00:01all right so the other day i'm driving back and i realized something
00:07the news came out that's saying the ohio state quarterback is going to probably be
00:12out for the year and you start looking at this michigan team they're going to play indiana this
00:18weekend if this michigan wolverine team beats indiana you look at the remaining of their
00:24schedule they got ruckers and they got michigan state i think that's easy to say those are two
00:30wins at oregon this oregon team is not as advertised this oregon team is not as good as we thought
00:36and
00:36we don't know what the dante moore situation is like and rayola he's on the bench he's off the
00:42bench whatever ucla they're winning they're number 10 in the nation but i don't know how good they
00:47really are because i don't think they played anybody yet which leads into the buckeye game
00:52at the end of the year they're going in with a backup as well and that's a 50 50 game
00:57look they
00:58got jeremiah smith but you got a lights out defense if you beat indiana you can run this table you'll
01:07make the playoffs this michigan team and you'll make the playoffs not because of tommy carr i don't want
01:13you to think that i think tommy carr is his savior no all tommy carr has to do is something
01:19that bryce
01:19could not do don't turn the ball over this michigan defense is clearly if they'll keep you
01:26under 20 points if you don't turn it over tommy carr let everything end in a punt a kick or
01:33an
01:34extra point but if you do your job and you're a game manager you lean on this defense mike this
01:40game
01:40against indiana you win it they're going to the playoffs because if you forget it'll make you are
01:47you serious i'm serious you'll forget about the western michigan game because at that point you've
01:52beaten three top 10 schools in indiana uh ucla and ohio state you're going to go in there now the
02:02best
02:02part about you may not be eligible to go to the big 10 championship game but that actually benefits you
02:07because you can't lose that game so that would cement you into the playoffs if you win this game
02:12that defense is good i hate to say it but they're elite they don't they just go out there and
02:20shut
02:20teams down and they struggle and when you think about the games that they lost it was because of
02:26turnovers and because of what bryce did and put the other team in good spots hey real quick what
02:31good offenses have they faced michigan yeah that's right they haven't that's what i said no i'm making
02:38a point like i'm not going to sit here and talk about the defense being the best in america be
02:42elite
02:42look at the offenses they faced no no buddy the only good offense you're about to face is this weekend
02:47after that ruckers michigan state oregon ucla all right now ohio state has jeremiah smith and he's a
02:56unicorn he's a one-of-one but is you know luke fahey going to be able to get him the
03:03ball the way
03:04the sayings was i guess we'll find out i i can can someone help me i'm not in the mood
03:09to argue
03:10i think this is insane i mean it's fascinating it's fascinating that he believes it first of all
03:16i think indiana is going to smoke him like a cheap cigar two they're going to lose another game to
03:21somebody they shouldn't why we've already seen the evidence of it they're not good it's not a good
03:25football team and i don't think look tommy carr is going to be a work in progress you know what
03:29tommy
03:30car is going to most likely have at some point a complete disaster of a game that's what kids do
03:35they do but mike i look at how this team went out there they wanted to play for him he
03:40energized the
03:41crowd he energized the team and look he didn't have this great performance he threw for 47 yards but it
03:47was just the fact that all of a sudden he completed passes he didn't turn ball over running game opens
03:53up
03:53these were the exact same plays they were running yeah this indiana team is their biggest test
03:59if somehow and because they're playing it at home because we know michigan doesn't play role games
04:05they get past indiana the rest of the path for them is clear you're saying what great offense is
04:12they playing they really won't play one for the rest of the year i just i so so you want
04:17me to say
04:17that michigan switching quarterbacks that's good for them but then okay ohio state loses their guy and
04:23now all of a sudden they're just feckless losers no no no no you didn't hear me no i heard
04:27you say
04:2850 50 but you're giving them the 50 i'm not doing that i'm saying it's a 50 50 game because
04:33both
04:33teams have great defense talk to david about david you're the wolverine don't put me on main street
04:38here where i look like i'm being negative i just don't buy any of this but you're the wolverine and
04:42paul's impartial and damn it people you can argue with rico he's supporting you this man is supporting
04:48you i am not yeah it's it's hard for me to look past the indiana game because i think they
04:53lose but i do
04:54understand what you're looking at the reason why they lost the iowa and the minnesota games were
05:00because of turnovers they turned the ball over bryce turned that ball over and put them in bad
05:05spots so i get the the idea that if they don't do that then it's it's a possibility i see
05:14that it's
05:14just hard for me to get past indiana i don't think they beat indiana even if they don't turn the
05:20ball over
05:20and like i said it's a big if but we don't do let it play out radio so right here
05:24right now
05:25if they do and you look at what else they have on their schedule the ohio state game will be
05:31a slug
05:32fest it will be a rock fight but you win that game you're in and now it goes back to
05:40being an
05:40important game how are they in with three losses but that's just it mike if they beat let's just play
05:46this game okay you beat indiana you beat ucla you beat ohio state that means you knocked off three
05:50top 10 teams nobody's going to remember the western michigan that's not how that works because
05:56college football is all about recency bias no it's not it's right there on the schedule you lost to a
06:00mac team you lost and jeff sagarin has marked it as a loss and he's part of the playoff process
06:07right
06:07but the playoff committee come on they're not that smart of people you you've seen it every year the
06:13only time that what happened in the early in the year actually helped out somebody was with miami
06:19last year because they actually beat notre dame then i helped them yeah and it hurts you when you
06:23lose to dog water they lost i mean like i said talk to paul i i go ahead paul you're
06:29impartial
06:30i'll be viewed as a hater this is i'm set up for a loss here go ahead well i don't
06:35think they're
06:35beating indiana so go with rico's fever dream they beat indiana are they running the table well no
06:41because i also think they'll lose to oregon and ohio state see i don't i mean oregon is struggling
06:46paul i mean watching them they just can't get out their own way this is not the oregon team they
06:53missed their coordinators this is not the oregon team from even last year they are struggling they
06:58are living off of the name and the uniforms but they're not a good team if you took away the
07:03name
07:03oregon and gave it somebody else you would be like yeah that's probably about an eight win team
07:08are they good enough to score 20 points against michigan because if they are they're probably
07:12win the game and see that's why i don't i don't think that they can because i think they're michigan's
07:18defense looking at them they stop teams that are just okay now indiana is going to be the best
07:24offense they will go up against and that's why i said if they beat this indiana team looking at the
07:31rest of their schedule they could beat these teams trust me driving back from east lansing the other
07:37night i was not happy when i came up with this conclusion but i'm like you know what my goodness
07:42this team has a pathway that as bad as everything looked at the beginning of the season they could
07:48actually get this done michigan fans are you with me 248-539-9797 i see the path there now it
07:57requires you
07:58to beat a hoosiers team that is very good and very angry because they should have beat the buckeyes
08:04nick marsh dropped the game i mean he didn't drop it he caught the game winning touchdown out of
08:11bounds on a fourth down with a minute to go he knew it immediately they're angry they're going to come
08:16out there and try to beat you now we got to see what happens with car getting all the snaps
08:22at one
08:23but like i said this isn't because of him all car has to do and it sounds silly mike don't
08:30turn the
08:30ball over just lean on the defense be the ultimate game manager go back to being all of the other
08:38quarterbacks that michigan has it were just game managers just be you know be like jj just turn
08:44around handball off let those big backs that you paid a ton of money in that aisle go out there
08:49and
08:50help you out 248-539-9797 david you can go ahead what are people having to say i mean i
08:57i just there's
08:57nothing else i can do with it i've made my point i'm not going to sit here and i'm not
09:00going to
09:00bicker with him if people want to talk about it let's do it but this team i'm sorry but like
09:05we're sitting here writing off oregon because they're not what we were promised look at the
09:09teams you've lost to you lost to western iowa and minnesota all right oregon lost oklahoma state
09:14who's ranked like i what am i going to do knock them for that okay fine and look they beat
09:23usc
09:23with their backup qb now i get it ray all ended up looking terrible a few weeks later i just
09:29is this team really going to outs and and winning like these offenses michigan has faced are so bad
09:35oklahoma's offense is terrible no mike they are but what i'm saying is oregon doesn't look like the
09:42same oregon team this team is seriously flawed and what's michigan michigan is seriously flawed but
09:49mike they play the point i'm making is if you have a seriously flawed team running the table is
09:55off the table the defense to me is the thing that will travel their defense is good whether the team
10:01is good or bad they're they got a really good defense i i cannot deny that the the point the
10:06debate the way to beat michigan you got to score over 20 points and can they keep the other teams
10:12now
10:12and a lot of those points come from bryce was turning the ball over david i'll actually time out you
10:18collect the text we'll stay timely people rico is offering this i am fascinated to see if wolverines
10:26believe in this easy for me or paulie to shoot holes in but do you believe rico's presenting a
10:33comprehensive case deal to hell with what i two four eight five three nine 97 97 we'll get some calls
10:40we'll get some texts 97 one
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