Shannon Sharpe and Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson react to the Nebraska Cornhuskers beating Deion Sanders' Colorado Buffaloes 28-10, Number 3 ranked Texas taking down number 10 ranked Michigan at the Big House, Notre Dame being upset by Northern Illinois.
03:10 - Show starts
07:30 - Nebraska blows out Colorado
33:10 - Norte Dame Upset
40:40 - Texas beats Michigan
48:30 - Syracuse beats Georgia Tech
53:50 - Alabama survives USF
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Hey ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us for another episode of night Cap. I am your favorite unc Shuan and sharp He the guy That's late is your favorite eighty five The Route Run Extraordinaire, The Bengal Ring of Fame Honoree, the Legendary, The Pro Bowl of the All Pro Liberty Cities, own Chad O Jyosinko Johnson. Please make sure you hit that subscribe button. Please make sure you hit that light button, and please sign up for the Nightcap podcast feed wherever you get your podcast from, and remember every subscriber counts, And thank you for helping us get to the top. Of the charts because we cannot do anything without you. Please make sure you go check out Shave by Laportier. If Laportier is not in a state or sitting near you, we can ship it right to your door. So thank you guys for your support. Please go follow my media company page on all platforms. That's Shapshape Media and my clothing company. And that's eighty four with eighty four being spelled out. The link is pinned at the top of the chat. Tour t shirts hats just dropped this week. There are two versions of the tea on the site. The tour version t with the dates on the back, the states, the city that we went to, Atlanta, Houston, and Dallas. That's forty two bucks. The print only on the front is thirty eight dollars. We greatly appreciate your support and if you use the VIP code for an additional ten percent off. Oh Joe, I know we got to a late start tonight. Let's talk about why and how we got off to the late start.
We won't late.
We right on time, baby, were right on time. You can hear me, yes, I hear you. I okay, okay, no, we won't listen. I know, love were a live behind schedule, right, you know. I was on a flight. I flew Spirit today as you know, from Miami to get to Chicago, and I was, you know, I just want to save a little money. So I've been doing this for about maybe ten fifteen years. I always have somebody pick me up when I'm flying into a city or a state where I feel safe, especially if it's a follower of mine.
So I had a follow of mine picked me up. Name was Alex. He was really cool, really cool dude.
And as soon as he opened the car door and he got out the car door to greet me, the car door locked by accident.
The cardior locked by accident.
So I would have been on time, but the fact that we had to wait for the tow truck and then to bring the slim gym was the reason for my delay and getting to the hotel a little late.
But I'm here nine.
So when you go, when you go to ESPN, you go, you take you have people pick you up from the airport. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, No you don't when you do inside the NFL, you have people pick you up from the airport.
Yeah at the beginning, Yeah, no, you don't.
Uh so, I'm just trying to figure out why would your show would you choose to take that rock where you don't take that rock for ESPN and inside.
I wasn't lying. I I'm dead serious.
When when I fly in the Philly, I had somebody picked me up from phillyp When I flying in New York, I have somebody to pick me up from New York.
I'm I'm serious.
Well that is what they told me. I just I just talked with ESPN.
Listen to me. Now, it's documented. It's documented.
I'm just telling you. I'm just telling you what you do.
Just search my tweets. I've been doing it the past fifteen years. I always do this.
I'm not saying that. But talk to me now, agreed. Yeah, oh Joe, this is the part of your show right right right? Why would you be late? Why would you run the risk of being late to YO show?
I didn't want to be late. I just told me what happened.
I would have been on time, but due to the unfortunate circumstances of him locking the keys in his car, which I documented, I was just a little lad up one.
Why don't you, Ojoe, Why don't you just why don't you just have the people that you're working for.
Just having the book you'll cost like service. I don't like our service. I don't like them people. They be meaning, they be bougie. I don't like you know, they be in suits and ties and shit. That don't make me comfortable. That don't make me comfortable. What makes me comfortable is like like being able to sit down and talk. You want to be comfortable, you want to be I don't want to know. I want to be comfortable. I want to talk to people that I can relate to.
Yeah, I'm just there. But you heard the thing.
Oh Joe, you say you want to be professional, you want to do ESPN, you want to do all these professional things, but you want to take a bootleg route.
No, no, no, I want to I want to remain my authentic self the same way I've always been and do those things.
Okay.
Is that okay?
Okay?
Let me know how that works out for you. Colorado lost in the Braska twenty eight to two. Huskins dominated from starting to finish, jumped out to a twenty eight nothing lead. Last week, Prime coach Prime told the home crowd team was one step close to reaching the ball game, and he said in January his team was definitely gonna be a contender in the college football playoff Saturday night. The second team Colorado did not the second game. It did not look good. Either offensive line, neither offense or defensive line played well. The running game still is non existing. Twenty two carries sixteen yards the Buffs in the second half they did get on the scoreboard. What they scored ten points. They lose twenty eight to ten. Ohjo, I don't know how much of this game you saw.
I saw it. I saw it, I saw it. Listen. Honestly, I felt.
Watching the offseason, watching the recruiting process, seeing some of the players that left and some of the players that were coming. My thoughts had completely changed on me, thinking the Colorado bustna look a little different now. The important part for them and being able to compete with the schools that are better would be the interior, the offensive line, in the defensive line. And after Washingtday's game, and from the beginning, from the start of the game, when the Colorado Buffalos were on offense and number zero, whoever number zero was, Remember the remember the movie, the program, Remember the mo the program In Lattimore and to watch him dominate the offensive line like that, it just it. It kind of reminded me of Okay, now we're right back at square one like we were last year. That's what it reminded me of. So the things that I thought were fixed and the issues in order for Colorado to be able to be able to compete at the highest level and contend, I think we were.
Now we're right back at square one based off what I saw.
Tonight offensively and defensively, there's no reason, well, there is a reason Nebraska was able to run down the throat of the Colorado defense, right down their throat. Why because the interior, the Demons aligne is stout enough to be able to compete with the better teams. So there's still issues that need to be fixed. And it's right there, the meat potatoes, the inside.
The interior.
I agree.
I had concerns last week, and I told you I had concerned that I saw some of the same things that I saw last year that caused me to be concerned. And everybody, Oh, if one game you see you see how you speak bad about the black coaches?
No, you see how I speak to you?
Now I see why I see why politicians get elected because people like being lied to. When I tell you the truth that Colorado can't run the football, just like they couldn't run it last year. They couldn't stop the run, just like they couldn't stop it last year. They couldn't protect your door, just like they couldn't last year. He's holding onto the ball too long, just like he did last year. Oh oh, how did you not look at that first game and see some of the a lot of what happened last year? How could you see it had not reared his head? And I'm not saying that North Dakota State, that's a football team. And we're gonna talk about Notre Dame how they lost the Northern Illinois and we see Alabama within a Nephtuck ball game in the fourth quarter and then blow it open. So I'm not saying that. But when you look at an FCS team and they're having success running the football, they're having success putting pressure on your quarterback. What happens when you step up in level of competition, when you go and you face teams in the Big twelve, What do you think they're going to do? Because they got legit D D n O line and that's a concern. That's a concern of mine coming into the season, and I'm still concerned.
I have a question now from an offer this standpoint. Now, I think I'm not a coach by no means, but I'm just I'm just saying based off what I seen, And you say, as your door holding the ball a little too long, if you have an offensive line, excuse me, if you have a defensive line that is is continuously sacking your quarterback and applying presses the way the way they are, I'm just saying, from what I saw, I think they should have went to the quick game a little bit more. You know, stop sprented out so wide, consensed, condensed the formations, putting players in motion, having crossing routes so that social Door can get the ball out of his hands and find some of the rhythm and that way to get the passing game going instead of having them in shotgun or having them drop back or anything over five or seven step drop just huru and get the get the ball out fast and probably get a drive and try to get a drive going just to get just to get the quarterback in rhythm with the receivers. But I mean, listen, I didn't I didn't know. I know, nebrask is good. I think they looked a little better. They looked a little better because Colorado wasn't able to make the adjustments necessary to compete with them, even if they players a little better interior, you know, in the interior.
I could be wrong, but look, Nebraska is better. Last year was Matt Rule's first year. So normally the second year, you know, you get the players that you really want because a lot of time you gotta you gotta keep some holdovers, even though it's a transfer portal. You can guys gonna leave and some guys gonna come, but you need to get your guys in there, the kind of guys that you want, you know, the offense, the defense, you know, the type of player that you want. So it normally takes you a year to two to get your type players in there. But the Colorado went for it on fourth downs and they lost yard. They lost yard on third down. It was thirty one nice third and two, and they lose again nine fourth and now they get stopped. They can't you twenty two carries sixteen yards, And my thing is, look, the offensive line isn't very good. And they told us the offensive line is gonna be better. They told us the defensive line is gonna be better. They still can't particular consistently rush the quarterback O Joe without sacrificing their back in and bringing extra people.
They can't stop the run consistently. They get gash hip.
They had thirty five carres a buck forty nine and two touchdowns. The other team, Colorado had twenty two carries six twenty two carries sixteen yards. When you can't run the football, you can't stop the run, you can't pressure the quarterback, you can't protect your quarterback.
Tell me how you win.
I mean you can't.
You can't. You can't. Out of everything you just name, you have to be. You have to be good. And at least three of them, at least three of them, you got to be good. So what is Colorado good at right now?
With Joe? Let me be honest.
We can have an honest conversation because nobody wants time to do it, to do well better than I do, because I didn't on a personal level, and I know how much he's invested of his time. I know how much this means to him. So nobody wants him to do better than I do. But when you look can't just when you look at Colorado, and I need you to be because I know a lot of us in the chat. We want us to we want Time to do well. We won't coach Prime to do well. Y'all call them coach Prime, I call them Time, but we want them to do well.
Tell me one thing they're good.
At right now as a week two based on what we saw, I mean, not not much, honestly. I mean they have they have the tools. They they have the tools, they have the talent at the skill position. But where it matters most, and you know that, you know what it matters most in college the interior, your offensive line is aligned. If you can't stop the run, it starts up front. If you can't protect your quarterback, it starts up front. The skill position, the skill positions where the money is. And now now we have that, we have that, you know, and we're being I'm talking about we they're they're being they're being exposed. They're being exposed because they lack depth and they lack I hate you. I hate I keep using the same context and using meat potatoes because that's that's the only thing I could think of that.
That's what it takes. You take some hogs. You need some.
Hogs up front on both sides of the ball, and that's where we're that's what they're lacking.
You got to be able to look, You got to be able to protect your quarterback, and you got to be able to pressure the quarterback. And sometimes it's okay to throw the ball away. It's okay to throw the ball away and make it second and tenon it's okay to throw the ball away and make it thirty and seven. I know it's going to look bad on your stats, but look at this point in time, there's nothing.
Completion percentage is not somebody is not that.
They're not going to elevate your door standers up or down because they're evaluating him saying that's a smart play. He didn't take a sack, he didn't take an unnecessary hit by throwing the ball away late.
Just throw the ball away, Just throw it away.
I think, Hey, I'm not if I'm looking at your door, I'm looking at how well he processes information. I'm looking at how well he goes from one to two, three, if possible, check down. Throw the ball away. That's what I'm looking at. Oh he got a seventy five percent completion percentage versus a sixty five okay words of ten percent drop off. Oh that was a good thrower right there. Oh Joe a boarding the sack aborder. The loss kept him in field goal range. I'm processing the entire of the game. I'm not looking at no completion percentage because I'm not gonna elevate him.
Or downgrade him based on that.
I will elevateor downgrade him based on the decisions that you make and what I can say. He should have known better than to take that sack. He should have thrown that ball away. He knew better than Yes, O Joe, it's a long coverage with that P six. First of all, the corner doesn't sink because there's nobody going deep. He saw the guy just run the through route. He see the inside guy run a stop route. So while we need it. Now you're in the middle of the field and you're gonna.
Throw way outside, you can't you listen for one for one unless the corner is way off the seven yard cars and you staring him down at the snap of the ball and he's backpelling. That's the only time you throw through the whit side of the field, you don't throw. Let's calling the rule number one. As a quarterback, you don't throw to the why side of the field.
You should know that.
But here's the thing.
Why would the corner backpedal when the guy that he is over it's no threat and the guy on the inside here no threat. So why am I back? Ain't nobody I'm just going I'm just gonna slip now. And I'm saying to myself, if you do this ball, I got to run to get that. I'm going to I'm going to get that.
As a matter of fact, you got to think about it too. You got to think about down the distance. What's the chances of actually calling a go route off the goal line? You go straight the quick game anyway, so that at the TV, your defense of coordinator probably you hear telling you listen something something coming out quick slat quick.
Yeah, it got to it got to.
And first of all, I know you're not gonna run anything deep because your old line can and you guys don't like the max protect. I'm looking at the formation. You can't max protect from that formation. So now I already know.
It's some way man, and listen, and I mean see for us, for you, I mean me watching the game on on the on the plane, I'm thinking to myself, you know what, they can't block for sure, so let's get him out the shotgun. But if we are gonna keep him in the shotgun, condensed the formations so it doesn't take the route so long the process.
Because the dude, they think.
They get there so fast.
So I'm thinking, just go to the quick game and get a drive going and get them d lineman a little bit tired because they just soon he's dropped back and soon as you get the ball, they on his head.
Oh Joe, you know why they like that because I know you can't run the football. You ran the ball twenty two times for sixteen yards. That's negative yards. So where are you going. I'm going to attack the quarterback. I'll play the run on the way to the quarterback. I also know your line is is leaky, and your quarterback likes to hold onto the ball. You can't run it, you can't pass protect, and your quarterback likes to hold onto the ball.
I'm coming to get him.
Everything, all the way back, all the way back.
I'm not even the D line. Coaches say, don't even look here. If they run it, that's on me. Go hunt the quarterback. Now flip it around the buffs.
On defense, they can't get no pressure on none.
I mean you got you got to have one dog.
I mean either D tackle that can cast some type of some type of confusing and some type of disruption of the offense and the timing of it, or have some on the edge that you have to account for. I mean you basically Nebraska basically didn't have to count for anybody on defense.
No, you have to count for any You gotta have a D tackle that could collapse the pocket inside, or you need to have an edge present that can force him up. So your defense, your D tackles can get you. They don't have anybody. They can't collapse the pocket from the inside. They don't have an edge, they don't have twitch on the edge. So now you see the quarterback.
Just yeah, yeah, all day.
They just don't have Oh Joe, they just don't have the pieces. Let's let's be honest. They got they got a quarterback, They got a wide receiver. Horn is a nice is a nice two receiver. He's really good. He's good he's a good player. He ain't trapped and they got your doing. But they don't have enough pieces to contend at that level.
They just don't let me.
And and I don't know.
Look, he done tried it, you know, he gets the transfer portal, they brand and forty five guys, a lot of guys left, but they you got to get. Look, if you want to hunt, you've got to get the right kind of dog. That's as simple as that. And I don't I don't know how many. Look I grew up on in the country, so I know about honey. You have a bloodhound, you have a blue tick, you have a black and tan, you have a red bone.
Hey, you have a tree and walker.
You have different types of dogs to do different type of things. We have bulldogs, we have shepherds to catch bons, but we have a specific type of dog when we want to track deer or we want to track hunt raccoon. And then you have a different type of dog when you start doing pheasant. You have pinners that are going to the bush and they'll standing attention to let you know he ended up bush. They won't move because they don't want HI to shoot until you're ready. But he'll let you know right now. See, you don't have doll to hunt. If really simple, how long does how do you say it?
You said it took Matt rule one or two years to get it together. How long will it take Prime to be able to get the type of dogs that's necessary to be able to compete with the Nebraskas, be able to compete with the well nor to go to state. I mean we we they won, but they didn't win convincingly.
Look, you have to understand, and people look at you, look at look at look at coach Saban.
How soon he turned that around.
But Alabama was a team that players wanted to go, like to go to anyway, So it was really they want to see games. And now all of a sudden, they're gonna start coming back, O Joe. It's kind of like Miami. Miami went through that mall. Hell, they all the players from Florida, they started going to Alabama, They going to Ohio State, They going to Michigan, They going Georgia. Okay, Miami start winning, they start get some of those guys back. Well, Colorado, it's been a since they had a program.
It's not like coach.
McCartney's see you buffs when they used to be, when they had Cordell and they had and they had Alfa William and the Enemey and JJ Flanagan, and they had Christian Fouryer, they had canabors Gie, they had Dion Fingers they used to have.
And they kept getting them.
They was going down to Houston, they was going to color they was going to California and getting those guys. Well it's been If it's hard, it's gonna take him longer to probably get the type of player. So where it took Matt Rule maybe two years, possibly three, it might take Prime three to four years to get the type of the Kappa doll that he wants to go butting with.
Damn.
But but you.
Look at Alabama when Alabama went that. You look at what they put out. Look at all their offensive lineman they go first round. Look at all that defensive lineman. Look at the Quinn Williams and the bar boards. You look at all those guys. You look at those line backers.
Could you could you could you imagine no imagine if Prime had those type of individuals at his helm right now early where you didn't have to wait, you know, three or four years to get those type of players in your program.
Look, I understand what time Time wants to get proven players. Guy that's in the portal. Guy that's in the portal. They've already in college, so they already familiar with a schedule. They know what study hall, they know training, they know practice, they know to go to class. But I don't know if I'm will weigh so heavily. I still think you have to go get some some high school player. Excuse me, oh Joe, You've.
Got to get some They're not going to make high school players an't going to be able to contribute right now, right away.
Yeah, Hey, you see that seventeen year old. He's seven, so he's supposed to.
Be a school he's a two time missed out. He's a two time missed alib in football. He said, the hell for this, let me.
Go get You gotta understand, now, you gotta understand that's a special talent. Some some players are some players. How do you say it? Not aheaded ahead of the curve?
I don't know. Yeah, he's ahead of the curve from an athletic standpoint.
He's able to go to Alabama and fit right in like he's been playing in college the past two three years.
That guy from what's the receiver number four from Ohio the.
Crib, he's a number of crib. He's from the crib from Shamanadh. He the real Jeremiah Smith. He's ahead of the curve. You saw him hit his head off the gold post to day on a little stick route.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. He he called down that little got the thing go.
He's he's ahead of the curve.
Yeah.
But it's gonna take it's gonna it's gonna take a while. It's gonna take a while.
Uh. And the thing is is that are there are are the buff gonna be patient?
Oh? I don't.
I don't like the way you say that. Now when when you say the buffs you mean upstairs? Are they gonna be patient?
Yeah? Yeah, for sure.
I mean you don't think it would come down to that though, Huh.
I mean I think, I think, I think what what?
What?
What?
In life? Isn't the bottom line business in sports?
Look, I got a menu, yester, this is my menu. The only thing I served doves and ales only served wins and losses, because that's all it's about. It grow sports, all that other stuff. It's dressing.
When did you win? Did you lose? That's all they want to know.
I mean, they fired Ladd Cochin from Miami after going what eight and four? The guy won a national championship, lost it should have won back to back national championship because that wasn't passive affairs.
But anyway, the.
Ohio State game and they fired.
I think I just think the thing, you know, sometimes you look some time is a product own success. They see how quickly he turned around Jackson State, and it's like, okay, we can do that, and.
Early on he had great success.
But I think I think, personally think it's probably it's probably a three that's Colorado as bad as it's been, it's probably a three to four year deal.
Do you you think administration understands that. You think the people in positions of power above Prime's head understand that that is a three or four year deal to be able to get the type of players you want to get in there, to be able to look at the menu and see that the wins are starting to come on that side of the column.
Well, here's the thing.
When I look at it, O Joe, I can stomach losing if I think we're improving. Listen what I've said now and stomach losing if I think we're improving. When you look at the buff and if you look at it objectively, the D line isn't better. The old line isn't better. They don't run the ball better, they don't pressure the quarterback better. They got two highly, highly, highly skilled players, the quarterback and the wide receiver.
But I don't care how great your quarterback is.
If I beat him up, I can neutralize it, and then I can throw on everybody else. I mean, just like time, I ain't got to put I got to prove how tough I am to try to throw at Travis Hunter.
I can just go pick on everybody else.
But m.
That's the thing with coaching.
That's why I never want to be a coach ojo, because I don't get to directly control what happens. I do the best job I can of coaching the playoffs and letting them know, Okay, this is what we're expecting to happen.
But at the end of the day, once I get out there, it's out of my hands and I I don't like that. Man. That's the that's the part I don't like is that you could listen.
Think about the time you put in, Think about the hours, think about all the film study that they put in, all the work throughout the week preparing for Nebraska, breaking film down, you know, having the music blasting, the music that you're gonna hear once you once you at their stadium, playing as you practice so you're used to it. And then to go out there and all the work, all the time, all the film you've put in, and the results don't show up. Like as a coach that that As a coach, that would bother me, which is why I also couldn't coach.
But that's tough.
Yeah, hell being being a leader on the team and having the coach mofos up.
And that's really not.
My job to make sure when guys come in and out of the huacho my first A, you know what you got because if you A, you hot now, but not with one with two, so you know I'm making sure A. I'm telling John, even though I know he knows, I'm gonna remind him A seven. I'm your check down on your hot and sometimes you ask gonna words my heart, I got you normally because I was always closest to him more time than I was gonna be a hot guy. But I also knew whether it gonna take one or if an empty protection.
All it takes is one to make it.
Pot if we if we got a back in the backfield, it's gonna take two because T O T D can take one and the other we're hot on the other one.
But yeah, it's I don't, I don't, I don't.
If I never wanted to coach, I understand UH people that do want to get in coaching time.
Has always wanted to coach.
Uh. Even when he first got out the league. He was coaching his sons. Uh, we went to the Hall of Fame. He brought a both boatloader of key up to play and tournaments. But that wasn't my thing. That's his thing. But he'll get a turnaround to Joe. Number five. Notre Dame suffered a shocking loss. Nobody's surprised because Notre Dame does this all the time. They lost to Northern Illinois sixteen fourteen in South Bend after missing a sixty yard field sixty two yard field goal on the last play. It's the first time NIU has beaten the top team a top ten team in school history. Notre Dame paid Northern Illinois one point four million dollars to come kick their ass.
Oh okay, check this out.
Notre Dame Marcus Freeman loses for the third time as a home as a massive, massive favorite, he lost. They were favoring by twenty eight points today they lost sixteen fourteen. In twenty twenty two, they were favored by sixteen over Stamford they lost sixteen fourteen, and same year twenty twenty two, they was favored by twenty over Marshall. They lost twenty six twenty one after Notre Dame quarterback Riley through an interception with five p fifty five left. They were leading fourteen thirteen and I you drove thirty one yards and eleven players got a thirty five yard field goal from canon Canon what a woodhill woodhiell to take a lead with thirty one seconds. The loss comes after one week. Remember they went on the road with the cow Allen Field and taken the fay in them one twenty three to thirteen. We looked at the schedule, Oh your remember they only had like three They only had.
Like two or three road games, I mean true road games.
Everything else was kind of like neutral site or they played in South being everything was really set up perfect for them and they gaged so early in the season.
Do you think I think most of these losses too, if you think about it, I'm not sure most of these losses where they were favor to win by whatever the score, whatever the score was, they were favor twenty eight.
I mean this week.
I'm talking about in twenty twenty, I mean the previous years. Oh yeah, I think it was at the beginning. I think they were at the beginning of the season two. If I'm not mistaken, I think there were. All of them were at the beginning of the season. And do you think because it's only week two for collegiate football, it has anything to do with anything like offense? Listen, defenses are going to be ahead of the curve because all they have to do is read and react.
All they have to do is read and react.
As far as offenses, it take them maybe week three, maybe the week three, the week four to find their rhythm as an offense.
Do you do you believe in that at all? Or or not? Really?
That could be o jo, But I have a very I had to learn a hard way, a very civil philosophy, respect everyone under estimate no.
One and you'll be fine. You look at oh man, that's.
Northern Illinois and they ain't got no business on the field with us. And the next day, you know, we're in the fourth quarter and it's a one point game. Well, now, ojo, oh ain't gonna help you because they believe they can be jazz. See what you do is that you kill a nag. You go out, you jump on them twenty eight nothing in the first quarter. You give them. They're like, oh man, at least we got our budget taking care of. We got paid one point for to come take this ass whip it. Now you let a team the lady. They go into the game just like a cowboy if that bully. But this ass off in the first the first being he gonna get confidence. He believed you're riding. He believe it can stay on in the.
Whole eight seconds. Well, you hadn't gotten rid of them through the first three quarters.
Now you midway through the fourth quarter, oh joe, and it's a niphed up ball game. A field goal here or a touchdown there, and they can win. They're not going anywhere. They're gonna play. They're gonna play above probably what they could have. But man, o jo, this is this is uh, this is a this is this is a horrible.
Most Definitely you can't you can't have this is this early in the season.
And do you think you think I lost this early would affect them when it comes to playoff time or no?
Oh hell yeah, Now you do have twelve teams, so they'll get in.
They'll still get even.
I mean, because there were so many one loss teams that made it actually that got in last year.
Yeah, but now you got to run the you gotta.
Run the gauntlet. You got to run the whole gauntlet.
Yeah, and you know you still got you know, you still got those teams in the NCC.
You know it's gonna be tough. Twelve teams. It's a lot different.
This probably would have be doomed them had it just been the fourteen situation. But because you got twelve, there's still an outside chance that can get in. Ohoe, you can run the table. But I think the thing is now is that when you.
Lose to this.
Your area of invincibility O Joe team, you believe they can metch you because now they say, hey, Northern Illinois went in there and beat them.
Now you Now you got to play.
You've got to play your best game every single week because people believe they could beat your hands.
I mean, you just know you can't have Sometimes even though you can't have losses like this, sometimes it's a good wake up call, not even for the coach, for the players. But I know the coach can underestimate their opponent. You know, I'm sure they prepared the same way they prepared last week. Sometimes the players might play down to your competition, to their competition. You do, it happened, It happens, And I'm sure it's a good wake up call. Cards so they know they got to get they gotta get their ship together next week.
Yeah, you do, you and you know you Sometimes you have to learn the hard way, Oh Joe. You know, sometimes you don't realize. You have to bump your own head to realize it hurt. Somebody telling man, I walked into that wall.
Man, you never know until you do it. Man, you never know until you do it.
You got a pump.
Now you got a pump not on your head, So now you understand what it feels like, Oh Joe. Number three, Texas goes on the road for the second year in the row be the top ten team, very tough place to play. They rolled Michigan thirty one to twelve. Texas is two in all time against Michigan quinn Ewers twenty four thirty six two forty six, three touchdowns. Now you see why you go ahead and get doctor calondin. Wait a minute, See this is not fair. This is this is this is what's not fair. This is not fair. What's the what's the head coach at Michigan. That's that's mister right. This is this is not fair for mister right. You think about Michigan right. More more is not fair about the Michigan thing. For one, he's not in the contract, right, right, He's not in the contract. He had no money coming in.
Not only that, I think about Michigan being number ten, ranked number ten, right, but everything the ranking is based on what they did last year now, but they have not what they have now. As far as kids players, so many, so many kids are gone and have left, which are the reason for them being number ten. So it's it's like it almost puts him in. It puts him as a I called him an interim coach because you ain't getting paid and I think that's another reason why they didn't pay him. Maybe he's not the one they want for the job because they know the team is not the same and they know that they're.
Probably not going to That's why you get your money.
Yeah, yeah, and now it makes sense to me too, And that makes sense to me why they hadn't come to turn for the deal yet, because they knew that the team wasn't going to be as good and he's not the guy they wanted for the job. I think that's the game they plan.
I think the thing is that they are like they felt obligated because what Jim Harbad was facing some suspension, he feeled as a degenerum.
He was the offensive coordinator, he did a great job.
Blah blah blah, h y and Z look how good it is?
The goodet understand when Harvard was gone and he fills in as an interim coach. You're know how easy is to fill in when everything is already put together, When all the players are there on offense, when all the players are there on defense, it's really easy for to look good. But when all those players leave and now you starting over from scratch, this is what you get.
That's why they ain't give him a deal. And they knew that they playing a game, and I didn't. I didn't know. I didn't. I didn't know was the game until the day.
Oh you thought that's normal that people get coach your job. That don't get it.
Now, Hey, listen, I see the play. I see the play. I see what they're doing. Whoever the athletic director is, I see what you're doing.
Texas got a stick when you go on the road and consecutive years you go to Alabama and Tuscal looser and you win, and you go on the road in the bus house and you bus day. You know what I mean? This game, wasn't you closed? I mean thirty one twelve thirty one twelve? No, I mean no, no, no, no, no no, this game went closed. Texas did anumber on them.
Hey Texas is good.
Hey the Texas Texas show and they belong to the SEC.
Welcome they d line.
Oh they get out.
Man, I don't know what I'm boy.
Didn't he transfer from Ohio State?
He would he transferred from Ohio State like McCord, the guy Syracuse.
He transferred from Ohio State.
But that just goes to show your talent that they had at Ohio State because remember the wide receiver.
Jameson Jamison Williams, he transferred.
Wait he was he was at first? He was at Yeah, he was at Ohio State. Yes, with old live Gary wil it's too many. It got they got so much man, Yes, yes, yes, yes, damn.
Yeah. Joe Burrow he was the Ohio State.
Wait, Joe was at Ohio State first. Yes, listen, hold on, So you think.
They have favoritism. You think it's favoritism for who they want to start when you have that that amount of that much talent at one school.
So why did Joe Eve who was in front of.
Joe hed everybody to be honest with you, Joe, everybody am I mean, you think about it. Jameson Williams he left. He is the first, right, he's a top ten pig. Well look at olarve a to get Gary Wilson, Jackson Smith and Jake Buff.
But they had Listen, that's what that might be, that be receiving you and.
What you call him, and then what you call him came like the next year Marvin Arrison Jr.
That's crazy, all of them at the same time. They just play.
You know what they remind me of ain't nothing but the Hurricanes of the nineties, Florida State in the nineties.
Uh, the floor of the Gators of the nineties.
They plug a receiver after receiver just because everybody was staying home all the time.
Running Alabama had those running backs. You remember, they had dark and they had what's the guy?
What's the guy?
New Orleans at the same time Albacamara he transferred a Derrick Henry, all those guys guys because there was just one mark ingram and then you had lay and then you had this one and you had that.
Remember Trent Richardson, Rember Trent Richardson, Yes, yes, that's crazy, that's crazy.
Yes, you got to go same thing with the wide receiver. Look at the wide receiver that have. They go Julio and Thenjamari and then they go Ridley and then they go Judy, and they go Rugs, and they go Waddle and they go to barn.
Smith nasty, nasty.
Yes.
And the guy that uh he went to the Houston Mitchell Yeah, yeah, Metchico. Yeah he nice, nice, nice, he nice. So yeah, but Texas, Texas did a number of Michigan, They did a number.
On Michigan Texas, Texas, Texas looked like the real deal. Man. I mean two teams I can honestly say look like the real deal. Georgia. Georgia got to think, man, man Georgia and Kirby got no boys.
The Georgia gonna be like that for a while.
Now Georgia is gonna be like that for a while because now where you think everybody want to go, we think everybody want to go yep.
And the thing is he you got to get out of there because they ain't no guarantee. You're gonna be the starter. You go over there to no almost you best. You got to get up out, Oh Joe, you got to get up out of there. Because if there's greater competition when you go to a Georgia, you go to an Alabama, you go to a Miami, and you play a steel position because think about what's what's behind you. Julio got Tomorrow behind him, and Lamar had really behind him. And then you got Judy, you got Rubbs, you got Waddle, you got Davonte Smith, you got Mechi, you got Jameson William.
So think about this. Now, that's a testament to how good young Bull is. That's at Alabama right now, it's only seventeen the.
True freshman high school. How you a friw.
You're a freshman and you at Alabama and you starting and you cutting up like that right away. Yes, you gotta be special. You gotta be special where you don't have to wait your turn.
Man.
I'm I'm sad, but I'm sad by that Michigan, that Michigan hold just everything going on right now because I see, I see what the athletic program or the athletic director is doing. The young bull to mister Moore, I see it. I see it as coming at some point another loss, maybe two more, because they know they can't compete because all the players are gone. They're gonna try to find, They're gonna try to find they go. They gonna get him up out of there.
After Kyle McCord threw for three hundred and fifty four yards and four touchdowns in Week one and a win over Ohio, Syracuse head coach Fran Brown said he planned to send a battle of Champagne to Ohio State's Ryan Day or allion McCord to hit the transfer portals today. McCord threw for three hundred and eighty one yards four touchdowns in an upset win over number twenty three Georgia Tech. McCord is the first acc quarterback to throw for three hundred and fifty yards and four scores in consecutive games since Kenny Pickett did it in three straight games for Pitt in twenty twenty one. McCord was wildly cast as the fall guy Ohio State's inability to beat Michigan last season, and the Buck guys moved to Kansas State transfer Will Howard. They pay good They paid good money to get Will Howard too.
What you know the numbers? I just wanted to know the numbers.
Well, they say they say that Ohio State got a twenty million dollar roster.
Hold on, you really think they got a twenty million dollars? So people just throwing that number out there, just.
Well, the going the going rate for a top quarterback is somewhere. But they say between eight hundred and one point two million. That's for a quarterback. Receivers receiver garden somewhere between four and eight hundred thousand.
What yep?
What can you imagine?
What being sixteen seventeen getting eight four eight eight.
And you showed them numbers ain't exaggerated, hunk.
I'm the only guy I'm gonna go. I'm when I go to when I go.
When I went to one of those DM schools, O Joe, we in the projects for one month.
After that, granted, let's out of the huh we out of there.
Ain't no more buy ain't the sausages, ain't no part in me, Ain't no more swaga ass corn flakes.
Oh we ain't good.
Granted, ain't hundred thousand for a receiver?
Yeah, and just the I.
Mean it was it was reported that once you call him got access of a couple of million dollars Addison when he left Pitt. You remember he was the blitar and goes to USC so you know it took a number to prime him.
But that's that's crazy when you when when you think about it, because I'm thinking thinking about me being that young getting that kind of money. I mean, even though I did make it to the lead. But I'm just saying as a as a freshman, Yeah, you ain't have that money, you know. Man. I'm just I can't and I would still open up crackerjack boxes.
Man excited about the prize. I'm goin to get out of there.
All I know, all I know, if granny ain't got nothing to worry about.
Yeah, most definitely.
Did you have way whoa wait a minute, did you have that same mindset when you were that young?
Not? Oh yeah, oh yeah, my whole thing, Oh Joe, the only thing I ever thought about.
Get granted out of that.
But you know, most kids don't think like that when they're that young. You know that? So you you you.
You, yeah, you're yes, it's amazing. What going to the bathroom in ten degrees? Okay out there, it's amazing. Okay, yeah, when it's one hundred of degrees and the mosquito is right okay.
But see that's different because circumstance, Because a circumstances that make you think a different way.
If you got some money, as you were here laughing, you are you gotta take you know, you gotta take rade out there, Try to pull a cloud around you.
So the mosquitoes don't take you up.
Yeah, man, man, they had your pride on your you man, I'm just if you're from the South, y'all know what I'm talking about.
They case we got a mosquitoy.
They call them galle dipper because they drank a gallon of blood they hit your Yeah, they gotta gallan.
Up at you.
Just think about that, man, can you imagine being at age seventeen eighteen you then, you know, going to college, going to Alabama, going to a Georgia and being so good that they're willing to pay you seven eight hundred thousand before you even sniff the NFL.
Uh shinloh make you four five?
Okay, I know about that. Yeah, yeah, Arch Manning was on the bench. He did three and a half. Man, he the backup, he make it three and a half already. He didn't even touch the feel.
Yes, that was last year, three and a half against this year.
Yes, I mean he gonna hear them talk you promising top recruits, top five guys that's coming out of high school, a position. Oh, they're probably getting somewhere between half a meal and a meal off the top.
That's at the minimum.
That's me.
All the money is coming from the boosters, specific boosters. Yes, so how do they I understand paying it, but how do they get the money back?
How do they who.
There right off? Because the guy, you gotta pay taxes on that money.
Okay, okay, okay, Oh ain't no freaking yeah.
You need to the first thing you do if you go get that kind of money, you need to go get your account so you don't get yourself jammed up, right, because you don't keep all that one point five no all these three Oh you can come here and eat free and all that stuff. No no, no, no, no, no, no. Hey, now they writing that off. You better make sure so oh shoe. Alabama survives uf USF forty two sixteen. Sloppy game with twenty combined penalties left much to be desired, but Jaylen mill Roe four touchdowns, two passing to Russian paced Alabama. At Alabama advanced to two and oen Travis to Wisconsin next week for it's for its first roll game of the season. Mil Row fifteen to twenty five, two touchdowns.
They had some. They were sloppy.
They turned the ball over three times, fumble a couple of times close into the in the red zone, which made the.
Game a lot closer it should. But then they stepped on the gas.
Yeah, they stepped on the gas late in the fourth in the fourth quarter and then raced away. It was it was. They scored a touchdown and made it twenty one thirteen. I think USF kicked the field goal to make it twenty one to fifteen, and then touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown.
Listen, playing down to your competition again, making mistakes, sloppy football.
Again.
It's early in the season. We just will watch. We watch four NFL teams play so far. Who watched the Chiefs, who watched the Ravens, who watched the Packers in the Eagles? And when we watch the Eagles game and the Packers, how did it look.
That first quarter? Sloppy? Yeah, you slop sloppy.
So imagine collegiate kids on how they gonna look if the NFL can't even get it right and they've been doing it for the longest, and you're supposed to be the one percent, the best of the best. That's why I say, I think by the time you get the week three, you get the week three, you get the week four, I think offenses then will be in the groove. There'll be a certain a certain rhythm, there'll be a certain beat you marching two where everybody's in sync.
Yeah, it's it's tough, Joe, because the guy's not really playing a whole lot in preseason games.
So it's really hard to tell and I get it.
Oh yeah, you know what, we get some great work and scrimmage and you know, teams coming over and doing dual practice.
Same. It ain't the same guy, it's not.
It's not.
And I don't mean to bear to be no bear of bad news. I'm not trying to rain on anybody's parade.
But it's just not. It's not the same as a guy that's half done it.
You know, have you know normally yeah, because what we would do, we would have a joint practice and then we end up playing that team in the game. You know what I'm saying. We would play So say we played the Cardinals, that's Saturday. The Cardinals was coming in, So we practiced Wednesday Thursday, then we played Saturday.