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Speaker 2: I've heard so many players say, well, I want to

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Speaker 2: And then and Tye, welcome back.

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Speaker 3: To the solid Verbo boys and girls. My name is

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Speaker 3: ty hilden Brandt. You know the drill. You know the drill.

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Speaker 3: It's a Friday. You will hear from Dan momentarily because

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Speaker 3: this is an excerpt from the show we did yesterday.

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Speaker 3: College football Thursdays every Thursday, live five pm East, two

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Speaker 3: pm West on Spotify. If you didn't join us this week,

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Speaker 3: hopefully you can join us next. The game you're about

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Speaker 3: to hear is one that Dan and I called trust issues.

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Speaker 1: Trust issues.

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Speaker 3: We went through a bunch of the big games, not all,

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Speaker 3: but most window by window, and we examined each from

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Speaker 3: the standpoint of trust. Can we trust bon Nicks? Can

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Speaker 3: we trust Texas A and M? Can we trust James

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Speaker 3: Franklin to put in the right damn quarterback? Stuff like

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Speaker 3: that got about fifteen or so odd minutes of that

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Speaker 3: episode for you. Hope you enjoy it, Hope you can

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Speaker 3: stop by next week going out to solidverbal dot Com

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Speaker 3: slash Spotify next Thursday, five pm East again two pm Pacific.

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Speaker 3: In the meantime, here is that clip enjoy your Week eight?

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Speaker 3: Trust you little indecent proposal?

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Speaker 2: Right yeah, at everybody on the tip of everybody's tongue,

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Is that Michael Douglas and Demi Moore from

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety whatever, it's Woody Harrelson.

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Speaker 3: I trust you, then we're even. Let's go through all

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Speaker 3: that Week eight has to offer. Let's start in the

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Speaker 3: early block, Dan, I want to frame all of these

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Speaker 3: games that I'm going to mention, by.

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Speaker 2: The way, it was Robert Redford, not what Michael Douglass,

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Speaker 2: the older gentleman. I am ashamed of myself and I apologize.

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Speaker 2: I want to frame all of these around the issue

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Speaker 3: So, for example, twelve pm on Fox Iowa against Ohio State,

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Speaker 3: Ohio State favored by thirty points. Now this line has

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Speaker 3: grown significantly. The question is simple, do we trust Ohio

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Speaker 3: State's offense to cover thirty points? Do we trust Ohio

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Speaker 3: they've seen yet, to cover this large of a number.

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Speaker 2: Man, it's just I don't even trust either of those

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Speaker 2: things fully that Iowa has a great defense. I think

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Speaker 2: they have a good defense, but I don't know. It's

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Speaker 2: one of those things where like, are they great? Would

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Speaker 2: they be better with an average offense? Probably they'd be

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Speaker 2: they've performed like a good defense, but I'm still I'm

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Speaker 2: still not fully there, even though I think, what are

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're very good. So Ohio State will put it

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Speaker 2: do you trust those results? I say not fully.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's hard to say, right, it's hard

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Speaker 2: How many points do you think Iowa's offense can score?

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Speaker 2: You think Iowa can score seventeen points against Ohio State's team?

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Speaker 2: But I'm just saying there is something about Ohio State

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Speaker 2: Get a little bit healthier, right, I just I can't

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Speaker 3: another interesting game, a game that I don't know if

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Speaker 3: First off, Daniel, how dare you be smirch the name

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Speaker 2: You took the time during my answer, or you could

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Speaker 2: have been soaking up brilliant insight to look up Yukon's

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Speaker 3: First off, yes, I did absolutely. Secondly, how dear, look,

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Speaker 3: everything you said is accurate. Everything you said is accurate.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to give away the game too much

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's close. I hope it's close.

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Speaker 3: But if you're at home, if you've got an adult

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Speaker 3: For every haphazard throw that we get from Garrett Strader,

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Speaker 3: did he what did he see there? Why did he?

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Speaker 2: Syracuse can keep it close and just draft late behind

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if I'm fully there.

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Speaker 2: I want to see, and I don't know if it's

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Speaker 1: So I believe that.

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Speaker 3: Have you know, mister Rubinstein, which of these four teams

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Speaker 2: I think Baylor's the most trustworthy team that I don't

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Speaker 2: Like I trust Baylor to be competitive in all of

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Speaker 2: And if you're wondering who can you trust? Between me

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Speaker 1: It's what can I say? Nearly what can I say? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What can I say? Let us know? In the chat.

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