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Speaker 3: He's a.

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Speaker 1: Host of the Bear Bets podcast with Chris Filica. The

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Speaker 1: guy knows his gambling big time. Jeff Schwartz eight years

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, Fox Sports Analyst, former NFL offensive lineman.

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Speaker 1: By the way, let me settle this at you, USC, Michigan.

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Speaker 1: Who do you like?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 5: I like Michigan.

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Speaker 6: Colin, you gotta point me in the direction of when

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Speaker 6: USC is being a team under Lincoln right, they could

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Speaker 6: push around on the trenches. The answer I think is never.

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Speaker 6: Notre Dame four years ago. Maybe by Notre Dame wasn't

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Speaker 6: what they are. I just got to see it, man,

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Speaker 6: I have to see it from USC. We know what

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Speaker 6: Michigan is right. They're going to run the football. They're

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Speaker 6: gonna have two three four yard carries and hit a

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Speaker 6: seventy five yard touchdown. We know offensively Underwood is really

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Speaker 6: really good, but he's young. He's going to make some mistakes.

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Speaker 6: He's also going to make some explosive plays on the

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Speaker 6: flip side.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 6: US's offensive lines a little beat up. I think Pages

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Speaker 6: back though Page is really good. It's a big addition

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Speaker 6: back for them. But Michigan punched them in the mouth.

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Speaker 6: How do they play against a defense like that? So

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Speaker 6: USC is certainly talent enough to win this game calling,

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Speaker 6: but they haven't won this game in years, and so

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Speaker 6: I will take Michigan until proven otherwise.

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Speaker 1: I said, this is a referendum game on Lincoln Riley

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Speaker 1: because they go to Notre Dame next, they go to

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Speaker 1: Oregon in a few weeks. Are not winning those games.

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Speaker 1: This is going to be a signature game. We're going

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Speaker 1: to look at this game and if USC can't win

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Speaker 1: at home and they're healthy now up front, we're going

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Speaker 1: to look at this and go we have to come

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Speaker 1: to terms with Lincoln Riley. He's not the culture builder.

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Speaker 1: He's a recruiter. He's a coach. I think of they

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Speaker 1: lose this game, it's like James Franklin, you just come

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Speaker 1: to the realization he's not good situationally in big games.

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Speaker 1: I think if Lincoln loses with Notre Dame and Oregon

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Speaker 1: coming up, you have to kind of acknowledge what Lincoln is.

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Speaker 1: Am I wrong?

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Speaker 5: I don't think you're wrong.

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Speaker 6: I know USC fans will point to a rebuild into

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Speaker 6: year four, which is what it is. But we know

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Speaker 6: they're rebuilding that defense sort of on the fly here.

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Speaker 6: But you have everything sort of in your way, right,

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Speaker 6: you're off a buy, okay, so you have time repair.

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Speaker 6: You mentioned they're healthier along the front, and then they

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Speaker 6: work against Illinois. But also USC has played better at

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Speaker 6: home than on the road, right, the road, that's been

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Speaker 6: the issue for them. So if you can't win this

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Speaker 6: game with Michigan, we've seen a lot of teams that

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Speaker 6: come out West make these big you know, these big trips,

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Speaker 6: have struggled a little bit. And again you are facing

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Speaker 6: a true freshman quarterback. Now, the coliseum is not Oklahoma, right,

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Speaker 6: You're gonna have a ton of Michigan fans there, but

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Speaker 6: still a big atmosphere, one hundred thousand fans.

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Speaker 5: It's a giant stadium. It's the history of USC.

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Speaker 6: So there is that on your side, and you think

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Speaker 6: You're probably not being Notre Dame. You're not being Oregon.

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Speaker 6: Now you're looking at eight wins again. Uh, maybe get

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Speaker 6: upset somewhere else. We're gonna seven and that's not where

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one more college question. Oregon replaced all eleven offensive starters.

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Speaker 1: Dan Lanning is a defensive guy and they're great. You

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Speaker 1: fascinating to look at Oregon that, whether people want to

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm neutral Field. I think that, like Oregon last

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Speaker 1: is Dan Lanning's secret sauce? Southern guy comes to Oregon

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Speaker 1: even better than Crystal Ball, who's crushing it in Miami.

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Speaker 1: Why has Lanning worked as a southern guy so well?

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Speaker 6: Well, I think you mentioned that the all news starters right,

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Speaker 6: they just buy the players. Well, other teams buy players too, right,

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Speaker 6: But Oregon buys the right players calling right.

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Speaker 5: Look look at their hit right in the portal. They

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Speaker 6: They don't have a lot of guys who sit on

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Speaker 6: this year essentially the running back. We just didn't know

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Speaker 6: so he finds the right players that fit what they

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Speaker 6: he gets into buying to the culture and you know,

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Speaker 6: look it is it's toughness, right, it's accountability. You mentioned offensively.

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Speaker 6: Will Stein is an a credib offense coordinator. I hope

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Speaker 6: he says there as long as he can. But you know,

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Speaker 6: he lets will Stein do his thing on offense and

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Speaker 6: he does the defense with Tosh and they make it

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Speaker 6: work together. But I think for him and really the staff,

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Speaker 6: it's a talent acquisition. They find the right guys for

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Speaker 6: what they want to be. He was at Georgia for

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Speaker 6: those years. Their defensive line is not what Jalen Carter

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Speaker 6: and Jordan Davis, but it's three thirty it's three thirty five,

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Speaker 6: I think one thing too, that he lets his guys

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Speaker 6: be themselves, right, he lets the personality shine. He lets

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Speaker 6: him play, you know, he play how they want free.

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Speaker 6: And then he also buys in you see this in

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Speaker 6: the videos, right, they buy into whatever. The stadium is

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Speaker 6: a white out, Let's buy into the white out. Let's

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Speaker 6: buy into the traditional you know of that Wisconsin is doing.

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Speaker 6: So I think that all those things matter for lending

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Speaker 1: So let's go to the NFL. Eagles have great personnel.

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Speaker 1: Lions have great personnel in their offensive lines. Both change coordinators.

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Speaker 1: Detroit's may be better. Philadelphia is a mess. I think

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia didn't have a personnel issue. I think they have

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Speaker 1: a coordinator issue. And we've seen this before with the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: They're very coordinator dependent. If they are, because Siriani is

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Speaker 1: So how can a coordinator come in? And this appears

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Speaker 1: to be the case in Philadelphia and the O line regresses,

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Speaker 1: like how explain that to me.

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Speaker 6: Well, the OL line is is a little more beat

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Speaker 6: have a new right guard. Lane's been beat up at

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Speaker 6: right tackle. I mean regression does happen at that position

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Speaker 6: over time, right, I mean that's again the injuries do

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Speaker 5: But look, it generally.

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Speaker 6: Takes half a season for new offensive coordinator to feel

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Speaker 6: not good at. You know, you come in that position,

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Speaker 6: you're hired from within. You want to sort of run

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Speaker 6: the same things, and you realize maybe the same things

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Speaker 5: How do we adjust and make it happen?

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Speaker 6: And teams are taking away the run, they're force and

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Speaker 6: hurts to be the guy keeping in the pocket where

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Speaker 6: he's not always the best passer from just the pocket.

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Speaker 6: He has that internal clock that he sort of holds

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Speaker 6: making them be uncomfortable offensively.

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Speaker 5: But it's still through week five, and you mentioned last year,

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Speaker 5: right through week four everyone wanted to fire.

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Speaker 6: Serunny, they're two and two and they lost one more

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Speaker 6: So I think they'll figure it out, but it does

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Speaker 6: take time. We're just used to happening faster in Philly

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Speaker 6: and the offense line has been so dominant.

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Speaker 5: Just isn't that case right now? You mentioned the Lions calling.

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Speaker 6: I think I think Dan Campbell's not getting enough credit here,

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Speaker 6: Like Dan Campble's offensive coach, who I think has far

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Speaker 6: more staying the offense than we give him credit for.

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Speaker 6: Because you look at what they're doing now, it looks

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Speaker 6: very similar to what they did with Ben Johnson, and

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Speaker 6: so the correlation between that is Dan Campbell, who's still

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Speaker 6: there and a big part of the offense. I'm not

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Speaker 6: sure gets enough credit for how good this offense is,

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Speaker 6: you know with the coordinator change.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, are you? Are you surprised how good Baker Mayfield is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's an MVP candidate when you watch him

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Speaker 1: because he's not a perfect size, he's not quite as

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Speaker 1: athletic because I think he thinks he is. Sometimes he

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Speaker 1: runs on like slowdown Bro, and he right now would

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Speaker 1: be the MVP of the league. Doesn't have Evans, doesn't

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Speaker 1: have Bucky Irving, and he is tearing up and he

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Speaker 1: is great late game quarterback. Are you surprised.

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Speaker 5: I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 6: He's the most fun to bet on because every game,

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Speaker 6: you know, he's scrapping, claws everything he might not cover,

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Speaker 6: like they didn't cover in Sphilly but last week, right,

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Speaker 6: just like scrap and fight and claw and try get

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Speaker 6: every yard possible. He's always had the arm, right. I mean,

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Speaker 6: he was drafted very high for a reason. It was

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Speaker 6: a matter of maturity, which he's admitted he's maturity in Tampa.

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Speaker 6: But it also looks they have a lot of good

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Speaker 6: personnel around him. The offensive line is a little healthier now, right,

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Speaker 6: but when they're whole, they're one of the best in

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Speaker 6: the NFL. You mentioned Evans is not there, but then

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Speaker 6: Buka comes in and he's immediately good.

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Speaker 5: And you have Ted Johnson who's playing well.

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Speaker 6: So they add the personnel around him, and I think

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Speaker 6: they found a rhythm of what the offense can be

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Speaker 6: around Baker. It's the importance of just understanding what your

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Speaker 6: quarterback can and can't do. And they had a lot

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Speaker 6: of quarterator changes too, and it made it work right.

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Speaker 6: So it comes down to me, I think Baker just

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Speaker 6: telling and understanding, like this is what I'm good at.

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Speaker 6: Let's do it then, dude, he just fights, man like.

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Speaker 6: He's so much fun to watch because they're never out

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Speaker 6: of a game. I mean one hundred percent, he's laying

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Speaker 6: on the line and he's the quarterback thing. A lot

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Speaker 6: of us want to guide our teams, right, just a

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Speaker 6: guy that that we want to move for and we

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Speaker 6: see the battle from him each and every week.

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Speaker 1: So this year is crazy. Fifteen quarterbacks have a passer

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Speaker 1: rating over one hundred. Last year. It was eleven the

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Speaker 1: year before six. And I there's a lot of reasons why.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of good offensive coaches now.

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Speaker 1: There wasn't twenty years ago or ten years ago. The

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Speaker 1: McVeigh tree. There's just all these smart guys. I do

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Speaker 1: think some of it is this, And tell me if

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Speaker 1: I'm wrong, Jeff, because I could be that outside of

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Speaker 1: Golf and Stafford, almost all quarterbacks move. You can't play

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Speaker 1: can't turn your back on quarterbacks. And so I mean,

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Speaker 1: these kids have personal coaching ten thousand snaps for the

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Speaker 1: So finally I said this, If I had to vote

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Speaker 1: Right now, you played for the Chiefs, your brother started

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Speaker 6: Oh, they'll make the playoffs. The pass rush is a problem.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Schwartz, he's taken Michigan over USC. You're the second

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Speaker 1: person Joel Klatt likes Michigan against USC until you show

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Speaker 1: We don't even know if Michigan got the right coach.

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Speaker 3: So you saw us. He's favored in this right. It

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Speaker 3: I Are these guys just being haters?

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Speaker 8: No?

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Speaker 1: I think they get laying back at wide receiver, they

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's the total for this one's fifty seven, so

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Speaker 1: I think USC wins covers and it's the under.

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Speaker 3: I'll break it down for you after hours today and

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Speaker 1: Jmack with the news, No, no turn on the news.

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Speaker 2: This is the herd line news.

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Speaker 9: You know, we haven't done any NBA lately.

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Speaker 3: South May's newest resident, Luca Dunchic looking very skinny. He

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Speaker 9: So dramatic weight loss of Luca done it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's going to have the ball in

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Speaker 3: Well, he dunked the ball more Remember you had that

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Speaker 3: Not going to be popular, but I think the idea

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Speaker 9: He's still that guy. He was an All NBA player

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Speaker 3: Next up, let's go to Oh yeah, obviously, Lincoln Riley

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Speaker 10: Sold out because Michigan's coming. So we're not We're excited

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Speaker 5: I don't really care what he says.

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Speaker 1: We're looking forward to playing.

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Speaker 1: I'll be watching the game.

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Speaker 9: I have an undisclosed location.

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Speaker 1: be glued to this one.

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Speaker 9: Interesting.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give up too much of the plan just so,

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Speaker 1: Suaron Moore, I don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't love that trash talk. You do know the

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Speaker 3: USC players are going to see this video. Lincoln Riley

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Speaker 3: play this in the locker room. Oh really, that's a

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Speaker 3: Michigan I do know some Michigan fans, some guys I

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Speaker 3: hoop with, are very excited for this game.

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Speaker 9: I hope.

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 9: We know Chargers games.

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Speaker 3: They struggle well, Washington Chargers at SOFI was probably fifty

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Speaker 3: five forty five Charge.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing, you can load the box against Michigan

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Speaker 1: because I don't. I don't fear their what USC is

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Speaker 1: weak at corner, Michigan's not strong at They won't expose that. Now.

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Speaker 1: Michigan may win through physicality. But the truth is it

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Speaker 1: really like USC will move the ball and in USC

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Speaker 1: will get that ball. Outside. USC skilled players and when

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Speaker 1: their all lines healthy it is now it wasn't at Illinois.

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Speaker 1: They'll have their elite left tackle. They'll have their tackles

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Speaker 1: back playing that position. So they was kind of a

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Speaker 1: makeshift though lane. They were moving guys around. So I

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Speaker 1: think it's twenty seven to twenty four USC, very very

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Speaker 1: good game, and I think a lot of it will

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Speaker 1: be played between the thirties. I think USC will play

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Speaker 1: fairly inspired. Michigan will win time of possession, but USC

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Speaker 1: will have a few more dynamic plays over the top

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Speaker 1: I know a.

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Speaker 3: Lot of Michigan fans are gonna want to leave cold

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Speaker 3: ann Arbor to come to Sunny La in October.

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Speaker 9: Do you think Jordan Mayava is.

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Speaker 3: Going to have to do a little maybe silent snap

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Speaker 3: count at the line of Scrimmans is it's gonna be

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Speaker 3: that many Michigan stas.

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Speaker 1: You realize when it comes to the Chargers, USC UCLA

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Speaker 1: and the Rams. A lot of people in America, most

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Speaker 1: people in America live in lousy weather during the football

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Speaker 1: season starting in about October, and so they like to

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Speaker 1: come to Los Angeles. Yeah, go to Disneyland hang out.

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Speaker 1: So the reality in Los Angeles is not very many

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Speaker 1: people are going. You know, I'm gonna pick one road

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Speaker 1: trip this year. I'm gonna go to Denver, and Denver's nice,

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Speaker 1: But that wouldn't be the road trip you'd pick. You

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Speaker 1: would pick like Las Vegas to go watch the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: or you'd pick Los Angeles. It used to be San Diego.

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Speaker 1: I knew a lot of people that were NFL fans.

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Speaker 1: If Baltimore played San Diego and you lived in Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: it's like, dude, November fifth, let's go take our kids.

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Speaker 1: San Diego Zoo the beach that was the place. Now

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Speaker 1: it's Los Angeles. So it's just the reality of you know,

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Speaker 1: it's one game a week. It's a great vacation spot

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Speaker 1: for the record of Miami Dolphins for years, a lot

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Speaker 1: of people. Miami's got a lot of Dolphin games, have

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Speaker 1: a lot of visitors because it's Miami in the winter.

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Speaker 3: Certainly, final story, Colin, is we touched on that Eagles

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Speaker 3: player only meeting. Well, it seems like Brian Dabole call

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Speaker 3: wind of it because listen, take a listen to this sound.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if this is gamesmanship or what, but

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Speaker 3: very interesting jabs here by Brian Dable.

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Speaker 11: Watch the tape. AJ's opened a lot. So but you

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Speaker 11: get a Saquon and he's got productive yards, you run

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Speaker 11: his own read or throw it to Smitty. There's another thing.

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Speaker 11: There's there's a lot of weapons, I would say on

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Speaker 11: that offense, and whatever they choose to do is what

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Speaker 11: they do.

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Speaker 3: And a J.

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Speaker 1: Brown is open a lot, little smirk day what he's doing,

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Speaker 1: and he wants AJ Brown to read that and get

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Speaker 1: a little testy. That's what he wants. He's playing gamesmanship.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna go with the prisons like Phil Jackson, the

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Speaker 1: former Laker coach. He would complain about the officials, Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, if they if they're gonna allow that kind

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Speaker 1: of holding, we're gonna have to, uh, you know, engineer

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Speaker 1: a kind of a different offen. I mean, if they're

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Speaker 1: gonna allow that with Rashid Wallace and him pushing off

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Speaker 1: to get open on the baseline, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's the officials had made a decision. So I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna have to coach, you know. He would say, just

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Speaker 1: enough to have the Commissioner's office call him, maybe, but

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Speaker 1: maybe not get a fine. Phil was great at just

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Speaker 1: just planting seeds. And I think that is a That's

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Speaker 1: that's Brian Dable saying, well, he's wide open, He's open

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Speaker 1: all the time.

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Speaker 3: Difference is Phil Jackson was in the finals, Brian Dables

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Speaker 3: fighting for his job.

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Speaker 11: Well.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Jalen Carter just broking here, breaking news here.

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Speaker 3: He popped up on the injury report with a heel

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Speaker 3: injury questionable for tomorrow night. Jalen Carter, Hey, when they're out,

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Speaker 3: when he's out of the middle, Cam Scattaboo could go

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Speaker 3: wild tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Wild, maybe wild, Okay, possible. J Mack with the news.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the news, and thanks for stopping by. I

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Speaker 2: do like news.

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Speaker 1: I do like him. He's there's something there. Jackson Dart Scataboo,

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Speaker 1: he's fun.

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Speaker 9: Scattaboo reminds me of myself. Just tough, physical, not backing

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Speaker 9: down from anybody.

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Speaker 1: Nobody else says that. All right, we wrap it up next,

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Speaker 1: we're on the Fox Sports Afterday. Fox app is crushing

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. What I didn't ask you? What did you

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Speaker 1: make of the Athletic article calling Arch Manning a flop

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Speaker 1: and a bust? It felt a little harsh.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's largely accurate, but he's not the first

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Speaker 3: bust ever, like you said, there's been plenty of other guys.

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Speaker 9: The problem is his last name is Manning, right, the

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Speaker 9: best line.

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Speaker 3: Somebody came on my podcast and said Arch Manning has

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Speaker 3: a five star last name, but he's a three star recruit,

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Speaker 3: like he was a good player elevated because of his

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Speaker 3: last name. Then he gets on the big stage and

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Speaker 3: MIGI didn't look good against Ohio State, Sam Houston State,

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Speaker 3: whoever they played last Florida.

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Speaker 9: He bagged him like it just I didn't see it.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't look great at the optics on it. He holds

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Speaker 1: the ball, his mechanics are him.

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Speaker 9: Miss percentage, like he's missing layups. Can you turn around?

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Speaker 3: Of course, many guys Joe Burrow, as many people have said,

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Speaker 3: his first year right in college, when he was a starter,

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Speaker 3: it was LSU was like.

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Speaker 1: But go look at arch Manning's class in high school.

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Speaker 1: The top four quarterbacks, one of them is crushing Dante

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Speaker 1: more three have underwhelmed. And that's really when I read

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Speaker 1: the article, I'm like, it is hard to figure out

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Speaker 1: what eighteen year old is going to crush it in college.

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Speaker 1: I mean your first year in college, I was on

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Speaker 1: academic probation. I stopped. I forgot how to study. Like

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Speaker 1: it's hard. You you're he's a Manning, he's got some money,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna look.

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Speaker 9: Weren't playing football, can you imagine?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So I think college is the first time a

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Speaker 1: lot of kids are on their own. You got a

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Speaker 1: little spending money now in IL I think it's harder.

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Speaker 1: I think there's more bus with quarterbacks, not in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: but in college.

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Speaker 3: I think you were a star in high school, you

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Speaker 3: go to college expect be a star, and they're like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you're third on the depth chart.

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Speaker 9: You're like, why am I saying here?

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Speaker 1: There is something to be said about having it like

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Speaker 1: Arch doesn't quite feel like I mean, he's big enough,

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Speaker 1: he's got he's got arm strength, he moves well, you know,

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Speaker 1: some of it is just sometimes it's just there is

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Speaker 1: a thing about quarterback play that it's hard to quantify.

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Speaker 1: It's like some guys just like when I first watched Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, he's they say this about Wayne Gretzky, he

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Speaker 1: sees the play before it's fully developed. Gretzky passed the

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Speaker 1: puck before the play was fully developed. Mahomes has that

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers in his prime was that Aaron could see

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Speaker 1: something just just a half beat before it was open.

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Speaker 1: Here's Joel Klatt earlier on the on the athletics story

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Speaker 1: about Arch being the biggest bust.

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Speaker 12: Ever, Arch is not played well at all, and Texas

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Speaker 12: has not played well. And that's the other part is

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Speaker 12: that they're not doing really anything. Well, the offensive line,

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Speaker 12: which was rebuilt this year after a veteran group a

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Speaker 12: year ago, they have not protected him at all. When

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Speaker 12: they do protect him, he doesn't throw the ball well,

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Speaker 12: they can't run it very well. If you look at

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Speaker 12: what they've done against FBS competition, it's like nothing.

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Speaker 9: Nothing.

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Speaker 12: So there's no evidence that would lead you to believe

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Speaker 12: that this is going to turn around all of a sudden.

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Speaker 12: It's not like they've had some performance against a good

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Speaker 12: team that would lead you to believe that all of

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Speaker 12: a sudden it's going to get better.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I think that's fair. The other story is

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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's so different. Baseball in New York

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Speaker 1: is so different. Okay, first of all, you have a

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Speaker 1: lot of revenue, a lot of money, and so the

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Speaker 1: fans read that and hear about it, and the expectations

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Speaker 1: are high. You know, Milwaukee struggles. Everybody knows middle of

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Speaker 1: the pack or at best salaries, so you come into

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Speaker 1: every season with massive expectations. The Yankees are interesting. Garrett

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Speaker 1: Cole gets hurt before the season. You're not winning the

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Speaker 1: World Series. I mean, to me, expectations for the Yankees

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Speaker 1: have been unrealistic. I mean Bullpe is a good player,

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Speaker 1: but he commits a lot of errors. Aaron Judged a

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Speaker 1: good player until last night. He had good moments. He'd

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Speaker 1: be great player, obviously, John Carlos Anton's hurt a lot.

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Speaker 1: They're not a great base running team. They're not a

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Speaker 1: great defensive team. They're an uneven roster. They have more

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Speaker 1: good players than a Boston They're not close to the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're as complete as the Brewers. And

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Speaker 1: so a lot of it's just expectations. I mean, Aaron Judge,

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Speaker 1: I said it before. They're an action movie. He's the

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Speaker 1: lead and he has to be on camera or the

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Speaker 1: movie's not as good. You know, it's a rock movie.

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Speaker 1: It's an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. They got to be on camera.

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Speaker 1: It's not a great cast, it's not a great plot.

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Speaker 1: It's not a great script. The Dodgers are a great script,

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Speaker 1: a great plot, an ensemble cast. That's not what the

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Speaker 1: Yankees are. And so I think once Garrett Cole got hurt,

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Speaker 1: go back to the last year's World Series, the two

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Speaker 1: games they looked like they could compete with the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: He started go to the other games. Dude, it looked

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Speaker 1: like the Dodgers and an American LEA Central team with

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Speaker 1: a eighteenth biggest payroll. They they weren't good defensively. They

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Speaker 1: didn't run the base as well. They don't play small ball.

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Speaker 1: This team strikes out all the time.

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Speaker 3: They were the second best team in Major League Baseball

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Speaker 3: last year, like they weren't the Dodgers this year. I

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Speaker 3: don't think they're the second best, but I would not

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Speaker 3: be shocked if they got back to the World Series,

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Speaker 3: would you? Yes, Wow, you're that high on the Blue Jays. Huh, Well,

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Speaker 3: the Blue Jays are a bad matchup. The Blue Jays

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Speaker 3: led baseball in hits and the Yankees starting pitching without

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Speaker 3: Cole Is okay, I mean last night ro Don's their

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Speaker 3: guy got raped. It's not even I mean he was

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Speaker 3: out in two and the third inning.

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Speaker 11: Night.

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Speaker 3: Is mister Schlittler, the man you missed, the legend you

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Speaker 3: didn't know who he was seven days ago?

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Speaker 1: Him?

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Speaker 3: Actually correct, he's Pedro Martinez in his prime right now here.

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Speaker 1: Here's Derek Jeter on Aaron Judge's home run last night.

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Speaker 13: He has had a tremendous postseason this year. Now he

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Speaker 13: hadn't hit the big home run until this time. But

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Speaker 13: he was taking what they were giving him, and he

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Speaker 13: was getting his hits.

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Speaker 2: He was getting on base.

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Speaker 13: You could tell by his body laying which the confidence

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Speaker 13: is there. I don't know how he hit the pitch.

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Speaker 13: It was one hundred at his neck inside, but you

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Speaker 13: know there's there's yeah, man, there's there's one person on

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Speaker 13: the planet that can do it, and the's Aaron Judge.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's just different with him. I think Judge

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Speaker 1: is great and everybody knows it. But I think Yankee

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Speaker 1: fans and the Steinbrenners don't look at it like the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers are going They're just gonna spend more. That's not

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Speaker 1: what the Yankees are now. So they have holes on

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Speaker 1: their team. And I think New York teams, I mean

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Speaker 1: both NFL teams are bad. The Knicks have been bad

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Speaker 1: mostly for thirty years. The Mets always underachieve. So people

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Speaker 1: just think the Yankees are like the like Pops Yankees,

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Speaker 1: and that's not what they are. I never got the

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Speaker 1: John Carlos Stanton movie was Hurt in Miami, and they

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Speaker 1: already had Aaron Judge. It was doubling down on what

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Speaker 1: you had. What they're not over the last several years.

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Speaker 1: They're not well rounded. Milwaukee with half the payroll, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've been less than half, is incredibly well rounded. Seattle's

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Speaker 1: got the fifteenth payroll, elite, closer, consistent staff power, hitting,

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Speaker 1: hit for singles. I think the Yankees are just an

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Speaker 1: uneas Again, they're an action movie. The stars got to

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Speaker 1: be on screen because the plot is what it is.

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Speaker 9: Let me ask you.

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Speaker 3: Historically, pitchers have been able to put a team on

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Speaker 3: their back and carry them.

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Speaker 9: Do you think Judge can do that?

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Speaker 3: He's hitting off the charts in the season, so there's

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Speaker 3: no chance Judge could continue to do this.

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Speaker 1: Toronto leads baseball and hits like the Yankees. Well, the

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Speaker 1: Yankees got enough guys on base to beat Toronto. It's like,

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Speaker 1: there's only been two great scripts in the history of

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Speaker 1: action movies, Predator and die Hard.

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Speaker 9: What about this it impossible?

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Speaker 1: Well, those are those are all time epic classics. That's

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Speaker 1: the power of Tom Crue. There's only been two action

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Speaker 1: movies in my life. I watched and I thought, what

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Speaker 1: a great script? Die Hard and Predator. Everything else. You're

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Speaker 1: kind of buying into the lead. You know, you're you're

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Speaker 1: kind of buying into you know, it's not the screen.

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Speaker 1: You're not watching for the script. Something's there's funny lines.

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Speaker 1: You're rooting for the good guy to beat the bad guys.

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Speaker 1: I still remember Diehard.

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Speaker 3: My parents, me and my brother convinced my parents to

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Speaker 3: take us to see that, you know, and we were

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Speaker 3: young guys, and as soon as the f bombs started,

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Speaker 3: we were.

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Speaker 9: Like, this is the greatest movie ever.

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Speaker 3: Bruce Willis, I mean that made his career, Like Bruce

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Speaker 3: Willis in die Hard.

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Speaker 1: Was it's a great off the charts. Yeah, so there's yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's that. That's the Yankees. You got to have certain

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Speaker 1: people at the plate for them to be great. O

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Speaker 1: Tawny can go all for four with three strikeouts. Freddie

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Speaker 1: Freeman last year carried them in a series. Mookie Betts

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Speaker 1: struggled in September on fire. Edmund Tommy the kid that

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Speaker 1: was Tommy Edmund wn't he like the NLDS MVP or something.

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Speaker 1: Last year an LCS MVP. Give me a break. He

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Speaker 1: wasn't even gonna start until it was an injury. Just

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Speaker 1: keep the ringer on tonight for when the Yanks are hot.

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Speaker 1: Then they are up five to one in the eighth inning,

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Speaker 1: I will let you know about it. What happens if

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Speaker 1: Old Cam goes out there and gives you about four

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Speaker 1: and a third.

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Speaker 9: He's a young guy. You know what happens. We're onto

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Speaker 9: twenty twenty six, that's what happens.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just lower the expectations as a Yankee fan, Toronto

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Speaker 1: better Milwaukee's.

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Speaker 9: This is what the great teams do. It's World Series

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Speaker 9: or bust.

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Speaker 1: That's all right, They're not a great team. Maybe the

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Speaker 1: great franchises think that way, but I think expectations are

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Speaker 1: just off. All right, We're done for today. My day

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Speaker 1: is just I got a dentist appointment. Oh yeah, gotta

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Speaker 1: look sharp on this show. You gotta bring it every day,

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Speaker 1: glossy