Speaker 1: Quick update on the topic that everybody's talking.
Speaker 2: About there on the show.
Speaker 1: The Boy Scouts have changed their name to Scouting America.
Speaker 2: Okay, so they're no longer.
Speaker 1: The Boy Scouts, but they are around and it's Scouting America.
Speaker 2: Oh all right, I think everything's good.
Speaker 1: Then I guess, right, I guess, But you know, inquiry
Speaker 1: in minds want to know Scott Mitchell on a Tuesday afternoon, Scott,
Speaker 1: did you grow up in Boy Scouts?
Speaker 2: That Are you an Eagle Scout?
Speaker 3: I am an Eagle Scout. I actually have done public
Speaker 3: service announcements in the past for the Boy Scouts. If
Speaker 3: you actually type in Google search Scott Mitchell Boy Scouts,
Speaker 3: you'll see an amazing commercial back when I was playing
Speaker 3: for the Detroit Lines.
Speaker 2: Please, it's a.
Speaker 3: Travesty actually to hear what you just said. Scouting was
Speaker 3: an amazing part of my life and I absolutely loved it,
Speaker 3: and it's not what it used to be.
Speaker 2: I didn't know any of that. Porter.
Speaker 1: All I want you to do is get the sound
Speaker 1: from Scott Mitchell's Boy Scout commercial before the end of
Speaker 1: the interview.
Speaker 2: Let's see if you can fire that out.
Speaker 3: So you better be careful, Spence, because you'll be in tears.
Speaker 3: It's an emotional, powerful message.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear it. Look, I need to
Speaker 1: be motivated in the new year, Scott. I'm just looking
Speaker 1: for somebody to motivate me. If that's you talking about
Speaker 1: boy Scouts, I have no judgment.
Speaker 2: That's fine with me.
Speaker 3: Oh, I could motivate you, Spence, give me, give me
Speaker 3: ten minutes. I'll have you run into a brick wall.
Speaker 1: I need it, I want it. Have you been traveling
Speaker 1: during the holidays. Where you've been it's been a.
Speaker 3: While, Yeah, I've been. I've been everywhere. Man. I actually
Speaker 3: was went to the German Christmas markets. I was in Florida.
Speaker 3: Where else I don't know. Just pick a place I've
Speaker 3: probably been there.
Speaker 1: Boy, Well, happy New Year, even though Larry David said,
Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to say that after you know, January
Speaker 1: of the fourth, I haven't talked to you and quite
Speaker 1: some time, so I want to welcome you in and
Speaker 1: say Happy New Year. Do you have any exciting New
Speaker 1: Year's resolutions? You want to motivate with us? You motivate
Speaker 1: us away without.
Speaker 3: You know. I'll tell you the best advice that I
Speaker 3: can give a person, and that is uh see the
Speaker 3: end of twenty twenty five and who you want to
Speaker 3: be and where you want to be. Uh and just
Speaker 3: see the vision of that and that should push you
Speaker 3: through the whole year. You got to start with a vision,
Speaker 3: you know, that's that's the biggest thing. And uh and
Speaker 3: and the vision will actually push you know, the tasks
Speaker 3: you know, so like uh, you know, if you want
Speaker 3: to be healthy, it's like, well, I got to lose weight.
Speaker 3: And so you've got to see yourself as that like
Speaker 3: person now. And without that vision, there's you have no hope.
Speaker 3: You gotta it's got to you got to have a
Speaker 3: clear vision of goal and you have to see yourself
Speaker 3: there already.
Speaker 1: Well said, no, I love it. I'm I'm ready, I'm
Speaker 1: ready to roll. I've been needing this in the new year.
Speaker 1: What what does your vision say Utah football will look
Speaker 1: like come fall?
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's kind of sad because I don't
Speaker 3: I don't think this team was really that far off.
Speaker 3: And uh, it just you know, really not having a
Speaker 3: veteran quarterback hurt the team a lot. The defense played
Speaker 3: quite quite well, and there really wasn't a team on
Speaker 3: Utah schedule or in the conference that you go. I
Speaker 3: mean that's a world beater, you know that. I mean,
Speaker 3: who would have thought Arizona State would have would have
Speaker 3: represented the conference in the playoffs. I don't think anybody did,
Speaker 3: including Arizona State. I don't think they believe. I mean,
Speaker 3: it probably just went through the year and it just
Speaker 3: kind of unfolded. But so so you don't have to panic.
Speaker 3: You know, you're not that far out of it. And
Speaker 3: I think the one thing that UCA has done different
Speaker 3: from years past, and it's something that the prib have
Speaker 3: to do moving forward is get into the portal and
Speaker 3: and get get in the nil game. And you can
Speaker 3: see other teams have had huge turnarounds from this. You know,
Speaker 3: they they did a pretty good job of not losing
Speaker 3: too many guys because there are a lot of their guys.
Speaker 3: There are people people are going after, you know, Spencer
Speaker 3: Fono and some of those other offensive linemen. Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: Keanu tuon Vosta was a loss. Cam Calhoun was a loss.
Speaker 3: But for the most part, you know, get a pretty
Speaker 3: good job. And so if Utah can be a little
Speaker 3: bit more explosive on offense, you know, okay, a lot
Speaker 3: more explosive on offense, They're gonna be right in it
Speaker 3: again next year. And what's going to be different is
Speaker 3: the formula for Utah was find these guys that fit
Speaker 3: our program, fit our profile, and we'll develop them. And
Speaker 3: they've done a tremendous job, probably the best in all
Speaker 3: of college football. But they don't get that luxury anymore.
Speaker 3: Those guys that they've kind of been mentoring and developing,
Speaker 3: those are all the guys that left. All the backups left,
Speaker 3: and so you've got to be able to have systems
Speaker 3: plug and play pretty simple. You're not going to be
Speaker 3: able to kind of create that building culture that you
Speaker 3: have in the past. But teams have prove I mean,
Speaker 3: Arizona State's a great example. You know, you get the
Speaker 3: right combination of players in the transfer portal, you're going
Speaker 3: to do well. Even Colorado, who was a doormat and
Speaker 3: it's entire existence in the Pac twelve, turned it around
Speaker 3: in a lot. You know, Okay, Dion's one thing, but
Speaker 3: they went heavy into the transfer portal and it just
Speaker 3: gives you a chance to really find talent. You got
Speaker 3: to create the right chemistry with the talent you find,
Speaker 3: but you can turn around quickly some.
Speaker 1: Good stuff in there and actually a couple of things
Speaker 1: about the question I was going to follow up with,
Speaker 1: and that is, and there are a lot of programs
Speaker 1: like this. I was doing some I was doing the
Speaker 1: impossible task this morning of trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: the Big twelve will look like next year. And I
Speaker 1: was digging into some Ky State stuff. And you know,
Speaker 1: Utah football and Kansas State football in a way, scott
Speaker 1: are very similar because they are recruit and develop and
Speaker 1: the success in the past where both of these programs
Speaker 1: have come with second, third, fourth year players, these are
Speaker 1: not programs that turn things around one year at a
Speaker 1: time with transfer portal additions, because both their coaches believing
Speaker 1: the same thing.
Speaker 2: So, if I'm understanding directly.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's time to look at a different
Speaker 1: approach because maybe the old school recruit develop, win with
Speaker 1: your two, three, four guys is no longer a reality.
Speaker 3: Well you have to and and and you know that
Speaker 3: if you're a Utah fanan you probably should be excited
Speaker 3: about what's happened. That the roster next year I think
Speaker 3: is going to be like fifty three percent new players,
Speaker 3: more than they've ever ever had. And so you know,
Speaker 3: Utah is just not sitting on its you know, hands
Speaker 3: and digging, you know, digging, you know, a line in
Speaker 3: the sand and saying no, we're gonna you know, they're going, Okay,
Speaker 3: understand the game, and we're going to play the game,
Speaker 3: and we're at least going to give ourselves a shot.
Speaker 3: As far as the conference next year, I don't know
Speaker 3: that it's going to change. I don't know that it's
Speaker 3: ever changed. I mean, the Big Twelve is always a
Speaker 3: crap shoot. And you know, I think your smart move
Speaker 3: is whoever they pick not to win, that's who you
Speaker 3: want to write, right exactly, that's the team that's gonna
Speaker 3: do well. But what you have is you have a
Speaker 3: lot of programs that are trying. And I like that
Speaker 3: and I appreciate that, you know, Texas Tech went out
Speaker 3: and got aggressed, and you see Arizona State really you know,
Speaker 3: trying to turn a corner. And and so there's a
Speaker 3: lot of competition in the conference. And I think the
Speaker 3: Big Twelve was massively underrated a year ago, and I
Speaker 3: think they'll continue to, uh, you know, get a little
Speaker 3: bit more more love with what's going on. But I
Speaker 3: think Utah's put itself in a position to do well.
Speaker 3: You know, I was saying about this today and it's
Speaker 3: kind of the question, but it's it's a little off topic.
Speaker 3: You know, they everyone's worried about the playoffs. You know
Speaker 3: they get the formula right, do they? Do? You know?
Speaker 3: Should they? Is there too much rust? Is there? You know?
Speaker 3: They pick these teams and they have these blowouts and
Speaker 3: you I don't think I don't think you should change
Speaker 3: it at all. And where where you're going to have
Speaker 3: to change it is these conferences are so big. Now Utah,
Speaker 3: there's gonna be four teams in the conference next year,
Speaker 3: Utah is not gonna play and and they may be
Speaker 3: good teams, so they be bad teams. So you just
Speaker 3: get the luck of the draw every year? Are you
Speaker 3: do you get the good teams you're gonna have to
Speaker 3: play or the bad teams? Because you take a team
Speaker 3: like Indiana and it's the same in the Big Ten,
Speaker 3: it's the same in all the conferences because they're so big.
Speaker 3: So Indiana probably played a bunch of garbage teams all year.
Speaker 3: Maybe they weren't really that good and and uh, you
Speaker 3: know they've kind of just got the right draw for
Speaker 3: the better schedule and that helped them out. If you
Speaker 3: really want to fix it. You know, have all these
Speaker 3: teams they they all have to play each other in
Speaker 3: their conferences, or you don't start ranking teams until maybe
Speaker 3: when the when the actual college football playoff ranking comes out,
Speaker 3: because it's a huge advantage if you get ranked high
Speaker 3: early and you have a crappy schedule like an Old Miss.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know how good Old Miss was,
Speaker 3: but man, they were sure ranked high, and they rode
Speaker 3: that ranking through most of the season, even though they
Speaker 3: really didn't play anyone all year, and some of the
Speaker 3: teams that were supposed to be good, like the Alabamas, weren't.
Speaker 3: So it's a little misleading to have these subjective preseason
Speaker 3: or early season polls, especially in these conferences where everyone
Speaker 3: doesn't play everyone all the time. And if you wait,
Speaker 3: you're going to have a better idea of who the
Speaker 3: really good teams in the country are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean for sure, I've been using this line
Speaker 1: on the show the past couple of weeks because I'm
Speaker 1: just realizing really how new all of this is for
Speaker 1: anybody in the ecosystem of college sports, whether you cover
Speaker 1: it and talk about it like you and I, or
Speaker 1: you're coaching at it. Let coach wait, or you're playing
Speaker 1: in it, or you're an administrator like Mark Carlin, We're
Speaker 1: all experiencing this for the first time, and because of that,
Speaker 1: it makes it really hard to predict what it's going
Speaker 1: to look like even tomorrow, let alone in a few months.
Speaker 1: So I keep saying like I prefer to diagnose instead
Speaker 1: of prognosi sticate about what could be because it's impossible
Speaker 1: to tell.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to how Utah.
Speaker 1: Is, to your point, completely changing over the roster in
Speaker 1: one year, this is another new thing where we'll have
Speaker 1: to diagnose instead of prognosticate. But forty one new faces
Speaker 1: for a program, as we've already talked about, that's found
Speaker 1: its way through the world of college football with the
Speaker 1: ability to recruit and develop, recruit players that aren't as
Speaker 1: highly thought of elsewhere and make them the best possible
Speaker 1: players that they can be. So what's a realistic expectation
Speaker 1: to be able to change over fifty three percent of
Speaker 1: your roster, bring in forty one new players and then
Speaker 1: have an expedited timeframe to do the development because they've
Speaker 1: got to be ready to go Game one in the fall.
Speaker 3: You know, it really falls so much on coaching and
Speaker 3: coaching and that you've got to bring in new players.
Speaker 3: You've got to have your systems that really are kind
Speaker 3: of a plug and play. It's hard too, because you go,
Speaker 3: you know, well, I hope this guy fits what we
Speaker 3: do and and you know, so recruiting to what your
Speaker 3: system is. I think that's part of what was appealing
Speaker 3: with Jason Beck and bringing the quarterback from you know,
Speaker 3: the Devin Dampier because he knows the system, you know.
Speaker 3: So that transition I think really helps with with a
Speaker 3: new coach and and with the with the new style
Speaker 3: of how how everything goes. Because the quarterback really is
Speaker 3: the guy that drives all of it. And if you
Speaker 3: get a quarterback that can make plays for you and
Speaker 3: do well, you're going to have a shot. And that
Speaker 3: that's the biggest key. Like it's it's not even close
Speaker 3: to the impact the quarterback has on a game versus
Speaker 3: any other position on the field. It's not like, you know,
Speaker 3: the same as it's it's significantly higher the kind of
Speaker 3: impact the quarterback has. So it's all about coaching and
Speaker 3: getting that right quarterback. And I think Utah's headed in
Speaker 3: that right direction, and then that system really has to
Speaker 3: be and I hate to use the word dumb down,
Speaker 3: but it has to be one where you know you
Speaker 3: can pick it up relatively quick. Is that the players
Speaker 3: don't have that many practices. They don't have that much time,
Speaker 3: uh to to actually work on You know, the NFL
Speaker 3: have OTAs. They spend a whole season in the off
Speaker 3: season learning and perfecting. And you hear these teams that
Speaker 3: do well and they'll tell you that the OTAs or
Speaker 3: what makes their season, what makes them successful. Maybe that's
Speaker 3: one of the changes that has to happen from this
Speaker 3: is like, all r if you're gonna give you all
Speaker 3: these new players every year, we got to have more
Speaker 3: time with them. And that's hard too, because all these
Speaker 3: coaches are out recruiting, so it's it's a real burden
Speaker 3: on a team. But the statty teams will be the
Speaker 3: ones that find that right quarterback in the system to
Speaker 3: really give you at least a chance.
Speaker 2: You know, all right, let's see here.
Speaker 1: I want to move over and do some NFL Scott
Speaker 1: before we because because actually know what, I had one
Speaker 1: more Utah question for you, because I realized when I
Speaker 1: saw you on the rundown today I have not interviewed
Speaker 1: you since the news broke that Kyle is coming back,
Speaker 1: the coach, wo is coming back for year twenty one,
Speaker 1: and it was one of those things that we had
Speaker 1: all debated all year long, and one of the things
Speaker 1: we would debate is whether or not the outcome of
Speaker 1: the season would have any bearing on what Kyle decided
Speaker 1: to do. And part of me believe the answer to
Speaker 1: that was no, because the man does not.
Speaker 2: Need to prove anything to anybody.
Speaker 1: His resume speaks for itself, and what he's done for
Speaker 1: your top football speaks for itself. Now, there does appear
Speaker 1: to be a faction, whether you want to call it
Speaker 1: the vocal minority as opposed to the sylum majority. I
Speaker 1: don't have a percentage on it, but I have heard
Speaker 1: from people and have talked to people that believe it's
Speaker 1: time now to implement this succession plan and it's Morgan's
Speaker 1: time to go.
Speaker 2: I can't speak to it.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I'll diagnose, I'm not prognosticate, but I
Speaker 1: haven't talked to you since Kyle decided to come back.
Speaker 1: Were you surprised? What was your reaction when you heard
Speaker 1: the news.
Speaker 3: I don't know that I was surprised completely, you know,
Speaker 3: you try to gauge people's answers or their mode, or
Speaker 3: their their temperament, you know, because because we interviewed him
Speaker 3: every week and and talk to him and and uh,
Speaker 3: you know, you're trying to read are you just worn
Speaker 3: down because this has been such a crappy season or
Speaker 3: you just kind of worn down because Zilver? And I
Speaker 3: didn't really sense from him like he didn't have that
Speaker 3: fire or that competitiveness, or or that he was like,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm kind of done. And I think that
Speaker 3: was I don't, you know, I don't even think maybe
Speaker 3: this would be the last year for him. I just
Speaker 3: I just don't. I still think there's scass in the tank.
Speaker 3: I still think there's fire in the tank. I think
Speaker 3: he's reading right what is going on with college football
Speaker 3: and where the program needs to go and what they
Speaker 3: have to do and and it and it feels like
Speaker 3: they're making that attempt to do it because you never
Speaker 3: know how things will turn out. But but at least
Speaker 3: they're they're reading the room right, and they're they're making
Speaker 3: they're making those right moves and and I just get
Speaker 3: a sense that it's it's not about well, I want
Speaker 3: to end on a good note, it's man, I slow
Speaker 3: coaching and I want to win, and I'm just still
Speaker 3: there and that's where I think, that's where I think he.
Speaker 2: Is, all right.
Speaker 1: I was excited when I saw that you were going
Speaker 1: to be on today because I had to kick the
Speaker 1: tires with you, you know, watching that Sunday night Lions Vikings
Speaker 1: game and this wasn't even a playoff game. Okay, like
Speaker 1: it was a regular season game, but to watch and
Speaker 1: listen to some of the scenes around Ford Field, it
Speaker 1: felt like it was a super Bowl for that fan base,
Speaker 1: and it potentially was the biggest football game held in
Speaker 1: that city in a number of decades. And we know
Speaker 1: the deal. You know, they they have never won the
Speaker 1: big thing. They've never they've never won the big They've
Speaker 1: never been to the super Bowl. Of course, they've never
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl. And I just needed to know
Speaker 1: because your best years as a pro they were in Detroit,
Speaker 1: and you had a love hate relationship with the fan base.
Speaker 1: I think that's fair to say, but you have a
Speaker 1: unique perspective on the city of Detroit, the football fans
Speaker 1: of Detroit. What would it mean to them if Dan
Speaker 1: Campbell can traverse his way through the playoffs and actually
Speaker 1: win this thing.
Speaker 2: What would that city do.
Speaker 3: The city would petition in the NFL to be to
Speaker 3: change the Lombardi Trophy to the Dan Campbell Trophy. He
Speaker 3: has literally done a masterful job of mirroring and matching
Speaker 3: and engaging the fan base. And it's this blue collar mindset,
Speaker 3: and it's you know, look, we don't you know, we're
Speaker 3: just we're really three yards in a cloud of dust
Speaker 3: kind of thing. We're tough, we're gritty, we're all these things.
Speaker 3: And I think what really helped Dan Campbell understand that
Speaker 3: as he played there, he played for the Lions, and
Speaker 3: he didn't play on some teams that were any good.
Speaker 3: But he's just done a masterful job of getting the
Speaker 3: city in the community to buy into him and his players.
Speaker 3: And he's got some great coaches around him, and they
Speaker 3: picked the right players who've done really well, and they've
Speaker 3: really done a great job of kind of fitting what
Speaker 3: they do into the player's strengths, especially Jared Goff, and
Speaker 3: he's just been like, I'll tell you, if there's anything
Speaker 3: that gives you any indication of how great Dan Campbell
Speaker 3: has done, is they they are actually channing for and
Speaker 3: cheering Jared Goff and that never, I don't care who
Speaker 3: the quarterback is, that never happens in Detroit, and so
Speaker 3: that city, like literally it would be the most insane
Speaker 3: change or or celebration, or you know, it could it
Speaker 3: could literally you might have to bring in the military
Speaker 3: to calm that place down. Some of the most passionate, rabid,
Speaker 3: amazing fans and they've been there. I've been back to
Speaker 3: games since I retired, and they have alumni times or
Speaker 3: you know, you go back and visit and the team's
Speaker 3: terrible and the place is packed. There's a there's a
Speaker 3: a badge of honor, and there's this a massive love
Speaker 3: for the Detroit Lions from Detroit Lions fan. I meet
Speaker 3: them everywhere, I mean everywhere in the country. It's like,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, I'm a Lions fan. You know I live,
Speaker 3: you know whatever, and uh uh, And you know what, honestly,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't. I would be so happy for those people.
Speaker 3: If there's ever there's ever a fan and a fan
Speaker 3: base that deserves to win a Super Bowl, it's the
Speaker 3: people into they literally need to have the support and
Speaker 3: everyone in the country pulling for the Detroit Lions to
Speaker 3: win a Super Bowl Vegas.
Speaker 1: The up to date Vegas odds out of the FanDuel
Speaker 1: Sports book. As Detroit is the favorite currently heading into
Speaker 1: the Wildcard weekend, Kansas City is two, Baltimore's three, Buffalo's four,
Speaker 1: and Philly is five, then there's a massive drop off
Speaker 1: Vegas essentially saying there are five teams they think can
Speaker 1: win it, so Vegas thinks they're the favorite.
Speaker 2: DoD Scott Mitchell agree.
Speaker 3: Well, you mentioned the craziness of the atmosphere and to
Speaker 3: have that home field advantage all the way through the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl. They really play into it and they feed
Speaker 3: on that that hometown. It's a real thing. And I'm
Speaker 3: telling you, there's there's nothing more electric than a really
Speaker 3: fired up Detroit Lion fan base at a home game.
Speaker 3: It's it's as good as it gets anywhere in any sports,
Speaker 3: at college or pros. And and to have that and
Speaker 3: for this team to you know, they've had a lot
Speaker 3: of injuries on on their defense and to still be
Speaker 3: playing well and and the quarterback has just been magnificent
Speaker 3: and he's got weapons. You know, this is this is
Speaker 3: a team that's capable. But they're capable in their brains too.
Speaker 3: You know, they they they've been to a championship game
Speaker 3: and they bounced back from that this year. Teams that
Speaker 3: kind of have the fatigue and they have a let
Speaker 3: down from not getting to the Super Bowl or or
Speaker 3: losing the Super Bowl. You can'd of see that with
Speaker 3: San Francisco right now. But this team isn't It's on
Speaker 3: the rise. It's belief level is as good as it gets.
Speaker 3: You know, Kansas City probably isn't as good as they've
Speaker 3: been in the past, but they understand how to win
Speaker 3: and the Lions have figured that out as well. And
Speaker 3: the beauty of it would be to have to call
Speaker 3: it fourth down play in the Super Bowl and they
Speaker 3: pull out the win on going for it on fourth down.
Speaker 3: That would just be the absolute irony of all ironies,
Speaker 3: just because of the riverboat gambler type of mindset that
Speaker 3: Dan Campbell has.
Speaker 1: What about Baltimore Scott, I mean, it seems like Lamar
Speaker 1: takes a lot of criticism for not being able to
Speaker 1: get it done, and he's just he's so fun to
Speaker 1: watch and he's one of the most electric, dynamic players
Speaker 1: in pro football. What's fair to say about what he's
Speaker 1: failed to do in the postseason? And do you think
Speaker 1: it could be different this time around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a really special player because you know, he's
Speaker 3: he's learned to do both things very well and it's
Speaker 3: almost indefensible. You know, he can throw the football very
Speaker 3: accurately and on time and he and he's got a
Speaker 3: real comfort level with it. His ability, his mechanics have
Speaker 3: gotten cleaner, so so under pressure, you know, he can
Speaker 3: still make the throws and he's just just unbelievable running
Speaker 3: the football. Their team. If if I was in all
Speaker 3: the football and I was in in the AFC or
Speaker 3: the NFC, that would be the team I'd be really
Speaker 3: afraid of the other one's buffalo. I mean, Josh Allen's
Speaker 3: playing great this year too, But Lamar Jackson is a
Speaker 3: very very special player. And when you have that man,
Speaker 3: it's so hard to defend and and it's so hard
Speaker 3: to figure out. And he's proven that, you know, consistently
Speaker 3: throughout the years. But he kind of has to get
Speaker 3: to that next level of winning that really big game
Speaker 3: in the playoffs and and it just takes time. You know,
Speaker 3: Pete Manning lost five years straight in his first five
Speaker 3: playoffs season. It's hard, Like it's hard to win in
Speaker 3: the NFL. Period. It's really hard to win in the
Speaker 3: playoffs and it takes a lot and sometimes it takes
Speaker 3: a lot of time. Now, I played with Dan Marino,
Speaker 3: who's he's just the best ever, Like nobody throws a
Speaker 3: ball like Dan Marino, unbelievable. And he went to one
Speaker 3: Super Bowl and it was early on in his career
Speaker 3: and he never went back again. So, you know, great
Speaker 3: players can can have challenges winning in the postseason.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 1: Before I say you lose, can anyone get in Ohio
Speaker 1: State's way? Does it feel like they're going to march
Speaker 1: on and win the national championship?
Speaker 3: It kind of feels that way a little bit, But
Speaker 3: you know, you're I mean, I know people are kind
Speaker 3: of disappointed with the college football playoffs, but man, the
Speaker 3: bowl games were meaningful, you know. And now you have
Speaker 3: Ohio State and Texas and you have Penn State and
Speaker 3: Notre Dame. I mean, that's that's some pretty good, you know,
Speaker 3: semifinal games. I don't know how good either Penn State
Speaker 3: or Notre Dame. I don't know how good Texas is.
Speaker 3: You know, they seem to find ways to win really
Speaker 3: good defensively. But Ohio State it seems to be kind
Speaker 3: of their year.
Speaker 1: All right, Scott, we have a very special treat before
Speaker 1: we hang up the phone. And for our listeners out there,
Speaker 1: we've had a kind of a loose show where Tim
Speaker 1: mcbahn referenced the Boy Scouts earlier, so we've been asking
Speaker 1: our listeners their level of Scouts. Scott is a proud
Speaker 1: of Eagle Scout, and once upon a time he voiced
Speaker 1: this emotional spot for the Boy Scouts.
Speaker 4: What's it take to be a pro quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 4: It takes pepper, it takes determination, it's practice team after
Speaker 4: practice is over. And for Scott Mitchell, it takes one
Speaker 4: really brave mascot, Scott Mitchell proving just how deep, termined
Speaker 4: and Eagle Scout he can be.
Speaker 2: Oh was that it?
Speaker 1: We didn't hear from Scott. I thought Scott was tell
Speaker 1: like an emotional story. No, Scott is for the non
Speaker 1: YouTube listeners, pelting the Detroit Lions mascot with fastballs.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, it's a video, right, and it's it's actually uh,
Speaker 3: it's me. It's me throwing after practice. I'm sweating and
Speaker 3: I'm working hard, and I keep throwing all these pasts.
Speaker 3: Is the only one who will catch them with the
Speaker 3: mascot because everyone went home.
Speaker 1: So I see, I see well, Scott, congrats on the
Speaker 1: Eagle Scouts Man Eagle Scout Award.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the time. Let's do it you in soon, Okay,
Speaker 2: you got it?
Speaker 3: Thank you all right?
Speaker 1: Scott Mitchell, former ute quarterback, played in the NFL for
Speaker 1: a number of years. Yeah, I wanted to get his
Speaker 1: take on what that's going to be like. Can Detroit
Speaker 1: get this done?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: Ultimately, Detroit has been installed as the favorite to win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. This is this is new. The odds
Speaker 1: are out now ride a wild card weekend. Detroit right
Speaker 1: now is your favorite, followed by Kansas City, Baltimore, Buffalo,
Speaker 1: and in Philly and then there's a massive drop off
Speaker 1: between Philly and Minnesota. The vikings are at plus fourteen hundred. Essentially,
Speaker 1: Vegas is telling you five teams can win it. Detroit,
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Baltimore, Buffalo, and Philly. So interesting stuff there.
Speaker 1: Appreciate Scott's time,