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Speaker 1: We come in here every Saturday and we always have

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Speaker 1: a lot of things to talk about, but rarely do

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Speaker 1: we have a day with this much important action. You know,

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Speaker 1: we have two NFL games today, all teams are going

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Speaker 1: to be heading into the postseason, three college football playoff games.

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Speaker 1: It really doesn't get any better than this.

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Speaker 2: And you didn't even mention my Chargers kicking ass and

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Speaker 2: taking names. I don't even know how we're gonna fit

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Speaker 2: that in, but you are right, like, there's so much

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Speaker 2: important stuff going on right before our eyes.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, you mentioned the Chargers with impressive come

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Speaker 1: for behind win against I dare say my Denver Broncos.

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Speaker 1: The good news for the Broncos and the Chargers. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna see both those teams in the postseason. Barring some

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Speaker 1: unforeseen catastrophe, both those teams are gonna move on to

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Speaker 1: the postseason. All right. Just to update to right now,

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Speaker 1: we're at the half and the Ravens after a last

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Speaker 1: second field goal by the Steelers, lead Pittsburgh by a

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Speaker 1: score of seventeen and ten. Of course, the Ravens right

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Speaker 1: now in a wild car position, Steelers leading their division.

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Speaker 1: Then of course, earlier today, once again, the Chiefs. Every

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Speaker 1: week they go from the worst eleven to one team,

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Speaker 1: twelve to one team, thirteen and one team. Now they're

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Speaker 1: the worst fourteen to one team.

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Speaker 2: And I think they care.

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Speaker 1: They really don't care. I mean, the devastating injury to

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Speaker 1: and you know, it was gruesome. He's going to spend

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Speaker 1: misses the extra point and was like, Okay, they're done,

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Speaker 1: because at that point it would have tied the game.

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Speaker 2: Such a rough moment because we see injuries, you know,

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Speaker 2: happen frequently, but they don't tend to happen after a

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Speaker 2: touchdown catch. Yeah, and so how do you go from

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Speaker 2: celebrating an exciting moment to realizing that I almost wish

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Speaker 2: I didn't throw that touch?

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Speaker 3: CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stroud literally is in tears.

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Speaker 2: I know, awful offense.

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Speaker 1: I mean he is in tears on the sidelines. I

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Speaker 1: knew right then. Once again, somehow the Chiefs catch a

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Speaker 1: break and they come up now as the worst fourteen

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Speaker 1: to one team in the history of the NFL. But

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Speaker 1: at some point you have to give him credit, right

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Speaker 1: they find ways to win. Meanwhile, so again, Ravens leave

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Speaker 1: the Steelers seventeen to ten. The college playoff game right now,

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Speaker 1: and this is a trend that we are seeing so

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Speaker 1: far in these college football playoffs. Last night, don't be

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Speaker 1: fulled by the final score. It was a Notre Dame

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Speaker 1: surprised here, Monci. The home field obviously means a lot

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Speaker 1: which is hopefully a competitive game coming up with Tennessee

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Speaker 1: the next round to me that is really going to

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Speaker 1: be interesting because when you think about it, we're not

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Speaker 1: talking home field. These will be at neutral sites. And

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Speaker 1: the teams that are sitting there waiting Oregon, Georgia, Boise

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Speaker 1: State in Arizona State, they will been off three weeks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like last week or two weeks ago talking about

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Speaker 2: my eyes. The dates you're telling me, PennState and Boise

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Speaker 1: First, right, it's not next Saturday. They're playing New Year's

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Speaker 2: Why are we doing that? And then we have a

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Speaker 1: Well, the NFL is gonna They're gonna schedule their games

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, I'm not blaming the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Yar, We're gonna see Saturday. Yeah, We're gonna have plenty

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Speaker 1: the NFL doesn't care about that. I remember for years

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Speaker 1: they're just blowing the NBA out on Christmas Day right now.

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Speaker 1: So you know again, I'm I'm a lot of people

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Speaker 1: will say, okay, well, you know, did SMU really belong?

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Speaker 1: They were not panalizing teams for losing their conference championship game,

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Speaker 1: Penn State was a sixth seed. You know, so if

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Even with the twelve though, it's just do you

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Speaker 2: have the great teams, the good teams, and then the

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Speaker 2: the twelve right now, I agree, do not extend it.

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Speaker 1: It almost seems like twelve was too much at this point.

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Speaker 2: Wait, yes, it seems like it was too much.

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Speaker 1: It really depends on that last game coming up. And again,

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Speaker 1: take on a stumbling Ohio State. Say this about that game.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, on Christmas Day.

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Speaker 1: The way they lost that game to Michigan, if they

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Speaker 1: this day, I think though, we will have some very

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Speaker 1: interesting matchups in the quarterfinals. I do want to make

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Speaker 1: that my pick in the Heisman, as I cast my ballot,

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Speaker 1: You hear about Pro Football Focus Ashton genty's Pro Football

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Speaker 1: not a knock on Travis Hunter to me. It's really

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Speaker 1: certainly had a very unique year playing both ways and

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Speaker 1: everything else, you might ask why Didntder Sanders get more votes?

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Speaker 1: He barely showed up on any ballots at all despite

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Speaker 1: having a phenomenal year quarterback in the Colorado team. But

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Speaker 1: this was about Dion. This was really about the hype

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Speaker 1: It was actually the closest vote in fifteen years, so

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Speaker 1: I was happy to see that. But yeah, this second

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Speaker 1: I had panics last year over Jayden Daniels. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I fully support my pick for Ashton Genty.

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Speaker 2: I don't have a pick unlike you maybe one day,

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Speaker 2: but I also would have voted for Ashton Genty. Again,

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Speaker 2: no knock on Travis Hunter because what he was doing

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Speaker 2: agree with you that maybe the hype the deon Sanders Colorado,

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Speaker 2: he was the sexier pick, right, He was the sexier

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Speaker 2: Almost ninety eight percent of the snaps is. Every time

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Speaker 2: I heard with Ashton Genty, people were like, well, we're

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Speaker 2: We haven't seen it in a long time, but we'll

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Speaker 2: see it again. And I I one hundred percent would

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Speaker 2: have voted for Ashton Genty. And we talked about how

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people at the end really

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Speaker 1: he plays in the Mountain West. Right, Well, that's interesting

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Speaker 1: because Boise States the number three seed in the playoff.

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Speaker 1: They're set at ahead of well, that's right, the Big

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Speaker 1: an Arizona State team that was three and nine the

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Speaker 1: this year because they weren't?

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Speaker 2: They weren't.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't that way at all. When you have

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Speaker 1: I think that tells you about the overall strength of

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Speaker 1: the Big Twelve. It was a down year. I mean

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Speaker 1: Iowa State who was in the Big Twelve championship game?

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Speaker 1: They hadn't. It was nineteen twenty something, the last name

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Speaker 1: they won a conference championship. It was a week year

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Speaker 1: for the Big Twelve and the Mountain West. Did you

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Speaker 1: see UNLV the other day against cal Yep. That's a

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Speaker 1: good team. Yeah, that's a really good team. So we

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Speaker 1: got a lot of college football we're going to get

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Speaker 1: to you today. Also, we're going to.

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Speaker 2: Have breaking news here, according to our producer.

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Speaker 4: Patrick, breaking news from Fox four.

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Speaker 1: Guys.

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Speaker 5: We've been waiting a couple hours for confirmation on this,

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Speaker 5: but it has been officially reported now seeing it from

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Speaker 5: Jeff Passon and a few other sources that multiple sources

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Speaker 5: in now reporting that baseball great Ricky Henderson is now

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Speaker 5: is has died at the age of sixty five. Great speed,

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Speaker 5: the King of Steel, the Man of Steel has passed

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Speaker 5: the age of sixty five.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm going to have much more Ricky Henderson,

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Speaker 1: because I got to know Ricky Henderson is his time

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to spoil Monzie's fun on what happened

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Speaker 6: The Giants are decimated by injury on defense. This is

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Speaker 1: Right now the Rams once again Sean McVay showing the

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Speaker 6: They do, Steve, because you mentioned the Bills game. They

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Speaker 1: a great week of Merry Christmas to you and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you coming up next Saturday.

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Speaker 6: So good, thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's Adam Kaplan, our NFL insider. All right, let's find

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Speaker 1: out what is trending right now, what's going on here house? Well,

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Speaker 1: you musical chairs.

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Speaker 5: Around just you got to wear many hats in this business.

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Speaker 5: You know that, Steve, you have to jump around quite

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Speaker 5: a bit. Keep everything busy. Put me and coach. That's

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Speaker 5: been the you know for thirty five years. You know,

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Speaker 5: put me in coach, five tool player, yeah, both ways,

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Speaker 5: iron man, things of that nature.

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Speaker 1: That's what you gotta do. It's gotta do very busy,

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Speaker 1: Hugh ysay in football time. We're going to try to

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Speaker 1: catch you up on all of that. Right now.

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Speaker 5: There the Baltimore Ravens ahead of the Pittsburgh Steelers seventeen

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Speaker 5: to ten. However, the Steelers have just entered the red zone.

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Speaker 5: Looking to drive. Some news for them though, is that

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Speaker 5: Joey Porter Junior has now been ruled out for the

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Speaker 5: rest of the game with a calf injury, their cornerback.

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Speaker 5: So that'll be something to keep an eye on going forward.

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Speaker 5: It's the four minutes left in the third quarter for

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Speaker 5: Texas against Clemson thirty one to ten. This game's kind

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Speaker 5: of been out of reach for Clemson all day long.

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Speaker 1: Here.

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Speaker 5: Tank Dell was injured in after a touchdown pass earlier

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Speaker 5: for the Houston Texans. He was going to remain overnight

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Speaker 5: in the University of Kansas City Medical Center for a

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Speaker 5: significant knee injury. However, in that game, Chiefs twenty seven

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Speaker 5: Houston Texans nineteen, Chiefs improved to fourteen and one, and

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Speaker 5: there it is touchdown for the Pittsburgh Steelers extra point penning.

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Speaker 1: And this is going to.

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Speaker 5: Be a brand new ball game. We mentioned earlier, I

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Speaker 5: believe we do. We are only less than two minutes

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Speaker 5: now away from Montana State punching their ticket to the

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Speaker 5: FCS playoffs thirty one seventeen over South Dakota. Right now

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Speaker 5: they will go on to play North Dakota State, who

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Speaker 5: earlier beat South Dakota State twenty eight to twenty one.

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Speaker 5: And Farris State Division two has earned its third national

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Speaker 5: title Division two in four years, beating up Valdosta State

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Speaker 5: final score in that forty nine to fourteen. But outside

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Speaker 5: of football, the big story that just broke at the

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Speaker 5: top of this about fifteen minutes ago, we did get

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Speaker 5: confirmation that Hall of Fame Hall of Famer leadoff hitter

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Speaker 5: Ricky Henderson has passed at the age of sixty five.

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Speaker 5: He was the leader of stolen bases in Major League

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Speaker 5: Baseball at oney four hundred and six, had over three

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Speaker 5: hundred three thousand hits, two hundred and two hundred and

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Speaker 5: ninety five runs in his career. He passed the age

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Speaker 5: of sixty five and his birthday would have been on Christmas.

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Speaker 5: So very sad time for a passing of a legend

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Speaker 5: of a man, a very colorful man everyone loved, who

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Speaker 5: would talk about himself in third person quite a bit.

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Speaker 5: So I know you have plenty of memories of him, Steve.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure we'll be talking about that very soon. So

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Speaker 5: you know what, I'm just gonna hand it right back

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Speaker 5: to you. All right, well, Chris, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Once again. This is Fox Football Saturday, Steve Harby, Monzi

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Speaker 1: Blanios with you were live from the tai Iraq dot

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Speaker 1: com studios. So I was telling Monsey off air about

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Speaker 1: Ricky Henderson, who really he is like a category onto himself.

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Speaker 1: There's no one that you can really compare in baseball

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Speaker 1: history to Ricky Henderson. He was the greatest, most prolific

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Speaker 1: leadoff hitter in the game, most leadoff home runs, he

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Speaker 1: had over three thousand hits, holds the major league record

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Speaker 1: most run scored, and obviously his stolen base record is

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Speaker 1: never going to be broken. I mean, one thousand and

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Speaker 1: four six stolen bases. No one else even has a thousand,

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Speaker 1: and that's how many had. How about twenty five years

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Speaker 1: in the major leagues and his career on base percentage

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Speaker 1: was over four hundred for twenty five years.

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Speaker 2: Pretty incredible.

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Speaker 1: The last team he played for was your beloved Dodgers

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Speaker 1: back in two thousand and three. But I got to

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Speaker 1: know him a little bit. He had a couple of

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Speaker 1: runs with the San Diego Padres, and Chris mentioned about

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Speaker 1: him talking in third person. Occasionally you'll hear somebody, usually

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Speaker 1: a celebrity, suddenly talking third person. The difference between Ricky

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Speaker 1: and anybody else that I ever knew in terms of

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Speaker 1: talking in third person is that he always talked in

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Speaker 1: third person. Let me give you an example. By the way,

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Speaker 1: he was one of the hardest workers I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: This was a guy in two thousand and one, he

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Speaker 1: came back to the Podras. He was forty two years old.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was still trying to continue his major

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Speaker 1: league baseball career. This guy would show up two hours

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Speaker 1: before every game in the batting.

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Speaker 2: Cage, still Mamba mentality.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like, I mean he was driven, he was cut.

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Speaker 1: I mean this guy was he was unbelievable, but again

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Speaker 1: always talking in third person. So well, flash forward two

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Speaker 1: thousand and nine. He was elected to the Baseball Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame on the first ballot, and I was at

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Speaker 1: Disneyland with my kids. So we're at Disneyland and I

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Speaker 1: don't know if we were on Pirates of the Caribbean.

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Speaker 1: It was a slower ride, I remember that, and no,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what it was. It was the Indiana Jones, right,

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Speaker 1: And as we sat down the ride and sat in

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Speaker 1: our seat, I realized that sitting directly in front of

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Speaker 1: me is Ricky Henderson. What So, Ricky Henderson is sitting

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Speaker 1: in front of me on the ride with one of

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Speaker 1: his kids, and he had just gotten elected to the

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. In fact, it was this summer, and

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Speaker 1: of course in the summer of two thousand and nine

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Speaker 1: he had his induction speech. So I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: no more than maybe two weeks after his Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame induction at Cooperstown. So I'm sitting there with I

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Speaker 1: think was Drake, my oldest was, and he probably was

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Speaker 1: about twelve or thirteen. He did not really no baseball,

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Speaker 1: but I'm like, that's like Ricky Henerson. So we ended

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Speaker 1: up finishing the ride, and as we're getting off the ride,

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Speaker 1: you know, I catch up with Ricky, you know, and

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Speaker 1: he didn't really remember. He sort of remembered me and

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Speaker 1: I really you know that time. But they had been

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Speaker 1: a number of years, right, But I congratulated him on

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Speaker 1: making the Hall of Fame. I go, it must have

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Speaker 1: been a lot lot of fun for you and your family, goes,

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Speaker 1: Ricky had a great day. And I almost fell over

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Speaker 1: because I'm like, yes, he is still consistently talking in

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Speaker 1: third person. He was a phenomenal baseball player. I mean ridiculous,

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Speaker 1: how good a baseball player Ricky Anderson was.

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Speaker 2: I really would like to know if anyone asked him,

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Speaker 2: why do you refer to yourself in the third person?

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Speaker 2: You know, that's a difficult thing to do.

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Speaker 1: Well, how do you ask somebody like that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I just because that's not normal. No, not,

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Speaker 2: you have to re wire your brain in order to

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Speaker 2: think like that. So I just would be curious, like,

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Speaker 2: when did you start doing this?

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Speaker 1: Well, apparently he was doing his whole career right, So,

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Speaker 1: but the whole time that he had two runs in

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Speaker 1: San Diego when I was in San Diego, and he

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Speaker 1: never changed. I mean, he was that way all the time.

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Speaker 1: That's I but when I actually asked him, it must

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Speaker 1: have been a lot of fun for you and your

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Speaker 1: family and Cooper Stanny goes. Ricky had a great day month.

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Speaker 2: He has a lot of questions. He has a lot

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Speaker 2: of questions.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I know you did. That's what you do. You

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Speaker 1: talking third person. Nobody liked Ricky Henderson, but I mean

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Speaker 1: it was fun. He was great to be around, and

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Speaker 1: the guy was just an absolute stud baseball player. Reggie

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Speaker 1: Jackson said, I don't get it. Why is he not

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Speaker 1: talked about ten best players of all time? I'm with him.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I honestly, he's so unique. His numbers really

576
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Speaker 1: don't resemble that of any other player in the history

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Speaker 1: of baseball. He had three thousand hits and over two

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Speaker 1: thousand walks.

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Speaker 2: Ye know, that's ridiculous. That's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's over five thousand times. No wonder he

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Speaker 1: had a career on base percentage over over four hundred.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, that sounds like you added a zero or something.

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Speaker 1: His war career war was one hundred and eleven. No,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this guy was unbelievable. Very sad. Obviously would

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Speaker 1: have celebrated his sixty six birthday coming up here on

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Speaker 1: Christmas Day. I'm sure details of his passing will I'm

588
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Speaker 1: down the line, but this was if you if you

589
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Speaker 1: never saw Ricky Henderson play, if you never heard of

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Speaker 1: Ricky Henderson, do your research, because this guy was one

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Speaker 1: of the greatest baseball players of all time.

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Speaker 2: Norah, it's all. It's kind of serendipitous that the Oakland

593
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Speaker 2: A's are leaving, yes, and then this happened because you know,

594
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Speaker 2: Brie and I were able to go to a game

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Speaker 2: in September to you know, see the Oakland Coliseum for

596
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Speaker 2: the last time. So it's kind of a little bit

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Speaker 2: serendipitous that it's happening in the same.

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Speaker 1: Year it is. Uh. He held the he holds the

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Speaker 1: record again. No one's ever going to steal one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty bases in a season.

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Speaker 2: No, No, He's been with the bigger bases.

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Speaker 1: He had three years over one hundred steals.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy. Three, that's crazy.

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Speaker 1: He was just unbelievable. He was just fun, fun, fun,

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Speaker 1: and he had power. I mean, he could do everything

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Speaker 1: on the baseball field. And I think if you haven't

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Speaker 1: heard my rant on Ricky Henderson. Now you're get any

608
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Speaker 1: sense I loved Ricky. He was just well, you know

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Speaker 1: how it is, mance around a ton of baseball players

610
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Speaker 1: over the years. Everyone's got their own little personality. But

611
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Speaker 1: every once in a while, somebody sort of stands out.

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Speaker 1: It's like he just he's different. Yeah, Yeah, that was Ricky,

613
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Speaker 1: as Ricky would say, Ricky, Ricky, Ricky do good.

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Speaker 2: May Ricky be resting in peace.

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Speaker 1: May Ricky be resting in peace? All right? Talking about

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Speaker 1: that great Ricky Henderson. Coming up on the other side, though,

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Speaker 1: We're going to get right back to what's happening in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. We were looking at the Steelers had just

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Speaker 1: tied this game of the Ravens, and now the Ravens

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Speaker 1: have re taken the leave. We also had more on

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Speaker 1: this college football playoff. What's next after what has been

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Speaker 1: so far a bit of a letdown in these matchups

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Speaker 1: that we've seen so far in the college football Playoff.

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Speaker 1: This is Fox Football Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvin MONTSI Belindy Here, Fox Football Saturday. We're coming

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Speaker 1: live from the tai Iraq dot Com studios. All right,

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Speaker 1: so we have this big game going on right now,

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Speaker 1: AFC North Rivals and this is a tough division. Ravens

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Speaker 1: right now leading the Steelers twenty four to seventeen. Lamar

634
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Speaker 1: Jackson another fabulous day, adding to his possible MVP resume.

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Speaker 1: Fourteen to twenty one hundred and fifty eight yards, three touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: no picks. Derek Henry's had a solid day sixteen carries

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Speaker 1: for eighty nine yards. But on the flip side, Montcie

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson continues to play well. Seventeen to twenty four

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Speaker 1: two hundred one yards, two touchdowns. What just happened there?

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Speaker 2: I just almost look like a fumble from the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: But no, no, oh no, yeah, well they're moving the ball,

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Speaker 1: but they're facing a fourth and eight right now. We're

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Speaker 1: coming toward the end of the third quarter. Difference in

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Speaker 1: this game really has been the ground game. Naji Harris

645
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Speaker 1: just eight carries for thirty nine yards, So the Ravens

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Speaker 1: with advantage there, but these are both solid teams and

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, look, I was one of those that really

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Speaker 1: felt like Russell Wilson's best days were behind him. However,

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Speaker 1: when you look at the numbers he put up in

650
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Speaker 1: Denver last year, they were more than respectable. It's just

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Speaker 1: that Sean Payton just didn't buy into him. It was

652
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Speaker 1: not the quarterback he wanted. They made the change, obviously

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Speaker 1: with the rookie bow Nixon's worked out obviously well for

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Speaker 1: the Broncos this year. But Russell Wilson, remember, he was

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Speaker 1: hurt at the beginning of the year. Justin Fields was

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Speaker 1: in a quarterback, he wasn't playing great, and then finally

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Speaker 1: they decided, all right, it's time to give Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: a look. And it's been more than a look, like

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Speaker 1: he is playing really well, good enough again with a

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Speaker 1: team with a solid running game normally obviously one of

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Speaker 1: the better defense in the league. Where Again, when you

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Speaker 1: look at the AFC, Monsei, they're the Chiefs, They're gonna

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Speaker 1: have home field advantage. You're gonna have to go through

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Speaker 1: Kansas City if you want to get to the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: But you look at the Bills, you look at the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: you look at this Dealers. I mean, there's there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of teams that you feel like.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that they could.

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Speaker 1: Make un easily knock out the Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: Yes, totally. I mean, I do believe that the Chiefs

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Speaker 2: have a secret playbook when it comes to the postseason.

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Speaker 2: So I think that, you know, they just elevate themselves.

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Speaker 2: But I agree there's several teams that it's like, you

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Speaker 2: could make a run, you could beat the Chiefs. I

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Speaker 2: think the Bills are more of the team that maybe

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Speaker 2: you don't worry about than the Chiefs because all season

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Speaker 2: we've been talking about unless again the Chiefs are just

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Speaker 2: messing with us and just going through the motions to

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Speaker 2: get to the playoffs and then they bring out the

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Speaker 2: real playbook. But it is it is a tight race

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Speaker 2: in the AFC these two teams. It's speaking about Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 2: That first touchdown he threw, he looked like vintage Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 1: He had passes throughout this game that game light on

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Speaker 1: the money, he juked a couple.

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Speaker 2: Of players, got it in the end zone and I

686
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Speaker 2: was like, oh, Katy Russell. Yeah, it really seems like

687
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Speaker 2: he was a very good fit with Pittsburgh. And again

688
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Speaker 2: give it up to Mike tom Lynn for benching Justin Fields.

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Speaker 2: Because so many people, including me, were like, really, you're

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Speaker 2: in a bench him now, when you're winning, when you're getting,

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Speaker 2: you're tying some wins together, you're putting in Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 1: Boy, was I wrong?

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Speaker 2: Several of all of us were wrong. Give it up

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Speaker 2: to Mike Tomlin for making that move.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's go back to the Chiefs or a moment here.

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Speaker 1: The talk all week that Carson Wentz was going to

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Speaker 1: play quarterback today. I mean right, I mean Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: has a high ankle sprain. High ankle sprains are not

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Speaker 1: easy to deal with. And their first touchdown was a

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Speaker 1: running touchdown by Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and not two three yards. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 2: like fifteen yards.

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Speaker 1: Ten yard touchdown run. It's like, what happened? This guy

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Speaker 1: wasn't he was supposed to play?

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Look, the frustrating thing for the Bills was that loss

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Speaker 1: to the Rams because their last three games they played

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Speaker 1: the Patriots twice and the Jets. All right, so they're

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Speaker 1: gonna win out right, and they're gonna be sitting there

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Speaker 1: at fourteen and three, and obviously they have the tie

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Speaker 1: break having beaten the Chiefs, but the Chiefs aren't going

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Speaker 1: to lose two games.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think so either.

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Speaker 1: Yea, they would have to lose both of their last

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Speaker 1: two games, and that's just not going to happen. So

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to go into Kansas City and they're

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Speaker 1: going to have to figure out a way to win.

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Speaker 1: But remember Kansas City hosting all these AFC Championship games.

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Speaker 1: The first one they hosted was against the Patriots in

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and they lost, and then three years later

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Speaker 1: they hosted the Bengals and lost. So it's not like

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Speaker 1: they're completely unbeatable at home because they've twice lost AFC

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Speaker 1: Championship games at home. And if you think about every

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Speaker 1: three years, twenty eighteen, twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Oh twenty out, it is don't put that out.

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Speaker 1: There, Chiefs going down. I still believe the Bills are

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Speaker 1: the team to be.

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Speaker 2: I just like it seems that way. It does seem

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Speaker 2: that way.

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Speaker 1: But it also goes back to how good were the

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Speaker 1: Rams to put up forty four on the Bills.

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Speaker 2: That's another topic of conversation, the Rams and what they

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Speaker 2: can continue to do. It's unreal.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you.

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Speaker 2: It's Sean McVay.

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Speaker 7: It is Sean vy right, it has to be.

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Speaker 2: It has to be.

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Speaker 1: Exactly the idea of making a team better over the

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Speaker 1: course of a season. Right last year, the Rams came

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Speaker 1: in the year off a losing season, got off to

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Speaker 1: a losing start, looking like they were going nowhere. Member

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup was out early. We never even heard of

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Speaker 1: this pooka Nakula guy Kyron Williams. Who was he? And

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they get on a roll, win

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Speaker 1: eight of the last nine to get into the postseason

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Speaker 1: and by the way, tested the Lions on the road.

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Speaker 1: Remember in that playoff game. I came down to the wire.

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Speaker 1: And here they are once again. They started one and four,

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Speaker 1: They've won seven of their last nine. They're in pretty

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Speaker 1: good position to again they control their own destiny to

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Speaker 1: win the NFC. We and you know, we're focused on

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Speaker 1: the Lions or focused on the Eagles. You're focused on

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Speaker 1: the Vikings right now. The year the Rams won the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, they were the four seed in the NFC.

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Speaker 1: You know what they're sitting at right now, the four seed.

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Speaker 2: Stop stop making all these connections.

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Speaker 1: I am just telling you. I am just telling you,

758
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Speaker 1: is that.

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Speaker 2: Derek Henry is Derek Henry.

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Speaker 1: He is off to the races right there. The big

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Speaker 1: man just Remlind Dumbrin, and I'm not down about the

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Speaker 1: ten yard line. So the Ravens trying to take control

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Speaker 1: right now in this AFC North, which they would, I

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Speaker 1: believe they will obviously be tied with the Steelers. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how the tie break goes, but I think

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Speaker 1: the Ravens would control their own destiny from the rest

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Speaker 1: of the way to try to win this division.

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Speaker 2: If they win tonight, they don't win the division yet.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so they don't actually have the tie break with

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Speaker 1: the Steelers, No, not yet.

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Speaker 2: Now they will officially clinch the playoff spot. If the

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Speaker 2: Steelers come back and win, they win the division.

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Speaker 1: So right now the Ravens are down to the eleven

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Speaker 1: yard line of the Steelers, just the start of the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, fourteen minutes to go there in this big

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Speaker 1: battle for supremacy in the AFC North. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: coming up on the other side, we'll have much more

778
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Speaker 1: on a very busy NFL Sunday, the latest on the

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Speaker 1: college football playoff and what happened to the NBA. This

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Speaker 1: is Fox Football Saturday, all right, rolling along here on

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Speaker 1: a very busy Saturday in the sports world. This is

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Speaker 1: Fox Football Saturday. We're broadcasting live from the ti Raq

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Speaker 1: com the way tire mind should be. All right. So,

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Speaker 1: looking at the scoreboard right now, and the Ravens now

788
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Speaker 1: have a two touchdown lead over the Steelers thirty one

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Speaker 1: to seventeen, thirteen minutes to go in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: And then on the college football side things right now,

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Speaker 1: update on the game going out between Texas and Clemson.

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Speaker 1: Clemson making a little noisier, came back, but Texas just scored.

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Speaker 1: So Texas leeds thirty eight to twenty four, trying to

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Speaker 1: become the third team joining Notre Dame and Penn State

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Speaker 1: to take advantage of home field advantage in this opening

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Speaker 1: round of the college football playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the Clemson Tigers, you know, scored first on their

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Speaker 2: opening drive and did the night night celebration that Steph

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Speaker 2: Curry likes to do after scoring their first touchdown one

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Speaker 2: seven zero. That's not and you don't do that. You

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Speaker 2: have so much game left. Yeah, and then Texas responded

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Speaker 2: with twenty one unionswered points and as you said, they

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Speaker 2: just scored again. So don't do the night night selly

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Speaker 2: near lyon.

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Speaker 1: Well, the problem with Clemson right now is Texas has

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Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty five yards rushing in this game.

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Speaker 1: So it's not been Quinn yours their passing game. It's

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Speaker 1: been Jayden blue Oo, Quintravian Wisner. I mean, these guys

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Speaker 1: are just running up and down the field in a

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Speaker 1: big way. So again Texas leading by a score of

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Speaker 1: thirty eight to twenty four. Coming up here a little

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Speaker 1: bit later on the hour, we're going to get you

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Speaker 1: step for the last matchup, which we are hoping will

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Speaker 1: be the most competitive matchup in the first round of

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Speaker 1: the college football Playoff, and that is Tennessee on the

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Speaker 1: road against Ohio State. By the way, they've only met

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Speaker 1: once ever. I mean, think about Ohio State Tennessee, two

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Speaker 1: of the most you know, legendary college football programs of

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Speaker 1: old time. They faced each other in the Citrus Bowl.

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Speaker 1: This was in nineteen ninety six. It was the year

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Speaker 1: that Eddie George won the Heisman Trophy for Ohio State.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety five was January first ninety six and Peyton

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Speaker 1: Manning was a sophomore already an All American, and Tennessee

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Speaker 1: actually won that game by I scored twenty fourteen. It

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Speaker 1: was in a day luge. I think it was in

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Speaker 1: Orlando where the Citrus Bawls played, and it was some

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Speaker 1: people that were there said, I've never seen rain like

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Speaker 1: this in my life. It was that kind of day.

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Speaker 1: That was the only time that two legendary programs Tennessee

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Speaker 1: and Ohio State have ever played.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: So they'll have the matchup coming up a little bit

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Speaker 1: later on in Columbus. So we got all this excitement

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Speaker 1: going on with football right now, but we got to

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Speaker 1: get to some NBA news. Do we have to Well,

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Speaker 1: here's the thing, Monci. You're a big Clippers fan. I

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Speaker 1: know you're a basketball fan. You know I'm a big

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Speaker 1: basketball fan, have been my entire life. When we talk

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Speaker 1: about suddenly people opening their eyes to the problems that

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Speaker 1: have really been prevalent in this league for several years

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Speaker 1: and only now are the beginning to talk about it,

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Speaker 1: It's like, what took you so long? The problem is

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Speaker 1: if you keep kicking the can down the road thinking, oh,

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Speaker 1: things will be better or things aren't as bad as

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Speaker 1: you think they are. It's only going to get worse.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like that's the situation with the NBA now.

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Speaker 1: As you know, the NBA just announce they signed this

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Speaker 1: huge new eleven year contract with NBC Universal, Amazon. You know,

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Speaker 1: they got the Peacock, Prime Video, the whole thing. And

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Speaker 1: there is buzz already that those that signed on with

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Speaker 1: this deal are having buyer's remorse. Now, why would they

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Speaker 1: have buyer's remorse? Well, since twenty twelve, NBA ratings have

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Speaker 1: been down forty eight percent. Okay, but that's over. You know,

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Speaker 1: ratings across television have been bad over the last twelve years,

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Speaker 1: but year to year NBA ratings are down twenty eight percent.

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Speaker 1: And now everyone's talking about Lebron said he was said,

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Speaker 1: very simple, too many fing threes.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 1: And we've been talking about this for a while, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was like, put things in perspective twenty

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Speaker 1: sixteen when the Warriors with Steph Curry won their first

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Speaker 1: championship and sort of revolutionized the NBA with you know,

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Speaker 1: the splash twins, you know, Klay Thompson and Steph taking

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Speaker 1: all of three they were averaging I believe something like

865
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:17,240
Speaker 1: thirty one to three attempts a game, which was unheard

866
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:20,320
Speaker 1: of in the NBA and by far the biggest number

867
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 1: in the NBA in twenty sixteen. Teams that averaged thirty

868
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,399
Speaker 1: one to three point attempts per game in twenty twenty

869
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: four to twenty five season would rank next to last

870
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:35,319
Speaker 1: in the league. The Celtics average over fifty three point

871
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 1: attempts per game. You just showed me a video during

872
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 1: the break of an NBA Cup game. I know, because

873
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: it was that ghastly floor coloring that they played for

874
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: these so called NBA Cup games. But it was just

875
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: literally teams going down. You're not even paying attention. Is

876
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: there any rebounds anybody on it? It used to be like,

877
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:58,800
Speaker 1: you don't take a long shot unless you got guys

878
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,239
Speaker 1: underneath the basket. Like if you were to take that

879
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: kind of a thirty footer with nobody underneath the basket,

880
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 1: you would get your ass yanked out of the game

881
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,280
Speaker 1: so fast it would make your head spin. And y'all,

882
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: you were just showing me like two or three minutes

883
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: of a game where literally every shot was a three

884
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: pointer from like thirty feet and beyond. Clank City Clank

885
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: City and the NBA can't understand why viewership is so

886
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: dramatically down this year.

887
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 2: I it's you know, I think there's a lot of

888
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 2: reasons why the NBA ratings viewership, why it's down. It's

889
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:37,920
Speaker 2: threes are a big part of it. You brought up

890
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 2: the Warriors. Yeah, in twenty fourteen the Rockets. Remember the Rockets. Yeah,

891
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 2: that game that they literally missed like twenty seven threes

892
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 2: in a row.

893
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 1: Yes, they did. That was like game seven of the

894
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 1: Conference finals that was over.

895
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 2: That was about ten years ago. And at that time,

896
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,359
Speaker 2: it was like they were shooting about thirty threes a game,

897
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 2: and it was they were like the only ones doing it.

898
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 2: And then yes, Steph Curry and the Warriors start doing

899
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 2: it now. Like you mentioned, if you're not taking fifty

900
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 2: threes to keep up with the Celtics, you're probably gonna lose.

901
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,720
Speaker 2: And that's a big part of it. I also think

902
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:14,760
Speaker 2: the fact that you don't know if you're gonna see

903
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 2: your favorite player is a big part of it. Like

904
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 2: you want to buy tickets, you want to plan to

905
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 2: watch a game. I at least know Kawhi Leonards is

906
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 2: not playing. I at least know that everybody else in

907
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 2: their favorite teams. You don't know it is John Moran

908
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 2: gonna play back to backs, Joel Embiid, No, he's not.

909
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 2: We already know that. That's a thing I think a

910
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 2: big part of it because in baseball, yeah, the season

911
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 2: is one hundred and sixty two games, and you know what,

912
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge is probably gonna play one hundred and sixty

913
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:43,240
Speaker 2: two games. So it's a little bit different. With the NBA.

914
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 2: The season feels long because you don't know if you're

915
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 2: gonna see your favorite players playing. Then we then we

916
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:51,240
Speaker 2: got the whole Oh does the regular season even count?

917
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 2: Because why am I gonna watch the regular season if

918
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 2: they're not gonna turn it on until we get to

919
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 2: the playoffs. That's another part of it. It's there's just

920
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 2: so many factors. And then lastly, I think the fact

921
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 2: that we do not have like the next round of stars,

922
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,280
Speaker 2: Like the game is still Lebron's game, it's still Kevin Durant,

923
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 2: it's still Steph Curry. What is the next round of stars?

924
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: Well, that's and that's the point I wanted to make

925
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: right now. So you can make an argument that maybe

926
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: the three best players in the NBA are Jannis Jokic

927
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 1: and Doncic. Yes, none of these guys move the needle.

928
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 1: No zero. Then you have Jason Tatum. Jason Tatum obviously

929
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 1: is the best player on the best team. He is

930
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: Boren in the I mean like his personality is a

931
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: zero great player. He's a champion now after what the

932
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: Celtics did a year ago. He is boren.

933
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 2: You say that about the Celtics in general, Well.

934
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 1: Again, when you look at let's let's talk about major

935
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: League baseball. Major League baseball was pretty much given up

936
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,800
Speaker 1: for dead. You know, remember we had this period where

937
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 1: you know, it was home run walk or strikeout. Yep,

938
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 1: that was it. Home run walkers, strikeout. So what did

939
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: baseball finally do? They realized we need to make some changes.

940
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,919
Speaker 1: They added the clock. I was like no, no, no,

941
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,919
Speaker 1: so was I and it's like, yes, yes, yes, brilliant move.

942
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 1: You shortened the games by half an hour. Now they're

943
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,879
Speaker 1: more watchable. I cat sitting through a three hour baseball game,

944
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:26,839
Speaker 1: but two and a half, yeah, I might be able

945
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:30,760
Speaker 1: to do that. They got rid of the shift.

946
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 2: They got rid of the shift, so.

947
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: You did things to create a little more of a

948
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: running game. You could only throw it at first base

949
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 1: a couple of times. So you did a few things

950
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: and then you got showhy So and just like Caitlin Clark,

951
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 1: I mean every sport you know, you go back to

952
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 1: the NBA. I am old enough to remember pre Larry Bird,

953
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson, and the NBA was on life support. And

954
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you got Bird of Magic

955
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: and then Michael and then all of a sudden you've

956
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:03,760
Speaker 1: got these stars that people resonate. You need a US

957
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: born star in the NBA that not only is a

958
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: great player but brings the prinzazz that Michael Jordan had,

959
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: that burden Magic had. That's what this league desperately needs.

960
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 1: And now that all of a sudden you got Lebron

961
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 1: speaking out, You've got a lot of people around the league.

962
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 1: Even though all this guaranteed money coming in. Although I

963
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 1: will say this when we talk about guaranteed money, yeah,

964
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:32,359
Speaker 1: the money is guaranteed, but when you're investing that kind

965
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:36,280
Speaker 1: of money like this new TV deal is doing, believe

966
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: it when I say they will make sure that everything's

967
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: on the up and out, because if you're not delivering

968
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 1: what was so called promise to us when we made

969
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: this deal, they will get called out.

970
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if it's going to deliver immediately

971
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 2: though they may have to be a little patient.

972
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:56,760
Speaker 1: Who is that? Who is the star? When is Wemby

973
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:00,400
Speaker 1: the guy? But again he's French, he's not in a.

974
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't think he is the guy. Like,

975
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 2: there's an X factor we're looking for here, right, something

976
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 2: you can't describe. There's an X factor and I haven't

977
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 2: seen an X factor yet. The X factor remains with

978
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant, Steph Curry and Lebron James. They're still the ones.

979
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 1: And I'm listening to JJ Reddick and he's missing the

980
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,399
Speaker 1: point he goes. You know, it used to be like

981
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: no one said, why do we even play the regular

982
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: season if it's going to be Lebron versus the Warriors

983
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:34,479
Speaker 1: in the NBA Finals, which it was four three years Okay, yeah,

984
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 1: but guess what all four of those years they had

985
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 1: big numbers for the NBA Finals. For the five lowest

986
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,759
Speaker 1: rated NBA finals of all time have happened over the

987
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:42,760
Speaker 1: last four years.

988
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 2: Right, It's like, you want to talk smack on these dynasties,

989
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 2: but in reality, people.

990
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:50,280
Speaker 1: Hate to watch, but they're gonna watch when you watch,

991
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: when you have a new champion every year, it's like

992
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: hitting the reset button every year is and that is

993
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 1: not good for any sport. You need the evil person,

994
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 1: the evil team, whoever might be the team you need

995
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 1: to beat. That's a big part of it in any sport.

996
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:10,280
Speaker 1: So at least now, I will say this for the NBA,

997
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: at least now they're talking about it. At least now

998
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 1: they're openly talking about we got a problem. Yeah, now

999
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 1: like Major League Baseball did do something about it.

1000
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think maybe NBA thought we are

1001
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 2: becoming more athletic, which is true. These players are so

1002
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 2: athletic that they just thought, oh, it's gonna it's it's

1003
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 2: going to thrive this way. But in reality, it's like, yeah,

1004
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 2: these players are way more athletic than back then. But

1005
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:41,240
Speaker 2: I'm bored. I am so bored.

1006
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: We'll go back to Redick what he said. It goes,

1007
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 1: so the players are so much better than when I

1008
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:47,400
Speaker 1: broke into the NBA. Yeah, but the game you played

1009
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:49,840
Speaker 1: in the NBA was way.

1010
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 2: More watchable, way more watchable.

1011
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 1: Than what we're watching right now in the NBA. So

1012
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,719
Speaker 1: we'll see. If Adam Silver, I mean, he could say Hey, look,

1013
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: I'm getting everybody paid. You're making you know, everyone got

1014
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,320
Speaker 1: another seven hundred and fifty thousand for winning the NBA

1015
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: Cup that nobody watched. Nobody watched the NBA Cup.

1016
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

1017
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:13,359
Speaker 1: But well again, nobody was watching. All right, I know

1018
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: what people are watching, and that is the NFL. We're

1019
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: gonna get your sets on big games tomorrow in the NFL.

1020
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: Which games actually have some kind of impact on what

1021
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 1: we're going to see in the postseason. We'll break it down.

1022
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:30,839
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1023
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:35,000
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1025
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1030
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Speaker 1: X people are making suggestions now. Montsey about who could

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Speaker 1: save the.

1033
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 2: NBA tweeted at thank you to Paul Russ, saying that

1034
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:04,840
Speaker 2: ant Man Anthony Edwards is going to take over the

1035
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 2: league in the next decade. And we all here, we

1036
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 2: have Sager, here are social media guru. We all said, yeah,

1037
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:16,440
Speaker 2: you like Anthony Edwards, like, but I don't know if

1038
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 2: I don't know, and then Sager to give credit that

1039
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards at least still has that like mentality of

1040
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 2: I hate you, yeah, and that is lacking across the league.

1041
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: Well, we've talked about this many times. Even Magic Johnson

1042
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: brought this up that you know, when he played for

1043
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 1: the Lakers, they hated the Celtics. I know, I was

1044
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: a Laker fan of Showtime and you hated the Celtics,

1045
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 1: and you felt like the players felt the same way

1046
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 1: we would see it on the court. There's that animosity.

1047
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 1: Now everyone's making zillions of dollars, no one hates anybody.

1048
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:49,320
Speaker 1: And as a fan, you want to feel like your

1049
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 1: team has the same like drive to beat the other

1050
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: team that you want. And if you don't feel that,

1051
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 1: that really really hurts.

1052
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:00,880
Speaker 2: Thinking about it. It's like growing up, I hate the Lakers,

1053
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 2: hated them, I don't hate a team. Well, Ron, he's

1054
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:05,479
Speaker 2: just there.

1055
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: Well, here's a guy that spreads a lot of love.

1056
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:10,880
Speaker 1: He does it here on Fox Sports Radio with his

1057
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 1: own show, and then whether he gets a five minute

1058
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:17,839
Speaker 1: notice or five day notice, he's kind enough to come

1059
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,399
Speaker 1: on every single Saturday on this show. We're not quite

1060
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:23,240
Speaker 1: sure why, other than the fact that we're all really,

1061
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:26,400
Speaker 1: really good for him. A lot of love, Aaron Torres, Yes,

1062
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:29,239
Speaker 1: in this room, a lot of love right now.

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Speaker 3: Well, happy holidays to you guys, and you know, it's

1064
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 3: been fun. I don't even remember what convinced you guys

1065
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,760
Speaker 3: to call me for the first time on twenty minutes notice,

1066
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 3: but it happened, and now I just you know, I

1067
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:46,400
Speaker 3: booked out twenty twenty five minutes to hang with you

1068
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 3: guys every Saturday. It's been fun hanging with you guys.

1069
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 3: And I can't wait to hear what we're going to

1070
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 3: talk about today, can't all?

1071
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 1: Right? So well we have. We could go a lot

1072
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: of different directions, but let's stay with what we've been

1073
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 1: talking about, which is the college football Playoff and so far, blowout, blowout, blowout,

1074
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:07,040
Speaker 1: Texas is going to take care at Clemson here. I

1075
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Speaker 1: said this earlier with Montcierin. I sort of predicted this

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Speaker 1: the first week with teams actually playing on their home field,

1077
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Speaker 1: what a tremendous advantage that would be. The real question

1078
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 1: is the quarterfinals, which by the way, isn't for another

1079
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 1: ten days. So when you look at Oregon and Georgia,

1080
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 1: Boise State in Arizona State, they will not have played

1081
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 1: in almost a month. When they're playing on a neutral

1082
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 1: field against a team that at least has played a

1083
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 1: game in the interim, that's I think when the fireworks

1084
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Speaker 1: really begin.

1085
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Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean, you know, I think there's so

1086
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 3: many conversations that are going on right now, and you know,

1087
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 3: I think there's just so many variables. Right what you

1088
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 3: said to the home field advantage, you know, should we

1089
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Speaker 3: have given auto buys to the four highest ranked teams

1090
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Speaker 3: of the four highest ranked conference champions? You know, I

1091
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:01,359
Speaker 3: think how we determine in the at large teams has

1092
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 3: become a topic of conversation with you know, Indiana and

1093
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:08,279
Speaker 3: SMU getting blown out. I will say, you know, I

1094
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:10,600
Speaker 3: think to some degree it has been a little bit

1095
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 3: of a disappointing, you know, twenty four hours or so

1096
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 3: of college football. But I think maybe the part that

1097
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 3: I don't think enough people are acknowledging is exactly what

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00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 3: you said, Steve, is that we do have home field advantages,

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Speaker 3: and when you have home field advantage, we see every Saturday,

1100
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 3: good teams go on the road and lose to equal

1101
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 3: or better teams. And so essentially, you know, everybody that's

1102
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 3: arguing about this team would have done this and that

1103
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 3: team would have done that, it's like, well, all three

1104
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 3: higher seated teams at home field advantage, all three higher

1105
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 3: seated teams were favored, and all three higher seated teams

1106
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 3: are obviously going to win, and you know, basically win comfortably.

1107
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 3: The Texas game looks a little closer, I think, frankly,

1108
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 3: than it's actually been, so I think to your point

1109
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 3: that's probably something that the discourse hasn't been enough about,

1110
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 3: is the impact of home field advantage. The one thing

1111
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 3: I will say really quickly, we've heard for two weeks

1112
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 3: that you know, Tennessee fans plan on taking over the

1113
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 3: Horseshoe in Columbus, and early reports are that that place

1114
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 3: is going to have a lot of orange. So that

1115
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 3: might be the closest thing we see to a neutral field.

1116
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 3: But to your point, probably not enough people talking about

1117
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 3: the impact of actually having home field advantage of the

1118
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 3: first round of this playoff.

1119
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Speaker 2: All right, I know all the college football playoffs are

1120
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:25,919
Speaker 2: going on, but I cannot get over Aarin Diego Pavia

1121
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:30,080
Speaker 2: and the old market double a ruling. I cannot accept this.

1122
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 2: What do you mean You're not going to count your

1123
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 2: junior college years. You're gonna have potentially eighteen nineteen year

1124
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 2: olds playing twenty six twenty seven year olds.

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Speaker 3: So MANSI, this is low key. I'm so glad you

1126
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 3: brought it.

1127
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Speaker 2: I can't get over it.

1128
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Speaker 3: It is like, you know, we all get and you know,

1129
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 3: I've been known to get hyperbolic about stuff here and there.

1130
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:57,439
Speaker 3: The biggest thing this is legitimately huge. And I heard

1131
00:58:57,960 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 3: you know he goes by coach JB. He was the

1132
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 3: famous junior college coach who was on last chance to

1133
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 3: you for a couple of years, is now in the media.

1134
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 3: You know, he brought up a great point of this

1135
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 3: could literally lead to just this could just lead to

1136
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 3: major colleges using juco's as farm teams. And so what

1137
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 3: the ruling basically said now it only applies to Diego Pavia,

1138
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 3: But I think the assumption is that if any you know,

1139
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 3: junior college transfer fights it, they're going to get the

1140
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:26,600
Speaker 3: same ruling in their favor. And What it essentially says

1141
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:30,640
Speaker 3: is that junior college doesn't count against your eligibility clock.

1142
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 3: So basically everybody knows you get five years to play

1143
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,200
Speaker 3: four and so what coach JD was saying was what

1144
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:39,880
Speaker 3: two things could happen is one, a smart college could

1145
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 3: just use a junior college as basically a feeder system

1146
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:47,479
Speaker 3: where let's just use easy schools. You know, Ohio State

1147
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 3: or USC could pick a junior college, send forty high

1148
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 3: school kids fifty sixty whatever it is high school kids

1149
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 3: a year there, and then basically use the junior college

1150
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 3: to develop them for two years. And then you're essentially

1151
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:02,840
Speaker 3: getting twenty twenty one year old freshmen on the back

1152
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:05,560
Speaker 3: end that have their full four years of eligibility. What

1153
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 3: could also happen, which I find kind of interesting, is

1154
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 3: you know, you go to college for say a year

1155
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 3: your red shirt maybe your sophomore year, which is your

1156
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 3: red shirt freshman year, you don't play. You could then

1157
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 3: go to junior college for two years. It wouldn't count

1158
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 3: against your eligibility, and you could come back out on

1159
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 3: the other side as again a twenty two to twenty

1160
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 3: three year old sophomore and still have three years of eligibility.

1161
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 3: So that is what that ruling said. You know, it's

1162
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 3: another just it's a disappointing moment for the NCA because

1163
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 3: there's nothing they can do. But I'll just be quick,

1164
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 3: but it is huge. You know. You saw Steve Sarkisian,

1165
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 3: who played in junior college, come out and say this

1166
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:47,560
Speaker 3: isn't good for college football, and I just think it's

1167
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 3: another thing. The one thing I've learned covering college sports

1168
01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 3: the last fifteen years rule that coaches can use to

1169
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 3: their benefit to get good players into their program. They're

1170
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 3: going to use that rule and this is just the

1171
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 3: newest one. This story is so much bigger that I

1172
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:04,760
Speaker 3: think most people realize.

1173
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Speaker 1: I can't wait for next year when a twenty six

1174
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 1: year old quarterback in his eighth year of college name

1175
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:15,040
Speaker 1: Cam Rising is the quarterback of the Hurricanes. I am

1176
01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:17,480
Speaker 1: may I'm telling you Cam Rising is going to be

1177
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 1: the Miami quarterback. He'll be twenty six years old, it'll

1178
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 1: be his eighth year of college, and he'll be the

1179
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:25,640
Speaker 1: quarterback of the Hurricanes.

1180
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Speaker 3: This, I mean, what's this? I mean, what's to stop

1181
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 3: him from transferring to junior college for two years, starting

1182
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 3: on a new degree, and then coming back three years

1183
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:37,320
Speaker 3: from now. He's not kidding. Yes, what the end of

1184
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 3: what that ruling said was that junior college does not

1185
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 3: count against your clock.

1186
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 1: All right, Can we back up for just a second here,

1187
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 1: here's where I missed it along the way. Obviously it's

1188
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 1: very prevalent now, the idea of the transfer portal where

1189
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:51,959
Speaker 1: you don't have to sit out of here. I remember

1190
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 1: when Justin Fields left Georgia to go to Ohio State

1191
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 1: and went directly without sitting out a year. But there

1192
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:00,720
Speaker 1: was some kind of legal matters that he was involved

1193
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 1: with at Georgia which cleared the path where he didn't

1194
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 1: have to set out a season. Who signed off on

1195
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:09,840
Speaker 1: this deal where you could literally play at a different

1196
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: school every single year and not have to sit out

1197
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:15,880
Speaker 1: a year in a transfer situation.

1198
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Speaker 3: Well, Steve, I mentioned this to you guys a few

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01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 3: weeks ago. The NCAA, they get blamed for everything. They

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01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:25,160
Speaker 3: tried to put in a one time transfer rule, which

1201
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:28,240
Speaker 3: was you go to a school it doesn't work out,

1202
01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:31,000
Speaker 3: you can transfer one time without having to sit out,

1203
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 3: and this is what the coaches wanted, and then the

1204
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:38,280
Speaker 3: second that it didn't work in their favor, they went

1205
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:40,520
Speaker 3: to court and the example that I used a few

1206
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:43,160
Speaker 3: weeks ago, you can look it up. But North Carolina

1207
01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:45,720
Speaker 3: when Mac Brown, when their first seventy plus year old

1208
01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:47,440
Speaker 3: guy was their head coach. That was mac Brown, not

1209
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:50,000
Speaker 3: the new seventy plus year old head coach Bill Belichick.

1210
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 3: When mac Brown was the head coach, he was the

1211
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:56,520
Speaker 3: number one advocate of we can't change the transfer rule.

1212
01:02:56,720 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 3: It's bad for college football. Coaches are going to be

1213
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:03,360
Speaker 3: recruiting out of the handshake line, talking to my players saying,

1214
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 3: come to my school. Then what ends up happening? Last

1215
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:09,560
Speaker 3: year he had a quarterback named Drake May and he

1216
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:13,320
Speaker 3: had a transfer wide receiver named Tess Johnson. Tedes Johnson

1217
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:16,880
Speaker 3: was ruled ineligible because it was his second transfer. What

1218
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:20,680
Speaker 3: does mac Brown do? He goes mack Brown into it,

1219
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 3: but the kid hires a lawyer. The lawyer fights the ruling,

1220
01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:27,440
Speaker 3: the ruling is deemed unjust, and the NCAAA is forced

1221
01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:30,800
Speaker 3: to basically make this kid eligible as a two time transfer.

1222
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:32,800
Speaker 3: And then from there they just threw up their hands

1223
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 3: and said, we're not going to get sued every time

1224
01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:36,440
Speaker 3: we want us to have a player sit out. And

1225
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:38,960
Speaker 3: I've actually talked to people in the NCAA offices about this,

1226
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:42,800
Speaker 3: and they point to mac Brown as one of the

1227
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:45,400
Speaker 3: culprits of why the rule is the way that it

1228
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:48,000
Speaker 3: is right now. Essentially that they put in the one

1229
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 3: time transfer mac Brown, who was in favor of it,

1230
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, his best wide receiver is ineligible

1231
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:55,240
Speaker 3: because it's his second transfer, and the kid gets a lawyer,

1232
01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:57,920
Speaker 3: and the kid wins the court case, and so everybody

1233
01:03:57,920 --> 01:04:00,720
Speaker 3: wants to blame the NCAAA, and Charlie or the NCAA

1234
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 3: president said it this week. He just puts in the

1235
01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:06,040
Speaker 3: rules that the coaches want. The problem is, every time

1236
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 3: he tries to put in a rule, somebody fights him,

1237
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 3: he gets shoot in court, and he ends up losing

1238
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:12,560
Speaker 3: in court and he has.

1239
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:13,160
Speaker 6: To change the rules.

1240
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:16,200
Speaker 3: So not everything is the NCAA's fault. And I think

1241
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:18,520
Speaker 3: that's something that goes a little bit under reported in

1242
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:19,400
Speaker 3: a lot of this stuff.

1243
01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you on that. Okay, lastly, here

1244
01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:25,520
Speaker 2: before I know you do, Moncy, thank you for lastly

1245
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:29,240
Speaker 2: before we let you go Tennessee, Ohio State. Are we

1246
01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 2: going to see a actual close game or are we just.

1247
01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 3: Going to a close game. No, we'll see a close

1248
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:38,919
Speaker 3: game because Tennessee's defense is so good. I will tell

1249
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 3: you first of all, I think the upset is absolutely

1250
01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:43,320
Speaker 3: in play, and I'm not alone. It's not like an

1251
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:44,920
Speaker 3: amazing take that I have, like I think a lot

1252
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:47,760
Speaker 3: of people feel that way. I will tell you know,

1253
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 3: Ohio State has said all the right things about Ryan

1254
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 3: Day is not on the hot seat. This that the

1255
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:56,640
Speaker 3: other thing. If you lose this game and go ten

1256
01:04:56,680 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 3: and three with what we believe to be a twenty

1257
01:04:59,200 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 3: million dollars the high I stayed roster in college football. Remember,

1258
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 3: by the way, both of his coordinators make over two

1259
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 3: million dollars. Ship Kelly came from UCLA to the Ohio

1260
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:09,960
Speaker 3: State offensive coordinator. He didn't do it for charity. He's

1261
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:13,000
Speaker 3: getting paid very handsomely. And oh, by the way, you

1262
01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:16,520
Speaker 3: lost to Michigan. You didn't win a Big Ten championship.

1263
01:05:16,560 --> 01:05:18,480
Speaker 3: So we're talking about now four years not winning a

1264
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:21,720
Speaker 3: Big Ten championship, four years not beating Michigan and getting

1265
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 3: bounced in the first round of the playoff. They're saying

1266
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:27,919
Speaker 3: all the right things in Columbus. If he can't get

1267
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:30,760
Speaker 3: through this game, I don't think it's a zero percent

1268
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:32,760
Speaker 3: possibility that he gets fired. And then I will tell

1269
01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 3: you this an Ohio State coaching search going into Christmas.

1270
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:41,080
Speaker 3: I mean you talk about a gift from the content gods, Like, yeah, listen,

1271
01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:42,800
Speaker 3: you know you never root for a guy to get fired.

1272
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:44,800
Speaker 3: But I'll tell you you know you want something to

1273
01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:47,600
Speaker 3: talk about over the Christmas holiday in Ohio State coaching search.

1274
01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:49,440
Speaker 3: I think Ohio State might be the best job in

1275
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:53,360
Speaker 3: college football in the nil portal era. That is the

1276
01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 3: content gift that all of us that are working on Christmas,

1277
01:05:56,560 --> 01:06:00,080
Speaker 3: even Christmas Day, are hoping for. So I think the

1278
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:02,360
Speaker 3: upset is very much in play. I certainly think we'll

1279
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:05,000
Speaker 3: have a close game and if Brian if Ohio State

1280
01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:08,360
Speaker 3: loses this game, I don't think it's zero percent chance

1281
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:09,920
Speaker 3: that Ryan Day is not the Ohigh of State head

1282
01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:10,600
Speaker 3: coach mexicesion.

1283
01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:12,280
Speaker 1: I think it's one hundred percent he won't be if

1284
01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:14,480
Speaker 1: they lose this game to Tennessee. By the way, I

1285
01:06:14,480 --> 01:06:17,080
Speaker 1: did you agree? I voted for genty and I will

1286
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:19,160
Speaker 1: back up that vote. I picked the right guy. I

1287
01:06:19,240 --> 01:06:23,200
Speaker 1: voted for the right guy. Pro Football Focus said he

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Speaker 1: would have had the highest rating of any Heisman winner

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Speaker 1: ever since the Pro Football Focus started in twenty thirteen

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Speaker 1: higher than Joe burrows season highest rating ever by Pro

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Speaker 1: Football Focus. By the way, uh, Travis Hunter is the

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Speaker 1: third worst in the Pro Football Focus here as far

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Speaker 1: as Heisman Trophy winners are concerned.

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Speaker 3: All right, we got to run, Asky. You were talking

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01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 3: about the NBA being on its deathbed, at the NBA,

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01:06:47,200 --> 01:06:49,480
Speaker 3: how it's going just looking at a bunch of analytics

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01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:52,439
Speaker 3: and not actually, uh, you know, doing anything of it.

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Speaker 3: Analytics kill baseball. Analytics killed the NBA. You're trying to

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01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:58,240
Speaker 3: have to kill college football too, Steve Hartman does I don't.

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01:06:58,040 --> 01:06:59,800
Speaker 1: Want that to happen, because you know how much I

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01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 1: love my college football.

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Speaker 3: Not watch the game? Hey Manti, did he push up

1303
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:06,640
Speaker 3: his glasses a little four eyes over there looking at

1304
01:07:06,680 --> 01:07:07,600
Speaker 3: all his spreadsheet?

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01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:08,080
Speaker 4: Yes?

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01:07:08,240 --> 01:07:12,600
Speaker 1: You know I did that absolutely so I can see. Well, Aaron,

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01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 1: great stuff is always man. We'll do it again next Saturday,

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01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:16,560
Speaker 1: if it's possible.

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Speaker 3: The two of you have a great Christmas. In all seriousness,

1310
01:07:19,640 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 3: it's been so fun coming on with you guys, and

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Speaker 3: I will be available next Saturday if you want me.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Aaron, of course, Christmas?

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Speaker 1: All right, Okay, we'll say that for another day. Hold on, Aaron,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. All right, Aaron Torris, join us

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Speaker 1: right there. Let's find out what is trending right now.

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Speaker 1: Chris is back with some big football updates. Yeah, it

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01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:40,160
Speaker 1: is getting spicy.

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Speaker 5: At the end of this Texas Clemson game, looks like

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Speaker 5: Texas will be holding on thirty eight twenty four. About

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01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:49,479
Speaker 5: a minute ago they had just fumbled, however, a fourth

1321
01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:52,440
Speaker 5: and one, trying to ice the game and handle the

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Speaker 5: ball back to Clemson.

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01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:56,320
Speaker 1: Around hat midway.

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01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:58,600
Speaker 5: But it looks like Texas now has the ball back,

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01:07:58,680 --> 01:08:01,480
Speaker 5: so that'll be that Texas is going to be moving

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01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:04,800
Speaker 5: on to play Arizona State in the Peach Bowl. We've

1327
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:07,680
Speaker 5: already got tickets punched for the Fiesta Bol Penn State

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01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:08,400
Speaker 5: and Boise State.

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01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:10,400
Speaker 1: The Sugar Bowl will be Notre Dame and Georgia.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of which, Monsei, you were mentioning about older players

1331
01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:17,599
Speaker 5: in college football, Notre Dame does feature a thirty year

1332
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:20,920
Speaker 5: old kicker that he is not even the oldest kicker

1333
01:08:20,920 --> 01:08:24,719
Speaker 5: at his position, Eric Goins, who four years the Citadel,

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01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 5: served seven years of the Army and is getting a

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01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:30,800
Speaker 5: match an NBA at Notre Dame, and.

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Speaker 2: So he just never played until later in his life.

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Speaker 5: I guess I I'm not quite sugar myself.

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Speaker 2: But he's not playing seven years. He's just started later

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Speaker 2: in life, No, and so he's still Happenly.

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Speaker 1: Virginia has a thirty four year old kicker. Riswanky won

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Speaker 1: the Heisman Trophy at age twenty eight in two thousand,

1342
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Speaker 1: sat out six years to play minor league baseball started

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Speaker 1: at its core at Florida State won the Heisman at

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Speaker 1: age twenty eight.

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Speaker 5: I'm just saying this could theoretically be someone's entire football

1346
01:08:58,080 --> 01:09:02,800
Speaker 5: career one of these days. In college football, meanwhile, we

1347
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 5: do have a final score, final score Baltimore Ravens thirty

1348
01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 5: four Pittsburgh Steelers seventeen. Final scores coming with a Mark

1349
01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:16,960
Speaker 5: Andrews touchdown and a Marlin Humphrey picked six on Russell Wilson,

1350
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:20,000
Speaker 5: who otherwise had a pretty good game twenty two to

1351
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:23,479
Speaker 5: thirty three for two hundred and seventeen yards. Lamar Jackson

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01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:26,880
Speaker 5: this game two hundred and seven yards fifteen of twenty

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01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:28,559
Speaker 5: three coming up at the top of the hour. I

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01:09:28,560 --> 01:09:32,439
Speaker 5: mentioned college football the final slot now wait awaiting the

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Speaker 5: Rose Bowl to play Oregon Ohio State hosting Tennessee. Ohio

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01:09:37,320 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 5: State is a seven and a half point favorite at home.

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01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:45,000
Speaker 5: News from baseball, we've been talking about this a little bit.

1358
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Speaker 5: Two time World Series champion, first ballot Hall of Fame

1359
01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:49,680
Speaker 5: at Ricky Henderson has passed today at the age of

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01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:53,599
Speaker 5: sixty five. He is MLB's all time leader in stolen

1361
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:56,880
Speaker 5: bases at fourteen hundred and six. And in some free

1362
01:09:56,880 --> 01:10:00,840
Speaker 5: agency news from baseball, Carlos Santana has apparently agreed to

1363
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:05,840
Speaker 5: a one year, twenty million dollar deal with the Cleveland Guardians.

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01:10:06,680 --> 01:10:08,040
Speaker 5: Monsey Steve back to.

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Speaker 1: You, all right, Chris, great job as always, and we

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01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:13,680
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Once again. This is Fox Football Saturday. We're

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Speaker 1: live from the tay Iraq dot Com studios. All right,

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01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:20,040
Speaker 1: it is that time lot.

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Speaker 4: Two minds are better than one, right too.

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01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:26,719
Speaker 1: Let's find out time to get down to the nitty's

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Speaker 1: gain day geniuses. All right, So once again is time

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01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:34,280
Speaker 1: for our picks and what has become a very controversial

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01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:39,559
Speaker 1: segment courtesy of our great producer Patrick, who has been

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Speaker 1: at odds with Moncey on the exact totals that we have.

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01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 1: We use a Stableford system. We don't use winslow losses.

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01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:51,800
Speaker 1: We're on a points system in this endeavor that we've

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01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:54,360
Speaker 1: been doing now for what fifteen weeks, and we're trying

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01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:56,960
Speaker 1: to figure this out still. Do we have this down now?

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Speaker 7: Patrick, we have this down the there's no wins losses.

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01:11:01,400 --> 01:11:05,000
Speaker 7: It is just pure points here. The newest and truest

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01:11:05,080 --> 01:11:13,000
Speaker 7: record is twenty nine and twenty four. That's up to

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01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:15,280
Speaker 7: date from last week. Moncy, you have twenty.

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01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:16,880
Speaker 2: Nine, right, so can you just so we're on the

1384
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:19,200
Speaker 2: same page. Last week, how did it go?

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Speaker 7: You had twenty six, Steve had twenty four and with

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01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:26,720
Speaker 7: a couple of wins and losses on both you know,

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01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:30,160
Speaker 7: wins and not getting some wins, but then also over

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01:11:30,320 --> 01:11:32,360
Speaker 7: unders kind of you know, giving a little bit of.

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01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:35,960
Speaker 1: Some shitly long story short, she got three points last week.

1390
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:39,439
Speaker 2: I had zero, correct because of your incorrect on the

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01:11:39,479 --> 01:11:40,160
Speaker 2: over Eagles.

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Speaker 1: Steelers underpicks are subject to negative points if you get

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01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:45,599
Speaker 1: it wrong. They go.

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01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:48,240
Speaker 2: So you got zero zero and I got three.

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01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:50,479
Speaker 1: All right, So you're now with a five point lead.

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01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:51,200
Speaker 1: We're all good.

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01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:51,720
Speaker 2: We're good.

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01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 1: You're good good, We're good moving forward. I'm happy about that,

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Speaker 1: all right. What's the first game this week?

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Speaker 7: Well, speaking of good guys, the first game we got

1401
01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:04,479
Speaker 7: is the Philadelphia Eagles taking on the Washington Commanders. Commanders

1402
01:12:04,479 --> 01:12:07,599
Speaker 7: are home. The over under for this game is forty

1403
01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:10,599
Speaker 7: five and a half, and Monsie, you're a fearless leader

1404
01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:13,160
Speaker 7: in the clubhouse, the owners go to you.

1405
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:17,200
Speaker 2: I brought this game up to Adam Kaplan for a reason,

1406
01:12:17,439 --> 01:12:20,800
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like, I the Eagles have

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01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:27,240
Speaker 2: won how many in a row? Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

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01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:30,720
Speaker 1: In a row? Two and two? Now they're twelve and two.

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01:12:31,040 --> 01:12:37,040
Speaker 2: I for some reason, honestly, like, I feel like the

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01:12:37,080 --> 01:12:41,920
Speaker 2: Commanders can pull this opposet, this upset off. But talking

1411
01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:44,720
Speaker 2: to Adam, he didn't make me feel very comfortable with

1412
01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:50,439
Speaker 2: that thought. Even though Jayden Daniels is playing better now,

1413
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:59,720
Speaker 2: Eagles defense is really the factor here. I guess I'm

1414
01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:04,080
Speaker 2: taking the Eagles to win eleven in a row. The

1415
01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:05,519
Speaker 2: Eagles to win eleven in a row.

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01:13:05,479 --> 01:13:07,280
Speaker 1: Well, I gotta take some chances here. By the way,

1417
01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:08,360
Speaker 1: do you want to do over under?

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01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:11,439
Speaker 2: I want the over?

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01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:16,120
Speaker 1: Oh whoa? I want to be OVERO whoa, whoa, whoa?

1420
01:13:16,200 --> 01:13:17,120
Speaker 1: What's happening there?

1421
01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:18,840
Speaker 2: I want the over over?

1422
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:19,720
Speaker 6: Oh?

1423
01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:24,000
Speaker 1: Bird interesting very because when you look at the Eagles,

1424
01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:26,720
Speaker 1: their offense has not been all that prolific and if

1425
01:13:26,720 --> 01:13:29,960
Speaker 1: you used forty five and a half as an over under,

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01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:33,080
Speaker 1: they've been under the last three weeks and wins. I'm

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01:13:33,080 --> 01:13:34,960
Speaker 1: going to take the under and I'm going to take

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01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:38,200
Speaker 1: the Commanders in this game. So just like that, a

1429
01:13:38,400 --> 01:13:42,400
Speaker 1: huge possible in this NFC East. Now, do you have

1430
01:13:42,439 --> 01:13:43,640
Speaker 1: any bold predictions?

1431
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:46,639
Speaker 2: No, I don't on this one. I don't have any bolts.

1432
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:50,559
Speaker 2: I got my boat last week from Saquon.

1433
01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:53,840
Speaker 7: You did get the Saquon boy?

1434
01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:55,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was under.

1435
01:13:55,160 --> 01:13:57,200
Speaker 1: I was so close on my I had that guy.

1436
01:13:57,680 --> 01:14:00,120
Speaker 1: You see what happened. Josh Allen had the two touchdowns

1437
01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:03,000
Speaker 1: and then he ended up throwing two touchdown passes and

1438
01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:05,120
Speaker 1: I specifically said he would have to have it wouldn't

1439
01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:08,519
Speaker 1: be a tie. That was that close. I'm gonna make

1440
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:12,760
Speaker 1: a bold prediction right now. Yes, sir, Jalen Hurts will

1441
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:15,919
Speaker 1: have more rushing touchdowns than Saquon Barkley.

1442
01:14:16,120 --> 01:14:20,680
Speaker 2: Wow, I mean is that with the Pushtush?

1443
01:14:21,760 --> 01:14:23,479
Speaker 1: I'm asking if you don't if you don't want to

1444
01:14:23,479 --> 01:14:24,840
Speaker 1: do it, that's a good thing.

1445
01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 2: With the Bush I feel like that's just what they do.

1446
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:31,200
Speaker 1: Well, then I'll throw that one out.

1447
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:33,360
Speaker 7: Yeah, I throw it all right, kind of a gimme.

1448
01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:35,800
Speaker 1: On the other side, we got two more games to

1449
01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:39,559
Speaker 1: get to in our game day genius picks. This is

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01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:44,880
Speaker 1: Fox Football Saturday, Steve Harbin and Monsi Belanias here in

1451
01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:48,120
Speaker 1: Fox Football Saturday. We're coming alive from the tai Iraq

1452
01:14:48,240 --> 01:14:51,840
Speaker 1: dot Com studios. Want to think Chris for his incredible

1453
01:14:51,880 --> 01:14:55,680
Speaker 1: updates throughout the show today again filling in where he

1454
01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:58,240
Speaker 1: has to fill in. Speaking of filling in, one of

1455
01:14:58,280 --> 01:15:01,360
Speaker 1: the biggest legends in this entire operation, Curis is back

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01:15:01,360 --> 01:15:03,600
Speaker 1: on the board. That's right, Karris. It's always great to

1457
01:15:03,600 --> 01:15:06,240
Speaker 1: see you. Thanks for well. This is why he is

1458
01:15:06,280 --> 01:15:12,280
Speaker 1: the most invaluable person here at Fox Sports Radio. And then,

1459
01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:15,439
Speaker 1: of course our brilliant producer Patrick, who now is is

1460
01:15:15,439 --> 01:15:19,560
Speaker 1: feeling good because Moncey is satisfied that the points seemingly

1461
01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:24,560
Speaker 1: in her favor right now, but we'll see how it

1462
01:15:24,680 --> 01:15:27,719
Speaker 1: plays s. We're all on the same page right now,

1463
01:15:27,800 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 1: all right, Patrick, All right, Patrick, So let's let's get

1464
01:15:30,479 --> 01:15:32,120
Speaker 1: to our second game, all right.

1465
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Speaker 7: Well, speaking of teams that are trying to get on

1466
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Speaker 7: the same page, here we have the San Francisco forty

1467
01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:41,400
Speaker 7: nine ers taking on the Miami Dolphins. Miami is in

1468
01:15:41,439 --> 01:15:45,120
Speaker 7: fact home and the over under is forty four and

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01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:45,599
Speaker 7: a half.

1470
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Speaker 2: Let me tell you, nobody wants to watch this game.

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01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:50,120
Speaker 7: I know nobody, but in a good.

1472
01:15:49,920 --> 01:15:53,240
Speaker 2: Way, Like it's gonna be so bad, but who's gonna win.

1473
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:56,120
Speaker 7: That's why I picked the tough ones.

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01:15:56,160 --> 01:15:58,880
Speaker 1: Moncey. By the way, the first Super Bowl game that

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01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:03,440
Speaker 1: I actually attended in person, forty nine Ers Dolphins, January

1476
01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:07,080
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, Stanford Stadium, Da Marina versus Joe Montana.

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01:16:07,560 --> 01:16:09,559
Speaker 1: Forty nine Ers one big, but the forty nine Ers

1478
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:10,800
Speaker 1: actually a slight favorite on.

1479
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:12,080
Speaker 2: The very slight Yeah.

1480
01:16:12,200 --> 01:16:14,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, am I going first on this one?

1481
01:16:14,280 --> 01:16:15,880
Speaker 7: We get to go first on this and Steve.

1482
01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:21,439
Speaker 1: Well, I'm trying to think inside the head of MANSI

1483
01:16:21,560 --> 01:16:25,800
Speaker 1: right now, you know what I took. I've already taken Well,

1484
01:16:25,880 --> 01:16:29,360
Speaker 1: I took. I took the Commanders. I'm gonna go Niners

1485
01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:31,920
Speaker 1: in this yere. I'm going to go the Niners. I

1486
01:16:31,920 --> 01:16:34,320
Speaker 1: don't like that over under, but I think the Niners

1487
01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:38,080
Speaker 1: favored in this game. Brock Party, who has been a

1488
01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:41,280
Speaker 1: picture of mediocrity, is going to be good enough. I

1489
01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:44,360
Speaker 1: think the as much as the forty nine Ers are struggling,

1490
01:16:44,439 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 1: I think the Dolphins are struggling worse. So I'm gonna

1491
01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:50,720
Speaker 1: go forty nine ers in this matchup against the Dolphins.

1492
01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:51,439
Speaker 6: All right?

1493
01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:53,800
Speaker 2: Who is running the ball for the forty nine ers,

1494
01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:57,120
Speaker 2: are you? I don't I they have nobody. But at

1495
01:16:57,120 --> 01:17:00,519
Speaker 2: the same time, Jalen Wattle out for Miami Tyreek, I

1496
01:17:00,520 --> 01:17:02,479
Speaker 2: don't even know if he's playing because of his wrist.

1497
01:17:03,280 --> 01:17:06,439
Speaker 2: Like both of these teams, I don't know who's running

1498
01:17:06,439 --> 01:17:07,400
Speaker 2: and who's getting the ball.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

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01:17:10,040 --> 01:17:12,559
Speaker 2: But is it close enough to pick the Dolphins just

1501
01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:15,120
Speaker 2: to spice things up? Is where I'm deciding here?

1502
01:17:15,240 --> 01:17:16,839
Speaker 1: Oh I think you love the Dolphins?

1503
01:17:16,840 --> 01:17:16,960
Speaker 3: Do?

1504
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:21,240
Speaker 2: I love the Dolphins at home? And they're both technically

1505
01:17:21,280 --> 01:17:26,559
Speaker 2: still fighting right for a playoff spot barely, but it's like, yeah,

1506
01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:27,759
Speaker 2: barely barely.

1507
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:31,120
Speaker 7: There could be a John new Smith Legacy game there

1508
01:17:31,320 --> 01:17:31,960
Speaker 7: that tight end?

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01:17:32,080 --> 01:17:32,400
Speaker 4: Is there?

1510
01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:33,160
Speaker 6: No?

1511
01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:36,800
Speaker 2: And Brock goodness, you know what, just because I really

1512
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:39,120
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a bad game no matter what. Yeah,

1513
01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:41,880
Speaker 2: let's take the Dolphins. Why not? Why not?

1514
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:46,840
Speaker 7: Let's take the Dolphins and he bolds.

1515
01:17:44,160 --> 01:17:48,679
Speaker 2: The it's gonna be bad.

1516
01:17:49,840 --> 01:17:51,719
Speaker 1: I can I can make that as well. No bolts

1517
01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:55,400
Speaker 1: on this one, bolds all right, one more game, all right,

1518
01:17:56,120 --> 01:17:59,000
Speaker 1: it lasts, but certainly in my eyes not least.

1519
01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:06,000
Speaker 7: We have my Minnesota Vikings taking on my Seattle Seahawks

1520
01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:09,919
Speaker 7: over under is forty two and a half. And honestly,

1521
01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 7: I just want to hear which one of you was

1522
01:18:11,240 --> 01:18:13,679
Speaker 7: gonna pick which one because I'm gonna keep mine a secret.

1523
01:18:14,080 --> 01:18:16,880
Speaker 7: Wants you get to go first? Viking Seahawks.

1524
01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:25,800
Speaker 2: You know, the Seahawks are an interesting team, and sometimes

1525
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:29,599
Speaker 2: I believe them, and then other times I'm like, why

1526
01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:35,599
Speaker 2: did I believe you? I don't know, but I think

1527
01:18:35,680 --> 01:18:39,479
Speaker 2: the Vikings are the better team.

1528
01:18:41,400 --> 01:18:42,959
Speaker 7: They are definitely the better team.

1529
01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:46,680
Speaker 2: You know, But they're playing in Seattle, which is it's yeah.

1530
01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:47,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, Seahawks are three and five.

1531
01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:48,360
Speaker 7: At at home.

1532
01:18:48,400 --> 01:18:50,439
Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know it hasn't been the

1533
01:18:50,479 --> 01:18:54,080
Speaker 2: home field advantage as it has in the past. I'm

1534
01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:56,960
Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna take the Vikings here. I'll take the

1535
01:18:57,040 --> 01:18:58,640
Speaker 2: Vikings over the Seahawks.

1536
01:18:58,880 --> 01:19:03,880
Speaker 1: Okay, So last week basically Patrick talked me into taking

1537
01:19:03,960 --> 01:19:07,200
Speaker 1: the uh Seahawks at home against the Packers and they

1538
01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:12,679
Speaker 1: got blown out. He did, Yeah, he gave me the look.

1539
01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:16,080
Speaker 1: He gave me the look.

1540
01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:18,840
Speaker 2: Patrick. We gotta figure out what that look is.

1541
01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:22,280
Speaker 7: Well, here's the thing, my teams, I'm gonna look at

1542
01:19:22,320 --> 01:19:23,240
Speaker 7: you like which one.

1543
01:19:23,400 --> 01:19:26,160
Speaker 1: I mean? We're talking about a Seahawks team that lost

1544
01:19:26,200 --> 01:19:31,639
Speaker 1: to the Giants at home. Yeah, yeah, okay, I'm sorry.

1545
01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:34,920
Speaker 1: I cannot for the life of me, I'm taking Seattle

1546
01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:39,120
Speaker 1: and by the way, save my hero, by the way, Patrick.

1547
01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 1: If I end up losing the MANCI this year because

1548
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: I keep picking Seattle to win, what's funny.

1549
01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:50,400
Speaker 2: You're never gonna forget Arizona twice swiped it.

1550
01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:53,439
Speaker 1: And I got it. They are a loser, but they

1551
01:19:53,520 --> 01:19:56,840
Speaker 1: still obviously are tied record wise with the Rams with

1552
01:19:56,920 --> 01:20:00,400
Speaker 1: a chance to win the NFC WES. So yeah, Gino,

1553
01:20:00,520 --> 01:20:03,280
Speaker 1: Smith's gonna come up. The Vikings can't win every game

1554
01:20:03,360 --> 01:20:05,719
Speaker 1: the rest of the there. They're a seven game winning Street.

1555
01:20:05,760 --> 01:20:07,600
Speaker 1: They need to lose ongoing Seahawks.

1556
01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:12,759
Speaker 2: You know Smith three interceptions, Yeah, that's that's that's Street.

1557
01:20:12,960 --> 01:20:14,760
Speaker 7: If he doesn't throw three picks every game.

1558
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:17,880
Speaker 2: If he says no, it's fine, it's fine.

1559
01:20:17,920 --> 01:20:22,000
Speaker 1: What no, As a Seahawks can, It's gonna