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we're Jacob Hester.
Speaker 2: And aren't you scared?
Speaker 1: Live from the Haunts Studio. Here's Jacob Hester.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in our number three of O
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Speaker 4: Here live from the Raising Kine Studio. I had to
look up when you said that. I'm like, oh, did
I mess that up?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Our three? Are we ready with the video there? Oh nope, yeah, nope.
Got the old one finger number one better number one? Yeah,
well not that finger, the old one second finger you'll
hold up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's gonna that's gonna come alright, talking about one
finger here in a minute.
Speaker 6: I didn't hear you asked what video are you looking for?
Speaker 4: The crop dusting sports?
Speaker 6: But what video the crop.
Speaker 5: Sports?
Speaker 4: Oh? T pal do you say wed next day?
Speaker 5: Oh m hm, no, we don't.
Speaker 6: It's Wednesday like it's Jack Wuire.
Speaker 4: We were going to yeah, we were going to do
crop dusting sports. I don't know if we will get
the video whatever that matter. It doesn't matter. Actually Craig
did a nice putting up together. Shout out to Craig. Hey,
cubs down to.
Speaker 2: Will that's preposterous, preposterous, have.
Speaker 6: Any Yeah, we can get some draw rull going. I
was pulling him up right now.
Speaker 4: I'm doing this because delaying their trip to Cancun, all
they're doing bums.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it comes down. Actually, I have a you know,
for my time and Wisconsin. I do have a Brewer's
hat somewhere. I'm gonna have to go back up to
the attic and put a dust off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll put it right here on top of the
l U hummet posterous that I don't have a Brewers
that I need to preposterous.
Speaker 5: Use the word preposterous, you say, Jack Law.
Speaker 4: I think I need one though. When I rode on
the Brewers when they play tonight, Yeah yeah go brew
brew crew who get on the bump for the Brewers
just for the pitching matchup.
Speaker 2: That's the Cubs versus Bruce the brew Crew tonight.
Speaker 4: Oh it's it's actually today. It's four oh eight local
time pitch so you can watch the Cubs lose on TBS,
True TV and HBO maxre you go.
Speaker 5: I got some big news.
Speaker 6: What is it?
Speaker 7: Speaking of people being number one and speaking of people
telling somebody else that they're number one legendary Dallas Cowboy
owner Jerry Jones, behind one two hundred and fifty one
thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: That's quarter of a million dollars.
Speaker 7: You're wondering if you're counting at home, because at MetLife
Stadium looks like during.
Speaker 4: The just my Rookie minimum, he uh, he flipped them
the bird.
Speaker 7: He said, somebody in the crowd, you're number one, buddy.
He was saying, or actually what he said he was doing.
He was actually and trying to tell him good job.
Speaker 5: He said.
Speaker 7: He meant to throw him a thumbs up, accidentally put
the wrong finger up.
Speaker 5: Ah, I mean who among us? Right?
Speaker 2: You know what's so funny is that? Like he flicked
them off, and then he pointed.
Speaker 7: Up them, that's right, pointed at it like hey, this
is directed like to me like.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, not you, not you.
Speaker 7: You so to me, it's like, look, Taylor, I know
you you you've deserted the Cowboys for a great reason,
and you don't like Jerry Jones how he's run the organization.
But this is a pretty legendary comment like oh, sorry,
I meant to give my thumbs It's well, it's so good.
Speaker 8: You and I cannot hate on this.
Speaker 7: That's so good that that's that flip some Now, I
gotta do have a question. Does anybody know how the
middle finger became a bad thing?
Speaker 4: No, over across the pond. I'll watch a lot of
European soccer. It's actually this is flipping off fingers together.
Speaker 5: All the and the listeners in Europe. You just offended them.
Speaker 4: We I guarantee you we do have somebody listening right
now or that's stationed over overseas or habits all the time.
So I apologize. I was just giving you an example,
So I do apologize. I guess would be like four
over there.
Speaker 2: So I can actually see where people listen to our
podcast from and we have people out of the country
that listen to the pod.
Speaker 7: So I think it was the Medieval times archers over
their innings.
Speaker 5: The lead that originated in.
Speaker 4: This feels very factual.
Speaker 7: So archers they would So I learned about this in
history class in high school.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's just one of those things I remember.
Speaker 7: Uh they would pull back from their with their strongest finger,
draw back with their middle finger.
Speaker 5: Okay, let it go. So if a.
Speaker 7: If, what's the biggest Yeah, uh so when an army
or battle was lost and they didn't want to, like,
you know, kill everybody on this side. They would take
the archers and they would cut their middle fingers off.
Speaker 5: Oh so they couldn't draw.
Speaker 7: Back their arch. They couldn't draw back the bone anymore.
So when a in medieval like when they want a battle,
the archers would sit there and signify to them by
throwing the middle finger. It out, still got my middle finger.
Speaker 5: You know what.
Speaker 8: That's gotta be true. It's gotta be true. I learned
inst class, mister Baker.
Speaker 4: Shout out Blake.
Speaker 7: No, I think ninth grade. That's true, those things because
I remember it's like one of those core memories because
coach mister he was a coaching cross country. Uh so,
mister Baker, he was sitting there and he starts flipping
the bird at us, like in ninth grade, and everybody
was just a good, good core memory.
Speaker 8: Stuff like that in history, somethings like an awesome club up.
Speaker 5: It was. It was great.
Speaker 4: A lodger. Your Yankees got saved built out a little bit.
Last night.
Speaker 6: They did get bailed out. Judge shout out, Aaron.
Speaker 2: Judge did not crap his pants on this one. But
so the Cubs, I almost said Cowboys, the Cubs. You
asked who the pictures are probable Jamison? I don't know
how to say his last name.
Speaker 6: Callin.
Speaker 2: And then for the Brewers, Quinn Priester, all right, Quinn
priest thirteen three in the regular season with a three
thirty two e r A. So yeah, Brewers up to
zero on the Cubs.
Speaker 6: And then the Yankees. They stay in it. They're in it,
they stay in it.
Speaker 2: There might be a yeah chip oh I love that
chip and a chair, So there might be a chance
for the Yankees. But again, I am trying to temper
my expectations and my excitement because they've hurt me one
one too many times.
Speaker 6: Can't do it again.
Speaker 5: Who's the favorite right now? Who are people say they
got the I mean.
Speaker 6: The dogs for the whole thing.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers are a three seed, right.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter, I feel right.
Speaker 8: I mean when they're playing that lineup is incredible, Like
when when they're on so.
Speaker 6: They're starting pitching is unreal.
Speaker 5: So how much do you think show Hayes interpreter has
on it.
Speaker 4: All the money all.
Speaker 2: Allegedly tyo, Okay, they're saying Jamison's last name is pronounced
Tyo Cood scenario.
Speaker 8: All right, I go one for you guys.
Speaker 5: I can't believe what they say in the chat on
a lot of sheeps.
Speaker 4: Uh. A little bit here too with Hunt Moscona.
Speaker 8: I'd like to do a little betting here with our
Pontoon parlay. This was as of this morning, one fan
duel favorite to win an fl m VP, Josh Allen.
Nobody's surprised by that, right, plus one thirty five in
second place despite not playing well, I'm having a two
to three record. Patrick Mahomes at plus four seventy is
the has the second. So the top three in order,
Josh Allen won, Patrick Mahomes two, Baker Mayfield three. Daniel
Jones is plus twenty seven. Right now, just a little
bit more down the list, Patrick Mahomes second. And I
was telling you during one of the breaks little bit earlier,
go bet on your guy, Aaron Rodgers. Right now on
FanDuel and ESPN dot com. The Baltimore Ravens, still at
one in four, are the favorites to win the AFC North.
Speaker 2: Real quick to go back to the next style. Daniel
Jones being even in the conversations kind of insane.
Speaker 7: For his stats right now and their record right now
for twenty seven hundred, Yeah, Josh Allen plus one thirty
five for MVP is wild. Yeah right, Like that's still
like that the gap between him and Mahomes at second
at plus seven four seventy five, that's a that's a
pretty big gap. And now, of course reigning MVP, we
get it. But it's not like they've been a juggernaut
this year. I mean, he's doing his.
Speaker 2: Thing, of course, but not really the rest. Like, I
don't think their defense is all that good, right.
Speaker 8: A bit of a week schedule too, Yeah, so at
least so far. But I mean, to their credit, teams
are player or not juggernauts either, so they gotta they
got a chance to keep this thing.
Speaker 5: Really, So you're.
Speaker 2: Saying invest in either Daniel Jones or Aaron Rodgers stock.
Speaker 5: I think I think you're not saying, are right, You're
saying the Steelers.
Speaker 8: The Steelers, they're three and one. Then you have the
Browns being the Browns. Burrow's out for however long.
Speaker 2: You do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what Marshall.
Speaker 7: That was my next crop dustin sports headline is big
trade yesterday. The Browns sending Joe Flacco to the Bengals
little in division trade and not a lot of times
you can look at a trade that's probably gonna have
no impact whatsoever on the NFL this year, But look
at a trade and be like, I think both the
teams did pretty.
Speaker 5: Good on this one. Yeah, they did pretty good.
Speaker 7: The Bengals what a great just like from Joe Burrow
being hurt and being out for three months, Like who's playing.
I mean Joe Flacca is that he's proven it time
and time again he can come in, step in and
right the ship at least for a little while. Then
the Browns, they've done what they probably should have done
towards towards the beginning. They wanted to put these two
rookies in there. Let give them a chance to grow.
I think it's a win win for both sides here
and it won't have any impact on the NFL.
Speaker 5: But it's like, I think they did pretty good on
this one.
Speaker 8: Laundra pointed out last night. There is he's on a
plane and yeah, I checked, it's about three and a
half hours from Cleveland to Cincinnati. Yeah, but also you're
making our guy fly commercial.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what are we doing I'm like that, that's not
even zone one.
Speaker 8: Why do they look terrified because he's probably the ride coach.
Speaker 4: Do you all not know how the Bengals work? This
is who they are, this is what they do.
Speaker 6: In front of him looks scared too.
Speaker 8: And then you're getting traded from the Browns to the Bengals.
So like bad organization to bad organization.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and so like look, this is this is a
picture taking yesterday go Fleco loading a plane going from
Cleveland to Cincinnati. You gotta you see the lady with
the hoodie. You got a little to boggin here, a
little Cincinnati Reds hoodie. What's shocking is like the couple
in front of him looks like the classic couple that
would turn and not stop talking to him.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 7: That looks like that couple would be like, hey, how
do you feel you? I just throw your jamar chose.
But like, come on, Cincinnati, could you just send a
plane for my guy?
Speaker 5: He's been in the NFL for seventy eight years.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're gonna be paying him, probably a pretty decent amount.
I would assume. I would assume I'm send a plane
to get this man there. It's a third it's a
twenty minute flight. You're paying two receivers top ten money.
Speaker 8: Though, Matt you can't give him a private point, can't
give him a private jet.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 8: I saw.
Speaker 2: I saw a comment that said that the couple in
front of him is blocking better than the Bengals O
line is.
Speaker 5: Joe.
Speaker 4: It was our draft class for him. He was our
draft class.
Speaker 8: If that's genius the first see the first QB taken
in that Oh that's right. I forgot Matt Ryan was
the first.
Speaker 4: Round quarterbacks BLACKO Matt Ryan and does it just too Yeah?
Speaker 5: Then Brian Brown was second.
Speaker 7: Brian Brown and Chad Henny were second, Kevin O'Connell was third,
Kevin was third.
Speaker 5: Uh okay, look at that picture back up.
Speaker 4: If you could not, that was keeping scoring home.
Speaker 7: If you look at the context of this picture, there's
people already in the seats, there's people staying.
Speaker 5: He's waiting in line.
Speaker 7: This is like this is like a boarding group, like
Zone five or six situation, Like we couldn't even get
this man priority. Yeah, Like the overhead is not stopping
at a first class seat. This guy's seven foot tall.
He's going you know what? So when I was like
when when teams would book you flights, like when green
Baby booked me a flight to get up there or whatever.
They always would book you in like the the Firelane
fire fire Rop excellent. Yeah, sorry, just for They would
never book you first class. They'd put you in the
exit row.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because all the legs space.
Speaker 7: That's where he's going to the exit row, which was
probably means he might be he might be grouped.
Speaker 6: Are you slock? Like you just were like, Oh, he's
going to the exit row.
Speaker 7: That's crazy, that's why he's wide at He's like, oh
my god.
Speaker 8: You know you know that ain't one of the big
four airlines that's like Frontier line.
Speaker 5: Is that Frontier?
Speaker 8: They were like, hey, Joe, you can ride Spirit. It's
like it's like a forty five minute flight. You got
this to bet.
Speaker 5: Yeah for your carry on? America do you that's.
Speaker 8: That's my airline of choice.
Speaker 2: I like American the worst airline I've flown. Every single
time that I fly United, my flight gets delayed. My
flight gets delayed, it gets canceled, It like gets delayed
to where I can't catch my connecting flight.
Speaker 6: Oh Man used.
Speaker 5: An airport underrated though I got some good restaurants.
Speaker 6: The restaurants are good, but it's huge.
Speaker 5: That was airport no good.
Speaker 6: So if I'm hauling ass I do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just it's just weird.
Speaker 4: I'm Delata, it's always good Atlanta.
Speaker 7: I don't do Delta anymore because it got a little
too pricey for me. Did airlines convenience?
Speaker 4: I guess a little bit more like you got like
everything every seat has a TV in the snacks.
Speaker 8: A little bit better. I just y the TV's i've had.
I've had them on American, Like just to me, they're
kind of America.
Speaker 7: You don't do the TV's. It's like everyone's got a
TV that's more high definition. It connects you free. You
get all the TV stuff on your phone. I don't
like that. Okay, if you want to screen that doesn't work.
It always works, Yeah, click a couple of times sometimes off.
Speaker 5: Like the top left of this.
Speaker 8: I've heard that about United, the like the her point.
So like when we were coming back so horrible United. Yeah,
we took American and I don't know what happened. I'm
assuming their connecting flight was late. An entire plane, like
thirty people were lined up. They all missed the same flight,
and it was it was a United flight, so I'm
assuming the first one was delayed, so they missed the
second one.
Speaker 4: Mm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, after my last United flight, I will never fly
them ever again.
Speaker 7: Said in the chat that they're unsure how they feel
about Flynn being in charge of the exit round.
Speaker 5: I'm sure how talk about that?
Speaker 8: In fairness? What did they tell you on the exit
Make sure you take care of yourself first before others?
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, you gotta do that. Yeah, you'd be great
at that. Later losers.
Speaker 7: Later, as he slides down the slide, I'm taking a slide.
Speaker 8: That's like, Hey, I can't help you if I've not helped.
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have to take a little bit of an earlier break,
so a little bit of a shorter segment. Gonna be
playing catch up here on the clock just because we
do have Cult McCoy in the last segment, So it's
gonna be a little bit different clockwise, So we'll take
a break much earlier than we normally would. But excited
to have Cult on the show. Obviously, big game for
Texas red River there against Oklahoma, so excited about that conversation.
But we'll go across some of the different games Alabama, Missouri,
some of the you know, big games across the country. Arkansas,
Tennessee is kind of sneaky to me as well, so
as Florida and Texas, A and M, Georgia, Auburn. So
there's these sec games and so real quick I'll give
you Like for me, it's like, okay, well, Florida, how
do you respond? You just won a game back up
against the wall against Texas, what do you do on
the road against A and M. For Georgia, it's like,
I know, Alburn's not great offensively, in fact, they're bad,
but defensively they got Jimmies and Joe's jord and Hare
is a great environment. It's gonna be under the lights,
gonna be a tough place to play. How does Georgia respond?
And then for Arkansas, Tennessee. Remember Arkansas beat Tennessee last year,
and now it was in Fayettville. I don't know what
the hell to expect from Arkansas. You fire your entire
defensive staff. Basically, Boby Petrino takes over as the interim coach, right,
is he gonna be the typical interim coach that says,
all the hell with it, let's just go out there
and do all the crazy stuff. I know he wants
the job. The coach there before very successful, so maybe
it's not as crazy as some interim coaches that we see.
But if I'm Tennessee, is like, what do I prepare
for intentively?
Speaker 5: For sure?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you have to prepare pretty much the same way
because philosophically, there's not that many you can't duel.
Speaker 4: A kind of changed it up though, I mean Jerry
Neuheisel said, look, in two days, we put in a
lot of new.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's true.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess that that is that goes against my
point for sure.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: I mean I do understand what you were saying, like
you had these principles in place, but when you fire
like the entire defensive staff, yeah, maybe it's more aggressive.
Maybe it's because Look, everybody at that level knows how
to play cover one, cover two, cover zero, cover three.
I mean like disguising it and stuff. It might just
be like, hey, we got to line up in it
and play it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's usually an interim head coach bump for a week.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Usually, like if you're a betting man out there, usually
like to throw a little the little stuff on teams
that just fired their head coach because there's always like
a there's always like kind of clear the mind. It
was a little bit extra motivation. You usually really like
the coach that gets the job as air him. That's
why they kind of get that interim job because like
they know if something happens, like the kids will still
play for him.
Speaker 5: It happened to us.
Speaker 7: When we played the Kansas City Chiefs when we were undefeated.
We were like twelve or thirteen to zero, and I
think Todd Haley got fired and Romeo Crenell was the
interim coach and they beat us. It's just and they
weren't that good that year. Say, like, there's always a bump.
With that being said, the Jimmies and Joe's is certainly
an issue to me on Arkansas just from the because
I watched a little film with them, what when I
was you know, Scout and Old Miss. Yeah, their defense
is really bad. It's not a good defense at all.
Another quarterback can make some plays. He is reminds me
a little bit of Lenora Sellers. Can make a lot
of plays with his feet and can make plays with
his arm, some really good plays with his arm. But
then he's gonna have some inaccurate throws. He's gonna have some.
But so maybe the Patrino and being the coach, maybe
they're a little bit more aggressive because usually with a
interim head coach there's like nothing to lose mentality. Yeah, yeah,
you know backskind of like we're not we know, we're
not gonna like win a championship or anything, but like
let's go out and let's let's let's.
Speaker 5: Pick off a big boy. Yeah.
Speaker 7: So at Homan to say, like I would like to say,
the interim bump here, I just think Arkansas the defense
is really bad. So unless Arkansas offense can just go
out there, show out and win a shootout, I don't
see this game going in Arkansas's favor.
Speaker 4: All right, let me give you the lines on those
games for Arkansas and Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee minus eleven
and a half for Florida and Texas A and M
in College Station, Texas, A and M seven and a
half for Georgia. They're on the planes against the Auburn Tigers.
Georgia minus three and a half. So that's your lines
right now in some of those games in the SEC
for Oklahoma and Texas, Red River, Texas actually a small favorite.
One and a half Alabama Missouri, Alabama at Missouri in
Como minus two and a half.
Speaker 7: Texas is one and a half. Yeah, there were three, Yeah,
they were that this move. Yeah, some money coming in.
It was Missouri and Alabama. Would let's see where did
it open?
Speaker 4: Okay, Alabama Missouri opened up at five and a half
and it's down to two and a half.
Speaker 6: Alabama Missouri.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so money coming in. Favorite is a favorite, Yeah,
but they started as a five and a half point favorite.
Now it's down to two and a half. Where's it
at Coma?
Speaker 8: So that makes the Oklahoma would actually makes sense because
I still don't think he's gonna play. The report came
out yesterday that like John Mattias wanted to try to
give it a go, So that makes sense that the
line dropped, like you know, money coming in on Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: I don't think what it opened up three.
Speaker 6: And a half. I think three and a half.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it was three and a half yesterday,
that's what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because we talked about it yesterday and I remember
he said either three or three and a half one
of them and we.
Speaker 8: Were all like who, And you asked about like, oh,
is it still Michael Hawkins from last year as we
were talking about the backup. But if they think materials
are going to play them makes sense.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 7: I will say this from the Texas game, like I
saw some things from a Lark in the second half
of that Florida game that gave me like hope for
him going forward, Like he made some really good plays
moving into the pie. He didn't have a lot of
help from his receivers or line either now, but he
made some plays on third night. Yes, he threw some
he threw some picks. Yeah, And I still think his
development to this point of the season.
Speaker 5: That's still early in the season.
Speaker 7: Like shame on the scheduler for Texas for the way
they have designed the schedule for this year. You go
on the road play Ohio State in a really tough situation,
which is which is fine, I'm okay with that. But
then three, you're playing three small schools. There's no development
happening in that. There's absolutely not. As a quarterback, there's
no development in that. It might as well it's the
same amount in that as practice. Yeah, and that's harsh.
I get that's harsh. But a development from a quarterback
comes from being in meaningful plays, in meaningful situations, back
against the wall, having to make a play on a
third down that matters, and you don't have to and
you don't do that when you're playing a small school.
Making plays when it matters. Is the development of a quarterback.
It's not going into the fourth quarter in a blowout game.
It's not playing a small school. The development of a
quarterback doesn't happen at that point. It's because you can
practice your throws all you want, your dropbacks, you're moving
in the pocket. It's quarterbacks get good and experience because
of what's between the ears, yeah, and what's inside the chest. Right,
So that's comes when you're playing meaningful snaps. And they
just did not set him up for that. So you
go in Florida, and it looks bad in the first half,
and now in the second half, you could see it
start to like it's trying, it's trying to get there.
Speaker 5: For Arc.
Speaker 7: A couple of picks, they were just kind of outmatched.
They were a little too far behind at that point.
But I see saw some some little glimmers, little glimmers
of hope for him.
Speaker 8: To your point, he doesn't He's end up much help.
And like, I don't understand why nobody pointed it out,
like he lost his top three, I mean, four of
the five starters. I think every time we talked about Texas,
it was, hey, guys, they don't have quite as many weapons,
Like their defense is gonna be good. But like I understand,
you have five stars coming in. They're freshman two Like
he's a first year starter with no weapons from last.
Speaker 6: Year and no offensive line. Well, they're all new.
Speaker 5: A terrible and a terrible coward who's scheduling?
Speaker 4: All right, we'll take a break more ot B. We've
got Colt McCoy joining us in about ten minutes from now.
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Speaker 1: Turn talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 4: I welcome back gaining OTV. Just one quick, dear.
Speaker 5: De Lundra.
Speaker 8: The Landra.
Speaker 4: All Right, this one's deep. I hope you're ready. I've
been in love with my best friend almost five years.
We have both dated other people, but somehow we always
find our way back to each other, late night talks,
inside jokes, all of it. Recently, she told me she's
moving across the country for a new job, and I froze.
I wanted to tell her how I really feel, but
I couldn't find the words. Now she's leaving in two weeks,
and I can't shake the thought that this might be
my last chance. Do I risk everything and tell her
or let her go and always wonder what might have been?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 5: Wow, So.
Speaker 2: Y'all know I'm a big Amy Winehouse fan. So We're
gonna use this as an excuse to play Amy Winehouse
because I don't feel like I should play her otherwise.
Speaker 6: But the song just Friends by Amy Winehouse and it
hits so hard, and this is probably perfect for this guy,
I say, tell her, I mean, like she's leaving.
Speaker 4: Buddy, You're in the friend zone right now? Okay, but
could you get out of it? You have to ask, right,
You gotta find out right.
Speaker 6: You don't know yes or no?
Speaker 4: And it's not going to ruin Like, look for a
little bit. It's going to be awkward if she says no,
be awkward for a little bit, but she's not going
to totally dismiss it.
Speaker 6: Y'all are that good of friends? Then the friendship can say.
Speaker 2: You have to because like you either regret No, are
you like watching these spiders and bats moving on the
screen right now?
Speaker 5: No, I'm trying to see if they hit the corner perfectly.
Speaker 2: Who Sorry, I was distracted by you being distracted. But yeah,
I mean you're either gonna regret not telling her or
I don't even think you'll regret telling her, you.
Speaker 4: Know, because look, honestly, you're gonna lose her.
Speaker 6: This is your last chance.
Speaker 4: Yes, your last chance. So if you don't tell her,
she's gonna move across the country. You're gonna talk less
and less as time goes by. So you might as
well shoot your shot and see what happens. Rights move
across the country for job?
Speaker 5: What are you gonna tell her? And then she's gonna
feel bad like have.
Speaker 4: You ever seen a rolf airport? And stop her?
Speaker 5: That's a great point. Yes, in the rain.
Speaker 6: Let me put myself in her shoes.
Speaker 2: Okay, moving across the country, right across across the country
for a job. My best friend of all all these
years tells me he's in love with me.
Speaker 6: I don't know what I would do. I mean, I
would obviously still move.
Speaker 5: It just depends on how the money is.
Speaker 8: And how he is. Yeah, is he looking like?
Speaker 4: I mean, if he does a grand gesture of stopping
you in the airport, though, you at least got to
give to give him to give a date.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you tell her.
Speaker 4: I say, you tell her.
Speaker 6: And then let us know how that works out.
Speaker 4: I love a recap of how it goes down. You
have to wait till the airport, though, Yeah, don't do it. Yeah,
you got run wait, Yeah, you need to offer her
a ride to the airport. Let her go in, see
her as she's about to go up to escalate. Now
you can't run to security anymore. Yeah, buy a ticket.
You got to buy a ticket.
Speaker 5: Bout tickets.
Speaker 4: You'll probably do that ahead of time for the dramatic
effect of it. And you run and right when they're
calling her. That's when you stop.
Speaker 6: Boarding group too.
Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, yeah, but you also if you tell her,
do you also have to be prepared to move across
the country as well.
Speaker 5: If you don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's something you figure out after you
get it off your chest.
Speaker 6: I think you have to get it off your chest though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: You can't live your whole life not telling your best
friend you're in love with her.
Speaker 4: Hey, Matsy brings up a great point. She'll probably be
mad because he told her right before she's moving instead
of earlier. And the guy that does it's been five
years for point, I just quit my job. Good point. Yeah,
so you got to move bud her career.
Speaker 5: You got to move.
Speaker 6: You got to do her solid and put your.
Speaker 5: Job before you tell her too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just wait till realistically, I don't know if
I would love if somebody did that in the airport.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean we've all seen that now.
Speaker 6: I got to think about this on the entire flight
on the way there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, true, right, Like, bro, you helped me pack yesterday.
Speaker 5: But it's like a staring out the window montage situation, like.
Speaker 2: If you really, if you really want to like show
her you love her and make like a grand Gester
gesture gesture.
Speaker 4: Yeah cool, throw.
Speaker 2: Her like a going away party, a surprise going away party.
Speaker 4: We're in the weeds.
Speaker 5: All right, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 4: We'll let you know. We got to get to our guy,
Colt McCoy, Texas legend. Maybe we'll answer the question to us. Uh,
we'll catch up with Colt when we come back here
on OTB.
Speaker 1: Off the bench, from players to legends, Hester and Flynn
breakdown LSU football like only champions can.
Speaker 4: All right, Welcome back in OTB here on this Wednesday morning,
very excited as always. Catch up with our next guest.
It is our guy, Colt McCoy, Texas legend, longtime NFL quarterback,
here to talk a little red River. I have to
imagine Colt, you got, you know, walking around maybe with
your fistballed up extra tight this week, just you know,
letting everybody know what week it is, in case you
know they try to, you know, sidestep you a little
bit here with it being Texas and Oklahoma.
Speaker 9: No question, man, I think that's the that's the game
you circle every year. So you know, no matter what's
been going on around Texas football or around the around
the I guess the landscape of college football in general,
like this week is this week is all that matters baby.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, man, it was so cool covering that
game a year ago and getting a chance to see
like what it means to both fan bases there. But
it's an interesting game this year. Texas backs firmly against
the wall after last week in the Swamp. You've got Oklahoma.
Who is you know riding high so far, Bud John Mattier.
They're very talented quarterback somebody I know you're a fan of. Uh,
don't really know what he's His status is going to be,
is he gonna play as he not? And if he
does play, like, what does it mean? He just had
thumb surgery a couple of weeks ago. So yeah, a
lot on the line here, but certainly both teams kind
of come in from different directions where they're at so
far this season.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that's right, Listen. I mean, Brent Vinnables coach.
Defense is always going to be a tough opponent. I mean,
I've I've watched a few of their games this year.
I think they're they're the line and the pressure they
get on the quarterback and how good they are on
third downs, Like that's a that's gonna be that's gonna
hold up against anybody and that you know, offensively, you know,
whether it'sier plays or not, I think that's a that's
a that's a huge deal for Oklahoma And then for Texas.
I think, look, I mean some of the things that
we've we've talked about earlier in the season. You know,
I think it's the offensive line has struggled a little bit.
They haven't run the ball as well as they want to.
You know. There it's a it's a young team with
a lot of talent that that is still kind of
figuring it out, and they all want to make a play.
And you know, at times, I think they've pressed a
little bit throughout the season, but you know, they they've
gotta they've got to learn quickly. And you know, after
the loss last week on the road, you know, they
can't really afford too many more of those performances. They've
got to play well. And now you're walking into you know,
one of the best rivalries in sports and Texas, oh,
you playing in the Cotton Bowl. So I mean, I
think it's I think it's teed up to to really
mean a lot to both teams, and and I think
the biggest question mark going into this is this material
gonna playing a cult.
Speaker 7: What's up, brother, I'm looking at a picture of you
here in a suit in studio. Man, my god, Handsome.
I just wanted to say that. I wanted to get
that out there first. You know, you're never probably gonna
get an interview without bringing up Arch Manning.
Speaker 2: So what.
Speaker 7: So, Look, there's been a lot of issues. We know
he's been under the magnifying glass. If he was if
he played really well, he's gonna be blown out of
proportion greade. If he didn't play up the standard, he's
gonna be blown out of proportion bad. So you're starting
to see kind of the ebbs and flows of that
right now, that role coaster of I guess the arch media,
but I blame a lot of this. I'm looking at
Texas schedule. I blame a lot of it on the
scheduling right now. So you start out in Ohio State
on the road, it's always going to be a tough game.
Then you play San Jose State, you play UTIP, you
play Sam Houston, and then when you have to go
again and play a big time opponent in the SEC
on the road against the Florida team that is kind
of struggling, but still talented. Florida looked to be the
more seasoned, in game ready team that was on the field. Now,
Arch played bad in the first half, but in the
second half I started seeing some glimpses right there of
him having to make his having to make meaningful plays
and meaningful situations. So as you look at it going
into game five of the season, how do you assess
like his performance today?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, listen, I think it's the same thing
I probably would have said at the beginning of the year.
I think Arch is really really smart. I think he's
really talented. I think there's just a lot of inexperience
there and you have to get those game reps under
your belt. And I think you saw a lot of
growth last week from from my standpoint of just him
as a quarterback, Like he got pressured over and over
and over. He took shots the whole game. You know,
he was still pushing the ball down the field as
sure as there are plays he wants back, of course
there always will be. But I think that you're just
you're seeing a guy in his seventh start that's young,
that's improving each week and had some struggles early that
you know, had to had to get figured out. But
I think at the can Arch play better? Of course
you can. Can the guys around him play better? Yeah,
they're they're gonna have to write like we're gonna have
to shore up some protection issues that we had on
the road of Florida. I mean, you're going against Brent
Vinnables and his defense, like he's gonna you know, I
played against him when I was in college, and every
year that I played against the four years in a row,
I saw things that I hadn't seen before, right, And
so like, there's gonna be there's gonna be problems there
this week. But can they run the football? Can they
slow the game down a little bit? Can they convert
on third down? Like that's the that's the that's the key, right,
And and I'm in the camp that I think they can.
I think I think Arches is going to be really good.
I think he's had moments you know where we've all seen,
you know, his his ability to you know, make some
plays and do some wild things. But it's you know,
really a quarterback is is ninety percent metal. Getting rid
of the ball on time, is accuracy with the football,
it's in it gets in the right place based on
the list that you're seeing, and like I'm seeing that
growth from him week to week, you know, despite what
everybody says, like I just want to watch football with
my own eyes and kind of make my own opinion
and and that's that's what I see. But I do
see I do see a young team that there's still
a lot of mistakes out there, you know, different you know,
IDs and protection calls that need to get cleaned up.
There's defensively, you know, if you busted coverage, Like they're
just things that you know, a a season veteran team
is not gonna They're not gonna at this point in
the season. Those things are getting you know, cleaned up
quicker right now. There's just there's still a lot out there.
And I think they're I think they're okay. I think
they're gonna be fine. I think they're gonna grind it out.
I think it's gonna be a year where like most
games are gonna be close, and you know, can they
get the ball to bounce their own way? And you know,
I'm still fully you know, in line with with you know,
I think that Arch and I think Texas can can
you know, battle their way through the SEC and find
themselves in a place they want to be at the
end of the year.
Speaker 4: Uh, Cole, one more before we let you go, because
I do want to ask you maybe a question bigger
picture SEC right now, leader in the clubhouse for you
to be not you know, not only in the SEC
championship game, but a team that you think can win
the SEC Championship and make a run all the way
to the national championship. Do you have one of those
teams right now?
Speaker 1: I think?
Speaker 9: I mean, listen, if he were asked me right now,
I say Alabama, Matthew, Uh, I you know, they they
lost a tough game early that they probably you know,
got punched in the mouth, and then I think they've
been the aggressor ever since. I think Kyle Simpson is
I mean, he cuts it loose.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 9: Their their receivers are great. I think they're you know,
getting you know, the running back back has been helpful.
I just I think they were They're a team right
now that just got punched in the mouth week one
and then just everybody wrote them off right like, just
couldn't believe it. Fire the coach, fire everybody, and and listen,
they're a good football team. They've got they've got talent
across the board, and they they are an explosive play
waiting to happen. And I think that, you know, from
a standpoint of like you know, setting the tone and
being on offense all day and like playing to win
and not playing to lose. Like they have the play
to win mentality right now better than any team in
the SEC. So that's who, That's who I would I
would kind of line up with right now at this moment.
But at the same time, I still think Las Shoe
is pretty good. I still think, you know, Oklahoma has been,
you know, playing good football. If Matier gets back, like
you know, they're a and m undefeated, right they had
the big win up a Notre Dame like that, you know. Unfortunately,
I think they're pretty good. So I think I think
time will tell. But from from what I've seen fits
and pieces, yeah, you know, so far, like Alabama is
going to be really hard to beat. I think Ty
Simpson is just playing at a really high level.
Speaker 4: You're the man.
Speaker 10: I know.
Speaker 4: This week more than any weeks, probably a really busy
week for you with Red River, So we appreciate the
preview there. We appreciate you coming on the show. We
appreciate you keeping us clothing Poncho Poncho outdoors dot com
literally right now in the studio. So we appreciate you, sir,
and look forward to our next common station.
Speaker 9: Okay, thanks boys, John, great you as well.
Speaker 4: Texas legend, longtime NFL quarterback Colt McCoy. Good legend to
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