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Speaker 3: Bro, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another episode of Busting with the Boys. This is episode three hundred and forty nine. Bust with the Boys is presenting by fan Duel Sportsbook, America's number one sports book.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and if you're watching on this spooky little October seventh, you know what that Today is Tuesday. But real quick, we want to talk to you about Thursday because Thursdays have been treating the boys very well.

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Speaker 4: I want to say just north of ten thousand people were happy. But this Thursday Busting with the Boys is cooking up another same game parlay. Stay tuned because we are in the lab right now.

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Speaker 3: Just at fandle dot com Slash Busting to gear up for Thursday and the rest of this week's NFL Slate Boys. It was a hell of a weekend, not just for football, but for the boys. I'll go first listen, but.

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Speaker 5: Just the recap.

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Speaker 4: If you all the football talk we're gonna have like we got Mario Cristoball on this episode, for the interview. We're also interviewing Field Yates for some fantasy football talk. But if you want the entire recap of college football and NFL over the weekend that was on yesterday's episode. We had on Kaitlyndbor, we had on Greg Olsen, we had a lot of football talk. So that's where the majority of it's gonna be. This is more. We have some funny It is Spooked Ober. We're officially in Spooketober. Your boys rocking the flannel right now, Embracey Max I was excited.

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Speaker 5: I took off the shoe. I took out the shoe and Rus asked me all day that you got new shoes. Audrey's like, oh, you got new shoes. I'm like, no, these have been You've been in the chamber. They just it's it's opportunities throughout the.

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Speaker 3: Year, opportunities throughout the take advantage of it. These ones right here, dirty boys. I've been rocking these Chucks for the last week straight. And to be honest with you, I don't know why it's right now, but my phase of my life, I'm really enjoying. Converse Chucks are the move chucks. Fuck, that's what they do. They fuck.

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Speaker 4: I know you've been a big Vans guy. I think Chucks are Chucks are over top of Vans.

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Speaker 3: You like that. Right now where I sit, I enjoy wearing Chucks more than Advance. But in my whole totality of life, right it is Vans.

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Speaker 5: It is Vans.

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Speaker 3: It will always be Vans for me. Big weekend for the Boys, obviously. Let us just tell you real quick how our weeks go. Mondays we do our football talk and then we do our intro for the Bus with the Boys episode. You guys are listening now Tuesday at six am. Then it's prep city, right because Wednesday we shoot college Football Gambling show in the locker Room with Josh Pete, and then we shoot the NFL Locker Room Gambling show with Glady Walker and Clay Matthews.

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Speaker 5: Then Hall of Fame nominees right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, both Hall of Fame nominies. Then Will and I prep for ESPN. Get on a plane at eight thirty at nights so we can spend time with our families. Get into New York around midnight twelve thirty usually, put our head in the pillar around one am. We wake up at five thirty in the morning. We go in for a pre production meeting, then we shoot ESPN, get up from eight to eastern to ten eastern. Ten forty five, we're back on a plane to Nashville, get time with our families, then go stream. That's usually how our weeks go.

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Speaker 6: You miss one part though, what I miss the rock?

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Speaker 3: Yes, well, I was saying, this is how go down. This is how usually.

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Speaker 4: On weekends we'll travel to a college town. We got the Fall Tour. This weekend we are going to uh the Red River Rivalry, which we will talk about that in a second.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but this week there was a couple more wrinkles. Yes, we'll had the We'll get into that in just a moment. I listen, hand up, fumbled, back fumbled. That was just abysmal by me. You put it on film and you just you're essentially James Franklin after the UCLA game, going, buddy, I don't know what to tell you, guys. Yeah, I don't know what to tell you here.

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Speaker 4: I'm glad you got to that point because I know the first time we kind of watch it, you're like, there's really no coaching points here.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I don't think I said that. I think I literally said. I saw his eyes and I was like this, I need to get the fuck out of here. Out of my skin feeling was what the words I was using. It was tough. Uh. But so Thursday we do the stream that we get done at that like eleven. So we have a couple of days where we're just like, holy shit, that's a lot of work. Wake up five point thirty in the morning. So me, Jack, Jared Beamon can go to Vegas Power Slap UFC. I'm not gonna get too much into it. I'm not gonna get too much into it. I will say there's a couple of points there, Jack, where I felt like we couldn't miss true facts.

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Speaker 7: Boys were hot.

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Speaker 3: Dole USC Card respable UFC Card. I mean, shout out Alex Pereira.

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Speaker 5: I know, dude, him putting what was it a minute.

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Speaker 3: Plus two ten plus two ten to win that and the first fight between the two of them, you see, Perero was kind of more in the defensive mode, didn't want to get taken down at all. He came out immediately, but it didn't even meet at the center of the octagon. He pushed his ass right towards us, and he was he was like, hey, we're not fucking around this time. Handle business the way business needed to be handled. It was impressive to see.

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Speaker 8: He hit him with the Taylor Luwan act score.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, over the top, hand him a couple of those couple of elbows. Talking about Midnight the six.

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Speaker 4: That I was wondering if you know it was gonna get called on because oh boys, you're sitting down there in the pocket a little bit. I'm like, is this you know, is the a spot where you call it? You kind of let him survive it for a moment. Then yeah, Pereira hits him with that, but he gets up tries to hey, so you're celebrating a little too fucking hard.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you, but you know what, he had his time to fight it out and go try to fight after the fight because the fight's over. That's done. One thing too, not the most exciting. What does the redemption look like? Okay, we'll get to that in a second. With that with Morob the second to last fight, boring fight. A lot of people would say a lot of technical he's thrown into the ground and goes all five rounds. Jack said it on the way back, we're watching a guy that's going to be a champion for a very very long time.

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Speaker 9: One of the best ever guys.

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Speaker 10: And also shout out to Corsane Hagen. He is an absolute dog for holding five rounds with him.

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Speaker 3: Yes, because the gas tank that Morob has on him. He does not stop. He does not let you breathe for a minute. All five rounds of that fight. He gets on your back and holds you, wait for you to mess up a little bit. Boom you're on the ground. Boom you're on the ground. Take down, take down, a takedown. And if I'm Morob and if people are booing you and all that and they're getting bored about the fight, you just essentially put up double birds to them and be like you guys can hate it if you want. I'm gonna be here for a long time. The guy is extremely impressive. I don't know the technical aspect of Brazilian jiu jitsu and the oct again and all that, but just watching as a pedestrian fan sitting back, I can just tell this guy is in a class of his own right now. He is very impressive.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 4: I didn't really, I'll be honest, I didn't watch the I didn't catch the fights I got a parlay sent to me.

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Speaker 5: I blindly put faith in it.

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Speaker 4: It lost, But yeah, I forget what game was on.

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Speaker 5: I forget what game was on that night. What was the night game?

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Speaker 4: Saturday College for oh Miami Miami, Miami, Florida State, Miami Florida State.

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Speaker 3: Buddy. The third to last fight. I know you didn't watch it. We'll just briefly go over it. It was the guy that fought Pereira when Peyra hit the hit the lake kick on him.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I can't pronounce his name either, but he's a Russian cat as well. He fought Roundtree Junior, just two muscled up guys. When the fight was starting, it looked like two robots trying to get some wt foty and their junts. This is very odd, very awkward. At first, the fight just really turned into a slow In the end, both guys are absolutely gassed. Everybody in t Mobile arena is on their feet. Dudes are just trading punches back and forth and the around tren nds up going down getting knocked out. One of those fights you look back and be like this, this is why it's the most entertaining sport to watch. It was incredible, dude. All the fights were awesome, but those three fights in particular, you kind of get everything you need everything. One goes a distance with a knockout, the other one is a technic, just Morob being a technician, and then watching Pereira come out guns blazing taking back his belt. Overall, was it UFC three twenty Yes, UFC three twenty was amazing, dude, amazing. Now Shrham has brought up dexter Hampton at dex Hampton this tier talk multiple times, I might as well address it. What does redemption look like for you with at the Rock now is?

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Speaker 5: He responded to the tweet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, respond to the tweet. I'll say this. I've already kind of I put the hand up. I said, it is what it is. I messed up in a big way. I felt very uncomfortable when I go to this ESPN break and one of the producers like, hey, the Rock's gonna be out there and say you should go say hello. Now we know, you know, I get uncomfortable about just kind of going somewhere immediately to meet somebody and the walk away. I feel uncomfortable.

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Speaker 5: I get hello.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I am uncomfortable saying hello in that in the fashion it was, so I get kind of pushed out in the middle of the area. I'm sitting there with Matt Malone, Matt Malone season first. He starts walking down. I do like this, already walk a shame up to the middle. You can see my heart's not in it. I look up, we make eye contact. He immediately looks back down. I think to myself, he doesn't really bother right now, I should just get out of here. Obviously you watch back the film and that I could just have easily turn around and said, mister Rock, Hey, I know we've DMed a whole bunch. You've sent me over three minutes worth of voice memos, so we kind of have a bit of a rapport with each other. Nice to meet you in person. My name's Taylor Lawan. Obviously fucked that up. Obviously messed that up. That's on me. Redemption to me, looks like this. Got to get the Rock on the show, got to get the Rock on the show. So we've got to I mean, he responds to the tweets I already mentioned about the dms. He said in twenty twenty four he'd come on. Obviously, listen. Man's busy, he's got a lot of stuff to do. He did nothing wrong in the inter interaction, the lack of interaction between the two of us. But I think it's only fair that the rock sits in this chair. So that's that's where redemption comes to place. We might be looking at a possible rich Eisen situation, might be looking at it possible, tweeted him, every single day, situation, are you.

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Speaker 1: Gonna do that?

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Speaker 3: I don't run our socials.

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Speaker 10: It seems like this is a you verse the rock because I remember how this all went out in Rich.

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Speaker 6: I'm still dropping mile four four runner about hit three under k.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, so that's what I'm just It seems like.

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Speaker 3: Maybe another bet needs to be placed for this to happen.

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Speaker 6: Okay, and that is something I would love to you entertain.

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Speaker 3: Would you like, do you want to throw anything out there right now for me?

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Speaker 10: Uh see, the last time I did this, I just jumped the gun. So maybe give me one week next intro, I'll come right.

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Speaker 3: I love that you weren't here for the Uh was it college for for NFL? We were talking about, Oh, it was college football. We're talking about Michigan. And I said, next time I go to Vegas. Fifty percent of what I win, I'll donate to the Michigan and Al I just set I just set it out loud and then I just kind of in my own brain again double down also within three minutes. So I like the fact that you're taking a week jo that walk and you know what, dude, sometimes that guy's got a backup camera on him like nobody, Like he can parallel park anything. You got to give a lot of credit to JP the way he handled it like a child. He's a technician. Absolutely, So yes, I will I will now stand on that.

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Speaker 9: But I love the.

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Speaker 3: Fact you're taking a week. So check back in a week with us. We'll have a bet between myself and Jack or busting with Jack. Well, the three of us will get together and we'll figure it out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we can figure something because would absolutely love to have the Rock on the show right right again, that's one of the heroes right there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So, but yes, I let down, not only myself, I let you down. I let bust one the boys down. I'll let our entire company down.

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Speaker 6: Opportunity for a massive redemption.

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Speaker 3: Right right, and I'm set major comeback exactly. Yeah, it almost gonna take back what I just said. If anything, I put us in a great position to have the Rock on eventually, if you really think about it, if you really think about it, my demise might be what helps us get the Rock here.

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Speaker 11: I feel like we were in a good situation with the report that you guys were building already.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know what, we were in a great I was honestly so bummed I couldn't get to meet that dude because I'm back when I'm not in the block. No, I was so when it was happening. It was during get Up and there was a moment where they're on and I'm standing on the side and I kind of go over to Fass and the people and I'm like, hey, how and the fuck can I get How can.

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Speaker 5: I meet the Rock? I have to meet the Rock?

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Speaker 4: And the opportunity comes when I'm on and he's out in the.

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Speaker 5: And so it all went down.

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Speaker 4: He comes back during commercial when he's coming back on, He's like, hey, worst hell of all time just happened?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: Were you?

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Speaker 12: Low key?

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Speaker 9: Kind of like good because now I was bombed.

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Speaker 4: I was like, I gotta see I gotta see the footage. And then I saw the footage. I'm like, buddy, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Tough, just tough. It's all good, just tough, learning, learning every day, just learning. It's all I can do, man, all I can.

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Speaker 5: Do is learning or diet.

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Speaker 9: Amen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, amen. But a the vlog, the Vegas vlog, I think will be Yeah, it's gonna be awesome to every expectation you want it to be.

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Speaker 9: We're talking about Wednesday or Thursday.

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Speaker 6: Well, we'll put out a tweet when we get a finalized day.

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Speaker 9: But yeah, it's gonna be an awesome vlog.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: No, Jared's over there cooking it up right now.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And Jared, I'll tell you, he was elated. He's so extact about it. He's like, I love the storylines we.

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Speaker 5: Have going here. You know, Jared's a little break Yeah, he gets rocking.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: He was very excited about, which got me very excited about because to me, I'm just in hell and also in heaven at the same time, Like I got the two demons on both sides.

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Speaker 10: He showed me the footage just a little context won't give too much away from the vlog. Me and Tanner put a parlay on power Slap, which is kind of a coin flip, but literally, it was a five leg parlay absolute coin. Literally all four of the five legs hit and one didn't, and the one that did not, the god we bet on, knocked this guy the fuck out to where like normally they call the fight so fast and they let this guy go to ten seconds stands up, they end him going to like extra rounds, and then he ends up getting knocked out. So I still think that there's something they rigged it, but I watched the knockout.

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Speaker 13: You say you tried to pull a Dana away, You'll just have to watch the blog and see why I was not able to pull Dane away because there was bigger things at stake than my five hundred dollars parlay.

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Speaker 3: I'll say this too, Dama seemed like he was ducking you a little bit.

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Speaker 5: I do think the boys haven't hold you back yelling at Dana. I want answer.

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Speaker 3: Oh, then you answered, Then you'll you'll love the blog. Don't say that you'll love the bo I'll say this. I put in a parlay for power Slap seven hundred and fifty dollars to win one hundred thousand lost in the second leg. It's all but the parlay, buddy, I'm telling you it's That's the thing about parlay is you just get excited about the op. Yeah, what if? What if? What if?

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Speaker 10: I mean we all know they also got like five other guys on it right as he placed it. And then they show up in the first fight they see, they go, what happened is already lost.

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Speaker 3: We're at the sports book and Kyle from Nell comes up, is what do you guys bet all my power suppers? All we get on it to what is it? And we bet at us, We bet at Cody Bettett's like five other people. To point the sports book is like, no one else can bet this bet anymore because the odds like, we're, you know, hundred and fifty dollars to win one hundred thousand. The sportsbooks thinking themselves, we don't want this because they've essentially had you know, a six seven hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 10: Trying to put five grand on it, and then they captive at seven to fifty because five grand paid out seven hundred thousand, and they're like, yeah, you the most you can do is seven.

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Speaker 3: Hundred and fifty, right right?

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Speaker 5: So anyway, devlog comes out, you said Wednesday.

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Speaker 10: Probably Wednesday or Thursday. Wednesday, Yes, Thursday, probably Wednesday night, Jared.

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Speaker 3: Jared' the man he claims to be to probably Tuesday, but okay, yeah Wednesday, the.

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Speaker 9: Grinding on it. He had a lot already cut up.

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Speaker 4: So I tried to start a blog with the staycation that my wife and I did.

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Speaker 5: But that's four.

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Speaker 3: Y'allo alrated you got a little alrighty, yeah, roast sparks might have went in the system.

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Speaker 5: Wife and I we did a little.

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Speaker 4: We did a little staycation, don you know, not the flegs, but the Four Seasons. Friday got back home, it was like two thirty. We shot for the Dad's that episode as you're listening to this right now, new episode four The Dads drops tomorrow morning at six am. But we shot the four of the Dad's episode last Friday. Got home around two thirty, packed the overnight bag. We're in the car about two forty five.

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Speaker 5: Get to the Four Seasons round three and the wife and I just have a just have a day, have.

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Speaker 4: A night, have a morning. Uh at a little staycation. We went from being a mom and dad the boyfriend and girlfriend for it. Rush out the block too, Rush out the block, and it was much needed it was it was all time. Then we go to got our little Spooketober festivity in On Saturday, we go to cheek Wood, which highly recommended local if you're local in Nashville. Cheek Wood does all year round. But they got a nice little They got the pumpkin set up, you got the food trucks, you got the life happening. Go check out the mansion if you want to. But a good vibe. And old Papa sherm Pt. Six he shows up a little scar Scar. He was running a solo mission over the weekend. Jewel was out of town. She was in Miami for a Batch of Rep party. So we got the kiddos together. Shirm came to hang. We lasted about what about an hour for little ones had to go down. S got the meet Scott Zilla for the first time in person. She had expectation rips.

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Speaker 8: She she tried to take over the DJ set, like she went up to a speaker and was like trying DJ Zillat figure out the ox.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

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Speaker 4: I had a little family day that afternoon, and then it was the Husker football. It was all eyes on Husker football. Sweetheart, you got the ghetto for the next couple hours because I'm gonna be locked in watching Husker football, watch some ball, had some order some barbecue. The uh father in law came over to hang out. His wife's out of town in the Philippines right now back home. So we had a little family affair that evening and then Sunday was some nice What.

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Speaker 5: Did I do yesterday?

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Speaker 3: You did a live you did.

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Speaker 5: A l oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we did the live show.

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Speaker 3: A watch party.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. We went out.

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Speaker 4: Wife's like, hey, do you want to uh, you want to take the kids on a little nature walk? Sure, I'm done with that, whatever you want to do. We went to this coffee shop. I hate that I'm not remembering their name right now because awesome coffee shop down in Franklin, And you want to do a little nature walk after next thing, you know, we're driving thirty minutes outside of Franklin to go on this nature of so I'm gonna have to be back for this watch party. But we hit this nature walk in Scottie Listen was beside herself and we figured out it was because she had shoes on trying to take a nap. But I'm saying for an hour, tried to put this little villain down, but got it Nature walk come back. We had an awesome little Titans watch party. We unfortunately we had to we had to do some things at half time, so we had to we had to get out of there, but only to fail to see the Titans comeback because there were some absolute sickos sikos at that watch party, watching all the way to the end, including Jack. Watch party was all time. Had a good time hanging out with the fans.

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Speaker 3: Great Titans.

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Speaker 6: Want to know when the boys will watch party?

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Speaker 3: Titans are want to know when the boys will watch party? You know you you bring up ball and Buddy. We're in October. We're in Spootober right now. Everything's great. Red River Rivalry is taking place this weekend. And what makes red River riverlie even better a live show from Busting with the Boys. We're doing a live show at red River Robberie Terry Black's Barbecue with Dallas. That's thirty twenty five Main Street, Dallas, Texas seven five two two six. That live show will start at eleven am. Why eleven m because the game kicks off right after that on Saturday, October eleventh. Special Guests is a surprise no it's a surprise.

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Speaker 5: A surprise.

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Speaker 8: The best prize is a surprise.

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Speaker 3: It's a surprise.

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Speaker 5: Be there played at Notre Dame.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, big shout out to our sponsors, FanDuel, bud Light, True Classic and neutral but live show Terry Blacks eleven am October eleven, special guests.

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Speaker 4: And we'll go ahead, Like the address right here, it's in Dallas thirty two twenty five Main Street once again, Dallas, Texas area coach seventy five to two six.

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Speaker 5: You need to put in the maps.

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Speaker 8: Very close to the fairgrounds for any ou Longhorn six sick. That's about a twenty minute walk from the fair.

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Speaker 3: Gud right, and you're probably seeing the edge of your seat right now, being like d Re Whember. We the boys are going to be there. Who they taken? Who are they taking in Oklahoma, Texas. You'll find out Wednesday. Oh tomorrow, Yeah, you'll find out tomorrow six pm. Josh pay Taylor Wall, Will Compton the locker Room. College football a dish, Yeah, be beautiful to see possible Game of the week situation.

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Speaker 5: I got to figure out my tears playing. I think I got to figure out.

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Speaker 10: I don't think I thought that they said that he was playing for a few more weeks.

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Speaker 3: There, you know there's I don't think rumors going on will matter.

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Speaker 5: You don't think it will matter.

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Speaker 3: I think Texas stay up for the show. Actually, you know what, You're not on the show?

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Speaker 10: Go What do you think is in hattistink Texas's ass? I think arch Manning is not prepared or already. I think he's still battling in and I think Texas is extremely fraudulent.

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Speaker 6: They went from number one in the country with five weeks later to being unranked. Wow, the real ut resides in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 9: Scumbags can I rebuttal it.

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, Gurman rebuttal quick rebuttal.

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Speaker 8: Very similar to the Iron Bowl. It's those years whenever OU team is looking bad, whenever Texas team's looking bad, that's when they usually win.

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Speaker 9: Okay, I'm just saying.

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Speaker 5: Right, rivalry, throw it all over the window.

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Speaker 3: If we're talking about rivalries too. Michigan started nine in the country last year. They ended up not ranked at all. Who they beat the last week of the year, Ohio Stay.

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Speaker 5: And Texas is low key in a must must win situation.

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Speaker 10: Rooting for Texas because Tennessee plays Oklahoma this year and that will be a tough game where Materier will be back.

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Speaker 5: Don't you want Oklahoma to win?

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Speaker 6: So that way, it's like yeah, more, yeah, maybe I don't know.

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Speaker 9: You know, you can convince me for you.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there's gonna be nothing but carnage in the SEC, so I don't Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Right, this is when this is when the sickos come out. This is like Dune's Gobblins Inspectors. That's why it spoos. People think Halloween is because of something sort of like you know, demons back in the day. It really is because the SEC football in October. That's why halloween s are because it's so spooky out there.

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Speaker 5: To figure out something to do.

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Speaker 4: I forget our hours that we're actually gonna be out there, but find something spooky to do out in Dallas.

00:23:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's not enough time for that.

00:23:31
Speaker 5: Did you guys hit something in Vegas?

00:23:33
Speaker 4: Dude?

00:23:33
Speaker 5: No?

00:23:34
Speaker 3: The first weekend of Spootober and we've let the squad. Yeah, I know, but I know you.

00:23:38
Speaker 5: Are the leader.

00:23:40
Speaker 3: I know, and listen when you when you fail, what do you do? You double up the next week? I got a Halloween party this Friday, right after the Halloween party, wife and I come home babysitter. We got a little Halloween date, all right, we have at Halloween date hat at house, a little din didn after that, after that. So yes, we're doubling up this week. I failed. I failed. Everybody, my my, my gambling wants and needs took over. I can't say that.

00:24:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you're right.

00:24:11
Speaker 3: Why I didn't say it. I didn't say it.

00:24:13
Speaker 5: Your hotel, your hotel.

00:24:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, by wanting needs for gambling took over.

00:24:20
Speaker 4: That's a tough beat, bro, Yeah, I know. Yeah, it's a tough beat. Yeah, we need we need more AUDI. If you're sitting at the top of the helm, you're need more AUDI.

00:24:28
Speaker 3: Starts from the top.

00:24:29
Speaker 4: Starts from the top, because you put a lot of pressure on the boys to sell out for spook Tobra.

00:24:34
Speaker 3: And look at look at our bus by the way, the first time the boy this is the first time the viewer on YouTube is seeing the bus right now. Shout out Garrett, the boys, everybody forgetting spooktober dialed in the way it should be.

00:24:45
Speaker 10: Also, Taylor, I think we're not giving enough credit. He did do a Halloween related thing, just not on Vegas. The Rock that was scary enough.

00:24:55
Speaker 3: Spooky Will would have just shook his hand and been a normal adult.

00:24:58
Speaker 5: I knew it was.

00:24:59
Speaker 3: That was October two when that thing hold they went down. We would have handled that like a normal human being.

00:25:05
Speaker 5: So he would have did oh not me. An exchange would have happen.

00:25:08
Speaker 4: I would have stood there awkwardly and been like, so, what's your favorite scary movie thing?

00:25:15
Speaker 3: Your thing? Right now? Can we talk about a great show that's going on right now?

00:25:22
Speaker 10: Oh?

00:25:22
Speaker 3: Great little show Chad Powers. Dude, Uh, listen, I got a card for chat, but they want us to promote it. We're doing the whole thing with them. I will tell you I love this show. It is incredible. If you like Bloom Mountain State, if you like the show Suresy like, this show is a great blend of like it's really just a great comedy, and they do an incredible job of blending like uh, Eli Manning's Place, that Eli's Places thing, and blending into an actual TV show. They're connecting all the dots. I'll read the card for you, but know that I truly I endorse this show. Eight years after Flushing is promising college football career down the toilet, Hot show quarterback Russ Holliday tries to resurrect his dreams by disguising himself as Chad Powers, a talented oddball who walks onto the struggling South Georgia Catfish. And this is based on Eli Manning's Eli Places segment from ESPN and Omaha production. It's a new comedy starring Glenn powellin as Russ Holiday, a hot, tried quarterback who tries to resurrect his dreams and by disguising himself as Chap Paris. That's in there twice okay, A talented, talented all who walks on and struggling in Georgia Catfish too okay. A new comedy and events viewers by surprise comeback story everyone can relate to. Chapparis is now streaming with new episodes Tuesday on Hulu and Hulu on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus for Bundle subscribers, terms apply now. Mickey Mouse has given us the opportunity to kind of see some of these shows a little earlier, and they want us to kind of watch them then talk about them. We're supposed to talk about episode three. I'm personally on episode five. I enjoy watching this show. When I have free time, I put this show on.

00:26:56
Speaker 9: Wait are you talk about episode three?

00:26:57
Speaker 5: Yes?

00:26:58
Speaker 9: Can I get off? Because I'm on.

00:26:59
Speaker 10: Episode two and I really do not want to spoilers because I really like this show as well.

00:27:02
Speaker 6: Get all right, you want to talk about the real.

00:27:06
Speaker 4: Game, I'll say this too, Like for people that are like kind of on the fence all the kind of.

00:27:11
Speaker 3: Second time, it's Jack, it's still in your hat. It's still in your hat, Jack, spooky season. Just press it up in the air all the way, all the way. Well, you gotta put on.

00:27:22
Speaker 5: Something in the middle of pressing up on little dot. Oh, it don't work, Get out of here. Go just go Jack, Go.

00:27:36
Speaker 3: Hanging on for dear life out there. That's the second time Jack's.

00:27:39
Speaker 4: Don't massive like the old Chad Powers concept vibe like this is a vessel. Oh Jesus for the production team and the writers behind this show. That's where I think they do a really good job. I love the love interest with Chad Powers and Ricky going on love all the side characters like this is it is a fun show.

00:27:59
Speaker 5: It is fun show to right.

00:28:00
Speaker 3: In this third episode, you get to dive into like some some actual ball like they play Old Miss early and I mean, we're not giving out spoilers, but we're giving out spoilers a little bit streaming now. If you haven't seen it, you should have seen it. Like Chad Powers is the backup and he has to sit there and he's what's the the coach's daughter. What's her name, Ricky Oka? Yeah, Ricky, She's sitting back there, like, hey, cover two if they Aggie special, bab ball, all these things, and so she goes and gets an argument with her old man who's the head coach. The football team storms off. He kicks her off the field, gets her out of there. The booster. Some of these things are so funny because they could they will literally never happen in an actual football game. But that's the fun part about shows. The boosters like getting upset up in the suite. So she comes down on the field and it's like talking coach put Powers in. They end up putting Powers in because the mascot trips the starting quarterback, which, by the way, the starting quarterback is I can't remember his name. He's so funny. He is so funny the way he operates, like the running around like he's a team guy. Yeah, it's it's so funny. He's like running off of the sideline and I see that runs out of bounds. The Catfish mascot, the guy who's been helping out Chad Powers, trips him and he rolls his ankle. So Chad Powers has to go in the game. There's like whatever a minute left in the game. They're down by a touchdown and Chad Powers, you know, gets the whole thing that he actually has a big run, holds on the ball and won't let go because I having PTSD from that first game.

00:29:26
Speaker 5: The game they first see yeah.

00:29:27
Speaker 3: And so, And the best part is nice cameo from Eli Manning. Nice cameo. I don't think Kiffin wasn't in it. No, but Eli has one line. Who the fuck is that guy? Yeah, dude, it's I'm telling you, bro, it's such a good show and it just gets better.

00:29:47
Speaker 4: And the side character too. You brought a run a Tricia the booster Lady's.

00:29:50
Speaker 3: So funny, so funny. It smacks Chad Powers on the ass on his other way out. It's just it's just good man. I hope you guys enjoy that show, because I really am enjoying watch. I was just sit there and I have a little free time by myself.

00:30:03
Speaker 8: To be completely honest, I forgot that new episodes come out on Tuesday, And last night went on to Hulu to see if episode three had come out yet, and I was so bummed I had forgotten about Tuesday. I cannot wait to watch episode three.

00:30:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got a segment we're gonna do fresh, fresh set of downs custom segment where we spotlight a transfer portal player current or past who wasn't playing well buried on the depth chart. All they needed was a fresh set of downs or a fresh start in order to spark the redemption story and turn their college careers around. Were about to yeah, oh oh this week listen, you might think to yourself, was he buried on the depth chart?

00:30:44
Speaker 9: Even?

00:30:44
Speaker 4: Either way, this player needed a fresh set of downs, and it's Carson Beck. Carson Beck, Ronoval Pause. Somebody who transferred from Georgia to Miami was written off by Dogs fans and most college football fans after a twelve interception season. He's currently five and oh at Miami right now, over twelve hundred yards, passing eleven touchdowns, three interceptions, seventy three point four percent completion rate. And tied as the Heisman favorite. He's sitting at plus six hundred Sports Book, but shout out the boy, Carson Beck one more.

00:31:17
Speaker 3: That's awesome. Man, come in a little press conference, had the chain on sitting there and One's like, what the guy doing this because of his girlfriend. No, he's a dog. Dog, He's a dog. He's actually not a dog anymore. He's a came, came came, he's doing his thing.

00:31:33
Speaker 9: Uh.

00:31:33
Speaker 5: Yeah, we dive into some some tear talk.

00:31:36
Speaker 3: Watch your hat, Watch your hat, Jack, Jack Jack Jack, Jack's having a Jack had a hell of a weekend. Boys, I'll tell you this you. I don't know how much the vog's gonna highlight Jack and Tanner, but they took they took everything in their own hands.

00:31:55
Speaker 6: Definitely took my biggest step as a game with this weekend.

00:31:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, took his biggest step in the game about but yeah, but it worked out for you.

00:32:03
Speaker 10: It worked out. Now with that being said, can all go downhill? I go back to Vegas this weekend as a sick o Titans.

00:32:11
Speaker 3: No, I forgot about that.

00:32:12
Speaker 9: But it's gonna be.

00:32:16
Speaker 3: Damn the first time. Yeah, first time in the show.

00:32:19
Speaker 5: He's excited.

00:32:20
Speaker 6: Yeah, so anyways, are we talking about Titans at all?

00:32:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, we can talk about Titans.

00:32:25
Speaker 5: Let's talk.

00:32:27
Speaker 4: I wrote about seven minutes before field Yates comes on topick.

00:32:30
Speaker 9: He'll be quick.

00:32:31
Speaker 10: I wrote some things down obviously at the watch party. I hate watch parties. Not I love being at watched parties for busting. I hate watching games for my teams around groups of people.

00:32:42
Speaker 3: I hate watching. I hate being at watch parties when you can't watch the game. Yeah, pisses me off.

00:32:46
Speaker 10: And so I was kind of in the corner at the merchable with g watching YouTube TV on my phone. It's delayed like thirty seconds. So what the projector was? But anyway, so a couple of things I wrote down. I'll just read them off quickly.

00:32:57
Speaker 9: Wards.

00:32:58
Speaker 10: Composure out out him in the fourth quarter, the Dott to Ridley, everything that we've been wanting. We needed Calvin to finally get some good catches. Huge defense, shifted a huge gear night and day first half, second, half, second out, complete shutout, amazing, and also the explosive flipping plays. I mean, if you're an Arizona Cardinals fan, my thoughts and prayers go out to you because it's just a brutal from the interception to the Mickey Mouse fumble touchdown Tyler Lockett scores to the dropping of the seventy four yards rushing.

00:33:34
Speaker 5: TD shut him out.

00:33:35
Speaker 10: Yeah, brutal, but I think over everything, just a gritty, poised win that was obviously capitalized off a lot of mistakes made by the Arizona Cardinals. But this win with a rookie quarterback, this is something that can truly galvanize a locker room. I am not gonna even touch on Brian Callahan. We're gonna focus on a good team win. But this is something that will hopefully create create a little evidence for the Titans, Yeah, especially for that locker room to just have something to believe in going another road wind, hopefully against the Raiders. I will be in there in Allegiance Stadium, very.

00:34:11
Speaker 9: Excited for that.

00:34:11
Speaker 10: And then we come home in two weeks and we have a really scary one against the Patriots. We all saw what happened on Sunday Night Football. The Patriots are for real. But yeah, and it's it's back. Yeah, and it's gonna be a homecoming, Like people are gonna be stoked to have him there, Like I there will be no booze in that stadium, and if they will are they will not.

00:34:32
Speaker 9: Be from me or in section one twenty.

00:34:33
Speaker 3: Here's here's last week we've been. We were sitting and saying, Mike Rabel is going to get more applause than when the Titans come out. Yes, if they can stack another win against the Raiders.

00:34:43
Speaker 6: There might be some booze.

00:34:44
Speaker 3: I'd be some booze for rapes. Yeah, probably not probably not great, but it would when Rabel is shown or something like that.

00:34:51
Speaker 10: Hopefully it'll be seventy percent full at least. But yeah, that's excited. It just nice to have a Monday where I can just exists in my life.

00:35:02
Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's that's really it.

00:35:04
Speaker 9: Man, tighten up.

00:35:07
Speaker 10: I feel bad for Coop, but also Coop.

00:35:13
Speaker 6: Kind of bailed out on his Cardinals at the live show.

00:35:16
Speaker 3: Which is crazy.

00:35:17
Speaker 9: So I don't know that is the reason Coop did.

00:35:19
Speaker 3: Show up at a Titans watch party with Cardinal stuff on.

00:35:22
Speaker 9: Fair enough.

00:35:24
Speaker 3: Made his girlfriend Kyler.

00:35:26
Speaker 5: Murray is the guy and like that.

00:35:28
Speaker 11: Yeah, nothing is ever Kyler's fault.

00:35:31
Speaker 1: Right right?

00:35:32
Speaker 3: And also, what's Kyler Murray's record since the New Call of du Yeah.

00:35:37
Speaker 10: Drums and Kyler Murray is no officially, oh and one with the call of duty beta. So we all know Kyler and his call of duty addiction.

00:35:48
Speaker 3: Who knows. We don't have to cut that, but there will be a graphic. Jack is actually making Coop make a graphic for that, which is one of the craziest thing.

00:35:57
Speaker 5: Yeah, gotta have it thought, g t Yeah.

00:36:01
Speaker 3: What's a little tear talk before we get field yates on. We got one from a big pee pee pooh pooh guy. Yes, seems like a shirm burner to me. Yo, gooder boys, My wife thinks my spectober stume, that's why you think it's shirm right there? Stem game is weak. How can I up my stum game? Appreciate you boys? Ps? Hey Taylor, uh shrim was this you?

00:36:26
Speaker 1: Hey?

00:36:27
Speaker 3: God mite? Was this you?

00:36:28
Speaker 4: I mean, just a fully prepared graphic. You got the the AI behind eye big pee pee poo poo guy, Hay Taylor stume.

00:36:37
Speaker 11: He was sitting back here, typing away during Greg Olson giggling to himself, not even giggling, dying laughing.

00:36:44
Speaker 9: He was giggling.

00:36:45
Speaker 10: He was walking out and I'm sitting on the couch on there and He's like, dude, you think they're gonna think this is a I.

00:36:52
Speaker 3: Hilarious though, but I will answer big pee pee pee poop pee pee pooh pooh guy, buddy, the best thing you need to do with the stume is go full comment. Now you gotta full commit if you have the opportunity to wear makeup, wear the makeup you have an opportunity to buy. Go with the extra lake, spend a couple extra bucks for the nicer costume. Google the extra mile for the for the costume. And it's just coming from a guy that let everybody down on Week one is spooptober. I shouldn't be answering this question, but however, as a man who loves and breathes this holiday, you only get thirty one days, you might as well take full advantage if you're gonna up your steme game to this random individual.

00:37:28
Speaker 4: We got another one here from at Tier one Tony the gooner guy, Heyo Will and Taylor. I got fired from my old job because I dressed up as the Whole for Spectober at the office and apparently my shorts were a little too tight.

00:37:41
Speaker 5: Sue me. Did I fuck up?

00:37:43
Speaker 4: Or was the old job the problem? Should I dress up this year at my new job.

00:37:48
Speaker 3: That's a good question.

00:37:49
Speaker 5: Great question.

00:37:49
Speaker 3: Another graphic, Another AI graphic. The AI graphic gave me Will's old teeth? Did you see that he is insane? That is pretty wild.

00:37:59
Speaker 5: There is operating behind the computer.

00:38:01
Speaker 3: There is again what's he giggling about? But if I was to answer to this random individual's question, I would say absolutely. And if you get fired from your job for dressing up, that job's not for you. That job should be done.

00:38:16
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00:38:52
Speaker 1: Got cam Ward loves you guys, So.

00:38:54
Speaker 3: Dude, talk about Cam a little bit. I mean he gets his first win yesterday. I mean the guy statistically not the greatest, but from a press corfet standpoint, from a leadership standpoint. As a rookie, I heard an amazing story about him when he first transferred to Miami that he was basically mfing a lot of guys talking about being great right in spring, Like, tell tell me about cam Ward.

00:39:15
Speaker 12: Oh, the best story was he got here and you know we really needed an alpha at quarterback. And so right away, right I want all the wide receivers numbers. I want to call him up. I want to want to get some routes in on Saturday. And he gets them all rounded up except for one. One uh one hit him up with, you know, like a big time attitude like now, man, I'm I'm in Fort Laudert, I'm gonna I'm gonna throw with Lamar Jackson. And Cam says, all right, mother, you want to go through with Lamar Jackson, you better throw you passes during the year because I'm gonna tell you squat and uh that made the receiver get in the car and come back down.

00:39:50
Speaker 3: Hey, that is incredible.

00:39:52
Speaker 5: That is really cool.

00:39:53
Speaker 4: What is what are your thoughts like when he's coming out last week after the press conference saying I'm gonna keep it a buck right now. We asked that was obviously going viral. You know, people kind of get uneasy, like, you know, about him being so blunt and transparent about it. But as as his former head coach, what are you sitting back and thinking when he's going out to a press conference saying something like that.

00:40:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we talked about it. You know.

00:40:13
Speaker 12: It's it's almost like nowadays you guys, know, you guys were ball players.

00:40:17
Speaker 1: It's like everything is so intrusive.

00:40:19
Speaker 12: Man, So if if you're feeling something that comes out, get ready for it to go viral and you almost have to conduct yourself in a manner where you got to almost script your mouth sometimes. But I mean, that guy is just curre raw emotion. He is the ultimate competitor and he wants nothing more than to win. He could give a rats, you know what about anything except winning. So he's going to be unfiltered. But you're going to get the very best of that guy every time he sets fit on the field.

00:40:45
Speaker 3: Coach We're living in such a unique world of college football right now. You're one of six schools that had a top twenty five recruiting class and transferport class in the last three seasons. How do you get so many new faces to bin into your culture week in and week out? Because it's when I mean, obviously, when Will and I played, we would go to the school you chose, the school you went to, and if you were to transfer, you have to sit out for a year. There's a whole bunch of things. But that didn't really happen a whole lot. So the guys you're with in year one, you're within your four or five. How do you keep a culture and keep guys blended together in such a way when you have so much turnover every single year.

00:41:18
Speaker 12: Well, we've been learning and improving at that process because you're right, like it's it's almost like every year you're coaching a one year team, right and the goal is get them all here early, get them here in January, and then go right to work and go right to every opportunity you can have to get these dudes together in a competitive environment and then an environment where they could open up and you know, find out a little bit more about each other. That's when you get to know people, because you really can't respect anybody until you get to know them, until you work your butts off with them, and so.

00:41:47
Speaker 1: We provide that for them. It's really that simple.

00:41:49
Speaker 12: But we have done a really good job choosing the right guys because we were to a level where if you don't like work, you're going to hate it around here.

00:41:56
Speaker 4: How the how's the process? Because you talked about how it's kind of the developed and changed. How do you develop that process? Because again, it's like we can rattle off that in the last three years you've have a top twenty five recruiting class and transfer portal class. But how has that kind of evolved over the course of the last few years. Especially it's like your first season, you're only a five win team, so you're pitching this vision. You're trying to sell the program while also trying to get better, Like, hey, there are some things I liked about this process in year one on having a top twenty five recruiting class and transfer portal class. How has it developed into where you currently are?

00:42:29
Speaker 1: Well?

00:42:30
Speaker 12: I learned as a GA I came to Miami as a graduate assistant when they were really bad. They were coming off probation. That roster was abysmal, and I quickly learned the value of talent acquisition along with player development and then personal use. And so arriving at Miami three years ago, it was the roster needed a massive overhaul. And now that you can construct your roster in a couple of different manners. I mean, of course the portal and high school recruiting, but you also have junior college recruiting.

00:42:59
Speaker 1: You have over recruit, you have the preferred walk on route. You can find really really good quality players that are made of the right stuff.

00:43:08
Speaker 12: And there was a second transfer windows, so spring was almost like mini camp. And again I was never in the NFL except for you know, a couple of coffee as an undrafted free agent, but you kind of use the springtime as mini camp and found out what fit, what didn't fit, and then make more adjustments and additions from there.

00:43:26
Speaker 1: But it all it all related around the culture.

00:43:28
Speaker 12: Man. It was all about a getting hard work and tough ass sobs that want to be part of it and aren't willing to compromise the right stuff.

00:43:35
Speaker 3: You talked about your roster, you had three years ago. One guy you have that is a homegrown individual considered a top ten pick is Francis Mowe. Noah, did I say that correct?

00:43:45
Speaker 12: You know?

00:43:46
Speaker 3: Okay, talk to me about you. I'm an offensive line. I'm an off it'sive line guy. I played it. I love it. This guy seems like an absolute grinder. Talk to me about his development and now he's staring down you know, possibly millions of dollars and a great NFL career on the horizon. But talk about this guy's leadership, his abilities, what he's great at.

00:44:05
Speaker 12: Unbelievable leader, an absolute freakazoid of a human being. I mean, every day it's him and Reuben Bain head to head. It's Jurassic Park out there practice. The best part about this is when we got here, those guys were recruits, so they wait for us outside the stadium in our first year when we were getting our faces kicked in and they'd wait and we'd sit with him, and we were very transparent, very honest, like, man, we ain't we are not good right now. And the whole plan is to get you and the class here with you and build upon that, and you're gonna have to be guys at the forefront. You're not gonna have to sit around and wait your rope counting on you to make it happen.

00:44:43
Speaker 1: And they believed the vision. They stuck to it.

00:44:46
Speaker 12: They saw what we had done at previous stops, and brother, they were the building blocks.

00:44:49
Speaker 1: Man. Those were tough ass sons of guns because.

00:44:52
Speaker 12: They saw how bad things were and they were willing to still come here and do it. And now you got you know, Francis, we call him CC. His bone density is at like Lebronosaurus. I mean, he's three hundred and fifty pounds.

00:45:05
Speaker 5: Oh, I love that.

00:45:06
Speaker 3: This dude's prey story.

00:45:07
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah, he's you know.

00:45:09
Speaker 12: And we had Pine Sul when we were out west as well, and it's it's just a different breed of creature.

00:45:16
Speaker 1: I mean, just athletic.

00:45:17
Speaker 12: Physical, super powerful, twitch beyond measure and then football instinct, smarts and an elite human being, like he's one of the best community leaders you'll ever be around. And then when you watch him and Vain and Mesidor and those guys go out it every day, man, iron sharpens iron for real?

00:45:34
Speaker 4: How important, like how quickly was the importance of getting your staff and personnel right on the talent acquisition side. You looking at a team like yours right now, you basically revamp the entire back end in the offseason. But also you look at teams like Texas Tech Oregon I would put up there as well as far as the people, the whole talent acquisition thing, grading talent guys coming into your coming into your facility. How important was that puzzle piece. I don't know if it's like GM, like you got kind of a scouting department now, but how important? How quickly was that important established at Miami?

00:46:07
Speaker 1: It's got to be everybody on board. Man.

00:46:09
Speaker 12: You know, nothing worse than than a coach that thinks that he's the secret sauce. You know, alwa, it's my plays, it's my design, it's my teaching bs. You know, the magic is the players now, players with mentality and culture creates real magic. But getting everybody to understand that you have to bring in high level, high ceiling talent that's willing to work their butts off, because nowadays in college football, everybody has good players. And if you're crazy enough to think that your opponent on a weekly basis doesn't have enough talent to whoop your ass, you're out of your mind. Everybody has talent, so talent acquisition and then the right type of talent, the right type of mentality, the right type of DNA.

00:46:50
Speaker 3: So you play, you play in this last game and they're talking to you on the field and you look directly in the camera and you say, we're state champs. What does it mean to be a state champ in Florida? Which you know, a lot of people say that's the mecca of you know, high school football, football, speed, talent, everything, Like what does that mean for you? Guys?

00:47:09
Speaker 1: It means a ton of me as a former Miami Hurricane, as a former player here, this game was everything to us. Man.

00:47:15
Speaker 12: It always was, you know, playing the in state teams. I mean it seemed like the national title always went through Coral Gables or one of those other cities or South Bend. So the stakes were always high, the intensity was off the charts.

00:47:28
Speaker 1: You know.

00:47:28
Speaker 12: When we got here, we were so far behind, we were so far, so deep into just a bad roster spot, a bad culture spot that I think people took joy and kind of beating us around a little bit. So we've been a very how do I say this politically correct, We've been a very driven team and a hard working team to just get better. And we got a long way to go. I mean, we have massive improvement that we need to make to accomplish our goals, but we're progressing. And we finally had the opportunity for two years straight to be Mpings for Florida and that means a ton to us.

00:48:01
Speaker 1: So our alumni, they're all about the Interstate games Man. They love it. So glad to see them get to enjoy.

00:48:07
Speaker 5: That you were telling.

00:48:09
Speaker 4: We were telling stories about cam Ward and the leadership that he brought in, the intangibles that he brought to the locker room to kind of go with his talent. Carson Becket somebody, you guys go out and get and walk us through that process of thumb nailing through or or combing through. This is the right guy for the program, especially when you look at he's transferred from Georgia. There's some off field drama, whether people make stuff up on the internet with girlfriends, stolen car, like just different things. For Carson beck you go out and beat Notre Dame and he has such an emotional postgame presser to where you're starting to it feels like people kind of start to root for the guy because he seems so emotional, like he's grown and everything else. What was the process like of being like, this is the guy we want to be at the quarterback of our team to kind of success cam Ward.

00:48:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, it starts with the film.

00:48:58
Speaker 12: And actually, so let's go back to the high I mean I was at coaching at another place, but I watched him in high school.

00:49:03
Speaker 1: I'm like that guys a dude love to have him.

00:49:06
Speaker 12: And then you watch him in twenty three at Georgia and it's off the charts. I mean, let's let's go back in time. When entering twenty twenty four, Carson Beck was a projected top quarterback to be taken and cam Ward was a projected fifth the seventh rounder.

00:49:20
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, fast ward.

00:49:22
Speaker 12: A year later, cam Ward comes over here, he works his butt off, We give him a great offensive line, the right pieces around him, and opportunities to make plays.

00:49:30
Speaker 1: He becomes a number one pick.

00:49:31
Speaker 12: So it's fast forward again, and then now we have watching Carson on film. We thought that his twenty four season was not a complete reflection of him, his play, his ability. We thought that some of the things, not being critical of anybody, I don't believe that that type of stuff. I just think that they didn't look and sync and he wasn't playing to his capabilities due to some of the pieces, some of the schematic stuff.

00:49:56
Speaker 1: So we're like, we can that guy over here in our scheme.

00:49:59
Speaker 12: We can, We could be really damn good, and we're not there yet, but we're certainly progressing and he's really starting to take off now.

00:50:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of the conversation was Carson Beck was the issue for Georgia, and now we're sitting in this part of well, maybe Georgia was the issue for Carson Beck, and Carson Beck's actually the dog out there. You guys are now sitting with an undefeated season so far. We look to last year and we see the end of October November, but we als kind of fall off a little bit. What is the conversation taking place with you guys in that building of keeping your eye on the prize. We're in the agency, getting in the playoffs and making a real run out of national.

00:50:30
Speaker 12: Title reality, Man, you know, one week out of time and being where your feet are, I mean, any there's no value in looking at a pole of projection anything of that nature. I mean I know everyone's always and I work for coach Savan back in the day and the whole rap poison speech. There's a lot of value to that. But humility is a week away, brother, I mean it is right around the corner. You want to thank you. You've got it all figured out, and you take an arrogant approach to this game and to your opponent, they're going to get your face kicked in.

00:50:59
Speaker 1: And we've learned and our lessons are hard way.

00:51:01
Speaker 12: We are extremely rigid and regimented and what we do on a weekly basis, and we're just working our butts off to make sure that all the focus is right here on the University of Miami and us getting better because we have to get a hell of a lot better to be a one to know every week.

00:51:17
Speaker 3: You brought up sorry will, you brought up Nick Saban And we had Greg Olsen on just earlier and he said a quote that you told him, which is when the tire comes into the palace, you make them a part of the ceremony. We were talking about Jordan Addison. They went across upon the Vikings, went across the pond, and he wanted to go sight see for a little bit in London misses a meeting, so they hold him out for the first quarter, and the question was would you do the same thing. He brings up that quote and gave you credit for giving that quote. Talk to us about keeping these guys in line. Distractions all the thing, especially in a place like Miami, Buddy, I've been down to Miami. Very limited clothing in Miami. A lot of distractions out there, Mimy, how are we handling business out there?

00:51:59
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's a look.

00:52:01
Speaker 12: I'm I'm born in nineteen I'm you know, seventies, baby, So I lived through the days of Miami vice in scarface, and I get it like that probably will stick around forever, and it's cool.

00:52:13
Speaker 1: I love Miami because of what Miami always was and always will be.

00:52:17
Speaker 12: But brother, those days are like you know what I mean, Like when people recruit against us, they make it sound like it's like, you know, Pablo Escobar and company going crazy about it. We're in Coral Gables, which hopefully you guys get a little time put on cams tab you could afford it, get you down here so you could spend some time in Coral Gables. There isn't a nicer city in the country. And the trajectory of this city economically and from a quality of life standpoint is through the roof, so like our setting is off the charts, like perfect and private, so that our guys could take care of their stuff, and we keep them so busy. There's I mean, I coached all over the country, and I always felt that there were more distractions in the smaller college sounds, and there ever wore up Miami because of the location of col Gables.

00:53:03
Speaker 1: So I know that answered the question or not.

00:53:05
Speaker 12: But these guys from a focus there but which is very real.

00:53:09
Speaker 1: We don't play ahead games or whatnot.

00:53:11
Speaker 12: There's if we want to accomplish what we say we want to accomplish, we got to cut out all the bs and keep the focus on what needs to be done.

00:53:19
Speaker 4: We'll go ahead and we'll take that as an offer to come out to Miami for this spring tour next year. Yeah, yes, ye, yeah, yeah I do. How fun is it to watch Malachi Tony. He's nicknamed Baby Jesus. He turned eighteen just two weeks ago. He seems to be like what he is one of the most electrifying players in the country. How fun is it to just watch that dude go to work from the sideline on game day.

00:53:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was the same thing with my son. He first day of school, he asked if he could skip school. I said, what do you want to skip school for?

00:53:49
Speaker 12: He says, I want to go watch baby Jesus, what are you talking about, dude? And he tells me that's Malachai Tony's nickname.

00:53:58
Speaker 1: Well, you know, kay Toni's dad was a legend down here. He was an unbelievable football player.

00:54:03
Speaker 12: In fact, one of the most famous moments down here was with his dad race Devin Hester Street Race, which was again just iconic day down here. But so Malachi is DNA and his football background, his mom awesome person as well. He's like he's a football junkie. His approach the ball is out of a professional. It's been in the game for twenty years. He's an autocorrect guy. He's a relentless get here early, stay here late guy. I am Maybe I should check his birth certificate.

00:54:33
Speaker 1: Maybe he's not a team right right?

00:54:36
Speaker 3: Yes, he hads in the car that says, I am twelve?

00:54:41
Speaker 1: What's that there?

00:54:42
Speaker 12: Was?

00:54:42
Speaker 3: What's the movie where they they're playing like Little League baseball? And there's a Dominican guy comes in. He has a piece of paper and it's a I Am twelve guy. HiT's like fifteen Dingers. That's Malaka Tony Doubt.

00:54:52
Speaker 12: I mean, he he just he just goes, man, he just goes. There's no flinch in the guy. But he works at it. There's no there's nobs to him, and he just wants to get better. He's another unselfish guy. If you get a chance, please watch him in.

00:55:05
Speaker 1: The run game.

00:55:06
Speaker 12: At how he throws his body around. He is absolutely physical and reckless.

00:55:10
Speaker 5: That's always like the best.

00:55:11
Speaker 4: I feel like when a coach is trying to give wide receiver the cop their praise, their flowers, they talk about him in the run game because you're right. It's like when the tape gets turned on and you're kind of watching one of your teammates because you don't get wide receivers that you know they catch the football. But when like Rabel's showing off, somebody like showing guys getting dirty, getting in the box block and I feel like the kind of like juices up the entire team.

00:55:31
Speaker 3: Yeah no, I'm with that. You uh, this is your November first, will be your first game outside of the state of Florida. How did y'all get that frontloaded Florida schedule? How did that happen?

00:55:41
Speaker 5: Who do you have to pay for that?

00:55:42
Speaker 3: Yeah? That sounds nice.

00:55:44
Speaker 12: The list is long but distinguished. You know, No, I have no idea how that works while back, man, I but you know what I mean? How many teams have faced a first five games like we have to now? You know, I believe we're the only Tina Face Street ranked opponents coming out the gate. And we're good with that. And when I played here at Miami, that's what it was all about. So where we feel like we're improving, we've been tested. But again, watching film with the players, say, we got a long ways to go, man, you know, so it's like, let's just let's just keep working our butts off.

00:56:20
Speaker 1: That's all we want to do. It's all we really care about.

00:56:22
Speaker 4: Obviously, you guys are only like not even halfway through the season. There's a lot of ball left and you've already alluded to it. There's a lot of improvements to be made if you guys want to get to where you want to go. But what does it meant for you to kind of turn around your alma mater in a sense because you got the documentaries that you everything else. You're a two time national champion. But to be the head coach of your alma mater, what's it been like for you to kind of be in that chair and get this thing going the right way?

00:56:47
Speaker 12: And when I got the call, because you know, in football, you know it is man, the timing's never right.

00:56:52
Speaker 1: It's always in the middle of something.

00:56:53
Speaker 12: There's no just clean and easy way to do it. And we're doing really well.

00:56:58
Speaker 1: You know, we just want a couple of conference titles out west, and we had an unbelievable class committed. But for twenty years, I was so just.

00:57:08
Speaker 12: Ter raged and pissed at the way the University of Miami was playing football and that.

00:57:15
Speaker 1: It just kind of came to that point where I had had enough.

00:57:17
Speaker 12: I mean, our own people were attacking the Hurricanes, and that was never the case. I Mean, I came here as a player because I used to come out and watch Alonzo Heismith and Michael Irvin and Bennie Blaze, your own Brown, all those just creatures just crushing it and getting after it. And I just got pissed to the point where it was like it's I've had enough. Like if I don't do it, who is going to do it? And I owe Miami and I want everyone to feel that way that ever played here.

00:57:42
Speaker 1: I mean, I owe the universe. I want nobody.

00:57:44
Speaker 12: I'm a local nobody that got a shop because Jimmy Johnson decided to give my brother and I scholarships come and play ball, which we had just started playing, you know, for a couple of years in high school, and it changed everything.

00:57:54
Speaker 1: So I'm one of those like just super high levels of gratitude for opportunities. And this was one where I owe Miami, the University of Miami Hurricanes, and let's just keep working.

00:58:05
Speaker 3: That's exactly how Will Compton feels about the Nebraska Cornhuster.

00:58:10
Speaker 5: In that story. I'm like, this might be my destiny. You you will will he coach know this.

00:58:15
Speaker 3: Will Compton will be the head coach of Nebraska Cornhusters one day. I feel like I feel yeah, I feel like we we just met. This is the first time we've really talked. But I feel like there's we have a nice foundation of a friendship already established. So I have a hypothetical for you, all right, I just I pulled I plucked this one in a thin air.

00:58:34
Speaker 1: Let's just say I don't do predictions.

00:58:38
Speaker 3: I promise, I promise it's not a prediction.

00:58:41
Speaker 1: And then I say that all due respect and I say respectful, I just I don't do predictions or hypothetically, you know, the mos'll ever have I promise.

00:58:50
Speaker 3: You see this right here. I don't know if you can see me. I'm crinkling up my paper right now.

00:58:54
Speaker 5: I love the situational.

00:58:56
Speaker 3: I know, I know, but he just I felt like he don't what coach has He has the presence of a head coach. I'm here to make a joke and he's like, listen, back up a little bit. He don't even know what the question is. Yeah, so I'm back in the.

00:59:07
Speaker 1: Stage that we're in. It's like, you know what we've taking.

00:59:11
Speaker 12: I don't know, like if the players ever saw me, like, I don't ever like act like that or talk like that. So I would hate to do some unnatural on camera or like our dudes that I trust and believe in and we're.

00:59:23
Speaker 1: Like super tight than to see me act in a way. We're like, what is that?

00:59:26
Speaker 12: Coach?

00:59:26
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

00:59:28
Speaker 5: This could be more of a spring a Spring type hypothetical.

00:59:31
Speaker 1: Go ahead, you know on Miami, visit on the Miami.

00:59:35
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, absolutely absolutely.

00:59:37
Speaker 5: Where everybody's been undefeated.

00:59:39
Speaker 3: Everybody. Yeah, Spring is the best time of year because everyone's everyone's got everything in the back.

00:59:44
Speaker 4: Coach, Crystal bar are you a are you a spook Tober guy? You big October guy?

00:59:48
Speaker 5: You like Halloween.

00:59:51
Speaker 4: In terms of having like embracing Yeah, just a holiday itself, like you got a favorite scary movie. This is more of like, this is more off football, just like getting to know you as a human being, because we I don't know if you see our bus set up, but we embrace Spootober for all thirty one days in October. So this is more of like a like a fun chill right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Big Michael Myers fans, Big Michael Myers fans.

01:00:14
Speaker 1: What is I think it's actually a mold of William Shatner's face, isn't it?

01:00:19
Speaker 3: Sorry, Trek, That is actually correct. And I love the fact that you know your spooky movies. Where does holiday in a holiday category? Where is Halloween for you in a tier system?

01:00:32
Speaker 12: You know, when my kids were growing up, it was it was good to get him out about. But I mean it's you know, as a coach man and as players, you guys know, you're just it's groundhog Day, right, so you just keep going. There's you know, hopefully and when all the big holidays are rolling around, you're playing significant football and your favorite holidays is one where you're staying in a hotel to play for a championship game.

01:00:52
Speaker 4: That's I can't wait for Coach Crystal Ball when he's retired and one day and he's done and he's experiencing these holidays for the first time, Like, man, I really missed some some awesome little holiday moments. Hopefully it's with some national titles. He's not thinking about multiple but he's gonna be sitting there like, oh, it's kind of nice to not have a whole lot of stress and press.

01:01:10
Speaker 5: Are going on coach.

01:01:11
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01:01:26
Speaker 1: What I would do anything for in terms of like legal, illegal, anything, no limits, no bounds.

01:01:31
Speaker 4: No bounds, maybe a massive ambition of yours, but just something that you just you know, it always comes to mind every now and then, maybe at least once or twice a month.

01:01:41
Speaker 12: Oh man, you'd have to give me for a warning on that. I mean, my mind kind of goes, you know, so pretty complicated, open ended question. Man. I'll have to think about it and certainly get back to you. I mean, the first thing that comes to mind that just jumps out as always winning.

01:01:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the only answer too. That's the only answer winning a national championship.

01:02:01
Speaker 4: Would you ever down the line be like if when you take national titles at the collegiate level, going to uh putting your head in the ring for the NFL.

01:02:11
Speaker 12: Uh No, No, that's noth I have. I've always had one destination in mine. That's the University of Miami. Always some people like to, you know, throw around things and you know this job, that job, this. I remember being a GA, and but Davis asked me, He's like, why that high pitched voice. You know, Coach Davis could get after it. He said, why why do you want to be a GA? Because back then at GA, what'd you do?

01:02:37
Speaker 1: Right?

01:02:37
Speaker 12: You made sure dry cleaning was set for the coaches. You had to help with all the BS assignments, and then you got to coach some But I just looked at him, I said, I want to sit in your seat one day. And that was twenty eighth, Yeah, twenty eight years ago. So this has always been it, man, It's always been Miami. I'm a you cut me open the orange and Green man all the way through.

01:02:57
Speaker 4: I love that there is h I'm curious too, Like, just ask somebody who's aspired to be a coach, especially like when I committed to a school, like I always had like coaching in mind, getting to play in the NFL, kind of seeing the hours between or like what goes into collegiate football NFL football? Like what was it for you on determining like college football. Obviously you're in the place you want to be, but as a coach kind of figuring it out along the way, what were some deciding factors for you being like I don't want to go anything beyond college football, like this is the spot, this is the place, this is the league I want to be in.

01:03:31
Speaker 1: Now that's a fair question.

01:03:32
Speaker 12: I mean, my high school coach is the best leader of best mentor best human being I've ever known in my life.

01:03:37
Speaker 1: I so call them for every major decision.

01:03:39
Speaker 12: And I was actually in the process of being a secret service agent when I took the GA job and then was hired while I was finishing up year two and.

01:03:50
Speaker 1: Had that big decision to make.

01:03:52
Speaker 12: And I had completely fallen full bore into coaching and loved it as a GA because back then there weren't any analyst was on G on each side of the ball, right, yeah, and you had to you had to sleep in the office and do everything. And I love making about four bucks an hour, and I I just absolutely loved every bit of a the development, the connections, the relationships, the competing they getting after it.

01:04:15
Speaker 1: It was the free metrics. That's what you ate is a GA metrics products?

01:04:19
Speaker 12: Right. He used to get those for free when they expired. That's what they used to give you for food. So and then just that was a crossroads and it was the choice was was tough, but it was clear it was football.

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Speaker 4: You would he would be amazing bucks an hour or two to where you are at, Like, that's dude, that's awesome.

01:04:39
Speaker 3: That really is cool hearing hearing hearing the stories about being a ga having sleepless nights. I mean, Dan Lanning has told the stories about that too, where you truly have to love what you're doing to be to be in that position consistently, Dan, and day out, weekend, year out, all that stuff. So we appreciate you. I I can't imagine the feeling of being a head coach if you're Alma mater. That is absolutely incredible. And let's give a right applause for coach Crystal Ball. Thank you so much, sir. We are looking forward to seeing you in the springtime.

01:05:08
Speaker 1: Appreciate you, guys. Thank you for having me. It's been an honor.

01:05:10
Speaker 5: Yes, and tell your son we said, what's up? Absolutely massive shout out to him.

01:05:14
Speaker 1: He's being fired out.

01:05:15
Speaker 12: Man.

01:05:15
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys.

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01:07:27
Speaker 12: How are you?

01:07:28
Speaker 7: What's going on?

01:07:29
Speaker 3: Guys?

01:07:29
Speaker 5: Can you hear me? Okay, yeah, we can hear you.

01:07:31
Speaker 4: Great, We're trying to see you right now, and we've got to take now. You've got a great got a great.

01:07:37
Speaker 5: Face for TV.

01:07:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, we just we have.

01:07:40
Speaker 7: I think the hair is coming in nicely, Willy, I kind of like it. I'm not gonna lie, thank you.

01:07:44
Speaker 5: My friend, show thank you. I'll go ahead and show it off a little bit. The buzzer.

01:07:48
Speaker 7: It grows fast. You could have way worse a growth patterns.

01:07:52
Speaker 5: I kind of I know the haters are sick that the hair is coming back in right now.

01:07:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did not think it would come back that fast. I'm very impressive. Will's cheap pettibilities.

01:08:01
Speaker 7: No, I still don't impressed. How's it going so far? But the I getim thing, I mean, it's it seems awesome.

01:08:06
Speaker 3: Every week, Bro, it's been so much fun. I think every week it's more and more fun because there's more of like a level of comfort understanding what everybody kind of wants from you.

01:08:14
Speaker 5: And you get to talk ball. Once you get into the season, you're not like doing the whole prediction right right.

01:08:19
Speaker 3: If I had one like about it, it's every single week's like an overreaction as opposed to like as a normal human being would like give grace to a team if they lose here or whatever. But every week seems like it's got it's a be all end all, and that to me is like a little harder to do naturally.

01:08:34
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that's like the morning show ESPN Formula Right, it's like everything is I don't know this morning, I don't even know what the conversation would be, but you know it's Drake May the best quarterback in the AFC East or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, get it. Take It's like, all right, pump pump the breaks a little bit here. But it seems like you guys have the right mix too, like the exact right people to be doing it with. Like Schefter is an entirely different version of himself around you guys.

01:08:56
Speaker 3: That awesome man. I've obviously been around him a bunch and being a Michigan guy and his like, I love how he just he's got this. He's just like an ultimate professional. But yeah, he's like willing to be one of those boys beause a lot of time you get around these like really like strong professional individuals and they always keep a professionalism about him, having him feel like they're loosen up, getting the tie last or a time may even actually last it's one of one man, it really is. I mean, we are recording right now, right, Mitchie, we're recording right now. Dude, tell me how fantasy football it became your thing? Like, how did that process even go down?

01:09:37
Speaker 1: Yeah?

01:09:38
Speaker 7: Kind of by accident. So I was working at ESPN. I started the ESPN like around twenty thirteen, twenty twelve of football season. I was doing some stuff, but not full time. In twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, somewhere in that range, a guy named Seth Markman, who is still at ESPN now kind of oversees all of NFL TV, came up to me and said, Hey, I know you consider you have a foot having sort of worked in the NFL world of scouting for a little bit, just a brief cup of coffee, but still, uh, you probably think of yourself more as an analyst than you do a fantasy guy. But I think you'd be surprised by how much those two sides intertwined and how a lot of what you would analyze for real football would apply to fantasy football. And he sort of described that it as kind of like a rocket ship that was going to continue to grow and grow and grow, and so what twenty twenty five, and as you guys know, fantasy football just gets bigger and bigger by the year. I tell people all the time, it's sort of like the NCAA basketball tournament in the sense that you don't really need to change anything in fantasy football. It's still going to be extremely popular year over year because to enjoy eighteen Sundays with tons of drama. And it's been an awesome home for me so far.

01:10:49
Speaker 4: So let's let's talk about how's your how's your uh, how have your stats been in fantasy football? Like are you are you winning this thing year in and year out in the leagues that you're in, Like I would just assume that you're the guy, right, You're the guy everybody's trying to knock down.

01:11:02
Speaker 7: You know, the greatest, Like the best baseball player had an average and I think like three twenty this year and all of l MLB and like people are like crowning him as one of the best hitters in the league. Accordingly, I think, like, you know, somewhere in like the ten to twenty percent winning percentage is a good mark for me year over year if you just do the math right, Like I play in leagues. There are sixteen teams where I don't know, that's like one in that's like a six percent chance. I think if if the numbers are somewhat even so, I would say that where I'm probably different than the average player is I don't win every league that I'm in. I wish I could say that was the case. I don't have too many duds throughout the years, like too many last place finishers. But you know, every ever, once in a while, like you just draw the wrong hand. And I've had some teams. I already have some teams this year that I have some draft regret over. But that's part of the fun of it too, is finding a way to dig yourself out of the hole.

01:11:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I do need some help with my fantasy team right now. Right now I am three. I'm three in two two, probably gonna go four and two. But I'm looking at my running back position, and I have Derek Henry, friend of the show, friend of mine, personally, teammate of mine. The last couple of weeks, the Ravens haven't been utilizing him in the way that is the most conducive way for him to be successful. Not only on the football field, But on my fantasy league team, what do I need to do with Derek Henry at this point?

01:12:21
Speaker 7: I think we've got to be patient for two more weeks now, Like people see if Lamar plays, and then they've had the bye week after that, which makes you think that Lamar maybe won't play next week, because if they can buy the extra week, they would help us up and give Lamar basically a month, and then they'd have to go on like an absolute tear for the last Let's see you next week would be the sixth game of the season. Eleven games after that. Yeah, now the Raven might be saying, hey, listen, man, we're one and four already. If we don't have Lamar against the Rams, we're probably staring at one in five in the face. And I don't know how many teams have gone one in five and then went on to make the playoffs, so not many throughout the course of NFL history. Henry is one of those guys who, as you know from blocking Form and Play, he went out on my end Sam Crack one hundred yards and a touchdown every single week. But when they're playing from behind like they were yesterday, all of a sudden he became like kind of the Justice Hill Show, uh in the second half for Baltimore. So the Ravens got to find a way to get Lamar back on the field, because once they have Lamar, the offense can keep them in games even if the defense is not great. And because of all the injuries, I don't think they're going to be a great defense. But it's been frustrated in the past three weeks. For that past four weeks now for those that have Derek Henry on their roster, But this guy's way too good to get hope on. He definitely is gonna have, you know, three, four, five more games this season where he ends up being the player that wins you his week.

01:13:43
Speaker 4: When you are an oh for team field, like myself, I believe I haven't won a game yet.

01:13:47
Speaker 7: In I don't believe that. I don't believe that.

01:13:50
Speaker 4: It's it is true. When you start off, oh, how many weeks have we done?

01:13:56
Speaker 5: Oh and four? What week are we on right now?

01:13:58
Speaker 3: Yeah?

01:14:00
Speaker 4: When you start off oh and four, what is the front office for your team need to start looking like? Is it a let's let's move our best players and try to get some try to get some starting capital across the board.

01:14:14
Speaker 12: Is it.

01:14:15
Speaker 4: Let's live in free agency, depending on how big your league is. What are you doing when you're starting off oh and four? Because right now Matt and Will's fantasy thrill, we're oh and four. Uh, just made a big trade last week. But where where does your head go when you start off oh and four?

01:14:29
Speaker 5: Yeah?

01:14:30
Speaker 7: I think there's this thing that we do in fantasy football where we try to make perfect trades. So here's a good example. Like I've seen a lot of teams coming out of the gates that are struggled with like Jamar Chase, right because Joe Burrow gets hurt.

01:14:43
Speaker 3: Next thing.

01:14:43
Speaker 7: You know, Jamar for two straight weeks was nearly the player that you drafted to be maybe number one overall. Yeah, you're saying to yourself, all right, if I can trade Jamar Chase, that's great, but I have to get you know, massive value, perfect value on return, because he was the number one pick of my draft. Probably the men the draft is over how and where the players are drafted kind of goes out to the board, goes off the board, I should say, And so sometimes I'm willing to and I think others would disagree. Philosophically. But if I can find a trade that maybe guests to be like eighty five cents in the dollar, because I get two starters, neither of which is as good as Jamar Chase. But if you have Jamar and you're struggling, it probably means you don't have great depth beyond that. Then I'm okay with doing that. And I got to think that, like players only meetings have already taken place on this squad. If those haven't worked so far, then I'm willing to shake things up with some roster management through trades. I also find that it'd be one of the best parts of fantasy football, right, I mean, that's fun, the closest I'll ever be becoming anfl GM. So if I can find something that works reasonably well for me and works really well or reasonably well for somebody else, I'm talking shop.

01:15:45
Speaker 4: What do you think about this trait that we made again Matt and Will's fantasy thrill. This is double GM league that we're doing at the shop with Busting with the Boys. We shipped off Josh Jacobs and JSN clearly.

01:15:58
Speaker 5: Two of our best players.

01:16:00
Speaker 4: In return, we went and got DeVante Adams Zay Flowers in a Chan Chan Auchan Auchan e Chan, Yeah, a Chane e Chan. You know, what's your feedback on a trade like that.

01:16:12
Speaker 7: That's a good example of where like you turned two pillar pieces into three, right, I mean, h Chan's right there with Josh Jacobs e chan who had just sixteen rushing yards on Sunday but had a ridiculous receiving touchdown. He's gonna be, I don't know, top five, top six running back at worst, at least in the rankings going into the week. And Josh Jacobs is in that same territory, maybe a little bit lower than a Chan because he doesn't catch as many passes, but the Packers obviously run the football a whole lot better than Miami does. And then you turn so I look at it as almost like those two are equal parts, and you basically turn JSN into Davonte Adams and Zay Flowers who came out of the gates red hot. That's a good example though, of like you know, being willing to not Yeah, I don't know if it's perfect value. Nobody can tell until this season's actually over, but you turned two pieces into three. First team Uh, that's a good way to go about it. By the way, double gmly that's tough right there. That's tough.

01:17:06
Speaker 3: Tough.

01:17:07
Speaker 7: You have to make a decision to pinch, like who gets the ultimate vote?

01:17:10
Speaker 3: Well, I think on this team that Will is referring to, it's very clear who the owner of the fifty one percent is in that gro our.

01:17:17
Speaker 4: Roles are defined and established. What you've got to have and to have an organization.

01:17:21
Speaker 3: You've got to have it. I have a hypothetical for you, field Yates. If you were in a league where you're zero and four and you decide to make a big trade where you get rid of a JSN and uh Josh Jacobs, but you make the trade on Thursday night as the Thursday night football game is starting, should you be able to use those players that you traded for in the same week. I get hypothetical, This is all hypothetical, but have you ever heard of a player getting traded the day on a Thursday and playing a full game and being successful? Oh? Man, we're talking about character integrity though.

01:17:59
Speaker 7: From that that standpoint, yeah, I can't think of too many instances where that's happened recently. I can't think of that totally hypothetically, of course, I can't think of that that man. I almost feel like, you know what, if we're willing to uh to execute a trade and the players available when the game starts, you get the points, I'll live with it.

01:18:23
Speaker 3: Wow, that went the exact opposite I was hoping it would go. We made a Trainethetically, the hypothetically the exact trade.

01:18:32
Speaker 4: Takes twenty four hours to take place, right before you actually get him on the roster. But the commission but the commissioner is telling you he'll put the points on the board because we're hypothetically this is happening in front of the majority of the league.

01:18:44
Speaker 7: OK So it's kind of like one of those leagues where you need twenty four hours for it to actually yeah.

01:18:49
Speaker 5: Yeah.

01:18:49
Speaker 4: So you're sitting there and you're asking the commissioner, like, do so do I leave these three spots open, like you're putting the points back on the board. Do we need to go ahead and roll with the guys we got because we're looking had our first win of the season, and hypothetically, if that trade can't go through, it's like, all right, well then we can throw. We should be allowed to throw. JSN and Tony Pollard back on the roster and get their points.

01:19:10
Speaker 11: Yeah, but also hypothetically, the GM or the commissioner is the guy who made the trade, right.

01:19:17
Speaker 3: Okay, so yeah, so there's a too Yeah, sounds like there's a lot of up to no good going on.

01:19:26
Speaker 5: Well it did?

01:19:27
Speaker 4: It did happen in front of the league? That would be the argument Coop was trying to say.

01:19:31
Speaker 3: This is there's a conversation taking place in front of people. But it's like guys are doing other things. They just happen to be in the same room while whispers in the corner are going on with the GM of the league or the commission of the league, with these two teams hypothetically, hypothetically right, It wasn't like a vocal Hey we're having this conversation right now. It was a conversation taking place in a room.

01:19:53
Speaker 7: I think maybe the commissioner needs to be a little more cut throught after further review here.

01:19:57
Speaker 3: Okay, now it's going back to the way I want all right, hypothetically.

01:20:00
Speaker 7: Pathetic further review here, just just you know, making sure I played both sides of the coin.

01:20:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you would say, but just so we know what you do. The line in the sand. You would say this is not a good move.

01:20:11
Speaker 7: I'm thinking not a good move after again, after careful consideration, not a good move here.

01:20:15
Speaker 5: And listen, as a GM in the league, I just need to be told what to do.

01:20:18
Speaker 4: Is it the forty points with JSN and Tony Pollard or is it the forty points with Za Flowers, Davante Adams and a chant Like I'm just like, I'm just listening for direction. I'm not trying to get nobody right. I'm just trying to hate where one of these lineups need to play.

01:20:32
Speaker 3: Well, it's all hypothetical, and I think if they're not in your lineup and you go through a trade, you just you essentially bend the knee for that week.

01:20:39
Speaker 4: Hypothetically, the two co hosts you're talking to are also playing each other in this said game of the week.

01:20:44
Speaker 7: Oh okay, got even more layers to this.

01:20:46
Speaker 4: This is just so again, however the commissioner wants to hand However the commission wants to handle it, like, listen, we're not We're not.

01:20:52
Speaker 5: This hasn't gotcha ball.

01:20:53
Speaker 3: Sounds that the commissioner is the one, hypothetically that's in this kind of like a conflict of interest category. Yeah, hypothetically, Yeah, definitely philia typothetically. Yeah, do you ever see yourself going back to the NFL in a way of I don't know, maybe an actual GM, maybe an actual upper scout. See you, you know, ball man, you understand it all and you've been in that world for a little bit. Could you see yourself doing that?

01:21:16
Speaker 7: I don't think. I think that ship probably sailed. I'm not sure any the NFL team would express much interest in me. As you guys know, though, like this side of the this side is a pretty cool place to be too, right, you guys obviously had highly successful NFL careers and live that life of playing for I'll give you ten Willie h and and and Taylor long career as well. Like, uh, you know the toll that it takes on you, not just in terms of like the physical rigors of it, but also you know, just the family and the balance and the things that matter. I know, both you guys obviously very passionate dads as well. I think that's one of those things that like in the scouting world, there's not a lot of balance in the world of football scouting, right, you're kind of addicted to the game, which is a great and I admire that trait in the guys that do it at a high level. But I like the fact that while I haven't won a game in the NFL for over a dozen years, I also haven't lost a game and over a dozen years, So I remember sort of that feeling where you prepare you guys know that, like even the worst NFL teams are preparing like crazy Monday through Saturday to get ready for Sunday. But I love what we do here. I love just talking football and having the opportunity to watch it. And I think that I'm happy being at ESPN for hopefully a long time.

01:22:26
Speaker 4: How long did that transition for you happen mentally? Like, you know, as you're transitioning back in twenty eleven, if you can remember that time, it's like were you kind of transitioning at first and kind of back man, I just you know, kind of buying, buying time until your next potential opportunity in the NFL to get in the front off a spot or as you start tasting it, it kind of that thought process kind of fades away as you're getting to spend time at home.

01:22:50
Speaker 7: Yeah, for me, like and not to get like, you know, too serious during a relatively light conversation here. But you know, I was a few years out of college and all I'd ever known since I was sixteen years years old was being around NFL teams. I was very fortunate to be around you know, some quality organizations and great people and you know guys that I think, you know, taught me a lot about life, not just football, that I consider like influential my life to this day. But I remember, like five year high school reunion came and went. It wasn't even a consideration to attend that because there was just no chance to do it. First went and I got invited to missed it couldn't make it to that one. You know, a lot of my buddies were living in some of the major cities around you know, the US, and they do their boys weekends. Couldn't make any of those. So it just felt like to me a life decision. I knew at that point too. You know, I'm twenty three, twenty four years old, Like I don't have kids, mortgage, more consequential things to have to worry about and have to make decisions on. So when I left football, I was stort of thinking to myself, I might go into a non sports world. I got my real estate license. I quickly hated that, so I realized I had to find my way back into sports in some way, shape or form. I always tell people, though, like when when you're in the world of scouting, you can love football, but you definitely have to live it.

01:24:00
Speaker 2: Uh.

01:24:00
Speaker 7: I love football, Now I don't. I mean, I certainly live a lot of football, but you know, I have interest outside of football that I get to explore now on the career path that we have, so it gives us the balance that I just don't know that scouts are afforded. So for me, I wish I could say it was like this epiphany that happened overnight and I said, Hey, I'm gonna leave the world of scouting. I'm gonna go work for ESPN. It wasn't as smooth as that. It took a few years to kind of get from the world of the NFL into the ESPN vortex. But once I found my way here, I kind of felt like, maybe this is what I was supposed to be doing from the jump.

01:24:31
Speaker 3: You know that that's a great story. One thing I took away from it was sounds like you're your first wedding you were invited to was a fall wedding? Is that my corre?

01:24:39
Speaker 7: Yes, it was a borderline of legal call by that.

01:24:42
Speaker 9: That's what I was.

01:24:42
Speaker 3: That's what I was going to say, is should we completely abolish the fall wedding? Does that need to go away?

01:24:48
Speaker 7: Totally?

01:24:48
Speaker 5: One hundred percent.

01:24:49
Speaker 7: I don't even acknowledge fall weddings now. Yeah, you know, I think I feel like I skipped a couple of this. This you guys would love this, uh, you know. And so when I was first getting started in the world, I was working, I was actually like ball boying for the Patriots way back at the day. I'm from Massachusetts and I was there during some of the glory and some of the best. I mean, it was a long run, but some of those decades there. Yeah, And I'll tell you there may not be of the players that left like the greatest impressions on me during my time working with the Pats, rape is right up there, man. He might be number one. And the thing that I loved about Rapes was I was like a fourteen year old who at the time really thought that I was like going to become something as a football player, not an NFL player, But I thought like I'd have a chance to go on and become like a very successful high school football coach, high school football player, excuse me, and then maybe play at the college level, which I did. I sucked, but you know, D three backup bench warmer only right, But at the time, but at the time, I was thinking big right, I was thinking, you know, Michigan, Nebraska, that kind of stuff. And Rams used to humble the crap out of me every day. Man, that guy. And that's the thing about Rapes is that one of the greatest qualities he has doesn't matter if you're best player on the team, last player on the roster is gonna tell you exactly how it is. And I'll never forget I was. You know, I think there was one time where Belichick had made a comment of Rabel but how you know, Hey, I'm going into whatever year it was, and I'm trying to, you know, maybe get on the recruiting radar for some small Division III colleges. And then later on, like a practice a day or two later, I was maybe running windsprints or something, or running routes on airs as the team was going through walked or whatever. It was doing something to try to help out do something meaningful, and Raves just chirping me from all and out. I don't know where. It just like something the effect of, like, Bill, you told me, this kid's trying to get recruited to play football in college watching the way that I was running. So I Raves let me have it. Then he still lets me have it to this day. And one of the many reasons why I admire that guy.

01:26:46
Speaker 3: Admire is an interesting way after telling that story.

01:26:49
Speaker 7: You know what you know, hey, I just I learned a lot of lessons from him. If you can handle, you know, some honesty from Braves, are gonna be all right?

01:26:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, you're talking to two guys that have been on the exact thing I've known the story. Yes, absolutely.

01:27:01
Speaker 4: The feeling you have psychologically and mentally it is the same as a seven year NFL VET when he's beating me down verbally, or a fourteen year old boy trying to play some high school boy.

01:27:10
Speaker 7: I know, tet my spirits up, and Vrame's like just he's he's gonna no matter who it is again, fourteen year veteran or fourteen year old kid, he's gonna be honest with you, Yeah, for sure.

01:27:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah. I tend to think if there was like a if like the military, how they have like POWs. Yeah, if they took Rabel and it has had them like look at the POWs and like just be demonstrative towards them, they get a lot more information out of them that they would just beat them down verbally over and over again. Do you think Roger Goodell was behind Will Compton year ten?

01:27:46
Speaker 7: I have some Yeah, you know, I thought about that a lot. I do have a lot of questions about that.

01:27:53
Speaker 1: I mean, I.

01:27:55
Speaker 7: I want to say that year that like you were, like it was the year prior in which like you were undefeated with the Raiders and they went something like oh and six down the stretch and then like two and oh when you were on the roster. I'm just I'm merely pointing out numbers here. That's all the playoffs. Yeah, I've wondered a lot, you know, like, are we talking about a Canton career if he gets one more year? That's what I'm wondering.

01:28:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're talking about Canton career. We're talking about a Atlanta Falcon super Bowl, We're talking about a lot of things that would the script in.

01:28:23
Speaker 4: The mix hardcore when all that was going down in the field, shout at you. You were a massive like you had fun with a massive supporter of.

01:28:30
Speaker 5: The year ten.

01:28:31
Speaker 4: Always give it, always getting the breaking news. I don't know what source you had it from, but uh, the Falcons were.

01:28:37
Speaker 5: In the mix.

01:28:38
Speaker 4: They were in the playoffs, Willie time. It wasn't allowed all of a sudden they drop a few. Yeah, very into the season. We maybe still like they're already out of the playoffs.

01:28:47
Speaker 5: The magic's over? Yeah, weren't the Titans?

01:28:50
Speaker 7: Like, did you have like a visit with the Titans too? And the whole city in Nashville was buzzing for like twenty four hours? Did I make that part up?

01:28:57
Speaker 4: City was buzzing when Willie C did have a workout with the Raiders were on the table. That was the year before and year nine.

01:29:03
Speaker 5: Okay, or is that year eight?

01:29:04
Speaker 4: I did about twenty twenty, Yeah, twenty twenty Raiders were on the table.

01:29:10
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was holding out. I'm like, listen, I ain't gotta do that.

01:29:14
Speaker 10: Yea.

01:29:14
Speaker 4: There are no signing bonus on the table. I'm just getting vent minimum here. I can kind of just chill because the resume is there. You can drop me off in the helicopter and I'll figure out the playbook overnight. And then I got a visit with the Titans, got to do a little workout. They end up signing me. I think we go what eleven and five that year. First we had the number one seed. Yeah, we lose that game. Then the next year was kind of wait and see. Then it was the Raiders get us into the playoffs.

01:29:37
Speaker 5: They cut me. Yeah, see what happened?

01:29:39
Speaker 7: And remember that lost the next game, right, yeah.

01:29:42
Speaker 3: Lost the next game. Once you get a real weird we'll get the bangles. Things just go down to hell, man. But yeah, that's massive. That's master for you to have Will's back in a situation where a lot of people were just siding on the edge of power of Roger Goodell, so they were afraid to take on the big dog, and you were a man that stood ten toes down. We appreciate you for that.

01:30:00
Speaker 4: I do have a again bringing it back to fantasy. What are some of the best and worst fantasy punishment ideas that you've heard of or maybe some that are currently happening.

01:30:09
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean so, like the most popular one these days definitely. Number one is some variation of either you go to a bar or waffle house and you get twenty four hours to start every it's like shot or beer is thirty minutes off. Maybe a shot and a beer like at the same time as like, you know, ninety minutes off. There's some sort of like you know, almost like a supercharge there if you can take two down at once in one sort of one fell swoop waffle house, it's like every waffle you eat, you take off an hour and you go until you know, some people are there for eight hours because they pound sixteen waffles or something like that. That's always a fun one. The person always comes out worse for it in the end. I'm playing in a league. It's a bunch of buddies who all work at a brewery and the loser every year has to run eight and a half miles from one location to US Pacific Bar. And these guys, you know, they they can all drink. The guys can all really drink. And during the time that that person is running, the rest of the group is at that bar running up a tab on that person's card. And you know, if you find an athletic guy, it might be an hour and a half. You find an unathletic guy, and that might be two two fifteen and two hours and fifteen minutes for eleven guys at a bar, ten of which work at a brewery. Like that number gets pretty significant in a hurry there. That's always one of my favorite ones each year.

01:31:30
Speaker 3: I'd love that I do our punishment this year and league. I'd like to get your evaluation on it is whoever gets last in the league. Because we are doing a two GM league, as will point it out earlier, they will we have a stream room. They have to spend twenty four hours in that stream room together. What are your thoughts on that?

01:31:46
Speaker 5: They will be stre hours?

01:31:48
Speaker 7: Oh that's a long time man. That's gonna be What kind of what kind of like entertainment do they have available for twenty four hours? Basically nothing.

01:31:55
Speaker 5: We're working on that viewers.

01:31:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it will be. The viewers will be up to them. I think every hour maybe we take something away like that.

01:32:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do like that right there, Like a mister Peace video that would be good. All of a sudden, off your pants. You don't get that pants?

01:32:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, no pants anymore for you or no one to wear anymore as well, and and a lot of these hypotheticals, this is not a hypothetical. Will is oh and four and because of your judgment, sounds like he's gonna go oh and five because he's missing three slots this week. That uh, Will Compton and Matt Malone are looking at a tough situation right now in our.

01:32:28
Speaker 7: Famous season season.

01:32:31
Speaker 3: I will, you know, say this, last of all the teams that I would prefer to go last place in our league, it's by far Will Compton a Matt Malone. It's it's by far the dynamic of those two for twenty four hours. And it's nothing against either. Will is my best friend, it's nothing against them. It just seeing that for twenty four hours will be must see TV.

01:32:52
Speaker 7: Well, you know, and I gotta say this, and I'm not again, I'm not trying to come on the show and just make someone feel good good about themselves. But if I know one thing about Will Compton, it's that you make lemonade, you know, Like that's what you do. You get lemons, You make lemonade right like it does twenty four hours. You probably that would probably be an incredibly like there'll be a ton of viewers on that stream right there. You gotta shave your head on National TV. You'll do it. You gotta sit in the streamer for twenty four hours with nothing to do. You'll find a way to make it entertaining for America.

01:33:19
Speaker 3: I love that. I love your compliment.

01:33:22
Speaker 7: Now I want you to finish. I want you to go in seventeen this year.

01:33:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love your compliment. Let me come in with a little cut down at the knees. Here's something will comp. It's great at, great at content, great at sitting on it with a microphone and delivery to the people. What will comp that's not great at is spending twenty four whole hours being entertaining. That boy gets sleepy quickly, he gets grumpy quickly. And when Matt Malone on there, that's where the content's gonna come from. And that's what makes it so beautiful.

01:33:49
Speaker 5: So I guess you're right.

01:33:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be mussy TV will have it. It'll be at his demise, which Yeah, it's just getting better and better the more I talk about it. Oh man, before we get you out of here, we have a bud light question. We give to everybody bud lights. It's something that people would do anything for. A clean, crisp, cold bud light bill, the Yates. What would you do anything for? Can't say? Family?

01:34:14
Speaker 7: What would I do anything for?

01:34:15
Speaker 1: Right?

01:34:15
Speaker 3: We had we had brock Bauers on here. He said he'd do anything for a nice steak.

01:34:20
Speaker 5: Na, Yeah, nice steak?

01:34:22
Speaker 3: Who met eater? Who's me? Eater? Steve Vanilla he said, there's a documentary that he doesn't care if no one cares about it. He wants to make it. He wants to do it at some point in his life is going to make that documentary. So what is something you would do anything for?

01:34:36
Speaker 9: All?

01:34:36
Speaker 1: Right?

01:34:37
Speaker 7: So we started off talking about some of the ESPN camaraderie I play. There's a sixteen team fantasy football league at ESPN. It's called the War Room. Chefter's in it, Rex Ryan's in it, Bruski's in it. A lot of the names that you know from ESPN or and it's a great, great league. I think this is year seven for me and I've yet to win the league. And it's one of those things that like once you get one, I mean I really would say it's basically like winning the super Bowl, Like you just have to have one. In your ledger and you're forever a super Bowl champion. I would do anything to win the Warroom League. Anything I do I get one. I could go oh for Infinity after one championship if I get that one championship. And I'm telling you, if anybody in the Warroom League happens to see or listen to this, they will agree with that assessment right there.

01:35:23
Speaker 4: How many out of the sixteen how many are champions?

01:35:28
Speaker 12: Have some?

01:35:28
Speaker 5: Do we have some repeat cats right now?

01:35:31
Speaker 7: So I believe there's been just one multiple time winner in league history. And we've had a little bit of turnover, so the only parameter is someone on the you have to work at ESPN, So we've had some people that either previously worked at ESPN that are no longer there, people that have just elected to leave the league for whatever reason. So I know the league is like fifteen or sixteen years old. I'm not one of the original members, but I think there are maybe like one or two people that have won it multiple times. I don't believe there's ever been a repeat champion.

01:36:04
Speaker 5: Is there a multiple time champion currently in the league?

01:36:08
Speaker 7: Yeah, I actually I believe the only one that's in league right now is Seth Markman who I mentioned earlier, is I had of the NFL TV stuff. So he's got the secret sauce on fantasy football.

01:36:17
Speaker 5: You know that pain Field to say his name too.

01:36:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, he is the number one dog right now, number one dog misters. As an individual who's won back to back the league championships, I will tell you it is. It is such a great feeling.

01:36:31
Speaker 5: It's so hard.

01:36:33
Speaker 3: It is it's nice and you just kind of just kind of let you do your thing and you let everybody they forget about it, and then once Fantasy football comes back up in the fall, you just quietly let everybody know, you know, when the last two I think maybe back to back. It's beautiful. Uh, we appreciate you, We appreciate you coming on the show.

01:36:48
Speaker 5: Yes, dude, thank you. This has been a great time.

01:36:50
Speaker 4: Good laughs, and listen, we'll have to get a we'll have to get another check in at some point as this league gets close to the end or gets come playoff time.

01:36:58
Speaker 7: Yes, I might have to invite myself down in Nashville. I think it would hit a little bit different in person on the bus. Oh yeah, lovel down to your domain. But that's that's how we prefer it. We would rather have people on the bus.

01:37:10
Speaker 3: We're getting used to this whole zoom thing right now, but being in face to face is the best move for sure.

01:37:14
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you guys have just a slight edge over Connecticut weather start. I mean, actually it's nice up here in New England today, but you know in about three weeks it'll be getting dark at four thirty and probably about thirty five degrees out.

01:37:25
Speaker 4: Yeah.

01:37:25
Speaker 7: Yeah, time to get the hell out, you're telling me.

01:37:29
Speaker 3: Yeah all, but we appreciate you man.

01:37:31
Speaker 5: Thanks.

01:37:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't wait for the check in soon.

01:37:34
Speaker 5: Big hugs, tiny kisses, Thank you, Field boys.

01:37:37
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01:38:22
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01:38:25
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01:38:26
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01:38:27
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01:38:28
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01:38:30
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01:39:02
Speaker 5: Oh hey, Ryan, you might as well come on in here. Come on in here.

01:39:05
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01:39:06
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01:39:07
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01:39:19
Speaker 3: You got Ryan.

01:39:25
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01:39:26
Speaker 14: I appreciate every one of you guys. Couldn't do it without you guys, And yeah, I'm blessed.

01:39:31
Speaker 5: Hell yeah, hey, Ryan, pick up the mic.

01:39:38
Speaker 4: There's, as you know, controversy has been trying to come to the top around our fantasy football league. You know, I'm assuming you have questions that you would like answers to.

01:39:50
Speaker 12: No.

01:39:50
Speaker 3: I mean, I I got all the answers I needed from field Yates, so I just think, but shouldn't you bring those to the somebody who is the knows how I feel about it?

01:39:59
Speaker 7: Yesterday?

01:40:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked about yesterday. We've had the conversation. If that's how you guys want to handle business, I just don't want to hear anything else about me and handle how I handle my business from now on. That's the If that's the where do you guys want to go down? All good?

01:40:11
Speaker 5: Are you comparing it to the situation a couple of years ago?

01:40:13
Speaker 3: To be ad situation a couple of years ago, there's always this thing around Taylor about all Taylor. You know, he always bends the rules a little bit. It's okay, all right, if everybody wants to throw stones at a glass house, that's fine. Just to know that you also live in a glasshouse.

01:40:23
Speaker 5: Now hang on their sto.

01:40:25
Speaker 4: Just to be clear that the what you were trying to pull a couple of years ago, there is, Hey, you can drive my vehicle around for the next few months. Like there's money under the table.

01:40:34
Speaker 5: Hey, can we let this like there was actual, all alleged actual.

01:40:38
Speaker 3: That is all alleged, an actual collusion. This is actual collusion that you guys are hanging on the We were talking in front of everybody as if it was a conference meeting room taking place about an action that was gonna happen. You guys were talking in the corner with yourself. Well, we're all getting ready for finished football. I remember talking about entourage.

01:40:57
Speaker 4: It was said out loud on the tree, cooperation or concacy, especially in order to cheat or deceive others.

01:41:05
Speaker 15: It was definitely set out loud, because I was on the complete other side of the stream room and heard it being talked to.

01:41:11
Speaker 5: It was set out loud and.

01:41:13
Speaker 4: Again questions were being asked because again as a as a GM of the league, I'm more so leaning on the group and the commissioner. Hey, how do we want to function with this trade? Because if we're playing our guys this week, we can obviously put in the guys that we have on our bench right now, but if we're going to get points back because the trade's going to go through, then we will leave our spots open. So trying my best is GM to kind of follow the rules. Again, there's no secrecy, nothing, nothing with collusion trying to take place, no secrecy going on, nothing illegally trying to get done or get on top of anybody, simply trying to follow the rules. And you're bringing the question up on you know, you brought it up yesterday versus saying something then because you are down right now and Pachecko needs to put up like around twenty five or twenty four to win the game.

01:41:57
Speaker 3: I do I do if anything stays the way it is right now, right, but we.

01:42:02
Speaker 4: Have three spots open because our points are getting That's what we're talking about, right, But if that trade wasn't going to go through, we still have JSN like we have guys or are we're still getting forty Like the game would still be Pacheco would still need to have a big game.

01:42:15
Speaker 3: Right, So we're playing a football game. I trade for a bunch of guys, but they end up playing the game for their team. I just go, oh, all the points they scored that counselors are scored now, so we get more points. But going to these guys and we sat these guys.

01:42:27
Speaker 11: I understand what Will saying is, even if he didn't make that trade and had those guys still on his team, they still scored forty more points, so he still would have one.

01:42:35
Speaker 3: All right, right, Yeah, I could have should have worent all the things. I look at the scoreboard on my fantasy app and I see what it is. And if you guys want to change the outcome of the game, you guys, go ahead and do that. I'm not gonna take it personal. I went in with my draft and I was like, if I can go three and three in the first six weeks, your buddy's that's a huge win. So for me, it's like, yeah, all good.

01:42:53
Speaker 4: It doesn't sound like it's It sounds like you're very fired up right now.

01:42:56
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I've literally said, you guys, do whatever you want.

01:42:59
Speaker 5: We know what the score would be.

01:43:02
Speaker 4: Pacheco would need like twenty four twenty five for them to win.

01:43:05
Speaker 5: The game without even your players in.

01:43:07
Speaker 15: You guys are beating them one thirty nine to one sixteen, so you're winning by twenty without any players in.

01:43:12
Speaker 7: So they might not even look at.

01:43:14
Speaker 3: Their look at their look at their matchup, right, Yeah, you gotta look at the match up club. You gotta you gotta read the things before you say things.

01:43:21
Speaker 5: Who's that? Who'd you train?

01:43:22
Speaker 14: I treated Adams, Flowers and Devant.

01:43:27
Speaker 15: None of those people are in their lineup on mine because they're on my roster.

01:43:31
Speaker 6: Oh I'm saying you're winning even without.

01:43:33
Speaker 14: Any because he was not still six points you added. Look go to if you go to my team and you add the points between the three of them. Yeah, I took that total, added it to will to your total.

01:43:47
Speaker 5: I did.

01:43:47
Speaker 9: I just want to throw this out there.

01:43:49
Speaker 8: We did consult chat GBT to see if there was any collusion in the past with Taylor with the bus in UH Fantasy League. It said no collusion.

01:43:58
Speaker 3: To be sad, Yeah, that is that's on chatgy, right, That's never wrong.

01:44:03
Speaker 4: Look, Taylor's got a scummy resume. I understand he's trying to clear right now, but.

01:44:07
Speaker 3: Classic will defense mechanism. Let's let's attack Taylor's character. All good man, You guys do what you want, Okay, you handle your business the way you want to handle business. Just like I said, I go three and three. I if I said at the beginning of the year, if I got three and three in the first six weeks, I feel real good about it. All right, we had every guy on by this week. We had to makeshift a bunch of things. It's all good.

01:44:28
Speaker 5: Yeah.

01:44:28
Speaker 4: It doesn't even seem like it was going to be a topic of discussion. What do you mean, Like I'm saying, this was never like the game was going to play out the way it plays out. So people were just saying there's some collusion going on. People are trying to, you know, bring some drama to the league. And it only came from a couple spots, and you were one of them.

01:44:45
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people were talking about how there's a lot of collusion going on, especially with this situation.

01:44:49
Speaker 5: Who else every I think every other team, I don't think so. Jeremy was like, hey, klump, was like, hey, he heard it out louder, but.

01:44:56
Speaker 3: A lot of things in front of you, and there's a lot of things different in front of me. I'll say that it's all. It's all good. I'm not here to put anybody. I'm blast, it's all.

01:45:06
Speaker 9: Understand people being like weird about it.

01:45:08
Speaker 15: If they weren't talking about it out loud in front of everyone, I did hear them, Like I said, I questioned it.

01:45:13
Speaker 4: I was the first one I questioned it, and I was going down and Ryan will tell you. Before the game started yesterday, I'm like, hey, I just want to be clear. I'm leaving these spaces open because the points are getting at it. If not, I need to put in the guy like the guys who are gonna play.

01:45:26
Speaker 15: Yesterday, I said it out loud, very loudly in the streaming. Wait, hold on a minute, what are you guys doing over there?

01:45:31
Speaker 4: Very tried and true, you know, just making sure we'd go about it the right way.

01:45:35
Speaker 3: At the end of the day, you can lay your head on the pillow at night, and it sounds like you guys can. So we're all good. No worries. Fantasy football the hell of a time, just a game we're having fun fun, Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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