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Speaker 1: And welcome in lakeig Is Live. It is Tuesday night,

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Speaker 1: January eleventh year of our Lord twenty twenty two, jam

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Speaker 1: packed highat top downtown Nashville, Tennessee, right home from Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: where twenty four hours ago we witnessed his story. We

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Speaker 1: witnessed the Georgia Bulldogs secure their first national championship and

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Speaker 1: multiple generations, depending on how you define a generation. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: we've got full wall to wall reaction. Haven't been to

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Speaker 1: Georgia native right here and so I feel uniquely qualified

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Speaker 1: I've got as we speak, one hundred and nineteen unanswered

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Speaker 1: text messages, which may be irresponsible, but we had a

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Speaker 1: It is a very very celebratory day in Georgia. We

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Speaker 1: are going to talk from every angle about this national championship,

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Speaker 1: when we will also talk about it from the Alabama angle.

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Speaker 1: A lot of transfer portal entries today, including guys that

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Speaker 1: lot of transition happening there. We'll talk about that secondary.

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Speaker 1: If you win the game, you lead the show. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about Georgia in just a second. Also, now

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Speaker 1: that the twenty twenty two season or twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: about it in totality just a little bit. We're not

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Speaker 1: I asked on Twitter a little while ago, is this

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Speaker 1: from my personal fan point of view, no, because my

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Speaker 1: watching the season this year. Guys, even if you say

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Speaker 1: we re established a lot of stuff in this sport

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Speaker 1: this year that certainly was solely lacking in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: But I thought had been lack maybe just a little

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Speaker 1: bit even before that, great great experiences. We were on

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Speaker 1: and it's been really fun. And of course it culminated

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Speaker 1: last night with again history we saw red and black

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Speaker 1: we start the show tonight, boy, what a show we have.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being tuned in. The city of Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: deserves a lot of credit. A lot of you went

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Speaker 1: and Indianapolis, I'll be blunt with you, even from my

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Speaker 1: Championship game. Everyone went up there thinking that because the

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Speaker 1: It was anything but that. So I could not speak

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Speaker 1: So let's dive into this thing. And I want to

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Speaker 1: The Georgia Bulldogs are the national champions of college football,

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Speaker 1: thirty three to eighteen the final score last night. I

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Speaker 1: I was driving home last night. Yeah, by the way,

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Speaker 1: I decided to drive home last night. I did my

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Speaker 1: incredible amounts of emotion. I've watched championships be one, but

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Speaker 1: And then the Braves the World Series, and then the

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Speaker 1: So many important things went down last night. Let's unpack

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Speaker 1: this first and foremost. The most important thing is Georgia

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Speaker 1: that with also Georgia finally beat Alabama, Kirby Smart finally

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Speaker 1: Overcame a lot of adversity. I was watching the replay

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Speaker 1: what used to be territory that Alabama owned in this matchup,

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Speaker 1: that of course, being the fourth quarter, becomes Georgia's. How

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Speaker 1: That's how Georgia outscored Alabama in the fourth quarter. The

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Speaker 1: beat the Stetson Bennett drama. I never talked about JT.

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Speaker 1: say is I said, yeah, Georgia can win a title

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Speaker 1: tendency is probably to say hats off to them, like,

430
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Speaker 1: when are we ever going to get a Bryce Young here?

431
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,920
Speaker 1: Alabama didn't win last night. The team that played rock

432
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:18,480
Speaker 1: solid defense and played good enough at quarterback but played

433
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,280
Speaker 1: a very complimentary style won the game. If I'm in

434
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Speaker 1: Iowa or Virginia Tech or Miami or Michigan State or wherever,

435
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,719
Speaker 1: and I'm watching that last night, I'm saying we may

436
00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,919
Speaker 1: not be able to count on a Bryce Young. I

437
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,520
Speaker 1: think we could get a Stetson Bennett. I think we

438
00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:36,040
Speaker 1: could play high level defense. What it showed is that, again,

439
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,480
Speaker 1: contrary to that rumor going around, there is still more

440
00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,080
Speaker 1: than just one way to skin the cat and win

441
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,600
Speaker 1: a national championship in the sport. You were told the

442
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 1: days of having that kind of quarterback. I'm not going

443
00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,480
Speaker 1: to say game manager because it's meant in a pejorative

444
00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,040
Speaker 1: manner and it's not a negative, but you were told

445
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,240
Speaker 1: those days were gone. You were told the days of

446
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:59,200
Speaker 1: riding a high level defensive effort to a national championship

447
00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 1: were gone. They're not gone. They're no more gone, as

448
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,040
Speaker 1: it turns out, than hiring a defensive minded head coach.

449
00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 1: There were just a few years where we had the

450
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,920
Speaker 1: pendulum go all the way to one side of the sport. Well,

451
00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:13,720
Speaker 1: Georgia just grabbed that thing and pulled it all the

452
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:15,400
Speaker 1: way back to the other side of the sport last night.

453
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,480
Speaker 1: In reality, it's always somewhere in between. The Georgia Bulldogs

454
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 1: did a lot more last night for programs around college

455
00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,879
Speaker 1: football than just for the program in the mirror. There

456
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 1: are a lot of folks probably reinvigorated and energized and

457
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,320
Speaker 1: motivated and maybe even inspired by what Kirby Smart showed

458
00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 1: you can still do now. You can neither do one

459
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,000
Speaker 1: of two things. You can look at it and say, well, yeah,

460
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 1: but that's Georgia, look at what all they have to

461
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:43,320
Speaker 1: work with, or you can say, well, they didn't always

462
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,720
Speaker 1: have it. They had to press the button down there,

463
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,840
Speaker 1: They had to truly become all in. What stops us

464
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,240
Speaker 1: from pressing that button? Michigan State just paid Meltucker more

465
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,360
Speaker 1: than you ever thought they would pay Meltucker. What if

466
00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,639
Speaker 1: Michigan State pressed the button? Miami just stepped up in

467
00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,040
Speaker 1: such a big way to hire more Christoval. What if

468
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 1: Miami pressed the button. This stuff is not just on

469
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 1: the table for three or four programs in America. Again,

470
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 1: contrary to what people tell you, this sport is not

471
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Speaker 1: constructed to only benefit three or four teams. The reality

472
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 1: is there are about one or two dozen programs out

473
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 1: there that realistically could achieve what Georgia achieved last night,

474
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 1: could operate at that level. They've made very poor decisions

475
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 1: in the past. But instead of looking in the mirror

476
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,680
Speaker 1: and saying it's on us, we got to do better,

477
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,199
Speaker 1: like they did it Georgia, they look out the window

478
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,639
Speaker 1: and they tell you, excuse me, fan base, look the

479
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,639
Speaker 1: system out there, the man out the window. That's who's

480
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:37,880
Speaker 1: holding us down. That's not who's holding you down. You're

481
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: holding you down. Georgia was holding Georgia down, not anymore.

482
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Speaker 1: Who's going to be next? I think Georgia inspired a

483
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,639
Speaker 1: lot of people last night. Congratulations. Obviously plenty more to

484
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,520
Speaker 1: talk about with the University of Georgia. But some of

485
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Speaker 1: the best video I saw last night was not at

486
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Speaker 1: the game. It was not in the post game, it

487
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: was not in the tunnels. What happened was I left

488
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Speaker 1: the stadium and I went over to the hotel to

489
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 1: grab my stuff, and I saw my eye Josh had

490
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 1: lit up with all kinds of videos. The videos were

491
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,880
Speaker 1: from so many of you in a parking lot of

492
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 1: a random Academy Sports and Outdoors at one o'clock in

493
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: the morning, one thirty in the morning, because the National

494
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: Championship gear was on sale. This was the most beautiful site.

495
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 1: There were lines around some of the blocks of where

496
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,199
Speaker 1: these Academy Sports and Outdoors locations were all over the

497
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Speaker 1: state and in some cases states nearby. Georgia. They opened

498
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Speaker 1: the stores up as soon as the team wins the

499
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Speaker 1: national championship, and they did it last night. If you

500
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Speaker 1: wanted a Georgia National Championship T shirt, they had the hookup.

501
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,439
Speaker 1: If you wanted the commemorative football, they had the hookup.

502
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: In fact, any kind of paraphernalia that you could possibly

503
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Speaker 1: want that coincides with Georgia wing a National championship, they

504
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 1: had it at Academy Sports and Outdoors. So I know

505
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 1: normally when I do the ad read for Academy, I'm

506
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 1: trying to sell you coast to coast on either going

507
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Speaker 1: to Academy Sports and Outdoors in person or just visiting

508
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:02,159
Speaker 1: Academy dot com. Man, I'm gonna nail this one, and

509
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna aim it right at the Peach State. If

510
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 1: you're buying Georgia Bulldog National Championship merchandise and you're not

511
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,679
Speaker 1: doing it through Academy Sports and Outdoors, who do you

512
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Speaker 1: think you are? What gives you the right? I just

513
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 1: wanted to work those quotes in the show. If you

514
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Speaker 1: know the office, you know why. If you don't pretend,

515
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 1: I'd be in a jerk. But look, they've got everything

516
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Speaker 1: you need there, and they are the official, in fact,

517
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 1: our only official partner on this show, and they've got

518
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Speaker 1: the best merch and they don't make you wait till

519
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: the next morning they open the store up. You know

520
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,440
Speaker 1: how hard it is to get folks to go into

521
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 1: work at one o'clock in the morning. That's not easy.

522
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Speaker 1: So tell them you appreciate it, and tell them you

523
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Speaker 1: appreciate what they do for the show as well. Academy

524
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,879
Speaker 1: Sports and Outdoors. They've been with us all season long.

525
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,679
Speaker 1: They make so much of this possible. It's Academy and

526
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 1: you guys that make pretty much everything you see possible here.

527
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 1: That's why we have immense respect and appreciation for both

528
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:58,879
Speaker 1: parties there. But if you have not fulfilled your purchasing

529
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Speaker 1: requirements for all the Georgia National Championship merch it's there

530
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: Academy dot Com or in person at Academy Sports and Outdoors. Okay,

531
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Speaker 1: I had many different thoughts on how I wanted to

532
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Speaker 1: go about this. There's been some news, even as recently

533
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,879
Speaker 1: as a couple of hours ago. So what do we

534
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: think about Alabama? Last night? Alabama loses the National Championship

535
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Speaker 1: game thirty three to eighteen. I noticed some people that

536
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Speaker 1: that predictably had a negative reaction. If you're an Alabama fan,

537
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: I almost exclude you from this. You're emotionally invested. It's

538
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 1: your team. That's fine. I tried to look at it

539
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Speaker 1: through unbiased lenses, and what I saw, even in a

540
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 1: loss last night, was a season where I don't think

541
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Speaker 1: you can credit Nick Saban and Bryce Young enough. I

542
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:50,399
Speaker 1: think Bryce Young had one of the best seasons with

543
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,880
Speaker 1: everything factored in that I've ever seen a quarterback cab

544
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 1: in college football. I think Nick Saban did about as

545
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,400
Speaker 1: good a coaching job this year with all things factored

546
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: in as anyone we've seen. I was talking to a

547
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: number of people both inside and very very close to

548
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 1: the program last night, some of them before the game,

549
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 1: many of them after the game. Here was the general message.

550
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 1: I cannot believe that we were able to get this

551
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: team this far. It's such a credit. They all were

552
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,880
Speaker 1: effusive in their praise of Nick Saban, and it's almost

553
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: like the cumulative messages. Dude, if you could only know,

554
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: there are a lot of details I'm sure as the

555
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 1: season wraps up that will leak their way out. This

556
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: was far from a perfect road. This was far from

557
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: Nick Saban's best team, but they got to the National

558
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 1: Championship anyway. This is not meant to be any kind

559
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 1: of excuse making. I'm trying to praise them. I think

560
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 1: here's what I think. I think if they would have

561
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: lost the SEC Championship game to Georgia and then finished

562
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: the season murdering someone in the Capitol One Bowl or

563
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,640
Speaker 1: the Verbo Citrus Bowl, you'd have a little bit better

564
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: taste in your mouth. Like the twenty nineteen team they

565
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: lost to LS. They don't go to the SEC title game,

566
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: but they just pound Michigan in the Verbo Citrus Bowl.

567
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: You end on a positive note, and so you think, ah,

568
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 1: we underachieve, but don't worry. This team will be primed

569
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 1: for big things next year. Well, this team happened to

570
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: slip their way all the way into a title game.

571
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 1: They are primed for big things next year. There is

572
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Speaker 1: a lot of what if. I mean, I'm standing there,

573
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,679
Speaker 1: Jamison Williams goes down right on my side of the field.

574
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: I'm watching it. I'm crushed. I'm deflated, just like anyone

575
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,360
Speaker 1: else's You're already playing without Mechi. You could certainly all

576
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: day ask what would have happened? You know, what would

577
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: have happened had Alabama just had all the players they've

578
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: lost in the last month, what would have happened. Look,

579
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Speaker 1: my guess is that probably stand a good chance to

580
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 1: win the national championship. That would be my guess. It's

581
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: pointless to speculate on because we'll never find out. It's

582
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: also pointless to speculate on because you know, injuries are

583
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: a part of football. I was doing the postgame with

584
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 1: Canal last night, and one of the first thoughts I

585
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: had that I've seen a lot of other people echo today,

586
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: is remember in Pasadena, once upon a time, before Saban

587
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: had won a title at Alabama. They go out there,

588
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: Colt McCoy goes out early. You beat Texas. I mean,

589
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 1: did you put an asterisk by it because Texas lost

590
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: their starting quarterback? No, nor should you. You should have

591
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: celebrated it. Georgia should celebrate last night. Injuries were a

592
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: part of this thing, but it doesn't make it any

593
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: less deflating when you see those big injuries happen. Adam Schefter,

594
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: by the way, with ESPN confirmed in the last hour

595
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: and a half it is an ACL tear for Jamison Williams.

596
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: Now that conflicts with some of the information that was

597
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: going around last night, which legend believe maybe it's just

598
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: a bad sprain. I can tell you he wanted back

599
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 1: in that game badly. I was down the tunnel, I

600
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: was where he was. It took an effort to contain

601
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: him to an ACL and all. As it turns out,

602
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: he wanted back out on that field really bad. He

603
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: is a supreme competitor. He is an alpha competitor. You

604
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: find you a few Jamison Williams and you can do

605
00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: anything in this sport. So it's really fun to watch

606
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: him and prayers for him on a speedy recovery. But

607
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: they had tough breaks all year. They had tough breaks

608
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Speaker 1: the second half of the year especially. I just want

609
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: you to think about this when I tell you I

610
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,719
Speaker 1: can't be effusive enough in my praise for what they

611
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: were able to do this year. You think about what

612
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: they lost going into the season and what they lost

613
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Speaker 1: during this season, and I want you to listen to

614
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: this list of names. You tell me what you could

615
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: do with what's left. They lost Jalen Waddle and DeVante

616
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Speaker 1: Smith from last year's team, then they lost John Metchi

617
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Speaker 1: and Jamison Williams from this year's team. They lost Najie

618
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Speaker 1: Harris from last year's team, then this year they lost

619
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Speaker 1: Roydale Williams and Jason McClellan from this year's team. They

620
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Speaker 1: lost multiple offensive linemen to the NFL Draft, including Leatherwood

621
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Speaker 1: and Land and Dickerson. They lost Christian Barmore on the

622
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Speaker 1: interior of the defensive line. They lost a first round

623
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Speaker 1: pick at quarterback in mac Jones, and they also lost

624
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Speaker 1: their offensive coordinator in Steve Sarkisian. And they had a

625
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: first year starter at quarterback this year. They had a

626
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: brand new offensive line coach. Everything's new everything's totally green.

627
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: It's like you pull the banana off the vine and

628
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: it's still green everywhere and you have to bite into it. Anyway,

629
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: they actually made the banana taste good enough to get

630
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: them all the way to a National Championship game. I

631
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: think it was a phenomenal job coaching. I think this

632
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: was like watching Denzel Washington in flight. You can either

633
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: criticize him because he had to crash the plane and

634
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: there were some fatalities, or you could say, how in

635
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: the world was this not the biggest aviation disaster in

636
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: the history of American aviation. He had to turn the

637
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: plane upside down. Nick Shaydan had to playing upside down

638
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: landing it in a field the whole year. This year

639
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: they were still able somehow to get to the National

640
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: Championship game. After the game, very very poignant moment. You

641
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 1: got Saban in the middle, you got flanking him to

642
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: either side, Will Anderson and Bryce Young. We're gonna play

643
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Speaker 1: the sound in just a second. But I also want

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Speaker 1: you to take note of the those players. These are

645
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Speaker 1: not seniors, These are not juniors. These are two true sophomores.

646
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: These are second year guys. Both of them should have

647
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: been in New York City. One of them won the Heisman,

648
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: the other got jilted out of a trip in Will Anderson,

649
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: who was the best player in college football this year,

650
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Speaker 1: for my money, But that aside, Listen to what Nick

651
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Speaker 1: Saban said last night after they told him it's a

652
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: rap press conference is over, and so normally the losing

653
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: coach doesn't want to say one word more than what

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Speaker 1: you're forcing him to say. This was Nick Saban, you know,

655
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: sort of sort of unprovoked last night. I just wanted

656
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Speaker 1: to volunteer this at the end, play guys.

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Speaker 2: Bryce and Will Thanks for your time.

658
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Speaker 1: We'll let you head back to your locker room.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to say something. Can I say something?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely?

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Speaker 2: You know, these two guys that are sitting up here,

662
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 2: they're not defined by one game. These guys played great

663
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 2: for us all year. They're great competitors, they were great

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Speaker 2: leaders on this team, and they they contributed tremendous to

665
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Speaker 2: the success of this team. And we would not be

666
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Speaker 2: here without them, all right, And both of them take

667
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Speaker 2: responsibility for the loss, but both of them contributed in

668
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Speaker 2: a lot of ways in a positive way to giving

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Speaker 2: us a chance to win and a chance to be

670
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Speaker 2: here to have an opportunity to win. So I just

671
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Speaker 2: want to thank them for that and let everybody know

672
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Speaker 2: how proud I am of these two guys.

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Speaker 1: Goos, thank you very much. First Off, that's one of

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Speaker 1: the most effective recruiting tools he'll ever have. Secondly, he

675
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Speaker 1: knows that's the nucleus of his team next year, both

676
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Speaker 1: of those guys come back. I know there are a

677
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: lot of, in my opinion, pretty lame takes out there

678
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: right now today about whether they should play next year

679
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Speaker 1: or not, coming from people who cover college football, which

680
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: you'll never make sense of. For me at least, but

681
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: I love watching great college football players play the sport.

682
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: Maybe that means something's wrong with me. I have a

683
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: pretty good reasonably both of those guys will play for

684
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Speaker 1: Alabama next year and play at a high level. I

685
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: also think they'll make a whole lot of money. I

686
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: think they'll both be millionaires next year while they play

687
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: for Alabama and play at a very high level. There

688
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: were several instances this year early in the season where

689
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 1: you watch this Alabama team and you realized they don't

690
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: have a bunch of Jonathan Allen's on this team. They

691
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: don't have a bunch of land in Dickerson's on this team.

692
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: That's not the biggest shock in the world. They had

693
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: a lot of leadership, both in terms of production and

694
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Speaker 1: just vocal leadership locker room. Guys exit the program to

695
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: the NFL, it's hard to replace that stuff. And it

696
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: started to become a parent about midyear. The guys who

697
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: were emerging were not, you know, in some cases and

698
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,919
Speaker 1: juniors themselves. It was Bryce Young sophomore, it was Will

699
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: Anderson sophomore. I think Nick Saban saw that and he

700
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Speaker 1: appreciates it and wishes that, you know, a lot of

701
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: that could have been adopted as a mentality for maybe

702
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Speaker 1: some of his older players. But look, every team has

703
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: a different dynamic. You can't force that into someone. You

704
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: don't train that into someone. They either got it or

705
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: they don't. Now, ultimately, you got to produce or no

706
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: one cares what kind of leader you are. You don't

707
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: have very mental leaders on the bench. If you've ever

708
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: noticed a lot of guys, especially at this level, they're

709
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 1: leading by example, they're leading by production. However, there was

710
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: some turnover today at Alabama and will continue to be

711
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,240
Speaker 1: I don't think this is done. Transfer Portal's been busy

712
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa today. So far there have been several I

713
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 1: think we got a list of who's entered the transfer

714
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: portal just today. Some of these names were surprising to you.

715
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: Maybe some of the names weren't. But last night you

716
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 1: saw Jalil Billingsley start the game for Alabama. Jalil Billingsley

717
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: put forth less than an inspired effort last night. Shall

718
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 1: we say and leave it at that. Jalil Billingsley has

719
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: entered the transfer portal today for Alabama. Paul Tyson, backup quarterback,

720
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: has entered the transfer portal today for Alabama. Drew Sanders,

721
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: who was playing a lot this year before he got

722
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: hurt and then got his job taken by Dallas Turner,

723
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: has entered the transfer portal. So several guys have entered

724
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Speaker 1: the transfer portal today. I look at the list, and

725
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: I think the list will grow. So it's still very

726
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 1: much in a state of flux. I don't think that

727
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: it's a reason to sound any alarm there. Look, I

728
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,359
Speaker 1: saw a lot of way too early top twenty five

729
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: lists released today, and most of them had Alabama at

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Speaker 1: number one. I'm just telling you. Anybody I talked to

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Speaker 1: in the sec this year. Even back in August, the

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Speaker 1: talk about Alabama, as I've told you all year long,

733
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Speaker 1: was you better get them this year. Everybody's known their

734
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two and twenty three teams are going to

735
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,399
Speaker 1: be insane, so you better get them this year. Well,

736
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 1: Georgia got them this year at A and M got

737
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Speaker 1: them this year, and both programs are going to reap

738
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: the benefits on the recruiting trail from it. But it's

739
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: just very interesting, I think, to watch what will be

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Speaker 1: a forgotten year for Nick Saban because all you remember

741
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 1: now are his championships. And it's really interesting that you

742
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: listen to a lot of people, including Kirby Smart. Don't

743
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 1: let this get lost in the celebration from last night.

744
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,280
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart, it was either last night or this morning,

745
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,799
Speaker 1: called it Saban's best coaching job too. Let me tell

746
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,720
Speaker 1: you what that means. What that means is when Georgia

747
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: has scouted Alabama, they've seen deficiencies everywhere. I was talking

748
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: to someone over dinner earlier this week and they were

749
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 1: sort of echoing the sentiments that an SEC staff had

750
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: given them, and they said, George is going to smoke

751
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,879
Speaker 1: Alabama in the SEC title game. That's what a lot

752
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 1: of coaches thought who had played Alabama, like coaches football

753
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 1: minded lifers, watched what Nick Saban did this year and said,

754
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: how in the world are they doing that? And so

755
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: then of course you get to the SEC Championship game.

756
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,720
Speaker 1: They beat Georgia. They lose in the rematch, but Kirby

757
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: Smart even went out of his way to say this

758
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 1: is his best coaching job because Georgia watched that on

759
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: film and Georgia said, I cannot believe he's getting what

760
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,359
Speaker 1: he's getting out of this team. So I think it's

761
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: a testament. I know we don't talk a whole lot

762
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,320
Speaker 1: about the losing team nearly as much as the winning team,

763
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,320
Speaker 1: but it's a testament. I think to Nick Saban and

764
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: what they were able to do this year, and very

765
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: excited to watch them moving forward. I wanted to close

766
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Speaker 1: tonight's show by talking a little bit about this year.

767
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: I put a poll on Twitter earlier today and I

768
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: asked you, is this the best college football season you

769
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 1: can remember? Some of you took that to mean is

770
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: this the best college football season with your specific team

771
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: that you can remember. That's not what I meant. I

772
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: met the season in totality. Is it the best you

773
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Speaker 1: can remember? My vote is yes. That's the reason I

774
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: put it up there. A lot of you voted no,

775
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: some of you did the whole no, and it's not close.

776
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 1: Of course, those people fail to mention what the alternative is.

777
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: If you want to say seven is better, that's fine.

778
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: If you want to say twenty twelve is better, that's fine. Guys,

779
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 1: I can assure you it's close. You cannot take everything

780
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: we saw this year and then point me out another

781
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 1: season that blows it away. Maybe inches here or there.

782
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: Nothing blows this season away. In fact, you were just

783
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 1: looking if you were watching on YouTube and a game

784
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: I had forgot and all about. We were stacking the

785
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: show today and I was trying to think of some

786
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: of the games I wanted to touch on FSU and

787
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: Notre Dame was the Sunday night game in week one,

788
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 1: or maybe even the Monday night game in Week one.

789
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Speaker 1: Do you remember how insane that was? Florida State ended

790
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: up being totally off your radar by the end of

791
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: the season. Notre Dame didn't make the playoff either. So

792
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 1: you can either be a college football fan or a casual.

793
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: A casual would tell you, oh, that game was meaningless

794
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: because it didn't have playoff implications, Or you can be

795
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: college football fan and realize what we crystallize in this

796
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,320
Speaker 1: sport is the regular season. College football is about moments

797
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: on Saturdays and Sundays and home stadiums. That's what the

798
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,240
Speaker 1: entire fabric of the sport is built on. It's why

799
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: people like us we have this very specific kind of

800
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: love for it, and we look at it through a

801
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,720
Speaker 1: different lens than we do the NFL or the NBA

802
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 1: or Major League Baseball. Make no mistake, we watched those sports.

803
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: We watched those leagues. We just don't watch it through

804
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: the same lens because this sport that we called college

805
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 1: football is uniquely constructed. It's why we don't look and

806
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: say college football's postseason should look exactly like the NFL.

807
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 1: College football's regular season, and the way we handle game

808
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: it should look exactly like the NFL. No, it shouldn't.

809
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: The NFL can do the NFL, college football can do

810
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: college football, and you can love the Saturday and Sunday

811
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: product for different reasons. In some cases it is allowed.

812
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: But we're coming off what we called a renaissance season

813
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 1: from the very beginning and actually now that we've gone

814
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,760
Speaker 1: all sixteen weeks, we've been on the road sixteen weeks.

815
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 1: If you look at the list of the places that

816
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: we've been going, all the way back to Week one

817
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: where it was Georgia versus Clemson and Charlotte, wrapping up

818
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: last night in Indianapolis again with Georgia against Alabama. I'll

819
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: be able to talk about this year for a long time.

820
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: You're watching, if you're on YouTube and you're seeing the

821
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: screen over to I guess it's my left, you're right,

822
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Speaker 1: or my right, you're left. Look at that list of games.

823
00:40:58,200 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 1: Look at where we were able to go and take

824
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: the Renaissance Tour this year. Started in Charlotte in week one,

825
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: Iowa at Iowa State, my first trip to Aimes in

826
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: week two, first ever wide out experience, Auburn at Penn

827
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: State in week three. This is why the regular season

828
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 1: is so great. This is why we preach the gospel

829
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: of the regular season on this show. By the end

830
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: of the year, were you talking about Auburn not a

831
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: whole lot? Were you talking about Penn State not a

832
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: whole lot? There are just flat out two different ways

833
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:28,879
Speaker 1: you can view this sport. You can either freeze that

834
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 1: moment in time. Week three, Auburn at Penn State, one

835
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 1: possession game, awesome battle, Saturday night, Happy Valley, one hundred

836
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Speaker 1: and ten, some thousand people up there wide out. You

837
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: can either remember it that way, or you can be

838
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: a sadist who looks at it and says, oh, well,

839
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: no playoff implications, meaningless game like which camp does it

840
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: sound like you'd rather be a part of? We move on?

841
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: Week four gets here, and that's when we go to Arlington,

842
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 1: and that's when it's Arkansas upsetting Texas A and M,

843
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Arkansas has taken down the

844
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 1: Longhorns and the Aggies in the first month of the season.

845
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: You can either be one of two ways. You can

846
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: either say those are two historic wins, and Arkansas got

847
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: both of them over those teams when those teams still

848
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: had a ton of life. Or you can say, oh,

849
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:19,879
Speaker 1: no playoff implications, Texas ended up not being a bowl team.

850
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 1: Which camp does it sound like you should be a

851
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: part of? Had ole miss at Alabama? That one was

852
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 1: one of the more convincing Alabama wins of the year,

853
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 1: But look at where we were the next week. For

854
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 1: my money, this was the most incredible regular season game

855
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: I was able to see. Oh you versus Texas, don't

856
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: think about where the team's finished. Think in terms of

857
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: regular season moments on Saturdays. That was red River, that

858
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: was Texas up twenty eight to ten. That was Oklahoma

859
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: storming back. That was Caleb Williams coming in for Spencer Rattler.

860
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,280
Speaker 1: That was an all time performance. It was as good

861
00:42:56,320 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: as college football gets. It popped an insane number. The

862
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: eleven am kickoff, So you get out of Dallas the

863
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: same day. That day was as just fell. It's got

864
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 1: to happen at least once a show. Now, that day

865
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: in Dallas was as perfect a poster of college football

866
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: as you could ever see. Then again, I could say

867
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 1: that about Week three with Auburn at Penn State too.

868
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: How about the following week not exactly the promotional poster

869
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: for college football that you want to put together. Ole

870
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: Miss at Tennessee just bobbing, and we even duck into

871
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: the left and right. There comes a bottle. Here, there

872
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: comes a bottle, There there goes a golf ball. Good

873
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: at Hitlane, Kiffen, not me. It was unique. It was

874
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,439
Speaker 1: a very unique experience. Then Tennessee almost ends up winning

875
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: the game. Anyway, Tennessee goes to Bamba the next week,

876
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 1: not exactly a memorable game there. But the back half

877
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:47,479
Speaker 1: of the season got so fun because the weather cooled off,

878
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 1: but the rivalry games were approaching, and all of a

879
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: sudden we get to venture up into Big ten country

880
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: a little bit more. We saw Mel Tucker and Michigan

881
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: State take down Michigan. We saw Michigan rec bound later

882
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,800
Speaker 1: in the year to take down Ohio State. We saw

883
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 1: so many big time moments. And see, the beauty to

884
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:11,839
Speaker 1: me in not being an expansionist, is that I understood,

885
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: as did we all, there was no giant twelve team

886
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: playoff safety net under these games, and so that's to

887
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: me what makes them awesome. How about multiple field stormings.

888
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: Though we got one in East Lansing when Michigan State

889
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: beat Michigan, we got one two weeks later in Waco

890
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 1: when Oklahoma fell to Baylor. Then you go to Michigan

891
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks after that, and we get another

892
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: one in the driving snow when Ohio State falls to Michigan.

893
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: It was such an incredible way to cap the season.

894
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: And then of course we go into Conference championship Saturday.

895
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 1: Then you got a trip to Miami for the semi

896
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: final game. We went to Indianapolis for the National Championship game.

897
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: College football is all about a few things for us

898
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: on the show. It's about tradition, it's about atmosphere, it's

899
00:44:55,960 --> 00:45:00,479
Speaker 1: about Saturdays, and it's about moments. It's okay to view

900
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 1: pro sports through a different lens than college football. If

901
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,439
Speaker 1: I could change one thing right now about the way

902
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 1: that too many people are viewing the sport, it's I

903
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 1: wish I could just adjust your lens for you and

904
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: remind you what you once knew. If you're of any age,

905
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: that is, before the whole playoff era, everything about the

906
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 1: regular season was maximum in its importance. Everything about the

907
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 1: regular season was crystallized. You never had to remind anyone

908
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 1: College football is about tradition, atmosphere, and Saturday moments. We

909
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: woke up every day of the week knowing it. But

910
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, you got ou Texas in

911
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: a classic. You got Auburn Penn State early in the

912
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 1: year in a classic, and they're forgotten because you may

913
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: not get the right semi final matchup you want, or

914
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 1: you may not get a close score and a title game.

915
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: It's like, when did we get to this tail wagging

916
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: the dog situation in college football where the importance or

917
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 1: the value of a season is not defined until the

918
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: last two or three games in a man made postseason format.

919
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,360
Speaker 1: How about forget it entirely, like do what we do

920
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,399
Speaker 1: on this show. You look at the b roll we're

921
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 1: rolling right now. I can assure you none of this

922
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,439
Speaker 1: comes from a playoff situation. This is regular season, This

923
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: is on a Saturday. These are moments Baylor didn't make

924
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: the playoff. Does it look like those people are any

925
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:21,760
Speaker 1: less excited? Does it look like that memory is gonna

926
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: fade anymore because Baylor ended up not making the playoff?

927
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:28,319
Speaker 1: That was an insane afternoon in Waco. It was an

928
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 1: insane afternoon to watch Michigan take down Ohio State. It

929
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 1: was an insane afternoon to watch Michigan State take down Michigan.

930
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 1: And some of us love the sport because of that,

931
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: and then whatever the playoff gives us, it's what the

932
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:44,399
Speaker 1: playoff gives us. But I really hate that. I woke

933
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: up yesterday morning and I'm in the J. W. Marriott

934
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: in downtown Indianapolis, and we got an entire gaggle of

935
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 1: reporters doing their job. I'll grant you that, but the

936
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: day ends up turning into a whole bunch of hodgepodge

937
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: of or we're gonna expand the playoff? Well, the commissioners

938
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: have emerged from this mysterious room that were gathered in

939
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: under lock and key. Are we're gonna get No, we're

940
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: not gonna get one. All right, Well, let's start typing

941
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:09,240
Speaker 1: out stories about how this is a letdown for college football.

942
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: We got a national championship in four or five hours.

943
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: We got all of February, in March and April and

944
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 1: May and Junie and July to talk about this. That's

945
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 1: what I didn't like in an otherwise very very fun afternoon,

946
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 1: That's what I didn't like. But overall, I just wish

947
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 1: this time of year was viewed in the proper context.

948
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 1: It's not the end all be all. Sure, we're going

949
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 1: to crown a champion. College football's regular season value and

950
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: the value of this renaissance season we just had wasn't

951
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 1: impacted one iota in my mind by what we saw

952
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,240
Speaker 1: in the playoff. I could have seen Bama win fifty

953
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: to nothing, or Georgia went fifty to nothing last night.

954
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: It's not removing the value of what I saw from

955
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: what I think is the greatest regular college football season

956
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: we've seen in a generation. And I want to tell

957
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: you one more thing too. This is just from us

958
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,760
Speaker 1: to you. It's hard for me to put into words

959
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: what a privilege it is to be able to do

960
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,720
Speaker 1: what we do. I know I thank you a lot,

961
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 1: but there's a reason I thank you a lot. It's

962
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: because we weren't always here. I wasn't always here. I

963
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: was right there with you. The only difference in me

964
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: and you is we convinced a company to put a

965
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 1: mic in front of me and somehow put my face

966
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: on TV. Otherwise i'm you. I worked in a fabric

967
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: warehouse for a long time. I paid every last time.

968
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:21,919
Speaker 1: It was in my pocket and in some cases dimes.

969
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: I didn't have to buy tickets to these games. I

970
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 1: watched the shows, I listened to the radio every day.

971
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: I know what it's like to do something other than

972
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: this for a living, and to use this as an escape.

973
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 1: That's why we format this show the way we do.

974
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: That's why we let you drive it the way we do.

975
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: I know some of you don't have the most fun

976
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: job in the world. I didn't again, non air conditioned warehouse,

977
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: stack en rolls of fabric all day, pulling them off

978
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: the freight truck when it comes in the morning, looking

979
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: forward to listen into a few sports talk radio shows

980
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: to get me through the day. I know that's the

981
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: situation some of you were in. The reason I thank

982
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: you so much is because you let us be the conduit.

983
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 1: I'll actually allow us. You allow me of all people

984
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 1: and our staff and our crew here, of all the

985
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: groups of people in the world and all the products

986
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:08,839
Speaker 1: out there, you let us be your escape. We don't

987
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: take it for granted. We will never take it for granted.

988
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 1: And I relate with you, and that's why I hope

989
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: it comes through on the show, and it's why I

990
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 1: never get tired of going to city after city. We've

991
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: been on the road sixteen weeks in a row. Every

992
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,879
Speaker 1: single city we went to. As the weeks went on,

993
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 1: we heard from more and more of you, and to

994
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: a ninety five percent clip, what you said to me

995
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,880
Speaker 1: is I appreciate that the show's different, and I appreciate

996
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 1: that I can relate to the show. That means that

997
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: we're doing the job we're trying to do. All we're

998
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: trying to do is put you on this screen and

999
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 1: take the emotions and the way you feel about this

1000
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: sport and hopefully be able to verbalize it and be

1001
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: able to present it in a video form or a

1002
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: podcast form to where it's the best part of your day.

1003
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: Maybe you've got a job you love, maybe you got

1004
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: a job you hate. We want this to be at

1005
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,360
Speaker 1: least a thirty or forty five minute escape for you

1006
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,360
Speaker 1: every day. But I want to just personally thank you

1007
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: because this right here is getting to do a literal

1008
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: dream job for a living every single day. That's why

1009
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 1: we will never complain. It's a privilege to go on

1010
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:16,760
Speaker 1: the road sixteen weeks in a row. Are you kidding?

1011
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: I'd rather be traveling sixteen weeks in a row than

1012
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: just going to the same place that I don't want

1013
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 1: to be at every day. I've done both of them,

1014
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: I can assure you I prefer this, so thank you

1015
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:28,239
Speaker 1: so much. You have made this show such a success.

1016
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 1: They can't say no to us. I mean, I've talked

1017
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: to one of our executives last week and he said, look,

1018
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: even if I didn't like the show, which I do.

1019
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 1: But even if I didn't like it, we can't tell

1020
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: you no, we can't tell the audience no. It keeps

1021
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: getting bigger and bigger every week. That's you, that's not us.

1022
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: We could sit here and talk to crickets all day

1023
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 1: and not get anything. You have made that possible. And

1024
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 1: so I just wanted to wrap the regular season in

1025
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 1: this postseason with thanking you. I met a lot of

1026
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 1: you in Indianapolis over the past week. I met a

1027
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 1: lot of you throughout the year. I also want to

1028
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 1: tell you this, there are a whole lot of people

1029
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 1: in our industry yet all kinds of different networks that

1030
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 1: come up to me, and in some cases they've got

1031
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:08,080
Speaker 1: much bigger platforms than we do. But they look at

1032
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,320
Speaker 1: the freedom to their credit CBS gives us in twenty

1033
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: four to seven gives us, and they say, man, I'm

1034
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 1: envious of that, And I would feel the same way.

1035
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: Full disclosure, I would feel the same way because we

1036
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 1: have all the freedom to do this show exactly how

1037
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 1: we want to do it, and we've got the trust

1038
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 1: instilled in us to do the show exactly how we

1039
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: want it, and the way we want it is the

1040
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: way you want it. And we plan on keeping it

1041
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:32,320
Speaker 1: that way no matter how big the show give it,

1042
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 1: so I wanted to wrap it up for that. Thank

1043
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: you so much for letting us do what we love

1044
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: for a living, and I hope it gets you through

1045
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: whatever may be going through in any given day. So

1046
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 1: that's our show for today. For producer Jess for a

1047
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,280
Speaker 1: direct column for our entire career. Here I'm Josh Babe.

1048
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, have a great rest of your week.

1049
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: We will be back here Thursday night. Until then, I'm

1050
00:51:52,520 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: a great evening. I got us