Football analysis and holiday reflections

Outro Music Hollywood Nights and those Hollywood heels Bob Seger said that In his sofa bullet band High Jots L.A. Happy Holidays Gobble Gobble giving way to Ho Ho Ho Man, friggin' My notes all covered with gravy and Cranberry sauce coming out of the holiday They immediately switch gears into Christmas Christmas season And now even people put up the decoration before Thanksgiving's even here a week before People just want to push Christmas And push that shit down your throat Watching these ads Sounds like Peyton Manning Friggin' voice The Zales commercials All these diamond commercials everywhere They stereo, they pigeonhole ya That's why I don't watch Late Night Nights Horror movies anymore I get depressed Cause in Late Night Late Night Horror movies All they have is Commercials for You know, Christian Mingle Or Farmers Only Phone sex lines Or Proactive Or Rogaine Or Lispy Shoes They pigeonhole ya They know that only Guys without girlfriends Balding guys without girlfriends And bad skin Watching Late Night Horror movies At 1130 Do the same thing in the NFL Do a whole bunch of Yuppies watching You know, they You know, they Kowtow to the women These women make all the purchasing decisions So they make it seem like the diamonds What they need to go out and purchase But I don't want to get into the diamond trade It's not a political show Children losing their hands And rich getting richer We won't get into that But I end up watching it I got my Thanksgiving My holiday haircut And I realize I got some pictures of my nieces My nieces are in town I look like Rob Ford Mayor of Toronto I don't know I think I need I got a haircut And I shaved my beard I think I'm getting into that Zone where I'm one of those guys That might need to have a beard all the time Like Andy Reid has his mustache all the time No matter what Andy Reid has a mustache But tell you You wear facial hair all the time This shit gets to you You know Especially Especially in the holiday season We're eating gravy And fucking Hand in front of your mustache and shit We eat a pepperoni pizza You can smell the grease Two hours later I don't think I can wear it the rest of my life I think I need Time off Because going back to school tomorrow Without a beard and mustache I've been rocking all year You look weird Thanks Hey before I get into football Just reading Paul Walker died Just saw that a couple hours ago I don't know when he died but From Fast and Furious Is that an example of irony? You know this guy He dies in a Fiery car crash I don't know Just that was in my brain Before we get in Let's get into football Enough with this Freaking Fast and Furious 15 Starting the high school game Bringing it up because I know The participants Participants And I Spent a lot of time in Corona With my girlfriends Corona sent me a message I'm going to go to the hospital I'm going to go to the hospital I'm going to go to the hospital I'm going to go to the hospital I'm going to go to the hospital I'm Corona California Broke a record for the most National record for the most Yards in a football game 943 yards Running back Trey Watson Had 519 yards on 40 carries One of the reasons I bring this up To a buddy of mine I'm going to say his name What the hell Season of giving Tom Martinez The defensive coordinator Who I might have in the show Maybe not now But I'm going to say his name Got beat Upland High School 86-56 National record for Corona Centennial They're by far and away The best team around here But that's impressive Because Upland's a good football team It's not like they're playing The sisters of the poor Or perking school for the blind I mean Upland's a legitimate football team Probably one of the top 500 football teams In the country You say it I don't think that's a lot But probably You know Thousands upon thousands Top 10% of teams Corona Centennial 940 yards on 40 yards 43 yards Putting on them Last high school note too I don't Still Still in mourning From losing that game And getting dropped so early But going to give props To San Dimas High School Friend of mine Bill Zernichow The head coach Does a tremendous job over there They're in They're in the finals Dropped their first four game One night in a row That's The power Of running the football And running the wing team Having a running system That you teach All throughout your four years Put the system in place Make sure your freshmen run it Run it well Exactly how you want to do it By the time the juniors and seniors They run it perfect You know what to do Have the system 9-4 Run nine games in a row Playing for the championship Next week San Dimas High School Football As of the moment Does indeed rule Let's get out of the high school game Enough of that Shenanigans Shenanigans Let's get into the college game Because it was Quite a week of college football To say the least First game you got to talk about Obviously Alabama-Oban You knew Alabama was going to drop one At some point Because it's so difficult to win Every freaking game It was going to take a fluke Called that a while ago Not that I'm bragging Because I also called Atlanta I was going to the Super Bowl I was kind of a reach But my point being Auburn got lucky And Auburn got lucky two weeks in a row But the perlate spheroid Bounces funny And Alabama You know Who would ever thought That was going to happen Kicking the 56 yard field goal Didn't cover it But you know One second gets added back On the clock So they don't go to overtime So they go for the long field goal Which You know in hindsight You can question it You can question it Because when you're in the field And you kick that long field goal And they put the return man back there This is a live ball As we all know And you got a bunch of fat bodies On the protection team Probably a good idea To make one of those wing players On the outsides Make them a safety And the first thing that happens After the ball gets kicked On a long field goal Shoot them back Of course hindsight is 20-20 But this is a guy who's You know Nick Saban is so meticulous About everything You think he would have that covered But he didn't Auburn goes on to win A really amazing game A real fun game to watch So Auburn ends up going A team last year That was 0-8 in the SEC Excuse me 0-8 in the SEC Ends up With one loss End up going to the SEC championship Gotta be Gus Malzahn It's gotta be coach of the year Cannot be Ed Orgeron And I'm saying the praises of Ed Orgeron In this program I think he's done a tremendous job I'm gonna talk about that in a second However It's gotta be Gus Malzahn Are you kidding me? He's got Auburn A team that was what? What were they? 1-9 or 1-10 last year? Terrible 0-8 in the SEC When he was there before He was the offensive coordinator With Cam Newton When they won the national championship Went to I forget where he went to Arkansas State or something Something like that Now he's back He's back Tremendous game Hey I know I'm not a huge fan of Alabama But I do feel bad for him in a way However I watched those SEC games And it seemed like I always pull for The away team It's because of the obnoxiousness Of those SEC fans Now I'm sure there's not many of them listening Maybe there are Sorry if there are But those SEC fans is the worst Why are they chanting the name Of their fucking conference? SEC SEC Screw that Alright big deal It's a friggin 12 team conference Where they take football seriously Pull for your own school Not the whole fucking conference You know Only by going to a pro football game And You know AFC That's the point There's 12 teams there Shit But I love pulling for the away teams Because of those Those frat boy Looking Cuter Cuter Cuter Cutter You know Frat girl Sorority girls If you will They either just start crying After the end of the games Or they have that Horrified look They're looking Into the abyss Like they just lost a loved one After they lose one of these games I love it I got no rooting interest in the SEC Love to see them knock each other off Speaking of SEC games Unfortunately Johnny football Texas A&M Beat by a football team I mean I mean Missouri and that was the Musburger game and they brought Musburger over to ESPN even though it's all owned by the same freaking mouse they bring Musburger over to ESPN just salivating at the thought of Johnny football Johnny Manziel going into Missouri and be able to beat Missouri and spoil the Missouri's chance of going SEC championship game oh Musburger had a full erection at before before they ended up Missouri ended up locking it up because you did feel like Manziel was gonna take over there but two things with that one I think Manziel's hurting they say that thumb's hurting and he just didn't look right and two Texas A&M's offense blows I don't care what anyone says this freaking five wides run around this Mike Leach system of running crossing routes underneath with outs on the outside you get no relief for the quarterback you just put everything in the quarterback's hands and a good defensive team that can get after the passer and get to the spot even with a guy magician like Manziel can make things difficult physical on the receivers man-to-man give him no cushions that's why Kevin Sumner made a good you know made a smart choice six years I forget how much he was getting his Texas A&M but he's never gonna what's he gonna he's maybe he'll go out and get another man and he'll be able to do it he's never gonna be able to do it he's never gonna be able to do it Manziel if he can get one he did some good things in Houston no doubt but never gonna be able to win an SEC championship with that type of offense Ohio State Michigan can't blame Michigan at all can't even though I don't think Brady Hoke's a very good coach go for it on two however I do blame him on the play call I cannot stand and everyone's fucking does this we do this my team does this and I don't like it you can have a bunch formation or a stack formation with for a two-point play out wide you run the outs the inside guy the first guy inside the second guy outside or vice versa and then you bring the third guy in a little hook with the expectation that the two defenders had dispersed with the two first two receivers and leave the hook open that's what they called again we call it booyah it's an okay play but everybody relies on is a two-point play Michigan went to it and lost but it cannot fault them for going for it and try to win that game it's bad blood but Ohio State old urban that snakes snake oil salesman bastard swarmed his way in there wormed his way into the top three is he two I think he's two right now but I would like I would same thing I like about Auburn is what I like about Ohio State both of their quarterbacks throw the ball maybe 14 15 times a game and they're still winning because a running quarterback is the hottest thing to defend anybody knows that you can say I'll work it won't work in the NFL level fine only because of the lost rust and limitations in the injuries I'm a broken record with that but I'd love to see quarterbacks only throwing the ball 15 16 times and running the ball Ohio State and Auburn are doing it and doing it well so I like that part of it but fuck the Buckeyes man I don't want to see them doing anything I don't want to see them win what else we got Oregon Oregon State was a good one although both those uniforms people at Nike I don't know what they have eight-year-old girls working for him with those freaking colors with the bright yellow and the bright greens and the lollipop orange for Oregon State Marcus Mariota leads him down the field Oregon look if Oregon lost this one you gotta say you gotta say so what's going on I mean obviously they may have some injuries or something along those lines but pull it out Marcus Mariota Washington Washington State only mentioned it because a the Apple Cup is pretty cool and B Dominique Williams had a tremendous touchdown tremendous game for Washington State and he played for Gary High School in Pomona is probably the best football player I've ever coached against and I think that kid will show up someday in the NFL any other games of note that I really want to talk about off Iowa Nebraska not that I really cared about our in Nebraska cuz Big Ten football like that like that like 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that like that like that like that like that like that like that like that like that it's also funny watching that Iowa game Aaron Hernandez's brother DJ Hernandez who was uh had a pretty good career at UConn I think he was a quarterback and then moved him receiver or vice versa one of the two but a quarterback receiver he's one of the coaches at Iowa and god damn he looks just like Aaron Hernandez so I looked into it this summer he got into a couple incidents where people thought he was Aaron Hernandez and went after him got a feel for the guy a little bit you know your brother commits such a allegedly commits such a heinous act and now you're tied to it for the rest of your life you have to uh you know and you look just like him you know everywhere you go people are going to be calling you out there's no way you can avoid it I don't maybe grow your hair out and grow up throw a beard on my only advice to you DJ Hernandez I would that was just a bad I would that was just a bad football game not a fun football game to watch you know a Friday the other Friday afternoon there which is you know coming off the hangover from Thursday and restarting a new one LSU Arkansas it was fun to watch for a minute until Aaron Taylor the announcer said that's just cray cray pondering to the seven seventh grade girl crowd cray cray word crazy you just used way too much nowadays by the way everything's crazy this is crazy everybody's crazy I'm not fucking crazy BC losing to Syracuse bringing up Andre Williams leading the nation and running Russian he only had nine carries for 29 yards and got hurt out of the Heisman race which segue brings me to the Heisman race up in the air crap shoot this has got to be the craziest Heisman watch I've seen it seems like guys just fallen off nobody's taking the reins the obvious answer at this point is Winston and this is what makes this gonna make for a very interesting vote because Winston seems to be the front runner especially they go and take care of business next week at Duke which I'm I'm assuming they are I think they're too much for him Florida State has too many athletes everywhere so say he goes out has a you know Jameis Winston type game 18 of 27 320 odds three touchdowns should have it locked up are people gonna vote against him because of the alleged sexual assault that he's got hanging over his head that's you know it's gonna be an interesting interesting vote we'll see what happens and because they're saying they're not gonna be able to sort this out for a few minutes I'm not gonna vote against him because he's got a lot of people in the room I'm gonna vote against him because I'm gonna vote against him because I'm gonna vote against him I don't know why it takes well I guess I know why it takes takes him a while to figure it out they got all types of cases but you think they could figure it out quicker more quickly than they do Johnny Manziel's out of it as much as I hate to say it just hasn't got it done the last three weeks still like Marcus Mariota but for some reason they lose one game if everybody's off his bandwagon I think Mariota's a great quarterback I think he's had a great season I would give him a vote A.J. McCarron I think he's a great quarterback I think he's a great quarterback I think he's a great because of a fluke play he seems to be out of it Andre Williams is injured he seems to be out of it that leaves Jordan Lynch I like Jordan Lynch Northern Illinois he's got 4,300 4,300 all-purpose yards but even though I think Johnny Manziel has close to 5,000 which he did last year as well but Jordan Lynch you know undefeated Northern Illinois best player in college football there I said it my vote goes to Jordan Lynch I think he's a great quarterback I think he's a great quarterback Jordan Lynch I do get a well no I don't get a Heisman vote but if I did get a Heisman vote it would go to Jordan Lynch nah screw that strike that I'd give it to Mariota I think he's the best quarterback this year I think he's had the best season you know his team's floundered and I can't give it to Jordan Lynch after watching the seeing the game a little bit the other day the Northern Illinois playing Western Michigan Northern Illinois had on the back of the jerseys the hard way instead of their names they had the hard way instead of their names they had the hard way Hardway. That's a cute, clever little slogan they came up with. Western Michigan had row the boat. So freaking stupid. You know, just, oh, look at us. We're mid-majors and we got cute little sayings. I can't stand sayings in the back of shirts and shit like that anyway. I think it's dumb. It has nothing to do with anything. Just to look at me. Hold on one second. Moving on. Anything else I want in the college game? Well, that leaves us with, as of today, the rankings seem to be Florida State 1, Ohio State 2, Auburn 3, Alabama 4, Missouri 5. That's fair. Oklahoma State, Stanford, South Carolina, Baylor, Michigan State. At making the call right now, I'm seeing a Florida State-Auburn. championship game. I'm seeing Michigan State knock off Ohio State. We'll see. What the hell do I know? Let's get to the pro game. Thanksgiving morning out here. Thanksgiving afternoon. Had to watch those three games. Although, you know, if you watch every game, you usually see something every week or every game day that catches your eye if you watch enough football. And you have to give consideration to the Mike Tomlin situation there versus the Ravens, which was otherwise a fairly pedestrian game. Nothing that I really need to talk about too much. But how about the Tomlin on the sidelines staring up at the scoreboard while Jacoby Jones runs down, and then he gets into the field. Now today, locking Fortner or whatever the frigging, whoever, guys, whatever the powers that be, or, you know, Adam Schefters, they're reporting that Tomlin maybe fined six figures for, which is more than I make in two years, six figures and possible loss of a draft pick. Look it, you can paint this any way you want, but there's no frigging way Mike Tomlin did that on purpose. There's no way. Nobody who's been on the sideline, nobody who does that for a living. This is the 90s. 1930s. There's no way he's going to do that on purpose and think he's going to get away with it. It gets back to what I've been saying about Mike Tomlin for years. I don't know how bright he is. I think he was staring at the scoreboard and got lost and got on the field and just kind of, oh, I'm not really doing anything anyway because I don't call any plays. I just walk around with the snarl on my face. And then he got discombobulated side and then he went to look and then his natural reaction, he just flinched, stepped onto the field, I don't think he did it on purpose. No way. And then he smiled because probably someone was making fun of him because he doesn't have to worry about calling the next play because all he does is walk around. Hi, it's Dick LeBeau and what's his name? Todd Haley to do the rest. Before that, Bruce Arians. So what the hell do exactly do you do, Mike Tomlin? Oh, then watch the scoreboard and watch the game. No different than any jack off sitting at home watching. Just walk around and glare at people and give you all types of, all types of platitudes, types of trite statements. Like we got to get better in all three phases of the game. But I'm on your side, Mike Tomlin. I just think you were too dumb to get out of the way. So I don't think you should be fine. Dallas. Of course, it's not Thanksgiving without Dallas. Dallas and the Raiders. Dallas rocking the blue jerseys, which is extremely rare for them. But it was interesting. I looked that up. And longtime general manager, Tech Schramm, wanted the Cowboys to wear white at home so the fans could see the away teams coming in and wearing different colors. So Washington comes in and wears their maroon. Philly comes in and wears their green. It's awfully sweet of them. Very, very fan friendly, Tech Schramm. So Dallas was planning on wearing those white unis. Those white helmet in white and blue throwback unis, whatever they wear from time to time. But the NFL has a new rule now. NFL says, oh, you can't switch up the helmets. You got to stay with one helmet. Once they're fitted properly, because in this concussion era, they say you can't switch helmets, which begs the question, why can't they just paint over the freaking things? They do it all the time. Just paint and turn them white instead of silver. Hmm. I don't know. Dallas ended up wearing their blue jerseys. Not that it matters. Dallas ended up winning that game. Before the game, though, Fox Sports tries to get you all tear jerking with the whole Josh Brent story with DUI manslaughter with his boy Jerry Brown and had his family on. Typical Fox production. Saying, oh, they turn, giving thanks for what happened. It's a terrible DUI. No need to, try to paint that in any different brush, Fox. But Dallas, McGloin, Matty McGloin looked good again. I think Matty McGloin's going to be a solid quarterback. Talked about it before. But, you know, that ran a team, I think they're a little bit a ways away. Dallas gets the win. And in the first game, Detroit Green Bay, that was fun as a funeral. I can't stand watching either one of those teams, to be honest with you. Well, I shouldn't say can't stand, but I really don't like watching Detroit because they drive me nuts because they have so much talent in this sole middle of the road. Reggie Bush makes the promise. Oh, no fumble. Done fumbling. First drive of the game. Fumble. Okay, you know what? Segway. Let me talk about fumbling in the NFL. Because the Patriots, Steven Ridley, who's gained what? 13, 1400 yards last year. Uh, a top notch back. Top 10, top five, top 10 back. Has been fumbling. We talked about it last week. Fumbling four times this year and nine games. And the Patriots and Billy Belichick and his infinite wisdom, put him on the inactive list and didn't use them at all today. I don't understand what really that accomplishes, to be honest with you. First of all, I understand as much, if not more than anyone, the need to hold on, to the ball. Ball security is tantamount. Turnovers, most important thing right after scored points. Points up, points for, points against, turnovers. Those are the top three things. However, there's one of two things. One, you're not teaching them to hold on the ball correctly, which I don't put a lot of faith in. I think, you know, coaches are overrated in that respect. I think, he's probably been taught his whole life. Two, he has an inability to hold onto the football, in which case he would have an inability to be on that team, in which case you just cut ties with them. I don't know if that's the plan going forward. It may very well be. Or three, you let him play through it. Screw it. Now the Patriots have a little luxury because I think there's some other backs they have on there with some talent, which gets back to what I've been saying, if you've been listening to it all this whole time, through the, I think there's plenty of backs out there. I think you can get running back, you can get running backs that can do what you need them to do. Just don't think they get the chance a lot of times. But to just sit them on the sideline and put them in street clothes, I don't know. I don't get it. I don't buy it. Put them on kickoff team. You know, have them go cover kicks. Have them at least ready in case something happens. And if you really want to look at the numbers and all that, LeGarrette Blount, who was playing instead of him essentially today, fumbles at a much higher rate, much higher rate than Steven Ridley has in his career. And if you go back and look over the history of the NFL for non quarterbacks, because quarterbacks like the top 10, top 15 most fumbles in the season or in a career, they're all quarterbacks. But after that, you look at the guys with the most fumbles in the career, Franco Harris, Tony Dorsett, Walter Payton, Eric Dickerson, Eric Dickerson fumbled the ball 14 times in 1984. Four times. 14. Ridley fumbled four times. Eric Dickerson also ran for 2000 yards that year. You know, Walter Payton had 30 in his career. Franco Harris had like 40, Tony Dorsett 40. My point is all four of those guys, Hall of Famers. No, I'm not advocating it. And I'm not saying Steven Ridley is a Hall of Famer by any stretch of the imagination. I think it just needs to play through it. I think the bigger deal you make out of it, the worse it's going to get. I've actually read some studies and some articles that saying you shouldn't even mention it. You should teach them how to hold onto the football and don't put it in the head because soon as you put it in the head, Oh, don't fumble, don't fumble, don't fumble. That's all they're thinking. They get the ball. Don't fumble. Don't fumble. Don't fumble. Fair enough. What happens? They fumble some type of psychological phenomenon. Forget the name of, there's a name for that though. I'm saying if you tell yourself, Oh, don't do this. Don't do this. Don't do this. You get preoptimized. You get preoccupied with it. That's actually what ends up happening. I think that's what happens with fumbles. If Ridley's not good enough compared to the other guys, fine, get rid of them, but don't just put them in the bench. He's not doing the shit on purpose. A lot of it's a shit luck too. Guy misses a block. A guy puts his helmet right on the ball. Ball knocks out last year in the playoffs. Ridley was running the ball. He got knocked out cold and fumbled segue. I'd be curious to see if the NFL, uh, the next year, the next year, two, I'm not saying that's why I'm not advocating it, but I think it might be something that he may look at. If a guy gets knocked out, cold, I don't know. Helmets, a helmet type hit, which you see often, and he gets knocked out, cold. Could you review that and say, okay, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, Okay, that was a helmet-to-helmet hit, and the fumbling team retains possession. Be interested to see if they go that route. Getting back to that Pittsburgh game, though, at the end when, what's his name? I forget his name, the rookie there. Went in the end zone, his helmet came off right when he crossed the goal line, and then he didn't get in the touchdown. That's some bullshit, too. He's going to, oh, no, no, not a touchdown. His helmet came off a half an inch before the goal line. That's stupid. That's an abusive power. That's an abusive replay. If you asked me, nobody did ask me. Moving on, NFL news. Brandon Browner. Thought this story was fun. Suspended for the year for violating the league's substance abuse policy. Was found with a small... small amount of weed. But he was in the stage three of the whole process, which I think is hilarious because, bear with me, how he got into stage three was, he was originally found, got pinched for weed. Fine. Got cut from the Broncos for other reasons, performance-related reasons. Goes to the CFL. Evidently, Ergadal, Goodell, keeps him on the list, and they're, even if you're not in the NFL anymore, you are still in the NFL. You are still in the NFL. You are still in the NFL. You are still in the NFL. You are still in the NFL. You are still in the NFL. You are still in the NFL. You are still in the NFL. You are still subject to being tested. I don't get it. How does that work? If you're not even in the league, is it some kind of paperwork you file that keeps you indentured to the league somehow? But they were sending letters to Browner saying, oh, you got to come in and get tested. Even though Browner's playing in the CFL, they were sending letters to his ex-girlfriend's house. He never got them. They immediately put him in stage three, found him with a little bit of weed, suspended him for the year. How's that work? Guy's not even in the league. They're going to keep testing him. They found a little bit of weed, even though it's legal in what, 20 states or something like that? You're not going to bust a guy's balls like that. He's 30 years old at this point. How many more years does a 30-year-old cornerback have in the league? Guy needs to be able to make money. Moving on. I see the NFL's got their latest cause for the month. Play 60. Hopping back on the bus. Play 60 program. Obviously, if you watch football, you know it's the whole thing. They want to get kids running around for 60 minutes a day. Fine. I get it. All the commercials. They got all of these 7, 8, 9, 10-year-olds running around. Well, I'm a PE teacher, Goodell, so you're fucking with me now. I would like to see. Okay. It's easy to get 7- and 8-year-olds running around. Fine. Oh, yeah. I get 7- and 8-year-olds running around. Need to focus on the middle schoolers and the high schoolers. It's a little bit different. You got a 15-year-old girl who's on that time of the month trying to get her to run around for an hour a day. It's easy to freaking put them out there. Everybody loves to run around with 6-year-old kids. Try freaking running around with a 15-year-old girl. This is stupid. That's why they should be freaking focusing on the Play 60 shit. You know, it's just another freaking useless cause for the NFL. Like, they're going to be able to. They're going to solve. What are their causes? Breast cancer? I don't even know what they're trying to do with the military. Are they trying to give these guys jobs when they come back? I don't know, but I know they're trying to make everybody wear camouflage, and they're trying to solve obesity. Putting peanuts into comparable with what the NFL makes in revenue. Peanuts into actual cause. Play 60. Getting back on the bus. It's everywhere now. I should look into that, though. I should sign. I should sign up for that, and then report it on this very program. See what it's all about, you know, as a teacher. I mean, what do they do? I'm sure they dust off some former NFL player, and have them come out with a couple pads, and they run over bags. This past summer, we did a 7-on-7 thing with the NFL. It was one of the most unorganized camps I've ever been around. Stupid. They're just trying to make themselves look good in the NFL. Moving on. Oh, wait. Before I even get into that, how did I not even talk about the USC-UCLA game? And what's going on with Coach Eddie O? First of all, I think the most relieved person in the Coliseum after UCLA beat USC was Pat Hayden, the athletic director at USC. Now he doesn't have to hire Orgeron, because if they beat UCLA, I think his hand's almost getting forced at that point. To move point, I don't think he hires Orgeron. I think Orgeron would be a good hire in a lot of respects, but he needs to bring in an offensive guy, somebody to change things up. I don't know if he'd change things up, but somebody with a sound philosophy. Speaking of which, watching UCLA, props to my boy Brandon Sermon, who I coached for two years. Number 25, UCLA, played a great game. Anthony Ba, I'm not sold on Ba as being the second-highest player in the world. Second overall prospect. Mel Kiper has him as the second overall prospect. He's the outside linebacker slash D-end for UCLA. Now they changed him over to D-end from a running back, which makes you think there are probably dozens, now scratch that, hundreds, maybe even thousands of Division I players out there that are just being miscast in what position they're playing and never get a chance to play. They never get a chance to play. They never get a chance to go, to never play. If a guy wasn't athletic enough to be a running back, and they just flip him over to D-end, and now all of a sudden he's the number two prospect in the country, and you see a few guys like that, they switch positions later on, just makes you think how much this stuff is happenstance and circumstance. Like I was talking about last week, Mike Tyson never met Customato. Mike Tyson would have been in jail his whole life. He never knew who he was. My point is, how many running backs out there that could be linebackers or receivers that could be receivers tight ends that could be really good D-ends? I'm going to tell you, that's a trend you need to keep your eye on. Seeing some of these freak athletes receivers as teams become more and more pass-oriented, especially in the NFL, putting some of these freak receivers slash tight end style, like Mike Evans at Texas A&M, a guy like that, although he'll have a career, as a receiver, but sending that guy off the edge, just a freak off the edge. You know, if they decide to keep Anthony Bauer running back, who knows? Probably never would have played. Still not sold him. I think he's okay. I think he made a few plays. He definitely made a few plays, but you would see, and teams do this all the time, and to me it's poor coaching, but they'll stick a tight end out there and say, okay, you go and block, you pass block, they're best pass rusher. And inevitably a tight end's not a very good pass blocker. And the DN runs right by him. You see that so often. Amazes me that these quote unquote great coaches let this stuff go on. You see it at every level. Every level. You'll see, oh, let's just stick a tight end out there, a guy who doesn't even pass block very well. All right, let me get going a few of these games and I'm out of here. Pat's Texans again. We should say again. I just remember them last year. Texans coming in with the varsity jacket. Varsity jackets coming off the bus that Pat's posted and pasted them last year. This year, not so much. In Texas, in Houston, Patriots squeaked by. Still, though, second week in a row, Patriots come down to a third down. They, you know, not absolutely need, but very important third down. Last week, I bitched about them throwing the fade route to Edelman. Five foot nine. Julian Edelman throwing him a fade route. This week, I'm going to bitch about third and two chance to ice the game. They stick Gronkowski out in the slot, even though Gronkowski just got injured three plays before. Rolled his ankle. Try to run a little bit out route with them. First of all, I got about as much shake as Gronkowski. He can't shake. You put a talented. You put a talented. You put a talented. You put a talented. You put a talented. You put a fantastic nickel corner on him. They're not going to bite on any of that, especially with Gronkowski running out there with the ankle just been rolled over. Third and two, try to run a little out route. Snuffed out. But these are the things that nobody, they don't talk about in mainstream media. You know, they'll talk about, oh, taking the win and all that other bullshit. But the play calls. You know, it just drives me nuts. You got these play callers, you know, fourth and one, third and one. Huge play in the game. And they'll just bring. in double tights with a wing and a fullback and just run freaking power. And I love power, but not when everybody knows it's coming. Or, you know, it's amazing to me how they don't test the edges more or even play action more on third and one, third and two, fourth and one. You just don't see it. Plus, I'm sick of seeing Brady in the shotgun so much. Sorry for bitching about the Patriots so much, but, hey, that's what it is. It is what it is, everybody says. I would love to see Brady's numbers when he's under center as opposed to when he's in shotgun. I just think he's a better under center quarterback. I think when you put him in shotgun, I think when you put guys in shotgun that can't run, I think you're asking for trouble. You know, you give them the D-line of target. Unless you're doing some things with some of the zone read stuff. I thought it was great. Time flying by on me. I thought it was great. Bruce Arians, whom, you know, I think he's all right. I think he's an NFL retread. But he came out this week and he took kind of a backhanded shot at Chip Kelly and the Eagles saying, you know, I just think that the D-corner is too good in this league for the read option. The read option is a college offense. Bruce Arians is another one of these guys with his fucking Joe Maddon-style glasses. You know, those black rimmed glasses that guys in, you know, 45 plus who still think they're hip love to rock that fucking hipster black frame glasses. Bruce Arians is one of those guys. But you're a freaking idiot. First of all, in Chip Kelly's response, I thought it was very apropos. He said, it's not an offense. He says, it's a play we run. Okay, he says, like, our offense is a power offense because we also run power. We also run power. We also run counter. You know, it's a play. And if you're going to run inside zone and you're going to run it outside zone for that matter, just a matter of where you're trying to hit it, blocking scheme as well, but you need to have your quarterback once, just if it's there, take it. But if not, you're still running inside outside zone. It's not an offense. Okay, it's not like Gus Malzahn is in there running, which I still think could work, but, you know, I don't want to get into that again. But Chip Kelly said it's a play. How is our whole offense based off one play? But guys like Arians and, you know, harumph, harumph, harumph, harumph. Yeah, the college offense. Yeah, we lost today. But Chip Kelly called his offense the Seacoast offense. S-E-E, coast offense. I don't know why. I don't believe Philadelphia sits on the coastline. But he says, if they see something and they like it, they run it, you know, and they try to run a high tempo. It's not that difficult of a plan. You know, it works for them. Works for them today. Good for the Eagles. Come back. Even though I almost fist fought Chip Kelly, he probably doesn't. No, I'm quite sure he doesn't know what I was talking about. I've already talked about that story. I don't want to go again. What else we got? Carolina, analytic Ron keeps on rolling. It's pretty easy to be analytic. Ron, go for it on fourth. You got a 6'5", 250 pound freak quarterback back there who has a rocket for an arm. Pretty easy to be. To go for it on fourth. I'm just glad he's shining a little bit of light on the going for fourth. It's a good idea. Sometimes, not all the time, as some of these point decks will try to lead you to believe. Jacksonville, back off the schneid. What am I saying? They won three of the last four. Three of the last. Five. Miami with the Jets. Gino benched. One of the trip back questions a few weeks ago. Do you see Gino going through the hole yet? This is what I kind of saw. Gino just, I don't think, is ready. You know, I think he's a rookie. I think he's got a lot of things he needs to work out. I think the Jets have a lot of things to work out. Still think they're pretty good, though, as far as going forward. Just going to be able to get the guy back. Mark Sanchez is all fired up to come back. But anything else? Yeah, and I got stuck watching the Denver-KC game. Of course, you have to watch that game. KC just blew that load early. Then throw him the ball at the one-yard line. Guy gets picked. Went to the back. Peyton Manning runs, what, throws for another 400-something yards. Unfortunately, I still think Denver's the best team in the AFC. I think the Patriots are just too weak up front, defensively. But, beating a dead horse. A few of the things I wanted to get in before I hit the twit bag. I only have about 10 minutes left. Watched a great documentary called Against the Tide, which is on Showtime this month. I don't know about this month, but it was on November. I just watched it the other day. Story of Alabama versus USC. 1970. Narrated by Tom Selleck, who sounds like a friggin' does not sound like Magnum P.I. anymore. Sounds like an old man. Which he probably is. Long story short, though, Alabama wasn't even, I didn't even realize this. I don't think about this shit, but Alabama wasn't even integrated until 1969, their football team. Their football team was all white. USC was integrated in 1920. In the 1920s, they had a black player by the name of Bryce Taylor, who was an All-American in 1925. Before that, they had some black players. Alabama didn't have any. Imagine that. That's almost 50 years later. Okay, that's the same time period as between now and 1970, which is when this game was played, as of 1920, 1970. You know who I'm getting at. But Brian gets no flack in the history books for being a racist. They say, oh, it's not him. It's not him. It's, you know, Governor Wallace and all that shit and the time period. Fine, but Brian was a god, and he still is revered as a god. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. They saying that Bear Bryant arranged this game for versus USC so people in Alabama could see that the black athlete was, well, quite frankly, let's just say it, better than the white athlete for the most part. So they ended up playing a game and USC went over to Bama and ended up thumping them, blew them out of the water. But McKay and Bear were buddies. John McKay, legendary USC coach, were buddies. So he ended up calling off the dogs and he beat them like 42-21. They said, oh, they could have beat them by 60 that day. You know, you get better as time goes on. Everybody gets better as time goes on. But one of the things I thought was funny was the next year in the rematch, Alabama came out here to the Coliseum and unveiled the wishbone offense that was being run in Texas and Oklahoma to tremendous success. Ended up coming back here and beating the Trojans. 17-10. You know, good for Bear Bryant. Although by that point, neither floodgates were open. He just started getting black guys. Ended up getting a guy by the name of Wilbur Jackson, who averaged seven point, first black play he'd ever had. Ended up averaging over seven yards a carry. Sam Cunningham for the USC in that first game, jumping around a little bit. Former New England Patriot and brother of Randall Cunningham. Sam the Bam Cunningham, classic New England Patriot. Just 1970. Amazing. How different things were. Definitely a program you need to check out. What else? A couple other things and then I'm gone. Oh, yeah. Billy Belichick. Read this. I thought this was fun. Had a mic on Tom Brady the other day. Game of four versus Denver. Brady's out there audible. And one of the audibles he throws out is Cougar, Cougar. Linda, Linda. Linda is Belichick's girlfriend, who I don't mind saying because fairly confident nobody in the Belichick family is listening. Wouldn't care if they were. Is way too hot for Bill Belichick. Bill Belichick, she is a cougar, if you will. Fake titties. Billy Belichick looks like, you know, Bob Newhart. You know, but Linda. Cougar. This, you know, Cougar. Three-time divorcee is not the first younger woman Billy Belichick was going after. Evidently, he had an affair with one of the secretaries for the Giants back when he was with the Giants. Lady by the name of Sharon Shinoka. He called her 1,800 times in one year. Bought her a $2.2 million home. And gave her a $2.2 million home. And gave her a $2.2 million home. And gave her a $2.2 million home. And gave her over $150,000 in cash. That don't sound like a genius to me. That sounds like a dude who gets freaking pussy whipped. He's freaking throwing money out to these women. Getting with, I mean, he was married at the time, need I say. And he's with this woman who's way out of his league just because of who he is. The genius. That doesn't sound like a genius to me. Sounds like a goddamn fool. Enough of that. I mean. I get a charge of the Belichick bashing because I think he's vastly overrated. I think he's just extremely lucky. I think he's a good coach. I don't think he's much better. No much worse than the run-of-the-mill NFL coaches. But he's just got Tom Brady. I mean, defensively, the Patriots looked awful today. I know. Ah, not for the Patriots. Let's dive in the twit bag. Here we go. At Douglas Angle. Which was the more questionable decision? Hoke's decision to go for two? Or Saban's decision to go with freshman kicker at the end? I already answered this question. I think the most more questionable decision was Saban's. Do appreciate what Saban's trying to do, though. You never know. The guy could make that kick. You very rarely see games end in a... Although Saban had the comment today, I've never seen a game end like that. I haven't seen a game end like that either. But I know Devin Hester's... I think he's going to make at least one, possibly two for the Bears. So not to say that that couldn't happen. But I... You know, Hoke, I think he made the right decision. Go for the win. Fuck it. I don't care what some of these pundits say that... Oh, at home, you got to go for the tie and all that. Yeah, I don't think so. Michigan was lucky to be where they were. Ohio State's better than they are. Although I don't think Ohio State's the number one team in the country. Nor the number two team in the country. But go for the win. Just a play call. I didn't... I didn't really... Respect. At Sizzlechest33. Do you think Jameis Winston Case will come into play before the end of the season? Or will it be dragged out until after bowls and awards? I think within the next two weeks. I think after the ACC championship game, they're going to drop the charges. Well, and if they don't drop the charges, then the answer to your question is no. Then it'll be dragged out for months and months and months. And probably... Probably won't be settled until next summer. You know, next September. That stuff takes forever. They dragged that stuff out. If they don't drop it in the next two weeks, then I think it's going to go on forever. At BirdlawDS. Who's your rookie of the year so far in the NFL? Great question. If I had to give out an offensive rookie of the year and a defensive rookie of the year... Offensively, I'm looking at two guys. I like Eddie Lacy. The running back for Green Bay. I agree with you. And I also like Tavon Austin. Even though early on, people weren't that high on him. Talked about he has all those huge touchdowns. You know, comparable only to Gale Sayers. Comparable only to a couple of other... Randy Moss. I mean, I think those three games alone, I could be fooled with Lipstick and Rouge. I don't care if it's not the whole season. So one of those two. Eddie Lacy. I also like... Like I said, Tavon Austin. I like DJ Fluker. I think two is a good offensive lineman. Of course, they don't give an offensive lineman. Mike Lennon's been okay. I think, you know, I think Lacy and Tavon Austin. And then there's another receiver. Who am I missing there? The receiver for the Chargers. Keenan Allen. He's also a good one. But I'm going to give the offensive one to Tavon Austin. Because I get impressed by star power. Defensively, several guys I really like. Kiko Alonzo, the linebacker for Buffalo. Tackling machine. Sheldon Richardson for the Jets. Tremendous D-lineman. And another guy there for the Carolina Panthers. Star. Luta Lele. Lele. Great player too. However, if I only had to give one... I got to go with Kiko Alonzo. His numbers are through the roof. And the guy is a different... They're all difference makers. They're all difference makers. It's tough how that voting goes. You know, it's... What team's better and all that bullshit. You're getting into the baseball style. Best I've seen though. Kiko Alonzo. Sheldon Richardson right there. Tavon Austin. Just in third. If I'm only going to give one. Well, I guess that's about it. I'll wrap it up now. We've got no much more time. Apologize. That was my email. To anybody who's listening who's on my email list. My email got hacked the other day. Not the one with the show, but my personal one. So it's been shooting out all types of stupid bullshit. I apologize to anybody who's listening who might have gotten something dumb. I'm on it though. Other than that, follow us at Twitter at HajjadsLA. You can also email us at HajjadsLA at gmail.com. Big week next week at the championship game. Pro games. Pro games are always fairly interesting, but college football is, you know, to me usually a bit more fun to watch. Got the SEC, ACC championships. Few other games going on. All right, that's it. I'm wrapping it up. I'm the coach, Hajjads LA. I am out of here. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. Later. 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