The truth about star rankings & the Super Bowl (and how to talk to your kids about them)
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Your annual post-Super Bowl reminder: those guys on the field are genetic and physical freaks. Andy and Ari react to the Tom Brady Buccaneers' Super Bowl win over Kansas City. The two take time to zero in on each teams' roster composition, and how players' star rankings factored into the outcome (6:30). There are few discussions with your child more important than that of star rankings, ambitions and odds. Andy recalls his conversation with his kids about pursuing their dreams, but to remember the probability of success and that fallback plans are a must (11:30). Which type of team is more likely to succeed: one loaded with physical freaks with little football sense, or a squad with average athleticism and incredible football knowledge (16:45)? In talking about talent, what made Iowa State's season all the more incredible was accomplishing what they did with few highly-ranked players (30:00). Also, which future, and young, former college coaches gone pro are going to succeed because of their ability to get the most out of their team's talent?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show post-Super Bowl edition. |
| 0:13.0 | I get why you're asking. |
| 0:14.4 | Wait, this is a college football show. |
| 0:15.6 | Why are you guys talking about the Super Bowl? |
| 0:16.8 | Because everybody stops to watch the Super Bowl. |
| 0:20.1 | The entire sports world watches the Super Bowl, even if it's just for the commercials. |
| 0:25.7 | My favorite was Drake from State Farm. |
| 0:28.4 | You may have your own opinions. |
| 0:30.0 | As long as it's not the mayonnaise one, I'm good with it. |
| 0:33.6 | But, you know, I feel like especially since the NFL has moved closer to the college game in terms of scheme, that we can learn a lot from stuff like this. |
| 0:44.4 | And Ari Wasserman joins me from Las Vegas, where he took in the Super Bowl and might have taken a bath. |
| 0:52.2 | He was very vague about what happened. |
| 0:54.8 | But Ari, tell us, tell the folks how it went last night. |
| 0:59.2 | I took a bath. |
| 1:01.0 | And the thing that's crazy, and I know we're going to get into this, Andy, is that there |
| 1:04.9 | was a stat I read somewhere before the game going into it about their offensive line and |
| 1:09.5 | how, like, they were all cut from a post |
| 1:11.7 | a post stint with another team and then the one that wasn't cut the chiefs the chiefs offensive |
| 1:17.1 | right the chiefs office that that was that was playing because uh Mitch Schwartz went out earlier in |
| 1:22.4 | the season and Eric Fisher the former number one overall draft pick went out during the NFC |
| 1:27.3 | championship game so so yeah for went out during the NFC championship game. |
| 1:28.1 | So, so yeah. |
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