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Tune in to the Jessica Benson Show with CJ Hurt live every weekday at 8 a.m. on YouTube at Grind City Media and the official Grind City Media app. Live from downtown Memphis, this is the Chris Vernon Show on YouTube at Grind City Media and the official Grind City Media app. Now, here’s your host, Chris Vernon. for once once in your life. Won’t you do what feels right instead of waiting for the next big compromise? Stop running your mouth. Get out of the house. Get yourself downtown and shake it all out tonight. I don’t have friends that pitch [ __ ] no sexy heroin adding me but I can still get here we go it’s noon on city media.com Chris Far show it’s a Monday October 13th 2025 edition of the show today on the show it’s a massive football weekend we will get through all of it with our college football impressed and depressed as well as everything that happened in the NFL week. In addition to that, Grizzlies played another preseason game. They lost, played against the Atlanta Hawks. It was the last of their preseason home games. Now, they’re going to have two more on the road before the regular season is upon us. Some coaches got fired this weekend. There are the new rankings out. The Major League Baseball playoffs are going on. We got a ton of stuff we’re going to get to. We’re going to do 10 things for the weekend. It’s a Monday. It’s nice out. Smile. Let’s do it. Turn it up. [Applause] Once in your life, won’t you do what feels right? Instead of waiting for the next big thing to try. Stop running your mouth. Get out of the house. Get yourself down and sh [Applause] [Music] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hope everybody’s having a good day. All right. Got a bunch of stuff to get to from the weekend that was. We also have some good news about upcoming weeks going on around here. Not only is the Grizzlies regular season now getting very, very close, a week and a half away, also got very good news on the Memphis Tigers football front this morning. Before I get to anything, I’ll welcome John Roser to the show. John Roser aka the Cologne Ranger, the body spray bandits, Johnny Bagpole, Johnny Bearcat, the Grim Roser, John Asarus, Johnny Narb, John Lance. He’s Yogi Roser, he’s Dr. Thunder, he’s John the Poller. Hello, John. What up? What up? What up? What up? What up? Devin Walker’s here. He’s the microphone mangler. Senor Quasadella Mr. Math Nojo. He’s the reporter. He’s the photographer. He s he’s Walker 93. Hello good people. Hope you had a great weekend. A very festive weekend. But yeah, bro. We got some good news. We got balling on Bill this week. It’s lit, bro. We This will be a good balling on Bill. That’s Memphis Madison on Bill Street this time. Oh, that’s right. So yeah, there’s going to be the official kickoff of Memphis basketball season. In addition to that, great news was reported this morning. We had a intense amount of fear in these quarters about when it would be announced the time of the Memphis South Florida game, which is the opportunity and a very realistic opportunity given the rankings at this point. South Florida taking care of business over the weekend of College Game Day making a return to Memphis. Uh we have marked that on our calendars. Um there have already been some reports saying like it’s certainly a real possibility cuz they would go to a a group of five game. Uh everyone has been saying every weekend on all the pregame shows, etc. that the team that is going to make the College Football Playoff is going to come out of the American Athletic Conference. That being said, it would make all the sense in the world if you had the massive showdown, especially of two ranked teams playing against each other because look, they all want to bring awareness to like you don’t you don’t want uh a team from the American Athletic Conference like showing up in the College Football Playoff when they haven’t gotten any buzz all year. And so given the circumstances of that weekend and that there aren’t many games that are going on that would be competition for it, it’s a real thing that could happen and especially after Memphis showed out so well the last time we got college game day. So anyways, I say all that to say it would be unbelievable to get game day, but we had a little fear about when that game would be simply because the Grizzlies play that night. The season’s going to start and then the Grizzlies play that night. I believe it’s the Pacers game on Saturday night. And so if that’s a 2:30 game or it’s an afternoon game, we’re out on that. We can’t we’re not we’re not going to be able to do it. And they announced this morning it’s 11:00 a.m. So this would be absolutely perfect if this could if this could all play out. If they can if South Florida can hold it down until then, if Memphis can hold it down until then, you got a real chance. And then you would have college game day there and then the game right after it. uh kicking off at 11:00 a.m. It would be unbelievable. It would be unbelievable. So, we got a real chance. We got a real chance. And it was announced this morning. There’s the official announcement from the University of Memphis. That game is going to be at 11 a.m. at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium. So, that’d be great. That would be great. You get your little little Memphis double header in your maybe a triple header in your system, but you get the the early morning at cause game day, then the Tigers, then the Man, come on, man. Yeah, it could be a really really They usually announce it maybe what the week before or two weeks before cuz they announced Georgia before. It’s usually the week before game day. Yeah. Well, they we should know. And I used to have an in Sunday night. We got to figure out We got to figure out if you remember the last time they came here. They took for but they took forever to announce it. But I had it in cuz my man the bear Chris Felico was working for game day. And so I text him and I’m like Yeah. So, we knew kind of in advance like, “Yo, this is really like he was like, it’s down to you guys and one other.” I remember coming on the air and saying that and then sure enough, we got it. We got to find another end, bro. I got to find You got to plug You got a plug. We got game day. Yeah, you got a plug somewhere. You do have a plug. I do. Yeah, I’m going to find out. But, but the thing is the Find out. The issue is now if they do it this year, bro, they might not be able to do it on Bill Street cuz it is 11 11. Yeah. No, they would have to do it. They would have to be on Tiger Lane. It had to be on Tiger Lane, which would be amazing. It would be amazing. Which that apparently last year or last time that was the holdup that the university wanted it at Tiger Lane to showcase that and ESPN wanted it on Beiel Street. And eventually ESPN won out cuz they’re like, “Of course we’re ESPN, right? Disney, bro. Mickey Mouse.” Right. Oh, it’d be so good. Yeah. This time we got we’re going to have it at Tiger Lane. So then they can just walk on up to the set. It would be so good. You know what I’m saying? It be easy. Let’s go, baby. It would be so good. So, anyways, we’re excited about that announcement that just popped this morning before we went on the air. Uh, big weekend. Big big weekend. Not so great for either of us, Roser. This weekend yesterday, it was a big weekend. Hey, you know what? Let’s do 10 things. I love 10 things. Kind kind of. Okay. I’m so happy to hear that. Number one, speaking of sock, Grizzlies weekend. No, I’m kidding. Hey, at least I don’t have to sit through it. We’re in the preeason. You don’t have to sit through it. I mean, I did. No, you did not, bro. No, you mean in person. Yes, bro. I mean, I sat through it on television. It’s not the same thing. You had four other TVs right next to you. I had it on me and I and I was paying attention. Why that first quarter is like, bro, dude. All right, we got to 71 free throws. They called they called a baseline violation. There have been there have been like these last two preseason games, there’s been like 150 free. It’s always us. I know. I look at these other games and the totals aren’t like that. Why is it always us? Why is it always a bunch? Do we foul a bunch still? I mean, we probably do. We got some Packers. All right, so uh the Grizzlies lost to the Atlanta Hawks 122 to 116 at FedEx Forum on Saturday night. Um, look, as we’ve said many, many times, not going to I’m not going to get upset until uh until we have games that count in standings and until I see John Marant and Jiren Jackson Jr. out on the floor. But my god, the Hey, let’s just say this. John Mar, Jerry Jackson Jr. are going to have to elevate things. Elevate. Yeah, we’re gonna see what kind of superstar you are, Miranda, cuz this is not giving us. Look, we’re still in honeymoon with Tumasova. Bro, you got to win something sometime like just anything. Throw me a bone. We sucked in the Did we win a quarter? Did we win the end of the season, the summer league, the crazy? Like, can we We won the fourth quarter. We won the fourth quarter when S when Santa piped up. We won a quarter. We We won a quarter. I think we won a quarter. I think he could play for us. I think so, too, bro. Ax is going to get in the rotation. There’s a prediction. I have a prediction. He’s going to outplay his two-way contract. He’s too athletic. He’s way way too athlete. He’s long athletic. You could put him in the dunker spot. He can play four. Yes, bro. On a team where guys don’t really play above the rim, can be that. No, no, no. He can play four. Yeah, bro. And so I’m thinking of him like, “All right, just do that Thompson thing they did with him last year in Houston, right? Just be there. When Jaw drives, bam, he can finish above the rim, right? We got We got 10 guys that can’t touch the net, but this guy is long, athletic, and can dunk it.” That’s literally what I said. He can touch the net. That’s literally what I said after the first game, bro. That’s literally what I said. I I watched the first preseason game. I was like, “Yo, I need Omax on the court.” Yes. I need him to be on the court. You did say that. You said I was like, I need on the court. There’s a couple things I took away from this. All right. Coward’s starting to slowly but surely figure this out. So, I am I’m heartened by that. He’s gotten better each game. That kid’s going to be good. Yeah, he is. Right. And you can see the frame and the size and everything and the shot. He finally got a three to get down. Um I I love I text you guys during the game. I love Caldwell Pope like just as I think of him in the through the I’m watching him through the prism of what’s this guy going to look like when we’ve got Morant and Jackson out there and it’s like he is the consumate role player. It’s what he is. He plays his role. He defends his position. He he doesn’t take plays off, right? No, he even he plays he he competes. Um, and then the other thing is, you know, I’m watching this game play out the other night, and there was a couple plays where I thought like, okay, and again, sometimes they listen to me, sometimes they don’t. Somebody needs to go and they got to put the arm and maybe they’re already doing this. You got to put the arm around the kid. And I watch that. And there were a couple of flashes where I’m like, “Bro, develop this. Develop the and I’m talking about Gigi de like get your arm around him and tell him like, yo, we are going to try to make you the best possible version of yourself, right?” He he is so like not he doesn’t know how to fit in like what what I don’t know if it’s what is expected of him. I I I don’t know. Right. Obviously still trying to figure out how to be how to be good without being a star, right? Like with the ball not in your hands, whatever. But you when I watch all the other players and then I see him come out there, I’m like, bro, this is the one worth chest, bro. Like this is the one worth like really developing cuz the so much untapped, bro. Like the one dribble eyes, bro. And it’s like this is there’s more talent in his pinky than the rest of these guys. We’ve just got to figure out how to harness it, bro. One dribble downhill. Ah. Two dribble. Uhhuh. Ah. Ah. Plus, he’s big as hell and he’s athletic. And he’s starting to put on he’s starting to put on like a little frame. We’ve just got to figure out like harness it. That GG start. How do we get him to cuz if we can and get him to be He is the one that like And again, I don’t want his confidence shot cuz he got shot last year. Oh yeah. Exactly. Exactly. That’s why I’m saying he needs the, you know, uh, you got to love on him as, as as as our buddy David Thorbby say, the royal jelly, right? Like he needs to like you need to really nurture this, right? He’s kind of guy that you could see him. You can even watch him. He moves different and but I’m saying also you can watch his emotions and it’s like, bro, just say go play, right? Like I mean you’ve got to figure this out to where we’re not tentative and like because when he just goes that uh I’m like yeah like you can see it with said too you can see like you can see the wheels are turning a little bit and then in the fourth quarter he like relaxes and it’s like okay he’s starting well he also looks around and goes hell I might as well. No when when Coward decides I’m not going to try to fit in. Yeah. Like I don’t just have to stand in the corner and wait for end of the shot clock three. I’m going to do something off the bounce here. I’m gonna like there’s a couple of really talented guys. We’ve just got to like harness it and develop it because and Jackson is the I think that is such a m the reason I’m bringing him up is because to me when I look at the rest of that team like I like the thing and I think can find a way, right? But Gigi could really swing things like you need one other guy to become like a real thing. And he needs to become a real thing like now now like being able to regularly contribute and know his place and like how he can how he can go cuz I know like I know it’s his fifth year and it frustrates the hell out of me watch like I’m trying to like be like okay it’s preseason you trying to but I’m like bro it’s your fifth year Santi bro right? Like I need like it’s the time like everybody we talked about this ro off air like everybody that’s been in this program the team has been getting better every single year. They’ve added new to their bag, right? J’s gotten better over five years or over seven years. Jiren’s gotten better over eight years. I want I want Sant to be like what is you what is your next toolbox? What’s the next part? Don’t be the same S you were two years ago, right? Like do something different, bro. And I’ve been watching the priest and I’m like same thing. What are you doing? Yeah. Like do something different. Do something different. Also, bro, we got the pretty good baby Jesus Lord above that Jiren comes back soon cuz if not Zion might score 93 points. We saw that in the first preseason game. We’re like, dude, John, you going to have to tackle somebody. We It was you and I that day on the show and we were like, uh, if we don’t get him back rim protection pace got to be more physical. I thought I thought it was physical. Like just push somebody. It might be preseason. Yeah, bro. You know what I mean? It is a layup drill, buddy. Like if somebody get beat off beat off the bounce, it’s like oh well. I mean, come on. Your front court’s Aldama and Landal. What are you expecting? But somebody got I mean, come on. Don’t Don’t be surprised by that. But at least knock somebody on the ground, bro. Like I’m so tired to watch people shoot layups. Look, I mean, it’s going to all Everything looks different when you’ve got Morant and Jackson, right? And and I will say I’m in love with Caldwell Pope and Jerome as first impressions. But that’s that’s where we are as a franchise now. Like John Jared have graduated and they are making all of the money and go look at all these other teams in the NBA when you have their top two guys who are making all the money. If you take them away, those teams are going to be horrible. So like, you know, we’re at that point. Well, and also those guys got to play. And also, you had four that are absolutely expected to be in your top eight. Yeah. right in between. I mean, we’ll see what happens with Pippen, but for certain Edy, Jiren, and Jaw, right? It’s three starters. Yeah, it’s three starters that and and then obviously uh you know, Pippen’s going to play. Yeah, Pips’s going to play. Also, I like you said the Kenny the Kenny I love that like that that last season might be like aberration like you know people when we got him on our team Atlanta fans like oh you don’t want him on your team. He shot like but like we’re we see we’re seeing the Yep. It clearly looks like a lot of there’s a lot longer sample size and he’s and he’s not 35, he’s 31. And there’s also been a pretty long sample size of Orlando’s offense not being very good. And so, you know, Yeah. No, he looks like he is uh positive for sure. Also, shout out PJ Hall told me to eat crap. You dunked on Porzingis. No, bro. He did. He went down the lane and dunked on Porzingis. I got You got to give him props for that. Tore his ACL in the process. Yeah, but he But he did it. Yeah, he did it. But he did it. Hey, put some respect on his name. How about protect the damn bucket? He did it. Protect the bucket, bro. Protect the fortune. I mean, he’s 68. Yeah, dude. Protect our house. No, that that’s not happening. He protect the house, bro. No, that’s not You let dudes just shoot layups over your head, bro. No, they put layups on your neck. I mean, protect the house. PJ, I don’t think you I I don’t know if you thought we were getting mujumb. I think we had a I think we had a I think we had a pretty good gauge of what we’re doing here. I knew what this was. Also, PJ got to stop being the first person to take his warmup off, bro. I can’t be having that in my life. He’s ready to go. It’s game time, man. Shout out PJ Hall, man. He’s ready to go. All right. Yeah. Shout out to my Hawks, though, bro. By the way, Oh, shut up. Yeah, that’s my Hawks right there. Gross. Y’all saw them in real life. Gross. Trey Young and all them wings, boy. Buffalo. Yeah, but the but the bench. You didn’t even know who these people were. Kesan Wallace, little brother. Uh Luke Canard. Yeah, dude. They did come out in that first quarter of the Hawks and it was like, “Oh, yeah. I’m not familiar with Jacob to know Caleb Houston.” I know Elongu. I know him. Big dog. Yeah. Yeah, man. That’s my Hawks right there. They did get like that first quarter. The Hawks like it felt like whatever if they wanted a wideopen three, they were getting a wideopen three. It did feel like that. Well, I mean, we started Tai Jerome, Santi Alama, Jacqu Landell, Jaylen Wills, and Gdavius Caldwell both. Well, I mean like I mean I four of those are our starters. No, that’s not true. That’s not true. Wait, what? Okay, four of those guys are playing big minutes for us. Okay. Well, that team as was constructed would win 12 games. Yeah, we we went through that. John, we Yeah, we went through a 12 win that’s a 12 win starting lineup. You just called us the Bobcats. Yes. We’re not even the Hornets. We’re the Bobcats. The Bobcats. called us the Bobcat. That starting lineup would go 12 and 60 and I take the under. 12 and or 12 and 70. Yeah, you need more. I should have said you need more losses to 12. Come on. Just go to bro. The first two guys on the bench were playing for the hustle. We’re the process Sixers before Embiid. I told you, bro. At least y’all didn’t have to sit there and watch it. Yeah. In real life. How was the crowd? You know what? The crowd wasn’t there. It was They were there, bro. They were present. They were definitely present, bro. Good. Shout out to that guy. That’s all you can ask. Number two, college football impressed. I mean, look, it’s not even close. Signetti’s got to be at the very top of this. I mean, yo, he might be the greatest coach of all time. He might be the greatest coach of all time. Of all time. Do you know do you know there’s all these old interviews you know we know how good he is on the microphone but these old interviews of like that have been floating around since he got that huge win cuz of course there’s always going to be a lot more attention to a guy cuz then everybody’s like so what’s the deal with this guy? He was on the 2000 I believe it was 2011 Alabama staff with Sabin. Yeah. And he said, “I always wanted to be a head coach.” Like, “I thought I could be a good head coach.” And he was like, “And I was coming up on 50.” And I was like, “50?” Like Dan Landing’s like 28. I know, right? Kenny Dillingham, right? And it’s like And so he’s like, “I always thought I could be a a really good head coach.” He said, “My dad had run a program up in the Northeast.” I didn’t realize this, but he said, “My dad had run a program up in the Northeast and had like a lot of success there.” And he goes, “And then the program like went totally downhill. It’s division 2.” And he’s like, “And I went and took it over for a fraction of the money.” And there was a lot of times when I was there, like after I took the job, he’s like, you know, my daughters both wanted to like hopefully go to college or go to med school and I like I took a big pay cut to go and be a head coach in division two. And it’s like you hear his story of him going like division two and then going to division one and then that pro Indiana’s impossible to do this at. He also like does the whole I’ve never I used to be a recruiting coordinator and I’ve never cared about stars. the high school thing, like the guys 18, 19, like they’re different people a year or two later. I want to find the guys that are about the right stuff, that are willing to put the work in. They’re willing to put in the process and develop into what they can become and the best versions of themselves and whatever. And I mean what that guy has pulled off at Indiana and obviously it culminates where everybody still like kind of was like you know cuz they they played against Notre Dame and they played against Ohio State last year and those were their two losses but it wasn’t like they had burned through a who’s who but like this is on the road at Oregon. Yes, bro. It Austin Stadium was one of the craziest environments. There’s nothing you can there’s nothing you can poke a hole in that uh with. And so he I think it was okay, my buddy Dan Wetzel tweeted this out yesterday. Indiana averaged four wins a season in the 30 years before Kirk Signetti. Four. Four. One, two, three, four. He counts it on one hand. He is now 16 and2 at Indiana and the only losses are at Ohio State and at Notre Dame. Yeah, the dude is the dude is unreal. And he was you know how old he was when he got that job? 61. He’s 64. Like the greatest coach ever might have not been there. He was hired until he was 61 years old. Crazy. It is crazy. I saw a twist there. Cursing has two top wins, two top 10 wins in the last three weeks. That’s the same amount as James Franklin had in his nine season at Penn State. Oh my god. Yeah. Nine years. He had more than two weeks. Like the dude, bro, I don’t know if there is a crazier story. And And yeah, he And it’s not like he got hired at Oregon and is doing this. Got hired at Indiana and is doing this. Yeah. I mean, you want to talk about ruining it for every other coach in the world, cursing that he can do it, right? Like he turned he’s like, “There’s a new mega power in college football. It’s Indiana.” Why? Cuz I say it is. Exactly. I know, right? Google me, I win. It’s like, bro, like, why would I go Why would I go somewhere else? Why would I go somewhere else? I can build this at Indiana. Like, you see, I’ve done it two years. You can’t. You’re not supposed to be able to. 30 years of four wins a year and the dude is 16 and two. It didn’t even take time. How took How did it not take time to do this? Like year three. Remember last year he brought all of his James Madison team. He brought his entire James Madison team over just like, “Hey, you guys know what I like to do, know how I play.” But this year, like he’s transfer portal. You know what I want to do? Go do it. Cuz like we talked about it, it too like, “Yo, we’re going to find out they’re for real.” cuz last time they in the big game they got beat up a little bit. The other one doesn’t does it just again this is why I say he’s ruining it for everybody. Doesn’t it change the way you think about like what’s possible anywhere? Exactly. Right. Like like that’s what they’re trying to do at Vandy. But like this has been a process for it’s been a process going right. No. And I sit here I’m like okay so if signetti’s done this at Indiana like why can’t Matt Rule do it in Nebraska? Like if you could do it in Indiana, why can’t you do it in Nebraska? Well, and you also you also wonder like what would be the I mean, no, it wouldn’t there is I guess Vandy would be the equivalent, right? Like but I mean like it’s not like James Franklin won like that to Vandy. James Franklin was bowl game and but I mean he was winning he was like eight and four, right? And that felt like 12 and0 right being there. Maybe if you like maybe if you turned like Kentucky into a powerhouse like Yes. Like imagine Kentucky becoming one of the best 10 programs in the country. You’d be like what? Yeah, that’s Yeah, that’s kind of Indiana. Yeah, cuz we watch cuz Indiana’s a basketball school as well. Cuz we watched Spurer do it at South Carolina. Like he did turn South Carolina into a like top 10, top 15 program. Mullen had Mississippi State number one in the country. made Mississippi State really good. We’ve seen Old Miss be really good. They’re they’re good now. But look, it’s it’s going to have people looking at their a like athlete direct like, yo, I mean, the dude tech right now, if you could do it in Indiana, you could do it anywhere. Do you think Kirk signed James Franklin fired 100%. He lost to Oregon, turned around and lost, right? He gave Oregon their first Big 10 loss, bro. It’s possible. That’s their first Big 10 loss. Oh, wow. Anyway, Cursing is the goat. this guy. This guy huge apparently and he’s got the donors now too. Like Indiana’s got big there are big time alumni that went there. They said Mark Cuban had Mark Cuban like last year made his first donation ever to their athletic department and assuming it’s for football. When that dude said they could be one of the top 10 programs in the country, everybody was like, “Okay, all right. Relax, buddy.” Now it’s like waiting. Yeah. Like they I mean it it it goes to pay though like if you if you just get a guy that love like a football guy and not get a guy who’s just like the massage PR just go get a guy who loves football what could happen in two or three years bro I mean he was at James Madison hooping bro 61 before he gets his first major job there’s also a maturity to him and like just right but he’s like 60 so like you ain’t rattling him on the sidelines like he’s not getting through he’s like bro I’ve coached Division 2 in Maine. Like you’re like what are you what like this is whatever. Shut up. Uh also impressed Texas. I finally got one right on uh on the whole Texas being underrated simply because they had lost at Ohio State and lost at the swamp. I didn’t ding them as much as I think a lot of people did for that. That line flipped before that game. It did. Uh the line flipped before the game and Matier was not the John Matier that we had seen earlier in the season and Oklahoma couldn’t do anything in that game. That Texas defense is fast as hell and yeah I would not be surpris Texas obviously going to have you know a rough go in the SEC but like if they ran the table it wouldn’t be the most shocking thing. They are talented as all hell. Yeah. And ours Ars managed the game too bro. He did. He didn’t throw picks. He didn’t like He didn’t He didn’t He didn’t lose the game. He didn’t lose the game. Didn’t you need him? Defense can win games, too. Hell, they only gave up 14 to Ohio State and they lost. Mat should learn that, too. Yeah, let’s go. Terrible. Well, the one right before the into the first half. It’s like, dude, you could have just thrown that away and then kicked a field goal. Instead, you just threw a pick in the end zone. Others on the impress. South Florida. We were all watching it on Friday night. It was halftime. It was not pretty. And then they came out after halftime and beat them 42 to 15 in the second half. Scoring 42 and a half is I mean they got real speed, don’t they? They they do. They got like a real I’m a little worried about this uh Byron Brown. Bro, after after the white guy from Navy ran for 300 yards against us last year. It’s going to be a fun game. That’s going to be a Take care of business. That’s going to be a fun game. You know what? You know what I think? I watched that game. I bet you guys felt the same way. the UCF stuff. It felt like the old UCF like, oh, we’re going to get in one of these. We’re going to get in a shootout with these guys. Yeah, bro. We are going to get cuz I’m not sure we can stop them. And the Tigers offense has been awesome. Yes, this year. Absolutely awesome. But that Byron Brown boy, he can tote it too. I mean, you don’t look just like our guy can. Like they’re both like, man, third and seven is like a disaster. Uh-huh. Because then they just send four verts and guy just takes off. Yeah. You know what I mean? And he run. That’s what our guy does. And they run over people too. Boy. Yes. Byron Brown. He put his head down, bro. Look, them dudes got real real real speed. 63 in the college football game is insane. Yeah. Uh impressed by Bama going on the road, winning at Columbia because that was a culmination of I mean that they won that’s a threeame span where they played at Georgia, Vandy at Missouri. That’s not an easy three-game stretch. And they pulled it off by going 3 and 0. Speaking speaking of that, Kalin Debor just beat AP top 25 teams in three consecutive weeks. Nick Sabin did that once in his 17 seasons. Wow. And they get a chance to do it four weeks in a row cuz Tennessee this week. Yeah, because of Tennessee this week. By the way, Ty Simpson is now your second favorite to win the Heisman at plus 370. Is it Is it Fernando Mendoza? He’s third at plus 5. Carson Beck plus 360. barely a slight favorite over. He’s been awesome this year though. Yes, Dad. There might be a little bit of value on your on one of your boys. Which one? Marcel Reed 20 to1 at Texas&M looks good. Either on the impress Texas Tech. I mean, again, we say it every week, money well spent. Like we understand like we don’t get Indiana. We understand it. You spent a billion dollars and now they’re awesome in football. Easy math. We get it. Easy math, bro. I mean, they spent the money on the right people, though. You still got to get the right player, dude. But money talks, bro. Money talks. How is Texas Tech so good? I They have a billionaire oil tycoon who spent $50 million on the roster. I’m going to give Arkansas an impresso, you know, they fired their coach and Patrino like they hung with Tennessee. I swear they are the king of the close loss. Arkansas is um the king of the close. And I’m going to tell you, I said this after I said I said Memphis, if they can just win this game, there’s going to come a time in the season where Tennessee or where Arkansas beat somebody and it’s going to be like, hey, and that’s a team that Memphis beat, right? And it’s going to make us look better. And obviously, they hung tight with Tennessee this week. Look, this is the Arkansas schedule. &M, Auburn, Mississippi State, at LSU, at Texas, Missouri. They will win one or two of those. Like they will they’re going to score. Yeah, they’ll snap somebody. You know what I mean? Just don’t be. I’m roo for&m and then it’ll look better for uh then it’ll look better for Memphis again. Uh USC pummeling Michigan. You got to put them on the running back, bro. The walking running back to that thing, bro. and and Michigan. I mean, look, uh Chiron uh Moore, he uh he said his piece before that game about Yeah, it’s going to be packed because of Michigan. You can’t get your ass kicked after you say that, bro. I’m sorry. Yeah, your players got to ride for you after that, bro. Uh also impressed Nico. I mean, did they just have to fire Deshawn Foster? I mean to beat Penn State and then they went on the road as an underdog against Michigan State and won 38-13. Nico looks awesome again. It’s that that offensive coordinator knew how kid with I mean with the wispy blonde hair. He looks like a young version of his dad. And hey, his dad was always really good with quarterbacks, too. His dad was really good with him. Uh UNLV Dan Mullen is 6 and0. Does anybody realize that? No, because that first game was a win, but it was such a disaster against Sam Houston. So, they’re six and0 at UNLV. Shout out to Dan Mullen. And then, uh, Coach Prime, big win over Iowa State. And they rushed the field and he wants everybody to chip in for the prime. And Don Hayden, a Memphis kid, was the star of the game. Don Hayden, remember that name? Former Christian Brothers alone. Yeah. Yeah. Memphis kid was the star of the game, bro. Aaron Hayden’s kid. Tide roll. Yeah. Had your boy Michael on the sideline going crazy. Did you see that video? Yeah. I was like, “Michel, bro, somebody got to calm Mike down.” Dude, Michael Urban’s everywhere and he’s always yelling. He got I got to calm down everywhere now. And now that the Hurricanes are good, but you better get used to that. Uh, one other impressed Kirby Smart’s tolerance for lying, bro. Dude, he is. After the game, him saying that I was telling the refs that they are clapping. Now, I saw Georgia fans twisting themselves in knots. I saw the all 22 where the safety is clapping, whatever. But, bro, you were calling timeout. I I mean, this poor Hugh Freeze has been on the other end of some of the worst things ever. The Oklahoma game and now this one. This is Kirby Smart talking about how he wasn’t calling timeout. Yeah, they’re clapping. So, I told him before the game, if these guys clap, it’s a penalty. They can’t clap because we’ll fault snap. I’ve lost games on that before in the stadium. And I told him, I said, if they clap, I I’m going to tell you, I got somebody in the box watching every play. They were clapping. So, I ran over to him and said, “They’re clapping. They’re clapping.” And uh he thought I called timeout. He was making the timeout signal. Yeah, he was. You were doing this, bro. Cuz I’m screaming, “They’re clapping. They’re clap.” I didn’t need a timeout because we were going to get it off before the shot clock. It was You weren’t getting that off one. We were gonna get it off before the the play clock ended and I didn’t need a timeout. It was the fact that they were clapping. I wanted them to call it because it’s a penalty. You know he lying because he said a bunch of words afterwards. You know somebody lied rambling. So he’s doing signal the whole time. And the other thing is not giving them the touchdown at the one. Yeah. This is I mean this was Cam Newton’s night too. Exactly bro. All right. So we’re getting into deep Preston. I might as well start with Hugh Freeze buddy. Okay. Okay, so we talked about the Oklahoma game and then we talked about what just happened in this game. And by the way, Vinnie Verno had Auburn, so this was pathetic. Everything that took place is pathetic. Yeah, you got you got you got back door a little on on South Carolina, too. October, bro. That was terrible. That was 145 left in that game. They kicked the field goal to go up 20-10. Um, both games rusty score. Both games rusty games. Anyway, Hugh Freeze. I mean, this guy’s got to jump off a building if somebody doesn’t talk him down. Dude, just got two back. Dude, your roster is just as good as George’s. Except your quarterback is horrible. Watch. Dude, their quarterback, Dude, if they had an average quarterback, they could They’re just as good as Georgia. Watch you freeze. I have no clue. Um I don’t It’s not the Auburn part I’m worried about. I know I know who our president and administration and AD are and how they feel and um sure sure feels like um we’re not getting many breaks and um it’s difficult to take for sure. Um even on the I’ll never I mean there was a lot of things but um you know I felt like we broke the plane. Um all you have to do is the ball just the nose of the ball just has to break the plane and I thought that was a had a pretty good shot of that on the but it didn’t uh didn’t go our way and then I don’t know how they either should have had a delay a game or a timeout and not a not a whole new play. I’m not still not sure what happened there, but um I mean this is so depressing. So sad. What was when that would have been 17 nothing, right? Yeah, it would have been 17 nothing. I mean and then you’ve got then you’re in a and now you’re now you’re pinning your ears back. Yeah, cuz even the AD was about to RKO the refs go off the field. You see that? Like the AD all was like on the rest head like what are y’all doing? It was it was outrageous. It took like like in daylight. Y’all are screwing up. Also, what’s minutes to play the last like 2 minutes of the first half? Also, what is that? When Kirby Smart goes down, is signaling timeout, and then they come back and they say it’s nothing. What? It’s like dead ball. Run another play. Yeah. What do you mean? It’s something. Yeah, it’s something. It’s either a penalty or it’s not. Is it delay of game? Is it a timeout? What happened here? And then they were like, and they are not charging Georgia with a timeout. I’m like, what is happening? You can’t just stop the game with one second on the play clock because the coach I mean, oh god, that was bizarre. For Georgia, you can’t. So depressing though. Auburn, this guy. Yeah, the the streets saying they don’t feel bad for Hugh Freeze, but like the Auburn fans really really don’t feel bad for Hugh Freeze. They’ve been Oh, no. They’ve been ready to pack him up since Jackson held the ball a couple weeks ago. So, oh god. During the Oklahoma game. Yeah, he’s bad, man. Uh, oh, miss. What was that, John Rev, bro? 31 and a half point favorite and you win by Washington State by three and then Lane Kein said their offense looked like their student section. Yeah, this is which is funny, dude. He is the best. He also he also told his quarterback to stop playing like you’re playing like you’re in D2 right now. You see that that clip, bro? After the first couple drives, they interviewed him on the sideline. He was like, “Yo, I had to tell I had to tell him Trinidad, yo, you’re playing like you’re This is not division 2, bro. You’re playing like you’re in division 2 right now.” 11 a.m. Washington State and he’s wondering where the students are. They’re asleep. Yeah, bro. They had a long night. They had a long night, my guy. They just No, they’re just still in the Grove. They didn’t They didn’t go into the stadium. You think they wanted to watch y’all play Washington State? Um I mean, you hope they do. Couple of things that are cool at least with Miss and Trinidad is apparently up all in the grove you can find flags of the country Trinidad that they people are just putting up for him. Is he actually from Trinidad Tobago? No, but his name’s Trinidad. So they’re just saying Trinidad for Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have to think that they’re they were looking ahead. Oh, I feel like that’s your favorite sentence to say, by the way. The excuse show. I think that’s what they were doing. What is what else is the explanation that they barely beat Washington State who lost 59-10 to North Texas? Maybe the team had a long night in at at the square two. Roser, maybe. Hey, hey. Yeah, cuz they’re looking ahead to Georgia. Little baddies. A bunch of baddies in the Maybe maybe a little rat poison as coach saving used to say. Maybe they’re reading their own press clippings. Maybe they’re reading their own press clippings and they thought, you know what, we don’t have to bring our aame against Washington State. Exactly. I got a bad waiting on me after the game. I have to worry about this. Yep. You know what I’m saying? You almost got sniped, bro. Cuz all Washington State fans were here, Roser. They were here. I tell you this, George ate Washington State. So, they bring that same energy, that same effort against the Bulldogs next Saturday. I agree. It’s going to be a long Saturday night in Athens. There was nobody sitting the edge. Nobody sitting. There’s nobody sitting the edge. Yeah. Has not Old Miss football. If you don’t set the edge against the Dogs next weekend, it’s going to be a long Saturday. Long Saturday. You better be at that game. Play in the trenches. Which one? I got some I got some tickets dangling out there right now for me. For what? For Miss, Georgia. In Athens. Drive down to Athens. That’d be a fun one. Yeah. Yeah. I might have to I might have to We’re going to see. We’re going to see. We’re going to make that trip. You’ve been to Athens before? I have not been to Sanford Stadium yet. I haven’t. It’s on my list, bro. Heard it’s cool. Yeah, we might have to make that trip. I don’t know, though. South Carolina 17-10 and then got a field goal made on him with less than two minutes to destroy Vinnie Verno. Uh Florida State losing to Pit. I mean, we’re done here. Yeah. No, just playing the freaking holiday. Jessica said this. They have lost eight straight games in the ACC. 0 and2 0 and three. They have lost eight straight dating back to last season in the ACC. DJ Ukulele is rolling over in his grand. It ain’t the SEC. Norville guy. Tommy Castellanos now 0 and10 in his last 10 games where he has to attempt 20 or more passes. Oh god. Just run you [ __ ] Damn. That’s it’s an easy game, bro. He’s not actually one. He’s illegal. He’s a legal one though. He’s illegal. He’s definitely legal. He’s illegal. Just run Tommy. He is little for football. A freaking Pit didn’t even have that guy that transferred from Bama. No. No. They It wasn’t even their quarterback. Eli replaced him. Yeah. And this guy like turned into Russell Wilson against a cowboy. Shout out Shout out to Nooi, huh? Shout out to Nardooi for evolving. No, I’m mad at Norville. Florida State. It’s like ever since that week. It’s like that week one was like the biggest game of the life. Like he had all seasons to play. Yeah. And we got all juiced up and then it was the juice is all squeezed out now. No, it’s no no juice. Dog gone it. Just like rubbing well fire, bro. cuz Bama looks awesome since then and it’s gone the other way. Did he have the whole offseason, bro? You think that’s what it was? I don’t know, dude. I don’t know. Norville, we still love you, dog. Penn State. Yeah, they fired James Franklin after uh I mean, it was his fourth loss as a 20point favorite, which is the most of any head coach. And it was the first school to lose consecutive games as a 20point favorite in the last 30 years. you’re going to pay him out $58 million to not be the coach at Penn State. Here’s the question. I’ve seen both sides of this. Yeah, I do think it’s one of those where I got it. You know, you’re you’re not going to do yourself any favors by saying they’re stupid for firing him, right? When when you know the expectations are high. I will say it is a what would you say 70% chance you don’t do better? Yeah. I mean, especially that’s what I’m saying. Like there is a it’s a non there’s a really good chance that you’re not going to find somebody that wins as much as James Franklin won. You know what I mean? The name you’re hearing the most. Your boy Your boy might be the coast. Is Matt Rule? That’s cuz he went to P he’s a Penn State grad. He’s from the area. Like he walked on at Penn State. Is Matt Rule that big of an upgrade from James Franklin? Is he an upgrade at all from James Franklin? Right. Like I Well, I know. He won at Temple. That’s why he was That’s why James Franklin won if Andy Yeah, I know. Look, James Franklin’s gonna have a job in Well, I guess I don’t know. I have to see what the payout thing is. UAB, you might not be No, you might not be able to Arkansas. You might not be able to get another like you have to figure that out, right? Cuz you want, you know, you got to get that 58 million. He would be amazing on TV. Amazing TV. He’s a great person. Put him in Sabin on game day. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz with McAfee, I don’t know. You think that I mean there just it did look we did this when it was Fulmer we did this when it was Mark Rick and that’s two different situations right they did upgrade over Mark Rick it took them they’re still not they still haven’t upgraded over former no you know what I mean and Tennessee it’s so they’ve been fishing for years and and went through it until they got to saving they went to the three mics Texas and it’s like it’s hard in Texas when they fired Matt Brown when Matt Brown was gone Like, dude, they went through it after that. Tons of coaches before they got the right one. But Matt Ro might be going back to the his his stomping grounds, man. Maybe. Maybe. But I mean, it is hard. It is It hard. They could nail it or they could I mean, I’ve seen all the stats about his, you know, record verse top five teams, record verse top 10 teams. I also see that like they still go like 10. I mean, they were a play away from the national title game last year, weren’t they? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One play. One play. Oh, that’s a life coming at you fast, bro. Life come at you real fast. I mean, you want to talk about no grace. They’re two weeks away from having Oregon. Did you see possibly beat in overtime? Yeah, but you can’t you can’t lose back to back. Almost like he knew. I Franklin knew. Did you see the end of that game the other day? That was weird. He’s staying on the field waiting for his whole team to leave the field before he leaves. I don’t know. Maybe he does that every game. I don’t know. But like it just seemed weird. He’s just like looking around the stadium as his players are walking off and he’s staring around almost like Yeah, he knew this was coming. Totally took all the steam off of Trent Dilford being fired at UAB. I know, right? We knew that. And and the dude at Oregon State getting fired. Oh, the guy at Oregon State got fired. Yeah, whatever. I didn’t even know they won a football game like 15 years, bro. UAB UAB lost by 20 to uh Florida Atlantic. Yeah, we got them this week. Battle. Yeah, I know. I wish they would have kept around for one. Just let us be the nail in the car. By the way, did you just see who the AD is at UAB? Who’s that? It’s not who? It’s not him, but when I saw it, I was like, what? The AD at UAB’s name is Mark Ingram. Not the running back. No, it’s not the running back. I thought for a second I thought I was like, wait, what? Hey, by by the way, amazing. It’s just some big white guy. We we found out that that Northwestern may be the nail in the coffin for a lot of coaches in the Big 10 round. I just found I just found a stat. Love, you remember Lovey Smith? Yep. His last loss was at Illinois was against Northwestern. Scott Frost last loss in Nebraska was against Northwestern. James Franklin last loss at Penn State. Maybe when you lose to Northwestern, bro. Wow. It is the final like ax in the heart. Fire a fireball. Yeah. You can’t you can’t be losing to the the nerds, bro. You can’t lose to nerds. Okay. Shout out to Northwestern nerds. Also, the last one. Were you guys watching College Game Day on Saturday? Did you get to see it? I saw the kick at the end. I saw the kick. Dude, the kick was funny. That’s the worst kick ever. the kick and they him making his pick at the end. No, the guy kicked it and it was horrendous and then they it was so bad that they made the kick worth a million dollar and then they said that Nick Sabin was going to give him a car from his new Toyota dealership. So they made it a million dollars and cuz I mean they made they’re like fine a million if you I mean that’s how little chance this guy had at making the cake. Here’s the video from it. Watch this. He has a great mustache. We have a great story. This guy sucks. Bro, where did the ball go? Bro, where did the ball go? Dead. Jaylen, play it again. Somebody like, where did Play again, Jaylen, did it go dead? Yeah, dude. I mean, he just he hit one. He might have hit one of the cheerleaders before he he hit the kick the second one. McAfee went over and there was like a baby in the front row and he was like, “Don’t hit this baby.” And he was like, he was like, “This baby right here, it’s one years old at Oregon.” And he walks over to the dad. He’s like, “How old?” And the dad’s like, “One.” He’s like, “This is going to be his first memory in life. He’s you and this kid.” And then he shaked. He goes, “This guy sucks, bro. McAfee is so much better than uh Dave Porto at this, bro. He is so much better, bro. Like, he is like a very WWE character. Like, and they try like to do the Port Door stuff on the Big 10. I’m like, it’s not the same. It doesn’t hit the same. This guy, this guy is so good. And they had a uh he is as charismatic as they said that they they said Sin was going to give the guy. He’s like, “And Sabin’s going to chip in a car.” And it’s so crazy. So, there’s a guy I met. There’s a guy I met who bought a Ferrari in Nashville at Nick Sabin’s dealership. And I was like, “Really?” Like, he’s like, “Yeah, he got a Ferrari.” Yeah. Older retired guy. And he said, “How about this?” Sabin called him on his cell phone to thank him for buying the car from his I guess he I guess if you buy a Ferrari he’ll just call you directly and I was like that’s actually kind of fire he was like that was worth buying the car. He’s like he’s like he stayed on the phone with me for like 20 minutes. Yeah, that’s actually kind of fire. That’s pretty cool. And I was like that’s unbelievable man. Yeah, he really did. He called me I I didn’t know he had he’s got a Ferrari dealership in Nashville. Of course he does. Nick Sabin does. I know. I was like, “Okay.” And he calls you if you buy one. I mean, again, you have to afford Nickon. I think I think I think I You got to afford a $300,000 car. Can we corner that joint, bro? Huh? Can we corner that joint? Can you what? Cla. What? Oh, you don’t know Cla? I know. I know what CLA is. CLA. These YouTuber know. Yeah. Yeah. I get offered that eBay. When you buy on eBay, it’s like you want to free. I don’t know. I just want a call from Nick Sabin. Yeah, I know. Like just imagine your phone like you like look at your phone like Hello. What is he? What is Jaylen? What are you saying? Breaking news. Thank God. What we got? Oh, the Titans. Oh, the Titans their coach. Packed him up. Hey, it took him throwing Camour under the bus yesterday to get him packed up. You can’t throw your number one pick under the bus, bro. He was terrible. He was terrible. But you can’t do that to your number one pick, dog. Also got you fired. This is this like this is back to the whole and I got it. That was like probably a ownership slashmanagement kurfuffle that led to it. But like you want to talk about coach downgrades going from Mike Vrabel to this bozo. That’s tough. Whole Mike Vrabel by everyone agreed Mike Rabel is a good coach. Yes. He didn’t trade AJ Brown. You know what I mean? He didn’t trade D. He didn’t get rid of Derrick Henry. Like the team was goofy. Yeah. Finally, bro. They got rid of this dude, man. Yeah. And then they get this guy and this guy was terrible. He was supposed to be like a offensive like guru, too. Like a offensive guru. Like a quarterback guy. It turns out he just had Joe Burrow. Yeah. And it’s they took the play call on the way like two games in and now you’re fired, bro. Pack them up. We smoking we smoking that Bron Callahan. I’ll have more on the Titans and Cam Warden NFL notes tomorrow. That’s a tease. Number four, NFL Impress, the Titans for firing Brian Callahan. That goes right there at the top. Good job, y’all. Uh, but honestly, it’s Baker Mayfield. I mean, boy, look, dog. 15 uh, no, it’s 12 touchdowns, one pick so far. I think he’s uh, now right up there towards the very top for MVP. And I mean it’s I mean to watch a guy completely sun the entire 49ers team. I mean let’s just watch the play. Watching this and him just sunning the whole team with the heart of a champion diving for the first down. I mean that’s a real dog. I mean I think I think I think 10 guys had a chance at him and it didn’t make any difference. Holding offense number 68 right there. Holding offense number 68. Count me guys. Count. I see I see holding too. Homade. One. Two. I see holding too. Roser. Homade. You hold. You got hold that Bakerfield nuts. Roser. Hold that. Hold that Roser. I can’t believe Baker would do that to us after the trauma that we suffered earlier in that game. Oh. I can’t believe it. What? Your boyfriend Horn getting hurt? Yeah. It’s sad. You got to admit Baker Mayfield’s the most fun thing going right now. Oh, he’s fun. I mean, God, they said during that game that they you remember his left guard went out and they said they’re going to the fourth the fourth string left guard. They didn’t even know who it was. I bet their fourth string left guard’s better than our first string left guard. Who? Trent Williams. He’s our left tackle, but he’s not good either. Yeah. No, he he uh he’s not good either. He’s It’s It’s father turned into a pumpkin, huh? Father time’s gotten him this year. It’s not been Hey, by the way, how do the Buccaneers have so many good receivers? Like TZ Johnson caught a pass and I was like, wait, is that the dude from Oregon? North from North Carolina, wasn’t he? Tell me you saw TZ Johnson. TZ Johnson after the game. This is him in the locker room. This is crazy. When I score and I hear MVP MVP chant, I’m thinking they talking about me. And so I asked Shep, I’m like, Shep, they was chanting MVP. And he was like, yeah. I was like, “I ain’t do nothing this year.” And then he was like, “They talking about Baker test.” And I was like, I was like, “Well, that explains it.” That’s funny. He scored. MP. He said, “I ain’t even done nothing this year.” They’re talking about Baker. They ain’t talking about you. I mean, he didn’t do a back flip when he scored. I like this guy’s personality. I like this guy’s personality. Tess Johnson. Tess Johnson. That’s really funny. Um, they got so many good receivers. Also on the Impress, the Colts. I mean, look, my guy uh Oh, shoot. I just drew a blank. Croucher, Jay Croucher, who joined us from NBC. He’s trying to hard sell us on Jonathan Taylor for Fantasy before. Boy, he’s been the best running back in the league. Oh my god, he’s amazing. I mean, him and him and uh Rico Dao, we’re getting to that. Rico. All right. Also on the impressed Drake May uh who has certainly come into his own uh in this year too. Looks like a different guy. I’ll have stuff on Drake. The aforementioned Mike Frabel. Yeah. Um I text you guys in the middle of uh the games yesterday and I said, “Is Jackson Smith and Jigman the best receiver in the league?” It’s every week, bro. People forget you remember him having 16 catches for 800 yards in that game with Ohio State. Like we should have known then every week. He’s a monster, bro. He’s like the best known. He’s unstoppable. He’s the best not name not known name in the NFL. No, he gets to fall in line, right, with like Doug Baldwin and Tyler Lock. Yep. Tyler Lockett and him. But this guy is like it’s every week. Yeah, bro. I’m watching Red Zone and he catches like another 60. I’m like, hold on. Is this guy just like a force of N? Him and Sam Darnold are like freaking Montana and Rice. Easy. I mean, oh, better. Also, uh, also impressed since Roser be I’m not impressed by that. Rico, I wasn’t impressed by that. Hey, ever since Roser bismerched the Chiefs, their score is awesome. They’ve scored 3728 and 30. I feel like we called that, bro. We called it. We called. I did. And you guys actually went against me. And then you said, “Who’s coming back?” And I I said Xavier Worthy. The clip is It’s on Instagram. Clip it. No, that was the one. That’s the one we made. Watch it. And you said who? Who? Who? That’s when they played the Ravens, bro. I’m talking about last week we talked about this. I said, “You can always believe in 15.” That’s what I said. Roso, did I not say that? I I probably Okay, you probably tuned it out. I said you believe in 15, bro. You like, “There’s no way they can go one and four.” I said, “There’s no way. You got 15 on your team.” Yeah. The NFL is not going to let them go one and four. They weren’t going to let them go two and four. That’s why they didn’t get called for a penalty last night. Like, come on, dude. All of the memes of them not getting called for a penalty. I mean, it’s like the most predictable thing ever, especially after they got they got called for a bunch in the Jags game. They did get called for a lot in the Jags game, but like then the correction comes. The best one I saw. The best one I saw. Did you guys do you guys see the ones with the the the the making fun of the Chiefs having no penalties last night? The best one I saw was the uh they put the chick at the Coldplay concert in ref’s clothes and then the guy behind her wearing a Jeep hat and so it’s the Chief and the ref. Yeah. Oh, that’s tough. Unbelievable. That That’s tough, bro. Yeah. They look Bro, they look always when you got 15, you got a chance, bro. And they’re going to get they’re going to get the scumbag back. Gucci rice. So Oh, wow. All right. You guys are going to love this. So, all right. Rico D. No, this we’re getting to depressed. We’re getting no no no no no no no no. Rico D. The most single game scrimmage yards in Panthers history. Verno. Jayen also a Panthers fan. Jaylen a Panthers fan. Rico D looking like D’Angelo Williams in 2007. Yeah, Rico Doubt now has more rushing yards in the last two weeks than Saquon Barkley, Bejian Robinson, Jamar Gibbs, Christian McCaffrey, and Chase Brown. I love D’Angelo Williams. Th this guy ran like his life was on the line. Oh, he’s trying to get paid. Like every yard was a paycheck. Oh, no. He told him to buckle up and then this is what he did. I mean, your team got rid of him. Yeah. Yeah. And nobody cares. That’s your fault. Well, nobody cared. That’s your fault, bro. Well, the other thing is we were going to get better run defense when we got rid of Micah. By the way, them jerseys are tough as hell. The Micah thing makes me so sad. Them jerseys are so tough because Michael Parsons is doing nothing and no one’s talked about him one time. I as exactly I predicted. Nobody cares. Look at Rico. Do you know Michael Parsons isn’t in the top 50 in sacks? Yeah, nobody does care. Nobody cares. Killing him. It’s like he’s not even and and but he wants to be a Cowboy. The Cowboys need him and it’s all a disaster. So, you should go back to your It’s all a disaster. That Rico D thing was great. Hey, bro. I’ll have more on Rico D tomorrow in NFL. Make sure you tune in around 1:00 tomorrow. I had it in depressed. Why? I had it. Rico D’s not depressing. It depressed me. So, the Cowboys defense depressed me because Dak Prescott is playing out of his mind. 72%. our respect. 13 touches and like three pick. I mean, it’s so annoying. Our defense is pathetic. Truly pathetic. We turned Russell Wilson into a star. We turned freaking Rico D. We Rico D did have 200 yards last week, by the way. He did. He had 200 last week. He did. So, it’s not like the only time it’s ever happened. He’s topped through the NFL in two weeks, bro. You’re right. It’s not the only time it’s ever happened. How many times has it happened? I’ll tell you about it tomorrow. Yeah, he’ll know. Okay. All right. Well, so obviously the Cowboys defense and me having to watch that massacre yesterday was terrible. Also depressed for the NFL week. Me. All right. I don’t know if you guys will ever get the opportunity or anybody in my listening audience, but it stands to reason maybe somebody will at one point in life. You might be asked to go on the biggest sports podcast in the world and give a pick. Don’t do it. Because I went on Bill Simmons podcast and rolled with the Broncos. Oh no. In the London game. I lost a bet and the other team had -10 passing yards. Passing yards. And I lost. Only me. Only I could lose that bet. But buddy, the reason I tell you no, my mentions. Yeah. Oh, they’re on fire. They were on fire. Are you ready? Oh, yeah. I’m ready. Let’s go. You guys You guys love these. Let’s go. These are always good. These are good. As arrogant as Chris Vernon show is, his picks are straight dog [ __ ] What an arrogant [ __ ] who has no idea what he’s talking about. Don’t listen to this clown. Please have Chris Vernon on every week for fades galore. Panthers bad. Such great analysis. Broncos on a Euro trip after beating the Eagles as a type of lock. He gets paid for this. They’re on your neck. Hey yo, who the f let this clown do picks on Bill Simmons bod Dallas will crush Carolina. Broncos minus 6 and a half. Just because you scream doesn’t mean you’re right, you pre-diabetic blockhead. That was actually fire. That was fire. That’s a pre-diabetic. Pre-diabetic is crazy. Tough, right? Are they trying to predict diabetes on you? We got You were laughing at them for picking Carolina and Atlanta. The better QB doesn’t always win the game. Bet you learned that today. Well, I mean, like the better QB did win the game. Got some people fired me. You’ve got Well, Boon Knicks is better than Justin Fields. Oh, I thought you talking about the Cowboys game. No, no, no, no, no. I like this one. And this is just this is just straight and to the point. Amateur pick. That’s And he tagged you. You’re a real gambling expert. I’m so glad I don’t gamble. Unlike all you squares, betting against a team is an overreaction to the worst game they played because they look like dogish is square as handicap as they come. I mean, I lost to a team that had negative 10 passing yards. There’s no way the Broncos should not have covered that game. Like he threw the ball backwards, bro. Like he threw the ball. Justin Fields is disgusting football, bro. He plays disgusting football. It’s okay, bro. Uh, got any other good ones? You folks said a lot of never bet on an overseas game, all that kind of stuff. Honestly, like I was texting Bill and House during it and I was like, “My bad.” You know what I mean? Like, and they’re like, “You’re on the right side. This is ridiculous.” I was on the right side. The team had 80 yards. How do you lose? How do you not cover that game? F you, Sean Payton. That was terrible. It was terrible. Yeah, bro. If I would have told you before the game the Jets are going to have 85 yards and -10 passing yards, would you have bet your life on the Broncos? I would bet you the Broncos win like 27 to three. At one point in that game, the Broncos had 175 total yards and the Jets had one. And it was 10 to6. I mean, I was like, “All right, they finished they finished with 246 to 82 if that makes you feel better, bro. You should That doesn’t make you feel total football yards, bro.” And I lost. And you lost. Yeah. Yeah. That That’s a tough one. And I have to take the beating from the from the peanut gallery. From the peanut gallery. From the peanut gallery. Yeah. As it were. That’s pre-diabetic [ __ ] Blockhead is crazy. That is That is such a pre That’s actually a mean thing to say to somebody. Mad creative, too, bro. No, he’s mad. Not diabetic. No, pre pre I like blockhead. Coming with me. I like Blockhead. I think we need to bring back Call these people blockhead. What do you know, bud? Yeah. You say you like Blockhead, Roser? Yeah, we got to bring back Blockhead. All right. Blockhead should make a comeback. Uh the Dolphins, I mean, they just they can’t do they can’t win. Two ahead, a game-winning drive and then Justin Herbert shook off everybody on the Dolphins and threw a dot. How good. I mean, dude, Herbert, dude, he shook back. He sunned them like little boy, get off me. He did the Baker Mayfield before Baker yesterday. Yes. Yeah, he got a little too bad. And the Dolphin I mean the Dolphins. And then Tua is saying nobody’s held accountable and guys don’t show up late to players only meeting. I’m okay with two doing that because he did not name names. He didn’t name names. But like yo, are we going to take this serious? Are we going to take it serious or not? But I but I hope Tua I hope you kept that same energy with the players in the locker room. I hope you just didn’t go to the podium and do that cuz I saw a lot of I don’t think he’s a [ __ ] No, I think he’s the kind of guy that would You know what I mean? Okay. Yeah. Oo. All right. Loose. Day one. You you one hit away. Oo. Also on the depressed. Hey, thanks for telling me to draft the Ravens wins uh number one overall in my win streak. I told you to take the Bills. You did, Roser. I should have listened to you. I don’t know who’s going to get hurt, bro. I don’t know LJ. Oh. Oh. Oh. I thought there were 53 men on a roster. He’s an MVP for a reason. I thought there were 53 on a roster. I’ll have more on the Ravens tomorrow. Look, he is MVP for a reason. No, I I I don’t think players shave points, but you could convince me that Z Flowers had Rams minus 7. That second fumble was like very s doesn’t watch him anymore. He’s a player fan. What am I watching this? No. No. Rush got watch. Cooper Rush. I had to do it. Cooper Rush got benched. You think I want to watch Cooper? I mean, we have to My freaking defense is dismantled now and I still I got to watch it. You don’t Roser. I’m watching for Lamar Jackson, bro. I’m watching the LJ show. This is not the It’s not the Cooper Rush show. Yeah, they lost 17 to three to the Rams. LJ be back next week. Puka got hurt. Puka got hurt, too. LJ be back next week. That sucked. Yeah. Took a little little ding. So, now it’s But yeah, dude. Jackson Smith and Jude. Bro, we got to figure out a way to get more like to his visibility. Like people got to figure out more people need to know about how good he is. Who? Jackson Smith and Jacob. I mean like if you went down if you went down Bill and said that the numbers are you hating on him? Are you hating? Nobody cares about him. Do you pink Himalayan sea salt over there? Pink him sea salt. Sam Darnold. Jackson Smith and Jing. What? What? Yeah. Why do you hate Jackson Smith and Jingu? Yeah. What? 19 catches, 124 yards against my team and an L. Oh, I mean that was okay. Last play of the game. What is wrong with you? Last play of the game. Still took an L. Lame Hawks. Lame Hawks, by the way, at Lumen Field. Why you hating Jackson Smith and J? He plays for the Seahawks. Zidarius Smith decided he didn’t want to watch one more tush push and retired today from the Philadelphia Eagles. He said he said, “You know what? I can’t watch this.” I wouldn’t be surprised if Devonte Smith and AJ Brown Bryan retire too. Yeah. Can that happen? Say Quantu. Like what what are we even out here for? All we do is just run it up people’s asses like three times in a row. Scataboo did overshadow Thursday night them running a tush push. Four straight plays. Four play in a row. That is what that’s going to get it. I was like, “All right, one of the NFL is going to do the they’re going to pull the entertainment card.” Like, Jaylen, what are we doing, bro? Like, you there’s so many babble verses you can’t get out of this, bro. All these inspirational ass quotes and you see and you see the I can see the rainbow over there. Go look at Go look at Devonte Smith and AJ Brown on the sideline. Like, AJ Brown’s just like my whole career. I’d rather be a Titan again. What do you think? What do you think they say when Jaylen goes in the huddle? All I do is block. We run open without him throwing it to me. What do they say when he goes to the huddle? Be like, “Hey, tush on three. One, two, three.” Have you seen people break out the all 22s and how how often AJ Brown’s wide open? Giants game zone where he just like ran like a little post or whatever and he’s just and Jaylen is just looking to the left like AJ Brown is just wide open in the end zone. Bro, I’m telling you, bro. I’m tired of your inspirational quotes, bro. Throw me the damn football, bro. You are either handing it off, tush pushing, or shovel passing to Dallas Connor. It makes no sense how Jaylen Herds has some of these games like the Super Bowl last year where he looks like the most amazing quarterback in the NFL and these other games where it’s like why is this guy a starter in the league? Why? It’s I I respect game managers too, bro. But like at this point at this point, bro, it’s like Jaylen, you are finessing the game. You’re finessing the system. Yeah. S Jaylen Hersz, but but yeah, Zidarius Smith, their pass rusher, just retired this morning. I respect that. He just said, “I’m done.” Okay, that is bizarre. Look, bro, week six, he’s like, “Yeah, CTE definitely hit his brain.” At some point, the CTE kicks in. You like, I can’t take this no more. I’m tired of just talking about running into people. I’m tired of being on a treatment table after every game and before every game in practice throughout the week. I’m getting treatment. I’ve made my money. I don’t want to play. Exactly. I’m trying. 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I got two things, bro. Oh, uh, this weekend, uh, there’s two wrestling things cuz I’m a nerd. Uh, Crown Jewel was this weekend. What’s that? Uh, it was the the show they usually do overseas. Uh, they usually do like in like Saudi Arabia or stuff like that. Okay. It’s like a pay-per-view PL or they call it premium live events now. It’s a it’s a a thing. It’s a thing. They have now they have a crown jewel champion and everything. Oh. Uh but the the highlight of the weekend was cuz you know we’re on this John Cena retirement tour. There’s a crown jewel champion. Yeah. It’s it’s stupid. It’s so dumb. Like Seth Rollins showed up this morning with a crown jewel championship. Stupid as hell. Yeah. I I I money grab. Is that just me? 5sec rant. There are three belts. The heavyweight champion, the Intercontinental Champion, and the tag team champions. That’s it. Both sides, men’s and women, but there are three on each side. That’s it. Thank you. I clocked that, bro. We’re getting Everybody doesn’t get a belt. We are in the era. There’s no crown jewel champion. We’re in the era of too many belts and wrestling. I agree. There used to be What? Do they still have Universal? No blah blah blah. There’s 24/7. There’s there’s there’s speed. There’s there’s this champag. Do they have the European championship anymore? No. European champion is not a thing no more. Why do they have to call it crown jewel? Cuz they can’t call it the Saudi Arabian championship. It’s a money grab. Yeah. You get this is a money grab champ. Like a money grab. So it was Cody Rose versus Seth Rollins for the crown jewel championship. Seth Rollins won the match clock. That was That’s not beside the point. The the moment of the the pay-per-view was John Cena versus AJ Styles. Oh. If you are a wrestling fan, if you are a child, if you are anybody, this this is probably the dream match for you, bro. Cuz they wrestled that match like like I used to wrestle my cousins back in the day. Like they were doing everybody else’s finishers. Like Johnson was paying tribute to the Undertaker to Sting. There was a choke slam. There was He did the Sister Abigail. He caught AJ Styles and like kissed him on the forehead. Do I need to go back and watch it? Yo, it was amazing, bro. I need to watch it. Yes. after he after he did the the sister Abigail, everybody in the crowd put their flashlights up. Like it was like it was an insane insane match, bro. Like it was like I said, it was like a one of those matches back in the day where like they just having fun. Was this on ESPN? It was on ESPN. You can pay good old $29.99 to watch that bad boy. ESPN is Wait, they’re charging, bro. It’s I thought it was part of the subscription. You already have it? Huh? You already have the subscription? I have ESPN. You have ESPN Plus? Yeah. Okay, you’ll be good. Don’t Don’t you get I mean, did you pay the $29.99? I don’t know. I’d have to look. Yeah, go see it. Cuz uh I mean, I have all the games. Okay. You might be good. You might nah, you might have to pay a little extra. Yeah, my ESPN Plus ran out. I renewed it. I haven’t renewed it. Yeah, I had to like finesse it a little bit to watch it, but it it was still a thing cuz I won’t need it till Tiger basketball season. Oh, gotcha. Yeah. But no, it Cena AJ Styles probably one of the great probably one of the greatest matches Cena has put on in his career cuz he was legitimately having part of the farewell tour. Legitimately having fun and after the after the uh the match he goes to the goes down a ramp holds up four. He has four more dates left in his career. Oh wow. So the senior retirement tour. So it’s worth watching. It was 100% worth watching. I’ll check it out. Cena versus Styles. Uh and then I watch Bound for Glory. That’s other extra nerd stuff. But that was Bound for Glory. Yeah. TNA wrestling. Is there a is there a belt for that? Uh Leon Slater and uh my boy Javon Evans put on a a fivestar banger. Is our guy Joe Hendry in it? Uh no, no, he’s WWE. No, he’s So WWE bought TNA. Bought TNA. So he So everybody can cross over now because AJ Styles did TNA like a couple of weeks ago. AJ Styles even came out his old TNA gear for the match with John Cena. Oh, he did. Yeah. I believe in Johre. Yeah, there you go. But no, Javon Evans. Remember these two names, Javon Evans and Leon Slater. Remember those two names? They’re TNA guys. They are Javon Evans is NXT. Uh Leon Slater is the Exivision Champion in TNA. The what? X division champion. The What is the X division? It’s a TNA thing. It’s a It’s a TNA thing. But enough with the belt. Remember those two names though, bro. They’re they’re they’re both like I think 21 22 years old. They wrestled a fivestar match at Bound for Glory. Everybody’s looking forward to it. The ending was crappy, but those two dudes are going to be legitimate superstars in the next like five, two years. Got anything? No. You didn’t watch anything? I mean, I No football. I don’t think I did like anything new. Like I I watched football and played with my sports cards. Leave me alone. I did not play with sports cards. That was like two weekends ago. Um I was pricing my sports cards. What did you do this weekend? I I was pricing my sports cards. Did I watch any show? I was priced. I watched I went out to Nash Cards and priced my sports cards and then I guess you did. No, I didn’t. Guarantee you did. No, I didn’t. I didn’t go out there. What? Did you leave your house this weekend? Did I leave my house this weekend? It broke. It’s been It was two days ago. Yeah. I’m trying to think. Saturday did I leave my house? Yesterday I did cuz I didn’t get home till like 1:45 yesterday. A.M. No. P.M. P. Saturday. I just played with my sports cards all day. I priced them. I got a lot of new stuff up on eBay. I went to the gym Saturday morning and there like am I the only person that leaves their house now out of this group? I watched I tell No, I tell you I watched uh I watched I played golf. Oh, okay. All right. I watched uh the the Ta or Task on HBO. I’m not totally It’s awesome. I’m not caught up at all. I’m on through I’m through the first episode. I just don’t remember it. The show is awesome. Okay. It is. That’s a good one. It’s like It’s like Ozark in the Town. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It’s cool. Maybe I’ll have to check it out. By the way, I forgot to mention in that TNA preview, Hardy Boys and Doug the Boys wrestled the last match ever. Oh, that was the main event. They should have had their last match 10 years ago. I was going to say 20. I mean, come on. No smud on the Hardy Boy. What are you talking about? No on the Hardy. Nobody wants to watch them wrestle anymore, bro. Jeff Hardy did a freaking Swan off a ladder. Okay, Jeff. But the rest of those three, come on. They even brought out Spike Dudley. Matt Hardy was here for wrestling night. Yeah. Delete, delete, delete. Oh, that’s right. He was, which is so weird. Okay. Uh I want to because um I don’t have anything to contribute on the what I watch outside of sports. I’m gonna contribute something that we didn’t earlier which are the preseason is going on and though we have not seen them you mentioned PJ Hall’s dunk up Porzingis we haven’t had like some amazing highlights that have taken place in our games there have been three amazing posters in the preeason already. We will go one by one. Okay, let’s power rank these bad boys. All right. First, Wendel Moore, who is now he who was a Timberwolf. He’s a Timberwolf. Yeah. And no, he’s a Celtic now. Really? Duke kid, right? Yeah, he was a Duke kid. Came in at the end. Okay. All right, Verer. I I would have to fight you, bro. Why the hell are you dunking on me with 30 seconds left? Oh, that’s Scallabrine. And they’re up by 20 seconds. Yeah, I’m I’m fighting you, bro. Red Mamba. by me. But this is a good that’s a good that’s a good dunk. This is a good dunk for a little guy. Yeah, this is a good dunk by Wendell Moore. Yeah, but I had to fight you. I mean, it’s preeason. Look at Wow. Yeah, that’s a He cranked that for sure. Jonathan Kaminga. Oh, come on. With that weak ass white t-shirt on. Yeah. Nobody’s looking more pastier than Jake Laia in an all white uniform and a white t-shirt. What is break? What is Jake doing? Yeah. If you’re the white guy, you can’t go with the t-shirt under it. Looks very sixth grade, fifth grade like basketball. Defend your guy. Defend your guy. Roser, what is he doing? Oh no. You can’t get Come on. You can’t get cracked on like that. He didn’t foul him. No three-point play opportunity. Okay, so obviously uh Jake Laoravia didn’t help us for the culture, but Johnny Fury did. Okay, this is this is probably the best one. Johnny Murphy, this is the best one, dude. He had the one in summer league this year. This is the best one. And now Oh my, dude. His dunks are so good. Yeah, he’s with He’s with us. Johnny Fury. Gosh, dude. It ain’t just a lightweight. He cranked that mud. Why are his dunks so awesome, bro? Play that back, Jaylen. He got that Noah Asang or whatever in Summer League. Remember the guy that made the weird face? The guy for the Bulls. Look at Bro, he he Johnny. He like chucked it down on people. Three great ones, man. That’s the best one though. Three great posters so far in the preseason. And we got layups. I mean, we can’t touch the net. PJ Hall dunked on Porzingis. Roser. The dude dunked on towards ACO. Why didn’t PJ Halls dunk on here? I mean, don’t try to glaze PJ Hall. Now, at the end, what did you say Friday? What’ you say Friday? Hall, you have my respect. This is what h this is what happened. I was going through, we were we were breaking down the game that I missed the Detroit game, remember? And I said, “All right, I just want your first impressions on these.” And I said, “PJ Hall and Roser said, “No.” I mean, it’s still a no, but he told me to eat crap by that dunk. I was impressed with the dunk. Yeah, he did. I did. I did see him mouth the words, “F you, Roser.” After you dunk that. After he dunked it. Yeah, he said, “F you, Roser.” After he dunk, he poo. He learned from Santi. Yeah, exactly. Shout out Johnny Fury, man. I’m making a hoot. Number seven. All right, so Memphis has moved up into uh a better range on the AP top 25. They are 22. They’re up to what? 20 on the coaches poll, right? Yeah, 20 on the coach’s poll. uh as far as the way the rest of it went. Boy, I tell you this, here’s another one that might need to watch out and that’s uh Shiron Moore at Michigan. Yeah. So, they’re one and two against power four conference opponents and uh that are uh I’m one and two with if the power conference opponent has a record over 500, right? He is now 11 and seven since he I mean that was an impossible job to take over after winning the title and Harbaugh leaving. But top 25 back up. They’re not going to have 11 and seven very long. Yeah. Uh and of course they dropped out of the uh top 25. USC climbed back into the AP poll. They are at number 20. um couple of uh Big 12 teams, you know, it’s kind of like uh it seems like Texas Te Texas is going to be carrying the torch because Arizona State, I felt bad for them. They had to play without Sam Levit, so they got killed. And then Iowa State losing at Colorado. Yeah. Um they all kind of cannibalized themselves and so both of them uh fell out of it uh in the top 25. But I mean uh Indiana got three first place votes after they beat Oregon. Probably should get more honestly. When do you think the last time Indiana was number one in football? I mean, when was the last time? I’ll say never. Football was I’ll say Indiana has never been number one. They probably never This might be their highest ranking ever. Indiana football has never been number one, but the highest they’ve been ranked is right now number three. Yeah, that’s what I’d guess. Yep. This is the highest ever they’ve been ranked. Uh they had their best seasons of football according to the Daily Hooch Verno. The best things of football were 1945 and 1967. Golly. All right. Well, this is what it sets up this weekend in terms of top 25s. We do have a Friday night game, which is Louisville’s only lost one game. They’re 4-1 and they play against Miami. So, that gets that’s pretty good. Uh, but then this weekend 11:00 a.m. we’re going to have LSU and Vandy, which is a really good game at Vandy. Vanderbilt’s favored by two and a half. Is that true? Vy’s favored. They were yesterday. Last night they were. As of last night, they were. Then we have uh Old Miss and Georgia is I mean that’s two top tens that are playing against each other. That’s a 230 game. Georgia’s minus six and a half. Then uh Tennessee Bama at the night cap along with Notre Dame USC which could that’s probably a knockout game playoff knockout game. The USC Notre Dame game. Tennessee. Do you know what the line is that game? Alabama Tennessee. I’d say probably like maybe I’d say Bama like six, eight and a half. Eight and a half and then nine nine and a half on nine and a half on ESPN. I when I saw that I was like because of the Arkansas thing that feels probably cuz it was a squeaker. I mean and 3431 against Arkansas was not very impressive. It was Ed Neand they were struggling the whole game. Yeah, right. Agar was struggling. Uh Auburn Missouri could end up being a pretty good game as well. Could be. Auburn is got some good games. We got some really good ones. We got We got a We got an awesome 11:00, an awesome 2:30, and an awesome 6:30. Uh, and we got the Holy War tonight at the Holy War at 7, huh? We got the Holy War Utah BYU at 7:00. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the Holy War, bro. That’s what me and Rose were talking about. We thought game day. I know we got Old Miss Georgia, but it’s like maybe cuz game day is going to Big 10 or SEC programs every week. So, that’s why I’m still holding out, but BYU Utah is a Fox game, right? Yeah, it’s a Fox game. Yeah. Okay, that’s true. So maybe they wouldn’t go there cuz it’s Fox. That’s true. That makes sense. Got support. Is there a drone behind you? Yeah, they just put down a new banner, I think, Rosie. Oh, okay. Drone. Yeah, there’s a drone right out there outside. All right. Well, this actually going to be a really good weekend coming up. Tennessee, Bama, Miss Georgia, and LSU Vandy are all bangers. That’s three really, really good ones. Vandy’s they dro They’re not in the top 25, huh? Oh, is there 17? So that’s 17 versus 10 on uh LSU Vandy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Really good. Three ranked SEC games. Auburn opened minus one and a half against Missouri, but it’s flipped the exact opposite way now. Missou’s favorite game. And it’s that Jordan hair at night, too, bro. Yeah. Number eight, we got the Major League Baseball playoffs. Uh congratulations to the Mariners. My god, what a story they are. First, they won in 15 innings against the Tigers and then did you guys see all that stuff? like they couldn’t even they couldn’t get to the game in Toronto. Their travel got destroyed and like they couldn’t get there and like it was a mess. And then they had this quick turnar around and then they won 3 to one in game one. And by the way, they played game two today at 4 p.m. We’re too far into this for them to be playing 4:00. We need to be like 6:00, 7:00 prime time. I swear to God. Yeah, I see it. 4 game specifically 4:03 p.m. This just says 4:03 p.m. Baseball CS. Yeah, Major League Baseball loves people not seeing their games. For real. Crazy. 4:03 p.m. Why are they doing this? Dodgers Brewers is at 7:08 p.m. Are you doing it cuz it’s Columbus Day and a bunch of stuff is shut down? People hate People hate that guy. Who? Christopher Columbus. They do. They’re not rolling with Christopher Columbus. The streets ain’t rolling with Christopher, bro. He got they roll away. He got retroactively cancelled a thousand years later. They packing him up, bro. Our whole childhood. Nobody can thousand years later. They cancelled. Everybody said Christopher Columbus. He’s a dirt bag. They’re like f Christopher Columbus. Isn’t there a statue of him at Marquette Park in town? I don’t know. There is. I think it’s a I think it might not be. I’m pretty sure it is Christopher Columbus. Don’t tell the Midtowners, that Roser. Oh yeah, they going to be in that mud. No, they got other stuff to protest. Yeah, there’s Yeah, are they still mad? Are they still mad at Grock? Huh? Are they or were they done protesting? I think I think they’re mad. Where they moved on to? I think I think they’re mad at our safety. By the way, speaking of safety, I saw I saw one of the wildest fights of all time on Bill. You did, bro. It was insane. I’m going to see you on the video. Was it National Guard versus Delinquent? No, my question is where the hell was the National Guard? Where were they? These dudes are brawling. It actually was a dude with no draws on and jeans and a girl with a thong on on Bill Street brawling on like where the all these national night on the video. It is hysterical. A girl in a th A dude should not be fighting a girl. That’s weird show. is a girl in the girls. The girls in a th and the dude his has jeans on with no draws and they’re scrapping on Bill Street. I’m going see y’all the video after the show. I kind of wish I still went out. Then this other dude, this other dude was getting beat up and the girl’s like, “Leave him alone.” And she’s like, “Get his shoes. He left his I’m going to see you on the video.” I tell you that fist fights are and I stand by this every I would be I am totally in favor of fist fights. Me, too. Oh, that’s not more fist fights. I have more fist fights. That’s not our problem. Just don’t bring the straps. I am not un I am not unafraid to be around fist fights. I’ve seen my fair share. Sure. Yeah. I mean, of course, anytime you’re going anywhere where a bunch of people are drunk, somebody’s going to fight. Yeah. Scrap it all you want. We can’t have people getting shot over it. Yeah. Just don’t be That’s where I draw the line. We’re not stabbing each other. We’re not shooting each other. But fight like people do. Brawl it out. People fight. Yeah. But no, but I don’t know about chicks fighting. But I’m telling when I when I seen y’all this video, y’all y’all going to laugh out loud. Okay. Like, by the way, like I said, where the hell the National Guard is at? They picking up trash and [ __ ] taking photos of people. Stop these people from fighting on Bill Street. Oh, you’re allowed to fight. Yeah. But but then again, the people going to see the headlines cuz I think that dude stole the girl’s keys and it was a headline that stole his key. Stole her keys. Like I’m going send y’all to Does he know where her car is? Is he just going to run around hitting the button? Look, any anytime you can describe me that kind of stuff and it sounds like a mory episode, I’m fine. Oh, it does not look like real. No, I know. But that’s fine. That’s not what I’m worried about. You worry about people pulling the strap, buddy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just don’t want people pulling out guns. Yeah. I’m going to send y’all to driving 150 mph down Maine. I will say we haven’t seen that at all. None. Or the interstate. No, that’s done. 10 and two. 10 and two, bro. 240 has been a dream. Yeah. I don’t know where these guys went, but the Fast and the Furious are not out. Oh, they’re at the crib, buddy. There’s not one time I don’t drive downtown that somebody is not going 150 on 240 and I have not. It’s so weird. Have the street racers finally stopped meeting at the uh the Exxon up here? You know what they’ve done street? We finally learned to be a real city. Like we’ve we’ve all been out in real like in different cities from Nashville’s to the LA to the Phoenix’s. You put cops on side streets. That’s it. The street racers want to be on side streets. If you put the cops on side streets, none of it happens. One way in, one way out. Downtown’s been seamless. People a little bit scared to go out a little bit. I could tell cuz I I’ve been out the last couple weekends. People it ain’t been like as vibrant downtown, right? But like one way in, one way out. Make it so easy. Shots to y’all, man. Yep. uh playing. Uh so anyway, that game two is today at four o’clock and then game one of the Dodgers uh vers the Brewers is tonight. So NLCS is going uh does not get underway until this evening at 7:00. Number nine, here’s Devin’s chance. Your girl, my girl, the girl, she won the Asia Wilson and Las Vegas boy. How funny was that? You see all those girls from the when I score and I hit you see all the girls u that win this championship and then they give it to bull cutup Mark Davis. I mean and Kathy Elberg got booed. Oh god she got so booed. Yeah. And the commissioner like walked out there all like and they’re looking at her like why are you here? By the way Mark Davis by the way shout out to him that we talk about an investment right when he bought the team in 2022. The aces were worth $3 million. They’re worth I want to make sure I get this number right. I want to make sure I get this number right. I want to say 500 million, but I don’t want to I don’t want I don’t want to overexagger. I want to make sure I get this number right. Yeah. No, it is it’s like something like that. So, look, he bought the team in 2021. The Aces were worth $2 million. The Aces value today $300 million. Unbelievable. So, wow. Super returns investment. That’s crazy. You got the best player of all time. And then when they got four four titles, three titles in four years. Three and four. Three and four. And Asia Wilson just finished the greatest season in WNBA history. WNBA MVP, WNBA defensive player of the year, WBA Finals MVP, scoring champion, blocks champion, allstar starter, all defensive first team, all WNBA first team, and WNBA champion. And shoot signature shoe drop. Unbelievable. Like they I saw I saw this weekend. It made me Now again, I don’t know the ins and outs of this. Probably need to talk to Jiren’s mom whenever she’s around if she’s still involved. She is. But uh did you see that front office sports thing about the proposal from the WNBA said like the the max contract is going to go up to like 850? I was like whoa. You didn’t see that? No, I didn’t see that. I might tap. I didn’t see. It was like a super the super max, right? Like so the equivalent of like the Asia Wilsons and the CS or whatever. But that it was going to go up to like 850 on the and like the and the and the like I just when I saw the numbers they posted I’m almost positive it was Front Office Sport uh that posted it over the weekend. Um I saw it I believe on Instagram if I’m not mistaken, but they were they had like a little chart of kind of what they Oh, here we go. M WNBA supermax close to $850,000 in proposed CBA. Oh, I see now. Yeah. And it says, “According to multiple sources with direct knowledge and negotiations, the WNBA’s latest proposal does not uh does not include a supermax salary at or exceeding a million in the first year of the deal. The current super max is $249,000 and the vet minimum is 78,000. salary cap in 2025 was 1.5 uh per team and it says is scheduled to slightly increase. Um and it says we strongly agree with the players that they deserve to be paid more money and participate in the success and growth of the league. A WNBA spokesman said and it said that the uh I guess the super max I mean uh let’s see what it goes to now. 300 is what you would cap out at. And yeah, they’re going to It would go to 850. Yeah, they have a little lockout. Hu They might not. They might not. I hope they don’t. I hope they don’t. That’s That’s a big jump. I like that, though. Yeah. I mean, then the minimum salary would jump from 30 grand to 75, I think, is what they’re saying. Yeah, I see it. I see the story now. Yeah. Yeah, I see the story now. So maybe maybe maybe maybe they will actually come to terms on something. Yeah. It would be horrible for them to stop and not play a season and then have LeBron and Maverick Carter come in and steal all of them. That could really happen. What? By the league. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no. Their Saudi thing. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. You know what I mean? Like the barnstorming thing. I mean you could make an absolute fortune. I I I’m not worried about NBA players leaving. Jaylen Brown’s getting paid 70 something million dollars, right? You’re not Yeah. Like they get money. The NBA pays big time for the stars, but this you walk in with $1.5 million, you know, $2 million for these players, you could take them all. Yeah. You can take them all, bro. They ain’t, you know what I mean? And to play less. Yeah. And pack out arenas all over the world. Like I would be worried on the female side much more than the male side in terms of like that LeBron idea of the overseas thing. Yeah. Shout out to my Aces, man. you at at at on August 3rd, Verno, the Aces were 14 and 14. They had lost by 50 points to the Minnesota Leings and they won what? 17. They won 24. They went ended the season 24 and three. But they won 17 in a row. 17 in a row. Ended the season 24 and three. Won the WA title. Shout out to the Aces, dog. My My gear’s on the way right now. It is. Yeah, bro. I bought my championship t-shirt that night off the Nike app, man. We rocking it, man. Number 10 tonight. Okay, so here I get to complain and feel old again. I I hate two Monday night football games. There’s two. Yes. Again, we got Buffalo Atlanta. We got the Bears and the and the Commanders. That’s nasty. And they start an hour apart. 6:15 to 7:15. Oh, hey, wait till you see Hey, wait till you see this one. Go look at next Monday Night Football. Go look at the early game and how awesome it is. And then the late game and tell me who’s tuning into that one. We got Bucks Bucks Lions for 6 p.m. and then Texan Seahawks at 9:00. Yeah, ESPN, that’s for you. Bucks Lions is lit. Banger. But after that, dude. Texan Seahawks. Oh, that’s when the world can find out about our guy. Who? JNS. JS. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They can finally learn about Nobody’s Nobody’s staying up. Nobody’s going to be awake for that on a Monday night. Buffalo, Atlanta, and Chicago and Washington tonight. And then and then we also have the NLCS on the other channel. So that’s going to be the Dodgers and the Brewers. Uh tap into that in the first game of the NLCS to decide who’s going to go to the World Series. So got actually great sports are Buffalo’s good. Yeah, that’s a good game. And Bear Bears Commanders could it’s possible. It’s possible. You never know with those on the side screen, bro. You never know with those two team. Yeah, some pop off and pop off. Yep. Also, there is uh this is nothing to do with tonight, but the World Cup, you know, it’s here next year. Not in Memphis, but it’s in America. It’s in the United States. It’s in North America. Never thought it was going to happen. I think we’re going to get one of the best soccer players in the world. He’s never played in the World Cup, but it looks like Norway is going to make the World Cup. Erling Holland, who has literally won like everything you can win on the European level, okay, Norway is going to make the World Cup. They have to beat Estonia. Their goal differential is insane right now. He just had another hat-tick over the weekend in a game against Israel. They won five to nothing. But it appears like he’s won he’s won the Premier League Erling Holland. He’s won the Premier League at Man City. He’s been the best player. Won the golden boot there. He’s won the Champions League. Been the best player in the championship. He’s like 26 27 years old. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, he Dude, he’s You think Trevor Lawrence looking like a chick? Yeah, he’s uh How old is he? ugly. He’s 25 years old. This is an ugly son of man. Yeah, he’s Yeah, dude. No, he’s might be a creature. Might be a creature. Like a creature, but he’s one of the best soccer players in the world looking and he’s going to Norway’s only been in three World Cups ever. And it looks like they’re going to make their fourth. He’s lock. By the way, if y’all want a classic jersey, the classic Grizzly jerseys are not in the team store. They are? Yeah. I got a text about it. Do we have Cedric Coward jerseys? Uh, I heard you can get the little blank. You can get the blanks. I think screen printed. We don’t want blanks. We want them printed on. Well, I’ll let them know that y’all want them to be We want the We want the printed junks. The black jerseys are in though. Yes, the black jerseys. Black jerseys are now in. They’re in. I got to I got a uh I got a text about it that they’re now in the team store. They also got some more some more classic gear has been dropped over the store. Look at this one. Yeah, it’s Erling Holland. Yeah. Come on, bro. He kind of looks like one of the dudes in that second Matrix movie. Hey, bro. You got B Awesome at soccer. He’s awesome at soccer. You can get You probably He probably got a bad model waiting on him, but that’s he does. He look like a man some out of a ET show. Not already. It’s going to do it for today’s show. Thanks to Deon Walker, thanks to John Roser across the glass. Thanks to Jaylen back in the studio. We will be back tomorrow. Odds couple coming up next. New stuff. Look at that. I That’s me. I’m going I’m walking literally to Gary’s studio to do that. Nobody asked. Nobody asked. I’m just telling. Watch uh Rob Fischer and The Odds Couple with Lang Whitaker, Rob Fischer. Uh coming up next, not John Roser. Okay, show’s over.
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7 comments
GRIZZ gotta give the fans something to look forward too. No winning culture has been shown
FIRE KLEIMAN
Def 10 guys that cant touch the net! 😂💯
Brian Callahan Loss the locker room about a month ago….Amy and Brinker finally pull the trigger. Now there's hope….
TitanUp
Whenever I need insight on my Grizzlies I tune Into these guys
Don't give up on GG ya'll. It'll be worth all the frustration were seeing today. I believe in you Gregory!
Why is dev always commenting on dudes look? Talking all the grizz who need a new barber and now Haaland. Weird.