Jack, Kenny and Payton preview Mizzou football’s Week 2 game against Buffalo, breaking down the Bulls’ roster and top players from Week 1. The guys also dive into the tight end position, following the news that sophomore Brett Norfleet suffered an injury and will miss the second game of the season. The show closes with Quick Hits: Sara-Rose Smith, Connor Tollison and Brent Pry.
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Oh, I wish I remembered their stadium. That's bad of me for not remembering their stadium because I'm going to rip this bandaid off right away. I know this Buffalo team pretty well because I do a college football dynasty with the two gentlemen who joined me on this podcast, Peyton Kenny, as well as some other friends of ours. I am the Buffalo Bulls and said, "Dynasty." Oh, it's just UB stadium. Okay, well, I don't feel bad about not remembering that. But yeah, anyway, we'll get to some specifics on the Bulls, but how excited, Peyton Kenny, you guys, week 2, up for Mizzou, they did sell the game out, so no controversy to talk about there, but another, hopefully, cruise to victory, we would think, for the Tigers Saturday. Yeah, this shouldn't be another easy one. Buffalo has not been like a dreadful Mac team lately, but they've been very middling, very middle of the road. They haven't been consistent Mac contenders or anything that over the years should be another game that's relative, just ironing the kinks out, because all of a sudden, the Boston College game no longer looks like such an afterthought either. So definitely good Mizzou gets one more contest to kind of iron out the kinks. I just mostly go into this game, hoping the defense can not obviously, I wouldn't be mad if they gave up over 100 yards this week, but I really would like to see Cook and the receivers, just the passing game look a little more in rhythm this week, just felt a little disjointed, just with the missed deep balls and everything. So hopefully Cook can hit one or two of those, the pass game just stays in sync. And it's another easy Mizzou win. It's just kind of like last season to that 2023 schedule, you start off with a smaller end team like South Dakota in this year, you had Murray State and we talked about under DrinkWits, they haven't really blown out that first game of the season. The last two years now, it's been a, you know, an FCS school and that was their opportunity and they did that. I mean, Peyton was a big proponent of that, never letting off the gas, just blow them out, get the game done, get everyone a chance, score a lot of points. And then you kind of look back to last season, that week two game, you get a group of five team in Columbia and you win 23 to 19, you know, I'm not going to say that that's, you know, even going to be close with this Buffalo Buffalo score is, but it's just another game that you just want to keep building off of it. You know, you want to go one and O each week and you just want to thump them. I mean, that that's, you know, it's plain and simple. You want to blow them out and that you just want to keep building off of it because, I mean, that like Peyton said, the Boston College game is not looking, you know, a lot more like a game. So that's, you just want to keep building off that, you know, and anything to be close. Yeah, I'm glad we hinted at that. I mean, we'll talk about the more Boston College look good that running quarterback they've got. What was his last name, Coste, Thomas Coste, he looks good. He looks a little bit scary, but so yeah, they'll have to keep their what's about them for that. Yeah, I'm not too worried. I would like to see the defense maybe pitch a shutout, even if, even if it is, I guess Peyton wants to look, you said you're looking for more offensive consistency, but it would be kind of fun to hear for this defense in particular, something that I think has been scrutinized. They get old to shut out in their first two games. I think that would, that would make a little bit of a statement, you know, as much as you can against Murray State and Buffalo. Yeah, the Bulls, they beat Lafayette 30 to 13 in their first game, Lafayette Leopards. It is pretty funny playing with this team on college for about 25 and then scrolling through their stats in, in real life. I'll let, I'll let you guys go if you have any highlights in Buffalo. I know Kenny took a look at their PFF, their quarterbacks as seniors named C.J. Okbana. He is from Atlanta, I believe. They're running back last game at 99 yards and touchdowns with decent, decent game for him. His name is Jacquez Barksdale. He's really bad in the game. I think I averaged about two and a half yards of carry with him. So maybe it's a, it's probably I'm really bad at the game, but they have a receiver named Nick McMillan who's pretty good and a tight end named Jake Orlando, which sounds like a Disney Channel character. That's my scouting report. And then a guy on defense linebacker by the name of Sean Doaloch is a, is one to watch. He looks, he gives this somebody that I think Peyton will get mad at when he gets like a TFL on, on Nate Noelle. That's my prediction. Wow. Two tackles for loss last week. Um, what I'm gonna, um, and this was a something that Eli Hoff from the Post Dispatch pointed out this earlier this week too. And I had noticed it before, Ogbana has actually started against Mizzou before. Uh, I believe it was his first year in college that he started a game. Uh, he was at CMO, CJ Ogbana, and he started for CMO in that 2021 game against Mizzou. You can see it there. If you're watching on the YouTube, um, he, he only completed 50% of his passes that year for 1500 yards, 12 touchdowns and eight picks, and that was by far his most, uh, most playing time he's gotten in a season. So again, Buffalo is working with a largely for the last three years in experience QB, um, that has kind of not really showed a lot. Uh, he was very middling against a FCS Lafayette team. So again, I think there's a good chance for the defense to be very good here. And you can see in 2021, Ogbana against Mizzou went seven for 14 with 53 yards, uh, no touchdowns and a pick. So will he improve upon that line? Probably. It was a 59 to 28 Mizzou win, by the way. That's right. They gave up 58 to, uh, to see, or 28 to a CMO, tough beat, tough beat. Uh, 21 points in the fourth quarter though, that's what something I'll always remember about that game. Michael Cox territory. Look at those. Look at those numbers from Zu. Oh my gosh. All right. Yeah, one second, I was just looking back at that Ross Francine Connor base like there. We'll get to this later. I was talking to a group of college students today in a class for, at Colorado and they asked me, were you at school when Drew Locke was there and I was like, are you serious? Like I just felt like, like, I know it was only a year off, but man, I, I didn't think I was that old. I was like, do you guys know who, I mean, Connor, they absolutely did not know they didn't. Yeah. It, it is tough, it is weird to think it does, Drew Locke does feel like a long time ago. And yeah, we were only off by a year on him, but yeah, you're old, Kenny. Yeah. Yeah. We're both old. Or all three of us are old. I guess Jack is a little bit less old, uh, just, you know, a couple of things to just want to look at the PFF grades. Uh, the one thing that really jumped out to me, um, we'll get to PFF a little bit later as well. Um, you know, the offensive line, just kind of middling, you know, just night, those yellow squares, 60 and below on some of these, uh, um, you know, pass block and just blocking grades in general. So maybe just something to keep an eye on, maybe a something a little bit exciting to see for this defensive line, um, see how that kind of just matches up against matches up against Mizzou. Um, they didn't, you know, favor, you know, two running backs, two running backs to get 14 carries. And Al J Henderson was the second one didn't average as much, um, but just another guy to look for on the field in the backfield. What about the, uh, defense? Can you look up? Can you look up Dolotch's PFF numbers? He's the linebacker that I think, uh, he's the, he's the, he's the one to watch. Oh, yeah. There you go. Right at the top of the F 85 defensive grade. This guy's a stud. Maybe Mizzou goes after him in the, I don't know what year he is. Maybe Mizzou goes after him in the transfer portal when he's all Mac, all Mac would not be the first time as he was gotten a Buffalo transfer. And that might be a good pivot point, but, uh, I do also just one more thing I kind of look for out of this game, get Luther burdens, some, from some statistics, please. I don't care how we do it. And I know they kind of tried it last week with that awful trick play that Luther burden was kind of the reason it messed up. Um, but I don't know if everyone saw what Macmillan did for Arizona last week. We got, we got some ground to make up in the, in the bullet and a cough race. So, um, hopefully Luther's able to kind of, he had that touchdown on the first drive. Um, then kind of just had it was quiet the rest of the way. So I'd like to see him be able to really feast this week. Yeah, that was scary. What Macmillan did a lot of yards against the New Mexico state and I think pain, when you talked about this last time we brought this up, it was all like necessary too, because Arizona was like struggling against a one one New Mexico state or New Mexico team. Yeah. It was the first game. And he like had, he couldn't come out and they just had to keep force feeding him. So it wasn't stat padding even for him. Uh, quick Buffalo quiz. Can you name one other former player from Buffalo, Khalil Mack, uh, Jarrett Patterson, Ben C. Polgar, which this is actually a good thing I want to throw out there real quick. Because you guys know, Ben C. Polgar retired from football after the, uh, the bowl game this past year. I saw it another year of eligibility. Yeah. His last year would have been 2024. The retire. I did not know that. No, but there was no path to playing time for him really. So yeah, since well, yeah, I can't think of anyone besides a Khalil Mack, but speaking of former Buffalo players, one of them is going to probably get a lot of run, uh, unfortunately, not for him, but for the sake of Mizzou not having this guy, because, uh, the Tigers are going to be without the fleet per week to Brett North fleet per Pete Thamel Missouri will be without star sophomore title and Brett North fleet against Buffalo on Saturday. He suffered a shoulder injury against Murray state, which is not a long term injury. He's considered week to week. Normally it was an all SCC freshman in 2023. I don't know what the point of watching a game is without the fleet. I'm, I'm very saddened by this, but I'm glad he's going to be okay. But I people might not know where I'm mentioning the form of Buffalo player. It's Tyler Stevens time the transfer backup tight end been getting a lot of run because North fleets been injured in spring camp or in fall camp, right? So what do you guys think of the, uh, the tight end conundrum? It's revenge game season, uh, it's really not a huge, huge deal, uh, kind of a teaching moment for Brett North fleet because the play he got hurt on was a play where he lowered his shoulder on a DB that was already going low on him and it didn't even work out. So hopefully in the future, he knows like, okay, maybe I can just tank a hit from that guy or maybe even hurdle him. He has the athleticism to see it. So don't really want to see him laying the shoulder too much. I, uh, I think Gabe D'Arman said it was like a stinger or something like that. Nothing too major. Drink which wasn't too concerned either. I bet if this was like a bigger game, uh, they might let North fleet give it a go, but quite frankly, Buffalo is a time where you can probably afford to not have Brett North fleet. Uh, Tyler Stevens, he's been in the room three years now. He knows what he's doing. Um, he's not going to, he's not going to light the world on fire, but he's capable enough to give you a couple decent plays, uh, can, he can be a factor in the run blocking game. So really shouldn't feel nor fleet's absence too much in, in this game. Yeah, I wonder how many people do remember he had a touchdown in that Georgia game in 2022. Um, with one handed, one handed is his only mazoo catch so far. This year has two receptions for 17 yards, um, in week one, uh, the last two seasons. Oh, he's had five receptions in both years. So this is kind of a, maybe a year for a game for him where he can kind of push that total. Uh, we'll see how that goes. Elset also stood out about Tyler Stevens, just looking at his page, um, he still has another year of eligibility next year. Um, necessarily, I don't know if that's going to be at mazoo because another guy we could talk about is Jordan Harris who did face a couple of, uh, injuries, um, or did face an injury leading up to the start of the season. Um, but the coaches have talked well about him in the blocking game. Um, so another guy that could probably step up in this game if he's fully ready to go. I like it. Yeah. Wow. That's crazy. Um, also that, the defensive player you were talking about for Buffalo, Sean Dolek, it does not look like he has another year of eligibility. Oh, according to his Buffalo page, bomber, missing out Mac, Mac, Mac defensive player of the year. That's my pick. Big Sean Doleauch guy. I don't know if that's how you say his name, but that's how I'm choosing to say his name. We'll find out during the broadcast, I guess. Um, yeah. All right. So yeah, I, I think I agree with you guys. I think mazoo will be fine, uh, and, and I, we do love a revenge game angle. We are fans of that on the Android rules. So, uh, we were tweeting the Tyler Stevens, just, just the mug of him from the roster page. It wasn't even an action shot, which, uh, I appreciated, I, I thought it would be easier to go with the mug just cause it's harder to identify a player with a helmet on, especially in a different uniform. So I didn't think anyone would recognize a lot of Tyler Stevens. He's had his moments. He had his touch. Yeah. Oh, another thing I just want to throw out there. I mentioned this earlier about, you know, just going and just beating up a group of five team in week two. And I, you know, it's, I think probably some people out there, some analysts and at the end of the day, the opinions of them and us probably don't matter too much. But even guys like Tom Finelli and Brandon Walker, you know, people might know out there, Tom Finelli who's at, I believe, uh, CBS and then, uh, Brandon Walker who's been around and he's at bar stool now, they even mentioned on a podcast, they were like looking at last year and they were just like, you know, not really high on mazoo. They barely beat Mississippi States. They barely beat Kansas state, which I did not agree with on that take, um, but just like an adding, you know, little Tennessee, right? Middle Tennessee. Sorry. Yeah. Beating middle Tennessee, uh, last season. So it's just one of those things, you know, make a statement, something to prove one of those things. You just want to go out there and just, I mean, thumb up, like I said, one last thing for me on Buffalo, their head coach, they're led by a first year head coach actually, uh, well, Pete Lembo, uh, oh, oh, Nolton actually has something on this. Okay. Go ahead. No, I was joking that it was me because I did him in the game. Sorry. Oh, of course. Sorry. Uh, I didn't make the connection there, uh, because I'm not very smart. But Pete Lembo, um, fun fact about him last year, he was, uh, South Carolina's special teams coach. So maybe, maybe a mismatch there, Buffalo getting, uh, the special teams coach for, uh, one of the better, uh, special teams teams in the nation in the last few years, under Beamer, Shane Beamer, Beamer Ball, uh, don't, don't ask him about, uh, hot dog, chain gangs and whatnot. Yeah. So maybe Pete Lembo can, uh, jazz up the special teams a bit out. I can't focus. Cause Kenny's zooming in on this fucking Shane Beamer on the YouTube, um, look out for a special team's match mismatch though. Also Pete Lembo was the head coach at Elon from 2006 to 2007 or two, 2010. So I have actually singing, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, okay, keep talking. Yeah. Lembo, uh, this is his fourth head coaching job. Uh, he's coached at Lehigh, uh, Elon Ball State from 2011 to 2015, uh, bounced around as a special teams coordinator from 2016, all the way up to 2023 for Maryland, Rice, Memphis, most recently South Carolina and then Buffalo, uh, I do remember he had to replace Maurice Linguist pretty late in the, uh, head coaching cycle cause linguists went to take a defensive coordinator job somewhere. I forget where Maurice Linguist is the defensive backs coach at Alabama now, defensive backs coach. Yeah. Very interesting career move, but, um, I think he, I think he coached Shane Gillis, the comedian at Elon, when would Jane Gillis have been there again? Like 2007. Yeah. That's that. I mean, he was the head coach in '07. So maybe they were good that year. They were ranked number 23 in the nation, Elon, of course, uh, right outside beautiful Burlington, North Carolina, um, the locals love Elon University. The only reason I remember Buffalo, they're a mow linguist with buffaloes cause he had their best recruiting class ever in 29, 20, I think. And, uh, I looked that up cause I was trying to break it in the video game, which I did. The Bulls have a top 60 recruiting class coming in in 2025 virtually. Um, well done. Yeah. Yeah. That's about the only good thing I can do on that game. Um, all right. What can he still looks that up, Peyton? We're, I want to do score and a player to watch and we'll do for this case, not a player that maybe will change the game, but a player that coming off of the, or that you coming off of this game will be very happy if they had a good game. Does that make sense? Yeah. All right. Yeah. Uh, so the spreads like mazoo by 39 last I saw. So I'll go ahead and same as you covered again. I'll say mazoo wins this game, uh, 52 to 10. Um, I'll say Buffalo is able to reach double digits late. Um, a player I'd really like to see have a good, uh, like follow up game. Um, maybe I might go Toriano pride, uh, because, or maybe one of the linebackers. I'll go, I'll go Khalil Jacobs because he, he really stood out to me. I mean, he was flying all over the field in game one, uh, definitely the linebacker unit as a whole, what's good, but he impressed me in particular. Um, so I think I'd like to see if Khalil Jacobs can have another strong game. All right. Kenny, do you want me to go? Are you still Googling or are you, uh, you go ahead. All right. So in this game, uh, or in the video game, I played mazoo very close. The final score was 16 to nothing, which, what would your thoughts be if that happened in real life? First of all, big issues on the offensive side of the ball, Brady cook, probably looked even worse than he did in week one and Blake Craig missed, uh, an extra point. I don't think they went for two twice. I don't remember where they could three field goals. Yeah. It was, it was something like that, um, yeah, 16 and nothing. So I'm not going to pick that. I was, I was thinking of doubling it, which is what is that 32 to nothing? Yes. Yes. So I'll double it and add 10. I will go 42 to six, mazoo. Um, it's a good one. Uh, I'm thinking that Buffalo does score, uh, let's go Buffalo sneaks out of touchdown. Let's go seven 42, very close to yours, Jack. All right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if you, oh, you were good. Okay. I didn't know. There it is. All right. What were the predictions? Jack was 42 to six. It's 42 to seven again. Back to back. Kenny, I did, I did look at this. So you, you, I think one week one, right? Or Peyton, one week one. No, uh, so the margin was 51. I was eight points off or Peyton was, Kenny was 16 and you were six, uh, 66, it was 15. So yeah, I was, I was close past Peyton, one week, one, because he was the closest. What's your, uh, number? Peyton. I said 52 to 10. Okay. All right. We got locked in. Sure. You want to put, put a green around Peyton's first one to indicate that he won. We'll keep track. Loser has to spend 24 hours in a waffle house. Nope. Not doing that. Um, Kenny, give me a, a player on Mizzou that you would like to see have a good game because we won't do like a game changer just cause this, there should need to be one, but, um, when Brett was long, like to see that, Oh, that is something I need to talk about. Uh, I got an email back from, oh, for the man, manily award. Yeah. I got an email back. Oh, where is it? Uh, this is not good looking at her email right now from the manily people. I, I thought I saved it, but I guess it's gone fully put away, email on our, on our YouTube. Wow. Um, it says in the more than 30 days, it's, it was, it hasn't been more than 30 days. You lost our manily email. Are you sure it was this email that is, uh, uh, good to hear from you. Um, here's my message. I said, hello, this is Kenny Mendon, a former beat writer from Mizzou football. And I'll talk about the program for the Believe Network on the Unwritten Rule as a long snapper, uh, appreciator and mire of the position. I wanted to reach out to see what the quality qualifications are to vote for the Patrick Manily award. Thank you. And I hope everyone is well. They didn't really answer me the correct way. I just wanted to, I wanted to vote that was my, I didn't care what went into the award, uh, but Chris Rubio replied, uh, wait, I don't know if I could say that, uh, good to hear from you. Uh, we evaluate the long snapper based on the following, uh, mentality, speed, accuracy, consistency, athleticism, spiral size and blocking. Hope that helps fall camps are up. Should we all camps are up? Should we go? Ooh, 300. No, no, we don't have you. It's in Seattle. I don't think this is a, I might be other ones as a Nashville Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, Dallas for Peyton. They didn't even tell you. They just told you what makes you the dog snapper. Yeah. I asked, uh, could I vote and all right, I don't think he read it, right? I think he was asking, like you said, like, what are the requirements to, uh, yeah, but he thought you were like, oh, I just wanted to come off as like a way, like those very smart. Um, but I should have just said, yo, can I vote? Yeah. Can I vote? So what if we do, what if we do this? What if Kenny, you track them yourself for the whole season, you don't have to like formalize it or anything, but you just keep track in your own head and you give like a top three, maybe a top five, like toward the end of the season when they release theirs and you see how close it is. See if you're a better evaluator and then the people who vote on it and then you make a winner. Okay. Pay attention. But Kenny, you're going to do that long snapping award. Our good friend, Max Chadwick, did hit me up and he said, if you do find a way, if you do find like a way to vote, let me know because he also wanted to vote. Okay. So there are other people interested. Maybe we'll make an award. Max. Stay tuned. Max News. I'm a quick hit too. Do you have a serious one besides Brett LeBlanc for the player? Um, I mean, this might be another opportunity for running back to stand up or step up. I know you guys talked about it, uh, in the recap, uh, with Juan Lacey and, you know, divorce Jones, it didn't really look like he was offering too much at the position, which is kind of a, a downer for me. So it was kind of leaning on him as someone to look forward to next year, uh, but just another opportunity to see if there's some snaps for those running backs because as you get deeper into the season into SEC play, you're probably going to run with your two pets. All right. So what's running back? Follow the name. I guess. Cool on Lacey. We'll go. All right. Uh, I'm going to pick Marquis Graciel. Uh, I thought we saw a good game from Chris McClellan. I think Peyton made a good point after that where, you know, we were kind of like, Marquis Graciel seemed like he took that one spot. Then Chris McClellan goes to get to sack, kind of shows off the depth. I would like to see Marquis Graciel, a game from him that, you know, kind of affirms, Hey, this guy's really good. He deserves to be ahead of Chris McClellan, not saying he doesn't, but I think it would kind of highlight the depth, uh, at that detackle spot if he has a really good game. It's, you know, maybe he gets a sack to keep that death row defense, uh, kind of churning because Chris McClellan had a sack in the first one. Um, all right, that's, I think that's all I have for Buffalo. Oh, my one other thing. Did you guys see DrinkWits, the clip of him analyzing, uh, how Toriano, probably got the pick. He gave a lot of credit to Zion Young blitzing off the edge. It's a good clip. Uh, I would just go look it up kind of just, it was just trick with. I didn't see like Johnny Walker, apparently like there was something Murray State was doing that would tell him whether it was a runner or a pass. Yeah. So Johnny Walker knew that and then relayed that to Zion Young and then Zion Young was able to do like a pass rush plus. So I guess it was more Johnny Walker, but both those D ends basically wrecked having caused that pick, which was impressive. Good stuff from week one. Yeah. I liked what I saw. All right. There you go. We're predicting blowouts again for the Bulls and some Missouri Tigers. Please do not repeat the result I had in the game because that would be concerning. So watch that. That is on. What is it? SEC network. SEC network. 6 p.m. ESPN. Oh, it's a network plus an ESPN plus. We already in that point of the season, I guess these kinds of games don't exactly get on the, uh, the mainstream. Mizzou is 34 and a half point favorites. So over under 51 and a half. Keep an eye on that. Mizzou cashed the over at the last minute, last time, so if you're a betting man, there's your spreads. All right. We'll finish the show with quick hits. All right. We'll finish the show with quick hits. We've got jerseys of the week up first, then we'll go to our birds, then we got the best things we learned. But we jerseys first. Kenny. What's your jersey the week? Uh, my jersey the week goes to former, um, Mizzou guard, Sarah Rose Smith, kind of a fun story here. Uh, I mentioned it that I talked to, um, some students at the Colorado, uh, Buffalo journalism school, Colorado journalism school and, uh, I got a question when I was like talking to the students and Sarah Rose Smith came on the screen and she had her Mizzou shirt on just like coincidentally and, um, she was just asking me, she's like, Oh, if you could recover like a basketball game, like women's basketball, I was like, no, I was just more of like a fan going to those games. And I was like, man, like her name sounds so familiar. And she had an act, you know, she had an Australian accent. Like she probably was an athlete there. If she's now at a new school and then I clicked at the end that it was Sarah Rose Smith that I was talking to, it's a very cool moment there. She is now playing basketball for the lady buffs. And another thing is that after she asked me those questions, she asked me to rank, uh, three Mizzou bars. She gave me my house, Willie's and Harpo's. I went Harpo's one, uh, Willie's two, my house three. And then I gave her my three favorites because they weren't included in that. And I said social room, the understudy and B12. And that was a good conversation we had. No one else understood it except us. It was like we were speaking a different language. That is funny that other just Colorado kids had to listen to that and they were like, where are they? What are they talking about? Yeah. This guy went to school at Drew Lock. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got, you got a couple went to school at Drew Lock's. That's unfortunate. Um, yeah. I had no, I did not know Sarah Smith was still playing. I did not know she was still playing either. I did know that she actually went to Colorado because I covered the beat in her last season at Mizzou. She was always like, he had a lot of potential. She's a taller guard, uh, pinched and always loved, loved, always raved about her. Um, but just kind of inconsistent. She was very good at getting, she was a very good boarding, uh, guard, like she, she could grab the boards because of her size, but very, just kind of up and down offensively, um, found a new home at Colorado. Uh, it looks like she came off the bench, uh, exclusively there. That's a pretty good role for her. So that's cool, fun little small world moment for you, Kenny. Um, and yeah, it looked, it didn't know she was still able to play, but good for her. Yeah. Shout out. Um, Kenny, I agree, I think I agree with your bar rankings at the flip social room and the understudy, but I didn't really have those in a specific order. I also said, like when she said, cause I needed a reminder with the third one was and she said my house and I was like, Oh man, if you're going to throw my house in there, that means you might have liked it. So that's why I apologize before I ranked it third, we're, we're, we're not my house supporters in this, on this podcast. Let the record show. All right, Peyton, your jerseys of the week. My jersey of the week is going to be what Missouri is wearing against Buffalo on Saturday. They're weak two threads, um, they are going to be wearing, it's a white out this weekend in the crowd and they will be sporting the white helmets with the oval tiger. Damn dogs. Shut up. Uh, I don't know if you guys can hear that, but, uh, black jersey, black jersey and white pants. Um, so that's what they're doing. They went to Connor's cave. What do you call it again? What's the actual spot called? Devil's ice box. Devil's ice box. Yeah. Um, so Caleb and can drew friend of the show had a very good tweet about it. Um, like, okay, they went, they went to, you got to talk through it, Peyton. Kenny got really good at this. It's really hard. I don't know. How do you do it, Kenny? Um, they, they went to film with a horse for the first video reveal. He went to the devil's ice box for the second one and do you, does anyone have any guesses for the third one? Kenny said social room. Uh, I forget if Callum gave the guest, uh, somewhere with the tiger hotel, either in the back or like in the tiger hotel, they're going to do something with that. That's a good one. Paying young dogs. I could see like, I could see them like starting the film like in the bathtub and you could just like see like the socks of the uniform, like over the, over the bathtub and like the curtain thing. And then you just kind of like keeps flashing parts of the uniform in different parts of the hotel. And then you get to the top and maybe they do like a drone shot of like the player on top of it. It's sitting there. Yeah. With the big logo of the background. Um, Callum said the pinnacles. Oh, I like the, I like the pinnacles. Yeah, that's a good one. They already went kind of nature is the only thing. I think they'll do the truck stop golf, uh, course mini golf courts. I think they'll do one of the andies. Um, also definitely like uniform set much more than last week. Uh, I think the white helmets are so clean. Um, I like the white pants. I don't know. Some about like white, black, black doesn't appeal to me as much as white, black, white. So I don't like, I don't like as much white at home. I just feel like when you can use the white on the white, I just think white looks really good on the zoo. So I'm going to, I'm going to support this one. Did you guys see that, uh, Florida had a white out for the first game of the season and wore blue? Um, like the stadium was a white out and they wore blue uniforms. So Miami were all white. West Kentucky is having a similar situation. They're trying to do their like annual white out game, but eastern Kentucky, who they're trying to do it against, troll them and did not agree to let them wear white. So now, uh, western Kentucky has to wear red to their white out game. I love it. Was it, uh, who did Arsenal's softball game last week? They got perfect. It's a pine bluff. They got flagged because they had the, yeah, wrong color uniform. Arkansas politely declined, luckily, yeah, out of respect. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Nice, Peyton. I will, I will enjoy these uniform reveals. They're always fun. Sorry for the horrible delivery of the news. I think my dogs are a little upset. It's all right. They don't like though. Yeah. They don't like the white helmets. They're they're script, they're script tigers dogs. That's their favorite. Drink. It's called the ad before the season. So I don't know how often we're going to see them. It's tough. All right. My Jersey the week staying on the Mizzou football front is Connor Talison. Mizzou's center. He was the highest created center so far. He is the highest created center of the season so far through one game. 84.1. Shout out Connor Talison, much improved last year. Good and week one. That's all I got Connor Talison, highest graded center in Mitchell Walters, getting shout outs on SEC network. Who would have ever thought this back in 2022? Peyton's favorite player. Yep. Armamento also got a shout out. Yes. Cole Kubelik. Kubelik. How do you? However you say it. Kubelik. Uh, he's a big old line guy. Green network gave praise to both Mambu and Walters. Noted. Noted. All right. Next. He's the main bird. It's our Shawnees main bird of the week. I I wouldn't rewatch the clip the other day of him in the, I think it was the schedule of you when he points to the hoop and just goes, what's that right there? Mm hmm. Makes me laugh every time. I love him. I miss Shawnees so much. What's your member of the week, Kenny? I remember the week goes to PFF. The connection is that Neil Hornsby, the founder of PFF. And co or ex, CEO of the company went to the Liverpool John Moore's university, which has three birds on its crest. Actually six. You count these three. Lots of them. That's my connection. But no, PFF signed a strategic or believe signed a strategic partnership with PFF to distribute all their podcasts. So we are now in conjunction with our good friend Max Chadwick. Yeah. He's means he has to start taking our calls again. That's why he hasn't been on. He just he's been big timing after last year. He's big time. I don't think that's true guys. Got on fine. Bob is Max Chadwick. I think it's irresponsible to say such a thing. Do you think he do you think he's ducking us? Because he knows we're going to ask about the, uh, the Chotic thing. Oh, I'm not saying he have the typo, the fine Bob mishap. Yeah. I think that's how you spell it. Yeah. That's different. We love Max. Yeah. This is cool. So yeah, we're also starting to use PFF stats just because why not? Yeah. Rough, rough beat for Max. Yeah. We love, we love PFF. I like using their stats. It is a, it is very helpful. All right. Payton. My main bird is going to be Brent Pry of the Virginia Tech Hokies. I came into the year, a sleeper, like in the ACC, they had a little bit of buzz around them. Like people really liked this Virginia Tech team. They went out and laid an absolute egg for lack of a better term against Vanderbilt, lost to them in overtime and Brent Pry, like I know what he's saying here. He's trying to, he does this with every week, but the optics are so bad. After losing to Vandy, he tweeted on to Marshall, 1 and 0 with the game 2 graphic against Marshall. Sometimes coach put the phone down, man. Like even if, for one, like there's no guarantee he didn't schedule this tweet beforehand and just assumed they'd be 1 and 0 after beating Vanderbilt. That's not what happened, I'm sure, but it's just bad optics. He was getting flamed for it in the, in the replies. I mean, he got a healthy amount of quote tweets. Um, I want to reply, just says this is sad. Yeah. So tough one, tough one for Brent Pry, but yeah, he's my main bird for, for being able to tweet this and with a straight face. It was a tough one for Brent Pry, Kenny, but it was an absolute banner day for our boy, Diego. I piss on your field, Pavia, who got a win with Vandy and then said, I am not the Walmart Trace McSorley, because someone apparently called him that, which is a really good roast, but I'm, don't disrespect Diego Pavia that way. It's not even that bad of a roast. I mean, Tracy Floriley was a good quarterback in college. I think he just, I mean, he wants to be better than Trace and respect to him. Um, the one thing, if he did schedule this, it was that 659 central time 559 where Virginia Tech is, uh, we had an early riser. Right. Hey, yeah. He's got to get up and grind. Want to know. Kenny, come on. I think I was on Labor Day too. Yeah. It was grand. It was grand for Brent Pry. It was Labor Day. It's got to scout out whoever Marshall's quarterback is. All right. My main bird of the week, I'm giving it to the Baltimore Ravens, uh, for context to those watching on the YouTube, the photo is of a comedian named Stavros. I just thought it was funny. He's a funny comedian. He's holding a gun in the photo, which is crazy. He's also a Ravens fan. Uh, I just wanted to do this one because it's game day. We're recording this on Thursday. The NFL is back. Uh, so that's exciting. And the Ravens played the Chiefs. So I picked the Ravens because they're the birds and I thought I would throw out, do you guys have any big football takes for the season that you'd like to put on record? Uh, the Chiefs are going to win the Super Bowl. That's my hot take. Wow. Thanks. That's a good one. Um. Oh, hot take. I don't really know that I have like any scorching hot takes. Like if I was to make it for one rather vanilla right now, you can give yours. Jets Super Bowl. Not winning. They're going to go to it and lose that one. That's a terrible one. Um, my hot take of the hopper. I'm big on the jets this year. I can't like I think the entire NFC East stinks. I'm like kind of hot on the Rams, winning the NFC West, but maybe not anymore because the West is going to be a crazy division. I am Francisco got all their holdouts figured out. Uh, the NFC West is a joke. Um, you know, a lot of teams like in the West, I've been, I've been looking at a lot of like those random polls that the athletic do where they survey like coaches and say like, who's going to win the Super Bowl? Who's going to be the surprise team and all that stuff for the surprise team? Everyone says the Cardinals. And I think it's because they drafted Darius Robinson. But people love the Cardinals bringing that Cotton Bowl culture to Eric to the desert. People people love the, uh, the Cardinals. Um, I don't know, no, I don't think Jets are going to go to the Super Bowl, but I do like them. I think they're going to win the division. I think Aaron Rodgers could be a bang average quarterback. And that team still going to be really good because I think if I had to give one hot take and it's not even super hot because I'm saying, Oh, elite quarterback will win MVP. Like, if the bills like are an 11 win team, I think that probably is good enough to get Josh Allen and MVP because that team is bad around him. Let's do a quick prediction for each of your teams, mostly because I want to ask Peyton. Where are you on the bears right now? Cause I feel like every bears fan I ask is just the word. Nine and eight. Caleb Williams. Good. Working the year. Yeah. I'll say so. I'll say he thinks we're key the year. All right. Kenny, you got Texas take? Um, I'm definitely afraid of a regression, especially just after such a good year for CJ Stroud. And if I, I mean, I'm even making the jokes that he was doing a lot, um, in the media and getting a lot of attention this off season and, you know, that doesn't necessarily correlate to the field, but I've just been terrified, uh, to myself. I sometimes can't sleep at night. Uh, let's go, uh, 11 and six. Okay. When the division? Yes. All right. I think, I think you're going to get the benefit, even if they do regress a little bit that the AFC South is just kind of bad. I don't like it's very good. Uh, Seahawks, I have 10 wins, 10, seven playoffs. I can make like Donald brings a new energy and is the, he, he, uh, bests Harbaugh for like the new coach that everyone gets really excited about. That's my optimistic take 10 wins, I like 10 wins for them. Ken Walker too. Gonna be a top five back in the league. He's a dog. No. How many weeks until can Quinn is, uh, on a t-shirt? Oh, I don't know. Where is he now? He's Washington's coach. That's right. That's right. Jane Daniels. People like Jane Daniels. Yeah. I think he could win Ricky the year if they're half decent. Yeah. Well, so maybe not until next year, Kenny, I think it'll be a bit of a, it'll be a while for Ken Quinn. Sounds like. Yeah. I don't know. We need a new can this year. We'll find someone maybe Dan Campbell. It might be Dan Campbell. He was, he was. Can Campbell. Yeah. But like then we went to Quinn, we got to, we might go back to Campbell. He might. Can of the year. We'll do that. Hand of the year. We'll do that. Hand of the year. This is when we're bringing back, uh, the fraud rankings. Oh, do we want to? Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. I didn't, I didn't want to that much, but now I kind of want to. Cause it was fun. Yeah. I want to go all in and make more of the songs. The songs were good. Put in the comments if you're an OG unwritten rule listener from last year. If you want the fraud rankings back, that's not an OG man. Yeah. That's why I laughed when I said it paid. Best thing you learned. What'd you learn? Best thing I learned this week, Mizzou sellout streak is still going on. Thank you. Kansas state. Um, the, the, uh, the tweet came in on the morning. We're recording this on a September 5th Thursday. Uh, Mizzou Buffalo is sold out. Uh, the, the Missouri Tigers will have a full crowd in attendance for the eighth, I believe. Straight game. Uh, so there you go. Um, and Boston college the week after is already sold out. That'll be nine. And if Vanderbilt sells out, which it probably will, that'll be a full season of sellouts. So fans have shown up good for good, good on them, good for them. Um, that, and now it's, it's on Drink What's in Coda to make sure they can keep them there. I mean, it's truly, truly is this season, uh, has quite a bit hanging in the balance. Cause I mean, if you go out and deliver, uh, while while your fans are selling out games like Buffalo and Murray state for you, they're not going to go anywhere, man. They're going to stick around. I'm wrong. Um, I think this is seven. Maybe it is seven and maybe Boston college is eight. It's seven or eight. It's seven podcasting on my end, but I think it's seven because I remember in the, uh, the video, um, the mini movie this past week, I thought the broadcast it's six. Okay. Seven or eight. You might be arranged. I'm going to. I'm going to find it. Okay. Um, okay. Best thing I learned this week. Uh, this is a, yeah, this is a, this is a tough one. Um, I've been told you guys the story yet, uh, on Thursday, I was hanging out with some friends out and about, uh, took an Uber home and I left my phone in the car and I didn't know I left my phone in the car until 10 o'clock the next morning. Uh, I woke up and I was like, lies in and under my pillows where I always keep my phone. Um, tell me if that's a bad thing. If anyone knows in the comments, it's like, am I going to get radiation? If I do that. Let me know. I've heard that, but like interjecting, uh, the Buffalo sellout is seven Boston college will be eight. All right. Cool. Um, so yeah, I left my, uh, my phone in the car. Um, I wasn't really freaking out. I don't really know why I just was like, Oh, okay, it's in the car, um, the good thing is, I mean, it's Uber driver, uh, he gets paid, um, if I, if I get that phone back, um, so I searched, I mean, opened up my, uh, my girlfriend's phone. Um, she noticed, or my friend's phone, uh, that she noticed that it was like 30 minutes away from where we were. Um, not too far. It was at a hotel, um, of all places, which is kind of funny, uh, so it's still in the guy's car. We met at a Walmart, he just handed it off to me, um, got my phone back. Give me that. Yeah. Well, yeah, no, it just auto pays him. Um, how did you get in contact with Uber driver? You can, you can contact the any of your previous Uber drivers and it'll, it'll tell them and they just respond and he's like, hey, found the phone, meet me here. And we got it. Very lucky, man, that I did not even know this happened to you. That is, I didn't tell anyone. I mean, I just was like, nah, whatever. I mean, I got it back. Hey, I don't need to do if you left your phone in an Uber because I don't, I don't need to be panicking. There is no chance I would have been able to function without it. It was cool. I felt so unplugged. I felt like I was in 2006, I don't even think I knew what a phone was. You're without your phone for what, like three hours, uh, from three AM until 11 AM. Okay. So yeah, I mean, like three hours when you were actually awake, when you wake up and realize you didn't have it, when I was like getting ready to leave, uh, my friend's house for Labor Day weekend. And I was like, Oh, just not under my pillow. What time was that? So you got this all figured out, like, Oh, yeah, man, I got to figure out, I'm like, yeah, it was fast. Yeah. It's like, just messaged the guy and like, okay, you know, we'll meet you there on the way to the lake and everything. Well, well, yeah, if you leave your phone, don't worry. This was a good day. Cause you pulled this site up like we were about to buy you a new phone live on the show. No, I'm just showing you that I have the iPhone 15 pro max, uh, titanium. Oh my God, it's very heavy because it's made of titanium. Yes. All right. Nice. Glad you got back. All right. Thank you. Best thing I learned this week. We're going back to week, I guess week two of college football already. This is one of the more college football stories ever. If you hadn't seen Florida State, of course, ranked one spot above Mizzou at number 10. That was proven to be one of the dumbest takes of this century because the Seminoles are now zero and two and plummeted out of the top 25 after losses to Georgia Tech and Boston college. Now, if you've been following college football, you've probably seen this. If you haven't been college following college football, allow me to enlighten you a Florida state fan with the Twitter account three, two at three, two, one, Noel tweeted, uh, that a Florida state lost to Boston college over the weekend, their second game, which I think was on last Sunday night. Um, he said if they lost to him, he was going to eat dog poop out of a red solo cup with a spoon, put it on the video. Book it. Exclamation point is how he ended the tweet. They lost. He since deleted everything. He's deleted his Twitter is Instagram, all of his social media, college football community is not standing for any of that. People have tracked him down. They found his Snapchat and his phone number and have demanded him to eat the dog poop out of the red solo cup. People are calling it the dog poop red solo cup curse on Florida state that they'll never win again until he does this. This is just the most college football story ever. I love it so much, uh, that this happened and he's just tried to make it go away and the internet has just decided to fixate on a guy saying that he did dog poop out of a cup of Florida state lost and that that program's a dumpster fire. I love it so much. I have a take on the situation. You two may not like it, it may make me sound like a grouch, but I kind of don't like tracking down the guy's phone number and everything personal info for a rather like it's an out there tweet, but it's not like the most obscene tweet ever. I mean, the amount of times I've said like, if Mizzou doesn't win a basketball slash football game, insert XYZ that's like 10 times worse than what this tweet is, then people would be hunting down my phone number as well. So, um, I kind of don't love going after him, like make fun of him on Twitter all you want if he ever comes back, like just reply like, Oh, where's the dog poop video or whatever, but I kind of wouldn't go after his phone number and try and become a internet Sherlock Holmes over it. Yeah, it's always good to just separate this second life that he lives on social media from what his real life is, because if even if you look at the photo, I think it's an AI generated photo of a guy in a beach smoking a cigar in a Florida state get up. So this is just one of those things where yeah, it's funny in the moment, let's move on to week three, you know, the guy made a really bad mistake by posting that. It is pretty funny that, you know, he was that competent in his team after how that week, how week one went, but, uh, um, shout out Bill O'Brien. That's all I got to say in this. Yeah, Bill O'Brien with a comeback to the edge. I can agree with the matter, Brian. I can agree with you, Peyton. I, I wasn't full in on the like hunting down his phone number and, and snapping stuff. I thought it was funny how much it caught fire. Like it's one of those things where it's just a random college football piece of BS, just like catches, catches fire for some reason, like that's what I love about college football and college football Twitter. Like it's just, I feel like only in that is just stuff like this becomes such a, like a big thing on the internet, um, you know, and obviously it has to do with Florida state being just awful to start the year, you know, and this guy just becomes the scapegoat for it. So it is a tough look, but yeah, I, I can, I can yield for sure the not probably tracking down his number. But I, would I have done that to somebody definitely not, but it is still, it is still funny that everything lives on the internet forever. That's, that's, it's still a good lesson of that. Look at us. We're good people. Hey, two, one. No, if you ever want to come on our show and, you know, you got to eat the poop, right? The shift. No, no, you don't have to, if you want to, no, but you don't have to, but look at us or good people. That's the thing. That's the other thing about that. Like Andy Staples was saying he could come do it live on his show. That's how big this got. Van Pelt brought it up. Like it's just so funny that like, like it's sweet, like that, just getting that widely circulated. I just think it's, I just think it's, is really good, but also it's Florida State losing. I don't want Florida State. I don't think either of you two care for Florida State. So I do, I did, um, BCS National Championship Florida State hat that I wore to every single track meet, um, until my senior year of high school. And the one time I didn't wear it, James Winston and Mike Evans walked past me at the track meet. I don't, I think I told you guys this story before, one of my worst moments of my life, not wearing that hat to the track meet, man, because, uh, Mike Evans is from Galveston and they were practicing on the off season, uh, in Houston. Eat a double moment. All right. That's up there. It's like a top worst moment of my life. If Mizzou loses to Buffalo, I'll, I'm just kidding. I'll eat a Buffalo wings for the rest of the week. And only Buffalo wings. My favorite one was like someone did it for Nebraska Colorado and they were like, Colorado loses. I will get really drunk and eat a bunch of food. Book it. And I was like, I hope you see. Mizzou loses to Buffalo. I'll go to Niagara Falls in a bathing suit in December. Okay. No, there's one you get in the, um, the barrel and we'll push you down. I'm not going to do the barrel thing. But all right, we're holding you to that. Yeah, they lose anything suit, only a bathing suit, but it could be one, it could be a one piece, maybe, maybe a full, you know, speed of 1920 style, banana hammock, one piece, painting suit. Anyways, this one comes from our favorite TV series. The today show guys, this is a good one. Why did the whale blush? Oh, beluga, beluga, something with blubber, maybe. Well, wouldn't you like to know thought another was hot. It's, it's all the oceans bottom. So it blushed. I didn't like that one. It's Al's had better, Al's had, Al didn't make this one. Oh, sorry. Al. Sorry to put that on you. All right. That's it. We will be back Monday to recap the game. Uh, we're going to record that part on Sunday, just because late. So we'll hold off, but it will, we will be out Monday. We'll have more chance to process our thoughts and then maybe, maybe that'll be their turn of fraud rankings. Maybe no promises, but it might be. It could be. That's what we want to see. All right. 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