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We'll be touching on the NFL that is roaring into there.
We're regular season week one.
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Welcome into the show.
I'm so excited to be back with you guys, as it has been a couple of weeks.
I am so excited to be back with you all as we have.
I've not talked to you guys in a while.
So all my fans say hello to you.
Of course, you know how you just shout out my European and Asian friends.
So shout out to you guys as well.
But we are going to jump right into the news of the day.
My fairly instantaneous reaction to the arrival of prime time in college football.
Prime time has arrived in FBS.
It is now officially prime time in the power of five.
And the big 12s on notice.
The patch 12s on notice.
That game was so amazing.
And as you guys know, if you guys listen to the podcast, you guys know Ico's High School
Football.
We had our opening game.
Didn't go well.
We were pretty outmatched there in our opening game, but we'll shake back next week.
Don't worry.
But if you guys know, I coach High School Football and I was talking to one of the fellow coaches
of mine.
And we were saying, man, the hype around Deon's first game in Colorado is ridiculous.
Because when he got to Jackson State, it was the attention on Jackson State.
Because he's talking about what needs to be fixed in HBCUs.
He's talking about what needs to be done in this.
He's discussing how they won't just take, well, he calls them body bag games.
Where he's got outmatched guys going to these power five schools just to earn a little money.
He's trying to get names on the back of the jerseys.
He's trying to bring attention to and all this other stuff.
It was so much of a movement.
And he spoke so much that people were forced to watch.
Oh, his son is starting quarterback.
Oh, his son is starting safety.
Oh, his son runs social media.
You know what I'm saying?
It was so much attention brought by Deon when he arrived.
Or as he called himself, Coach Prime.
And also when Coach Prime arrived at Jackson State.
Because coverage had never been done like that at the HBCU level.
Attention had never been brought like that to the HBCU level.
TV cameras, money, financial opportunities, et cetera, had never been brought like that
to the HBCU level.
And so when he arrived, people admittedly wanted him to succeed because they knew the
more he succeeded at J State, the more that people were going to watch, pay attention
and care about HBCUs.
Ultimately, that was proven correct.
His three years there, he had a great first year that they lost two or maybe three games.
And then he undefeated back to back years.
Runs to his swag.
Does never collect the black house of war championship.
I think that's going to be something on his resume he would want back.
He never collected a black.
Excuse me.
He never collected a black college football championship because the awards not a poll
award.
So it used to be a poll award where they come to vote Southern won it 2003 same yellow.
She won that championship game.
It was amazing at Banarut because of those two events.
But it's a poll.
It's a poll award.
We're now with the celebration bowl, the me I can the swag of the two dominant HBCU
conferences.
So their champions play in the celebration bowl.
The winners declared the black college football champion.
And he came up short back to back years in the celebration bowl.
And then ultimately he leaves for Colorado.
When he makes the move to Colorado, as you guys know, there was a lot of people who wanted
him to fail.
Everybody felt like a HBCU doubted it.
Everybody who wanted to see him now to give opportunity and thought he may be jumping
the line on some people wanted him to fail.
A lot of people wanted him to fail.
Then the way he did his roster, you know, we chronicle that he and they spoke about
him on the game several times.
The answer is has 69 new scholarship players in Colorado.
69 by far and away the most in the country.
He did it in a way that was previously inconceivable because the one time to me five years ago,
the rules are possible because of the one time transfer rule doesn't exist.
And also the way the transfer portal is today, it doesn't exist.
And he this would have been a much longer rebuild at Jackson State and Colorado Jackson
State.
He didn't overhaul the roster like this, but he did a roster overhaul and filled in a lot
of the gaps with transfers.
And so when he went to Colorado, he did a full roster overhaul.
He saw the advantage he had in facilities.
He saw the upgrade he had in financial ability.
He saw the upgrade in the fact that it's a little easier to convince, you know, an FBS
transfer to the FBS.
And of course he took his dogs from Jackson State.
Travis Hunter, my guy, we're going to speak about him a little later.
What a player.
He took his son, of course, Shadua Sanders, Shiloh Sanders, Dewayne Washington.
It was all the guys that made a lot of plays.
He's mostly got a lot of plays for Colorado tonight for Deon's kids at J State.
And he said it was an amazing experience.
But we're back to what I'm saying.
I was talking to a fellow coach of mine and he was saying, man, coach, the excitement
around this game, the Fox Sports app had a countdown to kickoff.
I was telling him, I'm like, I was born and raised an LSU fan.
Anybody that knows me knows I was born and raised an LSU fan.
I got my master's degree from LSU.
Ultimately, I'm a tiger for life.
And I just a fan.
I'm an alumni.
And I was way more excited to see Deon's first game, Coach Primes first game in Colorado
than I am for tomorrow night's contest with LSU in Florida State.
I mean, way more like, and then I'm watching the battle of the Carolinas now and they're
showing LSU for say 630 or 730 East and 630 Central Sunday ABC.
I was way more excited for the Colorado game.
I mean, just excitement level through the roof for the Colorado game.
I'm watching it.
We're, you know, we're doing different stuff and I'm watching the Colorado game.
I'm driving, we're taking care of our laundry stuff.
I'm watching the Colorado game.
I'm at the laundry facility taking care of our jerseys and stuff.
I'm watching the Colorado game.
Like I ended up at a baby shower.
I'm a complete total person though.
And I finished watching the Colorado game.
That is the level of excitement that Deon has not only for him, for himself, but for
his kids, his, I had a brain cramp, his school, you know, and he's just absolutely, he's
just ridiculous.
The level of hype he has around Colorado.
Colorado was a one win team last year and they got destroyed by TCU.
TCU had a slow first half.
TCU ultimately ran away with the game.
Colorado was 20 and a half point underdogs.
It was an absolute, it was a game.
They had no business winning.
And I mean, I'm just going to read what I posted on Facebook.
Behind 38 completions and 510 yards school record and four touchdowns from QB Shadua
Sanders.
Four receivers went over a hundred yards.
Dylan that was the runner back had four touchdowns.
Travis Hunter was on the field for 110, you know, 110, I think two different numbers,
but we went from 110 to 129 snaps tonight at both cornerback and a wide receiver.
And then they had a huge fourth down stop on defense to win the game.
Deon prime time Sanders wins his first game in Colorado upsetting TCU 45 42 in Texas.
Absolutely insane game.
Shadua Sanders is an NFL quarterback and many people, I'm glad for him personally.
He was able to make this move because many people were going to discredit him as an NFL
quarterback.
Due to the fact that he came from J state and then it was always kind of always a knock
on him.
Well, the FCS quarterbacks really haven't been doing very well.
If he plays against bigger opponents, he's going to struggle.
He struggled so much that in his first game, he broke the school record for passing yards
with 510.
Last year, Colorado had two games where they had a player go over a hundred yards receiving
Shadua in that offense put up four receivers with a hundred yards receiving in the same
game.
Dylan Edwards is a running back.
He came from J state as well, absolutely elite speed.
He scored four touchdowns.
I'm looking at the bottom of the screen now in the battle of the Carolinas.
Turned over roster with 86 new players, 69 of them are on scholarship.
The one defensive starter, he kept pick six.
I mean, he got not a pick.
He caught a pick in the end zone to stop a touchdown.
If he misses the pick, that's a, that's a post route touchdown.
And you know, it's just absolutely a great, great moment for Colorado.
Great moment for Deion Sanders.
So many things are interesting in the situation.
You have Deion said, of course, coach prime coming up in the FCBS, he brings in his Louie
as he says it.
Travis Hunter is a legitimate Heisman candidate.
We have not seen a receiver or a corner be a legitimate Heisman candidate in a very long
time.
He has a legitimate shot to win the Heisman.
He played it like a hundred and ten, 110 snaps tonight at corner receiver.
He had 111 yards receiving eight or nine catches.
He scored, I believe as a receiver, he caught an interception.
Like what he's daring to do is something that he didn't even do at J state, which is pull
double duty.
So what it reminds me of is that when Derek Stingley was coming out of Dunham high school
in the batteries area, he was going to LSU.
He wanted to pull double duty.
But that Oteron said he promises that he's only going to play corner when he gets here
originally.
Now he ends up being the best corner in the country and never played receiver.
But Travis Hunter has a case legitimately to be the best corner in the country and he's
an absolute man and receiver.
He's people forget because he ends up going to that's wild.
Colorado ended their 27 game road losing streak to a top 20 team in this game.
But people forget that when Travis Hunter was coming out, he's the highest rated recruit
ever.
If you divide him between cornerback and receiver, he's a top five corner.
He's a top five receiver ever coming out of high school and he's the same person.
And so he's just a ridiculous talent.
Like I said, the amount of minutes, I mean, he was willing to put a lot of snaps, he was
willing to play.
But ended after the game and say he's not tidy, we should go back out there.
I mean, absolutely, absolutely tremendous moment in college football.
And now they get to go into a game, they get to host their first game.
I'm sure the crowd is going to be absolutely raucous.
They get to host their first game against Matt Ruhl in Nebraska, who struggled in their
opener, probably still should have won the game, but ultimately didn't.
So Matt Ruhl lost his opener and now he gets to run into the buzz side known as Carolina,
known as Colorado, I'm sorry.
So that'll be very interesting there.
Georgia, let the touch slope in this game.
I didn't really see anything.
It's so hard to get a read on the top schools because they're playing fairly cupcake schedules
early unless they're already in conference play.
You know, most of the top schools, I should say most of them.
Now again, you got South Carolina, you got North Carolina.
You have you LSU in Florida State.
You have your Colorado TCUs, even though TCU probably booked the game as a pretty easy
game, but they at least agreed to go home and home.
And so, you know, it's hard to get a read on that.
But Georgia just didn't look like they're using with Georgia, which new officer coordinator,
new quarterback, the last of that depth is the last of that monster recruiting the, who
we've seen with the Philadelphia Eagles drafting all the defenses.
They're pretty much running out.
Now it's newer players on the field.
And so that is definitely something that that is definitely something that we are observing
that I've observed with Georgia is the fact that they just look a little slow right now.
I'm sure they're going to get that fixed.
Florida looks bad.
There's no other way I can describe it.
Florida looks awful.
At one point they had a penalty against Utah who didn't have Kamarizing their starting
quarterback in their legend.
They had a penalty against Utah with two players weighing the same number, which gave Utah
a first down, which then led to a Utah touchdown.
So they just look unorganized.
They just look bad.
I mean, nothing about it stood out to me.
With the way Florida played, definitely not going to be a team that's going to make a
lot of noise this year.
And there's people saying if they go 75 it's a victory.
If they go 66 it's a victory.
And Matt Ruhl has a $30 million buyout after the season.
So he's not going, not Matt Ruhl, Billy Napier has a $30 million buyout after the season.
So he's not going anywhere.
More than likely.
If they do it next season, it's $24 million.
Maybe they cobble that together.
But I mean, absolutely insane how poor Florida looked.
But cobbling $30 million together is not that difficult with some of these boosters.
Because remember Deion Sanders signed a $26 million contract with Colorado with the AD
saying, Rick George, we don't have the money for you yet.
Private donations, $28 million.
And then he sold pretty much all the season tickets.
So he sold all the season tickets.
He had to sell extra season tickets.
And so private donations to get a coach out is one thing.
I just don't know how the school would look accepting that sort of cash to just fire off
football cups.
So maybe, Billy Napier survives another couple of years purely because of the buyout so large.
But yeah, Florida team looked rough.
And then USC looks explosive.
USC looks incredibly explosive.
They've got Tyron everywhere.
Kayla Williams looks like he's running away and hide the number one pick and the best
quarterback in the draft.
They've got weapons everywhere, young and old.
They've got transfers in.
I mean, it's just an absolutely great environment that USC is in right now.
They've got confidence.
They're looking to put their imprint on everybody in every game they play.
And they're looking to make a show and make a name for themselves.
And so very excited to continue to watch USC's offensive development as I think they put
up 60 balls in their week zero game and their week one game.
But up next, I am going to shift into the NFL and talk about what's going down with
the Shield.
Welcome
in to the show.
And now we're going to talk about the Shield.
The NFL is back.
It opens up with Lions at Chiefs for Banner night.
Basically, Lions at Chiefs excuse me, Banner night with the Chiefs hosting the Arrowhead
Stadium.
Welcome back NFL.
We've missed you.
The preseason just doesn't do it.
Yeah, we got to see an Arrowhead in a gesture.
It's a beautiful pass.
Sure.
We got to see the Chiefs start some people.
Sure.
We got to see some starters play.
Sure.
But it's not the same as when the game matters because in the end, in the end, it's not football.
I guess football, but it's not football if that makes sense.
Defenses are super vanilla.
They're running too high shells all night.
Nothing cheap, nothing deep.
It's kind of boring.
If you're a real football fan like myself, it gets kind of boring.
I don't want to just see basic defenses and then offense is having a field day with them
because there's literally no pressure.
And you're watching the seventh string receiver tricking yourself into thinking he's going
to be a superstar.
That's literally the benefit of the preseason.
You're tricking yourself into thinking this seventh string receiver is going to be a dynamite.
He's not going to be a dynamite.
We all know it.
But that's kind of the benefit of the preseason, right?
And so now that we're coming out of the preseason, like I said, Lions and Chiefs is the first
real game of the season.
You just can't beat that.
You got Jared Goff and the Lions who have a lot of expectations all of a sudden.
They sold out their season tickets for the first time in the Ford Field era.
So they have a lot of expectations, a lot of people wanting them to be successful.
A lot of people in Detroit hoping their success can kind of stir something up in the city,
which is a pressure that most people don't get.
You know, like Detroit's a literal dying city.
People talk about it like there's parts of Detroit that's like a ghost town.
There's no people.
There's no active businesses.
There's no cars moving like it's a literal ghost town.
There's just nothing there.
It's just empty blocks of space.
I say where there is nothing happening, there's no movement, there's no vitalization.
It looks like somebody stopped improving it in 1990 and just left it there to rot.
And so having a great Lions team, who knows that that could be business wise.
Maybe those blocks can revitalize.
Maybe the city kind of stands on itself, puts some pride up and figures it out.
Who knows?
But the Lions sold out the season tickets for the first time in the Ford Field era.
They have expectations for the first time in my life.
I don't recall the Detroit Lions having expectations since Prime Calvin Johnson and Prime Matt
Stafford.
That time when Matt Stafford was throwing for 5,000 yards, like maybe that time period.
But even then people say there's the Lions, they don't have a defense.
They have a defense.
They have a head coach they believe in.
They've got a quarterback they like.
They've got weaponry.
This is again, they have expectations.
And now for the first time in 25 years the Packers don't have a Hall of Fame quarterback.
The Bears aren't put together yet.
Who else in the north?
The Vikings are good.
The Vikings are a good football team, but people have their thing about Kurt Cousins.
I personally think Kurt Cousins is the top 10 quarterback in the league.
But people have their gripes with Kurt Cousins.
So the Lions fans are looking at, we can win this division.
You know, we can make the playoffs.
We can host the playoffs game.
We can maybe make a little baby and run in the playoffs.
So that's going on in Detroit.
Like I said, the Kansas City is Kansas City.
They just figure it out every time.
But like I said, football is basically back.
So as you guys know, I pick every game in the regular season.
I picked that a few weeks back.
I feel confident in my picks, so I'm not going to change anything.
But I will do a fresh list of awards.
So MVP, I believe is going to go to Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback.
I think he's due for one.
And then I struggle between him and Josh Allen.
But I think Burrow is due for one.
They're going to have a big year this year.
They're going to win 12-13 games.
And then he's going to, I mean, they're going to win 11-12 games.
And then he's going to be the MVP.
I just think it's time.
I think he's due.
And oddly, they don't have his contract done, which feels odd.
I mean, the opening talk about it's going to get done.
But this is weird, the fact that the Bengals don't have his contract put together yet.
Now we have learned from Jermarcus Russell that teams will tell you don't sign a contract
due to escrow.
Like we physically don't have the money to put in the escrow account.
And if that's the case, that's a different story.
I mean, obviously they can't come out and say that because the NFL put an investigation
onto why an owner in the NFL doesn't have $200 million cash, which is wild to even say.
But why an owner doesn't have $200 million cash.
But I mean, Joe Burrow did say he wanted to get his money, get his value, and basically
try to leave some pie for other people.
Try and do their best to keep all three of his receivers.
You know, he's trying to have the opportunity to keep some of his key players because he's
gotten used to having Chase Higgins and the other one, Boyd, I think is another name.
He's used to having those guys around.
And so losing those guys, he knows could be an issue.
And so maybe that could be an issue that they're trying to structure right, whether the Cincinnati
serving still have flexibility and they can keep as many of their weapons as possible.
So that could be the issue.
It's just weird that they don't have a contract for my MVP this season.
Officer Player of the Year, Tyreek Hill, I received Miami Dolphins.
This one's pretty contingent on two.
If two was healthy, I believe Tyreek Hill may break the 2,000 yard mark.
If he breaks 2,000 yards receiving, and the Dolphins are a 10, 11, 12 win team, it's going
to be hard for him to resist giving him the Officer Player of the Year.
I think defensive player of the year is going to be Miles Garrett.
I just think that it's weird that he's one of those guys that doesn't have a DPOI.
It's kind of like you look up and be like, man, this guy doesn't have this award.
LeBron doesn't have a different spirit than your basketball.
It's just odd for how great of a defender he was for so long.
It's just odd that Miles Garrett, he's an dominant defensive player of the year candidate
every single year, but I think he gets one this year.
Officer Rookie of the Year, I'm going to go with Houston Texans quarterback, CJ Stroud.
He's my favorite quarterback in the draft.
He's the guy that I root for heavily in the draft.
I'm going to cheer him on every step of his way in his NFL journey.
But CJ Stroud, I think is going to be the offensive rookie of the year.
The defense rookie of the year could be biased, could be just fanfare.
I don't know.
I don't care.
It's Christian Gonzalez, cornerback of the New England Patriots.
I just think he's a really tall, physical corner, has the top 10 raw athletic score
in NFL combat history.
Ains going through situations where he's learning defenses and defensive back play from Bill
Belichick, who there's literally nobody else probably better to learn it from than Bill
Belichick.
And so I just think he's going to end up being a defensive rookie of the year.
So there's been a little situations going on in the NFL.
We're going to touch on some of the big ones here quickly.
So for number one, the Buffalo Bills are dealing with a lot of drama right now.
There's that weird Stefan Diggs, Josh Allen relationship thing that they're all trying
to tell us is fine.
But we have eyes so we can tell that it's not fine.
There's all kinds of vibes and bad vibes and good vibes and sideways vibes and a little
bit over there vibes and it's just all kinds of stuff happening with the Buffalo Bills.
No idea when they get Vaughn Miller back.
I don't think their championship window is closed.
It's been a popular question the past couple of days.
Are the Bills' championship window closed?
I don't think it's closed.
I don't think it's closed because you have a good coach who's kind of, he's not entrenched
but he's getting very close to entrenched.
And then you have a good coaching staff.
And so you kind of, you need to get an entrenched quarterback.
I don't know.
It's nowhere near time to hit the panic button yet if you're a Buffalo.
However you have to get that stuff taken care of before it festers and infects the rest
of the team.
The Cleveland Browns are going into year two of the Deshaun Watson experiment.
Although really and truly it's year one.
Year two, okay it was year one in the sense of literally Deshaun Watson got there year
one and so this is year two because it's his second year.
But to me that was year one.
Kind of like how I treat Trevor Lawrence's rookie years.
It just didn't exist because it was under Irvin Meyer.
I'm kind of going to treat Deshaun Watson this year one or his redshirt year as a year
where you knew that nothing would come of it because he was going to be suspended for
those games.
So you kind of anticipated that nothing would come out of it.
However now he's clear.
Before my home I would have said he was the most talented player I've ever seen in the
whole quarterback position in terms of the ability to run and the ability to be an elite
pocket passer.
Most people if you're an elite pocket passer you can run but you just don't want to.
And if you're an elite athlete in the quarterback position you can throw but it's not what you're
calling an elite pocket passer.
He was a kid that could do both and took full advantage of that ability.
So kudos to Deshaun Watson.
Like I said now we have to figure out what they're going to do this year.
I think they're going to be a very solid team and having that full off season is really
going to get Watson in tune with the receivers.
They're going to get Watson in tune with the head coach.
And certain stuff is being called.
Are we anticipating this, that, or the third.
So it's going to be incredibly helpful to Deshaun Watson this year.
I believe he'll be a big help to the Browns and he'll continue to collect checks from
the Browns that no one else is going to write.
Alright and then of course there's everyone's favorite team.
The Jets.
J-E-T-S.
Jets, Jets, Jets.
They've been on hard knocks.
I haven't watched one second of it.
I heard it's boring.
But they've been on hard knocks.
People are falling in love with some of their players.
But they've put a lot of expectation on themselves.
And if you think about commonly phrased phrases like don't put any pressure on me more than
I can handle.
Like in North Carolina, I'm sorry.
The Jets have put a lot of pressure on themselves to win this year.
And I just won some games, won a shoot ball.
Anything shorter than an A.S. Championship game would look like an abject failure by
pretty much anyone who connects to the program which makes life difficult.
Because if you set a level of expectations that the team can't reach it could be the
most successful year you've had in the program or in the franchise in 20-25 years.
But because you promised them this and didn't deliver it they're disappointed.
And so yeah.
So Travis Hunter played 129 snaps.
Sheesh.
But you know just you have your best season in the quarter century as a franchise and
the fans are disappointed because you promised them it's a onesie.
The Jets have invited scrutiny at a level I've never seen a team openly invite scrutiny
this early.
Like if a team gets scrutinized they may say okay well we hear it, we understand it, we're
just going to keep moving.
They have been openly and I don't mean openly inviting pressure.
It's just it's the land of the expensive misfit toys at this point.
And so I still think they're going to finish last in the division unless Tewin gets hurt
and they'll be second to last.
But I don't think they're going to get within a couple of games of the Bills and the Patriots.
So that is definitely something to look forward to as the Jets trying to figure this thing
out.
But up next we're going to shift to FIBA and Taiwan's going down with Tewin USA.
Welcome back into the show and now we're going to jump into FIBA World Cup.
Just a quick discussion of what's going on there.
The Americans are still undefeated.
Of course I expect the Americans to win this tournament.
It's kind of one of those US versus the world things.
And people talk about oh the Europeans are catching up, the foreigners are catching up.
You know if you look at the NBA the top three or four players are foreign.
It's NBA, it's Yoke, it's just Luka.
I think LeBron, Steph, KD answer for the American side.
But then if you go further down the list it's a lot of foreign players in there as well.
But when you divide all the countries out and it's the US versus the rest of the countries
the US dominates.
Almost religiously.
And the funny part about the World Cup is this is even our 18th.
Anthony Davis may end up on the Olympic team.
Anthony Edwards may end up on the Olympic team next year.
He may end up on the Olympic team next year.
So he's a guy.
Brandon England is struggling in international play.
I think it's just the style of play that they have him doing.
Austin Reeves is not an Olympian.
Tyrese Halliburton could be an Olympian.
Especially because the American guards are getting kind of older.
Steph it's Dane.
I don't know how many.
I don't know if they're going to win the Olympics.
Clay I don't know anymore.
I don't think they're going to win more Olympics or not.
But you know this is our B team.
Our World Championship team is always our second grade guys.
With second grade guys in America.
Still all-stars.
Still all NBA guys.
Just not our top players.
Most of the time.
Now like Josh Hart is not an Olympian.
You know Jaylen Brunson is not an Olympian.
Jaren Jackson Jr. could be an Olympian.
So you know there's some guys who can make up both teams.
I can't remember.
You know 2006 after the LeBron's era a lot of the Olympic teams went to the World Championships.
And then that World Championship team ended up in the Olympic team whenever they redid
it for the Redin team in 08.
And so a lot of that World Championship team in 06 ended up being on the 08 Olympic team
as well.
Much closer to their prime on the Broadway Bosham crew.
Much closer to their prime than they were in 2006.
But anyway so the feedback competition has been very interesting.
Anthony Edwards has shown that he's probably the best player on the team.
I know a lot of Pelicans fans are trying to say he's Brandon Ingram.
But he's struggling against international style of play.
He's struggling in his role.
The one game where he was able to really have the ball with that second unit.
He had his best game 15 minutes 7.5 assists.
He felt a lot more comfortable just opposed to him being basically a spot up shooter for
the starting lineup.
And it's just bothering him.
Especially with the ball he's not used to having.
You know you see American free throw changes way down from where they are in the NBA.
And that's because the ball is a little different.
You can dunk it just as well.
Pretty much shooting a three you can adjust.
But your free throw is such a I do it every time kind of thing.
You can't really affect your routine that much in order to take something off the ball
in order for it to roll into the rim.
So it's very interesting what's going on with the Americas there.
We used to have to adjust to a lot of feeble play.
It used to be way more physical.
They're doing moves they're doing in America.
The lane was funky.
You could slap the ball off the rim.
And the ball was different.
Now it's down to at least the ball is different.
They're a little less physical because more of them are playing American style basketball.
But let's say they're more physical.
And on top of that we've seen all their moves.
And we're doing moves they've never seen before.
Because the world's gotten smaller thanks to technology and a lot of international players
coming over.
The Euro step was like unheard of 20 years ago.
And then the model you know we were doing with the people on the feeble side.
And it kind of made its way over to the NBA.
And now the Euro step is one of the most popular moves besides the basic crossover in basketball.
Because every little kid comes up to adults and Euro steps around them.
And so it's just an absolute spectacular movement.
The USA no longer has to adjust so much because feeble has to contort a lot of their rules
and regulations to fit the American game.
For instance the lane is the standard lane you see now instead of the big trapezoid.
I still want the NBA to adopt the Golden E rule of feeble.
Where you want to test the rim.
It's fair game for everybody.
The American and the NBA did adopt the intentional foul rule.
Which I think was a great addition to the rule book.
Trying to get more fast break opportunities.
More of those high light real plays.
And plus if you take a foul on the backcourt to intentionally foul.
To me that's showcasing you can't or won't play defense.
In which case it shouldn't bail you off a bad defense.
So I am pretty excited with the fact that that's in the rule book.
But the USA has looked great.
Like I say Anthony Edwards has looked spectacular.
Paolo Banquero is really putting on a show here.
Jalen Brunson and Tyrese Halliburton and Austin Reeves are doing really really well.
Jaren Jackson Jr. is doing better than his stats would suggest.
He I think he's being robbed of a couple of blocks.
And a couple of ultra shots he just didn't get credit for.
So I think he's actually playing better than his stats would suggest.
But he's playing really really well also.
And so keep it up team USA.
Rooting for you on that side.
And we are hoping that they get their gold medal undefeated.
I believe they are going to win their gold medal either way.
But let's hope they get their gold medal undefeated.
Now we are going to jump into Jax.
Jax's hot take is going to be on college football.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we are going to discuss Jax's hot take.
Which is going to be my Heisman winner.
I believe it will be Jaden Daniels of LSU.
The returning quarterback is entering his last year at LSU.
After transferring in from Arizona State that cesspool that mess that disaster program Hermann
was running.
And I think that Jaden Daniels is going to lead the LSU Tigers to an 11 win season.
If he can execute that the way I think he will.
Then he will win the Heisman Trophy.
Now of course, of course a lot of people right now are on the Shadoor Sanders train.
Rightfully so 510 yards and 4 touchdowns.
It's hard to ignore.
Travis Hunter played 129 snaps in a college football game.
Had over 100 yards receiving.
Two pass breakups and one interception.
It's kind of hard to ignore that.
Kayla Williams is absolutely rolling right now at USC.
It's hard to ignore that.
J.J.
McCarthy had a great opening game with Keith Carolina.
It's hard to ignore that.
But at the same time I just think J.J.
Daniels has a few things working for him.
One he has momentum.
People are excited to see the LSU Tigers play.
Starting like I said tomorrow night against Florida State.
He has kind of the storyline.
Transferring in last year in very Joe Burrowsque.
People forget that was Joe Burrows second year at LSU United's first.
He transferred in kind of had a rough-ish first year and then exploded in 2019.
J.J.
Daniels is kind of feeling the same thing.
Solid first year looking to explode in year two.
He's got the dual threat ability.
Shadou San is going to have all his yards in the air.
Every single one of them is going to be in the air pretty much.
Kayla Williams is going to be in the air as well.
J.J.
Daniels is going to be those total yard guys.
He may go 300, 150 one game.
300, 125, 475 in terms of 400 passing out of 75 rushing.
He's going to have the advantage of being able to be a dual threat throwing and running
the ball.
So my hot take is that J.J.
Daniels of LSU will become the third LSU Heisman winner behind Billy Cannon and Joe Burrow.
He brings one home to Baton Rouge along with an 11 win season.
A hell of a bowl game if not a playoff appearance.
That is all I have for today's shorter show.
Especially considering that I hadn't talked to you guys in a while.
Looking to do a midweek show potentially somewhere around Thursday.
It may even come in even earlier.
But you guys enjoy your Labor Day weekend.
We're getting back into the swing of things.
The NFL is back.
So we're going to get back into the swing of things every single week.
You can expect to hear my voice from here through the end of the year.
And of course, Justin Time Sports will be on and popping as always on my social media
making sure you guys are as formed as quickly as possible.
That is all I have for today.
This is your host Justin Jackson signing out and enjoy your Labor Day weekend.