25W: Week 1 Confessions with Bobby + Hitting a 6" Growth Spurt in High School with College Football HoF David Pollack + GAME: Can You Name that Rivalry?

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show – 25 Whistles

Episode: Week 1 Confessions + 6-Inch Growth Spurt in High School: College Football HoF David Pollack + GAME: Can You Name That Rivalry?

Date: September 8, 2025
Host: Bobby Bones (w/ Eddie, Kevin, and guests)
Featured Guest: David Pollack (College Football Hall of Famer / Analyst)

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Overview

The “25 Whistles” crew returns to break down the revelations, highs, and lows from Week 1 of the football season. The episode blends NFL and college action, stories of bets gone right (and very wrong), reflections on wild finishes, and a comprehensive interview with college football great David Pollack. The show closes with a humorous, often disastrous, “Name that Rivalry” college football game.

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Episode Structure

• [04:04] — “Week 1 Confessions”: The crew's biggest football surprises, heartbreaks, and bets.
• [43:04] — Interview: David Pollack unpacks college football storylines, his personal journey, and transition off the field.
• [66:33] — Thursday Night Football Recap.
• [76:16] — GAME: "Can You Name That Rivalry?"

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Week 1 Confessions & Recap

[04:13] – [25:55]

• "I went to bed..."
  Bobby confesses to turning off the critical Bills-Ravens game, missing an epic comeback.

  “I missed all of it… so clue me in!” – Bobby ([04:56])

• The team dissects the wild ending:

  • Derrick Henry's shocking fumble, Derrick Henry’s missed sack, two-point conversion drama, and an improbable comeback by the Bills.
  • Betting highs and lows: live bets, emotional swings, and near mental breakdowns.

• Who Sucked / Who Was Awesome: Each host offers their hot (often personal) takes:

  • Who Sucked: Texas (for falling short on the betting line), Panthers (“Bryce Young just running for his life”), Bo Nix, Florida ("spitting culture" penalty).
  • Who Was Awesome: Cincinnati football “gods” (for rescuing their bet), John Mateer (Oklahoma), Oregon Ducks, Daniel Jones & the Colts.

• Gambling League Stress:

  • The roundtable dives into the convoluted but high-stakes “league” they run, where allegiance to random teams is bought by the threat of losing thousands.
  • “My wife was like, ‘You’re a Bucs fan now?’ I had to explain this whole thing…” – Eddie ([16:31])

• Memorable Quotes:

  • “You lose money and then you start rooting for other games you have no interest in because it’s a hundred bucks.” – Bobby ([16:19])
  • “Saturday night... got down to $30, but by the end I'm back, baby!” – Eddie ([25:37])

Player and Game Spotlights

• Derrick Henry:

  • “You just can’t stop a gigantic guy who’s super fast…He’s outrunning safeties on angles.” – Bobby ([09:33])

• Bills' Josh Allen:

  • After orchestrating the comeback, discussion on him as an MVP favorite:
  • “It definitely sets up Josh Allen to be the MVP if he’s equal now to Lamar for the rest of the year.” – Bobby ([08:39])

• Patrick Mahomes’ questionable move:

  • Lowered shoulder into a DB. “Kind of a douchebag move, really” – Bobby ([25:56])

Fan & Internet Viral Moments

• The Philly "Karen" Ball Incident ([27:15]–[30:45])

  • Viral video of a woman taking a foul ball from a kid's glove: “She sucks. He’s a wuss. Everybody loses.” – Bobby
  • Deep dive into the ethics of ball ownership and the dangers of internet vigilantes: “We have to stop doxing people…even if she was a douchebag.”

• Fan Interactions on Field:

  • Lamar Jackson shoving a fan in the crowd after being touched: “You can’t touch fans. You gotta …and Lamar said it too!” – Bobby ([33:35])
  • “Once a season, if you’re a player, you should be able to challenge a fan…” – Bobby ([36:17])

Cultural Notes & Local Color

• Romanticizing Week 1: Eddie describes the magic of being in Nashville as everyone tunes in to the hometown football game: “Felt almost like old school.” ([37:53])
• Reflection on the psychology of fandom, betting, and heartbreak—especially with citywide or family allegiances (like neighbor feuds over team flags).

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Interview: David Pollack

[43:04] – [62:31]

Background

• Georgia Bulldog legend, former NFL player (Bengals), now a podcast host and college football analyst.

Highlights

Life After Football

• Pollack describes his transition post-injury:
  • Losing 50-60 pounds after being a "chunky monkey" lineman ([46:56]).
  • Focus on different training—a move from heavy weights to lighter, high-rep and cardio for long-term health ([48:05]).

On Watching Football Now

• “I can’t watch any game, like, like a normal. Like just sit back and relax and watch. Like, I’m definitely always looking at the game from an analytical view…” ([45:46])

Team & Coach Breakdowns

• Clemson’s Slow Start:

  • “You want that physical identity on offense... through a couple of weeks, it's been very average.” ([50:16])

• Arch Manning’s Injury Concern:

  • “He definitely looked with the grimace like something was a little bit wrong... I hope he gets healthy. He’s still got a lot of maturing to do, man.” ([50:25])

• Florida's Culture Issues:

  • “You get super conservative late in the game with a lead... then you get aggressive and you miss a few shots... Spit game... that’s a culture issue. If you do that, everything's on camera.” ([51:38], [51:50])

  • On spitting as a penalty (and as a football faux-pas):

  • “If you hawk a loogie on me, you won’t get something back…” ([53:00])

• Mississippi State & Jeff Lebby:

  • Praises Coach Lebby's fit with the program, notes importance of loud, passionate fans and landmark wins: “You need a buy-in. You need a moment… that will do a lot for the locker room.” ([53:55])

Personal Anecdotes

• The impact of a 6” growth spurt and 60-pound gain between sophomore and junior year: “Football is a lot more fun when you’re the hammer and not the nail.” ([59:05])
• Why Georgia? “My baby doll, Lindsey Pollack…That was their best, that was the feather in the cap of Georgia.” ([60:35])

Podcast Plug

• “See Ball, Get Ball” – honest, stats-driven, multi-day-per-week show, with strong opinions and fresh takes.

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Thursday Night Football Recap + The Cowboys Corner

[66:33] – [76:16]

• Cowboys-Eagles: Analysis centers on dropped passes by CeeDee Lamb and the controversial Jalen Carter ejection for spitting on Dak Prescott.
  • “His mustache looked pretty cool…he’s bigger, too.” (Eddie, [72:38])
  • “Dak played awesome. That was the best game of…he just looked awesome.” (Kevin, [71:09])
• Defensive worries, praise for Dak's leadership, and cautious optimism for the season ahead.
• Light ribbing over betting advice and allegiances, as well as Cowboys vs. Eagles neighborhood feuds.

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Game: Can You Name That Rivalry?

[76:16] – [86:18]

• Bobby quizzes Eddie and Kevin on famous college football rivalry nicknames—results are predictably lopsided and hilarious.

  • “The Egg Bowl?” “UCLA, USC.” “No!”
  • “Farmageddon?” “Nebraska...Iowa?”
  • “The Holy War?” “Notre Dame...Holy Cross?”
  • Kevin triumphs, with Eddie leaning on wild guesses and context clues that don’t quite pan out.

• Others covered: Bedlam, Iron Bowl, World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, Civil War, Paul Bunyan’s Axe, and more.

• Running gag: Eddie’s confusion and Kevin’s quiet dominance.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “If you let somebody who didn’t have the ability to bully you, bully you, that’s like when a mouse scares an elephant.” — Bobby ([29:08])
• “You get hurt when you go to sleep. Imagine if that happened to you on a football field…” — Bobby, relaying his wife’s words ([32:51])
• “Once a season, if you’re a player, you can challenge a fan...One fan punch card.” — Bobby ([36:17])
• “It felt almost like old school...the whole city just around streams, around the radio, listening to their home team play.” — Eddie ([37:53])
• “Football is a lot more fun when you’re the hammer, not the nail.” — David Pollack ([59:05])
• “I missed all of it…so clue me in!” — Bobby, on falling asleep during the game ([04:56])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [04:13] – [12:08]: Monday morning confessions — what everyone missed or regretted from Week 1
• [14:51] – [16:14]: Inside the gambling league chaos
• [27:15] – [30:45]: Philly ball incident & online mob behavior
• [33:35] – [36:57]: Lamar shoves fan; "one fan punch card" debate
• [43:04] – [62:31]: David Pollack interview—football culture, life changes, coaches, schemes
• [66:33] – [76:16]: Cowboys-Eagles recap, spitting incident, dropped passes, and early season overreactions
• [76:16] – [86:18]: College football rivalry nickname game (comedy gold)

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Tone & Style

• Conversational: Candid confessions, self-deprecation, friendly barbs, and sharp football analysis.
• Energetic and fast-paced: Reflecting both the excitement of Week 1 and the gambling-induced adrenaline.
• Humorous and irreverent: Running gags, light cursing, and lots of “inside baseball” sports talk.

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For New Listeners

This episode is perfect for fans who want to relive the drama of football's opening weekend, hear honest (and sometimes painful) confessions about betting on games, enjoy behind-the-scenes stories from David Pollack, and test their own knowledge of quirky college football traditions. It's informative, honest, and occasionally outrageous—everything you'd expect from Bobby Bones and crew on "25 Whistles."

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[Eddie]

This is a podcast called 25 Whistles. Talking football.

[Bobby Bones]

And they all wear a whistle.

[Eddie]

Yeah, it's stupid, but what did you expect?

[Bobby Bones]

It's a podcast called 25 Whistles. 25 Whistles. All right, blow it, Eddie. I'd like to start with a confession. Uh oh, last night, after Buffalo missed the sack in the fourth quarter, like they had Lamar back. He did a little dipsy derv and then ran for like 18 yards. You guys remember that play?

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I went to bed.

[Eddie]

I won't look, look, look. You're not the only one, dude. Half of the stadium left.

[Bobby Bones]

I woke up this morning and thought, because I get like three or four emails, like I subscribe to the Athletic, and it was like one of the greatest comebacks. I was like, there was four minutes left. They were down two. Score. What?

[Eddie]

So what did you miss? All of it.

[Bobby Bones]

Live. I watched all of up up until they missed that sack. And I'm like, well, this game's over.

[Eddie]

Oh no.

[Bobby Bones]

So I'm out. I've missed all of it. So I don't know. Clue me in. Who stayed up for all you guys?

[Eddie]

I did.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, how did you guys keep watching? They were down two out of bet.

[Eddie]

I had a plus nine bet. I haven't had Buffalo plus nine.

[Bobby Bones]

I had James Cook. So I did hit a James Cook Derek Henry both to score a touchdown of the game. Made like 500 bucks off like 80 buck bet. It was all nice. That's. And also had James Cook over 60 and also was like he's not getting it. So they're down two possessions, they're just going to throw, end up getting 58 yards. Didn't hit it. But that was secondary. It doesn't matter.

[Eddie]

It doesn't matter.

[Bobby Bones]

I can't believe it. So I know what happened because I watched the clips this morning.

[Eddie]

It was unbelievable, dude. Yeah, it was unbelievable when Derrick Henry fumbled.

[Bobby Bones]

That's crazy. By the way, Ed Oliver knocked it out. Yeah, he's also the one who missed the Lamar sack. Yeah.

[Eddie]

I mean dude, it wasn't everyone. I don't think he missed Lamar. Lamar just.

[Bobby Bones]

That's true.

[Eddie]

That's like he's such a slippery guy.

[Bobby Bones]

I can't believe Derek Henry fumbled.

[Eddie]

He fumbles at the 30 yard line and it changes everything. I mean you can see Josh Allen's eyes like this is it, it's happening. But it wasn't easy, dude, because they needed a two point conversion. They score.

[Bobby Bones]

They also missed that two point conversion earlier that I saw.

[Kevin]

Yeah, they missed a couple of them.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And they almost got a one point safety. What was that on that two point conversion with the interception. And he threw it back. He like pitched it. Had the guy been tackled? Yeah, that had been a one point safety.

[Kevin]

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Anyway, it doesn't matter. That game is crazy.

[Kevin]

I can't believe a lot. Couldn't believe a lot that happened. The crazy part was I woke up to my phone going off. Literally went to bed same time as you woke up to my phone. Just I'm like, what the heck? I'm like, this game has to be turning crazy. I look. And then I watched the last two minutes on my phone with no audio at all while my wife sleeps right behind me and I was like, oh.

[David Pollack]

Oh my gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

You were getting texts about a team that's not even your team.

[Kevin]

Yeah, my dad and brother, we just. Because it was that wild of a.

[Eddie]

Game, it didn't matter.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude, if you were a fan, nobody text me.

[Eddie]

Well, I'm not texting.

[Kevin]

Well, Eddie's not a group.

[Eddie]

I am not texting you. Late night. No chance.

[Bobby Bones]

Good point on that. And secondly, who knows if I've been watching that game, like you'd probably know I am, but you're not going to blow me up on that.

[Eddie]

I did check to see the if the art our little text thread was at least going like, are you. Are you up? Are you watching this? But no one said anything, so I figured I was.

[Bobby Bones]

I went to bed after they missed that sack. I was like, well, this game's over.

[Eddie]

But here's what was crazy about the very end, which is like, of course I was vest. I was heavily invested in it because I had a live bet, a live Moneyline Buffalo bet that I took at the half that paid like, plus 250. I want $100 at the end of the game. But I waited till the very end. So they. All they want to do is get in field goal position to win. To win the game with like a minute left.

[Bobby Bones]

They sound like somebody who is not from America talking about football for the first time. What do you mean they get in field goal position?

[Eddie]

They're trying to get in field goal position.

[Bobby Bones]

Rang range again, you sound like somebody from, like, Scandinavia who's just learning American football rules.

[Eddie]

They're trying to get in field goal range.

[Kevin]

Tell me what a field goal position is. You know.

[Eddie]

You know when they.

[Bobby Bones]

Am I wrong to say that?

[Eddie]

I didn't realize I said it like that? So anyway, they're just trying to get a field goal, but then they'd launch a ball down the field. They end up at like the 10 yard line. And I'm like, it's first and 10 with 40 seconds left. And they start kneeling the ball. And I know you trust your kicker. I know you do. And it's a little.

[Bobby Bones]

A lot of missed kicks today, though.

[Eddie]

A lot of Miss Crater. I understand. I don't care if it was Justin Tucker out of the massage room. Like, It's. You have four chances and 40 seconds to at least do something, but there is the risk of fumbling the ball. I understand. But when they knelt the. When they kneel down to three times to take the clock all the way down to five seconds, I was stressing, but they made it and they won the game. It was freaking amazing.

[Bobby Bones]

That's crazy. Congratulations. I mean, that definitely sets up Josh Allen to be the MVP if he is equal now to Lamar for the rest of the year.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

If you. You're. If it's arguable, Josh Allen wins because of this game.

[Kevin]

He was unbelievable.

[Eddie]

He was.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

And Derek Henry was unbelievable. That just sucks. He fumbled.

[Eddie]

Oh, Zay Flowers is unbelievable.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

They were all so good.

[Kevin]

I was watching the Ravens, like, nobody's beating this team.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, possible AFC championship game there for sure. Probably the best two teams in the afc.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kevin]

I mean, after week one for sure.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I mean, I'm just saying, looking. Looking at them.

[Kevin]

I know both you watch those teams and you're like, nobody else looks like this in the NFL.

[Bobby Bones]

Even watching Buffalo, I don't know, their jerseys, that. That blue look fast.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, sometimes you just look good. Like, they say, get off the bus.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, both teams look good.

[Eddie]

It's crazy, too, that, like, they can't learn to stop Derrick Henry. Like, learn.

[Bobby Bones]

How do you learn to stop a gigantic guy who's super fast?

[Kevin]

Take his legs out. There you go.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you see him outrun people on angles?

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

He's out running Safeties on. On the head. Angles on him. Yeah. So there are two reasons you can't stop Derrick Henry. One, he's massive. Two, he's fast.

[Kevin]

I would hate to tackle that.

[Bobby Bones]

It sucks. Hate it. Yep. He's coming at you one on one, dude.

[Kevin]

Have it, bro. Go.

[Bobby Bones]

Business decision. I'm gonna let you get a field goal position. Take a risk. So here's what we're gonna do. I'll give you guys a second to think about yours. We're gonna do who Sucked and who was awesome. It can be anything from the weekend because the benefit of doing the show on a Monday is that we have all college and all NFL. So I'll go first. Who sucked? Texas.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's hot. Take.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, no, no, I'm going to tell you why Texas sucked. Because Texas wins 38. 7. Arch looks fine. He threw a bunch of touchdowns. But again, I talked to David Pollock about this. When you throw, you would see him go, like, oh, a bit as well. And so, yeah, he scored touchdowns. It was fine. They should. But I bet Texas to cover. I don't know, halfway through the game, and they freaking, like, fumbled it.

[Eddie]

Oh, I know, man.

[Bobby Bones]

To lose the. So Texas. I'm. I looked for a reason to like Arch Manning because I like Arch. I hate Texas. And so I was like, I'm going to bet on Texas.

[Eddie]

It's San Jose State.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. And they fumble. And they fumble at the end. Right. Didn't they fumble? I can't even remember. I put on my phone. They fumbled.

[Eddie]

Like, they fumbled.

[Kevin]

Probably. I stopped watching that game.

[Eddie]

He did throw a pick, too.

[Bobby Bones]

I hate Texas for not covering. That's what I wrote in my notes. I hate Texas also for not covering, for fumbling and for sucking.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So that's who sucks, Mike.

[Kevin]

You and Texas.

[Bobby Bones]

What I do.

[Eddie]

Poor Mike.

[Bobby Bones]

So I did bet on them. I tried to find a reason to like them. I couldn't. They fumbled even Then. So are you off believing in them now? I don't believe in Texas. Just an architect. You're rooting for Arch. I'm rooting for. I'm still rooting for Arch itself, but I'm now rooting for Texas. I'm rooting against Texas more than I'm rooting for Arch. It was even for a while where I was trying to figure out where I actually fell in this, and now I'm rooting for against Texas more than I'm rooting for Arch. So, yeah, that's. Who sucked? Texas. Who is awesome? The Cincinnati football gods.

[Eddie]

Oh, the gods.

[Bobby Bones]

Or is it the Browns that just suck so bad? Like the Browns going to Brown and they browns hard yesterday. But the football gods were gentle to Cincinnati. They needed to win that game. Like little Flacco. Throw a pass. It was good. Hit off his hand. Interception. Cincinnati goes down, wins it. Thank God, because we'll get to our little League in a second.

[Eddie]

Gosh, that was stressful.

[Bobby Bones]

Very.

[Eddie]

Like, so stressful. I may not be able to take it all season.

[Bobby Bones]

You won't. I was worried about you. I stopped. Hey, what?

[Eddie]

What?

[Kevin]

Eddie just stopped replying.

[Eddie]

I started feeling this.

[Bobby Bones]

I started to feel so guilty and think about buying Eddie out week one.

[Eddie]

I was like, can I tell you what happened? Before we even talk about all that, Let me tell you, Happens. So my son is so stupid. He has two basketball games on Sunday in the middle of the day, and I'm pissed. And my wife's like, you can't miss him. There is first basketball games. I'm like, it's the first. It's the first week of NFL. So anyway, I go and I'm watching. The coach looks at me and say, hey, man, will you do the score? And I'm like, I have my phone in my hand. He obviously sees the streaming going on. And I go, I'll do it. Sure. So I go to the score table with my phone and. And the score guy goes like, dude, you're going to need to focus. So, like, I'll just get someone else to do it. I say, thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, so you got out of it?

[Eddie]

So I got out of it. I watched it on my phone, but I'm trying to watch basketball, dude. It was too much from yelling at my son to get in the game to like, oh, my gosh, they missed a field goal.

[Bobby Bones]

It was crazy. All that was crazy.

[Kevin]

It was a lot.

[Bobby Bones]

So here's who sucked. Texas. And here's who was awesome. The Cincinnati football gods.

[Eddie]

Yes, the gods.

[Bobby Bones]

For letting the Bengals for letting Cincinnati sneak out with that win against a terrible Browns team, which means, since I may not be good, possibly.

[Kevin]

Yeah, they actually won week one, which they haven't done in, like, seven years.

[Bobby Bones]

You're right.

[Eddie]

And then I'm thinking too, like, okay, please, like, Packer Gods, like, go take a nap and don't look awesome. The packers look great. So that was not good for us.

[Bobby Bones]

It's week one. I mean, we can. We can jump into this real quick. And I want to go around the room, but.

[Eddie]

Sorry, it's just hard not to talk about that.

[Bobby Bones]

It is. So we got in this league, and I can explain the system, but you draft. We have four teams, and we need these four teams. We need three out of four to win every week or we're going to lose money. And so we only had two of the four that we needed win, and so we're in the hole. That being said, what happens is there are six people. They draft six teams. You draft them, win or lose. And this is going to be kind of confusing, but if you win, you win 500 bucks. Your team, like, if the Bengals won, we won $500. But every time somebody else's team wins, we have to pay 100 bucks. And so it ends up. Last year, like, we had Matt still on. There were people that lost $10,000. There was also somebody that won $10,000. I won 4,000.

[Eddie]

Exactly.

[Bobby Bones]

So we had. We had six games. And this is going to be confusing because I drafted Miami to win and lose, and that counts as a skin. But it also counts as a skin. You can't win as well. So out of the six, we had three wins. And as of right now, I think we're down 500 bucks. Yep. And we can't make any money tonight. We can only not lose more money tonight.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

And that's if the Bears win.

[Eddie]

So we're rooting for the Bears tonight. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So, yeah, we're down $500 right now.

[Eddie]

And our teams are okay.

[Bobby Bones]

The Bucks. Hey. Holy crap. Speaking about the Gods.

[Kevin]

Gods.

[Bobby Bones]

First of all, they shouldn't have missed the extra point.

[Kevin]

Yeah, correct.

[Bobby Bones]

Because the game would have been over.

[Kevin]

Yeah. That was after I texted you guys.

[Eddie]

Yeah, it was right after you texted.

[Kevin]

And then they missed the extra point. I'm like, no.

[Eddie]

And that's okay. But then that.

[Bobby Bones]

Then the Falcons.

[Eddie]

And the Falcons kicker, who doesn't miss. I mean, he's really good. Decided to miss.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So I don't make this all about us, but we have.

[Eddie]

Don't make it all about we have.

[Bobby Bones]

The Bucks, the Bengals.

[Eddie]

We have Chiefs.

[Bobby Bones]

The Chiefs and Patriots.

[Eddie]

I'm worried about that one now, Kevin.

[Kevin]

Me, too.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So that's where we are. We need those four teams to win because we could lose thousands of dollars.

[Eddie]

It's stressful, but we can also win a lot of money.

[Bobby Bones]

We can. And I've been in the black over my three years. Like, I'm ahead a couple thousand bucks.

[Eddie]

Black is good.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. That's why it's called Black Friday.

[Eddie]

And then red is the trouble.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, red's bad. Yeah.

[Kevin]

Stay in the black, baby.

[Eddie]

That's hard because I love red and roulette, so I've had to work on that.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, that's my favorite color. It's tough.

[Eddie]

This is the bad one, but.

[Bobby Bones]

And Kevin's fantasy team dominated mine at a good week. Kevin had the greatest week I've ever seen in fantasy football history. But the thing is, you don't even care about fantasy that much because you're just so worried about your money. And these are.

[Eddie]

Funny you said that. Because I didn't give a crap about fantasy.

[Bobby Bones]

I know. Same man.

[Kevin]

Me neither. I didn't care about players anymore. I cared about teams. Teams.

[Bobby Bones]

And you watch teams.

[Eddie]

Teams that I never cared about.

[Bobby Bones]

I know.

[Eddie]

Ever. I never watched the Bengals game be like, come on, Bengals.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I know. Because you lose money and then you start rooting for other games you have no interest in because it's 100 bucks.

[Eddie]

I know.

[Kevin]

It adds up quick. That's what I realized when once it started scoring, I was like, oh, wait, oh, oh, another four.

[Eddie]

My wife was like, you're a Bucks fan now. Like, well, let me explain to you.

[Bobby Bones]

For the next 17 weeks, I am, including the bye week, okay, Kevin, who. Who sucked, who was awesome, who sucked.

[Kevin]

Was a guy that you've been high on for a while. But week one was bad. And that's Bo Nix. Oh, Bo. Nick sucked. He had one. They did win. But Titans had every opportunity they could to win that game. They just didn't want to win it. But he's had three turnovers, and he just looked like he was trying to do too much last year. He was just really playing the system of the offense. And he looked like he was just calm and collected yesterday. He was, like, flustered. He was yelling at players, and he seemed like he was trying to win the game himself. So I thought he sucked. And then who was good? You know, I'm not an Oklahoma guy, but Mattier. John Mateer from Oklahoma was awesome on Saturday night. I watched that whole Game. Michigan's defense is real, and he diced them up with his legs, arms. They got that win. He was awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

He was always getting him a field goal position.

[Kevin]

Yes, he was.

[Bobby Bones]

And that was good.

[Eddie]

I'm not gonna hear the end of this.

[Kevin]

Yes.

[Eddie]

That position. That position. The field, you know, or like, it's the money spot.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a good game. My wife is a massive OU fan, so we watched the whole game. Yeah, they kept trying to give it back, though.

[Kevin]

Oklahoma.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

Yeah. I mean, they get just kind of like the Broncos. They gave them every opportunity. They're like, come on.

[Bobby Bones]

I thought the Titans might actually pull it.

[David Pollack]

I didn't.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't care. But I thought I did kind of root for the Titans because that was money for us. And we can't talk about our whole league the whole time.

[Kevin]

I know, but we wanted the Titans.

[Bobby Bones]

I know. We wanted the Titans to win that for that.

[Kevin]

And Cam Ward, I was like, cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, I thought Cam Ward for game one pretty good. Look pretty freaking good. Because there he had no time.

[Kevin]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, it was. Yeah, that was it. Every play. Yeah. And then they had to change out a tackle. And then it was. Once they changed out the tackle, Kmore had even less time.

[Kevin]

Yeah, it was brutal for him. You see his dad in the stand stressing out. It was pretty funny.

[Bobby Bones]

The announcer was like, cameron's dad's also, like, super calm. And they kept looking at like, he's not. And then finally he went up to the rail and bent over. He's like, oh, there we go.

[Kevin]

Awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

Who sucked? Who was awesome?

[Eddie]

Eddie, you're not gonna like this, but the Panthers sucked.

[Bobby Bones]

They sucked. It was terrible.

[Eddie]

Dude, the Panthers may be bad again. Like, every time I switch to the Panthers, there's Bryce Young just running for his life again. I thought t Mac would save him. I think TMac was a decent fantasy player this year, but this. This week. But yeah, dude, Panthers are nothing to look forward to.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think so. I think we a lot.

[Eddie]

I'm sure you do.

[Bobby Bones]

A lot of room.

[Kevin]

That game was weird too, though. The whole, like, delay. I don't know. I forgot the game was even on.

[Bobby Bones]

Lightning.

[Eddie]

Yeah, for like five minutes.

[Bobby Bones]

They're playing in Florida, bro.

[David Pollack]

What do you think?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, no, no.

[Eddie]

I'm thinking of Denver.

[Kevin]

Yeah, Denver was the crazy.

[Eddie]

Was a five minute weather delay.

[Kevin]

Jacksonville was like three hours.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. Jacksonville round, like, early round game. And it was playing deep into the second round. Yeah.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

That's bizarre. Brandon, you want to do one who sucked?

[Eddie]

Oh, wait, I got to give you my awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, sorry.

[Eddie]

Oregon. The Ducks.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah. They punished Gundy.

[Eddie]

They were awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

They punished.

[Eddie]

I loved watching every minute. Well, I didn't watch a lot of it, but it was cool to see.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it's a good one. Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off.

[Eddie]

No, you're good.

[Bobby Bones]

Brandon. Who sucked?

[David Pollack]

Florida sucked.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. That's as. That's a tough one. Yeah, that's a tough one because they just signed their coach to a new deal. Yeah. And all of a sudden, you spit. It's another spit game. Yeah.

[Eddie]

What is happening?

[Bobby Bones]

What a terrible penalty. That's a culture issue. That's no respect for the player or for even your own. Even your own coach. If you do that, everything's on camera.

[Eddie]

There's a spitting culture.

[Bobby Bones]

No, but it's. I don't care about the rules.

[Eddie]

Got you.

[Bobby Bones]

I care about myself.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And there are certain coaches that own that and go. You don't. It's not about you. And players abide. Saban was big on that. Like, if you did that crap with Saban, he benched you. It didn't matter how good you were, because the next man up. Yeah, it sucked.

[Eddie]

Are you guys spitters?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't. I need you to.

[Eddie]

Do you get, like.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you guys spit randomly?

[Eddie]

Yeah. Like, just. Are you up?

[Kevin]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Two out of ten?

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

If I'm writing myself, I don't spit.

[Kevin]

Like, I mean, what if you're, like, working out?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, oh, yeah.

[Kevin]

In the gym. I'm just saying. Or if you're on a run or something.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I mean. Yeah, my mouth dry.

[Eddie]

Dry mouth is different. Like, that's a necessity. But, like, you know, people just walk around like that. Spit all the time. If I'm on a balcony, I give it a second thought how high I am and like.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, well, yeah, that's different.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Because that's. That's general height interest.

[Eddie]

Right. I think if you have a problem, if you don't stand on a balcony and want to spit it.

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe not spit, but I want to drop something. I want to. I want to time something. Yeah, yeah. Brandon, who is awesome.

[Kevin]

The Colts and Daniel Jones, we were.

[David Pollack]

Going to go to that game, but we canceled our team.

[Bobby Bones]

You didn't go. And I was like, go to that game.

[David Pollack]

I know. Well, we just stayed in Nashville because we're, like, we're exhausted. That's why we want to, like, take a weekend. So, like, we, you know, we just got a hotel in Nashville, and we just Watched football the entire weekend.

[Bobby Bones]

You know your wife's Steelers won.

[David Pollack]

Yeah, they did.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah. And that was a. That's a crazy game. Yeah, really crazy.

[Eddie]

What do you have? Four touchdowns.

[Kevin]

I thought that was going to be a dud of a game.

[Bobby Bones]

Me too. When he got sacked, it start to start the game, I was like, Aaron Rodgers can't move. And you know what? He didn't move a whole lot even then.

[Eddie]

But he.

[Bobby Bones]

His arm is still there.

[Kevin]

Yeah. He threw some dimes.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And the jets did not look terrible.

[Kevin]

Fields. Fields looked amazing.

[Bobby Bones]

You know who else didn't look terrible? I'm amazed. I made some notes.

[Eddie]

Russell.

[Bobby Bones]

No interest.

[Kevin]

Russell Wilson.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

He looked pretty good.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, Rattler. Spencer Rattler didn't look terrible.

[Eddie]

Didn't look bad.

[Bobby Bones]

I wrote down Rattler didn't suck. Yeah, that's my whole note. That's.

[Eddie]

That's a good note because as I.

[Bobby Bones]

Was watching them, I was like, I really expected them to be a lot worse. And Spencer Rattler looked like an NFL quarterback. They lost. But he didn't look terrible. And I think his expectation was terrible.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And anything above terrible is good. So he looked good.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So yeah. You know what else didn't suck? I hit my ghost leg. This is not part of the commercial. And I'll tell our listeners this. The guys thought I was doing a commercial on our test thread, 100% because.

[Eddie]

I read it and I was like, gosh, I sound like Bobby cutting a commercial.

[Bobby Bones]

I sent Eddie and Kevin a text. I was like, guys, don't forget the ghost leg because you can add that to your parlay right now.

[Kevin]

If you go to DraftKings, use Bobby Sports.

[Bobby Bones]

I was like, go do your go. And I hit. So I picked four games and one of them didn't hit, which was the Panthers plus four and a half. And I bet like 100 bucks and it was like 550. They killed that game. My ghost leg that didn't hit and I'm 100 bucks. Maybe like 325 or something. Wow. It was awesome.

[Eddie]

That's really cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

I needed two ghost legs.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah.

[Eddie]

Unfortunately, they only give you one.

[Bobby Bones]

Both legs or Gus legs. I did the Eddie Bet tour. I did like a 16 game parlay.

[Kevin]

Oh yeah?

[Eddie]

How many did you get wrong?

[Bobby Bones]

So many. I didn't even check.

[Eddie]

Oh, no, that's red all over. All over the board.

[Bobby Bones]

But I'm telling you, the ghost like made me money.

[Eddie]

That's awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

So do that. The code's Bobby Sports. But this wasn't part of like Their sponsorship on the show. It did work. I also did the I got a free no sweat bet. I don't know if they're doing it next week, but I told the guys, too. Hey, guys, don't forget there's a no sweat bet over at DraftKings.

[Eddie]

Up to how much money?

[Bobby Bones]

500.

[Eddie]

Which is awesome. Like, it's huge. And that means, like, if you lose it, you have $500 or whatever you. Whatever you bet. But you can do it up to 500. So if you 500, you have up to 500 on your next best.

[Bobby Bones]

Hilarious. We're not doing an ad right now.

[Eddie]

But what's stupid about this is Bobby sends this. Oh, he's like, up to 500. Guys go to DraftKings right? Right now.

[Kevin]

And it's like 20 minutes before kickoff. We're like, oh, shoot.

[Bobby Bones]

Gotta do it now.

[Kevin]

Gotta do it now.

[Eddie]

So I jumped over there and I look at it. I had already used it for like $5.

[Bobby Bones]

So I had a $5.

[Eddie]

Why? Because I didn't know it was up to 500. I would have done something way bigger.

[Bobby Bones]

Interesting. I did mine for 500, and I bet the Bengals plus are minus five and a half. They did not cover. Excuse me. So I re bet it, and it was the Broncos minus like nine and a half, and they didn't cover. So I lost two runs at it.

[Kevin]

Yeah, I was there.

[Bobby Bones]

I lost two runs. Here's the thing. I lost all my money.

[Eddie]

What? Everything that was in the driver count.

[Bobby Bones]

I got all the way down to like 200.

[Eddie]

But the Cubs game, man, we made money at the Cubs game.

[Bobby Bones]

I know. I ended up having a great run last night.

[Eddie]

You were on a heater.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I was at like 2, 3, 3, 300 going into yesterday. I got all the way down to $200.

[Eddie]

Oh, my goodness.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm back to 2300, which I made just last night.

[Eddie]

Dude, were your fingers just flying?

[Bobby Bones]

I'm still way up because I started it, like, 2, 280.

[Eddie]

$280.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. But I. I had a. I just want our audience to know I'm being honest with you guys. Like, I had. I was the hottest of hot, and then I suffered mightily. Got down to like 200. You know what? I hit a couple any game. Touchdown score parlays.

[Eddie]

Wow.

[Kevin]

Which made me love those ones.

[Eddie]

Those are good.

[Bobby Bones]

Yep. And they. They never hit for me. Like, I suck at those. But again, I hit a Derek Henry James Cook 2. Game 3. I bet 300 bucks and hit 4,000.

[Kevin]

Oh, wow.

[Eddie]

That's Good hit.

[Kevin]

Nice.

[Bobby Bones]

And so I made my way back up. So. But yeah, no, it was. It was not good. Not good for a long time, and then it finally got okay again. But, yeah, that was it.

[Eddie]

Saturday night, I stayed up for the nightcaps and I got down to 30. I was at 150 starting Saturday. Got down to 30 bucks on the nightcap. I think it was, like, not Hawaii, but it was. Oh, it was byu. I thought BYU would score more because they were killing that game. But no, we got down to 30 bucks. But at the end of that Buffalo Ravens game. Dude, I'm back, baby.

[Bobby Bones]

Good for you. I feel like I'm back to fighting weight. I mean, I'm still up, but I'm back to fighting weight because I was back 300 bucks. I was like, I'm going to set out next week.

[Eddie]

You were already defeated. I'm gonna take a break.

[Bobby Bones]

I was like, I'm gonna sit out next week and just kind of regather. I don't want to. I don't want to be chasing. And I mean, I chased last night, but I hit. And so, yeah, we're getting back.

[Eddie]

Good times.

[Bobby Bones]

I thought Patrick Mahomes lowering his shoulder into that defensive back was kind of a douchebag move, really. Same.

[Kevin]

Agreed.

[Bobby Bones]

I like Patrick Mahomes a lot. I like the Chiefs a lot. We're rooting for the Chiefs. We're a Chiefs team.

[Eddie]

We are.

[Bobby Bones]

We're a Chiefs team, Kevin. That's money.

[Kevin]

Yep.

[Bobby Bones]

And they're playing the freaking Eagles week, too.

[Eddie]

Yeah, that's gonna be. I know, but the Cowboys almost beat the Eagles, so there's hope.

[Bobby Bones]

No, there's not. The Cowboys played in Eagles defense. Not their best player.

[Eddie]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

And the Chiefs lost their number one receiver.

[Kevin]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

But I thought, why is that a douche move? I'm going to tell you because these. These defensive backs, linebackers. Doesn't matter. The defensive players are conditioned to. If a quarterback's running out, let up because they're going to get a penalty. And so he was letting up. And Mahomes, like, I don't think so. Whack. Nails them. It was almost like a defenseless defensive player because he was letting up. Yeah. And Mahomes lowered his shoulder, and I was like, not a good look. Did not like that. Yeah.

[Eddie]

Knocked him on his butt.

[Kevin]

I thought the same thing. And then he did a quick little flex. Yeah. I was like, come on, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. If you're both going straight forward and you. You lower your shoulder. Good on you. They were running out and Mahomes more than anybody because he does get the benefit of the call. Yeah, I did not like that. And it's hard because I like Patrick Mahomes. He's problematic. He's non problematic. And I like non problematic, awesome players. And I also like awesome players who get hated on for no reason because they're non problematic. So I continue to root for them.

[Kevin]

That makes sense.

[Bobby Bones]

Thank you.

[Eddie]

So I have that a lot going on in your head there.

[Bobby Bones]

I got more too. I did. And I wrote immediately on Twitter when it happened. And so I'm still getting people that disagree with me a lot about this. And I'll leave it up. I don't care. But. So the Phillies super, Karen that went over and took the ball from the kid.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so you've probably seen the clip. Foul ball's hit. Dad runs over, gets the ball. He goes, I got it. Gives it to the kid. She runs over, goes, that's my ball. Takes the ball back. As soon as it was posted, I was like, okay, she sucks. He's a wuss.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And everybody loses. And then once the team was nice enough to see it happen and give them all this, I came back and I was like, hey, looks like the team did the right thing. It's awesome. The kid got a bat. He won the World Series. Like, all this stuff's happening. They got famous. But first of all, she's awful because a home run ball, foul ball, it's free game until it is in your possession. Even if it's touching your hand, it's like bouncing around. It's not yours until you hold it up. Yeah, it's not yours. So it was never her ball. He walked over, immediately grabbed it. It wasn't a thing. Where he's like scurrying, scuffling, and then all of a sudden, he has it. He walks in, sees it, picks it up, takes it over to his kid, and I'm like, that's awesome. That's a good dad. I still think he's a good dad, but she went over and got in his face. There is no chance I would have given that ball to her. That's letting a bully win. And I'm okay with a bully winning if they can beat you up. So if a bully came over and was like, give me that ball, and he was bigger than me, sure. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That little lady trying to bully me, I'm not gonna do anything to her. But I'm like, no, we're good. Go back to your seat. I'm just Gonna hold the ball. The fact that he went back into his kid's glove and gave her the ball. That sucked. Yeah. Yeah.

[Kevin]

Not a good look.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not even a man woman. It's just you let somebody who didn't have the ability to bully you bully you. It's like when a mouse scares an elephant.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, elephant, stomp it.

[Eddie]

Do you know what she said to him?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Because the audio is now out there. It's like, you took my ball or something like that. Like, that was my ball, right?

[David Pollack]

That. That was in my hand.

[Eddie]

That's. Yeah. That's terrible.

[Bobby Bones]

So everybody lost now, in the end, the kid. The kid wins because they're going to the World Series.

[Eddie]

I get it. But he lost the ball.

[David Pollack]

And they get an rv, too.

[Bobby Bones]

They got. They get the whole thing.

[Kevin]

I didn't see that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, like, the guy that's like an RV owner, sent him to the World Series, gave an rv. Marcus being the greatest thing. And people online are like, see, that's what happens whenever you give the ball up to the lady. I'm like, no, no, no. This is a freak incident where it became viral. So therefore, people are like, oh, the odds of something going viral like that, not one in a million. But I thought everybody sucked in that situation. I thought the lady sucked the hardest and the worst, for sure. I thought the dad, dude, just say, no, it's my ball. Go back to your seat.

[Kevin]

Like, no, I'm with my kid.

[Bobby Bones]

He took the ball out of his kid's glove and gave it to her.

[Eddie]

That's crazy.

[Kevin]

It's embarrassing.

[Bobby Bones]

As a dad, it sucks.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Even if it was a woman, it doesn't matter. Dad, kid, woman, man. If they can't beat you up, they can't bully you. Yeah. Just go, no. Yeah. But in the end, it happened. So that was another note I made. And we have to stop doxing people. Even though she was a douchebag. Don't. They misidentified her three times, said she was the wrong person. People went to the wrong people's account, started trashing their accounts.

[Kevin]

Oh, my goodness.

[Bobby Bones]

Even if they were right the first time, don't be doxing people for something like that. Yeah, that's not. That's not ruin someone's life mistake. That's. You're a bad person. You're on the Internet, and people that know you know, but you don't have to put their name where they work. That sucks.

[Eddie]

It's almost criminal to, like, do more research to find out more about.

[Bobby Bones]

And that's what they were doing live, they're like, Internet, do your thing. And then they say that, yeah, they'd get a name and they'd post it. It's so and so. And she has a hyphen. And like, oh, classic. They have a hyphen. Of course. I bet she's woke. And then it turns out wasn't the right person.

[Eddie]

Terrible.

[Kevin]

Oh, my gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

So that was another one on my list. Here, here's another one. So this is the lady when they were talking about the Powerball and we do have a winner, so it doesn't matter, but they were in Alabama. They went to Susie Connerly and they said, susie, what would you do if you won the Mega Millions? Have you guys seen this clip?

[Eddie]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

No. I tell you exactly what I'd do with the first 70 million. I'd pay off Kaylan DeBoer and get him the heck out of the University of Alabama. And then I'd take whatever else it took to get rid of the ad. I'd give my church money. I don't know how much of what I'd have, you know, after I paid my taxes, but I'm sure I'd have plenty with this, this kind of deal. But I know I'm not gonna win. I just hope I win some scratch offs. I just do it for the fun. The news goes up to her and the first thing she says is, kaylin, Kaylin Deber, you're out of here, Alabama coach. I'm buying you out.

[Eddie]

That's hilarious.

[Bobby Bones]

Respect. That's Alabama fan.

[Kevin]

That's fantastic.

[Bobby Bones]

So I have that. My other note, I have. I was watching the Oklahoma Michigan game with my wife and she roots for Oklahoma hard, but she still has, like, sympathy for other players on the other team.

[Eddie]

What do you mean?

[Bobby Bones]

Like, when the Michigan kicker misses it, she's like, oh, I hate that for him. And I'm like, yeah, but you know, she's like, it doesn't matter. Like, I feel bad for him. He's already different than everybody else on the team. Yes. And now he's different and he let him down.

[Eddie]

I mean, I like the human angle too. Her football watching.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, very.

[Eddie]

But I've never heard of that.

[Bobby Bones]

And then I said at one point there was like a hard hit or something, and I was like, I was like, yeah, I'd get up. I get up from that. When she was like, do you understand what would happen to you if you get hit like that? And then you went on a whole five minute monologue about how my body would explode. From one single hit like that. And she's like, you get hurt when you go to sleep. Imagine if that happened to you. So I really opened myself up to, like.

[Kevin]

Next time to say internally. Yeah, yeah, keep it to yourself.

[Eddie]

Always, always.

[Bobby Bones]

So I think those are all of my normal notes.

[Eddie]

Did you see the Buffalo fan that was hitting Hopkins?

[Bobby Bones]

Confused about that, because I did see it. Now I missed all of it live. And I think if you're watching it live, you probably still didn't catch it because it was even in the background of the shot. Yeah. So I did see a zoom in on that fan who hits Hopkins in the head, but he didn't hit him that hard.

[Eddie]

He's pushing his helmet, like, get out of here.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Like, kind of fun.

[Kevin]

Hopkins wasn't any. It was the.

[Eddie]

Lamar's the one.

[Bobby Bones]

But he hits. He hits Hopkins helmet first.

[Kevin]

Yes, yes.

[Bobby Bones]

And then Lamar. You have to suspend Lamar for that. You have to.

[Eddie]

He jumps back in the crowd.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes, you have to suspend Lamar for that. It's hilarious. But you can't. You can't touch fans. You gotta. And Lamar said it, too. He was like, you gotta have security do that. If he was a. It's so funny. But because you see Lamar in the background, just shove the fan back. If the fan was a threat to a player, like a literal threat, it's okay. It's like if a streaker runs down, you think they may have a knife or something, you can tackle that freaking streaker, take him down. He wasn't a threat. So you can't hit the fans.

[Eddie]

Why does the fan have the right? And I know that he doesn't have the right.

[Bobby Bones]

They kicked him out immediately.

[Eddie]

They kick him out and stuff.

[Kevin]

He's a kid too, right?

[Eddie]

Yeah, he's young. Yeah, he's young.

[Bobby Bones]

15.

[Kevin]

Teenager, right?

[Eddie]

I would say older teenager. Okay, maybe so, you know, like, fans love to, like, yell at players, but we expect the players to do nothing back. Right. Like, not even talk back. Even if a player turns around and yells at them, like, no peep you. Like, they get in trouble for that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

But it almost seems like it's not fair, you know?

[Bobby Bones]

It's not fair. They make $30 million to go out and play a game, and they're supposed to have a little more tact.

[Eddie]

Okay, Take that out of it.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, you can't take it out of it. It'd be like if we got online to every commenter and sent them videos back, being like, f you. F you occasionally. I'll mix it up a little Bit. But even then, it's not a good look. Like, you're supposed to be bigger than that.

[Eddie]

Right. I understand.

[David Pollack]

It's hard.

[Bobby Bones]

You've grown. Yes. Yeah, of course it's hard.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I agree. It's hard when somebody pushes their hel. You just want to be like, that's.

[Bobby Bones]

Wrong because he's been getting jacked all night. And the kid touching his helmet.

[Eddie]

That's true. He's been getting hit.

[Bobby Bones]

The kid should not touch his helmet like that. Yeah, but Lamar, you can't go shoving fans. You can't. And it's hilarious.

[Kevin]

It's so funny.

[Bobby Bones]

It's so funny. I'm not even mad about it. Like, I think it's funny. You can't do that. But I understand. But fans pay their ticket to go and be a fan.

[Eddie]

And fan is fanatic, but doesn't mean yell whatever you want to them or touch them or push them.

[Bobby Bones]

Yell close to whatever you want.

[Eddie]

When they respond, it's usually something bad.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah. But it's not a good look. You're supposed to be above that because you've been able to grow through that as a player.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You played in high school, you played in college. You're now at the NFL. I gotta imagine it's like being a parent. Right. If you get handed a 12 year old, you're like, I don't know what I'm doing. But if you grow with it from baby on up, you have the skills, the growth through all those years. Same with the players. There's an expectation on them because of the place they're in and the money they're making.

[Eddie]

And there's a little bit of taunting. Right. Like them running along the side at Buffalo. A little like you're kind of teasing a little bit. They for sure were for sure pretty funny.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, hilarious. You can't. You can't do that. You can't push a fan unless they're a threat to the other player. Again, hilarious. I hope he doesn't get suspended. I wish. Once a season, if you're a player, one time a year, if a fan's really pissing you off, you can challenge them.

[Eddie]

There we go. You got a card. You can use it one time.

[Bobby Bones]

Go and use it one time and see if there is. See if they want to come take the challenge and if they don't, that's great. But then we get to see in front of everybody how big of a wuss they really are.

[Eddie]

That'd be awesome.

[David Pollack]

One fan punch card.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I didn't have you to punch. You know what we're going to do? Oklahoma drill. Me and you.

[Eddie]

That'd be awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

You think you're such a big boy. Me and you, we'll put pads on you halftime of the game one time. That'd be funny. But, Lamar, you can't be tired. You just can't. You can let your team down. It's why. It's just really what it is. You're letting your team down if you're not able to play the next game. So, yeah, hilarious. I didn't see it live, though, so I just saw a clip 500 times.

[Eddie]

No, I mean, I think that happened during commercial break. They had to go back and show it.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, is that what it was?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it. Anything else you want to mention? Oh, I feel like we kind of got all the big stuff out there.

[Eddie]

Dude, it's just great. Oh, I do want to say something. Go ahead. I'm proud of Nashville. It was so cool. Like, I was driving back from our basketball games, and Tennessee was playing, and I stopped to get gas, and there's a FedEx truck driving into the gas station. And you can hear the game loud in his radio as he's delivering packages. You just hear like, yeah, Ken Ward's got the ball. And I'm like, this is cool. He's listening. Then I go inside to get whatever I was getting, and the guy at the cashier is just like, come on, baby. God, you got to make that catch. And it was cool to see the whole city just, like, around Streams and the radio, listening to their home team play football. I just hadn't seen that before. That was really, really cool. It felt like almost like old school.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, week one romance, too, though, because they haven't lost a bunch of games yet.

[Eddie]

True.

[Bobby Bones]

I can imagine if they go.05 that week six romance. Not gonna be pure, right?

[Eddie]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Also, they. They looked kind of bad, but there was. There's some promise that, like, cambord at times. Look like, oh, this is it. Like, he can do this.

[Kevin]

Their defense look good.

[Bobby Bones]

How many drop balls, though, is really gonna have kept dropping those balls? Yeah. Yeah.

[Kevin]

I was like, dude, he needs you. Yeah, Kenmore needs him.

[Bobby Bones]

He needed anything and really dropped some bad balls.

[Kevin]

Decent game, but I think he had a fumble, too.

[Bobby Bones]

That hurt. Well, I kept. Every time he'd drop a ball, I'd be like.

[Eddie]

Drop it like it's hot. What? No. I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

What would I call him?

[Eddie]

Pollard.

[Bobby Bones]

No. Every time Ridley would drop a ball, what would I call him?

[Eddie]

Oh, cd. Yeah, it was very cds. Yes, it's very cds.

[Bobby Bones]

Like cd. I'm sorry.

[Eddie]

Oh, no, it's very upsetting.

[Bobby Bones]

We talk about that coming up though, the cowboys. We do. We do. We actually recorded that after the game so we'd have it for this show.

[Eddie]

You know, one of my neighbors left a sign on my front door that said, go eagles.

[Kevin]

Whoa. Dang.

[Eddie]

And I'm not public about it like that. I think my kids, they all wear cowboy stuff. So they see the kids playing football in the front, like, you know, wearing cowboys gear. But like, I'm not public around my neighborhood. How much I love the. I don't have a flag waving or anything.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you know which neighbor it was? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The only proper way to get back at them would be spray paint their garage.

[Kevin]

Oh, I love it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, sure. With a big star or like fake abductor kid. And throw them in the back of the car, tape them up in a cowboy with a cowboy hat and jersey.

[David Pollack]

That equals what he did.

[Kevin]

Have your kids do it.

[Eddie]

We got a feud going now.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Bobby Bones]

Now let's go over to Georgia Bulldog legend, former NFL player, current college football analyst David Pollack. David was two time SEC Defensive Player of the Year, first team All American, Georgia's all time leader in sacks. The list goes on and on. His career was cut short because of a severe neck injury, but was a first round draft pick of the Bengals in 2005. You can listen to his podcast C Ball Get Ball and follow him on social media at. David Pollock, 47. Here he is, David Pollack. David, good to see you, man.

[David Pollack]

Great to see you, brother. Thanks for having me on a couple of things.

[Bobby Bones]

What's a Saturday like at your house? Like this last Saturday, what's it like?

[David Pollack]

Probably the laziest human in the world. I always wake up and make sure that I get my workout in, you know, get some steps in because the rest of the day is going to consist of watching football, multiple screens and multiple games going. I got my laptop in front of me taking notes of everything that I see in the observations. And it's literally, it's a quick grind from, from 12 o' clock to, to nighttime. It's like what just happened. It was, it was fast and furious, but it's so much dagum fun too. It's not like it's really working. And think about this, man. Like my wife says, like, what you want to do, something you want to do. I like, sorry, babe, I got to work. Like, I got to sit here right on the couch and work. So it's a lot of consuming for sure.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you still catch the west coast games too, or is it bedtime?

[David Pollack]

Oh God, no. We're catching them all, brother. Like we're not going to bed till, you know, till 1 or 2. I mean, it's, you know, I was up watching BYU late, you know, this past, after this past Saturday, after everything was commencing, actually, I'm sorry, Sunday morning. So no, you definitely stay up and watch as much as you can to, to make sure you're educated. There's some good football out west, man. Like, it's fun to, it's fun to watch that and consume that as well.

[Bobby Bones]

Can you watch NFL though, recreationally? Because you're watching college, obviously, because you're an expert. Can you watch NFL with a little less attention?

[David Pollack]

Man, I just try to, I try not to on Sundays. I try to just get away from it. And we've got church and we've got, you know, small group and we've got other things, so it'll be on like during the day, at the end of the day. But no, we definitely try to do more as a family and, and get up and move a little bit more and do like, I love to play golf in the afternoon if I can. If I can sneak that in. But no, I can't watch any game. Like, like a normal. Like just sit back and relax and watch. Like, I'm definitely always looking at the game from an analytical view. Probably one of the only things that won't turn my brain off. But NFL football is fun and different and I've played fantasy for years, and that's kind of changes the way you look at the game. But this year I told, I committed. I said I'm not watching for fantasy. I'm not doing it. I'm not getting upset. Like, I'm not just cheering my guy on. So I try to decompress a little.

[Bobby Bones]

Bit on Sundays after you finish playing after your injury. And I have different friends that played different positions and their bodies did different things after they retired. Some of them put on a bunch of weight, some of them lost a bunch of weight. You played a position, though, where I'm not sure if you had to keep your weight up or down because you played a very athletic position, but it was on the line. What happened to you physically after you stopped playing?

[David Pollack]

Yeah, I was a chunky. I was a chunky monkey. I always was growing up. And it's funny, your identity gets, you know, it's okay when you're a football player to be thicker and be bigger. And so defensive lineman, I was 292 at my heaviest. And you do, you're absolutely right. You go one or two ways. You either keep the habits you had and, and if you do, you're going to keep growing or you start to change the eating habits. And so I've definitely lost like 50, 60 pounds from my, from my top playing weight. And it's a different look. I eat to survive. I'm not one of those person that has a lot of these, like, temptations and food. Like, I don't care where we go eat. I just, I want to eat the same thing. I want to know what I'm eating. And definitely me and my buddies, when you go back to reunions, it's, it's. You're 100% right. It's one or the other. It's get really skinny and trim, or it's put on a little bit of weight and you look like you played a totally different position.

[Bobby Bones]

You said you work out every day before or you try to work out every day. Same with me. But I assume our workouts are a bit different. Just looking at us, I would think visually. So are you still a guy who does heavy weight or how have you changed your workouts?

[David Pollack]

Yeah, I'm done with heavy weight, man. Like heavy weight does nothing for me. I'm not trying to have any more surgeries or put my body through anything. I don't need to. I squatted almost £700 in college. But like I'm not going over, you know, 275 on a squat now and I'll just do 25 reps. Bench. I'm not going to do over 225. I'll do 25 to 30 reps if I need to do 25 to 30 reps or I'll slow it down big time. Like the other day we did sets of 10 and I did, you know, a 5 countdown with 225 hesitate and then come up. Well, you do 10 reps like that, it'll hurt. Like you can make the weight hurt. So to me it's more about moving fast. We're big on the row machine. We're big on the bike, especially the assault bike because that thing will whip your hiney like. But it's definitely a different way of training. I'm not trying to, to get big and to have all this mass, you know, as we get older, trying to fight father time and continue to be able to do some explosive things but not be like a, a big corn fed mule. I've had those days. Those days are gone.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's get into the games. This last Saturday, I want to start with the Troy Clemson game like forever. I was like, wait, what is even happening here? Clemson, you know, obviously lost week one. What's happening over there, man?

[David Pollack]

Here's the thing. I'm going to give Clemson a little bit of the benefit of the doubt and say maybe like, you know, because Antonio Williams is their best receiver and it's not close. He's their go to guy. So I'm giving them a little benefit of the doubt and say like, okay, you know, he gets hurt first possession of the first, you know, first series and they're still trying to figure out who they are. Like that's their go to guy. It's built through them but, but it's not a surprise. They get down, you know, 13 at the half and what do they do? They come out in the second half and they pound the rock. They had 17 yards rushing. They beat that in one play to start the second half and they got going downhill and they got more physical and then they get three interceptions and the energy picks up. Wesco Bryant. Wesco becomes the guy. Cade Clubnik plays better. Like, I think they're going to continue to figure out who they are, but it's definitely frustrating to watch as a Clemson fan. Like, you want that physical identity on offense or some kind of identity that you can hang your hat on. And through a couple of weeks, man, it's been, it's been very average. And that's not what you're looking forward to.

[Bobby Bones]

I watched a lot of the Texas game just to see what Arch would do. It did look like he was grimacing when he would throw. You think there's anything to that?

[David Pollack]

100%. You don't do that on purpose and you're never trying to give anybody any ammunition. But, you know, Arch didn't play up to his potential in week one and took a giant step backwards. And, you know, I don't know if something's wrong with him, but I didn't see that in week one. I didn't see the grimaces. I saw some big time throws late in that football game, but he definitely looked with the grimace like something was a little bit wrong. And I got news for you. Anybody who's played football, you know, man, like you're healthy as week one and then throughout the season, it's just, it's how do you mitigate, mitigate your body and mitigate disaster and try to continue to be as good as you can, but you're never going to be 100% again. Like it's just not going to happen. But I hope he gets healthy. He's still got a lot of maturing to do, man. He needs reps. Like he's got talent. Yes, and he can make some big time throws, but seeing it pulling the trigger, he's got to continue to grow and get more efficient with that if Texas wants to go win a national championship.

[Bobby Bones]

I know we're bouncing around here, but I feel like Florida fans are just being jerked in all different directions. Like last year they started terribly, they really ended strong. They give Napier a new contract and then he goes out and loses it to South Florida. Like what is happening in Gainesville, man?

[David Pollack]

And I know those fans got to be because. Because you were right in this spot a year ago and you're right, the negativity came and it was swirling and it was like time to get rid of Napier and then they get hot and you saw DJ Lagway and you're like, that's a dude, man. Six, three, two, fifty. That's a quarterback to build around. And then the offense just kind of looks and you score some 16 points against South Florida. Like, it's, it's got to be frustrating. This team's got to do better the way they lost too, man. Like last, first, first two things. One, you get super conservative late in the game with a lead and you run, run. It's almost like you were up by 10 points and you give the football back and they miss a field goal. And then you get aggressive and you missed a few shots, which is, which is okay to be aggressive, but you got to make plays and you got to finish games out. Then what happens? Like, how about the spit game? Like, you, you come in, you just saw Jalen Carter do the spit thing and it didn't work out well for him, right? Like gets kicked out of the game and then Brennan bet does the same thing, gets a 15 yard penalty to move them closer to field goal range. So, I mean, you had 11 penalties, you had two touchdowns called back. Like, you, if you're a Florida fan, you're frustrated. You're tired of like shooting yourselves in the foot, not playing up to potential. And they did it again this week, man.

[Bobby Bones]

What's up with the spit? Like, we saw it twice in high profile situations. Did. Was that when you were playing where people spitting on each other with big loogies?

[David Pollack]

Bro, if you hawk a loogie on me, you're going to get, you won't get something back, I can promise you that. Like, that's not, I mean, you saw Romanowski do it back in the day. And I don't know, I don't know what it is, but, but if you've seen it now and you've seen the reaction, you're going to get tossed. You're going to cost your team. Like, we're going to have to dial back the spit. For goodness sakes. Like, go, go throw some hands or something. Or push and shove. Like whatever that is needs to go away because there's, I mean, there's not a lot worse you can do than spit on someone. Like literally spitting on somebody, that's not like, it's not going to be tolerated. We got to, we got to get rid of that. That's disgusting.

[Bobby Bones]

I watched Any Given Saturday, the Netflix series, and I really like Jeff Levy coming out of that. And my family, they're all massive OU fans. I'm Arkansas guy, but you know he went to school at ou, coached at ou, obviously before he made his way back around to be the Mississippi State head coach. But it was my first real experience with like, seeing the personality of Jeff Levy. Obviously. They had a massive game on Saturday night. Do you know much about him? Do you like him?

[David Pollack]

Yeah, Jeff's cool. Jeff's a cool cat. He's a. I think he's a really good fit for Mississippi State because it's. He's country. He wants to run his offense a certain way. And Mississippi State, man, just coming out the gates and how about the cowbells too? Like, you turn on that broadcast and you're little. Your ears are ringing. Like my ears were still ringing at 2:00am it was just. It's so loud and so obnoxious in a good way. Like, it's a great thing. And I think Levy to get that win because last year it was. It was a mess, right? And. And you saw the. You still saw the care on that. Any given Saturday, you still saw the way they cared against Ole Miss, right? Late in the season, they still wanted to win. They were still fighting for their coach. And I think it's. It's easy to cheer for a guy like that. His offense is. Is fun, is exciting. Shape and played pretty well. They made some big plays down the stretch. And I think, you know, Stark Vegas was rocking. And that's. That's one of man that you need a buy in. You need a moment. Like at Georgia, my first year with Coach Rick, the Georgia Tennessee game, the hobnail boot game, like, we went, okay, we can do this. Like, we just. We needed to prove it to ourselves. And I think Mississippi State proving it to themselves now. Still got a tough schedule and a lot of road to hoe. But like, that will do a lot for the locker room, for the belief, for the trust in coach and him building a future there.

[Bobby Bones]

Those fans just picked up the goalpost on the way. It was like they rushed the field, grabbed them, and they just took off running with it. It was like shout out to Starke, Starkville and all those fans. Because I've never seen goal posts come up so quick.

[David Pollack]

They're. They're trying to get rid of that in the sport. Like, right. Like not. Not let them do it. But it is. That's. That's the great thing about college, man storm the field. The emotion, the passion. Like they're doing the post game and everybody's in there so tight and there's nowhere to. There's nowhere to not be seen. You can't even see grass. It doesn't even look like a field. But, yeah, I just want to know where they went with it because Stark Vegas is small, baby. Like, you did. I know you didn't take it to the water. Like, where do we. Where do we go and go plant our goalposts?

[Bobby Bones]

Was there ever a game where they rushed either where you lost and it's just awkward and you're like, oh, man, these fans are everywhere. Or the opposite where it happened, and you're like, man, this is crazy. Like, we won, and the fans are all down on top of us.

[David Pollack]

Well, that's the thing. When you're a player that loses, you're pissed off, and you got all these people that they're not meaning to, but they're running into you. Like, they're running on the field, and they're. They're kind of bumping with you, and you literally want to lower your shoulder and eliminate a human being out of your way because you're. You're upset, right? Like, you're. You want to take it out, but, you know, you can't do that. But it is. It's hard to keep your composure when that's. When that's happening. But when you're a student and that's happened for you, like, the passion and energy because. Because you get so much. Like the dog walk at Georgia when I was there, man, like, to go through and watch these people's eyes and to watch how much, like, passion they have. Like, man, if it doesn't get you excited to play, I don't know what does. If they're that excited, you dang sure better be. And. And the thing I always loved about Georgia, like, you can bark at another human being. Like, a grown adult can bark at you. That's. And that's socially acceptable. Like, I'm all in for that kind of culture, but I can see how it could lead to some. Some bad. I'm surprised we haven't had more of the other, like, people getting upset, people getting ran over, you know, because you're. You're literally running on the field with a bunch of folks that are, you know, not. Not in the greatest of spirits that are sometimes angry and upset because they just lost.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, I think a Legera Blonde. That was not a positive one. When they ran down any punch. The. I mean, that. That was a bad one. But, yeah, I think I would. That's how I would react. The fans ran down, and I lost. I do not think. I think I would be so triggered from losing that it would not be a positive environment for me.

[David Pollack]

Yeah, I mean, you're, you're, the emotions are not fun. Like, you're trying your best to be a good sport and like, shake hands and do that part and then. But now you got people running and bumping into you left and right. Like, yeah, that's not going to bring out the best most of the time in a human being.

[Bobby Bones]

One other game I wanted to get your opinion on. Do you think Dan Lanning just kind of kept the gas down against Oklahoma State after their comments this past week?

[David Pollack]

100%, that is exactly who Dan Lanning is. Like, I love his, his postgame comments. He was like, listen, we don't need extra ammunition to kick your. That's what he said. But if you want to throw gas in the fire, we're game. And he had him pissed. And they scored. I watched the game again last night. I was watching it before I went to bed and like, literally, I mean, they scored 21 before you could. They scored 14 in less than three minutes. I mean, they were just out the gate strong. And then they ran, you know, reverse flea flicker when they're up by 28 or 30 or in that spot. Like, you know, listen, you're looking for anything. You're looking for any edge, any sign of disrespect. And so, you know, Van Gundy talking about, or Gundy talking about the, you know, the nil and how they have so many, so much money. I think what Dan said in his head was like, okay, you know what? I'm going to beat you by a million dollars a point. How about that? Like, I got, I got this many million to spend on my team. Like, okay, we beat you by 58, so we spent, we spent 30. So we still beat you by more than enough, brother.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that, that was crazy. In high school for you. When did you become dominant? 9th, 10th grade? When was it for you, physically and mentally that the game was very easy.

[David Pollack]

So my freshman year was okay. I was an offensive lineman, a little bit chubby, still hadn't grown into my body, actually. They asked me the first day, like, what position you play? I was like, you know, full fullback and linebacker. They're like, not with the 6 flat 40 you play offensive line. And then my second year, I got a little bit better, but I was stuck between JV and varsity and I actually quit. I was like, bro, this sucks. Like, football's hard enough and not playing isn't cool. And then between my sophomore and junior year, I grew 6 inches and gained 60 pounds. And I don't know if you know this, but, like, football is a lot more fun when you're the hammer and not the nail. Like, it just makes a lot more sense. But, like, obviously my junior year started to have success, started to get recruited a little bit. But I'll never forget, man, before my senior year, my coach, I had a brand new coach. He calls me into his office and he was like, hey, man. And I had offers from Georgia, Clemson, like, Ohio State, and company. Going into my senior year, he was like, if we're going to be a great team, I need you to be the best player on the field every single play. And I'm like, I'm your best player. Like, you know, a cocky punk at that age. And. And he put on like six clips in a row of me kind of jogging to the football. And I was like, oh, my gosh. Like, he's not wrong. Like, that's really. That's lazy. And I started practicing like an animal. I started flying around. And he helped me see something in myself that I didn't see. And it took away that blind spot and showed me I needed to really, really work. And then I became a really, really good football player, you know, my senior year of high school.

[Bobby Bones]

Why Georgia? What was it?

[David Pollack]

This is the simplest answer you've asked yet. My baby doll, Lindsey Pollock, that was. That was. That was their best. That was the feather in the cap of Georgia. My dad grew up. My dad grew up up north. He was a Giants fan. We didn't pay attention to much college football. Moved down south when I was 4, so we watched NFL, not college, but. But when I started getting recruited, I started seeing all the atmospheres. I was like, this is dope, but. My baby doll, Lindsey Pollock, my only girlfriend, the only girlfriend I've ever had, now my wife, like, I drove to Gainesville, Florida, with Stevie Spurrier, and I was like, oh, my gosh, that's forever away, you know, from her. And so being 55 minutes down the road right there in Athens was like, yeah, that'll work.

[Bobby Bones]

You have your C ball, get ball signed behind you, so. And you do a couple of podcasts, but. And we're always finding and recommending a good podcast to our listeners. So what are we going to hear on that podcast?

[David Pollack]

Man, I love college football with everything in me, and right now with our season of life, and my wife, like, a lot of people know, she got diagnosed with brain cancer. And so your priorities and your travel and your schedule is a lot different. So television, absolutely not going to be a thing. But football is so fantastic and so great, and that's literally what you're going to do. I have my buddy, that's my neighbor on the podcast with me who works for Pro Football Focus and has all the numbers. But we come to you, you know, four days a week and just talk football. Unbiased, strong opinions that are not like everybody else's. We're going to watch a lot of tape and just, I mean, it's football, it's college football. It's the best there is. And so just having that and being able to follow it and talk about it is, is something that I enjoy. And I just can't imagine, you know, life without it. And that's what you'll get several days a Week on YouTube and on all the platforms for podcasts.

[Bobby Bones]

You guys check it out. See ball, get ball with David Pollard. Hey, big fan. Hated you at Georgia when you played us, but loved you all the other times. And then I was a bank. I love watching with the Bengals, too. So, yeah, big fan of you, especially on television. So thank you for the time, man. Really appreciate it. I hope the podcast is killing it.

[David Pollack]

No, thank you so much, man. Appreciate you having me on.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Bobby Bones]

So before all the games happen on Friday night, Saturday and Sunday, I want to make sure we capture the moment for the Thursday night game. So we recorded this after the Thursday night game. And so, Eddie, dude, how about them Cowboys?

[Eddie]

How about them Cowboys? Like, we had a game.

[Bobby Bones]

Why does city Atlanta. Why can't he catch?

[Eddie]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you remember this?

[Eddie]

Of course I remember it. I. I remember him doing this last year, too. At the beginning of the season, we're like, what's he doing? Like, he's dropping these easy passes that. That hurt. Like, I didn't go into this game thinking that we were going to win it. So it helped that it was just a four point game. But at the end of that game, I really thought that we could win that game.

[Bobby Bones]

You could have won the game had CD Lamb made that first catch.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I agree.

[Bobby Bones]

The second was a little harder, but you're an NFL player. You can't make that cat.

[Eddie]

What I said Collins Worth, Like, I wouldn't.

[Bobby Bones]

He's just a nice guy. He's just a nice guy, bro.

[Eddie]

He's got to catch that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, you got to make that catch. You really got to make that. I mean, actually was the same. Dropped three balls, basically. That second one, though, was a game changer. It had flipped the field, they'd have been inside the 30 yard line.

[Eddie]

Is that the one that hit his helmet? I mean, there was one that he.

[Bobby Bones]

Was running like a post.

[Eddie]

Okay, that's not it. There was another one where it went right through his hands, hit his helmet, almost picked.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that was another one. That was that first one.

[Eddie]

Right.

[Kevin]

The last one was tough though, right? The diving one. It's like, yeah, okay, but the other.

[Eddie]

Two for sure, again, you're.

[Kevin]

But the other two, like, for sure.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

But even the third one like that, it's also the play you have to make. You have to make that play. It's for. It's fourth down. Yeah, it was like fourth and two or three and he throws that. So let's go back to the beginning.

[Eddie]

Of the game, which was awesome. I mean, that's the way to start a game. Have Jalen Carter spit on your quarterback and get ejected.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude, when that happened, it was crazy.

[Eddie]

When that happened and they say he's out of the game. I'm like, oh, my gosh, that is the best birthday gift we've ever gotten.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it was crazy because. And Kevin wasn't even watching. We were on a Tech story. Kevin was like, wait, what happened? And I said, I said, first of the. Jalen hurts. I met Jalen Carter. I said, jalen hurts. Just Spit on Dak and he's out of the game. Which is awesome. A lot crazier. A lot crazy. The two quarterbacks are fighting.

[Kevin]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

But then I was like, sorry, Jalen Carter. And even then you were like, wait, what? That's crazy. How do you feel about the tape now of Dak spitting first?

[Eddie]

Dude, Dak is spitting on the ground, which is like. Okay. It's a little motion towards, like, yeah, screw. You know, but it's not spitting your face. Like, Jalen Carter walks right up and goes, boom. Right on your jersey.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. You're a Cowboys fan, so you do have bias now. Unbiasedly, I agree with you.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not the same.

[Kevin]

No, not at all.

[Bobby Bones]

If Jalen Carter wanted to, then you spit back on the ground near his feet. If you really. You don't walk.

[Eddie]

Pretty weak, though. Both of them are like, yeah, I hear you.

[Bobby Bones]

My. You don't walk up. You're the only green jersey walking up to the entire pile.

[Eddie]

And. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And it was a loogie.

[Eddie]

A big one.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. And whistle, flag out. I didn't know that was automatic ejection.

[Kevin]

Me neither.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Crazy. And they were calling other, like, taunting a lot of times in the NFL, too early in the season. They really set the precedent for what they're going to focus on all year to give everybody an idea. And they go a little overboard pretty much every year at something to go, we're not taking this bull crap. So it's sometimes past interference. Sometimes it's. You know, what do they call officially? Was it. No, no, no, no. This flat disorder.

[Kevin]

Not disorder.

[Eddie]

Oh, gosh. What's it called?

[Kevin]

Not a personal foul.

[Bobby Bones]

It was a personal foul, but it was. Whatever it was. They want to make sure that people aren't acting a fool. Yeah.

[Kevin]

Yeah. So, I mean, as of this moment, we don't know if he's gonna be, like, suspended for a game or anything.

[Eddie]

But you just.

[Kevin]

They could just be. Just to. Yeah, but they. I wouldn't be surprised if they completely be like, oh, he's at one more game. Just to be like, you know what, guys? We're not.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I think it's too much.

[Eddie]

That's too much. It's a loogie, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

He lost this whole game. This was the.

[Kevin]

This was true. It was a whole game. He didn't play once.

[Eddie]

Yeah, Just. Just losing this game before it even starts or not being able to play is bad. Pretty bad.

[Bobby Bones]

And it was just points, points, points. It was like seven on seven. They couldn't stop either side it was.

[Eddie]

Like a rocky fight, you know, boom, boom, back and forth. The one drive where we couldn't score the touchdown, we settled for three. That's kind of like what put us just.

[Bobby Bones]

First half. Yeah, yeah.

[Kevin]

And the fumble. Miles Sanders.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, at the end. Oh, right before.

[Eddie]

Right before the delay, though.

[Kevin]

That was brutal.

[Bobby Bones]

That was brutal because again, you were close. You were like in the inside the 30, maybe the 20.

[Kevin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys are right there. Big play. He just had that big play and then that happens, like.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So after game one, what do you think?

[Eddie]

Very pleased.

[David Pollack]

Really?

[Eddie]

Very pleased.

[Bobby Bones]

Dak played awesome, by the way.

[Eddie]

Dak Prescott.

[Kevin]

That was the best game. It's living in the moment now, but that was like the best game of. And it's stats were whatever, but he just looked awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

He looked great.

[Eddie]

I'm a little concerned about our defense. Obviously, we're playing the Eagles amazing run game. Like, you got a quarterback that's pretty much a running back. Like, it's hard to stop that. But there were some where, like it was trying to catch a weasel. Like, they just couldn't make tackles. Little concerned about the.

[Bobby Bones]

Especially the first half because they were not trying to get to Jalen Hurts.

[Eddie]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

And they would try lightly and they wouldn't. Jalen Hurts is really, really, really good.

[Kevin]

Really good.

[Bobby Bones]

The fact that people are like, he's just a game manager is insane.

[Eddie]

Not crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

Saquon's awesome.

[Eddie]

Yeah. And I think our secondary did great. There weren't any looks. They never. Jalen Hurts never really threw the ball. I mean, maybe threw the ball a handful of times, but that says really good things about secondary.

[Bobby Bones]

You're right, because a lot of his running was whenever the coverage was really good and he had both of the touchdowns where everybody was covered up and he had to run and there was another long run.

[Kevin]

Yeah, I feel like they could have used like a spy, like somebody like.

[Bobby Bones]

A Micah, especially that forced down. Well, just in general. Even Collinsworth was like, they're going to spy him here. It was like the Eagles was like fourth down to end the game, and Jalen Hurts end up running for like 6 yards and getting the first down. They were like, they should spy him. And then they didn't. And it's just wide. It was just wide open and game over. Mike, you're a Cowboys fan. Your thoughts. First time I've really seen us look like a team. Like Dak, even on the sideline, like pumping everybody up, it just felt like he was really commanding. His mustache looked pretty cool.

[Eddie]

It Did. Man, his whole looks good. He's bigger. He's bigger, too. They had a shot of him in the locker room before without a shirt. I'm like, dang, dude, I didn't see that.

[Kevin]

Where'd you find that at?

[Eddie]

No, no, they shut it on tv. I didn't Google it.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you have AI make it so you could, like, look at it?

[Eddie]

And his arms. His arms look big.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude, he looked good. I said, you spit on it.

[Eddie]

Stop, Stop.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, the Cowboys look pretty good. Yeah, Dak looked really good. They didn't really throw at George Pickens much.

[Eddie]

They didn't.

[Bobby Bones]

They threw at Cdlam a lot, and he had a great game, but, man, drops it completely changed the game. They. They probably win that game. If he makes that second catch. They dropped.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

The third. If he makes that third catch.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

The game continues, but ballsy to also go, you know, on a streak. Fourth and three.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Because it was there. And it was a good throw.

[Kevin]

It was a good.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And I love our running game, too. I didn't know what to think of Williams, but, man, we got a running back, hopefully.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, he is coming off an injury.

[Kevin]

How about our boy Cooper? BB BB man, they're giving him a lot of love last night. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So your official Dallas Cowboys thought. This is Friday morning. We're recording. This is.

[Eddie]

I love what I saw, and I'm so excited now. I feel like we're a contender in the NFC east, which is crazy. Haven't seen the Commanders yet, but I feel like we're a contender.

[Bobby Bones]

Even though their best player was out of the game, you still feel good about that?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

It doesn't make you feel a little more hesitant on saying we're a contender?

[Eddie]

No. No. Dude, I loved what I saw from Dak Prescott. The offense just looked dynamic.

[Kevin]

Oh, Turpin looked good.

[Eddie]

Turpin, the smallest guy in the NFL.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

They were getting him the ball in places. Also. They weren't kicking him the ball.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, when they punted the ball, they weren't giving him a chance.

[Eddie]

That's amazing. Just that Turpin has survived in the NFL. Like, I feel like you feel like.

[Bobby Bones]

You can do it. He gives you hope.

[Eddie]

He gives all his little guys hope. I just feel like three years ago when he joined the team, it was just like, this is cute, you know, like, he's a good little kick returner. Like, good punt returner.

[Bobby Bones]

You think? That's what the coaches said. All right, guys, let's look at this Turpin guy. Mark, what do you think? I mean, he's cute.

[Eddie]

He's cute. Cute, fast little guy. But, dude, he's. They've. They figured out a way to put him mix in the mix of the team.

[Kevin]

Yeah. Running back, and you can actually do it.

[Eddie]

It's cool. I'm excited, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Who do you play next week? Do you know?

[Kevin]

I'm not a Giant.

[Eddie]

Oh, the Giants. Let's go, baby. Let's go.

[Kevin]

That's a winnable game, you'd think.

[Eddie]

Yes, absolutely.

[Bobby Bones]

Man, this guy has changed in the course of two weeks from I'm not watching the games, they've lost me to what he is now, smiling ear to ear.

[Eddie]

Do you have a new baby, Micah?

[Bobby Bones]

Who?

[Eddie]

Who?

[Kevin]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Who's Micah Parsons?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, we don't know how he played or if he played on Sunday. Yeah. So that'd be a pretty cool man.

[Eddie]

What did you guys think, though? Like what? What did you think as far as.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, I. I just said bet the Cowboys plus eight and a half. So all my thought was, I hope a bunch of listeners jumped in, because I'm up to this point right now, I'm hot. So I was like, hope they jumped in, because I'm probably gonna tell them a lot of wrong things.

[Kevin]

250.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Did you guys bet it? Of course.

[Kevin]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

What, you want to believe her?

[Kevin]

I know. The big thing was, like, you guys said, I wasn't there in the beginning. I didn't have my phone on me.

[Bobby Bones]

But we did it during the show.

[Kevin]

Yeah, I know.

[Eddie]

You can burst whenever.

[Kevin]

I know. I know. I go from one thing to the other. My. You know, the mind just goes.

[Eddie]

Excuses.

[Kevin]

Yeah, I know. Honestly. Yeah.

[Eddie]

And you don't forget the fact, like. Oh, did you feel like the Cowboys could cover? No. Follow your boy, dude. He's on a heater.

[Kevin]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Right now, it's hot.

[Kevin]

I agree.

[Bobby Bones]

And it's probably gonna get cold real soon.

[Eddie]

I mean, that's the trend.

[Bobby Bones]

Really? Yeah.

[Kevin]

That's why I don't want to mess up the heater is what it is.

[Bobby Bones]

You won't mess up the heater.

[Kevin]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

I do have college football's best rivalry nicknames. These are rivalry games. Which way do you want to do it? Because I can give you. I'll tell you what the name is. You tell me the two teams in it.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

For example, man, there's a lot of good ones. Okay. This is the easiest one. Probably.

[Eddie]

This is gonna be hard for me.

[Kevin]

Bedlam, Bedlam, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Now we were playing against each other. We weren't Playing together. Oh. But, yes.

[Eddie]

I was gonna guess Oklahoma. Oklahoma State.

[Bobby Bones]

No, you weren't. You aren't.

[Eddie]

What is Bedlam?

[David Pollack]

It's the.

[Bobby Bones]

It's the game, okay, Of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. And it's not even. They don't play it anymore.

[Kevin]

I honestly. I was gonna say I don't think I heard it, but I just figured. Oh, Bedlam, Oklahoma.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, really?

[Kevin]

That's how it hit me. Yeah, that's why I thought about it.

[Bobby Bones]

Nice. Okay, so we'll do five of these, see how you guys do.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Kevin]

And we got to say our names first.

[Bobby Bones]

No, just write it down.

[Kevin]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

I think Kevin. I think you're gonna kill him.

[Eddie]

Oh, I'm sure of it.

[Bobby Bones]

Catholics versus Convicts.

[Eddie]

What the. I mean, necessary roughness. Catholics versus convicts.

[Bobby Bones]

Notre Dame. Got it, Eddie.

[Eddie]

Notre Dame. Penn State. Close.

[Bobby Bones]

It just happened, Kevin.

[Kevin]

Notre Dame. Miami.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it just happened.

[Eddie]

Oh, why is my aunt. Why are they the convicts?

[Bobby Bones]

Because they got in a bunch of trouble. All those guys back in the day, Bad boys. Okay, that's one. How about the Iron Bowl? Mm.

[Kevin]

Yep.

[Eddie]

Mm.

[Kevin]

I'm ready.

[Eddie]

Got it.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie.

[Eddie]

Ohio State, Michigan.

[Bobby Bones]

Kevin.

[Kevin]

Auburn, Alabama. I thought you would know that one.

[Bobby Bones]

Why.

[Eddie]

Why is it the Iron Bowl?

[Bobby Bones]

Do you watch sports?

[Eddie]

Yeah, dude. I just. I guess I'm not catching on. These names that they call these, it's not new.

[Bobby Bones]

The Iron bowl is, like, one of them.

[Eddie]

What? Why? Why the. Why? Alabama, Auburn, Iron.

[Bobby Bones]

Don't know why it's called the Iron Bowl.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Kevin]

I thought for sure you get that one.

[Bobby Bones]

The Egg Bowl.

[Eddie]

Oh, boy.

[Kevin]

I'm ready.

[Eddie]

Hold on. The Egg Bowl. It's the egg battle of the eggs.

[Bobby Bones]

Mike, can you find out why it's called the Iron bowl and the Egg Bowl? That'd be good for me to learn.

[Kevin]

Yeah, I've never looked it up.

[Bobby Bones]

Says it has to do with the industrial center.

[Kevin]

Of iron in Alabama.

[Bobby Bones]

In Birmingham. Got it.

[Eddie]

Industrial. Okay. Egg Bowl. Let's go. Egg Bowl. Yep. Eddie. Ucla, usc.

[Bobby Bones]

And why would you think that? For the Egg Bowl. Like, where did your mind go, man?

[Eddie]

Just LA rivalry, you know, like. But the sunny la. Sunny side up.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, sunny eggs. Yeah. Got it, Kevin.

[Kevin]

Ole Miss in Mississippi State.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct.

[Eddie]

What the.

[Bobby Bones]

Because of the trophy is a golden football. On the top of it looks like a golden egg. Oh, cool.

[Kevin]

That's cool. That's better than the iron industry.

[Eddie]

You know, I'm figuring out the context clues. Doesn't really work in this game.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, it's not so much about context. It's just. Have you watched sports and heard them say it a bunch because again, I don't know. I didn't know why it was called the egg Bowl. I just watched it a bunch of times.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. The world's largest outdoor cocktail party.

[Eddie]

Okay, I know this one.

[Bobby Bones]

You do?

[Eddie]

Yep.

[David Pollack]

Are you sure?

[Kevin]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

Nope.

[Eddie]

No, I'm not sure, but I have a guess.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm rooting for you.

[Kevin]

The world's largest outdoor in cocktail party.

[Eddie]

Man, I might get him on this one.

[Kevin]

Yeah. I don't know this one.

[Bobby Bones]

Kevin.

[Kevin]

I'm going to guess. Lsu? Alabama.

[Bobby Bones]

No. Kind of close. Ish. But no. Eddie.

[Eddie]

Ole Miss, Mississippi State. Gosh, was I close?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, you're really close to the last answer. The egg bowl.

[Kevin]

Dude, that was the egg bowl we just did.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, son of a. Yeah, you're really close because that's the last question we asked.

[Eddie]

I thought Ole Miss, they made those drinks like hottie toddies.

[Bobby Bones]

Even if you thought that the last question was Ole Miss Miss.

[Eddie]

Is it Ole Miss someone else.

[Bobby Bones]

No, it's Georgia, Florida. And they play that game. They meet in the middle. Play them.

[Kevin]

Oh, Mike.

[Bobby Bones]

Massive tailgating.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's every.

[Bobby Bones]

No, but they play it in a different city. Yeah. It's a neutral site. Yeah.

[Kevin]

Okay.

[Eddie]

And then Ole Miss was a egg bowl.

[Kevin]

Uhhuh.

[Eddie]

Okay. I remember.

[Bobby Bones]

Played in Jacksonville. Okay. Yeah, well, see, man, that was. That's embarrassing.

[Eddie]

I'm waiting for the Red river rivalry.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, used to be called the Red River Shootout.

[Eddie]

Yeah, but that.

[Bobby Bones]

That doesn't. We're not gonna do that one. But that is Tex.

[Kevin]

Oklahoma.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, we're not doing that one.

[Eddie]

I heard someone though, one of the commentators on me, like, I don't care. I'm gonna call the shoot anyway. Cuz I called the shoot. I'm like, oh, okay, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, you're so brave.

[Eddie]

Commentator. Yeah, whatever, man.

[Bobby Bones]

The border war. Oh, dang.

[Eddie]

That's gonna be South Texas.

[Bobby Bones]

This one was played this past weekend as a hammer. Hint, this past weekend is. Yeah, it hasn't happened yet for us because we recorded this on Friday after the Cowboys game. So for us it's tomorrow. But for everybody listening, it was this past weekend.

[Eddie]

The border war.

[Kevin]

Huh?

[Eddie]

I'm in.

[Bobby Bones]

Kevin.

[Kevin]

I really don't know. Michigan State and Ohio State or just Ohio University Bobcats. Michigan State. No. Yeah, Ohio Bobcats.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie.

[Eddie]

Yeah. This is a border war. Right. So it's going to go down to South Texas. El Paso.

[Bobby Bones]

You're thinking like Mexico and America.

[Eddie]

Yeah, like the wall. Like border. Dude. Utep.

[Bobby Bones]

There's a border war down there. Yeah, for sure, but not Is Kansas. Missouri.

[Kevin]

Oh, I didn't even know they're playing this weekend.

[Eddie]

Oh, cuz they're really close.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I'll give you a couple more.

[Kevin]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Farmageddon.

[Kevin]

Oh, yep, yep.

[Bobby Bones]

Ed, you're trying to get on the board.

[Eddie]

I know.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm giving them to you till you can get one.

[Eddie]

I got one.

[Bobby Bones]

If you say Mississippi State, Ole Miss. I'm leaving.

[Eddie]

No, I'm in, Eddie. Nebraska. Iowa.

[Bobby Bones]

God. So you're just guessing What?

[Eddie]

I know. What's it called?

[Bobby Bones]

Farmageddon.

[Eddie]

There's nothing but farms out there.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, but you're just guessing. I thought you would know it.

[Eddie]

Oh, I've never heard of that.

[Bobby Bones]

Kevin.

[Kevin]

Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna guess Iowa. Iowa State.

[Bobby Bones]

It happened already. It was Iowa State, Kansas State. It was in this year. It was in Ireland.

[Kevin]

Dublin.

[Eddie]

Where there are no farms.

[Kevin]

Well, hiking.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, they played that one in Dublin. But Farmageddon happens every year. It's never been in Dublin before. Just this year it was in Dublin.

[Eddie]

Did they call it yes. In Dublin?

[Bobby Bones]

They did. Because that's the name of the game. It's the two schools where they are, is why it's called Farmaged. It's not played on a farm. It's not Field of Dreams.

[Kevin]

That'd be cool, though.

[Eddie]

That would be cool.

[Bobby Bones]

If there's anything else.

[Eddie]

Yeah, give me an easy one.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude, you can just yell it out if you know it.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

The Holy War.

[Eddie]

That's gotta be Notre Dame.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Versus where did Rudy go to get in Notre Dame? Holy Cross.

[Bobby Bones]

That's the Rudy Bowl. Utah and byu.

[Kevin]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

The Civil War.

[Kevin]

Oregon. Oregon State.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it. Good job.

[Eddie]

They still call it that?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, it doesn't have to be about this Civil War. There are many civil wars. It's not Capital C. Civil War.

[Eddie]

I know, man, but one guy was.

[Bobby Bones]

Calling the Red River Rivalry the Shootout. Believe it. Paul Bunyan's ax.

[Eddie]

Oh, hold on. Stephen F. Austin.

[Bobby Bones]

Get it, boy. Get it, boy.

[Eddie]

Nah. Oh. Boise State.

[Bobby Bones]

Michigan State, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota.

[Eddie]

I'm gonna get one.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't have any more.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's it. We're done.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, there's a hundred, but you're not gonna know any of these. And I say that because I wouldn't have known. I've never heard of some of these. The Butt Bowl.

[Kevin]

What the heck?

[Bobby Bones]

I know.

[Kevin]

We would definitely know that if we heard it.

[Eddie]

The Butt Bowl.

[Bobby Bones]

It's Baylor Texas Tech.

[Eddie]

Oh, never heard that.

[Bobby Bones]

Battle for the Bones.

[Kevin]

The Bobby Bull.

[Bobby Bones]

I know.

[Eddie]

That's Arkansas versus Arkansas State.

[Bobby Bones]

It is Not. That's Arkansas versus the Carolina Panthers. It's because it's bar. They're like ribs on the trophy. I've seen this one. It's Memphis versus uab. Because it's Alamo. Yeah. Barbecue one the game. That's Alabama, lsu, Ohio State, Michigan. I don't know these. I didn't even know that one was called the game. Let me see. I got a couple more.

[Eddie]

Hey, give me battle the boot. I know that one.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's not on here. Arkansas, lsu.

[Eddie]

Throw it on there so I get one.

[Bobby Bones]

I just said what it was. Keg and nails.

[Eddie]

Keg and nails.

[Kevin]

That's cool. Whatever that is.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's Washington State versus Idaho.

[Bobby Bones]

Cincinnati, Louisville. Old oaken bucket.

[Kevin]

No idea.

[Eddie]

Old oaken.

[Kevin]

I don't even.

[Bobby Bones]

It's Purdue, Indiana.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And that's it.

[Kevin]

What about the apple cup?

[Eddie]

Is that New York?

[Bobby Bones]

That's got to be a wash. Is that a Washington? Yeah.

[Eddie]

Washington versus Washington State.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I don't know how I knew that.

[Eddie]

I guess George Washington. Apple tree.

[Kevin]

Tree, Right.

[Eddie]

Then you cut down an apple tree or is that a cherry tree?

[Bobby Bones]

First of all, it's a cherry tree. Second of all, what is going on?

[Kevin]

You're thinking of Johnny Appleson.

[Eddie]

I'm over man.

[Kevin]

The state of Washington and George Washington.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, let's throw back to the current show that we recorded after all the games.

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[Eddie]

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[David Pollack]

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[Eddie]

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[Bobby Bones]

All right, that's it. Thank you, guys. Big game tonight. Go Bears.

[Kevin]

Go Bears.

[David Pollack]

Big game.

[Kevin]

Yep, Bears.

[Eddie]

Go Bears. I love the Bears.

[Bobby Bones]

They probably won't win, but go Bears. Yeah, it was fun. So Arkansas plays Ole Miss this week. Oh, yeah, Ole miss.

[Kevin]

I don't know, 202 0.

[Bobby Bones]

We're 2 0, but we haven't played anybody. It's fun to, like, have a little excitement for no reason because we had no excitement going into the season and we thought we'd win those first two games. So there's not real reason to have excitement now. But. But there is. We're like, oh, we may be able to do do this. Even though we expected to win those first two games, we're like, huh? We might have a little something we didn't think we had. So I don't know if I'm gonna go down to Oxford or not. It's only four hours.

[Kevin]

It's not bad at all.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So. And then Memphis is the next week. Won't go to that because I'm at iheart in Vegas.

[Eddie]

Are they in Arkansas?

[Bobby Bones]

They're at Memphis, which is weird. And then Notre Dame comes to Arkansas and I will be at that one. That'll be a cool. Well, no, I mean, the big one's gonna be this week if we win this one national championship, baby.

[David Pollack]

That pinky's coming off.

[Eddie]

Sound like a Cowboys fan.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, I said I'd give $10,000 to somebody if we made the College Football Playoff.

[Eddie]

You did.

[Bobby Bones]

Don't know who that is or how I'm gonna do it. But yeah, that's it. Thank you guys. Hope you have a great day. If you got to this point, I always appreciate it. If you go into the DMs and hit me up and be like, hey, I heard the end of 2025 whistles. We actually wonder if anybody listens. Well, we know they do because we can see the data streams, but we don't know if.

[Eddie]

We don't know who's listening.

[Bobby Bones]

And also we don't know if people just hit play and then walk away.

[Eddie]

Good point.

[Bobby Bones]

There could be a lot of people doing that. Yeah, go into the DMS. Mr. Bobby Bones. Hit me up. Thank you guys. We'll see you later on this week. Bye everybody. Theme song written by Bobby Bones, that's Me and performed by Brandon Ray. Follow Brandon on socials at Brandon Ray Music. You can follow the show on Instagram at Bobby Bonesports. Thanks to our crew, co host at producer, segment producer at Kickoff Kevin and executive producer at Mike Gistro. But most importantly, thank you for listening. I'm Bobby Bones. We'll talk to you next time here on 25 Whistles.

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[Bobby Bones]

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