Hr3 - It's fair to question Michael Penix's grit?

0:00What a day. Man, it's incredible to the response and people are fired up. No, the things, look, football's an amazing thing. It brings us together. It tears us apart. And that's what's happening right now when it comes to the decision that the Falcons are made. Now again, this is my opinion. I don't think that this is the decision cameras that fans do you wanted to make. I think Mike, he was forced to make this because your quarterback comes to you and says, I'm not ready. I can't run you out there. I mean, I'm having a dialogue with a lady and I'm like, are you listening to yourself? Are you rationalizing the only guy for the job has had three ACL surgeries. Anywhere else in football? Any other guy you'd be saying, there's nothing guy for the job. You'd be moving on. You know, I went back, I looked it up. We're just talking to our boss, my contender in the commercial break. Just real quick. In 2003, when Mike Fick got hurt, coming back from the injury in the preseason game against the Ravens, he came back guys, I had a schedule. He was back, it was an injury in September of 2003 and he was supposed to basically miss,

1:00at first things, it was going to be probably the whole season. And then it was well, maybe he can come back. Came back in week 12 against Carolina. You know, I mean, that was the game where he levitates. Remember like the last five yards and gets in the end zone. Remember, Mike Fick with his helmet off. I still get goosebumps talking about it. It was one of those great nights at the Georgia Dome. It was an unbelievable atmosphere that day to be in that building. So I'm just saying it's like, we've been taught, and again, maybe you weren't, maybe you just have a different mindset, but football, you're never 100%. You know, and this guy's fighting for a starting job and just we hear a guy say he's cleared by the medical and he's not fighting, you're not fighting to start week one in Pittsburgh with your team. It's just strange. Okay, I'm not calling him a coward. I'm not saying he's soft. I've just said I've never seen anything like this before from a quarterback. Yeah. And how far does that go with your teammates? I don't know. I mean, I don't know. Mike Fick rushed back for a team that was eliminated by the playoffs, like four weeks prior. I mean, it's just, I'm just giving you an example. You're saying it mattered. It mattered. It mattered. That's what you're saying.

2:00This has nothing to do with comparing the two or any of that. We're talking about the circumstances. That's the matter. That's the standard that as a Falcon fan, I'm putting him up against. Yeah. Okay. That's it. They were three in 10. When you came back, you know what most guys would have done? I tapped out. I'll see you next spring. I'm not doing that. Three in 10 and he comes back. That's what we're talking about when we say this competitive thing about, man, either you want to be out there, you don't. All right. 404-726-0929. More of your phone calls, but right now we got to talk some dogs. Well, Conor Raleigh, that was easy. What do you believe Kirby Smart felt? He learned most about his team Saturday. There are deep football team. They have a lot of guys that can make plays where Jayden Radell, who had the high-level play that we all saw score to touch down early in the game. He's probably in terms of snap plays this year. He's not going to play more than lost and lucky or Elias Williams until their deep team.

3:02In talking with people, in terms of opponents that have come into Sanford Stadium, I don't know that there's been one worse than the Tennessee State game. So it's hard to make sweeping generalizations, but you saw a lot of the young talent on this team. Well, yes, they have a way to go and they have to go out there and prove it in SEC play. I think you can see whether there's a lot to like about this team. And if this team can hit its ceiling, it has the makings of a team that can win a national championship. It just has to get there and go out and prove it against obviously better competition. Yeah, I mean, no disrespect to the Tigers of Tennessee State. It's just, it's what it is. It's a classic week one. And they're out manned. So knowing that the talent level is not what you're going to see next week, what Western Kentucky that eventually get an SEC play. But did you like what you saw from some of the offensive rotation? Yeah, I was interested to see, okay, like which receivers are you going to try? And feature and get involved early where like if you can get them the ball, they're going to go out there and do things. So that talent, Taylor, we've talked at Nazi move about this off season, got an offensive touch on each of the first four positions. But that was very intentional by Georgia.

4:04And you see that reward with the touchdown. And he had an explosive run on a play that we've seen Georgia run time and time again. I think the other guy where there was a lot of preseason buzz about Jane Redell. And while the level to which he dominated may have surprised some people, I don't think anyone that really followed this program was shocked. The guy that really impressed me on Saturday was Elias Williams. Now maybe a six foot seven to 160 pound tight end is supposed to look like that against an FCS team, but he had to touch down where he goes over the top. And then he also caught a play action pass layer in the game where you know that's something that's what there's wanted to focus on and really improve over the course of the season. So gunner hitting a tight end over the middle on a play action pass. Even though it's obviously gets overmatched opponent, that's a nice thing to check off on the box. And then the other thing with Elias that is so impressive for me and I think he's going to open up so much down the field. His ability is a perimeter blocker. I don't feel bad saying this because Kirby has already said it. As great as the Donald Washington was as much as Georgia liked using him, Elias Williams is a better player than I think Donald Washington.

5:05Plus the time at the University of Georgia. And if he can hit his ceiling, that's going to be really, really I think important for what this team could be. And especially as it wants to be more explosive because so many of the things that turn, you know, maybe a 15 year play into a 50 year play comes with down field blocking. And there's not someone on this sort of team that does a better job of that than tied in Elias Williams. Connor, follow me on this because I think Gunner sees obviously better players daily in practice. But to go out and complete 15 to 16 for 202, three touchdowns to three different receivers, I mean, did he show us something and did we learn something about Gunner? Yeah, I came away really liking the way that Gunner played. And specifically, it's the little things, you know, I mentioned the play action pass over the middle of the field. There was another play later on in the game where in the past, you know, no one was immediately open. Gunner would have probably taken off and run. He fits in the pocket and delivers a ball to Craig Gandridge over the middle of the field that results in an explosive play.

6:06For the first time in his Georgia career, Gunner Stockton started a game and finished with zero rushing attempts. And that's so important for a longer college football season where you're going to want to limit heads and limit the wear and tear that comes in your body. You know, Alabama quarterback, Q on Russell in a blowout win over ECU. He let Alabama in rushing 13 carries for 186 yards. And one of that looks nice on the stat sheet. As we saw a season ago with Ty Simpson, if your quarterback is taking repeat and hits over and over with a course of the season, it's just not a great recipe to have. So that Gunner stayed in the pocket, worked in the pocket. Did a good job of distributing the football and getting rid of it quickly. And I think all by against a very overmatched opponent distributed the ball to the tight ends and over the middle of the field. Those are some of the biggest off season question marks we had with Gunner. The fact that he went out and answered them as cleanly as he did, I think is encouraging to where, yeah, he's got to do that against SEC play, obviously. But he at least showed the ability to go out there and do that. Is there anything you'd want to see against Western Kentucky? Because you kind of laid out Conor Riley from dog nation with us.

7:08You're not going to be doing this stuff. You're going to be doing against Oklahoma with your game plan. It's going to be really white bread. So you just basically big box car of a little box car and run your offense. You want to see Nate Frazier continue to run the ball. You know, coming into the season, I thought that this was game of your game where it actually might be a little bit trickier on paper than the way that it looked like. This is a Western Kentucky team that consistently gone to bowl games. They've been able to punch you up against their weight. You know, last year, like I know that LSU team has sort of thrown in the towel of the season. They played LSU to a 13, 10 game in Baton Rouge. So they're not going to be intimidated by what you see. I actually think in all the calls, one of the more surprising week one results. Western Kentucky without Nevada, a team that isn't exactly great. It is not what it was when it had Conor and Catherine. I could quarterback and they lost 49 to 14 and really got blown out. And so now they're having to fly back cross country, play George at this week. And then next week they got to go play at Indiana as well. It is just a tough spot for Western Kentucky. So I think for Georgia, where it's like this may have been a game where they were going to have to strain a lot more. And what you saw against Tennessee State.

8:09I just wonder with how much maybe Western Kentucky is lost to the transfer portal and the turnover that really impacts group of six programs on a yearly basis. Now where their players just get called up to the big leagues and the power for again, I think it's going to be more the same. Where you want to see your to start fast. You want to see a crispness with the way they play when the starters are in there and you saw that again, Tennessee State five straight touchdowns to start the game. Five start three and outs. Maybe you see Georgia force a turnover this week. Something that didn't do a week ago, but again, a fast start where you're able to get your starters. The guy you know, you're going to be asking to make big plays later on in the season. You can get them out of the game early. I think that's the thing that you're really most looking forward to this week. Connor, let's take a look because we got a bunch of these teams obviously on the schedule. Mike mentions, oh, you they play Michigan watching this last weekend. Want to get a feel for them Alabama, right? All burn with an incredible, you know, game right here in Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Florida with their new coach. Old misfines away to win. My point is, who is the most impressive team in your opinion as you watch this this first weekend? And is LSU hype or is that real?

9:10Like, are they that good? I was someone who was probably higher on LSU coming into the season than maybe perhaps the consensus. I had them playing Georgia in the SEC championship game. And the way that they beat Clemson, where they were just so much better along the line to scrimmage. And it looked like varsity versus junior varsity, no matter who Clemson had out there at quarterback. And I thought they were really motivated by some of the things that have happened of late. And I've given him credit for getting that team ready to play, going out and dominating away in which they were. It admittedly was not a great week one in terms of games that were available in terms of big name matchups. But I certainly think the way that LSU played Sam Leather first came off a foot injury for him. If he gets more and more confident, I think that team can become even more dangerous. So a lot of that, yeah, it's probably Clemson not being very good. And it just so clearly seems like the game is passed out of swing by. But I certainly take LSU. I did much more serious team and potentially move them sort of into that title contending tier.

10:14Will you see a Georgia Ohio State a Texas in that manner? Talk with our man, Conor Riley guys about the dogs, obviously the big story. And it's I said a car earlier in the show. I didn't really think I'd see the SEC voting to maybe kick LSU out of the conference. Seems like a big bluff. Is this just another misfire from Sanky and Company? I get it. It was it was like the villagers were out with pitchforks and torches and baton rouges. But they were they really even considered this because I think if you're not going to do it and you wouldn't do it, then don't bluff it. I think what the SEC wants here is the ability to get in writing from a court that we can actually enforce our rules and enforce punishment and make things difficult. I don't believe they're actually going to kick LSU out. But I do think that they want the ability to do so in case there is something this agree just again moving forward. And I do believe that the SEC in some way wants to punish LSU for taking things to the extent that they have already gotten to because they don't think the Greg Sanky liked being embarrassed the way that he was last Thursday when he was called to testify in this case.

11:15So again, I agree with you Mike. I don't think that the SEC wants to kick LSU out. I don't think they're going to go to that nuclear option. What I do think they want to do at this point in time is leverage the current LSU situation into having the ability to play by their own rules to where they can set their own rules and have self-governance ship because that's something to talk with Jerry Morehead. We've known that they there are people and pockets within the SEC that have been in favor of that for a long time. I think now the SEC is trying to leverage this LSU situation into making that a reality because then that really allows them. I think to move forward in a way that they would like and not just in retaliation to the way that LSU has behaved of late. tougher is it going to be tougher to win at Alabama or tougher to win at Ole Miss for Georgia this year? I'm going to say Alabama because again, just the history that they have there is not great. Regardless of who has been the coach there for the Crimson Tide. Although, you know, Kirby Spawn has never won in Oxford. He lost there his first year and then two years ago when they went to go visit.

12:16They lost there once again, but that LSU defense has a lot of issues. The Ole Miss defense has a lot of issues that I saw against Louisville and that whole team and I know they were without Cawon Lacey in the second half which impacted their ability to go out and try and ice away that game. But so much of their ability comes down to Trinidad Chamblis just being able to create magic. I'm sure there were Georgia fans who were getting PTSD, you know, every time Trinidad dropped back and Louisville had him sort of dead to rights. Right. And he just sort of wiggles out of it and then goes and makes a play down field. So, you know, that, the Ole Miss Louisville game in a way felt like a carbon copy of that Georgia game where Ole Miss had a double digit lead in the fourth quarter. They looked like they were cruising. Louisville gets two scores there at the end to actually tie the game and then Ole Miss gets in in line for a longish field goal. So, I think 47-48 yards. Almost to a tee the way the Georgia game played out. I'll buy Georgia was only down 10 and then couldn't get the touchdown on their penultimate possession. They had to settle for a field goal there. So, I just have a lot of questions about Ole Miss and the fact that Cawon Lacey's already hurt the wear and tear of the burden that I think this year is on Trinidad Chamblis.

13:23That maybe in a way wasn't a season ago because of the defense that Ole Miss had. That makes the Alabama game a bit more worrying to me even though I think that that is a game that the Georgia should still win. But obviously that's not the first time we see that about Georgia out of the Alabama game. Right. No doubt. We'll see how things go this weekend. Connor Riley, tell the people where they can find your stuff. Yep. You guys can follow me on Twitter at KConor. Riley, Mike, I'm glad you have the ability to get to Twitter again after what happened in Florida, say last night. Yeah, man. I'm glad you're back from the Stone Age. The struggle was real. No, actually, why if I did it? Ironically, why if I worked the whole game during the stadium? Yeah. And I said, Connor, I said on Twitter, go, why can't we just watch the game the way Oliver Stone filmed any given Sunday? And everything would be very dark and moody. You know, let's do it. Crazy. Crazy stuff. Connor, thanks so much, man. We will talk to you next week, buddy. Yep, thanks, guys. Yeah, man. And he's right. I mean, like, you take little things from these games, less reponent. I hear you. But there are things that you go, hey, there's some growth there.

14:24He's right about Gunner, guys. And for Gunner not to run, like, that's interesting. Good pocket discipline. That's right. So we'll see how's they continue to grow. I think, again, first real challenge, if you want to say that is Arkansas, Mike, that third game right on the road. Right. We'll see how it goes. To me, it's Vennibles when Oklahoma comes in. That's going to be the big one. Because I think their defense is legit. I think Oklahoma, go ahead, put me down. Did it? When's this weekend? Oklahoma over Michigan. Yeah. I don't know. I think you should make me tear a P in a cup. See what happens. Me melt. All right, man. We're coming back. We got a lot more to dive into. Mike mentioned it. Not one, not two, not three. We've had six starters. Come on. What's going on? Stukes and Bell. I just, I, some days you wake up and you get on social media and you, and you get on social media and talk about Stukes and Bell. And you talk about things and you read and you're like, I just, you feel like you're in

15:25another dimension. Yeah. Like, we're in Bizarre World. I had another guy I just saw on Twitter, mad props to Michael Penix. For what? To make the right decision. You're a plotting a guy for not doing his job when he's been cleared to do his job. I'm like, I just, you got to be kidding me. I know the guy today, Carl. Yeah, I'm home. He's had a schedule. What happens if he looks like terrible? You're really going to compare a first ballot hall of favor. You know, who's one of the greatest quarterbacks ever? He's got to press out with a guy who hasn't established his brand yet. He had a fell being, I mean, you guys, the analogy doesn't make sense. Another one, Aaron Doddell is not flying to Australia because he doesn't want to. He's also earned that right because he's also a first ballot hall of favor. And he ramped up his, his work to start. So he's, he'll be starting next week. If you can't tell the difference from where Michael Penix is in his career and where Aaron Doddell is in his career, I really don't know what to say to you. Yeah, they're on a different plane that this is true. And you know, the quarterbacks, you tell us. And Jay-Day shaking his head. They're not on a different plane. Jay-Day? No, no, they're on a different plane. But you brought up a very good point.

16:27And you think about it. What? You're right. The career, Michael Penix could also be worried about his career. Third ACL? What career? I'm sorry. Now you guys have pulled it out of me. I was going to leave it alone. Bring it. Bring the heat. Me? But I am sorry. I disagree. When Kirk cousins hampered this team, you all were upset that he did not come forth and come forward. Michael Penix Jr. literally said, it is not fair to this team or organization for me to go out there, not 100%. Why would I jeopardize this team getting off to a 0 and 1, 0 and 2, maybe even 0 and 3 start? Knowing I can't give them 100%.

17:28It was never mental with Kirk cousins. He didn't say mental. He didn't have to. He didn't say mental. He's been cleared physically by the doctors. Oh, you want to add something? Go for it. There's a difference here though. Cousins didn't tell John Crude and Febby were at the Hebeback for training camp. Oh, it's a good point. Or tell everybody during OTA. Was he at training camp? I'm just saying. He wasn't a fool. What? What was he at training? He wasn't a fool. The doctors physically did not clear him to be a fool. And did what he was? Clear. What was he doing? He was out there for three days. 11 on 11. He was out there for three days. And then Pettis followed up with, yeah, during training camp, I'll be ready for week one. It's a four week. It's a four week. I got four weeks to my next appointment. But I might get cleared before then. At every single stop of this, it's been Pettis. It's been Pettis. It's been Pettis. It's been Pettis. That's the one. That's the difference. That's the difference, Day Day. It's been him.

18:28You think him is the fan. The fan's key is like, what do you think? They didn't declare a start of this off season. And for that reason, right there, because they did not know. I mean, when Mike had the press conference before training camp, it was, oh, the doctors didn't know my ACL was torn until they had the surgery. Then later on, it was like, yeah, they did this different procedure. Like every other time with Pettis, it's been something else to either say like, this is why I'm not ready yet. I told you guys why I was going to be ready. But my point is he's telling me to be ready. But my point is he's telling you he's not ready. When is he going to be ready? And my point is when is he going to be ready? It doesn't matter when he's going to be ready. The point is you're arguing you were pissed off. No, no, listen, you guys were pissed off. It doesn't matter how he's ready. Because it's not saying not being truthful. Now you got a guy being truthful. Yes. And now, oh, he's talking to me. I must have lied. You know what? He needs to be a better liar. He has a great relationship with God.

19:29He's not going to lie. You can't tell the difference. He's got a wonderful relationship with God. He's not going to lie. Good to hear. Good. You can't tell the difference with a guy who got a guy for $100 million. Right? And a guy who hasn't done anything yet in this league. And he wants to do something. He's not going to jeopardize. Never going to ever do anything. So if you had a kid and your kid doesn't want to go to school. You don't want to start to feel like the guys that... Your kid that said, you're starting to feel like dabbo. You ever play football? Your kid. Your kid. Your kid. Your kid. Do you make your kids go to school in the morning? Yes. When they don't feel right. Your kids say they don't feel good. It depends. Because when you're a parent, you know your kid. And that's the point. When you're a parent, you know your kid. And you know what coaches know their players. So if they're not pressing the issue, why are we? Because they can't. He's making the decision. He's controlling the narrative. But they put that in his hand. They have to. Okay. So we got to trust that they know what they're doing. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's not about trusting them. It's about trusting the guy who doesn't have confidence to do what he needs to do right now.

20:32Oh, you got it. And by the way, as a coach, I wouldn't run him out there either if he said, no, I ain't ready. I'm not playing you. Exactly. For what? Exactly. I'm trying to win games. All right, so if he doesn't play till October. Okay. So then you're going to have on an eight, nine week audition. And you got to make a decision in May. If you're keeping this guy, you're going to pick up that fifth-year option. This is... But here's the situation is ridiculous. Guess what? Guess what? Michael Pinnix knows that. He knows the risk he's taking. He knows that. He's not dumb. Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. This is great. I've never heard people rally for a guy to not do his job. Listen, I'm not saying that. I've never heard about rally. Listen, you went car at the beginning at the end of the day. Two of us decided, let's go. You can rationalize any... If he's your guy, you can rationalize any decision. Regardless of how ridiculous it is in the... It's not about... And the entire picture of it is, do you want to be a starting quarterback in the NFL? Do you want to have a career in the NFL?

21:32How is this... Because eventually you are going to have to get out there on the field. And most people would say, you know, week one, I like to be out there, start the season. You know, I'm cleared medically. When is he going to be cleared mentally? And when does that happen? Because it's so open-ended and we're so freaking soft as a society that you just go, oh, he's not ready. Oh, he's not ready. He's not ready. You know? And Kirk Cuss has did do with his service, but it's completely apples to origins. No, it's not apples to origin. He didn't do that. He didn't do that. No, the honesty is not apples to origin. The truth. You guys wanted... Did you not want... No. Did you not say... You were looking at this the wrong way. But I'm saying, you wanted honesty from Kirk Cuss, right? No. And regard... So you didn't want honesty from Kirk Cuss. No, no, no, no, no, no. What we wondered about at the time was the decision. Right. Of... I am going to risk it. This is what we're talking about. I'm willing to risk it. I'm already injured. I know I don't feel right. But I'm willing to risk it because I give the team the best opportunity to win. And I'm telling you that game respect from his teammates. He didn't play well.

22:32He'd be the first one to tell you that. But the idea was, mentally, you were not going to pull him off the field. We didn't like it because we lost games. We didn't like it. But I respect the mentality. So why can't you... And respect the men. And that's the difference. I can't respect refusing to give yourself an opportunity to go achieve it. Cussins did that. I didn't like the result. But hell, I got to respect the fact that he had the balls to go out there and say, you know what I know I'm not 100%. But I'm not coming off the field. We're questioning whether this guy's got heart. Let's be honest, Atlanta. Can we be honest? You're questioning whether he's got heart. And you're right. That's not... That's not... That's not the discussion we should be having. You're rationalizing it. Any other walk of life. I'm rational. Any other athlete, you'd be saying, what's up with that? It was another city, another guy. No, the reason why I'm not though in this instant is because dude has been hurt. Yes. I don't need him going out there. That's why.

23:32But this is the reality check. He's an often injured quarterback. And the likelihood of him finishing a season is probably five to one. I don't even know what the odds to quantify it. This way, it's a mood point. Never should have been drafted here in the first place because of the injury history. And now because he's coming off another injury, we're going to sit here and wait till win Halloween. To get him out there, Mike Vic came back for an amnesialist season. Bushed at his ass. Remember the bravest break his leg in the end, so we all saw it. And he rushes back because it meant something. He's out there. I mean, this guy was an all-world guy. He's the face of the NFL at that point. That's right. And he rushes back to come back early for a team that was eliminated from the playoffs. And that's the kind of hard I'm... I just want to see that from Michael Penex. You said he was the face of the NFL at that point. He was. He was. And the team was close. Now that's why he's got to get out there to establish his freaking brand. The same argument with Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes is out there because he's got... He's a fighter. He's got that DNA. I want to see that same juice from Michael Bennett Jr. That's a more question. So Mike's thing right there when he's talking about that was the fact that Vic was the face of the NFL.

24:34But he still came back. He did. And he didn't have to. Mahomes might be... Mahomes was one of the faces of the NFL. He didn't have to either. But he came back. He doesn't have to. You don't think you're going to Andy Rinch on these three weeks? Andy's like, cool. We'll roll with it. Because he doesn't have to. Let me ask you guys a question. I'm so hurt. Let me ask you guys a question. It's Duke's in Bell Sports Radio 92 9-2 game. Guy hits us up. Mikey says Penex was cleared for 11-11, but not for contact. When does that happen? How does that happen? My point is this guys. You don't get contact until you actually play real football. That's how this works. I don't know if that happens. So the idea that he was cleared, but not for contact. What are we talking about? He's not going to be taking contact in practice at any situation. Any situation. All right, Mike. What do we have in Guy 2? Hey, man. Well, usually the incompetence with Florida State just starts an ins of the sideline, but went to the whole stadium. Getting us what that was like to be out of town at the last night. Also, hats off to CJ Nick Kowski. I got to tell you about a guy throwing into a very difficult set of circumstances for a broadcaster.

25:38I'll explain coming up in Guy 2. Here's, and this guy can't block a, he can't block anybody. Right. And so, Mike, when you start investing in these guys, you have to know that you're investing in the right players. And for dabbo, he's not only going out and not gotten the right players. When he has attempted to do the portal, which has been farfew in between, but then his loyalty to keep guys in the front, you've been here. And therefore, I'm going to play you. There's guys that are better. And that's what these other coaches are doing right now. Speaking of the N.I. Hell, the transfer portal, the DeCirc brothers of Florida State, Darrell and Mandrel. If you didn't see it, Mandrel did his impression of, I guess, Miles Garrett last night going up to the line. You see this day, day? He's doing this thing with the arms and everything. Kind of looks like James Harden bringing the ball up and then he gets trucked and run over on a, nothing. I mean, these are hard times for Clemson fans, hard times. Certainly for Florida State fans last night. That's about the craziest night I've spent in Tallahassee. And I told Carl earlier, what happened was the night before the power grid took a hit.

26:38And I guess nobody at Florida State said maybe we should see if we're going to be okay to power up the stadium. Because the transformer blew the night before and they think I've been article in the Tallahassee paper, the Democrat that maybe had something to do with it. Either way, it was all internal. And so there's all these memes out there of like other cheaps to Virginia Miami. Everybody's saying, our lights are on. Oh, yeah. Everybody's piling on. But yeah, they give up nearly 600 yards of offense to SMU. If not for some SMU miscues, that game would have been over big time. And Norvell, Blue Clock Management, but we're used to that. And all I heard from the fans last night was they want Dion. I'll tell you what, Dion can sell. You can be six and six years with Colorado comes and telling. I've got to buy out Norvell first though. A lot of buyouts out there potentially in college, but Colorado comes down there. No, no, no, I said I'd love to see him. You know, if Colorado goes six, you know, if you get, because what's a good number date, if you follow Colorado, can they get to 500 this year with all the changes? I think so because I think the win over Georgia Tech was key for them getting there. Because I think the next couple of games are kind of their lighter in the schedule games. So which would put them, you know, they should be able to get off to a three and no starters

27:41when I'm saying, I don't have their schedule right in front of me. But yeah, I think they can't get to be in a 500 team, especially with that win over Georgia Tech. Right. Braves, by the way, we'll talk with Grant McCauley about what the Braves did. But they basically go in there with four game lead. Come out of Philly with a four game lead. Guess you can't complain about that. Three more with Philly coming up later next week. But here's the thing. Sunday was the NBC joint broadcast. Yes. So the Braves and Philly's, and what they do for that one, it was I had to look it up. One of the voices was Ruben Amaro, the former Philly GM, and the other guy was Adam Otovino, they call Otto, a career relief pitcher. Correct. And they throw C.J. Nick Kowski in that mix with the NBC play by play guy. And so it's kind of tough because you're trying to manufacture chemistry. And some of these broadcasts have been rough. I thought C.J. did a hell of a job. There was a couple of plays where the Philly guys, like I'm not saying they're bad, but it makes you appreciate like when you listen to Arch and West Durham and you're West. True. And you listen to other NFL play by play. That's right. Man, it sounds like amateur hour. Not saying the Philly's were that bad, but C.J. was really on point. And they were like, why isn't what's going on there?

28:41Why did Nazi try to run? It's C.J. explained everything. Here's what we're doing. Here's the tactic of it. It's like he never played baseball. And it was like, and C.I. I almost felt bad. And the funniest part, dead end, if you heard this, C.J. They were talking about, I was, Dylan Lee was pitching a Bryce Harper. And so it's Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird. And so C.J. says, it's like, well, we got to kill a Mockingbird scenario here. You can hear crickets. Nobody in the broadcasts put that any idea what's, I got a kick out. Harper Lee. Get it? Lee's throwing a Harper. Harper and Lee. And anyway, but great job for him. And that was tough. I thought great job C.J. Because sometimes it's difficult to be thrown at you. You have no chemistry. You don't really know the guys. You never work together. Right. Try to make it work. And not step on each other. I agree. No, it's a good job. Hey, man. Here's a stat, which I wasn't really, I did not expect to see this today, along with the LSU potentially getting kicked out of S.C. We'll talk more about that next hour. Mike Tomlin does an interview. What was the format on this, Orrin? It's a podcast. He was doing an interview.

29:41It's a Craig Melvin. I guess it's something NBC related. Okay. Of all the things that Mike Tomlin does when he's not coaching football, well, I didn't expect to hear this. I didn't know you were a game, either. Because my kids were. Got it. And so how do I connect with them? How do I meet them where they are and spend time with them? I started playing Minecraft, man. When my kids were young, I have a Minecraft city. I'm creative, man, that I've been working on for like 12 years. Still. 12 years. And the kids are long gone. Hey, do they still play too? Hey, no, but when they come home, they're like, hey, dad, put your city up, man. Let me see what's up. Oh, my gosh. Like my kids have, they've, they've, they've taken it from PS3 to PS4 to PS5. Yeah. Like they're in the preserving it because they know I don't have the technical knowledge, you know. But we've been talking recently about, about sharing it with the world. And that while it is, and I got to tell you that damn Minecraft, my daughter spent so much money on that damn game.

30:45I need more money from Minecraft. What are you doing? I'm building a new state. I can relate to that part of it. But no, I did not know Mike Tomlin, but you know what he's right. What are your kids into? Can't force him to do things Mike that they're not interested in. So I'm going to come and do some things. But that's cool, man. And by the way, I hope he's that on these broadcasts. Yeah, let me in, man. I hope he's that. I mean, he's that because we knew he was going to do at least one year at TV. Sean Peyton, like Sean Peyton's just a real edgy dude and he has no charisma. And that was a tough watch on Fox. It was like, oh, and hopefully Mike brings some juice to NBC. We'll find out. But that like I said, that's the lesson I was expecting here to speak of football. I showed this image to Carl in order. I don't know if you've already seen this. Have you seen the image that was out there about about the week now of Clay Matthews? Have you seen this? Well, Clay is always a big guy. I mean, you know, former Packer and you know, his dad was a NFL legend. His uncle Bruce are his cousin, of course, take Matthew. The idea that he would get plastic surgery to look like Thanos seemed a bit much. They did.

31:45Have you seen the images of this? So I saw this last week and said, there's no way in God's green earth that an NFL player would do this to his body. You know, there's other people that, you know, identify as a cat and I'll have plastic surgery. They're nuts and they're just do this. Anyway, later turns out TMZ picks it up and they basically look like he's come. Here is Clay Matthews. It's AI. Somebody doctored the whole thing. Clay Matthews had to take the social media to say, no, I did not get plastic surgery to look like Thanos from the Avengers. Because it looked really weird. I mean, he's all, he's all juiced up. His chin looks crazy. Yeah, when you showed me that I was like, what is going on? I mean, literally like, like, look like a superhero or a super villain villain. Yeah. I mean, it looked like a piece of the cheek bones and the jawbone protruding. Literally, it looks like something out of, well, like Sin City or like from the Marvel movies. Anyway, it's not real. That's the thing with AI. You can do everything now. Right. You see now in political campaign and political action. They can not not be saying the same. It's scary. But you're gonna have the other person doing stuff. And then you say, I didn't do it. Yeah, it's just a scary thing. Man, only because most people don't realize what's real and what's not.

32:47Right? And unless you are, you know, again, my comedy, how many times you scroll and just, you see something and then he's like, oh, that's interesting. You don't know if it's A.I or not. The exaggerated appearance with Matthews, he's maintained a reasonable look. The guy's always in green. He's in green. Carved out of wood, man. Pusano, if you saw that, it's not real. It's a fugacy. By the way, tomorrow before I forget, we're gonna be doing our, I guess we'll call it our annual Napa Falcon flag giveaway. We do it basically this time of year, every year. And this is like a third or fourth year in a row. We're doing this fifth, I think. Yeah, I mean, we've been, and guys always say, we're coming to Southside. So if you wanna see us, come see us. We're gonna be at Napa, 5280 Jonesboro Road in Marrow, just about from Lake City, basically. Marrow Lake City. We'll be there, guys, from two to six. The flag giveaway though starts at five. That's right. That's right. Sometimes guys like, you know, it's a flag at, not time yet. For any of the Falcon will be there. Usually there's a Falcon legend will be hanging outside and autographs it's generally how it works. Falcon cheerleaders, us, and hopefully people not stopping traffic. Is it happened a few times in the past? Hey, man, we stopped traffic here, man. It's okay. And then we found out last time we got there,

33:48day days got like this whole like, sweet tooth. Everyone got the apple pie, the special pie is McDonald's. It's a stomach cream. Was that like a limited time only? No, no, no, no, they have, it's just a lot of people that aren't aware of it. Okay, yeah. Okay. All right. Speaking of food, I got time, I got time for one more. So driving back from Tallahassee this morning, spent the night down there. And I always stopped kind of a good place, you know, stretch your legs, isn't down a cold quit. Right, right, go up, show them down. And there's like a little hearty's down there. So I pulled in with my buddy Dave, and we get out to go into hearty's, I'm like, I can eat the car. I can't, can't have biscuit. Come front and forth everywhere. My father told me that you can't do that in a nice car. But anyway, so we go inside and day day, it was like right out of central casting, you literally got four good old boys. They know, guys got the, you know, one dude's got this, the spenders up and everything. One dude's got his car hearts, it says hot out. And we come in there like, they see that we're in Florida state gear and the guy goes, so you the one didn't pay the power bill last night. Of course, everybody's got jokes. Here it goes. And then here it is and it's like,

34:48you know, there's a state trooper sits, I know reset serves. So they see, they're all the, where are you heading to? Like Atlanta Atlanta. I mean, it was like, like I walk right into a time warp in like the Beverly Hillbillies. And it's a long way. Yeah, well, you got to be careful that state. I know where the state trooper sits, sir, but thank you. But anyway, that was, I thought you get a kick out of that. It was like literally old school four old guys in their early 60s, having their coffee, getting away from their wife at hearties in the morning. I love it, man. That's that small town. Big time, man. Hey, real quick reminder with the, the Falcons, we are getting the football starting tomorrow. Will of course be playing in Pittsburgh on Sunday, but the season begins tomorrow, Seattle, taking on the Patriots in a rematch, which means tonight is the fantasy draft. Have you done any fantasies? I did. I did. I did. One did I do our Sunday, well, Tuesdays, my days are so screwed up right now. I've been saying this all day to day, today's Tuesday. So what's Sunday? Yeah, and I got beans on. So I'm good. Hey, man, oh, you did? Oh, wow. I'm picking eight. I think eight becomes either 13 or 14 on the turn. Either way, looks like I'm in the zone for like a James Cook.

35:50Okay. You got to get running backs, man. Got to get them. And then we'll see where CD Lam, a monorossing brown are, but that's just where I'm living tonight. So pick an eight. Yeah, you'll get a good 10 team lead. Oh, yeah, you'll be fine. Right. Becky's on the clock. She's taking B. John. One. Yep. Yeah, B. John, I think regardless of when and when and never Pentex gets out there, B. John is still going to have big numbers because B. John had great numbers last year with all the quarterback problems. Well, I think he's going to be the heartbeat, man. I mean, that's that's that's going to be the thing. It's funny. Guy hit us up Mike on social media. Mike Bell actually, Bell ATL 929 is his Twitter account. And I'm it, put him up. See, Duke's and the guy says, fellas, everybody's talking about all this other stuff. He says with competent quarterback play and it sounds like what we've been saying all season, all off season, you could win this division. We don't need superstar quarterback play because you've got guys that you can get the football to. Hey, man, we got a developing story with the Braves coming up. And also before we get out of here at six, we didn't even talk. It's been such a busy show. The million things going on that debacle in Michigan terrible. The most ridiculous. You literally had Terry McCauley, the ref for NBC going,

36:52no, that clock is synced up. That's real. And then no, no, there's a super duper secret clock that we go where that clock at. Like what are you kidding me? Michigan too big to fail. More on that in the five, but a breaking story with the Braves. Get your football weekend started with Duke's and Bell. Friday, we're going to be at Twin Peaks and Bookhead guys. We'll be broadcasting live from two to six and join all the each drinks and seating views, Buckhead. That's where we will be. Of course, we're talking college football in FL and much more. That is right here on Sports Radio 92 9 the game on Friday. We'll give you that news when we come back and more on the decision to start to it. It's Duke's and Bell.