Hour 2: College Football Blitz Thingy!

0:00is a show goes on. But I gotta say, today we did something a little different with Jared Goff. We had a very specific listener question. And it was a home run. It was so great. I was such a great question. It's kind of like a type of pretzels question in a way without being awkward like the type of pretzels questions can be awkward, which I think that was the trepidation we had. But we trust you, Kang, to sift through and pull out the right one. I would say that and there is a degree. I'll be a small degree of trust that the audience would spend some good good questions. Yeah. I did something called you asked the player when I hosted the Michigan pregame shows. And I would get the emails of people that would send over that we're asking the questions. They were amazing. It was some weeks I go, I don't have one I can possibly ask. And I'm not talking about they were. It was just like it was like Chris Farley sometimes. Like and there were a lot of people asking for autographs.

1:01I did something similar with the ribings with the lions. Oh, okay. My bad back in in the early 2000s. Was the fan question of the week that did not go over very well. It didn't. Yeah. No, no, the response we were we would get wasn't all that impressive. And then when I had to present the question, I didn't like I wasn't making anything up. I just would legitimately walk into the locker room afterwards. And okay, here's our fan question a week and yet Johnny Morton one time that lines receiver not the office of corner. What was making fun of the question? And the question was, Hey, Johnny is a receiver. And I thought was actually somewhat legitimate. Does it change for you when you're catching the ball from a left handed quarterback versus a right handed quarterback? And you hear every every since then every time there's a left handed quarterback, people ask receivers that and they will tell you, yeah, there's a different spin.

2:02Gotta get used to it. But that's not what Johnny Morton responded with. He was, he was, are you kidding me? It was what the hell kind of question is that? It's why can't it's a different from a left handed quarterback or right hand. I'm like, well, you don't have to go. No, no, no, I'll answer the question. Go ahead. Ask me. So I asked the question. And he goes, well, when a left handed quarterback throws me the ball, I catch it. And when a right handed quarterback throws me the ball, I catch it. Like so, so no, no difference. No. Thanks, Johnny. So I won't ask Jared next week. Is it different from to a left handed receiver or a right handed receiver? Take the floor, Jared. Like is a listener question. And by the way, I think it might be somewhat legit. He told you it wasn't. Yeah, Johnny would say it was not legit. So, so who is it that sent the question in Allen and Belleville? Alan Bravo. And for people who missed it, the question was, which of your teammates would you trust a baby citruder? And what's your your teammate?

3:03Would you not? And he answered it. I thought he was going to plead the fifth on the second part. He's like, yeah, Gibbs. No. As long as Gibbs doesn't lose the football, he can lose here. It's a guy. I'm very, it doesn't matter. Spectacular. All right. So Dan Campbell joined the morning show. And let's bring you the best of what he had to say. It starts with this. Lot is expected to this rookie class. Derek Moore on defense, second round pick, first round pick, Blake Miller. Do you sit down with the rookies and talk to them at all to prepare him for week one? Here's what he said.

4:16It's going to be really interesting to see who is actually active come game day. Blake Miller and Derek Moral be active. It sounds as though Keith Abney will be active. But will Jimmy Rolder be active? He's not on the injured list, right? No, he's he's back. He's he's practicing again. And everybody on the active roster was a practice yesterday. Well, Skyler Gil Howard be active because you have 53 on the roster, 48 on game day. Makes no sense. But it's a weird. I don't know. I don't know. I've never gotten that and it feels like teams run into numbers crunches. And I'm like, why are we doing this? But they're active roster. Let's all be an it feels it feels like it's a it's a CBA thing.

5:19Well, Eric O'Neill. They can't say enough good things about O'Neill, a undrafted free agent. Yeah, I think that's where it's going to be interesting is who are the inactive? Because I would imagine Skyler Gil Howard should be. I mean, part of that. They got a four man rotation. They can go with it at the defensive tackle position. And maybe McIe Wingo is the the odd man out. But he's got a little cue next to his name on the depth chart here on ESPN.com. So perhaps there's a little nursing and injury. It can make it easy. Okay, Drew Petsing, the new offensive coordinator. He was asked to go to expect. Here's what Dan Campbell said this morning.

6:36Hey, you know, we've talked a lot about Petsing today. I don't know if anything else to add there other than the expectation is to be better than they were a year ago. And that's a pretty high bar, but it doesn't feel unrealistic. No, it's not. I don't think it's unrealistic at all. And the team is still the same team with the with the weapons on offense. It's a different offensive line. But I think that's what I think it's going to be. I think it's going to be a lot of work. The weapons on offense. It's a different offensive line, but they should be good. Be good with them. It's I think it's just going to be interesting. It's like from a philosophical standpoint. Are they doing things differently than they did last year? Are they going to be more running heavy? Are they going to be more tight end heavier? How are they? That's what I'm curious about. By the way, just a correction. On game day, it goes from 53 to 46, not 48, but there are exceptions where you can have another player. To balance out the roster and make sure you have enough, but I'm not going to go into the details of that.

7:36A final thing here. And this is I think what I find most interesting. And I want your reaction to as a fan base. How are you feeling about the secondary? And when Costa asked the question, you said, you know, Brad had to answer some questions last week about, did you do enough in the secondary? How do you feel about the group that you'll put on the field this weekend? Here's what Dan Campbell said. So I think he basically told us what the starting secondary was by who he mentioned first.

8:54Maddox and Chuck, which is your safeties. Reed and rock. There are your corners, which is no huge surprise. His comment that that's the best they feel about it in a long time when they haven't had. There are two starting safeties. That's only about 10 games of evidence over the course of the last few years. But you know, he's, he feels good about that group. But I think most of Detroit does not. Well, when he said is what I, I think I've come to agree with, but you have to really listen to what he says. He feels good about that group going into week one. And I do too. But here's where I'm worried about what happens in the first injury comes. And then he started attacking the depth because right now, okay, they're thin in the secondary, but these guys can get it. It's not that they can't get it done. I think they can get the job done, but can they stay healthy? So that you're not going from, you know, starting a Vantamatics and Chuck Clark at safety. And now you got to bring in Thomas Harper or somebody else

9:55who is isian go to safety because you have to back somebody else up. And it everything, it's reslots everything else as long if they can stay healthy. We'll feel okay about it. Maybe, maybe even better than okay about it. But when those first injuries creep in, look out. Okay. Is anybody else think that the panic over the secondary is been a bit much? Does anybody else feel like this group? Hey, they're not as bad as people think. Or is Dan Campbell is this is we're good. Now remember when he said that last year, he said in the morning show, we're good. He was asked about bringing back who was the edge rusher that they got the year before and he was released. The derisment. Derisment, thank you. He was asked specifically about bringing back Zedarius. Smith and he basically wrapped it up saying we're good. People interpreted that as we're good defensively. We're good on the defensive line. We're good at the edge. Capacitor Hutch, I think all he meant was we're good and not bringing back Zedarius Smith.

10:55And I think that was pretty much justified. It was a bit Zedarius Smith appeared to be done at that point. But at the end of the day, this is a boost of confidence coming from the head coach regarding the most maligned and the position group that worries people the most. How do you feel about it? 2 4 8 5 3 9 97 97. We'll talk some college football at 11 30 97. I saw this tweet during the break. I read it to you and I want to read to everybody else because this to me is unbelievable. But Joe Pompillano, who is a sports business kind of guy, tweeted this out, Roger Gidell has had an insane career. He wrote a letter to the NFL office after college. He wrote a letter to the NFL office after college. He wrote a letter to the NFL office after college. He landed in an internship in the PR department. He spent 22 years in different NFL roles. He became commissioner in 2006.

11:59So 20 years ago. New four year contract will run through 2031. Then it says this, the average NFL team was worth $898 million in Gidell became commissioner. But now is worth $9.34 billion. That's like more than 10 fold. As a result, Gidell's total compensation will likely reach $1 billion by the time his newest contract runs out, making him one of the only people I can think of who's earned $1 billion from a single company without ever owning any equity in the company. I could not believe when I saw that. He's gonna, he will have earned almost $1 billion when his contract runs out. I mean, he's been great for the NFL. I advise a lot of Bushlight Appleman. Oh yeah?

13:00I think these jobs in some ways are thankless and impossible to please everybody. But in other ways, it's just that you're working for the owners to increase revenue. And he was handed the car keys of this league and the job of the commissioners don't eff it up. And an example of it getting effed up is probably right now the best example I can think of is college football. Because college football is, you know, the commissioner or college football is right now? The courts. Yeah. So many decisions are made in college football based about litigation or threat thereof. And neither that's not good. That's not good at all. And in the case of the NFL, he has not effed it up. You know, is that is his contract incentive laden

14:01when the commissioners job is to raise money to take revenues through the roof. And that's what the motivation is. Clearly you're not always making the decision for the best interest of the sport. The health and safety of the player improvements. That's all to avoid getting sued. Mm hmm. And I don't. Whatever. Dead. I'm. I mean, I'm not mad at him for making that money. Although it feels like money could go to a lot more useful things. But. Well, they've added the lega's grown. I guess take Salas and this. So the donations to charity. Santa fell is a very charitable organization. Well, thank you for adding that. Yeah, you're right. That does help. But I mean, Roger Gidele in his tenure has made a ton of money for owners and a ton of money for players, which is ultimately what both sides want. They want to get paid more. And they are. All right. Here's a feedback coming in regarding what Dan came up to say about the secondary.

15:02Back into the defense starts with the front seven. It's hard to grade anybody back there. If you're not getting pressure, secondary to me is a weight and see. That's from Brian and Florida. Do you expect the past rush to be better this year? Yes. Yeah. I can be more consistent. All right. Because let's not lose track. Okay. Obviously, Hutch had a good year last year. We expect Hutch to be even better. He looks like he's been unstoppable. Great. But we don't want to lose focus that last year they had alchemy in my home. And he also had double digit sacks. And it was very good. But may have been the one trick pony and they didn't want to invest in that. Instead, what they did was invest in the position with one of them. With other players have in the roster and then by drafting Derek Moore in the second round. So you've got, you know, last year's pick a Hossini who they liked this year's pick a Derek Moore. Who they like. Did you want him who they like? And oh, by the way, Tracy is apparently going to be, you know, the starting. Lacey. Lacey. Tyler. Tyler Lacey. No, I gotcha. No, he is. That's right. No, nobody does. We have Hutch on.

16:02That's right. Because I was like, you don't nobody talks about Tyler Lacey. What do you say? He loves him. That's his dog. But it was just, I mean, last year Hutch had 14 and a half sacks. The team had 49. It was top five in the NFL. But there's, you know, to me, QB pressures. And what you do in run support are underrated. A very underrated part of the position. Yeah, I feel like that the run, the run defense is going to be improved this year because with the healthier, Aleem McNeil and Tyler Williams in a second year, he, he, the other thing he said is Lacey's perfectly cast as that big end opposite of him. But Derek at work makes a very interesting point. I think people forget the Detroit Lions made it to the NFC championship with Kindle Vildor. Vildor. Yeah, well, we also remember what happened the NFC championship. We do. But I mean, a team that went to the NFC championship game with what they started in the

17:05secondary tells you that there's a, there's a ceiling there. And if you have somebody, it's just a little bit better in Kindle Vildor. Well, they could certainly get there probably probably it picks off that pass. Do I really live that? No, I don't at all. The name came up and that's all I think of his face mask touched, touched down. And I don't mean he committed a face mask penalty. I mean, a ball went through his hands, hit his face mask, popped up in the air and was caught for a touchdown. Yeah, that felt like this is an interception. Oh, no, at least it's incomplete. Oh, wait, it's six for them. So you guys going to feel about, so how you guys going to feel about the Lions losing to the Saints this weekend, they won't be able to stop a Lava. If the only measurement of success is their ability to stop a Lava, I don't feel good. Okay. If that is the sole determinant of this game, I'm with you whoever sent this and you didn't sign it.

18:05But I mean, thankfully, I'm pretty sure it isn't the only variable. If the win and loss, the successive failure of the Detroit Lions is based solely on their ability to stop a Lava, they might be in trouble. Do you know who New Orleans quarterback is? Tyler Shuck. Uh huh. You strike fearing it all? Not yet. Who the running back is? Camarra's hurt. So it's a bit of a bit of a bit of a dude from Miami. Hey, Chan. Nope. Who is it? Travis Etienne. Is it? Yep. Name another receiver besides Crystal Lava. Yelmaq Maguahwa. There are other receivers are Devon Valey. Bryce Lane and Berrien Brown. Oh, Berrien Brown. Yeah. That guy. Juwan Johnson's are tied in. I mean, and they have no a fan as well. But I mean, my point is it's not a who's who lineup of offensive talent out there.

19:10Lava is a star and has to be accounted for. But I mean, is it look like that's the it's one man show? Uh, yeah. Well, one next text, one of the biggest rubber reactions locally that I can remember in a long time is us not doing enough to replace a bottom 10 corner in the league. Terran Arnold literally never did anything for the Detroit Lions. Um, yeah, I mean, I still if if Arnold, if Arnold didn't have the legal issues and they'd released him and he was I would be like, I'm not sure they're not going to regret that because that's a tough position to learn. And some guys it takes a minute. However, I mean, when it is time in Detroit was was probably mixed to below average. Yeah. I mean, I always thought that in his rookie season, I thought he got better as the season went on. Once he got accustomed with the rules, he had all those interference calls to start off and then kind of shut that down and became a much better corner the rest of the way. But then suffer an injury. Then the second year was a big step backwards injuries again mounted and high expectations

20:16this year and never materialized because of his off field stuff. 2485 3997 the college football blitz thingy is straight ahead on 97 one. Time for the college football blitz thingy. Later heads of tails tails. It is ahead. I will receive. All right, Doug question number one in the wake of clock eight. What are your best suggestions or maybe suggestions you've heard to help fix the vulnerabilities in the system that led to all this controversy? Okay. This story is amazing because I've spent much of my week digging into what the hell happened.

21:16Nobody gave us a thought before Saturday night. I reached out to Michigan. I reached out to the big 10. I use sources from other conferences. The best system money can buy is the Hawkeye system. The NFL has implemented it and they're the big 10 bill they state of the art review center that rivals the NFL and implemented the Hawkeye system. There is a mix reporting on whether the SEC has it or not but not everybody does but even the Hawkeye system has its vulnerabilities as we've seen. One of the problems is when you sync up the broadcast with reality and overlay video according to the guy who runs the ACC network as long as you are putting graphics over live video there are going to be delay issues. With that said, should you use the system that the NFL uses which is apparently currently the best that money can buy or should you go with a standard system that all conferences can adhere to because not everybody has the Hawkeye system.

22:17Not just as responsible for their own review systems and their own officials but again, there's no uniformity across the board. With the NCAA announced that they're going to use the TV feed now is fine. I guess but that means the big 10 it has to shelf what they've been using which is what the NFL uses. So I just wish every conference would just get the best system the money can buy the one the NFL use. Well, I think what they've got the decision now to go with the scoreboard slash TV timer or clock. I think that's the way it should be. And so that's actually was a suggestion that the NCAA had to officials anyway is like this is what we recommend you use. It just makes all the sense of world everybody is on the same page or watching on TV. You know what the clock is. You're watching it at the stadium. You know where the clock is. It shouldn't be that difficult to go with. The problem I had with what happened on Saturday is that you had a stoppage at nine seconds

23:18and the official literally said, hey, game clock operator, can you reset the clock to nine seconds? If things can't be synced up for nine seconds, then your system is screwed up. So just go with what you have on top of that when you have a situation like you did, why not explain to the people the hundred thousand people that are there? Whatever was 90,000 at that point. And then what you guys just talked about because all you did was come back and say, hey, we're putting a second back on the clock. Well, why are you putting a second back on the clock? Because the video you released two hours later explains in pretty good detail of why you made your decision whether people agree with it or not. But I think that they're getting to the right thing to do, which is what everybody sees. Yeah, I'm not sure there's an ultimate fix. I mean, when you feel like you got to take an advantage of a rob, no explanation whether it's true or not, it's going to take that feeling away. You know what I mean? You already feel like, hey, I've been, I've been done wrong here. My only suggestion, I guess one or two of its suggestions. One is you have to immediately release that video or audio of the officials talking right

24:20away. You cannot wait till a day later. You got to do that right away. And number two is if you're going to use any clock, it has to be the clock on the field because that's what the players are going by. Who cares about the TV at home crowd? I want that to be synced up with the clock on the field too. It don't get me wrong. The one on the field should be the ultimate because that's what the players are using. That's what the coaches are using. That's what the referees and officials are using. That's the clock that has to be the ultimate say. One other easy thing is just to add decimal points to, but sorry. All right, both boys in Western Michigan lost to ranked teams. Should either or both be ranked in the top 25 despite losing? They, I'm pretty sure they both should not be, but I'll make the case for Western. I mean, they had the lead when the clock hit all zeros. So they thought that they had won the game. And in some cases, they had won the game, but it's not going to be overturned. They confounded the Wolverines after the first drive of the game. Michigan got nothing going whatsoever. Whereas if you look at the Boise state Oregon game, I mean, Oregon,

25:24they're doubling them up in the second half. They, that's going to be 20 to 10 in the second half of that game. So because of that, I kind of ruled out Boise. Boise had their chance and let it slip away to second half. They were dominated, but Western played with Michigan and played better than Michigan. It didn't make the mistakes. It didn't turn the ball over. They didn't commit the dumb penalties. They took what was there, which was a bunch of field goals. And they thought they had knocked off the Michigan Wolverines. That's the case to be made from being in the top 25, even though you lost. Of course, they should be ranked. I think the wins and losses doesn't necessarily tell you how good you are. Comparative to everybody else. Not only should Boise be ranked, Western should be ranked, Louisville should be ranked. And Boise, they're mad about non-pass interference calls that would have continued their final drive and take number five Oregon and number six Oregon into overtime. If you're the eyeball test, just because you played up a level and both of them were punching up Boise and Western and Louisville to an extent, just because you punched up and lost,

26:29doesn't mean you're not one of the top 25 teams in the country. And interestingly enough, Boise travels to Kalamazoo at the end of the month. It's crazy. Well, I definitely don't think Western should be ranked because they lost to Michigan who is not ranked. So to me, it'd be weird if one team was 1 and 0 against that team who was on one and the own one team is ranked and the one and 0 team is not ranked. So that's weird. To me, Boise, they have a little bit better case, but I would still leave them out. The only team that hasn't won again that is ranked is Louisville, but they're ranked higher and they dropped in the rankings. And so that makes more sense to me though, but as far as Western and Boise's concern, neither team should be ranked. All right. Ohio State is favored by one and a half points at Texas. Which side do you like here? Okay. Gator, you've seen me in this position before. I root for Big Ten Supremacy and in this game, even yes, Ohio State, but I also enjoy it when they lose. If that makes any sense. It makes any sense. You should be the first. Both these teams overwhelmed under manned opponents in week one. It's hard to choose. In fact, there's not much to choose between these two teams.

27:31And this is the simplest of football analysis I'm taking the home team, Texas. I understand that. Look, I like the buck guys. I think they have the better roster. It's going to be close. It should be close though. Texas does have that home field advantage, which it does matter. But the long horns seem to like when you look at the box score afterwards in the game against Texas State, they give a bunch of yards last week. And Texas State was actually pretty efficient in throwing the football as well. So we're about to pass defense. That's Texas State. It's not Ohio State. Ohio State's coming at you with an experienced quarterback and the best receiver, if not the best player in the country. It's a whole other different animal they're going to have to deal with. And I think it's going to show why Ohio State's the top dog in college football. Great early season match up here. I think the key to the game is going to be the line of scrimmage. I like the buck guys to win the line of scrimmage. So ultimately I like the buck guys to win the game. After an early 45 yard run versus Texas, Texas State had, I'm sorry, Texas had a versus Texas State. They only had 111 yards rushing the rest of the way.

28:33Ain't going to be, you know, it's going to be a lot harder against Ohio State than it is against Texas. So I expect Patricia and the defense out duel must champ in Texas's defense. Both teams have offensive power, obviously. So but in the end, I think Texas struggles, you know, more to score points like Ohio State. All right, Lane Kiffin. Is he good or bad for college football? I think he's great for college football. He's exactly what we need. This guy should wear a black cape. He is the villain that we all need to hate. He'd be the perfect professional wrestling heel manager and he's entertaining as hell. All that said, I can't stand up. I can't stand what he did in leaving Ole Miss to get to LSU. I can't stand what he's done with this whole roster manipulation thing. I can't stand that he's always leaving a one program for the next best thing. He's got formal worse than anybody else I've ever seen. However, he's also one hell of a coach. He pushes the envelope to the edge and begon, just like Jim Hobbaw used to do, but he doesn't

29:35leave a trail of embarrassment in his wake. He's operating within the rules as far as he knows. And look, he can coach a roster. That's for sure. I would argue strongly he is leaving a trail of embarrassment in his wake. And I also think I would never let my kid play for this chud. I mean, honestly, as a leader of young men acting this way, he sets a terrible example. He's not respectable at all. And quite frankly, I would, I think he's terrible for college football. Short term interest, yeah, but I don't want a wrestling heel coaching my football team. He's ultimately good for college football. I agree with you. Sports is entertainment. And in the entertainment business, you need storylines. You need heroes. You need villains. Lane Kiffin is the perfect villain. Cheer or boo, just don't stand there and do nothing. This is what advertisers and TV execs want. That's why they love rankings. Rankings before the preseason, before the season starts, they mean nothing, but it gets the people going. And it's just another way for them to talk about the game. They can advertise it more. All right, is the SEC taking things too far with LSU by threatening expulsion?

30:43I mean, it worked, right? I'm not in the trenches with this story, but LSU opted not to add the players to their roster today. And it's their final roster. So I don't think they were taking it too far. They were trying to control the members in their conference. And they said LSU, if you want to be in our conference, you follow our rules, period. So it worked. And I don't think they took it too far. It worked. But I'm glad they didn't get to the expulsion part because I thought this is all about timing. It comes with this, the threat and the timing just didn't sync up. This had been a couple months ago. I thought that they could have thrown that threat out and gotten something done. But eventually this does work here. Circumstances different before than what they are right now. So I thought that the expulsion was like an atom bomb that you're throwing at them when they didn't need to do that. You just need to impose fines or suspensions on LSU to get them to conform. But they chose the latter and it did work out. It definitely felt extreme when I read about it right away.

31:44But they were done. They didn't want it. I guess enough is enough. We're using it now. We're using our trump card right now. And it worked. But going back to entertainment storylines, I would have loved to see an LSU get kicked out and joined the big 10. I don't know if it's done though. We see a lot of power brokers in politics that are all lining up right now when back in LSU. And I hope this doesn't rear its ugly head. And next thing, you know, we're litigating it again. And we're talking about a roster manipulation for next week's game. Are the two teams that played for the national title Miami and Indiana? They both replaced their quarterbacks and they didn't lose a beat. Who is more likely to get back to the national title game? Well, it's all going to come down to injuries in which team is healthier because that's just how things go. That being said, I'm going to bank on Miami getting back to the championship game because of their schedule. They only have Notre Dame really to worry about. Whereas the Hoosiers have Ohio State, USC and Washington is ranked foes.

32:48And if they were to play each other in a playoffs though, I think that's a different ballgame. If they play each other, I like Indiana because I think Signetti's an awesome coach. And I don't think much of Miami's coach. But because of the ease of getting to where they have to be, I think it's going to be Miami. And I think that's a greater than Cristobal. But Miami looks like a wagon. You mentioned the easier schedule. And Darian Mensa to Malachi Tony is a connection that might be unstoppable. Twelve catches on 13 targets for 234 yards and Mensa went 27 of 30 through the air against a better opponent than Indiana played early read on this one, Miami. Yes. Signetti over Cristobal all day. But I've got a fever and the only fever and only cure for this fever is Mally Mensa. And that combo is elite dog ridiculous. If I had to pick between two schools, I'm riding that combo to the national title game. And there it is. That concludes the transfer portal of animal mask and NIL college football blitz thingy, Carson Anderson 97 one.

34:00Okay. It's a real interesting quotes from Alex to break it as he is spoken to Nick Katzenika friend of the show and a guy who writes for NHL.com now, I believe. I mean, you're credit recruits do. But he says regarding a couple things. One is his situation with Detroit. You know what the start changes scenery, changes scary for anyone. It's just something new. And now I'm more focused on myself and training and getting back with the guys. That's out of mind right now. Talking about any kind of contract. It's definitely something where I'm excited to get start the season and something new. I can worry about, I can't worry about just getting ready for the new season. And that's my biggest priority regarding Dylan Larkin from my perspective.

35:01He's a great teammate. He's a great friend of mine. And that's a decision he made. That's about as far as I'm going to go there. He's always been a great teammate to me and a great friend. I feel like at this moment, our team is definitely better with him. And he's our leader. He's still one of the best players. That's the way it is. Interesting. Yeah. You know, people don't think that he can be welcome back into that room given that he demanded a trade. I've always thought, well, we don't know that. We don't know that because players understand the business of the game. And more so than we do. And I remember when I first started working with professional players, I was amazed at how much they were locked into the business of the game. It took me some getting used to the how they were locked into the business of the game.

36:02And so maybe fans do understand it more than I ever did. I was just naive back then. But that's why I don't know if you are well liked before and you make a business decision. I don't, I'm not sure that changes all that much. That's why when games are over like in the NFL when players walk across the field, they're hugging guys they used to play with that left, right? Yes. I think there's definitely a brotherhood when it comes to professional sports and fraternity of sorts. And I get all that. I think it's interesting when it comes to Dylan Larkin and where he fits in his team because I don't know. I mean, this is what Alex to bring in has to say. And I'll take him in his word. I'm sure that there's a percentage of players that would welcome him back. I also would think that there is a percentage of players that are not thrilled that a guy who had five years left on his contract wanted out because it seems like he you're abandoning us. Now, if everybody's on the same page of why he did it with nobody knows, nobody knows why he went up to Steve Iseman and worked with his agent and asked him to tell Iseman

37:06he wants out, we can speculate all we want about it. I think we have pretty good ideas as to why. But I think what could help galvanize this team around Dylan Larkin again is that if you go back a couple years ago, Larkin spoke out about wanting to add to the team so that they can make the playoffs and they didn't add to the team. And then it became a public spat with he and Steve Iseman. Did the players back management? Are they going to back the players because the players, the one that went to bat for the team and said, we got to do this. And then the general manager at the time is the one who said, well, you guys needed to play better. And it's kind of like a smack back to reality. I think in the end, both parties can be right. And there's nothing wrong with saying that. But Iseman lost the battle in that he's no longer running the show for the Detroit Red Wings. And now we're left in limbo with Larkin and they still haven't named. I can't believe this. Here we are on the ninth of September. We still don't have a general manager for this team. We hear every day other people being knocked out of consideration, but still can't believe

38:08this hasn't happened yet. They go to training camp in a week. But they should get to the point where they need to know can the team welcome them back. And I'm guessing this is probably a step in the net direction. They can. Yeah. They can. But our players already, they already get used to the thought that okay, Larkin's going to be gone. So that means most ciders going to be the captain. I don't know if there's any guarantee it. If Larkin is going to stay with the Red Wings, he's still the captain moving forward. Regarding the Prinkets contract, specifically, and he's entering the final year of his contract, he says when a new GM is announced, I'm sure there's going to be some conversations. But you know, as of right now, my opinion hasn't changed. I love playing for the Red Wings. I love wearing that jersey and battling with those guys out there. My intention is obviously to stay in Detroit. We'll see what happens, I guess. I like to hear it. I mean, he says the things you want to hear. Okay, that's positive for a guy who is going to be a free agent. He's going to also be do a hefty contract given what he has done in his short time as

39:11a Red Wings. He's gone from scoring 27 goals to 39 and last year with 41, the point total has gone up from 67 to 70 to 85 during those three years. Now he also had a chance to play with Patrick Kane, which is no longer going to be happening this year. So how does that change things? Might change things a lot. We'll see, but I mean, for him and to give credit to him, he's saying the right things about the meaning of the season. Well, we will keep you updated on that. In the meantime, we've got a national football league game tonight. And it's time as we do for many weekday games for loser chooser. We picked the loser of these games. This isn't an interesting matchup because the Seahawks lost a lot in the secondary. They've had guys injured in the secondary, but Clark, Mick M. and Wari are not supposed to play. We'll see. Could be game time decisions. In the meantime, the Patriots have added Romeo Dubs to their wide receiving core. But I'm going to take New England to lose this game.

40:11I think you're looking at a second year regression, perhaps from Drake May, a much tougher schedule, variable distractions. I think the logical regression starts here. New England loses game one at Seattle. Very interesting. Don't forget they have AJ Brown at wide receiver as well. They've got some weapons there. And when you look at what Seattle has or doesn't have right now, both teams are going to be without their starting tail backs. Trayvon Henderson is out with an ankle. And then you've got Zach Sharpen. He was on the public list after he tore his ACL. So you're looking at backup running backs. Back up running backs. Interesting. You got a rookie going for Seattle. And then you've got Ramondri Stevenson with with New England. It always seems to push things forward. I agree with you about the secondary. That's a problem. It's very problematic. When you've got a team that throws the ball as well as New England does, I don't think New England was a flash in the pan. I think they're building something there and they've added to that team. I think Seattle is poised to lose this game even though they're favored. This is a rematch of the Super Bowl.

41:12But I like to see backs to go down. Okay. There it is. Loser Choos are we do it every Thursday. And in this case Wednesday, as we got an opener going on in Seattle tonight, rematch of the Super Bowl and then tomorrow to Melbourne, Australia, the Dami' old stomping grounds, the Melbourne cricket ground. Yeah. Look at you. Yeah. For Rams and 49ers. And the Rams are like flying over now landing, playing the game and flying back. They're just like, what are going to be there long at all? To L2 philosophies with how they're addressing this is going to be interesting. Yes, it is. But I actually love the Wednesday start to the season because I had a college football with dry after week zero. And we had to sit around and wait some more football, please. And thank you. Tiger baseball schedule for 105 or 110. We'll see if that game goes off much more to come next here on Carson Anderson on 97 one.