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the NFL. Let's get into the New Orleans Saints as
they are getting ready to take on the Chicago Bears. Now,
Caleb Williams Spencer Ratler know each other very well. They
were at Oklahoma together. Spencer Rattler was what did they say.
They said they're cordial. Yes, not best friends, but they're cordial.
Speaker 1: It was very dry answer from so he didn't give
you a lot of color. He doesn't give you a lot.
Speaker 5: Of unless you ask him about ghost or Taco Bell.
Speaker 1: I'm a friend of the show, of course, Esser Ratler.
He's gonna be a little bit looser talking to some
former players. You know, they talk when you ask me
about ghosts and Taco Bell and how many points is
gonna score in an NBA game? Six points? He said,
pretty good.
Speaker 4: Pretty good. He did say, YouTube me, YouTube not the
google me like Kurt Signetti.
Speaker 5: Who by the way, we'll get there dollar dollar bills.
Speaker 1: That's that's probably like the age gap. Yeah, YouTube me
used to be google me. That was my whole point,
got it? Yeah, well I got there. Yeah, you got
a good point, though. I think you're well so. But yeah,
they said, you know, how how's how's your relationship?
Speaker 4: He thought, But both of them have kind of been
like that too. That's Caleb to kind.
Speaker 1: Of like, uh, it kind of looked like he like
sucking his teeth a little bit, like, yeah, yeah, cordial,
that's about it. I'll say hi him we'll say what's
up before the game. Yeah, So that means they like
in if you're looking at it, if you're keeping record at home,
if you're keeping score and press conference NFL press conference rules,
that means they don't like each other.
Speaker 4: You're calling your shot. I'm going it.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you, if you, if you're even like
semi like the person you're like, oh yeah, dude, we're cool.
Yeah yeah, cordial. I mean, I don't like you, but
we're not going to fight.
Speaker 4: I mean at the time, like, so Spencer is there,
like and that's why I always go back to whenever
we talk about how talented it is, Spencer Rattler. He
was on track to be like a first round guy,
like everybody believed that about him. And then that year
at Oklahoma, he was going through a little minor injury.
He's trying to come in, trying to come out, wasn't
playing horrible, but got replaced by Caleb Williams. Now Caleb
Williams number one overall pick. You're watching him throw football,
You're like, I get it. Okay. So like even like
Spencer got replaced by that guy, it's like, well, I
mean that guy's going to replace most people. But I'm
sure that relationship was strained a little bit because they're competing.
They're battling for the same spot. And look, sometimes that
relationship can be great. You and JaMarcus great relationship, right,
there's other quarterbacks that were at LSU not so great,
and that's okay. The same thing with running back too.
I'm not casting stones, just quarterbacks. Same thing for running backs,
Like we meet Keeling and Charles and Murph, like we
had a great, great relationship, but there was times before
when I was a younger player, like you could tell
like there was that rivalry because you wanted to be
the guy.
Speaker 1: It didn't really go away. Well, it's just like anything.
It's like coworkers. You have to spend your force to
spend so much time with people. Personalities sometimes clash and
you either like someoney, you don't or it's like, you know,
we're cool, Like I'm with you, Like we're cool, Like
we're gonna hang out, We're gonna we're gonna, you know,
share a couple of laughs, some smiles. We're gonna work together.
We're all working towards the same goal. But like in
a quarterback room, there's only one guy that gets to play.
So if like your personalities don't mesh and you're also
oh yeah, you're competing for the job and you both
feel like you're really good, you tend to not like
each other sometimes and that's you.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I'm gonna lean on you for this conversation
because and I've.
Speaker 1: Only had like, well, I was only around two people
that personalities did not mesh. Right, that's not a teaser.
It's not like I'm gonna like air out dirty line.
Speaker 4: Man. I was hoping.
Speaker 1: I think y'all could put the pieces together, relax one
in college, one of the persons. But but it's like
in the running back room, like four of y'all can
play in a game. Yeah right now, there's gonna be
one like go to dude, right a quarterbacks, like you're
either playing true not true.
Speaker 4: And look, like I said, I've been around some running
back rooms that we had four or five people playing,
and those four or five people didn't didn't didn't jive
off the field, and it wasn't like Kumbai Yah by
any means.
Speaker 5: It wasn't bad.
Speaker 4: But like if you could get it together like they're
they're a great video. One of my favorite times at LSU.
I scored against Auburn and the first people that met
me was Keeling on the hash and Charles on the numbers,
and you could see like how excited they were. And
I remember against Virginia Tech when Keelan hit that long run,
Me and Chuck Scott like trying to meet him in
the enz. Like we had a really really good relationship.
Sean and Quinn had a great relationship. They played fullback
together and that's probably not the norm, but it you know,
it's easy when things are going that way. But all
of us were playing like Charles's is gonna make a play,
Keith was going to make a play. I was going
to make a play, Trendon was going to go make
a play, and all of us got to eat for
you for quarterback. It was different. So like you know,
that relationship being you know, cordial or whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they were fighting for the same spot. They certainly
don't have the same personality, and.
Speaker 4: That makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's yeah core And again cordials like a
word to say like hey, we're not yeah, we're not
the cuff for the same cloth, but we respect each
other and we compete it so and that was one
of the first questions I asked Spencer. I wanted to ask, like,
you get a chance to talk to a quarterback in
the NFL, you ask them way, how's your quarterback room?
How's your relationship with every because they those are those
like you spend the most time with those guys, and
it can elevate a quarterbacks play when you have a
good supportive like if you have if him and Tyler
Shuck are quote unquote just cordial with each other, that
could that could deter you know, the gameplay from whoever
is out there playing. Yeah, but if you have a
good relationship with each other and you're cheering for each other,
and like you said, if the backup quarterbacks the first
person given the starting quarterback at high five, especially after
they've been competing, that's a really good sign of a relationship.
So I don't know, I think we've kind of gotten
pretty deep in this conversation based on.
Speaker 4: Any was trying to talk Saints and Bears. But it
was like I saw both of them interviewed this week
and ask that question, I'm like, ooh, yo didn't jive.
Speaker 1: So I guess it's like they're both getting asked that
it had to have been some sort of sub story.
Speaker 4: And honestly, like I thought, he's been a couple ments
on this, but it is fascina because for you, like,
you're right, you're in a different spot than I was
at running back because.
Speaker 5: It was you and only you whoever was playing.
Speaker 4: But I brought it up because I was trying to, like,
I gotta believe Spencer Ratler, more than any game they
played this year, wants this game because it's against that's
that guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, they got to replace you in college.
Speaker 4: I believe that most Saints on this roster that were
here a year ago offensively want this game because Dennis
Allen is calling the defense on the other side. So
there's a lot of The whole reason in bringing it
up is there's a lot of things that could be
used as MOTI innovation for these Saints players in this week,
certainly on the offensive side of the football.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a what we call a highlighter game
where you get that schedule printed out, you put it
up on the refrigerator, and you get your highlighter out
and you highlight Chicago Bears. And why because of Dennis
Allen began and a lot I think a lot of
the guys on the team have probably have that Dennis
Allen motivation right now, that bullseye because of just the disaster,
that what was Dennis Allen and why would they have
that bulls eye on him? It was their coach blah
blah blah. Of course they didn't have success, but it
was still their coach. They respected him. I don't know.
I don't know if he respected them. I don't know.
He made some of the weakest, most boldly I don't know,
weak chinned, disrespectful comments I've ever seen from a head coach.
Speaker 4: Last year, yeah, after like when your.
Speaker 1: Coach does not defend his own team.
Speaker 4: Right, wrong or indifferent, and then if you want to
fix it, you do it behind closed.
Speaker 1: Do you know what, even if you don't want to
defend your team, you just say, I'm not going to
answer that right now, we'll handle it internally.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't. You don't go you're cologize.
Speaker 1: You don't go apologize to your rivals head coach and
fan base.
Speaker 4: Spence rat that please go put up forty rat Kendre,
please run for a buck twenty.
Speaker 1: You think all the you think that you think Jamis
Winston even though he is, you know, far removed from
the Saints right now, is texting the players this week like, hey,
let's go, let's get this one.
Speaker 5: Let's think so hell yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: He's got the.
Speaker 1: Whole Saints offense on a group chat just with Jamison.
Speaker 4: Let's go, guys.
Speaker 5: Oh look, is it going to be an easy game
for the New Orleans Saints?
Speaker 4: No? Are they going to be obviously an underdog in
this contest. Yes, it's on the road. It gets a
team in Chicago right now, that's three and two. They
just won their last game on the road against the Commanders. Now,
the spread's not what maybe you would think it would be.
It's only four and.
Speaker 5: A half right now in favor of the Bears.
Speaker 4: It actually opened up at five and a half, so
it actually has gone down. This is not a matchup
that is you know, unwinnable for the New Orleans Saints.
In fact, Spencer Rattler right now has more passing yards
than Caleb Williams. All right now, I don't know if
Ak plays in this game. I know he's been heard.
He was back at practice in a limited fashion. He's
got more rushing yards than Swift. Okay, Chris olav has
more receiving yards than Romadonesa. All right, Carl Granison has
more sacks, almost by double than their leading sack getter.
You got some advantages in this game that people aren't
talking enough about. Right, You've played well enough to be
in this game, win this game potentially on the road,
and went like, you go to Chicago and get a dub,
I could do a lot for the future of what
the rest of the season looks like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna be that'll be a big deal if
you can't. And this is a let's not get it
twisted on the Saints roster in their record right now.
We know they're won at five, but we know that
they are really really close to being a five hundred
football team, right I know. I know They've played one
more game.
Speaker 4: That doesn't matter though, I'm just saying, like the stats
are not that far off. Sorry, that's okay.
Speaker 1: But the Chicago Bears are a are a dangerous team now.
Speaker 4: They are.
Speaker 1: They got a lot of glaring weaknesses on their defense
that they've shown. You know, even in the rain last week,
the Commanders were able to move the ball. There was
guys open, So there's a lot of things for them
to work on. But we know historically, speaking as much
as it pains us to hear it and pains us
to say, like Dennis Allen is historically a good defensive coordinator.
So nobody knows the personnel better than him, right, He's
got he's got personal familiarity with him. He spent every
single day with him, so he has he's probably got
a little good scouting report on every single one of
these players. So I'll be interested to see what kind
of game plan he didn't sound and has always been
known to run a little bit non traditional coverages, a
lot of two invert, a lot of weak inverts, like
we always when we were when I was in Oakland
and we had to play at Dennis Allen as a
head coach, like their defense was so non traditional we
had to have separate periods on offense to go against
more traditional type coverages, your normal cover one, two, three fours,
because everything they did had some sort of invert. It
just like challenged your rules a little bit. Now.
Speaker 5: It leaves a lot of weaknesses and a lot of holes.
Speaker 1: But you know, if you have a good defense, and
the more and the longer a defenses together and gets
that chemistry, the better that defense becomes. So Chicago is
one of these teams I've been saying it since the preseason,
the back half of the season, I think they're going
to be really dangerous once that Ben Johnson offense really
starts to sink in, Caleb really gets used to being
under the center, a little bit more, playing with his
back to the defense, a little more in play action
and handing it all and things like that, I think
they're going to be really good. So this will be
if the Saints can go up to Chicago and take
this one from a Caleb Jackson from a new head coach,
Dennis Allen at the defensive coordinator, it would be a big,
big statement win.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it would be as well a lot
of what.
Speaker 1: The statement is.
Speaker 4: Yes, it would be so good for the feel and
the vibe of the future of the Saints with a
new coach, with a young team and a lot of
different spots. And you know, the Bears had a lot
of success last week because they could run the football
against the Commanders.
Speaker 5: Can they do that against the Saints? I don't know.
Speaker 4: DeAndre Swist a little banged up, and so you've got
some matchups that I like, even though you're going on
the road against a team that's got a winning record.
So here's the Spence getting his revenge. Here's the Kendre
Miller getting his revenge. And here's to all of the
Saints that had to put up with Dennis Allen and
his weak chin and baby cakes getting.
Speaker 1: Their baby cakes. Yeah, we're just I was just waiting
for that day. Spencer as playing a fishing and fish
and efficient. There's gonna be a week where he pops
off and throws for four touchdowns. Think it's gonna be
against Denis Allen.
Speaker 4: Let's go absolutely, Let's go ahead. I would love nothing more.
Speaker 1: All right, see that terrible body language face on the sideline,
that'd be great.
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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back again. Oh t b here Lie
from rouses On Burbank and Lee. Well done, Moose, see it.
Speaker 1: Very well done. I'm not the only one that you know.
For the first you know, multiple years of knowing the song,
thought it was dust on the bottom?
Speaker 4: Are you you thought it was dust from the bottom,
the bottom of what, I don't know, of a bottle.
You didn't think bottle.
Speaker 1: I really didn't think like too much end the lyrics
like when I you know, yeah, I mean there was
a lot of lyrics. You walk around, you hear kids
walking around singing, you know, maybe some inappropriate stuff. You
don't really know what it means. You just just like it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Thought it was dust on the bottom for a long time,
talking about life changing when I figured out his bottle, Yeah, wow,
changed it up for me.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of songs. Yeah, Okay, I get it.
I get it. Uh, I told you the story. I
think before my my mother in law thought that Beverly
Hills by Weezer was Heavenly Heels. Okay, Yeah. She thought
it was like a praise and worship song, you know,
so yeah that got her.
Speaker 1: My dad always thought shameless, I'm shameless. Yeah, he always
thought it was I'm shaving oven?
Speaker 4: What Alvin? Come on?
Speaker 1: Ye? Obviously he really doesn't care about lyrics either.
Speaker 5: No, that's where you learned it from. My dad was
a classic.
Speaker 4: Like he acts like he knew the song and out
of ten words, he would sing four of them and
just hum the other six.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, yeah, he gotta fake it till you make it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So okay, yeah, little Dustin look bottle. But don't
let it fool you about what's inside, because what can
be inside the bottom?
Speaker 5: I don't know, but that's what Flynn thought.
Speaker 4: So sometimes you gotta nope, I don't know.
Speaker 1: No, No, anyway, we got there, so I doubt that
I'm the only one. I promise you that there's somebody
out there.
Speaker 4: He's wondering you so bad. If you if you're out there,
please let him know. All right. We got into the
SEC a little bit earlier. We got into Ole Miss
and Georgia. Certainly not the only game. It's actually a
pretty nice slate. You've got number fourteen Oklahoma traveling to
South Carolina. Number four Texas A and M traveling to Arkansas.
We mentioned number five Old Miss traveling to number nine Georgia.
You've got Miss Sippy State traveling to Florida. Number twenty
one Texas traveling to Kentucky, number eleven Tennessee traveling to
number six Alabama third Saturday in October. And then number
sixteen Missouri traveling for the first time on the road
this year at Jordan here against the Auburn Tigers. So
we've already talked about Ole, miss and Georgia. Outside of that, Matthew,
what's the biggest game?
Speaker 1: Oh man, I mean I think chalk answer. Hey, yeah,
almost Georgia Tennessee traveling to Alabama. A lot of people
are talking about this Texas A and M game in
Arkansas is just some sort of walking into a trap situation.
Certainly Arkansas is dangerous on offense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and this game's typically played in Jerry's world. Now
it's back on campus for the first time.
Speaker 1: A little bit more about field advantage, certainly. I just
still I'm not I can't get behind. I think Arkansas
got their interim bump. I think they're going to settle
back to where they where they are now, they are dead.
They got a puncher's chance and everything because by the
way their quarterbacks playing that offenses is dangerous. Say they
can hit you with explosive play. But I still cannot
be a believer in the Arkansas defense. I just can't
do it. I can't get there until they prove it
to me. I know they had a good game against Tennessee,
way better than I thought. Like Tennessee was on my
pick for the Pontoon parlay that they would cover eleven
and a half points and they didn't, so missed on
that one. But I just don't think it's sustainable. I
think Texas A and M too good this year. Unfortunately, Sorry,
Alandra am is pretty good.
Speaker 5: Landra went out in Nashville last night. I don't think
she's listen.
Speaker 1: I don't think she I don't think she really cares.
But like outside of the SEC, I'm really curious about
our guys. Our favorite team outside of the SEC, outside
of LSU this year, Georgia Tech right now, going up
and playing a underdog, right yeah, yeah, playing at duke,
a foreign two duke, and if they can get past
this game, this is like, this is their hurdle. I
think this is their hurdle of the season. Can they
get past this game? Because they got a really advantageous
schedule on their lead up to their showdown in Georgia
later in the season, which they should have won last year,
but if they this is this is that, this is
that hurdle game for them. Can they can they refocus?
Can they execute? Can they not make a play? So
we're all cheering for that. I know a lot of
the people listening we're more focused kind of on the SEC.
But yeah, we're cheering for a coat.
Speaker 4: Used to be. So when I was giving that talking
laugh yette, there was a guy and it was like
my favorite question was went over there and just high
fived and he's like, hey, like, I know, we talk
a lot of SEC and you know whatever. Whatever. He's like,
is there an award life for like just being like
the toughest son of a gun? I was like, actually, yes,
the meatthead player of the Year that we give out
on serious XM.
Speaker 5: He's like, because this guy Haines King from Georgia.
Speaker 4: I was like, yes. I was so excited because nobody,
you know, talks to Georgia Tech football here in Louisiana
ton outside the bus and so I was so excited.
Speaker 5: They talk about Haines King.
Speaker 4: And you're right about this being like a tricky one
for them, and again they're an underdog. So Vegacy something.
Speaker 1: That one and a half point favorite and Duke.
Speaker 4: You know, they lost to Illinois early, they lost to
two Lane early, but they're undefeated in acc play. But
this is kind of a big hurdle for Georgia Tech.
If they get past this one, it's hard to find
somewhere where they'll slip up.
Speaker 5: If they do get past this one.
Speaker 4: Yeah they have.
Speaker 1: They'll be home at Syracuse after this, than at North
Carolina State, at Boston College at home versus pitt and
then of course Georgia.
Speaker 5: Pitts pits frisky.
Speaker 4: But it's at home, so that's good. Yep. Yeah, it go,
Rambling wreck, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 5: I want to see them in the playoffs so bad. Yeah,
me too.
Speaker 4: Little shotgun triple option basically it is what they run.
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: H Haines King getting hit four hundred times a game
at least.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then have been Mickey in his corner. Get up,
sound of a gun because Mickey loves you. That's what
Brent Q says and his health. Yep. If you don't
know that, if you don't know that Rocky reference, we're
probably not friends. Cut me, yeah exactly exactly. I do
like that you brought up the Texas A and M Arkansas. Though,
going back to the sec, that game's always close, yep,
always always, always doesn't matter how good A and M
how bad Arkansas vice versa. That game's always close. That's
why it's only a seven and a half point spread.
A lot of people are like, are you picking that
one for the pontoon parlay? I am staying so far
away from that game because it's a it's an unknown game,
it's a rivalry game. Again. It used to be played
at a neutral site in Jerry's world. They finally move
it off of a neutral site situation. It's in Fayaville
this year, Arkansas. I actually think the version you saw
of Arkansas last week is gonna be what you see
this week. And I think it's gonna be a close
game for a full sixty minutes. I got the I don't.
I'm not calling for Arkansas to pull off the outright
upset win. That's gonna be a close game. That's certainly
what I'm paying attention to. And then look the third
Saturday in October Tennessee, Alabama. There's there's gonna be a
lot of points I think scored in that one. I
mean I mean, Tennessee's going to score points if they
get it into a shootout? Is that favorite Tennessee.
Speaker 1: If they get on a shootout, I don't think it does,
does it fa it? Probably it'll probably benefit them a
little bit. But from what I've seen from Ty Simpson
in that offensive line for Alabama, he's ready for a shootout.
I can tell you that the guy is very accurate.
He can read the field and they're like there was
multiple times against Vanderbilt where he had a clean pocket
and it was nobody within four yards of them. Yeah,
throwing it down the field so they could protect they can.
They got great receivers and so in a shootout. I
don't know. I'm kind of surprised to see this point spread.
Alabama is an eight and a half point favorite right now,
which if I if, like gun to my head, I
had to pick one, it'd probably be like more in
the five and a half six range. Eight and a
half seems like a hefty amount of points during that
magic especially for eleventh rank five and one Tennessee football team.
Speaker 4: Tennessee was a chip shot field goal away from being
unfeeded rights Georgia.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how far Alabama has come from losing losing opening
game to Florida State, and now we're sitting here at
their eras pointing up. Man, their eras pointing up, and
it started pointing up real fast. So old Daboo over there.
I guess I got to say he's doing a pretty
nice job so far. We'll see a lot of a
lot of a lot of season left. But eight and
a half point favorite is a tricky one. I do
you know, I've watched I've watched film on them now
and on this Alabama team, and I don't like what
I see. I don't like how good they are. Sorry,
I know, I've talked about it twice now this week.
I get it. I'll stop.
Speaker 4: So there's ten teams in the SEC that are ranked
in the top twenty five, and oh my gosh, there's
so many people just punching a sky that aren't SEC
fans right now because of it. But I bring it
up because I mentioned earlier this is kind of a
tier system week, because I do think there's gonna be
people move up and down in the hierarchy of the SEC.
And so you have, you know, A and MS number
four Old Missus five, Alabama six Georgia's nine l shoes,
ten Tennessee eleven, You've got Oklahoma's fourteen, Missouri sixteen, Vanty
seventeen in Texas twenty one.
Speaker 5: But these teams playing each other.
Speaker 4: If Tennessee does beat Alabama, like, how far up can
they go? If LSU beats Vanderbilt, like what kind of
as an underdog? Like what kind of respect can they get?
Can Oklahoma bounce back against South Carolina on the road?
Speaker 5: I mean, there's gonna be some real movement.
Speaker 4: And if old miss who right now is the second
highest ranked team in the SEC, if they lose, how
far for you know, how far do they fall down
in the top twenty five. So it's gonna start to
be a little bit of a clear picture. I think
after this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think LSU. LSU's in a kind of a
strange situation on when we just talk about rankings, and
we talked about, you know, if this team beats that team,
how will the rankings look next week? LSU right now.
Speaker 4: To me is.
Speaker 1: You want to think that it's all based on just
wins and losses for the ranking system, But so much
I believe would be like the eyeball test with LSU
because everybody kind of knows what NUSS has been and
how the passing game could look, but we haven't had
that defense.
Speaker 4: Now that we have a defense.
Speaker 1: NUS and then they have not looked like a shadow
of themselves in past. If they start turning that around
and the offense starts looking like they have in the past,
and NUS gets his swag back, he gets that confidence back.
Aaron Anderson comes back and is doing his thing. We
get there, we keep it, continue to improve the running game,
and everybody's like, oh wow, Okay, y'all just put up
thirty five versus Vanderbilt and look.
Speaker 4: Good doing it.
Speaker 1: Y'all were y'all are close against South Carolina for putting
up thirty one. Like if they the eyeball test starts
to show out, LSU could make a bigger jump than
just a normal team winning the game. Because everybody, I
think ls you has dropped in the rank is everybody's
kind of like down on LSU, like we're underdogs in
Nashville against vander Bilt because the eyeball test, it just
hasn't looked like like I said, it hasn't looked like
a shadow of themselves. Offensively from last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, even in your wins, like even last week, going
back to it, you won by double digits. You covered
the spread, but it was clunky. You had opportunities you
didn't cash in all and everything. I don't really know. Now,
a win's a win is a win. I mean it's
funny like you can cover the spread, but you didn't
cover it the way people want you to, right, and
it's like, oh, we el, she's not any good. Well,
I mean, Vegas said they're gonna win by this they
want but more than that.
Speaker 1: But I and I understand it by the way I
get it, I get it. We were all every one
of us was disappointed that way it looked. Again, you
got the points that you needed. Yeah a Vegas said
you were going to do whatever. It doesn't mean anything,
but it just didn't look great against the team that
is not that great.
Speaker 4: And now you got you know, people like uh T
Bob's boss Dave Portinoy putting over two hundred thousan dollars
on Vanderbilt to cover the spread.
Speaker 1: So we're talking about what could happen with the rankings
if a lot off. We're throwing out these big capital
letter IF's out here if LSU's offense can get it together. Now,
all we can do is sit there and watch on
a television or, as in Jacob's case, call a game,
And all we can do is hope that that if
becomes reality. It is up to them. They got to
go out and do it. And I think there's a
good chance that they're going to start to get better.
And there ain't no way in hell they're gonna go
up to Nashville and let those nerds beat them, beat
the hell out of the nerds.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can't let those SAT scores beat you know how.
Speaker 4: You can't do it, Bud. Come on, guys, Yeah.
Speaker 1: You might be beating us in the SAT scores. We're
gonna beat your ass on the field.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's go, and he said beat the nerds. All right,
we will step away here. We still got a lot
more coming your way, some of the biggest games in
the NFL. We got what's a ticket, We got our
final picks for LS you and Vanderbilt. We got a
pontoon parlay, we got a party barge parlay. So much
more coming your way. State locked in here with us.
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Speaker 4: We thank you, just kidding, thank you. I appreciate that.
Uh So, I don't know if if you off caught on,
But over the last couple of weeks, we've had like
Patrick Willis, we had Spencer Ratler, like whoever LSU was playing,
you know, we had somebody that was tied to that school,
be a guess. That wasn't like breaking down the game.
It was just like, hey, we're playing at that team
this week. We tried real hard, we put up brains,
put our brains together to try to figure out somebody
that would make sense for Vandy.
Speaker 1: Turns out there's just a bunch of nerds and we
couldn't do it.
Speaker 4: We could a lot of baseball people obviously, and I know,
a couple of like the baseball people I know didn't
go to Vandy, and so I tried a couple of
different and I was like, Eh, that's not that's not.
Speaker 1: I think the best idea we had was the Vandy
whistler thought about that, about trying to get him about that.
I'm he's a listener.
Speaker 4: Yeah, even like friend of the show, Hey Clark Clark Lee,
do you want to come home? Didn't think it was
the right week to ask him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably been like our best chance of getting
somebody for sure.
Speaker 4: For sure, you.
Speaker 1: Weren't gonna stand for Jay Cutler.
Speaker 4: Jakeuler is not coming on my show. Yep, it's not happening.
So there was somebody that you were like, I don't
really want him on our show either. So the two
people that we thought of were like, no, let's nope,
not doing that.
Speaker 1: But honestly, who else is there?
Speaker 4: I know? And and then Jordan Matthews, a receiver. I
was like, oh, Jordan Matthews, Yeah, I kind of know
him a little bit. And he's like, oh, he took
a job two weeks ago as an offensive analyst for Vanderbilt.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, I know, dog gone.
Speaker 4: Like everybody I know for Vanderbilt is still currently attached
to Vanderbilt. Clarklely head coach, Steven Gregory, defensive coordinator, Jordan Matthews,
offensive analyst. Sorry, guys, we tried. We thought, we thought
real hard.
Speaker 1: Like somebody with the last name of Vanderbilt part of
the Vanderbilt family.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we thought. David Price came to mind. I tried
two different avenues. Didn't work out.
Speaker 1: So that's not on us, it's on Vanderbilt. You don't
have a lot of cool points. Yeah, you're not gonna
have a lot of cool points after this weekend either.
All you got is Diego pavia I doubt they bring
Johnny Manziel back to any games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he kind of flipped people off. That didn't really
make sense either.
Speaker 1: Struck the Heisman puzz I guess because he beat Alabama.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah he did. He did you brea him twice?
Think he did? Thank you think it to beat them twice?
Speaker 1: He definitely beat them in Alabama. Yes, so that kind
of I guess that's the only thing that makes sense
about that.
Speaker 4: Look, I did see our guy, Theo Von was out
with Diego Pabia at a concert last night. Whatever happened
to the no Thursday going out? Real, guys, it's a
forty eight hour real, buddy. We definitely adhered to that.
Speaker 1: When we were in college every time, every time, all
we drank was water. We were hydrated just before my
high so we weren't as hydrated. Just kidding. I'm a
little bit more nervous now I know that he's out
doing his thing on a Thursday. Yeah, because that's thirsty Thursday.
Oh no, that's what makes a championship team. Yeah, it's
called team BONDI real quick.
Speaker 4: Before we move on, do you think next week we
can get Dan Campbell? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. We got them for a and m
oh yeah, we got plenty of options.
Speaker 4: And I mean this in a in a very like
real nice way. Did you ever cross paths with Dan
Campbell with any of the teams? I don't think.
Speaker 1: I mean he might have been on the team. He
just didn't stick.
Speaker 4: Out like that. Dan Cambell sticks out. D Kimbell sticks out.
He's a large human, puts a puts coffee in as
a dip, probably got a growley voice. You would have known.
Speaker 5: Okay, sure, there's no way.
Speaker 4: There's no way you didn't cross paths.
Speaker 1: We probably did. He probably remembers me for sure. I'm
assuming you had some run ends with him. Can you
get oh my god, look at this picture of you.
Holy where are what is going on?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, curls girls for the girls that win? Can
we get that win on the show next week? Get
rat dat I We're gonna lean on you being the
Texas guy next week. Well, we got options, but we
got options.
Speaker 5: We did not have a lot of options for A
and M.
Speaker 1: No, for Vandy, Oh for Vanded, No, there's no options
because there's a bunch of school nerds.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, you didn't play for the Lions or Cowboys,
so yeah, you and Dan Campbell know so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I was never on a team with him, right,
But for Man, we got options.
Speaker 4: We got you know, we get Jimbo Fish. Is that
fishes that count?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It does? I think. So he's the head coach and
they paid him seventy six million dollars. Yeah, they're still
paying him, so he's still on the payroll. Payroll. That
makes sense.
Speaker 5: Tommy Moffatt, you think Mafia would come on?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why not? Yeah, I come talking some trash, No doubt
we're here.
Speaker 4: For it. Yeah, we'd have to have the dump button
ready to go, though. No, let it ride, let it fly. Yes,
that's a fine though. Oh on the radio station, we're
gonna find Mofat No, no, no, the radio station gets fined.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's worth it.
Speaker 5: I feel like it's like a big, big fine, Oh,
a big one.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And you know the main flint at our station
would probably not appreciate that. Yeah, but I don't think.
Speaker 1: I think they probably show a little bit of grace
when your guest who doesn't necessarily know the rules comes.
Speaker 4: The same way.
Speaker 1: Still, the Sir Patrick Willis set up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but we didn't celebrate it.
Speaker 5: We moved quickly. And you know, Moffat will proba say
other thing.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean he's a pro okay, And
who's really going to find Patrick Willis? I mean not me.
I'm not doing that terrorize your nightmares. But all right, well,
we'll see what we can do for text A and M.
But if you're wondering, like, wait a minute, they've had
a guest for everybody they've played in the SEC outside
of Florida, because we know some Florida got coming on
our show. That's why we tried different avenues, we tried
different people, and uh, you know, just didn't just didn't hit,
just didn't hit. But next week's going to feel good
about next week.
Speaker 1: Next week's on the pot. I feel good about it.
I feel great about it.
Speaker 4: All right? You ready to ready to give your final
prediction on the Saints Bears.
Speaker 1: Let's do that next segment.
Speaker 4: That's what that's what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if you're a professional enough to tease
it like me.
Speaker 4: That's why I looked at the I looked at the clock.
And we're gonna give it and then go through the
NFL slate there and we'll start giving some of our
favorite plays out of the National Football League and we'll
do it when we come back.
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traveling to Chicago to take on the Bears four and
a half point spread in favor of the Chicago Bears.
How do you see it plan out?
Speaker 1: All? Right? So I've been on the I've been on
the Saints bandwagon because I I've liked what I've seen
from where they're at in their organization, where they're as
a program, as a franchise. Nothing in like a disaster
this season. It's actually been pretty good. I see improvement.
I said, we got new head coach, and I saw
a lot of interviews yesterday in the locker room, a
lot of trade based interviews, specifically with chrysal Lave, specifically
with Alvin Kamara, and are we looking at a team
that is like galvanizing right in front of our eyes.
There's been some questions about Chris Alave and like he's
not playing up to his standard to where he's played
in the past. He's not making plays. This is he
checked out? Is he what's going on with him? Well,
he was asked about the trade yesterday, the trade rumors,
and he said, no, I want to play my entire
career here. Alvin Kamara was asked the same question and
we know his loyalty, like, that's that's unquestioned. He's I
was mad at him for re signing. I was like,
go spread your wings and fly, buddy, Like, if you
love something enough said it free, you got to let
it go. Something it But he said no, no, no, I
want to stay here.
Speaker 4: I want to see He said, if they trade me,
I'll be drinking a pina colada because I'll retire. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He just basically said, if you trade me, I'm done.
So that if you're if you're the Chiefs and you
were thinking about making a trade for him, maybe that kind.
Speaker 4: Of story and real quick, that goes back to my
point yesterday we talked about free agents. I know that
people like on the service are like not thinking New Orleans,
but once you get here, yep. Everybody that I've known
that's played for an extended period of time has loved
their time here.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Don't judge a book. Yeah, do not judge a book
by its.
Speaker 4: Cover, for sure.
Speaker 1: So are we looking at a team that, Okay, we're
not gonna they're not gonna make the playoffs. They're not
they're not going No one's expecting that. But are we
looking at a team that is finding themselves a little
bit more each and every week. Offensively, Spencer Raller has
moved the ball beneficient. We are looking for that explosive game.
We're looking for that moment for him to have because
we know it's there, We've seen it happen. He's been
more consistent than any NFL quarterback just for like a
play in play out basis. It hasn't made that play yet.
Enough of them right, so I think they kind of
come onto the scene. I think their offense takes a step.
And are we looking at a team based on the
interviews yesterday, based on the responses from a lave who
knew but nobody knew, like what was he in? Was
he out right? He squashed those rumors? Yeah, which very
cool to see. Are we looking at a team that
is galvanizing, that is coming together under a new first
time head coach. I think they find a way to
put the explosiveness in that offense. Spencer Raler is about
to have a game, okay where he throws for three
or four touchdowns. I think Kendre Miller goes for one
hundred plus all purpose yards, not just for rushing, like
all purpose. I think he's gonna be part of the
screen game, the passing game, his get right game, his
revenge game against tennis Allen. I think they win a
last minute last drive Spencer rawler game winning touchdown drive.
Let's go with the score of this is gonna be
a high scoring game. I think, ooh, let's go.
Speaker 4: Thirty seven six, thirty seven, thirty six yep, and then
National Football League game again, let's go. Uh look, I
think is prety good.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm saying that.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 4: I think everything Matt said, maybe not a score, but
everything else that he said. I'm a radio probe, Brothers,
I am somebody. I am all with it. This is
a great opportunity for the Saints. You're on the road,
a game in which the Bears just use a lot
of energy to go win that game. All right?
Speaker 5: They got to go back on the road the next
week against the Ravens.
Speaker 4: Are they worried about the New Orleans Even though the
Ravens are one and five, It's still the Ravens, Right,
You still think a little bit differently when you're about
to play that team. So are they overlooking the New
Orleans Saints? Now we know the Saints have a lot
of motivation. We laid that out earlier in the show.
They got a lot of motivation because of the quarterback matchup.
They got a lot of motivation because they're former head
coach who a lot of people didn't vibe with. Is
on the other sidelines called the defense. Okay, So for me,
I'm not calling for some crazy score prediction here.
Speaker 1: Well, their game gets the Commandos is twenty five to twenty.
Speaker 4: Four horn rain.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's scoring some points and giving up some points.
Speaker 4: I know they won that game because of the porn rain,
because of the fumble, But I do like the New
Orleans Saints eventually because they've been so close to making
the play to win the game.
Speaker 5: They're going to make the play to win the game.
Speaker 4: And why not do it against weak chin baby cakes.
Dennis Allen in Chicago on the road, Let's go thirty seven,
all right? When we when we go, oh that would
be the call of the century. All right, So when
we come back, we are going to go across the
nation in the top twenty five and play what's the ticket?
And we're gonna do it right here live from Rosses
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