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Speaker 2: Oh so much for a team game. We'll get it

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Speaker 2: I'm Andy Furman, and we're broadcasting live from the Fox

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Speaker 3: I am great? Andy? What's going on? How you doing?

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Speaker 2: Everything is rocking and rolling right now. And guess why.

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Speaker 2: Guess who's back? Patrick Sweek is back at least for

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Speaker 2: a day as our executive producer. He couldn't keep away.

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Speaker 2: ask Bucky at the end of this hour. So if

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Speaker 2: you have any good questions for Bucke Brooks that includes you,

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Speaker 2: Furman FSR, or even give us a call.

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Speaker 1: Eighty seven seven ninety nine one Fox.

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Speaker 2: Now, before we get into anything at all, before we

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Speaker 2: get into these games yesterday, because you're gonna listen to

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Speaker 2: talk shows all over the country. You're gonna listen to

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Speaker 2: local shows TV. They're gonna give you the games to

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Speaker 2: break down. There's a bigger story behind the curtain. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna tell you right that. Let's discuss this. It said

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Speaker 2: well about football. We say football is a team game.

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Speaker 2: You played the game. There's no one better on God's

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Speaker 2: green Earth to talk about it than you because you

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Speaker 2: won the uniform. And we talk about teammates all the

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Speaker 2: time in a team game. But thanks to the portal

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Speaker 2: in college football, I'm watching the Liberty Bowl on Friday,

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Speaker 2: University of CINCINNTI quarterback Brendan Sorosby wasn't even there. It

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Speaker 2: wasn't in the lineup. He's opt out in that portal

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Speaker 2: and it looks like he's gonna go to Texas Tech.

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Speaker 2: That's the rumor right now. And as far as the

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Speaker 2: New York Football Giants are concerned, Theo Johnson, he was

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Speaker 2: at the Nick game on Friday night in Madison Square Garden.

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Speaker 2: He didn't practice all week long for the Knicks and

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Speaker 2: guess what. He's not playing against the Dallas Cowboys today

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Speaker 2: and last night. I'm watching the forty nine ers wide

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Speaker 2: Please take off the sunglasses. He's on the sidelines. And

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Speaker 2: I'm saying, if you're good enough for the sidelines, you're

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Speaker 2: good enough to play. And I'm saying, teammates, what kind

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Speaker 2: of teammates team game? I don't think so you played

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Speaker 2: the game. I don't get it. You're going out there

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Speaker 2: to battle, You're going out there to war. I look

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Speaker 2: at the offensive and defensive lines on a football team

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Speaker 2: like a chain link fence. Now, if one guy is

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Speaker 2: not there, defense is broken. You know what kind of loyalty?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 2: You talk about quarterbacks getting the offensive linemen like Christmas gifts,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I am so disgusted with players where they

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Speaker 2: on their teammates, especially this Brendan Sooresby guy. You know,

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Speaker 2: he's out there all year long busting his rear. End

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Speaker 2: they're blocking for this guy the big game of the year,

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Speaker 2: the Liberty Bowl. He bolts tell me about this, How

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Speaker 5: Well, I think you had a lot of things wrapped

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Speaker 5: even though it is a selfish move, because he is

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Speaker 3: We don't know how injured they were.

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Speaker 5: Trim Williams had a hamstring that prevented him from playing

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Speaker 3: Not a good look. Not a good look. No, not

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Speaker 5: But it's not a great look if he's healthy and

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Speaker 2: That's definitely I would say this, and maybe I'm mistaken,

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Speaker 2: but today the Cincinnati Bengals are playing, no mean, a

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Speaker 1: Really, so, if you're a teammate.

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Speaker 2: And you played the game, you're in that locker room, Okay,

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Speaker 2: you see guys that kind of like dogging it a

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Speaker 1: How does that work? I mean, I'm sure you've seen that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, like you see it, But I don't.

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Speaker 5: That's just kind of how you think about it. So

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Speaker 5: Most of the time, guys won't get upset because the

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Speaker 5: if it's something that is a hang nail, you know

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Speaker 5: those other things, hamstrings, needs, whatever it is that you're

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's one that I get that off my

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Speaker 2: I watch these games and I just say to these

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Speaker 1: I understand injury as part of the game.

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Speaker 2: But if you're like eighty percent, you still better well

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Speaker 2: all for one, one for all deal.

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Speaker 5: Right, Well, the only thing about that is when you

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Speaker 5: out there, fans don't say, oh, he's heard, that's okay.

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Speaker 3: He didn't play well.

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Speaker 5: The year that Jameis Winston had thirty touchdowns and thirty interceptions,

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Speaker 5: he played through a broken thumb that he's probably shouldn't

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Speaker 5: through an injury when he had to thirty interceptions. They

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Speaker 3: So when you play, you have to know that you're

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Speaker 3: going to be judged on the standard that you set

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Speaker 5: No one is going to grade you on a curve

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Speaker 5: because you're healthy. Players have to take that in consideration

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Speaker 5: because people tend to forget, oh.

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Speaker 3: He was working through an injury when he ran out there.

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Speaker 5: When you run on the field, they expect you to

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Speaker 1: And thinker Mayfield's play through injury as well.

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Speaker 2: And that's why the winner of the NFC South is

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Speaker 1: So here's the deal. The Buccaneers are eight to nine.

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Speaker 2: since gets this when Ron Rivera and Cam Newton led

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Speaker 1: Amazing, it's amazing.

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Speaker 2: At eight and nine, I mean, they're gonna have to

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Speaker 2: change the playoff format because it's not another words, it's

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Speaker 2: not a good look. Losing record going to the playoffs

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Speaker 2: winning the division doesn't look good.

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Speaker 5: They may not look good, but it's an anomaly. You

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Speaker 5: don't overhaul the playoffs for that. Just like people want

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Speaker 5: to receive the playoffs based on well, this person their record,

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Speaker 5: better than the division winner. Yeah, but they didn't win

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Speaker 5: the division. Division winners have to be recognized for something.

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Speaker 5: You have to give them a home game. There has

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Speaker 5: What's the point of being in division if it brings

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Speaker 5: to have people. People have to quit whining about it.

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Speaker 5: If you don't win your division, then you got to

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Speaker 5: take your tail on the road and find a way

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Speaker 2: I will say this, watching that game, I was really

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Speaker 2: impressed with Bryce youngcus I think he's coming into his

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Speaker 2: own Honestly, if you get to say a comparison here,

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Speaker 2: I think he outplayed Baker Mayfield. Bryce Young threw for

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Speaker 2: two sixty six Baker two oh three. And I'm watching

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Speaker 2: these games right now. Was you come down the stretch

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Speaker 2: the last several weeks? You know what the key is?

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Speaker 1: I think? Anyway?

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Speaker 2: That that's ridiculous. But you know Young threw for two

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Speaker 5: I mean, that's what it's always been about. People don't

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Speaker 5: The stats and stuff are fun, but really it's about

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, if the Carolina Panthers won that game

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Speaker 2: But because the Tampa Bay Bucks won the Saints Falcons

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Speaker 2: it really does. Real tight bad records, but close records.

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Speaker 5: It's crazy, I mean, is definitely kind of nutty when

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Speaker 3: When you get into the postseason, all bets.

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Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. But Atlanta's tight, I mean, they're tough,

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Speaker 2: I just, you know, I just don't understand how that

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Speaker 2: I watched that Seattle defense was smothering. I mean, really

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Speaker 5: I mean, look, it's a really good team. They can

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Speaker 5: They're just a well constructed team and to have two

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Speaker 5: I think they've won ten straight home games in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: And the funny thing is we mentioned the run game

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Speaker 1: Look at the stats on this game.

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Speaker 2: Seattle rushed for a total of one hundred eighty yards

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Speaker 2: For twenty seven for one to twenty seven and an interception,

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Speaker 1: Ers rushing for a team fifty three. That was it

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there's a big part of their thing

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Speaker 3: How did they bounce back.

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Speaker 5: From a very disappointing performance at home? They give it away,

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Speaker 5: But I'm pretty confident that the Niners come back. They're

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind seeing that again.

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Speaker 2: I tell you what, that thirteen to three score, which

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Speaker 1: And they came away.

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Speaker 2: With nothing because they had a field goal and the

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Speaker 1: Really, it could have been three nothing right there, and

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Speaker 2: It should have been more. I really believe they should

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Speaker 2: What was the logic behind that, you know, staying on

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Speaker 5: And you talk about a game in where Seattle certainly

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Speaker 5: So you very well could come away from their game

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Speaker 2: The only thing I could think of that was going

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Speaker 1: And again.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'll give you the opportunity to defend your

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Speaker 5: I mean, look, when you right ahead of it. I

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Speaker 5: I mean I'm anticipating that if they win, he beat

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Speaker 2: No, I hear what you saying. The job he's done

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Speaker 2: It just the luck of the draw. Maybe it happens.

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Speaker 2: they had a six game winning streak going to the

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Speaker 2: game last night, But coach of the Year, I gave

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Speaker 2: really is. He's a heck of a coach. But I

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Speaker 2: don't know if he's gonna get that deal. I don't

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Speaker 2: think he's here to get it.

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Speaker 3: No, he's not gonna get it.

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Speaker 5: Like when when they fall toed and the way they

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Speaker 5: fall to the national stage. Yeah, like his candidacy like

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Speaker 5: took a major hit because they didn't win and because

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Speaker 5: they were dominated by the Seahawks.

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Speaker 3: And that's okay.

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Speaker 5: I think he's done a terrific job of what he's

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Speaker 5: had to overcome to get this team to the point

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Speaker 5: where where they won twelve games. You talk about the

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Speaker 5: number of blue chip players that are sitting in the sideline.

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Speaker 5: We saw Nick Bose and Fred Warner up in the box.

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Speaker 5: They didn't have Trent Williams and Ricky Piersol last night.

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Speaker 5: Brock Praidy missed eight games. They're playing with a backup

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Speaker 5: quarterback in mac Jones.

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Speaker 3: They've overcome a.

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Speaker 5: Lot to be there and they still will be one

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Speaker 5: of the tougher outs in the postseason. So we'll see

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Speaker 5: what it looks.

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Speaker 2: Like when a job with Matt Jones. Matt Jones did

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Speaker 2: well when he was in there, He really did.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So I mean he deserves a lot of credit.

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Speaker 5: We'll see there'd be a I mean, look, this year

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Speaker 5: has been phenomenal in terms of the which is that

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Speaker 5: are worthy of receiving the award. We'll see how shakes

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Speaker 5: out here we go.

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Speaker 2: He's Bucky Brooks get him on X at Bucket Brooks

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Speaker 2: in this hour the playing game of nour number two.

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Speaker 2: But was this the best way to spend thirty five

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Speaker 2: We got asked Bucky in about twelve minutes from now,

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Speaker 2: but getting into the college football playoffs, tenth seed Miami

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Speaker 2: knocks off Ohio State. How big of a surprise was that,

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Speaker 2: not only for you, Bucky Brooks, foot for the whole

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Speaker 2: world to see.

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Speaker 5: I think it's a bit surprised because a lot of

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Speaker 5: people that talked about Ohio State being the most talented team,

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Speaker 5: the best team that money could buy. However, when you

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Speaker 5: watch the game, Miami dominated the game in the trenches

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Speaker 5: from the beginning to the end. In terms of the

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Speaker 5: way Ruben Dame my sore playered the way they were

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Speaker 5: able to play upfront, like the best way to talk

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Speaker 5: about number three, number four. They just dominated at the

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Speaker 5: line of scrimmage, and the physicality, the toughness to violence

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Speaker 5: with which the Miami Hurricanes played was overwhelming at first.

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Speaker 5: The Buckeyes eventually matched that, but then it came down

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Speaker 5: to making plays, and Miami just made more plays down

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Speaker 5: the stretch.

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Speaker 3: I think they wore them down.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, I'm surprised, but I think I am encouraged

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Speaker 5: in terms of the way that we saw the games

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Speaker 5: play out in the playoffs are exactly how it should be.

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Speaker 5: The most physical team, the team that really executes at

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Speaker 5: a high level, those were the teams that won. So

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Speaker 5: there weren't any flukes. That was not a fluke win

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Speaker 5: by the miaim Hurricanes.

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Speaker 2: Now a big question is they had the Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: Radio Football Pool, so to speak, the contest.

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Speaker 1: Did you have Miami winning that game?

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Speaker 5: Unfortunately I forgot to participate in the pool going in,

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Speaker 5: but like going back, I probably would have been a

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Speaker 5: coin flip. I probably would have favored Ohio State going

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Speaker 5: into it, but Miami's good. And when I watched Miami

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Speaker 5: play against Texas A and M. The previous week they dominated,

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Speaker 5: their defense, dominated and throttled Texas A and M. So

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Speaker 5: I'm not surprised that they did the same thing for

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Speaker 5: Ohio State, especially considering how Indiana had boughted them up

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Speaker 5: pretty good in the Big Ten championship game.

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Speaker 2: All Right, so they're gonna play I guess they're gonna

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Speaker 2: play Ole Miss on Thursday, that is Miami.

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Speaker 1: But here's the background.

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Speaker 2: Here is the background picture of the Ohio State Buckeyes

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Speaker 2: with a thirty five million dollar payroll, which is unbelievable. Really,

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Speaker 2: they had the nation's most accurate quarterback, and Julian saying

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Speaker 2: their defense was ranked among the best, if not the best,

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Speaker 2: in the country. Thirty five million dollars worth of talent. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so that's going to be something that's going to bite

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Speaker 2: them in the rear end. They have a higher winning

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Speaker 2: percentage of any other program since the start of the

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Speaker 2: BOWLD Championship Series back in nineteen ninety eight, and in

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Speaker 2: the eleven year playoff era, no program, none, has won

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Speaker 2: a higher share of games than the buck Geys, not

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Speaker 2: even Alabama. Okay, the Hurricanes. They sacked, Julian saying five

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Speaker 2: times they went twenty four to fourteen. They're going to

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Speaker 2: play Old Miss on Thursday night. I think they're going

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Speaker 2: to beat Old Miss. So now the problem is this.

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Speaker 2: You spend thirty five million dollars. People want to return

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Speaker 2: in their dollar. People want to return on their investment. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I don't care what you do. I don't care what

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Speaker 2: business you're in, a car salesman or anybody else. These

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Speaker 2: are the people that put up their money needs. Crazy

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Speaker 2: alums at Ohio State. They're not happy. They're not happy

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Speaker 2: that their buck. Guys, the people that they shelled out

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Speaker 2: the money for that they didn't get the return of

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Speaker 2: their dollar. What happens now? Thirty five million dollars is

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Speaker 2: a lot of money. Know what Indiana's payroll is, But

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's that. I don't think it's thirty

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Speaker 2: five million. I really don't.

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Speaker 5: Look at the costs of doing business, and you just

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Speaker 5: have to tell you people that it's the cost of

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Speaker 5: doing business.

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Speaker 3: It guarantees us nothing.

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Speaker 5: But if you don't pony up the money, it guarantees

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Speaker 5: that we won't be in the conversation. So you either

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Speaker 5: want us in the conversation or not. Uh, you got

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Speaker 5: to pay to play. You have to pay to get

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Speaker 5: really good players, and if you're not willing to pay,

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Speaker 5: you want to kind of be at that on a

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Speaker 5: different layer, a different level, a different tier than some

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Speaker 5: of the top teams. Doesn't guarantee that you're gonna win it,

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Speaker 5: but in terms of competing for the four and five stars,

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Speaker 5: you better have cash in hand because that's what they demand.

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Speaker 2: And you know what the common thread be it the

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Speaker 2: NFL games we talked about previously, or this game right here,

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Speaker 2: the running game rushing Miami outrushed the Ohio State Buckeyes

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Speaker 2: one fifty three to forty five. That that's an amazing number,

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Speaker 2: and that's glaring. I mean, you could look at box scores.

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Speaker 2: Are the three games or two games yesterday in this

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Speaker 2: game right now now, just by looking at the bop

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Speaker 2: square on the out rushing games, you could tell who

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Speaker 2: won the game.

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Speaker 5: I mean, there's always been the case. It's always been

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Speaker 5: the blueprint, the formula. Some people will say causation and

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Speaker 5: correlation doesn't match up. Just because they have those rushing

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Speaker 5: numbers doesn't mean that that was the.

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Speaker 3: Cause of the win. Is a byproduct of it? I

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Speaker 3: don't know.

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Speaker 5: I will say this when you're able to run the

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Speaker 5: football successfully. There's a few different things that it does.

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Speaker 3: It allows you to.

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Speaker 5: Control the game, like we talked about, managing the clock

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Speaker 5: and those things. It allows you to beat up your opponent,

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Speaker 5: which leads to more success in later quarters. And it

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Speaker 5: protects your defense because the fewer snaps your defense plays,

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Speaker 5: the better they're going to play. Because every defense has

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Speaker 5: a limit. If you play past a certain number of plays,

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Speaker 5: you're going to see some mistakes and fatigue and that

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Speaker 5: come into play. The running game prevents all of that,

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Speaker 5: and it sets up the quarterback for success off play action, no.

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Speaker 1: Doubt about that.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm going to move the calendar back to October

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Speaker 2: eleventh of.

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Speaker 1: This twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Last year, Okay, Indiana University played Oregon in Eugene and

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Speaker 2: beat them thirty to twenty. There's going to be a

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Speaker 2: rematch in the semi finals, right now. That's going to

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Speaker 2: be this Friday night. Indiana will meet Oregon Friday night

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Speaker 2: in the semi finals of the College football players and

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Speaker 2: they're coming in on They're rolling. Indiana is rolling right now.

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Speaker 2: They beat up on Alabama thirty eight to three, and

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Speaker 2: that game was Alabama's worst loss since the turn of

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Speaker 2: the century, which includes Alabama's loss at the hands of

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Speaker 2: Clemson in the National Championship Game after twenty eighteen thirty

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Speaker 2: eight to three. How does that happen? I mean, the

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Speaker 2: team just laid down. I watched the game. I couldn't

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Speaker 2: believe what I saw. It was the most lopsided loss

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Speaker 2: in a bowl game thirty five points at the lowest

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Speaker 2: point total in the postseason matchup since bab Bryant's Alabama

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Speaker 2: team ended the nineteen sixty Blue Bonnet Bowl.

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Speaker 1: I looked this up in a three to three tie

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Speaker 1: with ten. It is unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: And Kellen de Boor, I mean, when he took the

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Speaker 2: job at Alabama, I said to myself, you never ever

637
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Speaker 2: want to follow a legend. You want to follow the

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Speaker 2: legends guy. The guy follows the legend after he goes

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Speaker 2: that's what you want to do. You just don't do that.

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Speaker 2: I don't care what business you're in. You don't want

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Speaker 2: to follow a legend. And that's what he did. And

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Speaker 2: he's getting some heat, getting some big time heat in Alabama.

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Speaker 5: Well they should get some heat in Alabama because anyone

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Speaker 5: who's watched the program closely knows that man. They haven't

645
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Speaker 5: played to the standard in awhile, and when I mean

646
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Speaker 5: playing to the standard, I am talking about playing the

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Speaker 5: way that we've expected Alabama to play after watching Nick

648
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Speaker 5: Saban dominated on the sidelines for almost two decades down there.

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Speaker 5: They have a physicality, they have a tough list, They

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Speaker 5: have a discipline and an attention to detail that stood out.

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Speaker 5: They were the heavyweight fighter that was knocking out all

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Speaker 5: the middle waste because of their imposing size, physicality and

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Speaker 5: strength toughness. This Alabama team and the Alabama teams that

654
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Speaker 5: we've seen since Kaitlyn the Boor took over, are nothing

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Speaker 5: like those saving teams. Some of the I would say,

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Speaker 5: the discipline and structure that we're used to seeing with

657
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 5: the Nick Saban coach team has gone out the window.

658
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 5: And that doesn't mean that Kailn the Boar isn't a

659
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 5: great coach. I would liken it to maybe Nick Saban

660
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 5: and Pete Carroll. They go about their business differently and

661
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 5: you can get the same results, but it's going to

662
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 5: look different in terms of like I would say, some

663
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,719
Speaker 5: of the loosey goosey nature of Alabama. But what I

664
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 5: saw in the Rose Bowl, I saw an Indiana team

665
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 5: physically beat Alabama up. They beat them up from beginning

666
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 5: to end, pillar to post as some people would say

667
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 5: built to booty as people like to refer to it now.

668
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 5: They beat them up. And at no point did it

669
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 5: ever feel like Alabama was gonna come back and make

670
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 5: that was a competitive contest and it's a testament of

671
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 5: the Kirk signetti they've done. But one thing that I

672
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 5: think people need to understand about Indiana and one of

673
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 5: the advantages that Indiana has now over some of these

674
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,479
Speaker 5: other teams, very much like the NCAA Tournament is proving

675
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 5: in basketball, the older team wins, and when you have

676
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 5: a team full of fifth and six year players, they're

677
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 5: going to beat up the younger five stars. And Indiana

678
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 5: has an old, experienced team and they play like men

679
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 5: compared to the little boys that we saw at Alabama.

680
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 5: That was the biggest deciding factor in it. The older

681
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 5: teams are beginning to dominate, and the teams that are

682
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 5: able to find those fifth and six year players that

683
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 5: are good players may not be four and five stars,

684
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 5: but three stars that have continued to develop, they have

685
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 5: a significant advantage in the postseason.

686
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 2: I got to ask you though a house surprised? Are

687
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 2: you with the success right now? Of course Signetti not

688
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 2: just on this game, but over the last two years

689
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 2: in Indiana. Mean, did you follow his teams at James Madison?

690
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 2: Did you know he would do this and turn the

691
00:31:58,480 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 2: program around like that?

692
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 5: No? I don't think anybody could. Right, Like when he

693
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 5: grabbed a mic and he was talking bold and loud

694
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 5: and all that, I was like, who's this guy? And

695
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 5: then he ended talking about he's gonna win Google me

696
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 5: and those things. But when you dig back and the

697
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 5: more you listen to him, and the more he shares

698
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 5: his story in terms of what he learned along the way,

699
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 5: how he wanted to have an opportunity to be a

700
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 5: head coach and he learned structure and those things from

701
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 5: coach Saban. He followed the blueprint when he went to

702
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 5: Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Then he took that to Elone

703
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 5: and from Elon to James Madison and from JMU to Indiana.

704
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 5: The blueprint works, and he has a lot of success,

705
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 5: and that success gives him a lot of confidence to

706
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 5: be able to stand in front of the room and

707
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 5: tell you guys, if y'all follow me, we're gonna win.

708
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 5: And when you bring a handful of your own players

709
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 5: who can also preach that gospel, it helps. And he's

710
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 5: a really good coach. And when you look at their teams,

711
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 5: they're well coached. I watched that game early when Indiana

712
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 5: knocked off Oregon. Look, man, they beat him down, They

713
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 5: out coached him, they outplayed them, they out executed them,

714
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 5: all of those things. And so if people are expecting

715
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 5: Oregon to just flip the switch and turn it on

716
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 5: and beat them, this is going to be a great

717
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 5: game to watch because these are two world coach teams

718
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 5: with really good personnel.

719
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: Well, I will say this.

720
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 2: You always say that the players take the personality of

721
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 2: their coach when he When Signetty came in there, that

722
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 2: program was on its back. It was I mean, it

723
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 2: was a basketball school, no doubt about that. Football was

724
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 2: a secondary situation and they were on their back. But

725
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 2: he came in there and like said things, and they

726
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 2: you know, woke up a lot of people. And certainly

727
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:40,719
Speaker 2: then they says are out the yeah, yeah he'll really

728
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 2: do this. Yeah they didn't believe them. But I think

729
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 2: that inside the locker room, these players needed that. They

730
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 2: needed that from someone that believed in them, even though

731
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 2: he may never even see them yet, even on tape,

732
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 2: but they believed in him, and I think they're taking

733
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 2: that confidence level. Yeah, certainly it's a lot of skill,

734
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 2: of course, but they take the confidence that he instilled

735
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 2: upon them by just talk and saying those things publicly,

736
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 2: and I think you could see it on the field.

737
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm wrong, but I think a lot of it

738
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 2: has to do with his attitude and what he has

739
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 2: said to make them believers.

740
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 5: Uh. Yeah, Look, the attitude certainly plays a part in it,

741
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 5: but it's the work, and anyone around the program will

742
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 5: tell you that it's about the work, the detailed, the discipline,

743
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 5: and the way that they prepare. It's not just oh,

744
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,399
Speaker 5: I feel like we're gonna be great, so we're gonna

745
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 5: be great now. There's a lot of work that goes

746
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 5: to it. That's why they win it.

747
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 2: Okay, Last, but not least, Kellen Depour first Alabama coach

748
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:34,479
Speaker 2: to lose four or more games in consecutive seasons since

749
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 2: Mike Schuler and three and o four, And last but

750
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 2: not least, Fernando Mendoz, a quarterback for Indiana. In that game,

751
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 2: he finished with more touchdown passes three than in completions two.

752
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 2: He went fourteen for sixteen for one to ninety two,

753
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 2: one of the best pass the ratings of the season.

754
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 2: I'm going for Indiana. I think that you know what

755
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 2: you're talking about, Cinderella. I mean the NCAA basketball tournament

756
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 2: has it. I honestly think that this is the Cinderella

757
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,359
Speaker 2: team of the year. I think the nation he's pulling

758
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 2: for Indiana. I think they like the underdog. Although they

759
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,879
Speaker 2: may not be the underdog at number one, but there's

760
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 2: somewhat of an underdumpers when it comes to football. You

761
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 2: don't really think of Indiana as a powerhouse. So we'll

762
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,479
Speaker 2: see what happens there. By the way, he's Bucky Brooks.

763
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,439
Speaker 2: I'm Andy Furman. Were live for the Fox Sports Radio

764
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 2: studios and it's that time to get just a little

765
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 2: bit smarter. Why ask Bucky? It's next? Fox Sports Radio

766
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 2: has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch

767
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 2: all of our shows at Foxsports Radio dot com and

768
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 2: within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to listen live. All right, yes, Bucky,

769
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,760
Speaker 2: right around the bend. That's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Fermerway

770
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 2: of Fox Football Sunday of Fox Sports Radio Live from

771
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 2: the Fox Sports Radio Studios and Bucky joining us today.

772
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 2: Patrick Sweek, a celebrity move, a one time shot, a

773
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 2: former executive producer, a little dumper.

774
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 1: How are you doing everything good? You have a good

775
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 1: New Year's?

776
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 4: Oh?

777
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: I had a great New Year's it's it? Are you ready?

778
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 3: Oh?

779
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: Ready for as Bucky? Are you got a question for him?

780
00:35:58,560 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 5: Oh?

781
00:35:58,800 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 7: I do?

782
00:35:59,360 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 5: I do?

783
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: Let it?

784
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 7: Let's do it all right, Buck, I got a question

785
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 7: for you. So there has been a reported rumors or

786
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 7: surrounding the Minnesota Vikings that they may or may not

787
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 7: be looking to go get a veteran quarterback to you know,

788
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 7: kind of push and compete with mister JJ McCarthy, you

789
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 7: know nine for this coming off season. All I wanted

790
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 7: to ask you, Buck, is do you think didn't there's

791
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:28,240
Speaker 7: truth to that? Maybe what quarterback they may be looking at.

792
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 5: Well, it's not a great quarterback class free agency or

793
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 5: the draft. I think JJ McCarthy certainly will have someone

794
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,800
Speaker 5: brought in to compete with him, but in their mind,

795
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 5: he should be the dude. So look for a mid level,

796
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 5: low level veteran quarterback to come in. But I'm gonna

797
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,280
Speaker 5: tell you it's not great. Mac Jones is on the contract,

798
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 5: Daniel Jones is coming off an injury. Then you're talking

799
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 5: about Tyrod Taylor and the usual suspect. So there's no

800
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 5: one out there. I think they'll try and add some competition.

801
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 5: But look, JJ McCarthy is gonna be the starting quarterback

802
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 5: for Minnesota next year.

803
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: All right, Magic Mark, you got something for Bucky. So Bucky.

804
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 8: I had a chance to see the Ole Miss Georgia game.

805
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 8: And just like every week we can complain about referee calls.

806
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 8: Is there anything that you could do, like you just

807
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 8: if you could waiver wand to have referees not go

808
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 8: blind at certain seconds so that they see all their calls.

809
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 5: I think the game is I think the game is

810
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 5: so fast that they're gonna miss some calls. I think

811
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 5: with replay assist in those things, maybe you can clean some.

812
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 3: Of that up. But you have to got to charge

813
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 3: some of that up to the human element of the game.

814
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 5: They are going to make mistakes, and you have to

815
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 5: be willing and able to play through some of the

816
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 5: mistakes that they make.

817
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 2: I'm switching. I'm gonna switch the spot. I'm gonna go

818
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 2: to hockey. Can I do that? I got a hockey question.

819
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 2: But even with the NHL. The NHL about twenty years ago,

820
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,840
Speaker 2: they really hit gold when they had that New Year's

821
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 2: Day with the Classic. It was a celebration of the

822
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 2: arches of hockey played on frozen with the ponds. Now,

823
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 2: the first outdoor game was played at the Buffalo bill

824
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 2: Stadium in a snowstorm. It was must C TV. It

825
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 2: was it was great. So what does the NHL do?

826
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 2: They moved the game this year to January two. They

827
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 2: moved it to Miami in a retractable roof stadium.

828
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: Why in the hell do they do that? How stupid

829
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: is that?

830
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 5: I have no idea why they would try and do

831
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 5: a Winter Classic in Miami. That doesn't make any sense

832
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,399
Speaker 5: that it goes it goes against everything, Like you can't

833
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,919
Speaker 5: even replicate the conditions that you would want in terms

834
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 5: of like you're like a blustery background to be the backdrop.

835
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 8: Right.

836
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, not a great move. Not a great move.

837
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 5: I don't know who gets dead in their office, but

838
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 5: not one of the brightest ideas from NHL.

839
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: I'm with you right there, thank you.

840
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,720
Speaker 2: Okay, now we talk about the college football transfer portal

841
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 2: to me and how many people have said this as

842
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 2: a free for all.

843
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: You got to change it. But how could it be changed.

844
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 5: I think you can push the day's back, but I

845
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 5: think the calendar needs to be changed. In general. One,

846
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 5: the college football Playoff is too long. They should be

847
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 5: able to end this, like Dan Lanning suggests January first,

848
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 5: because if January first ends the season of twenty twenty five, well,

849
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 5: if the porter opens on January tecod twenty twenty six.

850
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 3: Well that great, the new season, new year, knew me

851
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 3: all those other things.

852
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 5: It's just about the college football Playoff making sure one

853
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 5: regular season ends before the thoughts in the planning of

854
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:28,280
Speaker 5: the next season begins.

855
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 2: Okay, Tomorrow is what they call black Monday. That's when

856
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 2: coaches may get the pink slip. I'm gonna give you

857
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 2: some names, and you could expand to see if in

858
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 2: fact they will be gone after tomorrow morning. Pete Carroll,

859
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 2: the Raiders head coach. Audios I need that was like

860
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 2: a no brainer right there.

861
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: Okay.

862
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 2: Zach Taylor Bengals, Hey, it was bad everything. Zach Taylor,

863
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 2: Bengals head coach.

864
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,439
Speaker 3: Nah, he'll stay because the offense of people love him.

865
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 5: He'll stay, all right.

866
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,760
Speaker 2: Kevin Stefanski head coach of the Cleveland Browns.

867
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 3: Should be gone.

868
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 5: And then the fact that someone is talking about him

869
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 5: being a high retrade candidate is crazy to me.

870
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 3: But yeah, he should be out. John Harbaugh, No, he

871
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 3: stays right.

872
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 2: Really okay, anybody else in your mind that.

873
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:20,240
Speaker 1: May be gone?

874
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 3: I think the conversation.

875
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Speaker 5: Look, I think the loser, John Harbor, Mike Tomlin, there's

876
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 5: gonna be a lot of conversation. I don't think either

877
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 5: of those guys leaves, but the seat will be hot

878
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 5: on both of them.

879
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 2: Really, what about the Cowboys defensive corterbat defensive coordinator Mac Eeberfloss.

880
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 5: Like, hopefully he's already ended his lease and got his

881
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 5: boxes and stuff matched up.

882
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 3: He's out.

883
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 2: All right, We're gonna take a look at the NFL

884
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 2: playoff picture and the NFL rookies, that and so much more.

885
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 2: Where Fox Football Sunday coming up right here next? All right,

886
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 2: is anyone watching?

887
00:40:57,920 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: I tell you what.

888
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Speaker 2: We'll ask that question and we'll get the answer just

889
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Speaker 2: about a minute.

890
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:02,240
Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody.

891
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 2: This is Fox Football Sunday and Fox Sports Radio. He's

892
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,319
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895
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899
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,000
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900
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901
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 2: I asked the question, mister Bucket Brooks, how are you?

902
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 2: Is anybody watching? And when I say that, I mean

903
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,919
Speaker 2: I'll talk about college basketball. You know, I heard Steve

904
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 2: the Sega top of the hour, given the college basketball

905
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 2: scores Kansas lost.

906
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:39,760
Speaker 1: At this point in time.

907
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 2: You know, we talk about the NFL rolling over the NBA,

908
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 2: especially on Christmas Day. I think college football right now

909
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 2: is pushing college basketball to the sidelines a little bit

910
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 2: as well, don't you agree?

911
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 5: Yeah hundred percent, Like no one is fully immersed themself

912
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 5: in college basketball. Yeah, because college football is still going on.

913
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 5: But yeah, football is king and it can ten used

914
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 5: to show whether it's the NFL or college football. That

915
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 5: is what America loves. They love consuming football at all times.

916
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 2: Right, And I will say this, I don't think we

917
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 2: gave Indiana University football.

918
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: It's just due.

919
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,240
Speaker 2: I think what this program in kurtz Signetti has done,

920
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 2: although he has not answered me yet after I sent

921
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 2: them a cigar the other day after a big win, but.

922
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: He probably will.

923
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 2: I would just want to mention a couple of things

924
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 2: that they have accomplished Alabama. In that game they lost.

925
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 2: Alabama lost thirty eight three the other day. Alabama now

926
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 2: has three straight losses in bowl games for the first

927
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 2: time since Bear Bryant lost four straight for seventy one

928
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 2: to seventy four. All right, Indiana had more rushing yards

929
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 2: two fifteen than Alabama managed total yards one ninety three,

930
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 2: much of the damage coming between the tackles, of course. Now,

931
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 2: Alabama came into the College Football Playoff quarterfinal game with

932
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 2: the SCC's best secondary, giving up just one hundred and

933
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 2: sixty eight yards a game and six point two yards

934
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 2: per attempt. They were torched by the Indiana They really were.

935
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 2: Now you played the game, you look at the team

936
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 2: on film, and Indiana's looking at Alabama and they're saying, Wow,

937
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 2: this secondary is pretty good.

938
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: What do they do?

939
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 2: You've seen the alignment. What did Kurt Signetty do? What

940
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 2: did Indiana do to crush Alabama, and they did. They

941
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 2: crushed them.

942
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 5: I would say the main thing they did they all

943
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 5: physical them from beginning to end. The physicality, toughness, their effort,

944
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 5: they overwhelmed them. They were more violent than Alabama at

945
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage and all over the field, So

946
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 5: that's one. Secondly, their execution was at a high level,

947
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 5: attention to detail.

948
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 3: They didn't give up anything cheap.

949
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,399
Speaker 5: They kept the ball in front, they ran to the ball,

950
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 5: they took great angles. They played fundamentally sound ball, particularly

951
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 5: on defense, and then offensively they were efficient. Fernando menzou'sa

952
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 5: One of the best qualities that he has is his

953
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 5: ability to manage the game. He was efficient when it

954
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 5: came to passing. The ball didn't hit the ground much.

955
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 5: He is not the guy that is necessarily the driving

956
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 5: force of the offense, but he manages the game, situation

957
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 5: circumstance well, where they're always in a good play. They

958
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 5: always appear to be on schedule, but they never appear

959
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 5: to be out of source. So to me, this was

960
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,919
Speaker 5: just a look a phenomenal game by Indiana. Not them

961
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 5: playing I would say above their talent, but them playing

962
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 5: their best game when their best game was expected to

963
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 5: be played in the postseason.

964
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 2: I would love to attend the Kurt Signify practice. I

965
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 2: think he's like a drow sergeant. I think there's no

966
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 2: fooling around, there's no smiling. It's just all yelling, screaming,

967
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 2: and he's got to be tough. I mean, it just

968
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 2: doesn't happen. It's not magic. He's working these guys hard,

969
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,240
Speaker 2: and there's a fear factor.

970
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: Don't you think he's old schools?

971
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think there's a fear factor. I don't

972
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 5: think fear factor stuff works in today's game. I think

973
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 5: what he is is very competent in his job. He

974
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 5: knows exactly what he wants. He is willing to hold

975
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 5: his players accountable for meeting the standard, but he's not

976
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 5: excessive in terms of his demands and what he wants

977
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 5: to do. Like he'll tell you they practice an hour

978
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 5: and a half three days a week. They have a

979
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,760
Speaker 5: bunch of walk throughs. He wants to keep the players healthy.

980
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 5: But he is very detailed in terms of what he wants,

981
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 5: and some of being detailed requires you to be simplistic

982
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 5: in what you're doing, so you really can focus on

983
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:28,800
Speaker 5: the execution of it. And explain the wise behind your methods.

984
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 5: He does that that's why his players execute at such

985
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 5: a high level. But also remember, his players execute at

986
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,839
Speaker 5: a high level because they're mature and they buy in

987
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 5: older team experienced team buying into what the coach says

988
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:45,959
Speaker 5: has produced.

989
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 3: A lot of winning results for Indiana.

990
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 1: Okay, so help me out on this.

991
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 2: Now, if you're a coach on the college level college

992
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:57,839
Speaker 2: football NCAA Division One, you kind of forget about going

993
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 2: after the five star high school kids more interested in

994
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 2: the portal and transfers.

995
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: Is that it? That's how you survive.

996
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 5: Now, Look, I think that's a part of it, but

997
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:09,399
Speaker 5: I don't think it can be that.

998
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 3: I think the main thing.

999
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 5: That you have to be able to do is you

1000
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 5: have to be able to build a program and you

1001
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 5: have to be able to hold people accountable to what

1002
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 5: the expectations are. And that requires you to have tough,

1003
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 5: hard conversations with players at times, and it has to

1004
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 5: be the players have to fit into what you're doing.

1005
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 5: You don't acquiesce to the players, and that means that

1006
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,839
Speaker 5: you can miss out on some really good players that

1007
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 5: don't fit in. And you have to be okay with

1008
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 5: that because it's about the team first, not the individual,

1009
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:40,839
Speaker 5: and they have done that and they've had a lot

1010
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 5: of success because it works for them.

1011
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: Okay, so we talk about the portal. It goes both ways.

1012
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure coaches look at that portal and

1013
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 2: how does that work? Actually, we hear the term portal

1014
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,840
Speaker 2: all the time, you know, January second? Is the portal

1015
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 2: opens up? Is there like a master list? Could coaches

1016
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 2: get this on a computer and they print it out?

1017
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 2: Is that how it works? There's like a clearing house

1018
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:00,359
Speaker 2: for that.

1019
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 8: Uh?

1020
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you go in and everyone kind of

1021
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 5: knows who's in the portal. You see the names, and

1022
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 5: then once you're officially declared in uh, people can contact you.

1023
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 5: And when they start the contacting they you know, then

1024
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 5: you have to make decisions. But the overwhelming majority of

1025
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:21,879
Speaker 5: players who jump in the portal don't find a happy ending.

1026
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 5: A lot of them just kind of language in the

1027
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,799
Speaker 5: portal and they never are picked up again or those things.

1028
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 5: So you have to be careful. You have to make

1029
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 5: sure when you get in you have a really good

1030
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 5: sense that someone is going to come and get you,

1031
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:35,720
Speaker 5: and that doesn't always happen.

1032
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 2: So it's it's not released. But how come the total

1033
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 2: portal is not released to the media. How come we

1034
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 2: don't see that. We hear drips and DRAMs that a

1035
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 2: player has entered the portal. But why is the entire

1036
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 2: portal list listed like in USA today or something.

1037
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 5: Like that that. I don't know, like that would be

1038
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:54,760
Speaker 5: an Cuba question. I don't know why it's not listed.

1039
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 5: But I think every player pretty much tells you when

1040
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 5: they're going into portal. So if you follow along on

1041
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 5: social media, kind of know who's in there who's not

1042
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 5: because they players have no look, they have no quabbles

1043
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 5: or about telling people, Ay, I'm about to jump into

1044
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 5: portal all this other stuff, so is there. You just

1045
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 5: have to look forward, kind of figure out who you're

1046
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 5: looking for, what you're looking for, and what you want.

1047
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,280
Speaker 2: Okay, And now now that Indiana has become a quote

1048
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:24,760
Speaker 2: power in football, it goes both ways. I mean, coaches

1049
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 2: could handpick players that they want through the portal, but

1050
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:31,240
Speaker 2: aren't a lot of players right now contacting Indiana directly,

1051
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 2: like I want to play for you.

1052
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:34,280
Speaker 1: People want to play for a winner, no doubt.

1053
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, But I think the school has to contact the

1054
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 5: player more so than the player being able to contact

1055
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:43,319
Speaker 5: the school. I'm not certain on all of that, but

1056
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 5: I think there is something to that part of it. Look,

1057
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 5: any end is certainly a desirable place, and so they

1058
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 5: can pick and choose who they want to come on

1059
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 5: board now because they've had success. But I think when

1060
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 5: you're sitting where they are, they have to make sure

1061
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 5: they get the right fits. Fit is everything in all

1062
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 5: of this. And when we talk about fits is not

1063
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 5: just playing style. It's more so attitude. Does the attitude

1064
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 5: fit what you want to have in your program because

1065
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 5: of the attitude doesn't fit as pointless, they have to

1066
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 5: be right fits culturally or it's not gonna work right.

1067
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 2: You know what, You made a great point about the portal,

1068
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 2: and I mentioned it at the other day and I

1069
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 2: credited you.

1070
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: I really do, because it was ingenius. It really was.

1071
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:29,399
Speaker 2: I never thought about this. You know, obviously kids who

1072
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 2: are in the portal. There's a good percentage of those

1073
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 2: kids that are in the portal that are disgruntled. They're

1074
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 2: disgruntled you I mean you mentioned this. I mean and

1075
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 2: a general manager perhaps in the NFL, or a personnel

1076
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 2: guy or even a college coaches say, you know, the

1077
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 2: guy didn't play on Team X kind of could be

1078
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 2: a troublemaker. Maybe he's a moody kid, he doesn't get along,

1079
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,719
Speaker 2: that's why he's in the portal. Really, I mean think

1080
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 2: about that. I mean, obviously, kids could be in the

1081
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 2: portal for several reasons. Number one, they want more money,

1082
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 2: they're gonna get money beat, they want a bigger program.

1083
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 2: But more often than not, those are in the portal,

1084
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:05,360
Speaker 2: the ones that probably are not happy and not playing.

1085
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 2: They're disgruntled, right, you don't want them on your roster.

1086
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there's a lot too that there's a

1087
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 5: reason why they're in the portal. So the first thing

1088
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:14,959
Speaker 5: that you have to do is you got to figure

1089
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 5: out why they're in the portal, Why you're in the portal,

1090
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:22,360
Speaker 5: Why are you upset? What made you leave all of

1091
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 5: those things? Because all of that matters when it comes

1092
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 5: down to it, Like you want to be able to

1093
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 5: have a conversation with them about the way that they

1094
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 5: fit and are they an excuse maker or are they

1095
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 5: willing to take some accountability for whatever may have led

1096
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,359
Speaker 5: to their desire to leave in those things, because if

1097
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 5: someone is going to leave at the first sign of

1098
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:47,239
Speaker 5: trouble in those things, look they're gonna do it at

1099
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 5: your spot too, So you just got to make sure

1100
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:54,360
Speaker 5: you understand who you're getting, what they're bringing to the table,

1101
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:58,800
Speaker 5: and does that really fit does their work Well.

1102
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:00,879
Speaker 2: I'm going to leave you with this. I really feel

1103
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 2: bare for killing the Boor. I think he's a heck

1104
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 2: of a coach. His track record proves that Alabama now

1105
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 2: has eight total losses over the last two years.

1106
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: It's amazing.

1107
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 2: Really that number is the same number of losses over

1108
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 2: the five previous years combined.

1109
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:19,399
Speaker 1: It's amazing. The dynasty was beginning to kind of shake

1110
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: a little bit under Nick Saban, but not like this.

1111
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:25,240
Speaker 1: I mean, they've really almost hate to say rock bottom,

1112
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: but the latest loss for the Boer was the most

1113
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: embarrassing of his career. He entered twenty twenty five with

1114
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:34,839
Speaker 1: a fifteen to three career record against nationally rank competition

1115
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: as a head coach and an eighty three winning percentage

1116
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: against Power four teams. Great coach, there's no doubt about that.

1117
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,800
Speaker 1: But to go to a program that fans are.

1118
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 2: Just ridiculous, they really are, and the pressure there's gotta

1119
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,319
Speaker 2: be unreal. I could imagine the hate mail that he

1120
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:54,879
Speaker 2: is getting and what he's seen on social media. It's

1121
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 2: not right, it's not fair, but it goes with the territory,

1122
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 2: no doubt.

1123
00:51:59,440 --> 00:51:59,720
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1124
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 5: I mean like he stepped in for a legend and

1125
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 5: they are high standards for what they want from their

1126
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 5: program in Alabama, and right now, certainly it's not meeting

1127
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 5: those expectations. But it doesn't mean that he can't turn

1128
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 5: it around. It's Look, it's a hard program, competition is deep,

1129
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 5: and it's a new landscape. Nick Saban got out at

1130
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 5: the right time because, yeah, everything is different with the portal,

1131
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 5: the money and all those things. It just changes. It

1132
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 5: changes how you go about doing business, no.

1133
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 2: Doubt about that. I'm moving to the NFL. Now, Okay,

1134
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 2: enough of college. We gave Indiana that just do when

1135
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 2: they deserve right now, NFC number one was determined last night.

1136
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:40,759
Speaker 2: Seattle beat up on San Francisco to forty nine is

1137
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 2: thirteen to three. And if look now that the forty

1138
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:46,840
Speaker 2: nine is lost, they're going to be the number.

1139
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: Five seed.

1140
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 2: Or number six, depending on whether the Rams win or

1141
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 2: lose today. All right, but let's take a quick look

1142
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 2: at some of the teams that what's happening right now.

1143
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 2: The Denver Broncos are thirteen and three. They play the

1144
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,760
Speaker 2: Charges today. They beat up on Kansas City on Christmas

1145
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 2: Night and with that win, the Broncos remained number one

1146
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 2: in the conference and now at the AFC West Division

1147
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 2: winners after Detections beat the Chargers Denver. Give me a

1148
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 2: little background, Denver, how far do you think they're going

1149
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 2: to go? Surprising team? And how come their coaching staff

1150
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 2: and the coach head coach right there is not looked

1151
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 2: on as coach of the year because he's done a

1152
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 2: heck of a job I think in Denver.

1153
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, Champagon's done a great job in Denver.

1154
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 5: I think the reason why cham Payton is viewed as

1155
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 5: a Coach of the Year candidate is because last year

1156
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 5: they had a top rated defense and that has continued

1157
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 5: to be one of the driving forces behind their success.

1158
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 5: So that's probably why. But they're really good, really good

1159
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 5: on defense. They're sticky in the back end, they get

1160
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 5: after the quarterback, lead the league in sacks, and then

1161
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,840
Speaker 5: on offense, Boat Knicks does a terrific job of managing

1162
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 5: the game, but he also has some playmaking ability, very athletic,

1163
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 5: does a great job of running Sean Payton's offense, and

1164
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 5: he's shown in the fourth quarter he has some magic

1165
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 5: about him where he can get it done. Really good team,

1166
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 5: I mean is a really good team and when they

1167
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 5: play at home, they have all the advantages. Thinking are

1168
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 5: tough out in the postseason, no.

1169
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:05,880
Speaker 1: Doubt about that.

1170
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 2: I think the New England Patriots may be a tough

1171
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 2: out as well. They're thirteen and three. They got the

1172
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 2: Dolphins today. Last week they blew out the Jets, and

1173
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 2: you know the play of Jets and Dolphins back to back.

1174
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 1: There's two wins.

1175
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:17,799
Speaker 2: So they could basically take a little bit of a

1176
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 2: rest right now because they've already clinched a playoff berth

1177
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 2: in Week sixteen? Are they now the AFC East Champs

1178
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 2: thanks to the events of Week seventeen because the Eagles

1179
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,720
Speaker 2: beat up on the Bills and they locked up the division.

1180
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,400
Speaker 2: So New England's still alive for a number one seed.

1181
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 2: Tell me a little bit about New England. How far

1182
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:37,399
Speaker 2: do you think they could go? And obviously their coach,

1183
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:39,319
Speaker 2: I have a feeling he may be getting the Coach

1184
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 2: of the Year rab.

1185
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:43,920
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe so, because it may be a combos thing.

1186
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 5: It may be Drake Mayf MVP and Mike Rabel for

1187
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 5: Coach of the Year. This is a team that has

1188
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 5: quickly bounced back and become a heavyweight contender. One of

1189
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 5: the things that Mike Rabel did very early is he

1190
00:54:55,600 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 5: connected with his players. The chemistry is outstanding between players

1191
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:04,240
Speaker 5: and coaches. The talent that they brought in on defense

1192
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 5: not necessarily a lot of blue chippers, but they brought

1193
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 5: in a lot of veterans with experience that are great

1194
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 5: in their respective roles. That has helped. But the biggest

1195
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:17,280
Speaker 5: thing has been Josh McDaniels coming over as the offensive coordinator,

1196
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:20,360
Speaker 5: helping Drake may play at an MVP level. They are efficient,

1197
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:22,760
Speaker 5: they are able to win in a variety of ways.

1198
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 5: When it comes to the passing game, he gets them

1199
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 5: in and out of the right play, but he's also

1200
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 5: willing to take whatever is available. His maturity as a

1201
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 5: franchise quarterback is beyond his years and experience, which is

1202
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,279
Speaker 5: why it works. When you got a great head coach

1203
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 5: and a great quarterback, you have a chance. And the

1204
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 5: Patriots have both.

1205
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 1: All right, I didn't forget you, and you have a

1206
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:42,240
Speaker 1: great coach.

1207
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 2: You're home today, your Jags twelve and four hosting today

1208
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:49,719
Speaker 2: the Titans Titans three and thirteen. You beat up on

1209
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 2: the coach last week, and you could clinch AFC South

1210
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 2: with that win today over the Titans.

1211
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 1: Right, Well, they must be going nuts in Jacksonville.

1212
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, going that's to a point.

1213
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:03,359
Speaker 5: I mean, there's a lot of excitement and a lot

1214
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 5: of buzz about this, But I would say that the

1215
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,160
Speaker 5: team has taken on the personality of the coach, still

1216
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:10,799
Speaker 5: locked in on the next game, and this is the

1217
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 5: most important game in franchise history because it's the next

1218
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:15,240
Speaker 5: one and if they win it, they have an opportunity

1219
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 5: to have a home game. You don't know what's going

1220
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:18,920
Speaker 5: to happen ahead of you in terms of the Broncos

1221
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 5: and the Patriots. If both of those teams fault, they

1222
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 5: can win the number one seed. So they just have

1223
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:23,399
Speaker 5: to play.

1224
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 3: They have to do where they've continued to do.

1225
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:26,840
Speaker 5: Stacker plays on top of each other and see what

1226
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 5: it looks like at the end. But yeah, the arrow

1227
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 5: is pointing up on the Jaguars because their coach is

1228
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 5: the real deal and this team is playing well behind

1229
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 5: the resurgence of Trevor Lawrence.

1230
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,880
Speaker 2: All Right, we got to use this is an amazing

1231
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:43,880
Speaker 2: story because the Cincinnati Bengals, So at one time I

1232
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 2: think we're oning three, but so with the Houston Texans.

1233
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:47,839
Speaker 2: But the Texans are going to the playoffs and they're

1234
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 2: eleven to five. They've won eight straight games and they're

1235
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 2: going to the playoffs. And they extended that winning street.

1236
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,319
Speaker 2: They beat up on the Chargers on the road, which

1237
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:58,240
Speaker 2: is a big win. And they're alive in the AFC South.

1238
00:56:58,760 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens.

1239
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 1: Right now.

1240
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 2: You talk about great defensive Seattle's right up there, Denver's

1241
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 2: up there, and I think the Texans are right there

1242
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:05,280
Speaker 2: as well.

1243
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 5: Look, the Texans are up there. The Texans are one

1244
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:10,719
Speaker 5: of the best team in football. And when you look

1245
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:13,000
Speaker 5: at the Texans, I believe they're the scariest team in

1246
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 5: the AFC because their defense is what we call they

1247
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 5: shut them down defense. They can win upfront with the

1248
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 5: Neil Hunter and Will Anderson dominating, they can lock you

1249
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 5: down in the back end with They're Stingley in Company

1250
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 5: blanketing coverage, and then they're physical with their linebackers setting

1251
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 5: the tone. Offensively, they're a little more scattershot in terms

1252
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 5: of how they go about it, but because their defense

1253
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:41,040
Speaker 5: can hold any team under twenty points, They're always in

1254
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 5: the game and they make you play on their turns.

1255
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 5: When you play the Texans, it's gonna be an ugly game.

1256
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,640
Speaker 5: There's not gonna be any rhythm to it. It's gonna

1257
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 5: be hard for you to do anything offensively, and that

1258
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:58,560
Speaker 5: gives their offense enough cracks, enough bite set the apple

1259
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 5: until they kind of figure it out been able to

1260
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 5: do that. So regards to who they play is rather

1261
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 5: they blow a team out, but everyone is gonna stoop

1262
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 5: down to their level and have to play in the

1263
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 5: muck in the mud as they like to play.

1264
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:11,320
Speaker 1: This gets a little crazy.

1265
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 2: But if you're Jacksonville Jacks lose to the Titans today,

1266
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 2: Detections are the AFC South champs.

1267
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 1: And they'll get their number three playoff seed.

1268
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 2: All right, So you see about thereby, I don't think

1269
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 2: you're Jacksonville Jags are losing today.

1270
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:27,480
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, all right, well, I'll be sad. I

1271
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 3: don't want to be sad at.

1272
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 2: I don't want you to be sad. No, I'll be

1273
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 2: pulling for you, no doubt about that, all right. The

1274
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Chargers eleven and five. I can't figure this

1275
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 2: team out. They had their four game winning streak snapped.

1276
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 2: They lost against the Texans mentioned and they're probably gonna arrest.

1277
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:45,280
Speaker 1: Most of their players today. All right.

1278
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 2: They're playing at the Broncos, so I don't think it

1279
00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:52,040
Speaker 2: means much. They're gonna rest the players with players I guess, right,

1280
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 2: they're eleven and five, and what else could they do.

1281
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: Right, I just think they'll just rest those guys. We're

1282
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 1: not going to see many starters today.

1283
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 3: I look, they're resting everybody.

1284
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 5: They're opting to make sure they have everybody available for

1285
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 5: the postseason, which is fine.

1286
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:09,600
Speaker 3: They lost out.

1287
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 5: Last week on a chance to win the division, so

1288
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 5: they're making the decision to let Justin Herbert and some

1289
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 5: of the other guys get healthy, and they're gonna take

1290
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 5: on teams in the playoffs and one day they have

1291
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 5: to go on the road to get it done. We'll

1292
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 5: see how it works out, you know, like you can

1293
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:26,520
Speaker 5: line it up and get those things ready, but it

1294
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 5: comes down to being able to exche you in the postseason.

1295
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 5: So however they see fit, they'll be judged on how

1296
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 5: they perform next weekend. All right.

1297
00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills are hosting the Jest today.

1298
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 2: The Bills are eleven and five, they lost to the

1299
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 2: Eagles in the week seventeen. Then that loss eliminated them

1300
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 2: from winning the AFC East and it moved them now

1301
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 2: to the number seven seas. But they have the they

1302
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 2: have the playoff brods, so it's not a big deal.

1303
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 2: I don't think like you say. What you're gonna do

1304
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:55,720
Speaker 2: is get into the playoffs. So we're gonna see if

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Speaker 2: they're gonna choose between rest overseed positioning today against the Jets.

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Speaker 2: What do you think, although I think I read somewhere

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Speaker 2: that Josh Allen will play today.

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Speaker 5: Look, you've you the Buffalo Bills. You want to play

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Speaker 5: at your best. You want to give yourself the best

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Speaker 5: chance to go into the postseason with a little momentum.

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Speaker 5: And if that requires you to put Josh Allen on

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Speaker 5: the bench to make sure that he's healthy and available

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Speaker 5: to play because his foot has been a big issue,

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Speaker 5: you want him right because if he's right, he gives

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Speaker 5: you the best chance of winning because it's going to

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Speaker 5: be him having to be a superhero to get them

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Speaker 5: to advance through the tournament. So do what you gotta do.

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Speaker 5: Whether you're the six seed to seven seed, it doesn't

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Speaker 5: really matter. You just want to make sure that number

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Speaker 5: seventeen is healthy and available to go.

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Speaker 1: Okay, the big Ones tonight. We're going to get into

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Speaker 1: that a little later on.

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Speaker 2: But the Ravens eight and eight there at Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh's

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Speaker 2: nine and seven, and that game right now is for

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Speaker 2: the AFC North title, so we'll see what happened. Then

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Speaker 2: they played back I think in week thirteen and Baltimore

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Speaker 2: came back, but they lost that game, so we'll see

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Speaker 2: what happens. Then there could be the Swanson really for

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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers and the two coaches. So we've got a

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Speaker 2: lot to talk about with that and so much more.

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Speaker 2: He's Bucky Brooks. Get him on X at Bucky Brooks

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Speaker 2: or at Andy Furman FSR and again eight seven seven

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Speaker 2: ninety nine one Fox, We love to hear from you.

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Speaker 2: You can hear from the little dumper right there. He'll

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Speaker 2: answer your phone call eight seven seven nine nine six

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Speaker 2: sixty three sixty nine. And we've got the blame game

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Speaker 2: at the end of this hour. But but does the

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Speaker 2: losing coach from this game get handed at pink slip?

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Speaker 2: That's next one coach has not one, not two, not three,

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Speaker 2: not four, but five teams in the college football playoffs.

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Speaker 2: That's right around the corner. All right, good morning everybody.

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Speaker 2: This is Fox Football Sunday at Fox Sports Radio. He's

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Speaker 2: Bucket Brooks and Andy Furman and we're broadcasting live from

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Speaker 2: the Fox Sports Radio studios. And by the way, if

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Speaker 2: catch the podcast, just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you

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Speaker 2: just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcasts,

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Speaker 1: After we get off the al Right.

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Speaker 2: I want to spend a few minutes on this because

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Speaker 2: Bucky Brooks spent a lot of time on it. I

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Speaker 2: think it's well worth it, well worth the read, and

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Speaker 2: it's quite interesting because in this time of the year,

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Speaker 2: everybody's still about Coach of the Year m VP. Bucky

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Speaker 2: Brooks was smart enough to go back and review the

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Speaker 2: top rookies on NFL dot com.

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Speaker 1: Is that correct? And how did you do it?

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Speaker 2: I want to know how you judge this thing, because

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Speaker 2: this is a pretty tough category to locate and find

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Speaker 2: out how these guys did, how they improved.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you have to talk around and talk to people

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Speaker 5: about the most impactful rookie classes, and some of those

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Speaker 5: you can just see. You saw the impact that the

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Speaker 5: Browns rookies had on their team, and there I can't

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Speaker 5: even call success their performance this year. You look at

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Speaker 5: Atlanta foul because then what their past rush was able

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Speaker 5: to do. So you try and look and evaluate and

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Speaker 5: see who had the biggest impact on their squads as

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Speaker 5: you kind of go back and review the entire season.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so he ask this the success Is that a

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Speaker 2: coincidence or if you have a general manager or a

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Speaker 2: personnel guy who has a nose for talent, is that

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Speaker 2: the way?

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Speaker 1: Or is it luck? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, because again I live in the Cincinnati area.

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Speaker 2: Bengals have gotten some pretty decent draft selections as far

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Speaker 2: as picks, the number and the draft and a lot

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Speaker 2: of them never panned out. Is that because just bad

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Speaker 2: luck or these guys don't know who to pick?

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Speaker 3: Combination of everything.

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Speaker 5: There's some luck involved, but it's also the talent of

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Speaker 5: the player, and then how the coaches develop a utilized

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Speaker 5: the player. All of those things matter and you have

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Speaker 5: to nail all three of them for the player to

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Speaker 5: maximize his talent and to become the player that you

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Speaker 5: envisioned him becoming when you take him at the top

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Speaker 5: of the draft. So it's a combination of all those factors.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you got a general manager in Seattle and John Schneider.

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Speaker 2: He's done a whale of a job to turn the

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Speaker 2: Seahawks around their thirteen and three and you've got them

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Speaker 2: rank number.

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Speaker 1: Five in the top five.

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Speaker 2: Who is some of the stars on that rookie lineup

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Speaker 2: and give me some of the names.

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean like Gray's Abel starts Edgar for them,

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Speaker 5: Nick Emnu Worry has done a really good job of

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Speaker 5: coming in and helping them. Tory Horton, Elijah Royo. I mean,

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Speaker 5: They've had a handful of young guys that have come in,

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Speaker 5: but I would say the two main guys have been

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Speaker 5: grates Able solidifying the interior of that offensive line, and

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Speaker 5: then Nick and Man and Worry being able to be

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Speaker 5: that Cam Chancellor like presence near the box. Their versatility,

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Speaker 5: their ability to quickly adapted and simulate to the pro

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Speaker 5: game has allowed the Seahawks to have a lot of success.

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Speaker 5: All of the heels of If you look at the

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Speaker 5: last three or four years when they've drafted their first

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Speaker 5: and second round picks have been money. That helps a

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Speaker 5: lot because you need to find your starters in the

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Speaker 5: first and second rounds.

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Speaker 1: What round was Jackson Smith and Jig drafted by by Seattle?

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Speaker 3: This their receiver.

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Speaker 5: Do you remember he was the first round pick a

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Speaker 5: couple of years ago. He's a good player Ohio State.

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Speaker 5: He played Ohio State at the same time.

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Speaker 1: I remember him.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a great player. He's a great player. He

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Speaker 5: didn't play his final season because he had injuries and

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Speaker 5: those things. Yeah. I mean like they've had a run

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Speaker 5: of receivers to come through there where it's easy for

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Speaker 5: him to be overshadowed.

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Speaker 1: Believe me, he was overshadowed in my mind, but not

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Speaker 1: now that's for sure. All Right.

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Speaker 2: You got the New England Patris. You got two teams

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Speaker 2: that have turned it around this year. Seattle in New

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Speaker 2: England rated five and four as far as great draft picks,

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Speaker 2: and not only great draft picks, but immediate help that

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Speaker 2: have come on that lineup.

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Speaker 5: Right. Yeah, for the New England Patriots, since the offensive

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Speaker 5: help around Drake, may they go and get to lineman,

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Speaker 5: Will Camberl and j Wilson, who has success that left

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Speaker 5: the left side of the airline of scrimmage is solidified.

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Speaker 5: They've guys have played well as a tantem. They played

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Speaker 5: well when Will Campbell's out and Wilson had to hold

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Speaker 5: it down on his own. They've been able to do that.

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Speaker 5: Travon Henderson has given him the explosive playmaker that they

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Speaker 5: needed out of the backfield. And when we look at

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Speaker 5: the success of the Patriots, it's the offensive line dominating

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01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:07,400
Speaker 5: and the permitter playmakers making a ton of big plays

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Speaker 5: to have the quarterback play at a level that we

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Speaker 5: didn't expect him to get to this soon, right.

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Speaker 2: And another team that's turned it around the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 2: I right up there as well, you got them right

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Speaker 2: number three. As far as rookies that have really made an.

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Speaker 5: Impact, Yeah, And the common theme that you're seeing is

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Speaker 5: teams that are successful in the draft, they nailed the

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Speaker 5: first handful of picks, meaning your first, second, and sometimes

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Speaker 5: your third round pick. Those guys are expected to be

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Speaker 5: starters and key contributors. And what you're seeing is the

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Speaker 5: Bears are getting that kind of contribution from their young guys.

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Speaker 5: Early Coaston Loveland catching them all over the middlefield, Luther

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Speaker 5: Burton being able to be an X factor in the

1455
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Speaker 5: passing game giving them what they need. Cal Manungai, the

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Speaker 5: running back from Rutgers seventh round pick who has teamed

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Speaker 5: up with DeAndre Swift to be a formidable tandem.

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Speaker 3: They're good.

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Speaker 5: And look, they got a kid, rookie Ozzie Tapio, who's

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Speaker 5: been able to have success. So this is a really

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Speaker 5: well constructed team. They've drafted well, they've acquired talent well

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Speaker 5: and free agency, and then they got the right coach

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Speaker 5: and Ben Johnson who has allowed at all to come

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Speaker 5: to light.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and the one team that really has not really

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Speaker 2: geled yet with draft picks, and that may very well

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Speaker 2: beb to go. See the quarterback situation, which really up

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Speaker 2: in the air. The number one you have was a

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Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns. But I tell you, and you've always been

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Speaker 2: a should do Or Sanders fan, I'm a believer. I

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Speaker 2: think that this guy should be a heck of a

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Speaker 2: player in the National Football League.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but their success goes beyond what Sdeorg Sanders has done,

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Speaker 5: and I think he's done a solid job and his

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01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:41,280
Speaker 5: limited opportunities he can still continue to cut back on

1476
01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:45,080
Speaker 5: so many interceptions, but the offense moves much better with

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Speaker 5: him and to him than it did prior to that.

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Speaker 5: It's the other guys that have really helped him. Mason Graham,

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Speaker 5: Carson Swegender on defense are terrific offensively, every playmaker. This

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Speaker 5: is the only team that has rookies lead them in passing,

1481
01:07:59,240 --> 01:08:02,080
Speaker 5: receiving and right. That shouldn't happen, but that is what's

1482
01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:06,440
Speaker 5: happening in Cleveland. Quinn, Shawn Judkins, Isaiah Bond, Dylan Sampson,

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01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 5: Harrold Fanning Junior, all those guys that played really well

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Speaker 5: in key moments. And you're optimistic, if you're a Browns fan,

1485
01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:16,840
Speaker 5: that this team can go to the next level. As

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01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:20,080
Speaker 5: this group continues to grow, and hopefully as they identify

1487
01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:23,160
Speaker 5: their franchise quarterback, they'll put the pieces in place to

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01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:25,080
Speaker 5: be very, very successful in a short time.

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Speaker 1: And that's why Stefanski may remain. You may not get fired.

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Speaker 5: I can't imagine him remaining because it's been a bit

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Speaker 5: of a cluster, right. So for all the things, the

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Speaker 5: number one question that you're going to have if your

1493
01:08:36,920 --> 01:08:40,519
Speaker 5: doer Sanders outplays Dylan Gabriel Why did it take so

1494
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:42,240
Speaker 5: long to get to the point where you put your

1495
01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:47,040
Speaker 5: door in? Why all of this whatever this was with him?

1496
01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:51,240
Speaker 5: Why not give him reps during offseason, training camp and

1497
01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:54,080
Speaker 5: those things to see if he can compete at.

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01:08:53,960 --> 01:08:55,559
Speaker 3: A love with Dylan Gabriel. I think he has to

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01:08:55,600 --> 01:08:56,120
Speaker 3: answer to that.

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Speaker 5: And let's be honest to records seven to twenty six

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01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:03,120
Speaker 5: last couple years. Yeah, it's hard to justify that part

1502
01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:05,360
Speaker 5: of it. I mean, you can if you want to,

1503
01:09:05,439 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 5: but it just appears that maybe the general managers stays

1504
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:10,280
Speaker 5: and Kevin Stevanski.

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01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:12,800
Speaker 2: Goes there we go, okay, Speaking of coaches and pink slips,

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01:09:12,840 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 2: we talked about tonight's game Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Mike Tomlin

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01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:18,720
Speaker 2: and John Harbard. They say that the loser may lose

1508
01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 2: his job. Pittsburgh nine and six, they're gonna host Baltimore

1509
01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:23,160
Speaker 2: eight and eight in a game that will determine which

1510
01:09:23,160 --> 01:09:25,920
Speaker 2: team wins the AFC North and also the playoffs spot

1511
01:09:25,920 --> 01:09:27,920
Speaker 2: that comes with it. And of course the Ravens. They

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01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:30,360
Speaker 2: started one in five, then they won five straight and

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01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:34,559
Speaker 2: they kind of got past Pittsburgh in the division standings

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01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:37,519
Speaker 2: that were one to three. Late season slide and I

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01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:39,559
Speaker 2: lost to Pittsburgh, hurt them a little bit, But now

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01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:41,640
Speaker 2: it's for all the marbles tonight, which is gonna be

1517
01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:44,000
Speaker 2: a great game. I would hope it would be. Baltimore

1518
01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:46,040
Speaker 2: needed to win in Green Bay last week and the

1519
01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:49,400
Speaker 2: Steelers lost in Cleveland the following Sunday last Sunday and

1520
01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:53,000
Speaker 2: now makes a winner take all game tonight Week eighteen

1521
01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:56,680
Speaker 2: showdown with Pittsburgh and then look, it's gonna be be

1522
01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:58,639
Speaker 2: a pretty good game. But it could be the last

1523
01:09:58,680 --> 01:10:00,560
Speaker 2: for one of those coaches, and maybe could be the

1524
01:10:00,640 --> 01:10:03,799
Speaker 2: last game for Aaron Rodgers. So I think the Ravens

1525
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:07,840
Speaker 2: right now have the better team. I think Lamar's healthier.

1526
01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:09,519
Speaker 2: I don't think it's one hundred percent, but no one's

1527
01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:11,639
Speaker 2: one hundred percent this time of the year. I think

1528
01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:14,479
Speaker 2: Baltimore wins this game tonight. Yeah, who do you like

1529
01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:14,960
Speaker 2: in this game?

1530
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:18,040
Speaker 1: Honestly? Because I just think they're just a better team.

1531
01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:21,920
Speaker 5: I mean, I'd say that with both teams, like, I

1532
01:10:21,960 --> 01:10:24,559
Speaker 5: have no idea which team is better. Which team is

1533
01:10:24,600 --> 01:10:27,639
Speaker 5: going to show up on paper? The Baltimore Ravens are

1534
01:10:27,640 --> 01:10:29,479
Speaker 5: the better team. When you look at the combination of

1535
01:10:29,560 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 5: Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson. They should be able to

1536
01:10:32,439 --> 01:10:35,800
Speaker 5: run rough shot over any group. However, this is a

1537
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:38,439
Speaker 5: team that sometimes forget that those two players are their

1538
01:10:38,479 --> 01:10:40,400
Speaker 5: best players, and they'll DEVI eight and start throwing the

1539
01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:43,840
Speaker 5: ball all over the yard and making mistakes and having turnovers,

1540
01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:47,720
Speaker 5: which then exposes their defense. Because their defense has struggled,

1541
01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:49,920
Speaker 5: and even though it's gotten better of late, they still

1542
01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:53,040
Speaker 5: aren't a shut them down, lock them down defense. They

1543
01:10:53,080 --> 01:10:56,799
Speaker 5: have some cracks. The problem if you're the Pittsburgh Stiller

1544
01:10:56,800 --> 01:11:00,240
Speaker 5: is without DK Metcalf, there is no one, no one

1545
01:11:00,840 --> 01:11:04,320
Speaker 5: in that offensive lineup that scars you, nobody that demands

1546
01:11:04,360 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 5: a double team.

1547
01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:07,320
Speaker 3: No one that demands you changed the way that you

1548
01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:08,320
Speaker 3: prefer to play.

1549
01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:11,320
Speaker 5: It's gonna be tough sledding for the Pittsburgh Steelers tonight

1550
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:15,000
Speaker 5: unless their defense comes up and just throws and pay

1551
01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:18,320
Speaker 5: some masterpiece. I don't see that happening. I think it's look,

1552
01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:20,880
Speaker 5: I think we've done so when it comes to the Steelers.

1553
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:23,680
Speaker 2: Okay, but I don't think Mike Tomlin's gone. They were

1554
01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:26,960
Speaker 2: six and six this year after twelve games. Everybody went

1555
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:29,680
Speaker 2: nut to cleave and Roethlisberger. Tomlin has two more years

1556
01:11:29,720 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 2: in his current contract. And the Steelers, I guess they

1557
01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:34,160
Speaker 2: have until March first to pick up his option for

1558
01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:35,040
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven.

1559
01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:35,960
Speaker 1: But here's the deal.

1560
01:11:36,240 --> 01:11:39,400
Speaker 2: The Pittsburgh Steelers have not fired a head coach since

1561
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:42,880
Speaker 2: nineteen forty one, So the thought of Mike Tomlin getting

1562
01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:46,760
Speaker 2: fired is kind of like a gray area. I don't

1563
01:11:46,760 --> 01:11:49,000
Speaker 2: think it's gonna happen. I just don't think Mike tom

1564
01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:50,960
Speaker 2: So Hall of Fame coach. He's not getting fired.

1565
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:53,080
Speaker 3: No, he's not getting fired.

1566
01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:57,480
Speaker 5: In their organization that is proud of themselves on their consistency,

1567
01:11:57,600 --> 01:12:00,320
Speaker 5: their stability, that has led to a lot of their success.

1568
01:12:00,680 --> 01:12:01,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not gonna change.

1569
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:03,559
Speaker 5: I think that's going to continue to be a big

1570
01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:04,920
Speaker 5: part of who they are.

1571
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:06,880
Speaker 3: Their blueprint. That's it.

1572
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:10,360
Speaker 5: They cannot keep falling apart at the end of seasons

1573
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:12,599
Speaker 5: like they have. Back to back years they've fallen apart.

1574
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:15,720
Speaker 5: If they don't make the playoffs like they've had this

1575
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:19,760
Speaker 5: late season swoon, that'd be problematic. And if they do

1576
01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:21,679
Speaker 5: go to the playoffs and they don't win a playoff game,

1577
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:25,720
Speaker 5: that's another year that they've gone with winning a playoff game. Regardless,

1578
01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:28,240
Speaker 5: they have to they have to do some spring cleaning.

1579
01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:30,160
Speaker 5: They have to freshen up a little bit and kind

1580
01:12:30,200 --> 01:12:32,000
Speaker 5: of figure out how they can get to get younger.

1581
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 5: This malays this malaise that they're in yet right now.

1582
01:12:35,439 --> 01:12:37,479
Speaker 2: If they lose tonight. The Steelers lose tonight, it will

1583
01:12:37,479 --> 01:12:41,120
Speaker 2: be the ninth straight year without a playoff win. Pretty

1584
01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:43,719
Speaker 2: long drought, okay, And it will be the Steelers second

1585
01:12:43,720 --> 01:12:47,000
Speaker 2: season without a playoff win since Mike Tomlins signed his

1586
01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:48,000
Speaker 2: most recent contract.

1587
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:50,160
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens there. But all about Harbor.

1588
01:12:50,320 --> 01:12:52,920
Speaker 2: When Harbar and Tomlin have in common, they're both super

1589
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:55,360
Speaker 2: win They both have won a Super Bowl, which is great.

1590
01:12:55,479 --> 01:12:59,200
Speaker 2: As far as Halbar's concerned, I guess he hasn't won

1591
01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:03,000
Speaker 2: enough for the fans, right and he's had playoffs success,

1592
01:13:03,280 --> 01:13:05,720
Speaker 2: but in the playoffs he hasn't done much. You've gone

1593
01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:07,360
Speaker 2: to the playoffs, but they haven't done much once they

1594
01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:07,760
Speaker 2: get there.

1595
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:14,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they've had that, They've been snake bitten.

1596
01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:15,720
Speaker 5: They just haven't been able to get it done. They've

1597
01:13:15,720 --> 01:13:19,040
Speaker 5: had some unfortunate bounces go against them, but no excuses.

1598
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:20,040
Speaker 3: They got to perform better.

1599
01:13:20,040 --> 01:13:23,439
Speaker 5: You got to think a team with an MVP caliber

1600
01:13:23,520 --> 01:13:26,519
Speaker 5: quarterback and Lamar Jackson would be able to be there

1601
01:13:26,920 --> 01:13:29,120
Speaker 5: a ton. They just haven't gotten it done. So that

1602
01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:31,080
Speaker 5: falls on him because he's the head.

1603
01:13:30,840 --> 01:13:31,679
Speaker 3: Coach of the team.

1604
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:35,040
Speaker 5: But I just can't see moving off from him because

1605
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:38,880
Speaker 5: my question in both of those instances, Tomlin and there.

1606
01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 3: Are who you're going to hire this better?

1607
01:13:41,520 --> 01:13:43,599
Speaker 5: Who can you hire that is guaranteed to be better

1608
01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:47,000
Speaker 5: in those circumstances and those things like that's the one thing.

1609
01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:49,240
Speaker 5: It's great to fire people, but now you've got to

1610
01:13:49,280 --> 01:13:52,880
Speaker 5: hire somebody. And are you hiring somebody that's guaranteed you

1611
01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 5: better results short term and long term? I don't know.

1612
01:13:57,320 --> 01:13:58,280
Speaker 3: I have no idea either.

1613
01:13:58,280 --> 01:13:59,280
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what we move on.

1614
01:13:59,479 --> 01:14:01,400
Speaker 2: I met you coming into this segment that there was

1615
01:14:01,439 --> 01:14:03,599
Speaker 2: there's one coach that has five teams in the college

1616
01:14:03,640 --> 01:14:06,040
Speaker 2: football playoffs, And I want to answer that question right now.

1617
01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:08,679
Speaker 2: I'm sure you know the answer. But Kirby Smart, Georgia,

1618
01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:11,960
Speaker 2: Dan Lanning, Old Miss Peak going old Miss Dan Lanning, Oregon,

1619
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:16,240
Speaker 2: Kurt Signetti, Indiana, Maria Crystobald Miami. They have all worked

1620
01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:19,479
Speaker 2: as assistance under former Alabama coach Nick Saban.

1621
01:14:19,520 --> 01:14:20,160
Speaker 1: That's pretty good.

1622
01:14:20,439 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 2: So there's the one coach's got five had five because

1623
01:14:23,120 --> 01:14:25,200
Speaker 2: some of them are out. Kirby's out of there, but

1624
01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:29,160
Speaker 2: he had five coaches in the playoffs and they all

1625
01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:31,360
Speaker 2: work for Nick Saban. Says a lot for Nick Saban

1626
01:14:31,479 --> 01:14:33,120
Speaker 2: really does. So there's the answer.

1627
01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:35,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it says a lot about him.

1628
01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:38,559
Speaker 5: When I've asked people about him, his process is playing

1629
01:14:38,560 --> 01:14:41,280
Speaker 5: why does it work? And the best way to describe it,

1630
01:14:41,280 --> 01:14:44,880
Speaker 5: They're like, man, it's like your grandma making her favorite

1631
01:14:45,160 --> 01:14:48,840
Speaker 5: oatmeal cookie recipe. Like he has methods that are tried

1632
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 5: and true. It never changes and as long as you

1633
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:54,280
Speaker 5: don't mess with the recipe, it'll always work. But in

1634
01:14:54,360 --> 01:14:56,400
Speaker 5: doing that, you got to make sure you do it

1635
01:14:56,439 --> 01:15:01,080
Speaker 5: with your own personal touch. Kirk Signetti has followed the blueprint,

1636
01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:04,559
Speaker 5: but he does it within his own personality and that's

1637
01:15:04,680 --> 01:15:06,920
Speaker 5: the key to all of these guys having success.

1638
01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:08,080
Speaker 3: They may have the.

1639
01:15:08,120 --> 01:15:11,560
Speaker 5: Infrastructure that they have learned from Nick Saban and Alabama,

1640
01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:13,760
Speaker 5: but they all are doing it their own way, which

1641
01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:15,360
Speaker 5: is why it's been successful for them.

1642
01:15:15,960 --> 01:15:18,599
Speaker 2: Here we go, he is Bucky Brooks and Andy Furrman

1643
01:15:18,640 --> 01:15:20,519
Speaker 2: with live from the Fox Best Radio Studios, and now

1644
01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:23,400
Speaker 2: it's time to let some's team is really let some

1645
01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:26,800
Speaker 2: steam out of it? How why the blame game is

1646
01:15:26,840 --> 01:15:30,639
Speaker 2: freaking next. Alrighty, they got the blame game right around

1647
01:15:30,720 --> 01:15:31,680
Speaker 2: the corner and Stevie won.

1648
01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:34,080
Speaker 1: That takes us into the blame game. And he's Bucky Brooks.

1649
01:15:34,280 --> 01:15:36,080
Speaker 2: I'm Andy Furman, and we're live from the Fox Best

1650
01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:38,280
Speaker 2: Radio studios. And by the way, at the top of

1651
01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:40,640
Speaker 2: the hour, about maybe twelve minutes from now, there were

1652
01:15:40,680 --> 01:15:43,080
Speaker 2: the eight am on the East Coast, Greg Coach Sell

1653
01:15:43,160 --> 01:15:46,439
Speaker 2: and Mike Harmon will be chatting talking football what else,

1654
01:15:46,479 --> 01:15:49,360
Speaker 2: of course on Fox Sports Radio. And we want to

1655
01:15:49,360 --> 01:15:52,360
Speaker 2: think a little dupper today filling in as our executive

1656
01:15:52,439 --> 01:15:54,400
Speaker 2: do thank you, thank you so much.

1657
01:15:54,439 --> 01:15:57,720
Speaker 1: I beg you, Clint. I'm glad. All is well, all right,

1658
01:15:57,760 --> 01:16:01,040
Speaker 1: but right now it's time four the playing game. You

1659
01:16:01,320 --> 01:16:04,880
Speaker 1: ruined me. It's all your fault. No, it's your fault.

1660
01:16:05,120 --> 01:16:12,320
Speaker 1: What is all your fault? Maybe it's everyone's faults.

1661
01:16:12,479 --> 01:16:15,120
Speaker 4: She's a liar. That's why there's the blame game, the

1662
01:16:15,160 --> 01:16:15,719
Speaker 4: blame game.

1663
01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:19,559
Speaker 1: Let's figure out who to blame. He's a liar.

1664
01:16:19,680 --> 01:16:22,360
Speaker 2: Oh, hey, little duffer, you know how to play?

1665
01:16:22,439 --> 01:16:25,120
Speaker 7: Oh I know how to play. Well, it's time to

1666
01:16:25,160 --> 01:16:29,080
Speaker 7: play the blame game. Everybody. With that said, let's get

1667
01:16:29,120 --> 01:16:32,840
Speaker 7: on to it. So guys, Ohio State spent thirty five

1668
01:16:32,920 --> 01:16:37,479
Speaker 7: million on a football team and lost to Indiana. Yikes,

1669
01:16:37,920 --> 01:16:38,320
Speaker 7: who do.

1670
01:16:38,320 --> 01:16:39,240
Speaker 1: You blame for that?

1671
01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:39,759
Speaker 3: Andy?

1672
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:41,519
Speaker 1: You know what?

1673
01:16:42,120 --> 01:16:44,760
Speaker 2: It all goes down to the CEO of the organization.

1674
01:16:44,800 --> 01:16:46,519
Speaker 2: I'm gonna blame Ryan Day. Let me tell you why

1675
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:48,800
Speaker 2: I blame Ryan Day. You know, God bless him. He's

1676
01:16:48,800 --> 01:16:51,200
Speaker 2: a heck of a coach. He's going through some living

1677
01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:54,320
Speaker 2: hell right now. But he went to a business meeting

1678
01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:58,519
Speaker 2: about a year ago in Columbus begging these top businessmen

1679
01:16:58,600 --> 01:17:01,479
Speaker 2: in the Columbus area from money for his program. And

1680
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:04,120
Speaker 2: that's okay, because that's what you need to survive. But

1681
01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:07,400
Speaker 2: keep it quiet. It went public and no one had

1682
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:10,080
Speaker 2: to know how much money they're spending. And they spent

1683
01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:12,760
Speaker 2: thirty five mil for that football team. I don't know

1684
01:17:12,760 --> 01:17:14,720
Speaker 2: how much Indiana has spent. I don't know how much

1685
01:17:14,760 --> 01:17:17,040
Speaker 2: anybody else has spent, but we know how much Ohio

1686
01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:19,519
Speaker 2: State spent, and it's really biting them in the rear ends.

1687
01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:22,759
Speaker 1: So Ryan Day asked for the money. But do it quietly,

1688
01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:24,040
Speaker 1: all right, It's on you.

1689
01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:28,920
Speaker 5: There's no such thing as quietly asking for money. Because

1690
01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:31,800
Speaker 5: all the players in their agents tell people what they're doing.

1691
01:17:32,160 --> 01:17:33,840
Speaker 5: The main thing that you have to do in this

1692
01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:36,280
Speaker 5: climate is you have to find ways to win games.

1693
01:17:36,320 --> 01:17:39,120
Speaker 5: And unfortunately for Ohio State, they didn't win the games.

1694
01:17:39,120 --> 01:17:39,479
Speaker 3: They mattered.

1695
01:17:39,520 --> 01:17:41,879
Speaker 5: They lost the Big Ten championship, they lost in the playoff.

1696
01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:45,280
Speaker 5: So it's a failure for them. But you got to

1697
01:17:45,320 --> 01:17:47,880
Speaker 5: spend the money to have an opportunity to be in

1698
01:17:47,920 --> 01:17:49,599
Speaker 5: the mix and then they got to figure out way

1699
01:17:49,640 --> 01:17:51,280
Speaker 5: to finish it when they get a chance.

1700
01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:54,880
Speaker 7: All right, all right, well we're gonna double dip on

1701
01:17:54,960 --> 01:17:57,719
Speaker 7: Indiana for this one, guys, because speaking of another team

1702
01:17:57,720 --> 01:18:00,920
Speaker 7: that also lost the Indiana just this time in the playoffs,

1703
01:18:01,400 --> 01:18:05,679
Speaker 7: Alabama not only lost Indiana here, they were ambarrassed.

1704
01:18:06,360 --> 01:18:08,160
Speaker 1: Why and who do you blame?

1705
01:18:08,200 --> 01:18:08,599
Speaker 7: Bucky?

1706
01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:12,479
Speaker 5: I blame killing the boor. I believe this. This team

1707
01:18:13,040 --> 01:18:15,760
Speaker 5: is just and program is just so drastically different than

1708
01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:17,639
Speaker 5: it was under Nick Safe.

1709
01:18:17,800 --> 01:18:18,639
Speaker 3: And it's not as fault.

1710
01:18:18,680 --> 01:18:20,559
Speaker 5: He coaches the way that he coaches, and he's had

1711
01:18:20,560 --> 01:18:22,880
Speaker 5: a lot of success doing it his way. I just

1712
01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:25,920
Speaker 5: think at Alabama there's been a certain standard that's been

1713
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:30,240
Speaker 5: established and it's hard when you deviate away from the

1714
01:18:30,280 --> 01:18:31,400
Speaker 5: program's process.

1715
01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:33,240
Speaker 3: Uh, maybe he can find his.

1716
01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:35,080
Speaker 5: Way, he gets his whole new crew and do all that.

1717
01:18:35,160 --> 01:18:38,080
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's on him right now. They look four

1718
01:18:38,160 --> 01:18:42,000
Speaker 5: losses in back to back years unacceptable to Alabama.

1719
01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:44,280
Speaker 2: I hope Kellen dvoor is renting. I hope he didn't

1720
01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:46,799
Speaker 2: buy a house. I hope he's renting over there. But

1721
01:18:46,840 --> 01:18:48,679
Speaker 2: you know, I'm gonna blame I'm gonna blame Kurt Signetic

1722
01:18:48,680 --> 01:18:50,960
Speaker 2: because this team was better prepared, they would better coach.

1723
01:18:51,040 --> 01:18:52,800
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it was okay if they would have

1724
01:18:52,840 --> 01:18:55,439
Speaker 2: won twenty seven to twenty four, I get it. Thirty

1725
01:18:55,479 --> 01:18:58,320
Speaker 2: eight to three, you were embarrassed. You were prepared better,

1726
01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:00,479
Speaker 2: You knew what was going on. They weren't fooled. How

1727
01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:04,120
Speaker 2: many plays? Indiana knew what was coming up? They studied

1728
01:19:04,120 --> 01:19:06,360
Speaker 2: it and they knew it. Maybe they're smarter players. Could

1729
01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:09,519
Speaker 2: that beat Bucky Brooks? Maybe they're just smarter football players too.

1730
01:19:11,240 --> 01:19:13,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe that has some doing it. They just beat

1731
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:14,920
Speaker 5: due Tail, That's all I know.

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01:19:15,640 --> 01:19:17,439
Speaker 7: All right, Well, I'll tell you what I know here.

1733
01:19:17,560 --> 01:19:21,720
Speaker 7: Two NFL teams started strong and made us into believers,

1734
01:19:22,160 --> 01:19:26,479
Speaker 7: the Indianapolis Colts and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and then the

1735
01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:27,799
Speaker 7: slid happened.

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01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:29,759
Speaker 1: Why who do you blame?

1737
01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:33,160
Speaker 2: Many you know what there, it's so easy, it's almost

1738
01:19:33,200 --> 01:19:35,400
Speaker 2: a crutch to use this. But I'm gonna use the

1739
01:19:35,640 --> 01:19:38,320
Speaker 2: injury excuse because look, Baker Mayfield and sad he was

1740
01:19:38,320 --> 01:19:40,360
Speaker 2: playing with a bad shoulder most of the season. He

1741
01:19:40,400 --> 01:19:43,840
Speaker 2: came up back yesterday won. He wasn't really that impressive,

1742
01:19:43,840 --> 01:19:47,439
Speaker 2: but the team won. And I just think that injury

1743
01:19:47,479 --> 01:19:49,960
Speaker 2: is the fact that obviously with the quarterback situation, when

1744
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:52,000
Speaker 2: you got to bring Philip Rivers in off the couch,

1745
01:19:52,360 --> 01:19:54,840
Speaker 2: I mean this problem is over there. They were good,

1746
01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 2: they were believable. I thought they were for real. But

1747
01:19:57,720 --> 01:19:59,800
Speaker 2: you know, without that quarterback go with injuries. That's what

1748
01:19:59,880 --> 01:20:00,639
Speaker 2: it it's all about.

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01:20:02,160 --> 01:20:03,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's everything.

1750
01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:06,400
Speaker 5: Like the quarterback is the most important piece of the puzzle.

1751
01:20:06,400 --> 01:20:09,160
Speaker 5: When you have quarterback injuries in those things things can falter.

1752
01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:11,720
Speaker 5: You hope that you have a well constructed team that

1753
01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:16,240
Speaker 5: could play around a quarterback injury, but most teams aren't

1754
01:20:16,280 --> 01:20:17,040
Speaker 5: equipped to do that.

1755
01:20:17,080 --> 01:20:19,240
Speaker 3: So when the quarterback goes down, so do your playoff hopes?

1756
01:20:19,720 --> 01:20:19,840
Speaker 7: All?

1757
01:20:19,920 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 3: Right?

1758
01:20:20,080 --> 01:20:24,080
Speaker 7: Final one guys, Kirk Cousins rallied the Falcons downstretch and

1759
01:20:24,200 --> 01:20:27,719
Speaker 7: didn't play early on Why and who do you blame

1760
01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:28,040
Speaker 7: for that?

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01:20:28,080 --> 01:20:29,639
Speaker 1: One, Bucky.

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01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:32,720
Speaker 5: Well, look man, kirk Cousins played well, but look, every

1763
01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:34,040
Speaker 5: time he had been in pride of that he had

1764
01:20:34,080 --> 01:20:36,559
Speaker 5: been terrible. He found in a rhythm, he knew that

1765
01:20:36,600 --> 01:20:39,320
Speaker 5: there was no other option when Bichael Pennis was hurt,

1766
01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:42,160
Speaker 5: and his confidence shot up. And it'd be interesting to

1767
01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:44,639
Speaker 5: see what Atlanta Falcons do going forward because kirk Cousins

1768
01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:45,560
Speaker 5: had some limitations.

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01:20:45,600 --> 01:20:47,599
Speaker 3: But he's clearly beilter than Pennis at this point.

1770
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:50,320
Speaker 2: Right, But he's not the future. That's what it's all about,

1771
01:20:50,360 --> 01:20:51,760
Speaker 2: all right, Bucky, I have a great day.

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01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:52,400
Speaker 1: Thank you.

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01:20:52,439 --> 01:20:55,320
Speaker 2: Picked up a stick over. Stick over here, Greg Kochelle

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01:20:55,360 --> 01:20:56,040
Speaker 2: Holme in next