College QBs in the NFL, Michigan's mess & mailbag
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Joe Burrow, Jalen Hurts, Brock Purdy & Patrick Mahomes all had very different college football careers. This weekend they will all play in the NFC & AFC championship games. Stew and Bruce discuss what it was like to watch them play in college and how likely it was for each to get to this big stage.
What is going on with Jim Harbaugh and Michigan? The offseason following another Big Ten title and playoff appearance has been nothing short of bizarre.
Plus mailbag questions on LSU's future under Brian Kelly, Jaden Rashada's recruiting soap opera, the Big Ten commissioner opening & future CFB Playoff scheduling.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:20.9 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:23.9 | Bruce, it is a beautiful Monday morning here in Sunnyvale, California, after many weeks of rain, made all the better. |
| 0:31.6 | Well, people here are celebrating the fact that the 49ers won on Sunday. |
| 0:35.6 | I am celebrating the fact that the Cincinnati Bengals are back |
| 0:39.2 | in the AFC championship game for a second year in a row. |
| 0:42.6 | You know what, Stu, dawned on me, as I sit there watching, looking at you in your Cincinnati |
| 0:46.8 | Bengals t-shirt, that this might be the first team you and I have ever rooted for at the same time. |
| 0:53.7 | I think we're both been. |
| 0:54.7 | We've gotten here differently. Yeah, you're here because of Borough. I'm kind of here. And Jamar Chase, but yes. I'm kind of here because of Burrow, because as I talked about last year, I'd basically checked out on them for 30 years. And then they drafted Burrow and I was like, oh, that's interesting. And then they got good. But man, they kicked the crap out of the Buffalo Bills and it wasn't just Burrow. |
| 0:54.5 | They have a got good. But man, they kicked the crap out of the Buffalo Bills, and it wasn't just Burrow. |
| 1:14.0 | They have a really good defense, which makes me think, like last year's playoff run felt a little bit smoke and mirrors. |
| 1:20.3 | This year, it feels like they're really good. |
| 1:23.4 | It's amazing to see what he, he being Joe Burrow, has done for that, done for that franchise, |
| 1:31.0 | maybe even that city if you want to say that, where I think the biggest thing he has is just |
| 1:36.4 | this, just this incredible, he's the guy. When you hear this term, term whatever sport makes people better around them |
| 1:46.3 | and you talk to people and I have a story I'm working on |
| 1:49.2 | now about and the specific NFL quarterback |
| 1:52.0 | and we got to talking about different guys |
| 1:54.9 | and you know and the one thing where it's like |
| 1:58.0 | okay if you're going to be a first round quarterback |
| 1:59.8 | you have to have some elite trade and what is that with Burrow? It's not like he has a good arm, not a great arm. He's fast, but he's not Lamar Jackson fast. He's got pretty good size, but he's not huge, all these other things. But it's the it factor thing where the guy goes, yeah, he oozes that. |
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