think I, I don't think I said that. I think I literally said. I saw his eyes and I was like this. I need to get the out of here, out of my skin feeling was what the words I was using. It was tough. But so Thursday we do the stream that we get done at that like 11. So we have a couple of days where we're just like, holy shit, that's a lot of work. Wake up 5:30 in the morning. So me, Jack, Jared Beeman the Demon can go to Vegas. Power slap ufc. I'm not going to get too much into it. I'm not going to get too much into it. I will say there's a couple points there, Jack, where I felt like we couldn't miss. True. It's facts.

[F]

Boys were hot.

[E]

Incredible UFC card, boys.

[B]

Incredible UFC card.

[E]

Very spicy.

[B]

I mean, shout out Alex Pereira.

[C]

I know, dude. Him put what Was it a minute plus 210.

[B]

Plus 210 to win that. And the first fight between the two of them, you'd see Perez kind of more in the defensive mode. Didn't want to get taken down at all. He came out immediately, but it didn't even meet at the center of the Octagon. They. He pushed his ass right towards us and he was. He was like, hey, we're not around this time. Handle business the way business needed to be handled. It was impressive to see he hit.

[F]

Him with the Taylor Lawan act score.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Over the top.

[B]

Over the top. Hit him. A couple of those. Couple of elbows. Talking about midnight to 6.

[C]

That's what that was. Wondering if you know it's going to get called on because all boys just sitting down there in the pocket a little bit. I'm like, is this, you know, is it a spot where you call it. You kind of let him survive it for a moment then. Yeah. Pereira hits him with that. Buddy gets up, tries to. He's like, hey, so you're celebrating a little too hard right now.

[B]

Yeah, you. But you know what? He had his time to fight it out. You can't go try to fight after the fight because the fight's over. That's done one thing too. Not the most exciting. What does redemption look like? Okay, we'll get to that in a second with that. With Merab, the second to last fight, boring fight. A lot of people would say a lot of technical. He's thrown into the ground. It goes all five rounds. Jack said on the way back, we're watching a guy that's going to be a champion for a very, very long time.

[E]

One of the best ever, guys. And also shout out to Corey Sandhagen. He is an absolute dog for holding five rounds with him.

[B]

Yes. Cuz the gas tank that Marab has on him, he does not stop, he does not let you breathe for a minute. All five rounds of that fight, he gets on your back and holds you, waits to you for you to mess up a little bit. Boom, you're on the ground. Boom, you're on the ground. Take down after take down after take down. And if I'm a rob and the people are booing you and all that, and they're getting bored about the fight. You just essentially put up double birds to them and be like, you guys can hate it if you want. I'm gonna be here for a long time. The guy is extremely impressive. I don't know the technical aspect of Brazilian jiu jitsu and the octagon and all that. But just watching as a pedestrian fan sitting back, I can just tell this guy is in a class of his own right now. He is very impressive.

[C]

Yeah, I agree. Didn't really. I did. I'll be honest. I didn't watch the. I didn't want. I didn't catch the fights. I got a parlay sent to me. I blindly put faith in it. It lost, but yeah, I forget what game was on. I forget what game was on that night. What was the night game? Saturday, College football. Oh, Miami.

[F]

Miami.

[C]

Miami. Florida state. Miami.

[B]

Florida State, buddy. The third to last fight. I know you didn't watch it. We'll just briefly go over it. It was the guy that fought Pereira when prayer hit the. Hit the leg kick on him.

[E]

Yeah, yeah. I can't pronounce.

[B]

I can't pronounce his name either, but he's a Russian cat as well. He fought Roundtree Jr. Just two muscled up guys. When the fight was starting, it looked like two robots trying to get some WD40 in their joints. They seem very odd, very awkward. First, the fight just really turned into a slugfest at the end. Both guys are absolutely gassed. Everybody in T Mobile arena is on their feet. Dudes are just trading punches back and forth, and the round tree ends up going down, getting knocked out. One of those fights, you look back and be like, this is. This is why it's the most entertaining sport to watch. It was incredible, dude. All the fights were awesome. But those three fights in particular, you kind of get everything you need. Everything. One goes a distance with a knockout. The other one is a techn. Just marab being a technician. And then watching Pereira come out guns blazing, taking back his belt. Overall. Was it UFC 320? Yes. UFC 320 was amazing, dude. Amazing. Now Sherm has brought up Dexter Hampton at Dex Hampton. This tear talk multiple times. I might as well address it. What does redemption look like for you with at the Rock?

[C]

Good news is he responded to the tweet.

[B]

Yeah, responded to the tweet. I'll say this. I've already kind of. I put the hand up. I said, it is what it is. You. I. I messed up in a big way. I felt very uncomfortable. When I go to this ESPN break and one of the producers like, hey, the rock's gonna be out there and say, you should go say hello. Now we know. You know, I get uncomfortable about just kind of going somewhere immediately to meet somebody. In the. Walk away. I feel. I feel uncomfortable.

[C]

I comfortable saying hello.

[B]

Yeah. I uncomfortable saying Hello. In that. In the fashion it was. So I get kind of pushed out in the middle of the area. I'm sitting there with Matt Malone. Matt Malone sees him first. He starts walking down. I do like this already walk of shame up to the middle. You can see my heart's not in it. I look up. We make eye. Eye contact. He immediately looks back down. I think to myself, he doesn't want to both. I should just get out of here. Obviously, you watch back the film. And I could just have easily turned around and said, Mr. Rock, hey, I know we've DMed a whole bunch. You've sent me over three minutes worth of voice memos. So we kind of have a bit of a rapport with each other. Nice to meet you in person. My name is Taylor Lawan. Obviously, that up. Obviously messed that up. That's on me. Redemption, to me looks like this. Got to get the Rock on the show. Gotta get the Rock on the show. We've got to. I mean, he responds to the tweets. I already mentioned about the DMs. He said in 2024 he'd come on, obviously. Listen, man's busy. He's got a lot of stuff to do. He did nothing wrong in the interaction, the lack of interaction between the two of us. But I think it's only fair that the Rock sits in this chair. So that's. That's where redemption comes in place. We might be looking at a possible Rich Eisen situation. Might be looking at a possible tweet at him every single day situation. You going to do that? I don't run our socials.

[E]

It seems like this is a you versus the Rock, because I. I remember how this all went down with Rich. I'm still driving my 044 Runner about to hit 300K.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

So, hey, that's. I'm just.

[B]

It seems like maybe another bet needs to be placed for this to happen.

[C]

Okay.

[E]

And that is something I would love to entertain.

[B]

Would you like. Do you want to throw anything out there right now for me?

[E]

See, the last time I did this, I just jumped the gun. So maybe give me one week. Next intro, I'll come correct.

[B]

I love that you weren't here for the. Was it college football. NFL we were talking about? Oh, it was college football. We're talking about Michigan. And I said, next time I go to Vegas, 50 of what I win, I'll donate to the Michigan and I alpha. I just said it out loud. And then I just kind of in my own brain again. Double down. Also within Three minutes. So I like the fact that you're taking a week.

[C]

JP walks you into that walk, man.

[B]

And you know what, dude? Sometimes that guy's got a backup camera on him. Like, nobody. Like, he could parallel park anything. You got to give a lot of credit to JP the way he handled me like a child.

[F]

He.

[B]

He's a technician. He. Absolutely. So, yes, I will. I will now stand on that. But I love the fact you're taking a week. So check back in a week with us. We'll have a bet between myself and Jack or busting with Jack. Well, the three of us will get together and we'll figure it out.

[C]

Yeah, we can figure something out because Taylor and the Rock would absolutely love to have the Rock on the show.

[B]

Right, Right.

[C]

So that's one of the heroes right there.

[B]

Yeah. So. But yes, I let down not only myself, I let you down. I let Bustle and the boys down. I let our entire company down.

[E]

Opportunity for a massive redemption.

[B]

Right, right.

[C]

And on a setback, major comeback.

[E]

Exactly.

[B]

Yeah. And I'm also going to take back what I just said. If anything, I put us in a great position to have the Rock on. Eventually, if you really think about it. If you really think about it, my demise might be what helps us get the Rock here.

[A]

I feel like we were in a.

[F]

Good situation with the rapport that you.

[C]

Guys were building already.

[B]

Yeah. But you know what?

[C]

Yeah, we were in a great. I was honestly so bummed I couldn't get to meet that dude because I'm back when I'm not in the block.

[B]

Where were you?

[E]

Hair and makeup?

[C]

No, I was. So when it was happening, it was during get up and there was a moment where they're on and I'm standing off the side and I kind of go over to Foss and the people and I'm like, hey, how in the Can I get. How can I meet the Rock? I have to meet the Rock. And the opportunity comes when I'm on.

[E]

And he's out in the hallway.

[C]

And so it all went down. He comes back during commercial. When he's come back on, he's like, hey, worst L of all time just happened.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Were you low key? Kind of like, good.

[C]

Because you bummed. I was like, I gotta see. I gotta see the footage. And then I saw the footage. I'm like, buddy, yeah, Tough.

[B]

Just tough.

[E]

It's all good.

[B]

Just tough. Learning, Learning every day, just learning. That's all you can do, man. All you can do. You're not learning. You're dying. Amen yeah, Amen. But, hey, the vlog. The Vegas vlog, I think will be.

[E]

Yeah, it's gonna be awesome.

[B]

It'll live up to every expectation you want it to be.

[E]

It'll probably come out Wednesday or Thursday. We'll. We'll put out a tweet when we get a finalized date. But, yeah, it's gonna be an awesome.

[F]

Are you cutting it, Jack?

[E]

No. Jared is over there cooking it up right now.

[B]

Yeah. And Jared, I tell you, he was elated. He's so ecstatic about it. He's like, I love the story lines we have going here. You know, Jared's little break.

[C]

Yeah. He gets rocking.

[B]

Yeah. And he was very excited about, which got me very excited about. Because to me, I'm just in hell and also in heaven at the same time. Like, I got the two demons on both sides.

[E]

He showed me the footage. Just a little context won't give too much away from the vlog. Me and Tanner put a parlay on Power Slap, which is kind of a coin flip, but literally it was a five leg parlay, absolute coin flip. Literally all four of the five legs hit and one didn't. And the one that did not. The guy that we bet on knocked this guy the out to where. Like, normally they call the fight so fast and they let this guy go to 10 seconds, stands up, they end up going to, like, extra rounds, and then he ends up getting knocked out. So I still think that there's something. They rigged it. But I watched the knockout.

[C]

You say some, you pull.

[E]

I tried to pull Dana away. You'll just have to watch the vlog and see why I was not able to pull Dana away. Because there was bigger things at stake than my $500 parlay.

[B]

I'll say this too. Dana seemed like he was ducking a little bit. I do think, I hope there's footage.

[C]

Of the boys having to hold you back, yelling at Dana, I want answers. Oh, I want answers.

[B]

Then you'll. You'll love the vlog. You'll love the blog. I'll say this. I put in a parlay for Power Slap. 750 to win. A hundred thousand lost in the second leg. It's all good. But the parlay, buddy, I'm telling you, it's ex. That's the thing about parlays. You just get excited about the op. Yup. What if? What if, what if?

[E]

I mean, we all know Taylor also got like five other guys on it right as he placed it. And then they show up and the first fight they see they Go. What happened? It's already lost.

[C]

It's already dead.

[B]

We're at the sports book and Kyle from Nell comes up. He's what are you guys betting on my power? Suppose. Oh, we're getting on it too it and we bet us. We bet it. Cody bet it like five other people to the point. The Sportsbook is like no one else can bet this bet anymore. Cuz the odds like were, you know, 750 to win 100,000. The sportsbook's thinking themselves we, we don't want this. Yeah, yeah. Cuz they've essentially had you know, a six. $700,000.

[E]

Taylor tried to put five grand on it and then they capped him at 750 because five grand paid out. 700,000.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

And they're like yeah, we you. The most you can do is 750.

[B]

Right, right.

[C]

So anyway, that vlog comes out. You said Wednesday, probably Wednesday or Thursday.

[B]

I said Wednesday.

[E]

Yeah, probably Wednesday night.

[B]

Jared's. If Jared's the many claims to be. It'll probably be Tuesday, but okay, yeah, Wednesday, Wednesday.

[E]

They're grinding on it. He had a lot already cut up so I love it.

[C]

I tried to start a vlog with the staycation that my wife and I did, but that's not for.

[E]

You got a little R rated.

[C]

You got a little R rated.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Roast sparks might have went in the system. We did a little, we did a little staycation down. You know, not the flex but the four seasons. On Friday got back home, it was like 2:30. We shot for the Dads that episode as you're listening to this right now, new new episode of for the Dads drops tomorrow morning at 6am but we shot the for the Dads episode last Friday, got home around 2:30, packed the overnight bag. We're in the car about 2:45. Get to the Four Seasons around 3 and the wife and I just have a. Just have a day, have a night, have a morning. At a little staycation we went from being mom and dad to boyfriend and girlfriend for it.

[B]

Fresh off the block too.

[C]

Fresh off the block and it was much needed. It was, it was all time. Then we go to got our little spooktober festivity in. On Saturday we go to Cheekwood which I highly recommend if you're local to Nashville. Cheekwood does all year round. But they got a nice little. They got the pumpkin set up, you got the food trucks, you got the live music happening. Go check out the mansion if you want to. But a good vibe and old Papa Shurm Sherm PT6, he shows up, a little scar. Scar. He was running a solo mission over the weekend. Jewel was out of town. She was in Miami for a bachelorette party. So we got the kiddos together. Sherm came to hang. We lasted about, what, about an hour?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

For little ones. Had to go down 45 minutes for me. Sherm got to meet Scott Zilla for the first time in person. She hit expectations.

[F]

She rips.

[B]

She.

[F]

She tried to take over the DJ set. Like, she went up to a speaker and was, like, trying to dj.

[B]

Zilla couldn't figure out the ox. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

I had a little family day that afternoon. And then it was the Husker football was all. Eyes on Husker football, sweetheart. You got the kiddos for the next couple hours because I'm gonna be locked in watching Husker football watch some ball. Had some. Ordered some barbecue. The father in law came over to hang out. His wife's out of town in the Philippines right now, back home. So we had a little family affair that evening. And then Sunday was just a nice. What did I do yesterday?

[B]

You did a live. You did a live.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, we did the live show.

[B]

We had a watch party.

[C]

Yeah. We went out. Wife's like, hey, do you want to. You want to take the kids on a little nature walk? I'm like, sure, I'm done with that. Whatever you want to do. We went to this coffee shop. I hate that I'm not remembering their name right now because. Awesome coffee shop down in Franklin. And you want to do a little nature walk after. Next thing you know, we're driving 30 minutes outside of Franklin to go on this nature of. Sweetheart, I'm gonna have to be back for this watch party. But we hit this nature walk, and Scotty, listen, was beside herself, and we figured out it's because she had shoes on. Trying to take a nap, but I'm saying for an hour. Tried to put this little villain down, but got it. Nature walk, come back. We had an awesome little Titans watch party. We. Unfortunately, we had to. We had to do some things at halftime, so we had to. We had to get out of there. But only to fail to see the Titans come back because there were some absolute sickos. Sickos at that watch party watching all the way to the end, including Jack. Including Watch party was all time. Had a good time hanging out with the fans.

[B]

Great time.

[E]

Titans are want to know when the boys do a watch party.

[B]

Titans are wanting to know when the boys do a watch party. You know, you brought. You bring up Bali and Buddy. We're in October. We're in Spooktober right now. Everything's great. Red River Rivalry is taking place this weekend. And what makes Red River Rivalry even better? A live show from Bustle with the Boys. We're doing a live show at Red River Rivalry, Terry Black's Barbecue in Dallas. That's 3025 Main Street Dallas, Texas 752266. That live show will start at 11:00am Why 11:00am because the game kicks off right after that on Saturday, October 11th. Special guest is a surprise. No, it's a surprise.

[C]

It's a surprise.

[F]

The best prize is a surprise.

[B]

It's a surprise.

[C]

Be there. Should I have played at Notre Dame?

[B]

Obviously. Big shout out to our sponsors, FanDuel, Bud Light, True Classic and neutral. But live Show Terry Blacks 11am 10-11-Special.

[C]

And we'll go ahead. Like, like the address right here. It's in Dallas. 3025 Main Street. Once again, Dallas, Texas area code 75226. You need to put in the maps.

[F]

Very close to the fairgrounds for any Ou Longhorn sickness. That's about a 20 minute walk from the fairground.

[B]

Right. And you're probably seeing the edge of your seat right now being like Red River Rivalry. The boys are going to be there. Who are they taking? Who were they taking in Oklahoma? Texas? You'll find out Wednesday. Oh, tomorrow. Yeah, you'll find out tomorrow. 6. Josh Pay Taylor the 1. Will Compton the locker room. College football a dish.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Be beautiful to see possible game of the week situation.

[C]

I gotta figure out if Mattier's playing. I think I gotta figure out.

[E]

I don't think he. I thought that they said that he was gonna be playing for a few more weeks there.

[B]

You know, there's rumors. I don't think there's some Reddit rumors going on.

[E]

I don't think it'll matter.

[C]

You don't think it'll matter?

[B]

I think Texas for the show.

[E]

Okay.

[B]

Actually, you know what? You're not on the show. Go ahead. What do you think's gonna happen?

[E]

I just think Texas is ass. I think Arch Manning is not prepared already. I think he's still battling injuries and I think Texas is extremely fraudulent. They went from number one in the country five weeks later to being unranked.

[B]

Wow.

[E]

The real UT resides in Knoxville, Tennessee. You scumbags.

[F]

Can. Can I rebuttal? It always comes back.

[C]

Yeah, go ahead, Sher. Rebuttal.

[F]

Quick rebuttal. Very similar to the iron ball. It's those years whenever OU team is looking Bad. Whenever a Texas team's looking bad, that's.

[B]

When they usually win. Okay. I'm just saying, right?

[C]

Rivalry. Throw it all out the window, rivalry.

[B]

If we're talking about rivalries, too, Michigan started nine in the country last year. They ended up not ranked at all. Who they beat the last week of the year, Ohio State.

[C]

And Texas is low key in a must must win situation.

[E]

I'll be rooting for Texas because Tennessee plays Oklahoma this year and that will be a tough game where material will be back.

[C]

Don't you want Oklahoma to win? So that way it's like he's gonna mean more.

[E]

Yeah, maybe. I don't know. You know, you could convince me for.

[C]

I mean, there's gonna be nothing but carnage in the sec. So I, I don't.

[B]

Yeah, right. This is when. This is when the sickos come out. Dude, this is like goons, goblins and specters. That's why it's spook. People think Halloween is because of some sort of like, you know, demons back in the day. It really is because the SEC football in October. That's why. Halloween star, because it's so spooky out.

[C]

There, we might have to figure out something to do. I. I forget our hours that we're actually going to be out there, but find something spooky to do out in Dallas.

[B]

Yeah, there's not enough time for that.

[C]

Did you guys hit something in Vegas?

[B]

Dude, no. First weekend of Spooktober and we let the squad.

[A]

What?

[B]

Yeah, I know, but I know.

[C]

You are the leader.

[B]

I know. And listen, when you, when you fail, what do you do? You double up the next week. I got a Halloween party this Friday. Right after the Halloween party, wife and I come home, babysitter. We got a little Halloween date. All right. We got a little Halloween date, haunted house, little din. Din. After that. See what happens after that. So. Yes, we're doubling up this week. I fail. I failed everybody. My. My, My gambling wants and needs took over. Can't say that.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah, you're right.

[B]

That's why I didn't say it. That's why I didn't say it.

[C]

Your hotel. Your hotel.

[B]

Yeah, well, I. My wants and needs for gambling took over.

[C]

That's a tough beat, bro.

[B]

Yeah, I know. Yeah, absolutely.

[C]

Tough beat. Yeah, we need a lot. We need more out of you if you're sitting at the top of the helm.

[B]

You're right.

[C]

Need more out of you.

[B]

Starts from the top.

[C]

Starts from the top. Because you put a lot of pressure on the boys to sell out for spooktober.

[B]

And look at, look at our bus. By the way. First time the boy. This is the first time the viewer on YouTube is seeing the bus right now. Shout out Garrett the boys, everybody for getting spooked over dialed in the way it should be.

[E]

Also, Taylor, I think we're not giving enough credit. He did do a Halloween related thing, just not in Vegas. The Rock. That was scary enough.

[C]

Spooky time.

[B]

Will would have just shook his head and been a normal adult. I knew it was spooked over. That was October too. When that thing went down. Will would have handled that like a normal human being. That's what he would have did, not me.

[C]

An exchange would have happened. I would have stood there awkwardly and been like, so what's your favorite scary movie small talk you don't want to do? You do your thing.

[B]

Do your thing. Your thing right now. Can we talk about a great show that's going on right now? A great little show. Chad Powers. Dude, listen, I got a card for Chad but they want us to promote it. We're doing a whole thing with them. I will tell you, I love this show. It is incredible. If you like Blue Mountain State, if you like the show Shoresy, like this show is a great blend of like it's really just a great comedy. And they do an incredible job of blending like Eli Manning's place to Eli's places thing and blending into an actual TV show. They're connecting all the dots. I'll read the card for you, but know that I truly I endorse this show. Eight years after flushing his promising college football career down the toilet, hot shot quarterback Russ Holiday tries to resurrect his dreams by disguising himself as Chad Powers, a talented oddball who walks onto the struggling South Georgia Catfish. And this is based on Eli Manning's Eli Places segment from ESPN and Omaha production. It's a new comedy starring Glenn Powell and as Russ Hol a a hot shot quarterback who tries to resurrect his dreams by disguising himself as Chad Paris. That's in there twice. Okay, a talented, talented all who walks on a struggle in Georgia Catfish team. Okay, a new comedy and events viewers by surprise comeback story everyone can relate to. Chad Powers is now streaming with new episodes Tuesday on Hulu and Hulu on Hulu and Hulu on Disney plus for bundle subscribers terms apply. Now Mickey Mouse has given us the opportunity to kind of see some of these shows a little earlier and they want us to kind of watch them, then talk about them. We're supposed to be talking about episode three. I'm personally on episode five. I enjoy watching this show. When I have free time, I put this show on.

[E]

Wait, are you with talk about episode three?

[B]

Yes.

[E]

Can I get off? Because I'm on episode two, and I really do not want spoilers because I really like this show as well.

[B]

Go ahead. Get out of here.

[E]

All right, I'll go wait outside.

[C]

Okay.

[E]

We want to talk about the real game.

[C]

I'll say this, too. Like, for people that are, like, kind of on the fence.

[B]

Second time. It's a. Jack. It's still in your hat. It's still in your hat, Jack. Spooky season.

[C]

Press it up again so there's something to press.

[B]

You see it? Just press it up in the air all the way. All the way. Well, you gotta put on something in the middle.

[C]

You press it up on that little dot. Oh, it don't work. Get out of here.

[B]

Go. Just go, Jack, go. Yeah. All right.

[F]

Look at that push.

[B]

Hanging on for dear life out there. That's the second time Jack's done that.

[C]

Massive, like, the whole Chad Powers concept vibe. Like, this is a vessel.

[B]

Oh, Jesus.

[C]

For the production team and the writers behind this show, that's where I think they do a really good job. I love the love interest with Chad Powers and Ricky going on. Love all the side characters. Like, this is. It is a fun show. It is a fun show to watch.

[B]

In this third episode, you get to dive into, like, some. Some actual ball. Like, they play Ole Miss early. And, I mean, we're not giving out spoilers, but we're giving out spoilers a little bit. Streaming now. If you haven't seen it, you should have seen it. Like, Chad Powers is the backup, and he has to sit there and he's. What's the. The coach's daughter. What's her name? Ricky. Okay, yeah, Ricky. She's sitting back there like, hey, cover two if they. Aggie special, blah, blah. All these things. And so she goes. He gets an argument with her old man, who's the head coach. The football team storms off. He kicks her off the field, gets her out of there. The booster. Some of these things are so funny because they could. They will literally never happen in an actual football game. That's the fun part about shows. The boosters, like, getting upset up in the suite. So she comes down on the field and is, like, talking to go check. Maybe we should put Powers in. They end up putting Powers in because the mascot trips the starting quarterback, which, by the way, the starting quarterback is. I can't remember his name. He's so funny. He is so funny. The way he operates. Like they're running around like he's a team guy. Sher.

[C]

Vibe guy, right? Like five guy.

[B]

It's. It's so funny. He's, like, running off on the sideline. And as he, like, runs out of bounds, the catfish mascot, the guy who's been helping out, Chad Powers, trips him and he rolls his ankle. So Chad Paris to go in the game. There's like, whatever, a minute left in the game. They're down by a touchdown. And Chad Powers, you know, get. Gets the whole thing done. He actually has a big run to watch it. Holds on the ball and won't let go of it because I have PTSD from that first game or the game they first see. Yeah. And so. And the best part is. Nice cameo from Eli Manning. Nice cameo.

[F]

He's Kiffin in it.

[B]

I don't think Kiffin wasn't in it. No. But Eli has one line. Who the is that guy? Is his. Yeah. Dud. Dude, It's. I'm telling you, bro, it's such a good show. And it just gets better.

[C]

And the side character, too. You brought her up. But Trisha, the booster lady, so funny.

[B]

So funny. It smacks Chad Powers on the ass on his. On her way out. It's just. It's just good, man. I hope you guys enjoy that show because I really am enjoying watching it. I'll just sit there and have a little free time by myself.

[F]

To be completely honest, I forgot that new episodes come out on Tuesday. And last night went on to Hulu to see if episode three had come out yet. And I was so bummed. Bummed because I. I'd forgotten about Tuesday. I cannot wait, right?

[B]

To watch episode three. Yeah.

[C]

We got a segment we're gonna do. Fresh. Set it. Fresh set of downs. Custom segment where we spotlight a transfer portal player, current or past, who wasn't playing well. Buried on the depth chart. All they needed was a fresh set of downs or a fresh start in order to spark the redemption story and turn their college careers around. We about to.

[B]

Yeah. Oh.

[C]

Oh. This week. Listen, you might think to yourself, was he buried on the depth chart? Either way, this player needed a fresh set of downs. And it's Carson Beck. Carson Beck. Round of applause. Somebody who transferred from Georgia to Miami was written off by Dogs fans and most college football fans after a 12 interception season. He's currently 5. 0 at Miami right now. Over 1200 yards passing, 11 touchdowns, 3 interceptions, 73.4% completion rate and tied as the Heisman favorite. He's sitting at plus 600 odds right now. Sportsbook. But shout out the boy. Carson Beck.

[B]

One more. That's awesome, man. Come in a little press conference. Had the chain on. Sitting there. Everyone's like, what's this guy doing this because of his girlfriend? No, he's a dog. He's a dog. And he's actually not a dog anymore. He's a cane. Kane. Kane. He's doing his thing. Yeah.

[C]

We dive into some. To some tear talk. Watch your hat.

[B]

Watch your hat. Jack. Jack. Jack's having a. Jack. Had a hell of a weekend, boys. I'll tell you this. You. I don't know how much the vlog is gonna highlight Jack and Tanner, but they took. They. They took everything in their own hands.

[E]

Definitely took my biggest step as a gambler this weekend.

[B]

Yeah, took his biggest step bragging about.

[E]

But.

[B]

Yeah, but it worked out for you.

[E]

It worked out. Now with that being said, could all go downhill. I go back to Vegas this weekend as a sicko Titans fan.

[B]

No, I forgot about that.

[E]

But it's gonna be.

[A]

Get the mic closer.

[E]

Damn.

[B]

Your first time? Yeah, first time on the show.

[C]

He's excited.

[E]

Yeah. So anyways, are we talking about Titans at all?

[B]

Yeah, we can talk about Titans. Let's talk diet stuff.

[C]

I wrote a couple about seven minutes before field Yates comes on.

[B]

I'll be quick.

[E]

I'll be quick. I wrote some things down. Obviously we're at the watch party. I hate watch parties. Not. I love being at watch parties for bus in. I hate watching games for my teams around groups of people.

[B]

I hate watching.

[E]

I get over.

[B]

I hate being at watch parties when you can't watch the game. That pisses me off.

[E]

And so I was kind of in the corner at the merch table with G watching YouTube TV on my phone. It's delayed like 30 seconds. So what the projector was. But anyway, so a couple things I wrote down. I'll just read them off quickly. Ward's composure out. Outstanding him in the fourth quarter. The dot to Ridley. Everything that we've been wanting. We needed Calvin to finally get some good catches. Huge defense shifted a huge gear night and day. First half, second half, second out. Complete shutout. Amazing. And also the explosive flipping plays. I mean, if you're an Arizona Cardinals fan, my thoughts and prayers go out to you because Shadow Coop. It's just a brutal from the interception to the Mickey Mouse fumble. Touchdown. Tyler Lockett scores to the dropping of the 74 yard rushing TD.

[C]

Shut him out.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Brutal.

[E]

But I think over everything, just a gritty, poised win that was obviously capitalized off a lot of mistakes made by the Arizona Cardinals. But this win with a rookie quarterback, this is something that can truly galvanize a locker room. I am not going to even touch on Brian Callahan. We're going to focus on a good team win. But this is something that will hopefully create. Create a little evidence for the Titans.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Especially for that locker room to just have something to believe in going another road win, hopefully against the Raiders. I will be in there in Allegiant Stadium. Very excited for that. And then we come home in two weeks and we have a really scary one against the Patriots. We all saw what happened on Sunday Night Football. The Patriots are for real. But yeah.

[B]

And it's Rabel coming back.

[E]

Yeah. And.

[B]

And.

[E]

And it's gonna be a homecoming. Like, people are gonna be stoked to have him there. Like, I. There will be no booze in that stadium.

[F]

I.

[E]

And if they will, are. They will not be from me or in section 121.

[B]

Here's. Here's last week we've been. We were sitting and saying Mike Vrabel is going to get more applause than when the Titans come out.

[E]

Yes.

[B]

If they can stack another win against.

[E]

The Raiders, there might be some booze.

[B]

Might be some booze for rapes. Yeah. Probably not. Probably not booze. But it will be a pop when Vrabel is shown or something like that.

[E]

Hopefully It'll be in 70 full at least.

[B]

But. Yeah.

[E]

Yeah, that's excited. It's just nice to have a Monday where I can just exist in my life.

[C]

Yeah, man.

[B]

Right?

[E]

Yeah. So that's. That's really it, man. Tighten up. I feel bad for Coop.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

But also.

[C]

Jesus Christ.

[E]

Coop kind of bailed out on his Cardinals at the live show, which is crazy. So I don't know if that is.

[B]

The reason Coop did show up at a Titans watch party with Cardinal stuff on. On.

[E]

Fair enough.

[B]

Girlfriend wear it. Made his girlfriend tell me at halftime.

[C]

Kyler Murray's the guy.

[F]

I'm like, buddy.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Nothing is ever Kyler's fault.

[B]

Nothing. Right. Right. And also, what's Kyler Murray's record since the new Call of Duty?

[E]

Oh, yeah. The Call of Duty beta dropped, and Kyler Murray is now officially 0 and 1 with the call of Duty beta. So we all know Kyler and his Call of Duty addiction.

[B]

Who knows? We don't have to cut that, but there will be a graphic. Jack is actually making Coop make a graphic for that, which Is one of the craziest things.

[C]

Yeah, gotta have it, though.

[B]

Gotta have it. Gthi.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Let's do a little tear talk before we get field Yates on. We got one from at Big pp Poo Poo guy. Yeah, Seems like a sherm burner to me. Yo, Gooder. Boys. My wife thinks my spooked over stoom. That's why you think it's sherm right there. Stoom game is weak. How can I up my stoom game? Appreciate you, boys. P.S. hey, Taylor, Sean, was this you? Hey, grab the mic. Was this you?

[C]

I mean, just a fully prepared graphic. You got the. The AI behind Big Pee Pee Poo Poo guy?

[B]

Yeah, he has. Hey, Taylor. Stoom.

[A]

He was sitting back here typing away during Greg Olson.

[C]

Probably giggling to himself.

[A]

No, not even giggling.

[F]

Dying.

[B]

Laughing.

[E]

He was giggling. He was walking out and I'm sitting. Sitting on the couch out there and he's like, dude, you think they're gonna think this is AI? Like a hundred percent hilarious though.

[B]

But I will answer Big pp. PP Poo Poo guy. Buddy, the best thing you need to do with the student is go full commit. Like you got a full commit. If you have the opportunity to wear makeup, Wear the makeup. You have an opportunity to buy, go the extra length, spend a couple extra bucks for the nicer costume, go the extra mile for the. For the costume. This is coming from a guy that let everybody down on week one of Spooktober. I shouldn't be answering this question, but. However, as a man who loves and breathes this holiday, you only get 31 days. You might as well take full advantage if you're gonna up your stoon game to this random individual.

[C]

We got another one here from Ear one. Tony the Gooner guy. Ayo, Will and Taylor. I got fired from my old job because I dressed up as the Hulk for Spooktober at the office and apparently my shorts were a little too tight. Sue me. Did I up or was the old job the problem? Should I dress up this year at my new job?

[F]

It's a good question.

[C]

Great question.

[B]

Another AI graphic. The AI graphic gave me Will's old teeth. You see that? He's insane. That is pretty wild.

[C]

Yeah, he's operating behind the computer.

[B]

There he is again. What's he giggling about? But if I was to answer this random individual's question, I would say absolutely. And if you get fired from your job for dressing up, that job is not for you. That job should be done.

[D]

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[G]

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[A]

I got a Cam Ward. Loves you guys.

[B]

So dude, talk about Cam a little bit. I mean he gets his first win yesterday. I mean the guy is statistically not the greatest, but from a press conference standpoint, from a leadership standpoint. As a rookie, I heard an amazing story about him when he first transferred to Miami that he was basically mfing a lot of guys talking about being great right in spring. Like tell tell me about Cam Ward.

[A]

Well, the best story was he got here and you know he, we really needed an alpha at quarterback. And so right away, right, I want all the wide receivers numbers, I want to call them up, I want to, want to get some routes in on Saturday. And he gets them all rounded up, except for 1, 1, 1. Hit him up with, you know, like a big time attitude. Like, nah, man, I'm, I'm in Fort Lauderdale. I'm gonna, I'm gonna throw with Lamar Jackson. And Cam says, all right, mother, you want to go throw with Lamar Jackson, he better throw you passes during the year because I ain't going to throw you squat. And that made the receiver get in the car and come back down and hurry up.

[B]

Hey, that is incredible.

[C]

That is really cool. What is your, what are your thoughts like when he's coming out last week after the press conference saying, I'm gonna keep it a buck right now, we asked. That was obviously going viral. You know, people kind of get uneasy, like, you know, about him being so blunt and transparent about it. But as, as his former head coach, what are you sitting back and thinking when he's going out to a press conference saying something like that?

[A]

Yeah, I mean, we talked about it. You know, it's, it's, it's almost like nowadays you guys know, you guys were ball players. It's like everything is so intrusive, man. So if you, if you're feeling something and it comes out, get ready for it to go viral. And you almost have to conduct yourself in a manner where you gotta almost script your mouth sometimes. But I mean, that guy is just pure raw emotion. He is the ultimate competitor and he wants nothing more than to win. He could give a rats, you know, what about anything except winning. So he's going to be unfiltered, but you're going to get the very best of that guy every time he sets foot on the field.

[B]

Coach, we're living in such a unique world with college football right now. You're one of six schools that had a top 25 recruiting class and transfer portal class in the last three seasons. How do you get so many new faces to buy into your culture week in and week out? Because it's when, I mean, obviously when Will and I played, we would go the school you chose, the school you went to, and if you were to transfer, you have to sit out for a year. There's a whole bunch of things where that didn't really happen a whole lot. So the guys you're with in year one, you're within your four or five life. How do you keep a culture and Keep guys blended together in such a way when you have so much turnover every single year.

[A]

We've been learning and improving at that process because you're right, like it's, it's almost like every year you're coaching a one year team, right? And the goal is get them all here early, get them here in January, and then go right to work and go right to every opportunity you can have to get these dudes together in a competitive environment and then an environment where they could open up and, you know, find out a little bit more about each other. That's when you get to know people because you really can't respect anybody until you get to know them, until you work your butts off with them. And so we provide that for them. It's really that simple. But we have done a really good job choosing the right guys because we work to a level where if you don't like work, you're going to hate it around here.

[C]

How has the, how's the process? Because you talked about how it's kind of developed and changed. How do you develop that process? Because again, it's like we can rattle off that in the last three years you've have a, have a top 25 recruiting class and transfer portal class. But how has that kind of evolved over the course of the last few years especially it's like your first season, you're only a five win team. So you're pitching this vision. You're trying to sell the program while also trying to get better. Like, hey, there are some things I liked about this process. In year one on having a top 25 recruiting class and transfer portal class, how has it developed into where you currently are?

[A]

Well, I learned as a ga. I came to Miami as a graduate assistant when they were, when they were really bad, they were coming off probation. That roster was abysmal. And I quickly learned the value of talent acquisition along with player development and then personnel use. And so arriving at Miami three years ago, it was, it was. The roster needed a massive overhaul. And now that you can construct your roster in a couple different manners. I mean of course the portal in high school recruiting, but you also have junior college recruiting, you have overseas recruiting, you have the preferred walk on route. You can find really, really good quality players that are made of the right stuff. And there was a second transfer window. So spring was almost like minicamp. And again, I was never in the NFL except for, you know, a cup of coffee as an undrafted free agent. But you kind of use the springtime as minicamp and found out what fit, what didn't fit, and then make more adjustments and additions from there. But it all, it all related around the culture, man. It was all about getting hard, working tough ass SOBs that, that want to be part of it and aren't willing to compromise the right stuff.

[B]

You, you talked about your roster you had three years ago. One guy you have that is a homegrown individual considered a top 10 pick is Francis Moinoa. Did I say that correct? Okay, talk to me about, I'm an offensive line, I'm an offensive line guy. I played it, I love it. This guy seems like an absolute grinder. Talk to me about his development. And now he's staring down, you know, possibly millions of dollars in a great NFL career on the horizon. But talk about this guy's leadership, his abilities, what, what he's great at.

[A]

Unbelievable leader, an absolute freakazoid of a human being. I mean, every day it's him and Reuben Bain head to head. It's Jurassic park out there. Practice.

[B]

Jurassic Park. Great bull.

[A]

The best part about this is when we got here, those guys were recruits. So they wait for us outside the stadium in our first year when we were getting our faces kicked in, and they'd wait and we'd sit with them and we were very transparent, very honest. Like, man, we, we ain't, we are not good right now. And the whole plan is to get you and the class here with you and build upon that. And you're gonna have to be guys at the forefront. You're not gonna have to sit around and wait, your group counting on you to make it happen. And they, they believe the vision, they stuck to it. They saw what we had done at previous stops. And brother, they were the building blocks, man, those were tough ass sons of guns because they saw how bad things were and they were willing to still come here and do it. And now you got, you know, Francis, we call him Cece. His bone density is that like of a brontosaurus. I mean, he's, he's £350.

[C]

I love that.

[B]

This dude's prehistoric.

[C]

Yes, yes.

[A]

Yeah, he's, you know, and we had penne soul when we were out west as well, and. And it's, it's just a different breed of, of creature. I mean, just athletic, physical, super powerful. Twitch beyond measure. And then football instinct, smarts, and an elite human being, like, he's one of the best community leaders you'll ever be around. And then when you watch him and Bane and Maezador and those guys go at it every day, man, Iron sharpens iron. For real.

[C]

How important, like how quickly was the importance of getting your staff and personnel right? On the talent acquisition side, you look at a team like yours right now, you basically revamped the entire back end in the off season. But also you look at teams like Texas Tech, like Oregon, I would put up there as well. As far as the people, the whole talent acquisition thing, grading talent, guys coming into your, coming into your facility. How important was that puzzle piece? I don't know if it's like gm, like you got kind of a scouting department now, but how important, how quickly was that importance established at Miami?

[A]

It's got to be everybody on board, man. You know, nothing worse than a coach that thinks that he's the secret sauce, you know, like, oh man, it's my plays, it's my design, it's my teachings, B.S. you know, the magic is the players now, players with mentality and culture creates real magic. But getting everybody to understand that you have to bring in high level, high ceiling talent that's willing to work their butts off. Because nowadays in college football everybody has good players. And if you're crazy enough to think that your opponent on a weekly basis doesn't have enough talent to whoop your ass, you're out of your mind. Everybody has talent. So talent acquisition and then the right type of talent, the right type of mentality, the right type of DNA.

[B]

So you play, you play in this last game and I, I, they're talking to you on the field and you look directly in the camera and you say, we're state champs. What does it mean to be a state champ in Florida? Which, you know, a lot of people say that's the mecca of, you know, high school football, football, speed, talent, everything. Like, what does that mean for you guys?

[A]

It means a ton of me as a former Miami Hurricane, as a former player here. This game was everything to us, man. It always was. You know, playing the in state teams, I mean, it seemed like the national title always went through Coral Gables or one of those other cities or South Bend. So the stakes were always high. The intensity was off the charts. You know, when we got here, we were so far behind, we were so far, so deep into just a bad roster spot, a bad culture spot that I think people took joy and kind of beating us around a little bit. So we've been a very, how do I say this politically correct. We've been a very driven team and a hard working team to just get better. And we got a long way to go. I mean, we have Massive improvement that we need to make to accomplish our goals, but we're progressing. We finally had the opportunity for two years straight to be say, champions for Florida. And that means a ton to us. Our alumni, they're all about the, in state games, man, they love it. So glad to see them get to enjoy that.

[C]

We were, you were telling, we were telling stories about Cam Ward and the leadership that he brought in, the intangibles that he brought to the locker room to kind of go with his talent. Carson Beck is somebody you guys go out and get and walk us through that process of thumbnailing through or combing through. This is the right guy for the program. Especially when you look at, he transferred from Georgia. There's some off field drama, whether people make stuff up on the Internet with girlfriends, stolen car, like, just different things. For Carson Beck, you go out and beat Notre Dame and he has such an emotional postgame presser to where you're starting that it feels like people kind of start to root for the guy because he seems so emotional, like he's grown and everything else. What was the process like of being like, this is the guy we want to be the quarterback of our team to kind of success. Cam Ward.

[A]

Yeah. It starts with the film, like, and actually let's go back to high school. I mean, I was, I was at coaching at another place, but I watched him in high school. I'm like, that guy's a dude. Love to have him. And then you watch him in 23 at Georgia and it's off the charts. I mean, let's, let's go back in time. When entering 2024, Carson Beck was a projected top quarterback to be taken and Cam Ward was a projected fifth to seventh rounder.

[B]

Right? Yeah.

[A]

Fast forward a year later, Cam Ward comes over here, he works his butt off. We give him a great offensive line, the right pieces around him and opportunities to make plays. He becomes the number one pick. So let's fast forward again. And then now we have, watching Carson on film, we thought that his 24 season was not a complete reflection of him, his play, his ability. We thought that some of the things not being critical of anybody, I don't believe that type of stuff. I just think that they didn't look in sync and he wasn't playing to his capabilities due to some of the pieces, some of the schematic stuff. So we're like, we, we can that guy over here. In our scheme, we can, we can be really damn good. And we're not there yet, but we're Certainly progressing. And he's really starting to take off now.

[B]

Yeah, a lot of the conversation was Carson Beck was the issue for Georgia, and now we're sitting in this part. Well, maybe Georgia was the issue for Carson Beck, and Carson Beck's actually the dog out there. You guys are now sitting with an undefeated season so far. We look to last year, and we see the end of October, November, where the wheels kind of fall off a little bit. What is the conversation taking place with you guys in that building of keeping your eye on the prize, winning the acc, getting in the playoffs, making a real run at a national title?

[A]

Reality, man. You know, one week at a time, and being where your feet are, I mean, any. There's no value in looking at a poll, a projection, anything of that nature. I mean, I know everyone's always. And I worked for Coach Saban back in the day, and the whole rat poison speech, there's a lot of value to that. But humility is a week away, brother. I mean, it is right around the corner. You want to think you're. You've got it all figured out, and you take an arrogant approach to this game and to your opponent, you're going to get your face kicked in. And we've learned our lessons the hard way. We are extremely rigid and regimented in what we do on a weekly basis, and we're just working our butts off to make sure that all the focus is right here on the University of Miami and us getting better, because we have to get a hell of a lot better to be one.

[C]

And.

[A]

Oh, every week.

[B]

You brought up. Sorry. Well, you brought up Nick Saban, and we had Greg Olson on just earlier, and he said a quote that you told him, which is, when the tiger comes into the palace, you make him a part of the ceremony. We were talking about Jordan Addison. He went. They went across the pond, the Vikings went across the pond. And he wanted to go sightsee for a little bit in London. Misses a meeting, so they hold him out for the first quarter. And the question was, would you do the same thing? He brings up that quote and gave you credit for giving that quote. Talk to us about keeping these guys in line. Distractions, all things, especially in a place like Miami. Buddy. I've been down to Miami. Very limited clothing in Miami. A lot of distractions out there in Miami. How. How are we handling business out there?

[A]

I mean, I think it's. Look, I'm. I'm born in 19. I'm, you know, 70s, baby. So I lived through the days of Miami Vice. And Scarface and I get it like that. Probably stick around forever, and it's cool. I love Miami because of what Miami always was and always will be. But, brother, those days are like. You know what I mean? Like, when people recruit against us, they make it sound like it's like, you know, Pablo Escobar and company going crazy. It's. We're in Coral Gables, which hopefully you guys get a little time put on Cam's tab. You can afford it. Get you down here so you could spend some time in Coral Gables. There isn't a nicer city in the country. And the trajectory of this city economically and from a quality of life standpoint is through the roof. So, like, our. Our setting is off the charts, like, perfect and private so that our guys could take care of their stuff. And we keep them so busy. There's. I mean, I coached all over the country, and I always felt that there were more distractions in the smaller college towns than there ever were at Miami because of the location of Coral Gable. So I don't know if that answered the question or not, but these guys, from a focus standpoint, we're just very real. We don't. We don't play head games or whatnot. There's. If we want to accomplish what we say we want to accomplish, we got to cut out all the BS and keep the focus on what needs to be done.

[C]

We'll go ahead and we'll take that as an offer to come out to Miami for this, for our spring tour next year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. How fun is it to watch Malachi Tony? He's nicknamed Baby Jesus. He turned 18 just two weeks ago. He seems to be like, one. He is one of the most electrifying players in the country. How fun is it to just watch that dude go to work from the sideline on game day?

[A]

Yeah, it was the same thing with my son. He first day of school, he asked if he could skip school. I said, what do you want to skip school for? He says, I want to go watch Baby Jesus. What are you talking about, dude? And he tells me that's Malachi Tony's nickname. Well, you know, Malachi, Tony's dad was a legend down here. He was an unbelievable football player, in fact. Fact, one of the most famous moments down here was when his dad raced Devin Hester street race, which was, again, just iconic day down here. But so Malachi's DNA and his football background, his mom, awesome person as well. He's like. He's a football junkie. His approach to Ball is out of a professional. It's been in the game for 20 years. He's an autocorrect guy. He's a relentless, get here early, stay here late guy. I, I, maybe I should check his birth certificate. Maybe he's not 18.

[B]

Right, right. What's it when they're like, he hands in the car that says, I am 12.

[A]

What's that?

[B]

There was, what's the movie where they're, they're playing like little league baseball and there's a Dominican guy comes in, he ends up a piece of paper and it's like, I, I am 12. Guy hits like 15 dingers. That's Malachi, Tony.

[A]

I mean, he, he just, he just goes, man, he just goes. There's no flinching the guy, but he, he works at it. There's no, there's no BS to him. And he just wants to get better. He's another unselfish guy. If you get a chance, please watch him in the run game at how he throws his body around. He is absolutely physical and reckless.

[C]

That's always like the best. I feel like when a coach is trying to give wide receiver their praise, their flowers, they talk about them in the run game because you're right. It's like when the tape gets turned on and you're kind of watching one of your teammates because you don't get wide receivers that, you know, they catch the football. But when, like Rabel showing off somebody, like showing guys getting dirty, getting in the box, blocking, and I feel like that kind of like juices up the entire team.

[B]

Yeah, no, I, I'm with that. You, this is your November 1st, will be your first game outside of the state of Florida. How did y' all get that front loaded? Florida schedule. How did that happen?

[C]

Yeah, who'd you have to pay for that?

[B]

Yeah, that sounds nice.

[A]

The list is long but distinguished, you know. No, I have no idea how that works out. This thing was sent a while back, man. I, but you know what I mean, how many teams have faced a first five games? Like, we have two now, you know, I believe we're the only team to face three ranked opponents coming out the gate, and we're good with that. And when I played here at Miami, that's what it was all about. So we're, we feel like we're improving. We've been tested, but again, when I watch them film with the players say, we got a long ways to go, man. You know, so it's like, let's just, let's just keep working our butts. Off. That's all we want to do. That's all we really care.

[C]

Obviously you guys are only half like not even halfway through the season. There's a lot of ball left and you've already alluded to it, there's a lot of improvements to be made if you guys want to get to where you want to go. But what has it meant for you to kind of turn around your alma mater in a sense, because you got the documentaries that you. Everything else, you're a two time national champion. But to be the head coach of your alma mater, what's it been like for you to kind of be in that chair and get this thing going.

[A]

The right way, man, when, when I got the call. Because you know, in football, you know how it is, man. The timing is never right. It's always in the middle of something. There's no just clean and easy way to do it. And we're doing really well. You know, we had just won a couple of conference titles out west and we had an unbelievable class committed. But for 20 years I was so just enraged and pissed at the way the University of Miami was playing football and that it just kind of came to that point where I had had enough. I mean, our own people were attacking the Hurricanes and that was never the case. I mean, I came here as a player because I used to come out and watch Alonzo Highsmith and Michael Irvin and Benny Blaze, Jerome Brown, all those just creatures just crushing it and getting after it. And I just got pissed to the point where it was like, it's, I've had enough. Like if, if I don't do it, who is going to do it? And I owe Miami and I want everyone to feel that way that ever played here. I mean, I owe the universe. I'm a nobody. I'm a local nobody that, that got a shot because Jimmy Johnson decided to give my brother and I scholarships. Come and play ball. Which we had just started playing, you know, for a couple years in high school and it changed everything. So I'm one of those like just super high levels of gratitude for opportunities. And this was one where I owe Miami. Oh, the University of Miami Hurricanes. And let's just keep working.

[B]

That's exactly how Will Compton feels about the Nebraska Corn Huskers.

[C]

As we're saying that story, I'm like, this might be my destiny.

[F]

You.

[C]

You will.

[B]

Will. Hey, coach, know this. Will Compton will be the head coach of Nebraska Cornhosters one day.

[A]

I feel like a job.

[B]

I feel. Yeah, I feel like we, we just met this is the first time we've really talked, but I feel like there's. We have a nice foundation of a friendship already established. So I have a hypothetical for you. All right? I just. I pulled. I plucked this one out of thin air.

[A]

Let's just say I don't do predictions.

[B]

I promise. I promise it's not a prediction.

[A]

And then I say that with all due respect, and I say, respectfully, I just. I don't do predictions or hypotheticals, you know? You know, you'll ever have. I promise you, Coach.

[B]

See this right here? I don't know if you can see me. I'm crinkling up my paper right now. I love everything.

[C]

I love the situational ball.

[B]

I know, I know, but you just. I felt like, you know what Coach has. He has the presence of a head coach. I'm here to make a joke. And he's like, listen, back up a little bit. He didn't even know what the question is. Yeah.

[A]

So I'm back in the stage that we're in. It's like, you know what? We've taken a. I don't know, like, if the players ever saw me, like, I don't ever, like, act like that or talk like that. So I would hate to do something unnatural on camera or, like, our dudes that I trust and believe in and we're, like, super tight, then see me act in a way where, like, what is that, Coach? You know what I mean?

[B]

Yeah, absolutely.

[C]

This could be more of a spring. A spring type hypothetical.

[B]

Okay, go ahead. You know.

[C]

No, I'm just.

[A]

On your Miami visit.

[C]

Yeah, on the. Miami.

[B]

Okay. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely.

[C]

Where everybody's been undefeated.

[B]

Everybody. Yeah. Spring is the best time of year because everyone's. Everyone's got everything in the bag, Coach.

[C]

Crystal ball. Are you a. Are you a Spooktober guy? You a big October guy?

[B]

You like Halloween?

[A]

I don't. In terms of having, like, embracing.

[C]

Yeah, Just a holiday itself. Like, you got a favorite scary movie. This is more of, like. This is more off football talk, just like, getting to know you as a human being. Because we. I don't know if you see our bus set up, but we embrace spooktober for all 31 days in October. So this is more of like a. Like a fun chill segment right there, right?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Big Michael Myers fans.

[B]

Big Michael Myers fans.

[A]

What is the history of the mask? I think it's actually a mold of William Shatner's face, isn't it? Star Trek?

[B]

That is actually correct. And I love the fact that you know your spooky movies. Where does holiday in the holiday category? Where is Halloween for you in a tier system. System.

[A]

You know, when my kids were growing up, it was, was good to get them out and about. But I mean it's, you know, as a coach, man, and as players, you guys know you're just, it's Groundhog Day, right? So you just keep going. There's, you know, hopefully. And when all the big holidays are rolling around, you're playing significant football and, and your favorite holiday is the one where you're staying in a hotel to play for a championship game.

[C]

That's your favorite. I can't wait for coach Chris to bo Ball when he's retired and one day and he's done and he's experiencing these holidays for the first time and be like, man, I've really missed some, some awesome little holiday moments. Hopefully it's with some national titles. He's not thinking about multiple national, but he's going to be sitting there like, oh, it's kind of nice to not have a whole lot of stress and pressure going on.

[B]

Coach, before we get you out of here, we are sponsored by Bud Light and we have a Bud Light question for you. Everybody knows that anyone would do anything for a Bud Light, but for you, coach Crystal Ball, what is something you would do anything for now? No, can't say family. Can't say family.

[A]

What I would do anything for in terms of like legal, illegal, anything. No limits, no bounds.

[C]

No, no bounds. Maybe a massive ambition of yours, but just something that you just, you know, it always comes to mind every now and then, maybe at least once or twice a month.

[A]

Oh, I, man, you'd have to give me forewarning on that. I mean my mind kind of goes, you know, so pretty complicated, open ended question, man, I'll have to think about it and, and certainly get back to you. I mean the first thing that comes to mind to just jumpstart is always winning.

[B]

Yeah, that's the only answer too. That's the only answer. Winning a national championship.

[C]

Would you ever down the line be like if when you take national titles at the collegiate level, going to putting your head in the ring for the NFL?

[A]

Oh, no, no, that's not. I, I have, I've always had one destination in mind. That's the University of Miami. Always. Some people like to, you know, throw around things and you know, this job, that job, this. I remember being a ga and Butch Davis asked me, he's like, why wouldn't that high pitched voice, you know, coach Davis could get after it. He said, why? Why do you want to be a ga? Because back then, a ga what'd you do?

[B]

Right?

[A]

You made sure dry cleaning was set for the coaches. You had to help with all the BS Assignments, and then you got to coach some. But I just looked at him, I said, I want to sit in your seat one day. And that was 28. Yeah, 28 years ago. So this has always been it, man. It's always been Miami. I'm a. You cut me open. I'm orange and green, man, all the way through.

[C]

I love that there is. I'm curious, too. Like, just ask somebody who's aspired to be a coach, especially, like, when I committed to a school, like, I always had, like, coaching in mind, getting to play in the NFL, kind of seeing the hours between or, like, what goes into collegiate football, NFL football. Like, what was it for you on determining, like, college football? Obviously, you're. You're in the place you want to be, but as a coach, kind of figuring it out along the way, what were some deciding factors for you of being like, I don't want to go anything beyond college football. Like, this is the spot. This is the place. This is the league I want to be in?

[A]

No, that's a fair question. I mean, my high school coach is the best leader, best mentor, best human being I've ever known in my life. I still call him for every major decision. And I was actually in the process of being a Secret Service agent when I took the GA job and then was hired while I was finishing up year two and had that big decision to make. And I had. I had completely fallen full bore into coaching and loved it as a GA because back then, there weren't any analysts. There was one G on each side.

[B]

Of the ball, Right?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And you had just. You had to sleep in the office and do everything. And I love making about four bucks an hour. And I just absolutely loved every bit of it. The development, the connections, the relationships, the competing. They're getting after it. It was the free metrics. That's all you ate is a GA Metrics products. Right. You used to get those for free when they expired. That's what they used to give you for food. So. And then just. That was a crossroads. And it was. The choice was. Was tough, but it was clear. It was football.

[C]

Secret Service. I can put that together now. Now we've kind of had a couple hundred.

[B]

He would be amazing at it, no doubt.

[C]

Four bucks an hour, too, to where you are now. Like, that's dude, that's awesome. That really is cool.

[B]

Cool. Hearing, hearing, hearing the stories about being a ga, having sleepless nights. I mean, Dan Lanning's told the stories about that too. Where you truly have to love what you're doing to be, to be in that position consistently day in and day out, weekend, year out, all that stuff. So we appreciate you. I can't imagine the feeling of being a head coach of your alma mater. That is absolutely incredible. And let's give a round of applause for coach Crystal Ball. Thank you so much, sir. We look forward to seeing you in the springtime time.

[A]

Appreciate you guys. Thank you for having me. It's been an honor.

[C]

Yes. And tell your son we said what's up. Absolutely massive shout out to him.

[A]

He's beyond fired up, man. I appreciate you guys. Thank you.

[C]

All right, coach.

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[F]

What's going on guys? Can you hear me okay?

[C]

Yeah, we can hear you. Great. We're trying to see you right now.

[B]

See me?

[F]

And we got for the best if you don't.

[C]

No, you got a great. You got a great face for tv.

[B]

Yeah, we just, we had.

[F]

I think the hair is coming in nicely, Willie. I kind of like it. I'm not gonna lie.

[C]

Thank you, my friend. Thank you. I'll go ahead and show it off a little bit. The buzz is coming.

[F]

It grows fast. You could have way worse like growth patterns. Oh, I kind of like it.

[C]

100. I know the haters are sick that the hair is coming back in right now.

[B]

Yeah, I did not think it would come back that fast. I'm very impressed with Will's Chia Pet abilities. No, I still I'm impressed.

[F]

How's it going so far up on the get up thing? I mean, it's. It seems awesome every week, bro, it's.

[B]

Been so much fun. I think every week gets more and more fun because there's more of like a level of comfort, understanding what everybody kind of wants from you.

[C]

And you get to talk ball. Once you get into the season, you're not like doing the whole prediction.

[B]

Right? Right. If I had one like about it, it's every single week's like an overreaction as opposed to like as a normal human being would like give grace to a team if they lose here or whatever. But every week seems like it's got. It's a be all, end all. And that to me is like a little harder to do naturally.

[F]

Yeah, yeah. That's like the morning show, ESPN formula, right? Is like everything is. I don't know this morning. I don't even know what the conversation would be, but you know, is Drake may the best quarterback in the AFC east or something?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[F]

Get up, take. It's like, all right, pump. Pump the brakes a little bit here. But it seems like you guys have the right mix too. Like the exact right people to be doing it with. Like, Schefter is an entirely different version of himself around you guys. That is hilarious to see.

[B]

Yeah, awesome, man. We've. I've obviously been a. Around him a bunch, him being a Michigan guy and his like he. I love how he just. He's got this. He's just like an ultimate professional. But yeah, he's like willing to be one of those boys. A lot of times you get around these like really like strong professional individuals and they always keep a professionalism about them. Having him feel like they're loosen up.

[C]

Getting the tie all the time.

[B]

If you can get naturally laugh. It's one of one, man. It really is. We, I mean, we are recording right now, right, Mitchie? Yeah, we're recording right now, dude. Tell me how fantasy football became your thing. Like what. How did that process even go down?

[F]

Yeah, kind of by accident. So I was working at ESPN. I started the SPN like around 2013, 2012 football season. I was doing some stuff, but not full time. In 2013, 2014, somewhere in that range, a guy named Seth Barkman, who is still at ESPN now and kind of oversees all of NFL tv, came up to me and said, hey, I know you consider yourself a football guy. Haven't sort of worked in the NFL world of scouting for a little bit. Just a brief cup of coffee. But still, you probably think of yourself more as an analyst than you do a fantasy guy. But I think you'd be surprised by how much those two sides intertwine and how a lot of what you would analyze for real football would apply to fantasy football. And, and he sort of described it as kind of like a rocket ship that was going to continue to grow and grow and grow and it's what, 20, 25. And as you guys know, fantasy football just gets bigger and bigger by the year. I tell people all the time it's sort of like the NCAA basketball tournament in the sense that you don't really need to change anything in fantasy football. It's still going to be extremely popular year over year because to enjoy 18 Sundays with tons of drama and it's been an awesome home for me so far.

[C]

What. So let's, let's talk about how's your, how's your, how have your stats been in fantasy football? Like, are you, are you winning this thing year in and year out in the leagues that you're in? Like, I would just assume that you're the guy, right? You're the guy everybody's trying to knock down.

[F]

You know, the greatest, like the best baseball player had an average of I think like 320 this year and all of MLB and like people are like crowning him as one of the best hitters in, in the league accordingly. I think like, you know, somewhere in like the 10 to 20% winning percentage is a good mark for me year over year. If you just do the math, right? Like I play in leagues that are 16 teams where I don't. That's like one in. That's like a 6% chance. I think if I, if the numbers are somewhat even so I would say that where I'm probably different than the average player is I don't win every league that I'm in. I wish I could say that was the case. I don't have too many duds throughout the years, like too many last place finishers. But you know, every. Every once in a while, like, you just draw the wrong hand. And I've had some teams, I already have some teams this year that I have some draft regret over. But that's part of the fun of it too, is finding a way to dig yourself out of the hole.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. I do need some help with my fantasy team right now. Right now I am, I'm three and two, probably gonna go four and two, but I'm looking at my running back position and I have, I have Derek Henry, friend of the show, friend of mine personally, teammate of mine. The last couple of weeks the Ravens haven't been utilizing him in the way that is the most conducive way for him to be be successful not only on the football field but on my fantasy league team. What do I need to do with Derek Henry at this point?

[F]

I think we got to be patient for two more weeks next week.

[B]

I like that.

[F]

We'll see if Lamar plays and then they have the bye week after that. Which makes you think that Lamar maybe won't play next week because if they can buy the extra week, they would help us up and give Lamar basically a month and then they'd have to go on like an absolute tear for the last, let's see, next week would be the sixth game of the season. Eleven games after that.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Now the Raven might be saying, hey, listen man, we're one and four already. If we don't have Lamar against the Rams, like we're probably still staring at one in five in the face. And I don't know how many teams have gone one in five and then went on to make the playoffs, but not many throughout the course of NFL history. Henry is one of those guys who, as you know from blocking form and.

[B]

Playing.

[C]

He went out on my end.

[F]

Same crack, 100 yards in a touchdown every single week. But when they're playing from behind like they were yesterday, all of a sudden it became like kind of the Justice Hill show in the second half for Baltimore. So the Ravens got to find a way to get Lamar back on the field because once they have Lamar, the offense can keep them in games even if the defense is not great. And because of all the injuries, I don't think they're going to be a great defense. But it's been frustrating the past three weeks, for our past four weeks now for those that have Derek Henry on their roster, but this guy's way too good to give up hope on. He definitely is going to have, you know, three, four, five more games this season where he ends up being the player that wins you his week week.

[C]

When you are an over team field like myself. I believe I haven't won a game yet.

[F]

I don't believe that ball.

[C]

I. Dude, I'm telling you, I don't believe that. It's, it is true. When you start off, oh, how many weeks have we done? Oh, and four. What week are we on right now?

[B]

Yeah, five.

[C]

Yeah, we're on week five. When you start off zero and four, what is the front office for your Team need to start looking like, is it a. Let's. Let's move our best players and try to get some. Try to get some starting capital across the board. Is it. Let's live in free agency, depending on how big your league is. What are you doing when you're starting off 04? Because right now, Matt and Will's fantasy thrill, we're 0 and 4, just made a big trade last week, but where does your head go when you start off 04? Yeah.

[F]

I think there's this thing that we do in fantasy football where we try to make perfect trades. So here's a good example. Like, I've seen a lot of teams of kind coming out of the gates that are struggling with, like, Jamar Chase. Right. Because Joe Burrow gets hurt. Next thing you know, Jamar, for two straight weeks, was nearly the player that you drafted him to be, maybe number one overall.

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

You're saying to yourself, all right, if I can trade Jamar Chase, that's great, but I have to get, you know, massive value, perfect value on return because he was the number one pick of my draft. Probably the minute the draft is over, how and where the players were drafted kind of goes out the board or goes off the board, I should say. And so sometimes I'm willing to, and I think others would disagree philosophically, but if I can find a trade that maybe gets me, like, 85 cents in the dollar because I get two starters, neither of which is as good as Jamar Chase. But if you have Jamar and you're struggling, it probably means you don't have great depth beyond that, then I'm okay with doing that. And I got to think that, like, players only meetings have already taken place on this squad. If those haven't worked so far, then I'm willing to shake things up with some roster management through trades. I also find there'd be one of the best parts of fantasy football. Right. I mean, that's fun. The closest I'll ever be to becoming an NFL gm. So if I can find something that works reasonably well for me and works really well or reasonably well for somebody else, I'm talking shop.

[C]

What do you think about this trait that we made? Again, Matt and Will's fantasy thrill. This is a double GM league that we're doing at the shop with Bus with the boys. We shipped off Josh Jacobs and jsn, clearly two of our best players. In return, we went and got Devonte Adams, Zay Flowers, and Achan Achan Achane.

[B]

A chain.

[C]

Yeah, a chain. A chan. What you know, what's your feedback on a trade like that?

[F]

That's a good example of where, like, you turn two pillar pieces into three. Right? I mean, HN's right there with Josh Jacobs, HN, who had just 16 rushing yards on Sunday, but had a ridiculous receiving touchdown. He's going to be, I don't know, top five, top six running back at worst, at least in the rankings going into the week. And Josh Jacobs is in that same territory, maybe a little bit lower than HM because he doesn't catch as many passes. But the packers obviously run the football a whole lot better than Miami does. And then you turn. So I look at it as almost like those two are equal parts and you basically turn JSN into Devonte Adams and Zay Flowers, who came out of the gates red hot. That's a good example, though, of, like, you know, being willing to. Not again. I don't know if it's perfect value. Nobody can tell until the season's actually over. But you turn two pieces into three for a struggling team, that's a good way to go about it. And by the way, double GM league. That's tough right there. That's tough.

[C]

It is tough to make a decision.

[F]

In a pinch, like who gets the ultimate vote.

[B]

Well, I think on. On this team that Will's referring to, it's very clear who the owner, the 51 percenter, is in that group.

[C]

Our roles are defined and established, which you've got to have in a successful organization.

[B]

You've got to have it. I have a hypothetical for you, Field Yates. If you were in a league where you're owing four and you decide to make a big trade where you get rid of a JSN and Josh Jacobs, but you make the trade on Thursday night, as the Thursday night football game is starting, should you be able to use those players that you traded for in the same week? I get hypothetical. This is all hypothetical. But have you ever heard of a player getting traded the day on a Thursday and playing a full game and being successful? Oh, man. We're talking about character, integrity from that standpoint.

[F]

Yeah, I can't think of too many instances where that's happened recently. I can't think of that. Totally Hypothetically, of course. I can't think of that.

[B]

That.

[F]

Man, I almost feel like, you know what? If we're willing to. To execute a trade and the players available when the game starts, you get the points. I'll live with it.

[B]

Wow. That went the exact opposite. I was hoping it would go. We made a trade Hypothetically.

[C]

Hypothetically, trade takes 24 hours to take place right. Before you actually get them on the roster. But the commission. But the commissioner is telling you he'll put the points on the board because we're. Hypothetically, this is happening in front of the majority of the league.

[F]

Okay. So it's kind of like one of those leagues where you need 24 hours for it to actually process.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. So you're sitting there and you're asking the commissioner, like, do so do I leave these three spots open? Like you're putting the points back on the board. Do we need to go ahead and roll with the guys we got? Because we're looking at our first win of the season. And hypothetically, if that trade can't go through, it's like, all right, well, then we can throw. We should be allowed to throw JSN and Tony Pollard back on the roster and get their points.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But also, hypothetically, the GM or the commissioner is the guy who made the trade.

[C]

Right.

[B]

Okay. So there. Yeah. So there. There's a confidence.

[F]

There's a kind of complicit in this, too.

[B]

Yeah. Sounds like there's a lot of up to no good going on.

[C]

Well, it did. It did happen in front of the league. That would be the argument Coupe was trying to say. This is.

[B]

There's a. There's a conversation taking place in front of people, but it's like guys are doing other things. They just happen to be in the same room while whispers in the corner are going on with the GM of the league or the commissioner of the league with these two teams. Hypothetically.

[F]

Hypothetically.

[B]

Right. It. It wasn't like a vocal. Hey, we're having this conversation right now. It was a conversation taking place in a room. Room.

[F]

I think maybe the commissioner needs to be a little more cutthroat. After further review here.

[B]

Okay. Now it's going back to the way I want. All right.

[F]

Hypothetically, further review here.

[B]

Just.

[F]

Just, you know, making sure I play both sides of the coin. Yeah, but you would say, in the group, happy.

[B]

But just so we know you drew the line in the sand. You would say, this is not a good move.

[F]

I'm thinking not a good move after. Again, after careful consideration, not a good move here as.

[C]

Listen, as a GM in the league, I just need to be told what to do. Is it the 40 points with JSN and Tony Pollard, or is it the. The 40 points with Zay Flowers, Devonte Adams, and. And Achan? Like, I'm just. Like, I'm just listening for Direction. I'm not trying to get nobody.

[B]

Right.

[C]

I'm just trying to. Hey, my. One of these lineups need to play well.

[B]

It's all hypothetical, and I think if they're not in your lineup and you go through a trade, you just. You essentially bend the knee for that week.

[C]

Hypothetically.

[B]

The two.

[C]

The two co hosts you're talking to are also playing each other in this said game of the week.

[F]

Oh, okay. Got even more layers to this. This is just so.

[C]

Again, however the commissioner wants to handle. However the commissioner wants to handle it, like, listen, we're not. We're not. This isn't. Gotcha ball.

[B]

Sounds like the commissioner is the one hypothetically, that's in this kind of, like, conflict of interest category. Yeah, hypothetically. Yeah, definitely affiliates. Hypothetically.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

Do you ever see yourself going back to the NFL in a way of, I don't know, maybe an actual gm, maybe an actual upper scout? See you, you know, ball man, you understand it all and you've been in that world for a little bit. Could you see yourself doing that? That?

[F]

I. I don't think. I think that ship probably sailed. I'm not sure any NFL team would express much interest in me. As you guys know, though, like, this side of the. This side is. Is a pretty cool place to be too. Right? You guys obviously had highly successful NFL careers and live that life of playing for. I'll give you 10. Willie and.

[C]

And.

[F]

And Taylor long career as well.

[B]

Thank you.

[F]

You know, the toll that it takes on you, not just in terms of, like, the physical rigors of it, but. But also, you know, just the family and the balance and the things that matter. I know both of you guys obviously very passionate dads as well. I think that's one of those things that, like, in the scouting world, there's not a lot of balance in the world of football scouting. Right. You're kind of addicted to the game, which is a great. And I admire that trait in the guys that do it at a high level. But I like the fact that while I haven't won a game in the NFL for over a dozen years, I also haven't lost a game in over a dozen years. So I remember sort of that feeling where you prepare. You guys know that, like, even the worst NFL teams are preparing like crazy Monday through Saturday to get ready for Sunday. But I love what we do here. I love just talking football and having the opportunity to watch it, and I think that I'm happy being at ESPN for hopefully a long time.

[C]

How long did that transition for you happen mentally like, you know, as you're transitioning back in 2011, if you can remember that time, it's like, were you kind of transitioning at first and kind of back? Man, I just, you know, kind of buying, buying time until your next potential opportunity in the NFL to get in the front office spot or as you start tasting it, it kind of, that thought process kind of fades away as you're getting to spend time at home.

[F]

Yeah, for me, like, and not to get like, you know, too serious during a relatively light conversation here, but, you know, I was a few years out of college and all I'd ever known Since I was 16 years old was being around NFL teams. I was very fortunate to be around, you know, some quality organizations and great people and, you know, guys that I think, you know, taught me a lot about life, not just football that I consider like influential in my life to this day. But I remember like five year high school reunion came and went. It wasn't even a consideration to attend that because there was just no chance to do it. First wedding I got invited to, missed it, couldn't make it to that one. My, you know, a lot of my buddies were living in some of the major cities around, you know, the US and they do their boys weekends. Couldn't make any of those. So it just felt like to me a life decision. I knew at that point too. You know, I'm, I'm 23, 24 years old, like I don't have kids, mortgage, more consequential things to have to worry about and have to make decisions on. So when I left football, I was sort of thinking to myself, I might go into the non sports world. I got my real estate license. I quickly hated that. So I realized I had to find my way back into sports in some way, shape or form. I always tell people though, like when, when you're in the world of scouting, you can love football, but you definitely have to live it. I love football now. I don't, I mean I, I certainly live a lot of football, but you know, I have interest outside of football that I get to explore now on the career path that we have. So it gives us the balance that I just don't know that scouts are afforded. So for me, I wish I could say it was like this epiphany that happened overnight. And I said, hey, I'm gonna leave the world of scouting. I'm gonna go work for espn. It wasn't as smooth as that. Took a few years to kind of get from the world of the NFL into the ESPN vortex. But once I found my way here, I kind of felt like maybe this is what I was supposed to be doing from the gym. Jump.

[B]

You know, That's a great story. One thing I took away from it was sounds like your, your first wedding you were invited to was a fall wedding. Is that. Am I correct?

[F]

Assuming that, yeah, it was a borderline illegal call by that person.

[B]

That's what I was. That's what I was going to say is should we completely abolish the fall wedding? Does that need to go away?

[F]

Totally. 100. I don't even acknowledge fall weddings now. Yeah, yeah. You know, I think I feel like I skipped a couple. This, this. You guys will love this, you know, so when I was first getting started in the world, I was working. I was actually like ball boying for the Patriots way back in the day. I'm from Massachusetts and I was there during some of the glory, some of the best. I mean, it was a long run, but some of those two decades there.

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

And I'll tell you, there may not be. Of the players that left like the greatest impressions on me during my time working with the Pats, Braves is right up there, man. He might be number one. And the thing that I loved about Vrabes was I was like a 14 year old who at the time really thought that I was like going to become something as a football player, not an NFL player. But I thought like, I'd have a chance to go on and become like a very successful high school football coach. High school football player, excuse me. And then maybe play at the college level, which I did. I sucked, but, you know, D3 backup bench warmer only, right? But at the time, you know, but at the time I was thinking big, right? I was thinking, you know, Michigan, Nebraska, that kind of stuff. And Raves used to humble the crap out of me every day, man. That guy. And that's the thing about Braves is that one of the greatest qualities he has. Doesn't matter if you're best player on the team, last player on the roster, he's going to tell you exactly how it is. And I'll never forget I was, you know, I think there was one time where, where Belichick had made a comment of Rabel about how, you know, hey, I'm going into whatever year it was and I'm trying to, you know, maybe get on the recruiting radar for some small Division 3 colleges. And then later on, like a practice, a day or two later, I was maybe running wind sprints or something or running Routes on air as the team was going through walkdoor whatever it was doing something to try to help out, do something meaningful. And Braves just chirping me from all out of nowhere just like something to the effect of like Bill, you told me this kid's trying to get recruited to play football in college, watching the way that I was running. So Braves let me have it then. He still lets me have it to this day. And one of the many reasons why I admire that kid act and Meyer.

[B]

Is an interesting way after telling that story.

[F]

No, you know, hey, I just, I learned a lot of lessons from him. If you can handle, you know, some honesty from Braves, you're going to be all right.

[B]

Yeah, listen, you're talking to two guys that have been on that exact end of a story. Yes, absolutely.

[C]

The feeling you have psychologically and mentally, it's the same as a 7 year NFL vet. When he's beating me down verbally or a 14 year old boy trying to play some high school ball.

[F]

I know just gotta get my spirits up and VRA's like just he, he's an. He is gonna, no matter who it is again, 14 year veteran or 14 year old kid, he's going to be honest with you.

[B]

Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. I tend to think if there was like a. If like the military, how they have like P. POWs.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

If, if they took Vrabel and they just had them like look at the POWs and like just be demonstrative toward them, they get a lot more information out of them. They just beat them down verbally over and over again. Do you think Roger Goodell was behind Will Compton, year 10?

[F]

I have some.

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

You know, I thought about that a lot. I do have a lot of questions about that because I, I mean I, I want to say that year that like you were like it was the year prior in which like you were undefeated with the Raiders and they went something like oh and six down the stretch and then like two zero when you were on the roster. I, I'm just, just. I'm merely pointing out numbers here. That's all the playoff. Yeah, I've, I've wondered a lot, you know, like are we talking about a Canton career if he gets one more year? That's what I'm wondering.

[B]

Yeah, we're talking about Canton career. We're talking about a Atlanta Falcons Super Bowl. We're talking about a lot of things.

[C]

That would mess up the script in the mix hardcore. When all that was going down in field shout out, you, you were massive like you had fun with it. Massive supporter of the year 10. Always giving, always getting the breaking news. I don't know what source you had it from, but the Falcons were in the mix.

[F]

They were in the mix.

[C]

Playoff Willie time. It wasn't allowed. All of a sudden they drop a few.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Very into the season. We maybe still like they're already out of the playoffs. The Magic's over.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Weren't the Titans like did, did you have like a visit with the Titans too? And the whole city in Nashville was buzzing for like 24 hours. That make that part up?

[C]

City was buzzing. When Willie C. Did have a workout with the Titans, Raiders were on the table. That was the year before and year nine.

[F]

Okay, there we go.

[C]

Or is that year eight? I I Dude, I kind of.

[B]

You talking about 2020?

[C]

Yeah, 20, 20, 20, 20, 2020. Raiders were on the table.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

Was holding out. I'm like, listen, I ain't got to do nothing. I There ain't no signing bonus on the table. I'm just getting minimum here. I can kind of just chill. Cuz the, the resume is there. You can drop me off in the helicopter and I'll figure out the playbook overnight. And then I got a visit with the Titans. Got to do a little workout. They end up signing me. I think we go what, 11 and five that year.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

We had the number one seed.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

We lose that game. Then the next year was kind of wait and see. Then it was the Raiders get us into the playoffs. They cut me.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

See what happened?

[F]

They lost. Remember that? Lost the next game, right?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Lost the next game. Once you get a real weirdo against the Bengals, things just go down a hill, man. Yeah, but yeah, that's massive. That's massive for you to have Wills back in that situation when a lot of people were just siding on the edge of power of Roger Goodell, who they were afraid to take on the big dog. And you were a man that stood 10 toes down. We appreciate you for that.

[C]

I do have a Again, bringing it back to fantasy. What are some of the best and worst fantasy punishment ideas that you've heard of or maybe some that are currently happening?

[F]

Yeah, I mean so like the most popular one these days, definitely number one is some variation of either you go to a bar or Waffle House and you get 24 hours to start every. It's like shot or beer is 30 minutes off. Maybe a shot and a beer like at the same time is like, you know, 90 minutes off. There's some sort of like, you know, Almost like a supercharge there. If you can take two down at once in one sort of one fell swoop. Waffle House. It's like every waffle you eat, you take off an hour and you go until, you know, some people are there for eight hours because they pound 16 waffles or something like that. That's always a fun one. The person always comes out worse for it in the end. I play in a league. It's a bunch of buddies who all work at a brewery and they lose her every year. Has to run eight and a half miles from one location to a specific bar. And these guys, you know, they work. They can all drink. You guys can all really drink. And during the time that that person is running, the rest of the group is at that bar running up a tab on that person's card. And, you know, if you find an athletic guy, it might be an hour and a half. You find an unathletic guy, and that might be 2, 215 and 2 hours and 15 minutes for 11 guys at a bar, 10 of which work at a brewery. Like, that number gets pretty significant in a hurry there. That's always one of my favorite ones each year.

[B]

I love that I do our punishment this year in our league, I'd like to get your evaluation on it is whoever gets last in the league, because we are doing a 2gm league, as will pointed out earlier, they all. We have a stream room. They have to spend 24 hours in that stream room together. What are your thoughts on that? It will be hours.

[F]

Oh, that's a long time, man. That's gonna be. What kind of. What kind of like, entertainment do they have available for 24 hours? Basically nothing.

[C]

We're working on that. Viewers.

[B]

Yeah, I think it'll be the viewers. It'll be up to them. I think every hour, maybe we take something away.

[F]

Oh, I like that. Yeah, I do like that right there.

[B]

Like a Mr. Beast video. That'd be good.

[C]

So all of a sudden you take off your pants, you don't get that. Pants.

[B]

Yeah. No pants anymore for you. Oh, no underwear anymore as well. And. And a lot of these hypotheticals. This is not a hypothetical. Will is.04. And because of your judgment, sounds like he's going to go, oh. And five, because he's missing three slots this week. That's. Will Compton and Matt Malone are looking at a tough situation right now. In our face.

[F]

Long season, though. Long season. We've got to dig our ball left.

[B]

I will. You know, I'll say this. Of all the Teams that I would prefer to go last place in our league. League. It's by far Will Compton and Matt Malone. It's. It's by far the dynamic of those two for 24 hours. And it's nothing against either. Will is my best friend. Yeah, it's nothing against them. It just seeing that for 24 hours will be must see TV, you know.

[F]

And I gotta say this, and I'm not yet. I'm not trying to come on the show and just make someone feel good or good about themselves. But if I know one thing about Will Compton, it's that you make lemonade. You know, like, that's what you do. You get lemons, you make lemonade.

[B]

Right. Like it does 24 hours.

[F]

You'd probably. That would probably, probably be an incredibly. Like, there'd be a ton of viewers on that stream right there. You got to shave your head on national tv. You'll do it. You got to sit in a streamer for 24 hours with nothing to do. You'll find a way to make it entertaining for America.

[B]

I love that. I love your compliment.

[C]

Let me go last. Now.

[B]

I know.

[F]

Now I want you to finish. I want you to go, oh, and 17 this year.

[B]

Yeah. I love your compliment. Let me come in with a little cut down at the knees. Here's something. Will comp is great at great at content. Great at sitting on a. With a microphone and delivering some of the people. People. What Will Compton is not great at is spending 24 whole hours be entertaining. That boy gets sleepy quickly. He gets grumpy quickly. And with Matt Malone on there, that's where the content's gonna come from. And that's what makes it so beautiful. So I guess you're right. Yeah, it's gonna be musty tv. It'll be at his demise, which. Yeah, it's just getting better and better the more I talk about it.

[F]

Oh, man.

[B]

Before we get you out of here, we have a Bud Light question we give to everybody. Bud Lights. It's something that, that people would do anything for. A clean, crisp, cold Bud Light bill dates. What would you do anything for? Can't say. Family.

[F]

What would I do anything for?

[B]

Right. We had. We had Brock Bowers on here. He said he'd do anything for a nice steak. Yeah, nice steak. Who Meat eater. Who's meat eater? Steve Rinella. He said there's a documentary that he doesn't care if no one cares about it. He wants to make it. He wants to do it. At some point, his life is going to make that documentary. So what is something you would do anything for?

[F]

All right, so we started off talking about some of the ESPN camaraderie. I play. There's a 16 team fantasy football league at ESPN. It's called the War Room. Schefter's in it, Rex Ryan's in it, Bruski's in it. A lot of the names that you know from ESPN are in. It's a great, great league. I think this is year seven for me and I've yet to win the league.

[B]

League.

[F]

And it's one of those things that like, once you get one, it's, I mean, I, I really would say it's basically like winning the Super Bowl. Like you just have to have one in your ledger and you're forever a Super bowl champion. I would do anything to win the War Room League. I get one. I could go over infinity after one championship if I get that one championship. And I'm telling you, if anybody in the War Room league happens to see or listen to this, they will agree with that assessment right there.

[B]

There.

[C]

How many out of the 16, how many are champions? Like do we have, we have some, do we have some repeat cats right now?

[F]

So I believe there's been just one multiple time winner in league history and we've had a little bit of turnover. So the only parameter is someone on the, you have to work at espn. So we've had some people that either previously worked at ESPN that are no longer there or people that have just elected to leave the league for whatever reason. And so I know the league is like 15 or 16 years old, so I'm not one of the original members, but I think there are maybe like one or two people that have won it multiple times. I don't believe there's ever been a repeat champion.

[C]

Is there a multiple time champion currently in the league?

[F]

I actually, I believe the only one that's in the league right now is Seth Markman, who I mentioned earlier is ahead of the NFL TV stuff. So he's got the secret sauce on fantasy football.

[C]

You know that pain feel to say his name too.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

He is the number one dog right now.

[B]

Right now. Number one dog. Mr. Yates, as an individual who's won back to back league championships, I will tell you, it is, it is such a great feeling. It's so hard.

[F]

The bragging rights are awesome.

[B]

It is, it's nice. And you just kind of, just kind of let you do your thing and you let everybody, they forget about it. And then once fantasy football comes back up in the fall. You just quietly let everybody know, you know, when the last two back to back. It's beautiful. We appreciate you. We appreciate you coming on the show.

[C]

Yes. Dude. Thank you. This has been a great time. Good laughs. Listen, we'll have to get a. We'll have to get another check in at some point as this league gets close to the end or gets come come playoff time.

[B]

Yes.

[F]

I might have to invite myself down to Nashville. I feel like it would hit a little bit different in person on the bus down to your domain.

[C]

But that's the. That's how we prefer it. We would rather have people on the bus.

[B]

We're getting used to this whole zoom thing right now. But being face to face is the best. The best move for sure. Yeah.

[F]

And you guys have just a slight edge over Connecticut weather start. I mean, actually it's nice up here in New England today, but you know, in about three weeks it'll be getting dark at 4:30 and probably about 35 degrees out.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Time to get the hell out.

[F]

You're telling me.

[B]

Yeah. All right, brother. We appreciate you, man.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

Can't wait for the check in soon.

[C]

Big hugs, tiny kisses. Thank you, Field.

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[C]

Ryan Burrow, baby.

[B]

Ryan's done an incredible job, dude. We talked to you guys earlier in the show.

[C]

Also the commissioner of our fantasy football league.

[B]

Also the commissioner which, you know, didn't have the best look. Didn't have the best look with field Yates just now. But Ryan does an amazing job along with clump as well, helping us get prepared for espn. He's always dialed in. He does a reader's digest every Sunday to give us a breakdown of what's going to happen in the week, week, what's coming up in the weeks in the future. You know, was it core value of the week. Wins, learns all the things. The guy just totally keeps us dialed in. Congratulations to Ryan Nolan.

[C]

Great dude, too.

[B]

Great guy.

[F]

Great dude. Bring it on the bus.

[B]

Bring it on the bus.

[C]

Oh, right. Hey, Ryan, you might as well come on in here. Come on in here, brother. By the way, we had this true classic. We had this thing drawn up to kind of pull it out of the folder to shout out who's going to be the gunner of the month. It is Ryan Nolan. Ryan Nolan.

[B]

What you got? Ryan?

[F]

Humble guy.

[B]

Humble.

[F]

I am honored.

[B]

I appreciate every one of you guys.

[F]

Couldn't do it without you guys.

[B]

And, yeah, I'm blessed. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. Hey, Ryan, pick up the mic. There's, as you know, controversy's been trying to come to the top around our fantasy football league. You know, I, I, I'm assuming you have questions that you would like answers to.

[B]

No, I mean, I, I, I got all the answers I needed from field Yates, so I, I just think.

[C]

But shouldn't you bring those to the somebody who is the coach?

[B]

Ryan knows how I feel. Yeah, we talked about it yesterday. Yeah, we talked about it yesterday. We've had the conversation. If that's how you guys want to handle business, I just don't want to hear anything else about me and how I handle my business from now on. That's the, if that's the road you guys want to go down. All good.

[C]

Are you comparing it to the situation a couple years ago Situation?

[B]

Couple years ago. There's always this thing around Taylor about, oh, Taylor, you know, he always bends the rules a little bit. It's okay. All right. If everybody wants to throw stones at a glass house, that's fine. Just know that you also live in a glass house. Now, hang on.

[C]

There's no. Just to be clear, the, the what you were trying to pull a couple years ago. There is. Hey, you can drive my vehicle around for the next few months like there's money under the table. Hey, can we let this. Like, there, there's actual, all alleged.

[B]

Actual collusion going on. That is all alleged. An actual collusion. This is actual collusion.

[C]

Pull up the definition.

[B]

You guys are hanging.

[C]

Please do that.

[B]

You guys are hanging on the. We were talking in front of everybody as if it was like a conference meeting room taking place about an action that was going to happen. You guys were talking in the corner with yourself while we were all getting ready for fantasy football. I remember talking about Entourage.

[C]

It was said out loud on the.

[B]

Trade for illegal cooperation or conspiracy, especially in order to cheat or deceive others.

[F]

It was definitely said out loud because I was on the complete other side.

[E]

Of the Stream room and heard it being talked.

[C]

It was said out loud. And again, questions were being asked because again, as a, as a GM of the league, I'm more so leaning on the group and the commissioner. Hey, how do we want to function with this trade? Because if we're playing our guys this week, we can obviously put in the guys that we have on our bench right now. But if we're going to get points back because the trade's going to go through. Then we will leave our spots open. So trying my best as GM to kind of follow the rules again. There's no secrecy, nothing. Nothing with collusion trying to take place. No secrecy going on, nothing illegally trying to get done or get on top of anybody. Simply trying to follow the rules.

[B]

Right.

[C]

And you're bringing the question up on, you know, you brought it up yesterday versus saying something then because you are down right now and Pacheco needs to put up like around 25 or 24 to win the game. I do.

[B]

I up. If anything stays the way it is right now. Right.

[C]

We have three spots open because our points are getting put on board.

[B]

That's what we're talking about. Right.

[C]

But if that trade wasn't going to go through, we still have JSN. Like we have guys or we're still getting 40. Like the, the game would still be. Pacheco would still need to have a big game.

[B]

Right. So we're playing a football game. I trade for a bunch of guys, but they end up playing the game for their team. I just go, oh, all the points they scored, they. That counts towards our score now. So we, we get more points. But going these guys, we sat these guys.

[F]

I, I understand what Will saying is.

[A]

Even if he didn't make that trade and had those guys still on his team, they still scored 40 more points. So he still would have won.

[B]

All right?

[C]

Right. Yeah.

[B]

Could have, should have won all the things. I look at the scoreboard on my fantasy app and I see what it is. And if you guys want to change the outcome of the game, you guys go ahead and do that. I'm not gonna take it personal. I, I went in with my draft and I was like, if I can go three and three in the first six weeks, your buddy, that's a huge win. So for me, it's like, yeah, all good. Good.

[C]

It doesn't sound like it's all good. It sounds like you're pretty fired up right now.

[B]

No, no, no. I'm. I've literally said, you guys do whatever you want.

[F]

Do we know what the score now?

[C]

The score would be? Pacheco would need like 24, 25 for them to win the game without even your players in.

[F]

You guys are beating them 139 to 116.

[E]

So you're winning by 20 without any players in.

[C]

So they might not even be.

[B]

Look at their, look at their matchup, right?

[C]

Yeah, you got to look at, you gotta.

[B]

You Gotta read the things before you say things. That's.

[C]

Oh, who's the.

[B]

Who'd you trade?

[E]

I traded Devonte Adams Z.

[B]

Flowers, and Devon H. None of those.

[C]

People are in their lineup on mine.

[E]

Because they're on my roster.

[B]

Oh, I'm saying you're winning even without anyone.

[C]

Six points.

[F]

Oh, you added. Look, go to.

[B]

If you go to my team and.

[E]

You add the points between the three.

[B]

Of them, I. I took that total. Added it to Will's team total. Yeah, I did. Did. I just want to throw this out there.

[F]

We did consult Chat GBT to see if there was any collusion in the past with Taylor with the bus and Fantasy league. It said no collusion to be found. Yeah, that is. That's on Chat gt, Right?

[B]

That's never wrong.

[C]

Look, Taylor's got a scummy resume. I understand he's trying to clear right.

[B]

Now, but classic Will defense mechanism. Let's. Let's attack Taylor's character. All good, man. You guys do what you want, okay? You handle your business the way you want to handle business.

[C]

Just like Pacheco wins.

[B]

Like I said. Said, I go three and three. I said at the beginning of the year, if I go three and three in the first six weeks, I feel real good about it. All right. We had every guy on by this week. We had a makeshift. A bunch of things. It's all good.

[C]

Yeah. It doesn't even seem like it was going to be a topic of discussion.

[B]

What do we mean?

[C]

Like I'm saying, this was never, like, the game was going to play out the way it plays out. So was. People were just saying there's some collusion going on. People are trying to, you know, bring some drama to the league. And it only came from a couple spots. And you were one of them. Them.

[B]

No, I think a lot of people been talking about how there's a lot of collusion going on, especially with this situation.

[C]

Who else?

[B]

Every. I think every other team.

[C]

I don't think so. Jeremy was like, hey. Clump was like, hey. He heard it out loud. Everybody.

[B]

Jeremy says a lot of things in front of you, and there's a lot of things different in front of me. I'll say that. It's all. It's all good. I'm not here to put anybody on blast.

[F]

I understand people being, like, weird about.

[E]

It if they weren't talking about it out loud in front of everyone.

[B]

I did hear them. Like I said, I questioned it. I was the first one who questioned.

[E]

It, and I was tripling down.

[C]

And Ryan will tell you before game started yesterday, I'm like, hey, I just want to be clear. I'm leaving these spaces open because the points are getting added. If not, I need to put in the guy like the guys who are going to play yesterday.

[B]

I said it out loud very loudly.

[E]

In the stream room.

[B]

Wait, hold on a minute.

[C]

What are you guys doing over there? Very tried and true. You know, just making sure we go about it the right way.

[B]

At the end of the day, boys, it's all about if you can lay your head on the pillow at night and it sounds like you guys can. So we're all good. No worries. Fantasy football, it's a hell of a time.

[F]

It's just a game.

[B]

Just a, just a game.

[C]

We're having fun.

[F]

It's a lot of fun.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. We feel good.

[C]

Just trying to keep a clean league going on.

[B]

Feel great. I love it, man.

[C]

Big hugs, tiny kisses. We will see you guys. You know, if you tune in for the dads tomorrow, we got locker room college football coming out tomorrow evening. We got the NFL locker room coming out Thursday morning. The boys will also be on get up Thursday morning and we will be at the Red river rivalry this weekend, Texas and Oklahoma at Terry Blacks for a live show.

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