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Speaker 2: Buck back with you, Buck?

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Speaker 3: What is going on?

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Speaker 1: Is the fun time of year, Like we're in the

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Speaker 1: I don't know if we've ever seen the league so

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Speaker 2: Is ridiculous that we're seeing.

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Speaker 1: It is unbelievable to see the divide in a league

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Speaker 1: And I really can't understand why, because I think the

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Speaker 3: So right now two and seven teams New England, Jacksonville,

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Speaker 3: we've got nine teams that with two wins right now. Nine,

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Speaker 3: Like I've never said, I don't remember ever seeing anything

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Speaker 1: No, it's never been normally like the league is built

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Speaker 2: Will I will say this, and we talk about it.

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Speaker 1: We always talk in terms of like players in personnel

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Speaker 3: Just take care of business, don't blow coverages, Uh, don't

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to when New England was playing get

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Speaker 3: He wanted the stats and all that stuff. He didn't

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Speaker 1: Here, man, Look, so we talked about Ben Johnson. I

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Speaker 3: good football season, better than our two Alma maters another

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Speaker 3: topic for another day. I'm hoping we're going to finish wrong.

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Speaker 3: Uh there, man, My son, by the way, is I was.

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Speaker 2: I was. Pottery's don't end well.

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Speaker 3: You know, at least Chargers are playing well for me

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Speaker 3: selfishly on that on that front. But I was so

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Speaker 3: excited for Baylor basketball.

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Speaker 2: Buck.

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Speaker 3: You know, Carolina got to win the other night. Baylor

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Speaker 3: opens up against Gonzaga and got their doors blown off.

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Speaker 2: That's all right, Sometimes sometimes it's the best thing.

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Speaker 1: Little opening loss bring everybody back down to earth kind

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Speaker 1: of reset.

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Speaker 3: Scott Drew typically does a really good job. They forget

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Speaker 3: out every one of those teams that I'm a Scott

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Speaker 3: Drew guy. They got to play some defense, all right.

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Speaker 3: That's going to do it for us today. We'll see

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Speaker 3: you next time. Right here, I'll move this stick.