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The fact that Tater Tots was not listed in the Frid discussion the Today Show upsets me greatly. Peter Burns Field Yates. It is a Dan Liotard art show at Stewardson ESPN Radio presented by Progressive Insurance. Am I right Field? I mean, listen, if you're talking about all types of fries to start the show, Tater Tots has to be in that little Mount Rushmore. That's all. It's all I'm saying right off the bat.

You know, Peter, it's a little bit early in the morning. You're still sort of clearing the fog. But the idea that tater tots could be slandered at any hour is just blasphemous. I'm with you. They probably haven't had the right tater tots when it comes down to. But the versatility, they're the easiest to dip of all the different forms of a potato. I stand by that take.

These are the hot topics that we'll have over the next five hours. You and I call for the bullpen. Yeah, it is going to be five in four bevy of different reasons. And of course, here on the Today Show, I've had an opportunity to host that. You've been a part of it as well to it's one of the best listening audience is very loyal. And I think we have to do this right, because there was big news that yesterday that broke in the art world.

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And thanks, Dave. And a huge, huge breaking news yesterday. The Dan Le Batard himself brought on Twitter feed. And it's only right that we address it. I don't know if our bosses want us to do it, but yet here it is.

Here's what Dan had to say. OK, so this is hugely embarrassing right before we leave ESPN, but I figured I'd come clean as a preventive measure before those sewage treatment plants, The New York Post and TMZ get a hold of this and distorted. I just wanted to tell you personally on the on the front end or I guess the back end, that I'm not Hispanic and my father is not Hispanic. My father is. This is hard to say.

He's a paid actor from Des Moines. His real name is Doug. You know, we carried on the line for a long time because it was profitable and got away from us. So Doug and I are deeply sorry field.

It was something that shook me to the core. It was always kind of a secret here that we kind of knew about. But the fact that Dan has come out and honestly brave right off the bat and at least acknowledged this, I think shows to the character that he is. And I will take zero Liotard blasphemy for just the way that he's handled this.

Yeah. Yeah. So, Peter, so evidently you've got better sources than I do because this was a complete surprise to me. I was not at all aware of this. I had never been brought to my attention before. I feel like somewhat of an outsider and I wasn't quite sure how to handle this news when it broke last night. I woke up this morning, not quite myself in a disoriented me. I don't know if there's like a perfect equivalent.

I was thinking like, you know, Easter Bunny.

One of those situations, obviously, for those who were driving around with their kids, the Easter Bunny, of course, is real and so is Santa. Right. But Dave is is real. He's a real person. And I think that we need to appreciate that. When you didn't know, is the casting that we had behind the scenes a couple of years ago was incredible.

Ted Danson was a part of that, but we figured he was too big of an actual star to do it.

So I feel like with the right maybe like if you put the right sort of makeup, maybe if he grew a thick beard, Ted could be a little bit more incognito. Yeah, but yeah. So anyways, I'm still trying to find out the right words, like I couldn't have breakfast this morning. Like I usually have a cup of coffee in the morning. I had no taste for it. It just was, it's been, it's been a long 14 or 18 hours.

You've got to be honest with you. If you don't have any taste for your coffee this morning, you might want to go get one of the rapid test fields. Peter Burns here in The Dead Libertador show you can hit us up on Twitter. Attfield Yates' at Peter Burns, ESPN. We'll continue to, you know, probably probably that's the last time we're going to address it here on the show. We just needed to be sure that everybody knew what was going on and happy that we were able to do that.

Happy that we saw the cheese at Bowl last night. Field Yates. I was happy because, listen, 20/20 football has just made me appreciative of everything that we have. Right. Instead of all right. This year was a world of suck, which we all agree was, oh, no different reasons.

We we get to see a little bit of football and I'm in a good mood. I don't care what bowl game it is. I'm seeing football until I hear this play go down. This is Sean Kelly and Barrett Jones on the call Cheesa Bowl between Oklahoma State in Miami last night.

Jordan out of the left slot crossing right over the middle. King wants to throw to can't flush out of the pocket, rolling right flag down toward the ten and just outside the far side. No, he is knocked off his feet and he is down and grabbing at his right leg, right leg. Hit a play by Trey Sterling after the four yard run by King and. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness.

His right field. Yates I mean, that call courtesy on ESPN Radio yesterday. It's like, you know, we want to have fun. We want to watch these games. Been to see Derek King, who just this week Field announced that he was going to be headed back to Miami for, I think, his 19th year of eligibility, which we should also be so lucky to be a quarterback living in Miami and be a and have that much old school type life.

It stunk to see Derek King and now dealing with what possibly is a pretty serious injury in a bowl game that she's a bowl nonetheless. Yeah. So you think about Miami's history recently in football, and I understand it. It's been a difficult let's call it, what, twenty years. Right. I mean, it's been a difficult decade for sure, but extends further beyond that. But don't you feel like Derek King probably has been the most identifiable player Miami's had in quite some time?

You know, quarterback has obviously been difficult for them to feel for a long, long time. There have been players that have like eventually made the NFL with pit stops from Miami. But this has been the guy like not Tate Martelle, not other quarterbacks that have come through in recent years. It has been, I would say, Derek King. That's kind of put them back on the map. And I understand that, you know, Miami fans are probably one on the map to be like playing in the football playoff.

But compared to where they were at the, you know, sort of the doldrums of this program's existence over the past decade, it's really too bad to see. And also, he's one of the more exciting players in college football. He was during his time in Houston. He has been during his brief time here in Miami.

Well, did you see it as well? Right. And last night, everybody wanted to go off on the deep end about Tyler. Wallace, this was the wide receiver for Oklahoma State who played a half and then shut it down literally like I know it's a close game, I'm not playing in the second half. Now, Mike Gundy and their offensive coordinator, Casey Dunn, came out and said, listen, this was the game plan going in, like Wallace was going to play half of the ball game and then he was going to sit out and I see people ripping them.

And I'm like, did you not just see Derrick King get his leg mangled in the cheese it bowl? And you're really going to rip this kid for playing half of a bowl game with which the kid didn't even have to do it? In fact, if anything, this morning field, you should be praising this kid, Tyler Wallace, in Oklahoma State for saying, hey, listen, you want to play great. How much you want to play a half?

That's awesome. Because if you're not getting what Cam Newton or Patrick Mahomes or NFL money, I mean, my goodness, I don't feel too bad about that.

Reminder, ESPN Radio has you covered for a bowl game action. Tune in today. The Good Year Cotton Bowl presented by Good Year coverage begins 7:00 p.m. Eastern on ESPN Radio and the ESPN app. So we'll talk a little about what the value is playing that college football playoff game with Katie George here in a little bit. But it's Dan Levitas show Peter Burns and Field Yates.

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That's exactly what it is. Katie settle a debate that field and I were having in the commercial break. If you see a phone number that does not have an enlisted in your caller I.D. percentage chance, you're actually picking it up.

Zero percent. I usually send that straight to voicemail, gentlemen and Peter, I cannot believe that Ben Levitan is allowed back on his show to fill in for him. What is going on?

Well, first of all, there was drama yesterday. Go check out Danz, his Twitter video, and I think that will explain it. And contractually, I'm not allowed to even say anymore due to H.R. reasons. Kadija, but I do want to get into this.

You are working the illustrious cheese bowl last night, and I'm shocked on a couple of things. One, not that injuries happen because we saw that with drinking going down with the knee injury. And that's just looked absolutely horrible for a kid. That really was kind of a beacon of light for Miami hurricane football, especially coming back next year.

But the idea that Tyler Wallace, Oklahoma State star wide receiver, just decided, hey, Deuce's, I'm out at halftime, like, what's the back story of this?

Yes, it was interesting because we went into that game touting the fact that Tylenol had opted in. I mean, it was one of the biggest storylines of that match up between Miami and Oklahoma State because he had the film, he had the stats. He easily said, hey, I'm opting out for the cheese apple. No one would have blinked. And I had he said that. But the fact that he said, hey, I owe it to myself, I owe it to my teammates to come out and play in this game, you know, I was stunned at halftime when he came out and put his helmet on the bench and had a towel wrapped around his neck and he remained on the sideline as they started the second half.

And so, you know, as a sideline reporter, you're in constant contact with sports information directors within the schools. And so, you know, I texted the Texas A&M rep and I said, hey, tidelands on the sidelines, OK? And he said, I'll check for you. And so then I grabbed their head, athletic trainer Scott. And I said, Hey, Scott, like, is he hurt? Is everything OK? And he said, it is not a medical issue.

And I said, OK, well, that's good to know. Like, I'm glad to know he's not hurt. He's OK. And so I asked, will he return? And so Scott actually walked up to Thailand, asked him a question, came directly back to me and said it's a player's decision. And so that's what I reported on the broadcast. And, you know, as I'm, you know, walking in the sidelines and getting dinged on my phone on Twitter, that apparently this was, you know, mutually agreed upon before hand that Gundy and Wallace had discussed it, that he was only going to play the first half and that he was going to sit out the second half and let younger guys get some reps.

That's what was being reported by, you know, beat reporters and TV reporters from the Oklahoma State area. And so that wasn't ever communicated to us as a broadcast crew would have been nice. And Mike Gundy kind of alluded to that in our coaches calls prior to the game. And I even spoke to Time and Wallace the night before the game on the phone. And he didn't ever mention that, you know, the second half wasn't going to be an option for him.

So it was just kind of interesting how everything went down and, you know, that we didn't get that note because, you know, it's easy to go on the broadcast and say, hey, they discussed this. They mutually agreed he's not going to play. But, you know, he had banged up his knee and sat out against the last regular season game against Baylor. And so it was just interesting. Maybe he just wanted to come out shows south, hey, I'm healthy, I can play so we could do in the first half and then the second.

But it was a very interesting storyline how it unfolded. Yeah.

Katie, first of all, took Peter off one segment and thirty seconds to sell me out as a co-host here.

I specifically answering calls outside because I recently moved and I'm worried it might be people who could be coming to do work on the House and other things of that.

If it's important enough, they'll leave a message, feel well, just don't leave yourself open till you get a call from Comcast.

It's not always easy to get them right back on the line within a matter of minutes. Trust me, I believe this experienced Katie back on my site. I like that right there.

So I'm still I still can't quite figure out why, like a half the amount of time to play. Like, I almost feel like if you're Tyler Wallace, like, give it a series. Hey, then the like, let Mike Gundy usher you to the sidelines. Everybody gets up and stands. Well, I guess there's not that many fans around. But still the point is like what to do.

Yeah, kind of cut outs all get up and stand. I'm curious to like, do you wonder if this is like I don't know, but a trend like I can't imagine.

Twenty five players going to play one half of a ball game. But first we had players playing all the way through their season and then we had players opting out of the bowl games. It's I mean, this has been happening for years. Christian McCaffrey was one of the more notable names a handful of seasons ago.

I do wonder if, like, we could see part time appearances from players going forward, could that be the new wave of like not quite sitting out, but sort of totally, but sort of also sitting out? It feels like an odd dynamic here for me. It is an odd dynamic field and it's a great point, I think it's definitely a trend that will continue to see. I start to work and I will say I'm not a huge fan of it by any means.

I think you should finish what you start. But also, that's easy. Coming from a college volleyball has been who didn't have a career path.

I prefer stand out, but I didn't have a lot of money riding on it. Right. And so these guys, I can't imagine how they feel being pulled in so many directions. Right. You have to wonder. They certainly feel a duty to their teammates, to their team, to their program that they've given so much to that they want to see it through. But at the same time, you know, look what happened to be king last night.

I mean, that was gut wrenching. And and I wondered, you know, was that at all a part of the conversation if it wasn't predetermined with Gundi and Thailand? Was that you see Desert King go down with a knee injury? I mean, how and Wallace, he knew what was at stake. This is a kid that already tore his ACL a year ago. His twin brother TracFone had to retire from college football because he tore his knee three different occasions.

They said you can't play anymore. So like nobody more so than Thailand. Wallace understands the risk and how prone to injury you can be playing in this game. And so I totally understand where these guys say, hey, you know what? It's not worth it because there's something next for me at the next level. So I get it from that standpoint. But to your question, you know what happens if your team starts in three and you're you're an NFL prospect?

Are you just going to say, well, we're out of the running for the college football playoff because we see how hard it is to be one of the top four at this point? And are we going to see top level talent to say, yeah, it's not worth it?

Like our Katie? I remember. That's what Oklahoma that's what Dear King did, right? I remember he was over at Houston. They start off to a bad start. He goes, hey, I'm shutting it down. I'm probably not going to transfer. I'm going to be go back to Houston. I'm just not I'm going to take my four game. Ready set out for a little bit, right? Yes.

Yes. And that's a great, great point. And so I would hate to think that if the college football playoff doesn't expand or change in some way where it makes it. An option for these teams to actually get in where they can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you're going to see more guys opt out because they're going to say it's not worth it. And I hate that. I hate that because it goes against everything, you know, as a competitor against your being.

But we're definitely going to see that if you're three and four and you don't see that light at the end of the tunnel, you're not going to play in a bowl or college football playoff. Mind you, I'm about to cover a six people and four of the best players on North Carolina have already opted out. So clearly a New Year six isn't a draw anymore. So I'm just worried for, you know, where we're heading as a college football fan because I think the opt out field is definitely going to be a trend.

She is Katie George, you can follow her on Twitter. Katie, underscore George 005, the most important person of the best week ever. Our show on Sunday mornings, she really carries the show.

Can we be clear about that? Because I'm up I'm up early on Sundays for for NFL coverage. And, you know, Burnsy, like, decent, decent. But Katie really makes it worth my while.

This is the beauty of how I am. And I always say this on the Today show. The only reason why I'm employed by ESPN to do so many ESPN radio shows is so average and mediocre as a host, it makes everybody else look great. Look, I used to work at Laura Rutledge. Look what she's doing. Marcus Spears, Booker McFarland, Katie, George Field, Yates. I mean, again, I'm the perfect person that makes everybody look a little bit better.

And Katie George, of course, doesn't need any help on that part.

Thank you, Katie. I will say my favorite part about hosting with Peter is he will go on a rant for about five minutes field and give me 30 seconds to respond before we have to hit a break. And I'm like, I can't respond and do my diligence and make my point when you only give me 30 seconds. So the commercial breaks just are us fighting and bickering back and forth like an old couple.

Well, and I only have four and a half more hours of radio together today, so I am now mentally prepared for it.

I wish you the best. I wish you gonna need it.

See you, sunshine. There it is. Getting George joining us on the Goodyear hotline. All right. Coming up, I can fix it. Field. It's totally simple about how these college bowl games will actually make sense both for the players and the fans and the teams. I'll tell you what that is coming up next. Dan Levitas show with Peter Burns and Field Yates on ESPN Radio.

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Libertador show it's still Godse, minus Levator, minus two Godse minus Doug, the Fill-in actor from Des Moines on ESPN Radio presented by Progressive Insurance at all. Guests always join us on that good year hotline. Peter Burns, Field Yates, Roland with you. And we just had Katie George on field talking about the Tyler Wallace wide receiver yesterday in Oklahoma State, did play the second half of the cheese bowl, which again, I think Gundy made the right call on this whole thing.

Right. I mean, again, no one's going to remember, hey, the performance or the unbelievable win and the cheese bowl twenty years from now. But they will remember, especially if you're Tyler Wallace, if you got injured like Derrick King did earlier in that game, you're not able to go out and play on the on the next level. So it's time for a straight talk brought to you by Straight Talk Wireless Field. You brought up the fact of, hey, when do we start looking at these opt outs, whether it be bowl games or regular season games in it affecting NFL stock?

You've worked with NFL programs and franchises before. Where is that line right now or has it always changed now at twenty twenty?

So I think what will be really interesting, Peter, will be whether it whether a full season opt out impacting. So like, I don't think the Tallin Wallis's decision last night is going to impact his status in the NFL. He's a very talented wide receiver prospect who's going to, I don't think, be at all impacted, because if teams have questions about why he did it, he'll have the opportunity to address that with Thailand during the pre draft process.

And it sounds like there's a pretty reasonable explanation for him. Plus, we've had other players that have skipped out on a ball game entirely that may have been sensational since then. And B, their draft status was not at all impacted. Right. Christian McCaffrey, who I brought up to Katie, was one of the first players to skip a bowl game that was really visible and notable. Right. And like Leonard Fournette saying the same thing amongst them.

And by the way, Leonard Fournette goes fourth overall, Christian McCaffrey goes seventh overall.

So if you're an elite prospect, it's not going to matter. Where it does get interesting is where guys like, for example, Penn State's Mike Parsons, defense of an outside linebacker training, what scheme he's playing him one of maybe, maybe the five best prospects in this year's draft. But there's a big difference between not playing one game in late December versus not having played a game entirely since last December. I think it's going to be a fascinating dynamic to follow during the predraft process.

It's not just Mike, it passes. There are certainly many others. Caleb Pressley from Virginia Tech. We've got, let's see, Alexander Russo, right. Greg Krosoczka down with Alexander Greg herself from Miami, their outstanding edge rusher, a guy who led the I led the NCAA actually second in sacks a year ago behind only Chase Young's like chasing. There are tons of players who fit into this mold. That is where I think you're going to see something interesting.

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I look at this and go, you know, the Heisman Trophy is starting to it's already been voted right now if you can't release your vote yet.

But it will be announced here in a couple of days. And there's been a lot of love for Trevor Lawrence lately. Now, I still think Devonta Smith is going to win. If you take a look at the straw polls, I think he'll end up hoisting the award.

But with that being said, you could argue to the Trevor Lawrence might have been the most important player in college football and not necessarily what he did on the field, which, you know, you could see for yourself.

It's nothing short of a testing.

But had Trevor at some point said, you know what, man? I don't need to show anything on the overall number one pick. Right. I can I can show up at the combine and run a ten 640 in a walker. And people are going to still know what kind of numbers that I can put up.

They're going to draft me, number one, overall, i.e. the Jacksonville Jaguars that had had him and maybe Justin Field said, you know what, man, we are. We're just standing pat like we already like our poker hand. That would completely change. How many kids would have played college football this season? I would argue that Trevor Lawrence's decision might not even save the sport for what we saw this season.

Peter, I totally agree, because you think back to this past off season, if you can even really call it that, because it really wasn't a conventional offseason in any ways. And it felt like. Trevor Lawrence, is impact as great as that is off the field, he became a champion of the sport, right? Part of the let us play Move-in. He was really, I would say, the symbolic figurehead of that movement. And if someone of his stature and let's be clear, like his stature, he's on a he's on a tier unto himself.

Right wing college football has nobody else, at least right now that comes anywhere close to what Trevor Lawrence represents, not just from a production standpoint, but caché pedigree, all those things that go into being the face of college football. But if he or I think Justin Fields, maybe to a degree as well, probably not the same degree, but certainly higher caliber than almost any other prospect this year if they had sat out. It takes on new life.

But you're right, it's a fear like we owe we owe these to, amongst others who did play this year, opted into the college football season, a debt of gratitude for all they've done, not just for what they've done on the field, but really helped bring the sport back to life when many thought that it was going to be left for dead this season.

And here's the deal. Like for if you're ripping Tyler Wallace for playing a half a football, get a life.

I mean, at this point, this kid, he didn't even have to play. He could have opted out of the game, decides that he's going to play a half. Do I like it? No, no. I mean, I would have loved for him to play the game especially. I mean, we'd have a whole different conversation had Oklahoma State lost that game last night to Miami. And you're like, well, you're number one wide receiver was not going to play in the second half.

Then it takes a whole new to another world in this media world that we live in, in twenty twenty of heartaches.

But I'm not going to rip this kid for playing.

One thing it will be interesting is that if name, image and likeness changes coming up, then that's what the NCAA says, because I understand that pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered. They're going to have to let college athletes make a couple of dollars here and there, especially on endorsement deals. What if, for instance, you had the Cotton Bowl between Florida and Oklahoma being played later tonight? Had they said, hey, you know what, Kyle Pitt's unbelievable tight end for the Florida Gators, how about fifty thousand dollars?

We're going to give you an appearance fee for an autograph signing during a two hour period.

You're going to get fifty thousand dollars because you could argue it would be probably worth it. I mean, the Florida Oklahoma game loses a little bit of its luster with not having pits, would not having kids.

Is Tony Copeland a bunch of the Gators wide receivers? I mean, it loses its luster, but would that be a way that more people would watch and now the athletes could actually make a couple of dollars playing these bowl games under the bowl gifts that they get field?

Yeah, such an interesting conversation that I think ties into more of the idea of paying players. And I think what happens, Peter, first of all, like when two people have divergent thoughts, one of them has to be right and one of them has to be wrong, as opposed to like people being entitled to their opinions. But the other part is that too often it feels like the options are binary, right? Like either you pay players or you don't pay players or like paying players is good or paying players is bad.

But what you're highlighting is there is nuance to it. Right. Like the idea, hey, are players being able to profit off of their likeness and all of the immense contributions that make for the game of college football and other sports as well, college basketball, others to really register on the radar like that part we can maybe agree on?

Well, also understanding some of the risk that you are talking about, like if a player starts to bail because he has more upside making money on the side, that has nothing to do with his play on the field, then. Yeah, like that's going to ruffle some feathers. Right. Like that's going to compromise some of what sort of like the the purity of college football that, you know, at its essence, this is still, you know, eighteen to twenty one year olds playing a game in many cases on scholarship.

And that is sort of enough for them not saying it has to be that way. But that is at one point of the essence of the game appeared in college football.

Two things that don't necessarily go hand in hand. Talk wireless, no contract, no compromise. I'll tell you, though, we talked about Trevor Lawrence, why he's the most important player in the NFL and has nothing to do with the Jacksonville Jaguars that next year on the ten Levator show.

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All disappointed, but especially you field the fact that none of y'all have watched Ted LASO yet.

And I'm the only person here on this fine radio program who has I'm telling you, just if you do not if I find out that you did not at least consume one episode by Friday before the semifinals, I will be highly upset with you and.

Well, you know, game change. Here's the thing, Peter, is that so the show debuted on August 14th of twenty twenty.

Some of us have been in the middle of an NFL season since then. And not every single one of us on the show rising grinds and watches every single play like I'm on Dan Orlovsky clone. You know, I'm too busy putting in the work here to find time for anything other than the NFL. There's my excuse.

OK, I listen, I grind. I work seven days a week right now. I've got two kids. I still find a way to to I'm just telling you, it will make you wake up and be a better person.

That's all I'm saying right now. I am excited, though, about the semifinals in the final I think Alabama, Notre Dame, that's going to end up being a blowout. We'll get into who has more pressure on them coming up. But I find this interesting. Trevor Lawrence going to be the number one pick of the draft. Right. And now the question is, is not necessarily where he's going to go. It's Jacksonville. It's who's going to coach him and who's going to lead them.

How about this from Cardale Jones, former Ohio State quarterback and 2015 national champion.

He joined Keyshawn, Jay, Will and Zubaan and talked about, hey, is it going to be Urban Meyer? And if so, what would he need to compete?

I just had dinner with Coach Martin this past Friday. And, you know, of course, it kind of came up about that coaches and things like that. And I'm not saying he said yes, but and he said no. But I think for him to have success in the NFL and I think he would agree with this comment, I'm going to make you have to have more of a role like a Bill O'Brien, what kind of a coach and GM.

So he can get his guys in there so you can, you know, do or along with him and at GM is on pretty much the same way when it comes to the identity of the team and the direction, because Coach Myers is a big control guy and he loves to have a blueprint in his footprint. Almost everything he does with the program and organization, I think right organization is willing to kind of give the keys to the guy who had to have experience because of the NFL level.

I think he can be successful.

So how does that play into your thoughts on Urban Meyer taking over the Jags field? Does that work? So the first half of that, when Cardale was suggesting he needed to be like Bill O'Brien, I'm thinking to myself, why?

Why would a team say to you, to Urban Meyer, that example to use? Right, right. Right. Well, and I understand, though, the Cardale was not suggesting the result, but more the idea that he had complete autonomy or basically do whatever he wanted. The second part of it, which was that he needs to work with somebody who is in concert with Urban Meyer's ways.

Then I'm thinking to myself, Peter, like, yeah, no kidding. That's exactly what does work in the NFL, right. It does matter how good the coaches is about how good the game is. If they are not working on the same wavelength, it's not going to be built to last. So the reality for Urban Meyer, that's not the reality for every other candidate. Some, but not all of them, is that there are going to be teams where Urban Meyer has the leverage over them.

Right. Like, I don't know that like Jacksonville, maybe you could make the case that the Jaguars need Urban Meyer more than Urban Meyer needs the Jaguars. You know, let the guys made millions and millions of dollars cemented his legacy is one of the greatest program builders and great college football coaches ever. Does he need to go to the Jaguars? No. You know why? Because a year from now, he'll be right there on the radar again for NFL head coaching jobs if he desires.

There are other head head coaching candidates who may only be offered a head coaching job once or twice ever and may not be able to say no to that. So I'm on board with Urban Meyer is a head coaching candidate. Very much so. I just would love to see some checks and balances in the form of a general manager.

Like that's not such an option upset, but it's not right field, but it's not in this field. Peter Burns here on the Dan Levitas show field. It's not as if that he's coming in and go, listen, I'm drafting this guy. I'm working on the cap. I'm doing all of this. All it is, is that right now there's an open vacancy for the GM spot over at Jacksonville. Right. I'm sorry, Doug, moron, if you're listening to us today, probably going to be ousted at this.

Have Urban Meyer wants that job, right?

I'm a firm believer, actually, that that Urban Meyer would have looked at Texas had Crystal consider the athletic. Director gave Tom Hirmand the boot, but that, again, Texas ended up winning last night in the Alamo Bowl and yet they're back.

Right.

But with that being said, if you're Urban Meyer, you got no one draft pick in Trevor Lawrence. So there's no issues there. You're going be able to handpick whoever GM you want to work in cohorts with. And you're in a small media market, no state income tax if you don't take this job. I kind of don't ever want to hear about Urban Meyer and his name being linked to the NFL again, because there won't be a better blueprint than this.

Yeah, I mean, for bourbon, it is a very savory opportunity, right? I mean, I don't I'm not topic Jay. I'm not Mel Kiper. But if you look back look back at the last 20 years of draft prospects, you're probably looking at somewhere between the first the third best draft prospect we have seen during that time. It is a crown jewel job. All right.

So pressure on the Jags to land Urban Meyer at this point. Who's got the most pressure on him? Is it Dabo, is it Notre Dame? Is it Alabama? Coming up, hit us up on Twitter at Peter Burns, ESPN, Attfield Yeats's Dan Libertador show with Peter Burns and Field Yates on ESPN Radio.

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