Nightcap Hour 1: GEORGIA out of CHARACTER vs BAMA + Penn State CRASHES vs OREGON + Texas A&M ROLLS Auburn + LSU offense NONEXISTENT

Summary

Club Shay Shay: Nightcap Hour 1 (September 28, 2025)

Overview

This episode of Nightcap on Club Shay Shay, hosted by Shannon Sharpe and joined by Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson and Johnny Manziel, dives deep into a wild week of college football. The crew breaks down Georgia’s out-of-character loss to Alabama, Penn State’s collapse against Oregon (continuing coach James Franklin’s notorious big-game woes), Texas A&M’s statement win over Auburn, and LSU’s continued offensive struggles. Their discussion bounces between coaching decisions, program expectations, player performances, and the broader college football landscape—all with their trademark candid humor and insider knowledge.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Georgia’s Costly Coaching (vs. Alabama)

• Main Theme: Georgia made uncharacteristic coaching calls in a critical loss to Alabama.
• Key Debate: Whether Georgia coach Kirby Smart should have taken the points with a field goal or gambled on a rushed fourth-down try early in the fourth quarter.
• Chad Johnson criticizes the hasty decision:
  “It’s out of their character to rush to go hurry up. That’s not what they do right… Why are you rushing to go do what we did at A&M and go hurry up? You don’t do that. That’s not your bread and butter.” (07:16)
• Shannon Sharpe:
  “You took the millionth and one… Of a million things that we could have done, let’s take the one thing we shouldn’t do.” (10:21)
• All agree it’s another case of Georgia “outsmarting themselves,” helping explain why Alabama has dominated the matchup historically.

Memorable Moment:

Chad confesses his frustration and betting involvement:
“I’m furious… 5,000 on the dogs. Okay. Second half they’re down. I’ll take him at plus seven. 5,000 on the dogs again.” (07:51)

Key Insight:

• Mistakes like hurried play-calling, personnel mismanagement, and dropped passes cost Georgia in big games. The team is talented but not as dominant as their championship years.
• On drops:
  “Drop is inexcusable on the deep ball. That is an unbelievable dialed up in the dirt play. An unbelievable throw. It’s picture perfect all the way down to catching the football.” (11:37)

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2. Penn State’s Big-Game Blues (vs. Oregon)

• Theme: Coach James Franklin’s inability to win crucial matchups.
• Shannon’s take:
  “James Franklin… is now 4 and 21 against top 10 opponents. I tweeted, is he ever going to win a big meaningful game?” (23:42)
• Crew recalls the program’s history of winning big under Joe Paterno compared to Franklin’s struggles.
• Chad Johnson’s tough assessment of Penn State QB Drew Aller:
  “You don’t want to step up and be that guy in that situation. Man, 137 [yards passing], ain’t it. You’re supposed to have that in a quarter in college, a whole game, a double overtime.” (25:58)
• Coaching accountability:
  “How many times does he win a game he’s not supposed to win? ...In 25 games against a top 10 opponent, more times than not, triple the times, quadruple the times, he found ways to lose as opposed to winning.” – Shannon Sharpe (37:55)

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3. Texas A&M Rolls Auburn – Is This Finally Their Year?

• Theme: Texas A&M shows defensive dominance and potential to break out.
• Stats: Auburn went 0-13 on third down; mustered just 177 yards (A&M: 414).
• Johnny Manziel shares pride and gives advice to A&M players:
  “What I’ve told him is… Learn from me, man. Learn from me and buckle down. You were in a place we ain’t been in in 10 years. Nine years. Yeah, grind it.” (42:10)
• On A&M’s potential:
  “If they can come together as a band of brothers… not buying into the hype, not getting lackadaisical… Are the pieces there? Without a doubt. But it takes consistency.” (45:57)
• SEC Race: The schedule is favorable, but consistency is required to contend with the likes of Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma.

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4. LSU’s Offense Falters Again

• Theme: Persistent offensive woes under Brian Kelly.
• Stats: LSU loses to Ole Miss 24-19, goes 2 of 11 on 3rd downs, only 65 yards rushing.
• Shannon fires at Coach Kelly:
  “Last week you didn’t want to talk about it cause you won. Can we talk about it now? What would you like to say about your running game, Brian?” (54:07)
• Crew notes regression of QBs around the nation (Nussmeier, Aller, Klubnik).

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5. Quarterback Play and Heisman Frontrunners

• Widespread disappointment in QB play across marquee programs.
• Chad Johnson:
  “I mean, none of the—it’s been a while, guys. It’s been a while that we could honestly turn the TV on and say, you know what? I don’t see no quarterbacks to get excited about.” (58:06)
• Shannon jokes about the Heisman:
  “Johnny, are they even gonna give the Heisman out this year? I mean, you got the award, so you would know. Are they going to give the award out this year?” (58:24)
• Hype for Diego Pavia and a few standouts, but consensus is the year lacks star power at QB.

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Additional Notable Quotes

• Chad Johnson on wide receiver yips:
  “Once your confidence is shot after dropping two or three balls, it sticks with you, Johnny. It sticks with you, uncle.” (12:47)
• Shannon Sharpe on college QBs adapting to the NFL:
  “A lot of these guys get to college Ocho, and they have never ever taken a snap under center.” (45:31)
• On Texas A&M’s investment:
  “Texas money is different. Different Florida money… They gave that man [Jimbo] 82 to go away, and you get another job, you still get to keep the 82. Let that sink in.” – Shannon (20:02)

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Key Timestamps

• 07:16 – Chad Johnson critiques Georgia’s “hurry up” play calling
• 10:21 – Shannon rails against overthinking in coaching decisions
• 11:37 – Discussion of Georgia’s costly dropped passes
• 23:42 – Shannon presents James Franklin’s record against top 10 teams
• 25:58 – Chad analyzes Drew Aller’s underperformance
• 36:09 – On the necessity of winning games you aren’t supposed to win
• 42:10 – Johnny Manziel’s advice and pride for Texas A&M
• 54:07 – Shannon on LSU & Brian Kelly’s run game issues
• 58:24 – Heisman Trophy discussion: lack of QB excitement

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Tone and Style

The conversation is candid, passionate, and laced with humor—typical of Shannon Sharpe, Ocho, and Johnny Manziel. They mix deep football insight, personal experience, and playful banter, making the discussion relatable to both hardcore fans and casual listeners.

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Summary

This “Nightcap” is an energetic, unfiltered recap of a dramatic college football weekend loaded with upsets, questionable coaching, and big-picture hot takes. The hosts’ chemistry brings both expert analysis and entertainment, emphasizing the unpredictability and drama that makes college football so compelling. The episode is valuable for anyone seeking sharp analysis and memorable banter about the current state of college football’s biggest personalities, programs, and perennial controversies.

Transcript

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[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

It's out of their character to rush to go hurry up. That's not what they do right. The play was close on third down to where maybe it could get reviewed. Why not take your time, let them see if they're going to send it to the booth. Get a good play that you want in. Why are you rushing to go do what we did at a. M and go hurry up. You don't do that. That's not your bread and butter. You don't have the right personnel on the field but you think it's just a yard and you're gonna sneak this little inside zone play, outside zone play in and it's gonna be. It's all cool.

[Shannon Sharpe]

We'll be fine.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

We'll man it up, hat on hat and get it in. What are we doing? It's so. It's such a big part of the game to think you're just gonna slide one in and a Game against Alabama. So to me I'm furious. I'm sitting there before the game, I'm like, who do I like in this game? Georgia. Alabama hadn't showed me nothing. Nothing. 5,000. 5,000 on the dogs. Okay. Second half they're down. I'll take him at plus seven. 5,000 on the dogs again. Yeah.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Hey, and Johnny, I think especially from a coaching standpoint in a situation like that, even though it's not something that you normally do, being because of the circumstance in the situation in the team that you're playing, you want, you want to do everything you can, you know, to believe in your team and hoping they can do. Get that, get that, get that. Fourth and one to give yourself some type of advantage. If anything, I would have got the points. You take the points in a situation.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Like that during the week, during your practice, you got a section there that says third and fourth and one. You got plays that you like in there. You know, let's call one of those plays. Maybe a roll out little flat pass if you're going to do something. But you don't speed up your offense and do something that's completely speed up.

[Shannon Sharpe]

The runner to run, to run the.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Ball and then, and then.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Right.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Man, my dog did give him a little stiff arm and kind of tried to make something shake. He tried. He gave everything he got. But where's our festar running back? Why is he not on the field?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Thank you. Why?

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Hurry up, dude. Who's in there to block and it's not his fault. This is coaching.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You got a guy that's ran the ball 12 times for 119 yards and a touchdown. You had another guy had the ball one carry for 43 yards. So that's not. We're not. What we going to. We're going to be smart. You know what we're going to do? We're going to outsmart ourselves. We're going to run Harry up with our backup to the backup running back and see if we can catch Alabama off guard. Because see, that's when you try to like, want to pretend how smart you are because what you do ain't nobody, man. Kirby, what made you decide to go hurry up in that situation? Now they're asking the same thing, guys in, in, in the press room. Kirby, why would you go hurry up in that situation if you. Why not call a time out?

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

You haven't had the lead all night.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Why not take the tie?

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Get it back to square.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Why not? Why not your festar running back? There are a million things you could have done. You take the. You took the millionth and one. So a million things that we could have done. O let's take the one thing we shouldn't do. T and you wonder why Alabama has lost more than they've won. Excuse me. Georgia has lost more to Alabama than. Than they've won. And a lot of times they've had the better of the teams. They've had the better of the teams. They should have beat Georgia. They should have beat Alabama several times in SEC championships. One time they had Mark Rick. I don't know why they throw the ball to the flat when they know they don't have any timeouts and there's less than 10 seconds on the clock. We see them lose when they got this superior team, they got all this talent. Now they did turn around and beat Alabama in the national championship game, but Jameson Williams blew out his knee in that game. Mei had blew out his knee knee in SEC championship game. But a lot of times this has been unex. Inexcusable for Georgia to lose as many times as they lost to Alabama. And it really doesn't matter where they are. It could be in Tuscaloosa. It can be between the hedges and Athens. It could be at the Georgia Dome now the Mercedes Benz Dome. It does not matter. I just don't understand in this situation.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Drop is inexcusable on the deep ball. That is a unbelievable dialed up in the dirt play. An unbelievable throw. It's picture perfect all the way down to catching the football.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Well, yeah, he took his, he took his ass off that ball too.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Hey, what you think Ryan Williams. Ryan Williams had. Ryan Williams had one just, just as perfect. Oo yeah, same. He's struggling this year. OO he's struggling this year. Yeah, he's dropped a lot. He's dropped a lot of plays. Remember Florida State? How many dropped? OO yes, sir. He dropped a touchdown against Wisconsin. He. I, I don't know, maybe the, the celebrity of the fight, but I don't know if it's lack of concentration, but he's not, he doesn't look like the guy that we saw the first seven, eight games last year.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

This year.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Oh. So yeah, I got a question for you both. You guys go into games, you go through spells as a receiver where you maybe have some drops, you're not in it.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Oh, absolutely.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

What is, what is the process for you guys? I see guys go out to practice. Jug machine, take an hour out there.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes. Feel it.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Get your feel, get your flow back. But for you Guys, I want to hear. I'm curious as to what do in that situation.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

I'm yeah for, for me, when I got the yips like that, especially in a game where I dropped two, maybe three balls, it doesn't matter how much jug machine I do Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. It's nothing like in game, in game situation. I need, I need to touch the ball, I need to feel the ball early in a game and my coaches already know that ahead of time. Don't give me a route, don't give me a slant or a curl. Throw me a smokescreen, throw me a bubble, throw me something quick so I can get my confidence back. Once your confidence is shot after dropping two or three balls, it sticks with you, Johnny. It sticks with you, uncle. You know how that feeling is. Just let me touch it real quick just to get myself acclimated and back.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

You ain't sleeping tonight.

[Shannon Sharpe]

For me, I wanted the passes that I dropped. I go through the same route. So if I was dropping the knot route, yeah I would go through that motion and have the, and catch it on the jugs. I'm not just standing there like this. So I'm going through the motion or I'm going to have the quarterback to throw me the ball that I struggle with in the game. So if it was a slant in most of the time I struggled on the left hand side. So I'm lining up on the left and catching the slant like this. So I struggle with that. So that's what I would work with. And if I struggle with the basic cross, if I wasn't catch, even if I caught the ball, oo and Johnny and I didn't catch it clean, I consider that a job because now I'm bobbling it. Had a guy been there, I would have dropped it because me bobbling, he hit me. Now the ball could have get popped up, could have gotten popped up in the air or it could have hit the dirt. So anytime I didn't catch it clean, I worked on that. But a spell might be in a game, it was no, I wasn't going. No struggle in this game. Struggling that game clean for two more games, struggling, hell no, it wasn't none.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Of that, nothing like that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

So I just think the thing is Ocho, when you have a lot of success and he had a lot of success last year. Early. Early, yes, early. And sometimes we start to read the press clippings and we start to believe and we don't. I don't know if we're putting the work the same work in but you can't drop. That's rest routine because on the road against the number three team in the country. That is a ginormous play, Ocho. We've taken the crowd completely out of it. Yeah. Now, they did go down and score, but you want to hush a crowd, a hostile crowd.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Big place.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Get a big play place.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Hey, man, we've seen him do it last year. Huh? We've seen him do it last year multiple times against big teams, in big games, so we know he's capable of doing it. All he got to do is Georgia last year.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. Remember he caught the one and he stopped.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Stop and pirouette and came back. Listen, all Ryan got to do, just lock back in. Lock back in. Remember. Remember who you at. Remember how you.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

This a good thing though, too, because he can't come out this year no matter what. So he gets year no matter what. So that's okay. Let him develop. Let him go through this.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Let him have his. He gonna struggle to get to a thousand yards. He. He g. He gonna struggle. Unless he really pops off in the back half of the season to go for a thousand.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Right.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

For him to come out this year after the season he had last year and have 7, 800 yards would be a disappointment. That's a hungry dude in off season.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. But those other guys kind of stepped up in his. In his. In his absence. But I was surprised. I, like Horton Brooks, had a big play, had some big plays, but I was surprised that Georgia. How. How poorly Georgia started the game. You know, the turn. I think they had a turnover early. As soon as they got the ball, they turned it over. Georgia normally comes out. Look, this is not the same Georgia teams that was winning national championships with all those five star defensive linemen that was go. You know, they had five guys go in the first round and they got offensive lineman going the first round and you got James Cook and you got this one and that one. They don't have that level of talent. They talented. Now, don't get wrong. So I don't want people to say I don't know. I don't know right now if I'm picking anybody over how they can't feel. Do we think they got enough offensively? You like Stockton? You like Stockton that much?

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

He made some good throws tonight. That. That. That ball that was dropped, that's a good throw. Times 3rd down, 3rd and N where he stepped up and ripped some balls. And that's what I look for throughout the night in a game. Big plays. You need something you're backed up and you step up with confidence and you really let one come out of your hand and let it spin. You caught it. Kind of got banged around on a third and nine. Like that's a good throw, a confident throw. That's one against a good defense, a good team you build on, right? So when you see stuff like that, is it consistent enough? That's why you're making that base. Is it consistent enough?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Right. Not that's.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

But you grow as the season goes on. You learn from this. You go back and watch the tape.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Look, they got their work cut out for them.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Vandy belt. This is not your father's and grandfather's Vander belt.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

I went to dinner with Diego Fabia tonight. They hungry.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And guess what?

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

I'm going to Tuscalooa, Alabama on Saturday, and I'm on the Vandy sideline.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, yeah, because Alabama. Alabama say we owe y'. All. After what y' all did to us last year, we owe y' all big.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Time is what them boys are saying.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Vanderbilt, so Georgia, Alabama's slate. Vanderbilt, Missouri and Tennessee. You remember Tennessee beat them last year. Vanderbilt beat him last year. It was those type of games that ended up keeping them out. Although they were playing well at the end, they. That ended up keeping them out of the College Football Playoff as they extended, you know, added more teams to the playoffs. So it's going to be interesting. I don't know, guys. I don't know. Let me know what you think. Johnny, man, had kayin deor lost this game. Boy, they already calling for his head. Yeah, they already calling for his head.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

A game like this, buy him some time.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I believe.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Game like this, buy him some time.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Two weeks ago we were. Two weeks ago we use a lottery money.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. Yeah. They still might. They got another lottery. I don't know if anybody wasn't mega millions, but they still, they still, they still willing. And people like, well, Alabama, look, I think we. Texas A M just for, for, for, for sake. Texas A And M has 20.4 billion in endowment money. Alabama has 2.6 billion. Huh? Florida. Florida. That's what we was talking about. Florida. And what's the guy's name? Billy Napier.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Buying him out versus what Texas A and M did with Jimbo.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Jimbo.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You see the difference? 20.4 billion in endowment and 2.6 billion in endowment. So this notion at Florida. No, no, no, no, no. Texas money is different. Different Florida money.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

You gotta look under the couch cushions and.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, but hey, hey, think about it. They gave that man. 80 billion. They say, you know what?

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

82. 80, 82. 82.

[Shannon Sharpe]

We, we give you 82 to go away and you go get another job, you still get to keep the 82. Yeah, let that sink in. A lot of times, a lot of like, NFL what they'll do, they're like, if you get another job or you become a coordinator, you become an analyst. They deduct that, right, Texas A? Nah, we don't even care. Jim Fisher.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Wake up every day and look out on the porch and smoke a joint like, damn, thank you, Aggies.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Hey, yeah, that's a nice question.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

But we'll get there one day somehow.

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[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

See website for more the or number six Oregon Ducks goes in to Beaver Stadium. Yo shocks the number three Penn State Nittany Lions by the score of 30 to 24 in double overtime. James Franklin, coaching in his 12th season at Penn State, is now 4 and 21 against top 10 opponents. 4 and 21. I tweeted, is he ever going to win a big meaningful game? Well, he went to the college football play. All I know is that he's 4 and 21. Now y' all think, is that acceptable?

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

No.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Is that now? All I know is when I grow up, grew up Penn State was a big thing. They they a Joe Pa. Rest his soul. They won.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And more times than not he won games like that. Go back and look at that 87 national championship game against Miami. They had no business winning that game. You look at what Miami had as far as Chester Verde and Jerome Brown and Danny Stubbs and all those guys.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Penn State had no business whatsoever winning that game. And Penn State was known to win games like that.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Right.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I think if I'm not mistaken, I think they beat Georgia one year for the national championship or they kept Georgia from winning the national championship. I'm just shocked that if somehow he will find a way to lose to Ohio State. He'll find a way, somehow, Johnny, to lose a game you like okay, they at home. They gonna win this one. Oh, they got this one in the bag and he'll F it up.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah, I mean, they were, they were close all game. Johnny and Unk. It was a very good game, a very defensive game. Obviously. I, I don't, I, I, I'm, I'm confused as to where all the, the stars. There's always every, every team always, especially like Penn State, there's, there's always a star. Nobody stood out. Nobody stood out. I think everyone's somewhat even and that's what I was looking for. I was looking for one player, one or two players that stand out and make a difference in that game. And nobody stood out to me. So at that point, it all comes down to the coaching. It all comes down to decision making in an important situation on who make the fewest mistakes. That was going to win that game.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I think, I think I'm not impressed with that quarterback.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Exactly. You look at number one 5, 14, 25 for 137, two touchdowns in a pick. You go to their running back, the rush game, leading rusher, 12 carries, 54 yards. You go to their leading receiver. Four catches, 48 yards. That is enough on that side of the ball. That ain't going to get you a win. Yeah, it, it really isn't. You're, we're talking about 15. Being a guy. Can he go to the league? Is he the best quarterback in his class? Is the guy go Flashes last year. You don't want to step up and be that guy in that situation. Man, 137, ain't it? You're supposed to have that in a quarter in college, a whole game, a double overtime.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Thank you. So you get extra possessions in overtime. You got, you played a game and two extra possessions and you had 137 yards passing. So you're at home against Oregon and I'm supposed to believe that you a top pick? I don't know. Here's the thing though, too.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Here's what I'm thinking about it as well, though. Let's look back to last year. Oregon played Ohio State early on. Great game.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Comes down and then you look what happens in the playoffs. Completely different thing. So I respect James Franklin. I like him as a coach, as a human being, as a program leader. I understand in big situations, 4 and 21, there's something going on there where you get nervous or you tighten up, get a little, what, whatever it is. 4 and 21 in big games, come on, darts at a wall, blindfolded, hit more of 4 than 21. What are we talking about? But at the end of the day, you can look at this as we play the number six team in the country, really tough, and if we see them again, come on. It's all about perspective. I didn't have to handle this loss.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But here's the thing you had.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

I agree. Don't get nobody.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I didn't think Oregon, I didn't think Oregon was going to beat Ohio State. They lost on a two point conversion. Ohio State at Oregon. What the hell you think that was going to happen? If you meet on a neutral site, what happened? Yeah, the doors blowed off. If Oregon meet Penn State on a neutral site again, if that fortunate enough to happen.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Right?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Doors blown off because they still got Penn State. I mean, excuse me, they still got Ohio State, they still got Michigan on the schedule. So are we sure they already got one loss early in the season. Are we sure? Are we sure? Penn State, when it's all said, nothing's gonna be there. Johnny. You sure?

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

I mean, look, next week, ucla, bop bop. Northwestern, B, Iowa.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Easy, easy.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Okay, maybe they give you.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, they lose. They gonna lose one of them. Johnny, that's Penn State. That's J. Franklin. He gonna lose one of them.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Come down to a matchup versus Ohio State. And for me, I ain't as confident as you sound in Ohio State's quarterback play. They're good as a team, as a unit, you rely on your D. You got the receivers, you got the pieces. I ain't, I ain't as. I ain't as confident in them as, as most people are. And then look, you got Indiana, Michigan State, Nebraska, Rutgers, Nebraska. I mean.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Where do they play Nebraska?

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

At home?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, they probably win that one.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

So, I mean, you go through it, you have a loss, there's Ohio State, you run the rest of the table. You have two losses and you're Penn State, you're at three right now, you end up in the top 12. For sure. For sure.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You might be right. The question is, what is. What does Ohio State look like when it's all said and done? How many losses do Oregon have when it's all said and done? I don't believe. Let's just say for the sake of argument, Oregon runs the table. Does Oregon play Ohio State in the regular season or they can only play in the championship game? They getting ready to do away with championship.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

They do not play Oregon this year.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay, let's just say everybody's undefeated. I don't believe they take it. Three.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Illinois.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Whoa, whoa. Illinois not a Cakewalk.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Okay.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

That's gonna be a good game.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Give you that. That's a good game. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Penn State, Purdue, ucla, Rutgers, Michigan to end the season. They don't lose more than two. They're in true.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Right.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That game, that Michigan game is going to be tough. I don't know what it is. Michigan, Michigan, season up. I don't. It doesn't matter. They f, they find a way to play to scratch, claw and dig out a win against Ohio State. No matter how talented Ohio State is, Michigan somehow finds a way to win.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

It's been there. We see it every year. It happens.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, but I'm just surprised that James Franklin think about all the time, Johnny and Ocho, that we've seen Penn State have a superior team, only to lose.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Lose.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Drew Aller, look, he might turn out to be one of the, the greatest Penn State quarterback in the NFL. And that ain't saying much because Penn State ain't had a whole lot of great quarterbacks in the NFL. You go back to Chuck Fasana and you go back to Todd Black, a Kerry College. No disrespect, Kerry Collins might be the best, but he does not impress me. As my grandma used to say, he done razz my Berry. I, I, I, I, I get, I get nothing. I get, I get nothing. I get nothing out of that. I, I, I really don't. I'm, I'm looking at him, bro. I'm like, bro, what, what, what are we doing? And, and people have him rated really high. Johnny, am I missing something?

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

I mean that when, when it, when it comes to position, the quarterbacks are rated with. There's, there's not much else out there.

[Shannon Sharpe]

There's not much else out there.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

We've been talking about the quarterback play. Even our boy Castellanos, who we were so hype about last week. I put some money on Florida State on, on Friday night. That ain't it. That was tough. They sick back to the drawing board.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah, they, they. I think Florida State might have been feeling theyself a little too much.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Just a little. You see what happens? What happens, Ocho, when expectations come? You see, when they played Alabama, they have no expectations, right? Nobody. Now all of a sudden, they're undefeated. They're on the road. And now you have some expectations. Could Florida State make the, you know, the College Football Playoff? Now you start to have expectations. No one had expectations from Florida State until they did what they did to Alabama. And they now all of a sudden damn to that, right? Man, look, I, I don't I, I don't get it. Like I said, Penn State 4 and 21. 4 and 21. Penn State is 4 and 21 against top 10 opponents. And it's not like they haven't been ranked in the top ten their damn self. So it's not like all of a sudden that's a top 10 opponent and we're unranked or we're in, you know, we're 20, we're 25. Penn State a lot of time is ranked in the top 10 them damn the damn self. Look, maybe they're afraid they can't find anybody else than Drain Franklin, but I'm not so sure that he would have been able to be at any other institution this long with the pedigree that an institution has as long as Penn State. I'm shocked. I am absolutely shocked that he's been able to be there this long. You're not going to be at Alabama, you're not going to be at Georgia. You're not going to be at any of these. Ohio State with that. No, sir. No way. No way, no how. 4 and 21 and you lose it to Ohio State. Damn. Every, basically every year. How many times have been Ohio State since he's been there? Once.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

I think you, you get, you get a little, a little bit more leniency with understanding that you are playing a superior school. You get, you get a little bit, if you can so somehow get a win. Yes. You understand that Ohio State has the better players.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Here's the thing. Getting into the player, they get into the playoff and go look good and be competitive. That's the thing. They keep getting wiggling their way in just good enough, bare minimum type stuff. So when you do that and you look back at the season as somebody who's overseeing that whole program, you're like, you know what? You don't forget about that loss versus Ohio State. You don't forget about, you forget about that like, oh, we went to the playoff. Damn. A couple plays, go here our way, here and there, like we're good. You look at that perspective, but in reality, when you lay it out, you lay it for what it is. If you're a top program.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

How many times. I think the biggest thing is this is where you measure coach. How many times does he win a game he's not supposed to win? See, you look at Nick Saban and all the times he beat Georgia when he wasn't supposed to, or he beat an LSU when he wasn't supposed to, or he beat no. Or he beat These teams, how many times when we go into a game and we say, man, Penn State ain't got no chance of winning this game. And they win it. They do. Why don't you. If it's a 50, 50 ball game, they lose. So if we're looking at it and we're saying, okay, this is a game. I want to see somebody with Coach Belichick. Coach Belichick. A lot of times he's winning games like he wasn't supposed to beat the. The Greatest show on turf. He wasn't supposed to beat the Legion of Boom. He was not supposed to go on the road and, and, and, and, and. And beat Patrick Mahomes. You have to win in order to put. To get the credit that you deserve to. You're gonna have to win games. You're not supposed to win that super.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Bowl, you know that. Supposed to win that super bowl in Atlanta.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That's how you became Johnny. If you go to Alabama, if you go into Alabama and you lose, you're not Johnny Football. You've got to win. You won a game that you weren't supposed to win. Nobody gave you a chance. Y' all was what, two, three touchdown underdogs?

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

But hey, hey, uncle and Johnny. The funny thing about it is, obviously, sometimes coaches are supposed to win games that they shouldn't win to get the recognition. But it's hard to win games. You don't have the personnel. It's hard if they, they tell you to bake a cake, but you ain't got no goddamn. No, no mix.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

You understand what I'm saying?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Well, make cornbread. Make something. Make something palatable.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

You know what I mean?

[Shannon Sharpe]

I get oo. You're right. But that's the thing is winning. Let me ask you a question. Who had the most talent? The Greatest show on turf or Coach Belichick's Patriots? Yes. A game you're not supposed to win, you're undermanned.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

The great ones find a way no matter what. There ain't no excuses.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Giants versus the Patriots. One team is 180 one team got some argue. The greatest receiver ever, the greatest quarterback ever, the greatest head coach ever.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Ta da. Yeah. So sometimes you win games when you're undermanned. That's Ocho. If all I do is win when I got the best team, how good a damn coach am I?

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah, you're right.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Jay Franklin, at some point in time, you're gonna have to win, win games that nobody doesn't expect you. And now you're at home. You're the Number three seed. People were expecting you to beat Oregon because you're, you're, you're the high ranked team and you home. Yeah. And somehow you find more, more times than not. And so based on this, in 25 games against a top 10 opponent, more times than not, triple the times, quadruple the times. He found ways to win, lose as opposed to winning.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And that's a problem. That is a problem.

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

Number 9 Texas A&M Johnny's yeah yeah. Number 9 Texas A&M hold off the Auburn Tigers. I don't know how you get two names you get a War Eagle and your Tiger but anyway improved the 40 since the first time since 2016. Auburn finished the game all of 13 on third down conversion and had just 177 total yards against A and M. A and M had 414. Marcel Reed not turned the ball over against Texas A and M and hadn't had committed 13 penalties, the final score would have been a lot worse. Johnny, that's your team. What'd you like about what you saw.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

From Listen, I talked to him every night after the games and as you're going into games like this and you're getting into SEC play and you're playing a good team like Auburn, you have to find ways throughout the season to go out and get a win. Whether it's pretty, whether it's ugly, whether you have some penalties. But look at it as a whole. 15:22 at seven incompletions doesn't throw a tutty 207 yards passing and for him he rushed for minus 23 yards. For a guy who uses his legs, that's an off night for him. But you look Le' Avion Moss 21 carries 139 I've talked to him every week. What I've told him is listen, as good as that feels, as much as you want to go out and celebrate, learn from me man. Learn from me and buckle down. You were in a place we ain't been in in 10 years. Nine years. Yeah, grind it. Go back this week, go harder. Take this, run with it and go get better. Use the film, use the stuff. Go to practice, take everything you can. The party gonna be there and the party gonna be better. Whenever you get to the SEC championship game, whenever you keep winning, whenever you keep stacking. Good days, good weeks. So I'm in his ear every week in the most positive of ways. We're going to enjoy this for a couple seconds right now because it feels good and you should enjoy it because it is a good team win. But at the end of the day, everybody in the country is waiting on A M to be A and M of the past. The way you stick out and be legendary is to go and do what hasn't been done. He wants to go be up there with me at Texas A M. Keep winning, keep doing your thing, Keep being a leader. That's how you get a state. That's how you get a statue. That's how you get your name on the building. That's what you want. So right now, so far so good. But everybody's waiting on the Aggies. To Aggie. And there's a couple people that can keep that in perspective and keep it rolling.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Look, A M defense was coming. I mean, 24 rushes, 52 yards, 18 or 33, you had 33 pass attempts and you only had 125 yards passing. That's what you're supposed to have, 125 yard passes in three drives.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Hey, that's them boys playing good defense, that real good defense. Most of the time you think about college football too, Johnny. Defense is the. Is the part where they really don't.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Play very well hard because all these spread offenses and all this motion, this zone read stuff, if you see if it's infiltrated the NFL, right. NFL sent their personnel down there to study Baylor, to study these lane kids and to study these open offenses. You see a lot more of that now. College offense into the NFL as opposed to the NFL in college. Ain't nobody.in the I you find very few backs. Everyone. Basically the only team that really gets in the eye is you got Derrick Henry and Jonathan Taylor. Yeah, damn. Everybody else is on the offset because very few, very few quarterbacks are under center now, Johnny. A lot of these guys get to college Ocho, and they have never ever taken a snap on the center.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

On the center. Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Some guys get to the NFL and they ain't taking a snap on the center.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

The first time they take a snap on the center is at the damn Pro date. Look at Johnny. Johnny raised his hand like, we have.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Maybe six snaps in two years where we went under center. I got to the NFL, I'm like, what the is this?

[Shannon Sharpe]

You feeling good about your ag? You think they can make it all the way down to Georgia?

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

They have the pieces they need. They got. If they can. If they can come together as a band of brothers, and they can look at it and say, you know, this defense, we stout offense. What we did versus Notre Dame, we can do versus anybody in the country, but it takes a special unit. Not one's buying into the hype, not one's getting lackadaisical. Not one's taking a week off in practice. Like, yo, we play somebody that we should beat this week, but somebody can come up and catch you. And that one game changes your whole trajectory. So are the pieces there for a mic? Are they a contender? Without a doubt. They played well enough against teams that are solid to prove that. But it takes consistency, and it takes them coming every week with your lunch pail. You got to come and bring it. That's just what it comes down to. So if you want it, it's there. You got the pieces now, whatever. Sure, but they got the pieces.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Do you got. Do you guys got Texas or Oklahoma on your schedule?

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Georgia on the road.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That'd be a good game. There's no love lost between you guys.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

And last year was a brutal one. Last year was tough in our own house, bringing the rivalry back. We ain't sniff a chance to win that game last year.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, y' all tried to block Texas from coming to the sec.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

What are we doing? It was all good when we wanted to go, but. But when they want to go, we mad about it. There's some things. There's some things that go on at A and M that you got to look at and kind of be like, what are we doing? But, yeah, that just is what it is. Everybody wants their cake and to eat it, too, and to keep. Keep them out of something that's been really great for us. But, like, listen, if 2012 didn't go the way that it went for us, our SEC trajectory could be way, way different. When we were coming into the sec, all we heard was, you boys need to get ready. You're going to get smacked. This is different than what you're used to. This ain't Iowa State. This ain't Kansas State. Now, we set ourselves on a good path with 2012 and 2013, but then there's a big lull there for eight, nine, years where we really haven't had a lot of success outside of true2019 or 2020. Kellen Mons last year, and it was the COVID year, we went to the Orange bowl, lost one game. We haven't really had a lot of success. So for us, right, this team has the chance to do what hasn't been done at Texas A M in a long time. And for us and the type of program we are, if you're being honest, double digit wins for us are something that are truly program changing. But we're in the second year of Elko. We go through the buyout, we go through the jokes. We are the butt of the joke for years. Oh, you pay Jimbo this, he has to go. You pay him off. You have success in the second year of Elko, you really start to build on something where that money now makes it worth it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Absolutely. When you pay Jimbo that kind of money, you got to get to an SEC championship game. You got to get into the college football player. It's just the way of life. Ocho, you know, Johnny, you understand this. You played there. You know how devout and loyal that fan base is. And you know how those big boosters are. They empty the. Well, they found some money in the cushions to give Jimbo that, that kind of money. I said, he empty their pocket. Because they got deep pockets. Their pockets go down to the. Yeah, they didn't, they didn't have to dig too deep to find that. And so the expectations, like you said, you keep winning these games and like you said, okay, you win double digits, but at some point in time, they look over there and it's like, nah, we in the big boy conference, we want to play 13 years in and.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

You don't go once. Unacceptable. I couldn't get it done. Can't get it done for the nine years after 13 years in, in a conference and you don't sniff it. Unacceptable.

[Shannon Sharpe]

So they're gonna have to, they're gonna have to figure this thing out. You believe they have the type of team that can get there. It's. I mean, this thing is gonna really be tough. I mean, Texas and Oklahoma say they got something to say about it. Georgia has an SEC loss, but hey, they like, hey, we got something to say about it. Bama doesn't have an SEC loss yet. But, but they're, they're probably, they're probably six or seven team. Tennessee, Vanderbilt. That's six or seven team that says, you know what, we think we got a realistic chance of being down in schedule, though.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Next week, Mississippi State, then we play Florida. We've already harped on Florida enough where they don't deserve no airtime. Arkansas, okay.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They got the doors blowed up there by November.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

All right. LSU late in, end of the 10, 25. All right. That's gonna be a good game, man.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Brian Kelly, you know, Brian Kelly threw up on himself.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Okay. That's the one that sticks out. But outside of that, then you got Missouri, then you got South Carolina, then you got Sanford, and then the end of the season, you got. You got Texas. So, like four. It looks as a schedule, what the SEC could be, right, what your schedule could look like. I would say, yeah. Overall, that's pretty favorable. Yes. You have to go win some good games against good teams. That's gonna happen. You're not playing in the Big Ten, you're not playing in the Big 12, you're not playing in the ACC. Not getting cakewalks in conference. But if you look at who you can play versus who you have on your schedule, I would say it lines up really nice.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Where you guys got the game Cox at? Are they coming to y' all or y' all going to them? Okay.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

And they beat us last year in a game that we felt like we should win and they beat us bad.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. So that'd be a. That'd be a very interesting game. Just. We'll see. Johnny believes his team could be. I know you gonna be on board. Lord have mercy. I could just imagine. I could just imagine. Take A and M and then championship game in Atlanta.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

I'm not gonna give the whole thing away. But South Carolina weekend, those boys in that locker room, from what I have coming in that game, are going to be more motivated than any team, any game in the last 15 years of Texas A and M. I got a real special treat coming for the Aggies November 15th. Fire program changing for us, in my opinion.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You got Drake coming in, huh?

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

He's working on the album. We're going to Albany, Bahamas. Work on the album.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay, okay, okay, okay. I'm just checking. Just check it, guys. Remember last week when Brian Kelly went on his rant about reporters asking about his offense? Well, in a 2419 loss to Ole Miss, the Tigers mustard 2 of 11 on third downs and lack an effective running game. They trudged 65 yards on 21 non sack carries with a long of 10. Garrett Nussmeier once again had a very mediocre game against top, top competition. Nussmeier managed less than 200 yards on 34 pass attempts, less than 6 yards, an average per throw. Well, you know what? Hey, let's not ask Brian Kelly about his run game. Because he won. You. So now can we ask you about your run game now, Mr. Kelly?

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Hey, like you said, it was one game.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay, I would ask, but see, Ocho, what, what's the. What's the. What's the motto, Ocho? We never accept anything in a win.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

We accepting the loss.

[Shannon Sharpe]

We wouldn't in a loss. So I'm gonna ask you now.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

If this running game, is it acceptable, Coach Kelly? Because, you know, you. You were celebrating. You wanted to celebrate. We won the game. The guys asked you to say we won the game. Guys, we won the game. Okay? Now, now that you didn't win the game, do I have your undivided attention now? Coach Kelly, I'd like to ask you about your running game. Cause last week you didn't want to talk about it. Cause you won. Can we talk about it now? What would you like to say about your running game? What's happening with your running game, Brian?

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Coach Kelly, I want to do that reporter. Ask any questions after the game.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I could be the reporter because I was like, Coach Kelly, I remember last week, you know, you said you had won the game and you didn't want to talk about it. You want to talk about the win now that you didn't win. Can I ask you about your run game?

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

This game went over when Kiffin's daughter and the LSU dude, when that came out, he said, put money on the over. This game, this game was. Was over.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Johnny, what am I missing about Nussmeyer? What am I missing?

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Listen, there were times last year in games that I watched with him where I came away really, really impressed. Don't see it a lot, but for whatever reason, this year we are seeing regression from guys who played well last year. Club Nick, Aller, Nussmeier, they're taking steps backwards. And that's really, really rare. You, as the game goes on in college football, at least for me, because I can only speak on my perspective, the game got slower. It came more detailed. It came more guys being in positions, you see so much of the same coverage. You don't see a ton of nickel, dime package, random blitz coming. You don't see a lot of different fronts. And you see the same base over under same conditions. A lot of COVID Three teams that play quarters. So for guys who have now played, that's Myers played 20 games. These guys have played enough games. Live bullets firing to where you got to come out. And this should be toying with people. So it is weird and it is like really like something's going on to where they're not getting coached in the right way. Because I was fortunate enough to be coached by guys who pushed me, who helped me learn the game, to where things felt slow for me and I. The next year was better. It kept getting better and better and easier and slower to the point where you can do it with your eyes closed type of thing. But a lot of it comes with confidence too. Sometimes you get a little rattled. But what we're seeing right now, he's a better player than what he's showing. And that's what I'm going to leave it at, not going to dog on him. He's better than what he's showing.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I think the thing is, if there's a chance, and this is what I always tell Guy Johnny, if there's a chance for you to come out, go and come out right? Because the only thing, the only place you can go is down. You can go down. It goes back to. I don't, I know you don't probably remember this Ocho. Georgia Tech had a safety. His name was Ken. His name was Ken Swillings. He's going to be a top 10 pick. He came back, he ended up getting drafted like the seventh round because he went to a bowl game and he had to cover and it didn't work out so well for him. He got exposed. So that's my thing. I tell guys, well, you know, nah, bro, only thing you can do is get exposed and deficiencies can be exposed. And now all of a sudden, boom. If you can go out and be a first round pick, man, go on and get that money, get close, go ahead. Because now with the money that it is you, hey, you could be a 300 million dollar quarterback and you'll be 25 years, 25 years of age. You could be a $200 million defensive player, especially lineman, D line or, or edge rusher at 25 years of age. Go on and get close.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Go get 300 at the quarterback.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I agree with you.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

You can only go to the playoffs one time out of your first four years of your deal.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. So when I'm looking, when I look at, when I look at the guys that you mentioned, Nuss Meyer, I look at Club Nick, I look at Aller, I look at, I'm like, and these are three games guys that everybody had had like top quarterbacks. I'm like, well, damn, Shador, probably thinking, man, I should have stayed my ass in School. I could have came back. I'd have definitely been a top 10 pick with this class.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, when I say literally nobody stands out.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Nobody.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Nobody reach out like what you normally. No, nothing like that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I mean, none of the. It's been a while, guys. It's been a while that we could honestly turn the TV on and say, you know what? I don't see no quarterbacks to get excited about. Who.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

You wake up on Saturday and you're like, damn, I'm excited to go watch right now. I have to watch that game.

[Shannon Sharpe]

None. None. Well, I. I mean, I. I don't even know. I. Johnny, are they even gonna give the Heisman out this year? I mean, you. You got the award, so you would know. Are they going to give the award out this year?

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

They just gonna hold a couple guys out there that are floating, doing enough. Like Diego Pa. Javier has a real chance. He got a chance if he goes and continues to play six studies today by passing, one rushing. Big games on the schedule coming up for them. You play Tennessee. You play Alabama. You're at Bandy.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

You in the season 10 and one in the playoff. You keep doing what you're doing. You play the way you play Marcel Reed. You guys run the table. Go undefeated.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Come on, man.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I'm looking at some of these guys. I'm like, damn, the committee gonna be like, nah, we good. We holding off.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Hold on to it this year.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're gonna have a.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

We go, hey, they go ahead and slide me another one.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah, yeah. I'm sitting here trying to think about that question you just asked. When it comes to college football, what team do you sit there even. Even a player most of the time. We've always gotten one player on one team that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, watch.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

I mean, maybe Ohio State and Jeremiah Smith.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That might be the only one. He's the only one that you get excited about. Yeah. And then you get frustrated when they don't throw him the damn ball. And then I turn the TV from him.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Because. May I. I like, maybe, you know, I'd be thinking in my head, well, maybe I'm bringing in bad luck. Maybe because I'm watching and he know I'm watching and they won't throw in the ball. So maybe if. So now I don't. Week four.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

We need to give him a little more time.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Time.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Maybe they're a little rusty. Maybe it's one of them years where take a little time. Rust off.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Johnny. It that it? You were like that when you. After you Won the Heisman. You came back, you picked right back up. That's what guys do. Go back and look at the guy. Look at Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence. When Trevor Lawrence stepped on. When he stepped on campus.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Trevor Lawrence end up taking the guy's job, wins the national championship. He like that guy's gonna be the number one pick. Yeah, I'll be. Damn. He played like he was going to be the number one.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Jameis. Yes.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Yeah. Baller, Baker. Kyler, Mariota.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I mean, come on, man. What. What are we doing? What are we doing here? Look, and I understand maybe that that's unfair. It's not unfair to have these expectations when I'm just going by the projection and everybody look at these guys. These guys can spin it, bro. I'm looking at these guys and I am unimpressed. Yeah, I think all of. I think of the guys that we mentioned leaves a lot to be desired. And it's not. They got. They got players around them. It's making like. It's not like the covers are bare. And I understand this is college football. These guys are 18, 19, 20 years of age. But I mean, we should have expectations. I mean, and I'm. And these are the top guys. Allen was everybody, you know, he come back, he's gonna improve upon what he did at Penn State and nuts Meyer. I think his dad was an offensive coordinator, wasn't he? Johnny in his dad an offensive coordinator. And you know, and you know, so all the guys that were mentioned, and I'm like, well, damn, I'm. I'm just. Like I said, I haven't been really impressed with a whole lot of quarterbacks spinning the football this year. Yeah, maybe I need. Maybe I need to go. Maybe I just need to watch some random.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Because I did get access today to. I've been talking with Jake Spavital, who's the OC of Baylor. Their quarterback right now is playing at a very, very high level. He texted me today. Yo, we had another one of those days where RQB is playing high level football. And for the people who haven't tuned into a Baylor game, and you probably haven't, because they're not really ranked their offense. And what he's doing at the quarterback position is something to go and watch. But he gave me access to be able to go watch the All 24 film and to be able to go see all the version. So during the weeks now, I'm really going to start looking and seeing some of these guys. I'm going to come back with some good feedback. On Saturday nights and some guys and be able to have some stuff to be able to show because it's out there. You just gotta look hard enough to go find it. It's not the stuff you're going to see on the highlights and this and this and because it may be from different teams. But right now, right, especially going into this next week, Diego Pavia has a chance to really go into Tuscaloosa and do something this weekend. Really, this is the opportunity.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I mean, Carson Beck could. Carson Beck, I mean, the guy from Arizona State, Levitt, he played really well at the tail end of last year. Kind of playing well right now. I mean, we like him. I mean, I mean, I might have to start watching him.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

I agree. He's fun to watch. He's making some plays where I've seen five, six highlights clips this year. Go back into last year a little bit where you're like, okay, white boy, let's see.

[Shannon Sharpe]

The Division 2 transfer, Trinidad Chambers passed for 314 yards and a touchdown. His third straight game. His third straight 300 yard game since taking over injured quarterback Austin Simmons. I mean, look, you can say what you want to say about Lane Kiffin. That mofo can call.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Oh, yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, yeah, man. That play that he called.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Wait, which one? Which one? Which one? Which one?

[Shannon Sharpe]

On four to get that first down.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

Down.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, man.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Hell, I still don't know where the guy came from. Hell, I think he came off the sideline. I said, how did this big dude get so wide open? And he got the first down. Said, no, I ain't going no further. Let me go on down here. We we good here. And I love Lane because he shows emotion. I love coach. You know, these. Coach, A lot of these coaches, they be having a little path. Oh, they not excited yet. That's what I do now. Lane was like, yeah, yeah, I like that.

[Uncle (Co-host with Shannon Sharp)]

Yeah, Lane be into it.

[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

You gotta look back at the days, even when he was at Alabama. And I love this because I would see it with Kyle Shanahan at times. I see it with Kingsberry at times. The elite A coaches, when they have a play dialed up against the coverage they know they're going to get. In situational football. And you'll see it. Alabama, the ball snap and his hands go up and he already know quarters. Got the basic. We're gonna throw the post over the top. Safety's coming down because that's what he does. He's greedy going for the pick and launch it. All you got to do is step back, close your eyes and throw it. So when you get coaches like that who know what they're going to get because they sit there and grind enough tape and have done it enough, it's an impressive thing. And guess what? You don't see it all across the land, but you see it with the good ones.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yep. And they know they got they got something good cooked up.

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Chad Johnson (Bingles Ring of Fame honoree)]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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