Northern Illinois outplayed Notre Dame in South Bend - Mike Golic | Dan Patrick Show | NBC Sports

HE'S CO-HOST OF GOJO AND GOLICK ON DRAFTKINGS NETWORK IS MIKE, GOLIC FORMER NFL DEFENSIVE LINEMAN WENT TO NOTRE DAME IS OH OH OH MY BAD. SERIOUSLY MY BAD. OKAY LET'S JUST GET IT OVER WITH. LET'S JUST GET IT OVER WITH HOW PAINFUL WAS THAT WATCH FOR YOU WITH NOTRE DAME AGAINST NORTHERN ILLINOIS? I WAS SITTING RIGHT IN THE STANDS, THERE WATCHING THAT. AND UH, IT WAS AND, YOU KNOW, IN IN, IN WEEK 2 OF THE COLLEGE SEASON, THERE WERE A NUMBER OF BIG TEAMS PLAYING SMALLER TEAMS THAT PULLED OUT YOU KNOW, CLOSE WINS. SO MY THOUGHT THE WHOLE TIME THERE WAS JUST GET THE WIN, JUST GET THE WIN, JUST GET THE WIN, IT'S ALL THAT MATTERS. THEY WENT UP 14 TO 13 IN THE SECOND HALF. I THOUGHT. OKAY, MAYBE THEY'LL PUT ANOTHER FIELD GOAL ON THEM. ANOTHER TOUCHDOWN ON THEM AND THEY'LL WIN THE GAME. AND THEN RILEY, LEONARD THROWS THAT INTERCEPTION. THAT'S RETURNED 30 YARDS TO THE 50 YARD LINE, COUPLE FIRST DOWNS GOAL AND RILEY, LEONARD THROWS THAT KICK THE FIELD GOAL AND UH 2 YEARS AGO TO MARSHALL. CERTAINLY WHEN MY SON MIKE AND JAKE WERE HERE AS WELL. SO IT IT WAS CRUSHING AND, AND I SAY THIS IN ALL SINCERITY. CONGRATULATIONS IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS. I MEAN, THEY, THEY OUTPLAYED NOTRE DAME. THEY OUT. IT WASN'T FLUKEY, IT WASN'T, OH MY GOD, ALL THESE TURNOVERS, THEY OUTPLAYED NOTRE, DAME IN SOUTH BEND THE FIRST TIME THEY EVER WENT THERE AND KUDOS TO THEM TIP OF THE CAP. TO THEM, EVEN MARCUS FREEMAN SAID, HEY, MAYBE WE WERE BASICALLY READING THE CLIPPINGS, BUT COACHING STAFF AND PLAYERS AND THEY LET 1 SLIP AWAY. THEY WANT, LET 1 SLIP AWAY THAT THEY COULDN'T. YEAH, BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS IT'S A 12 TEAM PLAYOFF AND YOU KNOW YOUR YOUR TOUGHEST GAME. I ALWAYS SAY, OH, THEIR TOUGHEST GAME IS USC, BUT THEN TELL THAT TO NOTRE DAME FACING NORTHERN ILLINOIS, LIKE, HEY WEEK IN AND WEEK OUT UH, YOU KNOW, YOU JUST CAN'T SLIP UP AND THEY THEY DO THIS EVERY YEAR. IT FEELS LIKE THERE'S THAT 1 SLIP UP GAME. WHERE YOU GO? WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? THE PROBLEM WITH THEY THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO ABSORB ANOTHER LOSS AND POSSIBLY MAKE THE 12, BUT I, I, I THINK WE'LL ONLY HAVE 2 LOSSES UP TO 12 MAYBE A THIRD DEPENDING ON THE LOSSES. AND IF NOTRE DAME IF NOTRE DAME WINS OUT, THEY'LL PRO THEY'LL MOST LIKELY BE IN IF THEY WERE TO LOSE ANOTHER 1 YOU PUT THAT NORTHERN ILLINOIS, LOSS UP AGAINST SOMEBODY ELSE WITH 2 LOSSES AND IT'S PROBABLY NOT GOING TO BE AS BAD A LOSS AS NOTRE DAME WAS TO NORTHERN ILLINOIS. SO THAT THAT COULD, THAT COULD HAVE THEM WITH 2 LOSSES ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN, POSSIBLY TALKING TO MIKE GOLIC. UH, HE IS THE CO-HOST OF GOJO, GOLIC ON DRAFTKINGS NETWORK, AND YOU CAN SEE IT FROM 8 A.M. TO 10:00 A.M. UM, DO PLAYERS CARE ABOUT THE UNIFORM WHEN THEY DO LIKE THE GIANTS UNIFORMS OR THE STEELERS THROWBACKS OF THE PACKERS THROW LIKE THE PLAYERS CARE WHEN THEY'RE PUTTING THESE THINGS ON. I THINK MOST DON'T. I KNOW I NEVER DID. UM, I THINK WE ARE IN AN ERA OF MORE STYLE WHERE WHERE PLAYERS HAVE STYLISTS TO MATCH THEIR CLOTHES TO GO INTO WALK INTO THE, UH, GAME, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THEY'RE ON CAMERA. SO I DO THINK PLAYERS ARE MORE AWARE OF STYLE THAN THEY WERE, UH, YEARS AGO. BUT I THINK FOR THE MOST PART, I ONCE THE GAME STARTS, THEY DON'T CARE. EVERY LINEMEN ARE JUST TRYING YOU KNOW, RECEIVERS ARE JUST TRYING TO CATCH, BALLS, DBS ARE TRYING TO STOP THAT. SO I, I THINK ONCE THE GAME STARTS KNOW THEY DON'T FOR THE MOST PART, THEY DON'T HOW CLOSELY ARE YOU DESHAWN WATSON SITUATION THAT IT'S NOT ABOUT FIELD. NOW, YOU HAVE THIS CIVIL LAWSUIT THAT'S BEEN REFILED AND COULD THE CLEVELAND BROWNS, GET OUT FROM UNDERNEATH THIS CONTRACT, AND ACTUALLY, DAN, EVERYTHING IS ABOUT PLAY ON THE FIELD, RIGHT? WHEN HE SIGNED WITH CLEVELAND IT WAS BECAUSE HE HAD A GREAT YEAR IN HOUSTON AND THEN SAT FOR GAMES BECAUSE HE WANTED TO BE TRADED AND AND HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST THEM, THEY WERE ALL CIVIL. AND HE AND HE HE, UH, SETTLED WITH, I THINK 23 OF THE 24 OR 22 OF THE 23 AND THE BROWNS, AND HASLAM SIGNED HIM BECAUSE HE PLAYED GREAT IN HOUSTON. THAT'S WHY THEY SIGNED HIM AND GAVE HIM THAT, THAT, THEN EVERYBODY THOUGHT A RIDICULOUS, UH, CONTRACT THAT WAS JUST JUST RECENTLY BEATEN BY DAK PRESCOTT AND NOW THE BROWNS, THEY WILL LOOK TO TRY AND GET OUT OF THIS CONTRACT. BECAUSE AGAIN, OF HIS QUARTERBACK, PLAY IT BEING BAD, THIS TIME THAT THEY'LL LOOK FOR A CLAUSE OR A, WELL, THEY HAVE THE CLAUSE OR FOR A REASON TO GET OUT OF THIS DEAL. NOW, SO WHILE IT'S HORRENDOUS OF WHAT WENT ON OFF THE FIELD OF WHAT HE WAS SUSPENDED AT 11 GAMES, FIND 5 MILLION DOLLARS AND AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT WHAT HE WENT THROUGH. BUT IT'S ON THE FIELD DAN THAT CONTROLLED ALL OF THIS AND FANS HATED IT FANS HATED THE FACT THAT THE BROWN SIGNED HIM, BUT THEN AFTER A WHILE, YOU'RE JUST GOING TO ROOT FOR YOUR COLORS, YOU'RE GOING TO ROOT FOR YOUR JERSEY AND TRY AND ROOT FOR A WIN. BUT NOW THAT HE'S PLAYING BAD. IT'S LIKE HEY, CAN WE GET RID OF THEM FAST ENOUGH? WHICH NFL FAN BASE SHOULD FEEL THE WORST TODAY? UM, PROBABLY CINCINNATI THOUGH THOUGH. ZACK TAYLOR IN WEEKS 1 AND 2, IN HIS TIME IN HOUSTON IS 1 IN 10. SO, THAT'S A PROBLEM. THAT'S A PROBLEM WITH FOR THE PLAYER STANDPOINT OF EXECUTING ON THE FIELD AND THE COACHES STANDPOINT OF NOT HAVING THEM READY BUT NOW NEW ENGLAND, WE KNOW EVEN WITH BILL BELLICH AND GERARD MAYO WHO WAS A LINEBACKER COACH UNDER BILL, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE A TOUGH DEFENSE, BUT FOR THEIR OFFENSE AND I KNOW THEY DIDN'T HAVE T HIGGINS AND I DON'T THINK THEY TRIED TO RUN THE BALL ENOUGH AND WHAT WAS A 1 SCORE GAME GOING INTO THE FOURTH QUARTER? BUT THEY THEY HAVE PERENNIALLY BEEN BAD, THE FIRST 2 GAMES BUT TO ME THAT THERE, THERE THERE WAS NO EXCUSE TO TO PUT UP THE THE SMALL AMOUNT OF POINTS THAT THEY DID. AND SO FORMER PLAYER, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING HURT AND BEING INJURED IS WHAT TO GRAY AREA MAN TO GRAY AREA. IT WAS A GRAY AREA TO ME UM, BECAUSE I WAS A 10TH ROUNDER WHO STARTED MAYBE HALF MY CAREER AND FELT IF I LEFT THE FIELD, FIELD. SO PLAYERS ARE IN DIFFERENT POSITIONS. FOR THE MOST PART PLAYERS ARE TOUGH AND WILL WANT TO WORK THROUGH. NOW, WHAT HAS HELPED IS, I WAS PRETTY MUCH GET THE 1 TO MAKE THE DECISION ON WHETHER I WANTED TO PLAY. WHETHER I WANTED TO TAKE THE NEEDLE, TAKE THE PILL OF WHICH I DID MANY MANY TIMES TO PLAY. NOW, YOU KNOW, YOU HEAR COACHES. SAY IT'S THE DOCTOR'S DECISION. IF THE DOCTOR SAYS NO, THEN IT'S KNOW. WE COULD TALK OUR TO LETTING US PLAY AS LONG AS IT WASN'T TOO DETRIMENTAL, UH, OR OR, YOU KNOW, BLOWN ACL OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT WE COULD TALK THE DOCTORS INTO A SHOT OR, OR LETTING US PLAY. NOW, YOU CAN'T NOW IT'S A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT TO DO THAT AND YOU'LL KIND OF HAVE YOUR HELMET TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU, WHICH WHICH, THING. WHAT IS THAT LIKE, HOW LONG SHOT? TO THEN YOU FEEL FEEL ANYTHING. OH, I MEAN THERE WAS A A YEAR MY MY YEAR IN MIAMI I GOT THE CARTILAGE TORN IN MY RIBS BETWEEN BETWEEN MY RIBS. IN THE IN GAME 1, I GOT SHOT UP, UM, BEFORE THE GAME AND AT HALFTIME, UH, FOR MOST OF THE SEASON AND IT, IT FEEL, I MEAN, LISTEN, YOU COULD HAVE HIT ME WITH A BASEBALL BAT AND I WASN'T GOING TO FEEL A THING. AND I I'VE HAD THAT SHOT UP. MY SHOULDER SHOT UP, MY HEEL SHOT UP. I MEAN, I'VE HAD A LOT OF THINGS. UH, AND I'M NOT SAYING THIS TO SAY, I WAS AS TOUGH GUY. I'M SAYING THIS AS THIS IS WHAT WAS DONE WHEN I PLAYED, I MEAN, THERE WAS A NEEDLE GOING INTO SOMEBODY ALL THE TIME AND PEOPLE CAN THINK ABOUT WHAT THEY WANT TO THINK ABOUT. IF THEY SAID, WELL, DIDN'T YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU WERE GOING TO BE? LIKE AT 50? I SAID I THOUGHT ABOUT PLAYING ON THAT SUNDAY AND THAT WAS IT AGAIN. PLAYERS ARE SMARTER TODAY AND TAKE CARE OF THEIR BODIES BETTER TODAY. DON'T GET ME WRONG, IT THE SHOCK, THE WORK, THEY NUMB, THE PAIN, BUT MAN WHEN WHEN IT WORE OFF, WHETHER IT WAS ON THE PLANE RIDE HOME OR IN A HOME GAME, WHEN IT WENT HOME AND WENT TO BED. YOU YOU DEFINITELY FELT IT THAT'S WHEN THE PAIN PILLS KICKED IN AND THAT'S WHEN, YOU KNOW IT COULD LEAD TO OPIOID OPIOID PROBLEMS. UH FOR PLAYERS. IT UH, IT WASN'T PRETTY DAN. IT WASN'T A PRETTY WAY, UH, TO GO ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS. QUARTERBACK PLAY IN WEEK 1, WE'RE SEEING TOUCHDOWN PASSES DOWN CONSIDERABLY. WELL, I THINK DEFENSES ARE AHEAD OF OFFENSES. YOU'RE NOT PLAYING YOUR STARTERS IN PRESEASON GAMES AS MUCH THOUGH. I GET IT TO A POINT BECAUSE PRACTICING WITH A TEAM FOR THE COUPLE OF DAYS BEFORE YOU PLAY HIM IN PRESEASON AND I THINK IS ACTUALLY MORE IMPORTANT. UH, BUT STILL IT'S NOT COMPLETELY FULL GO. IT'S NOT USUALLY, IT'S NOT TACKLING INTO THE GROUND. YOU CERTAINLY CAN'T HIT THE QUARTERBACK WHEN YOU'RE PRACTICING WITH ANOTHER TEAM AND IN PRESEASON STARTERS DON'T PLAY A LOT C CINCINNATI AND WHY THEY SLOW START 1 AND 10 IN UNDER ZACK, TAYLOR IN THE FIRST 2 WEEKS AND DEFENSES ARE NORMALLY AHEAD OF OFFENSES. UH, SO I THINK THAT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH IT. I THINK WE'LL EVENTUALLY GO TO AN 18 GAME SCHEDULE. WE'LL PROBABLY GO DOWN TO 2 PRES IN GAMES, SO YOU'LL GET EVEN LESS WORK BY THE STARTERS AND THE OFFENSE. REALLY NEEDS TO BE IN A TIMING RHYTHM DEFENSE NEEDS TO AS WELL. BUT THE OFFENSE WITH ALL THE THE THE DIFFERENT PARTS NEEDS TO BE IN SYNC. I THINK MORE THAN THE DEFENSE, NOT GETTING THE REPS IN PRESEASON THAT THEY NORMALLY HAD GOTTEN YEARS AGO. THE COMMISSIONERS TALKED ABOUT THE NUMBER OF INTERNATIONAL GAMES. AND I WAS TOLD BY SOURCE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO SELL THAT PACKAGE, THE INTERNATIONAL GAMES ARE PROBABLY GOING TO BE SOLD SEPARATELY. THE QUESTION IS, HOW MANY COUNTRIES DO YOU THINK THE NFL IS GOING TO TRY TO PLAY GAMES IN IN THE NEAR FUTURE AS MANY DAN, AS MANY AS THEY CAN? I MEAN, THEY ARE TRYING SO HARD TO GLOBALIZE THE GAME. I DON'T BELIEVE WE WILL EVER HAVE A TEAM OVERSEAS, LIKE JACKSONVILLE IN LONDON OR LET ALONE A DIVISION OVERSEAS. I DON'T THINK THAT WILL EVER EVER HAPPEN, UM, BUT I THINK AND AND IT, THIS ISN'T LIKE BASEBALL AND HOCKEY WHEN YOU AND AND EVEN FOOTBALL WHERE YOU HAVE A LOT OF OVERSEAS PLAYERS PLAYING IN OUR SPORT, YOU DON'T HAVE A LOT OF THAT IN THE NFL. SO THE ONLY WAY THE NFL GETS GLOBAL, THE GLOBALIZATION OF IT IS TO GO PLAY ON THEIR TURF ON IN THEIR TERRITORY. SO THEY'LL TRY AND PLAY EVERYWHERE AND THEY, YOU GOT TO BE CAREFUL. I MEAN, 10 HOUR FLIGHTS, YOU'RE TALKING GRAB, THE GRASS IS HORRIBLE, BUT THE PLAYERS ARE HIGHLY PAID. UH, PLAYERS DON'T GET ME WRONG BUT THEY'RE STILL NOT THE OWNERS, WHO ARE GRABBING THIS MONEY FROM FROM GAMES OVERSEAS OR OR OUT OF THE COUNTRY AND KIND OF CONDITIONS BE DAMNED SITUATION. BUT CAN WE GIVE THE FAN TOO MUCH FOOTBALL? WE WE CAN'T GIVE THE THE INTERNATIONAL FAN TOO MUCH FOOTBALL BECAUSE THEY DON'T SEE IT THAT MUCH, BUT OBVIOUSLY US IN THE UNITED STATES, CAN WE, CAN WE GIVE YOU TOO MUCH? CAN WE BE GLUTTONOUS THAT EVENTUALLY YOU SAY ENOUGH I'M BACKING AWAY FROM THE BUFFET? NO, NO, I DON'T THINK SO. THE ONLY DAY THERE HASN'T BEEN AN ACTUAL SCHEDULED GAME AFTER CHRISTMAS AND WEDNESDAY, THIS YEAR IS A TUESDAY, THERE'S BEEN A GAME ON TUESDAY BECAUSE OF A, OF A, OF A WEATHER, CAUSING A GAME TO, YOU KNOW, BE BE POSTPONED A COUPLE DAYS TUESDAY IS GOING TO BE THE ONLY DAY AN NFL GAME HASN'T BEEN SCHEDULED. YOU CANNOT HAVE ENOUGH. I MEAN, IT IS, IT IS BY FAR AND AWAY THE MOST POPULAR SPORT. I REMEMBER THERE WERE NBA ANALYSTS SAYING, OH, THE FOOTBALL PLAYING ON CHRISTMAS ISN'T GOING TO AFFECT THE NBA IS STILL KING ON ON CHRISTMAS. IT'S A JOKE. I MEAN, IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE AND IT RULES THE ROOTS AND I THINK COLLEGE FOOTBALL, QUITE HONESTLY IS SECOND, BUT NOTHING WILL AFFECT UH, PEOPLE WANTING TO WATCH THE NFL OR BIG REASON YOU CAN GAMBLE ON IT. DO YOU REMEMBER A CERTAIN TIME 1 TIME WHEN AN OFFENSIVE LINEMAN PANCAKE. YOU LIKE IT WOULD IT STOOD OUT OUT OF ALL THE OFFENSIVE LINEMEN THAT YOU TOOK ON DAMN, THAT WAS DIFFERENT. WELL, THERE WERE SO MANY TIMES, YEAH. 1 TIME. UM, I PLAYED AGAINST UH THE THE LATE GREAT BILL, FREILICH WHO I ACTUALLY PLAYED AGAINST FOR YEARS WHEN HE WAS AT PITT AND I WAS AT NOTRE DAME. AND THEN WE PLAYED AGAINST EACH OTHER IN THE NFL MAN. HE HE PANCAKE ME 1. I ACTUALLY HURT MY KNEE, ON THE PLAY AND WENT ON IR FOR 4 WEEKS. HE JUST FOLDED ME BACKWARDS AND I KIND OF BENT BACK AS I WAS TRYING TO FIGHT IT ON MY KNEE UH THAT THAT BECAUSE I WAS INJURED WAS PROBABLY THE 1 THAT I'LL REMEMBER THE MOST BUT I'M NOT GOING TO LIE. IT HAPPENED A COUPLE OF TIMES. PICK? MY SUPER BOWL PICKED THIS YEAR IS UH DETROIT. DETROIT OVER KANSAS CITY, OKAY? I TOOK THE JETS OKAY, YEAH. I, I THOUGHT THAT ROBERT SALAH EITHER GETS FIRED AFTER WEEK 12 YEAR. I'M I I THINK THE DEFENSE IS REALLY GOOD. I THINK, ROGERS WILL EASE INTO THINGS. THEY GOT SOME PLAYMAKERS THERE AND I THOUGHT AND AND MAYBE IT'S TRYING TO GET, YOU KNOW, CLICKBAIT I COULD HAVE TAKEN KANSAS CITY, I TOOK DETROIT AS WELL. YOU KNOW, BECAUSE KANSAS CITY IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU AND SOMETIMES WHAT'S IN FRONT OF YOU, WE DON'T WANT TO TAKE THAT BECAUSE, RIGHT? YOU SAY I'M TAKING KANSAS CITY TO WIN IT ALL EXACTLY, RIGHT? BUT UH, I WENT KICKING AND SCREAMING. I WANTED TO CHANGE MY MY PICK TO THE TO CHIEFS, WHEN I'M LIKE, NOPE. I'LL STICK WITH THE JETS. I'M GONNA HAVE CONFIDENCE IN A A ROGERS. WELL, I THINK AARON AARON, AND I THINK THE RUS WILL KICK OFF A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE WE'RE USED TO SEEING AARON WAS KIND OF PAT MAHOMES. BEFORE PAT MAHOMES, MAYBE PAT MAHOMES IS A LITTLE MORE MAGICIAN LIKE BUT AARON ON THE RUN ROLLING, RIGHT ROLLING LEFT THROWING TO DROP AND DIMES WAS INCREDIBLE IN THIS FIRST GAME. HE DIDN'T DO THAT MUCH. HE JUST GOT RID OF THE BALL, YOU KNOW? HE WAS ALMOST TRULY LIKE A POCKET QUARTERBACK WHEN HE CAN BE PRETTY DANGEROUS OUT. OUTSIDE THE POCKET AND I THINK HE'LL GET TO THAT. AND I AGREE IF THEY'RE GOING TO GO SOMEWHERE, THEY'RE GOING TO BE LED BY THEIR DEFENSE. THAT'S WHY IT WAS A LITTLE DISHEARTENING TO GET RUN ON THE WAY THAT DEFENSE GOT RUN ON BECAUSE THEY'RE BREAKING IN A NEW O LINEMAN AND THEY REALLY YOU GOT GARRETT WILSON AND BREE HALL AS YOUR 2 MAIN WEAPONS, BUT I GET YOU WANTING TO GO OUT ON A LIMB, UH, BECAUSE OUR MUTUAL FRIENDS, STILL GOT TO PICK THE JETS AND CHICAGO IN THE SUPER BOWL. SO HE REALLY REALLY WENT OUT ON A LIMB. GREAT TO TALK TO JIM MY BEST OF THE FAMILY. THANKS FOR JOINING US. YOU GOT IT DAN? THAT'S MIKE GOLIC CO-HOST OF GOJO AND GOLIC ON DRAFTKINGS. NETWORK 8 A.M. TO 10 A.M. AND UH, YEAH