00:01I'll tell you one thing that doesn't get old, watching Darian Mensah throw the ball.
00:06Don't bring me down.
00:07No, I'm not bringing anybody down today.
00:09Dan Day is bringing the music in, you know.
00:11I've got to tell you, by the way, your music is so much better than Woody's.
00:15So much better.
00:17No, but Mensah, good, I mean, could he be more on point through three games?
00:23So let me ask you, I know it's too early, and I know one guy was the first overall pick,
00:29and the other guy was maybe one of the top.
00:31Was he top pick in the third round?
00:33He was right there in the top of the third round.
00:37This guy, it's early and I want to get carried away.
00:41That's why I'm careful because we're really good in sports media now
00:46of the knee-jerk reaction led by the national leaders of sport, ESPN.
00:52Nobody from week to week has more of a knee-jerk reaction than guys.
00:59Now, fans, I get it.
01:00Oh, we suck.
01:01Oh, we're great.
01:02Oh, this.
01:03I mean, it's a roller coaster.
01:04Those guys.
01:05And let me tell you, nobody's worse than Greeny, the guy in the morning,
01:09the New York-loving fan that he is.
01:13All I know is the Rams got written off after losing.
01:16Well, him.
01:16Yeah.
01:17You know who did it.
01:17You know who said it was him.
01:1917-0.
01:20And then now, oh, my God, they lost.
01:22They're done.
01:23They go, all right, it's okay, man.
01:25We're just two games into this.
01:27We got 15 left to go.
01:28So what do you think?
01:29I think Mensoth, through three games, though, 90% accuracy on completions
01:38and where you were going is like, is he the best of the three quarterbacks, right?
01:45So I think he could be number two real quickly here ahead of Carson Beck
01:51with things that he does.
01:52Now, one thing they all have in common is great pass protection.
01:59The run blocking, not as good with this group,
02:02but the pass protection's been pretty solid.
02:06It's gotten better.
02:07I mean, Cam Ward, it was pretty good, but not great.
02:10Can I tell you something I've been surprised by?
02:12Is neither one of those young freshmen are playing, are starting.
02:17That surprised me.
02:19That's a good point.
02:21I thought Jackson Cantwell was going to be starting.
02:25I was wrong.
02:26Top guy in the country.
02:28Top guy in the country.
02:30And he's not starting.
02:33I thought they'd work him in, and he'd be starting by now getting ready.
02:37Such a big, physical guy.
02:40And I know you've got to earn everything with Mario,
02:43and he's not because of what you make or what your star is.
02:48He doesn't care.
02:50But, yeah, I think Mensah has more at receiver than the previous two years.
02:58Yes.
03:00What about now?
03:01Well, not now.
03:03I hope.
03:04I'm afraid of this.
03:06I hope that they're not playing without Moore and Tony this week
03:09and their top two running backs.
03:12And I know you're playing Central Michigan, and people are like,
03:15I'm not worried about Central Michigan.
03:17Well, they're 2-1.
03:18They just beat Wyoming.
03:19I'm not saying they're at the talent level, Miami,
03:22but they're out of the same conference as they're out of my conference.
03:27I went to Miami, Ohio, the MAAC, and Western Michigan just beat Michigan,
03:33and they didn't get the win, but they beat them.
03:36And not that – I'm not saying Central Michigan is going to do that.
03:40They're not at that level.
03:41But you start taking your two best receivers, your two best running backs,
03:48your two best cornerbacks.
03:50It's going to start affecting you.
03:52You're right.
03:53And so we'll find out the next couple of days.
03:58Well, probably with Mario, we'll find out Saturday morning.
04:03Yeah, Saturday.
04:03Saturday afternoon.
04:04Afternoon.
04:05Saturday, 630 o'clock.
04:09But somebody just sent in this, and I get it.
04:12We do this with topics, and we match them up,
04:15that Malik Willis wouldn't start for the Miami Hurricanes.
04:20And I'm not so sure about that.
04:22What?
04:23Yeah.
04:24But that's where people are.
04:27Well, how about –
04:28I had somebody a couple weeks ago wrote that the Hurricanes could beat the
04:33Dolphins, and I go, no, they can't.
04:35Yeah, we're going to be hearing that a lot.
04:37But what about Michael Irvin saying Tony was the best receiver he's ever seen?
04:44Now, we all love Tony.
04:45We all know how good Tony is, right?
04:47But best receiver he's ever seen?
04:49There weren't qualifiers on it, as it was relayed to me, just the best.
04:54I mean, are we compared to Jerry Rice, and are we up there already?
04:59I mean –
05:02So, I love Michael.
05:05I do.
05:05So do I.
05:07I love hyperbole.
05:08You can't say that.
05:10And he is unbelievable what he's done.
05:12He's the best freshman.
05:14He's off to another great start.
05:15By the way, he'll be motivated.
05:17He better be really hurt because you know he wants to play.
05:21There's a guy that loves playing football, and he's really good at everything,
05:26including returning kicks, punts.
05:29Yeah, I was surprised they have him now.
05:31Oh, don't get going.
05:32They all got mad at me for this.
05:34Don't do it.
05:36Why do we have him returning?
05:38Yeah.
05:38I said the same thing.
05:41There's a lot of talent on that roster.
05:44But if you don't trust other guys – I saw Barkate also when he got banged up a little bit.
05:48He came in and fair caught a couple.
05:51I'd much rather go that way.
05:52Me too.
05:54Me too.
05:54I was like, I don't know that I want Tony out there doing that,
05:58considering how valuable he is to –
06:02Now, I guess they're saying the same thing.
06:04He wants to do it.
06:05He takes a lot of shots in the middle of the field.
06:07He got banged going down the sideline.
06:12He's a tough guy.
06:14I can't – what Michael said about him being the best receiver he's ever seen.
06:18I can't say that.
06:20I don't know if he's the best – the kid in Ohio State, I don't know if we're going to
06:23forget about him.
06:26No, I'm with you.
06:27But Michael, the flamboyant, the big hot take, and I love him.
06:36Everybody loves Michael Orvin.
06:37But that's going a little too far right now.
06:40Let's not put the horse in front of the wagon.
06:42Or the wagon in front of the horse.
06:44He'll get to – if Tony keeps going, I'm curious to see what the pros – where he'll go in
06:51the –
06:51Now we're a ways off, obviously.
06:53We don't know because he's got one more year he has to play.
06:55I'll tell you what, though.
06:56He's one of the biggest names in college football.
06:59Whatever they put up, top –
07:04Top, Jeremiah Smith, Malachi, a couple of the quarterbacks.
07:09Arch Manning.
07:10Arch always in there.
07:11Good call.
07:12Dante Moore probably in there.
07:14But he's certainly in the top ten of college football names.
07:17He's got – whatever that thing is, he's got it.
07:19He's got it with people.
07:21He's got it when he shows up.
07:23People want to be around him.
07:25They want to know he's tough, he blocks, and, boy, he catches a football.
07:30He just doesn't drop the football.
07:31Well, people talk about he gets it, you know, not only showing up to practice early, 6 a.m. workouts,
07:38but I went to his – he gave a clinic in Hollywood at the park he grew up in.
07:44And the fact that here he is, he's 18, about maybe just turned 19, he's about to turn 19.
07:51He needs to give him back.
07:53He's giving clinics to youth.
07:55I mean, that's rare.
07:58So it's interesting.
07:59If you get bored one night and they're in town or he can get out to American Heritage Plantation game,
08:05you ought to see that show.
08:07He's a rock star.
08:10He shows up.
08:13And, by the way, usually his teammates like to go with him.
08:16So not to mention they have five or six guys from American Heritage on that team.
08:22Yeah, that's – that's a show.
08:25Never say anything negative ever about what he's done.
08:29He just turned 19.
08:30No, 18.
08:3218, 19.
08:32Just turned 19.
08:3319.
08:3319.
08:34Came in at 17.
08:36It was weird.
08:37How about him and Jeremiah Smith out of the same area?
08:40I mean, you talk – neighbors of each other.
08:43Yeah.
08:44Great.
08:45Great.
08:47A lot of people upset because Jeremiah has said a lot of things about down here
08:52and said he got offered a big amount of money.
08:54Nobody knows if it's true or not.
08:57I know others have said, you talk so much about coming down here,
09:01you sound like you want to be back here.
09:03And he's gone out of his way to kind of – you know, he wants to play Miami again
09:07and those type of things.
09:08All I know is anybody that wants him, I got no problem with that.
09:14When they say, I want him in a Dolphins uniform next year,
09:18wherever that pick might be, one, two, or three in the draft.
09:23The Dolphins need great players.
09:25He's going to be a great player in the NFL, right?
09:28I mean, all the signs are that.
09:30He looks it.
09:31Yeah.
09:31And he's played in a lot of big games there.
09:34I'll tell you what, Ohio State and LSU receivers,
09:38constantly.
09:39Of course, Brian Hartline was a big part of developing –
09:42He is.
09:42Recruiting and developing the receivers,
09:44and we'll see where that goes at Ohio State.
09:45Those guys, spitting them out, though, those two schools here.
09:49A lot of guys.
09:50A lot of guys from those two schools.
09:519 o'clock hour is coming up, man,
09:53and we got more stuff to get to here this morning.
09:56As I see a lot of stuff coming in about coverages and the teams
10:01and Lane Kiffin.
10:03By the way, I want you to think about this before we come back.
10:06Before Lane Kiffin, who's that coach that you just really watch
10:11and you just really don't like in football?
10:15College football.
10:16The one guy that you just go, oh.
10:19And it can't be Saban because of the whole thing.
10:22Because you're tied to that, and I don't want you doing it.
10:24I don't mind Saban.
10:24I don't either.
10:25I'm over the Saban thing.
10:26Let's just say –
10:27You are, Josie.
10:28Now, you carried it for years, so you're beyond that.
10:31That's good to hear.
10:31That's healthy of you.
10:33Good.
10:34When he retired from that, I retired from bashing him.
10:37You didn't have to see him win anymore.
10:39But you're tied to Nick Saban for life.
10:41That question, yeah.
10:42I wish I had Patent on that answer, you know.
10:45So you have a right for this to find out who it would be.
10:48But it can't be Nick Saban because we now like Nick Saban on that.
10:52He's good.
10:53He's great on that show.
10:54He's great on that show.
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