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Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody? John middlecop rein Out podcast. Uh,

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Speaker 1: wild Card weekend is upon US National Championship on Monday

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Speaker 1: right also right around the corner, So just you know

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Speaker 1: football Heaven from Saturday day if you live in the

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Speaker 1: US all the way through Monday night, which actually also

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Speaker 1: happens to be down the street for me at Levi Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Might be going to the game. Not sure yet, waiting

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Speaker 1: on my ticket hook up. Um, I know some people

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Speaker 1: about to find out how much pool. I have. The

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Speaker 1: other problem for Clemson Alabamas that it might rain, and

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Speaker 1: if it rains, I'm West Coast offt there's no chance

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Speaker 1: John middle coops attending the game if it rains. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just went third person, but I won't be going.

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Speaker 1: But but I do want to go because the game

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Speaker 1: Clemson Alabama, which I'm sure I'll talk about next week,

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Speaker 1: has a chance to be all time great. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's of all the games this weekend, I think it's

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Speaker 1: the best. Obviously, it has the most on the line,

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Speaker 1: just in terms. It's the national Championship, it's the first

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Speaker 1: round of the playoffs. But all these events Saturday, Sunday

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Speaker 1: and even Monday night, uh, you know, or it's just

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Speaker 1: a rare time. The ninth the Netflix has an unreal

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Speaker 1: documentary on the nineties. And I was born in eighty

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Speaker 1: four and thirty four years old, so the nineties played

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Speaker 1: just crazy to see, Like I was telling someone on

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Speaker 1: and it would be like ninety three or ninety six,

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Speaker 1: or you know if George H. Bush or Bill Clinton

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Speaker 1: as a family, and like eighty million people watched And

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Speaker 1: in that Netflix documentary, like Seinfeld and Friends in the

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Speaker 1: last episode of Cheers, like they used to get like

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Speaker 1: seventy five million people watching it one time an episode.

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Speaker 1: I mean, now, if you get like five million people

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Speaker 1: to watch it one time, it's crazy. Their football is

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Speaker 1: king right now by four when it comes to sporting

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Speaker 1: events in this country, because it's one of the only

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Speaker 1: events politics. Uh, you name it, like if Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: not everyone's hell, you work to avoid him talking. And

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Speaker 1: this is not political. I'm not There's nothing to do

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Speaker 1: and I know most of you don't care either. You

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Speaker 1: don't want to watch. It wouldn't matter if it was

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump or Barack Obama. It just times have changed

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Speaker 1: like that. There are no network television shows that all

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Speaker 1: read it, the article on Bill Simmons site The Ringer

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Speaker 1: the same thing. But this game, Uh, you know, I

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Speaker 1: This isn't nineteen seventy nine. Philip Rivers should go into Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: do anything. Yeah, he's all nothing changed. Uh. The other

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Speaker 1: Colts Texans one of the better Saturday Day games in

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Speaker 1: recent memory, at least a day game for me. The

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Speaker 1: way I look at this is I think people are

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Speaker 1: almost discounting the Texans who have had a big time season,

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Speaker 1: who have just three or four elite players. Watson, Buller,

432
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,439
Speaker 1: Hopkins arguably best receiver in the league. J J. Watt

433
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Speaker 1: has had a defensive Player of the Year level season.

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Speaker 1: Clowney has really come into his own as just a

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Speaker 1: full on ass kicker, and Honey Badger has been one

436
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Speaker 1: of the better offseason signings there. They're just they have

437
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Speaker 1: some elite players now, their offensive line is not great.

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Speaker 1: I think Deshaun Watson has been sacked more times than

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Speaker 1: any other quarterback. I think part of that is when

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Speaker 1: you have scrambling quarterbacks, you know they are, they're more

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Speaker 1: likely to hold onto the ball and make some plays.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I not that I ever would, but if

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Speaker 1: you did some like deep dive study on every one

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Speaker 1: of watson sacks, I bet you know a decent percentage

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Speaker 1: maybe twenty or on him. I used to be in

446
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Speaker 1: here in the Bay Area. Watch Kaepernick, he created a

447
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Speaker 1: lot of sacks. Russell Wilson, You watch Russell Wilson, he

448
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Speaker 1: kind of does that too. You know. Philip Rivers and

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady they get sacked, they also avoid a lot

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Speaker 1: of sacks. They either throw it away, you know, or

451
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Speaker 1: just get rid of the ball. Really cool, But at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, the games in Houston, I

453
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 1: think Bill O'Brien is one of those guys that everyone

454
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Speaker 1: on the internet acts like an idiot, and all he's

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Speaker 1: done is win everywhere he's been. He won and earned

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Speaker 1: Brady's respect. Went to Penn State after Sandusky molested every

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Speaker 1: little kid in you know, Penn State, and that bad

458
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,360
Speaker 1: whole drama happened. They basically got the death penalty, lost scholarships.

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00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,479
Speaker 1: He went there on one when eight and four with

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Speaker 1: Matt mcgloy, Like, you're not supposed to win eight games

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Speaker 1: with Matt mcgloy in the Big Ten while Sandusky this

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Speaker 1: in Joe Pauw, just the whole scandal happened. I almost

463
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Speaker 1: think that gets underappreciated now, what seven eight years later?

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Speaker 1: That was crazy. I lived in Philadelphia at the time.

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Speaker 1: That was insane. That was nuts, and Billy came in

466
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Speaker 1: there and hit people in the teeth and won games. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And I know that we in Philly. He was before

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Speaker 1: we offered Chip Kelly. He was the first guy we

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Speaker 1: offered the job. He said no, And the guy's a

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Speaker 1: big time football coach. The Colts is an incredible story.

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Speaker 1: E almost feels like they're a year early. Uh. Clearly,

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Speaker 1: they are stacked with talent. They have the you know,

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Speaker 1: arguably best quarterback thirty year under in the NFL. He

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Speaker 1: has the best quarterback thirty year under in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Have a bunch of really good role players, have a

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Speaker 1: couple of studs. I mean t Wise a baller. Eric

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Speaker 1: Ebron has become a baller. Their offensive line is really good.

478
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Speaker 1: Darius Leonards a baller. So they are I think defensively

479
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Speaker 1: they're overachieving a little bit. Uber Fluce is proven to

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Speaker 1: be pretty good. I like the Texans in this game.

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Speaker 1: I've been tweeting and saying I'm taking the Colds money line.

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Speaker 1: But the more I think about it, like this is

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Speaker 1: gonna be a hard game for the Colts. It really is,

484
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Speaker 1: because it's hard for road teams to win games in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. I think Kevin Clark said a stat, uh

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Speaker 1: was Bill Simmons that, you know, a road team or

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Speaker 1: a non one or two seed. Excuse me, let me

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Speaker 1: rephrase this. Since two thousand twelve, every team in the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl has not won a road game. They've either

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Speaker 1: been the one or two seed and obviously just played

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Speaker 1: home games. Like it is so hard to get to

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl winning road games, So you know, the

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Speaker 1: Colts would be dangerous. I wouldn't want to mess with him.

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Speaker 1: Uh if I was Kansas City and I could choose,

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Speaker 1: you know, of all the teams playing that I'd want

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Speaker 1: to play because they played the lowest seeds. So it

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Speaker 1: would either be the Culture the Chargers. You know, I'd

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Speaker 1: probably rather play the Colts, But I think either the

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Speaker 1: Culture Chargers would be tough. But at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, Uh, I think I think Houston just games

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Speaker 1: at home. I think Bill O'Brien is a really good

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Speaker 1: I think he's a better coaching frank right, Uh He's

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Speaker 1: this is what is fourth time in the playoffs in

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Speaker 1: five years or is it three and five years? The

505
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Speaker 1: first two came with like Hoyer and just scrubs. I mean,

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Speaker 1: look at what happens when he gets a quarterback. He

507
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Speaker 1: wins games. He's a big time football coach. And Houston,

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Speaker 1: actually I think is almost being slept on a little

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Speaker 1: bit like Dallas. I they they are gonna be tougher

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Speaker 1: than people think. You know, these next couple of weeks, Okay,

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Speaker 1: before I get into the middlecoff mail bag, I got

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Speaker 1: I got one more thing to bring up. And I've

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Speaker 1: talked about this before, and I was just show shocked,

514
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Speaker 1: probably the wrong word, because I do expect certain things

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Speaker 1: with the media and on Twitter and on social media.

516
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 1: But when we just had all the information on when

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Speaker 1: Ruben Foster, who got arrested when the forty Niners were

518
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Speaker 1: playing Tampa Bay at the team hotel on the road,

519
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,440
Speaker 1: which I've said it before and I'll say it again.

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Speaker 1: I think it's unprecedented for a player on the road

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. This is not baseball or basketball. You

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Speaker 1: don't stay at the hotel's multiple nights. You were literally

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Speaker 1: in the hotel. You show up at like four or

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Speaker 1: five in the afternoon, and you know you leave the

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Speaker 1: next at the morning, after breakfast, ahead of the stadium.

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Speaker 1: You're there like twelve hours to get arrested as crazy.

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Speaker 1: But why he was arrested because the same girl that

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Speaker 1: had made up the story the first time had showed up.

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Speaker 1: He either flew out. I don't have the details. I

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Speaker 1: don't even know. I don't even care whether he flew out,

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Speaker 1: whether he showed up on her own. But then he

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Speaker 1: got arrested for hitting her, and she claimed he hit

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Speaker 1: her in her face, even though the cops were like, well,

534
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: nothing's wrong with your face. So and she had made

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Speaker 1: up a story before she even met Reuben Foster on

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00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: another guy and admitted to it. So she's had three

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Speaker 1: domestic violence stories, two with Ruben Foster and one with

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Speaker 1: some other random guy that she's admitted to line. She

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00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: has admitted to lying to this one yet, but it

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00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 1: was clear this story was deficiest of them all. So

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Speaker 1: I never quite understood and this there was an argument

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00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,160
Speaker 1: to be made, like, you don't ever need to overreact

543
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: unless you have tangible evidence when a player gets in trouble.

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Speaker 1: Why because the media wants you to. It's been proven

545
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Speaker 1: over and over and over and over and over and

546
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,439
Speaker 1: over and over and over and over that fans do

547
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: not care. I remember when the when the Seattle Seahawks

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Speaker 1: took Frank Clark. He had been kicked out of Michigan

549
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: for an incident he had had with his girlfriend, and

550
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: everyone was like, oh my god, how could the Seattle

551
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 1: Seahawks tank Frank Clark? You know what. The last couple

552
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,400
Speaker 1: of years, all they've been saying all I see Seattle Seahawks.

553
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: Oh my do you see Frank Clark coming around the edge.

554
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,120
Speaker 1: Oh my god, do you see Frank Clark's explosion? Oh

555
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: my god, do you see Frank Clark's power? Oh my god,

556
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 1: are we gonna franchise Frank Clark? No one cares? And

557
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: same with Reuben. Like Ruben's a baller. Reuben's really good. Uh,

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00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: it's still a little rowd, gets hurt a lot on

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00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 1: the field, but he's he's an elite talent. Now, the

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00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: forty Niners, like I, I do believe and you do

561
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: have to stand for something in life, no matter what

562
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: you do, like every human, every business, every organization, every

563
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: family you name, eventually has to stand for something. So

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00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: the Niners drew a line in the sand and said

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00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: we will not stand for this. The one thing I

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Speaker 1: respected about Kyle Shanahan and the Niners brass like they

567
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: came out the second time they ever even gave her

568
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: the benefit like, yeah, it has nothing. We don't even

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Speaker 1: believe her. This was about Reuben and not trusting Reuben.

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Speaker 1: You know why, because she had lost the benefit of

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Speaker 1: the doubt to be believed. You can only cry wolf

572
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: so many times. She's a pathological war We now have evidence.

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00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: So when the Redskins claimed him, everyone freaked out, Oh

574
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 1: my god, damn Snyder, you scum bag. The Redskins, you scumbag.

575
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: And then today when it comes out like yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: dropping the charges. This was just fake. No one says

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00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 1: a peep, just crickets and I said it, Yet the

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00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: articles came out the moment he got arrested. How could

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00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: he hit her? It's really pretty crazy, and it's it's reckless,

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00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: it's not safe. And a lot of these media people

581
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: that are just extreme left wingers scream and bitch and

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00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: moan about mass incarceration, yet they wanted Reuben Foster like

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00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: basically thrown in jail. It's like, hey, guys, this is

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Speaker 1: that we have a legal system. Can we let it

585
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: play out here? Because it's already a pretty big red flag.

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00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: Something doesn't quite add up. And the overread like when

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00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: I see a video of Kareem Hunt kicking the girl, like, yeah,

588
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: he's gotta go. But when I have evidence upon evidence

589
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: upon evidence of this chick is a pathological liar. I

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00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: I still can't get over the reaction from so many

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Speaker 1: people in the NFL or that covered the NFL that

592
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Speaker 1: basically just calling Reuben Foster Reuben Foster, uh you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: domestic violence. You know, some someone that would hit a

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Speaker 1: woman when we have zero evidence to that, if anything,

595
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: evidence pointing on the contrary that this chick is crazy.

596
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: Yet I haven't seen one column or one person ever

597
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Speaker 1: questioning this crazy female in the last twenty four hours

598
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 1: in the story broke that he's innocent. I also think,

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Speaker 1: and as people have been tweeting at me, and this

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Speaker 1: is why I think, did the Redskins? Now? I don't

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Speaker 1: trust Reuben? He has proven to not be a trustworthy individual.

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00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: He does not good decisions, He does not have much

603
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: common sense. But did the Redskins just claim, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: a top five level talent that has some issues and

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00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: that at any moment can make a bad decision, does

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00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: not associate with the right people. But he is not

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00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: from the evidence, we have ever touched a woman like

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Speaker 1: That's just those are the facts that we have in

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00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: front of us, and that I would say, and this

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00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: is more of indictment on society. She's the criminal here.

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00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: Now you won't read that anywhere, you won't hear that anywhere,

612
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: But society is worse off with her around, given her,

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00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: you know, her ability to just tell lies about human

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00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: beings that send you to jail, like they how crazy

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00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:46,479
Speaker 1: that is. I haven't seen one social justice were you know,

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00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: write write an article about how she deserves some time

617
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: that you won't but that you know, it's it's pretty

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00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: sickening and it shows you that we got a lot

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Speaker 1: of agendas here. Okay, let's get into uh the middle

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Speaker 1: comp mail bag before I actually just saw this on

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Speaker 1: my Twitter account. Before I, uh, I get into the

622
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: Middlecoff mail bag. This was the line that Reggie mackenzie

623
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Speaker 1: reportedly told teams looking to trade for Khalil Mack. I

624
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: think this was probably around training camp. Don't have the

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00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: exact day, but you know, probably a couple of weeks

626
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: before they traded him. It was clear he might not

627
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: show up for the first couple of weeks of the season,

628
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: so people started asking him what would it take to

629
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Speaker 1: trade for Kalil Mack. He responded to the teams that

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00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: were asking, I quote over my dead body. So Reggie

631
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Speaker 1: mackenzie went out like a champ and clearly didn't want to. Uh.

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00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: I didn't want to trade Khalil. Don't blame him, but

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Speaker 1: it's safe to say that, uh that Gruden went out

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Speaker 1: on that one. Okay, let's let's get here to the

635
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: Middlecoff mail bag. Okay, this is a good one from

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Speaker 1: what's strong? Uh question for the pot. Gruden is one

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00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: of the rare situations where he can focus on the

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Speaker 1: long term good on his team. Most coaches have to

639
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Speaker 1: sacrifice the future to win now as coaches, and they

640
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Speaker 1: can be fired in as little as a year's time.

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Speaker 1: With a tenure deal, Gruden is basically guaranteed to be

642
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Speaker 1: here long term. Do you think having a guy who

643
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Speaker 1: was able to focus on the long term could be

644
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Speaker 1: a strategic advantage, particularly when he has to make unpopular

645
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Speaker 1: moves that are best for the long term health of

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Speaker 1: the organization. Khalil Mack, Here's what I'll say about that. Like,

647
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Speaker 1: Khalil Mack was twenty seven years old, so let's say

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Speaker 1: hypothetically Kalil Max stays healthy, he's got four more good

649
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Speaker 1: years left. That would have meant that Gruden would have

650
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Speaker 1: got a sweet year out Khalil this year. He would

651
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Speaker 1: have got into me the in the first I think

652
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Speaker 1: they started one in three. To me, they easily would

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Speaker 1: have been two and two, three and one if Khalil

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Speaker 1: had been on the team, because the first half they

655
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Speaker 1: were in some tight games early on, uh that they

656
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Speaker 1: just needed to play against Miami and against Denver that

657
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Speaker 1: Khalil would have made a play. So to me that

658
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Speaker 1: obviously they wouldn't have been a playoff team or anything,

659
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Speaker 1: but who knows could have changed the landscape of their season.

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Speaker 1: I think if if Gruden I that's I can't condone

661
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Speaker 1: trade and Khalil Mack. I've said it from the beginning.

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Speaker 1: It's just one of the most asinine things ever because

663
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Speaker 1: in the NFL, you can turn around things relatively quick.

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Speaker 1: Like you, they still would have let's just say they

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Speaker 1: would have gone five and eleven with Khalil Mack. We

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Speaker 1: still would have had Khalil mac under contract, use that

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Speaker 1: top pick. You could still trade Amari let's say four

668
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Speaker 1: first round pick, and then all of a sudden, your

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Speaker 1: team is competitive and you have a stalwart on defense

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Speaker 1: who's one of the best defensive players we've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: And the thing is Gruden didn't necessarily think just big

672
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Speaker 1: picture because he traded a third round pick for Martavius Bryant.

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Speaker 1: He signed Jordy Nelson, So it could be a strategic

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Speaker 1: advantage if you just went full on Hinky just signed

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Speaker 1: practice squad players, did not sign any older guys like

676
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Speaker 1: they signed Doug Martin. You know, they they resigned Reggie Nelson.

677
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Speaker 1: They signed just older players. Like if you just would

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Speaker 1: have traded Khalil trader to Maori not signed any old guys,

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00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: I'd be like, okay, that that is a strategic advantage.

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Speaker 1: Like if you just go bare bones, you trade all

681
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Speaker 1: your sweet players. I get it, you're just going big picture.

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Speaker 1: But I can't say that. So in theory, yes, it

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Speaker 1: could become a strategic advantage. Did John Gruden use a

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Speaker 1: strategic advantage? No, he did not because he signed so

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Speaker 1: many old guys. They I'm pretty sure they had the

686
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Speaker 1: oldest roster in the NFL. So we'll see if it.

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Speaker 1: Things changed with Mike Mayock. Now they have kind of

688
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Speaker 1: a unique strategy with these next two drafts. Definitely this draft. Uh,

689
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Speaker 1: they have four picks, you know, in the top thirty

690
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Speaker 1: six or whatever. So it's a big opportunity for them

691
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Speaker 1: to kind of turn this thing around. Hey, John, I

692
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Speaker 1: listen every week from the UK. I was wondering what

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Speaker 1: your thoughts were on the Colts pushed to the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: So this is a little old. Is this really out

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Speaker 1: of the blue or should we have expected it given

696
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Speaker 1: the huge talent for Andrew Luck. So I think we

697
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Speaker 1: could just re kind of hash the question as is

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Speaker 1: it shocking that the coultimate the playoffs? Uh? To me,

699
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Speaker 1: the only reason it was is because they started so slow.

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Speaker 1: They started one in five. But when you factor in that,

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Speaker 1: like you said, not, he's a huge I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: one of He's a generational player. So if you get

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Speaker 1: a healthy Andrew Luck for sixteen games, Andrew has proven it,

704
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Speaker 1: you will be in the mix. You will have a

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Speaker 1: chance to make the playoffs. You know. Now, I think

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Speaker 1: what was shocking about this year are two things I

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Speaker 1: didn't look I didn't like the as anyone knows, the

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Speaker 1: Quintin Nelson draft pick. But it turns out that using

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Speaker 1: a draft pick on offensive lineman, maybe I should have

710
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Speaker 1: looked at it a little different. It is a more

711
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Speaker 1: understandable than the way I crushed it. But here's the

712
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Speaker 1: thing they old They got a free agent flyer on

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Speaker 1: Eric Ebroun. He had like fourteen touchdowns this year. It

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Speaker 1: might have been or fourteen touchdowns. I don't think he'd

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Speaker 1: ever gotten like his career total. Didn't sniff that he

716
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Speaker 1: was a royal bust in Detroit as a former first

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Speaker 1: round pick. Then t Y, for the most part, was

718
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Speaker 1: healthy and had a good season. They also Darius Leonard,

719
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Speaker 1: the guy they got in the second round. I kept

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Speaker 1: saying like, why didn't the Colts take ro Kuan Smith.

721
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Speaker 1: He's the modern day linebacker clearly with the Chicago he's

722
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Speaker 1: a badass, kicking ass, taking names. Well, they basically got

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Speaker 1: Roquan Smith, a guy that I didn't really know that

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Speaker 1: much about, Darius Leonard who has been phenomenal. And then

725
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Speaker 1: they also, you know, responded pretty well when Josh McDaniels

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Speaker 1: backed out on him. So if I took a step

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Speaker 1: back and just said Luck was gonna be healthy for

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Speaker 1: sixteen games. Remember he didn't throw a ball in O

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Speaker 1: t a s I I don't really remember during training camp,

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Speaker 1: but I think it took a while for him. He

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Speaker 1: definitely didn't play in the first couple of preseason games,

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Speaker 1: so it was like is he even healthy? And then

733
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Speaker 1: he started slow. Their whole team did. But now looking back,

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Speaker 1: I think they overachieved a little bit, but they also

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Speaker 1: underachieved a little bit at the beginning. Uh, if Andrew

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Speaker 1: Lux stays healthy, this is a playoff team every year.

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Speaker 1: You know Ryan Grigson who tried to submarine and ruin

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Speaker 1: this team, Chris Ballard has saved it and it looks

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00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: like they got a coach. Okay, keep grinding, guys, that's

740
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Speaker 1: not a middlecoff mail bag podcast. This is a long

741
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Speaker 1: ask question. See if I can kind of fly through it.

742
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Speaker 1: In my deal world, the college Football Playoff has eight

743
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Speaker 1: teams and the season runs as follows. Okay, we'll just

744
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 1: we'll tell a story here. See if are ed a

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00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: cliff is the is the Instagram. Each Power five team

746
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Speaker 1: plays eight conference games and four non conference games, but

747
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: they must play four other Power Five opponents, one team

748
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Speaker 1: from each conference if they want to be considered for

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. I like where you're going here, ship, seeing

750
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Speaker 1: as everybody wants to make the playoffs. This leads to

751
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Speaker 1: many more non conference big games that lead to more

752
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Speaker 1: competition and sustainable profit for the n C Double A,

753
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Speaker 1: as well as TV deals being restructured to benefit every

754
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Speaker 1: television network. I think they need certain tangible requirements. I

755
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: agree here, you know, I agree here. Some uniformed standards. Uh,

756
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Speaker 1: otherwise we're gonna have dogshit teams like Notre Dame in

757
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Speaker 1: the playoffs who ride to early win in an easy schedule.

758
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: I agree. Diversification of each team schedule will make it

759
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Speaker 1: more uniform throughout, makes the committee's job much easier. I'm

760
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: not gonna be an idiot to say that Alabama hasn't

761
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: looked like the best team in the country weekend and

762
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 1: week out, but they hardly play anyone. Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 1: The SEC is top heavy. I think the SEC is

764
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Speaker 1: pretty good. Florida got lucky in case. Kind of breaking

765
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Speaker 1: it down, Uh, either get in or absolute to get

766
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Speaker 1: host you cry and then something about u CF Okay,

767
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 1: you ceef effect where these guys need to go undefeed

768
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: it against a bunch of cupcakes and then either get in. Okay,

769
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Speaker 1: I I like that. I do think they need to

770
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Speaker 1: get some unifize, just some standardized, you know, basic uniform

771
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Speaker 1: of schedule, like every Power five team. I I wouldn't

772
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Speaker 1: say you have to play four other Power five. I

773
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Speaker 1: would go like this, you got every conference goes eight

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Speaker 1: conference games, eight or nine, whatever the number is. Let's

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Speaker 1: just pick eight for argument's sake. So then you have

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Speaker 1: four other games. I would say you mandate three of

777
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Speaker 1: them be out of conference, Like you can go I

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry something you when I say cupcake, Like, you

779
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: can go a non Power five. So even if you're like,

780
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Speaker 1: you know, let's say Washington State, Okay, you gotta play

781
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Speaker 1: Michigan State, you gotta play Mississippi State, and you gotta

782
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Speaker 1: play Miami. Well, your third game can be a quote

783
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Speaker 1: unquote cupcake, but it's got to be a non it's

784
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Speaker 1: gotta be a Division one team, not one Double A.

785
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Speaker 1: You don't get to play you know, cal Paly. You

786
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 1: don't get to play North Dakota State, even though I

787
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,399
Speaker 1: mean North Dakota State it's pretty good, but you get

788
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,959
Speaker 1: my point, Like, you gotta play Nevada, or you gotta

789
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: play Frezeno State, or you gotta play UCF or you

790
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,919
Speaker 1: gotta play whoever. So I I like that. And the

791
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 1: problem is is the SEC has so much poll and

792
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: they view their conference so highly, which I do agree with,

793
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Speaker 1: but I'm with you. They do get some cupcakes, even

794
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 1: though this year it's pretty clear, like Kentucky was loaded,

795
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Speaker 1: and I watched him play Penn State. I think brock

796
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: Hewart was calling the game. He had a good point.

797
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: He's like, don't be shocked. You know, the first three

798
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Speaker 1: days of the draft or the first you know, three

799
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: rounds of the draft, you're gonna hear Kentucky names. You're

800
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: gonna be like, damn, five guys from Kentucky got drafted

801
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 1: the top one hundred. Yeah, they're good for a reason.

802
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: They had a bunch of NFL guys. Florida's on the comp.

803
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:54,800
Speaker 1: George has a power, Obama's a power. L s U's loaded.

804
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: You know, Mississippi State aren't scrubs, so at the conference

805
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 1: in Tennessee stick inks. But like Tennessee played on a

806
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:06,320
Speaker 1: random game like against Arizona or Texas Tech, they'd kill him.

807
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: So I'm with you, I like where your head's at.

808
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,399
Speaker 1: I think they need to go there somehow and get

809
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: to the point where we're not. We don't have all

810
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Speaker 1: this and you know, like these arbitrary it feels like

811
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Speaker 1: every year it's a different standard. Well the schedule look

812
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Speaker 1: good at the beginning of the year, but by the

813
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Speaker 1: end of the year, all these teams sucks or you know,

814
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Speaker 1: this year the conference really sucked because I do think

815
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Speaker 1: for all the stats we use, it does have to

816
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Speaker 1: matter when you play each other. Like if it came

817
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Speaker 1: down to to one win teams Michigan couldn't have got

818
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Speaker 1: in over Notre Dame. They beat him straight up. Same

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Speaker 1: with like Georgia and l s U. Like, if you

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Speaker 1: play straight up, it has to matter, Like that's why

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Speaker 1: you play the game. But if you don't play, I

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Speaker 1: I'm a big believer, like the eye test does matter.

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Speaker 1: It was clear Alabama was unreal. It's obvious. Clemson is

824
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Speaker 1: absolutely stacked. It was clear Oklahoma's offense was incredible. But

825
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 1: their defense, my my mom could tell you they sucked.

826
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Speaker 1: You know, you didn't need Bill Parcels to walk through

827
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Speaker 1: the door to break down their schematics, you know. And

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Speaker 1: my argument always was for Ohio State. The pretty loss

829
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Speaker 1: was terrible, and I do believe in like the games matter.

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Speaker 1: But I watched what they did to Michigan. Michigan was

831
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Speaker 1: the number one defense. Jim Harbaugh, who's one a ton

832
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: of games, had that team rolling in. Ohio State beat

833
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Speaker 1: the living poop out it. I mean it was. It's

834
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Speaker 1: one of the all time massacres I ever remember in

835
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Speaker 1: a big game like where two teams were supposed to

836
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Speaker 1: be at least semi equals. It was a matter. It

837
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Speaker 1: was a blood bath. When I think about this season,

838
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Speaker 1: I even depending unless the National Championship is just like

839
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Speaker 1: historically great, Ohio State Michigan might be the first game

840
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Speaker 1: I thought about because I thought Michigan had a legit

841
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Speaker 1: chance it was a body back game for Ohio State.

842
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: I mean it was crazy. They were killing Michigan. It

843
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: felt like they was JV Rick's varsity. So like at

844
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Speaker 1: the end of the year, here's what you know right now, Alabama, Clemson, Georgia,

845
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Speaker 1: even l s U like those four or five team

846
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Speaker 1: and Ohio State like just have more NFL players than

847
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Speaker 1: everyone else. So even if they win, if they if

848
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Speaker 1: they're a one lost team, like I'm giving them the

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Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt over an undefeated Notre Dame over

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Speaker 1: an undefeated Pack twelve. I love the Pack twelve. I

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Speaker 1: wish they were better, but I watched them. They don't

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Speaker 1: have a lot of NFL guys right now. You know,

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Speaker 1: most of these teams, like you go to Ohio State,

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Speaker 1: they got seven NFL starters who are going to be

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Speaker 1: in the NFL next year, not counting all the underclassmen

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Speaker 1: that will be back and then be in the NFL

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Speaker 1: in a year. Like I watched Washington, Like, how many

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Speaker 1: NFL guys they have on their's team? Five total? You know,

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Speaker 1: he's just I watched Washington day. How many how many

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Speaker 1: pros they have? Hell, I watch sc and they don't

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Speaker 1: have as many Cal in in their heyday with Jeff Tedford,

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Speaker 1: they'd roll out teams with like Alex Mack, Marshawn Lynch,

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Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson, like that was their offense. Who do you

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Speaker 1: have on your offense? I don't know, DeShawn Jackson, Marshawn Lynch,

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Speaker 1: and my centator's Alex Mack. Yeah, you're gonna be pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we all know the defense is Pete Carroll

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Speaker 1: used to roll out. That's basically what these teams are.

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Speaker 1: If you think back a couple of years when Ohio

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Speaker 1: State upset Alabama, it felt really big upset at the time,

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Speaker 1: and then we look back, We're like, damn. They had

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Speaker 1: Bosa Zeke Lattimore, Conley Bell, Uh, Darren Lee, I think

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Speaker 1: was Ryan Chazer on that team, Taylor Decker. They just

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Speaker 1: had so many dudes, you know, the center they got

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Speaker 1: drafted by Cincinnati this year. They were just tacked. I

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Speaker 1: mean they were incredible that that team was. It was

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Speaker 1: basically an NFL roster. No wonder they upset Alabama. Turns

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Speaker 1: out that wasn't really an upset that the state it

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Speaker 1: was really that good. But I'm with you, I want

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Speaker 1: some uniform standards. I I just think that college football,

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Speaker 1: like the pros, it's a little more like a private

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Speaker 1: sector business. They have committees that they put major owners on,

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Speaker 1: and decisions happen relatively quick. Now they vote on stuff.

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Speaker 1: There still is a quote unquote committee, but these guys

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Speaker 1: are all business leaders, so they think pretty quick. In

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Speaker 1: college football, it's a little more like truly, like politics,

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Speaker 1: things happen so slow. No one ever wants to upset

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Speaker 1: the apple card, like it's hard to get things changed.

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Speaker 1: Remember how long it took to get a four team playoff.

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Speaker 1: I'm thirty four years old. It feels like it took

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Speaker 1: twenty plus years of like us talking about it, you know,

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Speaker 1: and then really talking about it, probably in the mid

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Speaker 1: two thousand's. It took another ten That's so like things

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Speaker 1: happen in the NFL. It's like, we wanna the rule

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Speaker 1: change for targeting, Boom, it's implemented the next year. We

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Speaker 1: want an extra team in the playoffs, Oh, we want

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Speaker 1: a Thursday night game. They adapt so fast. College is

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Speaker 1: a little slower, mainly because you have a lot of

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Speaker 1: administrators that don't really have anything to do with anything,

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Speaker 1: that don't want their their hand that could be pulled

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Speaker 1: out of a cookie jar, you know. Uh, so I

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Speaker 1: like where your head's at, and I think definitely something

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Speaker 1: will will probably happen eventually. But it's it's like gambling,

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Speaker 1: you know, in some of these states, especially my state

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Speaker 1: in California, it just takes time. It does not happen overnight.

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Speaker 1: So I appreciate everyone listening. Uh, thanks for everything. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for just keep on listening, enjoy the playoffs. I plan

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Speaker 1: is to be be out next Tuesday. I think I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be at the National Championship game. If I don't,

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Speaker 1: we'll see. Uh. Follow me on Instagram at John Middlecoff.

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Speaker 1: Follow me on Twitter, same thing always. You can slide

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Speaker 1: up in those d m s and I'll answer your

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Speaker 1: questions right here on the Middlecoff mail back. May the

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Speaker 1: peace be with you, God speed, audios