Welcome to the anti-staple show presented by Sling. I'm here with Ari

Wasserman. We're in Vegas. Vegas, baby. We just watched Utah Smash USC in a game that you

actually predicted, though you didn't want to because it means I don't owe you money. It means you're taking the scorpion shot. And it means that we're going to in and out on Monday, I guess, for dinner. Uh, no, we're not. We're going to have a really nice dinner. We're just all going to maybe split it up. No more live, uh, crab legs. Yeah, you won't be using the proceeds It's from me. No, the seafood tower may still get ordered, but we're going to going to maybe split it up. No more lab. Yeah, you won't be using the proceeds from me.

No, the seafood tower may still get ordered, but we're going to split this sucker up. You're going to get that anyway. You're right. Well, you're right. Okay, so what do we start with here? Do we start with USC and that or is that like that barn or stuff now? I'm about to write a column. We'll give you folks in the chat a preview of the column.

If you're listening to this podcast,

you go read this.

But I think. I'm about to write a column. We'll give you folks in the chat a preview of the column.

If you're listening to this podcast form, you go read this. But I think Lincoln Riley is where

Kirby Smart was after the 2019 SEC championship game, where, but kind of in the inverse,

Kirby Smart had a great defense, but a philosophy that didn't necessarily help him have a great offense.

He had to fix that.

He had to go schematically, philosophically change to have an offense that was worthy of being on the field with his defense.

Lincoln Riley needs to figure out how to have a defense that is worthy of being on the field with his offense because that defense let them down.

Caleb Williams was playing hurt, but still playing very well the defense blew it for him some of the reporters up here were talking about if Caleb Williams wouldn't have gotten hurt

if that would have been a different game and I think maybe to a certain extent but I don't think

that you would have won yeah I mean like mean, like that was poor defensive performance.

It's time to stop having defenses that stink.

Like,

I don't know how to say it.

And it's like,

that's the thing that's like been,

this is a Lincoln Riley Hallmark.

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