Speaker 1: I'll start to what you want to present some off
the bench with Jacob Hester and T. Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and C. Bob aber
I got to come off the pitch. Now, here's Jacob
Hester and T. Bob Abar.
Speaker 3: And Alandra viare Aale hanging out with you this morning
here on No TB.
Speaker 2: I got another Jade Daniels stat for you.
Speaker 3: So of course Commanders, even though they had failed early
on fourth down, they go for it at the end
of the game, fourth and goal down seventeen thirteen and
Jade Daniels finds Terry McLaurin for the touchdown, gives him
a twenty to seventeen lead. But again, you want to
talk about a player unlocking everybody around them, what a
quarterback can do in terms of shifting everything for every one.
Speaker 2: This was McLaren. Excuse me, McLaren. This is McLaury. Sometimes
he runs like one.
Speaker 3: This is mclaurin's eleventh red zone touchdown catch this season.
Jay eleven in one year in the red zone. He
had eleven in his first five years combined. So the
red zone effect of Jayden Daniels and really that's where
the great quarterbacks are at their best. And with his
incredible skill set to extend plays, keep his eyes downfield,
his ability to put the ball into insane windows, he
seems particularly well suited in that portion of the field.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you don't think Terry.
Speaker 3: Mclaurin's happy to have that guy eleven red zone touchdowns
this season alone, where he had eleven in the previous
half decade of being a professional.
Speaker 2: Football Yeah, and we talked about this. I think it was,
you know last week two weeks ago that you were
going from Sam Howe got Jayden Daniels. Yeah, right, and
then you get Cliff Kingsbury as you're offensive coordinator. Now,
Cliff leaves a lot to be desired as far as
a head coach, but as a play caller and a
play designer, he is one of the best out there.
That's why so many Bears fans were mad when you
know they didn't pair him back with Caleb Williams. Yeah. True.
So you know Terry's sitting there thinking, man, I really
went from maybe the worst situation in the National Football
League to one of the top five situations in the
National Football League. Yeah, now you get Now you feel
like you have a guy that you could partner with
for years, and you have a guy that doesn't force
the football to you, but always looks for you. Yeah,
and there's a big difference between forcing and making sure
that you find him first and then look if he's covered,
then you go to your next progression. But they were
forcing the football to him in years past with some
bad quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, I can't ember. If you're a bad quarterback,
what are you gonna do? You're gonna get.
Speaker 2: Exactly, I get, so I get why they did it.
But for him, just as an individual, I mean, he's
got to feel like he's just in.
Speaker 3: Utopia right oh with that right now, like a man
who wandered the desert for forty years and all of
a sudden is just overflowing with milk and honey. He
has truly crossed over into the Promised Land.
Speaker 2: Because the weapons are the same, I mean, for the
most part offensively, like you add an Austin Eckler and
I love k but X just like a secondary piece.
He's been injured, he's been something's big last night, you know,
Zach Ertz at the very end of his career, and
Zach's played well but it's not like you went and
spend a ton of money or a ton of resources.
I mean you got you got cast offs from other teams,
from you know, the Cowboys and from the Falcons and
all these other guys that their team didn't want them,
and that's who you have outside of Terry. So it's
not like you've made these wholesale changes. So I say
that to say they're only going to continue to get better,
Like they'll go draft receiver maybe in the second round.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now they know that because once you know you
have a quarterback, then you go all day.
Speaker 2: And when you have him on his rookie deal, we
all know that you're gonna build around him, you're gonna
spend money. So this might be the worst version of it.
Speaker 3: That's true, very true, Uh, tay Te final thought here
any any how are you feeling about Baker's fumble because
he has been very upfront, Uh, in a in a
performance to which I believe Derek Carr could take notes from, Baker,
Mayfield has assumed all blame one thousand percent, saying even
on the sideline, you saw him telling Jayleen McMillan, that's
on me, and he said it.
Speaker 2: He did he did. He did, but it was a
pained it was a pained, my bad. You could see
it in his in his in his in his DNA.
Speaker 3: And then after the game as well, he took me
how it's going to stick with him forever. But yeah, Baker,
who I mean so much good? A cheap quarterback, only
thirty million dollars, top five in the NFL, and yet
it's one mistake after a big goal line stand that
ends up being the difference in the game.
Speaker 2: No, I mean you saw it right when he fumbled.
Speaker 4: I mean he like pounded the ground like it was
obviously on him. I guess he just snapped it too
late on the mcmillis thing, I can think. And then
later in the game, I would think this one's more
on ram Barton then everybody else, because like nobody moved.
It was when they had to settle for the field goal,
when they were trying to score to retake the lead,
Barton snapped it. Nobody else moved and Baker was like,
oh crap, gave it to Bucky Irvin. And then that's
when they lost yards on the third down when they
had this some snaper change.
Speaker 2: But we were talking about durn't break like Commander's man.
Speaker 4: I mean, they just hold on to the football, like
when you're playing a team that's top five and passing
and rushing, keep them off the field. I mean, what
was it sixty nine to forty three total plays? I
mean Baker was here, was good, but I think he
only threw nineteen passes, yeah, thirty five.
Speaker 2: I mean they were perfect.
Speaker 4: Their first touchdown drive was seventeen plays.
Speaker 3: One mistake. I mean those are the margins. Man, what'd
you give to the playoffs?
Speaker 2: And you know what, you know, we're talking a lot
of things about the Commander's offense and Jayden and Michildna
we were batting his show, So it makes sense. But
celebrator King just to continue to talk about the Commanders
as a team. Just think about also what adding Bobby
Wagner on the other side is done. Like you want
to talk about a lead, if you want to talk
about just high football IQ, And when that guy talks,
everybody listens, including the offensive players. And look, I've seen
guys like this in the NFL, Like when when they're talking,
there's not many that can have it that aren't the quarterback.
There's just not I've only been around a couple. He's
certainly one of them. So when he says something, everybody
listens and is Bobby Wagner the player he was seven
years ago? Six years ago, probably not. He's still good.
But it's really the leadership in the football IQ is
why you sign up Bobby Wagner to that deal, put
him right in the middle of your defense, and that
is paid off for them because he was one of
the additions we talked about who they didn't add on offense.
Where they added really was defense, and they brought in
different guys at every single level, and that's certainly been
a part of their story. Johnathi even says, did y'all
see the Commanders kicker Zane Gonzalez fighting with his hair
before the game? Win? He kicked out? He was fighting
with some demons, not his hair.
Speaker 3: So apparently Zane Gonzalez is extremely OCD, which that was
obviously a tick, right, you could tell the the the
the having to feel like it was just perfect as
he put his heelmet on. Thank god he made it
because who knows what that could do to your OCD
if you would have missed that kick. But yeah, it
was freaking a lot of Commanders fans out they should
have watching him, watching.
Speaker 2: Him fidget with his hair like that.
Speaker 3: It does make a little more sense though, if he's
just extremely OCD then it because if that's like it's
like normal behavior. Yeah it is, it is what it is.
But yeah, it was, it was. It was freaking him
out for sure. Here it is, I mean, continuously trying
to just find that find that.
Speaker 2: I think. I'm happy for him that he made it. Yeah,
I mean that's like they got one job. We always
say it and they do. And you know, we'd like
to hate on kickers, even in the locker room, but
you never want him to miss a kick like that. Man,
I just keep watching. He just kept trying to get
that right.
Speaker 3: Swoop and he's got short hair. It's not even really
doing He just he had to feel it. He had
to hit feel when it was right. Somebody said, hey,
we all don't even talked about Lattimore getting birdies, Like
I tuned in I want to see war and he
got toasted.
Speaker 2: He did.
Speaker 3: You know, we've been very calmy heavy, but yeah, Mike
Evans in the heavyweight battle that is Marshawn Lattimore, Mike
Evans won that. Lattimore has won the majority of the rounds.
Yesterday belonged to Evans, as Evan cooked him.
Speaker 2: Up quite nicely cooked.
Speaker 5: It's yeah, it happened, but he was injured so or
coming off, and it looks.
Speaker 2: Like I know, when I watched the game, I didn't
even see Latimore plays. True, even the TeaBot. Did you
have a tick if you knew it was like a
big moment, a big play, not even necessarily you know,
obviously you know you're not getting football, but like a
play that you knew. Okay, I've got to get my block,
and if I don't get my block, you know, just
like a quick something.
Speaker 3: No, No, I mean I I didn't.
Speaker 2: I was never.
Speaker 3: I was never a superstitious player in that regard.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 3: I had a process like, you know, tap the wind
bar three times the left hand on the way out.
Speaker 2: But that would probably be the extent of my so okay,
So when I was with the Chargers, shout out Ollie Wilson,
are running back coach, one of the greatest humans of
all time. He's like, Hey, I want you all to
watch each other and if you pick up anything like
I want you to, you know, tell your guy, tell
your brother, tell you know whatever. And my guy told her,
got this one on me. He said, anytime you're about
to block somebody of note, so James Harrison, Clay Matthews,
ray Lewis like somebody of note, you always go chin
strap with thumbs to make sure the bards and he said,
make sure the buckle. He said, then you go face
mask at the bottom, pull down, and then you get
your helmet and you twist it once. Wow, so boom
boom boom. Yeah, helmet all right though, Yeah, I'm sitting
that like Mike, you're making that up and lo and
behold this.
Speaker 3: So this in the I love that your tick was
based on the caliber of the player as well. I've
never really heard about that. You you we saw, We've
even seen this year guy's tipping plays was like, oh,
look when he's in a staggered stance, it's always a
run play, or when the quarterbacks feed, or even it's
a pass play. We see I can't remember who it was,
but they came up a few weeks back on the
college front. But so yours was more about the quality
of the player that you were assigned to on that play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it was like, you know how disrespectful. I
don't see you just in your house twenty two. What
the hell? Man? Come on? But you're like you're like, Mike,
I don't do that. And then sure enough, like you
watch the tape and it's like like anybody that like
Terrell sucks if you knew them, here goes and you're
doing it. It's like I'm like, well, yeah, I'm like
the gladiat you're putting on the helmet right, you got
to make sure it's ready to go. And so it's
just it's wild, like what you can pick up. And
so Ryan Matthews. His was because I was assigned him.
It was so it was so obvious. So if he
was in gun and it was a pass play, he
didn't feel comfortable in pass protection. Yeah, not that he
couldn't do it, he just didn't like his like he
didn't know his assignment well enough to feel comfortable. So
he would look around. He's patrolling there, he's looking around.
If it was a gun run and he was locked
on his head wouldn't move, nothing would move. He is
so still, he's like a statue. It's like, okay, well
if you're still, you're getting the football. If it's a pass.
You're looking around everywhere trying to make sure because you
don't really know who you have, and you're looking to
see who can come from where they're aligned right now.
Speaker 3: True, that's my favorite story like that. There's an old
Agacy story and I can't remember who the other player was,
but apparently he had just a monstrous serve. But Agacy
picked up that he would do something with his tongue
that would let him know what serve was coming. And
he didn't tell him until years later after they were
both retired, and the guy was like, what the hell, man?
I was so like, I thought you were in my head,
Like I didn't know, I didn't know what it was.
I thought you were reading my mind.
Speaker 2: And he was giving it away the whole time, just
with his tongue. And look, it happens to all of us.
And I don't know if y'all know. Kirk Morrison, he
calls college football games for ESPN. He played at San
Diego State, played for the Raiders, was really good pro
and he was probably in year five or six or
when I was a rookie. We played them at Oakland
and so Norv used to love to move the fullback
around because he wanted to see what the coverage was.
He wanted to give us an opportunity to kind of
cheat it. So for motioning in, we can kind of
go up and out a little bit. And so we
play the Raiders and I'm like, I'm feeling good. I'm like,
I'm a rookie. I'm out here starting, I had a
big game, had a couple of nice blocks, and then
I'll never forget. Kirk comes over. He's like, hey, like,
I know we're in the same division and I probably
shouldn't tell you this, but I want to help you out.
He said. Every time you motion in, you stare at
who you're about to block. He said, every single time,
he said, anytime you looked at me, I knew that
twenty two was coming my way. And I'm like, no, no,
were talking about not He's like, yeah you did. I'm
like all right, So, like like that was my rookie year,
and like that's so helpful because I'm doing it and
I don't realize I'm doing that. I'm just like, I'm
so I'm a rookie. I'm nervis. I'm like, who's my guy?
Where is he at? And when you're coming from outside
and you're going all the way and motion across. When
your feet gets set, they're snapping the ball. Yeah, so
you don't have time to really figure out who it is.
So you have to learn. Okay, let me get a
look at the defense before I go into motion. Let
me just feel if they move or not. And I
got to know where my guy is just based off,
you know, kind of the feel of the game because
if you see yeah, because if you're staring at him
and like, that's not something I've ever maybe would have
picked up or certainly wouldn't picked it up that fast.
But shout out to Kirk Morrison. He's like, every time
you motion them and when you look at somebody, you're
blocking them. Uh.
Speaker 3: So, young kids out there, Foxhill, move look out for
your brus Okay, everybody look out for the bros and
see if they have any tails or the brudettes, whatever
it may be, whatever sport you're playing, look out for
the homies.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to more sports talk. What's some other stuff
mixed in off the bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 2: What's happening to y'all?
Speaker 3: We you got to talk Saints coaching search as well,
But right here you talk a little college football.
Speaker 2: Get because you know my mind, I'll forget and I
remember to ask CT. It is a hell of a thing.
It's like when you watch a football game that happened
earlier in the year and you think it's actually going
on live. It is a hell of a thing. And
so I gotta get this out really true. Okay, this
is a room effort here. Okay, Three rookie quarterbacks in
NFL history have engineered a game with zero turnovers and
zero punts for their team on offense. So three rookies
on any point in the season, not postseason, any point, okay,
any point, three rookies, three rookie quarter I'm gonna randomly
go Andrew Luck as an answer.
Speaker 3: Here, Okay, and we know that Je Daniels, I feel
like one of these was recent recent, shut.
Speaker 5: Uplandra, did you say earlier Peyton Manning did it not.
Speaker 2: As a rookie, not as a rookie, that was any
playoff game he did it? No three.
Speaker 3: I'm saying no three, No, No, Peyton Manning did it.
No three in a play was a rookie.
Speaker 5: Though, r G three, I'm acting like I have c T.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just take a guess because we're probably not going
to get it anyway.
Speaker 2: I don't know you're not because I set you up,
all right. So three quarterbacks, three rookie quarterbacks that have
had a game when no turnovers and no punts. Okay,
Jade and Daniels Week two, jayde Daniels, Week three, Jade
and Daniels in the lock card game. He didn't for
this season.
Speaker 4: Would say once, yeah, but I thought we were taking
him out.
Speaker 2: That's another trait question. I was gonna say, well, at
least uh Te got the franchise right.
Speaker 3: Actually in midchie Ma's had it, he said all three
times with JD five and the chat.
Speaker 2: Three rookie quarterbacks in NFL history with no turnovers and
no punts, and that man Jade Daniels has all three
of them.
Speaker 3: It was nice to see Tampa lows as well. That
was great for the NFC South eight as well as
Jade moving on.
Speaker 2: And also this puts to bed any debate who the
rookie of the year is yes, because there was Look
was it going to be Jade? Yes? Was there debate?
Oh my gosh, I don't know. Lad McConkie had a
big game this weekend and he was great. Ladarius had
like one to ninety seven. We'll get to him in
a weekend winners. But there's no debate. And bo Nicks
had a great year, fantastic year. Yeah, but I mean bro,
they they But Jase was a good game.
Speaker 3: Manager this year. And that sounds like a majorative, but
like it's not. But he had the best defense of
the NFL. Brian Bowers had a fantastic year. Jaden Daniels.
They won because of Jayden Daniels.
Speaker 2: They had an eighty seven percent fourth down conversion rate
because of Jade Daniels and what he gives you, the
dual threat option and to stay cool, calm and collected
in those big moments. Yeah, it's it's Jade Daniels. And
Broncos fans get so mad at me on Twitter when
I say things like that. But Broncos fans, you've got
your quarterback of the future. He's a really good player.
You've got your your quarterback guru. And Sean Payton you'll
be Okay, You're not the rookie of the year. It
is Jaden Daniels.
Speaker 3: Shout up, my god, Joey Roosevelt texting is Boris Becker.
Andrea Agassy was had had figured out that kind with
a tongue.
Speaker 2: I have not heard Boris Becker in a very long time.
I love a good literative name here. Really again, I
was definitely a team andre Agassy. I mean it was
cool Pete Samfras and Andre Agassy. I was a little
kid in it.
Speaker 3: Just went with Sampris because he won all the time.
But I mean I vaguely remember why. It was like
Andres got that dangle cross range.
Speaker 2: It's true, I will see the bullet.
Speaker 3: Nobody had the follicle range of an agacy rare is
it in which you'll see the athlete pull off such
luxurious long hair. I mean, just a beautiful cascading waterfall
of a bullet and then later in his career be
forced to just go straight ball and look hot and
bar shout out Andre most hair range in the game.
I agree, Uh, Texas, Ohio State, we were treated to.
We talked after Thursday about our first college football semifinal.
Friday night, we got Texas and Ohio State doing battle,
and I mean the Buckeyes continue to roll. I thought
Texas actually played pretty well here. Unfortunately, once again it
was a situation where when Texas cannot run the ball,
they struggle well despite that, I thought Quinn actually played
better than he had at other times when the game
is kind of forced into his hands. Right there, you
had it. I mean, at the very end of the game,
it's twenty one to fourteen, you're down there on the
one yard line, and that's when red zone defense showed
up and Jack Sayer takes over fourth I know, right,
So first you you have the stop, then the second
goal sweep call, which has become much maligned.
Speaker 2: People not happy you hear about that later which sark
in that sweep call, and then talk about the superstars
making play who ended up forces the TfL.
Speaker 3: Caleb Downs coming up in there, head hunting, Megan a
play in the backfield.
Speaker 2: So that set you up with third goal from the seven.
Speaker 3: Jack Sawyer comes gets off a great pass rush breaks
up the third down pass, which I saw many Texas
fan jelling for interference right after they've got into two
plays in round. It's like, okay, guys, relax because the
ball got tipped the line. Whatever, But then fourth and goal,
game on the line. Texas needs to score and Jack Sawyer,
quinn Ewer's former root mate.
Speaker 2: When you weres that Ohio.
Speaker 3: State A two, JACKA hits the right tackle with just
a Houdini pass rush, I mean, old boy goes to
punch and it is perfectly time swap down the hands.
The right tackle almost falls over, and then Jack Sawyer stripsack,
picks it up, houses it game over. Buckeyes advanced, So
the final score not as indigative. Was a very tough
fought game for the majority of the time, but in
the end the Buckeyes continue sinsane run that they're on
and they will now square with Notre Dame in the
National Championship.
Speaker 2: So much a breakdown from this game. It was a
great football game. Yeah, NFL guys all over the field,
and you're right, like twenty fourteenth a little misleading. It
was a hell of a game. The intensity and because
of the weather, the Ohio State fans couldn't get there
like they normally would. You and I have played against
Ohio State in a natty fifty five minutes from here
and they still showed up. They will show right, and
they didn't have that opportunity. It was probably seventy five
twenty okay, wow in the building and so like, they
had a lot of things going against them and so
many great performances from so many players on both sides
of the football. Like shout out to Texas defense as well.
They played their balls off like Jeremiah yeah, not getting
the ball and a great game plan and those safeties
for Texas were coming downhill with bad intentions. It was
a couple of plays the screen before half, why are
you blitzing in that? Okay?
Speaker 3: Wait?
Speaker 2: Probably a lot of what are you doing? The entire
middle eight is pretty fascinating here.
Speaker 3: It started with Isaiah Bond dropping a wide open third
down on a time when Texas could not convert their down.
They des why Zembun drops it? But the defense comes back.
Texas forts Ohio State three and out. They saquell Howards
for the first time all playoffs. Then Texas gets to
fourth and one and that was massive. They end up
running arch Man and almost fumbles, but it works, he
holds onto it.
Speaker 2: Then you have the oh, by the way, beautiful play
design on that as well. Running the running the tight end.
Speaker 3: Under center, like he's gonna take the snap, you have
it through his legs two arch he takes off.
Speaker 2: Just I mean great jobs are good read too. I
mean you have somebody feeling the alley and it looked
like Art should have gone in the alley. Then he
saw him last second. Yeah uh, and then you have it.
Speaker 3: I mean, look when Quinn does throw, like when his
throughs are nice, they are as Mr. Satisfaction levels of
silky smooth. And that wheel route to Jaden Blue was
no different. So so so all of a sudden, okay,
all that work, and yet here Texas sits it's todd Yeah,
something you did it. You kind of get your ass
kick the whole game, but your deep intel and going
in a halftime, we're good.
Speaker 2: And then you got the screen. When I saw them
bringing pressure, I am like, uh oh, because I knew.
I knew Trayvon, Like once you saw him set up
the screen, I knew if he caught it, he's got
track speed.
Speaker 3: I mean, how fast did he hit do you think?
I mean, oh, boy, looked like he hit.
Speaker 2: Three.
Speaker 3: That was insane and that and that burst in the
middle of the field was just like he almost like
hit like somebody hit fast forward.
Speaker 2: On the on the remains that we'll get like there's
a ton of parts to break down. But so after
the game, I'm interviewing Traveon Henderson and and all these guys,
and then they are I don't know, it felt authentic.
They are so humble and Travion some interviewing, I'm like,
asked him about it.
Speaker 3: I would say jug Kinson Henderson played that way for
two Superstars running backs.
Speaker 2: Like it feels like you like enjoy when y'are both going.
And then he gives a great answer. But also, like
I was talking, I asked him about the screenplay before half.
He's like, first off, I won't apologize for that personal foul. Guy,
He's like, that's not me, that's not who I need
to be. It hurt my team, and I'm like, you
got a personal foul. Then he took a shot like
somebody like kind of hit him late, and he like
gave him one of these in the face mask.
Speaker 3: Oh I think that on that play No before this, yes, no,
I remember that, Yeah, killed one of the State, killed
up three of their drives, Like I want.
Speaker 2: To pologize for that. And then he got to break
him down the screen and I was blown away. Man,
I had I had Trayvon Henderson A Mecca Buka was incredible.
After the game, Caleb Down just tells you how we
are as players in our DNA and how we're wired.
He's like, look, when I was at Alabama last year,
like Texas kind of big boy to us, and that's
never lost my mind, Like that's been on the forefront
of my mind ever since. It happens, like I never
want that feeling. I never want that to happen to
me again. And so that's all I thought about in
my preparation for this game was never have that feeling again.
Speaker 3: So and then you know, you know, it was a
big missed opportunity for Texta laundry you give up that
terrible screen. But I'll be damned, speaking of middle eight,
if Will Howard didn't try to give you the momentum
straight back that first drive of the second half. I mean,
there's a god awful pick and it's like, okay, here goes,
but the Textas just couldn't take advantage of it.
Speaker 2: And that's when it came to a close.
Speaker 3: And it sucks, cause like four yours and it's crazy,
like y'all, y'all are going.
Speaker 2: To run Quinn, you weres out of town.
Speaker 3: He is going to probably play college football for somebody
else here, maybe goes to the NFL.
Speaker 2: Because a week or has he announced yet.
Speaker 5: He said before the game they were doing like a
thing on college game day and he said that he's
not returning to college football.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he's gonna go to the NFL. Okay, that
makes sense.
Speaker 3: I mean a week class he's done enough where he
doesn't have an injury like Carson Beck.
Speaker 2: That's gonna really just tank his stock.
Speaker 5: I was about to say, like you're already on the
verge of tanking your draft stock like I would just.
Speaker 3: He but but that just sucks because in this game
he impressed me, like when they couldn't when they went
they had seven third downs in a row of which
they hadn't managed to convert, and then he comes up
with that crazy intuitive flip to Blue as he's going down,
and then next thing you know, it's fourth row. They
score the touchdown, making fourteen fourteen. Like I was like,
oh my god, Quinn's going to show up when it
matters most again that fourth down, I thought, And then
Jack Sawyer.
Speaker 2: Just wool comes in.
Speaker 5: My thing is I think the defense like really kept
them in the game. And Texas defense played lights out
pretty much the whole game.
Speaker 2: And I thought, giving you everything, yeah.
Speaker 5: Everything, And I thought the play calling for the majority
of the game and like the plan was great. The
two bad ones are the ones that cost you the game,
like that that screen pass and then also the second.
Speaker 2: And yeah one the second the sweep. I talked. I
talked to a Texas coach and he said, this one
is going to hurt so bad. He said, because in
a very well played game, he came down to too
bad plays. And I knew obviously. I knew immediately what
place he was talking about, and.
Speaker 5: That Jaden Blewe. The two scores, it was the same.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. When that line go out there, I
was like, oh, they're going to get him again. I
mean the linebacker just he blitz instead of covering, and
you could tell. Cody Simon went over, He's like, what
are you You can read his hands, what are you doing?
But Jayden Blew, somebody I would have gotten a little
bit more involved in the run game. He was having
more success than and they well, they kept like why
is got like multiple he needs to like tap his
head because he like he's tired. And you got Jame
Blue over there, who's already made big plays. He's averaging
four yards per carry. Let him eat a little bit.
And they never did.
Speaker 3: The the thing that Texas defense did so well, Jake,
and I want to know if you think Notre Dame
can recreate it?
Speaker 2: And this I got a credit Aaron for this.
Speaker 3: Uh, but Texas is so good upfront that they could
still play.
Speaker 2: They could play two.
Speaker 3: High safeties, play coverage and really you know, bracket Jeremiah Smith,
commit to it, and they could still stop Ohio State's
rushing attack for the most part. Can and not to
say hohyesty did no success because ate enough right, they
were great in the red zone, especially Judkins was, But
can Notre Dame recreate that? Can they play coverage on
Jeremiah Smith and play zone but still be strong enough
upfront so that Hot State can't control the game on
the ground, because that that feels like a big inflection.
They have some pieces to be able to do it.
Speaker 2: They really due like Notre Dames and I tweeted this
out after the Orange Bowl. The biggest difference from Notre
Dame teams in the past that have been good, not
not championship great. I do think it's a defensive backfield.
They've got players back there that they've never had before.
They've got rangy, long, physical players back there. They got
multiple of them. They got like five or six of
them that are going to play. So in theory, yes,
now the corners are going to be big in that
game for them. Jordan Clark's going to be big in
that game for them playing the nickel position. If they
can get that portion of it done, then we're talking
about a similar kind of game defensively. Now, offensively, I
don't know where Notre Dame's going to find success. Yes,
it feels like a really bad but their defense right now,
I think their defense can well. And it's like, I mean,
is Nap going to be able to play for Notre Neame?
Speaker 4: They're just so in No, No, he's ruled out, he's
not he's not playing.
Speaker 3: So now the same way you just had to face
down Abdull Carter that you're starting left tackle.
Speaker 2: They got Jack Sawyer. You're rushers but still tight and
like juniors on the other.
Speaker 4: Mecca for them and Mecca BUCA and Cardinal Tape both
made plays against Texas Like, even if they shut down
Jeremiah Smith, it may not be enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you still gotta shut down Jeri Smith. You
know the classic. Let's take away their best thing and
force someone else to beat us. Yeah, if you're if
you're injured, attack, There's gonna be great rushers in this game.
Junior for Notre Dame. Then you're gonna have Jack Sawyer
for a high of State. But I'm sitting here thinking,
you know, do you move Jack Sawr around? Like wait
a manuea. They got JTT over there as well, So
like Ohio State's got two really good edge rushers. You
can't really hide an injury, you know what I'm saying.
And because you don't, you don't have let's pick your poison.
Speaker 3: It just sucks because if with better injury luck, I
think this would be I would give Notre Dame a
I woul think about picking them to win this game.
Speaker 2: I've run, yeah, because I've been with them all but yeah,
and I picked them every time too, but not This
is to me was the one team that athlete for
athlete you could pair against Ohio State.
Speaker 3: I've got some when we get back, I've got some
kind of bird's eye level questions that I want to ask.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the ninth ranked morning sports show in America.
I'm off the bench.
Speaker 2: Hello all right, welcome back in OTV. One of the
things we were talking about during the break and as
we continue to talk, Texas Ohio State Texas safety Michael
Taff after the game, what sorry, t Baba's out of
the room. Michael Taff after the game. You saw the
raw emotion of him just kind of looking back at
the field and then just yelling and screaming and anger
and you know the pain of realizing just how far
you've got in the playoffs and it's over and you
had chances to win. Pain. We've all gone through that pain,
I was telling Taylor. For me, it wasn't in college
because we were able to get to the victory. It
was in the NFL and twenty twelve where the Broncos
were thirteen to three, we won eleven in a row.
We just beat the hell out of the Ravens at
their place a couple of weeks before, and we lose
because of you know, a hell mary and regulation and
they get it and we lose in double overtime in
the playoffs, and you just that moment, that feeling knowing
that you can't do anything anymore, there's nothing you can
do about it, and you were so close, and you
had the team, and I can remember just yelling like
deeper than the deepest. I was so mad at our
safety because it just shouldn't have happened, like and I
and I hated single on out of player, but it's
the only emotion that came to my mind. And just
like deeper than deep because I was so mad because
we had such a good team and we had so
many veteran players that that was there. That was Keith
Brookings last year, it was Dan Copen's last year. I
think I was Brandon Stokely's last year. I mean, so
many great NFL players and we kind of put this
team together knowing it was going to be it for
a lot of us. That's what he was feeling in
that moment.
Speaker 3: I mean it's a It's why sports are awesome, the
thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. I can't
appreciate one without the other.
Speaker 2: And that's a player. Also like to kind of quickly
give you his backstory from Austin. I believe he played
if I'm not mistaken, in Austin Westlake walk On so
Austin Westlake doesn't get a scholarship, walks On to Texas,
becomes a stud at Texas a lot like his safety's coach,
Blake Gideon, same thing. Blake's from the Austin area. Walked
On became a Texas legend, that's who coaches. You know
him every single day, and just kind of a cool
story of what it means for him. You could see
in that video what it means to him to play
for Texas and how much that you know, hurt him. Look,
I think he's gonna get a chance to play on Sundays.
But that's what that's what it is. You work so
hard and you love this place and you want the
best for this place, and you have a chance, and
you have this moment to go win a national championship,
and you can you can almost touch it because I
think if Texas wins that game, I probably feel the
same about the matchup against Notre Dame that I do.
O High State versus Notre Dame, Well, I.
Speaker 3: Think I think, I I think I pick.
Speaker 2: I think i'd actually picked. Okay, well, I'd still feel
the same because just looking at individual matchups and you
feel that you see it and you're like, we're almost there.
You just you hate Texas though, like it's almost there,
and so.
Speaker 3: No, they're just more flawed than they were damn good.
They were damn good on Friday, but hey, Jack Sawyer
made the place so here. Okay, here's my questions on
the college football Playoff. First, I don't know what the
ratings are. Tried looking them up. I've seen some reference
to them not being good, but I don't know. I
will say this talking to my little brother kind of
anecdotally in the friend group as well. Obviously we're gonna
be locked in on everything because we cover it for
our jobs. I have seen the sentiment expressed a few
times Jake, that people are struggling to continue to care
a little bit. Maybe it's because it's new, it's a
new rhythm, it's gone on longer, but even again. My
little brother, who's more sports crazy than eye am, even
he telling me yesterday, like, you know, he's just he
didn't watch.
Speaker 2: He just couldn't keep it up. And I wonder, is this.
Speaker 3: Is this part of a larger trend. Is because it's new,
it's because people normally shift to the NFL time?
Speaker 2: Is this true at all? Is anybody else feeling this?
Speaker 3: I know this is a tough room to ask because
in many ways this is kind of like our job,
and a lot of you had a team in it
as well, which is obviously going to kind of maybe change.
Speaker 2: How you feel.
Speaker 5: Well. I was actually having this conversation with somebody like
not that long ago, like he was saying that it's
too much. They were against the twelve team playoff, and
I'm like, no, I like it. I think that Like
at first, I think my argument against it was like
and it did happen where people were like, oh, so
and so got cheated out and now we're going to
have a fourteen team playoff or whatever because they're saying
like Bama in South Carolina or whatever. But I like
it because it just means more football. And I don't know,
I don't have an issue with more playoff games.
Speaker 3: I wonder, even if the ratings are a bit lower,
if it's still And by the way, before we go
too far with this, for a ball season, ESPN literally
just set a record for ball season, so most watched
ball scene of all time twenty four to twenty five.
Speaker 2: So it's not like go too crazy here.
Speaker 3: But even if the ratings are a bit lower in
a game to game basis, I bet you you're still
making more money just because there's more games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna go yeah quantity are you? I mean
tell you're probably not. I mean you're football just so I.
Speaker 4: Love the twelve team yeah, but honestly, honestly, I was
adamantly against the twelve team playoff when it came out
because of this reason.
Speaker 3: Oh that's yea even jet Pack saying this that and
Friday Show saying I haven't watched the second of blah
blah blah, like even even yeah, I know, not a
football guy, unfortunately, you know, kind of played himself.
Speaker 4: But I just looked at it with you filmed it
was hard to find a fourth team in that four
team playoff that could compete with the top three, And
I was like, well, you know it's hard to find
four Now you gotta find twelve and make these games competitive.
That was my biggest issue coming in. However, Look, football
is football for me. More football is than never a
bad thing. I'm definitely for it. But we've had good games.
This is going to happen. It's gonna happen with fourteen.
The more teams you put in, the more blowouts it's
going to be. You just have to accept.
Speaker 2: I don't think the blowouts is a storyline anymore though
that in the NFL. Yeah, that's my point. Does it matter?
I don't think it matters.
Speaker 3: I think it's more of what is the appetite? Do
people have the appetite if your team's not in it?
Because a lot of people in chat right now are
saying they're checked out.
Speaker 2: I'm not, but I do this for my job.
Speaker 5: But I even really enjoyed the Penn State Notre Dame game,
and I have.
Speaker 3: No no I agree.
Speaker 2: I mean I was sitting in you know, the Dallas
hotel right now, maybe college football psycho, like I was
in the media room and everybody was like like living
on every single play.
Speaker 3: I think the one thing that you have to make
peace with is a simple truth in that. How did
I write it earlier because I don't want to misspeak
here two things can be true, right, You can simultaneously
reward the most true champion, which either teams that win no, no
to say, look at the run without a doubt, the
most true champion whoever wins this game.
Speaker 2: But you have also.
Speaker 3: Allowed margin more margin of error for a very talented
team that may have underachieved at times. That's kind of
like Ohio State here, right, you gave them they have
more margin of error because of the playoffs. But does
that in any way make them less deserving? I say no,
when you go out there and you house Tennessee and
you house Oregon and then you beat a Texas team
that was top five preseason, top five of the end,
so I don't think it affects it.
Speaker 2: But that is the truth.
Speaker 3: Good Like if you have an uber town, the team
you now no longer can screw up an entire year
because you messed up one day.
Speaker 2: You have a little more margin now. But I think
that's fine. I think that's fine. I mean, I certainly
see what you're saying, because you could make the argument
that Ohio State was the best team, and they had
two losses, and it's hard to explain the Michigan loss.
In fact, I can't do it because it just still
does not make sense. But now they do have the opportunity.
Before in the four team playoff, they don't make the
fourteen playoff. In fact, I mean, does Notre Dame make
the four team playoffs? It'd be right on the end,
right the seed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well but that's not because yes, right, but
I don't but I think they were like fifth maybe whatever,
So yeah, it would have been, it would have been.
Speaker 2: It would have been in those teams. You know. Now
they have the opportunity, and it happens in the NFL
all the time, Like like the Giants at nine and
seven could go win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Piercelesa. Notreame had a much easier path. Bro they've beaten
eleven to one Indiana team that dominated everybody.
Speaker 2: Going to losses. Indiana has just did the two exactly.
Speaker 3: Uh, they beat Georgia, yeah, and then they just beat
Penn State.
Speaker 2: That's not a that's a crazy yeah.
Speaker 4: Seven or eight top twenty five wins, now, yeah, they
might have.
Speaker 2: You can maybe argue they had an easier path than
Ohio state. But it is not an easy path.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, maybe like slightly, not that much easier slightly.
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