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Jon Jansen, Jim Costa, and the morning crew celebrate Brendan Shabath’s announcement as a full-time host on 97.1 The Ticket before diving into rivalry week ahead of the Michigan vs. Michigan State showdown.
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00:03hey by the way shout out to brendan shabath saw the announcement yesterday he's going to be
00:08a full-time host around here now yeah thank you very much very excited sticking around doing
00:14updates for a few weeks until we get things sorted out but yeah i'll be uh still doing
00:19weekends with stoney been doing sundays after lions now so that's going to continue and then
00:24i get the honor of being on the air with rieger a couple times uh this month which will be
00:29exciting
00:29and just some weeknights and stuff like that so it'll be good i'm pumped yeah it's always exciting
00:34to be on with rieger i think they're testing how badly you want to do this yeah well that was
00:38that
00:38was the joke going around on twitter yesterday you know that since wojo uh just takes days off so he
00:45can drink gin at home i'm not allowed to do the same yet and well joe said you know you
00:49might are
00:49you even old enough to drink gin yes actually believe it or not i choose not to i am old
00:55enough
00:55to work with rieger long enough and then that's exactly what i said i said four hours with jeff
00:59i might need it so and then regret to clarify that he and wojo were cool and i'm like oh
01:04boy
01:04uh-oh all these feuds brewing around here at 97 one uh-oh brewing i see what you did there
01:10there you go nice congrats we're excited thank you appreciate it we got open lines we're going to
01:16talk michigan michigan state because hey the game's tomorrow it's rivalry week yep but i don't feel
01:21the same level of juice of years past the question is when it all fades away and the ball's kicked
01:27off
01:27toe meets leather does michigan state have a chance to win this football game sure i mean
01:32anytime you play a game there's a chance for either side to win so start to build that case what
01:37would
01:37it have to look like for michigan state to get this upset well okay um michigan reverts to what
01:44it had done really through the first i don't know what six games where you lose the turnover battle
01:50you are one of the most penalized penalized team in the country and you can't run the ball
01:56i mean that's a recipe right there now part of the equation is the injury list for the spartans
02:06it is i mean it's a long list and it is some of their best players now we don't know
02:14if quarterback
02:15uh milivojevic is going to play so they may be down to what their third quarterback yeah because
02:23fancher is out correct um running back cam edwards out uh jazz patterson out uh marvis parish running
02:31back out uh then you look on defense trey bell out uh jordan hall linebacker out safety braden thomas
02:39out charles brantley cornerback out why don't you just tell us who's playing
02:45it's seriously i mean yeah ben roberts defensive lineman out and he's had a couple he had a couple
02:49big games this season yeah so if you take into account the injuries it makes it harder obviously
02:57for michigan state to find a way to win especially going against this michigan defense and last week
03:04against rutgers the michigan defense okay it was a little bit of an anomaly because they have shown
03:08that they're a really good defense one of the country's best college football defenses
03:12and yet they allow 21 points by rutgers explosives blown coverage guy slips right guy slips and falls
03:18down i don't expect that to be a characteristic of this defense but you would need it to to pull
03:23this off if you're msu sure you're going to need like several breaks i mean you're going to need
03:28michigan to keep missing field goals you're going to need blown coverages you're going to need a
03:32fumble a pick a tip pass they're just so depleted and i think fitzgerald will have them ready to play
03:39but they're going to need michigan to keep the game close by you know you couldn't run it on
03:45rutgers maybe you can't run it out of msu maybe you can't run away with the game and it's one
03:49score
03:49in the second half i mean that that's kind of the formula that would have to happen right and it's
03:53so typically it's whoever wins the rushing battle in this game wins the game except michigan can't run
03:59the football right and you would have thought they would have done it against rutgers a much better
04:03level than they did the worst rushing defense worst pass defense worst defense overall and it
04:10wasn't like they were lighting the scoreboard up and then you look at okay well they they ran the
04:16ball for a half against penn state that was the second worst defense well what happened in the first
04:21half i mean that that's where you're looking at it going well there's there's just nothing you can
04:26hang on you hang your hat on offensively now does tommy carr give them a chance to be able to
04:31throw the ball downfield more okay maybe maybe that's the path this year where it's not going
04:37to be the rushing the team that wins the rushing battle that wins this game but then you look at
04:42michigan state you say well they got their top three running backs out how are they going to win
04:45the running battle right and tommy carr's helped in the run game too i mean that's sure it's going to
04:50be part of it i thought he played it's so tough because it's rutgers and you don't want to
04:55well he played better much praise but he played poised too i mean the touchdowns that he he converted
04:59legs and arms were third down plays got to have its situations yeah and the the last one that he
05:04scored it was i mean you go right across the offensive line you'd be like i thought tommy
05:09was going to die because left tackle fell down and there was a game on the front side that wasn't
05:15picked up yet he was able to maneuver his way into the end zone that was just a life-saving
05:20moment for
05:21tommy you had said too if michigan state's smart they'll stunt they'll twist they'll look to
05:27create those advantages right and that's what rutgers rutgers did and and michigan has struggled
05:32to block movement up front um and it's it's one of the harder things to do as an offensive line
05:38especially if you're not confident in in how you are operating as an offense so here's a little bit
05:44of the x's and o's you guys can jump in and talk about the game itself but bigger picture the
05:48interest
05:49level is down but you you started the show and call people liars well yeah i mean if if you
05:54may not
05:54have the same level of interest in regards to well i'm going to have to sit down at 7 30
05:58and watch
05:59this game but i guarantee you everyone's going to be checking in at some point whether it's you know
06:03on an app on your phone uh online or by actually tuning in to peacock at at 7 30 or
06:11at any point
06:12during the game if if you're saying yeah this game doesn't matter you're lying absolutely lying
06:18because this game does matter it may not matter in fact it doesn't matter at all in terms of the
06:23big
06:2310 standings doesn't matter at all in regards to the college football playoffs but for these two
06:28fan bases it's not okay with either fan base if you lose this game great but when you say it
06:34matters
06:34what's on the line winning or losing no i know but then what does that accomplish like from i guess
06:41for michigan it gets to a bowl game like what's on the line if you beat this msu team is
06:47that this
06:47is not a stick your chest out no bragging rights we beat this everybody beats the spartans
06:54so what is what's really okay so it's a game that you don't want to lose more so than you
06:59want to
06:59win it you just don't want to lose this one because michigan state fans who downplayed it all week will
07:03strut oh yeah yeah as they should and and so what was the last time michigan state won a big
07:1110 game
07:11i know we keep saying that the status like one of i think they're one in 14 in the last
07:1615 i think
07:16it was the end of last year they did pick up a big 10 win i could double check maryland
07:21maybe
07:22all right sound right and since the 21 game which was both teams undefeated 7 and 0 both teams ranked
07:28in the top 10 that was a great matchup that was one that everyone was going to be tuning in
07:32for or
07:32trying to get tickets to in east lansing and that was kenneth walker going off for five touchdowns
07:37and what 196 yards um that was a great matchup since then it's it's been you know michigan has won
07:45four in a row clean sweeps this would be five in a row if they pull it off yeah michigan
07:49state
07:49beat maryland last year 38 28 but they went one and eight in the big 10 last year and have
07:54not won a
07:54big 10 game this year yeah beating maryland is not something you're going to hang your hat on either
08:00yeah but i i do believe if you if you're going to sit there and say well this game doesn't
08:05matter
08:06and and you're not going to check in at any point i do believe you're lying so then i i
08:10want that
08:10challenge to be issued to our listeners if you have said that to your friends at any point this
08:13week i don't care it doesn't matter john jansen's calling you a liar defend yourself 248-539-9797
08:21or concede it that yeah on some level you are going to be paying attention to this game
08:26yeah but i mean whether or not you're watching it you're going to check in and just see what the
08:30score is i barely care the only reason i care this year is because what you just said about the
08:35big
08:35stats the fact they've won one big 10 game in two years and you've you're losing to that like
08:42spartan fans will have a field day with the trash talk let's be real here if michigan loses to lowly
08:49michigan state i want john jansen to head downstairs and rip the headset off of kyle whittingham kick
08:55him out of the stadium and doug head over to the press box and start calling plays for the next
09:00game
09:00you guys should take over chad in the truck it will not be good in any way shape or form
09:07would
09:07doug karsh be a good offensive coordinator um well i would be yeah i mean as long as they kept
09:13him on
09:13the headset upstairs you'd be down on that you could always as long as i did what i told him
09:17to do
09:20why are they running at every play uh-huh doug's trying to call some pat you're like no no no
09:25no
09:25let the offensive line get out there and maul some people yeah and run downhill let's go with
09:31the jameer gibbs type of play call you don't think a john jansen offense would be east and west
09:36uh no no uh tech says what if it rains only when michigan has the ball then msu has a
09:43chance signed
09:44kevin says from a spartan no edwards no hall no ben roberts no milahoyevich
09:53come on he says that with those guys it could have been possible now it's almost impossible and
09:58it's ended with a go green he's rooting he just doesn't see it we aren't winning another football
10:04game against the d1 opponent until fitzgerald is fired this is the most lifeless msu team i've seen
10:08in my lifetime jonathan or john l smith would beat this team is it milahoyevich or milahoyevich like you
10:16just said i think it's voyevich milahoyevich i don't know well look at me no i'm looking at
10:24our sparty over there pull up their pronunciation i don't know how to pronounce his name okay
10:29anyway let's get to the phones let's go to corin in columbus corin good morning
10:33good morning guys how you doing first of all i'm feeling great because i already know
10:38sparty's gonna pull this game out um and don't forget last year that was not an offsides
10:44that was a fumble six and we would have won that game with john l smith and aiden child so
10:49don't act
10:50like it has a big competitive and michigan's been just whooping behind cowl winning hand is john
10:55cooper for ohio state he's not going to have michigan ready for him it's just another game
11:00he does not understand the rivalry patch that jerald does and that is all you need to win a game
11:06like
11:06this so i'm telling you right now you're going to be disappointed tomorrow probably leaving at halftime
11:11because we're going to whoop that behind tomorrow or yeah hear that john even with all the injuries
11:18you still think that this is this is a game that michigan state's going to win next man up mentality
11:23patched and jerald is going to have these guys invested in this game this is the kind of game
11:28i'm not going to say that he's going to get fired or anything like that but it does buy him
11:32an extra three or four games leading into next year and he's going to need that because i'm not sure
11:37because he's recruiting we're going to need about two more years because we're not bringing anybody
11:42from nil and all that other stuff so we got to recruit and that's what we've been doing that's
11:46what dantoni does you know he takes you know two three star guys and turns them into four or five
11:50star guys three or four years into the program so that's what we're going to need but he's going
11:54to need some time this is the kind of game where winning hams unwillingness to embrace rivalries
12:00and care about you know the things that matter in the big 10 this is the kind of thing that
12:05bites
12:05them in the behind and you're going to see it tomorrow does this count as a signature win
12:12anytime you beat your rivals signature one come on this is college football it's not the nfl
12:16so it'd be a signature win if michigan won
12:22sure i mean come on but it doesn't pass the smell test it's a it's a rivalry game i mean
12:27i understand
12:28it's not the first time that both teams have been down when they played each other it can't just be
12:33a
12:33signature win when there's numbers in front of the team's name it has to matter who you're playing
12:38and why you're playing them paul bunion still matters so yeah it's a signature win either way
12:44well i agree paul bunion still matters and and that that that's that's where yeah you you need to be
12:49able to embrace the rivalries you need to embrace the traditions um as a coach and and we'll see if
12:57if they've done enough if michigan has done enough to embrace some of those millivoyevic
13:03that's straight from the michigan state website pronunciation guide no millivoyevic okay
13:11who even knows if he plays we'll find out all right text coming in questionable
13:17questionable to play yes
13:19text pouring in we'll get some thoughts michigan michigan state john says you're a liar if you say
13:23this game doesn't matter it's 97 one