COLTS GIVE UP - IU SURVIVES

Colts give up in Jacksonville, IU survives as Becker shines: Welcome in, folks, for another edition of Who's Your Beefs? This is the general Jason Farling coming to you solo as Slick has taken a trip to Las Vegas to see his Boilers play the Gonzaga Bulldogs tomorrow night. Should be one heck of a ball game for him to witness. Has to be a whole hell of a lot better than our Colts were today. The Indianapolis Colts, ladies and gentlemen, fall to the Jacksonville Jaguars, 42 to 7 today. Just an absolutely pitiful performance. One I don't really even want to talk about, anyways, for the most part. But hey, on a bright side, as you can see, here, here, here, who's yours? Staring defeat and death in the eyes once again yesterday and coming out victorious. So Let's let's dive into the the IU Minnesota game yesterday. What an absolute barn burner this was. Not pretty whatsoever. Again, once again on the offensive side for the Indiana Hoosiers. Kurt Signetti, after Josh Hoover took a hit right before halftime, he decided that he was going to turn to the senior transfer from Old Dominion, Grant. Wilson. Yes, Grant Wilson. For those of you who didn't watch yesterday, saw action in the second half for IU and overtime. But more on that in a minute. Yeah, this was another sluggish start for IU. The offense wasn't clicking. Running game wasn't getting going again. And yeah, basically everything was jump started with the turnover, sack strip fumble of the Minnesota quarterback. Deep in Minnesota territory and then capped off by a run pass option, Josh Hoover to Nick Marsh for a touchdown. That was the that was the lone bright spot for the Josh Hoover led Hoosiers in the first half of the game. This IU defense continues week after week to basically put this team on their back and never say die. As Coach Signetti said, they got caught. One trick play in the first half. Well, halfback option back to the quarterback. Wide open touchdown. Sig said he knew it the second the place started from scrimmage and they got beat on that one. But yeah. So Josh took a hit near the end of the first half after he threw the interception. Took a hit, was shoved to the ground. And it looked like his left shoulder this time. Two weeks ago against Ohio State, it was his right arm that he was feeling for. And this time it looked like it was his left shoulder. Either way, the guy still wasn't right. Something's going on with him, whether it's physically, mentally, combination of both. It was time to make a change. And you could just see the wheels turning in Signetti's head as we got near halftime. And They asked him coming out of half what was gonna happen. He said, You'll see on the field. And so lo and behold, IU had the first possession of the second half. In comes Grant Wilson. Yeah. Wilson has great speed. McKid also showed off a an excellent arm as well. She hit the throws that he needed to hit, found Becker a decent amount of times, found Marsh a couple times. Yeah, overall, Grant Wilson in his ballgame, nine for 17 with 156 yards and a big touchdown pass in overtime to give IU the lead for good. He had 26 rushing yards as well, had a nice little play down inside their own 20 yard line where he pulled it from the running back, took off around the ran for a first down, nice little play. Hoover can run, as you've seen him elude, pass rushers and and be able to get yardage, but Grant Wilson, he's got another gear when he's running the ball. This gotta give credit to this Minnesota defense. They were stout up front. They were putting pressure on Hoover, putting pressure on Wilson as well. Some more penalties for this offensive line, several false starts, several holding penalties. Just very not like this offensive line. They seemed to get it going a little bit late on in the game, fourth quarter, started getting some push. Turbo Richard, he got an injury as well. Believe it's a shoulder injury, didn't return to the game. So became a two headed monster, a lead B B and the return of Kobe Martin out of Fishers, Indiana. It was great to see Kobe back in the game. Couple nice runs there for the Hoosiers in the second half of the game. Nothing major, but it's good to see him back in there. He's definitely got some explosiveness to him. But yeah, Lee BB, couple nice runs as well, was trucking some guys and just he just refuses to be taken down. There was a play where it looked like he was going to be stopped for a loss in the backfield. Dude gets out of a sure tackle. And then trucks another guy. I think he ended up gaining, I don't know, fourteen, fifteen yards on the play. Just a never say die attitude from this entire team. That's just basically what Signetti keeps talking about. But yeah, so there was a major situation late in the game for those of you that did watch. Basically a tie ball game, thirteen to thirteen. There's about a minute and two seconds left. After an incomplete pass from Minnesota, or maybe it was a short run from Minnesota. Signetti standing there has two timeouts. And so the ball's on the 42-yard line of Indiana. So to chalk that up pretty easily, you add to for a field goal, you add 10 for the end zone, and you always add eight for the snap back to the holder. So 42 plus 18, you get your 60. So it's going to be a 60-yard attempt. For the Minnesota field goal kicker. And he walked off Iowa last week, a lot shorter attempt, but this kid has ice in his veins. And I thought no way he was going to make that kick. And he sure as heck did. So the problem for Indiana was Signetti chose not to call a timeout as he thought the kid would probably miss the field goal attempt. So then IU would have taken the ball over right at midfield on the 50 and still had two timeouts with 19 seconds left. Turns out Kid makes the kick, puts Minnesota up 1613. All of a sudden, Minnesota's kicking off to IU, and IU only has 19 seconds. Major problem. But as we said, never say to I attitude. Wilson comes out, hits Charlie Becker. On a back shoulder, 33-yard catch. It looked like Becker got out of bounds on the play. Signetti and the coaching staff all thought that he got out of bounds. Me personally, his knee hit inbounds and then he rolled out of bounds. But I always thought under two minutes in college and the NFL, the clock stops to move the chains in college on a first down. And then If it's in the field to play, they'll wind the clock. However, Becker's momentum carried him out of bounds. So I thought that the clock would stop. And I think that's what Sig and the coaching staff thought as well. So he decided not to call a timeout. All of a sudden, clock's running. Wilson throws a pass to the left side to Nick Marsh. Incomplete. Just so happens IU is on the 42-yard line of Minnesota with. Two seconds left in the game. On comes Patty the Batty McAteer from 60 yards to force overtime. And even Patty in his postgame, he said that in practice, the longest he can remember hitting was a a 58 yarder. He doesn't they it's he's a forbidden area that they don't really go to, but kid stepped up. Looked like a knuckle ball, but went right through the uprights and got Indiana to overtime first play of overtime. Grant Wilson hooks up with Charlie Becker, 25 yard touchdown. And then once again, can't say enough about this Indiana defense. Stops Minnesota on a Toby Asansumi sack on fourth down to end the ball game. IU wins twenty-three to sixteen. Keeping their hopes alive. Still one loss on the season, the four-inch loss to Ohio State. Ohio State lost last night at USC with their backup quarterback. So IU and Ohio State are now tied for second. If the season ended today, Ohio State would go based on beating IU in the head to head. They would play UCLA currently in the Big Ten championship game. But still a lot of games left. IU finally has a bye week. Nine straight games to start the season. They got a bye week, two weeks. They play USC in Bloomington. Going to be a massive game once again for the Hoosiers. It's going to be who knows whether Sig's going to go with Hoover at quarterback, whether he's going to go with Wilson at quarterback. I guess we'll find out. Time will tell. Personally, I think you got to give Wilson the nod. Kid came in and showed enormous poise. He's been waiting his turn and he finally got it done. He's got he can make all the throws. He's faster. I think you got to go with Wilson. Hoover has just not been healthy. So, anyway, the polls came out. IU, I believe, came in at third in the coaches poll and then sixth in the AP poll. We know all those SEC homers. Don't like Indiana winning close games, but win's a win, right? We move on to the next. As for the Boilers, they were not so lucky as IU was. They fall 31 to 17 in Happy Valley to the Penn State Nittany Lions. This was an ugly looking game for the Boilermakers. They were out gained four hundred and fifty seven yards to one hundred and seventy five yards in that ball game. Ryan Brown with two interceptions on the day. Purdue couldn't get anything going. 33 yards rushing in the entire ballgame. Just not going to cut it. Penn State ran the ball all over Purdue. Just ran it at will. Wallace from Penn State, 135 yards and a touchdown. And then Hansen from Penn State, 96 yards and a touchdown. Also Rocco Becht, the Penn State quarterback. He threw for 175 yards and a T D, and he also ran for 27 in a in another T D as well. Purdue will face Maryland up at Rosade next week. Would imagine Purdue will be favored in that ball game. Maryland is not a good team at all. And we've seen this Purdue team be up and down, roller coaster. Now the Boyler's on a two game losing streak after their big win over Minnesota. See if they can bounce back at home at Rossey next weekend against the Maryland Terrapins going in there. We will mention the other team up north, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, with a 35-13 win over Navy. Navy kept it close in the first half, I gotta tell you, with the old triple option. The old midshipman came up short and sets Notre Dame up for their Big matchup next Saturday night. Miami, the hurricanes of Miami going to South Bend to take on the Golden Domers of Notre Dame. That game, ESPN College Game Day will be in South Bend for that game. Big one there. You got number one, Miami versus, I believe, number four or five for Notre Dame. So gonna be a big one. Miami staved off. stayed unbeaten last night. Another close victory for them. Let's just call it like it is. There hasn't been an extremely dominant team in college football this year. You've only got three teams that are undefeated Miami, Utah, and BYU. No, sorry, BYU is beaten. Miami, Utah, and UCLA. UCLA and Utah did overtake Indiana in the polls this week. And I'm actually okay with that. You're undefeated. All your undefeated deserve to be in the top three. You got six undefeated, they should be top six. And that's just what I'm going to stick by. Utah does have to play BYU. That is going to be an extremely tough game for them. They went into Cincinnati and absolutely pounded the Bearcats who had just come off a big win over Texas Tech. But at any rate, that'll round up college for us. Let's let's go to some high school ball. We had some big games around the state of Indiana. We had 5A and 6A action. They always take the first week of sectionals off, as they have half of the teams that are in A class A through four A. But yeah, as of we've been talking about number one Brownsburg again imposes their will. They go into Zionsville and win forty eight to ten. Over Zionsville, who was seven and two on the year. This Brownsburg team just seems inevitable. They will face Ben Davis next Friday. I believe that game will be at Brownsburg. So good luck to the Giants of Ben Davis going out there to Brownsburg. Now Ben Davis is a always a never say die team, but Brownsburg has just imposed their will on in everybody, anybody and everybody this season. And I don't expect it to be any different next Friday. Hey, as I've been telling you all season, everybody that's been listening, Carmel Greyhound football in the Indiana State Tournament. Those guys just they find an extra gear. I don't know what it is, what they put in their water, drinks, food, whatever it might be, but those hounds from Carmel, they got it. What a barn burner they had at Westfield. Hounds go in there and win a 48 to 45 thriller over the Shamrocks of Westfield. This was an absolutely defense optional game. Just a crazy game. So Carmel wins that game 48 to 45. They will take on my adopted Hamilton Southeastern Royals, who knocked off the 0-10 Fishers Tigers, 23 to 14. Pretty ugly game there, but HSC gets it done again. Sweeps Fishers on the season. And HSE will travel to Carmel next Friday. So good luck to the Royals in that one. Number two, Warren beat Perry Meridian 47 10. And want to give a special shout out to Jack and Deb, Farling, and Moorcroft's. Bluffton Tigers. They beat the Norwell Knights for the first time in 40 years. 40 years, 1986. And this past Friday was the first time those two teams, big rivals in Wells County, Northern Indiana, had faced off in 20 years. Bluffton went in there and beat them 54 to 14. Unbelievable game from the Bluffton running back, Cooper Craig. Two hundred and twenty-seven yards, I believe four touchdowns. And then their quarterback, he had come back from an injury and he was unbelievable as well. So Bluffton will now face heritage next Friday for their first sectional championship in many years. So in that drought. So yeah, we got some exciting high school football next Friday. We'll mention the Pacers in here. If you haven't heard Tyrese Halliburton. Diagnosed with a mild or even more severe than that, hamstring strain. They said he'd be reevaluated after two weeks. So that tells me it's pretty significant. But since we last spoke, the Pacers are one and three with the only win coming last Sunday night at the Brooklyn Nets. They're currently playing right now. The pay this Pacers team. They've just been shorthanded. They are currently losing 24 to 21 in the second quarter. And Andrew Nimhard's been playing really well for the Pacers. Guy's been leading this offense. He has had almost double digit assists in the last three games. Bumped in 18 and 14, 22 and nine. And looks like he's off to a a decent start again tonight as well. So gotta give Nim Hart a big shout out. Pascal Siakam has been trying to keep it going for the Pacers. Didn't have a very good game the other night. The Pacers gave up 145 points in Miami, lost one forty five to one twenty five. So let's hope the blue and gold can pull through tonight. Their record currently sits at two and four. So need to get it back to around 500. Try to stay around that 500. For those of you who don't know what 500 is, means evens, wins and losses, even them up. Stay around 500 until we get Hal Burton back. And now on to the the team that we all don't want to talk about, or maybe some of you do want to talk about, and this dumpster fire of the Indianapolis Colts. So the Colts fall 42 to seven at the hands of the Jacksonville Jaguars today. That I believed the Colts have now not won there in 4,424 days. That's in Jacksonville. What an absolute travesty that is. You can't go and beat one of your rivals. It just makes no sense. Obviously, we got rid of Chris Ballard. But after this performance, I will not be one bit surprised if Shane Steichen is handed his walking papers tomorrow. Daniel Jones was absolutely horrendous yet again in this ball game today. Let's get his final stats for you. 19 for 28, 144 yards, a touchdown, and two interceptions. Just some absolutely brutal throws. So Shane. Coach Steichen decides he's finally gonna turn to Anthony Richardson when it's so bleak, and the Colts are down 35 points. So Richardson came in. He did complete both of his passes for eight yards. He had two carries for four yards. But in my opinion, you got to stick with the guy. You're two and six. This season's gone. You can see Jonathan Taylor talking to Seth McGowan on the sidelines near the end of the game. And I think the writings on the wall for this one. Obviously, the Colts are not just going to give him away. It's clear that the Colts want a big return for JT, which is definitely warranted, as he's the heart and soul of this team if they have one. But the dude truly does care. And even when asked if he want to be part of a rebuild, he said, What rebuild? the Colts aren't gonna rebuild, but he knows damn sure that's what's going down. But credit to JT for staying professional. Didn't have a great game today. Eight carries, twenty-three yards, four catches, twenty-four yards. But the dude always plays hard. He's always running hard. He's all about team ball. So we want JT on the team. Yeah, if this was just a a calamity of airs again from the Colts. Trevor Lawrence Carved the Colts up. 210 yards, three touchdowns by Shell Tutan, 104 yards on the ground, touchdown, and I believe he had another one. Yeah. 30 yard catch and run from Lawrence for another touchdown. It was a play where Cam Bynum had him dead to rights in the middle of the field, completely whiffs on the tackle, goes in run for a touchdown. Chris Rodriguez had a 28-yard touchdown, basically right up the middle of the field. So Golts are feeling the loss of DeForest Buckner, who we traded this past week. Also, we traded Quentin Nelson to the Seattle Seahawks. So I'm sure the vibes were not great around the team. And this is just another product of it. The icing on the cake was Daniel Jones throwing a 91 yard. Pick six. And it's like, what are you doing, man? What are you doing? You're not doing anything to earn your forty four million dollars. So I am just absolutely fed up with this team. It's one of those things where obviously as a fan I want them to win, but now losing actually helps you down the road with your second round pick that can be fall in the top five of the second round if. Or bad enough, which at two and six, I think it's pretty bleak. I think at the beginning of the season we were talking eight and nine, maybe nine and eight. Now it's hard to see this Colts team winning any more than four or five games. Who knows what they're gonna do with the coaching? As I keep saying, week after week, fire stykan, name Reggie Wayne the interim head coach. If there's anything that will get this team fired up, it'd be. 87 Reggie Wayne at the helm of the the horseshoe. I'm not saying it's gonna fix things, but maybe it'll get some of the guys excited. I don't know. Just trying to throw options out there. Hey, I know they did a thing with Jeff Saturday a few years ago. He won his first game and then the Colts. But get this. Since the Colts started seven and one last season in 2025, they are now three and thirteen. Since game nine of the 2025 season. Yes. Three wins, 13 losses in their last 16 ball games. And correspondingly, the Jaguars are 13 and 3 from that time frame. So 10 more wins. It just shows you the trajectories that these two franchises are on. The Jaguars have taken their team to another level. They're five and two on the season, squarely in the mix, right behind Buffalo. For the one seed in the AFC, pinning what Kansas City does this afternoon. And this Jaguars team just continues to roll. They don't have a stud at running back. They got a lot of really good wide receivers, but they don't have a stud there either. They just got a lot of really good, hard-nosed football players. And they play a good style of football. Not this sloppy BS that the Colts are putting out there every week. But any rate, the Colts. We'll host the Dallas Cowboys next Sunday. That game will be at one o'clock Eastern time. The Cowboys are coming off an absolutely abysmal loss again today to the Arizona Cardinals. They were head by a big score late in the second half. Went to overtime and lost. And I just saw a few comments from Jerry Jones before I came on. And I can see heads rolling in big D. Just like they're probably gonna roll in Indianapolis. Time will tell what Carly Ursay and the girls want to do with this Steichen led Colts team. It's hard telling. I honestly couldn't tell you where her head's at. I know she wants to win. No, they want to be competitive, but and again, they made a change at general manager with Ballard. Will kicking Steichen to the curb help? I personally don't think it does, but I just want to see the guy gone. Says the same thing, week in, week out, every press conference, every time he's interviewed, and I'm just tired of it. Guy's a good offensive coordinator. People probably disagree with me on that one. If he's just calling plays for the offense, guy's a great coach. He is not a head coach in the National Football League, whatsoever. After he gets fired from the Colts, I'd be surprised if he gets another job. I know teams Media folks out there say that he'd be highly wanted for head coaching candidacies, but I just don't see it. Still see the leadership in him and just think he needs to go back to offensive coordinator and call and plays. So any rate, we were hoping to get a special appearance from Slick. He was gonna be live at the Bellagio. He's currently sitting in the sports book watching the afternoon football. But like I said, he's gonna go check out his Boilers, play the Gonzaga Bulldogs tomorrow night. Indiana basketball will be playing host to Eastern Illinois tomorrow night. That should be an absolute barn burner. The but the Hoosiers and the Boilers both get their hoop season, get some round ball going, and we'll see how that works out. We'll touch on some college hoops next week. And I want to thank you for joining us once again. And hope everybody has a great week. And we will see you next time. Take care, everyone.