Adapt and Respond with RJ Young: A College Football Podcast

In Saturday's edition of Adapt & Respond, RJ asks with seven home games and perhaps just one ranked opponent on the schedule before November, Matt Rhule, Dylan Raiola and the Nebraska Cornhuskers have a chance to win nine games and SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and his SEC spring meetings dominated news this week with field rush fine and news about the 16-team playoff format that most agree is best.

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--RJ gives his strong opinions on the biggest topics in college football, sports and entertainment every week.

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--RJ also performs daily segments taking on the biggest breaking news stories in college football and the NFL.

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In Friday's edition of Adapt & Respond, RJ discusses what Justin Fields has to do be great for New York Jets and what Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte had to say about his Longhorns football program's NIL roster pay out and moving their game time with Ohio State.

--This is the official YouTube channel for everything Adapt & Respond.

--RJ gives his strong opinions on the biggest topics in college football, sports and entertainment every week.

--Tune in live on College Football Saturday Night, Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Tuesday Night College Football Playoff rankings revealed and Thursday Night Football.

--RJ also performs daily segments taking on the biggest breaking news stories in college football and the NFL.

--What is Adapt & Respond with RJ Young? https://youtu.be/F0jZl9pCcxQ?si=1zskTQ5SaNJXpBSH

--Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adapt-and-respond-with-rj-young/id1346315892

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--RJ Young is the national college football analyst at FOX Sports and host of Adapt & Respond with RJ Young. #CFB #ARRJ

In the Wednesday podcast episode of Adapt & Respond, RJ discusses the idea that Deion Sanders is to blame for Shedeur Sanders NFL Draft slide and the prospect of the SEC and Big Ten agreeing to play each other regularly.

--This is the official YouTube channel for everything Adapt & Respond.

--RJ gives his strong opinions on the biggest topics in college football, sports and entertainment every week.

--Tune in live on College Football Saturday Night, Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Tuesday Night College Football Playoff rankings revealed and Thursday Night Football.

--RJ also performs daily segments taking on the biggest breaking news stories in college football and the NFL.

--What is Adapt & Respond with RJ Young? https://youtu.be/F0jZl9pCcxQ?si=1zskTQ5SaNJXpBSH

--Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adapt-and-respond-with-rj-young/id1346315892

--Spotify podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0E0lv4eh6rK3Ergr2IsjBuRJ on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RJ_Young

--RJ on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rjyoungshow/channel/

--RJ on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RJYoungShow/

--Adapt & Respond on IG: https://www.instagram.com/adaptrespond/

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--RJ Young is the national college football analyst at FOX Sports and host of Adapt & Respond with RJ Young. #CFB #ARRJ

The time is now for Steve Sarkisian's Texas with Arch Manning as his starting QB in a year where the College Football Playoff national championship feels attainable in Austin.

This is the official YouTube channel for everything Adapt & Respond. RJ gives his strong opinions on the biggest topics in college football, sports and entertainment every week.

Tune in live on College Football Saturday Night, Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Tuesday Night College Football Playoff rankings revealed and Thursday Night Football. RJ also performs daily segments taking on the biggest breaking news stories in college football and the NFL. 

What is Adapt & Respond with RJ Young? Answer: https://youtu.be/F0jZl9pCcxQ?si=1zskTQ5SaNJXpBSH

RJ on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RJ_Young 

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Adapt & Respond on IG: https://www.instagram.com/adaptrespond/ Adapt & Respond on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@adaptrespond/ 

//BIO// RJ Young is the national college football analyst at FOX Sports and host of Adapt & Respond with RJ Young. #CFB #ARRJ

Texas QB Arch Manning is not on the cover of EA Sports College Football 26, and that is not a shock. Texas expects to be one of the best teams in the sport in 2025.

This is the official YouTube channel for everything Adapt & Respond. RJ gives his strong opinions on the biggest topics in college football, sports and entertainment every week. Tune in live on College Football Saturday Night, Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Tuesday Night College Football Playoff rankings revealed and Thursday Night Football. RJ also performs daily segments taking on the biggest breaking news stories in college football and the NFL.What is Adapt & Respond with RJ Young? https://youtu.be/F0jZl9pCcxQ?si=1zskTQ5SaNJXpBSHApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adapt-and-respond-with-rj-young/id1346315892

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Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith and Alabama wide receiver Ryan Williams will grace the cover of EA Sports College Football 26. Smith and Williams could compete for the Biletnikoff Award and Heisman in 2025.This is the official YouTube channel for everything Adapt & Respond. RJ gives his strong opinions on the biggest topics in college football, sports and entertainment every week. Tune in live on College Football Saturday Night, Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Tuesday Night College Football Playoff rankings revealed and Thursday Night Football. RJ also performs daily segments taking on the biggest breaking news stories in college football and the NFL.What is Adapt & Respond with RJ Young? Answer: https://youtu.be/F0jZl9pCcxQ?si=1zskTQ5SaNJXpBSHRJ on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RJ_YoungRJ on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rjyoungshow/channel/RJ on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RJYoungShow/Adapt & Respond on IG: https://www.instagram.com/adaptrespond/Adapt & Respond on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@adaptrespond///BIO//RJ Young is the national college football analyst at FOX Sports and host of Adapt & Respond with RJ Young. #CFB #ADAPT&RESPOND

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Welcome to Adapt & Respond with RJ Young RJ gives his strong opinions on the biggest topics in college football, sports and entertainment every week.RJ on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RJ_Young

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Enzo Ferrari wanted to race cars, sing opera or write sports; was too much of a coward to race, couldn't sing worth a damn and doesn't believe the truth is entirely necessary. You can find examples of this all over motorsports history, but Brock Yates — who created, participated in and wrote about Cannonball Run — wrote a spectacular biography of the man behind the Scuderia. In fact, separating fact from fiction about Ferrari and his eponymous cars has turned into a sport, a game unto itself. With that in mind, I’ve adapted the child’s game true or false into what I’m calling Truth or Ferrari?

This also helps gets you up to speed with Michael Mann's "Ferrari" movie starring Adam Driver and builds on "Ford v. Ferrari" with Matt Damon and Christian Bale.

Tony Gilroy, Andor’s maestro, adapted action movies I love—the Bourne trilogy, Armageddon, Michael Clayton and The Devil's Advocate. He made Rogue One too. And I didn't like that as much as others did. His pops, Frank, adapted a movie into a Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play—The Subject Was Roses in 1965. His brothers Dan and John can Kool and the Gang get down on it too.

But then I saw Gilroy put his back into dialogue got snappy. Nazis SS officers in white—excuse me, Imperial Security Bureau officers—at a round table started trading repartee like a blueberry hooligan after two shots of whiskey, hopped up on the cocaine holding down the trigger on the Sweet Business feeling no pain. If you don’t get that reference, just no I play a lot of Destiny 2 while listening to Jacob Bryant.

Then Fiona Shaw, as Maarva Andor, stood next to a stuttering red personified personhood that looks less like a fire hydrant and more like trash compactor—laying into her adopted son, Cassian, played by an understated Diego Luna, about how she ain't goin’ out like no punk to the imperialists.

I watched a torture expert do the Elmore Leonard and tell me a story in dialogue about the dying screams of a race of massacred people weaponized to oppress even the most unwilling and stubborn amongst us. And then Andor used our imaginations to bring us that pain.

Perhaps the most underused tool in the writer’s book bag is their ability to allow the reader, the viewer, the audience’s imagination to do the work for us. Like a revolutionary counting on an emperor’s overreaction to a bank heist, we create our own worst nightmares.

Gilroy and company bent film to their will, maximizing their gifts in a medium where—unlike stage play—you can get it right the first time for someone else who never saw you do it live the first time. If you have $250 million to make 12 one-hour movies—that’s $21 million per one-hour film—get your money’s worth.

Then I saw Beau Willimon throw down on the page what Gilroy didn't himself. Not once did I see colorful flashlight fights, references to space monks and space chi or an anointed savior.

I saw prison presented as I know it to be true, gulags as we know them to exist, hope like a candle dancing in the dark as we clench our eyes shut so as not to be infected by what might soon kill us sooner rather than later—a light we cannot possess. I was reminded of the cost of revolution.

I shouted in an empty room for at that moment I realized the many who created Andor had succeeded. Succeeded in telling a story in this mostly trite, benign and vexingly edging toward brilliant property over 44 years that reaches the high bar of critically-acclaimed, emotionally moving, intellectually, inspiring, innovative art in storytelling: I'll tell my friends about it. Consider yourself told.

Spawn is the first Black superhero ever to feature in a major motion picture — one year before Wesley Snipes featured in Blade. That fact serves to illustrate Spawn is one of the most overlooked and most popular Black superheroes in history. That juxtaposition merits investigation. So does the idea that the first mainstream superhero or antihero broke through as the angry, violent demon monster that fits a retrograde and heinous stereotype of Black men.

Perhaps it’s best to start with why Spawn became an animated TV show in the first place, and that is because the comic book it was based on was a smash hit from the jump.

The first issue of Spawn was terribly popular, selling 1.7 million copies ranking fifth behind titles featuring Superman, WildC.A.T.s, Venom and Spider-Man. It remains popular today.