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The Jim Rome Show

Smackoff Talks Progress, CFB Freaks List, The Champ Calls

The Jim Rome Show

Jim Rome | Cumulus Podcast Network

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.6708 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Jim Rome Show HR 2 - 8/7/25 After some productive talks over the last few days, Jim decides whether or not to give an update on Smackoff 30. Then, the Athletic's Bruce Feldman joins the show to talk his annual College Football Freaks List of the best athletes in the country. Then, Jim takes some calls from the Clones, including Mark in Boston, the current Smackoff Champion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So we start hour number two. Good first hour. Really good first hour. You know, so I used to get that

0:05.5

question quite a bit. Hey, Rome, what's good show? How do you know if you had a good show? How do I know if I had a

0:10.8

good first hour? Well, one, my content was good. Check. We had an awesome interview. Check.

0:19.1

And we had some other information that you're reacting to that's reactive

0:23.6

check. So there's good engagement. So that was a really good first hour. And plus, you know when

0:28.6

you're really, really working hard and there's a heavy lift. And then there's some days where,

0:33.5

there's that, where it feels like a fairly heavy lift. And then there are other days where it feels like the show is doing itself.

0:40.9

There are some days when three hours feels like seven hours.

0:44.7

And there's some days when three hours feels like 30 minutes.

0:48.2

And what's really interesting is our process, the thing that I'm most proud of where I think that we've been successful over the years,

0:56.8

we're very consistent.

0:58.5

There's a culture in this building, and we go about doing this thing the same way every single day.

1:03.2

Like we show up at the same time.

1:04.6

We put in the same amount of work, but it does mean you get the same result, but we are consistent.

1:10.7

So the first hour was a good hour.

1:12.9

I feel good about that. I started the program off by talking about Archie Manning, if you missed

1:17.7

hour number one. Archie Manning is saying, look, can everybody just settle down about my grandson

1:23.7

Arch? He's not going anywhere. So if you're a plan, if you're an NFL team, and I'm

1:28.4

paraphrasing, but what he's suggesting is, if you're an NFL team and you're all about

1:34.7

arch madness or ass for Arch, you're wasting your time. If you're going to intentionally

1:42.8

tank games in an attempt to get Arch, you're wasting

1:46.0

your time because he's not coming out. He pretty much says much. He's not coming out. To which I said,

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