Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:04] Speaker B: Welcome everybody. This is sources from the SOFA podcast. We are recording Wednesday night for college football and the NFL wild card weekend. We're going to recap a little bit of the firings. We were three for three on who we thought was for sure going to go in. And then we had a few others. A lot of coordinators that got fired, which we didn't really talk about that, but some of them were surprising as well, especially with Washington and looks like he just resigned.
[00:00:34] Speaker A: Right. He wasn't fired in mutual part ways. Yeah.
[00:00:38] Speaker C: They're making it seem like. They're making it seem like he was fired though.
[00:00:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:42] Speaker C: And they're making it seem like ownership was the one from on high. And I think there's a lot of questions on that Washington job right now. They had this one year of success, but like ownership isn't as hands off or letting things run the show as probably people thought.
[00:00:58] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:00:59] Speaker C: Previous ownership. I mean that's. I saw a couple posts on this and everything and obviously this has my bear slant to it because it was basically about Ben Johnson turning that job down after the first interview or whatever, like a couple of two years ago or whatever.
[00:01:12] Speaker A: And they kind of slammed him for it. Right. Ownership from Washington, from what I remember they did.
[00:01:17] Speaker C: That's where they came out and said all his interviews bad and all this type of stuff. But there was, there was something. Things are coming out now. I was like, oh, he sensed something in the interview and this could be all online conjecture, but like about like where ownership was at and like what was about him. And now, you know, you, after making the conference championship game, you had him firing or mutual parting ways for an offensive coordinator who honestly was in the head coaching. Like, you know, last year I'm like, this guy was up there with Ben Johnson and people in like Chicago circles or people telling me like, oh, you should be hiring Cliff Kingsbury instead of Ben Johnson. Like, and a year later he's fired. Like, that's where goes to show you on some of these coordinator stuff on like where people are at. People hype them up. I mean, Eric B. Enemy is another example. I mean, he's the Bears like running backs coach right now. I was like. And that was the guy like, oh, we got to hire him as the head coach. I'm like, those, these positions don't always translate, but I think there's something deeper potentially going on in Washington.
[00:02:08] Speaker B: Yeah, well, D.C. and O.C. gone.
We'll get into it a little bit. There's like a lot of the D.C.
[00:02:15] Speaker A: We knew that was coming because, I mean, Joe Whit had his, you know, responsibilities taken from what, week 12, week 13.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:21] Speaker A: I mean, Kingsbury Mary, because, you know, he kind of runs the quarterback a lot. I think they had the third highest runs between quarterbacks and Daniels getting hurt, so they didn't like that as an offense. Yeah, I mean, Mariota did pretty well when he came in. I mean, they didn't have, what, probably 60% of their offensive weapons throughout the year. So, I mean, it really wasn't an offensive problem. Well, it sounds like management a big thing, too, though. He was running the quarterback.
[00:02:46] Speaker B: Yeah, they didn't. But then also a big thing. There's like, some, like, turmoil there. You know, they definitely, like, beefed up on veteran players when they, you know, when they changed the ownership and new regime.
[00:02:59] Speaker A: Well, they're the oldest team in the league, right, Age wise. Yeah.
[00:03:01] Speaker B: So to not make.
To not make any adjustments and expect them to be healthy for another year again. We just saw what happened. They were, like, completely decimated.
It's. It's a very old team. You know, they didn't address some of the issues. So it's. It's. It's. I think that's more on the gm.
Oh, no.
Since we're talking about. You guys want to talk about the other firings or let's just.
We'll. We'll come back to it, talk a little college football first.
[00:03:27] Speaker A: I think we call. I think we called all the firings and possible.
I think we've been spot on.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: Carol. Yeah, well, we thought Carol was a possibility. That was really awesome.
[00:03:38] Speaker A: Horrible.
[00:03:39] Speaker B: A lot of people shocked. But, dude, I sent Jason a whole bunch of memes. I'm like, I'm telling you, man, these guys have been winding fire for a long time. They. They did a collage of beings for.
[00:03:48] Speaker A: The past six years. There's been a lot of fire where that smoke's been for the last two months. Yeah.
[00:03:52] Speaker B: So, like, people are, like. A lot of people are rejoicing. A lot of people, like, well, who else are we gonna get?
[00:03:58] Speaker A: So.
[00:03:59] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't know.
[00:04:00] Speaker C: I don't know. I mean, Aaron made the right call, I think. Stefanski. I think for both Stefanski and Harbaugh, too. I mean, you could. I don't know. If you question your choice. Maybe it's that change of scenery thing for Harbaugh. He's been there so long. Hey, we need a different voice in the locker room, a different vision for, you know, the second half of Lamar's you know, Lamar's career. But, I mean, for those two individuals, Stefanski and Harbaugh specifically, it was like they got fired, and immediately every other organization was reaching out for an interview. So, yeah, it's like one of those things. Do you question you firing the guy that everyone else is super interested?
[00:04:33] Speaker A: Like.
[00:04:33] Speaker C: Like Miami allegedly is interested in Harbaugh, and they don't even have an opening.
[00:04:37] Speaker A: Yeah, seven. Seven coach or seven organizations called Harbaugh's agent within 45 minutes, and Miami is one of them. I think Colin, you know, Calhart brought that up. He's like, you know, you get you made the wrong choice when you fire a coach, and literally their phone is blowing up, like, 10 minutes later. Like, half the league is calling them. Like, hey, can we set up an interview with you?
[00:04:58] Speaker B: There was a story that came out how somebody from the jets organization after they interviewed what's his face, the new pages head coach. I'm sorry. Been a long day, Rabel. Yeah, they interviewed him, and, like, they were kind of talking behind the scenes, like, why did Tennessee fire this guy? This guy's brilliant. Yeah, well, these idiots didn't try to hire him either, so. I don't know, like, ever gonna go.
[00:05:22] Speaker A: To the jets, because I think I feel like New England just kind of like trolls. And the jets, like, they tease them like, oh, yeah, we're interested, like, Billichek Brable. But, like, behind closed doors, like, they hate Woody Johnson. Hate that organization.
[00:05:36] Speaker B: It's Johnson. I think it's just all Woody Johnson.
[00:05:39] Speaker A: I think you're right.
[00:05:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Any other firings? There was, like, some, you know, Eber Fluss. Jason, you're.
[00:05:46] Speaker A: Yeah. You're a favorite coach.
[00:05:48] Speaker B: He's gone.
[00:05:48] Speaker C: I, I, I think Eber Floose, you know, needs to be considered for either, like, the Green Bay packers defensive coordinator position, the Vikings defensive coordinator, maybe even the Lions. The Lions need some juice. I think he should be considered to hire.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: I think he's gonna be an analyst or consultant with one of those organizations for sure.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:07] Speaker A: No, I mean, I think.
I don't know where Eber Flee is.
[00:06:10] Speaker B: Of course he got O.C. yeah, well, we knew that.
[00:06:13] Speaker A: Well, we knew that 10 weeks ago.
[00:06:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Any other firings? No, that was it. There's probably.
[00:06:20] Speaker A: Yeah. Because maybe one or two. Raheem Morris was fired last time we came on. Right?
[00:06:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:25] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Okay. Right.
[00:06:26] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. Right away.
[00:06:27] Speaker A: Zach Taylor saved his job, which we thought was a possibility.
[00:06:31] Speaker B: Him and the GM dude, it sounds like the owner doesn't want to go through the process right now. So they're gonna do one more year with Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow is going to quit on them. Watch and.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, next year. Kind of a make or break.
Todd Bull say safe in Tampa.
[00:06:50] Speaker B: We.
[00:06:51] Speaker A: We thought that was a real possibility, having won the division three straight years. I thought he earned another year. Maybe some changes coming there, maybe the OC out, because Todd Bowles is the defensive coordinator. He calls the plays, so we'll see what happens there.
[00:07:05] Speaker B: Have no problem with Bulls. Yeah. Bull's a good guy. He built enough equity in that organization, so he deserves it.
[00:07:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I think that's. I think that's where we're at right now, right? I think, if anything, I think McDaniel's in Miami.
Kind of the wild card supposedly is part of the GM surge. But like you mentioned, Rome, they're calling Harbaugh. I don't know.
[00:07:26] Speaker B: Like, what if they got Harbaugh in and then they won? Like, hey, McDan, do you mind just being the OC or Harbaugh?
[00:07:34] Speaker A: What about Cohen? Have we ever had CO head coaches?
[00:07:39] Speaker B: Why not? Why not be the first one? How cool would that be?
[00:07:42] Speaker A: I think, honestly.
[00:07:44] Speaker C: Well, I mean, the Raiders are basically paying, like, five coaches right now, so they might as well just bring all these guys back and just get them.
[00:07:51] Speaker A: Are the Raiders the first organization I think ever to have, like, four straight new coaches starting a new season or five, Whatever it is they got coming.
[00:07:57] Speaker B: Up, I think it's six. Because they had a few interims, right?
[00:08:01] Speaker C: No, Pierce was the interim. That was the only, I think, real interim. But got the job. But, yeah, I think they're paying what they're paying Gruden McDaniels.
[00:08:11] Speaker A: Do they have to pay Gruden because of the lawsuit, or is that the NFL is going to have to back pay that?
[00:08:16] Speaker C: I don't know. I mean, maybe they haven't, but.
[00:08:19] Speaker B: All right. Bless you.
[00:08:21] Speaker A: Bless you. Yes, thank you.
[00:08:23] Speaker C: I get the sneeze button on that one.
[00:08:25] Speaker B: I think if we see any other firings, we might see one or two, but they're all in the playoffs right now, so.
[00:08:30] Speaker C: I mean, the.
[00:08:30] Speaker A: The.
[00:08:31] Speaker C: The Florida one's interesting. I mean, I don't know, you know, you let that leak out already that, you know, McDaniel's the. He's still your guy, but not if I get. There's a really good guy out there that want a Super Bowl.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: Well, yeah, why not?
I can't see Harbaugh in Miami, though. That's so weird.
[00:08:50] Speaker A: Where do you think Harbaugh fits.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: I think just set out this cycle, man. I. I don't think it's a good coaching cycle right now.
[00:08:57] Speaker C: I think this is not great. The team suck. I mean, this is, this is the worst of the worst.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: I mean, well, just ownership, you know, like, like the, like the GMs in place. Like there's nothing like really. I, I think if anything, Baltimore is the best job and that might be the only good job out there.
[00:09:13] Speaker A: I think the only two good jobs. Baltimore and the Giants. The Giants. Baltimore, I think are good jobs. Dude.
[00:09:17] Speaker C: That's what I was gonna say. I would say if I'm seeing someone harb on this cycle, it'd be the Giants. They have a, like kind of legacy ownership group. You know, a little more old school.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: They.
[00:09:27] Speaker C: They have a. They have some foundation with Jackson D family. Yeah. So I. That'd be the one. Or if it seems to be fit. Or that's just a little more of an old school cultural type thing. And you're bringing in a guy that had this job for what was it, 18 years or something.
[00:09:41] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that would work, dude.
[00:09:45] Speaker B: Like. Like the Giants, they have a, A good running back, good quarterback, good receiver, good defensive end. I think they have a good safety as well.
Their GM was what. What was getting flack for getting rid of Barkley. But, you know, like the reasoning actually made sense and, and they saved cap and gave an opportunity to win. Win a ring. They got some good players in that.
So I don't know. Yeah, those are two good jobs.
[00:10:11] Speaker A: I mean, the Giants aren't paying anybody except. Except Burns on defensive end. I mean, all their guys are young. They're not paying.
Yeah, they got a good left tackle. I mean. Yeah, for me, the Giants have a nice roster. I mean, I think Jason and Rome touched on it. Would they blow like six fourth quarter leads in the final eight minutes of games?
I mean, they win half those games where they seven wins. They're right there at.500.
[00:10:36] Speaker B: It's there. So it's there. They're.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: They're seven to nine team. Nine win team right now. If you get the right guy in there.
[00:10:44] Speaker B: Oh, Harbaugh. Yeah. It would be an 8th night win team at least.
[00:10:47] Speaker A: I think even Stevansky. I know they're high on his list. So.
[00:10:50] Speaker B: At the same thing though, he only got eight wins with the Ravens, so. Half a dozen. Six of the other. Is that the phrase?
[00:10:57] Speaker C: I don't think that's the phrase, but I think you're close, so I'll let.
[00:11:01] Speaker B: What is it?
[00:11:01] Speaker A: What is It.
I don't know.
[00:11:04] Speaker C: That doesn't sound.
[00:11:05] Speaker A: It didn't sound right.
[00:11:05] Speaker B: It is six of the other.
We'll have a research team look it up. All right.
[00:11:12] Speaker A: We got 30 people in the background getting to work right now.
[00:11:15] Speaker B: I know, I know. Wesley, come on, man.
Get some work done, bro.
All right, let's get into it then. We'll start off with the College Football playoff.
[00:11:23] Speaker C: Six to another.
[00:11:25] Speaker A: What?
[00:11:25] Speaker B: That doesn't sound right.
Is that it?
[00:11:28] Speaker C: It's saying half a dozen, six to another. So, I mean, so it's a half a dozen to me, but it's six to the to another, and it's you, right?
[00:11:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:11:35] Speaker C: I don't know.
[00:11:36] Speaker B: Okay, cool.
Well, thank you for clarifying that so quick.
The quickest research we've gotten, he's got.
[00:11:44] Speaker A: He's got that AI agent over there working. I know. Time, overtime.
[00:11:47] Speaker B: We got a few jerseys on the pod right now. Jason rocking some Chai Town White Sox gear.
Although it does look like a King's hockey jersey.
[00:11:58] Speaker C: It's actually. It's actually a Mammoth jersey, so. My snowboarding paradise up in Mammoth. So it was. You snowboard? I do.
[00:12:06] Speaker A: I do.
[00:12:06] Speaker C: I'm not very good. You know, I'm. I'm bad, actually. But, you know, I love. I love the mountains. You know, I, I. In California, you know, just. I could just drive to the mountains. I don't have to live in it like in Chicago. But Mammoth had some great merch this last year, so it's. It's like a hockey sweater, but it's got sweater material. And it's. It's nice.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: So.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: Yeah, it's nice.
[00:12:24] Speaker C: I don't get to wear it much in SoCal. It doesn't get cold, so it's like, hey, it's cold. This is a cool thing.
[00:12:28] Speaker B: I get to wear Aaron rocking a Green Bay jersey. But I haven't seen you Rocket jersey in a long time. Which one is that one?
[00:12:36] Speaker A: A little far of action here. Roll far.
[00:12:39] Speaker B: Oh, man. Everyone keep your welfare money in your pockets.
[00:12:46] Speaker A: Got. Hey, better. Better to go to Farve than the Simoleons, if you know what I mean.
[00:12:51] Speaker B: I really feel bad for Far, but I really liked him as a football player, and the guy's just getting beat down on.
On the way out.
All right, college football, we have this. Is it the final Four?
Miami.
Wait, why. Why does it say Miami? Florida?
[00:13:10] Speaker C: Yeah, to specify it's Miami of Florida. You know, Miami of Ohio is not playing in the national.
[00:13:16] Speaker B: Who. Who would get that mixed up?
[00:13:18] Speaker A: Well, sportsbook credit. They got to do it, because Miami. You know, just in case somebody brings a Miami ticket. Old and like, oh, Miami one. You're like, well, which one? I. I don't know. So it's. It's Miami, Florida.
[00:13:29] Speaker B: And then they don't put a comment in there. All right. Where do you find these lines, dude? Like. Like, this is my book.
[00:13:36] Speaker A: This is my book.
All right. This is my book.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: All right, dude.
[00:13:41] Speaker A: All right.
[00:13:42] Speaker B: There's always something up with the lines.
[00:13:43] Speaker A: That you give us.
[00:13:44] Speaker B: Like, it's maybe.
[00:13:45] Speaker C: Maybe Aaron's trying to tell us something. That Miami didn't get the logo. The other three schools in this semifinals got the logo, but they didn't do that.
[00:13:53] Speaker A: Right now I do maybe. You know. You know what? No one wants to pity you.
Turn that upside down, man.
All right.
[00:14:00] Speaker B: Festival, Glendale, Arizona. That is tomorrow night. That'll be Thursday night.
The Miami Hurricanes earning that birth into the College football playoff, playing Ole Miss. We had Ole Miss. I had at least Ole Miss in consideration before the season started to make it to the championship game.
I think this is a great matchup, actually. And I'm a little worried, and I. Because Lane Kiffin's not with Ole Miss. I don't want to see him move any further. I want to see Miami. In fact, I'm kind of rooting for Miami to win it all out, you know, from. From here on out. And then we have the Peach bowl in Atlanta, Georgia. A lot of peaches. A lot of big peaches over there if you catch plenty.
[00:14:43] Speaker A: Plenty. Plenty of peaches over there.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: Quick story. I was pouring wines for a guest, and I was like, oh, where are you guys from? They're like, oh, we're from Georgia. I'm like, ah, Atlanta. And then, like, the way I said it, though, like, the guy's like, now, now, hold on, hold on.
And I was like, you know what? I was there a couple times. I thought I fell in love with the girl. She was a big braids fan. New England Patriots fan as well. Hooked up a few times. And he's like, that must have been really good for you to still remember, like, how long ago was it? I'm like, I was in college, dude. This is like 18 years ago.
[00:15:21] Speaker A: You don't get that peach from Atlanta. I mean, Jason's. He's. You know, he's been over there a few times from work. So he knows what's up.
[00:15:27] Speaker B: He.
This time. It's a new year.
[00:15:30] Speaker A: Hey, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying he knows what's up. He knows what's going on, Gabby.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: Earmuffs. Ear muffs. This is not for wives for like, the next two minutes.
[00:15:40] Speaker A: All right. Peach cobbler pie. I don't know what peach cobbler pie you're talking about, Rome, but, you know.
[00:15:44] Speaker B: I could up a peach cobbler, man. I haven't had a good one a long time, but, man, if I met anyone that could make me a peach cobbler, I'm putting a ring on it.
I'm putting a ring on it. All right, Anyways, real low bar.
[00:16:00] Speaker C: This guy's just gonna go to Atlanta and put a ring on it because someone made a beach gobbler.
[00:16:05] Speaker B: All right, we got the Ducks, Oregon Ducks against Indiana.
Who's looking like the best team left, really, in my opinion, they got to be the favorites to win the championship, right?
They are.
[00:16:18] Speaker A: They are, they are.
Ohio State was before they got upset, but, yeah, Indiana is now the favorite.
[00:16:25] Speaker B: Well, we can thank Ole Miss.
All right, well, let's kick it off with the Fiesta bowl, then.
The Miami hurricanes, favored by three and a half, money line, minus 170.
The over under is 52. Mississippi is a plus 150 on the money line.
Then the spread, it's just too much to go over, man.
Aaron, with us, yeah, three and a half spread. But Ole Miss is favorite to cover that while Miami is under.
[00:16:59] Speaker A: All right, yeah, Miami's. Miami's even money. Mississippi, Ole Miss, minus 110 on the three and a half spread there.
Yeah, I mean, it's a big game here at the Fiesta Bowl. Semifinal winner, like you mentioned, Rome, goes on to the national title, which happens to be in Miami on their home field. If they get there. I don't know if we've ever. I don't know if we've ever had that. You know, we've seen that a couple times here in the NFL in the last couple years of teams winning the super bowl in their home field. So Miami's playing for that opportunity.
Ole Miss. The question has been all week, really, which coaches are going to be allowed to coach. Obviously, the transfer portal opening up on 2 January.
Coaches have kind of been going back and forth. I do know Charlie Weiss Jr. The OC is going to stay there. He's still going to be calling plays. I think the tight ends coach as well. They've lost a few other assistants that Lane Kiffin in the LSU administration would not allow back, really? But, yeah, Ole Miss has been, you know, kind of has that, you know, edge to him. You know, kind of like us against the world. We've Seen that where a lot of teams have, you know, shown up, played well. Miami defensively, we know they've been great in these playoffs. I mean, that defensive line has been dominant. They're going to have to show up again here.
Trinidad Chamlis, we saw what he did against Georgia in that fourth quarter. Jason in Rome, you guys both mentioned how he basically he was terrific. He took over the game, made some big plays, led his team here to this semifinal matchup.
For me, this comes down to, you know, can Mississippi, Ole Miss hold up on the offensive line? Their offensive line's been good all year. I haven't really seen them be, you know, get dominated in the sec.
Miami, we saw in the first two games against A M and Ohio State just take over the game with that front four they have. If Mississippi can give the quarterback Trinidad Chandler some time, I think he can make some plays here. I think this is a game that Mississippi can win. It's a game I like them to cover. I'll take the three and a half.
[00:18:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's a. I think.
[00:19:00] Speaker A: It'S a close game.
I want to be surprised in Miami wins. But I like the three and a half. I like the hook here. Feels like a 27, 24, 24, 21 type game. Comes down to the end lean towards Miami winning this one. But I do like the points of Ole Miss here and the over under. I was leaning the over kind of leaning towards the under now. But I do like Ole Miss getting three and a half here.
[00:19:24] Speaker B: Okay, Jason, what do you think?
[00:19:27] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't disagree. Yeah, the three, the half on that and that with a three and a half was. Was the interesting take to me considering, you know, Ole Miss is no pushover. I know the speculations about the coaching and.
But this team was really comes out to play and they got, they got guys, man. You know, when you look over the town of that Ole Miss team is good. On the flip side, Miami, we mentioned it last week, they're great in the trenches. That's how Mario Crystal Ball built this team. So they can go toe to toe with the SEC schools and they really built. He built and recruited and transfer portal whatever he had to do this team against, you know, for the NSCC opponent like Ole Miss or whoever would have been Alabama or Georgia.
So it's interesting. I do like Miami, but I did the three and a half is just very, very tempting to go with Ole Miss. I'll agree with Aaron on that as well.
[00:20:14] Speaker B: 52. Yeah, I like the under on this one.
I Think it's gonna show up? I think the Miami defense is going to show up. Well, they have to. If they don't show up, that this game might be over.
[00:20:25] Speaker A: Rome. It's interesting. I mean, I don't know if you saw that quote on our YouTube pod that you posted on the College Football Playoff. Did you see that? We had a comment from a Miami fan that was on there. Did you that?
[00:20:37] Speaker B: No.
[00:20:38] Speaker A: Okay, let me, let me pull it up here.
So give me a second. Why I find that here.
I gotta go to the channel. All right. I mean, I am there now. So we got a quote comment from Adam the sports guy. He says people need to wake up on Carson Beck.
He turned into the low hanging fruit for anyone doing a preview on a Miami game. We'll see which Carson Beck shows up. But Carson Beck, 16 TDs, three interceptions in his last eight games.
So this is a Miami fan. I did check his page. He is a Hurricane fan. So, you know, shout out to him and his canes getting here to the semifinal. But yeah, I mean, Carson Beck, we talked about it. If he doesn't turn the ball over, Miami wins, right? I mean he had four turnovers against Louisville, had a bad game against smu. I think this is a game Carson Beck needs a ball out because you're going to need to score points to beat Ole Miss. This isn't an offense that play slow. They play quick, they play tempo. They score against everybody. Georgia don't matter. They scored 30 plus against them twice. You know, this is a team in the sec, they score points. You know, their defense gives up points too because they're on the field a lot.
But Miami, Carson Beck, there's going to be opportunities for big plays. He's kind of played like, you know, game manager just relied on that defense a lot. This is a game where they need to get offensively big plays in the passing game I think are there. And as Jason mentioned, in the trenches. We know Miami, fourth quarter, loves to run the ball. They kind of control the clock there against Ohio State. 1. It's going to be a tough game. It's going to be a tough game.
Ole Miss, they've got, they've got that swag to them, right? They just got it to them Chambers, they feel good. It's kind of like, you know, they want to stick it to Lane Kiffin more than anybody. It's not us against it. It's us against Lane Kiffin. Hey, you want to take five coaches? No worries. We'll win another game.
And I, I'M I'm going to say Mississippi gets the upset. I like him to win, but I'll take the three and a half.
Wow.
[00:22:36] Speaker B: Okay.
I'm rooting for Miami.
I'm rooting for Miami.
[00:22:41] Speaker A: I. I thought you'd go Ole Miss Rome. You've been on Ole Miss since day one.
[00:22:45] Speaker B: Yeah, but, you know, I was reading for them. I'm. I'm a Lane Kiffin guy.
Despite everything, I just think maybe the Cinderella story ends, you know, they're losing coaches, they've been playing balls out. They've been a really good team.
They've hit definitely another level these last few games.
But it's hard to keep that energy for another two games.
And I think Miami would be a better opponent for whoever wins out of the Peach bowl for either one. I think it'd be for a better championship. To see Miami come back as a 10th seed, possibly win a. A championship, you know, the whole country's gonna go crazy over that. That's like media having. Everyone's still living in the 2000s. It's been a long time. What have they done since then? No one. I don't give a lot of people.
[00:23:33] Speaker A: I mean, Jason's pointed out 100 times they haven't even won an ACC title.
[00:23:36] Speaker B: No, he's absolutely right. No, like, once he said, I'm like, you're right. Miami hasn't done. Which is why I brought up, like, usc. Like, what has USC done besides that Pete Carroll age? They haven't done anything before then. It wasn't since OJ years, you know, and, you know.
[00:23:52] Speaker A: The biggest thing USC's done is duck Notre Dame and pin them off their schedule. That's the biggest thing in the last 20 years.
[00:23:57] Speaker C: Yeah, there you go.
[00:23:58] Speaker A: There it is. There it is, man.
[00:24:01] Speaker C: Yeah. Locally, in Miami, a lot of talk is, when, when, when, when, when is the U back? Is the U officially back? I mean, you saw. You saw glimmers of that. When they had Aaron. I'm dropping. Who was the former. Former Georgia coach that went to Miami for a little bit.
[00:24:17] Speaker A: Mark Rick.
[00:24:18] Speaker C: Mark Rick.
[00:24:18] Speaker A: No.
[00:24:19] Speaker C: So they had that one good year with Mark Rick. They didn't win the acc, but they got to a pretty big bowl. You felt like they were getting, you know, some talent there. You know, he leaves and then, you know, you don't. You don't see much from previous coach they got that succeeded him, that was on the staff that's now at Duke. And I'm Dr. I'm dropping names left and right today. I forget names.
[00:24:38] Speaker A: Manny D. Okay.
[00:24:39] Speaker C: Manny. Manny Diaz.
Yeah, Diaz was there. I mean, he was. He was a Miami guy. He was on Rick's staff. He, I think went to Temple for like a second and then they brought him back, didn't work out. And then Crystal Ball was, you know, another Miami guy and brought in. But he was, he was brought in and paid pretty much as, as the savior because he had Oregon such at a place he had been through Alabama and everything he had done there through the Nick Saban, you know, coaching rehabilitation tree.
And, you know, they paid a lot for him.
[00:25:09] Speaker A: So.
[00:25:09] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, haven't done anything since. I mean, in my memory, what is it, 03, the national title loss with Sean Taylor and, and McGahey and all that stuff in those games. But yeah, I mean, that was like that kind of the end of the era. But I, at this point, I think Crystal Ball's got them to a point where they are back in this conversation and they, you know, they're parentally going to be available. And I think that's, that's why I picked them at the beginning of the year, because they got the guys, they should have ran the acc. It's their biggest thing. It should be an undated team.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: So they also.
[00:25:39] Speaker A: Let me, let me ask Jason, do you trust. I know you've always brought it up and I've agreed to. Do you trust Crystal Ball in these big moments to be able to get it done? I think that's been always the niche with him, is he just. He gets in his own ways and does something stupid. Do you trust Mario Crystal Ball to get it done and win this national title?
[00:26:00] Speaker C: I feel this year, since they had their second loss, there's something that kind of course corrected with the way they were operating the game a little bit. I mean, but I.
Is the game close enough in the second half is probably the question.
Because when you looked at the previous game, they got to that hot lead.
Yeah.
[00:26:22] Speaker A: Like. Like when's the last time Miami's been. Been behind in the game? Was it the last loss? Like, they seem like they've been always like playing ahead like you're mentioning here, Jason.
[00:26:30] Speaker C: I mean. Yeah, would you look at, I mean, just the Ohio State game, you know.
[00:26:33] Speaker B: I mean, Becca's had a pretty good few winning drives actually in that stretch as well.
[00:26:37] Speaker A: Well, he's got. Well, Rome, I just mentioned the stat. Adam, 16 TDs, three interceptions. The games. Those are good numbers. Yeah, it is touchdown to int.
[00:26:47] Speaker C: He's the better.
[00:26:48] Speaker A: He's not lining it up.
[00:26:49] Speaker C: And the Miami Texas A Game was obviously it was a slug fest, you know, scoreless first half. Miami only gets the three nothing lead in the third, so it wasn't like they were blowing anything out there. I think the flip was the Ohio State team which had, you know, obviously the talent in the Big Ten and what they had last year, you know, they got to a 14 nothing lead proven a lot, but then hey, the second half maybe kind of sliding back to him, so. But they still held them up. I.
Aaron, I, I think they get off to a good enough start and it's not pressure on maybe one or two big time decisions is probably what you're hoping for if you're a Miami fan.
I don't have as many questions in this game either because I just think the old Miss coaching staff being in such disarray, like, are we trusting these guys to make the right calls too? And I think that's. That evens out. I think the coaching matchup that you normally would say, like, hey, Crystal Ball, great recruiter, can he do the in game stuff? But he, he's about building a team in the, in the, in the trenches like I talked through. So it's about owning the line of scrimmage for him.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: They kind of have like a me against the world thing too. Like he was pretty vocal in that postgame conference. If you caught that in the last game, it seems like they're vibing out very well. One quick thing though, and. And it kind of stuck. Ohio State losing their offensive coordinator, I think that hurt him because Day took away his responsibilities for the last two games and you could definitely see that.
[00:28:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, it hurt. I, I mean, I know we touched on it a lot too.
Is the layoff for all these teams, right? I mean, we saw Texas Tech did not score.
We saw Georgia, you know, Georgia got off to a pretty hot start, but, you know, even Indiana kind of struggled in that first quarter.
So teams with the layoff, we've seen what they're 1 in 7 teams coming off by here in the playoffs. The only winner being Indiana, you know, going back to Miami. I mean, we know what they want to do. They know they want to control the trenches. They want to do all that. It's interesting because they haven't really played a team like Ole Miss that basically is the quickest team in the country. They run a play within, you know, 15, 16 seconds.
Will they be able to wear down Miami's defense to the point in the fourth quarter where like Trinidad Chambers is again past time, Maybe he's getting out of the pocket making plays, you know, Georgia. I know Jason's touched on it a lot. We've talked about teams not being two, three deep, dominant like they used to be in college football to where hey, I'm bringing in a five star guy followed by another four or five star guy. Now you're bringing in a guy that's like, hey, I, you know, he's a third string guy but really I would run a redshirt him for a year. He's having to come in and play important snaps because you know the team's on a 12, 12 minute, you know, 12 play drive, eight minutes. Warren is down to me. Can Miami hold up in the trenches to where they don't get fatigued? They're getting a different attack that they have not seen all year old miss defensively, I'm not worried about them. You know, they play against this offense all the time. They give up points, they're kind of a bin, but don't break. They get, they get turnovers when they need to. Yeah, it's an interesting matchup that I think I feel confident in Ole Miss coaching staff because Pete Colen, he's a defensive coordinator, Charlie Rice, the oc, they're all still there. I feel confident in this Ole Miss coaching staff.
[00:30:04] Speaker B: Weiss, the players together. I think Weiss on the offensive side.
[00:30:07] Speaker A: For sure because Joe Judge, you know, he doesn't know his lunch money from his, you know what.
[00:30:13] Speaker C: All right, Joe Judge, man, didn't know he was on that staff.
[00:30:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I wish he wasn't, but he is.
[00:30:21] Speaker B: Peach bowl, we got Oregon against Indiana. Indiana favorite by three and a half, very same spread. And then the over unders 48 and a half.
[00:30:32] Speaker C: I gotta say one thing before you get in that room. It's about the, the previous game. I just, I should have said it up top, but I just, I just don't like that Tostitos doesn't sponsor the Fiesta bowl anymore.
[00:30:43] Speaker A: I don't like it either.
[00:30:43] Speaker B: I like it either.
[00:30:44] Speaker C: It just feels wrong. Just feels wrong. I don't know.
[00:30:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
Didn't it go from Vizio? Was it Vizio there sponsoring him for a while?
[00:30:56] Speaker C: Yeah, but it sounds right. It just, I think I like the commercials.
[00:31:00] Speaker A: I think I like the commercials leading up to the bowl game. Little Tostitos, a little crunch, a little salsa.
[00:31:05] Speaker C: I don't know, it just made, it just made so much sense, the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Like it was, it was the, it was the corporate synergy that you wanted for, for a bowl game, you know, that made sense.
[00:31:15] Speaker A: Great Importance. It should be grandfathered in. No doubt.
[00:31:17] Speaker B: Fiesta bowl needs some tortilla chips with it.
All right, Peach bowl guys. Good to go there in the Mercedes Benz Stadium. What you thinking, Aaron?
[00:31:29] Speaker A: Yeah, Rome, you said it to start the show. I mean, Indiana's been the best team in college football.
Really. Maybe throughout the season. They're probably the best team remaining here in this tournament.
Coming off that big Rose bowl win against Alabama. You know Oregon we talked about shut out Texas Tech. This is a different offense than that. This is a rematch from a game midseason in which Indiana went to Eugene and 1:30 to 20.
I really like Indiana here. Money line for sure. I like them here. Minus three and a half as well. I mean I, for me, Oregon, look, they made a cross country trip from Oregon to Miami last week, flew back to Eugene. Now they're flying back into Atlanta here.
All that travel. We talk about in the NFL how teams come out flat and don't play well. Well, in this college football, I expect these guys to come out flat and not play as well either.
I love Indiana to win this game. I think Indiana is going to the national championship and I'm just riding the Hoosiers. I'm on them big time here.
[00:32:27] Speaker B: Nice. I only have much to add besides, I hate the games being on a Thursday and Friday.
[00:32:32] Speaker C: The only good thing about it is we have five straight days of football.
[00:32:37] Speaker B: We do playoff.
[00:32:39] Speaker A: That is playoff.
[00:32:40] Speaker B: Saturday, Sunday.
Oh, and the Monday night came. I forgot. Oh, man. Wow. Okay, daughter, gear up.
[00:32:50] Speaker C: Yeah, I think Aaron's right on this. I, I've been against Indiana a lot of the year and in this playoff too. But there's. It's so much. Hey, I've been hating.
[00:33:00] Speaker A: I'm not gonna lie. Hayden.
[00:33:02] Speaker C: You just, you, you see Indiana football and you just don't believe it. But I think you watch these last, you know, couple games in a Big Ten title game was kind of a wake up call a little bit because you saw what Ohio State should have national champions and then where Indiana's been in this playoff and you know, Signetti could talk that talk, man. And, and he was. And he, and he gets, and he gets the work done out there on the field.
[00:33:25] Speaker B: I like him.
[00:33:26] Speaker C: It's. It's hard not to like, man. Was it Google me? Is that what he said?
[00:33:29] Speaker A: Yeah, Google.
[00:33:30] Speaker B: Not when he got there. But he, he's done a James Madison. He, he's, he's kind of like a. He's the new one at Elon.
Yeah. Like he does like this Nick Saban vibe to him.
[00:33:40] Speaker A: We did work for Nick Saban. He was his main recruiter to get Alabama dynasty started.
[00:33:45] Speaker B: Everybody that's coaching in this CFP has been with Nick Saban, I believe pretty much.
[00:33:50] Speaker C: I mean that's.
[00:33:51] Speaker A: Is that the greatest college coaching tree ever?
[00:33:53] Speaker B: 100 I would agree.
[00:33:55] Speaker C: I, I heard a question I'd love to give the source. I don't remember who I listened to. Is the Saban is it is the Saban tree technically the Belichick tree since Saban worked for Belichick. But I know you get down all.
[00:34:05] Speaker A: Well, the Belichick tree in the NFL has been bad.
The saving tree in college football has been great. So I, I would separate the two if I was for Saban personally.
[00:34:14] Speaker C: It's fair. I, I agree with that. But I think Aaron's right on the Indiana stuff. Oregon, I mean they got, I would say the favorable bracket, you know, with the first round matchup and then getting the weaker of the, you know, first round by teams in Texas Tech and probably this is going to be, you know, the first real big time test of this playoff for them. And overall in the regular season, like I think there was a lot of questions of what Orga was going to bring to the table.
Indiana has just been so dominant throughout the year, it's hard to see, it's hard not to see them in the national championship game and, and definitely cover the three and a half points. Agree with Aaron.
[00:34:52] Speaker B: Nice. I'll be rooting for Indiana. I just think the best team out there. It seems a little unfair. You got two of the better teams and one bowl and then two other teams where you know, maybe like a little luck and maybe not.
[00:35:08] Speaker A: I like the matchups personally. Rome, I mean Oregon, Indiana, Big Ten, Big Ten feels in Miami, Ole Miss kind of the underdogs. Who's going to be the underdog to get to knock off the almighty Big Ten that has won the last two national titles? It feels good. I like the storylines.
[00:35:26] Speaker B: Okay, interesting take.
