Sam Leavitt Unavailable Against Ole Miss???

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1:00No, no, no, not for me. Can't give away. I'll text you later. Could you send it to me through Richard Denton, Wattled and those guys? They were the RITTY boys and girls. In today's episode, LSU lists Sam Levitt as doubtful. Cindy Alcantre does something extraordinary and Bookham McFarlane joins us for five minutes, but we begin today. With tonight's Thursday night game in Buffalo, where the bills will take on the visiting Detroit Lions. Tonight will be the opening of the Bill's new stadium, High Mark Stadium. The bills are coming off a big win over the Houston Texans. The Lions are coming off a narrow escape from the New Orleans Saints. Will von, do you give the Lions a big chance, a little chance? No chance at all of upsetting the bills in Buffalo. I may wind up regretting this like everybody who said stupid stuff about the Rams going undefeated, unscored upon, you know, said for weeks. I may regret it like they should regret that stupidity, but I'm going to go there anyway.

2:01I got the Lions having no chance. I got the Buffalo bills scoring a kill shot tonight, Tony. I haven't spent as much time in Western New York as you have, but I spent enough time near covering the old bills. The Marv Levy, Jim Kelly, Thurmond Thomas bills. I spent enough time with those. I know what that's like. That atmosphere. I'm going to be seeing that new stadium. I get it. And I have no faith in Detroit. Detroit didn't make the playoffs or wasn't any good last year. Detroit, for a half a game at home, wasn't any good last week against the Saints. So why should I think that Detroit's any good? I get a Detroit can score that you go back 25 games, 40 games. I ain't going back that far. I'm going back to last week when the Saints had their number. No. That killshock being landed by the Buffalo bills tonight. I'm going to disagree, not just on the margins. I mean, ultimately, I'm going to say that Buffalo can win the game. But I'm going to disagree in this regard.

3:01I don't think you can give them no shot at all. I mean, they've gone to the playoffs two of the last three years. Detroit has done that. They play in a harder division than Buffalo plays in under their coach Dan Campbell since 2021. They have the best record in the NFL in primetime games. It's 14 and four. A Buffalo's real good too. I mean, Buffalo has been to the playoffs seven times in a row. And Buffalo's record, I believe in that same period of time since 2021 on primetime games is like 18 and seven. And they got Josh Allen. And Josh Allen did something last week that's extraordinary. He rushed for two touchdowns. He passed for two touchdowns for the ninth time in his career. Where'd he do it? The next guy on the list. Last week, he did it in Buffalo. No, he didn't use it. No, he didn't use it. He didn't use it. The next guy on that list is Stevie Young with four. That's how good Josh Allen is. Yeah. And so, but Buffalo did not clobber, Houston. They waited to 136 was left in the entire game to take a lead.

4:06So what I'm saying to you is that I think I'm not going to be stunned if Detroit wins. I think Buffalo will win. I would go 60, 40, 65, 35. The bet that I would make, and maybe you would agree with this, the bet that I would make is over, over 54 and a half. Is it 54 and a half? No, it is. I go over. I think there will be a lot of score. I don't know how many points are going to be scored in that new stadium and that atmosphere. I mean, Detroit couldn't take a barely hold on against the Saints in their own atmosphere. That's right. And that's right. And that's right. And that's right. And that's right. That's right. Houston, a tough place to play against those defensive ends. And he got it done. He had no chance for Detroit to win the night. I'm hoping too, as I'm wearing a little blue and orange. Let's move to the latest intrigue surrounding your boy Lane Kiffin. And here's return the Ole Miss Saturday. LSU yesterday listed starting quarterback Sam Levitt as doubtful and top-tactor TK daughtery as questionable for Saturday's game. Levitt has never previously been mentioned as injured.

5:09Ole Miss is reportedly skeptical about the injury reports of sincerity. Tom, what do you make of it? OK. Well, when I first heard it, I thought, oh, LSU cannot win this game because Levitt is a very good quarterback. I'm told he was the number one rated quarterback in the transfer portal. There are reports they did a walkthrough today. So it may not be that serious. My second reaction, Mike, which followed very quickly. My first reaction was, is Lane Kiffin trying to pull a fast one here? Is this slight of hand? Is this subterfuge? Is this gamesmanship? I mean, is he trying to mess with Ole Miss's heads, which is apparently what Ole Miss thinks at this point? I don't want to be a conspiracist. I hope the kid is all right. I hope he plays. I don't want insult, you know, the physical quality that he's going through right now. I don't do anything like that. But I don't put in past Lane Kiffin to sort of pipe this. You know, make this thing up. Lane Kiffin, I was told this morning, some years back, put the number 35 driv' jersey of his punter on a reserve quarterback to deliberately confuse the other 10.

6:13You say, you know? Yeah. Yeah, no, you can't do that. So I, you know, I think such things possible. But I'm going to go to the other side as well, Mike. Don't tell me it's coincidental that a lawsuit that was filed by Ole Miss against two LSU players who left Ole Miss to go with Kiffin, a lawsuit that was filed in July, that just this week, those two players were served with papers outside the LSU football stadium. That is not coincidental. This is an all-sphere and love and war situation. This is bigger, it seems to me, than just football. There's nothing Lane Kiffin wouldn't stoop to. I don't believe a word of this. I don't believe Sam Levin is anything other than 100% healthy because I don't believe Lane Kiffin. Lane Kiffin, it's not like awful criminal behavior he's ever guilty of. He's in the back room shooting spitballs at the front of the room because he's potsy forever. He's a clown. He's been a clown in so many places, including Tuscaloosa, that the greatest coach in the

7:14history of college football said, you know what? We'd rather have you somewhere else get out. Okay, that's who Lane Kiffin is. So I don't believe anything he says. And if you're at Ole Miss and you know this dude, he walked out on you. You can't believe anything he says. And if you do, you're a fool. You have to go into this wanting to embarrass Lane Kiffin. That's the only approach. Sports is a television show. Lane Kiffin is great television. Let's move to baseball and consider all these things that happened last night. Pete Trollarm strong at two home runs, 43 and 44, as the Cubs beat the braves. Twenty-year-old Padres catcher Ethan Salas had two home runs to become the youngest catcher ever with a multi-homer game in the Padres I to stretch their lead for the last wildcard to three and a half games over Arizona. Peter Lonzo hit another home against the Metz to keep the Orioles wildcard hopes a lot. Blake Snell left after one inning in his start for the Dodgers with growing tightness.

8:18The Rangers beat Boston for their fourth win in a row, Todd Houston for first place in the A.L. Weston Miami starter, Sandy Alcantra recorded his first ever save two days after throwing 101 pitches in a start for Miami. Will von Witch is the most significant event. Well significant probably the Padres because they're starting to stretch it a little bit and they can get in this thing and the Padres can win it. And Texas because they look like they were at four games, I mean, you shouldn't have counted them out, but okay, they're still in it. And so from a team standpoint, it ain't the Dodgers and ain't the Orioles. It's those two teams. And it's Pete Crow Armstrong because he did something last night, Tony, that so few people have done it historically in the history of Major League Baseball. Two dudes have done that four times, home run, home run, triple, two dudes. Their names are Ruth and Garrett. And a couple of dudes have done it three times. I've heard them. Name Maze and Demagio. And I think you can throw Ryan Howard in there. Pete Crow Armstrong's 24 and he's done it twice.

9:20So just from the historical standpoint of baseball and those things being important, I'm gonna go with Pete. But those two teams, San Diego, Texas, it's all out West. So I want to say Alonzo hitting another home run in Shay or whatever they're calling it these days against this former team because that's so juicy, but I'm not gonna actually say that. The catcher hitting a couple of home runs is pretty good. I would have bet against that. That's pretty good. I would have picked Yogi or Johnny Bench. I would not have known that it would be this kid. The Sandial Contra thing is completely wild. He leads the majors in Innings pitched. What are you doing putting him in a game when you're seven and a half out of the wild car with nine games to go? And yet he is a hero to all his teammates as well. He should be for doing that. I think the snail thing is important because since coming back from the I.L. is 4 and 0 with a 1 0 4 E.R.A. If he's going that hurts and it's late. Snell is you know when he goes on the I.L. He goes for a long time.

10:22He goes he goes for a long time. So would you number one? I would agree with you. Number one. I'm gonna get to it. I will agree with you on this. I think it's always going to be a team. To me, it's Texas. It's Texas catching Houston. They're both 76 and 76 and I don't think the loser. I think the winner gets into playoff and I don't think the loser can catch. Cleveland or Chicago. I don't think that's possible. I don't think so. The American league is so bad. It really is. 78.75 is Cleveland and 77. They can catch one. They can catch one. Let's take a break. Coming up, why do offenses seem so far ahead of defenses in week one? We're going to ask programming Farlin. We'll also ask him where the Brian Flores is going to blitz the bears as much as he did the Packers last week. 81 times. Touch eyes and hear with some advice. If high interest credit card debt is grinding you down, it might be time to call an audible with a so-fi personal loan. It consolidates your debt into one low monthly payment with no fees required and with

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12:37In any case, we were dead wrong, like Chicago got 59, Buffalo scored a lot of points. What did you see? Well, you know what, I was dead wrong too, guys. And I think we're so accustomed to defense as being able to dominate. But here's what's happened. Football has gotten a little soft. Nobody tackles anymore. Nobody plays in the preseason anymore. So when week one comes around, that's really preseason football. And what you get, you get sloppy defense at football. You get a ton of missed tackles. How about the Denver Broncos on Monday night? 28 missed tackles. That is sloppy football. So when you talk about the offense, offense is more of a dance two step, like they're in rhythm. You can work on offense really without being so physical. Defense, we got to knock the hell out of people, guys. And we're not able to do that during the preseason. We're not doing it in practice. So many coaches are not putting their pads on. And football has become a little bit softer. And what's happening is the first month of the season is really the new preseason.

13:39And so you're going to see defenses get better and better once we get to October. But right now, the defense is a really just soft. One defense I would love to see remains soft this week. Booker is the Vikings defense. Although we know Brian Flores, he blitzed the Packers 81% of the snaps last week. One, do you see Flores doing that again? Two, if he does against my Bears, will it work? Well, that's all Brian Flores knows Mike is the blitz. He may not blitz at 80% of the times as far as blitzing your Bears, but it's going to be well above 50. He's going to bring it from all different sides, all different shapes, all different forms. And he's going to do it because that's his style. He is a pressure defensive coordinator. Now, the reason he may not do it as much against Caleb is because I think Caleb is the most exciting player in football. Like he's the guy, him in my homes, that you can't take your eyes off of. And when he gets out of the pocket, especially when he's rolling to the left, I mean, his arm

14:40might be the best in football. So I think Brian Flores is going to be a little bit afraid of bringing so much pressure. Jordan Love, not so much. Caleb Williams, he's going to tip her down a little bit, but at his core, in his DNA, he is a blitzing guy. So if I'm okay, if I'm Caleb Williams and I'm in Chicago Bears, I'm getting ready for the blitz. Woo, that's going to be some match up Sunday in Chicago. Denver's defense struggled against the Chiefs as we know. Will the Jaguars be any easier? Jaguars look pretty potent there. I don't think the Jags are any type of pushovers. A matter of fact, I think Liam Cohn, who's the head coach and play collar, has Trevor Lawrence playing at an elite level right now. He's playing at an extremely high level. I think we're seeing the best version of what we thought Trevor was going to be when he came out when we heard the term generation of quarterback. So I think if you're Denver, yeah, you face my homes and that rock is atmosphere and that environment, and it was almost a no-win situation.

15:42Well, now you got to deal with the team in Trevor Lawrence. This got three-wire receivers that can play. You got a quarterback who thinks he's the best player on the field every time he steps on the field, and you got a young, hungry defense. So if I'm Denver, man, don't think that this is going to be any pushovers that matter of fact, let's not forget. We've seen Jacksonville go into Denver and get a win before. So this is going to be a really, really tough game. I love how the Jaguars are playing. Specifically, I love how Trevor Lawrence is playing. We will get off the pros. We will go to college with the game that everybody cares about and wants to see. You were a star player at LSU. You've got skin in the game. We're going to ask your question as an alum. How important is it to the alum's like you for Lane Kiffin's team to beat Ole Miss on Saturday? It's important because we got bigger, frisk, the Friday, and Ole Miss. Like, LSU is about national championships. Bridea last four coaches that have come there have won national championships. So our goals are bigger than going to Oxford and beating Ole Miss.

16:45Now, with that being said, we want to go on there and beat the hell out of it. Let's just call it what it is. Let's understand. If you're really going to look at this, think about this, guys. Ole Miss is like the woman's scorn. Like she got left and now she's got everybody over her house and everybody's emotional. Everybody is super excited. Everybody has a lot of piss and vinegar because the guy who left you is coming back to town. That's what Ole Miss is like. They're going to be super emotional. The fans are going to be trying to throw everything at Lane Kiffin. You got the governor talking about sending C-130s. We got extra chairs. We got horses. It is going to be an absolute zoo in Oxford. But here's the thing about it. Once told me it's leather tony, then it's going to become which team can execute and which team can play the best version of football. And I hope when all this is said and done that the Ole Miss people can keep three letters out of their mouth and that's LSU. Like I get it. Lane left nine months ago. Like keep our name out of your mouth.

17:46Like we're tired of hearing Baden Rouge and Oxford Mississippi. They're almost like the little brother. Like he's always nagging. Like hey play with me. Play with me. Come play with me. And at some point you got to go play with him just to stop him from nagging you. Hopefully when this game is over we can chill with the LSU and Ole Miss hate because we got bigger, fridge to fry. We're about rings baby. We're not about just beating Ole Miss and Oxford. We're trying to win national championships in Baden Rouge. Can you just begin the second most unpopular guy in Oxford? Can you wait for this? And the way you said that. Well, thank you, Bogar. Thank you, St. Keepe. Any time, fellas, glad to be here. Let's take one last break still to come. The riff between Winnipeg and its star, Goldie Conor Hellebuk just got wider. And the investigation into Bill Belichick's football program in North Carolina leads to another significant resignation. I can't wait for this game. I can't. Me too. You know what they're not that many good games this week.

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20:49Association before he got to the NBA. Jackson's idol and mentor was his own pro coach Red Holtzman. On a personal level, Jackson is one of the smartest people I have ever been around in sports a delight to talk to. We were grateful to have him as a guest multiple times on this show. He is ahead on my personal fav list tone of Ditka, Hallis, Madden, Quinnville in Oz again. And you know what all those guys did. They didn't do it as much as Phil Jackson. Happy anniversary. Hideo Nomo on this day 30 years ago. Nomo threw a no-hitter for the Dodgers, amazingly in Colorado. Nobody throws a no-hitter there. To this day, that's the only no-hitter ever in Cours Field. Nomo was rookie of the year with the Dodgers the year before, going 13 and 6 with a 254 ERA. Nomo was one of the first pitchers to come to Major League Baseball from Japan and he has the most Major League wins by a Japanese pitcher, 123. Nomo's career record, 123 and 109 with a 424 ERA. Spent 12 seasons in the majors at total of seven in two stints with the Dodgers in one

21:53season or parts thereof with Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, the Metz, Tampa Bay and Kansas City. Tony, he was so exciting to watch with that delivery. It was sort of irresistible and it seemed at the time that nobody else was doing that. It got from like T.O.T. to this. A melancholy trails to Michael Sweetney. Sweetney has passed away at the far two young age of 43. The power forward started Georgetown averaging 23 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks per game as a junior. The mix took him ninth over roll in 2003 draft but Sweetney never found the same success as he had in college. Splitting four NBA seasons between the nicks and the bulls. He then played internationally until 2017. Sweetney battled weight issues and anxiety over his career but no one doubted his skills. His wife said in the statement to no Mike Sweetney was to love him. He's been my best friend for 30 years and my husband for almost 20. I am not sure what we or I will do without him. Tony, we of course got to see Michael Sweetney in person here in Washington, D.C.

22:56playing at Georgetown uniform. He's one of the all time great Georgetown players. I think something like seventh in scoring and it's just this hits hard. So sorry to hear. Yeah. Let's go to the big finish if we put the FPS oversight committee. Set on Wednesday that refs got the replay protocols wrong. The Michigan's win over Western Michigan but that the result cannot be changed. Your thoughts? No, they got cheated. They were cheated Western Michigan, big 10. You know what happened? We all do. North Carolina defensive coordinator Steve Bellicek resigned following Mike Lombard out the door. Your thoughts Tony. The Mike Lombard stuff off the field. The stuff off the field with that program has been very good to me. It has to be stuff on the kid. The US men's soccer team is calling up 16 year old Kevin Sullivan. Is that significant? Tony, it is. If 14 he was signed by man city and people talk about the next political out of pressure but a lot of talent. College football tonight, Syracuse pit, you gonna care about that?

23:59No, honestly no. I'm gonna watch the other game tonight. I'm gonna watch Buffalo Detroit. Last one. The Winnipeg Jets suspended Goli Conor Hella but fulfilling the show it can't be your thoughts. Well they could just relegate him. Send him like 1700 miles further north. You know, to yellow knife? How about that? Yellow wanna go there? Yeah. Yeah. Great FM radio. Yellow. I'm trying to do better the next time. I'm Tony Cornell. I'm Mike Wilbond same time tomorrow. I'm gonna go ahead. I'm just gonna shout out to Sherry Jones. You know, people can figure out what they want. Bustarolni here for Lecinta by Windom. When work takes you on the road during football season, it's nice to have a place where you can unwind after the day is done. At Lecinta by Windom, Spacious Weeds give you room to spread out. Catch the game. Kick back and relax before another day on the job because after a long day, comfort makes all the difference. Plus earn Windom rewards points with every qualified stay. Tonight Lecinta, tomorrow you shine.

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