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Speaker 1: He gets a Friday afternoon off. My name is Greg

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Speaker 1: Reistraw Andy Garrison on the ones and twos, and we'll

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Speaker 1: do the typical substitute teacher thing, and that is trying

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Speaker 1: Indiana football will still be our dominant topic, but where

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Speaker 1: But off the top of the show, no, we're talking

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Speaker 2: For the last two or three days.

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Speaker 1: Who do I want to get on? That's a little

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Speaker 1: And I thought about all of my friends that played

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Speaker 1: Java House Peel and poor guest line, how you doing

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Speaker 1: my friend I'm.

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Speaker 3: Doing fantastic, Greg. How about yourself, I'm good.

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Speaker 1: Have you made your way back to central Indiana or

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Speaker 3: So I wore a IU National Championship quarters it shirt

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Speaker 1: So, well, you run the office, your name's on the business,

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Speaker 1: But now, given the amount of money that Dan just

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Speaker 1: In your five years at IU, three bowl games are four?

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Speaker 3: It's absolutely amazing how prepared and how complete this team is.

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Speaker 1: Your membership in the tight End Union has been approved

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Speaker 1: You read that exactly, that written it down for you,

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Speaker 3: All right, thank you, my friend Dan Thompson.

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Speaker 1: What Jake query getting to enjoy a three day weekend, Greg,

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's fair.

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Speaker 4: you know, IU basketball talking the radio, you know, over

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Speaker 4: that time, or you know much more here in the

437
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Speaker 4: last five or six years, they obviously haven't won, or

438
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Speaker 4: at least at the level that you know Indiana fans

439
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Speaker 4: has won.

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Speaker 5: So I don't think that's maybe been as the.

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Speaker 4: Front and center as it could be if they were.

442
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Speaker 4: But yeah, I would you know, I think i U

443
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Speaker 4: football is, especially under such a figure that is Kurt Signetty,

444
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Speaker 4: I would think that they will continue to be right

445
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Speaker 4: up there with the professional sports, which you know, again

446
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Speaker 4: in a professional sports market, I mean we are not Louisville.

447
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Speaker 5: We are not you know, we're the.

448
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Speaker 4: SEC towns where it's college sports. You know, twenty four

449
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Speaker 4: to seven, that's a lot. I mean the NFL, I mean,

450
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Speaker 4: just look at the ratings that Broncos Bills got over

451
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Speaker 4: the over the weekend. I mean, it's just it's insane

452
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Speaker 4: how it is. Granted, you know, certainly look at the

453
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Speaker 4: ratings that in the end in Miami drow on Monday night.

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Speaker 4: So I would say it is close, but it's it's

455
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Speaker 4: probably always going to be pro sports.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: Since you talked NFL, let's move into kind of everything else.

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Speaker 1: What is your give a darn factor about the two

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Speaker 1: games on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not as high as it normally is. I

461
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Speaker 4: would say, you know, certainly Ram Seahawks is the better game.

462
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Speaker 4: And you know, I love watching Matthew Stafford and Sean

463
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Speaker 4: mcsay and that team, you know, play, So I am.

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Speaker 5: Looking forward to that.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: The Jared Stidham story is just kind of a I

467
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Speaker 4: mean it's just a very unique one. I mean, you

468
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Speaker 4: don't get a lot of that type of you know,

469
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Speaker 4: here's your quarterback for the you know, AFC Championship game.

470
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Speaker 4: Where you have a historic defense and you know they're

471
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Speaker 4: like the biggest home underdog. I believe the championship weekend,

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Speaker 4: and I mean that there is kind of a Cinderella

473
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Speaker 4: field to it, and for some reason, I don't know,

474
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Speaker 4: I'd have to go back to like Nick Foles's you

475
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Speaker 4: know history, but like Folds, you know, he started games

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Speaker 4: late in that sea and once Carson went score a

477
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Speaker 4: yell and you know the phone mixed injury happening so

478
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Speaker 4: late in the game as well.

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Speaker 5: So I do think that is just kind of a

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Speaker 5: cool story.

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Speaker 4: But you know, I think with the NFL, we don't

482
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Speaker 4: like the NFL so much for like Cinderella necessarily, you know,

483
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Speaker 4: we just like it more for the parody of it. So,

484
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Speaker 4: you know, given our news cycle over the last week break,

485
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Speaker 4: and it is very understandably taken a backseat.

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Speaker 5: To it all. I think if Buffalo is still.

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Speaker 4: Playing, that storyline to me is always, you know, really cool,

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Speaker 4: just because of their fandom and the small market and

489
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Speaker 4: all the near misses.

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Speaker 5: So we obviously don't have that.

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Speaker 4: But you know, talk to me when there's six inches

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Speaker 4: now outside my house and Sunday I'll.

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Speaker 2: Be locked in, I will reveal my age.

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Speaker 1: When I think of quarterbacks to make the super Bowl

495
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Speaker 1: in backup fashion, I still think of Jeff Hosteler first

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Speaker 1: before I think of Nick Foles. You may not because

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Speaker 1: you're a young pup compared to me, but Hostetler is

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Speaker 1: still the guy that I think because Foles, I thought,

499
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Speaker 1: was so much more of a known commodity than Hosteler

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Speaker 1: would have been when he let the Giants super Bowl

501
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Speaker 1: win in super Bowl twenty five.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but let's think about that, Rachel.

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Speaker 4: So the super Bowl twenty five, you know, Foles obviously

504
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Speaker 4: was whatever a handful of years ago.

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Speaker 5: I mean, world, what super Bowl sixty?

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Speaker 2: I think he was fifty two? Does that sound right ish?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Okay, so yeah, it was even you know, longer than that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's kind of wild. One quarterback in the

510
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Speaker 4: last thirty five years, and you know, I get it,

511
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Speaker 4: it is quarterback, but you would think at some point

512
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Speaker 4: you would have found, you know, a timers, even if

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Speaker 4: the defense just does all the heavy lifting to get

514
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Speaker 4: you there, because I mean, you have to win one game. Now,

515
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Speaker 4: it's a big game, but we see backup quarterbacks, you know,

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Speaker 4: win games in the NFL. And again, he's got the

517
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Speaker 4: historic you know, defense, But granted, New England's played really well.

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Speaker 4: And I think that's probably the other thought I've had

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Speaker 4: this week of just I can't imagine being a Titans

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Speaker 4: fan of thinking why did we fire Mike Rable Again?

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Speaker 5: Walk me through all of them? They were the one

522
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Speaker 5: seed with Ryan Tannahill, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, like I mean that was remarked, and I get

524
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Speaker 4: Derek Henry's doing, you know, Derrick Henry, Thanks, but still

525
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Speaker 4: that one is beyond head scratching to me.

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Speaker 1: Since you referenced Buffalo, I don't know what your schedule

527
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Speaker 1: has been like since signing off at ten o'clock. Do

528
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Speaker 1: you see who's getting an interview for the head coaching

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Speaker 1: job in Buffalo?

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Speaker 6: I did? I did?

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Speaker 5: Uncle Phil?

532
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Speaker 4: Yes, I did see that. And did I see Josh

533
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Speaker 4: Allen is in sitting in on all these interviews as well?

534
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Speaker 4: I find that to be interesting.

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Speaker 1: Well, Lamar Jackson is kind of getting or kind of

536
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Speaker 1: had that in Baltimore to a certain degree. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: surprise me on Josh Allen Listen, I could see Philip

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Speaker 1: Rivers being an NFL head coach? Is he an NFL

539
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Speaker 1: head coach without having ever been an NFL assistant?

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Speaker 4: First well, and the one thing too is just the

541
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Speaker 4: family dynamic for correctors and not to go over the

542
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Speaker 4: Rivers family tree. But you know, he's got the son

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Speaker 4: that'll be a senior in high school this coming year,

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Speaker 4: and the I believe there's three sons. I believe of

545
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Speaker 4: the ten and seven girls, three boys. One of the

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Speaker 4: other boys will be a freshman. And I think Phillip

547
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Speaker 4: has already said depth chart is out.

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Speaker 5: He's a backup. So you know, if you're Philip Rivers

549
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Speaker 5: and you know clearly he's had this goal to coach

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Speaker 5: his sons.

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Speaker 4: Allah I believe his father did to him, then I

552
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Speaker 4: would assume he would look at that as, oh my gosh.

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Speaker 5: The senior year of high school.

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Speaker 4: And again Saint Michael's, I'm pretty sure they've had like

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Speaker 4: kind of near misses in the in their state. You know,

556
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Speaker 4: championship runs here in recent years. You know, why not

557
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Speaker 4: coach Gunner the oldest the senior year, then coach the

558
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Speaker 4: second son, and then you know, the NFL maybe becomes

559
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Speaker 4: a little bit more realistic at that point. I think

560
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Speaker 4: about half of the ten kids that are out of

561
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Speaker 4: the house, they're off of college, et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 4: You know, maybe you feel a little bit more inclined,

563
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Speaker 4: and you know, move the whole family over to up

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Speaker 4: to Western New York. Seems like quite the undertaking here.

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Speaker 4: So I'm fascinated by it. It's super entertaining. I think Buffalo,

566
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Speaker 4: no matter who they hire, will be really entertaining, just

567
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Speaker 4: because Sean McDermott has quite the track record of six

568
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Speaker 4: straight years of the playoff win.

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Speaker 5: I think they're only one.

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Speaker 4: Of four teams to have done that in NFL history.

571
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Speaker 4: But yeah, I know part of me thinks Rivers is

572
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Speaker 4: just doing this for Intel, but who knows.

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Speaker 5: He definitely didn't downplay it. I mean, Rake, you were

574
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Speaker 5: there late in the season.

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Speaker 4: I mean when he was asked those questions, he definitely

576
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Speaker 4: did not like sweep it under the rug.

577
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Speaker 5: He expressed some interest.

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Speaker 1: I have all the respect in the world, and I

579
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Speaker 1: generally think that Philip truly wants to coach his kids

580
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Speaker 1: and you and I I think even had an off

581
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Speaker 1: air conversation about all right, let's talk about his kids,

582
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Speaker 1: boys versus the girls, and how big of a gap

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Speaker 1: there is. Kind of after these two get through high school,

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Speaker 1: maybe four years down the road he becomes a NFL

585
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Speaker 1: quarterback coach or an offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 2: That's all well and good.

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Speaker 1: And I know that Philip played an air where he

588
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Speaker 1: made a good amount of money in the National Football League.

589
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Speaker 1: Have you seen what they're paying NFL head coaches these days?

590
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Speaker 1: And he and the missus have a lot of mouths

591
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Speaker 1: to feed. There is something to be said about that

592
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Speaker 1: end of the conversation too, KB.

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, and again I don't know about it. Health insurance.

594
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Speaker 5: You know that that that kicked in with him coming

595
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Speaker 5: back to break and everything.

596
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Speaker 4: So uh yeah, you know again, part of me thought,

597
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Speaker 4: you know, with this rumor, you know, I guess this

598
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Speaker 4: is the first team he's officially interviewed.

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Speaker 5: With, now that I think about it.

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Speaker 4: But you know, when this was ass you know, at

601
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Speaker 4: the end of the season, I still kind of came

602
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Speaker 4: back to the Okay, again, Gunner is a very high

603
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Speaker 4: level quarterback going to be a senior, and the other

604
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Speaker 4: son is going to be a freshman. I just figured, Okay,

605
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Speaker 4: we'll table this conversation for four years from now. But

606
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Speaker 4: now it seems a little realer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I get that Kevin Bowen joining us on the

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Speaker 1: Java House. Peel and poor guest line it's Greg reiks

609
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Speaker 1: run for Jay Query on ninety three five and one

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Speaker 1: oh seven five of the Fan Again, You're gonna try

611
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Speaker 1: to talk as much IU football over the next few

612
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Speaker 1: weeks as possible. That is the iron that is hottest

613
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Speaker 1: in the fire right now. What are you looking forward

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Speaker 1: to talking most once now that we are past the

615
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Speaker 1: afterglow of this national championship?

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Speaker 5: You know, I, I guess are are you saying sell

617
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Speaker 5: the IU story?

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Speaker 2: Correct?

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Speaker 1: In other words, if I took you out of the mix,

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Speaker 1: what are the things that you're actually looking forward to

621
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Speaker 1: talking about on the morning show?

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Speaker 5: Got it?

623
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Speaker 4: You know, obviously a week from Thursday is the NBA

624
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Speaker 4: trade deadline, and you know, as we sit here right now,

625
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Speaker 4: you know, what they do over the next ten to

626
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Speaker 4: twelve days you could have massive implications on what the

627
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Speaker 4: new era of Tyrees Halliburn looks like around him. So

628
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Speaker 4: I think that is a big storyline. You know, we're

629
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Speaker 4: now less than a month away, as crazy as sounds,

630
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Speaker 4: after that, combine news from you know that becoming a

631
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 4: little bit more front burner, and you know what it

632
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Speaker 4: looks like for Daniel Jones, what it looks like for

633
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Speaker 4: Alex Pearce.

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Speaker 5: You know, I think those are interesting conversations.

635
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Speaker 4: Is well, we're about a month and a half away

636
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Speaker 4: from free agency, and then you know, well, certainly and

637
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Speaker 4: Saturday is a big game up there in Mackie. I mean,

638
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 4: we're now going to get a little bit more front

639
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Speaker 4: center with Purdue and that run and you know that story,

640
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:15,239
Speaker 4: Rake and you know by anybody, but that story in

641
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 4: many many ways can be as joyous for that fan

642
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Speaker 4: base as the one that we just saw in Bloomington.

643
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Speaker 5: And honestly, it's.

644
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Speaker 4: A little bit of a different of all the close calls,

645
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Speaker 4: all of the hopes and dreams of you know, the

646
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Speaker 4: Kadi era and you know Humbles a cl and Hoskin

647
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Speaker 4: Herd and you know making it to the title game.

648
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Speaker 4: And you know, when you think about it, you know,

649
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Speaker 4: from a football program, you know, outside of Freezer Morales,

650
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Speaker 4: you know, I don't know if there have been you know,

651
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Speaker 4: maybe a ton of those types of moments there. Obviously

652
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Speaker 4: they've had a nice run in football during the Tiller years,

653
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Speaker 4: but still nothing to what a March into April run,

654
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Speaker 4: albeit you know, throwing the cherry on top of your

655
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Speaker 4: hometown could be for them, particularly in a day and

656
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Speaker 4: age of college basketball where the dominant storyline is about

657
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:05,479
Speaker 4: the dude who you know played professional basketball is now

658
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 4: going back to Alabama and the person that signed off

659
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Speaker 4: on that as an Alabama booster. Like you know, it's

660
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 4: just it's so crazy, and here is this p new

661
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 4: team with you know, a core of you know, certainly

662
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Speaker 4: the Indiana kids and several of the Indiana kids who

663
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 4: are pretty under recruited as well. So I think that

664
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Speaker 4: storyline obviously will become you know, bigger and bigger as

665
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Speaker 4: you know, a month of March is as closer.

666
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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk Colts.

667
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Speaker 1: What is the next domino to fall event to happen

668
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Speaker 1: on the coltsteinline.

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Speaker 4: Well, I would say just the coaching cycle to clear up.

670
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 4: You know again, Anna Rumo did interview in Buffalo, so

671
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 4: you know that to get through Jim Bob Cooter interviewed

672
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 4: their offense coordinator with the Eagles for that OC job.

673
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 4: So you know, once that is done, and typically that's

674
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Speaker 4: right around the Super Bowl, then again.

675
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Speaker 5: We're less than a month away from the combine.

676
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Speaker 4: I believe a franchise tag window opens up in around

677
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Speaker 4: a month.

678
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Speaker 5: That's a two week window.

679
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 4: Alex Pierce to me, seems like a more likely candidate

680
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 4: than anybody on the roster, including Daniel Jones.

681
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Speaker 5: So do they use that?

682
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Speaker 4: Is it similar to Michael Pittman Junior a couple of

683
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 4: years ago where they use it, but then they get

684
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Speaker 4: the long term deal done before free agency starts. So

685
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Speaker 4: I think that's kind of where we're at. You know,

686
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Speaker 4: this time last year, Ana Rouma had just been hired.

687
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Speaker 4: You know, it's not like we're going through one of

688
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Speaker 4: those coordinator searches as of now. You know, we obviously

689
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Speaker 4: could here, but that's probably the biggest thing.

690
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Speaker 5: I mean, and then ideal Colts World, if you were

691
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Speaker 5: Shane Stike.

692
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Speaker 4: And I mean, nothing too pressing over the next couple

693
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Speaker 4: of weeks, assuming that your staff's still intact. I guess

694
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Speaker 4: they do need to hire a defensive line coach. For

695
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Speaker 4: those that missed that story. Their D line coach Charlie Partridge,

696
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 4: longtime college coach, he went to Notre Dame. He's down

697
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 4: there D line coach there. So the Colt student need

698
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 4: to hire that. And you know, that is a position

699
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Speaker 4: group that I think you could make the case is underwhelmed,

700
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Speaker 4: you know, maybe more than any considering the resources into it.

701
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Speaker 4: I'd argue it's more personnel based and coaching base, but

702
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Speaker 4: still that would be something they need to get.

703
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Speaker 6: Done in AF season.

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Speaker 1: The sundergraming to put you on the spot before I

705
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Speaker 1: let you go. We've talked about Michael Pittman Junior's contract

706
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Speaker 1: and how Michael is very well liked by the fan base,

707
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: by the locker room production slipped a little bit this year.

708
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: Is he a twenty nine million dollar player? No, And

709
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Speaker 1: the way his contract is structured and the amount of

710
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: salary cap money would free up to cut him, that

711
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: seems like a done deal that he won't be back

712
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Speaker 1: next year or he might be on a restructured deal.

713
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Speaker 1: Who else is a candidate to be waived by to

714
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Speaker 1: a little early because it might save the Colts more

715
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Speaker 1: money than what that person would actually produce playing for them.

716
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Pittman is is certainly in top that list.

717
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Speaker 4: The other two I keep on coming back to the

718
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Speaker 4: future for a r Franklin and Kenny more than second.

719
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Speaker 4: Franklin has two years less than a deal, but there's

720
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Speaker 4: an out this offseason that's pretty cheap from a dead cahit.

721
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Speaker 4: And then Kenny, you know, I don't know if to

722
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Speaker 4: fit with a rumo his idea. It just seemed like

723
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Speaker 4: we didn't get the typical Kenny playmaking year sure that

724
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Speaker 4: he that he's had now granted, I mean depth a

725
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 4: linebacker and corner are not stocked. You know, I was

726
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Speaker 4: going to make stock like the shelves of the grocery

727
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:18,479
Speaker 4: analogy right now, but I don't think.

728
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Speaker 2: The shell Yeah, they're pretty bare too right now.

729
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, although shot it to the safe way at fifty

730
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Speaker 1: six Illinois, it was in fine form at seven fifteen am.

731
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Speaker 5: There you go.

732
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Speaker 4: You and I shot there quite a lot at that

733
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Speaker 4: safeway there from Illinois. So you know, I think you

734
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 4: can make the case for restructures there. But you know,

735
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 4: outright cutting of either player would leave quite the void.

736
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Speaker 5: Now.

737
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 4: You know, some might say, hey, Zai or you just

738
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 4: need to you know, try and you know, go upgrade there.

739
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Speaker 4: And you know again at corner you saw the Shaveri's war.

740
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Speaker 4: I s probably throw that in there as well.

741
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Speaker 3: Rake.

742
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 4: In terms of the offseason items, you know, I would

743
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 4: assume by the combine, the Colts will have an answer

744
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 4: on Shaverio's war playing football next year.

745
00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 5: I think he kind of mentioned he owes it to.

746
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 4: The team to make a decision there, So that's probably

747
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 4: another news item. You know, they could wiggle around with

748
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 4: some extensions for guys quin Nelson, you know, maybe even

749
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,479
Speaker 4: Buckner or Grover Stewart. That can open up a little

750
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 4: bit of cap space, which I do think it's really necessary.

751
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,320
Speaker 4: When you start to crunch the numbers, their cap space

752
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,399
Speaker 4: can get pretty tight pretty quick. So yeah, those other two.

753
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:21,879
Speaker 4: I would go with Michael Pittman Jr. And I would

754
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Speaker 4: go with Kenny Moore's guys. I'm a little bit in

755
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 4: question or excuse me, Piven first, Franklin been Kenny Moore

756
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 4: as guys. I'm a little bit in question about just

757
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 4: exactly what it looks like financially for them moving forward?

758
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: All right, one for the better Nerdery, What sort of

759
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: cap relief would the Colts get if Mooney says, hey,

760
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 1: I'm walking away, Does that wipe everything away from the

761
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 1: salary cap standpoint? Does it fast forward everything to this year?

762
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Speaker 1: How exactly do the numbers work in that scenario?

763
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I need to double check it. I'm pretty sure

764
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 4: it wipes away virtually all of it. You know, we

765
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Speaker 4: haven't had I mean, I guess block is quite the one,

766
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 4: but of course, you know, Jim Ersay decided to send

767
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Speaker 4: him packing with a nice money in that back pocket.

768
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Speaker 4: So that is one that I would have to look

769
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Speaker 4: up because you know, he has what two years left

770
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Speaker 4: I believe in that deal. I think it was a

771
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 4: three year contract originally, so uh yeah. And you know,

772
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 4: I have no idea how that all that would play out,

773
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 4: but I think money would be the first to tell

774
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Speaker 4: you. You know, he's done pretty good for himself from an

775
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 4: NFL career standpoint, which I think is a factor at all. Yes,

776
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 4: the form n drafted free agent. He won a Super

777
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 4: Bowl with the Chiefs, made a Super Bowl with the

778
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Speaker 4: forty nine ers. He is on his third contract. He's

779
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 4: made great money, you know. So that's something that you

780
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Speaker 4: know is an impact or decision here or a factor

781
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Speaker 4: I should say in his decision.

782
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Speaker 2: Thanks for the time, my friend.

783
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Speaker 3: Figure.

784
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:43,720
Speaker 2: I'll see at some point next week.

785
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Speaker 1: I know I will on Tuesday afternoon, Thanks buddy.

786
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Speaker 5: Tuesday at two thirty, I'll be on the sidewalk waiting

787
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Speaker 5: for you.

788
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: Thank you, Sir Kevin Bowen. Our annual Buddy trip to

789
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Speaker 1: South Bend. It's been mixed results for the Irish when

790
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: me have made the trip. Last year a win against

791
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: Boston College when the temperature was about the same as

792
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Speaker 1: it is now, like freakishly cold the year before, an

793
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Speaker 1: empty campus on Christmas Break and the Citadel got the

794
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Speaker 1: win on the Fighting Irish KB and I. I'm sure

795
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Speaker 1: we'll document this next week on Tuesday and then again

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802
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Speaker 2: Maybe this is the song.

804
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 1: That he heard when he finally got his new RV

805
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: to leave Owensboro, Kentucky, a couple of weeks ago.

806
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Speaker 2: I'll let him explain.

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00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: Jerry Paul Well, Palm Brackets dot Com joins us on

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Speaker 2: How are you, my friend?

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Speaker 7: Well, I guess I'm in pretty good shape because we

812
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 7: are currently living in Montgomery Alabama a couple of weeks,

813
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Speaker 7: and we're south of the ice storm. True, like the

814
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Speaker 7: northern part of the state may not do as well,

815
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Speaker 7: but we're far enough south that we've managed to avoid

816
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Speaker 7: the ice storm.

817
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Speaker 6: So I guess that's good.

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Speaker 7: I was gonna say cold next week, but not, We're

819
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Speaker 7: not going to be scraping ice off the RV.

820
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Speaker 1: How has your used to be? The old staying was

821
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Speaker 1: one was wonder Indiana. You're literally wondering America other than

822
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Speaker 1: having like a breakdown of no one's world, Kentucky, how's

823
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Speaker 1: it going so far?

824
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Speaker 7: Yeah, we just left, you know. The first time we

825
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Speaker 7: left with the RV was the beginning of the month,

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Speaker 7: and we didn't get any farther than Evansville before we

827
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Speaker 7: had a abum. We spent three days there in Owensboro

828
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Speaker 7: and took a while to get the truck fixed. The

829
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Speaker 7: RV itself was fine, but the truck that we're pulling

830
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Speaker 7: it with was well, was being uncooperative for really about

831
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Speaker 7: the first week of this adventure. But it seems to

832
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Speaker 7: be okay.

833
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Speaker 3: Now.

834
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 7: We'll see when we hook it up and start rolling

835
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Speaker 7: again here another couple of weeks.

836
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Speaker 1: If nothing else, it gave you time to listen to

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Speaker 1: a friend of yours recommendation. How was the world's largest

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Speaker 1: barbecue buffet, the Moonlight Barbecue.

839
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, that was lovely. Yeah that was great. It's

840
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Speaker 7: you know, I don't know. I'm not a big fan

841
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Speaker 7: of buffets because you never know what you're really going

842
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Speaker 7: to get. But everything was really good. I would go

843
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Speaker 7: back there in a minute.

844
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Speaker 2: Hight good to know.

845
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:49,280
Speaker 1: All right, So let's talk brackets, shall we, and let's

846
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: work our way up the food shart, so to speak.

847
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,959
Speaker 1: When it comes to the state of Indiana. Has Notre

848
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: Dame because of their injuries and overall play, do they

849
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,320
Speaker 1: merit conversation at this point?

850
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Speaker 6: Nope, not yet.

851
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 7: Maybe you know, they get healthy and they get better,

852
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 7: we can talk about them, but we're we're probably gonna

853
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 7: be getting weight in the season before that happens, if

854
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Speaker 7: it happens.

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Speaker 1: All right, So let's work our way up. Butler's picked

856
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: up a couple of wins. Where do Butler's chances look

857
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Speaker 1: like right now?

858
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Speaker 7: They need to do more. You can't rule them out.

859
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Speaker 7: I'd say they're in better shape than Notre Dame. But

860
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Speaker 7: Butler's got to the depth of quality in the Big

861
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Speaker 7: Yeast it's not like it is in other league. It's

862
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Speaker 7: only because it's smaller than the other major conferences. But

863
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Speaker 7: they have to take advantage of those opportunities when they

864
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Speaker 7: present themselves, and they don't really have a lot of

865
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Speaker 7: margin for error in terms of taking, you know, losses

866
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Speaker 7: that they shouldn't.

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Speaker 2: In your latest bracket, how many Big East teams do

868
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Speaker 2: you have?

869
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Speaker 6: Four?

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Speaker 1: Joy I was going to say three, So four is

871
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Speaker 1: actually encouraging sign because frankly, that gives Butler more chances

872
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Speaker 1: to win games teams that might be in the tournament.

873
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: All right, now, let's get to the Indiana Hoosiers. Where

874
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: do they stand at this point? Because they are starting

875
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Speaker 1: to play their way, not starting to they are playing

876
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: their way in the wrong direction.

877
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Speaker 2: Would you have them in the field today?

878
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 7: No, No, I don't have them in. They're not first

879
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 7: four out, They're not too far off that list. But no,

880
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 7: they've got some work to do, and in general, their

881
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 7: problem is just the lack of quality within you know,

882
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 7: their record's not.

883
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 6: Horrible or anything like that.

884
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 7: They just haven't found a way to beat the teams

885
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:35,760
Speaker 7: they need to beat to find themselves in the field.

886
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 1: Same question about Butler, how many Big ten teams, do

887
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:40,839
Speaker 1: you have dancing.

888
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:41,240
Speaker 2: As we speak?

889
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 6: I believe it's ten okay, And.

890
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: Again in super conferences you get more of that. And

891
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: again that's the thing with this Indiana team is that

892
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: again you know, the opportunities are there, they've just not

893
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: shown us anything in the last two three weeks that

894
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: tell us they're going to take advantage of set opportunities.

895
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, it's I mean, really the opportunities they had

896
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 7: a non conference play they didn't really take advantage of

897
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 7: particularly either. I mean, they're best win escapes me at

898
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 7: the moment, but it was not a team in the field,

899
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 7: so you know, yeah, I mean you need to be

900
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 7: able to show that you can be teams that are

901
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:19,959
Speaker 7: in the field, and the Big ten will give them

902
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 7: plenty of chances to do that, but they have to

903
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:23,479
Speaker 7: take advantage of them.

904
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Speaker 1: Paulmbrackets dot com is where you can find his work again.

905
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Speaker 1: Jerry Palm joining us here on the Java House, Peel

906
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 1: and Poor guest Line, Greg Rakestraw and for j Query

907
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Speaker 1: here on ninety three to five and one oh seven

908
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 1: five of the Fan. No such issue with your Boilers.

909
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,439
Speaker 1: We know there will be dancing. They did just losing

910
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: against to UCLA one seed, two seed where they have

911
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,280
Speaker 1: the Boilers right now, I have them.

912
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 3: As a two.

913
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 6: They were a two before the loss.

914
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 7: There's still a two, and that's due in part to

915
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 7: the fact that they, you know, built up a lot

916
00:42:54,760 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 7: of cushion, if you will, with their really strong noncompt

917
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,359
Speaker 7: or to play UCOA is not.

918
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:03,879
Speaker 6: A terrible team, They're a bubble team.

919
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 7: So there are worse losses than that on the road,

920
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 7: and we were out there for that. My wife and

921
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 7: I went out to see the LA doubleheader and that

922
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 7: was two good challenges for Purdue and really should have

923
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 7: won the second one, but a couple of uncharacteristic Braden

924
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 7: Smith turnovers late and you end up coming away with

925
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 7: a loss.

926
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 1: This is, I guess, maybe sadly of a metrics question,

927
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: but it's frankly more of an eyeball question than a

928
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 1: metrics question. But again, as a Boilermaker, which does not

929
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: affect Jerry's predictions, but he's a very proud Purdue alum.

930
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: What sort of seed do they need? In other words,

931
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:46,240
Speaker 1: what is the difference for Purdue between being a one seed,

932
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: a two seed, a three seed, et cetera. Because they

933
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: just have so much experience.

934
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think if they're a top three seed, what

935
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 7: do you afford Your first round game is usually so,

936
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,439
Speaker 7: but that's basically the same as you with a different

937
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 7: number next to them, or your second game that is so,

938
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 7: you really want to be your two or three to

939
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 7: give yourself or no worse than that, to give yourself

940
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 7: a pretty good path to a Final four and Elite eight.

941
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: All right, so it produced not a one seed. Who

942
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: are your one seeds right now?

943
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:30,720
Speaker 7: The one seeds are Houston Duke, Arizona, but not Houston

944
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:35,240
Speaker 7: Arizona Duke. Gosh, why am I on a brain cramp?

945
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 6: It's awesome? I'm so sorry?

946
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 2: Okay, Arizona, Arizona Duke. Nebraska and Michigan.

947
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 6: Right, Nebraska, Michigan? Yous? Two Big ten teams?

948
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 3: Why am I drawing a blank on them?

949
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 5: Yeah?

950
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 2: Because you would.

951
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: You would never say Nebraska before now always say about

952
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: Indiana football, were you'd say it about Nebraska. So their

953
00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: record speaks for themselves. But in terms of the elements

954
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 1: of their sheet, their team sheet, what about Nebraska jumps

955
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: off the page at you.

956
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 6: Well, they've done well.

957
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 7: They did well in non conference play, but they played

958
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 7: a relatively poor non conference schedule easily the worst non

959
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,240
Speaker 7: conference schedule of anybody in the top sixteen of this bracket.

960
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 6: It's in the two hundreds.

961
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 7: So it took a while for them to climb up here.

962
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 7: But obviously they've been really good in conference play. The

963
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 7: win of Illinois, you know, really got everybody's attention. But

964
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 7: you know, they beat Michigan State at home. It's this

965
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 7: is just a remarkable story. I don't know, it's way

966
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 7: too early to say if they're the Indiana football of

967
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 7: this basketball season, but just as someone who's been around

968
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:46,280
Speaker 7: the Big Ten, you know, all my life, the thought

969
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 7: of Indiana football being a national champion in Nebraska basketball

970
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 7: threatening to be a number one seed at a culture

971
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:55,280
Speaker 7: shock to say the least.

972
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: The world is officially on its ear at this point

973
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: because of those two things. If I'm being before, I

974
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: lets you go, this is not an Indiana team, but

975
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,400
Speaker 1: there does close as you can be a lot of

976
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 1: Indiana elements to it. You know, the the gap widens

977
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: further between power conference teams. There really isn't much of

978
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: a thing as a mid major anymore. You're either a

979
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: several bid league or you're a one bid league. Yet

980
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: maam of Ohio is twenty and zero going into the weekend.

981
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: How do you have them in your ratings? As of now?

982
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 7: They would not be an at large team, but they're

983
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,399
Speaker 7: as about as high as you can be without being

984
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 7: among the at large teams in the brackets. So they're like,

985
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 7: that's a little twelve seed, eleven seed, twelve seeds thereabouts.

986
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: And because of the fact that it's nothing but league

987
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 1: games left, like for let's let's say they run the

988
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 1: table and they lose in the MAC Tournament, would they

989
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,919
Speaker 1: be in the at large conversation or no, matter what

990
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,800
Speaker 1: they do, is everything about what happens in Cleveland and

991
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,839
Speaker 1: March for them.

992
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:00,879
Speaker 7: It's probably everything that happens for them.

993
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 6: It's going to happen in Cleveland.

994
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 7: It's I don't know, it's it's gonna be really hard

995
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 7: if they're oh, I don't know, we'll say thirty three

996
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 7: and one or whatever that number ends up being. Uh,

997
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 7: but they're not going to have a win over a

998
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,879
Speaker 7: team that's anywhere near the bracket except for the team

999
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 7: that wins their league in the MAC. Sure you know

1000
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 7: that's that They're not going to have an at large

1001
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 7: quality win. They're not going to have anything close to

1002
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 7: an at large quality win, and boy, the committee have

1003
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 7: a lot to talk about if that unfortunate uh situation happens.

1004
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 1: Palm brackets dot com is where you can find him

1005
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,800
Speaker 1: or an RV park near you as he is wondering

1006
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: the globe and as he states, south of the ice storm,

1007
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 1: which means he's significantly south of here. Thanks for the time,

1008
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Speaker 1: My friend will catch up real soon, all right, Stay

1009
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Speaker 1: safe up there. You got the buddy Jerry Palm again

1010
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Speaker 1: of palmbrackets dot com.