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Coming up this week, coming up on this show, first off, happy Labor Day Monday to everybody.

But coming up on this show, we have Brian Sheehan of Anthem Cars and Coffee

joins us to talk about his monthly event and a new event that is happening

for the first time in the evening on September 13th, which is right around the corner.

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So if you guys are in the Phoenix area,

Arizona area, you may have seen promotions for Anthem Cars and Coffee,

which usually happens once a month.

They have another event coming up, a brand new event called

Anthem Knights, designed to, I wouldn't say fill a hole,

but it's a perfect opportunity as we previously discussed.

The PAVs Rock and Roll Car Show is no longer

and we think this is going to be an excellent opportunity.

So I'm joined by Brian Sheehan, the man behind Anthem

Cars and Coffee. Brian, welcome to Hard Park, you man.

All right. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

Absolutely. So tell us a little bit about Anthem Cars and Coffee

first because I've gone to it once. It's far as hell away from

me down here in southeast Gilbert, but it is worth the drive.

It's just a long drive from me, but I think it services a lot

of people in your area. So tell us about it.

And that's kind of why I'm going to go back to the history

of why I started it. So I started going to car shows

just like PAVs. You know, I'm a child of the 80s

and I joined the VW club, Beetle Club, back when I was a

teenager, and we started driving out to the PAVs area

in the late 80s. And at that time, there was nothing out

there. We would drive out there and there was a parking lot

and there was some some little convenience stores and

things. And then we kind of developed a little meeting area

for the VW guys. And that evolved and kind of grew

and then PAVs, I think the McDonald's was built a

couple years later, like around 89, 90, something like

that. And then that show started and we kind of

blended in with that making our own show. And then it

just kind of went from there. And that's how I got to be a

real big fan of car shows. And then I started, got

together with my buddy, Rich Garcia, who owns Dinocomp.

And he and I, with a couple other friends, started

the Shelby Club, because we all went out and bought

Shelby's. This was the old CSXT, the Dodge

body that was after Carol Shelby left forward.

He went to Chrysler with Leigh Iacocca and started

those cars. So we had a bunch of those and we started

the Shelby Club in Arizona and I did a bunch with that

and that kind of grew. And I thought, maybe, you know

what, this would be kind of fun someday. I'd like to do

this, have my own car show. But I didn't think it

was a thing. One day I went to one out in

Scottsdale, won't say who it was, but it was a

lot of Ferraris and Turnkey bought yesterday

McLarens. I pulled in with my, at this time I

had a E93M3 that was all decked out. Richard

built it from Dinocomp. It was pretty bad.

Sure. Pretty bad ass car.

Drove it into their car show and they said,

what are you doing here? You can't show this car.

And I said, dude, this is a $86,000 BMW M3, man.

No, it's not a show car. And they said, well, because

it's not a Ferrari or a Lambo or, and they said, no,

this is not your kind of show. And I said, well,

you know what? Whatever. F you.

Wow. Wow.

So in that respect, I kind of started my car

show out of spite. So went home, talked to

my kids and my kids at the time were, you

know, early teens. And my younger son is really

in the cars like me. So we had these little

postcards made up. And on one side, it said, nice car.

And on the other side, it said, join us for Anthem

cars and coffee. And I put the date and location.

And I made a deal with this coffee shop in Anthem

that I saw this coffee shop guy drove a really

cool Corvette. It goes, this guy's in the cars.

He'll love this idea of a car show.

So we, my son and I drove around the malls for

about three weekends in a row, putting these

postcards on people's windshields that we

thought were cool cars. Whenever we saw a

cool car, he'd jump out, he put it on their

windshield. And then the first show, I have

a first show and I had a little boombox over

in the corner for my music and my little

easy up and stuff, handing out stickers and

flyers. First car show, I had 65 cars.

I'm like, well, this is pretty cool.

Then I started getting onto Instagram and

Facebook and started doing all that and

learning the Google... Hold on, Brian.

So about when was this? How many years ago?

Yeah. Sorry. This was a fun thing. It was

just before COVID. It happened. I started in

October of 19. So I get going and the first

show has got 65 cars. Second show, 250 cars.

I was the person at the seams. I had no

room. I was taking up Wendy's parking.

I was taking up Ace Hardware's parking,

Circle K's parking, and people were parking

everywhere. It was just blowing up and

overflowing. So I figured, crap, I got to do

something. So I started looking around for

another location. Anyway, at that

location for about six, eight months or

so like that, and then I found this

church down the road, this Palmcroft

church. Because one of my charity

partners that does my show with me,

one of my vendors basically, she runs a

charity called Youth for Troops. She

would come to my show and she said, Hey,

why don't we do it at the church? You know,

I run this church thing. So I went over

there and they had a lot more parking,

about 250, 300 spots, and outgrew that

in two months. So struggled there for

about two years, going, you know,

making it work with limited space,

over parking, and things like that.

In the meantime, I was working a deal,

trying to get in my foot in the

door at the Outlet Mall. Come to

find out the guy who owns the

Outlet Mall, owns about 11 or 12 outlets

all over the country. And he just

happens to own the biggest weekly car show

in California in San Clemente, at his

Outlet Mall. Oh, no kidding.

Yeah. So funny thing is, I start talking

to the ladies who run the Outlet Mall,

the management people, and they're

like, you know, we're not interested.

They weren't, they didn't understand

what a car show was. They go, Well,

how many cars do you sell? They think

I'm like an RV show. You know,

like I'm going to sell cars. And they

don't understand what a car show was.

So I had to go through that hurdle for

about a year. And then finally,

they called me up one day and they

said, Hey, our boss bought this

convertible Cadillac Coupe Deville

on bags and he can't get it running.

And he's out in Ohio and I thought,

maybe I'd call you to see if you

could help us out. So I went there,

turns out dead battery. So I fixed

that. Then it turns out I wouldn't

go into gear because I had no

transfluid. So I put like eight

cords of transfluid and that thing

got it started. Apparently that was

enough to make everybody happy and

somehow I got in.

Nice.

And then that's it. Now the rest of

it's just, I do my show there. They

love it. I got the food court. They're

all into it.

You know, they come out and they do

their little outdoor kitchens during

my show. Sometimes I got a great

coffee tea guy who does my show on a

regular basis. We got a few vendors.

And it's just kind of grew from

there. And then when the pavilion

started getting a little weird

towards the end there, when they

started doing that event company and

stuff, and I talked to Andrew out

there, when that kind of heard the

rumblings of that going away, that's

when I started thinking, well maybe I

can start something. I'm not trying

to go out there to fill the void.

There's enough night time events

out there. Nancy's got hers in

Glendale and there's the track

star guy. There's other guys that

are doing shows at night. But the

nice thing about my show, and I

hope this kind of resonates with

the people that go to it, is my show

I kind of intended to be more of like a

destination thing. Not just a show you

go to, but maybe like a road trip.

Like, hey, I'm gonna go to Flagstaff

or I'm gonna go to Prescott or I'm

gonna go to Sedona. I'm gonna stop

by Anthem Cars and Coffee. And then

I started appealing to all the car

clubs out there and said, hey, you

know what? Make my show a meeting

point for your rallies. You know,

you guys are gonna go on this

Sedona rally. Meet at my show at

seven in the morning. Have some

coffee, have some tea, do your thing,

then roll out, you know? And then

right. I started appealing to like

21st century and the BMW clubs and

some of these other guys out there

to see if they'd be interested in

doing it. And the guys who really

grabbed on pretty well and pretty

good numbers were the Corvette

Club and the Mustang guys. And

a lot of numbers between those two.

Oh man, a lot of new balance and

cargo shorts. I mean, great, great

attendance. Really nice guys. A little

bit of the older crowd, which I'm fine

with. I'm kind of leaning in the older

crowd myself.

Best problems. But my kids are both,

you know, my kids are both 19 and 21

and they're all into cars and they're

like, man, you got to have a

nighttime show dad. You got to do

this. And my biggest fear was I

didn't want it to turn into a

cluster. I didn't want it to be

that show where the cops come,

where people are popping and crackling

and two-stepping and burnouts and

all that. So I've been kind of on the

fence to decide whether I wanted to do

it or not. And then I got a hold of a

buddy of mine who works for the

Maricopa County Sheriff and he's like,

you need security out there because

all you need is a couple of bodies

out there. They're wearing uniform

and some twinkling lights and

everybody will stay chill. Just like

they did at the Pavilions. I think

that's what kept the Pavilions

kind of that even tone where people

didn't get out of hand because

for the most part. Yeah, for the most part.

I think you're right. When Andrew was

on, we kind of talked about a couple

times. It kind of got out of hand

because people are just going to be

people. But yeah, for the most part,

you need presence there to

keep people in order. Yeah. And I've

been to other shows where they had

no presence and it was somewhere

where I wanted to get the heck out

of there. And businesses didn't

like it. Of your three, though.

So now Anthem Cars and Coffee is at

the Anthem outlets, right? Yeah, I've

been at the Anthem outlets now for

just over a year, year and a half now

and they love it. The mall is totally

supporting me. This is my third spot.

But I was at your second spot. I

remember you were at the church.

Yeah, the church sounds right.

Yeah, it was Palmcroft Church. Yep, yep.

So you have Anthem Nights coming up.

This launch is, I believe,

Saturday, September 13th. Is that

correct? Yes it is.

We're going to go from probably like

five to eight, four to eight, something

like that.

See how I'm opening the gates at four,

but I figured the show will go like

five to eight.

And I'm doing it to eight because

that's when the mall technically

closes.

You know, that's my permit time.

That's my license and contract with

them.

So people are welcome to hang out

afterwards and just keep a chill.

And I think it'll be a good show. I

got some vendors coming out.

Like I said, I got two

restaurants in the food court

going to do an outdoor kitchen.

I'm going to be playing my own music.

You know, I'm an 80s,

X80s, early 90s DJ.

So I'm just going to bring my own

stuff and just

put something on my phone and let it

play.

That's pretty much it.

I'm hoping it turns out well.

Because you're,

and maybe you don't have that

problem now, because what time does

the outlet typically open up in the

morning?

Now, like 9, 11, 10?

It's 11.

And that's why I do my morning show

either from 7 to 10

or 8 to 11.

Um, the reason I do that is because

the mall originally was a little bit

fearful. They were a little bit

worried about the fact that

I might have 500 cars show up

and they don't have any room for

their customers to park.

So that was originally why we set

up the time to end before the mall

opened.

But now they're finding that, hey,

if I trickle into the opening time

or start before the closing time,

that's going to help the food

court. That's going to help food

foot traffic

and Nike's going to be happier and

all these other stores are going to

be happy because they got more

people around.

Now, with the event starting at

four,

how are we,

or you rather,

how are you going to mitigate the

parking? I would assume you have a

set

spaces, but let's say somebody shows

up at two o'clock and they're

shopping and they're all up in the

space.

Well, they won't go into the space

because I haven't roped off.

Basically, the way I've been doing

it since I started there is I go there

the night before,

real late after the mall is open,

and I caution tape it off with my

cones and my tape

and I close off the area, I put all my

signs up at night, my street signs

so people know where to go and where to

park.

I also have three guys.

Well, I have four guys technically

plus my two boys

that are kind of my team that helped

me organize.

We all have wear headsets, we have

two-way radios,

and we kind of spread each other

out to where we,

Michael say, hey, I got a 57 Chevy

coming in

and go to row three, where Reagan

will be sitting there at row three

and he'll park that guy.

Or, hey, I got a NSX coming,

park that in row one

and throw that in the exotics,

and that's how we kind of organize it.

Communication, man, it's great.

Yeah, it's great.

We have to do the two-way radio

thing.

We tried it our first few shows

without it,

and people would just be parking

wherever they want.

I try to...

Right.

I try not to be too stiff

with the way I park the show,

but I also like to keep it

somewhat organized by genre.

You know, just like the Pavilions did.

They kind of did the same thing.

And I don't get real picky about that,

but I try not to blend my classics

with my imports

or my Germans with my Japanese.

So I kind of try to

organize it as best I can.

My second show, I'm standing there

organizing my biggest set,

my 200 and some cars show,

my second one.

And these little kids come walking up

to me, these three brothers.

And they're like 14, 16, and 12,

or something like that.

And they walk up to me

and they're holding the cameras

and this drone and all this cool stuff.

I'm like, wow, you guys are set up.

And they say, hey, Brian,

do you mind if we film your show

and we'll post some stuff for you?

Well, they did.

And they did such a good job

that they've been my media guys

since that day.

Well, that's awesome, man.

And they've grown their own company

because of that's cool.

What are they called?

They're called CSG visuals.

Oh, yeah, they're they're on your

your Anthem cars and coffee Instagram.

Yeah.

And they're actually in Vegas right now

doing a shoot for their own company

because they grew.

That's awesome.

And I hope that I had something to do

with that, you know, hopefully

because they they really kind of

learn their their groove

and learn their technique.

I think from doing a lot of videos

for me.

It sucks.

I'm not going to be able to get

to your your inaugural,

your very first Anthem Knights show.

I will be traveling to NS Expo

an annual event that I do every year.

That's a good part of the country.

And I kind of have to be there.

I am the club president.

Yeah.

So, you know, best of luck with it.

People want to follow.

They go to Anthem dot cars and coffee

on, I guess, Instagram

and all the social media is right

there behind you.

Yeah.

And I got Facebook too.

Whoops.

Sorry.

Let's see all that.

Yeah.

So Facebook, no dot.

And then on YouTube,

Anthem cars and coffee.

Yeah.

And then we have the old faithful

dot com to Anthem cars and coffee

dot com.

The people need to pre register

for this.

No, I don't do.

I don't do any registration ahead

of time.

I do ask that if people want to

come out in bulk,

they want to come out with the

club.

Just let me know ahead of time

how many spots you need.

And I'll block off an area

for your clubs.

You guys can all be together.

Nice.

I want to warn people too

that out there,

there's a lot of scammers.

And there's a lot of people that

will get on to my site

and get on to my comments

and they'll comment about

hey, you got to pay us

to register.

You know, direct message me.

I call them hijackers

because I've had a couple of my

people that come to my shows

that have gotten burned.

That's wild.

Yeah.

There's a lot of people's

scammers out there,

but no, there's no registration.

There's no fee.

There'll be food.

There'll be vendors.

The food court's open.

The bathrooms are really clean

and nice.

Plus you got the mall.

Do your shopping while you're

showing your car.

Sounds good, Brian.

Hopefully you guys knock it

out.

I'm sharing it on social media,

and all the car groups.

And I'll try to get to the

following one.

Cool.

Yeah.

We'll have another promo video

where we're filming tomorrow.

Hopefully get that out.

We'll throw it out there

on all those social media

and TikTok and everything.

Sounds good.

Thanks, man.

Great.

I appreciate it.

Thanks for having me.

As expected,

like I told you guys,

I warned you guys,

we're going to have Talk2Q

back on.

We love talking football.

I love sports.

I've said this many times.

I'll say it again.

I think that sports is

probably my first love

even more so than cars.

So Q, it's great to have

you back, man.

Yeah, thanks, Jay.

I appreciate being here, man.

It's that time of the year.

It is that time of the year.

Who is that behind your shoulder,

number nine autograph there?

Steve McNair.

He's from Days at Alcorn.

Alcorn State University.

Eric McNair.

So I got to meet him

on a couple of occasions.

It says I went to Mississippi

Valley State,

so I was there

when he was there,

so, you know,

in the sweat.

Nice, man.

Nice.

Yeah, I got to see him

and Michael Strahan

in college.

So what we're going to be talking

about today are

some surprising roster cuts.

Obviously, we're going to do

way too early predictions

for the NFL season.

I think we're technically

still two weeks away

from game one of the season.

Fantasy football drafts

haven't happened yet.

I'm going to join a fantasy

league this time

for the first time

in like 11 years.

Travis Hunter

as Jinjanti,

Shaddur Sanders,

and then we're going to get

into college football,

which is my real love.

We're going to talk

some Michigan Wolverines,

some Texas versus Ohio State

and two soon predictions.

I got to tell you though

earlier I was on X

and somebody had posted tickets

for the Texas Texas A&M game,

which is the last game

of the season.

So you talk about way too early

Q and I know that we're going

to talk about college

football in a second,

but just made me think about this.

Tickets are already going.

The cheap seat nosebleeds

are $850.

Most of the rest

of the tickets that I saw

in the seating chart

from all different sections

are up to $5,000.

Oh, man.

And this game is going to be played

in which stadium?

This is going to be a D.K.R.

This is going to be in Texas this year.

Last year they traveled

to where the Aggies play.

Ohio field.

If those prices are that high now,

I can only imagine

what they're going to be

a couple of months from now

to get closer to the date,

especially both teams

having great seasons.

That's the thing.

I go, I expect these prices

to go down

between now

in the last game of the season

because one team could be 500.

You know, the other team could not

have that perfect season

that people think.

You know, most people think

I've seen Texas being

like 10 and 2,

maybe 10 and 3.

And I'll get into that

and Michael playing about that.

But NFL roster cuts,

NFL football,

football, NFL is king.

Are there any roster cuts

that you're surprised at?

Anything that,

any moves you think

are going to happen?

I sit you the list here.

One of the things

that stand out to me is,

and I saw this name pop up

and he's the goes from Christmas past

is on Buffalo Bills.

Shane Bouchel used to be

with the Texas Longhorns.

He was supposed to be the next guy.

And I don't know if it was,

I forgot who he got supplanted by.

Oh, I think it was Sam Ellinger.

So Shane Bouchel transferred to SMU

when he played the rest of his time

at SMU and he made it to the NFL.

So, but that's all I have

on the Bills,

on any of your teams

or any other roster cuts

that you've seen that surprise you.

Maybe some roster people

that made the 53 man roster

that surprised you.

I guess what surprised me

right off the bat

was Marquis Valdez

to get scantling in Seattle.

I thought he had a good year

with the Saints last year at receiver.

And to see him get cut in Seattle

means that they really have faith

in their young receivers.

Because I mean,

you have Jackson Smith and Jigba.

Well, Cooper Cups now young.

Then you have a couple of young

draft picks that they have

at three and four.

So I was surprised to see him go,

especially since I think he had

already gotten paid.

And then Miko Hardman

with the Packers.

Miko Hardman.

I saw that, too.

Yeah.

That's Super Bowl pedigree

from playing with the Chiefs.

And the Packers have been

kind of up and down

with their receivers.

Good young talent,

but they just can't seem to catch

the ball when it matters.

So I was kind of surprised to see him go,

but a guy that I understand

they had to let go

because it just wasn't enough room,

but he was a fan favorite.

The quarterback Tommy DeVito

from the Giants.

Oh, the Giants.

Yeah.

Everybody was in the stands

doing the, you know,

the DeVito move, so to speak.

And if you have Russell Wilson

and Jackson Dard and Jamis Winston,

I mean, there was no room

on that team for him.

So I can see him getting picked up.

I thought he was pretty good.

Yeah.

There's a few people.

And then you did name

the biggest receiver is Seattle.

With DK McAfee and God.

Oh, is he gone?

I didn't know that.

Yeah.

He's with the Steelers now.

Oh, wow.

He's going to be with Aaron Rodgers.

So yeah, that's what makes it

even more surprising

because the best receiver

got shipped out

and they're going to roll with

Smith and Jigba and Cooper Cup.

Didn't Scantling also play

on the Chiefs?

Yeah.

He did have a stint with the Chiefs.

I think he started out

with the Packers.

And then I was kind of surprised

to see Teddy Bridgewater

make the make Tampa Bay's team.

I thought Kyle Trask out of Florida

was going to stick.

Did they release Trask?

Yeah, he got released.

That's what I thought.

I thought he was going to stick

that backup roll,

but Teddy Bridgewater beat him out.

And poor Sam Allinger.

I thought he played pretty decent

in the preseason,

but the Broncos released him.

Maybe he'll get signed

back to the practice squad.

Again, this just happened yesterday.

So I think once people clear waivers,

right, I think they have like a week

and then they can sign them back to the squad.

Yeah, there'll be a lot of movement,

I'm sure, coming soon.

I think the receiver position

is the one that hit me the most

as far as people who got cut

that I really didn't expect.

Like Hunter Renfrow with Carolina Panthers.

He was solid with the Raiders,

but I don't think he just recovered

from his injuries.

Yeah, I was reading that he was down

to like 150 and was going to retire.

Davos Sweeney kind of talked him back

into football,

but I guess he was getting prey.

So he's going to go to the practice squad

to keep, you know,

getting back to his normal playing weight,

maybe, or someone's going to pick him up.

Maybe he goes back to the Raiders.

I mean, they just got kidney picket.

And to me, that's,

that was kind of surprising

because all training cap long,

he was quarterback too.

Obviously he got hurt a little bit,

but at least he's played some time

in the NFL, improving.

Then I thought picket was pretty good

with the Steelers.

I didn't think he was going to take anyone

to the Super Bowl, but I didn't think he sucked.

Yeah. Yeah.

I think picket is pretty solid.

So he could be in a good spot there

playing behind Jano.

So we'll see what happens.

You know, Jano Smith got set

from Seattle to the Raiders.

I see one of your Michigan guys

got cut from the,

from the Jets, Donovan Edwards.

And yeah, Donovan Edwards, man,

if he would have come out his junior year,

he probably would have been a first round pick.

He stayed for his senior year.

Didn't go well.

And now he's just a dude, you know?

And I hate that.

You're an NCAA college football cover athlete,

you know, on the video game.

And here it is.

You can't keep a job right now.

So I kind of hate that form.

And Xavier Restrepo was released

from Tennessee, which I can't say I'm surprised,

but I kind of wanted to see him

and Cam Ward play together again

since they were Miami teammates.

So maybe he'll get re-signed

to the practice squad.

But outside of that,

not really too many huge surprises to me.

I think a lot of these teams

are pretty much set after the second pre-season game.

And people are just ready to get the season started.

Let's talk about Travis Hunter,

revisit Travis Hunter, Ashton Jonti,

and Shadoor Sanders,

starting with Travis Hunter.

I am on record as saying,

I'm still not convinced

he's going to do great at the next level.

I didn't really watch.

I saw the one game

where he made a couple of catches.

They didn't look that impressive.

It looks like he's easy to bring down

on a simple arm tackle because he's just so small.

And I don't know if they put him out on defense.

Actually, I think I saw him on defense,

maybe not get trucked,

but maybe get turned around

and maybe we got lucky on an assist or so.

But I'm still don't know what's going to happen with him.

Obviously, all three names that I just mentioned

made their team.

The only one that was

flaky with Shadoor,

just because he got pixel low,

not because of his overall performance.

But have you seen,

have you had time to look into Travis Hunter at all?

Yeah, I think Travis can be a decent defensive back.

Like maybe even a pro bow defensive back

if that was his focus.

But trying to do both,

I can't really see him being great at either.

And I think he's a better DB than he is a receiver.

But I don't know.

This whole trying to go two ways thing is cool.

I get it.

Maybe it worked in college for you,

which kind of surprised me there.

But in the pros, man, that is so taxing.

And I just can't see him really perfecting his craft

if he's splitting both sides of the ball.

I just haven't really had an opportunity

to see anything happen with him.

And hopefully everything happens for him.

But I agree.

I'm still not convinced.

I think he's going to be pretty good.

I don't think he's going to be a draft bust.

But I'm going to have to see more.

It's just preseason, right?

You're not going to waste all this time

on your top pick.

You don't want to get him injured.

Maybe he proves everyone wrong.

When you look at Dion,

I mean, he was limited on offense when he played.

It wasn't like he was full time.

You look at guys like Charles Woodson,

he would play a little offense.

But he was mainly a DB.

And that's what I think Travis Hunter should do.

You want to come in on a couple of plays on offense?

Fine.

But focus on being a DB

because I think that can be his bread and butter.

Yeah.

I want to say Deon was wide receiver two

on the Dallas Cowboys

when he joined after San Francisco.

He was the starting wide receiver

but behind like Michael Irving.

I think even Alvin Harper,

if he was still there was like wide receiver three.

But that was still midway through his career

where he was already well established

at doing other things.

I mean, I don't, I think even when he was with Atlanta,

he caught some end arounds.

Maybe some screen passes, if that.

And then with San Francisco,

he caught a couple hooks,

you know, maybe one or two deep balls

caught some drop some because, I mean,

he's out there playing receiver

with fucking baseball gloves on.

Yeah, so with Travis,

if he goes over the middle too many times,

I it can really just beat him up

for for the defensive side of things.

So yeah, I don't like the idea,

but we'll see what happens.

Ashton Jonte, I saw him play a couple plays

and that's it.

I didn't really get time to dig in.

Looks like I don't know what to expect.

He's a smaller guy too.

He's pretty elusive,

but I didn't see him breaking too many tackles.

So I think he's going to have to rely on his shiftiness,

kind of like a Saquon Barkley would that's smaller.

So I think Barkley has bigger tree trunk legs

and it's just as shifty,

but he did make some plays, I think,

and I think they have big hopes for him out there in Vegas.

What have you heard, if anything on Ashley?

Yeah, I watched him play a little bit in preseason

and I think the perfect person to compare him to,

in my opinion, is Ezekiel Elliott,

to where he really started out fast,

but he wore down quickly.

And I think because Ashton,

unless he can work on that shiftiness you talked about

and avoid some of the contact,

he could be one of those guys

after about six seasons who maybe burnt out

depending on how much they use them.

So I expect good things out of him.

I think he's going to be a solid running back

by how long he can last

depends on his ability to make people miss.

What do you think about Shadour?

Did you see where they released

four of the five offensive linemen

that were blocking former in the last game?

Yeah, I think Shadour has the potential.

I hate to use that nine letter word,

but I think he has the potential

to really be a good quarterback.

But there's some basic things he has to work on

and one of those things

is trust in his offensive line.

Now, the guys he played behind in the last game,

I understand why you would not trust them.

But in the previous games

and even in college,

he tends to just drift backwards

instead of stepping up in the pocket

and making a throw.

And he doesn't like to step up in the pocket

because he holds the ball so long

because he's looking for something big downfield.

And, you know, once you step up

and you only have a split second

to get rid of it.

So if he can figure that out,

trust his offensive line

to know that, hey,

when these defensive ends rush up the field past you.

Yeah, they're coming back,

but you've got to step up

and get rid of that ball

before they make it back to you.

And I think he can really be good.

He's deadly accurate.

Man, he's super accurate.

Yeah. And, you know,

I made that comp to Joey Harrington

and some people who heard that

kind of agreed.

I think overall people would probably scoff at it,

but, you know,

I lived through the Joey Harrington days

in Detroit.

A lot of similarities

dropping back way too far.

Harrington would be 10, 15 yards

behind line scrimmage

before he released the ball.

You have to get outside of the pocket

and throw that ball out.

You can't dance around,

and this is the NFL.

You're going to get killed.

Obviously, there's a whole collusion thing

that's been going around

with Eric Dickerson

basically saying that he heard

that they were told not to draft him.

I don't know, you know,

if that's true, maybe,

but I also saw plenty of stuff

in me watching,

and I'm not trying to be a hater

because I follow Colorado

like millions of others

because I'm a Die Hard D on Sanders fan

and you want the underdog to win,

but that play,

that 30-yard loss or whatever it was

kind of defined what I was thinking of him

for the past few years at Colorado.

I was like, dude, you have to step up.

You have to get rid of that ball.

And I think Choudour get opportunities

if he corrects his mistake.

They're basic mistakes.

I mean, rookie's going to make mistakes.

A couple of corrections here and there,

and he'll elevate himself

off the deaf chart.

But all these people saying

that he wasn't given a fair chance

because he had to play behind

a garbage line in August.

But that's what happens

when you get drafted,

where he got drafted.

I mean, that's how it works.

You don't draft someone that low

and let them play with starters.

That's not how it goes.

The quarterbacks, based on priority,

are going to get the best offensive line

in front of them.

But the thing is,

even if you have a bad offensive line

in front of you,

you can't drift backwards

and take 30-yard sacks.

I'm excited to see what happens.

Two soon predictions

for Ashton, Choudour.

What are your predictions for this season?

And then who do you have

winning the Super Bowl?

Again, this is way too early predictions.

Yeah, it's definitely early.

Travis Hunter, I can see

five interceptions,

maybe about 500 yards

receiving, you know,

like 35 catches,

500 yards,

few touchdowns,

something simple.

Ashton, I can see Jonte

doing about 1200 yards rushing.

I think having Jeno Smith,

that quarterback is going to afford

him some opportunities

through play action to do pretty well,

running the ball.

And then as far as Choudour's concerned,

I don't really see him

coming off that bench this year.

Unless, yeah,

unless everybody in front of him gets hurt,

I think he's going to ride this one out

and maybe come next season

and make his,

you know, make his mark

on trying to move up the depth chart.

I have said I have Choudour

starting by week three.

Now, this was

before all this stuff even happened.

Yeah.

And so I have to stick to that,

although I would not put money on it.

A lot of stuff has to happen in front of him.

But Joe Flacco,

you know,

he can look great in preseason,

but he could turn around

and he's one injury away from,

you know,

all of a sudden you have Dylan Gabriel.

And I think that Dylan Gabriel and Choudour

are a lot closer

than the depth chart suggests.

I think half the people would say Choudour is better.

Half the people would say Dylan Gabriel is better.

But I think Choudour probably has the intangibles.

So it'll be interesting to see.

I could see him leapfrogging

or Dylan Gabriel getting pulled really quickly

if he struggles and then put in Choudour.

Yeah, I think that's way too early.

I think the only difference of point of two

is that Dylan gets rid of the ball quickly.

I'm going to take your predictions

on Travis Hunter and Ashton Jonte.

I think Ashton is going to be a,

I think he's going to be good on fantasy football

because I don't know what other choices they have there.

He's going to catch,

he'll probably have 400 yards receiving.

He'll probably have 40,

40, 50, I want to 40, 50 catches,

but maybe 40 catches,

500 yards receiving,

900 or 1100 yards rushing

and he'll probably have 20 total touchdowns

that make the all rookie team.

Travis, no idea.

Five interceptions I think would be a reach

because I don't think he's going to get much playing time

until later in the season.

And I told you about Choudour.

Super Bowl, I'm going to have to go with the Bills.

This is the Bills house.

We're going to do a Bills game

early in October, actually.

And Josh Allen in the Bills is the pick.

I don't know how their defense,

the defense always lets them down.

Well, I forgot to give my pick,

but I'm with you with Buffalo

and I think Philadelphia is going to get back

because the NFC really doesn't have anyone

to challenge Philadelphia.

But as far as who's going to win it,

that's going to be tough,

but I can see Buffalo finally pulling it off

and ending that long spale of disappointment.

College football.

Talk about or try to talk about

what are your expectations for Michigan this year

and they have some suspensions.

Does that, is that, what's that going to affect?

If the players are getting paid,

they have to decide if they want the money

or they want the glory,

but they probably can't have both

for this year and maybe the next few years.

I haven't looked into the suspensions

for the program.

I don't even know if they're having suspensions.

And coaches are getting suspended,

but the program is pretty much safe.

They're going to hit them in the wallet.

So they're losing postseason money.

Like, I think up to 20 million

or was it 30 million?

That's a lot of money.

The coach more or be suspended for,

I think it was one,

I think it's for one game, maybe two.

Yeah, but the thing is,

and maybe this is the new model of the NCAA,

they don't want to punish the players

for something someone else did and left.

So they're starting to hit the institutions

in the wallet and the coaches.

I'm hoping they can go eight and four.

That would be a respectable season.

If everything goes well,

maybe they could fool around and get nine to 10 wins.

Colorado, I think it's going to take a huge step back this year

because their big three are gone.

I wouldn't be surprised if Dion retired halfway

through the middle of the season for health reasons.

I hope not.

Colorado, they have like 30 transfers.

So these are guys who have been playing

in other places.

They're seasoned players.

And if those guys can jail,

they can be pretty good.

They can be right back at nine wins.

They have a tough schedule with Kansas State,

Arizona State, BYU, Texas Tech.

They have a tough schedule.

If they can jail and run the ball,

Marshall Falk is their new running back coach.

So Marshall Falk is worth his weight in gold.

And they run the ball and can...

I mean, who knows?

Maybe they can surprise people

and get back to nine wins.

But it's going to be tough

because like you said, their stars are gone.

And then the big thing is,

will Arch Manning live up to the hype at Texas?

And then what is that hype?

My response is, I don't know how we measure that.

I think he's probably going to do really good.

I would hate to be Arch Manning with all the pressure.

He plays Joe Cool right now,

but there's no way that pressure

is not kind of getting to him a little bit.

This is arguably the biggest school in the country.

One of the biggest three schools in the country,

not only for money,

but also just for recognition.

People who love or they hate Texas

and he's the man at the helm.

Yeah. Just having the last name Manning,

you should be expecting a lot of pressure.

And I'm hoping if anybody can handle it,

just this guy, when you consider

what Peyton and Eli went through

and how they succeeded.

So I like the fact that he's very versatile.

He can run that ball.

A lot of people just think of him

when they think Manning, they think passing.

He's the one athletic Manning

that's probably in the family.

So he can run that thing

and I look for him to do big things.

I really do.

I don't think the pressure is too much for him.

Let's get into early predictions first.

I'll do that because I have no idea.

Texas is picked, I think, statistically

to be the team to win the national championship.

I love Texas.

I'm a diehard Longhorns fan.

I'm going to have to take the field on this one.

I don't know.

I'm just going to have to take the field.

I think it's funny that they're the

number one overall preseason team ranking wise.

The closest ever or the closest in 30 years,

number two is Penn State,

number three is Ohio State.

But somehow they're picked.

They're a two and a half point underdog for game one.

And I don't understand.

I know they're going to Ohio State,

but if you think that the team you picked

to be the number one in the country

is going to lose their first game,

why are they number one to begin with?

That's a good point.

That's a very good point.

But I like Texas to win this game

against Ohio State, even though Ohio State's

like a two and a half point favorite.

I just think they lost too much.

They lost so much in the trenches, you know?

I mean, first you lose both your running backs.

You lost your quarterback.

I think you lost your complete defensive line.

And Texas, man, those edge rushers are monsters.

Those guys are going to get after that new quarterback saying,

I think his name is.

And even though they have great receivers in Ohio State,

I think Texas defense is going to be too much.

I do think it would be a low scoring game though, you know,

like a, I don't know, 28, 21 type of game, nothing astronomical.

That's not that low scoring though.

I think a lot of people are saying Texas 27-17.

I'm seeing people say Ohio State's going to,

you know, win comfortably.

I think Paul Feinbaum is predicted a blowout for Texas

because he says Ohio State has ranked way too high.

I don't know.

I don't like predicting my own team playing.

I'm superstitious like that.

I just hope, honestly, it's not even a close game.

I hope Texas just blows their doors off.

Kind of like they did Michigan last year

when they cut Michigan kind of unguarded.

Yeah, and of course, as a Michigan fan, I hate Ohio State,

so I'll always pull against them.

But I think, you know, Ohio State's quarterback is fairly new.

Archie Manning is starting for the first time,

but he's been in the system, you know?

So this is just what, third season in the system.

So he knows that system.

Yeah, but who do you have winning it all this year?

I have to go with Texas.

I know it's the sexy pick right now,

but can State's not going to do it?

No, the game's not going to do it.

Everybody around them seems to have taken,

like nobody, not the gloss Arch Manning too much,

but I don't think, I think everybody around them

has lost that important quarterback position.

And with the exception of, I think, Clemson,

people are talking about Kay Clubnick a lot.

He was really good.

And I think I've heard in some circles

where he may be kind of considered

as a dark horse for a Heisman front runner.

He impressed a shit out of me last year watching him play,

especially against Texas.

So we'll see.

You have Texas.

I have the field.

I obviously hope Texas wins the national championship.

I would be excited and I'll bring Izzy's little jersey out,

but that's all I have.

That's all I have today.

You know, thank you for meeting up with me, Q.

We'll get the technical glitches kind of ironed out here

on the episode.

Okay. Thanks for having me, Jay.

I appreciate it.

You got it, man.

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