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Speaker 1: You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's right, you heard the man. It is that

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Speaker 2: time of week. My name is Bernie Fradle. Wear come

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Speaker 2: to line from the Fox Sports Radio compound here in

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas. Take it up to three am Pacific, six

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Speaker 2: am Eastern. So much to get to, so little time.

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Speaker 2: How about those Baltimore Ravens. Yeah, they're still alive. No

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Speaker 2: thanks to Lamar Jackson. And imagine, imagine your fate and

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Speaker 2: your hopes and dreams. Suddenly they're tied to shootdoor standers

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Speaker 2: in the Cleveland Browns. And unless the Browns win on Sunday, well,

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Speaker 2: I guess it's a rap for the always over hyped,

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Speaker 2: underachieving Baltimore Ravens. Yeah, you heard me say it. You know,

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Speaker 2: reminds me of a story. When I think of the Ravens,

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Speaker 2: reminds me of a story. Go back to the mid

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Speaker 2: eighteen hundred. It's two brothers. They were twins, career criminals,

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Speaker 2: thirty years three decades. They were rough shot over this

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Speaker 2: small town, robbing banks, pillaging. They were thieves, miscreants, ne'er

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Speaker 2: do wells, hulums. Suddenly, one day one of the brothers

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Speaker 2: dropped dead. The surviving brother was distraught. In fact, he

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Speaker 2: was so distraught he approached the town preacher and said,

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Speaker 2: I want the biggest funeral this county's ever seen, and

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Speaker 2: I will write you a check for ten thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: if you will eulogize my brother. And all I want

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Speaker 2: you to do is tell the community that he was

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Speaker 2: a saint. The preacher said, well, if the check clears

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Speaker 2: my funeral day, I'll do it.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: The check cleared, and the day of the funeral, hundreds,

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Speaker 2: if not thousands, gather from counties around to hear the

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Speaker 2: eulogy of this man who had been a career pain

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Speaker 2: in the ass. And as the preacher began to speak,

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Speaker 2: he motioned toward the casket and he said, this gentleman,

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Speaker 2: here before your eyes. He was a crook, a thief,

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Speaker 2: a criminal, a miscreant, a hudulum, a ne'er do well.

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Speaker 4: He never did any good.

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Speaker 2: In his life. But compared to his brother, he was

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Speaker 2: a saint. Nobody likes a phony. You know you don't

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Speaker 2: like a phony. The Ravens are phonies. Spot to lie

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Speaker 2: and I'm gonna start with Lamar Jackson. Oh and don't worry,

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Speaker 2: John Harball, I'm getting to YouTube. I don't know what

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Speaker 2: they're gonna do with Lamar Jackson and or John Harbaugh,

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Speaker 2: but I'll tell you what I think they should do.

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Speaker 4: But let me start with the receipts.

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Speaker 2: Let's face it, whether you like this situation or not,

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Speaker 2: the Ravens are going to have to make some sort

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Speaker 2: of contractual decision on Jackson the softseason. Well, he does

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Speaker 2: still have two years on his contract in his current deal,

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Speaker 2: and yes, his cap pit for twenty twenty six would

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Speaker 2: be seventy four million. Well, that means the Ravens will

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Speaker 2: either have to either extend Lamar Jackson, which he wants.

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Speaker 2: I hear he's still pissed off that his last contract

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Speaker 2: wasn't guaranteed like Deshaun Watson but I digressed, or tray

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Speaker 2: him in order to reduce that figure.

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Speaker 4: Those are the only two options.

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Speaker 2: By the way, Lamar Jackson does not have a no

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Speaker 2: trade clause, so the Ravens could not simply move him

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Speaker 2: to another team without his permission.

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Speaker 4: Check that I misspoke. He does have a no trade clause.

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Speaker 2: Now, the Ravens' decision on Jackson is not as clear

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Speaker 2: cut as it might have been, say a year ago.

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Speaker 2: He's been limited to twelve games this injury, this year

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Speaker 2: by injuries, because of injuries, and his numbers, Wow, they've

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Speaker 2: not been quite as good when he's played. He's throwing

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Speaker 2: for twenty three hundred yards, ran for three hundred blah

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Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah, not anywhere near the same numbers

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Speaker 2: he put up in his MVP caliber season at twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four.

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Speaker 4: And remember all those Super Bowls he won? Not either, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: neither do I. Now.

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Speaker 2: Complicating things further is that the Ravens have not found

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Speaker 2: any playoff success, much less Super Bowl success. You know,

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Speaker 2: one can debate how much of that is Lamar's fault

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Speaker 2: despite all their regular seasons success. Yes, Lamar Jackson and

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Speaker 2: the Ravens have won exactly three playoff games in seven seasons.

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Speaker 2: Matter of fact, while we're on the subject, Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 2: is three and five in the playoffs. He's throwing ten

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Speaker 2: touchdown seven picks. He's got a fifty five percent completion

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Speaker 2: he's passer rating is sixty eight point three. Yeah, they'd

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Speaker 2: not missus. Lincolnow is a play plus. In case you

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Speaker 2: missed it, Lamar Jackson has numerous injury issues. He's missed

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Speaker 2: four games this year, potentially counting. We'll see if he

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Speaker 2: plays next week, it may not matter, and left early

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Speaker 2: in two others. That raises questions and poses challenges. Now

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Speaker 2: a number of the team's top players have been played

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Speaker 2: by injuries. I get that. Or they've made really uncharacteristic,

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Speaker 2: mixed and different games. And you know you'll never hear

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Speaker 2: me say a damn one bad thing about Derreck Henry. Ever,

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Speaker 2: class guy, hall of famer. Even he had some fumbling

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Speaker 2: issues this year and across the Ravens. And maybe you

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Speaker 2: can't blame Harball for that, but I'm sick of his

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Speaker 2: platitudes and it's disingenuous, albeit affable demeanor. It's not been

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Speaker 2: a good year for John Harball. Perhaps just time for

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Speaker 2: him to go too, Starting in Week one when the

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Speaker 2: Ravens blew a fifteen point lead in the final four

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Speaker 2: minutes in Buffalo. They've dropped a few games that they

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Speaker 2: had no business losing, and that just adds to a

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Speaker 2: string of late collapses under the aforementioned John Harball. There

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Speaker 2: have been some very curious personnel decisions along the way,

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Speaker 2: like sticking with a couple of struggling guards like Daniel

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Speaker 2: Falaley and Andrew Voorhi saw year keeping Keaton Mitchell on

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Speaker 2: the bench early in the season and then not making

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Speaker 2: sure Henry was on the field late and last Sunday's

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Speaker 2: crucial loss to the Patriots. Now, even after they stabilized

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Speaker 2: following a one in five start, they had the ersatz

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Speaker 2: five game winning streak, mostly by beating up on Alsa rants.

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Speaker 2: The Ravens played poorly in back to back home losses

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Speaker 2: to the Bengals and Steelers. Those games were metaphorical. They

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Speaker 2: exemplified the Ravens issues at home all season. They've lost

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Speaker 2: a franchise eye six games at home at M and

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Speaker 2: T Banks Stadium, including three in prime time. When you

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Speaker 2: repeatedly lose in front of the home fans in a

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Speaker 2: national audience, that's a good way to make your coach

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Speaker 2: look bad. If that was their goal, it's working really well.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't reflect well on John Harball and his staff,

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Speaker 2: and so many players on the roster seemed to be

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Speaker 2: regressing or not playing up their expectations. It's right there

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Speaker 2: for you to see. Add to that repeated failures, the

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Speaker 2: whole fourth quarter leads questionable in game management decisions. Frankly

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Speaker 2: and overall, since his team's hit a ceiling. That's the

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Speaker 2: way I see it, and let's not forget again the

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Speaker 2: repeated late game collapses. A major point of criticism is

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Speaker 2: Baltimore's recurring there's a body at work here inability to

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Speaker 2: lose games, their inability to or the ability to lose

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Speaker 2: games by their inability to close out games. That's a

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Speaker 2: repeated pattern that's persisted, not for this season only, but

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Speaker 2: for several seasons. The Baltimore Ravens have blown numerous double

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Speaker 2: digit leads in the fourth quarter, and that's a trend

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Speaker 2: that I think even casual observers will attribute to a

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Speaker 2: lack of crucial decisions made in the heat of battle

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Speaker 2: also known as in game adjustments by the coaching staff. Again,

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Speaker 2: the Ravens blew that fifteen point lead in Buffalo Week

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Speaker 2: one in the final four of the game. Now, Harbaugh's

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Speaker 2: faced a certain scrutiny. He's had certain strategic decisions and

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Speaker 2: key moments which I think even a blind man would

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Speaker 2: argue coss the Ravens, starting with Derrick Henry's usage. A

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Speaker 2: major point of contention as the season war on this

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Speaker 2: year was a decision to keep Derrick Henry off the

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Speaker 2: field during crucial final drives. Obviously he's your most effective

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Speaker 2: running back, which he proved Saturday night. Maybe too little,

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Speaker 2: too late. Plus a lack of accountability. There have been

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Speaker 2: some reports that suggest to perceived lack of accountability from

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Speaker 2: John Harbaugh.

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Speaker 4: There are a lot of critics who have.

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Speaker 2: Privately said he kind of acts like a tactical bystander.

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Speaker 2: Remember when he was asked in the press conference, why

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Speaker 2: wasn't Derrick Henry on the field? I should have been.

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Speaker 2: I'll have to check with Monkan or whatever.

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Speaker 4: He said.

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Speaker 2: I'm paraphrase, no quote. What the hell you're in charge?

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Speaker 2: What you want to watch a game by a ticket?

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Speaker 2: There are plenty of other systemic issues. This has that

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Speaker 2: ongoing struggles with running the ball and key moments, inconsistent

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Speaker 2: offensive line performances, and there are other deeper systemic issues

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Speaker 2: that really haven't been addressed, and we don't have a

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Speaker 2: time to get to bottom line. It's time for new direction.

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Speaker 2: They both need to go. You're never gonna win a

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Speaker 2: damn thing anymore.

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Speaker 4: They won one.

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Speaker 2: He beat his brother back in twenty twelve with Trent Dilfer.

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Speaker 2: I think no No, that was the earlier one. Never

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Speaker 2: Mind that was Dilfer figured don't quote me on it.

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Speaker 2: That was Joe Flacco. Sorry, I got a fewels of

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Speaker 2: my game. I'm a little hotter on the collar tonight. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying they both couldn't be valuable contributors elsewhere,

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Speaker 2: but you're done in Baltimore. I trust my eyes.

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Speaker 4: I tell me a lot.

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Speaker 2: After eighteen seasons, I think it's not just me. There

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Speaker 2: are a lot of people who believe both the Ravens

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Speaker 2: and Harball would benefit from a fresh start, not too

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Speaker 2: dissimilar when Andy Reid left from Philadelphia to Kansas City.

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Speaker 2: So there you have it. In about eleven hours. Check that, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: about eleven hours, it all starts up again. And if

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Speaker 2: the Browns don't beat the Steelers, well, then I like

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Speaker 2: to thank the Baltimore Ravens for participating in this year's

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Speaker 2: football twenty.

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Speaker 4: Twenty five NFL season.

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Speaker 2: Simple as that. Well, two more games are in the

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Speaker 2: books thanks to Saturday. And actually they determined quite a

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Speaker 2: that clinched the playoff berth for the Texans and that

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Speaker 2: won the AFC West for the Denver Broncos. And if

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Speaker 2: you're into this circle of life stuff, the last time

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Speaker 2: the AFC West was won by someone other than Kansas City,

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Speaker 2: it was the Denver Broncos. And that year the Denver

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Speaker 2: Broncos actually won the Super Bowl. The Super Bowls played

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Speaker 2: am I suggesting the Broncos will win the Super Bowl? No?

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Speaker 2: I just like this oddball stuff. And yeah, the Ravens

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Speaker 2: of stuff happened Saturday, but we're not quite done yet.

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Speaker 2: Start with the NFC right now, the number one seed

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Speaker 2: later on Sunday, they'll still need the Rams to lose,

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Speaker 2: her tie and the forty nine Ers and Bears to tie. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I can't make it this stuff up. That's how it works.

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Speaker 2: So the Seahawks are at Carolina, who I think is

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Speaker 2: all here. Can't just make outfit up. So you know,

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Speaker 2: according to the people who were nerds that sat in

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Speaker 2: asked the teacher for more homework, they say, Seattle has

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Speaker 2: a forty six percent chance of holding on to the

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Speaker 2: think is a drunk guy in a basement throwing darks

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Speaker 2: left handed and he's right handed. But nonetheless, there you

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Speaker 2: have it. Chicago Bears are the number two seed. The

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Speaker 2: the Bears secured their playoff berth via the Lions lost

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Speaker 2: The Bears have about a fourteen percent chance at the

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Speaker 2: Back to back chance to the NFC East. That hasn't

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Speaker 2: they're gonna get the number one seed. I won't go

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Speaker 2: It's just not gonna happen, okay, But I think it's

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Speaker 4: How do you do that?

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Speaker 2: You win Sunday and the Bucks lose or tie, or

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Speaker 2: But a big one over the Bucks moved Carolina into

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Speaker 2: forty five percent chance to win the division. According to

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Speaker 2: The Niners, they are the fifth seed right now. Their

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Speaker 4: Against the Seahawks. Huge props of the Miners.

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Speaker 2: My god, they lose Fred Warner, they lose you know,

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Speaker 2: Lions lost Week sixteen, and they have about a twenty

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Speaker 2: They but they got to win out against the Bears

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Speaker 2: beat the Bears and lose to the Seahawks, and have

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Speaker 2: the Bears not tie the Lions. Okay, they gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: The Rams odds of clinching the number one seed fell

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Speaker 2: According to that guy in the basement, Packers, Well, they

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Speaker 2: are nine to six and one. They have one game

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Speaker 2: left at Minnesota. They've clinched a playoff spot because the

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Speaker 2: Lions lost to the Vikings on Christmas, but they cannot

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Speaker 2: win the NFC North. They're locked in at number seven.

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Speaker 2: Better than sharpstick in the Iron. A lot of people

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Speaker 2: trade places with them, but that's where they're at. Tampa

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Speaker 2: Bay is currently an eleven seed. They're still in the

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Speaker 2: loss to the Panthers dropped Tampa Bay out of playoff position.

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Speaker 4: As we stand, right now.

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Speaker 2: But they still have a fifty four chance and winning

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Speaker 2: But they gotta beat the Dolphins first Sunday, all right,

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Speaker 2: So that's the NFC. Let's move on to the AFC.

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Speaker 2: The Denver Broncos sitting pretty at thirteen and three as

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Speaker 2: on the schedule, they host Los Angeles Chargers. They could,

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Speaker 2: clinch the number one seed if the Patriots lose, plus

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Speaker 2: or tie. With all due respect, they have a hell

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Speaker 2: of a hard time seeing how Jacksonville loses in Indianapolis Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Could I be wrong? Yeah, but I don't see it.

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Speaker 2: The Broncos they ended the Chiefs nine year reign atop

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Speaker 2: who knew, well we did. We said they were on

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Speaker 2: the short list to go from worse to first happens

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Speaker 2: just about I think, out of twenty five last twenty

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Speaker 2: Pats are number two their seed. Their remaining schedule, they're

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Speaker 2: Pats can actually clinch the AFC East Sunday if they

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Speaker 2: Patriots tie but the Bills lose. So if the Pats

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Speaker 2: Week eighteen. If the Pats win and the Bills lose,

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Speaker 2: Pats are your new AFC East champions for twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: But the good news is the Patriots have punched their

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Speaker 2: We'll get into that next week. The Jacksonville Jaguars give

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Speaker 2: This year with the Jacksonville Jaguars, they really look good

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Speaker 2: Their remaining schedule, they're at Indianapolis later Sunday, and then

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Speaker 2: they're home against the Titans. Now, there's no such thing

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Speaker 2: Some games are tougher than others because some teams have

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Speaker 2: a National Football League, they're all tough. You can't take

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Speaker 2: anything for granted. However, having said that, it seems likely.

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Speaker 2: It seems likely that Jacksonville will went out beating Indianapolis,

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Speaker 2: who've obviously very depleted.

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Speaker 2: Oat and the Tennessee Titans, who have actually covered five

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Speaker 2: just by winning out. That's it.

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Speaker 4: They don't need help. They gotta win out.

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Speaker 2: Or they finish one and one, and the Houston Texans

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Speaker 2: would have to lose Week eighteen the same, all right,

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Speaker 2: AFC South just by winning out the Jacksonville Jaguars. Dude,

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Speaker 2: the number four seed, give it up. If I if

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Speaker 2: I have to hear, if I I have a nickel

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Speaker 2: every time it's Mike Tomlins time to go elon MUSKND

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Speaker 2: my own private jet with twenty four hour access. Look now,

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh's nine and six. I expect them to be Cleveland,

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Speaker 2: With Aaron Rodgers, they can cleanch the AFC North real simple.

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Speaker 2: Beat the Browns Sunday or tie the Browns and it's over.

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Speaker 2: Steelers win the AFC North. No, DK metcalf and I

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Speaker 2: think the Browns will play with Pride and Miles Garrett.

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Speaker 2: You know it's never about the money, No, never about

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Speaker 2: I want to win. Oh, here's two hundred million. Oh,

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to get back. I'll get about eighty

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Speaker 2: plays hard, Okay, give him some credit. People will be

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Speaker 2: will probably be one of those meaningless records because.

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Speaker 4: It they don't win.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but if they knock off the Browns, I'm sure

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Speaker 2: that the Ravens would you know, sentiminie Christmas basket, Steelers

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Speaker 2: or Rivals less they done. The Steelers are in control

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Speaker 2: of the AFC North, which is where you want to be.

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Speaker 2: According to the NERD, eighty two percent chance to win

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Speaker 2: the division.

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Speaker 4: The Buffalo Bills. They are number five seed. The remaining

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Speaker 4: is chederl Again.

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Speaker 2: They host Philadelphia one and a half point favorite Sunday

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Speaker 2: and then home versus the New York Jets. Now, while

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Speaker 2: the the Bill's chances at catching up to New Windland

445
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Speaker 2: to win the division title are very slim, about seventeen

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Speaker 2: percent according to the NERD, the Bills are very much

447
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Speaker 2: in the playoff field because the Colts lost last Monday,

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Speaker 2: so their ticket to the dan chis punched. So they

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Speaker 2: got that going for him. The Houston Texans eleven and

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Speaker 2: five and looking good doing it. Remember they started oh

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Speaker 2: to three and then they were three and five. Kind

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Speaker 2: of like Lamar in the playoffs, and now they're eleven

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Speaker 2: and five, the hottest team maybe in the NFL. They

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Speaker 2: host Indianapolis next week. You would expect they'd win. Houston

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Speaker 2: will clinch the AFC South well, only if the Jaguars

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Speaker 2: lose their last two games, or if the Jaguars finished

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Speaker 2: one to one and the Texans win Week eighteen. The

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Speaker 2: Jexans chance of winning the AFC.

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Speaker 4: South is about thirty nine percent, but.

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Speaker 2: They'll need help from at least one of the jaguars

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Speaker 2: final two opponents, which are the Colts and the Tennessee Titans. Hmm,

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Speaker 2: I don't assarily feel good about that. If you are

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Speaker 2: a Texans router, you're number seven seed currently this Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles Chargers. Their final game is at Denver next Sunday.

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Speaker 2: They're eleven and five. Solid season. The Chargers are in

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Speaker 2: the postseason, but they're locked into a wildcard spot because

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Speaker 2: they allowed they got beat it home Saturday to do

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Speaker 2: a very tough Texans team. Uh, just a nod game.

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Speaker 2: Dick Or the kicker is as money as can be.

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Speaker 2: He missed an extra point, he missed the Chip shottfield goal,

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Speaker 2: and then he given Saturday or Sunday, as they say,

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Speaker 2: but the Chargers are at least in the postseason. Finally,

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Speaker 2: last and least, in my opinion, you're a number nine

474
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Speaker 2: seed currently the Baltimore Ravens, who sit at eight and eight.

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Speaker 2: They have one game left at Pittsburgh. The only thing

476
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Speaker 2: to know now is if it's gonna matter or not

477
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Speaker 2: the hopefully the Ravens playoffs. Folpes aren't done yet, because

478
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Speaker 2: they beat the Packers Saturday thanks to a herculean performance

479
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Speaker 2: by Derrick Henry, the only man in the history of

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Speaker 2: the NFL toy scored four touchdowns in the game for

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Speaker 2: two different teams. I am an encyclopedia of useless information.

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Speaker 2: They'll need the Steelers. The Ravens need the Steelers to

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Speaker 2: lose to the Browns on Sunday to have a shot

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Speaker 2: next week if the Steelers win. If Tomorrow night, at

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Speaker 2: this time, the Steelers are beating the Browns that game

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Speaker 2: against the Steelers, Let's put it this way.

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Speaker 4: The Steelers beat.

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Speaker 2: The Browns on Sunday, the Ravens will play Week eighteen

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Speaker 2: at Pittsburgh, but it won't matter. You already knew this,

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Speaker 2: but these are the teams that are already eliminated the

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Speaker 2: Indianapolis Colts, the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs. The

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Angles, the New York Jets, the Cleveland Browns, and

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Speaker 2: Tennessee Titan said. Oh wait a minute, stop the presses

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Speaker 2: the Raiders. The Raiders are eliminated. I thought somebody said

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Speaker 2: this team is ready to win big now, so what

496
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Speaker 2: they said the first week of the year. Okay, never mind,

497
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,719
Speaker 2: we're just having fun. We're not solving the world's problems.

498
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Speaker 2: We're solving a few NFC. The Lions are eight and eight.

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Speaker 2: They're done.

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Speaker 4: Bums.

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Speaker 2: It generally bums me out. It does if you know

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Speaker 2: my history. The Vikings are also out. Cowboys are out,

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Speaker 2: The Falcons are out. Excuse me, excuse me for just

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Speaker 2: half a second. Anybody got a camel non filter deck

505
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Speaker 2: and borrow. The New Orleans Saints are out. Washington Commandos, goodnight.

506
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinals, and your New York Giants are here in

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas Sunday.

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Speaker 4: And they will not be going to the playoffs either.

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Speaker 2: So there you have it, fine fedal fashion. By the way,

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Speaker 2: for the best pregame show of your weekend, be sure

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Speaker 2: to tune into Fox Sports radios Countdown to Kickoff, presented

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Speaker 2: Coming up, we are We are twenty three minutes away

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Speaker 2: from the midnight hour. You see from where I sit

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Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas, Nevada. In twenty three minutes, the

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Speaker 2: clock will strike midnight. Literally, it will be twelve midnight

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Speaker 2: here and perhaps where you are listening. We have a

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Speaker 2: huge listening bass in California five seventy am, among many others,

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Speaker 2: and anywhere in the Pacific time zone it turns midnight

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Speaker 2: for you as well. Literally, but wherever you are in

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Speaker 2: the world. We've had callers from London, We've had callers

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Speaker 2: from Ireland, Japan, even Detroit. Well, it's literally or or

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Speaker 2: figuredly the midnight hour because you get the last word.

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Speaker 2: And that's what makes this segment so great, because the

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Speaker 2: callers are fantastic and they continue to raise the bar

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Speaker 2: every week, and I'm really looking forward to hearing your

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Speaker 2: thoughts on these three topics that we will be setting up.

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Speaker 2: In just a second, I.

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Speaker 4: Have Bernie Fradam.

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Speaker 2: We are coming you alive for the Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 2: studios here in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 4: Keep it locked.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, back in the Bernie Fradtle Show, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: We are sixteen minutes away from the men at hour

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Speaker 2: from where I sit here in Las Vegas. The clock

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Speaker 2: strikes midnight literally perhaps the same for you, but literally

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Speaker 2: it strikes it. Figuratively, it strikes midnight for all of

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Speaker 2: us because you have the last word. It's just a

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Speaker 2: colloquial way of saying, it's the man that hour. You

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Speaker 2: get the last word. We do this every Saturday at

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Speaker 2: midnight Pacific time. Eight seven seven nine nine six six

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Speaker 2: three sixty nine eight seven seven nine nine in Fox.

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Speaker 2: Callers have been fantastic. Look for more of the same tonight.

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Speaker 2: All right, So let's set this up so if you

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Speaker 2: happen to catch my opening monologue, I took some pretty

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Speaker 2: direct shots at the Baltimore Ravens, believing that it's just

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Speaker 2: simply time for not just Lamar Jackson, but John harbaughtago.

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Speaker 4: I'm tired of the hype and the boloney. I gave

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Speaker 4: you the numbers.

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Speaker 2: He's three and five in the playoffs, fifty five percent

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Speaker 2: completion rate, ted touchdowns, seven interceptions to fumbles. Forget it, man,

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00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 2: it happened at sixty eight point three passer rating. Meanwhile,

560
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Speaker 2: John Harball.

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Speaker 4: Has done many, many, many questionable things.

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Speaker 2: This is the staff.

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Speaker 4: It's not been a good year for him.

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00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 2: Repeated late game collapses, questions about Derrick Henry's usage, lack

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Speaker 2: of accountability of many systemic issues. Look any Reid left

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Speaker 2: Philadelphia and went to Kansas City. It seemed to work

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Speaker 2: out after eighteen seasons, eighteen seasons in the National Football League.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps the Ravens and Harball could benefit from a fresh start.

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Speaker 2: So do you agree with me, am I full of crap?

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Speaker 2: Do you think Harball needs to go but Lamar needs

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Speaker 2: to stay? Do you think Lamar needs to go and

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Speaker 2: Harbor needs to stay. They both need to go, they

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Speaker 2: both need to stay. That's what makes this segment so

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Speaker 2: good because we get variants of opinions and thoughts, and

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Speaker 2: most people bring pretty good batchy sipts. I just don't

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Speaker 2: think you're going to get anything else out of this

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Speaker 2: group that you would have hoped you would have gotten.

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Speaker 4: There're eight n eighty for reason. And look, with all

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Speaker 4: due respect.

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Speaker 2: To Lamar, I defended him to the hilt coming out

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Speaker 2: of Louisville. I love the guy, and he's had a

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Speaker 2: serviceable NFL career. But you gotta win, man, That's what

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Speaker 2: it's all about. A player of his caliber, you would

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Speaker 2: have expected him to win. I can't tell you how

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Speaker 2: many national talkings predicted the Baltimore Ravens win the Super

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Speaker 2: Bowl this year, and they'd all high five each other.

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Speaker 2: They're all happy. He has finally aftered why why? Based

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Speaker 2: on what? Just because just because it's their turn. No,

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Speaker 2: you know, Jackson, by the way, you can't discount as

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Speaker 2: numerous injury issues now, I don't know. You really can't

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Speaker 2: question a man's injury. I don't know how hurt his

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Speaker 2: back was, but I'm really curious if you could really

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Speaker 2: had to play tonight, which I could he have played?

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Speaker 2: I mean, justin Herbert plays with a broken hand. Rogers

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Speaker 2: has brought every week he's playing, even Burrow. They're playing

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Speaker 2: for enough that he's playing, and look, maybe he really

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Speaker 2: couldn't play. I don't know. It just feels odd, just

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Speaker 2: an opinion. Pulled this a couple of years ago. Seemed

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Speaker 2: to have a mysterious injury, you know, when he was,

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Speaker 2: you know, pining for that new contract which you got.

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Speaker 2: So listen, listen, you hear my point? Is it time

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Speaker 2: for Lamar Jackson and or John Harbor to go? Yes?

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Speaker 2: Know why bring your receipts number two? Okay, it's official

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Speaker 2: now the soonest USC can play Notre Dame again is

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Speaker 2: twenty thirty. Now, this is a rivalry that goes back

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Speaker 2: to nineteen twenty six. They've played ninety three games.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it.

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Speaker 2: USC's only won twice in the last ten games. That

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Speaker 2: suggests because the nature of the rivalry has become lopsided,

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Speaker 2: that it was a factor in halting it. As a

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Speaker 2: matter of fact, Mini Cynics more than one has said

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Speaker 2: quote now I'm quoting them, not me, that USC has

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Speaker 2: canceled this game becau don't think they can win.

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Speaker 4: Meanwhile, Collins worried.

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Speaker 2: About the game being played in the Blizzard Come on, yeah,

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Speaker 2: show me which games have been played in the blizzard, Colin,

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Speaker 2: I've covered I've been around this game.

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Speaker 4: I've bet longer than you.

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Speaker 2: They play usually in October and the weather's pretty nice

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Speaker 2: and Matt By the way, while I lived in Michigan

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Speaker 2: from ninety three to twenty ten, I went to seven

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Speaker 2: Notre Dame games at Notre Dame, Okay, October ninety three

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Speaker 2: Lee Beckton, the Lee Beckton game, and Notre Dame smoked

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Speaker 2: the USC. Then ninety four Remy Hamilton Michigan made the last.

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Speaker 4: Second field goal. Saw a bunch of them.

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Speaker 2: It was always temperate weather, always always now USC defenders

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Speaker 2: and we may have them call in the night at

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Speaker 2: eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine

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Speaker 2: eight seven seven to nine nine Fox they.

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Speaker 4: Say, hey, wy, don't you go kick rocks.

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Speaker 2: USC's got to play Penn State next year, Ohio State, Oregon,

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Speaker 2: Washington at Indiana, now Wisconsin, and then of course you're

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Speaker 2: crosstown around with UCLA. You ain't got time for Notre

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Speaker 2: Dame anymore. Well, that's not flying with me. USC has

635
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Speaker 2: played tough schedules in the past and they still managed

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Speaker 2: to play Notre Dame. And I know Notre Dame schedule

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Speaker 2: is not tough next year, at least on paper. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to dog them. Anything's easy if you

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Speaker 2: don't have to do it. But think about it, a USC. No, No,

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Speaker 2: we're playing Penn State, Ohio State, Oregon, Washington, Indiana, Wisconsin

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Speaker 2: in UCLA. We ain't got time for Notre Dame right

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Speaker 2: now in this new playoff format. Okay, it's more important

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Speaker 2: for us to get to the playoffs, and as we

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Speaker 2: have observed, the selection committee tends to punish teams that

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Speaker 2: lose for losses that come in November rather than say September,

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Speaker 2: although that part's debatable. If you tell me Notre Dame

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Speaker 2: wasn't punished for their early season losses. Again, it's all rhetoric.

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Speaker 2: If they wanted to play the game, they would, You'd

649
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 2: figure it out. I know. There seems to be some

650
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 2: sort of impasse where SC was like, well, we'll play

651
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 2: earlier in the year. Don't even know we want to

652
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 2: play it late in the year. Now, I'm asking you

653
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 2: whose side are you on? Did USC screw this up?

654
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 2: Did Notre Name screw this up? Is USC duck in

655
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 2: Notre Dame? Does this make sense based on the schedule?

656
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 2: I told you, no, one's gonna care if USC makes

657
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 2: the playoff, which they're not gonna do.

658
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 4: I think this is a shame.

659
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 2: Just just take a second to sample the responses for

660
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 2: multiple prominent USC alums over the years.

661
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 4: You think they like this? Are you serious? So you

662
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 4: take Notre Dame off this schedule?

663
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Speaker 2: I guess you can now add another FCS full or

664
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Speaker 2: a group of five opponents to get that extra win

665
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 2: on their conference schedule.

666
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:08,320
Speaker 4: But that's only going to take USC so far. Okay.

667
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 2: Officials from both schools have said they put a good

668
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 2: face on it if you believe it. They say the

669
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 2: series will tentatively restart in twenty thirty. But what if

670
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 2: USC hasn't improved and haven't gone to the playoffs the

671
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 2: next four years, which is entirely possible. Man's pig ten

672
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 2: for real? So topic number one is it time for

673
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 2: lamar and or John harbaughtago or neither one and an

674
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 2: full of crap USC? Notre Dame?

675
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,320
Speaker 4: Who sat are you on USC's or Notre Dames?

676
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 2: Cynics will argue that USC canceled this because they don't

677
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 2: want to play a game they can't win. They've only

678
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 2: won two to the last ten. I don't know if

679
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 2: that's true. You can make a case that's true. Sc

680
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,240
Speaker 2: backers will say, no, man, we got Penn State, Ohio State, Oregon,

681
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 2: Washington at Indiana, Wisconsin, Ucla at Wisconsin. By the way,

682
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 2: we ain't got time for you. We're worried about other things.

683
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 2: But it's a shame because this is really a storied rivalry.

684
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 2: There's a pomp and circumstance of this game that's almost

685
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Speaker 2: indescribable in so many historic headlines that have come out

686
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 2: of it. And listen, this is still show business. This

687
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 2: is for the fans. I just get the feeling if

688
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley wanted to play bad enough, they'd have found

689
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 2: a way. Screw it, We'll play in October.

690
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Speaker 4: Whatever. So that's number two.

691
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Speaker 2: And number one, of course, is what I said about

692
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Speaker 2: the Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 4: Number three.

694
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Speaker 2: I want to squeeze this one in here. Play stupid games,

695
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 2: win stupid prizes. I'm calling it the half a million

696
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 2: dollar punch see around the world. For whatever reason, I

697
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 2: don't know what the justification would have been. DK Metcalf

698
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 2: strolls over punches a fan in Detroit. The scene the

699
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 2: scene of the Mouse at the Palace where I was.

700
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 2: What were you thinking when you saw that punch? I

701
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 2: just want to know what were you thinking? I'll tease it.

702
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna get a game suspension? What the

703
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 2: hell was he thinking? No, we got too, and you

704
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 2: can take your your appeal and put it where the

705
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 2: sun don't shine. You can't go punching fans. I have

706
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 2: no idea what the guy said. I don't think there

707
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 2: could be any justification for that. If you said the

708
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 2: wrong thing, ban the fan for life. Those are our

709
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Speaker 2: three topics. Eight seven, seven, nine nine six six three

710
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,720
Speaker 2: six nine, eight seven, seven nine to nine one. Fox

711
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Speaker 2: is the Bernie Fraddle Show, the man that hour.

712
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: Don't listen no Fox Sports Radio.

713
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,280
Speaker 2: That's right, you heard the man. Bernie Frale Show keeps

714
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 2: rolling right along. My name is Bernie Fraddle. We're coming you,

715
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 2: Lyne from Las Vegas. Fox Sports Radio Studios. Just getting started.

716
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 2: We'll take you up to three am Pacific, six am Eastern,

717
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 2: and the phone lines are jamming up. We've got the

718
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 2: situation in Baltimore is it's just simply time to move

719
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 2: on from lamar and or John Harbaugh or am I

720
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 2: full of crap?

721
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Speaker 4: Number two? You see notre Dame.

722
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 2: Cynics will argue that USC's ducking him because they can't

723
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:07,919
Speaker 2: beat him us. He says, no, man, we got Penn State,

724
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 2: Ohio State, Oregon, Washington at Indiana, Washington, at UCLA, Wisconsin

725
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:13,839
Speaker 2: at u C l A, ain't got time?

726
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 4: Who sat?

727
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 2: Are you on?

728
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 4: Number three? DK?

729
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,800
Speaker 2: Metcalf play stupid games, win stupid prizes. The five hundred

730
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 2: and fifty five thousand dollars punch scene around the world.

731
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Speaker 2: It's time for the midnight hour. All right, We're gonna

732
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 2: get to all of you. I appreciate your patience. You

733
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 2: took the time to call in. We start with Andrew

734
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 2: and Bakersfield Andrews. Start us off tonight in find fettle.

735
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 2: What's up?

736
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 9: What'd you say at the end?

737
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 2: Go ahead and start us off tonight, buddy.

738
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 4: All right.

739
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 9: Well, came into the garage, thought this Christmas maybe not

740
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 9: Bernie might not be on.

741
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 10: Turn it on?

742
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 9: Heard it with you. I gave you the Bernie, and

743
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:51,280
Speaker 9: then I gave.

744
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 2: You it is baby, there it is.

745
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 3: Give you all right.

746
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Speaker 9: I don't know much about the second topic. That's the

747
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 9: only one I'm going to talk about. But to me,

748
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 9: college football, especially at college sports, should teach men and women, loyalty, courage,

749
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 9: how to keep fighting, how to believe that you can.

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00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 11: Win, And for some reason.

751
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 9: I feel like they're going in the opposite direction of that,

752
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 9: having these players just oh yeah, you know, I go

753
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 9: to Stanford right now.

754
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 12: But peace out.

755
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 9: This guy's going to pay me more.

756
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 13: You know.

757
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 9: That's all I have tonight.

758
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 2: All right, Andrew Lawyers, appreciate you checking in, buddy, and

759
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 2: yet you can count on me on Saturday night. Thanks

760
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 2: for calling in, super John and Oregon. Is this your

761
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:40,479
Speaker 2: first time calling the Bernie Frattle Show.

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00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 14: Yeah, it is, thank you.

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00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 2: Welcome in.

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Speaker 4: How are you, John?

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Speaker 14: I'm well, hey, you get your rain boots on out.

766
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Speaker 14: There's what's that happened?

767
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, we get right in here in Las Vegas. Occasionally

768
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 2: we certainly have, but nothing to get too excited about.

769
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Speaker 14: Yeah, hey, I heard that FC is being held over

770
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 14: the cols UH to surrender their merchandise right to the

771
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 14: Big ten and there's gonna be a billion dollar lawsuits

772
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 14: and the think Notre Dame. They I don't feel bad

773
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 14: for him, really, I mean, traditions come and go. Really,

774
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Speaker 14: I mean, we don't have a civil war here anymore

775
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 14: in Oregon, Oregon State.

776
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 2: And yeah, that's true.

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00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 14: State go ahead, they could and it's it's about it's

778
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 14: about this giant law suits that's coming down over the

779
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Speaker 14: merchandise thing.

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00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 2: They You know what's interesting, I had not heard that

781
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 2: there was a correlation between that and the fact that

782
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 2: usc wouldn't play Notre Dame. I think clearly USC is

783
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Speaker 2: the team decides that doesn't want to play. If I've

784
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 2: given you my rationale, if you were to pick a side,

785
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 2: would it be us here Notre Dame?

786
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 5: Uh?

787
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Speaker 14: The West Coast guy.

788
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Speaker 12: See, although I.

789
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Speaker 2: Oh, there you go. You're you can full on the

790
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 2: Catholic two. We're all he's got that Catholic gill. All right,

791
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 2: let's go back to number one. Do you have any

792
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 2: thoughts on Lamar Jackson and John Harbaugh in Baltimore?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, they picked together and just come back around and

794
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 14: do it again.

795
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Speaker 2: Do you you'd bring him back if you were the owner?

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Speaker 14: Oh, if Dallas can live with Dak through all that,

797
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 14: I'm sure that Baltimore can live with with Lamark for

798
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,840
Speaker 14: another year or two for sure, for sure.

799
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Speaker 2: And the well DK metcalf when you saw the punch,

800
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 2: the dumb ass punch seen around the world that you know,

801
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 2: five hundred and fifty five thousands doll have cost him

802
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 2: and oh, by the way, hurting his team. And should

803
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Speaker 2: Cleveland beat Pittsburgh, they're not gonna have DK metcalf week

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00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 2: A team against Baltimore.

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Speaker 4: Other than that, how was it play? Missus Lincoln?

806
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 2: Go ahead?

807
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,359
Speaker 14: I really think they should do a case study on

808
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 14: DIVA wide receivers. I don't know what makes them snap

809
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 14: the way they do or act the way they do.

810
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 14: It just it's it's it's beyond me. And I hope he,

811
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Speaker 14: I hope he he stays productive, and I hope you know,

812
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:04,240
Speaker 14: the punch really didn't connect.

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Speaker 2: That's not the point. That's not the point.

814
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 14: If we can move on, and I just I don't know.

815
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 2: Well, we're moving on, all right. He's moving on about

816
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Speaker 2: half a million lighter.

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Speaker 12: That's I am super John.

818
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Speaker 4: I like the name, I like the vibe.

819
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Speaker 2: Please don't be a stranger.

820
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Speaker 4: We do this every.

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Speaker 2: Saturday night, pal midnight Pacific time. Jim in Massachusetts fitting

822
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Speaker 2: Lee in the number three hole the night.

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Speaker 3: What do you got for us, Jim Bernie. They're gonna

824
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 3: move Lamar. I think ownership will move Lamar because he

825
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 3: is mockable, seeing how he has two years left on

826
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Speaker 3: his contract.

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Speaker 2: Keep keep your dis in mind, no pal, and I

828
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 2: think they should. Okay, but seventy four million dollar cap

829
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Speaker 2: hit unless they move him. And also he has no

830
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 2: trade claws, so I agree with you they should. The

831
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Speaker 2: question is will they be able to pull that off?

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Speaker 3: I think I think they will. It's been done before

833
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 3: and I think Highba is a good coach, so he

834
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,839
Speaker 3: should just stay there. And the only reason in New

835
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 3: England beat him is because the defense was out there

836
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 3: all day. They beat on, they beat on New England

837
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Speaker 3: and they.

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Speaker 10: Got tired in the fourth quarter and that's what happened.

839
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Speaker 10: And to prove my point, you got seven starters out

840
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 10: for New England coming into this week career and percussion,

841
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 10: uh you know, concussion protocol. And one of them is

842
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 10: your top running back, who I think is a great player.

843
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 10: He need a player, and I don't think he'll stay

844
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 10: in New England once his contracts up, he'll move on.

845
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 10: But that's the story with them. Uh, the UFC and

846
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 10: Notre Dame. You know what, just play. Just play doesn't

847
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 10: think I don't want to play there and we want

848
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 10: to pick and chew that schedule. If you're that good play.

849
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 10: I mean, because you've got to get You've got to

850
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,320
Speaker 10: get money for the TV, right and all this other stuff,

851
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:55,720
Speaker 10: and I mean, you know, don't whine, just play.

852
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:58,720
Speaker 3: You know, it just doesn't have a good look.

853
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 2: You know, does not have a I agree, And you

854
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 2: what do you.

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Speaker 3: Expect when you What do you expect with somebody that's

856
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:10,399
Speaker 3: got the IQ of a house plan? I mean, why

857
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 3: would you even think of doing that? You know?

858
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 2: I mean he lost his temper and I don't know,

859
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 2: you know, it's more of an impulse control than an

860
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 2: intelligence thing. I don't know anything about the k metcalf.

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00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 2: I know a lot about it.

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00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:25,399
Speaker 3: No, no, no, there's no need for that.

863
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Speaker 5: Not.

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Speaker 2: Well, what I'm gonna keep hold on, Jim, stand stand

865
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Speaker 2: a line because we've got a good, long history. I'm

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Speaker 2: not going to speak out of school if I really

867
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 2: don't know. I'm not trying to be politically correct. People

868
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 2: see right through that. Okay, that's that's crap. But the

869
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:41,359
Speaker 2: bottom line is I really know anything about the guy.

870
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 2: But I saw that, and that was like, Okay, I'm

871
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:49,439
Speaker 2: merely asking for people's need jerk reactions. Mine was you remember, Jim,

872
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 2: I was in Detroit for the Mounts the Palace. I'm

873
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 2: telling you one of these is going to happen again.

874
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 2: Continue on, I mean to steal your time.

875
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 3: Go ahead, No, no, they have no spots, Fernie, you're

876
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:04,239
Speaker 3: making zillion dollars. You're like what one percent of the

877
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 3: athletes that all try to play in college, it doesn't

878
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:11,359
Speaker 3: matter the sport in college or whatever, and semi pro

879
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 3: to try to get to that level, and then you

880
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 3: go and do something like that, you know. And that's

881
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 3: besides where security. I mean, they got security on the

882
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 3: field and all those teams, you know, all you see

883
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 3: them all, they're all watching the stand, you know, and

884
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 3: stuff like that. Why wasn't that nipped in the bug

885
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 3: before it even started? Because for him to go over

886
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 3: and do that, it wasn't an isolated be like a

887
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 3: five second incident. That had to be going on for

888
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 3: quite a while, right, So, I mean, in a little

889
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 3: bit fault on everybody there, you know, especially the drunk

890
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 3: that was was harassingal you know.

891
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:42,839
Speaker 4: That's right.

892
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 2: I don't know what the fans said, and maybe the

893
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 2: fans should be kicked out, maybe the fans should be

894
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 2: banned for life, But I have yet to see a situation, Uh,

895
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 2: were a professional athlete, and any certainly any of the four

896
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 2: majors to stroll over the stands and punch a guy

897
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 2: and the defense that will connect. Come on, man, okay,

898
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 2: I just you know, don't piss on my shoes and

899
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 2: tell me it's rain and that was a bad look

900
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 2: all the way around. Did we hit on the s

901
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 2: se Notre Dame yet, Jim or just did you?

902
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 3: What?

903
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 15: Uh?

904
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 4: Your thoughts on USC Notre Dame should have.

905
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 3: Continue us Notre Dame. They should, they should play.

906
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 15: But why are you talking teams?

907
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 3: You're that good? You know you want the premier at

908
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 3: Both of them are premier programs in the country. I

909
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:28,879
Speaker 3: always have been.

910
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 16: Play the game, you know, people like to see.

911
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 3: That, you know, but play the game where you're worried

912
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 3: about having a lot so you're not looking good.

913
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 15: Or something like that.

914
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 3: You know, if it's down to that, you shouldn't even

915
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 3: have a program.

916
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 2: And I think it is down to that. I hate

917
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 2: to say it, I really do, Jim, anything.

918
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 3: Else, pal Uh, just go get him burning love your show,

919
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 3: all right, Thanks to you.

920
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:53,479
Speaker 2: I appreciate you. This next gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, please

921
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:57,440
Speaker 2: stay seated for the entire show Yep, he's got balls.

922
00:49:58,080 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 2: I don't want to see him, but he's got him

923
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 2: the legend that we know as Manuel and Guardina. Manuel,

924
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 2: welcome back in Buddy.

925
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 17: Getty up jingle or spick up your feet because I

926
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:16,800
Speaker 17: just won't to celebrate with my man, Bernie Fraddle.

927
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 13: First off, God bless you, Bernie. I hope you had

928
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 13: a merry Mary Christmas, and I hope you have a happy,

929
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 13: happy New Year.

930
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 8: My man.

931
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 13: I really appreciate.

932
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 2: So we got three provocative topics here. I think callers

933
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 2: have been good.

934
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,719
Speaker 13: Three of the best, three of the best you've ever

935
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 13: put on the table. If I may interrupt, Bernie, these

936
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 13: are very very.

937
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 5: Excellent.

938
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 13: First one, I think me personally, I would throw Lamar

939
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,879
Speaker 13: like ten mil get rid of the note trade and

940
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 13: trade him because he's gonna fetch you the most. Okay,

941
00:50:55,760 --> 00:51:00,120
Speaker 13: while Harbaugh does have questionable tactics, especially with his his

942
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 13: clock management and his run game, I still would keep him.

943
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 13: You know, I'm not gonna do a total blow it

944
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:13,959
Speaker 13: all up. I'll keep him around, let him get his quarterback,

945
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,720
Speaker 13: and give him another two years. Put it at twenty,

946
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 13: you know, and if he's great, you know, you extend

947
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 13: him and he becomes a chuck nole or you know,

948
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 13: one of those types. But that's how I would go

949
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 13: about that topic. Number two, USC and Notre Dame, Right,

950
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 13: that's number two. Yeah, Okay, I grew up an that

951
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 13: s C fan, but once my sisters graduated from UCLA

952
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:46,719
Speaker 13: with masters, I kind of backed the way. However, I'm

953
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 13: pretty deep in Trojan knowledge, all right, and this is

954
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 13: pathetic man, you know, But I'm gonna give you a

955
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 13: little too, if you give me a second. In my opinion,

956
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 13: they're ducking Notre Dame. This is a monumental rivalry of sports,

957
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 13: not only just college football, but East West, you know, Midwest,

958
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 13: whatever you want to call it, just big, big time,

959
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 13: big time, right, rivalry. And I think sc IS is

960
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 13: just shooting themselves in the foot. However, my dad came

961
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 13: up with a very good counter, and that's that a

962
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 13: Notre Dame. Man, they've been acting holier than now forever.

963
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 13: They got the Pope behind him, they got the Catholic Church,

964
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 13: they got NBC, and he brought up a good point like, hey, man,

965
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 13: you're independent, why don't you join somebody you know you

966
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 13: can pick and choose who you want to play. So

967
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,799
Speaker 13: that's a little bit of where I see. But in

968
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 13: the end, I think they're both stupid for allowing it

969
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 13: to get to this way, because this is something that

970
00:52:57,120 --> 00:53:01,280
Speaker 13: sports needs, especially collegiate sports. Because one of the last

971
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 13: callers called it, Man, it's becoming a farce with these

972
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 13: seven year majors and these guys at three different schools.

973
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 13: I mean, I'm sick of it. Man, It's disgusting to me.

974
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 13: But you know, follow the money, right, Bernie, and was

975
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 13: what was number three?

976
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 2: Well, you saw DK Metcalf throw the punch, I'm assuming,

977
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, all right, you're a what was your.

978
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 13: Pitty tea?

979
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 5: Stupid tea?

980
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:31,399
Speaker 13: The malice in the palace? Like you said you were there,

981
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 13: you could have got much worse, and especially in a

982
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:35,360
Speaker 13: football stadium.

983
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 18: Are you kidding me?

984
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 13: It could have really really been bad. There's no way.

985
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 13: Once you're a professional athlete, I've said this time and again,

986
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 13: you lose your license to fight back like that. Okay,

987
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 13: I mean you got to take the heckeling. You got

988
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 13: to take all of it. Man, Hey, ask Jackie Robinson

989
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:56,560
Speaker 13: what you got thrown at?

990
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

991
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:02,720
Speaker 13: The racial and all disrespectful remarks that he got thrown

992
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:05,439
Speaker 13: at and he never lost. He's cool, you know, and

993
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:06,800
Speaker 13: that's why they get paid.

994
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:10,320
Speaker 19: That's why they are blessed by God with that athleticism.

995
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 19: But sometimes unfortunately they're not the sharpest tools in the ship. Bernie,

996
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 19: I love you, my man, and uh you know I'll

997
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 19: be missing.

998
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 2: Appreciate it man well always. Uh Mike in Houston, you

999
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 2: are up next.

1000
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 4: Welcome to Bernie for out of show.

1001
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:29,320
Speaker 15: Good morning, Bernie's let's let's jump right in here, Lamar

1002
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 15: and there. Uh Now, I don't believe they are this

1003
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 15: particular years and ugly for them because there's the previous

1004
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 15: color pointed out. Their defense is atrocious. He just can't

1005
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 15: lump it just right there with him in Horrbord. This

1006
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:49,880
Speaker 15: is just gouldn't be an off. You know, this is

1007
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 15: off Steven this season in my opinion. Uh, he's when

1008
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 15: he's said healthy, he's perennial. Uh you know their perial

1009
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:03,799
Speaker 15: playoffs team. And although you're right, the I test for

1010
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 15: what does he do when he gets the playoffs, he

1011
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 15: hasn't done that.

1012
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 4: Not just the eye test. I gave a lot of stats.

1013
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:13,399
Speaker 2: I brought a lot of receipts. Numbers are better, but.

1014
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:15,879
Speaker 15: How many sanchized quarterbacks are out there. You know, they're

1015
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 15: they're they're hard to five.

1016
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 2: You know. Here's the deal though, for what he's being

1017
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 2: paid and the number of games he's missed and the

1018
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:27,360
Speaker 2: repeated failures in the playoffs, and then this year he

1019
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:29,360
Speaker 2: missed games and they're not even to make the playoffs.

1020
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 2: I don't think unless Cleveland wins Sunday and Pittsburgh loses

1021
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 2: again at home against Baltimore week eighteen, and I don't

1022
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:39,839
Speaker 2: want her. I think Harball's done too. I just think

1023
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:42,280
Speaker 2: they've effectively, you know, reached him the rope. But anyway,

1024
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 2: continue on.

1025
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:47,439
Speaker 15: All I know is some way, somehow Baltimore thinks Sam,

1026
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:49,399
Speaker 15: I don't want my Texans to play him.

1027
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 2: You know, Well, as long as Cleveland upsets Pittsburgh, and

1028
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 2: if you're scoring at home, and hope you are, Pittsburgh's

1029
00:55:55,960 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 2: actually lost their last three games in Cleveland, so it's

1030
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 2: not all the real possibility. We'll see what you door

1031
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 2: Sanders can do. So there you have it. Okay, let's

1032
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:10,799
Speaker 2: talk about the USC versus Notre Dame. Who sold that line?

1033
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:15,359
Speaker 15: Well, uh, the previous one of your previous college sold

1034
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 15: much under a little bit. Bernie the only thing cost

1035
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:24,400
Speaker 15: for their life has changed these rivalries, you know, especially

1036
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 15: now with the poor and all that, they're going to

1037
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 15: come and go at a faster pace. Hey, way back

1038
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:32,799
Speaker 15: in the day Southwest Conference, nobody cried when that all

1039
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 15: broke up, and they had great rivalries here in the

1040
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 15: state of Texas. Uh, Texas, Texas A and m has.

1041
00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 2: Doubt been I remember that. That was awesome. Yeah, the

1042
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:47,240
Speaker 2: old Southwest Conference. Man was at Arkansas, fred Acres at Texas.

1043
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:48,320
Speaker 2: I mean it was a classic.

1044
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,439
Speaker 15: Yeah, and a lot of us, including myself the caid'd

1045
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,800
Speaker 15: I cried when when all that went down, But it happened,

1046
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,799
Speaker 15: but yet we survived. The sun came up the next day.

1047
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:01,960
Speaker 2: Ernie pragmatic approach enough. I can't argue with that.

1048
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 15: So, mister metcalf, Uh, there's the old axiom where the

1049
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:10,240
Speaker 15: customer is always righting and in fans are pro sports,

1050
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 15: they are the customers. But look, that customer is always right.

1051
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 15: That that thing is long and dead. We don't know

1052
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 15: exactly what happened.

1053
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 20: I can't.

1054
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 2: Fans got a lot to be you know, He's shorts

1055
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 2: aren't clean either, there's no question.

1056
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 15: Oh no, no, no, oh no no no, I'm with

1057
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 15: you because these uh, you know, some of these fans think, hey,

1058
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 15: I paid my money, do but say what I want.

1059
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 20: And that's just it's just not true.

1060
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 15: However, that Metcalf has to have a poor head.

1061
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 11: He's just got to walk away.

1062
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 15: Maybe we'll never know exactly what that was back and

1063
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 15: forth was or exactly.

1064
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 2: You know how I had to stroll over about fifty

1065
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:53,800
Speaker 2: feet or one hundred feet to get to the you

1066
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:55,440
Speaker 2: know the thing you have to walk with you.

1067
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, so, but you're to your points taken, Mike. I

1068
00:57:59,040 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 4: appreciate it.

1069
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 2: Thanks for you back in that good stuff. Please don't

1070
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 2: be a stranger eight seven, seven nine nine six six

1071
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 2: three six nine eight seven ninety nine on Fox, let's

1072
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:13,400
Speaker 2: hear from you. We have these three topics. Is it

1073
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 2: time for Lamar Jackson and or John Harbaugh tog usc

1074
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:19,840
Speaker 2: Notre Dame is no longer Who do you blame?

1075
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:21,040
Speaker 4: And I'm gonna have some more on that.

1076
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 2: I think some people have brought some valid points up

1077
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 2: that the only thing constant has changed and there are

1078
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 2: other rivalries that no longer exist, other conferences no longer exist.

1079
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 2: But this is the greatest intersection intersectional rivalry in college

1080
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 2: football history.

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Speaker 4: I'll get to more of that later.

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Speaker 2: All right, listen, everybody, We've got Martin and Orange, Romance

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Speaker 2: in Kansas City, Bill in Chicago, Jeff in Denver.

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Speaker 4: Be patient, We'll get to all of you.

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Speaker 2: I'm Bernie Frattle, come to your life the Las Vegas

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Speaker 6: Foods Go Yeah. As everybody knows, we're the hosts of

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Speaker 7: here's how Dan Fatrick described us when he came.

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Speaker 3: Quick, knowledgeable and funny, opinionated.

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Speaker 1: What what are you doing? Were interrupting our promo? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you wasn't talking about you. You took those clips totally

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Speaker 1: of context.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, Well, after this promo, I'm gonna take you

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Speaker 7: out and beat you.

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Speaker 6: Let me put this into context.

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Speaker 1: Shut up.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, anyway, just listen to the Paully and Tony foodsco

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Speaker 2: Ye Hi, We're back at the Bernie Fratis Show, Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio. The midnight hour continues. We waste no time.

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Speaker 2: We go back out to the phone lines. We are

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Speaker 2: joined by Martin in Orange. Martin, welcome back here.

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Speaker 5: How are you happy New year?

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Speaker 8: Bernie, Dan, Good morning. The thing with the Ravens Man

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Speaker 8: and a lot of teams.

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Speaker 21: Are going through this, and I think Lamar Jackson is

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Speaker 21: one of the premier offensive players in this league, and

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Speaker 21: I think Harball is one of the most the premier

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Speaker 21: defensive coaches in the league. And I think that's where

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Speaker 21: we're getting that water and oil mix. And I'm on

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Speaker 21: the side of the Jimmy's and Joe's and not the

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Speaker 21: exs and o's. So I think if they're gonna move anybody,

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Speaker 21: they should move Harball. Get an offensive minded coach there

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Speaker 21: and try to go against what Baltimore has been doing,

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Speaker 21: which is defense first, offense second, and try to win

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Speaker 21: a championship that way.

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Speaker 8: S He Notre Dame. This is the one game, Bernie

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Speaker 8: that it doesn't.

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Speaker 21: Matter what the records are, doesn't matter who the players.

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Speaker 8: Are, You don't need to know them.

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Speaker 21: There's two rivalries in the country that everyone goes to watch.

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Speaker 8: That's Army Navy and USC Notre Dames. And this has

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Speaker 8: everything to do with with this has everything to do

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Speaker 8: with USC being cowardly and running away. This was never

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Speaker 8: a topic until Riley moved into that head coaching position

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Speaker 8: where he looked at that thing and was like, man,

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Speaker 8: we got to get rid of Notre Dame. We can't

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Speaker 8: win a championship. Well, let me tell you something, coach.

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Speaker 8: If you would have beaten Notre Dame this year and

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Speaker 8: you would have been in the playoffs, Notre Dame beats

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Speaker 8: you and they were kept out of the playoffs. So

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Speaker 8: who needs this game more? I think you guys need

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Speaker 8: this game. It was a big mistake to take him

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Speaker 8: off the steadwell less topic.

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Speaker 4: What was that last Yes, yeah, Martin, it was a

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Speaker 4: DK metcalf.

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Speaker 8: That one just yeah, that one blew my mind because

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Speaker 8: I don't know what said, but I know there's nothing

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Speaker 8: that is said.

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Speaker 2: To handle it like that.

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Speaker 15: You have security there.

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Speaker 8: You could point out a fan, you can have them

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Speaker 8: escorted out of the games. You have all the power

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Speaker 8: in that situation. My gut reaction when I seen that,

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Speaker 8: because I actually seen it live for in that game,

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Speaker 8: I believe Mike. My gut reaction was, I went back

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Speaker 8: to Patrick Swavey and Roadhouse and what do you say.

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Speaker 8: You don't fight in your place of business, You take

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Speaker 8: it outside.

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Speaker 22: And they said, well, what if he calls my mother

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Speaker 22: or you know what?

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Speaker 8: And Patrick Swazey looked at him and said, well is

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Speaker 8: your mother you know what? And it's that simple, Bernie,

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Speaker 8: I love you. Have a good night.

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Speaker 2: Martin always always brings it man Romanelli in Kansas City,

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Speaker 2: I believe the first time caller, Yes, sir, welcome to

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Speaker 2: the show.

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Speaker 4: How are you good?

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Speaker 5: How are you good?

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Speaker 4: What do you got for us tonight?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 22: Number one. I think the main problem is uh Harba.

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Speaker 22: I think he's just been kind of slow, honestly, and

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Speaker 22: I think they might need a faster paced coach.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, you may be right. Romanelli and Martin

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Speaker 2: brought up a good point about Harball's a defensive coach. Well,

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Speaker 2: they're allowing three hundred and sixty yards a game this

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Speaker 2: year that ranks twenty seventh, So I do think Harball

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Speaker 2: is a very big part of this issue.

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Speaker 22: Continue on, I think Lamar just needs some help in

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Speaker 22: his receiver room too. Obviously, Jay Flowers is good, but

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Speaker 22: he's inconsistent, So you'd.

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Speaker 4: Stick with Lamar and Cyanira to the horball.

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Speaker 2: Is that fair?

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Speaker 20: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's move on to USC Notre Dame. Who's sad?

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Speaker 2: Are you on? Romanelli?

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Speaker 22: Honestly, I'm just disappointed with both of them. I mean,

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Speaker 22: I think USC's running away from it, and I don't

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Speaker 22: think it's gonna help Notre Dame get in the playoffs

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Speaker 22: at all. I'm an Army Navy fan, so to see

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Speaker 22: another staple rivalry kind of go away is just disappointing

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Speaker 22: to me.

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Speaker 4: I think it's disappointed in the country. I really believe that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, other than World War Two in COVID, they've

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Speaker 2: played every year since nineteen twenty six. So finally you

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Speaker 2: saw I'm sure you saw DK metcalf and the punch

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Speaker 2: scene around the world, the half a million dollar punch.

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Speaker 4: Did you have a knee jerk reaction to that?

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Speaker 22: I just think it's unsportsman like in being a poor

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Speaker 22: fan as well. I mean that fan, oh, yeah, shouldn't

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Speaker 22: have done any of that, and then he should have

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Speaker 22: definitely been cooler headed and just walked away.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a good, good call. Appreciate you. Don't be a stranger.

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Speaker 2: I'm not giving the fan a hall pass in any way.

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Speaker 2: You know, we're losing some of our sensibilities in society now.

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Speaker 2: It's been twenty one years since Mouse at the Palace

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Speaker 2: November nineteen, two thousand and four. I was there. We

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Speaker 2: had a radio remote. I'll never I'll tell the story

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Speaker 2: again some time. I've told him many times. Many things

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Speaker 2: people will know. But what the main thing is people

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Speaker 2: don't know is it came out of nowhere. It was

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Speaker 2: spontaneous combustion. Bill in Chicago, Welcome to the Bernie Frattle Show.

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Speaker 12: Hi, Bernie, how are you? First time?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Good, Welcome in Bill.

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Speaker 12: The Yeah, just I have strong comments on the first two.

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Speaker 12: The third one I really don't have a great.

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Speaker 2: I won't.

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Speaker 12: I won't bother with it. But the the first one

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Speaker 12: is in regards to Harbaugh and the Lamar is you

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Speaker 12: got to put this in context, is you know this

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Speaker 12: is not happened. This has happened before. You've had a

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Speaker 12: great player like Lamar, a great quarterback who you know

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Speaker 12: who who's a great in the regular season. But he's

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Speaker 12: just isn't the same guy in the playoffs. We've seen

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Speaker 12: it before, Payton management, who's struggles for years. Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 12: really never has been. It's not the same guy through.

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Speaker 12: You look at the history. You know, he won a

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Speaker 12: super Bowl. You know, in the playoffs, he wasn't as good.

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Speaker 12: He went from great to above average.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's fair. Just ever so quickly, Bill, believe it

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Speaker 2: or not, Aaron Rodgers won a super Bowl his fourth

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Speaker 2: year in the league. He's not the first two years.

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Speaker 2: You go ahead, he.

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Speaker 12: Did, he did, you know, so there's no doubt that

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Speaker 12: there's there ahead of him because Manning broke through. But

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Speaker 12: Manning was basically six years without a playoff victory his first.

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Speaker 2: Eight years of the LEA.

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Speaker 12: So it's the kind of thing you can't put that

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Speaker 12: on horriball. This is just something that you know what,

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Speaker 12: he's just not the same guy in the big spots,

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Speaker 12: you know, And that's really more on the player. The

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Speaker 12: coach can only put him in the position to do it.

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Speaker 12: You know, don't forget our ball won a super Bowl

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01:06:31,480 --> 01:06:35,520
Speaker 12: with at best and above average quarterback in Flackhaw. You

1245
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Speaker 12: know how many other coaches can you say have done that?

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Speaker 12: And then have had the success you had so.

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Speaker 2: Well that you know your stuff, and I compliment you,

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Speaker 2: Brian Billick also did with Trent Dilferd. But but here

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Speaker 2: you don't want you don't want to. Yeah, yes, you

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Speaker 2: can't go.

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Speaker 12: Yeah no, I really like you said. But like Billick's

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Speaker 12: just different. And I'll tell you why. He had an

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Speaker 12: historic defense where he just had a game manager quarterback,

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Speaker 12: whereas you know, Harball had to win a Super Bowl

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Speaker 12: with an above average quarterback in flackout and he had

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Speaker 12: to get through with it. It was a good defense,

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Speaker 12: but that was not the same. That was not a

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Speaker 12: great Ravens defense that year. So and if you look

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Speaker 12: at his record versus Mike Tomlin, very similar. And Mike

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Speaker 12: Tomlin's a very good coach. So I don't think I

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Speaker 12: go after to go after Harball. So I would keep

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Speaker 12: Harball and I would and what I would do is

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Speaker 12: I see I think it's fair your your your point

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Speaker 12: criticisms of Lamar Jackson, my but you know, let's face it,

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Speaker 12: he's got a seventy two million dollars cap hit next year.

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Speaker 12: They're not going to get rid of it. They're not

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Speaker 12: going to get rid of him. He's got no trade.

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Speaker 12: So that's that one. The second one, the second one

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Speaker 12: you had to say, Okay, well this is this is

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Speaker 12: a shame on really USC, but particularly on Lincoln Riley.

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Speaker 12: He's been trying to get rid of basically bring to

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Speaker 12: bring this schedule in and make it easier since he

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Speaker 12: got there, and he has that success against Notre Dames.

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Speaker 12: So this is all about lighting up his schedule. So

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Speaker 12: this is on USC primarily, you know, and but Lincoln

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Speaker 12: Riley even to a greater extent. It's a real shame.

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Speaker 12: I agree with you, Ernie, because this is the best

1278
01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:25,000
Speaker 12: rivalry in college sports. All due respect to Michigan Ohio State.

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Speaker 12: Michigan Ohio State is a great robbery, but it's not

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Speaker 12: in the same class as Notre Dame and the USC.

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Speaker 12: You look at the Heisman Trophy winners, you look at

1282
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Speaker 12: the national championships. No rivalry has been at this level,

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01:08:38,120 --> 01:08:40,960
Speaker 12: you know, and so it's a real shame that they

1284
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Speaker 12: didn't do it. I'll tell you the other reason why

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Speaker 12: USC looks really bad is because if you would have

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Speaker 12: the argument, well, you know what, there's only four teams

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Speaker 12: that can get into the playoffs like before, and we

1288
01:08:51,960 --> 01:08:55,599
Speaker 12: want to light the schedule. Okay, that's a more fair argument.

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Speaker 12: Nick Saban did that year after year. But here's the

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Speaker 12: thing we're going into probably we're twelve now, we're probably

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Speaker 12: going to sixteen in a year or two. So if

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Speaker 12: you can't get in with sixteen in the future, I mean,

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Speaker 12: you know, you don't deserve to. You don't deserve to

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Speaker 12: get in. Even with Notre Dame on the schedule in

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Speaker 12: Ohio State, you know, you just don't deserve it. Let's

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01:09:17,080 --> 01:09:19,200
Speaker 12: face it, they weren't one of the best twelve best

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Speaker 12: teams in the country this year. USC you know, they

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01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:25,080
Speaker 12: weren't a part of that group now, so you know

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Speaker 12: they weren't as good as note name that didn't get in,

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01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:30,040
Speaker 12: and nor Dame didn't deserve to get in. But you know,

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Speaker 12: so it's the kind of thing. So it's shame on them.

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Speaker 12: They're running from a rivalry and there's no need to

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01:09:35,560 --> 01:09:38,920
Speaker 12: because like I said, it goes to sixteen teams. You

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01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:41,760
Speaker 12: know you could, you're gonna get teams in. There were

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01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:44,599
Speaker 12: three losses now, and if you play a good schedule

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01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:47,960
Speaker 12: like USC will, they're gonna get in even with three losses.

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01:09:48,080 --> 01:09:51,639
Speaker 12: So it's really shame and it's really shame on USC.

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01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:54,360
Speaker 12: Do you know what Petro Papodocles is?

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Speaker 4: Of course I do.

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Speaker 2: I don't know them personally, but I don't think he's

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01:09:58,120 --> 01:10:01,080
Speaker 2: happy about this, and I want to get to their callers.

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01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:03,200
Speaker 4: I would thank you so much for calling it.

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01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:06,439
Speaker 2: Don't be a stranger. Obviously you're well researched on your

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01:10:07,360 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 2: thoughts and opinions. We just got to manage the time

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01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:13,240
Speaker 2: clock here, buddy. Don't mean to cut anybody short. Hold

1316
01:10:13,280 --> 01:10:14,720
Speaker 2: that thought. You can bring it up again next week.

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01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:17,560
Speaker 2: And the irony is that Notre Dame just agreed to

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01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:19,360
Speaker 2: play BYU, the team they didn't want to play in

1319
01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:23,080
Speaker 2: the Pop Tarts Bowl, and we roll on. Jeff in Denver,

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Speaker 2: Welcome in Bud.

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Speaker 11: I got a few things for you, Bernie. What happened

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01:10:28,680 --> 01:10:29,719
Speaker 11: to brand new fooler?

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01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:29,840
Speaker 18: You?

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01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:35,560
Speaker 2: I I'm setting that aside because every we don't have

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01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:38,439
Speaker 2: time to get to it during football season. I had

1326
01:10:38,439 --> 01:10:40,040
Speaker 2: a good four year run, and we're going to do

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01:10:40,080 --> 01:10:42,120
Speaker 2: it again brand new. What kind of brand new fool?

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01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:44,439
Speaker 2: Are you? Followed by what my name? We'll resume it

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01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:47,000
Speaker 2: again at some point. But as you can see with

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01:10:47,120 --> 01:10:48,760
Speaker 2: the topics, there's so much more and still got to

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01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:51,360
Speaker 2: get to tonight, but we will. We'll bring it back

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01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:52,200
Speaker 2: at some point. Jeff.

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01:10:53,200 --> 01:10:54,680
Speaker 11: That's a killer that's a killer bit.

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01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:57,439
Speaker 2: Anyway, we got a lot of good a lot of

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01:10:57,439 --> 01:10:58,000
Speaker 2: good response.

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Speaker 11: Oh give me a few ex seconds. I got three

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01:11:02,360 --> 01:11:07,679
Speaker 11: sides on that punch. First of all, any given stadium

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01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:12,880
Speaker 11: has security every twenty to thirty feet baseball, football, So

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01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:14,439
Speaker 11: we're in the hell with security.

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Speaker 2: They didn't hear here. Here's the thing, my man, regardless, regardless,

1341
01:11:19,439 --> 01:11:20,920
Speaker 2: I just want to deal with the here and now

1342
01:11:20,920 --> 01:11:25,360
Speaker 2: on what happened. The punch happened. The punch happened. There

1343
01:11:25,400 --> 01:11:27,679
Speaker 2: were fifty three players in the sideline, only one punch

1344
01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:30,439
Speaker 2: the guy. So what was your knee jerk reaction? Now,

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01:11:30,479 --> 01:11:33,400
Speaker 2: if your kneejerk reaction was, it's not DK's fault and

1346
01:11:33,479 --> 01:11:36,800
Speaker 2: security is fault. I'll accept that. But is that really

1347
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:38,080
Speaker 2: was that really a reaction?

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Speaker 11: Jeff, No, it's And then there's the other case. I

1349
01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:44,600
Speaker 11: got three angles on this. First of all, security that

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01:11:44,720 --> 01:11:48,400
Speaker 11: they didn't hear anything, because there's a good five to

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01:11:48,439 --> 01:11:53,040
Speaker 11: ten seconds. Well, there is a code of conduct in basketball.

1352
01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:55,960
Speaker 11: There's been fans thrown out courtside. You have to ye,

1353
01:11:56,160 --> 01:11:57,000
Speaker 11: you know, you can heckle.

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01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:01,000
Speaker 3: You can heckle, but you can't across the line.

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01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:03,160
Speaker 2: All right, So here's the deal, big fella. We have

1356
01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:06,000
Speaker 2: so many people on the line. We understand all the

1357
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:09,479
Speaker 2: rudiments and fan conduct. I just want to know what

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01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:10,360
Speaker 2: your thoughts were.

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Speaker 3: Then, Well, then you saw the punch.

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Speaker 4: What were you thinking?

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Speaker 11: I agree, you can't. You can't punch.

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01:12:18,320 --> 01:12:20,160
Speaker 2: Anybody, Okay, but there was let's go out to the

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01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:21,960
Speaker 2: USC Notre Dame. What are your thoughts on that?

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Speaker 11: That I'm Colorado, I'm in Denver, so I missed the

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01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:31,680
Speaker 11: Colorado Nebraska rivalry too. They should just let things, let

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Speaker 11: things go. But I think that USC might have had

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01:12:35,479 --> 01:12:39,040
Speaker 11: something against sud Dame because I'm still missed at Notre

1368
01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:40,720
Speaker 11: Dame for kicking your ball and going home.

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01:12:41,200 --> 01:12:42,320
Speaker 5: Oh we didn't make the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: Were in agreement there, my friend? Another another terrible look.

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Speaker 2: Do you have any thoughts jeff on Lamar Jackson and

1372
01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 2: John Harbaugh and in Baltimore.

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01:12:54,880 --> 01:12:55,920
Speaker 3: They just seed a divorce.

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01:12:56,600 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 5: They need a divorce.

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01:12:57,760 --> 01:13:01,160
Speaker 11: And as far as the cap hit, I mean, Denver

1376
01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:03,799
Speaker 11: took a fifty four million dollars hit on Rus Wilson.

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01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:07,639
Speaker 11: Listen to your excellent number one.

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01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:09,920
Speaker 2: Seed excellent, excellent point.

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01:13:10,760 --> 01:13:12,799
Speaker 4: Good on you, Jeff. I appreciate your calls.

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01:13:13,160 --> 01:13:16,800
Speaker 2: You always bring receipts, and I just got to make

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01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:19,799
Speaker 2: sure I get every everybody in here. When we continue,

1382
01:13:19,880 --> 01:13:22,600
Speaker 2: we'll have Jimmy and Boston, Michael, New York, Rick and Louisiana.

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01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:27,040
Speaker 2: I don't want like to cut anybody short, but I

1384
01:13:27,120 --> 01:13:28,800
Speaker 2: want to make sure nobody gets cut off too. So

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01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:31,360
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe I need to readjust my Mark

1386
01:13:31,439 --> 01:13:35,160
Speaker 2: Medina interviews because I hate when we get tight on this.

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01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:39,719
Speaker 4: Towards the end, we'll we'll we'll continue with these final three.

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Speaker 2: Callers, and look, uh, you know, we're not trying to

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01:13:44,400 --> 01:13:48,200
Speaker 2: solve any problems here or solve the world's problems. We're

1390
01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:54,640
Speaker 2: observing ancillary facts, you know, ancillary events as it were.

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01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:57,160
Speaker 2: They take place in the world of sports, and try

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01:13:57,200 --> 01:13:59,360
Speaker 2: to have a roundtable discussion if we can make any

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01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:02,479
Speaker 2: of this makes sense, and it's not always easy to do.

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01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:05,000
Speaker 2: I Bernie Fraddle were kemedy lyone from Las Vegas Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio Studios. Keep it locked.

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Speaker 4: We're listening to Bernie Fradles show on Fox Sports Radio.

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01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:13,240
Speaker 1: You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:16,640
Speaker 2: We're back on the Bernie Fratles show, wrap it up

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Speaker 2: on the midnight hour. Jimmy in Boston, welcome in.

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Speaker 11: How are you, Bernie?

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01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:25,080
Speaker 20: Always a pleasure, good morning, thank you. I know you

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01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:27,920
Speaker 20: have other callers, so I'm a last right through this stuff,

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01:14:28,280 --> 01:14:33,000
Speaker 20: DK metcalf He's got more to lose that his more

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01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:37,000
Speaker 20: to protect, the highest standard on him. So he's in

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01:14:37,120 --> 01:14:40,120
Speaker 20: the wrong for himself more than anybody. So he shouldn't

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01:14:40,120 --> 01:14:42,880
Speaker 20: have tore the punch, bad bad book that everything. So

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01:14:43,640 --> 01:14:46,960
Speaker 20: uh whatever the fan does, that's up the security and

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01:14:47,320 --> 01:14:47,840
Speaker 20: the team to.

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01:14:47,880 --> 01:14:48,280
Speaker 3: Take care of.

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01:14:48,680 --> 01:14:51,400
Speaker 20: And uh so DK Metcalfe, I put him in the

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01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:56,360
Speaker 20: fault as for college athletics at us USC, and not

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01:14:56,520 --> 01:14:59,719
Speaker 20: to Dame Bernie, I'm disgusted with college athletics. They booked

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01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:02,080
Speaker 20: of each other. Tell you the truth. With all this,

1414
01:15:02,439 --> 01:15:05,840
Speaker 20: all these changes, the portal money and the stabotaging of

1415
01:15:05,880 --> 01:15:08,920
Speaker 20: the conferences, blah blah blah, it's disgusting, you know what

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01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:11,519
Speaker 20: I'm saying. So as a notre dame hater, I'll say

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01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:14,519
Speaker 20: no dame. But overall, Bernie, this is just business as usual.

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01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:18,840
Speaker 20: Paul jeff lettis and why people finding this bs you.

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01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:24,479
Speaker 2: Know, continuing byproduct of continue okay, and what have you

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01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:25,080
Speaker 2: got for us?

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Speaker 9: On?

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01:15:25,360 --> 01:15:26,160
Speaker 2: Uh on?

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01:15:26,560 --> 01:15:33,320
Speaker 20: Okay? Uh the Lama Jackson Lamar Jackson. I think we've

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01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:37,120
Speaker 20: seen the best of him, so I would entertain, uh

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01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:40,560
Speaker 20: dealing him. I wouldn't rush to deal him, but you know,

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01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:42,160
Speaker 20: I said, I think you've seen the best of him,

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01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:46,200
Speaker 20: and so John hab I disagreed with Bernie. I think

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01:15:46,240 --> 01:15:48,519
Speaker 20: he's an excellent coach. And I don't know why coaches

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01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:50,439
Speaker 20: aren't allowed to have a bad year. Let's say, yeah,

1430
01:15:50,439 --> 01:15:52,439
Speaker 20: it's a bad year. Okay, fine, I don't know why

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01:15:52,479 --> 01:15:55,040
Speaker 20: coaches aren't allowed to have a bad year, yet players

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01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:57,920
Speaker 20: can and and uh, I think his body of work

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01:15:58,040 --> 01:16:00,560
Speaker 20: has given them the benefits out the right whatever he

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01:16:01,680 --> 01:16:03,960
Speaker 20: is gone wrong. And if you want to call for

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01:16:04,040 --> 01:16:07,360
Speaker 20: his job, Bertie, I hope you've been calling for Medioca

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01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:09,479
Speaker 20: Mike Thomlins job for the last ten years, because what

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01:16:09,640 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 20: has he done the last five ten years? You know

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01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:13,439
Speaker 20: what I'm saying, my friend, you know you.

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01:16:13,479 --> 01:16:14,920
Speaker 2: Got me on you got me on that, Jimmy, I

1440
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:17,200
Speaker 2: got no defense. I have not called for Tomlins and

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01:16:17,320 --> 01:16:20,400
Speaker 2: I just feel like, uh, I'm going to accept your point.

1442
01:16:20,640 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 2: And his body at work gives him the right for

1443
01:16:23,120 --> 01:16:26,160
Speaker 2: one more year. I just think John Harbaugh's gotten very

1444
01:16:26,280 --> 01:16:26,880
Speaker 2: stale to me.

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01:16:27,439 --> 01:16:29,400
Speaker 4: So Jimmy, that may be the case.

1446
01:16:29,520 --> 01:16:30,640
Speaker 11: But that may be the case.

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01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:32,720
Speaker 20: Give me ga, let's get a year to find out.

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01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:36,080
Speaker 20: But instead of rushing to the door, I accept.

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01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:39,240
Speaker 2: That, Jimmie, great stuff, man bing bang bong, excellent. Mike

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01:16:39,280 --> 01:16:43,120
Speaker 2: in New York. Welcome in, my Bertie.

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01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:45,960
Speaker 15: I'm going here for the speaker, polp Canery.

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01:16:46,479 --> 01:16:47,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, go ahead, Bell.

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01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:53,439
Speaker 16: The court said that Lamart Action has a server to mind.

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01:16:54,880 --> 01:17:01,720
Speaker 16: Jeff second ridden harbous a proven go one more year

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01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:06,240
Speaker 16: on that, okay, as boys, you see order, Dame, I'm

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01:17:06,320 --> 01:17:10,880
Speaker 16: a nerdon, Dame Ben. I can't switch mystery at all.

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01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:11,840
Speaker 5: The beat bet.

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01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:17,240
Speaker 16: Bami has to give rid this tour. I'm a dumper

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01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:22,040
Speaker 16: Transford telling you on and who is not insured?

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01:17:24,520 --> 01:17:24,760
Speaker 4: Mike.

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01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:27,040
Speaker 2: I appreciate your calling, buddy, don't be a stranger. We

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01:17:27,160 --> 01:17:28,840
Speaker 2: do this every Saturday night. I know you're in New

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01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:33,240
Speaker 2: York until midnight Pacific time, three m your time. Rick

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01:17:33,320 --> 01:17:35,160
Speaker 2: and Louisiana, you're wrapping up for us tonight.

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01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:35,840
Speaker 1: You know what to do.

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Speaker 5: Yes, thanks, stick, Nicole. I'll keep you I'll keep it brief.

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01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:47,439
Speaker 5: As far as the Ravens I say keep them together.

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01:17:48,040 --> 01:17:51,800
Speaker 5: I think a lot of when his contract was negotiated,

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01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:54,280
Speaker 5: when Lamar's I want to give a lot of shout

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Speaker 5: out to his mother because his mother was the one

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01:17:56,840 --> 01:18:00,760
Speaker 5: that was negotiating his contract. So hey worked out well

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01:18:00,960 --> 01:18:03,639
Speaker 5: for him. Now he's at the end of this big payout,

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01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:07,240
Speaker 5: so that's a good thing. As far as USC and

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01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:10,400
Speaker 5: Notre Dame, last time we were talking about how Notre

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01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:13,320
Speaker 5: Dame were going to the Bowl game. Now this week

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Speaker 5: you're talking about how USC won't play him, So I say, USC,

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01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:23,320
Speaker 5: don't play them. Then the next thing is the DK

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Speaker 5: DK metcalf. I don't know what the guy said to him,

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01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:30,280
Speaker 5: but if opposing teams are gonna try to find out

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01:18:30,360 --> 01:18:34,120
Speaker 5: what he said, and he's gonna have an interesting future

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01:18:34,680 --> 01:18:38,559
Speaker 5: when he goes to the to the away games, because

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01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:42,080
Speaker 5: they're gonna find out what it was, and they're gonna

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01:18:42,240 --> 01:18:44,760
Speaker 5: shout at don't and probably get a group of them

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01:18:45,120 --> 01:18:47,559
Speaker 5: to shout out whatever it is that was said to him.

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Speaker 4: So that's an interesting rick.

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01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:52,679
Speaker 2: I've been able to find out what the fans said.

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01:18:53,080 --> 01:18:55,400
Speaker 2: And I'm not giving a fan of hall pass. I

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01:18:55,600 --> 01:18:57,760
Speaker 2: just think that Cooper had to have to prevail. But

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01:18:57,880 --> 01:18:59,920
Speaker 2: think about what you just said there, if that can

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01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:02,439
Speaker 2: used against him in future games. Nothing good comes.

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Speaker 5: Out of this, that's right, that's right. So he's gonna

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01:19:06,439 --> 01:19:08,800
Speaker 5: he's gonna not be you know, he's not gonna be

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01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:11,920
Speaker 5: able to play, so he'll be he'll be out of

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01:19:11,960 --> 01:19:13,680
Speaker 5: the game mentally. So A.

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Speaker 2: That's okay, good stuff.

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Speaker 4: Rick, I'm gonna uh.

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Speaker 2: Demure had a lot of smart collars tonight saying no,

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01:19:23,439 --> 01:19:28,599
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson should return and uh uh John Harbaugh should return.

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Speaker 2: So I accept that. I accept that. I just think

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Speaker 2: everything is juxtaposed per the expectations you have, not just

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01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:41,439
Speaker 2: this season, but the past several seasons where they've fallen

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01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:45,120
Speaker 2: short many times. And how many more times do you

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01:19:45,320 --> 01:19:47,439
Speaker 2: do you want to put up with that? And I

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01:19:47,600 --> 01:19:51,080
Speaker 2: accept uh Jimmy's point, Uh you know, how about uh,

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01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:58,360
Speaker 2: how about Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh as a comparison, tom

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Speaker 2: I didn't have Lamar Jackson though, and and I think

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01:20:00,479 --> 01:20:03,800
Speaker 2: that's the X factor here. People think about Lamar Jackson

1508
01:20:03,840 --> 01:20:07,439
Speaker 2: walks on water now I or they used to. Anyway.

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01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:10,320
Speaker 2: I defended the hell out of him coming out of Louisville.

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01:20:10,360 --> 01:20:12,280
Speaker 2: I thought he's a brilliant talent and a far better

1511
01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:15,600
Speaker 2: pocket passer, and he's had a good NFL career, But

1512
01:20:15,760 --> 01:20:18,160
Speaker 2: when you get to January and he gets hot and

1513
01:20:18,160 --> 01:20:21,679
Speaker 2: it's hard to breathe, and when the situation demands great

1514
01:20:21,680 --> 01:20:24,160
Speaker 2: and this can you be great? Three and five record,

1515
01:20:24,280 --> 01:20:27,519
Speaker 2: ten touchdowns, seven interceptions, a fifty five percent completion rate,

1516
01:20:27,920 --> 01:20:32,880
Speaker 2: a sixty eight zero point three passer rating doesn't really

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01:20:32,920 --> 01:20:37,200
Speaker 2: cut it for me. Having said all that, I've always said, well.

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01:20:37,280 --> 01:20:38,280
Speaker 4: Who you gonna replace it with?

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01:20:38,479 --> 01:20:41,000
Speaker 2: We don't really have a replacement in Baltimore for either guy,

1520
01:20:41,400 --> 01:20:43,800
Speaker 2: So I think some really thoughtful callers there. The DK

1521
01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:47,400
Speaker 2: Metcalf thing is obvious. Notre Dame's some pragmatic callers on

1522
01:20:47,479 --> 01:20:50,120
Speaker 2: that too. Other revalries have gone away. This one's a

1523
01:20:50,160 --> 01:20:53,040
Speaker 2: little different, I think, But we're in an ever evolving world,

1524
01:20:53,600 --> 01:20:56,120
Speaker 2: and perhaps the earlier caller is right as well. This

1525
01:20:56,320 --> 01:20:59,240
Speaker 2: is just a byproduct of the evolution of college football,

1526
01:20:59,240 --> 01:21:02,360
Speaker 2: which doesn't any thing resembled like it used to just

1527
01:21:02,439 --> 01:21:05,040
Speaker 2: a decade ago. All right, coming up and switch to basketball,

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Speaker 2: Mark Medina Medina Magic Lots to get to keep it

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Speaker 2: locked and listening to the Bernie Fradle Show on Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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01:21:15,439 --> 01:21:18,280
Speaker 2: That's right. You heard the man Bernie Frattle Show just

1533
01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:20,680
Speaker 2: keeps rolling right along. My name is Bernie Fraddle. Or

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01:21:20,720 --> 01:21:22,479
Speaker 2: come to you, lion from the Las Vegas Fox Sports

1535
01:21:22,600 --> 01:21:26,479
Speaker 2: Radio studios and we'll take you after three in Pacific,

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01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:27,400
Speaker 2: six am Eastern.

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Speaker 4: Lots to get to.

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01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:31,800
Speaker 2: But the guy coming up, you know him, You love them,

1539
01:21:31,840 --> 01:21:33,400
Speaker 2: You can't lay without him. We got all kinds of

1540
01:21:33,560 --> 01:21:34,960
Speaker 2: NBA stuff. Three simple words.

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01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:35,840
Speaker 4: It's that time.

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01:21:37,240 --> 01:21:41,400
Speaker 2: Mark Medina Medina Magic are Fox Sports Radio NBA guru,

1543
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:46,120
Speaker 2: also a writer for essentially sports. Mark, Welcome back in

1544
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:50,439
Speaker 2: as usual. Not an event on an uneventful week.

1545
01:21:51,680 --> 01:21:54,800
Speaker 18: Yeah, and when we're talking about this week, certainly it

1546
01:21:54,920 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 18: was about Christmas, and it was a great Christmas, I

1547
01:21:57,280 --> 01:21:59,439
Speaker 18: think for everyone except for the Lakers. That was one

1548
01:22:00,360 --> 01:22:02,439
Speaker 18: ugly game to set the last against the Rockets.

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01:22:02,760 --> 01:22:07,799
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, gracious listen, we'll start there then, Because

1550
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:10,640
Speaker 2: so a couple of weeks ago, when the Lakers are

1551
01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:12,560
Speaker 2: fifteen and four, I know you said it sort of

1552
01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:15,519
Speaker 2: ingested I want to eat crow because I said to

1553
01:22:15,600 --> 01:22:17,479
Speaker 2: be forty two and forty and I can't back off that.

1554
01:22:18,240 --> 01:22:20,000
Speaker 2: And I say, well, if there's a nineteen game season,

1555
01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:22,200
Speaker 2: I would, but all of a sudden, mark, they're four

1556
01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:24,040
Speaker 2: and six in the last ten oh and three in

1557
01:22:24,120 --> 01:22:31,519
Speaker 2: their last three. And these are some inconvenient truths. Their

1558
01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:35,600
Speaker 2: net rating is worse with Lebron on the floor. Defensively,

1559
01:22:35,640 --> 01:22:38,559
Speaker 2: they're far worse with Lebron on the floor. So let's

1560
01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:41,240
Speaker 2: start there. Four and six in the last ten oh

1561
01:22:41,280 --> 01:22:44,800
Speaker 2: and three in the last three. Uh, is this just

1562
01:22:44,920 --> 01:22:49,560
Speaker 2: a bad patch or we have a situation where you

1563
01:22:49,640 --> 01:22:52,160
Speaker 2: know this is a portent perhaps for the remainder of

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01:22:52,200 --> 01:22:52,599
Speaker 2: the season.

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Speaker 18: Well, Berdie, I think what you're suggesting is that I

1566
01:22:55,360 --> 01:22:56,599
Speaker 18: should be eating crow right.

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01:22:57,160 --> 01:23:00,439
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, it's an ongoing it's go ahead. No,

1568
01:23:00,760 --> 01:23:03,599
Speaker 2: I don't mean to imply that it's an ongoing motif here.

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01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 18: Yeahh I'm being a little facetious, as you know, they're

1570
01:23:08,240 --> 01:23:10,240
Speaker 18: going to obviously end the streak here. But I think

1571
01:23:10,320 --> 01:23:13,519
Speaker 18: that when we're looking at the big picture here wins losses,

1572
01:23:14,120 --> 01:23:17,320
Speaker 18: we saw that the Lakers were a very terrible defensive team,

1573
01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:19,600
Speaker 18: and we also saw that, you know, they want some

1574
01:23:19,720 --> 01:23:21,719
Speaker 18: close games that maybe they should have been a bad

1575
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:25,240
Speaker 18: business winning. On one hand, you can say, okay, good teams,

1576
01:23:25,320 --> 01:23:27,639
Speaker 18: know how to win and clutch fashion. That's a good thing,

1577
01:23:28,439 --> 01:23:31,080
Speaker 18: but it can also camouflage some things. So what we're

1578
01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:34,280
Speaker 18: seeing at here is the Lakers have a really great

1579
01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:38,479
Speaker 18: offensive team. I don't think there's any issues from both

1580
01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:41,400
Speaker 18: the production and chemistry standpoint. We know that Luca Dodgics

1581
01:23:41,479 --> 01:23:46,080
Speaker 18: runs at the show. Lebron James's credit is very adaptable

1582
01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:49,599
Speaker 18: with being second fiddle, sometimes even third fiddle, because Austin

1583
01:23:49,680 --> 01:23:52,360
Speaker 18: Reeves has taken his game to another level and he

1584
01:23:52,439 --> 01:23:55,679
Speaker 18: has been a good fit with Luka Dodgics. But here's

1585
01:23:55,720 --> 01:23:59,559
Speaker 18: the problem, Bernie, their defense isn't there. Even with guys

1586
01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:02,040
Speaker 18: like Mark because Smart, who was acquired in the offseason

1587
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:06,720
Speaker 18: to give them some positive energy, it doesn't translate to

1588
01:24:06,760 --> 01:24:10,360
Speaker 18: the rest of the team. Jared van Vanderbilt really great

1589
01:24:10,439 --> 01:24:14,080
Speaker 18: defensive player, but JJ Reddick has made the decision not

1590
01:24:14,240 --> 01:24:16,840
Speaker 18: to start them most of the games because he's calculated,

1591
01:24:16,840 --> 01:24:19,280
Speaker 18: you don't what I want to have a better offensive

1592
01:24:19,320 --> 01:24:22,600
Speaker 18: team because of the strengths of the personnel here, and

1593
01:24:22,720 --> 01:24:25,320
Speaker 18: because Jared's such a poor three point shooter, it's going

1594
01:24:25,360 --> 01:24:28,479
Speaker 18: to clog up the spacing, et cetera, et cetera. So

1595
01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:31,040
Speaker 18: it really has this feeling of kind of whack them all.

1596
01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:33,880
Speaker 18: They're leaning on their strengths, Let's create more problems with

1597
01:24:33,960 --> 01:24:36,680
Speaker 18: their weaknesses. So what does this mean moving forward? I

1598
01:24:36,800 --> 01:24:39,760
Speaker 18: think it's, you know, a fasten your seatbelt, because it's

1599
01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:43,240
Speaker 18: got to be more turbulent times ahead, even through wins losses.

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01:24:43,280 --> 01:24:46,800
Speaker 18: Here's why Austin reeves he's out for least a month.

1601
01:24:47,120 --> 01:24:50,320
Speaker 18: He has a Grade two calf strain. Grade two means

1602
01:24:50,360 --> 01:24:53,479
Speaker 18: that you have a partial tear. Calfs trains are always

1603
01:24:53,520 --> 01:24:56,479
Speaker 18: delicate because we've seen players with the calf strains come

1604
01:24:56,520 --> 01:24:59,160
Speaker 18: back too early and then get achilles injuries and the

1605
01:24:59,240 --> 01:25:01,840
Speaker 18: other thing. Defend even though they have this whole film

1606
01:25:01,960 --> 01:25:05,320
Speaker 18: session today and you know J. J. Riddick is talking

1607
01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:09,000
Speaker 18: not just about role players but calling out Luca Dodgers,

1608
01:25:09,040 --> 01:25:14,719
Speaker 18: calling out Lebron about improving their defensive effort. That can help,

1609
01:25:15,120 --> 01:25:18,320
Speaker 18: but I think that can't solve everything because they're just

1610
01:25:18,439 --> 01:25:20,880
Speaker 18: not a good defensive team. So they're going to have

1611
01:25:20,960 --> 01:25:23,960
Speaker 18: to make changes before the trade deadline. But that creates

1612
01:25:23,960 --> 01:25:26,439
Speaker 18: a whole other question because what do they do. They

1613
01:25:26,479 --> 01:25:28,960
Speaker 18: don't have a lot of assets to offer, and I

1614
01:25:29,040 --> 01:25:31,679
Speaker 18: don't think that Lebron's going to wave his no trade clause.

1615
01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:34,160
Speaker 18: I don't think the Lakers are even going to trade him,

1616
01:25:34,520 --> 01:25:36,200
Speaker 18: so it might be one of those things of making

1617
01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:40,479
Speaker 18: marginal deals and then wait till the summer. Unpresumably Lebron

1618
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:43,840
Speaker 18: retires before addressing the rest of the roster needs.

1619
01:25:45,200 --> 01:25:47,720
Speaker 2: Well, Lebron always said he'd stop playing when he's ineffective.

1620
01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 2: That might have been quick Christmas Day. But anyway, you

1621
01:25:51,040 --> 01:25:57,280
Speaker 2: saw Thunder in all seriousness, Now you saw these teams

1622
01:25:57,280 --> 01:25:59,599
Speaker 2: in the last forty eight hours. You Oklahoma City Thunder,

1623
01:25:59,680 --> 01:26:05,240
Speaker 2: the Nuggets, the Rockets, the Timberwolves. Man, it's they're playing

1624
01:26:05,280 --> 01:26:07,640
Speaker 2: a completely different brand of basketball the Lakers are. And

1625
01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:10,320
Speaker 2: while I do agree with you, the Lakers, by the

1626
01:26:10,400 --> 01:26:15,440
Speaker 2: eye test, appear to at times have an offense that's serviceable.

1627
01:26:16,320 --> 01:26:18,560
Speaker 2: Their offense is behind every one of those teams I

1628
01:26:18,680 --> 01:26:22,040
Speaker 2: just mentioned in terms of points scored per game, which

1629
01:26:22,120 --> 01:26:25,720
Speaker 2: has led to JJ Reddick's remarks, which really wants you

1630
01:26:25,760 --> 01:26:28,720
Speaker 2: to address, because he has a very blunt remarks that

1631
01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:32,320
Speaker 2: went viral. Even said tonight we were a terrible basketball team.

1632
01:26:32,360 --> 01:26:35,160
Speaker 2: He questioned their professionalism. He warned them that there were

1633
01:26:35,280 --> 01:26:37,880
Speaker 2: uncomfortable practices coming up. I mean, it was kind of

1634
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:40,880
Speaker 2: Bobby Knight esk which drew the ire of the you know,

1635
01:26:41,360 --> 01:26:44,040
Speaker 2: the Kendrick Perkins and the and they and you know

1636
01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:49,200
Speaker 2: the Kenyon Martin's of the world and Charles Barklays. Could

1637
01:26:49,920 --> 01:26:52,160
Speaker 2: could JJ Reddick lose that locker room.

1638
01:26:54,040 --> 01:26:54,400
Speaker 18: Very well?

1639
01:26:54,479 --> 01:26:54,679
Speaker 13: Could?

1640
01:26:54,720 --> 01:26:57,439
Speaker 18: I mean NBA coaches have a very tough task here.

1641
01:26:57,520 --> 01:27:00,599
Speaker 18: But I think in the short term, I don't want

1642
01:27:00,600 --> 01:27:02,560
Speaker 18: to say he dialed it back as far as the

1643
01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:06,519
Speaker 18: messaging goes, but maybe the way it was delivered, you know,

1644
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:09,439
Speaker 18: practice today he made a clearer reporters. It wasn't about

1645
01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:13,880
Speaker 18: singling people out. It was about, you know, having candy

1646
01:27:13,960 --> 01:27:17,720
Speaker 18: conversations as a group and addressing everything. And so he

1647
01:27:17,880 --> 01:27:21,759
Speaker 18: owned up to his own shortcomings. That he conceded about

1648
01:27:21,840 --> 01:27:25,639
Speaker 18: how the offense have been structured ever since Lebron's returned

1649
01:27:25,640 --> 01:27:27,280
Speaker 18: to the lineup and how he can improve in that

1650
01:27:27,479 --> 01:27:31,200
Speaker 18: area of providing more clarity for everybody's roles. And then

1651
01:27:31,240 --> 01:27:34,759
Speaker 18: he invited you know everyone, star players and role players

1652
01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:37,760
Speaker 18: to speak up. So I don't think that that shielded

1653
01:27:38,800 --> 01:27:42,240
Speaker 18: JJ Reddick and the coaching staff for pointing out defensive

1654
01:27:42,320 --> 01:27:46,800
Speaker 18: miss cusan flaws from Luka doncch Lebron James DeAndre Aiden

1655
01:27:46,880 --> 01:27:50,400
Speaker 18: Rui at Yamora. So I think that, you know, given

1656
01:27:50,520 --> 01:27:54,639
Speaker 18: that it wasn't one of these Bobby Knight sessions where

1657
01:27:54,840 --> 01:27:58,960
Speaker 18: jaj Reddick's throwing chairs and just ripping guys down to shreds,

1658
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:02,439
Speaker 18: it was a lot more original. But in today's NBA

1659
01:28:02,600 --> 01:28:05,720
Speaker 18: maybe that's more effective because you only have so many

1660
01:28:05,800 --> 01:28:09,360
Speaker 18: times in the NBA where he can get really really angry.

1661
01:28:09,880 --> 01:28:12,320
Speaker 18: And if you're getting really really angry all the time,

1662
01:28:12,439 --> 01:28:15,680
Speaker 18: eventually to what you said, guys tune them out. So

1663
01:28:16,560 --> 01:28:19,840
Speaker 18: JJ is trading that fine line of you don't want

1664
01:28:19,880 --> 01:28:22,960
Speaker 18: to act like your buddies with you know, these players,

1665
01:28:23,160 --> 01:28:25,680
Speaker 18: since you're not a player anymore. But you can't just

1666
01:28:25,720 --> 01:28:27,479
Speaker 18: sort of the kitchen think of them all the time

1667
01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:30,760
Speaker 18: and expect that they're going to, you know, listen with

1668
01:28:31,880 --> 01:28:34,080
Speaker 18: you know, with emergency like urgency.

1669
01:28:35,760 --> 01:28:42,040
Speaker 2: Well, uh, yeah, I listen. I think when you're a coach,

1670
01:28:42,080 --> 01:28:43,639
Speaker 2: you were in a lot of hats and the NBA

1671
01:28:43,760 --> 01:28:46,559
Speaker 2: is a different I told you my conversation with Juck

1672
01:28:46,600 --> 01:28:50,720
Speaker 2: Daily going back two decades ago, more than three decades ago. Uh,

1673
01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:53,760
Speaker 2: it's managing an adult daycare center. And you didn't say

1674
01:28:53,760 --> 01:28:55,840
Speaker 2: that in the pejorative. See, these are grown men that

1675
01:28:55,920 --> 01:28:58,840
Speaker 2: are multimillionaires that have lives and families. You've got to

1676
01:28:58,920 --> 01:29:02,000
Speaker 2: tread lightly. And when Kendrick Perkins makes the statement on

1677
01:29:02,120 --> 01:29:05,439
Speaker 2: National TV they didn't respect this guy. I don't know

1678
01:29:05,479 --> 01:29:07,360
Speaker 2: if it's true or not, but you can't dismiss it.

1679
01:29:07,520 --> 01:29:11,680
Speaker 2: So just again just to redirect the witness. You know,

1680
01:29:12,400 --> 01:29:14,519
Speaker 2: how do you interpret Kendrick perkins remarks.

1681
01:29:15,479 --> 01:29:17,599
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean, you can't dismiss it, but I think

1682
01:29:17,680 --> 01:29:19,679
Speaker 18: it is too early. We have to keep in mind,

1683
01:29:20,320 --> 01:29:22,960
Speaker 18: you know, the Lakers sent very strong messaging that they

1684
01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:26,360
Speaker 18: support JJ righty, giving him an extension before the season

1685
01:29:26,400 --> 01:29:29,600
Speaker 18: even started, despite having one more year or you know,

1686
01:29:29,720 --> 01:29:32,880
Speaker 18: being there for only one year. So you know, I

1687
01:29:32,960 --> 01:29:35,960
Speaker 18: think that JJ is feeling the heat just to end

1688
01:29:36,040 --> 01:29:38,519
Speaker 18: the three game losing the streak, But I don't think

1689
01:29:38,600 --> 01:29:41,200
Speaker 18: in the short term that he is coaching for his

1690
01:29:41,400 --> 01:29:45,040
Speaker 18: job security next season. I think pragmatically what's going to

1691
01:29:45,120 --> 01:29:48,759
Speaker 18: happen is that, you know, they'll entertain deals. They clearly

1692
01:29:49,280 --> 01:29:51,599
Speaker 18: they have some you know, needs they need to address

1693
01:29:51,720 --> 01:29:55,120
Speaker 18: before the trade deadline February fifth, to get some more

1694
01:29:55,200 --> 01:29:59,160
Speaker 18: three and D players that can bolster their defensive identity.

1695
01:29:59,720 --> 01:30:01,719
Speaker 18: But I don't think they're going to trade Austin Reeves.

1696
01:30:01,880 --> 01:30:05,000
Speaker 18: I don't think they're ever going to trade Lebron even

1697
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:07,040
Speaker 18: if he base, there's no trade clause. So what does

1698
01:30:07,080 --> 01:30:11,200
Speaker 18: that leave you? He combined guys like Jay Vincent really

1699
01:30:11,280 --> 01:30:13,880
Speaker 18: at Chamora don't and connected maybe a first round pick

1700
01:30:13,920 --> 01:30:16,960
Speaker 18: and hope something sticks. But I think it's really going

1701
01:30:17,040 --> 01:30:19,559
Speaker 18: to be about make the best of this year, still

1702
01:30:19,640 --> 01:30:22,000
Speaker 18: try to at least be in the playoff picture, and

1703
01:30:22,080 --> 01:30:25,519
Speaker 18: then next offseason with Lebron James for Jubilee. You know,

1704
01:30:25,680 --> 01:30:28,759
Speaker 18: now on the team, they have more room to resign

1705
01:30:28,840 --> 01:30:32,360
Speaker 18: Austin Reeves and you know, really bolster a good team

1706
01:30:32,400 --> 01:30:34,680
Speaker 18: around him and Luka Dontrich so that they are in

1707
01:30:34,760 --> 01:30:35,800
Speaker 18: that contenting mix.

1708
01:30:38,160 --> 01:30:40,080
Speaker 2: Honestly, I think they're in trouble. I mean, they should

1709
01:30:40,080 --> 01:30:42,760
Speaker 2: take care of Sacramentos on the night, But conversation for

1710
01:30:42,840 --> 01:30:45,800
Speaker 2: a different day. Cooper Flag, by the way, it looks

1711
01:30:45,880 --> 01:30:48,320
Speaker 2: visually like he's lost some weight, and that's a good

1712
01:30:48,400 --> 01:30:51,479
Speaker 2: thing because I remember when the Olympic team is working

1713
01:30:51,520 --> 01:30:53,599
Speaker 2: out here in Las Vegas in December twenty twenty four,

1714
01:30:54,120 --> 01:30:57,080
Speaker 2: he was he with nuts and he looked thinner, and

1715
01:30:58,439 --> 01:30:59,880
Speaker 2: I got to tell you when you look at his

1716
01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:05,479
Speaker 2: progression mark in the NBA, just in terms of what

1717
01:31:05,680 --> 01:31:09,000
Speaker 2: he's done recently. I mean October he was averaging like

1718
01:31:09,040 --> 01:31:11,880
Speaker 2: thirteen points a game, shooting forty percent from the field.

1719
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:14,040
Speaker 2: That jumped to eighteen and November all of a sudden,

1720
01:31:14,120 --> 01:31:16,839
Speaker 2: now averaging almost twenty five points a game.

1721
01:31:16,720 --> 01:31:18,000
Speaker 4: And shooting over fifty percent.

1722
01:31:19,960 --> 01:31:23,640
Speaker 2: Your thoughts on Cooper Flag and how well received this

1723
01:31:23,720 --> 01:31:25,920
Speaker 2: as being this is by the NBA as a hole.

1724
01:31:26,800 --> 01:31:29,080
Speaker 18: Yeah, I've talked to a lot of different scouts and

1725
01:31:29,320 --> 01:31:32,200
Speaker 18: you know, league personnel outside of Dallas the last few

1726
01:31:32,240 --> 01:31:34,400
Speaker 18: weeks about Cooper Flag and his core of the season.

1727
01:31:34,920 --> 01:31:38,479
Speaker 18: And there's two takeaways. Three takeaways here. One, not surprised

1728
01:31:38,560 --> 01:31:40,320
Speaker 18: he is drafting number one for a reason. We knew

1729
01:31:40,400 --> 01:31:43,280
Speaker 18: he was going to be a special player. Number Two,

1730
01:31:43,439 --> 01:31:45,840
Speaker 18: there's a lot of you know, scouts for an office

1731
01:31:45,960 --> 01:31:49,479
Speaker 18: people that attribute his improvement for the fact that he's

1732
01:31:49,560 --> 01:31:52,400
Speaker 18: no longer playing point guard position. They thought that the

1733
01:31:52,479 --> 01:31:56,160
Speaker 18: Dallas Mavericks. Most of them argue that they put him

1734
01:31:56,400 --> 01:31:58,880
Speaker 18: not in a good position to succeed because that's not

1735
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:02,439
Speaker 18: a skill set, that's not experience being a playmaker. But

1736
01:32:02,560 --> 01:32:04,800
Speaker 18: they're so dire at point guard. With not having Kyrie

1737
01:32:04,840 --> 01:32:08,519
Speaker 18: Irving because of his injury, D'Angel Russell just really hasn't

1738
01:32:08,560 --> 01:32:11,160
Speaker 18: been a good fit. But there are some people, you know,

1739
01:32:11,280 --> 01:32:15,200
Speaker 18: Matt McKenzie, Cooper Flag's trainer, another skuy talked. He thought, hey,

1740
01:32:15,240 --> 01:32:18,160
Speaker 18: you know what this helps broaden Cooper flags skill set.

1741
01:32:18,280 --> 01:32:20,880
Speaker 18: So there's some different opinions there, but the third thing

1742
01:32:21,840 --> 01:32:25,320
Speaker 18: that everyone agrees on is that Cooper Flag has just

1743
01:32:26,040 --> 01:32:30,719
Speaker 18: the great package of He's a great score, very versatile defender,

1744
01:32:31,040 --> 01:32:34,439
Speaker 18: is all about the right stuff, plays through pressure, doesn't

1745
01:32:34,439 --> 01:32:39,639
Speaker 18: get rattled, very confident, very coachable, and I know talking

1746
01:32:39,680 --> 01:32:43,519
Speaker 18: to Matt McKenzie again, his trainer, he really has kind

1747
01:32:43,560 --> 01:32:45,800
Speaker 18: of an old school veterans spirit when it comes to,

1748
01:32:46,640 --> 01:32:48,680
Speaker 18: you know, working on his game. He watches a lot

1749
01:32:48,720 --> 01:32:52,720
Speaker 18: of film on players. He's trying to emulate future opponents.

1750
01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:56,160
Speaker 18: You mentioned about him losing weight. He's gained strength, but

1751
01:32:56,240 --> 01:32:58,560
Speaker 18: I want to be surprised if he's lost some of

1752
01:32:58,680 --> 01:33:02,439
Speaker 18: the body fat. There's been a lot of emphasis this

1753
01:33:02,600 --> 01:33:05,479
Speaker 18: past summer on his conditioning and weight training so that

1754
01:33:05,600 --> 01:33:09,200
Speaker 18: he could absorb the physicality in the NBA and be

1755
01:33:09,360 --> 01:33:12,719
Speaker 18: more durable, more available, so that he doesn't have major injuries,

1756
01:33:13,320 --> 01:33:15,799
Speaker 18: and you know, the way his routine is after games,

1757
01:33:16,200 --> 01:33:19,160
Speaker 18: it's almost like a veteran player. He gets its bass,

1758
01:33:20,000 --> 01:33:24,120
Speaker 18: he's always getting a left after games. He does yoga

1759
01:33:24,200 --> 01:33:27,320
Speaker 18: sessions from time to time. He's really moditoring his diet,

1760
01:33:28,120 --> 01:33:30,000
Speaker 18: you know, where he's not perfect all the time, but

1761
01:33:30,600 --> 01:33:33,000
Speaker 18: you know, it's very heavy on protein, making sure that

1762
01:33:33,080 --> 01:33:36,120
Speaker 18: he's hydrating pretty well. So it shouldn't be a surprise

1763
01:33:36,200 --> 01:33:39,040
Speaker 18: that you're seeing him take a huge leap this core

1764
01:33:39,080 --> 01:33:42,040
Speaker 18: of the season because one, we expect that for him

1765
01:33:42,080 --> 01:33:44,400
Speaker 18: to do that, because he's so talented. But most importantly,

1766
01:33:44,920 --> 01:33:48,639
Speaker 18: he's all about the right things that you know, result

1767
01:33:48,760 --> 01:33:51,719
Speaker 18: in you know, great NBA players becoming even better.

1768
01:33:53,320 --> 01:33:56,080
Speaker 2: With Mark Medina Medina Magic every Saturday night Sunday into

1769
01:33:56,120 --> 01:33:59,559
Speaker 2: Sunday morning, one am Pacific on the Bernie Frider Show

1770
01:33:59,640 --> 01:34:02,800
Speaker 2: or far Sports Radio. NBA Guru also a writer for

1771
01:34:03,200 --> 01:34:08,360
Speaker 2: Essentially Sports. I'm curious, it's part of it's part of

1772
01:34:08,479 --> 01:34:12,200
Speaker 2: Cooper Flagg's comportman. Does he ever scream hell yeah when

1773
01:34:12,240 --> 01:34:13,439
Speaker 2: an opponent is a free throw?

1774
01:34:17,000 --> 01:34:19,000
Speaker 18: You know, I know he's an emotional player, but he

1775
01:34:19,160 --> 01:34:22,560
Speaker 18: usually tries to be stocked in between the lines with

1776
01:34:22,680 --> 01:34:27,559
Speaker 18: his opponents, but you know what, he is a competitive guy,

1777
01:34:27,720 --> 01:34:28,919
Speaker 18: so I want to be surprised.

1778
01:34:29,280 --> 01:34:32,599
Speaker 2: Well, how about yeah, I know, you know what's going

1779
01:34:32,640 --> 01:34:37,760
Speaker 2: on with Wenby? I don't know who Peede and his cornflakes.

1780
01:34:38,360 --> 01:34:41,559
Speaker 2: I know they say that he was really pissed when

1781
01:34:42,240 --> 01:34:46,000
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen his FEBA team lost to chet Holmgrens,

1782
01:34:46,080 --> 01:34:49,160
Speaker 2: and he's carried it way overboard and it's not a

1783
01:34:49,240 --> 01:34:54,120
Speaker 2: good look for my humble opinion. Why does Wenby hate

1784
01:34:56,560 --> 01:35:00,320
Speaker 2: hold him so bad? He does, Okay, it's not just

1785
01:35:00,439 --> 01:35:02,680
Speaker 2: it's a rivalry thing or whatever, And he says it's

1786
01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:04,880
Speaker 2: not even a rivalry because on two levels above.

1787
01:35:05,000 --> 01:35:07,719
Speaker 4: Check what's going on there? Seriously, what am I missing?

1788
01:35:08,640 --> 01:35:08,800
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1789
01:35:08,840 --> 01:35:11,519
Speaker 18: I mean, it is a rivalry, but there does seem

1790
01:35:11,600 --> 01:35:16,200
Speaker 18: to be it's more than just basketball. There's some personality

1791
01:35:16,320 --> 01:35:19,080
Speaker 18: things I think. I think really it just feeds into

1792
01:35:19,160 --> 01:35:22,760
Speaker 18: how competitive Wemby is. That he feels that he's one

1793
01:35:22,800 --> 01:35:24,799
Speaker 18: of the best players in the NBA right now, certainly

1794
01:35:24,840 --> 01:35:27,720
Speaker 18: the best in his rookie class, and he feels that

1795
01:35:28,280 --> 01:35:32,320
Speaker 18: he says so much skill, he's mostly durable, and he

1796
01:35:32,439 --> 01:35:35,720
Speaker 18: looks at someone like chet Holmgren, who's someone who's not

1797
01:35:35,920 --> 01:35:37,640
Speaker 18: like that he does have a lot of skill, but

1798
01:35:38,160 --> 01:35:40,799
Speaker 18: he has a lot had a lot more durability issues

1799
01:35:41,560 --> 01:35:45,080
Speaker 18: challenging with adapting the you know, to the physicality of

1800
01:35:45,080 --> 01:35:48,400
Speaker 18: the NBA. But I think the other thing that Victor

1801
01:35:48,439 --> 01:35:50,320
Speaker 18: Wan bidowm has made clear to that I don't think

1802
01:35:50,320 --> 01:35:53,280
Speaker 18: that he looks at the Oklahoma City Thunder in a

1803
01:35:53,360 --> 01:35:55,960
Speaker 18: favorable light as a team. You know, he's talking about,

1804
01:35:56,360 --> 01:35:59,040
Speaker 18: you know, the Spurs playing ethical basketball and all that.

1805
01:35:59,160 --> 01:36:01,760
Speaker 18: I think that's a out at the Thunder because they've

1806
01:36:01,760 --> 01:36:04,280
Speaker 18: been seen as a team that you know, just gets

1807
01:36:04,320 --> 01:36:07,720
Speaker 18: the foul line a lot because Shee godes Alexander his craftiness.

1808
01:36:07,760 --> 01:36:11,200
Speaker 18: But they're also a team that also fouls a lot

1809
01:36:11,280 --> 01:36:13,880
Speaker 18: themselves because they get a lot of they have a

1810
01:36:13,960 --> 01:36:15,960
Speaker 18: lot of physical wing defenders and they get a lot

1811
01:36:16,280 --> 01:36:19,840
Speaker 18: they get away a lot with non calls, and so

1812
01:36:20,600 --> 01:36:22,720
Speaker 18: I didn't get all fuels together. And you know what,

1813
01:36:22,840 --> 01:36:24,800
Speaker 18: I think that's actually great for the NBA. You want

1814
01:36:24,840 --> 01:36:27,920
Speaker 18: to have rivalries, you want to have that animosity kind

1815
01:36:27,920 --> 01:36:31,439
Speaker 18: of the old school eighties Lakers Celtics where guys don't

1816
01:36:31,560 --> 01:36:34,000
Speaker 18: like each other and it carries over to the court.

1817
01:36:34,160 --> 01:36:36,720
Speaker 18: So I'm all about it, And you know, every time

1818
01:36:36,760 --> 01:36:39,439
Speaker 18: they match up against each other. It's made for some

1819
01:36:39,880 --> 01:36:42,080
Speaker 18: pretty entertaining and competitive matchups.

1820
01:36:42,320 --> 01:36:45,240
Speaker 2: Well, they Spurs certainly seem to have their number, and

1821
01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:47,920
Speaker 2: yeah they do, right, and then they turned this, then

1822
01:36:47,960 --> 01:36:50,840
Speaker 2: they turn right around and used to the Lucy Utah

1823
01:36:50,960 --> 01:36:54,240
Speaker 2: by what thirteen. So look, it's a long season. We'll

1824
01:36:54,240 --> 01:36:57,120
Speaker 2: see what happens. But I got to tell you that

1825
01:36:57,320 --> 01:37:00,400
Speaker 2: Western Conference playoffs, I think is going to be a

1826
01:37:00,439 --> 01:37:04,679
Speaker 2: real glantlet. I really do there are we haven't even

1827
01:37:04,760 --> 01:37:07,200
Speaker 2: mentioned Denver. All of a sudden, they are clearly back

1828
01:37:07,240 --> 01:37:09,559
Speaker 2: in the mix. Giving your thoughts on Denver. I mean

1829
01:37:09,600 --> 01:37:10,600
Speaker 2: they look really good to me.

1830
01:37:11,800 --> 01:37:15,040
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean the Denver Nuggets. You could never dismiss

1831
01:37:15,120 --> 01:37:19,160
Speaker 18: them because of Nikole Jokic and he's back an MVP conversation.

1832
01:37:19,280 --> 01:37:23,200
Speaker 18: I think the reason why there's some relative concern with

1833
01:37:23,360 --> 01:37:26,479
Speaker 18: them is, you know, they've had some pretty significant injuries.

1834
01:37:26,520 --> 01:37:30,479
Speaker 18: With Aaron Gordon and Christian Brown, they're really great rotation players.

1835
01:37:30,640 --> 01:37:33,920
Speaker 18: You know, Aaron Gordon, great defender, has improved as a

1836
01:37:33,960 --> 01:37:37,360
Speaker 18: three point shooter. He really makes life easier for Nikole

1837
01:37:37,400 --> 01:37:41,000
Speaker 18: Jokic with their two man game inside. And Christian Brown

1838
01:37:41,160 --> 01:37:43,840
Speaker 18: he's a great young player. That's all about, you know,

1839
01:37:44,200 --> 01:37:47,320
Speaker 18: making winning plays. He's a great three point shooter, great

1840
01:37:47,439 --> 01:37:50,559
Speaker 18: hustle guy, great perimeter defender. So I think that's where

1841
01:37:51,120 --> 01:37:54,479
Speaker 18: the concern, uh, you know, carries over. Same thing with

1842
01:37:54,600 --> 01:37:58,960
Speaker 18: Cam Johnson. He's had some significant injuries. But Nikole Jokic

1843
01:37:59,080 --> 01:38:04,160
Speaker 18: playing MVP Jamal Murray, he's finally healthy. He's been pretty

1844
01:38:04,200 --> 01:38:07,000
Speaker 18: consistent and you know, they have a pretty good culture

1845
01:38:07,040 --> 01:38:10,640
Speaker 18: there that you can't dismiss them. But the thunder, you know,

1846
01:38:11,680 --> 01:38:14,559
Speaker 18: with exception when they play the Spurs, they've been pretty

1847
01:38:14,760 --> 01:38:17,160
Speaker 18: much like an well oiled machine. You haven't seen much

1848
01:38:17,280 --> 01:38:21,000
Speaker 18: drop off with their championship DNA and the Spurs, even

1849
01:38:21,040 --> 01:38:24,479
Speaker 18: with overlapping with injuries with Victor Woman Yama Jaron Fox,

1850
01:38:25,000 --> 01:38:27,160
Speaker 18: it's clear that they're not just a playoff team, but

1851
01:38:27,200 --> 01:38:29,080
Speaker 18: they're a team that's going to be in the mix

1852
01:38:29,200 --> 01:38:31,719
Speaker 18: because of their strong chemistry with both their young players

1853
01:38:31,760 --> 01:38:32,280
Speaker 18: and their vests.

1854
01:38:32,840 --> 01:38:35,759
Speaker 2: Mark, I just got about a minute, but someone asked

1855
01:38:35,880 --> 01:38:39,560
Speaker 2: me this the other day, so I will defer to you.

1856
01:38:40,439 --> 01:38:42,920
Speaker 2: What is the latest from your vantage point on the

1857
01:38:43,080 --> 01:38:46,760
Speaker 2: NBA gambling scandal. We know that Terry Rozier is trying

1858
01:38:46,800 --> 01:38:49,640
Speaker 2: to get some charges dismissed. We know, the wheels of

1859
01:38:49,840 --> 01:38:52,880
Speaker 2: justice grind very slowly, but even now Adam Silver is

1860
01:38:52,920 --> 01:38:55,599
Speaker 2: called this cooled an insider trading soccer for the NBA,

1861
01:38:56,120 --> 01:38:57,920
Speaker 2: but it's gone kind of dorm it's the latest.

1862
01:38:58,479 --> 01:39:00,479
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean, I think it's frustrated. Thing is there

1863
01:39:00,560 --> 01:39:02,600
Speaker 18: doesn't seem to be a latest as far as we know.

1864
01:39:02,680 --> 01:39:05,560
Speaker 18: I mean, Adam Silver talked to the media before the

1865
01:39:05,680 --> 01:39:10,000
Speaker 18: NBA Cup Championship, and you know, he showed that why

1866
01:39:10,080 --> 01:39:12,960
Speaker 18: he went to law school and he practices as a lawyer.

1867
01:39:13,080 --> 01:39:15,920
Speaker 18: That he said a lot of things but essentially said nothing.

1868
01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:19,760
Speaker 18: That basically, the investigation is still ongoing. They hired an

1869
01:39:19,800 --> 01:39:23,000
Speaker 18: outside law firm to handle all this stuff. So I

1870
01:39:23,160 --> 01:39:27,200
Speaker 18: don't expect that there's going to be any resolution until

1871
01:39:27,280 --> 01:39:29,920
Speaker 18: the end of the season. But I think that there

1872
01:39:30,040 --> 01:39:32,759
Speaker 18: is some short term things that they have to address

1873
01:39:33,160 --> 01:39:35,640
Speaker 18: that i Am Silver acknowledged that it's very hard to

1874
01:39:35,720 --> 01:39:39,519
Speaker 18: untangled because you know, Terry Rozier is with the Miami

1875
01:39:39,600 --> 01:39:41,400
Speaker 18: Heat and if he's not going to be able to

1876
01:39:41,479 --> 01:39:45,280
Speaker 18: play Miami, Miami has to get some kind of reimbursement,

1877
01:39:45,360 --> 01:39:49,200
Speaker 18: whether it shraft picks assets in return for this trade.

1878
01:39:50,600 --> 01:39:53,560
Speaker 18: But that hasn't been resolved. It should be, but you know,

1879
01:39:53,640 --> 01:39:57,360
Speaker 18: the NBA hasn't made any suggestion that there's clarity on

1880
01:39:57,439 --> 01:39:58,439
Speaker 18: how they're going to handle them.

1881
01:39:59,720 --> 01:40:02,320
Speaker 2: Mark, great stuff. As always, when we talk next Saturday,

1882
01:40:02,400 --> 01:40:03,679
Speaker 2: we will be in a new.

1883
01:40:03,640 --> 01:40:08,360
Speaker 18: Year and yep, I'll talk to you next year. Keep

1884
01:40:08,439 --> 01:40:09,320
Speaker 18: your servers well.

1885
01:40:10,479 --> 01:40:13,320
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1886
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1925
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1926
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1927
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1928
01:42:23,360 --> 01:42:28,080
Speaker 2: for your chance to win one thousand dollars. Speaking of

1929
01:42:28,160 --> 01:42:31,000
Speaker 2: that kickoff on New Year's Eve, which is Wednesday, the

1930
01:42:31,120 --> 01:42:34,400
Speaker 2: first game will be the number two Ohio State Buckeyes,

1931
01:42:34,720 --> 01:42:36,759
Speaker 2: currently in nine and a half point favorite against Miami,

1932
01:42:37,040 --> 01:42:40,320
Speaker 2: fresh off their impressive defensive flugfest. It was more like

1933
01:42:40,320 --> 01:42:44,000
Speaker 2: a fistfight in to phone booth against Texas A and M.

1934
01:42:44,680 --> 01:42:46,320
Speaker 4: So who wins this thing? Let's take a look at

1935
01:42:46,360 --> 01:42:47,040
Speaker 4: some basic.

1936
01:42:46,840 --> 01:42:49,560
Speaker 2: Matchups, okay, and by the way, the winner of this

1937
01:42:49,760 --> 01:42:52,920
Speaker 2: game will take on the winner of Georgia, Ole miss

1938
01:42:53,360 --> 01:42:55,320
Speaker 2: and the Fiesta Bowl, which has played New Year's Day,

1939
01:42:55,760 --> 01:42:57,599
Speaker 2: and we will get to that in a minute.

1940
01:42:58,680 --> 01:42:59,479
Speaker 4: Couple things here.

1941
01:42:59,560 --> 01:43:03,000
Speaker 2: Ohio State has a very sophisticated pass game, but Miami

1942
01:43:03,080 --> 01:43:07,479
Speaker 2: has an excellent pass defense, okay, which has really helped

1943
01:43:07,479 --> 01:43:11,280
Speaker 2: a lot by a tremendously fierce defensive line. They got

1944
01:43:11,320 --> 01:43:14,760
Speaker 2: a couple of stud ed Dressers, Ruben Bain Junior, a

1945
01:43:14,840 --> 01:43:20,639
Speaker 2: Keying Messidor, and they're a key reason why that defense

1946
01:43:20,720 --> 01:43:23,639
Speaker 2: is so solid. They almost look like an NFL defense.

1947
01:43:24,760 --> 01:43:28,400
Speaker 2: But the truth of the matter is Julian saying gets

1948
01:43:28,520 --> 01:43:32,320
Speaker 2: rid of the ball quickly, usually less in less than

1949
01:43:32,400 --> 01:43:35,000
Speaker 2: two and a half seconds, completes almost eighty percent of

1950
01:43:35,080 --> 01:43:39,200
Speaker 2: his passes. And the Hurricanes, although they have rocked up

1951
01:43:39,240 --> 01:43:42,599
Speaker 2: the second most pressures in sacks in the nation this year,

1952
01:43:43,320 --> 01:43:48,040
Speaker 2: and they're going to pressure, Julian saying, there's no question

1953
01:43:48,600 --> 01:43:52,040
Speaker 2: that's going to happen. The question is will it be effective.

1954
01:43:52,360 --> 01:43:55,400
Speaker 2: That's something we got to watch, all right. The Gotahouse

1955
01:43:55,400 --> 01:43:57,960
Speaker 2: State's run game, and Miami has an excellent run defense.

1956
01:43:59,080 --> 01:44:02,200
Speaker 2: Bo Jackson is picked up right up where Quinn, Shawn

1957
01:44:02,280 --> 01:44:05,479
Speaker 2: Jenkins and Trevion Anderson left off. He's rushed for over

1958
01:44:05,520 --> 01:44:11,080
Speaker 2: one thousand yards and he's terrific after contact, okay, seven

1959
01:44:11,160 --> 01:44:15,160
Speaker 2: hundred yards after contact again. Miami's defensive line has been

1960
01:44:15,200 --> 01:44:17,960
Speaker 2: one of the best in the country getting after the quarterback.

1961
01:44:18,320 --> 01:44:20,759
Speaker 2: But the Keynes are also pretty damn good and run defense.

1962
01:44:20,840 --> 01:44:23,600
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened against Louisville and SMU, but

1963
01:44:23,720 --> 01:44:25,920
Speaker 2: the truth of the matter is, there were only two

1964
01:44:26,000 --> 01:44:28,519
Speaker 2: defenses this year to hold Ohio State fewer than twenty

1965
01:44:28,560 --> 01:44:32,599
Speaker 2: four points, Texas and Indiana, and those are the only

1966
01:44:32,680 --> 01:44:35,000
Speaker 2: two where Ohio State field to rush for one hundred yards.

1967
01:44:35,600 --> 01:44:37,680
Speaker 2: Miami's front seven is going to have to bring that

1968
01:44:37,840 --> 01:44:41,680
Speaker 2: kind of hat on hat defense if they have a

1969
01:44:41,760 --> 01:44:44,880
Speaker 2: chance to beat Ohio State. Now, let's slip the coin.

1970
01:44:45,640 --> 01:44:50,120
Speaker 2: Miami's pass game versus Ohio State's past defense. Kid Ohio

1971
01:44:50,240 --> 01:44:54,840
Speaker 2: State find a way to pressure Carson back. Interestingly enough,

1972
01:44:55,680 --> 01:44:59,640
Speaker 2: Miami's PFF blocking grade he stirred in the nation. They

1973
01:44:59,680 --> 01:45:03,200
Speaker 2: pret TechEd Carson Beck and he gets rid of the

1974
01:45:03,240 --> 01:45:07,200
Speaker 2: ball even quicker than Julian's saying. Now, Miami's run game

1975
01:45:07,280 --> 01:45:11,760
Speaker 2: against Ohio State's run defense. That's basically asking, well, they're

1976
01:45:11,800 --> 01:45:16,160
Speaker 2: old line versus Ohio State's D line again, another tremendous

1977
01:45:16,360 --> 01:45:24,040
Speaker 2: matchup pitting two very extremely physical lines. Ohio State is

1978
01:45:24,080 --> 01:45:27,439
Speaker 2: a defensive line that's basically like a wall, and they

1979
01:45:27,520 --> 01:45:31,000
Speaker 2: got first rounders on that line. And the truth of

1980
01:45:31,080 --> 01:45:36,880
Speaker 2: the matter is that makes Miami's quest to beat the

1981
01:45:37,240 --> 01:45:39,639
Speaker 2: Buckeyes that much more difficult. And I'll tell you why,

1982
01:45:40,960 --> 01:45:43,880
Speaker 2: Because when you don't run the ball. Passing LANs don't

1983
01:45:43,880 --> 01:45:47,280
Speaker 2: open up, and Miami brings a relatively straightforward approach on

1984
01:45:47,360 --> 01:45:50,599
Speaker 2: the ground, So it's gonna be man or men. They're

1985
01:45:50,640 --> 01:45:53,479
Speaker 2: gonna have to Miami's offensive line is gonna have to

1986
01:45:53,520 --> 01:45:56,599
Speaker 2: win these individual battles. Where do I think this shakes

1987
01:45:56,640 --> 01:45:59,960
Speaker 2: out Ohio State's lay nine and a half. I don't

1988
01:46:00,200 --> 01:46:02,519
Speaker 2: know that they hang the number, but they certainly can.

1989
01:46:03,320 --> 01:46:05,400
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna start out as a slug fest,

1990
01:46:06,320 --> 01:46:08,000
Speaker 2: and I think one of the two teams are gonna

1991
01:46:08,000 --> 01:46:11,639
Speaker 2: have to outlast each other. But the reason I believe

1992
01:46:11,960 --> 01:46:16,920
Speaker 2: Ohio State will outlast Miami it's simple and it's right

1993
01:46:17,000 --> 01:46:22,439
Speaker 2: there before your eyes. Ohio State has tremendous playmakers. They

1994
01:46:22,520 --> 01:46:25,560
Speaker 2: have a great ability to make explosive plays either on

1995
01:46:25,640 --> 01:46:28,280
Speaker 2: the ground or through the air. And Miami does not

1996
01:46:28,400 --> 01:46:31,479
Speaker 2: have the depth of receivers that Ohio State has, and

1997
01:46:31,520 --> 01:46:34,920
Speaker 2: they're not an explosive offensive team that will catch up

1998
01:46:35,000 --> 01:46:39,040
Speaker 2: to Miami over a four quarter game against Ohio State.

1999
01:46:39,800 --> 01:46:43,120
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna call it Ohio State twenty four to fourteen.

2000
01:46:43,920 --> 01:46:46,000
Speaker 2: Could I be wrong? Sure? I don't want to lay

2001
01:46:46,000 --> 01:46:47,639
Speaker 2: the nine and a half, but I sure as hell don't.

2002
01:46:47,439 --> 01:46:47,840
Speaker 4: Want to take it.

2003
01:46:47,920 --> 01:46:50,439
Speaker 2: I'm not getting in front of a speeding train. Ohio

2004
01:46:50,560 --> 01:46:53,040
Speaker 2: State lost to Indiana in the Big Ten Championship game.

2005
01:46:53,520 --> 01:46:55,680
Speaker 2: Ohio State didn't play in the Big Ten Championship game

2006
01:46:55,760 --> 01:46:57,960
Speaker 2: last year. They lost to Michigan in the final game

2007
01:46:58,000 --> 01:46:59,880
Speaker 2: of the year, and he saw what happened when they

2008
01:47:00,000 --> 01:47:00,799
Speaker 2: after the playoffs.

2009
01:47:01,160 --> 01:47:02,360
Speaker 4: Don't think they can't do it again?

2010
01:47:02,400 --> 01:47:02,680
Speaker 3: Do I think?

2011
01:47:02,680 --> 01:47:06,120
Speaker 2: They repeat? I'm not sure. I don't feel great about it, actually,

2012
01:47:06,240 --> 01:47:07,800
Speaker 2: but we're gonna get to that in future shows. Let

2013
01:47:07,840 --> 01:47:10,800
Speaker 2: them see they get back past Miami. First. It all

2014
01:47:10,840 --> 01:47:14,160
Speaker 2: starts New Year's Eve. If you live on the left

2015
01:47:14,200 --> 01:47:18,080
Speaker 2: coast where I do, right out of the gate, New

2016
01:47:18,160 --> 01:47:22,280
Speaker 2: Year's Day, don't sleep In nine am, the Oregon Ducks,

2017
01:47:22,720 --> 01:47:25,160
Speaker 2: a team I think will be a surprise team, takes

2018
01:47:25,240 --> 01:47:28,800
Speaker 2: on Texas Tech. The winner of that game has to

2019
01:47:28,840 --> 01:47:31,200
Speaker 2: play the winner of Indiana Alabama, which would also be

2020
01:47:31,240 --> 01:47:34,559
Speaker 2: a good game as far as as far as the line.

2021
01:47:36,320 --> 01:47:39,200
Speaker 2: Oregon is currently a two and a half point favorite

2022
01:47:39,280 --> 01:47:42,600
Speaker 2: against Texas Tech, and I think that's about where it

2023
01:47:42,680 --> 01:47:43,080
Speaker 2: should be.

2024
01:47:44,680 --> 01:47:46,160
Speaker 4: Texas Tech again.

2025
01:47:46,720 --> 01:47:49,760
Speaker 2: The first thing your eyes gravitate to, of course, is

2026
01:47:49,760 --> 01:47:54,880
Speaker 2: their passing game versus Oregon's passing defense. Baron Morton has

2027
01:47:55,000 --> 01:47:57,080
Speaker 2: been one of the most effective quarterbacks. As long as

2028
01:47:57,120 --> 01:47:59,920
Speaker 2: he's got a clean pocket, he makes big time throws.

2029
01:48:00,920 --> 01:48:03,479
Speaker 2: And there's no question. I mean, he's a veteran, he's

2030
01:48:03,520 --> 01:48:10,000
Speaker 2: a red shirt senior. However, However, when he's pressured, things change.

2031
01:48:11,200 --> 01:48:15,240
Speaker 2: And fortunately for him though, Texas Tech and they're owd

2032
01:48:15,280 --> 01:48:18,879
Speaker 2: Lion is excellent at giving him clean pockets. Now, Oregon's

2033
01:48:19,160 --> 01:48:22,560
Speaker 2: pass rush is strong this year, they're you know, in

2034
01:48:22,640 --> 01:48:26,000
Speaker 2: the top twenty and pressure rate and things of that nature.

2035
01:48:26,560 --> 01:48:29,920
Speaker 2: But again, this is a matchup. Whoever wins this matchup

2036
01:48:29,960 --> 01:48:33,880
Speaker 2: could be crucial to where this game goes. If Baron

2037
01:48:33,960 --> 01:48:36,800
Speaker 2: Morton has a clean pocket time to throw, Texas Tech

2038
01:48:36,920 --> 01:48:39,520
Speaker 2: is likely going to get their points. It becomes a shootout.

2039
01:48:39,800 --> 01:48:43,000
Speaker 2: Texas Tech gets pressure on him, things could change now

2040
01:48:43,120 --> 01:48:47,720
Speaker 2: Texas Tech. Again, here's the deal. Texas Tech has a

2041
01:48:47,840 --> 01:48:51,519
Speaker 2: run game, and the question will be how well can

2042
01:48:51,600 --> 01:48:56,720
Speaker 2: Oregon maintain gap integrity and their gap run schemes and

2043
01:48:56,920 --> 01:49:00,439
Speaker 2: slow down Texas Tech in their run game. Imary on

2044
01:49:00,560 --> 01:49:04,880
Speaker 2: goal on defense. Primary goal on defense for Oregon is

2045
01:49:05,000 --> 01:49:08,519
Speaker 2: to somehow force Texas Tech and to bad down in

2046
01:49:08,600 --> 01:49:12,320
Speaker 2: distant situations you want if you're Oregon. I know this

2047
01:49:12,439 --> 01:49:15,599
Speaker 2: sounds cliche, but if you can get Texas Tech into

2048
01:49:15,600 --> 01:49:17,240
Speaker 2: a lot of third and sevens and a lot of

2049
01:49:17,320 --> 01:49:21,280
Speaker 2: third and nines, that's going to vote very well for Oregon.

2050
01:49:21,840 --> 01:49:25,920
Speaker 2: Now on the opposite side, Dante Moore has been sensational

2051
01:49:26,040 --> 01:49:30,479
Speaker 2: for Oregon. Howiey fair against you know Texas text defense.

2052
01:49:31,080 --> 01:49:34,640
Speaker 2: They're excellent in their pass rush Greade. But Oregon again, now,

2053
01:49:34,680 --> 01:49:36,599
Speaker 2: you don't get to this point without a great old line.

2054
01:49:36,680 --> 01:49:39,479
Speaker 2: They have great line guys on their O line, and

2055
01:49:39,600 --> 01:49:42,000
Speaker 2: I think the goal and this is again sound very cliche,

2056
01:49:42,400 --> 01:49:45,760
Speaker 2: protect Dante Moore as well as possible. But again, Dante

2057
01:49:45,840 --> 01:49:48,040
Speaker 2: Moore has a very quick release. He gets rid of

2058
01:49:48,080 --> 01:49:52,600
Speaker 2: the ball much quicker too than your average quarterback. His

2059
01:49:52,680 --> 01:49:55,320
Speaker 2: average time is under two point five seconds. He makes

2060
01:49:55,400 --> 01:49:58,400
Speaker 2: quick decisions, he makes excellent downfield throws.

2061
01:49:58,520 --> 01:49:59,880
Speaker 1: So you have some time.

2062
01:50:00,040 --> 01:50:01,880
Speaker 2: I think you have kind of two mirrored teams here.

2063
01:50:02,200 --> 01:50:05,439
Speaker 2: But I do not believe Texas Tech has seen an

2064
01:50:05,479 --> 01:50:10,680
Speaker 2: offense like Oregon's all year period. Okay, Oregon's run game

2065
01:50:10,840 --> 01:50:14,480
Speaker 2: is the best run game in the country. Now, incidentally, coincidentally,

2066
01:50:15,000 --> 01:50:18,120
Speaker 2: it's coming up against the best run defense in the country.

2067
01:50:18,520 --> 01:50:22,600
Speaker 2: So as they say, get your popcorn ready, this may

2068
01:50:22,680 --> 01:50:24,439
Speaker 2: be the best of the four games in terms of

2069
01:50:25,040 --> 01:50:30,439
Speaker 2: styles and matchups, how they make fights. Okay, Oregon runs

2070
01:50:30,479 --> 01:50:34,519
Speaker 2: the ball terrifically. Texas Tech has a great ability to

2071
01:50:34,560 --> 01:50:37,920
Speaker 2: stop the run. I know that sounds very cliche, but

2072
01:50:38,040 --> 01:50:40,840
Speaker 2: the truth of the matter is that's the reality. But

2073
01:50:41,000 --> 01:50:44,960
Speaker 2: I don't think Texas Tech has seen has seen an

2074
01:50:45,000 --> 01:50:48,599
Speaker 2: offense like Oregons. Their defense has shown why. It's been

2075
01:50:48,880 --> 01:50:55,160
Speaker 2: incredibly effective this year. And you know they had no

2076
01:50:55,280 --> 01:50:59,000
Speaker 2: trouble with BYU of very solid team. Both their times

2077
01:50:59,360 --> 01:51:03,639
Speaker 2: ran through. That's edricd pretty well had one hiccup. Texas

2078
01:51:03,720 --> 01:51:06,519
Speaker 2: Tech could win if they stop Oregon's run game. That's

2079
01:51:06,600 --> 01:51:10,000
Speaker 2: a big, big if. And right now, the hottest quarterback

2080
01:51:10,040 --> 01:51:12,120
Speaker 2: of of all these teams eight teams, I think it's

2081
01:51:12,160 --> 01:51:16,240
Speaker 2: Dante Moore. But in the end, I think although these

2082
01:51:16,240 --> 01:51:18,920
Speaker 2: teams are incredibly even, there's one area of the game

2083
01:51:18,960 --> 01:51:23,400
Speaker 2: where Oregon is just simply better. It's quarterback. It's quarterback.

2084
01:51:23,479 --> 01:51:26,760
Speaker 2: I like Dante Moore better than Baron Morton, and I

2085
01:51:26,840 --> 01:51:29,360
Speaker 2: think that's the difference. I feel like it's a field

2086
01:51:29,360 --> 01:51:34,040
Speaker 2: goal game. Oregon handles Texas Tech twenty seven, twenty four.

2087
01:51:34,840 --> 01:51:39,240
Speaker 2: Can the Indiana Hoosiers the undefeat the Indiana Hoosiers keep

2088
01:51:39,280 --> 01:51:43,599
Speaker 2: it up? They host Alabama and Kalin de Boor, fresh

2089
01:51:43,640 --> 01:51:47,519
Speaker 2: off their tremendous comeback win against Oklahoma. The winner will

2090
01:51:47,560 --> 01:51:51,160
Speaker 2: take on the whoever prevails in the Texas Tech Oregon

2091
01:51:51,200 --> 01:51:53,800
Speaker 2: game I just mentioned. All right, so we start with

2092
01:51:53,920 --> 01:51:59,240
Speaker 2: Indiana's pass game versus Alabama's pass defense. Alabama does a

2093
01:51:59,400 --> 01:52:03,519
Speaker 2: very good job been disguising their coverages. Can Mendoza see

2094
01:52:03,560 --> 01:52:08,680
Speaker 2: through that? Bama has to disrupt quarterbacks because they're not

2095
01:52:08,880 --> 01:52:13,599
Speaker 2: great in pass rush production. Their solution is to disguise

2096
01:52:13,680 --> 01:52:17,200
Speaker 2: coverages in the secondary after the you know, not pre snap,

2097
01:52:17,320 --> 01:52:20,360
Speaker 2: but post snap. They've done that pretty well this time

2098
01:52:20,800 --> 01:52:23,040
Speaker 2: this year. And when they've done so, they've had a

2099
01:52:23,200 --> 01:52:25,720
Speaker 2: you know, pretty good coverage grade in terms of their

2100
01:52:25,760 --> 01:52:30,400
Speaker 2: ability to slow down the teams posing passing offenses. But

2101
01:52:30,880 --> 01:52:34,800
Speaker 2: Fernando Mendoza has done an excellent job of reading defenses

2102
01:52:34,920 --> 01:52:40,560
Speaker 2: and and deciphering you know, complex coverages, and he's proven it.

2103
01:52:41,000 --> 01:52:43,439
Speaker 2: He's he's he also gets ball, gets rid of the

2104
01:52:43,479 --> 01:52:46,840
Speaker 2: ball very quickly. And if Indiana is not prevailing through

2105
01:52:46,880 --> 01:52:49,040
Speaker 2: the air, they certainly prevail on the ground. You have

2106
01:52:49,080 --> 01:52:53,720
Speaker 2: a situation where Indiana's run game against Alabama's run defense. Uh,

2107
01:52:53,920 --> 01:52:58,479
Speaker 2: Indiana just runs downhill. But Alabama has a good, good

2108
01:52:58,800 --> 01:52:59,400
Speaker 2: run defense.

2109
01:52:59,439 --> 01:53:05,360
Speaker 4: They've been in this year. They're you know, statistically, they're

2110
01:53:06,880 --> 01:53:09,599
Speaker 4: they're top twenty. Okay, not they're not. They're not the best.

2111
01:53:10,200 --> 01:53:13,559
Speaker 2: But Alabama's defensive tackles and the linebackers, they're the ones

2112
01:53:13,600 --> 01:53:17,559
Speaker 2: that will decide how well Indiana runs the ball, whether

2113
01:53:17,640 --> 01:53:21,840
Speaker 2: or not they can, you know, curtail the Hoosiers and

2114
01:53:21,880 --> 01:53:25,719
Speaker 2: their running attack and then depend on their Heisman Trophy

2115
01:53:25,760 --> 01:53:28,760
Speaker 2: winner for Nana Mendoza to carry the offense, which he's

2116
01:53:28,800 --> 01:53:33,000
Speaker 2: proven he can do. Meanwhile, his ty Simpson turned a corner.

2117
01:53:33,640 --> 01:53:36,000
Speaker 2: He's proven he's been able to handle blitz He's been

2118
01:53:36,040 --> 01:53:38,960
Speaker 2: a bit of a roller coaster this year when he's blitzed.

2119
01:53:40,280 --> 01:53:42,400
Speaker 2: But the tooth of the matter is he was blitzed

2120
01:53:42,439 --> 01:53:46,560
Speaker 2: a lot with Brent Venables defense against Oklahoma, and he

2121
01:53:46,960 --> 01:53:52,200
Speaker 2: acquitted himself quite well. The Hoosiers will probably blitz as

2122
01:53:52,320 --> 01:53:54,840
Speaker 2: much as forty eight fifty percent of the time, and

2123
01:53:54,960 --> 01:53:58,480
Speaker 2: Indiana also does a great job of disguising they're coverages

2124
01:53:58,880 --> 01:54:01,960
Speaker 2: with those blitz packages. So look, it's gonna be a

2125
01:54:02,080 --> 01:54:05,400
Speaker 2: nice chess match between these two teams because ty Simpson,

2126
01:54:05,840 --> 01:54:10,439
Speaker 2: much like Mendoza is gonna have to do is read

2127
01:54:10,479 --> 01:54:17,320
Speaker 2: those defenses and decipher those complex coverages and disguised coverages. Again, Alabama,

2128
01:54:17,479 --> 01:54:22,040
Speaker 2: their run game versus Indiana's defense, can Bama find any balance?

2129
01:54:22,439 --> 01:54:25,360
Speaker 2: Indiana has an elite run defense. Alabama does not have

2130
01:54:25,400 --> 01:54:29,960
Speaker 2: an elite run offense. All Right, these two teams, if

2131
01:54:30,000 --> 01:54:34,200
Speaker 2: you look, if you watch what they've shown you by

2132
01:54:34,280 --> 01:54:38,840
Speaker 2: the eye test, Okay, you could say, and both these

2133
01:54:38,920 --> 01:54:41,480
Speaker 2: quarterbacks are projected to go in the first round. But

2134
01:54:41,640 --> 01:54:44,760
Speaker 2: I think Mendoza is far more consistent than ty Simpson.

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Speaker 2: Not that ty Simpson has in in his moments. And

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Speaker 2: Alabama should be credited because they've been very resilient in

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Speaker 2: their passing attack. And one of the things Alabama's done,

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Speaker 2: they're opportunistic, they create timely turnovers, but they just don't

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Speaker 2: run the ball. Alabama has a severe lack of a

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Speaker 2: rushing offense, and their pass rush is not up to par,

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Speaker 2: say against teams like Miami. I like Indiana to win

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Speaker 2: this game. I'll call it twenty eight to seventeen. I

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Speaker 2: think Indiana's just gonna be too much. Coming up, this

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Speaker 2: final game has real interest to me for multiple storylines,

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Speaker 2: which I'll get to in just a second. A matchup

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Speaker 2: of a couple of old sec rivals. This one's gonna

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Speaker 2: be fun. I'll break it down for you. Coming up,

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Speaker 2: I'm Bernie fraddlework coming to your life from the Las

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Speaker 2: Vegas Fox Sports Radio Studios. Keep it locked. You're listening

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Speaker 2: to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 4: They're back at the.

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Speaker 2: Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio. Coming to live from

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Speaker 2: the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Studios. We will take

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Speaker 2: you up to three in Pacific six and eight m Eastern.

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Speaker 2: We've covered three of the four games. The finale we're

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Speaker 2: talking to college football playoffs, the Georgia Bulldogs number three

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Speaker 2: Georgia Bulldogs, who I think are very scary, host Old

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Speaker 2: Miss number six Old Miss in the Sugar Bowl. It'll

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Speaker 2: be New Year's Eve, eight pm Eastern time. The winner

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Speaker 2: of that game, well, they'll take on the winner of

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Speaker 2: Ohio State Miami in the Fiesta Bowl. So the quarterfinals

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Speaker 2: will wrap up with Georgia and Old Miss. The Rebels

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Speaker 2: who actually won their first game in program history. They well,

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Speaker 2: they dismantled two Lane forty one to ten, and the

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Speaker 2: Bulldogs got to skip their first round because they were

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Speaker 2: twelve and one. Their only loss was Tobama. They won

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Speaker 2: the SEC. It is actually a rematch.

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Speaker 4: It's the only.

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Speaker 2: Rematch of the playoffs thus far. Georgia beat Mississippi at

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Speaker 2: home week eight. The score was forty three to thirty five.

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01:56:50,480 --> 01:56:53,280
Speaker 2: Now lot's happened since then. And if you'll notice that

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01:56:53,400 --> 01:56:57,360
Speaker 2: Old miss was warring their dark blue uniforms when they

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Speaker 2: beat be two Lane. I'm told those were Lane Kiffin's

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Speaker 2: least favorite. So you know where I'm going with that.

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01:57:04,520 --> 01:57:08,720
Speaker 2: I think they're extra motivated. But look again, matchups, can

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Speaker 2: Gunnar Stockton dominate the perimeter of the field? Old Missus

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01:57:13,040 --> 01:57:16,640
Speaker 2: pass defense is not exactly something to write home bomb.

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01:57:16,680 --> 01:57:19,880
Speaker 2: They very much struggled to defend the perimeter of the

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Speaker 2: field this season. They ranked his seventy six and PFF

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Speaker 2: coverage grade. And you know what that means. They're gonna

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Speaker 2: give up their points. They're gonna have to clean that

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Speaker 2: up otherwise it's gonna be another shootout.

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Speaker 4: And it look.

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Speaker 2: It's one of those situations because Georgia can also run

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Speaker 2: the ball, okay, can the Rebels? Can Mississippi defend between

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Speaker 2: the tackles. Back in the eight week matchup, Georgia ran

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Speaker 2: the ball for two hundred and twenty six yards against

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Speaker 2: Old Miss, and they ran the ball almost fifty times,

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Speaker 2: and most of those runs were between the tackles, where

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Speaker 2: the Georgia averaged almost six yards of carry. Let's face it,

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Speaker 2: Old Miss in their defensive tackles they had major problems

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Speaker 2: containing Georgia. They had major problems containing Georgia between the tackles,

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Speaker 2: and the truth of the matter is the rest of

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Speaker 2: the Rebel defense wasn't exactly stellar either in that game. Now,

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Speaker 2: for Old Miss to compete in this game, of course

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Speaker 2: they're going to compete in the game. Their pass game

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Speaker 2: is going to have to really show up and chew

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Speaker 2: out and they'll have to do a better job because

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Speaker 2: the Bulldogs are going to run man coverage. They're very athletic.

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Speaker 2: Georgia runs probably more man coverage than anybody in college.

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Speaker 2: But when they beat Old Miss back in week eight,

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Speaker 2: they ran't even more man coverage. And that leads me

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Speaker 2: to believe Georgia believes they're more athletic than Old Miss.

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Speaker 2: Both teams are very athletic. That worked very well. Trinidad

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Speaker 2: Chambliss for Old Miss had maybe his worst game passing

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Speaker 2: or passing great as it were against Georgia, and primarily

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Speaker 2: it's because he was pressured. And so the Mississippi is

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Speaker 2: gonna have to do a better job at beating the

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Speaker 2: beating Georgia's blitzes. And then Old Missus run game can

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Speaker 2: they improve. They had their season worst rushing performance in

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Speaker 2: the first game against Georgia. Georgia has a stellar, stellar

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Speaker 2: run defense, probably the most consistent if we're talking about

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Speaker 2: the four facets here, you know, offense defense, offense defense,

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Speaker 2: Georgia's runs defense is the most consistent, not only of

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Speaker 2: the of Georgia's team, but probably the most formidable of

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Speaker 2: all of the you know, of the units we will

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Speaker 2: see on the field here. On New Year's Night, Georgia

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01:59:45,520 --> 01:59:49,360
Speaker 2: completely shut down Mississippi's running attack. In the first game,

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Speaker 2: Kawan Lacey had like thirty one yards on fifteen carries.

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Speaker 2: And again, as I talked about on some of the

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Speaker 2: prior matchups, Ole miss started, you know, their problem started

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Speaker 2: up front. They could they had major trouble blocking Georgia.

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Speaker 2: So the Rebels are going to have to find a

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Speaker 2: way to really balance their offense. Run the ball, pass

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Speaker 2: the ball. Are They're going to basically force Trinidad Chambliss

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Speaker 2: to put, you know, put the whole team on his

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Speaker 2: back against maybe the most elite defense remaining in the tournament,

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Speaker 2: probably that's Ohio State. So look, I don't think there's

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Speaker 2: going to be seventy eight points in this game, but

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Speaker 2: I think Georgia can get to thirty or into the

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Speaker 2: low thirties, and I think the final result is going

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Speaker 2: to be about the same in terms of margin of victory.

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Speaker 2: Georgia beat them by eight points last time. They're laying

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Speaker 2: six and a half. This is one game where I

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Speaker 2: would I would lay the points. I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: Trinidad Chambliss, he has plenty of weapons, but that defense

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02:00:48,440 --> 02:00:51,680
Speaker 2: is just vulnerable and the Bulldogs defense's lights out lately.

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Speaker 2: And if you look at you know, the old myths

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Speaker 2: in the trenches, that's where Georgia has, frankly, the biggest

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Speaker 2: advantage coming up. The biggest story is at twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 2: we talk about them. It's a Bernie Fraddle show on

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: That's right, you heard the man. The Bernie Fradtle Show

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Speaker 2: just keeps rolling right along. My name is Bernie Frattle.

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Speaker 2: We are Comedy Alive from the Fox Sports Radio studios

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Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 4: We'll take up to three am Pacific, six am Eastern.

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Speaker 2: Still lots of stuff to get to, including the fact

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Speaker 2: you probably already know this.

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Speaker 4: Of course, this is our final show of the year.

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Speaker 2: I won't see me again until next year Saturday Night,

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Speaker 2: which happens to be I believe January third sounds right

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Speaker 2: to me. So usually typically it is my eighth year

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Speaker 2: with Fox Sports Radio. As we are winding down the

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Speaker 2: year with essentially just hours to go in the remainder

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Speaker 2: of twenty two twenty five, we are already up to

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Speaker 2: December twenty eighth. I like to reference what I thought

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Speaker 2: were the biggest sports stories of the year. Now, various

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Speaker 2: publications give ten, twenty third whatever.

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Speaker 4: There's too many. I boiled it down to about four.

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Speaker 2: But I think they're they're all doozies, okay, because the

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Speaker 2: real sports stories are. Sorry to disappoints you, the quote

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Speaker 2: unquote rise in popularity of the NBA at WNBA did

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Speaker 2: not make my list. It made everybody else's, not mine.

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Speaker 2: I don't hear people talking about that. Prove me wrong.

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Speaker 2: Let's see if they get to January ninth and get

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Speaker 2: a deal, if they actually go on strike, that would

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Speaker 2: be a story. That would be a story. But it's

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Speaker 2: not my one of my top stories this year. These

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Speaker 2: aren't any particular order, but I say what I thought

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Speaker 2: was the best for last because of those storylines. But

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Speaker 2: the first one hat that really got the ball rolling,

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Speaker 2: and it was first weekend in February, was the Luka

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Speaker 2: Doncivs trade.

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Speaker 4: And that was such a sensational.

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Speaker 2: Story that when Sean Trania of ESPN tweeted out that

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Speaker 2: the Dallas Mavericks had in fact traded Luka Doncic, one

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Speaker 2: of the best players in the NBA, the franchise player

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Speaker 2: who had just taken the Dallas Mavericks to the NBA Finals,

2282
02:03:18,880 --> 02:03:21,760
Speaker 2: a young guy, yeah I'd been around a few years,

2283
02:03:21,840 --> 02:03:26,000
Speaker 2: but really just starting in his career, to the Lakers.

2284
02:03:27,440 --> 02:03:31,400
Speaker 2: Just about everybody thought, honestly, it was a fake tweet.

2285
02:03:32,480 --> 02:03:35,960
Speaker 2: Why in the world would the Mavericks make an insane

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02:03:36,080 --> 02:03:41,680
Speaker 2: move of that nature to the hated Lakers. No less well, first,

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02:03:41,720 --> 02:03:43,280
Speaker 2: it turned out to be true. It turned out to

2288
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Speaker 2: be huge news. And it's been reported that Luka Doncic

2289
02:03:48,520 --> 02:03:51,200
Speaker 2: was so upset at the time, so shocked at the

2290
02:03:51,320 --> 02:03:54,200
Speaker 2: time he threw his phone across the room and he

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Speaker 2: wasn't the only one. And it really sort of led

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Speaker 2: to this transfer of power on paper. And we know

2293
02:04:00,040 --> 02:04:02,400
Speaker 2: now that you know, Nico Harrison had seen enough. He

2294
02:04:02,440 --> 02:04:04,400
Speaker 2: didn't want to get stuck paying him seventy six million

2295
02:04:04,480 --> 02:04:08,080
Speaker 2: in the off season. He implored Luca to lose weight.

2296
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Speaker 2: Luca didn't, and now Lucas since lost weight, but I

2297
02:04:12,520 --> 02:04:15,960
Speaker 2: don't think his defense is any better. If you saw

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02:04:16,000 --> 02:04:18,400
Speaker 2: that Rockets game the other night, I'm sorry, but I

2299
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Speaker 2: don't want to get off on a tangent.

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Speaker 4: This was a huge story.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you served Idie Lebron James Laker angle and ultimately

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Speaker 2: the guy again, as I just said, who made the

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Speaker 2: trade MAVs former general manager Nico Harrison, who at one

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Speaker 2: time was one of the most respected executives in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: They fired him. Dallas fans are devastated, and it's there

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02:04:45,480 --> 02:04:47,800
Speaker 2: are still people that are scratching their heads even though

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02:04:47,800 --> 02:04:50,320
Speaker 2: the dust has settled somewhat. But This is a trade

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02:04:50,360 --> 02:04:55,520
Speaker 2: that'll have ramifications and reverberations frankly for years, and that's

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Speaker 2: why it was very much one of the big stories

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Speaker 2: of the year for me. Again, these aren't in the

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Speaker 2: other particular order. We will see where it goes. Clearly

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Speaker 2: the Lakers are building around Luca. We'll see where it goes.

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02:05:12,760 --> 02:05:15,040
Speaker 2: But man, think about it. I went over some of

2314
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Speaker 2: the big trades, and and you know when Jabbar got traded.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to go over litany now. But it

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Speaker 2: very much ranked up in those animals, and it will

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Speaker 2: be talked about. And then the thing that remains to

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Speaker 2: be seen is will Luca create a new era in Lakerland?

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Speaker 2: It is a it is an organization of eras, and

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Speaker 2: will he win a championship? But boy, I remember I

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02:05:40,160 --> 02:05:43,840
Speaker 2: think it was like February fourth, if memory serves, I

2322
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Speaker 2: was doing my Friday night show. Then I'm like, whoo, man,

2323
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Speaker 2: what a story. Another story that give this it's due.

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Speaker 4: This is a story.

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Speaker 2: We are seeing the end of the dynasty of the Chiefs,

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Speaker 2: and in my humble opinion not to return all dynasties

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02:06:02,080 --> 02:06:05,400
Speaker 2: eventually in and now the Chiefs has as well. And

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Speaker 2: that's the story Now, at the beginning of twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs were headed to their third Super Bowl and

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Speaker 2: perhaps trying to become the only team to three peat

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Speaker 2: in Super Bowls. Now, the Green Bay Packers won three championships,

2332
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Speaker 2: they won the first two Super Bowls, and they actually

2333
02:06:20,600 --> 02:06:26,680
Speaker 2: won the NFL Championship in nineteen sixty six, but the

2334
02:06:26,760 --> 02:06:30,280
Speaker 2: Super Bowl hadn't been established at all, the NFL NFL

2335
02:06:30,400 --> 02:06:32,440
Speaker 2: Championship Game, the fact they didn't even called the Super

2336
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Speaker 2: Bowl to Super Bowl four. But the Chiefs really had

2337
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Speaker 2: a legitimately good chance to be the only team to

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Speaker 2: this point to have won three Super Bowls in a row,

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Speaker 2: and they got stopped and the Eagles owned them. And

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Speaker 2: by the end of this year, all of a sudden,

2341
02:06:53,600 --> 02:06:55,920
Speaker 2: now the Chiefs have gone from going to three straight

2342
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Speaker 2: Super Bowls, winning two of the three, almost winning a third,

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Speaker 2: winning three and five years to missing the playoffs, and

2344
02:07:02,080 --> 02:07:05,800
Speaker 2: they're going to be under five hundred and not looking

2345
02:07:05,880 --> 02:07:09,200
Speaker 2: good doing it. And they will have for the first

2346
02:07:09,280 --> 02:07:17,280
Speaker 2: time in over a decade not won their division. It's

2347
02:07:17,320 --> 02:07:21,360
Speaker 2: going to be Denver now, and you know, we'll see

2348
02:07:21,400 --> 02:07:25,600
Speaker 2: what's next for Travis Kelsey. It seems like he's going

2349
02:07:25,680 --> 02:07:28,320
Speaker 2: to retire this time. People speculated he would retire after

2350
02:07:28,440 --> 02:07:31,480
Speaker 2: last year's Super Bowl. I said, no way, no way.

2351
02:07:31,520 --> 02:07:33,440
Speaker 2: I remember telling my wife, I said, he doesn't want

2352
02:07:33,440 --> 02:07:36,600
Speaker 2: to end this way. And they came back and they

2353
02:07:36,640 --> 02:07:38,360
Speaker 2: did everything they could and it just wasn't in the

2354
02:07:38,440 --> 02:07:41,760
Speaker 2: cards this year. Then Patrick Mahomes blows out his knee

2355
02:07:42,120 --> 02:07:44,160
Speaker 2: and now the team's announcing a move from Kansas City

2356
02:07:44,200 --> 02:07:46,920
Speaker 2: to Kansas The Chiefs had a hell of a run,

2357
02:07:47,360 --> 02:07:50,440
Speaker 2: a nice run. This thing is over and I do

2358
02:07:50,600 --> 02:07:56,440
Speaker 2: not think it's going to return anytime soon and maybe

2359
02:07:56,480 --> 02:07:59,760
Speaker 2: at all. What made the Chiefs so unique and so

2360
02:08:00,120 --> 02:08:04,480
Speaker 2: rate was they were solid in all three phases. But

2361
02:08:04,600 --> 02:08:08,480
Speaker 2: their quarterback was a magician who had this incredible ability

2362
02:08:08,560 --> 02:08:12,240
Speaker 2: to make plays off schedule and these whirling dervish, harlem

2363
02:08:12,280 --> 02:08:16,960
Speaker 2: globetrotter plays and they weren't flukes, and he would do

2364
02:08:17,040 --> 02:08:20,640
Speaker 2: it at the most important part of the game or

2365
02:08:20,680 --> 02:08:22,880
Speaker 2: when virtually no time was left. Just ask Buffalo. He

2366
02:08:22,880 --> 02:08:25,800
Speaker 2: had seconds left of the game and an engineer to drive.

2367
02:08:26,400 --> 02:08:29,400
Speaker 2: And it's like, if Mahomes had the ball last, you know,

2368
02:08:30,600 --> 02:08:31,760
Speaker 2: you get your affairs in order.

2369
02:08:32,160 --> 02:08:32,640
Speaker 4: That's gone.

2370
02:08:33,120 --> 02:08:34,960
Speaker 2: He tried some of those worlding Dervis plays and to

2371
02:08:34,960 --> 02:08:36,680
Speaker 2: put the team on his back. He seems to have

2372
02:08:36,800 --> 02:08:39,720
Speaker 2: lost that gear. I'm not imagining it. Just go back

2373
02:08:39,760 --> 02:08:43,120
Speaker 2: and watch the film. Is he still a solid quarterback? Absolutely? Well,

2374
02:08:43,160 --> 02:08:45,640
Speaker 2: he come back from his acl strong and compete at

2375
02:08:45,680 --> 02:08:46,200
Speaker 2: a high level.

2376
02:08:46,280 --> 02:08:49,400
Speaker 4: Absolutely. But this team, look, there's an old thing.

2377
02:08:51,360 --> 02:08:53,760
Speaker 2: Casey Stengele once said, and you know this goes back

2378
02:08:53,800 --> 02:08:56,320
Speaker 2: a bit, but read a book, youngins.

2379
02:08:57,600 --> 02:08:58,520
Speaker 4: The Yankees, I think.

2380
02:08:58,480 --> 02:09:00,480
Speaker 2: One like they went through a period they won like

2381
02:09:00,600 --> 02:09:03,280
Speaker 2: nine of twelve World Series note out of twelve years,

2382
02:09:03,640 --> 02:09:06,600
Speaker 2: and Casey Sengle basically said, teams can't beat the Yankees

2383
02:09:06,600 --> 02:09:09,520
Speaker 2: because they gets stuck staring at the pinstripes. Well, that's

2384
02:09:09,640 --> 02:09:12,880
Speaker 2: essentially analogous to what the Chiefs were. You get on

2385
02:09:12,960 --> 02:09:14,880
Speaker 2: the field with the Chiefs and those red Casey helmets

2386
02:09:14,920 --> 02:09:17,720
Speaker 2: and the way they conducted themselves, and the friendly walls

2387
02:09:17,840 --> 02:09:24,120
Speaker 2: on the sidelines, and this incredible combination of speed, skill, athleticism, toughness, clutch,

2388
02:09:24,680 --> 02:09:28,360
Speaker 2: a team that truly was cohesive, and those right red

2389
02:09:28,480 --> 02:09:31,960
Speaker 2: uniforms and bright red helmets and the Casey this is

2390
02:09:32,080 --> 02:09:35,600
Speaker 2: storied franchise. Okay, remember they went to Super Bowl One,

2391
02:09:35,760 --> 02:09:38,600
Speaker 2: lost the Green Bay everybody remembers what Joe Naman did

2392
02:09:38,640 --> 02:09:41,720
Speaker 2: in Super Bowl three. Everybody forgets what the Chief did

2393
02:09:41,800 --> 02:09:44,520
Speaker 2: in Super Bowl four, beating what should have been an

2394
02:09:44,600 --> 02:09:48,240
Speaker 2: unbeatable Vikings team twenty three to six with Lenny Dawson

2395
02:09:48,320 --> 02:09:52,400
Speaker 2: in company. So this is a storied franchise, but they

2396
02:09:52,480 --> 02:09:55,800
Speaker 2: can't win games on reputation anymore, not at all. And

2397
02:09:56,560 --> 02:09:58,920
Speaker 2: I don't think they're you know, I know Tom Brady

2398
02:09:58,960 --> 02:10:01,120
Speaker 2: tore his ACL and two one thousand and eight, the

2399
02:10:01,200 --> 02:10:03,800
Speaker 2: team won. People will say, well, I still wont eleven

2400
02:10:03,840 --> 02:10:06,600
Speaker 2: games that year, Well, they won seventeen year before with Brady,

2401
02:10:07,280 --> 02:10:09,600
Speaker 2: and Brady went on to win three more Super Bowls

2402
02:10:09,640 --> 02:10:11,200
Speaker 2: and go to four more, but it took him six years,

2403
02:10:11,280 --> 02:10:13,880
Speaker 2: seven years to get to the next one. If that's

2404
02:10:13,880 --> 02:10:15,760
Speaker 2: the same with mahomes on seven years, home is going

2405
02:10:15,800 --> 02:10:18,200
Speaker 2: to be thirty six. I think he wants to play

2406
02:10:18,240 --> 02:10:19,800
Speaker 2: a long time and he may well be able to.

2407
02:10:20,720 --> 02:10:24,800
Speaker 2: But it's just a different NFL right now. But whatever happens,

2408
02:10:25,560 --> 02:10:28,800
Speaker 2: the Chief's legacy is secure. But that to me two

2409
02:10:28,880 --> 02:10:31,920
Speaker 2: huge stories, the Luka Donson's trade and the end of

2410
02:10:31,960 --> 02:10:35,440
Speaker 2: the chiefs. Now this one we referenced, ever so slightly

2411
02:10:37,640 --> 02:10:43,520
Speaker 2: with Martin, Medina, and for good reason, because the advent

2412
02:10:43,680 --> 02:10:46,760
Speaker 2: of legalized sports betting, which is now prevalent in about

2413
02:10:46,800 --> 02:10:51,080
Speaker 2: thirty eight states, has changed the dynamic in America's come

2414
02:10:51,120 --> 02:10:53,040
Speaker 2: out of the shadows. I don't think it's a bad

2415
02:10:53,120 --> 02:10:56,400
Speaker 2: thing at all. It's a good thing, but it's not

2416
02:10:56,560 --> 02:11:01,760
Speaker 2: without some issues. As it were, since PASSBAW was overturned

2417
02:11:01,760 --> 02:11:06,680
Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen. Last year, a lot of people raised

2418
02:11:06,720 --> 02:11:10,480
Speaker 2: eyebrows that the gambling fabric the sports world had become

2419
02:11:10,560 --> 02:11:14,280
Speaker 2: immersed with was starting to frey at the edges a bit.

2420
02:11:15,000 --> 02:11:21,040
Speaker 2: There were gambling scandals that got worse, okay, and it's

2421
02:11:21,200 --> 02:11:25,360
Speaker 2: cost quite a few people to throw the rems up. Frankly,

2422
02:11:25,520 --> 02:11:28,960
Speaker 2: there's scandal after scandal after scandal, and they got worse

2423
02:11:29,000 --> 02:11:32,200
Speaker 2: than twenty twenty five. The two major highlights and NBA

2424
02:11:32,320 --> 02:11:36,040
Speaker 2: points shaving scandal that involved the mob allegedly which has

2425
02:11:36,080 --> 02:11:40,760
Speaker 2: been heavily reported two Cleveland Guardians pitchers who purposely threw

2426
02:11:40,840 --> 02:11:43,920
Speaker 2: pitches that helped gamblers. There's a thing called micro betting

2427
02:11:43,920 --> 02:11:46,640
Speaker 2: where you can bet, you can literally bet whether a

2428
02:11:46,720 --> 02:11:50,520
Speaker 2: pitch is a ball or strike, and this is one

2429
02:11:50,520 --> 02:11:53,880
Speaker 2: of the byproducts of that. And then there's zero reason

2430
02:11:53,960 --> 02:11:57,840
Speaker 2: as long as sports leagues and networks remained hand in

2431
02:11:57,960 --> 02:12:01,840
Speaker 2: hand with gambling companies to think that the gambling wave

2432
02:12:01,880 --> 02:12:04,240
Speaker 2: will slow down anytime soon. And we can only hope

2433
02:12:04,280 --> 02:12:07,240
Speaker 2: that the scandals slow down, but there's no guarantee that

2434
02:12:07,280 --> 02:12:09,560
Speaker 2: will happen. I know there are a lot of any

2435
02:12:09,640 --> 02:12:10,840
Speaker 2: gambling advocates.

2436
02:12:11,160 --> 02:12:12,120
Speaker 4: I am not one of them.

2437
02:12:12,680 --> 02:12:16,880
Speaker 2: I've argued, you know, people have argued for years that

2438
02:12:17,000 --> 02:12:19,640
Speaker 2: a huge scandal was coming. I guess I was not

2439
02:12:19,720 --> 02:12:23,640
Speaker 2: even I was fooled because there are so many guardrails

2440
02:12:23,680 --> 02:12:25,720
Speaker 2: in place, and there are so many checks and balances

2441
02:12:25,760 --> 02:12:28,840
Speaker 2: in place, and great organizations like the one my Matt Hole,

2442
02:12:29,080 --> 02:12:32,520
Speaker 2: my buddy Matt Hole founded that are designed to ferret

2443
02:12:32,560 --> 02:12:35,040
Speaker 2: these things out. So if you hear stories about a

2444
02:12:35,080 --> 02:12:38,320
Speaker 2: basic college baseball coach from Alabama and an oddball betting

2445
02:12:38,360 --> 02:12:41,440
Speaker 2: pattern in Cincinnati or wherever it was, you know, or Indiana,

2446
02:12:42,360 --> 02:12:44,040
Speaker 2: they find these things and they can report them, and

2447
02:12:44,080 --> 02:12:45,840
Speaker 2: they can invest them with all the metadata they have.

2448
02:12:46,440 --> 02:12:48,880
Speaker 2: But the truth of the matter is it's raging out

2449
02:12:48,920 --> 02:12:52,240
Speaker 2: of control, and they say there are larger ones in

2450
02:12:52,280 --> 02:12:55,840
Speaker 2: the way we shall see. This NBA thing is incredible.

2451
02:12:57,280 --> 02:12:59,320
Speaker 2: Now I saved the fourth one. I think this is

2452
02:12:59,400 --> 02:13:02,040
Speaker 2: kind of the be the best for last of the

2453
02:13:02,120 --> 02:13:06,240
Speaker 2: four best sports stories, and I do think there are

2454
02:13:06,320 --> 02:13:10,800
Speaker 2: people that feel I'm omating something, and you know, this

2455
02:13:10,920 --> 02:13:15,800
Speaker 2: can be very subjective, but there are arguments about whether

2456
02:13:16,000 --> 02:13:22,320
Speaker 2: or not this was the best World Series ever. Let's

2457
02:13:22,400 --> 02:13:24,960
Speaker 2: relive it. It's only been a couple of months. It's

2458
02:13:25,000 --> 02:13:28,760
Speaker 2: a ended. This was a banner year for baseball period

2459
02:13:29,400 --> 02:13:32,320
Speaker 2: at some of the highest TV ratings in years, a

2460
02:13:32,440 --> 02:13:36,600
Speaker 2: bunch of exciting young new ball players breaking through, and

2461
02:13:36,720 --> 02:13:37,760
Speaker 2: what did it culminate in?

2462
02:13:38,720 --> 02:13:39,960
Speaker 4: You call it a fall classic?

2463
02:13:40,120 --> 02:13:44,720
Speaker 2: It was a fall classic. The Dodgers in the Blue

2464
02:13:44,800 --> 02:13:50,280
Speaker 2: Jays went at it, throwing haymakers for seven games, every

2465
02:13:50,360 --> 02:13:53,480
Speaker 2: one of them in their own right where they were intense,

2466
02:13:54,240 --> 02:13:59,120
Speaker 2: including one that went eighteen innings and the Dodgers or

2467
02:13:59,280 --> 02:14:03,560
Speaker 2: checked at had the Dodgers down to their last out

2468
02:14:04,440 --> 02:14:07,920
Speaker 2: multiple times in front of their home crowd in Toronto,

2469
02:14:08,040 --> 02:14:12,800
Speaker 2: which was going bananas, and somehow the Dodgers managed to

2470
02:14:12,960 --> 02:14:16,600
Speaker 2: escape like Houdini every single time, and they ended up

2471
02:14:16,680 --> 02:14:20,480
Speaker 2: winning the World Series on an extra any double play.

2472
02:14:22,760 --> 02:14:28,040
Speaker 2: And after that incredibly dramatic game seven, improbable Dodgers come back.

2473
02:14:29,360 --> 02:14:32,880
Speaker 2: Many folks were saying this is the best world series ever?

2474
02:14:34,440 --> 02:14:37,400
Speaker 2: Was it the best World series ever? I'm not so

2475
02:14:37,560 --> 02:14:40,000
Speaker 2: sure I can go that far because I know too

2476
02:14:40,080 --> 02:14:43,280
Speaker 2: much about some of the other incredible world series going

2477
02:14:43,400 --> 02:14:47,440
Speaker 2: back decades. You know, Games one, two, four, and five

2478
02:14:48,200 --> 02:14:52,480
Speaker 2: were all tense, but they didn't go down to the wire,

2479
02:14:52,640 --> 02:14:55,880
Speaker 2: and all of them were decided by more than four runs. However,

2480
02:14:57,360 --> 02:15:03,000
Speaker 2: you always remember what happened last right, Game seven has

2481
02:15:03,080 --> 02:15:07,880
Speaker 2: to be considered the greatest Game seven ever ever, based

2482
02:15:07,920 --> 02:15:10,560
Speaker 2: on advanced analytics. Now, I know there are people argue, well,

2483
02:15:11,000 --> 02:15:13,520
Speaker 2: you know Bill Mazerowski had to walk off him run

2484
02:15:13,600 --> 02:15:18,520
Speaker 2: with Pittsburgh in nineteen sixty and Toronto had to walk

2485
02:15:18,560 --> 02:15:20,920
Speaker 2: off for them run off of Mitch Wims in nineteen

2486
02:15:21,000 --> 02:15:26,040
Speaker 2: ninety three. Joe Carter, I remember seeing that live. But

2487
02:15:26,480 --> 02:15:31,480
Speaker 2: in this case, okay, they create these things called championship

2488
02:15:31,680 --> 02:15:34,880
Speaker 2: win probability. You heard me, joker about the nerd with

2489
02:15:35,000 --> 02:15:37,240
Speaker 2: the glasses in the basement doing all these stats and

2490
02:15:37,720 --> 02:15:40,680
Speaker 2: got a forty six percent chance of making the playoffs

2491
02:15:40,720 --> 02:15:43,640
Speaker 2: and all that. Well, these guys actually are pretty sharp

2492
02:15:43,840 --> 02:15:47,680
Speaker 2: and they don't bat a thousand, but they can also

2493
02:15:49,280 --> 02:15:53,720
Speaker 2: with their with their you know, crunching numbers, abilities and

2494
02:15:53,840 --> 02:15:55,400
Speaker 2: software advanced.

2495
02:15:56,520 --> 02:15:59,040
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know what the hell do you

2496
02:15:59,160 --> 02:16:01,040
Speaker 4: call it? Mechanism they use these days.

2497
02:16:02,800 --> 02:16:07,120
Speaker 2: They actually created in game win probability based on how

2498
02:16:07,240 --> 02:16:10,080
Speaker 2: much certain plays or particular.

2499
02:16:09,720 --> 02:16:11,880
Speaker 4: Plays contribute to a win, based on the.

2500
02:16:11,920 --> 02:16:14,760
Speaker 2: Score, the inning, the outs, the runners and all that,

2501
02:16:14,920 --> 02:16:17,600
Speaker 2: all those things, and it combines with an adjustments for

2502
02:16:17,680 --> 02:16:21,120
Speaker 2: the point in the postseason you're in. So it has

2503
02:16:21,200 --> 02:16:25,360
Speaker 2: to do with how intense the moment is, how pivotal

2504
02:16:25,480 --> 02:16:29,040
Speaker 2: the moment is, and the various events taking place in

2505
02:16:29,080 --> 02:16:31,080
Speaker 2: the probability that may or may not lead to a win.

2506
02:16:32,480 --> 02:16:35,480
Speaker 2: Nothing has more leverage than a Game seven of a

2507
02:16:35,520 --> 02:16:44,120
Speaker 2: World Series. Nothing. And as you analyze and assess those adjustments,

2508
02:16:45,520 --> 02:16:48,760
Speaker 2: they continue, they continue to take on more importance, and

2509
02:16:48,840 --> 02:16:52,279
Speaker 2: they gain more value as the game gets later. For example,

2510
02:16:53,800 --> 02:16:56,200
Speaker 2: you may or may not recall when Will Smith hit

2511
02:16:56,240 --> 02:16:59,000
Speaker 2: the goal ahead home run with two ounces in the

2512
02:16:59,080 --> 02:17:03,640
Speaker 2: eleventh inning, it was only one of nine different plays

2513
02:17:04,480 --> 02:17:08,320
Speaker 2: where the title winning odds moved by at least fifteen percent.

2514
02:17:09,320 --> 02:17:13,720
Speaker 2: It had previously done that several times. After bolbashett hit

2515
02:17:13,800 --> 02:17:19,840
Speaker 2: his home run, Muncie Rojas also Ernie Clement flying out

2516
02:17:19,879 --> 02:17:23,120
Speaker 2: to Andy Pohetz in the ninth when he ran seeming

2517
02:17:23,240 --> 02:17:27,040
Speaker 2: like a country mile just about Kilder's left fielder and

2518
02:17:27,160 --> 02:17:32,480
Speaker 2: bringing in that catch after just being replaced defensively by

2519
02:17:32,560 --> 02:17:35,640
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts right there. One hit wins the whole damn thing.

2520
02:17:36,560 --> 02:17:40,080
Speaker 2: Pawhtse and Dalton varshow were each grounding out with go

2521
02:17:40,240 --> 02:17:43,920
Speaker 2: ahead runs being forced out at home. Keky Hernandez grounded

2522
02:17:43,920 --> 02:17:47,039
Speaker 2: out with the bases loaded the tenth inning. Vlad Gerreer

2523
02:17:47,200 --> 02:17:50,720
Speaker 2: Junior's leadoff double in the bottom of the eleventh and

2524
02:17:50,840 --> 02:17:53,560
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts double played it in the game, which was

2525
02:17:53,640 --> 02:17:58,400
Speaker 2: the highest rated one in TV in Major League Baseball history,

2526
02:17:58,440 --> 02:18:04,039
Speaker 2: in just the third game where Game seven World Series

2527
02:18:04,440 --> 02:18:07,240
Speaker 2: in and in a double play, and the first since

2528
02:18:07,320 --> 02:18:08,440
Speaker 2: like nineteen forty eight.

2529
02:18:10,040 --> 02:18:13,000
Speaker 4: So all of that happened just in the latter half

2530
02:18:14,000 --> 02:18:14,720
Speaker 4: of Game seven.

2531
02:18:14,800 --> 02:18:21,760
Speaker 2: For crying out loud, now, you know, if you really

2532
02:18:21,800 --> 02:18:23,880
Speaker 2: want to get nerdy on this, given the contents of

2533
02:18:24,600 --> 02:18:28,119
Speaker 2: Game seven, there were other sensational plays like that, believe

2534
02:18:28,160 --> 02:18:30,920
Speaker 2: it or not, even in the nineteen twenty four World Series.

2535
02:18:32,040 --> 02:18:35,560
Speaker 2: But there were only three World Series in the most

2536
02:18:35,600 --> 02:18:37,520
Speaker 2: recent one being nineteen ninety one. And you remember what

2537
02:18:37,600 --> 02:18:40,480
Speaker 2: a phenomenal World Series that was That was Minnesota and

2538
02:18:40,600 --> 02:18:43,800
Speaker 2: Kirby Pucket and Jack Morris against thee Atlanta Braves and

2539
02:18:43,840 --> 02:18:47,600
Speaker 2: Bobby Cox. What an incredible high drama baseball, just high

2540
02:18:47,680 --> 02:18:52,720
Speaker 2: drama baseball in and on a Sunday night. But you

2541
02:18:52,920 --> 02:18:56,840
Speaker 2: had six plays. So if you're watching TV, we watched

2542
02:18:56,840 --> 02:19:00,440
Speaker 2: sports differently now and they'll flash on the screen, team

2543
02:19:00,520 --> 02:19:03,800
Speaker 2: has ninety three percent chance to win this game. Then

2544
02:19:03,840 --> 02:19:06,800
Speaker 2: there'll be a play and it'll move percentage points one

2545
02:19:06,840 --> 02:19:10,720
Speaker 2: way or the other. There were six plays in Game

2546
02:19:10,840 --> 02:19:14,160
Speaker 2: seven alone that based on the play that took place,

2547
02:19:14,959 --> 02:19:19,240
Speaker 2: whether it was a double play, a flyout, a home run, whatever,

2548
02:19:20,040 --> 02:19:23,720
Speaker 2: six plays in Game seven that moved the odds of

2549
02:19:23,760 --> 02:19:27,720
Speaker 2: winning fifteen percent in that game. Only now there's only

2550
02:19:27,840 --> 02:19:31,920
Speaker 2: been that hasn't happened, Okay, in one hundred years, maybe

2551
02:19:32,040 --> 02:19:34,920
Speaker 2: twice or three times in one hundred years, and all

2552
02:19:34,959 --> 02:19:37,879
Speaker 2: the other World Series, this happened six times in Game

2553
02:19:38,520 --> 02:19:43,240
Speaker 2: seven alone. Now, coming up at the end of the show,

2554
02:19:44,160 --> 02:19:47,880
Speaker 2: I want to relive some incredibly notable stats from the

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Speaker 2: World Series that you will probably get a kick out of.

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Speaker 2: But and there are things that just don't happen every day.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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02:20:00,920 --> 02:20:03,720
Speaker 4: But again, of all the things that happened in.

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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty five, I would say what I just shared

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02:20:07,200 --> 02:20:13,720
Speaker 2: with you, these things, the Luka Dansis trade and the

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02:20:13,840 --> 02:20:16,520
Speaker 2: shock of it on February fourth, not only that he

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02:20:16,640 --> 02:20:20,080
Speaker 2: was traded, that he was traded to the Lakers shocked everybody,

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02:20:20,200 --> 02:20:22,360
Speaker 2: and everybody thought it was a fake tweet. That's right

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02:20:22,440 --> 02:20:26,640
Speaker 2: up there, the end of the Chiefs and their dynasty

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02:20:26,760 --> 02:20:30,480
Speaker 2: as it were as an era. It's over the gambling

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02:20:30,520 --> 02:20:33,520
Speaker 2: scandals that seemingly are getting worse, and then the NBA

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02:20:33,680 --> 02:20:37,520
Speaker 2: and multiple big name people facing very serious charges, and

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02:20:37,600 --> 02:20:41,000
Speaker 2: the poker games associated, et cetera. And then followed finally

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02:20:41,040 --> 02:20:45,480
Speaker 2: again by the best World Series ever. Again coming up

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Speaker 2: at the very end of the show. I'm going to

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Speaker 2: save this. There are multiple notable stats that I want

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02:20:51,320 --> 02:20:53,160
Speaker 2: to relive. Believe it or not, we're only about six

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02:20:53,240 --> 02:20:56,119
Speaker 2: and a half weeks away from pitchers and catchers reporting.

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02:20:57,480 --> 02:21:02,040
Speaker 2: But one of the things that happened, I'll tease this.

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02:21:02,800 --> 02:21:05,680
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts was not a National League Manager of the

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02:21:05,800 --> 02:21:08,959
Speaker 2: Year finalists, but each of the three teams with National

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02:21:09,040 --> 02:21:11,840
Speaker 2: League Man of the Year finalists, Reds, Phillies and Brewers

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02:21:12,080 --> 02:21:15,800
Speaker 2: were eliminated in the playoffs by David Robert Stodgers. That

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02:21:15,959 --> 02:21:18,119
Speaker 2: had never happened before in the history of baseball. That's

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02:21:18,240 --> 02:21:21,320
Speaker 2: just one of about twenty oddities I am going to

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Speaker 2: have for you coming up at the end of the show.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna save it. I'm Bernie Fridder Were comedy line

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Speaker 2: show poster Right after get out the year. And oh,

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Speaker 2: Coming up in a bit, I'm going to get to

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02:22:47,000 --> 02:22:51,880
Speaker 2: those crazy World Series oddity statistics, and so people have

2610
02:22:51,959 --> 02:22:55,359
Speaker 2: asked me for my thoughts on Michigan's hiring of Kyle Whittingham.

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02:22:55,480 --> 02:22:57,600
Speaker 2: I will get to that a bit later in the

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Speaker 2: show as well. But you know, we covered all in

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Speaker 2: the Burning From show, including the football spelled futbl Yep.

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02:23:04,160 --> 02:23:07,120
Speaker 2: We are one hundred and seventy six days away from

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Speaker 2: World Cup Soccer right here in North America. That's why

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02:23:10,120 --> 02:23:13,039
Speaker 2: we bring you Chris Burpfetts World of Soccer.

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Speaker 23: The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international Dramati build.

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Speaker 1: Hie, It's all here in this report from the world

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Speaker 1: of soccer.

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Speaker 24: So the end of the year starts a new calendar

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02:23:36,000 --> 02:23:39,480
Speaker 24: for all of us. Welcome to twenty twenty six here soon. However,

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02:23:39,560 --> 02:23:42,800
Speaker 24: it also starts something that is of big interest to

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02:23:42,920 --> 02:23:44,920
Speaker 24: us in the world of soccer, and that is the

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02:23:45,000 --> 02:23:48,120
Speaker 24: Winter transfer Window, which opens on the new year on

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02:23:48,360 --> 02:23:53,840
Speaker 24: January first, and opens up clubs to just that transfers trades,

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02:23:54,280 --> 02:23:58,640
Speaker 24: moving stars between clubs, and there are some big names

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02:23:58,680 --> 02:24:00,520
Speaker 24: out here. One of the biggest one might have just

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02:24:00,600 --> 02:24:04,480
Speaker 24: been taken off the books. Immediately, reports out from a

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02:24:04,680 --> 02:24:07,760
Speaker 24: cy called Team Talk with an indication that it looks

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02:24:07,840 --> 02:24:11,560
Speaker 24: like Liverpool will not try to move Mohammed Sala in

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02:24:11,680 --> 02:24:15,120
Speaker 24: spite of the outbursts and everything we've talked about in

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Speaker 24: this incredibly weird saga with Sala near the end of

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02:24:20,520 --> 02:24:24,600
Speaker 24: the year. Sala, of course now currently working with Egypt

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02:24:24,760 --> 02:24:27,200
Speaker 24: for the Africa Cup of Nations, which means that he

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02:24:27,360 --> 02:24:30,640
Speaker 24: just won't be available for a little bit anyway. Either way,

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02:24:30,760 --> 02:24:36,280
Speaker 24: though I'm not fully buying that his contract is pretty big.

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02:24:36,360 --> 02:24:39,920
Speaker 24: I know the report says FSG the owners would block

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Speaker 24: the transfer of Sala if it was tried to make,

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02:24:44,040 --> 02:24:46,440
Speaker 24: but there's a lot of interested buyers out there, and

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Speaker 24: not all of them are in Europe. Saudi Arabia continues

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Speaker 24: to want big top players, and a Egyptian born player

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02:24:55,320 --> 02:24:59,440
Speaker 24: like Mohammed Sala would be fantastic because much like MLS,

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02:24:59,760 --> 02:25:03,320
Speaker 24: the Saudi League has a lot of interest in making

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02:25:03,440 --> 02:25:06,120
Speaker 24: a much bigger impact and they have some very very

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02:25:06,200 --> 02:25:09,040
Speaker 24: big pockets. But it's has been a struggle for them

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02:25:09,120 --> 02:25:12,720
Speaker 24: to try to attract top talent, current top tier talent

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02:25:13,160 --> 02:25:17,720
Speaker 24: away from Europe to Saudi Arabia. It's kind of got

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02:25:17,760 --> 02:25:20,320
Speaker 24: the same issues a lot of MLS has, so we'll

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02:25:20,360 --> 02:25:22,880
Speaker 24: keep an eye on that. One other article I really

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02:25:22,959 --> 02:25:26,640
Speaker 24: wanted to talk about has been making the rounds a

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02:25:26,720 --> 02:25:30,320
Speaker 24: little bit lately, and that's a piece in The Economist,

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02:25:30,560 --> 02:25:36,879
Speaker 24: a magazine of financial interest from over in Europe. Pretty big,

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02:25:37,000 --> 02:25:39,160
Speaker 24: I know, my dad used to have a subscription. I'm

2654
02:25:39,240 --> 02:25:41,680
Speaker 24: not a terribly big fan of them because they can

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02:25:41,760 --> 02:25:46,160
Speaker 24: be quite quizzical. The article reads headline, America is now

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02:25:46,280 --> 02:25:50,040
Speaker 24: the biggest market for international football and there's a lot

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02:25:50,080 --> 02:25:52,280
Speaker 24: of key themes that we should probably talk about from that.

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02:25:53,080 --> 02:25:55,400
Speaker 24: I will warn the piece kind of falls into a

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02:25:55,480 --> 02:25:57,680
Speaker 24: lot of the same traps and gripes that a lot

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Speaker 24: of Europeans have about perceived notions of North America as

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02:26:02,800 --> 02:26:05,960
Speaker 24: a sports market, so it's really kind of tough. And

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Speaker 24: this isn't the only time the economists has looked at

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02:26:08,280 --> 02:26:11,320
Speaker 24: North American soccer and go when, Wow, why isn't it

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Speaker 24: like this, Why isn't there promotion, relegation, Why isn't it

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Speaker 24: like this?

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02:26:15,160 --> 02:26:16,440
Speaker 1: Why do you do stuff like this?

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Speaker 24: And it can get really exhausting after a while, And

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02:26:20,560 --> 02:26:23,320
Speaker 24: if you don't have a subscription, I really can't blame you.

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02:26:24,080 --> 02:26:27,920
Speaker 24: It's not a very it's a magazine of not a

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02:26:28,080 --> 02:26:31,560
Speaker 24: sports variety. But there is some interesting stuff because we

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02:26:31,720 --> 02:26:34,400
Speaker 24: do need to start thinking about North America and the

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Speaker 24: United States as massive markets for international soccer, for bringing

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Speaker 24: in attention span as a World Cup is barreling down

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02:26:43,440 --> 02:26:47,800
Speaker 24: in twenty twenty six, and for a lot of media

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02:26:47,920 --> 02:26:53,360
Speaker 24: rights for European soccer, the Champions League, Premier League that

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02:26:53,480 --> 02:26:57,000
Speaker 24: continue to be key media acquisitions front and center for

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02:26:57,840 --> 02:27:02,520
Speaker 24: entities like NBC and Paramount who put on these events

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02:27:02,720 --> 02:27:05,920
Speaker 24: and bring in a lot of stuff. But also a

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Speaker 24: lot of this is talking about the market growth. By

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Speaker 24: like twenty twenty five, America is the world's largest market

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Speaker 24: for international football, and a lot of that comes from

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02:27:13,959 --> 02:27:17,880
Speaker 24: the spending on media rights. It also points out a

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Speaker 24: massive shift to streaming platforms that's changing how Americans watch

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02:27:21,920 --> 02:27:25,360
Speaker 24: sports and hoping to attract younger fans. Now, this is

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Speaker 24: where I want to quibble with this article a little bit,

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Speaker 24: because we have detailed quite well how the Apple TV

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02:27:32,240 --> 02:27:37,680
Speaker 24: MLS League Pass has kind of failed for MLS, and

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02:27:38,240 --> 02:27:40,720
Speaker 24: I think by this time next season or soon in

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02:27:40,800 --> 02:27:44,840
Speaker 24: the future, MLS will just be offering it's watching to

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02:27:44,920 --> 02:27:48,400
Speaker 24: anyone who's subscribing to Apple TV, which is great, fantastic,

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02:27:48,760 --> 02:27:51,240
Speaker 24: now that I don't know how much that applies to

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02:27:51,400 --> 02:27:54,160
Speaker 24: something like say the Premier League, where you do need

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02:27:54,200 --> 02:27:57,280
Speaker 24: a lot of use of NBC's Peacock app to use that.

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02:27:57,440 --> 02:28:00,560
Speaker 24: And I will tell you I have Paramount Plus so

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02:28:00,680 --> 02:28:03,000
Speaker 24: I can watch Champions leagues. So you know what got

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02:28:03,080 --> 02:28:06,120
Speaker 24: me there. And I guess the biggest impact I see

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Speaker 24: from this article and from this idea of America being

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02:28:09,480 --> 02:28:13,160
Speaker 24: the largest market for international soccer isn't involved in MLS,

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Speaker 24: which I know a lot of people would talk about

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Speaker 24: what this means for MLS, and the writer is fairly

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02:28:17,400 --> 02:28:21,080
Speaker 24: dismissive of MLS in this what he is London based

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02:28:21,160 --> 02:28:23,039
Speaker 24: and I don't think he's set foot in the United

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02:28:23,080 --> 02:28:26,440
Speaker 24: States as far as I've seen, But I will say

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02:28:26,959 --> 02:28:29,800
Speaker 24: there is a lot of talk over in England about

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02:28:30,840 --> 02:28:35,520
Speaker 24: clubs playing matches in Southeast Asia, which has been a

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02:28:35,680 --> 02:28:39,000
Speaker 24: massive growing market for them for viewership for a long time.

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02:28:39,080 --> 02:28:41,200
Speaker 24: And by that I mean, you know, friendlies at the

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Speaker 24: beginning of the year, you know, kind of like how

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Speaker 24: the NFL does their own international series, except much earlier.

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Speaker 1: And I have watched as.

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02:28:49,800 --> 02:28:53,880
Speaker 24: European clubs have drawn bigger and bigger crowds playing in

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02:28:53,959 --> 02:28:56,960
Speaker 24: the United States, playing at Cowboys Stadium, playing at so

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Speaker 24: far these friendlies between European clubs, clubs like Roma and

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Speaker 24: Barcelona and Liverpool and Arsenal and the Manchesters like they

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02:29:07,680 --> 02:29:10,400
Speaker 24: sell out our massive NFL stadiums when they do come

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02:29:10,480 --> 02:29:14,520
Speaker 24: to town. And I think that that right there is

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02:29:14,600 --> 02:29:17,560
Speaker 24: going to continue to be a big news story coming

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Speaker 24: into twenty twenty six in the shadow of the World Cup.

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Speaker 1: We will see you next year in the world of soccer.

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Speaker 2: Happy New Year, Yes we will.

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Speaker 4: And next year starts Thursday.

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02:29:29,959 --> 02:29:31,960
Speaker 2: We are one hundred and seventy six days away from

2723
02:29:32,000 --> 02:29:35,440
Speaker 2: World Cup soccer being played and for once, could it

2724
02:29:35,560 --> 02:29:40,920
Speaker 2: be possibly the United States plays a meaningful game that's meaningful.

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02:29:41,840 --> 02:29:43,960
Speaker 2: I remember when we started this. The World Cup was

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Speaker 2: late in twenty twenty two and the US played England

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02:29:47,520 --> 02:29:50,360
Speaker 2: the day after Thanksgiving. To open things up. Well, you

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02:29:50,400 --> 02:29:51,320
Speaker 2: can look up what happened.

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02:29:51,400 --> 02:29:52,320
Speaker 4: Let's just put it this way.

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Speaker 2: We were underwhelmed and we're hoping that might not be

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02:29:55,680 --> 02:29:58,360
Speaker 2: the casu's time, but they gain people in Hell on

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02:29:58,440 --> 02:30:02,120
Speaker 2: ice water. Coming up, we wrap up the show. I'll

2733
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Speaker 2: share those world Serious stats and some final thoughts on

2734
02:30:05,440 --> 02:30:08,520
Speaker 2: Kyle Whittingham and why he turned out to be probably

2735
02:30:08,520 --> 02:30:11,000
Speaker 2: the best hire Michigan could have given the state of

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02:30:11,040 --> 02:30:14,680
Speaker 2: the state of the football program at Michigan. I'm Bernie

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02:30:14,720 --> 02:30:16,320
Speaker 2: fraddle Wick comeing to your life for the Fox Sports

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02:30:16,400 --> 02:30:18,880
Speaker 2: Radio studios here in Las Vegas. Keep it locked. You're

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Speaker 2: listening to the Bernie fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

2741
02:30:26,720 --> 02:30:28,600
Speaker 2: All were wrapping it up on the Bernie Frattle Show.

2742
02:30:29,200 --> 02:30:33,279
Speaker 2: I think my producers Mark Ramsey lead to lap two veterans,

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Speaker 2: two pros, keeping the plane in flight mid air, turning

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Speaker 2: all the dials, keeping us glued together, running everything smoothly,

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Speaker 2: hitting all the brakes, answering the calls from all the

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Speaker 2: great callers during the Men That Hour. All that good

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02:30:46,920 --> 02:30:51,760
Speaker 2: stuff cannot do the show without great producers, thanks to

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Speaker 2: Mark and Lee. All right, let's get back to the

2749
02:30:57,080 --> 02:31:00,600
Speaker 2: World Series stuff, because I mentioned as one of my

2750
02:31:00,680 --> 02:31:03,720
Speaker 2: four best stories of the year, along with of course

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02:31:03,840 --> 02:31:06,960
Speaker 2: the Luca Trade, the end of the Chiefs dynasty, the

2752
02:31:06,959 --> 02:31:09,160
Speaker 2: game league scandal is getting worse. I don't know if

2753
02:31:09,200 --> 02:31:10,840
Speaker 2: it was the best World Series ever, but it was

2754
02:31:10,879 --> 02:31:15,280
Speaker 2: the best Game seven ever, I think for multiple reasons.

2755
02:31:15,360 --> 02:31:20,720
Speaker 2: But there are many notable stats that will define this

2756
02:31:20,800 --> 02:31:22,360
Speaker 2: World Series and I want to share them with you

2757
02:31:22,440 --> 02:31:25,800
Speaker 2: because this is way out there kind of stuff. So,

2758
02:31:26,000 --> 02:31:30,200
Speaker 2: as I mentioned earlier, Dave Roberts was not even a

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02:31:30,480 --> 02:31:35,120
Speaker 2: National League Manager of the Year finalist, but each of

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02:31:35,200 --> 02:31:39,440
Speaker 2: the three teams that were National League Manager of the

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Speaker 2: Year finalists, which happened to be the Reds, the Phillies,

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02:31:42,560 --> 02:31:46,720
Speaker 2: and the Brewers, were all defeated in the playoffs by

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02:31:47,120 --> 02:31:50,520
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts and his Dodgers. That has never happened before

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02:31:50,560 --> 02:31:55,000
Speaker 2: in the history of baseball. Freddie Freeman became the first

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02:31:55,680 --> 02:31:59,920
Speaker 2: player in Major League Baseball history we're talking about a sport.

2766
02:32:00,040 --> 02:32:03,000
Speaker 2: It's been around one hundred and fifty six years to

2767
02:32:03,120 --> 02:32:08,439
Speaker 2: have two World Series walk off home runs. Miguel Rojas

2768
02:32:09,280 --> 02:32:12,320
Speaker 2: became the first player in history to tie at game

2769
02:32:12,440 --> 02:32:16,039
Speaker 2: seven World Series in the ninth inning. Remember when Bill

2770
02:32:16,120 --> 02:32:19,680
Speaker 2: miles Rowski hit his home run, his walk off home

2771
02:32:19,720 --> 02:32:23,800
Speaker 2: run in nineteen sixty, the game was tied. So Miguel Rojas,

2772
02:32:24,160 --> 02:32:26,880
Speaker 2: who Dave Roberts put in the lineup on a hunch,

2773
02:32:27,520 --> 02:32:30,440
Speaker 2: Boy with a hunch, became the first player in history

2774
02:32:30,840 --> 02:32:33,119
Speaker 2: to tie a game World Series in the seventh inning

2775
02:32:33,480 --> 02:32:37,560
Speaker 2: with a dinger. Will Smith became the first player ever

2776
02:32:39,000 --> 02:32:41,920
Speaker 2: to hit a home run in extra innings in a

2777
02:32:41,959 --> 02:32:46,640
Speaker 2: World Series game. Yeah it happened, by the way. Will

2778
02:32:46,760 --> 02:32:50,080
Speaker 2: Smith an absolute iron man during the World Series and

2779
02:32:50,200 --> 02:32:52,800
Speaker 2: a stellar signing by the Dodgers. I think the game

2780
02:32:52,840 --> 02:32:54,680
Speaker 2: a ten year deal. A couple of years ago. He

2781
02:32:54,879 --> 02:32:59,959
Speaker 2: caught all seventy three innings. Will Smith caught all three

2782
02:33:00,120 --> 02:33:03,600
Speaker 2: innings in a seven game World Series, would set the

2783
02:33:03,680 --> 02:33:07,280
Speaker 2: record for most innings ever caught in a World Series.

2784
02:33:08,600 --> 02:33:12,039
Speaker 2: How can I forget Shoho Tani Shohe was the first

2785
02:33:12,080 --> 02:33:15,200
Speaker 2: player in one hundred and nineteen years with four extra

2786
02:33:15,280 --> 02:33:17,720
Speaker 2: base hits in a World Series game, and the only

2787
02:33:17,800 --> 02:33:22,280
Speaker 2: player to reach base nine times in one game. Yes

2788
02:33:22,360 --> 02:33:24,920
Speaker 2: it was an extra inning game. Show hey reached base

2789
02:33:25,240 --> 02:33:26,760
Speaker 2: nine times in a World Series game.

2790
02:33:27,560 --> 02:33:28,320
Speaker 4: Never happened before.

2791
02:33:29,360 --> 02:33:35,480
Speaker 2: Yamamoto the third pitcher in World Series history to pitch

2792
02:33:35,520 --> 02:33:41,000
Speaker 2: in a Game seven with zero day's rest. And by

2793
02:33:41,040 --> 02:33:43,720
Speaker 2: the way, he was warming up in that eighteen inning

2794
02:33:43,760 --> 02:33:46,440
Speaker 2: game in the bullpen after having pitched the day before

2795
02:33:46,480 --> 02:33:47,880
Speaker 2: a couple of days I think of the day before.

2796
02:33:49,720 --> 02:33:51,520
Speaker 2: Had that game going nineteen innings, you would have seen

2797
02:33:51,560 --> 02:33:54,000
Speaker 2: Yamamoto in that eighteen inning game, which would have been

2798
02:33:54,040 --> 02:33:56,520
Speaker 2: a nineteen inning game. But the first World Series pitcher

2799
02:33:56,600 --> 02:34:00,280
Speaker 2: in history to pitch a Game seven was zero days rest. Yeah,

2800
02:34:00,280 --> 02:34:02,760
Speaker 2: I'm moldo. The second pitcher in World Series history and

2801
02:34:02,840 --> 02:34:05,640
Speaker 2: the first in one hundred years to pitch over two

2802
02:34:05,760 --> 02:34:09,840
Speaker 2: innings on zero day's rest when he threw two innings

2803
02:34:09,920 --> 02:34:14,160
Speaker 2: in Game seven, and they were critical innings. Now, in

2804
02:34:14,200 --> 02:34:16,160
Speaker 2: the history of the World Series, there have been forty

2805
02:34:16,240 --> 02:34:18,760
Speaker 2: one games that have gone check that. There have been

2806
02:34:18,840 --> 02:34:24,400
Speaker 2: forty one World Series contests World Series series that have

2807
02:34:24,480 --> 02:34:28,160
Speaker 2: gone seven games, so that's nothing new, but only six

2808
02:34:28,840 --> 02:34:31,000
Speaker 2: and all that time were decided in the nextra innings,

2809
02:34:31,840 --> 02:34:36,200
Speaker 2: and only three in history have gone eleven or more innings.

2810
02:34:37,440 --> 02:34:40,200
Speaker 2: There was an eleven inning game and there was an

2811
02:34:40,240 --> 02:34:46,240
Speaker 2: eighteen inning game. So whether or not this World Series

2812
02:34:46,320 --> 02:34:49,000
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five between the Blue Jays and the

2813
02:34:49,080 --> 02:34:51,440
Speaker 2: Dodgers was the greatest World Series of all time can

2814
02:34:51,480 --> 02:34:54,520
Speaker 2: be up for debate. I don't think the Game seven

2815
02:34:55,360 --> 02:34:58,000
Speaker 2: can be up for debate as the greatest perhaps Game

2816
02:34:58,080 --> 02:35:01,560
Speaker 2: seven of all time, and I certainly I don't think that.

2817
02:35:01,800 --> 02:35:04,360
Speaker 2: What can be up for debate is that it's certainly

2818
02:35:04,400 --> 02:35:09,440
Speaker 2: one of the biggest sports stories of all of twenty

2819
02:35:09,520 --> 02:35:13,560
Speaker 2: twenty five. One of the other stories that will certainly

2820
02:35:13,640 --> 02:35:17,920
Speaker 2: be in the annals of history and sports history and

2821
02:35:18,240 --> 02:35:21,200
Speaker 2: certainly college football history is what took place in Michigan

2822
02:35:21,959 --> 02:35:26,560
Speaker 2: these last few weeks, and after much speculation by most

2823
02:35:26,600 --> 02:35:28,840
Speaker 2: people who don't know what they're talking about, I heard

2824
02:35:28,879 --> 02:35:30,560
Speaker 2: a guy come on this network and say, oh, yeah,

2825
02:35:30,600 --> 02:35:33,920
Speaker 2: after Jetfish wins Friday night, there's your next coach. Now

2826
02:35:34,200 --> 02:35:36,360
Speaker 2: you don't know what you're talking about. It was never

2827
02:35:36,440 --> 02:35:38,600
Speaker 2: going to be Jetfish, was never going to be Jesse Minter,

2828
02:35:39,640 --> 02:35:42,760
Speaker 2: and not because they're not both outstanding coaches. I was

2829
02:35:42,800 --> 02:35:45,040
Speaker 2: told by people I trust, Michigan's just simply was not

2830
02:35:45,600 --> 02:35:47,240
Speaker 2: going to bring someone in who had been part of

2831
02:35:47,280 --> 02:35:51,080
Speaker 2: the Harbor regime at any time. They're under a lot

2832
02:35:51,120 --> 02:35:52,720
Speaker 2: of scrutiny, there are a lot of pressure. They've hired

2833
02:35:52,720 --> 02:35:56,040
Speaker 2: a Michigan hired an outside law firm from Chicago to

2834
02:35:56,160 --> 02:36:00,440
Speaker 2: begin a pretty comprehensive investigation of the athletic department, which

2835
02:36:00,520 --> 02:36:03,600
Speaker 2: is already underway. So he ended up with Kyle Whittingham.

2836
02:36:04,680 --> 02:36:07,120
Speaker 2: And for the second time now, Michigan's had to kind

2837
02:36:07,160 --> 02:36:10,400
Speaker 2: of make a head coaching higher at a bit of

2838
02:36:10,440 --> 02:36:12,760
Speaker 2: an inopportune time because, first of all, two years ago,

2839
02:36:12,840 --> 02:36:17,200
Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh departed right after the National Championship when the

2840
02:36:17,240 --> 02:36:20,520
Speaker 2: Wolverines could make the higher till January twenty sixth after

2841
02:36:20,600 --> 02:36:24,160
Speaker 2: Horball left for the NFL and they promoted the Roc

2842
02:36:24,280 --> 02:36:26,800
Speaker 2: Show on Moore. Now you know what happened there, and

2843
02:36:26,840 --> 02:36:31,080
Speaker 2: they had to move along. So Michigan needed a stabilizing force.

2844
02:36:32,360 --> 02:36:35,720
Speaker 2: They needed someone to bring both the football program and

2845
02:36:35,879 --> 02:36:41,360
Speaker 2: the athletic department back to respectability. They hired a coach

2846
02:36:41,480 --> 02:36:44,039
Speaker 2: in Kyle Whittingham, who took over for Urban Meyer at

2847
02:36:44,120 --> 02:36:47,680
Speaker 2: Utah in two thousand and five. He's going to be

2848
02:36:47,720 --> 02:36:50,000
Speaker 2: a Hall of Fame coach, all right. One one hundred

2849
02:36:50,000 --> 02:36:54,879
Speaker 2: and eighty games, And in two thousand and eight rich

2850
02:36:54,959 --> 02:36:57,480
Speaker 2: Rod's first game, Utah strolled into Michigan and hammered them

2851
02:36:57,560 --> 02:37:01,039
Speaker 2: beat him. And then Utah beat Carball in his first game,

2852
02:37:01,080 --> 02:37:02,480
Speaker 2: I believe, back in twenty fifteen.

2853
02:37:02,640 --> 02:37:06,320
Speaker 4: So you know, he's had some history against Michigan.

2854
02:37:07,080 --> 02:37:13,440
Speaker 2: But I think objective people can surmise that while there

2855
02:37:13,480 --> 02:37:16,160
Speaker 2: is no perfect coach, this is sort of the horse

2856
02:37:16,200 --> 02:37:18,080
Speaker 2: for the course that Michigan needs right now. It's an

2857
02:37:18,080 --> 02:37:21,280
Speaker 2: ideal coach to lead them through this era, which is

2858
02:37:21,840 --> 02:37:25,720
Speaker 2: very turbulent. Yeah, so what if Whittingham sixty six years old,

2859
02:37:26,080 --> 02:37:28,880
Speaker 2: Saba was seventy four. You can either do this job

2860
02:37:28,959 --> 02:37:30,800
Speaker 2: or you can't. If you're an agist, you're an idiot.

2861
02:37:31,280 --> 02:37:32,920
Speaker 2: Plenty of young guys who could not do this job.

2862
02:37:32,959 --> 02:37:35,000
Speaker 2: Plenty of older guys could do this job. He can

2863
02:37:35,080 --> 02:37:38,000
Speaker 2: do the job, and all sixty six year olds are

2864
02:37:38,040 --> 02:37:41,800
Speaker 2: not created equally. This guy's a stud, all right. He

2865
02:37:41,879 --> 02:37:44,680
Speaker 2: took over for Urban Meyer in two thousand and five,

2866
02:37:45,560 --> 02:37:48,240
Speaker 2: and at that time, Utah was just a regular run

2867
02:37:48,320 --> 02:37:50,920
Speaker 2: of the mill Mountain West program. All of a sudden,

2868
02:37:51,520 --> 02:37:55,000
Speaker 2: Utah under good leadership, and part of that was Kyle Whittingham.

2869
02:37:55,480 --> 02:37:58,200
Speaker 2: Utah found himself in a major conference, first the PAC

2870
02:37:58,280 --> 02:38:01,440
Speaker 2: twelve and then now they're in the Big twelve. And

2871
02:38:02,400 --> 02:38:07,720
Speaker 2: Utah was not only joining much more powerful conferences, they

2872
02:38:07,760 --> 02:38:10,440
Speaker 2: were doing so in fine fashion. They're at the top

2873
02:38:10,480 --> 02:38:12,880
Speaker 2: of those conferences or near the top of those conferences.

2874
02:38:13,760 --> 02:38:17,520
Speaker 2: He is eighty nine games, over five hundred, two PAC

2875
02:38:17,600 --> 02:38:19,720
Speaker 2: twelve titles, and a Mountain West crown.

2876
02:38:19,840 --> 02:38:21,280
Speaker 4: One seventy seven and eighty eight.

2877
02:38:22,480 --> 02:38:26,560
Speaker 2: Most importantly, when you take a look behind the curtain

2878
02:38:26,600 --> 02:38:30,240
Speaker 2: of Kyle Whittingham, he has a spotless reputation. He's had

2879
02:38:30,280 --> 02:38:33,879
Speaker 2: a terrific career. His teams they're not really in trouble,

2880
02:38:34,280 --> 02:38:38,360
Speaker 2: not that I can remember. Kyle Whittingham builds very strong

2881
02:38:38,440 --> 02:38:43,400
Speaker 2: team cultures, and as I tweeted out, this is a

2882
02:38:43,440 --> 02:38:49,840
Speaker 2: guy Kyle Whittingham, who's experienced, no nonsense, he's well grounded,

2883
02:38:50,320 --> 02:38:54,760
Speaker 2: and he's successful all four of those things. Utah had

2884
02:38:54,760 --> 02:38:57,000
Speaker 2: a bit of a dip recently. He turned them around

2885
02:38:57,000 --> 02:38:59,600
Speaker 2: almost immediately. He lost his quarterback, Cam Rising. For the

2886
02:38:59,640 --> 02:39:02,400
Speaker 2: whole year, they went from five to seven to said

2887
02:39:02,440 --> 02:39:04,640
Speaker 2: it's ten to two. And what is he known for?

2888
02:39:04,840 --> 02:39:10,840
Speaker 2: Stacked offensive lines, great defensive elite defensive units. Okay, Utah

2889
02:39:11,040 --> 02:39:14,280
Speaker 2: had the misfortune and they are undermanned a quarterback. The

2890
02:39:14,400 --> 02:39:16,840
Speaker 2: two teams in conference got on BYU in Texas Tech

2891
02:39:17,480 --> 02:39:19,160
Speaker 2: or they had a real shot at being in the

2892
02:39:19,200 --> 02:39:23,160
Speaker 2: foot football playoff. So the Michigan's getting an experienced guy,

2893
02:39:23,280 --> 02:39:25,560
Speaker 2: a guy who can handwride this thing, who's a veteran.

2894
02:39:26,080 --> 02:39:29,880
Speaker 2: It's a completely different contrast to some coaches in the past.

2895
02:39:30,680 --> 02:39:33,520
Speaker 2: The other thing, too, is as successful as Kyle Whittingham

2896
02:39:33,800 --> 02:39:37,000
Speaker 2: was at Utah, He's going to have many, many more

2897
02:39:37,080 --> 02:39:40,520
Speaker 2: resources and money that at any time in his career,

2898
02:39:40,760 --> 02:39:44,640
Speaker 2: which has already been extremely successful. Now, remember Michigan had

2899
02:39:44,680 --> 02:39:47,480
Speaker 2: the number one recruit Bryce Underwood to the program last

2900
02:39:47,560 --> 02:39:49,440
Speaker 2: year with a twelve million dollar contract of which he's

2901
02:39:49,440 --> 02:39:54,320
Speaker 2: been paid two and a half million. And truth of

2902
02:39:54,360 --> 02:39:57,840
Speaker 2: the matter is, I'm told that Bryce Underwood is excited

2903
02:39:58,200 --> 02:40:01,120
Speaker 2: by this hire. We'll see maybe he is, hopefully is.

2904
02:40:01,160 --> 02:40:05,320
Speaker 2: And I think Jason Beck, the defensive coordinator, I believe

2905
02:40:06,240 --> 02:40:10,760
Speaker 2: will come to ann Arbor with with with the Kyle Whittingham.

2906
02:40:10,800 --> 02:40:12,520
Speaker 4: I don't know. I can't prove it, but we'll see.

2907
02:40:13,120 --> 02:40:15,680
Speaker 2: So he recruits well, he coaches well, he's a leader.

2908
02:40:16,240 --> 02:40:18,800
Speaker 2: And the truth of the matter is, if they can

2909
02:40:18,879 --> 02:40:20,720
Speaker 2: get five years out of them, I think they're gonna

2910
02:40:20,720 --> 02:40:24,840
Speaker 2: be just fine. And it's a time and history where

2911
02:40:24,840 --> 02:40:26,680
Speaker 2: they got the coach they needed.

2912
02:40:27,040 --> 02:40:27,360
Speaker 3: All right.

2913
02:40:28,000 --> 02:40:30,080
Speaker 2: Three of the last four Michigan coaches failed to let

2914
02:40:30,120 --> 02:40:32,160
Speaker 2: make it through four years. Harbaugh was the only one.

2915
02:40:32,480 --> 02:40:34,160
Speaker 2: I think he will. It's gonna do it for the

2916
02:40:34,200 --> 02:40:36,840
Speaker 2: Bernie Frattles Show. See you next Saturday. Keep it locked

2917
02:40:36,879 --> 02:40:40,080
Speaker 2: up next to Great Andy Furman on Fox Sports Radio.