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

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Speaker 1: Fox Football Saturday. My name is Carmen Vitally and I

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Speaker 1: have the one and only Steve Hartman with me today

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Speaker 1: against Eve. How are you, Carmen.

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Speaker 2: It is great to be back with you, especially what's

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Speaker 2: going on right now.

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Speaker 3: You know, we got to Game seven.

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Speaker 2: Of the World Series, We've got college football, big NFL.

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Speaker 2: Can we believe we're halfway through this NFL season already?

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Speaker 2: It's absolutely nuts.

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Speaker 1: It is absolutely nuts. It always happens this year and

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Speaker 1: still I'm caught off guard. I don't know how it happens,

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Speaker 1: but you're right, we're going in a week nine.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's the problem with football for those of

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Speaker 2: us that look, there's a lot of people listening out there, Carmen,

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Speaker 2: you know this who everything else is just a distraction

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Speaker 2: until we get back to the football season. That that's

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Speaker 2: how dominant football is as a force in this country.

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Speaker 2: And so you get there and you get excited. There's

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Speaker 2: a big build up. You know, we have to suffer

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Speaker 2: through the preseason, like, come on, let's get this thing started,

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Speaker 2: and then it starts and then boom, you were at

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Speaker 2: week nine and it's like, what's happening here? Now we're

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Speaker 2: all a suddenly who's going to make the playoffs and

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Speaker 2: everything else? So yeah, that's the only problem with the

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Speaker 2: football season is just too short.

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Speaker 1: I know. I don't think any of these players want

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Speaker 1: to hear us say that, though, you are going through

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Speaker 1: the equivalent of a car accident every single week. They're like,

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Speaker 1: now you know we're talking about an eighteenth game now,

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Speaker 1: and you're like, uh, well, then we got to add

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Speaker 1: another buy But that would that would make the season longer,

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Speaker 1: that would be fun.

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Speaker 2: Well, it also needs more money. And you're absolutely right.

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Speaker 2: If you go to an eighteen game schedule, it's going

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Speaker 2: to be over twenty weeks. You eliminate the preseason obviously,

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Speaker 2: that's all gone. You would also have to increase the roster. See,

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Speaker 2: the players will get the leverage here. You've been hearing

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Speaker 2: the players have been, well, we're not exactly on board

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Speaker 3: So you know what they want.

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Speaker 2: They want the second by they went to expand rosters,

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Speaker 2: they obviously want a bigger share of the pie.

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Speaker 3: So but it's going to happen eventually.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I firmly believe it's a when, not an if.

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Speaker 1: They just have to figure that all out. I have

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Speaker 1: to imagine it comes open. It'll come up with if

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Speaker 1: not sooner with the next collective bargaining agreement. But we'll see.

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Speaker 1: We still have the remnants of baseball happening, so we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get to that a little bit. But be sure

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing about this oral series for a second here,

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Speaker 2: because I pull rank every once in a while here

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Speaker 2: at Carmen. You know the idea of traveling back and

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Speaker 2: cause you've been in this business a little bit now

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Speaker 2: so and you've done a lot of traveling. How psyched

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Speaker 2: up are you for business traveling? And people don't understand this,

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Speaker 2: Like it's got to be cool.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 3: You're at the games and you're there and everybody else

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Speaker 2: Like, yeah, okay, that was like the hook early on

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Speaker 2: when I worked in the NFL was the idea, well,

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Speaker 1: I've been spoiled in the sense that I've gotten to

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Speaker 1: Like I'm the one that's like, you know, late for

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Speaker 1: and sometimes those aren't right by the stadium, especially like.

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Speaker 2: Do you have to make your own travel arrangements and

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Speaker 2: then you sort of send them the itinerary and then

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, yeah.

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Speaker 1: And as someone who covered the NFC North for so long,

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Speaker 1: I usually would stay in Appleton, And that's not a

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Speaker 1: like it's just it's harrowing. Some time.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, the Raiders back in the eighties when

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Speaker 2: teams that actually offered spots on our charter. We had

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Speaker 2: a DC ten to go to cities. Now, the major

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Speaker 2: papers like the La Times, the old La Hare, they

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Speaker 2: refused to ride, you know, like no, no, no, we're not

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Speaker 3: I mean with them, we're sort of in with you.

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Speaker 2: We not only did that with some of the smaller papers,

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Speaker 2: not only gave them a free ride to the games,

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Speaker 2: free hotel rooms and everything else. They even got Christmas

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Speaker 2: gifts from us.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you hadn't know how to schmooze the media a

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Speaker 2: big on that kind of stuff. Well anyway, so yeah,

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Speaker 2: going back and forth from LA to Toronto.

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Speaker 1: Toronto's a fun city though I've.

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Speaker 2: Never been to Toronto. I've never been. Is it good,

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Speaker 2: I've never been to Toronto.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I think it's It's very close to Chicago

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Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, Like it looks it feels

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Speaker 1: more kind of upscale, metropolitan. You know, they have the

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Speaker 1: a Politan. So it's a good city. It's a big city. Again,

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Speaker 1: You're not like going to the middle of nowhere in

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Speaker 1: it's a very very nice city.

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Speaker 2: Ken, Can I ask you a question Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's always these conspiracy theories, right, and you

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Speaker 2: watch what happened with the ball getting stuck under the

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Speaker 2: these conspiracy theories about you know, who Major League Baseball

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Speaker 2: wants to win, And I'm thinking, okay, so do you

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Speaker 2: the team that those that hate the Dodgers say have

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Speaker 3: And you know, players not going for and everything else.

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Speaker 2: So if indeed it's a fix to win this series today,

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Speaker 2: do you think Major League Baseball is favoring a Toronto

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think the proof, the proof that

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Speaker 1: that the fix isn't in is the fact that, yes,

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Speaker 1: people that Major League Baseball doesn't want other teams modeling

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Speaker 1: themselves after. But I mean, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna call it America's pastime when you want

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers to win, you think that that that's very

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Speaker 1: contradictory if a Canadian team ends up winning. I think

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Speaker 1: it would be really really cool though, for the Blue

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Speaker 1: Jays to end up winning. I'm happy this has gone

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Speaker 1: to a Game seven, and like the drama you know

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Speaker 1: is still an all time high. It's too It's it's

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Speaker 1: That is what you want in a World Series, all right?

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Speaker 2: What you want if your Major League Baseball is to

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Speaker 2: take the star power of showy Otani to the stratosphere, right, I.

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Speaker 4: Mean, this is it. This is game seven of the

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Speaker 2: The Dodgers really had no choice to that because he's

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Speaker 2: the DH. The way the Otani rule works is that

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Speaker 3: If he had started the game as a DH and

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Speaker 2: Relief, then he would have to be replaced as the DH.

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Speaker 2: So that's why the Dodgers was never a question of

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Speaker 2: him as a DH. But I mean, this is it, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is you know, baseball is

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Speaker 2: starving for that Marquis star. Otani is there. Granted after

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Speaker 2: eight years of Major League Baseball. He doesn't speak much English,

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Speaker 2: which you know you gotta work on that, Okay. I

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Speaker 2: just believe you really.

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Speaker 1: Is an international sport more than so many, given how

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Speaker 1: many different languages are spoken, how many different countries guys

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Speaker 1: are a majority in the United States.

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Speaker 3: But you need a star.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we haven't had a true baseball star in

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Speaker 2: my opinion, since Derek Jeter. I mean, they try to

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Speaker 2: make Bryce Harbor that, but he wasn't you know, Derek

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Speaker 2: Jeter a little bit too, Aaron Judge a little bit,

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Speaker 2: but he hasn't won a series yet. See, Jeter had

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Speaker 2: it all going, man, he had the game, he had

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Speaker 2: winning championships, he had the look, he had everything. Jeter

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Speaker 2: was that that last true accepted.

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Speaker 3: Everyone knows who he is star in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean I really think though that I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's hyperbolic to say that Joheo Tani is

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Speaker 1: potentially the best baseball player we've ever seen, and just

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Speaker 2: the sports scene.

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Speaker 1: And now I'm left, Okay, where do you go from here?

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Speaker 1: If you're LSU, who is making this call now? And

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Speaker 1: who's the one? Like, so are we leaving it up

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Speaker 1: to the university president to hire a new athletic director

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Speaker 1: and then you're gonna let the athletic director, Like I

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Speaker 1: think that's the best course of action?

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Speaker 4: How are you going to get a frontline coach?

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Speaker 2: I saw Urban Meyer talking about this today because he

446
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Speaker 2: was asked about some of the different jobs, like you know,

447
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Speaker 2: Florida versus LSU versus Penn State, and he goes, first

448
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Speaker 2: of all, if you're approaching, you know you Brian Kelly

449
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Speaker 2: was a big time guy at Notre Dame, right, yeah,

450
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Speaker 2: and his three predecessors at Oregon, Les Miles and Nick

451
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Speaker 2: Saban all won national championships. See the thing about it

452
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Speaker 2: is LSU is sort of like Auburn, you know, where

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Speaker 2: they have like these great years that seemingly come out

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Speaker 2: of nowhere, and then they go back to sort of

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Speaker 2: like irrelevant. You know, They're not Alabama, they're not Ohio State.

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Speaker 2: They're not like in the mix every single year. Okay,

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Speaker 2: They're one of those schools that every once in a while.

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Speaker 2: I mean the twenty nineteen team, you know, might have

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Speaker 2: been the best college team ever. I mean, but you

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Speaker 2: know that they're not Alabama. Okay, but they have this

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Speaker 2: feeling they should be Alabama. But again, how are you

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Speaker 2: going to entice anyone to come into that program? You

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Speaker 2: don't have an athletic director right now? You have the

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Speaker 2: governor calling you out.

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Speaker 3: That is a mess.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, other teams will use that against

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Speaker 2: LSU on the recruiting market.

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Speaker 1: I would say for recruiting purposes, for so like when

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Speaker 1: so much depends on outward perception when you're talking about, yes,

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Speaker 1: like getting kids to come to your program, if like

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Speaker 1: out of high school, getting kids to come to your

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Speaker 1: program in the transfer portal, like all of these things. Now,

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine the amount of LSU football players if

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Speaker 1: they don't get this higher right that are going to

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Speaker 1: hit the portal in order and get out of there

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Speaker 1: as soon as humanly possible. And if you can't get

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Speaker 1: all of those kids from Louisiana that coming up in

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Speaker 1: that high school system, which every coach has been able

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Speaker 1: to do at LSU, I mean, it could be catastrophic

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Speaker 1: for this program and where they could be plunge into

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Speaker 1: irrelevance for a very long time. And I like, hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: I think what you want about the guy or myre

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Speaker 1: that's a great point of like who are you going

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Speaker 1: to get to come in and save this mess? And

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Speaker 1: I do think it needs to start with the athletic director.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, this was a team again ranked in

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Speaker 1: the top fifteen before the season. One of three teams

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Speaker 1: actually ranked in the top fifteen prior to the season

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Speaker 1: that now needs a new head coach. But of those

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Speaker 1: three teams, Penn State LSU in Florida. I think LSU

491
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Speaker 1: looks the outlook looks worse the worst for them. But

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Speaker 1: I want to get to what's happening today in college football,

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Speaker 1: and for that we're gonna go to Martin weis an

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Speaker 1: update booth.

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Speaker 4: You know, Steve's the one thing I'd say.

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Speaker 8: And Carmen can also thumbs this up because I know

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Speaker 8: she's marrying into the Yelshi family. Louisiana politics is about

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Speaker 8: as crooked as a letter.

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Speaker 4: Okay, crazy, He's got.

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Speaker 8: A better Jeff l Andrew's got a better chance getting reelected.

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Speaker 8: By making it seem like he influenced the who if

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Speaker 8: the coachings, who wins a national championship next three years,

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Speaker 8: He's got a better chance.

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Speaker 2: Look at anything else in the state these like every

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Speaker 2: other politician.

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Speaker 4: No politician makes a move.

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Speaker 2: Like that unless there is some personal benefit to it.

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Speaker 2: Sores are saying, hey, this is something you know they

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Speaker 2: kids st.

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Speaker 8: No one had to advise him to tell him that

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Speaker 8: you say, this is the state of Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: Is the guy that tried to bring in another tiger

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Speaker 1: because the Louisiana State Vet Department would not let them

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Speaker 1: bring in actual Mike the Tiger into the stadium because

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Speaker 1: he doesn't do that anymore. It's too traumatic on the tigers.

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Speaker 1: And so Jeff Landry got another tiger and brought it

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Speaker 1: into the stadium just because he thought that's what people wanted.

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Speaker 1: And everybody was like, what are you doing?

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Speaker 2: How do I get one of those politician jobs? What

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Speaker 2: a racket? I don't care what level, city level, county level,

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Speaker 2: state level, federal level.

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Speaker 4: What it's a mocker. Go move to the SEC.

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Speaker 9: Stevens as a Hall of Famer. Now you can run

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Speaker 9: for office somewhere and you can just campaign on that.

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Speaker 3: I could I go for you.

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Speaker 9: Thank you these two votes here for you.

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Speaker 2: I wha shame on you.

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Speaker 3: What do these people actually do? I still don't understand

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Speaker 3: what they actually do?

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Speaker 8: Well, most of them are like the second or third

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Speaker 8: highest paid person in the state, because that's the head

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Speaker 8: football coach who is the highest.

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Speaker 4: Let's get that. Football scores UH second.

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Speaker 8: Ranked Indiana with they ten to three lead over Maryland

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Speaker 8: with nine forty three left in the first half, eleven

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Speaker 8: thirty left in the first half of Florida with a

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Speaker 8: ten to seven lead over Georgia. Georgia with the ball,

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Speaker 8: though Notre Dame has a six to nothing lead over

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Speaker 8: Boston College with eleven minutes left in the first half,

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Speaker 8: Texas Tech with the ball but trailing Kansas State seventh

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Speaker 8: to nothing eleven minutes left there, and second quarter Minnesota

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Speaker 8: with a ten to nothing lead over Michigan State. Michigan

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Speaker 8: State zero and five in the Big Ten. Earlier today

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Speaker 8: we saw, we saw wins for or Ohio State big

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Speaker 8: over Penn State, Texas squeaked past Vanderbilt thirty four to

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Speaker 8: thirty one, Vanderbilt with twenty one fourth quarter points. Miami

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Speaker 8: not able to do just that against SMUSMU, getting to

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Speaker 8: win in overtime twenty six to twenty. Houston loses to

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Speaker 8: West Virginia wester finigantting its first Big twelve win forty

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Speaker 8: five to thirty five, and Duke beat Clemson forty six

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Speaker 8: to forty five. Clemson was a top five team to

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Speaker 8: start the year, They now have five losses.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, guys, Thank you Martin. I'm so excited

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Speaker 1: to bring on this next guest with now, especially now

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Speaker 1: that Indiana is up by a score. You've heard her

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Speaker 1: on ESPN Radio, You've seen her on First Take on

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Speaker 1: ESPN's Vibe Check. She is a proud Hoosier alum. ESPN

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Speaker 1: Chicago Bears reporter Courtney Cronin joins US now high Court.

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Speaker 10: Hi, guys, how are you doing?

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Speaker 3: Greg Court?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: How are you doing? After sprinting through the airport to

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Speaker 1: make your fleot to Cincinnati to see the Bears take

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Speaker 1: on the Bengals tomorrow? Are you caught up? Have you

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Speaker 1: caught your breath?

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Speaker 6: I have, I've caught my breath.

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Speaker 10: I've caught up on all my college football. I've got

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Speaker 10: Georgia Florida on one monitor in Indiana and Maryland on another.

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Speaker 10: Wasn't thrilled about the opening drive pick that Mendoza through,

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Speaker 10: But looks like they're finally, you know, waking up a

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Speaker 10: little bit out there in Maryland.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I want to start there. I want to

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Speaker 1: start with your Hoosiers because I've talked about this in

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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, where like most of Indiana's

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Speaker 1: wins have just been absolute curb stoppings and to the

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Speaker 1: point where you're like, did they really need to go

577
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Speaker 1: out and score that many points on these poor teams?

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Speaker 1: But I'm like, I argue, I'm like, is anybody actually

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Speaker 1: like going into the season, even given what they did

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Speaker 1: last year? Is anybody taking them seriously when it comes

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Speaker 1: to the playoff in the national title? And I'd argue

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Speaker 1: that you have to go out there and convince everybody

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Speaker 1: week after week that this is who you are. You're

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Speaker 1: playing big boy football. How do you feel about your hoosiers?

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Speaker 10: I think that that's something that Kurt Signette took very

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Speaker 10: personally coming off of last season, where everybody was saying

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Speaker 10: that they didn't deserve to be in the CFP because

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Speaker 10: they didn't play anybody in the regular season, and then

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Speaker 10: the teams that were good that they played, like Ohio

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Speaker 10: State Notre Dame in the playoffs, they lost to. So

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Speaker 10: they've left nothing in doubt. I mean the UCLA game

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Speaker 10: last week, when you put up fifty plus points and

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Speaker 10: that thing is over by the end of the first quarter.

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Speaker 10: Like I knew they weren't going to be number one

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Speaker 10: because Ohio State was off on their by last week.

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Speaker 10: But I was very happy to see my team at

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Speaker 10: number two and staying at number two because like they're

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Speaker 10: that good, and I think Fernando Mendoza as the Heisman

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Speaker 10: front runner right now from a place like Indiana is

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Speaker 10: still such as a hard thing to stomach, I think

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Speaker 10: for a lot of people. But I think what we're

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Speaker 10: seeing here is not only a team that's really good

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Speaker 10: on the field, but a team that is defying the

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Speaker 10: norm in college football that a traditional basketball powerhouse can

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Speaker 10: actually get involved in the mix for the twelve team.

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Speaker 10: CFP can go get really talented players out of the

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Speaker 10: transfer portal the way they've done it quarterback the last

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Speaker 10: two years with Curtis Rourke and now with Fernando Mendoza.

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Speaker 10: And like offensively, I mean they lose their offensive coordinator

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Speaker 10: from a year ago because he went to the UCLA

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Speaker 10: and then got fired three games in. They are better

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Speaker 10: offensively with all the changes that they had players going

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Speaker 10: to the draft last year, quarterback, change, all of it.

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Speaker 10: And so the stability there is what, as an alum,

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Speaker 10: I think you love because it's not just a one

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Speaker 10: hit wonder with the Indiana Hoosiers. It's a team right

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Speaker 10: now that's undefeated looking to go eight to o to

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Speaker 10: day and I'm really looking to go nine to zero

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Speaker 10: if they can pull off this Maryland when I know

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Speaker 10: it's early in the second in the second quarter now,

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Speaker 10: but it's impressive and I'm very excited about what the

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Speaker 10: next couple of weeks can bring leading into the first

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Speaker 10: round games in December.

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Speaker 4: Cortney, this is Steve.

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Speaker 2: I'm a UCLA alum, so you can imagine my feeling,

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Speaker 2: first of all, to dump an offensive coordinator on us

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Speaker 2: that sucked and was deservedly fired after three games. But

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Speaker 2: you know what, Signetti, I love what he's doing because

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Speaker 2: it reminds me a lot of what Bill Snyder did

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Speaker 2: way back in the day at Kansas State, where they

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Speaker 2: were the doormat forever and getting their brains beaten in

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Speaker 2: by huge scores.

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Speaker 3: And that's where Indiana football was for years.

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Speaker 2: And years, where the Ohio States, the Michigan's, you know,

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Speaker 2: just rolling up points on Indiana. So when you have

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Speaker 2: a team that's good enough to reverse that, I remember

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Speaker 2: he was the kind of guy Bill Snyder Kansas citate.

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Speaker 2: He was really rolling up sixty seventy points and everyone's like,

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Speaker 2: what are you doing?

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Speaker 10: Man?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's payback for all the years decades and we've

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Speaker 2: been beat down upon him. Now we have that opportunity

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Speaker 2: to do it. It's a big thumbs up for me.

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Speaker 2: I'm so thrilled to see a program that no one

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Speaker 2: has ever taken seriously it's a basketball school. Indiana to

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Speaker 2: do what they're doing right now with a middle aged

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Speaker 2: coach who was a lower level coach for years finally

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Speaker 2: getting his opportunity in the big time and making the

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Speaker 2: most of it, I think it's phenomenal.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, And there's the reason that they extended him again

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Speaker 10: within the same like, you know, twelve month span that

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Speaker 10: they did a year ago when the then when James

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Speaker 10: Franklin was fired and that Penn State opening was probably

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Speaker 10: pretty enticing for a lot of coaches. But for Kurt

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Speaker 10: Signetti to get the ninety three million dollar bag, it's

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Speaker 10: deserved at this point because what he's done is not

657
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Speaker 10: just build you a good football team and a strong

658
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 10: football culture in Bloomington, like he's changing the priorities for

659
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Speaker 10: that athletic department, for that, you know, basically how Indiana

660
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 10: does business with sports, Like this is not just a

661
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 10: basketball school anymore. And to break one hundred you know,

662
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Speaker 10: one hundred years of tradition there and obviously you know

663
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Speaker 10: in men's basketball they haven't won a national championship since

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Speaker 10: nineteen eighty seven. Like the relevancy factor, like for somebody

665
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Speaker 10: to come in and just completely flip the script like

666
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Speaker 10: we thought with Tom Allen it was going to happen.

667
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Speaker 10: And obviously that was a flash in the pan the

668
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Speaker 10: COVID year. But this is like, this is changing the

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Speaker 10: landscape to where I kind of wish we still had

670
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Speaker 10: Big ten West and East because the Indiana was always

671
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 10: in the east with Ohio State and Penn State and Michigan.

672
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 10: Michigan State would always get their brains beat in. And

673
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Speaker 10: I go back to that Illinois game Week two of

674
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Speaker 10: the college football season, Week three, whenever.

675
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Speaker 2: It was.

676
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Speaker 10: In the amount of points that they put up on

677
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Speaker 10: Brett b Lama, Like Brett was on the other side

678
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 10: of that back in twenty ten when he ran it

679
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Speaker 10: up on Indiana Wisconsin eighty three twenty so to see

680
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Speaker 10: how Indiana was able to return that a little bit.

681
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Speaker 10: I think kurtzig Natty doesn't care what anybody has to

682
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 10: say about him about his program anymore, because he took

683
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Speaker 10: it so personally from a year ago that now it's

684
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Speaker 10: a rallying cry for a program that's trying to show

685
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Speaker 10: that they're not just a one year thing, that this

686
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Speaker 10: is going to be who they are going forward.

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Speaker 1: All Right, I can't let you go without talking a

688
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Speaker 1: little bit a little bit of Bears if I could

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Speaker 1: say that correctly. You're in Cincinnati, Bears are taking on

690
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Speaker 1: the Bengals. Bengals have, you know, so many different struggles

691
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: between Joe Burrow's injury, but you know Joe Flacco now

692
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: dealing with an ac I see joint injury. We'll see

693
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Speaker 1: how he goes. But their defense, you know, the past

694
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Speaker 1: defense has been terrible. They haven't been able to get

695
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: it together. They're still very, very bad. But the Bears

696
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: have their own injury issues right now. DeAndre Swift is

697
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: now out for the Bears tomorrow, and with it maybe

698
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Speaker 1: a run game that had been doing really well under

699
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Speaker 1: Ben Johnson so far this season. What happens if the

700
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Speaker 1: Bears don't go out there in Cincinnati and witness what a.

701
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 10: Missed opportunity that would be. Like, this is a defense

702
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Speaker 10: that's given up four hundred plus yards a game to

703
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Speaker 10: the first half of the season. You can throw on them.

704
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Speaker 10: You can also run on them, and I think it's

705
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Speaker 10: a good opportunity for their seventh round pick Kyle M Nunday,

706
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Speaker 10: who's been solid. He hasn't had a huge helping of

707
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Speaker 10: carries so far. Now you're the lead back. Now you

708
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 10: get a chance to show this team that drafted you,

709
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Speaker 10: that took a chance, that didn't go out and do anything,

710
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 10: you know, in free agency to get a running back,

711
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Speaker 10: that they're on the right path. But I think that

712
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 10: this has got to be Roma Dunde reaching the end zone.

713
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 10: DJ Moore finally getting in the end zone. It's been

714
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Speaker 10: a couple of weeks. He has one touchdown on the season.

715
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Speaker 10: Like Caleb Williams, in those red zone issues, there's a

716
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Speaker 10: lot that it boils down to whether it's penalties that

717
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:36,240
Speaker 10: happen inside their opponents twenty him taking untimely sacs inaccuracy issues.

718
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 10: Like a good chance to get that on track is

719
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Speaker 10: against a team that ranks thirtieth in red zone defense.

720
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Speaker 10: Though I think like it's inexcusable if they lose tomorrow.

721
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Speaker 10: That's how I view it, given I understand that's the NFL.

722
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 10: Those guys get paid to but this is an opportunity

723
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Speaker 10: against a defense not even like looking like Toefort going

724
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Speaker 10: toe to toe with Joe Flacco. It's a defense. It's

725
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 10: not very good and they have struggled all throughout the year.

726
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 10: They will not have Trey Hendricks. They don't have a

727
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 10: pass rush to speak of outside of him. You should

728
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Speaker 10: be able to throw on this team, and if you can't,

729
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 10: the questions get louder about this offense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Can I just think, in one quick question here about

732
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 2: expectations for Ben Johnson this year, give me the low

733
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Speaker 2: bar for Bears fans, like, what's the bare minimum they

734
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 2: expect this season that they will say, all right, that

735
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 2: was good enough.

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Speaker 10: Well, I mean, they're a four win team right now.

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Speaker 10: They're four and three going into the halfway point. They've

738
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Speaker 10: already had their buy There's been good moments. There have

739
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 10: been some moments where it's like, all right, it's not

740
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Speaker 10: clicking just yet. I think the bar, the lowest of

741
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Speaker 10: low bars, would be seven wins, because that's still a

742
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 10: two game improvement from last year. You probably aren't a

743
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,439
Speaker 10: playoff team just yet. Given how good Detroit is, They're

744
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 10: not going anywhere, and the Packers are in the hunt.

745
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 10: Like I don't know if the NFC Norris gets three

746
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Speaker 10: teams in. It feels a little unrealistic at this point,

747
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 10: but I think seven eight wins should be the low

748
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 10: bar for this team considering all that they did in

749
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 10: the offen season. The head coach that was the bell

750
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 10: of the ball. They got him, they paid him a

751
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 10: lot of money to be here, and they're expecting that

752
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 10: the product like looks like something that's going to be

753
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 10: sustainable going from this season into the next, regardless of

754
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 10: what like win loss record, playoffs are not, say at

755
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 10: the end of the year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that that would be enough to

757
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,399
Speaker 1: given the overhaul that happened this season, and that's more

758
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: realistic to expect in the first year under a head

759
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: coach with all that changeover. Courtney, thank you so much

760
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 1: for being with us, for taking ten minutes out of

761
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: your day. You're very busy schedule. We really really appreciate it.

762
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Speaker 1: Have so much fun at the game tomorrow.

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00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 10: All right, Thanks guys, Take care.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up after this, we have the dues

765
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: and the don'ts of the week. You are listening to

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Speaker 1: Fox Football Saturday. I guess we had to know that

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Speaker 1: seventies top forty was coming, right because Steve's on the show.

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Speaker 3: Sure, no, no, it's Karma.

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Speaker 1: Vitally Steve Hartman, Fox Football Saturday. This is great. Who

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Speaker 1: is this? Ah? Okay, we love it? Oh see, there

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Speaker 1: you go.

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Speaker 4: This song came out close enough.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah good. The vibes, vibes, good vibes are there?

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Speaker 1: Good vibes. Uh, we're gonna We're gonna kind of ride

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Speaker 1: these good vibes into our weekly segment, the Dues and

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Speaker 1: the don'ts of the week that I was gonna say,

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Speaker 1: we go, we've got adult right there. It's okay, I was.

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Speaker 1: Sam is not usually our producer.

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Speaker 4: Apologies. We're looking for it.

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Speaker 3: He's looking for it. It's fine.

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Speaker 1: We don't do we need the bump, we don't. We

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00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: just go We could just go with it. We could

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00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: just go with the dues and the don'ts, and we

784
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: can start with the don't forget my music and my bumps.

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Speaker 7: That a spotlight on the don't The subject brings me

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Speaker 7: no joy.

787
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Speaker 1: That's insane.

788
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Speaker 6: It's time for the deuce and the dot in sports Man.

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Speaker 1: I love live radio. It's a great time. All right.

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00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start us off Steve, who wouldn't start with

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00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: another don't do it live. You can't do that to me.

792
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right, don't kill Gus Johnson.

793
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Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith. We have a new candidate for Catch of

794
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Speaker 1: the Year. If anybody was watching Penn State Ohio State,

795
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith took what looked to be an over overthrow

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Speaker 1: from Ohio State quarterback Julian Saying and wind Milt caught

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Speaker 1: it one handed for a touchdown first Penn State at home.

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Speaker 1: It was one of those just eye popping, mind boggling,

799
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Speaker 1: like there was a kid in the stands that was

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00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 1: just in disbelieve and he was all of us. But

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00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: Gus Johnson absolutely lost his ever loving mind rightfully, so

802
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 1: on it. You know, it's all on Twitter. Don't kill

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Speaker 1: Gus Johnson.

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Speaker 2: I have a do okay, and the do is do

805
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 2: believe what your eyes tell you. Every single postseason baseball

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Speaker 2: October Okay.

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00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,959
Speaker 4: No sport is.

808
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 2: Better suited for drama in the playoffs than the game

809
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 2: of baseball because it hangs on a pitch. I mean,

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00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 2: I sat through that entire eighteen inning game, Carmen, and

811
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 2: you say.

812
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,240
Speaker 3: Well, you're a Dodger guy. I'm like, no, I'm.

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Speaker 2: I There's something about baseball where one pitch can decide it,

814
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 2: and to me, playoffs anything is great.

815
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 3: I mean, we could always talk about hockey.

816
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 2: Obviously you go over time, it's you're not gonna beat that, right,

817
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 2: But by and large, baseball creates more drama in the

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00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 2: postseason than any other sport.

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Speaker 1: It does, and especially if you are the home team,

820
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: it really can just end on a pitch like that.

821
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Speaker 1: It's just it's incredible. Hockey's great. Speaking of hockey, very quickly,

822
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Speaker 1: I have another do do lean in because Nick Follino

823
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: of the Chicago Blackhawks dressed as head coach of the

824
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, Nick Sirianni this Halloween. They look very similar.

825
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: They both have Nick as their first name, and then

826
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: Sirianni leaned in and dressed up as Nick Follino with

827
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: the Blackhawks jersey and everything on. It was just very

828
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 1: wholesome and for more wholesome football talk, please join us

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00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: next hour. We're continuing Fox Football Saturday. Talk to you next.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in to another hour of Fox Football Saturday.

831
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Speaker 1: I am your host, Carmen Battally, and with me this

832
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: week I have Steve Hartman. Yeah, it's been a lot

833
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 1: of fun so far.

834
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 3: I love hanging out with you coin same.

835
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: We get to talk Major League baseball, we get to

836
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: talk college football, NFL football. There's so much going on

837
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 1: this time of year. It's so wonderful. Hockey season has started.

838
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: I've already been to my first Blackhawks game, took my

839
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: fiance to his first Blackhawks game. He loved it. I

840
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: think I think live hockey is one of the best

841
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,879
Speaker 1: pro sports experience.

842
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 2: It's again, I'm not a huge hockey guy, but I've

843
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 2: covered a lot, Like when the La Kings won two

844
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 2: Stanley Cups. I was at pretty much all the playoff games,

845
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 2: and there's no delay in the action. See that's the

846
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 2: beautiful thing about hockey TV. It's a bad TV sport, Yeah,

847
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 2: because you don't see the line changes. You don't see

848
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 2: really everything that's going on. Because I like to sit high,

849
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 2: you know. I want to see the whole ice, always.

850
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: In the three hundred level.

851
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I would love lay up high, especially for

852
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 2: a playoff games, so I can see the whole ice.

853
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 3: Love it, love it.

854
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I and we were there for Connor Bandard's

855
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: first career hat trick, which was incredible. It was a

856
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 1: ten goal total hockey game. And the Hawks scored seven,

857
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 1: three of which were scored by Connor Bedard, who is

858
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: the bright spot in a team that has been very

859
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 1: unfortunate the last couple of years. So we're hoping they're

860
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: about five hundred. They're doing okay, but the end game

861
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,359
Speaker 1: experience is just phenomen especially whenever it's throwing the hats

862
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: on the ice. It's just and if you're at three

863
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: hundred level, you're kind of getting a excuse to not

864
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:21,439
Speaker 1: throw your hat, like you don't have to part ways

865
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Speaker 1: with your hacks.

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Speaker 3: By the way, I gotta tell this sorry.

867
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Speaker 2: I went to the United Center in Chicago and saw

868
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 2: a Blackhawks game way back in the day, all right,

869
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,280
Speaker 2: and it was one of They're playing the San Jose Sharks,

870
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 2: and the black Hawks were up like five to the

871
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 2: game was pretty much over. Bob Probert, the notorious Bob Probert,

872
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 2: So he there's like a minute to go on the game,

873
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 2: and he skates by the San Jose bench and he

874
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:51,240
Speaker 2: stops and something is said, and forty five minutes later,

875
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 2: the game's still going on, full ice.

876
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: Brawl, jump over the boards.

877
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 2: And the thing about it was same year I went

878
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,240
Speaker 2: to a Michael Jordan Bulls game.

879
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 3: The dynamic of the two was night and date.

880
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean it was sort of like, you know,

881
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 2: rich people looking at their watch. It was like an

882
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 2: LA crowd in Chicago for the Bulls game black Hawks

883
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 2: forget it, man, black I was at that point.

884
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: That's why, like we used to go when I was

885
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: a really little kid in the nineties because they weren't

886
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 1: on TV and they were really cheap tickets. Yeah, And

887
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:25,879
Speaker 1: so that's how I fell in love with hockey because

888
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 1: I was like, it was so violent and I loved

889
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: it and the rest just let it go. Like and

890
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 1: that was back in the day they had forcers and

891
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: like it was so much more physical than even it

892
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: is now. I it was. It was great. But we're

893
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 1: here to talk football. And because football is here, it's

894
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895
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Speaker 2: dot Com. You haven't made a pick yet on tonight's

910
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 2: game seven? Which way are you?

911
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 3: Are you leaning one way? Are you rooting one way?

912
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 3: Or just like whatever happens happens.

913
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: I'm really not. I actually I interned for the Dodgers

914
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen.

915
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:39,919
Speaker 3: Did you really?

916
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: I really did. I was in their PR department and

917
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 1: it was a really fun experience. So I have a

918
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 1: soft spot in my heart for the Dodgers because of that.

919
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 1: We made it to the NLCS that year, and it

920
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 1: was like postseason baseball. As an intern, even you're just

921
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: like bright eyed and bushy tailed, and especially being in

922
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: La where like the place like they would take the

923
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: celebrities like that, we're attending the game through our hallway

924
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: to like, so they could go around the car course

925
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 1: because our hallway ran parallel to the concourse. So like

926
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 1: I got to see like everybody and like that would

927
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: show up to the games and it was wild. So

928
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:09,919
Speaker 1: I like, I have a soft spot in my heart

929
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers, and like I just have such a

930
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: tremendous respect for what Shoheo Tani's doing right now. So

931
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:16,720
Speaker 1: I guess I'm gonna go with the Dodgers.

932
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 2: Well, it's it's gonna have a major effect on me.

933
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 3: Obviously.

934
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:22,919
Speaker 2: I'm here in La I do La TV. And if

935
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 2: the Dodgers do win tonight, the parade will be months.

936
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: They get to cover another parade.

937
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 3: Parades are so fun, are they.

938
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: I got to be a part of a boat parade

939
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 1: in Tampa when we won the Super Bowl, and I

940
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,839
Speaker 1: was with the Buccaneers And that was not an exaggeration.

941
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 4: Were you on that boat?

942
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: No, not that, Well that was his boat.

943
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 4: That was his boat.

944
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: That's his like yacht. So like I didn't get the

945
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 1: I was on the defensive boat, so I was with

946
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 1: all the defensive players.

947
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 3: Very good.

948
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: I got hit in the thigh with a beer that

949
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: was launched into our boat from the shoreline. Somebody launched

950
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: a full can of beer, and because I was on

951
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: a boat with DB's and not receivers, it was not

952
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: caught and went straight. It's a great time. It's a

953
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 1: great story for another time. But I want to get

954
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 1: to talking about me who might win the Super Bowl

955
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 1: this year and what we have to look forward to

956
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: this week, because Week nine is I think last week

957
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: was I don't want to say a dud, because there's

958
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: no duds in the NFL each week, but it wasn't

959
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 1: like a real sexy lineup as far as the matchups

960
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: that we saw last week and turns out, I mean,

961
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: I think the average margin of victory last week was

962
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: like nine points or something stupid like that. This week, however,

963
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:36,360
Speaker 1: we get Chiefs Bills like heading up the lineup of

964
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: all of these different games. So I want to start there, Steve,

965
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Chiefs Bills because still regardless, like,

966
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: if you're talking about teams that you trust to be

967
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: in the mix in the postseason and to make a

968
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 1: run at the Super Bowl, I think these two are

969
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 1: at the top of your list, at least in the AFC.

970
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 3: Well they are, and this is very predictable game.

971
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 2: I mean, Josh Allen is four and one in regular

972
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 2: season games against Mahomes, and Mahomes is four and h

973
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 2: against them in the playoffs. You know, I'm a little

974
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 2: sort of off put by all this hype all of

975
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 2: a sudden once again with the Chiefs. They've won three

976
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:15,320
Speaker 2: straight home games. Okay, you beat the Lions at home,

977
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 2: all right, that's that's a good win. You blew out

978
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 2: the pathetic Raiders at home? Does that even count? And

979
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:25,359
Speaker 2: then you beat a Commander's team that has come down

980
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 2: this year predictably at home? Does that count?

981
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 3: How is everybody back on this Chiefs bandwagon?

982
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,839
Speaker 2: I know that the elite teams look at I don't

983
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 2: know about you, Carmen, now, I mean, no one covers

984
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 2: it like you do with the NFL. But I mean,

985
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 2: it has been a pretty mediocre NFL season. Nothing has

986
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 2: really stood out from week to week. There's no rhyme

987
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 2: or reason.

988
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 3: Like you know.

989
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:51,959
Speaker 2: It's maybe that's why you know, the Chiefs win consecutive games.

990
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 3: Oh, the Chiefs are back, Okay, are they? I'm not

991
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 3: quite sure yet.

992
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,959
Speaker 2: And it's clear as we here at the midway point

993
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 2: of the season, there is no team that has separated

994
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 2: itself from the pack.

995
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:08,800
Speaker 1: No, And I mean I've talked about that kind of

996
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 1: all season long, where it doesn't especially when you're talking

997
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: about like teams that I am confident in going forward.

998
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 1: I think I'm confident in a team, and then the

999
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:23,240
Speaker 1: next week they get beat or something a catastrophic injury happens,

1000
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,399
Speaker 1: or this that the other, and that comes along with,

1001
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: you know, parody being at such a such a high level.

1002
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 1: In the NFL right now, I think parody is at

1003
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,360
Speaker 1: an all time high where you just you don't know

1004
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. Wea t week, and I ultimately I

1005
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 1: think that's good for the sport because you know you

1006
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: can't predict it. And like, in my in my opinion,

1007
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: I should say, I like that. I like being being

1008
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: surprised and seeing guys step up that maybe I didn't

1009
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: think that could or would or whatever. I like being

1010
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: I like that element of surprise that is now baked

1011
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: into the NFL. But I think with the Chiefs in particular,

1012
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 1: I am never going to count them out because of

1013
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: the body of work that they have over the last

1014
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: five or so years, maybe five to ten years at

1015
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 1: that point, since Patrick Mahomes has been in the league.

1016
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,719
Speaker 1: It's no matter how they start, no matter what their

1017
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: issues are, no matter what their injuries. Like barring I

1018
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,720
Speaker 1: think Patrick Mahomes, they seem to be able to weather

1019
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: those storms season in and season out and still end

1020
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: up in the Super Bowl each year. I mean, I

1021
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 1: think back to two years ago when they suffered Patrick

1022
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 1: Mahomes suffered the most drops in the league by his receivers,

1023
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,720
Speaker 1: and you were like, God, like, this offense just is sputtering.

1024
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: It's not it doesn't look like it. But they went

1025
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: out won the Super Bowl that year, and then last year,

1026
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: I mean, same thing where which it took a while

1027
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: to get going. Travis Kelcey was a non factor for

1028
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: most of the season last year, and then all of

1029
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, they still make it to the

1030
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 1: super Bowl and didn't win the Super Bowl. But I

1031
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: just think that there is a inherent trust in the

1032
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: Chiefs because we have this proof of concept that they

1033
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 1: can withstand whatever it is. And I do think that

1034
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 1: they are trending back in the right direction. If you

1035
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 1: look at some of the advanced metrics and how they're unproductive,

1036
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: their offense has been. They've got an overall explosive rate

1037
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,439
Speaker 1: of nearly fifteen percent, which is top ten in the league,

1038
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: and it's the first time in the top ten in

1039
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: that metric since twenty twenty two. So they are being

1040
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 1: tremendously effective on offense, and I'm very interest like their

1041
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 1: defense has They've had to make some adjustments, but Spags

1042
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 1: is very, very good. Their defensive coordinators to Spagnolo is

1043
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,479
Speaker 1: so good at that and we've seen a lot more

1044
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: i feel like exotic and maybe different blitz packages from

1045
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 1: him than we have, you know, involving multiple levels of

1046
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: the defense in that. So I just think there's a

1047
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: lot of proof of concept there. But to your point,

1048
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, Josh Allen and the

1049
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:47,959
Speaker 1: Bills do really well against this team in the regular season,

1050
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: and we're still in the regular season.

1051
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1052
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 2: Look, I predicted one of my few correct predictions, a

1053
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,879
Speaker 2: double digit Egle victory in the Super Bowl.

1054
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:57,879
Speaker 3: I was absolutely right.

1055
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 2: I said, you can't ignore that this Chiefs offense has

1056
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 2: struggled pretty much the entire year. I think they had

1057
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 2: one regular season game at least thirty points. Look, I'm

1058
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 2: on the record here. Carmen Patrick Mahomes has played in

1059
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 2: his last Super Bowl. Wow, he has played in his

1060
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:17,319
Speaker 2: last Super Bowl. I'm just I'm making that prediction. I

1061
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 2: know there are Chiefs, I've not got so many names

1062
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 2: fans that are friends. And by the way, these are

1063
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 2: real Chiefs fans that were fans long before the Chiefs

1064
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 2: became a dominant team. I just don't see it anymore.

1065
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 2: I don't see game breakers. I think that Mahomes is phenomenal.

1066
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 2: I'm never going to take anything away from Patrick Mahomes.

1067
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 2: I said, if you really want to classify, you know,

1068
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 2: franchise quarterbacks, there's one.

1069
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 3: His name is Patrick Mahomes.

1070
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1071
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 3: You have Josh Allen.

1072
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:48,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have Lamar Jackson, Yeah, you have Jalen Hurts,

1073
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:49,840
Speaker 2: you have Joe Burrow.

1074
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 3: They're not in the same breath with Patrick Mahomes.

1075
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 2: So by my definition, there is one franchise quarterback in

1076
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 2: the NFL, and that is Patrick Mahomes. But at the

1077
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 2: same time, I just don't think the supporting cast is

1078
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 2: where it needs to be for them to get another

1079
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:10,439
Speaker 2: Super Bowl championship or even get to the Super Bowl.

1080
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 2: So I know they're in the ANFC Championship every year

1081
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,800
Speaker 2: and everyone's expecting the same thing after three straight home

1082
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 2: wins only one of them with quality win against the Lions.

1083
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 4: I don't see it.

1084
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 3: I just don't.

1085
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 1: I do have the Bills making it to the Super Bowl,

1086
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 1: so I pick Packers Bills because I just think it'd

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Speaker 1: be fun for the league. But I'm still I'm never

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Speaker 1: going to count out not only Patrick Mahomes, but Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: With Andy Reid as his.

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Speaker 3: Well, how much longer is Anny going to be a rent?

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Speaker 1: Well, And that's the question. So it's how much longer?

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Speaker 1: I think the bigger question here is how much longer

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Speaker 1: is Andy Reid gonna coach? And maybe that factors into Yeah,

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00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: maybe Pat has played in his last Super Bowl. I

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Speaker 1: don't necessarily see it because I've seen them weather so

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Speaker 1: many different storms.

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Speaker 2: But well, Andy Reid ill prepared his team for that

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl unfortunately, and he basically admitted it afterwards.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's what happens. I mean, you know, when

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Speaker 1: you lose that badly, there is a drastic breakdown that

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Speaker 1: that that that then happened. But we're gonna see what

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Speaker 1: because we have more football to talk, but maybe on

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Speaker 1: the opposite side of the spectrum. We got to talk

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Speaker 1: about what's happening in Miami. Steve join us right after this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Football Saturday. Ah, don't make me

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Speaker 1: cut this off. I'm caring, it's coming, it's coming. There

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Speaker 1: we go. I'm carn vitally. That's Steve Hartman. You're here

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Speaker 1: laughing in the background. It's Fox Football Saturday. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: our lovely producer IOA. Sam. There's the there's the guitar riff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah A right. We're going back to the nineties apparently,

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00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 1: which is a okay by me. There are I don't

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00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 1: think there's a day that goes by that I don't

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Speaker 1: wish it was still like nineteen ninety eight. Wow, it

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Speaker 1: was a great year.

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Speaker 2: It was ninety See your perspective on times a lot

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00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:23,399
Speaker 2: different than mine, Carmen A lot.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, I mean, I don't like whether

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Speaker 1: it's because I actually loved the nineties, or it was

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Speaker 1: just I didn't have any responsibilities. You know, who knows

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Speaker 1: It's fine. What are you doing in nine ninety eight?

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Speaker 4: Steve, nineteen ninety eight?

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Speaker 2: Let's see, did you see like win a rose Bull

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00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:40,919
Speaker 2: in ninety eight? No, they lost a rose Bull that year.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for reminding me to Wisconsin.

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Speaker 3: Was Wisconsin? Thanks for reminding me the way around, way

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Speaker 3: to go?

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Speaker 1: Pretty sure, Arizona State won the Super when the Rose

1134
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:51,920
Speaker 1: Bowl in ninety seven. With the year before that, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was well into my radio career at that point,

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00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 2: about ten years in and actually started doing my LATV

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Speaker 2: gig in nineteen ninety.

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Speaker 1: Oh see, it was a good year. It was a

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Speaker 1: good year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:08,319
Speaker 3: My second son was born, you know. Sweet, Yeah, that's back.

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Speaker 2: And I love the kid, my two boys because they're

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Speaker 2: born in the twentieth century.

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Speaker 3: My daughter was born in the twenty first century, so.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, wow, she's a whole millennium.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 1: It does so slowly, but so quickly. All right. With

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Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, you can stream us wherever you happen

1149
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Speaker 1: of your presets in the iHeart app, so we'll always

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Speaker 1: pop up at the top of your screen, just like

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Speaker 1: a nineties analog radio dial.

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Speaker 3: Look at that exactly.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, if you have been watching postseason baseball,

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to football, yes, because there

1165
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: has been a lot that has happened this week. If

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Speaker 1: you are a South Florida resident and happen to be

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Speaker 1: a fan of the Miami Dolphins. The Miami Dolphins have

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00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:27,399
Speaker 1: parted ways with their general manager, Chris Career at a

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00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 1: record of two and seven after getting embarrassed on Thursday

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00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 1: Night Football versus the Ravens. Who look better I'm not

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00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 1: gonna say great, but they look better Chris Greer has

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Speaker 1: been with the organization since two thousand. He's been their

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Speaker 1: general manager since twenty sixteen. Among his first picks of

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Speaker 1: each draft class, I'm not going to go through every

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Speaker 1: draft class because that would be that would take a

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Speaker 1: long time. But his very first pick with the organization

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Speaker 1: was Laramie Tunzel, who is still in the league, not

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Speaker 1: with the Dolphins, but still are still a good player.

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Speaker 1: You had obviously to a Taco Bailola. You have Jalen Wattle,

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Speaker 1: who is still currently a Dolphin. Both of those guys

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Speaker 1: still Dolphins. You had some issues in twenty twenty two

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00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: and twenty twenty three. You traded for Tyreek Hill, giving

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00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 1: up your first and second round picks, and that Tyreek

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00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 1: Hill trade we can dive into a little bit more

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Speaker 1: as to if it was worth it for this franchise.

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00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 1: And then in twenty twenty three they did not have

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Speaker 1: a first round pick again, and it was because of

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00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 1: the tampering penalty for trying to recruit Tom Brady sort

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Speaker 1: of ish. It never worked out and the Dolphins lost

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Speaker 1: their first round pick. His last two have been Kenneth

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Speaker 1: Grant and Chop Robinson. This tenuere has been tumultuous to

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Speaker 1: say the least. This season has been tumultuous for the

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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, to say the least. What does this do though,

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Speaker 1: to you, Steve? What does it do to fire Chris

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Speaker 1: Greer at this point in the season?

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Speaker 2: Can we fire Steven Ross as the owner of the Dolphins?

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Speaker 4: I mean here again once once.

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Speaker 2: When you have an organization who won their last playoff

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Speaker 2: game when Bill Clinton was still president, they have the

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Speaker 2: longest drought of any current NFL team without a playoff victory.

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Speaker 3: That was twenty five years ago.

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Speaker 2: Since Stephen Ross took over his owner, they've only been

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Speaker 2: in the playoffs three times, well sort of a fourth

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Speaker 2: year he bought it, but he hadn't had one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent of the team. So when you have ownership that

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00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 2: is completely inept, which always amazes me, and we've seen

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Speaker 2: this so many times of professional sports. We have these

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00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 2: self made billionaires and yeah, you gotta be smart to

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00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 2: become a billionaire, right.

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Speaker 1: That's the biggest farce on the planets. And then and

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Speaker 1: then they come in spirits.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we got the temper situation, we

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Speaker 2: care another disaster. I mean, these guys come in and

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Speaker 2: you know they got a new toy, and it's a

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00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 2: great investment because no matter how bad you are, you're going.

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Speaker 4: To make billions.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's it is the number one investment that

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00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 2: you can make is to buy, especially an NFL team.

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00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 2: So from that standpoint, he's making money hand over fist.

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Speaker 2: The problem is if you are a fan of that franchise,

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Speaker 2: and of course on end Zone Radio every Sunday Tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: V J.

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Speaker 3: Husky is a diehard Dolphins fan, you have.

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Speaker 2: To suffer because you have complete ineft ownership, and that's

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Speaker 2: what it's all about.

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Speaker 3: So you know, you fire the GM, but you're gonna

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Speaker 3: keep McDaniel.

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Speaker 2: What's the purpose of that other than the fact that, well,

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Speaker 2: I'm paying the guy, so I don't want to eat

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00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 2: that money. I'm gonna make him work out the rest

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Speaker 2: of the season. Okay, well that gee, that's a sound

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Speaker 2: business plan. Why didn't you just wait till the end

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00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 2: of the season to fire your GM? I mean, what's

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00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 2: he gonna do now? He's not gonna make any changes

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00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 2: that are going to get the Dolphins back into the

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00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 2: playoff pictures. So these are the kind of inept, lame brain, unexplicable,

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Speaker 2: inexplicable decisions made by a buffoon who somehow made a

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Speaker 2: billion dollars as a businessman, because that's what he is,

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Speaker 2: Stephen Ross is a buffoon.

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Speaker 1: I will have no argument, but I will say that

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01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 1: parting ways with I think the timing not only has

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01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:23,400
Speaker 1: to do with you got embarrassed on national television, but

1243
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:25,520
Speaker 1: you have the trade deadline coming up this right, and

1244
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:30,120
Speaker 1: do you want this GM to do another trade deadline

1245
01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 1: for you?

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01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 2: Well, he says he doesn't want to trade waddle. I mean,

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01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 2: what what do you have to offer anybody on the

1248
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 2: trade market and what are you going to get in return?

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, with the writing on the wall, be

1250
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 1: could you have guaranteed that Chris Greer wasn't going to

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01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:44,400
Speaker 1: go out and make some you know, makes make something happen,

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01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 1: make make some trade happen that you know, just out

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01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 1: of spite if nothing else. I like, I kind of

1254
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 1: get doing it from that regard, but there really is

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01:00:53,680 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 1: Without firing Mike McDaniel, then too, you're not actually changing anything.

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01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:02,040
Speaker 1: You're just preventing something else from happening by getting rid

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01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:05,520
Speaker 1: of Chris Greer before the trade deadline. But you haven't

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01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:09,240
Speaker 1: really improved your outlook. You haven't improved your team in

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01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 1: any way by also then retaining Mike McDaniel. And if

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01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:15,920
Speaker 1: you didn't want to send the organization into chaos mid season,

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01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 1: then you shouldn't have made any moves at all. So

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Speaker 1: I just I don't really understand the timing from that

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01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 1: perspective either. Like I get that you, I think it's

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01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 1: shortsighted to say you just didn't want him to do

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Speaker 1: the trade deadline for it.

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Speaker 2: Well, when you look at the AFC East, you have

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Speaker 2: two of the worst owners in the NFL, and Woody

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Speaker 2: Johnson and Steve Ross, right, and then you have Bob Kraft,

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Speaker 2: who realized after one year, I made a mistake. The

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Speaker 2: coach I hired, I made a mistake, Bye bye. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to bring in a competent coach, an actual proven

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Speaker 2: NFL coach who obsenced also have ties with the Patriot

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01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 2: organization of Mike Vrabel. How's that working for the Patriots?

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Speaker 1: That's going pretty well?

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Speaker 3: Not too bad? Right?

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01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 1: So then again, Quarterback and Berley Quarterback was an MVP game.

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Speaker 3: By the way, it's so unfortunate.

1278
01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 2: Bob Craft obviously belongs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

1279
01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 2: Unfortunately it's not going to be this year because they

1280
01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:16,760
Speaker 2: can only pick one person that, like Belichick, is going

1281
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,840
Speaker 2: to be a first ballot Hall of Famer obviously, and

1282
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:22,520
Speaker 2: that's going to keep Bob Kraft waiting at least another year.

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01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 2: But again, that's sound ownership, reckon. That's what the Patriots

1284
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:30,920
Speaker 2: did for years. They would make a mistake like everybody else,

1285
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:35,320
Speaker 2: but they would cut their ties immediately. We're not gonna say, well,

1286
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:39,600
Speaker 2: give it a little more time. No, cut your ties immediately.

1287
01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:43,160
Speaker 2: And now the Patriots are back relevant and in the

1288
01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 2: playoff mix.

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Speaker 1: As your Mike McDaniel right now, Like the rating is

1290
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 1: on the wall. So how do you finish this season?

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01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 2: How does he even walk in the walker? First of all,

1292
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:54,120
Speaker 2: have you watched his demeanor on the sideline? Oh, it's

1293
01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:56,680
Speaker 2: like he just stares at the chart, like he never

1294
01:02:56,920 --> 01:03:00,480
Speaker 2: looks up. He doesn't seem to acknowledge anyone around him.

1295
01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:02,680
Speaker 2: I mean, if I was Mike McDaniel, I mean, he's

1296
01:03:02,680 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 2: still got some value I guess in terms of being

1297
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:07,640
Speaker 2: an assistant or getting another job. Why would you one

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Speaker 2: look at I know I have a contract, I know

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Speaker 2: you owe.

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Speaker 3: Me money, Let me go.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what is the point of me still standing

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Speaker 2: here on the sideline.

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Speaker 1: I can't. Yeah, I mean he's clearly already lost the

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Speaker 1: locker room that happened earlier in the season. That's already happened.

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Speaker 1: But how do you continue to do this job now?

1306
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Speaker 1: If you're Mike McDaniel, knowing that, for whatever reason, the

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Speaker 1: owner of your team, your boss decided, I just want

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Speaker 1: you to finish out the season. But we're gonna let

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Speaker 1: you go after that. Like I just dead man walking.

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Speaker 1: He's a dead man walking in South Florida. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, have a lot of games left, and you

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Speaker 1: still have a ton of games.

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Speaker 2: Games left that you got to suffer through. So I

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Speaker 2: will see how this all plays out, but we shall, we.

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Speaker 1: Shall, And if we're gonna also see how it plays

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Speaker 1: out tonight, don't forget. I don't know how you could

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Speaker 1: Game seven of the World. During the MLB post season,

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Speaker 1: Strauss made history as the first brand ever on the

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Speaker 1: helmets work where are built to perform smart pocket design,

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Speaker 1: real comfort and durability from grit to glory. Gear up

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Speaker 1: today at Strauss dot com. That's st R A U

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Speaker 1: S S dot com. And now let's go to Martin

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Speaker 1: Wise and the update booth for a game break on

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Speaker 1: college football.

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Speaker 8: Well, first of all, we got to update some NFL news. Oh,

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Speaker 8: but Baltimore Ravens have traded cornerback Jaire Alexander and the

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Speaker 8: seventh round pick to the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for

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Speaker 8: a twenty twenty sixth sixth round pick. Jayir Alexander has

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01:04:35,280 --> 01:04:37,760
Speaker 8: had a tumultuous experience in Baltimore thus far.

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Speaker 4: Yes, in and out of the lineup with.

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Speaker 8: A healthy scratch on Thursday, and is now going to Philadelphia.

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Speaker 3: Pike seventh round pick.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if he can, if he can rehabilitate his career anywhere,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be as part of that defensive secondary

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Speaker 1: I will see.

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Speaker 8: Speaking of potential rehabilitation of careers, the GRIZZLIESSU spended John

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Speaker 8: Moran from one game for conduct detrimental to the team.

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Speaker 4: Did you all see this interview yesterday?

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Speaker 8: Now this postgame press conference, he was asked he was

1340
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Speaker 8: basically benched in the fourth quarter, and I get it,

1341
01:05:12,560 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 8: it's football, It's like eight I know, but he was

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Speaker 8: benched in the fourth quarter and then was asked after it,

1343
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Speaker 8: and his response consistently was go ass the coaching staff,

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01:05:21,440 --> 01:05:23,640
Speaker 8: Go ask the coaching staff. And then it was asked,

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Speaker 8: besides asking the coaching staff, what do you think the

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Speaker 8: coaching staff would say? He said, I think the coaching

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01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:32,240
Speaker 8: staff might say, don't play me anymore once. So now

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Speaker 8: he is suspended for minutes. Sorry Memphis. His next game

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Speaker 8: college football, Louisville with a fourteen unanswered the second half

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Speaker 8: points over Virginia Tech twenty one to sixteen, fourteen minutes

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Speaker 8: left in the fourth quarter. There twelve was se twelve

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01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:52,720
Speaker 8: to fifty left in the third quarter. Maryland just had

1353
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Speaker 8: a big rushing touchdown twenty to ten. The score now

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Speaker 8: the tenth ring Hoosiers undefeated halftime. Georgia and Florida tye

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Speaker 8: tennapece fifth ranked Georgia six and one on the year

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Speaker 8: thus far. Notre Dame with a twelve to seven lead

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Speaker 8: over Boston College. Boston College only has one win on

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Speaker 8: the year. Notre Dame's a twelfth ranked team in the nation.

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Speaker 8: Fourteen minutes left in the third quarter there, Texas Tech

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Speaker 8: with a touchdown just kicked the extra point nineteen to seven.

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Speaker 8: The lead over Kansas State to thirteen minutes left in

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Speaker 8: the third quarter. There, Pittsburgh over Stanford twenty one to

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Speaker 8: thirteen earlier. Today saw wins for Texas squeaking past Vanderbilt,

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Speaker 8: Ohio State routed Penn State, shm U upset Miami in overtime.

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Speaker 8: Houston loses to for West Virginia. Another upset there. That's

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Speaker 8: West Virginia's first conference win on the year.

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Speaker 1: Back to you guys, Thank you Martin. Now we're gonna

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Speaker 1: go bring on a very familiar guest friend of the show,

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Speaker 1: someone I know very well. He is the co host

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Speaker 1: of The Athletic Football Show alongside Robert Mason Derek Class

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Speaker 1: and his name is David Hollman. How are you, Dave.

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Speaker 5: I'm wonderful guy. It's good to be on again.

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Speaker 1: Very excited to have you. Uh you actually just tweeted

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Speaker 1: because when we just learned Jaya Alexander on the way

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Speaker 1: to Philadelphia from Baltimore, he'd been a healthy scratch in

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Speaker 1: that Thursday night game. What do we make of this?

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously Philly could use the help, But do

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Speaker 1: we think that Jah is the answer?

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Speaker 5: I think my initial reaction would be probably not. I

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Speaker 5: just I think it's it's been a long time since

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01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:35,920
Speaker 5: Jarire Alexander was the caliber of cornerback that people remember.

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Speaker 5: I don't think, you know, you wouldn't be He wouldn't

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Speaker 5: be in Baltimore if he was still that guy, and

1384
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Speaker 5: you wouldn't be getting him out of there for a

1385
01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:46,200
Speaker 5: late day three pick if he was. But quarnerback two

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Speaker 5: has just been an issue for Philly all year long,

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Speaker 5: going all the way back to training camp. I mean

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Speaker 5: it was it was supposed to be Kiley Ringo. He

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Speaker 5: hasn't really been the guy they brought in the Dory Jackson.

1390
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Speaker 5: He really hasn't been in the guy. They did a

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Speaker 5: training camp trade for Jacoreyan Bennett who was with the Raiders.

1392
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Speaker 5: They have tried a lot of stuff and it is

1393
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Speaker 5: still easily the biggest problem with their defense. So what

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Speaker 5: I mean, you're giving up a late day three pick

1395
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Speaker 5: for another guy who can try to be an answer.

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Speaker 5: I mean, he doesn't need to play like an all

1397
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Speaker 5: pro if he can just give you serviceable cornerback to

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Speaker 5: play behind Quinnon Mitchell. This is this is clearly a

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Speaker 5: Philly team with very high aspirations, don't I don't think

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Speaker 5: it's a huge price to pay. So I don't want

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01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:30,320
Speaker 5: to give people the wrong idea and think this is

1402
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Speaker 5: some groundshaking move, But it at least has a chance

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01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:35,880
Speaker 5: to make the Philly defense a lot better, and that's

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Speaker 5: all you need when the rest of the roster is

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Speaker 5: so good, Dave.

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Speaker 2: I wish I could go back before the season and

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Speaker 2: see if I get gotten some odds going into Week nine,

1408
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:49,719
Speaker 2: the midweek of the season, and predicted that the Colts

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Speaker 2: and Patriots to be the top.

1410
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Speaker 3: Two seeds in the AFC.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure I could have gotten some astronomical odds on that.

1412
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Speaker 2: Do you buy into these two teams? I mean, everyone suddenly, Rifley.

1413
01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:04,000
Speaker 2: You know, the Chiefs went three in a row at home,

1414
01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:08,320
Speaker 2: two against bad teams, and everyone's back on the Chiefs bandwagon.

1415
01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:11,799
Speaker 2: But do you buy on the legitimacy of the Colts

1416
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Speaker 2: and the Patriots currently the top two seeds in the AFC.

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Speaker 5: It is pretty sick right, Like time is a flat circle.

1418
01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 5: The Colts and the Patriots are at the top of

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Speaker 5: the AFC. It's like it's two thousand and six all

1420
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Speaker 5: over again. To varying degrees. I mean, I think both

1421
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Speaker 5: teams are are legitimately good teams. I buy the Colts

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Speaker 5: as a real contender a little bit more because I

1423
01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:39,280
Speaker 5: just think there's so much there. I mean, the infrastructure

1424
01:09:39,280 --> 01:09:42,280
Speaker 5: of the Colts offense is so impressive. They have one

1425
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:44,400
Speaker 5: of the best offensive lines in football. Those guys are

1426
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Speaker 5: playing out of their minds. Jonathan Taylor is reminding everybody

1427
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Speaker 5: that he is one of the very best backs in football.

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Speaker 5: I've said this a couple times. I mean, not taking

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Speaker 5: any credit away from Sakuon Barkley or Derrick Henry and

1430
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Speaker 5: those guys were amazing last year, but Jonathan Taylor has

1431
01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:01,960
Speaker 5: showed many times over his career that he's in that

1432
01:10:02,040 --> 01:10:05,600
Speaker 5: category of back and he just needed a guy like

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Speaker 5: Daniel Jones to come along and unlock the full potential

1434
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Speaker 5: of the Colts offense. And I mean they're deep at

1435
01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:13,639
Speaker 5: at receiver. They go like one to five at receiver.

1436
01:10:13,840 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 5: Tyler Warren is a candidate for Offensive Rookie of the Year.

1437
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Speaker 5: So even though the defense is it's not elite, it's

1438
01:10:21,080 --> 01:10:23,160
Speaker 5: certainly not bad, but it's not elite. I just think

1439
01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:27,360
Speaker 5: the depth and the versatility of that offense gives me

1440
01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:29,800
Speaker 5: a lot of confidence that this is not a mirage.

1441
01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:32,559
Speaker 5: And that's not to say anything too bad about the Patriots.

1442
01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:35,120
Speaker 5: I just think I think that Patriots it's a lot

1443
01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:38,640
Speaker 5: more about Drake May just ascending into being one of

1444
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:41,240
Speaker 5: the very best young quarterbacks in football. You know, they

1445
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:44,560
Speaker 5: don't run the ball particularly well. Their offensive line is

1446
01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 5: promising but not a finished product. The pass catchers have

1447
01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:50,840
Speaker 5: been good, but I don't think they're as good as

1448
01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:52,960
Speaker 5: the Colts, like all the way down their depth chart,

1449
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:56,360
Speaker 5: so there's not as much there for me to get

1450
01:10:56,400 --> 01:10:59,080
Speaker 5: excited about other than the fact that the quarterback is incredible.

1451
01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:01,439
Speaker 5: Don't get me wrong. I mean, I'm buying all the

1452
01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:05,640
Speaker 5: Drake maystock that I can, but I do think eventually

1453
01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:07,559
Speaker 5: the culture or excuse me, the Pats are going to

1454
01:11:07,600 --> 01:11:10,000
Speaker 5: run up in a situation where they need a little

1455
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:12,360
Speaker 5: bit more than just Drake May playing out of his mind.

1456
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Speaker 5: So I mean, I think they're both very good. I

1457
01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:16,840
Speaker 5: think I saw this week that they both have better

1458
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:19,840
Speaker 5: than a ninety percent chance to make the postseason. But

1459
01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:22,200
Speaker 5: as far as doing more than that, I'm a little

1460
01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:23,240
Speaker 5: bit higher on the Colts.

1461
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Speaker 1: As someone who fell in love with Drake May in

1462
01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 1: the pre draft process before he was drafted, very happy

1463
01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:34,720
Speaker 1: for his success, but I do agree that I think

1464
01:11:34,760 --> 01:11:37,080
Speaker 1: the Colts are just a little farther along. We can't

1465
01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:41,080
Speaker 1: let you go, Dave, though without talking about your alma mater.

1466
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Speaker 1: We talked about it earlier in the show.

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Speaker 5: Are you sure, yes?

1468
01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:48,320
Speaker 1: I know, I need, I need, I need, I need

1469
01:11:48,360 --> 01:11:50,919
Speaker 1: you on record talking about LSU football?

1470
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Speaker 4: What how?

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Speaker 1: What do they do? Where did they go from here?

1472
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:57,639
Speaker 1: Is the governor of Louisiana going to be the one

1473
01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:03,679
Speaker 1: to hire make these like monumental hires at LSU?

1474
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:07,439
Speaker 5: I just I just want somebody at LSU to act

1475
01:12:07,479 --> 01:12:10,960
Speaker 5: like an adult. That's really, That's all I got for you.

1476
01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:14,559
Speaker 5: I mean, the situation with the governor is ridiculous, and

1477
01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:18,360
Speaker 5: I wouldn't blame a coach for taking a look at

1478
01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:20,960
Speaker 5: that and saying, ooh, do I really want to walk

1479
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:24,720
Speaker 5: into this toxic mess of a situation a swamp if

1480
01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:29,000
Speaker 5: you will, pardon the pun. But at the same time,

1481
01:12:29,080 --> 01:12:32,479
Speaker 5: I mean, look, LSU, Louisiana kirk Kapita is one of

1482
01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:34,439
Speaker 5: the most talent rich states in the country. I mean,

1483
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:37,719
Speaker 5: it's not Texas or Florida, but considering there's only four

1484
01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:39,880
Speaker 5: million people in the state, there's a hell of a

1485
01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:43,200
Speaker 5: lot of good football players there, and it's a school

1486
01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:47,720
Speaker 5: that you know, they we've come to expect excellence, not

1487
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:50,600
Speaker 5: just like the fan base, but like the boosters and

1488
01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:52,720
Speaker 5: the power structure. I mean, people are at LSU are

1489
01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:55,240
Speaker 5: admitted to the football team being good. You're going to

1490
01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:58,879
Speaker 5: have resources, You're going to have the money to acquire

1491
01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:02,000
Speaker 5: talent and the access to talent. I think it's still

1492
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:05,360
Speaker 5: a very desirable job. I'm not freaking out too much

1493
01:13:05,439 --> 01:13:08,960
Speaker 5: about the nonsense this week. I think that'll die down

1494
01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:12,160
Speaker 5: as LSU hires a new president and a new athletic

1495
01:13:12,200 --> 01:13:14,479
Speaker 5: director to go along with that. But I need that

1496
01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:17,200
Speaker 5: to happen sooner rather than later. I need I need

1497
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:19,400
Speaker 5: an adult to step into the room and say, hey,

1498
01:13:19,840 --> 01:13:22,760
Speaker 5: we're gonna shut all of this bickering and nonsense down

1499
01:13:22,800 --> 01:13:25,840
Speaker 5: and focus on hiring a good football coach. And I

1500
01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:29,040
Speaker 5: think that'll happen. But man, I'm really tired of seeing

1501
01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:31,200
Speaker 5: LSU in the news for the wrong reasons over the

1502
01:13:31,280 --> 01:13:31,920
Speaker 5: last week or so.

1503
01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:36,400
Speaker 1: Who do you got tonight? The world's serious game? Seven?

1504
01:13:36,479 --> 01:13:36,920
Speaker 1: Real quick?

1505
01:13:38,040 --> 01:13:40,320
Speaker 5: I mean this is just I'm a petty fan, but

1506
01:13:40,840 --> 01:13:43,519
Speaker 5: the Blue Jays knocked my Mariners out, so I want

1507
01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:47,400
Speaker 5: to see the Dodgers lift the trophy. I'd rather, you know,

1508
01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:49,599
Speaker 5: I'm used to the Dodgers being great. I don't want

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Speaker 5: the team that beat my team to win.

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Speaker 2: What senseisees the Mariners losing.

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01:13:56,960 --> 01:13:58,920
Speaker 3: It's like, okay, but we lost to the team that

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01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:00,160
Speaker 3: won the World's See.

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01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:03,000
Speaker 1: I've had this conversation with him. There's no saving him.

1514
01:14:03,080 --> 01:14:03,679
Speaker 1: He's petty.

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01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:06,040
Speaker 5: If my team, if my team can't be happy, then

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01:14:06,080 --> 01:14:06,800
Speaker 5: I don't want the team.

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01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:08,760
Speaker 2: And how could you be the fan of the only

1518
01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:10,960
Speaker 2: team that's never been to a World Series?

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01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 7: That was That.

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01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:15,080
Speaker 5: Was a bad choice made by eight year old me,

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01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:16,200
Speaker 5: But I'm thinking by it.

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01:14:17,160 --> 01:14:19,519
Speaker 1: Growing up in Louisiana, he didn't have He had Ken

1523
01:14:19,600 --> 01:14:22,080
Speaker 1: Giffrey Junior to watch, and that's that's what he wanted

1524
01:14:22,120 --> 01:14:23,840
Speaker 1: to That's what he wanted to do. Dave, thank you

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01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:28,320
Speaker 1: so much for joining us today. Thanks for suffering through

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01:14:28,320 --> 01:14:34,320
Speaker 1: the LSU conversation. Talk to you. Uh yeah, so he's

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01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:37,120
Speaker 1: he is he He grew up idolizing Ken Griffy Junior,

1528
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:39,120
Speaker 1: became a Mariners fan, so now he doesn't want the

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01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:40,559
Speaker 1: Blue Jays to wait.

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01:14:40,439 --> 01:14:42,880
Speaker 2: He's all over the map.

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01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:44,960
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, growing up in New Orleans, you don't

1532
01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:47,080
Speaker 1: have a baseball team, so you gotta go pick one.

1533
01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:50,160
Speaker 1: So he did. But during the this MLB post season,

1534
01:14:50,200 --> 01:14:51,960
Speaker 1: by the way, Strauss made history is the first brand

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01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:54,919
Speaker 1: ever on the helmets work. We're built to perform smart

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01:14:54,960 --> 01:14:57,880
Speaker 1: pocket design, real comfort and durability from great to glory.

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Speaker 1: Gear up today at Strauss dot com st r a

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01:15:00,160 --> 01:15:04,280
Speaker 1: uss dot com. We will be back for our final

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01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:08,280
Speaker 1: segment of Fox Football Saturday. That time flies, especially when

1540
01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:12,160
Speaker 1: you're having fun. Uh, stay tuned, keep it locked right

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01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:14,679
Speaker 1: here for more Fox Football Saturday. On the other side,

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01:15:14,840 --> 01:15:15,639
Speaker 1: did did did?

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01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:15,760
Speaker 2: Do?

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01:15:16,479 --> 01:15:18,760
Speaker 1: My God? I love this song. This song was on

1545
01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:22,439
Speaker 1: the Power Rangers movie soundtrack. You guys, that's where I

1546
01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:25,880
Speaker 1: first got Wow. Uh, I think it was or no,

1547
01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:30,800
Speaker 1: it was The Batman Forever, one of those movies Space Jam.

1548
01:15:32,640 --> 01:15:33,400
Speaker 1: I was so wrong.

1549
01:15:33,760 --> 01:15:38,800
Speaker 2: The original Space Jam, the Lebron Space Jam is one

1550
01:15:38,800 --> 01:15:41,760
Speaker 2: of the most painful movie experiences that I have ever

1551
01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:42,680
Speaker 2: suffered through it.

1552
01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:44,320
Speaker 1: It's really it was.

1553
01:15:44,400 --> 01:15:47,040
Speaker 3: It was really so bad.

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01:15:47,240 --> 01:15:49,160
Speaker 1: I think there was a nostalgic fast or too to

1555
01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:51,320
Speaker 1: the original Space Jam, which I absolutely loved. Obviously, growing

1556
01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:55,719
Speaker 1: up in Chicago Hughes Michael Jordan, bulls person fan everything,

1557
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:58,280
Speaker 1: I grew up thinking it was the National Bowls Association

1558
01:15:58,479 --> 01:16:00,000
Speaker 1: because they were in the championship every year.

1559
01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:02,519
Speaker 2: Do you know that Lebron will never play another game

1560
01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:06,520
Speaker 2: for the Lakers.

1561
01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:11,000
Speaker 1: That's that's on Steve's that's me, Steve. I was gonna say, well,

1562
01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:15,639
Speaker 1: this Saya never playing Patrick Mahomes never playing another Super Bowl.

1563
01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:16,639
Speaker 1: Lebron is never playing another.

1564
01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:21,240
Speaker 2: This mystery ailment that Lebron is suffering through right now

1565
01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:25,400
Speaker 2: is is basically all sides trying to figure out what's

1566
01:16:25,439 --> 01:16:28,080
Speaker 2: the next move is basically, And now that Mark Walter

1567
01:16:28,240 --> 01:16:32,360
Speaker 2: has officially taken over as the owner of the Lakers,

1568
01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:36,200
Speaker 2: he's not going to put up with this nonsense. So

1569
01:16:36,240 --> 01:16:39,320
Speaker 2: something's going to happen soon. But yeah, Lebron's never going

1570
01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:40,479
Speaker 2: to play for the Lakers again.

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01:16:40,760 --> 01:16:43,960
Speaker 1: You guys heard it here first coming up in about

1572
01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:49,000
Speaker 1: twelve ish minutes. You know him, you love him. Maybe

1573
01:16:49,560 --> 01:16:51,639
Speaker 1: you get Buck Rising and you get Jason Fence, two

1574
01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:53,559
Speaker 1: guys that happened to know very well, happen to love

1575
01:16:53,600 --> 01:16:55,000
Speaker 1: And if you ask me that again, I'll deny it.

1576
01:16:55,479 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: They'll take you into the early evening on this lovely Saturday,

1577
01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:03,200
Speaker 1: we're getting ready for a Game seven of the World Series.

1578
01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:07,000
Speaker 1: And during this MLB POS season, Strauss has made history

1579
01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:09,559
Speaker 1: as the first brand ever on the helmets work where

1580
01:17:09,720 --> 01:17:13,240
Speaker 1: Builts performed smart pocket design, real comfort and durability from

1581
01:17:13,280 --> 01:17:15,559
Speaker 1: grant to glory gear up today at Strauss dot com

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01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:18,120
Speaker 1: s t R A U S S dot com. I

1583
01:17:18,120 --> 01:17:20,000
Speaker 1: feel like I don't have to ask you this, Steve,

1584
01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:21,439
Speaker 1: who you got tonight?

1585
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:22,479
Speaker 4: Well?

1586
01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:25,160
Speaker 2: Again, as I said at the very top of the show,

1587
01:17:26,439 --> 01:17:30,799
Speaker 2: baseball needs not just the Dodgers to win. They need

1588
01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:35,559
Speaker 2: Shohei Otani to have another one of those nights, you know,

1589
01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:39,040
Speaker 2: like three home runs, ten strikeout nights, or you know,

1590
01:17:39,160 --> 01:17:42,920
Speaker 2: reach base nine times in a Game seven of the

1591
01:17:42,920 --> 01:17:43,679
Speaker 2: World Series.

1592
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:46,639
Speaker 1: Potentially, Is he gonna do it? Is he gonna do it? Though?

1593
01:17:48,640 --> 01:17:49,800
Speaker 1: Do you think he's gonna have that night?

1594
01:17:50,160 --> 01:17:51,920
Speaker 2: Okay, let me let me close my eyes for a

1595
01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:53,360
Speaker 2: second here. I don't want to take a lot of

1596
01:17:53,360 --> 01:17:55,280
Speaker 2: time on this. I'm just gonna try to get a feel.

1597
01:17:57,439 --> 01:18:02,519
Speaker 2: Absolutely he's gonna do it. Oh, because Bo's with bo Is.

1598
01:18:02,560 --> 01:18:05,439
Speaker 2: There's no bigger Dodger fan than Bo and Bo.

1599
01:18:06,160 --> 01:18:07,160
Speaker 3: You feel it right?

1600
01:18:07,280 --> 01:18:07,439
Speaker 1: Like?

1601
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:12,880
Speaker 2: This is going to be the exclamation point on what

1602
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:17,519
Speaker 2: has already been the most unique career in Major League history.

1603
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:19,400
Speaker 3: Game seven World Series.

1604
01:18:19,080 --> 01:18:23,439
Speaker 2: Pitching, hitting, This is the exclamation point for showy O.

1605
01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:23,720
Speaker 3: Tom.

1606
01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:26,720
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's it's interesting that this game found itself in

1607
01:18:26,760 --> 01:18:28,760
Speaker 9: Oi's hands, Like that's the only way this was ever

1608
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:30,599
Speaker 9: going to go is goes.

1609
01:18:30,760 --> 01:18:34,719
Speaker 3: It has to deliver, it has to and it will.

1610
01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:39,920
Speaker 1: Right Sorry jays fans, No, I mean, like I said,

1611
01:18:40,200 --> 01:18:42,040
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, story I mean, the stage is

1612
01:18:42,120 --> 01:18:46,920
Speaker 1: just set so perfectly for this to be that story book.

1613
01:18:47,080 --> 01:18:53,400
Speaker 2: It has to happen, Carmen. The script has been written

1614
01:18:54,680 --> 01:18:56,800
Speaker 2: and this is it. It's not going to be just

1615
01:18:56,880 --> 01:18:59,760
Speaker 2: a shot of victory. It's going to be a historic

1616
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:00,800
Speaker 2: night for show.

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01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:05,840
Speaker 1: Hey, o'tani, Truly, you couldn't write a better situation, Like

1618
01:19:05,880 --> 01:19:10,520
Speaker 1: you couldn't write better drama, better, a better lineup. You couldn't.

1619
01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:13,360
Speaker 1: You just you couldn't. You couldn't. Then, so it has

1620
01:19:13,439 --> 01:19:15,600
Speaker 1: to go the way you wanted to go and the

1621
01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:16,400
Speaker 1: way you want it to end.

1622
01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:20,000
Speaker 9: I am now deeply concerned, though, because Steve always picks incorrectly.

1623
01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:23,439
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, So think about this alright, Max

1624
01:19:23,479 --> 01:19:25,920
Speaker 2: Schurzer has already given up a home run to show he.

1625
01:19:27,600 --> 01:19:30,040
Speaker 4: So we know we know that that.

1626
01:19:30,120 --> 01:19:33,040
Speaker 2: Is very much in the mix, like lead off home

1627
01:19:33,160 --> 01:19:35,360
Speaker 2: run boom right off the bat show.

1628
01:19:35,360 --> 01:19:38,960
Speaker 9: Hey, o'dani, I mean I personally would love this game

1629
01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:40,800
Speaker 9: needs to go two ways. For my heart, it either

1630
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:43,720
Speaker 9: needs to go six run first sitting for the Dodgers

1631
01:19:43,800 --> 01:19:45,599
Speaker 9: or six run first sitting for the Blue Jays so

1632
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:49,480
Speaker 9: that I can move on with my life. I cannot handle.

1633
01:19:51,560 --> 01:19:54,880
Speaker 2: Drama, and especially the way the umpire has been working

1634
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:58,200
Speaker 2: this series, that the strike zone is all over the place.

1635
01:19:58,120 --> 01:20:01,360
Speaker 1: The series that has already seen an eighteen inning game.

1636
01:20:02,160 --> 01:20:04,559
Speaker 1: This is not this is the you better, You better

1637
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:07,320
Speaker 1: buckle up, bo. That's all I have to say. Yeah,

1638
01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:11,640
Speaker 1: we're gonna, we're gonna, We're all gonna be glued to

1639
01:20:11,680 --> 01:20:15,960
Speaker 1: the television screen and I'm very excited about it. I

1640
01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 1: want to get to very quickly. Just something that made

1641
01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:19,880
Speaker 1: me laugh this week, because I think we all need

1642
01:20:19,880 --> 01:20:22,280
Speaker 1: a little more laughter in our lives these days. My

1643
01:20:22,439 --> 01:20:28,559
Speaker 1: LOL moment of the week. It being Halloween yesterday, obviously

1644
01:20:28,600 --> 01:20:30,200
Speaker 1: there were a lot of fun things happening. A bunch

1645
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:33,920
Speaker 1: of teams did different things aid the other. Dan Campbell

1646
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:37,320
Speaker 1: let it split head coach with the Detroit Lions that

1647
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:41,040
Speaker 1: he one time dressed up as Marilyn Monroe when he

1648
01:20:41,240 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 1: was during his playing days, and his wife Holly doing

1649
01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:50,479
Speaker 1: the lord's work. Then posted photographic evidence of Dan Campbell

1650
01:20:50,840 --> 01:20:55,040
Speaker 1: dressed up as Marilyn Monroe, multiple photos. It was incredible,

1651
01:20:55,360 --> 01:20:59,959
Speaker 1: it was amazing. It made me lose my ever loving mind.

1652
01:21:00,280 --> 01:21:02,160
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Holly Campbell for bringing that all

1653
01:21:02,200 --> 01:21:02,799
Speaker 1: into our lives.

1654
01:21:02,960 --> 01:21:05,519
Speaker 3: Wow, I gotta check this out here.

1655
01:21:05,479 --> 01:21:07,400
Speaker 1: Big like six foot six Dan Campbell.

1656
01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:10,280
Speaker 3: That's not Marilyn Monroe. He just put a I mean

1657
01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:10,719
Speaker 3: he put.

1658
01:21:10,560 --> 01:21:12,599
Speaker 1: A wig up, but he was wearing a dress. We

1659
01:21:12,640 --> 01:21:14,840
Speaker 1: love this, We love that kind of masculinity. Man, you

1660
01:21:14,840 --> 01:21:16,960
Speaker 1: can wear a dress, you can do whatever. All right,

1661
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:19,679
Speaker 1: you guys, You guys, have a great rest of your day.

1662
01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:23,160
Speaker 1: Tune in for the World Series. It's gonna be a

1663
01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:24,320
Speaker 1: great one. We're out