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God bless football, Stu Gatz. Thank you, Mikey. Fuentes is here. He doesn't have a microphone or a camera. He's got nothing for us. Well, he's working. He's doing, you know, the technical stuff. He's got a microphone. Now all of a sudden he's got a microphone. Well, no, he doesn't have a microphone. Why do you do this? He said very clearly beforehand, don't go to me. Don't do this today. So, Billy, I have good news and I have bad news. What is it? The good news is 50 days until football. The bad news, 50 days until football. Or 48. 48.

Is it 48? Yeah. Oh, the Thursday night game? Yeah, no. This is Friday. No, we're just... Oh, that's right. I'm sorry. At the time we're taping this, my bad. This is live. Yeah, it was 50... You're an ass. It was 50 days. 48 days. I have good news and bad news for you, Billy. Okay, what's that? 48 days until football starts. Wow. You want the bad news? What's that?

48 days until football starts. Okay. Those two days flew. I need football, man. I have a new game I want to play. Really? I just came up with it right now, and I'm wondering, and I'm going to play it specifically with Mikey.

Not to, I don't want to exclude you, but I want to, I mean, I want to play it specifically with Mikey just so you see how it goes. Okay. All right. So the game's called good news or bad news. Ooh, good news or bad news. So you're going to play it with Mikey so I could see how to play the game. Correct. Okay. All right. So this is how it works. Good news or bad news. And I will give you a stated fact and then you determine, is it good news or bad news? Got it. All right. So Mikey, ready? You understand? Does everyone in the audience understand how good news or bad news works?

They do. Okay, good. All right, Mikey, good news or bad news? Stugatz is back. Ooh, that's right off the bat. That's what he likes to do. What do you mean? It's good news. Yeah. It's good news. I agree. It's good news he's back. I agree. Thanks. You guys miss me, huh? Yeah. Fun little episode last week. Stugatz was away. It was fun. He was at Lake Tahoe doing some recon work. I want to play the game now. Do you? Yeah, good news, bad news. Okay. I think that was the only one he had. Yeah.

I was in Tahoe. I will tell everyone about Tahoe. I spent some time with Jason Kelsey. I am hopeful that he will come on this program at some point. I spent some time with Josh Allen, Billy's friend. He asked me how Billy was doing. I spent some time with Baker Mayfield. I spent some time with some football guys. You were doing some groundwork. You were laying some seeds for relationships to flourish, which I think is very important. And you were out there doing that selflessly, I think.

I think, yes. Yeah. It's interesting, Mikey, because I've been out to Tahoe now for five or six consecutive years, I feel like. But I was out there at a different, you know, I was on vacation, so I wasn't really working. And I built up a lot of equity, I feel like, with these guys because for the first time in my life, I wasn't asking them for anything. You know what I mean? Like, but I will eventually. Yeah. And I think they know that.

Uh, but I did two questions for you. Yeah. Good news or bad. First is no, no. The first is, did you interview almost Aaron Rogers again? No, I, uh, I actually got it right. Jake Owen is his name. Um, and I got it right. I redeemed myself. I went up to Jake. I said, Hey Jake, how you doing? He gave me a hug. He's friends with Marty fish. Now I will tell you that I went up to Jake on the driving range and in Tahoe, uh,

They have a nameplate for your spot on the driving range. And so I knew it was Jake Owen. Yeah. Because it said Jake Owen right in front of my face. Now, however. Do you think they did that because of what you did last year? Perhaps. Do you think they put the nameplate? I would say. I actually think they were there last year. I just ignored that. I was just going to say, I feel like if they were there last year and you saw the name Jake Owen without knowing who he was, you wouldn't have thought twice about it. You still would have said hi to Aaron.

And for those in the audience wondering, I thought that, you know, my quarterback, Aaron Rogers was a country music singer. Yeah. Yeah.

I spent 15 minutes with him on the driving range. He really sunk into the character. He pretended to be Aaron Rodgers. He knew it was a mistaken identity, and it did not stop Jake Owen, who was a great sport, from making me feel worse and worse. He dragged the conversation on. I will say, thinking back to it, I remember like 20 minutes into it, why is Aaron still talking to me? Yeah. Yeah.

Because it wasn't Aaron. It was Jake Owen. Now, Aaron was there. Did you talk to Aaron? I did. Yeah. Yeah. Said hello. Yeah. I mean, I spent the entire time, Mike, you'll love this. And Aaron is catching footballs and shaking hands and putting his body in all kinds of compromising positions. And at one point, he almost ran over Jake Golick's kid.

And I'm like, hey, Aaron, what are you doing? Be careful. You're coming off a torn Achilles. Why are you looking at me like that? You said that to him. I did, yes. And what did he say to you? He said, I'm fine. He said, I'm Jayco. He said, I'm Jayco. I lashed out at Jay Golic one time because I said, hey, get your kids away from my quarterback. Yeah, so who were you actually upset with in this exchange?

Well, who do you think I should have been upset with? I don't know. One of them's a child. I don't know necessarily. Well, no, Jake Golick's the dad. It's Mike Golick Jr.'s brother. Yeah, but you said you almost ran over Jake Golick's kid. I know, but he brought his kids out to the driving range where Aaron was. So I'm talking to Aaron. Aaron turns around. The kid's right there. He almost fell over the kid. That's what I'm trying to say.

That's on Jake Golick. I mean, don't bring your kid to a driving range. I have a new segment I want to try. Love you, Jake. If you guys want to play along with this segment. And I will admit to you on the front end, the name of this segment can use some work. Maybe we spruce it up with some imaging as we go on if this thing catches on. But this is called Headlines. Ooh.

All right, I'm just going to start out with one if you want to play headlines. So what do we do after you read the headline? I'm going to give you a headline. It's related to what we were talking about, which is why I figured this is the best time to play headlines. I was thinking of maybe holding on to headlines for later in the show, but it's applicable to what we're talking about right now. Okay. And that is Aaron Rodgers. Yes. This week in the headlines, news came out about Aaron Rodgers.

Where he was when he was away, Diana Rossini, friend of the show, friend of yours, friend of ours, reported, or I guess let the world know, Aaron Rodgers' unexcused absence from Jets' mandatory training camp is because he was in Egypt. And he had disclosed that trip to Egypt to the Jets and to Robert Sala before the date was set for mandatory training camp. So he told them, I will be in Egypt these dates.

They then went ahead and scheduled mandatory training camp for when he was in Egypt and then reported that his absence was unexcused, although he had let them know before they even set the dates that he would be in Egypt. But you expect the Jets to start their mini camps, their training camps around Aaron's schedule? You do. I believe...

I believe, and you can check it out in Diana's new podcast, Scoop City, that Robert Sala decided that he was going to do the training camp that day regardless. And my understanding of it, and it could not be what was reported, but my understanding was he was trying to prove a point by doing so. All-star training camp when I want to start training camp, not when you're ready to start training camp? I think that that was what was implied. How do you feel about that, Mikey, as a Jet fan?

I said all along that the problem wasn't Rodgers missing camp. The problem was Salah calling it inexcused. And now we go on to find out that he even called it inexcused when he scheduled it knowing Rodgers wouldn't be there. Like,

If you're going to go all in on a guy like Aaron Rodgers, go all in or don't. You can't do this hedge thing where I'm in charge, but whatever you want, Mr. Rodgers. But there's no in between. There's no, I mean, Salah has to get the locker room back. Mike, no one respects him in that locker room because he's letting Aaron run the team and run the organization. At some point, he's got to put his foot down, no?

And do you think this was the way to do it? Is this, is this, are all the players now going, Hey, yeah, I'm on solid side. Well, what's he going to do? Bench him week one. I mean, I guess you're right. Yeah. Don't call it an excuse. That's all he had to do. Don't call it an excuse. I would say as someone who doesn't have a horse in this race, he, he made the situation worse. Like yes, by doing what he did, he made the situation worse. Aaron already has everybody kind of talking about everything he does anyways, but saying it's,

an unexcused absence, even though Aaron apparently gave everyone a heads up that he was going to be doing this. He kind of made this when it didn't have to exist. That's fine, but I feel like I don't want to hear from a guy who just came off an Achilles, missed the entire year, plays four snaps for the Jets, and he's dictating when we're going to start training camp? Let me ask you guys something as Jets fans. And he should. I guess you're right. Now that I'm talking it out, it's Aaron Rodgers. Now that you've said it out loud.

Yeah, he should. Let me ask you guys a question as Jets fans in a new segment called Who's There Longer? How many new segments? So here's how this game works. I love them all. I want to play them every week. All right. Who's there longer? Aaron Rodgers or Robert Sala? Who's going to be there longer or who has been there longer? No, who will be there longer? Wow. From this day moving forward? Aaron. Mikey?

I'm going to go optimistic, and I'm going to say Salah because Rodgers gets into the playoffs, retires, Salah gets one year without him, and then gets the boot. Okay.

Who do you think? I think that I'm the host, so I can't give my opinion on this. Well, now you can. But I will say this. I'm the host. It's not my job to give the opinions. I'm just here to give you the prompts. But I will say this. I don't think Robert Sala is in a position to be trying to strong arm Aaron Rodgers right now. Because? Because I don't think he has the job security to be strong arming Aaron Rodgers. Because Aaron Rodgers is your team at

moment. Your season will go as Aaron goes. If Aaron gets injured again, your season will likely go down the drain again. So it's best after Aaron played four snaps last season for everybody to be on the same page, which by the way is probably why Nathaniel Hackett is still there to begin with, right? Because of the fact that Aaron only lasted four snaps. So it's kind of like

Well, we can't really make a judgment call on Nathaniel Hackett, and we don't want to upset Aaron by getting rid of his friend before they even really reunited here. That's totally fair. Listen, the judgment call you need to make on Hackett is the two years he was Aaron's offensive coordinator, he was the MVP of the league. And so the Jets have not seen that play out yet. They want to see it play out. They haven't seen it play out. But I'm kind of with Mikey from this standpoint.

If Rodgers is healthy, the Jets are good enough. Rodgers takes them to the playoffs, hopefully deep into the playoffs, maybe to the Super Bowl. And Salah maybe gets another year out of that. You know, I mean, Salah does have to get control of the locker room. Right. But also, yeah, but this is a way to do it. Like it doesn't. So if we're going to say that, if we're going to say that his success is tied to Aaron's success or lack of success, then none of this really matters. Right.

What mattered for Salah in this situation is he had to get some modicum of respect back in that locker room because no one respects him. So what did he do? He made a big stink about Aaron missing from training camp, even though he knew he was missing training camp, but did it purposely. Dude, I got a question for you. This is more as a Jets fan and the Jets kingdom rather than as Salah. Suppose...

In a perfect world, the Jets win the Super Bowl. Yeah. How many years does that buy Salah? It would take more than a perfect world. I understand. It's more about the Jets' culture. I'm just curious, how long do you think winning a Super Bowl would buy a coach years? Can I throw in another, I guess...

aspect to this question. Good question, though. I was thinking when I asked the question again, it's not my position to be giving you my opinion. But what I was thinking was if the Jets do win the Super Bowl, Robert Sala will have a longer career, not just with the Jets in the NFL, because he'll be a Super Bowl winning coach. So it benefits Robert to be on the same page with Aaron.

So this is why it seems like this is not necessarily the issue where you want to kind of turn it into a thing because they're going to butt heads, you would assume, right? It just seems to be the way things go. So if you're on the same page, why are you going to go on the offensive and then try to make him look bad, which is just going to potentially lead to issues down the road, even though it was reported that they're all good?

I mean, I think the only reason you do this if you're Salah is to save yourself with the rest of the locker room. That's it. Billy, you're making good points. I understand what it is you're asking and what you're saying. But you do it to save face in the locker room. And maybe Aaron's in on that because he wanted Salah to have some of that back. You could also just schedule it a week later or whatever, and no one will even know that that's why it was scheduled those dates. Well, no one...

Who do you think is going to? I mean. Sauce is going to find out? You don't think Aaron likes the idea that he could dictate when a team's training camp starts? He would let it out. Training camp starts when I show up.

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Official sleep and wellness partner of the NFL. See store for details. So, Stugatz, we didn't come close to answering Mikey's question, I don't think, in the last segment. We sprinted away from it. It was weird. Yeah. What was the question? Do you know? I don't remember. That's why I didn't answer it. How many years does a Super Bowl buy Sala in New York? I feel like winning a Super Bowl should buy you a lifetime in New York. It doesn't.

No. So I'm just thinking back. I know Marty Schottenheimer with the Chargers, 14-2 AFC championship game. They had gotten there a bunch. They had very good teams, talented teams. He was fired the next year. So he went 14-2 AFC championship game, lost that, fired. Doug Peterson won a Super Bowl with Nick Foles in Philadelphia. Yeah.

And then was fired, I believe, two seasons later? Two years. Yeah. I think it was two years. So he got a year. So he got a year and then he was fired or two years and then he was fired? Two years. All right. Two more seasons. So Philadelphia was starving for a Super Bowl as well. Peterson won them that Super Bowl and he got two years. The Jets, laughable organization, haven't won a Super Bowl since 69. I feel like Salah gets, I feel like Salah will get five years. He'll get five years.

You want a Super Bowl for the Jet? No? No way. No way. No way. There'll be people calling for his head the next season if it doesn't start off the right way. Now, I think that he'll get the two years. I think he would get two more years. Okay. Do you think Aaron comes back if the Jets win the Super Bowl? I hope not.

What do you mean? I would hope not. Why? You want to end it right there? That would just – what a great walk-off. Walk-off. You just took a team that couldn't make the playoffs for 13 years, won them a Super Bowl, and then said, I'm gone.

I can't see that happening. Me neither. Looks like Weeb Eubank. I know. What I mean by I can't see that happening is you wanting Aaron to retire after that man's won you a Super Bowl. You're going to be begging him to come back. What were you saying about Weeb? Looks like Weeb retired as head coach of the Jets after the 1973 season.

It looks like four seasons, maybe. Four seasons. And I think that Coughlin also lasted, what, four seasons after the Giants won the Super Bowl? Four seasons. Yeah, but keep in mind. He got two. I know, but they weren't waiting 50 years to do anything. Weeb Eubank did it in 1969. So you think what? What a great name, Weeb. If Salah does it, you think he gets double the time that old Weeb got?

Even though Weeb stayed on, I believe, as general manager for a couple years after that. President and general manager. You got a promotion, huh? I think he may have been doing everything. I'm not sure. I mean, it's your team. I don't know. He was Jimmy before Jimmy, huh? I don't know. Yeah. I think Salah gets five years. I do. Okay. Yeah.

Weeb Eubank. Yeah. Great name. Hey, I have a game I want to try to play today if you guys are interested. Jesus Christ, man. Oh, you got a new game? Cool. I do. It doesn't have to be now, but if you want, we can get to it whenever. When do you guys want to play it? Right now. Really? Yeah. This moment. Okay. This game is called Campus Visits.

Really? Yeah. Okay. It's a hard turn. Fuentes is so upset he's not partaking on the air in this episode because he loves Billy's games. So this is, we're test launching campus visits today and then maybe we'll get a whistle or an airplane or something while we visit a campus, right? All right. All right. Our first campus visit is down to Austin, Texas where news came out

SEC has announced that they will not be punishing players for doing horns down as the Big 12 used to do, leading to unsportsmanlike conduct penalties. So down in Texas now, I guess on the road, you can now do the horns down. Thoughts? Good. It's a harmless thing. Why not? Like, good.

Shouldn't be penalized. I think we should call the game thoughts. No, no. This is called campus visits. We're in Austin, Texas. Can't you hear me? We're in Austin, Texas. Billy's setting the scene. Austin, Texas. We're flying down to Texas. I mean, we could technically be in Auburn, Alabama because this is more of an SEC story playing against the University of Texas.

We're flying anywhere, any campus, because you would assume the horns down would happen on the road. Actually, you know what? If the team is feeling a little saucy and it's a player on the other team, they may be doing this in Austin, Texas. So you know what? We're going to stay on the campus, on campus in Austin, Texas. So we're on campus in Austin and someone does the horn celebration. The horns down. Horns down celebration. They're no longer a penalty. I'm good with that. Okay.

I mean, these kids are out there. They're breaking their ass. They're putting their bodies on the line. They want to celebrate a little bit when they score a touchdown, especially on the road, someone else's place. Like, who cares? Honestly, with everything going on in the world, who the hell cares what a guy does once he gets into the end zone? Seriously. Yep.

I think we should do this as actual campus visits. Just go to the three of us. We go to Fuentes can come too. Just ask one question. We go to a campus. We ask this one question, and then we get back in the road. Okay. Go to a different campus. You want to make one more campus visit for the day? Sure. Of course. All right. This campus visit is taking us to Clemson, South Carolina. We need airplane things. Like we're taking off from Austin. We're headed to Clemson. Right. Thank you.

I want to take a train. High production budget we have here. I do like Mikey's idea, though, of doing campus visits and we're actually visiting the campuses and then we're just asking these questions of passerbys who could not care less. Yeah, exactly right. So we fly into Austin, Billy asks us that question, and we're out? Yeah. I was thinking maybe we ask some of the students, but I like your question. We just go there to ask you. That's it.

Or ask them, and when they answer the other way, you just say, wrong, and then you go to the next student. Well, it's not my – again, as always, it's not my place to say right or wrong. I'm just asking the question. Well, Stu would say right or wrong. We're going to Austin to not ask a student a question. Well, we left Austin. We're going to Austin to ask Stu a question. I could have asked him right here. Yeah, we're in Clemson, South Carolina now on our next campus visit. Okay, Clemson. University of Clemson. You already landed. Yeah, we're here. Okay, wow. Here we are. Here's the question.

Here's a big story out of Clemson. Oh.

So obviously there's all these media days going on now before the season starts. Yep. And they ask old Dabo a question. And you know Dabo likes to answer the questions if you ask him. Sometimes Dabo will answer questions you're not asking him. But Dabo wanted to answer this question. Dabo is concerned with the college football playoff expansion because he thinks that what this may lead to, according to Dabo this week, Dabo believes that this may lead to teams who have already locked up a playoff spot for

Having players opt out of playing or coaches resting their best players. So almost like a load management in college football now for the teams who are locked in. I'd like to get your thoughts on this. So if you feel what Dabo was saying is if you feel like your team already has a spot, there's a good chance you might rest some guys, get them ready for the playoffs, get them healthy. Get them healthy. Maybe you hope that they don't get injured. Wow. It's an interesting point.

I mean, Alabama's already got a spot, so they should just sit there, guys, week one. Yeah. Right. That is the point. That's the point he's trying. That's the point. Well, I don't know. No Saban. Now that Saban's gone, I don't know. Yeah. Right. Well, Georgia, they're in, right? Georgia's in. They're not keeping Georgia out. So Georgia should suit everyone until the playoff game. It's an interesting point by Dabo. I never, I hadn't really thought about it.

But Dabo could do the same thing. I have a question for you guys. But it works for Dabo as well. If his team is good enough. See, the reason Dabo is saying this is his program, his team is no longer as dominant as it used to be. Because if it was, he wouldn't be worried about this. Clemson would get in every single year and he wouldn't be worrying about this. And he'd be the one resting his quarterback, getting him healthy for the playoff run. That's where I disagree. Dabo very much seems like the type who will be running out there with like a 11-0, 12-0 record and get his quarterback injured.

Bring your own guts. Yeah. Yeah. B-Y-O-G. I could very much see Dabo getting a player, you know, important to his team injured because they don't take any games off. Right. Um...

It does make me wonder, though, as someone who's just asked the questions as we're going on campus visits, it makes me wonder if this is an actual accurate prediction by Dabo, how many undefeated teams we will see moving forward. Because if you have teams that are undefeated, they're locked in, you just need to be, what, in the top 12, why would you risk it? You know that if you have one loss, you're not going to miss the playoffs. So why...

I mean, you could still rest your players and win the game and be undefeated, right? But are you going to have that team where it's that important to go undefeated moving forward? No, I think it's a fair point. I think...

And I think it's very likely we're not going to see many undefeated team. No, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter to you anymore. I don't think it doesn't matter to me. It might matter to the school, to the coach, to the players, because only a handful of teams have done that undefeated with the national championship. It might matter to them. But I think winning a national championship, obviously, and being healthy for the playoffs means more. I'm trying to pull up Clemson schedule here because this could benefit Dabo.

What he's railing against. What if Dabo is 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, has a big game against a team that's already in the playoff, and they rest their starters?

So then it works out for Dabo. What is he talking about? Dabo starts off the season with Georgia, so they're not going to be undefeated. I can tell you that right now. All right, so they're 0-1. First game, Georgia. Then Appalachian State, which is always a tricky one. Tricky one. Yeah. Don't do it early. I'm just warning you. Don't do it early. Second week of the season. And September 7th is like, that's close to, I feel like that August 31st is right around the week zero situation, right? I think it is week zero. So then September 7th, and that's a primetime game, right?

on ABC, the Georgia game. Then Appalachian State. That's a tricky one because that's early in the season, which is when you don't want to face them. Nope. Then NC State, Stanford, at Florida State, at Wake, versus Virginia, Louisville, Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh, the Citadel. And then they end the season with South Carolina. I was trying to find a game there where Dabo could benefit from a team resting at starters. Well, you think he could benefit from a team?

Yeah, because he's railing against something that could actually help him get into the playoff. Yeah, I don't... I realize it could hurt him as well, but could it also help him? I don't think South Carolina is going to be there. Do you? So what he's worried about is Penn State playing someone, and he's vying with Penn State to get into the college football playoff, and the team that Penn State is playing, they sit all their starters because Penn State, that team feels like they're already in the playoff. That's what he's worried about. Yeah, that's what he's worried about. It seems to me like Dabo's always worried about a bunch of stuff that is...

miles down the road that probably isn't going to be a thing. Yeah, because he knows his team isn't as good. That's why he's worried about it. Like, Kirby Smart is not sitting around worrying about this stuff. No. Because he knows he's going to be in the thing. Think Dabo's going to last at Clemson? I don't know. I think he's starting to see the cracks. I think it's starting to be like a little bit, all right, Dabo, let's just, come on, let's play the game. Yeah, but he's not playing the game anymore. I know. This game has passed him by. Hmm.

He complains about everything. We're like Saban complained about it and then did it like Saban was like, I don't like NIL, but here's a big check for this guy because that's how it's done. And then Dabo's like, no, we're not doing, we're not doing the transfer portal because that's not the way I know it. And then Saban got out when it became too much. Like he just, that's it.

Did you see Saban at Media Day, by the way? SEC Media Day? Like, ESPN throwing it to Nick Saban with a microphone in his hand, and he's there doing a live shot by himself? Yeah. What are we doing? He hit Al Duncan with a Go Dawgs. He's going to be so good at this.

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We have Billy's story of the week coming up here in just a second. I like the campus visits, by the way. Yeah. Yeah. I have a new segment around the week. What do you mean? You have a new segment around story of the week. It's close to, we didn't even get to story of the week yet. Letting you know when we get there, be prepared. Cause there's a little segment around. How do you come up with all these segments? You know? All right. You're good. Uh,

Well, I want it now then. I do. Really? Yeah, I was going to go to Brandon Ayuk, but I want it now. Well, I had that in headlines, but we didn't get to it. Oh, do you want to go back to headlines real quick? No, no. Okay. All right. Well, what game do you want to do now? Whatever you want. You're in charge. Well, the game around your story of the week. Okay, so it's time for my story of the week now. For those of you who have listened to this show before, you know that...

On the weeks that I remember, I will present you a story of the week. And each week, that person then wins the story of the week. And at the end of the month, where we have multiple stories of the week, they will go head-to-head up against each other. And someone will be crowned the story of the month. And they'll win a big prize that we have yet to be determined.

So right now, the winner of the story of the month. Now, we're not doing story of the year yet. That's a little bit crazy. So once we reach the end of the month, that's the story of the month. New month, fresh start. Okay. Yep. So last month, the winner of the story of the month is...

was Les Miles suing LSU because he had wins vacated. And as a result, he's now no longer eligible for the College Football Hall of Fame. Correct. That was the story of the month for June. Yes. I reached out to Les, by the way. Did you? Yeah, I asked him to come on. And? Getting to it. Okay, good. So here is a little wrinkle for the story of the week. Okay. This is called...

Listener suggestions. Ooh, I like that. So we had listeners who were listening to our story of the week that then became the story of the month with Les Miles.

And one listener had a listener suggestion. Okay. So, as we previously stated, Les Miles is no longer eligible for the College Football Hall of Fame because LSU, unbeknownst to him, vacated a number of wins. And that brought down his win percentage below 600, which is what you need to be at to get into the College Football Hall of Fame. Was it his fault, though? I mean, unbeknownst to him, I understand. Was he the one who actually...

Were the infractions on him? That's for the courts to decide. You're right. I'm sorry. Okay. So the listener suggestion, which is something we had not considered...

Okay? That's the answer you get when you don't know. Pay attention. Let's focus here. I'm sorry. In the middle of listener suggestions. We don't want listeners to think we're not listening to their suggestions. This is our first story of the week for July. You're going to love this listener suggestions, Dugatz. I'm going to let the court decide. Go ahead. Listener suggestion on how Les Miles and LSU can fix this situation. Yes. Vacate the losses. Oh, wow.

So you vacate the wins, you vacate the losses, and then you end up more or less with the same win percentage. Wait, but is it win percentage or amount of wins? No, it's win percentage. Okay, I like that. That's a good suggestion. You said, right? Yes. LSU should just vacate the losses too, and then they're good. And I said, you know what? Didn't think about that. How do you vacate a loss? You know what? I like the idea of vacating losses and just have every year just announce, like, we're going to go back 10 years, and we're going to vacate all of our losses from the year 2005. And it's like, wow. Wow.

LSU undefeated season. They vacated all their losses. You give yourself a national championship. Exactly right. You vacate the losses. You say, you know what? This is a team. We really could have won that game, but we did some digging and it seems that, you know, our third wide receiver didn't do all their study hours and was ineligible. So we're just going to vacate that game. Loss vacated. Boom. Undefeated season. Vacated. I love it. Vacate losses. Mikey, you're good with this. You're nodding your head in approval.

I'm just waiting for like Texas to vacate their loss from last year. And then they have a better argument against Florida state. The thing with the vacating of wins and losses, I feel like it's always like five or six years removed. Right? So like, you just have to kind of put out a press release and be like, by the way, we've vacated all of our losses. No one cares. We vacated all the losses. So,

Henceforth, undefeated season. I mean, Billy's right. You could say five or six years later, I feel like it's a good spot. You could say, hey, we vacated all those losses back in 2006. We won the national championship. You could say it. You could celebrate it. No one's going to care. No one's going to think otherwise. What's done is done. Bring the old players back. Exactly right. Give them a ring. Give them a ring. Exactly right. Undefeated season. Brandon Skyler's got a few extra. Yep.

So that was listener suggestions. I like it. For Billy's story of the week. I like that. Now time for Billy's story of the week. Oh, wow. Yeah, we got distracted there. Can we vacate all the Jets losses? I mean, no. No, you only vacate losses in college. You're right. You have to make campus visits to vacate losses. Because people wouldn't care. I think you also have to win more than you lose in order to vacate losses. Right. And unlike college football, I feel like if I vacated all the Jets losses from five years ago and announced them as Super Bowl champions, people would be upset about that. Maybe. They would. Yeah. I think.

Could be wrong. Anyways, my story of the week. Yes. Patrick and Brittany Mahomes have announced that they're expecting their third child. Slow down. Patrick has said, I'm done. Oh, God. This is it. It's been announced. He's done. Done with kids. Third child. Yes. This is it. Hoping football. Factory's closed. Thoughts?

I would have stopped at two. Really? Yes. Okay. I mean, I have two. I would have stopped at two. Yeah. Three's a lot. Three does seem like a lot. I mean, and you're carrying a football team. Yeah. Just saying. Three kids, three Super Bowls. Just saying. Maybe he wants four. Maybe he gets four. You're saying for every Super Bowl he wins, he has a kid? Maybe. Maybe we also could. We could also maybe look in to see, you know, maybe the Super Bowl led to the kid. You know what I mean?

Can we check that out? How would we? Well, how old are his kids? Simple math. When did he win Super Bowl? Simple math, yeah. I suppose. Does he only have a kid after he wins a Super Bowl? I don't know. I think you might be right. If that's the case, somebody get him out of Kansas City. Is there a link here? Once I have no more kids, go to New York, you know? Hey. Play for the Giants, you know, right? Ouch. So that's the story of the week. Patrick Mahomes having another kid.

Wait, I need to know if Mahomes has kids only after he wins Super Bowls. Like, we got to, I know it's a thing. I think we should get him on to ask him. Patrick? I don't think that's true because he won his first one in 2020, and I don't think that his first kid is that old, but I'm not sure. I think he had a kid coming in.

What do you mean no? Oh, first child born 2021. Second child born 2022. Did they win 2021? No, they didn't. That's when they lost to the Buccaneers, I believe. Was he banking one? Maybe that's the problem. Maybe he thought he was going to beat the Buccaneers. And he got a little premature celebration. Maybe they were planning on vacating that loss. Oh, you're right. Five years later. That's a win, right? Yeah. So 22, they won the Super Bowl, right?

No. Yeah, they did. If you vacate. So it's 2021. Yeah, we're talking about wins and losses, not when the conception was. Now you've gotten me all confused. It's your game. I wasn't playing the game. They won back-to-back. So they won 23 and 24. But do you believe, I think what Billy's asking is, do you think the shop is closed? Because I don't. Unless he did it in a way where he can never have kids again. I don't know. How old is Patrick Mahomes?

This is going to make me mad. When you tell me his age, it's going to make me mad. Why is it going to make you mad? Why is it going to make you mad? Fuentes, are you saying he's 28? Why is it going to make you mad? He is 28. Because he's won three Super Bowls already, and he's 28, and he's been to five, I feel like. But in September, he turns 29, so really. He's an old 28. 29 is like, 29's right up there with the worst age, right? Are you going to agree on that? 29's a great age. Nah.

Why? Are you headed into your 30s? Nah. 29 is sad city. I would say it's a panic age. I feel like it's a panic age. You're stressed out. My last year in my 20s. Well, it's only a panic if you've spent your 20s doing f***ing nothing. Whoa. Sorry for cursing. Jeez Louise. I mean, be prepared. All right, so they won. I had no idea what I was going to do when I was 29 years old. They won the Super Bowl.

on February 2nd, 2020. And then they had a child in 2021. And then they won a Super Bowl in 2023 and 2024. 2023 is technically the champion of the 2022 season if you want to play this game. But it seems like this is a bit of a stretch.

That's a new game. A loose connection. Bit of a stretch. Did a bit of a stretch. Yeah. But that's not for this week. Not for this week. All right. Story of the week? We did it already there. I mean, that was the story of the week. That was the story of the week. You want another Patrick Mahomes story? I can give you one. Well, no, no, no. My apologies because I'm rusty because I was away in Lake Tahoe. I thought we did two, chose one, then took the winners, and we did them all at the end. No, no. That's when there's multiple stories. Yeah, there's multiple. I can tell you another Patrick Mahomes story if you want. My apologies, by the way.

He took a TV to training camp so that he could play NCAA football, which is now known as college football 25. And so that he can watch the Olympics. First time he's taken a TV to training camp. I don't know why that's a story, but it was a story that was out there. Seems like he's losing his edge. Is he? Yeah. Hmm. I mean, focus on the team.

Okay. Focus on the prize. He's won three Super Bowls. Focus on being the greatest of all time. Yeah, but listen, he's won three. He's still four away from Tom. Ooh, I have a new game. You think Tom was bringing a TV at the age of 28 to training camp to watch the Olympics? He's focused on the gymnastics team. It's too much. What is he doing? Okay. Here's the name of the game. Bigger Distraction. Patrick Mahomes or Travis Kelsey? Who will be a bigger distraction? Mahomes is TV.

Okay, Mahomes has the TV, and he's going to have a third kid now. But Travis is now performing on stages at Taylor Swift shows. What if Mahomes' TV is showing Taylor Swift concerts? And Travis is there. What's the bigger distraction then? I will tell you this. Something is definitely off in Kansas City.

She hasn't even started yet. Some people are saying that. I kind of wonder why it is that Patrick Mahomes can't just take his PlayStation 5 and plug it in, like, in a conference room in the facility. Why does he need to take a TV? It's a bad look. Seems like a lot of work. You think Patrick is hauling it into television? That's the story. Him and Travis are carrying a 27-inch TV into the... That's the story. That they carried it in and hung it up? I mean... That's what people are saying.

If I'm Andy Reid, I stop it right now. Really? Yeah, it's time for football. It's winning time. You think Andy Reid's sitting around watching the summer games? I think it's time for David. Throw it out the window. Send a message like Salah. No, this is a David Girardi job. He needs to step in there. You're saying, who's David Girardi? Great question. He's the quarterback's coach for the Chiefs, as if they need one. David Girardi is the quarterback's coach for the Chiefs. Cushiest gig in the NFL. Put it on the poll. Do the Chiefs need a quarterback coach?

David Girardi has the cushiest job in the NFL right now. But I feel like he needs to go in there and he needs to take a bat to Patrick Mahomes' TV. Just to save face. But what's really going to happen is like David's going to show up with like with the ox court or whatever it is. And he's going to like plug it into like all the TVs in the quarterback. Like, Patrick, you want a bigger TV? Let's plug it in right here. More TVs. Yeah, exactly right.

Also, by the way, not to, you know. This guy has a good chance, Billy, if he did that, if he smashed his TV, that Patrick would fire him. I think that this is an opportunity, and was it Javon Holland we had on? I think this is an opportunity for TCL to come in here and give Patrick Mahomes a 98-inch TV. You know? You want to play video games? Take our TCL 98-inch TV. Put it on your wall. Or just Dave, the quarterback coach, could do it. Yeah, David Girardi. He's certainly making him enough money. Jesus Christ. Yeah.

Is David Girardi's job to carry Patrick Mahomes' TV into training camp? Is that what his job is? What else would he do? I mean, listen, he's paid his dues with the Chiefs. He started with an offensive quality control coaching job 2018 to 2020. Then he became the assistant quarterback's coach slash passing game analyst 2021 to 2022. And then in 2023, he became the quarterback's coach.

Okay, but you would agree that... Who was the quarterback's coach before that that left? Because that person is a dope. That was Alex Smith's quarterback coach. I guarantee it. No, he's a three-time champion. Alex Smith wasn't with the Chiefs until 2023. Yeah, but the quarterback coach before that, I think, was the guy who was the quarterback coach for Alex Smith. Yeah, but who had the opportunity to be the quarterback's coach for the Chiefs and then left?

Can you imagine if you're this Girardi guy walking up to him? Was it the enemy? It was Nagy, Matt Nagy. Matt Nagy. Oh, it was Matt Nagy. Yeah. He took a head coaching job. Yeah, go back to being Patrick Mahomes' quarterback coach is what I would say to you. Well, I mean, you're the coach. No, but imagine. What's the current guy's name? David Girardi. David Girardi. Imagine if you're Girardi. You're going out to like, do you even walk? Do you go out to Patrick during practice, Mikey? Say, Patrick, listen.

I think it would help if you did this. This is how you do that. Like, I wouldn't have the balls to do that. Yeah. No.

Or do you do something like, hey, I noticed when you threw that incompletion, you stepped a little bit left. Just keep an eye on that. Right. You might want to do this. It might help you out a little bit. Like, yeah, I just noticed some things. And he's like, yeah, move my TV to the left. So Matt Nagy is the offensive coordinator for the Chiefs. So he didn't leave for a coaching job. Yeah, he became the offensive coordinator. Yeah, but wasn't Nagy with Chicago? That was prior to being. Yes, and then he went back. Prior to being. Yeah, yeah, he was one of those things.

Seems like the Chiefs are like the Patriots where you can just kind of leave and just come back. As long as Patrick's there. There's always a job, apparently. Well, because Patrick's there. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I mean, that team's going to win so many Super Bowls. Bigger distraction. Kelsey's not a distraction. I don't think he is. No, I think that only becomes a distraction if the team's not playing well and people use that as an excuse. So I have. I mean, Travis played great last year in the playoffs. I have a game of hypotheticals if you'd like to play a game of hypotheticals.

Sure. With the Kelseys. New game? I was thinking we needed a game in this episode. We're going to do it next. Wow. ♪♪♪

All right, Stu Gatz, before we went to break, I teased a game called Hypotheticals. Yes. First game this week. It's not really a game. It's more so just like a hypothetical. If I'm going to be fully honest with you, it's just a hypothetical question. Got it. I got it. Yeah. Okay. Okay, so this hypothetical question comes from Chris Cody. And it was, do you think, I guess it's not really a hypothetical question, it's just a question. Do you think the Kelseys are tired of pretending to like Taylor Swift's music every time it comes on? Yeah.

And then that led to us discussing. It's not a hypothetical. It's just a question. It's just a question. Then it led to us discussing and looking at the chief's calendar. Which week do we think Travis is looking forward to? Because we know for a fact, he's going to get a little break.

Taylor. Yes, and all that comes with it. Not that he doesn't love Taylor. You think they're at that stage in their relationship already because it's kind of new. You think the newness has worn off where he's already looking for a week away? He's traveling the world. He's going to all these concerts. You obviously don't understand this because you go to the same band's concert like 50 times a year, right? So you don't understand, I guess, it getting old or tired. But if you go to the same show every...

30 times a year, you'd probably get tired of it. So we were looking at the schedule, trying to figure out where on the calendar do we think that Travis Kelsey is looking forward to a work trip? And by that, we mean like...

Here's a tough one. I think December 15th at Cleveland. Taylor's not going. That's a work trip. Why do you say she's not going? She's not going to Cleveland. Get out of here. She's just not going to Cleveland in general. She's not going to Cleveland. I'm certain she's at concerts in Cleveland. Yeah, she's not going to Cleveland to watch him play. I was going to say Pittsburgh. So she'll do a concert in Cleveland. She won't attend a football game in Cleveland. Business trip. Gotcha. Okay.

I think you're right about that. Because I was thinking that Steelers might be one Pittsburgh second to last week of the season, but it's Christmas Day. So I don't know if they're going to be spending Christmas apart. And the week that they're in Buffalo for the Bills, I believe that Taylor is touring in Toronto. So she's going to be close enough. Yeah. Why are we dismissing this week?

Training camp. I'm assuming she can't. Yeah. No, she can't. During the season. Anyways, that's a game. I mean, Pat's bringing a TV. Yeah. No one's focused over there. I mean, Taylor is the equivalent of a 27 inch TV. Is that what we're saying? I didn't say that. I didn't say that either. I'm just saying, it seems like you can bring whatever you want to training camp in Kansas city. And why wouldn't you? They're going to win anyway. You want one more headline before we leave for today?

Sure. And I'm going to give you this headline. Yes. You don't think at Buffalo, huh? No, because she's going to be in Toronto. She's in Toronto. Oh, you said that. I'm sorry. How about Denver?

Winter. They already have the one seed locked up. They've had it locked up for seven weeks. Where is this? The last week of the year? Last week of the year, yeah. Yeah, but that's a maybe. Okay, that's a maybe. All right. All right. At Carolina? That Carolina one, I think, is also a maybe. A little boring. Yeah.

I never say that about the good city of wherever. Do you think Travis has arrived? Do you think Travis has arrived to the point in his relationship with Taylor that he says to Taylor, hey, this week, I'm good. I don't know. I don't know how you approach that one. I also ask the opposite of that question, though. Do you think that Taylor says to Travis, I'm good?

We don't need to be going to all the Paris shows. We're good. Who blinks first? Yeah. It's going to be interesting to see. Oh, I like that game. Who blinks first? So do I. Speaking of Taylor, we have Taylor who works with us here. Yeah, we have Taylor here, but here's the thing is I need to set it up with this other question first. This is pre-planned, so then I give you a headline, and then that headline will then lead to Taylor's top five, which is why he's here. But I haven't given the headline yet, so people don't know that that's what we're doing. All right, well, just hurry because I'm told we don't have a lot of time. All right, here's the headline. One more headline before we go.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. And now Joe Burrow has done it. I don't like it. Okay. You haven't even seen it, but okay. No, I don't like it. Listen, I love quarterback hair. Mm-hmm. And I love hair coming out of the back of the helmet. Yeah, it's a good look. It's a great look. Yeah. I don't like the buzz cut. Brady, long hair, great. Brady, buzz cut, did not look as great. Results were the same. I was going to say, he probably still won, like, two Super Bowls with the buzz cut. He did. Aaron, buzz cut, did not look as good as when he had longer hair. Mm-hmm.

That's all I'm saying. I love quarterback hair. Okay. I do. And I'm with you on Justin Herbert. I'm agreeing with you. Yeah. Terrible decision. I got an off-air prediction. Really? Yeah, for coach of the year before we even started today. But off-air? Off-air. I don't know if we're ready to go to it. Someone has already predicted their off-air coach of the year. I like a segment called off-air predictions. The audience never finds out. Off-air predictions. Never finds out. All right, anyways. So Taylor's here. No, it's not my prediction to tell. It wasn't mine.

Whose was it? I can't remember. I think it was Mike Fuentes, but there was a lot going on. There was a big ladder behind him. Do you remember who the coach was? I do remember who it was. Fuentes, can I tell him who it is? Oh, wow. I got to know. I can't give you the off-air prediction. Next week. Okay. Off-air prediction. NFL coach of the year. On air. No, this week's off-air NFL prediction is next week. Yeah, exactly right. Got it. All right. All right, Taylor, what are you doing here? I have my all-ball team. Oh, all-ball team. Okay. How'd that come out?

All bald quarterbacks, right? Yeah. But how? No, it's not quarterbacks. It's an all bald team. But why? Wow. I heard you guys pre-show talking. Oh, pre-show. Joe Burrow's buzzed hair. Right. I have to explain it. That's okay. Good. Thank you. All bald team. All right. So this is your all bald team, not top five bald quarterbacks? It's an all bald team. Does that mean we have someone for each position? Yes. Really?

Or is it just a top five? One for the entire offensive line. So you have one guy representing all five on the offensive line. Yep, and then I have four wide receivers. So it's not a top five? Not a top five. Just an all-ball team. It's an all-ball team. Do you have defense, too? Yes. Oh, wow. Both sides of the ball. All right, so give us the offensive line first. I like this. The one guy representing the all-ball team offensive line. New segment, Taylor's team. Yes. And then whatever we talk about is Taylor's team of those people. 48 days until they play football. Yeah. Come on. Offensive line? Yeah.

Lane Johnson. That's good. And he's a good offensive lineman. Yeah, he's picking just good players. Defensive line, Miami's very own, Jason Taylor. Yeah, yeah. Linebacker, there was a controversy at linebacker. It was Brian Urlacher, but we're actually going to go with James Harrison as the representative because the bald community has disavowed him. Exactly. So you're doing one linebacker to represent the three or four. Yeah. Exactly. Okay, got it. But Urlacher betrayed the bald community by getting hair.

He did. Yeah. He's right. My running backs are Adrian Peterson and then Rex Burkhead. Rex Burkhead is bald? Yep. Oh, yeah. What? He's like my fullback in this package. Wasn't Ricky Williams bald when he came back? Wait, Rex Burkhead is bald? I'd like long flowing locks. Like quarterback here. No, he's bald. Burkhead? Q ball. Huh? You think you know a guy?

My four wide. We're going Chad Ochocinco. Is he bald? Terrell Owens. Yes. Hines Ward. And for the new age, Keenan Allen. Are they bald? They're all bald. Well, how do you define bald? If you have a little stubble on your head, are you bald? Well, I mean, Joe Burrow has stubble. So is he bald? He buzzed his head.

But I think bald, I think like Kojak. We're getting distracted here. Keenan Allen, there's not a... Taylor's never heard of Kojak. I feel like Taylor's hair might qualify when he gets a haircut. He's a little long right now. Would you say he buzzed his head? Yeah. But he wouldn't be on the all-bald team. I have a few more names. Okay. In the defensive backfield, we have Devin McCourty, Aqib Tlaib, Malcolm Jenkins. Bald? I was going to say, now you guys are just going to question... How about Andre Waters? He's bald. Bald.

Waters was bald. That's what bald is. Why am I getting so hung up on one definition? And I hope it's Andre Waters. If it's not, I apologize. Is that the whole team? I have a head coach and a quarterback. Okay, we got to go quick. My quarterback, it's Matt Hasselbeck. Okay. Bald? Bald or not bald? New game? My head coach, Tony Dodge. Bald? No Bradshaw. Not really bald, though. All right, bye, guys. See you next week. God bless football. 48 days. God bless football.

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