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Speaker 3: Oh what is going on?

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Speaker 4: Welcome in Happy Saturday too. Yes, we get you all

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Speaker 4: set for March Madness Betting Action colore, very chalky NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 4: Thus far, I would like to report here, guys, good

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Speaker 4: morning to you. Guys are Rich and Jared am in

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Speaker 4: one of my bracket pools. I am proudly only trailing

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Speaker 4: roughly teen million people.

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Speaker 5: Congratulations.

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Speaker 3: I don't think bad at all.

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Speaker 6: You know you're in front of me because even though

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Speaker 6: I was saying to you guys, and good morning to you, Brian,

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Speaker 6: good morning to you, Jared and everybody listening to us

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Speaker 6: right now, I know there's a lot of hand ringing

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Speaker 6: going on, because if you're anything like me, my brackets

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Speaker 6: are always chaos.

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Speaker 7: I look at this, the tight spreads.

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Speaker 6: Even if I have zero clue as to what either

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Speaker 6: of those teams look like playing basketball, and I just

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Speaker 6: sprinkle a little chaos in.

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Speaker 7: There are a lot of upsets on my bracket.

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Speaker 6: A lot of the bracket has been busted, and that's okay.

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Speaker 6: That's okay because one thing I did say while we

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Speaker 6: were on air together over the past two weeks and

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Speaker 6: actually ask Seamus this question, is if we should expect

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Speaker 6: more chalk, if we should expect more favorites to win

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Speaker 6: because of where we're at.

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Speaker 7: In nil transfer portal fluidity.

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Speaker 6: You know, the teams who are supposed to win at

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Speaker 6: this point, it almost feels like they will, and they

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Speaker 6: should because if you're a higher seed in the bracket,

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Speaker 6: to me, it signals that you may come from a

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Speaker 6: the season are incredible regular seasons and they somehow found

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Speaker 6: if you have some national recognition, if you were one

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Speaker 6: of those teams who metrically outperformed everyone else, the one

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Speaker 6: thing that typically goes in a direct relationship is the

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Speaker 6: amount of money that's pouring into your basketball program. So

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Speaker 6: I hope this isn't a result that we continue to

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Speaker 6: see throughout this tournament. I hope that this is in

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Speaker 6: a trend that lasts for years to come, but it

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Speaker 8: So you're saying that Mount Saint Mary's in Norfolk State,

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Speaker 8: Robert Morris, Lipscombe, Troy Hey Acrons not too bad. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: they actually performed pretty well. They actually were one of

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Speaker 8: the few underdogs that covered covered the spread, but they

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Speaker 3: One of the few SEC teams.

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Speaker 8: That you know, I would say. So to your original point, Rich,

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Speaker 8: I agree. I actually posted this last night and I'll

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Speaker 8: just read you the post. I'm not saying nil in

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Speaker 5: But I'm not not saying that either. And I think there.

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Speaker 8: Is something to be said because I'll just give you

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Speaker 5: And I do think this could be it.

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Speaker 8: This could be something that when we expand and it's

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Speaker 8: But that's the direction that we're in right now.

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Speaker 8: Can't do anything to change it, but keep an eye

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Speaker 4: It might be I mean, listen, there might be some

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Speaker 4: reminds me of the college football Playoff, right where you

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Speaker 4: But it was the first first year of that expanded playoff.

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Speaker 4: So to your point, Jared, we need a little bit

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Speaker 4: more data. I go data. You guys go data. I

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Speaker 5: I'm a star trek guy, I'm a flipper data.

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Speaker 4: You can just kind of go back and forth, right,

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Speaker 4: Maybe not hardly, you know, like hard committed to one

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Speaker 4: It's incredibly chalky all the first like the ones, the twos,

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Speaker 4: the threes, the four seeds all advanced. Not one upset

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Speaker 4: See, San Diego was pretty much in a coin flip

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Speaker 3: For anybody who might have been on that one.

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Speaker 4: You know, I don't know who on this show might

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Speaker 4: You know, that's the way it goes sometimes. But hey, listen,

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Speaker 4: it's very chalky so far. But I'll tell you what

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Speaker 4: I'm from South Bend, Indiana, as you guys know, but

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Speaker 4: Some of my friends from back home, they get together

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Speaker 4: and they're like, who invited this guy. You know, that's

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Speaker 4: So that's the silver lining. If you're upset guy, and

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And that does actually make me feel better because

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Speaker 6: I am a college basketball fan. First, I think I'm

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Speaker 6: there are definitely sports who I or win. I watch them.

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Speaker 7: So it doesn't matter that much to me.

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Speaker 6: What I'm what I really hope to see is a

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Speaker 6: felt different. But I love competitive March basketball. There's nothing

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Speaker 6: better because it's one and done. It's one and done.

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Speaker 6: It's a season where you know you're playing thirty plus

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Speaker 7: I think it's amazing.

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Speaker 6: I love the setup of this tournament and it really

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Speaker 6: truly does feel like, you know, the Cinderella story is

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Speaker 6: have rags to riches moments where programs are nighted and

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Speaker 6: I love that stuff. I hope we see some interesting

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Speaker 5: Yeah. McNeice is not one of the fifty states, but

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Speaker 8: McNee State plays the first game today. Trying to find

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Speaker 8: I think, uh, I did win one bracket pool two

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Speaker 8: thousand and eight. I was a senior in college. Mario

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Speaker 8: Chalmers hit the shot for Kansas.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was so. I had Kansas.

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Speaker 8: Chalmers hit the shot and then Kansas won an overtime

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Speaker 8: I've ever won the bracket pool Penn State a PI

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Speaker 5: Been a minute.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it was not a very It was not a

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Speaker 8: the games here in Vegas that were in town, and

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Speaker 8: I always tell people like you, just this isn't I know,

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Speaker 8: this is a really fun week to come. It's a

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Speaker 5: Thing because people come to Vegas they want to do stuff.

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Speaker 8: You are chained to the sports book, to your television

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Speaker 5: You can't go anywhere. And oh, by the way, you

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Speaker 8: Thursday, you're drained because you've lost all your money and

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Speaker 8: But I do think the games this weekend, to spend

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Speaker 5: That is the upside and the downside. Brian, you nailed it.

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Speaker 8: The more upsets you have on Thursday and Friday, the

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Speaker 8: I think Houston's really good. But they they they've all

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Speaker 8: I would not be surprised at the favorites with the

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Speaker 8: Remember last year in the round of thirty two, the

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Speaker 8: we saw that again today and tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: But next weekend, oh boy, giddy up.

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Speaker 8: I think we're gonna have an absolute rock fight with

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Speaker 4: Well, I'll just say real fast, I wonder what remains

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Speaker 3: Meaning some of these teams.

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Speaker 4: That either looked great in the first round, like Duke

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Speaker 4: Duke looked fantastic, they got Cooper flagged back which was

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Speaker 4: back from that ankle injury. And then I wonder what changes,

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Speaker 4: You know, think Alabama hopes things change because they were

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Speaker 4: not impressive whatsoever against Robert Morris. You know, they had

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Speaker 4: Grant Nelson had a knee injury. He was questionable to play.

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Speaker 4: What changes? Maybe Alabama looks better. I think they're going

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Speaker 4: But I think we're also conditioned to a team like Yukon,

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Speaker 4: who do they win every game by double digit last season?

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Speaker 4: You know, I in the tournament, right like, they were

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Speaker 3: I'm just curious.

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Speaker 4: That's one thing that I have My eye on is

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I think we probably will.

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Speaker 7: Like you said, there is no.

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Speaker 7: But it's been there's been variety, and there's been injuries.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, very much so. And yeah Auburn.

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Speaker 4: Auburn didn't look great in their first game either, and

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Speaker 3: What's going on with Auburn, right?

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Speaker 4: Rick Patino and John Caliperi sad news in the world

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Speaker 4: of boxing. George Foreman passed away at the age of

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Speaker 4: the most random things I remember about George Foreman, it

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Speaker 4: it was the rop of dope and you know, Ali

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Speaker 4: was just taking a pounding and George Foreman got punched

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Speaker 4: love that he completely owned that. But that's obviously all

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Speaker 4: You know, he's got friend he's got families, got loved

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Speaker 4: liked Mike Tyson's tweet he put up their condolences to

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Speaker 4: George Foreman's family. His contribution to boxing and beyond will

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Speaker 4: never be forgotten. I think sometimes we forget about that

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Speaker 4: him as just an athlete, as much more than that.

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Speaker 4: But sad that he passed away. But what a life

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Speaker 7: Yeah, there's no question.

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Speaker 6: I don't remember obviously the Foreman of the seventies, you know,

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Speaker 6: I grew up in the early nineties and that's when

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Speaker 6: Mike Tyson and Vander holy Field and George Foreman became

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Speaker 7: It was an unbelievable run for boxing.

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Speaker 6: And when George Foreman came back, oddly enough, I didn't

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Speaker 7: Would shatter like wedding crystal. It would be awful.

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Speaker 6: But I remember becoming a bigger fan because his post

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Speaker 6: you know, after the Cooney fight, it became real.

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Speaker 7: He was.

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Speaker 6: He was a great champion and gone too soon because

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I remember the that was the beginning of kind

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Speaker 5: Was the end of his career.

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Speaker 8: That was kind of the great the last great time

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Speaker 5: We haven't really had at a night like since the nineties.

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Speaker 8: It's it's it's unfortunate that boxing has kind of taken

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Speaker 8: I was so young. I was six years old. I

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Speaker 6: And what's crazy is even even though he lost that fight,

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Speaker 6: I remember watching that fight with my parents. They let

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Speaker 7: Leave because he was a draft dodger. Yeah, and so

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Speaker 6: Fact that that Foreman was a champ who gave him trouble.

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Speaker 7: Anyways, long story short, when Michael Moore.

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Speaker 6: I again, that was when I became more of a

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Speaker 7: I wish he had beat him the first time around

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he won the belt, but he couldn't beat Holyfield.

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Speaker 6: I was like, yeah, but that was I mean, he

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Speaker 7: On George forban.

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Speaker 6: athletes who in their post career become almost more than

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Speaker 6: they were when.

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Speaker 7: They were an athlete.

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Speaker 6: And with the lean mean fact reducing machine.

445
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Speaker 7: Lean mean.

446
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Speaker 6: George for mcgrill, he almost became bigger than the sporty came.

447
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Speaker 5: I had that.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's the thing too. I saw that you a

449
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Speaker 4: week or so ago. I'm like, oh, by George Foreman grill,

450
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Speaker 4: But yeah, it does. It reminds me a bit of

451
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Speaker 4: John Madden right with Madden in the video.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, George Foreman and the grill was a huge thing, the.

453
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Speaker 5: Bigger afterwards than he was during his career.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they sold more than one hundred million units.

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Speaker 7: Wow.

456
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Speaker 10: It's very funny because the story, if you hear it

457
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Speaker 10: from another celebrity Hulk Hogan, is that he was the

458
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Speaker 10: first in line to get the grill, like to get

459
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Speaker 10: the sponsorship on the grill, but apparently like he wasn't

460
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Speaker 10: near his phone, like he was somewhere where he wasn't

461
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Speaker 10: near his phone in the agent gated gave it to

462
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Speaker 10: George Forman. Hulk Hogan ended up I guess getting a

463
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Speaker 10: smoothie plender and that nobody wro.

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Speaker 4: Oh, well, yeah, I'm guessing it didn't sell one hundred

465
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Speaker 4: million units.

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Speaker 5: No, no, if you can go look this up.

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Speaker 10: Hulk Hogan tells the story very very funny, where he's like,

468
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Speaker 10: you know, kind of making fun of himself, like, and

469
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Speaker 10: you know, George Foreman got the grill and I got this,

470
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Speaker 10: you know, little thing.

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Speaker 4: But rich Man to your point, I think about when

472
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Speaker 4: he became world heavyweight champ again at forty five years old.

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Speaker 3: I'm forty seven, and.

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Speaker 4: It seems like daily I'll wake up and be like, man,

475
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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's the bed my shoulders that

476
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Speaker 4: to be a heavyweight champion at forty five?

477
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Speaker 5: Is that the worst comeback in sports?

478
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Speaker 7: Is it?

479
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Speaker 5: The greatest comeback in sports.

480
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Speaker 7: It might be.

481
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Speaker 4: It might be because of what it takes in that sport.

482
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Speaker 4: It's one thing for and I know this wasn't a comeback,

483
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Speaker 4: but it's one thing for Tom Brady to play in

484
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Speaker 4: his mid forties playing quarterback in the NFL. It's another thing.

485
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Speaker 4: To be a heavyweight boxer at forty five is insane.

486
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Speaker 4: I remember in his later years what stuck with me,

487
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Speaker 4: George Foreman.

488
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Speaker 3: He wouldn't sit down between rounds.

489
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Speaker 4: He would just stand in the corner, just be like, hey, man,

490
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Speaker 4: if I sit down, that says not good. I was

491
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Speaker 4: just gonna stand up this whole freaking fight. And I

492
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Speaker 4: love that about him. But man, personality and boxing will

493
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Speaker 4: miss him. And that's the thing. A lot of people

494
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Speaker 4: beyond boxing that have nothing to do with boxing will

495
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Speaker 4: miss him a ton too, because he was just a

496
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Speaker 4: charismatic guy. So hey, listen, thoughts and prayers with his

497
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Speaker 4: family and loved ones, because you know, death is always

498
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Speaker 4: a hard thing.

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Speaker 3: But what a life for George Foreman.

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Speaker 7: Hey.

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Speaker 4: It is Fox Sports Radio's Countdown presented by BETMGM. If

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Speaker 4: we spin it forward here, really tasty matchup today. Ten

503
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Speaker 4: seeded Arkansas against the two seated Saint John's Red Storm.

504
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Speaker 4: How we've got Rick Patino against John Caliperi. Of course

505
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Speaker 4: former Can Huckey coaches. Both won a championship there and

506
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Speaker 4: they'll face off today in this matchup, and I cannot

507
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Speaker 4: wait for it.

508
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Speaker 3: And I thought, what was interesting.

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Speaker 4: I was watching a John Caliperi press conference last night

510
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Speaker 4: and he was asked about, Hey, are are you friends

511
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Speaker 4: with Rick Patino and what's the deal here?

512
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Speaker 3: And he's like, oh, we're good. You know, we're good.

513
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Speaker 4: We're exactly We're not bosom buddies here, but you know,

514
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Speaker 4: we respect each other. And you can tell that that

515
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Speaker 4: Cal has a lot of respect for Rick Patino. You

516
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Speaker 4: can tell, you can hear it in his words. But

517
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Speaker 4: he was like, look, he was talking about his great

518
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Speaker 4: relationships with other coaches, and he was like, he's great

519
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Speaker 4: friends with Rick Barnes coach. Cal is, he's great friends

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Speaker 4: with Tom Izzo, Mark Few and he said, but we're

521
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Speaker 4: not in the same league, right, you know, like when

522
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Speaker 4: you go up against Rick Patino, you're you're battling, You're battling,

523
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Speaker 4: like you're.

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Speaker 3: Probably not gonna be the best of friends.

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Speaker 4: It lends itself to ah Man I gotta beat this

526
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Speaker 4: freaking guys in my way again. So they respect each other,

527
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 4: but not exactly the tightest and the way that cal

528
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Speaker 4: explained it, you can absolutely understand the reasons for that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that when you have an opportunity to

530
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Speaker 6: see Rick Patino and John cal Pari in March you have,

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Speaker 6: it feels like planets ligning a little bit, especially when

532
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Speaker 6: we think about the route that it's taken to get

533
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Speaker 6: back to this point for both of these coaches, you know,

534
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Speaker 6: and two very different opening round matchups to get here. Obviously,

535
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Speaker 6: the Razorbacks win over Kansas very different from Saint John's

536
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Speaker 6: thrashing of Omaha.

537
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Speaker 7: But here we are.

538
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Speaker 6: We have an opportunity to watch too well coached teams

539
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Speaker 6: who have been constructed in the eye of their creator

540
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Speaker 6: like these. These are two coaches who embed themselves in

541
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Speaker 6: the recruiting process, who are giving the couch pit bitches

542
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Speaker 6: to the recruits at home as high schoolers before him

543
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Speaker 6: being indoctrinated into the programs, who are active in the

544
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Speaker 6: transfer portal if they can lure a player from another

545
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Speaker 6: more prestigious program potentially to play at their school because

546
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Speaker 6: of the name recognition they have as coaches who have

547
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Speaker 6: been at the top of the heap for a long

548
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Speaker 6: time in college basketball.

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Speaker 7: For good reason. This is a fun matchup. My lean

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Speaker 7: is Arkansas.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I just from a talent disparity standpoint, but

552
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Speaker 6: a really fun matchup.

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Speaker 8: Nonetheless, Yeah, I kind of think that Johnny's are the

554
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Speaker 8: right side here. I don't know, I'm fading the SEC

555
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Speaker 8: now I've been fading. I should have faded the SEC

556
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Speaker 8: the entire tournament. They're five and nine against the spread

557
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Speaker 8: so far, I know, and it's and here are the

558
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 8: five wins. It's Kentucky over Troy, and I should have

559
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Speaker 8: been all over Kentucky because there's a really good trend

560
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Speaker 8: coming into the tournament that if you're off a double

561
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Speaker 8: digit loss against the number, like a bad one like

562
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Speaker 8: twenty point or more loss against the spread, you tend

563
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Speaker 8: to do well in your first turning game. Kentucky's off

564
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Speaker 8: that hillacious blow out against Alabama and the SEC attorney

565
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Speaker 8: you thought they were going to bounce back strong. The

566
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Speaker 8: other wins were ole miss over UNC, and we all've

567
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 8: talked a lot about UNC didn't even I mean, I

568
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 8: think they deserve to be in the tournament. You want

569
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Speaker 8: to make the argument. Then West Virginia, I can you

570
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 8: know you're blue in the face. I know the bubble

571
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Speaker 8: Cunningham thing, but I think UNC at least proved that

572
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Speaker 8: they're one of the sixty four best teams in the field.

573
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Speaker 8: But when you go up against an old miss, you

574
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Speaker 8: really kind of come back down to earth, and they

575
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Speaker 8: had a terrible first half. Saint Mary's beat Vanderbilt didn't cover,

576
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Speaker 8: So Vanderbilt covered the number but lost the game. So

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Speaker 8: you know, it's kind of like a phony fagezy cover.

578
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Speaker 8: It was kind of a weird game. I think Mary's

579
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Speaker 8: probably should have covered that game, just had such a

580
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 8: bad first half that just couldn't overcome it. The other

581
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Speaker 8: two covers for the SEC was A and M against Yale,

582
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Speaker 8: which was a mismatch and I know Yale won last year,

583
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Speaker 8: but it was a mismatch and Arkansas as a dog

584
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Speaker 8: one of the few underdogs that actually did win out right,

585
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 8: eating Kansas, who I think we've all talked about a

586
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 8: lot about Kansas this year. Very overrated, so no surprise there.

587
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 8: So the wins for the SEC against the spread were

588
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Speaker 8: not very impressive, and I there's something to be said

589
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Speaker 8: about this SEC having a down tournament. We talked about it.

590
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Speaker 8: I think last week Ken Pomp put out that article

591
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Speaker 8: about the Big Twelve. Last year, the Big Twelve had

592
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Speaker 8: this historically good non conference season, didn't have anybody make

593
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Speaker 8: it past the sweet sixteen in the NCAA Tournament. I

594
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 8: don't think that's gonna happen with the SEC. I think

595
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Speaker 8: we're gonna see multiple teams in the Elite eight and

596
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Speaker 8: Final four. But I think those middle tier teams, which

597
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Speaker 8: I would put Arkansas in, I don't think they're as

598
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Speaker 8: good as the ratings are indicating. And I think because

599
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Speaker 8: of that, I'm gonna be fading a lot of those

600
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Speaker 8: teams this weekend.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, when you look at Saint John's

602
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Speaker 4: as far as the matchup goes, you know, you look

603
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Speaker 4: at their defense, number one in the country. They switch

604
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 4: a lot, they're physical, they collapse on you, all those things.

605
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 4: They make layups, rins hard. Their three point defense is

606
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 4: really good. The question about Saint John's, We've kept on

607
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 4: banging the table. Can they make enough shots? Can Arkansas

608
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 4: force Saint John's into a game where they have to

609
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 4: make a good amount of shots?

610
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Speaker 7: Right?

611
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Speaker 11: Like?

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Speaker 4: That's that's the challenge right there. And cal Going back

613
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Speaker 4: to his press conference, I thought was really interesting. He

614
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 4: made a point where he's like, I would guess that

615
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 4: Saint John's averages maybe about seventeen ish points off of turnovers,

616
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Speaker 4: and he's like, so if you have like double digit

617
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Speaker 4: live ball turnovers that lead to points, He's like, you

618
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 4: have no shot. We have no shot, So you have

619
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Speaker 4: to protect the basketball. So that's one thing to keep

620
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 4: an eye on turnovers leading to easy transition points for

621
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Speaker 4: Saint John's something to absolutely keep in mind. And how

622
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Speaker 4: about this game being in Providence with Rip Potito and

623
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Speaker 4: his roots coaching at Providence. I swear the committee is like,

624
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Speaker 4: this is like Bubba Cunningammy. He excluded him out for

625
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 4: the North Carolina conversations, and I feel like he just

626
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 4: walked back in like, all right, guys, how about this,

627
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Speaker 4: Maybe maybe we have RiPP Patino and Caliperi and let's

628
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Speaker 4: put it in Providence.

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Speaker 5: Eye They do that a lot.

630
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Speaker 8: You do notice that with the round of thirty two matchups,

631
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Speaker 8: the committee has a sense of humor.

632
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Speaker 6: They do, they do, and also they have a sense

633
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 6: of what's the word a gravitas, Like they do want

634
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 6: fans to show up to these games. And like we

635
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 6: know sometimes you know, it be a UC San Diego

636
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Speaker 6: playing in the Midwest, where are they really going to

637
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 6: have a contingent of fans. No, but occasionally when you can,

638
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Speaker 6: when you can sort of put a coach or a

639
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Speaker 6: player or players back into a city that they have

640
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Speaker 6: some sort of historical precedent in, or you know, or

641
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Speaker 6: near a city, well then all of a sudden you

642
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 6: have a little bit more intrigued. So I do think

643
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Speaker 6: some of that stuff is intentional where where these teams

644
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 6: are placed. But yeah, in terms of this matchup, look,

645
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Speaker 6: Arkansas is one of the few teams in this bracket

646
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 6: or left in this bracket who can deal with Saint

647
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Speaker 6: John's length. They and what you said, Brian is not untrue.

648
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 6: I think that if Arkansas falls behind in any way,

649
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 6: it's gonna be because the Johnnys like to put you

650
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 6: in the pressure cooker. They're gonna force turnovers, They're gonna

651
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 6: try to get easy buckets in transition, and they do.

652
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Speaker 6: Here's where I could see Arkansas taking advantage and it

653
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 6: could be all game long. Saint John's has a little

654
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Speaker 6: bit of trouble stopping teams who like to play hard

655
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Speaker 6: to the rim. And Arkansas's free throw rate has been

656
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 6: surprisingly good as they've entered the postseason of college basketball.

657
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Speaker 6: So getting to the basket, taking a foul, getting to

658
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 6: the charity stripe, making your shots, that could be a

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Speaker 6: rubric for success for the Razorbacks against the Johnnys.

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Speaker 7: I think it's.

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Speaker 6: Possible that we see that we see the separation occur

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Speaker 6: in a very methodical fashion for Arkansas here today.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna be a fun game. I do think

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Speaker 5: it's gonna be a fun game.

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Speaker 8: I'm curious how Boogie Flan bounces back, right, the freshman

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Speaker 8: that was injured for a big part of the year

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Speaker 8: for Arkansas, was supposed to play about ten to fifteen

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Speaker 8: minutes against Kansas, ended up playing twenty four minutes against Kansas.

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Speaker 8: Played really well, you know, seem definitely seemed like he

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Speaker 8: was in the flow of the game.

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Speaker 5: Three steals, three.

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Speaker 8: Assists, took a few shots, had six points, didn't have

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Speaker 8: a ton of you know, scoring opportunities. But I think

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Speaker 8: him bouncing back on forty eight hours rest is gonna

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Speaker 8: be key because you saw the athleticism that he brings

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Speaker 8: to the table. For the most part, this is a

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Speaker 8: relatively young Arkansas team. They do have John al Davis,

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Speaker 8: who's the you know, the senior from that FAU team

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Speaker 8: that made the run a couple of years ago, and

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Speaker 8: a dude the big man in the middle. Those are

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Speaker 8: the experienced players for Arkansas. The rest of the players

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Speaker 8: are pretty much underclassman. They had this stud kid, Theirero,

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Speaker 8: who was on his way back. They thought he might

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Speaker 8: be able to return today, but we actually just Rossin

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Speaker 8: just tweeted a few minutes ago that he's not gonna

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Speaker 8: play today. So I think Saint John's is gonna win

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Speaker 8: the game. Are they gonna cover the number? Probably? But

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Speaker 8: you never know, right, I mean these games, based on

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Speaker 8: what we've seen over the last two days, it feels

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Speaker 8: like it's a pretty easy weekend. Just pick the favorites

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Speaker 8: and you're gonna do well. But the best, best laid plans,

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Speaker 8: advice and men usually right.

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Speaker 4: It just feels like there's gotta be a kind But

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Speaker 8: Thing is, I think the madness has kind of taken

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Speaker 8: this year in college basketball, I feel like the favorites

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Speaker 4: Yes, we each have a voice. We each have a

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Speaker 4: voice in this edition of the parlay Platter. Share it,

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Speaker 4: start us off. What do you have?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, the democratic platter is back. We're done with the

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Speaker 5: I'm old some bread pudding, all right.

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Speaker 8: Gonzaga was bread pudding in their first round matchup. They

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Speaker 8: made Georgia look like Man, I'll tell you what. They

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Speaker 8: didn't look like an SEC team.

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Speaker 5: So how about this?

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Speaker 8: The Zags have made it to the Sweet sixteen in

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Speaker 8: nine straight attorneys, but they won't do it in ten

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Speaker 8: because they face Houston today and this is a tough matchup.

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Speaker 8: So this reminds me of the Big twelve Tournament. Remember

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Speaker 8: the Big twelve Tournament? Last weekend, guys, BYU scored ninety

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Speaker 8: six points. They went eighteen for thirty six from three

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Speaker 8: against Iowa State. Then they played Houston the next day

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Speaker 8: and they went from ninety six points to fifty four

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Speaker 8: points and eighteen may threes.

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Speaker 5: To six for twenty eight from three.

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Speaker 8: The Zags had a fantastic shooting game against Georgia twelve

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Speaker 8: for twenty from deep. They're gonna struggle today from deep

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Speaker 8: against Houston. I think the Kuges on the money line.

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Speaker 5: First leg of the parlay.

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Speaker 7: All right, all right, give me BYU.

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Speaker 6: You mentioned them there a close dog to Wisconsin here

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Speaker 6: the Badgers. Here's basically what I'll distill this down to.

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Speaker 6: If BYU can be.

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Speaker 7: Better on the offensive boards.

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Speaker 6: I don't think there's many metrics that I like the

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Speaker 6: Badgers better than them in. So give me BYU on

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Speaker 6: the money line.

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Speaker 7: That to the parlay. Stirred in the pot. Let's see

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Speaker 7: what kind of odds we can get with b nose pick. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna go crazy with the odds, you know.

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna give you like a first field goal scorer,

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Speaker 4: you know, but give me the Johnnies. I'll go money

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Speaker 4: line with the Johnny's here I put it this way,

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Speaker 4: I think that there's a better chance Saint John's covers

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Speaker 4: the spread than they lose the game outright. They're just

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Speaker 4: a better team than Arkansas here and the defense that

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Speaker 4: they play, the physicality. I just they've lost four games

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Speaker 4: by a combined seven points.

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Speaker 3: Like even their losses are impressive.

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Speaker 4: I just I don't see Saint John's losing the game

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Speaker 4: outright and not advancing to the Sweet six team. So

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Speaker 4: I'll take the Johnny's what minus three hundred, little bit

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Speaker 4: of added value on the in the parlay platter here,

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Speaker 4: but not bad when you're parlaying.

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Speaker 3: Two other legs to it. Give me the Johnnys.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not bad.

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Speaker 8: I mean we take Houston their minus to thirty five

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Speaker 8: Johnny's or three dollars face and then byu is basically

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Speaker 8: it's kind of a coin flip. I mean there are

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Speaker 8: one point dog gets, basically a coin flip PLUSQ.

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Speaker 5: Eighty not bad.

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Speaker 8: I'll be honest. I think this is a good parlay guys.

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Speaker 8: I think BYU's obviously the toss up game here, but

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Speaker 8: that makes the odds a little sweeter, and I think

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Speaker 8: Houston and Johnny's I think that in and.

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Speaker 3: Of itself is a good parlay. All right, tasty?

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Speaker 5: Right there you go?

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Speaker 3: All right, come it up.

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Speaker 4: Why is this player acting like his team is a

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Speaker 3: Yes, welcome in.

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Speaker 4: YU against Wisconsin, expecting points in this one.

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Speaker 3: I would not be on the.

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Speaker 4: Underson scanting the Badgers against BYU. But we start off

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Speaker 4: with ball, you know, ball always on the brain over

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Speaker 4: here and Aaron Rodgers he met with the Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 4: for six hours yesterday, a six hours sit down. And

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Speaker 4: I think the first part of this is the Steelers

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Speaker 4: and Rodgers need each other, right Like the Steelers don't

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Speaker 4: have a better option than Rogers for this season, and

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Speaker 4: Rogers certainly doesn't have a better option than the Steelers

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Speaker 4: for this season, the Vikings have moved on. They're like,

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Speaker 4: you know, enough of this wishy, washy Rogers guy. We're

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Speaker 4: committed to JJ McCarthy. So I think they both need

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Speaker 4: each other. I think it makes sense if Rodgers wants

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Speaker 4: to continue his career. I think it's in Pittsburgh. I

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Speaker 4: think the options right now are Purple and Gold or retire.

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Speaker 3: That's pretty much where it is right now. That's his market.

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Speaker 6: I feel like Pittsburgh might be a match, I think,

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Speaker 6: and from from this standpoint, In this standpoint alone, I

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Speaker 6: feel like Rogers isn't going to sign with a team

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Speaker 6: that doesn't have a chance. And when you're coached by

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Speaker 6: Mike Tomlin, you have a chance. And so that's really

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Speaker 6: where I think.

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Speaker 7: The interest stops for Rogers.

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Speaker 6: I don't think he'd be all that interested to play

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Speaker 6: for the Steelers unless he was backed into the corner,

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Speaker 6: which I think he is right now, which is there's

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Speaker 6: a lot of teams out there who could use his help,

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Speaker 6: but he doesn't want to join arms with them because

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Speaker 6: they don't really have a chance to turn things around

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Speaker 6: in the near future, or at least that's what it

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Speaker 6: looks like on the outside looking in.

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Speaker 7: This moment, and.

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Speaker 6: Then you have a lot of teams that just aren't interested.

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Speaker 6: You know, they're on a path where they could potentially

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Speaker 6: have success. Maybe they are a quarterback away, and there's

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Speaker 6: only a few teams like this and they're just not interested,

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Speaker 6: the Vikings being one of them. You know, could Rogers

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Speaker 6: step into a situation that Minnesota hasn't be helpful? Yeah,

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Speaker 6: but Minnesota's like, do we want to sign up for

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Speaker 6: that headache?

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Speaker 11: No?

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 6: I mean, that's truthfully where I think I think Rogers

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Speaker 6: is in his career. I think there's a lot of

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Speaker 6: teams out there who would would strongly consider. Okay, like

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Speaker 6: close your eyes and pretend there's no aura around Aaron

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Speaker 6: Rodgers and just think about the stats. A four time MVP,

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Speaker 6: a Super Bowl winner, a man with almost twenty years

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Speaker 6: of NFL veterans experience and success. He's the type of

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Speaker 6: player that you would want to step in and help

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Speaker 6: continue to groom an injured rookie quarterback coming back to

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Speaker 6: essentially replay his rookie season.

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Speaker 7: Aaron Rodgers would be a perfect then, but he's just

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Speaker 7: not because of all the baggage that comes with him.

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Speaker 5: I agree.

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Speaker 8: I think the Vikings would be a good fit for that.

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Speaker 8: But I also think there's this there's just this cloud

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Speaker 8: around him, and.

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Speaker 5: That's what happens when you're in contact.

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Speaker 8: And I said this last year and I took he

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Speaker 8: four I'll say it again, Aaron. I hope you're listening

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Speaker 8: about content creator first quarterback second.

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Speaker 5: That's the vibe I get, and there's nothing wrong with that.

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Speaker 5: I'm a content creator. We're all content creators here on

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Speaker 5: the show.

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Speaker 8: The difference is none of us here on the show

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Speaker 8: also play quarterback in the NFL.

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Speaker 5: This is our job. It's a full time.

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Speaker 8: Job to do this and to be on shows and

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Speaker 8: to give your opinion in the media and to have podcasts.

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Speaker 8: And I know there are more players that are doing

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Speaker 8: this during their careers now more than ever, and that's great.

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Speaker 8: And I've said that publicly on this show that I

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Speaker 8: think professional athletes having their voices heard during their careers

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Speaker 8: is helping me as a handicapper. It's helping a lot

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Speaker 8: of fans get the inside, behind the scenes of what

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Speaker 8: goes on with these teams. But you need to have

878
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 8: discipline and you need to have a firewall at some

879
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 8: point because being a full time quarterback in the NFL

880
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 8: is a time commitment, and being a content creator and

881
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 8: focusing on creating content for your audience is a time commitment,

882
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 8: and there is only so much time in the day.

883
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 8: And I don't understand how you could do both. I

884
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 8: don't understand how I could do this job here with

885
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 8: you guys every week and be as prepared as I

886
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 8: am every week to give you the takes and the

887
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 8: angles and this and that, and then still go to

888
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 8: work work out, understand an offense, know the playbook, get

889
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 8: to know the coaches, this that, and be a full

890
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 8: time quarterback in the NFL. Like I just, I don't

891
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 8: understand how you can do both jobs. It's just it

892
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 8: to me. It's it's really hard. And I think Aaron

893
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 8: is kind of in between right now. He came out

894
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 8: with that Netflix documentary during the freaking season during the season.

895
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 8: I just I think a lot of teams are really

896
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 8: turned off by that. And I think that's why you're

897
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 8: dealing with this. And He's gonna milk this thing as

898
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 8: long as possible, you know why, Cause it's good content

899
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 8: to milk this thing as long as possible. And I

900
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 8: don't know, I mean, maybe Pittsburgh's the right answer, but

901
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 8: I wouldn't be shocked if it continues to milk.

902
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.

903
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 4: There's one other angle I wanted to throw at you

904
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 4: guys that I thought was hilarious this week. So I

905
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 4: halfway get it and that halfway don't. This is Cam Hayward,

906
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 4: longtime defensive lineman with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

907
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 7: Right.

908
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 4: He was on the Not Just Football podcast and he

909
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 4: was being asked about Aaron Rodgers and quarterback free agency

910
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 4: and all that good stuff. So this is his first

911
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 4: comment about the pitch for Aaron Rodgers.

912
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 7: Check this out, frek Steeler.

913
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 5: You don't.

914
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:33,240
Speaker 11: That's that's simple.

915
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 1: That's the pitch.

916
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 11: Like if you want me to recruit, that's the recruiting

917
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 11: pitch Pittsburgh Steelers. If you want to be part of it,

918
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 11: so be If you don't, no skin on my back.

919
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, So that's the first You either want

920
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 4: to be a Steeler or you don't take it or leave.

921
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 5: Huh.

922
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:50,439
Speaker 3: That's the pitch.

923
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:52,760
Speaker 4: No, not a whole lot of wooing right there. Okay,

924
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 4: I get that, that's fine, But the other careless, Yeah,

925
00:46:58,239 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 4: the other part.

926
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 3: Of this just crack me up.

927
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 4: Where he's just like, oh, my gosh, I just switch

928
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 4: this switch over. Here's Cam Hayward on the same podcast.

929
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 11: I wanna play football. I'm tired of talking about the

930
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 11: quarterback situation. I'd rather have it done. I don't know

931
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 11: what ends up happening. I don't know, man, Like this

932
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 11: is like I'm ready to move on in the free agency.

933
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 11: It's is too much.

934
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 4: Going on, right That's the part that kills me here.

935
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 4: This is what I think about Cam Hayward. He's acting

936
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 4: like his team, the Steelers, is a famous actor. Now,

937
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 4: I think about how how many women would want to

938
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 4: be with a famous actor. That's a good looking guy.

939
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:47,319
Speaker 4: He's got a ton of money, he's known. Like that's

940
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 4: what he's acting like, Like, Oh gosh, this free agency

941
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 4: and it's it's dragging on for multiple weeks now, Oh

942
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 4: my gosh, it's like, that's not what the Steelers are

943
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 4: right now. Thelast time the Steelers won a playoff game

944
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 4: was nine seasons ago. It was the twenty sixteen season.

945
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 4: Just to give you a refresher, it was the eighteen

946
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 4: to sixteen game the Steelers won at the Chiefs. There

947
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 4: was a holding penalty on a two point conversion. It

948
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:23,839
Speaker 4: was called on Eric Fisher holding James Harrison. That's the

949
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 4: last time they won a playoff game. That was Antonio

950
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 4: Brown doing the Facebook live video in the locker room after.

951
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 4: That's the last time they've won. So that's the thing.

952
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 4: The Steelers. They're basically as a guy. They're a nine

953
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 4: to five guy with average looks, average bank roll. If

954
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 4: you want to date the hot girl, you're going shopping

955
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 4: on Sundays instead of watching the NFL. Okay, And the

956
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 4: Steelers are acting like.

957
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it's tragging on.

958
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 4: For that's the position you're in, that's where you're at.

959
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 4: So I just found that hysterical. It's like, you're not

960
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:03,320
Speaker 4: willing to wait what a couple extra days for Rogers

961
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 4: to make up his.

962
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 3: Mind that that's where you are.

963
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 4: So I just think the mentality is funny by the

964
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:09,479
Speaker 4: Steelers right here.

965
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 7: I don't disagree with you.

966
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:15,320
Speaker 6: I think that the Steelers' brand is probably more potent

967
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 6: than the Steelers, and that happens sometimes sometimes when fortune

968
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 6: flips and there's a little bit of a disturbance in

969
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 6: the forest. Like for years there the Dodgers, right they

970
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 6: were this regular season Darling, they would win their division constantly.

971
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:38,919
Speaker 6: They would get to the postseason and flame out for

972
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 6: year decades. That was kind of the story with the

973
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 6: Dodgers is you knew that they were gonna get over

974
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 6: ninety wins, but as soon as they got to the

975
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 6: wild card or the divisional or the league series, something

976
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 6: was gonna go haywire. They were gonna be sent back

977
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 6: to La scratching their heads and trying to come up

978
00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 6: with answers. Well, they still entered every conversation with the

979
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:06,720
Speaker 6: same swagger. And when I say they, I'm talking about

980
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 6: a lot of different players over those decades who you

981
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:13,800
Speaker 6: heard from. There's a swagger that comes with a brand,

982
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 6: and the Pittsburgh Steelers have that. They're traditionally one of

983
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 6: the better teams in the NFL. They play in a

984
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 6: fierce division in the AFC North. They have played runs

985
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 6: over the past half decade because it's been a long

986
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:30,839
Speaker 6: time since they've had any sort of positive postseason momentum.

987
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 7: But they still have that swagger.

988
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:37,240
Speaker 6: So this does not surprise me that longtime Pittsburgh Steeler

989
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 6: Cam Hayward is acting like, Hey, wh're the bell of

990
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 6: the ball, you know, let's get going or yet off

991
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:44,320
Speaker 6: the pot.

992
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:44,759
Speaker 7: Yeah.

993
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, they could really use Aaron Rodgers.

994
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:53,240
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, Well, to be fair, so there's three teams,

995
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 8: and I don't even know if i'd put three anymore

996
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 8: because Jamis Winston last night. Maybe there's really only two

997
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 8: teams left that have a start quarterback opening next year.

998
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 8: I'll say I'll put the Giants still in the mix,

999
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 8: because I still would not be surprised if they obviously

1000
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 8: they signed Jameis wins, I would not be surprised they

1001
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 8: drafted a quarterback and that guy had a chance to

1002
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:14,240
Speaker 8: start as well. So, just for the sake of argument,

1003
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,280
Speaker 8: let's say that the Giants, the Browns, and the Steelers

1004
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 8: are the three teams that are on my list right

1005
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 8: now that don't have a starting quarterback listed for twenty

1006
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 8: twenty five. I mean, of those three teams, let's say,

1007
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 8: all right, Aaron, close your eyes, you have a choice.

1008
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:32,359
Speaker 5: Giants, Browns are Steelers? Where you're going?

1009
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 8: I mean, I kind of think it's an obvious decision.

1010
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 8: What are we waiting for at this point?

1011
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 4: Like the Browns, the Brown's offer is like, we can

1012
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:44,720
Speaker 4: pay you like three dollars.

1013
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, we can pay we can pay you whatever.

1014
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,839
Speaker 8: Or Deshaun Watson gets from his settlement and we will

1015
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 8: pay you that money.

1016
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 5: I'm just kidding. What what are we waiting for? Now?

1017
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:57,399
Speaker 5: There's nothing more to wait for.

1018
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:02,719
Speaker 8: The musical chair game is over. It's done. All the

1019
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 8: quarterbacks have made their decisions. Even Jamis Winston has made

1020
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 8: his decision. What are you waiting for?

1021
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:10,760
Speaker 5: Aaron?

1022
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 8: Here's what you're waiting for. It's good content to drag

1023
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 8: this thing out. I heard some of the networks are

1024
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:19,879
Speaker 8: maybe bidding for the decision to be aired live at

1025
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 8: some point over the next month. I tweeted that are

1026
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 8: we going to see an answer? So on March twelfth,

1027
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 8: I said, whatever the maximum amount of time Aaron Rodgers

1028
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 8: can milk this decision out. I'm still betting the over

1029
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:35,800
Speaker 8: on that.

1030
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 5: That was six days. That was ten days ago on

1031
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 5: March twelfth.

1032
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 8: Then on March seventeenth, I replied with do we think

1033
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 8: this thing goes through the final four and we make

1034
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 8: it to the Major League Baseball season?

1035
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 5: What do we think, guys, does this decision make it

1036
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 5: all the way to.

1037
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:52,880
Speaker 6: The Final four next weekend? I think it's highly likely,

1038
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:57,359
Speaker 6: if not probable. And here's the reason why. I think

1039
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 6: there's also a fair chance that he doesn't play football

1040
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 6: at all.

1041
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 7: This season or at very least to start this season.

1042
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 6: So Aaron Rodgers is very valuable as a broadcaster and

1043
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:15,360
Speaker 6: an influencer as he is a football player at this

1044
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 6: point in his career. And like we've seen with other players,

1045
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 6: as they're making their transition from being a superstar athlete

1046
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:27,440
Speaker 6: to whatever the next iteration of their career is going

1047
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 6: to be, they start feathering the bed. We saw with

1048
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 6: Tom Brady, launched a production company, started making cameos and movies.

1049
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:36,840
Speaker 6: He started making movies before the end of his career.

1050
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:41,760
Speaker 6: Tom Brady was busy at work setting up his second career,

1051
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,320
Speaker 6: his life after football, And so I could very easily

1052
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 6: at this point see Aaron Rodgers saying, you know, do

1053
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 6: I really want to play for the Steelers and pausing

1054
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:55,879
Speaker 6: on it and then saying to himself, well, maybe if

1055
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 6: they offer me a contract, I absolutely cannot refuse. But

1056
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 6: if they don't, can I drag this out, get a

1057
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 6: ton ton of steam around my name, have everybody talking

1058
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 6: about me as the draft comes around, because I'll sprinkle

1059
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 6: back out there that there are you know, I'll have

1060
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 6: my agent talking about their certain teams who are still

1061
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:17,800
Speaker 6: interested in Aaron Rodgers.

1062
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 7: His name his name is name.

1063
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 6: It's mentioned the entire offseason, and then come the regular season.

1064
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:26,799
Speaker 6: At the first sight of a team with any sort

1065
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 6: of chance to make a postseason bid has an injury

1066
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 6: at quarterback, guess who name's gonna be the first out

1067
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 6: of everybody's lips. And so I could see him, Brian,

1068
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 6: I could see him stretching this out for maybe the

1069
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:40,840
Speaker 6: entirety of the season.

1070
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:42,840
Speaker 3: I agree, I don't.

1071
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 4: I mean, I hear you, but it's far riskier to

1072
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 4: play the Hey, someone's gonna get hurt in training camp,

1073
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 4: where I'll have months to learn the playbook in the

1074
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 4: system and learn my teammates. Right, Like, you could play

1075
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 4: that game, but that's far riskier than what you have

1076
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:01,799
Speaker 4: on the table with Pittsburgh, you know, like you've got

1077
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 4: DK Metcalf and George Pickens and move to throw to.

1078
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 3: That's pretty good.

1079
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 8: Really would have done it already though, Like it's been

1080
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 8: twenty four hours since he left. I'm surprised that they

1081
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 8: don't have a contract already ready.

1082
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 4: Well, Hey, well this is Aaron Rodgers we're talking about,

1083
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 4: you know exactly.

1084
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, but look at the other thing, look at his market.

1085
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 4: You think he said no to the Vikings. Why would

1086
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 4: he say no and dry up his own market? And

1087
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 4: the Vikings are like, we're good, We'll go with the

1088
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 4: guy who's never taken an NFL snap before coming off

1089
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 4: a major injury. We'll go with that guy instead of you,

1090
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:37,400
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers. When we do have a Super Bowl contending

1091
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:38,240
Speaker 4: type roster.

1092
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:39,960
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, Like is market's trying up.

1093
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 3: The Giants are like, we'll sign Jamis. We're good. So

1094
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 3: what's his market outside of Pittsburgh. That's why it is

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Speaker 3: wait for an injury.

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00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, but he.

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00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 5: Probably doesn't like Pittsburgh.

1098
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 8: Else he would have signed yesterday because they wanted to

1099
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:53,320
Speaker 8: sign him yesterday.

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Speaker 6: I guess you're looking at it through a different lens, Brian,

1101
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 6: because I'm not looking at it through the soul lens

1102
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 6: of Aaron Rodgers the football player anymore. I'm just not

1103
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:07,040
Speaker 6: because there are so many emotions and feelings that get

1104
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:11,880
Speaker 6: discovered or just sort of quantified in the decision whether

1105
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 6: to sign with a team or not down the stretch

1106
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:16,439
Speaker 6: of your career versus in the beginning of your career,

1107
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:18,360
Speaker 6: in the middle of your career. Look, if he was

1108
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:23,719
Speaker 6: thirty thirty five, I think I would agree with you.

1109
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:25,839
Speaker 6: If he was thirty two, I think I would agree

1110
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:28,839
Speaker 6: with you that geez, you know, his market drying up,

1111
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:29,920
Speaker 6: and that's a real concern.

1112
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 7: I don't think he's concerned at all.

1113
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 6: Well, I think he wants to play football, but I

1114
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 6: also think that if the right team doesn't emerge with

1115
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 6: the right contract and the right consolations heading his way,

1116
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 6: he's not going to sign.

1117
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:44,720
Speaker 3: That's fine.

1118
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 4: But the thing is, I understand you're making it more

1119
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 4: than football, and that might be the way he's looking

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00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 4: at it. But the thing I come back to is

1121
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,879
Speaker 4: how much is this doing for him in his non

1122
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 4: football post career. You're right, like dragging this out with

1123
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 4: the Steelers? Is this given a major juice? Right where

1124
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 4: it's just like, ohh Aaron Rodgers. Like most times when

1125
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 4: people talk about Rogers, it's like this freaking guy Rodgers,

1126
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 4: he's here, he goes with the Steelers, They're they're flirting,

1127
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:12,319
Speaker 4: and that's it.

1128
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 3: Like, this isn't giving him some major juice.

1129
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 4: If he's thinking about walking away from the NFL, the

1130
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 4: only thing that's going to give him major juice is

1131
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 4: coming back and balling out, like because otherwise his rep

1132
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 4: is uh drama really talented, but he's the yeah butt

1133
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 4: guy and dragging things out with the Steelers is not

1134
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 4: going to give him some major juice and like right

1135
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:39,439
Speaker 4: the wrongs as far as his rep goes, he knows

1136
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 4: this guy come out and ball out, and.

1137
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 5: I don't think he wants back to Pittsburgh.

1138
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 3: Hey might not.

1139
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:46,680
Speaker 4: Well, we'll find out. We'll see what he wants to do.

1140
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:48,800
Speaker 4: And your guess is as good as mine. Hey, We've

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Speaker 4: got rich oron Berger, Penn State All American, Jared Smith,

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Speaker 1: Follow the money, real good money.

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Speaker 4: Ah yes, following the money with our main man, Seamus McGee,

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Speaker 4: morning to you, Seamus, Hope everything as well. You know,

1165
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 4: I'm looking at a couple of these totals right Drake

1166
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:11,920
Speaker 4: against Texas Tech total is one twenty six and a half,

1167
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 4: UCLA and Tennessee might be another rock fight one thirty

1168
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 4: and a half in those games, and also these March

1169
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:23,919
Speaker 4: Madness games in general, typically, how often do you see

1170
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 4: more under money than over money in a particular game?

1171
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 3: How often does that generally happen?

1172
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 9: Hey, guys, looks friend me back, and it's definitely happened

1173
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:37,800
Speaker 9: in a number of games so far this weekend. We're

1174
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 9: taking some big bets for some bigger clients on unders

1175
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:44,960
Speaker 9: this week where we have to refer some overs, it

1176
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 9: does kind of get a little weird. This is it's

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00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 9: a weird tournament to trade. Really. All year long, you're

1178
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 9: rooting for unders and you're rooting for the favorites to lose.

1179
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 9: Then you get some March madness and there's a lot

1180
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 9: of flyers on some long shot money line. There's a

1181
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:02,600
Speaker 9: popular dogs, more public dogs than their are all year.

1182
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 9: People will bet the unders instead of over, so it

1183
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:06,320
Speaker 9: can be tricky.

1184
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:09,959
Speaker 8: It is funny because I posted this the other day,

1185
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 8: or actually yesterday, because a lot someone asked me out

1186
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 8: I'll read you the question. They said, you know, if

1187
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 8: people are on the chalk, that means Vegas is probably

1188
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 8: taking a bath. And in the NFL, that's what happens,

1189
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 8: right Shamus. These money line favorites, the parlays, they crush,

1190
01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 8: you guys if the.

1191
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:30,160
Speaker 5: Favorites have a good week.

1192
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:33,240
Speaker 8: But in March madness, I think it's the opposite because

1193
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 8: people buy into the madness and they want upsets. So

1194
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:40,680
Speaker 8: I actually think all the favorites and it was a

1195
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:43,600
Speaker 8: historically good year or round of sixty four for the

1196
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:46,280
Speaker 8: favorites probably means Vegas doing okay.

1197
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 9: Yeah, the results for the book have been i'd say

1198
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 9: pretty good so far. You know, those fourteen through sixteen

1199
01:00:55,720 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 9: seeds if they went out right, the money lines are

1200
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 9: huge in those game games for a lot of times,

1201
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:03,439
Speaker 9: so it turns up being a negative result for the book.

1202
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:06,920
Speaker 9: But we didn't have any of those this round. In

1203
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 9: the past two days, it's kind of been like a

1204
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 9: Tales two halves for both days where we were crushing

1205
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:15,880
Speaker 9: the book. The books were crushing, you know, the first

1206
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 9: you know, you know, six or seven games, and then

1207
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 9: the night's late for us at least, uh weren't great,

1208
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 9: Like you had a lot of favorites, a lot of

1209
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 9: public favorites cashing and covering, a lot of parlays were

1210
01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 9: cashing late night. But the earlier games we were doing

1211
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 9: pretty well.

1212
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:36,200
Speaker 6: We got two one seats tonight Auburn and Houston. Who

1213
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:40,080
Speaker 6: do you think has a better chance to struggle coming

1214
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 6: up later today? Is it going to be Auburn against

1215
01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 6: Creighton or is it going to be Houston against the Zags.

1216
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:50,120
Speaker 9: This is real tough for me because I love Houston.

1217
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 9: I think they're playing some of their best basketball right

1218
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:54,320
Speaker 9: now we have a Gonzagga team. I mean, this is

1219
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:56,520
Speaker 9: a top ten ten pound team that we're talking about.

1220
01:01:56,840 --> 01:02:00,440
Speaker 9: I thought they were pretty under seated. A bit harsh

1221
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:03,160
Speaker 9: on Houston getting this for a second round matchup. They

1222
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 9: have Auburn, who I feel like they haven't really looked

1223
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:07,919
Speaker 9: themselves in the past month. To get a Creighton team

1224
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:10,800
Speaker 9: who's buy a large been pretty inconsistent the past month

1225
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 9: or so. But we saw it the other day like

1226
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:18,800
Speaker 9: they can get scorching hot. I lean Auburn here, but

1227
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 9: the point spread for Houston is about three points lower

1228
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:23,120
Speaker 9: than it is for Auburn.

1229
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 4: How About let me throw one other game at you.

1230
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 4: How about this BYU Wisconsin game. We're expecting quite a

1231
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 4: bit of points. Do you like a side or a

1232
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:33,200
Speaker 4: total in this matchup.

1233
01:02:34,520 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 9: I've been on a whist pill all year. Picked him

1234
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:41,360
Speaker 9: last week on the show and that was good. But

1235
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:43,400
Speaker 9: BYU has been one of the better teams in the

1236
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 9: country in the past month or so, so it's it's

1237
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:49,760
Speaker 9: gonna be really tight. If I had to pick a

1238
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:52,480
Speaker 9: side here, I probably take Houston minus one and a half.

1239
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:56,760
Speaker 5: How about how about this that a double digit seed.

1240
01:02:56,880 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 8: Seamus has advanced to the Sweet sixteen in sixteen consecutive tournaments,

1241
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 8: there's five of them left. Obviously, it's been a lot

1242
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 8: of favorite so not a lot of double digit seeds left.

1243
01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 8: McNeice against Purdue, Colorado State, against Maryland, New Mexico, against

1244
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:16,120
Speaker 8: Michigan State, Drake, Texas Tech, Arkansas Place, Saint John's later today,

1245
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 8: are we going to see that street continue or are

1246
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 8: the double digit seeds going to get boxed out of

1247
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:23,600
Speaker 8: the sweet sixteen for the first time in nearly twenty years.

1248
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:26,320
Speaker 9: A team and I were talking about this when we

1249
01:03:26,400 --> 01:03:30,000
Speaker 9: signed on this morning. It just feels like in the

1250
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:32,360
Speaker 9: nil are thought like, oh, maybe a lot of these

1251
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:34,440
Speaker 9: mid majors will be a lot better and they'll be

1252
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:37,720
Speaker 9: better in the tournament. But it feels like there's a

1253
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 9: there's a gap between a lot of these elite Power

1254
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:43,200
Speaker 9: Conference teams and the rest of the mid majors. I

1255
01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:48,560
Speaker 9: couldn't see it happening today. I think, maybe, you know, McNeice,

1256
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:50,800
Speaker 9: maybe they can get one over on Purdue, but who

1257
01:03:50,880 --> 01:03:52,640
Speaker 9: knows what's going on in that locker room. They looked

1258
01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 9: great against you know, for about thirty five minutes against Clemson,

1259
01:03:57,400 --> 01:04:00,280
Speaker 9: but I mean, it's it's gonna be tricky. I'm not

1260
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:02,040
Speaker 9: sure if we'll see double Did you just see the

1261
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:03,120
Speaker 9: Sweet sixteen this year?

1262
01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 6: What in the in the McGee household? What is the

1263
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:09,960
Speaker 6: the the flavor of the night? What are you most

1264
01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 6: looking forward to? Is it the Johnny's uh and and

1265
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:16,520
Speaker 6: Rick Patino taking on Calapari?

1266
01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:18,120
Speaker 7: Is it the.

1267
01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:22,520
Speaker 6: High flying action we're expecting to see with Wisco BYU.

1268
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 6: Is it the defensive battle with the unknown Drake taking

1269
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:31,520
Speaker 6: on Texas Tech that one feel I have the least

1270
01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 6: amount of feel for that matchup.

1271
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 7: Which game are you looking forward to the most?

1272
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:39,400
Speaker 9: I'll good forward a lot to this Gonzagas Houston game

1273
01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:41,720
Speaker 9: because I, like I said before, gonzag I thought it

1274
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 9: was pretty underseated, but like they didn't really have too

1275
01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:47,280
Speaker 9: many huge wins over the course of the regular season.

1276
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 9: But then they go in a big run, they win

1277
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:53,600
Speaker 9: the WC WCC tournament and you know, Houston, it's it's

1278
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:58,880
Speaker 9: kind of a regular season in Big twelve conference tournament champs.

1279
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 9: That's that's the game of the night for me.

1280
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:04,960
Speaker 4: All right, Seamus, it's time for the special. You know

1281
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:08,120
Speaker 4: what do you have for us with the patented Seamous

1282
01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 4: Special this week?

1283
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:13,040
Speaker 9: And I was here in all this, Saint John's loves here.

1284
01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 9: But I I I one of my friends is in alumni.

1285
01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:18,920
Speaker 9: I've never been more unimpressed in a thirty point win

1286
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:21,120
Speaker 9: than I was at Saint John's the other night. If

1287
01:05:21,160 --> 01:05:25,160
Speaker 9: they even if they even played an average team the

1288
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:28,480
Speaker 9: way they played Thursday night, they probably get smoked in

1289
01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:32,360
Speaker 9: that game in my opinion. Wow, So we're looking at

1290
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:36,760
Speaker 9: Arkansas first half on the spread. This Saint John's team.

1291
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:40,080
Speaker 9: They started slow for the most part of two or

1292
01:05:40,120 --> 01:05:43,200
Speaker 9: three weeks. So I think Arkansas can get hot here.

1293
01:05:43,240 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 9: And who knows if Saint John's gets down, Like, what

1294
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:48,360
Speaker 9: if they go down ten? Do they have the firepower

1295
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:51,000
Speaker 9: to get back in this? I know they hit fourteen

1296
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:54,120
Speaker 9: threes the other night, but this is a thirty one

1297
01:05:54,200 --> 01:05:56,960
Speaker 9: percent three point shooting team. It's been an issue for

1298
01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:59,840
Speaker 9: them all year. So I like Arkansas to keep it

1299
01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:02,240
Speaker 9: the first half, maybe even take the first aff.

1300
01:06:02,080 --> 01:06:05,919
Speaker 4: Out right, Okay, interesting stuff. I don't hate it at all, Right,

1301
01:06:05,960 --> 01:06:07,800
Speaker 4: I get what you're thinking, right there, Seamus.

1302
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 3: All right, Bud, Hey, good luck, hope you have a

1303
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 3: good day. We'll catch you soon.

1304
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:11,120
Speaker 7: Man.

1305
01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaker 9: Thanks, guys, have a good one. Enjoy the games.

1306
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:17,440
Speaker 4: There, he is Seamus McGee, team lead of Sports Trading

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Speaker 4: I'll take your question and throw it right back in

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Speaker 4: your freaking face.

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Speaker 7: Huh.

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Speaker 3: How about this?

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Speaker 4: If you had one game to watch today? Which game

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Speaker 4: are you watching? NC tournament time?

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Speaker 7: Right? Like?

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Speaker 4: Why which game dof circled more than any other one?

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Speaker 7: I would say today? It would I think.

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Speaker 6: I agree with Seamus Well, I think BYU Wisconsin's gonna

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Speaker 6: be a high scoring game, like we discussed earlier, and

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Speaker 6: I have serious intrigue elsewhere. I think Houston because they're

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Speaker 6: of their more recent name recognition nationally. Seeing what their

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Speaker 6: track also looked like from the beginning of the season

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Speaker 6: a little bit of a shaky start, really pulled things

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Speaker 6: together nicely throughout the regular season and became a dominant

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Speaker 6: force in college hoops this year. Like expected, but they

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Speaker 6: pulled it all together. I think that game against the Zags,

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Speaker 6: who have real firepower up real game this year, that's

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Speaker 6: gonna be a fun watch, There's no question about it.

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Speaker 7: I think I think Seamus nailed it.

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Speaker 5: Hmm, what's my so is this the same question for me?

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Speaker 5: What's my savor.

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Speaker 7: Question for you?

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Speaker 5: Jared?

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Speaker 3: In your freaking face as well?

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Speaker 8: In my freaking face, I think this Michigan A and

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Speaker 8: m Gay is gonna be really good. I think this

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Speaker 8: is I think that game has the potential to be

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Speaker 8: really close obviously based on the line.

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Speaker 5: I think BYU Wisconsin's gonna.

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Speaker 8: Be a really good watch too, although everyone's betting the

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Speaker 8: over in that game, and you know it's gonna finish

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Speaker 8: sixty five sixty.

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Speaker 3: Three because everyone because everyone.

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Speaker 5: Thinks there's gonna be a lot of points.

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Speaker 8: They thought that in Wisconsin Michigan too, and the Big

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Speaker 8: Ten Championship, and it was one of the biggest rock

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Speaker 8: fights of the year. So I agree that I think

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Speaker 8: Gonzaga Houston's an interesting one. Gonzaga's got Final four potential

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Speaker 8: for sure, and they're being seated like a team that

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Speaker 8: should be you know, out in the first or second round.

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Speaker 5: But I wouldn't be shocked.

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Speaker 8: If Houston just wiped the floor with them, because Houston's

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Speaker 8: really good.

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Speaker 4: Listen, I'm interested in both the games I'm you're talking about,

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Speaker 4: like BYU Wisconsin Gonzaga Houston. Those are really good matchups

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Speaker 4: and they could be great games. The game I have

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Speaker 4: to see is Arkansas Saint John's. Yeah, I have to

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Speaker 4: see it because look, it's it's college basketball history playing

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Speaker 4: out right in front of you with cal and Rick Patino,

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Speaker 4: and that's a draw. I got to see the game

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Speaker 4: based on that coaching matchup, and I can't say that

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Speaker 4: about BYU Wisconsin or this is history. There's history on

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Speaker 4: the line with no there is it. It's not the same.

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Speaker 4: So the backdrop is what puts Arkansas Saint John's over

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Speaker 4: the top from me.

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Speaker 3: How about tomorrow?

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Speaker 4: If you look at the Sunday slate of games again,

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Speaker 4: if you can only watch one game, which is a

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Speaker 4: ridiculous questions.

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Speaker 8: Of course we're gonna we're gonna watch watch one game.

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Speaker 5: What are were smoking here?

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Speaker 4: But if you can't, like Jared, you've got friends in town,

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Speaker 4: you're racing from here to there.

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Speaker 3: What's the game that you're like? Guys? I can't go anywhere.

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Speaker 4: At one thirty pm Pacific time today, right, Like, what's

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Speaker 4: the one game that you have to see and you're

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Speaker 4: not in your car, you're not driving anywhere, Like, which

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Speaker 4: is which one?

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Speaker 1: Is it?

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Speaker 3: Tomorrow?

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Speaker 6: It's so crazy that you said one pm Pacific time

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Speaker 6: because around that time Illinois in Tucky tip off. And

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Speaker 6: I feel like that's that's the one that feels I

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Speaker 6: haven't looked ahead at all the lines, but it feels like.

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Speaker 7: That's probably the tightest matchup.

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Speaker 6: I I have a ton of respect obviously for both programs.

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Speaker 6: The year that Illinois have put together in the Big ten,

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Speaker 6: not a ton of Big ten schools represented in March. Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 6: that's that's the one that that's the one that I'm

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Speaker 6: most interested in tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: M least interested in trying to think of the least

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Speaker 5: interesting game.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, let's start from let's let's go least, let's go

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Speaker 8: least interested. I think Colorado State Maryland feels like a snooze. Okays,

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Speaker 8: like an I feel like Maryland. I think Maryland's really good, guys.

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Speaker 8: I think Maryland might just wipe the floor with that.

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Speaker 7: I think Taylor is the biggest snooze.

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Speaker 5: Oh, Yeah, Duke Baylor could be a snooze tomorrow.

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Speaker 8: Duke might drop a half of like half a hundie

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Speaker 8: in the first half in that game.

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Speaker 7: You might be able to turn that off at the

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Speaker 7: first ten minutes.

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Speaker 5: Same with Yukon Florida.

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Speaker 8: I think that so I think when Yukon finally Yukon

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Speaker 8: hasn't lost Attorney game three years.

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Speaker 5: Guys, that's why.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy and that's the one. And that's the thing.

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Speaker 3: It could be a boat race.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't be at all Florida's gonna score on Yukon's

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01:11:13,479 --> 01:11:15,480
Speaker 4: ragtag defense like crazy.

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Speaker 3: This could be a boat race, really good.

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Speaker 4: But that's the game I have to see with the

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Speaker 4: two time defending champion Yukon Huskies with Dan Hurley, does

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Speaker 4: he get punked in the second round by Florida? Who

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Speaker 4: a lot of people like to win a championship, Like,

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Speaker 4: that's the one I have to see.

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Speaker 3: I do like the couple of them. Oregon Arizona should

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Speaker 3: be a good matchup.

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Speaker 7: Yeap.

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Speaker 4: Then it's funny because you think, oh, Pac twelve, It's like, nope,

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Speaker 4: it's Big ten versus Big twelve.

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Speaker 3: That's how we have going on with Oregon in Arizona's

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Speaker 3: so weird.

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Speaker 5: So weird.

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Speaker 8: How about the Big ten eight no straight up eight

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Speaker 8: to no against the spread in the first round of

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01:11:48,520 --> 01:11:50,479
Speaker 8: the Then the Big twelve is having a good so

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Speaker 8: the SEC is kind of pooping itself a little bit

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Speaker 8: against the number. At least Big ten, Big twelve been

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Speaker 8: pretty good so far. And how about your Mountain West there,

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Speaker 8: Rich couple of yesterday, I finally got off the schneid.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Mount West soon to be rest in peace. But also,

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Speaker 6: you know, I misspoke because I was like, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 6: I like this Illinois game. Not a lot of big Tech.

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Speaker 6: Everybody's in the Big ten. Now, I like, my brain

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Speaker 6: did exactly what you said, Brian. I looked at Oregon,

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Speaker 6: I look at UCLA, and.

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Speaker 7: I don't see Big ten teams.

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Speaker 6: Especially for whatever reason, my brain is much slower with

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Speaker 6: college basketball to make this transition.

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Speaker 7: This is gonna take a while to get used to.

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Speaker 1: I know it.

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Speaker 4: that's gonna take me a long time to get used to.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, here we are welcome to the college landscape,

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Speaker 1: This prop it up player plays.

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Speaker 4: Yes, the cooling, revitalizing waters of Lake prop.

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Speaker 5: I don't know, you're wrong, not quite like lake me.

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Speaker 3: The stuff that comes out of my head. I don't

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Speaker 3: even know what's coming up next?

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Speaker 7: Up?

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Speaker 3: All right, Jared, we'll start with you, man, what's the

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Speaker 3: prop that you like?

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Speaker 9: All right?

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Speaker 8: Since we're all we're all on the over and this

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Speaker 8: BYU Wisconsin game, let's give you a prop from it.

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Speaker 8: John Ton Jay a couple of weird games. Remember right,

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Speaker 8: he's one of the best scores in the Big Ten.

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Speaker 8: Had a nine bagger against Michigan in the Big Ten Final,

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Speaker 8: but one for nine from two to zero for five

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Speaker 8: from three, did have a good day at the free

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Speaker 8: throw line, had a very low volume shooting game against Montana.

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Speaker 5: How about this, guys, John Toanjay, one.

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01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:14,480
Speaker 8: Of the best scorers in the Big Ten, only attempted

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01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:17,960
Speaker 8: five shots in that game against Montana, And I think

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01:15:17,960 --> 01:15:19,719
Speaker 8: it's more of a team vibe, right.

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01:15:19,560 --> 01:15:21,559
Speaker 5: And the Badgers were scoring without them.

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01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:23,840
Speaker 8: They didn't really need a whole lot of Tonjay love

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01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:25,840
Speaker 8: from the floor. He did shoot again nine for nine

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01:15:25,880 --> 01:15:29,559
Speaker 8: from the line, but at some point Tonjay is gonna explode.

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01:15:29,600 --> 01:15:30,920
Speaker 8: I think it's today. This is gonna be a fun

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01:15:30,960 --> 01:15:32,880
Speaker 8: game against BYU. Twenty and a half is his point

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01:15:32,920 --> 01:15:35,439
Speaker 8: total in this game. Again, he had fifteen points against Montana,

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01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:38,439
Speaker 8: only attempted five shots, So if the attempts increase, I

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01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:41,559
Speaker 8: think Tanjay goes over his point total today. Give me

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01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:43,759
Speaker 8: over twenty and a half points with a Big Ten score.

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Speaker 7: Wow two John's one team.

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Speaker 6: I also have a Wisconsin John John Blackwell guard facing

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01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:55,920
Speaker 6: BYU today looking at sixteen and a half points on

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Speaker 6: the prop mark to give me the over. Also, I agree,

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Speaker 6: I think this is gonna be a high scoring game

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01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:04,080
Speaker 6: against the Koops. So he kicked off his tournament against

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01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 6: Montana with nineteen points seven of twelve shooting.

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Speaker 7: From the field.

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Speaker 6: He didn't make a three pointer in that game though,

1523
01:16:11,120 --> 01:16:15,639
Speaker 6: interesting data point, especially against the coops now today who

1524
01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:20,519
Speaker 6: really struggle with their perimeter defense. So I'm gonna I'm

1525
01:16:20,520 --> 01:16:23,599
Speaker 6: gonna say Blackwell, who's great from the mid range, even

1526
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:27,240
Speaker 6: if he's cold from the arc, goes over the sixteen

1527
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:29,320
Speaker 6: and a half points today.

1528
01:16:29,800 --> 01:16:33,760
Speaker 4: Okay, since we're all on this BYU Wisconsin game, I'm

1529
01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:37,840
Speaker 4: gonna give you a different problem. I don't have anything

1530
01:16:37,920 --> 01:16:39,800
Speaker 4: circling in this one, but I like what you guys

1531
01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 4: are thinking. I'm gonna go to Purdue and McNeese, So

1532
01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:45,040
Speaker 4: shout out to Will Wade. We all know the job

1533
01:16:45,080 --> 01:16:48,080
Speaker 4: he's done at McNeese in two years, taking that team

1534
01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:51,120
Speaker 4: to the tournament, winning a game, beating Clemson, who's a

1535
01:16:51,120 --> 01:16:54,240
Speaker 4: good team. But Will Wade, he's talked openly about his

1536
01:16:54,280 --> 01:16:57,599
Speaker 4: team not being able to match up against teams that

1537
01:16:57,680 --> 01:17:00,920
Speaker 4: have front court size. And so I'm looking at Trey

1538
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:03,400
Speaker 4: Kaufman Wren. He can eat in this game.

1539
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:06,000
Speaker 3: I like over six and a half rebounds.

1540
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:09,200
Speaker 4: He's gonna do some work in the paint here, Maybe

1541
01:17:09,240 --> 01:17:11,080
Speaker 4: take a peek at his point total. I think they're

1542
01:17:11,080 --> 01:17:15,160
Speaker 4: gonna use Kaufman Ren early often throughout the game. He

1543
01:17:15,240 --> 01:17:18,800
Speaker 4: had eight rebounds their first matchup in the Big Dance,

1544
01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:22,479
Speaker 4: so I think he's gonna continue that against McNeice. Who Again,

1545
01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:25,960
Speaker 4: if you're telling me they're not great against front court size, well,

1546
01:17:26,120 --> 01:17:28,920
Speaker 4: Kaufman Ren's got front court size. I'll take him over

1547
01:17:29,040 --> 01:17:31,479
Speaker 4: six and a half rebounds as one of them that

1548
01:17:31,560 --> 01:17:32,799
Speaker 4: I have circled here today.

1549
01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:33,200
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1550
01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:37,320
Speaker 6: I like those matchup props where you look at a

1551
01:17:37,439 --> 01:17:42,360
Speaker 6: team who maybe isn't used to playing the type of

1552
01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:45,920
Speaker 6: size in their conference as they're going to see in

1553
01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:49,120
Speaker 6: the tournament, and you could see a big do some

1554
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:52,800
Speaker 6: serious damage to some of these defenses in the round

1555
01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:54,439
Speaker 6: of sixty four, in the round of thirty two.

1556
01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:55,439
Speaker 5: I like it.

1557
01:17:55,520 --> 01:17:57,400
Speaker 8: How about an under. We haven't given out an under today.

1558
01:17:57,400 --> 01:17:59,560
Speaker 8: I'll give you an under. Everything's going over in the

1559
01:17:59,600 --> 01:18:01,800
Speaker 8: by game, so I'll give you an under.

1560
01:18:02,920 --> 01:18:03,480
Speaker 3: Igor.

1561
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:06,559
Speaker 8: I don't even know how to pronounce his last name, Demon, demean.

1562
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:09,400
Speaker 8: He's from Moscow, so maybe Demean or Demon.

1563
01:18:09,479 --> 01:18:11,519
Speaker 5: I don't know. Igor. We'll call him Igor on the show.

1564
01:18:12,040 --> 01:18:13,559
Speaker 5: His three he's a freshman.

1565
01:18:13,680 --> 01:18:16,200
Speaker 8: His three point prop is one and a half and

1566
01:18:16,320 --> 01:18:18,840
Speaker 8: he's had like a historic run of unders on his

1567
01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:21,720
Speaker 8: three point prop. It's I think it's like, out of

1568
01:18:21,840 --> 01:18:24,439
Speaker 8: all of his games played since the New year, I

1569
01:18:24,439 --> 01:18:28,400
Speaker 8: think he's gone only over but twice until the game

1570
01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:31,320
Speaker 8: against VCU when he had three. He went three for

1571
01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:34,120
Speaker 8: seven from deep. Wisconsin's actually a really.

1572
01:18:33,920 --> 01:18:36,320
Speaker 5: Good three point perimeter defensive.

1573
01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:38,600
Speaker 8: Team and if he is the main scorer on this

1574
01:18:38,640 --> 01:18:41,120
Speaker 8: BYU team. By the way, he's a freshman and he's

1575
01:18:41,160 --> 01:18:43,280
Speaker 8: playing in his first ever Sweet six or round of

1576
01:18:43,280 --> 01:18:45,040
Speaker 8: thirty two game. He played pretty well again in his

1577
01:18:45,080 --> 01:18:47,000
Speaker 8: first of a round of sixty four game, but I

1578
01:18:47,280 --> 01:18:50,240
Speaker 8: think the Wisconsin defense will be focused on the six

1579
01:18:50,240 --> 01:18:53,880
Speaker 8: foot nine freshman today who hasn't really shot well from

1580
01:18:53,880 --> 01:18:56,200
Speaker 8: three all year. Again, he's made just thirty nine all

1581
01:18:56,240 --> 01:18:57,559
Speaker 8: season twenty eight percent.

1582
01:18:57,800 --> 01:18:59,879
Speaker 5: He had a good shooting game against VCU.

1583
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:03,800
Speaker 8: I think he reverts back to bad igor in this game.

1584
01:19:03,840 --> 01:19:07,200
Speaker 8: So under one and a half, mad threes minus one

1585
01:19:07,280 --> 01:19:08,719
Speaker 8: thirty five over at that MGM.

1586
01:19:09,360 --> 01:19:10,559
Speaker 3: I like what you're thinking right there.

1587
01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:13,559
Speaker 4: And it's funny too, because I think Brendan Haywood was

1588
01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:17,360
Speaker 4: doing that first game against VCU, and he stepped.

1589
01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:20,800
Speaker 3: Up and just stroke a three and he's like this, dude,

1590
01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:22,800
Speaker 3: are we sure he's at twenty seven?

1591
01:19:23,760 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 1: How?

1592
01:19:24,240 --> 01:19:26,320
Speaker 3: But I hear you, I absolutely hear you.

1593
01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:31,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, regression to the meme, babymen, I'll give you another

1594
01:19:32,040 --> 01:19:35,720
Speaker 4: under if we want to break out. Yeah, over undertake here,

1595
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:41,040
Speaker 4: come on Tennessee's Chas Lanier. Okay, his point total is

1596
01:19:41,040 --> 01:19:43,559
Speaker 4: at sixteen and a half today. That's the highest point

1597
01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:48,160
Speaker 4: total in this Tennessee UCLA game. Watch Kobe Johnson. Kobe,

1598
01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:51,040
Speaker 4: Kobe will be matched up on Chas Lanier. I think

1599
01:19:51,040 --> 01:19:54,120
Speaker 4: he's gonna do a great job on him, and I

1600
01:19:54,120 --> 01:19:56,000
Speaker 4: think this is gonna be a rock fight. I think

1601
01:19:56,000 --> 01:20:00,160
Speaker 4: it's gonna be a flower grinder. You know, we're working

1602
01:20:00,160 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 4: the shot clock down. I think Lanear under sixteen and

1603
01:20:03,479 --> 01:20:05,000
Speaker 4: a half points is a pretty good play.

1604
01:20:05,080 --> 01:20:05,519
Speaker 7: I like it.

1605
01:20:05,600 --> 01:20:07,920
Speaker 8: Mick Cronin is gonna be angry on the side of

1606
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:09,120
Speaker 8: the streaming at people.

1607
01:20:09,439 --> 01:20:12,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mick, it's a great recipe for an underfense.

1608
01:20:12,880 --> 01:20:16,960
Speaker 4: Yep, all right, coming up next, this is one tasty matchup,

1609
01:20:17,080 --> 01:20:19,800
Speaker 4: maybe the tastiest of the entire day.

1610
01:20:20,720 --> 01:20:24,360
Speaker 3: Oh what is going on? College hoops on the brain?

1611
01:20:24,840 --> 01:20:27,720
Speaker 4: As we will whittle it down to the sweet sixteen

1612
01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:32,640
Speaker 4: after today and tomorrow second round eight games coming at you.

1613
01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:37,600
Speaker 4: How about Gonzaga and Houston. Love this matchup and I

1614
01:20:37,600 --> 01:20:41,599
Speaker 4: would say a clash of styles in this regard. If

1615
01:20:41,640 --> 01:20:44,759
Speaker 4: you look at Houston, they play the fifth slowest tempo

1616
01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:48,479
Speaker 4: in the country. Gonzaga is in the top fifty at

1617
01:20:48,560 --> 01:20:51,720
Speaker 4: least in terms of tempo. So clash of styles as

1618
01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:56,880
Speaker 4: far as that goes. Gonzaga. They play solid offense, but

1619
01:20:56,960 --> 01:21:01,400
Speaker 4: against Houston's defense, I cannot wait to see who gets

1620
01:21:01,400 --> 01:21:04,040
Speaker 4: the better of who is it Gonzaga's offense or is

1621
01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:08,120
Speaker 4: it Houston's defense. My money is on Houston's defense. But

1622
01:21:08,240 --> 01:21:11,800
Speaker 4: we've seen Houston and occasionally like they'll choke the life

1623
01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:15,639
Speaker 4: out of BYU right, that happened recently BYUS High Fly

1624
01:21:15,760 --> 01:21:19,160
Speaker 4: and scoring points left and right. They play Houston, they're like, oh, okay,

1625
01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:22,960
Speaker 4: no scoring today. But then we'll see Houston in certain

1626
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:25,439
Speaker 4: games where they're giving up points left and right and

1627
01:21:25,479 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 4: you're like, Wow, what's going on over here? So that's

1628
01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:34,519
Speaker 4: much rarer. We know Houston's defensive credentials. I think they're

1629
01:21:34,560 --> 01:21:38,160
Speaker 4: gonna get the better of Gonzaga today. You mentioned this,

1630
01:21:38,280 --> 01:21:41,320
Speaker 4: I think Jared earlier in the show Mark Few going

1631
01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:47,440
Speaker 4: for his tenth straight Sweet sixteen. That is freaking insane.

1632
01:21:47,600 --> 01:21:50,000
Speaker 4: I don't think it's gonna happen, but to have nine

1633
01:21:50,040 --> 01:21:53,240
Speaker 4: in a row, to have nine in a row is

1634
01:21:53,280 --> 01:21:54,840
Speaker 4: an amazing accomplishment.

1635
01:21:55,240 --> 01:21:55,719
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1636
01:21:55,920 --> 01:21:56,200
Speaker 11: Yeah.

1637
01:21:56,240 --> 01:22:03,440
Speaker 6: This Zags team, in my opinion, is pretty horribly underseated.

1638
01:22:03,800 --> 01:22:07,639
Speaker 6: It's not often that you get a Metric Top ten

1639
01:22:07,800 --> 01:22:10,559
Speaker 6: matchup in the round of thirty two, but here we are.

1640
01:22:11,160 --> 01:22:14,880
Speaker 6: Both of these teams definitely treated their opening round game

1641
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:18,479
Speaker 6: as a warm up, you know, so not a lot

1642
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:20,479
Speaker 6: you could draw from that other than the fact that

1643
01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:24,599
Speaker 6: the Zags kind of turned around a shooting deficit they

1644
01:22:24,600 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 6: were in. They were a little cold, and they heat

1645
01:22:27,240 --> 01:22:31,840
Speaker 6: it up, especially from perimeter. That to me is where

1646
01:22:31,920 --> 01:22:35,599
Speaker 6: they have to win. Houston is going to slow down

1647
01:22:35,680 --> 01:22:39,360
Speaker 6: this game, obviously. They play great defense that is built in,

1648
01:22:39,760 --> 01:22:43,400
Speaker 6: baked into the DNA of this Cougar's team. So if

1649
01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:48,200
Speaker 6: you could shoot over them, if you can increase the

1650
01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:52,080
Speaker 6: tempo by shortening your possessions and hitting from the perimeter,

1651
01:22:52,640 --> 01:22:55,400
Speaker 6: it's going to force Houston outside their comfort zone. And

1652
01:22:55,479 --> 01:22:59,799
Speaker 6: the Zags have the type of firepower that can provide

1653
01:22:59,800 --> 01:23:03,040
Speaker 6: these sort of results. So definitely an interesting game here.

1654
01:23:03,080 --> 01:23:06,160
Speaker 6: I think this is the one to watch. I think

1655
01:23:06,200 --> 01:23:09,960
Speaker 6: this one could have the most, i should say the

1656
01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:13,160
Speaker 6: biggest impact on the bracket as a total, because you

1657
01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:17,479
Speaker 6: could see the Zags topple Houston here and potentially make

1658
01:23:18,200 --> 01:23:22,800
Speaker 6: a deep run potentially, or you could see Houston prove

1659
01:23:22,880 --> 01:23:28,080
Speaker 6: a point here against a very very talented, underseated Gonzaga team.

1660
01:23:28,400 --> 01:23:30,760
Speaker 8: Yeah, if you go back and you look at Gonzaga's

1661
01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:34,880
Speaker 8: losses this year and you try to analyze the games

1662
01:23:34,880 --> 01:23:38,559
Speaker 8: that they've really struggled in, and they had a few clunkers, right,

1663
01:23:38,640 --> 01:23:40,479
Speaker 8: Like they had a weird game against Santa Clair where

1664
01:23:40,479 --> 01:23:42,679
Speaker 8: they gave up one hundred at home, and that's weird.

1665
01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 8: They had an overtime game against Oregon State where they

1666
01:23:45,080 --> 01:23:46,639
Speaker 8: gave up a bunch of points. But if you really

1667
01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:49,720
Speaker 8: go look at the tough teams Gonzaga has played this

1668
01:23:49,840 --> 01:23:52,559
Speaker 8: year and the games they've struggled in, it's a lot

1669
01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:56,960
Speaker 8: of Saint Mary's sixty two, fifty eight, seventy four sixty seven.

1670
01:23:57,160 --> 01:24:01,559
Speaker 8: Like undervibes, UCLA lost the tight won sixty five sixty two.

1671
01:24:01,600 --> 01:24:05,360
Speaker 8: They lost a relatively low scoring game to Yukon seventy

1672
01:24:05,400 --> 01:24:07,000
Speaker 8: seven to seventy one, and then you had a couple

1673
01:24:07,080 --> 01:24:09,200
Speaker 8: overtime games early in the year against Kentucky and West

1674
01:24:09,280 --> 01:24:12,120
Speaker 8: Virginia that again, overtime variants kind of skews those results

1675
01:24:12,120 --> 01:24:14,800
Speaker 8: a little bit. But my point being, if you can

1676
01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:17,880
Speaker 8: contain Gonzaga and turn them into a team that plays

1677
01:24:17,880 --> 01:24:21,800
Speaker 8: in the sixties like UCLA did, like Saint Mary's did,

1678
01:24:22,720 --> 01:24:25,280
Speaker 8: I think that makes this team very one dimensional. And

1679
01:24:25,560 --> 01:24:28,479
Speaker 8: I think that's where Houston is gonna thrive in this matchup.

1680
01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:31,160
Speaker 8: Whereas Georgia is not a great defensive team. They played

1681
01:24:31,160 --> 01:24:33,960
Speaker 8: in a tough sec they're not a great three point defense,

1682
01:24:34,040 --> 01:24:37,880
Speaker 8: and they just allowed Gonzaga to do whatever they want.

1683
01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:41,320
Speaker 8: I go back to what we saw with BYU in

1684
01:24:41,360 --> 01:24:43,479
Speaker 8: that game against Iowa State last week in the Big

1685
01:24:43,479 --> 01:24:46,519
Speaker 8: Twelve tournament, and they just did whatever they wanted. And

1686
01:24:46,560 --> 01:24:49,240
Speaker 8: then they played Houston the next day. And Houston does

1687
01:24:49,280 --> 01:24:51,479
Speaker 8: not let you do what you want. They make you

1688
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:54,479
Speaker 8: do what they want. And that's where I think this

1689
01:24:54,600 --> 01:24:57,080
Speaker 8: number might get out of control. Like if Gonzaga they

1690
01:24:57,080 --> 01:25:00,679
Speaker 8: went they they shot sixty percent from three against Georgia,

1691
01:25:01,400 --> 01:25:04,479
Speaker 8: that that's you just you're just not doing that against Houston.

1692
01:25:04,920 --> 01:25:07,559
Speaker 8: I don't care how good you are at making threes,

1693
01:25:08,160 --> 01:25:09,800
Speaker 8: they're gonna make you go inside the arc.

1694
01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 5: Calvin Sampson knows.

1695
01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:13,160
Speaker 8: He's about as good of a coach on a short

1696
01:25:13,160 --> 01:25:16,120
Speaker 8: prep as you're gonna find. So I think if now,

1697
01:25:16,720 --> 01:25:19,880
Speaker 8: if Gonzaga makes the threes, yes, they will be in

1698
01:25:19,880 --> 01:25:22,799
Speaker 8: this game. But if I roll the dice a thousand

1699
01:25:22,880 --> 01:25:25,240
Speaker 8: times and I say five hundred times, you're gonna get

1700
01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:28,479
Speaker 8: you know, a three point average, I think that means

1701
01:25:28,720 --> 01:25:31,200
Speaker 8: Houston's gonna win the game and probably covered.

1702
01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:31,519
Speaker 7: Well.

1703
01:25:32,120 --> 01:25:33,000
Speaker 3: That's the thing, man.

1704
01:25:33,160 --> 01:25:36,280
Speaker 4: A couple of things against Gonzaga is they don't have

1705
01:25:36,320 --> 01:25:39,280
Speaker 4: a pro on the roster. And you think about some

1706
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:42,080
Speaker 4: of these years where getting to the sweet sixteen, they

1707
01:25:42,120 --> 01:25:45,240
Speaker 4: had Jalen Suggs, they had a chet holme Grin. You know,

1708
01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:48,400
Speaker 4: they don't have They don't even have a Drew Timmey

1709
01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:51,920
Speaker 4: on this team, like an NBA guy, And they were

1710
01:25:51,920 --> 01:25:53,080
Speaker 4: on the bubble for a lot.

1711
01:25:52,960 --> 01:25:53,559
Speaker 3: Of this season.

1712
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:57,840
Speaker 4: That's the other thing with Gonzaga, and they struggle against

1713
01:25:57,840 --> 01:26:01,640
Speaker 4: teams that are big and tough. Playing Houston, you know,

1714
01:26:01,800 --> 01:26:05,799
Speaker 4: like that's yeah, that's not great. It's not a great matchup.

1715
01:26:06,400 --> 01:26:08,519
Speaker 4: But hey, listen, the money some of the money has

1716
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:10,920
Speaker 4: come in on Gonzaga, where Houston is just favored by

1717
01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:13,679
Speaker 4: four and a half right now. But I think that

1718
01:26:14,320 --> 01:26:17,720
Speaker 4: Gonzaga was really impressive in the first round, and like

1719
01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:19,719
Speaker 4: you said, Jared, they're just reigning threes.

1720
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:20,519
Speaker 3: It's offense.

1721
01:26:20,560 --> 01:26:25,240
Speaker 4: You're like, whoa Zag's styles make fights, man, And I

1722
01:26:25,360 --> 01:26:30,240
Speaker 4: just don't like this fighting matchup for Gonzaga against Houston's defense.

1723
01:26:30,479 --> 01:26:34,520
Speaker 4: How about a different matchup completely BYU against Wisconsin.

1724
01:26:34,800 --> 01:26:36,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, where you're gonna see a lot more.

1725
01:26:36,280 --> 01:26:38,880
Speaker 4: Offense in this When the totals, I mean goodness, there's

1726
01:26:38,920 --> 01:26:42,400
Speaker 4: a difference of about sixteen points with the two totals

1727
01:26:42,680 --> 01:26:46,040
Speaker 4: in these two games, the Houston game now the Wisconsin game.

1728
01:26:46,600 --> 01:26:47,719
Speaker 3: But you mentioned this, Jared.

1729
01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:51,519
Speaker 4: You think about that Wisconsin Michigan Big Ten Championship game

1730
01:26:51,560 --> 01:26:56,280
Speaker 4: with that absolute rock fight, and are in that Big

1731
01:26:56,320 --> 01:26:59,760
Speaker 4: Ten tournament, and I can't see a rock fight in

1732
01:26:59,800 --> 01:27:00,200
Speaker 4: this one.

1733
01:27:00,439 --> 01:27:02,160
Speaker 3: Cannot see that Greg guard.

1734
01:27:02,240 --> 01:27:06,599
Speaker 4: His offense has evolved certainly, and they can fill it up.

1735
01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:06,800
Speaker 7: Man.

1736
01:27:06,840 --> 01:27:09,960
Speaker 4: Wisconsin can score. So I think a big question in

1737
01:27:09,960 --> 01:27:12,480
Speaker 4: this game is who's going to play better defense. Wisconsin

1738
01:27:12,560 --> 01:27:15,800
Speaker 4: is top twenty five in both offense and defense, but

1739
01:27:15,880 --> 01:27:18,240
Speaker 4: I think a large part of how this game is

1740
01:27:18,280 --> 01:27:20,760
Speaker 4: going to be decided is who plays better defense. One

1741
01:27:20,840 --> 01:27:24,000
Speaker 4: other thing to keep in mind at altitude, they're in Denver,

1742
01:27:24,479 --> 01:27:28,120
Speaker 4: so BYU they're much more used to that than Wisconsin is.

1743
01:27:28,200 --> 01:27:30,360
Speaker 4: So maybe a little bit of tired legs in the

1744
01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:32,880
Speaker 4: second half for the Badgers. It's something to keep an

1745
01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:33,200
Speaker 4: eye on.

1746
01:27:33,960 --> 01:27:39,479
Speaker 6: BYU, forty eight percent of their offense was generated beyond

1747
01:27:39,479 --> 01:27:40,360
Speaker 6: the arc this year.

1748
01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:43,120
Speaker 7: I mean, so this is a perimeter shooting team.

1749
01:27:43,120 --> 01:27:47,879
Speaker 6: Now, Wisconsin, to your point, better metrically defensively than the Kougs,

1750
01:27:48,360 --> 01:27:54,320
Speaker 6: but extenuating factors like conditioning at altitude and things like

1751
01:27:54,360 --> 01:27:55,519
Speaker 6: that could take effect.

1752
01:27:56,160 --> 01:27:59,320
Speaker 7: Those things have their advantages.

1753
01:27:58,680 --> 01:28:04,080
Speaker 6: And a team that stop short of, you know, forcing

1754
01:28:04,520 --> 01:28:07,640
Speaker 6: action to the paint and working for every bucket, like

1755
01:28:07,680 --> 01:28:10,360
Speaker 6: for example, we were just talking about Houston a very

1756
01:28:10,400 --> 01:28:14,439
Speaker 6: slow plotting style. They're exerting their force on the teams

1757
01:28:14,439 --> 01:28:18,680
Speaker 6: that they face. That's that's not BYU style. They're very

1758
01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:22,000
Speaker 6: much a hey, we're gonna take and make open threes.

1759
01:28:22,080 --> 01:28:25,439
Speaker 6: That's what we're going to do. Wisconsin, I will say, though,

1760
01:28:25,720 --> 01:28:28,400
Speaker 6: is right behind them in terms of three point volume.

1761
01:28:29,120 --> 01:28:32,280
Speaker 6: There's just a significant gap in terms of percentage of

1762
01:28:32,320 --> 01:28:35,880
Speaker 6: shots made from beyond the arc, So the Cougars they

1763
01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:38,439
Speaker 6: have an advantage there. I would say it comes down

1764
01:28:38,439 --> 01:28:41,439
Speaker 6: to who plays better defense here today, and in a

1765
01:28:41,520 --> 01:28:45,760
Speaker 6: one off you can have a bad night defensively, you know, Wisconsin,

1766
01:28:45,880 --> 01:28:49,360
Speaker 6: they could have confusion, they could have bad switches, There

1767
01:28:49,400 --> 01:28:52,680
Speaker 6: could be some wrinkles in half court offense that the

1768
01:28:52,760 --> 01:28:56,280
Speaker 6: Cougars are able to install ahead of this matchup that

1769
01:28:56,439 --> 01:28:59,800
Speaker 6: can flummix a Badger's defense that has been shaky at

1770
01:28:59,800 --> 01:29:02,600
Speaker 6: times but overall pretty good and definitely better than the

1771
01:29:02,640 --> 01:29:04,080
Speaker 6: Cougars this season.

1772
01:29:04,200 --> 01:29:04,960
Speaker 7: So we'll see.

1773
01:29:05,400 --> 01:29:08,680
Speaker 6: But but yeah, expect fireworks. Both of these teams are

1774
01:29:08,680 --> 01:29:12,880
Speaker 6: going to shoot the ball a ton. I Again, we

1775
01:29:12,920 --> 01:29:16,439
Speaker 6: say this and gired you you pointed out earlier we're

1776
01:29:16,439 --> 01:29:18,960
Speaker 6: probably going to see like a sixty two to sixty

1777
01:29:19,040 --> 01:29:22,639
Speaker 6: five final, But it definitely does not feel like that's

1778
01:29:22,680 --> 01:29:23,679
Speaker 6: going to be the case.

1779
01:29:23,479 --> 01:29:24,719
Speaker 5: Today, No, it doesn't.

1780
01:29:24,840 --> 01:29:28,920
Speaker 8: The Michigan game was fifty nine to fifty three, and

1781
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:31,800
Speaker 8: Michigan actually did make nine threes in that game, but

1782
01:29:32,160 --> 01:29:34,880
Speaker 8: it was just it was a strange game defensively. I

1783
01:29:34,880 --> 01:29:37,360
Speaker 8: think both teams, you know, it was the fourth game

1784
01:29:37,400 --> 01:29:40,400
Speaker 8: in four days for Wisconsin. I think that Big Ten

1785
01:29:40,439 --> 01:29:43,040
Speaker 8: Tournament is a gauntlet. I mean, teams are not asked

1786
01:29:43,080 --> 01:29:45,320
Speaker 8: to play four games in four days at any point

1787
01:29:45,360 --> 01:29:47,519
Speaker 8: during the regular season. I think it's weird that they

1788
01:29:47,560 --> 01:29:50,280
Speaker 8: do it in the postseason format the way they do,

1789
01:29:50,360 --> 01:29:52,280
Speaker 8: but that's the way that it's been for years. I

1790
01:29:52,520 --> 01:29:55,679
Speaker 8: think it's turnovers are going to be absolutely crucial as well.

1791
01:29:56,920 --> 01:29:59,160
Speaker 8: Both of these teams, I would say, are kind of

1792
01:29:59,200 --> 01:30:04,840
Speaker 8: averaging that apartment. Wisconsin's been better lately, but Wisconsin's one

1793
01:30:04,880 --> 01:30:08,800
Speaker 8: of those teams that their turnover rates really good overall,

1794
01:30:09,120 --> 01:30:12,120
Speaker 8: but defensively, they don't force a ton of turnovers, and

1795
01:30:12,120 --> 01:30:15,960
Speaker 8: that's where I think BYU has an opportunity. BYU's three

1796
01:30:15,960 --> 01:30:19,040
Speaker 8: point defense been atrocious, not only this season but over

1797
01:30:19,080 --> 01:30:21,080
Speaker 8: the last month. I mean they're allowing teams to make

1798
01:30:21,120 --> 01:30:23,200
Speaker 8: almost fifty percent of their shots from three over the

1799
01:30:23,240 --> 01:30:27,120
Speaker 8: last month forty six percent. That's three hundred and twenty

1800
01:30:27,160 --> 01:30:31,080
Speaker 8: eighth in the country per Torvic over the last thirty days.

1801
01:30:31,080 --> 01:30:34,000
Speaker 5: So BYU again like the way that I played it.

1802
01:30:34,800 --> 01:30:37,960
Speaker 8: I gave you that Igor Demon under three point prop,

1803
01:30:38,040 --> 01:30:40,559
Speaker 8: but I also put that in a same game parlay

1804
01:30:40,720 --> 01:30:44,120
Speaker 8: and I did Tanja. We said Tanja over points I

1805
01:30:44,160 --> 01:30:47,720
Speaker 8: did Tonja over points. I did Tanja over threes. That's

1806
01:30:47,720 --> 01:30:51,919
Speaker 8: a very correlated leg. And then the Demon under threes

1807
01:30:52,120 --> 01:30:56,599
Speaker 8: that's plus three thirty three that SGP over at bet MGM.

1808
01:30:56,640 --> 01:30:58,519
Speaker 8: That's a pretty good look in this game. Again, I

1809
01:30:58,760 --> 01:31:02,040
Speaker 8: think at this point the totals and the spreads are right, Like,

1810
01:31:02,520 --> 01:31:04,679
Speaker 8: you're not gonna find a lot of value this morning

1811
01:31:05,120 --> 01:31:07,439
Speaker 8: betting over one fifty five and a half b while

1812
01:31:07,479 --> 01:31:09,800
Speaker 8: you Wisconsin like I think that. I think that number

1813
01:31:09,880 --> 01:31:12,559
Speaker 8: is probably pretty right, and I don't think it's gonna

1814
01:31:12,560 --> 01:31:14,960
Speaker 8: move a whole lot before game time. But the prop market,

1815
01:31:14,960 --> 01:31:18,520
Speaker 8: as we've discussed, that's we get more robust prop opportunities

1816
01:31:18,560 --> 01:31:21,240
Speaker 8: in the tournament because there's more markets available. So I

1817
01:31:21,600 --> 01:31:24,680
Speaker 8: do think that would be a fun SGP get get

1818
01:31:24,760 --> 01:31:25,720
Speaker 8: some good plus money there.

1819
01:31:25,720 --> 01:31:27,840
Speaker 5: Tanja over threes, Tanjy over points.

1820
01:31:27,560 --> 01:31:30,599
Speaker 8: And then that Demon kid under threes plus thirty plus

1821
01:31:30,720 --> 01:31:32,320
Speaker 8: three thirty three.

1822
01:31:33,200 --> 01:31:36,840
Speaker 3: I do like that Igor spells his name E G

1823
01:31:37,080 --> 01:31:37,519
Speaker 3: O R.

1824
01:31:37,880 --> 01:31:39,840
Speaker 5: It's like e or from Winnie the Pooh.

1825
01:31:39,920 --> 01:31:44,080
Speaker 4: Right, let me throw one other one at you, Rich.

1826
01:31:44,160 --> 01:31:46,600
Speaker 4: I think this is the matchup for you, man, I

1827
01:31:46,680 --> 01:31:49,240
Speaker 4: really do. It's Michigan and Texas a and M. And

1828
01:31:49,320 --> 01:31:53,480
Speaker 4: here's why, so A and M. They're the best offensive

1829
01:31:53,560 --> 01:31:58,280
Speaker 4: rebounding team in the nation. And think about Wolf and

1830
01:31:58,439 --> 01:32:02,760
Speaker 4: Golden to twin taw for Michigan. You gotta love the

1831
01:32:02,800 --> 01:32:07,120
Speaker 4: battle of the boards in Michigan. Ann, I'm telling you, man,

1832
01:32:07,320 --> 01:32:11,360
Speaker 4: just boxing out, grabbing the loose ball like it's gonna

1833
01:32:11,400 --> 01:32:12,440
Speaker 4: be a fun matchup.

1834
01:32:12,600 --> 01:32:14,599
Speaker 3: And Michigan is just so weird.

1835
01:32:14,880 --> 01:32:17,719
Speaker 4: Michigan is one of those teams where it's like good news,

1836
01:32:18,280 --> 01:32:21,320
Speaker 4: they keep it close if they're the dog, bad news,

1837
01:32:21,439 --> 01:32:23,880
Speaker 4: they keep it real close if they're the favorite. Right,

1838
01:32:23,920 --> 01:32:26,840
Speaker 4: So they're the dog today, So that might be a

1839
01:32:26,880 --> 01:32:30,280
Speaker 4: good news type scenario if you're a Wolverines fan. But

1840
01:32:30,400 --> 01:32:32,720
Speaker 4: that matchup on the glass, man, I can't wait for that.

1841
01:32:32,840 --> 01:32:36,200
Speaker 4: Can Wolf and Golden try to neutralize some of that

1842
01:32:36,320 --> 01:32:38,600
Speaker 4: am M rebounding? They're number one in the nation and

1843
01:32:38,720 --> 01:32:41,320
Speaker 4: offensive boards, Yeah, you gotta do a good job if

1844
01:32:41,360 --> 01:32:44,240
Speaker 4: you're Michigan, obviously with defensive rebounding here.

1845
01:32:44,400 --> 01:32:50,559
Speaker 6: Yeah, rebounding and offensive rebounding specifically is almost like the

1846
01:32:50,600 --> 01:32:54,560
Speaker 6: offensive line play of college basketball. So I do understand

1847
01:32:54,600 --> 01:32:57,920
Speaker 6: why you're trying to turn my brain onto this one,

1848
01:32:58,000 --> 01:33:00,439
Speaker 6: and I do I look at the game that I

1849
01:33:00,520 --> 01:33:04,519
Speaker 6: probably watched closest in the round of sixty four after

1850
01:33:04,760 --> 01:33:07,600
Speaker 6: San Diego State got bounced in the first four was

1851
01:33:07,680 --> 01:33:11,680
Speaker 6: the UC San Diego Tritans taking on the Michigan Wolverines,

1852
01:33:12,120 --> 01:33:16,360
Speaker 6: and Michigan was lucky to hang on in the second half.

1853
01:33:17,360 --> 01:33:20,080
Speaker 6: There was a look at a major upset there for

1854
01:33:20,200 --> 01:33:23,439
Speaker 6: the Tritons. So a good season and they packed their

1855
01:33:23,479 --> 01:33:27,960
Speaker 6: bags admirably after that effort. But yeah, moving on to

1856
01:33:28,040 --> 01:33:31,000
Speaker 6: the Wolverines facing A and M it really is a

1857
01:33:31,000 --> 01:33:32,800
Speaker 6: little bit like that Spider Man meme.

1858
01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:34,679
Speaker 7: Just staring at each other in the mirror.

1859
01:33:35,760 --> 01:33:37,960
Speaker 6: You know who's gonna blink first, is really what it

1860
01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:40,360
Speaker 6: comes down to. And I think this is going to

1861
01:33:40,400 --> 01:33:42,880
Speaker 6: be one of those grinder games that could have an

1862
01:33:42,920 --> 01:33:48,160
Speaker 6: impact on both of these teams bracket future. That's something

1863
01:33:48,200 --> 01:33:53,160
Speaker 6: that's not often discussed. There are certain matchups that beat

1864
01:33:53,360 --> 01:33:57,519
Speaker 6: down good teams and make them less effective as their

1865
01:33:57,680 --> 01:34:01,920
Speaker 6: tournament continues. So key on that whoever prevails from this game,

1866
01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:05,680
Speaker 6: depending on what their next matchup is. If it's a

1867
01:34:05,680 --> 01:34:09,320
Speaker 6: good one, this could be a weighty game in terms

1868
01:34:09,360 --> 01:34:13,360
Speaker 6: of how the legs feel after this and emotionally, depending

1869
01:34:13,439 --> 01:34:16,880
Speaker 6: on how the game goes, it could be a turbulent

1870
01:34:16,960 --> 01:34:18,160
Speaker 6: game for either side.

1871
01:34:18,240 --> 01:34:19,960
Speaker 7: So yeah, exciting game.

1872
01:34:20,200 --> 01:34:22,720
Speaker 6: Gonna be a little bit more in that rock fight category,

1873
01:34:22,760 --> 01:34:24,160
Speaker 6: but exciting game than the last.

1874
01:34:24,800 --> 01:34:27,160
Speaker 8: Is it fair to say Michigan's the better coach team

1875
01:34:27,160 --> 01:34:29,280
Speaker 8: here with Dusty May over Buzz Williams.

1876
01:34:29,600 --> 01:34:31,040
Speaker 5: What do we think about that statement.

1877
01:34:31,240 --> 01:34:32,840
Speaker 4: I don't think that's crazy at all. I don't think

1878
01:34:32,920 --> 01:34:34,599
Speaker 4: Dusty's a fantastic coach.

1879
01:34:34,760 --> 01:34:38,200
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that's the edge for Michigan in this game, right,

1880
01:34:38,280 --> 01:34:41,559
Speaker 8: And I think that's something. Keep in mind, half of

1881
01:34:41,600 --> 01:34:44,759
Speaker 8: the games in the tournament are played on very short prep, right,

1882
01:34:45,040 --> 01:34:47,240
Speaker 8: Basically you get thirty six hours essentially.

1883
01:34:47,520 --> 01:34:48,800
Speaker 5: Tom Izzol was talking about it.

1884
01:34:48,840 --> 01:34:51,400
Speaker 8: I remember late last night I was watching his postgame interview.

1885
01:34:51,479 --> 01:34:52,960
Speaker 8: He's like, I gotta get back to work. I think

1886
01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:54,679
Speaker 8: he was talking to Rostein.

1887
01:34:54,720 --> 01:34:56,120
Speaker 5: He's like, I gotta go back to work. John, I

1888
01:34:56,120 --> 01:34:57,439
Speaker 5: don't know what you're talking about. We got a game

1889
01:34:57,479 --> 01:34:58,439
Speaker 5: in like thirty six hours.

1890
01:35:00,520 --> 01:35:04,439
Speaker 8: The coaching matters more in this round than it does

1891
01:35:04,520 --> 01:35:09,000
Speaker 8: next week, right, because shorter prep. Next week you get

1892
01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:11,800
Speaker 8: four days off, get a lot of time off. You know,

1893
01:35:11,840 --> 01:35:15,320
Speaker 8: the prep isn't as intense, So the coaches that are

1894
01:35:15,320 --> 01:35:18,200
Speaker 8: better in that regard. I think have an edge in

1895
01:35:18,240 --> 01:35:20,439
Speaker 8: this scenario, and I think it's fair to say that

1896
01:35:20,600 --> 01:35:23,120
Speaker 8: is Michigan's edge in this game. That might be their

1897
01:35:23,160 --> 01:35:25,320
Speaker 8: only edge in this game. I think A and M

1898
01:35:25,439 --> 01:35:30,400
Speaker 8: is better athletes, definitely upfront. I think Michigan might have

1899
01:35:30,439 --> 01:35:33,880
Speaker 8: a little more skill upfront in terms of their shot making.

1900
01:35:33,920 --> 01:35:36,160
Speaker 8: Like Danny Wolf can take you off the dribble, not

1901
01:35:36,200 --> 01:35:37,559
Speaker 8: a lot of seven footers can do that.

1902
01:35:37,840 --> 01:35:39,160
Speaker 5: Golden can shoot the three.

1903
01:35:39,360 --> 01:35:41,840
Speaker 8: Not a lot of seven footers can shoot threes like

1904
01:35:41,920 --> 01:35:44,320
Speaker 8: Wolf and Golden can both do that. But A and

1905
01:35:44,439 --> 01:35:46,960
Speaker 8: M's bigger, faster, stronger in every category.

1906
01:35:47,520 --> 01:35:48,960
Speaker 5: And I think.

1907
01:35:48,800 --> 01:35:50,960
Speaker 8: Michigan's turnovers is going to be what does them in here.

1908
01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:52,840
Speaker 8: So the number is probably right. I don't want to

1909
01:35:52,920 --> 01:35:54,600
Speaker 8: lay more than three with A and M. But I

1910
01:35:54,600 --> 01:35:56,960
Speaker 8: think A and M wins the game, and I think

1911
01:35:57,000 --> 01:35:59,599
Speaker 8: it's the turnovers in the backcourt which is the advantage

1912
01:35:59,600 --> 01:36:02,759
Speaker 8: for the ACT. But they are the better coach team Michigan,

1913
01:36:02,800 --> 01:36:05,759
Speaker 8: and that could be interesting if things get tightly.

1914
01:36:07,280 --> 01:36:08,320
Speaker 3: Last little point I'll make.

1915
01:36:08,360 --> 01:36:11,920
Speaker 4: It's a trip watching Michigan play where you're mentioning Jared

1916
01:36:12,120 --> 01:36:15,400
Speaker 4: Danny Wolf just handling the ball. He's the guy who

1917
01:36:15,439 --> 01:36:19,639
Speaker 4: initiates offense. They run their offense through their seven footers.

1918
01:36:19,680 --> 01:36:22,760
Speaker 4: And it's not just like Trey Donaldson dumps the ball

1919
01:36:22,840 --> 01:36:25,880
Speaker 4: down low like it's the nineteen nineties in the NBA

1920
01:36:26,080 --> 01:36:28,360
Speaker 4: or something, you know, like back to the basket. Danny

1921
01:36:28,400 --> 01:36:31,960
Speaker 4: Wolf is at like the three point line, dribbling and

1922
01:36:32,080 --> 01:36:35,880
Speaker 4: initiating offense, and Donaldson, a guard, is just like cool man.

1923
01:36:35,920 --> 01:36:39,280
Speaker 4: I'll just play off ball. It's wild to watch them

1924
01:36:39,400 --> 01:36:42,880
Speaker 4: play man. But it's a good matchup here against A

1925
01:36:42,960 --> 01:36:46,120
Speaker 4: and M. But think about everything that Danny Wolf has

1926
01:36:46,120 --> 01:36:50,559
Speaker 4: asked to do, dribbling, initiating offense, get on the glass,

1927
01:36:50,720 --> 01:36:53,720
Speaker 4: especially against A and M. Right, that's a lot of

1928
01:36:53,760 --> 01:36:57,320
Speaker 4: responsibility for Danny Wolf. And we'll see if Golden can

1929
01:36:57,360 --> 01:37:01,080
Speaker 4: do his work as well. But that's a tasty matchup.

1930
01:37:01,120 --> 01:37:03,360
Speaker 4: I like that one, all right. We've got Rich Orenberger,

1931
01:37:03,800 --> 01:37:07,680
Speaker 4: Penn State All American, Jared Smith FSR betting analyst. I'm

1932
01:37:07,680 --> 01:37:11,280
Speaker 4: Brian no smelling upset in college hoops. Use this March

1933
01:37:11,360 --> 01:37:15,240
Speaker 4: matchups Underdog boost token at Betting MGM to score a

1934
01:37:15,240 --> 01:37:20,200
Speaker 4: bigger payout if you're underdog. Bet wins minimum plus two hundred.

1935
01:37:19,800 --> 01:37:23,040
Speaker 3: Odds or higher. Head on over there and get in

1936
01:37:23,120 --> 01:37:23,400
Speaker 3: on that.

1937
01:37:23,479 --> 01:37:23,760
Speaker 7: All right?

1938
01:37:23,760 --> 01:37:28,120
Speaker 4: Coming up next, is it an indecent proposal or is

1939
01:37:28,160 --> 01:37:29,240
Speaker 4: it actually decent?

1940
01:37:29,479 --> 01:37:30,240
Speaker 3: We'll compare notes.

1941
01:37:30,240 --> 01:37:34,360
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1947
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Speaker 4: in the app is you can select Fox Sports Radio

1948
01:37:54,160 --> 01:37:56,960
Speaker 4: as one of your presets, just like the presets on

1949
01:37:57,040 --> 01:38:00,439
Speaker 4: your radio dials. So be sure to preset five Sports

1950
01:38:00,560 --> 01:38:04,519
Speaker 4: Radio in the iHeartRadio app and it'll always pop up

1951
01:38:04,680 --> 01:38:08,559
Speaker 4: on the top of your screen. All right, So again,

1952
01:38:08,640 --> 01:38:10,559
Speaker 4: ball on the brain. We'll be quick here because we've

1953
01:38:10,560 --> 01:38:12,519
Speaker 4: got basket. We've got hoops on the brain as well.

1954
01:38:12,560 --> 01:38:19,120
Speaker 4: But the Detroit Lions, some would say, Chris purfets Detroit Lions. Huh,

1955
01:38:19,160 --> 01:38:22,960
Speaker 4: trusted technical producer on this fine show. They have made

1956
01:38:23,000 --> 01:38:27,280
Speaker 4: a proposal. I think it's a decent proposal. Some would

1957
01:38:27,280 --> 01:38:31,479
Speaker 4: say indecent. So they submitted a proposal that would seed

1958
01:38:31,600 --> 01:38:38,080
Speaker 4: playoff teams based on regular season record only. We're ignoring

1959
01:38:38,120 --> 01:38:41,320
Speaker 4: whether you won your division or not. Right, you're ten

1960
01:38:41,360 --> 01:38:44,880
Speaker 4: and seven and won your cesspool division, who cares you

1961
01:38:44,920 --> 01:38:47,880
Speaker 4: don't get an automatic playoff game. You've got to have

1962
01:38:47,960 --> 01:38:51,720
Speaker 4: a good record to earn a home playoff game.

1963
01:38:51,800 --> 01:38:54,880
Speaker 3: I love this proposal. I would absolutely vote for it.

1964
01:38:55,240 --> 01:38:57,080
Speaker 4: I don't know that the NFL owner is going to

1965
01:38:57,160 --> 01:38:59,840
Speaker 4: be racing to vote for this, because everybody's in it

1966
01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:02,840
Speaker 4: for their own good and their own well being, so

1967
01:39:02,920 --> 01:39:05,040
Speaker 4: I it might take a few years for this to

1968
01:39:05,080 --> 01:39:07,200
Speaker 4: go through, but I think it's absolutely the way it

1969
01:39:07,240 --> 01:39:10,280
Speaker 4: should be done. Like which is more impressive. This is

1970
01:39:10,280 --> 01:39:13,200
Speaker 4: what happened last year. The Rams won the NFC West,

1971
01:39:13,280 --> 01:39:17,800
Speaker 4: which was clearly down. They're ten and seven. The Vikings

1972
01:39:18,120 --> 01:39:22,280
Speaker 4: in the Gauntlet NFC North were fourteen and three. The

1973
01:39:22,400 --> 01:39:25,640
Speaker 4: Vikings had four more wins than the Rams. But the

1974
01:39:25,720 --> 01:39:28,639
Speaker 4: Vikings are playing on the road because they're a wildcard team.

1975
01:39:28,720 --> 01:39:31,559
Speaker 4: I think it's dumb. I think it's ridiculous the way

1976
01:39:31,600 --> 01:39:34,600
Speaker 4: it is. I think they absolutely should change it. I

1977
01:39:34,680 --> 01:39:37,960
Speaker 4: am completely on board with the Lions saying seed all

1978
01:39:38,000 --> 01:39:40,120
Speaker 4: these teams based on regular season record.

1979
01:39:40,200 --> 01:39:41,640
Speaker 3: Forget about winning divisions.

1980
01:39:42,840 --> 01:39:47,559
Speaker 6: I think I like the division system as it's set up,

1981
01:39:48,000 --> 01:39:50,720
Speaker 6: and I understand the gripe, and I think it is

1982
01:39:51,560 --> 01:39:55,760
Speaker 6: kind of ridiculous to see potentially, you know, a thirteen

1983
01:39:55,920 --> 01:40:00,639
Speaker 6: win second place team, you know, visit an nine when

1984
01:40:01,280 --> 01:40:04,200
Speaker 6: you know first place team like that doesn't make sense,

1985
01:40:04,320 --> 01:40:05,120
Speaker 6: it doesn't.

1986
01:40:04,920 --> 01:40:06,439
Speaker 7: I get it. I completely get it.

1987
01:40:07,000 --> 01:40:12,720
Speaker 6: However, the the thing that the NFL has cornered the

1988
01:40:12,800 --> 01:40:16,960
Speaker 6: market in is urgency, and down the stretch of the

1989
01:40:17,000 --> 01:40:22,000
Speaker 6: regular season when divisions are still alive, it creates more

1990
01:40:22,160 --> 01:40:24,519
Speaker 6: urgency than there would be if we were basing this

1991
01:40:24,640 --> 01:40:29,639
Speaker 6: off of record alone. Because while seeding matters, man, those

1992
01:40:30,040 --> 01:40:33,840
Speaker 6: those division titles matter too, and so you have certain

1993
01:40:33,920 --> 01:40:37,639
Speaker 6: teams playing for a higher seed, you have other teams

1994
01:40:37,720 --> 01:40:40,559
Speaker 6: just trying to win their division. And it creates more

1995
01:40:41,240 --> 01:40:46,280
Speaker 6: avenues to have potential success and then air go. The

1996
01:40:46,360 --> 01:40:49,080
Speaker 6: regular season is more interesting, and so.

1997
01:40:49,600 --> 01:40:53,120
Speaker 4: Can Rich Can I play Devil's advocaca please do?

1998
01:40:54,479 --> 01:40:54,719
Speaker 7: Yeah?

1999
01:40:55,800 --> 01:40:58,200
Speaker 4: Let me let me poll holes here and you're you're

2000
01:40:58,240 --> 01:40:59,519
Speaker 4: welcome to pole holes as well.

2001
01:40:59,600 --> 01:41:00,400
Speaker 3: Jared's here.

2002
01:41:00,439 --> 01:41:03,120
Speaker 4: But it just reminds me of last year, Rich, right

2003
01:41:03,160 --> 01:41:05,559
Speaker 4: where think about the Rams. The Rams were gonna win

2004
01:41:05,600 --> 01:41:08,880
Speaker 4: their division. They rested everybody in Week eighteen. Yeah, because

2005
01:41:08,920 --> 01:41:12,080
Speaker 4: they knew they're gonna be at worst a four seed. Like,

2006
01:41:12,400 --> 01:41:14,280
Speaker 4: what do you think do they rest everybody if they're

2007
01:41:14,280 --> 01:41:15,439
Speaker 4: gonna be a seven seed?

2008
01:41:15,800 --> 01:41:16,400
Speaker 7: You know what I mean?

2009
01:41:16,439 --> 01:41:18,759
Speaker 4: Like they're gonna be the bottom of the whole heap

2010
01:41:18,880 --> 01:41:21,200
Speaker 4: in the play. I don't know that they're resting their guys,

2011
01:41:21,479 --> 01:41:24,240
Speaker 4: but if you're automatically gonna be a three or a

2012
01:41:24,280 --> 01:41:27,400
Speaker 4: four seed at worst, yeah, you might rest your guys

2013
01:41:27,439 --> 01:41:30,120
Speaker 4: and say screw it. Would rather be healthy, right, Like

2014
01:41:30,160 --> 01:41:32,519
Speaker 4: I think that the way it's set up can lead

2015
01:41:32,560 --> 01:41:34,800
Speaker 4: to a less competition.

2016
01:41:35,439 --> 01:41:37,519
Speaker 3: I think there's more if it's just based on record.

2017
01:41:37,760 --> 01:41:40,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just feel like if you have a situation,

2018
01:41:41,120 --> 01:41:44,200
Speaker 6: and like we do often in the NFL, I'm sure

2019
01:41:44,200 --> 01:41:46,719
Speaker 6: if we went back and studied over the past decade,

2020
01:41:47,320 --> 01:41:50,320
Speaker 6: you know how many times there is a bunch of

2021
01:41:50,360 --> 01:41:52,800
Speaker 6: teams that are mired at the top and maybe one

2022
01:41:52,880 --> 01:41:56,240
Speaker 6: or two teams that are really have you know, isolated

2023
01:41:56,280 --> 01:41:59,240
Speaker 6: themselves from the rest of the pack, and then it'll

2024
01:41:59,280 --> 01:42:02,000
Speaker 6: become more of a battle of the basement instead of

2025
01:42:02,000 --> 01:42:02,639
Speaker 6: intrigue at.

2026
01:42:02,640 --> 01:42:07,120
Speaker 7: The top of the mountain. And so I'm looking for less.

2027
01:42:06,920 --> 01:42:11,160
Speaker 6: Teams to be securely slotted in their space is heading

2028
01:42:11,160 --> 01:42:15,280
Speaker 6: into the postseason, not more. And I fear that if

2029
01:42:15,320 --> 01:42:20,160
Speaker 6: we go to an overall record reseeding in once we

2030
01:42:20,280 --> 01:42:23,120
Speaker 6: break it off into the postseason, there're gonna be more

2031
01:42:23,160 --> 01:42:26,200
Speaker 6: teams who are potentially resting their players than we do

2032
01:42:26,320 --> 01:42:32,360
Speaker 6: in the current divisional setup, because sometimes it's it's obvious

2033
01:42:32,439 --> 01:42:35,040
Speaker 6: who who is going to be seated higher and lower

2034
01:42:35,360 --> 01:42:36,880
Speaker 6: heading down the stretch of the season.

2035
01:42:36,960 --> 01:42:39,520
Speaker 7: If we were to base it off of record alone.

2036
01:42:40,439 --> 01:42:42,800
Speaker 8: I'll be honest, I'm really torn on this one. So

2037
01:42:42,840 --> 01:42:44,920
Speaker 8: we were talking about this in the group jet this week.

2038
01:42:45,439 --> 01:42:48,599
Speaker 4: Come on, come over to this side, Jared Records, baby,

2039
01:42:48,680 --> 01:42:48,960
Speaker 4: come on.

2040
01:42:49,000 --> 01:42:52,519
Speaker 8: Well, I think that makes sense in terms of the

2041
01:42:52,600 --> 01:42:56,040
Speaker 8: gambling element to it, like because we get these really

2042
01:42:56,040 --> 01:42:59,120
Speaker 8: funky matchups in the first round of the playoffs where

2043
01:42:59,120 --> 01:43:00,599
Speaker 8: the road team is fab and I.

2044
01:43:00,520 --> 01:43:01,439
Speaker 5: Think it's like weird.

2045
01:43:01,680 --> 01:43:04,599
Speaker 8: It's just it's not that it's bad, it's just different.

2046
01:43:05,120 --> 01:43:08,679
Speaker 8: Usually home field in the NFL matters, and it maybe

2047
01:43:08,720 --> 01:43:12,160
Speaker 8: hasn't mattered as much recently, but I think that it

2048
01:43:12,200 --> 01:43:13,760
Speaker 8: still matters a little. I think it matters more in

2049
01:43:13,800 --> 01:43:15,880
Speaker 8: college than it does in the NFL. But then on

2050
01:43:15,920 --> 01:43:17,839
Speaker 8: the other side. You get these teams in these divisions

2051
01:43:17,840 --> 01:43:21,240
Speaker 8: that are playing these cupcake schedules, and it kind of

2052
01:43:21,320 --> 01:43:23,320
Speaker 8: changes how we feel about some of these teams.

2053
01:43:23,520 --> 01:43:24,160
Speaker 5: I think it was.

2054
01:43:24,160 --> 01:43:27,559
Speaker 8: A really, really good year for the NFC North, and

2055
01:43:27,640 --> 01:43:32,280
Speaker 8: I think that is what is accelerating this discussion more

2056
01:43:32,320 --> 01:43:35,760
Speaker 8: than your average year, where the NFC North usually is

2057
01:43:35,800 --> 01:43:37,559
Speaker 8: not gonna have what was it, three teams with eleven

2058
01:43:37,680 --> 01:43:40,200
Speaker 8: or more wins, Like that's crazy, that's probably not gonna

2059
01:43:40,200 --> 01:43:42,679
Speaker 8: happen again for another however many years it's been since

2060
01:43:42,720 --> 01:43:46,160
Speaker 8: the last time it happened, But there is something to

2061
01:43:46,240 --> 01:43:51,280
Speaker 8: be said about the division mattering, And I'll be honest,

2062
01:43:51,360 --> 01:43:54,040
Speaker 8: I'm very fifty to fifty on this. I think Brian's

2063
01:43:54,040 --> 01:43:56,200
Speaker 8: point makes a lot of sense from the future of

2064
01:43:56,200 --> 01:44:00,400
Speaker 8: the league, a balance league, making sure that the playoffund

2065
01:44:00,439 --> 01:44:02,759
Speaker 8: games make a lot of sense. But then there's the

2066
01:44:02,800 --> 01:44:05,759
Speaker 8: inner child nostalgia in me that thinks that division should

2067
01:44:05,760 --> 01:44:09,320
Speaker 8: matter a little bit and winning your division is important.

2068
01:44:09,400 --> 01:44:12,439
Speaker 5: So all right, Brian, you win this round.

2069
01:44:13,800 --> 01:44:17,640
Speaker 8: I think because in my future self, I see the

2070
01:44:17,680 --> 01:44:21,160
Speaker 8: gambling mattering even more, and I see the wins and

2071
01:44:21,200 --> 01:44:23,439
Speaker 8: what you do in the regular season mattering even more.

2072
01:44:23,520 --> 01:44:25,920
Speaker 8: For the postseason, and I think that is where I'm

2073
01:44:25,960 --> 01:44:29,160
Speaker 8: like fifty one percent. But still winning your division should matter.

2074
01:44:29,240 --> 01:44:30,880
Speaker 8: I do think it should matter for something.

2075
01:44:31,920 --> 01:44:34,479
Speaker 4: You should get a playoff perth, that's where it matters.

2076
01:44:34,560 --> 01:44:36,760
Speaker 4: But you don't get the extra cherry on top home

2077
01:44:36,800 --> 01:44:40,920
Speaker 4: the home game just by winning your home your division. Like,

2078
01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:43,679
Speaker 4: you go back, I've been yelling about this for fifteen years.

2079
01:44:43,760 --> 01:44:46,320
Speaker 4: At least you go back to remember when the Saints

2080
01:44:46,360 --> 01:44:49,919
Speaker 4: won the Super Bowl the nine season. The next season,

2081
01:44:50,280 --> 01:44:53,880
Speaker 4: the twenty ten season, they had four more wins than

2082
01:44:53,960 --> 01:44:57,040
Speaker 4: the seven and nine Seahawks.

2083
01:44:56,840 --> 01:44:58,040
Speaker 3: Yet they're on the road.

2084
01:44:58,120 --> 01:45:01,400
Speaker 4: And that was the epic Marshawn Lynch beast quake run

2085
01:45:01,840 --> 01:45:05,200
Speaker 4: where he had the sensational run for a touchdown. It

2086
01:45:05,280 --> 01:45:07,080
Speaker 4: was shaking so much it actually showed up on the

2087
01:45:07,160 --> 01:45:12,000
Speaker 4: Richter scale. Like a seven and nine team is hosting

2088
01:45:12,080 --> 01:45:14,240
Speaker 4: a playoff game, and what bothers?

2089
01:45:14,280 --> 01:45:17,000
Speaker 3: That makes sense? Bother me a little bit, it makes

2090
01:45:17,240 --> 01:45:18,080
Speaker 3: zero sense.

2091
01:45:18,160 --> 01:45:20,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, that's where I would say, this last little

2092
01:45:20,800 --> 01:45:24,120
Speaker 4: point here, we'll move it back to hoops unless you

2093
01:45:24,160 --> 01:45:24,960
Speaker 4: guys want to chime in.

2094
01:45:25,120 --> 01:45:26,240
Speaker 3: Hey I have, yeah, I.

2095
01:45:26,280 --> 01:45:29,000
Speaker 6: Have, I have a couple of because because I'm I'm

2096
01:45:29,320 --> 01:45:30,439
Speaker 6: just ready to go.

2097
01:45:30,600 --> 01:45:32,600
Speaker 4: Let let me say one thing, rich let me let

2098
01:45:32,640 --> 01:45:34,000
Speaker 4: me say one thing, and I'll throw it to you.

2099
01:45:34,840 --> 01:45:38,360
Speaker 3: People just get used to stuff. Okay, we're used to

2100
01:45:38,760 --> 01:45:39,519
Speaker 3: in the NFL.

2101
01:45:39,600 --> 01:45:42,080
Speaker 4: You win your division, you host a home playoff game,

2102
01:45:42,520 --> 01:45:44,840
Speaker 4: Right that, that's what we're used to. I think of

2103
01:45:44,880 --> 01:45:47,439
Speaker 4: it like this, if it were the other way around,

2104
01:45:47,960 --> 01:45:51,840
Speaker 4: if we just based it on record, Right, we're seeding

2105
01:45:51,880 --> 01:45:54,080
Speaker 4: them one through two, three, four, five, all the way

2106
01:45:54,080 --> 01:45:57,800
Speaker 4: down the list based on record. Who is saying, Hey,

2107
01:45:57,880 --> 01:46:00,400
Speaker 4: you know what, I got an idea, let's change to

2108
01:46:00,880 --> 01:46:04,200
Speaker 4: if you win your division, you get a home playoff game. Yeah,

2109
01:46:04,240 --> 01:46:07,280
Speaker 4: you could be under five hundred, you could have four

2110
01:46:07,439 --> 01:46:10,080
Speaker 4: fewer wins than the wildcard team, but you should. You

2111
01:46:10,120 --> 01:46:13,320
Speaker 4: should host a playoff game because you won your crappy division.

2112
01:46:13,360 --> 01:46:15,440
Speaker 3: No one's saying that, nobody.

2113
01:46:15,680 --> 01:46:17,640
Speaker 4: We're just used to the way it is, and a

2114
01:46:17,680 --> 01:46:19,280
Speaker 4: lot of people don't want to let go of that.

2115
01:46:19,600 --> 01:46:24,439
Speaker 6: I think that we as a society have this weird

2116
01:46:25,000 --> 01:46:29,200
Speaker 6: compulsion to try to improve things that are perfect, Like

2117
01:46:29,320 --> 01:46:31,880
Speaker 6: why do we all need new cell phones every single year?

2118
01:46:31,920 --> 01:46:34,000
Speaker 7: We don't what the camera.

2119
01:46:33,840 --> 01:46:37,320
Speaker 6: Is a couple megapixels better on the new iPhone?

2120
01:46:37,840 --> 01:46:39,280
Speaker 7: No, it's just status.

2121
01:46:39,520 --> 01:46:43,679
Speaker 6: It's just improving upon something that doesn't really need much improvement. Now,

2122
01:46:43,880 --> 01:46:46,639
Speaker 6: if there was a major innovation, yeah sign me up.

2123
01:46:47,000 --> 01:46:50,519
Speaker 6: But when we're talking about something that isn't broken and

2124
01:46:50,800 --> 01:46:51,880
Speaker 6: arguing over.

2125
01:46:52,040 --> 01:46:55,040
Speaker 7: You know these these these ideas.

2126
01:46:54,520 --> 01:46:57,120
Speaker 6: That have been spitballed around by the way for decades

2127
01:46:57,479 --> 01:46:58,760
Speaker 6: and decades.

2128
01:46:59,080 --> 01:47:01,640
Speaker 7: This is a megalith.

2129
01:47:02,720 --> 01:47:08,240
Speaker 6: We have the best possible postseason in professional sports right now,

2130
01:47:08,439 --> 01:47:09,639
Speaker 6: and we want to change it.

2131
01:47:09,640 --> 01:47:12,360
Speaker 4: It is I prob they've tweetd that they added a

2132
01:47:12,400 --> 01:47:13,120
Speaker 4: seventh team.

2133
01:47:13,320 --> 01:47:15,000
Speaker 3: We only have one team with a bye.

2134
01:47:15,040 --> 01:47:19,360
Speaker 4: They've tweaked the playoff system incrementally many times.

2135
01:47:19,120 --> 01:47:24,200
Speaker 6: But this wouldn't be a small addition where you're adding

2136
01:47:24,240 --> 01:47:26,920
Speaker 6: a team and you're you're reducing it by one by

2137
01:47:27,240 --> 01:47:31,799
Speaker 6: you're completely flipping how seasons will be played out because

2138
01:47:32,200 --> 01:47:35,800
Speaker 6: divisions will no longer matter as a matter of fact. Historically,

2139
01:47:35,880 --> 01:47:39,760
Speaker 6: tougher divisions like the AFC North the NFC East at

2140
01:47:39,800 --> 01:47:44,320
Speaker 6: times where they catabalize each other because they're better teams

2141
01:47:44,320 --> 01:47:47,040
Speaker 6: facing each other as opposed to playing in like the

2142
01:47:47,080 --> 01:47:50,080
Speaker 6: AFC South, you know what I mean, Like where you

2143
01:47:50,200 --> 01:47:53,840
Speaker 6: might have two teams with double digit records because the

2144
01:47:53,880 --> 01:47:57,840
Speaker 6: other two teams are absolute garbage. We're gonna reward more

2145
01:47:57,840 --> 01:48:00,719
Speaker 6: of the AFC South and then we're going to punish

2146
01:48:00,760 --> 01:48:04,000
Speaker 6: the AFC North for beating the ever living dog out

2147
01:48:04,000 --> 01:48:05,000
Speaker 6: of each other, like.

2148
01:48:04,960 --> 01:48:07,200
Speaker 7: No, thank you, no, thank you. Don't.

2149
01:48:07,520 --> 01:48:11,400
Speaker 6: Also, this will eventually hurt small market teams or smaller

2150
01:48:11,600 --> 01:48:16,760
Speaker 6: market teams. I mean also home field advantage and and

2151
01:48:16,960 --> 01:48:19,960
Speaker 6: weather play an enormous factor in the.

2152
01:48:19,920 --> 01:48:23,839
Speaker 4: Post games and win freaking games, and spare me your tears.

2153
01:48:24,040 --> 01:48:26,479
Speaker 7: No, no, no. Schedule and balance is a real thing.

2154
01:48:26,760 --> 01:48:27,719
Speaker 7: Schedule and balances.

2155
01:48:27,880 --> 01:48:30,280
Speaker 8: What's the part that I agree with where the schedule

2156
01:48:30,360 --> 01:48:31,599
Speaker 8: does matter a little bit.

2157
01:48:31,840 --> 01:48:34,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, you need to bake more if you want to

2158
01:48:34,840 --> 01:48:35,160
Speaker 5: do this.

2159
01:48:35,640 --> 01:48:39,519
Speaker 4: The AFC South the NFC South have been easier paths

2160
01:48:39,840 --> 01:48:42,360
Speaker 4: and they're not winning more games than teams in the

2161
01:48:42,479 --> 01:48:44,759
Speaker 4: NFC North, and you're hosting games.

2162
01:48:45,360 --> 01:48:47,000
Speaker 5: It was a it was a weird like the but

2163
01:48:47,040 --> 01:48:47,519
Speaker 5: the NFC.

2164
01:48:47,600 --> 01:48:50,200
Speaker 8: No, I don't think basing this full opinion on one

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Speaker 8: weird time.

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01:48:51,880 --> 01:48:52,120
Speaker 7: Again.

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01:48:52,520 --> 01:48:55,360
Speaker 4: I gave you a beast quake from the twenty ten season.

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01:48:56,880 --> 01:49:00,360
Speaker 7: I gave two examples over the course of twelve.

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01:49:00,360 --> 01:49:03,320
Speaker 4: Which there are many. It's a three hours showy. I

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01:49:03,360 --> 01:49:05,120
Speaker 4: don't have time eat.

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01:49:05,240 --> 01:49:07,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, but but, but let me give you, let me

2172
01:49:07,439 --> 01:49:12,360
Speaker 6: give you the tertiary or unintended consequence of this, all

2173
01:49:12,360 --> 01:49:15,000
Speaker 6: of a sudden, divisions don't matter all of a sudden.

2174
01:49:15,320 --> 01:49:16,280
Speaker 7: Instead of having.

2175
01:49:16,160 --> 01:49:19,479
Speaker 6: A team, Instead of having a team play against the

2176
01:49:19,640 --> 01:49:23,000
Speaker 6: Jags twice and the Colts twice and the Texans twice,

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01:49:23,280 --> 01:49:26,080
Speaker 6: you're going to want them to play against better competition

2178
01:49:26,560 --> 01:49:28,720
Speaker 6: or frankly, worst competition.

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01:49:28,800 --> 01:49:31,880
Speaker 7: If the only things we're looking at is w's and l's.

2180
01:49:32,160 --> 01:49:37,240
Speaker 6: So again, schedule imbalances based on divisions are going to matter.

2181
01:49:36,720 --> 01:49:39,639
Speaker 7: More steeply in this brave new world you're pitching.

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01:49:39,720 --> 01:49:42,920
Speaker 6: I think it's dumb again, going back to my original point,

2183
01:49:43,080 --> 01:49:45,200
Speaker 6: what you want to add a couple of megapitzels to

2184
01:49:45,240 --> 01:49:49,920
Speaker 6: what's already perfect or potentially completely rooined by turning this

2185
01:49:49,960 --> 01:49:52,879
Speaker 6: thing on its ear. The NFL is the most popular

2186
01:49:52,920 --> 01:49:57,120
Speaker 6: sports for a sports league for one reason and one

2187
01:49:57,160 --> 01:50:01,200
Speaker 6: reason alone. They have cornered the market on urgency. They've

2188
01:50:01,240 --> 01:50:05,280
Speaker 6: given everybody a chance with salary caps. They've given everybody

2189
01:50:05,280 --> 01:50:08,880
Speaker 6: a chance with the NFL Draft, which by the way, doesn't.

2190
01:50:08,520 --> 01:50:09,519
Speaker 7: Even feel legal.

2191
01:50:09,880 --> 01:50:12,080
Speaker 6: I'm not even sure how they've gotten away with this,

2192
01:50:12,160 --> 01:50:14,880
Speaker 6: but whatever, I digress to prove the point that the

2193
01:50:14,920 --> 01:50:18,080
Speaker 6: competition in the NFL, based on the way it's broken

2194
01:50:18,120 --> 01:50:21,360
Speaker 6: down divisionally and all the other restrictions they have in place,

2195
01:50:21,400 --> 01:50:23,520
Speaker 6: had made this the most urgent.

2196
01:50:23,360 --> 01:50:26,759
Speaker 7: League to pay attention to you. And you want to completely.

2197
01:50:26,120 --> 01:50:28,960
Speaker 4: Flip that formula this, I want to change it because

2198
01:50:29,000 --> 01:50:31,639
Speaker 4: the Lions, if they lose at home in Week eighteen,

2199
01:50:32,000 --> 01:50:34,040
Speaker 4: they're a five seed playing on the road.

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01:50:34,600 --> 01:50:35,599
Speaker 3: That's dumb.

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01:50:35,800 --> 01:50:38,360
Speaker 5: Well, all these and.

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01:50:40,439 --> 01:50:45,840
Speaker 7: That better.

2203
01:50:47,080 --> 01:50:49,559
Speaker 4: Wins better even if you drop that game, four wins

2204
01:50:49,560 --> 01:51:00,200
Speaker 4: better than the Rams.

2205
01:50:56,360 --> 01:50:58,759
Speaker 5: Football team win Rams Lion.

2206
01:50:59,160 --> 01:51:01,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Rams should have won games. The Rams should

2207
01:51:01,640 --> 01:51:03,519
Speaker 4: have started off better than one and fourth. The Rams

2208
01:51:03,520 --> 01:51:06,400
Speaker 4: should have beaten the Arizona Cardinals instead of losing forty

2209
01:51:06,400 --> 01:51:06,920
Speaker 4: one to ten.

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01:51:06,960 --> 01:51:12,040
Speaker 8: Here the Rams had to play the Chiefs and the

2211
01:51:12,120 --> 01:51:15,360
Speaker 8: Chargers and the AFC West, where the NFC North got

2212
01:51:15,360 --> 01:51:18,759
Speaker 8: to play the AFC South, the Typers, Jags, and the Colts.

2213
01:51:19,120 --> 01:51:22,240
Speaker 8: That's the part that needs to change if we are

2214
01:51:22,280 --> 01:51:24,639
Speaker 8: going to do this for real, we need to stop

2215
01:51:24,680 --> 01:51:27,640
Speaker 8: with the division versus division matchups and we need to

2216
01:51:27,640 --> 01:51:31,400
Speaker 8: do a balance schedule where you play the teams that

2217
01:51:31,479 --> 01:51:35,200
Speaker 8: you are lined against in the other conference and not

2218
01:51:35,320 --> 01:51:38,280
Speaker 8: just one division straight up, because any team that gets

2219
01:51:38,320 --> 01:51:41,280
Speaker 8: to play any division in the NFC, that gets to

2220
01:51:41,280 --> 01:51:45,559
Speaker 8: play the AFC South is in an advantage winning games

2221
01:51:46,280 --> 01:51:46,840
Speaker 8: any other.

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01:51:47,120 --> 01:51:49,120
Speaker 5: It's true, though, Brian, that listen.

2223
01:51:49,400 --> 01:51:53,160
Speaker 4: If there's no balance, there is balance out of your head,

2224
01:51:53,200 --> 01:51:54,639
Speaker 4: there's zero balance, like.

2225
01:51:54,600 --> 01:51:57,040
Speaker 8: You can eliminate that situation.

2226
01:51:57,120 --> 01:51:58,639
Speaker 7: And there's no say.

2227
01:52:00,120 --> 01:52:03,320
Speaker 4: There are thirty two teams and you play seventeen games,

2228
01:52:03,800 --> 01:52:07,920
Speaker 4: get balanced out of your mind. It will never exist ever, ever,

2229
01:52:08,040 --> 01:52:10,080
Speaker 4: ever can There are teams that are good, there are

2230
01:52:10,080 --> 01:52:13,520
Speaker 4: teams that are bad. Every year the ACA balance schedules,

2231
01:52:13,800 --> 01:52:16,320
Speaker 4: you can't, you can't possibly, but look look at the

2232
01:52:16,439 --> 01:52:20,240
Speaker 4: Washington Commanders. They the Commanders went from four and thirteen

2233
01:52:20,280 --> 01:52:21,559
Speaker 4: to the NFC title game.

2234
01:52:21,800 --> 01:52:25,080
Speaker 3: They went from the outhouse to the penthouse.

2235
01:52:25,479 --> 01:52:28,920
Speaker 4: Good luck coming up with balanced schedules from year to

2236
01:52:29,040 --> 01:52:32,200
Speaker 4: year when these teams have results that are completely different.

2237
01:52:32,320 --> 01:52:33,080
Speaker 5: No, but I'm not.

2238
01:52:33,200 --> 01:52:33,840
Speaker 7: I can't.

2239
01:52:33,920 --> 01:52:34,679
Speaker 3: I agree.

2240
01:52:34,760 --> 01:52:36,960
Speaker 8: I agree with that. It's hard to do it in

2241
01:52:37,120 --> 01:52:40,760
Speaker 8: the moment. But the division format, the way that the

2242
01:52:40,840 --> 01:52:45,320
Speaker 8: schedule is structured now, where the NFC whatever plays the

2243
01:52:45,360 --> 01:52:50,439
Speaker 8: AFC whatever every year and it's very regimented, that needs

2244
01:52:50,479 --> 01:52:54,760
Speaker 8: to change. We need to eliminate the cross conference divisional

2245
01:52:54,880 --> 01:52:58,680
Speaker 8: matchups and just say this is your schedule and this

2246
01:52:58,720 --> 01:53:00,160
Speaker 8: is who you play based off.

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01:53:00,080 --> 01:53:01,240
Speaker 5: Of last year's records.

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01:53:01,320 --> 01:53:05,519
Speaker 8: But you have to remove the container of every team

2249
01:53:05,560 --> 01:53:08,400
Speaker 8: in the NFC North has to play every team in

2250
01:53:08,439 --> 01:53:11,240
Speaker 8: the AFC South because it just so happens that this

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01:53:11,320 --> 01:53:15,040
Speaker 8: is the fourth year of that format. That makes no

2252
01:53:15,400 --> 01:53:18,519
Speaker 8: That makes as little sense as the as what the

2253
01:53:18,640 --> 01:53:20,439
Speaker 8: you know, the Lions going on the road being a

2254
01:53:20,439 --> 01:53:22,040
Speaker 8: five seed if they would have lost that last game.

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01:53:22,120 --> 01:53:22,680
Speaker 3: I'll tell you this.

2256
01:53:22,760 --> 01:53:25,639
Speaker 4: I'll tell you this on this we're in the middle

2257
01:53:25,680 --> 01:53:29,120
Speaker 4: of March madness and we're loving about the NFL likes.

2258
01:53:28,920 --> 01:53:30,000
Speaker 3: But I'll tell you this.

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01:53:30,360 --> 01:53:35,400
Speaker 4: You know what's funny is nobody talks about balanced schedules.

2260
01:53:35,560 --> 01:53:37,160
Speaker 3: And we got to stop with this.

2261
01:53:37,280 --> 01:53:41,160
Speaker 4: AFC division plays this one NFC division. No one talks

2262
01:53:41,200 --> 01:53:44,920
Speaker 4: about that until we talk about this Lion's proposal in

2263
01:53:45,040 --> 01:53:49,120
Speaker 4: home playoff games going away from like automatically from the

2264
01:53:49,160 --> 01:53:52,559
Speaker 4: division champs. Like what if this proposal wasn't on the table.

2265
01:53:52,720 --> 01:53:56,400
Speaker 4: Why isn't anybody yelling about the lack of balance schedules anyway?

2266
01:53:56,600 --> 01:53:58,120
Speaker 3: Shouldn't that matter anyway?

2267
01:53:58,400 --> 01:54:00,479
Speaker 4: Why is it all of a sudden mad or just

2268
01:54:00,520 --> 01:54:03,519
Speaker 4: when we're talking about maybe home playoff games going away

2269
01:54:03,800 --> 01:54:06,160
Speaker 4: for division winners if your record isn't good enough.

2270
01:54:06,200 --> 01:54:07,680
Speaker 3: I don't understand that part of it.

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01:54:07,760 --> 01:54:11,800
Speaker 6: I understand where your brain is, but you're skipping over

2272
01:54:11,920 --> 01:54:15,559
Speaker 6: the one fact that balance schedules don't matter as much

2273
01:54:15,640 --> 01:54:19,320
Speaker 6: in the current system because you have another route, because

2274
01:54:19,360 --> 01:54:21,400
Speaker 6: if you win your division, you have another route.

2275
01:54:21,439 --> 01:54:25,040
Speaker 7: So you're right. If we were in the situation that.

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01:54:25,000 --> 01:54:30,320
Speaker 6: You're trying to get us to where record is the

2277
01:54:30,320 --> 01:54:33,200
Speaker 6: only thing that mattered, then having a balanced schedule would

2278
01:54:33,280 --> 01:54:36,760
Speaker 6: matter a lot more. But with a divisional route, you know,

2279
01:54:36,880 --> 01:54:39,880
Speaker 6: kind of like with March Madness, the second best in

2280
01:54:39,880 --> 01:54:42,960
Speaker 6: my mind postseason in all of sports, behind the NFL.

2281
01:54:43,920 --> 01:54:47,760
Speaker 6: March Madness works because it's not just at large bids

2282
01:54:47,800 --> 01:54:51,600
Speaker 6: based on record and metrics. It's also conference tournament championships,

2283
01:54:51,880 --> 01:54:56,400
Speaker 6: so you can have you know, brack or not bracketbuster,

2284
01:54:56,520 --> 01:55:00,520
Speaker 6: but bid stealers out of these conferences and that stuff

2285
01:55:00,880 --> 01:55:02,760
Speaker 6: that makes it more equitable.

2286
01:55:03,400 --> 01:55:04,920
Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought that up, Rich.

2287
01:55:05,520 --> 01:55:09,720
Speaker 4: So if the NFL, if you're doing a March Madness comparison, yeah, okay,

2288
01:55:09,720 --> 01:55:12,800
Speaker 4: if you win your lower division, you're in the tournament.

2289
01:55:13,000 --> 01:55:15,800
Speaker 3: You're not automatically a four seed, you know what I mean.

2290
01:55:15,800 --> 01:55:16,600
Speaker 1: You got to earn that.

2291
01:55:16,800 --> 01:55:17,000
Speaker 6: Yeah.

2292
01:55:17,200 --> 01:55:19,640
Speaker 4: The NFL is like, screw it, you're a three seed.

2293
01:55:19,680 --> 01:55:23,600
Speaker 4: You you were ten and seven in the AFC South. Yeah, great,

2294
01:55:23,960 --> 01:55:27,320
Speaker 4: three seed host a home playoff game. The NCAA tournament

2295
01:55:27,400 --> 01:55:29,560
Speaker 4: doesn't work like that. You actually have to have a

2296
01:55:29,600 --> 01:55:32,040
Speaker 4: good record to have a good seed. You can't just

2297
01:55:32,080 --> 01:55:32,800
Speaker 4: win your division.

2298
01:55:32,840 --> 01:55:41,640
Speaker 8: Unzaga should file for emotion to get the seedings changed

2299
01:55:41,640 --> 01:55:42,720
Speaker 8: by the committee.

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Speaker 4: We've got Rich Orenberger, Penn State All American, Jared Smith

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Speaker 4: We actually will talk hoops coming up next, but that

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Speaker 4: was a life chat.

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Speaker 4: Let's do it.

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Speaker 1: Rapid fire.

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Speaker 4: All right, Jared, we start with you, what do you

2336
01:57:30,000 --> 01:57:32,840
Speaker 4: like a lot of chalk today, which means all the

2337
01:57:32,840 --> 01:57:35,320
Speaker 4: dogs will cover, probably because I'm betting all the favorites

2338
01:57:35,360 --> 01:57:36,840
Speaker 4: pretty much except for this early game.

2339
01:57:36,840 --> 01:57:39,360
Speaker 8: But I'll give you Saint John's minus seven and a half

2340
01:57:39,360 --> 01:57:41,800
Speaker 8: aginst Arkansas. There's better numbers available, there's some sevens, but

2341
01:57:41,800 --> 01:57:43,480
Speaker 8: we'll give you the bet MGM number seven and a

2342
01:57:43,480 --> 01:57:46,440
Speaker 8: half minus one oh five. The Boogie Flann injury came

2343
01:57:46,440 --> 01:57:48,720
Speaker 8: back by twenty five minutes. I was surprised for Arkansas

2344
01:57:48,840 --> 01:57:51,320
Speaker 8: against Kansas. I will see if he adds that kind

2345
01:57:51,320 --> 01:57:54,360
Speaker 8: of bounce back. And I just think the Johnny's are

2346
01:57:54,360 --> 01:57:55,960
Speaker 8: a little bit tougher in the trenches.

2347
01:57:55,600 --> 01:57:57,000
Speaker 5: And I think they're gonna cover this number.

2348
01:57:57,560 --> 01:57:59,200
Speaker 8: Ginzaga minus four and a half against Houston.

2349
01:57:59,240 --> 01:58:00,920
Speaker 5: We talked about this in the parlay platter.

2350
01:58:01,280 --> 01:58:04,360
Speaker 8: The Zags are sweet sixteen, darling, but they just had

2351
01:58:04,400 --> 01:58:08,000
Speaker 8: a ridiculous run through the you know, the three point

2352
01:58:08,000 --> 01:58:10,040
Speaker 8: shooting in their last round. So I think Houston is

2353
01:58:10,080 --> 01:58:11,760
Speaker 8: actually sorry I flipped that. Houston minus four and a

2354
01:58:11,760 --> 01:58:12,800
Speaker 8: half against Gonzaga.

2355
01:58:12,880 --> 01:58:15,520
Speaker 5: Agains. Zaga is not a favorite against Houston, but I think.

2356
01:58:15,360 --> 01:58:17,800
Speaker 8: The Houston defense is gonna shut down ba Gonzaga three

2357
01:58:17,840 --> 01:58:19,840
Speaker 8: point attack. Just like they did the BYU in the

2358
01:58:19,840 --> 01:58:21,800
Speaker 8: Big twelve tournament last week. And I'll like four and

2359
01:58:21,840 --> 01:58:23,640
Speaker 8: a half with Tennessee. I know Rick Barnes is usually

2360
01:58:23,640 --> 01:58:26,360
Speaker 8: a pumpkin in the tournament, but I think this Tennessee

2361
01:58:26,400 --> 01:58:30,480
Speaker 8: team is a very, very high octane unit, and I

2362
01:58:30,480 --> 01:58:32,360
Speaker 8: think they have enough to get past UCLA shot up

2363
01:58:32,360 --> 01:58:34,680
Speaker 8: really well against Utah State. So Saint John's minus seven

2364
01:58:34,680 --> 01:58:36,720
Speaker 8: and a half against Zaga minus four and a half

2365
01:58:37,000 --> 01:58:38,520
Speaker 8: Tennessee minus four and a half.

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01:58:38,520 --> 01:58:39,880
Speaker 5: A lot of chalk today, all right.

2367
01:58:39,920 --> 01:58:42,560
Speaker 6: I think I'm on the opposite side of Jared on

2368
01:58:42,600 --> 01:58:43,919
Speaker 6: two of these bets.

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01:58:43,960 --> 01:58:44,919
Speaker 7: So let's get.

2370
01:58:44,680 --> 01:58:48,440
Speaker 6: Into Oh, I don't trust the Cougars. I think the

2371
01:58:48,560 --> 01:58:51,720
Speaker 6: Zags are coming off that hot first round and they'll continue.

2372
01:58:51,760 --> 01:58:53,839
Speaker 6: So give me the Zags plus four and a half.

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01:58:54,200 --> 01:58:57,040
Speaker 6: And then, yeah, I am on the opposite side. I

2374
01:58:57,080 --> 01:59:01,680
Speaker 6: think the Arkansas raise. I think though the Pigs have

2375
01:59:01,840 --> 01:59:05,240
Speaker 6: the length to match up with the Johnnies. Give me

2376
01:59:05,320 --> 01:59:07,400
Speaker 6: the dogs there. Those are the only two dogs I'm

2377
01:59:07,440 --> 01:59:11,920
Speaker 6: taking today. And then also give me Wisconsin a favorite. Uh,

2378
01:59:12,080 --> 01:59:16,000
Speaker 6: this is actually the narrowest spread we have today, minus

2379
01:59:16,040 --> 01:59:17,520
Speaker 6: one and a half over BYU.

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01:59:17,560 --> 01:59:19,360
Speaker 7: I trust Wisconsin's defense more.

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01:59:20,600 --> 01:59:22,640
Speaker 4: All right, Okay, I'm gonna go with two of my

2382
01:59:22,720 --> 01:59:24,240
Speaker 4: props here I mentioned earlier.

2383
01:59:24,320 --> 01:59:24,880
Speaker 3: I like him.

2384
01:59:25,160 --> 01:59:28,360
Speaker 4: Give me Trey Kaufman Wren from Purdue over six and

2385
01:59:28,400 --> 01:59:32,800
Speaker 4: a half rebounds, Will Wade if McNeese he's talked about. Hey,

2386
01:59:32,840 --> 01:59:36,200
Speaker 4: they struggle with front court size, so I expect Ren

2387
01:59:36,280 --> 01:59:39,680
Speaker 4: to get his. I also like chas Lanier of Tennessee

2388
01:59:39,920 --> 01:59:42,600
Speaker 4: under sixteen and a half points. He went crazy twenty

2389
01:59:42,680 --> 01:59:44,880
Speaker 4: nine points in the first round, but matched up against

2390
01:59:45,000 --> 01:59:50,600
Speaker 4: UCLA's Kobe Johnson and Mick cronin Dada. I think chas

2391
01:59:50,720 --> 01:59:54,680
Speaker 4: Lanier goes under and then tomorrow. Give me Florida minus

2392
01:59:54,760 --> 01:59:57,440
Speaker 4: nine and a half. I think Florida puts it on

2393
01:59:57,720 --> 01:59:59,840
Speaker 4: the two time defending champs Yukon.

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Speaker 3: I think they win by double digits. Hey, enjoy all

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Speaker 3: the hoops action. We'll catch you soon. Have a good one.