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Speaker 3: What up y'all?
Speaker 1: An hour or two about TV here on this Chili Monday.
Happy Martin Luther King Day. Everyone out there. If you
are on the roads this morning, stay safe. I don't
think the roads are. They didn't feel crazy or anything
coming in, but I suppose ice as possible. I don't
know what they're actually telling you today. I'm sorry, Uh,
just just stay safe, stay warmed. Okay, no matter no
matter what they're telling you. Let's dive in to a
little Saints coaching search as it is mon as of
this Monday, now, the Saints will start conducting in person interviews.
Now that uh the the if you're a coaching no
longer coaching in the playoff, so you can now come
in for an interview.
Speaker 3: So in what happened over the weekend.
Speaker 1: On Saturday, they did an in person interview with Darren Rizzy,
so Rizzy getting his time in front of leadership layout,
an exact player, and here's gonna change here what I
do again, I think he remains kind of on the
outside looking.
Speaker 3: In in this case.
Speaker 1: They did a virtual interview with Joe Brady on Saturday.
They did a virtual interview with Kellen Moore on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Now, as we.
Speaker 1: Mentioned before, Cliff Kingsbury has said I'm not doing any interviews,
virtual or otherwise until this playoff run is over. He
wants to be completely locked in with Jayden Daniels and
him and Jane Daniels are in.
Speaker 3: A flow state right now.
Speaker 1: And for what it's worth, it's kind of exciting to
have Kingsbury, Brady and more all in conference championship games, however,
and may potentially hold them out of the running. As
Kellen Moore has now said that while he did the
virtual interview, he's going to wait to do any others
until he gets through his own playoff run. And where
that becomes interesting with the timing is that now kind
of unexpectedly, guys Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn are completely
available and are likely the next dominoes to fall in
terms of who hires them.
Speaker 3: Now. Of course, Aaron Glynn has felt like this entire time.
Speaker 1: He's more on the Saints' radar, but maybe Ben Johnson
is as well. My question to you is, if one
of these guys you know wants to come here, do
you make a move on these guys without interviewing the others?
If they come in for an in person interview and
they blow you away?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you do.
Speaker 2: I think at this point in the hiring process, like
you know, if you have a Brady or a Glenn
and they want the job, and you think it's the
right gun hiring, why not now?
Speaker 1: The timing on Aaron Glynn, I believe is especially interesting.
And I was talking to the Cannon and was a
bit surprised. He is firmly not on the Aaron Glenn bandwagon.
He's kind of a McCarthy first guy. He likes Kellen
Moore second Taylor as the resident cowboy fan. How do
you feel about Kellen Moore? A bit of a complicated
time between him and McCarthy and Dallas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, And I mean, you know, I was
talking with Flynn about this when he was in last week.
He's had in the McCarthy ring, as I've done multiple
times as well. Dallas's offense was better after you moved
on from McCarthy, I mean from Kellen Moore.
Speaker 4: He wasn't great with.
Speaker 2: The Chargers either, so that's two bad notches on his belt.
But he's done a really good job with the Eagles.
We were just talking about him earlier, so maybe it
was one of those things where you know, he got
the gig in Dallas maybe a little bit before he
was ready. He's done some nice things, like would I
want the Cowboys to hire him? No, just because it
wasn't great there as an offensive coordinator, But I mean
he's certainly drawn a lot.
Speaker 1: Of interests in a lot of some Cowboys juice right now,
I believes one of the favorite for the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: The three that they've interviewed, so the three that they
have formally interviewed is Kellen Moore, Robert Salin, Leslie Fraser.
Speaker 4: Those are the three that they have formally interviewed.
Speaker 3: But let's talk about.
Speaker 1: Aaron Glynn here, because at a time when we're talking
about reputation being built over lifetime torn down in a day,
how much do you let one bad game affect how
you feel about Aaron Glynn? Because you can look up
and you can see a Commander team dominate offensively thirty
eight offensive points in that game, and a must have
it game. And it's a really low moments, none lower
than twelve men on the field on a fourth and
two game on the line coming out of a timeout.
A painful Renaissance painting slow motion shot of Kelvin Shepherd
looking hapless on the sideline as he's desperately yelling at
the personnel for someone to get off the field because
he knows that they have twelve. But yeah, so in
case you missed it, fourth to two, right, Commander's trying
to put away the game. If they get it, they're
gonna they're gonna put it away. And it's out of
a time out in the lines of twelve minute a field,
they give them the first down. No, no, now, Jay
Daniels playing the day, he probably would have very calmly
just converted.
Speaker 3: But still so.
Speaker 1: A really bad moment, a bad day. But overall, this
is a Lion's defense that has been more injured than
anybody thirty different players, over thirty different players started for
the Detroit Lions this year. Defensively, I think twenty something
went on injured reserve. Now, if you're a Saints fan,
you can appreciate a multitude of injuries like that because
it's very akin to what you went through this season. However,
look at the differing results, right, This was a New
Orleans Sames team that completely foundered and then used injuries
as an excuse all year long.
Speaker 3: Despite the fact that they had.
Speaker 1: A complete revolving door week in and week out. In Detroit,
this was still a top five, top ten defense in
most categories. So I would be I think there's a
couple of things to play here. I think when you're
on a stage like that, right, and if you're a
New Orleans Saints fan and you just watch the Saints mainland,
you kind of keep up with the NFL just to
osmosis and everything else. You're watching highlights, you're not watching
like a ton of Lions games. I mean, I would
fall into that category, right someday I just watched the
Saints a lot of times. It's kind of my day
to just get away from football in some ways. But
so if you're not watching the Lions week in and
week out, and then you finally show up and you've
been hearing for weeks, okay, Like, is Aaron Glenn get
you know, he's a very good leaders put together a
good defense, like he's let's let's.
Speaker 3: See what our guys got.
Speaker 1: And so you're on the big stage and it goes
this poorly, Well, that's going to cause a lot of
people to have kind of knee jerk Oh nope, don't
want Tom can have him sort of opinions.
Speaker 3: I would hope, though, and would guess.
Speaker 1: And I believe assume that that would not extend to
the New Orleans Saints' front office, because I think nothing
could be worse than like, if you loved this guy
and you really now we don't know, there's conflicting reports.
Is is MacArthur, the guy is Glenn the guy is
it's somebody else. We don't know on the Saints have
done a good job of kind of muddy in the
waters in that regard. But if you loved this guy
going into that championship, even though it was a bad day,
I still think you gotta love him. Plus five turnovers
including a pick six, Like you're putting so much pressure
on the defense at that point. Now credit It's not
like they came up with many stops anyway. But I
I guess, I guess this is a roundabout way of
saying that everything I believed about Aaron Glenn going into
this game still holds true. I love what he did
with this Lions defense despite being dealt an absolutely awful
hand this season. I love what I've heard anecdotally about
his leadership and how he's been such a key part
of rebuilding this Lion's franchise. I think the intimate knowledge
of a rebuild that he was just a key part
of would play very well with the rebuild here in
New Orleans. I think about guys that the these NFL
men would want to follow, and in Aaron Glenn, you
see someone who's done it before as a player, as
a coach working his way up the ranks.
Speaker 3: And so yes, was Saturday Night a bad time?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, But I don't think it takes away from any
of Aaron Glenn's strengths that originally had me, you know,
at times during this during this search, feeling like he
would be my number one choice. Now, if you are
not an Aaron Glenn fan, then obviously this is just
going to intensify those those feelings. But I still would
be very happy if the New Orleans, like I'd be
happy with McCarthy I'd be happy with Glenn and then
kind of the lottery ticket offensive guys. I'm not sure
they all kind of feel the same to me a
little bit. If you were to look at like Joe Brady,
Cliff Kingsbury, Kellen Moore, it's like, Okay, yeah, Joe Brady's
done really well, but you want to have Josh Allen,
you know, which maybe unfair to them. But Kellen Moore
has done really good, but you don't got to say
Kwon Barkley. Maybe the ultimate example would be, oh, who
I mentioned more Brady, Oh Kingsbury, Right, Yeah, Kingsbury's great,
but you don't have Jaden Daniels.
Speaker 3: Right, So.
Speaker 1: Glenn and McCarthy maybe feel like safer options. There we
do have, And I thought Underhill made a good point
when speaking about how one game be careful taking too
much away. I mean, dan Quinn gave up forty eight
points his last game with the Cowboys, and now dan
Quinn is going back to a conference championship game, back
to the NFC title game.
Speaker 3: Like he's a good coach. You can have bad days.
Speaker 1: There is, still, though, an interesting dark horse in all
of this. The Saints are flying in Mike Kofka for
a second interview tomorrow will a snow effect.
Speaker 3: We'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 1: But remember this is the Giants OC and assistant head coach,
and again deeply on exciting on the surface. But he
has been a finalist for three jobs now in the
past two cycles, which tells you I think two things.
Speaker 3: One he must.
Speaker 1: Interview very well, which you can argue is a skill
in and of itself, and secondly that he's probably highly
thought of in insider circles.
Speaker 3: Right that. I imagine if you're at the bar.
Speaker 1: With a front office executive and you talk about Mike Kafka,
I imagine the conversations that take place, or like the
guy's sharp, the guy's great, You know, you can't judge
them too hard about what's going on New York. New
York's a disaster. Dame zose as to get rid of
Saquon Barkley. But Kafka, like that guy's a riser. I
would have to imagine, because otherwise I can't see why
he keeps getting these extended look and getting finalists in
all these races. Beyond Mike Cofka flying in for an
in person interview tomorrow, we will give you the news
as soon as you know on Aaron Glenn and companies.
So the Saints continuing to search. But I guess the
main takeaways here starting today in person interviews with the
coach of that out of playoffs and Ben Johnson Aaron
Glenn now available, what will happen? Could the New Orleans
Saints will then have a coach by the end of
the week or do you kind of off and wait
on some of these lottery ticket ocs we will see
coming up next to you on OTB it is the
national championship they guys, that's right?
Speaker 3: Maybe college football?
Speaker 1: Who it's finally here championship coming to it in a
championship featuring two Midwest teams playing in Atlanta. More coming
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Speaker 3: She don't believe this suit and stop. Wes Row says,
get you.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy's like drafting a D three to zero line
with a blown ACL in the first round would be
a Saints move.
Speaker 3: I am u uh he's Sean Payne.
Speaker 1: So again, yeah, I mean again. I absolutely underwoll and
Mike Tomlin. Yeah, only with slightly better resume overall. But
I agree. I I understand both sides here. I understand
that he's he's a high floor coach, which is arguably
not I mean, that's that's a very good thing, right,
You're not gonna be a disaster. You can build a
winner maybe over time while winning games in the in
the you know, build over time hopefully with better drafting.
Speaker 3: And then maybe winning games in the short term.
Speaker 1: He work well with Derek Carr, probably maximize what you
would get out of Derek Carr.
Speaker 3: But I do understand that it's it's the mystery box
family guy logic.
Speaker 1: You know, you it's it's a lot That's why I'm
calling him lottery ticket o c's. Chances are they're not
that guy. But what if you get the Kevin O'Connell
of the bunch, Well, then all of a sudden you
feel like you may be good for years and so like,
you don't feel that necessarily with McCarthy. So I think
there's just a bit of familiarity there amongst and it's
coming off a bad year, but there's some familiarity there
from the average NFL fan that makes maybe the other
names a bit more exciting. But again we I mean,
look at the numbers. He actually has a slightly bitter
resume the both Champagne and Mike Tomlin, and they aren't
thought about like that at all.
Speaker 4: Also, you were talking about this during break.
Speaker 2: A lot of people are gonna say they don't want
Mike McCarthy because he says a retread. There's a lot
of first time head coaches that are not gonna want
this Saint's job.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's the reality.
Speaker 2: You have an aging roster, you have a quarterback that
nobody wants, and you're picking ninth. You don't have your
pick of the litters, so to speak, of the quarterbacks
that you can draft in this I mean, if you're
a first time head coach, like a Kafka, do you
want to take your first shot as the Saints.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I wonder if Kafka has a choice. I mean, because again,
that's that's like a I think it's it's rare for
you to be in the position where you can say
no to a head job itself a chance.
Speaker 3: But I'll just say, like.
Speaker 2: Guys like Glenn and Brady, like you imagine they're going
to have options.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. I agree.
Speaker 2: There's so many people were like, why would Aaron Glynn
want to go to the Jets over the Saints. I
totally get that, But if we're being honest, why would
he want to go to the Saints?
Speaker 4: Also?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean, as you said, the Jets have
better pieces. I think the Saints have a more patient organization,
so so he could have more time to get it
right with the Saints, whereas the Jets, of it like
went disaster, you could be out on your ass in
no time. But you probably have more roster rebuilding to
do with the Saints than you do within New York Jets.
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All right, guys, the National championship tonight, Ohio State, Notre Dame.
How about this, As we said a twenty twenty two study,
I can't remember I did this on this show or snaps,
but did you know that according to New York Times data,
I don't know how this is collated to some of
you will be like raw, this is no one hundred
percent accurate, but it's still interesting to me. According to
New York Times data, this is These are the two
most populous fan bases in all of college football, with
Ohio State having an estimated eleven point two six million
fans in Notre Dame eight point two one million fans. Meaning,
even though I do agree that it feels like the
college football schedule's gone on way too long.
Speaker 3: They stretch this thing out way too far, and it
feels like.
Speaker 1: It's been forever since these playoffs started and since these
teams last played even I think tonight is going to
do absolute banger numbers. Monday Night, no competition, two largest
fan bases in play. The numbers are going to be incredible.
This is a series where Notre Dame has not won
a game since nineteen thirty five and nineteen thirty six,
and the ensuing ninety years, Ohio State has beaten them
six times in a row.
Speaker 3: Good games, but the Buckeyes, I mean out nonetheless.
Speaker 1: On top of course, there was last year's game in
which Notre Dame had them beat on the road, but
they come out with ten people on the field out
of a time out, missing a defensive tackle. Ohio State
runs right at the defensive tackle and then they still.
Speaker 3: Barely get it.
Speaker 1: Ryan Day immediately takes to the microphone after the game
and starts calling out Lou Holtz.
Speaker 3: Where's Lou Holt to beat his ass? Stupid old man.
Speaker 1: Did y'all see Lou Holtz called that team not tough
entering the game? Did y'all see the Lou Holtz tweet
on Ryan Day. Did y'all see this or missus?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: So? And this is from Lou Holt's official twitter. The
Pat McAfee show was doing a segment about Lou Holtz
whether or not he's going to be at the National Championship,
and then he quote tweeted the segment saying, if Notre
Dame doesn't win, it's only because we want to preserve
Ryan Day's job. I originally was going to be at
the game and spirit, but now I'll be dragging my
body along as well.
Speaker 3: Lou Holtz is so spiteful.
Speaker 1: And dislikes Ryan Day so much and is such a
hater that he apparently he's like struggling with his knee.
You know, he's old as dirt, and here he is
gonna drag his decrepit body to the game just to
be able to hate on Ryan Day on.
Speaker 3: Purpose or in person.
Speaker 1: If if if Notre Dame somehow finds a way to
pull up the upset.
Speaker 3: But how about that line from Holtz. If Not Dame.
Speaker 1: Doesn't win, it's only because we want to preserve Ryan
Day's job.
Speaker 7: With a legend, I respect it. I mean, you're going
to be a hater.
Speaker 4: Be a hater.
Speaker 2: Imagine getting trolled by Lou Holt just of all people.
Speaker 4: That's just that's that's awful. A nine days probably has.
Speaker 3: To be few.
Speaker 4: Mean, he's like, what can't I say back?
Speaker 3: He was ready to fight him after the game, Dude.
Speaker 4: What can you say back? Like it's Lou Holt?
Speaker 3: Where's the halts?
Speaker 4: Like nobody takes me seriously?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: For what it's worth, I do believe. Look, I bet
on Notre Dame. I bet pick Notium to win every
game up to this point. I'm picking Ohio State here.
I do believe Notre Dame has enough to keep this close.
A couple of things they have going for the most
successful third down team in the playoff thus far.
Speaker 3: Something to watch right. How they won?
Speaker 1: They've been on schedule, They're twenty two to forty four
in three games. Is have fifty on third down? That
is winning football?
Speaker 3: Why is that?
Speaker 1: Because Ryot Leonard's way bigger than you think, and he
falls forward every single time he gets tackled. So they've
managed to get to third and manageable. They managed to
consistently convert, and they do it tonight against this Ohio
State team. One thing I don't feel great about Notre
Dame with they love to play man coverage. And if
you're gonna try to play against man coverage against Ohio State,
I think Jeremiah Smith is gonna kill you, and then
Booker will kill you and then everything comes unraveling unraveled
after that. And so do you switch it up if
you're Notre Dame. Do you have the skill to kind
of get away or is it even smart? Or do
you try to play by your strengths to potentially lose
like I think you'll lose if you try to go
man against them. Maybe they believe in themselves to the
point where they say, no, that's who we are. We're
gonna stay by who we are. We're just gonna beat them. Now,
that's something to watch tonight. Can these dbs somehow consistently
man up Ohio State if.
Speaker 3: They if they are asked to do so, if they
choose to do so.
Speaker 1: And again, when I talk about this game, if it
sounds like I'm just kind of crafting the angles for
Notre Dame, it is because the Ohio State angles seem
much easier. They are the most complete team left in
the playoff. Will Howard has played like an elite quarterback
all year long, save for the Michigan game. Ohio State
can throw it as well as anybody right now, and
the running game has come on because of it. Defensively,
they have a great pass rush, they have a great
rush defense. Like in this game, specifically for Ohio State,
one of the keys to the game is going to
be Caleb Downs, Leathan Ramsom and that safety group. State's
got three safeties they kind of use interchangeably. They'll put
them all over the place, but they've been playing very
close to the box and it gets the Notre Dame
team that wants to add quarterback run to the mix.
Speaker 3: A safety of the box feels like a key because why.
Speaker 1: Does quarterback run succeed because you're adding a person to
the count. Well, if the defense can add a safety
but still feel strong about their coverage or the think
Ohio State can, that's going to negate some of the
advantage created by quarterback runs. So it's like I can
see a few different ways defensive battle or offensively that
Hio State wins for Notre Dame, there is the one
path and it's like I said, staying on schedule offensively
to control the clock, keep Ohio State's offensive big playability
off of the field.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 1: Dewey limiting Jeremiah Smith. It's exactly what UH Texas did
defensively to Ohio State. Can you take Smith out of
the game, force the others to try to beat you
by extension, try to force that running game to beat you.
If you want a bit of a Notre Dame spin
zone here and maybe a pseudo advantage that.
Speaker 3: I'm really reaching it fine.
Speaker 1: The fact that Notre Dame doesn't rely on their dropback
passing as much as nine to the teams that you
see in this playoff, I think that takes a bit
of power away from an Ohio State pass rush with
Jock Jock Jack sorry and two Miloile. It's a like
if you're not going to be droppback and thrown as much, well,
all of a sudden, the edge rushers.
Speaker 3: Maybe aren't as effective. I guess.
Speaker 1: Is there a way in which Notre Dame can try
to mind trick Chip Kelly into doing what he did
against Michigan and trying to play Notre Dame style game
and beating them out their own So? I don't think so,
But maybe there's something there in the end, though again,
I think Ohio State is the most complete team in
the tournament. It's a twenty million dollars roster, the most
talented team entering the year, and whatever happened after that
Michigan game seem to have forded them, catalyzed them into
the group that they were always meant to be. And
I think it's just, oh yeah, the other way that
Notre Dame wins this game, first and foremost bedrock element.
They have to win special teams. It's an advantage for
them is going to this game. They have to press
their advantages wherever they can. So how does I mean
so indicators for the game? How's Zonadame doing in terms
of staying on schedule? Third down offense? Are they winning
special teams? And what will their strategy be defensively? Are
we playing zone too high, cutting off all throwing lanes
or howard and making the run beat us?
Speaker 3: And then can you hold up against.
Speaker 1: The run or are you trying to play man and
playing with a bit of fire? Again, for what it's worth,
here's a little actually, here's a little fun fact. One
more before get into maybe final predict. Notre Dame leading
the country right now the opposing quarterbacks only completing fifty
percent of their passes. In fact, Gunner Stocked him was
the only quarterback this entire season to complete over sixty percent.
Speaker 3: Another stat to watch today.
Speaker 1: For what it's worth, though, I think Ohio State's too
much to handle. At the end of the day, I
think Notre Dame keeps it close. I got this thing
like twenty four to twenty. I think Ohio State ends
up winning the national championship and Ryan Day is absolved
of all of his sins.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: How weird if they were to win it. The seniors
on this Ohio State team, none of them would have
a pair of golden pants, which is the prize you
get for Bedie Michigan, but they could have a national
championship trophy. What are you all thoughts on tonight's game?
Speaker 7: I really want Notre Dame to win.
Speaker 3: Crazy.
Speaker 7: Fortunately I don't think they will, but I do think
they cover.
Speaker 3: It is crazy how much I mean that the what
what did what?
Speaker 5: What? What?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 3: Do people say?
Speaker 1: The greatest trick the devil ever polls was convincing you
he didn't exist, and that same way I never thought
I could see a team so unlikable as to make
Notre Dame the plucky underdog.
Speaker 3: But here we are with Ohio State.
Speaker 7: I just don't really find them unlikable. I find Ohio
State very unlikely.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying that, like, Ohio State is somehow
so unlikable that they have made Notre Dame a team
that traditionally everybody loves to hate. They have made Notre
Dame the plucky, the plucky under.
Speaker 7: I think it's Marcus Freeman.
Speaker 3: I mean, and yeah, Marcus Freeman is definitely likable.
Speaker 4: Is yeah?
Speaker 1: That is? That is definitely true. I mean, and how
could I mean you can't be mad at Riley Lennard
and the.
Speaker 3: Little baby face. In fact, this is an all time
babyface matchup here.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean in the wrestling, since Babyface like
they're their hears. I mean like they literally both look
like children. Will Howard and Riley Leonard too. How weird too?
That Will Howard was Kansas State's quarterback last year and
Riley Leonard's was Dukes And now they're facing off in
the first ever twelve team playoff, both teams having gone
through legendary three opponents to get here.
Speaker 2: I'm picking Ohio State in this game for the same
reason I picked them against Texas. It's like two good teams,
two physical teams. I just think Ohio State has too
many weapons ag Buca and Smith on the outside, your
two headed monster running back with Trevion Anderson and Quinn
Shawn Jenkins. And like we've mentioned all season long, like
Will Howard has quietly been like one of the best
quarterbacks in all of college football, and throwing the ball
like as good as Riley Leonard's been, he struggled at
times throwing the ball.
Speaker 4: Will Howard has not.
Speaker 2: Like I was gonna ask you guys what the spread is,
I actually don't care what the spread is. I'm going
to pick Ohio State. I'm picking Ohio State to cover
the spread. Yeah, whatever it is. I think Ohio State
wins the skin.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 1: I think I told I told, uh well, my buddy
this weekend. Like my cold hard logic says Ohio State cover.
But I have been acknowledging that two things. First, as
Notre Dame team is more talented you think they are,
and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Like they may be the best team in the playoffs,
and so I'm using a little bit of heart to
mix with that logic and that's how I arrive at
the cover. But we will see. It seems like chats
with you that Ohio State runs away with this thing.
Speaker 7: Also don't know if I like being on the same
side as you, but I still think.
Speaker 1: Notre Dame covers well, I don't like being on the
same side as you, know, Ebenezer Scrooge or.
Speaker 3: The Grench or whatever. It doesn't matter. Basically is Christmas
because it's knowing if you do anything, you would know that.
So we'll see.
Speaker 1: But I can't wait the college football season finally coming
in tonight. Quick self plug here. We are not doing
snaps during the day today, but we will be doing
a live reaction show right after the game. So if
you want to check it out YouTube, you can just
google snap, CFB and uh and and you can find
it and it'll be a lot of fun tonight.
Speaker 7: Can I defend myself from the Scrooge allegations really quickly?
Speaker 3: Allow it? Yes?
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 7: I people have been saying that the playoffs were drug
one too long or dragged on too long, and I
don't think so. I have liked all the playoff games,
and I don't think that we're too far into January
to play a national championship.
Speaker 3: So I.
Speaker 7: Like the more football. And the people that are saying
and complaining about the college football playoff this year, I
think they're being screwed.
Speaker 1: I okay, so I would agree in that. I think that, Yes,
I think the more football is good. I too, have
loved every round of the playoffs, maybe say for the
first one, which was a little boring until we got
Texas Arizona State, but even that was such an instant
classic with the Cam Scatterbo going god mode. And as
someone who covers college football, of course, I'm you know,
I'm kind of financially incentivized to want it as well.
I do think if you're just maximizing profit, that you
maybe speed it up, condense it to maintain interest, even
though tonight's gonna do crazy numbers. But I also think
but I also think that to your point, I think
the criticism is overblown. I think it's a bit of
sour grapes from a lot of fan bases, and like
you know, people just always want to, Yeah, people always
kind of want to kind of hate a little bit,
and and I mean, maybe it's not completely it's fair
to say, hey, but I guess it's like, you know,
this is the new shiny thing, and if you were
against it, will you're going to stand up with if
you have to say, oh, I'm against this or I mean,
you got a lot of fan bases that are traditional
used to being in it that aren't at this point
into maybe they're like.
Speaker 3: Oh, you know, I'm checked out now. I just I
just don't care now.
Speaker 2: So the people who are saying that don't have a
dog in the fight.
Speaker 4: I mean, think about it.
Speaker 2: If you're an Ohio State fan and a Notre Dame fan,
for the last month, you've watched a do or die
game every single week. I mean we we've seen that,
like in a regular season game. Oh, the winner of
this goes to the SEC championship and you feel the adrenaline.
Imagine feeling that every single game for like four or
five weeks in a row.
Speaker 4: Like because your team didn't make the playoff.
Speaker 7: B yeah they really it would have been bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, some crazy whiskey ones.
Speaker 1: Well, coming up next, and let's talk about the playoffs,
because I think this is an LSU football team that could.
Speaker 3: Maybe find their way there next season. More t B
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Speaker 3: Welcome back.
Speaker 4: To the best morning sports show around sorta.
Speaker 1: It's off the bench with Hester and T Bob. What's
hadding y'all, Welcome back to OTV. We'll get to messy
basketball a bit later in the program. But Paul finebab
says that he thinks of Brian kelly by off the
hot seat after twenty twenty five picks a big year
from LSU, And I can't help but feel a little
bit like the GTA Sanadreas meme, U Huh, here we
go again, right, because.
Speaker 3: I know, look, I said I was not going to.
Speaker 1: Do it again, right, I'm not gonna sit here for
eight month off season hyping up LSU once again. But
like guys, guys objectively else, she looks like they could
be pretty emn good next year, you know, I mean
they were already pretty good this year. They're returning a
ton defensively from two years ago to last year. And
I don't even want to bring up the fact again
that with each passing round of the NFL playoffs what
Matt House did should be tried in Nuremberg. It is
akin to a war crime, a college football war crime.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 1: To go from where you were defensively two years ago.
This last year was a massive improvement. Now you're adding
more talent, you're gonna be stronger at every single position.
Speaker 3: Group.
Speaker 1: Find me a group on defense that will not be better
this year. Maybe the edge guys maybe, but even then,
you got talent there.
Speaker 3: They're deeper, They're deeper.
Speaker 1: Every single group will get better defensively another year on tasker,
we believe are much better defensive coaches. An offense with
a quarterback, it opens up a second in the Heisman odds.
Weapons that were already really good getting even better. Really,
it's all about the offense of running back room that's
got better. It's about the offensive line, how will they perform?
But even the offensive line last year was a bit underwhelming.
So on paper, and then you look at ls you
bring in the number one portal class in the country,
and you look at all the teams and what great
portal classes have done in them recently, and all of
a sudden, on paper, I mean, here we go again, Dude,
is LSU illegitimate playoff team next year? I want to
ask are they a contender? Because they absolutely are. Whether
or not they will follow through on said contention remains
to be seen, Like are they potentially championship.
Speaker 3: Good next year.
Speaker 7: I think the transfer portal class that's coming in and
what we already have does excite me a lot.
Speaker 3: How could it not?
Speaker 7: Yeah, and what was it? Number eight recruiting?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, great top teen class.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you lose on would but he was never going
to factor in next year anyway. And then and then
that becomes a catalyst actually for incredible fundraising that ends
up leading the portal class. Also, then you shift some
of that money you go get the big O line
recruiters Tolomon Thomas.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yes, a good recruiting class, a great portal class,
and a shrewd portal class. From a roster construction standpoint,
everywhere you had a need, you have now checked that box, right,
I mean with with the addition of who's the safety
recently for Vincy State, Marcus Cooley. Yeah, with the addition
of to Marcus Cooley. Now, granted, you can maybe still
get some stuff around the edges if you want, but
with the addition of Cooley, every you need it tight end. Okay,
you got a couple uh if Pascazer and a big
yackle you need safety. Okay, you got him, and you
got some other defensive back help as well. You needed
offensive lineman interior and on the edge, well you got
him in Braandley more just Thompson. So you had needs
going to this part, and you check the needs with
high value players. So yeah, objectively, there should be a
ton of pressure on Brian Kelly next year to continue
contend for championships and to make the playoff, to.
Speaker 3: Make a twelvety playoffs. There's there's no excuse.
Speaker 7: Really yeah, I think we go into Clemson and beat
Clemson in the opener.
Speaker 1: So here we arrive at the one thing that I
will not do that I will not.
Speaker 3: And cannot do. No, Sam, I am.
Speaker 1: I do not care if it's in a house with
a mouse or a box with a fox. I will
not choose LSU to win the opening game. I will
not do this.
Speaker 3: I will, Sam. I can't do it again, I will.
Speaker 7: I'm right now.
Speaker 1: I've done it five years in a row LSU, five
years in a row.
Speaker 3: I cannot go to six boy.
Speaker 2: And you can say, okay, well, they played these great
teams a week one, I mean outside of Florida State
two years ago, like whatever they like see with super
average Florida State the first year wasn't that great. You
lost the Mississippi State and kJ Costello and then a
UCLA team that finished like eight and four of that year,
So it's not like you're even playing Juggernaut's. Like I'm
kind of with you, Like, no, missed the LSU people,
but like I can't. I can't pick them until they
prove its right.
Speaker 1: Clemson will be the second best team that you will
have faced in this streak to the undefeated Florida State team.
They're probably even better than that year one Florida State
team that you lost to. So no, I think they'll
be really good, but I'm not picking them way the
first game of the season.
Speaker 3: I can't do it. They got to prove me wrong.
Speaker 2: The best part is, I mean, you have a heavyweight
match up Week one because everything you just talked about
with LSU, you could say the same thing with Clemson.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: They have the returning quarterback, They have a lot of
talented receivers that they actually grew organically, because at the
beginning of last year you would have said, ah, well,
Florida Clemson didn't have that many good receivers.
Speaker 4: They were young guys. They got a lot better as
a season gone. Along.
Speaker 2: They'll have a good running game. They always have a
pretty good defense. LSU's defense should be better. So like
we're gonna find out pretty quickly how for real this
LSU team is.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 7: I still think they beat Clemson.
Speaker 1: I hope you're right, because then the playoff heype would
be shot to the moon. What do y'all think? Coming
up next here on OTV, let's wrap up our number
two and then we got a whole another hour to
hang out.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the ninth ranked morning sports show in America.
Off the bench. That's welcome back. That's funny to think about.
Speaker 1: I have anything about Nolan Smith and Jalen Carter, the
ones that come up with a sack on third and
two on Stafford just dog on dog on dog crime.
Speaker 2: Carter is also the one that uh punched out the
ball on Kiraen Williams.
Speaker 3: M Yeah, John.
Speaker 1: Not a smart choice by Byron to uh to talk
to trash to Carter before the game. What what what's
what's the rams pass rusher?
Speaker 4: Byron Young?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yes, good Byron Young going over pre game to Jalen
Carter and saying give me that seventy K talking about
what the players will make if they win the game. Well,
I'll never get Jalen Carter holding up Jayden Daniels in
the SEC Championship like he was like he was a
you know, a cat bringing back his fresh kill to
the owner to be proud of him, like I've never
seen that before. He gets a sack and as he's
sacking him, he's holding Jane Daniels in the air with
the one hand and holding up the number one with
the other. That is not a man that that I
would mess with. All right, So SEC basketball over the weekend,
Elshman's women Elschman falls sixty to fifty seven Colled Station
of the Aggies. It's a close game, but uh, there's
a six minute stretcher else she goes one to seven
from the field, six turnovers, no points. Aggie's going to
ten oh run and that's kind of the game. Elsie's
offense is not good enough here, thirty six percent from
the field, twenty four percent from three in a disturbingly
common theme, losing fourteen to six in the offensive glass.
Speaking of common themes, the LSU women's team dominates the
Florida Gators in Gainesville eighty to sixty three to move
to a perfect twenty and zero now five and zero
in the sec second time in the last three years.
That else who has started this season twenty to zero
do not take for granted. How insane that is. Shout
out to coach Molky. This is, by the way, how
about this fact She's been a head coach of twenty
five seasons, won at least twenty games in all twenty
five years. Shout out to Anissa Morrow. Tenth consecutive double
double twenty and TENSI has ninety two in her career.
Now she tied for second most all time. She will
not break the record, but that she does have the
opportunity to become the second player in n TAA history
to have one hundred double doubles depending on how she
finishes out this season. Michale went for twenty two for
nineteen els who forces twenty four turnovers? They only turn
over nine times. So if it sounds like I'm rushing
to the Florida game a bit, it's because I am.
I cannot wait to talk to coach Mulky tomorrow, because
you want to talk about a massive game. It's finally here.
Coming up this Thursday, your LSU women's basketball team heads
to South Carolina to take on the defending national championship
Game Cocks, the number two team in the entire country.
And that game you want to talk about the stage.
The game's going to be seven pm Thursday night on
ESPN one. In fact, it'll be the first college Game
Day show of the season that features a women's basketball game,
as College Game Day will be in club. It's ready
to go an hour before tip. So great job up
to this point, stellar job. Continue to win in multiple ways.
It's hard to win on the road in this league.
They go into games will they dominate their twenty to zero.
But coming up this Thursday, that's the big ticket game.
Millions will be watching as Dawn Stated and Kim Mulki
bring their respective teams toe to toe once again. And
what a measuring stick going into a potential tournament setting.
Can't wait Thursday night seven. You got about thirty seconds,
you guys. Any thoughts on these two games?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So the men's game, you were in this game long, sorry,
tied at the tied at halftime. You're down by two
with about twelve minutes to go five straight possessions and
no points, including four toneervers in those five possessions, and
that did it. You're not a good enough team to
come from behind down the stretch. You don't have enough scoring.
They were great in the first half, but Samuel LSU
down the stretch. It was It was unfortunate. I thought
this was a game they had a chance to win.
Next two games Alabama and Auburn both top five teams,
so not gonna get any easier.
Speaker 1: Yeah, A and M only shot forty two percent from
the line, so they kind of opened the door, but
couldn't take advantage. All Right, two hours of the books,
we got weekend winners coming up. Keep it locked right
here on OTV.
Speaker 3: Off the bench,