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All right, it's our two. We're in LA. It's the Herd. Big story today. DeVante Adams for the Raiders doesn't get along with Antonio Peers particularly well and hasn't for a while, and they want to move him and bad teams and the Raiders have no shot in this division to win it. And I don't think they're at top seven or eight, nine, ten team in the AFC. I think they play hard, but there's no urgency for Antonio Peers for Tom Telesco to win today. So improve the roster. Get draft picks. You can probably get a third, fifth, maybe you can get a second in a player. I'd rather get draft picks at this point. Davonte Adams is expensive, but according to Diana Russini, the Jets and the Cowboys are interested. Craig Carton reporting this morning, on FS one that the Jets have already made a call in an offer. I do think it makes the Jets better. I think he makes anybody better, but I think Aaron Rodgers and Devonte Adams have some history, so it makes it better. I also think there's something to consider here. The Jets do not have a great offensive coordinator. It's a fairly remedial offense, which even Garrett Wilson complained about this week. So it's like they need extra juice to compensate for because Aaron moves now. He's running now, so you don't have to compensate for that. Aaron, at least athletically is moving now. His knee is all swelled up, he's banged up, he admits that, so I don't think they want him moving around a lot against Minnesota. He may have to, But if you don't love your offensive coordinator, if you don't think he's super clever, one of the ways to score is big splash plays. And if Garrett Wilson's you're only big splash play guy, you roll over coverage like Denver did, you kind of eliminate that so DeVante Adams would force you. With Garrett Wilson on the other side, you couldn't roll coverage, your safeties have to stay back, you can't cheat against on the run. So it does make the Jets better, and I think, actually the Jets are pretty good. I just don't love the staff. I like the Dallas staff with Mike Zimmer and McCarthy more. I just think Dallas has so many issues. They can't run, they can't stop the run. We all beat up on McCarthy, but McCarthy and Mike Zimmer are more than capable. This is a personnel issue with the Jets. I start to think it's a little more of a coaching issue, not a personnel issue. So I did see this. So the Athletic polled anonymous player pull and they asked the players. Over one hundred players responded. If you were to start an NFL team, who is the first non quarterback you would take? Well, Tyreek Hill one go going away and Justin Jefferson wide receiver was too. Both great players not denying that. I think if I was starting a fantasy team, that would be maybe my picks. But you know I've said this before, is Kansas City moved off Tyreek Hill and won Super Bowls. He hasn't won a playoff game in Miami. Players love hyper athleticism and flash. If you were telling me I had to build my team around five players that aren't a quarterback, I would here's my list. I'd start with Chris Jones. He has literally been the highest graded Chiefs defender for seven years and arguably it's been the best defense in the league for the last two He's unblockable. Number two would be Trent Williams. I don't want to hear that he's old. Andrew Whitworth won a Super Bowl left tackle at forty. Trent Williams said yesterday, I'm not quitting any time soon. Just to give you an idea of how good he is. He's the highest graded left tackle in the history of PFF. Highest graded, didn't matter his age. He in Gulf's good ends. The other thing is the Niners are forty and twenty two when he play, they are three and six when he does it. Number three would be Miles Garrett. He's the highest graded rush ind in the history of PFF. All you have to do is watch a Cleveland game. He completely dictates everything. TJ. Watt would be number four. He gets banged up a lot, but the Steelers in twelve games without TJ. Watt are one and eleven. That is insane. He does get banged up, so I bring him a notch below Miles Garrett or a Chris Jones number five. Max Crosby for as kind of reckless and physical. He never gets hurt. He's missed one start due to health in six years. Leads the NFL in tackles for loss over the last three seasons. So I've said this before, there is a conveyor belt on an annual basis College de pro for wide receivers. I'm not starting my team with the wide receiver. That's the one thing about DeVonta Adams I don't love is the fact that if you're going to pay Ceede Lamb and Devonte Adams, you could draft two receivers next year and hit on both. That happens on a regular basis. Pooka Nakua fifth round, nobody can stop him. You don't find You don't find a lot of great left tackles historically in the fifth round. Not a lot of Trent Williams body types in the fifth round. Now, Max Crosby was a later round, but TJ. Watt start looking at these Chris Jones, those tend to be higher in the draft board. And with that, Joel Klatt, the voice of college football, joining us on a Wednesday, as he is prone to do, the Klattmeister, joining us. All Right, I'm very good. You got UCLA Penn State Saturday at noon. Yes, so I want to start with this Bama Georgia. I always have this feeling that when you jump out to a huge lead and then you surrender a good part of the lead, you've won the game. But it's hard to sell your team at halftime play with the same intensity as you did. Okay, I thought Kaylin de Borg crushed it. I think I don't think he's sabing the recruiter. I think at Washington, oh, he's recruiting great right now, Well it's Alabama that helps. Like Clay Hilton recruited. Okay, at USC, everybody recruits. I mean did he yeah, I mean, well when he got fired, they had like the sixty fifth ranked class.

All right, it's our two. We're in LA. It's the Herd. Big story today. DeVante Adams for the Raiders doesn't get along with Antonio Peers particularly well and hasn't for a while, and they want to move him and bad teams and the Raiders have no shot in this division to win it. And I don't think they're at top seven or eight, nine, ten team in the AFC. I think they play hard, but there's no urgency for Antonio Peers for Tom Telesco to win today. So improve the roster. Get draft picks. You can probably get a third, fifth, maybe you can get a second in a player. I'd rather get draft picks at this point. Davonte Adams is expensive, but according to Diana Russini, the Jets and the Cowboys are interested. Craig Carton reporting this morning, on FS one that the Jets have already made a call in an offer. I do think it makes the Jets better. I think he makes anybody better, but I think Aaron Rodgers and Devonte Adams have some history, so it makes it better. I also think there's something to consider here. The Jets do not have a great offensive coordinator. It's a fairly remedial offense, which even Garrett Wilson complained about this week. So it's like they need extra juice to compensate for because Aaron moves now. He's running now, so you don't have to compensate for that. Aaron, at least athletically is moving now. His knee is all swelled up, he's banged up, he admits that, so I don't think they want him moving around a lot against Minnesota. He may have to, But if you don't love your offensive coordinator, if you don't think he's super clever, one of the ways to score is big splash plays. And if Garrett Wilson's you're only big splash play guy, you roll over coverage like Denver did, you kind of eliminate that so DeVante Adams would force you. With Garrett Wilson on the other side, you couldn't roll coverage, your safeties have to stay back, you can't cheat against on the run. So it does make the Jets better, and I think, actually the Jets are pretty good. I just don't love the staff. I like the Dallas staff with Mike Zimmer and McCarthy more. I just think Dallas has so many issues. They can't run, they can't stop the run. We all beat up on McCarthy, but McCarthy and Mike Zimmer are more than capable. This is a personnel issue with the Jets. I start to think it's a little more of a coaching issue, not a personnel issue. So I did see this. So the Athletic polled anonymous player pull and they asked the players. Over one hundred players responded. If you were to start an NFL team, who is the first non quarterback you would take? Well, Tyreek Hill one go going away and Justin Jefferson wide receiver was too. Both great players not denying that. I think if I was starting a fantasy team, that would be maybe my picks. But you know I've said this before, is Kansas City moved off Tyreek Hill and won Super Bowls. He hasn't won a playoff game in Miami. Players love hyper athleticism and flash. If you were telling me I had to build my team around five players that aren't a quarterback, I would here's my list. I'd start with Chris Jones. He has literally been the highest graded Chiefs defender for seven years and arguably it's been the best defense in the league for the last two He's unblockable. Number two would be Trent Williams. I don't want to hear that he's old. Andrew Whitworth won a Super Bowl left tackle at forty. Trent Williams said yesterday, I'm not quitting any time soon. Just to give you an idea of how good he is. He's the highest graded left tackle in the history of PFF. Highest graded, didn't matter his age. He in Gulf's good ends. The other thing is the Niners are forty and twenty two when he play, they are three and six when he does it. Number three would be Miles Garrett. He's the highest graded rush ind in the history of PFF. All you have to do is watch a Cleveland game. He completely dictates everything. TJ. Watt would be number four. He gets banged up a lot, but the Steelers in twelve games without TJ. Watt are one and eleven. That is insane. He does get banged up, so I bring him a notch below Miles Garrett or a Chris Jones number five. Max Crosby for as kind of reckless and physical. He never gets hurt. He's missed one start due to health in six years. Leads the NFL in tackles for loss over the last three seasons. So I've said this before, there is a conveyor belt on an annual basis College de pro for wide receivers. I'm not starting my team with the wide receiver. That's the one thing about DeVonta Adams I don't love is the fact that if you're going to pay Ceede Lamb and Devonte Adams, you could draft two receivers next year and hit on both. That happens on a regular basis. Pooka Nakua fifth round, nobody can stop him. You don't find You don't find a lot of great left tackles historically in the fifth round. Not a lot of Trent Williams body types in the fifth round. Now, Max Crosby was a later round, but TJ. Watt start looking at these Chris Jones, those tend to be higher in the draft board. And with that, Joel Klatt, the voice of college football, joining us on a Wednesday, as he is prone to do, the Klattmeister, joining us. All Right, I'm very good. You got UCLA Penn State Saturday at noon. Yes, so I want to start with this Bama Georgia. I always have this feeling that when you jump out to a huge lead and then you surrender a good part of the lead, you've won the game. But it's hard to sell your team at halftime play with the same intensity as you did. Okay, I thought Kaylin de Borg crushed it. I think I don't think he's sabing the recruiter. I think at Washington, oh, he's recruiting great right now, Well it's Alabama that helps. Like Clay Hilton recruited. Okay, at USC, everybody recruits. I mean did he yeah, I mean, well when he got fired, they had like the sixty fifth ranked class.

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I think you're like the boor's a very good recruiter. Washington. It was mean. I mean, look at some of those players that they had. Remember, recruiting guys to stay is just as important when you go there. He was there for two years. He recruited guys to stay. He got Ryan Williams to commit this year because Ryan Williams decommitted after Saban ended up retiring. Well, I understand that, but but he's got right now in next year's recruiting class. Alabama has the highest average rating for a player of anybody in the country, and they're the number two class in the country, right behind Ohio State. So he's out recruiting Kirby Smart right now. In his own conference. He just beat Kirby Smart. So I don't know if it's fair to say like he's not a great recruiter. I think he's actually a very good recruiter. I think he's the best. I think he develops players almost like nobody I've ever seen. I mean, I thought Michael Pennox in Indiana was interesting. I watched him at Washington and I'm like, what am I watching? Yeah, he finds a way. Here's where this is. This is where I would agree with you whether he's developing specifically the quarterback, or he's he's molding the offense to take advantage of what the quarterback can do best. He does those two things as well as anybody in the country. He won with a dual threat quarterback when he was at Sooux Falls and won a national championship. Michael Pennix turns into the best deep ball thrower I've seen in college football, maybe ever last season and now he's gotten Jaln Milrow. And you got a credit Millrow too, because he's obviously he's obviously committed himself to becoming a much better player. No, Milrow is a different player today, no doubt. I mean I last year you watched him, I didn't even think NFL I would argue he could be a first pick in the draft. Well, he's clearly the most dynamic player on the field. When he's on the field, he's just the most dynamic player. Was a beautiful deep ball and he's starting to become a much better thrower. Here's where Jalen Milro needs to continue to develop, and Kaylen de Boor will get him here. Okay, so if you just take last year's numbers, and he's a little bit better this year, But if you take last year's numbers, he was a top five quarterback. Jalen Milroe was throwing the ball down the field fifteen yards or more down the field at the line of scrimmage. Top five quarterback anything intermediate, he was about ninetieth. Okay, So why the disparity there, because it can't just be offensive structure. Something was going on. Well, here's where it comes into play, and quarterbacks will generally know this. If you're throwing the ball deep down the field, that's widely a pre snap decision, or you're taking the entire progression out and you're saying, Okay, i've got an alert, I've got a deep shot or a checkdown, so you're minimizing what the entirety of the offense is. And if you're throwing it deep, it's usually a pre snap decision. Same thing for at the line of scrimmage. If you're going to throw something short shorter than five yards, that is a pre snap decision based on alignment and structure of the defense. So pre snap top five quarterback in college football throwing the ball last year intermediate ninetieth. All the intermediate zone passing is post snap decisions. It's reading aggressions, it's reading zone movement keys, it's controlling the game from the pocket. That's where he needed to develop the most. And I've started to see this year him develop develop in that area, which makes him much more of a viable quarterback threat, not only this year for Alabama but for the NFL. He's been tremendous and that game plan early was incredibly efficient obviously for Alabama. So what are we to make of Colorado now? I will argue I could see the first player being taken in the draft being Travis Hunter and shaduor Sanders being the second. I mean that's possible. That's on the radar because he's a quarterback. That is possible. I mean Travis. I mean, if you were going to start a program and I said, you get two great players, a quarterback and a guy that can play both ways and score touchdowns for both, you'd want that if you just did that thing with the NFL, Like if you're if you're drafting in college football right now for a college football team, a non quarterback. Travis Hunter is by far the first player that what I make of them now? After last week? So Colorado beats UCF last week and they were about fourteen point dogs and then they go out there and smoke them by what was it, twenty eight? So basically they'd beat they beat Vegas by what forty two points, which is wild. Now here's what is wild is that it was as balanced and complete a victory as Colorado has had as a program in well over two decades, certainly the best performance that they've ever had under Dion Sanders. And here's the difference column, is that defensively in their front, they're actually playing legitimate defense. UCF was the number one rush team in the country, and they held UCF to under two hundred yards rushing. They were averaging three seventy five coming in, So their defensive front is much better. And all of a sudden they start running the ball. Do you know how? This was wild? And I'm gonna nerd out for a second. This is what I love about in season adjustments and development from a program. And this, by the way, is going to go to show you like how good of an actual football coach Deon sanders In is and is offensive coordinator Pat Shermer. They were primarily in ten personnel up until last week. Do you know what ten personnel is? One back, zero tight ends, four wide receivers. When you're in that personnel group, Colin, it's incredibly difficult to run the football because you can't control the edges of the defensive line, and you can't create conflict on the linebackers because it's just right in front of them. All you can do is zone zone zone. There's no polers, there's no misdirection. The run game is very stale in ten personnel, so they moved to eleven personnel, so they are about eighty percent ten personnel before UCF. In the UCF game, eleven personnel eighty percent of the time one back, one tight end, three wide receivers. Guess what that one tight end gives you the ability to do widen the edges. Control the edges in the run game. So now you can chop down the edge, whether you're spinning him back or keeping him front side, and you can run gap and power schemes, pulling guards, pulling that tied end, and you can create conflict on those linebackers because now they have to defend counter They've got to defend gap schemes like pulling guards, and it's more difficult for them. Once you do that, now you can throw the football when you want to rather than when you have to, which is what they did. The other thing that the eleven personnel formation did for them is it created some width on the offensive line. So guess what, Schudor didn't have to deal with edge pressure in his face right away because it was a further edge. You just moved the defensive end out a little bit. So that small change in personnel and schematics from Colorado made their offense far more difficult to defend. If they stick with that and continue to develop their run game, continue to develop this eleven personnel package, they could plausibly at their ceiling, beat anybody in the Big twelve. So that's why last weekend was such a massive game, not just for Colorado but for the entire conference and maybe even the country. And it should shut up all those naysayers about like he's only flash Dion can't coach, he's a marketer, really, because that adjustment and what they did was schematic brilliance and I loved it. If they face Utah yet or any good team Utah team that lost to Arizona at home on Saturday, we very could go either way. Okay, so you didn't say fake idea of college football. Nice win, But let's let's get to the big bulls. They beat Vegas by forty two. Vegas Okay, they play a car dealership, a casino, or a football team. Wow. Okay, so right now it's the merging of the Pac twelve formerly and the Big Ten. And I just throw this out there. I heard a lot about this. Oh those California teams when he gets cold. You know what I saw this weekend, Wisconsin wilt in the heat. Wisconsin. Literally they literally just were like, it is hot out here. We've never seen the sun. Has anybody ever considered that is such an outlandish take? So when they boxed Wisconsin twenty eight and second, it never gets hot in Wisconsin, not a lot. You act like this some sort of heat wave. It was seventy six degrees in La Point, like conson comes out here, everybody gets a sunburn, that has a badger hat on, and the team whisks on the field in La So I'm just saying, I'm watching USC. They're gonna you're gonna beat Minnesota this weekend, come back and beat Penn State. And wow, you got them beating Penn State. Penn State travel three thousand miles. You know what that does to college kids? NFL guys don't care. Okay, interesting, So my take interesting, USC is really young offensively. Michigan was a terrible matchup because they have the two best defensive linemen in the country. It's a terrible matchup. It was and USC again, freshman and sophomore go on the road, big house. Uh, they come back home again sloppy. I mean they played terrible in the first halfs Wisconsin's got the lead. Young people make mistakes, but when the young people have way more talent, they pulled away and dominated. My point is USC we all sold our stock. No, no, I won't sell stock in USC. I'm with you on this, Like listen, I know I'm bantering with you a little bit. I'm not selling my stock in USC. In fact, Uh, tomorrow I'll be releasing an episode of my podcast where I do a revised prediction of a college football playoff bracket. Maybe they're in it, Wow, Maybe they're in it. Well they now. I don't know if Penn State's a great matchup for them because of a defender named Abdul Carter. He's crazy, He's a phenomenal defender, and their inability to protect the passer could come to haunt them even when at home. Penn State comes out to Los Angeles. Was just talking with a friend last night. He's unblockable, so I know USC can't block him. That's their struggle. They had their their tackles are kids, that's right. That's interesting. I like USC though. I think that even if they were to lose to Penn State. Think about this way, Even if they were to lose to Penn State and they could roll off a bit of a win streak and beat Notre Dame at the end of the year, I think that would be if I'm not the second, that would be six straight wins in the season. They would be ten and two. Now you go to the SEC and you start thinking about how the SEC can kind of play out. Well, if LSU can get on a little bit of a run, like let's say they beat Ole Miss at home at night, which is not out of the question, and now all of a sudden, like they beat an Oklahoma team that's struggling on offense, and now all of a sudden, you can get LSU to ten and two, seven and one in the SEC. Well, if LSU is ten and two, seven to one in the SEC, they will be on the doorstep of the SEC championship game, and everybody will be clamoring for them to beware Colin in the College Football Playoff. If they're in the College Football Playoff, what happens to that ten and two Big ten team that beat them in Week one? They're in the College Football player ls. You can get sc even with a Penn State loss, you can get sc very close to the playoff, if not definitely in the playoff. How about this one. I watched Arch Manning so far this year. Yeah, he's good. Yeah. And there's a percentage of people, and this is America, we love celebs. We cut him down that are rooting against him because he's Manning. It's sad because he's a great kid, great family. Sure you know him, we know him. Yeah. I watch Arch Manning and I got to give this kid credit. He would start for virtually every other college team in America. There's no there's no questions. I mean, he probably doesn't start at Colorado and Texas and that might be it, and maybe Alabama because of Jalen Milrod. Every other kid's transferring and he hasn't set up peep. Yeah. And he's a Manning. Yeah. So I think that the future of football is so bright. I think in ten years, if you're still doing this, we're going to be talking about out an incredible NFL Sunday matchup between Arch Manning and Dylan Rayola. Like, there are some young players, and I can still consider him to be young because he's in experience. Is Nico Iomalayava at Tennessee? Like there are some maybe Jalen Miller. There are some players in college football that shudor Sanders Like, We're going to be watching these guys for a long time. Manning's one of them, whether he's the starter at Texas or not. And yours is their starter, and he's going to be their starter, and they want him back and he's their leader. But Arch has solidified them as as a bona fide national championship contender because now it doesn't matter if their quarterback stays healthy. There's still a premier team in the country with him at quarterback. Oh, they could win the national championship with Arch Manning and Quenu. I think that's true. I think that that's absolutely right. By the way, that's not even the wide receivers that are young in the country. I know you brought up Manning, but think about like ten years from now, we could be seeing a Manning Rayola, you know NFL matchup and one of them might have Ryan Williams on his team or Jeremiah Smith. These two freshman wide receiver from Ohio State, Jeremiah Smith and Ryan Williams, the true freshman at Alabama. The young players in our sport right now are incredible and it makes me incredibly excited for the future of our sport. I just love. And everybody's gonna say, well, he's a Manning. He doesn't need to you know, transfer for money. Yeah, like Peyton Manning is just you know, sending his brothers all his cash. The truth of the matter is it takes a certain value system and patience and maturity to not run when things go sideways. Well you don't get what you want. That family will know and I have been told by those around not directly by them, but those or those around them they understand two truths about developing quarterbacks for the long run. One is don't play too early, in particular in college, because you can be ruined. So he went there with the objective to develop for a couple of years without being the starter. That was the objective at Texas under a guy that's going to teach him an NFL style of system that'll be good for him long term. That's Steve Sarkisian. So that's number one. Number two will be the more reps that you get in college, the better your success is likely to be in the NFL. I've been through this with you on your show. If you look at the guys that have won Super Bowl since Tom Brady won his first Super Bowl, all the way back to the turn of the century, you know, in two thousand, you will see that on average, the quarterbacks that are winning super Bowl Bowls in the NFL stayed for about thirty six or more starts in college football their college career. Just average out their college career, they attempted well over fourteen hundred passes. A lot of them have over fifty to sixty touchdown passes, nine hundred completions. What do you see? Experience? Experience? Why Why is Jayden Daniels and bow Nicks having a lot of success. They're experienced players. They have been on a football field for more snaps than others, and and that's I think how you start to have success long term. And they know that about Arch. By the way, I'm not banging on transfers because Jaden went from a met program to LSU. But Arch is it a program where he would start for everybody else in the country and he'll start next year. Yeah, But I like the idea of, hey man, I'm this, this, this, and it's a I'm gonna sit and learn. It's just smart. I see guys transfer, and many of them, by the way, Steve Starkeghan isn't at other places, right, So fine, transfer where now? I mean not saying that there aren't some other places you could go and really get developed as an NFL passer in Ohio State might be one of those. There's some others out there. But and this is going to seem like a like a knock and maybe it is, But where are you gonna go? Like Auburn? That's a that's a dumpster fire right now? Offensively, you know, So it's it's also who are you being taught by? And and you could make the argument that even as a backup, Arch is being developed better for his long term no process as a quarterback under Steve Sarkisian then going to start for hey, Joe whatever at you name the college. One year ago I talked to Miller Moss at USC and he was not considering transferring, but he knew he wasn't going to play much. And I said, well, I said to him, I said, well, if you have to sit behind Caleb and learn from Lincoln, that's not terrible. No, And that was his take. It's like, he goes, I'm getting so much smarter than I would other places. So it's like, if you have the right boss. I always say this, don't chase money, there's a sea of it. Chase the right boss or management. There's a finite number of great If I can get Sark, I would sit under Sark, then have a defensive coach playing for a team that's five hundred and getting a bunch of reps. Yeah, and running some very college oriented offense versus an NFL oriented offense. And we've also seen guys take some time to develop in college and then late in their careers become incredible quarterbacks in college. I'm thinking of like Kyler was this way at Oklahoma, Joe Burrow was was this way. These guys that sat for a period and then found themselves at a place to have really high success. Jayden Daniels is one of those. So springs not bad, it's not bad, but you got to be in a position to succeed based on who you're playing for and what systems you're gonna run. If I'm a quarterback, I want to play for Ryan Day. I want to play for Lincoln Riley. I want to play for Steve Sarksian. I want to play for Kaylin de Bor. Yeah, no, I know. I mean they'll all cut that and use that in recruiting, but that's the truth. Those of the four guys, I would you know, I think Lane Kiffin's a guy I would consider Lane. Yes, yep, yeah, although they lost last week, I know well, I think Kentucky's okay. Gave Georgia fits to watch that one they did. I like Mark soops. Yeah, a lot of people do. Ye. Good you as well? Another good hair day. We're gonna you are just killing it? Why fights it short? Uncle Colin does not. I watched Nick Wright. He looks like a hipster from the six. He's a beat. Nick. Can I want to be part of the team. You know what, And you can clip this and you can show it to him. Nick cut your hair? He looks very cool. This is it doesn't happen overnight. That's right, good scene, you Bud.

I think you're like the boor's a very good recruiter. Washington. It was mean. I mean, look at some of those players that they had. Remember, recruiting guys to stay is just as important when you go there. He was there for two years. He recruited guys to stay. He got Ryan Williams to commit this year because Ryan Williams decommitted after Saban ended up retiring. Well, I understand that, but but he's got right now in next year's recruiting class. Alabama has the highest average rating for a player of anybody in the country, and they're the number two class in the country, right behind Ohio State. So he's out recruiting Kirby Smart right now. In his own conference. He just beat Kirby Smart. So I don't know if it's fair to say like he's not a great recruiter. I think he's actually a very good recruiter. I think he's the best. I think he develops players almost like nobody I've ever seen. I mean, I thought Michael Pennox in Indiana was interesting. I watched him at Washington and I'm like, what am I watching? Yeah, he finds a way. Here's where this is. This is where I would agree with you whether he's developing specifically the quarterback, or he's he's molding the offense to take advantage of what the quarterback can do best. He does those two things as well as anybody in the country. He won with a dual threat quarterback when he was at Sooux Falls and won a national championship. Michael Pennix turns into the best deep ball thrower I've seen in college football, maybe ever last season and now he's gotten Jaln Milrow. And you got a credit Millrow too, because he's obviously he's obviously committed himself to becoming a much better player. No, Milrow is a different player today, no doubt. I mean I last year you watched him, I didn't even think NFL I would argue he could be a first pick in the draft. Well, he's clearly the most dynamic player on the field. When he's on the field, he's just the most dynamic player. Was a beautiful deep ball and he's starting to become a much better thrower. Here's where Jalen Milro needs to continue to develop, and Kaylen de Boor will get him here. Okay, so if you just take last year's numbers, and he's a little bit better this year, But if you take last year's numbers, he was a top five quarterback. Jalen Milroe was throwing the ball down the field fifteen yards or more down the field at the line of scrimmage. Top five quarterback anything intermediate, he was about ninetieth. Okay, So why the disparity there, because it can't just be offensive structure. Something was going on. Well, here's where it comes into play, and quarterbacks will generally know this. If you're throwing the ball deep down the field, that's widely a pre snap decision, or you're taking the entire progression out and you're saying, Okay, i've got an alert, I've got a deep shot or a checkdown, so you're minimizing what the entirety of the offense is. And if you're throwing it deep, it's usually a pre snap decision. Same thing for at the line of scrimmage. If you're going to throw something short shorter than five yards, that is a pre snap decision based on alignment and structure of the defense. So pre snap top five quarterback in college football throwing the ball last year intermediate ninetieth. All the intermediate zone passing is post snap decisions. It's reading aggressions, it's reading zone movement keys, it's controlling the game from the pocket. That's where he needed to develop the most. And I've started to see this year him develop develop in that area, which makes him much more of a viable quarterback threat, not only this year for Alabama but for the NFL. He's been tremendous and that game plan early was incredibly efficient obviously for Alabama. So what are we to make of Colorado now? I will argue I could see the first player being taken in the draft being Travis Hunter and shaduor Sanders being the second. I mean that's possible. That's on the radar because he's a quarterback. That is possible. I mean Travis. I mean, if you were going to start a program and I said, you get two great players, a quarterback and a guy that can play both ways and score touchdowns for both, you'd want that if you just did that thing with the NFL, Like if you're if you're drafting in college football right now for a college football team, a non quarterback. Travis Hunter is by far the first player that what I make of them now? After last week? So Colorado beats UCF last week and they were about fourteen point dogs and then they go out there and smoke them by what was it, twenty eight? So basically they'd beat they beat Vegas by what forty two points, which is wild. Now here's what is wild is that it was as balanced and complete a victory as Colorado has had as a program in well over two decades, certainly the best performance that they've ever had under Dion Sanders. And here's the difference column, is that defensively in their front, they're actually playing legitimate defense. UCF was the number one rush team in the country, and they held UCF to under two hundred yards rushing. They were averaging three seventy five coming in, So their defensive front is much better. And all of a sudden they start running the ball. Do you know how? This was wild? And I'm gonna nerd out for a second. This is what I love about in season adjustments and development from a program. And this, by the way, is going to go to show you like how good of an actual football coach Deon sanders In is and is offensive coordinator Pat Shermer. They were primarily in ten personnel up until last week. Do you know what ten personnel is? One back, zero tight ends, four wide receivers. When you're in that personnel group, Colin, it's incredibly difficult to run the football because you can't control the edges of the defensive line, and you can't create conflict on the linebackers because it's just right in front of them. All you can do is zone zone zone. There's no polers, there's no misdirection. The run game is very stale in ten personnel, so they moved to eleven personnel, so they are about eighty percent ten personnel before UCF. In the UCF game, eleven personnel eighty percent of the time one back, one tight end, three wide receivers. Guess what that one tight end gives you the ability to do widen the edges. Control the edges in the run game. So now you can chop down the edge, whether you're spinning him back or keeping him front side, and you can run gap and power schemes, pulling guards, pulling that tied end, and you can create conflict on those linebackers because now they have to defend counter They've got to defend gap schemes like pulling guards, and it's more difficult for them. Once you do that, now you can throw the football when you want to rather than when you have to, which is what they did. The other thing that the eleven personnel formation did for them is it created some width on the offensive line. So guess what, Schudor didn't have to deal with edge pressure in his face right away because it was a further edge. You just moved the defensive end out a little bit. So that small change in personnel and schematics from Colorado made their offense far more difficult to defend. If they stick with that and continue to develop their run game, continue to develop this eleven personnel package, they could plausibly at their ceiling, beat anybody in the Big twelve. So that's why last weekend was such a massive game, not just for Colorado but for the entire conference and maybe even the country. And it should shut up all those naysayers about like he's only flash Dion can't coach, he's a marketer, really, because that adjustment and what they did was schematic brilliance and I loved it. If they face Utah yet or any good team Utah team that lost to Arizona at home on Saturday, we very could go either way. Okay, so you didn't say fake idea of college football. Nice win, But let's let's get to the big bulls. They beat Vegas by forty two. Vegas Okay, they play a car dealership, a casino, or a football team. Wow. Okay, so right now it's the merging of the Pac twelve formerly and the Big Ten. And I just throw this out there. I heard a lot about this. Oh those California teams when he gets cold. You know what I saw this weekend, Wisconsin wilt in the heat. Wisconsin. Literally they literally just were like, it is hot out here. We've never seen the sun. Has anybody ever considered that is such an outlandish take? So when they boxed Wisconsin twenty eight and second, it never gets hot in Wisconsin, not a lot. You act like this some sort of heat wave. It was seventy six degrees in La Point, like conson comes out here, everybody gets a sunburn, that has a badger hat on, and the team whisks on the field in La So I'm just saying, I'm watching USC. They're gonna you're gonna beat Minnesota this weekend, come back and beat Penn State. And wow, you got them beating Penn State. Penn State travel three thousand miles. You know what that does to college kids? NFL guys don't care. Okay, interesting, So my take interesting, USC is really young offensively. Michigan was a terrible matchup because they have the two best defensive linemen in the country. It's a terrible matchup. It was and USC again, freshman and sophomore go on the road, big house. Uh, they come back home again sloppy. I mean they played terrible in the first halfs Wisconsin's got the lead. Young people make mistakes, but when the young people have way more talent, they pulled away and dominated. My point is USC we all sold our stock. No, no, I won't sell stock in USC. I'm with you on this, Like listen, I know I'm bantering with you a little bit. I'm not selling my stock in USC. In fact, Uh, tomorrow I'll be releasing an episode of my podcast where I do a revised prediction of a college football playoff bracket. Maybe they're in it, Wow, Maybe they're in it. Well they now. I don't know if Penn State's a great matchup for them because of a defender named Abdul Carter. He's crazy, He's a phenomenal defender, and their inability to protect the passer could come to haunt them even when at home. Penn State comes out to Los Angeles. Was just talking with a friend last night. He's unblockable, so I know USC can't block him. That's their struggle. They had their their tackles are kids, that's right. That's interesting. I like USC though. I think that even if they were to lose to Penn State. Think about this way, Even if they were to lose to Penn State and they could roll off a bit of a win streak and beat Notre Dame at the end of the year, I think that would be if I'm not the second, that would be six straight wins in the season. They would be ten and two. Now you go to the SEC and you start thinking about how the SEC can kind of play out. Well, if LSU can get on a little bit of a run, like let's say they beat Ole Miss at home at night, which is not out of the question, and now all of a sudden, like they beat an Oklahoma team that's struggling on offense, and now all of a sudden, you can get LSU to ten and two, seven and one in the SEC. Well, if LSU is ten and two, seven to one in the SEC, they will be on the doorstep of the SEC championship game, and everybody will be clamoring for them to beware Colin in the College Football Playoff. If they're in the College Football Playoff, what happens to that ten and two Big ten team that beat them in Week one? They're in the College Football player ls. You can get sc even with a Penn State loss, you can get sc very close to the playoff, if not definitely in the playoff. How about this one. I watched Arch Manning so far this year. Yeah, he's good. Yeah. And there's a percentage of people, and this is America, we love celebs. We cut him down that are rooting against him because he's Manning. It's sad because he's a great kid, great family. Sure you know him, we know him. Yeah. I watch Arch Manning and I got to give this kid credit. He would start for virtually every other college team in America. There's no there's no questions. I mean, he probably doesn't start at Colorado and Texas and that might be it, and maybe Alabama because of Jalen Milrod. Every other kid's transferring and he hasn't set up peep. Yeah. And he's a Manning. Yeah. So I think that the future of football is so bright. I think in ten years, if you're still doing this, we're going to be talking about out an incredible NFL Sunday matchup between Arch Manning and Dylan Rayola. Like, there are some young players, and I can still consider him to be young because he's in experience. Is Nico Iomalayava at Tennessee? Like there are some maybe Jalen Miller. There are some players in college football that shudor Sanders Like, We're going to be watching these guys for a long time. Manning's one of them, whether he's the starter at Texas or not. And yours is their starter, and he's going to be their starter, and they want him back and he's their leader. But Arch has solidified them as as a bona fide national championship contender because now it doesn't matter if their quarterback stays healthy. There's still a premier team in the country with him at quarterback. Oh, they could win the national championship with Arch Manning and Quenu. I think that's true. I think that that's absolutely right. By the way, that's not even the wide receivers that are young in the country. I know you brought up Manning, but think about like ten years from now, we could be seeing a Manning Rayola, you know NFL matchup and one of them might have Ryan Williams on his team or Jeremiah Smith. These two freshman wide receiver from Ohio State, Jeremiah Smith and Ryan Williams, the true freshman at Alabama. The young players in our sport right now are incredible and it makes me incredibly excited for the future of our sport. I just love. And everybody's gonna say, well, he's a Manning. He doesn't need to you know, transfer for money. Yeah, like Peyton Manning is just you know, sending his brothers all his cash. The truth of the matter is it takes a certain value system and patience and maturity to not run when things go sideways. Well you don't get what you want. That family will know and I have been told by those around not directly by them, but those or those around them they understand two truths about developing quarterbacks for the long run. One is don't play too early, in particular in college, because you can be ruined. So he went there with the objective to develop for a couple of years without being the starter. That was the objective at Texas under a guy that's going to teach him an NFL style of system that'll be good for him long term. That's Steve Sarkisian. So that's number one. Number two will be the more reps that you get in college, the better your success is likely to be in the NFL. I've been through this with you on your show. If you look at the guys that have won Super Bowl since Tom Brady won his first Super Bowl, all the way back to the turn of the century, you know, in two thousand, you will see that on average, the quarterbacks that are winning super Bowl Bowls in the NFL stayed for about thirty six or more starts in college football their college career. Just average out their college career, they attempted well over fourteen hundred passes. A lot of them have over fifty to sixty touchdown passes, nine hundred completions. What do you see? Experience? Experience? Why Why is Jayden Daniels and bow Nicks having a lot of success. They're experienced players. They have been on a football field for more snaps than others, and and that's I think how you start to have success long term. And they know that about Arch. By the way, I'm not banging on transfers because Jaden went from a met program to LSU. But Arch is it a program where he would start for everybody else in the country and he'll start next year. Yeah, But I like the idea of, hey man, I'm this, this, this, and it's a I'm gonna sit and learn. It's just smart. I see guys transfer, and many of them, by the way, Steve Starkeghan isn't at other places, right, So fine, transfer where now? I mean not saying that there aren't some other places you could go and really get developed as an NFL passer in Ohio State might be one of those. There's some others out there. But and this is going to seem like a like a knock and maybe it is, But where are you gonna go? Like Auburn? That's a that's a dumpster fire right now? Offensively, you know, So it's it's also who are you being taught by? And and you could make the argument that even as a backup, Arch is being developed better for his long term no process as a quarterback under Steve Sarkisian then going to start for hey, Joe whatever at you name the college. One year ago I talked to Miller Moss at USC and he was not considering transferring, but he knew he wasn't going to play much. And I said, well, I said to him, I said, well, if you have to sit behind Caleb and learn from Lincoln, that's not terrible. No, And that was his take. It's like, he goes, I'm getting so much smarter than I would other places. So it's like, if you have the right boss. I always say this, don't chase money, there's a sea of it. Chase the right boss or management. There's a finite number of great If I can get Sark, I would sit under Sark, then have a defensive coach playing for a team that's five hundred and getting a bunch of reps. Yeah, and running some very college oriented offense versus an NFL oriented offense. And we've also seen guys take some time to develop in college and then late in their careers become incredible quarterbacks in college. I'm thinking of like Kyler was this way at Oklahoma, Joe Burrow was was this way. These guys that sat for a period and then found themselves at a place to have really high success. Jayden Daniels is one of those. So springs not bad, it's not bad, but you got to be in a position to succeed based on who you're playing for and what systems you're gonna run. If I'm a quarterback, I want to play for Ryan Day. I want to play for Lincoln Riley. I want to play for Steve Sarksian. I want to play for Kaylin de Bor. Yeah, no, I know. I mean they'll all cut that and use that in recruiting, but that's the truth. Those of the four guys, I would you know, I think Lane Kiffin's a guy I would consider Lane. Yes, yep, yeah, although they lost last week, I know well, I think Kentucky's okay. Gave Georgia fits to watch that one they did. I like Mark soops. Yeah, a lot of people do. Ye. Good you as well? Another good hair day. We're gonna you are just killing it? Why fights it short? Uncle Colin does not. I watched Nick Wright. He looks like a hipster from the six. He's a beat. Nick. Can I want to be part of the team. You know what, And you can clip this and you can show it to him. Nick cut your hair? He looks very cool. This is it doesn't happen overnight. That's right, good scene, you Bud.

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So the DeVante We're gonna go to the Devonte Adams story.

So the DeVante We're gonna go to the Devonte Adams story.

Jordan Chultz is all over this, but I do want to point out one of our colleagues here, Eric me and Jennie over at First Things First yesterday said something very interesting that Aaron Rodgers should just consider going over Robert Sala's head. Go right to the owner, Woody Johnson, and say, hey, can we get Devonte Adams.

Jordan Chultz is all over this, but I do want to point out one of our colleagues here, Eric me and Jennie over at First Things First yesterday said something very interesting that Aaron Rodgers should just consider going over Robert Sala's head. Go right to the owner, Woody Johnson, and say, hey, can we get Devonte Adams.

Here's the audio.

Here's the audio.

I probably call Woody, Like, if you're Aaron Rodgers, you called Woody directly. Yeah, Hey, Woody, looks like Devonte's gonna be available. I really want him. I forget about the other steps. Go to the owner, the only.

I probably call Woody, Like, if you're Aaron Rodgers, you called Woody directly. Yeah, Hey, Woody, looks like Devonte's gonna be available. I really want him. I forget about the other steps. Go to the owner, the only.

Owners ownershipbody, call Woody and and look wood he's gone all in and the Jets have gone all in on this decision with Aaron Rodgers, and now you're on an opportunity to get a receiver that he has a great relationship with.

Owners ownershipbody, call Woody and and look wood he's gone all in and the Jets have gone all in on this decision with Aaron Rodgers, and now you're on an opportunity to get a receiver that he has a great relationship with.

There's no learning curve, and if it doesn't work out, you're probably gonna scrap the whole thing.

There's no learning curve, and if it doesn't work out, you're probably gonna scrap the whole thing.

Anyways, Yeah, I think what would happen, however, is what does that do to the solid relationship. There's a lot of back and forth or you know, what you hear from the public and what we hear from people that don't want to be public. Uh, is that Aaron and Salah it ain't great. And we've seen instances at the podium where it's not great. Well passive aggressive stuff, but you know they'll say the right stuff. But if you do that, if you usurp Sala's power, you've you've burned that relationship. Now, maybe it doesn't matter to Aaron because Aaron's got like Aaron's thing is I'm worried about my legacy. I'm not sitting here worried about SLA's career. What what career? He hasn't been a good head coach. He doesn't.

Anyways, Yeah, I think what would happen, however, is what does that do to the solid relationship. There's a lot of back and forth or you know, what you hear from the public and what we hear from people that don't want to be public. Uh, is that Aaron and Salah it ain't great. And we've seen instances at the podium where it's not great. Well passive aggressive stuff, but you know they'll say the right stuff. But if you do that, if you usurp Sala's power, you've you've burned that relationship. Now, maybe it doesn't matter to Aaron because Aaron's got like Aaron's thing is I'm worried about my legacy. I'm not sitting here worried about SLA's career. What what career? He hasn't been a good head coach. He doesn't.

Again, I'm not bashing Salad. He seems like a great guy. He just hasn't been a good head coach. And you could argue, well, look at the crap quarterbacks.

Again, I'm not bashing Salad. He seems like a great guy. He just hasn't been a good head coach. And you could argue, well, look at the crap quarterbacks.

He's head.

He's head.

Fine, he's that a good one now, right, Woody Johnson, go recruit Aaron Rodgers.

Fine, he's that a good one now, right, Woody Johnson, go recruit Aaron Rodgers.

He jumped on the private jet.

He jumped on the private jet.

There's there's here's the fair thing to say. Four games. They've looked good in one against the worst team in the league. And it is a head coach's job. Now, he had some defensive injuries. But I think I think the real issue here is Aaron w Alan Lazard. Aaron wanted Nat Hackett. Aaron likes to seek comfort. I get it. Okay, Brady did that too, but he got you Gronk and ab and Lenny Fernett. So Tom wants to like you. But Tom understands just get dudes that can play, you know. I mean, for Aaron, it's more about friend first, significant production. Second. It feels like if Nat Hackett is who you're gonna label as the OC, then you're not really I don't even know the guy, but you watch them play. Garrett Wilson said it this week. The offense on television looks remedial. They're like twenty eighth in the league in motion, they just don't look. I mean, certain things pop on TV. If you watch, for instance, Bama Georgia, you can see fifteen NFL players. Right, if you watch Lamar Jackson, the speed of Baltimore's offense or the speed of Kansas City's defense, it pops on TV. Jadeen Daniel's twitchiness, you watch the Jets offense on TV, or like, they don't move. Basic, It's basic.

There's there's here's the fair thing to say. Four games. They've looked good in one against the worst team in the league. And it is a head coach's job. Now, he had some defensive injuries. But I think I think the real issue here is Aaron w Alan Lazard. Aaron wanted Nat Hackett. Aaron likes to seek comfort. I get it. Okay, Brady did that too, but he got you Gronk and ab and Lenny Fernett. So Tom wants to like you. But Tom understands just get dudes that can play, you know. I mean, for Aaron, it's more about friend first, significant production. Second. It feels like if Nat Hackett is who you're gonna label as the OC, then you're not really I don't even know the guy, but you watch them play. Garrett Wilson said it this week. The offense on television looks remedial. They're like twenty eighth in the league in motion, they just don't look. I mean, certain things pop on TV. If you watch, for instance, Bama Georgia, you can see fifteen NFL players. Right, if you watch Lamar Jackson, the speed of Baltimore's offense or the speed of Kansas City's defense, it pops on TV. Jadeen Daniel's twitchiness, you watch the Jets offense on TV, or like, they don't move. Basic, It's basic.

So we've talked about this.

So we've talked about this.

The Hussan Reddick situation is ugly and it's over money. Well, what the hell does Joe Douglas care? It's not your money. And oh, by the way, if this thing flops, you're gonna be fired anyway, So just spend the money. And I think the same applies to DeVante Adams in this draft pick. So they want a second in a.

The Hussan Reddick situation is ugly and it's over money. Well, what the hell does Joe Douglas care? It's not your money. And oh, by the way, if this thing flops, you're gonna be fired anyway, So just spend the money. And I think the same applies to DeVante Adams in this draft pick. So they want a second in a.

Fifth or whatever.

Fifth or whatever.

Who cares, Joe Douglas, You're not gonna be here next year if you guys don't make the playoffs.

Who cares, Joe Douglas, You're not gonna be here next year if you guys don't make the playoffs.

You would agree with that, right, the GM and the coach are gone.

You would agree with that, right, the GM and the coach are gone.

It's over.

It's over.

They had their chance.

They had their chance.

Well here's the thing. If they don't win, right, are you bringing Aaron back? And if the answer is yes, then Saula is in trouble.

Well here's the thing. If they don't win, right, are you bringing Aaron back? And if the answer is yes, then Saula is in trouble.

I think Aaron is already in trouble.

I think Aaron is already in trouble.

It's playoffs or bus, right, we would agree, I think. So, then what is the hold up?

It's playoffs or bus, right, we would agree, I think. So, then what is the hold up?

Go get Devanta Adams, go pay us on Reddick, go all in. What's the worst that can happen? You get fired? Well, you're probably getting fired anyway.

Go get Devanta Adams, go pay us on Reddick, go all in. What's the worst that can happen? You get fired? Well, you're probably getting fired anyway.

Is that fair to say?

Is that fair to say?

It seems?

It seems?

I mean they've gone I think over a decade without a playoff appearance. Collin, it's the longest in the league, eleven or twelve years now, don't remind me was the.

I mean they've gone I think over a decade without a playoff appearance. Collin, it's the longest in the league, eleven or twelve years now, don't remind me was the.

Last one to get to the playoffs. With the stands down, I remember, all right, let's go to the Dolphins. They are a train wreck.

Last one to get to the playoffs. With the stands down, I remember, all right, let's go to the Dolphins. They are a train wreck.

They got two of the highest paid receivers in football, but ever since Tua went down, the offense hasn't been able to do anything. They scored twelve points on Monday night, and a few Dolphins fans in the stands let their feelings be known. Mike McDaniel can hear the fans, and he knows where they're coming from.

They got two of the highest paid receivers in football, but ever since Tua went down, the offense hasn't been able to do anything. They scored twelve points on Monday night, and a few Dolphins fans in the stands let their feelings be known. Mike McDaniel can hear the fans, and he knows where they're coming from.

I guess it didn't hit me with surprise. You know, I think people invest and have you know, to to go and believe in a team that has, you know, bottom line, the droughts that we this organization has incurred.

I guess it didn't hit me with surprise. You know, I think people invest and have you know, to to go and believe in a team that has, you know, bottom line, the droughts that we this organization has incurred.

You know, I don't take that lightly, So.

You know, I don't take that lightly, So.

I would be dishonest if I've told you that that I didn't expect that.

I would be dishonest if I've told you that that I didn't expect that.

A noticeable change from Mike mcdail and let the podium, very morose, wearing all black, like he just came from a funeral.

A noticeable change from Mike mcdail and let the podium, very morose, wearing all black, like he just came from a funeral.

This is a guy who came in remember that in the offseason.

This is a guy who came in remember that in the offseason.

He was like, we're like White and he had like the new new glasses and he was.

He was like, we're like White and he had like the new new glasses and he was.

Like cool, Miami, Mike. That guy looks sad and depressed and he knows the writing stuff.

Like cool, Miami, Mike. That guy looks sad and depressed and he knows the writing stuff.

I think, say not, how do they not have a legit backup? How do they not have Taylor? Now?

I think, say not, how do they not have a legit backup? How do they not have Taylor? Now?

No, they stole Mike White from the Jets man in their backup?

No, they stole Mike White from the Jets man in their backup?

Where's he? What happened? I mean, you gotta have a Tyrod Taylor. You have to have somebody that can if if two is out for a month, you can win two of those four games. Because New England's finishing fourth. So you knew you were not as good as Buffalo. You can't beat Buffalo. You haven't beat Buffalo for five years. You can't stop Josh Allen. You knew you were in a race with the Jets to win the division, and Aaron's coming back. You cannot go into this season without a viable backup quarterback. A new tool was one hit away. That's not a knee hit, that's a GM. I got a horrible job.

Where's he? What happened? I mean, you gotta have a Tyrod Taylor. You have to have somebody that can if if two is out for a month, you can win two of those four games. Because New England's finishing fourth. So you knew you were not as good as Buffalo. You can't beat Buffalo. You haven't beat Buffalo for five years. You can't stop Josh Allen. You knew you were in a race with the Jets to win the division, and Aaron's coming back. You cannot go into this season without a viable backup quarterback. A new tool was one hit away. That's not a knee hit, that's a GM. I got a horrible job.

Who you got?

Who you got?

Dolphins at Patriots? It's a Fox game, Sanchez said, he's calling it. Patriots are minus.

Dolphins at Patriots? It's a Fox game, Sanchez said, he's calling it. Patriots are minus.

One the Patriots. I think I would take no England.

One the Patriots. I think I would take no England.

I think I'm on the Patriots too. This is it.

I think I'm on the Patriots too. This is it.

I'm just telling you this Miami team's getting bullied in the trenches. They were the number one rushing offense, one of the best in like the last fifteen years.

I'm just telling you this Miami team's getting bullied in the trenches. They were the number one rushing offense, one of the best in like the last fifteen years.

Last year they're thirty second this year. They can't do anything.

Last year they're thirty second this year. They can't do anything.

Can't block, can't pass, block, can't run, block like Tyreek Hill. It's bubbling over. Did you see his tweet this morning? Woke up to trade rumors or something like that. I wonder if he was watching the show. Anyways, Let's go to the final story, Colin.

Can't block, can't pass, block, can't run, block like Tyreek Hill. It's bubbling over. Did you see his tweet this morning? Woke up to trade rumors or something like that. I wonder if he was watching the show. Anyways, Let's go to the final story, Colin.

That's Derrick Henry.

That's Derrick Henry.

The Ravens signed him, and you could imagine that that eighty seven yard touchdown run he had against the Bills. That's what they envisioned. Well, Baltimore. I mean, listen, you already had Lamar Jackson one of the best weapons in football.

The Ravens signed him, and you could imagine that that eighty seven yard touchdown run he had against the Bills. That's what they envisioned. Well, Baltimore. I mean, listen, you already had Lamar Jackson one of the best weapons in football.

Now you add a Hall of Fame running back.

Now you add a Hall of Fame running back.

John Harbaugh talked about just how much of an impact Henry's had on this squad.

John Harbaugh talked about just how much of an impact Henry's had on this squad.

He's a very you know, just tough human being for sure, But you really proof is in the results.

He's a very you know, just tough human being for sure, But you really proof is in the results.

I mean you kind of go by what you see.

I mean you kind of go by what you see.

So when we're evaluating the possibility of bringing them in here, I think we just looked at how he's been playing, you know, and to see that continue on. Obviously he's great, but we did expect him to play this way.

So when we're evaluating the possibility of bringing them in here, I think we just looked at how he's been playing, you know, and to see that continue on. Obviously he's great, but we did expect him to play this way.

He's such a perfect Baltimore Raven Like if I just said one word, one or two words to describe every franchise, Ravens to me are tough, Lamar tough, and I think Derrick Henry is Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson together. I gotta tell you, I say say this all the time. If you gave me one team to watch every week, it would be the Ravens. I love watching them play. I like the Niners too. I think the Niners and Kyle have so many weapons. They're so fun. I love watching the Ravens play.

He's such a perfect Baltimore Raven Like if I just said one word, one or two words to describe every franchise, Ravens to me are tough, Lamar tough, and I think Derrick Henry is Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson together. I gotta tell you, I say say this all the time. If you gave me one team to watch every week, it would be the Ravens. I love watching them play. I like the Niners too. I think the Niners and Kyle have so many weapons. They're so fun. I love watching the Ravens play.

So does that mean you're leaning Ravens only minus two and a half at Cincinnati?

So does that mean you're leaning Ravens only minus two and a half at Cincinnati?

It's a stay away game.

It's a stay away game.

Something's going on with this game.

Something's going on with this game.

I get really concerned. It's a division rival. You come off a standalone game when you look like the best team in the league history. This is a weird LEA by the way, a lot of the wise guys are struggling this year. It's been the underdogs are crushing and it's this has been a there's no I mean, we thought New England was terrible. They're a one point game. The gap this year feels small, and it is always smaller than college football. There's no eight point favorites.

I get really concerned. It's a division rival. You come off a standalone game when you look like the best team in the league history. This is a weird LEA by the way, a lot of the wise guys are struggling this year. It's been the underdogs are crushing and it's this has been a there's no I mean, we thought New England was terrible. They're a one point game. The gap this year feels small, and it is always smaller than college football. There's no eight point favorites.

They want they want parody and they got it right.

They want they want parody and they got it right.

I mean, what about how about the Bears game with Carolina this week?

I mean, what about how about the Bears game with Carolina this week?

I know you remember I say in Carolina. I'm slowly backing off that.

I know you remember I say in Carolina. I'm slowly backing off that.

I mean, the money's invested, but it feels like it's lid on fire at this point.

I mean, the money's invested, but it feels like it's lid on fire at this point.

I'm not feeling great about Carolina.

I'm not feeling great about Carolina.

I think Caleb keeps getting better every week. So it's like I can't look at Caleb like every week everything gets better, So I can't like two weeks ago and I've taken Carolina with Dalton. Now it's like, I think I like Chicago.

I think Caleb keeps getting better every week. So it's like I can't look at Caleb like every week everything gets better, So I can't like two weeks ago and I've taken Carolina with Dalton. Now it's like, I think I like Chicago.

So tell me which Bengals defense shows up, the one that got carved up by Dalton or the one that held Patrick Mahomes to one hundred fifty yards passing.

So tell me which Bengals defense shows up, the one that got carved up by Dalton or the one that held Patrick Mahomes to one hundred fifty yards passing.

I don't know. That's why it's a stay away game.

I don't know. That's why it's a stay away game.

Something something tells me the Bengals are going to show up and win this game, which seems shocking after what you just offered the radio.

Something something tells me the Bengals are going to show up and win this game, which seems shocking after what you just offered the radio.

But that's this league, right, So is j Mack with the news?

But that's this league, right, So is j Mack with the news?

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

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

He is, without question, the greatest player in this league that gets no respect, and I'll tell you who that is next.

He is, without question, the greatest player in this league that gets no respect, and I'll tell you who that is next.

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So Jared Goff set an NFL record on Monday night. He completed eighteen of eighteen passes in the game and he didn't get a game ball. Dan Campbell felt terrible, laughed about it after the game, gave him a game ball yesterday. Dan Campbell's a good guy. But it does point to what has been something I can remember Jared Goff out dueling Mahomes at the Coliseum in LA. Game was supposed to be in Mexico. It got moved back to LA and put on a clinic. The kid is really good. He was good at Cal. He's a number one pick, but he's not as memorable because he's kind of like Matt Ryan with a better arm. But just to give you a sense, we always do blind resume about three times a year. Let's do blind resume now. I'm counting all of last year and four games this year, so about twenty games. Not a year and a half, but a year and something. So this is a pretty good catalog of what Jared Goff can do. And we'll play blind resume. So I don't know what this is. So fifteen and six record, sixty eight percent completion percentage, thirty seven touchdowns. The blind resume basically has the exact same numbers. Who is it? Okay, Lamar Jackson. Now Lamar is is reigning MVP. Lamar brings more to the table athletically, no question. I'm not saying Goff is Lamar Jackson. I would take Lamar, but it gives you total touchdowns. Lamar's got thirty six GoF thirty seven. Let's go to the next blind resume. Okay, now you start looking at this quarterback. I mean, this is virtually even except GoF has a much, a significantly higher passer rating. This quarterback completes sixty seven percent both over five thousand yards. For our TV audience, you can see it looks like this GoF fellow is slightly better than this next guy. Who is it? Oh, it's Patrick Mahomes last twenty games. Well, Mahomes doesn't have a great receiving corps. Mahomes has Andy Reid. And it should be noted after amor On Saint Brown, Laporta gets banged up a lot, Jamison Williams gets banged up a lot. Jared Goff goes into a lot of games missing a lot of targets. Let's go to the new Okay, this guy is good this guy, but he's clearly if you look at every stat GoF is slightly better in the last twenty games than this quarterback. I have no idea who it is. No Josh Allen. Josh Allen can run. Well, here's what I know. Passer rating, TDS, passing yards, winning percentage, completion percentage, they all go to golf. You can make a bunch of excuses on this. And Amaran Saint Brown, a fourth round wide receiver, is nice. Josh Allen had Stefan Diggs, so Mahomes had Andy Reid. Let's be honest about this right now, Baltimore tight end, running back, wide receiver is stacked. Baltimore is the fastest offense in the league, Chiefs fastest defense. So you start looking at all these stats over the last twenty games. This is a team that forgot to give him a game ball. And I don't think he's La Josh or Mahomes. I don't think he can bring to the table athletically stuff I like posts. I think when you get into the postseason and you face the best defenses, in defensive coordinators, off script stuff in the second half can becomes really, really valuable. It really does you're gonna have to make plays with your feet. But you start looking at a bunch of numbers. With Jared Goff eighteen for eighteen in an NFL game, So he is tied for first last twenty games in wins, tied for first in the league. He is first in total passing yards, and he's second in big pass plays. And that is with a number two receiver and a tight end that get banged up will He's got a good offensive line, folks, give me a break. Those are passing numbers. And also I like Dan Campbell situationally, don't trust him, but like him. One guy's got John Harbaugh, Sean McDermott, and they Reid. I'm just saying he is the most underrated player in the league and there's nothing close. It's god a huge gap and then you can name your guy. Even J Mack was laughing during that. It is kind of funny. I didn't know who they were gonna give me. It's kind of funny. But he's good. What are you saying no for?

So Jared Goff set an NFL record on Monday night. He completed eighteen of eighteen passes in the game and he didn't get a game ball. Dan Campbell felt terrible, laughed about it after the game, gave him a game ball yesterday. Dan Campbell's a good guy. But it does point to what has been something I can remember Jared Goff out dueling Mahomes at the Coliseum in LA. Game was supposed to be in Mexico. It got moved back to LA and put on a clinic. The kid is really good. He was good at Cal. He's a number one pick, but he's not as memorable because he's kind of like Matt Ryan with a better arm. But just to give you a sense, we always do blind resume about three times a year. Let's do blind resume now. I'm counting all of last year and four games this year, so about twenty games. Not a year and a half, but a year and something. So this is a pretty good catalog of what Jared Goff can do. And we'll play blind resume. So I don't know what this is. So fifteen and six record, sixty eight percent completion percentage, thirty seven touchdowns. The blind resume basically has the exact same numbers. Who is it? Okay, Lamar Jackson. Now Lamar is is reigning MVP. Lamar brings more to the table athletically, no question. I'm not saying Goff is Lamar Jackson. I would take Lamar, but it gives you total touchdowns. Lamar's got thirty six GoF thirty seven. Let's go to the next blind resume. Okay, now you start looking at this quarterback. I mean, this is virtually even except GoF has a much, a significantly higher passer rating. This quarterback completes sixty seven percent both over five thousand yards. For our TV audience, you can see it looks like this GoF fellow is slightly better than this next guy. Who is it? Oh, it's Patrick Mahomes last twenty games. Well, Mahomes doesn't have a great receiving corps. Mahomes has Andy Reid. And it should be noted after amor On Saint Brown, Laporta gets banged up a lot, Jamison Williams gets banged up a lot. Jared Goff goes into a lot of games missing a lot of targets. Let's go to the new Okay, this guy is good this guy, but he's clearly if you look at every stat GoF is slightly better in the last twenty games than this quarterback. I have no idea who it is. No Josh Allen. Josh Allen can run. Well, here's what I know. Passer rating, TDS, passing yards, winning percentage, completion percentage, they all go to golf. You can make a bunch of excuses on this. And Amaran Saint Brown, a fourth round wide receiver, is nice. Josh Allen had Stefan Diggs, so Mahomes had Andy Reid. Let's be honest about this right now, Baltimore tight end, running back, wide receiver is stacked. Baltimore is the fastest offense in the league, Chiefs fastest defense. So you start looking at all these stats over the last twenty games. This is a team that forgot to give him a game ball. And I don't think he's La Josh or Mahomes. I don't think he can bring to the table athletically stuff I like posts. I think when you get into the postseason and you face the best defenses, in defensive coordinators, off script stuff in the second half can becomes really, really valuable. It really does you're gonna have to make plays with your feet. But you start looking at a bunch of numbers. With Jared Goff eighteen for eighteen in an NFL game, So he is tied for first last twenty games in wins, tied for first in the league. He is first in total passing yards, and he's second in big pass plays. And that is with a number two receiver and a tight end that get banged up will He's got a good offensive line, folks, give me a break. Those are passing numbers. And also I like Dan Campbell situationally, don't trust him, but like him. One guy's got John Harbaugh, Sean McDermott, and they Reid. I'm just saying he is the most underrated player in the league and there's nothing close. It's god a huge gap and then you can name your guy. Even J Mack was laughing during that. It is kind of funny. I didn't know who they were gonna give me. It's kind of funny. But he's good. What are you saying no for?

I love you, man, I'm not doing this.

I love you, man, I'm not doing this.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm not gonna engage engage him.

I'm not gonna engage engage him.

What you're not gonna engage in accuracy. You're not gonna he doesn't want an exchange with statistical data, some cherry.

What you're not gonna engage in accuracy. You're not gonna he doesn't want an exchange with statistical data, some cherry.

Picked stats, sure cherry, but there are some advanced stats. I'm sure you're familiar with the EPA per play on a great running side. Jaden Daniels is number one in the NFL and Jared Goff is sixteenth AM on quarterbacks.