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The Bill Simmons Podcast
"jayden daniels" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"All right, Sal. So February, 2002, Adam Vinatieri, after previously making a couple of weeks earlier, the greatest kick in Patriots history in the snow against the Raiders, and then he made it again to win. And then he makes the winning kick in Super Bowl 36 and goes down as an icon. 21 years later, my guy Chad Ryland comes in. It's 10-7 Giants, 35 yarder to send the game in an overtime nobody wanted. And Chad said, you know what? I'm gonna hook this one left. Sends it left, puts the Pats into the top two with an outside chance to get the first pick in the 2023 draft. They are probably not gonna win another game this season. I would say it's a safe bet. I don't know if Fandor has odds on it, but they're gonna be prohibitive underdogs, I think, in all of the games except for the Jets game. They play home Chargers next week at Pittsburgh, home KC at Denver, at Buffalo, and then home against the Jets. The last week were Aaron Rodgers. Like he's ever coming back. But this was both the Nadir and the Apex of the 2023 season south because we needed the loss. It's a weird situation when you're against your team. I know you hated it. I do hate it. I do because this is a rivalry. Jets, Giants, Patriots is a rivalry. You should never root for the other team. You should never be rooting for Tommy DeVito on the other side to put you out of your misery and vault you up these, I don't know what kind of chart you like. You even know who you're gonna draft. Like, oh, Marvin Harrison Jr. All right, Marvin Harrison, there could be three receivers down in the bottom half of the first round that are as good as Marvin Harrison Jr. You just don't know it yet. And you've made your decision. You're not gonna root for Bill Belichick to break the record as a Patriot. Guy who's done so much for you and everything else, you're now rooting for losses. That's what I don't like. Well, I think he's also rooting for losses because what other explanation was there to play back Jones? He did, Belichick did the classic, he split the snaps with the guy all week. He left everybody in the dark for who the starter was gonna be. He made it as tenuous as possible for Mack. He did everything possible to completely undermine his confidence. And guess what happened? Mack, who was already a shell of himself, went out and played his worst game yet, which didn't seem possible. You said Zappi's worse. You said it on text. Zappi might be worse. So his hands are tied. Like, I don't know what he's, he's not trying to lose. That kicker's not trying to lose. It's a fun joke to make. Like, oh, Kraft was on the phone. He made it, he put in the call and that's it. Kick and miss by three feet. He didn't hook it into the right corner of the end zone. It's a glorious three feet. I actually think you could argue, I don't know how bad Malik Cunningham is, but at least he can run around. One of the things that's crazy about the Pats, QB situation, like these guys combined today, they were 12 for 21 for 89 yards. They threw three picks and no touchdowns. And they had zero rushes. So not only are they terrible pocket passers, but you don't have to worry about, like even P.J. Walker, who's terrible, right? But at least with P.J. Walker, it's like, oh, he might run for a first down. You at least, like, there's some linebackers who's like, we gotta worry about this guy a little bit. The Pats, they have terrible quarterbacks who are also slow and clumsy. So you don't even have to worry about anything other than them just throwing the ball to you. The Giants got 10 first downs and they won. The Pats defense, which lost Judon and Gonzalez, and has allowed 40 points in the last three weeks, combined, all losses. And this is the darkest Patriot season in 31 years. And you should feel nothing but pity for Bill Belichick and God forbid, let him scratch out a win or two, root for him in these close games. They do it for Bill, both Bills, you and Belichick. I don't see any other way to root for this. All right, but here's the counter with the Belichick thing. Who brought us six Super Bowls and I love the man. He did pick all these players. It's not like there was another GM or another, like, he's trying to do all these jobs at once, which made a lot more sense when he was in his 50s and maybe even in his early 60s. But now he's in his 70s, still trying to do it. And they've just whiffed on these drafts in dramatic ways. And on top of it, taking guys that actually seem pretty promising, like, I'm sorry, Mack was pretty good two years ago. Like he was the signs of something. He played really good games. I think two years ago this weekend, they beat Tennessee and Tennessee was the one seed in the AFC and Mack was, he threw for like 300 yards and had a really good game and just looked like crisp and like a game manager. And two years later, he looks like he's private pile in Full Metal Jacket. So at some point, like developing a QB and having the right coaching staff, that's part of Belichick. But we don't know. Don't get me wrong, I love it. I love every minute of it and I'm rooting against them, but you should root for them. That's all I'm saying. I'm supposed to root for wins? Why? I want to get a quarterback. Cerruti, will you come on for a second? Steve Cerruti is gonna join us. Okay. So Cerruti watches even more college football than you, Sal. Or maybe it's a dead heat, I don't know. It might be a tie. That's fine, he could take the title. I'd like, I'm gonna sit out this quarterback thing because I have not watched enough quarterback stuff in the draft. But there's Caleb Williams, who everyone was saying after his sophomore year, looked like the next Mahomes. And then there's Drake May and everybody was like, no, no, he's the stealth franchise guy. Watch out for him. So Cerruti, we are now in the end of November. Are either of these guys slam dunks? Like where do you have them? Who would you compare them to? I mean, Rossella always talks about this. The problem with Caleb is he was so good last year, he obviously won the Heisman, that the expectations are so high. And the USC team, the defense is as bad as there is in the entire country. So he's constantly having to throw for like five touchdowns and 400 yards a game. And that's an impossible thing to do. So of course, as he makes mistakes, it's not looking as fun as it was last year. So he's getting knocked down a peg. Plus he had this thing where he was crying with his mom in the stands after the Washington loss. Then he was talking about after a game one time that he wanted to go home and cuddle with his dog. So he's really gonna test the heart over his head. That's very New England. It's very New England, I like that. Yeah, I love him there. He's gonna really test like the meathead hardo like draft guys of whether or not like is this guy an actual NFL quarterback? Is he like the guy you want to lead your franchise? Do you want to toss him the car keys? Yeah, yeah. Is he gonna get galvanized guys? I don't really get worried about that stuff. I mean, Drake May has definitely risen in a lot of them. He goes one to the Bears in a lot of mocks now. And that was certainly before the season was all Caleb. So it's definitely a conversation for sure, at least with the mock draft expert guys. But Cerruti, did you like Bryce Young last year? I did, actually. Did you think Mac Jones was a good pick? Did you think he was a top four guy three years ago? Like this, you gotta get so lucky with this. You hit like 34%. Definitely. Even the great draft guys, you know? There's actually like, I mean, even if you go beyond Caleb Williams and Drake, there's, you know, Jayden Daniels, he might win the Heisman. He's unreal at LSU this year, putting up legit video game stats. Bo Nix kind of looks like, not to make the Oregon comparison, he's like a poor man's Justin Herbert. He's physically pretty impressive. You got McCarthy at Michigan, Michael Penix, Jadore Sanders. Like there's a lot of like actually kind of, even if you don't get one of the top two, there's a few guys maybe the Pats can get later in the first or early in the second round. I want to throw something at you though, guys, and specifically you, Bill. Because they sit, I think third right now in the draft order. So, and there's a lot of mock. I think they're second now. Second or third, I forget. I'm looking right now. They're second now. So second, either way. So if they end up getting Caleb, or say they get Drake May, who knows? Is there like a comp to like the Greg Popovich getting Wembe, like Belichick getting one of these young quarterbacks? Is that like a thing? Or are we just completely sour and a Belichick the part where he has to go if there's a new quarterback? So on one of my Pats Twitter things that I follow, they retweeted somebody who said this in May after the Spurs got Wembe. And they were like, now watch the Pats try to do this with Caleb Williams. I guess Sal makes the key point. And I know Brazil has done a lot of stuff on this on his pod about what a coin toss this is. And I remember even writing about this at Grayland. I don't think it's ever changed. It used to be 50% if it's like a top six quarterback. And now it feels like it's around 35 to 40. So you spend all this time hoping you land somebody, but then it's situation, it's his offensive line. It's like what happened with Bryce Young. Like if you put Bryce Young in Houston and CJ Stroud in Carolina, I have no idea what the sliding doors thing would be. I guess my thing Sal is Belichick's history. Everything we've learned from the guy since he took over with the Pats would indicate that he would get this pick and try to turn it into as much value as possible and trade backwards and try to get all of these different things. Like it would be like his dream situations. Like, oh, I turned this into seven assets. But the Pats fans are sitting here going, you're batting 10% on your last like six drafts. Like, please don't get more draft picks. Just take the guy. So where do you stand on all this Sal? Here's where I stand. I watched a lot of college football this weekend. And I see a lot of guys, JJ McCarthy, Drake May, all these guys are good decision makers. And I know that's not gonna translate in the pros and it's depressing. It's like, I know this guy's gonna suck on Atlanta or whatever. I just, I could feel it in my bones. Bryce Young was a good decision maker, right? He was a good, I don't wanna say game manager, but he was a good technician. Bo Nix is like throwing for 80%, right? It's insane. And getting out of this nifty, getting out of the pocket and getting out of trouble. But you know it's not gonna translate. So your eyes end up playing tricks on you. And I don't know, I have a couple of my favorites. I like Bo Nix and I like McCarthy and I like Drake May, but I don't know that those guys are gonna be good or one or two or three of them are gonna be good. Here's the thing. Half those guys too, they've got better weapons in college than the Pats do. You know, like Drake May, I mean, certainly Jane Daniels, Bo Nix probably, maybe even Caleb. Like they've got, they just have better weapons than the Pats do right now. If you put like those guys in this exact Pats offense, they're gonna struggle. Well, and then you think Minshew is six and five with the Colts right now, right? And over and over again, and like the Lions were able to turn their fortunes around by making that staffer trade and putting Goff behind like what seemed on paper to be a really good offensive line. It was a good last Thursday. But sometimes I wonder, does it just make the most sense? Just take every year there's one incredible left tackle, just take that guy and then just keep building around your lines. And then eventually you're gonna be able to grab one of these either disgraced quarterbacks who failed another team or some Midland quarterback or whatever and you might be better off. Because there's only what, 32 team league, there's only like five guys who actually make a difference. If none of these guys in the draft are gonna be one of those five guys, then take Marvin Harrison or the left tackle. That'd be my take. So how far would you drop in the draft to take Gardner Minshew? If you could have Gardner Minshew on the team next year. Or like a Brock Purdy, right? That's your best case scenario for like I didn't have to waste a high first round. I think it's so complicated and so hard to figure out. I can't believe we're not better at it. I talked about this a few weeks ago, but I just like in basketball, almost all the time it makes sense to me, right? Like even you watch like somebody like Franz on Orlando and I'm sure the Warriors are like kicking themselves. I brought up Franz to make somebody happy. But Franz, the stuff he did in college, like you could see if it was the right type of team that took advantage of the things he was good at, it would make sense that he would become a good pro. Halliburton was like, the advanced stat people, like they loved him. They were like, here's the great thing. He doesn't need to have the ball a lot. He's putting on huge stats. Very rarely do we have like shocking NBA success stories. But in the NFL, like the CJ Stroud, Bryce Young thing to me, that everyone argued about that for what, three months? And then you watch CJ Stroud today. I know they lost, but the guys got so much poise. There was times in that game where Jacksonville was coming at him that whole game and he was escaping and stopping and just taking the extra two seconds. You're like, man, this guy has it. There's no question. Well, why didn't we know that in April? Well, remember there was this like Ohio State quarterback thing where people were saying, is the system what they do in Ohio State? Like, is that just, those guys weren't translating to the pros. It was like three or four different guys. And so I think that kind of knocked him. Plus, they've had awesome receivers. They've had like two wide receivers drafted in the first round, I think the last like two years. They're going to have another one this year. So it's like, is it the system? Is it the weapons or is it the quarterback? So that was the question I think around, I mean, everybody, I think before the draft said Stroud was the one that threw the best ball. It was just, is he the system and the weapons or is it all him? And it was probably a little bit of both. It's like Henry Winkler, Simmons. It's like, he got typecast for being Fonzie and couldn't get a job after that. That's sort of what happens to these Ohio State guys. Like, yeah, all right. But you had all these receivers and everything. And I don't care that you- Yeah, you had Anson Williams, Donny Bost, you had Pat Morita. 48 points against Georgia. You had Big Al breathing down your neck. So it didn't matter, but yeah. Did you guys think Burrow was a slam dunk when he was coming out? Cause he had like the greatest college year in the history of college football, but was he considered a slam dunk? He was so poised and all those things you say, what you talked about. But it was really just that senior year though, right? So Rudy? Yeah, I mean, speaking, he was an Ohio State quarterback that transferred out and went to LSU. So he found a home there and that was arguably the most talented team. And I mean, Van Lathan would tell you that's the best team in the history of college football he played on. So it was not, I mean, I like, I mean, people like Burrow's moxie. Like the guys just, I mean, you just love that guy when you spend probably two seconds with him, he's just a dude. But no, he was not a slam dunk. I mean, Trevor, I think people thought Trevor Lawrence was more of a slam dunk than Burrow was for sure. But Drake May and Caleb Williams are not on the Trevor Lawrence slam dunk level. It does not seem. I don't think Caleb Williams is under pressure. Caleb Williams is pressured more than any other quarterback because their line is weird and everything else. And his numbers under pressure are not great. That's the only thing, that's the only thing I would, my only reservation with him because he can sling it. He resembles Mahomes a lot in his mannerisms and everything else. So you don't want to pass on him just for that reason. But under pressure, it's a whole different story. And you have that sample size with him. Yeah, to your point, Bill, I think when we miss drafting on these quarterbacks, so much of it is about just like what team and system you're drafted into. Like, who's your quarterback coach? Who's your, like, you're getting Andy Reid, you're getting Kyle Shanahan, or you're getting the Jets, you know, like it's, and Jalen Hurts, if he goes somewhere else, is he Jalen Hurts that we know now? Maybe, probably not though. And so I think, again, like a lot of these guys, if he goes to, you know, the Bears, I, we were talking, could Caleb say, hey, I actually don't want to go there. Like, could he pull an Eli Manning and just say, now I'm going to pass or he, cause he could always come back to school too. And now with the NIL stuff, like these guys could make money. It's not like they're going to be, you know, maybe they might not make like, you know, what a number an NFL rookie is going to make, but they'll make close to it. So who knows? Like it's, they have that chip too. It would seem like one quality would be, there's some sort of competitive gene that these guys have or don't have. Like I heard Lombardi last week on his podcast was talking about Zach Wilson, about that. He just didn't feel like Zach Wilson had the competitive intensity for a three hour football game. That he had the, you know, desire or intent to just dominate, that some of these great guys have. Like the best guys, and I think this is the same way in basketball, these guys that it's not even just about the sport they're playing, but they're on the plane playing cards. They're playing Scrabble, you know, on the fucking bus. Like anything they're doing, they're trying to win, win, win, win. And I think Burrow's like that. But like last year you would have said Bryce Young was like that. And then you watch him on Carolina, he's a shell of himself. So is that the offensive line's fault? Is that Frank Greg? He's throwing to Adam Thielen. It's like, to me, the Bryce Young thing screws it up more than anything because he's in the worst possible situation. And we have no idea if he's good or not. Yeah. His coach is about to get fired, yeah. It's a big year for five, nine guys. I guess like Tua passed the test. He's back, he stayed upright for so far 12 weeks. Bryce Young, not so lucky. That might put the five, nine and other guys back a little bit. But if you put Tua on, I don't know, pick a team that didn't have Mike McDaniel and Tyree Coe and Jalen Watto where you get rid of the ball in two seconds. Yeah, Nate Hackett, you're screwed. Is he the same, is he remotely the same? I have no idea. Well, here's what we learned. There's no fucking way to know what you're getting with the quarterback. I'm gonna, as this keeps going, I know I'm gonna see some 15-minute YouTube video of Caleb Williams, I'm gonna lose my mind. I'm like, oh my God, we gotta take this guy. He's a problem. I'm gonna send that to my dad, huh? He's a problem. You think he's gonna be a problem guy? That'd be great. No, I mean, he's great. No, in a good way, on Twitter. Like, oh, Caleb Williams, sidearm throw, he's gonna be a problem. All right, Ceruti, thanks for making me even more confused. Yeah, thanks, guys. Thanks for bringing it back to basketball. That was great. Big Tuesday night. We're rooting for a Raptors victory over the Nets. Shout out to the Magic. I gotta say, I didn't think Tommy DeVito was that bad, by the way. All right, that's exactly what I was just gonna say. That's the other side of this. Some of these guys are getting a little better. Jordan Love is better. He's better. Tommy DeVito. Jordan Love is a lot better. That was my fear with that Lions Thanksgiving tease that was the easiest tease of all time, is it looked like the Packers, they were getting receivers back, and we're starting to move the ball. We'll talk about them later. I have a Thanksgiving spot. A couple more games quickly. We completely changed the fate of the NFC South. We put a big net on the Saints. All it did was light a fire under the Falcons. They rushed 41 for 228 today against the Saints. It was the quintessential Derek Haro game. 24 for 34, 304 yards. Yeah, like 190 at half. No touchdowns, one pick six, and they lose. And if you just look at the stats, it's like, oh, Carr had a pretty good game. It's like, nah, he actually didn't. He was checking down. He was not a threat at all, and he threw the worst play. The worst start of the game was his fault. It was terrible. I actually think the Falcons are just better. The Saints were losing guys during the game too, but by better, maybe they're not as bad. I don't think they're a threat in the playoffs, but I do feel like they have an identity. They can run the ball, and their defense revolves around Bates, who was, when was the last time we had a good free agent safety signing? That never happens. So I don't know, I give the edge to the Falcons. I mean, it's so crazy, because what was it, 10 days ago, we saw the Saints, me, you, and House, were like, we have to do something big on the Saints. What do we do, Saints, Lions, Chiefs to win the division? Like, oh my God, that's even. We have to do it. Look at the Saints' schedule. Look at the quarterbacks gonna face over the next month. And now we're like, House is all over Ring of Wives. This guy's like, I love Atlanta, I love Atlanta. To a point where I had to look at my notes, I'm like, did we bet Atlanta to win the bit? Like, no, what are you doing, House? We got the roof for the Saints in a game like this. He's like, no, Atlanta's better. And yeah, I don't know what you do with the quarterback situation. Like, Taysom Hill, we know, takes it inside the five. Should we just keep moving him back? Like, no, he should be the quarterback inside the 10, inside the 30, at midfield, until he finally takes the job? Or is Jameis Winston, I think is one of the more curious things in the last few years, why he's not ready, why they're not willing to put him in. Certainly a number of opportunities to try him out again. The Dennis Allen, Derek Carr combo was everybody's fear with betting the Saints before the season.
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"jayden daniels" Discussed on AP News
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brought ok c within one twenty five one twenty three i'm dave fairy alabama cfp playoff hopes are still alive following a last minute touchdown in a twenty seven twenty four win at auburn facing fourth and goal from the thirty one following a bad snap in illegal an forward pass jaylen milro hit isaiah bond in the left corner of the endzone with thirty two seconds left to erase the tigers twenty four twenty lead crimson tide coach nick saben ib got position on the guy and then did a good job of recognizing and throwing it and if the play had a name i wouldn't tell you what it was javarius johnson scored on a twenty seven yard catch and a twelve yard run putting in auburn and position to pull off an upset before the cfp number eight tide improved to eleven and one and the ferry ray davis scored on a thirty seven yard run with sixty two seconds remaining giving kentucky thirty eight thirty one triumph over cfp number ten louisville i was going to stop at the one just to be able to ice the game but i realized they had three timeouts it was still a minute something to go so it was about getting in the end zone davis also had a pair of td interceptions in the second half the game winning td came one thirty one after the cardinals tied the game on jack plumber's twenty one yard scoring strike to amari huggins rice louisville led seventeen seven until barion brown returned to kick off one one hundred yards for a touchdown in the third quarter kentucky's jay jay weaver factored in two fumbles and had a key back i'm the ferry jayden daniels had a big afternoon a cfp number fourteen lsu outscored texas a m forty two thirty daniels passed for four touchdowns and accounted for three hundred fifty five total yards he completed sixteen of twenty four passes for two hundred thirty five yards and ran eleven times for one hundred twenty yards i set standard a for myself and i expect other guys to meet the standard you know they they met it all year long um and you know i'm just happy to go out there and play with those guys malik neighbors had six catches for one hundred twenty two yards and two touchdowns the aggies led twenty four twenty one until brian thomas and neighbors hauled in scoring passes three and a half minutes apart in the fourth quarter jaylen henderson threw for two hundred ninety four yards two tds one interception for a and m i'm dave fairy blake corum runs for a pair of touchdowns the lead third right michigan impasse second -ranked ohio state thirty to twenty four quorum set a new single season program mark with his twenty first and twenty second rushing helping touchdowns michigan improve to a perfect twelve -to -no lynching a spot next weekend's big ten championship and putting the wolverines in line for a third as she hurt you know so i came back uh... for for a game like this but you know but is love the a legacy they'll though be remembered kyle mccord for two hundred twenty seven yards two touchdowns in two interceptions as his buckeyes finish the regular season eleven one denny cap an arbor michigan it was an offensive explosion in a matchup between two of the those top teams in arrangers seven four win over boston chris crider scored twice for the ranges who are fifteen three in one i think both coaches probably were little perturbed and would like to see a little less chances back and forth sometimes but that's the way the game goes um both goalies played well there's just there's a lot of chances in the game jimmy vcs goal late in the second broke a three three tie jonathan quick twenty seven saves for the win ruins fourteen three and three got two goals from charlie coil mike mancuso new york darrell hall is hitting john oates head on with the lawsuit darrell hall is doing his longtime music partner john oates arguing that his plan to set off his share of a joint venture would violate the terms of a business agreement the hall and oates duel had forged a nashville chancery court judge issued a temporary restraining order on november 16th writing that oates the others involved in his trust can't move to close the sale of their share of the joint venture until an arbitrator weighs in on the deal or until the judge's order expires typically within 15 days unless the judge extends the deadline although the publicly released version of the lawsuit didn't specify what's at stake in the sale the dispute seems to center around who owns significant interest in hall o's and song catalog i'm tiffany wong the prosecutors who sent former minneapolis police officer eric chauvin to prison are questioning how he was stabbed minnesota attorney general keith ellison released a statement he was sad to hear that the officer convicted of killing george floyd had become the target of violence in federal custody ellison says derek chauvin should be able to serve his sentence without fear of retaliation or violence and that the former officer is acted to recover even george floyd's brother denounced the attack terence floyd said he wouldn't wish for anyone to be stabbed the attack happened friday at the federal correctional institution in tucson arizona a medium security prison which insiders say is plagued by security lapses and staffing shortages i'm jackie quinn representative george santos says he expects to be expelled from congress following a scathing report by the house ethics committee that found substantial evidence of law breaking by the new york publican the comments on friday came during a three hour conversation on x spaces which was formerly twitter in which santos lashed out at colleagues and described the committee's report as slanderous house investigators said santos used campaign funds for personal purposes and caused the campaign to file false or incomplete reports since the release of the report earlier this month several members of congress who previously voted against expelling santos votes have publicly reversed themselves on friday he said he had done the math on the votes and that doesn't look really good julie walker new york thank you for listening to the a p radio network for news on the go private a p mobile app get breaking u s international news from the world's most trusted news source plus stories
The Doug Collins Podcast
"jayden daniels" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"No, there's too many good. There's, there's just too many good quarterbacks in college football right now. Not, I don't think it's fair. Like Michael Daniel, Jayden Daniels is the, the wonder boy of everybody. His numbers are very comparable passing to Jayden Daniels. Right. But who's in line for the Heisman as number one right now. I hope it's bone X, Michael Pennix and bone X. They're playing stupid football. Yeah. They're playing at another level. So I don't think it's that he's being ignored. I just think like, for example, right now, Micah Parsons is probably, you can argue is the best defensive player in the NFL at times, right? But right now, Miles Garrett is dominating football. You can't deny him or TJ what they're doing, but Micah Parsons is still balling. So Michael Parsons is not going to win defensive player of the year. And he probably will barely, he'll probably be like the fourth or fifth, maybe even sixth option. But in this situation, Carson Beck is in that sort of situation right now where like Michael Pennix and bone X are doing great things. Even I know what's his name has had a tough time, but with, with USC, but like he's still much better than everybody else. Yep. I agree. Hey, uh, before we get gone today, though, we need to discuss, uh, a couple of things is where you're sort of, you know, a little past mid season for the pros and, and we're in the final push here. Um, I've heard a lot of talk and I love just the quick conversation here is people saying last year, the four man playoff next year, none of these conversations will be going on. It'll be a lot quieter. Nobody will be discerned if Georgia is going to get in, Alabama is going to get in, you know, everybody cause they'll all get in. I mean, you're going to have, I think, you know, it looks to me like you'll have, you know, 14 from the big 10, 14 from the SCC and then 14 spread out everywhere else. They look, you know, the way it would look, um, I'm still not sold on the 12 man 14 format. Given what we're seeing this year, is this season a calls for a 12 man or is this season a reason to keep it at four? People are going to, or is that a hard question? I think this comes to the same thing as people are going to complain no matter what. They expanded the college football to like 68 college basketball to 68 teams and people were still complaining about guys not getting in. Like, I know, I know it's like, whether it's four, whether it's eight, whether it's 12, um, people are going to complain that people aren't getting in. It will make it, it will make for a fun time, but let's not forget that like 10 years ago, we were just going, yeah, they're in and they're in and that's it. You know, like we were just letting a couple of people in a room decide who's going to be champion. That's crazy. Yes. 12 teams is going to make it more fun, but people are still going to complain every minute they can. Yeah. And I think we got spoiled there for a while too. The, the upper echelon in college football, um, were two deep, three deep, four deep. Right. And it was, you know, it was obvious, uh, you know, who, uh, you know, who should be in the playoffs. And so, yes, you got to keep mine. It took forever for us to expand it from a BCS national title game to four. Right. It took forever to get from two to four. And, um, and so look, I'm always, um, I mean, I, I think it's great for football, right? Cause I think the more football, the better, but you know, I'm not putting pads on and playing as a, you know, a 19 year old kid, but you know, it, it we've done it in, in, um, in FCS for a while. We've done it division two, we've done it division three. I think this year is a good argument for an expanded playoffs because I do think this year, you know, we're seven, eight teams deep. I think Michigan, I mean, I watched Michigan play Penn state. It was the first game I'd really watched Michigan and either Michigan's a really good football team or Penn state's a really bad football team, but that game wasn't as near as close as, as the score was. I mean, Michigan dominated that football game from the beginning until the end. And I know happy valley in a pack stadium and, you know, in, um, in, uh, uh, you know, in, uh, in Penn state's not an easy place to play. So, you know, I, I like it. Uh, of course we won't have it this year, right? We're just going to have four, but, um, I'm looking forward to it, but that doesn't mean that I'm not, you know, uh, I like, I think the current system right now kind of works too. And I think there's only been, you know, there's been once or twice where the number four seed has come in and won most recently Alabama, but, you know, at the end of the day, you know, if you're the five seed, you obviously got a loss and you control your own destiny at one point. And, uh, you know, I'm old enough to remember in the era of the BCS or right before the BCS, Doug, you know, there was an undefeated Auburn team, you know, that didn't, you know, that didn't make, uh, you know, that didn't make the national title game. And we ended up beating Virginia tech in a ball game. And so, you know, it's hard to imagine that was maybe only 15 years ago, you had an undefeated DCC team did that. You won't have that under any of these other setups. And so look, I'm looking forward to expanding to a 12 team, but you know, that can change my mind. If a one seed loses to a 10 seed in the first round, I might, I might feel differently about that. Well, as we get ready to go, I have a final parting thought here. I think number one, we're at, we have a speaker now for at least three weeks. Thank goodness. It looks like we're not going to, you know, we go through that. So it's pretty exciting. Uh, I do have a prediction. Here's your, here's your rapid fire round before we get gone. Uh, given the fact of a 12 person team next year, I still believe that the champion in a 12, even in a 12 man or 12 team playoff scenario, the national champion will either be SEC or big 10. Am I right? Or am I wrong chip late? Oh, a hundred percent. Right. Absolutely.
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"It doesn't matter if life and death to some extent. Some of these conversations and it's not small things. They're not arguing about whether or not we should have divisions or what the tie breakers should be. They're talking about a very survival of teams and leagues. And so yeah, there's definitely some passionate arguments on both sides. Well, I'm really sorry I cleared that up. It was a much better story until I got you on. The one thing I was curious about, though, and again, this could be just overheated reporting after the fact, but it said that a number of ADs walked out and either didn't choose to speak or were encouraged not to. Do you have any idea which one of those, if any are true? Jim Phillips is very media savvy and very media involved. He very much wants to control the message, whether or not that is doable. I think it was strongly suggested not to stop in chat and so you didn't have any ads after the meetings that formally stopped and talked. But I mean, even just as I walked out here, they're breaking up for a brief break between meetings and a handful of them are sitting down and chatting with reporters right now. I don't think there was an edict that says like, do this or get fined, but I think it was just sort of like we're in such a tenuous spot with where these conversations are right now. Let's not blow it up overnight with a media report that X, Y, or Z is happening. Jim Phillips has not been there that long. How is he trying to or is he able to contain the anger? Because he inherited a mess, did he not? Yeah, you're absolutely right. And I think this has been one of the things that has been reiterated to me over and over again as this is not a gym Phillips problem that he created and frankly, I don't know that there was any path out of this short of him getting some bribery material for Jack swarbrick to force Notre-Dame into the league. That was the only answer he had. But I think what you see and one of the things that he has done really, really well since taking over is relationship building. So I sort of joked about what a small thing this was in comparison. But the league had spent almost a decade arguing about divisions with all the teams that were not in the Clinton and FSU division wanting to stay that way and all the teams that were sharing your division with them running out. And nothing came of it until last year. And that was largely the work of Jim Phillips building relationships. He is on campuses all the time. He goes to virtually every big event on for every school within the league. He is very invested in the relationships. And so I think if there's anybody poised to handle the role of mediator on this, I think he has the ear and the respect of all 14 of the 80s that are in there and all 14 presidents at the university's. Does that mean he can broker a piece that is lasting and workable? Again, I think they're in a very tough position to say they're playing to an inside straight may not even be the truth. It's sort of like a chess game where all you've got is your king and a couple of poems and you're just moving around trying to stay alive. With David Hale, covering the ACC meetings. Let me quickly move over to the other story. We did want to talk to you about doesn't seem as important. Now after the WWE meets the ACC, but I would like to ask you about your quarterback rankings. You've got two on the top tier number in the next and KJ Jefferson and Jayden Daniels. Of course, this is the SEC network, David. So we are going to get our hackles up. We don't see an SEC quarterback ranked any higher. I mean, I don't know what you guys do over there on the ACC network. But we take that personally here. Can you explain your rankings? Yeah, there were several ADs here that we're fighting over where I think the quarterbacks actually is what I'm hearing. No, you know, part of this is the SEC is in a position where it's top two schools in Georgia and Alabama are replacing quarterbacks. And so there's a little bit of the unknown and the tier I put both of those in the same tier that are sort of just a notch below the very good quarterbacks in the league and it's just because of the unknown. We don't know exactly what's going to happen in Georgia. I think we have a good idea and certainly we've seen enough of Georgia winning to expect that that will be the next quarterback will be just as good. Alabama, I don't know if you feel super confident that they have a guy, but as I explained to the numbers there, there's been 7. I think 7 off seasons that Saban has had sort of an open quarterback competition without an incumbent and four of those have ended in a national championship. And so you don't have the history would suggest this will all work itself out in the end of the year rankings would look a lot different than right now. But you've got to just Caleb Williams is a known commodity Stefan Bennett was an un commodity. We don't know what Carson Beck, you know, Drake may is a known commodity. What we knew about Bryce young, he was. We don't know now. And the one thing that I talked to a number of coaches in reporting out that piece is that a lot of them pointed to Clemson and said, you look at these teams, you think it's always going to be good. It's going to keep being good. You'll just replace the last great guy with the next great guy and then all of a sudden, one of them doesn't work out and suddenly the house card starts to look a little different. So that's kind of why I had it the way that I did. David, we'll let you get back to refereeing. We appreciate you dropping on board here. Give a commissioner Phillips our best. We hope to see him in calmer times. Thank you, David Hale. Reporting from Amelia island where the ACC is either in chaos or everything is just great. 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"On this Tuesday expired in Texas is up next. What's going on, Paul? Just wanted to tell you about a story back in 90 two when I was pumping out. Never mind. Hey, I want to talk a little bit. Alabama football I mean, we talk about them being number 6, probably they should have lost 6 7 games, even though they didn't. Okay. They should launch the Texas Ann a and M last year. Hey. With a quarterback, you know, we got this guy coming in and nobody knows he's any good. Because he's got rip mix from you. For 6, I mean, I don't see them getting the third, maybe third in the west this year. And it ain't gonna be LSU. Okay? They lost four games last year. They got a lot of good players coming back, but don't find a way to screw it up. Okay, they will find a way to screw it up. And this Jayden Daniels or who wrote that quarterback is, is their best quarterback. They're in trouble. That's all I got to say, Paul. LSU is way overrated too. The fight in Texas. He's going to win it all. Book it. See ya. Trey's up next in Arkansas. Hello, Trey. How are you doing today, Paul? We are well. Thank you. Well, that was a nice call to follow up here. How about this? And M falls off in their last in the west again. But anyways, after that, I think Arkansas is way better this year. I think the yeah, we lost drew centers, but I think the talent is more spread out through the defense. And I think we have a legitimate chance at being a 8 to a 9 one team this year. Well, I agree with you. I think Arkansas will be much better. I frankly, I thought they were better last year than the record. They just had a couple of lapses that really cost them big. Bill is up next. Hey, Bill. Hey, Paul. How are you doing today? We are doing great. Thank you. Got a little question I wanted to ask you. You know, everybody's ready to jump off ship and blah, blah, blah, blah, because of the quarterback situation at the university. What year did Nick save and win his first national championship at Tuscaloosa? That was 2009. Who was a quarterback? Greg, I know where you're going here. Greg McIlroy. A good quarterback in managing the team. Our his second. Yeah, I would say tower bunker. It was much higher, much higher regarded coming out of high school than Greg McIlroy. Yes. His second national championship, who was quarterbacking. Well, the next two were by AJ mccarran. Uh huh. Good manager. Very good. Not an outstanding quarterback, but a good level headed manager. Yeah, AJ was probably a credit above mcelroy in terms of expectations, but I would agree. I mean, he was a high end journeyman. Right. You know, I'm thinking. Can I help? Can I help your argument with one more question to myself? Yes. Who is the quarterback of the next national championship, Paul? That was Jake coker, who was a transfer from Florida state. We've got beat out there. You see where I'm going. I see exactly where you're going. I think you may see a we all remember when saving got lots of space and to run the offense and we passed the ball and everything and you know we changed up. What happens if Alabama goes back to the old style of Alabama football a good managing quarterback with an outstanding offensive line? No, you're right. An outstanding even savings national championship at LSU was what was it? I think it was Matty Mark. And quite frankly, I know we are all in on Mac Jones because he was a Heisman finalist, but yeah, nobody ever thought he was going to be a great quarterback. He was, he just happened to come along at a good time. If he'd come along a year later, he wouldn't have, he wouldn't have had the starting job. That's right. I tried. But in no way was Matt Mac Jones in the same league as two or bright young. No, no. They were not. None of them were, I mean, we've had three outstanding quarterbacks in the last few years, how many national championships though have we won? Alabama has won 600 Saban. How many have we won with our outstanding quarterbacks the last three seasons? I can think of, you know what? I am struggling 17 was a bit of an outlier because tua is the one given credit for the victory. So you'll have to give him that. But quite frankly, I don't even consider. I don't consider Mac Jones at the high end. I mean, he was very good. He played brilliantly in 2020, but I wouldn't rank him anywhere near the same league as some of the other guys. No, I would neither. But you know, but he was a good level headed quarterback that could manage the team. He was smart, yeah. And you know, so let's don't pull the plug. I would argue too, I mean, I thought you're giving me a really interesting argument. The two best quarterbacks Alabama has ever had. I think tua and Bryce young and they both lost national championship games. But they both lost by double digits when they started the national championship game. Yep. I see. Now, here's the only thing about your arguments that I have to ask is, where is that elite offensive line that Alabama needs? Do they have that yet? They didn't have it last year. They didn't have it last year. No, they did not, but they've got another year's experience and I think we've
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"Is dear mama premieres April 21st on FX stream on Hulu. We are off and running a couple of the fantastic opening guests, including the coach. Let's get to your phone calls here and Ken starts it off. Hello Ken. Hey, Paul. Thanks for taking my call. Thank you. Let me ask you a couple questions. I enjoyed the interview with Brian there. Do you think he was honest? Honest about what? Well, about the whole situation, let me put it this way when he said, but we're not there yet. What do you think about that poll? Well, I think it's pretty obvious that he's referring to Georgia and Alabama. He was clear. He said there is, I think the most important thing he said was there is a gap. A gap between LSU and Georgia and Alabama and that's all that means. The other question Paul is just, why is it you keep thinking we need a quarterback at Alabama? Because I think you don't have one. Well, I'm going to I want you to mark this down. I want you to mark this call down to default. I will assure you that Alabama's quarterback will be one of the he will be up there as a highs when next year. And Ken Ken, I will mark that down and I'm most excited to hear what you base that on. Okay. Well, here's the thing. We've got two new coaches on there. In fact, we've got some new coordinators also. Okay. With the coaching we've got with the talent we have, I think we're going to have an offense in the defense this year that is going to be unbelievable. I really do. Now, I don't say that just to be safe. I have to stop you, and I'm not being disrespectful, but you just made a statement that I don't understand. You said, what are those two guys who are going to be a Heisman candidate? We got two new coaches and we're going to have an offense and a defense that that's unbelievable. I mean, I don't doubt that Alabama has enormous talent. I mean, you just heard Brian Kelly say that. But I don't understand. You don't even know who your quarterback is going to be. I mean, you sound like yourself fan who's being a fan, which is fine. That's what we feel like. No, I know male role being told. I mean, the player. Okay, so tell me. Tell me what you're so impressed with about Jalen Miller. What makes you think he's going to be a Heisman candidate? He's got an arm. I'm like, nobody else. Believe that. Whether you don't think so. And what does that mean? What does that mean in college football? Well, it means he can put that ball where he needs to put it. That's what it means. He's got receivers that you're going Brooks beyond. I can go on and on. Well, I wish you would. Do I haven't heard one yet that I'm impressed with? Well, you may not be impressed now, Paul, but some this ball, you will be impressed. I'm here to tell you, I'm not your, I'm not joking. I appreciate you. I appreciate you being here to tell me, but you haven't given me you haven't given me a single reason other than they played Alabama. Okay. I got you, Paul. I appreciate you. I appreciate you being honest with me. But this suggests a way out to you. I'm not putting behind Kelly damn 'cause I'm a tell you. I really think Brian Kelly's a great coach. I really do, I think he's smart. Can you realize that Brian Kelly has two quarterbacks better than Alabama's any quarterback? No, I don't think he's one of Jayden Daniels. I do not think it's better than male. I don't. I really don't. You can say, well, you don't have the right to base that blah, blah, blah. Can you have every right to say whatever you want? Can a couple of quick questions here before you go? You live in Alabama, right? Yes, sir. And how long have you been in Alabama fan? Well, I've been out. My daughter goes to LSU graduated by the last few years. And I said, how long have you been in Alabama fan? Okay, all my life. Have you felt like this about every Alabama quarterback or are these two special? Last year, even with buying a quarterback, I thought we had a bad team. Oh my goodness. Yes. And I'll tell you why. You're confident. No, let me make sure I get this right before somebody comes in. You are more confident in Jalen milrow than Bryce young. Is that what you're telling me? No, no, I didn't say that. I didn't say that. What I said was, we had a bad team last year. We didn't have one person who could catch the football last year. Who could run out last year? We didn't have it. You know what? You had a first rounder and in the backfield and Gibbs. You may not have had an elite wide receiver, but you had a couple that were capable. And who are your elite wide receivers, you mentioned to Corey Brooks? This year, Isaiah Barnes will be short. And Ken just out of curiosity because I have not I lived in Alabama a long time, but I haven't lived there lately. Where do you gather? Where do you ascertain information like your disseminating to us right now? Paul, I'll watch our watch everything I can watch about Alabama. Okay, so okay, well, can't stop. So what have you seen that gives you these feelings? Because I haven't really seen much other than Miller last year. I've seen what our coaching has changed. Listen, that guy we had a defense back to you. He was absolutely a joke. He was a joke. I'm not being disrespectful. I just wanted the information. Maybe you got some secret source that I don't have. Jim is next. I want to build power today because he piss me off yesterday. But let me tell you something right now. If you keep talking to things like that man, you are really losing a show. That night is a complete idiot. You know it. I think he's a racist to be honest with you. That's just my opinion. I said, I'm not going to talk about it. I don't. I'm not going to, but
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"Are listening to the Paul finebaum show podcast. We are back and let's continue getting some calls on here and Dale is in Colorado. Hey, Dale. Hey, Paul, how you doing today? We're doing well. Thank you. Hey, so yeah, I just got a couple of comments and I would like to hear your rebuttal on them. And I'll hang up and listen. But so I was G day and I think beg did an adequate job. He made some great throws. I mean, ty windows, the wheel route, down the sideline, was a great throw. So that's one thing. And then I think he's probably pretty sale in the starting position. And another thing on the bare Alexander thing. I know we can't speculate on where he's going, but I don't think it's as big as a loss as people are going to try to make it out to be because of Georgia's specs next and fill us up on the defensive line. Yeah, I agree with that. Hey, thank you, Dale. Thanks for the phone call. Let's check in with will in Tuscaloosa. Hey will. What's up, Bo, how are you? We're doing well. Thank you. Yes, I was just wondering about the transfer portal for Alabama, the latest, heavy party big night. Well, I don't think you're going to hear much, because Alabama is still playing. I mean, they have a game this Saturday. So you're certainly no one's going to leave. Before they came, I don't think. And usually, if you have somebody in the portal, you're likely to tell them to wait until after the game. Let's say you had a quarterback. How embarrassing would it be? To have, let's say, Vanderbilt. Say, I'm going to Alabama while you're still having a competition going on. And we got into this earlier. This new rule in the second window, it's not if you leave after the first window, you can just show up. But this is a more complex window and start in terms of eligibility within the SEC for the upcoming season. Thanks for the call. Logan and Arkansas, you are on. Hello, Logan. Hello, mister Paul. So I planned on calling to talk to you about LSU baseball. But then you had two callers, Dustin and Duane. And I just want to let you know that not all LSU fans are like that. But I heard you say that you thought KJ Jefferson and Jayden Daniels were going to be good quarterbacks. For the teams this year and I was just wondering if you paid any attention to how they played. Well, Jayden Daniels last season and KJ in the past three C I believe he's been at Arkansas. Yeah, I've seen both of them play. Well, I don't understand why you think they should be good. I don't know what you saw last year. I thought Daniel's at times looked very good. Go back to the Alabama game. I mean, he was, he had some moments of absolute brilliance in KJ. I mean, yeah, there was some inconsistency, but I still think he begins the season among the very best in the league. This is not a vintage year for quarterbacks. This is not last year when you had Bryce young and Anthony Richardson levitt's and a lot of other players out there. Remember all the what we expected were or Georgia, excuse me, a and M players. So things are a little bit different right now. I really don't think so. Okay. Well, Logan ranked, how would you rank the top 5 quarterbacks in the SEC then? Oh, really? I really don't have an answer for that question. Oh, okay. I really don't. But okay, well, let me make it easy. So you don't have an answer, but you know it's not Jefferson or Daniels, right? I'm not saying that. Look, I'm not putting words in your mouth. You just called and corrected me because I thought they were both among the very best quarterbacks. So all I'm doing is asking you to give me one name. One name, I'm not going to make you give me 5. Just give me one name, you would put ahead of them. Well, certainly, his father doesn't hurt matters, but I don't agree. How about that? I think he's a good quarterback. I mean, he may end up being the starter, but even if he, even if he is, I'll still take KJ Jefferson. You're taking KJ Jefferson over no smarter. Well, Brian Kelly took Jayden Daniels over him, most of last season, didn't he? You got me there, but yeah, no, I think I did. Well, listen, I don't want to get you again, so I'll let you go. Mike is, I'll tell you, why don't we go to the break? We've got a guest coming in. I don't want to run into our guest time because he was at the Georgia game over the weekend. And we'll talk to Harry lyles coming back. With one of the best savings rates in America, banking with Capital One is the easiest decision in the history of decisions, even easier than deciding
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"At Arkansas. I think he gets overshadowed. Sometimes I don't know exactly why, but I think he does. He's a bulldozer with an arm. But he's such a good, strong runner. I think sometimes people forget about how efficient he is as a passer. This is a guy last two seasons has completed 68% of his passes. I think there are debates for several other quarterbacks, whether that be Jayden Daniels, we know Will Rogers has been a stat stuffer for Mississippi state. Maybe you like the Carson Beck transition at Georgia or maybe you're encouraged by Joe Milton in the orange bowl Tennessee. I think it is a good debate. I would lean toward KJ Jefferson. And it's cliche to say having a great quarterback impacts your success. But when you look at it, Paul, I went back and figured in the last 17 seasons, teams that produced the first team, all conference quarterback, first team all SEC, and that 17 year span they won 85% of their games. Four of those teams won national championships, 15 of the 17 finished ranked in the top 25. So we can debate who the best SEC quarterback is, but I tell you, whoever it winds up being, their team, you can bet is going to have a lot of success this season. Fascinating staff here by Blake taught Meyer, who we always enjoy visiting with thank you very much, Blake, great start to the Thursday show. We're off and running your phone calls around the corner. You were listening to the Paul fine bomb show podcast. Guys, fellas, men. Are you Roman ready for the weekend? Right now, generic Viagra,
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"And welcome back and really great to say hello to Brad Crawford from 24/7 as he looks ahead way too early order of finish and a preview of the upcoming college football season. It's never too early. It was spring practice opening around various camps. Some will come as the month of March unfolds. Brad, great to have you back with us. Thanks so much. Always good to have you on and I know some of this is pretty obvious. But tell us what you've dug up here as you are doing what all fans want to do and let's look ahead to the upcoming season. Yeah, thanks for having me, Paul. It's hard to believe Georgia won its second straight title only a few weeks ago and here we are talking about spring practice, but 2023 season has unofficially begun. I'm looking forward as an SEC media member to just see several of these cornerback competitions. We have the obvious one at Alabama between Jalen Miller. Ty Simpson with Notre-Dame OC Tommy Reese coming in there. We have an interesting situation at old miss with Jackson the incumbent for lane kiffin and now he's being pressed by Oklahoma state transfer Spencer Sanders, who's a four year starter in the big 12, by the way. And there are several others too. So I'm looking forward to seeing if any of these quarterback situations get solved over the next few months. Yeah, you mentioned the one at all mess and that's a good one just to dig into because everyone loves what lane kiffin has in that quarterback room and there's another one that dropped by as well. How do you think that will play out? Yeah, it seems like the writing is on the wall for Jackson dart to sort of lose his job this spring if he doesn't have a good 15 practice and then play well in the spring game there it'll miss. Obviously Spencer Sanders has a ton of numbers he's a guy with I think 85 or more touchdown passes out Oklahoma state ran a similar offense under Mike Gundy for the cowboys in the big 12 and he's the guy who is a plug and play and in the transfer portal call, especially at quarterback, you have to get someone who get there in early and early during the spring can instantly come into your quarterback room and give you QB one reps. And I don't think there's any kind of offense issues that spinster sand is going to have to learn. He's a guy who lane kiff and hand pick also have walker Howard there. So the O miss quarterback room for the next couple of years, especially 2023, is set in stone and if I'm Jackson dort, facing some pressure here going into spring practice. Another quarterback room that is interesting because it seems like it's been forever since there has been a debate. I guess the last time was literally when Alabama had Jalen hurts and to a tongue of our love, but what do you make out of the Alabama situation where they need to pick the right quarterback? That's the biggest key, taking the right quarterback. Tommy Reese is ultimately going to have that decision alongside Nick Saban. Things Jalen Miller and Paul showed us several times last fall that he's a dual threat guy. Maybe he's not as polished as a passer as bam was offensive staff would like to see right now, but he's going to get a chance. I think Melrose is going to enter Alabama spring practice as QB one and Tuscaloosa, ty Simpson based on the sources outspoken to there. He's a guy who obviously has a howitzer for an arm. And he's a former 5 star guy that Nick Saban knew would be an eventual store in Alabama. And I think it was very interesting is Saban was obviously confident in his quarterback room because he did not tap the transfer portal to get a Sam Hartman or someone like that, spends for Sanders. Those guys went elsewhere. So I think Sabin likes the two guys that he's going to sort of unleash during the spring and if I'm a betting odds maker right now, I go Jalen muro but ty Simpson is not far behind. Brad Crawford with us from 24/7. Brad, a lot of our guests at this point, a lot of people have varying opinions. Have surprised me because I mean, I can't remember the last time, even when LSU had Joe burrow that someone dared go against Alabama, but you seem to be holding holding firm right now in terms of picking the SEC west. Give us your reasoning why Alabama over LSU. Yeah, I think both of those teams right now have comparable rosters, but I'm just not sure LSU with pressure this time around is going to be able to put together an encore performance that's better than last year sending for finish. Jayden Daniels back in the back, they have Garrett nuss Meyer. He's a guy who might even press Jaden for some quarterback one honors. Now you have Harold Perkins, former financial linebacker who is my FrontRunner for STT preseason player of the year. However, you still have to go through Alabama to win the west. We've seen Nick Saban lose the SEC west before, come back the next season with a vengeance. I think a lot of us myself included were maybe too high on Alabama last season. I know we spoke at SEC media days last July and everybody assumed bamboo was going to be 15 and the greatest team on paper that we've seen in a decade plus and that just didn't happen. So I think you're going to see a motivated bunch in Tuscaloosa and as we see in the past as a dangerous scenario when Nick Saban has actual bullets and board material that he can feed into that crimson tide. Yeah, and Brad, most of that hype was coming from there because people close to that program said flat out. This might be, of course, we hear that a lot this might be Nick Saban's best team. And there was no reason not to buy into it. And I think when the draft comes around in 8 weeks, we'll start to look back and when there's an Alabama player taking one and maybe three will go what happened. But let me move on to Georgia. I think it's a foregone conclusion. They're the favorite to win the SEC, but the Bobo hire has drawn a lot of ire from some of our callers and our guests. How did you view it and do you think it's enough to keep Georgia from winning a third national championship? Yes, to me, it looks like Kirby smart sold has come. It may be a year and a half ago when Todd munk and his former OC first owned flirting with some of those open NFL positions, I think that's when he brought on Mike Bobo from auburn to be an analyst in Athens. And he just sort of shoehorned him in, like you said, to that OC role. I think Toyota is going to be fine based on how easy that schedule is, I was talking to some of the other day and I don't even think George is going to play a top 25 opponent until they go to Knoxville in November. So we're going to see a Georgia team that's really not battle tested to the first 8 to ten weeks of the season outside of maybe the gamecock game early against South Carolina between the hedges, but Jordan the team that right now is obviously no longer flying under the radar with back to back national titles and entering 2023 with the nation's longest winning strength, but the quarterback room right now is a question Carson bank was QB two behind steths and bat last year. I think he's the guy who's going to assume first team reps, but man, if anything goes wrong during spring camp or maybe he's not as good as advertised. As George is probable starting quarterback, then obviously brought Vande Griff another 5 stars. They're loaded there. He's a guy who's probably going to get some reps and get a chance to. I still like Georgia coming out of the SEC as a guaranteed layoff thing. Brad, before
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"I know you talked about the idea of Aaron Rodgers going to the Denver Broncos recently. And I feel like him going to the Broncos is exactly the problem they've had with Peyton because they might have one or two good years with Aaron Rodgers. After he's gone, they're going to be in the same predicament they are in right now. I think the best long-term outcome for the Broncos is to draft a quarterback and let Nathaniel Hackett build them up to become a long-term solution. I know they are, I know they are a Super Bowl team right now, but why aren't they ever thinking about their future? Well, they tried. They drafted Paxton lynch thinking he was going to be their long-term quarterback. They tried Brock Osweiler. They've tried a lot of different stuff in Denver. None of them have worked. And I will say this. I mean, were you not happy to win a Super Bowl? No offense, Nathan. You sound a little bit ungrateful because I think most fans would trade their future for a Super Bowl. I mean, talk to Detroit, talk to Cleveland, talk to the jets, talk to anybody. Philadelphia, I felt like did that. Philadelphia said, we're going to go all in this year. We don't care if it hurts our future. We want a Super Bowl. They won one. Philadelphia isn't happy. They're not a great football team anymore, but they won a Super Bowl. That's a memory they're going to have forever. And a lot of teams would love to win a Super Bowl. And don't really care if it hurts their future. Plus also, would you rather be average with a good quarterback or a solid quarterback for years? I mean, you could be the Dallas Cowboys, where you've got a solid quarterback dak Prescott, but you're never going to win a Super Bowl. You're overpaying him a little bit. I worry Arizona is going to be a team like that too with Kyler Murray. Do you want to be always solid with what we got our quarterback, but we're never going to win a Super Bowl. I don't know you want that. Maybe you do. But I think the tantalizing idea of, oh, for a two year period, this could work. I don't know if they're going to win a Super Bowl with Aaron Rodgers, but I really believe they could. How valuable to you is that belief for two years that you're like, we got a real shot. I would want that if I was a fan of the Denver Broncos, and I would rather be great for a year or two and make a run for it than be like solid and average for ten years without a Super Bowl in any of those ten years. Does that make sense? The tradeoff is worth it to me. I don't know if I shaped how you feel about that, Nathan, but look, you got paid Manning, you want a Super Bowl, it worked for you. I'm sorry it's been a rough couple of years since then. But with perspective, remember, almost every team of the NFL would trade places with you. They would be happy to say we won a Super Bowl. It was a great year. It's a fond memory. I will always remember and I'm sorry if you don't like that, getting Peyton Manning kind of hurt your future, but was it not worth it? Because it sounds worth it to me. Okay. Before we end the show, it's weird because I've only recorded for 23 minutes, 24 minutes now. And then we're already into the show. But I already recorded half the show earlier. I want to check the news, make sure there's nothing breaking that I'm going to miss out on..
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"He totally neglected the offense and did the team a massive disservice. They had a ton of good offensive players, but with teddy Bridgewater at quarterback, their offense was very, very limited. Sure, Denver had a top ten defense. They were the 8th ranked defense in the NFL. I'm sure that Vic Fangio wears that like a badge of honor. He can always tell himself, we had a good defense. Congrats, I guess, but the reality is you went 7 and ten, you were dead last in your division, big Fangio that coach did get fired, and he gave some arrogant quotes when he got fired that made him really seem only interested in, I feel like all year. He was just interested in maintaining his reputation, is like, I know I can't resign, that'll give me a bad look, and probably stain me as Ed coach. I don't know. I just, I feel horrible about what happened last year in Denver. And Vic Fangio walked away coming across as very unlikeable and just completely committed to self preservation. He was a head coach, I guess, but all season, again, he really seemed to only want to coach defense and he's a good defensive coordinator. He is a terrible, terrible head coach. And you just can't ignore one side of the football and by the way, they drafted stud corner Patrick surtan number 9 overall. As a rookie, he had four interceptions and 14 passes defended. That's great. Like having a good stud corner is awesome. And if you get a guy like Aaron Rodgers, he's gonna be a valuable piece to help you win next year. Here's the thing. If you don't get Aaron Rodgers, you're screwed, because sorry, but having a really good young corner just is not comparable to having a good young quarterback and it's Justin Fields good. I don't know. I think so, but we'll find out, but certainly he's a better option than any of the other prospects that Denver has at quarterback other than potentially Aaron Rodgers, which that trade may or may not happen. So now, the Denver Broncos did hire packers offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett to be their new head coach. And they are actively doing everything they possibly can to trade for quarterback Aaron Rodgers. And that leads me to two questions on Patreon, go to Patreon dot com slash Zach Schumer, if you want to write in to the show, let's talk about the Denver Broncos quarterback situation. Braden wrote in, he said this. Looking back on Denver's season, do you think it was a mistake for Fangio to start teddy bird water over drew lock?.
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"I'm excited for the future. Again, I go back to Elijah Moore, paired with Amari Cooper, sounds like a really fun dynamic duo. I would love to see that. Now, the jets second leading receiver was their go back to that quote. Big free agent signing Corey Davis. He only played in 9 games. He caught 34 passes for 492 yards and four touchdowns. He was the jets second leading receiver, but that's not saying much. And I was hoping you'd make a bigger impact coming from Tennessee. He was trying to kind of resurrect his career coming over from Tennessee last year and. It's fine. I wish we played a more games. I wish he had better numbers, but I don't know. It wasn't encouraging, but we'll see how things work out in the future. Now the jets leading Russia is a really, really positive story. Rookie fourth round pick running back Michael Carter. I love this guy. Great pick, great value. I would rather have him than doing what the cowboys are doing and be massively overpaying a running back like Ezekiel Elliott. I am all for getting a rookie fourth round pick, making restarting running back. He made an impact immediately. Bright future there and again, tremendous value when it comes to the contract. Now, I'm also excited about the jets defensive line next year. They have defensive end Carl Lawson returning from he ruptures Achilles before the year even started. So he never really got the season going. He never played. He's coming back for 2022. I'm excited for that next year. Defensive tackle, Quinton Williams. I mean, it's an understatement they call this guy a study he's fantastic. He's a franchise staple. One of the hallmarks of your football team. And then also defensive end John Franklin Myers made a name for himself and got a big contract extension in October. He signed a four year $55 million deal little north of $30 million fully guaranteed. Carl Lawson will be 27 this fall. Quinn and Williams just turned 24 in December. John Franklin Myers was 25. It's a young, encouraging group on the defensive line for the New York Jets. And I walk away, I'm like, eh, that's positive. And even though the jets literally and I mean literally had the worst defense in the NFL dead last 32 out of 32, somehow I actually walk away feeling kind of optimistic because they've got a defensive line I like. CJ Moseley is a monster at linebacker led the team in tackles, they've got an encouraging is maybe a very generous word, young secondary with new young players who are starting and making somewhat of an impact. I also, on the offensive line, they got Elijah bear Tucker at guard, Makai Becton, George fan. There are some hope on the offensive line as well. They're working on it. It's getting better. And last year was certainly a rebuilding year.
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"I will talk about it on the show. But ultimately, what I'm really, really curious about is can Jade and Daniels elevate his game by making the move to LSU is no Joe burrow, but we saw Joe burrow go from nobody to a number one overall pick by not only getting on the field but going to LSU. Now Joe burrow played for a year and then elevated a stock in his second year at LSU, but I don't know, it's not impossible. And I will say Brian Kelly's system is not the most quarterback friendly system in the in college football excuse me. But I don't know. I'm all ears. I'm ready to watch. I'm very excited. Jaden Daniels is a guy that's been on the radar for a long, long time, but he's been just underwhelming recently. I want to see can he elevate himself into a first round pick by making the move and time will tell, but I would be shocked. And he certainly is starting quarterback at LSU and I'm very, very excited to see what happens there with him and the tigers. Go tigers. Go tigers. And I'm stupid. Don't listen to me. Actually, please do, because it pays my bills. Let's talk about, I want to do, let's talk about it. I want your predictions versus reality for the jets and the Denver Broncos. I predicted that the New York Jets would go 7 and ten last year in 2021. In reality, they went four and 13, and it was not exactly the exciting turnaround I thought it would be. And I honestly thought their young rookie quarterback Zach Wilson would have a better rookie year than he did. In 13 games, Zach Wilson had a 55.6% completion percentage. He threw for 2334 yards. 9 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. Now he also did run for four touchdowns, so he had more touchdowns than turnovers, but it's still not great. I didn't walk away going like, yeah, he is the best thing ever. It's got kind of just a limbo waiting to see what will become of Zach Wilson. Now remember, Zach Wilson got drafted by the New York Jets. And I want to let them build around him before you give up on the guy. I just think that's fair. He went to a bad organization. He was a rookie quarterback on a bad team. Now, the jets started one in four. And by far his most painful performance was when he threw four interceptions against the Patriots in week two early on in the year, and he never really had the great breakout game where I went, yeah, that's why he was a number two overall pick..
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"Name is Zach schandler. I'm going to take a short break. I will be right back. All right, we are back. It has been over 24 hours. The audio problem took me way too long to figure out. I'm actually in the end, after trying literally everything I could possibly think of, it turned out I just needed a new USB cord to my audio interface. I don't know. You know, here's the biggest problem here is I didn't record for over 24 hours. And it didn't actually affect the end product. I put out the topics for the first part of the show. It sounded fine. I just couldn't handle hearing like a 5 second delay while I'm trying to talk. I don't know. I look back and I'm like, I could have probably recorded without hearing myself, but that would have felt weird and I was being a diva, okay? Let's admit it, right? Okay. All right, let's move on. I did the best I could. I am back in the same shirt. So there is some continuity despite the fact that it's been literally like an entire day apart from recording the first half of the show to the second part of the show. Here we go, let's jump in. The rumor is, apparently, the Washington commanders are all in on trying to trade for Russell Wilson. He is currently the star quarterback in Seattle. The other Washington. Apparently the commanders are offering multiple first round picks. Remember Russ grew up in Virginia about two hours south of D.C.. And I love this idea. I'm all for mortgaging your future, trading away first round picks to go get a franchise quarterback. I don't think it's going to happen. But I believe that Russ on that team in Washington, the commanders, could win the NFC east. I think they could leapfrog the Dallas Cowboys. Remember it feels like every year a new team wins that vision anyway, they run the ball really well. Last year they had a ton of receivers get hurt, Curtis Sam had got hurt, Logan Thomas got hurt their tight end. Their defensive end chase young got hurt. Their defense looked really bad last year, but I think appearances are a little bit different than the reality, I think a lot of that was a lack of support from their offense. I mean, kind of like a pitcher in baseball, a defense in the NFL needs run support. And if you're offense, isn't putting up points, it's hard to be successful as a defense in the NFL. On top of that, people are getting hurt and I don't know. It was a weird year for the Washington last year. It kind of got ruined by injuries..
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"You can finally become a free agent. Now, the way that team screw that timeline, Major League Baseball is used like a trap, and players do not get called up because owners don't want to pay them. At least billionaire owners who don't understand the value in a baseball player, which is their best commodity as a franchise. They will keep players in the miners to make their clock and serve as I'm stretched out even longer. Again, like I said, like a year even. And the guy is getting screwed the most right now in Major League Baseball are not the guys at the top getting a ton of money. Guys like Bryce Harper or Mike Trout. The guy is getting screwed right now in Major League Baseball are the role players or the young guys in the league. So minor leaguers are getting paid basically nothing, like literally less than minimum wage. And even younger star players can take forever before they really actually get paid market value, probably get a big contract. Guys like Juan Soto or Pete Alonso, who haven't recruited that 6 years of service required, even though they're massive stars Juan Soto was my personal favorite baseball player. I love his approach. I love his batting style, everything. Here is how that works, by the way. It's a process called arbitration. I learned a lot about it. If you have a crew at least three years of service, but haven't yet reached the coveted 6 years of service to the Major League Baseball system. You are subject to an ugly, awful system called arbitration, where players have to literally beg for their salary. And here's the worst part, teams are actively trying to prove to a mediator or an arbitration panel. Why a player is worth less than they are asking for. They are completely lowballing players constantly and literally lawyering up to explain why ah, he's actually not worth what he's asking blah blah blah stats numbers throwing all the stuff on the board. Can you imagine having lawyers coming after your salary?.
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"Is way more valuable. Than a running back. It's a bad contract. And you're overpaying a running back. It's not the 90s anymore. The game has changed and it also doesn't help that I think a little bit overpaying their starting quarterback, dak Prescott. They're giving him a ton of money. You could argue he's overpaid. I don't want to hear the anger about that. I don't really care. You got to pay your quarterback. Whatever. But what's the problem in Dallas? Let's get to the root of the issue because keeping the Dallas Cowboys from a Super Bowl right now. The problem is and continues to be their owner Jerry Jones. They have a Jerry Jones problem. His emotional decision making, his refusal to hire a general manager, the fact that he hired a guest man as a head coach. There's that IQ meme where it's like ten IQ, a hundred IQ, a thousand IQ. I would argue that ten IQ was blaming Amari Cooper. A hundred IQ is blaming the Ezekiel Elliott contract and a thousand IQ is realizing that Jerry Jones is the problem. He is the person who put the cowboys in this situation. Let's look, let's say it, the cowboys are letting a good player go, Amari Cooper. So letting good players go, they're overpaying other players who are running back in today's NFL is not worth it. $18 million salary cabinet. It's just that's bad. That's terrible money management. They've got a coach. I don't believe in and from where the cowboys are right now today, a Super Bowl feels a long, long way off. And unfortunately for them, if I was a cowboy fan, I'd have a hard time supporting this team because right now in my opinion the problem is the owner is in the way of you winning a Super Bowl and if you're a cowboys fan that feel that feels that way as well, I'd be like, man, I can't support this team until Jerry Jones is gone. Maybe Jerry Jones will change. Maybe he will someday hire a GM. I think hopefully in his old age, he'll get a little bit less controlling and give control to someone else and he can actually hire a great head coach who can run stuff..
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"Three, two, one, oh my goodness. Good morning, good afternoon. Whatever it is for you, I hope you're having a fan. Has to say, my name is Zach Schumer. It's a strong opinion sports episode 400 and 64. Welcome in. Let's start with the Dallas Cowboys. Reports have been made that the Dallas Cowboys are planning to release wide receiver Amari Cooper. And cutting Cooper getting them off the roster will save or free up $16 million in salary cap space this off season. The new league year starts on my birthday, march 16th. And on March 20th, Amari Cooper is due to make $20 million fully guaranteed, so getting them off the roster saves them a ton of money. Remember, the cowboys traded at first round pick to get Amari Cooper from the Raiders in 2018 and it's debatable now that the Raiders won the trade because they used that pick to draft a stud starting safety Jonathan Abram. Jonathan Abrams still plays for the Raiders. Samari Cooper's already gone from the cowboys or released at least so we believe we will see if that actually does happen. I believe you will get released. Amari Cooper had over a thousand yards receiving in 2018 again in 2019 and then again in 2020, last year he had a little bit of a drop off. He had 68 catches for 865 yards and 8 touchdown catches. Despite the lower numbers last year, I mean, Amari Cooper is still a stud. The idea of having Amari Cooper and CD lamb as a tandem together on the same team on the same receiving core, that's awesome. And Dallas letting him go, it's a big blow. So number one, I'm very excited to see where does Amari Cooper go as a free agent. There's a lot of opportunity around the league. A lot of teams could use a number one receiver. That's exciting that's interesting. But the more really interesting angle here, to me, is that the cowboys are having salary cap problems. They can't pay everybody. And the most shameful worst part about this is that they're paying Ezekiel Elliott their running back, a ton of money. The salary cap hit next year for Ezekiel Elliott is over 18 million dollars..
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Jayden Daniels, Arizona State upset No. 6 Oregon 31-28
"There isn't a state quarterback Jane Daniels threw for four hundred eight yards and three touchdowns to lead the sun devils to a thirty one twenty eight upset win over number six four again Frank Darby caught two of those passes for touchdowns branded are you the other the sun devil defense also picked off Oregon quarterback Justin Herbert twice setting up two more sports Herbert did throw for three hundred four yards and two scores the ducks fall tonight into George Katter champion