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Speaker 1: This is straight fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is upre fam, It's me Jason McIntyre, straight bowyer

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Speaker 2: for Wednesday, December the third, and on a night with

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Speaker 2: pretty decent college basketball. Seriously, not bad. The biggest story

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Speaker 2: is college football. Now we will get into oh boy,

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Speaker 2: JJ Reddick versus lebron The Lakers are fifteen to five.

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Speaker 2: I need to preface that anytime I mentioned this as

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Speaker 2: potential drama. But it is fascinating what happened in the

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Speaker 2: game against the Suns on Monday night that was only

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Speaker 2: becoming a story on Tuesday wasn't a story of the

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Speaker 2: night of But we gotta start with college football because

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Speaker 2: they released the latest college football rankings and there is

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Speaker 2: some shall we say drama, I don't know. This is

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Speaker 2: one of those rare opportunities, folks, where there is a

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Speaker 2: huge disconnect between the gambling markets and we'll toss in

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Speaker 2: the prediction markets as well, and what the media and

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Speaker 2: social media are saying. Now, you also know how the

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Speaker 2: media and social media works, and this is reality. This

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Speaker 2: is nothing new. If you say inflammatory stuff, if you

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Speaker 2: pop off conspiracy theories, you're gonna get engagement because people

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Speaker 2: are like, shut up, that's crazy. What the hell are

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Speaker 2: you talking about? And all of a sudden that's what

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Speaker 2: you want. You don't want to, Oh, nice job, that's

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Speaker 2: just not what works in twenty twenty five. I hate that.

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Speaker 2: I hate that. It's a thing, but it is a thing.

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Speaker 2: That's where we are. Okay. Now, I could on this podcast,

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Speaker 2: come on every day and say absolutely crazy bunker shit,

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Speaker 2: and you guys should be like, are you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: Come on at But guess what it would pop off

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Speaker 2: How could he? Oh my god? You know that kind

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Speaker 2: of deal. I'm not doing that. That's not what I do. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I'll have strong opinions, but it's backed up and rooted

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Speaker 2: in fact. Okay, this Miami Notre Dame stuff to me

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Speaker 2: feels like nonsense. Guys. You know Dan Wilkin obviously college

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Speaker 2: football writer, college basketball writer. He's been on the pod.

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Speaker 2: Good guy plays a lot of tennis. He could smoke

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Speaker 2: me in tennis. I have not played enough lately. Anyways.

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Speaker 2: Dan Wilkin wrote an interesting column that, based on what

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Speaker 2: happened at the college football playoff ranking seating thing on

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Speaker 2: Tuesday night, that there's a trapdoor to drop Notre Dame

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Speaker 2: and get Miami in. And other people are saying this there,

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Speaker 2: but it's only the media. No gambling lines have moved none.

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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, they've moved a little more

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Speaker 2: toward Notre Dame getting it. So the folks setting the

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Speaker 2: lines yes no for the college football playoffs think Notre

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Speaker 2: Dame is overwhelming, Like, I mean, JF, what do you

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Speaker 2: mean by overwhelming? As I'm recording this. We're recording this

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Speaker 2: as I'm watching the end of Duke Florida on Tuesday night.

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Speaker 2: Draft Kings has Notre Dame minus five hundred yes to

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Speaker 2: make the playoffs. That means if you want to win

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Speaker 2: one hundred dollars, you got to bet five hundred dollars, okay,

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Speaker 2: Miami Yes, No, Yes is a large plus number. No

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Speaker 2: minus fourteen hundred minus fourteen hundred, that's goofy. Nobody's betting that.

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Speaker 2: FanDuel has Notre Dame currently minus five twenty yes to

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Speaker 2: make the playoff. Miami not even listed. They don't want

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Speaker 2: that action. So then I went to prediction markets. I

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Speaker 2: remember we did the pod a couple weeks ago with

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Speaker 2: Ryan Glaspiegel. He's really good and he's up on the

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Speaker 2: prediction market, so I was texting with him. Boy, I'm

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Speaker 2: not seeing much on the prediction markets. Of course, he's

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Speaker 2: really good and gets Calshi much better than I do.

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Speaker 2: And Notre Dame yes, to make it one hundred dollars,

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Speaker 2: nets you one hundred and twenty four dollars. Okay, Miami, yes,

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Speaker 2: to make it one hundred dollars bet and nets you

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Speaker 2: five hundred and eighty six dollars. Everybody is saying Notre

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Speaker 2: Dame is in and Miami is a long shot. Of course,

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Speaker 2: you go online and it's Miami's got the resume, Miami

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Speaker 2: shuitl get aa, Miami's gotta be in media, Miami's gonna

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Speaker 2: That does present itself potentially a gambling opportunity. Well, j Mac,

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Speaker 2: you think you think Notre Dame is a locko, put

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Speaker 2: your money where your mouth is A I'm not betting

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Speaker 2: on that to happen because it's not an actual game.

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Speaker 2: I don't think there's any edge to be gained, whereas

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Speaker 2: down the scheme. Injuries, replacements, coaching tendencies. There's so much

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Speaker 2: nine and Notre Dame drops to ten. At eleven is BYU.

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Speaker 2: BYU's coach spent half of the last few days essentially

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Speaker 2: hit the recruiting trail hard. It makes all it makes

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Speaker 2: all the sense in the world. It would be a

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Speaker 2: If Georgia wins against Alabama and Georgia's favored by two

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Speaker 2: this scenario? What do you do there? Do you just

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Speaker 2: move them down from nine to ten? Do you go?

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Speaker 2: Are they lower than Miami? Now? I don't know, but

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Speaker 2: out and says, we're not comparing Notre Dame and Miami

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Speaker 2: side by side. He says it mostly has been Alabama nine,

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Speaker 2: on to say so the head to head result is

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Speaker 2: just one of the factors to play. It doesn't mean

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Speaker 2: a lot because they're all grouped together. Well, what happens

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Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Do you know how dumb this is?

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Speaker 2: This is what we're doing in college football? I mean

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Speaker 2: absolutely asinine. Hey, whoa wait a minute, So BYU loses,

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Speaker 2: nothing happens to Notre Dame. The only result Notre Dame

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Speaker 2: can help be helped by is they played Boise State

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Speaker 2: the MWC Conference championship game Friday. They are four point

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Speaker 2: help Notre Dame? Well, hey, they played at conference champion.

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Speaker 2: Miami has nobody on their schedule playing this weekend. There

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Speaker 2: is zero way for their resume to get better. On

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Speaker 2: what planet? Are these goofballs gonna sit in a room

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Speaker 2: and say why white about it? One hundred days ago,

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Speaker 2: Miami did beat Notre Dame matt to head. It was

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Speaker 2: at home. It was in a rain storm? Was there

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Speaker 2: a rookie quarterbacks first game, a freshman quarterbacks first game?

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Speaker 2: Are they gonna do that now? Wow?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah? Wait?

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Speaker 2: We got to make the move based on nothing, based

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Speaker 2: on air. It just doesn't add up. Now, Listen, college

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Speaker 2: football goofballs have done dumber things before. Okay, so nothing

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Speaker 2: would surprise me. But that's when I keep going back

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Speaker 2: to the gambling market and I'm like, the folks in

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Speaker 2: Vegas aren't seeting that now. Maybe it's a blind spot.

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Speaker 2: Maybe the limits are low, so they're not really gonna

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Speaker 2: take a beating year. I don't know what you can

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Speaker 2: get down on. Yes, no, to make the college football

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Speaker 2: play off at this point. But if someone has inside

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Speaker 2: information in the room, then maybe, you know, maybe all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden the lines change. I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: just guys, I don't see it at all. It just

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Speaker 2: doesn't make sense. I don't understand how all of a

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Speaker 2: sudden you could be like, oh oh oh, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Notre Dame lost to Miami one hundred days ago, so

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Speaker 2: now we've got to make the change, Like, what are

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Speaker 2: we doing? Just expand the damn thing to sixteen? I

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Speaker 2: don't know. I get kind of sort of worked up

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Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin here, despite you know, Lane put out this

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Speaker 2: big statement. And it's funny because I had defended Lane

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie. He's a South Bay guy out here.

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Speaker 2: His ex wife is pretty well known. His kids are

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Speaker 2: moderately famous locally. Obviously, you know the family's wealthy. I

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Speaker 2: don't personally know any of them, but Lin Kivid by

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Speaker 2: all accounts of dads who I know who know him

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Speaker 2: I don't totally understand why he came out and made

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Speaker 2: this whole statement. After a lot of prayer, I've made

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Speaker 2: the difficult decision. Blah blah blah. But where it gets

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Speaker 2: interesting is my request was denied to be the head coach.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to coach the team through the playoff and

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Speaker 2: I want I wanted to coach these guys in while

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Speaker 2: taking the LSU job. So what happens, of course, that

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Speaker 2: ole miss players wait a couple of days and they

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Speaker 2: come out and one of them says that was not

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Speaker 2: Lane bullshitting? Maybe laying the liar? Another player his name

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Speaker 2: is Bryson Sanders in quotes, this guy wrote, despite the

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Speaker 2: team asking me to keep coaching the player rights, I

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Speaker 2: the team didn't want him to coach. He was trying

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Speaker 2: to leverage the team against old miss man. Listen, college

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Speaker 2: football is a dirty game, guys, real real dirty. Oh

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Speaker 2: my gosh, the fact that Lane would try this. So anyways,

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Speaker 2: now he's hitting the recruited trail hard. And I did

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Speaker 2: have some guys slider to my DMS to say, Yo, Jay,

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Speaker 2: come on, what the hell man, you said Penn State

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Speaker 2: could win sooner than LSU. Penn State doesn't even have

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Speaker 2: a coach yet, and Penn State whift on the BYU

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Speaker 2: coach allegedly, well not really allegedly, but Penn State fans

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Speaker 2: are panicked. They're like, you guys fired James Franklin and

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Speaker 2: we had no plan. And some Penn State fans are

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Speaker 2: listing all the guys they whiffed on. This does happen

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Speaker 2: from time to time, you go in with a plan, Hey,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna fire our coach and we're gonna get X

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Speaker 2: wiping on everyone. Now, there is also a rumor out

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Speaker 2: there that Jimmy Sexton, a powerful agent, did not really

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Speaker 2: like what happened to James Franklin at Penn State and

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Speaker 2: end up with Brian Dabole or something along those lines.

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Speaker 2: I do find listen obviously, I like betting college football.

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Speaker 2: I enjoy the games. The subplots have an NBA field

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Speaker 2: to them. I mean, if we're being honest, some of

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Speaker 2: this nonsense is so goofy. I mean, Ole Miss dumping

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Speaker 2: Lane Lane Kiffin's clothes in the street after he left, Like,

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Speaker 2: come on, that's pretty fun. That's like scorned wife kind

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Speaker 2: All right, let's move on from college football and quickly

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Speaker 2: to h the Lebron JJ Reddick incident, shall we say,

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Speaker 2: from Monday night. So Lakers are getting smacked by the

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Speaker 2: Suns in the third quarter. They're down twenty eighteen twenty.

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Speaker 2: At the time, Lakers are taking out in front of

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Speaker 2: their bench, going the distance to the court. JJ Reddick

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Speaker 2: is on the sideline at the edge of the coach's

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Speaker 2: box calling Lebron's name because he's trying to run a

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Speaker 2: play Bron Bron. You can hear it audibly. Lebron is

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Speaker 2: talking to someone on the Sun's bench. It appears to

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Speaker 2: be Godwin, the former Laker. I don't know if you know,

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Speaker 2: there was you know, chatter about Dylan Gabriel. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what was being said. That's unclear to this point.

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Speaker 2: But bottom line is Lebron was talking to the Sun's bench.

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Speaker 2: Lakers inbound the ball. Reddick keeps calling Lebron's name. Lebron's

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Speaker 2: not answering. Reddick has to burn a time out to

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Speaker 2: set the play up. And you can and the video

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Speaker 2: that's out there, I think they started on Reddit. You

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Speaker 2: can see the look on Reddick's face. He's like looking

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Speaker 2: at Lebron and then just shakes his head like what

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Speaker 2: the hell. And again we can argue that, yeah, they're

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Speaker 2: down eighteen. Come on, this is this game. Listen. That's

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Speaker 2: not cool, man, That is not cool. And when you

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Speaker 2: see the bromance going on between Austin Reeves and Luca

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Speaker 2: and then you see Lebron checked out in a blowout loss,

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Speaker 2: not listening to his coach, it's like, well, well, what's

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Speaker 2: going on here? Listen, Lebron, this is the NBA. You've

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Speaker 2: been around long enough that you know an eighteen point

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Speaker 2: league can be gone in four minutes. Okay, NBA's crazy

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Speaker 2: with threes. Now, the Suns they were not gonna blow

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Speaker 2: that on Monday Night. They were bombs away. But what

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Speaker 2: I found totally fascinating was the fact that Lakers fans

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Speaker 2: were angry with Lebron about this. Now, listen, we all

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Speaker 2: totally get it. You know who hasn't talked to the

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Speaker 2: opposing bench. It's Lebron. You know it's not This was

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Speaker 2: at the end of the game. But I don't think

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Speaker 2: it's a great look for Lebron given his standing with

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Speaker 2: the team. Obviously, he's the all time greatest player in

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Speaker 2: the history of the sport. He brought the Lakers a championship.

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Speaker 2: Lakers love him, but this is Luca's team now, I

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Speaker 2: think he understands that. And the other thing is Austin

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Speaker 2: Reeves is starting to play like a bona fide All Star,

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Speaker 2: and Austin Reeves and Luca are joking around in TV interviews.

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Speaker 2: I got more dunks than you now, ha ha. I'm

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Speaker 2: not gonna be your friend. They're joking around, they're having fun,

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Speaker 2: and there's Lebron talking to the opposing team while his

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Speaker 2: coach is trying to call a play. I'm not making

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Speaker 2: a federal case out of it. I'm not blasting Lebron, okay.

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Speaker 2: I just think if we're being honest with ourselves, this

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Speaker 2: is a horrible, a rare, horrible look for Lebron. Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious if the Lakers address it. Maybe Lebron steps

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Speaker 2: up a zomb to do about nothing. I don't know, guys.

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Speaker 2: I just didn't like what I saw in a blowout

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Speaker 2: loss from That's just not behavior that Lebron usually offers up.

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Speaker 2: So overall, I'm not gonna lie. I'm a little disappointed

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Speaker 2: We can wrap up with a couple of minutes on

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Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin, the suddenly embattled Pittsburgh Steelers coach. I found

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Speaker 2: this story hard to believe. But Steelers fans, it seems like,

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Speaker 2: are over the Mike Tomlin experience. He's been there forever.

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Speaker 2: They haven't won a playoff game, and I think it's

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Speaker 2: been about nine or ten years despite making the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: It's a weird situation I don't understand and wanting to

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Speaker 2: run off a really good coach like Tomlin unless management,

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Speaker 2: i e. The ownership group is like, Mike, we gotta

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Speaker 2: dump this defensive strategy. It's it's just not working. We

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Speaker 2: gotta we gotta change it up. We gotta get a

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Speaker 2: of changes. And Mike Tomlin's like, Nah, I don't want

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Speaker 2: to do that. Then does he walk away? Does he

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Speaker 2: go to television? Hell, if Mike Tomlin hits the market,

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Speaker 2: you're telling me, like a franchise starve for a playoff berth,

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Speaker 2: like my Jets or the freaking Titans. You're telling me

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Speaker 2: those neither of those teams would be like, ah, you know,

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Speaker 2: Aaron Glenn, you're nice, But Mike Tomlin's on the market.

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Speaker 2: I'm not comparing him to Rabel, I'm not comparing him

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Speaker 2: to Harbaugh. But undeniably, if Mike Tomlin were fired, he

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Speaker 2: would one thousand percent be the best coach available on

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Speaker 2: the market this offseason. Yes, better than Bill Belichick. I'm

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Speaker 2: sorry the Belichick experience. No, that's just I don't think

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Speaker 2: that's a thing. I understand Steelers fans are upset, but

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Speaker 2: I have more questions who built this roster, who keeps

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Speaker 2: investing in defense, because you know, usually it's not really

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Speaker 2: the coaches the GM. I mean, I get the reboot attempt. Hey,

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Speaker 2: let's go get Aaron Rodgers. Yeah yeah, h my Jets

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Speaker 2: tried that. You know, you saw how that played out,

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Speaker 2: and the same thing's happening with the Steelers right now.

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Speaker 2: But who gave up on Pickens? Was that Mike Tomlin

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Speaker 2: or was that the GM? I mean, we've got unanswered questions.

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Speaker 2: There's usually a chain of command, a hierarchy in most

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Speaker 2: of these NFL programs that are very clear. You know,

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Speaker 2: John Lynch and Shanahan work together to shape the roster,

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Speaker 2: right Brett Veach obviously excellent in Kansas City, gets a

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Speaker 2: ton of credit and knows Andy Reid system and knows

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Speaker 2: the guys that fit. I mean, what's going on in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: We just we need the Pittsburgh media to shed a

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Speaker 2: little more light on that because this whole Oh Mike

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Speaker 2: Tomlin's got to go? Is he really the problem? I

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Speaker 2: think it's a legitimate question. I mean, this is the

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Speaker 2: guy who put up with a lot of crap from

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Speaker 2: a bunch of petulant stars in Pittsburgh over the years.

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Speaker 2: leaving Pittsburgh. By the way, I know Antonio Brown won

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Speaker 2: a title with the Bucks, but come on, he wasn't

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Speaker 2: like their number one guy. He was good. Tom Brady

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Speaker 2: got him in line, but I don't know. Remind me

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Speaker 2: Deontay Deontay Johnson, Remember he had a really good year

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Speaker 2: what happened to him Le'Veon Belt?

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Speaker 2: Hell, he was like, I'm holding out for all the

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Speaker 2: money shows up with my jets is total garbage. Like,

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Speaker 2: let's be realistic here, this is not a fifty to

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Speaker 2: fifty GM Mike Tomlin split. Okay, Mike Tomlin is an

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Speaker 2: unbelievable coach, a Hall of Fame Locke. I just of

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Speaker 2: all the people you want to run off with, Mike Tomlin,

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Speaker 2: get the guy at quarterback. I mean, he hasn't had

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Speaker 2: one since Big Ben lost left. Big Ben leaves, and

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Speaker 2: it's tough to find a quarterback. Remind me, Miami Dolphins fans,

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Speaker 2: what was it like when Dan Marino retired? That's what

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Speaker 2: It ain't easy finding franchise quarterbacks. I mean, hell, Troy

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Speaker 2: Aikman leaves the Cowboys. They haven't been to a conference

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Speaker 2: championship game in thirty years, and they now have Dak

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Speaker 2: Prescott leading away like he's fine. But okay, it's hard

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Speaker 2: to find franchise quarterbacks. So if that's the argument, eight,

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Speaker 2: we can't find one with Tomlin. Okay, I don't know

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Speaker 2: why that would be. But you guys like Mason Rudolph,

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Speaker 2: can he Pickett Duck Hodges? I mean, you got a

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Speaker 2: lot of bites at the apple and it's not easy.

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Speaker 2: But blaming Tomlin. I just find that very surprising. And

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Speaker 2: I'll be honest, Raiders are probably gonna run off Pete Carroll.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's I don't think anybody's itching to

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Speaker 2: get in the Pete Carroll business, do you. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we're seeing how Belichick's doing in North Carolina. I mean

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Speaker 2: Pete Carroll seems in over his head. Would the Raiders

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Speaker 2: go get Mike Tomlin? Brown's fans seem very hell bent

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Speaker 2: to run Stefanski out of town and give Shittur Sanders

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Speaker 2: Stefanski will get a job this cycle, probably a head

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Speaker 2: coaching job. I don't understand that Kevin connell nastiness in Minnesota. Well,

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Speaker 2: he didn't want Darnold, and you know we also had

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Speaker 2: Daniel Jones and he settled for McCarthy. Okay, so the

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Speaker 2: GM and O'Connell seem to really like McCarthy. He started

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Speaker 2: like six games. I get it. You know, we change

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Speaker 2: McCarthy has not look good. He's been abysmal, no doubt

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Speaker 2: about it. He's gonna start next year. He's got you

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Speaker 2: have to see what else you got, but running off

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Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connor, running off Mike Tumblin and O'Connell. I don't

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Speaker 2: has he won a playoff game. I don't think he asked.

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Speaker 2: I think he's a great coach. I just it's very

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Speaker 2: perplexing how these fan bases always think firing the coach

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Speaker 2: look at the Patriots with Rabel. They got Rabel and

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Girarden Mayo to Vrabel is like

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Speaker 2: going from Ahndai Sonata to a Ferrari. Okay, Rabel was

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Speaker 2: an amazing coach. Going from Brandon Staley to Jim Harbaugh

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Speaker 2: Like let's be realistic here, Okay, if Tomlin hits the market,

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Speaker 2: he's the number one coaching prospect. All right, that's all

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Speaker 2: for today. We have a good guest lined up for tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: It should be a fun interview. We'll talk to you then,