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Midseason Awards + NFL and College Previews
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The boys hand out their Midseason Awards including Game of the Year, Surprise of the Year, and Fraud of the Year. They then break down some of the biggest games in football this weekend including Georgia @ Texas, Bama @ Tennessee, and Nebraska @ Indiana.
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Transcript
Introduction and Sports Overview
00:00:12
Mason
what is going on everybody this is mason with the next guy up podcast i got tinsley here i got zack here we're ready to go we've had plenty of sports in the past week and weekend and we're ready to break down we're a not ah exactly at the halfway point, but we're getting there.
00:00:32
Mason
So we have some mid-season, well, I guess for college, we probably are at the halfway point.
00:00:36
Zack
I'll just have to wait.
00:00:38
Zack
Yeah.
00:00:38
Mason
Yeah.
00:00:38
Mason
So we got some mid-season awards to give out, to hand out here. And then we're also going to break down what we got going on in college football this coming weekend and the
Personal Stories and Sleep Habits
00:00:50
Mason
NFL as well.
00:00:50
Mason
So how's it going, everybody? What's going on?
00:00:54
nextguyup
Living the dream, I've been on vacation this week, went to Sam's Club, spent $300 something dollars, so it was fun.
00:00:54
Zack
And great.
00:00:57
Zack
Oh, I forgot about that.
00:00:59
Zack
That's gross.
00:00:59
Mason
Mm hmm.
00:01:03
nextguyup
I smoked a brisket, ate it for dinner tonight, put it on last night at 9 p.m., got it off at 2 p.m.
00:01:05
Mason
There you go.
00:01:12
nextguyup
today, so that was fun.
00:01:16
Mason
So is it and there's no worry of any type of fire with a ah smoker overnight?
00:01:20
nextguyup
Ah.
00:01:22
Mason
Oh, OK, because I don't have one, so I didn't know if that was like a.
00:01:25
nextguyup
No, there is, there's there is the worry.
00:01:26
Mason
Oh.
00:01:28
nextguyup
ah wake I wake up like every two hours and just check on it.
00:01:29
Mason
yes oh god
00:01:32
nextguyup
I don't sleep much anyway. Even when I'm on vacation, I still wake up like I'm supposed to be at preload.
00:01:34
Mason
yeah
00:01:38
nextguyup
um and so you know I still get the text saying, start time is this. And I'm like, well, I'm on vacation, so I don't have to come in, but I'm just wired that way.
00:01:46
Zack
It's pretty hard to train your brain to sleep in at a certain point.
00:01:49
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:01:50
Mason
So when did that kind of turn out?
00:01:50
Zack
Yeah.
00:01:53
Mason
Like, cause when I was in high school and middle school, you had to get up every, obviously like seven, like in Tennessee schools start at eight. I know some places like seven 30, whatever. Uh, so we would get up at like seven o'clock, but on the weekends, I could still sleep until like noon.
00:02:07
Mason
If I wanted to. But now that I'm an adult and I have to usually get up like at a like six, 30, seven o'clock, whatever it is, like even on the weekends, I do not sleep in past that time usually.
Movies Not Seen and Cultural Touchstones
00:02:20
Mason
So when did that like turn off for you to where it's like now you're automatically you, there is no sleeping in and like, I feel like my body's just like trained for it to wake up no matter even if I was, if it's a Saturday morning, you know, this is true.
00:02:34
nextguyup
I'd say like six.
00:02:35
Zack
Mason, you also go to bed at like eight o'clock on a regular night, so that's probably why.
00:02:37
nextguyup
Yeah, it's true.
00:02:38
Mason
Yeah.
00:02:39
Zack
You've already gotten your 12 hour of sleep, so your body's like, with we're good, we're full, we're fully energized.
00:02:39
Mason
8 30.
00:02:46
Mason
Nobody loves sleep like I do.
00:02:46
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:02:47
Mason
No, you're not wrong.
00:02:48
nextguyup
i I legitimately wake up like after four hours of sleep. My body's like, whoa, hey, this is normally about as much as you get before it's time to get it for preload. And then most times I can go back to sleep. Sometimes I can't. um Like last week when I drove, I got to drive all week. And so that was a big adjustment to where like I was still waking up super early in the morning and being like, I have to go back to sleep. i don't have to be but I don't have to go into work until 8.30 in the morning.
00:03:14
nextguyup
So that was weird. It'll be, hopefully I can adjust a little better cause I'll be driving from now until like middle of February.
00:03:23
Mason
Um, when's the last time you've had a full eight hours of sleep straight?
00:03:29
nextguyup
Hmm.
00:03:32
nextguyup
Probably when we went on the cruise, cause then, you know, like a legitimately, there was no reason for me to wake up.
00:03:35
Mason
There you go.
00:03:39
nextguyup
My body knew like, Hey, no, you can't go in the preload. You're in the middle of the ocean.
00:03:44
Zack
Shut out to the body. Very smart.
00:03:52
Mason
So real quick, and we're gonna get into some deep dive on sports. the The guys don't know, I'm gonna ask this question. I thought this was very interesting. I was actually asked this during work today by a coworker. I was like, you know what, this is podcast material, which I had a mic right now. and So the question is for you guys, and I'm gonna answer mine last, ah is there a movie that when you when people around ask you if you've seen this,
00:04:22
Mason
that are shocked that you've not seen this movie. So is there a movie that you have not seen that people are like gasp, they're like shocked that you've not seen this movie?
00:04:27
nextguyup
Mmm.
00:04:35
Mason
And if they're thinking this out, should I go ahead? Yeah, I'll go ahead and give mine.
00:04:38
Zack
Hmm, let me think about it.
00:04:39
Mason
I thought of this right off the right off the rip. ah And it's Godfather. I've never seen it. I've seen the scenes, like famous scenes. I've heard of the scenes. And I feel like any time someone, like they're like, wait a minute.
00:04:51
Zack
One.
00:04:52
Mason
They do like a double take. They're like, you've not seen Godfather. Another one was Shawshank Redemption. Uh, which I've heard of the scenes and like, but, and I've seen like clips of it, but I've never, you know, seen those.
00:05:01
Zack
one
00:05:08
Mason
So, uh, one of the coworkers of mine, he saw some of the Marvel, but never seen in game.
00:05:09
Zack
Sure.
00:05:14
Mason
And if you've listened to this podcast, you know, that's a travesty, like to me, I was like, how have you not seen in game? So that was like one for me, but there's a couple of examples.
00:05:24
Mason
Uh, did you, uh, did you guys have some now that you've thought of?
Movie Impact and Personal Preferences
00:05:28
Mason
You're like, no, I'm not.
00:05:28
nextguyup
Godfather came to mind for me immediately cuz I've not seen it either and then I Just had it and now I've lost it that's good good posk good podcasting here Dang Oh John wick I've never seen John wick Not my cup of tea
00:05:31
Mason
Hmm.
00:05:42
Zack
Great podcasting.
00:05:44
Mason
Well, and another more recent, well, oh.
00:05:48
Zack
Wow.
00:05:50
Mason
OK, and there's like four, there's like four of those now.
00:05:50
Zack
That's a good one.
00:05:54
Mason
Ah, no, not not much of a plot, just like a lot of killing.
00:06:00
nextguyup
Yeah, I'm good.
00:06:00
Zack
ah
00:06:02
Mason
Yeah. And unrealistic.
00:06:03
Zack
Um, there's a couple of, there's a couple of older ones that I think are pretty popular.
00:06:04
Mason
Go ahead, Zach.
00:06:08
Zack
I've not watched, but, um, like there's some comedies like Napoleon dynamite. I don't know that I've ever watched that.
00:06:15
Mason
Mm.
00:06:15
Zack
I think there's like a certain threshold where it's like, when am I going to watch that now? I'm going to sit down and turn it on and watch it like intentionally, like just by myself.
00:06:26
Mason
It's an accident movie. like it
00:06:27
Zack
My wife certainly would not want to watch that.
00:06:29
Zack
Do you know what I mean?
00:06:30
Mason
you You left something on the TV and you fell asleep and you woke up and it was already on from the previous movie.
00:06:37
Zack
Yeah.
00:06:37
Mason
It's an it's something you watch on accident.
00:06:39
Mason
You never meant to actually...
00:06:39
nextguyup
You're not missing much. Napoleon Dynamite is not all that it's cracked up to be.
00:06:42
Zack
It was like in the public consciousness for a while.
00:06:44
Mason
See, I've not seen it either.
00:06:46
Zack
Like it was like the most quoted thing. It was like a thing, you know, missing out.
00:06:48
Mason
Yes. Especially we were in middle school and that was like the thing, like the Liger comment or quote or whatever. Like I know those scenes, but I've never seen that either vote for Pedro dance segment or whatever. Yeah.
00:07:02
nextguyup
You've seen the whole movie on TikTok reel or in reels.
00:07:02
Zack
Okay, Mason.
00:07:06
Zack
True. Sometimes I will tell you, I'll see, I'll see clips on of movies on like the reels or whatever. And I'm like, man, I kind of want to watch movie now. um I watched, I rewatched Remember the Titans over the weekend because I was I was home alone for a little bit and I was kind of quiet and I just wanted something kind of feel good on.
00:07:06
Mason
Basically.
00:07:06
nextguyup
that
00:07:23
Zack
So I put it on. I was like, you know, this is still banger. Still good.
00:07:26
nextguyup
You know, I watch that I always make a point to watch that right before the NFL season starts and I didn't and I didn't this year and That might that might have something to do with what's going on with my life
00:07:32
Zack
Oh.
00:07:34
Zack
oh
00:07:35
Mason
Hmm.
00:07:38
Zack
Could be. Could be. Hmm.
00:07:42
Mason
ah ah The.
00:07:42
Zack
I also watched another sports movie. Have you ever watched McFarland USA?
00:07:49
Mason
It's ah about runners, right?
00:07:50
Zack
Yeah, it's about a cross-country game.
00:07:51
Mason
I've not seen it across country.
00:07:51
nextguyup
No.
00:07:52
Zack
California. It's good. Okay, makes anyone play a fun game?
00:07:57
Mason
Well, you're going to ask me.
00:08:00
nextguyup
Yep.
00:08:00
Zack
Yeah.
00:08:02
Mason
OK, well, why well, no.
00:08:02
Zack
We're going to go through the top 20 movies on IMDB. I want to see how many you've watched.
00:08:07
Mason
The top 20. Okay, go ahead.
00:08:08
Zack
Yeah. Number one, Shawshank Redemption.
00:08:12
Mason
Yep. I have not seen it, but yeah, I knew that was number one.
00:08:13
Zack
Oh, God. You said, yep.
00:08:15
Mason
Sorry. No, I was like, yep, I knew that was number one.
00:08:18
Zack
Number two, The Godfather.
00:08:20
Mason
Have not seen.
00:08:21
Zack
Number three, The Dark Knight.
00:08:21
Mason
So we're 0 for 2. Seen that.
00:08:24
Zack
Number four, Godfather Part Two.
00:08:25
Mason
So we're 1 for 3. Nope.
00:08:28
Zack
Number five, Twelve Angry Men.
00:08:31
Mason
No, I don't even know what that is.
00:08:31
Zack
All of you watch me you would hate it so much.
00:08:34
Zack
It's literally about 12 people like trying to decide a trial like their jurors um Number six Lord of the Rings return of the King Number seven Schindler's list I've not seen that intentionally.
00:08:34
Mason
Oh.
00:08:42
Mason
Seen it. Are we counting here? My two never seen it.
00:08:48
Zack
I just I don't like movies that make you just feel terrible I'm good on that Took the Holocaust for no anyone curious number eight ah pulp fiction
00:09:00
Mason
Not seen it.
00:09:02
nextguyup
That's all let's rank that high up there
00:09:04
Zack
Yeah, yeah i being perfect fix um That is the one with John Travolta and Samuel L.
00:09:05
Mason
Is that the one with Matt Damon?
00:09:10
Zack
Jackson and Emma Thurman and Bruce Willis pretty much everyone it's a Quentin Tarantino movie Okay, we're the rings Fellowship of the King The good the bad and the ugly the Western for skump number 12 number 11, sorry
00:09:11
Mason
Oh, close. Never seen it. We're doing great. Seen it. Nope.
00:09:30
Mason
So I actually watched this like a month ago, but I didn't finish it.
00:09:34
Zack
Wow.
00:09:35
Mason
Does that count?
00:09:36
Zack
No.
00:09:37
nextguyup
No.
00:09:37
Zack
Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers. All three Lord of the Rings
00:09:37
Mason
Oh, dang it.
Movie Marathon Preferences and Cultural Literacy
00:09:40
Zack
in the top 12.
00:09:40
Mason
Wow. Seen it. Look at that.
00:09:42
Zack
Obviously, this is like a crowd source list here, so. um Fight Club.
00:09:49
Mason
Nope. Never seen it.
00:09:51
Zack
Inception.
00:09:54
Zack
Star Wars Episode 5, Empire Strikes Back.
00:09:54
Mason
Confusing.
00:09:57
Mason
Seen it.
00:09:58
Zack
The Matrix.
00:09:59
Mason
Never seen it. and Now matrix, I feel like would be a gasp one where people would be like, Oh, you've never seen that one.
00:10:01
Zack
Goodfellas.
00:10:07
Mason
Yeah. They'd be shocked.
00:10:08
Zack
Maybe.
00:10:09
Mason
um Okay.
00:10:10
Zack
1999.
00:10:11
Zack
Uh, good fellas.
00:10:11
Mason
Was that all of them?
00:10:12
Mason
Nope.
00:10:13
Zack
Very good.
00:10:14
Zack
One flew over the goo's nest.
00:10:14
Mason
Is that a good one?
00:10:14
nextguyup
I like Goodfellas.
00:10:16
Mason
Should I see good fellas? Would I like good fellas?
00:10:18
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:10:19
Zack
Yeah, it's pre-action packs.
00:10:19
Mason
Okay.
00:10:20
Mason
I'll give it a shot.
00:10:21
Zack
Talked about gangsters.
00:10:23
Mason
Okay.
00:10:23
Zack
Italian mobsters.
00:10:24
nextguyup
We all know how I am about the Italian fake Italian mobster thing, but Goodfellas is a good movie.
00:10:30
Zack
Are you, how are you feeling about the departed dens? Are you in on it?
00:10:35
nextguyup
I'm out on the departed with all their fake accents.
00:10:37
Zack
Really?
00:10:40
Zack
Have you seen it?
00:10:40
nextguyup
Oh.
00:10:43
Zack
Dang, it's pretty good.
00:10:44
nextguyup
Yeah, yeah, that's like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and all them.
00:10:45
Zack
Okay.
00:10:47
Zack
Matt Damon and it's on the list. It's further down, though.
00:10:53
nextguyup
They just, they put on that thick Boston accent and it's unnecessary.
00:10:53
Zack
It's good. a
00:10:58
Zack
Definitely.
00:11:00
Zack
Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg. That's a pretty fired cast, though.
00:11:00
nextguyup
Whose car are we taking?
00:11:06
Mason
That was a good cast.
00:11:06
nextguyup
It's like when they all like kind of popped off together too.
00:11:09
Zack
Yeah, I mean, that was pretty big. That was 2006.
00:11:10
nextguyup
It's good. it's it's let me Let me back up here. It's a good movie. It's not one I rewatch. like Go out of my way to rewatch it.
00:11:18
Zack
OK. OK, Mason, three left. Eighteen. One flew over the cookies nest. You have not watched that.
00:11:26
Mason
Never heard that in my life.
00:11:29
Zack
Jack Nicholson, interstellar. Nineteen.
00:11:33
Mason
Seen it. Longest movie in my life. Almost fell asleep.
00:11:36
Zack
Wow.
00:11:37
Zack
shorter than in game.
00:11:38
Mason
Yep.
00:11:41
Mason
Well.
00:11:41
Zack
yeah
00:11:43
nextguyup
Longest my life.
00:11:45
Mason
Such a long movie.
00:11:45
Zack
your Your top two favorites of all time are like three hours plus each. Oh, OK.
00:11:50
Mason
But they're enjoyable, so it doesn't feel like it's that long. Yeah.
00:11:52
Zack
Last seven. Have you seen it?
00:11:56
Mason
No. But that's how many I've seen.
00:11:57
Zack
The movie ends with a guy's head in a box or a lady's head in a box.
00:12:03
Zack
Literally.
00:12:03
Mason
I saw seven out of those 20.
00:12:06
Zack
Well, three of them were Lord of the Rings movies, so...
00:12:06
Mason
It's not hard, Lord of the Rings.
00:12:11
Zack
um The earliest...
00:12:11
Mason
That's a travesty.
00:12:12
Zack
Do you want to see the earliest that a Marvel movie shows up?
00:12:16
Mason
Where?
00:12:16
Zack
37 Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse.
00:12:18
Mason
Wow.
00:12:18
nextguyup
wow
00:12:20
Zack
The highest one.
00:12:22
Mason
So this list means nothing to me. This is what you're telling me.
00:12:26
Zack
Infinity War 63.
00:12:29
Mason
That is blasphemy. Also the most recent movie that I can think of that everybody freaks out that I've not seen Barbie, not seen Barbie. That was one I thought of where everybody's like gasp.
00:12:39
Zack
wow Wow.
00:12:42
Mason
Yeah.
00:12:42
Zack
Hmm.
00:12:43
nextguyup
No that checks out to me.
00:12:43
Zack
This is fine. Yeah, I don't think I would've knew it would go. Unless you're... The only way I could see you watching that is if your wife would like drug you to it.
00:12:44
Mason
Hmm.
00:12:51
Zack
Or force you to watch it.
00:12:51
Mason
Yeah.
00:12:53
Mason
last Last question here, and then we can move on.
00:12:55
Zack
Okay.
00:12:56
Mason
Is there a movie that you would judge someone hardcore for not seeing? Because mine was Titanic. It was like, what? You live in a cave?
00:13:04
Zack
You're a big Titanic guy?
00:13:05
Mason
I feel like everybody's seeing Titanic.
00:13:08
Zack
you just called it a heresy that people had it gave her infinity war at 63 and then you picked that anic very long movie that is like romance hundred percent lets a weird
00:13:14
Mason
Well, it's just like, I feel like
00:13:15
nextguyup
You're gonna be mad at people for not watching. Titanic had two discs, it was so long.
00:13:23
Mason
I know, but everybody's seen Titanic. And so if no I'm just.
00:13:27
nextguyup
You are, you are a character. That is such a weird take.
00:13:33
Mason
Was there something that you would be like, I can't believe you've not seen that. Like on your, you're the person judging the person that's not seen the movie.
00:13:40
nextguyup
Not Titanic, I'll tell you that.
00:13:42
Mason
Hunger Games. I also thought of that one.
00:13:44
Zack
I don't care about Hunger Games, though.
00:13:46
nextguyup
Yeah, the original Jurassic Park that that would judge someone about because that's yeah Yeah
00:13:47
Zack
If there was a movie that was like, if there was a... I see Parker's banger.
00:13:52
Zack
If there was a movie, not the top 20, but that's just like, grab rankings. It's not a huge deal. If there was a movie that someone was like, I've never seen it, and i and I would be like, drop everything and go watch it tonight.
00:13:52
Mason
That was also not on the list.
00:14:06
Zack
Like, it's worth it. It would be, like, The Dark Knight, probably. Like, this is a movie where you're almost guaranteed to enjoy it. I can, it's just, it hits everything.
00:14:18
Zack
I would be hard pressed. I'm gonna be like, yeah, the movie was not really good. I just don't think that opinion exists about the movie. So everything else, there's varying tastes and I can appreciate that.
00:14:29
Zack
There's movies people like, movies people don't like. That's one, I'm just like, no, go watch it.
00:14:34
Mason
Go watch it. Uh, another one. This was the first, uh, the notebook, like not judging someone.
00:14:36
Zack
Yeah.
00:14:41
Mason
Like I feel like people would, I've never seen, no, I've never seen the notebook is what I'm saying.
00:14:43
nextguyup
Is Mason a really? Oh, okay.
00:14:47
Mason
Uh, the first argument we had, I've never seen them on notebook. And I feel like people would be like, what?
00:14:51
nextguyup
I was gonna say, I think Mason's like a real big romance movie guy, sounds like.
00:14:51
Mason
You've never seen that. No, no, no, never seen that one.
00:14:56
Zack
Like he likes the romance.
00:14:59
Mason
So there you go. Nice little, uh, shout out to, uh,
00:15:01
Zack
There you go.
00:15:02
nextguyup
I wrote you every day.
00:15:06
Mason
What? Oh, is that a, yeah.
00:15:07
nextguyup
Yeah, it's from the notebook.
00:15:09
Zack
Got him.
00:15:10
nextguyup
Shout out on my notebook heads.
00:15:11
Zack
Mason, I thought you loved it.
00:15:12
Mason
What was that guy's name? Charles Sparks or something like that. Something like that.
00:15:17
Zack
Nicholas Sparks, the author of the actual book.
00:15:19
nextguyup
yeah
00:15:19
Mason
There you go. Yep. Okay. Good work. Everybody. Some, some sports now sports sports talk.
00:15:24
Zack
Great work.
00:15:25
nextguyup
Yeah Okay, I
00:15:28
Zack
I don't want to watch. I feel like at some point it would be really good content for Mason to watch a movie that is universally. Have you seen like Gladiator, Mason?
00:15:39
Mason
It's been a really long time. Like when it came out, probably not seen Shawshank Redemption.
00:15:41
Zack
I just feel like there's a movie out there like sha have you you've not seen Shawshank Redemption, though? Oh, it is good. See, I think like we should make you sit down and watch it before she do.
00:15:50
nextguyup
Mm hmm. Make you like, yeah.
00:15:50
Zack
Like tie you to a chair. Take your phone away and just make you like pry your eye eyelids open and just say, watch this.
00:15:59
nextguyup
And you can have a mic and like record a podcast while you're watching it.
00:16:01
Zack
Live commentated. Yeah.
00:16:05
Zack
Bingo.
00:16:06
Mason
How long, and so a three and a half hour podcast about my live thoughts on the Shawshank Redemption.
00:16:11
Zack
Mason, every movie is three and a half hours long.
00:16:16
nextguyup
People listen to all kinds of podcasts.
00:16:16
Mason
That one might be.
00:16:16
Zack
Most of them are not in fact.
00:16:19
nextguyup
People that have to drive across the country every day, they gotta listen to something.
00:16:22
Zack
It's true.
00:16:23
Mason
I'm looking up how long Shawshank Redemption is.
00:16:28
Zack
It's good.
00:16:31
Mason
It is two hours and 22 minutes.
00:16:34
Zack
That's not bad.
00:16:34
nextguyup
It's not bad at all.
00:16:36
Mason
Not bad.
00:16:36
Zack
Some change. It's got Morgan Freeman in it.
00:16:39
Mason
It does.
00:16:43
Zack
I think Godfather would be a tougher watch for you.
00:16:43
Mason
All right.
00:16:47
Mason
You're probably right about that one.
00:16:50
Zack
Okay. Great work, everybody.
00:16:54
nextguyup
Maybe some of the best work ever.
Humor and Creativity in Podcasts
00:16:56
Zack
Somebody may say...
00:16:56
Mason
Good will hunting. Never seen that.
00:16:59
Zack
Oh, that's very good.
00:17:01
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:17:01
Zack
Maybe not for you. That's very good, though. Have you seen Dead Poets Society?
00:17:06
Mason
But affiliate some.
00:17:09
nextguyup
ah if like Every time I watch a movie, I'm like, I like that, but there's a Mason tier.
00:17:09
Mason
No.
00:17:12
Zack
Mason, I hate that.
00:17:12
Mason
Mason would hate Mason would hate this.
00:17:16
nextguyup
Is this in the Mason tier or not? You have like your own category of
00:17:18
Zack
Yeah.
00:17:21
Mason
We've we've done it, we've done the category, we've done the list.
00:17:22
nextguyup
I know, oh I know.
00:17:23
Zack
I'll say I pretty much only watch Mason movies. Like I've gotten to where if I'm watching a movie on the treadmill, it's always a Mason movie.
00:17:31
nextguyup
will
00:17:31
Zack
It has to be 100% action. So I don't get like bored or else I will get tired.
00:17:37
Zack
It has to be acting because I have to see, if I see people like on the, moot on the screen running around and like, then it makes me feel motivated too. I need to run faster as well.
00:17:37
Mason
Those are pretty good though.
00:17:48
Zack
You know what I mean?
00:17:49
Zack
It's like listening to music with the right tempo so you know how fast to run. If you see people sprinting for their lives, it makes you want to run faster. It's science. Look it up.
00:17:49
nextguyup
yeah
00:18:00
nextguyup
The math has been done.
00:18:02
Zack
I've crushed the numbers.
00:18:02
Mason
i got a business idea everybody this was not part of the podcast but
00:18:06
nextguyup
A lot of this wasn't.
00:18:06
Mason
and this was like not
00:18:06
Zack
It is now.
00:18:07
Mason
this was We should create a immersive movie experience where you're running on a treadmill and there's like fake explosions in the background that go along. So you know how people sync up their TVs to do the lights in the background to like Harry Potter and they have like the clouds up in the, on their ceiling and it looks so real and they have like this immersive, like you could do something like that on a treadmill where it's like these actual lights. You feel like you're actually getting shot at.
00:18:38
Zack
I think they have that.
00:18:39
Mason
Or big explosions. There's like heat that comes off the walls. Like there's the places on fire and you get the best running workout experience of your life.
00:18:49
Zack
I think virtual reality can do that.
00:18:51
Mason
There you go.
00:18:54
Zack
They've got the 360 treadmills.
00:18:57
nextguyup
Yeah, but there might be something there
00:18:58
Mason
That'd be pretty cool.
00:18:58
Zack
I think.
00:19:02
Mason
All right.
00:19:02
Zack
Write it down somebody.
00:19:02
Mason
Uh, if anybody's interested in giving us a hundred million dollar loan, just reach out at next guy at podcast dot.com.
00:19:08
Zack
That's how much money do you think it costs? What if it was a next guy up, immersive experience, and it was just us like potting and they were like, just running around.
00:19:21
Zack
That's screen with us potting around them.
00:19:26
Zack
Something there, maybe.
00:19:26
nextguyup
So they can just come hang out with us on a but college football Saturday for the low, low price of 799 to come hang out with us.
00:19:26
Mason
Let on a treadmill.
00:19:32
Zack
Could be.
00:19:32
Mason
I think Zach's cooking.
00:19:33
Mason
Let him cook.
00:19:34
Zack
Maybe we should launch that.
00:19:39
Zack
Okay.
00:19:39
Mason
We got back to our messing around roots a little bit.
00:19:43
Zack
Oh yeah.
00:19:45
Zack
For free maybe.
00:19:46
Mason
Like $7.99.
00:19:48
nextguyup
Yeah. All immersive, uh, experience to hang out with ah their favorite podcast.
00:19:49
Zack
Bring some like wings.
00:19:54
Zack
I'll let you in the house.
00:19:54
Mason
It's pretty good, actually.
00:19:55
Mason
That's a steal.
00:19:57
Zack
There's a steal.
00:20:01
Zack
Okay. Do you have some, we don't want to get into the football team.
00:20:04
nextguyup
Yeah,
Sports Season Reflections
00:20:05
Zack
Yeah.
00:20:05
nextguyup
let's a little mid-season awards.
00:20:08
Zack
I just felt like we were about having this season. We had some stuff cooking. We had some, we've seen a lot of, we've seen some football now. here' Here's where I'm at. I think I'm approaching a point in the football season where it's like, you know, I've um i've seen some stuff.
00:20:24
Zack
ahve I've gathered some evidence.
00:20:24
nextguyup
I think I know some stuff.
00:20:26
Zack
um We're no longer, we're no longer clueless about some of these teams. Sometimes going into the season, especially in college, it's like, what are these, what is this team going to look like?
00:20:37
Zack
um You see some teams that are, that end up overperforming, some underperform, some games that you would never have expected to be really good are really good. Some games that you hoped would be good are blowouts. So I just thought it'd be a fun time to look back at the season so far. NFL and college, see what what have we picked up? ah what have we What are takeaways so far? Before heading into a big week of football, a big week into football coming up.
00:21:08
Zack
So let's just start here because um and this may be an easy question for all of us. I think we can all just give our answers even if they're similar. um What about game of the year so far? There's lots of games left.
00:21:21
Zack
Game of the year so far.
00:21:21
nextguyup
A lot of games, a lot of game left on the board.
00:21:24
nextguyup
I have one.
00:21:24
Zack
We've had some huge matchups.
00:21:26
nextguyup
Yeah, I have one for um I have one that's a little obscure for both NFL and college.
00:21:31
Zack
OK.
00:21:33
Mason
I'm ready for it.
00:21:33
Zack
okay
00:21:34
nextguyup
All right, so as far as my NFL one, we're gonna go back a couple of weeks. We're gonna go Vikings versus Texans. And the Vikings absolutely boat raced the Houston Texans, picked off CJ Stroud multiple times, Sam Darnold, diced up that ah allegedly really good Texans defense.
00:21:47
Zack
Mm.
00:21:52
nextguyup
And kind of kind of kind of got the MVP talk starting for old Sam Darnold and when he brought his team to 4-0.
00:21:52
Zack
Allegedly.
00:22:00
nextguyup
So that was that was my favorite game so far of the NFL season.
00:22:06
nextguyup
For no reason No,
00:22:06
Mason
Love it for yeah for one reason.
00:22:07
Zack
Love that.
00:22:10
nextguyup
I said for no reason it's just very it's just a very entertaining game never once Yes
00:22:11
Mason
Oh, no reason.
00:22:11
Zack
Yeah, there's no agendas apply here, Mason.
00:22:15
Mason
Well, since we're talking about NFL, can I go ahead and do mine?
00:22:18
Zack
Do it.
NFL Game Highlights and Player Focus
00:22:20
Mason
OK, because mine's NFL, obviously. um So I'm going to go with the this was also a couple of weeks ago, overtime Thursday night thriller and week five buccaneers at the Falcons.
00:22:33
Zack
Mm.
00:22:34
Mason
He was talking about Dyson up. We had Kirk Cousins thrown over 500 yards with the a touchdown throw to win the game.
00:22:36
Zack
You like that.
00:22:38
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:22:43
Mason
It was very back and forth game, a very fun game. And for him to on Matt Ryan ah night to actually break his record was just fun.
00:22:53
Mason
And I feel like a lot of people can agree that they Kirk Cousins is just like a likable guy. Uh, and so it was, it was a fun game.
00:22:59
Zack
Yep.
00:23:00
nextguyup
is
00:23:01
Mason
It was very fun, especially this was like a standalone. So that was like what we were forced to watch. I feel like a lot of games get overlooked because there's probably some really good ones, but it's like hard to like.
00:23:12
Zack
And that feels tough for that.
00:23:12
Mason
You're watching Titans, like you're a sport, Tennessee fans are watching Titans and we're not getting to see another 12 o'clock game from start to finish unless you got like the eight screens in a row type of setup.
00:23:25
Mason
But, uh, that was like a primetime game. That was a fun one. went to overtime, so that was my game of the year so far, NFL-wise.
00:23:34
nextguyup
I love this take that Mason has about Kurt Cousins. I think Mason brings up, every time he brings up Kurt Cousins, he brings up the fact that he's a likable guy. He's a he's a quarterback everyone likes.
00:23:42
Mason
Likeable guy, you know?
00:23:42
Zack
Yeah.
00:23:45
Zack
think thiss I big mason think I think he identified with him.
00:23:45
Mason
He's just, it's because he makes me, because he's just this regular, wear sweaters, he's a dad, huh?
00:23:46
nextguyup
Because he makes me feel like I could play in the NFL. He he shops at Kohl's. He's really a really nice, regular guy. These are Mason's takes he's about to give.
00:23:52
Zack
I bet he's not seen Star Tank Redemption either. I bet he's not watched Star Tank Redemption either.
00:24:00
Mason
Kirk Cousins probably not. Let's get him on the pod and ask him.
00:24:02
nextguyup
he's He's probably a really big Marvel guy too ah Just started it
00:24:04
Zack
Yeah, I bet his movie takes her similar years.
00:24:09
Mason
It's because when I watched the quarterback, I was like, I feel like he would just be part of the guys, you know, like my homes, he would not fit in with our squad. He would not fit in with a group. He would be just, he wouldn't fit in, but Kirk Cousins, you know, you'd just be sitting there chill, hanging out, being like one of the guys, you know, there you go.
00:24:26
Zack
Have you guys watched any of the starting five show on Netflix? I also started it today. Kind of wild. Malcolm Butler, weirdo.
00:24:38
nextguyup
NBA guys are wild.
00:24:41
Zack
LeBron James is kind of weird as well. He's like so rich, they can get away with just listening to rap music and just rapping as loud as he can, just without music playing, which I think that's a level of success that not many people get to.
00:24:48
nextguyup
Mm hmm.
00:24:55
Zack
Like people just have to put up with you just like being pretty obnoxious all the time.
00:24:56
nextguyup
Yeah, LeBron can kind of.
00:24:59
nextguyup
Yeah.
College Football Games and NCAA Issues
00:25:01
nextguyup
Yeah, LeBron.
00:25:01
Zack
Like who else could just be listening to music in their ear pods and just like rapping really loudly, all the words without people being like, oh, this guy.
00:25:10
nextguyup
work I had some guys that worked for me at cookout that did that and all the time while in the kitchen. I'm like, hey man, we're trying to tell orders right now. Get some food out the door. You're over there mumble rapping to Nashi 6ix9ine. Like, can we get with it?
00:25:26
Zack
oh ah the um Yeah, it's pretty entertaining show I haven't I've heard Anthony Edwards is portrayed as a Yeah, kind of like a obviously he's like a young superstar I mean, I think everyone knows at this point that he's pretty arrogant and cocky like that's part of this whole thing Which you have to have a certain piece of that if you're gonna be a superstar but um Yeah, I don't think he's portrayed in the super
00:25:36
nextguyup
I can't wait to get to his episodes.
00:25:55
Zack
positive light, always. It's pretty fun. I don't know. Okay. I'm British. This is not an NBA podcast and I'm definitely not an NBA expert here. um My game of the year so far, I think there's there's really two that are up for debate. I'm not going to go for some deep takes here. I'm just going to pick
00:26:19
Zack
Um, yeah, I think I'm just going to pick Alabama Georgia and just be pretty unoriginal with it because of its implications further down the line in the SEC.
00:26:24
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:26:27
Zack
Um, we saw two teams, we saw an Alabama team that looked honestly really scary in the first half. It was like, Oh, this is for real. Then looked very beatable and senses looked even more like they had two quarters of like invincibility.
00:26:43
Zack
And then there's been 10 quarters after of like, Oh, this team made us maybe it's pretty bad.
00:26:48
nextguyup
yeah
00:26:49
Zack
and a Georgia team that looked very beautiful early and then They fought back and have been pretty good since then as well. Well, maybe I don't know It's a weird SEC, but I think that was a fun game honorable mention Oregon Ohio State obviously was pretty huge as well very entertaining Shout out to the NCAA for their swift action and I'm going okay.
00:27:04
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:27:13
Zack
Let me say I have i have a take on this I We have been dealing with these stupid fake injuries for three years and they're just like, nothing we can do about it.
00:27:20
nextguyup
Yes.
00:27:22
Zack
Sorry. Dane landing pulls the stunt one time and there's a rule change like four days later. What? What a joke.
00:27:32
nextguyup
NCAA is out to get my guy Dan.
00:27:33
Zack
What are we doing?
00:27:36
Zack
I don't understand how, how we can't figure out the fake injury thing.
00:27:37
nextguyup
I'm a big.
00:27:40
Zack
Whatever. ah That's the big Ohio State getting in the way. That's what you see there. if If it seems we're playing Ohio State and we're doing the fake injury, that has been gone long ago.
00:27:50
Zack
What? Guarded?
00:27:50
nextguyup
Then we need an Ole Miss, we need Ole Miss Ohio State to happen soon.
00:27:54
nextguyup
Cause Ole Miss is the Kings of guys getting injured and then being back the next play.
00:27:54
Zack
That would be electric.
00:27:58
Zack
Yeah.
00:28:01
Zack
They will never stop until they make them stop, until they put a rule in place.
00:28:05
nextguyup
Yeah, the rule in place has to be that guy's out for the rest of the series.
00:28:05
Zack
They still might not stop.
00:28:10
Zack
Yeah, I think they trod in like garbage time third stringers just to play one play and then go down.
00:28:16
nextguyup
Yeah, it's true. That's how they would get away with it. Something has to be done.
00:28:21
Zack
They literally cycle in third string players to do that.
00:28:22
Mason
They have, they have an NCAA trainer for every single game. That is, it's not the team's trainer that has to go out there when the, a player gets hurt.
00:28:35
Mason
It's the athletic trainers that go out there and they have to determine whether or not it was a legitimate injury or not.
00:28:40
Zack
It's like a school nurse.
00:28:42
Zack
Like, are you actually sick or are you just faking in to get out of class?
00:28:42
nextguyup
Yeah, but a lot of times it's just a cramp.
00:28:46
nextguyup
It's just, they'll stop it for cramps cause they can't physically walk on their leg cause their calf is cramping.
00:28:51
Zack
Sure.
00:28:53
nextguyup
So it's yeah, it's a very sensitive subject. It gets me very angry.
00:28:58
Zack
Yeah.
00:28:59
nextguyup
It ruins the flow of games. Like not even just cause it happens to UT a lot, but legitimately like I'm watching a game.
College Football Surprises and Strategies
00:29:05
Zack
It's not just UT anymore.
00:29:05
nextguyup
It's the games.
00:29:06
Zack
it's There's a lot of teams who are suffering.
00:29:07
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:29:10
Zack
I just think it's annoying.
00:29:10
nextguyup
Offenses get rolling and then all of a sudden the guy looks at the sideline and he's like, oh I have a cramp Something has to be done about this
00:29:16
Zack
Oh no.
00:29:17
Mason
Now, if it's that video and that's like a blatant fine, it should be where it's not, where it looks so obvious that they had to fake it.
00:29:21
Zack
It is pretty often it's that.
00:29:28
Mason
That's where it's like, all right, this player gets suspended or the team gets fined or coach gets fined. Something has to happen. I'm not expert, but there you go.
00:29:35
Zack
Something has to happen everybody. Okay. next
00:29:41
Zack
Um, what about your big, your surprise of the year, which team, which team is surprised you the most?
00:29:44
nextguyup
ah
00:29:46
Zack
Oh, tens. Do you have another game? Sorry.
00:29:48
nextguyup
ah No, you're good. It was just going to be the Michigan USC game. ah Just the way how Michigan, I've never seen a team execute a two minute drill where they just ran the ball over and over again to win the game.
00:29:52
Zack
Hmm.
00:30:03
nextguyup
Like that was just Like I've seen the crazy comebacks through the air and that's, you know, kind of used to that. But seeing a team just go, you know what, we're just gonna run it.
00:30:14
nextguyup
And if you can stop us, good for you. Cause we physically can't throw this football cause we have no quarterback. So that was just, that was just a wild way that game ended.
00:30:21
Mason
and
00:30:23
Zack
True.
00:30:23
nextguyup
Like I was just kept saying to myself, I was like, there's no way USC like doesn't just stop the run right here. Like put in, run goal line defense the whole time. Do something, do anything.
00:30:33
Zack
Make an impasse, yeah.
00:30:34
nextguyup
Make them throw the ball, but they didn't and it worked. Kudos to Michigan.
00:30:39
Zack
Shout out to those guys.
00:30:40
nextguyup
That was, that was just a wild game.
00:30:43
Zack
Huh. That's pretty wild. Okay. surprise of the year, surprise of it can be either way, really. But what is your with what team player situation has surprised you the most?
00:30:59
nextguyup
Hmm there's a lot there's There's a lot here. I think I've got one for both. I think NFL and we've talked about it a bunch but how How the Vikings have looked how they legitimately do do look like they are a real contender not even just in the NFC but just as far as like
00:31:13
Zack
Heck, yeah.
00:31:21
nextguyup
as a Super Bowl team in general. What Brian Flores has done with that defense is amazing. If you consider all the pieces they lost in the offseason due to the injury and then losing your assumed starting quarterback in JJ McCarthy and Sam Darnold coming in and looking like the quarterback, he was hyped up to be, you know, when he got drafted and like, I think he was like the 17 draft, 17 or 18.
00:31:45
nextguyup
So he's been around for a long time, kind of seen as like a career backup type
00:31:46
Zack
Mm.
00:31:50
nextguyup
And he's revived his career. um Yeah, this Viking scene is is crazy. like This is not what I expected. I expected them to honestly end up last in their division, playing a very tough division with the lions, the Packers, and the Bears.
00:32:06
nextguyup
And so going into the year with everything that happened this off season, it was pretty easy to kind of pencil them in. It's like, okay, they're going to finish fourth. You know, it sucks to suck, but no, they've, I mean, they're one of two undefeated teams left in the NFL and they look every bit the part that's like, it's not flukey.
00:32:31
Zack
Okay.
00:32:33
nextguyup
Sorry. I thought I, I thought I froze or you froze.
00:32:35
Zack
You did freeze for a second, but we're back.
00:32:38
nextguyup
ah we're back
00:32:38
Zack
um Okay. My surprise of the year is the one and the only Vanderbilt football program.
00:32:51
Zack
ah Not so I think it would be something if they were kind of a flash in the pan um But to lose don I don't know that there has ever been a bigger turnaround by a team ever to lose to Georgia State and to go beat a top three top two was a top three team in Like a couple weeks apart Just truly one of the most insane scenarios I've ever seen
00:33:11
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:33:16
Zack
Shout out and I don't think it was a fluke and the the more you look at this team the more ah They have some pieces that are pretty fun. I mean, I think We're gonna see some of the highest viewership for Vanderbilt games. We've seen maybe ever the end of this season um They have been competitive. They beat Kentucky, which is not a ah pretty good Kentucky team. Really? They're defensively. They're very good they took Ole Miss to the to the kind of the end of the game and Um, a pretty fun Vanderbilt team, which has never been uttered ever pretty much. So I think they were definitely my surprise of the year. There's some other ones, but I think they're the biggest.
00:33:59
nextguyup
Yeah, I agree with that. I mean, they're, they're just a team normally in the SEC that you kind of just chalk up to being very bad. Um, and not doing anything and they, yeah, exactly.
00:34:08
Zack
Over under two and a half win total to already be a four and two is pretty incredible.
00:34:11
nextguyup
I mean, that tells.
00:34:13
Zack
And that's.
00:34:14
nextguyup
Yeah. That's two SEC wins that no one saw coming. in There's no one can tell you the straight face that they thought they were going to beat Bama and then go on the road and beat Kentucky.
00:34:19
Zack
Either of them, yeah.
00:34:27
Zack
True.
00:34:29
Zack
I have another surprise, but I'm gonna say her fraud of the year, I think.
00:34:29
nextguyup
All right,
00:34:31
nextguyup
okay right um my so mine in college is, I'm gonna go with Penn State.
00:34:38
Zack
Mm-hmm.
00:34:39
nextguyup
I'm, I'm surprised. And here's why this Penn State team every year gets to where they are now. And, or, you know, around this time when they're ranked this high, they'll have a letdown game.
00:34:51
nextguyup
I kind of thought I called it last week was USC. But there's just always something about Penn State that the the trap door is always under them.
00:34:55
Zack
driven.
00:34:59
nextguyup
And it always drops at the most inconvenient time.
00:35:02
Zack
Yeah.
00:35:02
nextguyup
And they have fought through that. They've got some good quality wins. I mean, they beat Illinois, 21-7. They handled a UCLA team that's kind of frisky. They've had a good battle with USC this last week. And I really think it might be a little bit different with Penn State with this new offensive coordinator that they got from Kansas. They're running more of like a college style offense instead of this weird broken NFL from the 2004 season that they've ran in years past and Drew Aller's is looked good.
00:35:35
Zack
yeah
00:35:35
nextguyup
So I think I think Penn State to me is a surprise because normally by now they would have lost a game that they had no business losing.
00:35:40
Zack
Yeah.
00:35:44
nextguyup
And so that makes things interesting. It really does now. Now you do have to think big 10, three teams in if Penn State can keep doing what they're doing.
00:35:55
Zack
Tins, i've got a I've got a fun stat for you.
00:35:58
nextguyup
All right.
00:35:58
Zack
Stat of the year.
00:36:00
nextguyup
Instead of, ooh.
00:36:02
Zack
That would be fun. This is just a fun stat I listen to. I heard West Virginia this is this links back to Penn State ah West Virginia is three and three on the season so far There are three I might have sent it to you in a group text ready There are three and three on the year so far.
00:36:10
nextguyup
Hmm.
00:36:16
nextguyup
I think I noticed that.
00:36:20
nextguyup
I think so.
00:36:23
Zack
There are three teams They lost to have a combined record of 18 and oh What a wild stat there are not very many 18 no teams in the country or six and oh teams in the country at this point
00:36:27
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:36:35
Zack
That'd be Penn State, Pittsburgh, and Iowa State.
00:36:41
nextguyup
Yeah, maybe I shouldn't been so hard on West Virginia and gave
00:36:43
Zack
That's what I
NFL Quarterback Scenarios
00:36:44
nextguyup
up on them Yeah, they do I Apologize West Virginia for all the mean things I said, I didn't realize your schedule was gonna be this hard You guys are still good
00:36:44
Zack
mean, West Virginia. Now they have to play Kansas State this week. They have a very tough schedule.
00:36:50
Zack
That's pretty wild. I've never, I just, that's crazy. Okay.
00:37:02
Zack
Maybe.
00:37:04
nextguyup
You guys are still adequate.
00:37:05
Zack
they're decent yeah ball team okay mason um hopefully uh mason surprise of the year oh that was tense the surprise of the year that's okay just go with the other undefeated team
00:37:08
nextguyup
Well, bulk
00:37:15
Mason
Yes.
00:37:18
Mason
I'm going to go with one of the two undefeated teams so far, the Minnesota Vikings.
00:37:26
Mason
What's the face for?
00:37:28
nextguyup
well
00:37:29
Mason
Oh, dang.
00:37:29
nextguyup
I sniped you.
00:37:31
Mason
Yep.
00:37:34
Mason
No.
00:37:34
Zack
Not a surprise, though.
00:37:38
Zack
That's okay, you can talk about him. Talk about the Mr. Vikings, Mason.
00:37:40
nextguyup
Yeah, talk about them Vikings Captain America was knocking on his door
00:37:42
Zack
Mason had to walk away for a few seconds.
00:37:44
Mason
Yeah, sorry, everybody.
00:37:45
Zack
Get an emergency.
00:37:46
Mason
I had emergency. ah Well, that's right.
00:37:48
Zack
His house was up higher.
00:37:53
Mason
ah No, because I don't want to repeat what Ten said and I didn't get to hear what he said, but basically it's all been a shock. especially i do I do want to say that pre-season I said I was hating on this team because they lost JJ McCarthy.
00:38:08
Mason
Um, and they had, uh, Addison was out. They had a lot of injuries, couldn't figure out what the, like, what, uh, there was also defensive players that they lost over the off season. So it was like one of those things I have was not high on them and they have, uh, proven me wrong, obviously. So.
00:38:26
Zack
Okay, let's play a fun game everyone. Are you ready?
00:38:29
nextguyup
Mm hmm.
00:38:30
Mason
yeah
00:38:30
Zack
What would Minnesota Vikings record be if JJ McCarthy was the starting quarterback?
00:38:34
nextguyup
Oh.
00:38:35
Mason
Mm.
00:38:38
nextguyup
Oh, that's a good question.
00:38:42
Mason
I'm looking at their record right now or like I'm looking at their schedule.
00:38:42
nextguyup
Dang.
00:38:48
nextguyup
To add that they played six games, right?
00:38:49
Mason
The silence.
00:38:53
Mason
They're five and O right now.
00:38:55
nextguyup
ah for Okay, yeah, they've had their bye week two and three I don't know Jim
00:39:00
Zack
wow
00:39:02
Mason
So the teams that that they beat that may and that are tough, they they won against the Giants. I think they would still won that. ah They won against the 49ers. I think they would have lost that Texans. That was the the game of the year Tinsley was talking about. I think they would have lost that Packers. I think they would have lost in jets. I think they would have won.
00:39:25
Zack
Wow.
00:39:25
nextguyup
I think they would have beat the Texans no matter what.
00:39:27
Zack
Ooh.
00:39:27
Mason
wow wow is that not a hot take you were a hater of jj mccarthy you were a hater of let's run back the tape on how much you hated jj now you're just gonna say they beat the texans you said horrible things about jj
00:39:29
nextguyup
Brian Flora has had CJ Stroud in.
00:39:37
nextguyup
I haven't said anything.
00:39:39
Zack
He just hates the Texans more than he hates DJ McCarthy.
00:39:42
nextguyup
Brian Flora has had CJ Stroud in a headlock. He had him in the walls of Jericho tapping for his life saying, please, I've never seen a defense like this, help me, somebody help me.
00:39:52
Mason
So I'm going to say they won against the Giants and the Jets, the two New York teams. So two and three right now.
00:39:58
Zack
Wow.
00:40:02
Zack
That's very interesting.
00:40:05
Zack
um What about... This is off. This is way off track again. um But what about the situation with the Colts?
00:40:12
Mason
Here for it.
00:40:14
Zack
Let's put it in the same lens.
00:40:16
nextguyup
Hmm someone who can throw I Think with him it's a situation where you have you have to let him start because you got to figure out how
00:40:17
Zack
Because the Colts seemingly look better with Joe Flacco at quarterback. and's Talking like Anthony Richardson will be starting back. What ah what do you guys think about the the rookie quarterback or the young quarterback being forced into starting roles even if the team is worse because of it?
00:40:33
Zack
Potentially.
00:40:41
nextguyup
Are we doing this long term? like Or are we gonna look to get out? And he's only started like seven or eight games because he keeps getting hurt. So yeah, I don't know. it's it's tough he's He's a weird situation, tough situation. um He doesn't fit with the what Shane Steichen likes to do, which is tough when you draft a quarterback and you kind of try to force them to gll together cuz Shane psych in is more of a West Coast um Quick quick pass game and then run the ball and Anthony Richardson is more of an RPO throw the ball deep kind of quarterback um So he's trying to they're trying to gel that together and it's just I don't know that it's gonna work
00:41:20
Zack
Hmm.
00:41:26
Zack
Hmm.
00:41:29
Zack
Interesting.
00:41:34
Zack
Okay, I have one last hypothetical for the NFL experts.
00:41:37
Mason
Okay.
00:41:38
Zack
um Sorry, I'm just curious about what your answer would be to this. If, if the next guy up podcasts, bought their own NFL franchise, and There is a new rule where part of our um part of our contract was that we got to handpick one quarterback that's already in the league to be the quarterback of our team for now and the future. Which quarterback are you building your team around, like right now, today?
00:42:09
nextguyup
Hmm.
00:42:09
Zack
Age is a factor. We're not talking about prime prime someone, we're talking about starting right now.
00:42:11
Mason
Yes, it really is.
00:42:14
Mason
This could really bite me in the butt, but I would try to convince you all to get Jayden Daniels. Young, proven so far in a small amount of games that we've seen.
00:42:27
Mason
I don't know what it like. If we're looking at the young quarterbacks right now, you got Anthony Richardson. I know Tinsley was an ICJ Stroud. I think he think I don't know if he just hates the Texans or if he doesn't like CJ Stroud, but regardless.
00:42:39
Zack
hmm it's yeah some combination
00:42:42
Mason
I, I think I would probably go with, cause like, Josh, and I feel like that's already, I'd rather have age on my side than like Patrick from homes with Josh Allen. They're already like, but like about to reach 30, right?
00:42:53
Zack
That's what all of the NFL owners do.
00:42:54
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:42:55
Zack
That's what they all do. They they they prioritize age over anything else, which maybe because Aaron Rodgers experiment is not going particularly well in New York.
00:42:59
Mason
ah no and I And I'd still do that.
00:43:04
Mason
Nope. I'm, I'm locking in at Jane Daniels.
00:43:09
Zack
Hmm.
00:43:11
nextguyup
I'd go Herbert. I mean, I'd always go Trevor. You guys are never gonna let that one happen. um This isn't a Trevor Lawrence podcast.
00:43:11
Mason
10s
00:43:17
Zack
Hmm.
00:43:18
nextguyup
I'm not doing that today. ah So I'd go Herbert. He's young. He has all the tools. um So yeah, I'd go.
00:43:27
Zack
Interesting.
00:43:28
nextguyup
If I couldn't go Trevor, I'd go Herbert.
00:43:31
Mason
I feel like in a year, if Lamar actually got him to the Super Bowl or could prove something, I'd try to make a case for Lamar, but I knew Tinsley wouldn't want Lamar Jackson. Go ahead, Zach.
00:43:41
Zack
Oh, I don't know. I was asking you guys who are the NFL experts.
00:43:41
Mason
What's your, what's your, what would you vote?
00:43:45
Mason
Oh, okay.
00:43:47
Zack
I just thought of the question.
00:43:50
Zack
OK. Hmm.
00:43:52
Zack
Interesting stuff. All right. Next. I think we should skip this point. Let's just do this one. Fraud of the year so far, fraud of the year.
00:43:52
Mason
Good work, everybody.
Disappointments in Sports Teams and Players
00:44:03
Mason
I have two.
00:44:04
Zack
um Maybe this is our, but we'll have one more. Fraud of the year, um ah my pick is going to be, boy, there's a lot of options.
00:44:15
Zack
um My pick is gonna be the one and only, this is the only real answer, Florida State.
00:44:21
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:44:22
Zack
Top 10 preseason.
00:44:25
nextguyup
To one in five?
00:44:25
Zack
one in five they've not been one in five since like 1976 or something like that uh and they were pretty in the top 10 ranked there i saw a stat that uh norvell is like the fifth highest paid coach in the nation norvell is going to pay 10 million dollars to coach a one in five football team i'm i'm like 90 convinced if you gave me that roster and just said
00:44:27
nextguyup
Yeah, I think so.
00:44:57
Zack
Let's get them ready to play some football. I could get one win out of that roster season.
00:45:03
Zack
I would just be literally like, just line up and we'll run, we'll like set up three or four plays and we'll just mess around and we'll beat our FCS team that we have on the schedule or whatever. And just like, I think I could get one win out of that team.
00:45:03
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:45:16
Zack
That's crazy.
00:45:16
nextguyup
Probably.
00:45:19
nextguyup
Yeah, that's just that they are the biggest frauds that I can think of in many, many years.
00:45:28
Zack
Yeah, they took advantage of a pretty down Clemson last year and a couple of other, I feel like they just kind of coasted the way through the ACC. And whenever they saw, I mean, I hate that their quarterback went down like he did, but it's just like, they would not have had a chance in the playoffs any either way, I don't think.
00:45:36
nextguyup
And I don't And then the way they were talked about going into this year I mean there were people that they were saying they had the best defensive line in the country and Then Georgia Tech came out and pushed them around like they were playing Miami of Ohio Like, I don't know. It's just that whole team fraud. I knew as soon as I saw DJ, you can go along the Lele was gonna be there starting quarterback. I knew what to do.
00:46:08
Zack
I think Florida and Florida State have kind of flipped in my brain, where for a lot of people are expecting that now, Florida's just getting into the tough part of their schedule.
00:46:13
nextguyup
here
00:46:18
nextguyup
Right.
00:46:18
Zack
Florida could still be a three-win team to be 100% with you, but I didn't know what I expected, but Florida State's giving up in the same way that we kind of anticipated Florida giving up at some point.
00:46:21
nextguyup
Mm-hmm.
00:46:30
Zack
You're one in five, and your roster is just like, what why are we still doing? Like, what are we doing? No one wants to see us play as a one-on-five team. It's just pretty hard to stay motivated whenever your season's over.
00:46:43
Zack
I mean, what are you playing for?
00:46:45
Zack
To beat Florida at the end of the season?
00:46:45
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:46:47
nextguyup
That's really like all they have left.
00:46:49
Zack
Like, is that it? That's their bowl and that's just going to be done? Probably for Florida as well. Fun one. That's a fun one.
00:46:59
Zack
Okay. That's my fraud of the year.
00:47:01
nextguyup
All right. My fraud of the year is the Dallas Cowboys.
00:47:08
Mason
Mm.
00:47:08
nextguyup
this team, this team does nothing but talk all the time about how elite they are and how they're one of the NFL's best and they don't ever do anything.
00:47:09
Mason
Yep.
00:47:19
nextguyup
And then you got an owner who's offsho also your GM and guess what? He sucks at both. um Talking about how they're all in they're gonna be all in going to this year and what did that actually mean? Well, you didn't have enough money to sign a free agent like Derek Henry who wanted to come play there because you were doing a holdout with CD lamb and Dak Prescott and waited to the last minute to sign both of them and then let the whole market reset so then you had to pay the top dollar for both of those guys when you could have gotten their contracts done before everyone else and went and got a guy like Derek Henry and signed a couple other compliment complimentary pieces but instead now here you are your third in your division gonna be fighting for a wildcard spot
00:48:08
nextguyup
at like best, this was supposed to be all in like this. They are such frauds. They always will be as long as Jerry Jones is still running the team.
00:48:19
Mason
It's crazy how much hype was still around them and play off. Everybody was like thinking that they were going to still be a playoff or even a super bowl team.
00:48:27
nextguyup
I got worse.
00:48:28
Mason
And they did not improve over the off season. Like it was so obvious that they did not, they got worse and people were still because that got his money and CD lame got paid.
00:48:38
Mason
And it's like, Oh, they kept around.
00:48:40
nextguyup
and they brought Zeke back.
00:48:42
Mason
They kept around the players that. are their star players, but they're they're so top heavy that they don't have a base at all. They're they're a pyramid without like the bottom part. They literally have like the star players on top and then nothing. so it's like there's no it's just That's why they're getting Like boat raced and blown out and I continue I feel like I could be confident and still sane and it's probably not a hot take everybody's like Well, yeah, obviously now but it's like I do not see them getting into the playoffs So very tizzy. Yeah, very disappointing frauds, whatever you want to call it. But yeah um Mine is gonna be players. They're two are actually on the same team and I'm gonna go with Deshaun Watson
00:49:32
Mason
And Jerry Judy. Deshaun Watson would not have a starting position right now if the owners or GMs or whoever wasn't making ah Kevin Stefansi start. It's so obvious. like If anybody else struggled this bad and had another option that wasn't, like and I get it, Tinsley's not a Jamis Winston, but I honestly still think that he's a better option than Deshaun Watson right now.
00:50:01
Mason
And I really do think that the only reason is because he's getting the most guaranteed. We're talking about rip-off artists. This guy was a full-on. This might be the biggest rip-off like that anybody's ever pulled on an NFL team that we will ever see, that we've ever seen in the past and we've ever seen in the future because no owner is going to give this. When all the quarterbacks were like, all right, Deshaun Watson got paid, give me my money, and all the owners together all got together except for the Browns owner.
00:50:29
Mason
and they all made an agreement, no, we're not gonna budge on this. That owner was out of his mind for doing that and we're not gonna we're not goingnna do what he we're not gonna make the mistake that he made. And so they're literally throwing him out there because they're like, we can't not and we can't have our most the most paid ah guaranteed player ah be sitting on the bench.
00:50:54
Mason
So that's my fraud number one. And then Jerry Judy, I have him on my fantasy team. ah And that's probably why I'm bitter about this, but I think it may, hopefully he'll play better if they get another quarterback in there or now that Amari Cooper, which was like, I got to get out of Dodge, just like Devontae Adams was. ah Maybe he'll come step in and be more of a wide receiver one. But so far that has been my frauds of this season.
00:51:22
Zack
Love it.
00:51:23
Mason
We in the greens.
00:51:24
Mason
Okay.
00:51:24
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:51:25
Zack
Mark Andrews, fraud.
00:51:25
Mason
Tends to laugh because he's on my fancy view.
00:51:26
nextguyup
Not so much about Jerry Judy. i don't ah Calling Jerry Judy a fraud. he is what He's a former first round pick who got traded this year for a fifth rounder. like ah I think you're just mad because he's on your fantasy team.
00:51:37
Mason
You're probably right about that, but guilty by it.
00:51:39
nextguyup
He's a wide receiver three on on the team. I think he's he's doing the best he can.
00:51:44
Zack
They're the best they can. Meanwhile, Tins is like ripping Jaguars receivers up and down every day, every Sunday.
00:51:52
Mason
yeah You are doing that.
00:51:52
Zack
They're just doing the best they can, Tins.
00:51:54
Mason
yeah
00:51:56
nextguyup
No, they're not. that's the They're not.
00:52:00
nextguyup
Four drop touchdown passes is not good.
00:52:04
Mason
I think it's because I had...
00:52:04
nextguyup
Gabe Davis can get off my team.
00:52:05
Mason
Well, go ahead.
00:52:07
nextguyup
I don't care that we just signed him. Trade him. Trade him to the Browns for nothing. I'll take Jerry Judy.
00:52:11
Zack
Remember that last time, remember that time last year when you said something similar about Tank Big Beat?
00:52:17
nextguyup
I hope Gabe Davis hears all this and has a great bounce back season next year with Ben Johnson as our ah as our head coach.
00:52:22
Zack
Bolted Womens Mario.
Heisman and MVP Contenders
00:52:26
Zack
You're throwing the season away?
00:52:28
nextguyup
This season's No, I don't I don't want to win this I don't want this season to go well because then we'll keep stupid Doug Peterson around and trim bulky the snake around Trim bulky is a snake And I want them off my team Trim
00:52:29
Mason
Yes, he is 100%.
00:52:29
Zack
You said, bounce back season next year. As if there's not many games left.
00:52:39
Zack
Wow.
00:52:44
Zack
The snake.
00:52:51
Zack
Get out. Fraud of the year.
00:52:55
nextguyup
bulky
00:52:55
Zack
All of them.
00:52:58
nextguyup
and Doug Peterson, his stupid
00:52:58
Zack
OK.
00:53:01
Zack
OK, let's do this rapid fire, and then we're going to just quickly hit some games for College and NFL coming up. Let's do MVP slash Heisman. If it were today, who's winning it?
00:53:19
nextguyup
Gosh.
00:53:22
Zack
College is interesting.
00:53:22
nextguyup
That's hard.
00:53:23
Zack
Obviously there's some big games left. um If there was any justice in the world, it would probably, I mean, I don't know. this It's tricky because both of the both of the top ranked Heisman candidates at this point, neither are traditional Heisman candidates.
00:53:24
nextguyup
College is hard.
00:53:39
Zack
which would be Gente and Travis Hunter. um I would kind of like to see Boise State Gente when it I think they'd be fun. He probably deserves it at this point.
00:53:52
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:53:54
Zack
Willie, I don't know.
00:53:54
Mason
Do we know what his stats are?
00:53:56
Mason
I just pulled up a list of non-quarterbacks to win Heisman. I forgot Devonta Smith, 2020. He had 1,500 receiving yards, 98 receptions, 17 touchdowns.
00:54:09
Mason
Genty's a running back, right? I'm trying to look for the last running back.
00:54:12
Zack
Derek Henry, I think.
00:54:14
nextguyup
Yeah, probably there, Kenny.
00:54:15
Mason
Derek Henry, 2015. Mark Ingram, Reggie Bush, Tim Brown. I don't...
00:54:21
Zack
Reggie Bush taking away, giving back.
00:54:25
Zack
Snip, snap, snip, snap.
00:54:25
Mason
That's right.
00:54:26
nextguyup
Snips that.
00:54:28
Mason
See, my my whole thing, and you guys are gonna hate this pick. If Texas beats Georgia this weekend, Yours is going to jump just like what we saw.
00:54:41
Mason
I know they're making faces, everybody, for everybody that can't see.
00:54:44
Zack
bleh.
00:54:45
Mason
But what did we see? Millrow, you want to get it the value when it's good. And I know Millrow's also jumped back down, but when we're talking about like Alabama, Georgia, when someone like cooks in a big primetime game, but he's at 2,200 right now.
00:55:02
Mason
And I kind of like that value. Like, it's goingnna it's going to shoot up if that he ends up dicing up Georgia.
00:55:09
nextguyup
But he didn't even play like super great against Oklahoma to start and then yet Yeah yeah if I had to make a bet right now I
00:55:12
Mason
And he was hurt. I know.
00:55:13
Zack
He didn't even play a couple games, which for a lot of...
00:55:16
Mason
I know, but still.
00:55:17
Zack
I mean, that's what happened to Dagon, Hendon Hooker a couple years ago. He got injured and then he missed the last game and all of a sudden he was disqualified, basically, for the Heisman. Sorry.
00:55:26
Mason
You feel better about doing Gabriel plus 320. I don't know.
00:55:29
Zack
Well, this is today.
00:55:30
Mason
I think a quarterback still has
00:55:34
Zack
This is Heisman today.
00:55:35
nextguyup
But if if it's who's won it today, I'm going with Travis Hunter.
00:55:38
Zack
Is Stravas Hunter or Gente?
00:55:40
Mason
Travis Hunter.
00:55:41
nextguyup
Travis Hunter is playing every snap of of the game at a high level. He is an elite wide receiver. He's a more elite cornerback and he's going to be top five pick.
00:55:52
Mason
There you go.
00:55:53
Zack
I think the, I think the dig on Ginty is that he, the competition is questionable.
00:55:57
Mason
Teal.
00:56:01
Mason
Who's Boise State even played?
00:56:02
nextguyup
The competition, yeah.
00:56:03
Zack
They play Oregon.
00:56:05
nextguyup
I played Oregon, he he did go off against him.
00:56:06
Zack
Very close. Fun fact. Um, which honestly,
00:56:10
nextguyup
But if you look at his stats, it's like 95 carries. He's at 95 carries for 1,000 yards.
00:56:14
Zack
10 yards carry over.
00:56:15
nextguyup
like That's a huge, right.
00:56:18
Zack
Yeah.
00:56:18
nextguyup
that's That's insane, but that tells you all you need to know that he is literally doing this like in a half because this these guys are not, he's playing his very low quality teams to an extent.
00:56:29
Zack
Definitely There have been very few Heisman from small schools like not the big power type schools who are But this year is different because a team like Boise State could be potentially in the playoffs fighting for a championship Which has never been the case before so It's interesting
00:56:31
nextguyup
like
00:56:31
Mason
Portland State, Utah State, Washington State.
00:56:40
nextguyup
Yeah.
00:56:46
nextguyup
Right.
00:56:50
nextguyup
and makes It makes it, it's very interesting.
00:56:50
Mason
Bingo.
00:56:53
nextguyup
It makes it very, it's going to be a fun year to try and track the Heisman. One of them's going to have to kind of separate and I don't know who it's going to be.
00:57:00
Zack
I mean, I agree. If Texas keeps winning, I think you were just going to go to the top of the list, whether he deserves it or not. Cause that's always what happens.
00:57:06
Zack
Quarterbacker, the best team will always be there.
00:57:06
nextguyup
I know, but
00:57:09
nextguyup
Yeah, but the injury thing, like that's that's real. They they won't.
00:57:12
Zack
It was against garbage teams though. It was against, you could, they could have played your third string quarterback and they would have won those games comfortably.
00:57:22
nextguyup
If Miami keeps doing what they're doing, Cam Ward will be there too.
00:57:24
Zack
Cam Ward, he's looked pretty bad. I mean, the team is looking pretty bad, especially.
00:57:30
Zack
Okay. Um, do you guys, do you have any MVP NFL stuff?
00:57:36
Zack
Is it too early? Maybe it's too early.
00:57:39
Mason
Too early.
00:57:39
Zack
Same, Donald.
00:57:41
nextguyup
Sam Darnold Derek Derek Henry's legitimately getting Sure He is he's up there right now and then homes Yeah, we're week six where we're in week six we'll see how he's doing in 11 more weeks
00:57:42
Mason
Yes, Sam Donald.
00:57:42
Zack
I think you could argue he's the most valuable player to his team.
00:57:47
Zack
I'd love to see Derek Henry win MVP. That'd be awesome.
00:57:47
Mason
ah
00:57:53
Mason
Hmm. Sounds like someone was hating on Derek Henry in the off season or my take. I drafted him in fantasy. I was going on about him and someone said something about his age and that he wasn't going to do it.
00:58:11
Zack
That's true. Long season.
00:58:12
Mason
Tinsley, I literally was like just sitting here quietly as we did our draft and Tinsley was like, hmm, Derek Henry and Joe Mixon. That would have been a great combo like three or four years ago.
00:58:24
Mason
That had been a stacked, which he didn't say that they weren't, but he was kind of like making it sound like, wow.
00:58:29
nextguyup
um I'm sorry I was making fun of the almost 30 year old running backs when that's when running backs fall off a cliff in the NFL traditionally
00:58:35
Mason
What's your, what's your fans?
NFL Fantasy Football and Injuries
00:58:37
Mason
What's your fantasy football record?
00:58:39
nextguyup
Okay,
00:58:40
nextguyup
oh, I'm sorry my whole team got injured I'm sorry that Isaiah Pacheco and Cooper cup have been on IR since week two
00:58:43
Mason
Which, can I say something? I don't know if we even talked about disappointment of the, mine is a Rams based on mostly injuries.
00:58:48
Zack
No.
00:58:54
Mason
Like I was excited about this team and they're already like only one, one game. Well, they're like one in five seasons over. Like they're cooked. That's all I got to say.
00:59:03
nextguyup
I now wish injury upon your team, Mason.
00:59:06
Mason
Oh no. What did I do?
00:59:10
Zack
Wow. He just did that. The ultimate looting.
00:59:10
nextguyup
what it What's your record in fantasy football?
00:59:14
Mason
I was just asking. I forgot what it was.
00:59:15
Zack
Mason, your team is cooked.
00:59:18
nextguyup
have Here comes the injury bug.
00:59:19
Zack
It's just cursive.
00:59:20
nextguyup
Have fun navigating it.
00:59:22
Mason
Look what I did.
00:59:23
Zack
Dead coming, Mason. Look what you did.
00:59:27
nextguyup
You can take some of me and Zach's injuries.
00:59:29
Zack
Yeah, you can have them. All of them.
00:59:33
Zack
We're gonna be back, we're fine, we're fine.
00:59:33
Mason
Tough break.
00:59:35
Zack
Okay, we're gonna wrap up just doing a quick preview of some of some college games. ah there is this is a This is a big weekend in college football, folks.
00:59:35
nextguyup
We're fine.
Texas vs Georgia Game Analysis
00:59:46
Zack
We got a couple of big time match ups. One we've talked about here already. um Some people are circling it as game of the year. um We've already had like three game of the year, so I don't know how that works, but ah Texas hosting Georgia, huge regular season matchup. A Texas team that basically blew out an Oklahoma team who at this point we understand they're very limited in what they can do, especially offensively, um but they they destroyed them in a game that typically is pretty close.
01:00:26
Zack
ah the Red River shootout. um Georgia, a team who looked pretty vulnerable against Alabama. And then last week, if you, and no one was watching this game, I don't think, but Mississippi State kind of mounted a a pretty crazy comeback at the end of the game. Not, it was never close, but Georgia allowed Mississippi State to score 31 points. It's a Mississippi State team that is very bad.
01:00:56
Zack
I think Georgia has some pretty serious concerns. I think Texas has not necessarily played a team that is going to expose their weaknesses yet. Do they have them? I don't know. They could just be an elite team. They have not struggled with any team yet. But I think they're they're the last team that hasn't really played um a competitor a competitor that matched them at all.
01:01:23
Zack
We saw Oregon, Ohio State finally match up. We saw Alabama, Georgia match up. And so this is kind of the last piece to see where everyone lands. um Tanzu, any thoughts on that one, Texas, Georgia?
01:01:37
nextguyup
Yeah, I have. I do. i And I'm going back to what I said in the preseason when we were looking at these teams. And I said that I thought quitting years would struggle to this point in the season and that Georgia would come in and beat them and beat them bad. And then finally, Texas would switch to arch Manning because the rest of their season goes like Vandy, which at the time when I said this was not, you know, out here beating top top five teams.
01:02:03
nextguyup
in the country, but ah Kentucky and and it got weak after that. And I'm going to stand on that. Quentin Evers, he looked rough last week against Oklahoma, um finished 20 of 29 for 199 yards, one touchdown, one pick. This Texas team is good.
01:02:26
nextguyup
They are not the like, I've said it before. I think this this is a weird season where there's not one of those elite teams and Texas has gotten lucky to this point to just be a very, they're a very good team, but they're they're goingnna they're they're being looked at like they're one of those elite Bama or Georgia or LSU teams that are like unbeatable. And they're not that. And I just, I've never bought into quit newers even going into last season. I was like, I don't think this guy's it.
01:02:53
nextguyup
um So I'm gonna take Georgia. I think Georgia the way they fought back against Alabama showed me that like they Still have that team inside like Kirby smarts gonna get the best out of that team He's gonna give him their best punch and Texas hasn't been punched yet And I don't know if they're gonna respond very well to it. So give me Georgia.
01:03:17
Zack
I think this Texas team is They're very talented and I really think these are both these are two very good teams on both sides of the ball I mean, I don't I think George has got some problems defensively.
01:03:21
nextguyup
I
01:03:30
Zack
I think Carson Beck since That first half against Alabama has looked much much better um since then I really think that this could be a situation where I Obviously, it's in Texas, which makes a difference.
01:03:49
Zack
Man, I think this game is going to be really close. ah It's it's a pick them in my mind. I think I think Georgia wins. I think I grew tens. ah Georgia wins everyone.
01:04:00
Zack
Look out and SEC gets crazy because there are a slew of one-loss teams at that point.
01:04:03
nextguyup
Mm hmm.
01:04:06
Zack
um the winner of tech The winner of
Tennessee vs Alabama Game Preview
01:04:09
Zack
Tennessee Alabama will be a one-loss team. Texas and Georgia will both be one-loss teams. Ole Miss is a one-loss team. All of a sudden you've got a Texas A&M.
01:04:18
Zack
will potentially still be one last team. ah this It's going to start getting crazy out there as you see if if Texas drops this game. So I'm kind of hoping for chaos just personally, but I also think Georgia will give them their best punch here.
01:04:29
nextguyup
Yep.
01:04:32
Zack
I think they're not going to come out as slow as they did against Alabama. I think ah Georgia can take it.
01:04:39
Zack
It's going to be a fun one, though.
01:04:39
nextguyup
Yeah, Georgia put it's plus five plus one 64.
01:04:44
nextguyup
If you're in the discord, you're going to see him.
01:04:45
Zack
Plus five.
01:04:46
nextguyup
Yeah, you're going to see it on the card.
01:04:48
Zack
Yeah it was like plus, I feel like that's gone up some.
01:04:51
nextguyup
Yeah.
01:04:53
Zack
That's a lot of points.
01:04:56
Zack
Okay, um the second biggest billing of the weekend is Tennessee. ah Alabama coming back to Neeland Stadium. This is a game that has been Looked ahead to since ah two years ago whenever Tennessee obviously beat Bama in the huge game of New England Stadium Alabama this is a this is kind of a tale of two teams that have underperformed this year so far for preseason expectations Alabama Has not looked bad
01:05:28
Zack
Except for they'd look really actually they've lost two weeks. They've looked very bad. They played Vanderbilt and lost They played South Carolina and really should have lost if not for a couple of pretty egregious errors by the North sellers um Tennessee lost to an Arkansas team on the road, a decent Arkansas team, and then played a what we know to be a pretty flawed Florida team to overtime. And so these are these are both teams that have not showed their full potential, I think, on the football field. Maybe Alabama did in the first half against Georgia. Maybe that was their potential. They have some big plays. I think both teams are still trying to figure out what they look like offensively.
01:06:09
Zack
um Both teams have some flaws. Tennessee's leading tackler, Keenan Pealy, out for the season. That linebacker, ah that is a huge, huge loss for that defense um that has been playing very well to this point. Has not allowed more than 20 points in all six games this season.
01:06:27
Zack
first time that's happened in a very long time for Tennessee and so it is um going to be a very very interesting matchup this game also I think both of these big games honestly in my mind are kind of coin flips where I think they could very easily go either way I mean I know that the line is I think three points to Bama um which maybe is fair without Tennessee's offenses looked I think that that's probably
01:06:49
nextguyup
three yeah
01:06:57
Zack
not seeing that we took Florida to overtime a week ago. I think there's a potential for a spark for the Tennessee offense though. I think that they are better than what they've been playing at so far, given if the offensive line can improve just like 10%.
01:07:14
nextguyup
It's three.
01:07:16
Zack
And I think if Nico can improve 10%, I think our offense improves 100%.
01:07:22
nextguyup
yeah Yeah.
01:07:22
Zack
which the math is not math and 100% there, but I think that's the like i think they're that's how close they are though. It's like, they're just a little bit off in a couple of areas. So 10 side do you feel about this game.
01:07:36
nextguyup
I agree. I think it's a coin flip game. I think you see both teams kind of get back on track. I think you're going to see Milro and Williams kind of get going. Unfortunately, I do think they're going to put up numbers.
01:07:50
nextguyup
and But I do expect Nico to bounce back at home. ah big um Big environment, big test for him and kind of submitting himself as like our guy. because he's been a little shaky so far this season. He's he's looked like a freshman at times. um But I think Hypel's going to have a very good game plan.
01:08:10
nextguyup
um kind of play a little bit more controlled offense. So I don't know, betting wise, I don't know what I'm going to do as far as the spread for this game. I'm taking the over. It's 56 and a half. I like that. um I know UT's defense has been very good, but I think this is the best offense we've seen all year by a large margin.
01:08:31
Zack
Or by landslide, yeah, for sure.
01:08:33
nextguyup
Yeah. So, um but I do think Bama's defense is a little soft, definitely softer than it's been in years past. I mean, they just gave up 40 points to Vandy. um So I do expect a little bit of a shootout in Kneeland on Saturday.
01:08:47
nextguyup
So that's that's what I like um as far as betting goes.
01:08:47
Zack
Yeah.
01:08:51
nextguyup
But as far as the game, I think it's going to be which quarterback makes a mistake first and that's really gonna be this, like there'll be a swing. There'll be one bad turnover that kind of swings it one way or the other.
01:09:06
Zack
Let's see that. I think a big matchup is going to be Tennessee defensive line and linebackers versus Jalen Milrow.
01:09:15
Zack
Can they contain him? I think Elbin would love for that to be a good piece of their offense. Is Milrow just getting loose and kind of cooking? I think they have to limit that. um I think the other piece is going to be Tennessee offensive line, giving Nico any amount of time to throw the ball, which has been the problem so far.
01:09:15
nextguyup
Yep, can't let him run around, yeah.
01:09:32
nextguyup
Yeah.
01:09:34
Zack
um is that he just hasn't had it.
01:09:34
nextguyup
I think we'll see a lot of bubble screens.
01:09:35
Zack
So, um give me Tennessee, whatever, I don't even know what the line is. Give me the first quarter, spread Tennessee, we're back. I think they start off hot and I think they've scored zero points in the last two first-halves.
01:09:50
nextguyup
Yeah.
01:09:50
Zack
I think they're back in the trend here. It's got to change some point. I think we're scoring early.
01:09:57
nextguyup
I think Samsung has to get going. I think we're going to see a lot of running, a lot of little quick screens to kind of negate the offensive line, having the block for the deep stuff.
01:09:59
Zack
That's good.
01:10:05
Zack
You don't go on.
01:10:07
nextguyup
I know that's what we like to do. Niko likes to throw deep, but I just don't know that. O-line can hold up against Bama, whose defensive line is still very good. The rest of their defense is very, is is where it's soft.
01:10:19
Zack
Okay.
01:10:21
nextguyup
That's where they gave up a lot of those points to Vandy and other teams, but ah the defensive line is still pretty stacked per usual for Bama.
01:10:31
Zack
okay First quarter line, Bama's favored by 0.5.
01:10:37
nextguyup
Ooh.
01:10:37
Zack
I'm taking that.
01:10:40
nextguyup
Put it on his card, baby.
01:10:40
Zack
Yeah, I'm taking that. OK.
Unexpected Big Ten Matchup
01:10:44
Zack
Let's do one more game that I think is really interesting and then we will get out of here. ah Let's do this because this is a, I don't know who had this on their bingo card as being a huge big 10 matchup.
01:10:54
Zack
ah You want to talk about some surprise of the year so far, both of these teams potentially. ah Nebraska, Indiana.
01:11:01
nextguyup
Mm hmm.
01:11:02
Zack
Indiana.
01:11:04
nextguyup
Six and up.
01:11:05
Zack
6-0.
01:11:07
nextguyup
Six no against the spread.
01:11:08
Zack
And wow, really? like Nebraska, a team that has looked pretty good.
01:11:10
nextguyup
Yeah, I love those guys printing money for me.
01:11:16
Zack
um Fake Patrick Mahomes at the quarterback position has been leading them to the promised land so far. They're not perfect, but they are a fun team. This this has all of a sudden become like a a very important matchup for Big Ten purposes here, and for playoff purposes. Tenzio, any thoughts on this one, Nebraska, Indiana?
01:11:16
nextguyup
Mm hmm.
01:11:42
nextguyup
It's gonna be a fun game. This is gonna be one of those games you like you you catch yourself like you got the four screens up on the Multibox and YouTube TV and then all of a sudden you're like I can't I don't care about anything else is going on or now I got ah what is going on in this Nebraska, Indiana game.
01:11:49
Zack
Yeah.
01:11:58
nextguyup
It's gonna be high-scoring. I think You're going to see fake Patrick Mahomes run around doing fake Patrick Mahomes stuff. But I love this Indiana team. I'm loyal to a fault. They, like I said, they're six and oh on the spread. I've taken them all six times. ah I think this coach is the real deal coming from JMU. He's instantly turned this Indiana team into a real team. He's probably going to get a big big boy head coaching job offer after this season if I had to guess. um So give me Indiana.
01:12:32
Zack
There you go.
01:12:32
nextguyup
And the over.
01:12:33
nextguyup
They'll both be on the card.
01:12:34
Zack
Indiana minus six and a half.
01:12:37
nextguyup
Mm-hmm. Love that.
01:12:39
Zack
Fun one.
01:12:41
Zack
That was going to be a fun one. You could you could take it twice.
01:12:41
nextguyup
If I could take it twice, I would.
01:12:43
nextguyup
Good thing I can. Good thing I can.
01:12:48
Zack
There's a couple other fun games around around the country, but um that will probably be it for us tonight. Thank you for listening in. If you enjoyed some of our talk, um our football talk, NFL college, join our discord. We are in there with some bets. Tins has been cooking up some bets. Mason ah College, NFL, Mason with the NFL. I sometimes give out bets. Not the greatest camp or in the world, but here we are. Um,
01:13:18
Zack
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01:13:47
nextguyup
Thank you.