CFP National Championship Media Day extravaganza w/ Jalen Carter, Rodney Mathews, Derius Davis & more!
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🗓️ 8 January 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The national title game is nearly here! Andy and Ari pick the brains of the talented athletes from Georgia and TCU at CFP Media Days in today's show; however, these aren't your typical "is this a must-win game?" type of questions. Instead, the guys ask some the best 'would you rather' questions to TCU WR Derius Davis, o-linemen Brandon Coleman and Alan Ali, former Fresno State standout Rodney Mathews (who's also featured on a popular reality TV series), Georgia players and hosts of the 'Real Talk' podcast, Ryland Goede and Tate Ratledge, and last, but not least, star DL Jalen Carter. Enjoy!
-Derius Davis (2:15)
-Brandon Coleman and Alan Ali (13:45)
-Rodney Mathews (23:00)
-Ryland Goede and Tate Ratledge (31:45)
-Jalen Carter (51:00)
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| 0:44.5 | Welcome. Welcome to the Andy Staples Show special edition. |
| 0:48.4 | Ari and I are at the national championship game. |
| 0:52.9 | And we basically preview the national championship game on our taco tour. |
| 1:11.7 | Ari, we don't need to talk about the game anymore, do we? Yeah, I don't know. Is there anything else that needs to be added about my theory or how I feel about the matchup and the talent rankings or anything? Okay. No. Why don't we just talk to the players? Why don't we just see what they're doing? And not ask them the same boring questions that everybody else is asking. |
| 1:17.7 | Because at these events, at these media days for the big games, you get some just, players are done. |
| 1:19.0 | They've had a whole season of this. |
| 1:21.1 | Listen, the CCU offensive linemen have asked a bunch of times about what it's going to be |
| 1:25.1 | like to block Jalen Carter. |
| 1:26.8 | Jalen Carter has been asked a lot about what it's like to be Jalen Carter and to play against all these offenses. Somebody asked Jalen Carter, Andy. You excited to get after the quarterback? Right. We heard it and we looked at each other. We made eye contact and it just like, oh, God. Well, of course Jalen Carter wants to get asked the quarterback. Literally his entire existence is human being at this point. Yeah. |
| 1:48.2 | So we decided we're going to have a little more fun with this. And what do we want to do when we're |
| 1:54.4 | having fun? What kind of questions do we ask? We ask, would you rather questions. Yeah. |
| 1:59.2 | You know, we are the official grab-ass podcast of the college football world, so why not just have a, what I don't know. A day of grab-ass ahead of the national championship game. Yes. In the hopes that maybe there's no grab-ass in the game. Exactly. Get it out of their system now. So we're going to have interviews with TCU players, with Georgia players. |
| 2:22.6 | We actually ran into one of Ari's favorite reality TV stars who happened to play college football. |
| 2:24.4 | It's going to be a lot of fun. |
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