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Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal call that for me. I'm

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Speaker 2: I've heard so many players say, well, I want to

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Speaker 2: be happy. You want to be happy for a day?

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Speaker 1: Edo Steak is that whoo whoo? And them and tie? Yeah, Rubinstein,

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Speaker 1: welcome back. You've been talking a lot about this episode. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you sent me a slack message earlier in the week.

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Speaker 1: You can't wait to be misindependent? Is this something we

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Speaker 1: should share with the verballerhood? What does that mean? Are

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Speaker 1: you just steering full and fully into Kelly Clarkson? Now

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Speaker 1: where are we at? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You know everybody who celebrates the early odds will understand

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Speaker 2: that reference Top forty radio early Kelly Clarkson, Yes.

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Speaker 1: Two thousand and three. Kelly Clarkson, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Two thousand and three. Kelly Clarkson. So I was like

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Speaker 2: a college sophomore or something. A lot has happened in LIFETI.

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Speaker 2: A lot has happened since Kelly Clarkson released the Christina

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Speaker 2: Aguilera written for B side type song, Yeah you want

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Speaker 2: to call me misindependent? That it's fine? I mean Notre

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Speaker 2: Dame celebrates its independence. Is what is the party line

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Speaker 2: for Notre Dame with independence it's our identity or something.

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Speaker 1: It's very much their identity. I don't know what the

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Speaker 1: party line is, but yeah, they're still proudly independent. Sure,

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Speaker 1: as I've said many times over in this show, it's

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Speaker 1: woven into the culture. Maybe that's what you're getting. It

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Speaker 1: woven into the culture of Notre Dame Athletics. On the

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Speaker 1: football side. For sure, they're proudly independent. And at some

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Speaker 1: point that may change when the money changes and when

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Speaker 1: it makes sense to jump over to the Big ten

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Speaker 1: or the Big twelve or wherever. Sure certainly won't be

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Speaker 1: the ACC at this point, but yeah, here we are.

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Speaker 1: This is our independent show. On today's episode, we've got

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame, the much awaited Notre Dame preview that people

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Speaker 1: have been asking about. We've got Wazoo, We've got Oregon State,

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Speaker 1: got UMass. There are only five teams that we have

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Speaker 1: to mention all of the others. Yes, with the time

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Speaker 1: and it is the balance of college football. The remainder

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Speaker 2: Far in an election year. Tie, who is more coveted

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Speaker 1: Right it is? Let's jump in. Welcome to the danger zone.

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame, Washington State, Oregon State, you Mass you can.

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Speaker 1: We had to pay the fembot voice a little bit

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Speaker 2: At one point we are going to go over the

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Speaker 2: line and use one of those AI vocal replicators and

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Speaker 2: have like Lizzie Kaplan introduce the Big twelve or something,

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Speaker 2: and we will get sued. We will absolutely get sued.

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Speaker 2: You and I will have a discussion ahead of time

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Speaker 2: that said, I don't think Lizzie Kaplan's that litigious cool

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Speaker 1: I had an idea way back when that we were

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Speaker 2: Murky ethics. I don't murky murky ethics.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Kirk farens Is sue the solid girl will that'd

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Speaker 1: be bad press anyway, Hit follow, hit subscribe. If you

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Speaker 1: made it this far, go back and listen to all

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Speaker 1: of the preview episodes that we've been pumping out since

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Speaker 1: the end of July. We've got some other fun stuff

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Speaker 2: I don't care about your preamble saying from a football standpoint,

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Speaker 2: I'm just going to plant my flag right now, and

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Speaker 2: like a one hundred percent flawed version of the sport.

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Speaker 2: These are programs that have had huge personalities, huge players,

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Speaker 2: been ranked in the top ten, fifteen, twenty for multiple years.

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Speaker 2: It is stupid and irresponsible for this sport to leave

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Speaker 2: That's all I want to say. As a West Coaster,

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Speaker 2: it's all stupid to me. Love college football, Love that

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I will get over it's stupid. Well,

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Speaker 1: To hear that the conference went belly up in the

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Speaker 2: I know I'd be labor these types of points and

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Speaker 1: I want to start with the Wazoo. Okay.

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Speaker 2: Wazoo is interesting. They bring back both their head coach

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Speaker 2: But Washington State this year is I guess they're a

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Speaker 2: little bit interesting. Like they have some firepower at wide receiver,

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Speaker 2: So I like Washington State. I like their schedule this

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Speaker 2: on transfers. They've obviously hit the portal hard receivers in

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Speaker 2: And look, their schedule is fine. We can go through

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Speaker 1: And Max Brosber don't forget about Max Brosmer, who plays

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Speaker 1: chess a day you sent me yesterday. I did see that. Yes,

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Speaker 2: It's just I would have liked to see Washington State

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Speaker 2: in terms of where they were on defense. You know,

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Speaker 2: the defense once again was ahead of the offense last year.

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Speaker 2: And there we're also talking about a Washington State team

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Speaker 2: They're like, there's just so much new, there's so much

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Speaker 2: eight and four against you know, Texas Tech, Oregon State,

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Speaker 1: We do, we do? I mean, I guess my question

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Speaker 1: You did the Mountain West preview a couple episodes ago. Now,

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Speaker 2: I think favorably in a lot of the cases, except

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Speaker 2: At the same time, you're like there's momentum with schools

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Speaker 2: they bring back enough players and there's high level transfers

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Speaker 2: coming in, like Will Rogers is a much better option

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Speaker 2: in this moment to be your starting quarterback than John

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Speaker 2: like you look at their schedule, Yes, they can beat

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Speaker 2: you know, starting late with an interim coach. Sure, Hawaii

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Speaker 2: new school, Utah State starting over by say, san Diego

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Speaker 2: of having coordinators and a head coach and systems in place,

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Speaker 2: they can win seven eight games. They should be a

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Speaker 2: of course, but yeah, this is a team that can

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Speaker 2: I think they're in a decent place, pending offensive line

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Speaker 1: The common bond. One of the other points of commonality

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Oregon State, to me has been a more consistently

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Speaker 2: and has been a weekly wildcard. Obviously, they go five

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Speaker 2: and seven last year, Oregon State wins more games, is

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Speaker 2: Every level of Oregon State has been systematically decimated by

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Speaker 2: brutal to see what's happened to this roster. It's probably

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Speaker 2: not an accident that their new offensive and defensive coordinators

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Speaker 2: they've been hurt in a very specific way. And even

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Speaker 1: He was rumored to much bigger jobs. Sure, before the

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Speaker 1: I don't think us, because he's a good coach and

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Speaker 1: But it does leave Oregon State in a bit of

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Speaker 2: So there is something interesting and more interesting and more

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Speaker 2: promising about Oregon State than Washington State to me in

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Speaker 2: still part of as we record this a three way

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Speaker 1: Been around for a minute. Good lord, Okay, they bring

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Speaker 1: Games that they shouldn't.

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Speaker 2: The dangerous part is that intrigue, that mysterious intrigue that

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Speaker 1: And I don't know.

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Speaker 2: They're at San Diego State, Oregon and Purdue early all

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Speaker 1: We've seen it on occasion where a school from a

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Speaker 1: But what we haven't seen is a power school going

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Speaker 2: Well, we saw it with Cincinnati in the Big East

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Speaker 1: Is that flawed logic? Yes, these are two different teams

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Speaker 2: This is not Dju throwing into the San Diego State defense. Right,

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Speaker 2: Oregon State selects and Bengal Branson has played a bunch,

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Speaker 2: but he wasn't the reason Oregon State was winning a

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Speaker 1: And by the way, I think that's the right answer.

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Speaker 2: I'm there with you, Like the foundation of both of

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Speaker 1: That's the hard part of this conversation, you know. Any

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Speaker 1: of years. I don't want to denigrate it at all,

434
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Speaker 1: but it does feel like a bit of a comdown

435
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Speaker 1: if you're an Oregon State or a Wazoo fan. I

436
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Speaker 1: don't know how it can't.

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Speaker 2: No, And look, it's the difference to me between where

438
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Speaker 2: the Mountain West has been even at its best, and

439
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Speaker 2: where a conference like you know, Big ten, Big twelve PAC,

440
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Speaker 2: twelve SEC whatever acc is that the best teams are

441
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Speaker 2: much deeper, The best teams have higher level top talent,

442
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Speaker 2: you know, all American talent, where it's a little bit

443
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Speaker 2: more rare at a Mountain West school, and they certainly

444
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Speaker 2: don't have the depth that some of the better teams

445
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Speaker 2: in Power conferences.

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Speaker 1: But like we've seen the.

447
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Speaker 2: Wins Boise State is, you know one, we've seen what

448
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 2: Fresno a couple of years ago goes to UCLA and

449
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:10,480
Speaker 2: wins with Jake Hayne or like, these are not terribly

450
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Speaker 2: different conferences or levels and so at their best that

451
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Speaker 2: like a great Mountain West team any given week can

452
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Speaker 2: give a decent you know, Power conference team a lot

453
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Speaker 2: of trouble. So I don't know, I'd much rather be

454
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Speaker 2: in the shoes of Spencer Danielson right now. I'd much

455
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Speaker 2: rather be in the shoes of Barry Odom right now,

456
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Speaker 2: where you have the continuity to like dissect what is

457
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Speaker 2: and isn't working from last year because the roster is

458
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Speaker 2: familiar enough, Whereas I don't know, Oregon State and Wazoo

459
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Speaker 2: just don't seem in this moment to have that luxury.

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Speaker 1: Shall we talk some notre Dame. Dan, let's talk Notre Dame.

461
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Speaker 1: Let's talk Notre Dame. Ten to three last season, had

462
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Speaker 1: the close loss to Ohio State that I don't really

463
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Speaker 1: ever want to talk about again, if that's cool with you,

464
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Speaker 1: had the loss on the road at Louisville, had the

465
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Speaker 1: loss on the road at Clemson. Notre Dame enters the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four season as the preseason number seventeam and

467
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Speaker 1: the ap pole that just came out. I'm assuming you

468
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Speaker 1: saw that I did. Given the schedule, given the roster,

469
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Speaker 1: the expectation is that Notre Dame should be in this

470
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Speaker 1: playoff full stop. Anything short of a playoff berth for

471
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame this season is a failure. If that is

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Speaker 1: too strong of language for you, I understand we're not

473
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Speaker 1: always all on the same page. This is how Tie feels.

474
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Speaker 1: It would be an abject failure. They should be in

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Speaker 1: the playoff with this team. I feel like you need

476
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Speaker 1: to lead this conversation with Notre Dame by talking about

477
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Speaker 1: the schedule, because you could not ask for a better

478
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Speaker 1: schedule to get into this playoff. Per Bill Connolly, our

479
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Speaker 1: friend for many years who does these things, he says,

480
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Speaker 1: projected before the season. It is the fifty first toughest

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Speaker 1: schedule in the country if you are a Notre Dame fan.

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Speaker 1: Even if you're not, this will be the popular talking

483
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Speaker 1: point that folks will use against Notre Dame. They're going

484
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Speaker 1: to take a dump on the schedule. Much like last season.

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Speaker 1: It is a three game schedule, a lot of padding

486
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Speaker 1: in between. But there are three biggies that.

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Speaker 2: You can look at a team they got run over

488
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Speaker 2: by last year, including a team that got run over.

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Speaker 1: Okay, talk about that and talk about Just let me

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Speaker 1: vamp here. I've got a lot to get off my

491
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Speaker 1: tats with Flora's yours. The three big games or Texas

492
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Speaker 1: A and M. Week one might be the show piece

493
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Speaker 1: of Week one, depending on your perspective, home against Florida State,

494
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Speaker 1: not until Week eleven games at night, and then to

495
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Speaker 1: close out the year, they go on the road. Excuse

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Speaker 1: me A Week fourteen and square off AGAINSC. Right now,

497
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Speaker 1: those are the only three ranked teams in this whole schedule.

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Speaker 1: You can make a case for Louisville. Lousll lost to

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Speaker 1: Louisville last year, that game is at home. Louisville still

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Speaker 1: should be a pretty good team. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be quite as good as last year. They're

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Speaker 1: on the road at Georgia Tech. Like Georgia Tech's got

503
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Speaker 1: a plucky offense. Okay, maybe that's a game that could

504
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Speaker 1: be interesting for a while. They don't play any defense.

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Speaker 1: They probably won't again this year. They're home against Virginia.

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Speaker 1: You love Anthony Calandria, assuming he's the starter in Virginia,

507
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Speaker 1: could be something of a pluck your team this year.

508
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Speaker 1: But Notre Dame shouldn't lose that game at home. No,

509
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Speaker 1: they should not. Otherwise though, my list is NIU, Perdue, Miami, Ohio, Stanford,

510
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Speaker 1: both Army and Navy, and the craziest factoid of all.

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Speaker 1: If you take nothing away from my diatribe here, take

512
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Speaker 1: this away from it. Notre Dame plays one true road

513
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Speaker 1: game between week one and week fourteen. I did see that.

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Speaker 1: One true road game doesn't mean they're not away from home,

515
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Speaker 1: but one true road game at an opponent's campus stadium

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Speaker 1: that's Perdue in week three. That's pretty damn favorable. Oh,

517
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Speaker 1: it's great. The haters out there are gonna make this point,

518
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Speaker 1: and frankly, I don't blame them. It's a good point

519
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Speaker 1: to make. People have been shopping at the bit for

520
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: an eternity to make the Notre Dame scheduling jokes. This year,

521
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Speaker 1: you can kind of make it if not for the

522
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Speaker 1: fact that this is also a pretty good team. The

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Speaker 1: schedule does not mean that the team is overrated. I

524
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Speaker 1: have made this case for as long as we've done

525
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Speaker 1: this show. I have referred to it as my Boise

526
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Speaker 1: State paradox. Having a bad schedule, as Boise State has

527
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Speaker 1: had in the past, does not mean that you got

528
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Speaker 1: a bad team. I think Notre Dames can be really

529
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Speaker 1: good because they're loaded across the board, especially on defense.

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Speaker 1: The defense is the unquestioned strength of this team. As

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Speaker 1: we were in mid August, I think everybody feels pretty similarly,

532
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Speaker 1: the heartbeat is the line. The defensive line is going

533
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Speaker 1: to be one of the best in the country. Howard

534
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Speaker 1: Crosses back the American Yeah, along with Riley Mills. With

535
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Speaker 1: Jordan Btello, they're back, and now they add in R.

536
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Speaker 1: J Oben, who comes over from Duke, one of the

537
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Speaker 1: top edge rushers to this entire transfer portal cycle. The

538
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Speaker 1: line should make up for turnover elsewhere on defense, because

539
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Speaker 1: there is some, it's not an alarming amount but you

540
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Speaker 1: lose both Maris lea foul and Jad bertrandt from the

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Speaker 1: linebacking corps. That's a lot of production that's leaving. You

542
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Speaker 1: lose both cam Hart and Thomas Harper at corner. More

543
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Speaker 1: production that's leaving. But even with the losses, it's like, well, yeah,

544
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Speaker 1: covered is still stocked. It's more of a case of

545
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Speaker 1: plugging a few gaps than any dramatic rebuild like you

546
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Speaker 1: were talking about with say Oregon State. Jack Kaiser is

547
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Speaker 1: back at linebacker. He was third on the team in tackles.

548
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Speaker 1: Benjamin Morrison is back at corner. We had a conversation

549
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Speaker 1: that he could be on the cover of the video game.

550
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: He's that good. He's a potential All American. Xavier Watts

551
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Speaker 1: was an All American back at free safety. He led

552
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Speaker 1: the nation with seven interceptions. So it's not like this

553
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Speaker 1: is a roster that's been decimated on the defensive side

554
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Speaker 1: of the ball. Marcus Freeman was aggressive in the portal.

555
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Speaker 1: He plugged holes or gaps, I should say, with transfers.

556
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Speaker 1: But it's a very deep talent pool and this defense

557
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Speaker 1: against this schedule should hold most teams under twenty points

558
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Speaker 1: a game. Yes, it should be really good. It should

559
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Speaker 1: be one of the better defenses in the country. More

560
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Speaker 1: to the point, they should be in the playoff. The

561
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Speaker 1: intrigue is offense. We've got a new slash old offensive

562
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Speaker 1: coordinator coming back to South Bend in Mike Denbrock, who

563
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Speaker 1: left Notre Dames spent the last seven seasons building up

564
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati when they went to the playoff, helping build up

565
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Speaker 1: LSU's offense. Quarterback, Yeah, under Ian Kelly with Jayden Daniels,

566
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Speaker 1: they had the number one offense in America last year.

567
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Speaker 1: So they went out They made an aggressive pitch to

568
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Speaker 1: bring him back to South Bend. They made him the

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Speaker 1: highest paid offensive coordinator to do so. And I am

570
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Speaker 1: excited by the fact that it's going to be a

571
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Speaker 1: different offense than what we saw out of Jared Parker

572
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Speaker 1: last season. I have been donkey on Jared Parker since

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Speaker 1: he got through Week three of last year. I want

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Speaker 1: to say it's been a kind of an evolving cycle

575
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Speaker 1: here with me and Jared Parker. His offense was fine,

576
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Speaker 1: it was just very predictable, and that was I think

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Speaker 1: the part that made me most frustrated as a Notre

578
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Speaker 1: Dame fan. He constantly would try to bunch up defenses

579
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Speaker 1: where you down at the line, maybe hit you with

580
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Speaker 1: play action. The whole thing was basically built for audrig

581
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Speaker 1: estimy and playmaking tight ends. Who was really good. It

582
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Speaker 1: was really good, oh for sure, really really good. But

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Speaker 1: they didn't have a plan B. And I also don't

584
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Speaker 1: think they took full advantage of Sam Hartman. Remember that

585
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Speaker 1: was the talk going into last season. Oh, they finally

586
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Speaker 1: have a quarterback. They did not get the most out

587
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Speaker 1: of Sam Hartman, so that was a bit disappointing. But

588
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Speaker 1: now Denbrock system is a lot more wide open. There's

589
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Speaker 1: gonna be more shotgun. They're gonna do more rpo stuff,

590
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Speaker 1: a lot of inside zone running, which I think works

591
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: pretty well for the personnel on the line, which I

592
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Speaker 1: can talk about momentarily. And more importantly, they've got actual

593
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Speaker 1: passing schemes, actual passing schemes that utilized receivers trying to

594
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Speaker 1: stretch a field vertically, trying to stretch a field horizontally.

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Speaker 1: It is a much better system for a passing offense.

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Speaker 1: It's not to say they won't use the running game.

597
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: They absolutely need to, but the passing game, I think,

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Speaker 1: especially with now Riley Leonard coming over. My belief is

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Speaker 1: that Notre Dame has all the right pieces in place

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Speaker 1: to run this Mike Denbrock system, So you get a

601
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Speaker 1: better coordinator, which is definitely a plus. And I think

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Speaker 1: with bringing over a guy like a Riley Leonard, it

603
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Speaker 1: further cements the point that not only do you have

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Speaker 1: the coordinator, but you've got the personnel in place to

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Speaker 1: do what I think he does best. Are you with

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Speaker 1: me on these points? With you? Are?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm going to weigh in, but I want

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Speaker 2: you to to finish.

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Speaker 1: Your opera here. Yeah, thank you. I was not a

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Speaker 1: huge fan of the Riley Leonard transfer at first. Okay,

611
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 1: I was very skittish on it until the Mike Denbrock

612
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Speaker 1: hire was made and then I said, oh, this makes

613
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Speaker 1: a lot of sense. I really like this pairing. I

614
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: think it fits perfectly with what he wants to do.

615
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Speaker 1: Provided Riley Leonard's ankle was back to one hundred percent,

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Speaker 1: he is the kind of quarterback for the system You've

617
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Speaker 1: also got, as I said earlier, both Jeremiah Love and

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Speaker 1: Jadarian Price in the backfield. Both of those guys are

619
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Speaker 1: on the Dope Walker watch list at running back. For

620
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: whatever that's worth to you Mitchell Evans maybe the next

621
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Speaker 1: great Notre Dame tight end going to be used in

622
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Speaker 1: this system as well. The most obvious question, not just

623
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Speaker 1: with Riley Leonard's health, is with the receiver position. It

624
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Speaker 1: was the question going into last season. I think they're

625
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Speaker 1: in a much much better position than they were a

626
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Speaker 1: year ago. It is much deeper than it was in

627
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Jaden Greathouse is back, Jayden Thomas, your boy,

628
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Speaker 1: big number eighty three is back. They get Dion Colsey back,

629
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Speaker 1: Jordan Faison was like a walk on who popped in

630
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Speaker 1: the slot a little bit last season. All those guys

631
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Speaker 1: are back. You adding Chris Mitchell from FIU, who should

632
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Speaker 1: be a day one starter, Bo Collins, the former five

633
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: star who comes up from Clemson. Look doesn't matter anymore,

634
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: trying to get some things back on track, Jane Harrison

635
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Speaker 1: from Marshall, and then they recruited well with Cam William

636
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Speaker 1: the KK Smith. There's just um naming names here, but

637
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Speaker 1: I think the point is that there are more known quantities,

638
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: more names that we can feel confident about in that

639
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: receiver room than we could in twenty twenty three. Okay,

640
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 1: so I feel pretty good about where they're at. It's

641
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: almost as if Marcus Freeman knew that he needed an

642
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 1: upgrade out of position group and he kind of did it. Yeah,

643
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Speaker 1: so I feel good about that. Last year it was

644
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: a huge open question who is going to pop? Will

645
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: any of these guys pop?

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Speaker 2: It's been a while, not even just last year, it's

647
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 2: been ongoing.

648
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: It's been ongoing, and it was more a question of

649
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: are any of these freshmen going to step up this year?

650
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: I don't think it's so much a question of freshmen.

651
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: It's a question of guys who are returning from last

652
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: year's team. Can they stay healthy? Can these transfers, Can

653
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: at least one of the transfers come in and pop

654
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 1: in a way that's meaningful. And I think they're gonna

655
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: have every opportunity to do so because now it's actually

656
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 1: a real passing scheme that they're going to have to

657
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: run with a quarterback who I think is more mobile

658
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 1: and probably has more upside than what they had last

659
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: year in Sam Hartman. Okay, so that's where I'm at now.

660
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: The danger for Notre Dame is this The offensive line

661
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 1: as a starting point this season lost both tackles Joe

662
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: all Blake, Fisher both gone to the NFL. Huge huge

663
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,280
Speaker 1: loss Joe all literal huge, six', eight three hundred. Whatever,

664
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: yeah anytime you lose both tackles that are that, good

665
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,839
Speaker 1: it's an. ISSUE i will say the line was out

666
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: of sink all last. Season know if that was some

667
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:06,720
Speaker 1: miscommunication Between Joe rudolph coaching the lines and Whatever Jared

668
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: parker wanted to, do but it never really felt like

669
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: they were in, sync even though they had a good rushing.

670
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: Offense there were definite moments last year WHERE i was

671
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: Texting Notre dame people who are more on the grounded

672
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: in the, know and the response was pretty uniform in, that,

673
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,879
Speaker 1: yeah there's something something amiss between what the offense wants

674
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 1: to do schematically and what the line is. Doing so

675
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,840
Speaker 1: NOW i hope that this year they can get that.

676
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,320
Speaker 1: Sorted it seemed like they had an obvious air apparent

677
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 1: at left tackle And Charles Jogi saw who was on

678
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: the glide path to be the starting left, tackle but

679
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: he went down last week with a torn peck done

680
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: for the. Year this was like a shockwave in The

681
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: Notre dame. Community oh my, god what are they going

682
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: to do? Here do they have the. GUYS i think

683
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: they have. GUYS i think they're going to Slide Tosh,

684
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 1: baker sort of their utility man along the, line over

685
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 1: to play left. Tackle he's got a lot of. Experience

686
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 1: he's going to be the left tackle for THAT a

687
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: AND m. Game the line as a, whole we'll have

688
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 1: four guys with starting, experience and it's not a ton

689
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: of starting, experience but it's at least enough to leave

690
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 1: you feeling somewhat confident that they'll be, fine even if

691
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: it's a step. BACK i don't think it's going to

692
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: Be swiss cheese along that offensive. Line we're not Talking

693
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: colorado levels of line play. Here it's still going to

694
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: be at a pretty good spot For Notre dame and

695
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: they'll be. Fine better up the, middle which again is

696
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: where it. WORKS i think a little bit better with

697
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: what they want to do in the running, game with

698
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: the inside zone scheme and things of that. Nature SO

699
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: i feel okay about up the. Middle the tackles are

700
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: really What i'm going to watch the most throughout the

701
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: course of this, Season SO i feel good about this.

702
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: Team there's a lot. Back there's no reason to suspect

703
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: they're going to take any kind of gigantic step. Backwards

704
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: anything short of ten and two is a huge missed.

705
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 1: Opportunity i've got them at eleven and, one eleven to

706
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: one or twelve and, OH i could go as high

707
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: as twelve and oh and this just isn't me with

708
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: the rose Colored Notre dame glasses on the schedules, THERE

709
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: i read the schedule. Off they should not be worse

710
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: than truly eleven to one against, this all? Right MAY i?

711
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 2: Please for a lot of the, OFFSEASON i caught a

712
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 2: lot of the vibes of, like not the full cam

713
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 2: rising vibe of. Like is he in a plan this?

714
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 2: Year is he going to be the same this? Year

715
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 2: two ankle surgeries For Riley. LEONARD i don't love one

716
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 2: ankle surgery for my. Quarterback two's a, Lot, Okay, so,

717
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 2: OKAY i assume you have read much more THAN i.

718
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 2: Have and there's no real concern in fall camp about

719
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 2: the health Of Riley.

720
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: LEONARD i mean he was doing some light workouts in

721
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: the spring, already and, Okay i'm not too concerned that

722
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: there is going to be any kind of major. Setback

723
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: okay between now and the start of the. Season it's

724
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,919
Speaker 1: happened many times, over but it seems like he will

725
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: be at full health and ready to go for THAT

726
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: a AND m. Game, okay good to. HEAR i hope

727
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 1: it works. Out you.

728
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,360
Speaker 2: Know i'm A Kenny minshe guy. MYSELF i think he's the.

729
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 2: STUD i think he's the jewel of this quarterback.

730
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: ROUND. Cj carr is the star of this quarterback.

731
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 2: Room i'm just telling, You Joe, Burrow Kenny, minshee you

732
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 2: heard it here, first that buried on the depth chart

733
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 2: goes somewhere. Else he's going to be A heisman candidate

734
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 2: For houston in two years. Whatever, okay we'll see you.

735
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 2: KNOW i heard it here, first and we'll forget it

736
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 2: here in about thirty. SECONDS a little worry some that

737
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:10,439
Speaker 2: the offensive line is shuffling around with A i don't

738
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,359
Speaker 2: like calling quarterbacks or any player injury. Prone But Riley

739
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 2: leonard does play an athletic brand of. Quarterback he loves

740
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 2: to scramble and pick up extra. Yards he does take.

741
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 2: HITS i like that in a, quarterback but it's a.

742
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 2: RISK i like the Ment Mike denbrock. Thing Mike denbrock

743
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 2: had the luxury of Having Jade daniels for two, years

744
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 2: right that like you have the, continuity you have the,

745
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 2: okay what, works what. Doesn't Jane daniels ran for twelve

746
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 2: hundred yards last. Year that's a ridiculous number from a.

747
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 2: Quarterback and it is fair to say That Mike denbrock

748
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:47,439
Speaker 2: will lean into what he. Has, Right he's not going

749
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 2: to throw probably as much and probably not as downfield

750
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 2: Because Notre dame probably doesn't have A Moleik Neighbors Brian

751
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 2: thomas type, duo at least not, yet at least not

752
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 2: obviously in this.

753
00:38:58,960 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: Moment oh not even.

754
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 2: Close SO i think they're going to be more balanced

755
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 2: in terms of how much they utilize a running. Back

756
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,240
Speaker 2: would you, say Is jeremiah love? That jeremiah loved?

757
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 1: It dari And price are going to be the two

758
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: on two duo in the, backfield.

759
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 2: And perhaps lsu in Whoever John, Emery Logan Diggs Notre

760
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 2: dame fans, familiar they weren't of that level of What

761
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 2: Notre dame has this year and obviously what they had

762
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 2: last year in odric, Estimate and SO i Think Mike

763
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 2: denbrock is going to lean into what they, are not

764
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 2: necessarily what they're. NOT i don't have a lot of

765
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 2: questions about this. DEFENSE i kind of trust where this defense,

766
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 2: is and, HONESTLY i think your evaluation of If Notre

767
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 2: dame is maybe a little bit worse than what potentially

768
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 2: they could be and are better than what they are

769
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 2: in danger of, becoming if they're somewhere in the, middle

770
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 2: then they probably have the more talented quarterback defense combination

771
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 2: than anybody on their. Schedule all due respect TO Dju

772
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 2: Florida state which is In South bend, right all due

773
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 2: respect To Miller moss and USC's hopefully improve, defense all

774
00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 2: due respect To TEXAS a AND m in year, One

775
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 2: Notre dame has the advantage of continuity there that you,

776
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,879
Speaker 2: know Whatever TEXAS a AND m will eventually, be they're

777
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 2: probably not going to show it in week one of

778
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 2: the first year Of mike. Lco SO i think you're

779
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 2: right in saying that almost anything less than double digit

780
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 2: wins For Notre dame is a huge. Disappointment it's a.

781
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 2: FAILURE i think when you bring that defense in whatever

782
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 2: you think Of louisville Or, virginia whoever else on their,

783
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:27,240
Speaker 2: Schedule Army Notre dame should be winning ten to eleven.

784
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:31,280
Speaker 2: Games If Riley leonard is healthy and has a decent

785
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 2: offensive line and has slightly improved skill talent and Where

786
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:36,399
Speaker 2: Notre dame was these past couple of. YEARS i, MEAN

787
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 2: i think my running back is going to be a

788
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 2: little bit worse Because orodric estimate was barreling through dudes

789
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 2: at what six seven yards of?

790
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: Care, No i'm on The love, train, though you, KNOW

791
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: i know you, Are Jeremiah.

792
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 2: LOVE i Think Notre dame is going to be really.

793
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 2: GOOD i think they're going to be, really, really really.

794
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 2: GOOD i still question whether they are going to be

795
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 2: able to find the pop at. Receiver, well there are

796
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 2: guys who could occupy that, space but if we are

797
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 2: talking about a playoff, team you'd like to have the

798
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 2: sense of who's where and who's, who And Notre dame

799
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 2: is still kind of a mystery in that. Regard, Downfield to,

800
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 2: me you're much closer to.

801
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 1: This, no they, are they. Are, no they, are they absolutely.

802
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,919
Speaker 1: ARE i think the general sentiment in The Notre dame

803
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: world is that everyone feels better about the receiver. Room

804
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: there are at least some known quantities coming back from

805
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: a year, ago, right and that in and of itself

806
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 1: puts them in a better position than that were in

807
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three when we had this, conversation because we

808
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 1: didn't know anything about who is going to be out,

809
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: there what they're going to, do and what it's going

810
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: to look. Like outside of maybe tight. End this, year

811
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: there are at least, Names there are more known. Quantities

812
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: they have definitely made an effort to build up depth

813
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: in the receiver, room both with guys they've got coming

814
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: back that they were able to, retain with guys they

815
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 1: brought over from elsewhere and others that they brought in

816
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: from high school. Recruiting there are options in a way

817
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: that make me feel more confident coming into the. Year

818
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: what does the system look like with this? Personnel how

819
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: does the line hold? Up that's sort of the open

820
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: question for. Me BUT i really Like Riley leonard in the.

821
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: SYSTEM i really like anybody other Than Jared, parker Especially Mike,

822
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: denbrock who's got familiarity with the area and obviously was

823
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: motivated to come back with the paycheck to try and build.

824
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: Something now this should be a playoff. Team you Like

825
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: Al golden by the, WAY i do Like Al, Golden,

826
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: YEAH i. DO i think he's done a pretty good

827
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: job all things.

828
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 2: CONSIDERED i wonder if vision, Wise Marcus freeman has a

829
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 2: lot to do with where that offense was last, year

830
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 2: and if he's you, know when you're a defensive, guy

831
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 2: you like, pretecting protecting your defense. Right you don't like pace,

832
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 2: Necessarily you don't like going downfield and risk your throws.

833
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 2: Necessarily you like giving your defense. Rest you like playing

834
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 2: field position a little bit.

835
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 1: More that's.

836
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 2: STEREOTYPICAL i have no idea if that's A Marcus freeman,

837
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 2: thing BUT i wonder if last year's issues were accidental

838
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 2: by design that you, know they didn't want to be

839
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:00,839
Speaker 2: that kind of.

840
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 1: Offense the thing THAT i expected last year was that

841
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:06,879
Speaker 1: the offense was going to look very similar to what

842
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: they did With Tommy. Reese and that's not to say

843
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 1: it wasn't. Similar it certainly was in many, facets but

844
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 1: it didn't feel as. Good it didn't feel like they

845
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: were all synced up and on the same, page.

846
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 2: At least in the games that. Mattered at least in

847
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:23,840
Speaker 2: the games that mattered in the game teen offense or.

848
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 2: Whatever nationally in terms of points per, drive it.

849
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: Felt even more telegraphed THAN i had been used to

850
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: with With.

851
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 2: Reese, Yeah clemson an excellent defense last, year by the,

852
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 2: way for, sure for, Sure but that was the part

853
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 2: THAT i think bothered me the, Most separate From Marcus freeman.

854
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: Basically hired one of his best friends to be the.

855
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: OFFENSIVE i get. It if you were going to do,

856
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: that he better be, great he better be, good and

857
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: SO i at LEAST i give him credit for going

858
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: out there and being. Aggressive first, OFF i don't know

859
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 1: How Parker detroy happened at. All we're not going to

860
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 1: go there. AGAIN i already had that. Conversation there's THERE'S

861
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: dna shared Between. NEIL i guess Gar. PARKER i guess,

862
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 1: whatever whatever it, Takes i'm glad it. Happened the fact

863
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,760
Speaker 1: that he went out and Got, denbrock, NOW i think

864
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:13,399
Speaker 1: is sort of the cold, blooded strategic win at all

865
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 1: costs mentality That Notre dame fans needed to see From

866
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: freeman to feel confident that this program is on a good.

867
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 2: Trajectory CAN i ask you a question that you might

868
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 2: not know the answer. To this is just just annoying,

869
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 2: speculation which is.

870
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: Sort of my. Brand.

871
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 2: Tie Did Marcus freeman Get Mike denbrock or did people

872
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:36,280
Speaker 2: Above Marcus freeman say we got a guy After Marcus

873
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 2: freeman was given the latitude to hire his, guy and

874
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 2: according To Notre dame people like you didn't fully work

875
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 2: out in big.

876
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: MOMENTS i, MEAN i think there were overtures to other

877
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators before they ended up Hiring Jared. Parker so

878
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 1: that's not to say he Was it's not to say

879
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: he was the first. CHOICE i don't think in retrospect

880
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: he was the best. Choice AND i think with what

881
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: the landscape looked like this, Year Mike denbrock was clearly

882
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 1: the name to go out and. Get why would you

883
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: not want to get this? Guy my hunch is that

884
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: it was a little of. Both freeman knew that the

885
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: offense needed to, improve and so he was setting his sites.

886
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:16,399
Speaker 1: High Notre dame people obviously had a familiarity with Den.

887
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 1: Brock he's from the, area he'd been there. Before he's

888
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: coming off an incredible season WITH lsu And Jane. Daniels

889
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: there's no reason that they wouldn't make the pitch to

890
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: him to come on back. HOME i. Agree, now the

891
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: change kind of happened on its own With parker, leaving

892
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: AND i don't think it was going to happen on

893
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 1: its own volition if he decided he wanted to. STAY

894
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 1: i don't think they would have fired. HIM i was

895
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 1: convinced that they, would but it didn't look like they

896
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,720
Speaker 1: were going to the fact that he left now giving

897
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:45,879
Speaker 1: them an opportunity to bring in somebody better is fortuitous

898
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: and definitely something THAT i think we're going to see

899
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,320
Speaker 1: on a full display in week. ONE i hope we

900
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: see on display in week.

901
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 2: One CAN i give you my seventeen second preview now come?

902
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 2: Full few people can decide whether they liked your preview

903
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:02,760
Speaker 2: or my preview. Better Riley leonard should be. Healthy offensive

904
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 2: line shuffling around a. Bit offensive SCALE. Tbd running back

905
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 2: is new but. Promising receiver might have. Pop some new.

906
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 2: Faces defensive line should be. Strong back half of the

907
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:12,720
Speaker 2: defense should be a lot of new faces but. Promising

908
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 2: they've recruited. Well schedule looks pretty. Easy we'll see three team.

909
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 2: Schedule should win double. Digits that's my.

910
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: Preview.

911
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 2: GREAT i love a good. Tie dismissive, great, great, Great

912
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 2: you can, decide you can. Decide let's talk you con? Okay? Please?

913
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 1: Uh three to? Nine last season it Was Jim morris' second.

914
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: Year they Beat Rice Sacred heart and you Mass Dan,

915
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 1: Yes we have talked About yukon lovingly on this, show

916
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: not just because of sexier Than, etzel but because of

917
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:43,800
Speaker 1: all the off air stuff that you've talked, about in

918
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,240
Speaker 1: the craziness THAT i know you've gotten into up in Stores.

919
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: Connecticut is that STUFF i can talk about? It do

920
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: you want to talk about that? Publicly or is? That? No? Boino?

921
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, Me Jim, Calhoun Gino, Oriema Diana tarassi a runaway garbage.

922
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 1: Truck, NO i don't. Continue this team went three to

923
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:04,240
Speaker 1: nine a year. Ago AS i, Said Jim moore's second,

924
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: year he has already won more games in two seasons

925
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: than they had in the previous. Four went to a

926
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: bowl game back in twenty twenty. Two but before that

927
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: you got to go all the way back to The

928
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: Papa johns Dot Com, BOWL i believe in twenty ten

929
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: before you Find yukon's last bowl. Game so it's been a,

930
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: minute a solid dozen. Years, yeah in a, minute, Right it's,

931
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: like what's it going to take to get back to

932
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: a point where getting to a bowl is something that's more?

933
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: Consistent what's it going to take to get back to

934
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: a bowl in twenty twenty? Four this is where it

935
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,800
Speaker 1: gets a little bit. Murky it is tough to, see

936
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: even though this is a significantly easier schedule For yukon

937
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 1: this season than it wasn't. LAST i Think Bill connolly

938
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 1: had it at like one hundred and sixteenth or. So

939
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 1: k not a hard, schedule But bill's also got him

940
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: down for four, wins which feels about right to, me

941
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 1: AND i think there's a reason for. That the challenge

942
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:04,399
Speaker 1: at a place like A yukon is building depth and

943
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 1: holding on to guys in this era of the. Portal this,

944
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: year they're down their quarterback To Kwan, Roberson Christian, haynes

945
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 1: Their All american, Guard Justin, jolie their tight end who

946
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: transferred TO Nc, State Jackson, mitchell who was a linebacker

947
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: who had three straight years of one hundred or more.

948
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 1: Tackles it's just a lot to replace at a spot Like.

949
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,479
Speaker 1: Yukon so this year they're trying to plug those gaps

950
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: with a quarterback From maine With Nick evers who comes

951
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 1: and you remember him the transfer From. Wisconsin he ended

952
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: up At. Yukon, Yep Skyler, bell who also transfers in From,

953
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 1: wisconsin could maybe be that new guy at tight. End

954
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 1: but it's just an uphill climb across the, board trying

955
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: to plug those. Gaps they're switching up at defensive Coordinator

956
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 1: Matt brock call his name From Mississippi. State they're going

957
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:53,280
Speaker 1: to a three three five this. Year i'm always intrigued

958
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: by the GOOD i love a three three. FIVE i

959
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 1: love the three three five. Switch even if it doesn't,

960
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: work it's just always fun to. Chart it's an uphill

961
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: climb For. Yukon i've got him at four and, eight

962
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 1: comfortably a four and eight. SEASON i hope they start

963
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:11,399
Speaker 1: the guy From, Maine Joey, fignano Great italian. Name Black

964
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: bears Go Black, bears BUT i think it's more of a. Struggle.

965
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: Okay and, last but not, least we Got, UMass another

966
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 1: team that went three to Nine Don brown's second. Year,

967
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: notably they are joining THE mac next. Season they can't

968
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: join soon enough because this schedule is murder for this.

969
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: Team if this team we're playing A max, schedule it

970
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: might be an altogether different. Conversation, okay but they're independent

971
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: for one more year before they. Join they've got the

972
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: schedule basically of a team trying to qualify for The Fiesta.

973
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:48,280
Speaker 1: Bowl this is. Tough they play the top two teams

974
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 1: from THE mac In toledo And, Miami, ohio both on the. Road,

975
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:54,399
Speaker 1: okay they play three teams from THE. Sec they're At

976
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,879
Speaker 1: georgia At Mississippi. State they've got a random home game

977
00:49:56,880 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: against miss who they're on the schedule as. Well they've

978
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 1: also got a home game Against, liberty who could be

979
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: the best team in all of THE g. Five it

980
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: makes it kind of impossible for them to even consider

981
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 1: getting to a bowl game this. Year BUT i do

982
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: think that looking at what they had last season and

983
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 1: the year that they, had even though it was three to,

984
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:18,919
Speaker 1: nine that record kind of masks the fact that they

985
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: did improve dramatically on offense and saw a big jump

986
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: in things like points per game yards per. Game they

987
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: still Got Tyson pumachan at, quarterback the transfer From. Clemson

988
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: way back WHEN i think the offensive line is going to.

989
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:34,839
Speaker 1: Improve they went nuts in the. Portal they brought in

990
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:39,800
Speaker 1: like eight transfers at receiver alone to try and build

991
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: up a cast Around Anthony, simpson who is back in

992
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: their receiver. Room, defensively the pass rush should be. Good

993
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: it's A Don brown, defense, right guy knows how to

994
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 1: coach up. DEFENSE i think we'll see better numbers on that.

995
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,399
Speaker 1: Side they were marginally better last. YEAR i think they're

996
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 1: going to continue to, improve even if they're still relatively

997
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: bad compared to the whole of college. Football the issue

998
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:01,920
Speaker 1: FOR U mass is that they're going to be a

999
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: dog in ten, games and it's well. Deserved it's just

1000
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:07,879
Speaker 1: they should be in THE mac this. Year they would

1001
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: have a much much better case for making a bowl,

1002
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: game for getting back to a point where it feels

1003
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 1: like the program is moving. Forward they could be better

1004
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,279
Speaker 1: this season and they still are going to feel worse

1005
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: because of the. Schedule. Right that's Where i'm at WITH U.

1006
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:25,919
Speaker 2: Mess, okay you said At, georgia, late At, georgia At Mississippi,

1007
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 2: state and then they've got the random home game earlier

1008
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 2: in the year AGAINST.

1009
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: Miszoi, yeah it's a tough. Schedule.

1010
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 2: Hard they're very, rich they're very wealthy scheduling like this they.

1011
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 2: ARE U mess has one hundred and eight thousand person. Stadium, okay,

1012
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 2: cool they didn't know where to do with all the

1013
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 2: money the minute, Men, yeah, yeah that does. It that's

1014
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 2: my YUKON U mass preview in five.

1015
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 1: Minutes. YEAH i think that was. GOOD i think that was.

1016
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: Worthwhile that does it for our, previews we have made.

1017
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: It we would encourage everybody to go back and listen

1018
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: to what the other fourteen episodes we, did previewing each power,

1019
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:11,280
Speaker 1: conference previewing the group of five and two, parts talking

1020
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 1: through all these teams with some level of. Detail we

1021
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 1: couldn't get as deep with all of them because we'd

1022
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: run out of. Time BUT i think we do a

1023
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 1: pretty good. Job i'm proud of. Us we put more

1024
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 1: into it this, year did we?

1025
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,840
Speaker 2: NOT i think we. DID i think we. DID i

1026
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 2: have a lot of information swirling through my. Head so

1027
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 2: WHEN i randomly come across people and they, say how

1028
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,479
Speaker 2: is so and so going to? BE i have two

1029
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 2: to seven talking points That i'm pretty confident. In and

1030
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 2: then as soon as the oh, god what's the name

1031
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 2: of The ireland? Game who's the sponsor of The Ireland?

1032
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 1: Game is Air Lingus.

1033
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:44,839
Speaker 2: State but as soon as That Georgia Tech Florida, State,

1034
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 2: yes kicks, off it's the Air Lingus College Football. Classic

1035
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 2: as soon as that game kicks, off none of what

1036
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 2: has been swirling on my head matters at.

1037
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 1: All it's all, dead nothing. Matters it all. Changes so,

1038
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: yes if you if you see me on the, streets

1039
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:04,359
Speaker 1: come ASK i have three things THAT i screwed up

1040
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 1: today or in previous. Episodes all three of them from

1041
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:13,280
Speaker 1: previous episodes are. Mispronunciations all, right, okay don it. AGAIN

1042
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:15,760
Speaker 1: i tried so hard this. YEAR i think it's. Fine,

1043
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 1: WELL i like to call these things. OUT i told

1044
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:18,359
Speaker 1: people to write in and call us.

1045
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 2: Out but if we strategically mispronounce, things that ups the,

1046
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 2: engagement ties up the. Engagement, yeah It's nick S, gorton

1047
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 2: Not Nick scourton AT a and M Gorton. Gordon It's

1048
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 2: andy co Till nikki not Cotel. Okay and the most.

1049
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 1: Important one of allah it is apparently the Manonga Hala

1050
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 1: river and Not. Monongahila that was the centerpiece for my

1051
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: Entire Kyle manangai Slash HeLa monster argument THAT i made

1052
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: on The Big Ten part three. Episode, Yeah i'm going

1053
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 1: to continue calling it The monongahuila because that's how we

1054
00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:59,440
Speaker 1: say it over in my neck of the woods. People

1055
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 1: but apparently if you Live WESTERN, pa if you're native

1056
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:04,920
Speaker 1: to that part of the, state you go Manonga. Hala

1057
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:07,880
Speaker 1: but we're still sticking with the Heel A. Monster we

1058
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:09,840
Speaker 1: got a great response to the heel a monster.

1059
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:13,920
Speaker 2: Nickname, okay that's. GOOD i Think minnesota people because you're

1060
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 2: high On. MINNESOTA i appreciate Tay. Yuma they did Like.

1061
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:19,319
Speaker 1: TAYAMA i have not seen a whole lot out there

1062
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: in support Of. Bros BEFORE. Nos i'm going to stick

1063
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 1: with that Because i'm proud of that, phrase not a

1064
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:29,800
Speaker 1: it's a. Mantra CONTINUE i introduced it as a, mantra

1065
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: AND i still. Understand, Okay bros BEFORE nos Or Tai,

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Speaker 1: yum whatever you're. INTO i am certainly Into.

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Speaker 2: pretty good player and just every year insisting that player

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Speaker 2: is still going to, contribute even if he's been gone

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Speaker 2: for seven.

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Speaker 1: Years talk About Quiz rodgers this year At Oregon.

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Speaker 2: State no more recent than, that But i'll just start

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Speaker 2: Look Julian fleming. Promising so far it's week. Four we

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Speaker 2: haven't seen anything From pat fryerman, right and see if

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Speaker 2: LIKE i can slowly gaslight or do something To Penn

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Speaker 2: state fans in that specific. EXAMPLE i don't know WHO

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Speaker 2: i would use it for.

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Speaker 2: Dame excuse, me all your TEAMS i get confused. With but,

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Speaker 2: yes to just pick a random pretty good player who's

1084
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Speaker 2: been gone for plural years and every season insists that

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Speaker 1: Often BEAUTIFUL i.

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Speaker 2: LOVE i think that would be just the most worthless

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Speaker 1: Think and also on, Brand, yes very very much on

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Speaker 2: JUST i can see his? Face but Now i'm forgetting

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Speaker 1: Dante, well my, god donta? Foreman donta? Foreman?

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Speaker 2: Yeah just like where is? He like he's been on

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Speaker 2: The Minnesota vikings for a?

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Speaker 1: Decade, well, look we made it one hundred and thirty four.

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Speaker 1: Teams i'm glad that we have gone on this journey.

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Speaker 1: TOGETHER i hope the people out there have found it.

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Speaker 1: Useful now there's always you can write in soliverble at

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Speaker 1: us know if there are any other reasons to play

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Speaker 1: the losing, horn we'd be happy to do. SO i

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Speaker 1: have made note of all of the items that we

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Speaker 1: threw in the, volcano and we will keep the volcano

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Speaker 1: nearby case there are other, things because we still need

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Speaker 1: to talk about playoff, predictions which we'll do as the

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Speaker 1: season gets a little bit. Closer it's already almost, here

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Speaker 1: but as it gets a little bit, closer we're gonna

1110
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Speaker 1: do our playoff. Predictions we've also got an episode coming

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Speaker 1: up next where we're gonna unpack some of what has

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Speaker 1: gone down With Isolea. Football and we've also got a big,

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Speaker 1: anthology if you, WILL i don't know if that's the

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Speaker 1: right word for. It a collection of other college football content,

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Speaker 1: creators other college football, fans other college football talkers who

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Speaker 1: are going to be part of one of our upcoming

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Speaker 1: episodes to help gear you up for the college football.

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Speaker 1: Season so we've got all that before we get into

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Speaker 1: our Official week one. Previews lord, knows there is much

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Speaker 1: going on at For ballers Dot, com which we will

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Speaker 1: talk about next. Weekend, yeah so a lot. Happening it

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Speaker 1: is the reason for the. Season we are thrilled that

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Speaker 1: college football fans have come back for more this college football.

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Speaker 1: Season let us know what we can do, better what

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Speaker 1: we can do to further get you excited for this

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Speaker 1: college football season by writing into us, email social media.

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Speaker 2: And we are your college football. Fluffers, OKAY i can

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Speaker 2: go with. That you just, said what can we do

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Speaker 2: to make you more excited for this college football. Season

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Speaker 2: i'm Just i'm, yes ending, Ty i'm right here playing

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Speaker 2: the game for that guy.

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Speaker 1: Over, there my good Friend Dan, rubinstein for, Myself Tie.

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Speaker 1: Hildebrand thank you for, downloading for. Listening tell your friends hit,

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Speaker 1: fall hit. Subscribe we'll talk you all. Soon stay. Sold,

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Speaker 1: peace