The Show Episode 548

PGA Championship, NBA Playoffs, NHL Playoffs, Football Stats

Transcript

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We are here. We got uh, of course, the NBA NHL playoff update.

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We got some uh stats uh to go over for the NFL. We got uh the Jennings Dunker diet that I want to tell you about. Of course, this is the offensive lineman that the Steelers drafted from Iowa. Uh, we got his game day diet to discuss. We'll save that to the end. Um, but first, uh, I just completed watching the PGA championship. Now, I'm not gonna sit here. Oh, I hear the I hear the people. Oh, no, not again, host. Back on the golf train. We just host your last episode. We had to hear about the Live Tour. We've been hearing about the Masters for a few episodes. We thought the golf was well, not so fast, my friend. In the words of Lee Corso. Yeah, we gotta talk about the PJ champions. No, I'm not gonna try to not go on and on and on about it for 20 minutes. But I gotta talk about it because that just happened. And it was probably the biggest uh sporting event to uh happen this weekend, uh, besides game seven tonight between uh Detroit and Cleveland. Uh that's happening tonight. And besides, uh we had the uh Preakness race, which uh Kentucky Derby champion Golden Tempo didn't even race it. So uh the high stakes of the Preakness, which usually the Kentucky Derby winner races in, uh that went all out the window because there wasn't even not a chance of a triple crown this year. So, you know, that had the lackluster feeling. And so did the PJ Championship, to tell you the truth. You know, we watched the Masters, we know the course at Augusta, we had Rory going for the two-peat, uh defending his championship from the previous year, and it was exciting, the Saturday and Sunday. In comes the PGA championship, first time being played at the famous Romick Golf Club outside of Philadelphia. First time ever at PGA championship. Most bunkers on the PGA tour this year. 177 bunkers out on the course. So the players had to look you know forward to playing on that. Fifth tournament in the last six weeks that a lot of these players have played. And of course, they were all complaining of the grind of the PGA tour. And as I said previously, uh a few episodes ago when we were talking about golf. Boy, would I love to be playing golf for four days uh, you know, for the rest of my life. I wouldn't be complaining about it, but of course, these millionaires are complaining about it. Uh, we got a champion. This pass for the PG Championship. Aaron Rye, uh, an Indian uh descent, who is an Englishman, who uh I don't know how that works, but that's what they were saying uh on the broadcast. Uh comes out of nowhere to win his first major and uh his highest placed finish in any major. Previous high to that was 19th place by this guy. Uh he played great today. I'm not going to take anything away from how Aaron played today. Uh no one else could step it up. No one else could make a run today. You had all those guys, all those guys at minus five, minus four, minus three, including Masters Champ, Rory McElroy. You had John Rahmen there, live player. You had Cameron Smith in there, live player. And you had these two new scrubs, uh Guy Smiley, as I was calling him, and uh Schmidt. This guy was like, I don't know, 6'10, seemed like he was out there trying to play golf. Uh he was out there uh going at it. You had Justin Rolls lurking around as usual on the final round, as what he does. Yeah, Justin Thomas uh posts a score of minus five. It seemed like five hours ago. Uh and he was waiting around to see what happened. And it seemed like his score was gonna hold up at some point. But uh Aaron Rye uh muscled it up on the back, almost shot 30 on the back, just missed the birdie putt on uh 18 to do that. He ended up shooting 31 on the back, and he played the best on the back and he won. You gotta give the guy credit for that. I mean, no one else could step it up like him. And how about these guys who think they're they're so awesome? And I'm talking about Rory, I'm talking about John Ron, I'm talking about Cameron Smith, all the big name players. They couldn't hit a fair way to save their lives. And they were, some of the holes, they were using three woods, they were using five woods. And they just couldn't get it in the fairway. Aaron Rye pulls out his driver right down the middle. Like it was no big deal. Yet here's Rory struggling on every T-shot to get it in the fairway. I guess that's what happens when you don't got uh eight weeks of you know being able to play the course prior to the tournament. I guess you struggle a little bit when you don't get all the practice, you know, like you had at Augusta to get on the tournament. I mean, you know, when you can't get on the course, you know, every other day, you know, by your uh, you know, your private jet, I guess you're gonna struggle uh hitting the fairway when you haven't been playing the course. Now, before we get back to Aaron Rye, uh I'll say this about the PGA Championship. Now, PGA Championship uh used to be somewhat exciting. And what I mean by that is uh the course wasn't set up as difficult as they do uh the US Open or as they do Augusta sometimes. They set it up to where there's you know, players are able to have birdies, players are able to make Eagles. Uh you know, uh the the last few holes players are able to make some shots where they could get into contention, where the final round is exciting, where they could make this make some putts, where they could get you know goal for the pins in various spots on the green. PGA championship used to be like that. Then all of a sudden, the PGA championship they moved to May. And someone said, you know what? We gotta make this PGA championship more difficult. And everybody's like, well, why? What do you gotta do? That doesn't make it doesn't make it for good TV. Yeah, the course is you can trick your course out, you can make the course tougher, you know, make these make the best players in the world struggle on these courses. But is that good for TV ratings? Is it good for you know the common fan who wants to tune in and watch some golf and watch some excitement? Is it is it good for them? So they make these PGA championships, these courses now that they play on. Of course, the PJ Championship rotates courses every year, just like the US Open, just like the British Open, they rotate courses every year. And every now and then you get a course like uh Aromic, Aramic, or whatever you want to call it, who says, Oh, our course isn't looking bad on national TV. We're gonna show you how tough our course is. And, you know, they grow the rough, they skinny up the fairway, they put the pins in ridiculous places on the green. Now, as much as I want to call these players a bunch of crybabies, the way they are, they had a point. Rory came out and said something in his press conference, John Rom said a few things in his press conference, Jordan Spith said a few things in his press conference. You know, they didn't like the way the course was set up. And there was a bunch of other players who commented on the course. And again, I don't blame them. You're not supposed to make it. Golf is hard enough. Golf is hard enough to play. Tell me about it. Ask the guest about the way the host played on Friday. You know, golf is hard enough. And when you make the course even more difficult, it makes golf even harder. And it doesn't come across on TV that well. And I'll tell you the truth. To be all honest with you, I wasn't too into watching the PGA championship. I maybe on Thursday, the opening round, I maybe watched an hour of it. I wasn't that excited about it. Then on Friday, I was off on Friday. I had all day to watch golf. I didn't turn it on once. I was just watching the leaderboard on my phone. And throughout Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the leaders were the same. Minus five, minus four, minus three, minus five, minus four. No one was was able to make a move. There was a guy here or there who shot a little score who moved up. Justin Rose shot uh I don't know, 65 or 64 one of the days, and he moved up 58 spots in the standings. So, you know, he was able to climb the leaderboard that way. But you had to be extremely hot to get a good round in on this PGA championship course. And it just, you know, just wasn't exciting. Wasn't exciting enough. And Saturday, honestly, to tell you to tell you the truth. Rory was playing great on Saturday. Hats off to him. I I what I watched him, I watched a round. He he was having a he was uh I watched a little bit of it on Saturday. He was playing great. So when Rory was like on 16 or 17, they CBS, the great CBS who does the same, who broadcasts the Masters also, we had to see this is as soon as the leaders teed off. We had the leaders tee off. Rory was almost done. We had to have the leaders tee off. That means every player who's in contention is out on the golf course playing. CBS has now free reign to show as much golf as they can with the commercial. What does CBS do? We go to a five-minute montage of shot by shot of Rory's Day on set. I know. Did we really need that CBS? At that point, at that point of the broadcast, that's what we needed to see when the leaders had just teed off, all the players who are in contention are out on the golf course. Here we are, we got to see a five-minute montage of Roy's shots. That's inexcusable, and that's not very good broadcasting by CBS. Now, as the day winds down and you're looking to fill the time when maybe you know the few players that are on the course are on the last few holes and they're on 16, 17, and 18, and you used all your commercial time, you want to show Rory shots on his day? Go right ahead. I have no problem with that. No problem with that. When you're in the middle of the broadcast and you got the momentum of the third round going on, you want to interrupt that to show a guy's shots. I just don't understand why we needed to see that at that time. So after that, I was like, huh, well, I guess I'm not gonna see any of the golf that's going on right now. Clicked off the TV. So I really, really watched today. And I I probably watched a majority of the of the of the golf today. I probably watched the majority. And it wasn't bad. It was just it's just something to see the all these guys struggle that they couldn't hit the fairway. Nobody could make a run, nobody could put a string of poles together to make a make a charge, except Aaron Rye. Aaron Rye was the only one. He was the only one that could do it. The other thing that was driving me nuts today is that CBS was rooting for Rory and any big name possible. They couldn't fathom that one of the big name players wasn't winning. There was at one point where Rory really needed to get a good drive off the T. And he even used a three-wood to try to get it, to try to get it in the fairway because he's struggling all day with his driver. He hooked it into the rough, and the well, I forget who the announcer was, goes, oh no, and Rory's in the rough. And you hear him go, oh that was that was on the broadcast by the announcer, rooting for Rory so bad. And I get it. Rory's the biggest name on the golf right now, biggest name on the PGA tour. I get it. He's your big ratings hot show. And you need him to be at the top if you're CBS. I get it. But to show your disappointment like that, right on the air, that you're even rooting for this guy so bad. I don't know. As a professional announcer, and maybe I'm wrong these days. Maybe in 2026 you can show your emotion of who you're rooting for, besides the people who broadcast for the home teams in the cities. You know, the local radio guys and the local TV guys who broadcast for your NBA team, your NHL team, your baseball team. All those guys are the homies that are allowed to root for their team. I'm talking about a national broadcast guy who's supposed to be neutral. You know, Mike Carisco acts like he's neutral, but he he he has certain teams and players he leans so far to to help along. You know, he's a prime example of somebody who roots for certain things to happen. Um this announcer for and I don't know who it was. It was the guy who was out there on one of the holes or walks the course. It wasn't, it wasn't for surprisingly, it wasn't Jim Nance or uh Trevor in the monitor. Wasn't one of those two guys. Um viably upset that Rory couldn't get the ball in the fairway because he was rooting for him so bad. And they were as much as they didn't want to root for John Ron because he's a live player, they were rooting for John Ron because he's a name. But besides Rory and John Ron, who's another big name? Just curious, CPS. Because I won't turn the TV on for anybody else that was out there. As much as I have dogged Rory on this show for the last three, four years on this show. He decides whether I turn the TV on or not to watch golf. I'll admit that. I wouldn't turn the TV on uh if if Rory or John Rahm wasn't up there today. Anyone else? Who cares? They're not a name to me. None of them. Not even Cameron Smith, who's on the live tour. None of those guys. I'm not turning it on to watch those guys. Especially Aaron Rye. Now, Aaron Rye won. Uh the new thing now you're gonna see. Uh he was wearing two black gloves. Now, I don't know if he wears those all the time because he takes care of his pet cobras. Oh, oh, I'm the oh, come on. I'm the bad guy guy. The host is the bad guy now. Come on. You know you guys are laughing. You know you guys are laughing. Don't make the host be the bad guy. Come on. I'm surprised his golf clubs aren't on a magic carpeters. Oh, come on, come on, come on. Why's the host always gotta be the bad guy when we want to have a few laughs on the show? Okay, why's the host always gotta be the bad guy? Well, we'll get to something in a second. Risk reminded me of something that I don't have written down here. But uh, but I'm the bad guy for making a few jokes. Um, Aaron Rye was wearing two black gloves. Now, all you people out there, you pull up to the first T of your local golf course. You want to have a round with your friends, and you get paired with a couple guys. Maybe you couldn't make a force. Who's gonna be the first person on the T that you don't know who's gonna be wearing two black gloves? Besides if it's raining out and you put on the rain gloves. A lot of people out there, a lot of people I know, a lot of people out there wear black gloves when it rains because everybody has the black rain gloves when it rains and it helps you grip the club. A lot of golfers have though. Okay, I'm talking about hot, sunny dry day. Who's gonna be the first guy you go out and play with who's got two black gloves on because Aaron Rye wore two black gloves? You know that's coming now. You know that's gonna be happening. But my only problem with Aaron Rye Come on, those were two good jokes. Come on. Come on, you guys were laughing. You know you were laughing.

unknown 20:26

Jesus.

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You people. Um here's my problem with Aaron Rod. Again, he his highest finish in any major prior to the PGA Championship was 19. Here's the thing. He'll never win again. And the problem is now, moving forward, we're gonna have to hear how he placed in the U.S. Open. Here he is gonna be playing in the British Open. And now we got to hear about him playing at Augusta because now, because he won the PGA championship, he's gonna be in that pairing where he's gonna be in a featured group and he's gonna be paired with whoever wins the U.S. Open, he's gonna be paired with whoever wins the Open Championship. Now you're gonna hear a lot about Aaron, but he's never gonna win again. He's got lucky today. He played great. Again, I'm not nothing, not taking anything away from how he played today. He deserved to win. He showed up, made the big putt on 17, the place going crazy. He played great. Drove it in the fairway on 16, drove it on the green with a with a a wood to be on a two. John Rom didn't, Rory didn't, Cameron Smith didn't. None of those other guys out in the back of them did. He did. He deserved a win. But the problem is you'll never hear from him. And the only time you are gonna hear from him, like I just said, there's Aaron Rye, 2026 PJ Champion. After that, that's it. Have you heard of uh JP Spawn or whatever his name is? Who won the open last year? Have we heard about him? Has he been up in the top five? Oh that's right, we haven't. Same thing. That's Aaron Rodgers. That's your PGA champion. And again, hats off to him today. Like, great. Not taking away any victory. He's a major champion. We're not taking that away. It's just we're never gonna hear from him again. And speaking of people, we might never hear it from again. You see Bryson DeShambles' performance this weekend? Remember, he came out and said, I don't need the PJ tour. I can just do my YouTube channel if the live tour really full. Okay. Good luck with that. You see the way he played this weekend? And he was an ass too. Smug look on his face. He's supposed to be the golfer of the people. Yet he looks like he doesn't even want to be out there. Thinks he's better than everyone. Holds himself to a higher standard. Yet he can't even make the cut. Couldn't make the cut at Augusta. He played terrible Thursday and Friday. Terrible. So much pressure, and he can't handle it. One thing Bryson DeChambeau can't handle is the pressure. Yes, I know. He won the U.S. Open at Pinehurst. Beat Rory. Yes. We know that. Remember, Rory missed a putt. Yes, Bryson won before during the COVID year at the U.S. Open. Yes. We know. We know. Again, we can't take those away from him. But he can't handle the pressure. When when the spotlight is on Bryson DeShambeau, and everyone is expecting him, and everybody is betting on him, and everybody thinks he's going to be in the top five and he's going to be there on Sunday. Can't handle it. Bryson DeShamble does well when no one's talking about him. When the pressure isn't there. When he has a chance to relax and nobody's talking about him, and he comes out of nowhere to do well in a tournament. That's where Bryson DeShamble is good. Right now, he's just quietly fading away. And when his five-year exemption runs out, if he doesn't get back on the PGA tour, we might not ever see Bryson DeChambeau play in majors again. Because he's terrible. Terrible. But that was your PGA championship. And again, congrats to Aaron Ryan. We just may never hear from him again. Before we move on to the NBA NHL update here, what I got written down. Speaking of people making fun of the host, so I'm uh minding my own business. And someone sends me last night as I'm just hanging out looking at Twitter. Someone emails the show. And someone took a screenshot of somebody else's tweet that said, choose three to never hear from again. And here's the nine people on this uh tweet that they sent out. These are now they pick they picked nine people, and the caption said, choose three to never hear from again. Skip Bayless, Callan Cowherd, Chris Collinsworth, Stephen A. Smith, Nick Wright, Kendrick Perkins, Jason Whitlock, Pat McAfee, and yours truly the host. Now come on. Now who's picking the host to never hear from again? Is the host really that bad?

SPEAKER_02 26:48

Well, host, did you just hear your joke about Aaron Rye? Yeah, that's why you're on that list.

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I mean, come on. The host, you're gonna pick the host out of these eight idiots on here? So I went back and I found the original, original tweet. The the uh host, somebody took the host emblem off my Twitter page, took a screenshot of it, it posted it over. Dave Portnall was the guy that they put my thing over. Okay. So the host wasn't originally on it. Somebody's playing a joke on the host, obviously. But I it made me laugh. It made me laugh. You wouldn't pick the host of your first three that were never hear from again on this list. Look at these guys on here. I mean, Kendrick Perkins would be one for me. Skip Bayless would be one. And um probably Dave Portno. I picked those three out of those guys, never hear from again. Not little old me, the host. You know, you don't you don't want to erase the host from existence. We've we've had 548 episodes together. Why would we want why would you want not to hear from the host ever again? Come on. I know someone did that as a joke. It really made me laugh. It was pretty funny, but I just wanted to share that with you. Okay, our uh our NBA NHL update. Well, we got a game seven tonight, as I mentioned at the top of the show, uh Cleveland and Detroit. We all know Detroit's winning this game tonight because why? James Harden's on Cleveland. And we know how James Harden performs in game sevens. He performs awful. Remember one game seven, he had two points? One of those game sevens when Houston he had two points. He was like one of 17 from shooting. James Harden has had the career worst Game 7s in all his life. I say that now, as a bunch of you are probably going to hear this, you know, episode come Monday morning. A lot of you are gonna hear this Monday. Wouldn't be surprised now if James Harden puts up 35 points and has like 10 assists and Cleveland wins. But Cleveland's been a terrible team on the road. They got lucky in game five. Uh, Detroit had a meltdown in game five, and Cleveland ended up winning that game. That's that's Cleveland's only win on the road in the playoffs. I don't expect them to win tonight. I think Detroit goes on to win. They play the Knicks. And as I said, it doesn't matter who the Knicks play, Cleveland or Detroit. They're winning and they're going to the finals. Knicks are going to the finals. You're not stopping the Knicks. Now it'd be great if Cleveland won this game tonight for the Knicks purposes, because then the Knicks would be the home team. They would get four games in Madison Square Garden. But regardless, if Detroit wins, Knicks are going to win one of those first games, one of the one game one or game two. It's going to be one to one. And then you've got three games in Madison Square Garden that Detroit's going to have to contend with. And I don't know if Detroit can live up the height and the pressure of playing at Madison Square Garden in the Eastern Conference Finals. I think the Knicks will win that series in six games. Knicks are beating Cleveland or Detroit in six games. They're going to be in the final. Now, on the other side in the Western Conference Finals, this is the finals. San Antonio and Oklahoma City. And this is fresh off SGA winning his second MVP. He won, he has won now back-to-back NVPs. So SGA joins that elite crowd in his career of NBA players who have won multiple MVP awards. Yes, SGA is your MVP. He was the best player in the NBA this year. Yes, Jokic gave him a run. He was right up there. Luca Donics gave him a run. He led the NBA in scoring. But at the end of the day, SGA is your MVP. Maybe Wemby, Wemby's going to win it eventually, one of these years, the way this guy is playing and developing. But this year, SGA is your MVP. Now, with that being said, regardless of him being the MVP, this is going to be a hell of a series. This is probably going to be the series of the year. San Antonio beat Oklahoma City three games to one in the regular season. And now I know it's a regular season, but I went back and looked. Everybody played. Everybody was trying to make a statement. Everybody played for San Antonio. Everybody played for Oklahoma City. So in some of those games, San Antonio put a whoop ass on Oklahoma City in the regular season. And this is when Oklahoma City at the beginning of the year, they lost twice to San Antonio in the beginning of the year. Beginning of the year, Oklahoma City was making a run and they started off hot. They had that in the back of their mind, they had the idea of trying to go and win 70-some games. They wanted to try to break the Warriors record of 73 games. But that quickly ended when they got their ass handed to them by San Antonio twice early on in the season. If anybody can stick it to Oklahoma City, it's San Antonio. I think they got their number. Now, what is surprised me is the things to look out for in this series is the Castle kid from San Antonio. Wemby's going to be Wemby. Duron Fox is going to be Duran Fox. Those are the San Antonio's two best players. But this Castle kid, he grew up and he played great in that Minnesota series. Had 32 points in game six against Minnesota in that blowout. This is the guy who's coming into his own, who's developing into a really good player to go along with Wemby and Darren Fox and San Antonio. If he continues to stay hot and continue to play well, Oklahoma City could be in very, very big trouble in this series. Now, the thing that's going to help Oklahoma City in this series, yes, they got the MVP and SGA, but Jalen Williams, who's been out since game one of the first round with a bad hamstring, he's been given the go ahead. He's going to come back. He's going to be able to play in this series against San Antonio. So that should even things out. Now, but however, however, he's going to have to be careful on that hamstring. I don't know if he's going to be, if his limits, I'm sorry, if his minutes are going to be limited, I don't know if he's going to be able to drive to the basket like he does. I don't know if he's going to be able to elevate and get those jump shots going like he does. He says he's 100%. He's going to be 100% going into this series against San Antonio. I don't know yet until we see it in game speed. He can do everything he wants in practice. He can do everything he wants running around. But when it comes time and San Antonio is pushing that ball off the floor and he's out there trying to guard someone, pushing on him, game speed, experience. We don't know how that hamstring is going to hold up. But we're going to see quickly. This is going to be the series, series of the year. This is, this is the NBA finals right here. Because as much as I've been back in the Knicks, and I think the Knicks are going to make the finals, the Knicks don't have a chance against either one of these teams in the final. Either one of these teams, the Knicks are not going to have a chance. And I think they're going to get, they might get beat four games to one or four games to two. That's by any either one of these teams in the final. But this San Antonio, Oklahoma City series, it's going to be great. And I can't wait. I can't wait. Now the NHL has a game seven tomorrow night. My good friends down in southern New York there are all fired up because I was texting with the red filth. I asked him, are the Sabres done in game six? And he said he didn't know. They came out and they lit Montreal up in game six. Now Montreal and Buffalo will have a Game 7 to see who advances to the Eastern Conference Finals. But look, I think it'll be quite a if Buffalo wins that Game 7 tomorrow night and they go and play Carolina in the Eastern Conference Finals, they're not beating Carolina. Carolina's Buffalo Bear, be careful what they're asking for after they win that if they win that game tomorrow night. Carolina's gonna take care of them. Okay. And then on the on the Western Conference side, we got Colorado and the Golden Grams. The Golden Grams, I I don't know how they do it. They just keep on winning. I saw some crazy stat about the Golden Grams, and I I didn't understand it at first. I didn't save it on my phone. I saw it, and the more I thought about it, the more I couldn't believe it. I wish I would have saved it. The Golden Grams as a franchise since 2017-2018, their inaugural season, then they made the playoffs. They have more wins, more playoff wins as a franchise than I forget how many teams were on this list. There was a bunch of teams that have been established at NHL for more than 50 years. The Golden Grams had more wins than half of the teams. I wish I would have saved the staff. It was, I couldn't believe it. Well, they're gonna not, they're not beating Colorado. So the Golden Grams season, yep, they fired their coach. Uh they got a great spark in John Tortella. But that spark is going to end because Colorado's gonna take care of business. And I think the Stanley Cup final is gonna be Colorado and Carolina for the Stanley Cup. I don't see the Golden Grams winning, and I don't see Buffalo beating Carolina winning if that happens. But that's your uh NBA and NHL wrap-up for uh this past week. But uh should so should be a good game seven tonight. Uh I'm sure uh maybe a lot of people will be talking about it tomorrow. Maybe nobody will be talking about it tomorrow. Maybe it'll be crappy, but you'll hear that, uh, you know, see what happens, and you'll hear what I just said. And maybe I'm right, and maybe I'm wrong, like usual. So I came across this stack because I I'd mentioned this uh a little while ago about um college football. And um I thought I I thought I talked about Ohio State of how much money they spent on their team this season, upcoming season. Uh, you know, with the transfer portal, with um players, you know, coming in from high school, you know, you want to get the best players. And I mentioned that Ohio State was spending $44 million on their college football team for the upcoming 26th season. Well, they're tied for second on the most spending list because I got the top teams here of what they're spending on their college football team for this upcoming season. Number one, Texas is spending $47.9 million on their roster for this upcoming 26 season. Uh, as I mentioned, Ohio State and Miami of Florida. They're tied at $44 million a piece on their roster for this upcoming season. LSU with new coach Lane Kiffitt, they're spending $42.8 million this season. Oregon is spending $42.6 million this season. Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Notre Dame, they're spending $40.4 million on their roster this upcoming season. Texas AM is spending $38.9. Alabama is spending $37.2 million, Tennessee 36.7, and last on this list, Texas Tech is spending $36.3 million. We have entered now a new era in college football. The era of who can spend the most money and who can get the best players, and who can not just you know recruit the best players, but who can spend the money to recruit the best players? That's what college football has turned into. Man, Texas is almost spending 48 million on a college football roster. Who's gonna be the first team to hit 50? I mean, Texas is only a couple million away. That's probably what, another receiver somewhere out of out of uh, you know, some small school out in out in the rural parts of Texas? I mean, what's another two million to them? You're already spending, you know, 48. What happened to the just giving out escalades and uh tractors and uh bags of cash and you know, apartments for your parents and season tickets to your friends? What happened to the escalates? I guess that's that's no longer uh, you know, what happened to the booster who owns the uh Cadillac uh dealership, and uh all of a sudden, you know, every football season, uh a fleet of escalades got delivered. What happened to those days in college football? Now it's just pure cash and uh pure insanity uh going on of what these players players are getting. But man, that that's uh that that is crazy, isn't it? So of course we gotta have we gotta have a couple NFL things uh on the show, right? We gotta have a couple NFL things. Most touchdowns allowed. I'm sorry, not most.

unknown 41:35

Sorry.

SPEAKER_04 41:35

Touchdowns allowed by each defense over the last five seasons. So, you know, if you got a very good defense, you're you're gonna be very low on this list. If your defense has been really shitty and really crappy the last five seasons, like uh, oh, Washington on this list, you're gonna be number one. So this is the number of touchdowns given up over the last five seasons. Washington leads away with 245. A lot of you could expect that, right? A lot of you could expect the next couple teams to be up there. Arizona's at 243, Carolina's at 241. Now, a team you wouldn't think to be up high on this list the last five seasons, specifically because before last season they had a defensive coach, and that's the Chicago Bears at 234. They're giving up 234 touchdowns the last five seasons. Oh, look at this at 233.

unknown 42:36

Oh, ah, oh, tough coach.

SPEAKER_04 42:40

Not so tough, huh? You're giving up 233 touchdowns the last five seasons. You expect this team to be up there? Oakland, 231. 231 touchdowns the last five seasons. Good thing the Steelers hired that defensive coordinator there the last few seasons on their team now. Boy. I'm glad that's coming on our team. Giants, 226, the Cleveland Browns. There's supposed to be this badass defense. Miles Garrett, 225 touchdowns. Dallas, 224. Jets and Jacksonville, 223. Tennessee and Atlanta, 222. The Dolphins at 219. Houston at 215. San Diego 208, Philadelphia, 205, Tampa, 204, Seattle, 203, Green Bay, 202, Chargers, San Francisco 201. And now the teams that you expect to be under 200 touchdowns, the teams that you expect to have good defenses the last five seasons. New England and the Minnesota at 198, Pittsburgh at 193, Kansas City at 189, Baltimore. And New Orleans at 187. Buffalo at 185. And the Denver Broncos at 178. Those are your top teams from worst to the best of touchdowns allowed in the last five seasons. Now, of course, I promise you this. I mentioned this at the beginning of the show. Uh Stevens drafted Jennings Dunker, offensive lineman out of Iowa State. Now, he has this diet that he likes to have on game days. Now, this guy's a big dude. Of course, he's a big lineman. He's over 300 and some pounds. Now look it. I almost want to think this is fake. And a lot of people have said this is true. And this was posted by several people in several different ways, too. Um, it just wasn't one person posted this, hey, this is Jennings Dunker's diet. This is what he does. Several respectable uh NFL sites uh retweeted this out, several NFL reporters tweeted this out. So I said, you gotta be kidding me. This is this has gotta be this has to be true. There's no way this guy can eat this on a game day. Um this is this starts the night before and during and the game day. This is his diet. There's no way this guy can do this and perform at any kind of high level, but I guess he does. He starts off the night before at 5.30 at night. He has two bowls of pasta with meat sauce, he has two bread rolls, he has a 12-ounce steak, and he has two servings of fruit. Then at 8 30 uh before he goes to bed, he has three hamburgers, three bags of baked lace, a hydration packet, and a cup of hot chocolate. Let alone right there from 5 30 to 8 30, I'd be in the bathroom for those three hours. And then I'm gonna eat three hamburgers and have three bags of baked lace. I I wouldn't be able to sleep with all that gurgling around in my stomach. So he wakes up on game day, 7.15 in the morning. Of course, they have a uh a one o'clock game, one o'clock afternoon game, four pieces of toast, two bowls of Wheaties, two pancakes, two chicken ch chicken breasts, some water, and more hydration pack. Okay? You think that's okay, I'm good, right? I don't need to eat before the game. Oh 9 a.m. Four more pieces of toast and another chicken breast. Now you would think that'd be it prior to the game, right? You gotta be able to, you know, be able to let your your stomach digest that. You gotta be a little feeling a little light because you're moving around, you gotta be able to take on these defensive linemen. Oh no, there's a little bit more. Uh he has a gel packet, he has a honey stinger waffle, followed by honey stinger chews, and followed by another hydration packet. During the game, now it's game time, he's had all this food, he has some power aid, of course he had some water, more honey stinger waffles, more honey stinger chews. And then post-game, after he's just played, you know, he's out there probably 30 minutes, right? Just say take her 30 minutes or so he follows that up with a double bacon cheeseburger, cheese curds and onion rings, with three sides of ranch. God bless. I don't know, one, how you can play by eating all that on game day, and two, I don't know what that does to your body when you get to be about it. But hey, if Jennings Dunker can handle all that, God bless. And I hope for the Steelers' sake that he does that and he plays well and he makes the team and he's a big contribution years forward. But man, man, imagine eating all that.

unknown 48:22

Woohoohoo!

SPEAKER_04 48:24

Well, uh that's all I got for you on this show, folks. I get I appreciate it. I try, I tried to keep it, I tried to keep the golf talk down, but I just couldn't. But um, we're here. I I tried to keep it within the 40 to 45 minutes, but of course we're over a few minutes. But again, you would already get the show by now. It's the host of Steel D F72, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Google Podcasts, and of course, Podcast. And as always on Amazon Music too. And as always, it's nice to be important, but more important to be nice. Well, there's some been some new music released. Uh, for those of you uh who like the uh old school band metal band anthrax, they released their first song in eight years. Of course, you can hear it already playing in the background. This is their first song off their new upcoming album. It's for the kids.