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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: It's the day before the day before we're broadcasting in South Bend, Indiana. If you get a chance, you want to come out and say, Lo, you want to press the flesh, you can do that. The entire crew ready to go to South Bend. Will be outside Legends Pub on the campus of Notre Dame Thursday and Friday. First come, first serve, standing room only. Parking is self directed there. Tonight Dodgers Brewers Game two. Some great baseball yesterday and last night Blake Snell, he was dealing. Dodgers hold on in a wild one to beat the Brewers to one, and the Mariners they blow out the Blue Jays and now they're up two to oh. They win that one, ten to three. Football taking the headlines, the Falcons surprising the Bills by ten felt like it was more than that. And the Bears stunned the Commanders at the Buzzer twenty five to twenty four. Now, if you look at am, I right that the Bears beat the Raiders twenty five to twenty four last week.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 2: So they they're the first team since nineteen twenty six to win back to back games by the same score twenty five to twenty four, and at the buzzer in both of those in previous years, these are games that they would probably lose, and really that comes down to coaching and your quarterback. And Caleb Williams didn't have a great night. Jayden Daniels didn't have a great night. But you still see there's separation between those two. Jaden Daniels is a better quarterback, but it doesn't mean that Ben Johnson can't get the best out of Caleb Williams, but Jaden Daniels is more polished. The Falcons I think stole the night because you watch the Falcons here is a nationally televised game, and you're able to see Jon Robinson dominate and he's off to a historical start. Now, we love the kid. When we had him on prior to the draft, I mean, he got so much charisma and so much talent. It just we didn't kind of lump him in with Saquon Barkley or Derrick Henry or Christian McCaffrey. It's oh yeah, you know, he would always have a highlight. Now I'm looking at his numbers. He has eight hundred and twenty two scrimmage yards. Only three players have had more scrimmage yards through their team's first five games of a season in history, Christian McCaffrey, O. J. Simpson, and Jim Brown. Stat of the Day, Roger you Vaipanani America the official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. But he's doing it rushing and receiving, and this is what people thought he was going to be like. And he joined Thurman Thomas who did this in nineteen ninety one, to have at least four hundred and fifty rushing yards three hundred receiving yards through his team's first five games of the season. And maybe the NFC South is not that bad, certainly better than the AFC North. But then this is still a Falcons team that God shut out thirty to nothing. This a couple of weeks ago, where I go, who are you? But maybe that's who the Falcons are. We're not quite sure who they are. I don't know about Michael Pennix. There are times when I go, okay, and he's played a lot of football, you know, at Indiana, and then you dub and I'm waiting to see you know who I'm waiting to see is Pitts Like, I'm watching the game and I go, didn't they take him? Like fourth overall? He had three catches and he was supposed to be the thing. It's like, you need a quarterback, we're gonna take him. They're gonna take a tight end. But Drake London look great. It just Falcons defensively. That's always been my big bugaboo. I'm waiting making sure that they I don't know, can they win games defensively?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 2: They won offensively last night, but still you're holding Buffalo to fourteen points. But you start to look and they lost by three points to open the season against Tampa, and we look at Tampa differently. But they got shut out thirty to nothing a couple of weeks ago. I don't know how that happens to a team where you go, yeah, we're going to beat Buffalo, but we're going to get shut out thirty to nothing. Who shut them out? Was that Pans Panthers? Oh my goodness?

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Speaker 4: Wor Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Like where you go huh? Things that make you go huh? Big news yesterday? You know we're looking at turnarounds here. Brian Callahan got fired, got fired by the Titans, and the Titans, of course, moved on from Mike Brable, which I didn't understand why, but they moved on from Derrick Henry, they moved on from.

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Speaker 4: Aj Brown, and you start.

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Speaker 2: To go, you know what the problem is, probably the people in the front office there. But if you look at this team four years ago, you're thinking, all right, they still got a good nucleus. They got twelve wins. So here Mike Munchak lasted three seasons, Ken Wizen hunt to Mike Malarkey two, then Vrabel and then all of a sudden they chase him out the door. Brian Callahan comes in and he goes four to nineteen before he got fired. Keep hitting the reset button, and then you've got to come to the realization that it's the ownership front office that seems to be the problem.

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Speaker 4: But they have the fire and hire. They're really good at this.

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Speaker 2: John Robinson GM fired in twenty twenty two, Ran Carthon hired in twenty twenty three, Mike Vrabel fired in twenty twenty four, Brian Callahan hired, Ran Carthon fired, Mike Borgonzi hired in twenty twenty five, and Brian Callahan has been fired now yesterday, and I start to look at this, and you know, when you look at young quarterbacks, I always talk about, give me continuity, because it's not fair. You bring these kids in, they're supposed to be saviors and then you don't have stability for them, and that's what they need. You can't keep churning through OC's and head coaches. You can't. And I never would have brought Brian Callahan back. He won three games last year. You were going to take a quarterback unless you felt like that guy is the guy, then you don't fire him. Now like what happened. How surprised are you and how much of this is on him that all of a sudden, you guys are still bad. But I wouldn't have brought him back. I said, I wouldn't have brought him back. I don't know Brian Callahan. I just look at these here, like Kevin Stefanski and Cleveland. If you're going to take a quarterback next year, are you bringing Kevin Stefanski back? And I would say no, don't do that. Brian Dable with the Giants might keep his job because they took Jackson dark and they were probably told you got to play Jackson dark. His future is attached to him, but they might move on from him and then all of a sudden he's got a new OC and he's got a new head coach. It's not fair to these quarterbacks. You know, Caleb Williams, he's got some bad habits. But you know, remember Matt Eberflus, I said, you got to give him stability. I didn't think he was a great coach, but if you're going to keep him in there to have stability, great. But these owners who bring them bring their coaches back and then they get rid of them halfway through the season. Was it that tenuous to begin with? And if it was, then don't bring him back. You're looking at these quarterbacks and you're going, hey, go out there and be a star. You know, Trevor Lawrence, had Urban Meyer, Bryce Young, Frank Reich, Caleb Williams, Matt Eberfluse, cam Ward Brian Callahan. Do you see a theme here? You draft a quarterback and then you have a coach, and then you fire your coach. Four quarterbacks taken first overall have had their head coach fired during their rookie season. That's the last four. And Frank Reich didn't want to start Bryce Young. Go back to draft night, South poll Antonio reported, this is who they're taking, and who they're taking will be their starter Week one. That is terrible. That is irresponsible by ownership. And Frank who played the position, did not want to take Bryce Young or didn't want to play Bryce Young right away. Caleb Williams got in there all of a sudden. Now you have turnover there, Trevor Lawrence. You know the Urban Meyer debacle and now cam Ward. We're looking for them to be great, and sometimes that's where the quarterback who's taken in the second, third, fourth, fifth round can have more success because they'll watch for a little while and then they'll get into a stable situation or a more stable situation. There's a reason why these teams are drafting number one.

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Speaker 4: They're bad. That's the problem.

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Speaker 2: Jared Goff sat, you know, Mahomes was different, but it's just it's kind of crazy. You know, the logic of we're going to draft a guy, play him right away, the coaches on a on the hot seat, and then we're going to get rid of him, and then we're going to expect cam Ward to get better. Here is rookie year and that's not going to happen. But this is malpractice with the you know, Tennessee Titans and the fact that Mike Rabel and the Patriots are coming to town this week.

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Speaker 4: You can't script it.

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Speaker 2: You can't, all right, eight seven seven three DP show email address Dpadanpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show. Once again, you got baseball Game two, Dodgers at the Brewers.

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Speaker 4: There was a wild wild play.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how to describe a double play at I'm trying to think, what were the numbers? It was eight so center fielder, the relay catcher and then yeah, you have eight six to two. Has that ever happened in the history of Major League Baseball? In the playoffs?

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Speaker 4: Eight six'?

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Speaker 2: Two AND i thought it was A Grand. SLAM i think they thought it was A Grand. Slam and then all of a sudden it turned out to be a double.

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Speaker 4: Play And i'm, like, wow.

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Speaker 2: Because that could have that would have blown the game wide. Open But Blake, snell two Time Cy young, winner how is it you can win The Cy young one. Year you're not An All star in a year where you win The Cy. Young so In San diego he won A Cy. Young he wasn't on The All star. TEAM i, mean once, AGAIN i don't know if a Cy young winner has ever gone through the season where he won The Cy.

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Speaker 4: Young and didn't make The All star.

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Speaker 2: Team but that was a Wild AND i watched a lot of This seattle game because they hit Bombs, toronto you're obviously a deep. Hole and teams that lose the first two, games they don't come back to win these. Things the odds are not in their. Favor in, Fact i've got the math on. This so The mariners are the twenty eighth team in playoff history to win the first two games of a best of seven series on the. Road twenty four of the previous twenty seven went on to win the. Series, wow stell of a, day stall of to, Day statata, Day stantata.

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Speaker 4: Day this is the start of the.

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Speaker 2: Day, yeah they have three home run two were three run homers and Uh, ben but you know the big. Dumper they walked to him a couple of. Times they were pitching around. Him and then The Blake snell, game one, hit struck out ten in eight, innings and then he picked off the only guy that he allowed only base. Runner so that's the first pitcher to face the minimum through eight innings in a postseason game Since Don larsen in nineteen fifty six.

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Speaker 4: When he threw a perfect. Game stow the day.

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Speaker 2: The day stat of the day comes that one stat of the. Day if he would have had a complete, game that would be like an eclipse where you'd, go what what just? Happened and this is a guy normally doesn't go, deep you, know like a six inning. Pitcher but that was an impressive performance In. Milwaukee all, Right alton In North, Carolina, Hey, alton what's on your mind?

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Speaker 4: Today?

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Speaker 5: Dan what's going?

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Speaker 6: On?

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Speaker 7: Buddy? Hey oh, man he's killing me.

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Speaker 5: With the you, know with The falcons, losing you, know to The. PANTHERS i live In North. CAROLINA i do love The, panthers But i'm A i'm a Big falcons. SON i mean they did shut us, out, okay but you know they had lost two games in a row and they was they was. MAD i mean they wanted to do.

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Speaker 7: Something we just. Had we had a bad. Day we shipped to Bed, ben but.

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Speaker 2: You got shut out thirty to. Nothing you can be mad and have a bad.

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Speaker 7: Day, yeah but all our all of our playmakers are. Young you, know They Mike. Pennix he's, young he don't he don't know much. Yet our defense was, young you, know they JUST i, mean we still have. Him we still hit him to like what two hundred? Yards we got the number one because number one. Defense now we gotta give them a little bit of.

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Speaker 2: CREDIT i, KNOW i, KNOW i respect you for calling in to uh try to defend being shut out By. Carolina not many people would do, That, alton but you and. Congratulations, Yeah atlanta's always had some offensive.

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Speaker 4: Guys you, know they got.

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Speaker 2: Weapons i've always waited for them to have a formidable, defense and maybe they got. One but For, buffalo that's back to back, losses like lost in all of. This His buffalo lost back to back, games WHICH i think they're going to be really active trade deadline, here all, right and you give up over four hundred?

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Speaker 2: Kirk Kurb. Street herbie was In, Eugene. Oregon got See indiana Beat, oregon rough them. Up and he also Had oklahoma And texas And Steelers bengals coming up On thursday, Night College Game day In, Athens, Ole miss And georgia kicking off at three point Thirty eastern ON.

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Speaker 4: Abc, herbie, great to see you. Again how you Doing i'm, great, man how are you doing?

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Speaker 2: Great BUT i still get frustrated WHEN i watched these young quarterbacks in THE, nfl and you don't have continuity in the coaching staff or the offensive, coordinators and then you send them out and they just kind of run around in circles. HERE i don't know why owners and gms haven't learned from. This and Cam ward's not going to get any better this year where you fire a head, Coach so why do they keep making the same?

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Speaker 4: MISTAKES i WISH i.

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Speaker 9: KNEW i, MEAN i THINK i just left the GAME i did last week With philly and The New York, giants and there's an example on the opposite, end you, know Where Jackson dart has seemed to kind of figure things. Out that's What Brian dayball wants to do with The. Giants SO i don't know if we can just throw a blanket over all of it and say that there just aren't any quarterbacks that are figuring. Out BUT i do think the majority or what you're, describing AND i think it has a lot to do With first of, ALL i think what's happened in the last fifteen years is quarterbacks are advancing at a record pace off away from the lights and the. Cameras as far as training like if you look at a tenth grade quarterback that's at an elite level today and you go back to the nineties or the early two, thousands it's night and day with the development of these middle school and high school, quarterbacks and then you eventually take them into.

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Speaker 3: College and THE. Nfl so technically they're incredibly.

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Speaker 9: Sound it's almost like in, hoops a guy that just works on a, jumper works on individual, moves but he doesn't get a lot of action and actual pickup, games and then you throw them into pickup games and it's, LIKE, whoa this is different than my. Training AND i think what's happened is And i've Heard Tom brady talk about, this how the game has been dumbed down to a certain, degree AND i agree with. That doing college for the last thirty years and watching the changes.

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Speaker 3: Just at that. Level forget THE.

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Speaker 9: Nfl you, know we started to see if you go back to like you're AND i, era it was More ie formation and more traditional what you would think of. Football and Then Joe tiller came, around And Rich rodriguez came, around And Chip kelly came, around and all of a.

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Speaker 3: Sudden we started to see teams go really. Fast we're, like what's going on with all this?

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Speaker 9: Speed and you see signs on the sideline Just Daffy duck Or Dan patrick or whatever it might, be whatever the play might. Be no one's, Huddling so you just keep going down that. Path that becomes instead of outliers Like chip And Rich, rodriguez it becomes the.

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Speaker 3: Norm so what's the downside to? That the downside to.

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Speaker 9: That is you don't have quarterbacks anymore that are learning how to run an, offense getting down on a knee and looking up to ten guys in their face and calling a play and getting ready to read structures of. Defenses what we're doing is kind of smoking, mirrors and a lot of the college, offenses it's going so fast that the defenses they're looking over the, sideline they're not quite lined up fifty yard.

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Speaker 3: Touchdown and you start having these quarterbacks throw for four.

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Speaker 9: Thousand yards and everybody, thinks this guy's the first pick overall in the, draft and.

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Speaker 3: Is he truly? Ready is he truly more than just? Potential you, know When Tom brady came, out those were.

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Speaker 9: Quarterbacks there was evidence of their play on the, field and you could as an evaluator you, could you could kind of see how he fit into your. Scheme now you're kind of, guessing you're you're kind of, thinking you're looking at his individual ability and you're forecasting how he might fit.

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Speaker 3: In to your. Scheme so that's WHY i think we have. THIS i, mean it's literally first round draft.

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Speaker 9: Picks you're rolling the dice and sometimes you hit A Jackson dart and sometimes it's a swing and a.

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Speaker 3: Miss AND i think that's why we have what we. Have but these guys.

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Speaker 9: Are so desperate to get the guy like A Jackson dart maybe that they're willing to keep taking those chances even though the result potentially is them losing their job if they don't get.

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Speaker 2: It. YEAH a friend of mine who's AN nfl scout said, that and he's been doing this for a long long. Time he, said these young quarterbacks don't realize that you must throw a receiver, open and if a receiver is, open he won't be open much more than you, know a second or.

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Speaker 4: Two in, college you got guys that are.

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Speaker 2: Open you got kind of you, know avenues or ALLEYS i can throw there and you don't have to worry about. Anything these guys now it's, like, damn wait a, MINUTE i thought you were, open and it's just so, quick AND i don't know how You you, know that's Why Dylan gabriel got to start In cleveland Over shador and, they you, know Set joe down. South he at least processes really quick and gets it out really.

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Speaker 4: Quick but can you teach or how do you teach.

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Speaker 2: Getting the ball out, quickly whether it's college or certainly THE.

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Speaker 4: Nfl you just hit the word.

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Speaker 9: Processing When Mac jones came, out AND i can't remember all the quarterbacks that came out that year As trevor And mack and there were a bunch of guys that came out that, year and you, know GET i do shows like this and people ask me of all THESE i think there's maybe five in the first round that. Year which is the guy that you think really has a? Chance AND i Said Mac Jones and they, said what About Trevor. LAWRENCE i mean he's And Trevor lawrence is a great player and he won national. Championships And clem, said it was. Nothing it wasn't not a knock On. Trevor it was JUST i had a chance that year to sit down with all five of these guys and watch.

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Speaker 3: Film AND i remember sitting down With Mac.

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Speaker 9: Jones AND i remember he's Running sark's offense and starts to have been an offense coordinator for The falcons and runs in the college game what's probably closest to the pro, Game and my, gosh the command of the offense and the way he was like rain mans on the board trying to tell me all these different, things AND i was just, like holy. Cow and watching film with, him like the way his brain just, fired it just really.

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Speaker 3: Stoock out to.

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Speaker 9: Me AND i just, Thought, wow this dude processes at an elite. Level now he's not six,' four he's not going to throw at eighty yards and, all that, but man and when it comes to getting the. Ball out so now look at what His Career new england with One Point matt patricia call him Plays And joe judge and everything that went. On there and then he got, a backup Ironically. To trevor and now He's At san francisco and he's with a coach that really really relies heavily. On that here's.

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Speaker 3: My system i'm gonna this is a quarterback.

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Speaker 9: Friendly offense you've got to know where to go with, the ball and we want the ball out. On time if you, do that we're gonna. Be Fine and i'm not Saying mac jones is going to Take brock. Bertie's job i'm just saying processing is the, HARDEST thing i think to predict because you don't see enough evidence of it in college because of the tempo and because of the wide.

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Speaker 3: Open receivers you're.

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Speaker 9: Kind of sitting down doing talks with them and watching film, with them listening to how they recount different kind of coverages and what kind of adjustments they. Would make but it's. A Trick bo nix is doing a great Job With. SEAN payton, i mean we can find guys that early in their careers are, doing well but you know it's something that more often than not at, that position it takes time and reps and failure to overcome. The FAILURE and i think What arch manning's going through. RIGHT now i just had his Game in dallas. LAST week i think the greatest thing is that he's going through this.

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Speaker 3: RIGHT now i.

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Speaker 9: REALLY do i think how great as Opposed To, anthony richardson the only failure he really met with Injuries, in gainesville and all of a sudden he gets TO the nfl and now you got to the position is about, overcoming FAILURE and i Think arch manning the best thing that's going to happen to him long term is people going from he's, the heisman he's.

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Speaker 3: The best he's Better, Than peyton he's Better than. Eli too this.

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Speaker 9: Dude sucks this guy's trash to go through that and to not point fingers and to just, Endure, that man is that going to? Help him it sucks to go, through it, but man is that going to help him?

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Speaker 2: Long term Talking to Kirk herb street college, game day they Were, In. Eugene oregon then he went To The, cotton Bowl The Red. River rivalry then He's got Thursday Night, steelers bengals and then college game will Be. In Athens old Miss and georgia kickoff three thirty EASTERN. On abc how often have you gotten up in the middle of the night and not sure where, you are what city?

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Speaker 4: You're in.

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Speaker 9: Happens happens. QUITE often i think the hardest, thing is like you're going through my, schedule there if, you said where were you? Last week that's the hardest thing to know because just, you know when you, do this it.

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Speaker 3: Just stacks days and weeks just stack.

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Speaker 9: On top of, each other so you you kind of get lost on where. You've BEEN and i KNOW where i am, right NOW and i Know where i'm going. THIS week i, Know that but other, THAN that i don't know a.

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Speaker 4: Whole lot i've gotten up in the middle of the night on.

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Speaker 2: THE road i think DURING The nba finals It was Seattle and chicago and the configuration of the. HOTEL room i Wasn't, in SEATTLE but I thought i was take.

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Speaker 3: A lof you get up in the middle of the night to go to. The, bathroom yeah walk into. A, wall yeah you.

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Speaker 4: Know you're in a.

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Speaker 2: Closet There The penn, state situation Why Fire? James, franklin now.

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Speaker 9: The ONLY thing i can, think of without talking to anybody there is was the locker room completely out where the guys just they lost. To use first, of all they Lost to oregon when they were still ranked and everybody thought they were a, great.

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Speaker 3: Team a great football game that they could.

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Speaker 2: Have won and that's sixteen. Days, ago herbie they're ranked like two or three in.

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Speaker 9: The, country, Yeah yeah and last year they were a play away from playing in the. National title everybody always talks about his record against top five or top, ten teams but when he LOST, to ucla it was it was clearly NOTHING against ucla because they're playing so differently, right now but clearly that team was impacted by the disappointment and they couldn't.

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Speaker 3: Shake It, against oregon they.

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Speaker 9: Showed up they looked at, The film, they're LIKE this ucla, team sucks they just fired. Their, coach whatever we'll. Kill them boom. Got EMBARRASSED and i don't know whatever happened on that flight home and that next week of practice getting Ready.

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Speaker 3: For northwestern the only thing you can think of is maybe he lost.

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Speaker 9: The team and if you're the ad or you're the, decision makers and they're still looking at maybe trying to salvage. This year by, THE way, I Know drew aller's got, the injury but there's enough talent on. That roster if you look at, their schedule they can win a lot. Of games BUT maybe i don't, know this but maybe the ship was sinking as far as the buy in behind, the scenes and maybe the decision, makers thought let's get out of, this now let's try to salvage.

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Speaker 3: This year and let's try to find our. Next guy it's the ONLY thing i can think of is why you?

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Speaker 1: Do it?

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Speaker 4: Right now how attractive is? THAT job i still think it's a.

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Speaker 3: Premier job.

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Speaker 9: They. SPEND money, i mean they, are willing and. That's sad that's how you have to look. At it not tradition and history and what they're capable Of Doing joe paterno and all the wins. And championships now it's are they? Spending money and they, are they, you know and they will be very attractive now you might be this day.

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Speaker 3: And age, it's different, you.

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Speaker 9: Know IN the nfl and college because the noise outside of the buildings is so.

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Speaker 3: Much louder and with, the, money hey, YOU know i gave a. MILLION dollars i gave what.

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Speaker 9: You got all these these money people now that are helping influence and make decisions that that's a. SLIPPERY slope i think when it comes to coaches making a decision ON should i go to? This school, you KNOW because i Need your we're gonna have some. TOUGH times i need you to be in the corner. WITH me i don't need you to kind of throw me out there and, let me, you know be. By MYSELF so I Like. Penn state it's a, great campus, great university, great tradition. Great stadium they're. SPENDING money i think anybody would would Go To penn state if they got. The opportunity that's. My take we're Going To.

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Speaker 2: South bend we're going to Be there Thursday and FRIDAY for US cool Usc And. NOTRE dame usc is kind, of quiet which to me if this is two thousand, and four they're ranked in the, top five, you know with a one. Loss record they weren't even ranked and they Roughed up, Michigan there so what do you expect OUT? Of Usc And notre dame's finally playing like we thought they were going.

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Speaker 4: To play that's a really.

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Speaker 3: Good point. YOU'RE right i think what's HAPPENED to usc.

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Speaker 9: When it COMES to ap voters and maybe even the coaches poll is they're kind of one foot in and one.

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Speaker 3: Foot out, you know it's been a long TIME since usc has.

00:28:41
Speaker 9: Been a relevant top, ten TEAM and i think more often, than not a PROGRAM like usc with, its tradition gets the benefit of the doubt when it comes to, preseason rankings and the last few Years with Likeke and riley they've not proven to be the team that could adjust To the big ten and become a.

00:28:59
Speaker 3: Prenier powers so people.

00:29:01
Speaker 9: Were kind, Of, like okay let's wait, and SEE and i still, feel like even though They beat michigan, FAIRLY convincingly i Still, feel, okay, okay okay let's see how they Do It. Notre dame let's see what they Do With. Notre DAME then i, Can, Say Okay lincoln riley's got. Them going that's my take ON where. Usc is and on the.

00:29:23
Speaker 3: Other Side. Notre dame go back and look at who they played early in.

00:29:26
Speaker 9: The year with a brand, new quarterback new, defensive coordinator they're just trying to kind of. FIND themselves i think there's enough ability there for them to run. The Table find this is probably their toughest game they Have left saturday against sc. At home but if they just focus on week to week and not people like me saying they're going to finish ten, and two they're going to be in you, At large they're going to.

00:29:47
Speaker 3: The playoff if they.

00:29:49
Speaker 9: Just focus on every week, getting Ready which marcus is as good as, there is then that's a team that can do a lot of good things. This year and still achieve, their goals even they were set back their first.

00:30:01
Speaker 2: Two games by, the way thank you for having me be ahead of, the CURVE because i remember in the preseason, you, said hey keep an Eye on Indiana's, quarterback mendoza and it just stayed. With me and then all of, a sudden they were putting up points and then they Blew, out illinois AND then i, was, Like hey herbstreet was on this and he's probably the leading candidate For the heisman, right now probably, right now And that.

00:30:25
Speaker 4: Oregon too that's EXACTLY what i was going.

00:30:27
Speaker 9: TO say, I mean Alabama, Wanted georgia Georgia, wanted knoxville which those are, huge WINS but i don't think there's a bigger win Than what. Indiana did Going to oregon and playing the way. They did this was not A.

00:30:44
Speaker 3: Hey oregon, you know they lost. A game This.

00:30:47
Speaker 9: Was indiana think about the pick Six that mendoza threw and, you're, thinking, Okay okay oregon's they're going to win, at home, of course and instead they go on to twelve.

00:30:57
Speaker 3: Play drive that was their response to the.

00:31:00
Speaker 9: Pick six that tells you everything you need to know about this team and the ability to respond to some adversity in the toughest environment you could, be in and they. Did it they scored ten straight points after that pick six and deserve all the accolades. THEY'RE receiving i was a guy that's kind OF been i think you have to Respect What kurt signetti. Has done but they didn't beat a team with a winning record. Last year the two times that they had a chance against winning record Teams Were ohio State And, notre dame and they lost both.

00:31:27
Speaker 3: Those.

00:31:27
Speaker 9: GAMES nothing, i mean they're still doing a, good job but let's not put them up in the elite. Category yet and then they did what they Did, against illinois and then they followed up with the Win. Against oregon they deserve all the credit in. The world, in fact THIS week i have them at number one in the country or just slightly Ahead Of, ohio state just because of what they Did.

00:31:46
Speaker 3: Against illinois And. Against, oregon yeah on, the road Especially.

00:31:50
Speaker 2: At oregon you've called a lot, of games but your best performance wasn't on a. Football field it was With coach corso you should be, very proud, you guys.

00:31:59
Speaker 4: Especially you you thank.

00:32:01
Speaker 2: You man you put him in a position to succeed in having YOU. Understanding tv you did A, Wonderful john thank.

00:32:09
Speaker 3: YOU man i. Appreciate that on.

00:32:12
Speaker 9: Our show it was my thirtieth year On On, game day and of course you were there at just BEING when i first, started THERE and i didn't KNOW what i.

00:32:19
Speaker 3: WAS doing i had.

00:32:20
Speaker 9: NO clue i watched the, leak orso. You know he he'd have a legal pad out he would he would write and, black sharpie like two or three sentences for his his. On camera he would have a green sharpie for when he he would do his throw line and they would throw to video and then he would have, you know whatever he would say in green and then in blue would go back on a single and he would so nobody. TAUGHT me i was, watching HIM so, i thought that's what you're supposed. To DO so i got a legal PAD and i got SHARPIEES and i tried to do what he DID and i COULD never i was so terri verrified of trying. To memorize it was like he was reading a telepropter because he had practiced it. So much and to go from that to all the, you know the experiences with him both on and, off camera and you know what it's like when you work, with people it's really more the experiences off camera that draw you closer and create, a bond and then that bond kind of carries over. ON camera i know you've done it with a bunch of, different people so you know Exactly what i'm. Talking about and it's.

00:33:28
Speaker 3: Almost like an.

00:33:28
Speaker 9: Unspoken friendship and then when he had, a stroke he went from being like the mentor and the coach to me just we never talked. About it it, was just, you know You're an. Ohio Guy i'm, Ohio guy like WHAT can i do? To help kind? Of thing AND so i just kind of sat there and if you ever needed a little bit, OF help i, would help and if, he didn't he didn't, need IT and i would.

00:33:51
Speaker 3: Try to do it as SUBTLY as. I COULD and.

00:33:55
Speaker 9: I didn't really realize people were paying attention. To IT and i think over time it would just became Aim because i'm sitting next. To him if he were sitting Next, to Dez it dez would have. Done it but he just happened to be sitting next, to me and and it, was just, you know two friends hanging out next to each other. Talking FOOTBALL and i, was really really happy THE way espn. Handled, that sometimes, you know big companies a lot. Of people things, move on and they they really did. Him right, you know that's special they did the fact that it Was At, ohio state, ironically enough where he started with the head gear and finished with the, head gear.

00:34:30
Speaker 3: It was it was, a, cool cool cool experience to be there.

00:34:33
Speaker 2: With him if we don't Win The sports emmy and you guys win it and you include that be cheering, Standing Up so i'll be fine. With that i'm not fine with anybody else Winning The sports emmy for, you Know. Show herbie, but uh safe travels, as always and great to.

00:34:50
Speaker 4: Connect again great to see him. Man Anytime that's Kirk.

00:34:53
Speaker 1: Kurb Street Fox sports radio has the best sports talk lineup in. The nation catch all of our Shows at Fox sports radio dot com and Within the. iHeartRadio APP search fsr to.

00:35:05
Speaker 2: Listen Live Matt Lioner funk's big noon, kickoff ANALYST former usc quarterback official height And Weight, Matt official heide and wait, For, Me, Dan.

00:35:15
Speaker 10: Yeah i'm about six four and three quarters about.

00:35:19
Speaker 6: Two sixteen wasn't.

00:35:22
Speaker 2: There a time when quarterbacks could be? Too tall like if you were Six, six yeah didn't it like we kind of looked, at you was It, brock osweiler like there.

00:35:31
Speaker 10: Were black As BROCK os i was like. SIX eight i think that was a little. TOO tall i mean the TALL when i was playing. The tallest there were a bunch of kind of us big old statue guys right, Like, Me, Carson, Me Carson. BRADY peyton i Can't believe i'm putting myself in the. Same sentence but as, far like as far, as height we were all like we were all literally the.

00:35:52
Speaker 6: Same height.

00:35:53
Speaker 10: You Know ben roethlisberger was the Biggest ONE dan i think when we played that he was he was like six six and a half, to sixty but. Built different, but yeah IT'S a i, DON'T know i feel like it's, a different different type.

00:36:05
Speaker 1: Of.

00:36:06
Speaker 6: Body now so.

00:36:07
Speaker 2: When did you realize that these quarterbacks were better? Than you that you COME, from usca you Went, a heisman then you get TO, the nfl and that's when you know things change as far as being a starter or being a backup holding on a.

00:36:21
Speaker 4: Roster, SPOT yeah i.

00:36:23
Speaker 10: Mean THERE'S nowhere i always say this like you could when you were in college as.

00:36:27
Speaker 6: A QUARTERBACK when i was looking at.

00:36:29
Speaker 10: A defense you could always pick, on, players right you could always, you know there was a. Week link there was a couple guys here and there that probably were draft picks OR good, NFL players i think as a, quarterback position so it was, you know you could obviously have. Some success then when you get TO, the nfl there really are no. Weak links there's guys that are better. Than others but that's when it becomes your. Skill set that's when it becomes how much mentally you're ahead of. The game can you read, a defense, the anticipation. The accuracy the accuracy is always a big one for me IN. The NFL for i mean to answer, THAT question i think my, ROOKIE year I thought i.

00:37:04
Speaker 6: WAS fine i.

00:37:05
Speaker 10: PLAYED well i, really believed and then probably year two and, year three when we had a, DIFFERENT system i lost a little bit. Of confidence THAT'S when i kind of, Felt, like okay my, skill SET like i don't have the, Strongest arm i'm not going to run. As much WHERE can i have? The advantage and, for me it was. ALWAYS mental i always FELT like i was naturally just very SMART and i could, read it even the pick up things.

00:37:28
Speaker 6: VERY quickly i would just say the biggest thing.

00:37:32
Speaker 10: Is confidence when you lose your confidence as, a quarterback kind of all hell, breaks loose and at least it did. For ME so i think kind of a couple of.

00:37:40
Speaker 6: Years in but. IT'S funny i WAS actually i was.

00:37:42
Speaker 10: Actually just Talking To arion, foster yesterday my old Teammate, in houston and we were kind of talking about that was my sixth year in, the league, you know kind of washed the second second, through five people kind of FORGOT where. I was kubx signs ME and i tell the story all. The time it was The best i'd ever felt as a, Quarterback EVER like usc, felt great BUT ever i, was like, holy CRAP like i can play this position at a, High level like this Was the shanahan system and all, those THINGS and i got my, confidence Back and AARON and i were just. Talking about aaron, was, LIKE dude i feel like if you would have stayed HEALTHY because i broke my collarbone the first, start back we would have made a deep run in, the playoff like we Lost to Baltimore.

00:38:21
Speaker 6: Or baltimore but it was THE best. I.

00:38:24
Speaker 10: Felt dan so look at the end of, THE day, i think, you know we're seeing a resurgence of all, these players which is, really cool and the fit is just.

00:38:31
Speaker 4: So, important obviously what advice would you give a? Rookie quarterback, oh gosh that's a.

00:38:39
Speaker 10: Good question it's so different now because a lot of these guys are just thrust in. Right away it's, just like. GO play i do think in a lot. Of ways i'll get to that answer in. A second i do think in a lot, of ways a lot of these offenses now are geared toward these players coming in. In college at the high, SCHOOL level i see it's.

00:38:56
Speaker 6: Wide OPEN it's rpo is now in.

00:38:59
Speaker 10: The college so a lot of these YOUNG players i think are way more prepared than a guy, like me or at least in that era where a lot of us, would sit we, back up you kind of wait. YOUR time I still i still think being a sponge is the biggest thing and asking questions and don't think you. KNOW everything a lot of these kids come in and they are advanced and they think they kind of know everything and they, just don't and and game reps and experiences is a way to. Get better so the advice is to go in and be a sponge with the, locker room, ask questions soak, up everything get with their coaches as much. As possible THE most i ever met with my coach my coaches Was in houston With coach napp Rest, in peace who. Passed away he was phenomenal and he taught me that Position like i'd never been. Taught before so those are things you just got to, you gotta, you know it's not necessarily in first. Out late it's just go in there and soak up all, the information, ask questions, retain it and go out and.

00:39:55
Speaker 2: Execute it we're Going To. South bend we're going to Be there Thursday. And, friday yeah it's, a.

00:40:00
Speaker 4: Doozy buddy how do they treat you when you Go To? South Bend?

00:40:04
Speaker 6: South bends they're?

00:40:05
Speaker 10: NOT mean, i, mean GOSH when i Was in illinois a couple of, WEEKS ago, I thought, i, MEAN honestly I thought i, needed, SECURITY.

00:40:12
Speaker 6: Dude I thought i, NEEDED well. I was i was also hyping up the crowd a.

00:40:16
Speaker 10: LITTLE bit, i was, you know, telling them obviously we're gonna kick their ass and all, this stuff and and uh we.

00:40:22
Speaker 6: Did not we did not win.

00:40:23
Speaker 10: That, Game No south Bend Is south bend is. IS fine i don't think they're they're, you Know if i'm, AT that i was at that game a couple of years Ago In, south bend and, you know a couple. OF booze i wouldn't expect anything less from, those guys though.

00:40:36
Speaker 2: Nobody tried to push you, and, say oh, you know Here's a bush push.

00:40:40
Speaker 6: FOR you I mean i. GET that i get that all. The time, you know oh you Cheated. You bush i'm, my guys. THIS happened i think. It was this is a twenty. YEAR anniversaries i think that's the twenty. Year, adversity, like, guys guys, come on can we? Get it? CAN we, i mean, You Know, BRADY quinn i know he's a frequent on.

00:40:57
Speaker 2: The.

00:40:57
Speaker 10: SHOW brady i, was like, come, on guys can we move? Passed this, but again that's. This week i'm sure we'll talk about talk about It On big noon. This weekend but you're gonna. BE there, i mean that's a. BIG one, i mean playoff elimination Game For. Notre dame with already. TWO losses usc can lose this and obviously still went out and make. A playoff i imagine a ten AND two usc team, is in but they still they Still have oregon on. The road they still in the they have a, much difficult much more difficult path and Schedule Than. Notre Dame notre dame. WINS this i think they're coast into a ten and two. PLAYOFF spot i really do.

00:41:32
Speaker 2: YOU know i go back to that play With The reggie. Bush play didn't you have the fourth down Completion To? Duwayne, jarrett yeah that was fourth, and nine and people WILL focus i think the The the bush push over shadows that fourth down play.

00:41:48
Speaker 10: That, converted well there's a there's a couple plays the fourth down. For sure the fourth, and, nine well it's third, and TWENTY and i remember there's a great clip it's Me and sark and heat on, the sideline and the whole thing, was right just get. Half back if it's, not there check Down, to reggie let him go get some yards and at least fourth to nine, is manageable, you know with our guys, and Anyway and i've told, the story but it was one on one and throw it Up to dwayne and again that ball. An inch, either way it's an incomplete we lose. The game it was just one of, those, plays right we executed at a. HIGH level i say this all. The time dwayne was. Not Fast, then god he got hawked at like the twenty. Yard line because if we score, right there there's still. A Minute let brady gonna lead, him down they're gonna win. The game so he gets hawked at. The twenty the one hidden play in that day AND that i, always say there was a third down and four or five. Down there reggie picked up the first down with. A run we barely got. A yard if we don't, get that it's fourth down and one.

00:42:45
Speaker 6: From like the. Seven yard it's just a much.

00:42:47
Speaker 10: Different thing so that's the other PLAY that i think a lot of people forget About is reggie got a converted a first down that stopped, the clock move. The change we can huddle up and execute. Another play i'm fumble that and and it stays.

00:43:02
Speaker 4: In bounds yeah, we lose then? You, LOSE yeah i.

00:43:06
Speaker 6: Mean, God, yeah dan there's a lot, you know there's a lot of ifs in. That game but we haded a win in so it's all. The matters do.

00:43:10
Speaker 4: You hold That over Brady? Quinsn, Oh yeah, Well.

00:43:14
Speaker 6: LISTEN brady I love brady's like a he's like.

00:43:17
Speaker 10: A brother, you know we love each other we, we uh he's a, great dude but he Is a notre dame through and.

00:43:23
Speaker 6: Through guy we all. KNOW that i think he cares a lot more about THIS than.

00:43:29
Speaker 10: I do but, you know sometimes you just gotta you just got to keep him in check a.

00:43:33
Speaker 6: Little bit. YOU know i would, say, like, HEY buddy i know three to ozho. Gets you, but listen they've, beaten us six.

00:43:37
Speaker 10: Of them they've owned us pretty much the, last decade so there hasn't been a lot for me to say. To him, AND again i think this weekend Is another this is just a really tough game for us to go on the road and beat a team, like THAT who i think is one of the hottest teams in.

00:43:52
Speaker 6: The country so we'll.

00:43:53
Speaker 2: See Talking To, matt Lioner The Fox Big noon kickoff crew in. An Arbor it's Washington in michigan coming Up. This saturday you're also Working with. Abbott again this is season that you've worked with we give. Blood drive tell the audience more. About, that yeah this.

00:44:10
Speaker 10: IS awesome i think we talked last year about this. As well thanks for having me on to promote this a. Little, Bit yeah abbot's teamed up With the big ten again and really just, last year this campaign and this blood drive saved about sixty. Thousand lives there's already been over one hundred and ten thousand lives saves with blood donations and we're only halfway through, the season so we've already, doubled that which is almost, double that which.

00:44:32
Speaker 6: Is amazing so.

00:44:33
Speaker 10: Basically what it is is the school In the big ten all, eighteen schools whatever school donates the most blood wins a million dollars to advance what, is it student and community health for, Their school so there's a. Big incentive there's also prizes in between and all. Those things but there's a massive blood shortage in. This country someone needs blood every. Two seconds one blood donation can.

00:44:57
Speaker 6: Save up to.

00:44:58
Speaker 10: Three LIVES so abbo has done an. Incredible job it's been awesome to partner. With them dan last year was. A success this year's even better and we're only halfway through so and it's a fun way to sort of compete with.

00:45:09
Speaker 6: Other Schools and i'm WEARING the usc polo today because.

00:45:13
Speaker 10: OUR team i believe us he finished last in this, last year so encouraging everybody But especially trojan fans to get.

00:45:20
Speaker 6: Out there.

00:45:20
Speaker 10: And donate it's for a great cause and can go a, long. Way obviously so.

00:45:25
Speaker 2: What's the best thing in your office aside From the? Heisman trophy oh You, got well you Can tell I'm a.

00:45:33
Speaker 10: Kobe fan so that's my Mom And mentalitia and this is a signed Jersey, by kobe Saying, TO matt i.

00:45:42
Speaker 6: Don't know what.

00:45:42
Speaker 10: THAT says i can't, read it But, From kobe kobe's my favorite player of.

00:45:45
Speaker 6: All time, YOU know i gotta Do.

00:45:48
Speaker 10: THE heisman i got to do the little bit Of a, heisman FLEX but i Got the. Kobe, jersey dan my, favorite player had a chance to get to, know him, you know just outside.

00:45:57
Speaker 6: Of Sports He's.

00:45:58
Speaker 10: Orange county He Was newport beach and we had a lot of, mutual FRIENDS and i hung out with them a couple, of times barbecues and. All that AND obviously, i think, you know like everybody affected us when.

00:46:06
Speaker 6: He passed but he's he's my.

00:46:08
Speaker 10: Goat man so Any any KOBE memorabilia, i got that's probably the.

00:46:11
Speaker 6: Best Thing, so.

00:46:12
Speaker 2: Okay if you have to get out of the house and you can grab Either the heisman Or the, kobe.

00:46:18
Speaker 4: JERSEY well i got.

00:46:20
Speaker 6: Two Hands dan I'm going i'm taking one.

00:46:22
Speaker 4: Of Each.

00:46:24
Speaker 2: The heman can, be REPLACED and i don't think.

00:46:27
Speaker 10: It can that's actually a. GOOD question i DON'T think i can Replace my. HEISMAN trophy, I mean i could get like a. Fake replica BUT if i, lose, That baby.

00:46:34
Speaker 4: I'm done.

00:46:34
Speaker 2: It's over i'm, TAKING that pauli can you check. On That if matt something happens To. The, heisman yeah let.

00:46:42
Speaker 10: Me tell you something about my office. Right, Now okay I'm in i'm in. The, garage okay so my wife took our office in. The house i'm in the corner of my garage in this little Space.

00:46:52
Speaker 6: And i'm looking.

00:46:53
Speaker 10: OUT here I got i got, Crap, Everywhere dan so that's That's how. I'm LIVING but i got a NICE little i don't have the setup that. You have, you know you got you got your great stuff. Up There but i'm working WITH what i got.

00:47:03
Speaker 2: Over, Here Man Did penn state have any other option then To Fire.

00:47:07
Speaker 4: James franklin it's a.

00:47:09
Speaker 6: Great, QUESTION well I Love james no.

00:47:13
Speaker 10: IN person i think. He's fantastic it's one of those THINGS where i just feel like there was there was starting to be one a little bit of this panic kind of losing the fan base for the, FIRST time i think, this year especially when you see a Guy Like, kurt SIGNETTI who i know is a name that's being thrown.

00:47:34
Speaker 6: In there but you see a Team.

00:47:36
Speaker 10: Like indiana, winning right these types of games Something that james just hasn't been able to do in.

00:47:41
Speaker 6: His tenure now he wins ten games. Every year he's a.

00:47:43
Speaker 10: FANTASTIC coach i think there's four or five coaches in the country that have consistently, done that whether they've won a title.

00:47:50
Speaker 2: Or Not.

00:47:51
Speaker 6: That's james so he's.

00:47:52
Speaker 10: Been FANTASTIC but i just feel like There Are penn state's looking at the landscape, and, saying Gosh if indiana can, do That if landing can Build this oregon team, out There Because penn state's got unlimited, resources too they, REALLY do, i mean they, have everything then why haven't we been able to? Do that SO and i think there just finally was a little bit of this disconnect with the fan base for the first time and The, brass, so look this is kind of the nature Of. The beast it's crazy if you think, About this they're one play away From. BEATING oregon a couple of weeks ago and maybe being the number one team in the country right now and again that win might, you know give, them momentum but you LOSE to ucla and then you lose at home again to two of statistically, right now some of two of the worst teams In The.

00:48:37
Speaker 6: Big, TEN.

00:48:39
Speaker 10: Look i think that's what they thought had to. Be done james will bounce back on. HIS feet i think the interesting thing is just who's going to get. That job obviously you see the names that are up. For it but it's a. FANTASTIC job i mean, they've won, you know ten games. Every year you can win a national. Championship there you, have resources you have a, great administration you got, great fans they have a huge renovation for, the stadium.

00:48:59
Speaker 6: So well everything is aligned up there for them to win.

00:49:02
Speaker 10: A CHAMPIONSHIP and i think that's the reason why this happened is just because they haven't been able to.

00:49:06
Speaker 2: Do that good to talk to, You again safe travels there To ann arbor and good Luck With it's. Big ten dot Org backslash abbott for more information on. Donating blood Thank, You Malsome, thanks dan good to, see.

00:49:19
Speaker 6: You buddy