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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio radio. Are we actually

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Speaker 1: underestimating the Houston Texans? Are we sitting in a world

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Speaker 1: Because certainly everybody has sat back and repeatedly told you

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Speaker 1: NFL in front of our eyes. It's fucking fits hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you on a Fox Sports Saturday. Come on,

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Speaker 1: go with me on this one. Bucky always tell me

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Speaker 1: that I'm not positive enough. Now I come in and

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Speaker 1: I'm all sorts of poly positive, and you're giving me

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Speaker 1: a look like I've lost my mind. He's Buck Rising.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jason Fitts hanging out with you, by the way

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Speaker 1: from the Fox Sports Radio studios. What's the problem with

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Speaker 1: my opening theme? Is today.

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Speaker 2: That you didn't mention the Tennessee Titans demolishing the Kansas

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Speaker 3: Yeah I didn't. I didn't.

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Speaker 1: That didn't make that didn't make my list.

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Speaker 3: Off. It's the same divisions, same divisions.

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Speaker 2: Chiefs in the Super Bowl last year, Titans winning record

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Speaker 1: No love, no love for the.

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Speaker 2: Team that I spend my days watching them struggle and

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Speaker 2: sputter about for them to finally look like a professional

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Speaker 2: football organization last week against the Chiefs, and you discount

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Speaker 1: Shame on here here I am here. I am sitting

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Speaker 1: back saying, now, Buck's gonna love this because I'm not

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Speaker 1: coming in down playing anything. Instead, I'm building it up.

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Speaker 1: I'm going full Josh Grob and you raise me up.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing the whole thing, right. I feel good about this,

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Speaker 1: and I've got this whole Kermit the Frog presentation. I

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Speaker 1: I do my tap dance, I do my song and

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Speaker 1: dance routine for Buck. And like the two old crotchety

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Speaker 1: saying it wasn't good enough for him, that's where point

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry I left the Titans out of my list

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Speaker 1: when talking about the relevance of certain divisions in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: I'm okay, well I got something for you, Buck, Oh Mary,

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Speaker 3: I'm here to tell you right now, we don't care.

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Speaker 1: We don't care. Would you like to would you like

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Speaker 3: Buck Rising? The reality is that I also don't care.

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Speaker 2: It's okay, you're you're You're not hurting my feelings. I

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Speaker 2: cover meetingless football for a living. I just wanted to

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Speaker 2: make as think, Yes, it's delightful that FITZI decided to

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Speaker 2: heat praise upon the trash mountain that is the AFC

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Speaker 2: South historically has been the AFC South. Texans aren't playing

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Speaker 2: chargers just kind of suck.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the chargers are beat up, and the chargers

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Speaker 1: don't look great, and the chargers shouldn't be where they are.

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Speaker 1: But the chargers are eleven and four like so in

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Speaker 1: there are plenty of people that when we get to

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Speaker 1: all the stink of time and a jack scene that you, yourself, sir,

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Speaker 3: Don't worry. The Titans still suck. They still represent the

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to do my best Jason Fitz impression. My

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Speaker 1: Well, it's that's it's it's a scull thing. They're not okansky,

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Speaker 2: Uh So, the Texans are winning games because their defense

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Speaker 1: The Jags are winning.

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Speaker 3: Forty nine ers, and they're still winning games.

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Speaker 2: They have a god to your coach arguably in Kyle Shanahan,

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Speaker 2: I guess if you are impressed with the AFC South,

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Speaker 2: The Chargers are not only are they hurt, but they're

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Speaker 1: When you see what he does in the regular season

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Speaker 2: Lovely he's a lovely uh you know, he's everything that

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Speaker 1: One of the funniest things about the way we cover quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: Every time I think, yeah, Justin Herbert, he's fine, he's fine,

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Speaker 1: We're like, oh, gotta see that guy get it done. Well,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because Lamar is a two time MVP.

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Speaker 1: Lamar is.

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Speaker 2: Lamar does things that we haven't seen since Michael Vick. Arguably,

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Speaker 2: And I'm looking at the two playoff games, twenty five

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Speaker 1: let me get this portion for you. It's heavy eye.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't have stopped. Somebody would have stopped though.

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Speaker 1: Most people would have stopped right, most people, and even

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Speaker 1: if it's how you make your money, if that's the argument,

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Speaker 1: somebody would have rolled down the window and said, hey,

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Speaker 1: fifty bucks, I'll clear that out for you. I would

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Speaker 1: have gladly get him the cash. No, no, what they do,

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Speaker 1: no eye contact. Go to the end of the road,

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Speaker 1: turn and get out of the way. That oh man,

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Speaker 1: the north lost of the South today, I'm just saying,

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Speaker 1: be better New Britain truck number nine. I hope you

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Speaker 1: get a hangnail that you can't get rid of and

447
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Speaker 1: it gets stuck and it's just stuck there with them.

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Speaker 1: And I hope you get a popcorn kernel stuck between

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Speaker 1: your back two teeth that is stuck there for the

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Speaker 1: next three years until a dentist has to remove it.

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Speaker 1: You have earned these things.

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Speaker 3: I would have been that snowplow driver.

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that.

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Speaker 3: Mary Ian.

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Speaker 2: What is the temperature today in the sunny, scenic Los Angeles?

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Speaker 6: Well, it's been it's been really rainy the last few days,

457
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Speaker 6: so I actually I can't sit here and just gloat

458
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Speaker 6: about the weather.

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Speaker 2: That's fine, I'll do it for you. It was seventy

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Speaker 2: degrees and sunny. I went to the bar last night

461
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Speaker 2: and shorts. It was lovely. I sat by the pool

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Speaker 2: today as Jason fitz was sitting there in five degree windchill,

463
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Speaker 2: getting buried by snowplows and mountains of snow and all

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Speaker 2: manner of other things. Nashville is as far north as

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Speaker 2: I'll ever live for the rest of my life. Unless

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Speaker 2: you want to pay me just ungodly amounts of money,

467
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Speaker 2: and even then I would probably I would probably struggle

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Speaker 2: with it. Not because of the people. I can handle

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Speaker 2: the people. Those people are my people. As a matter

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Speaker 2: of fact. Just because I've lived in the South for

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Speaker 2: as long as I have at this point in time,

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean that I cannot relate to the wonderful people

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Speaker 2: of the Northeast, who are not actually wonderful people, but

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Speaker 2: they are very much my type of people.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 2: I just I don't think you could pry me out

477
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Speaker 2: of the Southeast if you tried.

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Speaker 1: I don't. Usually, usually I'm a big believer in Again,

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Speaker 1: I've lived everywhere in my life, all over the US,

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Speaker 1: so I'm a big believer that most places are kind

481
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Speaker 1: of the same at the end of the day. Like

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Speaker 1: you fight, like you settle into everything you have. You

483
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Speaker 1: find your favorite type bar, you find your favorite local restaurant,

484
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Speaker 1: you find your favorite change. You know where the Walmart is,

485
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Speaker 1: the movie theater is, like comfort of life. America has

486
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Speaker 1: become very homogenized. I'm not sure there's a massive difference.

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Speaker 1: The few differences are the people in the weather. And

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Speaker 1: usually I usually I actually don't mind New England and

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Speaker 1: I've often said on the record, I would rather shovel

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Speaker 1: a driveway than mow my lawn. I absolutely hate getting

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Speaker 1: hot in the summer, so like, look, I'm usually not

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Speaker 1: this guy. It's just New Britain truck number nine, that

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Speaker 1: particular driver. You, sir, you have cracked me. You have

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Speaker 1: Christmas Day. We'll tell you why, but first, Martin, get

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Speaker 1: us caught up on the scoreboard. What is going on,

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Speaker 1: my friend?

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Speaker 8: Well, right now if you're judging it by quarter, so

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Speaker 8: you're doing it like a prize fight. The Houston Texans

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Speaker 8: won the first quarter, the Los Angeles Chargers won the second.

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Speaker 8: The Texans with the lead fourteen to three right now

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Speaker 8: and leading third quarters. They're driving down the field eight

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Speaker 8: twenty left in the third quarter.

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Speaker 1: CJ.

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Speaker 8: Straw with two first quarter touchdown passes but two second

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Speaker 8: quarter interceptions that have kind of even this thing out.

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Speaker 8: But it's been all charged, I mean, all Texans thus

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Speaker 8: far on the scoreboard, fourteen and three. Like I said,

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Speaker 8: with Houston, just get to call for a holding penalty,

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Speaker 8: so backing up a bit, maybe out of the red

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Speaker 8: zone there.

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Speaker 1: In college football, the Pops Are Bowl.

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Speaker 8: You got Georgia Tech and BYU twenty one to eighteen

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Speaker 8: to score in BYU with a two point touchdown two

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Speaker 8: point conversion in the fourth quarter to make this one

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Speaker 8: a closer game eight minutes left there in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 8: twelve minutes into the third quarter at Fresno State in

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Speaker 8: Miami of Ohio and the Snoop.

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Speaker 1: Dogg Arizona Bowl.

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Speaker 8: Fresno State with a nine to three lead over the Radhawks,

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Speaker 8: North Texas with a twenty one to six lead over

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Speaker 8: San Diego State, and the New Mexico Bowl. Earlier today,

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Speaker 8: we saw East Carolina beat Pittsburgh twenty three to seventeen

537
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Speaker 8: in the Military Bowl. Penstroke Bowl was Penn State Clemson.

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Speaker 8: They weren't expecting to finish with seven and six records,

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Speaker 8: but both did twenty two to ten. The Ninty Lions

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Speaker 8: get to win an Army beat Yukon forty one to sixteen,

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Speaker 8: and the Fenway Bowl. Leak Willis is starting for Jordan

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Speaker 8: Love tonight for the Packers. Jordan Loves out with the concussion.

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Speaker 8: Packers guard Zach Zach Tom also out. The Ravens need

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Speaker 8: a win tonight to keep their playoffs hopes alive. And

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Speaker 8: for the Rams on Monday night, DeVante Adams is doubtful.

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Speaker 8: He's been dealing with a hamstring issue. Bucking fits back

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Speaker 8: to you, guys.

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Speaker 1: He's Buck Rising, I'm Jason fitzbucking fits. That's right. Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson out for tonight's game against the Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 1: And this is not without buck its own sort of

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Speaker 1: sub controversy. There was an editorial piece this week in

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Speaker 1: the Baltimore Sun about whether or not the Ravens and

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson are on the precipice of parting ways. Given

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Speaker 1: the salary cap numbers for Lamar, given some of the

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Speaker 1: contract guarantees that are there for Lamar, and given the

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Speaker 1: fact that it's about that time where most quarterbacks will

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Speaker 1: be looking at an extension to pull in more guaranteed money,

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Speaker 1: there is some conversation, at least from that editorial piece

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Speaker 1: about what the future looks like. It also pointed out that,

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Speaker 1: you know, while breaking your body, breaking down is a

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Speaker 1: natural thing. The piece made it clear that Lamar spends

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Speaker 1: too much time, according to some sources, playing video games

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Speaker 1: late at night, not enough time around football, falling asleep

564
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Speaker 1: in meetings, all of these things we are suddenly hearing it.

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Speaker 1: It feels somewhere between I don't know, it feels somewhere

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Speaker 1: between a hit piece and an opinion piece. But it

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Speaker 1: is interesting to me at the very least that Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 1: who by the way, is a two time NFL MVP

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Speaker 1: before he reached the age of twenty seven, just the

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Speaker 1: consideration that there's any possible world where the Ravens and

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson aren't a marriage next year seems wild to me.

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Speaker 1: But now we have Lamar not playing tonight in a

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Speaker 1: game with absolutely huge consequence for Baltimore and for the Packers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, two backup quarterbacks now Malik Willis as as Martin

575
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Speaker 2: mentioned for the Packers, and then Lamar Jackson out for tonight.

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Speaker 2: So I'm just looking at his contract quickly. They do, man,

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Speaker 2: that would be difficult to maneuver if they were going

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Speaker 2: to put themselves in a situation where they wanted to

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Speaker 2: move on from Lamar. I mean, he's got a dead

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Speaker 2: cap hit in twenty twenty six of eighty six point

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Speaker 2: five million dollars. Not to say that they would cut him,

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Speaker 2: they would move him. Obviously there would be buyers for

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Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson, but like, I mean, doesn't. And it's different

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Speaker 2: because Lamar is a two time MVP and Kyler Murray

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Speaker 2: is Kyler Murray. But doesn't it feel Kyler Murray esque

586
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Speaker 2: in terms of some of the dialogue that we're talking about, Dude,

587
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Speaker 2: new Call of Duty comes out all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: Kyler Murray's you know, QBR takes a DMP or whatever

589
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Speaker 2: the case may be. Like those were the jokes that

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Speaker 2: were being made at the time, and the lack of

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Speaker 2: studying that was, or rather a clause included in his contract,

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Speaker 2: Kyler's contract that specifically indicated basically how many study.

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Speaker 3: Hours he was going to have to make or do

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Speaker 3: at that point in time. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I mean again, I haven't I'm not in Baltimore. I

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Speaker 2: have not seen the ins and outs of Lamar Jackson's

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Speaker 2: work dynamic the way that somebody writing for the Baltimore Sun,

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Speaker 2: I would assume has If you're going to be comfortable

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Speaker 2: putting that in print or online, whatever the case may be, like,

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Speaker 2: you better be damn sure you know what you're talking about,

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Speaker 2: because that's I mean, that's that is a bit of

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Speaker 2: a character assassination unless it's true, and don't I don't

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Speaker 2: want to speculate, because that's we just there's never been

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Speaker 2: that kind of dialogue around Lamar ever until now. And

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Speaker 2: we're doing this why because he's got a back injury.

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Speaker 2: Because the Ravens offense has st uggold a little bit

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Speaker 2: this year. They've not been horrendous, but they certainly weren't

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Speaker 2: as good as they were last year. They were number

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Speaker 2: one in DVOA and number one in efficiency and all

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Speaker 2: these different things. They were just an absolute force to

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Speaker 2: be reckoned with. No what happened in Baltimore this year

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Speaker 2: is Lamar's been hurt. Their offensive line, interior offensive line

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Speaker 2: has been particularly poor. Z Flowers is not a number

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Speaker 2: one wide receiver, and the defense has been pedestrian to

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Speaker 2: outright bad for the vast majority of the season.

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Speaker 3: So I'm not wringing my hands if I'm.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens organization about Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 2: I'm just looking at the season be like, yeah, we

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Speaker 2: thought we were closer. We probably are closer than this

620
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Speaker 2: season indicates, but just things didn't.

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Speaker 3: Fall our weight.

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Speaker 1: They're kind of a different version of the Chargers.

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Speaker 2: No. I mean, the Chargers are obviously an eleven win

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Speaker 2: team in Baltimore is trying desperately to stay above five

625
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Speaker 2: hundred at this point in time. But still, I just

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Speaker 2: feel like it's an extreme version of what we were

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Speaker 2: just talking about around justin Herbert.

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Speaker 1: Look, Lamar's not going anywhere. My mom used to say

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Speaker 1: to me when I was kid, and I'd say something

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Speaker 1: particularly stupid, my mom would say, I'm gonna have to

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Speaker 1: put a glass plate in your belly button so you

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Speaker 1: can see since your head so far up your ass,

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Speaker 1: if you believe that Lamar Jackson is not going to

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Speaker 1: be the quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens next year, you

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Speaker 1: need a glass plate in your belly button. I don't

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Speaker 1: give a damn about this story. I do not care.

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Speaker 1: Like you all can clip this off and send it

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Speaker 1: right back to me, I would be beyond stunned. Beyond stunned,

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00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: because to your point, the only way that Lamar goes

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00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: somewhere is if there's a trade and the trade cap

641
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Speaker 1: on him would result in an eighty million dollar cap

642
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: hit next year. That is a trade pre June first,

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Speaker 1: And if there was any trade, you would have to

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Speaker 1: be pre June first because it has to be before

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Speaker 1: the draft so they can allocate what they're doing. You cannot.

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Speaker 1: You cannot designate a trade to be post to June

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Speaker 1: first like you can a cut. So that's not a possibility.

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Speaker 1: So the only way Lamar goes somewhere is if the

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Speaker 1: Ravens agreed to take an eighty million dollar capit Right now,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't make any sense. It drops to fifty seven

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Speaker 1: point five million new So like none of this makes

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Speaker 1: any sense. But more importantly, there's not a clear path

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Speaker 1: to another quarterback. And even above and beyond all of that,

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Speaker 1: if Lamar is sitting around, falling asleep in meetings and

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Speaker 1: playing video games until four in the morning, I don't care.

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Speaker 1: Because last year Lamar Jackson should have been the NFL MVP.

657
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Speaker 1: It went to Josh Allen, but if I had had

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Speaker 1: a vote, it would have been Lamar. So you're telling

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Speaker 1: me that, in less than twelve months, you have gone

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Speaker 1: as an organization from having who I think should be

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Speaker 1: the NFL MVP, which would make him a three time

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Speaker 1: MVP for somebody that still has years left in this league.

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Speaker 1: You've gone from MVP status to well, we're gonna trade

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Speaker 1: him and just go draft somebody. Here. Let me just

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Speaker 1: give you a clue right now, if any team in

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Speaker 1: the draft believed that picking a quarterback first overall, if

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Speaker 1: the Raiders believed that Fernando Mendoza had any chance of

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Speaker 1: being Lamar Jackson, they would trade every draft pick they

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Speaker 1: could have for the next five years to get him.

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Speaker 1: Because you don't find core like Lamar Jackson very often.

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Speaker 1: So this this thought from from from the writer coming

672
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Speaker 1: in and trying to establish some path that leads to

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Speaker 1: A split between the Ravens and Lamar to me is

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Speaker 1: as asinine and clickbait is anything I've read in the

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Speaker 1: NFL all season long.

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Speaker 2: It's also made more interesting because I'm looking at his

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Speaker 2: contract notes on spot track. Guess what Lamar Jackson has

678
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Speaker 2: on his deal currently?

679
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Speaker 1: A no trade clause. Correct, a full no trade clause.

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Speaker 2: So buddy, I mean, what are we What are we

681
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Speaker 2: talking about here?

682
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Speaker 1: Again?

683
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Speaker 3: This is as somebody.

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Speaker 2: Who has been an NFL reporter or covering one team

685
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Speaker 2: for I mean, oh my god, this is my tenth season.

686
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Speaker 3: I'm old at this point in time.

687
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Speaker 1: But relax.

688
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Speaker 2: If information, when information comes out, no matter what kind

689
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Speaker 2: of information it is, or if it's information or opinion whatever.

690
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Speaker 2: But if it's opinion with an information tinge, who benefits

691
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Speaker 2: from having this out there? Like who benefits from giving

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Speaker 2: this or or leaking some kind of detail of Lamar

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Speaker 2: Jackson's work, ethic or war habits, or falling asleep in

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Speaker 2: meetings to a reporter, to an opinion columnist or whatever

695
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Speaker 2: the case may be, putting that out there in the world, Like,

696
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Speaker 2: who benefits from this information being out there? Because normally

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Speaker 2: I feel like you can at least take an educated guess,

698
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Speaker 2: But in this particular situation unless I just I can't

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Speaker 2: wrap my head around where what would change the dynamic

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Speaker 2: between one of the most stable organizations in the NFL frankly,

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Speaker 2: one of the most reliable quarterbacks in the NFL, and

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden in a season that is less

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Speaker 2: than Super Bowl expectations, obviously because a lot of people,

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Speaker 2: I mean, they were a very popular super Bowl pick

705
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Speaker 2: this year. All of a sudden, the bottoms just fall out,

706
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Speaker 2: and Lamar Jackson's a bum now and he doesn't work hard,

707
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Speaker 2: and all these different things, everything that he's done to

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Speaker 2: this point doesn't matter. I'm very, very confused by this

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Speaker 2: as a news item if it is in fact news.

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Speaker 1: Which is why it feels like such a hit piece,

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Speaker 1: because you're right. An agent told me years ago that

712
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Speaker 1: really helped me early on in my career. Agent told

713
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Speaker 1: me years ago, if you want to know who leaked

714
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Speaker 1: the story, figure out who benefits from it. Well, I

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Speaker 1: look at this story to your point, Punk, and nobody

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Speaker 1: benefits from it. The Ravens don't benefit from it in

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Speaker 1: any way because it fractures the relationship with the starting quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to do that Lamar doesn't benefit from

719
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Speaker 1: it in any way because it questions his work ethic.

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Speaker 1: If you're another team that's trying to put some sort

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Speaker 1: of a wedge in between them, and that's a weird

722
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Speaker 1: reach to try and make. And these reports, oh he

723
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Speaker 1: would love to play in Miami. It just all of this,

724
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Speaker 1: just this is what we do now to such a fault,

725
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: what we do in every sport. The minute something's not

726
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:50,959
Speaker 1: going wrong, well, they're going to make a huge trade.

727
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Speaker 1: Somebody needs to make a huge, splashy move. It's like

728
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 1: no organizations that are consistently good are consistently good in

729
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Speaker 1: part because they're patient and they understand that some years,

730
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Speaker 1: you know what happens, right, Like, some years it's just

731
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Speaker 1: not there for you and I to think that the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: you maybe Ravens fans and I work with one on

733
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Speaker 1: y'a who Sports Day convinced that Harbor needs to go.

734
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Speaker 1: Harbor needs to go.

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Speaker 9: Oh.

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Speaker 1: I don't agree with that take, and I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. But if that happens, coaches are far

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Speaker 1: easier to replace when you have one of the few

739
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in NFL history to be as good as Lamar

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Speaker 1: is when you have one of the few superstars that

741
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Speaker 1: can actually contend with Mahomes. You don't roll the dice

742
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Speaker 1: on Tua in a trade. You don't suddenly go to

743
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: the draft in a trade. The asinine way that we're

744
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Speaker 1: approaching this is blowing my mind. I want to get

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on what all this means for the future,

746
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: what it means for Harball, and what this means tonight

747
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Speaker 1: for the Packers. We'll break that down next. He's Buck Rising.

748
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Speaker 1: I'm Jason fitzbuck and Fits on Fox Sports Radio. You're

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Speaker 1: I'm Jason fitzbucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio. The Breaking News.

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00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson inactive. Tonight we get the battle of backup quarterbacks,

758
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: which seems to be a theme over the course of

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Speaker 1: the week in the NFL. Yeah, but I mean.

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Speaker 3: The best of football.

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00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is what makes Buck the worst.

762
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 2: Can we be enjoy its bad football?

763
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Speaker 3: Let it watch over you.

764
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Speaker 1: You only like this because you want everybody to have

765
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Speaker 1: to watch football as bad as you watch covering the Titans.

766
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Speaker 1: I would never like I am going to watch the

767
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: Raiders Giants game Sunday, riveted to see what happens, like

768
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Speaker 1: riveted to see what happens in a game that is

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Speaker 1: the most transparent tanking I think we've ever seen in

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Speaker 1: modern NFL history. But I wouldn't wish that on anybody.

771
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 1: I wouldn't wish that on anybody. But you know, at

772
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Speaker 1: this point, you are sitting here a glutton for pun

773
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Speaker 1: like we are going to get Huntley versus Maleik tonight

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00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 1: and you're in on this?

775
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Speaker 3: Come on, Oh yeah, I'm so in on this.

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00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 2: I've never been more in on a football game in

777
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 2: my entire life. I would rather have this than Chiefs

778
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 2: Eagles Super Bowl. I would rather have this than Peek

779
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 2: Brady versus Manning. I would rather have this than any

780
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Speaker 2: of the highest forms of the sport being played, because yes,

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Speaker 2: I want everybody to experience football the way that I

782
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 2: experience football, which is to just low the what you're

783
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 2: watching in front of you for a period of two

784
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 2: and a half to three hours, depending on the situation.

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Speaker 2: So yes, I'm very happy that America gets to watch

786
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Speaker 2: football the way that I do.

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Speaker 1: The hardest part about this is, well, a couple of

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00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: things here. Number one, let's just acknowledge we've gotten so

789
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: many backup quarterbacks. I just want to remind people that

790
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: this is inevitable. This is never going to change, and

791
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 1: this is part of how the NFL is going to

792
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: be wired from now on. Like when the NFL decides

793
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,959
Speaker 1: to add more games, which is again, follow the money.

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00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about what should like. I don't live

795
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Speaker 1: in a world of you know, unicorns, So when everybody

796
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: says they shouldn't add I don't really care what to

797
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: think about it, because it's not gonna change the reality

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00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: that it's going to happen. Money is there to be

799
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,720
Speaker 1: made for everybody by adding games. So in the NFL

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00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: is gonna inevitably add games. The question is just how

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Speaker 1: many games are they going to go to? So when

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00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 1: they go to you know, the inevitable twenty games or

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00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 1: whatever it is, let's just remember it's going to be

804
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: more and more and more important to have two quarterbacks

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00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: on your roster. You're gonna have to have. So there's

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00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of guys that should play their

807
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 1: way out of the league that are just hanging on

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00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: holding clipboards because week sixteen, seventeen, eighteen nineteen are the

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Speaker 1: weeks of backup quarterbacks. And I'm not even talking about tanking.

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Speaker 1: You're talking about a game tonight that two teams need

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00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: and it's looked they would love to have their starting

812
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in this. Unfortunately, they just don't have that option.

813
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: Wear and tearror is what it is. Maybe it's just

814
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: a bad year for quarterbacks, but I think we do

815
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Speaker 1: have to acknowledge Buck that this is the inevitability of

816
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 1: the future. The fel you get late in the season,

817
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: you are going to have so many banged up players,

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Speaker 1: You're going to see more backup quarterbacks. Do you know

819
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: what I just realized?

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Speaker 2: And I'm looking through this, uh just quickly checking to

821
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Speaker 2: make sure that I've got this correctly, but or that

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Speaker 2: I've got this correct I think cam Ward is the

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Speaker 2: only starting quarterback who have played every snap for his

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Speaker 2: team this year. As I'm going through snap counts for

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Speaker 2: all these starting quarterbacks. I mean, we're talking about two

826
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Speaker 2: guys who aren't playing a night in Jordan Love and

827
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Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson. I I think cam Warden is the only

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Speaker 2: person who has started every snap, played every snap for

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Speaker 2: his team at the most important position in sports, which

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Speaker 2: is again, they're they're three and they're three and twelve at.

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Speaker 3: This point in time.

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Speaker 2: For all the good that it's done him, but yeah,

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00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 2: even even guys like Stafford have missed a snap here

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Speaker 2: or there. It's it's it's a really bizarre situation. But

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Speaker 2: I mean this is the norm. It's it's always mattered

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Speaker 2: this way, Fitzy, Right, we had sixties we had like

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Speaker 2: sixty five guys play last year, sixty six guys start

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Speaker 2: games the year before. This has been the theme for

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Speaker 2: quite some time. And yeah, it's only gonna The backup

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00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 2: quarterback has always been important. It's why what if Shanahan

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00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 2: was able to do with mac Jones was so impressive.

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Speaker 1: I think that's why I continue to say that at

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Speaker 1: some point you have to you literally are going to

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Speaker 1: have to start drafting four backup quarterback. Like I think

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Speaker 1: if your favorite team has a fourth or fifth round

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00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,760
Speaker 1: pick available and they can draft quarterback that is limited,

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Speaker 1: shirt limited. But a guy that you can train in

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Speaker 1: your system and you can hold on to there is

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Speaker 1: going to be so much value to this is my guy.

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Speaker 1: He's been in this system for several years. He's going

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Speaker 1: to be comfortable in this system. He's going to be

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Speaker 1: able to do something because my god, just think about

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Speaker 1: what we saw from the Vikings and that three yards

854
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Speaker 1: passing right, I mean, it was just absolutely grotesque to watch.

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00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 1: It was grotesque to watch the Chiefs offense, and that

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00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 1: was somebody that has been on their practice squad for

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Speaker 1: a few years. So I don't know what the answer is,

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Speaker 1: but I know that certainly when we start getting into

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Speaker 1: meaningful games that are giving us Huntley versus Malik instead

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Speaker 1: of Jordan Love versus Lamar Jackson, then everything has gone

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Speaker 1: off the rails. What does all that mean for a

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Speaker 1: Christmas Day that actually turned out to be a huge

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Speaker 1: win for the NFL. We'll explain why next Bucking fits

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 1: You got Charles Barkley out here calling the NFL pigs.

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00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: You got people out here complain and that Christmas Day

867
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: belongs to the NBA. But at the end of the day. Truly,

868
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 1: the people have spoken. The people have spoken loudly, and

869
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: it is clear now that the NFL owns Christmas Day

870
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,879
Speaker 1: just like the NFL owns every single day that they

871
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,919
Speaker 1: want to on the calendar. He's buck rising up, Jason

872
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 1: fitzbucking fits on Fox Sports Radio. Look at it, we're

873
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 1: sitting right now on a Saturday. You know what the

874
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: main topic is NFL right, what we're all focused on

875
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: right now, Like we're gonna see here tonight on a

876
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: game that's exclusively streaming on Peacock. I believe, I believe

877
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,959
Speaker 1: you have to have Peacock to watch tonight NFL game

878
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: between the Ravens and the Packers, a game that will

879
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: now feature, as we told you a few moments ago

880
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,839
Speaker 1: confirmed it will now feature backup quarterbacks on both sides

881
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: of the ball. It's still going to do better numbers

882
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: than the NBA would do if you put it on

883
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: ABC and said, please God watch us. And this isn't

884
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 1: an anti NBA take. This is where you so often

885
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: social media comes and says, well, you guys are just

886
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,399
Speaker 1: an NFL apologists. I don't really care. I'm just ever

887
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: the capitalist I believe at the end of the day.

888
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 1: It's our job to talk about what people care the

889
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: most about, and y'all care the most about the NFL.

890
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:36,879
Speaker 1: The NFL didn't take over Christmas. Y'all took Christmas for

891
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 1: the NFL. And there's a much different way to think

892
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 1: about it.

893
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 3: Buck hmm.

894
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 2: So this onslaught of social media commentary that you're referencing.

895
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: That wouldn't just be the one tweet.

896
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 2: That I saw us get tagged in and that you

897
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 2: were responding to about us being NFL apologists from what

898
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 2: was that Tuesday?

899
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: No, that one was to us. That's a fair If

900
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: you watch any of the social media content towards any

901
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 1: of the TV shows that our friends are on on ESPN,

902
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: and you'll see much of the same conversation after Christmas Day,

903
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,839
Speaker 1: and in fact ESPN themselves, like I heard Perk talking

904
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: about it, Like Perk's out there, you know, talking about

905
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,439
Speaker 1: how you know it's the NFL's day. We got Chuck.

906
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: Chuck's out here calling the NFL pigs. Don't believe me.

907
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: We've got the audio. We'll let the world hear what

908
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley had to say about the NFL on Christmas Day.

909
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 9: The NFL got greed instarted and Christmas game. We used

910
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 9: to have this day to ourself. But you know, Roger

911
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,720
Speaker 9: Goodell and them pigs at the NFL always wanted.

912
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: To hog every day of the week. Now they can't

913
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: play the NBA.

914
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 5: Dude.

915
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 9: I saw those guys yesterday on the ESPN talk about it,

916
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,919
Speaker 9: and they're right, Christmas.

917
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 3: Is an NBA day, not anymore, Chuck.

918
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 2: So that's Charles Barkley referencing the NFL and Roger Goodell

919
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,760
Speaker 2: and the people in the league office as pigs. But again,

920
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 2: we you and I talked about this earlier in the week,

921
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,320
Speaker 2: but that's okay. We will repeat it for the Saturday

922
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 2: audience that always hangs out with us here each and

923
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,359
Speaker 2: every week. It's not the NFL are the greedy ones.

924
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 2: The NFL is the dealer. The audience is the addict.

925
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:12,720
Speaker 3: Okay.

926
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 1: We are out here trying to get.

927
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 2: That sweet, sweet football smack maybe, and so Roger Goodell

928
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 2: and his team full of pushers, they just keep pushing

929
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 2: and pushing and pushing because that's what we want. That's

930
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 2: what we're gonna get is more football, even if the

931
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 2: football is diluted and filled with backups and injury riddled,

932
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 2: and now it's on Fridays and Tuesdays instead of just

933
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 2: Sundays and Mondays and Thursdays. They're sprinkling it all across

934
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,760
Speaker 2: the board here because it's what people want.

935
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 3: Football is America's pastime.

936
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 2: Baseball and basketball and everything else is just trying to

937
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 2: play catchup because they're not even trying to catch up

938
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:56,919
Speaker 2: to the NFL. In reality, baseball and basketball and every

939
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 2: other major professional sport in America is trying to play

940
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:04,439
Speaker 2: ketchup to college football. They can't sniff the NFL. They're

941
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 2: no work close to it. The NFL is competing, as

942
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 2: far as eyeballs, in a completely different division than the

943
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 2: rest of professional sports in this country. So the fact

944
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 2: that we're having this conversation is if there's really even

945
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 2: a conversation to be at, people like football more than

946
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 2: they like anything else across the country.

947
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:23,359
Speaker 3: That is true.

948
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 2: Now you can go to NBA markets and you can say, well,

949
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 2: you know, how much more of a draw are the

950
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 2: We'll just take la right, how much more of the

951
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 2: draw are the Lakers than the Rams or the Chargers

952
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 2: or whatever. It's It's not about butts in seats.

953
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: Necessarily, though that does matter. Too.

954
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 2: It's about where the most amount of people are viewing nationwide,

955
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 2: and perpetually, football is the thing that's going to grab

956
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 2: our attention most, even if it is Lamar or rather

957
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 2: Malik Willis versus who is it?

958
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 3: Tyler Huntley tonight?

959
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley, YESO Puntley tonight? Okay, stinking. I mean think

960
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: about it this though, because there was a bit of

961
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: a beef in Boston between a Boston college show played

962
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 1: by play announcer with the Boston local radio stations talking

963
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: about the fact that Boston Radio made it clear they

964
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: don't talk about college football because nobody in their market cares.

965
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: And we've seen this before, like you and I both

966
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: got our starts and a station in Nashville that was

967
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 1: affiliated with the Nashville Predators, and I remember distinctly, I'm

968
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 1: hosting the morning show at the time of the flagship

969
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: for the Preds, and I remember distinctly going into October

970
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: and we'd be sitting on air doing the morning show

971
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: I was doing at the time, and all of a sudden,

972
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: the Preds had come in and they'd start yelling, you

973
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,760
Speaker 1: guys are talking too much, Titans, like why are you talking?

974
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: So you should talk more about the preds. You're our station.

975
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: I laugh at that. I'm like, nobody cares about the

976
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,399
Speaker 1: third line defensive pairings of the NHL in the middle

977
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: of October, and if you do, you're getting it from

978
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: somewhere else. I think what's funny to me is that

979
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: everybody thinks it's some big narrative or some big sweeping

980
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: you know, conspiracy or all these things. Not Like you

981
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 1: don't have to conspire against any of this. You just

982
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: have to allow consumers to assume what they want to

983
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: consume it. It makes the data pretty clear. In a

984
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:05,720
Speaker 1: city like Boston, they don't talk a lot of college

985
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:10,240
Speaker 1: football locally because their numbers show with the little meters

986
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: Nielsen meters that show people what they listen to, shows

987
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 1: that their audience doesn't really care about it, so then

988
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: you don't talk about it. Like that's just the reality

989
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 1: of where we are now as a society, is that

990
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: I think it's better than ever. Like I genuinely believe

991
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: that getting football on Christmas Day is better than ever.

992
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:31,959
Speaker 1: Why because people are flocking to it so obviously people

993
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: wanted it, Like obviously it's easy to yell at the trees,

994
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: it's easy to walk out in the lawn and scream

995
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: nobody should be open on Christmas Day. Like I love

996
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: every time every time I sit there and I hear

997
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: somebody scream. Somebody listening to this radio station right now

998
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: that has screamed about the fact that there should never

999
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: be a single business open on Christmas Day. It's Unamerican

1000
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 1: to make people work on Christmas. I laugh at that

1001
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: because you're listening to the radio on Christmas, you think

1002
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 1: that isn't people working, Or you're watching TV on Christmas.

1003
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 1: Those people will make millions, not all the people behind

1004
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 1: the scenes you don't ever see. Like at the end

1005
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: of the day, we all want our creature comforts, and

1006
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:09,879
Speaker 1: it's easy to scream about things without ever accepting our

1007
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: own role in all of it. Like if nobody went

1008
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: out to shop and nobody watched TV and nobody listened

1009
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: to the radio, y'all shut everything off and only spend

1010
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,839
Speaker 1: time with their families. Nothing can be open on Christmas Day.

1011
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,280
Speaker 1: There'd be no monetary benefit to it, and as a result,

1012
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:27,879
Speaker 1: only truly necessary places would be open. But people don't

1013
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 1: want to accept that level of personal responsibility, right, so

1014
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: they consume radio, which helps you and I pay our bills,

1015
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 1: so we're happy to work. Right. The whole argument here

1016
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: of NBA versus NFL is no argument because the people

1017
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: have spoken like, you all want to watch football, So

1018
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: NBA heads who cares? Like? Who cares? Just enjoy it

1019
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: to joy?

1020
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:51,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's fair. What did you call it earlier

1021
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 3: this week?

1022
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 2: Don't yuck my yum if you're an NBA fan, just

1023
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 2: watch your basketball and be happy with it and let

1024
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 2: the football people watch football people and watch football rather.

1025
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 2: And there's more football people than our basketball people at

1026
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 2: this point. Do you remember off the top of your head,

1027
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 2: because I do have the numbers in front of me,

1028
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 2: what the two Netflix Christmas Day games last year? So

1029
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 2: that's Chiefs and Steelers and Ravens and Texans. Do you

1030
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 2: have a guestimate at what the two games averaged in

1031
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 2: terms of US viewers last year?

1032
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:24,359
Speaker 1: Twenty four million, I believe, if memory serves me correct.

1033
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,839
Speaker 2: An average was twenty six and a half for the two,

1034
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 2: thirty one point three for the Ravens and the Texans,

1035
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 2: thirty flat for Chiefs and Steelers. Now, those are megabrands

1036
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 2: with star power, and Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson were

1037
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 2: playing in those games and all those different kind of things.

1038
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 2: This year is going to be a little different, obviously,

1039
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 2: so I'd be curious to see if Netflix puts out

1040
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 2: a press release to the effect of last year. And

1041
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,439
Speaker 2: we understand that Prime also had a game this year too,

1042
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 2: so perhaps they'll put out their number and aggregate streaming

1043
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 2: numbers something like that across all platforms versus just you know,

1044
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 2: terrestrial television or.

1045
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:04,320
Speaker 1: Whatever the case may be.

1046
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 2: So I can't imagine that thirty million people on average

1047
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 2: are watching what we watched on Christmas Day, but I

1048
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 2: imagine it's still kicked the holy hell out of the

1049
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,720
Speaker 2: NBA number, like the biggest number for we would assume

1050
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 2: what Spurs thunder would be the biggest the biggest draw

1051
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 2: of the Netflix or extremely the NBA's Christmas Day.

1052
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:27,280
Speaker 1: Maybe Lakers people sort of like the Spurs in the Thunder,

1053
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: but I mean last year. I think that the highest

1054
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: number of Lakers Warriors last year got about eight million

1055
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 1: last year. And by the way, like you say, not

1056
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,359
Speaker 1: as many people are going to watch. Can we all

1057
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: agree for a second that Logan Paul is not a

1058
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: good boxer. I don't think that's a hot take, right,

1059
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: Like Logan Paul not a great boxer. Thirty three million

1060
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 1: people tuned in on Netflix to watch him get his

1061
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: ass kicked. Everybody knew he was going to get his

1062
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 1: as kicked. Everybody know's going to happen. I was actually

1063
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:56,359
Speaker 1: a Paul, but that just shows like you don't even

1064
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 1: remember his name. That's how Yeah, Logan the wrestler, Jake

1065
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 1: the box in my back, Oh my bad, one of

1066
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 1: the Paul brothers. Like thirty three million people tuned in

1067
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: to watch one of the Paul brothers and get his

1068
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 1: ass kicked when everybody knew it was gonna happen. And

1069
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 1: now you could say part of that was he's got

1070
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: to make some fans and people that just couldn't wait

1071
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:18,360
Speaker 1: to watch him get punched in the face. That's fine me.

1072
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: I just think we're going to quickly find out that

1073
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: a Christmas Day Tred didn't you know. There's how many

1074
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:26,359
Speaker 1: people in the world that tune in and they watch

1075
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,880
Speaker 1: Christmas Story for twenty four straight hours on t n

1076
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: T or TBS or whatever network it's on now right,

1077
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: twenty four straight hours of Christmas Story. That's why they

1078
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 1: run it every year because people tune in and watch it.

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Speaker 1: I think We're going to find out that upwards of

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Speaker 1: thirty million people just go to Netflix and watch football

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Speaker 1: on Christmas Day, And like, look, I would be stunned

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Speaker 1: if Snoop Dogg's halftime show doesn't just by itself throttle

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Speaker 1: the NBA. Like that's just true. And it's not like

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Speaker 1: I'm not anti or pro.

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Speaker 3: It was a really good halftime show for what it's worth.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that I would push back on that

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00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:00,839
Speaker 2: much just because it was the light full across the board.

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Speaker 1: It's set the bar. Look, I don't I don't think

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Speaker 1: it has to also Like to your point that I

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00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: made earlier, who cares? To the point that you referenced

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00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:14,839
Speaker 1: that I made earlier? Who cares? Don't yuck the yum?

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00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: Like NBA fans get what you get. Like, as long

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00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: as as long as somebody's watching, why does it matter.

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00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 1: Everybody doesn't have to love your sport. Everybody doesn't have

1096
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:25,320
Speaker 1: to love what you do. Like you can love it

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00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 1: and that's fine.

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Speaker 3: That is a good question. Why do people care about that?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:32,359
Speaker 3: Why is that? Because we do talk about it?

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Speaker 2: I mean, it comes up a lot, right, I mean,

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00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:36,359
Speaker 2: and it's not just because Barkley said the thing, and

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00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 2: so everybody, whether you're aggregating articles on the internet about

1104
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 2: what Charles Barkley said, it's because he used the word pigs, right,

1105
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:45,879
Speaker 2: he said Roger Goodell and then pigs at the NFL.

1106
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 2: That's why I got so much traction at that point

1107
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 2: in time. I just think there's I've never I guess

1108
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 2: I've never quite understood why something like this is. Is

1109
00:51:56,960 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 2: it actually polarizing for fans or do fans? Are they

1110
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:03,800
Speaker 2: operating this way? Like I don't see any great level

1111
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 2: of outrage. And again, I'm not in an NBA market

1112
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 2: here in Nashville, and Nashville Tennessee could give a damn.

1113
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:10,240
Speaker 3: I mean, but you know, Tennessee is a weird state.

1114
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 2: A third of the stillwell, actually the entire state cares

1115
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:15,840
Speaker 2: about the Tennessee Balls. Only Middle Tennessee cares about the Titans.

1116
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 2: And that's hardly ever. And you know, basically it's two

1117
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,320
Speaker 2: thirds of the state against Memphis on a regular basis

1118
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 2: for how much money meant, Like Memphis, Memphis cares.

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00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,240
Speaker 1: I did a week puner of Memphis, and Memphis cares.

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00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: I did a weekly puner in Memphis for almost a decade,

1121
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 1: and Memphis cares dramatically about the fact that people don't

1122
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: pay attention, like it's something I'm asked about all the

1123
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Speaker 1: time on radio there, like their audience cares really and

1124
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: to me, it's a disconnect. Like look the number of

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Speaker 1: times even now when I tell people I do radio.

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00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: You know how many people are like, I don't listen

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00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:51,479
Speaker 1: to sports talk radio. Okay, cool like that that doesn't

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Speaker 1: really bother me one way or the other. Like for

1129
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:56,359
Speaker 1: years of my life, I had determined like I had

1130
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: to qualify the band that I played, in the genre

1131
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 1: that we played and what even when we had the

1132
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Speaker 1: number one song in the world, I still had to

1133
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 1: be like, no, we're not Katie Perry's band. It's just

1134
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 1: a stupid name for a band. It's a man like

1135
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: I had to go in and explain this and people

1136
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: will be like, I'm sorry, I don't listen to Coachry music. Okay,

1137
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: I don't really care like you do you. I'll do

1138
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 1: me like I get paid to do what I do

1139
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 1: and there's an audience for it, and if it's not you,

1140
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:19,319
Speaker 1: I don't really care.

1141
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 2: I you know, I mean, you and I have known

1142
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 2: each other for a long time at this point. Uh,

1143
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 2: And I've always been perpetually just unimpressed by things. I

1144
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 2: don't even as somebody who is perpetually unimpressed by things,

1145
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 2: I don't feel. I don't feel like I'm somebody who

1146
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 2: feels the need that just burning urge to be like, Oh, yeah,

1147
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 2: I don't.

1148
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 1: I don't.

1149
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 2: I live in Nashville, Tennessee, but I don't like country music,

1150
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 2: and I'm you know, I'm a I'm an NFL reporter,

1151
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:51,879
Speaker 2: but I'm actually a way bigger basketball fan, like all

1152
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:53,919
Speaker 2: these different things like, I don't. I don't know what

1153
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 2: it is about human nature that makes us feel the need.

1154
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 2: Who tell Like, does it make you feel better about yourself?

1155
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: Do you do?

1156
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 2: You feel like you're putting yourself in a more exclusive

1157
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 2: category if you.

1158
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 3: Say, oh, I'm I'm I'm a sports hipster.

1159
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 2: I like, I only watch highlight as opposed to the

1160
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 2: NFL or something like that. I couldn't possibly partake in

1161
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 2: the slop that is Tyler Huntley versus Malik Willis.

1162
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 3: I'll go watch my highlight.

1163
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 2: Games on I don't know where where even would that

1164
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 2: be broadcasting the zone or something like that, something obscure

1165
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 2: just to kind of have some level of pretentiousness about

1166
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 2: you that you think is going to I don't know,

1167
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:30,879
Speaker 2: impress people.

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00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:34,320
Speaker 3: I've never understood that, but it is a very people behavior.

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00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:36,720
Speaker 1: I don't I think people don't want to be judged.

1170
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 1: They're worried that you're thinking something, so they're trying to

1171
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:42,439
Speaker 1: get ahead of it. I think most of like what's

1172
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:45,280
Speaker 1: weird about the world now is that so many people

1173
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 1: are worried about the perception and feel the need to

1174
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 1: get ahead of what you might be thinking to correct

1175
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 1: the record on the on the income that that's where

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Speaker 1: your mind was going.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. But at the end of the day,

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00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 1: like the real answer is, as long as peop people

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Speaker 1: are still watching the NBA, who cares? And as long

1181
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: as people are still watching football on Christmas Day?

1182
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 3: Who cares?

1183
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:09,880
Speaker 1: And as long as everybody's selling that ad space ESPN, ABC,

1184
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Speaker 1: Netflix are all gonna win. And as long as they

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Speaker 1: The air of the Pop Tart Bowl happened today, one

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00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: of the more elite of all of the Bowl game experiences.

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Speaker 1: I don't really I'm gonna be honest, I don't know

1236
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 1: who won. I don't care who won. What I do

1237
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:23,440
Speaker 1: know is that we saw pop Tart's mascots ripping their

1238
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: packages open and just exposing themselves as they ran around

1239
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: on the field. It was a It was a delight.

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00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: I think I may have painted that picture a little

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00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 1: bit more rated r than it needed to be. By anyway,

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00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 1: where are we buck rising on the on the bowl

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00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: game phenomenons in a year like this? Because the college

1244
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 1: football playoff time he's a little weird. It feels like

1245
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: the bowl season is just a little disjointed. Were you

1246
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: all in on pop tarting?

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00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:49,760
Speaker 3: Uh?

1248
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,959
Speaker 2: Yes, but I don't care that BYU won twenty five

1249
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 2: to twenty one over Georgia Techs and the pop Tart Bowl.

1250
00:57:56,800 --> 00:58:00,920
Speaker 2: I'm there for the pop Tart extravaganza. They sack the

1251
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:03,919
Speaker 2: pop Tart mascots to the toaster gods at the end

1252
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 2: of the pop Tart Bowl that come out and the

1253
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 2: winning team gets to eat the mascot, the carcass of

1254
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 2: the mascot, the pop Tart mascot. It's a by the way,

1255
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 2: the marketing people at pop Tarts deserve a huge raise

1256
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 2: for whoever came up with all the different elements of

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00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 2: the Pop Tart Bowl that they've got going on. I

1258
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 2: like Bawl season, but again I understand it's not for everybody.

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00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 2: For example, I'm in Nashville and the Music City Bowl

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00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:34,200
Speaker 2: is taking place this week. We'll have Tennessee. Tennessee is

1261
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Speaker 2: in the Music City bol so it'll be a huge draw.

1262
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Speaker 2: Illinois is playing Tennessee in the Music City Bowl. There's

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Speaker 2: opt outs all over the place. Anybody that you care

1264
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 2: about in the NFL Draft or anything like that is

1265
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 2: going to sit out or have already declared, or whatever

1266
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 2: the case may be. And that's typically how the ancillary

1267
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 2: bowl games that are not the college Football Playoff go.

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00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:57,440
Speaker 2: And that's fine because it's still more football at the

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00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 2: end of the day, and some of it will be competitive,

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Speaker 2: so it will be very much non.

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Speaker 3: Competitive speaking or non competitive. Today, you see what happened

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Speaker 3: to Clemson.

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Speaker 2: Well where where where did Caid Club next season go

1274
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 2: twenty two to ten to a bad Penn State team

1275
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Speaker 2: in the Bad Boy Mower's Pinstripe Bowl, which is for

1276
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Speaker 2: some reason played at Yankee Stadium, which always delights me.

1277
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Speaker 2: The amount of ball games that are being played at

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Speaker 2: places like Fenway and Yankee Stadium.

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Speaker 1: And that was you get the Pinstripe swag, like they

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Speaker 1: sell different swag to it. So I like that, Like

1281
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Speaker 1: I'm in on the Pinstripe swag. It's it's cool. Look

1282
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different, right patch.

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Speaker 3: Some eleaitest elitist rolls.

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Speaker 2: Bowl Indiana merch that I have ordered, even though I

1285
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Speaker 2: have never gave a damn until basically the last I mean,

1286
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Speaker 2: I would argue just this season about Indiana football road

1287
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Speaker 2: to that game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you are in Indiana grad, they are in

1289
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Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl. You bought the merch. Why do you

1290
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Speaker 1: not fly out there and go to the game?

1291
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Speaker 2: Because I have to cover Titans and Jags in Week eighteen?

1292
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? Okay, well, I mean just

1293
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 2: forsake my day job to go go Gallivant the first time,

1294
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 2: just for sake, for sup for it wouldn't be the

1295
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:10,240
Speaker 2: first time you just skipped work forsook. I don't know,

1296
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:12,600
Speaker 2: Like I'm just just, you know, just decided you weren't

1297
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 2: going to show up. You know sometimes when you're just

1298
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:16,360
Speaker 2: like I'm just gonna go to Miami because I have

1299
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:18,040
Speaker 2: a few days off, Like you want to tell me

1300
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 2: that you couldn't bye week. That's not too fair. That's

1301
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 2: my vacation.

1302
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:25,440
Speaker 1: When you spent all this time talking about you know

1303
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 1: how you don't wait in lines. Why don't you just

1304
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 1: pj yourself out to the Rose Bowl and then back

1305
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 1: for the game. Oh, he's giving me the look like

1306
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:34,000
Speaker 1: he's thinking about it. Now, he's giving me the look

1307
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:36,840
Speaker 1: like he's actually contemplating the PJ. You know a couple

1308
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:39,840
Speaker 1: of people with a jet. I know you do. I'm

1309
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,440
Speaker 1: just saying, that's like, that's the best friend to have.

1310
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 1: Is the best friend with the jet? A best friend

1311
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 1: with jets and Miles. They got to have Miles left

1312
01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:47,880
Speaker 1: on it at the at the at the end of

1313
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 1: the year to really help you. Look So would you

1314
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 1: are you waiting? Are you waiting like you? Is it

1315
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 1: going to be an Indiana National championship appearance for you?

1316
01:00:57,560 --> 01:00:59,320
Speaker 1: Or are you just gonna watch no matter what happens

1317
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 1: for Indiana you watching from home?

1318
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 3: No, I'm not.

1319
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:04,560
Speaker 2: I'm I don't want to go to all that. That

1320
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 2: sounds that sounds like a lot. If I'm being completely

1321
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:10,680
Speaker 2: honest with you, For if it was Indiana basketball and

1322
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 2: a national championship game, I would go.

1323
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 3: But Indiana foo.

1324
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, every time I'm asked this question, I

1325
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:20,160
Speaker 2: feel bad because it sounds like I'm talking down about

1326
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:23,400
Speaker 2: Indiana football. I just I went there, and I never

1327
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:26,200
Speaker 2: went to a game. Nobody did. You didn't go to

1328
01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 2: Indiana football games. It's not a It's the only time

1329
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 2: I ever saw the inside of Memorial Stadium was when

1330
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:34,960
Speaker 2: I graduated, and that's because Assembly Hall, the basketball arena,

1331
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 2: was under construction. So we were like one of the

1332
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:39,120
Speaker 2: first classes to not graduate at Assembly Hall.

1333
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 3: And that's not a slight in Indiana football.

1334
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:43,840
Speaker 2: It's a tribute to what Kurt Signetti and Scott Nelson,

1335
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 2: the athletic director, and all the different players for Nana

1336
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:49,400
Speaker 2: Mendoza and before Curtis Rourke and all these different things

1337
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:53,120
Speaker 2: have done to turn that into a legit national championship contender.

1338
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 2: But Fitzy, if I'm gonna, if I'm gonna bandwagon my

1339
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:59,360
Speaker 2: way through Indiana football, I just assumed do it at home.

1340
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 3: It just doesn't mean anything to me, you know what

1341
01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:01,480
Speaker 3: I'm saying.

1342
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 1: I mean, you could use your media access to get

1343
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:09,440
Speaker 1: probably some sort of a media pass to the Rose Bowl.

1344
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 1: You could use your friends to get a jet. You

1345
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 1: go out there. I mean, this is it's less about

1346
01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 1: the football game, but more about Buck Rising living like

1347
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:19,960
Speaker 1: a baller, like just putting on your social media. How

1348
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:21,840
Speaker 1: I go to the Rose Bowl as you get on

1349
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 1: a jet, go there, stand on the side of the field,

1350
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 1: get on your jet and come back like I did.

1351
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 1: This is this is this is I'm sorry, I'm the

1352
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:32,160
Speaker 1: one giving you this level of brilliance. Although without looking

1353
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 1: at it, I think we're scheduled to work, so you

1354
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 1: never mind, you can't do this now you have obligations.

1355
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:37,440
Speaker 1: Oh well, then now I.

1356
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 3: Will go to Pasadena. You're right, Oh god, I'll go.

1357
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:43,120
Speaker 2: I'll go ahead and scamper on out the California real quick.

1358
01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 1: I just abhor, abhor you. That is the that is

1359
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:49,880
Speaker 1: the he is Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz. I need

1360
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:51,760
Speaker 1: a moment to collect myself, Martin, get us caught up

1361
01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 1: on what's going on right now on the scoreboard.

1362
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 8: Well, this Gary part Buck is if you did come

1363
01:02:56,880 --> 01:02:58,640
Speaker 8: to pass the dinner for the game, you could probably

1364
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 8: catch the first half and make it back here for

1365
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 8: the start of your show.

1366
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:04,080
Speaker 1: See in Los Angeles.

1367
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 2: Just saying out one time, Martin, why why don't you

1368
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 2: just give me the update.

1369
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:09,720
Speaker 1: What I say it? I want to say it.

1370
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 3: I didn't say it.

1371
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:14,160
Speaker 8: It's out here, we're out here, We're I'm looking at

1372
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:17,040
Speaker 8: it right now, seats Wideop, but says Buck right there.

1373
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:20,680
Speaker 8: All right, let's get to the update to the updates,

1374
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 8: as Buck has requested. Two thirty two lefts in the

1375
01:03:23,080 --> 01:03:24,920
Speaker 8: fourth quarter of the Houston Texas with the ball and

1376
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:29,560
Speaker 8: the lead twenty to sixteen. As Uh, it's been a

1377
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:32,200
Speaker 8: back and forth game thus far. Texans jumped out to

1378
01:03:32,240 --> 01:03:35,479
Speaker 8: an early lead and the Chargers have been chipping away

1379
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:37,840
Speaker 8: at it ever since, but unable to actually take that

1380
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:40,360
Speaker 8: as Texas now to the ball in their own forty

1381
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:43,240
Speaker 8: nine yard line with again two twenty left in the

1382
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:47,520
Speaker 8: fourth quarter. There chieh with two touchdown passes and two interceptions.

1383
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:50,480
Speaker 8: Woody marks just rush for nearly a first down. He's

1384
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:54,320
Speaker 8: got sixty nine yards on the ground eighteen carries in

1385
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 8: college football, I know Jason Fitz said he didn't care.

1386
01:03:56,720 --> 01:03:59,640
Speaker 8: But the Pop Tar Bowl was won by BYU twenty

1387
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:02,480
Speaker 8: five to twenty one, fifteen on answer to in the

1388
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:06,760
Speaker 8: fourth quarter for BYU. In that matchup, as bear Bachmeyer was.

1389
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:07,560
Speaker 1: Named the MVP.

1390
01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 8: I don't know if you get the special like pop

1391
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,280
Speaker 8: Tart for that, but you know he was the MVP

1392
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:14,960
Speaker 8: East Carolina over pittsb Tart.

1393
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:16,880
Speaker 2: That face barely fits in that helmet as it is

1394
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 2: relaxed over that.

1395
01:04:18,080 --> 01:04:20,560
Speaker 1: That said bear is an earned nickname.

1396
01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 8: Twenty three to seventeen East Carolina over Pittsburgh at the

1397
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 8: Military Bowl and Penn stating Clemson. You guys just touched

1398
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:31,680
Speaker 8: on it at Yankee Stadium and the Bad Boy Moores

1399
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 8: Pinchtrap Bowl. He had a twenty two to ten win

1400
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:37,800
Speaker 8: for Penn State, both of these teams finishing seven and

1401
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:40,240
Speaker 8: six on the year, Penn State and Clemson not how

1402
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 8: they drew it up. NFL Tonight Ravens and Packers no

1403
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:46,640
Speaker 8: starting quarterbacks involved. Malik Willis is going to get to

1404
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:49,440
Speaker 8: start for Jordan Love who has a concussion. Tyler Huntley

1405
01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:53,080
Speaker 8: will start for Lamar Jackson, who's out with a back injury.

1406
01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:55,360
Speaker 1: The Packers will also miss guard as.

1407
01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:57,280
Speaker 8: Zach Tom and the Ravens need to win today to

1408
01:04:57,360 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 8: keep those playoff hopes alives back to you.

1409
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,360
Speaker 1: Fun fact he's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz When I

1410
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:07,680
Speaker 1: worked at ESPN. You're not allowed to mock the name

1411
01:05:07,800 --> 01:05:10,520
Speaker 1: of bowl games like it's specifically something you're told on there.

1412
01:05:10,600 --> 01:05:12,360
Speaker 1: You can't too because they spend millions of dollars in

1413
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:15,080
Speaker 1: advertising money, so you can't do funny things around it.

1414
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:17,000
Speaker 1: You can't make jokes about it, you can't mock it.

1415
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:21,600
Speaker 1: Let's exercise that freedom here a little bit like the

1416
01:05:21,600 --> 01:05:25,960
Speaker 1: the Bad Boy Motors whatever, mower's pins, trip ball, it's

1417
01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:28,439
Speaker 1: a stupid name. What stupid like? And then out there

1418
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:30,120
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to mow like with their

1419
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 1: fake mowers when there's like ten inches of snow hit

1420
01:05:32,800 --> 01:05:34,280
Speaker 1: New York last night. I don't know, I don't know.

1421
01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:37,600
Speaker 1: It's just some of these bull names get me. I

1422
01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:40,120
Speaker 1: did just see buck that the Pop Tart Bowl had

1423
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:44,160
Speaker 1: Pop Tart ice cream sandwiches at halftime for everybody? Is

1424
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:46,040
Speaker 1: that a move? Like you went on a pop Tart

1425
01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:47,000
Speaker 1: ice cream sandwich?

1426
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 3: How much weed have I had that day?

1427
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:52,520
Speaker 1: Well? I mean presumably you're working because you're in the

1428
01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 1: media area, so none, none, ish not enough to get

1429
01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:01,840
Speaker 1: you fired? How about that? That's there's qualifying on the scale,

1430
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:03,760
Speaker 1: Like there's a there's none and then there's not enough

1431
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:04,760
Speaker 1: to get you fired, and then.

1432
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:07,560
Speaker 2: The football team I cover, I'm medicating at that point,

1433
01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 2: it's it's prescription. But uh, if you had to come

1434
01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 2: up with a sponsor for a ball game, like the

1435
01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:19,080
Speaker 2: best possible sponsor that would delight you, that would that

1436
01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 2: you would enjoy the marketing around, Like if you could

1437
01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:24,680
Speaker 2: come up with one company that you would like to

1438
01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:26,800
Speaker 2: sponsor a ball game, and then you would get to

1439
01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:30,720
Speaker 2: design the marketing, the promotion all the different things around

1440
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:33,960
Speaker 2: said ballgame, like the Pop Tart Bowl. Is there something

1441
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:35,840
Speaker 2: that you have in your mind that you when you

1442
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:38,720
Speaker 2: get when you get the Snoop Dog Bowl or the

1443
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 2: the Gronk Bowl that he had last year, like the

1444
01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:44,280
Speaker 2: Jason Fitz Bowl. Who would sponsor the Jason Fitz Bowl

1445
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:50,320
Speaker 2: and what would be the accompanying the accompanying festivities around it.

1446
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:53,560
Speaker 1: It's a Skittles Bowl because Skittles and Mike and Ike

1447
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:57,640
Speaker 1: were really my my my, but I went, I went Skittles.

1448
01:06:57,640 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 1: It's a Skittles bowl. Yeah, and then taste the rainbow.

1449
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:03,960
Speaker 1: The entire field is basically lacquered Skittles, like it's it's

1450
01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 1: just all painted. They paint the entire thing to look

1451
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:09,280
Speaker 1: like Skittles, and then there are massive creepy Skittles that

1452
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:11,360
Speaker 1: are running around on the side, like you know those

1453
01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 1: those suits that people can wear that are like the

1454
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 1: round suits of the balls that they could just bounce

1455
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:17,080
Speaker 1: off of each other. Like I've never done that.

1456
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:17,840
Speaker 3: We should do.

1457
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:18,760
Speaker 1: That, we should do that.

1458
01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:22,920
Speaker 6: Oh my god, this this is can the winner like

1459
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 6: jump into a big thing of skittles too?

1460
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:28,560
Speaker 1: Oh my god, yes, a bath of skittles. I'm all like.

1461
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:31,200
Speaker 1: And then like the dunk, the Gatoray dunk is just

1462
01:07:31,280 --> 01:07:33,959
Speaker 1: all skittles being dunked on a coach. I mean, hurt,

1463
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 1: Oh okay, tough enough a little bit, I am in.

1464
01:07:37,040 --> 01:07:39,600
Speaker 1: And then yeah, yeah, the the bouncy balls that that

1465
01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:42,240
Speaker 1: you're you're in that you're running after each other. They're

1466
01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:44,800
Speaker 1: painted to look like different skittles. Oh my god. Yeah,

1467
01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 1: like the Skittles bowl tastes the rainbow. I'm in on

1468
01:07:47,360 --> 01:07:49,240
Speaker 1: this a whole way. I'm all in.

1469
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:52,280
Speaker 2: I will participate in the Skittles bawl. I will I

1470
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:54,560
Speaker 2: will put on the bubble outfit and we can we

1471
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:56,320
Speaker 2: can have some fun with that. Whenever it is that

1472
01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:58,960
Speaker 2: you get to sponsor your own ball game, like the

1473
01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:03,200
Speaker 2: Snoop Dogg Arizon featuring Miami of Ohio and Fresno State.

1474
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:05,800
Speaker 1: I mean if the boss is here, want to get

1475
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:07,640
Speaker 1: on it at the Fox Sports Radio Bowl and then

1476
01:08:07,680 --> 01:08:09,160
Speaker 1: you and I will be the skittles and then we

1477
01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:11,320
Speaker 1: can do the run. Or we could just do this

1478
01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:13,880
Speaker 1: at the Rose Bowl that we're now we're now going to.

1479
01:08:14,120 --> 01:08:16,479
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm manifesting that you and I rose bull

1480
01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:17,840
Speaker 1: boom running on the side, and.

1481
01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:19,160
Speaker 3: You want to go to the Rose Bawl, so you

1482
01:08:19,240 --> 01:08:19,840
Speaker 3: want me to go with?

1483
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:22,840
Speaker 1: You have no interest in until Martin pointed out that

1484
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:24,479
Speaker 1: we could do the show in LA and then it's like, Hey,

1485
01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:26,120
Speaker 1: that's the way we can hang out with everybody, do

1486
01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:28,320
Speaker 1: a little team bonding, have a little bit of a

1487
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:29,080
Speaker 1: fun time.

1488
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:29,400
Speaker 5: You know.

1489
01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:31,120
Speaker 1: I'm just, I'm just I'm a man of the people,

1490
01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:33,599
Speaker 1: that's all. I'm just, you know, people for the people.

1491
01:08:34,320 --> 01:08:36,800
Speaker 1: Where are you on the college football playoff schedule? Though?

1492
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:39,840
Speaker 1: Because in all, seriously, is I feel like there was

1493
01:08:39,840 --> 01:08:42,439
Speaker 1: such a long gap after the selection to get to

1494
01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 1: the first round and then it just feels like we've

1495
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:46,640
Speaker 1: had forever. I know, it hasn't been that long, it

1496
01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:48,720
Speaker 1: feels like it's that long to get to the next round.

1497
01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:52,200
Speaker 1: There's no continuity to momentum to adrenaline on all this.

1498
01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:54,840
Speaker 1: It just it just feels so lost to me in

1499
01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:55,880
Speaker 1: the landscape right now.

1500
01:08:56,280 --> 01:09:01,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a it's a much more what's the

1501
01:09:01,479 --> 01:09:02,439
Speaker 3: word I'm looking for.

1502
01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:06,120
Speaker 2: I care vastly more about the college football playoff schedule

1503
01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:08,160
Speaker 2: than I do, for example, about the MLS playoffs. You

1504
01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:10,280
Speaker 2: pay any attention to Major League soccer, I only do

1505
01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:13,400
Speaker 2: because we have Nashville CE here in town. In nashville'

1506
01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:17,120
Speaker 2: c's first round playoff matchup was with Lionel Messi and

1507
01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:19,920
Speaker 2: Inner Miami. Then it was a three game series and

1508
01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:21,720
Speaker 2: they were out. I mean, they've made it to a

1509
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:24,080
Speaker 2: game three, but still Inner Miami was still playing in

1510
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:27,080
Speaker 2: the playoffs. Like not that long ago, the MLS playoffs

1511
01:09:27,120 --> 01:09:29,640
Speaker 2: took forever to get through. I mean the hockey playoffs

1512
01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:32,160
Speaker 2: feel like that as well, where it's basically I mean,

1513
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:34,080
Speaker 2: you and I did a preed's playoff run a couple

1514
01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:36,920
Speaker 2: of years ago in Nashville where they ultimately lost to

1515
01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 2: the Penguins and six in the Stanley Cup. It's a

1516
01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:44,920
Speaker 2: two month long playoff, but it doesn't feel like that right,

1517
01:09:45,040 --> 01:09:48,080
Speaker 2: Like it's two months. It takes up basically that much time,

1518
01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:51,160
Speaker 2: but there is something to keep you engaged. Even if

1519
01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:53,360
Speaker 2: a series ends in a sweep or something like that,

1520
01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:54,559
Speaker 2: like you still feel like.

1521
01:09:54,439 --> 01:09:56,439
Speaker 3: You're in it the whole way through.

1522
01:09:56,560 --> 01:09:59,280
Speaker 2: I feel like we go so long between the first

1523
01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:02,280
Speaker 2: round of the college football Playoff and the actual playoff

1524
01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:05,160
Speaker 2: games that matter, because FITZI, I don't feel like we've

1525
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:07,639
Speaker 2: had the college football the first round of college football playoff.

1526
01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:10,800
Speaker 2: Like we watched the Miami A and M game and

1527
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:14,160
Speaker 2: that was whatever, and it ended up being a game

1528
01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:16,040
Speaker 2: that Miami was able to advance in and it's a

1529
01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:18,200
Speaker 2: significant thing in program history and all that. But I

1530
01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:19,840
Speaker 2: won a good football game and the rest of it

1531
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:23,200
Speaker 2: was just slop right. It's Oregon and JMU. It's all

1532
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:24,120
Speaker 2: missing Tulane.

1533
01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:24,320
Speaker 5: It does.

1534
01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:28,559
Speaker 2: It feels more like the the isleta New Mexico Bowl

1535
01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:31,880
Speaker 2: than it does the college football Playoff. So for me,

1536
01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:34,880
Speaker 2: the college football Playoff doesn't actually start until next weekend

1537
01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:36,760
Speaker 2: because of the way that it's structured right now with

1538
01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:40,200
Speaker 2: the Group of five participation and all these different things.

1539
01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:42,719
Speaker 2: So maybe that's just a me thing. I'm sure JMU

1540
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:45,120
Speaker 2: fans don't appreciate that. I'm sure tou Lane fans don't

1541
01:10:45,120 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 2: appreciate that because it was an accomplishment for them to

1542
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:49,519
Speaker 2: make it into the field.

1543
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:52,760
Speaker 3: But still those are not I do not consider those

1544
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:53,679
Speaker 3: to be even though they.

1545
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:56,200
Speaker 2: Are by title college football playoff games, because they're not

1546
01:10:56,360 --> 01:10:58,400
Speaker 2: really contest until we get to the second round.

1547
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:03,400
Speaker 1: I just need the opportunity to be sort of swept

1548
01:11:03,479 --> 01:11:06,639
Speaker 1: up in emotion throughout a playoff run. And that's every

1549
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:08,960
Speaker 1: time somebody says, oh, they can't add more teams, they

1550
01:11:08,960 --> 01:11:11,680
Speaker 1: can't add more playoff games, they can't do anything to

1551
01:11:11,680 --> 01:11:13,640
Speaker 1: the schedule, I laugh because I just look at the

1552
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:17,840
Speaker 1: inefficiencies of the schedule right now, Like ultimately, when you

1553
01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:19,960
Speaker 1: have a playoff, when you have a twelve team playoff,

1554
01:11:19,960 --> 01:11:22,160
Speaker 1: and I believe eventually it'll be a sixteen team at least,

1555
01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:24,920
Speaker 1: but when you have a twelve team playoff, the number

1556
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:27,519
Speaker 1: one thing that matters to your sport is now that

1557
01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:31,240
Speaker 1: twelve team playoff, Like that's everything. So you move everything,

1558
01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:34,519
Speaker 1: you move mountains to make sure that your twelve team

1559
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:39,560
Speaker 1: playoff is absolutely the moment that casuals die hards. Everybody,

1560
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:42,880
Speaker 1: they can't get enough of your product. That's what I need.

1561
01:11:42,960 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 1: And so to me, that's why I've said to you before,

1562
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:47,040
Speaker 1: you know I'd move the Army Navy game to the

1563
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:49,040
Speaker 1: beginning of the season, so we can celebrate America and

1564
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:51,160
Speaker 1: the pageantry at the beginning of college football. I get

1565
01:11:51,200 --> 01:11:54,400
Speaker 1: rid of conference championship games because frankly, they don't really

1566
01:11:54,439 --> 01:11:56,400
Speaker 1: matter at this point, and I would get straight to

1567
01:11:56,400 --> 01:11:58,519
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And once I get straight to the playoffs,

1568
01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:00,600
Speaker 1: just like the NFL gives us the wild card and

1569
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:03,439
Speaker 1: then the divisional round, then the conference championship. Like that's

1570
01:12:03,439 --> 01:12:06,160
Speaker 1: what I'm doing. I'm giving you week in, week out.

1571
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:08,720
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I cannot wait for you know, in

1572
01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:11,200
Speaker 1: this case, probably because of the way the schedule works,

1573
01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:13,760
Speaker 1: they're gonna have Friday Saturday games, right, like, so make

1574
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:16,880
Speaker 1: it enticing. Like it just it hit me when you

1575
01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:18,519
Speaker 1: and I found out that we're going to be working

1576
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:21,160
Speaker 1: together on New Year's Day on Fox Sports Radio. We'll

1577
01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:23,320
Speaker 1: be on in the afternoon on New Year's Day. And

1578
01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:25,920
Speaker 1: part of the reason we're excited to do it is

1579
01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:28,759
Speaker 1: it's during playoff games. And I just sat there, I thought,

1580
01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:32,040
Speaker 1: my god, we have to wait all the way until

1581
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:34,600
Speaker 1: New Year's even New Year's Day, to just get to

1582
01:12:34,720 --> 01:12:38,400
Speaker 1: the second round of this thing. Like it's just so

1583
01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:41,479
Speaker 1: disjointed and it lacks momentum because of.

1584
01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:45,639
Speaker 2: It, and maybe this will be something that's corrected when

1585
01:12:45,680 --> 01:12:48,519
Speaker 2: we eventually expand to sixteen. I know that that is

1586
01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:52,000
Speaker 2: a deadline that's coming up in twenty twenty six for

1587
01:12:52,040 --> 01:12:54,200
Speaker 2: them to make a decision about when they will expand

1588
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:56,120
Speaker 2: the playoff field at this point in time, so maybe

1589
01:12:56,120 --> 01:12:59,160
Speaker 2: they'll fill in the gaps right now in the current

1590
01:12:59,200 --> 01:13:02,320
Speaker 2: schedule with additional playoff teams, which you know you could

1591
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:04,559
Speaker 2: argue with further water down the field unless you make

1592
01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:06,360
Speaker 2: it the best sixteen as opposed to a group of five.

1593
01:13:06,400 --> 01:13:08,760
Speaker 2: And the whole thing that we're currently going through right now.

1594
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:11,040
Speaker 2: There's a couple of different iterations of this that I'm

1595
01:13:11,040 --> 01:13:14,080
Speaker 2: curious to see, But what we can't agree on at

1596
01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 2: this point in time is that it's it's it is

1597
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:20,000
Speaker 2: disjointed to the point where I just feel like it

1598
01:13:20,080 --> 01:13:25,080
Speaker 2: loses a little bit of juice. Right the Alabama comeback

1599
01:13:25,240 --> 01:13:28,240
Speaker 2: win in the first round of the College Football Playoff

1600
01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:31,120
Speaker 2: against Oklahoma is a big deal, and then all of

1601
01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:34,360
Speaker 2: a sudden, it's Indiana and Indiana we want Bama. And

1602
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:38,840
Speaker 2: Kurt Signetti has a background at Alabama, and Kaylin de

1603
01:13:38,920 --> 01:13:41,519
Speaker 2: Boor was a former coordinator at Indiana, and like all

1604
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:44,080
Speaker 2: these different storylines that you have in the immediacy of

1605
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:47,120
Speaker 2: it that lead the dialogue the following day or the

1606
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:50,400
Speaker 2: following week, but then you just have this this, for

1607
01:13:50,479 --> 01:13:52,360
Speaker 2: lack of a better term, dead period. I know these

1608
01:13:52,360 --> 01:13:54,960
Speaker 2: teams are practicing and all that, and there are press

1609
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:57,760
Speaker 2: conferences given, but whatever, like it just it loses. We

1610
01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:01,760
Speaker 2: talk about momentum sports like it loses audience momentum when

1611
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:05,360
Speaker 2: you have this much time between the meaningful matchups and

1612
01:14:05,400 --> 01:14:08,000
Speaker 2: when you water it down initially with matchups that aren't

1613
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:08,839
Speaker 2: in fact meaningful.

1614
01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:12,880
Speaker 1: It's all of this needs to be examined because if

1615
01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:14,320
Speaker 1: you're going to do these things, you got to get

1616
01:14:14,320 --> 01:14:16,120
Speaker 1: it right. And I don't think it's a hot take

1617
01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:18,599
Speaker 1: to say that so far the college football Playoff hasn't

1618
01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:20,840
Speaker 1: been able to settle itself because we all know they

1619
01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:22,720
Speaker 1: haven't gotten it right. I just hope that when they

1620
01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:24,479
Speaker 1: do get it right, the schedule is part of it.

1621
01:14:24,520 --> 01:14:26,559
Speaker 1: We're gonna get it right for you. Next we start

1622
01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:28,680
Speaker 1: for the single greatest game show in the history of

1623
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:31,280
Speaker 1: sports talk radio. Would you rather coming up next? Bucking

1624
01:14:31,320 --> 01:14:32,479
Speaker 1: Fits on Fox Sports Radio.

1625
01:14:35,960 --> 01:14:40,000
Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio, Mary Mack asked

1626
01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:42,080
Speaker 2: me the other day, what my earworm is the song

1627
01:14:42,120 --> 01:14:45,639
Speaker 2: that gets stuck in my head, like four Days by

1628
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:46,120
Speaker 2: the Way.

1629
01:14:46,439 --> 01:14:48,880
Speaker 1: Making love out of nothing at all Their Supply. She's like,

1630
01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:51,880
Speaker 1: I don't know it. Let me tell you something. When

1631
01:14:51,880 --> 01:14:53,960
Speaker 1: this song comes on, I don't care if it's the

1632
01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:56,000
Speaker 1: middle of winter, if I'm stuck at a red light,

1633
01:14:56,320 --> 01:14:59,000
Speaker 1: I am rolling every window down in my car, and

1634
01:14:59,080 --> 01:15:01,000
Speaker 1: I am turning the vall him up as loud as

1635
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:03,920
Speaker 1: possible because I want the world to know I am

1636
01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:07,679
Speaker 1: listening to air Supply making love on anohing at all. God,

1637
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:10,400
Speaker 1: this is a banger, such a good song. Oh my God,

1638
01:15:10,640 --> 01:15:13,440
Speaker 1: change my life. Oh, I'm telling.

1639
01:15:13,200 --> 01:15:17,920
Speaker 3: You changed her life? Fits look at us us?

1640
01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:19,759
Speaker 1: The hell did you have to do with it? Nothing?

1641
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:22,120
Speaker 1: He's buck rising out, Jason Pitch. You didn't do anything.

1642
01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:26,200
Speaker 1: You're just sitting here us and us. That's like, yeah,

1643
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:28,280
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. That's like a dad that did nothing

1644
01:15:28,320 --> 01:15:30,120
Speaker 1: at Christmas. That is suddenly like, oh, we got your

1645
01:15:30,120 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 1: great presence. You didn't do a thing, Dad, That's where

1646
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:36,400
Speaker 1: you are, right. How does it feel to your mom?

1647
01:15:38,920 --> 01:15:42,400
Speaker 1: I walked into that. That's my fault. Oh, I could

1648
01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:43,800
Speaker 1: listen to the song all day, but would make a

1649
01:15:43,920 --> 01:15:52,240
Speaker 1: sandwich keep it moving. Whoa wow? Wow? Can we please

1650
01:15:52,280 --> 01:15:54,280
Speaker 1: cut that off and send that to Buck's mom, who is,

1651
01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:57,599
Speaker 1: by the way, a wonderful, intelligent, brilliant human being.

1652
01:15:57,600 --> 01:16:01,720
Speaker 2: That is just a totally excommunicate me if she ever

1653
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:03,200
Speaker 2: heard me say that to a woman.

1654
01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:06,760
Speaker 1: Which is the antithesis of Buck in every possible way,

1655
01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:11,200
Speaker 1: actually accomplished. All right, so let's let's get this.

1656
01:16:11,400 --> 01:16:14,280
Speaker 2: She can't get the lines at the Underground Margarita bars

1657
01:16:14,280 --> 01:16:15,200
Speaker 2: on Broadway.

1658
01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:19,160
Speaker 1: Though, my god, can we just do this? It's side

1659
01:16:19,160 --> 01:16:20,960
Speaker 1: of the greatest game show in the history of supports

1660
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:27,439
Speaker 1: Ark Radio. Buck, it is time for woo you rather?

1661
01:16:28,479 --> 01:16:29,639
Speaker 3: I don't think that was very good?

1662
01:16:29,720 --> 01:16:34,479
Speaker 1: Sounds bad? Okay, he slows down. Well, I'm trying to

1663
01:16:34,479 --> 01:16:37,639
Speaker 1: match you. I can't. Yeah, I don't know. You guys

1664
01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:40,520
Speaker 1: have mastered. You've mastered getting the second.

1665
01:16:40,240 --> 01:16:42,639
Speaker 6: Two words right, But that first one is really what's

1666
01:16:42,920 --> 01:16:43,960
Speaker 6: the it's the entry?

1667
01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:46,679
Speaker 1: The entry? I did no judge, Judy produced this show.

1668
01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:48,320
Speaker 1: What are we doing over here? Like? You're just happy?

1669
01:16:48,920 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 1: On time? This time he barely shows up and all

1670
01:16:52,320 --> 01:16:54,360
Speaker 1: of a sudden, he's ian did you pull making love

1671
01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:57,080
Speaker 1: out of nothing? No? You did not. You did not.

1672
01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:00,880
Speaker 3: It's all falling apart the last five minutes of this show.

1673
01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:05,040
Speaker 1: I don't even get the judge Judy reference. But because

1674
01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:09,360
Speaker 1: you're being judgmental and that made you judge duty, explain it.

1675
01:17:09,520 --> 01:17:13,280
Speaker 6: Okay, let's spin the wheels.

1676
01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:16,479
Speaker 1: Spin the wheel or it. Papaul wants to wheel spin? Please,

1677
01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:20,799
Speaker 1: I'm the old need a drink? Okay?

1678
01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:23,400
Speaker 6: Would you rather only be able to speak to people

1679
01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:26,320
Speaker 6: like you're mocking them in their own voice? Or always

1680
01:17:26,360 --> 01:17:29,320
Speaker 6: have to point out a person's biggest physical flaw before

1681
01:17:29,360 --> 01:17:30,559
Speaker 6: being allowed to speak to them.

1682
01:17:30,760 --> 01:17:36,440
Speaker 2: Oh, two of my favorite things.

1683
01:17:37,360 --> 01:17:39,959
Speaker 3: How do I pick? I do all of these things already?

1684
01:17:41,080 --> 01:17:44,120
Speaker 2: Probably their physical flaw, like their most their most glaring

1685
01:17:44,479 --> 01:17:45,200
Speaker 2: physical flaw.

1686
01:17:45,439 --> 01:17:46,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, your nose is way too big.

1687
01:17:46,840 --> 01:17:53,280
Speaker 7: Anyway, I would I would absolutely, uh personally assassinate a

1688
01:17:53,360 --> 01:17:58,440
Speaker 7: person from a physical standpoint before engaging in conversation.

1689
01:17:58,600 --> 01:18:01,080
Speaker 2: I probably am prone to do that anyway. You probably

1690
01:18:01,120 --> 01:18:03,120
Speaker 2: have to ask somebody how I do with first impressions?

1691
01:18:03,160 --> 01:18:03,960
Speaker 2: I imagine not good?

1692
01:18:04,160 --> 01:18:06,479
Speaker 1: WHOA you? Probably we have to somebody who I do

1693
01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:09,240
Speaker 1: it first impressions? Probably not good? Sea, I just want

1694
01:18:09,280 --> 01:18:12,360
Speaker 1: to mock them in their voice. That's because I could

1695
01:18:12,360 --> 01:18:15,040
Speaker 1: play I can play it totally oblivious. That's his voices.

1696
01:18:15,520 --> 01:18:17,120
Speaker 1: The way you just made me sound like, goofy, get

1697
01:18:17,120 --> 01:18:19,840
Speaker 1: out of here. I mean that is one hundred percent.

1698
01:18:19,960 --> 01:18:21,320
Speaker 1: You know what I wanted this one. I want to

1699
01:18:21,360 --> 01:18:23,120
Speaker 1: mock the voice and then be like, what, I'm not

1700
01:18:23,160 --> 01:18:25,240
Speaker 1: doing anything at all. It wasn't me.

1701
01:18:25,520 --> 01:18:26,559
Speaker 3: I didn't do anything.

1702
01:18:27,200 --> 01:18:30,960
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, yeah, all right? What roll roll the wheels,

1703
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:32,000
Speaker 1: spin the wheel, roll the dice.

1704
01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:33,599
Speaker 3: What are we doing landing the plane?

1705
01:18:33,760 --> 01:18:34,040
Speaker 9: All right?

1706
01:18:34,040 --> 01:18:36,599
Speaker 6: Would you rather every joke you ever tell be met

1707
01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:40,400
Speaker 6: with silent and literal cricket noises or be unanimously hated

1708
01:18:40,439 --> 01:18:42,240
Speaker 6: by the entire continent of Europe.

1709
01:18:42,720 --> 01:18:46,000
Speaker 1: I'm pretty I'm pretty used to the former of those things.

1710
01:18:46,080 --> 01:18:48,880
Speaker 1: So like, uh, you know, I tell a joke, it

1711
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:51,559
Speaker 1: doesn't land. I'm good with that, Like, I'm I will

1712
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:53,400
Speaker 1: embrace that level of awkward words.

1713
01:18:53,400 --> 01:18:56,360
Speaker 6: But the literal cricket noises like that adds awkward. That's

1714
01:18:56,439 --> 01:18:58,040
Speaker 6: a whole nother layer of awkwardness.

1715
01:18:58,320 --> 01:19:00,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. And then yeah, I'm gonna turn

1716
01:19:00,880 --> 01:19:02,920
Speaker 1: around and be like, am I right? Like I'm gonna

1717
01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:04,720
Speaker 1: make it into a catchphrase. I'm all into that, Like,

1718
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:06,120
Speaker 1: you know, so I don't want to be hated by

1719
01:19:06,120 --> 01:19:08,040
Speaker 1: the whole, by all of Europe. So yeah, it's a

1720
01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:10,240
Speaker 1: lot of people. I mean, that is a lot of people.

1721
01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:13,760
Speaker 3: Fuck, Europe's overrated. I'll take the hate.

1722
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:20,640
Speaker 1: Good. I don't even know how to recover from that.

1723
01:19:20,680 --> 01:19:21,560
Speaker 1: Spin the wheel.

1724
01:19:24,720 --> 01:19:27,840
Speaker 3: Except for Spain, Spain's lover all.

1725
01:19:27,840 --> 01:19:30,679
Speaker 6: Right, would you rather look weak and actually be strong

1726
01:19:30,840 --> 01:19:32,639
Speaker 6: or look strong and actually be weak?

1727
01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:35,240
Speaker 1: Oh the ladder.

1728
01:19:35,280 --> 01:19:36,479
Speaker 3: It's about my vanity at that.

1729
01:19:36,439 --> 01:19:40,479
Speaker 1: Point, yeah, yeah, yeah, Like I'm not really actually looking

1730
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:42,960
Speaker 1: to have to do any manual labor in life, Like

1731
01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:45,479
Speaker 1: that's just not really my strength. So I don't want

1732
01:19:45,479 --> 01:19:47,479
Speaker 1: to be strong. I just want to look strong, Like

1733
01:19:47,720 --> 01:19:50,680
Speaker 1: I don't get four to eleven. I am five nine

1734
01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:52,439
Speaker 1: and a half, thank you on five nine in a quarter,

1735
01:19:52,439 --> 01:19:54,960
Speaker 1: and now I'm shrinking as I get older. I'm like

1736
01:19:55,520 --> 01:19:59,000
Speaker 1: a little over five night. Like, look, my my search

1737
01:19:59,040 --> 01:20:01,360
Speaker 1: for ABS has everything to do with vanity and nothing

1738
01:20:01,360 --> 01:20:04,160
Speaker 1: to do with actually being stronger. So one hundred percent,

1739
01:20:04,200 --> 01:20:06,559
Speaker 1: I just want to look strong and then actually not

1740
01:20:06,640 --> 01:20:08,280
Speaker 1: be strong, because then I can be like I'm sorry,

1741
01:20:08,320 --> 01:20:09,720
Speaker 1: I kind of actually did of that, and I don't

1742
01:20:09,720 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 1: have to do any extra work along the way. I

1743
01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:14,280
Speaker 1: feel that was the most buck rising answer in history.

1744
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:16,720
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to avoid work. Ian, you did a

1745
01:20:16,720 --> 01:20:19,080
Speaker 1: great job today. I'm not you know what, Ian, you

1746
01:20:19,120 --> 01:20:22,880
Speaker 1: were great. Harry, you were a spectacular fuck you were here.

1747
01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:25,240
Speaker 1: We'll be back with you more of this week. Thanks

1748
01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:28,479
Speaker 1: for hanging out with bucket fits. I hate you.