Well, here we are. Season 2, episode number 4. Looks like we got two more episodes before we start posting on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays. We got this week and next week before the NFL kicks off into full swing. Which is perfect because I want to get into today... Oh my goodness. How could so many writers  get it wrong? I mean, we went into week one of the NCAA season, and this is gonna touch on what I talked about in a previous episode where the whole ranking system boggles my mind. Texas finished out last season, I believe losing to Ohio State in the semifinals. Ohio State goes on to win the national championship.

Texas ended last season ranked number five. They start out this season with Texas ranked number one and Ohio State ranked number three. And my goodness, those rankings are changing in week one. And not only that, there were several other upsets that went on this week in week one that  I just envisioned the writers were panicking and sending out a message to everybody. And then they gather up together. It's like two a.m. And they're just like, my God, how did we get it so wrong? Holy shit. We got to go back and reevaluate things. I'm like, well, yeah, there's going to be a lot of reevaluating going on this week. And, you know, and it's almost like they. A lot of them came out and were like, well, just, you know, clear on Heisman favorite, Arch Manning, and I'm not impressed. 

First of all, I haven't been impressed with Steve Sarkisian for the entire time he's been the Texas head coach. And I'm going to tell you what, I'm a Texas fan. There's my Bevo. Here's the patch when my dad, his name was Bill, William Charles Mackey, and he went and I believe from the stories he told, don't know how accurate it could be, but that he played ball there for a semester out of the army.

I'm a Texas fan and I was not impressed with Arch Manning one bit. This kid could never get into a groove. I feel like Sark was out coached. They were outplayed. Ryan Day, hate him, love him, whatever. Ohio State is one of those teams that fall into my three to four team realm of how badly I hate them so that if they play each other it's the only opportunity I have to watch.

I kind of have to decide who I'm going to root for based on those feelings. And it's Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame. And I got some connections to Notre Dame. I was in that movie a couple of days filmed out there, Rudy, you know, but it's just like my dad hated them. And I learned everything from old man pops, right? 

And so, it's one of those things were like, well, how bad do you hate Notre Dame? Well, which one do you hate the most? If they're playing each other, who do you root for? If that's the only game that's on, can you just watch the game and not find yourself rooting for somebody? No, I always find myself sitting there like, and then it seems like close and games close. I'm just like, and I find myself rooting for somebody. And I don't like it because I really don't like Michigan, Ohio State or Notre Dame. But a lot of upsets this weekend and the writers. I mean, they got it completely wrong. Okay? 

I haven't even had a chance to look into it. I've been trying to record this episode since Saturday and it's actually gonna drop today on Monday. I'm recording it on Monday, so you're getting it a few minutes after I'm done recording it on Monday afternoon, Labor Day. Happy Labor Day to everybody out there anyway. But I've been having issues with it. So when we look into the scores for this week, this is one of the things that I love about  college football and as I'm following every season, I love to look and see just based on the rankings who upset whom, right? 

So you expect that a higher ranked team is going to always come out and beat the lower ranked team. And that's not always the case. We know any given Sunday, an entire movie was made. If you've played the game, you know, you can beat a team. They can beat you if you're the odds on favorite. So right off the bat, I click on ESPN's scores for week one and number 22 Iowa State upsets 17 Kansas State, 24 to 21. So that's a big deal there. South Florida, unranked, came out and stunned number 25 Boise State. Well, bottom of the poll, right? It's always the top 25. So that's two right off the bat. Incredible. We know Ohio State beats number one, Texas, so that's a big deal. Number nine, LSU comes out and upsets number four, Clemson.

So that's kind of huge. Florida State 31 to 17 over Alabama. Number eight, Alabama. Holy crap. Kaelin DeBoer. He's getting all sorts of trouble and shit written about and talked about after Saban's gone. Right. So, man, what are these five games already into the top 25 that we've seen  some basic upsets. Now some of the other teams, the top ranked teams, you know, playing non-ranked teams, doing what they're supposed to do, getting the damn job done. But the writers got it all wrong. And that goes to, so you got the AP, you got the coaches poll, the USA coaches poll, like the channel ZSPN and CBS Sports and Fox, they might put out their own polls. And everybody's got their opinion on who's better.

And what does it go down to? It comes down to like, well, how did they finish the season last year? What's their strength of schedule this year? Who did they pick up? Who do they have on paper? How do those players compare to the other players on paper? And that's all these writers, the people who get to write every day about sports. And it's great because they're out there. They're getting to watch the games they're playing. And I'm running this podcast, but I'm not getting paid to be a talk show host. So I'm not 24 seven into the sports. I, you know, maybe I'm limited to where they're at, but you could go back and listen to episodes of my podcast. When we get into a little bit of Cubs news here later today. Was I wrong? 

I don't think so. So I kind of know what the fuck's going on. And so when you have these polls that always fluctuate and then you look at you take game by game and I wish they would just, but you got to rank them somehow. got to, how are you going to figure out the top 12? You get down to the end of the season and you got some teams and you got a whole bunch of teams. Let's say they all end up with, you know, nine and three records, or how many ever games they're playing now is usually around 12. You have to be able to rank them somehow to figure out who gets seeded, where, how the playoffs go. You know, it's nice when you look at the NFL and Major League Baseball and they have things in divisions and they have everything broken out. So you look at your schedule and those of those teams that win the divisions get those playoff spots and then you have what they call the wild card, but they haven't figured this out yet for college football. And that's a big problem right there because you get to the end of the season and all your normal, whatever you would rank top teams are, they're all tied, maybe have the same record. Who knows for whatever reason why you still need to get 12 of those teams into your quote unquote playoff. You have to be able to rank them somewhere. So all these rankings come out throughout the season and it just boggles my mind. 

First of all, I love looking at and seeing, shit, who upset whom? You know, and I'm hoping you know, sometimes I'm watching one of those games and I'm just like, yeah, and I'm always rooting for the underdog in the game. I don't want the powerhouse to win all the time. For me, that's boring football. If you have the same teams all the time every year, you know, you talk about parity in the NFL and Major League Baseball, and that's what they're trying to get to. You want different teams winning this thing and being the top guy or the top team every year, you don't want it to be the same. The same is absolutely boring. It's nasty. We want to boo it. We want to come out and we want to have to see other teams get a shot. 

Now, NIL, that's something we can get into later. That's another thing that has me confused. Name. Image and licensing or likeness. To me, I thought this was a great opportunity for players. I thought it was going to be like, you know, you're on campus, you're at Florida State, you're at Miami, University of Texas. So around town, people recognize you, you're a big deal. I thought this was an opportunity for smaller mom and pop shops to be able to pay these kids to come out and be on site, sign some autographs. You don't put a cardboard cutout. Pay these kids. They'd be able to make some pocket money. 

Maybe enough. And yes, and I felt the bigger cats could come after some of the bigger superstars, you know, Nike and Adidas, things of that nature. To me, it seems like it's just now schools just like signing the highest player, the best player offering the most money for people to come play. got players who are like, well, if you ain't going to play me.

You know, Florida Atlantic is going to offer me half a million dollars. I'll go there. You know, people entering the transfer portal and players shifting teams constantly. It's crazy now to watch NFA or NCAA football. And you see a guy, it's like last year he played for Oregon two years ago and played for Oregon State. And then before that, he was playing at Notre Dame. And now you're starting quarterback for UCLA. It's like what?

That was unheard of back in the old school days. But now kids are just back and forth, highest bidder, just handing them that money. And I think this, it could be something that ruins college football. I don't know. I was more in favor of it being a situation where Subway in the town, the college town, might offer, you know.

thousand bucks a month to a kid to do a few local commercials for him and then, you know, stop by the restaurant every now and again, then the kid would have some pocket money and then it'd make life a little bit easier. But that's not the way it seems to be going. And I know I've gotten away from the college football rankings, but. Week one was a plethora of upsets, so this is going to be interesting this season now to continue to follow the top 25 the AP that comes out usually by Tuesday morning. You can find something about it, but now I want to shift gears So a couple of weeks ago I told you I had the whole confusing the complicated Kyle Tucker thing swirling around in my mind And so I want to put that to rest I understand Kyle Tucker's point of view as a player and he thought he could play through it and he didn't see it necessary to go on the IL but I think

You can trace the Cubs struggles back to when Kyle Tucker knew early on that he had this fracture and was recuperating from this fracture in his hand. was affecting his game. He said it was like a pain tolerance thing, so that's all he needed to get through. But sometimes you get that pain, that underlying pain, and it affects you. You might change the way you hold the bat, the way you swing  just ever so slightly and that's going to affect your timing and that could put you into a slump, right? And he starts to go in this slump and the Cubs start to go in this slump and they start losing ground in the National League Central and the Brewers start gaining ground. Now the Brewers are in first place. The Cubs are the top wild card team, but this team wasn't built to be a wild card team. No way, no how. And I don't think they go on, yes, teams have gone on to be the wild card team and win the World Series. I don't see that happening with this Cubs team.

It's a mental thing at this point now. Now you signed Carlos Santana. You pick up Aaron Civale off of waivers. Okay, Santana's hitting well against lefties. He's a switch hitter. Bush has struggled against lefties. Santana's a really good first baseman, so you gotta love that. So now I see a platoon situation going on. Santana can help you if he comes over, if he's one of these guys that you signed  and he comes over and he gets absolutely hot. And like he finished the season with the Cubs next month and you know, it was like, oh, slash line with the Cubs was 246, 13 home runs and 48 RBIs or some shit like that. I don't know. Aaron Savalli, you know, there's another guy you get dusted off by one team and another team picks you up. So hopefully he can solidify something somewhere because they're having trouble on that pitching staff. Shota's been exposed a little bit, been giving up the long ball a lot in the last couple of outings. So we'll see. It's September 1st. We're moving into crunch time. You could still play good enough ball to overtake the Brewers depending on what happens with them and who they have left.  

Maybe you can still win the National League Central. We'll have to wait and see now. But a lot of the things I was worried about way back in spring training have come to fruition with the Cubs and it's not like I'm some all seer kind of person. It's just there's a track record and you know, if you've been paying attention for the last couple of seasons, this is what you get. This is absolutely what you get. Okay? So, Playing the Braves, they took two out of three against Colorado. We'll see. We'll see what happens as we move forward. It's September 1st. Crunch time, Cubbies. Let's see what you got.

Not much to talk about in the world of the Chicago Bears. Flurry of, you know, cut down the roster by Tuesday. Dropped a couple of guys so they could sign a few guys that had been cut and then pick those guys up. I think Scott Daly and Duvernay got let go, but then picked back up. I was looking at their current roster, so those two guys are on there. Not a surprise on who made the roster. I'm glad to see.

They're going to continue to give Kiran Amegadjie  a shot on the offensive line. Theo Benedet makes the team. Luke Newman. Here's a guy. Some guys came out playing. We need depth on that offensive line. Like I said, you fix this offensive line. Running back room. You know, I think they'd been working out DJ more at running back at some point, you know, and that that wide receiver core is set. But

Not a lot of surprises on who got cut with the Bears bringing back Jalen Jones after he got cut. Zah Frazier, who got drafted. I thought this kid would compete, maybe overtake Tyreek Stevenson. He's not going to play this year for some personal reasons. So I think there's still going to be some moves made here. You got a week to go officially. Will the Bears start out Monday night against the Minnesota Vikings? We got a week to go. There still could be some moves made here or there.

I don't know. Are they mad because the Packers ended up signing Micah Parsons? Look, the Bears were never going to offer that kind of money. No way. I'm still waiting to see, you know, we're in year two of Caleb Williams. If this kid goes out and nails it and he gets to that end of his rookie contract. Is this a team that signs him and is smart or is this the team that says, well, he's four years into the league now.

Why give him that kind of money? We got what we wanted. Maybe they get a Super Bowl. I don't know. So we'll have to wait and see what the Bears do. But I don't think they were ever going to be willing to part with and give up that kind of money. To that dude, even though the rumors were swirling, now are they mad because they didn't have a chance and then they go after someone else? So we're still going to have to see if they pick up another edge rusher. You lost Austin Booker for.

Four weeks and I think this dude, I thought I heard that they said that he led the NFL in sacks this preseason, like six or something like that. I don't know, three. I'd have to look it up. But again, just trying to get this episode in. We really wanted to talk about the NCAA because our episodes now that we will post on Sundays will be nothing but NCAA.

If you haven't listened to the last couple of episodes, the new schedule rolling out, we're going to record and post. You know, if you can see it now, you can't see it behind me now with this new camera set up. But we got a schedule up there. Let's see. You don't watch videos, but I got the Sean Mackie show production notes up there. But anyway. We're going to, we're going to.

Take in all of the NFL action Sunday and Monday, and we're going to post and record or record and post. I think that's the order you have to do it on Tuesday. Then we're going to take in all that Major League Baseball news and the NFL news between Tuesday and Friday and then record and post on Friday.And then we're going to dedicate our Sunday episode to the NCAA. So we're going to go back to our roots. 

We're going to get in. We're going to get out. We're going to hit it. We're going to quit it. We're not going to waste a lot of your time. Our new episodes after next week moving forward will be 15 minutes long. We're going to get in and do our thing. A lot of pressure for us. We got to make you laugh a lot more. Three times a week.

So that's all I got for this week's episode. I'm glad I was finally able to get it in.

Peace y'all. See you when I see you.