Brandon Walker
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Right. Two things. Oh, did you just do long ones? Two things. Okay. A, I'm not a guest. I'm part of the show now as the resident college football expert. And B, the couch has nothing to do with me. I'm sitting on the couch, but you guys are engaging in the couch fight with Hank right now.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I'm aware of Vanny Woodhead. He's part of the show. You know who knows about Vanny Woodhead? Tom Fradelli. Well, you know what he doesn't know about? College football, and that's why I'm here.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I sat in the chair. I immediately got concerned I was going to break the chair. There were concerns with the chair. But Hank is fighting the chair battle, not me. I don't care if the chair's here or not. Well, you should have an opinion one way. Well, I do have an opinion. I want our guests to be as comfortable as possible here. Okay.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I'm in a pretzel now. What? How do I get out of it? Trigs make Brandon really fat in the cover art. Yeah, that's how you get out of it. Go ahead.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I understand that. But why would you do that?
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Weighed in at 273 yesterday. I thought I was 265.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Yeah, he said a huge rack. Several times. Got to stay away.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I'm capable. You know.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
It's the only sport that really gets meticulously picked apart for the quality of its games. It doesn't really happen to the NBA playoffs or the NHL playoffs. It doesn't really happen to anybody else. It's the only sport where if there's a bad game, it is suddenly an indictment of the entire sport. Correct. Whereas... A playoff is just that.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
You are playing off to find out who's the best team at the end. There's no guarantee you're going to have some aesthetically pleasing games along the way. You've just collected through a 12-game sample size who deserves to be here. We pretty much got that this year. I don't know that it was perfect, but we got that. We can't help that some of the games weren't as good.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
In the 90s was always a blowout. Yeah. It just seemed like you're going out of your way to take shots sometimes. Like, oh, you're part of the show.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
People believe that the playoff was implemented because it was supposed to be some grand fix. Well, it wasn't fixing because nothing was broken. It was just a better way to determine a champion. It's more seats at the table. It's more excitement. And it gave us an October and November that were unparalleled in excitement. November had games.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Would anybody have cared about Ole Miss, Florida in previous years? No. Would anybody have cared about certain games? No. It gave us a great November. It gave us a bad first round. But then it also gave us Texas-Arizona State, which was remarkable.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
And I'd rather watch that even if it's a blowout. People are nostalgic liars about college football. They're like, well, we should go back to how it used to be. 30 years ago, Penn State goes undefeated and gets nothing. They get nothing. There are these times in history where we're just letting sports writers decide. So we've come step by step by step.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
The 12-team playoff, I think, is the best way to do it until we have a 16-team playoff, which would be even better.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
That could work. Now, I will say this year it might have – you don't know this. This is year to year. Maybe eight teams was enough for this year, but you can't go based on – you can't do that.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Yeah, I mean, if you're a Texas fan, you're in your second straight playoff, or you're going to – I don't even know where they played that last game. Were they at the Fiesta Bowl? Yeah. No, they weren't at the Fiesta Bowl. They were at the Peach. They were at the Peach Bowl. Are you going to Atlanta knowing that you might have two other trips in the next two weeks? Maybe you're not.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Maybe you say, well, I'll get them the next time. So it creates some issues and stuff. But there are small issues we have to work towards. Overall, this is a better way to do it than we've ever had, and it is going to get tweaked. The auto buys for conference champions got to go away. That has to go away.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
It created a spot where the sixth seed had the easiest path to where we are right now, which I think Penn State probably was good enough to get there anyway. I'm not going to hold it against them, but they had an easier path than, say, Oregon. Yeah, Oregon got screwed. Oregon should have just lost the Big Ten championship game, and they still probably would be alive.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Yeah, they would have gotten a home game. They would have won it. Then they would have gone on. They wouldn't have had the rust that they dealt with against Ohio State. Now, Ohio State killed them so much, you can't really blame that. But still, there were issues, and we'll fix them along the way.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
We don't believe in that. You try to make it personal with me about the Rose Bowl because you try to make it personal with me about a lot of things. No, I don't. You make it personal. You like to point fingers and say Brandon Walker hates the Rose Bowl and you turn everyone against me by saying, no, I don't hate the Rose Bowl.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I think the Rose Bowl is magnificent and wonderful and it is also absolutely in love with itself and thinks it's bigger than the sport and the Rose Bowl needs to be taken down a peg. The Rose Bowl holds up college football progress. It's done it before. It stands in the way. It has to have things its way and it is not that special.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
It is special. Good one, PFT. Not the worst counterpoint I've ever heard. Not the worst counterpoint I've ever heard. But it's better than his counterpoints where he just says, I hate it. No, I don't hate it. I just think it's in love with its own parts.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
The Texas-Arizona State game. They are in overtime on the playoff game. Rose Bowl. The Rose Bowl will not hold up.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
The fucking sun? Imagine that?
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
You didn't know either, did you? You always know.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
There was a flyover you didn't know recently. No, he knows all the flyovers.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
It's a B-2 bomber.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I respect the Rose Bowl. Here's the problem with it.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Well, that's kind of on you. You live your entire life with me on a mocking tone.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Yeah. If I bought myself Rose Bowl gifts, that's mocking.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
You walk up there and you see Wisconsin Badgers 1994 Rose Bowl champs and a picture of the Rose Bowl. You don't. I'm like, God damn it. He got me again. Yeah.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Still Big 12. It is weird. It feels weird. It's been a bad bowl season for SEC. It's been a bad season for the SEC. Would you like to apologize for the SEC? 100% no, because fuck the SEC. I am a fan of Mississippi State University. When Georgia loses, I think it's hilarious. When Alabama loses, I think it's fucking hilarious.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
So this myth that you guys think that we're all sitting in our trailer parks down south just waiting for Alabama and Georgia to bail us out is wrong. It is wrong.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Oh, whatever. Wherever we're hanging out. Back of a pickup. Down south. The dogfighting ring. Wherever we're hanging out down south. The cousin fucking fest. We're not just waiting. We would never talk football at the cousin fucking fest. We're never waiting for Alabama to bail us out. When they win, we're like, God damn, this is proof of how tough it is down here. When they lose, it's hilarious.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Ohio State? Yeah. They've been the one team constantly, and Clemson touched it for a few years, that have been built like an elite SEC team. It's not built like an SEC team. It's built like an elite SEC team.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Because there's teams built like Florida right now and Kentucky and A&M, and then there's teams built like Alabama and Georgia over the last 15 years, which is just take the five of the five stars and put them in every position and destroy everybody. And Texas is like that. Ohio State's like that.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I don't represent the Big Ten. I don't have a Big Ten accent. That's on you to start turning around the narrative.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
When you get to the end of the season, and it's happened to the SEC a couple times. It might happen to the Big Ten this year. And two SEC teams play for a national title, and your team went 9-3 in that conference. You're like, look at what we had to deal with that year.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Neither are you. It sucks. Speak for yourself, buddy. You're talking to a 2021 College World Series champion.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Well, yeah, but you don't really. You never actually watched one of the games. I did. I watched the third period of one of the championship games. Yeah, but you can't name any players. Like, I can name all the Mississippi State baseball players. Chad, Austin, Cody.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
oh they've already gotten two of the best uh wide receiver transfers in the country they're fixing their problems now and kirby smart is one of those coaches that like kind of like nick saban when they lose it's actually bad for everyone else because they're just going to come back with more vengeance well i kind of say that about the entire sec if everybody wants to shit on the sec right now that's fine if you want to do the collective conference thing but embarrassing alabama and embarrassing georgia them going through that it's just going to turn them into monsters this offseason and it's gonna
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
be nastier than it's ever been.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
And also, they've had a 20-year run where they've just kicked the shit out of them. Yeah, but everybody would lobby in that scenario, I think. I didn't. I didn't think Alabama deserved it, or South Carolina, or Ole Miss.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Alright, so... This game. Yeah.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Yeah. Who do you have winning this game and why? I have Penn State winning this game because I think Penn State and Notre Dame are very, very, very similar. I think Penn State's a little bit better version of the team they're going for. They have a better quarterback. Great defense, better quarterback, both elite running game, both very, very, very physical.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Penn State just has one more explosive playmaker than Notre Dame has. They have the incredible tight end, Tyler Warren, and they have a quarterback who I think is not going to make the mistakes that the backup quarterback for Georgia made. Listen, Notre Dame... They're both built to win games the same way. Get a 7-10 point lead, use their defense, ride it out, win the game, right?
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
And Notre Dame pulled that off to a tee against Georgia. Notre Dame had two plays. They had the sack fumble to get the ball at the 9-yard line, and then they had the kick return. That gave them two touchdowns of separation, and they never let Georgia breathe. If those two plays don't happen... They had 250 yards of total offense.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
They're playing a more physical defense, and I don't think Allard's going to make the mistakes the backup quarterback made. I just like Penn State as a little bit better version of what both teams are going for.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I think Notre Dame had 80 yards passing against Georgia. Great touchdown by Faison. Which was all fine. That's what they needed to do to beat Georgia, but I just don't know if that's going to beat Penn State. I think Penn State's going to get a couple touchdowns from the combination of Aller and Warren, and I
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I know that a lot of people, it feels like more people believe Notre Dame's going to win than believe Penn State's going to win. But I think that's totally due to the path that Penn State has and the path that Notre Dame has. Do you think that Allard is, do you trust him? I think he is very good.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I've been on the Drew Allard train for two years to my detriment last year when they lost to Ohio State and Michigan. People were like, see, we told you he's terrible. That was a bad game. It was a bad game, but it was also due to the two best defenses in the country. Well, this year, he doesn't turn the ball over. I think last year he might have had four interceptions. This year, three.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Something ridiculous. I don't know if those are exact numbers. But he doesn't turn the ball over, doesn't make mistakes. If they had elite receivers, this would be an elite offense. They don't have elite receivers, so it's a really good offense.
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Canute Rockne. I don't believe Ric Flair and Arn Anderson were together 100 years ago. Yeah. Are you familiar with Canute? I am familiar with Canute. Win one for the Gifford, right? Gifford, yeah. Doesn't that feel like Team of Destiny vibes? Do we know if there's any 100-year anniversaries for Penn State? Probably don't want to look in their past. Have we checked?
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Yeah, this is Catholics versus Catholics.
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Yeah.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I think about it. Is it fair to say he hasn't won a big game when he just won two playoff games? I understand. Those weren't big games. Right. Max said they weren't big games. Isn't that right? Okay, so could I argue that Georgia without its starting quarterback? No, it's still Georgia. It's still a big game. So we're really massaging the word big game to fit our narrative right now.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
greatly favored over yeah and you know it's a toss-up game against a top five team Penn State has not been able to overcome when Michigan was at the top of the sport the last three years they couldn't overcome them and when Ohio State's they haven't overcome Ohio State once Can I ask you this? Yeah. Over the last four years, what's Notre Dame's record against those two teams? What would it be?
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Because it'd be the exact same as Penn State. No, it's a fair point. But that's also a little Brian Kelly in there. And Freeman, who I think, again, he pants Kirby Smart. He looked great. This is a guy that lost Northern Illinois this year. This guy who has lost some games. Tough team. One of the best Mountain West teams.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
This is a guy who's lost some games he shouldn't lose, but suddenly because he beats Georgia, all the questioning is still on James Franklin. I don't It's called narratives. I don't think this is all about the coaches here. I think this is one team has a better quarterback than the other. That's what I think. I agree. I agree with you. If you go out the whole playoff, it's four coaches.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Somebody's breaking through for the first time. Ryan Day gets rid of his problems. James Franklin gets rid of his problems. Marcus Freeman ascends to the top of the sport for the first time. And Sarkeesian battles through everything he had to battle through. So it's a fascinating coach narrative. I agree. It is.
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Yeah, the fake go.
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That makes sense.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Well, they also have posted speed limits in Athens, Georgia, and they don't really pay attention to those either.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Don't get in the way of refs. Don't drink and drive.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
If the last word you read going onto the field is off sides, it's in your mind to jump off sides. It's in your DNA.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I like Penn State.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I have already earned that reputation via winning this battle this year, so I don't know that I have to put it back on the line. Do you need a banner to hang behind you?
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Big Game Boomer hasn't put one out yet. Okay, so you haven't won it. Right. I haven't won it, but I haven't lost it either. Okay. And we went through all of 2024 without a new banner. True. I'm with you. I think I'm going to bet Penn State. Yeah. What's the current line in the draft? Two and a half, I think, or maybe two. I think it'll be a pick-em by game time.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I feel like the late money's coming in on Penn State. I also hate to do it, but it – I don't know.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I mean, both those things happened in the last game. The total ended up at 33. I know.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Yeah, very good. So good. Yeah, Xavier Watts is one of the best players in the country. But they're good at every level of their defense.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
It's going to be very tough, especially because his receivers don't really get much separation.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
uh but it's not so much just trusting drew aller is trusting drew aller more than you're trusting riley leonard to throw the ball down the field and play so i think i don't think penn state is going to go out there and throw for 350 yards and four touchdowns but if you had to tell me you know the one team's going to win by throwing for 215 yards and two touchdowns i would say that's penn state yeah okay uh max you have any penn state questions for brandon
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Not at all.
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They got right to the edge of losing.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
So... If I went by what the two teams have done in the playoff, it has to be that, right? It has to be because Ohio State got the embarrassment against Michigan. Three weeks they heard how terrible they are, how big of a train wreck they are. And they came out and their play calling was different. Their attitude was different. Everything was better. They had fixed it. However, I wonder about this.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Ohio State now, by virtue of their two performances they put on, does the pressure now circle back around to get on their shoulders again? Because they had that pressure going into Michigan the last couple years. They've had that pressure, and Ryan Day traditionally doesn't do that great with pressure.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Now that they have shown they are unequivocally the most talented and the best team in this playoff, does the pressure come back, and then do they go into that shell again where their play calling isn't as aggressive, where their play calling isn't as down the field? I wonder about that. Otherwise...
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
If Ryan Day and Chip Kelly don't hold this team back, if they call plays the same way they've been calling plays, I think they win by two touchdowns. Breaking Moose.
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You get a cow. You get a cow. Like that. Breaking Moose.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
I've watched a bunch of NFL games, but they play every Sunday still? Yeah, you're going to be here on Sunday, right? No, no, absolutely not. Okay. I know how many openings there are. How many Vrabel openings are there? Five. So are all the openings Vrabel openings? Yes.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
Yeah. Okay. Jacksonville's not a Vrabel opening, right? They're not hiring Vrabel. They probably want to. Everyone wants to. Right, but you can't be a Vrabel opening if Vrabel would never get to you. He would pick another job before you pick that one, right?
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You guys got to be honest about your Vrabel opening.
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I understand they were longtime teammates, but is there any personal evidence that says he's going to tie his future career into whatever Tom Brady wants him to do?
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Why wouldn't Vrabel be Patriots?
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Fair.
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And you believe in a year of our Lord 2025, the Patriots are a more appealing destination for Ben Johnson than the Bears would be?
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I feel like both quarterbacks. No, they're both.
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But I bet for a coach, an offensive-minded coach, I know whatever he put on the field this year, I bet Caleb Williams is really fucking enticing. Yeah.
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I think it could resurface. And we've seen Ryan Day not be able to deal with that before, right? Yeah. If all of a sudden he's the heavy favorite again and you have no excuse not to win, I feel like that could creep back on him, him and Chip Kelly. How does Texas win this game?
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So Texas is probably the most interesting team. I believe they have Ohio State ceiling in there somewhere. Every now and then for like two drives, maybe a quarter, that Texas offense looks like, oh my God. Stark will get in his bag, a misdirection play. Stark will get in his bag. Quinn will be throwing darts. Because every now and then Quinn Ewers just throws fucking darts.
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And then he'll throw a floater into triple coverage. And you're like, where did this guy come from? If they could for four quarters tap into their actual true potential, which is going to be tough against Ohio State, which I think is the best defense in the country. It's going to be tough against them. But if they could, they're as talented as Ohio State.
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You know what? They're not as talented. Nobody is. But they're as talented as anybody not named Ohio State, and that would give them a puncher's chance.
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For Texas?
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No, I don't think so. That defensive line is really, really good. I think it has to be making plays 25 yards down the field. I think it has to be Marcus Golden. I think it has to be even maybe get Isaiah Bond involved. It has to be Quinn Ewers hitting at least three or four game-breaking passes. Or put on Michigan uniforms.
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Or put on Michigan uniforms, and that causes Chip Kelly and Ryan Day to fucking freak out and want to win the game a certain way that they shouldn't be wanting to win the game like that.
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Well, golden and blue would be Notre Dame, wouldn't it? No, but... Blue and gold would be Notre Dame. They got two players. Golden. Blue. And blue. Yeah. But that's not Michigan. His name isn't Mays. That's true. That's what I said. Which is Mexican.
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It is very good. It also gave up 510 yards and 31 points to Arizona State. That's the thing. That wasn't a fluke.
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They just bullied him in the second half. Arizona State had the ball in the red zone in the first half four times, didn't score any points. They moved the ball all day. Finally, Scadaboo and Leavitt got it going, but they scored 31 points. It's overtime, so they scored 24 in regulation. But they had 510 yards. That's a lot of yards. How do you shut down Jeremiah Smith? You don't. Not possible.
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You don't. You either just hope you shut down everybody else or you hope Chip Kelly and Ryan Day don't force feed him like they've been force feeding him. You hope that they probably should. They didn't force feed him against Michigan. They didn't force feed him against Penn State the first time. And they kind of pussyfooted around it.
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They came out in the playoff and realized, hey, we have the best receiver room in the country. Because it's not just Jeremiah Smith. He's the one getting the headlines. But Puka's been great.
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like carnell tate's been pretty good too like they have their third best receiver would be the best receiver on any other team and you just hope they go away from that yeah you got to get inside their brain somehow against penn state and against michigan ohio state ran the ball on first down ran the ball on second down and tried to be tougher up front tried to be out and out physical teams and they couldn't do it as long as they don't try to do that again i don't know how you stop them
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Well, Texas is a hell of a lot better than Michigan too, right? Yeah, they beat the fuck out of them. Yeah, so Texas, I don't want them to get disrespected here. I just don't think they have the high end. They don't have the high end potential of Ohio State because Quinn Ewers can never be that guy for a full game. They have not played a full game yet.
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They won by 14 points.
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Yeah, and I can imagine an NFL scout as they get ready for the draft, and I think he's going to go back to college and transfer somewhere else. But looking at Quinn Ewers has to be one of the most frustrating things you can look at because you will see three throws and you're like, this guy is a top five pick. We've got to trade up and get this guy.
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And then the next three throws, nobody get near this guy, undrafted free agent.
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Yeah. Like standing in the face of pressure from 13.
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But the interception he threw with six minutes left when they were nursing an eight-point lead was among the worst throws you've ever seen. He throws it into double coverage and he floats it. It's basically an arm punt.
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I'd agree.
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Every one of his life's problems. Who's that a bigger kick in the dick for? Is it a bigger kick if James Franklin finally breaks through, gets to the national title game, and he has to play Ohio State, a team that he just can't beat? Or Ryan Day fights through everything, gets to the national title game, and then loses to Penn State, who he's never lost to. Oh, you know what it'd be?
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Yeah.
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And as much as I like Penn State and think they're a very good team, their roster is not as good as Ohio State's. Right. Them losing to Ohio State would not be that good.
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Yeah. They are.
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I don't think so. I think Ohio State travels well enough, and it'll be 50-50. At worst, what, it'll be 60-40, something like that. I don't think there'll be a home field advantage.
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Is it?
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They might pump the AC. What if someone leaves the door open? They're expecting some snow.
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The big door? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a giant window with the sun. But you don't respect the sun. Wouldn't Ohio State want to leave the door open so it could be the Northern Texans?
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Yeah. Remember... Yeah, I guess they still have that. I remember Texas Stadium when I was a kid, too. They had the hole directly in the roof, and it was just awful.
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Great question. Thank you.
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So Jeremiah Smith will be back. Maybe he transfers. To where? Wisconsin?
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I don't know if he's related to Larry Ellison. He's probably going to call him that soon.
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Got to be the biggest in the world. 12 million. Texas with Arch Manning. How about Texas?
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I think they're still going to be real damn good.
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No. Oh. He will be a two and out guy. Whoa. Who's their quarterback next year?
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Listen, Alabama, not to brag, but me and Fornelli did sit on this couch before the year and said Alabama's not going to be competing for national titles because Milrow's not good enough. I also said Travis Hunter would win the Heisman. You did. But Milrow was still the best they had. What's coming down the pipe in Alabama? And running back, they've been normal forever.
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Receiver, they're normal forever. Well, Ryan Williams. Ryan Williams, sure. Good point, Big Cat. Not normal whatsoever. They are way closer to a normal SEC team than they've ever been, and nothing is happening to make me think that's going to change. So Nick Saban's going to have to come back and save him? I don't know. I guarantee you if they go 9-3 again or 9-4 with a bowl up, he's out.
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I got two words for you. They will not let that happen to you.
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Jaden Rashada. Do you want in on him? No. No. He doesn't want in on him. He won't stay anywhere long enough to be in on something.
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He's a friendly guy. And Oregon has a guy who signed in December and already transferred. These guys don't understand. Just go somewhere and plant yourself for a year or two and see. Just see what happens and see how it unfolds. Don't just leave immediately.
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That's not a terrible idea. I thought maybe if you sign out of high school, you have to stay somewhere two years. Now, that's not very American, and it's not very free, but I think it's better for the players. I do too. If you transfer immediately, you're never going to – because it's going to make it – it's like a concussion, right? Once you get one, it's easier to do it again.
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I think so.
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We have so many of these transfer zombies that are now four and five and six and seven schools.
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Yeah, it's... We're doing Jalen Hurts now?
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What people don't realize is this is college football. It's great that the schools are going to be paying them and everything, but the behind the scenes and the under the table money is still going to be flowing bigger than ever.
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So all these freshmen that, oh, he's only getting 50K. Yeah, he's not getting 50K. He's getting 500K somewhere else. So it's all going to be nasty.
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I just feel like some players, you know, I like player freedom. I like guys going to find an opportunity, and some of these schools lie to players. But sometimes when you go to a place and you leave immediately, you never give yourself a chance to grow into anything. Correct. And if you're always looking for the quick fix, the school is too, and you're never going to find anything.
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And you're just going to be that guy for the entire five years you're in college and it's never going to work out.
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And then he got concussed twice. He went to the school that valued loyalty the most.
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So you guys have just transitioned fully into messing with Max right now?
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You wouldn't admit, Max, the Monday of a playoff game, hearing the word concussion protocol is troubling.
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Dianna Russini On Coach Firings/Hirings, Brandon Walker On CFB, Who Is Under The Most Pressure Wild Card Weekend + Guys On Chicks
No, no. As my first official appearance as the official college football expert on this show, officially, I had a good time, officially.
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Officially... Good job. And we never did actually say, but the contest that I won, I had three schools left in the college football playoff. Fornelli has one. He has Penn State. Okay.
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That's what I said. But no, even if they win it all, he is still short of my point total because I've been so dominant so far.
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That's not what we said. We'll have to review the tape. You can review the tape. He also had two bye schools. That's him. That's him. If you choose bye, that's a lifestyle choice. Those are wins, too.
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Guys, I have officially already made an appearance as the expert. I don't know what we can't undo it now. We're going to boot that out. Let's clip one out.
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Okay.
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Did you listen to our college football expert? Is that why he took Penn State? Yeah. Oh, no.