Hour 1 - Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes

Published Dec 9, 2024, 9:21 PM

Colin compares Josh Allen's superhero performance in a losing effort against the Rams to what Patrick Mahomes did in walk off win over the Chargers

Thoughts on Juan Soto signing with the Mets and why this is great for MLB

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Oh, it is a Monday and a busy one live in Los Angeles. It's The Herd. Wherever you may be and however you may be listening. Thanks for making us part of your day. One hour from now, Colin Wright, Colin Wrang, plenty of both. Matt Hasselbeck will stop by as is customary on this show. Jmack, I am so glad that we got the bills in the rams, followed by I mean, talk about two great quarterback performances, followed by two other great quarterbacks Kansas City and the Chargers, because at leed America's see who's wasting talent and who's not.

That's a spicy team.

Yeah, so let's talk about that. Josh Allen had the greatest day ever for a quarterback. Three passing touchdowns, three rushing touchdowns. It hadn't been done in a long time. And the Bills lost. Of course they did because they've been wasting Josh Allen's talent forever. I mean, the Rams had almost thirty first downs, We're eleven of fifteen on third, almost perfect in the red zone, thirty eight minutes time of possession. They dominated that the Bills had a punt blocked. Stafford did whatever he wanted. You ever consider rolling coverage over on Puka. It can't look that easy if you're Matt Stafford. Was that the Bill's scout team. Listen, Josh Allen is the greatest quarterback talent I've ever seen. He's better than Lway, He's better than Mahomes as a talent. Andrew Luck couldn't do that six ' six, huge arm, two fifty five and produced four hundred plus yards. Again, he's done it eleven times, and you know what his record is in those games five and six. This franchise continues to let him down. Mahomes has the better coach and the trophies, and is the second most talented quarterback in this league. But if you give Patrick Mahomes orse, he gives you six touchdowns Kansas City wins. There are games he can give you one touchdown on a pick and Kansas City wins. Josh Allen, I mean, how many times are we gonna see this? He literally is jaw dropping. There's nothing you can do. He didn't scramble for nine yards, He'll scramble for thirty nine. He doesn't throw it forty yards on the line. He throws at fifty eight yards on the line. He's a jaw dropping once in a lifetime talent. He had four touchdowns and no picks once against this Kansas City Chiefs team, which I'll show in a minute, and lost. Of course he did. Now I'm looking at his numbers. It is just a total waste of his talent. And you can blame whoever you want. I like the owner, GM Sharp, Sean Mcdermock's good, but I've compared him to Chuck Knox, legendary bounce around coach that went everywhere but couldn't get the trophy. Josh Allen is four and five, that is it. In games in which he produces four hundred plus yards. You know what mahomes record is in those games fourteen and two ballgame, ball game. They are wasting his talent. Yes, don't get me wrong. Matt Stafford. We've been saying this for years. He's is and was an all time passing down He's what Aaron Rodgers wishes he was the last three years. He was better in high school in college than Aaron. He's better now than Aaron. He was better for the first three to four years in the league than Aaron, but he ended up in Detroit. Mcvay's like, get me that guy. They did. He's magical when he's upright. If they can protect him, He's one of the only guys in the league that can go toe to toe with Josh Allen. Wow to wow to wow to wow. Seventy six percent completion percentage, one hundred and thirty two passerating. But it can't look that easy. I mean, the Rams were making Josh Allen throw in tiny windows, making him run around. That Rams defense is young, talented, fast athletic. They were making Josh Allen work for it. Matt Stafford, it was like a summer drill. It was seven on seven football. So the kid is absolutely jaw dropping, and I feel terrible for him because they've got to do something. When he puts the cape on. Mahomes is fourteen and two and he is four and five. And again, it's not like the Rams defense doesn't have talent. Their last couple two three drafts, they've spent it on defensive guys up front, and you can see him, but Alan's ability to cut through it is remarkable. And yet he loses again, and this time to an inferior team. Here is Sean McVeigh, the winning coach after Josh Allen is an alien. Some of the stuff that he can do and the things that he can create, we knew he was capable of that. He's shown that.

It's why he is as well respected and regarded in this league as he is.

It's all deserved and earned. But our guys found a way to just make enough plays to be able to come out on top. Now I'd like to talk about a team that doesn't waste their quarterback's talent. The Kansas City Chiefs, who just won their ninth straight AFC West title. Now they were facing Justin Herbert, who was so hot in the second half he went forever until he had an incompletion. The pass rush for the Chargers was giving Mahomes fits. Jim Harbaugh made tweaks at halftime. Quinton Johnson, the receiver redeemed himself. I mean, the Chargers put in a fight. I've said this all year. The Chargers feel like a little bit of a poor man's chiefs coach, quarterback pass rush, just enough weapons, and they were missing their best back and probably their best receiver. And yet did anybody doubt Read Mahomes Travis Kelsey would figure out a way to win it in the fourth quarter. If you keep delivering on earnings Day as a CEO, it's not luck, it's a business model. You don't do anything ten fifteen times, they're ten to zero in one score games. Fifteen straight wins in one score games. That is beyond luck. That is efficiency.

Luck.

Luck is like a bad team doing it two times in a row. Luck isn't a dynasty doing it fifteen times in a row. Some people are smarter, they're more clutch. Kansas City, even the doinks work in their favor. But when they called that play on the sidelines and read Naggie and Mahomes go over and they're talking, they've done this now fifteen straight times, Losers call winners lucky. I'm sure CAROLINEA and the Bears are like, what a lucky team? Winners get how hard it is. Mahomes, He's sitting down. That is a designed play. They manipulated and toyed with a defense who's very good. And once again Kansas City. They've rebuilt the O line, They've rebuilt the defense. They've two times rebuilt the receiving core for Mahomes. And they asked Mahomes a couple of times a game to jump into the phone booth and put on the Superman cape a couple times a game. The Bills asked Josh Allen to put on the cape right before the anthem starts. He has to come dressed as Superman because they'll have a punt blocked or Matt Stafford will have a seven on seven drill against them. And this is what I love. I'll say this about New England in Brady's prime, they didn't know us have the best roster, but I said this two months ago. Kansas City has become a more clever, offensive version of what New England was. Was it lucky when New England for twenty years kept winning all those close No, it's a business model. They're just smarter. I've had multiple players and executives they would practice things in New England all summer long, all summer long, call it once in November. They were just more prepared. And when Mahomes and Reid and Naggy you're on that sideline, it's like, yeah, it's a third down, it's over. They're gonna get it. And again they ask Mahomes occasionally to put on the cape. Josh Allen has to wear it to the game. Four and five is Josh Allen in games in which he's Superman. Mahomes is fourteen and two. And I love that they were juxtaposed. I love that you got Josh Allen against the great quarterback playing out of his mind and losing, and Mahomes playing against the great quarterback with a team that's kind of ham and egging at left tackle. They brought a guy and he got hurt, and yet winning efficiency smart went doing anything multiple times over and over and over and over. It's not luck. Luck is a scratch off ticket. Luck is a losing company having in good earnings quarter. Yeah, Navidia doing another big day for Navidia stock is not luck. They're ahead of the industry. And that's what Kansas City is and what New England was. And here's was Mahomes after.

As long as we have a chance to go out there and have the football and make a play happen, I think we're gonna make it happen to be able to win this division, to gain another game in the playoff. Pitcher's it was an important game for us. It's a really good football team. We thought away, you gonna win, but now we gotta keep building if we'll get to our ultimate goal.

I actually thought that was one of the three or four best losses of the year for the Chargers. They didn't have their best receiver, they didn't have their best back, and Herbert. They made adjustments at halftime. Herbert had I think ten straight completions. They had opportunities to win the game. They made a couple of key defense plays. But it's just it's it's very difficult when you're facing the best quarterback along with Josh Allen Mahomes, the best coach, the best tight end, and a team that's situationally. I mean, I don't know how you guys watch these games. I always feel like, yeah, they'll figure it out. That confidence they even the Chiefs even you know their confidence Jinks in the winner. It's just who they are. It defines them. One hundred years from now, you will talk about the Kansas City Chiefs and you'll look at the records and you're like, You're like, man, they want a lot of close games. Yes, because that's what happens when you eventually have to pay your quarterback four hundred and fifty million dollars, that you aren't very good at offensive tackle, that you have to make mid season moves, that you really don't have a number one receiver, that your tight end's getting old. He's good in spots, but not for the duration of the season. That's what happens. But Kansas City always figures a way to make it work, and Buffalo never does. And I don't think that's just some zany coincidence. All Right, fifty minutes from now, Colin Wright, Colin Wrong, Matt Hasselback stops by as well, and I gotta.

Tell you.

It's a great problem to have. But there is an NFL team that has themselves a dilemma. They didn't think it was going to be. They didn't think it would turn out as well as it has. It's better than anybody in the league thought it would be. And now they're kind of stuck. If that's the right word. A remarkable story happening in the NFL that's coming up next.

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So Minnesota had Kirk Cousins forever at a quarterback. He didn't have a lot of juice, right, he didn't have a lot of athleticism, A gentleman's gentleman, and he could get you to the playoffs. And then draft JJ McCarthy, who lights it up in preseason, gets hurt. He brought over Sam Donald from the Niners, and you'll find Kyle Shanahan loves Donald, Kevin O'Connell loves Donald McVeigh. A lot of the smart coaches really liked him, even though he struggled Carolina bad coaching, Jets bad coaching. So I get why they drafted JJ McCarthy, but he needed a second surgery on his meniscus on his knee swelling a second one. Donald's already bigger than him and has a better arm than him, and is just as athletic or more than him. And I said this coming out of the draft. Donald's comp there's a little bit of an Andrew luck is that he can be a tad reckless, but aggressive, coachable, tough, physical playmaker, big arm and Sam Donald right now, five touchdowns, no picks. He's entered the MVP conversation. Here's the thing, what are you gonna do with him? He's a free agent? Are you gonna let him walk? And you have JJ McCarthy and Daniel Jones take out Josh Allen. Arguably the best football player in the entire sport yesterday was Sam Donald. You're gonna let him walk out of the building. I think you have to consider franchise tagging him. It's like forty one million bucks for a year. That's more than they want to pay. But on the market, isn't Sam Donald gonna get close to that anyway? I mean, I think they were hoping JJ McCarthy after Sam Donald started the year, could maybe take over at Thanksgiving or next year. But what do you do with this? Are you gonna let a potential top five MVP guy walk out of the building. I wouldn't the receivers love him. They didn't love Kirk Cousins. I mean, in the two teams that beat Minnesota, Detroit and the Rams. He was great, seventy seven percent completion percentage in one hundred and seventeen passer rating. He's had a couple of stinkers this year, but they won both of them. I mean his third down efficiency yesterday eight for twelve, eight yards of play twenty three downs. What do you be very careful about letting great employees walk out the door, especially off a great year. I mean Darnald he's getting better. I mean the Jacksonville game, they were bad in the red zone, but they won. Yeah, he lost the Rams and the Lions, but he was outstanding, completing almost eighty percent of his throws. It shows a lot of things. I mean, here's the other thing. It hasn't been perfect. They lost their great left tackle, No biggie, He's won six straight, so it's not been a perfect roade. Jordan Addison's been hurt. TJ. Hawkinson's been missing, They lost their left tackle, Aaron Jones, run game and not a ton of pop and they just keep winning. So I think you have to consider it. This was always a good team in a good franchise, but there is no question Darnald has added juice and energy and playmaking and athleticism. And I mean and the crowd started channing MVP, and I think you have I have to put him in that top five category. And here was Donald on those chants.

I just felt the buzz in the you know, and and that was pure you know, pure passion, you know, pure joy.

That was a lot of emotion for me. I was just excited, man.

Just I feel like I couldn't just sit there, you know and just kind of you know, stoic and you know, just straight faced. I feel like I had to show a little bit of emotion for the fans, and you know, gave him what they wanted. So that was a special moment for me.

Donald in the fourth quarter, close game, three big scoring drives, he had three touchdowns in the second half, he only had two incompletions. And here was the big Justin Jefferson touchdown, scrambling to his right. I mean, that's that really is That's what he does. That's Sam Darnold the playmaker breaks down running right deep downfield. That that element did not exist with Kirk Cousins, and they were making the playoffs. With Kirk Cousins, they were beating Aaron Rodgers fifty of the time with Kirk Cousins. Good stuff. J Mack with a.

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All right, let's start the day with Kyle Shanahan, who was the subject of a lot of rumors this past week about his future with the Niners. They were speculated upon by I don't know somebody on this show not named me, and an NFL writer suggested the Bears should look to trade for San Francisco stapped their three game losing street yesterday by destroying the Bears and I mean pummeling them in an embarrassing fashion. And then afterwards Shanahan talked about his future in San Francisco.

I don't want to be any place in the world more than here, and my family feels just as strong, if not a lot stronger. So I hope he's gonna have to kick me out of here. So there's no way I'm making that decision.

Just saying go for it.

Go ahead, come on and take that Mulligan.

Well, I mean, I will say this when you're a franchise that's in disarray. The Chargers had good roster, but the coaching situation was a mess. You had to hire a culture guy. Detroit was a mess. I hired a culture guy. San Francisco was never a mess, even when they had the wrong coach. It's smartly owned, well run mostly so he's a scheme guy. I don't even know if he would be a perfect fit in Chicago. I think Jim Harbaugh is what they need. Chicago's such a mess. The Jets are such a mess. That's why I think Mike Rabel, either Jets or the Bears, works because he's beyond a scheme guy. He fixes the culture. There's a physicality too.

Doesn't Shanahan work anywhere Colin oh?

I think he would work anywhere. But I'm saying his take is why would I leave a well owned and run operation? But I get Chicago getting on the phone. You can't just go get Ben Johnson. You've done that. Matt Naggy made the Playoffs twice, but he's not a culture changer. Chicago's in a different the Jets. In Chicago, it's beyond just getting a guy that can scheme up plays.

I've softened my state of my notes for the numbers yesterday, so during games, you know we take notes.

I have at halftime it was three hundred and fifteen yards to four.

Yeah for the Niners against the Bears four yards in the first I like didn't believe that.

I was like that, that can't be.

So you fire your coach. You've got all this talent, everybody's supposedly happy Eberflush was gone, and you don't show up at all. I mean, Colin is the second straight game. Remember that Detroit game on Thanksgiving. They didn't show up in the first half. Detroit was dog walking.

It wasn't it. Twenty one nothing, Just embarrassing stuff.

I'm kind of I don't know what to do with the Bears. I thought this was a good job and they had a lot of time. They're starting to question that a little.

They've asked Thomas Brown to go from like, you know, quarterback coach to play caller to head coach. You know, in three weeks. He's had three different parking spots at the facility in three weeks, so they're asking him to do way too much. I feel bad for that. It's not his issue. It's Kevin Warren, the president. Mccaskey's the owner. The people I talked to in the league have always questioned the very top of the Bears. I always that Matt Naggie got Mitch Trubisky to the playoffs twice at a time that Kirk Cousins, Aaron Rodgers, and Matt Stafford were in their prime in the division. He got Mitch Trubisky twice to the playoffs, and they ran him out of town. You could say what you want about Matt Nenaggie. They were always offensively creative with a backup quarterback in a division that had three excellent quarterbacks, Hall of Fame level guys. So it's even when they kind of feel like they sort of get it right. Dave Wanstatt had success there. They run people off.

Did you think Perty was extra motivated to go up against Caleb Williams and show who the best quarterback in that game was?

Because it was not close, It wasn't well it's wait, wait, wait, go ahead, what are you can say?

There's a lot to contextualize. When the Bears faced the Niners.

Did Trip Williams play No? I don't think he did. Did Brandon and I you play nine? Don't?

Christian McCaffrey, the backup running back, the third string guy got hurt Colling. Let's not make excuses. Rock Perty was so much better than kleboy.

It was not even well yeah, yeah he was in the game.

Okay, I'm glad you're just conceding that point. Let's let's move on to uh a boy.

I don't know New York Giants. I mean, what is going on, brutal? This is a this is a banner flying over the game. Mister Mara enough, please fix this dumpster fire. Here's what Brian Dabele had to say about this banner after the game.

Look, we're you know, we won two games, so I'm not happy either.

I'm disappointed.

We have two wins, Pats, So we're just gonna keep on grinding out and try to keep developing these young players and you know, get ready to play a great team next week.

Yeah, I'd still keep him, but I think he's in trouble. I think the organization has the right coach, the right left tackle, the right edge rusher, the right defensive tackle. They got to get quarterback, right right tackle, right another running back. They need some offensive fixes. Conspiracy theory, you want one? Yeah, true.

Dable went to the owner and said, I will do a tank. Nobody will know we're tanking, just me and you do this. A lot of guys who are if are just not going to play. They're down to like practice.

Squad guys in the offensive line. Yeah, and we will tank.

We will get the number one pick, I will get you a quarterback, and I will turn this around.

Do you think the owner will buy that?

Well, if I was the owner, privately, I wouldn't want the word tank used, but I would think if my coach came to me and said, if you can assure me one more year, I'm gonna play some guys who deserve to be on film, and maybe I don't want to get some of our better players hurt. Yeah. I mean right now, there's a very large bottom of the NFL eight really bad teams.

You can talk the Bears in there.

Well, you had nine really bad teams, and the Bengals defense is maybe the worst of all of them.

Now, interestingly, the Raiders lost their quarterback yesterday, So now it's gonna be Desmond Ritter against Drew Locke in a race to the bottom.

Both these teams circling the drain.

Collin Well, the Raiders or Giants who Raiders are feisty, they're in every game, said, or Sanders will go number one. If you want a quarterback, it's gonna be Jalen Milroll won't go to It'll be Cam Ward or I think Sam Donald. Well, I mean who else?

So I gotta do my mock for Fox Sports. I reached out to a lot of people this weekend. I think you're on. I don't think Cam Wored is gonna go too. I like him a lot, but it doesn't sound like it's consensus.

Oh, this guy's definitely going well.

Yeah, everybody says that I don't Sam Donald back to New York.

Really, I'm just telling you Sam's gonna have a market.

Hey about this?

Look, Can I give you a name? He faced the Giants yesterday, Derek Carr.

He got hurt. Probably sounds like he's done for the season.

Has any fan base fired up for them?

There?

Are?

They fired up for Sam Donald again?

We've seen that Sam Donald Donald indoors with Kevin O'Connell, first round, top five pick USC.

I like him.

I would not wish the Giants on Sam Donald.

By the way, they missed the playoffs eleven of the last thirteen years.

The Giants are a terrible franchise right now. They're rotten. Colin Owen seven at home this year doing ten points a game at home.

No, I'm watching the two.

It's unwatchable and.

The kicker misses like a chip shot at the end. They According to our guys here, the Giants have a forty percent chance at the number one pick.

That's pretty damn good to get Shador sanders.

Antea Schaduur in Vegas, and maybe Dion feels really really cool.

You know, Zach the producer is a big Raiders guy. He wants Shadoor badly. Shadoor apparently has some connection to the Raiders. He's remember that Instagram story he did last week that we said he put legendary.

Apparently he's been doing that every week. I didn't. I don't follow him, so I don't know.

But what if he says, I don't want to go to the Giants, I want to go to the Raiders where this legendary quarterback is part of an owner.

Well, I think Shadeur. I think the Raiders and the Giants both have pieces. I'd rather go to the offensive coach, but they both have pieces.

I'd rather go to Vegas. Final story.

Colin Pittsburgh Steelers got to ten wins yesterday. They are now six and one with Russell Wilson under center. He did a pregame interview with Bill Tower, and Russ talked about how he believes Pittsburgh has all the pieces in.

Place to win the Super Bowl this season.

Saying, we got the right mentality, the right leadership, the right coach. There's nobody better. We're all seeking number seven.

He missed George Pickens, though yesterday he did not look sharp. Yeah, this offense is a little like Philadelphia and AJ Brown. It is not the same without a star receiver, by the way, Jalen okay from the pocket, good athlete, but needs AJ Brown, Russell Wilson, good athlete, okay from the pocket. These are you know, Russell Wilson is not Matt Stafford in the pocket or Joe Burrow. That's not what he is. He and Jalen Hurts movement and a good team around them is part of it. And AJ Brown not getting the ball in Philly, it's not the same offense. And George Pickens had a hamstring that popped Thursday or Friday, Like I didn't, I mean that offense was. They gave Cleveland multiple opportunities in the Browns his kick after.

Kick, it felt like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh both took their foot off the gas looking ahead to next week. Hey, we got her, you're not feeling great? Sit out pickings like power down. We need you next week Pittsburgh Philly this week huge game. Quick word on Jameis Winston. Okay, I know the Internet loves this guy. They think he's so amazing. His speeches are hilarious. Oh, he's a national treasure Colin. Jameis Winston is a quarterback. But it's not It's just not a thing. He's not a good football player.

He makes you get way too much reckless. I mean, he's got a nice arm, but he is. He is like Carson Wentz time six in the reckless department. Like he's just pick sixes in interception you have to bake in. He's a bad decisions still a good quarterback.

So I know people love him.

The Internet thinks he's so cool and they're rooting for him because of these silly speeches.

But gosh, he's a bad quarterback.

J Mack with the News.

Well that's the news, and thanks for stopping by the news.

Tweaking stuff. Baseball has done a really good job of this where they implement a pitchclock, the game is faster. They eliminate the defensive shift. Like baseball has done itself very well the last several years. It's helped ratings and attendance. It's tweaking. I don't want to overreact to the college football bracket, okay, because it just the year one of this. But what a bizarro mess this bracket was? Why did Oregon get punished for the best regular season and the best conference championship performance? They open up with the winner of Ohio State Tennessee, then would face Texas, then potentially Georgia. That's the hardest route, easily, they should be rewarded. Why does Penn State, which lost to Oregon and Ohio State have a much easier route. I don't understand it. I mean it's I think, honestly, I think the committee was so paralyzed and concerned what to do with a cruddy loser of the Clemson SMU game. They're sitting there thinking, oh, Obama, let's not reward the SEC. What are we gonna do with SMU? How about nobody cares? Let's start with that. How about take care of Oregon? How about flip Ohio State and Penn State? How can you give Oregon that route and Penn State an easier route? Penn State gets to play SMU at home and then Boise State.

I mean, get it.

So what you're basically saying is that the winner of the Mountain West. And for the record, I live out West and I'm not sure what mountain they're talking about, but the winner of the Mountain West is Trump's number two in the SEC. Give me a break. You've got to do what the NFL does, and you have to reset it. And again it's your one. I don't want to go crazy, but stop pandering to the ACC. They're lucky they get a team in, and I understood it like SMU. You everybody's on TV living in the moment. Oh, it's an unbelievable game with Clemson, and I get why they went in, But the ACC getting two teams in and the SEC only getting three in. And again, I think there's an argument for Bama that actually beat better teams and has better wins, but you can't. Hey Bama, you lost a Vandy and Oklahomo, so deal with it. But the committee giving Oregon that route is outrageous. It's just here what Stark on the seating issues from the committee.

I just looked to the NCAA basketball tournament.

You know, if you win your conference tournament, you get an automatic bid into the tournament. But then there's seedings, right, there's one seeds, there's two seeds, so on and so forth, And nowhere in there does it say if you win your conference championship you get an automatic one seed. But the reality of it is, if we went just off of ranking, we would be the third seed in this tournament as opposed to the And I'm not saying one's better than the other. I'm saying if we go by that model, yes there's automatic bids into the tournament, but that doesn't necessarily give you a let's call it a one seed where you get that buy in the first round.

So basically, Oregon may have to face as the team with the best regular season and the best conference championship performance in the second best conference, they may have to face the winner of the Buckeyees Tennessee. They will face, and I think those two teams could both win the Natty Texas and then Georgia and Penn State gets the yellow brick road.

What is going on?

And I really do I think the committee was just so concerned pandering to that wildly emotional SMU Clemson game. It's like, those teams can't win the Natty. Oregon can, Ohio State can Tennessee, can Texas can? Maybe? Penn State can?

Maybe?

But Penn State played Ohio State at home and lost, and played Oregon and soundly lost. How did they get an easier route? Makes no sense to me at all. Again, reseed it. That's what the NFL does, That's the way you should do it. I don't want to go crazy. It's year one, but yeah, I just Penn State what a route? I mean, if you had to ask Penn State which spotney you want to be in, they're like, can we play SMU first? N Boise State? That's the route they would have chosen. Oregon needs to get that route.

Who do you think should have gotten the sixth?

Then? I don't care. It can't be Penn State. You can't play two good teams lose to both. Yeah, you gotta win.

One of them.

I think was it Klatt who sat here a couple of weeks ago and said the recet and I was like, no way, And based on this, yeah, you're right, I got shifted.

How about Notre Dame. Notre Dame had one really bad Saturday. How about Tennessee, Well, I don't know.

Notre Dame's going to be live against Georgia.

I think that is an interesting matchup because this Georgia quarterback situation.

Like I know, the kid came in and then limited.

Listen, Georgia lost their quarter back to Texas and still won. Let's be honest, and they won an overtime. So that backup when you can win against Texas with a backup quarterback. It wasn't like he got hurt on the last series. They needed him in the second half and they won.

Georgia, I know they have the name brand and sec colin. I got some numbers here. Last twelve games. They're three and nine against the spread. The market has amazing well and they're not covering against Texas.

Yeah, they beat Texas twice. I don't care about the sports games though. Okay, well that's okay either way. They knew and yeah, but they keep winning those go either way games. It's like the Kansas City Chiefs. The Chiefs were a lot of close games and they win all of them.

Maybe another doink will go their way.

Or Georgia is alive, bet to win it all. I would not be surprised.

I would not be shocked if they lost a Notre Dame either.

I kind of would be a little bit. I would be It's Georgia.

What do you make of the warm weather teams like to cold.

It's not good Tennessee. I think I know you like Tennessee, but I think Tennessee they're a touchdown dog. I think Tennessee can beat Ohio. Say see weather like a Columbus forty two degrees in wet next week, in the next couple of weeks, that's what it's going to be.

That bad I thought would be in the You.

Live in Tennessee. Forty and wet and windy, and maybe snow flurries is bad.

Yeah.

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So there was a massive deal. Yesterday, Juan Soto went from the Yankees, where he stayed briefly, to the New York Mets and their billionaire owner, Steve Cohen. It was fifteen years and seven hundred and sixty five million dollars. And you know, it's actually great for baseball. It keeps the top seven to eight players in New York, LA and Philly.

What about the A's.

Nobody in Oakland cared about the A's. What about the small market teams. Pittsburgh's got a billionaire owner. They won't spend the money. That's a U problem. Pittsburgh, Sodo, Judge and Lindoor in New York, Harper and Philly, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts and Otawni and Los Angeles. Every league except the NFL benefits with certain superstars playing in certain markets. The NBA right now has a huge problem. Their best players are in Denver and Milwaukee and Minnesota and Oklahoma City and San Antonio, and it's crushing ratings. For the last three years, Fox Sports just had a massive up seventy three percent. A massive postseason in baseball because you had the biggest stars in the right cities. It's not a network, and networks are paying thirty percent of the revenue. It's not a network's responsibility to make Oakland's owner more legitimate, or for Tampa's billionaire owner to spend more money. These guys are just stuffing it in their pocket. Kansas City's owner, Pittsburgh's owners, Mariners owners. I grew up with the Mariners. There were times they had one of the richest owners and spend like it. And so New York can, and does Mets and Yankees Dodgers can. I mean, if you go look at why the postseason was up seventy three percent, it was stacked rosters. Stack roster in Philly with a superstar Harper, stacked rosters in New York, Los Angeles, the San Diego Padres, and now Francisco Lindor gets Juan Soto must watch. I mean, it's only four at bats. They're not going to solve any pitching issues. We'll see how the bullpen is. But sports socialism, like real socialism, doesn't really work, and people now are more distracted than ever, So you've got to give them big, superstar players in big recognizable brands, You're not just compeeding against other sports. You're competing, vying for people's attention against Netflix and TikTok and YouTube. Sorry, this is why companies like Disney do the Avengers and they do series and why Tom Cruise Mission impossible? Why does it work? We're all more distracted and it's not. I mean, you can say all you want. All these owners are billionaires. If Pittsburgh's doesn't want to spend the money, that is a pirates issue. So New York will spend the money, Dodgers will, Padres will, Atlanta generally does. Houston's willing to. All right, I'm in, but I'm not going to pander to the organization and the billionaires who don't want to spend the money. So I think it's great for baseball? Are you kidding me? If the Mets played the Dodgers, take out Bryce Harper, you could argue the five best players would be in that series in the NLCS, Soto, Lindor, Otani, Freeman, and Betts. Only Bryce Harper wouldn't be in that NLCS. Yeah, I'll sign up for it now. Too many people in the media, and I've heard fans they say this forever when I grew up as a kid. The best teams the Cincinnati Reds, the Dodgers, the Royals, the Pirates, the Phillies. They were all stacked. It wasn't even I mean, they were like teams that had better gms, better scouting departments, much better players. The Phillies for years, Pirates, Reds, Dodgers had better teams. San Francisco stunk forever. San Diego stunk forever. That's their problem. It's a network's responsibility to get numbers. And if you have four, five, or six or seven stacked teams, there's your revenue. And by the way, you can as a fan watch the visiting to team come into town for four days and beat your brains out. You'll still get to see Bryce Harper. So I thought it was a great day for baseball. I mean, is it better off going to Minnesota? And they can't afford anybody around him. We saw that with Joe Mauer. That wasn't good. Joey Vado and Cincinnati they couldn't afford him. Okay, we'll pay Vada. We can't pay anybody else. No thanks, I'll take the Mets, the Yankees, the Dodgers, the Braves, the Padres to me, it's Phillies just much more interesting. So yesterday, I mean, it was a really bad game. The Bears got hammered. But I want to say this in defense of Thomas Brown, who I do not know. They have asked him in three weeks to go from the passing game coordinator to the offensive coordinator to the head coach. His LinkedIn profile can't keep it straight. HR is going like, can you guys slow it down. We can't give him three raises in three new contracts in three weeks. What do you expect the kids over his head? So you can't ask anybody to have three different jobs in three different weeks in the NFL. And here's Caleb after the debacle. In fact, arguably the worst first half of ods vents by any team in the NFL in several years.

We got our ass kicked today, and there's no way around it. You can, like you said, they had I think at one point we were they had two going to half that had two forty something I believe, and we had nine for four total yards. So that's I mean, that's a regardless of how we feel, regardless of you know all of that. I mean, we got to hand it to us.

So Caleb Williams had concerns before he was drafted about Chicago. He didn't want them to go public. He's a good kid, he's really talented. But what he was concerned with was this. You might as well put a tent over the Bears. I mean, just look at what they've asked Thomas Brown to do in three weeks. Can you imagine that passing game coordinator, head coach. Yeah, I'm gonna say that's gonna be by the way, your first assignment is Kyle Shanahan. Yeah, I'm gonna say he's gonna be over his skis. So this has always been the question with Shaka. This is the most predictable team in the league. We said Matty Eberflus was on the hot seat week one in a division with excellent coaching. We have An O'Connell, Matt Lafleur, Dan Campbell, and Ben Johnson excellent coaching, and now they're on Thomas Brown. So you just they're asking the guy to do too much, too quickly. And again, three parking spots in three weeks for the Bears. I mean, give me a break. This is exactly what a lot of us we're concerned with. This is what they do to quarterbacks Green Bay. They draft you, you sit behind a Hall of famer, then they give you a great offensive coach, and you go on to win games. It's not a coincidence that Kansas City wins close games and the Packers develop great quarterbacks. It's a business model, not coincidental. Hour two right wrong, Next

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