Postgame Show: Awkward Moments
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And it's brought to you by our friends at DraftKings. Stay tuned because you're going to hear all about DraftKings throughout the show that just got finished. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Izzy, you don't do this a lot with us. Kick us off. Not only do I not do this a lot, I've never done this. And I am trying to find the line on tomorrow's Marlins Braves game. And I cannot. I cannot.

but I'm taking the Braves, whatever that number is. I'm telling you, the Braves will be minus one and a half. We will take that against the Spurs. Tony, what do we got? Yankees played one into the extra innings last night. Phillies, good team.

The game's about to start in a little bit. I'm going to give the Yankees with Nestor Cortez on the bump. Minus one and a half. I'm going to take the Yankees here. See if they can get back. Against the Suns. Tony, how much is your head spinning this week while having to edit and be part of the show? Yeah, it hasn't been great. Now people are watching a video. Tony has 14 set of headphones on. I have 14 set of headphones. I need to be sent out to somewhere to do a top five from somewhere. But then also nobody can edit the show, so I can't leave and do that. So I got to stay here and do this. And you got to dress cool.

Jess, what do you got? Tomorrow, USA women versus Belgium in basketball. Belgium is pretty good, but their star guard is hurt. And the spread is 22 and a half. I'm going to take the USA to cover that. Against the spread. Way to go higher on that one, Chris. What a game that is.

What do you guys think of me trying to dress like Dan today? I know this is not for the post-game show audience necessarily. I couldn't tell if it was like a Jeremy or a Dan impression. Was it a legit thing that you did? Well, so I had got these clothes and as I was trying them on, whenever I was trying them on, it was definitely after the Dan change in wardrobes and stuff. You had them first. You're like, I did not follow Dan on this. Oh, no, no. I definitely looked at this and said, this is a Dan outfit, but I'm wearing it better.

And so I got it. And I didn't have any plan on wearing it here. But there was about a 30% chance that we would be wearing the exact same thing. And that excited me for about half an hour while I was in makeup. Speaking of outfits, I saw that we played the clip last week of Deshaun Foster at Big Ten Media Days saying his opening statement and how kind of awkward it was when he said UCLA. Yeah.

We're in L.A. We've got USC there. You want to hit it? We're in L.A. We're in L.A. It's us and USC.

I saw that today he wore a shirt to practice that said, we're in LA. And I love that. Double down on it. Laugh at yourself. Did he ever explain that he just, did he just joke? Like he had nothing to say? It was just, I think we've all been there. He just, he got in front of the lights and he just had a moment of just, I lost my train of thought. I think it's interesting how every coach has their own like opening statement philosophy. Some coaches are like,

All right. Questions. Some coaches are like, let me talk for 30 minutes about our punter. And then some coaches do an in-between. And I guess maybe before he went on stage, he didn't know yet how he wanted to play that. What was the most memorable one before this one? Was it Nick Sirianni? I remember he had one that people were like, that was odd. Well, yeah, he was describing the flower and how it grows and trying to make some crazy metaphor. And it just wasn't working. Adam. Adam.

Adam Gaze, that was a weird one. Adam Gaze with the taco eyes. No one did better. Wow, I forgot about the Adam Gaze taco eyes. But nothing was as awkward as, oh, like you're just sitting there saying, say something, anything. Say the colors of your team. It doesn't matter. Just say anything. Was kneecaps being eaten an introductory press conference thing for Campbell? I think it was. I believe it was. And everyone laughed at him. And I guess the joke's on us.

It was early on. It might have been a training camp, but it was... Is the joke on us? He was eating kneecaps at some point. That has never, ever happened to me. Like, I've been... Never eaten a kneecap? I haven't either. No. I've never been mid-thought... You can boil a kneecap? Well, he's vegan now. Yeah, no. Is it like a broccoli kneecap or something? No.

I've never been mid-thought and just lost it all. I've been mid-thought and had to stumble enough to where I'm like, all right, around the horn, guys, we got to redo this. And that's really annoying when you're like a third of the way or three quarters of the way through a segment and you screw up and you've got to redo it. That's annoying. But just drawing a blank when talking about your own team, like just say your quarterback's name or something.

I want to replay me losing my train of thought many years ago when talking about Tyron Smith's hands. This was like early on in my time with the show. I don't even remember the context. I'll stop editing to listen to this. It was funniest thing from the sports weekend. And during this time, I was so afraid to talk that I'm just like, give me the shortest thing.

Like, whatever it is, it's like, this guy fell. That's short. I can say that without stumbling. So I decided my funniest thing was Tyron Smith holding a football. That's it. It was just a football looked really small in his hands, and this is me delivering it. Chris, what was the funniest thing from the sports weekend? I got Tyron Taylor. Tyron Smith, I'm sorry. They were talking back here, so they were making me a little nervous. Don't make excuses. Tyron Smith holding a football in his hands. It looked so small. Oh!

Wow, you limped in with that effort, Chris. I got rattled right before I went on air. I'm just going to turn my mic off now. All right. Yeah, you should. Sound up. I mean, your last two appearances at the microphone have just been a disaster, man. Chris, man. Like, I don't know. What was that? I'm just going to deflect, so I'm just going to stop talking. All right. When did a football look small in this game?

all in this human being's hands. They played NBC showed a graphic of Tyron Smith and he was like sandwiching a football in his hands and I'm telling you it is magical. Oh God. It is magical. I was so nervous. You can hear the youth and nerves in your voice. I'm telling you that is when I was afraid to say anything. Even the second time you were midway through Tyron and you weren't sure if that was the right word. Oh my God.

Don't make excuses. Tyron Smith holding a football in his hands. It looked so small. Oh, God!

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