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Speaker 1: Now I say AP picked Baylor to win the conference

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Speaker 1: and finish tenth. Then I see another thing and has

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Speaker 1: Texas winning the conference in Baylor fifth. All I know

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Speaker 1: about Baylor is they got really good offensive defensive lines

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Speaker 1: with pro prospects. And we're not going to know squat

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Speaker 1: Saturday because they're playing Albany and that's not Albany Georgia Salbany,

433
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Speaker 1: New York. I don't know they had a team. And

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Speaker 1: it will be the third second game they go to

435
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Speaker 1: BYU that will be a much bigger test. General. You

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Speaker 1: know this, probably haven't a fan. Number sixty two Saka

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Speaker 1: Aka from LSU last year played at Baylor. He's one

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Speaker 1: of my top thirty prospects in the country. He's an

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Speaker 1: absolute bona fide stud. He is Jordan. He's the Polynesian

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Speaker 1: version of Jordan Davis. Everybody has him going about the

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Speaker 1: middle of the first round. Yeah what, yes, right? I

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Speaker 1: noticed in the New College John I watched College Game

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Speaker 1: Days intro Saturday, and I watched it again tonight, and

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Speaker 1: briefly he's in it for like a flash. And if

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Speaker 1: you didn't know who he was or who he played

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Speaker 1: for it you wouldn't know it. So he's Baylor's contribution

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Speaker 1: to the lead by Big and Rich on College Game Day. Job,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us tonight. Hey, let me

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Speaker 1: ask you something quick, Mark, how did you know your

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Speaker 1: play by play the Texans decided not to have a

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Speaker 1: depth chart. I just like study the miracles and give

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Speaker 1: it my best guests. Yeah, I know that's crazy a

453
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Speaker 1: sideline reporter, hopefully and reminding that thing is sarcasian is doing.

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Speaker 1: I just ripped the hell out of it and I

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Speaker 1: got all kind of responses. I don't read the responses.

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Speaker 1: I just know how many people engaged and looked at it,

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Speaker 1: and it's amazing how many people are defending him, and

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Speaker 1: I think it's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: Not as dumb as a pole dancing monkey. But it's close.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, guys. I will see you so

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Speaker 1: thanks general. Have a great weekend. I'm sure that's two

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Speaker 1: or three more victories that I have a depth chart. Sure,

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Speaker 1: all right, h next, who's better? We're gonna do it

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Speaker 1: with Johnny. It's a Thursday. We have fun doing this

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Speaker 1: and some big games the horizon. Let's get to it here,

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Speaker 1: I'm Texans Radio. Stay tuned for more on the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio. The drive continues, Mark Padimaron, John Harris with you.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you listening. Johnny, It's time to play

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Speaker 1: Who's Better? Are you ready for this one? Let's go, Okay,

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Speaker 1: Who's better? Now? We adjust the question based on what

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Speaker 1: we're gonna ask, so basically I can do whatever I

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Speaker 1: want with this segment. Better Chance to beat Indianapolis for

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Speaker 1: the Texans the game that was played December twenty fourth,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and six, that the Texans won the first

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Speaker 1: time they ever beat the Colts more week one this year.

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Speaker 1: Now you know what I mean by better chance here

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Speaker 1: going into the game. Now, Unfortunately I cannot find the

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Speaker 1: line of that game. How do you find past the

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Speaker 1: lines of games like years ago, Sean, I don't ask

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Speaker 1: where are you when I need you? I'm betting. I'm

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Speaker 1: betting that the line was greater than this one. This

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Speaker 1: one's eight and a half right now. I believe I'm

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Speaker 1: betting the line was greater in that matchup, and the

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Speaker 1: Texans wanted they ramper over a buck fifty with Ron Dane.

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Speaker 1: We all know how they did it. Field goal at

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Speaker 1: the buzzer. That team over the Colts. They were victorious,

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Speaker 1: But who's got a better chance going into the game.

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Speaker 1: I feel better about this team just because in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and six had to be Peyton Manning. I mean,

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Speaker 1: now you gotta beat Matt Ryan and Matt Ryan's plays

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Speaker 1: first game as a cult, and no team in Week

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Speaker 1: one really is hitting on all cylinders. I mean some

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Speaker 1: teams might be, you know, the Chiefs that have been

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Speaker 1: together for a while, but even at that point, they

502
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Speaker 1: gotta adjust to having no Tyreek. So no team is

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Speaker 1: really hitting on all cylinders. Plus with the Colts, you've

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Speaker 1: got some moving parts. You know. They still haven't found

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Speaker 1: the right fit of left tackle for Costanzo. There's no

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Speaker 1: glow Winski, so they'll starts presumably Danny Pinterritt guard. They'll

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Speaker 1: start Matt Pryor left tackle and no offense. Those guys

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Speaker 1: don't scare me all that much, especially with what the

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Speaker 1: Texas having a D line. Now obviously there's a Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Taylor back there, and that does scare me. But Matt

511
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Speaker 1: Ryan is knocketting down the pocket and hurt you if

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Speaker 1: you push him off the pocket and out of the pocket.

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Speaker 1: He's not a great throw it off a different platform

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Speaker 1: sort of quarterback. He manages the little one and a

515
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Speaker 1: half foot by one and a half foot spot where

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Speaker 1: in the pocket he can do that really well. I

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Speaker 1: think you've got to move Matt off his spot, and

518
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Speaker 1: if you do, you've got a really good opportunity to

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Speaker 1: have some success against him. Whether you sack him or not,

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Speaker 1: you just need him off the spot defensively. Look, Shakie Leonard,

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's practiced in pads. I don't think

522
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Speaker 1: dealing with an injury. Now there's a thought he could

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Speaker 1: be ready for week one, So okay, it's the first

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Speaker 1: time he's gonna wear pads since January, so I'll take that.

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Speaker 1: In Week one two thousand and six, that was all

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Speaker 1: the way in December. Yes, guys are beat up, but

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Speaker 1: that was a Colts offense that was Roland. What it

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Speaker 1: had was a defense that couldn't stop the run. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's one of the biggest mysteries mark of

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Speaker 1: all time. In two thousand and six, the last half

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Speaker 1: of the year, the Colts got completely and totally gashed

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Speaker 1: against the run. The Texans did it. There were other

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Speaker 1: teams that just gashed him. In the first round of

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, they had to play Larry Johnson, who was

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Speaker 1: with the Chiefs. I think he ran for a two

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Speaker 1: thousand that year. They held him like twelve yards. It's

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Speaker 1: the biggest mystery of all time, Like how did they

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Speaker 1: look so bad in the regular season and then they

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Speaker 1: got to the playoffs and all of a sudden there

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Speaker 1: are juggernauts stopping the run. And they couldn't have all

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Speaker 1: been just because Bob Sanders was back. But it was

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Speaker 1: so weird that Ron Dane had great games against them,

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Speaker 1: other backs had great games against them, and then they

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Speaker 1: faced argue me, the best back in the league at

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Speaker 1: that time, and they shut him down with like twelve

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Speaker 1: yards in a playoff win over the Chiefs. It's still

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Speaker 1: a mystery to me, but I think better chance would

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Speaker 1: be this team, no question in my mind about that.

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Speaker 1: All right, that sounds good, good rationale there, Peyton Manning,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to see him. I like that. Who's better?

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Speaker 1: Let's continue better game week one? Baker versus Cleveland or

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Speaker 1: Russell versus Seattle. Better game, Johnny, and you could evaluate

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Speaker 1: this any which way you want, not necessarily which is

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Speaker 1: gonna be closer, but which is more dramatic and which

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Speaker 1: really floats your boat? Bore. I think the Panthers Browns,

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Speaker 1: because Baker will allow that stuff to seep in by

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Speaker 1: the time the Broncos get to Seattle. I think Russell's

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Speaker 1: gonna be all hugs and hugs and kisses with the Seahawks,

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Speaker 1: and oh I miss you guys. You know how Russell

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Speaker 1: is with his public persona. I think that's the way

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be. Now, will he go over there and

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Speaker 1: shake hands with Pete Carroll? I don't know, but I

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Speaker 1: feel like I feel like Baker could throw a touchdown

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Speaker 1: and run over to the Browns sideline and flash double

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Speaker 1: rods and not have a care in the world. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing you could get from Baker.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's done that before and this one probably

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Speaker 1: stung him that much worse. So I think from an

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Speaker 1: intrigue drama standpoint, I think Baker and the Panthers against

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Speaker 1: the Browns would have my attention more than than Russell

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Speaker 1: going to Seattle. And congrats to Russell on the contract.

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Speaker 1: Thought it was interesting that it was a day or

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Speaker 1: two ago I saw a post on Twitter. The most

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Speaker 1: overrated player in the NFL is judged by like NFL

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Speaker 1: personnel and some other people, was Russell Wilson. Like, oh,

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Speaker 1: interesting because two days later he's getting a super mega contract.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations another champion of the NFL business world. How many

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Speaker 1: times does he invest the playoffs? Once? Is that the number? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Last year, throughout his last year. I don't know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's crazy. Yeah, it's that's that's absolutely nuts and good

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Speaker 1: for him getting the money. And obviously the landscape we

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Speaker 1: talked about it with the general very interesting with the

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Speaker 1: quarterback contract situations. All right, who's better? We continue, I'll

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Speaker 1: go better game again, better game, Bill's rams. That's a

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Speaker 1: week from tonight opening night in the National Football League

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Speaker 1: in La or Bucks Cowboys Sunday nights. So two primetime

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Speaker 1: games next week that we're focusing on here, Bucks Cowboys

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Speaker 1: in Big d or Bills Rams in La. It's Bill's Rams.

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Speaker 1: I think Tom Brady might die his offensive line. Oh

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Speaker 1: good lord. I mean, Aaron Donald doesn't need to be

591
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: swinging helmets against those guys. But there's no Ryan Jensen.

592
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Speaker 1: His backup got hurt and is out for the year.

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Speaker 1: Two Ali Marpett retired. That's starting guard, starting center, backup center.

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Speaker 1: And if there's one thing that Brady always had with

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, always had He didn't always have the two

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Speaker 1: best tackles, but what he had was a guard center

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Speaker 1: guard combination that was always outstanding, always no matter who

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Speaker 1: it was, because he would stay behind those three, the

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Speaker 1: tackles just kind of worked their way out and ran

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Speaker 1: guys by and Brady would just work behind those three.

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Speaker 1: If those three are just having a nightmare of a

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Speaker 1: time with Aaron Donald, a Sean Robinson, or I mean

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Speaker 1: with the Cowboys guys, it's gonna be a long, long afternoon,

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Speaker 1: long evening for Tom Brady. We saw Bucks Cowboys last year,

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Speaker 1: first game of the year. It was a good game.

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Speaker 1: It's Bills Rams. You got my attention, you absolutely you

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Speaker 1: had me at Hello. I think any game with the

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Speaker 1: Bills this year is gonna be must see, especially the

609
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Speaker 1: way that offense is playing, and it's the Rams, and

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Speaker 1: it's you know, Aaron Donald and you know Matt Stafford.

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Speaker 1: Where is he? The game's out in LA. They're celebrating

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Speaker 1: chiship I mean, I think the Bills are gonna put

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Speaker 1: it on him. But I still think that's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a better game than Bucks Cowboys. I'm more interested in

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Speaker 1: seeing that Bill's Rams game than I am the Bucks

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Speaker 1: and Cowboys. Okay, well said, I always want to watch

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys lose, though, is yeah? Yeah, absolutely, Okay. Let's

618
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: go college here. Who's better better job as a head

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Speaker 1: coach they're gonna play this week at these two schools,

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Speaker 1: Ohio State or Notre Dame. Which is the better job? Johnny, Well,

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Speaker 1: that's a such a tremendous question, A better job native thing, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Because it's one of those things that I look at

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Speaker 1: and go, which job would I want? Now I've sat

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Speaker 1: for a long time. Ohio State fan is the most

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Speaker 1: ridiculous fan there is. Then again, domers can be somewhat

626
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Speaker 1: to have somewhat high expectations when they don't need to

627
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: be the concern when you're at Notre Dame is you

628
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Speaker 1: obviously have to recruit players and prospects that have a

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Speaker 1: certain academic level. That's not a totally a concerned high state,

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Speaker 1: although they don't go out and get a bunch of dummies.

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Speaker 1: But I think Ohio State probably gives you a better

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Speaker 1: chance to be a national champion every year. I think

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Speaker 1: Ohio State the game against Michigan, I would love to

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Speaker 1: coach in man, There's just something about Notre Dame. There's

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Speaker 1: something about being at Notre Dame. Marcus Freeman. It's funny

636
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Speaker 1: because Marcus Freeman played the Ohio State Now he's dead.

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Speaker 1: Coach Notre Dame and they're going back to Columbus to

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Speaker 1: play against Ohio State, which is gonna be a It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a fun watch for a little while. But

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Speaker 1: I think Ohio State just takes it over. But there's

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Speaker 1: something about Notre Dame, just something special about that place,

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Speaker 1: just and you know me, history, tradition, those things matter

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Speaker 1: to me. And I also feel like, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'll take Notre Dame and we'll go win a championship

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Speaker 1: no matter what my academic requirements are. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: win a championship. But you win a championship with Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame after they've not had one since nineteen eighty eight.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they'll put your name in, you get a statue.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you're right next to New Rockney. And I would

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Speaker 1: be totally down with the marble statue of me right

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Speaker 1: next to New Rockney. So I'm gonna say Notre Dame.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you all right so quick, because we gotta

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Speaker 1: hit the break here. But better job of the big

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Speaker 1: ten petn State or Wisconsin, because neither place you don't

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Speaker 1: have to win the national championship. At either place, you

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Speaker 1: get a lot of love, a lot of respect by

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Speaker 1: winning nine, ten eleven games, and oh you know you

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Speaker 1: could would have should have been in the playoff if only,

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Speaker 1: but you have a tremendous following. You think Wisconsin. See,

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Speaker 1: I worked at Penn State, so I have a I

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Speaker 1: guess I have a little bit of a soft spot

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Speaker 1: for that. And I always wondered with Bill O'Brien, was

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Speaker 1: he ever tempted to say, you know what, the NFL's nice,

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Speaker 1: look where I am, and I'm doing all right, but

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Speaker 1: obviously you didn't do that. Your thoughts. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think the Penn State job is I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: an excellent job. And there it's interesting because Happy Valley's

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Speaker 1: the center of everything in Wisconsin. So there's there's that.

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Speaker 1: But you know, the one thing with Penn State the

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Speaker 1: history and tradition there. It goes all the way back

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Speaker 1: to Paterno in the in the sixties. Wisconsin fall really

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Speaker 1: didn't kick in until Barry Alvarez got there in the nineties.

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Speaker 1: It's it's almost like Wisconsin's the microwave dynasty and Penn

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Speaker 1: State was the you know, put it in you oven

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Speaker 1: and let it cook for thirty five minutes sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: So that said, right, Yeah, I was born in Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: so you know, I gotta go with I gotta go

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Speaker 1: with the Badgers. But I've always liked the Badgers in

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Speaker 1: the way that Paul Chris runs his program. So I'm

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Speaker 1: going I'm going on Wisconsin. All right. We're gonna reset

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Speaker 1: some of the transactions with the Texans, the acquisitions in

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Speaker 1: the last few days, some of the moves they've made. Also,

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Speaker 1: you gotta give me one or two games this weekend

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Speaker 1: to watch. I don't need the whole paragraph on them,

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Speaker 1: but you know what's happening this week. Yeah, we've got

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Speaker 1: college football, no NFL, so we need to wet the appetite.

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Speaker 1: That's wh et for our football fix and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get the big cornucopia next week with Week one, It's

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Speaker 1: All right, Mark Vandamarin John Harris with you big weekend

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Speaker 1: of college football with games tonight all weekend long. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be fun. There's no NFL this weekend. Unfortunately, we

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Speaker 1: should have a game tonight. They game for Okay, I

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Speaker 1: know we have seventeen games now, that's much better in

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Speaker 1: the regular season, Johnny. Earlier today, the Texans announced that

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Speaker 1: Chris Conley, Royce Freeman, and Isaac Geatum would be added

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Speaker 1: to the active buster and they placed these players at

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Speaker 1: IR Christian Harris, the linebacker from Alabama, a rookie obviously,

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Speaker 1: Tiguan Couturiano another rookie at the tight end, and Tabier

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Speaker 1: Thomas from Ferris State year five Tabier good slot corner.

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Speaker 1: Also Paul Quezenbury, fullback on the practice squad. What jumps

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Speaker 1: out at you? Obviously, the report today that they signed O. J.

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Speaker 1: Howard as very interesting as well as we look at

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Speaker 1: the day's work for Nick Kisserio and company. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: transaction Booya Base was interesting, to say the least, pretty juicy.

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Speaker 1: We you and I had talked about this off the air,

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Speaker 1: the air that I asked of Nick as sarrio, how

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Speaker 1: do you handle players like and I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I brought the players, but talking about Christian Harris and

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Speaker 1: Tabier Thomas and how do you balance out? Hey, we

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Speaker 1: think this guy might be ready by week three we're

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Speaker 1: not totally sure. You know the Texas today with Arian

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Speaker 1: Foster in twenty fifteen, where at that time I think

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Speaker 1: it was six games, maybe eight games, but Arian was

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Speaker 1: gonna be ready, not in weeks one, two or three,

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Speaker 1: but by week four he was gonna be ready to go.

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Speaker 1: If I remember Craig, it was something like that. And

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Speaker 1: so it becomes, all right, well, do you carry him

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Speaker 1: on the roster but just make him inactive, or do

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Speaker 1: you put him on IR and just wait for him

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Speaker 1: to get to week seven, eight or whatever? You know,

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Speaker 1: at that point when the IR rules were much different.

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Speaker 1: Now I think it's a four week situation and it's

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Speaker 1: and love he said it today talking about Christian Harris.

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Speaker 1: He said it's gonna be always. And as soon as

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Speaker 1: he said that, that's when it hit like, maybe he's

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Speaker 1: going on, maybe that's what the transactions will be today,

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Speaker 1: that they will eventually put them on IR. And unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: I did like what I saw from Christian in the

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Speaker 1: time that we saw before he got dinged up, really

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Speaker 1: like what I saw Fautige Quatoriano in the midst of

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Speaker 1: what we saw. And we know that tav could play

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Speaker 1: that nickel spot as well as anybody. So those are

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Speaker 1: those are big losses, but guys have got to step up,

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Speaker 1: including like you said, Oj Howard, And you know, we

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Speaker 1: asked the general about that. I don't know what he's

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Speaker 1: got left. We got to find out. Obviously Buffalo was

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Speaker 1: not the spot for him. And you never know when

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Speaker 1: when things click, when a guy might get fully healthy.

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Speaker 1: And the two the comparison points I used were, is

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Speaker 1: it Roosevelt Colvin, you know, a name that people knew,

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Speaker 1: but then he got here and just oh boy, it's over?

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Speaker 1: Or is it Quinn Demp's where you brought him in

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Speaker 1: week three to twenty fifteen, after you know, being away

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Speaker 1: for a while, you bring him in. You're going week

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Speaker 1: three of the preseason really like you're gonna get something

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Speaker 1: from him, and yeah, he turned into one of your

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Speaker 1: better defensive players. So there's kind of the yin and

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Speaker 1: yang of bringing him back in a veteran. So we'll

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Speaker 1: see what OJ's got. I'm I'm glad they went out

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Speaker 1: and did it, but I don't think it's one of

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Speaker 1: those We're going to Super Bowl Scott OJ Howard sort

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Speaker 1: of thing. We're gonna see Oj developed learned the offense

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Speaker 1: and see where it puts him. Yeah, it might be

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Speaker 1: a nice second chance plays for him. Yes, Buffalo couldn't

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Speaker 1: find a role for him, so they let him go.

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Speaker 1: Johnny College Games. We got about a minute left, So

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Speaker 1: what do you got this weekend for me? But there's

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Speaker 1: some fun stuff you mentioned Notre Dame, ohiuse state the

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Speaker 1: two biggest games. I find it interesting because they're massive.

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame in O house state Georgia and Oregon seventeen

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Speaker 1: points spreads in both seventeen points spreads, I mean yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they get to those numbers. But I

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Speaker 1: think Oregon and Georgia will have trouble scoring. I do

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Speaker 1: think they're a house state can put up points when

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Speaker 1: it wants. I think O high stake could be scary

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Speaker 1: good if that defense comes around this year. So, um,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a phone. But man, even tonight, Mark,

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting here and I'm talking to you, but I'm

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Speaker 1: watching West Virginia and Pitt and Mark Hines feet Well

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Speaker 1: what is it now? Acres Short sorry, Acres Shirt Stadium

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Speaker 1: is absolutely packed, and it just makes me sad. Makes

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Speaker 1: me sad that the backyard brawl. Pitt in West Virginia

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Speaker 1: isn't played every year. This thing has got hatred, it's

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Speaker 1: got all it's got vitriol, it's got all kinds of stuff.

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Speaker 1: This is what cons football is supposed to be about.

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Speaker 1: I love it's packed nothing. Pit ahead love Penn States

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Speaker 1: in that neighborhood, right, they're only a couple of hours away,

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Speaker 1: two and a half from Pittsburgh. They should play pitt

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Speaker 1: every year. They should plays Virginia every year like they

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Speaker 1: used to. They should play Syracuse every year. Get the

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Speaker 1: East back together, folks, that's gonna happen all right, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot, as always, looking forward to tomorrow's show.

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Speaker 1: We'll have some fun going into the weekend. Talk about

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Speaker 1: what happens tonight. Talk about what's gonna happen week one.

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Speaker 1: One week from tonight, the National Football League kicks off.

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Speaker 1: It's twenty twenty two season with the Bills at the Rams.

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Speaker 1: It'll be live right here by the way. Have a

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