Speaker 1: Stand as little helpers from Jacob Hester and Tiva Baber
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Tune in for some naughty and nice sports talk this
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Here's Jacob Hester and t Ba a Bear.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wait, so last night I didn't watch you football
last night. To be fair, I had a really nice night, dude.
Just like we got a big box in for some
president he took a president at a rap it or whatever,
and then my kids, you know, it was like such
an idyllic kind of setting, right low light Christmas tree
on had just some music floating the household, cozy Christmas jazz.
The girls get their markers out there, like decorating the box,
making it into Santa's sleigh. They got their little stuffed
animals set up like a you know, like the reindeer.
So it was it was definitely, you know, football was
the furthest thing from my mind last night. But was
there a forty nine er player that just refused to
go in the game so we can actually do it
right now. Let's also, oh, let's do NFL Story.
Speaker 3: Of the Day before I hit that, George Kittle, we
could do it. During this George Kittle commented on it,
Oh okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ward, who is playing after losing his child and
Kimball won't.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, it's time.
Speaker 6: Forday's NFL Story of the Day Day.
Speaker 1: Your daily dose of NFL news from Taylor Sharp.
Speaker 4: So obviously we had teased it quite a bit there.
Devondre Campbell, the linebacker for San Francisco forty nine ers,
refused to go into the game yesterday, and actually, since
we were talking about postgame comments, when they asked Shraviius
Ward about it, he said that Campbell approached him pregame
and said, Hey, I really I don't want to play today.
Speaker 7: I don't think I'm going to And.
Speaker 4: He's like, well, why are you dressed out like you
came up here, You're in warm ups like coaches are
going to expect you to play. Halfway through the third quarter,
Devondre Campbell said, I'm out. He walked to the locker room,
just straight from the sidelines to the locker room, full
pads and everything. Didn't even remain on the sidelines for
the remainder of the game. And Yeah, Kittle had talked
about it as well.
Speaker 7: But when they asked.
Speaker 4: Shavarius Ward about it, he goes, I've never seen anything
like it. He goes, I imagine Devondre Campbell is going
to get cut pretty soon here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's the type of thing.
Speaker 5: And heer especially.
Speaker 4: Worse with the forty nine ers because this is a
franchise that is battling through so many injuries. They need
all the help they can get offensively and defensively. And
you know, Devondre Campbell, a pretty highly paid player, a
pretty well known player around the NFL, just decided he
wasn't going into the game.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 4: And what'd you say? Ward lost a child recently recently? Yeah,
and he is out there playing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think my couple to go maybe most like.
Speaker 4: A month yeah yeah, oh my god, like right after birth,
I believe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like during or after or something.
Speaker 5: So what did George Kittle have to say about it?
Speaker 3: This is what George Kittle said.
Speaker 8: Does that create distension or disbelief or just disconnection on
the side.
Speaker 9: Not disbelieve or disconnection, Like as a team. That is
one person who just decided not to, you know, play
for his teammates. And I don't think that that doesn't
like does make our office so be like, wow, man,
you know we're falling apart. More of a or like
the defense he we're falling apart. It's more of a
one person making a like Mooney said, it a selfish decision.
And I'm with Mooney on that, and I I've never
been around anybody that's ever done that, and I hope
I'm never round anybody that does that again.
Speaker 2: No, I mean that's just like you're dead to me
at that point, Like from a teammates standpoint, you're dead
to me. That probably mean you can't even really be friends.
It'd be very tough to be friends after that. I mean,
you quit on your brothers. It's the ultimate team sport.
We drill it into your head, this idea of like
your shield brothers right being there for the guy next
to you, even if you're not one hundred percent healthy,
because you all have been working twenty four to seven
year round for this shared goal. To quit in the
middle like that is, it's it's unforgivable from a team standpoint. Again,
it doesn't cause any wider team problems, but like that
guy's dead, he's done. Move on.
Speaker 4: The weirdest part is It's not even a situation of
Deontay Johnson, who we talked about the other day, that
refused to go in the game when called upon him
because he was upset with his play in time this year,
like Defondre Kimbell didn't have any sacks, but he has
eighty total tackles. He has three tackles for a loss.
He's played in twelve games this year, So he's a
guy that's being used. And again, the amount of injuries
they have, they were going to use him even more
and he just decided halfway through the third that he
was done. And look, we uh, we're speaking of a
Deontay Johnson. I want to mention that the Ravens are
looking to replace him. They have said that they are.
They are trying to bring in a wide receiver to
replace Deontay Johnson. So I applaud the Ravens for doing
the right thing. A lot of times, when you train
for a player, give them, you give them big money.
But you know they decided to move on from him.
You have to cut the Devondre Campbell to day.
Speaker 8: It's not a hard decision. Every kid that ever grew
up playing football one day had dreams to go to
the NFL and Devondre Campbell has been there for a
number of years. He's had a lot of success, and uh,
for you to just sit back and not go into
the game and leave the game early is a slap
in the face to everyone that watches football.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's it's to me. It's even less
about it being like many people's dream, because this would
have I think this is the same effect if you
do this in high school, if you do this in
junior high it's just a it's just a it's a
damn near morally abhorrent thing to do.
Speaker 5: It's just an abhorrent thing to do it.
Speaker 2: It is the antithesis of everything you are taught as
a as a team member.
Speaker 3: And then I was go ahead, good, okay, I was
gonna say, you don't how any players probably don't feel
like playing sometimes.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, Like it's just and and it's also a
situation where so I was asked about that this morning.
Speaker 5: I went on a mobile station over there with Mark Hymen.
Speaker 2: He was he was asking me, like, you know, you
have any stories like this, and I was like, no, man,
I mean, we we had a very very firm kind
of One of the golden rules of the a Bear
household growing up was.
Speaker 5: You don't have to play anything specific.
Speaker 2: Okay, you don't have to play football, you don't have
to play basketball, baseball, you don't have to play an instrument.
You gotta do something right, you have to have some
extracurricular thing, but you get to choose. But what you're
not gonna do is quit if you don't like it
in the middle of it. After the season you don't
want to play anymore. Great, But if you start something,
you have to finish it and then you decide afterwards
if you want to keep doing it. And this is
something that I'm carrying forward into my family, like my
daughter's every Thursday they.
Speaker 5: Complain and it's weird because they really like dance.
Speaker 2: But you're a kid right after school, maybe you just
want to go home and on TV do whatever kind.
Speaker 5: Of want to go dance.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, Okay, well, look you don't want that's fine.
Speaker 5: But you're gonna finish out this season.
Speaker 2: You're gonna finish out of this season, and then if
you really don't want to, we can have that conversation afterwards.
But today you're getting your ass to practice bottom line.
Speaker 4: It's it's worse than that, though, because you're talking about
explaining that to your kids. These guy's been in the
NFL for nine seasons.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he said, he's thirty years old.
Speaker 5: Now this feels like this feels like a soft retirement
of sorts.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know, It's like you remember Vonte
Davis when he was in the cold, he retired at halftime,
he went into the locker room told his teammates.
Speaker 7: He's like, guys can't do it anymore.
Speaker 2: That is so that is also kind of a real
thing as well. Is sometimes guys just know like it's
it's their time, and it's their time. But I think
you gotta push through at least to the end of
the game. Like if you're fully mentally and physically broken,
you've been in the NFL for that long. Obviously that's
different than me quitting on a junior high basketball team
or something like that. But you can't do middle of
the game. It's insane.
Speaker 4: So I actually told this story to you at Jake,
I don't remember for Launder's in the rumor not Becaues.
Speaker 7: After the show. So I'll just I'll go ahead and
tell it on air.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna mention the guy by name because I
think he still lives around here. But when we were
in junior high, I was telling you that we had,
you know, everybody, because again I showed you. I was like,
I was a scrawny little kid, but I told you
they made me play linebacker because the eighth graders, you know,
at that point, we're a lot bigger than the sixth grader.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was one eighth grader.
Speaker 4: He didn't get much play in time, and it's the
denim game. There's like three games left in the year.
It's fourth quarter. We're getting the crap beat out of us,
and the coach calls on this kid to go into
the game. We can't find him on the sidelines anywhere.
You look over at the concession stan area, then the
Springs High School. This kid full football uniform including helmet.
He is waiting in line at the concession stand to
buy a snow cone.
Speaker 7: He walks back.
Speaker 4: I will never forget this. He walks back onto the
sidelines eating this grape snow cone. He's got purple all
over his mouth. The coach made him take his pads
off and he kicked him off the team right there
send him into the stands the middle of the game.
Speaker 7: That is one of the funniest things that's ever happened.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I know that flies in the
face of everything that I just said, but that is
so funny.
Speaker 5: Like the purple tongue, it was.
Speaker 4: It was a muddy game too, like the field was
the field was a mud pit.
Speaker 7: Everybody's just it's such a bad mood.
Speaker 4: And you look over to your right and you just
see a guy standing there kind of swaying back and
forth in his football uniform with a dollar bill in
his hand, just getting get the snow cone mid game.
Speaker 3: So told us that like this kid on the soccer
team or something like that, he quit mid game and
he was sent with his mom, with Jake's mom with
a blanket.
Speaker 2: Just on him, just warming up.
Speaker 5: He was tired, he was done.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's bad. That's bad last night.
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have a D lineman from Georgia doo similar is that?
Speaker 5: What was his name? I don't know.
Speaker 2: There was a big D lineman back in the day
that like signed a big signing bonus, maybe like thirteen
or some thirteen million dollars something. And I do remember
my old man telling the story where every time they'd
ask him a question about like you know, why aren't
you playing? Why did you do this? He would just say,
like thirteen to five and not anything else. You just
reference his signing bonus just he pulled a zion.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, man, I'm good.
Speaker 2: I'm chilling, all right. So we okay, we only have
we have two members on the Naughty List thus far.
We have Brent Vinnables and Hugh Freeze. And of course
I have to nominate Mark Coops.
Speaker 3: I already knew you were gonna do.
Speaker 2: I mean it has to.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Is what a god awful year for Kentucky. I mean
expectations entering the season. You could not have fallen more
short of expectations. Old Miss has to be kicking themselves
that they somehow lost that game. You had some talent.
It blew up in your face. And at a time
when you're crying poor and complaining about not having enough money,
you have other schools like Vanderbilt to put together much
more respectable seasons with much worse sources. And now you
are tied to Mark Stoops And where is the hope?
There is none?
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 2: It is a bleak setting if you are a Kentucky
football fan. So Mark Poops definitely on the Naughty List. Uh, Taylor,
give me a nice one, Give me a nice one.
To even even something out right now.
Speaker 4: But clark Lee under builders, you can say, okay, well
they finished six and six. Guys, their projected win total
for this season was two. You upset Alabama at home,
you upset a lot of teams, and then you know
you should have beat Virginia Tech. There were one or
two more wins on that schedule that you probably joined
the state they screwed Upah. I mean, this really should
have been an eight and four football team if you
had a little bit better of a kicking situation. But
clark Lee, you know, he's he's got him fired up.
He brings in Diego Pavia. He was a godsend of
that offense as well. Clark Lee gotta have him on there.
Speaker 2: Oh, Bilbo Beggons chat saying that we're getting visit from
Nick Anderson, who is a six to six monster. I
think that's a six sis guy from Oklahoma, right rression
wide receiver.
Speaker 5: Oh that could be mass Nick.
Speaker 2: Like you have Nick Anderson, and you definitely don't want
to be a part of that Oklahoma offense if you're
wide receiver.
Speaker 4: No, And you could say, okay, well, you know he's
only been here one year. What was his production, like
the fact that you were six six you bring something
to the table that nobody else doesn't. Ye, and we
have talked about having bad tight ends. Can you reinvent
it a little bit? Like you know you can?
Speaker 7: You can. You can play with stuff like that with
a guy that size.
Speaker 2: Well, you also already have kind of that in trade
as green right now if you want to, right, so
you already have that guy. But yeah, I mean, of
course Nick Anderson, Uh, I mean I remember talking to
Oklahoma guys and he was the great hope for when
he came back from injury that maybe the offense could
get going and then they become a running offense and
it doesn't pan out. So here's hoping the Nick Anderson visit.
He's a six four to twenty Okay, yeah, big boy.
Big boy can't teach size, right, all right, Londra, give
me a nice list.
Speaker 3: Sec gues on my nice list.
Speaker 2: Shane Beemer, Yeah, gotta be one.
Speaker 3: I heard it not first of all, just a great guy,
just a like, very likable person. But you know, South
Carolina came into the season not a lot of hype
around them, finished fifteenth overall, nine and three. Yeah, I
think they got cheated out the playoffs, but I.
Speaker 2: Mean it's tough to say they were there. I mean,
I don't think so this is how this is what
I've been consistently. I think you got the whole clem. Yeah,
but they won, They won their championship.
Speaker 3: Like, I don't think that's fair. But I'm saying, like,
I still think that South Carolina should have got a
little chance.
Speaker 2: I don't think if your three loss team again, I
don't feel bad for you if you got left out. Yeah,
I do think that South Carolina, in terms of painful losses,
the LSU loss is one that is going to haunt
them for the rest of eternity because who knows when
all these stars align again. Now you seem to be
in very good hands, so you're gonna have the Nora
Sellers again. But even with Dylan Stewart sticking around, replacing
that defense is going to be very tough. It was
very upperclassman laden and full of NFL talent. Can you
recreate that? Maybe you can't because You've one thing about
this is in this modern age of college football, belief
begets investment. So if you can get your fan base
to believe in you as the head coach in the
program of the direction, you create more investment, which in theory,
as we've seen, creates more success on the football field.
So maybe this good year does have a very good
knock on effect. You have the millions of dollars to
spend and you stay more relevant than you were previously.
But ultimately only time will tell. But yeah, absolutely, Shane
Beemer on the nice list. I'll do a pretty chalky
one here. Steve Sarkejing has to be on the nice list,
even with whatever disappointments Texas ends up suffering and losing
kind of their big two games because you handle an
SEC schedule and admittedly easier into the spectrum SEC schedule, but
you handle it very well.
Speaker 5: It's a second year in a row.
Speaker 2: You're in double digit win something that sark had never
done previous two last season, you're in the twelve team playoff. Yes,
of course, Steve Sarkisian deserves to be on that nice list.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, Sark, but I didn't want to
get Yeah.
Speaker 5: I took that for you. I took that for it.
Speaker 3: But I agree with everything that you said.
Speaker 5: I mean, I called him fart Keshan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for a while there and and and now you
know I had to back that up last year, and
then he backed it up again this year.
Speaker 3: So he's Sarkisian now yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's clearly Steve Sarkisan.
Speaker 3: We're we're bringing back Mark Poops right.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah yeah. I can't believe I should never retired
in the first ever heard it.
Speaker 2: But I was just so proud of him for going
for it on fourth down, which he did not do
against Georgia, which that is crazy, almost be Georgia.
Speaker 4: To be fair, I have one more and I think
t Bubbs is gonna hate it, so I feel like
I gotta say it.
Speaker 7: Can we put Billy Napier on the nice list?
Speaker 5: Yeah? He has to be on the nice list.
Speaker 4: People thought he was down water the week four. He
comes in, he finishes seven and five. He showed a
lot of promise. He brings in a great recruiting class.
On top of that, DJ Lagway is only a freshman,
I mean, and he he did that with a lot
of injuries on that team. Like Billy Napier did a
hell of a job this year.
Speaker 2: I mean, here's a man that we were calling black
spot Billy coming into the year.
Speaker 4: Of course, everybody when you were like, who's gonna be
the first coach fire? Who's gonna be the second coach fire?
Because you know, Billi Napier is gonna be the first conference,
You'll be the second.
Speaker 7: And he turned it around and it.
Speaker 2: Was and it then always look created me. You open
getting blown out by Miami at home, blown out by
Texas A and m and home, you even get blown
out by Texas at home in the middle of the year,
and you still bounce back and finish strong, and you
keep LSU out the SEC Championship and you keep all
miss out the playoff. Right, So you want to talk
about ruining opponents dreams in the swamp? Do you? How
do you make your fans happy and kind of a
lost season? That's a great way, Like you said, five
star quarterback goo recruiting class. Yeah, Napier's on the up
and up. It turns out if you don't spend thirty
million to fire your coach too, and you create some
of that belief like they did, well, you have a
lot of money to spend in the portal and in recruiting.
So good on Florida. Yeah, Billy Napier unquestionably on the
nice list. Scenario, have four and three a laundry. Do
you have another nicer no coach that you want to nominate?
Speaker 6: Here?
Speaker 3: One more on the way out, one more on the
way I have two that I want to put on
the naughty list, but I'll hit you with one. Lane Kiffin,
I'm putting him on the naughty list just because of
all the complaining that he did all seasons.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he has been a little childish in his.
Speaker 3: Stamping of his childish and y'all know, like, I love
Lane Kiffin, but like, you still didn't make it to
the playoffs, didn't make it to the SEC Championship.
Speaker 2: Well you called it last dance to right, so like.
Speaker 4: And injuries on the field for Lane Kiffen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, very not.
Speaker 2: I mean the injuries legitimately naughty, but but yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, you just talk a lot for somebody who I mean,
I know there were nine and three and fifth in
the ESC, but you fall flat every single year every Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's unfortunate too because you would have made a twelve
team playoff two of the last three years. Yeah, but
you blew it this year and I think I think look,
speaking of easy out of conference schedules, I firmly believe
that ole Miss season was ruined by Kentucky because of
their easy ramp up. If they had had a little
bit more of tougher tests, a little bit more seasoning,
not like a major game, but something better than the
absolute nonsense that they played, I think they would have
been more ready for that sec opener. They weren't and
ended up costing them and they weren't ready againtell shoe and.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, cry that much and do nothing with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lane Kifven definitely deserves to be on the naughty list,
all right? Uh more nice and naughty? Where does Brian
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Speaker 2: All right, so we've got four the nice four in
the naughty you're up nominate we have we still have
Elko Kelly to board, Drinquids, Hypel, Smart, Pittman, and Levy.
Speaker 5: To you right here.
Speaker 4: So we were actually talking about this during break. There's
a lot of debate on which side he should be on.
So I mean, y'all can disagree. I'm putting Mikelico on
the nice list just because I think Texas A and
M is what they are. Show me any point throughout
history where Texas A and M is proven that they
can do better than eight and four nine and three.
Outside of that COVID year, Elko's done a hell of
a lot better this year than I thought he would.
I mean, seriously, find me a coach in the last
fifteen years that you're like, oh, that guy would have
done better at A and M have just given more time.
Speaker 7: Like A and M is what they are. He has
reached his peak.
Speaker 2: So the eight and four thing is pretty damning in
terms of ending up kind of right back where you
started in many.
Speaker 7: Ways, but that's who they always are.
Speaker 2: That said, this is a team that to your point,
Taylor passed A and M. Teams of recent memory have
severely underachieved. I don't know if you can say that
this team severely underachieved. They overachieved at and Honestly, that
is how you kind of parsed through this list. That's
why six and six Clark Lee ends up on the
nice and A nine and three lane given ends up
on the naughty right. It's a function of expectations. Did
A and M have higher expectations.
Speaker 5: I think they did.
Speaker 2: I think they did. No, I think I think internally,
I think they thought nine to three in the least
when they looked at their schedule for Aias.
Speaker 7: To do that.
Speaker 3: They do always say like Taylor's making a fair point,
But I also like they did have expectations and they
didn't make it to the sis. They had the chance Texas, Texas,
A and M. That was gonna who was gonna lose?
Speaker 2: Was gonna and you could have come up with an
offensive touchdown. I mean in a seventeen to seven game.
Now it wasn't that close, but in a seventeen seven game,
you got a defensive touchdown in a massive game.
Speaker 5: That is really hard to overstate the importance of that.
Speaker 3: Also, we put Hugh Freeze on the naughty list. They
lost to Auburn.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, that's by far the low point of the
A and M season.
Speaker 4: Yes, when they had it was all stated a lot
this season. Hey, A and M's in sole possession of
first place in the SEC. How many of you honestly
thought they were going to maintain that? Not a chance
in hell. I didn't because they can't.
Speaker 3: Texas hadn't going in late in the year there, Like
I didn't think that they would maintain first, but I
didn't think that they.
Speaker 2: I don't know the Auburn game. The Auburn game is
what maybe push them to the naughty list at the
end of the day, though it's kind of a gray
area decision.
Speaker 5: We can take a vote on it.
Speaker 2: I would actually put Elko on the nice list and
less because of what Taylor is talking about because it's
who and A and m is. But from a culture standpoint,
I do think Elchos kind of reset them a bit.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they were this is his first year. I mean,
he at least sparked them.
Speaker 5: They don't appear to be as soft as they have
been in the past.
Speaker 2: There's a much more physical team, a much tougher team
in a lot of ways. So yeah, I mean, I'm
going to barely.
Speaker 5: Put Mike Elco on the nice list.
Speaker 7: I think he's nice.
Speaker 5: Uh and a lot of your voting naughty, but I
guess you're outvoted.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's fine. But like I'm kind of with
you with the Brent Vinables thing, Like I'll give him
an orange. I'm not gonna give him col I'll give
him an orange.
Speaker 2: The old school fruits.
Speaker 3: I can't put the Texas and Am bias aside, Like
I really can't.
Speaker 7: I can't.
Speaker 3: On the nice list. I just can't do it.
Speaker 2: All right, next on here, so elcho is off the list.
Let's go to Bor real quick. H Somebody said to Bor,
nice list. I don't agree with that at all. Bor
has got to be on the naughty list. I said
list got to be on the naughty list.
Speaker 3: Games.
Speaker 2: I mean, but the point is, like Alabama's expectation and
with that roster is a playoff team. Yeah, and this
was a year in which they absolutely could have made
the playoffs and they blew it down the stretch like
they blew it and there, so there is just no
I like to boar, nice guy. Yeah, but there is
no way that this is not a a a naughty
year for Alabama to find themselves outside looking in when
again it's they had the inside track and they lost
games as a twenty two point favorite, as a fourteen
point favorite, and as a three point favorite.
Speaker 7: That's underachieving in my opinion. Do I get to be
the deciding vote?
Speaker 5: Yes? Because sorry, you said nice, I'm say naughty.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 7: I think Klein Bor goes on the nice list.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, nobody's going to replicate what Nick Saban
did there. Ever, you have a quarterback, I don't care
what anyone says Jalen Milroe is not a good quarterback.
Speaker 7: Let me tell you what he did those three losses.
Speaker 4: And those three losses Jalen Milroe thirty six carries for
twenty eight yards.
Speaker 7: Why is that important?
Speaker 4: Because you got a guy that can't throw the ball
when you shut him down in those three losses, fifty
six percent completion, three touchdowns, six interceptions.
Speaker 7: You were hamstrong, but you can do offensively. All you
could do is run the ball.
Speaker 4: Kaylin de Bor massed a lot of deficiencies on this team,
and Saban had some of those same deficiencies last year. Now,
Saban was such an elite coach that he was able
to overcome that and make that playoff.
Speaker 7: But I mean, who really thought that Alabama wasn't gonna drop?
Speaker 5: Nick Saban is the coach of this team. Do are
they in the twelve team playoff?
Speaker 2: Anyw Yes?
Speaker 4: Because Nick Saban is a lot better coach than Kaylen
de Bor. He's the greatest coach of all time, and
nobody's going to replace Nick Saban.
Speaker 7: That was the thing all off season long.
Speaker 4: Everybody's like, Okay, well LSU lost this, and Offord lost this,
as South Carolina lost this, Alabama lost Nick Saban. That's
the one guy you can't go get in the transfer portal.
He is irreplaceable. Nine to three, to me is a
fine season for Kaylen de Bor first in his first year.
I'm putting him on the nice one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was gonna be my point, Like the drop
off from Nick Saban to whoever you were gonna could
have been a lot worse. Been nine and three and
the first two out of the college football playoffs.
Speaker 2: I mean, but we're also not acknowledging the fact that
he was given a roster where he was favored every
single weekend.
Speaker 5: He was given the most.
Speaker 2: Well oiled machine in all of college football, and he
drove it to three losses. I I would put him
on naughty, but I'm out voted, so he is on
otb's nice list, all right, Eli Drinkwitz, Now here's an
interesting case to me because I do kind of feel
like Miszoo fell a bit short of expectations, but for
how bad it felt at times, and to go nine
and three with the to go nine and three with
who Missouri has been before Drink got there right, Like
nine and three would have been a massively good year
if they hadn't finished last year eleven to two and
then entered bringing back Luther Burn and Brady Cook. But
to your point, kind of on Milrow Brady Cook. So
this year Luther Burn did do anything, and so do
you still find a way in this sec to go
nine and three? I'm actually I'm I'm gonna put Drink
on the nice list, even though in this case I
think they did fall a little short of expectations.
Speaker 4: To your point, like it didn't always look good, but
he did find a way to lose games. I don't
think that people realize the impact of Cody Schrader made
on that offense. They're running game because you brought in
you brought in Nate Noel and he brought in Marcus
Carroll and everybody was like, hey, Drink did a really
good job. He brought in two solid running backs. They
were not Cody Schrader combined, they were not Cody Schrader.
This one's tough for me, though. I'm gonna wait to
see what a Laundra does and I guess I'll be
the decider again.
Speaker 7: I don't know. This is the toughest one for me.
Speaker 3: I didn't know where I was gonna put a drink either,
so I kind of want to go nice cause but
so like, but you said that you were gonna put
Kaylin Deboor on the naughty list because he didn't meet expectations. Yes,
now you're putting drink on the nice list even though
he didn't.
Speaker 2: He also did not meet expectations. I don't think he
missadvice Mark, but I also think that so this was
this year's expectations. My point of Drink is, look at
what Maszoo was before he got there. I'm very much
a five hundred team. Yeah, two and six, three and
five in the SEC sort of team. So to now
go eleven and two into nine and three, okay, Like
there that's at least like that's like it's like hypegoing
nine and four last year at Tennessee. I think they're
a bit disappointed, but look that nine and four maintained
enough to where now they launch into now they're in
the playoff, they're very good. So like, if I'm a
Zoo fan, I'm a bit disappointed with certainly some of
the moments of the season. But I'm I'm I I
would barely air on the side of nice for Eli Drinkuiz.
Speaker 7: So are y'all nice?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it.
Speaker 4: Doesn't matter because I'm outvoted. But the more I look
at it, I'm putting drinkus on the on the naughty list.
He played three ranked opponents, he lost to all three
of them. He beat Oklahoma by seven, he barely squeaked
by Auburn, and he should have lost the Vanderbilt gain
the game.
Speaker 2: We are a very good team, though, I think they
were a very good team. Yeah, I mean, I know,
but I sid yeah, no, you're not wrong, but you
are outvoted. No, yeah, deficiencies Like we said, Uh so, Drake,
what's gonna go on the nice list? Josh Hypel obviously
nice list? Right, how could he not be?
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, sure, you still got it.
Speaker 2: There's still questions about, like why is the quarterback development
Maybe not a bit further ahead, you still have not
found a guy anywhere close to in Hooker. But to
build a team as soldly as you have to create
investment and belief amongst your fan base so that you
are you have some of the best in il investment
in the entire country. And for Josh Hypel, a guy
who always office office office, go go, go fast, has
to be winning with controlling the ball, running the ball
and defense is a level of adaptability that puts him
on the nice list. And they're in the playoffs. How
could they not be, Josh Hipel, h.
Speaker 4: What did we talk about all day yesterday? Like how
hard it is to be a first year starter in
the SEC. Like we looked at Burroughs numbers, Daniel's numbers,
that's my numbers. You had that with Nico and yeah
he didn't play well, but you still found a way
to make the playoff.
Speaker 2: All right, So coming up next, we got four more
Cozink including Brian Kelly.
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of it. It's one of the funny things I've ever
seen in my life. Uh, Kirby smart and nice list?
Speaker 5: Duh?
Speaker 2: I mean, of course, you know, hardest schedule in the country.
Here you are SEC champs again, the two seed. How
can I be even though, let's be clear, George's duck,
George is duty. You're not losing your starting quarterback and
you're ray guy punter and winning in the playoffs. It's
just not happening. So I think, I think George is is.
Speaker 7: This only for on field performance?
Speaker 5: Yes, that is true.
Speaker 2: Kirby's player is pretty naughty for sure, But yeah, nice
off field.
Speaker 3: Can y'all watch Taylor and t Bob real quick while
I go to the bathroom?
Speaker 5: Thank you?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Go ahead, go ahead, make yeah.
Speaker 2: Even though well, now we may have to take well, well,
we may have to hold off on the list for
because we could be split on some of these, on
on on some of these. All right, then maybe let's
get into a little bit of seeding of our movie bracket. Okay,
I think that obviously I'm not and I'm not going
to broke he just a twelve team rundown again. Okay,
it's It's a Wonderful Life home Alone, Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation,
die Hard, elf Ron, Howard's Grinch Jingle, all the Way White,
Christmas Miracle on thirty four Street, Christmas Carol and the
Ranking and Bass Rudolph Claymation. Obviously, there's going to be
agreements and disagreements about who's making the playoff, but I
don't feel like there's any the same way like I
said with the twelve team playoff, you know, I don't
feel like there's I don't feel too badly the teams
don't get in because there's so many there. I don't
feel like this is like I don't feel like we're
leaving off like a crime anywhere, right.
Speaker 4: I don't think this seeding matters quite as much a
lot like the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Oh and did I say Christmas Carol?
Speaker 2: We do have christ Okay, Okay, yeah, we have Christmas
Caroll on here all right.
Speaker 5: Seeding.
Speaker 2: Look, it's a wonderful life. Has to get one of
the buyes. You gotta choose four buys. It's a wonderful
life three obvious. Okay.
Speaker 4: I think it's a Wonderful Life is one. And again
it's not these are not my favorites. I just think
what deserves it the best. The classics universally loved. It's
a wonderful life. I think Miracle on thirty fourth Street
has to be a first round ball.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know if that's a guarantee.
Speaker 7: It is just too elastic.
Speaker 4: It's a and then I think Christmas Story, just because
the amount of times everyone watches it, It's twenty four
hours every day on Christmas, Like, I think that those
would be at least my three for for round by.
Speaker 2: See, it's interesting because Christmas Vacation has to get a bye.
I'm a wonderful life Chris, so for me, it's wonderful
like Chris Story, Cristi vacation. Who should get that fourth by?
You know if we give a bye You know that
if we give a bye though to Miracle on thirty
fourth Street and not to die Hard with Jake out,
that that's going to cause some contention in the room.
He's still in there.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. The first round by is not as important.
I'm just looking at the ones that because again we
all consider die Hard a Christmas movie. There's some controversy
around it, though, I'm just sure controversy teams that deserve
a bye, no question about.
Speaker 2: It, Alandra, do you have a first round by that
you would give in our movie bracket list?
Speaker 3: Right, they're gonna stay like like no, they get to
advance like.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do it the same way as a CFP bracket.
So these are these are the teams that are automatically
top four seeded. We have It's a wonderful life, for sure.
We have Christmas story for sure. And I think Christmas Vacation.
Speaker 4: I should it should. I mean that was my first pick.
I think I think it should.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 7: I considered Miracle on thirty fourth Street. T Bob was
iffy about it. So, I mean, what do you what
are you?
Speaker 3: We agreed on two for sure, Okay, I would say
home alone.
Speaker 5: Mmmm, that's gonna be a bit controversial.
Speaker 3: I mean it's a classic.
Speaker 2: It is without a doubt. I mean, look, you don't
got to push me to love Chris Columbus and John Will.
What do we have over all on the list. Yeah,
I'll tell you.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: We just went we went over it a written down
somewhere yes, I do. I have it right here and
I'm writing down buys. All right, let's go ahead through
and finish off our naughty and nicist. Here's a couple
of tough ones. Uh, Sam Pittman, I'm going to.
Speaker 3: Put him on the naughty list.
Speaker 5: Okay, I think got back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm gonna put him on the nice list
only because he survived this season without getting fired. And
I know that I know that sounds all it's like,
how low are your expectations? But all we talked about
all off season long was man he hired his replacement
interim head coach when he brought Bobby Petrino back. This
team is going to be one of the worst teams
in the conference. And you know, I mean, were they
world beaters? No, But Sam Pittman studied that she and
made as much as he could.
Speaker 2: I think they were fine. I think they actually exceeded expectations.
Speaker 7: A little bit. And I think I think he exceeded
what we expected.
Speaker 2: In My original instinct is to go nice. But the
more that I think about it, and it's probably with
this recent transfer portal news where everybody's.
Speaker 3: He's literally number one. Arkansas literally has the most gotta.
Speaker 2: Go naughty and it sucks because I love him and
I love him, so you're at voted. And also there's
a lot of coaches on this nice list. Jeff Levy,
let's go, he is.
Speaker 4: He is on the naughty list when he said status
swag at his opening press conference.
Speaker 7: So until he does something, he's permanently on the naughty list.
Speaker 2: I this is another one where I actually like Jeff Levy.
I think it was a very bad situation for him.
I think missiv State is going to get better under Levee.
I'm really fascinated to see if him and Jackson arc
Ma can happen. But yeah, I guess O in eight
and the SEC kind of speaks for itself at the
end of the day, and that you have to end
up on the naughty list. And then we arrive at
BK coach Brian Kelly.
Speaker 3: So you're saying I'm being too nice. I'm putting Brian
Kelly on the naughty list. Yeah, I mean I'm putting
Brian and I don't think that that's controversial at all.
He's on the naughty list, so.
Speaker 5: I think I'm inclined to agree.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: And it's not because you felt woefully short of expectations,
Like my expectations entering the year were nine and three.
Now they got bumped up after that six game run
where it culminates in beating Ole Miss. But the utter
collapse and the collapse in the context of what you
had to play for. You were so close to a
berth to Atlanta and at least be able to play
like Clemson did for a chance to go into the
twelve team playoffs. So to fall short by losing to
a a subpar Florida team and the second half of
blowing it of A and M, and then the absolute
embarrassment against Alabama at home at night recruits all that, yeah,
everybody there and.
Speaker 7: Then the building.
Speaker 2: Going to put that on BK's plate. But but god,
what a what a symbolic representation.
Speaker 3: Not only did you not meet the expectations of what
LSU should be, but you didn't meet your own expectations
that you set for yourself three everybody that you were
going to do. And so now and also now you're like,
I know I said year three, but for real, for
all year four? So what is your four going to be?
Speaker 2: Like? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like it's there's so many parts about this. Everybody's hitting
the portal. How many did you say we had in
the portal?
Speaker 7: Sixteen?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 5: So, like, I mean, losing the season over enough to
get you on the audular games.
Speaker 4: Three of the four teams you lost to are worse
than you. I believe you're a better team than Texas,
A and M Florida and USC. Three of the four
teams you lost to you were worse than and you
had opportunities to win all three of those games. I
don't care how he finished. I don't even care about
the three game slide. I am sick and tired of
the opening game of the year.
Speaker 7: Look, you've lost the.
Speaker 4: Good teams, okay, I mean Florida State was a good team.
You could lose the Clemson next year. They're in football program.
I second of having LSU beat the most the more
underprepared team and the out coach team every single year
in season openers, that's the most disappointing part to me.
Speaker 7: So he's on the naughty list for.
Speaker 3: The most disappointing thing to me. And this has nothing
to do with like my hate for the Aggies, but like,
how are you dominating that game? And I get the
whole Marcel Reid thing, but like just a complete meltdown
in the second half of that game.
Speaker 7: So there it is.
Speaker 2: You're naughty, nicely set you can go ahead and send
that off to the social team. Along you get you
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but I've never gotten.
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but also like it just looks the fashion is I
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and I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: I know I should, but I just have that.
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one hundred and fifty bucks I spoil?
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