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The TOP Quarterbacks for the 2027 NFL Draft before 2026: Should Arch Manning & Dante Moore be top 2?

64 min
Apr 10, 20268 days ago
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Summary

Andy and Ari analyze the top quarterback prospects for the 2027 NFL Draft, discussing why quarterback evaluation has become increasingly unpredictable in the NIL era. They debate conference dominance (SEC vs. Big Ten), examine the pros and cons of televising spring games, and test Ari's decision-making ability through a series of binary choice questions inspired by Oregon's quarterback coach.

Insights
  • Quarterback evaluation accuracy has declined significantly due to the NIL era enabling players to stay in college longer, making draft projections less reliable than in previous years
  • The spring transfer portal window elimination has reduced the primary concern about televising spring games, yet many programs remain paranoid about exposing their schemes and player development
  • First championship wins create irreplaceable euphoria that subsequent titles cannot replicate, even for successful programs like Georgia, fundamentally changing fan psychology
  • Decisiveness in decision-making correlates with quarterback performance under pressure, as demonstrated by Oregon's quarterback coach's ice cream test methodology
  • College football's shift to entertainment-first business model lags behind the NFL, with unnecessary restrictions on fan access and spring game visibility limiting engagement
Trends
NIL contracts are extending quarterback eligibility decisions beyond traditional draft timelines, creating uncertainty in draft class depth projectionsQuarterback evaluation is increasingly difficult due to limited film availability and the unpredictability of college-to-NFL transition success ratesSpring games remain largely unavailable to fans despite technological capability, reflecting coaching paranoia rather than legitimate competitive concernsTransfer portal dynamics are reshaping quarterback development paths, with established starters less likely to appear in spring gamesConference realignment and depth distribution across SEC and Big Ten are making national championship predictions more probabilistic than deterministicCoaching staff paranoia about practice visibility persists in college football despite NFL's successful open-practice model during training campPlayer measurables (height, arm strength) continue to heavily influence draft projections despite evidence that production and intelligence matter moreThe heroin-like addiction to chasing first championships creates psychological challenges for sustained success in college football fandom
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ESPN
Referenced for NFL draft coverage and quarterback evaluation panel discussions
Bleacher Report
Cited for 2026 NFL draft mock draft projections that proved inaccurate
Pro Football Focus
Referenced for way-too-early 2025 mock draft analysis and quarterback rankings
Yahoo Sports
Mentioned as platform where Nate Tice provides NFL draft analysis and evaluation
Notre Dame
College football program discussed regarding offensive line composition and quarterback prospects
University of Oregon
Featured for quarterback coach Koa Kai's decision-making evaluation methodology
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People
Arch Manning
Projected as potential #1 overall pick in 2027 NFL Draft with option to return for another college season
Dante Moore
Projected top-5 pick for 2027 draft; chose to return to college despite first-round NFL interest
Koa Kai
Developed decision-making evaluation methodology using binary choice questions to assess quarterback intelligence
CJ Carr
Projected as top-10 pick for 2027 NFL Draft with remaining college eligibility
Sam Levitt
Ranked in top-5 quarterback prospects for 2027 draft; currently recovering from foot procedure
Jaden Mayava
Projected as potential first-round pick for 2027 draft with option to return for another season
Nate Tice
Discussed Byron Brown's draft prospects and the challenges of evaluating unorthodox throwing mechanics
Stetson Bennett
Referenced in context of Georgia's 2022 national championship victory and fan emotional experience
Deion Sanders
Mentioned as coach interested in televising spring games but unable to find opponent willing to participate
Fran Brown
Mentioned as coach interested in televising spring games but unable to find opponent willing to participate
Quotes
"At this point last year, as we all remember, projecting which quarterbacks were going to be the best during the 2025 season. Everybody was wrong. We weren't wrong. Everybody was wrong."
AriEarly in episode
"The thing that I find interesting as we dive into that Andy is at this point last year, as we all remember, projecting which quarterbacks were going to be the best during the 2025 season. Everybody was wrong."
AriOpening discussion
"In the minute a kid pauses, I don't really want that kid, right? Because you need to have some type of conviction, right? Whether you like chocolate or you like vanilla, I don't really care. But if you sit there and say, ah, coach, I don't know."
Koa Kai, Oregon Quarterbacks CoachBinary choice methodology explanation
"The feeling I had with Keeley Ringel caught that interception as he ran it back to ice, the national championship with Stetson Bennett, relief crying on the sidelines was as good as the feeling of seeing my son for the first time, but with none of the physical trauma and therefore a better feeling."
Lori, Georgia fan listenerMailbag segment
"If you are a Georgia fan and you read about other teams, you're still you're going to feel quite a bit better about you and Georgia because you're still in a better position than almost everybody else."
AndyChampionship psychology discussion
Full Transcript
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So I'm happy we're getting a draft question that actually allows us to project into the 2026 college football season. This is a fun way to start the show. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. And anybody who listens to the show knows that nobody is worse at evaluating quarterbacks than me, both in the game. I am probably just as bad. I'll open up a box of Justin Fields rookie cards over there and show you how much money I've lost trying to be good at it. But the thing that I find interesting as we dive into that Andy is at this point last year, as we all remember, projecting which quarterbacks were going to be the best during the 2025 season. Everybody was wrong. We weren't wrong. Everybody was wrong. And I think that that goes to show you, one, it is very easy to fall in love with athletics and some traits and moments for sure. But two, I think that a lot of the national people or people in our positions kind of view the sport the same. And you know what I'll tell you, when we're all wrong, we're all wrong because something remarkable happened and you're not supposed to see the remarkable happening in the foresight. So I think for the most part, years where we're all terribly wrong is probably less frequent than years where we're all right because it's very easy to spot good players mostly like we know, no, no, if it's that easy anymore, and you're going to see, let's let's let's ask Shea's question and let's try to answer it. And I think you're going to see that this has gotten much harder for a couple of reasons. So here's Shea's question. Hey guys, with the 2026 NFL draft approaching, of course, a lot of attention is being paid to the quarterback position. I was watching some of the ESPN coverage and one of their panels was discussing how franchises who need QB should not wait for a quote unquote loaded class and should try to fill the need as soon as possible if they feel they have found a fit. They alluded to this year's class that appeared to be so loaded at one time, thinned out with Fernando Mendoza and Ty Simpson being tabbed as the lone franchise changing first round options. Archmaning Dante Moore decided to stay at the college hall. My question is if you had make a top five quarterback class for the 2027 NFL draft prior to the 2026 college football season, who would be potential options for you? And what do you think contributes to these now seemingly unpredictable quarterback classes? Really good question from Shea. And so as before we answer it, I want to go back because I was curious to see what did everybody say after the draft ended last year about who the top QB's in the 2026 draft would be. And I call up one from Bleacher Report and this is fairly representative and we're not even going to put the name of the person on here because it's not fair because we all got all of these wrong. Every single one of us. So but they had Lenora Sellers as the number one pick. Archmaning is the number two pick. Drew Aller as the number seven pick. Now, this is a mock draft that had players from other positions going as well. Cade Clubnick from Clemson as your number nine pick. You see where I'm going with this? Sorry. I do see where you're going with it. And I do think that like a year ago, whenever that was published, I would have been like, OK, makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly right. We would have had our questions about Aller. But like I was a question Clubnick at this at this point because he had been better at the end of the 2024 season and I thought, OK, he's taken a step. And well, here's what I wrote. So I already did a list. I don't think you've done a list. You're still scarred from last year, but I did a list of my top 10 quarterbacks going into 2026 back in February. And my top 10 quarterbacks heading into the 2026 season might be even if it's perfectly correct, it still might not mirror the NFL draft order. Like in the reason why like Clubnick, for instance, I wouldn't I don't think I would have had as a top 10 pick in the NFL draft. But last year, I thought he was going to be a top 10 quarterback in college football. I didn't know if he projected, you know, size and all that stuff, arm strength and all the things that you would need, you know, again, but I don't know what I'm talking about. So like that that it was difficult. So like here's where it gets tricky, Andy. This year's list and I'm just going to read my list for a review of what I did. OK. Yeah. This is going into the 26 season. This is not the one from last year. Arch Manning one, Dante Moore, two, Sam Levitt, three, Julian saying four, Josh Hoover, five, Gunner Stockton, six, Jaden Mayava, seven, Darian Mensa, eight, Brendan Soresby, nine, number 10 CJ Carr. Now there's one name that college production, not potential drafts, slot or anything like that. Okay. We do very little, like I don't ever like do mock drafts because like that's I don't know enough about the NFL teams. I want to answer Shay's question though, because I do think we know enough about what there's one other one in the quarterback. There's one name that's missing from that list that's important to the point though, and that's Trinidad Chambliss. He didn't make the list because at the time he had won his injunction yet and we weren't sure he was eligible. But Trinidad Chambliss might be a top four, top three, even number one quarterback in the country production wise next year. I don't know how he projects to the NFL. So you can answer the question now, but who is productive is hard enough. Who is actually taken ultimately? Yeah. The first name I'll throw out there is the one that the NFL people liked this year, one that a lot of NFL people wanted to come out this year and he decided not to and that's Dante Moore from Morgan. So I will, I'll throw his name on here just because I like, when we were at the senior bowl, I had a scout telling me, Oh yeah, he would have been picked in the first round had he come out. No question about it. Now he still might have been viewed as somewhat of a project because he's only a one year starter, but everybody loved his trades. So that's, I'll, I feel comfortable throwing him out here. I don't feel comfortable with any other names on the list. Oh my God. For a lot of reasons. It's going to disagree with you more. Archmand is going to be the number one pick next year, guaranteed. I'm not saying I don't know that. I do. And he's going to have another year of eligibility. So yeah, what I'm telling you is the NFL draft people would have taken Dante Moore, most of them would have been fine with Dante Moore being taken in top five or top 10 this year. So I, I, I feel very comfortable putting him on the list. Like I don't even feel comfortable putting most of these names on the list because I don't know if they're going to be in the draft next year. Like, yeah, the other piece of this is the NIL era has changed the math. Yeah. And also where Dante Moore would have been selected this year could ultimately change based on how deep next year is. Right. I mean, he, we've talked about this with different quarterbacks through the years like Matt Barkley, for example, guys who Matt liner, it was another one. They're not all USC guys, I swear, but people who would have gone higher had they come out a year earlier. You know who's going to be a top 10 pick is CJ car. CJ cars is one I got on the list. So Dante Moore, Archmanning, CJ car, Notre Dame. Now here's the thing about CJ car eligibility remaining. He doesn't have to leave. So no idea if he'll want to. Right. I think at this point and Ty Simpson's kind of our lesson here. If you're not sure you're going to be first round pick, you stay. Yeah. Yeah. And that the thing that'll be interesting about next year to Andy is if there's a bunch of people who could conceivably be a first round pick, it's going to be much harder to know where you stand in the draft at this point next year or, or at the point in January where you have to make that decision. Like if you have a Julian, saying is going to be draft eligible. Yeah. I have no idea if he's going to want to leave though. I wonder if all these guys being draft eligible say in car, all of them being eligible at the same time will actually lead to somebody returning because they perceive the following draft will be lighter. Like I wonder if we're going to see that happen. Like, because there's so many. I bet we do. Yeah. Which then Jadamayava has to be in this draft. Right. So like that's one I would, I would say I imagine he will, he will be one that is, is talked about now. He's going to have to have a good year this year. Like that he could have left after this past season. There wasn't a huge buzz though, if he was going to leave. Yeah. And I'm still also amused to Andy that like Lenore Sellers is nowhere on top 10 lists, but it's like, he still has insane traits. He can have a big year next year and be right back in the top 10 a year from now. So exactly. Like Sam Levitt at LSU, you know, he, so we don't know about Sam Levitt right now, because he's posting, you know, pictures on Instagram of, of his foot all wrapped up because he just had another little procedure. So like that's, it's a mystery. Like Brendan Swarovski, who's playing for Texas Tech, played for Cincinnati last year has the size and the, the arm and the speed like the NFL teams love. Yeah. How do you, how do you perform? What about Gunnar Stockton? He's another one. Yeah. Yeah. He, he probably doesn't have the, the measurables that they love as much, but he's an effective college quarterback. Yeah. Makes plays. Six one. Yeah. These other guys I'm talking about are like six four, six five. Yeah. Two 30. Like Jay, I have a six four, two 30. Lenora Sellers is like the measurables, like wet dreams. So like, he's the king. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, and I got another name for you. I'm afraid to say it. Do you know what I'm going to say? I DJ lag way. Yes. Measurables king. Let's let the man play a good season first. Let's leave DJ alone for a little bit before we started recording though. Rivers like, well, how, how certain do you think you would be? Like I can see somebody coming out of nowhere and like, yeah, what if the person that it would be the biggest redemption arc for us if DJ lagway came out of nowhere? John, John, Matier wouldn't be coming out of nowhere. John Matier took his team to playoff last year. But who's the Fernando Mendoza of this season? Josh Hoover, probably. Yeah. Because he's, he's treading the same path or it could be Daryon Mensa. Let's say Daryon Mensa lights it up at Miami. Yeah. Yeah. Transfer quarterbacks that start somewhere new that were, that, you know, people knew were pretty good, but then become a completely different player at the new place. Yeah. Because of one, how about one who never left? How about one who just had a bad year and then bounced back with a really good year last year? No, Fafita. Yeah. He's short though, isn't he? He is. He, yeah, he's not going to, like they're not going to fall in love with his traits. Yeah. Here's another one. We had Eric Morison and he said that, you know, the pitch to him about Drew Mestermaker when he was at, at North Texas was this is an NFL quarterback. Now, Drew Mestermaker will be draft eligible after this first season in Oklahoma State, six, four, two, 15, big arm, big numbers. Like that's another one that we're not really talking about right now in terms of the draft, but we suspect he's going to have a really good year in that first year at Oklahoma State. We suspect they're going to be significantly better than they were last year. Yeah. I mean, the thing that scares me with Mestermaker is just total reps even after this whole season, like, I don't know if that's enough. Still, I mean, two full seasons. He'd be a two year starter at that point. Yeah. Two year player at that point. Yeah. Two year starter at quarterback. Whereas all these other guys started all through high school. Like he just says a strange, strange arc. Now here's a, here's a curveball for you. And I don't know what you think, but I wanted to ask you about him because you know how I am. I'm a measurables lover. Byron Brown. We spent a lot of time talking. He goes from his waist. I would, we did, we spent a lot of time, but you saw that that is the negative. Here's the positive. Did you see the pictures of him standing next to Cam Newton? He's from his waist. Do you think that he's just like that? Like that's an unovercomable situation? Probably is. I hope it's not for his sake, but that's pretty tough to deal with. Like the NFL people cringe. I recorded something for Yahoo with Nate Tice, who, you know, studies the draft for them. It's going to come out a little bit later and we were talking about Byron Brown and he's like, I love him. I love watching him play. And I was like, but where, where are you going to project him in the draft? He's like, Oh God, no, don't make me do that. So it's, I also have the same thing from a mechanic standpoint, how intricate it would be to get a throwing coach in there to help him change his motion. Maybe it's impossible, but if you've been throwing, I guess is, is that's been tried this works. So don't mess with it. And, you know, there have been unorthodox throwing motions that got in the NFL work. Like Phillip Rivers, I think you would call his throwing motion slightly unorthodox, but it's still quick. Like this one's not quick. And like Tim Tebow, that was his downfall in the NFL. His throwing motion was highly elongated. And I would watch up a really slow release. I cannot remember that. You know who else did my man, Bernie Kosar. Bernie Kosar didn't have a slow release. He just, he's a little sidearm, but he got it out there. I hit an unorthodox release. Unorthodox is not slow. We're orthodox and slow are two different things. Didn't Chad Pennington have a very slow release? I cannot remember. It's you are, you are straining my memory banks here. Which is crazy. I've never done that to you before. It's insane. But Chad Pennington was my God growing up like he was the guy. Like, so no, I know, I know what you're saying, but in the NFL, if you throw from your waist, uh, somebody named Miles Garrett's going to eat you alive. Yeah. I mean, in the NFL, the key is, is can you deliver the ball quickly? You identify the receiver, get the ball out on time. And so any sort of delay in throw is, is going to be, but look, if Byron Brown puts up huge numbers at Auburn, he's going to get looks. It's just a matter of what they, what they think. Yeah. But I don't, that, that's the thing. Mess to make or sores be, you know, CJ car, all these guys, they're going to get, they're going to get looked at. Uh, try to dash ambulance. Okay. This is his last year. We think we think now they're not going to love his measurables, but oh my God, does he produce? Yeah. I do feel like production and being very good should take precedent, but it never does. So I think it's got to be for the NFL has got to be a little bit of both. It can't, it's not, you're not surviving on pluck and grit as an NFL quarterback. You either can do the job or you can't. It's very hard. And so I, I just, I think this is such an interesting conversation because we get it so wrong so much of the time. And I enjoyed looking back at some of these. So pro football focus did their way too early 2025 mock draft. Okay. After the 2024 draft ended. And so this is, this is the one from last year where you had cam ward go. Number one, Shadoor Sanders was the other potential first round guy. Everybody thought, but didn't end up. And then you had Jackson dark going and then, and then Tyler Schuck in the, in the second round, but the first quarterback off the board on this way too early one, Carson Beck, who didn't even play in the NFL last year. He played in college last year. Yeah. Have we found any of the ones that people are projecting for next year? Uh, they come out after this draft. They do. Okay. Yeah. There are people that rank them and it's, it's the same names we just threw out there. Yeah. The ones, the people that are ranked the highest in most of these for, for 2027 are Dante Moore, Archman, CJ Carr, Jade Mayava. It's spring and this is the time of year when you start rethinking what's in your closet. I'm trying to keep fewer things, but better things pieces that are well made, easy to wear all the time. I can just grab it and I know I'm going to look great. That's why I keep coming back to quince. The fabrics feel elevated, the fits are thoughtful and the pricing actually makes sense. In other words, people are going to look at you and think you paid a whole lot more than you did. Quince makes high quality, everyday essentials using premium materials like a hundred percent European linen and they're insanely soft, flown at active wear fabric. Their men's linen pants and shirts are lightweight, breathable and comfortable. Basically the perfect layer for spring. Personally, I've got the hundred percent organic cotton mesh sweater polo. That one I was wearing on the show the other day feels great, fits great, breathable, looks amazing. It looks like I paid three times as much as I did for it. And that's what you're going to get with quince. You're going to get fits and fabrics that look like you paid a fortune, but you didn't break the bank. You just look great. So refresh your wardrobe with quince. Go to quince.com. That's Q U I N C E dot com slash a a on three. So a a O N number three for free shipping and three hundred sixty five day returns. Now they're able in Canada too. So go to quince.com. That's Q U I N C E dot com slash a a on three for free shipping and three hundred sixty five day returns. That's quince.com slash a a on three. Julian saying I just found a 20 27 mock draft, a seven round mock draft for twenty twenty. What? But it was also a true sicko. I want to meet this person. I'm not done yet. Guess what the date it was published? Uh, when September 19th of twenty twenty five. So they do it two years into the number one overall pick. New Orleans is true sick. Oh, I love this. Lagway number one. Producer River threw another name out there. You're ready. You're ready. Yeah, you're ready. Nico I am Ali. I have a what if he has a great ear and Bob Chesney's first year at UCLA? He might. He might six six. Two hundred twenty five pounds. Big arm. Come on. Obviously very aware of the business side of things. Oh my God. It's up to NIL situation so bad that it actually turns out to be a financial positive for you and your professional life. Like, can you like do like a, you know, how they say in politics that the far left and the far right are actually closer together than the moderates? Like, what if you like mess up your NIL so bad to the bell curve on the left that actually you were somewhere in the more like seasoned place once you get to the league and whatnot to do. That is certainly one way to spend it. Sorry. I'm just a certain way to spend it. A lot. I actually like, I know that this is probably going to make River grid his teeth, but I would like to see him do. Okay. Like, I don't. I would too. I, yeah. Look, there's a reason everybody liked him. But we'll find out what happens. But this is, this is a very interesting year because I, like, I look at these names, the, the five names that we threw out there seem fairly obvious. But again, like Julian saying CJ car arch manning, all of them are going to have potential eligibility remaining. And I don't, I don't think it's a cut and dry decision anymore. Even if you have a really good season, that just cause you're draft eligible, you'll pro. There are all these, there are all these NFL draft websites that like, Dick dedicate themselves to the NFL draft year round. And like, I don't know if this is reputable or not, but I found one for 27. Number one overall pick to the Cleveland Browns, your Cleveland Browns arch manning. Um, and then you have funny enough, and I just was amused by this, that the fifth pick in the draft is the New York Jets who will then select Dante Moore, who could not escape the wrath of New York city. He's just trying to get away all, all Dante Moore wants to do is get away from the jets. He's just pray, he's praying that four or five quarterbacks wind up being really good. And this is one of those years where you have five guys go in the top 12 and the jets just pick somebody else. Sikko has Lenora seller 12 to Tampa. And then go Yamali oven at Pittsburgh at 13. No, why? Wow. Oh, this guy's the free thinker and Charlie Becker. Which one? Yeah, I listen, I'm not going to say this with any confidence whatsoever, but I appreciate Shay's question, but I, I can't because we've seen how variable it is. And we've also seen now in the NIL era that if you're at a big school and you're successful and you're having a great season and maybe next season to be even better and you might be able to compete for a national championship and you're not sure exactly where you're going to go in the draft. You're coming back. God, I'm still reading this NFL draft. Andy, this is intoxicating. John Mathieu, 20. I gotta say, I understand why these are fun. Like I, like why people are with them because they are fun to read and it's just like no one knows. And there might be somebody out there that we're not even talking about at the moment that turns out to be the number one overall pick. Who knows? But it is inherently hard to figure out who is going to be really good in the college level. Then there's a second step to that, which is who also was good in college that like has the measurables, the traits and, and what makes the NFL per. And the new piece of it, are you going to make enough money in the NFL to justify leaving? Yeah. And other too many people in the draft this year and you can make more money coming back to college. Yeah, there's a lot happening here. It's more difficult now that it's ever been. Here's a good question from Sean Ari. On the topic of which football conference is better, what do you think happens first? The SEC wins a national title or the big 10 wins two more national titles? This is a great question. Did he ask us on fine balm? Um, I was wondering, I'm going to say SEC, just because winning a national championship is hard and like winning two in a row is hard, which means that you'd have to have two different programs do it. And I think that the, it's not saying two in a row. You're assuming that only the SEC and big 10 women national championships. I will point out that there was an ACC team driving in a one score game in the fourth quarter this year. So it's not out of the realm of possibility that somebody from another league could win one though. I do agree with you. It's probably going to be an SEC or a big 10 team most years. And it's just hard to do it once, let alone. Yeah. And like there's so many teams, it's just a simple like probability situation to me. It's like how many teams in the big 10 have a national championship ceiling and how many teams in the SEC have a national championship ceiling. And I probably would say it's like what eight and eight. Let's count them. Let's count them. You've got the SEC up on the screen. Does Alabama have a national championship ceiling? Yes. Okay. Uh, I'm going to leave the Auburn and Florida off there. Georgia is a yes for sure. Ole Miss. Yes. This year. Yeah. Oklahoma. Yes. That's four. Tennessee. I would say no this year. Okay. Texas A&M. Yes. That's five. Texas. Yes. LSU. Yes. So that's seven. That's seven. I don't think we're going to do South Carolina or Vandy here. So seven in the SEC. Let's go to the big 10. I said eight and eight record to be show. I think I'm going to be pretty close. Um, you're going to be fairly close. Okay. Indiana. Yes. They won last year. Would not be right to leave them off. Uh, Iowa. No. Okay. Michigan. I don't know. You all let you answer this one. I'm going to say yes on that. Okay. I think if you make the playoff, you have a chance. I think they can make the playoff. So that's two. Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Nebraska is a no. Ohio's, uh, excuse me, Oregon's yes. Right. Yep. Ohio, Stacey. That's three. Ohio, Stacey has Penn State. Uh, I'm going to say. Yes. Okay. That's five. Of the ones left, who are your yeses? Uh, USC. I would say yes to USC for six. Washington. Hmm. I would say yes to Washington. Okay. Well, you got seven and seven. Yeah. And I think that maybe I'm stretching a little bit with Washington and SC. That's okay. Uh, I mean, that, that's the thing. Like if we just said Indiana this time last year, people would have said we were insane. I think we would have definitively said yes with ceiling though. Yeah. Cause they were coming off at 11 win year. Yeah. You can't, like if they returned everybody, I don't know. And I, I think that's revisionist. I'm not sure we would have said that. I, well, I'm not going to speak for you. I'm not sure I would have said that this time last year. We did leave them out of the top 25. So maybe it's fair to say that we would. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So. Seven and seven. I think you're probably from a probability standpoint, right? Saying the SEC wins one before the big 10 wins two. And the other thing that, that does kind of muck this up a little bit is you have Miami that you think is, we think is still going to be a factor. And there may be Texas tech or BYU or somebody in the big 12 grows into a factor as well. So the big 10, the big 10 one is in, is, is much harder. It's a much bigger ass than the SEC one. I mean, I know their name. Duh. What a Notre Dame might win the national top. Well, there's also this other thing too. My favorite to win the national championship in 2026 is Texas. So like, why would I pick the big 10? If I think the team that my pick to win the championship is in the SEC in this year. Yeah. Well, it's gonna be awesome. I'm telling you guys hook them horns, dude, like I do think Texas is going to be good. I, I, I just, I also think Oregon and Ohio state are going to be really awesome. I'm excited to see Michigan. You know, everybody seems very excited about USC. Every single time we talk about Texas, like I have one vision, you know, what that vision is? No, picking you up at the airport at like 830 AM driving over to the fairgrounds. And I'm going to eat more fair food this year. Last year I didn't eat enough. I'm going to smash fair food this year. And then we've covered the game. We do our live video on that concourse looking over the field. We ran our columns and we go home. Domino's for the night game. It's like one of the best days of the year. What if we watch an Oklahoma win this year? We've seen two dominant Texas wins the last two years. Buddy, the corn dogs are there rather regardless of who wins. But I, you know, I think that I believe they called them corny dogs there. Yeah, they do. They do. I'm a big funnel cake guy. Just so you know where you are. Yeah, which is weird because you're not a big sweets guy. It's a very big savory guy. So yeah, it is a savory and sweet concoction. Yeah, big funnel cake guy. I got it. I got it. My shoot to add to my Oregon quarterback coach questions list. I think I'm going to do okay at that. I'm not using fair food. You tease at the beginning of the show that you're going to like put. Yeah, look at that. That was awesome. Remember that thing? Oh yeah. The Korean corn dog. Korean corn dog with the hot cheeto dust. God. What a, I mean, you can't beat the turkey leg. Like it's just your bait. Now that's a bacon wrap turkey leg, but you're just your basic turkey leg is the ultimate fair food. I've covered a lot of games in a lot of places. You've covered more. There is nothing as cool as that period. No, and it's the best neutral site game period too. Yeah, that's awesome. Okay. Next question from Lisa. What are the pros and cons of college football teams televising or streaming their spring game? This is a really interesting one. And in our group chat and on three this morning, Ari, we've had this back and forth about what you're trying to figure out who exactly is going to make their game available to watch this year. It's not a long list. You've got Colorado and Syracuse, Deion Sanders and Fran Brown who wanted to play each other in the spring last year and would still do it if somebody would let them, but they, they're going to let you watch their games. Notre Dame is going to be on Peacock, Ohio State, Oregon are going to be the big 10 network. I think George is going to be on the, on the SEC network, but it's, it's a very slim group of teams where you're going to be able to watch the spring game. Ellis is like everyone. How many shows we, we squeezed out of last year's talking point, which is if we air our spring game, people are going to poach our players in the spring portal window. Yeah. It doesn't exist anymore. So what's the point of like hiding it? It's interesting. We never got into the ghost transfer thing, but we could, we can talk about that now. Cause the, the, one of the fears when there was a spring transfer portal window was that people would be scouting your spring game off the TV and they would immediately try to tamper with your players. So now there's no spring transfer portal window. The concern is whether people would just withdraw from somewhere and enroll somewhere else. Yeah. And that's what Xavier Lucas did when he went from Wisconsin to Miami cause Wisconsin wouldn't put him in the transfer portal. The NCAA has created penalties for this, not for the players, because they know if they put any penalty on the player for this, they're going to get taken to court and they'll lose the penalty is against the coach of the team and against the, the program itself. So it would be up to six game suspension for the coach, the head coach, and then up to a 20% of your football budget fine for the program. So they're pretty serious of the incoming, of the incoming program, the program that takes the, yeah, the one that takes the player. And I don't, first of all, that would never hold up in court if it gets challenged because it's still a group of competitors colluding to price fix a labor market. So if it ever gets taken to court, that will go away. But is it worth it? Cause. But is it worth it? Cause. They smartly did not impose the penalties on the players. So the players don't really need to sue. Coaches aren't going to sue unless they get suspended. But. Well, here's the problem with it too, Andy. What if somebody just has a terrible spring and a terrible experience at their program and then they withdraw, but they don't know where they're going to go when they withdraw? Like there's no way to definitively prove that the, the place that you end up at colluded with you. Well, tampered. Yeah. Collusion is what the schools are doing. Yeah. Yeah. The, the thing about it is I'm not sure what's available after spring practice is where like the juices probably worth a squeeze for a coach. You're not going to, even if you know that if they tried to suspend you, you could take them to court and you'd win. Is it even worth the trouble? It might be a kind of players that are going to be, these are going to be guys that lost position battles. This is not going to be true difference makers. Okay. Here's a scenario for you. That just fine. It's a think tank. Is this a think tank? Yeah. You are a program in the SEC and I'm not going to name a program because I don't want to put evil on anybody, but you expect to win the national championship this year and one of your best players is your quarterback. That quarterback suffers a terrible injury in spring practice. Okay. Here, here's. Yeah. This is the legitimate one right here. And then you're left with a gaping hole on an otherwise promising roster that you spent a ton of money assembly. Do you tamper with another team's quarterback that you wouldn't have taken or even tried to take a month earlier? Yeah. If you're the coach, you walk into your AD's office and say, I don't know how to break this to you. You need to call our state attorney general. We're going to need to file a lawsuit here because they're going to, I'm going to take this player and they're going to suspend me. It's the, it's the arise. It's a sudden need that arises in your desperation to fill that hole by doing whatever measure take it takes to get that, which is kind of Miami at the end of the actual transfer portal window when they got there, immense. Yeah. And like Tennessee, to a certain extent, it wasn't an injury a year ago, but they were faced with a similar circumstance. But they had the transfer portal window to do it in. So yeah. So there's that. And here's the, but here's the other thing. Cause Lisa asked what a prose of televising your spring game. The pros of it are you give your fans something to watch. Yeah. Like these guys still don't get that they're in the, the spectator sports business that they're, they're in the entertainment business. They make it so hard for their fans to love their teams. But isn't there a certain aspect of this too, where if you don't televised it, you incentivize people in your area to buy tickets to come? Like, isn't that part of it too? I, I'm in Gainesville. They're not even selling tickets to the floor. Spring game is free. It is. Yeah. Are there concessions? I probably, but I don't think that's a significant budget line. Riverdice, Texas, it's usually free at Ohio State. They charged five bucks a ticket. I remember that. Yeah. That's Ohio State. Ohio State's televising it too, by the way. Yeah. Cause they're not worried. They're not, they ain't scurred. So if I were a coach, I'd want to incentivize people to come. I would want to incentivize people to see my team anywhere. Cause the whole putting it on TV reduces attendance. We know that's a fallacy. We know that's BS. The NFL blackout rules have, have taught us that over the years. And the spring game is actually a wonderful time because let's be honest, Andy. We're not living in the best economy at the moment and times are tight for a lot of people. If you are a person who can't afford $500 for, you know, two tickets to take your kid to the game. The spring game is an actual awesome opportunity for a person to take. We're not talking about that. We're talking about how low, advising the spring game. And I think you should make it as easy for your fans to see your team as possible. I think that just connects the, the, the fan and the team more. It increases the bond. And also you don't need to be worried about, let's say, even if we're not worried about people trying to poach players off your roster this off season, don't worry about them seeing somebody they like and putting a pin in that guy's name. They'll know. They'll try to steal from you next year. Cause guess what they're going to get more out of? You have a hundred people on your staff. You don't think some of those people are going to in casual conversation with their friends and former coworkers, mentioned guys who are playing well as young guys who are not playing in games. Like that information is going to be a lot more valuable than seeing a couple snaps in the spring game. And if the person's truly dynamic and irreplaceable, they will eventually see the field in the fall at some point. Yes. Or you will know what their future value is and you will pay them accordingly. So that is not something you need to worry about. I say everybody put your game on. Now here's the thing. I don't think the TV networks want to televise these things because they are not really good television, especially when you're in a situation, maybe you have some depth this year, maybe you have offensive line injuries where you're not even playing a real game. Like as much as people think they want to watch football practices, when you actually televise a football practice, they don't really want to watch it. Yeah. That's, that's part of it. I think a lot of it is the networks aren't as eager to devote resources to televising these things as they used to be, but it's cheaper than ever to, to stream something to hold these, like we are streaming this show right now. Cheaper than ever to do it. So I say everybody stream your spring games so that people can watch them. Yeah. It'd be a lot of fun. I just think that the allure of spring games in general has gone downhill because back in the day, when you used to watch a spring game, you'd watch a freshman and your sophomores who haven't played yet play, then you can envision the future. And like now players don't stay around long enough for you to like really get that feeling. Well, the other thing is you'd want to see your new transfers, but a lot of times if you have a new transfer, who's established, who has played it, they're not going to play much in your spring game. Yeah. Like they played, they probably played a ton in practice. The spring game, probably not going to play much in spring. Been a showcase of your younger talent. That's what. Yeah. Yeah. But I say anything that allows you to connect more with your fans. Like the NFL requires teams to open practices to fans during training camp. There's no reason you couldn't do that in college football. The coaches are super paranoid, but just don't put in the plays that you don't want anybody to see on those days. How come coaches in college are so much more paranoid than coaches in the NFL? Because they can be. They're allowed to be. The NFL doesn't allow them to be. If the NFL coaches had their druthers, I'm sure they'd never let anybody watch practice ever. I was one of the NFL understands it's in the entertainment business. I was once in the office of an ACC recruiting director. And he was certain that an SEC team bugged his office. And I just wanted to be like, what is this breaking bad? Do you think like somebody like came in and like plugged something into your like, are you insane? Like I just wanted to be like, are you insane? Yeah, the paranoia is high. But yeah, like Lane Kiffin is not having a spring game at LSU because he doesn't want people to be able to pick up on their 10th. Guess what? They have Ole Miss film. They know what you do. Wow. Rant over. Yeah. I hope I answered Lisa's question. I would like to see more spring games. I would like them to be available. I not even just for my purposes, it would certainly help us do our jobs. But. Just connect with your fans. Like give your fans a way to connect with you. Yeah. Stop hiding everything and it's not it's not state secrets. It's sports. All right. More football. Expression from Mason. Why did you both attempt to talk about the Notre Dame offensive line despite have zero clue what's going on? This is in reference to our bit the other day about Devon Fitzgerald, where we overreacted to the one catch. But I screwed up here because I started talking about their offensive line and just spaced. I thought I was going to be the one to be the one to be the one to be the one called up a depth chart site that I usually use, that is usually fairly accurate. And I was looking at it and I was reading off positions where it just wasn't the case. Like Anthony Knapp has moved inside to guard. Gary Lambert, who was recruited as a tackle is a tackle. I mentioned Charles Jagasah and completely forgot he had the horrible ATV accident before last season. And he's still dealing with repercussions of that. He's not talking about getting him back to health versus getting him on the field. It's not even a conversation right now. So that's my fault. I screwed up. That is my bad. I will do better. I was actually kind of amused by how mad people got in the Notre Dame world for the. I wasn't amused at all. They were right. No, the Larry Fitzgerald situation. Well, but that I think the offensive line part of it made it so much worse. Now, that was a promo clip. The context of the Devon Fitzgerald thing was not in there because we had done an Ohio State one right before that. So the overreacting to four seconds and explaining that that's us overreacting to out of context spring practice clips, like they didn't get that explanation in the clip and then me saying dumb things about their offensive line makes it even worse. So plus they hate you. People. Yeah, people make mistakes. So well, they hate you because you pointed out the head to head thing. I pointed out the obvious thing that everybody was going to realize eventually. Well, I think the committee probably listened to you more than anybody else. There was a thread on one of the Notre Dame fan sites about litigation towards me and my house after that. So I guess I do take full responsibility. Well, you're still in your house, so congratulations, I guess. But yes, the offensive line part, terrible, terrible on my part. That was awful. And I'm sorry. I messed that up. So we will do better. Next question is not even a question. And the subject line of this email. I should have even read this. The subject line says this isn't a question. Ari is right. Stop. That's it. Shows over. Well, it's from it's from our favorite. Yeah. Question. Ask her. I just like to hear you say that. That was why it's from Laurie. Yeah. Hi. I just heard Ari compare the first hit of heroin. No personal experience with winning the first championship compared to the subsequent championship as a Georgia fan. Hair flip. I think Ari is spot on. I became a fan during the Mark Richter. After being this close in 2012, this close in 2018. Chasing the high was my entire psyche because we all knew it was possible. It just had to happen. It was going to happen. I had two babies with no drugs in 2012 and 2014. And I am sorry, but the feeling I had with Keeley Ringel caught that interception as he ran it back to ice, the national championship with Stetson Bennett, relief crying on the sidelines was as good as the feeling of seeing my son for the first time, but with none of the physical trauma and therefore a better feeling. And the next day at work, I was so mad. I'm assuming this is the day after the championship, not the day after giving birth. I was so mad because I because after I had a baby, I was allowed to just bask in the joy. But instead that day, I was working as though nothing had happened. The very next year, hair flip again, when we went the championship again, hair flip was also very cool and fun and validating. But if someone is pretending that they experienced the same euphoria they had the year before, they are in fact pretending. But the good news is that when I pulled out of the Georgia hole and started paying attention to college football and more national and reading the athletic articles from Andy and Ari, I assume, and now you're at on three. Not about Georgia. And now it's something that makes my life better. Yes. Well, I think if you're a Georgia fan and you read about other teams, you're still you're going to feel quite a bit better about you and Georgia because you're still in a better position than almost everybody else. Now, the thing that I did not mention is with heroin, no experience, hair flip. I I think that when you stop taking it, the withdrawals of that feeling are really brutal, obviously. And I wonder like if you're an Alabama fan who has been conditioned to winning at a high level for a long period of time and then you go back to being normal, if the effects of normalcy are worse than the effects of chasing it. You know what I mean? Yeah, there is a little bit of a withdrawal symptom thing there where it's like if you are a Georgia fan and you are used to now winning championships and competing at a high level and you go nine years not winning a championship, if then that feeling returns in 10 years, which it might. So that said, like if I were a Miami fan, I would be devastated by what happened. But I also would be encouraged and excited about the fact that I still have that purity of chase in me. And I think our entire job exists because the chase is what people want to bask in. We people listen to our show because they like envisioning the future. It's the same feeling that we get when we read mock drafts, right? Like what can be possible? Everybody is always, always, always in sports, more interested in rehashing visualizing the future than rehashing the past, which is why recruiting articles are so prevalent. And that's why it's so fun to talk about Larry Fitzgerald's son. You know, like it's because what's next? Everything is what's next. Life is what's next. So thank you, Lori, for agreeing with me. I think that it's much easier to agree with me if you're a Bama fan or Georgia fan or an Ohio State fan than it is maybe for a team that's just dying to feel that. But trust me, if Miami wins a national championship and then it's subsequently good after it, nothing that happens after it will match the initial feeling. Collect the Indiana fans. I like we should pull the Indiana fans not now, but after this football season. How much did that change how you feel? How much to change your relationship with your hopes and dreams? You're also the reality of it, too, is if you're an Indiana fan and they go win the national title again in twenty six, that'll be awesome. It'll be amazing. You'll be legendary. You'll enjoy it. You'll root like hell for it. It will not feel like this year. Period. So, you know, and that sucks because like it no matter what, no matter how good you are after you win your first title, you're on the downsway. Yeah. Well. Great non question, Lori. Our next question is going to come from Koa. And Koa didn't write this in. Koa Kai is is Oregon's quarterbacks coach. And this this clip made the rounds this week and I loved it. It was so because it's. It made some people mad. Some people just smiled. It was easy to mock. Easy to mock. But I actually, if we and we're going to play the clip, if we listen to his reasoning for it, it makes perfect sense. So here's Koa Kai talking about. Chocolate or vanilla? There are some things that you need to worry about with the throwing motion and whatnot. But like really, how smart is a kid? Right? What is his emotional intelligence? What is his football intelligence? That is one of the top things that we look for here, especially with the way that we play football, right? It's more like I mentioned NFL style. You have to be smart to play the position, right? And especially at this place. So for me, a lot of it is getting to know these kids. I got asked him a question like this all the time. Hey, do you like chocolate ice cream or vanilla ice cream? In the minute a kid pauses, I don't really want that kid, right? Because you need to have some type of conviction, right? Rum or indifferent. Okay. So whether you like chocolate or you like vanilla, I don't really care. But if you sit there and say, ah, coach, I don't know. I want, is it melted? Is it not? What's the brand? So on and so forth. Like what is this kid going to do on third down in front of 110,000? It's probably going to think about it more than he should. He's not going to have conviction. I would not be a good quarterback. We saw you trying to order dinner last Friday. Producer River was laughing about this. Unbelievable. This is like a 10 minute process. I struggle greatly in restaurants that have menus the size of a textbook. Yeah, but it was a fine major. That was a pretty extensive menu, guys. You know, I mean, I selected my. Entree within about 30 seconds. But we're not talking about you. We're talking about what I struggle with. I struggle with that. But you're always very, you're always a confident order. You've how many restaurants have we eaten together and you know how I am? I struggle. But what what Koa Ka'ai is trying to point out is he needs someone decisive. And you know, he's conflating it with intelligence. It's not necessarily intelligence, because while I am very decisive, I am not always right. I am just decisive. But sometimes a decision has to be made. And so I love the binary decisions, though. These are so much fun. And so we're going to test you, Ari. And I'm excited on the binary decisions. And I want to see because I do think there are going to be certain things that you are decisive about. I but it just may not be the menu at an upscale sports bar. I'm much better at this or that than nine different continents of food. And there's more than and that's more common that it exists. OK, so you're more of a half field reader as a QV, but that's OK. I'm going to my first read. But like if you if the options are would you like a Ruben sandwich, a pizza, spaghetti, Bolognese, and you're talking about different genres of food like a grater. Yeah, yeah, I got to like buffets because now you're uncracking my psyche at the food court. Everybody thinks I'm a psycho because I want to eat different. It's like that stops me from making a decision on the slice of pizza, a chicken finger, some mashed potatoes. That's why I like buffets because then you don't have to worry about it. You're a psychopath. All right. Here we go. I'm excited. Let's imagine you're at the buffet and you head over to the soft serve machine. Chocolate or vanilla? I'm a chocolate person. Good. I like it. I like it, too. But I like chocolate. I choose chocolate every time. And it's interesting because I, you know, used to say, I'm vanilla is boring. I do understand now I've read up on it that vanilla is actually an extremely complex flavor. And if we're talking about flavor profiles, the vanilla is probably the more interesting of the two and various like chocolate better. I think it varies, too. Like there are different types of vanilla, but I've always thought that with ice cream that vanilla is better complicated with or complemented with other things. Like, and by the way, while we're on the topic of ice cream, I was actually had this thought last night. I think sprinkles are terrible and the most overrated thing ever. And that they like there's no flavor. They mess up the texture. Like their existence is like awful. And you know, OK, chocolate chips are good, but you know what's even better? Cookido. Cookido is great. M&Ms. M&Ms are great. Heath bar is really good. Especially the mini M&Ms in vanilla ice cream. Yeah, spectacular. Or in chocolate ice cream. I take either one. All right, Ari, your next one. Day or night night. I figured you would be very decisive about this. You've always been a night person. I think this depends on how your life has gone. Both Ari and I started our careers working for newspapers, which makes you a much more nocturnal person than a diurnal person. Yeah, I'm not a morning person and sports are always on at night. Usually dinners at night. Happy times at home happen a lot at night for me. Night is nothing good happens after midnight. Oh, plenty of good. After midnight. Trussell said nothing good happens after midnight. And to that I say you are wrong, sir. A lot of good things happen after midnight shows get premiered at night. You put your daughter down early and you get your night here. Like a night is a very good time for me. Day is more stressful. OK, I see you're more decisive. You get a better quarterback than you think. Yeah. Tupac or biggie. Tupac. OK, that's interesting. All right, let me I thought you might say that. I thought you might be really decisive about that. So we don't have a graphic for this one, but I'm going to I'm going to alter it and see if this is more difficult. Nas or Jay-Z? Nas, I think Jay-Z is the friends of hip hop artists. I figured you would say that you're wrong. Jay-Z, I think Jay-Z has made very good music. I think that he is treated as one of the best rappers to ever live. And I don't understand that part of it. He said he told you in moment of clarity what was going on. I dumbed down for my audience and double my dollars. They criticized me for it, yet they all yell Hala. They sold truth be told, I'd probably be lyrically tell of Kuali. Truthfully, I want to run like common sense, but I did five mil and I am like common sense. He told you he can do it. He just doesn't do it because he makes more money the other way. He just. Admitted that there are better lyricists than him in his own music. And then you said no, he just admitted that he could do it, but it wouldn't sell very well. OK, well, if you think. Yeah, no, I just I you're you're wrong about it, but you were decisive. And I like that. Well, here's the one thing I will say is that obviously music tastes, everybody has their own. And I've never gravitated to his records. Yeah, no, I but the Tupac or Biggie, I had a feeling you'd be Tupac, but I just I wanted to throw it out there just to see. Discography is so much more extensive than Biggie's. Biggie has a very limited amount of music. Right. Because he was he was very young when he when he died. And they also only a lot of records from Tupac. And like the thing that was interesting about him was that he could record two hundred songs in a year, which is a talent that people I don't think. Wasn't that to get out of the contract? I'm sure, but they were awesome. So it's a lot of work in a very short amount of time, all while being an incredibly good actor, like he was like making the film while on the sets of other movies he was shooting. You've seen Tupac with Mr. Rogers, right, the A.I. Yeah, I've seen that. Yeah, that's hilarious. Tremendous. Have you seen the movie Juice? Yes. Very good movie. All right, Ari, back to your choices. OK. I think I know the answer to this one, too. OK. Sugar or salt? Sugar. What? Are you sure about that? Yes, because sugar is the main ingredient that makes everything good. What about but aren't you a savory person? I am a savory person, but sugar exists in bread. You couldn't you could like if sugar is ceased to exist, everything that we think tastes good would be gone. I think you're thinking of flour. I'm thinking of like carbs and how it converts in your blood. That's flour. I would much rather have a savory thing than a sweet thing, but like sugars and coke, regular coke. That is a sweet thing. Yeah, that's just the sweet thing you like. I still think that sugar would be more of an important ingredient in the things that are very good. If salt didn't exist, you could still make things, right? It would not taste very good. Like I'm trying to think like you know about this better than me. But if you remove sugar from earth and you remove salt from earth, like what do those what does that look like? Like can I not have fruit anymore? Well, I mean, naturally occurring sugars. I mean, we were moving those two. I'm talking about like refined white Dixie crystals here. I still think I would take sugar. I think that like, OK, I love soul. I love soul. I appreciate the decisiveness. It doesn't match your behavior pattern, but I appreciate the decisiveness. I'm also like addicted to regular soda. So like that is yeah. And like I do like slurpees and ice cream and stuff too. We got to work on the regular soda thing. We do one more hug or kiss. Man. Tough one, right? Yeah, I do. You thought I was going to blow through this with the decisiveness. All right. So I'm like thinking about there are different types of hugs and kisses, obviously, obviously, but like there's nothing better in the entire world than when your daughter jumps into your arms and gives you a big hug, right? Right. I also very much like kissing my wife. So like that. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, kissing my wife. So like that. And without the kisses, there would be no daughter hugs. So I mean, you can have hugs with more people and it's more socially acceptable. Yeah. Now, sometimes somebody might have a telephone to Luns while you're hugging someone that doesn't always end well, but yeah, especially. Yeah. And you're the Red Rocks, but I would say kisses. If I had. Okay. I thought you made a really compelling argument for hugs to be perfectly honest. Have you ever had a really long day and like you're just sitting at the counter or something like in your house or on the couch and your wife comes behind you and gives you a big hug like from behind and like this, like, feel better like that. Yeah. But if you can't another compelling argument for hugs, I know they're doing well here, but here's another argument for kisses. There are there are several drives, man. To do everything in life. I do have one more for you. I forgot I added this one. I texted River later on and added this one just for you because this is I feel like this, this could be tough for you or I don't know if this is going to be tough for you or not. I know you love both of these things. So I want to see where you're at on it. True crime or comedy? I don't know. That's that. I stopped him. Yeah. Finally. They're very important. Both are very important to me. I think I would probably say that I consume more true crime in totality because I listen to a lot of true crime while I'm driving. But like you're talking about no more stand up, no more laughing, no more comedy movies. Like I think I would almost get like I really like stand up comedy too, but like comedy movies don't exist anymore. So like that's already gone. Um, I think I would have to take true crime based on my behavioral patterns on a day to day basis now, but then like I could not imagine earth without comedy. I think you'd be sadder without comedy. I think yeah, because I listen to some pretty morbid stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Balance that out. You need you need the light with the dark. That's hard. All right. I think you'd be a better quarterback than you think. Yeah. I think you're going to see that guy pop and open and so here's what would have a hard time with though. If you're like true crime, kisses or sugar like that night. But fortunately Dante more never has to choose between those three things. Yes. That's and that to me is the is is what a very expensive menu does because it's like extensive menu because like that's do you want Italian? Do you want Greek? Do you want a Rubin? Like there's like all these different options and it's just harder. I never heard. But so we're going to stay. You ordered a dress shoe. Yeah, but I picked it and ordered it. You you go to all the menu like oh I can get a pork chop. I keep sirloin. I can get a rib by pork belly mac and cheese. All you need a board of pizza and non pizza place, which was a mistake. But it was really good and second of all river I panicked because your order was so terrible that like I didn't want to like live in that. No way. You said it was good in the moment I ordered I said sirloin mashed potatoes and bacon wrapped asparagus. But sirloin is the work of meat. First of all, I don't order steaks and sports bars because that's not where you order a steak. And if you're going to give me shit ordering pizza in the sports bar, you're not going to give him shit for ordering a sirloin steak in a sports bar. No, no, no, it's the process of which you know rich rich man. I'm not. Is that a money thing? Like I don't. No, because what you did was you ordered it and you did not even mention it once in the deliberation. Yeah. Yeah. It was the Mickey Mouse process. Yeah. This is this is the most fired up I've seen river about it. No, he was he was offended. But then you like ordered a burger and part of my thought process was well, we're going to be eating a lot of burger the next day. Yeah, like that was like part of it too. It's like I only had one burger the next day at Culver's. I had now had three shakes. Yeah. I don't know. I was a place that actually I don't remember what it was called that like felt like everything that you order was pretty good. So that was like I struggle when you are like district tap was the place we were. It was a really good sports bar, great TV setup. So if you are in India and looking for something like that district tap is the way to go. Also, I want to shout this out. We've mentioned on the show before, but we probably should mention it a few more times. Mother Wolf. Mm hmm. We went to Mother Wolf in Miami. Keep talking. One of one of their managing partners is a listener to the show and invited us to go when we were in Miami. They have locations in Miami Vegas and Los Angeles. It is one of the best meals you will ever have in your life. The the pasta was incredible. The steak was unbelievable. The desserts were amazing. Just one of the best meals I've ever had. I can't see that. We're going to be like, Oh, there's the mother wolf menu. Oh, that's our menu. Oh, yes. He made a menu for us and put our names on the menu. How yes, the punch is that it was awesome. And so I recommended Mother Wolf to a bunch of people and had a friend from from Birmingham who was out in Vegas went to the location out there. Sent me pictures said this is one of the best meals I've ever had. So I just did want to point them out as well. One of the one of our that's probably my favorite culinary adventure of last football season. Yeah, I mean, that was the best meal we had in all of football season. It definitely was. Yeah, part of it too, is that we got hooked up pretty good with a bunch of different variety, which is my favorite. We had a bunch of different types of pasta. Yes, one of those they said, just trust us. We're going to. Yeah, we're going to take you on a tour here and they were spot on every time. And then my wife went a few weeks later when she was in South Florida too. So yeah, thank you very much. So good. And like, if it wasn't, we wouldn't be tell it was awesome. Yeah. Yep. So we're going to have some more of those. We'll have some more of those here. I'm excited about this football season because we're going to get some places. We're going to see some new stuff Monday. All right, we're going to have some spring games to break down. They not all streaming, but the good news is being party on three network. We have reporters at every game. We have video of the coaches. We have video players will have highlights. It is going to be a lot of fun to overreact to some out of context spring game clips going to be spectacular. We'll talk to you Monday.