Grizzlies/Kings, NBA Injuries, Memphis/Purdue, Lane Kiffin’s Teleconference | Chris Vernon Show
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Today on the show, Grizzlies got a home game tonight playing against the reeling Sacramento Kings in a showdown at FedEx Forum. We’ll give you reasons to hate the Sacramento Kings. We’ll pick our sky dog of the game. It’s been a while since they have been in the home arena. Memphis Tigers have a huge game against Purdue today on the college basketball slate. We will get to all of the news and notes of the day. Brian Edwards from Vegas Insider joins us on Thursdays. It’s a Thursday. It’s cold and rainy, but smile. Let’s do it. Turn it up. [Music] Won’t you do what feels right? Instead of waiting for the next big thing to stop running your mouth. Get out of the house. Get yourself down and sh [Applause] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hope everybody’s having a good day. All right. But to get to on the show today, not the least of which is the Grizzlies are having a home game at FedEx Forum tonight against the Sacramento Kings. got bad news yesterday about the events of this evening, but it’s the first time in a while that we have seen the Grizzlies on their home floor after a terrible road trip. Before I get to anything, I welcome John Roser to the show. John Roser aka the Cologne Ranger, the body spray bandit in your sack, Johnny Bag, Johnny Bearhead, the Grim Roser, John Asarag, Johnny Necar, John Lance, he’s Yogi Roser, he’s Dr. Thunder. He’s John the Polloo. He’s John Sweeney. Oh, John. What it do? What it do? It’s good to be back. We really missed you yesterday. Did you? I don’t think you did. Devin Walker’s here. He’s the microphone mangler. Senor Quasadilla, Mr. Matt, Navajo, the reporter, the photographer. He s 93. What up good people? Well, hey, I want to give a shout out to my uncle Steve Terrell, the head coach of East High School, getting his first dub as a East High coach yesterday. Oh. Over KJ Lawson in Hamilton. Wow. KJ Lawson’s the head coach of Hamilton. I was at the East game last night. It was lit. First game. We got a couple little highlights right here. Shout out to East man. Like Dedrick’s brother. Dedric’s brother. Yeah, he’s the head coach at Hamilton. Not their dad. The dad’s not there. How old is he, bro? He’s [ __ ] I mean, are we How old are we? Golly, I saw KJ Lawson play as like a junior high. No, for real. He lost 20 29. Holy macker. Now he’s head coach in Hamilton. He coached against my uncle last night. So old. My uncle got the dub. Him and his his East High East High squad, bro. It was a packed game, bro. It was lit. Uh his point guard number zero. He’s the one to watch, bro. I don’t know his name, but he was cold. East versus Hamilton. East versus Hamilton. It was lit last night. What was the score? Final score was 70 7367 I believe. He’s got up 20. He’s got up 20. They let go of the rope. Hamilton put some pressure. By the way, they came out in the Young Dolph warm-ups, bro. Hamilton. They came out. It says Dolph on the back. King of Memphis on the front. The Dolph. Wow. Hamilton High School. Yeah. It was lit last night, man. I’m going to try to tap into cuz last night like I’m trying to go to games like not not just like East, but like the high school basketball like being in them environments. Yeah, bro. It’s lit, yo. If it’s a big game. Yeah, it was. It’s lit. Even like that. If it’s just parents, it’s not that. No, no, it’s not that lit. No, no, no. But if it’s like an environment, the students are going and Yeah. And every and it’s like a big game. Yeah. Every shot goes up. It’s like you I’m like, “Yeah, but this is this is a different There’s certainly a different energy.” And I think you probably valued it more given what we’ve been experiencing. I know, right? The basketball games we’ve been at have not had the requisite energy. Well, that all changes tonight. Does it? No. How is There’s a lot of high energy down at the hustle game yesterday. We had kids. Yeah, we had we had That’s what we need to do. We need to just bust in 6,000 kids. That’s what they did. Put them all in the bowl. It works. It works. I will tell you. I mean, we lost kids. They know I mean these are like eight-year-olds. They know every They know Young Boy. Oh, of course they do. They They know Rod Wave. They absolutely They know Finesse two times. Y they know Glow fork. They know Glow. Yep. Yep. They were doing the Yeah. Glow. That one. Whatever song that is. They were doing that before the game. It’s called It’s called uh Yeah. Glow. Oh, it is. All right. All right. So, you were calling the hustle game. That’s how you weren’t here yesterday. There’s nobody from the No like two-ways or anything. We’re playing for the hustle yesterday, right? Okay. You just had the hustle squad. Who plays for uh Rio Grand Valley? Anybody good? Yes. Uh, and they didn’t even have like three of their best guys yesterday. They didn’t even have them. This is the Rockets. The Rockets. Yeah, the Rockets. They keep some dudes on. They always got a squad. Oh, really? So, their two-way that wasn’t there was JD Davidson. He wasn’t there. What in the world? Yeah, he wasn’t there. And then he was in that Celtics organization and was like great in the G- League. You also have former I always thought he was going to be good coming out of Bama. He scored against us last year when he played for Maine. high. Last time I saw him, he had gained 40 lbs of muscle. Oh, yeah. He been putting up huge like, yo, slow down on that upper body. Yeah. I don’t know if they’ll have him Friday. They may have him Friday, but they didn’t have him yesterday. Uh they also did not have Vernon Kerry. He’s on their team. They did not have him. And they also did not have who is averaging, I think, 34 points a game, Ricky Councel. Oh, wow. A bucket, too. Yeah, they didn’t have him either. Vern Vern Florida, right? Yeah, he’s a McDonald all-American Harris. Oh, who played at Stephen F. Austin. Um he’s on a two-way with them. They had Isaiah Crawford who’s on a two-way who he did not play great yesterday, but he won a title with Stockton last year in the G-League. And then they had Dean Nicks, who came from the Ignite. He was part of the Ignite who is a straightup scorer. They also have former Grizzly Timmy Allen’s brother Teddy Allen who was oh my god on fire yesterday. Teddy Allen. Yeah, he scored 38 I think. 38 yesterday. I hope I hope he makes it. We need a Teddy. There’s been no Teddy. Dude, don’t look. It’s an extinct name, bro. People ain’t naming that kid or Teddy no more. I think it needs to come back. No, it does not, bro. Leave it where it is, bro. No, no, no. It needs to make a comeback. No. The last Ted I know is that damn bear. Huh? The last Ted I acknowledge is that damn bear. The bear. Yeah. The little bear from that movie. Yeah. Yeah. But like him. But Teddy is a good name. No, it’s not. Yes, it is. Yeah. Teddy Pendergrass. Yeah. Teddy Pentagram. He’s from the 1970s. Yeah. Teddy. I’m talking about things that need to make a comeback. The name Teddy. We’re leaving the name Teddy where the hell it is. Teddy’s a good name. Teddy makes me happy. Like when I say if I have a What’s up, Teddy? Like I think I I find it very difficult for a guy named Teddy to be a prick. Well, this guy this guy got kicked out of like four schools. I stand corrected. I don’t know if it was but he might be an [ __ ] I stand corrected. Look at his like you look at his like or whatever and it’s like he scored like 41 points when he was at Nebraska and then like a month later he was off the team. Hey, you got Teddy Swims, bro. Teddy also. Yeah. And good vibes. Great music. Good vibes. Teddy Swims. Yeah. Great music. That’s That’s a Br. He’s the last Teddy. Bring back Teddy. Uh they’re I love D. Dan Nick is the guy. I mean, we got a thousand Jaylen’s just not the same thing. Mix in a Teddy. Mix in a Teddy. Mix in a Teddy. If I have a son, every kid cannot be named Jaylen. Hey, the way the way if I have a son, I’ll name him Teddy. Leave it. No. There you go. Teddy Roser is a great name. Teddy sounds like a president. Teddy Roservelt. Easy Halloween costume. Teddy Roosevelt is perfect. Be Teddy. Teddy Roosevelt. Yeah. Teddy Roosevelt. The first American to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize. How about that? Like we could check it. I mean, you just say it. You just say it anyway. I know. I looked at it last night. Oh, okay. I looked at it last night. Well, all right. The Grizzlies are playing against the Sacramento Kings tonight. Now, yesterday we got bad news. Grizz PR hits us with the doubtful on Jiren Jackson Jr. with his ankle sprain uh that he did while was just jogging back down the court. I mean, it’s unbelievable. Uh played the rest of the game in San Antonio and had a couple days. So, I don’t know. But I was like doubtful really. The Sacramento Kings, we have felt really down in the dumps about the way this has all started, right? This has been a bad start to a season to say the least. But not as bad as them. They fell to three and 12 for their worst record through 15 games since they were 2 and13 in 1990. Dang. Do you think about how many sorry teams the Kings had? I was actually kind of surprised by that. 1990 teams the I was like I was like wow. You got to go all the way back, you know what, 35 years for them to have had a season start as bad as this. Okay, this team was so buns. They have had some bad teams though, De had some bad. I would have thought they two and 13 or one and 14. Definitely possible. Well, especially would they go 16 years without the playoffs? Yeah, before they broke that streak like three years ago, right? Yeah, it’s like 16 or 17 years before they made the playoffs again. So, I mean, through the course of all of that, they never started out the first 15 games three and 12. Light the beam’s one of the coolest things. And they never get to do it. Like, I know they ruined that, bro. Yeah, they ruined their vibes. Like, we talked about that. They ruined their vibes. They had it. They had the vibes, bro. Tyresese Hallebertton Fox and now they got none of them. I know it. Now they got a bunch of Yeah. No, they mid-range jumpers. And so, anyways, they’ve started off three and 12. So, I mean, that is pretty tough spot, too, right? I mean honestly if you would have taken you just take back a few years ago take a snapshot of the way we were feeling the way the Kings were feeling on the up and up bro I mean this stuff can change so fast that’s why you got to change the moments man right and obviously a lot of it has to do with injuries you know this has been I don’t know if you guys have noticed but certainly through uh it sucks that we’re 15 games into the season and not only with the home team but also leaguewide The topic dour has certainly been injuries. Tom Habberstro is chronicling it on a nightly basis and as of last night um I want to get the number right so I don’t misquote him. Uh it was 55% play percentage is what he had. 16 stars what he said were star players. 16 were playing and 13 were out in just last night’s games and the night before it was under 60% as well. I mean that it says star players are missing twice as many games as they did a year ago. So it’s not just rash of injury, it is who those injuries have been to. Um, and then one of the things that I saved was the entire discussion brings into consideration the physical nature of the NBA, the speed at which it’s played. Teams are playing the fastest pace since 8889, and the players have combined to travel 34.3 miles according to an ESPN report. It’s the longest average distance since player tracking began in 2013. And so what we’re having is these discussions everywhere about what’s happening with these players and soft tissue injuries and everything else. And one of the things that dawned on me last night as I was watching things and and we have had our uh gripes about a new philosophy, you know, with the Grizzlies and the amount of players they’re playing understanding, right? like that when they’re saying the short, medium, and long term, it’s not only to keep guys healthy, but be able to play at this break neck pace in short spurts and whatever else, right? And one of the things that people are talking about is the way the game is played, close outs. Uh Tim Ko wrote about closeouts today, closeout percentage, like you know, guys coming back and having to close out on three points. So the distance you cover on a court is greater. And also, you know, then there’s people that opine about the conditioning of it all and whether or not there are like for many many years that it’s it’s not necessarily comparable to years or decades past because one of the things that we know is that even when we were growing up, everybody played every sport and so you were then using all manner of different muscles all the And I do think there is something to this, right? That if you we we’ve talked about how much basketball these guys have played by the time they get to the NBA. So this idea of miles, but also I think there is something Alasa brought this up and I do think there is something probably to that. I I mean I don’t know the science behind it, but I’m just saying if you’re using only the same muscles over and over and over again, right? It made me immediately think of pitchers, right? So many of those guys, you were like, “How can this guy throw 50,000 complete games and all that, right? He was throwing, they’re throwing 150 pitches on back to backs and now every young pitcher has an arm surgery, all of them.” And it’s like, you know, number of pitches that they threw and the workload, right? Like, and we talked about it for so many years, like we we we’ll joke about like Todd Gurley or whoever else and we’ll be like, “That guy like there’s only so many miles, right?” And then it’s gone, right? It’s gone. And it’s like, is there just so many miles and it’s the only thing they play? Like these kids now don’t play. They don’t play baseball. They don’t play and and we know, right? Whether it was Michael Jordan or it was Tom Brady or it was uh Wayne Gretzky or you can go on and on and on. You think about the go they all played multiple sports. All of them. Like they talk about this. They talk about how they think they they always encourage kids like don’t just play one sport, play the multiple sport, but now every kid not only are they playing basketball, they’re working with trainers every day like you know what I mean and maybe they’re wearing out. The other thing is I do buy the whole speed of the game thing. And one of the things that dawned on me last night as I was just reading these articles and thinking about this because this has become the talk everywhere cuz it’s like all these soft tissues like it’s everywhere everywhere. Every team it’s like dude what is going on. So over the years everybody always it’s a copycat league and best practices are then taken from the best play best teams right so we sit there and we go well this team won or this team had some success and then you see all all of a sudden there’s all kinds of teams mimicking that right so they say oh well now we need multiple ball handlers or we need to play fast or we need to do this or we need to do that Right? Like back in the day when you knew you had to get past Kobe and Shaq, it didn’t even matter if the if the if the sevenfooter couldn’t even run, you knew you needed to have multiple of them because you were going to face Sha in the playoffs and at minimum you were going to need 15 fouls against him, right? So, I mean, even if you were a bum, you got to keep your job just because somebody was going to employ you cuz size was the thing, right? You knew you were playing Shaq, you knew you were playing Elijah, you knew you were playing, you knew who you were going to have to be in order to get there, right? So anyways, I think one of the things that people looked at, and again, I haven’t gone in depth on on this, so I’m just I’m just telling you what I’ve been thinking. Yeah. So what did we hear all off season, right? Speed, speed, speed, speed, speed, speed all around the league. Speed speed. It wasn’t just us, right? Everybody. Everybody. You got And who is the team fast breaking off of? Makes Pacers Indiana, right? They’re the ones. Yeah. So then people looked and go, “Well, that worked.” You know what I mean? Like they look at the way they did it and their guys kind of played shorter stitchs, whatever. So this is what dawned on me last night as I’m watching this. I’m watching the games unfold. I’m like, “Well, hold on now. I understand best practices. I understand the whole everybody wants to play fast and you want to play at a break neck pace, right? That’s the that’s the advantage, right? The advantage is playing fast.” That’s what even even they said, right? And that’s part of the reason that you do the rotations the way you do. Yeah, bro. The Pacers had three guys tear their Achilles and their whole team is wrecked right now. Yeah. Like, I’m not so sure that they’re not so sure that they’re the ones that everybody should have been going, hey, this is the way. Three Achilles tears. Isaiah Jackson to his Achilles, James Wisman to Achilles, and Hallebertton to Achilles. the the one who’s the biggest pace the pacer you know and what everybody and and what everybody says is the Achilles like this is the reason the calf thing is so scary for everybody the Achilles is basically your that’s your buffer for the calf right thus you’ve seen it with Durant you’ve seen it with Albert you see it right so it it’s your shock absorber as it were so now when your calves dinged bro we’ve already had two calves Yeah, you got one more. You got one more before that last one snap. So, I’m just not So, I don’t I again I Again, there’s people that study this stuff like crazy. All I’m saying is I ain’t got to study anything to know they’ve had three torn Achilles and their whole team is wrecked. They’re one and 10. Yeah, they won last night. They beat the Hornets. Okay, they’re two and 10. Yeah, they’re two and 13. They almost got done in by Coniple. Hey, he been hooping, by the way. Holy crap. That boy been hooping, boy. He he he looked like real Gordon Haywardy, but you know who you know who threw you know who threw him out there as the most impressive rookie he’s seen so far and he said I know people are going to talk edgecomb I know people are going to talk flag I was stunned by this Bobby Portoris. Oh, bro. He’s Bobby Poris was like coniple. He had a game the other day. He had 32 and I was like, “Let me go back and look watch.” You know, that has to make Danny Ames just bark cuz he went third, right? Cuz he went he went onehead like, “Oh man, I’m glad I got Ace B.” But dude, we Kanipple would be literally the biggest thing ever. He would be Jordan. He would be Jordan. I mean, those Canipple jerseys, they would have been sold out everywhere. He’s so cold. But you’d never be able to get them. You never You’d never be able to get You brought up You brought up the pace thing, right? There’s a There’s a There’s a team. So, I’m glad you brought it up because we just got a I we found a stat from our boy Stephen Adam stats. Okay. The team in the NBA who’s running the least. And can you guess who it is? Um who’s doing the least amount of running? And the the way that he’s limiting their amount of running is playing zone. and most of their guys are staying upright except of course one of their guys not for the season but before the season started. What’s the team that you think that does the least amount of running in the NBA? Well, the ones that typically the ones that have always dropped didn’t zone against us and made us look Miami and Indiana, but they play fast. They play fast. It’s the team they the least amount of running is because EA is put not Houston. Yeah. Put them in a zone. Is that right? So, he’s saving. Look at Look at this. Look how much less they’re running than other teams, bro. Oh, that’s interesting. They And they’ve got athletes. They got athletes and the the way he’s doing it, he’s putting them in zone on defense to save their bodies. Wonder if they So, when you talk about the copycat thing, I guarantee in fairness, they get 40% of the offensive rebounds because they got So, there’s no running involved. But you still got to you still got to give literally everybody on their team averages offensive rebounds. Steo gets five a game. Yeah. He’s snatching them off the rim, dude. Clink Capella gets like two a game and he plays nine minutes. Yeah, they all just Am Thompson like they all did like if they miss they get the ball back. They’re getting it back. But so Eay’s been like and they’ve all got seven foot wingspan. All got seven foot wingspan. So he puts them in the zone. Just use the wingspan to conserve the you said the closeout thing. You ain’t closing out as much if you play in the zone. You covered covering the space. Their starting lineup is insane. It really is. I’m just I’m just I’m just interesting. I Yeah, it is interesting. Especially when you consider the Pacers had three guys tear their Achilles. Yeah. By doing the up and down thing. Like nobody mentions that. Now Wiseman did it in like the first game of the season. They still were playing fast, bro. We’ve had two guys have calves off the speed kills already. You know what I’m saying? Like I’m not I don’t know. Like when I’m seeing all around the league everybody dropping like flies, I’m not sure that playing even faster is the best mode of operation. We might have to go back to what I’m saying. I don’t know. We have to spin. I mean, everything comes full circle. There’s a balance in all of it. Surely there’s a balance in all this. But you you but everybody is searching for answers. Why is this happening? Why? Mhm. And there and look, the NBA has now said they commissioned a study. I mean, it’s going to find that, you know, it has nothing to do with games played, but you know, they’ll figure out some that that’s like the NFL of when they first came out and nope. Football and concussions. Nope. No. Yeah. Right. No correlation. Yeah. But I wonder how many teams will will notice that like cuz they watch so much film anyway. Style of basketball. Style of basketball. Let’s see. If we want to conserve our bodies, why not just I know for some people when you when you get put in the zones because of weakness in the NBA, like more teams might go zone to conserve guys. It’s like, yo, I can It’s an 82 game season. We got to figure out a way to get these games. It just dawned on me as the Pacers have started off this season and they’ve they I mean, I know M. Hards was a shoulder, but I mean, they’ve had guys out too. Yeah. And they are the beacon of we’ll fast break you off of a make. Yep. Throwing it over the top. And it’s like, golly, bro. They’ve had some serious injuries. Bring back bring back the 90s hoops, man. Walking walking it down. I I I I just find it interesting. And then we’re talking speed, speed, speed, speed, speed. And we’ve had two Cavs. Well, and and obviously we’ve lost Scotty Pippen for the majority of the season. I don’t have no idea what’s ever happened with Brandon Clark. I don’t even know what that is. You know what I think? I don’t know if that was a rehab injury or what, but I mean like it was just bizarre. Whatever has happened with Brandon Clark is strange. The game started getting faster when they changed the half court violation from 10 seconds to 8 seconds. That’s kind of when it feels like things the started getting. You have to get the ball across half court faster. Get the offense faster. I think generally these teams outside of like if you got Jokic or somebody like that like your half court offense is usually not that good. Yeah. Right. Like in terms of like you want to be able to score before they can set up the defense. That is the whole philosophy of what’s supposed to be going on. Yeah. But we’re break neck pace. But I feel like there’s so many athletes in the league right now where it’s kind of like are you playing to a your strength? You’re in a league full of athletes. You know what I’m saying? We’re in a league full of athletes in the NBA. Well, you try to out athlete. And I know and I know that they’re talking about playing even faster. We’ve already played f. Taylor Jenkins team’s played fast. Fast as hell. We played so fast and we also got super injured. Yeah. Like I just don’t know causation. I don’t know. I don’t know. But all I do know is that the team that was the one that was like fast breaking off of makes I mean they dropped like flies. Yeah. and three torn achilles which are related to the calf. Yes. You know what I mean? And it’s like geez man. Can you can you withstand this? Can you withstand flying up and down? And maybe that is the whole idea behind you can withstand it for three minutes but you can’t withstand it for six. And so right that’s why we pull guys out. I but again and then you’ve already got guys that are down dropping bro. Yeah it’s I want to see it’s all around the league though. It’s not. This is not Grizzlies exclusive. Every now you look at box score and it’s like who did what? But also I am telling you that also all around the league is this onus on playing faster. We just said 1988 that is 37 years ago. That’s the last time teams played as fast as they are right now. That’s how fast this is. That’s the last time the pace was this way was 1988. Yes. Yeah. See people sleeping on the 80s. Don’t be sleeping on the 80s, man. We can’t sleep on the 80s, bro. Sleeping on the 80s. Can’t sleep on the 80s, bro. That’s That’s the But that’s the last time people were flying up and down the court like they are now with barely a three-point. The highest barely. I mean, they had one in 88, but like they didn’t really use it at all. But the pace of basketball was the high. It has not been this way in that long. So it’s not they were wearing Chuck Taylor’s back then. So it’s not it’s not just you know what’s going on at Memphis. This is happening everywhere. Everybody is talking about playing faster. We’ve got to pick up the pace. We’ve got to play f. You know what I mean? Yeah. You almost wonder if like maybe the solution is to play to to tone it down a little bit. Maybe the the solution to it maybe to go the opposite direction when everybody else is zagging. I just don’t know. I just don’t know on the injury front. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like I everybody’s trying to figure out like why is everybody getting injured and I do think that the fairest point of view is it’s the way the game’s played now and these and you can’t withstand it. And I would say Dev to your point about you know maybe you do es and flows and you slow I remember Zack Randolph always saying like it’s always going to come back around. The league will always come back around. Like we do have a 7 foot4 guy that theoretically you should be able to run stuff with a slow down half court offense. like he like he missed some late the second game back the other night. He missed a couple of those late but like dude the hook looks good. Like that jump hook in the lane like he’s freaking huge. So I mean you got you got two of them that can but they’re talking about playing faster faster faster. Everybody wants to play faster and it’s like we’ve also kind of and you I mean you saw with the Pacers. Yeah, they dropped and it just I mean last night I was like golly. How fast can you play if you have Ed, bro? Three torn Achilles. Three. Three. Man, we had I feel like in the league last Kevin Durant never going to play for the Pacers. No, look. And by the way, by the way, look, he’s on the rock as a team with the slowest pace and the best offense of the NBA. You know what I’m saying? Like, it may be something to it. Speaking of best offense, I know you mentioned the Z the ultimate Zag. This the ultimate zag. You know what I’m saying? Eay’s like, “No, everybody wants to do the fast thing. I’m going to get KD. I’m gonna play Em Thompson. Singon. We gonna walk this J down.” Well, because everybody is just a copycat. They don’t have any original thought and they think they do. Yeah. They all think they’re original. Oh, we’re gonna come up with the, you know, I mean, the actual original is somebody that makes it makes you adapt to it. Yeah. Right. So, the two best offenses in the NBA right now are the Rockets and the Nuggets. You put up that chart. Put that chart back up. Uh, uh, Jaylen, how uncomfortable do they make you? Put that chart back up. They’re the number they’re the Look at that. In fairness, sevenfooters in the starting lineup. In fairness, it would be foolishness for them not to given their half court offensive prowess. They’re like NBA version of Jim Beaheim Syracuse team out there. Freaking all like 67 to sevenfooters just play zone. But they have individually amazing offensive talent for sure. They give you an advantage in half court basketball. They punk the Cavs. They do. But by the way, speaking of they do punk you. But last night though, you see Yogic give his flowers to somebody who we who we all collectively have to apologize to. Oh, play the highlights. Jaylen, we got Baby Fat Jokage in the building. Oh, this guy is awesome. Baby fatic. You’re right. We Oh, Derek Queen. I don’t know. I don’t know if you remember me. I don’t know if you remember me saying this. But I said after we saw him and it was like where does he fit in and like if he doesn’t shoot threes and whatever else um cuz he’s going to be able to get targeted on defense. He I said but I will never do this again. I said because of Anthony Edwards, right? We saw Anthony Edwards here and I was like what is the deal? Like Anthony Edwards, you talking about I mean this is the number one pick in the draft, right? And it’s like we saw him literally in his first NBA game and it has taken less than 20 and he is awesome, bro. He is awesome. Look at this cook, dude. He is so good and he’s fun to watch. Like he he kills you with the steps, right? Look at Look at him. Look at handling. My game is on orthodox. Onrodoc. Look at him. Get to it. Baby fat yish. He’s very uh that handle’s really good. It’s very yicage. It’s very seni. It’s very like these awkward ass guys and it’s like they are just he is just so skilled. So Jokic after the game he asked him about I was watching the game last week and you know who uh Antonio Daniels is like their color guy. Yeah. And he was like Joe Joe guess who just text me D. And they showed him and Tim Duncan was like sitting up in like one of the boxes or whatever and text him how much he loved Derek Queen. Really? Yeah. Yeah. He did. Dun Duncan texted Daniels in the middle of the game and said though this guy said this guy’s got it. He’s been stamped by Joic and Tim Duncan last night. Joic said he has some moves. He’s unorthodox. Great touch around the rim feel for the game. It’s good to see somebody different and someone asked me if he sees himself see some of himself in and queen. He said I can see it. Yeah. Well, the other thing is and inevitably he is going to run up against it where teams start defending him differently. He had I think he had had three singledigit games in a row leading up to that. But bro, when he gets cracking and you’re sitting there going like I I feel bad for him because he’s got to be by virtue of them giving up that pick. Yeah. you know, and we see this class right now like god forbid they get the number one pick and it’s like and that would they would have had Darren Peterson too if they wouldn’t have, you know, because they gave up the pick to Atlanta uh in order to move up to get they g they paid a king’s ransom to get him. So, he needs to be amazing. Yeah. Right. Because I mean that’s why when I was sending you guys that meme this morning and I said, “Oh, these memes have gone too far on the what is calling Boisey a bum or something.” Poor Rob Dillingham. Hold on. What did it say? That joy said, “Hold on.” Costly. Costly bum. Yeah. Costly bum. Yeah. Costly bum. One of the big font. Damn, man. Well, so he This is why this is why that becomes a thing because if you do these kind of deals, they got to they got a hit, right? And the Derek Queen thing, I think if you’re sitting back, you’re going, “Okay, all right. This is going to work out.” But but again, we’ll see. We we’ll let it go. Um the Dillingham thing, the point of like like that thing I sent you guys where somebody me’d put constly bum because his numbers are so bad. Said they gave up a two to the Spurs a 2030 swap and an unprotected 200 2031 first round pick to move up. Yeah, that’s tough. You know what I mean? Again, again, that’s why it says, right, cuz you’re not graded on the same as a normal draft pick. And that that’s what befell’s uh Derek Queen as well. Yeah. He’s always going to be the guy that they What? You gave up next year’s first rounder when you knew you were going to be bad to get Derek Queen. Like, he better be he better be But he might be, bro. He might be like baby fat Yokas for real, bro. He Who’s lowkey like our boy Dale? Everybody in the world demolish that trade, right? You don’t trade to get up to third. You don’t give that up to get up to 30, right? But what if it ends up being a great trade? If you get your kid, he’s 20 years old. No. If you nailed it and you get a 10 time allar, no one’s ever going to say, no one’s going to care. Yep. Unless the other guy becomes the greatest player ever, which I mean, in fairness, there are some of those guys in this year’s draft class. When they’re bringing up Kobe Bryant, I’m like, “Okay.” Yeah. Like, that’s what they do with Darren Peterson. They bring up Kobe. He’s like the best guard prospect in years. I’m like, “Oh, God.” Yeah. We got We got to stop putting that on people. Well, I mean, dude, we’re awesome, though. Yeah, he’s good. But I feel like we gota I feel like we’re letting people put Kawawaii on Cedric. Yeah, we are. We are. But Kawhai like like I feel like there’s people call people co and I feel like there’s a lot there’s a lot of out of high school. I mean not high school college. We do it with every player that comes in. There’s always comps. It’s we do make calls. The next so and so. Yeah. All right. So damn. Uh before we get back to what the events of this evening and we’ll give you our reasons to hate the Sacramento Kings. Um, I do need to mention that the Memphis Tiger basketball team, which we unfortunately had to watch lose by 14 points to Josh Pastor and UNLV over the weekend, are have now taken their trip to Maui and they’re going to be playing against the Purdue Boiler Makers who are number four in Ken Pal. All right, I’m going to make you feel Bahamas. They’re in the Oh, Bahamas. Bahamas. Yeah, they they want the water slides yesterday where it’s not looking like that outside. They’re not the Maui Wowi. Yeah. Okay. I was a little surprised by this. Ken Pal has Purdue fourth on the country. He’s got the score 86 to 74. I was like, I’d sign up for that, right? That’s a Hey, wait. Is that a cover, bro? That’s a cover. That is It’s 14 and a half, isn’t it? 15. And it keeps going up. Is that 15 and a half? It was 14 and a half yesterday. 15 and a half right now. Damn. If you say that, that’s a cover. I mean, would you sign up for a 12-point loss right now? I would sign up for a cover right now, bro. I would definitely sign. Yeah, let’s sign up for a cover cuz 12-point loss could be a couple of ways. Like, you could be down 22 and then they just four minutes and you lose by 12. If it’s a hard fought 12-point loss, I’m rolling. Or it’s like, yeah, you’re down eight or something or six and you have to foul late and they make the free throws and win. I’m rolling. I’m rolling. I will say a cover is cool. A cover is cool. Are you Are you going to give yourself a moment since everybody’s been so down about this and everybody expects that you’re just being fed to the Lions? What if they flipped the whole season today? What if they Why not today? What if they did it? What if they took out Purdue? If they knocked off Purdue, it changes literally everything. Like that is the Yes, it does. No, it doesn’t. But what are you talking about? You could beat if you beat the Purdue Boiler Makers. If you beat one of the best five teams in the country, you think they’re the same ass? I think they’re the same team. Yeah. You’re the team that can still lose at home to UNLV. Like you’ve already proven that. No, you would have turned the corner. No. Oh, no. You like Edge around that joint. You put the blinker on. You ain’t turned that joint down. You are so negative. What pity? Oh, no. I heard you yesterday. I loved you yesterday. Loved you guys. You loved me for 18 years. Don’t do that. Don’t make it. But you like that’s a little weird. A little weird. What? What did I do? But no, there the when you Okay, let’s just be honest. What What Penny Hardway team in all of his years here that made you go, “Man, that team has turned the corner.” Whatever the corner is. We’ve seen We’ve seen him. Look, this what we’ve seen him do. We’ve seen him drive up to I loved the Kendrick team turn and don’t go. Yeah. Okay. Was that two years ago? That’s fine. That’s a team. That’s a What corner did they turn? a corner. They crossed at the buzzer to FAU who made the final four. They’ve hit some corners for sure. That team was good. Yeah, they’re a solid team. I like I like last year’s team. Solid team. I like last year’s team. They lost to freaking Nick Clifford. I got it. We’ll see him here tonight. I think Nick’s going to be here tonight. Nick’s a good Devin Carter. His no hairline. Man, that’s so I like last year’s team. If we That’s f You can lock corner. If we wouldn’t have lost the kid from Texas, I think we could have had a run. He played yesterday for Rio Grand Valley. Is he good? He No. I mean, he’s played eight minutes, had like three turnovers, couple points. He was fine. That’s a big They’ve lost some critical guys the last couple of years. You know, the Mills thing, the Caleb Mills thing hurt badly. The Tyrese Hunter thing hurt badly. And it’s like, I like last year’s team, but they’re in But they’re in those spots because I liked them. Why are they in those spots? Why were they in what spots? Why are they in an 89 game with Florida Atlantic? Why are they weren’t they were the freaking five seed last year? No, last year they were. Oh, last year literally 6 months ago. They had they had a good non-con What did they do in the conference last year? How many games did they lose? How many games did they lose in the conference? They said the noncon stuff with the non-con. They did good in the non-con basketball. Before that, the team fell apart. They were 16-2 in the conference last year, right? 16-2. So you lost two games. They lost at Temple and they lost an overtime game at Witchah. Yeah. Disgusting. That’s disgusting. Fred cousins on the team. Yeah, I know. They didn’t van Fle cousins on the team. Yeah, you’ve got a short memory, bro. 29 and six last year. That’s a solid season. What are you doing? Solid. I like that team. That’s a good season. I like them, too. Did they win the conference tournament last year? Yes, they should win the conference tournament. But I’m just saying like why you talking like last year was a business. Last year was not abysmal. What corner did they turn where you’re like yeah this team’s making it like dude. I mean we felt good. I ain’t going to lie. We felt good going to the NZ tournament. I felt great. Yeah. When they beat Yukon last year. Yeah. We felt good bro. And then Yukon sucked as you were even saying the other day. Uh they beat Old Miss last year. They did. No. No. They were good in the non-con. Yeah. They beat Clemson. Why are you laughing at us saying the noncon? Not only were they good in the non-con, they were good in conference, too. Yeah, con. They were good in con, too. 29 and six. Okay, so that was a good team. That’s a good basketball. Five seed, dumbass. Solid basketball team. If you’re the five seed, you’re one of the top 20 teams in the country. It also means you’re likely probably there’s a 50-50 chance you’re getting upset the first weekend of the tournament. But that’s a bad draw. Rosa, you can go back to the season before that if you want to do that. Yeah, the season before that they were good in the non-con and then they fell apart in conference play. There you go. That’s the season you’re talking about. They’re 22 and 10, 11-7 in the conference. The year before that. Last year I That was the Quinterly team. I I I never liked that team, but they were good in the non him and David Jones and whatever. I didn’t like that team. And then the year before Penny didn’t come see David Jones play this past weekend. The year before again 26 and N. That’s the Kendrick team. And I did like that team. Who did they lose to that year? Go to that year. 26 and N. We were still in Houston’s conference. Houston, SMU, and Cincinnati were all in our conference. Man, dumbass. Times have changed. And two lane in the membrane and UCF. I’m saying all those teams were in the conference. What the hell? Who cares about Cincinnati basketball? When’s the last time anybody gave a crap about Cincinnati basketball? You about to poop on Cincinnati basketball? You acting like Cincinnati basketball. I’ll give you Houston, bro. Why are you pooping on Cincinnati basketball? Houston. Ain’t nobody cared about SMU basketball since Larry Brown. And ain’t nobody cared about Cincinnati basketball since like freaking Kenyan Martin. You going get Satderfield. You going to get a Sternly word of text from your mom, bro. You [ __ ] on Tiger basketball, bro. Yeah. Yeah. You’re honestly, you’re a disgrace. Why you [ __ ] on Tiger? Yeah, you are. You’re a disgrace. Your mom Your mom sits at those games every day, Roser. And you are [ __ ] on T. It’s not fair when last year was good. It’s not fair. So here’s here’s they’re 29 and six. That is a great season. So what are we talking about? Yeah, it’s a good it was a good year and a five seed. What did you think their ceiling was last year? By the way, somebody brought up a good point. What did you think their ceiling in the tournament? Kobe Rogers got hurt in the tournament game. I thought they for sure could have gone to the Elite Eight. For real. That was a good team they had last year, bro. Kobe Rogers got hurt in that round. Last year team was good. They had a good team last year. Okay. Yeah. The year before some dudes wanted to fight each other, but last year you ain’t shooting on last year’s Tigers. Who did Colorado State lose to? Maryland Derek Queen. Okay. Oh, the buzzer. Yeah. Yeah. White t-shirt Derek Queen. Yeah. But yeah, so you have you have no faith in the Tigers today is what you’re saying, Roser. No, I don’t. So even if they win, you don’t care. Yeah. It doesn’t affect what I probably Yeah. What I think of them? No. I mean, look, we’re happy for them. Like, get the win. Go ahead and try to win. But I mean, hey, they’re playing number four Purdue. They’re also just on the schedule already is number 25 Baylor, number 10 Louisville, number 14 Vanderbilt, number 45 Mississippi State. I mean, their don conference is loaded. Yeah. So, I do think like if you proved you could beat Purdue, that goes a long way towards like maybe you What makes you believe they could beat Purdue? Nothing. They they haven’t done nothing on a basketball court ever that would give us that thought. But Roser, we saw them for one half against Arkansas, who is good. Uh, who has problems? No, hold on, hold on. They they played seven minutes and they hit a bunch of threes. I will say I felt You got You got to shoot the basketball. Hold on now. I felt horrible after the UNLV game. I was like, “These guys stink. I came in here positive after the Old Miss game. I did not think that was bad.” Yeah. At all. I didn’t. And Miss is 34th. Yeah. Miss is good. Where’s Arkansas? Where’s Arkansas in there? Uh cuz they got pros, too. I’m not sure where Arkansas is. I’d have to check. Let me see. Arkansas is 43. Okay. The top 45, but I’m saying like I thought the Old Miss game like that one was that was close. It was that was a close game until the end. Yeah. So what I mean I know that you love your beloved ribs but your beloved ribs is crazy. He his freaking beloved ribs. I have no idea who plays for Mrs. basketball team. French alley. French Halley. Bro, I don’t know who that is. Oh my god. Les, you ain’t tapped in, bro. You’re not tapped in. I’m not tapped in. You’re a fake Reb fan. You ain’t tapped into French Hallebertton for real. Hey, no. I I think things were going pretty good for all for the Reb fans for 24 hours. than yesterday’s that uh you know and the McAfee thing was fine and it came out unscathed and then it was like oh no heard different about the McAfee thing. No, how how about the not how about the teleconference yesterday? What happened? Oh, you didn’t hear about this? No. No. What happened? Oh, you know all those national and SEC reporters jumped on that thing, buddy. They did here. In fact, you know what? Uh Jaylen, send it to Jaylen. Yeah, I will. I’ll send this to you, Jaylen. I’ve got I’ve got one uh from I’ve got I’ve got uh yesterday’s this is uh on station I used to go on quite a bit uh back in the day WJOX um they had on one of the reporters that was on the teleconference with him and so I don’t have the teleconference audio but I what I do have is the uh what I do have is this guy talking about what happened when they all jumped on the conference call yesterday cuz you at that point it’s unavoidable, right? When there’s all these stories like you’ll hear him say this. He said at one point one of the reporters was like, “What did your uh what did your family like most about Gainesville and Baton Rouge when they visited that happened?” What? Are you serious? Yep. He’s like, “I’m not here to talk about, you know, my family.” Oh, that’s crazy. Hilarious. I just sent it to you, Jaylen, so we could pull this up. This is Yeah, there’s a guy on WJOX. He didn’t give up. My old buddy Pat Smith, I think, is the is the ho uh the host, but he uh who used to be Fine Bomb’s producer back 20 years ago. Uh anyways, they had the I think the on WJOX and the guy came on after he was on the teleconference. You know, they make these coaches do that every week. So say now we got coach and then you have to like press the button if you want to answer your question, ask your question, whatever. And and there was no there was no avoiding it yesterday. There’s no avoiding it. The link given like there’s nowhere to run, right? If you got to be on the teleconference and so here’s the reporter yesterday on WJOX talking about what went down, guys. It it got very contentious uh on that teleconference. I have never heard a coach squirm as much as I just heard Lane Kein. And he was called to the table, boys. Like I’m just being honest. Like I I get that he hasn’t answered some of these questions presented to him, but us national media members couldn’t get on there quick enough to ask him certain questions that I don’t think he could run away from. Now the thing is he didn’t really answer anything, but you could tell that it was getting a little rough. Like he was asked whether Miss has asked him for an answer regarding his future. He said, “I’m not going to stay on what I’ve done for six years and not talk about those situations.” He he understands why we ask these questions, guys. But at the same time, when he’s saying that, why would I not expect to coach against Mississippi State next week? Do you guys know something that I don’t know? Am I going to be fired? Like, this is what it was coming to. He understands what we’re doing. Like, guys, he was asked straight up what his family took away from their visit to Gainesville in Baton Rouge. And he said, “I’m not getting in on any speculation or stories that have to do with other jobs. I’m just telling you guys, I thought this thing could go quiet for a couple of days, but after that call, it could be a scenario where just all right, let’s let’s go to Oxford and see what happens. Like that that that just that went really bad. Again, he was presented an opportunity to say, I will be the old Miss coach in 2026, guy. Stop asking me the darn question. And he didn’t. He said, I’m not talking about other jobs. Stop, dude. Stop. You’re on social media more than most media members around the country. Don’t act like that’s not a topic of discussion around that building. There you go. By the way, I don’t know if you noticed in the middle of that, it was like one of those moments where I was like, “What? I haven’t heard that in years.” Did you hear the phone ring in the back? I haven’t heard a phone ring. The landline. But we got a landline phone. Sound like one of those rotary dial phones. I mean, you can set your phone to that kind of ringing setting, but like not heard I have not heard a phone ringing. No, for like a regular like I cannot tell you the last time I had the ringer turned on on my phone. Like I have Oh, we know. We know. If me and if me and Vernon ever get in trouble, we cannot call you. We know cuz you will your phone will I get text from Chris be like, “Hey, I like, hey, I’m getting kidnapped.” And you’ll be like, “Oh, my bad. I didn’t see you were getting kidnapped 30 minutes later.” It’ll be after the show and I’ll get a text. It’ll say, “Yo, I’m down in the garage. I left my badge upstairs and I’ll see it about like 2:15.” He’ll just be sitting down there waiting on me to see it. Like, answer your phone, idiot. Turn your phone. Been telling him for years. Viate or something. But no, that’s crazy that anyways. No, I’m with I’m with him though, bro. He said he said he was given every opportunity to just like he can put this to rest at any point and he’s not going to. He’s not. And I saw Ross Dinger’s thing said the money’s equal across the board. that but said LSU might be offering like $2 million more a year but it’s like but it’s essentially like Florida LSU miss it’s all at least offering $11 million a year for him so that’s it’s what does he want to do does Wetszel freaking what would you do I’d go Florida I would stay I think I do Florida no if I were leaving if I was leaving I’d go Florida because that’s where if that’s the inspiration right Steve Sperry all that kind of stuff and the weather and the and and they haven’t won like you win 10 games Now it’s awesome. They might put a statue in front of them. Like Brian Kelly lost three and it Yeah. Like you have to It’s national championship or bust probably either of them. But Oh, it is at both of them. Yeah. But it’s been so bad at Florida recently. Yeah. You’re not replacing anything. No. Right. Whereas like you could go like you could go and lose three games at LSU like pretty easily and then everybody be like Brian Kelly for this. You know what I mean? Like Yeah. Sometimes it can’t get worse. Yeah. Well, there’s room there’s rumors, bro. Who was it? Is it that guy? Is it Glen Gilbo? the guy who’s covered LSU for like I mean that guy’s literally when like Ron Higgins was writing for the Commercial Appeal cover like that dude’s been that’s how long that guy’s been covering LSU something like that there’s reportedly like Sabin is pushing him to LSU really cuz Sabin’s got the relationship all this he still has all those ties in Louisiana from when he was there boy that he’s that he’s pushing him to LSU he he lo he want he wants to follow in Sab’s footsteps so hell man just if you want to follow in Sabin’s footsteps just wait to see Kayla lose This is Auburn. You know what I’m saying? I mean, I will say it has proven to be a place where you can win a national championship. Like I told you, there have been two like legit bozos. Yeah, you can win. You can win one blindfold. You can win one blindfold. And the people that won at Florida, Spurer and Meer are legit regarded as geniuses, great of their profession, all time great. Yes. And Les Miles and Edon won national championships. You run the state or might have had the greatest team ever. You run the state in Louisiana where all those kids grow up wanting to play for LSU. Whereas in Florida, that’s right. But you got Miami, you got Florida State, you got every other school coming in there. Some kids going USF now. Ohio State comes in there and takes dudes every year. Georgia does like Louisiana kids. They want to play for LSU. I I I do think that the Florida job right now is an unbelievable job to get to take over because you’re I mean that it’s just the bar has been lowered. It just has it has to have been. It all depends. Like I saw our buddy Dan Wetzel wrote about it and was just like basically is like Al Davis called him a liar, you know, back when he fired him from the Raiders and he basically like is is Lane Keifin going to prove Al Davis right? Like cuz he says all these things about Oxford. It’s changed my life. It’s made me the better person and has me in such an amazing place. Or are you and I don’t think that’s or you going somewhere else. I think they all they coaches always say well that’s the thing like it’s like the money was equal for John Caliperry. Memphis or Kentucky, the money was equal. But it was, as Caliperry says, dude, it’s Kentucky. The other thing Kentucky The other thing is if the guy says, “I want to win a national championship and I think it’s going to be easier here.” Yeah, that’s why it’s totally reasonable. How is that not reasonable? I think they can win a national championship miss personally. I’m saying how but how is that not a reasonable thing to say? I in 2025 in 2025 I don’t think that’s a reasonable copout. Easier I think he I don’t think that’s an easy cop out until 2025. I think that’s that’s a copout. Is it an easier job? Yeah, that’s what I’m saying, bro. I mean like if you don’t win the national championship within four years, you’re fired. I that’s LSU. That is LSU. LSU. You also are going to get better players. Brian Kelly got awesome players like it doesn’t guarantee you win the national title. doesn’t guarantee it, but I’m saying you also can’t have his running back literally got taken by the team that won the national title. I don’t know how many times I need to tell you that that did happen. You’re not. So, I asked somebody from miss about that yesterday. I asked somebody who knows people there. Ask them about that. They said everybody on the team hated Judkins. Oh, stop. That they hated him. Of course, for whatever that’s worth assassination after the fact. No. Said go I think he did a good job of character assassinating himself. did a good job of that. If they if they wanted to they would have Jeffrey Dmer playing running back if they could win a national title. I can’t let you do that after after he leaves. That’s like that’s Yeah, I want I want But I do I do to the point I think I do think that the the in 2025 you can win a national championship miss. I think money changed at all, bro. You can win a championship there. So if you lane, you can win a They still don’t get the best players, bro. But you still could you still are good enough though. No, no, but the best the best players win. You’re good enough. I mean, how many Okay. You don’t think the miss is going to win the national championship right now? They’ve never been good enough. I mean, I’m saying because the game has changed now, though. They’ve never been good enough, man. I think Hey, man. I’m looking for this. You might You might be good enough this year, bro. I think they can do it. I don’t know. It’s just me. You do not. I’m not saying I’m just saying I think it’s No, you don’t. I think it’s possible to win a national championship at the Old Misses. I do. I think you can. You can do it now. I think you can. Maybe not like five years ago. The portal is also the portal is also about evaluation. And God, I’m trying to find this because I just saw this graphic and I can’t find it. But if you look at like the top 10 transfers, how they have impacted their team. You know who the two best in the country are? Kiwan Lacy from Missouri to Miss and number two is that Hardy kid from Missouri. Guess where he was? Louisiana Monroe. See, I guess and he’s in Missouri. Number six is Trinidad Chamblas. Okay, you can Indiana is doing it for N. I will encourage you to look in every recruiting ranking, every transfer portal ranking, and how about the NFL draft as well. You can look at all of that and miss is not on the same level. They will be if he stays there, bro. They can mention that blue chip. We’ll finally say that Miss is about to be there. But they’re going to be there. They can get there, though. I think in 2020 in this new game we play they can be one of those y’all know old money dudes old miss we need this we need you’re a Memphis football fan you need this cuz you know the truth cuz you said it yesterday sucks and it doesn’t matter when you’re in this crappy conference so we need to have hope and if there’s not hope for miss and there’s no hope for Memphis what the is no there’s not and we need hope we need hope I don’t know why but we need hope Roser we ain’t got hope then what we got we have reality. Well, you don’t have hope. And that is the reality of the world right now. You think Memphis can beat Purdue? Get out of here reality. I didn’t say that they could beat Purdue. I said it would flip everything. Turn the corner. Beat. It would flip everything. And now you don’t get to celebrate it. Stay. You don’t get to celebrate it. Stay at Old Miss Lane. Oh god. Cuz guess what it’ll do? You can’t wait to get out of here. Stay at home lane cuz guess what? Stay at home. It’ll flip everything. It’ll flip everything. All right. Oxford up. Okay. So, they go hire somebody from uh wherever. Like they name the name the guy that they hire. Whoever. All right. Let’s just say, “Hey, Texas Tech money guy.” No. How about How about they looked up and they said, “All right, we’re hiring Ryan Silverfield. We think he’s done a good job down the road.” Right. Right. That’s what they think. Yeah. Okay. Or who? Forget Ryan Silverfield. Name name somebody. Go ask Mike. Go off for Mike Norville a new contract. No, no, no, no. Just name that. Name a coach. Name a coach that’s like at a smaller school right now that they could go summerville. Some summer. Could you get drinkits from Missouri? Summer. Summer. That’s what I’m trying to say. He sucks. Okay. Who? Two lane. Nobody. They told me to name a small school. Fine. Whoever the James Madison coach, whoever, whoever you want to name, just name whoever. James Madison. New singer. Yeah. We’ll see if you guys feel the same way about Old Miss. Shut the hell up. You don’t think if they hired John Sbrall, you would not go. You can win a national title at Old Miss. They can’t get a national title coach. You know that. Was was cursing enough. Their coach gets taken by a bigger school. Their players get taken by a bigger school. There’s levels. There’s levels. Are you guys new to college sports? But it’s different now. We lost our point guard to Kansas State. But that’s the point. There are levels to this. There’s levels to it. Yeah. And if you’re too lame, you lose your players to Old Miss. But Old Miss loses their players to Ohio State. There are levels to this. No, there absolutely are. The levels in college football though are you are in the SEC or the Big 10. Other than that, you don’t matter. Those are the levels in college football. Miss spends money in the SEC. Can you win a national title at at Mississippi State? What are you? I don’t think you can at Mississippi State. Are you drawing the line? I think Mississippi exotic they don’t have the money miss they’re not the flagship they’re not the flagship university in Mississippi bro you don’t know what they have they’re not the flagship university you oh their baseball stadium’s nicer than their football stadium that lets me know what their priorities are admit you have no idea what their roster cost and old miss’s rosters cost admit that and it’s the first year head coach right you have no clue second year yeah so I mean right now I mean you could change my mind in three years maybe if you if that coach can prove he can build a monster Like you didn’t think Indiana would be worth a damn Florida stunk last year and they beat Miss. Do you think Do you think Indiana beat the piss out of Old Miss, didn’t they? A year ago. Am I wrong? It’s a whole different team though. I’m just saying over and over again like this is not It’s hard. There’s a story posted July 7th of this year. Mississippi State the Bulldog Initiative managed to raise 1.3 million. That’s why they’re not winning. That’s why they’re not winning the national championship. That’s not true. That’s from old missfan.com. Bro, college networth.com. Where do you guys draw the line on who can win a national title? I feel like the line’s not drawn cuz Indiana’s damn near about to they’re the hunt cuz you would never thought Indiana would be nowhere sniff a national championship. 8 million gift at one point in 2024. They got an $8 million gift. Again, that’s why like Miss, we know Miss can spend $30 million a year on a roster. I’m saying, bro, you know, money people down there, bro, this is a new game. Top college football teams uh by value. This is where they’re saying in terms of the value of the program. Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, Georgia, Notre Dame, Alabama, Oklahoma, USC, Tennessee, LSU. LSU’s valuations are around $1.23 billion dollars. Yeah. Okay. Yo. Hey, why why is Texas Tech good? Okay. If those are their valuations, then stop asking your taxpayers to pay Brian Kelly’s buyout. Hey, why why is Texas Tech football team good? Because of Cody Campbell, their billionaire Texas $25 million. That’s what I’m saying. Paid a million dollar for a softball pitch. $25 million, bro. That changed Texas Tech’s football trajectory, bro. Like, you would not think Texas Tech would be in anywhere. They’re sniffing damn the playoff cuz of money. Oh, they’re going to be in there because the 25 million, right? I’m saying like all it takes for somebody to put some money is an SEC program. You know, there’s a bunch of You don’t think they’d already be doing that? You don’t think Texas Tech was worth one worth a damn? I’m saying so you just need a billionaire to show up and be like, “Hey, I want to give you 25 million.” That could happen at Oxford. Then why hasn’t it? I’m not the one to control that. Some dude could, hey yo, I want I want this. It could happen anywhere. Theoretically, that’s that’s my point. There is a guy that could come up and say, “I want to spend 25 million cuz I went to this school.” That’s the point. Or that school. That’s the point. Anybody, it can happen to anybody. That’s why I’m saying just like Old Miss, it can happen to them, too. It can happen to anybody in this new landscape, bro. Playing in the Big 12. No, it’s true. But they still have a 10 million defensive line, bro. They ultimately they don’t matter either. Like, they don’t they they’re going to be in the playoff and they may win and go do something in the playoff, but in 10 years, unless they’re in the SEC or the Big 10, they don’t. I can’t even believe I’m arguing that Florida and LSU are not easier places to win national titles. Like there, what has Florida done in the last 20 years? That is like he’s living off the uh the Chris League jump has had more success in football than than Florida has in the last 15 years. When is the last time miss played in the SEC championship game? They never have. They never have. They never have. They have. The West is a lot The West is a lot more difficult. The West is a lot more difficult. Hold on. In life. Yeah, the West is a lot more difficult. Yeah, it was the SEC West trenches, bro. In life. Yeah, they never have. It was them trenches, bro. It’s a change. It’s a change thing now. I want to play in the SEC title game. Dan Mullen a couple years ago. Like they fire and then they fire right before. Hey, look. Now the game has changed. So they’ll fire Dan Mullen after making the SEC championship game. Who wants to go coach for those? I think I think in retrospect that was a mistake. Yeah, hotty totty. You what? What do they say? What do they say? What do they say at the game? You believe in Lane. You do not believe in the program. They say hotty totty. Because if they hired if they hired just some guy, you would not think they can win a national title. But if Florida hires some guy, they can’t win the national championship. They did. I know. And they can’t. Right. So that’s any school. But you think they could if they hired Lane Kein. You have to cuz you just have to No, no, no. You have to. Yeah, I think they could with Lane. Okay. I think they could have kn maybe he’s not a national championship head coach and maybe he’ll find that out if he goes to one of those schools and maybe he wants to find that out. He did grass his greener once. Yeah, he did. How’d that work out? Poorly. Like even like Vanderbilt, bro. We they’re Rudy Poo, the doorstep of the SEC. They’re in the door mat. You know what I meant for you know what I’m saying? Like those this stuff. How do you think Vandy could win a national title? No, I’m just saying it’s different now, bro. is the game the landscape of college football has changed so much. Like even Texas a bunch of old oil money put some money into it and now they’re undefeated. I know. Look look that I know it’s changed so dramatically. I saw the college football playoff rankings the other night and it’s just all manner of all manner of people that I wasn’t expecting to be like Ohio State and Georgia and USC. What do you mean? There’s one or two. No, you were you were you were and you think they’re going to be there every year. we’re dead on about is the two-lane crap, bro. Get none of these none of these nonp power fours need to be in this playoff this year. They’re all ass. Yeah, they are. They’re all ass. But they but but if we don’t have them, what gives us hope, bro, sir? Yeah. Hope. We need hope. I’m using it against you. Yeah, we need hope. Hope we got anti- hope guy the only the same. The only hope you have is you offer the SEC a billion dollars to get in their conference. That’s the only hope you have, bro. I like Hey, look. I like Old Miss. I love their fans. Mostly most of them that I know. I also know there’s a reason Old Miss fans are cool if you’re eight and four. Yeah. So, you guys have some kind of wild expectation that not even their fan base. It’s not an expectation. I think it’s what you’ve seen the last couple days. I don’t have the expectation. I don’t have If you’re eight and four at LSU, you get fired. I think if you’re eight and four at Old Miss, they’ll be like, “Oh, I’ll get him next year.” Right. That’s why you stay there expectation. And if they’re going to pay you $11 million at one place or the other, just stay at the place where you’re not going to get I can buy that. I can buy that. If if Lane if Lane Gin just did all of this to just drive up his price to the maximum amount, it wouldn’t shock me at all. I respect that. Yeah. Hotty totty, man. I mean, they should pay him what other people are willing to pay him. Hotty totty. Right. By the way, if it’s a three loss Texas team or theoretically Alabama could say they beat Auburn and then they make the SEC championship and lose and they have three loss. Dude, it better three loss Texas or three loss Alabama better be in over freaking two lane. Get that crap out of here. They’re in they’re that No, that is a spot. I know it’s a spot. It’s ridiculous, bro. See, they’re going to be they’re going to ruin it for everybody. Two lane. No, the the nonpay ruin cuz there’s no good choice for the nonprofi either two lane or James Madison is going to get beat by a thousand and then dude we get beat by a thousand too. But we would still be there. Roser, who would we be playing Texas Tech? Yeah, they would whoop our ass. I don’t How do you know that, bro? I don’t know that. I mean, they’re I don’t respect the Big 12 like you do. There’s level I don’t respect the Big 12. There’s levels. There’s levels to this. Yo, you do respect. There’s levels. As you said, you respect the Big 12, obviously. Do we What’s the Texas Tech one that super impressed you? They would not lose to UAB. Huh? They would not lose to UAB. No, no, no. I’m asking you what what’s the reason that you have so much respect for Texas? Why is it BYU? Utah. Okay. You like those and Okay. Well, we have black guys at least. Damn. So does Texas Tech. Texas. No, they do. They got some black dudes over there. Bros. They got they got what? Bros. Is that what Isn’t that what it is? Oh, no. J. Okay. James Madison. No. Am I not allowed to say that? No. Why not? The Q Doll’s going to cover you, bro. You got You can’t do that. He doesn’t even know what that is. No idea what that means. Uh James Madison has lost one game. They lost to uh Louisville 28 to 14. And the rest of these wins are Yeah, dude. No P14. None of these nonP4s are in the playoff this year. Get them all out. You sound like Greg Hanky. Get them all out of here. Hey, shout out to the shout out to our great members that do research on the chat. You mentioned the NFL draft. Miss had the fourth most players drafted last year. Just saying. No, without Quinn Sean. They were loaded. Who can be character assassinated? Just saying. Okay. Well, now do you want to let’s do more research? I’m just I’m just relaying messages, man. Hold on. Nobody going to compare Miss to Ohio State. Ohio State the best job. We know that. Ohio State’s Ohio State. Well, if this is easy since we’re doing research now. We can do research now. Schools with most NFL drafting. Do we need to take a break? By the way, eventually is Brian Edwards. He’s going to say Ohio State. Probably waiting to come along. This He’s going to say Ohio State Alabama and Georgia. And Georgia, of course. Right. Uh here we go. Here’s player top programs. with players on NFL rosters. Okay, here we go. Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan, LSU, Notre Dame, Penn State, Texas, Oregon, Oklahoma, Florida, Iowa, Texas A&M, Clemson, Stanford, Tennessee, USC, South Carolina, Washington, UCLA, Wisconsin, Miami, Auburn, Illinois, Florida State, Mland, Minnesota. Have you noticed who I haven’t mentioned yet? You said they didn’t have players drafted last year. We we have a fact. No, I said look at the NFL draft. Yeah, but last year is getting there. They’re getting there. You just said that they’re getting there. He can do this. He can make them one of those programs. So, it looks like they’re like probably 50th on this list of players in the NFL. Our point is they’re getting there, bro. But they’re getting there. They’re getting there, daddy. They’re getting there. So is Minnesota then. Not last year’s drive. They have as many NFL players. Did they last year? How many they have drafted last year drafted last year? They’re going to have more drafted this year, too. He’s going to have more drafted this year. Give me a break. Yeah, bro. They’re behind Illinois. Bam. Building the monster, bro. Also, building a monster out of here. Yeah. Damn right. Who the hell are we [Music] missing? This is embarrassing. This is embarrassing. I want the region to thrive. No, you don’t. Yes, I do. I want our players to get healthy. I want Old Miss to rise up. I want Memphis football to not lose to UAB. I want Memphis basketball to not lose to UNLV. You don’t care about our region. I love the regional road. I love it. Regional. The TAM. The TAM. The Tennessee Arkansas. Now he cares. He’s had to ditch Tennessee from John Ball. Now he’s John Re and John Hog. So now he’s John Reb. Hey Hypo, they really might fire you if you don’t win in Gainesville this weekend. And y’all never and they never win in Gainesville if Tennessee does. Can you win? Can you win a national title in Tennessee? Yes. Oh, you can. You can everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. You can never win. Where do you draw the line on Rocky Top down in the Tennessee hills? Even though it to I mean for them to win the national title, it took Florida State having their third string quarterback. Bro, if I Here’s the point. In all honesty, while you guys have been yelling, if you want to be able to compete with Texas and Ohio State and Georgia on a player basis, the school matters. I’m sorry. It does. across the board when you’ve got 80 guys on a roster, those places, if you’re LSU and if you’re Florida, you have shown over the course of history that you are able to get a higher caliber of talent at those schools and for good reason because they’re re regional. They can walk outside their they can go in their state and find 50 amazing players in Louisiana or Florida. But the idea that I’m having to argue about whether or not you can I mean it is much harder to win at a school if you don’t have a bunch of instate recruits and you don’t have history. Oklahoma doesn’t have in-state recruits. Oklahoma has one of the best college football history the entire They do have a great history. Amazing. Mississippi does too though. The state of Mississippi has like football talent. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What you Where’s the South Panova? What’s up with that South Panola pipeline? Come on, bro. You can’t You can’t put no smud on Mississippi football, bro. They got dogs down there. I know. I I understand your point, bro, but I’m just saying the game has changed now. That’s That’s my point. You think you’re going to have better players than Notre Dame and Texas and Ohio State and Georgia and Alabama? Like, there’s a reason all these schools get all these players every year. I understand I mean, the reason Tennessee got as good as they did in the 90s is because Georgia was down, right? They go in there. There was all kinds of teams and and like Fulmer would go to Georgia and he would go and he go and he would go into Northern Florida and he would go to California. There was all kinds of there was all kinds of teams down in LSU was also down then too, right? LSU. What is LSU’s football history before saving? Like, I really don’t know. LSU has 39 active NFL players right now. No, no. What was their history before Nick Sabin though? [ __ ] How many Clemson got? They buns. Say what? I say how many Clemson got right now. What was I’m dead serious. I have no idea. What was LSU’s football history before Nick Sabin? I mean, you’d have to go back. Like I remember Jerry Dinardo. Let me see. I got you. You’d have to go way back. No, it was not a They didn’t. So why can’t Wayne Kein start? Everybody always said it was a sleeping giant. Yeah. Start new history. New history, bro. It’s Mississippi, bro. They got the lineage, bro. They can do We could take John Summerall. Is that Bobby Boutton’s first national title that you’re wearing the natty? Florida State Nebraska. Is that Florida State Nebraska? Whatever. Is that his first orange bowl? Yeah, it’s his first. He said whatever. He said whatever the orange Ward Scott whenever the Orange Bowl was. All right. Oh, we got to get to Brian Edwards, don’t we? Yeah, we need Yeah. Ask him what do you think? Yeah. I want to know what Brian Well, he probably wants him in Florida. Ask him if somebody can win a national championship. I mean that Yeah. that people are that that Old Miss is on the same level as Texas, Georgia, and Alabama. It’s unbelievable. I can’t I can’t even believe I have to have these conversations. We’ve had this returning show. Let’s face it, there’s a lot of trash talk in basketball, but the great teams let their performance do the talking. like Ford F-150 with pro power on board. 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Where are they? Where they at? Where Nebraska is? They got so much history. Since all the history always wins. Where Nebraska? Are we talking about Gator history? No, we talking about Nebraska. Hey, where’s your history too outside Nebraska? The corn husk. Where’s your history? Because your Urban Meyer history, you hate Urban Meyer. So even one of the coaches who’s won, you hate him. I do, but that’s Tim Tibo’s got those titles. We credit Tim Tibo. Oh, he was roommates with a murderer. Damn. He was not roommates with him. They were not weren’t they roommates? I’m pretty sure I’m pretty sure. No. Yeah, I think I think he I think he actually was an accomplice. Jersey, right? All right. Look. Hey, look. I’m glad you were drunk having fun in Vaude Hemingway last week for uh Old Miss Florida because I was having to defend your good name. I got a lot of fade Edwards last week, Brian. People were not happy with your picks last week. We nor should they have been. No, it was a bad We get We need redemption. We need big time redemption. Well, let me tell you, this is how we lose an over. I’m talking about LSU Arkansas. You have a nineplay 71 yard drive, Razerbacks. You get nothing. You have a sevenplay 87 yard drive, you get nothing. I mean, that’ll that’ll ruin an over every time. It’ll ruin it. And also, I’m not going to ding you too much on the Oklahoma one. Like, I still don’t know how they that was the craziest way to win a game. To have 200 yards and win is crazy. And never have a drive over 40 yards. Yeah. I mean, I looked at the box score um after cuz I was able to watch a little bit of it just because people in their tailgates had TVs, but I looked at the box score after and I’m like, how in the hell did they lose? I mean, I know a 80 yard pick six. So, right. But, I mean, they dominated the box score. It was wild. Yeah. I I saw uh some uh some odds guy said that if they had to replay that game this week, Alabama would they would not have Alabama minus six. They would have them minus seven. That’s a lot to go up in Bama’s favor. Yeah. Yeah. It was it was just odd circumstances, but those kind of things happen. All right. Uh, real quickly before we get into all the games this week, what are your uh we know you are uh Gator fan 6969 on all the message boards. Uh, you guys think do you really think you’re getting Kein or do you think he’s going to LSU or do you think he’s staying at Old Miss? What do you think? Uh my what’s the mood what’s the mood in Florida? My confidence is starting to Wayne a touch but um I I told I was on with Jimmy on ESPN Baton Rouge. When was that? Two days ago. I said I thought it was 55 Florida 45 LSU. So now I would say maybe 50/50. I mean I I mean I I mean miss has a chance obviously but I I I think the situation there’s become untenable. I mean people are so mad at him. I mean I rate Oh yeah just and they have every right to be. I agree. I agree. Like you know what I mean? Like this is dragging it out. Like if you’re going to be there be there. If you’re going to go go. Right. Yeah. I mean he just did this in 2022 with Auburn and it and it ruined their mid late November. I mean they lost like three in a row because it was such a distraction. And they Hey, Florida very easily could have won that game the other night. Um but whatever. You weren’t that impressed. Uh no, I think they’re very good. Um I just uh they didn’t protect the quarterback very well. It’s not like we’ve got some lethal pass rush. Interesting. You also have the team in Florida that’s like, “Dude, you have no idea what you’re getting from you guys.” Well, yeah. You get blown out by Kentucky and then you like should have beaten Georgia. Like that’s Florida. Yep. Brian Edwards, what’s your favorite game this weekend? Oh, uh I would say Chiefs in the NFL, but we’re doing college. So, golly, let’s go SMU minus two and a half at home to Louisville. Um, so SMU has won four uh in a row at home and regardless of venue, uh, they’ve won back-to-back games in five of their last six, including four wins by 11 or more. They’ve had two weeks to prepare. Louisville’s playing it sixth game in six weeks and is off back-to-back heartbreakers to Cal uh, in overtime and to Clemson. and that, you know, uh, ruined their everything they had planned for the postseason, ACC title game, etc. So, I like the Mustangs laying the short number at home. All right, SMU minus 2 and a half over Louisville. What’s next? Florida plus four. Tennessee has not won at the Swamp since 2003. They won backto back at the Swamp in 01 and 03 with Casey Clawson as their quarterback. Without Casey Clawson under center, they haven’t won in Gainesville since 1971. And Florida, despite its struggles, and I was kind of shocked seeing this myself as I looked it up, the Gator have won seven of their last eight at home, and they’re six-2 against the spread in that stretch, and their only loss is by two points to USF. Wow. And um they get Caleb, Florida gets Caleb Banks back uh Saturday. He was preseason all-American in every publication and Kyper had a first ground grade on him. He had a foot injury uh that kept him out the first two games. that he played at LSU and he aggravated it and had surgery, but he’s back. And Vernell Brown, our best receiver, uh well, Dallas Wilson and Eugene Wilson are out for the season, but Vernell Brown, who leads us in every receiving category, he’s been out the last two games, and he’s most likely back this week. So, I’ll go Gator plus four. And then you could hire their coach. I would Why are they wanting him out? Are they nuts? Oh, boy. Yeah. They lose to Florida, they’re going to be fit to be tied. And they never win in Gainesville, so like Yeah, they might. I’ll I’ll take him. I’ll take Hypel. You would? I mean, I want him to drop about 15 pounds, but I’ll take him. Why you want your coach to lose weight, Brian? What are you doing? He just thinks he’s unhealthy. He thinks he looks sloavvenly. That’s what he said. Getic. He said he looks slovenly. No, I didn’t say Ozic, man. That’s what he said. Just You said You said that he looks slovenly. Okay. All right. We got SMU minus 2 and a half. You got Florida plus the points against Tennessee. What’s next in college? Uh, all right. I know I’ve given two bad picks going against FSU in the last three years. Don’t do it. I’m wearing it today after that huge win last week, but I am doing it because they have not. No. Yeah, I am. No. All right. Okay. Go ahead. Fine. I’m fading you. That’s fine. All right. So, look. I I faded them when they were at home. They’re 0 and3 both straight up and ATS on the road this year. NC State’s won three in a row over FSU and five of six. And the NLES have not won at Carter Finley Stadium since 2016. And NC State 4- one at home this year. They beat uh Georgia Tech by 12 and they were undefeated. They beat Virginia. They beat a pretty good G5 in East Carolina. And uh as a home underdog since 2020, NC State’s 8-2 ATS with six outright wins. So plus five and a half. Okay, here’s here’s a fun one for you. So, that’s the last time Florida State you said 2016 won at NC State. They won 24-20. Do you know who the quarterbacks for both teams were? What year? 2016. I’m going to say Mike Glennon. No. Jacobe Brassette? No. No. No. No. No. Russell Wilson. No. 2016. Russell. Russell Wilson. Wilson won a Super Bowl in like 2012. Oh. Uh. Uh, Nicki. Ben Finley. Ben Finley. Ryan Finley. Ryan Finley. You will never get Florida State’s quarterback. DeAndre Francois. Oh my god. Florida State’s running back. 18 carries, 65 yards, and a touchdown. Cook. Travis ATN. Dalvin Cook. Dvin Cook with Florida State. Travis CTN played for the Gator. Oh, he did. All right. They all run together. All right. Uh, SMU, Florida, NC State. Anything else in college? Cal minus three at Stanford. Okay. Oh, although I’m breaking on the field. Yeah, right. You don’t you don’t bet on Will Cox as a favorite, but I mean, come on. Minus three to Stanford. I I gotta go Cal. I wonder who they hire. I wonder if Andrew Lux got something up his sleeve, right? Uh I wonder who I don’t know. Didn’t he Hasn’t he gotten a couple of big uh donations already? You know, they’ve got rich grads. Well, didn’t they have Frank Reich? He’s their coach. That’s who they have right now. They got rid of him, didn’t they? No, that was the Panthers. No, no, no. He Oh, he’s he’s interim. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think he was only just doing it for a year to help guy. Oh, yeah. Cuz I I read this article about Andrew Luck like getting a new coach. Okay. That’s why Yeah. No, you’re right. Yeah. They didn’t fire him. No, I think it was all the It was planned to just be one and done. Like Jim Gro when he took over at Baylor for um for what’s his name? Right. Yeah. Yeah. Let me figure this out. You can coach him for a year. I trust you because I played for you in Indianapolis. Blah blah blah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Exactly. All right. Uh SMU Florida NC State Cal. Uh that’s it for college, right? Well, I got player props. Uh which which is about all I’ve been any good at lately. Um let’s go Tailon Taylor Green. Uh Arkansas quarterback over 52 and a half. Uh he’s gone over that in seven out of 10 games. And let’s go Mike Washington, Arkansas running back over 65 uh and a half. Uh he’s gone over that in seven games and two of the three times he didn’t go over 65 and a half he had 63 and 65. So he was right there. And then I’ll do Taylor Green anytime Tutty uh plus 120. All right. And then I got a Diego and then I’m I’m down for every Diego prop if you want. I mean it’s very important for Vandy to have somebody at the Heisman ceremony. He’s not going to win the Heisman, but he’s either fourth or fifth on the board at most at most books. So, I I mean, not I’m not implying that they can just do whatever they want to Kentucky. Kucky’s playing good, but I I think that when they’re down in the red zone, I I think they’re gonna make an effort to get Diego some Tutties and some stats cuz that’s huge for Vandy to have a player at the ceremony, you know, in the top five. Absolutely. So, I like Diego over 52 and a half uh rushing yards. Um, I like his anytime touchdown. If you want to do He scored a touchdown in four games in a row and six of seven and he had two of them against LSU. If you want to go two rushing touchdowns or more, it’s plus 270 at FanDuel or it was uh late yesterday afternoon. And um he’s had uh let’s see uh the he’s had look at his passing yards the last few games. He’s had 365 and 377 the last two with three tuddies in each. So any of his passing props like over one and a half touchdown, I’m down with that as long as it’s not too chalky. Actually, I think I had the FanDuel pulled up. Where is it? Um are y’all looking at his player props? No, I’m not. I’m not. Okay. Um just dawned on me. I haven’t even looked at those Heisman odds. Is it Mendoza? Is that the Is he like Yeah, like even money. No, it’s not runaway. No. Uh uh couple guys. He said Pav is in the top five. Like who who is who’s up? Jeremiah Smith maybe here. I got it right here. Julian Sans plus 190. Marcel Reed’s uh 6 to1 and Pav is 15 to1. Gunner Stockton 25 and Haynes King 33. I’ve got him at 90 to1. If you can beat Georgia and have like five touchdowns. Yeah, maybe. All right. So Mendoza is though the favorite right now. Correct. Yeah, that’s fair. Okay. Oh, and I got some look aheadlines for next week if y’all want them. Let me hear it. Okay, I’m scrolling down. I know yesterday it was five and a half for the Iron Bowl. Uh Alabama, we got Oklahoma minus 9 and a half at home to LSU. Uh Ohio State’s 5 and a half to Indiana in the um Big 10 Championship game. Tennessee’s three and a half to Vandy. Calling my shot right now. Diego wins at Tennessee outright next week. Wow. All right. That’s three and a half is already they posted a line on that, huh? Look a headline. Yep. And um Oh, I like Pit. Pit plus 8 and a half at home to Miami in a cold weather game. Miami doesn’t win in November on the road. Oh,&m Texas&M’s minus 2 and a half at Texas. Oh, and Georgia’s 12 and a half to Georgia Tech. Man, see a lot of good ones. That’s a lot of good ones in next weekend. That’s going to be a lit weekend. George is starting to turn up though right now. Yeah, they are. Miss is Yeah, but we take we do we take Brent Key as an underdog. We don’t even look at it, right? Yeah, I know. I still I’ll still take Georgia Tech. That’s it. We just take him as an underdog. That’s it. Sight unseen. Correct. All right. Uh NFL, what what did you have? I got two of them. Uh let’s go. Eagles minus three and Chiefs minus three. Okay. Eagles minus and I got a I got a college hoops tonight. How dare you pick the freaking Eagles. Did you not see the Cowboys on Monday night? What a joke. Where who were you playing again? The Raiders. But it was a domination. An utter domination. I was actually driving back from Oxford. And no Lane Johnson. Oh my god. I Now I I give you that. I give you that. Quinn Quinnon Williams going to throw those guys around. Throwing them around. No crumbs left. No crumbs left. He’s gonna eat. No crumbs. Crazy. Okay, so Chiefs minus three against the Colts. And then you like the uh Eagles over the Cowboys in a disgusting pick that I cannot endorse. You want a late night college hoops tonight? What you got, bro? You got anything good? Troy plus Troy plus 18 and a half. Who? Troy. Troy 18. Why don’t you You’re not taking our Memphis Tigers against Purdue today. Uh, I took uh UT Martin in part at FSU the other night because they won outright at UNLV and UNLV won outright at Memphis. Also, they won also UT Martin won by double digits at Bradley. I know. As Yeah. Have you watched them? You haven’t seen them, have you? I went No, I went to the FSU game Tuesday night. I watched them. The UT Mart They’re fun. They’ve got 11 They’ve got uh players from 11 different countries. It’s amazing. and all these like it’s like a it’s like a freaking Eastern European team. It’s crazy. It is. It was fun. Um they committed 26 turnovers though cuz FSU had too much speed for them. But they’ve got guys that can stroke it like perfect rotation and they all and they all like pivot and footwork and dribble pass and shoot. It looks like one of those Olympic teams. They’re fun. All right. So wait, let me tell you about Troy the other night. So they won at San Diego State. Even though San Diego State hit like a 65-footer at the buzzer to force OT. You would think that’d be very deflating. Yeah, they still won an OT. Wow. All right, Troy Trojans. We’ll keep the lookout to Troyes. All right, I I’ll keep up with that one tonight just to find out if you were right about that or not. And then we can put a mark on Troy and maybe they’re uh maybe they’re a team that we could bet on throughout the year. All right, Brian, we’ll catch up with you next week. Thanks, brother. Thanks, fellas. We’ll see you. All right, Brian. All right. because of this stupid old miss conversation that we had. Um, we’re not going to hate on the Kings. We just got to pray that this is a okay outcome tonight. Kings are having their worst start since 1990. Surely. What’s I think it maybe What’s our worst start since what? I don’t know. I don’t I don’t want to talk about it. Okay. But I guess they don’t need any extra. And we’re going to get to hate on them when they come back in town later this year. So, we’ll do it then. Uh, we do need to give a Sky Dog of the game, though. Brought to you by our buddies over at WiseAcre. Sky Dog. Not only do they have Sky Dog, the original uh Pzner, they now have Sky Dog Amber. And they’ve taken both of those out to Colorado to the Great American Beal Festival and they’ve won the damn thing. Unbelievable. They compete against beers from all over and they come out the winner and it’s made right here, right down the street from us. Sky Dog, you will see it in Kroger. You’ll see it in Fresh Market. You’ll see it all over town. And get wings and pizza. and get wings and pizza while you’re there at the downtown one. Yeah, sky dog. Freaking amazing. Unbelievable. All right, our sky dog of the game, the player that we’re gonna be talking about tomorrow on the show. [Music] I am going to say Zack Edy. They don’t have bigs. I’m going Edy. Precious on that team. Who would have thought? I’m going Edy. Uh, okay. I’ll go I’m stuck between Vince and said Coward. I’m gonna go said Coward. All right. Cedric Coward is Deon’s pick. Coward. Sky dog of the game. Roser. Uh Cam Spencer. All right. He plays his ass off. Here we go. All right. Straight face Cam Spencer. That’s our That’s our dog picks for tonight’s game. Grizzlies are playing against the Kings at 7:00 at Fed X Forum. First City game, by the way. First City game. Platinum Johns. Platinum J. Platinum. We’re going platinum. Yeah. Yeah. Devil without a cause. That’s tonight. Platinum Jones. So, anyways, uh Grizzlies playing Kings tonight. You can tune it in. We’ll be on the pregame show at 6:30 tonight. You can listen to Roser on the double DP after the game. We’re DP’s back tonight. Have had no DP since the Oklahoma City game when Dev got in on the DP. I did get in on DP. the Tower Junk. All right, shut up. It’s going to do it for today’s show. Uh, no thanks to either of these guys. Thanks to Jaylen back in the studio. Great job as always. We’ll be back. We’ll be back tomorrow. Odds go up next. Until then, we gone. [Music]
The gang is back today and we’ll talk Grizzlies vs Kings tonight and why there have been so many injuries in the NBA this year and maybe if teams will start to zag away from trying to play faster and faster (9:50). Memphis Basketball is in the Bahamas to play Purdue and if, big IF, they can win, can they turn a corner??? (35:55). Lane Kiffin’s SEC Coaches Teleconference got awkward….can you win a National Championship at Ole Miss????? (45:44). Vegas Insider Senior Handicapper Brian Edwards joins the show to give us picks in College Football and the NFL (1:21:07). We’ll pick our SKYDOG of the Game for Grizzlies/Kings (1:37:38).
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2 struggling teams. But one has to get w to end their skid
FIRE KLEIMAN
Is JA “still fine in the West?” 😂