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Speaker 1: We are here to talk all things college football and
a little NFL in the state of Florida. Another wild
in the state. Here with the new darlings of college
football that now reside in one Tampa, Florida. With the
USF Bulls as they go to Gainesville and pull off
an eighteen sixteen big upset of the Gators in the
Swamp last Saturday, Nico Grimatica with a game winning field
goal on the last play of the game in Gainesville
to take USF to two to zero and send Billy
Napier to one in one and now the hot seat
has just been turned up to five hundred degrees in
your oven on Billy Napier after that loss, a very
lethargic offensive effort. The defense for Florida was pretty good.
Then you had the spitting incident with the defensive lineman
spitting on the Gator on the USF player that perpetuated
the last drive of the game for the winning field goal.
Just a bad look all around for Napier, that Florida
and that Florida program. And now Florida has to get
ready to go to LSU in Miami in the next
two weeks. So a critical, critical couple of weeks here
for the Florida Gators as they get to the meat
of their schedule before they get to a bye week,
and so lots of speculation about Billy Napier, will how
long potentially will he make it if they were to
lose the next two at LSU and at Miami, will
he make it through the bye week after the buye
week he has Texas, Will Scott Strickling that administration give
him time or will they pull the plug? All indications
are the buyout is somewhere in the twenty million dollar range.
And the other question you have to ask is two things.
One is there a competent coach on that staff that
could serve as an interim for a long period of time,
some seven to eight games. And two, do you make
the move now in order to get ahead of the
nil potential potential new hire things like that, or do
you wait towards a little later in the year to
make move if you're gonna make a move. So lots
of things stirring around in Gainesville following the Gators loss.
DJ Lagwoo did not play very well on Saturday. Some
of that is the USF defense, which is, to me,
the biggest improvement I've seen in this USF program is
that defense. They are buttoned up, they've got some depth,
they've got some hitters on defense, and they're just much
more disciplined and structured and organized on the defensive side.
To hold Florida to sixteen points in their building terrific job.
Basically two touchdowns, yeah, I mean, basically three field goals
in a touchdown is a tremendous job. Alex Goldish continues
to do a great job, and his name will be
at the top of you know, As this season continues
to go and USF continues to win games, his name
will continue to rise on athletic directors hiring lists as
we move through the months of October November. So tremendous
win for USF. They have absolutely a path to the
college Football playoff now by thoroughly beating Boise, dominating Boise
in week one, going to the Swamp, and winning in
week two, and if they were to win in Miami
in week three, it would be game on. As far
as you know, they would be for sure top ten
in the country, if not top five in the country
with a win at Miami. Again, my question for the
USF program is how do they handle success? Can they
handle with the expectations of them expecting to win, them
being favored to win because when they go into the
American Conference schedule, they do have a couple of tough
road games at Memphis at Navy, but they are going
to be favored and virtually every game they play the
rest of the way. Now, due to their early season start,
Byron Brown continues to play well. You know that offense
is not great, it's good, very Byron Brown centric. But again,
if they can keep Byron Brown healthy. I think they're
gonna have a great opportunity to do some major damage
in the American Conference even if they don't win this
game at Miami this week. And we'll get to the
Miami Miami side of things here just a bit. But again,
USF two and zero Florida one and one. Florida's heading
to LSU. They had better not lay an egg here
in Baton Rouge on Saturday night, or it could be
again the firing squad will be loading up on Billy
Napier if they go get beat soundly in Baton Rouge.
So we will see what this Florida program is made of.
DJ Lagway on the road night game at Baton Rouge,
which we all know is a very, very difficult place
to play. LSU's got a really good team this year
with nuss Meyer that defense. We saw what they did
at Clemson a couple of weeks ago. So a very
critical next fourteen days for Billy Napier in his future
at the University of Florida. On a side note, University
of South Florida just hired Rob Higgins as their new
CEO slash athletics director, who replaced Michael Kelly, who left
to go to the Naval Academy. Rob Higgins, who's a
Tampa guy. He was the head of the Tampa Bay
Sports Commission, is being hired as the CEO of the
USF athletics program. He has a very deep background in
fundraising and dollars.
Speaker 2: Bit, you know, events.
Speaker 1: He's a business guy, So I think he's gonna help
the NIL program at USF the fundraising. Remember, USF has
a new stadium that's gonna open in twenty twenty seven.
So again, everybody around here in the Tampa Bay is
applauding the hire of Rob Higgins as the new CEO
and athletics director at the University of South Florida. So
all right, let's go to Tallahassee. Florida State goes to
tu Ando seventy seven to three win over East Texas
A and M whichever, whatever the hell that is. But again,
we're not gonna spend a lot of time here. But
the impressive part here is there was no messing around
by the Seminoles. They didn't they didn't mess around and
struggle to score and make this a game. After halftime,
they destroyed East Texas A and M took care of business. Early,
got everybody in the game, got everybody out of the
game they needed to get out.
Speaker 2: Of the game, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So the Seminoles moved to two and oh Kent State
this week at home. Then they go to a tricky
game at Virginia week four, So keep an eye out
on that on that Virginia game, that could be a
sneaky good game. And then you got Miami potentially coming
up early October. If both teams continue to win, could
be a colossal showdown, kind of back to the glory
days of Florida State and Miami. I didn't mention earlier.
Our guest this week is gonna be JP Peterson, host
of the JP Peterson Show in the Tampa Bay area.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 1: JP's very dialed into the Florida State program. Been covering
sports in college football in the area for thirty years,
worked in Tallahassee for many many years, very dialed in
with the USF program as well as the Florida program.
So you're gonna hear JP and i's discussion about those
programs and the action coming up this week here in
just a couple of minutes. So JP Peterson of the
JP Peterson Show is our guest this week and you'll
you'll enjoy our chat there. Miami two and oh will
preview the Miami USF game with JP. But again they
played I believe Bethune Cookman last week.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: Nothing really to talk about there. Carson Beck had a
really good game. I think he tied that broke the
record for most completions in a row in the game
as well as a completion percentage of Vinnie Testaverdi. So
Miami moves to two and oh and again USF coming
up this week in Miami at hard Rock Saturday afternoon.
UCF moves to one to one. Wins sixty eight seven
over in North Carolina A and T. They have a
bye this week, so again we'll save some of the
UCF talk to next week when they have a game.
So Scott Frost gets his first win two point zero
sixty eight to.
Speaker 2: Seven over North Carolina A and T. FIU.
Speaker 1: They lost thirty four to nothing at Penn State. Actually
that game was thirteen or fourteen to nothing late second
quarter a halftime, so they actually played pretty well for
our half but did end up falling thirty four nothing
at Penn State. They have an intrastate rivalry game this
week with FAU. They will play the Owls, who beat
Florida A and M last week to move to one
in one.
Speaker 2: So again nice little.
Speaker 1: Two in state matchups this week in the state of
Florida fi U F a U and Miami USF. So
there's kind of your recaps again. Florida Football Insiders podcast
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NFL recap again the Buccaneers beat. They go to Atlanta
and beat the Falcons twenty three to twenty. NFC South
Divisional game. Young Hok the coup up in Atlanta missed
a game winner or game tire at the gun which
would have sent the game to overtime. Mayfield hits a
Mecca Buka for two touchdown passes in a beautiful you know,
twenty seven to twenty eight yard post route in the
last minute of that game too for the go Ahea
touchdown to a Mecca Buca. But again Bucks win twenty
three to twenty. They head to Houston on Monday Night
Football this week to face the to one Houston Texans,
who lost to the La Rams last week. An impressive
start for the Jacksonville Jaguars and Liam Cohen. They handled
the Carolina Panthers twenty three to ten, I believe was
the final there. Again, very balanced attack, Trevor at ten
or tr excuse me, Travis at ten. Very nice game
running the ball, Trevor Lawrence touchdown pass.
Speaker 2: They kicked some field goals.
Speaker 1: There had a weather delay there, but again they did
great start there. For Liam Cohen and the Jaguars, they
moved to one to know. They head to Cincinnati see
Joe Burrow this week. And the disaster of the week
in the state of Florida had to be the Miami
Dolphins as they got destroyed up in Indianapolis thirty three
to eight. Just a catastrophe of a performance by McDaniel
and the Dolphins. No rhythm on offense too. It was
been not good. The defense was bad. It looked like
they didn't give much effort. So it'd be very inst
You can see how they handle Week two at home
against the New England Patriots and Mike Vrabel. Mike McDaniel.
Keep an eye on to McDaniel if this continues to
go south, and they've got a fairly manageable schedule. The
first five weeks of the year, so they better do
some damage now. If this does not turn around, McDaniel
could be the first coach to get dismissed here in
the NFL season because it was not a good look
for the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: On Sunday up in Indianapolis.
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college football season. But again, Florida football is up and coming.
Florida football is back in the spotlight, back in the
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were seventeenth or eighteenth this week, Florida State rising Miami.
And again, if the Florida Gators can get it together,
it could be a colossal year in the state of
Florida college football wise.
Speaker 2: But again we'll.
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Florida Football Insiders podcast. All Right, we gave you the
recaps of the games last week. But let's dive a
little deeper to the big upset up in Gainesville. We're
gonna talk to USF Florida. We're gonna talk a little
Florida State Miami. USF coming up. No better person to
talk all things state of Florida college football. Guy that's
been dialed into the college football scene for going on
thirty years in this era, A former player back in
the day, back down in Hollywood, Florida, Little QB Action.
Speaker 2: Host of the JP Peterson Show. JP Peterson, Welcome back, sir.
Speaker 5: Now we're dialing it back to my old QB days
with Danny McManus.
Speaker 1: Danny McManus, now, were you now, were you a three
wide pocket passer?
Speaker 2: You could?
Speaker 5: God, bro, I wish we had we had three pass plays,
my dumb ass coach, miss mister outside veer. We literally
had three pass plays. We had a bootleg to a
tight end wangas wag o QB.
Speaker 4: I mean I literally had to draw up plays in
the dirt.
Speaker 5: Uh when I if I came in and we were down,
I'd be like, Okay, let's do this hitch and go
thing and throw a touchdown pass and come to the
sideline of my defensive minded running coach.
Speaker 4: Would be like, oh was that. I'm like, it's called
a passing play, coach.
Speaker 2: It's got a touchdown.
Speaker 4: This is what you get that.
Speaker 5: This is the offense you got in nineteen eighty one
South Proward High School.
Speaker 4: So good luck.
Speaker 5: I went to Florida State became an intermural legend quarterback.
That's why I really learned the passing gay. Baby, I
was coming up with things they had to outlaw. I
was coming up behind under center and flipping the ball
out and they're like, Uh, you.
Speaker 4: Can't do that anymore?
Speaker 2: What what do we call RPO? RPO?
Speaker 4: Baby?
Speaker 5: But this is not about my career. This is about
the South Florida Bulls.
Speaker 1: That's it, baby, all right, we got breaking when you're
starting as we are doing starting this interview. Looks like
Rob Higgins, a guy who's a central figure in the
Tampa Bay Sports Committee with the Tampa Bay Sports Commission,
looks like he's going to be named the new Chief
Athletic Officer University of South Florida.
Speaker 2: I know you know Rob a little bit.
Speaker 1: A lot of the events he's brought to the to
the air gave me little thought on Rob Higgins as
the new set us CEO.
Speaker 5: How about that it's not even athletic director anymore. Couldn't
have a better choice. This is a guy that is
so extremely well connected throughout college football and professional football.
Obviously knows how to run a business, knows what entertainment
is all about, knows about promoting events everything that University
of South Florida needs. They need a business guy. They
need a guy that knows about big events, who's you know,
clued into the major players in.
Speaker 4: College football through the National Championship.
Speaker 5: As we go into this twenty thirty twenty twenty nine expansion,
we you know, wherever it goes, USF is primed to
move into a much bigger category, whatever it's going to be.
And having somebody that knows the lay of the land
like Rob Higgins, I think he's huge for them. So,
I mean they've got you know, they're winning football games. Now,
that's something that they had to have. They had to
go into Gainesville and beat a top twenty five team,
top fifteen team, and they beat a top twenty five
team in Boise State, and now they go to Miami
and lord if they get that one. I mean, already,
even if they drop at Miami and win their conference,
they're going to the playoff. Yes, they're going to the playoff.
That win at Florida is huge now, you know, hopefully
the Gators, and I think they'll be fine this year.
I think that you know, they're not you know, they're
not going and I don't think they're winning eight games.
But if they win seven on this schedule, it's a
huge accomplishment for napier So. And I think a lot
of people are dogging the Gators for losing the USF.
This ain't the same old South Florida. This ain't the
same old South Florida that went that loss. Is not
going to look very bad if they go in and
beat Miami and run the table in their conference, or
even go competitive with Miami and run the table in
their conference. This is a really good team. Bynran Brown
is the real deal. He is the absolute real deal.
He is impossible to tackle. He's Cam Newton. I mean,
he is Cam freaking Newton. He's got a howitzer for
an arm. You know, he's starting to be a little
bit more consistent with his throat, but his running ability
just can dominate a game and This USF defense is
for real. They come up and knock your d in
the dirt. They've got two inside linebackers, Jalen Schuler.
Speaker 4: And Higgs the other guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah up.
Speaker 5: The two of them are just really good collegiate linebackers, smart, instinctive,
great tacklers. They finally got some beef up front, which
is something they've never had.
Speaker 2: Defensively, and some depth up there too.
Speaker 5: Depth, Yes, So yeah, I could not be more. I
was at the Boise State game, I watched the Florida game.
We'll talk a little bit about the Florida side here
in a minute, but as far as USF goes, this
is a really really good football team.
Speaker 4: This is no Fluke. You know.
Speaker 5: They beat the breaks off at Boise State, who I
think is going to be a pretty decent team, and
they went into Florida and one in a tight game.
Speaker 4: So they're going to Miami to win. They're not afraid.
Speaker 5: But this should be the year the goalish and USF
finally wins their first conference championship. So they get that,
and now they've got an athletic director or a CEO
that knows how to maneuver them into whether it be
the next iteration of the acc whether it be the
Big ten, who knows, but win games, build stadiums, you know,
and Rob Higgins will take the rest.
Speaker 4: He'll figure it out in a really good spot.
Speaker 1: Stadium's coming in two years. They're under construction, and that
process has got going for me, I'm with you. The
defense is where this meant massive improvement. The offense has
always been good. We know when if Byra can stay healthy,
he's going to be a good player. But that defense, man,
they've not been able to stop people the last couple
of years.
Speaker 2: This defense is real and again to whole Florida.
Speaker 1: The fifty sixteen points in the swamp, and I know
DJ didn't play great, but a lot of that.
Speaker 2: Was because of the USF defense.
Speaker 4: DJ may need to get some of that ozempic.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I thought he was a defensive tackle playing quarterback. Other words,
who's that guy? He's a biggin yeah, a big yeah.
Speaker 5: But I mean obviously he's not. He hasn't been able
to get into shape because of all the injuries. And
I think he's super talented. And I just think this
was more about us F than it was about Florida.
Even though listen, you can't be spitting in people's faces
at that point of the game. But you know, I
don't know what was the worse that or the two
passing play calls that were that pre that were previous
to that. I just thought, I think Billy Napier does
a lot of things right. He is not a great
game coach. I think that's pretty evident. He's not a
very good game manager. And listen, if you're going to
be the head coach of Florida, you got to do
everything right.
Speaker 4: You got to win games.
Speaker 5: This schedule has been absolutely ridiculous, as it was last year.
But hey, you're in the SEC, you're at the University
of Florida. You have all the advantages, you have all
the money, you have access to the best talent in
the nation. You don't have any excuses. A tough schedule
is a is A is A it's a reason.
Speaker 4: I get it. But he's recruited.
Speaker 5: Well, you gotta put it, you gotta put it out there,
you gotta put it out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get it. Let's get to Napier a little bit.
Speaker 1: Obviously they got They go to l s U this week,
go to Miami next week, and then a bye week.
Is there a scenario if they don't play well the
next two weeks and get beat soundly, Napier's out at
the bye week.
Speaker 5: I don't think they'll quick trigger that quickly because of
last year when he hadn't made the run at the
end of the year.
Speaker 4: I think you got to give him time. You know. Again,
it's a really tough How do they play in these games?
You know?
Speaker 5: Do they take them to the wire. That makes a difference.
You know, do they get blown out? They get blown
out both of these games. Okay, I think we could start,
you know, looking for you know where, where to find
John Gruden and don't say, Alex Golish, don't even because
if you do, these USF people will will hunt you
down and they will they will beat you to a pulp.
I mean it's like, don't even mention, and you know what,
it's degree. I'm with them on this, like, don't ruin
my season by every time we win a game talking
about where ox go lash is going next.
Speaker 4: To right right, and I get that.
Speaker 5: It's it's obvious he's gonna be a heavy candidate, So
let's not talk about it.
Speaker 4: It is what it is.
Speaker 5: Let's just enjoy the season, and you know, to hear
Golish talk, he loves Sims some USF now, he loves him,
he loves what's going on there.
Speaker 4: Maybe he'll stick it out.
Speaker 5: I don't know, but we're not we're not supposed to
talk about that, so it's off the tail.
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about you're not.
Speaker 1: Talking about how do you think USF will the last
question on USF and then we'll move on, how do
you think USF handles expectation?
Speaker 2: Now everybody they're the.
Speaker 1: Darlings now, even if they lose to Miami, everybody's gonna say,
win your conference games and they're gonna be favorite, almost
all of them. How do you handle how do you
think they handle the pressure of being the favorite?
Speaker 4: Now we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 5: I I don't think they've you know, just from last
year when they had a little bit of success. They
they they threw a couple out there like big time.
But this is this ain't the same old South Florida.
This is a much different talented team. But I think
you're right on that's what it's all about. It's it's
it's funny. It takes an incredible effort to get a
win like that, and it's a long time coming. It
didn't happen overnight. It's a lot of building practicing, a
lot of that' stuff, you know, good coaching. But when
you get there, what do you do? How do kids
handle it?
Speaker 4: It's tough. They're young kids. They start.
Speaker 2: Everybody on campus says how great they are.
Speaker 4: Oh, so that's a challenge. It's a challenge, you know.
Speaker 5: It's you've been the you've been the hunters for so long,
and now you're the hunting when you're going into conference play.
Speaker 4: We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1: How do you last question, how do you think USF
handles the Coach Levitt situation? Those of you that don't
know Coach lev the rest a couple of weeks ago passed.
How do you he's supposed to go in the Hall
of Fame here next month. How do you think USF
handles this situation?
Speaker 4: How do I think they handle it?
Speaker 5: Well, it's it's interesting because I had somebody tell me
that in his settlement it specifically says that he is
to get his deserved honors and legacy, which means putting
it into the Hall of Fame. Right, So, now, obviously
this is an extenuating circumstances.
Speaker 4: And by the way, let's let this get adjudicated.
Speaker 5: It's you know, it's said people say, oh, assault and
battery on a woman and theft, and okay, so what
I've been told is he bought this. He bought the
worst probably he bought the purse. And by the way,
I saw them at a party the week before. How
do I say this politely about this woman who was
mean mugging my wife the whole time.
Speaker 4: She didn't not seem like a very nice person. Let's
just put it that way. I'm not making any excuses.
Speaker 5: I wasn't there, but let's let's buy let's let's get
away from the oh, assault and battery. He grabbed the
purse and pushed the dude away, and let's let this
get adjudicated before we start throwing Jim Levitt under the bus.
You know again, it's probably very much like the Joel
Miller situation. He didn't handle it the right way, but
it never needed to get where it got in my opinion,
for either one of the people.
Speaker 4: And it's sad that it did. It's sad that the
whole story is is awful.
Speaker 5: You know the fact that Joel Miller eventually took his life,
and you know, he had a lot of things going on,
and it's just it's it's it's a tragic, awful story,
and I wanted it to just end with Jim Levitt
getting his just do what he did for that program,
you know one. You know, emotional mistake in a bad
moment should not define Jim Levitt's career, all right, So
I don't know, it's it's a lot of messy. I'll
I know is Jim Levitt was a hell of a
football coach at USF.
Speaker 4: He did things there.
Speaker 5: They still have not been able to rep kate, right.
He you know, he's a good man, is he means well?
He gets a little emotional at times. But you know,
I just wish we could just get him in the
Hall of Fame. How will they handle it, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think they'll probably delay it or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you, pro I can see them delaying it,
and maybe not this year, maybe another year, maybe when.
Speaker 2: The stadium open. Yeah, yeah, stuff when stuff kind of
settles down a little.
Speaker 1: Because I've had him on this podcast a bunch of
times and off the field and off camera, super nice guy.
The emotional part of him as a competitive coach and
all that. It's sometimes it bleeds into your personal life
and that ain't great. But but super nice guy. I hope,
like I said, I hope everything works out for coach.
Speaker 2: And all that stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Miami again. Two and zero
cupcake last week, great win against Notre Dame. USF coming
to town this week. I think USF winning last week
is a good thing for Miami this week.
Speaker 2: There's no more.
Speaker 1: Oh, are they any good? They know they're good. Give
me a thought or two about what you've seen out
of Miami.
Speaker 5: H I like they did against Notre Dame. That to me,
I didn't think they would win that game. I think
that was a you know, Notre Dame is a tough
football team.
Speaker 4: They're gonna play you physically.
Speaker 5: And I thought Miami answered the bell, you know, they
they answered the bell and some serious and some pressure situation.
I mean Carson Beck obviously has been there, done that.
I don't think he's a great talent, but I think
he's a pretty damn good college quarterback, right and he can.
Speaker 4: Get you know, he can get you. Now. He's not
cam Ward good.
Speaker 5: Cam Ward brought them back in a few games that
they probably should have lost. I don't think Beck is
that guy, so if they, but I think this overall
team is better. You know, they're better upfront offensively, their
offensive line is better. I think defensively they're better. So
I think it's just an overall better team. Accept the quarterback.
Accept at the quarterback position.
Speaker 4: Is he good enough to take him the nine to
ten wins?
Speaker 5: Absolutely? Absolutely he is. But you're just like me, I'm sure.
And the question mark is what it's Crystabaal? When's he
gonna get out coached? When's he gonna do something stupid
in a close game. When's that gonna happen? When is
Miami gonna lose the game?
Speaker 4: They should win right or two?
Speaker 5: So until they can do that, Until they can do that,
I'm not gonna be sitting here going, oh hey, Miami,
the ACC never want it, have never won it. And
listen usf You know, last week, if you did not
take the eighteen and a half at Florida, shame.
Speaker 4: On you, Shame on you.
Speaker 5: I told everybody the house, your friend's house, everybody's house.
Bet it. It's eighteen and a half this week again
in Miami. Are you efing kidding me.
Speaker 4: Take it, Take it.
Speaker 5: This USF team is a good football team. They are,
and from what I've heard, they did not get beat
up last week at Florida. They didn't have a whole
bunch of injuries, So I.
Speaker 4: Think they got it.
Speaker 5: I think they got a shot to go into Miami
and do something, do something.
Speaker 4: If they win that game.
Speaker 2: Holy Christ, nobody top ten of the country.
Speaker 4: They should number one.
Speaker 2: They do have the hardest three week schedule in America.
The first three weeks of the.
Speaker 5: Year went at Florida, at Miami and Boz thirty four
to seven.
Speaker 4: You should be number.
Speaker 2: One, all right, transitioning Miami.
Speaker 1: If again, no Clemson, no Georgia Tech on the schedule
for Miami, but there is a looming showdown in about
a month, potentially in Tallahassee. How about that they are
both undefeated going into that matchup in October obviously early October.
Speaker 2: Back to the glory days of FSU Miami.
Speaker 5: I was there for the Alabama game. Brother, let me
tell you what it was, nineteen ninety four all over again,
nineteen ninety three of that place was jumping. It sounded
louder with less people and God blessed the students for
two weeks in a row. They have packed it and
not left. God blessed the students for kicking ass.
Speaker 4: Look. Week one was a beatdown of Alabama.
Speaker 5: It was so impressive from a physical standpoint, from a
mental standpoint, they did everything right.
Speaker 4: And I was shocked, to be an.
Speaker 5: I thought they'd be competitive, but I didn't think they
would bully Alabama. And they did. And I said, okay,
well that's you know. And it wasn't a fluke. It
wasn't a bunch of turnovers, it wasn't a bunch of
you know, bad penalties.
Speaker 4: Or anything like that.
Speaker 5: They man handled them up front in the run, in
the run game and stopping the run. The defense has
been incredible. Tony White has done a great job, but
these guys turned them from a bunch of woosies. I'd
normally used the P word on my show, but for
your show, I'll go with the W word from.
Speaker 4: A bunch of woosies.
Speaker 5: Two guys who can come up and popy you, I mean,
earlittle junior juice cryer Daryl Jackson is playing at a
new level. I mean, it's it's fun to watch, and
they are attacking and listen, even Tommy Costellanos with a
couple of really good deep throws this past weekend. Deduce Robinson.
I mean, I know it's seventy seven against East Texas
A and M Sisters of the Poor.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 5: You scored ten straight times. I mean, that's what you
do when you're a dominant top five team. That's what
we've seen them do before. So it means something to me.
Speaker 4: You do.
Speaker 5: Look, SMU scored forty two on this team. They beat
them forty two to thirteen. We beat them seventy seven
to three, seventy seven to three. So it matters, It
really matters. It's not just a you know, just a
you know, a nothing game. So I love Florida State
and I see this. I see they'll both be undefeated
in the pre maybe in the top five, maybe top
definitely top ten, because I don't think either one of
them is losing until they get to October fourth in Tallahassee.
Speaker 1: That will be that they make ye in prime time. Bro,
that'll be herb Street and foul that that might be
game day in the building.
Speaker 4: I don't know, you know.
Speaker 5: How ESPN Reviles FSU. I don't think they're ever gonna.
If they don't do game day that week, then they'll
never do it. So I wouldn't. I wouldn't pencil that in.
I might, but I'm not.
Speaker 4: I'm not using a sharpie, that's too sure.
Speaker 1: Two things I've been super impressed with with FSU in
the first two weeks. One seems like they're playing for
the name on the front of the jersey, not the back,
like it was the difference. And two the competitive spirit,
the effort, the physicality, as you mentioned, all those little
intangible things other than how many stars a certain player is.
That's the part that I've loved to see is how
how again? When they went to Alabama and went down
the field eight minutes first drive of the game, he said, oh,
here we go again. Nope, they turned it around, scored immediately,
and dominated the.
Speaker 2: Rest of the game. That's what I love to see
out of that FSU team. This in week one.
Speaker 4: Well, they've got some leaders now, you know.
Speaker 5: On the field Castellanos, you know, and I ripped him
for the stupid things he said, you know what. He
backed him up, and the guys backed him up. You know,
they got behind him. They didn't run from it, they
didn't run from it and I loved on.
Speaker 4: A game day this week.
Speaker 5: I think it was Pat McAfee who looked though when
they were talking about FSU and he says an alibation
him and they said yeah, and coach.
Speaker 4: You ain't there to save them. I was like, nice,
nicely done.
Speaker 2: Give me a thought, last couple of things.
Speaker 1: Give me a thought about Scott Frost that you see
if you think that's this is gonna obviously this year
probably won't be the year.
Speaker 2: This is a rebuild part.
Speaker 1: But do you like him being back in Orlando with
his connections and his see this, this seems like the
kind of job he can excel in.
Speaker 5: I'll be honest with you, I'm not I don't know
much about the program. I don't follow them, to be
quite honest, I got it. I got my hands full
with with the other guys, so I don't really follow them.
Maybe my u c F people, uh Nick Gattis who
works with me, who with you at you if he
works for on three.
Speaker 4: Sports now he's not a believer. Uh.
Speaker 5: Most of my US F U c F people who
know the program, they're kind of you know, they're kind
of cock eyed looking at it, Like I don't know.
Speaker 4: So I will see. You know, could there could they
have hired somebody better?
Speaker 5: Probably not, you know, I think it could be a
situation where it's just a really good fit, you know.
But we'll see. But I'll be honest with you, I don't.
I don't know a whole lot about it. I'll pretend to.
I could fake it if you want it.
Speaker 2: But I want no faking.
Speaker 1: We'll no, no, no faking it here, no faking last
thing we'll get you out of. Give me a thought
or two about the uh we talked a little NFL
here too?
Speaker 2: Is what Bucks? Jags? Dolphins?
Speaker 1: Your The Dolphins were a dumpster fire, Jags and Bucks
very impressive over the weekend. Give me a thought. Let's
start in Miami. Is that is that just a house
of cards getting ready to crash and crumble?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, my Miami has always kind of been
a front runner of town. And it's kind of the
Dolphins are kind of that way. When when two is
going every you know, it's it's a vibe. But when
they struggle a little bit, they just melt down. They
just melt down. They don't they have no resolve, They're
just they're like Miami, it's all it's all all sizzle,
no steak. Baby, that's the city of Miami, now, you
know it's that, and that's the Dolphins over here in Tampa.
It's a totally different thing. We got a little sizzle,
but there's lots of steak. There's lots of steak here.
This is a really good roster. Listen, they went out,
Baker was rusty, didn't have his usual accuracy, wasn't checking
it down early on like he normally does, and gave up.
You know, probably those two three and outs should not
have been. He had some checkdowns, and he admitted to
all this. Baker played about his c game. Okay, you
had a completely revamped offensive line, three new starters in.
Speaker 2: Positions not nobody knew was coming.
Speaker 5: Nobody knew was gonna They've worked on it for two weeks. Okay,
that's a hard thing to do. And I thought they
played really well. I mean, the run game did not produce.
You know, that had one hundred yards and had about
twenty five yards called back, so it could have looked
a little better on the stat sheet, but the running
game was was a little man. But they you know,
they twittered sixty yards and no turnovers and still won
the game. Like I think the chances of that happening
in this league are about five percent. So they made
the plays when they had to make them. Uh, you know,
the throw from Baker.
Speaker 4: Sick to Abuca was you know, from a tight pocket.
Speaker 5: You know, the ball placement on that believable his first touchdown,
the ball placement on that. And Abuka you know, we've
talked about this, how good he has been from the
very beginning. But those two catches in traffic, you know,
those are veteran catches. Guy Brookies dropped those passes all
the time. They just you know, but he doesn't. It
just the guy's has polished the receiver as I've seen.
So I think the Bucks played about their C plus
game and got a division road on the win on
the road, I mean, that's you can't ask for much
more than that. There was a lot to work on.
The defense wasn't as good as I thought it was
gonna be, but they held them twenty points so and
they kept them out of the end zone in the
last drive. So lot lot of light to like about
this team in terms of their resolve and their maturity
in the clutch and I think they you know, they
won the game, could say they were lucky to win
in a couple of spots.
Speaker 4: I get it, but it's a dub.
Speaker 5: Jacksonville Lamb Cohen is a really really good offensive mind.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 5: I didn't see the whole game of just the highlights
that I saw, and with and the numbers that I saw.
He knows the run game. He knows the freaking run game.
He took us from from thirty two to four. So
that's gonna be a huge improvement that it's gonna make
Trevor Lawrence better. And obviously their defense look pretty good.
So I think Jacksonville's on the come. Question about it,
Miami's the dumpster fire and the Bucks are going to
the NFC Championship.
Speaker 2: I'm with you. I think, well, there you go. I
love it. I love it.
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Speaker 2: Lightnings. What about six weeks away from starting?
Speaker 4: Oh hell no, bro, end of the month.
Speaker 5: We got pregame pre season games, all right, Yeah, so,
uh no, the regular season opener is less than a
month away.
Speaker 2: And it's not Emily Arena anymore.
Speaker 5: It's what benchmark International Arena.
Speaker 4: Do not call it the bench. Do not call it
the mark.
Speaker 5: Do not call it b m I it's benchmark or
whatever I am. It's benchmark. That's what I got the
I got the news today from in the email from
my boss. Do not call it the bench. Do not
call it the mark. So there you go.
Speaker 1: JP does a great job between periods and the endgame, entertainment,
all that great stuff. He's awesome doing what he's doing.
Got a couple of new guys, got Pat maroon joining
the organizations, right, yeah, back with the organization.
Speaker 2: And again then we got it's on free TV this year.
Speaker 4: You can watch it over the air. Go get you
some rabbitteer, some Hdu rabbiteers, if you need to.
Speaker 5: At any cable system you're on anything with local channels,
you can watch it.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: It's called the Spot this year. So great, great move
by the lately. I think the Rays will follow suit
next year.
Speaker 2: Last day on the Rage, what do you think is
gonna happen?
Speaker 1: Are they going back to Are they going back to
Saint Pete next year?
Speaker 2: What's the well next year?
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're gonna They're gonna play in the Trap for
at least two more seasons.
Speaker 4: Uh, hopefully that's it. Uh.
Speaker 5: And then we have a new stadium in twenty nine,
maybe three more seasons, and a new stadium in twenty nine.
Speaker 4: Probably in the ebor Harbor era.
Speaker 5: But now we're talking about the HCC right across from
Raymond James Stadium. So, and by the way, if you
saw the note on Sternberg getting ten percent, he has
nothing to do with any decision making. He's just a
minority partner that has no saying anything.
Speaker 4: So don't worry about that. It's the new group.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be awesome, new stadium, new marketing, putting the
money back into the team instead of putting it in
his pocket.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be fantastic and a whole new day.
Speaker 1: Give JP full credit, but he was at the front
end of his story with this new ownership group, so
we nailed it. You for being all over it and
were now all that happened here.
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We do all kinds of fun stuff.
Speaker 2: You got it, man, JP Pearson. Keep up the great
work man. We'll be in touch.
Speaker 4: Do great job.
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