PMS 2.0 1466 - TOP 5: NFL Week 14 Recap

0:00Speaking of easy gigs talking about ball day every day is easy gig. It's good gig. Good gig. But on overreaction Mondays, it's even better. There's so much to talk about. And in the football universe, it's not just the NFL right now on this particular Monday. Ooh, college football. Their championship weekend into the college football playoff selection threw 100 on the paint. Ladies and gentlemen, it's not time for the first 15. No, no, no. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for top five, top five, top five, top five. Top five, top five. We're not going to have the clock on the screen anymore because it felt like that was kind of a waste.

0:33and first 15 is certainly plays, but what it is is actually the top five storylines coming out of the Sunday slate. So we just need to treat it for what it is. This is driven by Ram. Anytime you put your foot on that gas pedal of a Ram truck, a smooth, beautiful, luxurious Ram truck, the only sound you're going to hear is Ram, Ram, Ram, Ram, Ram, Ram, Ram. And that was the sound you heard. As the number five storyline, the Indiana Hoot, Hoot, Hoot, Hoot, Hooters are Big Ten champions in football. They were talking about World War II times for things happening since the last time. Kurt Signetti took over this job just last year.

1:07And what he showed up at, they didn't have a weight room, barely had a locker room. Do we have any NIL? We got a lot of it, but they don't really do football. They mostly do basketball. Why don't they do football? Well, because football doesn't really exist. I mean, we haven't had a sold-out stadium in like 45 years or something like that. Why would you even focus on it? Kurt Signetti immediately goes, I win. Google me. We're going to beat this team. We're going to beat this team. We're going to beat Michigan. Oh, yeah. and Ohio State, too. Last year, they go into Columbus and take on Ohio State and kind of show that they weren't ready for the moment just yet.

1:38They were having a great season, but they crumbled a little bit. I think they would say that if you were to ask them. Then they reload this year with some of the guys from last year. Kurt Signetti has an entire offseason, a full NIL situation, a gym, a program, a city, a state, an entire group of people behind them, and they're the only undefeated team in the country. Congratulations to the Indiana Hoosiers. Who's up for Coach of the Year? Who's up for coach of the year? How about this guy, Signetti, who is not only a walking, talking, electrifying individual who seemingly does everything the right way, but whenever you talk about evaluating talent on who you should spend money on, last year they were the Transfer Portal Kings.

2:14They came into the Big Ten and created a football program. That's literally what they did. This year he had to rebuild again. Lost a lot of the guys. Fernando Mendoza, the quarterback that he decided to bring in out of Cal, yeah, probably the Heisman winner for good reason. In the Big Ten Championship, he had his best game. In the fourth quarter, he had some of his best plays. And then he gets on a microphone and he goes, flip it! He's a little bit of a nerd. He's got a lot of sauce. And he's a guy that led this team to a Big Ten Championship. And that city of Blooming, this player right here, boom, let me get that.

2:43That's his roommate, I think. If I'm not mistaken, that is his roommate. He had a massive game, and that's only going to continue with Omar Cooper and Surratt. And you talk about everything else they have cooking. It's like Indiana's for real. Indiana are the Big Ten champs in football. in the college football playoff world has to be worried about facing Indiana at the Rose Bowl in the second round. Now, that's three and a half weeks away. That's a long time. It's too far. Kurt Cignetti said, yeah, we won, yeah. I got three and a half weeks to make sure this team's humble and hungry still. Because if we look at what happened last year for the teams that got the bye into the second round, they all got their asses beat.

3:21Yep. Because the people that got to play in the first round seemingly found their groove, found their mojo. Continue to play. Maybe even the first quarter, second quarter, not good because you're off three weeks instead or two weeks instead. So you still got to work off some of the rush. You get people back healthy, yeah. But we just played our best football game. We just won the damn conference championship. Yeah, you got to do it again now in three weeks. That first round was good, I think, for some teams. Second round was not good for teams that had to buy. So we'll see if this year changes a little bit because it's not just the top four conference champions that are one through four.

3:52Now it's the top four teams in the country. Congrats to Indiana being number one team in the country. That needs to be celebrated. That's a big-ass deal. Congrats to Georgia. Congrats to Georgia. Congrats to Ohio State. Congrats to Texas. And now those – Texas Tech, sorry. And those are the teams that get the bye. Now let's go to the first round. Boy, people are not happy, Tone. And this is, I think, could have been the number one storyline coming out of the weekend. This story shouldn't have been available until Wednesday morning because they should do this the same exact time that they do every other one, which is on Tuesday, as opposed to during NFL kickoffs.

4:32They do it right before NFL kickoff, which is good. You get like 35 minutes to really dive into it. Oh, and then there's five games on that are all playoff implications. Is Patrick Mahomes playing today? Yup, prime time actually, and he might be dead. We'll see if that's the case. Texans are doing this. And then not only Monday night football is about to happen as well. With the Eagles, nobody really talks about them ever. and then Chargers and Harbaugh, they could kind of change it. So if you were to do this on Tuesday, okay, like you do every other fucking one, we potentially get, you know, a full week of it.

5:02Not that it isn't today, okay, because it is massive conversation, but it's kind of lumped in with the NFL Sunday. This needs to be its own damn day because there are so many implications on a decision being made by 12 people sitting in a room. I saw their setup. We all did. It's ass. I don't like that. Okay, they need to have a little bit better setup, maybe some things on the wall, maybe some wings. I didn't see any wingies. I have no idea what they got going on. But the committee made some decisions that pissed a few places off. Yeah, it did. We will start right there with the teams that got left out after the bracket came out and potential reasons why they are mad.

5:35The biggest one being Notre Dame. Why? Because they were in the bracket basically the entire college football playoff. Every single playoff rankings that came out, Notre Dame was in the playoffs. So who should they be pissed at? The committee. Because they were ranked in there the entire time until the one that mattered. Then Miami jumped them. and they didn't drop Alabama. Alabama was the only team that didn't drop after losing a conference playoff game. Who else? BYU. BYU had a great season. They were 11-1 going into the Big 12 conference title game with their only loss being in the number four team in the country, and then they lose in the Big 12 championship game to that same number four team in the country.

6:09They go to 11-2, and they drop, unlike Alabama did. And then Vandy could be mad. Clark Lee said he is not mad. They only have themselves to blame. They're a two-loss SEC team with their only losses being at Alabama, who's in the playoffs, and Texas, who was just outside of the playoffs. At Texas. At Texas, yes, both at Texas. So those are some of the teams that could have been pissed who were right on the bubble who did not make it. Yeah, not just could be pissed. Those first two definitely pissed. Very, very, very mad. The Irish have been on a full-on, what are we doing here? Pete Pavacqua, athletic director for Notre Dame, who was on our show on Friday talking about it all, he told us on Friday, he was like, hey, the College Football Playoff Committee has basically already made up their mind about us and Miami.

6:47We've been ranked ahead of them literally since the first rankings. They were actually ranked, Miami I think was ranked 18th. Yeah. And they were ranked 10th or something like that, Notre Dame was. That was from the beginning. So you're talking about eight spots. So I think Notre Dame in their mind was like, the committee's already made their decision on us in Miami. This isn't really a conversation. Notre Dame on Friday, Pete Pavacqua told us, we need to be more so being compared to Alabama, who's seemingly going to be an at-large here and maybe get one of these more bids. You start looking at our resume, you start looking at their resume, talk about how they play.

7:15Alabama had a tough streak. They had like five straight top 20 teams, and they played good ball through there. Then struggle against Auburn. Then they get their absolute asses kicked by Georgia in the SEC championship. So Notre Dame's thinking to themselves, we might have a chance to jump Alabama. Put a little barrier there. Yeah, there might be a little bit of a chance. And then all of a sudden Sunday comes out, and it's like, actually, yeah, Miami jumps you guys, and you guys are out. It's like, what? What even happened here is how Notre Dame's doing it, for good reason, by the way. College Football Playoff Committee, if you listen to it, I never thought of that until Bavacqua said that.

7:45He's like, well, what's the purpose of all the other rankings? They've already had this conversation between us and Miami 100 times. They've already done this, obviously, clearly. Then they said, well, actually, it's in a cluster. When you get in a cluster, then we have the conversation. Well, it's like we've been in a cluster the last two weeks now. So when does the cluster come, when does the sudden come? So Notre Dame, not happy about it. On that note, I think Alabama should be it. I think they're a very good football team. I think Georgia. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I think Georgia is very, very good.

8:12I think they are one of the very, very, very, very good teams. which once again leads back to how many of these teams can actually win a national championship. If we go to 16 and we're just adding more teams that won't be able to win a national championship, because each year it feels like there's only like four. But on that note, everybody's pissed and could be pissed. Tulane and James Madison getting two of the 12 spots in the Division I college football playoff. That's got to be fixed. It is a crazy thing. It's a crazy thing. Now, I would like to let them know, congratulations. Without a doubt.

8:39Okay, that is not on Tulane or JMU. No, no, within the rules. This is how this is. This is how this shit is supposed to go. Congrats to them. But on that note, it's like, man, BYU, they got to be so pissed. Texas Tech, they said it. Kalani Satake came out and said, we lost to the best team in the country. Everybody else is going to learn that, basically. He said, if we were to play again in the college football playoff, we think Texas Tech, that is the best team in the country, is what they described. They lose to them twice within a matter of four weeks or whatever, and they don't even get – now, they were out at the beginning.

9:13They were never really in because nobody knew how many Big 12 teams were going to get in there. BYU was going to have to steal the bid from Texas Tech with the way they had the college football playoff committee kind of set up over the last few weeks. But does that matter? None of that really matters. I think it's a weird process to get to it. It's very weird. And then Vandy Clark Lee, I appreciate him high-roading it. Basically, that's what Clark Lee did. Clark Lee just said, I'll high-road this thing. I think South Carolina did that last year. I think there was a couple other teams that were like, we could certainly make an argument if we wanted to, but this is on us.

9:41We need to do better next year. They lost the games. What's that? They lost the game. That's what makes football so great. It's not like the other sports where there are just so many games and so many different opportunities. You get one game a week, just like in the NFL. They matter so much. You never know when it's going to come back, whether it's week one or week four or week six, whenever that is, it will impact your outcome. So I love when a coach just takes ownership of that, like, hey, it was in our control. We lost it. But with all the CFP things, and I love when the playoffs actually start in the games, especially when we get to go and do that shit.

10:14Super dope. But after this, I was like, you know what? I wouldn't mind going back to the 14th playoff. I know everybody wants to go to 16th. I wouldn't mind the old school when just, hey, somebody gets left out and these two teams get to play in the national championship or we get the 14th. Because if we look at it now, and with that being the case, we wouldn't have gotten an Ohio State run that we got last year. I think they were an eight seed. But right here, those four teams, we all feel like probably are, out of those four, it's going to become the national championship. So I would much rather, even for the kids, you've got three, four more games in the season.

10:46Play these two more games, get a national championship. You get the bowl games. The other big bowl games mean something. But I understand the investment and the money and the playoffs. Now, at some point, five years from now, there will probably be 32 teams. No! Don't be putting that in the universe. Every year it's going to be this team got left out, that team got left out. This is what's happening with the Red Zone channel, what you just did right now. Oh, boy. We don't need to be talking about that. They had a great day yesterday. Yeah. It happens. Tech. Tech is tech. Especially with weather.

11:12There's a chance that's going to happen. They should feel good about getting that kind of corrected as quickly as they did, actually, because that could have been a fucking... That could have been a flaw. Just as people who have gone through full technical failures as your life, as a nightmare. But they ran a Mercedes commercial as a great stat was being read by the commentator. You know, I forget the name of the player. Let's just say it was Patrick. It wouldn't have been Patrick. Anybody. Etienne, maybe. was saying, you know, Etienne's actually the first guy to ever, and then right to a Mercedes-Benz G class.

11:44I'm like, you mother, that is not how this is supposed to go. Can we at least wait until the octobox is up there instead of a stat that I'm certainly going to wish that I have tomorrow that was about to be right? And you cut him off in the middle of the damn, and aren't we supposed to have some action on this side? If I'm going to have the damn Mercedes, beautiful car. That was a, I was so mad, and I was looking at it, And then as I was watching, I was like, it does seem like I got some good engineering right there. It does look like good. Now, granted, we go back to the game, guess what's gone?

12:13That's that forever. That thing is gone forever. These ears will never hear it. I forget who it was. But on that note, it can't get to 32. Like, 16 feels like that's coming. And that decision was almost made like last year. As soon as the 12 team came, they're like, 16's next. And they, like, kind of punted it down the road. Feels like 16 is close. I hope no more than that. But to your point, I don't know if it's just those four. but we're going to find out through this that there's only going to be like two, three teams that are very much above everybody else is what we think is going to happen.

12:44And I used to agree with you and I still kind of agree with you but the more and more we get into this NIL era and stuff like that, I think more teams is not a bad thing because when we just did signing day or whatever and it used to be the difference between the number one signing class and like the number eight signing class was like 85 recruiting points. Now that's between 1 and 32 is 85 recruiting points. So I think with the money and everything like that, the teams are getting a lot more closer. There's a lot more parity. So, yes. Go out and win. Like, sick. Go out and put a team together and go fucking 13-0.

13:18Also, Ohio State wouldn't have made the 14th playoff last year. Well, he did. UCF went undefeated and they had to make themselves. Well, they won a national championship. Yeah, of course. But, like, I don't know. I also think Oregon could win it. There's a chance Miami or A &M, if they get hot. Bama, if they figure out their offense, they were one of the best teams in the country. If over this next two weeks they can figure that out again, there's a chance. I'm not very confident in it, but there's a chance. Oregon, Oregon, good football team. Great football team. Oregon, good football team. Quarterback, good coach.

13:47They lost their number one team in the country. Hey, Con Man, let's talk about that. We were there for the Big Ten Championship game. Wow. It was electric in there. Oh, yeah. I mean, last year's Big Ten Championship, Penn State and Oregon, Was loud. Penn State people were loud. Not a lot of Oregon people. But we were kind of in their corner. So we felt it. We knew they were there. That was mostly Penn State people last year. This year, Indiana fans, big. Ohio State people, big. Showed up. I mean, that was an awesome environment. Light shows. What was the split, you think? I'd say 60-40, probably.

14:2065. Maybe 60-40, I'd say. Indiana? Yeah. Indiana, I'd say. But it was hard to tell. It was close, though. You know, because red. Similar colors. Yeah, so it was hard. But it was loud for the Hoosiers. Like, tone was obviously locked in from the jump. But the pyro, the light show, everything that happened for the game was loud. It felt big. It was an electrifying environment. Like, we were down at the SEC Championship down in Atlanta when we were on the sideline. Loud. Like, that's in an NFL stadium. Comfortable stadium. And you could tell it was a college game. Like, I think the college atmosphere is different than the NFL atmosphere, especially in the stadiums.

14:53This one felt like a national championship. I mean, it was very loud. It was very real. And what the Hoosiers did was special, man, especially in the city. A lot of people crying from happiness. I heard Paul Feinbaum say, this was the least important number one versus number two game in history or whatever. It's like, well, Indiana doesn't have to see Georgia until the finals because they're the number one team in the country. And also, they just won their first fucking Big Ten since World War II. You tell Hoosier fans that that game did not matter, okay? And then you can also ask the Ohio State people if that game mattered or not.

15:26I'm still getting yelled at because I was shirtless with a hole in my jeans looking like a douchebag at a college football game from the people of Ohio. Pretty jacked, though, I must say. Pretty jacked, I must say. They were bouncing around, obviously, on the Jumbotron. I believe two before me, a man took off like a shirt but didn't go fully shirtless. And then they drop onto me and Tyrese Alliburton. I felt obligated. And that's the Ohio State section. Right behind us was the entire Ohio State fan base. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're having a good time in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've got to do it. Got to do it.

15:55with D-Bone's rocking his long hair, new life. Indiana, Mendoza, Boston, Connor over there on the left side. Bill going crazy. There's a Hoosier, by the way. Go back. Can you just go back? Look at the lower right corner. Look at the lower right corner, Paul Feinbaum. You think this game didn't matter? Look at that guy. He hammered drunk. I mean, absolutely hammered drunk. Yeah, it was a special night in there. It was a special night in there for Indiana. And I think they proved, maybe to the world, because Ohio State's a damn good football. I mean, you watch them jog out right in front of us. And then Caleb Downs is doing his warm-up journey.

16:27Arvel Reese is there. I mean, they are. That's the biggest group of men I think I've ever seen assembled. I mean, it is outrageous. And then for Indiana to win, special night. So you could say a game didn't matter. It did. Okay, especially with Indiana as the number one team in the country. That changes things for the CFP going forward. But also this entire state was just a woke, brother, into becoming, if you weren't already, Indiana's for real and not a mockery. because most times I think a lot of even the hater Hoosier fans, football fans, are like, Ohio State's going to, this is, Cignetti's doing a lot of this.

17:01Boom, they're going to do that. Yeah, right, they win the Big Ten. I loved being there. It was a great environment. I lost my voice. I was very worried this morning that I was not going to have a voice because we enjoyed the hell out of the experience, Con. Yeah, it was fantastic. And you mentioned Paul Feinbaum. Paul Feinbaum's also a dipshit. When Cignetti got his eight-year,$93 million extension, he said it was terrible. and now is probably the best college coaching deal in America, especially because he's probably valued at more so$15 million,$13 million, at least a year. Sig, you can't really say enough about him.

17:30I mean, the players he brought in, you mentioned, it's a lot of misfits. I forget, Pat Coogan gave the speech last week, and Mendoza kind of talked about it, about how they are a bunch of misfits. It's a bunch of guys who are from all over the country, and they came together, and Signetti was kind of the glue to give them the confidence, let alone Mendoza. Mendoza is another guy. you can't really say enough about. He got absolutely eviscerated on the first play of the game. He was on the ground. I thought there was a chance. Here it is. Bang. And Curry's a problem, first of all. 92. He's from Indianapolis.

18:03What the hell is he doing over there? Yeah, hometown kid. Why don't you come back to IU, son? But that was insane. And you see that, and that's when you kind of think like, okay, this is the difference. Ohio State, the physicality, the size, everything that they're about, You're about to see kind of how that separates them from everybody else. But then IU answers the call. I mean, Mendoza pops back up. His brother pops in for one snap, but then he's back into the game. Place goes crazy when he jogs back in, by the way, as you could have expected. His brother's playing quarterback Alberto Mendoza and his family there.

18:37Beautiful moment after the game. And then Fernando comes jogging his ass back on in the next play. Place goes absolutely apeshit. Hard not to love Fernando Mendoza. that he'll be joining us in about an hour. Yeah, and that's part of the team, like next man up. Omar Cooper actually got hurt on the first drive. We really didn't see him, and that's when Charlie Becker kind of gets his opportunity again, similar to earlier in the season when Cooper went down and Becker went for, you know, 180 in one game. This is why Indiana is Indiana. They just don't care. They don't blink. If someone goes down, next guy is up.

19:08And Surratt, Elijah Surratt's one of the best wide receivers in college football. Now, I say that also while looking at Jeremiah Smith pregame and saying to you guys the gourd on me to think I could play college football when you see some of the guys on the field when it is Ohio State and IU. But it was one of those things where you can see this game happening again down the road because all year we don't talk about Ohio State because of how dominant they are. They're going to continue to go. I assume we're going to see them even though Texas A &M is one of those teams that's going to play in the first round that you can see going on a run as well.

19:39But it was just fantastic to be there. fantastic for a game to kind of feel as big as it truly was because if you think about last year penn state oregon big 10 championship it didn't feel like how it felt in there on saturday night and you know when you get to go to those big time games and they live up to the hype i'm sure 13 10 you're watching at home doesn't probably feel as special as it does inside of that stadium but it was a hell of a ball game it's like a pitcher's duel like a good pitcher's duel because it was electrifying there was big moments throughout the uh low scoring game and obviously we're going to showed the offensive highlights, big, big time highlights, but that defense, like, that defense showed, both defenses, they're phenomenal defense, two best defenses in the country, but getting after Julian Sands' ass, he was sacked five times, I think, coming into this game, he had only been sacked six times in the whole season.

20:25We know with pressure, that changes everything when it comes to the defense. You have those weapons, Jeremiah Smith, he's going to make fantastic plays, which he did, which he always will, but to kind of limit him from wrecking the game and getting after the quarterback, making him uncomfortable, like you said, you can't say enough about Sig, this is the best coaching job I know that I've ever seen in my lifetime when it comes to like big time college level. Just creating a program. I mean, Indiana did not have a football program. Like that cannot be, they had people that put on pads and played football, but it was like in front of 250 people.

20:58Like actually 200, all the NIL money, basketball. Mark Cuban, everybody going to basketball. And then the basketball team hadn't won in a long time either. Then they hired Signetti and I think if you you asked the president, Pam Witten, she goes, she comes from Georgia. I do believe her previous work was at Georgia. And she very much understands what the football team and what sports can do for a university. And it's like alignment from literally top all the way through the bottom of what the goal is. Because I think new president there, Pam, she wants to have her impact on the school too. And it's like, didn't have a football team.