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Win totals for the NFL are out and the crew tries to guess some of the lines and which ones they would bet. Plus, blind rankings of current college football coaches puts Taylor in a bind.
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God bless football.
Mikey, hey, God bless football, Taylor.
God bless football, dude, God.
That was more goalicky.
What do you mean?
No, that was less goalicky.
That felt goalicky.
Taylor was excited, though, regardless.
Maybe that's why he was so excited.
It felt like goalick was throwing it to him, perhaps, yes.
So I have a little more pep in my step today.
Yeah.
With the Davis out at Carolina.
You think we're getting a coach, baby.
I gotta tell you, Taylor.
You were right.
There was a time where you said to me the, because I'm in Carolina right now, boots on the ground.
I'm trying to figure out what's happening with the North Carolina basketball program.
But the sky is bluer here.
It is.
You said it to me once.
I have to you.
And now I'm here.
And I looked up at the sky, and it is a Tar Heel blue.
And it's a special kind of blue.
It really is.
So if you need any recommendations when you're in Chapel Hill, just let me know.
There's a couple of places where my jersey's hanging up in the rafters.
Yeah.
Really?
Name one.
Italian pizzeria three on frankly street.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
And uh, pantana bobs near near the bathroom is on the west side of Franklin street pantana bobs.
I've been to pantana bobs west side.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
I'm a west side guy, Taylor.
You know that.
I mean, I love Chapel Hill.
No one loves Chapel Hill.
The way I love Chapel Hill.
I mean, no, not even you about that.
So before your daughter's lacrosse game tonight.
Why?
You can, you could stop in Chapel Hill.
You could stop at the.
The bar pantana bobs.
Get yourself some drinks beforehand.
Yeah.
And then when you're there, go towards the bathroom.
Yes.
It's a terrible, it's a terrible spot where the jersey is.
Yeah.
Go towards the bathroom.
Right.
Take a quick picture of that Vipolis jersey frame.
I will.
I'm going to do that actually.
I'm not going to eat a single thing.
I'm just going to go there and take a picture next to your retired jersey.
I mean, Jesus Christ.
Michael Jordan went here.
I mean.
Oh, man.
So I am here for a lacrosse game.
You exposed me.
But also you were telling me before we get to some football that there was.
We had a beat reporter on today.
And now my name is attached to having a beat reporter on.
I had built, you know, spent 20 years building up this brand.
And when big news breaks, I normally just have Jay Billis on.
And if it's college basketball news, now I'm speaking to beat reporters from Chapel Hill.
And I think listeners are laughing at me for doing so.
Where?
What are you doing to my career?
I mean, so listen.
No.
No.
Listeners are not laughing.
Right.
So when it comes to the Dan Levin's hard show, Witts two got.
I think the three biggest markets that you guys dominated was the South Florida market for sure.
Yes.
The New York market for sure.
No doubt.
And I think three is the North Carolina market.
Some might say Raleigh was our best market for real.
Yes, we killed it.
A Raleigh.
We did.
So now there's people who are on the inside Carolina message board.
Inside Carolina is on the on three network.
Yeah.
It's one of their biggest sites for on three inside Carolina.
People are now saying like, wow, I never thought I would have seen an inside Carolina.
Once I met Carolina's studio got crossover, what they're failing to realize is when you got tailor yeah, who's whose ears to frank on street, at times, yes.
There there's opportunities for crossovers, yes, really listen, let's when I got into this business, I said to myself one day.
If I could just be in Carolina inside or I mean, just a guy who knows everything about what's going on in Chaplill hill that I will have made it.
And you have brought me there, my friend.
So I thank you for that.
So when's Bella check coming on?
That's a good question.
I mean, listen, you know, I reached out to him.
I reached out to Mike Lombardi, my friend.
They are here at Chapel Hill.
I asked him if they wanted to watch a lacrosse game with me today.
It's Northwestern.
It is North Carolina.
It's a rematch of last year's national championship game.
And so far, the only response I've gotten was from Mike Lombardi,
who said, maybe it's a solid maybe.
Listen, I'll take it.
Mikey, before I even consider asking Bella check to come on, right?
He's got to get to at least six and six at Carolina.
Right.
But what if I say get him on?
I mean, that should supersede that's important to get him on, he'll pretend to try to get
him on.
You have learned well, my friend.
So what is what is it that he needs to do for you to put a guest request in for Bill
Bellagag, say it again, either has to get to six and six, right?
Or start the season off with a win against TCU in Ireland.
It seems like we're never getting Bella check on.
Your sights might be too high, Taylor.
How about two good drives to start?
Yes.
Yeah.
Have a five wins.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When Bella check came to Chapel Hill, everyone was talking playoffs and ACC championships.
I would kill for the dukes male ball at this point.
Lower, lower, lower.
Uber Davis is out and Bella check is still the head football coach at North Carolina.
He's only had a year though.
Mikey, what are we doing here?
We have blind rankings here for God bless football.
Yeah.
I'm excited for that.
Are we doing anything else today?
Yes.
Our friends over at Fandall released their win totals for the NFL teams.
Oh.
And I thought we could we could maybe peruse them, see if you guys can guess what the line
is set at and whether you like the over or the under.
Okay.
I'm down with that.
So you're going to give us so Fandall has released the overunders here, which one do
you guys want to do first?
You want to go blind rankings?
You want to go overunders?
What do you want to do here?
I think we do the overunders first.
All right.
So we're going to guess the overunders.
Taylor and I are going to do.
Yes.
Okay.
And then you can tell me what you like.
Yeah.
Well, I'm not putting a bed in until we speak to bear.
Now, bear was supposed to join us.
He's on a cruise from Archman.
It's a weird time for him to be going on a cruise.
He also wanted a cruise for the college football playoff.
Another weird time to go on a cruise.
But the weather has got a bad weather day.
And so he was unable to connect with us from the cruise.
I don't know why he would.
He's on vacation.
Go ahead, Mikey.
Is this kind of a preseason talk it out?
Is that what we're doing here?
Well, yes.
Well, listen, I will not put a single bed in on Fandall.
It's all bear approves of it.
That's it.
That's all I'm telling you.
I just, I can't do it.
I won't do it.
Stu, if you had to make a Mount Rushmore of worst weeks
to go on a cruise, I think bear has picked two
of the worst weeks to go on a cruise.
No doubt.
No, he has.
There is, we don't need to debate it.
We don't need to talk it out.
Yes.
That's the college football playoff for a man
who covers college football.
And he chose March Madness for a man who covers gambling.
It's like the master, the master's comes along.
He's like, all right, time to get back on a cruise.
Is bear trying to get fired?
I mean, put it on the ball.
Is the bear trying to get fired?
Time to hit the old seven seas.
Superbowl week.
Yes, it's seven seas.
That's a superbowl week.
Take off in July.
Anyway, let's do the overrunners.
These are fandals overrunners for the season for NFL teams.
There's still work to be done for agents to be signed,
a draft to be had.
But that does not stop us here on God bless football
from dissecting o's and use.
I love this.
All right, so how are we going to do this?
Every team, just some team, some teams, some teams.
All right, if we like it, we do it again next week.
You're selecting them.
I will select them.
OK, all right, so here we go.
Give us our first team year overrunners for the season.
It's every, it's March.
Everybody's darling and the team's two gods
had winning the Superbowl two years ago when they picked in the top 10.
The Chicago Bears overunder.
How many wins?
Wow.
Greatest quarterback that's ever lived.
I forgot I said I would get Ben Johnson on the show.
Yeah, you did.
Yeah, how many wins does he need to get to?
I mean, Jesus Christ, I mean, follow up.
Yeah, I'm going to send a follow up text right now.
Here Carolina walk on.
He's a car, he's a Carolina walk on a couple of Carolina walk on.
It's cutting it up.
I mean, you got to follow up with the guy.
What do you think?
He was going to reach back to you.
Hey, Taylor, you still want me to come on the show?
So like waiting by the phone here.
Now Mikey, here's the best part.
So like, you know, we had Phil Martelli Jr.
on the head coach of VCU, right?
And he sprung the big upset that got you, but Davis fired, okay?
And we had him on and he said if he wasn't coaching,
he would want to do sports talk radio.
That was the dream for him.
And I said to him, when the season's over,
if you would like to do sports talk radio,
I will provide you the platform to do so.
But it took me following up with him after they lost
for him to realize that I was being dead serious.
And so I did follow up.
And what's happening tomorrow live on the radio show?
Phil Martelli Jr. is going to be our guest co-host.
Simply horrible.
This is how you do it, Taylor.
Send Ben Johnson attacks Jesus.
Listen, if Phil Martelli wants to do sports talk radio,
he better come in with topics.
He better throw out some guest ideas.
If he wants in, he's got to go all the way in.
He said the response I got from his media relations staff
was he's more excited for this than he was
for the NCAA tournaments.
Well, that's not what you want to hear if you're at VCU.
But it's what you want to hear if you're us, I mean.
And by the way, he did say that.
I was joking.
So what was the Bears win total?
I'm here.
Do you tell me you're supposed to?
Yes, yes, it.
Okay, and then I will tell you, I'm going to say the Bears,
that division, tough division, Taylor.
How many wins a year ago?
11 for the Bears?
Mikey.
Don't.
I didn't know there was going to be follow ups.
I'm sorry, I'm asking you to not say that.
There's more 11 and six.
They were 11 and six.
They got into the playoffs,
Miracle Finish, Caleb Williams, Ben Johnson,
one more year together.
I'm going to say that win total is going to be 11 and a half.
Or 11, 11.
I'll set it at 11.
So I'm going to go lower here.
Just because they're going to get a first place schedule.
And that success is going to be hard to replicate
a lot of close finishes.
I'm going to go nine and a half, Mikey.
Nine and a half.
He's probably right, probably closer to nine and a half.
Taylor nailed it.
Nine and a half.
I mean, I'm taking the over there,
but not until bear approves it.
So, but he's on a cruise.
I like the under do you really?
You don't like the bears?
No, Taylor, do you, you better say over
if you're going to ask Ben Johnson to come on?
I'm a Ben Johnson guy, so I'm going to back my guy.
Got a boy.
Yes, you're learning, even if you don't mean it.
That's a hard division, though, Mikey.
I mean, it is so I understand why you guys would go under there
because of that division,
because of the first place schedule,
which I didn't think of.
But man, that quarterback is generational.
And so I don't think they're going away anytime soon.
I have them winning 13 games this year.
Well, they're going to have to do it against the Detroit Lions.
What's their over under?
Ooh, eight.
So the Lions were nine and eight last season.
Yeah.
Eight.
Eight and a half.
I don't know why.
I'm pretty sure they're all half games.
So you can, you got to set the point half right now.
I'm going to go eight and a half.
Why you think that's too low, Taylor?
You think the Lions are going to be better than that?
It seems like the Lions floor should be pretty similar
to what it was last year if they were nine and eight.
So I'm going to go,
and I think they get a last place schedule.
Now, I'm going to go 10 and a half, Mikey.
I think Taylor's looking at the Lions because he nailed it.
10 and a half.
Jesus.
10 and a half for that team.
Their window was closed.
Oh my, no more Ben Johnson.
No more Eric Gladi, but they, they verse every team
that finished last in the NFC.
Yeah.
Taylor's better at this.
I would take the under there.
I don't think the Lions are going to be that good this year.
I just don't.
I think I'm with you.
I would take the under too.
God about that.
Yeah, I'm with you.
I think it's a dark one, right?
That's what you gamble on.
Then I'd go over.
All right.
Next one here.
I might as well stay in that division.
How about the new Kyler Murray led Minnesota Vikings?
Oh, how many wins last year for the, uh, they were also nine and eight.
They were nine and eight quarterback whisperer who's not a quarterback whisperer.
He should speak louder.
I mean, so the quarterbacks could be what the fuck he's saying.
Maybe that's the problem.
Maybe JJ McCarthy's hard of hearing.
He couldn't hear the whispering.
Yeah.
Well, maybe the
problem is actually the head coach who let Sam Donald walk out the door, go to Seattle.
He had him right there.
It was there.
He had him.
He had Sam Donald's good enough to win a Super Bowl in the quarterback whisperer.
Still wanted to go with JJ McCarthy.
And now JJ McCarthy is going to be backing up.
He's going to be the third string quarterback beyond Carson Wentz.
I don't want to hear about it with him.
Uh, how, uh, let's guess the total here.
I don't know the Vikings.
Man, nine wins a year ago.
What do you think it teller?
So I felt like the floor for the Lions was to be just as bad as they were last season.
The Vikings feel like they could get much worse.
So I'm going to go seven and a half.
I'm kind of not buying the Kyler Murray.
I'm going to go, uh, seven and a half as well.
That's kind of where I was thinking.
And I would take the under by the way.
Well, you'll be happy to get the under and eight and a half because that's what the lion
is at.
Even better.
I might not wait for bear.
I mean, you have to wait for bear.
Got a right now.
Yeah, you get a taxpayer right now, taxpayer.
Just tax them to see what he says while he's on the cruise of the worst possible time.
Go ahead, Mikey.
Are you texting bear for real?
Okay.
No, I was texting.
I was texting my guy and I get this pickin' mine's already in, but taxpayer regardless.
If you don't mind, uh, Mikey, next one.
Next one.
Wow.
We go to the AFC.
How about we go to the number one pick?
Let's go to the Raiders.
Wow, new head coach, new quarterback, same defense event.
Whether he wants it or not, whether he doesn't, he doesn't want it.
He has to be traded and was traded.
And now the Ravens are doing all sorts of bad stuff like I don't like what the Ravens
are doing to him, by the way, because the Ravens last year, they're making other teams
concerned about Max Grozby.
I mean, to cost a gun and get the fuck out of here that guy, uh, anyway, seriously, I'm
tired of him.
I'm tired of the entire Ravens organization.
It's dirty what they did.
It's terrible.
And what they continue to do to Max Grozby, anyway, we digress, uh, the Raiders.
Four to half.
Whatever this number is, I'm going to be taking the over because I'm reading up on what
the Raiders did and I'm, I kind of already said, I think the Raiders are going to be better
than the Ravens next season.
My gut is telling me that Vegas thinks they'll double their women total six.
So I'm going to put it at six and a half, six and a half.
All right.
I'll put it at five and a half, five and a half.
Well, you had it at four and a half, didn't it?
He had it at six and a half in Vegas has it at five and a half.
Thank you.
Okay.
Good.
And I'm with Taylor.
I'm with Taylor, but you're going over.
I'm going over five and a half.
That's a tough division, man.
Isn't it?
Is it?
I mean, I don't know.
You tell me Kansas City Denver.
I mean, Kansas City in there, what six wins last year?
What did they get last year?
Yeah.
I mean, you really have that happening again, six wins, Patrick Mahomes.
I mean, well, what does Vegas happen?
Well, Kansas City.
Kansas City.
So six wins they had a year ago.
Yup.
Mahomes is back.
They signed Kenneth Walker from the Seahawks, AFC West, tough division, as we just alluded
to.
With rateers.
Right.
Right.
Right.
The chargers.
Wow.
The chiefs.
So the chiefs are always going to get like max respect from Vegas.
They are.
They're not going to give you six and a half, seven and a half, eight and a half because
it's Vegas.
That's how they make sure.
They're not.
I want to say nine and a half wins for Kansas City, nine and a half, and it's probably
low.
I don't know.
I'm what Stu in thinking that Vegas is going to over respect this chiefs team.
I'm going to go 10 and a half Mikey is 10 and a half.
Nice.
Well done.
Look at you.
Exactly.
Go ahead and bet that.
You're going to take the over.
No, I would take the under.
I have zero confidence in taking the over and the chiefs getting to 11 wins.
I just like either the chiefs are going to get to 11 wins.
I don't.
What are we doing?
I don't.
They have the greatest quarterback, the second greatest who's ever lived, I mean, and they need
an offensive line to keep them upright.
You're right.
I guess sure.
All right.
Next one here.
How about we go out to the NFC championship game loser two years ago that they fell off.
Let's go to the Washington commanders.
This is a hard team to nail, right?
There's your eyes.
They went to the NFC championship with Jaden Daniels's rookie season step back last
year.
He got hurt.
Last year five wins, five and 12 division is not giants are okay.
Eagles are great.
Cowboys are okay.
It's a tough one.
It's a really, really, really tough one.
What do you think in here, Taylor?
I see you thinking.
Hmm.
I see the wheels turning.
This is a hard one.
Yeah.
That division is tricky because you would expect the Cowboys to be a better, a better, a
giants to be a bit better and the commanders, commanders, why do we expect the Cowboys to
be better?
What has changed for the Cowboys that were like, oh, well, Dak Prescott was hurt.
No, he was healthy all last year.
He was.
Oh, CDLAM, you know, they have the same team.
Yeah.
Why do we expect them to be better?
Hmm.
Year two, Sean Heimer.
Oh, yeah.
Well, when you got, when you got Brian, shot in Heimer, you know, it's just going to take
off in year two, made another trade with the Cowboys, I read the Packers, I am all for
lazy reasons.
These are lazy reasons.
I mean, the reason to think that Dallas is going to be Mikey is right.
There was no reason to think that Dallas.
Now you might just say football.
That would be a good reason.
Sure.
If you would have said that, I'd have been like, you know what, you're right, right,
right.
Johnny.
No one cares about Johnny in a second season.
Okay.
I feel the curtain back when I said I think the Cowboys are going to be better.
I wasn't expecting some follow up questions because the only thing I'm doing there is looking
at the Cowboys.
It's talking it out.
Right.
Yeah.
I'm doing it.
It's seeing the Cowboys helmet and being like, I feel like America wants the Cowboys to
be better.
Right.
So I'm going to say the Cowboys are going to be better.
Right.
It feels like a thing to say.
I'm with you.
Football.
Football would have worked.
Cowboys going to be better.
Why Taylor?
Football.
Football.
Football happens all the time.
It just happened to the commanders last year.
Football, you know, guys get injured and they don't have as good a season as they had the
year before.
I'm going to say five and a half for the, for the Washington command.
Way low.
Way too low.
I think really six and a half, seven and a half.
Mikey, I'm going to put it at eight and a half and I'm going to, I'm just banking on
a bounce back season from Jaden Daniels.
Okay.
Well, he'd have to stay healthy and the number, according to our friends over at Fandall,
is seven and a half.
Right.
Okay.
I don't know what to bet.
I have zero, zero feel on that team.
We'll see what Bear says, but we could stay away from it.
We don't have to bet it.
So right.
You have to take every over under.
That's available.
So what's the next one?
Can I request the team?
Of course.
Okay.
I would like to request the dolphins over under.
Okay.
Yeah.
If I had a guess, this is, this is going to be the lowest number that we could get.
Lower than the jets.
If I, yes, if I had a guess.
All right.
Let's do them together.
All right.
Let's do that.
So dolphins, I would say what were the dolphins last year?
Last year, the Miami dolphins were seven and ten and the New York Jets were three and
14.
Wow.
The dolphins were seven and ten with that shit roster and Mike McDaniel got fired.
Well, they got to play the Jets twice.
You should be rehired and get a statue.
I'm going to say, wow, patriots, patriots, patriots are good.
Jets are terrible.
I will tell you this.
I will give you this clue.
They are not tied in Vegas.
What do you think, Intellar?
I think they are ridiculous.
I'm sticking with, I think, Vegas thinks the dolphins are worse than the Jets.
I'm going to go dolphins three and a half, Jets four and a half.
I'm going to go dolphins five and a half, Jets four and a half.
Nobody got anything right.
Damn it.
The Miami dolphins are four and a half and the New York Jets are five and a half.
Wow.
So I was right that the dolphins are worse.
Yes.
Both unders.
Man.
But Taylor was right.
Like I'm surprised to hear the dolphins, their wind tunnel projection, four and a half,
five and a half, you said four and a half for the dolphins, five and a half for the Jets.
So Fandall thinks the dolphins are going to be the worst team in the NFL, right?
She appears so.
I would take the over for the dolphins.
I would take the under for the Jets.
I mean, wow.
I mean, I would.
What do you mean?
Wow.
To Stu's point there, I don't think you could take the under on both of them because
then when those two teams play each other, right?
You're what are you rooting for, Ty?
They happen.
Yeah.
They happen.
I love a good tie.
I do.
I love a good tie.
I just think the dolphins are better.
They were seven and ten a year ago, Mike, like there's a foundation of talent there.
It's just talent that we don't normally pay attention to.
It's not a quarterback.
It's not a wide receiver, but they do have a chance and maybe Malik Willis turns into
a good player.
I have no idea.
There's one other team that is tied for the dolphins with the lowest over under.
Can you guess what that team is?
Saints?
No, I think they're going to be a little higher on the Saints.
My guess is the Cardinals.
The Cardinals seem absolutely hopeless against the Cardinals of the other team to have four
and a half as they're over under.
You know, I just like I can't take an under when it's four and a half.
I just can't do it.
Because God forbid football happens and the Cardinals win week one and you're sitting there
going.
What the fuck did I just do?
Because football happens.
Right.
The Raiders won week one last year against the Patriots and they still had three wins
on the season.
So I will not panic if the Cardinals win week one and I have to over under four and a half.
I forgot about that.
I came on that Monday and saying what a great hire Pete Carroll was.
Pete Carroll's got him.
He's got him ready.
KG vet.
Oh God.
Tell you want to request a team?
I'm going to request the New York Giants.
Wow.
Okay.
What do you got?
I'm big on the Giants this year.
Wow.
Let's see if you're big on him when you hear the number.
Yeah.
I mean, listen, division, Eagles are good.
Dallas should be better.
It's a good point about Dallas.
Man, man, oh man.
What do you think of Taylor Giants?
I love the Giants.
I do.
You know, you guys know I love Jackson dark.
You do.
So my thought process here with the Giants is better than Caleb Williams.
I don't know.
Jets are at five and a half.
I think the Giants should be better than the Jets at five and a half.
So I'm somewhere between six and a half and seven and a half.
But because of the division, I'm dropping them from that seven and a half, back down
to six and a half.
So I would tell you that I would I would think that the sportsbooks and fan tool are given
the Giants a lot of love, not because of Jackson dark, more because of John Horbaugh.
So I'm going to say eight and a half for the New York football Giants, eight and a half.
You said six and a half.
You said eight and a half, biggest seven and a half.
And I say over and I say super bowl.
That's what I say.
I did.
That's what I say.
Is neighbors coming back this year?
Right.
They have neighbors still.
They have draft picked.
They have Jackson dark.
They got a running back, right?
Free agency.
They got cam and there's there's a lot of talk about them being very interested in Jeremiah
love.
Okay.
That's where I cam scataboo who doesn't believe in CTE even though he's the poster child
for CTE.
Um, I forgot about it.
So he's back and he's healthy.
They signed someone big and free agency.
I thought they did at least.
Horbaugh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was Horbaugh.
It was Horbaugh.
Isaiah likely.
And then remember Sal LaCotta said the biggest free agent signing was the Giants signing
the punter from the Ravens that he couldn't remember back on it.
It's why Sal's not on this week.
I mean, I put him in the penalty box.
Jesus 15 yards for saying the punters was the most was the biggest signing they made in
the off season.
All right.
I love the Giants.
I'm on record to say now I'm not putting these bets in until bear proofs of them.
But I'm on record is saying I love the Giants.
In fact, that would be my best total of the year.
My goal play is the Giants going over seven and a half wins.
How about that?
How about that?
All right.
All right.
What do you want to do more?
I want the most polarizing team in the NFL.
They carry a lot of panthers.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
All right.
They won the division with a sub 500 record.
They did.
I am betting this today.
Really.
I just looked at the number.
They were eight and nine last year.
That division so lousy.
Jesus.
It's so bad.
Tampa, Atlanta, the Saints.
Anyone's division every year except the Saints.
Two was there now.
Two.
What does that mean?
Probably two or more wins.
Panther.
Two and a half.
Two and a half.
I like that.
Two ways there now.
Thank you for pointing that out.
So they were eight and nine last year.
I think Vegas.
My heavens has gone from the box.
I think Vegas is going to keep the number at eight and a half.
I'm going to say.
This is such a tricky one.
Why did they ask for Carolina?
I'm so glad you did.
I don't know if you're placing it because they set it too high
or they set it too low.
It is one of those two.
Yes.
Well, it has to be.
I'm confident that the number is eight and a half.
Because if the number is nine and a half.
Close your eyes and imagine this Panther's team winning
double digit wins.
I can't do it.
Okay.
I can't either.
Eight and a half.
Six and a half.
Oh, I'm taking it over.
Yes.
Mikey A's best bet of the offseason over on the Panther's.
Right.
If Bear proves of it.
I mean, if Bear proves.
Yes, but he's on a cruise.
The seven C's.
What is he doing?
All right.
Last one.
All right.
You're choosing it.
Yes.
The former best quarterback to ever grace the entire NFL landscape.
Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati bank.
Oh, this is a tricky one.
It is.
I might have a new favorite bet.
So we have the Steelers in that division.
We have the Ravens.
In that division.
Joe Burrow.
Jesus.
Factor in that Joe Flacco just signed there because you know
Joe Burrows can get hurt by about week six.
And that's important.
I drove home for it.
Flacco went to Cincinnati.
Um.
So, uh, what's the four team in that division?
Browns.
Browns.
Browns.
Yeah, they're terrible.
Uh.
Cincinnati.
Man, this is a tough one.
But Vegas.
The books love Joe Burrow.
They do.
I'm going to say eight and a half wins for the Bengals.
That feels right.
Yeah.
Just to be different.
I'm going to say seven.
Yeah.
Different.
I'm going to say seven and a half and say the Vegas is kind
of selling the Bengals.
Nine and a half.
Wow.
They love Burrow.
They, they, they, they must because.
How, how does that team win 10 games?
I mean.
What would you take there?
I'm taking the under with Joe though.
I mean.
Joe can't block for himself and Joe can't play defense.
And they got rid of the best player that did that.
I was talking about Joe Flacco.
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All right.
Blime riking quickly.
Let's do it.
All right.
Today's...
topic.
Yeah.
Today's category.
Current.
College football coaches.
Current college football coaches.
We rank these.
We do them blindly.
We rank them one through eight.
Is that correct?
One through ten.
And it is.
And it is.
And it is both.
You both have separate lists.
Okay.
We both have separate lists.
All right.
So let's do it.
One through ten.
Let me write it out here for a little pen to paper.
Yep.
I'm keeping the 10 spot open for my man.
Bill B.
Okay.
Maybe I'll see you later today.
I'll tell him.
I'm fond of him.
You are.
Go ahead.
Give us.
Give us the first.
Coach here.
First name up.
Dan landing out in Oregon.
Dan landing out in Oregon.
Jesus Christ.
Blime ranking.
Strong.
Strong.
That is right.
Yes.
Yes.
But he always finishes week.
And as is he pointed out, he might have a cocaine problem.
I don't think he does.
But.
Mm.
Right.
Reckless thing to say.
What a reckless thing to say.
I did say it is he did.
Um.
Man.
I'm going three for Dan landing.
The three spots call on his name for me.
Do you feel like Dan landing is the third best college coach in football right now.
I'm trying to think who I would take over him.
Signeti.
Yes.
Kirby smart.
Probably right off the bat.
Right off the bat.
Right off the bat.
Right off the bat.
Okay.
I have at least two better than him.
I'm going to put Dan landing.
I love landing.
I do.
I think he's a great coach.
I'm going to put him at number two.
Actually.
Number two.
Next name up.
Ryan Day.
Oh, shit.
I forgot about him.
Ryan Day, who was on the verge of getting fired.
Now has the most job security anywhere in college football outside of Kurt Signeti.
So unless he loses to Michigan.
And then he's going to get fired all over again.
Ryan Day.
I'll put third.
I should he should be higher.
I'm holding out for Signeti.
So I'm going to put Ryan Day.
I'm going to put him third.
Ryan Day.
So I'm the opposite of you.
Ryan Day.
Born on third base.
I don't really love Ryan Day.
I'm going on.
Ryan Day five.
Okay.
All right.
It's a big mistake.
I would have him lower.
Jesus.
Go ahead.
He won a national championship championship.
I'm going to put Ryan Day.
I'm going to put him third.
Ryan Day.
So I'm the opposite of you.
I've had a national championship two years ago.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
Whatever.
Uh, next name up.
Lincoln Riley.
Good rebuttal.
Uh, Lincoln Riley.
Oh, no, please.
It's this.
This is a, this is.
This is just me picking if he gets eight, nine or ten.
Yeah, I'm going to put him at nine
and hope that Bill Bellicichek comes later.
Lincoln Riley, most ovary to coach in America.
Good.
I'm going to put him at eight.
eight, Mikey, just because of the quarterbacks that he's developed.
Okay, Caleb, the greatest effort to play, right?
Mm-hmm.
Next name up.
Yep.
Kurt Signati.
Google one.
Yeah, number one.
Number one.
Yep, don't even have to think about it.
I mean, okay.
Yep.
It's amazing.
That guy has turned into, he is the college football coach
that everyone would want right now.
That's, that's incredible.
God bless him, man.
All right.
Next name up.
Krista Ball.
Jesus.
Lane Kiffin.
Oh, Lane Kiffin.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Big Lane Kiffin.
What has he ever done?
I'm serious.
Big Lane Kiffin.
Left those kids high and dry in Mississippi.
His best chance to win a national championship.
I'm tempted to put him 10th.
But I have to hold that ho for Bella check.
I'm going to put him eight.
Lane Kiffin.
Eight.
And I don't care.
I do not care Brian Kelly comes out.
I don't care putting all these guys out of Lane Kiffin.
Lane Kiff is a jerk.
I mean, unless we get him on the show and then I love him, I have his number.
So I'm going to go Lane Kiffin six.
Oh, God.
Jesus.
Lane Kiffin.
Yeah.
Next name up.
Kiffin, my S.
Matt Campbell.
I am I so mad at Lane Kiffin.
I don't know.
I don't like him.
I know.
What am I doing?
I'll move today.
Listen, I'm boots on the ground, Chapel Hill.
I mean, you know, I just these coaches are all shady.
Anyway, I didn't mean that.
Matt Campbell, who's the name?
Matt Campbell, formerly of Iowa State.
Now at Penn State.
I put him at number seven, right?
Lane Kiffin.
So I'm also going to put him at number seven.
He's kind of got that reputation of doing more with less.
Yeah.
Now that you're at Penn State, you have to do more with more.
Yeah.
Yeah, you do.
We'll put it on the pole.
Next name up.
Yeah.
He rejected Penn State.
To stay at BYU.
Clonnie Sataki.
I love him.
I do.
I mean.
You better.
I love him.
Yeah.
I don't love my blind rankings right now.
Hmm.
You thought I was going to play with a certain game,
and I'm playing a different game.
I zicked when you thought I was a deck.
I don't really care that I have Matt Campbell ahead.
I'm playing Kiffin and Lincoln Riley.
I don't.
I don't mind putting the BYU head coach at number four.
So I'm going to put Clonnie Sataki, Mikey,
at number nine right behind Lincoln Riley.
All right.
I have Sataki at number four.
He's a good coach on the ready coach.
I think so too.
Yep.
Hmm.
Next name up.
Steve Sarkesian.
Sark.
For the record, Taylor has two, four, and ten available.
Stu Gatz has five, six, and ten available.
I feel pretty good about mine.
Sark, another one of those guys just.
Big Steve Sarkesian.
What has he ever done?
I'll put him at five.
I don't care.
Big insert coach here is the frame of it.
Listen.
I have Sark.
I have him.
I have Sark right behind.
Let me see my last year.
I have to make sure I'm reading this correctly.
Who did I have at number four?
Who did I put there?
Clonnie Sataki.
I have Sataki.
I have Sark right behind Sataki.
And I'm okay with that.
I am.
What is big, Clonnie Sataki.
What is he ever done?
Imagine Sataki.
If he had, I mean, Texas is budget.
And all the resources that Sark has.
Imagine what he would do with that.
Sataki.
So I'm putting Sark at number five.
He's got crumble.
He's got crumble cookie money.
He's got nothing.
He's got BYU.
That's what he's got.
That's all he has.
He has Provo.
Is it Provo?
Yep.
I don't know.
So I'm going to put Sark at four.
Yeah.
Great college coach.
And I'm kind of just banking on the fact of him capitalizing
on the archmaning window this season.
Okay.
Look at a little look ahead.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But if he does the ten, right?
I mean, right.
If you don't get it done with Orch, you drop the ten.
Okay, good.
So Taylor has two and ten available.
Stu has six and ten available.
One of you is about to get very mad at me.
Right.
Next name up.
Mm-hmm.
James Franklin.
Oh, shit.
Taylor, just imagine what Sataki would do with Orch.
I mean, just imagine.
The top big archmaning.
What?
Yeah.
You could say that about him too.
You could.
What was the coach's name?
James Franklin.
Where's he in Franklin, you tech?
Jesus Christ.
I'm Franklin at ten.
I don't care.
Even if Belicech comes up.
If I have to put Belicech at six ahead of Matt Campbell,
I can give it and Lincoln Riley.
I'm good with it.
I am.
I am.
At least Belicech has done something.
I mean.
So I like James Franklin going to Virginia Tech.
It feels like a lot more natural.
A spot for him than Penn State.
But there's no way I could put James Franklin to.
For how much of a fraud he was at Penn State.
Yeah.
So I'm going to go ten to Mikey.
Okay.
So you're going to be stuck with Belicech at two.
Yeah.
Kirby smarter too.
Could be Kirby smart.
Mikey knows how to play this game.
It's going to be Bill Belicech.
Absolutely.
Bill Belicech.
Right.
If you had Kirby smart right down, he just erased it.
Have you ever that?
Or Marcus Freeman.
Oh, I forgot about Marcus.
Jeez.
Who is it?
Oh, because Taylor's got two open.
It's Bill Belicech.
Yeah.
Ah, that you would want to fly her to the second best coaching
college football.
It's weird.
Well, now we can clip this, send it to Carolina and say, hey.
Taylor said, Bill Belicech, second best coach.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
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