00:00So let's start with the college football playoff ranking.
00:03What do you make of them dropping to number seven
00:08after a one-possession loss on the road in a game
00:12that they're not supposed to win?
00:13They're the underdogs.
00:14Listen, and you're missing your biggest playmaker on offense
00:19gets hurt the week of the game.
00:21So I think of Miami's drop.
00:25How about Indiana?
00:26They didn't play.
00:27They dropped like five spots.
00:28I mean, like, they used to be maybe you'd get hit by one point.
00:33They've overranked Alabama's third.
00:35I mean, they have two losses,
00:36and Tennessee took them to the woodshed a few weeks ago.
00:39So some of these make no sense.
00:42I can just say the CFP is human in nature,
00:45and you can scrap it and change it completely from one week to the next.
00:50And, you know, that game, albeit it was tough to lose up there,
00:55it doesn't change.
00:56Miami can still win the ACC, and they're still, you know,
00:59they're a lock, and they walk into the playoffs.
01:01So I think that, you know, you just move on.
01:05I thought it was a catch, and you know I disagreed.
01:08I thought it was a joint catch in Florida State,
01:10which was against our favor of the call.
01:13Gino calls it like he sees it.
01:14He doesn't just put his Hurricanes blinders on.
01:17I just – the dude jumps up, often jumps up, catches the ball.
01:21He's got possession in the air, comes down at two feet.
01:24Now, as soon as it's two feet, isn't that like breaking the plane in the end zone?
01:28It's touchdown?
01:29I mean, like, all I thought about my junior year, we double moved.
01:34Me and Lamar double moved a guy on their defense, and the guy fell down.
01:38And Lamar, essentially, the last 25 yards walked in.
01:42And there was nobody around on the defense.
01:43He stopped in the field of play and just held the ball out to cross the plane
01:50so he could score a touchdown with actually going into the end zone.
01:54So that's what I thought.
01:56I'm like, okay, well, as soon as the ball breaks the plane with possession,
01:59it doesn't matter whatever happens.
02:01It doesn't matter if you fumble after you're already in the end zone.
02:03You've already scored.
02:05I mean, it's a different whatever their football move, you know, ridiculous,
02:10you know, notion.
02:11How about NBC, though?
02:13That official, they couldn't even get the question out.
02:16Hey, do you think it's a catch?
02:17No, it's not a catch.
02:19Incomplete.
02:19Hey, bud, how about we see a replay?
02:22I was just like, what the hell is going on?
02:24And then the targeting?
02:26Oh, no, that's not crowning the helmet.
02:28That's a glancing blow.
02:29I'm like, dude, that was the top of the defender's helmet.
02:32Now I get it.
02:33I thought Mensah delivered the blow, not the defensive player.
02:37But don't act like, you know, like I love it how these official experts,
02:42they tell us stuff that is the antithesis of what we're actually seeing in the game.
02:49It makes no sense.
02:51But, you know, tough loss.
02:53But, listen, they went out and they win the conference and we're in the playoffs and none of it matters.
02:59You and Lamar were playing some tough competition, huh?
03:02Just playing around with touchdowns.
03:04Bro, hey, Teddy Bruschi was on that defense.
03:07They had some boys now.
03:09It was a different breed of canes.
03:12That was a different era.
03:14You get mad coverage and your boy falls down.
03:17I mean, you know, the receivers, they think a different way.
03:21They just want attention on them.
03:22So, yeah.
03:24Out the gate.
03:25Did you, talking about the games, did you, I guess I gained more respect, which is weird,
03:30but it happened for Darren Mensah in that second half without Malachi Tony.
03:34Because I thought they didn't have a chance without Malachi.
03:37And for them to have, for us to have to argue about a last second catch to tie a game
03:41against Notre Dame in Notre Dame,
03:42that surprised me and almost gave me a more respectful thought of their future in the college football playoffs
03:50and what Darren Mensah can be.
03:52Well, I think, you know, if you remember last week, what did I say?
03:56He's going to have to throw in tighter windows.
03:58And that's, let's be honest, there wasn't the separation created in the first half hardly at all by the receivers.
04:07And then they figured it out with some shallow crosses and things like that.
04:11And then they, you know, I guess it took them a while to figure out Lofton was the, was the
04:15best option.
04:16But he's got some, I mean, he's got some bad ribs.
04:18He's, he's wearing rib pads.
04:20I mean, I remember Keith Jackson with the Dolphins in the eighties would like pull up some rib pads because
04:26he was so big.
04:26But, you know, he, he played well.
04:29I thought he was pressured.
04:30I thought we didn't do a great job pressuring their quarterback.
04:35And, and I was impressed.
04:37I mean, listen, I'll, I'll, I'll give credit where credit's due.
04:40They had some dudes on their offensive line.
04:42They locked up our D line.
04:44And I was, I was shocked that, that they were that stout, um, up front on, on their defense at
04:51Notre Dame.
04:51And we, we lack to get pressure on them.
04:54But, um, listen, they made it, they made a comeback.
04:57I thought it came down to the last three minutes of the first half.
04:59They were, they were down 10, three, no, you know, they weren't playing well.
05:04And the announcer, I think he jinxed us.
05:06He goes, well, they're looking to be going down at halftime.
05:09One score we punted and our defense was like hot knife through butter and car went right down the field.
05:15And then it's 17 three.
05:16And man, I, you know, that locker room is a little different when you're two touchdowns down.
05:21Then, Hey, we're only 10, three, and we're a score down from tying the game.
05:25But I, I think that's where the, the game was really turned right at the end of that three minutes
05:30in the first half.
05:31I don't think there's any doubt that Miami is a title contender and a top five team in the nation
05:37when Malachi is healthy, Gino.
05:38But did you learn that this team is also a title contender and should be a top five team when
05:45it's all said and done at the end of the year without Malachi Tony as well?
05:50Uh, I've, I've learned, I think we can play with anybody.
05:53Can we get, Oh, I would say, can we get over the hump and, and actually win that game?
05:59I think it's going to be a tall task.
06:01And I think that that's probably why Miami dropped so much or, you know, the vote, the, the, whatever CFP
06:07committee was like, can they do it without him?
06:10And I, and I think it's going to be on Shannon to figure out, okay, he's not, you know, there
06:19and he's not going to be there.
06:21What, what's in my grab bag of plays that I can figure out how to get loft and more catches,
06:27how, how, how to get Cooper more catches.
06:29And listen, there comes a time for young guys to step up and that just is what it is.
06:36And normally we see that through a maturation process of a few years and the NIL and the transfer portal
06:43days, you don't get that development time anymore.
06:45You're on the team.
06:46You better be ready to go.
06:48And, and I think that, you know, I got Georgia this week and Georgia, I'll be at a bad performance
06:55against Auburn at home.
06:56And they lost, they're the most complete team.
06:59Why they have experience at quarterback.
07:00The defense is unbelievable.
07:03They have a running back room that could probably give a starting running back to half of the sec right
07:08now.
07:09And, and still win their tight ends are loaded, but they're young at wide receiver, but why are they playing
07:15better now?
07:15Those young wide receivers have matured, matured over the course of the first eight, eight games, nine games of the
07:21season.
07:22So that's, that's what, what I look at it.
07:24It's going to come down to those young guys stepping up and creating the separation.
07:31I mean, it just have some pride about yourself.
07:33It doesn't matter if you're a freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, one, two, fifth year guy, have some pride.
07:38And go out there and go out there and ball.
07:40And Darian's going to get it to you.
07:42Just give them a little window to throw it into.
07:45Gino Toretta.
07:46We always appreciate your time.
07:48We got to take a break real quick though.
07:50If Miami did play Wake Forest a second time in the ACC championship, who would you pick without Malakai Tony?
07:58Is Tim Duncan on their roster or, or am I just picking, picking straight up?
08:02Are you kidding me?
08:03Come on, dude.
08:04Wouldn't, wouldn't scare you to play him a second time.
08:06And, and like, you, you think they've got a pretty easy route.
08:09Would it scare me?
08:10I don't, hell, I ain't scared.
08:12Nobody scares me.
08:13I mean, I just.
08:14You think they have a pretty easy direct route to the college football playoffs because they should have no problem
08:18with the next three games, which are at home.
08:20And then if they were to face Wake in the ACC championship game, even without Malakai, no problem.
08:26Wake, Wake Forest would be their toughest test.
08:28And they are a very physical team in relation to the rest of the Atlantic coast conference.
08:34Would I be scared?
08:36No, I'm not scared of anybody.
08:37And I think that, uh, you know, nobody on that team.
08:41And if you're scared, you might as well not even lace them up and play on Saturdays.
08:44I mean, maybe I'm a different generation, but ain't nobody.
08:47Have you seen Jimmy the bed bug?
08:50Have I seen Jimmy the bed bug?
08:51Yeah.
08:51When he gets angry?
08:52I saw him as Lord Farquaad or whatever his, his costume.
08:57So, uh, no, I'm, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not scared of anybody.
09:01Tough to get that image out of your head, isn't it?
09:03Yeah.
09:03Yeah.
09:04I've been, I've been haunted by the Lord Farquaad image as well.
09:08Gino Toretta.
09:09He joins us every week, courtesy of the UA Plumbers Local 519.
09:14By the way, again, Gino's going to have the, uh, the Georgia game on Saturday for touchdown
09:19radio.
