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Bobby Bones
This is a podcast called 25 Whistles. Talking football and they all wear a whistle yet stupid.
Unknown
But what did you expect?
Bobby Bones
It's a podcast called 25 Whistles. 25 Whistles.
Unknown
Blow the whistle.
Bobby Bones
We are back. Hey, Chris Bryant's Lamborghini was stolen during transport. It was stolen by hackers. So Chris Bryant. I'm a big Chris Bryant fan because played for the Cubs and played for the Cubs when we won a World Series. And by we, I mean of course I played with them.
Unknown
You're part of the team.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. So he plays third base for the Rockies. And this is from ABC 7 Chicago. He recently fell victim to car theft in an unusual, although increasingly popular way. His $300,000 Lamborghini Huracan. That's the name of Hurricane.
Unknown
Hurricane, sounds right.
Bobby Bones
Was being transported by a company, but it never arrived. So he reported the theft. They investigated. It turns out hackers got into the system for the auto transport service, rerouted the delivery. Jesus, that's baller. It shouldn't be Baller because we, you know, it's like a move to get stolen. But they rerouted the delivery to a different Location in Vegas as baller and the story goes on. Some high end cars have been stolen by thieves. Again, they do it. There's no guns, there's no putting up a gun to somebody's head. Them to break in a vehicle, they just hack in, change where the person's supposed to go and like the GPS the delivery and they do and they get there and like, okay, cool, we'll take a car. Now they fake it and they're off.
Unknown
Do you, do you think they knew that it was Chris Bryant's or just a random Lambo that they knew they wanted?
Bobby Bones
Maybe neither. Yeah, maybe this service, and I don't know the answer to that, maybe this service just transports high end cars.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
And so they knew and they. Whatever high end car they were transporting.
Unknown
They were gonna get just happened to be Chris Brown.
Bobby Bones
And that's bad luck because then it becomes new public. Then it's news. After detective work, police were able to find the car which was being driven by an unnamed suspect.
Unknown
He's like, that's me, that's me.
Bobby Bones
The person was charged with operating a multi state car theft ring. They haven't been named yet, but a couple things. One, that's, that's a crazy way to do business like hack hacking thief and not like hacking computers and stealing other computer information. Like hacking a computer and making a car go somewhere else. Yeah, like that's pretty cool. I shouldn't think that's pretty cool, but I, I'm like, that's a pretty. Right, it's pretty cool. But I don't like it because it's not. That's, that's his money paid for that car. He deserves it. Maybe it's movie cool.
Unknown
It's like Ocean's Eleven.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, it's movie cool. It's not real life cool.
Unknown
Thank you.
Bobby Bones
I've changed my stance on this. It's movie cool.
Unknown
Only you know what I've always thought like putting in something in the GPS and then it getting hacked and them saying like, oh, this is how you get there and it takes you down some road that the hackers made and then they kidnap you.
Bobby Bones
I mean that's what exactly what this is.
Unknown
Yeah, I did. I've always thought that.
Bobby Bones
You have for years. Why, why would they do that to you?
Unknown
I don't, I don't know. Maybe.
Bobby Bones
What are you offering?
Unknown
No, nothing. Okay, but it's a game of numbers, right? Like maybe this guy has money. I don't know. But we're going to program his GPS to go down this road. We're going to block him in.
Bobby Bones
Seems like a lot of work for it. What year is your Jeep?
Unknown
Oh, it's 2014.
It seems like a lot of work.
Bobby Bones
For a 2014 Jeep.
Unknown
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bobby Bones
I mean. I mean, how much money that guy really got on them for the 24? I mean. And I like your Jeep. It's awesome.
Unknown
Thank you.
Bobby Bones
But it's like you were gonna go through all the hacking.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
You're probably not gonna go after that 2014 G. Yeah.
Unknown
There were two cars that got stolen in my neighborhood two weeks ago because they had the fob. Like, they hacked it with a fob.
Bobby Bones
So you can order specially programmed fobs that are somewhat universal to certain cars.
Unknown
Yeah, it was both infinities.
Bobby Bones
And they can go and open the cars. Yeah, I know.
Unknown
I don't have an Infinity.
I did too think, like, how all the cars in the world and not your car fob doesn't open any other one. That's pretty crazy, too.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, it's pretty good. But it's like your key doesn't open any other door. I mean, I'm sure there are slight little things, but then there's got to be, like, a skeleton key, like the janitor key. Right. Which is basically what these fobs are. Yeah, it's like the universal janitor, almost like. Yeah. There was another money story before we get into football. I never was bitcoin guy. I was never, like, bitcoin, bro. And so I only ever, like, bought some. A little bit here, a little bit there. Like 50 bucks, 75 bucks. Never truly believed in it. Only did it because I thought it was, like, fun to watch. And I bought some. Let me find my numbers here. I bought some a few years ago, and I've told the story where I bought some, and then I just forgot I had it because I just didn't care enough about it to, like, maintain or manage it. What am I to sell, sell, buy, sell by. I didn't have enough.
Unknown
Yeah. When you bought. Did you have enough to buy one bitcoin?
Bobby Bones
No.
Unknown
Was it ever that low?
Bobby Bones
No. No, no.
Unknown
Okay.
Bobby Bones
Because you're talking about at the lowest in the past five or six, seven years, maybe $40,000. 30,000. $40,000. I'm guessing that at the highest today, one bitcoin is like 97. $97,000? Yeah. $97,973. So I didn't have. Let me see my all time on bitcoin because now on this app, you can see all time. Oh, my God.
Unknown
You got a Lot of bitcoin.
Bobby Bones
It's not that I have a lot of bitcoin, but I have made because it went. It got to a new high.
Unknown
Drummer, please.
Bobby Bones
I have made. And I'll show you this. My is $32,000.
Unknown
Whoa. And did you say how much you put in?
Bobby Bones
I don't know, but it wasn't that much. It wasn't near that. I didn't put near. Dude, I'm telling you, I don't think it was. I don't think was $5,000.
Unknown
Gosh, that's amazing.
Bobby Bones
And it wasn't all at once either. It was like trickle, trickle, trickle trick. Just being funny. Like, let's see what happens. I bought dogecoin, sold that crap. I got doge.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Like he went on snl. Like, it's gonna go up, but I'm gonna do it on the app.
Unknown
Wow.
Bobby Bones
And it continues to go up.
Unknown
Do you understand how any of that works?
Bobby Bones
Like anything else? The more people want it, the more they buy it, the higher it goes. Demand. Yeah, it's like stocks, but do I know? Have a lifetime of studying and. No, none, dude. I basically have an app and I got sick one day and was like, this is the story of me even getting this app. I was sick at home and I was like, what? I'm. We didn't have tick tock then. This is five, six years ago. I was like, what am I gonna do? So I bought like some couple shares of this, couple shares of that. I got a little. I got some Steve Madden, you got some peloton. I got some. You know what's crushed for me is DraftKings. Yeah, my total. Yeah, so. And then I was like, I'll do a little Bitcoin, but DraftKings is way later. And dude, I'm telling you, I forgot about it.
Unknown
It's amazing.
Bobby Bones
I forgot about all of it. And one day I logged into this thing and I went, Kayla.
Unknown
She was like, we got money.
Bobby Bones
I was like, and at the time I made. I had made like $20,000. I was like, we made $20,000. She goes off what? I said bitcoin. She goes, you bought bitcoin? And I was like, now, since I've known you.
Unknown
So that's amazing.
Bobby Bones
I bring that up because I'm not bitcoin, bro. However, there's a story about a guy, his name is James Howells, he's trying to find his. He threw away a hard drive that contained $600 million in Bitcoin.
Unknown
Oh.
Bobby Bones
He believes it's somewhere hiding in a Landfill. And he says it has about 8,000 actual coins. And if each coin is $90,000.
Unknown
A lot of money.
Bobby Bones
When he threw the hard drive away, he said it was worth about $5 million. He threw it by accident, and now because of how much it's gone up, it's worth $600 million. That was a decade ago. Today, again, he says 6. Some people say 700 million. He kind of knows the landfill, but not really.
Unknown
He's been looking for this for 10 years.
Bobby Bones
Yes. But he's not out there every day scouring.
Unknown
I would be. That'd be my job every day. I'd go broke looking for that.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. Why put it on a hard drive, though? Where else are you gonna put it, though? Put it in the cloud, baby. I don't think 10 years ago the cloud was. I guess that's true. Reliable. Yeah, it was as reliable. Yeah. And. But you know what is reliable? A hard drive that you own and hold, you just don't throw in the dumpster.
Unknown
But I have a hard drive that, like, I tried to plug in the other day, and it's like, it's not working. I've taken it to 10 engineers, and they're like, it's just dead, man.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Unknown
I'm like, that would be crazy if that one had my bitcoin. That was $600 million, and, like, it's dead.
Bobby Bones
I bet you your hard drive was, like, 19 bucks, though, at Target. Yeah, I'm sure. Yours is, like, not a lot of space. You got a floppy disk, dude? Yeah, yeah.
Unknown
Floppy dis.
That wasn't.
Bobby Bones
Sure. It's kind of one of those things, you know? Coming up, we'll talk to Tulane head football coach, which I'm pretty excited about, because they're killing it this year. It's. Is this his second year there? First, really?
Unknown
Yeah. He was hired December of 23.
Bobby Bones
I guess that's why I thought it was his second, because I saw 2023.
Unknown
But they were even kind of good last year, weren't they?
Bobby Bones
It says he's in his first year after going 23 and four and two seasons at Troy. They're nine and two. They've won eight in a row. I bet they want to punch themselves with that Oklahoma loss. No, I was at that one.
Unknown
At that game. Was it in Oklahoma?
Bobby Bones
Yeah, I think I was at the game was, I think, week two, week three.
Unknown
Right.
Bobby Bones
We. Keith. I think I did the Toby Keith.
Unknown
Oh, yeah.
Bobby Bones
They almost came back and won that game. Yeah, I was there. They had awesome uniforms, too.
Unknown
The green.
Bobby Bones
The green Wave colors aren't great for me, but, yeah, they were kind of like light tillage, greenish or something.
Unknown
You're wearing green today.
Why, Bones? Because you don't see green?
Bobby Bones
No, I see green. It just looks different than you guys. And a lot of them are similar. All those colors look very dark to me.
Unknown
Green's a beautiful color. Do I feel bad?
Bobby Bones
No, I can see green.
Unknown
It's a.
Bobby Bones
They just. The darker the greens get this, they look the same. Exactly the same. Okay. And if they get really dark, they look black. Everything looks black. About a 7 on the spectrum of dark colors. Everything looks black to me. Dark red, dark green, dark blue, dark, all that. It's just black. It's not because I don't know the difference. What's tough is when people go, that's tough. Yeah. That's when it sucks, when people feel sorry for me. I don't know the difference.
Unknown
I just don't know what to say.
Bobby Bones
There's nothing to say. It's like my right eye. My right eye doesn't work. It's 8% vision.
Unknown
You know, I've tested you on that a long time ago, not recently. I would flip you off on the right side to see if you see.
Bobby Bones
But I have peripheral now.
Unknown
You wouldn't see me.
Bobby Bones
No, not true. I can see light and, like, slight shape movement. So I have peripheral on the right. But one of my favorite moments, my wife's dad's an eye doctor, and I would tell my wife, my right eye doesn't work. And Caitlin thinks I exaggerate everything for effect. She knows I've been doing this job for a long time, and there are times where if something's an 8, I need to put it at a 10, because it's just that much more entertaining. And I was like, I have 8% vision of my right eye. And so we go, and I have to get an eye exam. We're in Oklahoma, and we go to her dad's office to get an eye exam. And he puts me on, and I forget about. I'm just getting an eye exam. I need one. I need a new prescription because my head was starting to hurt a little bit. My glasses. And first he does the colorblind test. And he's like, oh, yeah, that sucks. And I don't also see. He said, too, yeah. Also, I don't know how doctors can know how good you can see. That's weird to me that you can, like, look something. They can go, oh, we can tell how you see by. So I do the thing about it Left, right. Which one? More up. Down. Yep. You see that one? You know the. They do that. And he's like, your right eye almost doesn't work. And I remember thinking to myself, my wife's in the room, too. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Say a little bit louder.
Unknown
Can you say it again?
Bobby Bones
It was really one of my crowning moments in our relationship. And so I bring it up all the time. I'm like, when your dad told you that my eye didn't work, that's pretty good, huh? And she's like, we get it. But. But also my point was I've never had it. Right eye, that works. I don't know the difference.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
So it's just my left eye's good, but imagine how good I'd have been at sports and my right eye would have worked because I'm left handed. Think about me playing baseball. And as a pretty good baseball player, I bat this way. You know, my lead eye is my right eye.
Unknown
Oh, yeah.
Bobby Bones
So I'm having to do. What's that movie where the head turns all the way around? Yeah. I'm having to go full length to see.
Unknown
With your left eye?
Bobby Bones
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was thinking we should mark off some teams to never really have to talk about again, NFL wise, mostly because at this point, after 11 weeks. Because we're going to week 12, I believe.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Week 12, unless something dramatic happens per player, we don't really need to talk about the teams because they're done, they're out, they're not going to make the playoffs. We'll probably still talk about the Cowboys because.
Unknown
Because they're America's team.
Bobby Bones
And there's drama. If there's drama within a team, we talk about it. But it's like, do we care if Jacksonville wins? Nope. Nope. So we're going to go AFC East. The only team with a winning record is the bills at 9 and 2. Obviously they're still in the mix for the sake of the games. Casey, I'm sorry, we're going to have to kill the Jets. The jets will be brought up, though. Whenever it's Aaron Rodgers, there will be drama. Yes. Or a lot of drama.
Unknown
This past week.
Bobby Bones
Hey, look, Woody Johnson wanted to bench him. Or at least in week five, suggested the idea. I know. So the jets are off the list. The Patriots.
Unknown
Say it.
Bobby Bones
Off the list. That's your favorite team, though, so it could be brought up in that capacity.
Unknown
You got hope, though.
We got Drake. It's all right.
You got hope.
Bobby Bones
Now The Dolphins are four and six. And they're winning a bit now that two is back.
Unknown
Oh, yeah, you talk about that.
Bobby Bones
They're not.500. But I say we leave them.
Unknown
We play the jets twice, we leave.
Bobby Bones
Them to live is what I say. Everybody good on leaving the Dolphins to live?
Unknown
Yes.
They're still alive.
Bobby Bones
The only two teams we care about in the AFC east are the Bills and the Dolphins. AFC North. So The Browns are 2 and 8. They're terrible. There's no reason to ever even mention the Browns.
Unknown
No. Especially with Watson out.
Bobby Bones
Unless somebody. No, there's not even going to be drama because Stefanski is a good coach. Yeah. I mean, James had done his thing and now that's not anything anymore.
Unknown
Yeah.
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
And we got to kill the Browns, right?
Unknown
Yep.
They're done.
So do we even take them out of the recap? The Sunday recap? Yeah, if they're involved in the game.
Bobby Bones
Well, the problem is if it's a team though, like the Bills that beat the Browns, they get brought up because they're alongside. They're the date. They're the date of the Bills.
Unknown
Got it.
Bobby Bones
We have the Bengals of four and seven.
Unknown
You have to.
Bobby Bones
Until they lose another one.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Those last two losses, I felt so bad, like Joe Burrow is Superman. And so we're leaving the Bengals in. Obviously, we're leaving the Ravens in. And as I said last week, I am an idiot to disregard the Steelers.
Unknown
You're not alone though. We're all idiots.
Bobby Bones
Oh. Every decision I made about this conference was, well, the Steelers, there's no way they're going to keep winning. So. Yep, they're eight and freaking two. So so far Jets, Patriots and Browns have been eliminated from us even thinking about their existence. AFC South. Texans 7 and 4. Good. Colts 5 and 6. They are playing. And Anthony Richardson is back. You can't really kill a team that's about.500 because I think if you win 10 games, you're probably in. There's a shot that nine could get you in. So they might be irrelevant. That would be 9 and 8. They could. Yes. Yeah. So we're going to leave the Colts in and we're killing the Titans. Unless we're talking about a draft pick.
Unknown
Yes.
Bobby Bones
And we're killing the Jags. They're Titans are 2 and 8. Jags 2 and 9. Okay. AFC West. Chiefs, obviously. Chargers. That was another one of my. I'm a friggin idiot because I never really thought the Chargers would be more than around a.500 team just because they didn't have the weapons. Apparently you don't need many weapons to win a street fight where you're throwing elbows the whole time. Yeah. Guess what those games have turned into. And they're winning. Them. Chargers in Broncos 6 and 5. They got the future Rookie of the Year. They're in. Raiders dead.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
NFC East. Eagles in. Leading division commanders in.
Unknown
Yep.
Bobby Bones
Obviously the. And I have a friend who's a Giants fan.
Unknown
They're out. They're out.
Done.
Bobby Bones
They're so out.
Unknown
Tommy Cutlets is coming in this week. Yeah. But you know what, though? The Cowboys and the Giants, that's the Thanksgiving game. So we might have to talk about that.
Bobby Bones
Cooper Rush, Tommy Devine, unless something dramatic happens, we will not address that game.
Unknown
Yeah. There will be other games that day.
We go eat dinner at that point.
Bobby Bones
We won't even smell it.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
We'll do a show. And there wasn't. There was only one game.
Unknown
Yeah.
Right. Detroit. Who they played?
Bobby Bones
I don't know.
Unknown
I don't know.
Bobby Bones
Detroit always plays.
Unknown
Yeah. Detroit and the Cowboys.
Bobby Bones
Is it Chicago? Maybe. Cowboys are three and seven.
Unknown
I mean, as far as the rule goes, we shouldn't talk about them, but we're going to have to talk about.
Bobby Bones
I'm going to leave the Cowboys to float just so we can torture them.
Unknown
Going to pop up.
Bobby Bones
We want to play with our food.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
We're about to eat the mouse. We're going to thump it a little bit first. NFC North. I think all these teams stay in even though the Bears are the worst at 4 and 6.
Unknown
Yeah. But it's still. Caleb.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Unknown
The Bears, if they lose a couple.
Bobby Bones
More, I think they're kind of out of it.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Are they going to fire?
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Bears, Packers, Vikings, Lions. We'll keep all four of those in.
Unknown
What a division.
Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. Good for them.
Bobby Bones
Are you happy for them? Yeah.
Unknown
Good for them.
Bobby Bones
Like a family.
Unknown
The division or the teams or who are you happy for?
They all look good. The General, them.
Bobby Bones
NFC South, Panthers. We got to kill. Saints. We got to kill.
Unknown
Get rid of them. Yeah.
Bobby Bones
I think we leave the Bucks in just because I think they can still win the division. Evans is coming back and the Falcons are obviously. The Falcons are 6 and 5. This division has turned into what this division was before, which we didn't think it was going to be this year because we were like, wow, Falcon's going.
Unknown
To be real good.
Bobby Bones
Saints the best team ever. Look at the. But. And then it's just reality struck. Yeah. What's old is new is old as again.
Unknown
Right.
Bobby Bones
And then the FC West. This is an odd division.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Because I don't think any of these teams suck, Right?
Unknown
No. Yeah.
We didn't think the Cardinals did.
Bobby Bones
And the team that's leading the division, I think sucks worse than everybody else.
Unknown
Yeah.
That's crazy.
Bobby Bones
Which is crazy. 49ers, dude. They got to do something.
Unknown
It's just not their year.
Bobby Bones
It's not.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
I don't know. At Seahawks, Rams, we have to leave all of those teams to live. Who do you think wins that division? Kevin, Pick one. Is it the Niners still in your mind?
Unknown
I still got to go with the Niners. I don't know why. It's kind of like the Bengals. I'm just holding on, holding on until they just fall off the cliff, I guess.
Bobby Bones
Me, too. I feel like it's Niners.
Unknown
I don't think the Rams. I think the Rams could win.
Bobby Bones
I like. I mean, I think Stafford's the dude. Like, we pick quarterbacks. He was our second quarterback to lead a final drive.
Unknown
Yep.
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
They got a big game coming up, so. We've killed 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. We've killed nine teams, so. Hey, look, our. Our, you know, service area is a little smaller now. We like that.
Unknown
Some of the. Yeah. Nobody has a chance to come. Like, nobody has a chance. Out of those nine teams. Right.
Bobby Bones
We've killed them because they did not have a chance. The best three wins is the best of the dead. Nine teams, and that's one's the Jets. No, the saints are 4 and 7.
Unknown
Saints, I think, are there.
Bobby Bones
They suck.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
So if they come back to life and win the thing that the zombie just won. Walking Dead.
Unknown
Yeah. All right.
Bobby Bones
If one of those teams wins that the zombies won. If that's the case, let's talk about. You want to do a parlay or no?
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Do we want to do this, Mike?
Unknown
Let's do it.
Bobby Bones
We be on the app or. No, we're going to be on the app this week. We have to do four. Four. I hate doing four. Okay.
Unknown
I feel good about mine.
Bobby Bones
You already put. You already have it?
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Go ahead.
Unknown
I think we should go Georgia. They're playing UMass. I mean, that number's high. They're minus 42. But I think this is the one where they score 30 in the first quarter.
Bobby Bones
You can do whatever you want. So you're going Georgia, minus 42.
Unknown
Yeah. Over UMass. Do they even have a football team?
Bobby Bones
I'm surprised there's a line on that one.
Unknown
I know.
Same.
Bobby Bones
Okay. There's one. Kevin.
Unknown
Yeah. They're rolling.
Game of the week.
They're rolling right now. Playing well, but so is Kansas. But I'm going with Colorado minus two and a half at Kansas.
Bobby Bones
That's a tough one. They're at Kansas. Kansas playing good.
Unknown
It's gonna be a good game. But that line's not very big, so it makes me feel better.
Bobby Bones
Read. Ladies and gentlemen, we're going with the Sam Houston state plus six against Jacksonville State. Baby, why? It's happening. I feel it. What do you know?
Unknown
My bones.
Bobby Bones
What do you know about that? I know a lot of things.
Unknown
I love you, Reed.
Bobby Bones
I saw my dream last night. The Bearcats people are going to see this on DraftKings. Be like, what the is this?
Unknown
No. They're going to be like, how do I watch this?
Bobby Bones
They're going to be like, oh, like, that must be a shoe. This must be a shoe in right here, baby.
Unknown
I like it.
Bobby Bones
All right, I'm going to go. Bama minus 13 and a half at Oklahoma.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
I hate to have to pick against Oklahoma, but I think that that's a good one. I liked seeing that line. As far as betting that money, I think Bama's my favorite to win the whole thing. Yeah, I'm rooting for them. I think Ohio state has better talent. Oregon, you know, Dale, Annie text me. He did again? Yeah, yeah. Yesterday. Yeah, I paid the. I paid the $10,000 to the charity, the children's hospital. He texted me last or like a few weeks ago, too, and then he text me again. Yesterday was like, hey, man. And I was like, hey, good luck. It's Washington. He's like, thanks, man.
Unknown
That's so cool.
Bobby Bones
But I won't save his name on my phone.
Unknown
What do you mean?
Bobby Bones
I don't want to have it.
Unknown
What are you talking about?
Bobby Bones
Because I don't want ever text it.
Unknown
Oh, and the temptation would be there. But you know the number, right?
Bobby Bones
I have to go search for it, and I don't want. I have not saved him in my phone as Dan Lanning. It's just a number.
Unknown
So there's a couple numbers that I've gotten over, like, too much access stuff or whatever. You know, just for fun. Whatever.
Bobby Bones
Keep up. If you feel like you're never gonna call them.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Like, I never asked you for Stone Colds. I know you have it.
Unknown
Oh, I know you have that one saved.
Yeah, I went back and saved that one. Yeah. But I always get worried. Like, one drug night with friends, like.
You guys want to call stone cold Gavin DeGraw.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Unknown
Remember FaceTime.
Bobby Bones
I have Colin Cowherd's number. You do?
Unknown
Oh, yeah.
Bobby Bones
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Unknown
Hey, what's up, guys? How are y'all? Hey.
Bobby Bones
Pretty good. I was at the. Oh, we're going. Sometimes we get in trouble because we just talk like normal people and then people don't. Like, once we were with coach B, who I know pretty well, Illinois. We talked for, like, 10 minutes. He didn't know we were doing the interview, and he was saying stuff he didn't want in the interview, and he hit me up. He's like, hey, will you pull that out? So just so you know, coach, we're already rolling, so we don't have. Okay.
Unknown
I've been. I've. I've been cussing like, I'm in the coach's locker room for 10 minutes and then. Hang on. Is that. Is that recorded? Yeah.
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
So I just want. When I started talking, I was like, I should let coach know we're going. Cause I don't know coach yet.
Unknown
Coach, you're good, man. You're good. I appreciate the heads up on the hot mic.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, I went to the Oklahoma game. You guys played Oklahoma this year, and a couple things stood out to me. One, when I was watching the game, you had a very dynamic but very raw freshman quarterback. And it's. It's. It's been fun to watch him not be so raw. And as you guys have started to win, talk about that for A little bit because I was there and I'm talking about. He looked awesome at times, but very youthful at times as well. Then.
Unknown
Yeah. Yeah. Dari Mesa from San Luis Obispo, California. Really cool story. He, he was on the roster when I got here. He was a red shirt. True freshman, was red Sharing the year before I got here and we went through a quarterback competition, had Ty Thompson who transferred here from Oregon, Kai Hort was on the here on the previous staff who had played in some games. And then Darian was kind of like the afterthought freshman kid and he won the job. Kind of came out of nowhere. I thought it was a two horse race. And then he ended up winning the job and really earned it. He wouldn't give anything. He had to go out and take it because he was the third guy in the competition to start. But he. Early in the year, man, he's a really poised kid, really calm kid. Almost so calm and relaxed that I'm like, are we good? You excited, like. But he, you know, he played a really good game against Kansas State in week two. He had a critical turnover in that game and I think learned from it. We go play at Oklahoma and hell, before you can blink, it's 21 to nothing and we're like, what happened? And then probably the, this is really the moment where I felt our team kind of come together was we're down 21 nothing. It's the second quarter, everything that's gone wrong can go wrong. And we score right before the half to make it 21 6. The extra point goes about as bad as it could go. We kick extra point that like almost hit somebody underneath the goal post. And then we, you look up in the fourth quarter, we're sitting there, it's 24 to 19 and we got the ball twice in the fourth quarter with a chance to go score and take the lead. And so that's when you start to feel our team come together. I think it's also. We started to feel Darian kind of go against a really top notch defense and feel like the speed of the game and how to execute and operate against that. And he's really getting better each and every week. The growth he's made has been really fun to watch. It's. I mean, he's getting better exponentially right in front of our eyes. So proud of the growth he's made. He's a talented kid. He's a great kid. He's. He's worked incredibly hard and he's got a bright future for sure.
Bobby Bones
Man, the last thing I'll say about the Oklahoma game, just because I was there, I was sitting with Joe C. The. The athletic director there, and their butts got puckered. I'm telling you, 34:19 is the final score. But that game was much closer than that. Everybody was freaking out. And my favorite thing, though, is the uniform that.
Unknown
That light.
Bobby Bones
It was a light blue. The light blue with the green that. Coach, those are the most legit uniforms.
Unknown
Yeah, our uniforms. I don't care what you say. There's no other way to describe whether. Man, they're freaking sexy. Those uniforms look good, man. We got. We got our helmets. I got them back behind me here. Like, we got, I think, some of the coolest color combinations in college football. But those powder blues, light blues, those things are sweet, man.
Bobby Bones
What was it after the game? Because you've been on a run since that game, and you say that's also when you realize that he was your guy at quarterback. Like, was there a sense of, hey, we kind of belong. We just played a P4AN SEC school and pushed him as far as we could push them. I mean, is that a confidence builder, even though you lost that game?
Unknown
Yeah, you know, well, and you go back to the week before, like I said, against Kansas State. We were up 20 to 10 at Kansas State the week before at halftime and really played a great first half. And then we played an awful third quarter against Kansas State, and we lost that game 34 to 27. We actually scored a touchdown. We got an OPI called in the fourth quarter with less than a minute left that to go tie the game. They called offensive pass interference. And so our team knew they could play with anybody. Like, we felt confident in that. Really. The Oklahoma game, I think, showed him like, hey, we can. We can come back against anybody. We can be in any kind of situation and find a way to be in the game. But then the next week, we go play at Louisiana Lafayette, who in state program at their place. It was hot. It was 144 heat index that day on the field. And we get. We're in a dog fight, and we end up winning a game 41 to 33. At the time, you didn't realize how good they were. They're now 8 and 2 as well. And so that was a really. When I think created confidence, the biggest challenge. And I told our team this Friday night, we were up in Baltimore getting ready to go over to Annapolis to play Navy last week. I said, guys, I'm in awe of this team, and here's why out of the 80 guys were on a road trip last week, 46 of them were on the team last year, 34 weren't here, and about 20 something of those, 34 got here in May. And so like, and then there's seven coaches that were on last year's staff and there's 12 that weren't that are new. And so just to see how this team's really come together and bonded has been fun. But I think that laugh at that stretch of Kansas State, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Lafayette was when we kind of got battle tested and we kind of. I think the culture and character of our locker room became more solidified and forged together to where we're like, we play for each other. We like you. You could tell our kids, care about each other, love playing for each other. So I think that sort of happened during that tough stretch we had.
Bobby Bones
We're about the same age. I wonder with you, your dad was a coach. Do you start to see things in you that your dad did and you don't do it on purpose, but you're like, oh my God, my dad did the same thing?
Unknown
Yeah, there's plenty of things. Yeah, there's. There's plenty of them. That's. As soon as you say that, I'm like, I'm like, I look in the mirror and I do some stuff. I'm like, I can't believe I'm doing my dad would do. Without question. Yeah, there's. I hope I could age a little slower than my dad, but yeah, there's a lot.
Bobby Bones
What about being a defensive guy whenever the offensive meetings are happening or this, you know, a receivers meeting, quarterback meeting, like, how involved are you in the offensive side of everything versus the defensive side of everything?
Unknown
That's a great question. So my first year at Troy in 22, I lived in the defensive staff room more than I did the offensive staff room because by nature, that's what I'd always been around. Last year at Troy, kind of the other way around. I probably spent more time with the offensive staff and the defensive staff. And this is probably. I would, to be totally honest with you, this is the first year I'm third year being a head coach, and so this is the first year I kind of just bounce around. Like when I just came in, I was. Had just left our offensive staff meeting room and in there with those guys for a few minutes, just kind of listening. I. I've got a phenomenal staff on all three phases. Offense, defense, kicking game. I have no problem walking in and suggesting what I Think we need to be doing in every area and making sure that the vision I want comes to life. But I've got a great staff that they do their job really well, and those guys work awesome together. And every now and then, I'm. I'm, you know, try to think I'm too smart and go screw them up, but. But. But I'm definitely involved. Like, I'm at the point now as a head coach where I feel way more comfortable to really have a grasp of everything going on in the building to the point that whether it's offense, defense, kicking game, whether it's equipment, training room, all functions of our program, academics, like, you know, now it's kind of like riding a bike, and I just kind of know what's coming before it comes. It's gotten a lot easier, but I spend quite a bit of. With both sides of the ball. I'm. I sort of dive in with both and make sure I know I'm not one of these CEO head coaches that so far removed from the football, I'm like, hey, y'all, let me know how it goes. And I hope. Hope we win. Like, I still like to know what we're doing in all three phases. Schematically.
Bobby Bones
Of all the places that you've coached, why is Hottie Toddy the dumbest thing that's ever been said?
Unknown
Yeah, you're an Arkansas guy. I got to remember, you know, old best fans like to have a good time. It's a different cheer. It's a different cheer. I like bourbon. So when somebody says Hotty Toddy, I think having a bourbon drink, so I'm all right with it. But no, no. The old best people there, they'll come with any reason to have a party or have a goofy saying. That chant they have is by far one of the more unique ones. For sure.
Bobby Bones
Unique's a good word for. Yeah.
Unknown
Hey, coach, when I was.
Bobby Bones
I got. I got.
Unknown
I got to play the middle there, you know?
Bobby Bones
Yeah, no, I feel you. I totally feel your answer. I got you.
Unknown
I see Budd might have to. Actually. They're on our schedule next year here.
Bobby Bones
No bulletin board material. Hey, I completely get it.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, yeah.
Unknown
I'm not gonna poke. I'm not gonna poke the bear any of their chance. They got a lot of good players. Yeah, I'd actually like if they'd send me some nil money. Walker Jones, plenty of that. He runs their collective, the Grove Collective. When I had to call Walker and see if I can borrow a couple dollars for our collective Coach, when I.
Played ball in middle school. You know, after a big win, coach would say, hey, we're going to Pizza Hut. It's on me. Let's go. What do you do for your. For your players after a big win? Is there something special you do for them?
Yeah. So we own Wednesdays here. It's not Pizza Hut, but New Orleans. New New Orleans. I've got my own personal things I do Saturday night after win. But our team, we. We sing our fight song, which is, you brought hotty Toddy. We have the hullabaloo here, which is kind of a equally unique song chant. We do the other thing we do Wednesday, it's kind of different. New Orleans, they do snowballs, like shaved ice, but they call it snowballs. And so we have the snowball truck every Wednesday after a win. So snowballs on Wednesday. New Orleans has some really cool cultural things, you know, red beans and rice on Monday, snowballs on Wednesday. We do after a win. It's kind of something we do with our team each week.
Bobby Bones
Do you have to talk to your teammates? Because when we go, we're in New Orleans, we go to the boat or the casino, whatever you want to call it. Like, I mean, that's got. That's a real conversation right with it, with the guys.
Unknown
You know, what's interesting is as much, you know, stuff as there is to do in New Orleans where you could find trouble, whether it be Bourbon street, the casino, wherever our guys. Like, it's. It's almost. I'm. I'm, like, blown away with how little things they have. Like, I'm like, guys, y'all do anything. Like, they. They're really low key. I'm probably. I'm probably more of the threat to show up at the casino or on Bourbon street than they are. But they. Our guys are really low maintenance, like, low key. I'm sure they do some of that stuff, but I never hear about it because there's never really any run in, so. But, yeah, you can definitely find some fun here. You can find some trouble, too, if you're not careful. But our guys are really, like. They. The. The amount of issues that come up are so few and far between, it blows my mind. It's actually. I've been in some small college towns where it's way more issues to come up with players in town than here. It's kind of like. And maybe it's because everything's allowed. New Orleans, who knows?
Bobby Bones
Thanksgiving game, that's always a weird one. Any holiday game's always a weird one. Kind of Takes you out of your schedule just in general, but, like, do you talk to the guys? Like, don't overeat because it's Thanksgiving and you got it. Like, that sounds like such a. Yeah. And you. That wouldn't. Yeah. That's weird.
Unknown
Well, what we'll do, we'll. We'll do a team Thanksgiving event next Tuesday. We do kind of a fun deal. We do during. You know, our guys don't have class start after tomorrow because Thanksgiving break at the university. And so yesterday we went and did children's hospital with some of the guys. Tonight they're doing a community service event. I'm sorry. Tomorrow night they're doing a community service event here locally with a group. Monday they'll go. They'll actually go buy groceries. Each position group will go buy groceries for a family in need. My wife and I'll do a turkey with each position group for a family of need. But we as a team, before we go, deliver those groceries to families on Tuesday. We'll have a Thanksgiving lunch on Tuesday. So we'll celebrate Thanksgiving 48 hours for everybody else. And then once we show up to the building on Wednesday morning or Wednesday midday for practice and meetings and we head to our team hotel here locally, it really won't be Thanksgiving in our minds. It'll be like a Friday, getting ready to go play Saturday game. It just happens to be really a Wednesday and Thursday. So we're going to act like Thanksgivings on Tuesday.
Bobby Bones
Here with two lane football, got three final questions. Are there rules on how much eye black you can put on your team's face? If they just wanted to go full. Like, I don't know what shapes they want to draw. Like, is that. Is that a conversation?
Unknown
I've never had that conversation with the guys. I think I could probably. I could see that coming up. If somebody wanted to do too much, I mean. But no, I've never brought that up to him. I. There are plenty of things as a coach we discuss. Like last week we were playing in Maryland, in Maryland and Navy. And I'm like, guys, if you carry the football, you're not allowed to wear long sleeves because I don't want the ball slipping. And so those sort of things. I. Black's not something I've addressed yet. But you never know the number of things we have to address these days that I never thought I'd even be addressing. Who knows? It could be I Black, next coach.
As soon as your playing days were over, did you know immediately that you were just going to be a coach? Or was there something else that you thought like, oh, maybe I can do this?
Yeah. So I got my degree in finance, University of Kentucky. And I knew I never wanted to work at a bank and so like, I really did it. Honestly, the only reason I got my degree in finance because most of the football guys were getting their degrees in a couple other areas. I wanted to take classes with like just the normal student body. That's how I got, how I ended up in the business school because there wasn't very many football players going, hey, I want to go to the business school. And so I did that. I've known I wanted to be a football coach probably since I was like 9 or 10. Like, I love the game. I don't feel like I go to work a day in my life. Like, I don't let my university administration hear this, but like, man, I'm grossly overpaid for what I do. I love what I freaking do. Like I, I wake up every day, I'm like, I gotta go to football practice and they're paying me to do this. Like, come on man, what are we talking about? So I got the best job in the world, man. I've done. I want to do this for a long time and very blessed to get to do it.
Bobby Bones
You still look pretty jacked. I'm pretty thin, guy. I put up 245 the other day. I was pretty proud of that because I listen, you know, I was never, I was never jacked. I'm in decent shape. But what could you put up right now, one time, coach, you know what?
Unknown
Probably 3:15, 3:25 somewhere in that range.
Bobby Bones
Come on. That's awesome. I know.
Unknown
I don't lift. I don't really, I don't really lift. Lift very much anymore. I'm trying to. I'm trying to be more lean. So I, I run. I'm a runner. I run every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I run on Mondays and Wednesdays, like 5:30 in the morning. I go 3 to 5 miles every Monday and Wednesday. And then Friday I run right after I practice and I go for a 5K 3.11. So I'm about 2:30 now. And I wish I was 210. I'm trying. I'm never. I'm at the point where putting on weights, not definitely not the goal anymore.
Bobby Bones
What's the music you listen to when you run?
Unknown
You know, that's a great question. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers on Monday morning's run. I listen to the Rolling Stones. Yesterday's run. Tomorrow, we'll see. But I kind of, I bounce around a little bit of everything. Little country, little rock and roll a little bit. All of it.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, country's like the. And, and you know, I work in country music, but it's like the worst to run to. Like there's nothing good. Maybe like some, some.
Unknown
There's not a lot of great. Yeah, yeah, there's not a lot of great country. I know, I know every now and then like, you can find like, I, I love Chris Stapleton.
Bobby Bones
That's what I was going to say. Stapleton. Like Brothers Osborne, because they got the rock edge to them that you can run to.
Unknown
Yeah, like, I love Stapleton. Like, I, I don't know what you can't do to Chris Stapleton. You know what I mean? Like run, drink, whatever.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, fair enough.
Unknown
All of it.
Bobby Bones
Hey, I've done it all. And alone. And alone. Hey, coach, congratulations on awesome season. I was kind of feeling bad all in. Done this. I was kind of feeling bad last week for you guys because I felt like you guys were going to be Navy, but some people were just afraid to pick you because it looked like they were picking against Navy. So they're all like, we love America. That's got to be so weird to go play like Armed forces. Yes. One of the Armed forces teams.
Unknown
Yeah, it's, you know, it is actually. We, we educate our guys on that. So I've, I've got my head shrink coach game, Rusty Witt. And Witt was a Green Beret in the Army. And so I, every time we play a service academy, I let address our team. We played army twice at Troy. We play army in a couple weeks in our conference championship game. It's already set. I usually have Wit address our team just about like, hey guys, the guys you're going to play, they're college students that wear a uniform, but like a military uniform. And, and then he shows the schedule of a guy, one of those institutions and a schedule of our guy. Like our guys are in the building at 5:30 every morning and like they're up doing academics at Tulane's a really high academic school. And so our guys are doing academic stuff till 10, 11 o'clock most nights. And so he shows the schedules. He goes, y'all do similar schedule things. You just don't do it in a military uniform. And so we have a ton of respect for the service academies both. You know, I haven't coached against Air Force, but both coaches at army and at Navy, I'm great friends with and have a Ton of respect for both of them and their kids. I love. I love what both places are about, but we play them. It's like, hey, we're playing a football game. We're not. We're not on a battlefield. We're playing football. And so let's go win the game.
Bobby Bones
Coach, good luck the rest of season. We really appreciate the time. Congrats on a great season so far.
Unknown
Thank you. I appreciate y'all. It's awesome being. I listen to y'all, too. So awesome to be on.
Bobby Bones
Thanks, coach. See you later, Coach. Y'all, there's a pickleball video that's gone viral. Not so much for the quality of play. Have you guys seen the fight video?
Unknown
No.
No?
Bobby Bones
Okay. There's a tournament, and it's doubles, which most people play doubles, and it's two dudes versus two dudes, and it's going back and forth, and, you know, guys get pumped when he goes. Yeah. At the end of it, you should search this on Tick Tock so you can see it as soon as I'm done. At the end of it, they go to shake hands, and obviously they've been competing hard. And one of the guys is holding his racket, and the other guy reached out to shake his hand and actually knocks the racket out of his hand. It. To me, it did not look like he did it on purpose because he just going. They were just slapping hands over the net, and the guy had his racket up his paddle, I guess you should say. Yeah. And it fell. It didn't look like anything out of the ordinary. People competing hard. So the guy who accidentally knocked it out of his hand is like, oh, my bad. Bends down over the net to grab it because he knocked out of his hand. And the other dude kicks up out of his face.
Unknown
What?
Bobby Bones
Dude, it is a karate kid part 9. Flying flamingo right in his face. He's knocked out. And then the other partner, like, runs over. I didn't feel. The other partner ran over aggressive enough to fight. He runs over, like, what's up? But it was so violent, that hand should have been thrown immediately. And the other dude. I don't know. Instinctually, you gotta look it up.
Unknown
I need to see this.
Bobby Bones
Pull it up on your.
Unknown
Oh, here we go. Eddie. Eddie, hold on.
Bobby Bones
This.
Unknown
Let's see this.
Okay, here we go.
Oh.
Bobby Bones
Oh.
Unknown
I don't know.
Bones.
Bobby Bones
Oh. Oh, Bones.
Unknown
That looks aggressive.
Bobby Bones
The kick.
Unknown
Okay, here we're at the end of the play. All right, game's over.
Bobby Bones
Oh, you haven't seen the kick yet.
Unknown
Oh, wait, game's over. Goes up there.
Okay. Slaps a paddle. Oh, he did that.
I think he did it on purpose.
And then he knocked him out.
I think he knocked the paddle out of his.
Bobby Bones
But. But then he reached over to get it back again.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
And when he reaches over, the. Dude, watch the kick again.
Unknown
I love it. Let's watch it again. Watch it again. Oh, dude, the kick is crazy.
Bobby Bones
The kick is right. I mean, it's like UFC when someone gets a bell rung, bing out.
Unknown
So. Okay, all right, I've seen enough. So do you think that he did it at first and was like, ah, that stupid, stupid. Go figure it out, but go fig it up? Or do you think he was literally going to try to shake his hand, accidentally dropped it, and then pick it up?
Bobby Bones
I almost don't think it matters because the kick was so violent and vulnerable. I think they were pro. He was probably upset slapping hands, and I don't think he tried to, like, knock the paddle out, but you're just like. You're just stiff because you're like. God dang it. You don't even look. You just.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Knocks the paddle.
Unknown
Dude.
Bobby Bones
Dude. Isn't that the kick? Like, right in the face and knocks him out 12.
Unknown
Number 12. And then the guy's reaction after he kicks him, like, what'd you expect?
Have you ever thought about kicking someone in the face like that? Like, I. That's never crossed my mind.
Bobby Bones
I can't get my leg up that high. Like, if it's, like, on that, I could, I guess, because. Down so low. But I can't kick somebody in because, like, I used to box. Like, not professionally, obviously, but not in competition. But I would, like, we'd, like, box and train. And then we tried to kickbox, but I couldn't even get my leg up to, like, the nipples.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Even, like, a turn.
Unknown
Yeah. Face kick from the bottom. Yeah, yeah. From, like, you know, standing straight up.
Bobby Bones
That's.
Unknown
That's tough. But this.
It's about net high.
I just feel like I've. My mind has never gone there. Like, so pissed, wrecked. So angry where I just want to kick.
Bobby Bones
His face wrecked him. So I wanted you guys to see that as a warning.
Unknown
Was that.
Bobby Bones
Hey, as a warning, you're gonna do that? Yeah. Don't f. With me.
Unknown
Was that tournament play?
Bobby Bones
It was tournament play and never going hard. And once the guy. The last point is like. Yeah, okay. That's showbiz, baby.
Unknown
Yeah, showbiz.
Bobby Bones
That's what happens.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
So, yeah, that's pretty funny. There's another thing.
Unknown
You think that's gonna happen to us, like, at some point, I hope.
Bobby Bones
If you deserve it, I will.
Unknown
No, there's no kicking in the face in our league.
Bobby Bones
That's not in the bylaws. And you know that there's a thing that happened. And, you know, I never want to make this an Arkansas podcast by any means, but there are certain things that are so interesting that happened within the athletic program that I know about, and one of them is they put up a sign. And this has happened in the history of college football over many years. They'll fly banners over like, fire this coach. Even Arkansas did this with Houston Nut way back in the day, they're like, we need a new coach. Or in different towns, they will put up billboards and be like, we need a new coach. Is it a waste of money? Probably. But in Arkansas, the game last week against Texas, someone had bought one of those digital billboards, not the kind that puts up a digital picture that looks like a billboard that changes, but just the letters. And you would see, like, some of them would say, like, in the next three miles, there's construction. Yeah. Or when someone hacks them, it's like zombies ahead. That kind of thing. And it was like, hey, thanks for the last five years, Sam Pittman. But we need new leadership. That kind of thing. But they put it in the exact route the team bus was coming. Oh, and look, do I think that our current group of coaches is going to lead us to a national championship? I do not. I think Pittman has done a great job at getting us to that next level to give us a shot to get to the next level. I think we've pretty much hit our ceiling with Coach Pittman as the coach. Had some success, but mostly we're a 500 team. A little less now. We recruit. Even if we have a top 25 recruiting class, which we do a lot of times, that's still like eighth or ninth in the sec. So it's not even that you can have a top 25 recruiting class. That doesn't matter because you're playing all the other teams in the conference. So do I think we've hit our ceiling? Yes. But do I think we need to put up. It's not even about putting up a billboard. If you put one up randomly in Fayetteville, I wouldn't waste my money on that. But they put it on the road where the team bus was going. Knowing that he to the game. That just feels like you're trying to embarrass Somebody I unlike that, it's bullying. And so I even I wrote. Yeah, I wrote that on my Twitter because I have been. I've never called for anybody to lose their job because that's not my decision nor do I want to be a part of somebody losing their job. But if I feel like we lost like the Oklahoma State game, I still hold on to. I feel like that was. We lost that game from bad leadership, bad coaching. There were too many things that went wrong in too many places. It wasn't like a simple fumble or the offensive scheme wasn't working. It was offense, there were screw up on defense, there were fumbles, there were bad penalty. It was just overall. So that's why I was upset. And I've been critical of that and at times I've not been critical and I've been like, dude, great game plan for Tennessee, but the sign. I'll read to you exactly. Thank you for five great years, Sam. A change is needed in order to compete in the sec. And it was like a sign on the side of the road on the way the. But I didn't like they put it where the bus. It just felt like too personal. It wouldn't matter what coach it is. I feel like it's kind of a dick move.
Unknown
What's the, what's the end game there? Like when you buy something. Yeah, I would never buy something like that. But if you bought something like that, like what are they thinking is the end game there? That it's going to affect some change.
Bobby Bones
And I think it does if there's a whole lot of it. But I don't think anything specifically does. One billboard's not going to do it. A couple emails of the 80s not going to do it.
Unknown
Right.
Bobby Bones
What's really going to do it is boosters going, hey, we're not going to give you any more money.
Unknown
That's the real move.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. But it does put the pressure on whenever the public is crying out we don't like this, we're not going to go with this. So does that affect things? I would say 15%. Does it affect. Yes. But does it actually make a change? No, it doesn't make a change. There are other factors too.
Unknown
Does it matter what the message says? Like you said, it says thanks. Right. Thank you.
Bobby Bones
That's kind of sarcastic.
Unknown
That's sarcastic.
Bobby Bones
No, I don't think it was at all.
Unknown
Really.
Bobby Bones
No.
Unknown
No.
Bobby Bones
Because I don't even feel that way.
Unknown
I think it's genuine.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, we, our last coach, we didn't win an SEC game. He was there for two years. Then when Pittman comes in, wins an SEC game, we start to have top 25 recruiting classes. We had a nine win season, you know, we had a seven win season, you know, six, five. You know, I think we're to that point. And we did need some stability. And we got it. Very much so. I do not think that was sarcastic at all. Thank you for five great years because he took us from the low to the medium. Yeah, well, a change is needed in order to compete in the sec. Okay. So anyway, and I wrote because someone said, how do you feel about. Oh, no, no. They wrote, can we get you to endorse this is what they wrote to me and tagged me and I wrote and I posted it publicly. I said no. I thought this was trashy. Coaching deserve this. We can all have opinions. Frankly, it's your money. But no, I don't enjoy this at all. But I'm also getting not say, don't do it, because you can. You're able to do whatever you want. Mm. I didn't like it though.
Unknown
Did whoever bought buy it? Did they admit that they bought it?
Bobby Bones
No, no one's come out. Because you can buy it through it like an llc. And people have tried to figure it out, but they've done this at Arkansas a few times.
Unknown
Is that really expensive?
Bobby Bones
That board was like 4,500 bucks for the month. Oh, because they did track down what it costs. It's a digital one. They did. You can call the company that owns it and go, hey, how much to write something? And they can tell you. But they wouldn't tell them who bought it. But I was watching maybe like John Neighbors who I like from Arkansas, maybe he called just to see how much that would cost to do. So that's the other thing I want to talk about. I got listed like four things in this segment here. Next up, did you guys happen to see the BYU Cougar do the flip over the golf cart?
Unknown
No, I'll pull it up.
Bobby Bones
Here we go again. This BYU Cougar not only does all the push ups, the mascot and the flips. Oh, my God. This is the most death defying mascot stunt I've ever seen. It's up there with the Phoenix Suns gorilla that flies ten hundred feet in the air and dunks the wall.
Unknown
Yeah, dude's awesome.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, dude's awesome. This, this cougar could have died. It's the mascot.
Unknown
Oh, like a halftime or something.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. Eddie, go watch this. So the first time. Don't. Don't watch it till Eddie can get over there. Okay, so he's doing flip, flip, flip.
Unknown
There's a commercial. Sorry. Keep talking, keep talking.
Bobby Bones
He's doing flip, flip, flip, flip. And then he jumps up because he's a gymnast, obviously.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
As a golf cart is driving by. Let me know whenever you guys get it going.
Unknown
About 18 seconds.
Bobby Bones
Oh, great.
Unknown
It's a great.
It's a long ad. Long ad. Long ad.
Bobby Bones
What's it for?
Unknown
It's a home improvement story.
Bobby Bones
It's on Kevin's. It's like impotence medicine. He's all embarrassed.
Unknown
Eddie, don't put the camera there.
All right, here we go.
Three seconds.
Bobby Bones
Okay, here we go. BYU cougar doing flips.
Unknown
Ooh, he's got goggles on.
Here we go. Whoa, whoa. His head.
It clipped.
It clipped his head.
The golf cart clipped his head.
Bobby Bones
Now not so. Not so bad. That hurt him. No, that's how close he does a backflip. A high jumping backflip at the same exact time the golf carts drive. He times it perfectly. Yeah.
Unknown
That's amazing.
Bobby Bones
That he flips over the top of it in the air.
Unknown
That's amazing.
Bobby Bones
And lands on the other side. Oh, my God.
Unknown
But probably I would say 6 inches from losing his head.
Bobby Bones
That if you ever watch the stuff that BYU mascot does, he is.
Unknown
Oh, he's the best.
Bobby Bones
He's the mvp. Nbn. Mascot. Mascot. Valuable player.
Unknown
Remember when they did the dance, like, five or six years ago when that rolly.
Bobby Bones
Oh. Jumped in with the team?
Unknown
Yeah.
And he was just like, dude, you can dance, too.
Bobby Bones
And I don't know if it's the same person because that was years ago. I know, but that's like somebody having the dog that's 20 years from now, but the same dog. You're like, no, that's. That's Mark. No, Mark. Those dogs don't live to be 20. That's just a different dog.
Unknown
You know, in high school, they asked me to be the mascot, and I turned it down. Politely turned it down.
What was your mascot?
Bobby Bones
And that reminds you of that?
Unknown
Just the mascot talk. Just the mascot talk.
What's your mascot?
It's a Mustang. I mean, because I brought a lot of spirit to the games. Like, you know, we'd all pregame a little bit, and then, like, when the game came on, I made this, like, Rudy helmet. It was. I spray painted it gold, and I had a Mustang on the side. And I would run the track. They would send me out to run the track. I'd hold the flag. I'd go with the Cheerleaders to go taunt the other side. So at some point, they're like, why don't you just become the mascot? And I'm like, no, I kind of like just having fun with my friends.
Bobby Bones
Would you have to wear a mascot?
Unknown
Like, it's just like the Cougar, but.
Bobby Bones
I had my guess.
Unknown
Yeah, it's just like the Cougar, but I had a Mustang helmet.
Bobby Bones
Did you tell them you needed to be drunk, though?
Unknown
Pretty much. That's part of it.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. You're like, I guess I'll do it, but I gotta be drunk.
Unknown
Can I go to the party afterwards?
Bobby Bones
Yeah, you gotta be drunk. Okay. And the final thing in this little segment here. Have a little game for you guys.
Unknown
Let's go.
Bobby Bones
We're gonna play. There are seven answers on the board. NFL quarterbacks known primarily for their first name.
Unknown
It's like a survey that they did.
Bobby Bones
Top seven NFL quarterbacks known primarily for their first name. Okay, pick a number. One through ten. Kevin.
Unknown
Four.
Bobby Bones
Eddie.
Unknown
Three.
Bobby Bones
The number was two, so, Eddie, you can go first.
Unknown
My number one pick on this one, Bones, is Boomer. Right. Current is all time. All time.
Bobby Bones
Boomer is incorrect. You know, it's. It's current.
Unknown
Oh, current.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Unknown
Am I up?
Yeah, you're okay.
Lamar.
Bobby Bones
The number two answer is Lamar. As on Lamar Jackson. Two points.
Unknown
Does he go till he misses or you want to go back and forth?
Bobby Bones
Eddie's like, Roger.
Unknown
I'm gonna be like Joe.
Bobby Bones
Well, that would.
Unknown
Joe Burrow. Yeah, I'm up.
Bobby Bones
No, it's okay.
Unknown
Okay, let's go with Joe.
Bobby Bones
No. Eddie. Quarterback. No, primarily for the first name. Current quarterbacks.
Unknown
Patty Patrick. Yeah.
First name.
No, he's not on there. Huh?
Bobby Bones
Kevin.
Unknown
Josh.
Okay. I mean, that'd be unique.
Bobby Bones
I know.
Unknown
I'm trying to.
Bobby Bones
Because if you just, like. If you just said Lamar.
Unknown
Oh, I got it. Bo. Bo Nicks. Dude.
Bobby Bones
No, Bo. Like the Bo Jackson, even though he's not current known. If you were talking about a football player and you're like, bo, I got one. Go ahead.
Unknown
Gardner.
Bobby Bones
Huh?
Unknown
Gardner Menchu.
Bobby Bones
Not known enough. We're struggling here with this one.
Unknown
Okay.
Bobby Bones
I thought this would be easier.
Unknown
C.J.
Bobby Bones
Now you're just naming quarterbacks.
Unknown
Yeah. Just going down the list of quarterbacks.
Bobby Bones
Oh, let me ask a question.
Unknown
I'm an idiot.
Bobby Bones
Which NFL quarterbacks are known primarily for their first name? Top seven are on the board. Number two is Lamar.
Unknown
Go ahead.
Number two. Russ Russell.
No, that's not Russ. You say Russ.
Let Russ Cook.
I got it.
I got.
I got one. Finally.
Bobby Bones
Eddie.
Unknown
Dak.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Unknown
Oh.
Bobby Bones
If on ESPN they were like, all right, Dak. Dax. Dax on the field.
Unknown
Yes.
Yes.
Bobby Bones
You'd know who that was. Okay, Eddie. Six points. Can't give you guys too many rounds.
Unknown
I know. Let's go with. Oh, Kyler.
Bobby Bones
Kyler makes the lesson number.
Unknown
Nice.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Unknown
Nice. Nice.
Thinking hard.
Bobby Bones
Tyler's out doing press after the game.
Unknown
Got it. I got another one. Go ahead, Brock. No, Brock's not on there.
Bobby Bones
Kevin.
Unknown
I don't know if he's well known enough.
Bobby Bones
More shot.
Unknown
But last couple years. Gino.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. Gino. Yes. Okay. Geno's super original name.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
What's Geno short for? Giovanni. Gino Janobly. No, Janet. I don't know. Geno sounds like it's short for something, right?
Unknown
Yeah. Genometry. Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Geonometry. Geometry. Yeah. Okay, go ahead.
Unknown
I got another one here.
Bobby Bones
What is it, Mike?
Unknown
Oh, Eugene.
Bobby Bones
Oh, Eugene is Geno.
Unknown
Oh, that makes sense.
Bobby Bones
I never got there, but it does make sense. Yeah, I got another one. Tua.
Unknown
Yeah, that's it. It's really good.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, there are two left.
Unknown
Two left.
Bobby Bones
Number one.
Unknown
Oh, Baker.
Bobby Bones
Baker's number one.
Unknown
Yeah, that's good.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, like your. One more. I'm gonna go. Aaron. Now.
Unknown
Destroyed.
That's not bad. I mean, we know who we're talking about. Exactly, Deshaun.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, but it's because we know who you're talking about. You know. Okay, go ahead.
Unknown
Winston. That's not Jameis. I'm an idiot.
Bobby Bones
Jameis is the answer, but it's not Winston. It's Jameis. But his first name. First name is not Winston. That's funny.
Unknown
We got there.
Bobby Bones
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Bobby Bones
I'm curious where your head is, Eddie. Just with football, like, it's not as fun for me when Arkansas sucks and we're not. We're just not going to be good. We only have two games left. We might make a bowl. It just. Whenever that's finally taken away from me, it's. It's disappointing. Where's your head?
Unknown
Yeah, I'm kind of in the same spot. Like Sundays for me were, you know, we go to church early because I need to be home by 11 because the game start at noon and I want nothing to do except watch football from noon to I go when I go to bed. But this since last week, it's the first time where I'm like, what, you want to plan something for Sunday? Like, that's fine. You want people to come over?
Bobby Bones
It's depressing.
Unknown
You want me to grill something? I'll do it.
Bobby Bones
I know. Like, we played last week at 11 and that's like a Christmas morning. Wake up most times like 8:00. Oh, and you're watching the clock. Yeah, it sucks.
Unknown
I know, man.
Bobby Bones
It sucks when your team is just not good. Do you want the first pick?
Unknown
I'll take the first pick.
Bobby Bones
Do we lose every game?
Unknown
Yeah. At this point, I mean, Dak's not coming back. I don't see us. If we win a game, it's going to be, wow, we won a game, Cool. It's not going to be like, okay.
Bobby Bones
But will it be we won a game. Dang it. Oh, yeah.
Unknown
I think so. I think so. And like you asked me last week about Trey Lance. I want to see him start.
Bobby Bones
But what if he's good? Like, do you want. And maybe they're not playing him because there's a chance. He could be so dynamic. He could win a couple games, but also lose a couple games really badly. But if he wins a couple games, that's not good for you if you're losing.
Unknown
Do you think, like, if they put him in and he starts playing really well, they can tell him like, hey, we're going to pull you out. Like, you're doing too good.
Bobby Bones
No, I think if he played really well, they'd trade him. They would showcase him. I think they would showcase him. And maybe they're not playing him because they don't want people to see that he's not. And hopefully they could get like a sixth or they give up a fourth form. Right?
Unknown
Yeah, fourth. Get it?
Bobby Bones
I don't know. And it just bums me out.
Unknown
How are you? Have you talked to Dion? Any interest in Dion coming to Dallas?
Bobby Bones
No, I haven't talked to him.
Unknown
Just checking.
Bobby Bones
I guess I could text him, but I don't text him normally.
Unknown
That's the. That's the text you send him. Hey, Dion, do you think about coming down?
Bobby Bones
I do one warmup, though, before that. Hey, man, just checking in. How's everything going? Good, good, good. So you going to Cowboys or what?
Unknown
Yeah, because that'd be cool.
Bobby Bones
Thank you, guys for listening. Thanks to coach Summerall. Thanks to Tulane.
Unknown
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Bobby Bones
We're gonna be up there because if you bet it, then it makes us look good.
Unknown
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Because sometimes there's, like, some of Those parlays, like 11, 000 people bet it. 80, 000 people. And ours is, like four people looked at it and it's us. They didn't even bet it. They looked at it. Yeah, it's us.
Unknown
It's us four.
Bobby Bones
You have to get on and scroll to the side because they put us at the very end as well on DraftKings. All right, thank you, guys. We'll see you early next week. Bye, everybody. Theme song written by Bobby Bones. That's me. And performed by Brandon Ray. Follow Brandon on socials at brandonray Music. You can follow the show on Instagram at Bobby bonesports. Thanks to our crew, co host at producer Eddie, segment producer at Kickoff Kevin, video producer at Reed Yarberry, and executive producer producer at Mike Distro. But most importantly, thank you for listening. I'm Bobby Bones. We'll talk to you next time here on 25 Whistles.
Podcast Summary: The Bobby Bones Show – Episode 25W: A Star Athlete Had His Lambo Stolen + Tulane HC Jon Sumrall + QB’s Most Known for Their First Name
Release Date: November 22, 2024
Host: Bobby Bones
Producer: Premiere Networks
In Episode 25W of The Bobby Bones Show, host Bobby Bones delves into a mix of eye-catching stories from the sports world, including a high-profile car theft involving an NFL player, an in-depth interview with Tulane’s head football coach Jon Sumrall, and a fun segment on NFL quarterbacks known primarily by their first names.
Timestamp: [01:26] – [04:39]
Bobby Bones kicks off the episode with a startling tale about Chris Bryant, a beloved third baseman for the Colorado Rockies, whose $300,000 Lamborghini Huracan was stolen during transport. The theft was orchestrated through a sophisticated hacking scheme where thieves infiltrated the auto transport company's system, rerouting the vehicle to a different location in Las Vegas before making off with it.
Notable Quote:
Bobby Bones (01:26): "Jesus, that's baller. It shouldn't be Baller because we, you know, it's like a move to get stolen."
The discussion highlights the growing trend of high-end car thefts executed digitally, emphasizing the vulnerability of luxury vehicle transport systems to cyberattacks. Bobby expresses a mix of fascination and frustration, comparing the act to something out of a heist movie.
Additional Insights:
Timestamp: [05:56] – [09:00]
Transitioning from theft to digital assets, Bobby shares his personal experience with Bitcoin, revealing how a modest investment has grown significantly over time. He contrasts this with the story of James Howells, who inadvertently discarded a hard drive containing $600 million in Bitcoin, now lost in a landfill.
Notable Quotes:
Bobby Bones (05:56): "I bought some, a little bit here, a little bit there. Like $50 bucks, $75 bucks."
Bobby Bones (08:19): "I don't want to have [his name] on my phone as Dan Lanning. It's just a number."
Bobby’s anecdote underscores the unpredictable nature of cryptocurrency investments, while Howells’ predicament serves as a cautionary tale about the importance of securely storing digital assets.
Key Points:
Timestamp: [09:47] – [16:54]
In the "25 Whistles" segment, Bobby and co-host Eddie analyze the current NFL season, evaluating each division and deciding which teams are no longer in playoff contention. They humorously "kill" several teams based on their performance, focusing primarily on the AFC and NFC divisions.
Notable Quotes:
Bobby Bones (13:30): "Keith. I think I did the Toby Keith."
Bobby Bones (14:09): "Hey, look, Woody Johnson wanted to bench him. Or at least in week five, suggested the idea."
Division Breakdown:
The hosts discuss team performances, key losses, and potential playoff scenarios, providing listeners with a comprehensive overview of the NFL landscape as the season approaches its climax.
Timestamp: [23:49] – [42:10]
Bobby Bones welcomes Jon Sumrall, the first-year head coach of Tulane's football team, to discuss the impressive 9-2 record and an eight-game winning streak. The conversation covers various aspects of the team’s dynamics, quarterback development, and coaching philosophy.
Notable Quotes:
Jon Sumrall (24:54): "Darian was kind of the afterthought freshman kid and he won the job and really earned it."
Bobby Bones (30:08): "Are there rules on how much eye black you can put on your team's face?"
Key Discussion Points:
Insights from Sumrall:
Timestamp: [42:14] – [53:37]
Bobby and Eddie shift gears to discuss a viral pickleball video featuring an intense altercation between players that escalates into a dramatic fight. They humorously dissect the incident, comparing it to cinematic fight scenes and debating the players' intentions.
Notable Quotes:
Bobby Bones (43:46): "The kick was so violent and vulnerable. I think they were pro."
Eddie (52:20): "It's a home improvement story."
Additionally, the hosts reminisce about high-energy NFL mascots, highlighting the BYU Cougar’s death-defying stunts, including a near miss angle in a golfer's face during a halftime performance.
Key Points:
Timestamp: [54:21] – [58:27]
In a fun and engaging game segment, Bobby and Eddie compete to identify NFL quarterbacks who are best known by their first names. The segment emphasizes the uniqueness and memorability of certain quarterback names in the league.
Notable Quotes:
Bobby Bones (54:33): "Top seven NFL quarterbacks known primarily for their first name."
Eddie (56:12): "I got one here. Eugene is Geno."
Identified Quarterbacks:
The hosts enjoy the light-hearted competition, celebrating the distinctiveness these names bring to the league’s branding and fan recognition.
Timestamp: [58:27] – [62:34]
As the episode wraps up, Bobby Bones reflects on the discussed topics, from high-stakes cryptocurrency mishaps to the relentless excitement of football seasons. He encourages listeners to engage with upcoming events and maintains a humorous and personable tone, ensuring the audience remains entertained until the next episode.
Notable Quotes:
Bobby Bones (60:43): "It sucks when your team is just not good."
Eddie (61:54): "That's the text you send him. Hey, Dion, do you think about coming down?"
Final Highlights:
Episode 25W of The Bobby Bones Show offers a compelling blend of serious discussions and light-hearted segments, catering to sports enthusiasts and casual listeners alike. From unraveling sophisticated car thefts to celebrating the underappreciated uniqueness of NFL quarterbacks’ names, Bobby Bones ensures an entertaining and informative experience. The insightful interview with Tulane's coach adds depth, providing listeners with an insider’s perspective on collegiate football dynamics. Overall, this episode exemplifies the show's ability to balance diverse topics while maintaining an engaging narrative flow.
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