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Speaker 2: I thought it was only appropriate that we gave out
Speaker 2: the Heisman Trophy this past weekend and Josh Allen had
Speaker 2: his Heisman moment for the MVP of the NFL. We'll
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Speaker 2: We've got football coming up tonight. It'll be the Bears
Speaker 2: and the Vikings. The Bears are getting seven against the Vikings.
Speaker 2: The Falcons are giving five and a half to the
Speaker 2: Peskey Raiders. Speaking of the MVP race, I think it's over.
Speaker 2: I think it's been over for a while. We were
Speaker 2: trying to make it a race. It's Josh Allen, followed
Speaker 2: by Lamar Jackson. Josh Allen a prohibitive favor according to DraftKings.
Speaker 2: Then it's Lamar Jackson, Saquon Barkley and Jared goff Seaton.
Speaker 2: What's the poll question that we have today? Before we
Speaker 2: start to dive into who's joining us on the program.
Speaker 3: Oh, why don't we start with who had the worst weekend.
Speaker 4: Oh we're going negative, sure, right out of the gate.
Speaker 2: Arms.
Speaker 3: How about Army football, that's not great.
Speaker 2: Well they were favored by six and a half, but
Speaker 2: maybe was a whole lot better than Army over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Gary Danielson was on the call for CBS, Gary who
Speaker 2: had a great game. He'll join us coming up a
Speaker 2: little bit later on. Yeah, that was a bad loss
Speaker 2: because Army undefeated. Hey maybe they get into the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Hey maybe, how are they going to do against Notred?
Speaker 2: They got roughed up and then you got roughed up
Speaker 2: against Navy as well. Navy was the better team certainly
Speaker 2: on Saturday. Anybody else in there.
Speaker 3: Well, you could put the Detroit Lions on there. You
Speaker 3: could more specifically put the Detroit Lions defense on there. Boy,
Speaker 3: they had a terrible weekend.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes they did, and Josh Allen took advantage of that.
Speaker 2: So the Bills they're going to score points. They are
Speaker 2: the first team to score at least thirty points in
Speaker 2: eight consecutive game games in a single season. Last time
Speaker 2: that happened to twenty thirteen Broncoso.
Speaker 5: How stall of.
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Speaker 2: of the program. Here's my concern with the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2: If you somehow have a subpar Josh Allen performance in
Speaker 2: the playoffs, given the fact that that defense is not great,
Speaker 2: they put up points on offense. The defense just kind
Speaker 2: of hangs on for the ride, kind of like what
Speaker 2: you have in Detroit. But Josh Allen's going to be
Speaker 2: your MVP, and he's doing things that haven't been done
Speaker 2: in a long, long, long time. How about this the
Speaker 2: only quarterback in the last fifty years to have three
Speaker 2: straight games. He wasn't sacked, no fumbles, no interceptions, no
Speaker 2: negative plays from scrimmage. And that's why Dan Campbell went
Speaker 2: for the on side kick. Now, this is how it
Speaker 2: sounded yesterday on the Bills radio network.
Speaker 7: Bates kicks it and it bounces, takes the high hop
Speaker 7: and it's covered by Hollins.
Speaker 1: He's going the other way fifteen ten and he's.
Speaker 7: Upended at the six yard line. Who I thought the
Speaker 7: barefoot wonder was gonna get to the end zone tripped
Speaker 7: up at the form as the on side kick goes
Speaker 7: horribly wrong, for the Lions.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's twelve minutes to go. They're down ten. Dan
Speaker 2: Campbell realizes we're not stopping Josh Allen.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: The problem that I have with the on side kick
Speaker 2: is if you're gonna do it at twelve minutes to
Speaker 2: go or you know, anytime after like five minutes in
Speaker 2: a game, you should be able to surprise the opposition.
Speaker 2: If it's the final minute, then you can let them
Speaker 2: know you're gonna have an on side kick. If you
Speaker 2: said that you were gonna have an onside kick in
Speaker 2: that moment and you didn't have to tell the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 2: then I understand the logic with Detroit because they wouldn't have.
Speaker 2: You know, you're not expecting an onside kick with twelve
Speaker 2: minutes to go and the team is down by ten.
Speaker 2: That's the problem with the rule. Hey, we would normally
Speaker 2: be surprising you surprise, but we can't surprise you. It's
Speaker 2: we're gonna surprise you. We're gonna tell you there's a
Speaker 2: It's like when you tell somebody there's a surprise party
Speaker 2: for them and then they have to go in and
Speaker 2: act surprise. So they basically just said to the Buffalo
Speaker 2: Bills Hey, surprise, we're gonna have an onside kick with
Speaker 2: twelve minutes to go. You gotta fix that, Like there
Speaker 2: has to be I'm okay with the kick off, Like
Speaker 2: I'm not thrilled about it, but you know, we've seen
Speaker 2: some returns, there's some movement, there's some strategy there. But
Speaker 2: with the onside kick, and I know they're worried about
Speaker 2: these collisions. I get it, there's gonna be collisions. I mean,
Speaker 2: there is collateral damage. It's football. But when I announced
Speaker 2: that it's going to happen, you can still have collisions.
Speaker 4: So why not make it a surprise. Hey, hey, twelve
Speaker 4: minutes to go.
Speaker 2: They'd never they've never got an attempt on onside kick.
Speaker 2: Here's Dan Campbell on why he attempted the onside kick.
Speaker 8: I thought we'd get the possession. I thought we were
Speaker 8: going to get that ball. It's one of Bates' best
Speaker 8: kicks that I've seen him have. That That was a
Speaker 8: big kicker at the end. You know, I think took
Speaker 8: a good jump on us, and Hollis made a heck
Speaker 8: of a play on it. And you know, obviously now
Speaker 8: sitting here hindsight after them taking it down to the
Speaker 8: three yard line. Yeah, I wish I wouldn't have done that,
Speaker 8: but that is what it is.
Speaker 2: Is that the best compliment you can give Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: So when somebody says, hey, why does Josh Allen deserve
Speaker 2: the MVP? Twelve minutes to go, you're down ten at home,
Speaker 2: You're the Lions, one of the highest scoring offenses, and
Speaker 2: you decide an on side kick because you can't stop
Speaker 2: Josh Allen. And that's the truth. That's what happened yesterday,
Speaker 2: all right. So who else do we have in there?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: Is that because Josh Allen is so good or your
Speaker 3: defense is so bad?
Speaker 4: I think it's a combination. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, the injuries have decimated the Detroit Lions. Josh
Speaker 2: Allen has been spectacular, but he's been taking care of
Speaker 2: the ball. I mean it's really simple because you look
Speaker 2: at that offense and if I said, okay, tell me
Speaker 2: all the great names on that offense, exactly, they're not
Speaker 2: great names.
Speaker 4: They're good, they're not great.
Speaker 2: He's great and he's finally put it together where this
Speaker 2: is what people thought the last couple of years, where
Speaker 2: they're like, hey, Josh Allen MVP, Josh Allen MVP.
Speaker 4: Kept trying to shove it down our throats don't need to.
Speaker 4: This year.
Speaker 2: They came into the season as an underdog. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's a big time win. And I know Detroit's depleted.
Speaker 2: Buffalo's defense was depleted to start the year, and then
Speaker 2: you get rid of Stepan Diggs and we're wondering, Josh
Speaker 2: Allen has no weapons. They can run the ball and
Speaker 2: certainly what he does, and he has it in his hands.
Speaker 2: I mean, and you don't hear any drama. It's just
Speaker 2: they're playing football in Detroit. I mean, you know, Jared
Speaker 2: Goff has had one of those statistical anomalies where you
Speaker 2: throw five interceptions and win, you throw five touchdowns and
Speaker 2: you lose. I don't know if that's ever happened in
Speaker 2: the history of the game that a quarterback has had
Speaker 2: that in one season.
Speaker 4: But for Jared Goff, they put up numbers. It's a
Speaker 4: fun team.
Speaker 2: If you said that's our super Bowl, I think everybody would, well,
Speaker 2: Kansas City fans wouldn't. And we have the yearly Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes ankle injury.
Speaker 5: It just.
Speaker 4: It has to happen because he's.
Speaker 2: Got to battle through something and then he win another
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. It's like, when is Patrick Mahomes gonna have
Speaker 2: his ankle injury?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he just had it. Yes, Marvin, we're.
Speaker 9: On year or two of Oh the Chiefs are down,
Speaker 9: the Bills, Ravens, they have to win it. This year
Speaker 9: we're gonna go on maybe a four Street year of
Speaker 9: the Chiefs being down and being beatable and then winning
Speaker 9: a Super Bowl.
Speaker 5: Still.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is where you're gonna look back and if
Speaker 2: you don't capitalize this year in the ABC and knock
Speaker 2: them out, when are you going to knock them out?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Seaton, I think it's actually too late. You already
Speaker 3: were supposed to knock the Chiefs out. You're supposed to
Speaker 3: take care of this in the first like eight weeks
Speaker 3: of the season, and nobody did. And now to me
Speaker 3: it almost feels like too late, Like they're just rolling
Speaker 3: I get the ankle injury, I get all that, but
Speaker 3: it's like that train has left the station. They're already
Speaker 3: rolling downhill.
Speaker 2: And you know, Mahomes is day to day, but you
Speaker 2: want to keep that home field advantage. And the Chiefs
Speaker 2: probably thought, you know what, buffalo get knocked off here,
Speaker 2: give us a little bit more of a cushion here.
Speaker 2: You you want to have that home field advantage. You're
Speaker 2: Kansas City, Yeah, Pauling, Yeah, it just checked seatons right.
Speaker 2: If the Chiefs didn't make the playoffs, there's no way
Speaker 2: they could win the super Bowl.
Speaker 5: He's correcked on that one.
Speaker 3: Ye, that was your chance, Okay, was getting rid of
Speaker 3: them early, Yes, Tod and several.
Speaker 5: Teams lost close games to them.
Speaker 9: They lose one or two of those games, you know,
Speaker 9: you're opening the door for the Bills to have home
Speaker 9: field throughout the playoffs, and then it becomes more likely
Speaker 9: maybe the Bills go to the super Bowl.
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Speaker 2: Any other candidates who had a bad weekend?
Speaker 3: See, oh of course there's a million. How about the Steelers.
Speaker 3: Steelers didn't have a great weekend.
Speaker 2: When the Eagles held the ball for like eleven minutes
Speaker 2: to close out the game, that's almost like if you're
Speaker 2: watching Army play football or Navy and they're gonna eat
Speaker 2: up the clock for eight minutes. That just decimates you.
Speaker 2: I mean, I thought the Eagles would win. I'm always curious,
Speaker 2: can they win without any drama? And it felt like
Speaker 2: things are better ish there with Philadelphia. I just didn't
Speaker 2: understand when Jalen Hurds goes to the press conference and
Speaker 2: before they start at the press conference, he's saying basically, uh,
Speaker 2: so is that what you guys were looking for?
Speaker 4: Huh? Yeah, it's not us.
Speaker 5: We didn't.
Speaker 2: We didn't start the controversy in Philadelphia, Jalen, you and
Speaker 2: your teammates did. And yes, is it asking too much
Speaker 2: for a guy making fifty million dollars to have a
Speaker 2: couple of touchdown passes and maybe a touchdown run? I
Speaker 2: guess because he's asking the media, is that what you wanted?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 2: This isn't about the media, It's about you and your teammates. Yeah.
Speaker 3: See the last drive of that game, the Eagles took
Speaker 3: over on their own three yard line with ten minutes
Speaker 3: and twenty nine seconds to go in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and took up.
Speaker 3: All till like ten minutes and twenty nine seconds.
Speaker 2: Basically crazy, that's crazy, Yeah.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: There are a couple other teams that did not have
Speaker 2: a good weekend. The Chargers. Chargers did not have a
Speaker 2: good weekend. You got the number one scoring defense, Tampa
Speaker 2: goes cross country and Roughs you up. That was a
Speaker 2: big surprise there. Tampa is one of those teams just
Speaker 2: like the Rams. You don't want to face them in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. Now the Rams got to get in. But
Speaker 2: it feels like, you know, Tampa, Baker Mayfield's done a
Speaker 2: great job. Mike Evans coming back certainly helps. They got
Speaker 2: a running game, they got you know, their season. They
Speaker 2: were a playoff team last year, but that one surprised
Speaker 2: me that they made it look easy. Well, Chargers were
Speaker 2: up and then all of a sudden, Tampa came back,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, wow, Tampa a little statement game. There
Speaker 2: anybody else to put on the list?
Speaker 4: Seton? Since we're skewing negative first down?
Speaker 3: Well, let's see right now, we've got army football the
Speaker 3: Detroit Lions. Do we want to say defense or just
Speaker 3: as a team.
Speaker 4: Well, I'll say team.
Speaker 3: Well, because Dan Campbell his whenever something doesn't work out, it's.
Speaker 4: Like I don't know if he's calling the right plays.
Speaker 4: You know, this is who he is.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of love that. I think if you're
Speaker 3: on that team, I think you love that. It's like
Speaker 3: we're all in.
Speaker 2: I just want to make sure, Okay, I'm not big
Speaker 2: on analytics. There was a lot of groaning on the
Speaker 2: other side, you know, the analytics or I do love
Speaker 2: gut feeling of Hey, my team, they can get this
Speaker 2: first down, or we're going to try to the on
Speaker 2: side kick. I didn't like in the moment. I get it,
Speaker 2: you can't stop Josh Allen. And if you had the
Speaker 2: element of surprise, then I would say yes, because you
Speaker 2: wouldn't have expected that. And then like, it's already almost
Speaker 2: mathematically impossible to recover an on side kick. If you
Speaker 2: look at the analytics, it's not in your favor. If
Speaker 2: you were able to surprise, then I got it.
Speaker 4: You didn't.
Speaker 2: They nearly took it back for a touchdown. They eventually
Speaker 2: capitalized on that. So is that our poll question?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we could put Tua on there.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he had a great weekend.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Dolphins losing to the Texans. Let me see
Speaker 2: anything else in here, Oh, Packers, Packers, the Seahawks at home.
Speaker 2: That was a big game for them. You gotta win,
Speaker 2: you gotta win. No show, no show, Marino.
Speaker 4: How about that's.
Speaker 10: You.
Speaker 4: I don't know where a game from. So the Seahawks
Speaker 4: went from atop the NFC West. So they're not in
Speaker 4: the playoffs at all, right now?
Speaker 5: Is that is that accurate? I don't know. I think
Speaker 5: they're like, I think they've lost their playoffs spot as
Speaker 5: of today.
Speaker 9: They went from first place NMC West with a win,
Speaker 9: and they were already in first place going into that game,
Speaker 9: and now they're not even a wild cards.
Speaker 2: So the Rams are leading the division, Yes they are, Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't get caught up in all the details.
Speaker 5: Only three games left is the time to look at the.
Speaker 4: Big game coming up Thursday night.
Speaker 9: That's not the music for president. What is the music
Speaker 9: for I don't know, but it's the nine and five
Speaker 9: Broncos at the eight and six Chargers Thursday night.
Speaker 4: And that's you.
Speaker 2: Todd's got his Bronco gear on. Oh we the pronouns,
Speaker 2: the Denver pronouns.
Speaker 5: We won, we beat the Colts, but they need to
Speaker 5: beat the Chargers.
Speaker 4: We're the fighting pronouns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love what they They've got to beat the Bolts.
Speaker 4: And oh, you know who had a bad weekend.
Speaker 2: Guys who score touchdowns but don't score touchdowns because they
Speaker 2: don't get over the goal line.
Speaker 4: It's a bad.
Speaker 3: Weekend for knowing where the goal line.
Speaker 4: Is God, is that terrible? Terrible?
Speaker 5: I don't get it. I do not get it.
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Speaker 2: us on the program. Where do you want to start?
Speaker 5: You tell me, man, there's a lot. I mean, I
Speaker 5: know you got Gary coming on later for Army Navy.
Speaker 5: We can talk about the Heisman. You know, you know where
Speaker 5: I would like to start, Dan, I would like to
Speaker 5: start with the college football playoff and the transfer portal. Okay,
Speaker 5: and I'll tell you why. Okay, I live in central Pennsylvania.
Speaker 5: I live in the Harrisburg Hershey area. And Penn State's
Speaker 5: backup quarterback Bo Prabula, who plays like twenty snaps a
Speaker 5: game because Penn State has this creative offensive coordinator and
Speaker 5: Prabula is sort of like a Trace McSorley clone. He
Speaker 5: announced last night that he's going into the transfer portal
Speaker 5: and will not be with the team for the college
Speaker 5: football playoffs. So now they're playing Saturday against SMU. It's
Speaker 5: the first playoff game in Penn State history. It's a
Speaker 5: home game. He grew up going to Penn State games.
Speaker 5: He's a huge Penn State fan. He loves se He's
Speaker 5: living his dream. Now we have to assume that this
Speaker 5: probably means Drew Aller the starter, is coming back next
Speaker 5: year because I thought if Aler left, Praboula would start
Speaker 5: a couple of years. But something is so wrong here, Dan,
Speaker 5: that you've got a kid that he's an important part
Speaker 5: of the team. However, if he stays with the team
Speaker 5: through the playoffs, he's not going to get a spot
Speaker 5: somewhere else. These other programs are not waiting for him right, Like,
Speaker 5: if you're at any of these other programs, name Memphis
Speaker 5: or Central Michigan, I don't care Ohio State. They need
Speaker 5: to know who their quarterback's gonna be. And if Krabula
Speaker 5: can't say yes to them, they got to move on
Speaker 5: to the next kid. I just hate this. This would
Speaker 5: be like if NFL free agency was the second week
Speaker 5: of January. I hate this for Penn State. I hate
Speaker 5: this for the kid. Like this is a major, major
Speaker 5: problem for college football.
Speaker 2: This seems like an easy fix or the fact that
Speaker 2: they didn't think that this was possible. I said this
Speaker 2: last week. I was told by a source there are
Speaker 2: two players in the playoffs who are going to transfer
Speaker 2: during the playoffs. This is one of the players. There's
Speaker 2: gonna be one more who's going to transfer from what
Speaker 2: I'm told. And this is what's happening. These schools who
Speaker 2: are looking for these players now because the transfer portal
Speaker 2: was open, they are saying to them or they're representatives,
Speaker 2: we don't want you playing another game if we're going
Speaker 2: to bring you in and give you an IL. That's
Speaker 2: what's going on. And I understand both sides of this. Hey,
Speaker 2: I want to play. I'm not going to be a
Speaker 2: starting quarterback at Penn State. Yes, we're in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: They want me now. I either go now or they're
Speaker 2: going to move on to somebody else. We don't want
Speaker 2: you playing, We don't want you getting hurt. Like if
Speaker 2: you're playing for Penn State, you might play three games
Speaker 2: coming up here. And that's what's amazing is you're willing
Speaker 2: to quit on your team because somebody wants you and
Speaker 2: they want you right now.
Speaker 5: Well, and here's the thing, Like he grew up like
Speaker 5: twenty minutes from where I am right now. This has
Speaker 5: to be eating away. This isn't like something from Florida
Speaker 5: that went to Penn State. Like there's pictures of him
Speaker 5: that they show all the time, five years old, eight
Speaker 5: year old, ten year old at Penn State games at
Speaker 5: Penn State gear on, Like this is he's living his dream.
Speaker 5: But you know, like all of us in life, you
Speaker 5: get to the point where it's like, Okay, the dream
Speaker 5: got this far and it was great to play football
Speaker 5: for Penn Sate. But the other dream is to actually
Speaker 5: be a starting quarterback, maybe have a chance at the pros.
Speaker 5: Whatever can you imagine Let's just picture we're watching SMU
Speaker 5: Penn State on Saturday, second college football playoff game ever
Speaker 5: in the expanded format, what happens if Drew Aller gets
Speaker 5: hurt on the second play and Penn State has to
Speaker 5: put a true freshman into the game that's never played
Speaker 5: before other than garbage time. That that is such a
Speaker 5: bad look. And the thing is, I know there's a
Speaker 5: window for after the playoffs where guys can enter the portal,
Speaker 5: but that that's the other These other coaches there their livelihood.
Speaker 5: We got a group of five coaches getting fired after
Speaker 5: two years all over the place. The guy at Charlotte,
Speaker 5: Tom Herman, Fau. They're getting fired like this. They can't wait.
Speaker 5: Plus the thing that people never even talk about. They
Speaker 5: are still supposed to be taking classes like they are to.
Speaker 5: They are supposed to be registered for the second semester.
Speaker 5: Like that's not even now you're a universa ross.
Speaker 2: Now you're getting silly. You went to Princeton. You went
Speaker 2: to Princeton. That's different. There your initial reaction comments to
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick going to North Carolina. I'll give you an
Speaker 2: opportunity looking back on those comments. Do you stand by
Speaker 2: what you said about Bill Belichick?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean, well, now when I said it on
Speaker 5: on the radio in Boston. I was laughing because knowing
Speaker 5: his personality and the way he treats people and knowing
Speaker 5: what I think is the most important thing for college
Speaker 5: head coaches that they're like polar opposites. Right, So the
Speaker 5: key for college football coaches. Head coaches, you're basically the
Speaker 5: CEO of a huge operation, and the two most important
Speaker 5: things you can do are to convince seventeen year olds
Speaker 5: and their parents that they should come play for you,
Speaker 5: and convince rich people that went to the school or
Speaker 5: a fan of the school to give you more money.
Speaker 5: That's the job, Dan like, that's the biggest part of
Speaker 5: the job. Belichick is definitely the best game planning schematic
Speaker 5: coach I was ever around. But you hear Brady's comments,
Speaker 5: Edelman's comments. You talk to anyone that's ever played, and
Speaker 5: I know people are gonna reply in the comments you
Speaker 5: only play two games, room do Yeah? I know I
Speaker 5: only played two games. Who I was there for parts
Speaker 5: of two seasons. I know what he's like, I know
Speaker 5: his personality. It's one hundred percent negative reinforcement. The first
Speaker 5: thing they do at eight am team meeting is show
Speaker 5: the five worst place in the day before. No one
Speaker 5: I know or has spoken with him. Dan can picture
Speaker 5: him being in a living room recruiting or talking to
Speaker 5: donors and trying to get money. Nobody can pich that,
Speaker 5: and maybe they can have success without that. Maybe he
Speaker 5: can hire some people that can do that part of it.
Speaker 5: I'll also say this, looking at the buyout, Dan, I
Speaker 5: firmly believe, and and maybe I'll be wrong, and maybe
Speaker 5: we won't get a chance to see it. I firmly
Speaker 5: believe that as soon as he got an NFL opportunity,
Speaker 5: or gets a NFL opportunity, I think you would leave
Speaker 5: the next day. I think you would leave the next day,
Speaker 5: even if the first I think the initial buyouts ten million.
Speaker 5: If somebody decides in January that they want Belichick, I
Speaker 5: think he'd be gone certainly next year if someone gets fired.
Speaker 5: I think he'd much much rather be in the NFL.
Speaker 4: Why is the buyout one million dollars?
Speaker 5: Because he wanted it that way North Carolina.
Speaker 4: But the optics are terrible.
Speaker 5: It's a great point. It's a great point. Guess what.
Speaker 5: He doesn't care about the optics, just like I don't
Speaker 5: really believe he cares that much. Like it would be
Speaker 5: a bad look for him if the Jaguars offered him
Speaker 5: the job and in January he leaves UNC. I just
Speaker 5: don't think he cares that much. I think he'd say, listen,
Speaker 5: like I'm sorry, but I have a better opportunity, and
Speaker 5: you know, I want to take this up. I don't
Speaker 5: think he would care that much about what that means
Speaker 5: for North Carolina. On some level, I feel like North
Speaker 5: Carolina Dan is getting already what they wanted out of this.
Speaker 5: Everybody's talking about them. They were able to reel in
Speaker 5: the big fish. They're getting relevancy. North Carolina is already
Speaker 5: getting a lot of publicity and a lot of branding
Speaker 5: out of this.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Obviously they wouldn't be happy if he left, But I mean,
Speaker 5: does anybody really think he'll be there for three to
Speaker 5: five years? I don't. Unless no NFL team wants him,
Speaker 5: then maybe he'll stay. Because I'll give him credit for this,
Speaker 5: I never thought he would do this. He must really
Speaker 5: love coaching football. I personally thought he wanted to continue
Speaker 5: to coach in the NFL. To break down schools record,
Speaker 5: the two huge positives about Bill unbelievable schematically and game
Speaker 5: planning and he clearly really really loves it, because there's
Speaker 5: no other explanation for him to take this North Carolina job.
Speaker 2: He's Ross Tucker, CBS Sports Westwood One, NFL college football
Speaker 2: analyst and host of Ross Tucker Football podcast. The NFL
Speaker 2: MVP race is.
Speaker 5: Just about over. Yeah, I mean it's Josh Allen.
Speaker 4: It's over.
Speaker 5: The guy is unbelievable. Now, listen, there's three games left.
Speaker 5: That's a decent size of games. But what he's just done,
Speaker 5: especially against the Chiefs and the Lions, two games that
Speaker 5: everybody was watching, and even in a losing effort against
Speaker 5: the Rams that was another game everybody watched, and he
Speaker 5: was ridiculous in it. You know, I don't like to
Speaker 5: get too prone to hyperbole, right, I can't, off the
Speaker 5: top of my head think of a quarterback who I
Speaker 5: thought had a higher upside, meaning when they're playing their best.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure. Now we know Josh has had turnover issues.
Speaker 5: You know, he's been inconsistent times in his career. But
Speaker 5: when he's at his best, like he is right now,
Speaker 5: who's better than him? Ever? He's six y five, two
Speaker 5: hundred and forty five pounds. He can run with power
Speaker 5: and speed. Maybe better than any quarterback we've seen. He
Speaker 5: has the strongest arm in the NFL. He's very smart.
Speaker 5: You look around at their skill guys, they're putting up
Speaker 5: forty some points. None of those guys are going in
Speaker 5: to the Pro Bowl this year. I mean maybe James Cook,
Speaker 5: but they're not. He's not throwing the ball to like
Speaker 5: a star receiver tandem like some of the other teams have.
Speaker 5: The guy unbelievable. I think he's got the highest upside
Speaker 5: of any quarterback I've ever seen in my life. For
Speaker 5: when he's playing his best, I don't think anybody can
Speaker 5: top that.
Speaker 4: How concern should the Lions be.
Speaker 5: Very and listen? You know, I'm from Pennsylvania. I do
Speaker 5: the Eagles preseason games. I have no ties or allegiance
Speaker 5: to the Lions. It makes me very very sad, very sad.
Speaker 5: This was supposed to be their year. Now Dan Campbell
Speaker 5: says it might be season enders for Ali McNeil, their
Speaker 5: best defensive lineman, their last defensive lineman standing, and Carlton Davis,
Speaker 5: who's probably their best corner. I don't know I've ever
Speaker 5: seen anything like this. They've lost what seven starters on defense,
Speaker 5: and it's it's a darn shame, Dan, it really I
Speaker 5: I wanted to see I wanted them to see this
Speaker 5: through and I wanted to see what they could accomplish
Speaker 5: this year. Now they'll get some guys back. Angeloni will
Speaker 5: be back, so we'll see that they can get back
Speaker 5: for the playoffs. But it really really stinks. We know that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: That's why I laugh when people say injuries are no excuse.
Speaker 5: Really okay, so maybe injuries are no excuse, but they
Speaker 5: might be the reason. I mean, you watch the games, right,
Speaker 5: You see what the Lions defense was when they had
Speaker 5: Hutchinson and all their starters. Now you watch what it
Speaker 5: is when they've lost all these guys at some point.
Speaker 5: If it's not an excuse, it's darn shore the reason
Speaker 5: why their defense stinks. Now.
Speaker 2: I know that you were doing your game when the
Speaker 2: Eagles and the Steelers were playing, but I watched it.
Speaker 13: Oh you did while you were doing your No, no,
Speaker 13: not I But after I got back to the hotel
Speaker 13: before the Red Eye, I watched it because I watch
Speaker 13: every Eagle snack because I talk about them so much
Speaker 13: during the week.
Speaker 4: Okay, anything jump out at you with that performance?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think you know I do my
Speaker 5: power rankings on the Rossucker Podcast on Tuesday. I'm going
Speaker 5: to have them number one. I think they're pretty clearly
Speaker 5: the most talented roster in the NFL. I think they're
Speaker 5: the best team right now in the NFL. You know
Speaker 5: the thing I said on social media, this thing I
Speaker 5: do for Eagles fans, I hope they appreciate the offensive line.
Speaker 5: That is not normal what they're doing. Then, their last
Speaker 5: drive was ten and a half minutes. Ten and a
Speaker 5: half minutes. The Steelers had two possessions and eleven plays
Speaker 5: in the second half. Never heard of that in my life.
Speaker 5: They haven't given up more than thirteen points the defense,
Speaker 5: and there was a fumble return against the Jags. The
Speaker 5: defense has not given up more than twenty points since
Speaker 5: the buye. It's statistically the best defense since the buye,
Speaker 5: which was Week five. Their receivers are absurd. We saw
Speaker 5: that with Devonte Smith and A J. Brown yesterday. You
Speaker 5: know about Saquan the only real question mark is Hurts.
Speaker 5: When he plays at that level like he did yesterday,
Speaker 5: good luck, right Like to beat them, you're gonna have
Speaker 5: to force Hurts to beat you, and he's gonna have
Speaker 5: to have a bad game. It's like, you know, force
Speaker 5: the other team to shoot threes or whatever in hoops
Speaker 5: and they have an off night and they're missing him.
Speaker 5: That's your only shot right now against the Eagles. Stop
Speaker 5: the run, force Hurts to make plays in the in
Speaker 5: the passing game. Hope that he has a bad game
Speaker 5: and you win.
Speaker 4: Safe travels. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 5: Thank you always, Dan, thanks for having me.
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Speaker 2: Gary Danielson CB a sports lead college football analyst. He
Speaker 2: was on the call with Brad Nessler Army Navy. I
Speaker 2: wanted to have you on biggest reason. I wanted to
Speaker 2: tell you did a great job. Wow, it was a great,
Speaker 2: great call with you and Brad. You captured it, and
Speaker 2: I wanted to tell you then, well.
Speaker 6: That's really nuicte. We we got a text, not we,
Speaker 6: Brad knows these guys better than I do.
Speaker 10: We got a text from coach Ushevski during during the
Speaker 10: game saying how much he enjoyed and that we were
Speaker 10: capturing it.
Speaker 6: So you two great minds. I think a light on
Speaker 6: this one you know, uh.
Speaker 2: He probably didn't like the ending though, since he went
Speaker 2: to Wesboint.
Speaker 10: Hey, you know, there's a lot of pressure doing that game.
Speaker 10: I've done every major you know, rivalry game. There is Texas, Oklahoma, Auburn, Alabama,
Speaker 10: u c L A national championship. You just want to
Speaker 10: do it right, you know, you know what I mean.
Speaker 10: I mean, I feel such great vibes about those players.
Speaker 10: They have to be full time students, full time you know, cadets, and.
Speaker 6: Then they got to play football on top of that.
Speaker 10: And the first time I did it, I was really
Speaker 10: nervous and I was doing it with vern and I
Speaker 10: told Vern Man, Vernon, I don't I don't know, we
Speaker 10: get know, I just I don't not familiar with this.
Speaker 10: And we interviewed a player the first time I was
Speaker 10: there day and we went and visited and the first
Speaker 10: player we interviewed said, ah, guys, I love you. I
Speaker 10: grew up watching SEC football. We always watch SEC. Here's
Speaker 10: the only thing we asked, don't create us on a curve.
Speaker 6: I went, man, how cool is that?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 6: I mean the.
Speaker 10: Guy's saying that because those guys love playing football.
Speaker 2: But trying to call a perfect game it's like trying
Speaker 2: to play a perfect game.
Speaker 6: You can't, right, Oh, I messed up, there's no doubt. Yeah.
Speaker 10: I think when Hide and Wright scored, I think I
Speaker 10: called him Eric hiden Wright.
Speaker 6: Because Eric heiden You know, I just went with the
Speaker 6: I just flew it together.
Speaker 10: You know. I think Brad got it right. I don't
Speaker 10: think I did. But yeah, I get nervous. I don't
Speaker 10: get nervous for anything. I never gotten nervous when I played.
Speaker 10: I don't get nervous for other games. Don't get nervous
Speaker 10: talking to important people.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 10: But I want to give the game it's due. That's
Speaker 10: really what I try to do.
Speaker 4: And it's the one game.
Speaker 2: I think it's a standalone game where the pictures are
Speaker 2: more important than anything that's said, because you're trying to
Speaker 2: capture what you don't need to capture, because we get
Speaker 2: to see it with you.
Speaker 10: God, I had a big sign on my board, you
Speaker 10: know my monitor. Don't talk too much because of what
Speaker 10: you just said. You know, our producer, Craig Silver has
Speaker 10: done it forever. You know, I think we've done now
Speaker 10: sixteen of these together. Steve Milton, our director, also directs.
Speaker 10: You know, the Masters golf and our crews out there
Speaker 10: with the march on the whole thing, I mean, all
Speaker 10: of them. I love doing this game, but it's a
Speaker 10: big commitment. You know, you've got president coming in. I
Speaker 10: interviewed President Obama and I have in the past interviewed
Speaker 10: President Elect Trump, and then he was in the booth
Speaker 10: next to us.
Speaker 6: So you can feel it.
Speaker 10: I mean you can feel it. And it looks like,
Speaker 10: I don't know, Dan, you can help on this. They
Speaker 10: might be losing the standalone part of this game.
Speaker 14: Absolutely, I know, and that's why I was wanting to
Speaker 14: knock on the bulletproof glass next to Trump and say, hey,
Speaker 14: why don't you just pass the law.
Speaker 6: It seems like you can.
Speaker 10: Do this that there can be no other game in
Speaker 10: the afternoon but this game Army Navy.
Speaker 4: That's a good idea.
Speaker 2: But you're right, because of the extended playoffs, I think
Speaker 2: that they're going to encroach on Army and Navy. This
Speaker 2: might be the last weekend, the last year that it's
Speaker 2: a standalone game. Let me ask you about the other
Speaker 2: news on Saturday, Travis Hunter winning the Heisman. But if
Speaker 2: you're a GM or a coach, how are you using
Speaker 2: him in the NFL.
Speaker 10: I would use them the way they use diam back
Speaker 10: the way when he played. You know, I would use
Speaker 10: him with things that he does well. He seems to
Speaker 10: handle fifty to fifty balls really well. He plays defense well.
Speaker 10: I don't see why he can't in modern football play
Speaker 10: fifteen important snaps in the game at corner or covering
Speaker 10: the slot.
Speaker 8: Or more.
Speaker 10: Excuse me, I wanted to flip it, you know, play
Speaker 10: regular defense. I'd use them at corner and then play
Speaker 10: maybe ten twelve plays on offense when you need him
Speaker 10: in the red zone. He seems to be up for it.
Speaker 10: And I don't see why. First of all, more players
Speaker 10: can't do that if you use them smartly. And I
Speaker 10: think you know, his coach was the best at it
Speaker 10: back in the day.
Speaker 2: With the playoffs going on and the transfer portal coinciding
Speaker 2: with this, how did the grown ups not see that
Speaker 2: this could be a problem.
Speaker 10: Well, you saw, I heard you're talking to Russ Tucker,
Speaker 10: you know, with bro Travula. I don't quite understand the
Speaker 10: whole mechanics of why Bo has to leave the team,
Speaker 10: Why he can't entle the portal tell the coach or
Speaker 10: team that wants them.
Speaker 6: You know, we don't know who it is.
Speaker 10: It might be I you, For all we know where
Speaker 10: he's going to go, right, it might be an important
Speaker 10: team down the line. I don't know why he can't
Speaker 10: stay on the team and say, coach, I would never
Speaker 10: quit on you. But I'm not saying he's quitting. I
Speaker 10: understand he's in it, but I don't know why he
Speaker 10: can't finish it out as the backup quarterback. I mean,
Speaker 10: I don't see why he can't finish this game. There's
Speaker 10: been plenty of pro players who finished out their season
Speaker 10: knowing that they were going to be free agents the
Speaker 10: next year.
Speaker 6: I don't see what.
Speaker 10: The big deal is. Is it the fact that he
Speaker 10: has to sign an nil Now? I would look right
Speaker 10: at the coach and go, why would you want me?
Speaker 10: If I'm willing to leave the team I am on now,
Speaker 10: a team that can win.
Speaker 6: The championship, you shouldn't want me if I want to
Speaker 6: do that. So I don't quite get it.
Speaker 10: I think the sm you quarterback has decided he's going
Speaker 10: to be in the portal and he's playing it. Ohio
Speaker 10: status seven guys in the portal that are playing.
Speaker 6: In the game. I don't know why bo has.
Speaker 10: To leave and he's a good player, by the way, Yeah,
Speaker 10: a very good player.
Speaker 6: But I don't know why he has to leave now.
Speaker 10: I'm sure if his parents were here or they could
Speaker 10: explain it, but I don't understand it.
Speaker 2: You bring up a great point if if I'm transferring
Speaker 2: to your school and you want me to give up
Speaker 2: on my team who's in the playoffs and could win
Speaker 2: a couple of games, is that the kind of guy
Speaker 2: that you want on your team. But I am told, though, Gary,
Speaker 2: these coaches are saying, we don't want you to risk
Speaker 2: getting hurt too bad.
Speaker 1: Too bad.
Speaker 6: You know, I get hurt, I get hurt.
Speaker 5: I mean I can get hurt.
Speaker 6: In spring ball with you. I don't get it.
Speaker 10: That's I hope that that's the advice I'd be giving
Speaker 10: my son.
Speaker 6: But again, there's always more things.
Speaker 10: Remember early in the year, we were talking about the
Speaker 10: UNLV quarterback you know, quit on it, you know, and
Speaker 10: that was more complicated than the story that we were
Speaker 10: led to believe, you know, I mean, his head coach
Speaker 10: at holy Cross came up and said he turned down
Speaker 10: a half a million to go to UNLV.
Speaker 6: And then, you know, so there's more pages all the
Speaker 6: time than we know, but I don't know.
Speaker 10: I love college football. It's funny. I got my pretty
Speaker 10: jersey in the back. You know, I don't My team
Speaker 10: didn't do so good this year.
Speaker 6: But I wasn't great in college. I never really caught it.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 10: I wasn't as disciplined as I was when I got
Speaker 10: in the NFL. I wasn't as disciplined when I had
Speaker 10: a family and I knew kids are on the way.
Speaker 10: It was much more dedicated, you know, to it. But
Speaker 10: I hope he doesn't regret this because I've regretted the
Speaker 10: way I played.
Speaker 6: You know, I let a lot of my still feel
Speaker 6: like I let a lot of.
Speaker 10: My teammates down at Purdue, and I regretted that my
Speaker 10: whole life.
Speaker 2: Give me the surprise this opening weekend of the college
Speaker 2: football playoffs.
Speaker 6: I think i U has a shot against Notre Dame.
Speaker 10: I know they're good. You know, I've seen I you
Speaker 10: up close. We saw Notre Dame against USC. This is
Speaker 10: not a great USC football team, and that was not
Speaker 10: a great home field advantage. They played him pretty good,
Speaker 10: you know, an interception at the last end.
Speaker 6: I like that.
Speaker 10: I think SMU has a little bit of speed that
Speaker 10: might give Penn State some problems.
Speaker 6: What I don't like about it is I thought Boise State.
Speaker 10: I mean, the charm of the basketball tournament is the
Speaker 10: little guys play in the first round, this whole by
Speaker 10: thing of SMU and Boise State. Wouldn't you have loved
Speaker 10: to see Boise State make and their reward is they
Speaker 10: get a home game against Alabama on the blue.
Speaker 6: Turf in fifteen degree weather. Isn't that the way this
Speaker 6: thing should have been?
Speaker 10: I listen, I know the people that put this stuff together,
Speaker 10: they're great character people. But when it was put together,
Speaker 10: the PAC twelve was still alive and this thing kind
Speaker 10: of got out of whack.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 10: They'll fix it, you know, in arrears. But it'll get better.
Speaker 10: It's way better than it was before.
Speaker 6: But I got a question for you. You're always good
Speaker 6: at throwingis at me. If you're an.
Speaker 10: IU fan, would you rather have a win over Notre
Speaker 10: Dame or IU basketball makes the finals in the NCAA
Speaker 10: Tournament this year?
Speaker 2: Well, knowing the state of Indiana, I would say making
Speaker 2: it to the NCUBLEA title game in basketball.
Speaker 10: I was kidding the IU fans when I did a
Speaker 10: radio show that until this year, the IU football fan
Speaker 10: were not even aware that there was an ESPN ranking
Speaker 10: show all year during the season until this year, and
Speaker 10: they said, oh my god, they do this every week.
Speaker 6: We didn't know that.
Speaker 2: So well, you could dine out on beating Notre Dame
Speaker 2: for a long long time.
Speaker 6: That's for sure. And they've got a good team. They're
Speaker 6: a really good team. They didn't you know.
Speaker 10: That was the big lights against Ohio State was a
Speaker 10: little bit different for them.
Speaker 6: But you know, I think they're going to play well
Speaker 6: in this football game.
Speaker 4: What if Ohio State loses?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 10: Really I really think early in that game, when they
Speaker 10: got their quarterback nicked early in that game, I wonder
Speaker 10: if that affected their play calling because it just didn't
Speaker 10: make any sense to me running right into the teeth
Speaker 10: of the Michigan football team like that. And I don't
Speaker 10: know if Howard and I got tackled early. I just
Speaker 10: wondered if that threw off the way they played. I
Speaker 10: think they're going to be ready. I don't know if
Speaker 10: you've heard us late in the game. One of the
Speaker 10: things that Brad and I had talked about was at
Speaker 10: the end of the year of the flag planning, and
Speaker 10: I kind of take that flag planning two ways, you know.
Speaker 10: One it's the coach's job to say this ain't happening.
Speaker 10: If we win, all right, we're gonna win with class.
Speaker 10: But if I was on the other side, if I
Speaker 10: was out of state, or and all right, you beat
Speaker 10: us parents square, but that doesn't mean you get to
Speaker 10: do that to our football feel.
Speaker 6: That's a whole new game.
Speaker 10: You get the w and you get the bragging rights,
Speaker 10: but you don't plant your flag in the middle of
Speaker 10: the field. And that's why we ended up our game
Speaker 10: talking about one thing we know about Army Navy.
Speaker 6: They're not worried about at the end of the game planning.
Speaker 10: Flags of their school because they respect the other side
Speaker 10: too much.
Speaker 6: The only flag they're going to plant.
Speaker 10: Is the flag of the United States of America. And
Speaker 10: I think that's what that game was all about.
Speaker 4: Best college player you ever saw.
Speaker 10: The most dominating player I saw early was Calvin Johnson.
Speaker 10: I saw him as first game as a true freshman,
Speaker 10: and I went, how does anybody ever stop this guy?
Speaker 10: I was like, it's impossible.
Speaker 2: And they're not a passing offense at Georgia exactly.
Speaker 6: At Georgia Tech.
Speaker 10: And I think he made a diving catch early, although
Speaker 10: I will have to say Larry Fitzgerald was right there
Speaker 10: as a freshman too, But I just thought he was
Speaker 10: an amazing body type. And then I think his second catch,
Speaker 10: he was running full speed and he reached back with
Speaker 10: one hand and caught it. And I couldn't believe that
Speaker 10: as well. But I think those you know, i've heard
Speaker 10: you talking about the SEC not involved here.
Speaker 6: I think they might want to bring me back, Dan.
Speaker 10: I got there in two thousand and six, so the
Speaker 10: year before I got there in five, they.
Speaker 6: Didn't have anybody, and I leave this year they don't
Speaker 6: have anybody.
Speaker 10: And the nine of the eighteen years I was there,
Speaker 10: they had the Heisman Trophy winners. So they had a
Speaker 10: pretty good run with championships and Heisman guys. So I
Speaker 10: leave one year and all falls apart, you know. So
Speaker 10: there was a run of them there. But I tell
Speaker 10: you one guy who dominated like I've never seen before
Speaker 10: with the team.
Speaker 6: He had, Cam Newton.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I couldn't believe how he played in the SEC.
Speaker 10: And I don't think there was only one other player
Speaker 10: on that team that even played NFL football.
Speaker 4: Randy Moss stood out.
Speaker 2: Oh I covered him too when I watched Marshall and
Speaker 2: we hope Randy's on the road to recovery. I just
Speaker 2: remember he caught a couple of passes over the middle
Speaker 2: and he was gone. And you know, you can say,
Speaker 2: well he played at Marshall, but he still stood out.
Speaker 4: He was unique.
Speaker 2: And I still don't think we've ever had a wide
Speaker 2: receiver like Randy Moss in the NFL.
Speaker 10: That's pretty true. His top end speed, well you couldn't overthrow.
Speaker 10: They're just you couldn't do it, you know. So, I
Speaker 10: mean I covered a lot of good players, you know,
Speaker 10: I remember the days when Tom was Brady was playing
Speaker 10: at Michigan. He was so upset that you know, he
Speaker 10: wasn't the starter. I mean, his competitive instincts and his
Speaker 10: clutch play at Michigan, especially with the way he was being,
Speaker 10: you know, rotated in, there was something to see, but man,
Speaker 10: and he had the chip on his shoulder and seems
Speaker 10: like he still has it.
Speaker 6: I love the way he competes. I mean, I've had
Speaker 6: a great run here, right you know.
Speaker 10: I mean the first game I ever did was Tydentmer
Speaker 10: beating the Miami number one Miami Hurricanes. I got to
Speaker 10: play with Bernie Cozar you know, and that group of
Speaker 10: guys in Cleveland played with Billy Simms with my running back,
Speaker 10: and now we've got the broadcast with Hall of Favors
Speaker 10: Brent and Verne and now Nessler been pretty good for
Speaker 10: an undrafted free agent, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: OJ Simpson's the first player I saw who was different
Speaker 2: when he was at USC Like you know, I grew
Speaker 2: up an Ohio State fan. Knew they were going to
Speaker 2: always lose when they went to the Rose Bowl, and
Speaker 2: to see Oj it was just him and Gail Sayers
Speaker 2: are the two guys. Jim Brown ran differently, but Gail
Speaker 2: Sayirs and Oj Simpson that ability to cut and glide.
Speaker 2: I'd never seen that before. Those were the first two
Speaker 2: guys that really hit me back in the late sixties.
Speaker 10: Tim great Ones, I'll tell you I was not aware
Speaker 10: by the way that in your Heisman criteria voting is
Speaker 10: taking a hit was one of the things, because I
Speaker 10: can show you a lot of my.
Speaker 6: Taking hits over the years.
Speaker 10: Lawrence Taylor threw me back five yards out of play,
Speaker 10: you know, I mean it was he was incredible. He
Speaker 10: might have been the best player I ever played against,
Speaker 10: was Lawrence Taylor.
Speaker 6: So I was we we actually had a tip. It's funny.
Speaker 10: I did a radio show with Kirk Gibson and he
Speaker 10: said that they always knew that Dwight Gooden tipped his
Speaker 10: pitches and they still couldn't hit him.
Speaker 6: We always when Lawrence Taylor.
Speaker 10: Was going to rush or drop, we would shift our
Speaker 10: protection couldn't block them, you know.
Speaker 6: So it's those guys are special, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Again, pass it on to Brad when you talk to him.
Speaker 2: It was just wonderful. You guys did a great job and.
Speaker 6: It wasn't just us.
Speaker 10: I mean, we had seventy five people that worked really hard,
Speaker 10: veteran people.
Speaker 2: And you can name all of them if you want
Speaker 2: to run down all seventy of them.
Speaker 10: You know they they all will watch your show. And Dan,
Speaker 10: thanks for having me on.
Speaker 6: It's been great.
Speaker 4: Thank you, buddy,