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Speaker 1: the third quarter on Big Fox USC elimination game in

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Speaker 1: the College Football Playoff because i USC loses well at

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Speaker 1: six and three, they'll be out. They lead Northwestern right now,

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Speaker 1: twenty one to fourteen. If you have the over in

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Speaker 1: this game, you're feeling pretty good right now. I believe

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon has the over, even though he hasn't really

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you got to keep some things under wraps. No,

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Speaker 4: no need for everybody to live and die. I mean,

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Speaker 4: why do you think I was really upset when the

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Speaker 4: defensive line had the ball lodged, just lodged by the

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Speaker 4: quarterback diving in Is I.

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Speaker 1: At any time Northwestern defensive touchdown?

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Speaker 4: And I got that ripped out of my arms, stolen,

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Speaker 4: stole a piece of my soul along the way. No,

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Speaker 4: I mean, thirty five points in the first half, highly entertaining,

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Speaker 4: a lot of o fens, some trick plays, right, You

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Speaker 4: got the punter throwing a pass lefty. You got a

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Speaker 4: little bit of everything, as we've mentioned over over the

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Speaker 4: course of this one. A lot of luminaries out in

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Speaker 4: Los Angeles, and yeah, pretty exciting. Stone only seventy six

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Speaker 4: passing yards in the first half. He'll have to pick

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Speaker 4: it up. His name is Preston Stone Casting you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well we were named a stone. You have to

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Speaker 1: be good, right, Like you have to be really like

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Speaker 1: what who was the linebacker for notre name Mike stone

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Speaker 1: breakstone Breaker? Sure, ye, i'd bean like, you have to

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Speaker 1: be a superstar if your name is stone Breaker, had

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Speaker 1: to be like the most physical linebacker. You have to

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Speaker 1: you're not great in your name is stone Breaker, you

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Speaker 1: got problems?

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Speaker 4: No, I did, right, It's Burgy onto greatness. It's like,

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Speaker 4: you know, giving your kid a first name that kind

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Speaker 4: of tells the profession. Because it's a family show and

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Speaker 1: Yeah no, but you know what I mean, really, just

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Speaker 1: a great book by this author, Florence Knapp, called The Names.

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Speaker 1: It's come out. It's a big it's a big hit.

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Speaker 4: Seems really interesting twins in naming them Maximus and Minimus.

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Speaker 1: Especially well, if your name is sergeant, I gotta respect

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for a long time, but people.

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Speaker 4: anybody I've met that goes by Chuck or Charles, they've

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Speaker 4: So I approach all of them with great skepticism in

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Speaker 4: I don't the man?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean he's I don't know Charles Barkley.

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Speaker 4: I'm talking about in my life.

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Speaker 1: He's been in the public eye for thirty five but

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Speaker 4: I mean, I gotta think he's probably on the good side,

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Speaker 3: Don't know, all right, all right, he could be evil.

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Speaker 1: We have more NFL coming up in a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: Pete fu Tech again. College football News insider joins us

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Speaker 1: next hour on the show. But a couple of big

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Speaker 1: the big ones for thirty game on ABC LSU and

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Speaker 1: number four Alabama.

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Speaker 3: Now, you would think that Brian Kelly would have.

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Speaker 4: Soon well that we've seen a coach that got dismissed

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Speaker 4: you a story about Brian Kelly. Yeah, oh yeah, okay, remorse.

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Speaker 1: There's been no buyer's remorse or Brian Kelly, none at all,

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Speaker 1: absolutely not. But I'll tell you this about Alabata. We

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Speaker 1: what is his buyout? He can't win big games. We

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Speaker 1: And here they are now. Now the guy can do

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Speaker 1: you what else. Everything is gonna come up. Ty Simpson's

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Speaker 1: gonna win the Heisman Trophy. Right we we could talk

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Speaker 1: about the pro prospects of Mendoza and Dante Moore, who

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Speaker 1: he's that third guy, as you talked a few minutes ago.

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Speaker 1: He's that third guy right there with them. And you

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Speaker 1: college football wise, he's gonna win the Heisman Trophy because

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Speaker 1: he has the storyline. He's got Alabama back into prominence.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna play big games the rest of the season,

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Speaker 1: right because it's Alabama Fanana Mendoza. Yeah, one is big

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Speaker 1: game against Dante more but it's not like the guys

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Speaker 1: The Heisman is usually a stats award, right, it's usually

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Speaker 1: a big you look at stats, but this year nobody

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now. I know he's second or

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 4: Current leader in the clubhouse is Julian Saying twenty one

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Speaker 4: He is currently at plus one fifty, Mendoza at plus

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Speaker 4: then Marcel Reid is at plus six point fifty. He's

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Speaker 4: got seventeen touchdowns against six picks. Yeah, that's where we're

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Speaker 3: Not a great not a great year, Bob.

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Speaker 4: You know who's that great year? Ready?

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Speaker 3: This is Steve Anngelli with six touchdowns.

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Speaker 4: But look at that plus one fifty plus two thirty

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Speaker 4: on the board Stockton and Lolurimiah Smith. Yeah exactly, they're

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Speaker 4: both thirty to one. Yeah, that's how big that gap is.

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Speaker 1: Board, it's not a great year. It's not a great

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Speaker 1: year for the Heisman Trophy. And once in a while,

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Speaker 1: when when you don't have the stats, it comes to

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Speaker 1: leadership big teams, and look, Ohio State's not playing anybody, right,

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Speaker 1: how big is the win over Texas?

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Speaker 3: Is it really big?

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Speaker 1: And Julian Sayan did not play great in that game.

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Speaker 1: It's not like he's I can't play. He's only the

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Speaker 1: favorite because Ohio State's number one. So knowing that, that's

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Speaker 1: the end of the year, it's going to be Simpson.

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Speaker 4: Sure, I'd like to spank your bald head and lick it.

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Speaker 1: Uh, it's been well, let's say it hasn't been a

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Speaker 4: That sure make it jerk. That's a trick we could

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Speaker 1: you're upset about that.

436
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Speaker 4: Well, she's there as a fan, Okay, all right, he's

437
00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:29,919
Speaker 4: just a guy, all right, He's not there as a

438
00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,679
Speaker 4: fan of football. He's just I'm a fan of football.

439
00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:35,119
Speaker 4: I celebrate it all.

440
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Speaker 1: He might be taking over for Lincoln Riley if Lincoln

441
00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:45,080
Speaker 1: h so being a football Friday. A lot more college

442
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,000
Speaker 1: football coming up in a bit, but a couple more

443
00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:50,879
Speaker 1: big games this week in the NFL. And it's weird

444
00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,320
Speaker 1: because you wouldn't think this beginning of the year, but

445
00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,880
Speaker 1: maybe the game of the week. Obviously, we talked about

446
00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,440
Speaker 1: Rams forty nine ers, big game last time, But suddenly

447
00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:06,400
Speaker 1: the Patriots and the Bucks is a big game, maybe

448
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:10,080
Speaker 1: the biggest game of the week. And again, didn't have

449
00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:11,840
Speaker 1: that on my Bengo card beginning of the season.

450
00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a fun one, right. Certainly you've said your

451
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,919
Speaker 4: piece about Drake may and the schedule that they've played

452
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 4: to date. Look, you can only beat who's on it.

453
00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,399
Speaker 4: When we talk about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It's been

454
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,240
Speaker 4: a mass unit, still waiting for a lot of those

455
00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,919
Speaker 4: top notch and top flight players to get back on

456
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:33,000
Speaker 4: the field. But Baker Mayfield certainly has provided a lot

457
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:37,159
Speaker 4: of thrilling finishes throughout the year. So we'll see rubber

458
00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,480
Speaker 4: meets the road here for the Patriots, right to step

459
00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,439
Speaker 4: up in class on the road in a big spot.

460
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:45,360
Speaker 3: So this is.

461
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Speaker 1: Where New England finally plays a good team finally, right, Okay,

462
00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:52,760
Speaker 1: the Bills were good, they won that game, Okay, five whatever, Yes, yes, yes,

463
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 1: let's let's play hang it all on that one game.

464
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,239
Speaker 1: Every other team you have played stinks. Every team you

465
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,480
Speaker 1: play after this stinks. Every body stinks. It's the easiest

466
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 1: schedule in the NFL in years. I still can't get

467
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,159
Speaker 1: over this with the Patriots. Oh, they finally play a

468
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,720
Speaker 1: good team and they're finally gonna lose. Right, Tampa Bay

469
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,960
Speaker 1: is at home, coming off a bye. They've had time

470
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:16,680
Speaker 1: to fix what's gone a little off over the course

471
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Speaker 1: of the past couple of weeks. Right, Baker Mayfield was

472
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,760
Speaker 1: out to an MVP type start, kind of hit the

473
00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:23,800
Speaker 1: skids a little bit. And now, obviously you can only go

474
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,560
Speaker 1: so far when you keep losing wide receivers and and

475
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:28,800
Speaker 1: and and you're saying, hey, Keyshan, can you come back

476
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 1: and play? You know, John Gruden's not here anymore.

477
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:33,639
Speaker 4: He was on the sideline. He's he's looking tight, endish,

478
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:35,120
Speaker 4: you're gonna you're good.

479
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:36,680
Speaker 3: That's okay, Hey, that's okay again.

480
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:43,159
Speaker 1: And no where you go, you lose Bucky Irving, who

481
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 1: is a really big weapon. And and early in the

482
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:49,640
Speaker 1: season you could see he was Baker mayfield security blanket.

483
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,240
Speaker 1: How many times in big drives did Mayfield make the

484
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,000
Speaker 1: right call checking it down Irving is open and he

485
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 1: gains ten or fifteen yards. Missing him has been a thing.

486
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Speaker 1: But now they've had a week to get healthy, to

487
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:02,960
Speaker 1: get ready, and this is gonna be one of those

488
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield chip on his shoulder games. I gotta play

489
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:08,639
Speaker 1: well coming out of this. You know he's gonna come

490
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,359
Speaker 1: out and play like his hair is on fire.

491
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Speaker 3: I have.

492
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,200
Speaker 1: I have a great, big projection for him this week.

493
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 1: I think he's a top three fantasy quarterback this week. Overall,

494
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 1: their defense gets after New England enough, and I see

495
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,800
Speaker 1: this as a game where, hey, New England's stay is close,

496
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: but Tampa Bay pulls away and wins this by double digits.

497
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,679
Speaker 1: Huge game for Baker Mayfield and Tampa gives the Patriots

498
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,600
Speaker 1: a much deserved l as a good team that they

499
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,919
Speaker 1: finally play and they lose to there.

500
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Speaker 4: Can you take the Jets hat off now there? That's

501
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 4: fine because that's all that was a lot of no

502
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 4: lies right there?

503
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:50,639
Speaker 1: No lies, no lies, no lies, no lies detected there again,

504
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 1: Buccaneers giving up the schedule two zero point three per

505
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:55,879
Speaker 1: game the Jets.

506
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Speaker 3: If the Jets, if the Jets had the schedule, they

507
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 3: would be like three and six. Man, come on, that's.

508
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 4: So easy, you're I mean, look, that takes you out

509
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:08,400
Speaker 4: of the running for whatever quarterback was your favorite. If

510
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 4: you agree with what I'm with, it's like I go

511
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 4: to the other position players and I backfill the quarterback

512
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 4: out of this class. All fine young individuals, but I

513
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 4: don't think you have that true number one difference maker.

514
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 4: But we'll see. We still have a lot of football

515
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 4: to play. Buccaneers given up twenty two to three per

516
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,919
Speaker 4: game New England at eighteen point eight. When we talk

517
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 4: about defensive aciman, can you get after it? Front seven?

518
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 4: Rashad White will be the guy out of the backfield

519
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,399
Speaker 4: once again. Bucky Irving is out. No return for Chris

520
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 4: Godwin yet obviously Mike Evans lost for the year. So

521
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 4: for Abuka and the other receivers, imperative to try to

522
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 4: create separation on the edges. And that's been a tough spot,

523
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 4: right That's where New England has been good. And this

524
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 4: is what we have to try to figure out. What's

525
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 4: the noise what's the noise factor of the schedule versus

526
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 4: guys you know, just taking care of business. How about

527
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 4: yet about that? You know you can only play who's

528
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 4: on the schedule, buddy, So no, I know that.

529
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 3: I know.

530
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 1: I'm not saying no, no, no, Listen, you say that

531
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: all the time, and I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm

532
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 1: not saying but they're scared, they're they're impact and how

533
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 1: good they are, they're overrated because they again, you gotta

534
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 1: beat somebody who's good. You can't just keep beating how

535
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 1: many I can't believe every team they play has zero

536
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 1: or one or two wins this year. And again they

537
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 1: haven't played the Jets once yet. Then they get the

538
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,239
Speaker 1: Jets after they trade away their two best defensive players. Like,

539
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 1: I mean, they still have the Jets twice in Miami

540
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,199
Speaker 1: once they might get home field advantage of the AFC,

541
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: and the total record of the teams they are playing

542
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: against is gonna be like nine one hundred and seventy

543
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 1: five strength.

544
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 4: The schedule is three fifty eight for the remainder of

545
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 4: the season.

546
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Speaker 3: I mean, come on, what is it? Up until now?

547
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 4: I have not done that calculation that was mainly but

548
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 4: since I mean just looking forward. But this is an

549
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,400
Speaker 4: option like outside of Abuka, Like that's the curiosity right

550
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 4: in the receiving course, Sterling, shit, that's gonna make the

551
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 4: big play for you. I think Drake may will certain

552
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 4: to see a little more continuity with the receivers. And yeah,

553
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,160
Speaker 4: you hang a little bit of a grain of salt

554
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,239
Speaker 4: wat Tampa Bay two and a half point favorites at

555
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 4: home forty eight and a half. That's a little so

556
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 4: expecting some fireworks in this one. Would not be surprised

557
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 4: to see a massive effort out a Baker Mayfield and

558
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 4: a celebration. But I'm gonna go the other way. I'm

559
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 4: gonna say New England's defense is good enough to get

560
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 4: it done.

561
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 3: Oh boo boo.

562
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 1: Okay, you'll say, hey, I will say this, and I'll

563
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,880
Speaker 1: be fair. If they beat Tampa Bay, I will say, okay,

564
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 1: all right, you know what, Hey, they're legit. They beat

565
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, I will say, they're legit?

566
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 4: Are they wearing the bucko? Bruce Unis? Then I might

567
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 4: have to change my pick.

568
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 1: Now elsewhere And this is where again you're gonna love

569
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: me or hate me?

570
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 3: Giants and the Bears.

571
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you, man, I don't

572
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 1: know what to tell people that still, for some reason

573
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,640
Speaker 1: think that Caleb Williams isn't on the star path.

574
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 3: We told you he was on the star path earlier

575
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 3: this year. What else do you want him to do? Right?

576
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: I mean this is Chicago has become a complete team.

577
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 1: The running game is working great now, it's a full

578
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,919
Speaker 1: service offense. They scored forty seven in Roma Dunes. They

579
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: didn't even catch a pass. Caleb Williams is winning games

580
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,360
Speaker 1: at the end. He's taken him on long drives. He's

581
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: putting up big numbers. I don't know what else you

582
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 1: want from the guy. And I've told you the beginning

583
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: of the year it was gonna be the era of

584
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: good feeling for the Bears. It took Ben Johnson a

585
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,719
Speaker 1: couple of weeks to really kind of get going right,

586
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 1: to get used to what it's like to be an

587
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: NFL head coach. And the difference between him and Aaron

588
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 1: Glenn is that I've seen growth from Ben Johnson and

589
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn still is not throwing Hill Mary's at the

590
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 1: end of the first half.

591
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 3: No, no, no, don't want to put points on the board.

592
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: Let's just go to halftime. Let's just go to halftime.

593
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: So I've seen a lot of growth out of the Bears. Look,

594
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: the Bears are good right now. Are they top of

595
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: the league?

596
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 3: Good? No, that might be a year away. But are

597
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:58,719
Speaker 3: they playoff good? Yeah?

598
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: Again, their offense is full service. It doesn't it doesn't

599
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 1: matter if they're missing one guy out their out of

600
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: their weapons they have enough players to jump in right

601
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: to Cole Comet and Colton Lovelin. What's gonna happen. Cole

602
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 1: Comet can't play, Colton Loveland has the breakout game last week.

603
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: Maybe he's gonna wind up being the go to guy

604
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: when it's all said and done. But it's almost like

605
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 1: I feel like the Bears are like the Lions light,

606
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: where they have weapons all over. They have two good

607
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: running backs now and two good wide receivers and a

608
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:27,880
Speaker 1: good tight end.

609
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 5: Now.

610
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 1: If you want to go position by position with the

611
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 1: Lions and the Bears, the Lions have the little bit advantage.

612
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 1: So that's why I call them the Lions Light. But

613
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,959
Speaker 1: that's kind of where this Bears offense is. They are

614
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: gonna steamroll the Giants. Jackson Dart's gonna throw at a ton.

615
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: I love them in fantasy, but Chicago is more complete.

616
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: They are gonna thump the Giants and all of a sudden,

617
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a big Chicago. Hey.

618
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 3: I always knew you were a good party.

619
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: And remember we were on the Chicago Bears train much

620
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:54,239
Speaker 1: earlier than everybody else.

621
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Speaker 4: Yeah, when you look at it, still, you got an

622
00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 4: offense that's inconsistent, and he did what they needed to

623
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 4: against Cincinnati, and they put up a full forty seven.

624
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 4: When it's all said and done. Giants defense decent defensive front.

625
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 4: Perhaps we overrated them a little bit, but the back

626
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 4: seven certainly beatable. A Doonezale will have a big day here.

627
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 4: You're talking about DJ Moore got back in the good

628
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 4: graces of fantasy owners and Bears fans a week ago.

629
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 4: Comet had that pass completion before he got hurt, so't

630
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 4: forget that. But you know, when you look at the

631
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 4: tight end, who pretty much is another wide receiver out there,

632
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 4: the way you can line leveland up is a big

633
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,959
Speaker 4: deal for them, and they found their their back, you know.

634
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 4: And DeAndre Swift got downgraded personal plus injury, so you

635
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 4: push that down a little bit as well. But you're

636
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 4: you're looking at a balanced offense against a suspect defense.

637
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 4: Jackson Dartal may have his fantasy day, no question, because

638
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 4: they'll still run a bunch, so you'll get some of that,

639
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 4: but but none, guys. Two of the last three weeks.

640
00:29:59,080 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 3: He's been huge.

641
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 4: You'll have a another spot here against the Giants. Look

642
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 4: at them going away minus four and a half, easy score.

643
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 4: By the way, also a game that's gonna get weird,

644
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 4: supposed to be snow and wins up to thirty miles

645
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 4: an hour in Chicago.

646
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, it's gonna look great, man, I'll tell you.

647
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: Bears Bears Giants is always so much fun because that's

648
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: a that's a game that takes back.

649
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,719
Speaker 3: Really not many games take me back to the seventies.

650
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 1: But when you said, like Steelers Cowboys, Steelers Steelers Cowboys

651
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 1: takes me back to the seventies, Redskins Cowboys back to

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Speaker 1: the Redskins, not Commanders obviously takes back to the seventies.

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Speaker 1: Bears Giants also takes me back to the seventies.

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Speaker 4: No, that's it.

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Speaker 3: I mean a very few.

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Speaker 1: Matchup A lot of them take me back to the eighties,

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Speaker 1: some of the nineties, but there's just a few that

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Speaker 1: get me back to the seventies.

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Speaker 3: Bears Giants is one of them.

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Speaker 4: Or you circle back to the eighties, like we were

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Speaker 4: talking about a little bit last night with some of

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Speaker 4: the efforts I'm gonna use that word kindly, or maybe

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Speaker 4: with the sarcasm dripping of the punting game, because maybe

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Speaker 4: you want to cue a little Sean Lindett. You're at it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, so there's a couple of our picks from the

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Speaker 1: biggest games of the week. Wiff on the punt right there.

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Speaker 1: Time ow to find out what's trending in the wide

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Speaker 1: world of sports. But guy's wearing a bowling shirt to

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Speaker 1: work because he's going to seventies night after the show tonight.

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Speaker 3: Hey, it's Steve Desager.

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Speaker 6: By the way, we only almost had one of those

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Speaker 6: windy Lendetta punts last.

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Speaker 4: Night at Denver. Yeah, you would think that was consistently bad.

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Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 6: We have college football going out on Fox TV right

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Speaker 6: now at nineteenth rank USC The Trojan's lead is now

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Speaker 6: twenty eight seventeen against Northwestern in the final seconds of

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Speaker 6: the third quarter. Tulane is still leading at Memphis, final

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Speaker 6: minute of the third quarter thirty eight seventeen. Yeah, late

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Speaker 6: third at the Coliseum, Late third in Memphis. This is

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Speaker 6: worth noting because when we were on Tuesday night on

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Speaker 6: this show, we mentioned, Hey, we had the first college

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Speaker 6: football playoff rankings and Notre Dame is number ten, but

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Speaker 6: Texas and Oklahoma would each be out of the playoff

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Speaker 6: at eleven and number twelve. Right now, because Virginia number

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Speaker 6: fourteen in the country as acc Champ would get in

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Speaker 6: and Memphis, as the best of the group of five teams,

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Speaker 6: would get into the playoffs. Memphis eight and one, losing

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Speaker 6: at home thirty eight seventeen to Tulane late in the third.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you Penny Hardaway has some time to get

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Speaker 1: back into this one though.

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Speaker 3: Just wait, it just ended.

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Speaker 6: The thirty has less time now. Houston has taken the

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Speaker 6: lead thirty to twenty seven at UCF, which just over

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Speaker 6: two minutes to go on FS one. The forty nine

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Speaker 6: Ers will start quarterback Mac Jones again Sunday, hosting the Rams.

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Speaker 6: Tampa Bay running back Bucky Irving is out foot and

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Speaker 6: shoulder injuries. Patriots running back Ermandre Stevenson out again toe injury.

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Speaker 6: The Raiders fired special teams coach Tom McMahon as for

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Speaker 6: the two late games in the NBA. The Denver Nuggets

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Speaker 6: at home, leading Golden State late in the third eighty

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Speaker 6: three sixty nine for the Warrior. Steph Curry out due

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Speaker 6: to illness. So far from Nikola Jokic. In twenty five

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Speaker 6: minutes on the court for the Nuggets, he has twenty points,

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Speaker 6: nine rebounds, eight assists and just one turnover. Oklahoma City

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Speaker 6: is eight and one and leading at Sacramento eighty five

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Speaker 6: seventy six under five minutes to go. In the third.

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Speaker 6: Milwaukee beat a Chicago Bulls team that was six and

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Speaker 6: one one twenty six one ten as Janisantenacumpo scored forty

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Speaker 6: one points. At Minnesota, Anthony Edwards thirty seven points in

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Speaker 6: twenty six minutes. Minnesota beat Utah one thirty seven to

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Speaker 6: ninety seven. Cleveland ripped Washington one forty eight to one fourteen.

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Speaker 6: The Wizards are one in eight. Miami after the first quarter,

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Speaker 6: led Charlotte fifty three to thirty three. The heat winted

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Speaker 6: in a laugh for one twenty six to one oh

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Speaker 6: eight victories for Toronto and Memphis. For Orlando and San Antonio,

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Speaker 6: which ended Houston's five game winning streak. One twenty one,

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Speaker 6: one ten Detroit one. It's fifth in a row. One

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Speaker 6: twenty five, one oh seven at Brooklyn K. Cunningham thirty

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Speaker 6: four points. In college hoops, North Carolina beat Kansas number

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Speaker 6: one per Due You at home was tied at the

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Speaker 6: half against Oakland of Michigan, but did beat Oakland eighty

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Speaker 6: seven to seventy seven NHL wins for the Rangers and

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Speaker 6: Minnesota and in fact, in progress, Chicago leads late for

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Speaker 6: nothing at Ketlgary and Japanese third baseman Munataka Mirakami was

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Speaker 6: posted to start the process of free agency.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, Thank you, Steve though The Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: Show with Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios,

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Speaker 1: So we'll have more NFL on the way, two more

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Speaker 1: big games to preview in about twenty minutes. But straight ahead,

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Speaker 1: a trick play that I think even the most staunchest

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Speaker 1: of Lincoln Riley haters can get behind, something I think

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Speaker 1: we've only seen one other time in college football.

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Speaker 3: That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: We'll sign it and send it back.

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Speaker 1: Big Fox right now, Number nineteen USC on top of

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Speaker 1: Northwestern twenty eight seventeen, early in the fourth quarter again,

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Speaker 1: elimination game for USC and college football for the playoff.

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Speaker 3: It's a big week for that.

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Speaker 1: Teams with two losses, they wind up losing, that's kind

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Speaker 1: of it. But they're in control, they're driving. Looks like

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Speaker 1: they're gonna put another score on the board here and

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Speaker 1: clinch this game. However, there is a trick play from

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Speaker 1: earlier in this game that I really as as bad

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Speaker 1: as it's been for Lincoln Riley at USC and how

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Speaker 1: much everybody wants him out, I give him a lot

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Speaker 1: of credit for the fake punt that USC pulled off

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Speaker 1: early in the first half against Northwestern. It resulted in

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Speaker 1: extending their drive, which ended in a touchdown run by

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Speaker 1: jade Myiva. Here's the play by play, and then we're

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you how they pulled it off.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's a bank.

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Speaker 7: Sam Johnson gets it to Hines, it to a first down.

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Speaker 7: Sam Johnson's been at Bell Paraizo, Jackson State, Alabama and USC,

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Speaker 7: and little did they know in Indiana and down south

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Speaker 7: they could throw the.

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Speaker 3: Ball like this.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you're gonna watch to Nook Hines inside release, but

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Speaker 5: put the foot down, get back out and.

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Speaker 3: Look at this Diaz.

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Speaker 6: Oh my goodness, that punter said I could play quarterback too, baby.

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Speaker 3: Let's go. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Only one thing with that big fox on the call.

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Speaker 1: It was not USC punter Sam Johnson that may the throw.

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Speaker 1: But wait a minute, they know who Sam Johnson is,

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Speaker 1: Number eighty, he's the punter. A couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: USC took their third string quarterback Sam Hewart of the

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Speaker 1: Washington Hewards and gave him number eighty. He was listed

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Speaker 1: as number eighty on the UC roster for this week.

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Speaker 1: USC made the change really quietly. I'm sure, thinking he's

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Speaker 1: the third string quarterback. Is he really gonna play?

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Speaker 3: It's okay.

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Speaker 1: If he does, we're gonna put him in his number eighty,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna get a chance when it's time.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna pull off a fake punt.

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Speaker 1: So he's wearing the same number as Trojans punter Sam Johnson,

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Speaker 1: which of course is allowed in college football.

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Speaker 3: Right, you see this all the time.

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Speaker 1: No, there's a number one on offense, number one on defense, right,

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Speaker 1: because so many players this happens. So Sam Hewart is

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Speaker 1: the third string quarterback. He came out, threw that pass

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Speaker 1: atonook Hines. It was a dime right, I mean right

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Speaker 1: on the outside shoulder out of about ounce for a

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Speaker 1: first down and that extends the drive. It goes in

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Speaker 1: for a touchdown. He's a couple of inches shorter than Johnson.

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Speaker 1: Johnson's sixty three. Heward's like six' one ish or so.

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Speaker 1: But he comes off the feel, he takes off his

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Speaker 1: helmet high five Like, wait a minute, that's Sam Hewart.

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Speaker 1: That's not Sam Johnson. So again, this is some kind

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Speaker 1: of trick play. The amount of detail going into this

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Speaker 1: and keeping it quiet just to pull it out here

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Speaker 1: when they need it. That is a trick play, my friend.

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Speaker 1: There's all kinds of crazy. We're gonna do this, and

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Speaker 1: the guy's gonna pretend to leave the field and he's not.

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Speaker 1: And this guy's gonna hide the football, you know, in

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Speaker 1: his back and we're gonna make sure this guy's over it. No,

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Speaker 1: but this is some kind of trick play with planning.

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Speaker 1: I all hats off, whether it's Lincoln Riley or whatever

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Speaker 1: defensive coach, special teams coach came up with it. That

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Speaker 1: is some kind of trick play.

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Speaker 4: Spirit of the law, integrity, all of those things start

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Speaker 4: out the window, shit cannery, tom foolery. Hey, man, if

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Speaker 4: the rules are on the books, then allow you to

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Speaker 4: do such man. Yeah, I mean in the end, you

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Speaker 4: still have to defend it, and you failed.

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Speaker 3: Completely legal, completely legal play.

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Speaker 1: Last year, apparently Bowling Green pulled off a similar stunt

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Speaker 1: in the sixty eight Ventures Bowl where their third string

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Speaker 1: quarterback switches uniform number to a number very close to

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Speaker 1: the punters jersey but not the same, which I don't

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Speaker 1: know why you would be close but not the same.

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Speaker 1: And he came on the field he actually threw a

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Speaker 1: touchdown pass when they thought it was the punter and

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Speaker 1: it was a touchdown pass. So here's usc Maybe that

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Speaker 1: was where Lincoln Riley got it from. But that's a

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Speaker 1: fun play. To keep that quiet. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: know that I could like, no, no, no, no, I gotta

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Speaker 1: tell somebody we got this coming.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, I mean like you slipped that into

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Speaker 4: the into the rows, because I got to imagine it's

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Speaker 4: not going through some clearinghouse. I mean it's like, ah,

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Speaker 4: we just did this. They chose up on the roster card.

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Speaker 4: And whether Northwestern noticed that in the in the offing

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Speaker 4: or not, I'm gonna go out and limits of No,

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Speaker 4: they reacted to the pass route. But you know again,

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Speaker 4: you used to got to go play defense. So hats

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Speaker 4: off to him, either intestinal fortitude or desperation, whatever it works.

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Speaker 4: They got the touchdown and then and they're winning going away.

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Speaker 4: So uh now I'll celebrate something that is actually fun.

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Speaker 4: You know me, I'm not a huge marching band guy,

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Speaker 4: but if you can get Mick Fleetwood out there to

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Speaker 4: do some tusk and hang out with the USC marching band,

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Speaker 4: I can get on board that.

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Speaker 1: And when I say that Sam Hewart is of the

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Speaker 1: Washington Hewarts, yes he is Damon Hewart's son, Rock Hewart's nephew.

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Speaker 1: Like David Hewart, who who I think he was the quarterback,

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Speaker 1: didn't he didn't he take over? Hewart took over for Brunel.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm in that timeline. The other thing is he

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Speaker 4: used to work with Jason Bennetti, so failed by Benetti.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we take a look at two more

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Speaker 1: huge games in the NFL this week, and it's a

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Speaker 1: Big Football Friday.

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Speaker 3: We're only halfway done, Fox