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it as well. We are talking all things football here
in the state of Florida. We're gonna give you a
little NFL at the end of this as well. We're
gonna give you some college football. Got a great guest
for you this week. Jp Peterson, host of the JP
Peterson Show here in the Tampa Bay area, is gonna
join us. We're talking all things Florida, Georgia. We're talking
Florida State, Miami recap, We're talking Bucks, Jags, Dolphins. We're
talking Anthony Richardson, what's he doing tapping out of the game,
the former Florida quarterback. And we're gonna also hit on
the tragic news of the passing of the University of
South Florida basketball coach Emir Abdua Raheem in the last
seven days. So lots of great stuff're getting with Jp.
We're gonna get to that in just a couple of minutes. First,
I'm gonna give you a quick recap from last week
from around the state. Just give you a couple of
news and notes about each game, and then, like I said,
JP will talk in depth about Florida, Georgia, FSU, Miami
what's going on there as well. So all right, let's
get to it. Let's start it in Orlando UCF ucfl
to undefeated BYU thirty seven to twenty four. Ucfalls to
three and five.
Speaker 3: R J.
Speaker 1: Harvey sixteen carries, one twenty seven and two touchdowns. Jacoby
Jones six catches for one sixteen in a touchdown. But
again BYU is a having a great run this year.
A lot of people thought UCF was gonna be very
live in that game, but BYU dominated that game from
start to finish. UCF again false to three and five. Disappointing,
disappointing year for sure. They're in Orlando with Gus Malzaan.
They're gonna host Arizona on Saturday. Down to Miami. We
saw it down at hard Rock. We saw the Canes
stay undefeated, kind of lethargic thirty six to fourteen win,
a who hum, kind of just get through the game
kind of game. They beat Florida State thirty six to fourteen.
Florida State plays two quarterbacks in the game, the two
young guys Glennon Clombanhawk. They all they both play in
the game, don't do much. Cam Ward's kind of his
least productive game of the year. He only threw for
two hundred and eight yards, didn't throw a touchdown pass,
first game all year that he hasn't done that. But
the running game was really good. Mark Damian Martinez fifteen
for one eight, Mark Fletcher fifteen for seventy one. They
really just pounded Florida State and it was kind of
a slow death kind of game. The game was never
in doubt really, but Miami moves to eight to no.
The Duke Blue Devils come to town in Miami on Saturday,
the return of former head coach Manny diaz uh in
the Blue Duke Blue Devils, who've been very competitive this year,
but Duke lost a heartbreaker last week to SMU and overtime.
This game is it obviously is in Miami on Saturday,
so I would expect Miami to get the job done.
But again, no messing around here. If you're Miami, you
want to get the job done, to get it moving
and all that good stuff to keep the playoff and
undefeated run here going here, So all right, next stuff,
and again Florida State, they dropped to one and seven,
which is just horrific for them. Again, they're playing the
young players. I think you're gonna see a lot more
of the young guys continue to play. So you will
see coach norvel again continue the youth move I believe,
through the end of the year, and they will keep
it moving again. Not going to a bowl game. That's done,
but there is some signs that there could be some
signs of life. Again, be interesting to see with what
happens with the coaching staff at FSU. I don't Norvelle's
not getting fired, but potentially will he make some changes
on his staff. I do think that you will see
that to some level, if not a major level, because
again I think you're gonna see some changes. I think
there were some drastic, terrible recruiting evaluations when it came
to the transfer portal and such like that. So again,
what Florida State does. They host North Carolina on Saturday, again,
another game that's very losable. Then they go to Notre
Dame following that, so more more trouble here. For Florida State,
probably leading again starting with North Carolina comes to Tallahassee
on Saturday afternoon. So all right, USF FAU. Both those
teams had buys last week. They will play each other
this week down in Boca. USF three and four, FAU
two and five. Status of Byron Brown the USF quarterbacks
still unknown, I you know from here in Alex Goldish
talk earlier in the week. Still not practicing at a
full level. So I would expect Bryce Archie to be
the starter for USF and then so again we'll be
interesting to see how that how that game unfolds. Again,
this is a winnable game for FAU if there's no
Byron Brown. Even if there is, it's a winnable game
for Tom Herman and company and the Owls. So again,
nice little in state battle here in Boca on Saturday.
USF FAU both coming off bys ready to go here
in a little recruiting battle here in the state of
Florida as well, So all right, FIU. The Panthers, they
they played on Tuesday night of this week. They beat
New Mexico, New Mexico State thirty four to thirteen. Keon Jenkins.
Nice game, for him two hundred and thirty eight yards
passing four touchdowns. Eric Rivers, the receiver, a tremendous game,
probably a school record eleven catches, two ninety five and
three touchdowns. So again, fantastic effort there by Eric Rivers
with the Panthers to move to three and six get
a nice conference win there as well. So good job
there by Mike McIntyre and the Panthers to get off
the snide. So and Florida Georgia. Obviously, Florida is the
last game we'll hit on coming off a bye. They're
heading to Jacksonville to see the Dogs on Saturday afternoon
three thirty. You think you're gonna have Fler and Herb
Street there in Jacksonville? Four and three Gators obviously, we
know it's gonna be DJ Lagway's show the rest of
the way. They had a nice win heading into the bye.
So again, this Gator defense is playing better. The offense
needs to be explosive. They need some big plays against George.
I don't think they're gonna go ten to twelve play
drives against Georgia with especially with Lagway's the freshman quarterback,
but they they but they do have the ability with
they got some good receivers DK and Trey Wilson. They
do have the ability to go over the top and
and it looks like Lagway throws a pretty good deep
ball from everything we've seen so far. So keep an
eye on the on the on the deep balls, the
play actions, things like that. I think that's Florida's way
to uh stay in the game is to hit big plays.
But you're gonna hear again, We're gonna talk to JP
Pierce in just a couple of minutes in depth on
this game about this rivalry and all that stuff. So
you'll enjoy that chat as well. So again, Gators are
going into their gauntlet of their of their schedule here
Georgia at Texas l s U, I mean at LSU
and home to Ole Miss and then f SU at
the ends. They got five games in five weeks. Uh,
this is probably gonna determine the fate of Billy Billy Napier.
You know, if you lose, you probably you have to
win one of these four games before you get de
f SU to get Bowl eligible. Potentially, Uh, figure out
a way to win one of these four. If you'll
lose all four and you don't look good doing it.
I think it's a bad It's gonna be a bad Uh,
it's gonna be a bad ending for for for Billy.
But if you can somehow go two and two in
these four games, I think Billy's gonna make it. I
think he'll save his job. And again, even if you
if you lose all four, but you're really really competitive
or wouldn't go one in three and are really competitive,
I think he has a good chance to potentially maybe stay.
But again, this is this is this four weeks is
gonna determine I think Billy's future. And also this is
gonna be a massive opportunity for DJ Lagway. If you
do have a coaching change, you could potentially be looking
at DJ Lagway being the most coveted free agent in
the NIL market in the offseason. If he has any
desires of leaving, I don't know, but if he does, uh,
he potentially cash in a big time. And I think
he's gonna cash in either way, no matter who the coaches,
if whether he stays or goes. But you know, potentially
if Napier goes and he decides he wants to test
the waters and of the of the portal. He could,
and he played well in these last four or five games.
He can be a monster recruit on the open market.
So again, big, big, big month of month of games
here for Napier and the Gator program as well as
DJ Lagway. All right, so there's your recap. Bucks Bucks
fall to Atlanta on Sunday. Controversial uh call in the
game involved a replay which we'll get into with JP.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Tough loss for the Bucks go to four and four.
They now go to Kansas City on Monday night. UH,
so we'll see how they respond. Jacksonville, they lost again
to Green Bay at home at the gun Lake field goal.
Jacksonville is give me one second, al. Jacksonville is heading
to Philadelphia to see the Eagles, who had a big
win over the Bengals last week. So your Jaguars are
heading there. Miami loses a tough, brutal, brutal loss there
at home to Arizona to a return played pretty well
but a couple you know, late turnover and they did.
They blew a nine point lead late to Kyler Murray company.
They head up to Buffalo to face the Buffalo Bills, who.
Speaker 3: Are on a roll on fire.
Speaker 1: They rolled Seattle last week. So tough, tough assignment for Miami,
but good to see Tua back in the lineup. It
didn't look like there was a lot of ill effects.
He threw the ball pretty good. A little rusty, but
he threw the ball pretty good from what I saw
of the game and such. But that Miami defense is
not very good, so probably will be a if Miami's
gonna win this game, probably go need to be a
high score and high twenties, low thirties kind of game
from Miami. So we'll see what they do up in
Orchard Park whether it should be okay up there, so
that shouldn't be too much of a factor from Miami
as they head to Buffalo. So all right, there's your recap.
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nine three four. All right, Welcome back, Florida Football Insidner's podcast,
part of the College Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast Network.
Our Halloween edition of the podcast. This week, we're in
week hard to believe. We are in week ten of
the college football season. We are at the start of
November Halloween. Be safe out there. If you're listening to
this before Thursday night, you don't do anything stupid. Don't be
putting any nails in people's apples and all that good stuff.
Speaker 3: Are you talking about?
Speaker 1: That's right, man. Our guest for the week, Jp Peterson,
host of The Jp Peterson Show, longtime media member here
in the Tampa Bay area, all over the southeast Tallahassee.
Guys spend a lot of time all over the place.
Does a great job. Monday through Friday, ten am to
twelve pm. Fanstream sports, Twitter feed, all the good Facebook,
everything you can social media, you can, you can imagine.
Welcome to JP.
Speaker 3: Hey Jason, thanks for having me.
Speaker 4: Man I apologize and I'm driving and everything. But it's
been a busy week. I'm going back and forth to Orlando.
I got Lightning games, I got my show. It's been crazy.
We got Bucks games. I worked about fifteen days in
a row. Nobody cares. But if you call it work,
I mean going to Bucks game, going to a righting game,
back to back, to the stamcost reunion.
Speaker 3: I mean it's been fun.
Speaker 1: And JP's also the end game in between periods, hosting
Emily Arena for all the Lightning home games. So if
you're an Emily Arena, you will see JP all over
the place each and every home game between first and second,
second and third period, and a little postgame action as well.
I'm sure. So all right, let's start. You go ahead.
Speaker 3: Can you see my stash?
Speaker 1: I saw that on social media, got a little got
your reporn stash going there?
Speaker 3: So this is.
Speaker 4: This was to do the uh we do an annual
Halloween thing at Amily Arena, so all you know, Greg
Wolf dresses up on most of us, you know, we
dress up in costumes.
Speaker 3: So this year, this year, they asked me to be
Ron Burgundy. So I'm like, oh, why would I not
be here ron Burgundy? Of course I will.
Speaker 4: Yes, So I did the mustache thing and had this
ridiculous wig on and I stayed in character the entire time,
and people, for whatever reason.
Speaker 3: It was so horrible.
Speaker 4: It was funny. It was so horrible. It was funny
and they loved it and I had a blast doing it.
So this thing won't live for long, but at least
for now you have to put up with it.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, the most important thing, how does
the missus think of the mustache?
Speaker 3: Allegedly she likes it, but I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: She might just she might just make it you try
and to make you feel good here for a couple
of weeks or so.
Speaker 3: I think that's what's going on here.
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, because seriously, I mean somebody I'm gonna be
arrested by by midnight.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: All right, let's start. I know this is a Florida
podcast football podcast. But I want to start there a
lot of hockey fans in the state of Florida listening
Tampa people all that good stuff. Give me the environment
with what the environment was Emily Arrius, Stephen Stampco's longtime captain,
Hall of Famer, to be legend in Tampa Bay Stanley
Cup winner talk give us a little atmosphere. What that
was like with him coming back in the building as
a nationale predator.
Speaker 3: Uh, it was joyous. It was celebratory, but it was
freaking weird.
Speaker 4: It was weird, you know, it just didn't look right
him in a predator's uniform.
Speaker 3: But it was great.
Speaker 4: I mean, my friends that I work with at the
Lightning Vision, my colleagues are just amazing at what they do.
The tribute video was unbelievable, Just this collage of all
the great moments from his his UH drafting in O
eight is the number one overall pick, to the sixty season,
to the Stanley Cup, the goal in Dallas or in
the in the during COVID, in the bubble against Dallas,
the iconic moment, his signature moment skating with the cup,
just all of it just we relived it all in
about a minute and a half two minutes. It was
so funny because you know, normally the first TV timeout
is a time when the coaches you really get the
guys around, you know, you've you've already kind of feeling
out what the other coaches and doing, so it's it's
a really big coaching moment in the game. And for
this one, it was like first TV timeout, everybody's head
just flocked up all the benches all that there was
no coaching going on, there was nothing like that going on.
It was just everybody was watching the video. And then
Stammer came out on the ice and kind of, you know,
just skating around by himself and put his stick up
and it probably lasted about a minute and a half,
which is about a minute longer than any other, uh,
you know, comeback player tribute.
Speaker 3: Video that we've seen. Yeah, it was just incredble.
Speaker 4: Later on, about two minutes later, the Lightning fans were
chanting his name, Steep and Stemkoz and never seen that
done before for a quote opposing player, so it was
it was pretty phenomenal. It was surreal in a lot
of ways, but the best part about it was Stammer,
had a good night, had a couple of assists, almost
won the game in overtime, but the Lightning came back
and won it in overtime, so everybody was happy.
Speaker 3: In perfect script or perfect night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great again. This guy was a fixture in
the community for sixteen seventeen years. Eighteen year old kid
got drafted. You know, been to this franchise for so long.
So yeah, just a great night all around Annali Arena.
You know, too bad that he didn't finish his career here,
but again in all the wounded feelings will get healed
in due time and there'll be another huge celebration when
he retires and goes into the Hall of Fame. All right,
I want to go on the opposite side of this
tragedy in the Tampa Bay last week, this University of
South Florida head coach, if you didn't know, a mir
abdua Raheem for those of you that don't know, passed
away suddenly last week. Had it was having a medical
procedure done and had a blood clot during the procedure
and passed away at forty three years old. You know
him a little bit. You knew him you covered the
team last year, the great run they had to the
NC double ed term. Just give the audience a little
perspective of what this guy did for this community in
that program, not just basketball, but the entire usf athletics
in such a short period of time. One year.
Speaker 4: Well, Jason, I've been you know, I've been lucky and
privileged enough to work with some really great coaches in
my career, starting with Bobby Bowden.
Speaker 3: And Tony Dungee.
Speaker 4: You know, John Tortorella, John Cooper, Joe Matt you know,
so many great ones. And you know, the mirror was
of that quality. And and that's a hefty thing to say.
That's a hefty thing to say. But once you when
when you meet that, when you met that gentleman, and
his spirit's still alive.
Speaker 3: So we'll we'll talk about it in the present tense.
Speaker 4: When you meet him. He was just one of those
guys that you don't forget. He lights up a room.
The charisma is off the charts, but it's authentic. You know,
it's not contrived in any way. He truly cared about
his players. The way his players spoke about him spoke
volumes about who he is anybody who came in contact
with Amir just you don't you could not walk away
without having your life be better, right, quite simply. But
he's just one of those people you don't meet him
off there, but when you meet him, you remember him,
and you could just see that this guy was on
a trajectory to be one of the great coaches in
the game and have tremendous success. I mean, what he
did at South Florida in a year is incomprehensible, honestly,
to win their first conference championship, to almost make it
to the tournament, and you know, it just it's absolutely
incomprehensible what he was able to do. And the future
was so right for this program and for this young coach.
You know, I met him, I met his children, his
lovely wife, and it just breaks your freaking heart, man,
it just breaks your freaking heart to such a good dude,
Oh God, and so suddenly at age forty three, So
you know, it's and it's on a personal level, it's
just horrific for everyone who worked with him, and his players,
and his beautiful wife and his three young kids.
Speaker 3: It's horrific.
Speaker 4: But from a sports perspective, now this is one of
those guys that comes through a program and changes the
program forever. I'm not saying he would have been there forever,
but a lot of people probably said that about Bobby
Bowden too, right, right, you just never know what the
future holds. But this guy was special, he was different,
and what a shame for him to be taken so
so soon.
Speaker 1: It's such a goofy set of circumstances too. It's not
like he you know, you know, he'd had a had
a health issue and all that they were doing, they
were trying to fix it, and just for that to happen,
how it happened in the hospital, basically in the hospital.
It's just, you know, it's so sudden. It was just terrible.
It's just it's terrible news for the university, for the community,
and just obviously his family first and foremost, and just
a big loss in the coaching world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just for a university that you know, has really
been on a roll, you know, and their and their
major programs and you know, hopefully headed to a major conference.
That's it's a gut punch, absolute gut punch.
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's get let's transition to the field.
I know, it's tough, but let's let's let's do that.
Give me a thought about a former Florida Gator. Have
you ever seen, in your years covering three decades plus
covering these sports, you ever seen a quarterback tap out
of the freaking game? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 5: Anthony Richardson, I'm just trying to wonder what's going through
his mind at that point, like what what are you doing?
Speaker 3: Like what are like his coaches must have been, like,
what why is he tapping his helmet? Like, you know,
did nobody ever tell him that quarterbacks don't come out
of the game. You don't.
Speaker 4: You don't tap out. If you can get hurt, you
can lay down on the ground, but you don't tap out.
Speaker 3: I mean, and that's it's kind of like what you
get when you draft the quarterback who started what seven
games in college? Right, you know, it's extremely.
Speaker 4: Immature in terms of his football experience, and these are things,
I mean, you break it down to the basics, this
is what you know. He doesn't know that he can't
tap out as an NFL quarterback and like, how does
that even work?
Speaker 1: And even worse, he admits it after the postgame press
conference and is joyous about it, basically saying, yeah, I
needed a break.
Speaker 3: I was tired. It's just I don't know. I don't
you know, as an old head here, I don't want
to play the you know, the generation card.
Speaker 1: But you are a quarterback, man, you were a quarterback.
Speaker 3: I don't see I didn't think I see Dan Marino
tap it out. I don't think John Elway ever went hey,
I got it.
Speaker 1: You ever see Charlie Ward tap out of Florence State?
Speaker 4: No, No, but it's it's it's actually kind of compla
he lost his job.
Speaker 3: You know, he's not starting this week.
Speaker 1: But that's a problem for the goals. That's gonna be
a tough one. It's from forget the organization, how do
you face your teammates in the locker room. That's from
just a human level.
Speaker 3: I mean just like, not what does it tell you
about his football?
Speaker 4: IQ, Like, we're not even talking about you know, how
do you transition reading the cover three to the cover
two when they switch up in the middle of the
I mean, we're not talking about intricate stuff here. We're
talking about Yo, dude, you can't tap out as a quarterback.
I don't even think you ever go over that as
a coach, do you is that ever on the checklist?
Speaker 3: Like, okay, make sure you know the snapcount.
Speaker 4: Make sure you know on the you know the blints
coming from the from the flying side.
Speaker 3: Oh and yeah, don't tap out. I mean, do you
even go over that.
Speaker 1: I don't remember. I don't remember, Coach, I don't ever
Coach Bell never talking about that one in a meeting.
Speaker 3: No, I don't. I don't think. I don't think we
ever got to that one. We ever got to that one? Bizarre,
bizarre as that knucklehead Bears defensive back. Oh my god,
who's playing to the crowd before the hail marrying?
Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
Speaker 3: We're four seconds into the play and he's still taunting
the crowd.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable, unbelievable. All right, let's get to the Florida Georgia game.
We can't we're not allowed to say the cocktail party.
Don't say that in Jacksonville. Yeah, right, in Jacksonville. Obviously,
Georgia coming in top five, the Gators playing better four
and three off the bye week. Just give me a
little thought on one, just the rivalry in general. Do
you like that they play in Jacksonville every year? You
know a lot of history. Obviously, Spurrier dominated when he
was there. Now Kirby's kind of dominating this series. Dynamic
of fifty percent Florida fans fifty percent Georgie. What do
you think of that whole dynamic and then playing in
Jacksonville every year?
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 4: It's one of the unique things in college football. You know,
I've covered the game many many times. I went to
the game one time as a fan and it was
and of course, you.
Speaker 3: Know, as a seminole.
Speaker 4: I don't you know, I don't root for either one
of these teams, but I had one of the best
times of my life at that game. The spectacle, you know,
the different sides, the different sections, it's just.
Speaker 3: It's unlike any other game. I mean, you could.
Speaker 4: Say that the the red River Rivalry.
Speaker 3: No, it's the red River Shootout. Oh my god, can
we say that? Yes?
Speaker 4: Can we say largest outdoor cocktail party, Yes we can.
And nobody's going to die if we say those things.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's it's unique. It's wonderful. Don't ever change it.
It's beautiful, and I gotta listen.
Speaker 4: I gotta give a huge shout out to billion Napier,
who was absolute green mile dead man walking right earlier
in this season, he damn near beat Tennessee when they
were ranked in the top five.
Speaker 3: Should have won that game.
Speaker 1: Actually, how do you not go for two there? You
gotta go for two there at the end.
Speaker 3: That's crazy, that's bananas. And so it's some of these
are self inflicted wounds. But you know, he said once
they had that first bye week that they were going
to get better, and he went wrong. This Gator defense
has completely turned it around.
Speaker 4: Whatever he did, give him full credit, completely turned around.
They waxed Kentucky, who has had their number of the
last couple of years and Mark Stewkes never gives up
forty eight points. They waxed Kentucky. I'm very impressed with
this comeback. They beat the crap out of UCF. I'm
impressed with what Napier has done. And you know, I
was the one a lot of you know, Gator fans
been going bananas, and I get it. So much of
it looks so bad, the optics of the too many
men not going for two, like his game management is
just awful in so many levels.
Speaker 3: But you got to give the dude credit. I mean,
he's sitting there.
Speaker 4: Who had Florida and Alabama tied at two and two
in the conference record halfway through this season?
Speaker 3: Who had that on their bingo card? Nobody? Nobody.
Speaker 4: So I think Billion Nay Pier deserve some credit here
and the Florida Gator players, especially young freshman ass Off,
and he was smart enough to finally figure that out.
Maybe Mike Norbelt could learn a little something from Billy
and A Pier. So I give him full credit for
bringing his team back from the break, and I think
they just might make a bowl game, which to me,
with this schedule, which I think is the hardest schedule
I've ever seen in college football ever, even going back
to some of those Bobby Bowden early eighties schedules when
he went on the road to play everybody. This has
been a gauntlet. And the Gators are what for their
two and two A conferences three overall three four three. Yeah,
they did two more wins and they got Florida State
on the schedule.
Speaker 3: So that's it though, yea. So all they gonna do
is win one of these other games and they're going
to a bowl, which I don't think anybody saw coming
this year. I think he's done a great job. He's
done a great job.
Speaker 1: And the great thing is he's got a chance here
both ways. He's got the gauntlet coming up Georgia, Texas
lsu o miss. If he can go two and two,
I think he saves his job, and you could save
the opposite. If they lose four in a row, he
probably loses his job. So he's got everything he wants
is right in front of him. He's got his freshman
quarterback playing, and this is a month for DJ Lagway
again showing some gradual improvement. Throw the nice depot. This
guy could be if Napier were to lose his job,
or even if he doesn't lose his job, he could
be the highest price free agent on the market in
nil if he plays well this next month. Don't you agree?
Speaker 3: I totally agree, And the thought of that makes my stomach.
Speaker 1: Turn right now. I get it, I get it.
Speaker 3: I mean I'm happy. I'm happy for the players, but
good god, we have got to get a hold of
this system.
Speaker 4: I know that's a whole other show for another time,
but this system is just bananas. And listen, you know
DJ Lagway from it and I don't know him. For
Badham I've just watching his interviews. I really do, since
there's a true loyalty towards Florida, right, and I think
if they can.
Speaker 3: Win two more games, so they go one.
Speaker 4: To three and then beat Florida State, which I think
they will, Colors stays awful.
Speaker 3: I know we're gonna get to that. But so they
go six and six. I think Maypeer keeps his job.
Speaker 4: And I think they they're growing with a bunch of
good young players as these freshmen step up at receiver
and running back at all different types of places. And
he's his recruiting has been okay, but I think I
think that they'll there certainly may pick off some of
the FSU recruits.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's a chance to keep his job.
Speaker 1: Right, I agree, Let's go down to Miami eight to Oh.
They beat the Knoles pretty very soundly over the weekend
out of Miami. Is this team, I mean, the defense
is still an issue. Is cam Ward the difference maker
here that can get him to a national title?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: I don't think they're winning a national title. I mean
they should have two losses as it stands right now.
So I mean the Cow game, they it's funny the
eight C has figured out that they should use their
reps to protect their top ranked team, and they never
did that for Florida State did They did the exact opposite.
But suddenly they've now figured out that, you know what,
if we have a top ranked team and we have
some some calls that could go either way, let's give
them the benefit of the doubt so they can stay
in the mix.
Speaker 3: Pretty smart. But the Cow game, the targeting call, which you.
Speaker 4: Know that that gave them an opportunity to come back.
That game is over if he gets that first down.
That's the most obvious targeting call I think I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: And then you got the Virginia Tech replay reversal on
the hail Mary.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think, I mean, honestly, I think they
got the call right by the letter of the law.
Was there anything that should have changed the call in
the video? Now, if that was Florida State, they that
would have been that would have been uh touchdown, Yeah,
no question, no question about it. So listen, and I
just I gotta say Miami's a good football team. I
don't think they're a great football team. As you mentioned,
their defense is completely suspect and will be exposed.
Speaker 3: But Mario Crystobal, what do you do?
Speaker 4: Like you see where these other programs are if you're
recruiting this state, pound the desk and walk away.
Speaker 3: I mean, are you serious? Are you serious?
Speaker 4: You have not won twenty years, You've not won a
single ACC title. How many years have we seen Miami
jump out seven to zero, eight, go.
Speaker 3: To end eight and five? I mean, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: You've won nothing and you're acting like you've done something.
My lord, you so you beat a really bad FSU team. Finally, finally, listen, mister,
I don't know when to take a knee.
Speaker 3: I think I think you.
Speaker 4: Better figure out that these things are cyclical and try
to show a little bit of class. I know it's
completely on brand for Miami to show no class. I
get that that's that's on brand, but you know, be
a little bit smarter because that's gonna come back and
bite you in the ass.
Speaker 1: I gotta beyond that. All it's gonna tellahassee again that
does that. The nightmare continues. One in seven. Finally we
see a quarterback other than Dju. But just give me
a quick thought here and again it's it's a complete
meltdown up there this year. Just give me a thought
of where what is the one or two things Norvell's
got to do in this offseason priority wise, whether it's
more high school kids, give me a coaching staff changes,
Give me a thought or two of what Floor said
has to do to turn this around.
Speaker 4: Well, you can't fire the head coach. We all know
that because he's got a sixty two million dollars buyout.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: It's there's so many parts of this that I just
I wish I had answers for. But there's no there's
no precedent for this to be this bad so quickly.
Speaker 3: I mean, and it's not just you know, five hundred bad.
It's you're the worst.
Speaker 4: You're the worst team in in FBS, like the worst
offense is the worst.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not it's not even debatable.
Speaker 4: You're that bad and you're at Florida State University with
all the resources that you have. To be this bad
is criminal, and I think he has to. I think
he's got to gut the entire staff. I don't know
if there's anybody on the staff that's savable. And some
of those people I've known for a long long time
and I absolutely adore and I think there are awesome people,
Cory Fuller, Odell Hagens, Ron Dugan's I covered those guys
and I love them, and they're great men.
Speaker 3: They're fantastic. But this is, you know, this is a.
Speaker 4: Job, and your job is to to win football games.
Speaker 3: And you can't beat anybody. And it's and the optics
are terrible.
Speaker 4: I mean, not only are you not winning games, but
you look like a bunch of idiots out there.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a it's it's worse than the tagger Gears.
Dare I say?
Speaker 4: And that's a fireball offense. And if if we had
the money to pay out, I think nore. And the
problem is Will he never won nineteen games in a row,
and you know, Will Will he never won an ACC
championship and Mike's done that. And it's unbelievable that the
same coach that did that could not see that DJU
was awful, right and and and for some reason thought
that a bridge quarterback was a good idea and it wasn't.
And that was that was a terrible miscalculation on how
good DJU was. And if my feeling is if the
guy you're going if it was cam Ward, you get him,
you do the bridge quarterback thing.
Speaker 3: If it's dju no, right, exactly, you alienate all your
recruits if you if you if you bring in somebody
like a Jared First who's just kicking ass, then nobody
can be upset that that guy that somebody transferred in
and took your job.
Speaker 4: If you bring in cam Ward, you know nobody's going
to be pissed off. You bring in a mediocre quarterback
who can't run and is horribly inaccurate, which is pretty
much what he's been.
Speaker 3: That's a bad idea.
Speaker 4: You alienate all your players and then it just becomes
a bunch of mercenaries. And that's what it looks like.
It's uh, you know, same thing with many other positions.
Speaker 1: They made a lot of bad evaluations in the portal.
The guys paid, they paid a lot of money for And.
Speaker 4: If you do that, listen, and if you you bring
guys in, and you bring them in in spring, your
evaluation should be looked.
Speaker 3: If he's not if roydel jump what is his name.
Speaker 1: The Alabama Williams yep.
Speaker 3: If he's not.
Speaker 4: Head and shoulders above toll feely, he doesn't get the
job like you don't.
Speaker 3: You got to be loyal for the money, right or
the money? Yeah? I mean you you you know.
Speaker 4: One of the best things that Mike Norval ever did
right was before the twenty twenty two season, there were
a lot of quarterbacks that wanted to transfer into Florida State,
Max Johnson being one of them, and so Norvel had
the opportunity to get a better quarterback than Jordan Travis,
and Jordan had showed some flashes, but by all means
was not like, Okay, definitely the guy at that point,
if on my timeline is correct. But what Mike did,
what Mike did was say, look, this is Jordan's team.
They love him, he's you know, Max Johnson or whoever.
Speaker 3: And there were some other guys in the mix.
Speaker 4: They're not markedly better or certainly haven't proven that they're
better than Jordan Travis. So I'm gonna stick with the
guy I got. And that was a brilliant decision. That
was a brilliant decision.
Speaker 3: He made Jordan better. Jordan led the way to the
ten win and the thirteen win season. That was a
great decision.
Speaker 4: The polar opposite of that was the DJU decision, and
it completely broke this program, and plus the fact that
you know, I've never seen more critical drop pack in
my life. And our good friend Pat Burnham from the
Osceola that might be hest did a calculation of what
all the drop passes, which I think there were like
twenty two drop passes in the first six games, and
you can make the case because at least five or
six of those were touchdown passes that we didn't get
any points out of those would have turned games. So
FSU would likely have three to four more wins if
they just caught seventy five percent of those balls. And
I've never seen anything like that in football to me,
So it's it's just been a perfect storm. And I
think last year was kind of a perfect storm. Everything
went your way and you won thirteen, and this is
the perfect storm. It's just like regressing to the mean.
Everything that went your way last year has gone against
you this year and it's been a nightmare. And I
think they've got a clean house with the staff, and
then they got to they've got to bring in people
that know how to recruit the state of Florida.
Speaker 3: They have to know how to recruit the state of Florida.
Speaker 4: Go pay people that have recruited that have connections with
the high school coaches in the.
Speaker 3: State of Florida.
Speaker 4: Rebuild your entire high school recruiting base and get back
after it. And now you're gonna have to go into
the portal next year, but you know, make some good
decisions and go rebuild this team quickly.
Speaker 1: And say what you want. Jordan Travis was not the
most skilled quarterback in the world, but he galvanized that
locker room. Everybody played for this guy. They didn't cut corners,
they didn't cheat on the habits. Their habits were because
Jordan Travis was the consummate leader and team chemistry still matters.
Speaker 3: And there's no leaders on his team, right, Jason. There's
no dogs on defense. There's no leaders on defense.
Speaker 1: The check clear on the first in the fifteenth does
the check clear?
Speaker 3: Oh my god? You know?
Speaker 4: And there's just no leaders. There's no leaders on offense.
There's no dogs on offense. Like nobody, I mean nobody
on either side of the ball.
Speaker 3: And I've never seen worst receivers can't catch the football.
Offensive line is a disaster. And those are guys that
had played before, right, which is even weirder.
Speaker 4: The defensive line that was supposed to be the best
in college football.
Speaker 3: According to Nick Saban, he knows.
Speaker 4: A little something about football has been I think they've
been better lately. I think they've been much better lately,
but early on we're not. So Yeah, what a bizarre season.
And I think at this point, you know, he's finally
is playing the young kids, you know, the Amari Williams,
the the bron clans that I think look good, look
good at times. Cromanak looked good at times. So you know,
I wish they just would have let those two guys
battle it out from the beginning, and then that would
have Galvin the team a lot more, I think.
Speaker 1: All right, listening to JP Peterson, host of The JP
Peterson Show Halloween edition, So remember, folks, when you guys
go buy JP's house and he's looking like Ron Burgundy,
be nice to Ron Burgundy and he'll give you some candy, hopefully,
be nice, all right when you dressed up Halloween night
here coming up here on Thursday. If you're listening before Thursday,
be nice guy, Ron Burgundy.
Speaker 3: John Burgundy. Here's a quick Halloween story for you.
Speaker 4: This was back in the early odds and Ronde was
living in West Chase.
Speaker 3: We were both living in West Chase, not far from
each other.
Speaker 4: And he came over to the house that was handed
out candy at my house and it was, you know,
we had a few people on the street, you know,
and like within fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: The crowd tripled. The coconut telegraph was on point, like, oh,
ronde barber Is handed out candy at JP.
Speaker 1: There you go is.
Speaker 3: A line down the street. So it was pretty funny.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 3: That's my Halloween story. My Rondez Halloween story.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. That's a good one. Let's hit
a couple of quick NFL notes and I'll get you
out of here, all right. Give me a thought. Tampa
Bay Buccaneers lose a tough one in Atlanta. I want
your thought on to me. Malpracticed by the National Football
League and Roger Goodell. How you don't have cameras on
every goal line, the most important line of the fields
in every game. I don't care if it's the Raiders
and the Giants, every single NFL game has to have
Highland Tams cameras on the goal line. That is criminal malpractice.
And if Goodell didn't write a memo this week to
every network saying you will have cameras on the goal
line starting Sunday. That's a major problem.
Speaker 3: Totally agree, Totally agree. There's uh, you know, some crews
have it, some cruise don't.
Speaker 4: It all depends on not who the announced crew is,
but who the production crew is. And this one I
talked to a couple of the texts and they said, yeah,
we don't. We don't have it onto all the trucks.
So it wasn't there. But I got to say this,
there was a referee that was right at the pylon.
How the hell do you miss that call? How the
hell do you miss that call? I know it looks
like he's cruising into the end zone, but your job
is to watch that all the way through, and you
got to make that call because I thought, I thought
live it was pretty clear, you know that that there
that that ball came out and and I thought, you know,
I actually talked to some people, a couple of buddies
of mine, hammered as they were, but they could see it.
They were sitting like right on the goal line at
the section where they were looking right down the goal
line or close to it, and everybody in their section
saw it live.
Speaker 3: Everybody, like he said, everybody jumped up and was pointing.
They knew it. They saw it live. And and so
if all the drunks can see it live, why.
Speaker 4: Can't The referee was standing four yards away, and literally
four yards away.
Speaker 3: I'll get right there at the pilone. How do you
miss that call?
Speaker 1: I'll give him one defense. They're taught to let the
play go and replay can fix it. He probably doesn't
know there's not a pylon cam, to be honest with you,
and again, I'm not defending what he did.
Speaker 3: Well, replay can fix it the other way too. You
still call it like you see it.
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree with the.
Speaker 4: Situations where you're not letting the play play out right.
Speaker 3: It's because it's into the end zone. The play is over.
Speaker 4: There's not you know, unless somebody recovers it, right, but
the play is gone.
Speaker 3: It's done. So it's not like one of those oh
the balls live.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure if it was a fumbleer or not,
so I'm not gonna blow my whistle. I'll let it
go and then replay Leftfrey, but this was like the
whistle's already blown. You blew the call because you didn't
have the guts to call it when you saw it.
But I think part of it was you just don't
think that when Winfield's gonna make.
Speaker 3: A play like that.
Speaker 4: But we've seen him do it three times now, ye,
three times at the goal line, no.
Speaker 1: Doubt, no doubt. Tough loss with the Bucks again. Uh,
give me a quick thought, real quick, as we're running
out of time here, give me a quick thought on
bulls in that defense.
Speaker 3: You know, I love Todd, you know, as a person
and a human being.
Speaker 4: And he, you know, last year, did a great job
bringing his team back from four and seven, but his
game management is awful. It's awful on so many levels.
And his you know, his defense right now is just abysmal.
And he had he made no adjustments from one game
to the next for the Falcons. I just, I mean,
really perplexed to how bad this defense is and I
don't know if he can fix it, and he's too
slow to make changes. He took Josh took Thunderberg out
for Josh Hayes at the half, but the damage was done.
Twenty four points on the board. Kyle Pitts looking like
freaking Tony Gonzalez. Yeah, I mean just crazy. And in
the fact that Cousins has eight touchdowns against the Bucks
in two games six and six touchdowns against the rest
of the league in six games tells you all you
need to know. Bowles is struggling as a play caller,
and the fact that he's calling play takes away from
his game management, and and he's just terrible at game management.
And you get debate, Oh, should we have done the
fake field goal? Okay, fine, you know, whatever didn't work.
Should we have done the flea flicker? Okay, fine, didn't work?
And I know that's why I love Cleam Cohen. You know,
should we call more timeouts before the half? It still
doesn't learn that challenges all these things. Every decision he's made,
major decision he's made, has gone against them. So, you know,
but you can debate whether he should have made him
but he's losing. He's losing on all these major decisions.
And the and I'll go back to the game where.
Speaker 1: God game you keep God winning the game.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, dude, that was ridiculous.
Speaker 4: With six minutes left, you're it's forty one to eighteen.
You got to score three times and get two on
side kicks. You have a ninety nine percent chance of
losing the game percent And you got Atlanta, and you
got Atlanta next week, and Mike Evans is already down
and done. How in the hell do you have your
starters in the game. I'm sorry, Yes, if you have
a chance to win, yes, a point zero one percent chance.
Speaker 3: It's not worth it. As a game manager, it's not worth.
Speaker 4: And Mike Evans, he was hurt before the game even started,
and then he hurts his hamstring during the game, and
you keep him in the game with Atlanta coming next week.
That's coaching malpractice. O. Man, that's not debatable.
Speaker 1: And the Bucks got a good football team. The sad
part is they got a great offensive team and they
can be a Remember that they've beaten Philly, they've beaten Detroit.
I mean they've had some big wins. So beat in Washington, yes,
I mean they've beaten the big.
Speaker 3: They got all the tie breakers with these teams, and
and that's why I think it's worth going out on
the open market, spending some draft capital and improving your team. Now,
now you've.
Speaker 4: Got a lot of guys playing on rookie contracts because
you've drafted so well. So I think you can give
up a little bit of draft capital next year. If
you can go find an experienced inside linebacker, you gotta
find that because kJ Britt is awful and Lavata is
you know, father times catch it up and if you
could find somebody that maybe you know, can play for
a few more years, you know, Crosby defensive end, the
pass rush, or inside linebacker, an experienced receiver, I would
I would go find two of the three.
Speaker 3: If I can get three of the three.
Speaker 4: I'll take them because there's guys on expiring contracts that
got you know, teams will take six round picks or
or fourth round picks, and I don't have a problem
with that. I think this team is too good and
the schedule is too soft at the.
Speaker 3: End to not try and get in the mix.
Speaker 4: If Mike Evans comes back, there's even you an outside
chance that Godwin could come back for the playoffs.
Speaker 3: I gotta take that chance.
Speaker 4: If I'm Jason Light, I'm getting on the phone and
I'm trying to make some moves this week to shore
up the weaknesses because defensively they need help, they need
lots of help, and you know, offensively, I think they
could use an experience receiver.
Speaker 1: Remember the trade deadlines. Next Tuesday is the elections. To
make sure you go vote next Tuesday as well. A
lot of stuff going on Tuesday. JP Pearson, great job, man.
Tell the fans real quick where they can find your
show online if they're outside of the Tampa Bay area.
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doing this awesome job. Trick or trade. Happy Halloween. Tell
the missus we said hello and have a great week.
Speaker 3: Got it? Peace out? You would say.
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