Ben Maller - While Colorado Won the Game, It's a Hollow, Disappointing Victory

I was fussing around looking for something to watch and I stumbled upon how could you miss it the hype train in Boulder Colorado as a matchup between the bison and the buffalos Rocky Mountains is where we go a Full Slate of Thursday college football as the weekend gets going here now one game though did Stand Out Head and Shoulders Above the Rest I already mention it I think you know where I'm going here it was Lights Camera Action for Dion s ERS 2.0 his second season as coach in Colorado now shadur Sanders being hyped up as a Heisman candidate fattened up the stat sheet he had 445 yards four touchdowns three of them to receiver and projected top draft pick in the NFL Travis Hunter Colorado dodging an upset though they they almost lost this game you could say well you know they k lead the other team scor but it was North Dakota State North Dakota State the final score was 3126 in the game on Thursday night so let us discuss what are your first impressions of Dion Sanders 2.0 at Colorado so I've got old tree stump presidential and Cold Stone crey and we will combine all of these things together and we you're going to do some tidying up is what we're going to do so number number one I see you jump the gun number one number one a see there the timing was perfect that time amazing so let's start here prime time he might not admit this we can't ask him because he hates the media but prime time needed a glass of whiskey or scotch or bourbon after this game because wowzers North Dakota state was in position for a Monumental upset the Bison had the lead I don't know if you're watching they had the lead at halftime now they're only up by three but it was 201 to 17 at halftime and some guy I've never heard of Cam Miller the quarterback there had a couple of rushing touchdowns and he also threw for a touchdown and I would put that in The Humbling category for Colorado with all the bravado and all the rasm mataz to be trailing at halftime and for the Brash Dion Sanders while Colorado did win the game this is an old tree stump it's Hollow Oro a hollow Victory disappointing somewhat emasculating I wasn't impressed at all why was I not impressed Colorado is supposed to be a monster with the two big studs shadur Sanders and Travis Hunter both projected to be top draft picks in the NFL and here they were at home now they're playing it's a great te well it was a D2 school yeah but they're they're really okay fine but couldn't even cover the spread couldn't cover the spread Colorado was a 10 and a half Point favorite they trailed at halftime and really couldn't shake the workmanlike North Dakota State Bison in this game and if Colorado is going to do anything I think they have to play a little defense uh as they did not if you saw the game North Dakota State put up more first downs than Colorado they had essentially 450 yards they were one one yard away they averaged 11 yards per pass play and had 150 yards on the ground I mean they they controlled the ball they had the ball for in terms of time of possession now Colorado's offense was great they had 500 yards and all that but the fact that your defense allowed North Dakota state to run up and down the field and all around embarrassing absolutely embarrassing for Dion cers that was an issue last year looks like more of the same Colorado my first knee-jerk reaction is they're like some of these USC teams we've seen recently where they have a great offense a terrible defense so it's it's one thing crosses out the other all right now page two we pivot to Cincinnati the birthplace of skyline Chile and back to our meat and potatoes in the NFL are ongoing indepth team coverage of bad blood is it true that Ben gal's wide receiver Jamar Chase his contract dispute is on the verge of going nuclear well uh so here's my position the plot thickens that's my position right just about everything involved this story is heading One Direction right and the direction is man is this a bad situation and H jbar Chase is going to lose his marbles here because all these other guys are getting paid the arms race has yet to end it has been a monthlong parte every once in a while if you watch game shows they have that that money Booth where someone will go into a booth and they'll put a bunch of money in there and they'll have a fan blow the money around right and it's it's a good gimmick and then people have to get as much money as they can in like 30 seconds or a minute and they have to you use their their bare hands and all that they whatever they get they get to keep but that's what's going on in the NFL right now it's turned into this high stakes game of can you top this and everyone's ending up a winner CD lamb Brandon iok this week got paid wide receivers contemporaries of the Cincinnati receiver so I I do believe that in this case the case of Jamar chase this is definitely a box what's in the box that would be a Tinder Box now that said after a thorough review and years and years of observing in the wild out on the serengetti the Bengals and their owner the 89y old Mike Brown who I know he doesn't really do a lot day-to-day but he's still there and Family's running the team but they have followed the Bengals in my entire life when you pull back curtain they have followed the 33rd presidential model Harry S Truman the buck stops here right the emotions play out and feelings get hurt but Cincinnati does not have to pay Jamar Chase until next off season and the Bengals are one of those teams that have been grandfathered in its old family money it's old family money and those teams operate different than the teams that have new Young owners there's a there's a mix most of the teams in the NFL it seems like most of the the teams have old family money ownership it's been around a long time Cincinnati's on that short short list all right final Point our next stop we go to the media musings Department the media musings Department new season means several new faces on television including a former NFL coach and former linebacker getting gigs question for the esteemed panel what do you expect from former commanders and Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera and former Saints linebacker more notorious for his days at Notre Dam Manti Tao as they have become NFL broadcasters at the provda news service of the NFL the NFL Network so I expect Ron Rivera and Manti Tao to it's like a trip to coldstone crey if you enjoy the very vanilla smoothie with extra vanilla on top of vanilla you're going to love these guys Ron Rivera and I might be wrong this maybe somebody that that paid more attention I I I heard a lot of Ron Rivera but I didn't hear every news Comer I don't ever remember him being interesting I I don't and I I did this show his entire head coaching career I was on Fox Sports Radio his entire time as an NFL coach a head coach and he was always in dosville and then I look at Manti Tao and and outside of him serving up like a fish fry with catfish I don't think he's going to say anything memorable so the malor hypothesis continues to be that these gents will continue on the legacy of jock oy the very low standards which is just usually a grab bag of cliches and some meat head lingo and give me a y give me an a give me a w give me an n yeah that spells Yan if you don't know what that spells all right now now maybe I'll be wrong here but I I I'm just not going to hold my breath on this and and to be fair I'm not going to watch too much of this content anyway on state sponsored NFL media but as a rule of thumb and I have big thumbs as a rule of thumb the jocks the ex jocks that get into broadcasting on television they're good at two things what are those two things uh they're good at filler and fluff filler and fluff really good at that really really good