Ohio State was insufficient for Alabama's offense; Klatt talks his 14-team playoff | CFB | THE HERD

let me start with this uh is alabama the best team ever i have no idea there's a bunch of miami hurricanes had a couple teams with like 13 nfl i thought lsu last year was the deepest team i've ever seen but let me just say this i didn't love ohio state's game plan first of all defensively you know i steve sarkeesian had a nice night the announcers made it sound like he was elon musk like it wasn't that complicated he put davonte smith in motion a lot yeah the orbital motion the lincoln riley stuff i didn't love ohio state's defense yeah game plan it's interesting you know and and and i know ryan really well and um and every time so it's been twice now but when they lost uh to clemson he he talked to me at length in the off season last year about really diving deep and evaluating three areas of your team and really this is every team if you need an evaluation you need to evaluate three areas of your team if you're a head coach your players you know were your players good enough your scheme was your scheme good enough and your coaches or your coach is good enough and last year for the clemson game he kind of deemed that like no we were all fine all three of those we were fine we just didn't get the brakes and didn't win and then they focused on clemson and they went out and beat him a couple weeks ago this one is totally different because they were deficient in every single area no questions tonight to alabama and this is not a big knock i mean that this is part and partial to the fact that alabama is a great team this year and that offense is a great team the defensive game plan was was not very good i didn't like it i i thought that they needed to either put eight in coverage and like really blanket those zones in coverage or send the house so that my theory was mac jones had not been uncomfortable all year right and you probably don't match up where they're wide receivers so give mac jones he has to make quick throw and if he beats he beats you i mean you score 50 on everybody but my take away was you can't let matt jones be comfortable right and so to me i was i was with you i'm like just lay it on the line we don't match up personnel wise we can't we don't match up with our receivers at all so the more time he has the uglier it'll get and they gave him all day i think one of the things that alabama did incredibly well all year and again last night is that when you just sent one if you had like a five-man rush or even just a six-man rush and tried to play some coverage behind it they decimated that style of defense because they were too good they were just too good you had to overwhelm their protection to get a free rusher in max face immediately absolutely and disrupt the timing of the offense and they never really did that maybe one time it looked like it was kind of an auto blitz on a motion you know and he engaged into a blitz and then browning knocked the fumble loose and ohio state got the score but that was really the only time mack had any pressure and by the way that was a bootleg you know that's not really a protection he's just kind of booting out and they put a guy in his face so i thought that the scheme was was insufficient for alabama's offense last night for ohio state and then their players you know with the issues that they had with covid and with injuries they just weren't good enough last night to beat them you know um how do you evaluate mac jones he's living the opposite of the nfl reality yeah always plays with the lead yeah unbelief i'm throwing on third and one it's so interesting receivers are why i mean it's like reminded me of danny werfel although he's a much better prospect than danny werfel but danny werfel came out of college everybody's like that's unbelievable and i'm like no they're going four wide the sec hasn't caught up to it and it's receivers he's doing lollipop throws up the sideline there's nobody close how do you evaluate him well it's so interesting because you bring up warfall you know who i was having this conversation with last night on our watch party we had our big digital watch party he jumped into the fourth quarter and we had this conversation with matt liner who who lived very much this style of existence in college and and matt was very candid last night in talking about the the awakening the the eye-opening difference when he got to the league and the margin of talent was then closed right the margin of talent the mack jones had even last night in the national championship game was substantial look at this linebacker on devonta smith that's not close i feel terrible for tough borland there that was just a regular everyone's like why would you put borland and coverage on devante smith they weren't trying to it was just a zone defense he happened to be the middle linebacker and devonte smith is the inside of the three receivers having said that though you know jones was not pressured all that much so you ask how do i evaluate well that's certainly part of the evaluation you know you have to take that into consideration the marginal player that he was playing with as opposed to the opposition now having said that colin there are some things that translate for mack he plays with a great understanding of the game you can tell that he has complete control over his gameplay and he understands where the defense is you know that because his eyes are decisive his feet are decisive and he throws the football on time and on target those are things that translate right i mean he's an anticipatory thrower he throws with great touch he doesn't have the best arm in the world but he tends to put the ball in great spots and when you look at the fact that they had a yak yards after catch of second in the country over 2000 yards part of that is the timing and ball placement of the quarterback the equation for yak and this goes back to bill walsh by the way he used to draw this equation up for rice and montana and these guys he said timing plus ball placement equals yards after the catch that was their equation in the west coast offense well mac jones is responsible for two of those right and there's some spacing issues for the wide receivers but for two of those variables in the equation that's the quarterback's responsibility and mac jones is really good at those two elements all right yeah i think he's a first round i think he's a first round player all right i won't be shocked if if new england takes him no they don't have any skill players so good luck with that good luck throwing in a great window that's the size of a walnut i i i fully hear that and i think that that has to be taken people will say oh you didn't like pearl no no no i said burro was tony romo tony romo was a great player in the nfl i said he's better than romo yeah no i admit that now no he is but that was my comp my comp is a less athletic kirk cousins no the mac is tony romo burrow's better than romo i think mac jones is a tony romo he's not his athletic yeah he's just a poor man's burrow just a poor man's borough he's a homeless men's girl there's no way he's i mean joe burrow is a is a really active athlete really active athlete i understand that jones looks i didn't say he is joe burrow you're getting all been out of shape mac jones listen you joshua's my friend watch out he was on the show this week and he doesn't wear a backwards hat either all right i don't want to i don't want to attack matt jones he could be a wonderful person he'll be a first round player no i'm not doubting that he just looks a little trunky and a little inactive and not real timing plus ball placement equals yards after the catch oh yeah is the ball on time and on target all right let me move to this one okay okay um 14 of the last 15 national champions are from the south yeah okay and um the sec is dominant okay so i i just want to throw this at you i want to throw this at you the media we are governed by the fcc the governing body uh drugs food governed by the fda um wall street or 401 k governed by the sec ironically pro football a commissioner rules good teams tougher schedule bad draft picks college football unlike pro sports has no interest in making it competitive it's true and everything in america uh people are complaining now that tech doesn't have a governing ruling body and by the way some of those complaints are very realistic on facebook and nothing against them but those are real complaints that they can just say you can't be on our accounts right so i look at college football and i think it's a 10 billion dollar annual industry there's no ceo the schedules are totally i went listen to this let's say i went to this this morning this guy does his homework uh next year alabama plays something called mercer new mexico state southern miss and by the way they get buys right before auburn it's like yes come on we gotta have somebody make a schedule i uh you're preaching to the choir here um i have said several times on this show that college football behaves exactly like our country behaved after the revolutionary war and before the constitutional convention okay before we actually had a federal government right we were just 13 colonies behaving however they wanted to they would some would adhere to international law others weren't and what were they doing they were behaving in their own self-interest well we have five power five conferences that behave and act in their own self-interest and and what's hard in football as opposed to maybe even um college basketball is that the playoff is owned by the conferences so that means guess who the most powerful people in the sport are the five power five commissioners and by the way and two of them one of them the sec has the most power yes because they have the most television revenue and the most draw not not only that but greg sankey the commissioner of the sec is going to have even more power now because of the way that they were able to play through this fall yes you know larry scott and kevin warren are going to lose a lot of any equity that they had within the sport if they had much at all to begin with they're the big ten and the pac-12 and then the other guy that's going to carry a lot of weight is bob bolesby in the big 12 because of how he handled everything this fall but getting back to the point they have no incentive to change that's right now having said that the sec is starting to get so dominant that you're starting to see some of the other commissioners coalesce and start to say hey you know what this is actually not good because this is not the power five this is just like we're just continuing to prop up the essence so power one it's the power one you're exactly right with a couple of schools that can sometimes compete with that kind of in acc and clemson and ohio i love the sport but listen this is how ufc caught up to boxing dana white a centralized voice here's the problem let me break let me give you an analogy let's well let me just create a scenario okay let's let's paint a scenario okay my biggest issue with college football is the burden of proof okay you might be wondering just bear with me for a second we have two standards of burden of proof in our country criminal cases and civil cases right one is beyond a reasonable doubt and a criminal criminal case and one is the preponderance of the evidence if you don't know what that means that basically means like if there's a greater than 50 chance then you can get a ruling in a civil case yeah so those are two different burden of burdens of proof well the top of college football right now has a lower burden of proof it's like a civil case it's like the preponderance of do we really do we think alabama is one of the four best yeah probably so guess what they don't necessarily have to win their division they don't have to win every single game and they can schedule three cupcakes and we just matter and it doesn't matter now i would say in alabama's case and i've defended the sec for years on this i think there's more great high school football players and programs in the footprint of the south texas so the same people the same this southern football fan will hear us today and say why should we balance it out and i would say this our federal government every year sends kentucky nine billion dollars because the state can't live without it new york has to send the federal government 10 billion dollars because they have a surplus translation our government protects states so the southerners who go oh this is no there's no why should we be even our federal government sends states big checks if they feel they can't run sufficiently a state without federal funding point being is we have these protective mechanisms all over america that's true media law sports wall street the judicial system yes and by the way so if you're iowa state like iowa state next year is going to be really good i think that they could start in the top ten right yeah they got brock purdy back breeze hall iowa state is going to be really good the burden of proof is on them they're going to have to win every single game in order to go to the playoff right they they don't get this this benefit of the doubt it's not the preponderance of the evidence they have to be beyond a reasonable doubt one of the four best even to get in so i i think that we need to increase the pathways in college football for teams to get included in the playoffs all right let's see it okay so uh here is a 14 team playoff model and and i would just say before i get into the playoff real quick this goes along with a few assumptions colin i think that we should do away with divisions in every conference so that the top two teams would play in a conference championship game i also uh uh believe that we should tier teams for your non-conference game and schedule a power five opponent for you so the best teams get tiered together and they have to play quality opponents you don't get the schedule like you mentioned with alabama next season having said that i believe that group of five teams should get an automatic bid if they win the best group of five champion which would be cincinnati and this model 14 here's what it does it rewards the best two teams in the country with a buy i i totally agree with this it also eliminates bama against a 14 seed that's exactly right and so you avoid a massive blowout you reward the best two teams and you make their conference championship games meaningful for them because they still have to win in order to get a box like you're stretching out the meaning of some of those games down the stretch then you've got these other six games out there you're gonna play it on campus which i think would be amazing you play on campus now for this argument i took the the six champions five power five champions best group of five champions and i actually seated them one through six based on and here's another change call now do away with the committee go back to the bcs style of ranking teams where you have more inputs a a larger equation that i think would be less bias inherent uh and so this is what it would look like okay first two rounds on campus okay um some of it i like a lot who's that 12 seed uh let's see it's uh that's coastal based on the bcs they would be in based on those standings liberty based on those standings they would be in well then let's blow this algorithm coastal carolina can't make it we can talk about and that's but that's part of the we can talk and debate about what style of ranking system would be better i think that we should incorporate some computers and then have a couple of committees for human polls right so i wouldn't leave it to the ap in the coaches poll i mean dabble had ohio state 11th for for goodness sake so we can talk about how we rank teams but this is just an example of what you could get you would have six games on the opening week of the playoffs they would be on campus the second round would be back on campus higher seed host and i think that we would have more interest in college football north carolina would be in florida would be in all these a m would be in i don't mind having cincinnati sneaking in there like indiana's in there that'd be fun against texas a m i'm i'm for all this stuff here right except for coastal why don't you kid listen well that's just part of the equation we can talk we can debate about this this is the big one you can't throw a 72 mile an hour fastball pass greg maddox begs to differ i rake that thing right in the right field i i i got the other when i by the way in an inner squad greg man i actually hit off of greg maddox one time so i was a minor league baseball player in like a former life he that day he was sick he had influenza he was very tired no i didn't get a hit that's what i'm trying to tell you his fastball broke a foot it looked like a slider and it was like that was kind of slow and it slid like i was like was that a fastball he was like yeah it was a fastball i was like well i can't hit that in indy then you went into uh the glamorous job of local radio before you became an icon you were weren't you big in colorado springs clatt and jenkins in the morning on 92.4 you know uh one of my shows was with charles johnson who was the backup quarterback for colorado who came in for darion hagan when they won the orange bowl to win the national championships cj and klatt talked a lot of buffs very big in boulder i bet you cj i love you brother in the mornings uh no it wasn't it was just sound effective you were so far down the am dial you were right next to the glove compartment i could have just pushed your show into the glove compartment real quick do you know what i did one day i prank called the governor of nebraska oh that's a good call i didn't realize that you couldn't put somebody on without letting them know they were on the radio so you got fired from that lame job i did well that's quite a it's worked out well for you you know it worked out hi everybody thanks for watching subscribe here to get the latest from the show also be sure to check out more of the best clips from the herd or go watch a few segments from other shows on fs1

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Published: Tue Jan 12 2021