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Aaron Rodgers and the Jets Blow Out the Patriots | The Big 6 in 60
The Jets beat the Patriots in convincing fashion Thursday night, and Shohei Ohtani hits 50 home runs and 50 steals. George Kittle could miss this week for the 49ers, and FSU brings a proposal to the ACC. Should Jordan Love play this week? #jets #patriots #shoheiohtani #dodgers #georgekittle #49ers #floridastate #acc #jordanlove #packers
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With the pressure of being back in MetLife Stadium, the pressure of needing to have a good performance against the New England Patriots on Thursday night football, needing to show that this team, this offense, this unit was trending in the right direction. The New York Jets answered every question, checked every box and gave Jets fans that big time performance all because of Aaron Rodgers in his first MetLife Stadium victory as did quarterback for the New York Jets. I know that first one technically counts where he played four plays, but this one's probably going to feel a little sweeter than that one did. 281 yard performance, two touchdowns ended the night 27 for 35, 281 yards, the two touchdowns a pass rating of 118.9 and he got it to everybody. It's going to take me a little bit to count all of the guys that were involved in this offense. They spread the ball around to everybody. Tyler Conklin with a big game. Alan Mozard caught a touchdown. Garrett Wilson caught a touchdown. Mike Williams showed that contested catch ability. Breece Hall involved in the passing game, Braylon Allen involved in the passing game, Jeremy Ruckert involved in the passing game, Xavier Gibson caught a number of passes. Let's do some quick math here. That's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight different receivers caught a pass from Aaron Rodgers tonight in this 24 to three victory and going into the game tonight. There are a lot of questions. Is the rust going to be able to be shaken off with a short week? Is this team going to be able to put together a better performance than they did against Tennessee? You've got a 40 year old quarterback coming off of an injury, a team that doesn't feel like they're gelling yet a short week, not going to really get that in depth practice time to be able to work on some of the things that plague them in that Tennessee game. Well, this team started out hot. They started off with, I thought, some excellent play calls, really only one series where the play calling felt a little weird after the Chuck Clark fumble in the fourth quarter. It felt like the only time where Nathaniel Hackett got maybe a little too conservative running on back-to-back plays and then only taking the shot to Mike Williams on third down when they had to have it. But other than that, I mean, a nifty opening play call, running a little play action after everybody probably thinks you're going to run the ball. You get Garrett Wilson coming across everybody for a little screenplay out in space. I thought that was really good. And the only thing that stopped them on that opening drive was a penalty and then a bad sack that they allowed some pressure. And that stalled that opening drive, and then from there, it was everything that I think Jets fans wanted to see from this offense. Third down conversions, time of possession, balance, Rogers doing things that I don't know if we thought were still left in the tank for Aaron Rodgers. After the first two games, a lot of questions about the rust, but there were also questions of what version of Aaron Rodgers would he be when the rust does wear off? Could he be the guy that is super mobile in the pocket that can get out and make those plays happen off structure? Well, guess what? Aaron Rodgers showed you tonight. He still has that gear in him. He still has that step in him to be able to get outside the pocket and be able to extend drives. I mean, he had a couple of runs to extend drives to pick up first downs. I think he ended up with three carries in the game, but countless times he's able to move out of the pocket. I remember one early in the first half where he hit Jeremy Ruckert, saw the pressure, did a little slight step through his right boom, hit Jeremy Ruckert for a little four or five yard game to keep the drive alive. And you just saw that time in and time out tonight, when this team really needed a play to keep the drive going, to keep the momentum going, Aaron Rodgers was the guy who delivered. So for a team that has not seen that type of quarterback play in a really long time, they saw what this thing could look like at an elite level when everything is clicking. The time of possession battle absolutely dominated by the New York Jets, 40 minutes and four seconds, the time of possession, the New England Patriots only got to 19 minutes and 56 seconds. They just could not get anything going. This was the talk going in. If the New York Jets offense could be consistent, if they could do the thing they had not done in the first two weeks and they were able to go on drives and put a lead on the board, the New England Patriots are not a team that is designed offensively to play catch up. If they have a lead, they're going to be tough, but they are a team that if they have to play catch up, they are going to struggle and the New York Jets offense tonight heard that message, probably got that message instilled into them all week and they went out there and delivered. The Pats didn't do a lot on their opening drive, we'll get into the defense here in a little bit and the Jets after getting a nice stop defensively, hand the ball back to their offense, their offense in flow, they get a free 15 yards on that first scoring drive and it really felt like on that drive that took the Jets up 7-0, Aaron Rodgers was playing chess, not checkers with this Patriots defense and Dorod Mayo, the constant checks at the line, the constant adjustments, the constant audibles, he was just moving pieces all along the chess board and he was absolutely going toe to toe with this Patriots defensive staff and he was beating them and then he gets the ball out to Lazar, Lazar breaks a tackle, got his jersey getting, his t-shirt getting ripped away, it still doesn't matter, he's able to get in there and then it was 7-0 and then from there the Jets just never look back, they had full control of this game, the defense came to play and the offense left a little bit on the table and we'll get to that a little bit when we talk about the concerns coming out of this game because there are a couple, some missed opportunities on the board, some missed points on the board would be the thing, that's probably the biggest takeaway from the offense but when you look up and down the team stats, 27 first downs, 10 of 15 on third down, 400 yards of offense, 70 total plays, Aaron Rodgers throwing the ball what 35 times, getting close to 300 yards, not turning the ball over, he gets two touchdowns, they get a rushing touchdown from Breeze Hall, if you were, if we were doing a locked-on Jets precast and we were discussing the keys to victory for the New York Jets, it would be, you gotta convert on third down, don't turn the ball over, have balance and do all of the little things that they did right tonight, they just got everybody involved, Nathaniel Hackett was super creative I think early, being able to get multiple people involved, some good targets for Xavier Gibson, they got Jeremy Ruckert involved after missing the touchdown, last week probably just needs to continue to run that route and he scores, they went back to him tonight, had him in there as a full back, they had Solomon Thomas down there in the red zone, in the goal line situation, in as a full back, they just felt like a team that had gotten more comfortable, they looked like a team that felt like okay, two weeks in, we know what we've been doing well, we know what we have been doing well, we can add a little bit more, we're more comfortable with each other, we can add more to the plate, we can expand this playbook, add some more stuff, get a little bit more creative and I think you saw that because this Patriots defense is no slouch, this Patriots defense caused chaos for Joe Barrow and the Bengals, they took Seattle overtime and made Geno Smith work for it and so for this Jets offense, with all of the questions coming in of whether or not they were going to be able to be consistent enough on a short week, for them to have this type of effort tonight, again, you have to be thrilled with them meeting the moment on Thursday night in front of their home crowd, a home crowd that was Rockets, a home crowd that was ready for this moment and they wanted to finally have their Aaron Rodgers at home at MetLife Stadium moment that they did not get a year ago in the opener on Monday Night Football and boy did the New York Jets and Aaron Rodgers deliver in terms of their home victory, I think the first time they've beaten the Patriots at home since December of 2015 and like I mentioned in the cold open, their first two-in-one start since 2015, so you have to go way back before you will find a Jets team that has had this type of start and it is all because of the guy playing quarterback, the guy under center, we are number eight. 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Yeah, it reminds me of like sometimes on Twitter when you know people will say, oh, predict like in Kershaw's stat line for tonight and I'll say like 10 innings, 34 strikeouts, negative six are runs, you know, and this is one of those like if somebody said predict shohayot stat line for today and I said six for six, three homers, two doubles, 10 RBIs, four run scored, two stolen bases, it would have been, I wouldn't have said that seriously, it would have been joking. Not quite as extreme as the Kershaw example I said but you know, yeah, like you said, you would not predict a game like this because a game like this has never happened, a game like this will probably never happen again and the fact that Otani had this game in this moment to send the Dodgers to the postseason, send himself to the postseason for the first time ever to get himself from 48/49 to 51/51, you know, he had a walk off Grand Slam to get to 40/40 and somehow he managed to make it even more dramatic getting to 50/50 just ridiculous and like it was seriously the kind of game that you will never forget, if you're a Dodger fan, you'll never forget where you were watching. This is our JFK getting shot or whatever moment our parents talk about growing up, you know, this was, I'm, you know, me, I'm a cheesy dad, I watched home run number 50 with my son in our living room, the same son who I was with, the day that Shohei signed with the Dodgers and I had an emotional father son bonding moment with him back in December and now nine months later, boom, that, that baby that we conceived nine months ago popped out and hit 50/50 today and another awesome moment with my son and dampened only slightly by the fact that I used a childbirth analogy to describe it. Yeah, I guess the only thing that, and it's mentioned here is that he didn't get the cycle, but I don't, the cycle would have been cool because it would have been done organically, like it was, he tried for the triple even before he had the home run, but yeah, it's one of those where you have the four in one game, you have Finley's No Walk Off Grand Slam Against the Giants, you have the Dodger postseason moments, you have, you know, a lot of different things, absolute madness, like there's a lot of different things over the years as Dodger fans that you can remember where you were and it may be a little less anticlimactic the fact that it was a Thursday day game, like, you know, some people might have still been at work and not been able to watch it on TV, but regardless of it all, you're gonna remember this day, you're gonna remember that, you know, the fact that it was, he got the 50th stolen base, he got the 50th home run, he added one more to each of those totals, he, I guess we should have known when he had the decoy cleats on that someone's gonna happen because that's when he hit number 40 and got to 40/40 is when he had the decoy cleats and kind of funny that everything, like, the cleats, he had to take them off and they got authenticated and he had different cleats on when he hit the 50th first home run. So there was a lot of different things to this game, the fact that it all culminated in the Dodgers country in a playoff spot, Shaheel Tani, it will now officially be in the playoffs for the first time in his career, you know, the fact that the Dodgers got to salute that, salute the fact that they made the playoffs, but, you know, still haven't had that. I think they're gonna save the true celebration for winning the West in terms of getting the champagne out and spraying each other with it, but it was more than you could have asked for in a few different ways and I don't think anyone would ask for it to happen this way and it will break down a break down another stat of just how crazy the game was, but yeah, I mean, it was one of those things where you didn't, I did not expect to do all this on a Thursday. Yeah, absolutely, a Thursday day game, which, you know, also makes it, you know, like some people had to hear about it in a text from their dad, like my other son, he was at baseball practice after school, and he found out about 5050 from me in a text, but 348 times a guy's hit for the cycle, zero times before today a guy's had 5050, Otani, sit for the cycle before Otani will hit for the cycle again. I don't care about that cycle, like, and, you know, there are a lot of people who were hoping after he hit number 49 that he would not hit another one so that he could get the 5050 at home for me. I was all about doing it at Lone Depot Park or whatever it's called in Miami, which is where he won the world baseball classic two years ago, which I guess a year and a half ago. So that's a very special place for him in his career. And I'm excited for Friday, his first at bat at Dodger Stadium, there it's going to be like when a player comes back, you know, as a visiting player after leaving for ages or whatever, and the ovation that he gets, show it on his going to get standing ovation before his first at bat on Friday that's going to delay the game. And Dodger finally got to give him all the love that they wanted to give him, you know, even though they didn't get see 5050 in person for me, this was perfect storybook and having literally like most RBIs in a game ever by a Dodger. First player ever to have multiple stolen bases in a three home run game. Twenty guys had stolen one base in a three home run game. No, not 20 guys, it happened 20 times Eric Davis did it twice. Nobody had ever stolen two bases in a three home run game. No, like tied for the third most total bases in a game ever. Only the seventh player ever to have 17 total bases in a game, three of those seven or Dodgers, just everything about the game. Joe, Joe Davis described it as the best offensive game in history. And it when you look at the overall everything that he did, yeah, it's hard to argue with that assessment. I think the coolest part in and maybe this is a little bit of a combination of what my timeline is, but usually if you're on the for you page of Twitter, you can kind of see other things. I haven't seen anything about the fact that the last home or with soccer position player like it's one of the things that kind of got overlooked because it's just the greatness that it was. And a couple of stats before we head to the first break right here. So before this season, 31 players had hit 50 home runs in the season of those 31 players, only two of them have ever had a 50 steel season also in their career. Barry Bonds and Brady Anderson now show Hill, Tony's the first one to have him in the same year. And then the other one that we saw is now there have been players that have had games with 10 plus RBI's, 6 plus hits, 5 plus extra base hits, 3 plus homers and 2 plus stolen bases. There are one player that's ever had all of that in their entire career, not just the same game, but in their entire career, Charlie O'Donnell did that all in one game today. So it was unprecedented, 50/50's unprecedented. You know, as a Dodger fan, this amount of home runs in the season unprecedented. You know, he broke Sean Green's record and extended it, his own record. And yeah, it's one of those where everything that you can think about in the future, none of that mattered today. And this is the one time I feel like people got to enjoy the moment and did enjoy the moment. And that's the way it should be, especially in the regular season, and he gets to face Rocky's pitching six times the rest of the season. So here comes 60 60, baby. What the San Francisco 49ers have to do to beat the Los Angeles Rams. You are locked on 49ers. Your daily San Francisco 49ers podcast, part of the locked on podcast network, your team every day. Okay, Croc. Key to victory number one is Brandon Ayuk. And he's the guy now. He's wide receiver one on this football team. There's no Christian McCaffrey. There's no Divo Samuel. So I want to see two things with Brandon Ayuk in this game. And, and we could speak to the idea that he's not getting open, which is, I think, false. Right, Croc? Over the first two weeks of the season, he might not be playing a full compliment of snaps. He dropped a possible touchdown pass in week number one. He doesn't have huge production. Is that because he's not early enough in the progressions? Or is that because he's not getting open? That's, that's the key right there. Early enough in the progressions. I'm glad you said that. Okay, so let's talk about what's going on. And we've got to keep our ear to the ground, you know, keep our ear to the streets. So we know what to talk about on this show. A lot of 49er fans, highly upset with Brandon Ayuk. I think a lot of it is where you got all this money. Where is the production? I would say point the finger at someone else. And this is why. One thing I learned about the separation stats that's floating around, right? It's like Brandon Ayuk had the lowest separation grade or rate or whatever on the 49ers, week two, the lowest out of anybody. People are like, well, they're not getting open. But then come to find out because first, well, hold on. I went and watched all 22. Is Brandon Ayuk getting open? And I'm watching them. I'm like, Brandon is getting open. I'm like, open here, open here, open here. It's so I tweeted that out. I don't, I can't speak for everybody because I focused on Brandon Ayuk, but he's clearly getting open. Like there's plenty of place where he's like large separation and the ball is not going to him. I also followed up with, I don't know the quarterbacks' progressions. So if he's looking right and he's not looking at Ayuk on the backside, like that's not and that's not Ayuk's fault, right? And that's not even Brock's fault. Like this is my read. It says go here. You got Ayuk open. I'm not going to get to him. More times than not. All right. But I saw it there. The people responded, but crop the separation grade. Look at this. Come to find out the separation grade is predicated on passes to the target to the receiver. So it doesn't account for every route that the receiver runs. It only accounts for the route. The guy ran when the ball was actually thrown to him, which the receiver can't control that. So in Brandon Ayuk's case, even with the lowest separation grade, he caught four out of the five passes that were thrown at him. And the one that was missed was in the end zone, which he probably had the most separation out of any of his routes on passes thrown at him. All right. So there's that part. But then if you shout out to my guy, K P, K P put together this video. It's like almost two minutes long. I'm just running open. So whose fault is it is not Brock, right? And you're only putting on Brock if you're saying whatever he's seeing pre snap or whatever he saw in his past game, pre snap and post snap didn't align. And then maybe he's supposed to go to Ayuk and he didn't get there. All right. And he went elsewhere. That's the only way you could put it on him. But I put it on Kyle Shanahan. And the reason why I put on Kyle Shanahan and we'll see if things change this week with you may be having to do more with him, which I just don't see. I don't see Kyle's philosophy and mindset shifting on on his passing game. All right. But if Kyle says, you know what, I'm going to go away from what I do, which is now got all these terrific weapons. Hey, we're just going to run this play. And the and the defense is going to dictate where this ball goes. And I trust and brought to get the ball to the right place. So whether it's Brandon, are you? Kyle used to join Jennings. I don't think Kyle really cares. Hey, just run it. And this guy, I think his, I think his offense is more plug and play than most people realize. It's just with certain guys in certain areas, you can maybe get more out of it, right? Like if a guy is bigger, stronger, faster, maybe he could do a little bit more. But it doesn't matter if I have Brandon Ayuk at the X or Joanne Jennings at the X. If you just run this post right here, it's going to the play concept is going to work the same. And I think that's where people, they have a hard time understanding that. So it's not even so much about Brandon Ayuk and his lack of production. It's Kyle doing things to ensure that Brandon Ayuk is a part of the progression, which he started out saying. Yeah. And that this was the entire conversation about whether or not do you pay Brandon Ayuk, do you trade him? Is he valued that way to the 49ers to be a $30 million receiver? Because most of those guys are number one options on their team response to that. What was our answer to that question? Well, maybe the 49ers haven't proven that they value and will utilize Brandon Ayuk in that way. So why would you pay a guy that way if you're not going to utilize him in that way? And my argument for Brandon Ayuk was more into the future post debo post Christian McCaffrey, which already happened in week three, which is where I'm at with Brandon Ayuk. And look, if you're just going to treat him as a backside option, you're like, I have one and two aren't there. There's Ayuk backside dick. Boom. You know, that's where he gets a lot of his production as a backside player of a play. But I want to see screen passes. I want to see him in motion, isolating him to get him open whip routes, return routes, catch and run stuff. Deep balls down the field. I want to see him utilize in a way that he's already utilized, but also get the debo targets too. I want to see 15 targets for Brandon. Now you can this game. I want to see him get the first target of the game. I want to see him get the second target of the game. I want to see him get the ball handed to him. I want to see him have opportunities after the catch. I want to see volume for him. And this is sort of a little portal. We get to see what this might look like into the future. 2026, a highly paid wide receiver in Brandon Ayuk as the number one, a highly paid quarterback in Brock Purdy. What's that passing game going to look like? What's that offense going to look like potentially without debo and Christian McCaffrey into the future? Who knows? Maybe without, without George Kittle too. And I want to see George Kittle get 10 targets in this game as well. But I want to see, I want to see an offense where Brandon Ayuk is featured, which we haven't seen a lot despite his pretty good production being more of a backside player from the 49ers passing game. And specifically, I don't even think that he's a backside player. I think it's just he's only backside depending on how Brock Purdy pre-snap sees it. So there could be times where, hey, this is, you know, this is the route. You got this route. And then Brock comes out and looks and he says, oh, okay, the safety is here. My back is here. Okay, I should be able to hit Ayuk here. Then Ayuk turns into wide receiver one on that play. But then there could be times where if they show this and show that, then oh, okay, the ball should go to George Kittle on this play. I think it's more predicated on that than just Ayuk is it backside or second read in the offense. Well, I think a lot of times, I think what we saw last week, which is why Brian Flores had a really good game plan against Kyle Shanahan is Kyle Shanahan. You know how, you know, he's in the quarterback's ear. So he's telling Brock Purdy even as they're going to the line. So, okay, watch this, watch this. Usually, I think the early reads are the ones that are getting the ball and Kyle Shanahan designs who those other early reads are supposed to like who's supposed to be open on the play. And I think a lot of times Ayuk is not the guy who's supposed to be open. He's like, watch this, we're going to really get, we're going to get 44. We're going to get our full back wide open on this play. We're going to get George Kittle wide open on this play. We're going to hit D-Bo, let him catch and run. You know, this plays design. Most of the running back, most of the throws to running back. People talk about how, man, why aren't they giving the ball to Jordan Mason out of the backfield? You stand there wide open on a play and Brock is waiting and holding the ball and getting sacked or forcing something else down the field. Jordan Mason's right here. Most of the running back targets for Christian McCaffrey are designed running back targets. They're not just like check down throws to the running back. So, that's why I was calling, you know, it's maybe a bad shorthand for it. That's why I'm calling Ayuk more of a backside player in the offense because he doesn't get that stuff designed for him as much as the other players. And this week, he has to. And going into the future if you're going to pay him $30 million, you should have a plan to feature him. So, that's what you want to see. Is that what you expect to see? I think this week, I do expect to see that. Who else are you going to feature? Because the guys that get featured the most and have those auto targets, uh, and they kind of need them in that way because they don't get open the same way that a brand and I use does aren't on the field for the 49ers this week. So he better be featured. And if he's not featured now, when will Brana? You can ever be featured. You've heard us talk a lot about Fandoule America's number one sports book. Well, we have a little something different for you now through September 22nd. All Fandoule customers can bet $5 and get a three week free trial of NFL Sunday ticket from YouTube and YouTube TV. Then with a YouTube TV base plan, you'll be able to watch every regular season Sunday afternoon out of market game. All you need is a Google account and a current form of payment and you can cancel any time for that $5 bet. You can take a look at some early week three lines. 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You are locked on Packers your daily green Bay Packers podcast Jordan Love practiced back to back days this week and it wasn't just the Wednesday though let's start there. If this were a charade if last week had been a charade and just games Wednesday and then Thursday. Oh he's doing some light running over on the side and then Friday he is in a helmet and shells and is limited in practice questionable to start downgraded on Saturday Sunday can't go and everyone says well he was close but he just wasn't quite ready and the Packers have every excuse. They have every excuse to say look he was he was really close we thought last week and now you know he got it he got himself some work and the knee was responding and on Friday was he was ready to you know it give it a go but we just weren't comfortable with the amount of time he got you know didn't didn't spend the whole week working through the game plan and so shoot he just couldn't be out there and it's a Malik Willis week. I still think it's more likely than not we get a Malik Willis week but Jordan Love practicing on Wednesday tells me that what we heard last week and coming into this week was right that he might have been closer to playing. I don't think he was ever realistically going to play on Sunday but clearly clearly he is progressing nicely in his rehab from this MCL injury and that the timelines that were originally reported the four to six weeks no Ian Rapport has been the closest on this because he said three weeks I think it ends up being three weeks if you look at the look ahead lines the Packers still underdogs in Tennessee if Jordan Love were going to play and when the lines open to before the season before Jordan Love got hurt the Packers were favorites in Tennessee. They're now 0 and 2 with two in glorious losses just incredible choke jobs by them because Will Levis cannot stop turning the ball over in truly sublime ways but the Packers underdogs one and a half point underdogs on Sunday but they are favorites at home in a week to the Minnesota Vikings who are 2 and 0 and just beat the San Francisco 49ers. The only reason the Packers would be favorites at home to that team is because the the odds makers are friends at Fandall for example believe Jordan Love is going to play next week. Now the line has dropped. Is that because of money? Is that because of information? We don't know but it's okay Wednesday happens but that's just step one. Okay he practices. Does he get a day off after how does the knee respond? This is an important touchstone in trying to get back and so Thursday he's out there in what appears to be a bulkier brace and again to me if there was really no realistic chance Jordan Love was going to play on Sunday. The sleeve that had a little bit of extra padding in the knee that he that he wore Wednesday and it looked like a hybrid to me would have been enough. You could have practiced in it. You're not really risking that much in practice because there's not going to be contact and all those things but on Thursday there was the sleeve and he wore sleeves on both legs. That seemed intentional too but that's neither here nor there but then wore the bulkier brace, the metal brace, the real brace. The I'm going to wear this one in the game brace and I had a conversation with someone who specializes in these sorts of things, a medical doctor who specializes in sports orthopedics and they said there is an increase risk this week and that next week that risk decreases 10 to 15ish percent. Now the Packers are going to have to decide if that Delta is worth it. Can you beat the Tennessee Titans without Jordan Love? I think you can and I said that yesterday we spent most of our crossover Thursday with Tyler Roland talking about why this is an advantageous matchup for the Green Bay Packers and why Malik Willis can still get some things done against this Tennessee defense. Now whether or not that's true in practice we'll see on Sunday if Malik Willis is in fact the starter but that was before we saw him practice on Wednesday and of course before he practiced on Thursday in this knee brace. I actually don't and it's not going to make for the best radio but I don't have a strong take on whether or not he should play. Long time listeners of this show every day or is no, I don't like that word should, should. I don't like it in general. I don't and I certainly don't like it when we just don't have the information. If the risk is an extra 10 to 15% of re-injury for Jordan Love and Elton Jenkins is going to play and it looks like Elton Jenkins is going to play. He practiced yesterday and Jaden Reed practiced yesterday. We'll talk about the injuries at the end. And Jordan Love says I'm good. I can protect myself then that's what you do. This is how NFL teams work. If your players are healthy enough to play they play and in some ways I don't even know why this is a conversation. Why is this a discussion? If Jordan Love is cleared to play then he's going to play and the players who are cleared to play you're only cleared if the premise originally from medical staff is they are not at an an undue risk to me an undue risk of re-injury or future injury whether it's the current injury or another type of injury because we know that that can happen to you. You hurt one thing. Is this going to put you at a major risk for a different type of injury because this is not healed 100% it is up to the medical staff to determine is Jordan Love at an undue risk an undue risk that that part of it is critical. Is it an unnecessary and reckless move to play him? If it's not there is I would say just like a scoosh just like the the teensiest bit of gray area where it's like yes. Can he play? Mm hmm. Yes. Sure. Is it optimal? No. Is he at additional risk from 100% healthy of re-injuring his knee? Yes. But could he go out there and play also? Yes. But I don't know how you adjudicate that gray area because there's risk anytime you go out there. There's risk to every quarterback, every player who steps foot on the field. They take on risk and the idea that okay, it's a 10 or 15% additional risk percent. Now that's off the baseline. But the baseline is not zero. So if the risk is 30% and you're 10 to 15% off 30 because it's not you add like okay now they're 40, 45% more likely to get injured. I don't think that's how it works. I think it's 10 to 15% in addition to the 30% that that it would like okay. Here's here's a great example. Growing up we used to go up to our cottage in Rhinelander. Shout out the Northwood. Shout out the HODAGs. And every morning when I was growing up, I'm old enough that we would turn on the radio. God bless the radio and they would say right before we listen to Paul Harvey. Good day. Uh, there's a 30% chance of rain every day in the summer. There would be a 30% chance of rain. Okay. You just knew anytime you went anywhere. There was a chance, a 30% chance it was going to rain. Let me tell you, if they came on one day and said there's a 40% chance it's going to rain. Was I going to change my behavior in any way? Was I, was I more likely to grab a raincoat or an umbrella? No, no. So if that's what we're talking about, if we're talking about okay, in any NFL game, you have a 30% chance of getting injured and Jordan Love has a 40 or 45% chance of being injured. Now once you tip to 50 and once you tip that scale, like if it's more likely than not, he's going to be hurt than not. No, no, no. So let's say it's 20% and now it's 35% that he gets injured. 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Part of the locked on podcast network, your team every day. Ross Dellinger of Yahoo Sports. Others are now reporting. I don't know who leaked this. Maybe the ACC that they're they're talking about a settlement that would involve the ACC actually shortening their grants of rights to finish in 2030 rather than 2036 while also adjusting their payout structure to pay their member universities. Part of that pot would go based on your television ratings and your media worth rather than an equal split or even a strictly competitive split. So what was your reaction when you saw this bombshell drop? I mean, are we really surprised by this is my question, right? Like objectively speaking, has the ACC not already capitulated to the bigger brands and the bigger names coming up with the tiered sister for Oh, if you accomplish these things, you'll get more and as we see, those teams are struggling to accomplish those things at the success initiative, not very successful. Some of these teams on the field, one of them. Yes, yes. But in all seriousness, you kind of look at that as your first thing there and then on top of that, you say to yourself, if you are talking from the ACC standpoint, this absolutely guarantees your stability at least through the next six years. It grants you that it guarantees you that through the next six years. But from the ACC standpoint, again, what is to stop these teams from suing you again in two to three years if the deal doesn't look right? They have shown the propensity to sign a contract and then say, actually, I don't like the terms of what I saw because if I am correct here, did Florida State and Clemson not sign the grant of rights twice? Two times. So if wasn't like a one time deal way back in 2000, and they got in this deal in perpetuity, and they found themselves in the lifetime, this was something that was looked at review your people looked over it and said, you know what, we're going to do it. Not once, but twice in the very recent past. So I mean, objectively speaking, I'm looking at this and I'm saying, you can try and you can fight and you can scream and you can claw and you can say, hey, we'll give you more. We'll give you more. We'll give you more. But at some point in time, the rubber is going to meet the road in the reality is going to meet the reality that these teams don't want to be here regard. That's well said. I hadn't even thought of that. Like I get like, I would assume that like part of the settlement would be, you promise not to sue us again, but that doesn't mean they're like you said, they already signed the grant of rights and they're still suing. So that doesn't really guarantee anything. Now, another way that I look at this proposal and we'll talk about what it would take to actually get this to pass, right? I see, you know, people who are like blind ACC homers who are like, oh, you know, this is, this is a win for the ACC and FSU is 0 and 3. So they're humbled now. I see people on the Florida state side who are like, well, this is what we wanted. This is a win for us. We proposed this two years ago to have the payout model based on TV ratings, right? The bottom line, Ken is both sides would be giving something up here. Yes. Both sides. And this would definitely show you there has got to be fear from an ACC point of view and fear from a Florida state and Clemson point of view of what would happen if they lost in court, right? Because, you know, if Florida state and Clemson, if they lose in court, if they cannot prove that the grant of rights is breakable or flawed, then they could potentially be stuck until 2036 with a revenue model that does not give them favoritism, right? That's a big risk from an ACC point of view. If the ACC was so sure that the grant of rights was ironclad, why give up an inch? Why give up anything? Like if you're so sure that your document is unbreakable, why not just say, you know what? We've got you guys here held hostage till 2036. So obviously there has to be some concern on both sides that there is a chance this does not go our way in court. And I want to say something else on this, Kenton, because, you know, I see some folks out there. And, you know, most of like the actual write-ups, I mentioned the one from Ross Delanger on Yahoo. I was reading some write-ups from the Tallahassee newspaper, from a newspaper in North Carolina. The actual stories explain it very well. But a lot of people don't read like actual news stories. They read, you know, they read tweets and Facebook posts and whatever. So I see this is being kind of reported and passed along by a lot of people saying, well, the ACC is agreeing to pay Florida state and Clemson more than the other schools. That's not exactly what it is. Like, and yes, Florida state and Clemson have been the top ratings schools for the past several years in the ACC. So those have tended to be the universities that bring the most eyes to the set. So theoretically, they would get paid the most. But at the same time, every school in the ACC would have the same opportunity. All 17 would have the same opportunity. You know, and you've got some programs that seem to be on the rise right now, like, like Louisville and Miami. So you get an opportunity. Your teams get better. You get more eyes on the set. You have an opportunity to make a higher share of revenue. Because honestly, I know not everybody likes this because it's not the way college sports have been traditionally done. But when you're talking about distributing money from a television contract, doesn't, tends to distribute television money based on how many people watch these teams on television. Like, I don't think it's a ridiculous concept to say that if more people watch your games, you make more money. Yeah. And beyond that, first of all, that's the most American thing there is, right? The based on your own merit, what you do, all that good stuff, it fits in with the concept and the belief of what this country is supposed to be filed upon and built upon. But let's go a little deeper for a second in a good compromise. Or as the old saying goes, if nobody's happy, it's a great compromise. If everybody is, you talked about the idea of both sides having to give up something, both sides are having to give up a lot. But again, it is all dependent and hinges on will Florida State and Clemson honor it. That's the most important thing about this whole deal to me. Because it seems to me, like you said, both sides are giving some up. But what does what do both sides give up if the other side is like, yeah, actually, I know I said I give it up. I had my fingers crossed behind my back the whole time. Here's my lawyer. We'll see in court, buddy. You know, that is very much so a part of this. And so, you know, a lot like the other conferences that said, Hey, these have been disruptive partners. Well, imagine the person that's actually the partner being disrupted. Imagine how they feel. So, you know, I look at these proposals and I say this is the ACC absolutely acting in good faith, despite them not receiving that same treatment and kind at times from these two universities. That makes a lot of sense. All right. When we come back, I want to talk about because like you can you can make an argument that Florida State and Clemson could quote unquote win here, you know, being able to access more revenue that the ACC as a whole could win here being able to keep, you know, they're two of their biggest brands in the conference for an extra handful of years. You've heard us talk a lot about FanDul America's number one sports book. Well, we have a little something different for you. 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It's in Tuscalo so it's it feels weird whenever these two meet up not in Atlanta like when they meet up like in an actual home stadium. It's really the first time because you know outside of the COVID year it's the first full stadium there they would have played each other in since like 2015. Here's the thing Bama bounced back against Wisconsin looked a lot better than they did to get USF. Georgia kind of the opposite. There's no chance that that Georgia team that was in Lexington is going to be the same Georgia team that's in Tuscalo just there's absolutely no way and like I think Kirby smart has to love it because you got this like prisoner of the moment mentality from everyone doubting Georgia now after the the game against Kentucky and you're like everyone just forgetting about them dismantling Clemson in week one and he loves the AP put bumping Texas ahead of them and I mean like come on Kirby's gonna go no one believes in us. I mean okay well we'll see how that one plays out next week. Let's get into some of the games this week 11 a.m. Central on ESPN Marlar. This is the lead college game day is leading into this game. We will get one in two Florida at Mississippi State. The Gators a six point road favorite. I don't know anybody other than maybe Vandy. They would be favored against on the road but Grand Mart's and DJ Ligwe expected to both play again Trey Wilson on the injury report again this these last couple days. So it sounds like he will not play but talk about you know man if Billy Napier loses this one he will not be the head coach in two weeks when they play UCF. Dude it's so weird because like I mean you're right like that seems like that would be the logical solution next step and also probably deserved at this point if you lose to a team you know that just got beat by 24 to like against Toledo like the optics of that are so bad. The thing so weird about this though is that like Scott Strickland is still the more deserving person that should be like that should be fired at Florida the AD and you know like he's made like six total hires I think the thing about Scott Strickland is that like one you can't let him make the next hire like he cannot be in charge of it because his track record has been so bad but the good news for him is that he doesn't have to try it out there and coach nine more games on national television so I think it should be this is going to be like just I hope it rains I hope it rains and it's just like an absolute slop best because that's what it feels like from like both programs going into it. Yeah it's funny I watched the replay the other night on SEC Network of the Toledo Mississippi State and like I don't know man they they just start so cold out of the gates like they scored three points in the first half in each of the last two weeks that they've lost Mississippi State I'm like Jeff Levy you're this offensive mind dude what's going on then they they turn it on the second half they can score points but I don't know this this could get real ugly but Florida man it was ugly last week against A&M and everybody was calling for lagway and he kind of came back down to earth but no guy can get any if you just keep switching quarterbacks every drive you can't get any kind of momentum going. No it's really the way he's handled it it shouldn't be a surprise anybody I don't think anybody thought Billy Napier was going to handle this very delicate situation in like a in a promising way that just would not be the Napier way but I will say that like you know last week lagway comes in he didn't look great merch looked good at times the main thing is like whoever is able to run the football oddly enough is going to win this game because like that's not a staple for our Jeff Levy offense that you know Ted but you watched what Arizona State did in Mississippi State you watched what A&M did to Florida and then at one point going into half I think it was like 13 nothing and Florida panned A&M down to the one-yard line and A&M went on a 15 play 99-yard drive and they ran the football on 14 to 15 plays so I think that is going to be like the the probably like the game plan for both teams but it's also not the strength. Right well it's going to be ugly you you make it a pick in this one? I don't want to but I will I mean listen Florida should have a more talented roster I just can't get over Mississippi State not only losing by 24 to a Mac team I also still can't get over the fact that they just got ran through by Arizona State who kind of struggled on like in the ground game against Texas State but we gapper. Yeah well probably I'll probably go Florida too but I don't I don't like it at all but by the way Urban Meyer said on a podcast this week asked you know if Florida fires Napier would you go back and coach he said that chip has sailed so Urban Meyer not coming back against it'll lock it in. I mean that shouldn't be a surprise but like what's what's he got going on he's had nothing to do this podcast going on with Mark Ingram and and all the big new snooze fest games over there on Fox 11 it's speaking of snooze fest about 11 a.m. Central 12 Eastern on the SEC network it'll be two in one Ohio at one and two Kentucky the Wildcats 20 point home favorites had to look it up Ohio Ohio lost by 16 the Syracuse week one they beat South Alabama in week two Kentucky Mark Mark a stoop saying that chip training will be out again this week Sumo Carne Bay has actually been a pretty solid running back so far from but to me this is why Marla get Brock Vandergift going three starts so far 300 yards like we're going back to the old days of sucky quarterbacks at Kentucky yeah I mean also just got a little PTSD from that Ohio Syracuse game because they they lost by 16 and the spread was definitely 16 and a half so people don't forget um no I mean that that's they they have to get Vandergift going like he was good at times last week he needs a you know a complimentary run game it's very clear that he's not talented enough to do all this on his own he's got the receivers and you know he's got a decent supporting cast around him that offensive line has just been bad I mean just really really bad like I think some like his last like 30 or or so drop backs I think he was pressured on over like 52% of them um I mean he's been running for his life and granted it's Georgia but it's the same way against South Carolina um they have they just haven't looked crisp at all and you would think usually with Kentucky they get some of these easy games out of the way early that is not the case this season I mean they have to bury this team early yeah it's um it's it's gonna be interesting to see again Kentucky you got to win this one and hopefully you know it sounds like the fan base is bought back in a little bit after the close loss to Georgia and you know they really they honestly could have won that game but um you know by the opportunity slip away let's get to what I think is really in my opinion Marley the SEC game of the week we'll get the Tennessee Oklahoma later but 230 central on ESPN it's two and one Arkansas two and one Auburn Auburn's been sitting at about a three point home favorite uh all week in this one the Hagg Brown era officially gets underway four touchdown passes last week in his debut against New Mexico uh the thing about Arkansas though Marley they have not scored less than 30 points in a game this year probably patrino has been doing this thing offensively you know maybe a little bit closer to versus UAB last week than it should have been but this is a monumental game for both sides like if you win this game you're gonna be feeling really good about yourself you lose you're gonna feel like the season's over yeah I mean you know this is always one I feel like the drunkest SEC game every single year like something stupid will happen in this game the thing about Hagg Brown he looked really good last week um four touchdowns no picks he was like 68 percent completion percentage whatever he did all that without came Coleman which is I think like it feels like he can only be going up from here um Arkansas's defense is not exactly great I would expect landing Jackson to finally get going a little bit against a pretty bad Auburn offensive line but here's the thing that's scary is New Mexico ran the ball at will against Auburn for most of that game and I think they average like over six yards a carry over five and a half yards a carry like throughout the entire game you look at what Arkansas has the running back um who was named right now but he's he's averaging over eight yards a carry Taylor Quinn isn't tremendous is averaging over six yards a carry um you know as long as they can protect the football for both sides really but if Arkansas can protect the football they should already be three and oh they could easily be four no going into this game I just don't know if they have the mental like composure to last 60 minutes in like a tough environment but this is like honestly man if you said that Arkansas won by by 10 or Auburn won by 30 like there's the range of what could happen in this game is so why I would do anything yeah Travis Williams I mean this is your paycheck game you you're supposed to be a really good DC this is one go go earn your paycheck and show what you can do and um you know I I'm getting the vibes marler at the Hank Brown comes crashing back down to earth that he throws a pick six that he fumbles a ball you know like that's just that's my early fill in the game but Arkansas I mean you're gonna have to play real special to go win on the road and to your point though to Quinn Jackson Taylor and Greene I think the offense could do enough um we'll see but I'm leaning Arkansas on the upset right now a prime member you can listen to this locked on podcast add free on Amazon music download the Amazon 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