Pardon My Take
Ryen Russillo, CFB Talk, Blue Jays In The World Series, Lions Dominate The Bucs And The Sad Texans + FAQ’s
22 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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On today's part of my take, we have our very, very, very good friend and colleague, Ryan Rosillo, on the show talking college football, talking NFL, maybe sprinkling in an NBA question. Some fitness. Some fitness. Some life advice. He's in a little hiatus right now, so he's probably got a lot to dump out of his brain. Hiatus from what? Not the gym, I hope. No, go subscribe to his new show.
It is out, I believe, November 3rd is the first episode, the Ryan Russillo podcast. We're going to talk the doubleheader from hell, Monday Night Football. We're going to talk some World Series. We are set. The Toronto Blue Jays have made it to the World Series. We have Hot Seat, Cool Throne. We have FAQs. And guess what? Max is going to press the button on time.
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Man, I'll tell you what. When you're hungry out there, you start acting like a rookie quarterback in his first game, making bad decisions, messing up the basics, being all out of sorts. That's where Snickers comes in, man. That thing is packed. Roasted peanuts.
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Chapter 2: What are the highlights of the Toronto Blue Jays' World Series journey?
Toronto Blue Jays. Well, so that's the thing is at the games, they chant, let's go Blue Jays. Yeah. Well, they're Canadian. They're allowed to do that. I'm going to continue to say Toronto Blue Jays. I'm not going to be... Yeah, you said Toronto Blue Jays.
Just Blue Jays.
Yeah, just Blue Jays. I'm not going to be bullied by some... Was it one guy? It was one guy. Yeah, fuck that guy. Get your own podcast, buddy. You can say whatever you want. But the Blue Jays are... Yeah, they're a fun team. They've got, obviously, like some... Are you talking about the Toronto Jays? I'm talking about the Blue Jays. Oh, I know them as the Toronto Jays. The Blue Jays.
They've got some very fun players. We should be excited about that. The pitching probably is going to be a mismatch in favor of the Dodgers in the series. But they've got some clutch dudes. They've got Springer. They've got Vladdy. They got Max Scherzer. They got Max Scherzer, who is a fucking psychopath and will do anything that he possibly can to win. I'll be rooting for Mad Max.
He will also tie the record for most teams played for in different teams played for in a World Series with four. With four. Lonnie Smith. The Rangers, right? You pitched for the Rangers? Yeah, I forgot about that. I feel like Max is a gnat for life, though. But they also have... Tigers fans are not going to be happy about that. I mean, he won a... I know, you're right.
He's a great pitcher for the Nats. The Tigers having Verlander and Scherzer in their prime. And officially, Bo Bichette is coming back now. Everyone thought, myself included, he would be back for the ALCS. He was not. But then he said after the game, he's coming back for the World Series. And if you don't know, Bo Bichette, I think he had the second most hits in baseball this year.
It's a big addition for the Blue Jays. And the Toronto Jays get home field advantage. So that's, you know, listen. I'm not going to say – it's not going to be like the Brewers. They're not going to – the Toronto Jays are not going to lay down like the Brewers did.
You know what's crazy is that the Blue Jays are – I guess you could – this is a Blue Jays stat when you're looking at the gambling lines for the series, but under five and a half games for the World Series is plus money. It's plus 125. So everyone out there that's thinking that it's a sweep or the Dodgers in five – You can make a pretty good return on that.
I hate that bet just because when you have a World Series where you have no rooting interest, I just want it to go seven. Yeah. Yeah. I also feel terrible for Mariners fans. That was a tough night. The vibes were so high. Cal Raleigh hitting that home run into their own bullpen and the bullpen catcher who caught that. It was his birthday. Yep. And it's just like this just shows playoff baseball.
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Chapter 3: What insights are shared about the Monday Night Football doubleheader?
He would take Jason Brown. They said, who would win in a fight? Yeah. Jalen Brown. Jalen Brown was like, I would win in a fight. Missoula said, I would win in a fight. And Missoula said, if I'm going to death, you're coming with me. Yeah. Yeah, I believe it. But right now, with the Achilles and everything? Yeah, I got Missoula.
No, it was Jalen Brown.
Oh, Jalen Brown. Oh, that one. I think it would be a double kill. I think I'd take Missoula still.
Yeah. He's the type of guy who just- I'd take Missoula over anyone.
He wants to be in a fight. Yeah. And wrestling. Guys that can wrestle can- Missoula versus Harbaugh. Missoula. Harbaugh's fucking old. Missoula versus Dan Campbell. As shit. Missoula. Oh, Dan Campbell. Come on. Missoula is like the type of guy to know like your pressure points.
Dan Campbell.
And like tap you in a place that you don't even know hurts and then you're just dead. Dan Campbell would, yeah, I think he'd smash him. Literally. Missoula.
Okay.
My hot seats, I have two. I got to remember what my second one was. Oh, first one. Did you want to talk about LeBron? Russell Westbrook? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we could talk about it. Hilarious. What was the exact quote? I thought it was NBA Central. I did, too, and then I saw it on The Athletic.
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Chapter 4: What are the key takeaways from the discussion on College Football?
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Colleagues now, your first episode out November 3rd. How many takes are you kind of like, do the takes build up in your head? Have you been calling people for hours on end trying to get the takes off with a few week break here? Yeah, real just take hoarding. And obviously because it's new, I really have to let it fly now.
So, you know me, I'm going to try to come up with a bunch of things to get attention. Maybe expanding the college football playoff to 64 teams is going to be one. Is baseball America's pastime again, which I'm, you know, nice run. Last night was a lot of fun. I walked into a bar in Canada right as they were down 3-1. to grab some food. And the place, she's like, you here for the Jays game?
And I was like, I am now. Springer Yard. By the way, Springer doesn't happen without Hartford. Hartford has it. Yeah. Longwood's a rising star. It just continues to deliver in ways that I wish people would account for a little bit more. And then I was watching Sportsnet, you know, so it was like tragically hip into the break, places going wild. And I was really happy for the Blue Jays.
I love all Toronto fans except for Raptors fans, as we know. Yeah, so have you had any takes over the last few weeks that you would have put out that would have then become freezing cold takes later that you can call yourself out on? No, that's a really good question. Good question. Thank you. You guys are good. Thank you.
What's your dumbest thought been since you've been off a podcast, Mike, that you're like, I'm really glad I didn't have to do a podcast after that? Probably that LSU is still talented enough to hang with anybody. Yeah. Yeah. Yikes. Let's just figure out this offense. As you pointed out, they lost a tackle on the road. Yeah. They did. Tough environment. Tough environment.
That's what I think is the best part about playoff expansion is just the excuses that are just completely irrelevant prior to having 12 teams. You're like, dude, it's over. It's done. So there's certainly an argument to be said for still being alive. LSU's not still alive. I'm kind of kidding around. I think once the South Carolina game, I'm like, This is a very talented, not great team.
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Chapter 5: What challenges does Ryen Russillo face with his new feed?
Well, I don't, I don't know if there's a first class flight issue. I don't really go that many places. So I'm out of that. Um, The feed issue is a big reason why, like when you go to market and luckily you guys never really have to because you're so powerful. But when you start walking into these meetings and it's like, where's your feed? Like, I don't have my feed. It's massive.
It's a massive, massive difference. So luckily this time around, any new place that I was talking to was like, okay, we can figure out a way to get you your feed after a certain amount of time. I don't know if that's what you were asking. No, I was just basically busting Max's balls. It's the first time Max has ever missed a feed.
It was on Monday morning with the show coming out a little bit late. But your guys are on top of it. Oh, I see what you're saying. Everyone do subscribe to it. It was also a nice welcome to Barstool moment. I texted you right after, Ryan, but you announced your new feed where everyone can subscribe, and then it quickly became a Dave Portnoy versus Jerry Karabas fight. And that was during –
That was great. That was great. It was like somewhere under like 15 of these quote tweets is Ryan's new feed. We just got to find it. It was good. It was almost like it was done on purpose. We're like, let's get a little controversy going here. But yeah, back to the original point. Um, I mean, to me, it's the exact same show. It's three days a week.
We may change up some of the release times a little bit because maybe some of those later Friday ones that were coming out kind of late, like especially if it's hitting the East Coast at five o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday isn't the optimum time to drop new stuff. But yeah, probably a little bit more active on a couple of things. But I don't. I mean, I've been doing this a long time.
I don't know. If anything, it'd be exhausting to try to be somebody different.
Yeah.
Are you going to start covering and watching the NFL? I know. You guys love the NFL.
Love the NFL.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Brian Kelly's coaching at LSU?
He's like, I missed my flight to Pittsburgh. And then I was like, well, gosh, yeah. I was like, this is back. This isn't really working. And I think I said something like, hey, are you like seeing anybody or anything? Like, no, I. He's like, no. And I was like, man, this whole thing, I was like, it didn't work. I was like, this is what I was trying to do. And he was just like, yeah, okay, cool.
So he kind of got me because I mean, his mind was elsewhere. He wasn't where he was supposed to be and he was so miserable because I've had to do that like weird Pittsburgh, how can I get a flight out of here thing. And then I think I tried it with PFT once and it was like a DM. Yeah. You sent me a DM one time and then I don't think I replied to it for like four days.
And it was like, yeah, that's probably, I don't know if this bit's paying off for you, but it's a good bit. It's good. Keep going. Go through the wall. Yeah. Okay. So let's, let's talk some college football. So let's start with your LSU Tigers and the fact that Brian Kelly feels like he might be on the hot seat. Have you, because you actually are plugged in with some people there.
LSU, they're not going to go to the playoffs this year.
Doesn't feel like it.
What are they going to do? What's the future? Is Brian Kelly going to get another year? I heard that he went on vacation in the bye week. It just never felt like a good fit, and it's just proving to be not a great fit. OK, but I think one of the problems with like fit, especially when it's in the south, it's like, oh, you have to be a southern person.
And then it's like, you know, we always kind of defaulted. It's like, oh, he's like this great cultural fit. You know, I still don't think people like a lot of people realize like Saban isn't from Alabama. Yeah. You know, even like Matt Brown in Texas, he's winning. He's like, oh, he's a perfect fit for the Texas culture. It's like, yeah, but it's like we kind of fall for this.
So in the south, I feel like it's even harder.
when you don't feel Southern or you don't have connections to the high schools organically but Kelly's track record was incredible so the fact that they would want to back up the bus for him and pay him a ton of money I never really had an issue with and whenever I look at the fan bases they get really really mad about you know whether it's like I I know that it's not been to the standard because the only standard at LSU is winning a national championship
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Chapter 7: How does Indiana's football team compare this season?
We really only care like, you know, Kelly, I get it. He's tough. He's really tough. And he kind of put his foot in his mouth with the way he went after that reporter about the offense. And I could also kind of understand like, hey, we just won a game. And like the first thing you're going to do is talk about the offense here.
But it's it's a lingering issue for a team that felt like it was loaded. But I don't know. I mean, after that Vandy game. But we saw it coming. Yeah, so real quick, we touched on Ohio State there. They are the best team in the country. Are you ready? We've been doing this for about a month now. Are you ready to say this team is better than last year's team? Wow. Yeah, I think Sayan's even better.
He just, you know, they don't even need him. Like, that's the thing that's wild about it. Like, I was looking at the third and long, like anything third and four or longer, those numbers, like nobody converts anything against this defense.
And you think like losing Knowles and then losing Chip Kelly, you bring in two new coordinators, you have saying, you're like, okay, is this going to be as seamless a transition? And it is. Now I caution all of us that fall into this trap all the time of like that six or seven game stretch of,
where we were doing it before Oregon lost to Indiana, where it's like, okay, it feels like there's three teams and there's a gap. It's like, okay, yep, but two of those teams lost. And the Indiana win at Oregon, I think, is the single best win of the entire college football season.
And I also think Oregon's getting dropped down too far in the polls after the fact, because I think Indiana really is that good this year. So... Now to look at Ohio State is like this unbeatable team, their record and their stats are going to say that. And yeah, it feels like it's them and everybody else right now. But I feel like we make this mistake every single year
When we're talking about whatever the gap is between how many teams can like win a title versus like who the actual favorite is. So I like everybody else. You've watched Ohio State, what they did to Washington's offense, just humiliating Minnesota. Like that was the night game and they're coming out of the tunnel and you're like, all right, here we go. Like some big 10 action.
You're like, this is humiliating. Yeah. And the rest of their schedule isn't really going to be that challenging. Yeah. So this should be pretty easy. It just feels like they are a step above everyone else. But I know you don't love the 12-team playoff. We've debated it ad nauseum.
It does feel like there's some good parity in that next grouping, Indiana being at the top of it, but Indiana, Oregon, Texas A&M. Notre Dame is good. I know people wrote them off after the first two games. They've kind of figured out their defense. I like C.J. Carr. Who in that next groupings would you say you're highest on and to be like that's the team that will maybe take down Ohio State?
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Chapter 8: What are the standout qualities of Cignetti's coaching style?
But you get to pick six at the end. It's a massive, at the very least, 10-point swing, maybe a 14-point swing. So... Their defense looks like it's getting a little bit better. Earlier in the season, you looked at BAMSD and you're like, where are the dudes? Where are the two guys that just destroy the other team's offense coming off the edge?
And there were some rushing attempt numbers against them that were pretty alarming, like Georgia ran at seven yards per carry. And then they go and face Mizzou's got Hardee's the number one running back in the country at that point. And they shut them down. So I think they're growing.
And the Simpson to receiver group is my favorite, probably collection of like, if there's one thing to point to, whether it's a front or a secondary, or, you know, sometimes I don't know that we talk about running backs enough anymore, but like Simpson and those receivers is something I like better than anything that A&M has in better than anything Ole Miss has.
I mean, Ole Miss has been kind of a weird team this year. I think they're kind of like in that Tennessee group, like, yeah, they're good, but I don't think they're as good as Indiana or Ohio State. And I don't even know that I think Alabama is as good as those two teams.
And A&M, for all the defensive numbers that they had prior to that Arkansas game, granted Arkansas is kind of like a weird, sneaky, like can hang around for three hours. I'm not as high on Reed as I am as, say, a Simpson or maybe – Probably even Trinidad, although it looked like Trinidad kind of fell apart there in that Georgia game. Or Gunnar Stockton.
Gunnar Stockton has had two games now where it's not looked great, but in big moments at Tennessee and then Ole Miss this past weekend, he's kind of got that he's a dude in the moment.
feel to him where it's not great it's not perfect they could probably if they get in the playoff they maybe get into deep waters that he can't get out of but he has twice now impressed me in like hey your back's against the wall you got to start making plays right now otherwise your season's gonna be fucked and he's done it yeah I'm You're probably right.
I mean, I guess the biggest problem is that we're holding Georgia to the Georgia standard. And this Georgia team is not even close to those teams. The defense isn't as good. They don't run the ball consistently. And I think the Stockton fourth down throw against Tennessee was like, okay.
Because I felt like coming out of last year into this year, you're like, wait, you guys thought that guy was good at the end of the year last year? He almost got decapitated and everybody kept like, oh man, this guy's got so much juice. It's like, yeah, that's awesome he survived that play, but
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