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Speaker 2: Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, Buddy,

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Speaker 2: Happy Happy Fox Football Saturday. I hope everybody's having a

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Speaker 2: great holiday season. Merry Merry Christmas. From the Fellas on

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Speaker 2: this epic college football weekend. We saw it last night

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Speaker 2: Notre Dame last night, uh with the win over Indiana

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Speaker 2: and the first playoff game, it was fabulous. Welcome in, Fellas,

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Speaker 3: Good morning, FITZI how else this was that last night?

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Speaker 4: You know, I think what you just said. We need

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Speaker 4: to spend a little bit of time it just remembering

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Speaker 4: how awesome last night was. Because I didn't I didn't

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Speaker 4: see anything in the game that surprised me. Look, my

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Speaker 4: prediction on record was seventeen point win for Notre Dame.

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Speaker 4: Some trash touchdowns at the end of the game changed

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Speaker 4: the way the final score looks. This was a blowout

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Speaker 4: by Notre Dame, and the takes started flying on Twitter

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Speaker 4: in the first quarter of that game that this is

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Speaker 4: why Indiana shouldn't have made the playoff. Blah blah blah,

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Speaker 4: blah blah. We have hours this morning to get to

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Speaker 4: a lot of the narratives about the college football playoff.

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Speaker 4: I want to just take a minute and remember how

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Speaker 4: cool it was to watch a home playoff game in

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Speaker 4: college football, to see that crowd, to see you know,

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Speaker 4: the way the ESPN put the broadcast together, the beginning

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Speaker 4: of it, the hype video, like everything about what we

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Speaker 4: saw last night was magic in my veins. I loved

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Speaker 4: all of it. And I know the game wasn't great,

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Speaker 4: but as we get into that, let's say, at least

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Speaker 4: take a second to remember that after years of yelling

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Speaker 4: about college football playoffs, we saw it last night and

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Speaker 4: it was a delight.

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Speaker 2: You know, I couldn't agree with you anymore. I swear

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Speaker 2: to God, I freaking love this thing.

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Speaker 3: I do. Yeah, it's gonna get tweaked and whatever, but

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe we're actually having a playoff.

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Speaker 3: I can't. Don't last night, so I was, I was.

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Speaker 2: I had to go pick up Chinese food for the family, right,

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Speaker 2: because we got Chinese last night.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so I'm listening to.

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Speaker 2: ESPN and they went to they went to like a

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Speaker 2: Notre Dame played who was it was in Indiana. It

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Speaker 2: was thirty years ago Notre Dame Penn Stayed or something.

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Speaker 2: I forget what it was. But they were talking about

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Speaker 2: a playoff and it was thirty years ago, and it

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Speaker 2: was like, you know, the polls and the arguments, and

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Speaker 2: it was this slice of in fact, Ron Franklin, if

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Speaker 2: you remember, the late great Ron Franklin did the game

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Speaker 2: right and and and he's talking about the polls.

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Speaker 3: And everything else.

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Speaker 2: And I'm thinking of myself, Oh my god, I forgot

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Speaker 2: all the nonsense and the stupidity of a of a

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Speaker 2: pole and how ridiculous the whole thing was. And now

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Speaker 2: we actually have a playoff. It's so freaking awesome. And

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Speaker 2: you know, there was a there was a I don't

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Speaker 2: know if you saw this, but somebody tweeted it out

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Speaker 2: a picture it was there. It was like dawn outside

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Speaker 2: Notre Dame Stadium yesterday and it was snow covered, and

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Speaker 2: there was a snowman and it said welcome to Notre

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Speaker 2: freaking cool this.

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Speaker 4: I felt so much yesterday, Excitement going into the day,

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Speaker 4: excitement going into the night. I feel it today about

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Speaker 4: these games and these home crowds particularly, and I think

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Speaker 4: because no matter what the game looks like, the environment

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Speaker 4: is what makes college football beautiful to me. And you know,

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Speaker 4: we talk so much that I do what I do

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Speaker 4: because of my love of the NFL, but my favorite

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Speaker 4: by the Saturday outcome. I know this year is a

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Speaker 4: that makes it easier just to watch. But I just

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Speaker 4: for my money, I don't think that there is a

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Speaker 4: better visual emotional experience than watching college football. The way

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Speaker 4: the crowds react the atmosphere is the environments and to

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Speaker 4: When we get to the next round, of the playoffs

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Speaker 4: that crowd's gonna be today. Like the thought of Penn State,

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Speaker 4: you know, the thought of the horseshoots, and like all

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Speaker 4: just such a goosebump sort of moment for the sport.

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Speaker 4: It's it's amazing. And look, you can't control whether or

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Speaker 4: not the outcomes are gonna be great. You can't control

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Speaker 4: whether the games are going to be great themselves. And

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Speaker 4: I do think that we're in for a day of

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Speaker 4: several blowouts. I just I believe that the matchups aren't

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Speaker 4: great in some of these situations, and that's just gonna

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Speaker 4: happen sometimes. I don't think that you have to make

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Speaker 4: wholesale changes to things just because you didn't love the

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Speaker 4: way the outcome came out one time either, you know.

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Speaker 4: I just think we got to like all calm down

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Speaker 4: a little bit on the mass overreaction of well, Indiana

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Speaker 4: didn't blog, and the College Football Playoff needs to change

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Speaker 4: their entire process and we shouldn't have the teams. There's

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Speaker 4: like the reality of it is. I think by next

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Speaker 4: week we're gonna be saying, wow, I'm not even sure

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Speaker 4: there were really twelve playoff worthy teams, But who cares,

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Speaker 4: because over the course of this weekend we get to

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Speaker 4: see home playoff games.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I just think it was visually beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I dude, yes, yes, yes, yes, here's the thing

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Speaker 2: we're gonna tweak. Well, they'll tweak it, and yeah, do

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Speaker 2: I think there needs to be some tweaking involved.

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Speaker 3: I do, And I would.

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Speaker 2: Even you know, i'd increase it to sixteen and I

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Speaker 2: would even do that and get rid of any by

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Speaker 3: But whatever, that's all that's easy.

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Speaker 2: That that's all easy fixes, all easy tweaks. Anybody who's

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Speaker 2: complaining about anything is ridiculous and complaining for the sake

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Speaker 2: of complaining, because the fact that there is a playoff

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Speaker 2: system in place finally is such a win. You're and

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Speaker 2: everything said was spot on about just the pomp and

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Speaker 2: and we'll get into the whole thing about the portal

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Speaker 2: do everything. We'll discuss all of it. But you're right

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Speaker 2: to celebrate this thing. And I'm in a celebratory mode

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Speaker 2: as well, because and you've seen from time to time

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Speaker 2: in the NFL the wildcard first round blowouts. I remember

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Speaker 2: there were four blowout games in the NFL Wildcard weekend.

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Speaker 2: It's just going to stuff like that's going to happen

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Speaker 2: going to be so all that stuff will figure it out.

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Speaker 2: The idea of the format, the idea of having a

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Speaker 2: who's talking about, wow, this is a mistake, I know

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Speaker 4: I also think that part of what's happening is a

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Speaker 4: little bit with the reaction to Indiana getting their butts kicked,

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Speaker 4: and frankly that again I was stressed twenty seven to seventeen.

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Speaker 4: For anyone that didn't spend their Friday night watching college football,

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Speaker 4: this game was not twenty seven to seventeen. As the

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Speaker 4: it was twenty seven to three. With about two minutes

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Speaker 4: and before you know, the final score looked much closer

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Speaker 4: than the final outcome. But what's happening right now with

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Speaker 4: you know, and confirmation bias is a very simple way

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Speaker 4: Indiana didn't play anybody and as such didn't belong. And

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Speaker 4: I hear you, I understand where people are coming from

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Speaker 4: with that logic. I would just remind you that Notre

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Speaker 4: Dame also didn't play anybody. I mean, like, this is

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Speaker 4: so the they didn't play anybody argument. In fact, let's

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Speaker 4: keep going down the list. I mean, Texas really didn't

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Speaker 4: ticks were two good losses. Right now, it's like, so

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Speaker 4: bit like you walked in thinking they didn't play anybody.

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Speaker 4: They got their butts kicked, so that must mean they stink.

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Speaker 4: little bit because they didn't play anybody. Argument this year

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Speaker 4: in college football is a little bit everywhere, right, so

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Speaker 4: other than you know, Georgian, there's a few places where

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Speaker 4: they play juggernaut schedules. But I just think that that's

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Speaker 4: they didn't belong. They didn't play anybody. Well, neither did

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Speaker 4: the fighting Irish. And the fighting Irish looked like national

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Speaker 4: And I don't think any End is a bad football team.

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Speaker 4: They're a pretty good football team. I also think that

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Speaker 4: last night was a murderers row matchup for him going

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Speaker 4: into it. It just it never favored what they do well.

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Speaker 4: Notre Dame's defense was built to handle this sort of moment.

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Speaker 4: They had a great game plan for it. It's just

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Speaker 4: they just got their butts kicked. They just got their

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Speaker 2: And it's cold football. I mean, it's called football. And again,

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Speaker 2: I've seen plenty of lowouts. I had plenty of games

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Speaker 2: just like that, twenty seven to seventeen where it's twenty

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Speaker 2: seven to three and a couple fourth quarter trass touchdowns

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Speaker 2: and you get that final score. And I've seen that

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Speaker 2: in the NFL playoffs a million times. So I don't

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Speaker 2: know what that proves other than it's it's just a game.

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Speaker 2: The format should stand on a tone. Now, if you

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Speaker 2: want to talk about the format, this is awesome. They

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Speaker 2: they gotta go to sixteen. Then you can't have buys.

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Speaker 2: You got to fix the seedings and then your your gold.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think great the buys, I yes, I think

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Speaker 4: we got to get the buys are going to turn out.

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Speaker 4: I think through the process of all of this to

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Speaker 4: be such a wild advantage, especially you know, just not

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Speaker 4: playing that extra game is such a huge moment here.

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Speaker 4: I think sixteen makes sense for that reason. And look,

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Speaker 4: the other side of it is, I don't know if

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Speaker 4: this was just year one or if it was just

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Speaker 4: the way, the way it's always going to be. But

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Speaker 4: I don't know, Like I walk away from it saying,

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Speaker 4: if you give me more playoff games, I'll take more

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Speaker 4: playoff games. Like It's just we feel that way in

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Speaker 3: We loved their second There was elite.

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Speaker 4: Why I didn't like this matchup going in, but it's

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Speaker 2: Jason Fitz Anthony garganam reacting to the first ever playoff

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Speaker 2: game in college football history was made. And you know what, well,

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Speaker 3: This is what it is.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And the funny thing is everybody complained about the

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Speaker 4: But I hadn't thought about it till you were just

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Speaker 2: And I just kept wondering why it took so long, Right,

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Speaker 2: and and I l and and and all that stuff

436
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,480
Speaker 2: in the portal and everything, and which is free agency.

437
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Speaker 3: You know.

438
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,439
Speaker 2: Now, now there's times that now we could go about

439
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Speaker 2: tweaking it and talk about tweaking it, and we will.

440
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 2: But it's finally to the point where it kind of

441
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 2: makes sense, like let's call it what it is, right, Like,

442
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,120
Speaker 2: you know, it's.

443
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 3: A minor league system. That that's awesome.

444
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:17,200
Speaker 2: Everybody loves it, and you know, let's forget to pretext

445
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:17,640
Speaker 2: us here.

446
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, and frankly, I don't. I guess this is where

447
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,679
Speaker 4: are we not entertained? Like if we're getting a great product,

448
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 4: and I really don't care about whether or not it's

449
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,880
Speaker 4: a minor league system or whether or not we pretend

450
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 4: that there's academics of all. Like I don't care about

451
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,880
Speaker 4: any about that. I just want to watch college football, dude.

452
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:39,880
Speaker 2: I feel the same way, you know, and listen, in fairness, right,

453
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 2: let's talk about because Notre Dame's had fat Notre Dame

454
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:46,160
Speaker 2: had finals like you brought up and players got finals

455
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:50,880
Speaker 2: like they did, so you know, God bless.

456
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know, it's it's funny when you think

457
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:03,119
Speaker 6: about just sort of what we've got right now versus

458
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 6: what we had and where it's going to go.

459
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Speaker 4: And it's also hysterical that that. To me, it comes

460
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 4: back to, you know, the overreaction last night from people

461
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 4: like Sean McDonough even on the on the and Shawn

462
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 4: has always been very kind to me, but Sean McDonough

463
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:19,919
Speaker 4: on the broadcast last night saying the game has been

464
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,120
Speaker 4: a dud and this is gonna make the committee reimagine,

465
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 4: you know, how they select their teams. And then you

466
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 4: got Lane Kivin out there, you know, tweeting the committee saying,

467
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 4: great job putting together a competitive game. You know, I

468
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 4: would just I would, in a world where we all

469
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 4: love to complain about everything, I would just caution a

470
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,199
Speaker 4: little bit of this concept that now suddenly today, in

471
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Speaker 4: this moment, we want the committee to start worrying about

472
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Speaker 4: competitive games. Like remember what the committee is actually charged

473
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Speaker 4: to do. The College Football Playoff Committee is given a

474
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Speaker 4: set of criteria in writing, and then they sit down

475
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 4: and they vote on what they believe are the twelve

476
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 4: best teams in college football, the twenty five best teams.

477
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Speaker 4: But they select the twelve best teams for the college

478
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 4: football playoffs. They are specifically not supposed to factor in

479
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 4: whether or not they think it will be a good game.

480
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 4: They're not supported, Like, do you really want the committee,

481
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin or Sean mcdonner or anybody else sitting back

482
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 4: and saying, well, why don't we rank this team at

483
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 4: eight instead because that'll be a better game. Like, that's

484
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,919
Speaker 4: not their job. Their job is to decide who the

485
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Speaker 4: top twelve are and if it happens to be that

486
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 4: from that top twelve we get a slaughter. That's not

487
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 4: the committee's problem. The Committee's job is done. They don't

488
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 4: even need to watch these damn games at this point.

489
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 4: They did what they were charged to do, which is

490
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Speaker 4: come up with what was in their mind the twelve

491
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Speaker 4: best teams. And you know, if Lane Kiffen is mad

492
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Speaker 4: that Ole miss was left out, maybe be Kentucky. I mean,

493
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Speaker 4: I understand that everybody's going to question whether or not

494
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 4: Indiana belonged again. I'll say that I think this is

495
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 4: a bit of you know, confirmation bias and re business

496
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 4: history on all of this. But I specifically do not

497
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 4: want to start sitting here saying, well, the Committee should

498
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Speaker 4: have seen the this was gonna be a bad matchup,

499
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 4: because man, if we that's a slippery slope. That is

500
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 4: a objective. That is a you're asking all of a

501
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 4: sudden for feelings on matchups to be considered in these things.

502
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 4: That that's and then ratings will be considered all the

503
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 4: things that they don't consider right now, despite the conspiracy theorist,

504
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 4: it just, man, I don't want that slippery slope for

505
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 4: my committee.

506
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Speaker 3: Dude, I'm so with you.

507
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:27,679
Speaker 2: You know, all you're supposed to do is give me

508
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 2: the teams, all right, Like, don't I don't want you

509
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 2: to actually try to, you know, put together these matchups.

510
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 2: It's like, think about it, you know, Notre Dame I

511
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 2: didn't like to draw that. Notre Dame got I thought,

512
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 2: you know, and look at Penn State got an easy draw.

513
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 3: But that's all part of the randomness of the whole thing. Like,

514
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 3: just leave it be.

515
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 2: Don't try to match teams up, don't try to like, oh,

516
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 2: look at his first round, you know, look at this team.

517
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,879
Speaker 2: They try to do that with the basketball tournament. Just

518
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,880
Speaker 2: to word, let it play out. The games will be.

519
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 2: Some games will be good, some games won't be. I mean,

520
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 2: just let it be.

521
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, And if the problem with trying to consider what

522
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 4: makes a good matchup is that then you get into

523
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 4: this weird what are you rewarding and how are you

524
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 4: rewarding it? And why are you rewarding it? And you know,

525
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 4: this is just I think I'm so cautionary to this because,

526
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 4: to be very very clear, I think that last night's

527
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 4: final score is more competitive than some of the final

528
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 4: scores we're going to see today. And so you know

529
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 4: the problem is everybody's gonna start yelling and screaming, and

530
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 4: what do we do. You know, obviously we've got another

531
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 4: show between now and then, but man, I just wouldn't

532
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,439
Speaker 4: be surprised at all if the next round gives us

533
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 4: a couple of just absolute butt whoopings. And so all

534
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 4: of a sudden we're looking around and you know, in

535
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 4: two weeks we'll all be sitting here saying, shouldn't we

536
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 4: just only have four playoff teams?

537
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 3: Like no, no, no, no, no, no no.

538
00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 4: And that's why that's why I think we all just

539
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 4: got to calm down a little bit on the like, Hey.

540
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 2: This is I gotta be honest with you, though, like

541
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 2: i'd I agree with you, I Sean McDonough, I just

542
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,119
Speaker 2: I don't get it. I mean, you lived through it,

543
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 2: you've seen it, Like, I just don't understand it.

544
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 3: I don't.

545
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,119
Speaker 2: I get link Kiffick because he's got agenda, right, so

546
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 2: he's yeah, that's who he is.

547
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 3: But give me a break.

548
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 2: And like, if you're a part of the college football coterie,

549
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 2: you understand that what you saw in the past and

550
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,640
Speaker 2: now the evolution of it, this is the right thing

551
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 2: to do.

552
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 3: It just is and the interest is there.

553
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't. I mean, you know the rate.

554
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 2: It's ABC Friday Night. You know last night it was

555
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 2: a magical night. Right, It's a few days before Christmas?

556
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 2: We did you have snow? We had snow last night?

557
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, I mean perfect.

558
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 2: Right, like your cozy did Christmas trees up. You're watching

559
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 2: Notre Dame playoff game gets Indiana and it's snowing outside.

560
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 2: Come on, I mean, it's that's that's like, thank god, right,

561
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 2: you could take a moment enjoy it well.

562
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 4: And also if we're presuming, if somebody is presuming in

563
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 4: you know that frankly, there would have been a better

564
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 4: matchup against you know, Alabama for example, or Ole Miss

565
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 4: any of those things. Who knows, the other part of

566
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 4: it is like we have a result on one side,

567
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 4: we have a result where Notre Dame went in and

568
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 4: just knocked a snot out of Indiana. Again, I will

569
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 4: remind everybody a Notre Dame team that didn't play anybody

570
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 4: knocked the snot out of an Indiana team that didn't

571
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 4: play anybody. But sitting here saying, well, Alabama would have

572
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 4: performed better, you know, Ole miss would have been a

573
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 4: better matchup. Who who knows? Like, what we know is

574
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 4: that Indiana got their butts kicked, and that's really all

575
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 4: we know. Everything else is just presuming, and you're stacking

576
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 4: all of these dots together. And let's just remember that

577
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 4: part of the reason some of those other teams were

578
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 4: left out was because on their worst day they weren't

579
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 4: good enough. And by the way, on their worst day,

580
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 4: they wouldn't have been good enough in this matchup either,

581
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 4: So like, who just who knows? I just I always

582
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 4: find it really interesting to me in these situations that

583
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 4: we're gonna presume because Indiana got their butt kicked, that

584
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 4: we would have had the absolute juggernaut of a matchup

585
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 4: of an Alabama team that truly showed up, not of

586
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 4: the Alabama team that we saw frankly at times, just

587
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 4: bewilderingly bad football from so I just that's the part

588
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 4: of this at all. We're not playing apples versus apples.

589
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 4: We're playing apples against pretend to oranges. And that just

590
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 4: doesn't make any.

591
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 3: Sense to me.

592
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, apples get to pretend to oranges.

593
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 3: That's a good line.

594
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 4: They're not even real.

595
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 3: They're not even real.

596
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but I'll tell you lost. The whole thing is,

597
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 2: you know, no team's good like day just because they

598
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 2: didn't play anybody, and everybody said a lot, they didn't

599
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 2: pla anybody I look at and.

600
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Speaker 3: They had that one bad loss. That's a good team, man.

601
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 2: Really is the quarterback finally, you know, got into a rhythm,

602
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 2: found himself, found his place in the offense. The defense

603
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 2: we knew has been a lead. It's a really good team.

604
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it concerns me that Riley Leonards can't he

605
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 4: just won't push the ball down the field. I wonder

606
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 4: if that at some point, But man, I think this

607
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 4: conversation about Indiana could look a lot different in about

608
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 4: a week and a half when Notre Dame does the

609
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 4: same thing to Georgia. This Notre Dame defense is legit

610
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 4: in every possible way, like I've said, and you know,

611
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 4: Riley Leonard's ability to be part of a three headed

612
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 4: monster running back is just man, that's tough. It's tough

613
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 4: to beat. They They've figured out an offensive rhythm in

614
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 4: this game, and you know, frankly, they were at times

615
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 4: I felt like toying with Indiana. They've got to clean

616
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 4: a few things up. Man. If Ridley Leonard doesn't turn

617
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 4: the football over, they can win a national championship like

618
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 4: this is. My national championship pick for Yahoo was Oregon

619
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 4: over Notre Dame. So I didn't see anything last night

620
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 4: that made me change my mind on that, and I

621
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 4: think Oregon or sorry, I think Notre Dame now gets

622
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 4: the great benefit of taking on a Georgia team with

623
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 4: the backup quarterback, and they're going to do the same

624
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 4: thing that they did to Indiana. They're going to stack

625
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 4: the box huge, and then they're going to ask a

626
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 4: Georgia team that led the nation in dropped passes this

627
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 4: year to suddenly beat them one on one on the outside.

628
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 4: That ain't gonna happen. George is gonna struggle to put

629
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 4: points up against this defense.

630
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 2: I was thinking the same thing, and guess what whether

631
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 2: Beck was in there or not, they still struggle, I think.

632
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred percent. I mean their offense has been

633
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 4: bewilderingly bad at times this year, especially with the drop.

634
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 2: So yeah, all right, let's say quick tea out, we'll

635
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 2: come right back. What a fun morning, man, already lots

636
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 2: to talk about. We will dive into today's action a

637
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 2: little bit later on the NFL, the whole thing. You

638
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 2: know how we do every week fellas on Fox?

639
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 4: Happy holiday? Can I I know, because you have work

640
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 4: to do, keep it? But the music did you have

641
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 4: you ever noticed that it's singular happy holiday?

642
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 3: Wow? Yeah, I just.

643
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 4: Noticed this the other day. I've listened to this song

644
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 4: thousands of times and there's only one or two times

645
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 4: in the song. He actually pluralizes the word. Every other time.

646
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 4: It's happy holiday, happy holiday, Happy holiday to you. And

647
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 4: even the backup singers are singing holiday, not holidays.

648
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 3: Blew my mind, happy holiday. Yeah.

649
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 4: It's weird. I always thought it was happy holidays and

650
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 4: instead it's happy holiday. That's weird. It's weird.

651
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 3: Wow, Yeah, you know what.

652
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 2: You're right, You're right, And it's funny because we've all

653
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 2: heard it all a million times, like and we and

654
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 2: you just you know, in your mind, go hoppy holiday

655
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 2: and here it is and it's it's funny. That's the

656
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 2: title of the song, Happy Holiday.

657
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 4: Williams Holidays. And there you go like yeah, yeah, yeah,

658
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 4: but mind blowm sorry, you have actual work to do

659
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 4: to no.

660
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 2: No, actually, for this time, we just say welcome back

661
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 2: live from the Tyraq dot com studios.

662
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 3: That's it.

663
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,399
Speaker 2: Hey, but we'll get into a little holiday stuff too

664
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 2: in a bet. But I kind of want to start

665
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 2: setting up today and what today looks like, because there's

666
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 2: three of them that they starting getting noon. Man, I

667
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 2: got basketball practice today, eleven thirty to two.

668
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 3: I got basketball practice.

669
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 4: They want you, the kids want you to cancel practice.

670
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 4: It's right before Christmas. The football gods wants you to

671
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 4: cancel practice, right before Christmas.

672
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 3: Oh my god, do I want to cancel practice bad?

673
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 4: You know what you need to do, like today's focus coach. Coach,

674
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 4: here's the thing, I'm gonna give you a little speech. Heick.

675
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 4: Sometimes the most important thing you do on the court

676
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 4: is what you do off the court. Sometimes the best

677
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 4: way to bring a team together is to bring that

678
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 4: team together, but not in a focused way that makes

679
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 4: them work on, you know, the skills of basketball, but

680
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 4: makes them work on the skills of being human beings

681
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 4: and teammates and the best teammates they can be. And

682
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 4: the best way to do that watch party feels like

683
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 4: it's a watch party moment. Bring the team together, a

684
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 4: little pizza. You know, it's just you do the thing

685
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 4: everybody watches. Everybody hangs out together. Bonding. Bonding is what

686
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 4: everybody needs. You know what.

687
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 3: That's that's pretty good. That's pretty pretty good.

688
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 4: Won't help you when you're getting your butt kicked in

689
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,760
Speaker 4: the next game, but you know what, your team will

690
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 4: come together. It'll be the glue that holds you together.

691
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 4: Like if this were Disney movie, you guys would all

692
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 4: skip practice and the kids will be forever excited about

693
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 4: the pizza party they got while they watched college football player.

694
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, we could have went to the pizza party.

695
00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah, so so we p So it's

696
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 2: eleven after it's actually eleven o'clock.

697
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 3: It's eleven to two.

698
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 4: Practice for kids.

699
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 2: Well, here's why we have two teams in this JV

700
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:20,240
Speaker 2: because it's basically JV middle school, So we have two

701
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 2: It's a horrible story, but thank god it ended up fine.

702
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 2: So there's there's two teams, right, so I coach the

703
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 2: the I coached one of the teams and the other

704
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 2: team is coached by another guy. And he had a

705
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:45,800
Speaker 2: stroke and thank god he's now fine. It's unbelievable. He

706
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 2: has a stroke. And he's a great guy, great shape,

707
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 2: the whole thing. And I felt horrible. He so anyway,

708
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:59,919
Speaker 2: so it's in flux. So my assistant and I, I said, listen,

709
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 2: we'll coach those kids too.

710
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 3: We'll just run the whole thing.

711
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 2: We'll use our system and and you know, get them

712
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 2: in and they're they're a bit of a challenging group.

713
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,439
Speaker 2: They're like, I don't want to call it a B team,

714
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 2: but they're that kind of those kinds of kids. They're

715
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 2: they're fun, but they're not serious as much, right so,

716
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 2: and they don't pay attention.

717
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 3: Right, So I said, we'll do that. Well, well, we'll coach.

718
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 2: Both of the teams, right and then and then I

719
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 2: sent the thing out to the parents last night about

720
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 2: so that's why we have we actually have two combined

721
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 2: practice sessions. So then the then the guy calls me

722
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 2: up last night, I said, listen, I because I fill

723
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 2: up to it I can coach. I was like, oh

724
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 2: so man, I'm like that's great, and so we'll be

725
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 2: there to help you. So we'll help you at all.

726
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:53,320
Speaker 2: But now and i'm thinking about it, I'm going I go, hey, buddy,

727
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 2: you got it.

728
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 4: See, uh, that's amazing, Like, glad we glad we talked

729
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 4: to this. We'll see on the flip side, that's it.

730
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 4: You know, that's that's the right thing to do.

731
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 2: Listen, I'm there for you, man, I'm there for you,

732
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 2: just not today, all right.

733
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 4: Look, I for one think that that is absolutely reasonable

734
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,399
Speaker 4: on your end. It's you know, it's like, hey, there's

735
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 4: a there's a line on how far I want to

736
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 4: go to help, and I've now crossed that line. I

737
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 4: think that's the only way to.

738
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 2: Handle because if I go eleven to twelve thirty, I only.

739
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 3: Miss not even in the entire first quarter. Right, I'm home.

740
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 2: I lived ten minutes from the school, so I'm home

741
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 2: and i'm second start a second quarter.

742
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 3: I'm nestled. If I do the whole practice, I'm dead.

743
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you're missing you know you don't you

744
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 4: can't miss the Penn Steak cap.

745
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 2: I mean it's college, right, Oh, dude, you know you

746
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 2: know who. I'm Telly Pharaoh is Okay. So Adam was

747
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 2: paralyzed in a game he played for Penn State. This

748
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 2: was against Ohio State. He gets hurt, bad spinal injury.

749
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 2: He wakes, he works his way back. Now, thank god,

750
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 2: all these years later.

751
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 3: He can move.

752
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 2: He's got a family, the whole thing. But he's mister

753
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 2: Penn State. Joe Paterno went and visited him every week

754
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,720
Speaker 2: in the hospital during his recovery, and he was really,

755
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 2: really scary. And so I'll tell you the story coming

756
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 2: up about Adam. As we set up the games where

757
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 2: the fellas on Fox.

758
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports.

759
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 2: Well, good morning, good morning, Good morning.

760
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 3: Buddy.

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00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 2: Heaby yeaby yea by uh Fox Football Saturday fellas Jason

762
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767
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 2: are not in the first ever college football playoffs, the

768
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 2: EPICH Saturday three games today, we talked all about last

769
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:18,879
Speaker 2: night and the Irish beating Indiana and signetti great, great atmosphere,

770
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 2: the whole thing.

771
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 3: Hey, FITZI let me just finish the story.

772
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 2: So there's a there's a kidnam, a guy named Adam Taliaferrow.

773
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 2: Adam played for Penn State. I think the injury happened

774
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 2: in two thousand and one. I want to say so.

775
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 2: Adam was a highly recruited defensive back. It's a special

776
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 2: team's play. He gets hit right on the neck. He

777
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 2: laid motionless on the field. It's it's right in the horseshoe.

778
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 2: Never forget taught. You know, we've he's a friend of mine,

779
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 2: so we've talked about it a million times. And tell

780
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 2: me the whole story. He was mean back to the

781
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 2: hospital and they said they thought he would never move again,

782
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:11,240
Speaker 2: and awful thing. He spends months in a rehab and

783
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 2: he works his way. He still struggles on one side,

784
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:18,800
Speaker 2: but he can walk now. He has a family, right God,

785
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 2: thank God. It's it's an amazing story of recovery. It's

786
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 2: a beautiful story. In fact, it should be a movie.

787
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:30,919
Speaker 2: And Adam is a Penn State through and through. Joe

788
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 2: Paterno used to fly in every week to Philadelphia to

789
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:36,720
Speaker 2: visit him.

790
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 3: Every Thursday.

791
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 2: He would come in and he would bring a different

792
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 2: set of coaches, he would bring different players, and he

793
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 2: did it for two years and it was a beautiful story.

794
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 2: So Adam is mister Penn State.

795
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 3: Right.

796
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,799
Speaker 2: He's a huge, huge part of the organization of the

797
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 2: of the football program and you know, does a lot

798
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 2: of work with alumni and the whole thing.

799
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 3: Right, So he's mister Penn State.

800
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:08,799
Speaker 2: So he tells me yesterday that his daughter has a

801
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 2: recital of the Nutcracker at twelve o'c at one o'clock

802
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 2: on Oh wow, today.

803
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 3: There is mister Penn State. Right.

804
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 2: The guy's like, I mean, knows every you know, he's

805
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 2: very close to friendly. He helps recruit for Franklin, the

806
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 2: whole thing. And he's like, dude, can you believe it?

807
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 2: I have to go to this recital. It's his daughter.

808
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 2: I supposed to do.

809
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 3: Well.

810
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, what do you do in that situation? Like is

811
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:40,919
Speaker 4: look on the rare times of my life that I've

812
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 4: missed important sport sporting events, and I usually, especially like

813
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:48,399
Speaker 4: when I was touring and living on a tour bus

814
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 4: in general, a lot of times what I would do

815
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 4: is turn absolutely every device off, But that is so

816
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:56,839
Speaker 4: hard to do, you know, like because if you turn

817
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 4: every device off, you tape the game, then you got

818
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 4: to like make sure that you know and accidentally hear

819
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:02,799
Speaker 4: anything you don't accidentally see that You really have to

820
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 4: turn your phone off now in today's society, because you

821
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 4: never know where you're gonna get an accidental notification, or

822
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 4: whether somebody that you haven't talked to in ten years

823
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 4: decides that's a moment to ask you a question about

824
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 4: the game or comment on it. Like I think you

825
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 4: have to turn every device off in not even airplane mode,

826
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 4: because you don't know if something's gonna pop through that

827
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 4: way and you're gonna have to record it and then

828
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 4: you come home and you watch it like it's live

829
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 4: in its entirety on the TV without skipping any commercials

830
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 4: because you don't want to take the chance to hit

831
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 4: a wrong button. Like I think that's the only way

832
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 4: you can do it.

833
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, you're right. I don't know how else

834
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:39,759
Speaker 3: you can do it.

835
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:44,760
Speaker 2: He said that he's going to uh, like he'll watch,

836
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 2: you know, he'll figure out a way where he's you know,

837
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 2: can follow the game during the performance.

838
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:54,479
Speaker 3: Because you can't.

839
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 4: That's always a good idea, but boy, it never like

840
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 4: because then you're in the middle of something and all

841
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 4: of a sudden, a huge play happens. Whether you're watching

842
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 4: on Game Center like sort of thing, watching the play

843
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 4: by play of it, or just checking in intermittently. Like

844
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 4: then you're not focused on either, you know, you're just not.

845
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 4: If Benn State runs away with the game, that's a

846
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 4: great way to do it. If State run a tight game,

847
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 4: oh that is going to be you know, then all

848
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,320
Speaker 4: of a sudden, it's like, yeah, honey, you were great.

849
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 4: We'll talk about it later. Let's get home.

850
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 2: You're spot on, You're so right, You're so spot on

851
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 2: with that. So let's get into it. Let's kind of

852
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 2: look at these three games. We'll start with the aforementioned

853
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 2: Penn State SMU. Now I'll ask you. Now, it's going

854
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 2: to be freezing at in the Happy Valley, So Dallas

855
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 2: kids not used to the freezing right like it's going

856
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 2: to be you know, in the twenties, teens and twenties

857
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 2: to start a kickoff. So I'm curious right now. Again,

858
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 2: the essay offense is a different animal. Now, obviously Penn

859
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 2: State has the advantage when it comes to the you know,

860
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 2: the trenches, it should be able to bully SMU. But

861
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 2: during the course of the season, SMU is pretty good

862
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 2: against the run. You're feeling routed. I think you feel

863
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 2: route for all three games.

864
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 4: I feel route for two of the three games, but

865
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 4: this one you have. So here's the hard part about

866
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 4: you know, it's just size. You know, when you talk

867
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 4: about size and depth on the line, and what do

868
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 4: we see last night? You know, coming into the game,

869
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 4: Indiana's numbers against the run were really stout, really stout,

870
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,360
Speaker 4: and then throughout the course of the game, it's like, okay,

871
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 4: that that that's not going to hold up against a

872
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 4: team that's just more physical, that's more powerful, and then

873
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 4: has more size and more depth and offensive and defensive

874
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 4: line size and depth. It's just not something you can

875
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 4: fake your way through, right, And so to me, this

876
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 4: comes down to Penn State's ability to control the line

877
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 4: of scrimmage. It's gonna be there, you know. I just

878
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 4: I don't think that SMU can stop that. And I

879
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 4: do think it's surprising to me because you mentioned the weather.

880
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 4: I don't feel I feel like we've been so obsessed

881
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 4: with Tennessee going into Ohio State that we haven't really

882
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 4: talked enough about the fact that SMU that is a

883
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:21,240
Speaker 4: bunch of good old Texas boys going up to Happy

884
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 4: Valley or to yeah To going up to Happy Valley.

885
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 4: Like that's that's a level of freezing. They're gonna freeze

886
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,919
Speaker 4: a little tushes off. There's no doubt about that. That's

887
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 4: a really professional football analysis for you there. But uh yeah,

888
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 4: I think the cold is gonna it's gonna bother them

889
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 4: immensely in it. And this is the best thing about

890
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 4: these home field advantages. It's like you, if you're Penn State,

891
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 4: you know you were gonna have all the momentum from

892
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 4: the out right, You were gonna have all of the

893
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,319
Speaker 4: the juice coming into this. Like the SMU is gonna

894
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 4: have to survive a couple of really big punches early on.

895
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 4: And I keep going back to the a c C

896
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 4: Championship game. I thought they came out tight in the

897
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 4: a c C Sampionship Game, and by the time they

898
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:04,360
Speaker 4: woke themselves up and they were themselves they had already

899
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 4: dug a hole they couldn't get out of. You do

900
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:07,879
Speaker 4: that at a Happy Valley, you're going to be down

901
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:09,760
Speaker 4: twenty one, nothing before you have a chance to do anything.

902
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 4: I feel like this is the sort of game that

903
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 4: they're going to lose thirty one to seventeen, thirty one, thirteen,

904
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:16,760
Speaker 4: some of that range.

905
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:19,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could. I could see that. I could totally

906
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 3: see it.

907
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:24,439
Speaker 2: You know what sucks is, I'm just looking at the

908
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 2: hourly weather for today for State College. So at kickoff

909
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:33,240
Speaker 2: at noon, it's going to be twenty five degrees wins

910
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 2: at eleven mile an hour, and that's the high. Today's

911
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 2: twenty five. It sucks because right around four o'clock snow,

912
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 2: and it's going to snow all night. Ah man, we

913
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 2: just missed it. I wish the gay was later. If

914
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,439
Speaker 2: the gay was later, we get the snow game.

915
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 4: I mean, Penn State fans wish it was later too.

916
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 4: I mean if that had been a nighttime wide out

917
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 4: in the snow, my god, that would have been apt. Absolutely,

918
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 4: you know, an epic home field advantage and at a

919
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 4: great sort of vibe and feel. This is the fan

920
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 4: of a West Coast team yelling and screaming into the

921
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 4: abyss for a minute. I hate the fact that when

922
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 4: they schedule these things, they don't sit there and say, hey,

923
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,359
Speaker 4: what's the best probability for decent weather. I really do

924
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 4: like the fact that they put Ohio State at night

925
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:27,800
Speaker 4: in Texas in the middle of the day, Like Texas

926
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 4: is going to be the easiest environment into play in

927
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:33,840
Speaker 4: and so to put Texas in the middle of the

928
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 4: day instead of Texas at night is such a weird

929
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 4: advantage to give. And we see that all the time,

930
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 4: where you know, a West Coast team in the NFL playoffs,

931
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 4: because it's all about which teams are going to get

932
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 4: the best ratings in which teams they want to put

933
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 4: on TV. I get it at different times. It's why,

934
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 4: you know, as I've said before, the Jags and Texans,

935
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 4: and you know, it feels like every time the Raiders

936
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 4: have been in the playoffs both times in the last

937
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 4: fifteen years, good god, they've been like early Saturday afternoon games,

938
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 4: and it's just it's kind of weird to me. But

939
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 4: to me, you put the teams that are going to

940
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 4: have the decent weather in the best situation. So I

941
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:07,399
Speaker 4: would have put Texas at night, and then I would

942
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 4: have put Penn State and Ohio State is my afternoon games.

943
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 4: But that's just me screaming into the abyss.

944
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I feel you, although, no, you're right.

945
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:17,319
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, they're going up at the best game

946
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 2: at night and that's kind of you know how it is.

947
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 2: So let's get back to Penn State and Oha and

948
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 2: SMU do So is there any game script that you

949
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:35,240
Speaker 2: think that SMU can stress them a little bit? Now

950
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 2: here's the thing, right, SMU only gives up ninety yards

951
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 2: on the ground, all right, now the off The interesting

952
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 2: thing is, uh can pen now Penn SMU is vulnerable

953
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 2: through the air. Penn State does not have good receivers,

954
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:57,280
Speaker 2: although they have like an incredible, incredible tight end and Warren,

955
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 2: so Aller to Warren could be a huge day for them.

956
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 3: I don't know.

957
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 2: I'm curious to see if if they can do. I

958
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 2: like that for Shot Smith at running back too. I mean,

959
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 2: he's legit. What do you think?

960
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred percent. This The funny thing is, as

961
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 4: much as we want to make everything in football about

962
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 4: points points points, I believe in the college football playoff,

963
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:24,839
Speaker 4: if you can run and you can stop the run,

964
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 4: you will win. And I mean, hell, we saw that

965
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 4: last night, right, Like the team that could run also

966
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 4: stop the run and they won. And so there's two

967
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 4: headed monster Penn State running backs. I think they find

968
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 4: room against SMU, and they're gonna have to find room

969
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 4: against SMU. So, you know, I think that's a big

970
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 4: key to me is can Penn State? Because if Penn

971
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 4: State truly cannot run the football in this game, it

972
00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 4: gets really complicated. SMU is such a speed, you know, offense.

973
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 4: I just don't know how you get You keep your

974
00:50:57,239 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 4: legs warm and you get that speed in that weather.

975
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 4: That's what it's part of. This is just bad timing,

976
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,359
Speaker 4: bad matchup. Like again, I'll say the same thing about

977
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 4: SMO I said about Indiana. I don't believe SMU is

978
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 4: a bad football team. I believe that this feels like

979
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 4: a bad matchup in part because of the way Penn

980
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 4: State runs their offense, in part because of the way

981
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 4: I think Penn State's going to control the line of scrimmage,

982
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 4: in part because they're going to control time of possession,

983
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,880
Speaker 4: which is just then you've got this speed offense that

984
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 4: likes to spread things out and get going. It's just

985
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 4: going to be standing there getting cold and cold and cold.

986
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 2: You know, dude, I know I'm thinking about Jennings right,

987
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 2: and listen, Jennings to help apply, right, you know, a

988
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 2: dull threat you could do with so many different things,

989
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:45,399
Speaker 2: but the dull threat on speed doesn't do well on tundra, right,

990
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 2: Like that never translates to tundra.

991
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:53,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh god, you're so right about that. And you know, also,

992
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:55,919
Speaker 4: when you're talking about even if the guys that aren't

993
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 4: used to it are just running a milliseconds slower, you're

994
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 4: gonna be running a millisecon and slower against one of

995
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 4: the best best pass rushers in college football. Yeah, like,

996
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,439
Speaker 4: that's just Jennings is going to have to be lights out.

997
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 4: He's gonna have to move the pocket, he's gonna have

998
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 4: to climb the pocket, and he's gonna have to be

999
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 4: really accurate. Like I think there are chances for them

1000
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 4: to take some deep shots, and the question is just

1001
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 4: Ken Jennings, you know, get free enough to do that,

1002
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 4: and can they actually stress the back end of Penn

1003
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:22,360
Speaker 4: State's defense.

1004
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you've seen this before, right when these dome

1005
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:32,279
Speaker 2: teams go outside. This is again brings us back to

1006
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,360
Speaker 2: how we started the show, which was the beauty of

1007
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:39,080
Speaker 2: the playoffs and the home field advantage, right like this

1008
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,920
Speaker 2: is you know, the game was on the NFL network.

1009
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 2: I just happened to watch it the other day on

1010
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 2: Thursday was on and it was the There was an

1011
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 2: NFC championship game between the Falcons and Eagles, and Michael

1012
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 2: Vick was the quarterback. And I remember because I was

1013
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 2: at the game and it was free and it was

1014
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 2: one of those twenty degree days and Mike just kept

1015
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 2: running under the big coat like he.

1016
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 3: Wanted nothing to do with the cold. Man, Like when

1017
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 3: you're coming from the Dome, you're coming from the warm weather,

1018
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 3: and you got to play those elements like that's real.

1019
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 3: That's no joke.

1020
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 2: It's one thing for Indiana that's used to the weather, right,

1021
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:29,880
Speaker 2: that's some us I used to that nothing.

1022
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:31,720
Speaker 3: And that's bone chilling.

1023
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 2: That's you know, Hills of Pennsylvania winter cold.

1024
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:40,799
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I mean that's and and then you

1025
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 4: start thinking about that cold and the way it impacts

1026
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 4: just everything in the offense, you can call it. I

1027
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 4: don't think that there's a game in the first round

1028
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 4: of the playoffs that I would feel more that I

1029
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:54,360
Speaker 4: would feel more different about than this one if it

1030
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 4: were in the other spot. Yes, I agree, it's a

1031
00:53:58,120 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 4: different game.

1032
00:53:59,120 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 3: I think.

1033
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:03,279
Speaker 2: I think matchup wise, they got a real shot. But

1034
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 2: I think people are glossing over like every time I

1035
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 2: hear someone and they're analyzed the game, and I get it, like,

1036
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 2: you know, nobody wants to predict a blowout, and they're

1037
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 2: talking about how SMU as this and that, and I

1038
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 2: just keep going, how is that speed not negated like

1039
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 2: all that stuff. I don't know how it's not negated

1040
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 2: in that kind of weather outside on that kind of field.

1041
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:29,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that doesn't take anything away again, I mean,

1042
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:32,480
Speaker 4: even losing the ACC championship game, I thought one thing

1043
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 4: that was impressive for SMU is that they dug themselves

1044
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:37,759
Speaker 4: into a hole and they they got out of it.

1045
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 4: Like they played after the first quarter. They played a

1046
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:44,720
Speaker 4: really good game. Unfortunately, they just the hole was too big,

1047
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:47,840
Speaker 4: and you know, frankly, it was it was interesting to

1048
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 4: see them come out as tight as I felt like

1049
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 4: they came out in that game, but they were able

1050
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,799
Speaker 4: to overcome that. There's a lot of respect here for

1051
00:54:55,840 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 4: what SMU can do, particularly offensively. It's just if they

1052
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 4: can't get the ball, doesn't matter. And you know, when

1053
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 4: you talk about the way Penn State runs the ball,

1054
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:08,919
Speaker 4: you know, I just there's so much opportunity there I'm

1055
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 4: with you. You've said something throughout the course of the year

1056
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 4: that I think we need to remember going into the playoff,

1057
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 4: and that's other than Tyler Warren, Penn State does not

1058
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 4: really have that outside receiving that. They do not have

1059
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 4: a clear They don't have a clear cut number one

1060
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 4: wide receiver that we all look at and say, ah,

1061
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 4: that's the guy. I wonder if that hurts them throughout

1062
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 4: the run of the playoffs, But in this game, I

1063
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 4: think they have that Their goal is just going to

1064
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 4: be to run the ball one hundred and fifty times,

1065
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,759
Speaker 4: you know, exaggeration, but their ball is Their goal is

1066
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 4: going to be to control the clock, to run the ball,

1067
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 4: and just crying down SMU, which I think they will like.

1068
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 4: This feels like one of those games that is seven

1069
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 4: to three for a long time and then you wake

1070
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 4: up all of a sudden it's twenty one to three

1071
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 4: and you're like, man, how did we get here? That's

1072
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 4: just how it feels like it runs to me.

1073
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,799
Speaker 3: I can totally feel I feel you on that. I

1074
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:51,879
Speaker 3: totally feel you on that.

1075
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 2: It's uh, it's funny because you're right like you why

1076
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 2: I think back to the A sec championship game. I

1077
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 2: mean they I mean, you couldn't get a slower start, right,

1078
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 2: Like they came out and they looked like a mess.

1079
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 2: If they do that against Penn State, I don't know.

1080
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:12,760
Speaker 2: I don't know how that defense gonna hold up either,

1081
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 2: Like just the pounding on that old line, I.

1082
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 3: Don't know how that's gonna work, you know.

1083
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 2: I mean, let me go through their schedule and like

1084
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:27,399
Speaker 2: you know, you saw Clemson, and Clemson's not very good, right,

1085
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:30,840
Speaker 2: So I don't know. I don't know what you glean

1086
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:34,720
Speaker 2: from that. If you can glean that they can hold

1087
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:39,399
Speaker 2: up against bigger teams, big ten teams, I just don't

1088
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 2: say it. Here's who they had Fincy, and you tell

1089
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 2: me if there's anything like Penn State. You got Nevada, Houston,

1090
00:56:50,280 --> 00:57:04,200
Speaker 2: Christian BYU, TCU, Florida State, Louisville, Stanford, Duke Pitt, Boston College,

1091
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:08,280
Speaker 2: Virginia Cal and Clemson.

1092
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:12,360
Speaker 4: I mean, some of those teams weren't bad football teams

1093
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 4: this year, especially when they played them, Like Louisville have

1094
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 4: moments this year, Boston College even have moments this year.

1095
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 4: But but my god, like are any of those like Juggernauts. No,

1096
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 4: this is gonna be all I'm just looking for. Is

1097
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 4: there a Penn State light? Yeah?

1098
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 3: Is there?

1099
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 4: There isn't odam in No.

1100
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 3: I don't say it.

1101
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 4: I don't.

1102
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:32,880
Speaker 3: I don't see a Penn State light.

1103
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 2: So it's one thing to say, well, yeah, you know what,

1104
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 2: you know, they're pretty good against the run. They they

1105
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 2: can hold teams on their you know, they've held they've

1106
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 2: held teams on their one hundred yards. But this is

1107
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 2: this is two big backs, I mean, two good backs

1108
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 2: with complementary backs, a big old line. I just think

1109
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 2: it's a different animal.

1110
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 4: Yeah. I actually agree one hundred and that it's that's

1111
00:57:59,880 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 4: the context that we have to have. That's why, you know, frankly,

1112
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 4: in the NFL, when you hear, oh, that's the second

1113
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 4: best defense against the run, of the top five defense

1114
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:10,480
Speaker 4: against the run, that means something. It does. In college football,

1115
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 4: those sorts of stats mean nothing to me because it

1116
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 4: is so common to see. You know, we remember an

1117
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 4: era where every year the top passing offense in college

1118
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:23,000
Speaker 4: football was Hawaii, Right, Like, does that mean that suddenly

1119
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 4: a big boy team was scared to take on Hawaii? No,

1120
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 4: it just meant that, like with who they were playing

1121
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:30,440
Speaker 4: and who they were playing against. They could put up

1122
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 4: a bunch of yards and a bunch of numbers. Huzzah. Like

1123
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:35,240
Speaker 4: that's just when you start to look at some of

1124
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 4: these numbers. Well the top I'll give you the Tennessee

1125
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 4: Ohio State game. Those are two defenses that can stop

1126
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:44,439
Speaker 4: the run against two offenses that can run the football. Absolutely.

1127
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 4: Those two teams have played real football teams in the

1128
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 4: process of it. They've played enough opponents that I think

1129
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 4: we've seen that have comparable size up front. That's the

1130
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 4: part of like what everybody says it's brand biased certain conferences.

1131
00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 4: To me, it's not brand bias. I got size bias.

1132
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 4: Like if you've got huge human beings upfront, that to

1133
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:05,280
Speaker 4: me is what if you've got not just five huge

1134
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:07,760
Speaker 4: human beings either, Like Ohio State has had to shuffle

1135
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:09,960
Speaker 4: their offensive line all over the place. That hasn't been

1136
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 4: good at times, but man, they got they got hoss

1137
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:15,840
Speaker 4: after hoss after hoss up there, and that's just that's different.

1138
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 4: That size thing just is that's just a different beast.

1139
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 4: And that's what we saw last night. Like the game

1140
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 4: was won last night on a line of scrimmage on

1141
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 4: both sides of the ball by Notre Dame. So I'm

1142
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 4: I'm even more convinced after last night's playoff matchup that

1143
00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 4: if you are bigger, faster, stronger, and better coached.

1144
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:36,400
Speaker 2: Upfront, you will win these games. It was skilled and

1145
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 2: this is why last night, I think you and I

1146
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:43,920
Speaker 2: both liked Notre game. And we saw them struggle against

1147
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 2: Ohio State, and we saw Indiana struggle against Michigan. Even

1148
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:52,120
Speaker 2: though they won the game that came with stress game,

1149
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 2: they struggled to get margin because they struggled to run

1150
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:01,439
Speaker 2: the football. And you knew it, you knew you saw

1151
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 2: it once. The two comps were perfect, right, Ohio State

1152
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:11,120
Speaker 2: and Michigan they're deep those units, So how are they

1153
01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:12,439
Speaker 2: going to run against Notre Dame.

1154
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why we're one for one on one thing transparent,

1155
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:23,480
Speaker 4: like it's easy. Take all your emotion out, take all

1156
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 4: your their thoughts about conferences out, and just you know,

1157
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 4: look at the matchups and the fat boys. It'll leads

1158
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:29,760
Speaker 4: you right to a winner.

1159
01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:31,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel you.

1160
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 2: All right, We'll continue going through all the games where

1161
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:35,800
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1162
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:37,640
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1163
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1168
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1169
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1170
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:06,800
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1181
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1182
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:51,560
Speaker 2: over these games today. So I think we're both kind

1183
01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 2: of sussing out any agreement that it feels like a

1184
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 2: Penn state. Now the line is eight and a half

1185
01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:03,680
Speaker 2: and again I would like, I mean, I would lay

1186
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:06,800
Speaker 2: over ten. I think this is a ten point game.

1187
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:10,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a double digit win, A convincing easy

1188
01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 4: double digit win. Unless there's a backdoor cover at the

1189
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:15,680
Speaker 4: end of this thing, I can't imagine it being single

1190
01:02:15,680 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 4: digits to me.

1191
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:20,400
Speaker 2: I mean, look at the teams, and you could see

1192
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:25,360
Speaker 2: teams that Penn State had that advantage up front. I

1193
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:28,919
Speaker 2: mean they just they murdered right like you know. They

1194
01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 2: put up thirty four against West Virginia. They put up

1195
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 2: fifty six against Kent State. Illinois was good with a

1196
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 2: good defense. They beat him twenty one to seven. They

1197
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 2: beat UCLA twenty seven to eleven. They went at USC

1198
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:49,439
Speaker 2: they went at Wisconsin twenty eight thirteen. We talk about

1199
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:52,480
Speaker 2: the loss against Ohio State, which was the good loss.

1200
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 2: They roll Washington thirty five to six. They rolled Purdue

1201
01:02:56,760 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 2: forty nine to ten. That they eaked over over Minnesota,

1202
01:03:02,520 --> 01:03:04,840
Speaker 2: a tough game, but they win twenty six to twenty five.

1203
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 2: They rolled Maryland forty four to seven. And of course

1204
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:11,560
Speaker 2: in the Big Ten Championship, it was that back and

1205
01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:16,400
Speaker 2: forth shootout with Oregon. So I mean this one and

1206
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:19,840
Speaker 2: I can't see the other thing is I just don't

1207
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:25,440
Speaker 2: see SMU stopping them. I mean, Clemson puts up thirty

1208
01:03:25,520 --> 01:03:28,920
Speaker 2: four on them. And again, I know the game was

1209
01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:32,800
Speaker 2: weird early and there was some turnovers and everything, but man,

1210
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:37,720
Speaker 2: like you know, Clemson was able to really dart them

1211
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:38,520
Speaker 2: down the field.

1212
01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:43,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I've still got the Big Ten Championship game

1213
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:46,720
Speaker 4: in my mind too, where you know, frankly, if I'm Oregon,

1214
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:49,200
Speaker 4: I've been losing sleep ever since that game because of

1215
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 4: the way Penn State just ran the ball all over

1216
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 4: me and controlled me on the on the line of scrimmage.

1217
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:56,880
Speaker 4: So we've seen against what is maybe the most under

1218
01:03:56,920 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 4: talked about, number one, top overall seed defeated team in

1219
01:04:01,320 --> 01:04:04,840
Speaker 4: college football, right Like, we saw Penn State absolutely get

1220
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:06,520
Speaker 4: into a shootout and take them all the way down

1221
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:09,640
Speaker 4: to the buyer. So that also plays into this, like that,

1222
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:13,480
Speaker 4: let's let's not make this complicated. Oregan's a much better team,

1223
01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:16,800
Speaker 4: you know than at this point than sm you could

1224
01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 4: imagine to be, and we just saw what Penn State

1225
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 4: did to him. So also when you talk about some

1226
01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:23,720
Speaker 4: of those scores and you throw out the twenty eight

1227
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 4: to thirteen, like that's Penn State football. This year, Like

1228
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:31,840
Speaker 4: they're comfortable just controlling the clock, They're comfortable taking yards

1229
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:35,320
Speaker 4: in small chunks. They're comfortable just wearing you down throughout

1230
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:37,480
Speaker 4: the course of the game. They're comfortable in an ugly

1231
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:40,160
Speaker 4: twenty eight thirteen sort of football game. And this feels

1232
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:42,360
Speaker 4: like it could be you know that, Like I think

1233
01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:44,640
Speaker 4: this to me, this is sort of a thirty one

1234
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 4: thirteen sort of game. But yeah, I think I think

1235
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:50,479
Speaker 4: this is a hand just an easy If you're Penn

1236
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 4: State fan in the fourth quarter, you're laughing and you're

1237
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:55,560
Speaker 4: checking your phone and you're seeing how everybody thinks you're

1238
01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 4: gonna match up in the next round.

1239
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Now I see the same thing.

1240
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:04,600
Speaker 2: All right, Let's go to the team that saim you

1241
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 2: played in that championship game, Clemson and Clemson. I this one.

1242
01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:16,720
Speaker 2: I just don't see it. I mean, I know Dabbo

1243
01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:21,840
Speaker 2: is an accomplished coach. I don't see how that Clemson

1244
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 2: team stays with Texas.

1245
01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 4: I don't.

1246
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 2: Now, you know, the report is yours ankles. Yours ankles

1247
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:34,400
Speaker 2: is better. I'd still use arch, but you know, I mean,

1248
01:05:34,480 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 2: other than trying to have Huers as a sitting duck,

1249
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:40,400
Speaker 2: I just don't see it.

1250
01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:41,960
Speaker 3: I don't see how that game's close.

1251
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:46,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, And frankly, if it's Arch, I think that only

1252
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:51,520
Speaker 4: plays even more into Texas's hands. Just Quin yours has

1253
01:05:51,520 --> 01:05:54,360
Speaker 4: not been himself since the injury earlier this year, and

1254
01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:57,160
Speaker 4: I just and I don't have any reporting, I want

1255
01:05:57,160 --> 01:05:59,680
Speaker 4: to say that loudly, this is just my brain being

1256
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:02,360
Speaker 4: my I look at this and I just wouldn't be

1257
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:04,440
Speaker 4: surprised at all after the season if we find out

1258
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:07,560
Speaker 4: that Quinn's getting something sort of scoped or cleaned up,

1259
01:06:07,600 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 4: because he earlier in the year was throwing the ball

1260
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 4: so effectively, particularly while he was climbing the pocket, and

1261
01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:17,280
Speaker 4: then he has the shoulder injury and he just hasn't

1262
01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:20,360
Speaker 4: been His accuracy hasn't been the same since. And that's

1263
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:23,800
Speaker 4: I think a little alarming. The thing that holds Texas

1264
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:27,080
Speaker 4: back at this point has been Quinn Ewers to a

1265
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:29,560
Speaker 4: certain extent. And you know, we saw that in the

1266
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 4: SEC Championship game that if you can take away the run,

1267
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:36,200
Speaker 4: there's nothing that Texas was able to do to sort

1268
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:39,280
Speaker 4: of counter that. So will Clemson come in and try

1269
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:41,720
Speaker 4: and take away the run? Yes, But here's the thing.

1270
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:43,960
Speaker 4: The only way you're beating Texas is if you score

1271
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:46,400
Speaker 4: and I don't know how this Clemson offense is going

1272
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:48,840
Speaker 4: to score against state Texas defense, I continue to yell

1273
01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:50,920
Speaker 4: and scream. Has a bunch of grown ass men back

1274
01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:54,680
Speaker 4: there like that Texas defense is. Look if you just

1275
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:58,120
Speaker 4: love watching a defense that communicates well, that seems to

1276
01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:01,160
Speaker 4: always be in position, that we also knows how to control,

1277
01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:03,080
Speaker 4: keep the ball in front of them, that they know

1278
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:05,200
Speaker 4: how to bat the ball down, one is coming towards them.

1279
01:07:05,240 --> 01:07:08,960
Speaker 4: They just there is nothing that this Texas defense can't accomplish.

1280
01:07:09,280 --> 01:07:10,680
Speaker 4: I just don't see where the points are going to

1281
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 4: come for Clemson. I feel like Clemson is going to

1282
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:14,680
Speaker 4: beat their head against the wall the entire game trying

1283
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:17,560
Speaker 4: to figure out how sustained drives. This one is the

1284
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:18,680
Speaker 4: biggest blowout of the day.

1285
01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:21,160
Speaker 3: To me, Yeah, I do.

1286
01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:24,480
Speaker 2: I feel the same way. I you know, I don't

1287
01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:27,840
Speaker 2: see how this game's close. I really don't, you know,

1288
01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 2: I mean, that'sn't of all the teams, I think Clemson

1289
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Speaker 2: is the weakest.

1290
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they backed into the College.

1291
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:40,800
Speaker 2: Football I mean more than Indiana, more than that CMU.

1292
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:44,280
Speaker 2: I just I just I look at that team and

1293
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:47,720
Speaker 2: I you know, I don't see, I don't say it

1294
01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:49,240
Speaker 2: neutral field.

1295
01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:51,840
Speaker 4: Right now today I would take Indiana over Clemson, So

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Speaker 4: I think what you're saying is fair. And then it's

1297
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:58,400
Speaker 4: also just a bad matchup, like it's again, I keep

1298
01:07:58,400 --> 01:08:01,320
Speaker 4: going back to some of these matchup things. But man,

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01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:04,400
Speaker 4: Kate Clebnick has been up and down. He's gotten better,

1300
01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:07,120
Speaker 4: much better he's played. He's sort of the opposite of

1301
01:08:07,160 --> 01:08:09,480
Speaker 4: Quinn you weers. He's played so much better towards the

1302
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 4: end of the year than he did in the beginning

1303
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 4: of the year. And I'll give him credit for that growth.

1304
01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:16,400
Speaker 4: But against this Texas defense, where he's gonna have tiny

1305
01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:18,800
Speaker 4: windows to throw into, I just, man, I don't trust

1306
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:20,000
Speaker 4: Kate Kate Clebnick at all.

1307
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Speaker 3: No, I don't either at all. I don't either.

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01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:27,519
Speaker 2: And you know, Texas like you know, when they have

1309
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:33,000
Speaker 2: an advantage like that, like Dave Berry teams like Texas

1310
01:08:33,080 --> 01:08:36,240
Speaker 2: is the is, the is the if they if they

1311
01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:42,160
Speaker 2: they exploit your matchup, and then it becomes downhill. And

1312
01:08:42,520 --> 01:08:45,080
Speaker 2: here's the only way Clemsy could stay in the game

1313
01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:51,360
Speaker 2: is if their defense creates havoc. And it's this slog

1314
01:08:51,439 --> 01:08:55,800
Speaker 2: of the game. I mean, the minute you fall down

1315
01:08:56,040 --> 01:09:01,400
Speaker 2: fourteen nothing. You know, your your toast. I don't see

1316
01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:03,160
Speaker 2: how they can they can get back into a game

1317
01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:03,479
Speaker 2: like that.

1318
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Speaker 4: I love that point by you because that's going to

1319
01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:10,519
Speaker 4: be a theme for the two games we've talked about

1320
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 4: so far. There's just no wiggle room, Like if you

1321
01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:18,559
Speaker 4: are SMU and if you are Clemson, you cannot fall

1322
01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:21,320
Speaker 4: down by two touchdowns. Like the minute this becomes a

1323
01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:23,080
Speaker 4: fourteen game point game, it might as well be a

1324
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:25,080
Speaker 4: twenty eight point game. I don't think either of these

1325
01:09:25,080 --> 01:09:27,200
Speaker 4: teams can dig out of that hole, even if they've

1326
01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 4: done it in the past this season that the opponents

1327
01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 4: that they're taking on are not the type of opponent

1328
01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 4: that they're going to be matched up well against to

1329
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:34,200
Speaker 4: be able to come out of this. If you are

1330
01:09:34,320 --> 01:09:37,600
Speaker 4: made one dimensional against either of these teams, it's just

1331
01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 4: going to get ugly. And that's that it feels to me.

1332
01:09:40,160 --> 01:09:42,719
Speaker 4: Like as much as Dabo you know, has made it clear,

1333
01:09:42,720 --> 01:09:45,080
Speaker 4: hey we're in the College FOOTBA Playoff, Yeah, congrats you are.

1334
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:48,439
Speaker 4: And if the way to judge Clemson as a program

1335
01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:51,240
Speaker 4: now is simply make the College Football Playoff, that's going

1336
01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:53,519
Speaker 4: to be something year and year out. I think they're

1337
01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:55,840
Speaker 4: capable of doing in the ACC. If the way we're

1338
01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:59,599
Speaker 4: supposed to be judging them is winning national championships, we're

1339
01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:02,560
Speaker 4: gonna be reminded today that there is there is a

1340
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:05,760
Speaker 4: full on ocean between where Clemson is and where the

1341
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:07,240
Speaker 4: best of the best in college football is.

1342
01:10:07,280 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 2: Right now, you know what's crazy? College football has done

1343
01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:14,320
Speaker 2: the unthinkable.

1344
01:10:17,240 --> 01:10:18,559
Speaker 3: I want you to.

1345
01:10:19,439 --> 01:10:22,920
Speaker 2: I want you to. I want you to figure out

1346
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:27,960
Speaker 2: what that means. When I say college football has done

1347
01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:33,120
Speaker 2: something that no no other sport has able to do,

1348
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:39,800
Speaker 2: no other and nothing it's been able to unseat this.

1349
01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:43,439
Speaker 4: I don't know.

1350
01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:46,960
Speaker 3: I mean basically, what else happens today?

1351
01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:53,000
Speaker 4: Oh my god, there are NFL games today, Yes, the

1352
01:10:53,479 --> 01:11:00,920
Speaker 4: NFL games today, Batman digo like there are NFL and

1353
01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:03,599
Speaker 4: by the way, brazen by the NFL all the way back,

1354
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 4: because remember, we knew that this was going to be

1355
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:07,800
Speaker 4: the opening weekend of the College Football Playoff over a

1356
01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:10,360
Speaker 4: year ago. We knew that the schedule was gonna have

1357
01:11:10,439 --> 01:11:12,840
Speaker 4: games last night and today. We knew that over a

1358
01:11:12,880 --> 01:11:16,559
Speaker 4: year ago, for the NFL to schedule Saturday games against

1359
01:11:16,560 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 4: the College Football Playoff was truly Roger Goodell saying nope,

1360
01:11:20,080 --> 01:11:22,439
Speaker 4: we owned the territory we want to own, right, and

1361
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:26,160
Speaker 4: so I'm genuinely interested, you know me, I love my

1362
01:11:26,240 --> 01:11:27,120
Speaker 4: ratings conversation.

1363
01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:28,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm.

1364
01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:31,920
Speaker 4: Genuinely interested to see what happens when we're looking at

1365
01:11:31,920 --> 01:11:34,800
Speaker 4: some NFL games taking on college football. Like I'm going,

1366
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:36,880
Speaker 4: I'm meeting a buddy at Buffalo Wi Wings and I'm

1367
01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:39,000
Speaker 4: gonna I'm gonna watch where I can I can get

1368
01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:41,559
Speaker 4: as much of this going on at once. But man,

1369
01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:44,400
Speaker 4: I like that is gods, you're right. We haven't even

1370
01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:47,160
Speaker 4: talked about the NFL yet and there are actual NFL

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01:11:47,240 --> 01:11:48,800
Speaker 4: games today. That's incredible.

1372
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and listen, I mean, you know, obviously this has

1373
01:11:52,320 --> 01:11:56,599
Speaker 2: always been a weekend where the Saturday games start right like.

1374
01:11:56,680 --> 01:12:00,080
Speaker 2: The end of college football is when you see the

1375
01:12:00,160 --> 01:12:04,559
Speaker 2: Saturday games right like. But normally this is not. This

1376
01:12:04,640 --> 01:12:06,800
Speaker 2: is like you get a couple of trash ball games

1377
01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:09,840
Speaker 2: or whatever. It's here only in the bowls season. So

1378
01:12:10,080 --> 01:12:14,640
Speaker 2: you know, the NFL owns it right, but not anymore.

1379
01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:17,440
Speaker 2: And I you know, listen.

1380
01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:21,200
Speaker 4: You can see that with the matchups they picked for today,

1381
01:12:21,640 --> 01:12:25,160
Speaker 4: like Texan's Chiefs Steelers Ravens. Coming into the season, No,

1382
01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:27,840
Speaker 4: this was expected to be, like they didn't give you

1383
01:12:27,960 --> 01:12:30,439
Speaker 4: fluff Saturday games like they've done sometimes where it's like

1384
01:12:30,720 --> 01:12:33,040
Speaker 4: we'll just bury you this tea. No, they gave you

1385
01:12:33,560 --> 01:12:36,800
Speaker 4: two games. One they thought could be for you know,

1386
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:40,760
Speaker 4: conference domination Texans Chiefs, and the other even if the

1387
01:12:40,800 --> 01:12:42,439
Speaker 4: teams weren't good, you were getting one of the better

1388
01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:45,080
Speaker 4: rivalry Steelers Ravens. And all of a sudden, it's like

1389
01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:47,080
Speaker 4: there's a lot on the line in both of these

1390
01:12:47,120 --> 01:12:49,280
Speaker 4: games and we're not even talking about it.

1391
01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 3: Wow, go yeah, And I'll be honest with you. I go, yeah,

1392
01:12:58,360 --> 01:12:58,639
Speaker 3: I don't.

1393
01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:01,720
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't explain to you. I'm going in

1394
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:09,400
Speaker 2: my mind, I'm thinking I care about college more. It's playoffs, right,

1395
01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:13,960
Speaker 2: So playoffs always trump regular season in my eyes, but not.

1396
01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:17,240
Speaker 4: In Major League Baseball. We'd still be leading with Major

1397
01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:19,280
Speaker 4: League Baseball going on. We would still be leading with

1398
01:13:19,320 --> 01:13:20,200
Speaker 4: the NFL right now.

1399
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Speaker 3: I know we would. I know.

1400
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:24,880
Speaker 2: It's why it don't on me, like we haven't even discussed.

1401
01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:28,720
Speaker 2: And again, it's two great games. The other thing I

1402
01:13:28,760 --> 01:13:29,920
Speaker 2: was a little surprised is.

1403
01:13:30,439 --> 01:13:35,720
Speaker 3: Those games Texans Chiefs one o'clock and Steelers Ravens four

1404
01:13:35,760 --> 01:13:41,040
Speaker 3: point thirty, Like they don't go prime time. Now, think

1405
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:43,280
Speaker 3: about that I gotta take quick. We gotta take quick too,

1406
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:45,639
Speaker 3: But think about why don't they go to.

1407
01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:49,919
Speaker 2: Prime time where the fellas right here at Fox Sports

1408
01:13:50,120 --> 01:13:57,639
Speaker 2: Radio fellas from the Tyraq dot com studios. My Man

1409
01:13:58,040 --> 01:14:03,839
Speaker 2: TJ on Twitter has a good point. Now, they always

1410
01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:07,759
Speaker 2: play on Saturday. This is a Saturday week that they play.

1411
01:14:08,320 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 2: But teachers do a good point about the Christmas on Wednesday.

1412
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:16,240
Speaker 2: You need Saturday games to play on Wednesday.

1413
01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:19,680
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that is a very fair point. That is

1414
01:14:19,720 --> 01:14:23,000
Speaker 4: a that's a smart to play on the Wednesday that

1415
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:24,720
Speaker 4: they told us a year ago they weren't going to

1416
01:14:24,800 --> 01:14:26,840
Speaker 4: play on. But yes, that is a very I mean

1417
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:29,920
Speaker 4: Roger Goodell flat out came out and said not this year,

1418
01:14:29,960 --> 01:14:32,400
Speaker 4: but the year before when he was asked after Christmas

1419
01:14:32,479 --> 01:14:35,479
Speaker 4: Day success, if they would continue to play games on

1420
01:14:35,560 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 4: Christmas Day. Remember they played on Christmas because it was

1421
01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:40,919
Speaker 4: a Monday. This is a leap year, it goes to Wednesday.

1422
01:14:40,960 --> 01:14:43,760
Speaker 4: And his response at the time was, we're not going

1423
01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:45,599
Speaker 4: to play on the day that we don't usually play,

1424
01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:48,840
Speaker 4: so we have no interest in suddenly putting football on

1425
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 4: a Wednesday. But what do you know, when they released

1426
01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:52,880
Speaker 4: the schedule this year, they did put football on a

1427
01:14:52,920 --> 01:14:55,160
Speaker 4: Wednesday for Christmas Day because there's money to be made,

1428
01:14:55,200 --> 01:14:57,240
Speaker 4: and so it does make sense that you have to

1429
01:14:57,280 --> 01:15:00,720
Speaker 4: back end to Christmas to Saturday. I can see that.

1430
01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:03,439
Speaker 4: I mean, I wonder if there would have been a

1431
01:15:03,479 --> 01:15:05,840
Speaker 4: way to do a Thursday night game and then a

1432
01:15:06,040 --> 01:15:09,000
Speaker 4: you know, mini buy or have an extra have extra

1433
01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:11,519
Speaker 4: Thursday night games instead, if you want to stay out

1434
01:15:11,520 --> 01:15:13,599
Speaker 4: of the way. Frankly, right, you could could have had

1435
01:15:13,640 --> 01:15:17,679
Speaker 4: a Thursday night smortgage board. But yeah, I can see

1436
01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:21,240
Speaker 4: why that justifies putting the game on Saturday. But the

1437
01:15:21,680 --> 01:15:24,640
Speaker 4: NFL also is smart enough to do what they want

1438
01:15:24,680 --> 01:15:26,000
Speaker 4: to do, when they want to do how they want

1439
01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:28,559
Speaker 4: to do it, and people are going to consume it.

1440
01:15:28,840 --> 01:15:30,639
Speaker 4: The ratings are still going to be good. If college

1441
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:34,599
Speaker 4: football actually outrates it, I'll be I think that's a

1442
01:15:34,640 --> 01:15:38,560
Speaker 4: stunning sort of eye opening moment for college football and

1443
01:15:38,680 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 4: for the NFL. Next year, the Christmas days on a Thursday,

1444
01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:46,040
Speaker 4: so it makes absolute sense to have their usual Thursday

1445
01:15:46,120 --> 01:15:46,960
Speaker 4: as they always do.

1446
01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:50,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think next year you'll get three games. Yep,

1447
01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:54,960
Speaker 3: you know. But yeah, like here's the thing, I'm with you.

1448
01:15:55,080 --> 01:15:59,719
Speaker 2: I'm not expecting that the NF the college football out

1449
01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:03,720
Speaker 2: ratings the NFL. But I think it's gonna be a

1450
01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:06,880
Speaker 2: lot closer. It's not going to be the slaughter like

1451
01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:11,240
Speaker 2: you'll see Christmas like Christmas last year with the NBA

1452
01:16:12,200 --> 01:16:13,880
Speaker 2: and the NFL just blew it away.

1453
01:16:14,680 --> 01:16:16,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think you're going to see that today.

1454
01:16:18,439 --> 01:16:20,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with that. I think it's gonna be

1455
01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:23,080
Speaker 4: a heck of a lot closer. And you know, it

1456
01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:25,719
Speaker 4: is funny because we just talked about Christmas Day football

1457
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:29,600
Speaker 4: and don't even mention that there's NBA games. It's just

1458
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:33,559
Speaker 4: that Christmas. It took what one year of Christmas NFL

1459
01:16:33,640 --> 01:16:35,400
Speaker 4: for all eyes to be like, oh, what are the

1460
01:16:35,479 --> 01:16:38,479
Speaker 4: Christmas Day games this year? You know? So it is

1461
01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:40,080
Speaker 4: amazing what a juggernaut they are.

1462
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:44,560
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, I mean it's it's it really is.

1463
01:16:44,680 --> 01:16:48,240
Speaker 2: It's it's it's unbelievable, right, Like you know, we think

1464
01:16:48,280 --> 01:16:52,479
Speaker 2: about how it just dominates, but it's the sport, right,

1465
01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:55,839
Speaker 2: so if you combine the two, I mean, it's the sport.

1466
01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:59,799
Speaker 3: Like we just are in love with this sport.

1467
01:17:00,040 --> 01:17:05,080
Speaker 2: I FITZI it's amazing, Like I love the other like

1468
01:17:05,120 --> 01:17:08,960
Speaker 2: I love basketball and I love the MLB, and you know,

1469
01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:14,800
Speaker 2: I love hockey. But there's nothing like this, like this

1470
01:17:14,960 --> 01:17:18,519
Speaker 2: all thing and this spectacle. Are you kidding me? This

1471
01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:26,080
Speaker 2: weekend right like last night, today, Tomorrow, Monday night, all Wednesday,

1472
01:17:27,360 --> 01:17:30,400
Speaker 2: and then through next week like the holidays, all the

1473
01:17:30,439 --> 01:17:33,920
Speaker 2: ball games. It's it's the smortgage port. It's the greatest

1474
01:17:33,920 --> 01:17:36,280
Speaker 2: thing in the world, you know, I mean it is

1475
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:40,000
Speaker 2: the only thing that sucks about football is this is

1476
01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:41,720
Speaker 2: the windows too short?

1477
01:17:42,680 --> 01:17:46,160
Speaker 4: The interesting you know, you think about what everybody's used

1478
01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:49,280
Speaker 4: to and just the fact that we had a game

1479
01:17:49,360 --> 01:17:52,799
Speaker 4: Day yesterday, what three in the afternoon on a Friday

1480
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:56,360
Speaker 4: is wild and then there'll be game Day again this morning,

1481
01:17:56,439 --> 01:18:00,320
Speaker 4: you know, trying to think about my my heart out

1482
01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:02,599
Speaker 4: to all of the people that work in production behind

1483
01:18:02,640 --> 01:18:04,360
Speaker 4: the scenes that are used to getting a little break

1484
01:18:04,360 --> 01:18:06,800
Speaker 4: before Christmas with their families, and now it's like, you know,

1485
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:10,120
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about nobody's sitting here crying for you know,

1486
01:18:10,160 --> 01:18:14,599
Speaker 4: the the talent on the set of Game Day every day,

1487
01:18:14,640 --> 01:18:16,040
Speaker 4: for the millions they make, but there's a lot of

1488
01:18:16,040 --> 01:18:18,720
Speaker 4: production people that are suddenly scrambling to get from one

1489
01:18:18,760 --> 01:18:20,960
Speaker 4: city to the next to cover college football force and

1490
01:18:21,320 --> 01:18:22,960
Speaker 4: has never had to do this this time of year.

1491
01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:26,200
Speaker 4: So it's It's wild how we were already football obsessed,

1492
01:18:26,240 --> 01:18:28,200
Speaker 4: but now when you add these college football playoffs and

1493
01:18:28,360 --> 01:18:30,080
Speaker 4: it takes a total different level.

1494
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:35,439
Speaker 2: Yeah it does, Yeah it does. It's uh, it's pretty cool, man.

1495
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:40,040
Speaker 2: It's it's it's it's a lot of fun. I can't wait.

1496
01:18:40,040 --> 01:18:43,599
Speaker 2: All right, so we're gonna come back. We'll lead off

1497
01:18:44,360 --> 01:18:48,519
Speaker 2: and this should be the best game. So we have

1498
01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:52,680
Speaker 2: to dive into Ohio State in Tennessee. We'll also get

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Speaker 2: again marks the epic day of the playoff. Last night

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Speaker 2: we saw it Notre Dame against Indiana. I've talked all

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Speaker 2: morning about it so far, about that game and how

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Speaker 2: the Irish are obviously legitimate national championship contenders. We saw

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Speaker 2: that last night. They are legit in every which way,

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Speaker 2: and today we'll get it. We'll see big favorites. We

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Speaker 2: both of us look and say bed match up for

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Speaker 2: SMU because of the cold of Happy Valley.

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01:20:19,200 --> 01:20:20,800
Speaker 3: Don't know how that's going to work out.

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01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:25,640
Speaker 2: And then Texas is just supremely talented over Clemson.

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Speaker 3: But what about tonight?

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Speaker 2: Tonight is a fascinating game right Tennessee, Ohio State.

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Speaker 3: And Ohio State, and there's another one.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be frigid in Columbus twenty five degrees kickoff.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be nasty. But I'm curious FITZI is

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Speaker 2: Tennessee live.

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Speaker 4: I have a hard time believing that everything goes chalk

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Speaker 4: after the year that we've just seen, so I find

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Speaker 4: myself just grasping for an upset opportunity, and if I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna find one, if I'm gonna take one, if I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna play one, it's Tennessee because we know that Tennessee,

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01:21:14,120 --> 01:21:17,400
Speaker 4: when they do things the right way, can play like

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01:21:17,439 --> 01:21:21,320
Speaker 4: a national championship contender. The question is can they eliminate

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01:21:21,439 --> 01:21:24,360
Speaker 4: the penalties that have just killed them all year? Can

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Speaker 4: Nico Yama Liavo play clean football? Like? That's all part

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Speaker 4: of it. But this is just this is a running matchup.

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01:21:30,479 --> 01:21:32,880
Speaker 4: This is two teams that are going to try and

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01:21:32,920 --> 01:21:35,200
Speaker 4: run the football against two teams that are not easy

1540
01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:38,519
Speaker 4: to run the football against. And that's the exciting part

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01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:40,960
Speaker 4: of it. Plus, if we're being honest, over the course

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Speaker 4: of the last few weeks, Will Howard hasn't necessarily been

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01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:46,920
Speaker 4: a world beater, right, Like, go back and watch some

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01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:50,000
Speaker 4: of these issues in Ohio State has had go back

1545
01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:53,400
Speaker 4: and watch the Michigan game, like there's been even even

1546
01:21:53,439 --> 01:21:55,400
Speaker 4: outside the Michigan game, you know, pick six at the

1547
01:21:55,400 --> 01:21:57,479
Speaker 4: beginning of the game a few weeks before that for Will. So,

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Speaker 4: I look at this and say, both is going to

1549
01:22:00,520 --> 01:22:03,840
Speaker 4: try and run the football, but whichever quarterback doesn't lose

1550
01:22:03,880 --> 01:22:06,800
Speaker 4: the game for their team is going to be that

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Speaker 4: that's the ultimate difference. Who can we trust?

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01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:08,920
Speaker 3: So?

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01:22:09,439 --> 01:22:13,120
Speaker 4: I think there's reason to trust Tennessee, but man, I'm

1554
01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:16,160
Speaker 4: I'm grasping at straws to get there. I think Tennessee

1555
01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:18,360
Speaker 4: can win this matchup, but they got to play. They

1556
01:22:18,439 --> 01:22:20,479
Speaker 4: got to play perfect football. That's asking a lot for

1557
01:22:20,560 --> 01:22:21,000
Speaker 4: this team.

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01:22:21,360 --> 01:22:22,559
Speaker 3: And they can't fall behind.

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01:22:23,720 --> 01:22:27,920
Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, I don't know.

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01:22:28,439 --> 01:22:30,840
Speaker 3: You know, you can't throw yourself back into the game.

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01:22:32,160 --> 01:22:35,280
Speaker 4: Now, this is Dylan Sampson's team, Like they're running back

1562
01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:38,559
Speaker 4: is everything for this team. So they got to stay

1563
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:40,200
Speaker 4: ahead of the change. Which is why, like I'll go

1564
01:22:40,240 --> 01:22:44,559
Speaker 4: back to pre snat penalties at inopportune times, Tennessee has

1565
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:48,880
Speaker 4: had stupid formation penalties, stupid false starts, all of those things.

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Speaker 4: Now they're going to be in this environment in the

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Speaker 4: fridgi cold, trying to control their adrenaline and do all

1568
01:22:54,120 --> 01:22:56,519
Speaker 4: of that stuff and then make sure in that process

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Speaker 4: that they're disciplined because of five yard penalty is death

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Speaker 4: to a drive for the way this offense is designed, Like,

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01:23:03,439 --> 01:23:06,200
Speaker 4: this offense is designed to run the football, and you

1572
01:23:06,200 --> 01:23:07,839
Speaker 4: can't do that when you get behind the chains.

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Speaker 2: So I here's here's how Tennessee stays close. Olive State

1574
01:23:16,479 --> 01:23:19,120
Speaker 2: had some issues on its offensive line, right, you know,

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01:23:20,040 --> 01:23:23,000
Speaker 2: they lost Josh Simmons. Is their left tackle against the

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Speaker 2: Oregon and then his replacement, Zam Mitchowski, went down the

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Speaker 2: next game, and then Seth McLoughlin, who had who won

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01:23:34,400 --> 01:23:38,720
Speaker 2: the Remington Award at center had eight tiers as a

1579
01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:43,240
Speaker 2: Kelly's tendon. Like, they've had some issues when it comes

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01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:46,760
Speaker 2: to their O line and you're going up against the

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Speaker 2: best defensive line in the country.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and the one of the hard things about Ohio

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01:23:53,760 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 4: State's offensive line something that a couple of my buddies

1584
01:23:57,439 --> 01:23:59,479
Speaker 4: have pointed out pointed out to played offensive line in

1585
01:23:59,520 --> 01:24:03,040
Speaker 4: college FOOTBA at the highest level. In the minute somebody

1586
01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:06,519
Speaker 4: gets nicked up, they're pulling from their starting five to create,

1587
01:24:06,680 --> 01:24:09,479
Speaker 4: you know, the opportunity. So in the last game we

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01:24:09,520 --> 01:24:11,080
Speaker 4: saw I think it was their right guard pulled out

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Speaker 4: to left tackle at one point, and that's just sort

1590
01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:15,760
Speaker 4: of what you have to do. Sometimes. The problem is

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01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:18,160
Speaker 4: that creates a weak spot in multiple places on the

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Speaker 4: defensive on the offensive line, because now all of a sudden,

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01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:23,280
Speaker 4: you're bringing them backup over here, and we're gonna be

1594
01:24:23,320 --> 01:24:25,960
Speaker 4: worried about timing over there. All of these things start

1595
01:24:26,200 --> 01:24:31,160
Speaker 4: start stacking and stacking and stacking. So, yeah, Tennessee's defense

1596
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:33,839
Speaker 4: should be able to get after that Ohio State offensive

1597
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:37,360
Speaker 4: line for sure. The question is can they force Will

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01:24:37,400 --> 01:24:40,760
Speaker 4: Howard to make a stupid mistake? And if he does, man,

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01:24:40,800 --> 01:24:44,840
Speaker 4: this game flips on its head. I like I said, Look,

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Speaker 4: if you told me right now that this was going

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01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:49,200
Speaker 4: to be a slaughter for Ohio State, I'd say, Okay,

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01:24:49,240 --> 01:24:51,200
Speaker 4: I could see Tennessee finding a way to screw this

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01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:53,439
Speaker 4: thing up. But if you get the best of both

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01:24:53,479 --> 01:24:56,280
Speaker 4: of these teams, if if Ohio State and Tennessee both

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01:24:56,320 --> 01:24:59,360
Speaker 4: play their best football on this game, in this game,

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01:24:59,400 --> 01:25:01,839
Speaker 4: this game comes down to the last possession, like Tennessee

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01:25:01,840 --> 01:25:03,800
Speaker 4: can hang with Ohio State all day every day.

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Speaker 2: That's what I think. Man, I'm thinking the same thing.

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Speaker 2: I gotta tell you. I I think it's a game. Man,

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01:25:11,760 --> 01:25:15,240
Speaker 2: I think it's a game. I really do you know.

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01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:18,400
Speaker 2: I think it's a I think we're gonna see something

1612
01:25:18,479 --> 01:25:23,080
Speaker 2: fun tonight because and I don't know to your point,

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01:25:23,240 --> 01:25:25,519
Speaker 2: and you said something that's so that I feel the

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01:25:25,520 --> 01:25:29,599
Speaker 2: same way about. There's no way it's gonna be four

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01:25:29,920 --> 01:25:35,680
Speaker 2: chalk games. I just don't see four chalk games. And

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01:25:35,800 --> 01:25:41,960
Speaker 2: I can't see SMU going into Happy Valley in twenty

1617
01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:47,559
Speaker 2: degree weather and grinding it out against Penn State. I

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01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:50,000
Speaker 2: just don't. I don't say it. I mean, I know

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01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:54,639
Speaker 2: they have great athleticism and Jennings is a terrific multi

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01:25:54,640 --> 01:25:55,600
Speaker 2: fret quarterback.

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01:25:57,040 --> 01:26:02,280
Speaker 3: But cold is real. Yeah.

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01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:05,639
Speaker 2: The the take teams like that out of a quick start,

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01:26:05,720 --> 01:26:09,320
Speaker 2: off a quick surface, and you slow them down and

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01:26:09,400 --> 01:26:13,040
Speaker 2: slowing them down a tick against the Penn State defense,

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01:26:14,320 --> 01:26:16,439
Speaker 2: you know, I think, I think, I don't think you

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01:26:16,479 --> 01:26:18,800
Speaker 2: could have the same effect on it.

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Speaker 3: And then the uh, I don't.

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01:26:22,120 --> 01:26:24,920
Speaker 2: I don't believe for a second that Klemsy can hang

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01:26:24,960 --> 01:26:27,680
Speaker 2: with Texas. So then it goes back down to like,

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01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:30,800
Speaker 2: are all four games gonna be blowouts? So maybe, like

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01:26:30,880 --> 01:26:34,240
Speaker 2: you said her earlier, we're trying to come up with

1632
01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:36,360
Speaker 2: a way where we're gonna see a great game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. But the funny thing is, you know, you mentioned

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01:26:41,960 --> 01:26:45,240
Speaker 4: the cold, and I'll remind for anyone that doesn't know,

1635
01:26:45,280 --> 01:26:48,040
Speaker 4: I lived in Nashville for you know, over twenty years

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01:26:48,439 --> 01:26:51,240
Speaker 4: and now being in Connecticut. When I go back down

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01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:54,360
Speaker 4: to Nashville, it is funny that I'm walking around in

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01:26:54,439 --> 01:26:57,960
Speaker 4: a hoodie and everybody else is wearing multiple layers down there,

1639
01:26:58,040 --> 01:27:00,880
Speaker 4: and I sort of laugh about it. But the cold

1640
01:27:00,960 --> 01:27:03,080
Speaker 4: is going to be a factor for Tennessee tonight. Those

1641
01:27:03,400 --> 01:27:05,880
Speaker 4: those Knoxville boys have not experienced the cold that they're

1642
01:27:05,920 --> 01:27:08,400
Speaker 4: going to experience tonight, many of them. And they have,

1643
01:27:08,520 --> 01:27:11,240
Speaker 4: They're they're certainly not used to it. It's it is

1644
01:27:11,280 --> 01:27:14,479
Speaker 4: amazing to me having been in Connecticut for several years

1645
01:27:14,479 --> 01:27:17,160
Speaker 4: at this point, or a handful of years. How you know,

1646
01:27:17,200 --> 01:27:19,559
Speaker 4: when I first got up here, just the thought of

1647
01:27:19,800 --> 01:27:22,960
Speaker 4: functioning and trying to shovel the driveway was like, oh

1648
01:27:22,960 --> 01:27:24,720
Speaker 4: my god, how am I even doing this? And now

1649
01:27:24,800 --> 01:27:26,800
Speaker 4: you've been here for a little while and it's like, yeah,

1650
01:27:27,240 --> 01:27:29,719
Speaker 4: I walk into the gym when it's fifteen degrees outside

1651
01:27:29,720 --> 01:27:32,160
Speaker 4: wearing a T shirt and shorts like it's it's gonna

1652
01:27:32,160 --> 01:27:34,000
Speaker 4: be okay. It's only a few minutes, you know, So

1653
01:27:34,120 --> 01:27:38,599
Speaker 4: your body acclamation is real. And you know, for an

1654
01:27:38,640 --> 01:27:41,240
Speaker 4: offense that wants to put for a team that wants

1655
01:27:41,320 --> 01:27:43,760
Speaker 4: to play physical football as Tennessee does. Like we talked

1656
01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:46,200
Speaker 4: about SMU getting slowed down, Well what about the car

1657
01:27:46,240 --> 01:27:48,840
Speaker 4: accidents that are happening up front every single snap of

1658
01:27:48,840 --> 01:27:51,679
Speaker 4: the football in cold and just I would just tell

1659
01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:54,840
Speaker 4: anybody that doesn't think it's a big deal, imagine walking

1660
01:27:54,840 --> 01:27:58,559
Speaker 4: outside in colder temperatures than you've experienced in years, and

1661
01:27:58,640 --> 01:28:01,639
Speaker 4: just standing across from somebody, just ask him to slap

1662
01:28:01,640 --> 01:28:03,439
Speaker 4: you in the face over and over and over again.

1663
01:28:03,680 --> 01:28:06,280
Speaker 4: Eventually body just sort of breaks down to that. And

1664
01:28:06,840 --> 01:28:09,960
Speaker 4: as you well know, brother, like any sort of hesitation

1665
01:28:10,160 --> 01:28:13,720
Speaker 4: in physicality, that's gonna lose you this sort of football game.

1666
01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:19,000
Speaker 4: So it's hysterical to me because I look, I want,

1667
01:28:19,040 --> 01:28:21,760
Speaker 4: I want to believe that Tennessee can make this a game,

1668
01:28:21,800 --> 01:28:25,200
Speaker 4: because it's the most logical game to be tight. But

1669
01:28:25,720 --> 01:28:29,160
Speaker 4: golly like, I just wonder, in the first ten minutes

1670
01:28:29,200 --> 01:28:31,519
Speaker 4: of the game, I could easily see the first ten

1671
01:28:31,560 --> 01:28:34,880
Speaker 4: minutes a Nico turnover, a stupid throw he didn't need

1672
01:28:34,920 --> 01:28:36,960
Speaker 4: to make, which is sort of on brand at some point,

1673
01:28:37,479 --> 01:28:40,360
Speaker 4: a stupid turnover, a couple of just short of a

1674
01:28:40,400 --> 01:28:42,000
Speaker 4: first down, he got a couple of punts, and before

1675
01:28:42,040 --> 01:28:44,519
Speaker 4: you know it, thinks seventeen nothing and now all of

1676
01:28:44,520 --> 01:28:46,400
Speaker 4: a sudden, your ability to just sit there and run

1677
01:28:46,439 --> 01:28:49,120
Speaker 4: the football seems like it's gone, and then you end

1678
01:28:49,200 --> 01:28:51,519
Speaker 4: up with it with a massive blowout. I hope that's

1679
01:28:51,600 --> 01:28:54,320
Speaker 4: not the case. I picked Tennessee to win in my

1680
01:28:54,400 --> 01:28:57,760
Speaker 4: Yahoo bracket but I picked Tennessee because I just I

1681
01:28:57,800 --> 01:29:00,360
Speaker 4: cannot believe that, in the wildest year we've experiens in

1682
01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:03,400
Speaker 4: college football in my memory, that everybody, all the favorites

1683
01:29:03,439 --> 01:29:05,080
Speaker 4: are just gonna win. It just hasn't worked that way

1684
01:29:05,120 --> 01:29:07,840
Speaker 4: all year. So that's a dumb reason. But that's the

1685
01:29:07,880 --> 01:29:09,800
Speaker 4: only reason I can give you no.

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01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:13,800
Speaker 2: And also, I mean, you're talking about Ohio State team.

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01:29:14,120 --> 01:29:21,760
Speaker 2: That loss to Michigan was was eye popping? Yeah, I

1688
01:29:21,760 --> 01:29:24,240
Speaker 2: mean right, I mean, wasn't that eye popping that they

1689
01:29:24,240 --> 01:29:28,479
Speaker 2: would actually lose that game? And to this day, I

1690
01:29:28,520 --> 01:29:31,880
Speaker 2: you know, listen, I know we talk about Jay, we

1691
01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:37,960
Speaker 2: talk about Ryan day Chip Kelly called a tragically bad game.

1692
01:29:38,520 --> 01:29:40,800
Speaker 2: What was he doing? I still don't even know what

1693
01:29:40,840 --> 01:29:42,880
Speaker 2: he was trying to do? And I know they talked

1694
01:29:42,880 --> 01:29:47,599
Speaker 2: about out physically Michigan. Were they that afraid of The

1695
01:29:47,640 --> 01:29:50,200
Speaker 2: only conclusion I can come to is that they're that

1696
01:29:50,360 --> 01:29:51,840
Speaker 2: afraid of that offensive line.

1697
01:29:51,880 --> 01:29:54,760
Speaker 4: And if you're that afraid of that offensive line, going

1698
01:29:55,920 --> 01:30:01,080
Speaker 4: a city Tennessee defense Like so, we've talked a lot

1699
01:30:01,120 --> 01:30:04,559
Speaker 4: about Notre Dames defense and Texas's defense, and both of

1700
01:30:04,600 --> 01:30:08,519
Speaker 4: those are physical defenses. To communicate really well, they're both

1701
01:30:08,560 --> 01:30:12,400
Speaker 4: defenses that don't make a lot of mistakes. Like I've

1702
01:30:12,400 --> 01:30:15,400
Speaker 4: got a lot of praise for those Tennessee's defense flies

1703
01:30:15,439 --> 01:30:18,200
Speaker 4: to the football. That is to me, the difference is

1704
01:30:18,520 --> 01:30:20,599
Speaker 4: you've got a defense and at times is a little

1705
01:30:20,600 --> 01:30:24,160
Speaker 4: reckless the times puts themselves in bad situations. But boy,

1706
01:30:24,720 --> 01:30:28,200
Speaker 4: like they just they fly to the football. They have speed,

1707
01:30:28,240 --> 01:30:31,040
Speaker 4: they have aggressiveness. These are all things that you know

1708
01:30:31,080 --> 01:30:33,920
Speaker 4: going up against. If that Ohio State offensive line is

1709
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:37,400
Speaker 4: even a little sleepy to start the game, oh man,

1710
01:30:38,200 --> 01:30:41,160
Speaker 4: Howard's just going to get beat over and over and

1711
01:30:41,240 --> 01:30:44,200
Speaker 4: over again in this game. And so yeah, that's that's

1712
01:30:44,280 --> 01:30:45,519
Speaker 4: the funny thing is.

1713
01:30:45,560 --> 01:30:49,040
Speaker 3: It's not like he's not prone to mistakes.

1714
01:30:49,479 --> 01:30:50,559
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1715
01:30:50,600 --> 01:30:50,840
Speaker 3: Sure.

1716
01:30:51,720 --> 01:30:54,160
Speaker 4: And you know, we come back to what I said

1717
01:30:54,160 --> 01:30:56,720
Speaker 4: in an hour ago that you know, over simplification, But

1718
01:30:56,760 --> 01:30:58,400
Speaker 4: if you can run the football and stop the run,

1719
01:30:58,479 --> 01:31:00,640
Speaker 4: you win. We saw that last night. I think we

1720
01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:04,280
Speaker 4: will see that definitively in the Texas game. And I

1721
01:31:04,320 --> 01:31:07,040
Speaker 4: think at you know, absolutely Penn State is going to

1722
01:31:07,120 --> 01:31:08,840
Speaker 4: run the football. I don't think MU is gonna be

1723
01:31:08,880 --> 01:31:11,200
Speaker 4: able to stop it. You look at this game. If

1724
01:31:11,240 --> 01:31:15,320
Speaker 4: Ohio State's offensive line isn't playing up to snuff, they're

1725
01:31:15,360 --> 01:31:16,840
Speaker 4: not gonna be able to run the football the way

1726
01:31:16,840 --> 01:31:20,559
Speaker 4: they need to to win this game. It's it's pass protection, end,

1727
01:31:20,560 --> 01:31:23,679
Speaker 4: it's run, run blocking, both of those. Like the big

1728
01:31:23,720 --> 01:31:25,320
Speaker 4: boys up front are gonna have to come up big

1729
01:31:25,320 --> 01:31:25,880
Speaker 4: in this game.

1730
01:31:26,439 --> 01:31:28,840
Speaker 2: Don't you think that that's the only That's my only

1731
01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:32,080
Speaker 2: conclusion as to why Chip Kelly went with that game plan.

1732
01:31:36,120 --> 01:31:38,160
Speaker 2: He should have been throwing, he should have been attacking

1733
01:31:38,240 --> 01:31:39,679
Speaker 2: them all down the field all game.

1734
01:31:41,120 --> 01:31:44,080
Speaker 4: I like your conclusion better than my conclusion, which was

1735
01:31:44,160 --> 01:31:47,240
Speaker 4: just ego, you know, we're gonna out physical, and so

1736
01:31:47,320 --> 01:31:49,360
Speaker 4: often when you hear football coaches say that, it's like

1737
01:31:49,720 --> 01:31:52,280
Speaker 4: this is who we are. Well, you know what, sometimes

1738
01:31:52,280 --> 01:31:54,720
Speaker 4: in these matchups, you gotta kind of gotta have the

1739
01:31:54,760 --> 01:31:57,160
Speaker 4: CounterPunch and it's like, all right, let's figure out what

1740
01:31:57,160 --> 01:31:59,479
Speaker 4: else we're gonna do. I never saw that from Chip Kelly.

1741
01:31:59,520 --> 01:32:02,719
Speaker 4: Att I just man. I think pride is a downfall

1742
01:32:02,760 --> 01:32:05,240
Speaker 4: of man, and pride is a downfall of Ohio State's offense.

1743
01:32:07,400 --> 01:32:16,120
Speaker 3: That's pride. Butch yeah, I hear you, I do, I

1744
01:32:16,160 --> 01:32:20,960
Speaker 3: hear you. Tech. Now the flip side is can Tennessee

1745
01:32:21,680 --> 01:32:22,439
Speaker 3: move the ball?

1746
01:32:25,640 --> 01:32:28,519
Speaker 4: I mean that that's going to come down to can

1747
01:32:28,600 --> 01:32:33,559
Speaker 4: Dylan Sampson effectively run because that's Tennessee. You know, for

1748
01:32:33,640 --> 01:32:36,360
Speaker 4: anybody that hasn't really watched a lot of tennesseeasons a

1749
01:32:36,360 --> 01:32:38,720
Speaker 4: few years ago, when their offense was dynamic, that's not

1750
01:32:38,760 --> 01:32:42,639
Speaker 4: who they are now. You know, now this Tennessee football

1751
01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:45,840
Speaker 4: team is a run it. Let's their offense is going

1752
01:32:45,920 --> 01:32:48,280
Speaker 4: to be How do we mitigate a little bit of

1753
01:32:48,280 --> 01:32:50,040
Speaker 4: the mistakes that can be there from Nico, how do

1754
01:32:50,080 --> 01:32:52,680
Speaker 4: we protect our quarterback a little bit who's young, and

1755
01:32:52,720 --> 01:32:55,559
Speaker 4: then how do we run the football like Dylan Sampson.

1756
01:32:56,479 --> 01:32:59,919
Speaker 4: You know, we we've gotten so used to some dynamic

1757
01:33:00,040 --> 01:33:03,400
Speaker 4: running back performances. This year, Dylan Sampson is easily one

1758
01:33:03,439 --> 01:33:04,799
Speaker 4: of the best running backs in the country.

1759
01:33:04,960 --> 01:33:11,120
Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, I feel you man, it's good. I'm like,

1760
01:33:11,200 --> 01:33:14,160
Speaker 2: I can't wait for it. It's gonna be Uh, that's

1761
01:33:14,200 --> 01:33:16,559
Speaker 2: gonna be really good, really good.

1762
01:33:16,600 --> 01:33:18,280
Speaker 3: My man, Eddie Webster is the same thing.

1763
01:33:18,360 --> 01:33:22,080
Speaker 2: Let's see Ohio State runs the ball and readjust to

1764
01:33:22,120 --> 01:33:25,160
Speaker 2: those O line injuries, that's a big deal.

1765
01:33:26,680 --> 01:33:29,360
Speaker 3: Big deal. Well, I.

1766
01:33:31,000 --> 01:33:36,240
Speaker 2: Get again, as we're going through these games, you and I,

1767
01:33:36,320 --> 01:33:39,320
Speaker 2: like I always, I'm a big believer and I love

1768
01:33:39,400 --> 01:33:42,759
Speaker 2: doing this. This exercise where you talk through the games

1769
01:33:43,479 --> 01:33:46,719
Speaker 2: and come with listen, we may be wrong, completely wrong,

1770
01:33:47,120 --> 01:33:49,720
Speaker 2: but I like where we're at as we're talking through

1771
01:33:49,720 --> 01:33:53,160
Speaker 2: the games, kind of coming up with a conclusion as

1772
01:33:53,200 --> 01:33:55,479
Speaker 2: to how the game script's gonna go, how it's gonna look.

1773
01:33:56,360 --> 01:33:58,799
Speaker 2: And I think we're kind of on the same page

1774
01:33:58,800 --> 01:34:01,000
Speaker 2: at all three of them.

1775
01:34:01,200 --> 01:34:04,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think maybe part of me is just

1776
01:34:05,280 --> 01:34:07,719
Speaker 4: begging for Tennessee, Ohio States to give us a good game,

1777
01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:10,960
Speaker 4: because if that game gets out of control early, I

1778
01:34:11,600 --> 01:34:14,200
Speaker 4: there's just a shot. I mean, there's a very sad

1779
01:34:14,280 --> 01:34:16,760
Speaker 4: shot that we end up with four first round games

1780
01:34:16,760 --> 01:34:21,920
Speaker 4: that are all just gross by halftime, and the game

1781
01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:24,960
Speaker 4: last night, by by the end of the first half,

1782
01:34:25,040 --> 01:34:27,120
Speaker 4: especially when Notre Dame got the field goal right before

1783
01:34:27,160 --> 01:34:29,160
Speaker 4: the half, you're like, yeah, this thing's over. Like that

1784
01:34:29,439 --> 01:34:31,439
Speaker 4: just had that sense. I want one game to at

1785
01:34:31,479 --> 01:34:33,120
Speaker 4: least keep me on the edge of my seat until

1786
01:34:33,120 --> 01:34:35,679
Speaker 4: the fourth quarter. I just don't know if we're gonna get.

1787
01:34:35,760 --> 01:34:41,000
Speaker 2: As question, did you still because I listen, I think

1788
01:34:41,000 --> 01:34:43,720
Speaker 2: we all agreed that there's no way that that in

1789
01:34:43,720 --> 01:34:45,760
Speaker 2: the end it's gonna come back, all right, So yeah,

1790
01:34:45,760 --> 01:34:52,280
Speaker 2: I agree. However, I still enjoy it, like I enjoyed

1791
01:34:52,360 --> 01:34:57,639
Speaker 2: the night even as halftime. Right, They're going to halftime

1792
01:34:57,720 --> 01:35:02,880
Speaker 2: and there's staved in and there's Herbie and the whole thing,

1793
01:35:02,880 --> 01:35:06,400
Speaker 2: and I'm watching and I'm looking forward to the second half,

1794
01:35:07,479 --> 01:35:10,840
Speaker 2: and I'm just like, I was into the game, even

1795
01:35:10,960 --> 01:35:15,000
Speaker 2: though I kind of knew the outcome and it wasn't

1796
01:35:15,160 --> 01:35:18,360
Speaker 2: particularly exciting. I mean, anytime you get a ninety nine

1797
01:35:18,400 --> 01:35:21,000
Speaker 2: yard touchdown, wrong, I mean, come on, but I was

1798
01:35:21,040 --> 01:35:21,679
Speaker 2: into the game.

1799
01:35:21,840 --> 01:35:26,320
Speaker 3: I just thought I was enjoying the whole night. Can

1800
01:35:26,400 --> 01:35:29,120
Speaker 3: you Yeah, does it have to be a great, thrilling,

1801
01:35:29,280 --> 01:35:31,840
Speaker 3: edguracy game for you to enjoy it?

1802
01:35:32,880 --> 01:35:35,800
Speaker 4: Well, the first game, no, But this is you know,

1803
01:35:36,280 --> 01:35:39,160
Speaker 4: I've never done speed dating, but I can only imagine

1804
01:35:39,160 --> 01:35:41,679
Speaker 4: that it's gotta be something like this where the first

1805
01:35:41,960 --> 01:35:44,040
Speaker 4: the first speed date, you're like, oh, that was fun.

1806
01:35:44,360 --> 01:35:46,720
Speaker 4: It's not going anywhere. That was fun. The second speed

1807
01:35:46,800 --> 01:35:49,080
Speaker 4: day comes in, you're like, definitely not feeling anything here,

1808
01:35:49,120 --> 01:35:51,639
Speaker 4: but still having fun. The third speed dating comes in

1809
01:35:51,840 --> 01:35:53,519
Speaker 4: and you're like, Okay, this isn't going the way I

1810
01:35:53,520 --> 01:35:55,120
Speaker 4: wanted it to go, but it's fine. By the time

1811
01:35:55,160 --> 01:35:57,800
Speaker 4: you're in your fourth one, you're like, all right, let's

1812
01:35:57,800 --> 01:35:59,320
Speaker 4: just get through this like, that's my.

1813
01:36:00,800 --> 01:36:01,400
Speaker 3: It's crazy.

1814
01:36:01,439 --> 01:36:04,680
Speaker 4: Now Saturday night, they're gonna be sitting. I like, just

1815
01:36:05,080 --> 01:36:07,439
Speaker 4: give me, give me something. Give me a close game,

1816
01:36:08,120 --> 01:36:10,679
Speaker 4: Give me a close game, give me snow, give me chaos,

1817
01:36:10,760 --> 01:36:13,400
Speaker 4: give me like I want. I want absolute pdulum in

1818
01:36:13,439 --> 01:36:17,040
Speaker 4: the Saturday night game like I I want. And I'm

1819
01:36:17,040 --> 01:36:19,880
Speaker 4: sorry to alls fans in Ohio State fans, I would

1820
01:36:19,920 --> 01:36:22,960
Speaker 4: love to have Saturday Night in a dream world. Suddenly

1821
01:36:22,960 --> 01:36:26,200
Speaker 4: out of nowhere, the forecasters are wrong and we're talking Blizzard.

1822
01:36:26,439 --> 01:36:30,080
Speaker 4: You can barely see the field. Oh my god, everybody's

1823
01:36:30,080 --> 01:36:33,519
Speaker 4: slipping everything. That's what I want. I want like and

1824
01:36:33,720 --> 01:36:36,559
Speaker 4: this thing, like especially it's gonna be late at night.

1825
01:36:36,640 --> 01:36:39,000
Speaker 4: You look, I never complained about work, but we start

1826
01:36:39,000 --> 01:36:41,640
Speaker 4: our days early and they end late. For me on Saturdays.

1827
01:36:41,800 --> 01:36:43,519
Speaker 4: I want something where I don't feel like taking a

1828
01:36:43,600 --> 01:36:45,559
Speaker 4: nap at the beginning of the second half, because I

1829
01:36:45,720 --> 01:36:49,280
Speaker 4: just like keep me entertained, gladiator me on this one.

1830
01:36:49,360 --> 01:36:49,680
Speaker 4: Let's go.

1831
01:36:53,280 --> 01:36:55,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's a great point. Great point.

1832
01:36:56,040 --> 01:36:58,719
Speaker 2: All right, Well come back, Uh we'll shift our focus

1833
01:36:58,840 --> 01:37:01,840
Speaker 2: a little bit. We'll get into the NFL coming up.

1834
01:37:01,880 --> 01:37:03,880
Speaker 2: We'll take a look at today's games. We'll look at

1835
01:37:04,280 --> 01:37:09,000
Speaker 2: some of the big storylines, including the miracle recovery of

1836
01:37:09,200 --> 01:37:15,879
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes. Nobody recovers like he does. Where the fellas

1837
01:37:16,040 --> 01:37:19,400
Speaker 2: hanging out right here on Fox Sports Radio.

1838
01:37:19,760 --> 01:37:22,680
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1839
01:37:22,720 --> 01:37:26,080
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1840
01:37:26,200 --> 01:37:30,320
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1841
01:37:30,400 --> 01:37:31,080
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1842
01:37:34,720 --> 01:37:42,719
Speaker 2: My man Mark in So Mark Mighty, Mark our fine

1843
01:37:45,160 --> 01:37:49,720
Speaker 2: production man. He said, because.

1844
01:37:49,479 --> 01:37:54,879
Speaker 3: Are you ready, hot, Hot, let's go. You know exactly

1845
01:37:54,880 --> 01:37:55,640
Speaker 3: how to speak to me.

1846
01:37:56,240 --> 01:38:00,920
Speaker 4: Yeah too, Anthony, Anthony, g I can ask you a question?

1847
01:38:01,600 --> 01:38:04,320
Speaker 4: Is there totally taking us off the rails for a second.

1848
01:38:04,360 --> 01:38:08,839
Speaker 4: But we we realized sometimes that we've turned into our parents.

1849
01:38:08,920 --> 01:38:11,559
Speaker 4: That's just an inevitability in life, right, And so one

1850
01:38:11,600 --> 01:38:14,760
Speaker 4: thing that I remember strongly about my dad when I

1851
01:38:14,800 --> 01:38:18,120
Speaker 4: was a kid is that my dad always would get

1852
01:38:18,200 --> 01:38:21,080
Speaker 4: up in the morning and go get coffee from the

1853
01:38:21,080 --> 01:38:24,800
Speaker 4: coffee pot because you know, I'm pre Starbucks and so

1854
01:38:24,840 --> 01:38:27,320
Speaker 4: you go. But whatever was left in the coffee pot

1855
01:38:27,320 --> 01:38:29,120
Speaker 4: from the night before, he would just pour into a

1856
01:38:29,120 --> 01:38:31,559
Speaker 4: glass and drink it. And right, that's just my like

1857
01:38:32,040 --> 01:38:33,920
Speaker 4: never really cared about whether it was hot or whether

1858
01:38:33,960 --> 01:38:35,920
Speaker 4: it was cold. My dad just drank coffee in the morning,

1859
01:38:36,000 --> 01:38:38,599
Speaker 4: right like so I always I remember as a kid

1860
01:38:38,600 --> 01:38:40,280
Speaker 4: thinking that was so weird that he would get up

1861
01:38:40,280 --> 01:38:42,360
Speaker 4: and he would just you know, like, oh, there's coffee

1862
01:38:42,400 --> 01:38:44,000
Speaker 4: left in the pot. I will just drink that even

1863
01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:46,880
Speaker 4: though it's been there, you know since yesterday afternoon. So,

1864
01:38:47,160 --> 01:38:50,040
Speaker 4: you know, during the last commercial, because I drink iced

1865
01:38:50,040 --> 01:38:52,519
Speaker 4: coffee all year like that. I don't ever drink hot coffee,

1866
01:38:52,560 --> 01:38:54,559
Speaker 4: you know this. I'm all iced coffee all the time.

1867
01:38:54,920 --> 01:38:58,400
Speaker 4: So during the commercial, I went down to get myself

1868
01:38:58,439 --> 01:39:01,240
Speaker 4: some coffee. But the funny thing is I saw my mug, said,

1869
01:39:01,320 --> 01:39:03,400
Speaker 4: I got this big old, like huge mug that sitt

1870
01:39:03,479 --> 01:39:06,639
Speaker 4: up the gask from yesterday. It's big old mug. And

1871
01:39:07,040 --> 01:39:09,320
Speaker 4: yesterday in the you know, the middle of the day,

1872
01:39:09,320 --> 01:39:12,280
Speaker 4: when I have my iced coffee, I put some like

1873
01:39:12,320 --> 01:39:14,400
Speaker 4: some one of those Fair Life protein drinks and a

1874
01:39:14,439 --> 01:39:16,960
Speaker 4: protein chocolate protein drinks. It kind of makes my coffee amocha,

1875
01:39:17,040 --> 01:39:19,360
Speaker 4: gives me some protein in it. It's my boogie way

1876
01:39:19,360 --> 01:39:21,880
Speaker 4: of doing it once a day. And so I looked

1877
01:39:21,920 --> 01:39:23,360
Speaker 4: and there was still some left in there, and I

1878
01:39:23,400 --> 01:39:25,519
Speaker 4: was like, all right, that's awesome, Like still some coffee

1879
01:39:25,600 --> 01:39:28,440
Speaker 4: left from yesterday with the protein drink left in it.

1880
01:39:28,439 --> 01:39:30,599
Speaker 4: It's fine, Like it's been out all night, all day,

1881
01:39:30,600 --> 01:39:32,560
Speaker 4: all night. I don't care. Went down, I added a

1882
01:39:32,560 --> 01:39:35,040
Speaker 4: bunch of iced coffee into it, came up and started drinking.

1883
01:39:35,080 --> 01:39:37,280
Speaker 4: And I realized in that moment, I become a dude.

1884
01:39:38,280 --> 01:39:40,800
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm just walking in on my Hey, the

1885
01:39:40,840 --> 01:39:42,800
Speaker 4: coffee left in the cup is going to be just fine.

1886
01:39:42,840 --> 01:39:45,000
Speaker 4: I don't care about the protein drink that's been out

1887
01:39:45,040 --> 01:39:48,519
Speaker 4: for you know, probably fifteen hours. My house was cold anyway.

1888
01:39:48,520 --> 01:39:50,080
Speaker 4: I keep my house cold, so it's not like it

1889
01:39:50,120 --> 01:39:53,240
Speaker 4: ever got warm, right, so, you know, it was already cool.

1890
01:39:53,280 --> 01:39:55,200
Speaker 4: I just added some new ice to it and put

1891
01:39:55,200 --> 01:39:58,080
Speaker 4: in some fresh iced coffee, and bam, there we go.

1892
01:39:58,120 --> 01:39:58,920
Speaker 4: I'd become my father.

1893
01:40:00,120 --> 01:40:03,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I listen, I find nothing wrong with that.

1894
01:40:03,600 --> 01:40:08,200
Speaker 2: By the way, I'm not a call I can't. I mean,

1895
01:40:08,240 --> 01:40:11,679
Speaker 2: I'm with you. I'm not a big. I can't drink

1896
01:40:11,680 --> 01:40:15,880
Speaker 2: coffee cold, So I'm a big, you know. I'm like,

1897
01:40:17,720 --> 01:40:21,800
Speaker 2: it's funny to me, right because it's freezing outside the

1898
01:40:21,800 --> 01:40:25,160
Speaker 2: other day. I stop, but I get my I get

1899
01:40:25,200 --> 01:40:31,800
Speaker 2: an Americano every every day, right with just just black no. Uh,

1900
01:40:32,600 --> 01:40:37,360
Speaker 2: you know, the amercano is just expressed, though, but four

1901
01:40:37,400 --> 01:40:40,680
Speaker 2: shots of it, right, so it fills the cup and

1902
01:40:40,760 --> 01:40:43,559
Speaker 2: so and I get it hot, I get it black.

1903
01:40:43,640 --> 01:40:45,880
Speaker 2: No sugar, right, because I can't. I don't like sugar.

1904
01:40:46,600 --> 01:40:50,840
Speaker 2: And no, I just literally don't like the taste of sugar.

1905
01:40:52,000 --> 01:40:55,719
Speaker 2: That's it, right, And then I and truthfully, I try

1906
01:40:55,720 --> 01:40:59,040
Speaker 2: to do intermittent fasting, so you're not allowed to have

1907
01:40:59,080 --> 01:41:01,559
Speaker 2: any like I would dew cream or milk or something,

1908
01:41:01,560 --> 01:41:06,120
Speaker 2: but you can't have any of that stuff. So they

1909
01:41:06,240 --> 01:41:09,720
Speaker 2: always asked me, you want to call? You want iced?

1910
01:41:09,920 --> 01:41:14,519
Speaker 3: Is that iced? I'm like, it's freaking twenty five degrees? No,

1911
01:41:14,560 --> 01:41:17,320
Speaker 3: I want it hot. What's roll with you? But you're

1912
01:41:17,479 --> 01:41:20,200
Speaker 3: to your point like here it is cold, like your

1913
01:41:20,240 --> 01:41:22,479
Speaker 3: the house is called and you're drinking cold coffee?

1914
01:41:23,600 --> 01:41:27,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, there's never the main I'll be honest.

1915
01:41:27,479 --> 01:41:30,679
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't like hot, think like I don't.

1916
01:41:31,320 --> 01:41:33,559
Speaker 4: It's a rare moment for me to even like soup.

1917
01:41:33,760 --> 01:41:37,160
Speaker 4: I don't like. Google apparently doesn't like me either, as

1918
01:41:37,160 --> 01:41:39,040
Speaker 4: they're yelling at me. But no, it's rare for me

1919
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Speaker 4: to even try soup. I'm I'm a i'm a I'm

1920
01:41:42,040 --> 01:41:45,400
Speaker 4: a cold drink guy year round, A cold drink guy.

1921
01:41:45,439 --> 01:41:46,599
Speaker 4: And by the way, do you.

1922
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Speaker 3: Know where.

1923
01:41:48,840 --> 01:41:50,360
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no are you?

1924
01:41:51,160 --> 01:41:53,400
Speaker 3: I love the soup. I love it.

1925
01:41:53,640 --> 01:41:56,519
Speaker 2: Last night I had a big we got Chinese last night,

1926
01:41:56,600 --> 01:41:59,800
Speaker 2: like I told you, and I love the nce wand

1927
01:42:01,240 --> 01:42:02,599
Speaker 2: I get my hot oil.

1928
01:42:02,680 --> 01:42:03,920
Speaker 3: I turned the soup red.

1929
01:42:05,479 --> 01:42:08,439
Speaker 4: God No, when they offer me the soup with my sushi.

1930
01:42:08,479 --> 01:42:09,960
Speaker 4: When I get it, I'm always like, not, you can

1931
01:42:10,080 --> 01:42:12,120
Speaker 4: keep it. I'm not gonna like there's just no no,

1932
01:42:12,200 --> 01:42:14,599
Speaker 4: it's gonna go to waste. I like the occasional tomato

1933
01:42:14,680 --> 01:42:15,720
Speaker 4: bisk I'm in on.

1934
01:42:15,720 --> 01:42:22,360
Speaker 2: The My wife makes a great wedding soup. That's ridiculous.

1935
01:42:22,680 --> 01:42:25,960
Speaker 2: I love it. I mean I love when she does that.

1936
01:42:25,960 --> 01:42:27,880
Speaker 3: That's three days in a row.

1937
01:42:27,920 --> 01:42:31,479
Speaker 4: Do you know where the Americano got its name? I

1938
01:42:31,800 --> 01:42:33,280
Speaker 4: learned this when I was on tour. I don't know

1939
01:42:33,320 --> 01:42:33,960
Speaker 4: if you know this fun.

1940
01:42:34,240 --> 01:42:36,280
Speaker 3: I have no idea. I literally have no idea.

1941
01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:39,800
Speaker 4: So when I was in Europe on tour, humble brag.

1942
01:42:39,920 --> 01:42:42,000
Speaker 4: When I was in the music business, I went into

1943
01:42:42,000 --> 01:42:45,320
Speaker 4: a coffee shop and we all ordered Americanos and the

1944
01:42:45,800 --> 01:42:48,280
Speaker 4: barista was like, hey, do you know where you got where?

1945
01:42:48,320 --> 01:42:50,240
Speaker 4: These were named after? And I had no idea. But

1946
01:42:50,400 --> 01:42:53,759
Speaker 4: during World War Two, when Americans were over in Europe,

1947
01:42:54,360 --> 01:42:56,360
Speaker 4: they used to just everybody in Europe just has like

1948
01:42:56,400 --> 01:42:58,920
Speaker 4: a little shot of espresso. That's how they start their day. Well,

1949
01:42:58,960 --> 01:43:02,000
Speaker 4: that wasn't enough quid for what Americans even back then

1950
01:43:02,120 --> 01:43:05,160
Speaker 4: like to drink. They liked bigger drinks. So in Europe

1951
01:43:05,200 --> 01:43:08,280
Speaker 4: they started designing a drink where they added multiple shots

1952
01:43:08,280 --> 01:43:10,360
Speaker 4: of espresso and a splash of water to make it

1953
01:43:10,400 --> 01:43:13,080
Speaker 4: go farther and to make it a bigger drink. And

1954
01:43:13,120 --> 01:43:16,840
Speaker 4: that was nicknamed the Americano because that's what Americans always ordered,

1955
01:43:16,880 --> 01:43:21,280
Speaker 4: and so it came from World War two. And wow,

1956
01:43:21,400 --> 01:43:22,839
Speaker 4: the way that we drank our coffee.

1957
01:43:23,280 --> 01:43:31,440
Speaker 3: So that's oh my god, I I big gulps. Yeah.

1958
01:43:31,600 --> 01:43:33,400
Speaker 2: Well, because if you want to if you want to

1959
01:43:33,479 --> 01:43:37,200
Speaker 2: drink coffee, I want to enjoy by coffee. Like that's

1960
01:43:37,200 --> 01:43:40,680
Speaker 2: the one thing in Italy they do, You're right, Like

1961
01:43:40,680 --> 01:43:42,800
Speaker 2: they'll just do a shot of espresso and then they

1962
01:43:42,920 --> 01:43:43,960
Speaker 2: just they.

1963
01:43:43,800 --> 01:43:45,519
Speaker 3: Shoot it like it just shot it to kill it.

1964
01:43:46,479 --> 01:43:51,600
Speaker 2: And I'm like, I like it, but I need, you know,

1965
01:43:51,680 --> 01:43:54,880
Speaker 2: I need to savor my coffee. I like, I enjoy

1966
01:43:55,000 --> 01:43:58,040
Speaker 2: drinking it, and it doubles not enough.

1967
01:43:58,920 --> 01:44:02,240
Speaker 4: That is, we have this common because for me, you know,

1968
01:44:02,439 --> 01:44:05,240
Speaker 4: during the holidays, for example, if I'm going Christmas shopping,

1969
01:44:05,760 --> 01:44:09,360
Speaker 4: I always want to stop somewhere, whether it's a little

1970
01:44:09,600 --> 01:44:11,120
Speaker 4: coffee shop or Starbucks.

1971
01:44:10,760 --> 01:44:11,160
Speaker 3: I don't caay.

1972
01:44:11,360 --> 01:44:12,960
Speaker 4: I want to stop somewhere and I want to get

1973
01:44:13,000 --> 01:44:15,880
Speaker 4: like an iced coffee. Then I'll put like a little

1974
01:44:15,880 --> 01:44:18,200
Speaker 4: peppermint syrup in or whatever, like something right right right.

1975
01:44:18,600 --> 01:44:22,160
Speaker 4: But for me, like there is an experience with like

1976
01:44:22,560 --> 01:44:25,400
Speaker 4: I enjoy. If it's the middle of summer and I'm

1977
01:44:25,479 --> 01:44:28,160
Speaker 4: gonna stop in at a coffee shop, I'm not a

1978
01:44:28,320 --> 01:44:30,160
Speaker 4: grab it to go guy. I would rather sit in

1979
01:44:30,200 --> 01:44:32,280
Speaker 4: that coffee shop and take half an hour and just

1980
01:44:32,439 --> 01:44:35,960
Speaker 4: enjoy like a little little decompressing time. Like if I'm

1981
01:44:36,000 --> 01:44:39,040
Speaker 4: doom scrolling while I'm drinking coffee, it's because I'm just

1982
01:44:39,120 --> 01:44:41,160
Speaker 4: allowing myself to have the freedom to do that. Like

1983
01:44:41,280 --> 01:44:45,240
Speaker 4: I genuinely enjoy when you know, when I want to

1984
01:44:45,280 --> 01:44:47,200
Speaker 4: meet up with the buddy, coffee for me is my

1985
01:44:47,240 --> 01:44:49,280
Speaker 4: favorite way to do it because it just feels like

1986
01:44:49,520 --> 01:44:51,680
Speaker 4: we're gonna sit there for a while. It's like it's

1987
01:44:51,720 --> 01:44:54,360
Speaker 4: gonna be this warm, cozy even though it's cold coffee.

1988
01:44:54,360 --> 01:44:57,200
Speaker 4: It's gonna be like a more connective hang that way,

1989
01:44:57,280 --> 01:45:01,560
Speaker 4: Like I associated getting coffee with with it like it's experience.

1990
01:45:01,640 --> 01:45:04,120
Speaker 4: It's an experience more than it's just you know, if

1991
01:45:04,120 --> 01:45:05,720
Speaker 4: I want to shot a caffeine, I can just grab

1992
01:45:05,760 --> 01:45:08,120
Speaker 4: an energy drink and get that. Like I agree to

1993
01:45:08,400 --> 01:45:09,479
Speaker 4: its totally different.

1994
01:45:09,960 --> 01:45:10,880
Speaker 3: Well, it's funny he said that.

1995
01:45:10,960 --> 01:45:13,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're right because some of my happy places,

1996
01:45:13,960 --> 01:45:17,479
Speaker 2: Like so I do a lot obviously youth sports, right

1997
01:45:17,520 --> 01:45:21,280
Speaker 2: because of my kids and so you know how many

1998
01:45:21,560 --> 01:45:25,040
Speaker 2: freaking baseball games at you know, eight o'clock and more

1999
01:45:25,120 --> 01:45:29,519
Speaker 2: seven o'clock in the morning. The like last Sunday at

2000
01:45:29,640 --> 01:45:36,439
Speaker 2: Moscow had a quarterback. It was a quarterback. We work

2001
01:45:36,640 --> 01:45:40,479
Speaker 2: quarterback workout. So there's a couple of kids. There's a

2002
01:45:40,560 --> 01:45:44,080
Speaker 2: quarterback from to local high school actually one high school,

2003
01:45:44,760 --> 01:45:47,960
Speaker 2: uh Saint Joe's Prep in Philadelphia and another one at

2004
01:45:48,040 --> 01:45:53,280
Speaker 2: Damatha in Baltimore, and the quarterback coach and then Moss

2005
01:45:53,320 --> 01:45:57,040
Speaker 2: worked out. There's a there was another younger kid, and

2006
01:45:57,200 --> 01:46:00,360
Speaker 2: then it was these kids that are like sophomores and juniors.

2007
01:45:59,600 --> 01:46:03,360
Speaker 2: And so we had this workout and it was freaking

2008
01:46:03,479 --> 01:46:08,719
Speaker 2: outside Sunday morning at with my god, it was twenty

2009
01:46:08,760 --> 01:46:09,360
Speaker 2: degrees out.

2010
01:46:09,880 --> 01:46:11,000
Speaker 3: But I have my coffee.

2011
01:46:11,320 --> 01:46:13,400
Speaker 2: So I always have my coffee and all these things,

2012
01:46:13,439 --> 01:46:16,800
Speaker 2: the baseball games, like I'm working the kids out, or

2013
01:46:17,200 --> 01:46:18,960
Speaker 2: I'll probably have a cup of coffee with me at

2014
01:46:18,960 --> 01:46:21,960
Speaker 2: basketball practice this morning, and it's a I don't know

2015
01:46:22,000 --> 01:46:24,280
Speaker 2: what it is, but it's comfort and I'm like sipping

2016
01:46:24,320 --> 01:46:28,120
Speaker 2: it and eventually it'll get luke warm, but I don't care.

2017
01:46:28,560 --> 01:46:31,960
Speaker 2: I'll still sip it as you know, either coaching or

2018
01:46:32,000 --> 01:46:36,760
Speaker 2: watching or doing whatever. And it's you know, it's it's

2019
01:46:36,800 --> 01:46:38,639
Speaker 2: like a comfort thing and I love it. And I'm

2020
01:46:38,680 --> 01:46:40,600
Speaker 2: with you, like I could sit there and talk to

2021
01:46:40,640 --> 01:46:41,799
Speaker 2: you all day long.

2022
01:46:41,640 --> 01:46:42,679
Speaker 3: Over a cup of coffee.

2023
01:46:43,320 --> 01:46:47,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's that's how we're like our parents a thousand percent.

2024
01:46:47,200 --> 01:46:49,360
Speaker 4: Like I've joked with my buddies before, I can't wait

2025
01:46:49,360 --> 01:46:51,840
Speaker 4: to be old and just go sit it like McDonald's

2026
01:46:51,840 --> 01:46:53,840
Speaker 4: with all the seniors and get my cheap coffee and

2027
01:46:53,880 --> 01:46:55,479
Speaker 4: sit there all morning and just talk with the other

2028
01:46:55,920 --> 01:46:58,040
Speaker 4: old guys about the way life used to be. I

2029
01:46:58,479 --> 01:47:01,679
Speaker 4: buy like there's a there's a company and no free plugs.

2030
01:47:01,720 --> 01:47:03,960
Speaker 4: But I will say, Wandering Bear makes this col brew.

2031
01:47:04,040 --> 01:47:07,720
Speaker 4: That's great, and I drink it all the time. I

2032
01:47:07,760 --> 01:47:09,880
Speaker 4: should note loudly. They don't give me anything for saying that.

2033
01:47:09,880 --> 01:47:12,400
Speaker 4: I'm just telling it. Wandering Bear is awesome. Uh but

2034
01:47:12,560 --> 01:47:15,360
Speaker 4: and it's great Colebrew. It's boxed colebrew, right, So, like

2035
01:47:15,439 --> 01:47:17,439
Speaker 4: all I have to do is just a port and

2036
01:47:17,439 --> 01:47:19,320
Speaker 4: the cup and the glass. And the funny thing is,

2037
01:47:19,360 --> 01:47:21,760
Speaker 4: while that's convenient, and while I know that that's all

2038
01:47:21,760 --> 01:47:23,439
Speaker 4: I need because I just want a little coffee and

2039
01:47:23,479 --> 01:47:26,040
Speaker 4: it tastes great, there's a part of me that every

2040
01:47:26,080 --> 01:47:27,840
Speaker 4: time I have that, I'm like, it doesn't change the

2041
01:47:27,880 --> 01:47:30,200
Speaker 4: fact that if I'm going out and about, I still

2042
01:47:30,240 --> 01:47:32,960
Speaker 4: am natured to want to stop somewhere and get coffee

2043
01:47:33,000 --> 01:47:34,840
Speaker 4: because I just feel like that's the spoil, that's the

2044
01:47:35,120 --> 01:47:37,360
Speaker 4: treat your self aspect of it. For me, that just

2045
01:47:37,720 --> 01:47:40,559
Speaker 4: makes me feel like, you know, like like life's good.

2046
01:47:40,640 --> 01:47:42,160
Speaker 4: I can stop and get a cup of coffee. I

2047
01:47:42,200 --> 01:47:44,639
Speaker 4: can slow down my day a little bit, I can

2048
01:47:44,680 --> 01:47:46,880
Speaker 4: like do a little bit of shopping whatever. Like it

2049
01:47:47,040 --> 01:47:50,160
Speaker 4: changes the whole way that I view that day. If

2050
01:47:50,200 --> 01:47:52,360
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm gonna stop somewhere and just get a cup,

2051
01:47:52,560 --> 01:47:55,439
Speaker 4: you know, and that's you know that it's funny how

2052
01:47:55,439 --> 01:47:58,800
Speaker 4: that's become associated for me with a level of joy

2053
01:47:58,880 --> 01:48:01,240
Speaker 4: around it, in a level of life comfort around it.

2054
01:48:01,439 --> 01:48:03,840
Speaker 4: Even though I have it at home. Every time I

2055
01:48:03,840 --> 01:48:05,640
Speaker 4: go to buy more for home, I'm like, should I

2056
01:48:05,680 --> 01:48:07,240
Speaker 4: do this because I'm still gonna want to stop when

2057
01:48:07,240 --> 01:48:09,559
Speaker 4: I get out. But you know, for me, it's it's

2058
01:48:09,600 --> 01:48:10,719
Speaker 4: it's always got to be around.

2059
01:48:11,640 --> 01:48:15,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. I love it, spot on spot on.

2060
01:48:15,080 --> 01:48:18,040
Speaker 2: With that, hey, let's take a quick moment and uh,

2061
01:48:18,760 --> 01:48:23,200
Speaker 2: we just want to wish everybody a beautiful, joyous, blessed

2062
01:48:23,280 --> 01:48:28,560
Speaker 2: Christmas and holiday season and no matter what you celebrate,

2063
01:48:28,600 --> 01:48:31,320
Speaker 2: we wish you, the guys the best effect. My man's

2064
01:48:31,360 --> 01:48:34,960
Speaker 2: Southside Chuck just hit me up on Twitter and said, listen,

2065
01:48:35,479 --> 01:48:37,719
Speaker 2: just want to wish you would you would fit see

2066
01:48:38,000 --> 01:48:41,960
Speaker 2: a safe holiday season and appreciate listening to you guys,

2067
01:48:41,960 --> 01:48:46,080
Speaker 2: which I thought was very nice. And we appreciate you

2068
01:48:46,280 --> 01:48:49,680
Speaker 2: Chucky and all of our listeners, and we thank you

2069
01:48:49,720 --> 01:48:52,800
Speaker 2: guys for being a part of it, sharing with all

2070
01:48:52,800 --> 01:48:57,719
Speaker 2: of our idiosyncrecies and our undying love of sports.

2071
01:48:59,040 --> 01:49:03,240
Speaker 4: Right, I don't know there's Southside. Thanks for the holiday wishes.

2072
01:49:03,280 --> 01:49:06,200
Speaker 4: That's really incredible. I think you know it hits me

2073
01:49:06,240 --> 01:49:09,400
Speaker 4: every year at this time that you know, your holiday

2074
01:49:09,479 --> 01:49:12,120
Speaker 4: for everybody that's listening doesn't have to be the way

2075
01:49:12,200 --> 01:49:14,240
Speaker 4: it's ever been before. It doesn't have to be the

2076
01:49:14,280 --> 01:49:16,160
Speaker 4: way that it's going to be forever, and it doesn't

2077
01:49:16,200 --> 01:49:17,920
Speaker 4: have to be the way anybody else does it. Like

2078
01:49:18,520 --> 01:49:20,400
Speaker 4: you know, it's so funny how we get into Christmas

2079
01:49:20,400 --> 01:49:22,920
Speaker 4: time and there's so much pressure no matter what holidays

2080
01:49:22,960 --> 01:49:27,160
Speaker 4: she said, to celebrate. So many people feel pressure for family,

2081
01:49:27,200 --> 01:49:29,639
Speaker 4: and they feel pressure for tradition, and they feel pressure

2082
01:49:29,680 --> 01:49:31,640
Speaker 4: for all of these different things. And I think as

2083
01:49:31,640 --> 01:49:33,720
Speaker 4: I've gotten older, the one thing I've realized is that,

2084
01:49:34,160 --> 01:49:36,640
Speaker 4: you know, life is never the same two Christmases in

2085
01:49:36,680 --> 01:49:39,080
Speaker 4: a row. So Christmases don't have to be the same

2086
01:49:39,120 --> 01:49:41,760
Speaker 4: two Christmas is in a row. Whatever it is it is,

2087
01:49:41,880 --> 01:49:43,519
Speaker 4: you know, And if you can find joy and just

2088
01:49:43,560 --> 01:49:46,519
Speaker 4: appreciating that moment that day for whatever it is for

2089
01:49:46,560 --> 01:49:49,080
Speaker 4: you in your life right now, there's there's some peace

2090
01:49:49,120 --> 01:49:51,519
Speaker 4: to that. You know. Sometimes it's hard to slow down

2091
01:49:51,560 --> 01:49:53,880
Speaker 4: the rat race, and it's hard to it's hard to

2092
01:49:53,920 --> 01:49:56,280
Speaker 4: just stop and appreciate, like, hey, this is where I am,

2093
01:49:56,320 --> 01:49:58,439
Speaker 4: and where I am is pretty good, and if it's

2094
01:49:58,479 --> 01:50:00,640
Speaker 4: not pretty good, I'm really sorry for anybody that's not

2095
01:50:00,680 --> 01:50:02,880
Speaker 4: pretty good. Just know that if it's not, it's just

2096
01:50:02,920 --> 01:50:04,800
Speaker 4: a day, you know, it's it's it's a day, and

2097
01:50:05,320 --> 01:50:07,800
Speaker 4: you'll make it through today and tomorrow will be even better.

2098
01:50:07,840 --> 01:50:10,880
Speaker 4: And it's just I think finding that sort of peace

2099
01:50:10,920 --> 01:50:14,840
Speaker 4: in the holidays really keeps me centered, at least for

2100
01:50:15,040 --> 01:50:17,080
Speaker 4: hope and for understanding of where things are and where

2101
01:50:17,120 --> 01:50:18,719
Speaker 4: things will be.

2102
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Speaker 2: Beautifully said, I just deep thoughts and I love it.

2103
01:50:23,520 --> 01:50:23,920
Speaker 3: I love it.

2104
01:50:24,080 --> 01:50:26,320
Speaker 2: On that note, we'll take a quick time out and

2105
01:50:26,400 --> 01:50:31,280
Speaker 2: come right back. Fella is hanging right here on Fox Sports.

2106
01:50:31,000 --> 01:50:34,560
Speaker 4: Radio, Dude, boom.

2107
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Speaker 3: Fellas, I always like this song.

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Speaker 2: fellas hanging out, Dude, Herbert looked great the other night man.

2116
01:51:14,160 --> 01:51:19,160
Speaker 2: That was great. I'm a Herbert fan and he looked terrific.

2117
01:51:19,240 --> 01:51:22,439
Speaker 2: That was that was a that was a really good game.

2118
01:51:22,520 --> 01:51:25,000
Speaker 2: And you're gonna see bo Nicks is only going to

2119
01:51:25,000 --> 01:51:28,080
Speaker 2: get better. And I know we struggled a little bit

2120
01:51:28,479 --> 01:51:31,280
Speaker 2: and particularly in the second half, but he's only going

2121
01:51:31,320 --> 01:51:35,519
Speaker 2: to get better. And it's amazing when Harball has done

2122
01:51:35,560 --> 01:51:39,639
Speaker 2: with Herbert. I mean, you get good coaching, you get

2123
01:51:39,640 --> 01:51:44,559
Speaker 2: a good system, and it's just what does wonders for you.

2124
01:51:45,680 --> 01:51:49,920
Speaker 4: We need to start looking at coaches and having the

2125
01:51:49,920 --> 01:51:52,599
Speaker 4: same conversation about good coaching that we have so often

2126
01:51:52,960 --> 01:51:55,840
Speaker 4: about quarterbacks. So, man, if you've got the type of

2127
01:51:55,920 --> 01:51:59,559
Speaker 4: quarterback that can save you a couple of times a year,

2128
01:51:59,800 --> 01:52:01,960
Speaker 4: how far ahead of schedule your team can be? And

2129
01:52:02,000 --> 01:52:03,920
Speaker 4: it's the same thing with coaches. And what are we

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Speaker 4: talk like? You're talking about two teams that are so

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01:52:06,320 --> 01:52:08,400
Speaker 4: far ahead of schedule for where they should be based

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01:52:08,400 --> 01:52:10,679
Speaker 4: on the talent on their roster when you talk about

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01:52:10,680 --> 01:52:13,559
Speaker 4: the Broncos and the Chargers, And I will just loudly

2134
01:52:13,640 --> 01:52:16,439
Speaker 4: remind even though there's context to why, and everybody wants

2135
01:52:16,479 --> 01:52:18,919
Speaker 4: to remind me of the context to why, that's fine.

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01:52:19,080 --> 01:52:22,600
Speaker 4: I will loudly remind the world that the Bears elected

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01:52:22,680 --> 01:52:25,719
Speaker 4: not to change head coaches. They had a very clear shot,

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Speaker 4: according to multiple reports, of getting Harball. They chose not

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Speaker 4: to go to that angle. The Raiders, my beloved Raiders,

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01:52:31,439 --> 01:52:33,600
Speaker 4: chose not to even interview Harball in any sort of

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01:52:33,600 --> 01:52:37,479
Speaker 4: a real way. And those decisions today look pretty damn

2142
01:52:37,479 --> 01:52:41,320
Speaker 4: stupid by both organizations. And if your answer, Bears fans

2143
01:52:41,360 --> 01:52:43,719
Speaker 4: is that Harball wasn't going to be willing to work

2144
01:52:43,760 --> 01:52:46,360
Speaker 4: with Kevin Warren their team president, I will remind you

2145
01:52:46,640 --> 01:52:49,000
Speaker 4: team presidents are easier to find than head coaches. They

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01:52:49,000 --> 01:52:51,599
Speaker 4: can win games, like Harball camp Like, there are.

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Speaker 3: Just certain things that are simple, right man, Yes.

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Speaker 4: Sean Payton never sucked at his job, and what do

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01:53:00,320 --> 01:53:03,160
Speaker 4: you know he still doesn't. Harball has never sucked at

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01:53:03,160 --> 01:53:05,439
Speaker 4: his job, and what do you know he still doesn't. Like,

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01:53:05,600 --> 01:53:08,200
Speaker 4: we just overcomplicate so much of this, Like you had

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01:53:08,240 --> 01:53:11,080
Speaker 4: to proven entity right there, and now two bad teams

2153
01:53:11,120 --> 01:53:13,880
Speaker 4: are gonna be looking for coaches again, and they didn't.

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01:53:14,000 --> 01:53:16,799
Speaker 4: They didn't take a flyer on harmone, which.

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Speaker 3: Is why I still don't even understand the Belichick thing.

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01:53:21,240 --> 01:53:24,200
Speaker 2: Like I get like I get to go, all right, well,

2157
01:53:24,320 --> 01:53:27,960
Speaker 2: you know he is older, right, but you look at him.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's pretty youthful in how he handles himself,

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01:53:34,080 --> 01:53:35,720
Speaker 2: like you know, you were again him for you know,

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01:53:35,800 --> 01:53:39,719
Speaker 2: god willing, you know, you know, three to five years

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Speaker 2: and that'll be it, you know, I mean, he'll still

2162
01:53:42,360 --> 01:53:45,040
Speaker 2: won't be in his eighties yet, so you'll have that,

2163
01:53:45,160 --> 01:53:48,240
Speaker 2: you'll have that three to five year window. Why would

2164
01:53:48,360 --> 01:53:52,040
Speaker 2: you go after a Belichick to help at least change

2165
01:53:52,080 --> 01:53:55,240
Speaker 2: the way you do things in your building because so

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01:53:55,320 --> 01:53:58,719
Speaker 2: many of these franchises their building is rotten.

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01:53:58,960 --> 01:54:05,599
Speaker 4: Look at the Jets, I mean, to your point when

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01:54:05,680 --> 01:54:10,479
Speaker 4: we think about the Yeah, but Sempayton, it was well,

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01:54:10,800 --> 01:54:12,880
Speaker 4: you know, I mean he had Drew Brees. Let's see

2170
01:54:12,880 --> 01:54:15,639
Speaker 4: how it looks without Drew Brees. Still looks pretty damn good.

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01:54:15,880 --> 01:54:17,960
Speaker 4: With Harball, it was all. But he wears out every

2172
01:54:18,040 --> 01:54:20,680
Speaker 4: locker room. And you know, he never sticks around, and

2173
01:54:21,680 --> 01:54:24,600
Speaker 4: he's been away from the league too long. Whatever excuses

2174
01:54:24,640 --> 01:54:26,360
Speaker 4: we want to find, and they all look pretty stupid

2175
01:54:26,479 --> 01:54:28,800
Speaker 4: right now. And I actually agree with you as much

2176
01:54:28,840 --> 01:54:31,640
Speaker 4: as we've sat back and said, hey, I understand. You know,

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01:54:31,800 --> 01:54:34,320
Speaker 4: nobody wants to get Belichick full creative control, and nobody

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01:54:34,360 --> 01:54:36,400
Speaker 4: wants to let him do everything he wants to do.

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Speaker 4: I also look around and say, you know what in

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01:54:39,000 --> 01:54:41,720
Speaker 4: three to five years, My god, how many head coaches

2181
01:54:41,760 --> 01:54:43,920
Speaker 4: has my favorite team had in the last five years.

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01:54:44,520 --> 01:54:47,720
Speaker 4: It's exhausting trying to keep up with the revolving door

2183
01:54:47,800 --> 01:54:50,640
Speaker 4: a head coach. And it just is a reminder for

2184
01:54:50,840 --> 01:54:53,800
Speaker 4: across the board. And you know the Woody Johnson report

2185
01:54:53,880 --> 01:54:56,360
Speaker 4: that from the Athletics that was really well written, well

2186
01:54:56,440 --> 01:55:00,960
Speaker 4: researched about turning down the Jerry Judy trade because Jerry

2187
01:55:01,040 --> 01:55:04,720
Speaker 4: Judy's Madden rating wasn't high enough. That's it's a real report,

2188
01:55:04,800 --> 01:55:07,880
Speaker 4: and it's just it's a staggering slap in the face

2189
01:55:08,000 --> 01:55:12,880
Speaker 4: reminder that most teams that really stink just having competence

2190
01:55:12,960 --> 01:55:15,880
Speaker 4: running organizations. And nothing's gonna change that. Like you're not

2191
01:55:15,960 --> 01:55:18,360
Speaker 4: going to force the team to sell their their force

2192
01:55:18,840 --> 01:55:20,960
Speaker 4: an owner to sell their team. That's never gonna happen.

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01:55:21,360 --> 01:55:22,840
Speaker 4: So what do you do if you're sitting here and

2194
01:55:22,880 --> 01:55:24,760
Speaker 4: you're like, all right, well, I'm a Jets fan and

2195
01:55:24,800 --> 01:55:27,680
Speaker 4: Woody Johnson is obviously incompetent when it comes to running

2196
01:55:27,680 --> 01:55:30,400
Speaker 4: a football team, So how do you fix that? You know,

2197
01:55:30,800 --> 01:55:34,040
Speaker 4: I'm a Bears fan, and my god, like, where's your hope,

2198
01:55:34,280 --> 01:55:37,440
Speaker 4: Like if you're a Raiders fan and whatever Mark Davis is,

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Speaker 4: I mean, he just doesn't identify talent. Well, like, where

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01:55:40,680 --> 01:55:42,360
Speaker 4: do you find your hope from any of this when

2201
01:55:42,400 --> 01:55:44,840
Speaker 4: your favorite team is bad and you realize that you

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01:55:45,200 --> 01:55:48,280
Speaker 4: can't even do the simple things like I don't know, interviewing.

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Speaker 3: Harball, right, I know, I know it's so stupid, man,

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01:55:53,160 --> 01:55:56,520
Speaker 3: it really is. These people are slubtypes. You're so you're

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01:55:57,040 --> 01:56:00,440
Speaker 3: you're just foolish. You got really good coaches.

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Speaker 2: And the other thing, too, is listen, I know everybody

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01:56:04,000 --> 01:56:07,400
Speaker 2: wants to discover the next guy, and I'm all about

2208
01:56:08,160 --> 01:56:10,600
Speaker 2: some of the youthful. Hey, let you know, this guy

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01:56:10,680 --> 01:56:16,160
Speaker 2: comes to be you know, highly highly recommended. But give

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01:56:16,240 --> 01:56:20,280
Speaker 2: me a break. Not every young guy who wants to

2211
01:56:20,400 --> 01:56:22,800
Speaker 2: replicate playing Madden is a genius.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's like Brandon Brandon Staley for every for every mcveigher's

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01:56:30,000 --> 01:56:36,200
Speaker 2: Brandon Staley. Like guys who aren't ready to to run

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Speaker 2: a program, run a franchise. I mean, you got to

2216
01:56:39,640 --> 01:56:40,919
Speaker 2: be smart about things.

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Speaker 4: Which is you know. Dominique Foxworth wrote for ESPN several

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01:56:45,240 --> 01:56:47,920
Speaker 4: years ago that they need to start a coaching combine

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01:56:48,280 --> 01:56:51,640
Speaker 4: where offensive and defensive coordinators. Positional coaches come in and

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01:56:51,760 --> 01:56:55,120
Speaker 4: they like a combine. They show teams how they would

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Speaker 4: handle head coaching situations. It's such a different job. Being

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01:56:58,960 --> 01:57:01,200
Speaker 4: a coordinator is not the same as being a head coach.

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Speaker 4: So the hiring process can never be exact. Like if

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01:57:05,320 --> 01:57:08,160
Speaker 4: you are a car salesman, that does not mean that

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01:57:08,240 --> 01:57:11,560
Speaker 4: you're necessarily qualified to take over marketing of a car dealership,

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01:57:11,600 --> 01:57:14,080
Speaker 4: even if you've seen it happen. They're different jobs, right,

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Speaker 4: So you know, what do you do if you're in

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01:57:17,320 --> 01:57:19,760
Speaker 4: exact hiring over and over and over again, and you

2229
01:57:19,880 --> 01:57:21,600
Speaker 4: never really have a way to see what these guys

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01:57:21,640 --> 01:57:24,640
Speaker 4: look like. That's why the more the older I get

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Speaker 4: in all of this, and the more we cover all

2232
01:57:26,680 --> 01:57:28,760
Speaker 4: of this, the more I continue to look around and say,

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Speaker 4: I really do kind of like second time coaches. I

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01:57:31,320 --> 01:57:32,800
Speaker 4: really kind of like guys that have had a chance

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01:57:32,840 --> 01:57:34,560
Speaker 4: to do it before, because at least I've seen a

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01:57:34,640 --> 01:57:36,840
Speaker 4: little of what they do. You know, at least I

2237
01:57:36,920 --> 01:57:40,320
Speaker 4: know the vrabel can hire an offensive coordinator. That's a

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Speaker 4: skill he.

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Speaker 2: Has, dude, exactly, And it boggles my mind. I know, listen,

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Speaker 2: he's a dear friend of mine, and I try to

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Speaker 2: look at things objectively. But I don't know still to

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01:57:53,680 --> 01:57:56,000
Speaker 2: this day, how SPAGS doesn't give them love a chance

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Speaker 2: when I can easily tell you how the first opportunity

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01:58:00,960 --> 01:58:04,320
Speaker 2: went in Saint Louis with a franchise that had one

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Speaker 2: foot out the door on its way to LA.

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Speaker 3: I mean, give me a break. That dude deserves a

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01:58:10,400 --> 01:58:11,840
Speaker 3: job more than anybody.

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01:58:11,600 --> 01:58:14,720
Speaker 4: And you'd be weakening the soon to be three time

2249
01:58:14,800 --> 01:58:16,680
Speaker 4: defending Super Bowl champion in the process.

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Speaker 2: Come on, they are amazing, man, How may they just

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01:58:21,200 --> 01:58:24,840
Speaker 2: don't lose? It's crazy. We'll talk about them, We'll talk

2252
01:58:24,880 --> 01:58:27,480
Speaker 2: about the whole league and get back to college football.

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Speaker 3: Last Hour, Big hour next.

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Speaker 2: out there. Great football stuff happening, Man, What a day today?

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Speaker 2: Three college football playoff games, two NFL games, Big slate tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Uh, let's look at today's games, and we haven't talked

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Speaker 2: much about the NFL all all morning.

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Speaker 3: So let's get to it.

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Speaker 4: Never heard of it?

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Speaker 3: Is that?

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Speaker 4: There? Is that the NFL? Never? Is that a thing?

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Speaker 4: I didn't even know it existed?

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Speaker 3: Is it a hysterical? Isn't an hysterical? It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: We got don't know me like about an hour ago,

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Speaker 2: and I brought up to Fitz and I was like,

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Speaker 2: you didn't realize what we had not talked about, Like

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Speaker 2: what these playoffs have done.

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Speaker 3: They have knocked the NFL out of our front globe.

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Speaker 4: With only weeks left in the season. Two, I mean,

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Speaker 4: with weeks left in the season and so much on

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Speaker 4: the line, we're not it's amazing. Congratulations to college football. Huzza.

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Speaker 4: It is a big weekend for the sport, but it

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02:00:16,720 --> 02:00:18,720
Speaker 4: is a big day for it is still a big day.

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Speaker 4: Two massive matchups in the NFL today. I don't want

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Speaker 4: to take anything away from that, like two can't miss

2288
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Speaker 4: implications all over, including the miracle healer known as Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 4: One Patrick Mahomes that obviously like, look here's the thing.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to stand to steadfast to this. You and

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Speaker 4: I are going to go on a tour of all

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Speaker 4: of the voodoo places in New Orleans for the Super

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Speaker 4: Bowl so that I can get a doll from each

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Speaker 4: one of them and I can figure out what I

2295
02:00:42,880 --> 02:00:46,600
Speaker 4: have to do to get the same level of football

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Speaker 4: god healing and luck that the Chiefs continue to have

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Speaker 4: and Patrick Mahomes continues to have. Because looked like a

2298
02:00:52,640 --> 02:00:54,800
Speaker 4: week ago it was just going to be absolute epic.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, what's happened? And now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 4: looks like he's going to play against the Texans.

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Speaker 2: I mean he didn't even get a week one week

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Speaker 2: of Carson Wentz. I was actually looking forward to it.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to see Andy so Andy Reid.

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Speaker 3: I watched him win.

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Speaker 2: With Koy Detmer aj Feeley, I watched him win with

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Speaker 2: Jeff Carcaya. I was curious to see I mean Kevin Cobb,

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Speaker 2: I mean he could take quarterbacks and he could win

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Speaker 2: with him.

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Speaker 3: I was curious to see if he could rehab Wentz.

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Speaker 4: I mean that you are. It's just a glutton for

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Speaker 4: ugly if it. I love the concept of it. It

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Speaker 4: is interesting to me, though, given the fact that they

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Speaker 4: have a two game lead in the AFC, I really

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Speaker 4: expected that this would be an easy one to just

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Speaker 4: have him sit out. You know, They've got three tough

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Speaker 4: games down the stretch Texan Steelers, Broncos. None of those

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Speaker 4: are easy out. So I understand, you know, hey, let's

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Speaker 4: get the win and try and seal up home field

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Speaker 4: and see where it goes from there. But man, I

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Speaker 4: would have I would add, no problem, just get him

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Speaker 4: a week off and then let's see where it goes.

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Speaker 2: You know, yeah, man, exactly exactly. How about Deontay Johnson?

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Speaker 2: Is that the weirdest story.

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Speaker 4: You think we'll ever get the whole? Like, what's going

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Speaker 4: on that Deontay Johnson is just I mean to just

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Speaker 4: be cut at this point. It's just, you know, there's

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Speaker 4: very little for a team to cut a player at

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Speaker 4: this point. It just means that they have no use

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Speaker 4: for you whatsoever. Like there's a there's not a chance

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Speaker 4: that you might even want to consider bringing him on

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Speaker 4: the field. There's so little advantage this late in the

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Speaker 4: season other than creating a roster spot for somebody else.

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Speaker 4: So like that's churn and burn that we usually see

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Speaker 4: for the very bottom of a roster, not for somebody

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Speaker 4: that we perceive to be talented. So's I cannot, for

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Speaker 4: the life of me figure out how that thing went

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Speaker 4: that far off the rails.

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Speaker 3: And you know what's nuts is that he was good, like,

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02:02:56,840 --> 02:03:00,200
Speaker 3: he's good at Carolia, he's a good receiver. What in

2340
02:03:00,320 --> 02:03:06,160
Speaker 3: the world happened in that he became just not like

2341
02:03:06,360 --> 02:03:07,360
Speaker 3: he hated it there.

2342
02:03:07,680 --> 02:03:11,000
Speaker 2: I don't know, Like it's bizarre. Man I still I'm

2343
02:03:11,120 --> 02:03:12,280
Speaker 2: still trying to figure it out.

2344
02:03:14,720 --> 02:03:18,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I, And how do you rebound from that? You know,

2345
02:03:18,720 --> 02:03:21,720
Speaker 4: it's just because guys that can play get extra chances

2346
02:03:21,760 --> 02:03:24,400
Speaker 4: after chance after chance. We all know that. But man,

2347
02:03:24,520 --> 02:03:28,400
Speaker 4: I just that is this is a tough look in

2348
02:03:28,760 --> 02:03:31,280
Speaker 4: the league. The league wants to get people to chance,

2349
02:03:31,400 --> 02:03:33,440
Speaker 4: but once you've been sort of shut out, it's hard

2350
02:03:33,520 --> 02:03:36,640
Speaker 4: to just work work your way back in. And ironically

2351
02:03:36,720 --> 02:03:40,360
Speaker 4: it's the perception is that being you know, you're being

2352
02:03:40,400 --> 02:03:42,440
Speaker 4: torn out of this thing because you're just not good enough.

2353
02:03:42,480 --> 02:03:44,360
Speaker 4: So I don't know how you break that it's the

2354
02:03:44,840 --> 02:03:47,720
Speaker 4: wild fall from grace is pretty pretty crazy to me,

2355
02:03:48,080 --> 02:03:48,720
Speaker 4: it really is.

2356
02:03:48,920 --> 02:03:51,880
Speaker 2: All right, let's look at the games. We're gonna go

2357
02:03:51,960 --> 02:03:54,840
Speaker 2: start with the NFL. We'll end with college at the

2358
02:03:54,920 --> 02:03:56,680
Speaker 2: end of the hour. But let's look at the NFL

2359
02:03:56,840 --> 02:04:00,800
Speaker 2: this weekend and go over the storylines. We just talked

2360
02:04:00,840 --> 02:04:05,440
Speaker 2: about Mahomes and the miracle healer that he is. So

2361
02:04:05,800 --> 02:04:10,000
Speaker 2: it's Chiefs and Texans. Chiefs now three and a half

2362
02:04:10,040 --> 02:04:14,800
Speaker 2: point favorite over Houston. I'll be honest with you, I

2363
02:04:14,880 --> 02:04:19,720
Speaker 2: think that line is extremely low. I you know, I'm

2364
02:04:19,840 --> 02:04:21,880
Speaker 2: shocked at that low. It's that low.

2365
02:04:22,440 --> 02:04:26,440
Speaker 4: Injury no injury, Yeah, I mean there is a spot.

2366
02:04:26,880 --> 02:04:29,440
Speaker 4: I'm not sure that we know the right way yet.

2367
02:04:29,480 --> 02:04:31,920
Speaker 4: To look at this Texans team. This Texans team has

2368
02:04:31,960 --> 02:04:35,720
Speaker 4: been riddled by their own version of injuries. They've certainly

2369
02:04:35,800 --> 02:04:38,080
Speaker 4: had their own difficulties this year. And this is a

2370
02:04:38,160 --> 02:04:40,560
Speaker 4: Texans team that, you know, it's funny to me, I

2371
02:04:40,680 --> 02:04:42,640
Speaker 4: have to loudly say, this is a nine to five

2372
02:04:42,720 --> 02:04:44,880
Speaker 4: Texans team that feels like a bit of a disappointment

2373
02:04:45,200 --> 02:04:47,600
Speaker 4: against a thirteen and one Kansas City Chiefs team that

2374
02:04:47,640 --> 02:04:49,680
Speaker 4: we are trying to tell the world is broken. You know,

2375
02:04:49,840 --> 02:04:52,600
Speaker 4: and so it is. It's funny to me that the

2376
02:04:52,960 --> 02:04:56,320
Speaker 4: narrative on both of these teams is just so wildly

2377
02:04:57,040 --> 02:04:59,360
Speaker 4: out of place. You know, I don't even know that

2378
02:04:59,400 --> 02:05:01,920
Speaker 4: we can appreciate what Houston is right now because the

2379
02:05:02,000 --> 02:05:04,240
Speaker 4: expectation is that they would be competitive with the Chiefs.

2380
02:05:04,280 --> 02:05:07,000
Speaker 4: They are certainly not that things have been much more

2381
02:05:07,040 --> 02:05:09,520
Speaker 4: difficult this year for CJ. Stroud than any of us

2382
02:05:09,600 --> 02:05:12,240
Speaker 4: expected that the Chiefs are. It's not that they're a

2383
02:05:12,280 --> 02:05:15,040
Speaker 4: bad football team. It's just taking on sorry, the Texans.

2384
02:05:15,120 --> 02:05:16,720
Speaker 4: Not they're a bad football team. They're just taking on

2385
02:05:16,800 --> 02:05:19,800
Speaker 4: a Chiefs team that I don't know how you beat them.

2386
02:05:20,000 --> 02:05:20,600
Speaker 4: I just don't know.

2387
02:05:22,480 --> 02:05:25,160
Speaker 2: I hear you, and I look at it, and I

2388
02:05:25,400 --> 02:05:30,240
Speaker 2: keep thinking about it. I'm like, you know, I don't

2389
02:05:30,360 --> 02:05:33,640
Speaker 2: like the way that the Chiefs are protected. I mean,

2390
02:05:33,960 --> 02:05:40,240
Speaker 2: Texas in Houston is protecting Watson Watson, oh my god, Stroud.

2391
02:05:41,040 --> 02:05:44,520
Speaker 2: And I'm looking at it. I'm going the way the

2392
02:05:44,680 --> 02:05:47,200
Speaker 2: Chiefs defense is playing right now. I think it's a

2393
02:05:47,280 --> 02:05:48,320
Speaker 2: bad matchup for him.

2394
02:05:49,600 --> 02:05:49,840
Speaker 4: I do.

2395
02:05:50,080 --> 02:05:53,000
Speaker 2: And I know that he's get beat all but and

2396
02:05:53,080 --> 02:05:56,280
Speaker 2: I know the left tackle has been not been fun.

2397
02:05:56,400 --> 02:05:59,920
Speaker 2: But you get Hollywood Brown back give you any some toy.

2398
02:06:01,160 --> 02:06:01,560
Speaker 3: I don't know.

2399
02:06:01,760 --> 02:06:04,320
Speaker 2: I think if as long as they could protect and

2400
02:06:04,440 --> 02:06:06,720
Speaker 2: I love it where kids see these defense is at

2401
02:06:06,880 --> 02:06:10,280
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, I look at this game, yeah,

2402
02:06:10,320 --> 02:06:11,280
Speaker 2: but I mean protect.

2403
02:06:11,960 --> 02:06:14,400
Speaker 4: The Texans are i think second in the league in

2404
02:06:14,480 --> 02:06:16,840
Speaker 4: sacks at this point, top five defense against the past,

2405
02:06:16,960 --> 02:06:19,760
Speaker 4: so like, yeah, this is That's part of why I

2406
02:06:19,880 --> 02:06:21,640
Speaker 4: was a little concerned that they're putting the Chiefs in,

2407
02:06:21,800 --> 02:06:24,720
Speaker 4: like the Chiefs got putting Mahomes in. The Chiefs got

2408
02:06:24,800 --> 02:06:28,840
Speaker 4: to figure out this tackle issue quickly because if there's

2409
02:06:28,920 --> 02:06:31,480
Speaker 4: a team that could turn this this thing on its head,

2410
02:06:31,640 --> 02:06:34,080
Speaker 4: it is that Texans defense just turning around and making

2411
02:06:34,160 --> 02:06:36,960
Speaker 4: Mahomes take hit after hit after hit, and it's just

2412
02:06:37,760 --> 02:06:39,640
Speaker 4: that to me is just it's a difficult look. I

2413
02:06:40,960 --> 02:06:43,280
Speaker 4: think the Texans defense is going to be the bright

2414
02:06:43,360 --> 02:06:45,240
Speaker 4: spot and this is going to be ugly football game.

2415
02:06:45,480 --> 02:06:47,680
Speaker 4: Ugly football game. Like I'm all in on hammer in

2416
02:06:47,720 --> 02:06:48,520
Speaker 4: the under on this one.

2417
02:06:49,400 --> 02:06:51,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could say. I can totally say it.

2418
02:06:53,400 --> 02:06:57,680
Speaker 2: What you think about because the after gave the rematch

2419
02:06:57,920 --> 02:07:03,200
Speaker 2: Ravens and Steelers. I love love Baltimore in this game,

2420
02:07:04,040 --> 02:07:08,080
Speaker 2: and I know Lamar we struggles against Pittsburgh, and I

2421
02:07:08,160 --> 02:07:12,040
Speaker 2: know they're down, you know, wide receiver depth, but I

2422
02:07:12,280 --> 02:07:17,400
Speaker 2: just I saw Pittsburgh last week without George Pickens. I

2423
02:07:17,640 --> 02:07:20,640
Speaker 2: just don't see this offense being able to generate enough

2424
02:07:21,080 --> 02:07:22,760
Speaker 2: enough to win the game.

2425
02:07:24,320 --> 02:07:27,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with you that that offense just is

2426
02:07:28,120 --> 02:07:31,080
Speaker 4: missing an element. On the other side of it, the

2427
02:07:31,240 --> 02:07:33,520
Speaker 4: Ravens offense, like Derrick Henry the last few weeks, has

2428
02:07:33,560 --> 02:07:36,919
Speaker 4: not been Derrick Henry, and so I'm a little concerned.

2429
02:07:37,320 --> 02:07:39,240
Speaker 4: Has there been a bit of a wall. Have we

2430
02:07:39,360 --> 02:07:41,920
Speaker 4: hit the lates He's I know, it's impossible to question

2431
02:07:42,040 --> 02:07:44,280
Speaker 4: Derrick Henry because the conditioning and everything else that we've

2432
02:07:44,280 --> 02:07:46,720
Speaker 4: always seen, but in the last two or three games,

2433
02:07:46,800 --> 02:07:48,920
Speaker 4: he has not looked is dominant. Even in the win

2434
02:07:49,000 --> 02:07:51,200
Speaker 4: over the Giants, it was like kind of an afterthought.

2435
02:07:51,320 --> 02:07:54,120
Speaker 4: So they're gonna need a big statement from Derrick Henry

2436
02:07:54,240 --> 02:07:56,240
Speaker 4: in this game. He's gonna have to have a better

2437
02:07:56,360 --> 02:07:58,560
Speaker 4: game production wise, play a little bit better than he

2438
02:07:58,640 --> 02:08:01,280
Speaker 4: did against the Steelers the first time. So I think,

2439
02:08:01,480 --> 02:08:04,000
Speaker 4: you know, what Derek Henry looks like in this game

2440
02:08:04,320 --> 02:08:06,080
Speaker 4: is a big part of what we'll take moving forward

2441
02:08:06,160 --> 02:08:09,560
Speaker 4: for the Ravens. But it is pretty clear that as

2442
02:08:09,680 --> 02:08:13,000
Speaker 4: good as RUSS has been this year with Mike Tomlin

2443
02:08:13,040 --> 02:08:14,840
Speaker 4: and I really have to tip the cap. I was

2444
02:08:15,000 --> 02:08:18,560
Speaker 4: very wrong about Russell Wilson being cooked. RUSS does not

2445
02:08:18,720 --> 02:08:20,840
Speaker 4: look like the Russ we were all getting scared of

2446
02:08:20,920 --> 02:08:24,400
Speaker 4: without George Pickens. They like Pat Fryarmuth is not going

2447
02:08:24,440 --> 02:08:26,640
Speaker 4: to be the guy that wins a super Bowl for

2448
02:08:27,240 --> 02:08:29,280
Speaker 4: the Steelers. It's a nice story, but they've got to

2449
02:08:29,360 --> 02:08:31,160
Speaker 4: get They've got to get Pickens out there and healthy.

2450
02:08:32,360 --> 02:08:33,320
Speaker 4: I know, I.

2451
02:08:34,920 --> 02:08:37,480
Speaker 2: Dude, and I look at this game today and I go,

2452
02:08:37,880 --> 02:08:40,920
Speaker 2: I love Baltimore. I know it's with six and a

2453
02:08:40,960 --> 02:08:44,560
Speaker 2: half forever the line is. I'll tell you exactly. I

2454
02:08:44,840 --> 02:08:50,120
Speaker 2: look at it and I could see Baltimore. It's stole

2455
02:08:50,240 --> 02:08:52,880
Speaker 2: up to seven. Yeah, and I like him. I'd lay

2456
02:08:52,920 --> 02:08:54,360
Speaker 2: the seven man, I would.

2457
02:08:55,800 --> 02:08:57,720
Speaker 4: Yeah. I feel pretty good about that. I feel pretty

2458
02:08:57,720 --> 02:09:02,080
Speaker 4: good about landing the seven on it. And it's if

2459
02:09:02,520 --> 02:09:05,360
Speaker 4: the Steelers get to win here in this game, then

2460
02:09:05,880 --> 02:09:08,800
Speaker 4: it is time to recalibrate some of the Steelers conversation.

2461
02:09:09,680 --> 02:09:12,240
Speaker 4: I feel like, you know, we were just talking about expectations.

2462
02:09:12,560 --> 02:09:14,920
Speaker 4: I feel like at times the Steelers are a little

2463
02:09:14,960 --> 02:09:18,760
Speaker 4: forgotten in the AFC Gauntlet and at times this year,

2464
02:09:19,200 --> 02:09:21,200
Speaker 4: it's just like nobody wants to get at that level

2465
02:09:21,280 --> 02:09:24,040
Speaker 4: of tipethy gap. Wow, the Steelers a super Bowl type

2466
02:09:24,160 --> 02:09:29,280
Speaker 4: team like it just hasn't the limitations offensively prevent anybody

2467
02:09:29,320 --> 02:09:31,320
Speaker 4: from going all in. If the Steelers gonna win here,

2468
02:09:31,600 --> 02:09:33,280
Speaker 4: I think we do need to sort of change our

2469
02:09:33,320 --> 02:09:36,560
Speaker 4: conversation in tone of who they're competitive with, because that

2470
02:09:36,960 --> 02:09:40,160
Speaker 4: clearly they get a win, they're clearly going to be

2471
02:09:40,360 --> 02:09:42,880
Speaker 4: in the driver's seat for winning their division. And then

2472
02:09:42,920 --> 02:09:44,880
Speaker 4: it becomes can they compete with the Buffaloes and the

2473
02:09:44,960 --> 02:09:47,640
Speaker 4: Kansas Cities of the world. Like, Buffalo to me is

2474
02:09:47,720 --> 02:09:49,680
Speaker 4: still the best team in the AFC. I don't care

2475
02:09:49,680 --> 02:09:51,440
Speaker 4: about records. The Buffalo is a team that I'd be

2476
02:09:51,480 --> 02:09:54,320
Speaker 4: the most scared of going in to the playoffs. But man,

2477
02:09:54,400 --> 02:09:57,600
Speaker 4: the Steelers team with that defense, they can beat anybody.

2478
02:09:57,720 --> 02:10:00,800
Speaker 2: We know that, yeah, yeah can, But you got to

2479
02:10:00,840 --> 02:10:03,440
Speaker 2: be able to generate some offense. That's where you know,

2480
02:10:03,600 --> 02:10:07,160
Speaker 2: picking because Pickens gives you that threat down the field.

2481
02:10:07,240 --> 02:10:10,320
Speaker 2: Mike Williams is not it, and he could just give

2482
02:10:10,320 --> 02:10:12,680
Speaker 2: you that threat down the field, which opens up things

2483
02:10:13,680 --> 02:10:17,680
Speaker 2: for you know, Nagy and War and I think otherwise

2484
02:10:17,720 --> 02:10:18,240
Speaker 2: you just sit.

2485
02:10:18,200 --> 02:10:19,600
Speaker 3: In the box all day long and you don't have

2486
02:10:19,640 --> 02:10:20,880
Speaker 3: to worry about them down the field.

2487
02:10:22,480 --> 02:10:25,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's it's it's amazing how the one thing

2488
02:10:25,880 --> 02:10:27,920
Speaker 4: you can't be if you want to win a Super Bowl,

2489
02:10:28,000 --> 02:10:30,240
Speaker 4: in my mind, you can't. You cannot become one dimensional.

2490
02:10:30,600 --> 02:10:33,480
Speaker 4: You cannot become one dimensional. And so now look at

2491
02:10:33,520 --> 02:10:35,360
Speaker 4: some of the teams we're talking about and ask which

2492
02:10:35,440 --> 02:10:38,040
Speaker 4: teams are easiest to sort of take away one thing

2493
02:10:38,120 --> 02:10:40,800
Speaker 4: from And that's kind of reere. It's ugly ahead in

2494
02:10:40,800 --> 02:10:42,200
Speaker 4: this game, I think, Yeah.

2495
02:10:42,240 --> 02:10:47,320
Speaker 3: I'm with you, Hey, Rams, Jets tomorrow.

2496
02:10:48,720 --> 02:10:54,040
Speaker 2: How you know, Rims are interesting because they they still

2497
02:10:54,240 --> 02:10:58,720
Speaker 2: have if they could protect staffort, they're still dangerous, and

2498
02:10:58,880 --> 02:11:01,760
Speaker 2: you know they could win forty four forty two against

2499
02:11:01,760 --> 02:11:04,720
Speaker 2: Buffalo or twelve six against the Niners.

2500
02:11:04,760 --> 02:11:05,400
Speaker 3: I like him again.

2501
02:11:05,440 --> 02:11:09,200
Speaker 2: Tomorrow Jets are a mess, and I think the Rams

2502
02:11:09,320 --> 02:11:12,320
Speaker 2: could be a little dangerous come next month.

2503
02:11:13,520 --> 02:11:13,720
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2504
02:11:13,840 --> 02:11:18,440
Speaker 4: Anytime you have a receiver and quarterback combo that they

2505
02:11:18,520 --> 02:11:20,600
Speaker 4: have and a head coach that gets so much respect.

2506
02:11:20,840 --> 02:11:22,840
Speaker 4: I love the way you said. I mean beating the

2507
02:11:22,880 --> 02:11:25,280
Speaker 4: Bills forty four to forty two and then just winning

2508
02:11:25,320 --> 02:11:27,680
Speaker 4: an ugly game against the forty nine ers it's still

2509
02:11:27,680 --> 02:11:30,760
Speaker 4: a win, you know. And the West has turned out

2510
02:11:30,840 --> 02:11:32,680
Speaker 4: like I don't know if any of these teams in

2511
02:11:32,720 --> 02:11:35,440
Speaker 4: the West are actually that good, but god is it

2512
02:11:35,520 --> 02:11:37,880
Speaker 4: fun to watch, right, I have no idea right.

2513
02:11:37,840 --> 02:11:40,280
Speaker 3: Now, I like it. I like the Rams better than

2514
02:11:40,440 --> 02:11:43,960
Speaker 3: anybody in that division, Seattle.

2515
02:11:43,560 --> 02:11:46,280
Speaker 4: In Seattle, right, I have to like them better than Seattle.

2516
02:11:46,320 --> 02:11:50,280
Speaker 4: Like Seattle is just so damn inconsistent, like every week

2517
02:11:50,360 --> 02:11:52,800
Speaker 4: that every time I buy into Seattle, they come out

2518
02:11:52,880 --> 02:11:54,960
Speaker 4: laying egg the next week, and then I sell on

2519
02:11:55,080 --> 02:11:57,160
Speaker 4: Seattle and they come back and they suddenly win a game.

2520
02:11:57,200 --> 02:12:00,320
Speaker 4: I just this Seattle team, which, by by the way,

2521
02:12:00,360 --> 02:12:03,120
Speaker 4: their defense, Seattle's defense is ahead of schedule for where

2522
02:12:03,120 --> 02:12:05,280
Speaker 4: I thought they'd be, but their offense has too much

2523
02:12:05,360 --> 02:12:08,320
Speaker 4: talent to be as just wildly unpredictable as it is.

2524
02:12:08,480 --> 02:12:11,040
Speaker 4: Like it's just on if we were doing the video

2525
02:12:11,120 --> 02:12:13,200
Speaker 4: game version of it. The Seahawks offense is too good

2526
02:12:13,240 --> 02:12:16,280
Speaker 4: to be where they are, And for the Seahawks to

2527
02:12:16,280 --> 02:12:19,600
Speaker 4: have a losing record at home this year is just staggering.

2528
02:12:19,680 --> 02:12:21,600
Speaker 4: Things were not used to. Yeah, I think the Rams

2529
02:12:21,640 --> 02:12:24,680
Speaker 4: are the scariest team in their division, and then they'll

2530
02:12:24,720 --> 02:12:26,680
Speaker 4: turn into the team that everybody says you don't want

2531
02:12:26,680 --> 02:12:29,800
Speaker 4: to face in the playoffs, but there is some truth

2532
02:12:29,840 --> 02:12:31,760
Speaker 4: to that. But I don't think we want to get

2533
02:12:31,760 --> 02:12:34,680
Speaker 4: twisted like the Rams. While they could, they can beat anybody,

2534
02:12:34,720 --> 02:12:37,080
Speaker 4: even given Sunday, I'm not putting them in the same

2535
02:12:37,160 --> 02:12:39,280
Speaker 4: tier as I'm putting the Eagles, the Lions, the Vikings,

2536
02:12:39,360 --> 02:12:41,080
Speaker 4: and maybe even the Packers at this point.

2537
02:12:41,360 --> 02:12:44,200
Speaker 3: No, I of course not. I'm with you, but I

2538
02:12:44,240 --> 02:12:47,680
Speaker 3: think they're a dangerous team, like they could they could be.

2539
02:12:47,960 --> 02:12:50,760
Speaker 3: Like I don't I don't see them going to Super Bowl,

2540
02:12:50,800 --> 02:12:54,120
Speaker 3: but I think they could knock somebody off. Yeah, I'm

2541
02:12:54,160 --> 02:12:55,880
Speaker 3: totally like if you had if you had.

2542
02:12:55,840 --> 02:13:00,160
Speaker 2: To play Detroit, right, think about this, if they had

2543
02:13:00,200 --> 02:13:03,880
Speaker 2: to play the Rams, had to play Detroit, they could

2544
02:13:04,040 --> 02:13:11,040
Speaker 2: win the way Detroit is bagged up defensively, I mean

2545
02:13:11,400 --> 02:13:12,600
Speaker 2: they could, they could beat them.

2546
02:13:12,680 --> 02:13:13,680
Speaker 3: They could beat the Lions.

2547
02:13:15,120 --> 02:13:17,800
Speaker 4: I mean considering they just I just said how much

2548
02:13:17,800 --> 02:13:19,360
Speaker 4: I love the Bills, and we saw what the Rams

2549
02:13:19,400 --> 02:13:23,640
Speaker 4: did there. You're right, You're absolutely right, and the Lions

2550
02:13:23,800 --> 02:13:28,120
Speaker 4: are are quickly becoming a, I think a national concern.

2551
02:13:28,320 --> 02:13:30,040
Speaker 4: You know, you can only go so far in the

2552
02:13:30,080 --> 02:13:32,520
Speaker 4: depth chart on the defensive side of the ball, and

2553
02:13:32,640 --> 02:13:34,720
Speaker 4: it's crazy to me that this is a team that's

2554
02:13:34,760 --> 02:13:37,760
Speaker 4: twelve and two and we're worried about whether or not

2555
02:13:37,760 --> 02:13:39,080
Speaker 4: they're going to be healthy enough to do what they

2556
02:13:39,120 --> 02:13:40,920
Speaker 4: should get the chance to do in the playoffs. I

2557
02:13:41,080 --> 02:13:44,880
Speaker 4: just I don't know how much. It feels like they've

2558
02:13:44,880 --> 02:13:46,880
Speaker 4: already taken more than they can possibly handle on the

2559
02:13:46,920 --> 02:13:47,800
Speaker 4: defensive side of the ball.

2560
02:13:47,840 --> 02:13:50,040
Speaker 3: With do that, I think.

2561
02:13:50,120 --> 02:13:52,280
Speaker 2: I hate to say this because I think they're a

2562
02:13:52,320 --> 02:13:56,640
Speaker 2: great story and I think when they're healthy, they're a

2563
02:13:56,720 --> 02:13:57,600
Speaker 2: super Bowl team.

2564
02:13:58,360 --> 02:14:01,880
Speaker 3: I think they're terrific. I just don't. I don't say it.

2565
02:14:01,960 --> 02:14:04,760
Speaker 3: I don't know how you're gonna hold on. I don't.

2566
02:14:04,880 --> 02:14:07,720
Speaker 3: I mean, you just lost too much, and then you

2567
02:14:07,840 --> 02:14:09,240
Speaker 3: lose Montgomery on top of it.

2568
02:14:10,000 --> 02:14:14,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, like their whole defense has just been decimated, their

2569
02:14:15,200 --> 02:14:21,240
Speaker 2: secondary decimated, and then then you lose Montgomery, who's such

2570
02:14:21,280 --> 02:14:24,480
Speaker 2: a vital piece of that offense. Like, here's the thing,

2571
02:14:25,520 --> 02:14:27,920
Speaker 2: I would give them a puncher's chance even with all

2572
02:14:27,960 --> 02:14:33,200
Speaker 2: the defensive injuries if their offense was intact, because you

2573
02:14:33,320 --> 02:14:36,800
Speaker 2: need one side of the ball to compensate, So you know,

2574
02:14:37,200 --> 02:14:39,240
Speaker 2: you could go just give me a like you go

2575
02:14:39,320 --> 02:14:41,360
Speaker 2: to your defense, Just give me a stop, one or

2576
02:14:41,440 --> 02:14:45,880
Speaker 2: two stops, and because of my potent offense, I could win.

2577
02:14:46,800 --> 02:14:49,840
Speaker 2: But taking Montgomery off the offense is a big deal.

2578
02:14:50,240 --> 02:14:51,440
Speaker 2: He's the tenderizer.

2579
02:14:55,160 --> 02:14:57,080
Speaker 4: That is amazing. I love the way he said that,

2580
02:14:57,280 --> 02:14:59,080
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna steal that from you from now on.

2581
02:14:59,440 --> 02:15:03,280
Speaker 4: And you're right. And it's heartbreaking for the Lions to

2582
02:15:03,360 --> 02:15:05,200
Speaker 4: be twelve and two and sustain the injuries that they

2583
02:15:05,240 --> 02:15:09,440
Speaker 4: have speaks to how amazing everyone has been inside the building,

2584
02:15:09,480 --> 02:15:12,040
Speaker 4: the great job that they've all done. I think you know,

2585
02:15:12,160 --> 02:15:15,320
Speaker 4: tip of the cap. It's just they're twelve and two.

2586
02:15:15,400 --> 02:15:18,200
Speaker 4: Doesn't have the same margin of errors we've talked about

2587
02:15:18,200 --> 02:15:21,160
Speaker 4: a few times with the Vikings and the Eagles right

2588
02:15:21,240 --> 02:15:24,640
Speaker 4: on their heels. I just now, more than ever, I

2589
02:15:24,840 --> 02:15:27,320
Speaker 4: just if you tell me that the NFC is going

2590
02:15:27,360 --> 02:15:30,280
Speaker 4: to go through Philly, that is a problem for everybody else.

2591
02:15:30,320 --> 02:15:34,160
Speaker 4: That is a problem for everybody else and for the Lions.

2592
02:15:34,320 --> 02:15:36,480
Speaker 4: You just can't afford. You don't have any wiggle room.

2593
02:15:36,480 --> 02:15:38,080
Speaker 4: You're gonna have to win every game the rest of

2594
02:15:38,120 --> 02:15:41,360
Speaker 4: the season. You're gonna have to and even that, you know,

2595
02:15:41,480 --> 02:15:43,960
Speaker 4: you're just you've got to manage to stay healthy in

2596
02:15:44,000 --> 02:15:46,480
Speaker 4: that process. Also, that's asking a lot to askin no.

2597
02:15:46,720 --> 02:15:49,920
Speaker 2: I mean, so you look at Chicago like they desperately

2598
02:15:50,040 --> 02:15:53,120
Speaker 2: need to buy to have any kind of chance, they

2599
02:15:53,160 --> 02:15:56,440
Speaker 2: have to have a buy. So you're at Chicago, who,

2600
02:15:56,560 --> 02:15:59,960
Speaker 2: by the way, are a mess, but it's still at Chicago.

2601
02:16:01,120 --> 02:16:02,520
Speaker 3: Then you're at San Francisco.

2602
02:16:03,080 --> 02:16:06,160
Speaker 2: They're banged up too, but I don't know, like I

2603
02:16:06,240 --> 02:16:09,680
Speaker 2: could see them having one last Hey, let's let's put

2604
02:16:09,680 --> 02:16:12,560
Speaker 2: it together and win. And then you end the season

2605
02:16:12,600 --> 02:16:16,840
Speaker 2: against Minnesota, who may need the game to try to

2606
02:16:16,920 --> 02:16:19,840
Speaker 2: catch it for the number one overall.

2607
02:16:19,680 --> 02:16:22,960
Speaker 4: That that game could easily be for the division and

2608
02:16:23,080 --> 02:16:26,400
Speaker 4: the and the number one overall seedy, that's crazy, right

2609
02:16:26,840 --> 02:16:31,440
Speaker 4: to go into that. And so yeah, absolutely you're the

2610
02:16:31,560 --> 02:16:34,080
Speaker 4: problem is when you don't have any any sort of

2611
02:16:34,160 --> 02:16:36,840
Speaker 4: margins and you are as banged up as they are.

2612
02:16:37,000 --> 02:16:39,160
Speaker 4: It's not like Kansas City, Like I think Kansas City

2613
02:16:39,200 --> 02:16:41,000
Speaker 4: could sit ma homes this week and still be fine.

2614
02:16:41,640 --> 02:16:44,080
Speaker 4: The Lions can't do anything they have. They have to

2615
02:16:44,160 --> 02:16:46,600
Speaker 4: be all, you know, im pedal to the medal of

2616
02:16:46,600 --> 02:16:48,880
Speaker 4: the entire way. They're gonna have to win every game

2617
02:16:48,959 --> 02:16:50,880
Speaker 4: and then they're gonna have to hope that you know,

2618
02:16:51,000 --> 02:16:52,880
Speaker 4: the buye helps them get a little healthier.

2619
02:16:54,040 --> 02:16:58,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, I guess, and I think it's a problem.

2620
02:16:58,560 --> 02:17:02,600
Speaker 2: I think that's a q huge problem, huge problem. And

2621
02:17:02,720 --> 02:17:06,560
Speaker 2: look at the Eagles. Eagles have Washington, right, So now

2622
02:17:06,600 --> 02:17:09,440
Speaker 2: you look at the NFC and the race for that

2623
02:17:09,600 --> 02:17:15,920
Speaker 2: one seed, the Eagles have Washington Minnesota because Minnesota is

2624
02:17:15,959 --> 02:17:19,760
Speaker 2: alive in it too now, right. So you got those

2625
02:17:19,840 --> 02:17:25,279
Speaker 2: two teams, like you said, nipping at the lion's heels.

2626
02:17:26,400 --> 02:17:31,439
Speaker 2: Minnesota's in Seattle, and we just saw how the Packers

2627
02:17:31,560 --> 02:17:37,800
Speaker 2: handled Seattle, right, so Minnesota is very much alive still

2628
02:17:37,879 --> 02:17:38,680
Speaker 2: for that one seed.

2629
02:17:39,720 --> 02:17:43,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's we keep looking around at the Vikings

2630
02:17:43,959 --> 02:17:47,280
Speaker 4: and just the quietest twelve and two I can remember

2631
02:17:47,480 --> 02:17:49,760
Speaker 4: in a long time. And to think that they've done

2632
02:17:50,200 --> 02:17:52,240
Speaker 4: twelve and two out of this thing and they haven't

2633
02:17:52,240 --> 02:17:55,720
Speaker 4: had their rookie quarterback all year, Like, it is wild

2634
02:17:55,840 --> 02:17:59,199
Speaker 4: to me how Minnesota has managed to survive the EBB

2635
02:17:59,240 --> 02:18:01,640
Speaker 4: and flow and to get to where they are right

2636
02:18:01,760 --> 02:18:05,039
Speaker 4: now and not have even needed their first overall pick.

2637
02:18:05,080 --> 02:18:07,520
Speaker 4: It's just their first round draft pick. I should say,

2638
02:18:08,040 --> 02:18:10,480
Speaker 4: Sam Donald to me, if I'm the Vikings, this is

2639
02:18:10,640 --> 02:18:13,600
Speaker 4: very unpopular, but if I'm the Vikings, I'm franchising Sam

2640
02:18:13,680 --> 02:18:15,600
Speaker 4: Donald at the end of the year, I don't care.

2641
02:18:16,360 --> 02:18:18,959
Speaker 4: I'm looking at the quarterback position as an overall value,

2642
02:18:19,280 --> 02:18:20,960
Speaker 4: and I know I got a guy, Like I'm not

2643
02:18:21,000 --> 02:18:22,920
Speaker 4: gonna let Donald walk out of the door until I'm

2644
02:18:23,000 --> 02:18:26,360
Speaker 4: sure that JJ can play, and who knows? Who knows?

2645
02:18:26,440 --> 02:18:29,080
Speaker 4: Like your goal is to get a quarterback, And my god,

2646
02:18:29,240 --> 02:18:32,400
Speaker 4: Sam Donald has just resurrected himself in this building. It's

2647
02:18:33,160 --> 02:18:36,520
Speaker 4: it's pretty incredible to watch. So seeing the Vikings play

2648
02:18:36,560 --> 02:18:38,480
Speaker 4: the way they're playing, and the fact that we've all

2649
02:18:38,560 --> 02:18:42,280
Speaker 4: gotten confidence now in Sam Donald, like that is that

2650
02:18:42,440 --> 02:18:44,760
Speaker 4: in and of itself is just it's a home run.

2651
02:18:46,280 --> 02:18:47,040
Speaker 3: It really is. Now.

2652
02:18:47,360 --> 02:18:50,120
Speaker 2: Now, Minnesota does have green Bay next week, right, so

2653
02:18:50,200 --> 02:18:53,240
Speaker 2: they have to go Seattle at Seattle Green Bay, and

2654
02:18:53,320 --> 02:18:54,440
Speaker 2: then at Detroit.

2655
02:18:55,240 --> 02:18:56,359
Speaker 3: So it's pretty vicious.

2656
02:18:56,520 --> 02:19:02,000
Speaker 4: That's a gauntlet they even if they lose one, to

2657
02:19:02,120 --> 02:19:04,400
Speaker 4: lose two of those. If I'd have told you coming

2658
02:19:04,440 --> 02:19:07,160
Speaker 4: into the season with no Jj McCarthy that this was

2659
02:19:07,240 --> 02:19:11,240
Speaker 4: going to be what a thirteen and four football team?

2660
02:19:11,640 --> 02:19:14,600
Speaker 4: My god, Like that's like we knew Minnesota was going

2661
02:19:14,640 --> 02:19:16,040
Speaker 4: to be pretty good. I don't think any of us

2662
02:19:16,080 --> 02:19:18,960
Speaker 4: New Minnesota is going to be elite, elite.

2663
02:19:19,360 --> 02:19:20,440
Speaker 3: It is elite. Now.

2664
02:19:20,520 --> 02:19:25,840
Speaker 2: The interesting thing is the Eagles, right, they have at

2665
02:19:26,160 --> 02:19:30,640
Speaker 2: Washington and then they have two home games, the Cowboys

2666
02:19:30,720 --> 02:19:35,800
Speaker 2: and the Giants, two dead teams. That team the Eagles

2667
02:19:35,920 --> 02:19:40,080
Speaker 2: can be. It's unbelievable. Sixteen and one.

2668
02:19:43,200 --> 02:19:47,720
Speaker 4: The Eagles ability at this point, with everything in front

2669
02:19:47,720 --> 02:19:50,440
Speaker 4: of them, the Eagles ability to get to this number

2670
02:19:50,480 --> 02:19:52,760
Speaker 4: one seed is now. The Eagles have two losses, so

2671
02:19:52,800 --> 02:19:57,920
Speaker 4: the Eagles will be fifteen and two. But I'm sorry too, Yeah, yeah,

2672
02:19:58,000 --> 02:19:59,039
Speaker 4: but fifteen and two.

2673
02:19:59,160 --> 02:19:59,920
Speaker 3: I get a little ower.

2674
02:20:00,400 --> 02:20:04,320
Speaker 4: Okay, well over, can you imagine finishing the season fifteen

2675
02:20:04,360 --> 02:20:09,160
Speaker 4: and two and having to play wildcard weekend? Yeah, that's crazy.

2676
02:20:09,840 --> 02:20:13,360
Speaker 3: Crazy. Let's say quick break. We'll come back and go

2677
02:20:13,520 --> 02:20:14,160
Speaker 3: through all the games.

2678
02:20:14,240 --> 02:20:19,199
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2679
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2680
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2699
02:21:32,040 --> 02:21:34,200
Speaker 2: we're kind of going through some of the games for

2700
02:21:34,320 --> 02:21:39,960
Speaker 2: tomorrow and where they the implications in the NFC. The

2701
02:21:40,080 --> 02:21:43,840
Speaker 2: NFC is really interesting because of that one set up

2702
02:21:43,920 --> 02:21:48,040
Speaker 2: for grab and when we look at today today is

2703
02:21:48,080 --> 02:21:52,039
Speaker 2: really the AFC because you have the Chiefs, Ravens, of course,

2704
02:21:52,080 --> 02:21:57,080
Speaker 2: the Bills at eleven and three, they hosted Patriots tomorrow.

2705
02:21:57,760 --> 02:22:02,120
Speaker 3: Where are you at with Baltimore? Like Baltimore is interesting

2706
02:22:02,160 --> 02:22:04,879
Speaker 3: because there was a point where everybody thought what Baltimore

2707
02:22:04,920 --> 02:22:06,840
Speaker 3: would be the real was the real.

2708
02:22:06,800 --> 02:22:12,000
Speaker 2: Favorite, and then Buffalo has overtaken me. It's so interesting

2709
02:22:12,480 --> 02:22:15,400
Speaker 2: during the course of the season, how it's like a

2710
02:22:15,480 --> 02:22:18,720
Speaker 2: horse race, right like forever in the NFC it was

2711
02:22:18,840 --> 02:22:23,080
Speaker 2: the Lions, and now all of a sudden, it's the Eagles,

2712
02:22:23,800 --> 02:22:29,760
Speaker 2: with the Packers kind of surpassing the Lions. Minnesota and

2713
02:22:29,879 --> 02:22:32,800
Speaker 2: the Lions neck and neck. So you can almost visualize

2714
02:22:32,840 --> 02:22:34,440
Speaker 2: it like a like a horse race.

2715
02:22:35,400 --> 02:22:37,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think the horse race for the Ravens.

2716
02:22:37,600 --> 02:22:39,840
Speaker 4: The problem is, you know, they have the horsepower to

2717
02:22:39,879 --> 02:22:42,640
Speaker 4: beat anybody anywhere anyway, and they don't always use it.

2718
02:22:43,600 --> 02:22:46,760
Speaker 4: This offense struggles more than I think they should at times.

2719
02:22:46,800 --> 02:22:49,640
Speaker 4: They're coming off an easy win thirty five to fourteen

2720
02:22:49,720 --> 02:22:53,760
Speaker 4: over the Giants. The Giants are futrid, we all know that,

2721
02:22:54,520 --> 02:22:57,720
Speaker 4: but and they didn't really need to do much. Lamar

2722
02:22:58,240 --> 02:22:59,640
Speaker 4: went off in that game. It was great, and like

2723
02:22:59,680 --> 02:23:03,720
Speaker 4: I said earlier, the Ravens didn't really have to use

2724
02:23:04,200 --> 02:23:07,200
Speaker 4: Derek Henry much in that game. But I do think

2725
02:23:07,320 --> 02:23:09,360
Speaker 4: you do have to look at sort of this the

2726
02:23:09,440 --> 02:23:11,520
Speaker 4: way the season has gone for them and the last

2727
02:23:11,600 --> 02:23:15,480
Speaker 4: couple of quality teams that they've faced, the Ravens have lost.

2728
02:23:15,600 --> 02:23:18,440
Speaker 4: They lost to the Steelers, they lost to the Eagles.

2729
02:23:18,520 --> 02:23:20,720
Speaker 4: They did get a win over the Chargers in there.

2730
02:23:21,200 --> 02:23:25,960
Speaker 4: I want the Ravens to be dominant offensively because they

2731
02:23:26,000 --> 02:23:27,760
Speaker 4: have so many weapons and they can beat you in

2732
02:23:27,840 --> 02:23:30,760
Speaker 4: so many different ways. I just don't know that we've

2733
02:23:30,840 --> 02:23:33,480
Speaker 4: seen that same level of dominance that I expected. They've

2734
02:23:33,480 --> 02:23:35,920
Speaker 4: been very good, they've been very good. But when I

2735
02:23:36,040 --> 02:23:39,959
Speaker 4: think of great teams in the AFC, I think of Buffalo, right,

2736
02:23:40,200 --> 02:23:42,920
Speaker 4: and Buffalo is a great football team at this point,

2737
02:23:43,000 --> 02:23:46,080
Speaker 4: and I think Kansas City, even though it doesn't look great,

2738
02:23:46,160 --> 02:23:48,760
Speaker 4: the outcome is always great. So those are the two teams.

2739
02:23:48,760 --> 02:23:50,120
Speaker 4: I get benefit of that out too. I think the

2740
02:23:50,200 --> 02:23:52,760
Speaker 4: Ravens could beat anybody, or get beat in any boy,

2741
02:23:52,800 --> 02:23:56,360
Speaker 4: any of these playoff teams. Yeah, that defense, man, that

2742
02:23:57,120 --> 02:24:01,440
Speaker 4: defense oh stinks at times. I mean just that that

2743
02:24:01,600 --> 02:24:04,360
Speaker 4: defense gives a big plays, gives up chunk yardage, just

2744
02:24:04,680 --> 02:24:06,720
Speaker 4: that that defense can be exposed.

2745
02:24:08,440 --> 02:24:11,600
Speaker 2: I hear you, buddy, I hear you, and you start

2746
02:24:11,680 --> 02:24:16,480
Speaker 2: to look at you know what potentially you know, uh

2747
02:24:18,320 --> 02:24:21,960
Speaker 2: what potentially Buffalo can be in the playoffs, Like right,

2748
02:24:22,040 --> 02:24:24,760
Speaker 2: now they're rolling so much like if you you pair

2749
02:24:24,800 --> 02:24:27,959
Speaker 2: it up Baltimore on Buffalo, I don't know how they

2750
02:24:28,080 --> 02:24:28,920
Speaker 2: stop the Bills.

2751
02:24:31,360 --> 02:24:35,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, they don't. They simply they don't have a chance

2752
02:24:35,520 --> 02:24:38,400
Speaker 4: to stop the Bills. And you know that's where things get,

2753
02:24:38,840 --> 02:24:41,600
Speaker 4: you know, particularly if you're if you're Baltimore. I don't

2754
02:24:41,640 --> 02:24:44,120
Speaker 4: think they can stop the Bills. I don't think they

2755
02:24:44,200 --> 02:24:47,800
Speaker 4: can stop even a team like the Chargers, as wild

2756
02:24:47,879 --> 02:24:49,920
Speaker 4: as that is to say, I don't think that they

2757
02:24:50,000 --> 02:24:54,680
Speaker 4: can stop the Texans. The Steelers they can stop because simply,

2758
02:24:54,879 --> 02:24:58,320
Speaker 4: you know, the Steelers without George Pickens aren't themselves, but

2759
02:24:58,760 --> 02:25:01,080
Speaker 4: they just a few weeks ago struggled to score against

2760
02:25:01,080 --> 02:25:03,000
Speaker 4: the Tute. So like, how many of these teams do

2761
02:25:03,080 --> 02:25:05,640
Speaker 4: have a ton of confidence in Baltimore over Not many,

2762
02:25:06,080 --> 02:25:09,960
Speaker 4: not many. And I came into the season thinking that

2763
02:25:10,040 --> 02:25:12,120
Speaker 4: Baltimore was gonna have the best offense in the NFL,

2764
02:25:12,280 --> 02:25:15,400
Speaker 4: and they just they aren't that threat. They aren't. They

2765
02:25:15,440 --> 02:25:16,320
Speaker 4: aren't what the Bills are.

2766
02:25:17,240 --> 02:25:23,240
Speaker 3: No, not at all, Man, not at all. And you

2767
02:25:23,320 --> 02:25:24,080
Speaker 3: know you saw it.

2768
02:25:24,440 --> 02:25:26,720
Speaker 2: You saw what they did to Detroit, Like the coaching

2769
02:25:26,879 --> 02:25:30,080
Speaker 2: was brilliant, right, So you got Ty Johnson and they

2770
02:25:30,200 --> 02:25:33,320
Speaker 2: realize that they have no one that can cover Ty

2771
02:25:33,440 --> 02:25:37,000
Speaker 2: Johnson out of the backfield because they got linebackers off

2772
02:25:37,040 --> 02:25:37,440
Speaker 2: the street.

2773
02:25:38,560 --> 02:25:42,560
Speaker 3: So they isolated Ty Johnson and then had all day long.

2774
02:25:43,160 --> 02:25:45,600
Speaker 2: And then they knew the minute that Josh Allen got

2775
02:25:45,640 --> 02:25:48,520
Speaker 2: out of the pocket, he was unstoppable.

2776
02:25:49,240 --> 02:25:52,200
Speaker 3: And like, the only prayer that they had when it

2777
02:25:52,320 --> 02:25:53,640
Speaker 3: came to a.

2778
02:25:53,760 --> 02:25:58,360
Speaker 2: Stop was to kind of contain Josh inside and not

2779
02:25:58,480 --> 02:26:00,320
Speaker 2: lett him get out in the pockets. Once you did that,

2780
02:26:01,080 --> 02:26:04,440
Speaker 2: that's what he creates, goes down the field or runs it.

2781
02:26:05,200 --> 02:26:08,480
Speaker 2: I mean, it's amazing how he dominated that game.

2782
02:26:10,160 --> 02:26:12,120
Speaker 4: The funny thing is when you look at the playoffs standings,

2783
02:26:12,120 --> 02:26:14,800
Speaker 4: if they were to start today, the Bills would get

2784
02:26:14,800 --> 02:26:17,560
Speaker 4: the Broncos in the first round, and I think the

2785
02:26:17,640 --> 02:26:20,520
Speaker 4: Bills would slaughter the Broncos. The Steelers would get the Chargers.

2786
02:26:20,720 --> 02:26:24,120
Speaker 4: Interesting matchup. Texans and Ravens would be the four or

2787
02:26:24,160 --> 02:26:28,119
Speaker 4: five game. And we just talked about how there's been

2788
02:26:28,440 --> 02:26:30,560
Speaker 4: Texans have had their fair share of issues this year,

2789
02:26:30,600 --> 02:26:33,640
Speaker 4: but man, I don't know that if I'm the Ravens,

2790
02:26:33,680 --> 02:26:35,680
Speaker 4: I really love the idea taking on that wide receiver

2791
02:26:35,800 --> 02:26:38,360
Speaker 4: corp with CJ. Stroud. I don't that's not going to

2792
02:26:38,400 --> 02:26:40,000
Speaker 4: make me comfortable that I'm gonna get a bunch of

2793
02:26:40,040 --> 02:26:42,760
Speaker 4: stops for sure. You know, the Texans should be able

2794
02:26:42,760 --> 02:26:44,640
Speaker 4: to move the ball against that Ravens defense the way

2795
02:26:44,640 --> 02:26:48,040
Speaker 4: they're playing right now. So it is interesting that even

2796
02:26:48,080 --> 02:26:50,600
Speaker 4: if you project out of the playoffs, that's a tough

2797
02:26:50,640 --> 02:26:52,039
Speaker 4: first round matchup for the Ravens.

2798
02:26:53,360 --> 02:26:55,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, It really is.

2799
02:26:56,160 --> 02:26:58,880
Speaker 2: TA War is a weird day because you don't have

2800
02:26:59,480 --> 02:27:02,080
Speaker 2: a ton. Oh, by the way, we just have some

2801
02:27:02,160 --> 02:27:08,760
Speaker 2: breaking news. The Falcons accorded to against It's ESPN accord

2802
02:27:08,800 --> 02:27:12,120
Speaker 2: to Adam Schefter, the Falcons are expected to cut Kirk

2803
02:27:12,200 --> 02:27:16,880
Speaker 2: Cousins before the ten million dollar roster bonus. Now again,

2804
02:27:17,959 --> 02:27:21,080
Speaker 2: we kind of expect that because you're gone with Pennix

2805
02:27:22,240 --> 02:27:25,160
Speaker 2: and there's no reason to keep him, so why paying

2806
02:27:25,200 --> 02:27:28,119
Speaker 2: the ten million dollars roster bonus. So he'll get cut

2807
02:27:28,240 --> 02:27:30,400
Speaker 2: and he'll all of a sudden go back and get

2808
02:27:30,440 --> 02:27:33,320
Speaker 2: paid again because somebody will somebody will give them a

2809
02:27:33,360 --> 02:27:33,959
Speaker 2: three year deal.

2810
02:27:35,240 --> 02:27:38,199
Speaker 4: Yeah, So when does that ten million dollar roster bonus

2811
02:27:38,320 --> 02:27:38,960
Speaker 4: due to shift?

2812
02:27:39,120 --> 02:27:40,040
Speaker 3: March seventeenth.

2813
02:27:40,840 --> 02:27:43,000
Speaker 4: Okay, so they'll cut him and they'll designate him a

2814
02:27:43,040 --> 02:27:45,800
Speaker 4: post June first cut to try and save themselves some money,

2815
02:27:45,879 --> 02:27:48,400
Speaker 4: I'm sure. But for anyone that tells you there's no

2816
02:27:48,520 --> 02:27:51,320
Speaker 4: consequence to it, I will just remind you I don't

2817
02:27:51,320 --> 02:27:54,480
Speaker 4: care about my owner's actual money. I don't as a

2818
02:27:54,560 --> 02:27:57,160
Speaker 4: Raiders fan. I don't care if Mark Davis spends every

2819
02:27:57,360 --> 02:28:00,600
Speaker 4: dollar he's ever made and just throw about the window.

2820
02:28:00,600 --> 02:28:03,000
Speaker 4: I don't care. But I do care about salary cap ramifications.

2821
02:28:03,440 --> 02:28:07,640
Speaker 4: So cutting Kirk Cousins, according to overthecap dot Com, will

2822
02:28:07,720 --> 02:28:10,480
Speaker 4: result in a forty million dollar dead cap hit next year,

2823
02:28:10,600 --> 02:28:13,520
Speaker 4: and that's a post June first designation. Saves them more

2824
02:28:13,560 --> 02:28:15,840
Speaker 4: money to do that way. So it's either going to

2825
02:28:15,879 --> 02:28:18,000
Speaker 4: be a forty million or a sixty five million dollar

2826
02:28:18,080 --> 02:28:20,320
Speaker 4: cap hit next year. But I beliek they'll go forty.

2827
02:28:21,360 --> 02:28:23,080
Speaker 3: Yeah. The only thing is it's got to get done

2828
02:28:23,120 --> 02:28:25,039
Speaker 3: by before March seventeenth.

2829
02:28:25,840 --> 02:28:27,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, but then they can designate it a post Juam

2830
02:28:27,800 --> 02:28:30,640
Speaker 4: first cut, right, So they do it before March, but

2831
02:28:30,840 --> 02:28:34,360
Speaker 4: they have a certain time where they can designate even

2832
02:28:34,400 --> 02:28:36,280
Speaker 4: though the cut's made, they can designate.

2833
02:28:36,280 --> 02:28:39,600
Speaker 3: So can you actually sign with another team right away?

2834
02:28:39,640 --> 02:28:41,080
Speaker 4: Right as soon as he's cut? It's just for the

2835
02:28:41,200 --> 02:28:44,000
Speaker 4: logistics of their and you're one thousand percent. Right, Kirk

2836
02:28:44,040 --> 02:28:46,520
Speaker 4: Cousins is going to start somewhere next year. That's just

2837
02:28:46,760 --> 02:28:49,600
Speaker 4: that's gonna happen. And I know he looked washed this year.

2838
02:28:49,680 --> 02:28:51,760
Speaker 4: I know it's been very bad this year. I get

2839
02:28:51,800 --> 02:28:54,879
Speaker 4: all of that. But quick math for everybody. Just look,

2840
02:28:55,080 --> 02:28:58,840
Speaker 4: Raiders Giants are likely to address quarterback in the draft.

2841
02:28:59,000 --> 02:29:01,879
Speaker 4: But most people don't think should Ur and Cam Mortar

2842
02:29:01,959 --> 02:29:06,320
Speaker 4: day one starters. So Raiders Giants off the top of

2843
02:29:06,520 --> 02:29:09,480
Speaker 4: my head. The Browns also going to be in that list.

2844
02:29:09,640 --> 02:29:11,360
Speaker 4: The Jets gonna be in the list of teams that

2845
02:29:11,480 --> 02:29:12,200
Speaker 4: need a quarterback.

2846
02:29:12,360 --> 02:29:14,360
Speaker 2: I mean, I got in front of me, right, So

2847
02:29:14,440 --> 02:29:18,720
Speaker 2: I'll go for each team. Texas, Kansas City are fine.

2848
02:29:19,440 --> 02:29:21,920
Speaker 2: What about the Steelers They could be in the market

2849
02:29:21,959 --> 02:29:22,640
Speaker 2: for quarterback.

2850
02:29:23,440 --> 02:29:26,160
Speaker 4: I think they're probably bring Russ back, you know, if

2851
02:29:26,200 --> 02:29:26,440
Speaker 4: they can.

2852
02:29:27,200 --> 02:29:29,480
Speaker 2: I don't know, like you rather have. I mean, I

2853
02:29:29,520 --> 02:29:32,440
Speaker 2: don't know what I mean. Russ is okay, but if

2854
02:29:32,480 --> 02:29:34,680
Speaker 2: you could upgrade, should you be should you upgrade?

2855
02:29:35,520 --> 02:29:37,560
Speaker 4: Yeah? If you can, you should, yeah, one hundred percent.

2856
02:29:38,000 --> 02:29:43,200
Speaker 3: Baltimore's good, Denver's good Chargers, good Rams, good Jets. I

2857
02:29:43,240 --> 02:29:44,560
Speaker 3: don't know what they're gonna do with he who knows.

2858
02:29:44,840 --> 02:29:45,840
Speaker 3: Jets are going to do period.

2859
02:29:45,920 --> 02:29:47,720
Speaker 4: Jets are gonna need a quarterback though next year. I

2860
02:29:47,800 --> 02:29:50,119
Speaker 4: mean of some sort. I would think, like I put

2861
02:29:50,160 --> 02:29:51,720
Speaker 4: the Jets on it, need a quarterback.

2862
02:29:52,000 --> 02:29:55,240
Speaker 2: Next, Eagles washing any good giants like you said draft,

2863
02:29:55,480 --> 02:29:59,360
Speaker 2: Falcons have panics, Arizona is good. What's Carolina gonna do

2864
02:29:59,400 --> 02:30:01,440
Speaker 2: with Bryce Shawn? Has he earned them on the shot?

2865
02:30:02,080 --> 02:30:03,240
Speaker 4: Yeah? He gets another shot.

2866
02:30:04,200 --> 02:30:08,480
Speaker 2: You mentioned Cleveland, they could certainly use a quarterback. Cincinnati

2867
02:30:08,920 --> 02:30:12,240
Speaker 2: is good. Tennessee we just saw them go to be Rudolph.

2868
02:30:14,560 --> 02:30:20,720
Speaker 2: I mean, Cousins profiles with Kennis with Tennessee real well. Colts,

2869
02:30:21,200 --> 02:30:23,520
Speaker 2: I mean they're going to bring him back, but you

2870
02:30:23,640 --> 02:30:28,680
Speaker 2: know Richardson, But I don't know. I mean, I don't

2871
02:30:28,760 --> 02:30:30,800
Speaker 2: like Richardson, do you No?

2872
02:30:31,120 --> 02:30:33,360
Speaker 4: And I think the Colts are on the They got

2873
02:30:33,440 --> 02:30:35,640
Speaker 4: to bring somebody into compete to protect themselves.

2874
02:30:36,400 --> 02:30:38,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you need a veteran, so you have

2875
02:30:38,440 --> 02:30:41,920
Speaker 2: Richardson and Cousins. I don't know, it makes sense to me. Yep,

2876
02:30:42,440 --> 02:30:48,160
Speaker 2: Lions Bears are good, Minnesota's good. I mean, I don't

2877
02:30:48,200 --> 02:30:49,720
Speaker 2: know how long Gino has.

2878
02:30:51,400 --> 02:30:53,200
Speaker 4: I would think they would stick with Gino again.

2879
02:30:53,440 --> 02:30:56,560
Speaker 3: I would think you would think but who knows how

2880
02:30:56,600 --> 02:31:03,840
Speaker 3: long he's got New England, Buffalo, good Jacksonville. Lawrence isn't

2881
02:31:03,840 --> 02:31:07,600
Speaker 3: going anywhere Raiders. You talked about nine Ers. The Party

2882
02:31:07,640 --> 02:31:10,879
Speaker 3: thing is interesting. Do you bring Cousins in to San

2883
02:31:10,920 --> 02:31:12,840
Speaker 3: Francisco and not pay Party?

2884
02:31:14,120 --> 02:31:16,920
Speaker 4: I think they still like the goal is to not

2885
02:31:17,280 --> 02:31:19,760
Speaker 4: If the goal is to not pay a quarterback, then

2886
02:31:19,800 --> 02:31:22,160
Speaker 4: you don't bring in anybody. If they're going to pay

2887
02:31:22,160 --> 02:31:24,920
Speaker 4: a quarterback. I think they pay Party for the same

2888
02:31:25,040 --> 02:31:27,160
Speaker 4: price that they can get if they can get him

2889
02:31:27,160 --> 02:31:29,320
Speaker 4: for the same price as Kirk Cousins. I mean, it

2890
02:31:29,400 --> 02:31:31,480
Speaker 4: depends on how much Kirk is making. Does Kirk want

2891
02:31:31,520 --> 02:31:33,720
Speaker 4: to go out there just to try and win a

2892
02:31:33,760 --> 02:31:34,280
Speaker 4: Super Bowl?

2893
02:31:34,360 --> 02:31:34,480
Speaker 2: Too?

2894
02:31:34,720 --> 02:31:34,760
Speaker 5: Like?

2895
02:31:35,280 --> 02:31:37,800
Speaker 4: Does he is he willing to be a backup somewhere

2896
02:31:38,320 --> 02:31:40,760
Speaker 4: where you know, he knows the offensive language, he knows

2897
02:31:41,200 --> 02:31:43,720
Speaker 4: how it runs, He's got sort of the ins and

2898
02:31:43,840 --> 02:31:46,720
Speaker 4: out of that. That's interesting, But I think they're more

2899
02:31:46,800 --> 02:31:47,400
Speaker 4: likely to stick with.

2900
02:31:47,440 --> 02:31:48,280
Speaker 3: Perty funny Baldy.

2901
02:31:48,360 --> 02:31:50,760
Speaker 2: I were talking about that they could move on from him,

2902
02:31:50,879 --> 02:31:57,480
Speaker 2: just why Yeah, that's a possibility. Anyway, we got lots

2903
02:31:57,520 --> 02:32:00,320
Speaker 2: to get to jeez, we got one more second it man,

2904
02:32:00,400 --> 02:32:01,120
Speaker 2: I think flies.

2905
02:32:01,440 --> 02:32:05,080
Speaker 4: That's by the way, including including the draft possibilities those

2906
02:32:05,280 --> 02:32:07,200
Speaker 4: that was six teams. We came up with six teams

2907
02:32:07,280 --> 02:32:09,800
Speaker 4: quickly on the list that Kirk Cousins could go start

2908
02:32:09,879 --> 02:32:12,000
Speaker 4: on immediately. So he's gonna start somewhere.

2909
02:32:12,400 --> 02:32:16,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm with you, fellas, hanging right here. Fox

2910
02:32:16,879 --> 02:32:17,760
Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

2911
02:32:18,080 --> 02:32:20,960
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2912
02:32:21,000 --> 02:32:24,360
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2913
02:32:24,520 --> 02:32:28,280
Speaker 5: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to

2914
02:32:28,440 --> 02:32:29,039
Speaker 5: listen live.

2915
02:32:30,200 --> 02:32:31,440
Speaker 3: Do it say it?

2916
02:32:31,520 --> 02:32:33,959
Speaker 4: Brother, Nobody get thinking like Frank does.

2917
02:32:34,640 --> 02:32:37,080
Speaker 3: Well, it's you man, You're you know, you got the

2918
02:32:37,240 --> 02:32:38,880
Speaker 3: gene you got to.

2919
02:32:41,440 --> 02:32:44,680
Speaker 4: There's just something, there's just something like even all January,

2920
02:32:44,959 --> 02:32:49,600
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have like Sinatra on Serrius XM, the Sinatra Channel. Yeah,

2921
02:32:49,959 --> 02:32:54,560
Speaker 4: it's my my want for that hazy vinyl sound of

2922
02:32:55,080 --> 02:32:58,840
Speaker 4: Frank Sinatra. I'm bing Crosby and it just doesn't it

2923
02:32:58,920 --> 02:33:02,040
Speaker 4: doesn't end. Like this is a great question, when do

2924
02:33:02,160 --> 02:33:03,360
Speaker 4: you stop Christmas music?

2925
02:33:03,440 --> 02:33:03,960
Speaker 3: Brother? Like it?

2926
02:33:04,200 --> 02:33:06,600
Speaker 4: Because Christmas when when I was a kid, you know,

2927
02:33:06,879 --> 02:33:10,000
Speaker 4: before all of these stations existed, it was always sad

2928
02:33:10,120 --> 02:33:12,440
Speaker 4: noon on Christmas Day because all the local stations, like

2929
02:33:12,480 --> 02:33:15,000
Speaker 4: all you have was regular radio, local radio and noon

2930
02:33:15,040 --> 02:33:17,640
Speaker 4: on Christmas Day, they all flipped back over to regular radio.

2931
02:33:17,800 --> 02:33:19,920
Speaker 4: So like you only had Christmas music in the morning,

2932
02:33:20,040 --> 02:33:22,600
Speaker 4: and like Christmas eve Day and the morning was all

2933
02:33:22,680 --> 02:33:24,760
Speaker 4: you had. Is it a sad times? I don't know

2934
02:33:24,800 --> 02:33:25,400
Speaker 4: how I handled it.

2935
02:33:26,600 --> 02:33:31,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. I think you know, because I'd

2936
02:33:31,080 --> 02:33:32,640
Speaker 2: like to leave the lights up for a while. I

2937
02:33:32,840 --> 02:33:36,599
Speaker 2: hate January and February. God, I hate those months.

2938
02:33:38,360 --> 02:33:42,120
Speaker 4: The decorations up all through January decorations. I'll take you

2939
02:33:42,160 --> 02:33:45,160
Speaker 4: there in February maybe after the super Bowl, who knows.

2940
02:33:45,600 --> 02:33:48,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I shake do it? Leave it? Leave it Bay.

2941
02:33:49,640 --> 02:33:53,320
Speaker 2: Hey, like two hate months, January, fab hate them worst.

2942
02:33:54,640 --> 02:33:59,760
Speaker 2: Uh hey, let's wish while we're wishing Christmas. Wish is

2943
02:33:59,800 --> 02:34:02,320
Speaker 2: tall all of our audience like we did. We love

2944
02:34:02,360 --> 02:34:05,720
Speaker 2: you guys, and I have a wonderful you know holiday

2945
02:34:05,879 --> 02:34:10,240
Speaker 2: and your family fits. You said something beautiful. I won't

2946
02:34:10,280 --> 02:34:13,320
Speaker 2: make you reiterated, but it was just great talking about

2947
02:34:13,360 --> 02:34:17,440
Speaker 2: the you know, finding your happy place and being hopeful. Uh,

2948
02:34:18,120 --> 02:34:23,160
Speaker 2: wanna wish our five production staff, Brianna, Merry.

2949
02:34:22,920 --> 02:34:27,960
Speaker 3: Christmas, Merry Christmas. You got any wishes? What are you

2950
02:34:28,000 --> 02:34:28,520
Speaker 3: going to be doing?

2951
02:34:29,600 --> 02:34:31,200
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna be taking it easy.

2952
02:34:31,560 --> 02:34:35,520
Speaker 3: Staying home, sleeping, and then I work that night. Okay,

2953
02:34:36,040 --> 02:34:38,080
Speaker 3: all right, you'll see your family.

2954
02:34:38,600 --> 02:34:40,800
Speaker 4: I will. I'm gonna see my mom and my grandma

2955
02:34:41,000 --> 02:34:43,560
Speaker 4: and just kind of have a relaxing day.

2956
02:34:44,240 --> 02:34:48,519
Speaker 3: Nice, nice, mighty Mark. Merry Christmas, buddy.

2957
02:34:48,680 --> 02:34:50,879
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.

2958
02:34:50,959 --> 02:34:51,840
Speaker 4: It's been great.

2959
02:34:52,560 --> 02:34:55,520
Speaker 1: It's still great. Oh, I'll just be I think I'll

2960
02:34:55,520 --> 02:34:56,280
Speaker 1: be home that day.

2961
02:34:56,920 --> 02:35:02,120
Speaker 3: Nice, nice, good stuff. Well, we appreciate you guys, you know,

2962
02:35:02,360 --> 02:35:05,760
Speaker 3: without a doubt. Thank you so much. Fitzy. What are

2963
02:35:05,760 --> 02:35:06,480
Speaker 3: your plans? Man?

2964
02:35:07,680 --> 02:35:09,960
Speaker 4: You know, I was kind of the same thing on Christmas.

2965
02:35:10,000 --> 02:35:13,600
Speaker 4: I always go to a local place and feed people

2966
02:35:13,760 --> 02:35:15,320
Speaker 4: and try and help out, get back a little bit

2967
02:35:15,600 --> 02:35:16,160
Speaker 4: in the community.

2968
02:35:16,200 --> 02:35:16,400
Speaker 3: To bet.

2969
02:35:16,640 --> 02:35:19,600
Speaker 4: That's a you know, just again, it's a reminder of

2970
02:35:19,760 --> 02:35:22,959
Speaker 4: making Christmas great for wherever you are in your life.

2971
02:35:22,800 --> 02:35:23,280
Speaker 3: In that moment.

2972
02:35:23,360 --> 02:35:26,520
Speaker 4: What about you, You've got, you know what the eighty

2973
02:35:26,600 --> 02:35:29,199
Speaker 4: seven courses of fish to work on, like how they.

2974
02:35:30,640 --> 02:35:33,160
Speaker 3: I gotta get you down, dude, I gotta know, we

2975
02:35:33,240 --> 02:35:36,320
Speaker 3: got to plan this. I gotta get you down. Yeah.

2976
02:35:37,360 --> 02:35:41,600
Speaker 3: I'll do the uh, the Feast of the seven Fishes.

2977
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Speaker 3: That's what we do.

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02:35:43,440 --> 02:35:46,080
Speaker 2: And so I'll and I do the cooking on Christmas Eve.

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02:35:46,160 --> 02:35:51,240
Speaker 2: So I'll go Christmas Eve morning, I go to my neighborhood,

2980
02:35:51,280 --> 02:35:55,000
Speaker 2: South Philly. All the old all the old stops. So

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02:35:55,160 --> 02:35:56,080
Speaker 2: I'll get the fish.

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02:35:56,400 --> 02:36:02,119
Speaker 3: I'll get scalp, scallops and crabb and shrimp and smelts

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02:36:02,400 --> 02:36:08,840
Speaker 3: and uh scoon jeil and uh bakala all the all

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02:36:08,920 --> 02:36:11,440
Speaker 3: the scoon jeal what.

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02:36:14,160 --> 02:36:20,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, like all the all the fishes like kadamri. Well, right,

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02:36:20,560 --> 02:36:23,680
Speaker 2: will they say gallamad? I don't know, don't ask, it's just.

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Speaker 4: Don't okay.

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02:36:26,640 --> 02:36:31,160
Speaker 2: All the octopus it's you know, it's ridiculous, right, So

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02:36:31,280 --> 02:36:34,240
Speaker 2: I get all that. I'll start the night before, like

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02:36:34,360 --> 02:36:38,280
Speaker 2: on the on Monday. I'll get this on Monday. I'll

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02:36:38,320 --> 02:36:44,000
Speaker 2: get the fish and then i'll cook the crab beginning

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02:36:44,120 --> 02:36:48,840
Speaker 2: Monday night. And then Monday night I'll make the crabs

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02:36:48,879 --> 02:36:54,000
Speaker 2: in spaghetti and no simmer for like eighteen hours, like

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02:36:54,080 --> 02:36:54,760
Speaker 2: sixteen hours.

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02:36:55,360 --> 02:36:58,320
Speaker 4: So the crab in spaghetti is in one dish together.

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02:36:59,000 --> 02:37:01,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's just crab. And what it is is

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02:37:01,959 --> 02:37:05,520
Speaker 2: it's crab and a red sauce. Right, we call it

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02:37:05,560 --> 02:37:08,480
Speaker 2: a crab gravy, but it's it's crab and a red

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02:37:08,560 --> 02:37:14,080
Speaker 2: sauce so it's a huge pot filled with with the

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02:37:14,200 --> 02:37:18,920
Speaker 2: Baltimore crabs, right like those those crabs, the Maryland crabs,

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02:37:19,520 --> 02:37:24,120
Speaker 2: and it'll with a tomato sauce and then it'll cook.

3002
02:37:24,320 --> 02:37:27,200
Speaker 2: I'll cook it and then I'll put on the on

3003
02:37:27,320 --> 02:37:34,040
Speaker 2: the low heat for hours and the sauce takes on

3004
02:37:34,160 --> 02:37:36,240
Speaker 2: the taste of the shells of the crab and it's

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02:37:36,360 --> 02:37:41,080
Speaker 2: like incredible. And then I'll make pasta when everybody comes over,

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02:37:41,440 --> 02:37:43,520
Speaker 2: I'll do the whole pasta stuff and I'll make the

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02:37:43,560 --> 02:37:47,000
Speaker 2: pasta fresh and then put the crab gravy in the

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02:37:47,080 --> 02:37:48,200
Speaker 2: crab on top of it.

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02:37:49,879 --> 02:37:53,760
Speaker 4: And that sounds absolutely incredible, honestly like that. I need

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02:37:53,840 --> 02:37:55,400
Speaker 4: pictures of this. I need to see how it all

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02:37:55,480 --> 02:37:56,560
Speaker 4: goes down like this, this.

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02:37:56,840 --> 02:37:57,320
Speaker 3: I got it.

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02:37:57,400 --> 02:38:00,800
Speaker 4: That's amazing, all right, real quick. It's just way better

3014
02:38:00,840 --> 02:38:01,520
Speaker 4: than dry turkey.

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02:38:03,360 --> 02:38:07,040
Speaker 3: So we like so we like Penn State today, we

3016
02:38:07,240 --> 02:38:11,439
Speaker 3: like Texas and are we going in on Tennessee.

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02:38:12,959 --> 02:38:15,119
Speaker 4: I'll go in on Tennessee. What the heck going on Tennessee?

3018
02:38:15,160 --> 02:38:16,040
Speaker 4: Because we need an upset.

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02:38:16,560 --> 02:38:19,879
Speaker 2: We gotta get something right. We we got to get

3020
02:38:19,920 --> 02:38:23,800
Speaker 2: the upset, all right, So that's our plan. Everybody, have

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02:38:23,879 --> 02:38:27,120
Speaker 2: a great Caliday. Man, we love you. We'll see you

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Speaker 2: next Saturday.