Foreign Let me tell you something brother welcome to Andy Staples on three can you smell what Dion is cooking okay I’m mixing my wrestling characters here but this is what this is if we haven’t figured it out already and it’s working so the talk of college football nation
On Monday night was the organ video that dropped it was beautiful it was cinematic it was all about Oregon beating Colorado they set up the storyline perfectly and we saw Shiloh Sanders talking trash before the game we saw Dan Lanning Oregon’s coach saying talk with your pads we saw Tosh lapoy organ defensive
Coordinator saying they don’t deserve your attention and then we saw Oregon Crush Colorado in a game that was watched by 10 million people it had a slightly higher audience than the audience that watched Notre Dame in Ohio State in a game that came down to the final play in prime time
But Prime Time Prime was in Eugene getting whooped and they had basically the same number of people watching on ABC for a game that was not competitive for even one second that’s what’s going on here this is the entertainment business college football is and I realized everybody’s
Got an opinion on Deion Sanders and wants to to gate keep the sport from the casuals coming in because they’re just riding on Dion’s coattails in into the sport or the the people who want to say well we do it the right way we do it differently than Dion
This is all awesome for college football every bit of this and it’s pro wrestling it is purely pro wrestling I just started watching that show wrestlers on Netflix and Al Snow the former WWE wrestler who who runs Ohio Valley wrestling and teaches all the the new wrestlers how to
How to work in the business like he he puts it pretty simply in the first episode you gotta have a heel that generates heat and you got to have a baby face that gets over well Dion Sanders is playing both of those characters depending on who you
Are in college football this year and now Dan Lanning Oregon’s coach has happily played along you know everybody’s thinking well you know Dan Laney’s doing it differently no he’s not Dan Lanning since an opportunity and is taking advantage of it because we weren’t talking about Colorado on Monday
Night when Oregon dropped that video we were talking about Oregon because of Colorado this ecosystem is uh is becoming symbiotic so let’s let’s take a look at that a clip from that organ video it was it was something that everybody had an opinion on and it is uh I mean
It’s just spectacularly done but some of the stuff in there you’re like wow I did not I think they’d put that in there today we talk with our past when they talk to me thank you so you the music was swelling but they had subtitles on the Shiloh Sanders
Trash talk he’s talking to the Oregon players as everybody’s getting warmed up before the game he says I’ll beat the bleep out of every one of you all and your coach he said we’re fixing to run through your asses and the Oregon players in the organ video aren’t responding and
You have Tosh lapoy the the DC saying they don’t deserve your attention and by the way no one’s going to mess the toxical play after this video if you’ve ever met Tosh deploy you realize he’s not someone to be messed with in the first place but no
One is messing with Tosh lapoy after this it’s spectacular because it feeds off of the attention that Dion brought and it’s it’s crazy because Oregon was the program that for years we said oh they’re all Flash no substance they’re they’re just about the uniforms they’re about Nike yet Oregon got to show you
There’s quite a bit of substance to that football program quite a bit of beef on the offensive and defensive lines quite a bit of talent in those groups you saw them Crush Colorado and they’re still riding the wave we’re still talking about them Dan Lanning
Has a little part to play in that as well and I I think yeah I I keep waiting for somebody to take the mantle from Steve Spurrier who was the greatest at being a really good college football coach but also understanding this is fun and you don’t
Have to say the right thing all the time you don’t have to say the politically correct thing all the time you can say you can’t spell Citrus without UT you can tell the Old Auburn library joke the the library burned down and shame half the books hadn’t been colored in yet
Steve Spurrier said all that stuff in public all of it Dion understands this Dan Lanning I think understands this too and he had an interesting answer he got asked about something that Skip Bayless said and it was very telling you’re on the right there’s been a lot of talk of nationally
About your pregame speech and your aggressive play calling I think uh Skip Bayless called it venomous Vengeance I’m just curious what your thoughts are about that and kind of how your words have been skewed a little bit yeah I mean I don’t know Skip at all um I’ve never had a conversation with
Him um it I’ve watched him enough to know how often he gets it wrong so I mean that sounds about right but I mean ultimately here’s what I say we’re planning to win the game right and you saw a 15 second clip uh from a window view outside the house of what happens
In the locker room right I know our locker room I’m in the house 100 of the time I know how our players felt um going into that game and I know what it takes to motivate our players that’s my job to motivate our players right he
Has a job I have a job too to get out there and perform on the field but inside that house they felt a certain way they felt a certain way about a group stomping on the o they felt a certain way about guys talking to him in
The pregame and I’m proud of those those guys because what they decided to do is talk with their pads right they didn’t want to do anything extra afterwards they want to talk with their pads and they did that on Saturday I’m also um grateful and and can clearly
Acknowledge that the attention that we got this Saturday in large part was due to uh due to Dion and what he’s doing to college football and if anybody can’t see what he’s done for college football and how he’s bringing excitement to college football you’re crazy right I
Said that last week as well he’s done a lot for the game he’s building something over there I think that’s really really clear there’s no secret there but it wouldn’t matter if I was playing my 10 year old son on the other sideline I’m gonna do everything I can to win if I’m
Playing Bill Belichick I’m gonna do everything I can to win did I go for it on fourth down yeah I have every game this year right I’ve gone for it nine times did I go for a two-point conversion yeah I’ve done it three out
Of the four games this year and if if we play again tomorrow I’m gonna do the same thing I’m gonna do everything I can to win a game and everything I can to motivate my team so um you know that’s that to me is classless what what you know what he’s
Saying there but I’m I’m not really worried about it see Dan gets a shot at shot in a Bayless which that’s definitely gonna get played on skip bayless’s show and they’ll all have a good laugh and that he understands the game and he even says it later in that clip he thanks Dion
For bringing all this attention and basically enlarging the sport of college football there are people watching college football who never have before there are people paying attention to college football who never have before that is a good thing that’s a good thing for the sport now the morning debate shows
It might need to get some folks who actually watch college football on I’m just saying I’m available I ain’t hard to find as Dion would say but I’m glad you’re talking about it I am glad that this sport which I think and I know most of you guys think is the
Greatest sport in the universe is being seen by more people and more people are seeking it out because of this incredible force of nature that is Deion Sanders now I wonder what happens if on Saturday and remember USC’s going to Colorado so the biggest actual on-field star in the sport Kayla Williams
Is going to be colliding with Deion Sanders Supernova Style if USC does to Colorado what Oregon did to Colorado does that mean that we stopped paying attention that the people who were coming into the sport stop paying attention because they say wow I don’t know maybe maybe that this isn’t that interesting Maybe
I think it would be good for the sport if Colorado put up a good fight against USC if Colorado made this game not look like the Oregon game and if you saw the USC Arizona State game there’s a chance there’s a chance Colorado can put up some points now
Colorado’s going to give up a lot of points I I think we can all be certain of that and so far we’ve not heard a lot of talk out of Colorado you know the Shiloh Sanders thing is is funny to me because I I know there’s people who think their
Players don’t talk trash your team has corners and receivers your players talk trash I don’t really trust corners and receivers who don’t talk trash you need to have an absurd amount of self-confidence to play those positions so you need to be able to do what Shiloh Sanders did and make
Yourself believe that you actually have a chance in that game against Oregon when you watch film all week and you knew you didn’t so I don’t have a problem with that I guarantee you there are organ players who talk trash during that game guarantee it and that’s okay there’s nothing wrong
With it it’s part of the fun of the game but we might see it again with USC you know those USC players they went out a lot of them they go to USC because it’s close to Hollywood it’s it’s in the epicenter of the entertainment industry it’s a huge Sports Town in LA
They want the attention they’re going to get the attention when they go to Boulder and so this will be fun this will be a very interesting litmus test and Lincoln Riley does not seem to enjoy that level of attention but to go with a wrestling analogy he has
Definitely made a heel turn since he left Oklahoma and it’s not just to the Oklahoma people so I I wonder will he Embrace that I’ve always said that Lincoln Riley of all people should truly Embrace being the heel because he could be great at it he doesn’t like dealing
With us necessarily he likes to be in control of everything he banned that beat writer a couple weeks ago and then then let him back in but not before everybody yelled at Lincoln Riley so this would be a great opportunity for him to truly Embrace that heel role and
And the thing about college football versus wrestling is in wrestling the baby face is usually pretty clearly defined the heel is usually pretty clearly defined the Attitude Era in WWE notwithstanding they usually try to make it fairly clear to the audience who you’re supposed to cheer for and who you’re supposed to boo
In this situation in college football it’s it’s flexible based on who you root for and so you’ve got the one group of fans that for them their coach will always be their baby face and the opposing coach will always be the heel vice versa on the other fans and then
You’ve got all the folks who don’t have a rooting interest in the game who just decide and it’s interesting because I think it doesn’t matter if you’re a heel or a baby face but what you want to be is definitively one to all of that other group of people and they’re gonna watch
For Dion I think he’s a heel to a lot of people in a baby face to a lot of people he’s he’s a different level he’s a different level of famous a different level of Market mover in sports we don’t see stuff like this very often we don’t see people like this
Very often but I am absolutely fascinated by how this is developing because I think it would be fantastic for college football if Dion could keep winning this season what we saw on Saturday suggests it’s going to be very hard with that schedule but if they can make this game even slightly
Interesting it will again be the most watched game in the country again like I that blows my mind that a game between Ohio State and Notre Dame from Notre Dame stadium in Prime Time on NBC that came down to the final play got outrated by a game where Oregon could have beaten
Colorado 80 to 80-6 if they’d wanted to that blows my mind but that tells you Dion is doing something for this sport Dan Lanning said it himself so if you want to see college football Thrive if you want to see college football become even bigger and I know
There’s a lot of people who don’t I know there’s a lot of people who look at college football the way you might look at your favorite band you saw them in coffee shops now they’re playing Arenas you don’t like that you don’t want all these casuals coming in
I do I think the coaches do I think the players do I think the administrators do nothing wrong with having a bunch of people interested in the thing that you’re interested in so come on casuals come come join watch this show download this show on your favorite podcast platform like subscribe leave a
Review welcome because I think there’d be some people who turned on that game to watch Dion who watched organ play and we’re like wow that’s a very good football team I want to see what they do next and maybe they’ll watch the Oregon Stanford game maybe they followed that video that
Oregon sent out maybe they watched what Dan Lanning said maybe they say hmm well I just came into this without a real fandom but maybe maybe that’s who I like or maybe they’ll watch this week and they’ll see Caleb Williams and they’ll see USC’s offense and go holy
Crap that’s a lot of fun maybe that’s who I like then you get Colorado next year playing against all the big 12 teams introducing them to new audiences it is it is truly amazing and we we laughed at George clay avkoff the Pac-12 commissioner back in Vegas last year
When he said Dion is a very important part of this TV deal we’re doing we all know how the TV deal went we all know how that ended but cleavkov wasn’t wrong about how powerful Dion was in this whole thing and I don’t think I I understood that at the time
But I think we definitely understand it now when we see these ratings rolling in and I look it’s great that he makes you mad if he makes you mad it’s great that he makes you happy if he makes you happy because he makes you feel something it’s great that these dumb Sports debate
Shows are talking college football I’m not the target audience for I don’t like those shows but I admit I get sucked in every once in a while like I I laugh because when I go to the gym in the morning they’ve got the ESPN
On and it’s got get up and and or first take whichever whatever time it is and the sounds turn down and I know I know what I’m gonna see every time there’s a Dallas Cowboys topic there might be a Lakers topic well now they’re talking about college football that’s because of Dion
Hope they keep doing it I hope they find out that Ohio State Notre Dame game that was fire this Notre Dame Duke game this week is going to be fun that Florida State Clemson game that that was the lead-in to the Oregon Colorado game that was incredible
There’s a lot more A Lot More Action coming up and this is going to be a s a fun fun year but I would like it just because of the audience it brings in if Dion can do a little bit more I don’t want to see them get crushed this
Weekend because I think that audience might tune them out after that playing as the Heisman Trophy winner playing against the team from Hollywood Dan Lanning said the Cinderella story ends and it did but the Hollywood Story doesn’t have to end so Colorado you saw Arizona State score 28 points on USC’s defense
Shadow Sanders do your thing make it fun and I bet all those people keep watching and I bet in the process they discover one hell of a college football season that’s going on we’ll be right back with Notre Dame running back audric estimate talking about getting over a gut punch loss
And going forward with another big game we’ll be right back I am here with audric estimate of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and look not gonna lie Saturday seemed like it was pretty brutal for you guys how do you when when you’re in a situation like that where you’re just heart gets ripped
Out how do you recover how do you get back going when you you know you got to work yeah so like obviously that was a pretty hard game for us that was something that we all wanted but that’s part of the sport we play that’s part of the life we
Play that’s this is a lesson that we’re going to take with us for the rest of our lives coach Freeman always uh prize one day one life one game on life and like you said yesterday might be with us for a whole season of back of our heads
But we got to flush that we got to learn from that game like that game we fall short due to a little details that weren’t executed but that’s something that’s going to help us like coach Freeman said in today’s team meeting like what are you gonna do with that you
Gotta when you lose a game like that you gotta look in the mirror and see what you could do and how you can get better as an individual and that’s what we will do does it help that you go right into another challenge this week I mean this
Is this may be the biggest game in Duke football history they’ve got college game day coming uh I know when you’re at Notre Dame a lot of times you’re the other opponent’s biggest game but this is this seems especially big yeah like you said we’re at Notre
Dame every every game for us is a big game and definitely a big game for them so we know they’re going to come out with all they got but so are we we’re going to come out on fire we have We’re Not Gonna it’s not gonna we’re not
Saying that we’re gonna take what happened to Ohio State out on them but like this is a game after we just gotta keep on showing and proving why we’re one of the top teams in the country and this is a opponent that’s gonna have to
Face it how was the mood in that that team meeting coach Freeman was was telling me this morning he said he wasn’t even sure what he was going to say to you guys but the words almost didn’t matter it was more the vibe than anything else so what was the vibe in
There so yeah this team um we’re kind of taking it pretty well like no one’s dragging around no one’s being lazy no one’s putting their head down our message just just flush it um it was hard on Sunday Sunday was a pretty hard day for us all even the coaches but it’s
Monday it’s a new week we got a new opponent and we just gotta keep on going we gotta come back tomorrow on Tuesday have a great practice and just keep on taking steps forward in the right direction so we got to talk about you I saw you McAfee and they’re going they’re
Like how are you this big and I’m I’m curious too like how does anyone ever tackle you I don’t know I mean your shoulders take up the entire camera shot here oh my bad no no no no you’re good you stay right there foreign we’ll be right back with more from Notre
Dame running back audric estimate but first I want to tell you about row back my birthday is this week and I’ve told everybody I know if you’re trying to get me a gift more rollback performance hoodies I want them in every color of the rainbow this
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Also make everyone who steals them from you very very happy rowback.com promo code Staples I mean here’s the thing did folks tell you you’re getting too big to play running back or or did you say no no I can still do everything you need me to
Do yeah so I’m honestly I’m in high school and even younger older popular years I was getting a little bigger but um I was still fast I was still able to move and people are like yeah we could see playing linebacker most of my fam everyone in my family has played a
Defensive side so like yeah you’re gonna go play Big Time ball for linebacker and I’m like no I like scoring touchdowns I like running I like I’m gonna be running back they’re like all right but the years went past I got bigger but even though I got bigger I got faster and I
Got better at running back and that’s what I was gonna say because like you hurdle people yeah and that’s you don’t get to do that as a linebacker you don’t at that part I love I love being a dynamic guy I love to be able to make
People Miss I love to be able to run through people I love you to run past people and that’s something you do at running back I’m interested you brought that up with your family saying maybe play linebacker with the way things are going in the end NFL was there any
Thought just from an economic standpoint or from a draft standpoint of maybe not going on as a running back um no honestly this just with my first love um I knew ever since I was a kid at four years old that I was gonna be a running
Back I was gonna be a division one running back I was gonna be NFL running back and that uh mission that goal never changed so you are one of the more fun people on this team I they they cast you in the starring role for the green jersey video where you’re
Basically it’s the scene from Jerry Maguire which by the way came out before you were born making me feel very old had you even seen that movie I I didn’t prior to it but like after after I shot this film I had to watch it
Do you feel like you I mean I felt like you you really embraced that role oh yeah definitely I I hit a spot on it yeah the show me yeah you sold it yeah so how was Sam during that he was good he was a good height man like people don’t really see
Because in the video he’s just in there but like between seats he’s going crazy like after like we had a lot of bloopers scenes that got cut out that he was just going crazy he’s a great height man so this other video that I’ve seen though is that you’re actually the best Irish
Dancer on this team okay what do Catholic schools in New Jersey teach that like where does that come from ah this is just that footwork that I got it transited from the football field to the dancing floor whatever I could do it all because like you were with you hit a
Live band you had the Violet the fiddles are there and yeah that’s that’s impressive I mean that’s just just from picking up and watching and then the natural yeah it’s just just embracing the atmosphere in an environment and Dublin Ireland they have a great atmosphere environment great culture
Over there and I’m a big culture guy and I love experiencing new cultures and stuff and now it’s just great experience and I get to show off my dancing skills and you got to go you got to go to Dublin for the game you got to go
Earlier in the summer too right I went in the springtime what was that like yeah it was a great experience it was definitely um different from from the game opposed to when we went in the spring because in the spring we had a lot more time a lot more free time we
Had time to actually explore the whole whole um whole country of Ireland and it was just great atmosphere that people were there amazing the food there was great music it was just great atmosphere and I’ll definitely be back so you want to be a lawyer that was I’ve heard you
In several interviews talk about how you’re planning on law school after the NFL how how you said you knew you were running back at four years old when did you when did you realize you were a lawyer I knew I was a lawyer probably a little couple of years after um I’m
Gonna have older I have older brother I have older cousins and I’m always arguing with them I always know I’m right even though they don’t think I’m right I know I’m right that’s something that I just have a strong passage for is um arguing and um getting my point
Across and that comes with a lot of work and I feel like that’s a work some work that I’m willing to embrace so you’re a poli SCI major which is kind of the path to law school is is the plan you know you got you get that degree you’re
Playing in the NFL you take your LSAT and then you kind of figure figure it out from there yeah so I plan to play on uh play football for as long as possible and whenever that day comes to end I’m gonna get right back into it I’m gonna
Uh hopefully uh I put I put myself in position right now to be successful and be able to get into a good law school so hopefully when football’s all said and done I can just hop right into it what is this Notre Dame Network like in turn
Not just in terms of Notre Dame football players but Notre Dame grads I mean how many people kind of reach out to you and say hey I can help you get get where you want to go yeah Notre Dame has the best network in the country I feel like
That’s part of the reason why I came here and especially times like this uh when your team’s doing really well and everyone’s right everyone on campus like Ohio State game like you had everyone everyone like a big time name come on campus and just it’s just put in order
To improvise the opportunity that other schools might not have and guys some guys take advantage man I’m trying my best to take advantage of that Network so let me let’s let’s talk about this offensive line of yours because this is a luxury to run behind a group like that
But who is the funniest member of your offensive line I’d probably say Zeke so Z that’s your Center yeah yeah what what is what is it about Zeke that that makes him the guy everybody is laughing at uh everything honestly just he just he’s such a hard
Worker and just when he’s off the field like no way that’s Z Corral like no way that’s the guy that’s banging heads for four quarters straight he’s just a guy that um he’s always cracking jokes and he’s just a guy he always has his shirt off
Um he’s a big dude you gotta love the big dude who always ripped his shirt off always respect your confidence right there that’s the ultimate confidence he’s this type of Dude to have um he’ll take out his cleats would be the last thing he takes off like if you think
About that that’s your cleats are usually the one of the first things so you got him doing that you got him the cleats are the last thing that comes off you got Joe alt yeah who’s eating hot dogs with just just ketchup on them yeah and and defending that
I mean you do have a bunch of straight psychos beautiful Blake Fisher he’s also a clown he’s my roommate so I go yeah I get to see the the other side part wherever a lot of people don’t see but he’s messy clean what are we talking
About here a little bit of both okay A little bit of both how we can even be both he cleans up nice he dresses nice he has a good Style haircut every week type of guy he cleans up but then sometimes uh he’ll leave Chick-fil-A on the table for like three days
Off it while he’s not if he doesn’t or um blew his dog will that my when I was at the college newspaper we had someone who just left a uh McDonald’s cheeseburger on a desk just to see how long it would stay there without decomposing and it was it was
Several months so that’s funny as well he let it stay there for several months yeah well it was it was an experiment that’s all it was in the name of science I don’t know that Blake’s actually committing any science one is is it being on this team
Great uh I wouldn’t want to be on any other team uh I feel like just the Brotherhood we have is like no other I feel like we’re kind of like a cult like a fraternity like even though our main goals our main objective is to win football games it’s deeper than that I
Feel like we’re more about reaching our full potential together as a unit and doing that it just brings us together and forges a type of bond that like Noah you wouldn’t you wouldn’t be able to find that in another place what’s it like playing for Coach Freeman because
He obviously new at this head coaching thing but it seems like he’s so recently removed from actually playing football it feels like it might be easier to connect with yeah definitely like you would think you’d be coaching for a couple of years but he’s just a great people’s person he’s all about what
What’s good for the players what do the players need opposed to other coaches are like are they like to take the headlines like he’s a guy who’s after a big loss like that he’s a guy that was tickets to the tin he’s a guy who’s like
Put it all on him so that’s something that great uh to see as a player and that’s something that we need to lead his team and he’s doing a great job leading Us in the right direction so we all saw that scene when he got named the
Head coach what was it like before that camera rolled when you guys found out well I honestly no one knew honestly those that couple of days and those couple days were full of uncertainty and we all thought we were we had a practice so we’re all just in the locker room
Waiting we’re like what are we waiting for and then when coach Bayless came out and told us this new head coach it was just kind of sense of relief like because we knew who coached Greenwood is we knew his personality and we knew it was just a great hire for this program
That’s what’s so interesting is is you guys had only been with him for a season at that point but you you could tell already Yes we definitely know already so what is the advice that you would give your younger self now that you’ve been here a while and and you understand how
Everything works um The Trusted process uh never try to rush anything everything happens for a reason and just time is short time time goes by fast not gonna lie and some people get it complacent and um they like to push things aside but no you
Gotta attack it day by day and every day because once you attack it every day you’re gonna look up and you’re already Junior like I am yeah how do you tell that to those because you got some good young running backs that just got here do you tell them that hey you’re gonna
Blink and and you’ll be a junior too yes definitely I tell them that and they already see it happen like one more game already halfway through the season so they’re already seeing it take place can you believe that no I cannot you know I
Just said it on my day it just it feels like it just started gay number six so do you feel like this team is what it can be or or how where is the ceiling on this team yeah we have a really high ceiling but every week you got to keep
On trying to reach that ceiling like coach Freeman prize uh prize herself is to reach our full potential and this team has a very high potential but it’s all about reaching that full potential sometimes you can uh have a setbacks but no matter what you just gotta reach that
Full potential and this team is really special so one fact can be football related or not about audrick estimate that you feel like the world needs to know that maybe it doesn’t know yet I know it’s not that you can sing I’ve seen you sing on video yeah I’d say I could say
Um I just I just love life honestly everything that comes to life I feel like when football’s done I feel like I’m still in love with life as much as I do now you see the world you see the world experience it just get to live get
To see things change you get to see people grow get to see uh relationships being forged I just love that part that is a very old soul answer have you always been like that I think think so yeah so you you were was it your parents
Always say well you know he he acts like a 40 year old yeah so I was I I always have been pretty mature for my age honestly y’all it’s just I feel like the life we live as football players especially elite football players as we
Are I feel like you’re kind of forced to um see y’all see the world in a different different lens well and it’s interesting because everybody talks about the nil stuff and yeah well how are they going to handle it are they going to know how to pay taxes and but I
Feel like especially now the way recruiting gets covered the way everything like you’re thrust into that kind of adult role even in high school yes definitely I feel like especially with nil at this opening doors that a lot of people didn’t have a couple years ago and that’s definitely that’s
Definitely another responsibility that you got to add to the table and not and there’s I think this is something that’s going to help us in the long run so I know you’ve done you’ve got some nil deals going is there a dream in il deal is there a company that that you’ve
Always wanted to work with that you would be the perfect pitch man for that’s a hard one I don’t think so right now if I find one I’ll let you know okay what’s your favorite one you have right now my favorite one is probably um I I’d say
Rollback because um hey they sponsor the show yeah oh they do that oh yeah we got the road back out running today yeah that’s perfect yeah they take care of me they take care of me they take care of my family every time I get home I feel
Like every week I got a new oh those boxes are amazing when it’s on your doorstep that’s just right on the doorstep so okay I’m not wearing it right now there’s an ad in the show where I’ll be wearing it but that performance hoodie oh great so it’s the
Most comfortable thing I own later you could wear in it you can wear in the heat you go in the winter it’s like the the material of it’s like perfect they made it softer I don’t know how they did it I don’t know they did it right though
And that’s your row back five minutes with Audrey Hey listen other companies can do this too roback’s the one that stepped up listen out shout out thank you so much of course of course that’s awesome you know that here on three we love the world of name image and likeness you
Just heard me talking to audric estima about uh but our friends are roback but sometimes these nil Deals they get embroiled in controversy that’s what’s happened this week with something that Florida State quarterback Jordan Travis did after his team beat Clemson in overtime his team came out with a shirt and it’s
A very cool shirt they call it College King but clearly it is playing on the Tiger King Joe Exotic we watched the Netflix show during the pandemic every single one of us did don’t lie you know you did so on this shirt Jordan Travis celebrating Florida State’s two biggest
Wins this season against LSU purple and gold tigers and against Clemson orange tigers so in the in the shirt he is sitting on a throne he’s wearing a crown and there’s a purple and gold striped tiger and an orange striped tiger beneath him and it’s a great shirt it
Sells for 31.24 3124 is the final score of the Clemson game and oh by the way Jordan Travis as any good quarterback should do is splitting the proceeds with his offensive lineman somebody’s not happy about that the actual Tiger King that’s right Joe Exotic born Joseph Maldonado currently incarcerated
We know what happened we saw the whole Carol Baskin thing we we we know how he got there he believes he’s wrongly in prison we gotcha but he also believes that now Jordan Travis owes him money here is what Joe Exotic tweeted because apparently you can tweet from prison
Jordan Travis was six years old when I became the Tiger King it is my trademark my intellectual property and I’m sick of others cashing in on my trademark just because President Biden cares nothing about me being wrongfully in prison in America I will give any attorney 80 of
The settlement to sue Jordan trust in all companies selling stuff using Tiger King it’s time quarterbacks and anyone else in this country stop stealing from others which attorney would like to take this multi-million dollar case please DM me he then goes on to say until Jordan Travis walks in a cage with 20
Full-grown tigers and kisses them on the head leave the Tiger King business to me now I will say that touchdown Jordan Travis score right before the half where he’s got a bang up left shoulder banged up right hand and he sneaks it in gets stoned initially and then just keeps on driving and
Pushes his way into the end zone that kind of felt like going into a cage with a bunch of fully grown tigers but no I I get it Joe exotic’s been there he’s he’s had the experience with the actual tigers but I don’t think he’s quite in the right here I think Jordan
Travis probably has every right to have a little fun with Joe exotic’s image but Joe Exotic took it a step further on Monday night and I’m sure Florida quarterback Graham Mertz got some strange texts and was like what the word what in the world is going on here here’s what Joe Exotic
Said there’s a Photoshop of Joe Exotic same picture but wearing a Gators hat hey Jordan Travis if I had to pass the tiger king crown to anyone it’d be Graham Mertz at the Florida Gators how can you claim to be king of anything when you’re not even the king in your own state
Ah I love when the Rivalry can get involved in a nice intellectual property dispute grammar’s probably is like what I don’t know if I want to be associated with the Tiger King but but sure sounds sounds great meanwhile you know Jordan Travis will will bring the other school from
Florida’s big three into this thing there’s a famous Miami fan named Luther Campbell you know him from two Live Crew he had a Supreme Court case that actually probably fits the bill here so Luther Campbell when he’s with two Live Crew they made a song that’s sampled oh
Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison so the publishing company that owns the rights to oh pretty woman sued two Live Crew and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court sided with Luther Campbell saying that it was a parody and parody is protected speech so I’m guessing
If Joe Exotic actually tried to sue Jordan Travis this would be the Jordan Travis defense Jordan Travis a Seminole would be using Luther Campbell A hurricane’s defense meanwhile grammerts and the Gators also lumped into this thing it’s just just incredible where the world of nil can take you and
It gets better it gets better there is a now a commercial in Iowa and this is based on a viral photo of a couple of Iowa State players that was taken earlier in the season Tommy Hammond and Caleb bacon they were standing next to each other and it so
They said ham and bacon but it gets better the Iowa Pork producers signed those guys up to an nil deal but they also signed up miles purchase and Tyler Moore miles purchases DB Tyler Moore’s a tight end so they got miles purchase to stand next to Tyler Moore to stand next to
Tommy Hammond to stand next to Caleb bacon purchase more Hammond bacon that’s what it says on the backs of their jerseys that’s what it says on the photo and there’s a giant ham and a giant pile of bacon oh yeah there is a video that involves these players
Eating quite a bit of ham and bacon thank you Iowa Port producers for for making I think what might be my favorite ad of the Nile ERA this is probably the best one this is better than the coldest Crawford advertising for the HVAC company purchase more ham and bacon and
Caleb bacon looks like he’s having a really good time basically they said grab these handfuls of bacon do what you will with them if I ever get a commercial that’s what I want to happen I don’t even care what it’s for I just want to be able to grab handfuls of
Bacon and eat them greatest nil deal to date that just means everybody else needs to step up with their game while grammertz is dealing with all the attention from his uh his newest fan Joe Exotic though he is trying to get ready for a game the Gators heading to
Lexington to play Kentucky where Kentucky is trying to win its third in a row against Florida we’ll be right back with Nick Roush of Kentucky Sports Radio to talk about the Wildcats as they head into one of the biggest SEC games of the week joined by Nick Roush of Kentucky sports
Radio in Kentucky trying to do something that seemed unthinkable just three years ago extend a winning streak against the Florida Gators to three Nick how how weird does this sound to you as someone who grew up for most of his life watching Florida beat Kentucky
Oh I I got my heart ripped out so many times I mean Steve Spurrier he was just he was the bane of our existence um as Kentucky football fans Gerald Lorenzen up 21-3 going in the fourth quarter and they lose 24-21 like this was just bad things happened when
Kentucky played Florida and it was in 2018 when they snapped that streak I thought my body was going to self-combust like I just I could like there was just so much emotion and it really that getting rid of this streak was really the it’s it explains all of Kentucky success under Mark Stoops
Because there was so much just hanging over their head on their shoulders and he didn’t think it was fair to his players but now you know in August when we’re doing all the preseason talk Andy everybody is Kentucky fans it’s like they forgot that happen and they just expected this to be
A win they’re like oh well that’s a win in the schedule Ford is going to be terrible it’s like whoa guys guys guys I know that this has been fun as of late and this could be four and six years I believe if my Matt’s correct but you
Can’t you no you just don’t you don’t just write a w when you’re playing Florida that’s not how this works no and I think it’s been an adjustment for the Florida people as well because in their heads they’ve just automatically clocked out as a win every single year and now
It kind of like a cat you can you can talk to somebody and it’ll catch on and they’ll be like okay and and Kentucky and then like oh wait oh okay no Kentucky’s not not a guaranteed W that’s a a toss-up at best but this one looks
Like a lot of fun because Kentucky’s better than they were last year now Kentucky went down to the swamp and beat Florida the week two of last season and very very good day for that Kentucky defense where they kind of gotten Anthony Richardson’s head and and made things tough on him but
That was sort of the Mirage for the Kentucky season last year I think Kentucky fans thought oh this this is setting up for greatness and uh it turned out that Florida really wasn’t all that good either both of them lost to Vanderbilt if that tells you anything and
Now you you have a different different look Florida’s coming off that win against Tennessee where it looked like what Billy Napier wants it to look like Kentucky seems to be back to what Mark Stoops wants his team’s looking like and that that win against Vanderbilt looked much more like
What we what we now think of as a Mark Stoops Kentucky team with one exception and that’s the the offense is doing it by not just handing the ball to some bruising running back some bruising tail get back that’s going to get three yards this is uh
I I think Kentucky fans are having a difficult kind of time grasping it as well because uh they’re an explosive offense it’s not all based on efficiency uh Ray Davis the Vanderbilt transfer at running back he’s created a ton of big plays against Akron he became the first
Uh Kentucky Wildcat to ever have a 50-yard rushing and 50 yard receiving touchdown in the game so the big plays are there but the down to down we need to get four yards on this first down run like that that sort of efficiency hasn’t been there there’s been some drop pass problems so
Uh it’s you’re in a weird spot right now as Kentucky fans because a lot of folks don’t know they don’t know how much they’ve learned about this team through the first month of the Season you played a couple Max schools and FCS team and a bad Vanderbilt uh program but the
Defense is creating a lot of takeaways the defense at front seven is an early but offensively you’re seeing these Devin Lee throws that are just like wow it’s kind of like the will Levis throw to Dane key at Florida last year it’s just amazing plays but then it’s all
Sprinkled in with just some like really bone-headed stuff I mean they had waste they’ve just been wasting possessions with like snapping issues we’re the Sinners stepping on the quarterback’s foot and or Leary’s just dropping the ball so um the the operative term has been clean it up and consistency Mark Soup said
They’re 4-0 and he’s been pissed off at every one of his press conferences so it’s it’s it’s a very weird part but I I nobody will care how ugly they win if they beat Florida on Saturday yeah and I think it’s interesting because I think both
Both teams are in the same place where you just don’t know what they are yet because you saw Florida get pushed around by Utah Florida’s defensive front was dominant against Tennessee kept them from running the ball and got their offense out of sync and so you think okay if you get
The the defensive front that you saw against Tennessee against Kentucky then maybe it does limit those big Ray Davis runs maybe it does make Kentucky waste some possessions give the ball back but what you’ve also seen with Florida is they’ve been very judicious with the football Graham Mertz
Does not seem to make a lot of crazy mistakes though that you know you’ve seen them in the past at Wisconsin but they’ve been pretty conservative and they haven’t really had those big chain you know momentum swinging turnovers and that’s what Kentucky seems to be pretty
Good at creating so I I am really fascinated to see which of these is the real thing well and the last year’s game two Andy and you remember Todd McShay’s there it’s Anthony Richards inverse will love us who’s going to be a number one quarterback we have almost as
Interesting of the story on now because Kentucky fans were we were I was getting ready to start beating the gram merch drum a lot of folks thought it was going to be Mertz at Kentucky and Lexington for the longest time until Veer became an option as of late and then the the
Transfer portal deck gets shuffled and what I found fascinating about these quarterbacks too Andy is Mertz has been like if you look at just the numbers and you’re like okay like I think Florida took the right guy but also where’s the touchdowns like there’s not the average depth of Target I think
Is only like four yards or something oh no yeah it’s if it’s going to be a touchdown it’s going to be like the against Tennessee where Montreal Johnson kind of dances in after a short pass that that seems to be their offense they they can make the the Highlight Reel
Plays like you saw the Ricky Pearsall catch against Charlotte which was amazing but that’s a that’s against Charlotte we still haven’t seen anything like that against we didn’t see it you know you didn’t see it against Utah and you didn’t see it against Tennessee but against Tennessee the offense was
Ridiculously efficient when it needed to be and then they did then they just sort of took the air out of the ball so that’s that’s the thing is with Florida is they also have been able to get those big chunk plays on the ground the Trevor etn long run against Tennessee that
Kicked off the scoring and that that’ll be interesting because I I’m trying to remember the last time even in this series or in in the SEC that we’ve seen two teams where their best big play capability seems to be a running back breaking one man yeah I I immediately like I just
Think of Arkansas highlights when they had like me yes and all those guys um that’s what I go back to because you’re right uh they aren’t they haven’t done a lot of it through the air but you have seen some of those fun highlights and part of it is that they need the
Explosiveness both of these teams when they get in scoring opportunities kind of struggle when the field gets a little bit tighter um Florida was kicking a ton of field goals against Charlotte down in the Red Zone Kentucky had a couple of those as well where there was a muff pun in Akron
And then they three and out delay of game King kick a field goal um when the field gets smaller they’re good at running the ball when they can make some big plays but getting down in the Red Zone that’s probably where this game is going to be decided
On Saturday who can capitalize 20 yards in it so Kentucky’s offensive line which was the strength of the team for the longest time but last year was an absolute liability where are they at right now how much better are they this year than last year it’s it’s one of those
You can’t be worse and they are better I think especially in past protection which it was the biggest storyline I mean will Levis got bludgeoned last year but where they’ve really struggled more so than anything is in their the running game and now some of this is
Uh when Liam Cohen got to Kentucky in 2021 this Pro style system is more based and predicated off outside Zone Chris Rodriguez was on an outside Zone running back they they kind of scrapped those plans the last two years well now they’re finally getting into the outside
Zone stuff and it the the Run blocking has been great from that perspective and some of it is also on the running backs But to answer your question Andy the offensive line it’s better it’s still not I mean it’s average I would say in the SEC and then against Vanderbilt
There was there was some snapping issues uh two weeks ago Jagger Burton’s sales to he’s a former Blue Chip recruit from Lexington they really wanted to make a Market Center he was at guard last year well they did a little flip-flop and Eli Cox who was Kentucky
Center last year originally was a guard they put him back at Center and things seemed to go well and then he stepped on somebody so I I think they’re going to stick with that plan but Andy you know as well as anybody having Center issues is not not exactly ideal going into week
Five in the second week of SEC play yeah because it’s a quick momentum change waiting to happen but the yeah getting into the outside Zone stuff that outside zone is a really different skill set there’s a lot of reach blocking involved and if it’s not something you’ve been
Doing that’s it takes getting used to and also for the backs it takes getting used to because it’s reading holes differently and reading how things open up differently so this I I just I’m fascinated but where where is Mark Stoops right now with with this team because you know he went and
Got Liam Cohen back and that seems to have really it because that 2021 seems to be the where they were the most comfortable where they felt like they had the best version of themselves how do they feel about that that Arrangement now the difference between then and now is
Their inability to have a consistent Run game and I think that there’s part of Mark Stoops that wants to be furious that they were um they went from 60 40 run past to the opposite um I think they had the fewest carries in the SEC going into week four
Which is just kind of shocking to say out loud and I don’t think he there’s a part of it where I think he’s fine with it if they’re making the routine plays look routine but they’ve gotten into a couple quick three and out situations and it puts some stress on
The defense because the The Sensational sophomores haven’t been that uh the guys that really popped his freshman last year Dan key barion Brown Jordan Dingle the tight end they’ve all had their moments don’t don’t don’t be mistaken about that but the the down to down consistency um you know just catching a 12-yard
Comeback and moving the sticks on third down like the ball’s hitting you in the numbers you got to catch it there’s been a little bit of that I think that part’s frustrating but on the other side Andy that defense has been been really good and we knew the front seven was going to
Have some dogs in it Trevin Wallace has been incredible um applying some pressures an off-ball linebacker and then Maxwell Harrison and two pick sixes was the story last week at Vanderbilt but he had I think he had three or four other pbus that were just as impressive going up against will
Shepard that was the big question mark going into this year was a secondary and I I think Kentucky fans have a little bit of comfort I think Mark Subs has a little bit more comfort knowing that they’ve got a guy who can go out and handle Ricky Pearsall play a little
Man-to-man and apply some pressure on Grand March and try to create some takeaways yeah I’m excited to watch these two DC’s workers Brad white at Kentucky draws up some really interesting pressure packages in Austin Armstrong in Florida he’s one he’s just fun to watch during the game because he is uh
He’s a ball of energy but also because he’s gonna he’s gonna dial up some stuff that that may confuse Devin Leary although interesting because these quarterbacks have so much experience against good defenses when you think about it grammar it’s a three-year starter at Wisconsin Devin Leary was a three-year starter at
NC State there’s not really anything they haven’t already seen no you’re you’re they they should be able to handle it but the the part that’s been weird about Leary too is sometimes Andy he’ll just it’s like he forgot how to throw the ball I don’t
Know like it’s like I don’t I don’t I don’t know how to explain it but it’s very unlike this guy’s just great great and then all of a sudden he’s sailing like a 15-yard in route or under throwing a d it’s like wait what that that’s not the same guy so
You you want to mitigate those moments and I think through the first four weeks of the Season you’ve seen Kentucky um clean up and there’s fewer mistakes and there’s a lot more big play pops but the mistakes they’re making are also just really bad and if they happen at the
Wrong time against Florida it could be catastrophic and that’s kind of what we saw four to do last go around where a block kick happens and then boom complete Game changed right there that that was that was it yeah I think we’re looking it’s not necessarily the two
Spider-Mans pointing at each other but it’s close and it is one of those where either team could have that moment that just blows the game wide open for the other team which I I think makes this game very exciting to think about because I mean it you just don’t know when that
Moment could come whether it’s the somebody making a positive big play or somebody making a disastrous play that allows the other team to score quickly well and it’s going to feel kind of old school SEC football where I I think this is going to be a low scoring game and
Then there are going to be those three or four moments that really really Define it so um it should be a fun one I know Kentucky fans though are very upset it’s not a night game uh they they love it’ll be the first not I mean this has been a night game four
To Kentucky every year since I want to say in the 80s maybe so this is this is going back a a good long ways and um I they would rather not be getting up in that name but they will be up at 9am there’s still that that
It always feels good to beat four to Andy there’s there’s never a bad time to beat forward if you’re a Kentucky fan well bourbon tastes good in the morning too right oh yeah you put in your coffee oh that’s good it’s good with anything oh yeah exactly exactly so big picture for this
Thing because what we’ve seen from Tennessee so far do you feel like these two are playing for the kind of second slot behind Georgia in the east yeah and in really the way that this year’s feeling right now I don’t think it has 07 chaos energy yet but George is
Vulnerable you know I I know um like it you have to see it to believe it it’s kind of like Tom Brady retiring right like you were just okay like when it finally happens it will happen but I I think this whole entire league is wide
Open this year and it all comes down to just are you are are you on it at the right time can you can you take advantage of that bad Georgia first half right like can you play a cleaning a football game can you create the right amount of
Turnovers so yeah I think this game ultimately is going to decide it because Tennessee they have to go on the road for that game at Kentucky as well and I know Brad white is kind of chomping at the bit to get one over on Josh rifle
After the way that was an ugly game last year yeah yeah so I I really do think that this is this probably is what’s going to decide uh second place in the SEC East but crazier things have happened um and I wouldn’t be surprised if one of
These teams does end up catching Georgia yeah it’s it’s interesting because it I think in Gainesville all of the Goodwill that was built by the Tennessee win could be erased if they go up and lose to Kentucky because I think the Florida people still even though Kentucky has been
Competitive against them and it’s it’s more than 50 50 in favor of Kentucky as you said over the last five years it’s still in their minds they can’t let go it’s Kentucky it’s the team that Florida always beats and I that’s so I think this one’s a huge one for Napier
And company as well because they finally had their proof of concept game against Tennessee they’ve got to show they can keep it going but then it’s interesting because I think Billy Napier and Mike’s and Mark Stoops are very similar and how they want their teams to play
And look so you’re right low scoring and then that that oh whoopsy Daisy Place just might be what wins it for somebody well if if you think about the 2024 kids in the on three recruiting rankings those guys when Mark soup started this bull streak they were 10 years old like they’ve
Grown up knowing good Kentucky football but Florida fans Tennessee fans LSU fans losing Kentucky will get you fired ask kojo Kentucky was playing calling Baton Rouge running the score up on them a couple years ago at Kroger field Jeremy Pruitt Steve Spurrier retired two weeks after I mean he couldn’t handle losing
To Kentucky that’s how a lot of these fan bases are so I know that Billy it didn’t count on Billy Napier do this last year in the Utah win the week before right they gunned that one out they had this oh man he can do it and then Kentucky went and played spoiler
That they could do that again Saturday it’s going to be a fantastic game big big game for both programs statement game for both programs Nick Roush Kentucky Sports Radio thank you so much appreciate it Annie for today’s extra point you about a very decadent lunch I had
When I go on the road I want to start giving you a little taste of of what I’m tasting out there and this was a fun trip to South Bend I wanted to get to CJ’s Pub and have a golden Domer Burger because they are fantastic but unfortunately couldn’t get there Friday
Or Saturday they’re not open again until Tuesday and I was already gone but I found a place in Mishawaka which is right next door to South Bend that if you want the most decadent lunch you could ever imagine you gotta go to Bourbon and butcher so the corn dance Tavern is a full-service
Restaurant open for dinner Bourbon and butcher is their lunch restaurant essentially so what they do is they open the butcher case in front and they open the bar and you can walk in and they’ve got this whole butcher case full of stakes and you can you
Could buy steaks to take home and cook yourself or you can point at a steak and for five dollars they will cook that steak for you and put a side on there with it so I did an eight ounce fillet with a little broccolini cooked perfectly it was amazing
But you know I I can’t just try one thing but this steak was amazing it was out it was cooked perfectly uh fork tender I usually am a ribeye guy these fillets looked awesome that’s what happens when you see the butcher case and you really get a chance to inspect it and say
That’s that’s my meal today but I couldn’t just stop at one thing because again I want to sample everything I want to be able to give you a great idea of what this place is like Sherry the bartender makes an excellent old-fashioned excellent old-fashioned they’ve got the evil Czech Brewery beers
Because they’re they’re a sister restaurant evil check Brewery so the vanilla porter is outstanding but this burger it’s called the bespoke it’s a dry aged beef Smash Burger with bacon white cheddar charred red onions and fire grilled mushrooms it also comes on a bun that they baked right there in the restaurant and
Bill Landis who I used to work with at the athletic he now covers Ohio State for another Outlet he said the secret to life is just upgrade your bread you don’t realize how much better things can be with just a little bit better bread this was a great example that because the the
Meat was incredible the burger was great but this this bun so soft fluffy perfect it was one of the best burgers I’ve ever had I had that steak as great as it was and it was a fantastic steak I would have done two burgers instead
And I think the next time I will do two burgers but the next time I will also do exactly what I did for dessert every single time the summer cornet now this one only has about a week left on the menu because it’s a seasonal item but if you happen into
Mishawaka when the weather is warm it’s gonna be there so it’s a crisp almond cookie bowl maybe you know like the bread bowl you get it at Panera Bread except it’s an almond cookie bowl filled with vanilla mousse not chocolate mousse vanilla mousse and an assortment of fruits with this incredible raspberry gel
To dip everything in it is phenomenal and I I’m more of a chocolate person than a vanilla person but this moose was spectacular they always say the the Foodies will tell you vanilla is a more complex flavor profile than chocolate but usually I Still Still side with chocolate
This was perfect this went so well with the fruit and the almond cookie because all you want to do is keep breaking off more pieces of that almond cookie bowl and dipping into that mousse and just getting a big hunk of mousse on a piece of almond cookie and it just keeps going
It’s a huge dessert I wanted to lick the plate so if you’re in Mishawaka Indiana if you’re in South Bend if you’re driving through Michiana which is what they call where Michigan meets Indiana I’m going to drop in Bourbon butcher I don’t know you can get much done after a lunch like this
But you will enjoy every second of it we got the pick show tomorrow we got a lot of games to pick Colorado USC feeling very very intriguing right now but I also got Florida Kentucky Notre Dame Duke Texas Kansas a lot of very interesting lines out there talk to you tomorrow
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