Speaker 1: Good evening everybody, and welcome to our last fire up
Speaker 1: of the year. Are you guys all ready for it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do this. It's sad that I'm.
Speaker 4: Not ready for a year at the end of the year,
Speaker 4: I'm not ready for Christmas.
Speaker 2: I'm not ill. You got a week to go, buddy, It's.
Speaker 1: Gonna come, whether you're ready or not.
Speaker 4: I know it always, it does every year.
Speaker 1: It does every year.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, it's good to see you. And no,
Speaker 4: door wasn't blocked. He was putting time out. So before
Speaker 4: he starts even saying anything to stop saying something about
Speaker 4: will he wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1: You got time out there you go. We want people
Speaker 1: commenting about what we're talking about, not necessarily other issues
Speaker 1: or other things. So we welcome all kinds of great,
Speaker 1: you know, comments, as long as they're related to what
Speaker 1: we're talking about. So the topic and the title hmmm,
Speaker 1: bowling anyone you almost oh, ball games, that's what we're
Speaker 1: talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, although I will say Scott
Speaker 1: will tell you he once got an award for the
Speaker 1: most unusual form and bowling, so we talked it mm hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But we're not going to We are going to talk
Speaker 1: about the college bowl games going on this weekend. We're
Speaker 1: going to see the first of the college football playoffs
Speaker 1: and this is the first time that they're actually doing
Speaker 1: it in home stadiums.
Speaker 4: Yes, for the first round of the college playoffs. Yes,
Speaker 4: And did you see the stipulations on the ticket And
Speaker 4: I think it's great they did it this way.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, let us know.
Speaker 4: They made sure that it was forty percent for each
Speaker 4: team home or away gets tickets. That way, the home
Speaker 4: teams can't just dominate the whole stadium. The other twenty
Speaker 4: percent are for media, politicians, stars and crap like that.
Speaker 1: They are letting the ticket sales revenue all goes to
Speaker 1: the CFP, so it doesn't go to the home schools.
Speaker 1: The homeschools get to keep the parking and the concession sales.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that's going to be different is
Speaker 1: away teams have the option for their hype video during
Speaker 1: their introductions, just like the home team does. So that's
Speaker 1: a little different, right.
Speaker 4: So like, if nope, not just talking about Michigan here
Speaker 4: to talk about Michigan. If Michigan was in it and
Speaker 4: they were playing against somebody, you would see the hype
Speaker 4: video they did in honor of James Earl Jones this year,
Speaker 4: because that's the one they use for every game with
Speaker 4: him passing away. Mhm A, I'll be here. I have
Speaker 4: faith in him. He shows up every show.
Speaker 1: That is smoking. Jay set a fire under the guys. Well,
Speaker 1: sometimes the guys need a fire lit underneath them.
Speaker 4: Number one, I'm gonna say it right now, Joshua door
Speaker 4: Will is not a semi virgin. He doesn't need to
Speaker 4: hear that. In my chat, I warned you he did
Speaker 4: it again, so I put you in timeout, and that's
Speaker 4: where it ended.
Speaker 1: So the first playoff game starts tomorrow night, and it's
Speaker 1: not an in state rivalry, but it's kind of like
Speaker 1: a small rivalry. It's at Notre Dame, and Indiana's gonna
Speaker 1: play Notre Dame. So let's go around the room what
Speaker 1: we think is gonna happen in this game. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let because I know George is a big fan
Speaker 1: of Notre Dame, I'm gonna let George go first.
Speaker 2: Well big fan.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I had the Notre Dame experience many
Speaker 5: many years ago. But I think that all Indiana has
Speaker 5: had a great year, no question about it. I mean
Speaker 5: nobody predicted them for being in the CFP. But I'm
Speaker 5: telling you what, Notre Dame's had a damn good year
Speaker 5: two and they want to see it continue as well.
Speaker 5: Very interesting though that the two schools from that state
Speaker 5: are playing each other. So you got number ten against
Speaker 5: number seven is where they ended up in the rankings.
Speaker 5: This is going to be a home game for Notre Dame.
Speaker 5: But as Candy mentioned and Jeremy talked about, you know
Speaker 5: this is they're trying to try to be fair with
Speaker 5: this audience, with the fans in the stands. But I
Speaker 5: think it'll still be prominent that the home team is
Speaker 5: going to get more cheers, more excitement than the road team.
Speaker 5: But that being said, yeah, I would think this game
Speaker 5: is going to be closer than a lot of people think.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with Notre Dame thirty in Indiana twenty
Speaker 5: four as my final score this first game.
Speaker 1: Okay, Pensman, what do you think?
Speaker 3: Well, before I give my before I give my predictions,
Speaker 3: go out and go to bet us and keyword under
Speaker 3: Sideline Sports and place a bet between of these pool
Speaker 3: games and maybe you'll get a discount on your first bet.
Speaker 3: So I just want to point that out. But with
Speaker 3: that said, go I'm going for Notre Dame in this game.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be close, like George said, and I have
Speaker 3: thirty four to thirty one in that game.
Speaker 1: Smoking Jeremy, b what do you think?
Speaker 4: I'm more along the score that Pensman said. But at
Speaker 4: the same time, it's been a while since that Indiana
Speaker 4: gave up big points to any opponent, So I do
Speaker 4: think it's a one score game. But I got Indiana
Speaker 4: winning because they play better defense.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Indiana too. If you didn't, if
Speaker 1: you didn't all here last night. And I don't normally
Speaker 1: say this too much, but I am officially I was
Speaker 1: born in Indiana. I lived there for only a year
Speaker 1: and a half of my life. But so there's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a hoosier but you know in me,
Speaker 1: so I am gonna I'm rooting for Indiana. I'm a
Speaker 1: big ten girl, and I i'd like to see Indiana win.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be like like Jeremy said, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be twenty four to twenty one. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a close game. I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a good game. But I think Indiana's got a really
Speaker 1: good coach and I think, you know, he coached the
Speaker 1: year and I think he's gonna he's gonna help propel him.
Speaker 1: With that being said, there are some other games on,
Speaker 1: so that's tomorrow night. There's other games. Besides, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna get into each bowl game because there's lots of
Speaker 1: bowl games and there's ones that have already happened. So
Speaker 1: but let's go the CFP first Round. So Saturday, the
Speaker 1: first game on the slate is SMU versus Penn State.
Speaker 1: This time, I'm gonna go with Pensman first.
Speaker 3: I don't like Penn State. I don't care for him,
Speaker 3: but I think they're gonna win. Jeremy's guy is clapping,
Speaker 3: but I think Penn State's gonna win. SMU is going
Speaker 3: to be put up a fight, but I think Penn
Speaker 3: State's just a little bit stronger and James Fredlin's going
Speaker 3: to get the first big win off the monkey off
Speaker 3: his shoulder. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Okay, smoking, Jeremy, b what do you think.
Speaker 4: I think it's going to be a close game. Both
Speaker 4: teams do what the other team doesn't like. But the
Speaker 4: I'm gonna Strake it up to coaching. SMU has a
Speaker 4: better coach, James Franklin has been mid and lost big games.
Speaker 4: Is the higher then you're at Ben State. SMU might
Speaker 4: pull it out.
Speaker 5: Okay, George, Well, right now, the matchup predictor that ESPN
Speaker 5: uses as saying sixty seven percent of the nation is
Speaker 5: picking Penn State to win sm you only ad about
Speaker 5: thirty three percent.
Speaker 2: But when you look at them, they're both.
Speaker 5: Teams are very very good teams. Even the passing game.
Speaker 5: I mean Jennings against al er Uh. Jennings has over
Speaker 5: three thousand yards passing. ELA's got almost twenty nine hundred
Speaker 5: yards passing. This is totally unusual because you know, all
Speaker 5: the teams under paternal basically we're running attacks most of
Speaker 5: the time. They have good, good, solid running games Penn State.
Speaker 5: But now there is more diversity. I mean, you got
Speaker 5: guys that are all American candidates. In the rushing end
Speaker 5: of the receiving department. Of course Smith of SMU, I mean,
Speaker 5: this guy is an animal. They had over twelve hundred
Speaker 5: yards rushing and I believe about fourteen touchdowns. That being said,
Speaker 5: it is going to be a close game because I
Speaker 5: think that what happens is you know, oh, you know,
Speaker 5: nobody will picked this SMU to be there, sort of
Speaker 5: like what I said about Indiana, and nobody picked them
Speaker 5: to get this far. So that being said, I am
Speaker 5: going to give Penn State one chance, and one chance
Speaker 5: only to prove us wrong. They have a habit of
Speaker 5: losing the big games, as we know, especially at the
Speaker 5: Ohio State or Michigan. So Penn State will win this game,
Speaker 5: but it's going to be awful close. I'm going to
Speaker 5: go Penn State twenty eight and SMU twenty four.
Speaker 1: And I think one of the factors that's going to
Speaker 1: play into it that none of you have alluded to
Speaker 1: is the weather. SMU is from Dallas. They're used to
Speaker 1: it being a lot warmer. It is supposed to be old.
Speaker 1: And yes it is the noon game, so that does
Speaker 1: help it a little bit. But I think I think
Speaker 1: Penn State's got the edge besides having being playing on
Speaker 1: their familiar rounds, playing in their stadium, and then the weather,
Speaker 1: I think the edge goes to Penn State. I think
Speaker 1: this will be this might be a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a scoring game than I'm not. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to say thirty four to thirty thirty four thirty Penn State.
Speaker 1: So the next game is the four o'clock game, that
Speaker 1: is Clemson versus Texas, Smoking Jeremy b your thoughts on
Speaker 1: that game.
Speaker 4: Texas is gonna dog walk them. Clemson has no shot
Speaker 4: in the team. Uh huh okay at home and you
Speaker 4: know the crowd outside the stadium might be louder than
Speaker 4: the away teams crowd inside the stadium.
Speaker 1: Okay, George, your thoughts?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Again, the predictor has got eighty percent chance
Speaker 5: for Texas and only twenty percent chance for Clemson.
Speaker 2: You know, Clemson's been up and down, you know, most
Speaker 2: of the year.
Speaker 5: They've had some good they've lost three times, ten and three.
Speaker 5: But they still got a good, solid team. But Texas
Speaker 5: is loaded. I mean most people had Texas as the
Speaker 5: number one team for several weeks during the season.
Speaker 2: As we know.
Speaker 5: Oh and you know they had a couple of bumps
Speaker 5: in the road there and finished eleven and two overall.
Speaker 5: The quarterback comparison, again, you got two guys with pile
Speaker 5: up the statistics. Clemson guy club Nick has got thirty
Speaker 5: three touchdowns and eight interceptions five interceptions only and then
Speaker 5: ours of Texas he's got twenty five touchdowns and nine interceptions. Yeah,
Speaker 5: both these guys are good. They got good offensive, skilled
Speaker 5: players on both sides of the ball. But I'm still
Speaker 5: going with Texas too. I'm going to say Texas is
Speaker 5: going to win. Let's go with thirty eight to twenty five.
Speaker 1: Okay, Pensman, your thoughts.
Speaker 3: I have Texas one in this, and it's like everything's
Speaker 3: George said and Jeremy said. I agreed that on that
Speaker 3: Clemson's not strong like the other like they had Trevor
Speaker 3: Lawrence those games, those teams when Trevor Lawrence was on
Speaker 3: that team, they dominated. They haven't been dominated since then.
Speaker 3: They've been barely winning these games. Texas is gonna win
Speaker 3: thirty eight to twenty one.
Speaker 1: Okay, I as well think Texas is gonna take Clembs
Speaker 1: into the house. Clemsing got in just at the last minute.
Speaker 1: Do they belong in there? That's a whole nother different story.
Speaker 1: But Texas is gonna beat them, and I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna beat them handily. I think by at least ten
Speaker 1: to fourteen points at least. Okay, So the last one
Speaker 1: for Saturday night is probably what I would say should
Speaker 1: be the best game of that day, I think, and
Speaker 1: that's Tennessee playing Ohio State. So, George, your thoughts on
Speaker 1: Tennessee traveling to Ohio Seven.
Speaker 5: And a half point favorites, I believe is what I
Speaker 5: saw for Ohio State.
Speaker 2: Of course, they're still being recuperating from that.
Speaker 5: Michigan upset victory over Ohio State down in the Horseshoe,
Speaker 5: as you all know. But Ohio State again, very strong team,
Speaker 5: very good, good skilled players, good athletes up and down.
Speaker 5: You know, Brian Day is moving forward after that lost
Speaker 5: to Michigan as well he should. And the fact of
Speaker 5: the matter is is that I don't I know, Tennessee's
Speaker 5: had a good year also ten and two, but I
Speaker 5: don't think that they can beat Ohio State on the road.
Speaker 5: I mean, as much as Michigan loved playing at Ohio State,
Speaker 5: it seems like the last couple of visits there, at
Speaker 5: least this is a very tough environment Tennessee. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean you look at their scores though, I mean again,
Speaker 5: you know, they score let's see here, thirty six points
Speaker 5: in the win over Vanderbilt, and then U tip they
Speaker 5: beat him fifty six to nothing, and then they scored
Speaker 5: seventeen against Georgia in the loss. When they played Georgia,
Speaker 5: that's Tennessee. And of course the offense was just non
Speaker 5: existent for Ohio State against U of M oh my god,
Speaker 5: losing that game thirteen to ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I sure did. So sometimes you don't know
Speaker 2: what you're gonna get. I guess with Ohio States offense.
Speaker 5: But long story short of it, I think it's gonna
Speaker 5: be Ohio State. I'm gonna say, let's go with about
Speaker 5: twenty seven to.
Speaker 2: Twenty.
Speaker 1: Pensman, what do you think.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be tough game? Tennessee's coming in strong, but
Speaker 3: I think Ohio State comes in and went their home.
Speaker 3: They have everything to prove because of the Michigan game,
Speaker 3: because of the fight. They want to prove they are
Speaker 3: the better team. So I think they're gonna win at home.
Speaker 3: I think their fans are gonna go crazy because this
Speaker 3: was the first playoff game at home, so I think
Speaker 3: they're gonna go crazy. So I think it's gonna be
Speaker 3: thirty five to twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Okay, smoking me. What do you think.
Speaker 4: One in four versus Michigan twenty six and four against
Speaker 4: all other opponents. That's Ryan Day's record, But guess where
Speaker 4: those four losses all were the college football playoffs. Ryan
Speaker 4: Day choked in the playoffs too. He's just like James Franklin.
Speaker 4: He cannot win the big game. I have this feeling
Speaker 4: that we saw how to Tennessee's defense is a lot
Speaker 4: like Michigan's if you look the way it is. They're
Speaker 4: very good at stopping the pass and they just stuff
Speaker 4: the run with containment flits. I think you could see
Speaker 4: the upset in round one Tennessee win. I'm gonna say,
Speaker 4: like twenty four to seventeen.
Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, I do I do have to say for
Speaker 1: Ohio State losing to Michigan like you did when you did,
Speaker 1: gave really good film to Tennessee to figure out how
Speaker 1: to stop you and hold you at Bay. So that's
Speaker 1: gonna that's gonna help Tennessee. I also think Richard I
Speaker 1: think Day is coaching for his his job, so he's
Speaker 1: got a little extra motivation. Whether that transfers to his
Speaker 1: players and the players on the field. I think Ohio
Speaker 1: State narrowly wins this one by two.
Speaker 4: I want to you have not talked about one thing
Speaker 4: we were talking about. You've had stupid comments about other
Speaker 4: crafts that we're not talking about. We're talking about sports.
Speaker 4: We are not addressing the bubble bath situation. You want
Speaker 4: to address the bubble baths situation, go do it on
Speaker 4: face time. Uh. Meghan Nausty twelve, thank you.
Speaker 1: Happy holidays to you, Meghan, thank you, thank you, Hi Megan,
Speaker 1: And again, Joshua, we will address you if you are
Speaker 1: talking intelligently about what we are talking about on the show.
Speaker 1: If you want to have that kind of a conversation,
Speaker 1: you can have it elsewhere. So on too. Okay, So
Speaker 1: what do we think going forward?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 1: With the picks that we have, who do you think
Speaker 1: is most likely to win the next round? Guys?
Speaker 4: Well, because I picked that on you don't they would?
Speaker 4: They would fase the Boise State, right, mm hmm, Soise
Speaker 4: States winning that, okay? And then I did and I
Speaker 4: picked s m U over Penn State. So the other
Speaker 4: one would have been Indiana over not Tree Shame. And
Speaker 4: I'll always call him not for shame as long as
Speaker 4: I'm alive, because they've been no Tree shame ever since
Speaker 4: the Catholic versus Convicts era?
Speaker 3: Are you talking about the movie.
Speaker 2: Convicts?
Speaker 4: The University of Miami versus Notre Dame era of football
Speaker 4: when they were going back and forth and everybody would
Speaker 4: win every other year. But uh so that would put
Speaker 4: them up against who would be their opponent, Because I'm
Speaker 4: not looking at the bread Georgia. Georgia. Georgia is gonna.
Speaker 4: Georgia will dog walk whoever comes out of there. That's
Speaker 4: what I see. I don't care which which one wins,
Speaker 4: whether it's my team more than Georgia's team. Both teams
Speaker 4: don't have a shot against Georgia. Oregon's dog walking whoever
Speaker 4: they have to play. And the only one right and
Speaker 4: then the only one that I see that will have
Speaker 4: a hard time with anybody is Texas coming out and
Speaker 4: going up against Arizona State. I don't see Arizona State
Speaker 4: beating Texas.
Speaker 3: Wow, Wow, you're going out limb that played Jeremy.
Speaker 4: I just I think Texas is the better team. But
Speaker 4: I can care less about the rankings. Arizona States in
Speaker 4: a week conference.
Speaker 3: They're well, they're rested, though, rest.
Speaker 4: Or rust haven't. Once you get rolling, you're rolling.
Speaker 3: That's an awesome pick. I like it.
Speaker 1: Okay, George, what do you think?
Speaker 5: Well, of course I disagree with him with the regards
Speaker 5: to Notre Dame, but I do anticipate Georgia would beat
Speaker 5: Notre Dame in the second round. I've got Boise State
Speaker 5: over Penn State in round two. I've got number one
Speaker 5: Oregon beating Ohio State at the Rose Ball on New
Speaker 5: Year's Day.
Speaker 2: That's going to be a great game.
Speaker 5: And that's by the way, the Rose Bull is obviously
Speaker 5: very happy that it worked out that way. Which is
Speaker 5: the old traditional Pac twelve against Big ten. And then
Speaker 5: the other one that Jeremy said, I agree with him.
Speaker 5: I don't see Arizona State coming out of that game
Speaker 5: with Texas. I'm going to say Texas is going to
Speaker 5: win that. And that's the Peach Bowl down in Atlanta.
Speaker 5: That's another one that's New Year's Day. So for as
Speaker 5: far as the next round goes, I'm sticking with all
Speaker 5: the favorites except Arkansas's is a four seed and they're
Speaker 5: going to lose to Texas a five seed.
Speaker 1: Bensman, what do you think.
Speaker 3: I need help with the second round because I didn't
Speaker 3: really look at the bracket for the second round. I
Speaker 3: just know that Arizona.
Speaker 4: State, Arizona State will play the winner of the Texas game.
Speaker 3: And I got Arizona State over Texas.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: No, no offense, Jeremy, no offense, just the way they
Speaker 3: came in. Just no. I know, I'm just saying no
Speaker 3: offense to Jeremy, but the way Arizona State has been
Speaker 3: playing the last couple of weeks prior to the playoffs
Speaker 3: might be a surprise. Might be surprised there, Jeremy. I
Speaker 3: got Oregon. I got Oregon winning that game. That Gabriel
Speaker 3: is gonna he's he's probably mad about not winning the Heisman,
Speaker 3: so he's probably gonna show.
Speaker 2: Hunter.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Travis Hunter definitely didn't deserve it.
Speaker 4: It should have been.
Speaker 3: There you go, and I got Boise State wedding.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm carry twenty nine touchdowns on three hundred and
Speaker 4: seventy eight carries with two four hundred and sixty nine
Speaker 4: yards in, averaging seven point three yards per carry. That
Speaker 4: guy should have been the Heidsman. Travit Hunter got it
Speaker 4: because I think if he didn't.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's true, that's true. That's true. Okay, guys, should
Speaker 1: we go to talk little talk a little NFL?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 1: Why not? One of the things I want to talk
Speaker 1: about is how banged up the NFC North division is
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers have five players on IR, the Vikings
Speaker 1: have eight players on IR, the Bears have nine players
Speaker 1: on IR. And then there there's Detroit that happened to
Speaker 1: twenty two players on IR, and yet there's still twelve
Speaker 1: and two.
Speaker 4: Uh, you might got to reduce that to twenty because
Speaker 4: two came off the IR in the last twenty four
Speaker 4: hours that hit the Melo bomb move and Jalen Reeves
Speaker 4: Maven and David Montgomery was never put on it. So
Speaker 4: the number twenty two is incorrect, okay, because they were
Speaker 4: anticipating that David Montgomery would get put on it. So
Speaker 4: that takes well down to nineteen mm hmm.
Speaker 1: That's still quite a quite a few the whole division.
Speaker 4: Do you want to know what's twenty because we've been
Speaker 4: playing with seventeen on IR all year and winning, and
Speaker 4: everybody's crying about losing four players in a game when
Speaker 4: we lost. While we were winning, nobody was complaining about
Speaker 4: the injury, right, and so the legion of whom is
Speaker 4: ready to rock?
Speaker 1: Hey, that that's the whole that's the whole premise. Next man up,
Speaker 1: that's what you have to be ready for that next
Speaker 1: man up. And you got a winning and be ready
Speaker 1: for that. You can't keep using injuries as an excuse
Speaker 1: because everybody's got injuries, every team.
Speaker 4: And it seems like I said something about this because
Speaker 4: somebody asked me, what about injuries, because Detroit has had
Speaker 4: been plagued with injuries the entire time. Dan Campbell's built here,
Speaker 4: been here, and I said, we're built different than every
Speaker 4: year he's been here. And I think I said something
Speaker 4: to the fact that this is the deepest roster that
Speaker 4: the Lions. I've had salent. Why in my history as
Speaker 4: a band, not only as a writer or a broadcaster.
Speaker 4: That's I'm fifty four. It started when I was five.
Speaker 4: That's forty nine years. People, I've never seen this much
Speaker 4: death of talent. And I said, so this next man
Speaker 4: up thing may get put to the test. And it
Speaker 4: started early. It was actually started in week three. First
Speaker 4: it was Derek Barnes, and then four plays later it
Speaker 4: was Marcus Davenport. Then the next game we had another injury.
Speaker 4: And then we had another injury in week by week
Speaker 4: by and not week by week six, And that was
Speaker 4: a major one. A guy that was like leading for
Speaker 4: defensive Player of the year, and Aiden Hudson when he
Speaker 4: broke his leg. And then everybody remember all week before
Speaker 4: the game, what's Detroit gonna do with now Hutchinson. They
Speaker 4: don't have a pass rush, they won't be able to
Speaker 4: win games. They won eleven straight without him.
Speaker 3: Can I say one thing first before you keep going.
Speaker 3: I thought you guys were done after Hutchison went out.
Speaker 3: I thought you guys were just I was like, well,
Speaker 3: there you go, because he was he was lead in
Speaker 3: sacks to prior to when he got injured. As soon
Speaker 3: as he got hurt, I was like, oh. I was like, well,
Speaker 3: lines are done. They kept the nex spand up and
Speaker 3: started performing better. I was like, all right, maybe not yeah,
Speaker 3: And you.
Speaker 4: Know, we had a good game the next week versus Minnesota,
Speaker 4: and then what was it? The Titans came the downtown
Speaker 4: and offensively we had one of the worst games of
Speaker 4: the year. That ye're we you're offensively worst outfit foot
Speaker 4: of the year. But what did we have? We had
Speaker 4: the best special teams output of any team in twenty
Speaker 4: years since Devin Hester was running the ball.
Speaker 2: I'm not well.
Speaker 5: The only thing I can say is that you know,
Speaker 5: Brad Holmes and his staff, scouting staff and pro Pro
Speaker 5: Development staff whatever they're called, has done a hell of
Speaker 5: a job in looking over the rosters and the extra
Speaker 5: players that are available to pick up, because I've never
Speaker 5: seen this happen before, where you pick up guys that
Speaker 5: actually do come in and they contribute immediately, whether it's
Speaker 5: one week practice, whether it's five days practice, whether it's
Speaker 5: four days whatever. These guys have stepped in and answered
Speaker 5: the call, answered the bill.
Speaker 2: As they say.
Speaker 5: You could talk all you want about all these injuries,
Speaker 5: but if Detroit did not have that kind of depth,
Speaker 5: there's no way they'd be twelve and two right now.
Speaker 2: They have the.
Speaker 5: Deepest roster in the division and probably the conference. So
Speaker 5: back to our friend Candy's point, I don't think it's
Speaker 5: I don't think it's any kind of trend the NFC North.
Speaker 5: I mean, two teams play outside, but two don't. I
Speaker 5: don't think it has anything to do with just everybody
Speaker 5: in this conference, in this division. I just think that
Speaker 5: Detroit has a better way and a better system set
Speaker 5: up to acquire more backup, more talent, perhaps guys that
Speaker 5: could be disgrundled where.
Speaker 4: They're at right now.
Speaker 2: Who knows why all of them are available. We don't
Speaker 2: know all the reasons why.
Speaker 5: What we do know is that Detroit has been shrewd,
Speaker 5: very shrewd in picking up the guys that they think
Speaker 5: can fit in, they think can help. And Jeremy's right,
Speaker 5: there's been a problem all year with these injuries, and
Speaker 5: the Lions of Man overcome it. So that's my two cents.
Speaker 5: I'm taking a little bit of what all you guys
Speaker 5: have said, because obviously they are still the front runner,
Speaker 5: no question about it, the Lions.
Speaker 1: My two cents is when you see a team that
Speaker 1: has that many injuries and yet they still have the
Speaker 1: success that they're having, it's a testament to who's bringing
Speaker 1: who in, but who's coaching those players and coaching them
Speaker 1: up to fit into your system and to match with
Speaker 1: everybody else, because obviously there's a good there's got to
Speaker 1: be a buy in because you've got to play angel
Speaker 1: as a team, whether you're a defensive unit, whether you're offense.
Speaker 1: And kudos to your coaches because that's a testament to
Speaker 1: having really good coaches that are helping those players get
Speaker 1: up to speed and get in there and to be
Speaker 1: able to be effective as soon as possible.
Speaker 4: I want to go back to something that ag said
Speaker 4: in that last presser said, he said, he goes when
Speaker 4: it comes to bringing these new guys in, instead of
Speaker 4: changing who they are, I work my scheme around the
Speaker 4: type of player they are so that they don't have
Speaker 4: to change what they've done good their entire career. For
Speaker 4: the veteran guys and for the younger guys, they just
Speaker 4: tell them, hey, I see you play this position good.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna put you there, and so your job doesn't change.
Speaker 4: Then if your job doesn't change, and you've been doing
Speaker 4: it everywhere else at a decent level, or even even
Speaker 4: at a practice squad level, hey we're giving you a shot.
Speaker 4: You're going to be in the game today. Prove us something.
Speaker 4: You'll get to stay here. Otherwise you'll be back on
Speaker 4: the waiver wire tomorrow. I mean, because we've done it,
Speaker 4: and that's why we've kept fifty two people on the
Speaker 4: active roster. They address this at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 4: They did it on purpose so that they can sign
Speaker 4: a practice squad player to the active roster and that
Speaker 4: then have them not be dressed. It doesn't count towards
Speaker 4: the salary cap because it's below the top fifty one.
Speaker 4: Keep them on practicing with the first team the next week,
Speaker 4: give them a chance to play, then let them play
Speaker 4: the next week, and then they wave them to bring
Speaker 4: them back to start the clock all over again. Then
Speaker 4: they can do the whole dressed to undressed being four
Speaker 4: more time. We've done it all years this way. Everybody's like,
Speaker 4: when are they gonna add somebody to make it fifty
Speaker 4: three newsplatch? They're gone.
Speaker 1: With that being said, what games are we looking forward
Speaker 1: to this weekend in the NFL? And we're gonna start
Speaker 1: with Pensman.
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to the Steelers Ravens game because the
Speaker 3: Braves have been talking, They've been they I saw an
Speaker 3: article today that Lamar Jackson is getting frustrated losing to
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh because the Pittsburgh's got his number, so they're at home.
Speaker 3: So Lamar Jackson is getting frustrated, and I don't care.
Speaker 3: I love when he's frustrated because I'm a Steelers fan.
Speaker 3: So that's why I'm looking forward to And I'm looking
Speaker 3: forward to seeing some Bowl games to see what happens,
Speaker 3: and if we get upset with the teams that we picked,
Speaker 3: then that's fine. But I just want to see good
Speaker 3: games and see good competitive football and the bowl games,
Speaker 3: but that's the main game I'm looking for. And after
Speaker 3: everybody's got something to say about the football games, I
Speaker 3: got one more topic I want to talk about.
Speaker 1: But go ahead, though, Okay, mister George, what NFL game
Speaker 1: are you looking forward to?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: All of them, of course, But one that I got
Speaker 5: my eye on is the Minnesota at Seattle's four o'clock
Speaker 5: game on Fox, and we'll see if the Vikings can
Speaker 5: can continue this little magical season they're putting together. You know,
Speaker 5: Geno Smith, I'm not a big fan of his, but
Speaker 5: you can't argue with some of his stats. But the
Speaker 5: one that really is a bad one is his touchdown
Speaker 5: the interception ratio fourteen and thirteen. That's that's horrible. So
Speaker 5: I don't think that Minnesota is going to have.
Speaker 2: Perhaps this tough a time.
Speaker 5: But that being said, anytime you go on the road,
Speaker 5: of course, it's a different environment. So right now, the
Speaker 5: spread I think is Minnesota by three. But I'm looking
Speaker 5: forward to that one, and I know Lions fans are too,
Speaker 5: because they want to see Minnesota tripped up and lose
Speaker 5: that game in Seattle.
Speaker 2: It would be won.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 1: Jeremy, what are you?
Speaker 4: I would have said New Orleans versus Green Bay if
Speaker 4: New Orleans stayed as good as they were at the
Speaker 4: beginning of the season, But since they fell up, I
Speaker 4: think green Bay is smoking them. Here's the crazy thing
Speaker 4: about this is Seattle's been very inconsistent, whether at home
Speaker 4: round the road. But it's been like one bad game,
Speaker 4: then they have a great game. They just had their
Speaker 4: bad game bases just facing green Bay.
Speaker 3: This kid could be.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: They alternate when they turn on and off, and in
Speaker 4: those games where they're good, Gino doesn't turn the ball over.
Speaker 4: They run for a lot on the yard. Packers have
Speaker 4: struggled against decent run games all year because of the
Speaker 4: new defense and the way they're they're still learning how
Speaker 4: to work together in jail, and they've had a couple
Speaker 4: of injuries that here and there. Thank god they got
Speaker 4: Cooper back last week because they you saw that he
Speaker 4: was the big difference in that Seattle game because if
Speaker 4: he wasn't there, I think Zach Charbine it ran all
Speaker 4: over the middle of that lineup like Monty and Gibbs did.
Speaker 4: So Minnesota is dealing with some injuries. I just read
Speaker 4: they got nine people not practicing today on top of
Speaker 4: their IR. That's eighteen players people. You can't have that
Speaker 4: many on IR and that many not practicing. That's a
Speaker 4: bad combination because we're talking about a second right, So
Speaker 4: Minnesota is going he goes, well, I hope this improves.
Speaker 4: But you know, you have some players that are long
Speaker 4: in the tooth that are just coming back to practice.
Speaker 4: I mean, luckily for them, Steven Gilbot came back to
Speaker 4: God forbid, you don't trug who's opposite Byron Murphy right
Speaker 4: now to cover anybody, and that Stephen Gilmore's in. But
Speaker 4: it was a couple of their linebackers. There was a
Speaker 4: linemen in there, there was a running the one of
Speaker 4: the backup running backs. There was all sorts of people
Speaker 4: on that list. So they're not as healthy as their
Speaker 4: IR report looks.
Speaker 1: The one thing I will say about Seattle and the
Speaker 1: Packer game is I was surprised because I cannot remember
Speaker 1: the last time I watched a game where we went
Speaker 1: went to Seattle, and normally the fans are so loud
Speaker 1: in Seattle, it's always the Twelfth Man is so loud.
Speaker 1: But yet you could hear the Packer chants and how
Speaker 1: many Packer fans there were, And I read that Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers was on the pack McAfee show and he even
Speaker 1: said he's never heard as many Packer fans at a
Speaker 1: Seattle game. He said that was crazy. And we talked
Speaker 1: on Inside the Pigskin on our network a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago, and we were talking to Football Talk Bo
Speaker 1: because he's from Seattle, and what he is saying is
Speaker 1: that he's seen a turn with some of the teams
Speaker 1: that come in because Seattle's ticket prices are so high,
Speaker 1: and their season ticket prices are so high that they're
Speaker 1: selling some of their season ticket holders are selling their
Speaker 1: seat their seats, and a lot of times they go
Speaker 1: to visitors instead of the home crowd, and so you're
Speaker 1: seeing kind of a turn where you're seeing a lot
Speaker 1: more of the twelfth Man. Isn't necessarily the twelfth Man
Speaker 1: for Seattle. It's not as loud, so it'll be interesting.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I've never seen I've never heard Packer
Speaker 1: fans as loud in Seattle as they were this past weekend.
Speaker 4: See exactly. It was two thousand and nine, was the
Speaker 4: last time the Packers won in Seattle. M oh not
Speaker 4: as bad as Pittsburgh winning in Philly. It's been since
Speaker 4: nineteen sixty five and it's not happening this.
Speaker 3: Year either, Candy, I'm out of here.
Speaker 2: To try And I.
Speaker 3: Know I don't want to talk about that game. That game, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know that game was so rough.
Speaker 5: But you talk about fans, Candy, and we all know
Speaker 5: the Lion's successful story where they're going in there and
Speaker 5: buying and buying and buying. And these fans in these
Speaker 5: other cities obviously, oh sure, sure here all makes a
Speaker 5: few extra bucks. You know, they're selling them a lot
Speaker 5: of ticket holders.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, that price in the aftermarket
Speaker 4: ticket fails because these tickets have been sold out for months. People. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the market bears what the prices are. If your team
Speaker 4: is good, you pay more. If your team is bad,
Speaker 4: you pay less. And that's why you see a lot
Speaker 4: of the the fans going on the road that can't
Speaker 4: afford the home games. Right now, in Detroit, and I'm
Speaker 4: talking about the regular seasons, not the season ticket holders,
Speaker 4: we were sold out of season ticket holders. I think
Speaker 4: that the second fastest. I think the only team that
Speaker 4: hold out their season tickets faster or not was the
Speaker 4: Chiefland don't know ye. A buddy of mine said, I
Speaker 4: couldn't afford to go to a home game, but I
Speaker 4: was able to afford to go to any Indianapolis polt.
Speaker 4: Another buddy of mine says, I couldn't afford to go
Speaker 4: to a home game, but it was cheaper for me
Speaker 4: for for a Lower Bowl ticket, to get a ticket
Speaker 4: to go to San Francisco this year than it was
Speaker 4: to get a Lower Bowl ticket in Detroit. Did you
Speaker 4: ever think you'd hear these statements for a week seventeen games?
Speaker 2: No, but he is.
Speaker 6: He added up the hotels and the and the He
Speaker 6: just said his plane ticket and seat ticket is cheaper
Speaker 6: than the cheapest lower Lower Bowl ticket in Detroit.
Speaker 4: Right now.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's crazy stuff. Wow.
Speaker 4: And that's also depending on who you're facing, Like if
Speaker 4: the Colts would have been come into Detroit, those tickets
Speaker 4: would have been a lot less than they normally are.
Speaker 4: If you're playing a bad team, the tickets are left.
Speaker 4: The cheapest ticket this weekend in Chicago is one hundred bucks.
Speaker 4: How much the cheapest nosebleed is for face value in
Speaker 4: Detroit this year two and fifty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there'll be a lot of fans.
Speaker 3: And a reigning defending champions the NSC. That's what makes
Speaker 3: it more surprising.
Speaker 5: That.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the two games that I think I'm most
Speaker 1: interested in, what's gonna be tonight's game, obviously if you
Speaker 1: have been watching though, Denver is up twenty one to thirteen.
Speaker 1: And then the other game that intrigues me is the
Speaker 1: Eagles Commanders game. That game interests me.
Speaker 4: That interests everybody in the NFC, because this is the
Speaker 4: last test for Philly. Really, if you look at the
Speaker 4: records of the opponents, this is the team that's in
Speaker 4: second place. They have the best shot to knock Billy
Speaker 4: off their little high horse rate now saying that they're
Speaker 4: better than everybody else. But the bad part is, out
Speaker 4: of all the top four teams in the NFC, they've
Speaker 4: had the weakest second place schedule of any team in
Speaker 4: the NFL. The record of opponents against is eighty five
Speaker 4: and one thirteen.
Speaker 3: Hear that Philly. Hear that Philly not.
Speaker 4: Including tonight, So that's gonna change a little bit because
Speaker 4: they finally facing a team we do wining.
Speaker 1: True this it's true, I mean.
Speaker 4: The way they've only played four teams with the winning
Speaker 4: record all season and they're two and two in those games.
Speaker 1: Let's face it, it's going to be a barn burner.
Speaker 1: The Jags are visiting the Raiders.
Speaker 4: Pilot Bowl edition fifteen on the year or sixteen on
Speaker 4: the ear.
Speaker 1: And let's face let's face it.
Speaker 3: So what what can't what candies try to tell you
Speaker 3: is get some turkey and fall asleep during that game.
Speaker 1: And let's face it, when you're playing it. When the
Speaker 1: NFC North is playing an NFC North divisional game, it
Speaker 1: really does not matter what the record is because we
Speaker 1: all play each other very tough. So the Lions go
Speaker 1: to the Bears and.
Speaker 4: Well, did you watch that game last Monday? The Bears quit.
Speaker 4: Let's face it, the Bears are quit. They got the
Speaker 4: interim interim head coach, the first interim offensive coordinator may
Speaker 4: to be the intermed coach in the career. And it
Speaker 4: just goes to show you he belongs up in the booth,
Speaker 4: call in the plaze, not on the sideline, because it
Speaker 4: looks like he has no clue what's going on. And offense,
Speaker 4: they put up twelve what was it thirteen points or
Speaker 4: was it twelve? No, it's twelve because they went for
Speaker 4: the two and didn't get it right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 4: So if Detroit doesn't win this game by double digits,
Speaker 4: then I'm gonna say the injuries are a problem on defense.
Speaker 5: Bears have lost eight in a row now, Yeah, And
Speaker 5: I'm gonna make a bold prediction.
Speaker 4: This is the game where the interceptionless streak of Caleb
Speaker 4: Williams tens if he had to melofan Will playing Brian
Speaker 4: Branch is getting good. It's ready to go. Kirby Joseph
Speaker 4: Terry On Arnold has been so close to getting his
Speaker 4: first pick. But I think it's gonna be either if
Speaker 4: he had to melofan Will with Terry on Arnold that
Speaker 4: gets the interception.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds good to me.
Speaker 1: Any other NFL topics, because I know Penzman wanted to
Speaker 1: bring up a topic.
Speaker 3: I have one more. If you watch my channel, I
Speaker 3: like to make fun of the Dallas Cowboys. So I'm
Speaker 3: just I'm just saying, if Dallas Cowboys barely want in
Speaker 3: Carolina because Carolina is Carolina, can they rebound against the
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That's the real question. That's one answer.
Speaker 3: If they win, they'll move to seven and eight, then
Speaker 3: the Cowboys will be yeap.
Speaker 4: But more I know because here they are with two weeks.
Speaker 4: We gotta win out a week and make the playoffs.
Speaker 3: And yep, that's why I make affordable.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'm gonna take a quick station break before
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Speaker 1: my Town, So my town segment what is happening in
Speaker 1: your town? And George, I didn't prep you tonight, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you go first because I know you
Speaker 1: and Jeremy are kind of from the same town. See,
Speaker 1: you never know if you're gonna get the same topic,
Speaker 1: So let's start with you. George.
Speaker 5: Well, I know Jeremy's not going to talk about this one,
Speaker 5: so I figured i'd be safe with this one. Ky
Speaker 5: Cunningham Ki Cunningham is making his case to be an
Speaker 5: NBA All Star.
Speaker 2: The Pistons have won more.
Speaker 5: Games than I can't tell you how long it took
Speaker 5: them to win eleven or twelve games last season. But
Speaker 5: Kate has been very impressive. He's been healthy, he's dishing
Speaker 5: the ball off more, he's running the offense I think
Speaker 5: in a nice, easier type of way. And he's listening
Speaker 5: to his new coaching staff, which is very important as
Speaker 5: we know, as the Pistons cleaned house after last year's debacle.
Speaker 5: But Kate Cunningham is on his way, on his way
Speaker 5: to the NBA All Star Game, I believe, and also
Speaker 5: he deserves definitely a shot at the Olympics the next
Speaker 5: time that comes around for the NBA players or the
Speaker 5: World Championships, as you know, those are held too with
Speaker 5: basketball in the off years that there's no Olympics. So
Speaker 5: pats off to kid. The fans are starting to come
Speaker 5: back the Pistons. I know they lost tonight to you Jah,
Speaker 5: but they are certainly on a better road than they
Speaker 5: were one season ago. So that's my town.
Speaker 1: That's your town. Well, I'm gonna let Jeremy have a
Speaker 1: little bit of time, So I'm gonna go to Pensman first, Pensman,
Speaker 1: what's happening in your town?
Speaker 3: Currently, the Pittsburgh Penguins are winning against the Nashville well
Speaker 3: tied with the Nashville Prewers fifteen minutes and fifty eight seconds.
Speaker 3: I just got done telling Scott last night that Sidney
Speaker 3: Crosby better step up his game because he hasn't scored
Speaker 3: in a long time. He put it a Goalilaite and
Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin. Time of possession number one, number two, clock management,
Speaker 3: two minute warning, use your time outs proper, use your
Speaker 3: time with possession. Wisely, you cannot win games with twenty
Speaker 3: minutes of possession time and ten first outs, think Tomlin,
Speaker 3: think that's my talent?
Speaker 4: Jere me, Well, we already talked about the injury situation
Speaker 4: here in Detroit and it's getting better, and I expect
Speaker 4: there's a couple more that will come off the IR
Speaker 4: in the next couple of weeks, because we still got
Speaker 4: and Loan is supposed to return by week eighteen. Mostly
Speaker 4: it's been back. But when will you see him on
Speaker 4: the field. That's a big question. I'm tired of paying
Speaker 4: him to ride the bike and Chris Ellich open up
Speaker 4: the checkbook. The either plan can't work if you won't
Speaker 4: get good players, and neither will the Tigers that might.
Speaker 1: Know that's your tone. Okay, So I've got a couple
Speaker 1: of things. The Milwaukee Brewers signed in the least extension
Speaker 1: that will keep them in the state of Wisconsin till
Speaker 1: twenty fifty. Great for Milwaukee. The other thing is the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks won the NBA Cup Finals the NBA, but
Speaker 1: one of the things that was also announced during that finals.
Speaker 1: ESPN has announced that ninety one year old Hub Brown
Speaker 1: will call the final game of his broadcasting career on
Speaker 1: February ninth. It'll be a full circle moment for Brown.
Speaker 1: The Basketball Hall of Famers finale will be in Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: where where his professional coaching career started in nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1: The Bucks will play host to Philadelphia that afternoon, with
Speaker 1: the game preceding that day's Super Bowl. Brown will work
Speaker 1: with the game work the game on ABC alongside Mike Breen,
Speaker 1: who will handle play by play duties. ESPN released the
Speaker 1: news during the NBA Cup Finals in Las Vegas on
Speaker 1: Tuesday night. Brown is a two time NBA Coach of
Speaker 1: the Year and had stints as head coach in New York, Memphis,
Speaker 1: and Atlanta. He has been with ESPN since two thousand
Speaker 1: and four. ESPN said it would honor Brown's career, including
Speaker 1: more than fifty years associated with the NBA and thirty
Speaker 1: five years as a national television and radio analyst throughout
Speaker 1: that broadcast.
Speaker 4: Now that's something to tear about exactly.
Speaker 2: Good career, good career as an analyst.
Speaker 1: So that's something that looks forward to in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Any other topics you guys want to bring to the
Speaker 1: table tonight.
Speaker 3: I got one, Okay, I got one, And I'm not
Speaker 3: trying to make fun of Jeremy. I'm not gonna say anything,
Speaker 3: but I want to just want to hear his opinion.
Speaker 3: Had you guys as well. JJ McCarthy's supposed to get
Speaker 3: healed up by next year. Will JJ McCarthy's start next
Speaker 3: year instead of Sam Darnold.
Speaker 4: I yes, because they really can't afford to give thirty
Speaker 4: million dollars minimum to a QB outside of JJ. They're
Speaker 4: probably going to resign Daniel Jones at like a ten
Speaker 4: eleven million dollar contract, who still has guaranteed money being
Speaker 4: paid to him by the Giants as a backup. But
Speaker 4: you may see Daniel Jones just start the season. And
Speaker 4: there there's one thing you can't say about KOC. He
Speaker 4: has been for the last two seasons dead quarterback, career
Speaker 4: reclamation project. He brings anybody in and they can win
Speaker 4: a game or two for him. So because with that
Speaker 4: second surgery, everybody says, oh, it's just a cleanup, he'll
Speaker 4: be fine, they come to find out during his rehab
Speaker 4: he pore the meniscus again while they were in there.
Speaker 4: They repaired it again. So JJ might not be ready
Speaker 4: even by the week one of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, George, and.
Speaker 2: He thought, no, I just think it's a big gamble.
Speaker 5: Uh. You know, he's been out all year, and like
Speaker 5: Jeremy said, I mean there's a lot of rehab that
Speaker 5: goes into coming back, and they all, but I agree
Speaker 5: with you the two about the amount of money for
Speaker 5: somebody that's a veteran like Darnold, it is a crapshoot, really,
Speaker 5: But the team has won twelve games this year with
Speaker 5: this guy.
Speaker 2: It'd be awful difficult in my mind.
Speaker 5: To think that they're going to close the door on
Speaker 5: that chapters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the fans have actually said, because I talked to
Speaker 4: a lot of them with the shows that I run
Speaker 4: in the NFC North Era area, they said, unless he
Speaker 4: went gets them to the super Bowl, and I doubt
Speaker 4: they do. Oh really, he won't be resigned. Okay, they
Speaker 4: don't want them resigned. They want to start the jj
Speaker 4: mcsy and whatever else you have. It's thirty million dollars
Speaker 4: when you only have forty to sixty million left. Oh,
Speaker 4: I know you got to make you know. It's the
Speaker 4: same conversations we've had here in Detroit, and that's why
Speaker 4: they've been frugal. Everybody can say it's dollars store, Brad.
Speaker 4: It's smart when you got less money starting the next
Speaker 4: year than you had the previous year to roll over
Speaker 4: and make yourself have some more.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And it's hard to pay one guy an absorbing
Speaker 1: amount of money when you need to have depth, you
Speaker 1: need to have backups, you need to have people that protect.
Speaker 1: Let's face it, the quarterback POSI has gotten salaries have
Speaker 1: gotten astronomical, and some of them are way out of whack.
Speaker 1: Is if you don't if you don't pay for the
Speaker 1: offensive line that to help protect him and have running backs,
Speaker 1: then what good is paying one quarterback Because if you're
Speaker 1: only paying one guy, he can't do if there's no
Speaker 1: I in a team.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: I do want to add one more thing because it
Speaker 4: happened right in your area. Miami Christian or Northern Christian
Speaker 4: Academy won their state championship in the first year that
Speaker 4: Teddy Bridgewater was head coach in Division three A. And
Speaker 4: now he said, if there's a team with an injured
Speaker 4: starting quarterback that needs somebody to come in and help,
Speaker 4: I'm available.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, Teddy, good job, Teddy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, way to go coach.
Speaker 4: In the semi final game, not only did they go
Speaker 4: un defeat it through this entire season, they beat the
Speaker 4: other team sixty three to nothing. Ooh, just as a
Speaker 4: team that had four wins the previous season. Wow, wow,
Speaker 4: So you're talking about Yes, they had some players developing
Speaker 4: that became starters out of the dav and the varsity
Speaker 4: rings and everything else. If you're talking about a first
Speaker 4: year high school head coach coached a team to an
Speaker 4: undefeated record in a state title, congratulations, Teddy Bridgewater. Looks
Speaker 4: like you might have a career in coaching anywhere you want.
Speaker 1: That's true, That's true. Okay, guys, with that, I think
Speaker 1: this is the last show of the year, So let's go.
Speaker 1: People can get a hold of you. And yeah, unfortunately
Speaker 1: it doesn't pay to do a show on December twenty sixth.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many people would be watching anyways,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna wait, probably not many, probably not. So
Speaker 1: with that being said, let's go around the horn. Tell
Speaker 1: everybody how they can find you. Where they can, you know,
Speaker 1: either read you or watch you. We're gonna start with
Speaker 1: Pensman tonight.
Speaker 3: You can reach me on YouTube Pensman Sports and I'm
Speaker 3: on x at Pensman Sports.
Speaker 5: Okay, George, you can find me at find me at
Speaker 5: the South Florida Tribune under the Motor City Tribune. Will
Speaker 5: you see writing and columns from Jeremy and myself and
Speaker 5: Scott and photography by the wonderful Candy oh oh, in
Speaker 5: my book, Yes, Detroit Sports Broadcasters on the Air. There
Speaker 5: will be a link at the end of my column
Speaker 5: to that book, so hopefully you can take a look
Speaker 5: at that and support all the authors that we have
Speaker 5: here on the program and also reach me at Gikurnel
Speaker 5: yahoo dot com, on Twitter at Sanjee Sports ninety nine
Speaker 5: and linked it as well. So looking forward to talking
Speaker 5: to all you folks, and thanks to those.
Speaker 2: In the chat room tonight as well.
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1: Smoking Jeremy B.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm gonna go to reverse. I'm gonna talk about
Speaker 4: the social media's first. Just to get it out of
Speaker 4: the way. That's my name on Facebook. You can find
Speaker 4: me at Smoking Jeremy B. On Twitter at Smoking Jeremy
Speaker 4: b One on Instagram at smoking Jeremy B. On Snapchat.
Speaker 4: You could also find me on the MotorCity Tribune heading
Speaker 4: underneath the sellthplord a Tribune website where you can see
Speaker 4: me with wonderful authors such as Scott Morgan Roth and
Speaker 4: George Draigorn and Candy's beautiful pictures all over most of
Speaker 4: the articles that are in there. That being said, you
Speaker 4: can also find me right here on the South flord
Speaker 4: A Tribune YouTube channel where occasionally I'm on Fire Up
Speaker 4: or the MotorCity Mad Mouth or Fire Inside the Big Skin.
Speaker 4: It depends on where Scott needs me and when, and
Speaker 4: if I'm available and he needs me, then you can
Speaker 4: find me on my YouTube channel, which airs into my Facebook,
Speaker 4: it airs on Twitter, it airs on it goes everywhere,
Speaker 4: which is MEE can't fighting with the Motor City Lions.
Speaker 4: I'm live almost every day of the week, like this
Speaker 4: show's live on there now. But I want to say
Speaker 4: thank you to Candy and Scott, thank you to George Acorn,
Speaker 4: thank you De Pensman and everybody who's ever been a
Speaker 4: fan or a guest on my show. Ralph Williams, we
Speaker 4: missed you tonight. Hope you're feeling better. Enjoy your Christmas party.
Speaker 1: Yes, but it's.
Speaker 4: Been one heck of a year, and I believe I'm
Speaker 4: going into my third year with the South Florida Tribune now.
Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome, look.
Speaker 4: So thank you. It's been a blessing. I've learned a lot,
Speaker 4: I've been told I've grown a lot. I thought I
Speaker 4: drew wider, but uh, I hope you enjoy your I
Speaker 4: hope you enjoy your Christmas with your family, remember those
Speaker 4: that are not there with you, and hold those that
Speaker 4: are very clot No day is guaranteed. And that being said,
Speaker 4: Andrew take it.
Speaker 1: Yes, look at there. There's a book, Lessons from the Microphone,
Speaker 1: Tuning into the Enduring Wisdom of Visionary Leaders. It is
Speaker 1: written by my husband Scott the MotorCity mat Morgan Roth.
Speaker 1: It is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kindle, Apple,
Speaker 1: and Google Books. There's only link on our website www
Speaker 1: dot self Florida Tribune dot com, where Scott also writes
Speaker 1: and Jeremy writes and George Wrights and George wrote the
Speaker 1: forward for this book as well. Go get your copy
Speaker 1: today if you want. You can see George has a
Speaker 1: self Florida Tribune hat on if you want a hat
Speaker 1: or a sweatshirt, or go to there's a link on
Speaker 1: our website as well, or if you want to read
Speaker 1: anything that these two fine gentlemen have written on our
Speaker 1: website or a plethora of other information. Have a lot
Speaker 1: of the local local colleges down here in the state
Speaker 1: of Florida. We have the gators that send us stuff,
Speaker 1: the hurricanes, fsu FAU USF NOVA, all of them send
Speaker 1: us information and stuff, so go check out our website.
Speaker 1: We also have the Dolphins, the Jags, and the Lions
Speaker 1: send us stuff smoking Jeremy B. Wrights, George Wright's Scott Writs,
Speaker 1: go check out their writing. If you like to listen
Speaker 1: to podcasts, you can find us wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 1: Monday nights we talk baseball, Tuesday nights, football, Wednesday and thursdayights.
Speaker 1: You just never know what we're gonna be talking about.
Speaker 1: And on top of all that, if you want to
Speaker 1: sponsor a show or advertise, you can call Scott nine
Speaker 1: five four three four four one. You want to email
Speaker 1: us if you want to be a guest on this show,
Speaker 1: or if you have topic ideas, it's self lordattribute at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. But finally, this is the last show
Speaker 1: of the year, so I want to say Merry Christmas,
Speaker 1: Happy Hanukkah, Kwanza, all of those good things, Happy New Year.
Speaker 1: I also will say my husband has a birthday coming up.
Speaker 1: It happens to be on the twenty ninth, so happy
Speaker 1: birthday to Scott. And then when everybody is celebrating the
Speaker 1: New Year, not only are Scott and I celebrating the
Speaker 1: new year. It is also our wedding anniversary that day,
Speaker 1: as we got married on January one. What a way
Speaker 1: to start the new year. So we will be celebrating
Speaker 1: our happily married life two. So but with that we
Speaker 1: wish every one of you a happy holiday season. May
Speaker 1: it be filled with lots of love and family, and
Speaker 1: may the new year blessed each and every one of you.
Speaker 1: We all want you to We want to thank everybody
Speaker 1: that was in the chat room tonight. Again. If you
Speaker 1: want to come in about things that are relevant to
Speaker 1: our show, we address them, and if you don't, we
Speaker 1: just let the chat go. So but we want to
Speaker 1: thank everybody that is tuned in today and has watched
Speaker 1: us over the course of this year, and we look
Speaker 1: forward twenty five. So smoking, Jeremy B you always end
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 4: You ready, I'm ready, right. Try every day to be
Speaker 4: a better person than you've heard the day before. That's
Speaker 4: the only way to make the world a better places.
Speaker 4: Start right here. Much love to everybody, Happy holidays, Happy
Speaker 4: New Year. We love you. Thanks, Thanks everybody you, thank you.
Speaker 5: Happy holidays, Very Christmas, everybody, se