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Coming on through to talk with us. about all things NFL. We talked about the Dallas Cowboys beating the Raiders last night. We heard from Elaine Kiffin. Who denies being given an ultimatum by Ole Miss as to whether or not he's gonna stick around?
Or leave. We got an update on Aaron Rodgers. The old guy, his wrist He doesn't need surgery. on his left wrist, where he has a small fracture. And at the end of the week they'll evaluate him to see whether or not he's going to be ready to play.
And Steelers' next game is against the Chicago Bears, where Aaron Rodgers owns a 25-5 record against the Bears. Yeah, when he was with the Packers he was just smoking em. horrific fashion. Speaking of old guys, Hey, in about an hour or so, two hours LeBron James is gonna be back? He's going to make his season debut for the Los Angeles Lakers?
Do they need LeBron James? Yannis is hurt. When Ben Yama is hurt, all the long, tall, long dudes blocking shots and dunking. Everybody's just heard all over the place. Then we got the college football playoff review.
Yeah, it should come in this hour. And then a matter of fact, at the top of next hour, We're going to be joined by Scott Docterman.
Okay, he's gonna come through and have a chat with us. about all things a college of football.
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We got Aaron Rodgers. This man is just staring in the face right now. Being forty two years old, Got a broken wrist still trying to go out there. and play football. And then we got LeBron James.
LeBron James is about to be forty one years old next month. He's already missed the Lakers' first 14 games. The Los Angeles Lakers have a record of 10-8. And Four. LeBron James hasn't played a minute, he hasn't played a second, he's been dealing with sciatica.
and his back. If it happens in your back, it's feeling it in your backside, you feel it in your leg, you got a dead leg. And tonight LeBron James apparently is going to be on his way. Back. The Los Angeles Lakers host the Utah Jazz in about two and a half hours from now.
And if there was gonna be a team that I would want to face, If I'm LeBron James, it would be the Utah Jazz. They got a record of five and eight. And outside of marketing, they got a bunch of young dudes, Ace Bailey, people that nobody give a damn about, okay. And so LeBron James, we heard him yesterday, he said. He's saying, Yeah, I gotta get my lungs back.
I gotta, you know, get my wind back. Hey, here's a better question. Lebron You you feeling okay? You you still got that pain in your body? We've had to hear about this all summer.
Tell me, LeBron. I won't take it that far. Like I said, if you ever had it, you just you go about it, you wake up one day and you hope that when you step down out of the bed you don't feel it. You go to bed at night. I hope when you get into bed, you don't feel it.
So, I've been doing pretty good with it as of late. It's a lot of exercises, and a lot of mobility things, and a lot of things that you can do to help it. Oh, boy, he sounds like an old guy. Lebron James fondly sounds like an old guy. He's telling you about the pain he has when he gets out the bed.
Botcha did my stretch. I do my stretches, man.
Now my back feels good. Y your back feels good, Bacha. Didn't you say your back hurt the other day? Uh, right now. Uh right now it's fine.
I would say in totality, uh it hurts every now and then. Damn. Are you stretching on a daily basis? Uh no. I I I feel like if I stretch too much, it'll hurt my back.
No, you keep it loose and limber, man. That's why you also mix it with strength, botch. You just don't stretch. You mix it with some strength and calisthenics, man. Come on.
Yeah, I know that, but like, I get a little risky. Like, sometimes. you you tweak something, you're like, Okay. I'm not going to push it anymore. Aww.
Yeah, but they're cut are you you playing in the NFL? What's you okay? I'm not in the NFL yet. But I yeah, no, I'm just a little Two inches. Nah, yeah, man, but sometimes you do the little tweaks and you can you gotta know your body.
You can You you're not lifting up heavy boxes and stuff. I mean, you d you're not pulling a back muscle and now trying to lift up a car. No. They don't do they don't make me do that here. Not yet.
Okay, all right. I wasn't talking about at work. Um Yeah, yeah, yeah, but Bot don't be discouraged, Botcha. The sun hurts a little bit. And sometimes you can adjust it with just a little bit of exercise.
And so LeBron James already sounded like an elderly individual. He's missed the first fourteen games of the season. A lot of people would say that this was done on purpose. to try to send a message to the Los Angeles Lakers. to see if they really needed him or to put a message out to them that, Hey, you need me uh the Lakers got a record of ten and four.
LeBron James, I must remind you, he is on an expiring contract for the first time in his career. There is no option here. When this season is done, LeBron James can go wherever the hell he wants. He can stay with the Los Angeles Lakers for maybe a little bit less of a deal. He can go elsewhere.
And so LeBron, thinking about missing 14 games, he says, it's difficult, man. It's tough. Never in my life, since I started playing the game of basketball, have I ever. not started a season in my life.
So, you know, it's been a... It's been a mind test, but you know, I'm built for it and it's just been, you know. Putting in the work both mentally and physically and just trying to get myself ready to rejoin the team. Yeah. Ugh.
Botcha I'm gonna I'm gonna rub my crystal ball. Never mind. I'm gonna look into the future. LeBron James tonight against the Utah Jazz. LeBron James will have fifteen points.
Owen, I don't know. Uh five of ten shooting. He'll have five assists and six rebounds in uh you know twenty eight minutes. Yeah, I can see that. Anything to keep his ten point streak alive.
He'll probably get to 10 points and then check out. Double did. You you just be beating up on the jazz, huh? Just have Luca finish him, right? That's the that's the goal.
Just like I said, be third fiddle. Just be in the background, get your ten points, and especially when you're rehabbing now, just Play it safe.
Well, we've we've gotten a lot of rumors that that he is going to play tonight. JJ Reddick was asked yesterday if he'll play. He didn't give anything definitive. Listen. I know he's itching to play and itching to return.
What his minutes look like, that's another factor.
So we'll make a decision. We got to see how he responds to the day. And what He feels like tomorrow morning, but um Yeah, we're whenever it is, we're we're excited to get it back. Yeah, well tomorrow morning is today, which is now a couple hours before game time, and it is assumed that LeBron James will make his debut tonight. Uh which will be Pretty damn awesome, man.
I mean, we've never seen an NBA player come through and say, hey, here's my twenty third season of NBA basketball. And then already have all the records, a scoring record. He's played more basketball than anybody who's ever been in the league. And the last time we saw him, he was running around out there Just like, you know, he's an all-star. I mean, last season.
LeBron James basically rolled out of bed. He played 70 games. Let me say that again. He played 70 games last year. Twenty-four points.
Eight assists and eight rebounds. What are we doing here? That was at his age forty season He's about to be forty one. And please believe he's going to miss a game here or two or three there. You know, now that he's older, they want him for the playoffs, they want him for the postseason.
And so if LeBron's numbers just dropped to, I don't know, 28 and 8. the guy would still be an All Star. He'd still be an amazing player. His brain isn't deteriorating. It's just a matter of whether or not his body can keep up.
And by the way, You know, it's not like LeBron James is Oh six six. The six three The dude is six foot nine.
Okay, he can still move. Do you still want him out there just You know, running the world defensively, no, he's not the same type of defender, but He should still be a good basketball player. Maybe even an All Star should be that too. And speaking of LeBron James and his accomplishments. He was sitting down with stuffed curry.
And they were talking about whether or not they were going to participate in the Olympics. The next Olympics. 2028 in Los Angeles. Do we need to see LeBron and LeBron in the Olympics again? Listen to what him and Steph Curry had to say on the Mind the Game podcast.
What do you think? This is how old are you guys now? You 40, 30, 37? I'd be 41. 40 and a half, a month and a half.
You think you got an LA Olympics? When's that? 28. You already know my answer. You don't even know.
I will be watching it in the comments. You did plenty of Olympics. Yes, man. I did plenty of them. You think you might?
It is the opposite answer of what I told him last year. It's like, God willing, I still have the choice and the physical option to be like, I could actually impact the team. I never say never, but I highly doubt it. I highly doubt it. I'd love to be a part of the.
Movement. We can't top what we just did. We can't top those last two games. That's the top. And just the moment, like, just, we can't top those last two games, man.
Like, We literally played France and Paris for the France. You know, like that, it would have been like in 08, like during a redeemed team, if you'd have played China in a final. Yeah, well, I mean How could you top that? You you win the gold in America. As simple as that.
LeBron is going to be 43. In the 2028 Olympics, and then you have Steph Curry at the time. He will have just turned 40 years old. Yeah. LeBron James says he ain't playing.
I get it. I I understand. We need we need the next generation. A dude's, it's a step-up.
Okay, LeBron already has three gold medals. He was a part of that 2004 team that went to the Olympics, and yeah, they lost. They didn't win. He was a rookie at that time. I was still a first-year player.
Uh, I don't why does it just seem like LeBron might be on the back end. I don't know. That is a long time. Botcha, you you think he's he's uh playing games here? You you think he's really shut that door?
Yes, I honestly think LeBron has been super clear. He only has about a year or two left. and he's not going to push it to twenty twenty eight and try to hurt himself even more. Push what to 2028? If he can still play in 2028, that might be the Swan song right there.
Yeah, but like. Do I want to see a mid-40s LeBron James start for Team USA when we could barely beat France last time? Hey, he doesn't need to start. And by the way, watch your mouth. 43 is mid-40s?
Where?
Well, no, but yeah, it well, 2028'll be farther along. It's just Yeah, it's just LeBron I think his goal is to still be the star on Team USA. No. I think so. Come on.
I think if he can't be the star and be play starter minutes on Team USA, there's no point in him doing it. No, he's he he could be old sage. If if we think about this All right? Let's let's let's hit the fast forward button. Ha Who will be the biggest American stars?
on the basketball court in twenty twenty eight. You would have to assume that Tatum will be back and he'll be healthy. Anthony Edwards will probably be maybe the best player at that point who's maybe in his prime. Anthony Edwards, is he even 25 years old? Yeah, he can't be.
No, he's not. Yeah, so he will he will probably be the best player representing America. Am I missing somebody you gotta think Cooper flag? What year are we in, twenty-five? He'll be in his early 20s.
He'll be on the team. Uh Kate Cunningham will probably definitely be on the team. Am I missing anybody? Just like blatantly, a lot of the best players aren't even American anymore. Halliburton, Booker, Cade Cunningham, you said.
Oh, Booker's going to be old by then. Oh. He's not that old. He's gonna be in his thirties. Yeah.
Who? LeBron and KD who are pushing 40. Yeah, we know that, and they're outliers in that regard. But by the time 2028 comes along, Devin Booker will be an older shooting guard. Like, they will have him on the team, but they'll do it just as having a veteran presence here.
Like, Devin Booker is not all that. He's already 29. Matter of fact, did he just turn twenty yeah, he just turned twenty nine a couple of weeks ago.
So we got to tack on three more years. It'd be 32. he'll be coming off the bench. There sure as hell won't be any uh and if we got a look at Devin Booker, As a guy to be on Team USA, I mean, great fine, but he could be the old shooting guard off the b off the bench, man. We don't got nobody better.
I'm talking about young people. Booker's twenty nine. Forget him.
Well, maybe, I don't know. Who's the next generation of stars? We've seen him play and get gold already. I'm assuming Darren Peterson might be good. Maybe Cam Boozer.
The guy's in college now could be an option. Technically, they could be an option. Oh, so we'll get waxed. Yeah. It will get waxed.
We'll get waxed. Yeah, Victor Wembanyama and his calves and everything, they'll come out. They will roll into Los Angeles and they'll wax us on our own floor. I I just Say again? We have Joelle Embed.
It's gonna be thirty-four and uh with no knees already.
So we we will have Anthony Edwards. Cade Cunningham And when it comes to actual youth, young players, Everybody else is unproven. Yes. Scroll screwed. It could be like a regular team, just have Well, I feel like When you look at like France It's it plays through one star.
And then the rest of the team follows suit.
So maybe it's a good thing that the Team USA team won't have a thousand superstars. You think we need to change our approach to basketball? That's not something. That changes in Let's say three years. I mean, here's the difference.
A lot of these other countries, they are playing. I'm not going to say all the time. But they're playing in the summertime together. They're playing in world championships. There's continuity.
In a lot of cases, team USA basketball. And this has been some of the problems over the past 20 years. If there was a problem outside of us losing in 2004, it's always been about: oh my God, we as America can just slap together. Our best basketball players and just wax the world. That's that's not the case any more.
I mean, if you don't have any continuity, these are real teams that are competing and playing with each other. And in a lot of cases, because in Europe you be you get to become a professional earlier. These dudes have playin' since they were teenagers. I I dunno, man. You're making me feel less optimistic about us winning anything.
Maybe that's why LeBron is like, I ain't playing. I'm a you know, we gonna I'm gonna sit on this team and then everybody's gonna look at me. Yeah. No thanks. You could arguably say the top three players of our generation, besides Jokic.
And he's like, Yeah, there's no reason for me to play when I have to share the ball with The guy who barely played any minutes this year.
Okay. L listen to this right here. God bless the wonderful people at CBS Okay, they did a projected 2028 Team USA Basketball Roster. and they did this in August of this year. Listen to these names, and you tell me if you got faith in any of these guys.
A lot of these dudes ain't even going to be on the team. Bam out of bio. You feel good about that? Uh yes, to be a backup. Paolo Boncara He'll be on the team, okay?
Devon Brooker Jalen Brunson. Whatever. Kate Cunningham, most definitely, It's comical to see Anthony Davis's name here. He will be 35 years old in 2028. Anthony Edwards Joel Embiid, who'll be thirty four, but he'll be in a wheelchair by then.
Tyrese Halliburton will be twenty eight. Donovan Mitchell will be thirty one. Jason Tatum will be thirty. And then Jalen Williams, who the Oklahoma City Thunder, he'll be 27. I guess we should win something, but have you ever seen any of these guys play a basketball game together?
The answer is no. Yeah, but like you could also say that with Well I could say you could see nobody do that with every other all-star team, but they played the all-star games together. Yeah, we're not talking about an all-star game, we're talking about the Olympics. Yeah, we're kind of like, there's been continuity. Over the years, you know, I mean, granted, they're not playing all the damn time, but We've seen them play enough.
This new crew of guys, never. And then who's to even think that Jason Tatum, and I know Steve Kerr won't be coaching the team. But who's to say that Tatum even shows up in Halliburton and they go, You know what, I forget sitting on the bench, I'll play this time. You know, they may look at Grant Hill and go, Man, Grant Hill, you screwed me. I ain't I ain't doing this crap.
No. You never know. Yeah, team USA Basketball. Hey, LeBron James, just sit on the bench, buddy. Just sit on the bench for us, okay?
It's the J.R. Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break and we come back. You know, speaking of that, the international players, Giannis Atari Kumpo. Heard.
Victor Wimbinyama hurt. That might be the way Team USA wins the Olympics, the gold, in 2028. And we'll talk about those hurt guys on the other side of the break, waiting on the college football playoff rankings to be revealed. We got a lot to get into. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network.
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New episodes every Wednesday. Listen and follow Free Range with me, Von Miller, wherever you get your podcast. And we got Scott Docterman joining us, who covers all things college football from the athletic. He'll be here to join us in about 30 minutes to break it all down as we should have the rankings. all set and in by then.
Right before we went to break. Yeah, we also talked about well Well, injuries and old guys. We discussed Aaron Rodgers with that broken wrist. We talked about LeBron James expected to make his return in a few hours for the Los Angeles Lakers. And then we talked about how old LeBron is and how old Curry is.
And Al LeBron says, when the Olympics come in 2028, I ain't playing. Steph Curry says it's highly unlikely that I go out there and play. Curry will be 40, and LeBron James will be 43. And then we got a just a rash of injuries all over the NBA right now. I mean, Giannis Ateta Kumpo is out with a groin injury and we found out that Victor Wembenyama has a calf strain.
Nobody wants to see that. The NBA. Don't want to see or even hear about that. Pretty bad. Listen to what Doc Rivers had to say about Giannis' injury after he had to leave the game last night.
I think growing, but we won't know anything tomorrow until tomorrow. If they look great, I can tell you that.
So we'll know more tomorrow.
Next step for that is just like a Imagine that. Did he say anything at all? Kind of checked out or just no, you know, he grabbed it, I want to say, in the first quarter, and I asked him. Then he said it was fine. Then I think he grabbed it again and he said it was fine.
And then the third time. you know, is when it happened. But I think it happened earlier, in my opinion. I don't know that factually. There hadn't been an issue coming in today.
No, he's not had. I don't ever think, I don't know his history. I don't know if he's ever had a growing. And we don't know if it's that. We'll do the imaging tomorrow and we'll know tomorrow, tomorrow, a lot more.
Well, it is his groin. And he's going to be out for about a week to two weeks. That's just the facts. And if you start pulling a groin and you pull it again, you could be out for a very, very long time. Not good news for the Milwaukee Bucks.
In losing Giannis last night, they lost to the Cavaliers 118 and 106. The Milwaukee Bucks now have a record of 8-7. It's going to be difficult for them to try to maintain that with no Giannis to Cumpo, who basically is lighting up the NBA.
Okay, 31 points, 11 rebounds a game, 7 assists. Giannis is out there doing it all for the Milwaukee Bucks. And we all know about the rumors of him ultimately potentially leaving, trying to get the helipon out of there. Uh we'll see how they do the rest of the season. They may fall in and sit in that five hundred space.
For a while, and then I told you about Victor Wembanyama. The Spurs are in action right now against the Grizzlies. This is an NBC game. Horrific. John Morant is out with a calf injury.
We know it's not like John Morant wants to play basketball anyway. And then you got Victor Wembanyama, who's also out with the Calf as well. Here's a difference. John Moran is, what, barely above six feet tall, six one, six two, definitely no bigger than six three. Maybe 6-4.
And then you got Victor Wembanyama who's just big as a tree. All right? I'm I'm assuming that Victor went in Yama's calf. is is longer than John Morant's. He has a very valuable calf.
I don't think the NBA is worried about Victor Wembanyama, you know, busting guns at a strip club. He has his warm glass of milk and reads his books, turns his phone off. He goes to sleep at night. And so we all know the NBA would love for him to be its its flag bearer for the next, I don't know, ten years, if his body can last that long. But when you got a seven foot five frame, Yeah, you got long muscles that can get hurt.
And with the calf strain, The San Antonio Spurs ain't playing no games. Their new head coach Mitch Johnson said. Man, we ain't taking no risk with this seven, five, seven, six, eight foot tall, nine foot tall freak. I have not got any more information since we talked pregame, but again, I know he's chomping at the bid. He wanted to play 82 games.
Calf tightness. We'll see what what what that means and when we dive into it, but We're not gonna we're not gonna Gamble on that one. Bad choice of words.
Sorry. Yet listen, ma'am, What You think? You think that they're going to take a risk with Victor and Benyama? If he says my calf hurts, my killie hurts, my knee hurts, my toe hurts, they're gonna tell him, Hey, hey, sit down. The San Antonio Spurs can't afford that.
It would be a travesty. I would literally shed a tear.
Okay, I can't cry on my own damn personal business. I can't sit down and cry. I would shed a tear. If Victor Wembenyama is out for an extended time.
Okay, it was horrific last year. It's like, oh my god, he's out, he's out, what happened? They like blood clot. I'm like, okay. All right.
I I don't want to hear about his knees. I don't want to hear about Wimbinyama's calf. I don't want to hear about his Achilles. I I just I don't want to hear anything about his legs. What they don't want.
As for a a calf strain to turn into an Achilles tear, Yeah. Damn. Bacha, how long is Victor Women Yama's Achilles? You probably long as a baseball bat, right? Phew.
If it goes up to like the middle of his calf, that's gotta be at least three feet. Probably long as a normal human being. He's just. Yeah, you can't you can't do that with one minama. Get well soon, women, Yama.
And by the way, Steve Kerr has some thoughts on why everybody is is getting hurt. He actually spoke to the media. Steve Kerr says, The Warriors Medical Staff believes that all the wear and tear, the speed, the pace, the mileage. is factoring into all of these injuries. And if you've been to a basketball game or if you've watched a basketball game, they they runnin' up and down a court like they're nuts.
Okay, ESPN did research on this, good for them. The league is playing at its fastest average collective pace since 1988. And one thing we know Everybody's running back and forth. They launch in threes, and and they're trying to get up the court score and then turn right the hell back around. I mean long gone are the days of let's walk the ball up the court And give it to somebody down low.
I mean, Patrick Ewan, Kimola, Shaquille O'Neal, them days are. Over. Everybody's running around like a crazy person. Steve Kerr also pretty much said, uh I think we need to play less games in the season. But is that going to happen?
Hell no. Who the hell wants to make less money?
So at least Steve Kerr is smart enough to understand that point. 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. Sam is calling from Delaware. You're on the JR Sport Ree Show.
What's up, Sam? I was wondering if you heard anything about The Ravens, former kicker Tucker, getting picked up by anybody. No, I I haven't. And to be honest, I you know, I don't know if an NFL team wants to do that right now. I mean, I know the 49ers are desperate.
I know Kyle Shanahan was asked about this, and he just was like, no, we haven't thought about it. Um Does anybody want that distraction right now? I mean, the last that I heard was. The problem is, it was nothing but innuendo. Nobody knows exactly what was what was done.
And he said that he didn't do anything and you know, it it's it's obviously Uh I mean Do you know what I mean? It's not like. uh the show in Watson where uh you know, they they can prove that he was in uh all these places. Sure. I didn't even know there was a place like Sam, this is brass taxi, okay?
I know he didn't have to pay Justin Tucker, he didn't have to go ahead and settle with women, he didn't have to sit in criminal court, he didn't have to pay sit in civil court. I I understand all of that. And you can call it innuendo, but the reality is, this is the reality outside of a civil lawsuit or a criminal lawsuit filed by one massage therapist or two or zero. The NFL looked at this and said Enough of something went on, that we got to suspend the guy. for the first portion of this season.
That is a fact. Regardless of what the innuendo is, there was enough of something there. For the NFL to say, have a seat. What I can tell you is Is that NFL teams typically, unless you're the dumbass Cleveland Browns? NFL teams typically don't want the distraction.
And so you think about where you might stand at the end of the season if you're a team like the 49ers and you got kickers dropping like flies and everybody's getting hurt. Do you want to bring him into the locker room? Are you comfortable enough where you're going to get asked questions? His new teammates are going to get asked questions. Everybody's going to get asked questions.
Nobody wants to answer the questions. And then, oh, yeah, keep in mind. That last season, Justin Tucker. Probably had the worst season of his career after being the best kicker historically in the NFL for years. And so you have to think about whether or not.
You want to take that shot and that chance, because you may be bringing on more unnecessary noise for a guy who might be cooked. Mm-hmm. Oh. But I just happened to notice that a lot of team it seems like there's several teams that their kickers are very erratic. And I was thinking If they I mean, he's he's money.
He's Once it already was money, he's money, we don't know if he's money anymore.
Well, wait a minute. Once it got out, within like a week or two of that all coming out, he started hitting just the way he always did. He kicked the week. We don't know we do not know that. We don't know that.
We don't know if that's going to carry over. We don't know that. It's it's real simple. Is the juice worth the squeeze? Mm-hmm.
Well No, I guess we'll see 'cause the the the suspension's over.
So Yeah, the suspension's over and who signed them?
Well, actually, my wife told me that Green Bay signed him, and then I said. I haven't seen anything on it. And then she started looking around. She started saying, wait, and I'm not so sure that's. Yeah, tell her to stay off of Facebook, okay, Sam?
Right. All right. Thanks. Thanks on that Facebook. Thank you, Sam, for calling from Delaware.
Appreciate you, man. Thanks. Yeah, it's tricky, man. You can't. Do you want the distraction?
Do you want the pain in the ass? If you're a general manager, do you want that on your your permanent record? Do you want that on your ledger? Yeah, I was the guy who brought him in and then he stunk and then he, you know, he was a distraction for everybody, and now I had to give him the boot anyway, and now I look stupid. I mean, life is about and in these jobs, it's all about calculated risk.
If I bring this guy on, then X. If I do this, then X. You just gotta you gotta be careful. I don't know if anybody's gonna bring on Justin Tucker. I mean, I think we discussed this when all the allegations came out.
it was a good chance that that his career was probably done, okay? Let's see if uh if um some team wants to give him a shot, a crack, or an opportunity. eight eight eight seven ten four I S N That's 888-710-4ISN. I'm giving you an opportunity. You can call me up too.
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Okay, we finally got the rankings that have started here for the college football playoff. And shoutouts to the green wave, my guys Tulane at number 24. Arizona State at number twenty five. Oh, Georgia Techet say ooh, Texas What a big fall for Texas Getting smacked by Georgia The Texas longhorns are Now in the seventeenth spot they wouldn't even make the college. Football playoff.
Wow. Seven spots. Texas Falls. They lost to Georgia. 35 to 10.
As a matter of fact, l listen to this as they uh continue on with the rankings here. It was not hilarious. A Steve Sarkeesian He was asked about Texas being a disappointment, and he kinda scoffed at the idea. Listen to what he told the media. What would you say the main reasons are this team is underachieved?
According to who.
Well, even your preseason number one, I think most people would agree. three losses is not achieving what you are capable of. I mean, I guess that's into who voted us number one.
Okay. What I think is that this team has competed their tail off, and we have an opportunity at the end of the regular season to do something that nobody's done since 2019, and that's beat three top 10 ranked teams in the regular season. Last team to do that was LSU with Joe Burrow.
So, have we been faced with a pretty difficult schedule? Have we been faced with high expectations? Sure, but that's why we came here.
So, we'll be okay. He says they'll be okay. And, speakin' of being here, There are a lot of rumors that he may go on to the NFL. That he may he may go to the Tennessee Titans and help lead that squad and lead that team. And Desmond Howard, he's not so sure.
that we will see him back at college or at Texas next year. I was also thinking Um don't be surprised. If that Texas job opens up at the end of the season. You guys were Shocked when LSU opened up. Imagine how you're gonna feel If that job in Austin pops open.
I'm not calling or saying anyone's going to get fired. Maybe a mutual parting of ways. Anyway, you guys have a great Monday. Oh, look at Desmond Howard popping in and out here uh is stirring up the the the pot.
Okay, you think about a disappointment. I'm I'm mostly thinking about what would happen for for Archer Manning. Like Arch Manning ain't hopping into no transfer portal, right? I don't This is what makes college football so crazy. All the movement.
The coaches moving, the players moving, and I mean, we we talked about Arizona State. They ain't getting into no college football player, but they're number 25 on the rankings right now. They were the best team in the Big 12 last year. Kenny Dillingham helped turn them around. And now there's all these conversations, even on a lesser year, it's 7-3 right now.
People are looking at him saying, You you gonna leave Arizona State, right? Yeah, we know that you went to school here. But you're going to take the LSU job because Kenny Dillingham. Man, I don't think he's even past 35 years old. And listen to what he said about not leaving Arizona State.
I was never leaving, Greg. Contrary to the betrayal article, I was never leaving. I never said I was leaving. This is home. But you know, you do have to continue to push.
And my job running a program is to push and push and push until you can't push anymore. And so I, I mean, Graham was right. I mean, we met on Friday with, you know. are you know Admin and people who represent Dr. Crowe, and I have a lot of confidence that this is they're all in.
I have a lot of confidence that our administration is pushing the chips to the table on winning in football here. I mean, uh even after going to the college football playoff last year, They gave him a contract extension. Like he got that contract extension uh about a year ago, a little less than a year ago. In January, after they went to the college football playoffs.
So if I'm Kenny Dillingham. The grass isn't always greener. He says his family is out there, he went to school out there. Do you just want to wake up and walk away from everything and go to Louisiana? I mean, yeah, you can do it for bigger money, but there comes a point in time where, don't you want to be comfortable with money?
Or do you want to be stressed out away from your family with money? I think the answer might be easy. How about this? Alabama falling to number 10. in the rankings after getting beat by the Sooners.
The Sooners jump up three spots. It's a number. Eight. Hmm. I assume that we're going to see the uh Georgia Bulldogs are probably sitting at that number four spot.
Oregon Ducks are here at number seven. And now we're getting down to the uh The nitty gritty here. with the college football playoff rankings of Bacha, my jerk to see ya I'm gonna tick off some of our listeners in Alabama. It's nice as a Georgia Bulldogs fan, I'll say this. It's nice to see Alabama take a little bit of a fall.
That's a big fall. Down to Down below Notre Dame, you could argue. lost probably their best matchup with Miami.
So Yeah, you don't lose big games. That's all you gotta say for Alabama. Yeah, don't lose don't lose big games. I mean well, I mean Oklahoma's sitting there at eight. I'm not not all that surprised.
Ole Miss is here at at number six. With their recorded ten and one And At the top of the hour I told you this, we're going to have a conversation with Scott Doctorman. All the conversation surrounding Old Miss right now is whether or not a lame kiffin is going to stick around. Texas Tech? They just beat the living hell out of UCF.
They are number five. I can expect the Georgia Bulldogs to be here at number four. Damn botcher. They're going to stretch this one out. Are we getting a whole damn top five here in this break?
What do you think? I think we're going to get the whole top five. It's just taking forever. This certainly is taken forever. Hey, this is the uh well, not the benefit.
Of live radio and live television, or the fact that I'm doing radio here and can't hear anything. from what they have on the screen. Texas Tech at 5. Georgia Bulldogs here at four after they beat up on Texas. And we pretty much know How things are going to roll after this.
Okay, we know Ohio State is going to be number one. We know that we're going to have Indiana at number two, Texas A ⁇ M at three. And that is all she wrote.
So Texas Tech jumps into the five-spot, Alabama. falls into ten and now we have the Georgia Bulldogs, who have uh elevated into number four. as a top team in the SEC.
So the college football playoff rankings, they're set. And even while we got the playoffs going on, there's so many rumors who's going, who's coming, who's staying, who's leaving, we got James Franklin. Just a couple of weeks ago he was the coach at Penn State.
Now he's at Virginia Tech. We have all these rumors about Kenny Dillingham. Is he leaving? Arizona State to go to LSU. What the heck is going on with Lane Kiffen?
Is he going to LSU or is he going to Gatorland in Gainesville? To talk about the college football playoff rankings. To take a deeper dive into some of the coaching rumors, we're going to be joined by Scott Docterman from The Athletic. Covers all things college football. We'll have that chat with him on the other side of the break.
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