00:00Hey, hats off to you, my friend.
00:02I'm talking to you, Scott Anderson.
00:06If you had some people tail you last week, Gator went 5-1 in the picks.
00:115-1.
00:14I want you to Google search right now something, okay?
00:17Because this is along those lines.
00:19We'll have our picks today at 138.
00:22I did not go 5-1.
00:24I went 2-4.
00:26But Gator went 5-1, people.
00:28With that said, I want you to Google Grand Valley State football point spread
00:34and what comes up.
00:37And he's typing.
00:39And what do you got?
00:42Official commercial.
00:45Match against Judson.
00:47Yep.
00:51Does it say?
00:52Don't see one.
00:53Oh, really?
00:55Maybe click on something else here.
00:58Because official commercial betting lines or point spreads are generally not posted
01:02for Division II or NIA.
01:04I Google Grand Valley State point spread.
01:07Grand Valley State is listed as a massive triple-digit favorite,
01:10around 107 points in computer projections against Judson College.
01:15What?
01:16Grand Valley State is listed as a massive triple-digit favorite,
01:20around 107 points in a computer projection against Judson College.
01:25Because Grand Valley plays Division II football and Judson is an NAIA program.
01:30Traditional commercial sportsbooks post official public betting lines or point spreads
01:33for these, rarely post official point spreads for these mismatches.
01:39However, advanced analytics models like Bill Connolly's SP-plus projection
01:43has GVSU as roughly 107-point favorite for their matchup.
01:49You can't bet it, apparently, but that's what it would be if they put that game on the books.
01:55107.
01:56That seems crazy.
01:57I'm looking up the roster just to see what these guys look like.
02:01Judson?
02:01Yeah.
02:02Good old Judson?
02:03To see if they got any size at all.
02:07If I look at offensive linemen.
02:10What do they got?
02:12The first guy I look at.
02:15Number 51, Ryan Pardo.
02:18Pride of Racine, Wisconsin.
02:20Yeah.
02:20What's Ryan Pardo going?
02:225'11", 285.
02:245'11", 285.
02:26When someone says Ryan Pardo is pretty small, you say no.
02:28He's got good leverage.
02:30He's pretty big.
02:31Number 53 is Rodolfo Garcia from Houston, Texas.
02:34Yeah.
02:35Rodolfo's a freshman.
02:37He's 5'8", and 250.
02:39And he's an offensive 5'8", 250?
02:435'8", 250.
02:44That's a body shape.
02:46Here's a big guy.
02:47Linebacker is 6'4", 224.
02:49But he's a freshman.
02:52Another linebacker, 6'3", 180.
02:55Yeah, these are not big guys.
02:56Okay, let's get into the 70s.
02:57These are real linemen.
02:595'10", 290.
03:00What's with the 5'10"?
03:02I don't know.
03:02Do they got anybody over 6 feet tall?
03:03At 6'3", 295, that's Jonathan Alley from, oh, he's from Ohio, Geneva, Ohio.
03:106'3", 280, dude's from England, James Tibbins.
03:17Point of comparison, Judson lost their opener at Madonna College here in Metro Detroit, 77-14.
03:23Oh, my God.
03:25Much closer game against Defiance.
03:27They lost 42-12.
03:29Now they play at Grand Valley.
03:31They may give up triple digits.
03:34Unless, well, they do what Miami did with...
03:37Shorten the game?
03:38Yeah.
03:39I mean, seriously, if I were betting, man, I'd take 107.
03:43If you'd be sweating at halftime.
03:50Might tease it to 114.
03:52These linemen are tight.
03:53I mean, they're heavy.
03:54They're fat, probably.
03:56Well, I mean, when you're 20 years old or 19 years old and you're 6'3", I'm guessing that you're
04:02not, like, ripped.
04:03Yeah.
04:05It's 6'3", 10.
04:08Well, I just feel like as we wallow in the fluids of despair on this Friday, you may as well
04:13give you a little something funny to laugh at.
04:15That is...
04:15107.
04:16Something.
04:17Yeah.
04:17Wow.
04:18248-539-9797.
04:20Let's go to Dan next on 97.1.
04:22Hello, Dan.
04:26Hey, good morning.
04:26How are you guys doing?
04:27What's up?
04:29I'm looking for some philosophical and some wise answers this morning.
04:36I've got a hypothetical for you.
04:37Okay.
04:38A lot of people are saying that it's time for Calvin to go.
04:41So what would be wrong if that happens with hiring Jim Schwartz to come back as defensive coordinator?
04:47The guy's been flattering about Detroit.
04:49Yep.
04:49You got a Super Bowl-winning defensive coordinator just sitting at his house a few hours away right now.
04:53So what are your thoughts?
04:54So we've talked about it a little bit, and I feel like there's nothing wrong with making that call, seeing
05:02his interest, a clandestine discussion, see what Schwartz thinks of the defense and what he might do with it.
05:11If you're going to do it, you've got extra days here to do it quickly.
05:15I don't know that...
05:18Here's what I might be saying to him.
05:19Here's probably what I would do.
05:20I would call up Jim Schwartz and say, look, we're having a conversation off the record, just you and me,
05:28Jimmy, and I want you to watch our defense the next couple of weeks.
05:32And let us know.
05:34I want you to think about what you would do if we brought you in, because we may have to
05:39make a change, and you'd be one of our first calls.
05:41Because I don't know that I would fire Calvin Shepard now.
05:44I think you'd put a lot of time and investment into it, and see if he has answers.
05:49But it's not trending in the right direction.
05:52At what point...
05:54What's that?
05:56I'm sorry, I interrupted you.
05:58I interrupted you, but I was going to say, at what point in the season would you do that?
06:01I might do it if the Jets put up 40.
06:06But nothing would make me happier than if the Lions hired Jim Schwartz.
06:09That's such your guy.
06:09I love Jim Schwartz.
06:10Yeah, but has it ever happened before where you hired someone outside of the organization who hasn't been with the
06:15team to take over mid-season?
06:16Usually you just promote someone as an interim inside, right?
06:19I'm sure it's happened.
06:21I mean...
06:23Who?
06:23I said I'm sure it's happened.
06:25I can't give an example, but I don't think that it's too crazy to think that it's happened.
06:31It's hard.
06:32It's hard to find that match.
06:34I would say this.
06:35If you're looking for a reason why it doesn't work, here's why it wouldn't work.
06:40If the way that Jim Schwartz operates as a defensive coordinator, if that doesn't fit with what the culture is
06:48that this team is going through...
06:49Or with the players you have either, too.
06:51Yeah, that's part of it, too.
06:53But if the fit isn't there, if it's just simply, oh, this guy's got a resume, yeah, he's got a
06:58resume all day long.
06:59And he's not under contract with anybody, right?
07:01No, but I believe he resigned, so he might still, you might have some compensation due to Cleveland, whether it's
07:08a draft pick or money, if you're going to take on Jim Schwartz.
07:12I don't know about that, but let's just say for the sake of argument he's available.
07:16Again, I think you have to know if it's a fit or not.
07:19This is one where I'd probably lean on Chris Spielman a lot, you know, because Chris Spielman's been with his
07:24organization for a while, was here when Schwartz was here.
07:27You know, what do you know about this?
07:29Or at least he, I don't know if he was here when Schwartz was here or not, because he might
07:32have been doing too much college football back then.
07:33But he knows, and I would trust Chris, plus Chris has the ties to Ohio and all that.
07:40I would certainly feel comfortable if he got the stamp of approval that way.
07:45And if you do, then go do it if that's the case, because this guy's resume is ridiculously good.
07:51Did it work out here as a head coach for the Detroit Lions?
07:54No, it did not.
07:55It did not.
07:57But he's one of these guys that might just be well better suited as a coordinator than a head coach.
08:03Pete is next on 97.1.
08:05Hello, Pete.
08:07Hi, how are you doing?
08:09Good.
08:11So, you guys are barking up the right tree.
08:14I don't think this was a complete player failure.
08:17There's no way that, you know, Josh Allen is phenomenal.
08:22He's an incredible player.
08:24But we didn't see him wiggle out of situations yesterday.
08:28We didn't see him throw contested passes.
08:30We saw every time he ran the ball, there was no one around him.
08:35When he was throwing the ball, receivers are wide open.
08:38This is all scheme.
08:40This is on Shepard.
08:41I think the wide open part's true.
08:42They were in his face.
08:44He's just getting away from pass rush, man.
08:46He did a great job.
08:48Like, the first play of the second half, the Lions did everything right, and he went eight yards for a
08:51positive game.
08:52Yeah, I don't know how.
08:53I don't know the pressure numbers in front of me.
08:56I don't feel like he was pressured a ton.
08:58I think he was pressured some.
09:00Yeah, I think guys were running wide open.
09:03Guys were running wide open, and he could have taken off and gotten 10 yards any time he wanted.
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