From 30 for 30 podcasts Brian Pada senior defensive lineman from Miami gunned down The key to this case it's blind I before he died he was on a phone arguing what's about this might be a hit you want to truth We had a killer monster murder at the U listen now I'm Mike well by my big 10 won the national championship for the third straight year Tony That's why I was rooting for the losers last night I'm Tony corn highs. You don't fall for this people he was on the fence yesterday He was leading to Miami get the tape Miami was a better story Indiana going for who did I say I was rooting for That was insane that was insane what was the KTI boys and girls today's episode the dolphins and Titans Higher new coaches Jimmy Butler is out for the season and Jeff Saturday joins us for five good minutes But we begin today with Indiana winning last night's college championship game over Miami 27-21 in Miami's home stadium the Hoosiers never trailed was 10 nothing at the half and 24-14 after Fernando Mendoza Made a great 12 yard run on a fourth and four in the fourth quarter Miami played well kept it a lot closer against Indiana than Alabama and Oregon did But Indiana was better and closed out their season 16 and oh will bond your thoughts on how the Hoosiers did it and what it means Well Tony was a fascinating performance of you know We hear the phrase cop a minute refurb all the time and something nights it just a true But it was last night. I mean you get this performance from Mendoza particularly that play that that play Which is going to become iconic in very little time But you also get a block punt you get an interception in the game all of it They played so well all of it and you look at the players on Indiana's team You know, yeah, there's some talented players. They're a handful of four and five stars as opposed to Miami Which has like more than 50 of them? But then you you look at Curtis dignity and his staff and what they did to develop those players And I'm looking at Tom Brady on the sideline Wondering how much of himself he might see in Mr. Mendoza and choosing him first for the Raiders if The Raiders indeed do that so it was packed with a lot of Stuff last night that game and Miami did play well Miami had a chance Maybe if that passes about I don't know two yards longer to go ahead to win the game They have a chance to do it But it's one of the great great stories of all time the Hoosiers and wow they played to it again I'm gonna sing a love song to Mendoza here because he showed that every honor he's gotten He deserves. I mean he he was really that good lesson a couple of weeks ago We saw the Oregon quarterback and he had a terrible night and he was rated the second best quarterback in a college draft And he said after that I'm going back to school presumably to raise his draft stock the other day CJ Stroud four interceptions in the first half the spotlight can be withering But it was so complimentary with Mendoza. This is why the guy won the Heisman He got hit early Mike. They cut his lip open. Yeah He was bleeding you could see it and he held up and he stood up and on that most important call of his life That fourth and fourth he went in there like a pinball Yeah, and he made it all the way to the end zone and Mike he justified Everything that has been said about him to this point you mentioned signetti They hired a signetti two years ago from James Madison nobody'd ever heard of him and Indiana wasn't any good Signetti right now looks like the smartest guy to ever coach football. You go go He's got a national championship Mike. It's one of the greatest seasons of all time because Indiana had never won the last time they were in a bowl game with something called the copper bowl in 1991 they had not won nobody expected this no and from the time they won the Big Ten championship on the teams that they beat Were great teams and they beat and they were plus four 93 on the season. It's astonishing The Big Ten just end with a note on that You know, I don't want to let the SEC Bow down tip your cap to the Big Ten because the Big Ten is the best conference right now I know many many many years. It is the SEC, but it ain't now now with three straight Ohio State Michigan And now Indiana and I don't know who's on the clock, but it's the Big Ten now Let's move to the NFL's latest coaching hires the dolphins hired Packers Defensive coordinator Jeff Hathley is their next hit coach and the Titans are going with Niners defensive coordinator Robert Salah Drew Petsing will join the Lions is their new OC and the Chase plan to bring back Eric B enemy as theirs Tom which moves stands out to you the most No, none of them. I mean, it's not very glamorous. I guess you could say that Salah is kind of sort of glamorous But he was a disaster with the Jets Mike. He was 20 and 30 everybody's a disaster with the Jets this goes the Tennessee Here's what you need to know about Tennessee. They fired Mike Raible a couple of years ago since then there's six and 28 Raible is 16 and three and one win away from the Super Bowl Halfly is interesting to me. I'd never heard of him except this one little fact a few years back He was the head coach at Boston College So he's in a power for conference job and he had won a ball game He quit he quit to become the defensive coordinator at Green Bay and people like me said what are you doing? It felt like a backward step Well, maybe it wasn't because now he's got one of the 32 jobs in the country that go to NFL head coaches and BC went to and 10 this year I will say this there's there's a lot of teams that need coaches the three that interest me These are the ones I'm waiting for Buffalo with Josh Allen Baltimore with a two-time MVP in Lamar and Pittsburgh Because it's an iconic friendship the other things I don't care I want to know who's getting those jobs. I care about the Kansas City Chiefs and therefore It's interesting for one. I'm losing my running bags coach from Chicago and Eric B. Enemy who did a hell of a job with that running game this year this year And he's going back to Kansas City where he already was and And basically they are saying something that I told you for four years Don't tell me that Matt Negi's offense is any good because it's not because the offense got worse Because they were up in the top 0-1 and they went to like 15 and then dropped and dropped and dropped and Matt Negi's out there and who knows where he's gonna have a seat when the music stops But Eric being in me. It's not like he's gonna call the place and be read presumably will do that He calls but the Kansas City Chiefs still matter and even if the position of OC is in glamorous The quarterback certainly is and he in my opinion will be helped by getting being in me back and getting Negi out of there Yeah, well, that's perfectly fair the other the only other job that you know You care about a little bit not to try to see well the rate the Raiders have the number one overall Yes, so you want to see you get that let's move to the NBA in the stunning news that Jimmy Butler tours ACL last night And we'll be out for the rest of the season Butler had been averaging 20 points six rebounds and five assists in 31 minutes a night and the Warriors have been hot lately They won last night. They're 12 and four and they're less 16 games Well, but I know you love the Warriors and I know you love Jimmy Butler. Yeah, where does this leave the team Butler and the exile Jonathan Komingo. Matt Tony none of this is good Jimmy Butler Jimmy Butler is so important to what the Warriors knew they could do last year when they acquired him and then giving a You know how training camp and sometimes some patience and here we are just getting just past the half-way point of the season and The Warriors and Butler was Butler were playing so well and well together and now this and the Warriors Can't win without Jimmy Butler the West is too hard the West has got teams I mean first of all they're not even in the top six now and so I don't know what this means with Kominga Do you just plug Kominga back in Kominga should have been in anyway in my opinion? You know I love Steve Kerr, but I don't love the handling of Jonathan Kominga So do they just play Jonathan Kominga or they still look to trade him and get someone they think is a better fit These are all very difficult questions and issues for the Warriors Yeah, so Kominga a couple of years ago average 16 points of games only 23 years old Yeah, Butler is 36. Steph Curry is 37. Dreymon is 35. They picked up Al Hoar for these 30-9 They are so old they could have watched the first show that we ever did on PTI. It's possible. They are that old But to Kominga for a second he has played nine minutes since December 6th I think I have that correct. Yeah, that's only nine more minutes than I have played since December 6th I mean, I don't know what you do with this guy the guy wants to play if he doesn't play at the Warriors He wants to be traded and I know that you're conflicted because you love Steve Kerr that much I always I always think that the Warriors are a threat because they have Steph Curry and Steve Kerr But you know what Mike they haven't been in the playoffs three to last six years So I may be living in the past on that and I have no idea about Kominga But it does seem to me he's got to play immediately, right? Tell me you would think we're the championship ring The kid was on that team in 22 So I don't know exactly what happens, but It feels like the Warriors that I mean his sands of time Just feels like it doesn't wait. Let's take a break Coming up how can the Patriots offensive line rise to the challenge the Broncos defense? We're going to ask Jeff Saturday We'll also ask him how the Broncos offensive line We have to adjust to new quarterback Jared's All the people we know on the Warriors are basically our age 911 where is the emergency? It's the middle of the night in a small town on the Jersey Shore Someone reports an abandoned car on a bridge A search gets underway for the missing driver 19 year old Sarah Stern Is it a missing person? Is it a suicide? At this point nobody knows Old friendships Bairied cash and a sinister plot that was once pitched as a movie plays out in real life I'm juju Chang from 2020 and ABC audio Listen now to Bridge of Lies wherever you get your podcasts Let's dig into the conference championship game trenches with our great friend ESPN NFL analyst Jeff Saturday Jeff, let's start with this the Patriots pass protection has struggled and now they come up against a Denver Broncos Who actually lead the league and sacks from the perspective of an offensive lineman How can the Patriots improve? Well first of all the last two team or the two teams that are playing last week in this week or nightmares anyway So I mean you got the best edge guys are pushing pressure You know you have a young guy in Campbell gonna try to take take the edge But the reality is he's gonna they're gonna get some kind of pressure It's making sure from an offensive lineman to you keep your body between he and the QB make him reach over you Make him do those kind of things and then it's on drape made to protect the football It when he's in the pocket keep two hands on it be strong don't let those strip sacks What you don't want to do is get on an edge and get driven all the way back and give up these free shots Like that's that's the worst thing But if you're talking about strictly from an offensive lineman perspective be aggressive in your set Make the guy run the long way around whether you're garge or tackles make him go the edge and may is gonna have to be strong in the pocket Stepping up not just trying to run outside and push the ball down the field But the reality is they're facing the two best groups and the AFC the last two weeks some got you know They're on scholarship too, you know what I mean Tony. So they're gonna get home at some point Jeff meanwhile the Broncos are gonna turn the Jared Stettamon quarterback So what is involved or the give us the most complex things involved when an offensive line has to adjust And I'm sure there are many adjustments to a brand new quarterback particularly in a game of this magnitude Yeah, I would say this when you're at the line of scrimmage and you're gonna have to make some kind of adjustment Whether it's an adjustment in past protection and adjustment in an audible whether it's going from a run to a pass or pass to a run Whatever and the defense shifts or moves in the middle of the cadence because we all human nature You know that the speed of the cadence changes at times you get very accustomed as an offensive line to listening to bonics For a week after week after week and all the sudden you got a new voice You have a new way that he wants to kind of go about his brain processes a little bit different and and Sean Payton's gonna do a great drive of trying not to allow that to happen too much But it's the most complicated part because it's it's the timing of everything We always talk about the timing of a passing game Well, there's timing of the run game and there's timing of protection and checks and and audibles all of those things Gonna have to be worked through during this week. It is it is very difficult the great part for them They're playing at home if this was on the road It would be significantly worse But at least they'll have the cadence to kind of you to lean back on but they're ain't nothing easy about it And and let me tell you the Patriots do a fantastic job of kind of mucking it up in the back Where you don't know exactly what they're doing? Guys kind of jicky jack around they're not kind of in the place they may end up There's a lot of communication that's gonna have to occur for that bronco's offensive line Who's done a good job, but they're gonna have to be even better with stedom at the helm Let's go back for a minute says something that pains me Rams bears and Rams hit coach shahmic bay says afterward. He has to be a better play caller Jeff after abandoning the run for a lot of the game against the bears And I want to ask something in general really Why is it that so many great play callers and shahmic veys clearly one of them Why do they abandon the run Like when things start to anything happens abandoned in the run. We've seen that what happens Explosive plays like and I tell people this all the time if you looked at last year with the Philadelphia Eagles What made their offense so good was sake on barkley explosive runs, right? It's it's a low risk high reward Well, you get in these games and all the sudden you know you want to make sure you're getting first down You're moving the ball you're flipping The the the the field per se like getting on their side of the 50 Or even if you're not scoring points You're you're making them go the long way and coaches They just forget and and I've been involved in games where you go in with the idea of the concept Hey, we're gonna run the ball We can physically dominate this team and they start off doing that and you kind of fade away And then you kind of catch back up and into the game, but he's exactly right You got a stick to who you are Physicality matters opening up for play action and plays down the field all that All those explosive plays come from the defense getting closer to the line of scrimmage If you don't stay physical with them They'll stay back and make your passing game much more difficult, but again It's much easier said than done and when you're a design Maniac like Sean McVeigh you could think of all these great concepts It's hard and you got a Hall of Fame quarterback. So you're like why not like why not put the best at the best At times physicality is the most important and he understands that he needs to make sure he gets with that with the Seahawks this week Just to follow for one second quickly as a veteran offensive lineman Can you ever go and stand next to the play caller particularly if it's the head coach is on the side And say yo coach Hand it to say quon absolutely. They all are a listen go YouTube me and Manning on the sideline That's exactly what that is Don't tell me about any checks in the red zone Don't tell me about we're throwing some passes. We're all but we're gonna run the ball down their throat We better get to it every offense alignment better feel comfortable to walk up to jump Sean We can't just sit here throwing all around now. You know, we're not playing in the park Let's go hit him in the mouth and take some physicality but absolutely old line say that but you better that's what we do best I love that we will get you out of here on this and it is also about running The Seahawks have averaged 172 y'all. It's a lot Rushing in their last four games what they're gonna be without Zack Sharbney how much does it matter to to the blockers which running back is actually carrying the ball Yeah, it definitely matters Tony, but I'll say this about Seattle They have been committed to the run all season like even when they weren't really efficient at it They kept calling them up, you know You'd see 30 runs on the chart and they're putting in the work It has come to fruition you've seen the run game kind of take off these last few weeks Starting back in like week 18. I think it was against the 49ers But they're getting physical and you could tell their offensive line and their backs are finding rhythm But backs do run different like Sharbney, you know interior those short yardage goal lines He's he's exceptional at it and then you look at Walker who's a kind of an explosive play right balances outside And can hit the whole runs But but the bottom line with Sharbney being out is you understand exactly what Walker wants to see as an offensive lineman He wants to see a clean edge. He wants to be able to push the ball north and south and then balance and get outside So as an offensive lineman you know going in he may like it a little different But Jane got Sharbney so we're gonna stick with the Walker and have the one kind of the one thought process as offensive I mean it definitely matters, but you know exactly what he wants and that's what you do It's a pleasure Jeff. Thank you. It's always definitely appreciate it man. Appreciate your fellas love it man have a great one Let's take one last break still to come baseball's newest all the famous we get announced tonight Will there be any surprises? How about just will there be any Alex the Delph of it Describes his strategy and last night's goalie fight Hey goalie fights. It's just like one Happy time people happy 37th birthday Nick foals Everybody remembers when foals took over for an injured Carson Wentz and quarterback the Eagles through the playoffs all the way to the Super Bowl in 2017 with the Eagles beat the Patriots 41-33 Foals was the MVP throwing for three touchdowns and scoring one on that memorable trick play the Philly special Foals retired in 2024 after a career of mostly back up with six different teams Foals took to social media the other day in regard to boonics breaking his ankle and Jarrett Stidham Being named quarterback against New England in the AFC title game Foals wrote quote I feel for bow in the team a positive note going into the game against the Patriots is that they struggle against back up Quarterbacks in championship type games unquote he'd know wouldn't he Tony the Eagles have won two Super Balls of Reese advantage. They got to another one three Super Bowls They've had a lot of success So why is everybody so unhappy all the time and whiny and complaining They they stay in the news for all the wrong reasons for team. That's that good They've been very successful really and not so happy anniversary Harvey the Hound on this day 23 years ago with the flames up for nothing There's snowhound mascot was harassing oilers coach Craig McTavish So the former NHL tough guy pulled out Harvey's tongue and tossed it into the crowd McTavish also reached for a stick to take a swing at the mascot But was held back by assistance shortly after Harvey appeared back on the scene with a long red scarf as a replacement tongue and continued Tonkting the oilers McTavish said quote you deal with a lot of stuff as a coach and Harvey the Hound isn't normally in the job description Nor should it be unquote the flames later reprimanded the person inside the Harvey suit or so the story goes In the early days of pti we used to talk about mascots a lot of this show I'm glad we don't because I hate mascots. There's one. I love do you remember who it is The chicken you love the chicken the gorilla the only real athlete of the mascots the gorilla could jump up and throw it down Chicken Happy trails to last night's game for the panthers Sam Jose beat Florida 4 to 1 But the real headline is our first goalie fights since 2020 Sharks golly Alex Medelkovich got involved in a corner strum which prompted panthers that mind her surge Babroski to skate the length of the ice and start swinging the delkovich said later quote I was just doing my best not to get punched. I was just trying not to lose any teeth It might have straightened my nose out a little bit more, but I don't want it that way unquote Also in the NHL last night Jets Center Jonathan Taze returned to Chicago for his first appearance in sleeve in the team And he received a three minute standing ovation. I can't stand here. Taze called Jets Center And then here Patrick King called the Red Wings Patrick King is a black hawks They were the guts of a three time championship team that that standing ocarina gone six minutes far is on concern Big finish quickly. The girls have said coach Bill self was hospitalized did not travel with the team for tonight's game at Colorado Your thoughts. I worry about self. I just hope he's okay. I hope this is nothing Baseball's Hall of Famers are announced tonight. Are you intrigued? See only Hall of Famer matters. It really is. Yes, I am intrigued the pistons meet the Celtics last night is that significant? Yeah, the pistons of parliament of it is Sony is the best team the best team in the Eastern Conference College golf champ Michael Esasso is passing on his senior season and the masters invite to join live You surprised I'm more than surprised. I'm stunned. I didn't see this coming passing up on a master's really last one The Clippers go through their seventh women row tonight against your bros. You like their chances Yeah, the bulls are surprised you'll win at dendron b cleveland and then lose game to camp relief So I like the Clippers chances. Yep We're out of time. We were trying to be better the next time. I'm Tony Cornhush and I'm Mike Wilbur Same time tomorrow, ducleus. How about to Rico go from soldier feeling to snow to Madison Square garden yesterday
