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Nov. 17, 2023 - Doug Collins Podcast
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Aliens are in our backyard, thank god for the Passtronaut
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You want to listen to a podcast?
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Georgia GOP Congressman Doug Collins.
How is it?
The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life.
I could not believe my ears.
In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule.
It has been said today, where is bravery?
I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found.
It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered, and this majority say, be damned with anything else.
We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do.
Why?
Because we won an election.
I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun.
All right, baby.
It's Friday.
We're back.
Yes, I left it in the label-controlled hands of Chip and James last week.
They modeled it right through.
We made it through.
Thank you guys for being there.
Worked it out.
Another Dawgs win.
Another Auburn blowout.
And, well, we'll get to the fact that we're gonna have to talk about the Dobbs MVP candidacy after the break.
But, as you can see, I ain't wearing, baby.
We're back.
Just win, baby.
That's one of the things we're going to talk about here on Friday's Finest.
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All right, we're back.
We're not putting, but we're putting around at it as a bunch of guys talking about life and sports and everything else today.
Chip Blake, the man from Atlanta, red zone extraordinaire, everything about him.
I mean, we could go on with his accomplishments from, you know, winning, but Chip, we're glad to have you here.
The one drawback, you are that Auburn person, but hey, we love you anyway.
Hey, it is what it is.
You know, there's got to be a few of us that still carry the flag.
It's been a good three weeks, so we're pretty happy.
Our quality of competition has gone down dramatically.
And you know what?
After watching the NFL this week, I think there's a lot to be said for teams that are winning games that they should win.
There you go.
And we cannot forget our Texan by way of New Jersey.
I forget about it, man.
From there, here he is, James.
James, the dancing machine.
James, what's going on, buddy?
Oh, life is good, guys.
The Josh Dobbs era has begun.
I don't even know what else to say.
The weather's not 40, it's 60. Things are good.
Chip, for all of our listeners.
Here's the same man.
Three or four weeks ago, in utter depression, and now we're ready for the Super Bowl.
Oh, how the turntables.
Listen, guys.
When you beat Atlanta in Mercedes-Benz Stadium and you put in a quarterback that has been on your team for four and a half days and then shows up and backs it up with a pretty impressive win...
I understand where he's coming from, man.
It's hard to doubt Josh Dobbs right now.
I can't believe I just said that.
That's a scam.
And Chip from the both of us for Josh Dobbs is a Tennessee guy.
I mean, he's like, God.
Just double the role.
I go back.
Hey, go ahead.
I go back to the movie O'Fiddle.
Now they've claimed that it's not anything else.
Yeah.
Blindside is the quote from famous Sandra Bullock, that hideous orange.
But he's there.
He's helping James get through the day.
That's all that matters.
We need...
Tosh Dobbs has become the helpful mate to get James through, so we're all happy about that.
He's the darling of the NFL right now.
That's the best part about it.
There's no negative press around the Vikings, and that just makes me happy.
Okay.
Moving right along...
Speaking of that, let's just touch into this.
I mean, this will probably be a good segue.
We're gonna go in and out of football today.
What is it about the Pentagon UFO chief saying that someone is in our backyard?
Chip, have you seen any aliens down there in Cobb County?
Well, I haven't seen any, but I did read a couple of the articles.
You failed to mention that he's resigning.
Yeah.
I was going to bring this up.
I didn't know we'd jump right into this, so I want to bring this up.
Yeah, go ahead, James.
Go ahead.
He's on the way out the door, and he's like, yeah, let's talk about aliens right before I leave.
But let me read you this quote from the article.
This is just because you know I love this stuff way too much.
Well, James, James, James, hold it.
We've got to put a pause in here because we've got to have our UFO music.
Okay, UFO music inserted right now.
Got it.
All right, so it says, the quote is, multiple sensors have apparently observed metallic orbs and translucent spherical objects traveling at speeds ranging from stationary to Mach 2. Or twice the speed of sound with no detectable thermal exhaust.
According to Kirkpatrick, this is the guy who's leaving, the object's enigmatic flight characteristics amount to a unique UFO profile that his panel is out hunting for.
Guys, they're here, and we gotta worry about it.
These are our options.
We're going to join the Galactic Federation.
Those are the options.
Well, he did.
Also, I read another quote that I printed out, an article on another quote.
He said, we've got to figure out If these are aliens or international actors, both of which are a problem, I think he said, quote, if we don't prove it's aliens, then what we're finding is evidence of other people doing stuff in our own backyard.
That's much worse than aliens.
And he ends the quote saying, and that's not good.
When you tell people, yeah, it could be aliens, you're like, you know, that's kind of exciting.
And then you're like, it could be Russia.
You're like, oh, no.
That quote sounds like an Arthur Smith press conference.
Yeah, it does.
Or you could be saying Elon Musk and them are out in a shop somewhere in California and we ain't got a crap knowing what they're doing, you know?
Yeah, this whole time he's doing a little misdirection.
He's showing us that Twitter or X is under fire.
Really, he's just building spacecraft that we don't know anything about.
Yeah, the Falcons are just like that.
But yeah, look folks, we can't go a time without getting into the UFOs.
They're among us, and based on the way some of the pro and college teams have been playing in the last few weeks, I would have to say some of them have been taken over by some of this.
Josh Dobbs is an alien.
We know that.
Well, here's the big question.
I didn't know until stumbling upon the story that the Pentagon had a UFO chief, and evidently they do have a UFO chief, and it is part of a new office, the AARO office.
James, do you know what the AARO office is?
No.
What does it stand for?
I didn't either.
I didn't either.
It's the Anomaly Resolution Office.
The AARO under the Pentagon.
He was the first head of that office, and his tenure lasted 18 months.
And so, you know, while we talk about sports and over-under, we got to think, number one, who succeeds him?
And does that person last...
Over 18 months or under 18 months?
Yeah.
And while we're coming back at this, I mean, the question comes up here is, Chip, I mean, this is, here, okay, and to be the serious background for a second as I step in here, I feel like I'm with the guy on the Fox Sports Sunday show while the rest of y'all, you and Terry Bradshaw and Hugh Howie and all y'all go at it.
Congress actually mandated this.
And said to the NDAA that they wanted a report on this.
And ever since this office has been basically there, they've been avoiding Congress.
And then when they did put something out, it was a lot to be left desired.
And, you know, they still can't get answers on it.
It's been the most amazing thing.
You said he had this post for 18 months?
Yeah.
One of two options.
One is that they were like, this is stupid.
This guy's an idiot.
We got to go.
Or, he saw way too much and was like, you know what?
I would rather die alone or with my family and not doing this job.
Because I don't want to know how this ends.
Those are your options.
Like, it's such a weird...
It's so weird because they keep...
They have to, like, keep talking about this to, like, get people prepared for either actual aliens or the possibility that it's another government that's screwing us.
Or maybe it's not a government, but either way, I just think it's funny.
My friend said it to me earlier today because he's a birds-are-not-real guy, and I love him to death.
And...
When he said this to me today, I started reading, I'm like, this has to go on the show.
What perfect timing.
It is amazing.
Look, the thing that gets me about this is, is this our Truman Show moment?
Is this the time when somebody's actually opened the door on the screen behind it?
And they said, hey, we got a problem here, folks.
No, I don't know.
Where's Ed Harris when we need him, you know?
I mean, look, it fits.
Ed Harris was the director on the Truman Show.
Ed Harris was also the flight director on Apollo 13. We're putting these things together here.
I would let Ed Harris be in charge if he wanted to be because I trust him.
I know he's a great actor, but for some reason, I just trust him.
Yeah, he just has that view about him, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, like if he shows up to meet the aliens, I know we're not going to get murdered immediately.
He's going to smooth talk him as best he can.
We just need to find Randy Quaid so he can save us at the very end.
Nobody knows where he is, obviously, because he's just a psychopath, but...
Okay.
I just thought of something.
This would be fun.
Then we're going to jump on to the next topic.
Since he brought up Ed Harris, I would trust Ed Harris.
I've got one.
Name, and it doesn't have to be, you know, quote, realistic or anything else, but name one Hollywood actor that you would say, okay, if the world's in, I'll put this guy in.
Do I choose Bill Pullman from Independence Day because he gave the greatest speech in movie history?
No.
Or do I pick a realistic one and just go with like Morgan Freeman so his voice comes in real soft?
Now Morgan Freeman, I got you on that one.
But I got you on Sam Elliott.
Oh my god, that mustache would save us.
Got it, baby.
I mean, from The Ranch to Yellowstone.
And then, of course, it's Cotton.
Yeah, that's strong.
It's a Sam Elliott.
First of all, first of all.
Sam Elliott casting.
If you're going to introduce Sam Elliott, you either introduce him with Tombstone or you introduce him as the badass number two from Mount Blake and out of the movie.
Roadhouse.
Roadhouse.
Yeah.
Okay, wait, wait, wait.
Hang on a second.
We all have to spend...
We mentioned Roadhouse for the guy movies.
We have to stand in detention.
Roadhouse.
Roadhouse.
Thank you.
All right, now back to your normal schedule programming.
As we go.
But yes, we got that all in today.
All right, back to some football, though.
Speaking of extraterrestrial disasters, What's happened to last night, if you were unfortunate enough to watch the game earlier this week, and the Monday Night Football game with Josh Allen?
I mean, the Buffalo Bills, were they simply overrated, and Josh Allen overrated, or is this an anomaly year?
Yeah, I mean, look, you know, it's like Josh Allen has lost his confidence and he's given it to Russell Wilson.
I mean, at the beginning of the season, Russell Wilson didn't have it.
And now he's, you know, he's getting much more comfortable with Sean Payton.
He's getting much more comfortable being in Denver.
I mean, only one out of the last, I think, six games has he thrown a pick.
You know, Josh Allen just kind of looks like a deer in headlights now.
He doesn't have, you know, he doesn't look like he's got command of the offense.
He's got fumble problems.
I mean, you know, when you've got fumble problems and interception problems as an NFL quarterback, it's like having a two-way miss off a tee with a driver as a golfer.
You know, I mean, you just can't hit the center of the fairway.
And I just feel like, you know, it just feels like You know, he's lost his mojo.
And, you know, there's probably a variety of reasons that that's the case.
But, you know, all of a sudden, you know, if the season ended today, you know, the Buffalo Bills would be looking on the outside looking in and they would not be in the playoffs.
And, you know, before, you know, And now all of a sudden, Denver's won three in a row.
And so look, you know, this is a long, long NFL season now.
It's always been a long season.
It certainly is now with 18 weeks and 17 games.
And so teams are going to hit, you know, teams are going to hit pits, you know, and valleys, peaks and valleys.
But, you know, Buffalo doesn't have a whole lot of time to turn it around.
I mean, we're in mid-November already, and they need to really get it together if they want to be playing in the postseason.
They need to get together very quick.
I'm kind of confused.
At the beginning of the season, they were my pick to win the AFC East.
But also, I thought they were going to be in second behind probably Kansas City because you just can't rule them out with Pat Mahomes.
But watching him play, I didn't really watch much of the game last night except my phone towards the end because somebody said, this is really stupid, you should watch this.
And...
I guess what I don't understand is like Diggs complains every minute of every day and that stinks and I know that's probably really annoying and I know they have a new offensive coordinator and it's not working and Dables with the Giants maybe he'll want to go back because it's better than being with the worst team in the NFL but When he plays...
The point, the best part of Josh Allen is that he can run whatever he wants to and run people over, almost like Dante Culpepper used to and guys like stable, like big dudes like that.
But he can throw it the length of the field and you never...
You're like, oh, you're Josh Allen, you're never out of it.
Now you have Josh Allen in your head.
You're like, he's going to throw like two picks a game and possibly lose us the game because of it.
And they never should have lost that game.
The fact that somebody was offsides or whatever for that kick was insane, but...
They are not the team I thought they were.
I was certain they were going to run that division, and they can still win it because Miami hasn't played that great either, but it's just kind of baffling.
Well, here's some facts to throw out on what y'all both said.
I think they're done.
Put a fork in them.
They're gone.
They will not make the playoffs.
They've still got Philadelphia, Dallas, Miami, and...
I think we've got the Jets again, right?
Yeah, but they got, in the next three weeks, over the next four-week pattern, they got Dallas, Philadelphia, and Kansas City, and Miami still left on the schedule.
They got at least four more losses, you know, probably in that picture, if nothing changes.
So, I mean, you're looking at a, you know, at best, a 10-loss season.
I mean, they're looking at a losing season at this point, if they can't turn it around.
Well, and they, you know, I don't know if you guys saw, they fired their offensive coordinator, Ken Dorsey, after the game.
So, you know, that tells me that, you know, maybe when we're talking about Josh Allen losing his mojo, you know, maybe he and Ken Dorsey just didn't click.
They had problems.
And look, they've made a change.
And so now you go into the final seven games of the season, and if Ken Dorsey was an obstacle to Josh Allen's development and to his statistics, then there's no longer that excuse.
There's no longer that quote.
And so, you know, look, we'll see.
I mean, that was a little baffling to me that they, you know, they fired Dorsey when they did.
But I agree with you, Doug.
I think their schedule gets so tough and they, you know, and I agree with you, James.
The Dolphins are looking for revenge.
Buffalo hung 48 on Miami in, you know, at the beginning of October, I think, and...
Yeah, when I saw that, I was like, oh cool, maybe Buffalo is fine.
They had that joke to the Jets, but they'll be fine.
I honestly hate saying this because I loved Diggs when he played for us, but the amount of complaining this guy does on a daily basis, and it's not during the game.
It's not during the week where he's complaining.
It's during the game.
That emotional toll on the sideline, like I know we can talk about guys being tough all the time, but it's probably pretty annoying to everyone else playing like, hey, we're also on this team.
Like, it's not just about you.
And I know you need the ball, but he's had double-digit fancy points.
He's obviously getting catches and touchdowns.
Like, let's not pretend he's not getting the ball.
Hey, did you see his brother, Trayvon Diggs, what he tweeted out yesterday?
Yeah.
He said, it's time to get out of there.
During the game.
Yeah, time to get out of there.
He just wants him to come to Dallas.
He's going to be number two next to the Odyssey.
Oh, yes.
The second coming of Jack Prescott.
Oh, my God.
Give me a freaking break.
This Jack Prescott thing is so annoying.
Because he obviously can ball.
We've all seen it.
But, like, we've got to give credit.
C.D. Lamb is just tearing up the NFL right now.
I agree.
He's on what A.J. Brown was on before.
Well, he is on a big run right now, but you still got Brown, you still got, and Devontae Adams from the, I mean, coming back, did you see the catch the other night?
I mean, they're just some, you know, getting back into gear.
But we've got to discuss, okay, this is Friday's Finest, and we discuss the finer things of life in football, not just the good things.
We have got to go back, though, James, to your home state.
I know they call themselves the New York Giants.
And the New York Jets, but they play in the Meadowlands in New Jersey.
Okay?
They play in Jersey.
And I would love to get your take as a Jersey guy on the quarterback situation in which I believe now you've got a cross between the Sopranos, the Jersey Boys, and everything with the Tommy DeVito family.
Let me say this.
The moment I heard it, I thought of my mother.
Because when he said chicken cutlets and laundry, I was like, yeah, this is the most Italian guy I've ever met in my life.
That literally, when we were kids, for whatever reason, Italians just make banging chicken cutlets.
I know I'm in the South now, and I know you guys fry things better, but there's just something about that shallow fried chicken cutlet mom's making.
You can smell it from the other room.
But yeah, living with...
I think part of my take said this, that it's okay, he's Italian, because basically you live with your parents until you get married.
Yeah.
Until they ship you off.
But yeah, it's obviously not helping him.
That bed rest and living home isn't helping him because that team got their doors blown off and their stench is starting to smell like Secaucus a little bit.
But what is so hilarious about this is the family, and some of the...
Chip, I don't know if you've seen some of these tweets, but they're taking pictures of the DeVito family.
I mean, honestly, it looks like, you know, again, the most Italian family in the world, and I'm not Italian, I'm Irish, but an Italian family, and they're sitting there and they show the dad, you know, what kind of call is that on 4th and 3?
You know, it's like, it's amazing!
Look, you gotta feel bad for the fans that show up in, you know, the Meadowlands, right?
I mean, every week.
I mean, they started the season with, you know, Aaron Rodgers and Daniel Jones, who was coming off a career year, and now they're stuck with Zach Wilson and Tommy DeVito, you know?
Yeah.
And we're only through a week then.
Does Zach Wilson, Tommy DeVito, and Joe, I mean, if they had a Lombardo or somebody else, this honestly would be an episode, a part of the Jersey Boys movie.
It's got to be.
You know, it's funny you mention those two quarterbacks because I wanted to mention two others from the early game on Sunday.
I know you guys saw that dumpster fire.
I think we do have to apologize to Germany.
Yes, we're not saying our best on that one.
No, I said imagine if you went into a coma in like 2008 and you woke up the morning of that game.
And you're like, oh my god.
We did give Germany the Chiefs and the Dolphins the week before.
We did.
But imagine you woke up and you went, oh my god, I get to watch Peyton Manning and Tom Brady go at it.
And then you see Matt Jones...
And Gene Shorts himself on Indianapolis.
I'm blanking on his name right now.
Gardner Minshew.
Gardner Minshew.
That game was so awful.
But you got to see more than Mac Jones.
After that last interception, you got to see Bailey Zach.
Okay, when you guys saw that interception, did you think that that ball was tipped?
It had to be, right?
My brain cells couldn't function when I saw that that ball wasn't tipped and he just lobbed it like a third.
Yeah, no, I thought it was tipped, but then the replay showed it wasn't tipped.
I know Mac Jones' confidence is absolutely rock bottom because he's been taken out like 37 times this season.
Bill Belichick is...
Oh, he looked like...
I don't usually feel bad for people making $10 million a year plus, but I actually felt bad for Mac Jones.
This situation is a nightmare.
He's got no receivers.
His running game isn't working that well, even though they have Ramondre Stevenson.
And he looks terrible.
He's not a good quarterback.
That's not up for debate at this point, but he'll be a good backup somewhere.
Yeah.
But then throwing in Bailey Zappi and then him throwing into what I think they called a conference room of Indianapolis Colts.
He literally, he had Juju one-on-one up the sideline on the left.
And he said, you know what?
Fake spike.
I'm going to throw it into five defenders.
And all the Germans had to be like, is this how they play football?
I swear to you it's not.
Thank God the ones that were there saw the game before.
Yeah, they just started singing Sweet Caroline and they just carried it through for the rest of the time.
Hey, speaking of dumpster fires, we've got to come closer to home down here in the south to Atlanta.
And Friday, a week ago, on the Pat McAfee Show, Pat McAfee's at the Quad, at Myers Quad, at the UGA.
Pretty good turnout for a rainy Friday for the McAfee Show, and they're all up on stage.
They previews the fact that Art Smith, Arthur Smith, is going to be his guest like he always is in the second hour of the Thursday, of the Friday show.
It has been for the last few weeks anyway.
And kid you not, ladies and gentlemen, it was met with resounding boos.
Big time.
Enough to where McAfee said, what?
McAfee went nuts about it.
Arthur comes on and they boo him again.
And then the poor guy gets up and he says, well, I'm going to donate $15,000.
Again, this is...
Okay, how do you say you're rich without saying you're rich?
You get on the Pat McAfee show on the day before Veterans Day and say, well, I was just here and I was wanting to make a $15,000 check to the Marine Scholarship Fund and see if my brother would take me up on it.
It's like, really?
So is that NFL money or FedEx money?
Oh, that's FedEx money.
That's 15 years.
He's lacking FedEx money, but he also has, you know, again, he's like every other coach in the NFL. He's making millions of dollars.
Chip, you're seeing this up close and personal.
What do we have?
I mean, what, I mean, why are we doing this to ourselves in Atlanta?
Oh gosh.
I mean, where do we get started?
I mean, you know, I mean, I mean, how much time do we have?
I mean, the fact that we're four and six is just ridiculous, right?
I mean, We arguably, not arguably, I mean, I think we have the easiest schedule.
I say we, Falcons fan, you know, in the NFL. I mean, our last five games, the starting quarter actually played here, I think Sam Howell, who's not a bad quarterback, but I mean, you know, you expect you're going to do that.
Baker, Mayfield, Will Levis, you know, well, Josh Dobbs.
Yeah, but he was a dad.
And then Snyder Murray after being, you know, he'd been in rehab.
I mean, you know, physical therapy for 11 months.
He comes in and it looks like he hadn't missed a beat.
And then, you know, we're four and six and then we end.
Here's what we end with.
The Saints, the Jets, the Buccaneers, the Panthers, the Colts, the Bears, and then the Saints again.
We don't really play a good quarterback all year.
And, you know, we're two games under 500. I mean, you know, I don't.
Can I ask you guys a question?
Yeah.
I'm assuming you guys try to watch most of the game if you can.
I know.
I understand that he's trying to incorporate everyone on this offense.
And I know we discuss this all the time.
Three straight runs to Gordero-Batterson is the crazy...
They got a first down, which makes me look like an idiot.
But that's not the point.
Bijan Robinson should have at least 25 rushes a game.
I know they don't want to wait.
He was on track for that in the first half.
And it was working.
It was literally working.
And then he was like, you know what?
This is going too well for me.
Things are working here.
Let me get rid of it.
I don't understand it.
You drafted him with the seventh pick in the draft.
When you already had a pretty good running back and you're going to try to ease him in?
This is the NFL. Running backs come in and dominate.
That's how this works.
That's their job.
They have a short shelf life.
You're not going to sign.
Five years from now, we're going to forget Bijan Robinson exists, and we're going to talk about how he can't sign a big deal.
Right?
I mean, that's how this works.
Do it.
I have a question for both of you.
Supposedly, and they kept talking about this on the show the other day, he was asked a question about why he didn't throw, you know, Bijan didn't get the ball.
Pitts didn't get targeted, that kind of stuff.
And supposedly he gave like a five-minute answer.
He did.
And went through 90 plays.
I have not seen it.
Somebody give me the Cliff Notes version of what he said.
Look, I saw it, and it was nothing more than a word salad.
I mean, it was...
Kamala Harris coaching football.
Yeah, it was exactly Kamala Harris talking football.
I mean, he was all over the place.
He was talking about...
I mean, it was three minutes into his comments before he even mentioned B. John.
He talked about...
I think he started...
He tried to talk about situational football.
And then he started talking about coverages.
And then he...
And it wasn't until...
You know, over, you know, halfway through his statement that I realized what he was answering.
And I don't know that he knew what he was answering.
It was a filibuster.
It was an absolute filibuster.
The situation is you have two elite football players on your team that don't touch the ball.
That's the situation.
And the reality is that five-minute answer showed me that he wasn't prepared for that question.
So he didn't have an answer for that question.
Doug, in politics, what do you prepare yourself for as an elected official when you get in front of a camera in a press conference?
You need to be prepared for as many questions as you know are going to come.
The fact that he didn't think that that question would come, it's kind of baffling, right?
Because he didn't have an answer for it.
He didn't have an answer for it because he clearly hadn't thought about it.
In the first half of the game this past weekend, You know, they focused on Bijan, and it was working.
And then, you know, it didn't work in the second half.
Yeah, I'm going to go back to something that I said a few weeks ago when we had Chan Gailey on, and I think it's still true.
This is just one of those years in which there's just both – and I say this – Overall, not in particular.
Because I do believe that there's some decent football in college right now.
We've got some teams that are playing pretty good.
But it's been a meh kind of season.
On both sides.
I mean, you've got...
You know, again, Miami's playing well in the sense you got- The Eagles would be the one team I can think of.
The Eagles are playing really well.
Kansas City plays well with the one team.
I read a tweet the other day, though, that actually, Chip, I'd like to get your comment on.
It was talking about Georgia, and it said that Ole Miss ought to feel privileged because Georgia basically thought enough of them to blow them out.
You know, basically, you know, implying that Georgia is just, you know, because they've had a schedule this year, and I'll be frank with you, Florida's a good team, but not a great, by any means, you know, top 20 team.
You know, you got Missouri, which is pretty good, but Georgia, again, goes back to Georgia a lot, and yeah, I'm a Georgia fan, but Georgia has always, in their history, going back 40, 50 years, played to sort of the level of who they were playing.
Kirby, though, has taken it to another level.
Kirby has been able to get them on days when they were doing that to win or then to kick it into gear a little bit more.
And you saw that against Ole Miss.
I mean, you saw it a couple weeks ago against Florida.
You see it in those times, and they got Tennessee coming up this week.
Georgia Tech coming up, and then they got Alabama.
The most disrespectful thing I saw this past week was somebody put something out on social media that said this is a real possibility of happening.
An 11-0 Big Ten team, an 11-0 Well, the ACC team, and then it listed all of these others with one loss, Oregon, Alabama, Georgia, everything.
And it's like, they're just assuming Georgia was going to lose to Alabama.
And it's like, I don't know if Kirby writes this stuff to get his team motivated or what, but, you know, Well, look, it's hard to win back-to-back national titles, and George has done that, right?
And now they're in the third season of that, right?
They're trying to go back-to-back-to-back, which is almost impossible in today's environment.
And so, you know, the first few games of the year, they kind of sleptwalked their way through it.
They did.
I mean, they...
You know, and I use the analogy on this show, and I'll use it again.
It's hard to eat when you're not hungry.
And at the beginning of the season, they weren't hungry.
And now they're hungry.
They've been doubted.
You know, their best player, arguably their best player, Brock Bowers, was injured and out for three games.
You know, they're not number one on the first BCS rankings.
And so, I mean, Kirby didn't have all these things to motivate them with at the beginning.
And look, they were still winning games.
They weren't winning pretty, but they were winning football games.
And I tell you though, Doug, I think the toughest test for them will be this weekend at Tennessee.
And the reason I say that is because you have the mixture of Tennessee coming off a bad loss, possibly looking ahead to this weekend.
And you had Georgia just go through Florida, Missouri, and Ole Miss, which is a tough run where they went 3-0.
And they look really, really well, even in the Missouri game, which was the one game of the three where they didn't dominate.
I just think this is a tough game for Georgia because of that dynamic.
I think if they get through this, they'll, you know, look, Georgia Tech's doing better this year, but...
You know, they're nowhere near competing with Georgia at the end.
You know, and if you're Kirby, look, you know, you get through Tennessee, and it's likely you will, although I think it's kind of a trap game for you.
But you get through that, you beat Georgia Tech.
You know, if you're Kirby, the best thing to happen to you to win the national title might be to lose to Alabama in the SEC title game.
Because the first national championship they won, that's what happened.
And so look, Georgia, even with the loss, is still playing with house money.
They're going to be in the college football playoff.
And in order to be the best, you've got to beat the best.
And as much as it pains me to say it, I wouldn't put my money against this football team for anything right now.
No, I agree with you completely.
And they've overcome.
And I think what you said was interesting there, and James, we've talked about this before, but when they started facing some adversity and people were doubting, well, Brock Bowers is out, y'all will never win another game.
Here's the interesting thing, and I'm guilty of this, because the first year I was looking at their offense and it was Bobo, and we just said, oh my God, this is going to be wild.
But if you look at where they are, I'm having to freely say this.
Nobody is talking, again, about Carson Beck's numbers.
The offense is in the top three in scoring, point, you know, everything.
They have a top five offense, and we don't normally say that about the University of Georgia.
They talk about top five defense, but we don't always talk about the offense being what it is, and they just slowly keep doing it.
And I mean, Carson's averaging over 300 yards a game and not playing the fourth quarter a lot.
Yeah, but I tell you, though, one of the reasons I think Georgia's not getting the amount of respect that they've had the last two years is just what you said, is that their defense was so dominant the last two years.
And now they have a good defense, but it's not a dominant.
It's not the most dominant defense in the history of college football like it was last year or the year before.
And, you know, not everybody on this defense is going to be playing for the Philadelphia Eagles.
I mean, you know, they're good players, good defense.
But if you're Carson Beck, I think you like that, man.
You know, you're winning games.
You're putting up great numbers.
You're setting yourself up to play on Sunday.
And nobody's talking about you.
It's a great situation, I think, for that kid.
Well, and James, I got a question for you in just a second, but I do want to bring this out.
Carson stuck around Herbstreet, and I was glad Herbstreet and Fowler did the game on Saturday night.
And by the way, Georgia, my son Cameron pointed this out.
Georgia has played better football when they're playing in the afternoons or evening than they have been on the 12 o'clock games, which by the way, first time in a long time, the Tech game will be a night game in Atlanta.
And if you've ever been around Grant Field at night, God bless you.
You don't want to go.
It's a nightmare.
You want to leave at halftime.
Yeah, definitely.
You don't want to get caught on the back roads there.
But you look at it, but Herbstreit pointed out something the other night that I thought was really interesting.
And there's two points I'm going to get a take on here from James.
One, Herbstreit kept talking about the five-star, five-stars.
And Chip, you and I texted about this, you know, the 24. But what Herbstreit was saying was, he said, they're not five-stars when they first come on the field.
He said, but they have five-star talent in every play.
They're getting better.
And he said that's what makes Georgia right now really unique because those players are getting the experience, like the new linebacker that showed up the other night who's been playing, Allen, who's been playing for the last couple weeks who's just gotten better.
But then he made the other comment that And this is one that we haven't talked about.
Dylan Rybold, who is at Buford High School, is the next quarterback coming into Georgia.
And after him, and Chip, you've probably seen this kid.
Isn't he up around Kennesaw?
Juju...
Juju Lewis.
Juju Lewis.
He's at Carrollton.
Carrollton, just up the road on 75. I mean, he's coming in behind him.
I mean, this is sort of the feeder train that's coming in right now.
But, James, I do have a question.
We've been talking about this, though.
Is Carson Beck...
Because Georgia is looked upon as Georgia.
Is Carson Beck being ignored for the Heisman?
No.
There's too many good...
There's just too many good quarterbacks in college football right now.
I don't think it's fair...
Jaden Daniels is the wonder boy of everybody.
His numbers are very comparable passing to Jaden Daniels.
Right, but who's in line for the Heisman as number one right now?
I hope it's Bo Nix.
Michael Penix and Bo Nix.
They're playing stupid football.
Yeah.
They're playing at another level.
So I don't think that he's being ignored.
I just think, like, for example, right now, Micah Parsons is probably, you can argue, is the best defensive player in the NFL at times, right?
But right now, Miles Garrett is dominating football.
You can't deny him or T.J. Watt what they're doing.
But Micah Parsons is still balling.
So Micah Parsons is not going to win Defensive Player of the Year, and he'll probably be like the fourth or fifth, maybe even sixth option.
But in this situation, Carson Beck is in that sort of situation right now where, like, Michael Penix and Bo Nix are doing great things.
Even, I know What's-His-Name has had a tough time with USC, but, like, he's still much better than everybody else.
Yeah, I agree.
Hey, before we get gone today, though, we need to discuss a couple of things.
We're sort of, you know, a little past midseason for the pros, and we're in the final push here.
I've heard a lot of talk, and I love just the quick conversation here.
People are saying last year, the four-man playoff.
Next year, none of these conversations will be going on.
It'll be a lot quieter.
Nobody will be discerned if Georgia's going to get in, Alabama's going to get in.
They'll all get in.
It looks to me like you'll have four teams from the Big Ten, four teams from the SEC, and then four teams spread out everywhere else.
The way it would look.
I'm still not sold on the 12-man team format.
Given what we're seeing this year, is this season a cause for a 12-man, or is this season a reason to keep it at 4?
Or is that a hard question?
I think this comes to the same thing as people are going to complain no matter what.
They expanded the college basketball to 68 teams, and people are still complaining about guys not getting in.
I know it's like, whether it's 4, whether it's 8, whether it's 12, people are going to complain that people aren't getting in.
It will make for a fun time, but let's not forget that like 10 years ago we were just going, yeah, they're in and they're in and that's it.
You know, like we were just letting a couple people in a room decide who's going to be champion.
That's crazy.
Yes, 12 teams is going to make it more fun, but people are still going to complain every minute they can.
Yeah, and I think we got spoiled there for a while, too.
The upper echelon in college football were two deep, three deep, four deep, right?
And it was obvious who should be in the playoffs.
And so, yes, you got to keep in mind, it took forever for us to expand it from a BCS national title game to four, right?
It took forever to get from two to four.
And so, look, I'm always...
I mean, I think it's great for football, right?
Because I think the more football, the better.
But, you know, I'm not putting pads on and playing as, you know, a 19-year-old kid.
But, you know...
We've done it in FCS for a while.
We've done it in Division II. We've done it in Division III. I think this year's a good argument for an expanded playoffs because I do think this year, you know, we're seven, eight teams deep.
I think Michigan, I mean, I watched Michigan play Penn State.
It was the first game I'd really watched Michigan.
And either Michigan's a really good football team or Penn State's a really bad football team.
But that game wasn't as near as close as the score was.
I mean, Michigan dominated that football game from the beginning until the end.
And I know Happy Valley in a packed stadium and, you know, in Penn State's not an easy place to play.
So, you know, I like it.
Of course, we won't have it this year, right?
We're just going to have four.
But I'm looking forward to it.
But that doesn't mean that I'm not, you know, I like, I think the current system right now kind of works too.
And I think there's only been, you know, there's been once or twice where the number four seed has come in and won, most recently Alabama.
But, you know, at the end of the day, you know, if you're the five seed, you obviously got a loss and you control your own destiny at one point.
And, you know, I'm old enough to remember in the era of the BCS or right before the BCS, Doug, you know, there was an undefeated Auburn team.
You know, that didn't, you know, that didn't make, you know, that didn't make the national title game.
And we ended up beating Virginia Tech in a ball game.
And so, you know, it's hard to imagine that was maybe only 15 years ago.
You had an undefeated SEC team did that.
You won't have that under any of these other setups.
And so, look, I'm looking forward to expanding to a 12 team.
But, you know, that could change my mind if a one seed loses to a 10 seed in the first round.
I might feel differently about that.
Well, as we get ready to go, I have a final parting thought here.
I think, number one, we have a speaker now for at least three weeks.
Thank goodness.
It looks like we're not going to go through that, so it's pretty exciting.
I do have a prediction.
Here's your rapid-fire round before we get gone.
Given the fact of a 12-placing team next year, I still believe that the champion, even in a 12-team playoff scenario, the national champion will either be SEC or Big Ten.
Am I right or am I wrong?
Chip Blake.
Oh, 100% right.
Absolutely.
James?
No, yeah, you're right.
That doesn't change.
Yeah, so it doesn't change.
So, as we figured out here, we've gone from UFOs to the Sopranos invade New Jersey's Giants and everything else and plus SEC football and plus everything else.
So that's what Roya's Foddy's Finest is always about, folks.
We're glad you've been with us.
Glad you are tuning in as we go.
Chip, what's your last round prediction for the day?
Beware going into Neyland Stadium if you're a Georgia Bulldog fan.
That is not an easy place to play.
And I think Georgia wins the game, but it could be on a last-second field goal.
It could be an overtime.
It's going to be a close, close game.
Tennessee's got a lot to prove.
Remember, Alabama went in there and lost last year, so be careful if you're the Georgia fan going into this weekend in Neyland Stadium.
James, what about you?
Oh, Vikings are going to destroy the Broncos on Sunday night, even though they're on a winning streak.
Hey, we're on a five-game winning streak.
And, you know, I hate Dan Campbell, and I hope Detroit loses.
That's really what's happening, because Vikings are coming for that number one spot.
Wow.
Wow.
James.
James.
Alright, well, my prediction is that the Falcons will finish, at best, one game over.500.
At worst, one game under.500.
We'll get our normal middle-of-the-road lineup.
And we will draft a tackle from West Fresno State, and we'll continue on this path for the rest of the time.
And Arthur Smith will explain it to us in a five-minute answer that nobody will understand.
And with that, that's the Doug Collins Podcast.
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Take care.
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