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Speaker 2: in the world, those who make things happen, those who

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Speaker 2: watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. And

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Speaker 2: since my last show, there have been three events that

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Speaker 2: I think fall under all three categories in some former fashion.

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Speaker 2: Last night, the Detroit Lions strolled into Kansas City and

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Speaker 2: knocked off the defending Super Bowl champions. Last Saturday, TCU,

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Speaker 2: who returned seven starters on defense, well Colorado and Dion

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Speaker 2: Sanders is twenty one point underdogs went in and knocked

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Speaker 2: off the defending runner up college football champion team in

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Speaker 2: their building as it were. And I do need to

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Speaker 2: mention this because at the end of the show, I'm

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Speaker 2: going to give a tribute to Jimmy Buffett. You know,

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Speaker 2: Jimmy Buffett was quite a guy in many respects.

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Speaker 3: He never had a.

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Speaker 2: Number one hit, He wasn't critically acclaimed as a great

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Speaker 2: singer or guitarist. But through the power of story, he

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Speaker 2: took us to an imaginary place called Margaritaville, where the

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Speaker 2: beer is always cold, the people were always warm, and

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Speaker 2: they were both in abunnant supply. So what was Buffet's straw? Well,

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Speaker 2: don't miss my homage to Jimmy Buffett toward the end

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Speaker 2: of the show, and why he captivated America for five days.

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Speaker 2: By the way, you may say, well, wait a minute,

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Speaker 2: wonder what happened? You know, the Angels let me die

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Speaker 2: for thirty seconds year. The Angels once had a legendary

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Speaker 2: third base coach by the name of Moose Stouby. I

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Speaker 2: bet Mike Harmon and Jason Smith know who this guy

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Speaker 2: is a legend, And I don't say it necessarily a

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Speaker 2: good way. His record as an intro manager was zero twelve.

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Speaker 2: Moose might have not been the brightest, you know bulb,

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Speaker 2: as it were. I was looking for one of those

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Speaker 2: cute metaphors, you know, like he was two sandwiches short

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Speaker 2: of a picnic or you know, not the sharpest knife

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Speaker 2: from the door. But I almost screwed the whole thing up,

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Speaker 2: so let me forgive me. I'll just keep it moving.

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Speaker 2: So here's the bottom line. Jimmy Buffett was coming to

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Speaker 2: concert in southern California. This is many many years ago,

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Speaker 2: probably the late eighties. And after the sixth inning, in

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Speaker 2: the bottom of each inning, a plane at a small

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Speaker 2: airplane with one of those streamers behind it, Jimmy Buffet,

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Speaker 2: Jimmy Buffett would circle around the third base stands and

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Speaker 2: as soon as that plane was inside, people would roar

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Speaker 2: and clap and cheer, you know, evoked great response. And

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Speaker 2: after the second or third time, Mu Stupin literally walked

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Speaker 2: over to the stands and says, what the hell's the

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Speaker 2: biggest what's the big deal about Jimmy's buffet. Seriously, that happened,

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Speaker 2: But again I digress. We'll get to that later in

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Speaker 2: the show. But meanwhile, the NFL is back, And yes,

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Speaker 2: I've been telling you for months, don't hold this Lion's

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Speaker 2: team accountable for the sins of the past, most of

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Speaker 2: which were committed long before these guys were born. Look

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Speaker 2: after the Lions were one and six last year. They

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Speaker 2: did something under the radar not a lot of people

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Speaker 2: have talked about. But I'm proud of the fact that

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Speaker 2: I covered the Lion's pre post for ten years. Saw

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Speaker 2: it all Barry Sanders last year, the olde and sixteen

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Speaker 2: team under Rod Marinelli. This is not them, forget it,

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Speaker 2: not even close, not structurally, not culturally anything. There's no

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Speaker 2: more Matt Millan. They got Brad Holmes. If you don't

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Speaker 2: like Dan Campbell, Dan was a tight end on the seventeen.

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Speaker 2: Here's what they did. After Week seven last year, when

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Speaker 2: they were one one and six, Dan Campbell made a

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Speaker 2: command decision to fire their defensive backs coach Aubrey Pleasant.

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Speaker 2: He was running this risk rewards game that was ineffective,

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Speaker 2: caused a lot of communication problems, and they removed him

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Speaker 2: and installed a simpler system. It worked, communication improved, and yes,

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Speaker 2: the Lions were eight and two down the stretch. But

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Speaker 2: the Lions knew they needed to get better in the secondary,

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Speaker 2: so they got quarterback Cam Sutton from the Steelers. They

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Speaker 2: did I mention that the Lions this season have cumulatively

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Speaker 2: the nineth easiest schedule on the docket the teams they'll

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Speaker 2: play a four to ninety two winning percentage, And then

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Speaker 2: I mentioned, hey, the Chiefs aren't going to have Chris

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Speaker 2: have got beaten. But let's also give him a little

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Speaker 2: bit of credit because in the fourth quarter when it mattered,

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Speaker 2: a thrill. It's a new season. It was a hard

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Speaker 2: fought victory. This is a team that's dominated the league

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Speaker 2: for a half decade. Fantastic way for Detroit to start

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Speaker 2: to assert its validity as an NFC contender. All right,

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Speaker 2: I believe they are. And look at the other you know,

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Speaker 2: Brian Branch, we talked about him being drafted out of Alabama.

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Speaker 2: tip pass. So the Lions drafted, well, they had four

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Speaker 2: get it. The Chiefs were severely missing their Hall of

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Speaker 2: Fame tight end. He sidelined, he hyper extended his knee.

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Speaker 2: He's integral to Kansas City's offense as much as any

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs no longer have Jujus ms Schuster or Nicole Harbman.

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Speaker 2: But and I guess you'd have to say that without Kelsey,

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Speaker 2: the shortcomings of the Chiefs, which is their receiving corps,

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Speaker 2: was on full display. Kadarius Tony big disappointment, sky Moore.

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Speaker 2: You would hope he'd played a significant role.

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Speaker 2: I think they had combined for one catch in one

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Speaker 2: that tipped into the hands of the Lions safety Brian Branch,

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Speaker 2: But you can't pin all the blame on those guys. Okay,

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Speaker 2: the biggest problem for the Chiefs is their inability to

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Speaker 2: convert on third down. That's a fact. Kansas City went

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Speaker 2: Now you notice how that's reported. Kansas City went old

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Speaker 2: about the Lions defense having something to do with that?

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Speaker 2: Give the Lions credit. This was a showcase game. People

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Speaker 2: still questioned it for no reason. People talking about, oh, well,

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Speaker 2: say what you watched. They were lying in wait Sable

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Speaker 2: Allions and I had it all teed up, by the way,

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Speaker 2: because the last time, let's set the record straight, because

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Speaker 2: no one ever seems to get this right. The last

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Speaker 2: time the Lions won a playoff game won a playoff

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Speaker 2: game January fifth, nineteen ninety two. John Matten on the call.

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Speaker 2: That day, Lions beat Jimmy Johnson and Dallas thirty eight

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Speaker 2: to six, and look good doing it. That was a

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Speaker 2: great Lions team. They were twelve and four and they

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Speaker 2: John Madden went on to say, you're looking at the

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Speaker 2: two teams of the nineties. Well he had it half right.

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Speaker 2: Cowboys went on to win three Super Bowls. The Lions

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Speaker 2: have yet to win a playoff game since, although they

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Speaker 2: did go to the playoffs five times in the nineties

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Speaker 2: about that season. That ninety one season, there was a

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Speaker 2: afternoon game. The Redskins beat the Lions forty five to nothing.

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Speaker 2: And yes, believe me, even at that point there were

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Speaker 2: no Lions. The Lions were laughing stock in ninety one two,

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Speaker 2: they just were. The decade of the eighties was brutal.

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Speaker 2: The seventies was worse. You got to go back to

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Speaker 2: nineteen fifty seven, the last time they won a championship,

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Speaker 2: nine years before the first Super Bowl, ten years before

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Speaker 2: ninety one, the Lions, due to the Redskins forty five nothing,

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Speaker 2: But they proceeded to go twelve to three. In their

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Speaker 2: the following week loose to the Redskins forty one to ten. Again,

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Speaker 2: I digress. So had the Lions gotten beat last night,

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Speaker 2: that was gonna be my speech, because you can't. The

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Speaker 2: moral of the story is, don't try to judge this

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Speaker 2: team until you get to the end of the season. Look,

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Speaker 2: Detroit's defense stunk last year. They allowed a league worst

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Speaker 2: six and a half yards per play, partly, well, actually

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Speaker 2: at a large part to a very porous secondary. All right,

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Speaker 2: but the guys they brought in and I'm not gonna

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Speaker 2: last four months. That's significant to me. That's significant, and

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Speaker 2: the most noteworthy part of the Lion's performance was how

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Speaker 2: they approached the game. I really think message was sent.

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Speaker 2: You can call Dan Campbell a laughing stock after promising

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Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty one they were going to bite

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Speaker 2: knee caps, et cetera, et cetera. But that has actually

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Speaker 2: become the foundation of the of the Lion's success. A team,

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Speaker 2: a unit, will always take on the personality of their

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Speaker 2: field general. Dan Campbell is the real deal. Make no mistake.

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Speaker 2: He is what he is. He's not some phony baloney

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Speaker 2: Madison Avenue for Sad who does things for effect. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I like Robert Salad, and I'd really like to see

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Speaker 2: the Jets do well this year. When he started dropping

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Speaker 2: f bombs, it was crunch Worth. It doesn't sound like him.

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Speaker 2: Dan Campbell very authentic. And there's one thing. If the

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Speaker 2: believe they will, and we'll see what happens from there.

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Speaker 2: I make no predictions at this point. Let's see they

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Speaker 2: do something crazy. He win a couple of playoff games

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Speaker 2: that called Dan Campbell made from his own seventeen yard

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Speaker 2: line on the second series of the game the fake punt,

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Speaker 2: and it worked. That was the type of play where

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Speaker 2: Dan Campbell is saying to his team, it's fully demonstrated.

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Speaker 2: I've got an unshakeable faith in you guys, and this

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Speaker 2: is going to symbolize a new direction for a team

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Speaker 2: that's never even been to Super Bowl. So opening night

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Speaker 2: I think it was you know rave reviews from a

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Speaker 2: impression standpoint. Next up, by the way, the Lions take

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Speaker 2: on the Seahawks, and I'm not so sure Jackson and

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Speaker 2: Jigbas Smith will be one hundred percent coming up. We're

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Speaker 2: bringing Jared Smith. You hear him Saturday Mornings with Brian

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Speaker 2: No and Rich Hornberger on Countdown to Kickoff. Will chop

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Speaker 2: up some selected college games on Saturday and a couple

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Speaker 6: the great coaches in the history of the sport. I

433
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Speaker 6: will never begretch him that. But it's something and I've

434
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Speaker 6: talked about this with Anthony Gargano in the past here

435
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Speaker 6: on Fox Sports Radio. As great of a coach as

436
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Speaker 6: he is, there are some in game decisions where you

437
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Speaker 6: just kind of scratch your head. I remember the two

438
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Speaker 6: minute a two minute situation at the end of the

439
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Speaker 6: Jacksonville game last season in the Divisional playoff. How he

440
00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,680
Speaker 6: managed his timeouts was questionable. Going back to his days

441
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 6: in Philadelphia, how we managed games was really questionable at times.

442
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Speaker 6: Doesn't make him any less of a great coach, but look,

443
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Speaker 6: it hasn't hurt him. The Chiefs have been one of

444
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Speaker 6: the best franchises. They've been one of the best teams

445
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Speaker 6: in the entire NFL over the last six years, and

446
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Speaker 6: you're fortunate that some of those in game blunders by

447
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,880
Speaker 6: Andy Reid hasn't ended up costing the Chiefs during this run.

448
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Speaker 6: They've basically made the AFC Championship Game every single year

449
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Speaker 6: since Patrick Mahomes has become the starter, which is impressive

450
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Speaker 6: in and of itself. It is a Bernie Fraddle show

451
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Speaker 6: here on Fox Sports Radio. Kevin figures we're gonna hook

452
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Speaker 6: back up here with Bernie Fraddle here in just a

453
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Speaker 6: little bit. Until we get back up with Bernie, we're

454
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Speaker 6: gonna do a little bit of trending here, Mark, and

455
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Speaker 6: we'll see what we get. Bernie back on the line.

456
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Speaker 6: So we'll start with some Major League baseball from Friday night.

457
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Speaker 6: The Giants overcoming a couple of deficits, they snapped a

458
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Speaker 6: six game losing streak and beat the Colorado Rockies nine

459
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Speaker 6: to eight. Cleveland defeated the Angels in Anaheim six to three.

460
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Speaker 6: They remained at six and a half games behind the

461
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Speaker 6: Minnesota Twins in the AL Central. Twins did defeat the

462
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Speaker 6: Mets earlier in the day, a five to two Carlos

463
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Speaker 6: Correa with a home run there. Dodgers got home runs

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Speaker 6: from j D. Martinez at Max Munsey in an eight

465
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Speaker 6: to five victory in Washington. Mookie Bets will likely missed

466
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Speaker 6: the entire series after fouling a ball off of his

467
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Speaker 6: foot in Miami on Thursday, home run number thirty five

468
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Speaker 6: for Ronald Acunyo Junior. As the Braves roughed up Pittsburgh

469
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Speaker 6: eight to two, Blake Snell and the Padres defeated at

470
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Speaker 6: Houston eleven to two. Baltimore won at sixth in a

471
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Speaker 6: row with an eleven to two victory in Boston. At

472
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Speaker 6: the US Open, Daniel Medvedev upset top rank Carlos Alcaaz

473
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Speaker 6: in four sets. He will face Novak Djokovic in the

474
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Speaker 6: final on Sunday. And in college football, Kansas held off

475
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Speaker 6: Illinois thirty four to twenty three as Jalen Daniels tossed

476
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Speaker 6: two touchdown passes. You know, talking about college football. This

477
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Speaker 6: is the Bernie Fridal Show on Fox Sports Radio. By

478
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Speaker 6: the way, it will get Bernie hooked up here again

479
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Speaker 6: in a second. And of course, the big story I

480
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Speaker 6: mean out of last weekend from college football was what

481
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Speaker 6: I guess we all look like the fool for what

482
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Speaker 6: happened with Colorado and TCU last week. I think if

483
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Speaker 6: you said that Colorado was going to go in there

484
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Speaker 6: and actually get a victory against TCU, I think you

485
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Speaker 6: were lying. There are some who said, mat, look, maybe

486
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Speaker 6: they'll be able to hold their own, maybe they'll be

487
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Speaker 6: able to compete. But look, I certainly didn't see that

488
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Speaker 6: they went in as what twenty and a half point underdogs,

489
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Speaker 6: and rightfully so against the national runner up against tc

490
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Speaker 6: And I granted this wasn't the same TCU team, didn't

491
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Speaker 6: have Kendre Miller, Max Duggan's gone Quentin Johnson's with the

492
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Speaker 6: Chargers now, but there were still a ranked seventeenth in

493
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Speaker 6: the country Big twelve opponent, still had a lot of

494
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Speaker 6: returning players, good players still left on that defense. At

495
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Speaker 6: least it certainly didn't look like it though. And Colorado

496
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Speaker 6: with the largest roster turnover in the history of college football,

497
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Speaker 6: and it's only because this has never been done before,

498
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Speaker 6: it hasn't been able to be done before.

499
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Speaker 7: With the way the transfer portal is built.

500
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Speaker 6: Well, they have seventy new players on their roster, completely unprecedented.

501
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Speaker 6: And even though look, Dion brought a couple of guys

502
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Speaker 6: from the from Jackson State, his son obviously, and a

503
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Speaker 6: couple of other players, but a lot of these guys

504
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Speaker 6: who transferred in were definitely you know, FBS players, top

505
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Speaker 6: level Power five type players. So it was never going

506
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Speaker 6: to be an issue of talent with Colorado. The issue

507
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 6: is always going to be continuity. How do you turn

508
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Speaker 6: a roster over this fast, this quickly, with so little

509
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Speaker 6: continuity and be able to compete right away? And we

510
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Speaker 6: all have to tip our cap to Dion Sanders, who

511
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Speaker 6: you know, talks to talk, but I mean, damnit, he

512
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Speaker 6: walks to walk too. You know, it's one of those

513
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 6: and like a lot of people hate on Dion because

514
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 6: he's so flashy and he's arrogant. And you know, one thing,

515
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Speaker 6: I'll say, as much as the spotlight is on Dion,

516
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Speaker 6: and he does love him, he loves him from Hymn

517
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 6: to quote Tara Lowens, he puts a lot of us.

518
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Speaker 6: He puts the spotlight on the kids.

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Speaker 7: You know. After the game, Yes, Dion did his interview.

520
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 7: He talked about us. He didn't say about me.

521
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 6: It's all about we talking about leading the kids and

522
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 6: making sure that the kids are confident and being able

523
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Speaker 6: to get them to get a victory. I think Dion

524
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,719
Speaker 6: and this is one of those, you know, deflection methods.

525
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 6: I think to a certain degree. Throughout the week, Dion

526
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,959
Speaker 6: is very calculated and trying to put all the attention

527
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Speaker 6: on himself and to take as much pressure off of

528
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Speaker 6: the kids at Colorado that he possibly can.

529
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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 6: Look, has certainly worked last week. Whether or not it

531
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Speaker 6: will happened with Nebraska this week, we'll have to see.

532
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Speaker 6: I mean, look, Nebraska certainly did not look impressive, to

533
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Speaker 6: say the least against Minnesota, and both of those teams

534
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,360
Speaker 6: were kind of in a semi rebuilt transition.

535
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Speaker 7: At this point in time, Nebraska more so than Minnesota.

536
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Speaker 6: Nebraska looked solid defensively, I would say, against a retooling

537
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Speaker 6: Minnesota offense, but for Shador Sanders, who was a four

538
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Speaker 6: star by the way, for people that were shocked that

539
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Speaker 6: Shadro Sanders balled out, and look, I'm not gonna say

540
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Speaker 6: that I wasn't surprised that he played as well as

541
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Speaker 6: he played last week. Again CCU, he was a four

542
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Speaker 6: star quarterback Shrdever, Sanders got major offers from major college programs,

543
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 6: so he didn't just come out of nowhere so to

544
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Speaker 6: act like, you know, he just burst onto the scene

545
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Speaker 6: and oh my god, I realize this guy was so great. Well,

546
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 6: you know, and by the way, Jackson State probably deal

547
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 6: Sanders put them on the map. He had a couple

548
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Speaker 6: of nationally televised games last year, if he saw them

549
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Speaker 6: at all, or even the talent evaluators at the NFL

550
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 6: level say, look, even looking at this kid at Jackson State,

551
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Speaker 6: now look he might you know, I and I think

552
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Speaker 6: he has another year of eligibility after this one. Maybe

553
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 6: he pushes himself into the first round. It's a pretty

554
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 6: deep quarterback class this year, so We'll have to see

555
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Speaker 6: whether or not he decides to come out, but there's

556
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Speaker 6: talk of him possibly being a Day one pick, if

557
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,880
Speaker 6: not this year, then potentially next year in a PAC twelve,

558
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 6: by the way, which has been lauded for all of

559
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 6: its great quarterbacks this year and one of the names

560
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Speaker 6: that never came up with Shadora Sanders. I believe the

561
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Speaker 6: line right now for Nebraska and Colorado coming up this

562
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Speaker 6: weekend is three for the Fox Big noon kick off,

563
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 6: and that seems pretty low now. I don't know if

564
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Speaker 6: the odds makers are know something that we don't, if

565
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 6: they are expecting maybe some sort of an emotional letdown

566
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Speaker 6: for Colorado after that big victory at TCU. I would

567
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Speaker 6: say that if this game was in Lincoln, this game

568
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Speaker 6: is going to be at Colorado. Those tickets sold out

569
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Speaker 6: in minutes, and the next three home games at Colorado

570
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 6: have already been sold out. They're all sold out within

571
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Speaker 6: minutes earlier this week, And yeah, the line is three

572
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Speaker 6: by Colorado. I can't see nebra and like can look,

573
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Speaker 6: you can say it's a rivalry game. They're no longer

574
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Speaker 6: in the same conference anymore. I understand that I'm just

575
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 6: looking at talent completely different levels at this point in time.

576
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 6: I like Matt Ruhle. I think it's a good coach.

577
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Speaker 6: He's gonna end up turning Nebraska around. But in year

578
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 6: one without a whole lot to work with against a

579
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Speaker 6: Colorado team that not only is talented, but now it

580
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Speaker 6: looks like they have some continuity with Shadora Sanders.

581
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Speaker 7: And by the way, Travis.

582
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Speaker 6: Hunter, who just a maniac playing with one hundred plus

583
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 6: snaps in the heat at TCU, which makes it even

584
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 6: more impressive, is absolutely ridiculous. Dylan Edward's making plays out there. Defensively,

585
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Speaker 6: Colorado's gonna have some issues. As we saw last week

586
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 6: against TCU, they gave up some point. Look whether while

587
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 6: Travis Hunter's end zone interception or red zone interception, maybe

588
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,719
Speaker 6: that game plays out differently that they made plays when

589
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Speaker 6: they needed to.

590
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 7: You could say they bent, don't break.

591
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,479
Speaker 6: They bent and broke at times, but Shadro Sanders had

592
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Speaker 6: the ball last for the most part and made all

593
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Speaker 6: the plays. So look, this could be one of those

594
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 6: roller coaster years for a team like Colorado. Maybe they

595
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 6: score a lot of points, maybe they give up a

596
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 6: lot of points, but already you're already seeing the seeds

597
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 6: planted for what Dion is doing there and being able

598
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Speaker 6: to turn things around, and the fact that he was

599
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 6: able to basically deliver. Now, I can't say he delivered

600
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Speaker 6: on his promise quite yet. It's only one game. It's

601
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Speaker 6: one week. They can go one and eleven. I don't

602
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 6: think that's gonna happen based on how they performed. But look,

603
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Speaker 6: I know, talking to Anthony Gargano here on Fox Sports

604
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 6: Radio last week, I think both of us said, if

605
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Speaker 6: it was a five wins season for Colorado, that will

606
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 6: be a successful year for them, and.

607
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Speaker 7: It certainly is not the easiest schedule for them.

608
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Speaker 3: Sor are you a believer?

609
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Speaker 7: Am I a believer in Colorado?

610
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Speaker 6: Well? O, so, Dian's gonna call me out Shay, Yeah,

611
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Speaker 6: But Shae, I always was. I always was. I thought

612
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Speaker 6: that he would turn Colorado around. I did not think

613
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Speaker 6: that he would do it this quickly. And again, there's

614
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Speaker 6: nothing saying that he has done it this quickly. It's

615
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 6: just one game. But I think for all the people

616
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Speaker 6: that doubted him, I think you have at least a

617
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 6: little modicum of belief that's kind of entered into your spirit.

618
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Speaker 6: And by the way, I'm glad you brought that up, Shae,

619
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Speaker 6: our producer. I don't think it was right for Dion

620
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Speaker 6: to call out the media and say, like, do you

621
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Speaker 6: believe us? Ask You won't ask me these questions. You

622
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Speaker 6: would have written a column. You wrote this, Columnists, writers, journal,

623
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Speaker 6: This is what we do. It's our job to report

624
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 6: on what we see, what we expect. Nobody outside of

625
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 6: those Colorado that Colorado locker room, expecting them to perform

626
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 6: the way that they performed. Nobody. It wasn't just that

627
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 6: one columnanc he called out or anybody else. And I

628
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 6: think we had It's all within reason. We weren't just

629
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Speaker 6: saying it because we hate Deon. I love Deon Sanders.

630
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 6: I think he's phenomenal. I love his personality. I love

631
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 6: the fact that he talks trash and that he backs

632
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 6: it up. I think it's amazing. But don't take shots

633
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 6: at the media for doing their jobs because you turned

634
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 6: over ninety percent of your roster and brought in a

635
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 6: bunch of kids that had no continuity whatsoever, many of

636
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 6: which are FBS players, but had no experience playing together.

637
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 6: In short order, it's with the transfer portal. I don't

638
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 6: think anybody in their right mind would have been able

639
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 6: to say, oh, yeah, I expect Colorado to go in

640
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 6: to roll up forty five points against the team that

641
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 6: was the national runner up last year. Nobody would say it,

642
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 6: not with a straight face and not take themselves seriously.

643
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 6: So to a certain degree, yes, I always believe that

644
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 6: Deon Sanders would be able to turn Colorado around and

645
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 6: relatively quickly. I didn't think quickly was going to be

646
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Speaker 6: this year. I thought quickly would be within the next

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Speaker 6: couple of years. And I think going back to the

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Speaker 6: Big twelve is the best thing they could have done,

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Speaker 6: because I do think that, uh well, obviously, look, the

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Speaker 6: back twelve was going to dissolve. Their next move probably

651
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Speaker 6: could have been to the Big Ten, and I don't

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Speaker 6: think they wanted that smoke, if I'm to be honest

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Speaker 6: with you. So the Big Twelve move for them was

654
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Speaker 6: a spectacular move. Sends them back home, and look, they

655
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Speaker 6: could be set up to be the big dogs in

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Speaker 6: the Big twelve with Oklahoma and Texas leaving. Who are

657
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Speaker 6: your banner programs, Oklahoma State, Baylor. I really like what

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Speaker 6: Dion's doing down there at Colorado. I think he's making

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Speaker 6: some waves and I was pretty excited. I was pulling

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Speaker 6: for him last week, and I'm glad they were able

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Speaker 6: to pull out the victory. But that was wrong dean

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Speaker 6: on as you're taking shots at the media for people

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Speaker 6: just doing their jobs that were suppose that's what we're

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Speaker 6: supposed to do.

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Speaker 8: I mean yeah, I mean, I honestly I didn't have

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Speaker 8: a huge problem with him taking shots at the media.

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Speaker 8: I mean, he won his team at his back, and

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Speaker 8: I think that was great. I mean, it's it's he

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Speaker 8: he had that opportunity, and they gave him that opportunity

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Speaker 8: to say, hey, we're here and this. I mean, he

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Speaker 8: could have obviously gone about it a little bit better, yes,

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Speaker 8: And I mean he didn't have to also single out

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Speaker 8: that one I don't even know who that one guy was.

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Speaker 8: I don't think it even came out who that one

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Speaker 8: guy was.

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Speaker 7: I don't know either.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you don't have to say, oh, you wrote this

678
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Speaker 6: column about us to say what we weren't going to do.

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Speaker 8: It's his job. I mean, it's it's it's his job.

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Speaker 8: The same way if you would have lost that game,

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Speaker 8: it's your job.

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Speaker 6: Like that's like going back to two thousand and seven,

683
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Speaker 6: if someone wrote a column before the Super Bowl and

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Speaker 6: then say like, oh, the Patriots are going to go

685
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Speaker 6: undefeated and they're going to roll over the Giants, And

686
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 6: Tom Coughlin says, oh, you wrote this column and say

687
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 6: we we're gonna lose. The Patriots have the best offense

688
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Speaker 6: in the history of the sport and haven't lost the game,

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Speaker 6: and they beat you in week seventeen.

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Speaker 7: Hm, why wouldn't I think they beat you in the

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Speaker 7: Super Bowl? Okay, now we understand. So it's like, why

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Speaker 7: would you criticize. You got a job to do, Dionne.

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Speaker 6: That's to motivate your players and get you guys jazzed

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Speaker 6: up to get a victory. My job is to report

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Speaker 6: on what I see, what observe, and to give my

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Speaker 6: opinion based on all of the knowledge that's laid out

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Speaker 6: in front of me. And based on all the knowledge

698
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Speaker 6: and all the information laid out in front of us,

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Speaker 6: Colorado should not have been in that game last weekend.

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Speaker 6: Being in that game last weekend would have been a victory.

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Speaker 6: The fact that they got a victory, it's both volumes.

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Speaker 8: To me, Well, it's talking about getting a victory. I thought, honestly,

703
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Speaker 8: out of most of the ranked teams I was going

704
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Speaker 8: through them, I think they were number seventeen going into

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Speaker 8: that game. The biggest thing that I was thinking was,

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Speaker 8: I mean, I think they were the best team for

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Speaker 8: them to play and honestly the top eighteen, top twenty.

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Speaker 8: I mean, they're in a rebuilding phase. Obviously, they're coming

709
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Speaker 8: off a championship run. But at the same time, it's

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Speaker 8: definitely not the same team they were last year by far,

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Speaker 8: like by far like. If anything, it's a rebuilding phase

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Speaker 8: for TCU, and I'm while looking at all the other teams,

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Speaker 8: it just it really does not match up between anything else.

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Speaker 8: Like tc was the best case scenario for them, and

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Speaker 8: I think it really worked out and it was beneficial

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Speaker 8: for Dion. But at the same time, I am a believer,

717
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Speaker 8: don't get me wrong. I just think again, they were

718
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Speaker 8: the best team to play for their situation, for their

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Speaker 8: scenario to ease them in almost.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it certainly helps that TCU was in it look

721
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 6: and a mini rebuilt, sure, but there's still the seventeenth

722
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Speaker 6: ranked team in the country.

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Speaker 7: They still return some talents they still have.

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Speaker 6: You know, they still have Sunny Dys who's one one

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Speaker 6: of the best quarterbacks or excuse me, one of the

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Speaker 6: best head coaches.

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Speaker 7: In the country. So great effort by Dion and Colorado.

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Speaker 7: We'll see what they do this.

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Speaker 6: Weekend against Nebraska's the Bernie Frato Show here on Fox

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Speaker 6: Sports Radio. We'll take a short time out.

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Speaker 7: We'll see you on the other side.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 6: All right, this is the Bernie Frato Show. Kevin figures

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00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 6: here at Fox Sports Radio. We'll look back up with

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Speaker 6: Bernie Fratto here coming up soon. Spent this first hour

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Speaker 6: talking a lot about opening night of the NFL season

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00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 6: on Thursday, the Chiefs getting that victory, excuse me, the

741
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Speaker 6: Detroit Lions getting the victory in Kansas City over the Chiefs.

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Speaker 6: So many of us has just expected it to happen,

743
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 6: so you thought it was a foregone conclusion of Kansas

744
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Speaker 6: City the Definity champs. We'll get a victory at home

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00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 6: against the Detroit Lions, you know. And you know one

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00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 6: thing Bernie talked about. He's talked about that nauseum on

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Speaker 6: his show recently, and the genuine whether or not the

748
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 6: head coach of the jets is being genuine Robert Salah

749
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Speaker 6: and talking about Hard Knocks, dropping the F bombs and like,

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Speaker 6: and we've disgusted Bernie and I on the show the

751
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Speaker 6: last few weeks as well watching Hard Knocks. You know

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Speaker 6: how inauthentic he seems. He doesn't seem like an inauthentic

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00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 6: coach or an authentic person, but when he's dropping the

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00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 6: F bombs and telling all these speeches about birds and

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00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 6: all this stuff, it just it seems a little contrived.

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Speaker 6: That's one thing that I cannot say about Dan Campbell

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00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 6: with the Detroit Lions, and so many of us made

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00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 6: fun of him, and like myself included. It's opening press

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Speaker 6: conference when he's talking about biting off kneecaps and grabbing

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00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 6: and clawing and taking a piece ide of he as

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Speaker 6: we call ourselves off of the ground and all that.

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Speaker 6: As much of a meathead as many of us thought

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Speaker 6: that he was, and he probably is, and he'd probably

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Speaker 6: tell you that he is, and never for one single

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Speaker 6: solitary second thought that he was disingenuous and the way

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Speaker 6: that he felt in the way that he express him

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Speaker 6: and I'll give him credit for that, you.

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Speaker 7: Know, and one people you cannot fool.

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Speaker 6: I have the pleasure of working with you know, former

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Speaker 6: sixteen year NFL quarterback Ridney Peede every single day at

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00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 6: our local affiliate, A five seventy LA Sports, and he says,

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Speaker 6: one thing you can do is full players in the

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00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 6: locker room. They'll know a guy who's being real and

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00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 6: who's not, someone who's sticking to their own principle, someone

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00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 6: who's being themselves, and someone who's trying to basically gast

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Speaker 6: them up. We talked last week about Jonathan Gannon, the

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Speaker 6: little feature that the Arizona Cardinals had on their website,

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00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 6: and he just gave one of the most one of

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Speaker 6: the weakest speeches I've ever heard, and the players look

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Speaker 6: like they're falling asleep in their chairs. He's like, you

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00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 6: don't want to run through a wall. I don't even

782
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 6: want to knock on the door for this guy. And

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Speaker 6: hope somebody lets me in, let alone run through a

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Speaker 6: wall for him. And those are the sort of things

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Speaker 6: that you can kind of that that player, an NFL player,

786
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 6: can see through easily. Say what you want about Dan

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Speaker 6: Campbell and whether or not you think he's, you know,

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Speaker 6: the sharpest tool in the shed, although I do think

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Speaker 6: he's a pretty bright guy. Honestly, you hear him talk,

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Speaker 6: he's definitely not He's not hollow at all. One thing

791
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Speaker 6: you can never question is whether or not he's genuine.

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Speaker 6: And when you have a guy like that who puts

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Speaker 6: himself out there for his players, goes out of his

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Speaker 6: way to defend his players, will fall on the sword if.

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Speaker 7: Things don't go wrong. And when things did go wrong

796
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Speaker 7: his first.

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Speaker 6: Couple of years, as glowing as we feel about the

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Speaker 6: Detroit Lions at this very moment in time, and upsetting

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Speaker 6: the Super Bowl champions on their home field a couple

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Speaker 6: of nights ago one in six last year, I mean,

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Speaker 6: there is talk of him being not being able to

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Speaker 6: make out the you know, play out the remainder of

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Speaker 6: the season last year before they got hot towards the

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Speaker 6: end of the year ended up being beating Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 6: and the Packers and having all that momentum going into

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Speaker 6: this season. People like me, when when they with the

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Speaker 6: NFL announced that they were going to have the opening

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Speaker 6: night matchup against Kansas City, said why would you put

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Speaker 6: the Detroit Lions on national TV? You know, look, I

810
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 6: know they ended the season well last year, but this

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Speaker 6: is still Jared Goff, who we've seen fold in big situations.

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Speaker 6: This is still the Detroit Lions, whoever won a playoff

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Speaker 6: game since the person I mentioned, Rodney Pete was playing

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Speaker 6: for them in nineteen ninety two. Seems long, long ways

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Speaker 6: away from being a Super Bowl competitor. But they showed

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Speaker 6: some toughness and some grit, and they took on the

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Speaker 6: personality of their head coach. Even with the injuries to

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Speaker 6: Kansas City. I'm not gonna I can't discount that and

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Speaker 6: say that that didn't matter. Obviously it mattered, but for

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Speaker 6: them to play as well as they did in a

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Speaker 6: hostile environment. And by the way, I'll give love to

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Speaker 6: Detroit Detown. How many Lion fans? How many Blue jerseys

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Speaker 6: did you see in that at Arrowhead? I never thought

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Speaker 6: i'd see Arrowhead like that. That looked like Sofi Stadium

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Speaker 6: for a Charger game. The amount of road fans they're

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Speaker 6: on Airhead on Thursday night one of the most passionate

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Speaker 6: fan bases. Even as downtrodden as a franchise has been

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Speaker 6: over the last thirty thirty years, it's been, could never

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Speaker 6: discount the passion of the Detroit Lions and their fans.

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Speaker 6: And it really is cool to see how much confidence

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Speaker 6: that they have in Dan Campbell in this team, who

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00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,359
Speaker 6: again might not a Super Bowl contender, but you can

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00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 6: tell they're building towards something. Maybe Jered Golf is not

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Speaker 6: that guy to take them to the Promised Land, but

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Speaker 6: you know what, maybe maybe he's Moses. He'll get he'll

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Speaker 6: tiptoe to the line and they'll have to usher in

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Speaker 6: somebody else to get him, get him there.

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Speaker 7: But we'll see.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, this is Kevin figures in for Bernie Fratto here

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Speaker 6: on Fox Sports Radio. We're trying to hook back up

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Speaker 6: with Bernie Freddo soon Fox Sports Radio. Kevin figures in

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Speaker 6: for Bernie Freddo here on Fox Sports Radio. Out in

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Speaker 6: sort of for Bernie Fratto. As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 6: our friend Bernie Freddo is joining us right now. Technology

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Speaker 6: may have failed us, but Bernie is not. Bernie is

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Speaker 6: still rejoining us here on the Bernie Fraddle Show on

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Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 7: Bernie, what's going on, brother Kevin?

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Speaker 3: As you well know, Las Vegas can bring us some

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Speaker 3: unpredictable events, and it appear as we have an outage

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Speaker 3: in the area, and so thanks for jumping in and

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Speaker 3: pitch hitting. But as they say, Kevin, the shield must

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Speaker 3: go on. And now that we have officially crossed midnight

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Speaker 3: on the left coast, all right, tension turns to some

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Speaker 3: top college football games Saturday, and of course the one

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Speaker 3: being most talked about is Nebraska Colorado. We're going to

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Speaker 3: get to that in just a second, But Kevin, I

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Speaker 3: want to start with Texas Alabama because this features two

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Speaker 3: top eleven ranked teams. Alabama has won twenty one in

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Speaker 3: a row at home nick Saban in that stretch, sixteen

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Speaker 3: and five against the number Texas. This is a referendum game.

862
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Speaker 3: If I had a nickel for every time people told

863
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 3: me Texas was back, Elon Musk would be more in

864
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 3: my laun I don't buy in the Kirk, I don't

865
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 3: buy the Steves Arkesian your thoughts on that game.

866
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm with you, you know, And I know a

867
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 6: lot of people have questions about Alabama because of their

868
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 6: quarterback situation. Jalen Mirro looked as good as he possibly

869
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 6: could against Middle Tennessee. It's Middle Tennessee. What are you

870
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 6: kind of expecting at that point? And I'm with you,

871
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,879
Speaker 6: Barney when it comes to Texas. So many times over

872
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 6: the last decade to decades, Texas is back. Texas has

873
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,720
Speaker 6: turned it around only to fall flat on their face.

874
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 6: You know, I quit last season's game against Alabama. You

875
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 6: know to the Charlie Weiss game against USC back in

876
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 6: two thousand and four. I believe it was when they

877
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:16,320
Speaker 6: almost beat USC and Charlie wise got that giant contract

878
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 6: extension and they fell off the face of the earth. Now,

879
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 6: I'm not saying that sark and Texas is going to

880
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 6: fall off the face of the earth like that, but

881
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 6: I think all of the talk of the demise of

882
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 6: Alabama is greatly exaggerated at this point in time, and

883
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 6: I think Jalen Minrol is more than capable enough. And

884
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 6: if anything, at this point, Brat Bernie, I think they're

885
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 6: kind of going back to the Jalen Hurts style of offense.

886
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 6: Run first utilized Jalen Monrol as a weapon in the

887
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 6: run game, which will open things up in the passing

888
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 6: game for them. So I'm not saying Alabama's gonna blow

889
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 6: them out, but I certainly I agree with the line

890
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 6: of seven of seven, and if I had to take

891
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 6: the line, honestly would take Alabama minus the seven in

892
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:50,879
Speaker 6: this game.

893
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:56,879
Speaker 3: I happened to like Jalen Nolro. He's efficient, He's more

894
00:42:56,920 --> 00:43:00,720
Speaker 3: than serviceable. He can keep ways alive with his legs.

895
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 3: He's an efficient enough patcher. Here's the kicker, Nick dape

896
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 3: and by design, has constructed this team to be one

897
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 3: of the Alabama teams from years ago. They want to

898
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 3: go back to playing bullyball each yet the line of scrimmage,

899
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 3: everything starts with the run. Everything flows from there. And

900
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 3: that's the kind of game plan that I think is

901
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 3: going to give Texas.

902
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 4: It fits.

903
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 3: So I also think that while much has been made

904
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:32,320
Speaker 3: of Texas's run seven and duly noted, Alabama's runt seven

905
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,399
Speaker 3: is very good as well. And I think Texas may

906
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 3: struggle to protect twin yours and if they don't, yours

907
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 3: is going to have to get rid of the ball quick.

908
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 4: Now.

909
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 3: I remember last year Texas said they were having the

910
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 3: game of their life and ers got hurt, and a

911
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 3: lot of people think that if you were stayed in

912
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 3: the game, Texas might have prevailed. Of course, the final

913
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 3: score twenty to nineteen. Don't think for a minute, Nick

914
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 3: Saban doesn't remember that. And coming off a year where

915
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 3: they didn't win the h and Alabama didn't make to

916
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,439
Speaker 3: the playoffs. Memoles are telling me Sabans loaded for Bear.

917
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 3: I haven't fired on the game, but the only way

918
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 3: I could look is Alabama. It is Land seven. They

919
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 3: are Land seven. But I do think that line.

920
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 4: Is is legit.

921
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 3: I want to flip to the Colorado game, Kevin very quickly,

922
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 3: because there's been so much reaction for a couple of

923
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 3: reasons now, not the least of which that if these

924
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 3: two teams had played last week, Nebraska would have been

925
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 3: a seven and a half point favorite at Colorado. Now

926
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:41,760
Speaker 3: we see what this Colorado team looks like. All kinds

927
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 3: of speed on both sides of the ball, very explosive

928
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 3: on offense. Last week they had seven plays of twenty

929
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 3: plus yards or more, five plays of thirty yards or more.

930
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 3: T you did return seven starters on defense, and you

931
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 3: really got to give credit to Sean was the offensive

932
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 3: coordinator for Colorado and their old line, which shold up

933
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:07,240
Speaker 3: a lot better than people thought. I was told Colorado

934
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 3: had athletes. What I was told was they were going

935
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,959
Speaker 3: to have issues with depth and issues on the interior line.

936
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 3: Here's the here's the storyline. Now Nebraska is open to

937
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 3: a five point underdog on Monday, the cloth have come

938
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 3: in on Nebraska, and there is a historic precedentge here

939
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:30,280
Speaker 3: whenever a team an opening week team is an underdog

940
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 3: of twenty or more points and they happened to toll

941
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 3: an upset well the following week. This has happened six

942
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 3: times since nineteen eighty nine.

943
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 4: Were a team who.

944
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 3: Was a twenty point underdog one outright week one, it

945
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 3: happened six times the following week. Those teams are in

946
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:53,280
Speaker 3: the Witness Protection program. They're all oer and six. Only

947
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 3: one of those teams was favored the following week. That

948
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 3: was Southern Mississippi. They beat Florida State, a Dion Sanders

949
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 3: team in nineteen eighty nine. Ironically, they were twenty two

950
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 3: point underdogs. They went out right. The following week, Southern

951
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 3: miss was the seven point favorite against Mississippi State and

952
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:18,760
Speaker 3: they proceed to lose outright. However, this is not a game.

953
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 3: There's no way I can back Nebraska. They've got a

954
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 3: first year coach as well, Matt Rule. They've got to

955
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 3: travel back to back weeks and Kevin.

956
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:31,240
Speaker 4: I don't know if you happen to see the game between.

957
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 3: Colorado and the or check that between Minnesota and Nebraska.

958
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:39,840
Speaker 3: Last week, Nebraska's quarterback Jeff Sims only threw fo one

959
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 3: hundred and fourteen yards and had three picks. They only

960
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:47,240
Speaker 3: managed ten points against Minnesota. Now, I think PJ. Fleck

961
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:49,799
Speaker 3: as a well coached team, they don't have anywhere near

962
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 3: the team to beat Colorado has. So I'm very conflicted

963
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 3: about this game because there's historical president that I just mentioned,

964
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 3: there's also all kinds of historical president. When the line

965
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 3: moved ten ten and a half points, what are your

966
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 3: thoughts on this game?

967
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a good point, and I struggle then, you

968
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 6: know you being out there in Vegas, I was going

969
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 6: to ask you, you know how Colorado would only be

970
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 6: favored by three considering how they looked last week and

971
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 6: how Nebraska looked against a Minnesota team that's kind of

972
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:19,320
Speaker 6: in a pseudo in a mini rebuild, just like Nebraska.

973
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 6: Is probably not as heavy as a rebuild as Nebraska,

974
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 6: but certainly don't have.

975
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 7: A lot of the players they've had over the last

976
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 7: couple of years.

977
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 6: And it's interesting to me that some are thinking like, well,

978
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 6: maybe Colorado will have a bit of an emotional letdown.

979
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 6: It's really hard to have an emotional letdown where you're

980
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 6: going home and the game is sold out, and this

981
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 6: is the most excited this fan base has been in

982
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 6: over ten years for a Buffalo program going against I

983
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:43,839
Speaker 6: know they're not in the same conference anymore, but still

984
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 6: an historical rival.

985
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 7: It's tough for me to understand.

986
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 6: So I'm interested in your take from just a line standpoint,

987
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,320
Speaker 6: and I know you gave the historical precedent and maybe

988
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 6: that's why the line is set at three like it is.

989
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:58,320
Speaker 6: But based on what we saw just from last Friday

990
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:02,839
Speaker 6: night with Nebraska and Lastaturday afternoon with Colorado, it kind

991
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 6: of surprises me that the Buffaloes aren't at least a

992
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:06,439
Speaker 6: touchdown favorite in this game.

993
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, excuse me, sorry. The eye test tells us very

994
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 3: simply that Colorado again, with all the hype of coming

995
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 3: home and have you know, the the benefit of the

996
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:27,360
Speaker 3: crowd on their side Minnesota having traveling back to back weeks,

997
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 3: the eye test tells me that Colorado speed could potentially

998
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 3: overwhelm Minnesota now or check that Nebraska. You know, at

999
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 3: least now though Matt Rule has Colorado on film, so

1000
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 3: they'll note some tendencies. By the way, you mentioned a

1001
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 3: point about how Colorado react. We all know, you know, Look,

1002
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:51,399
Speaker 3: we all know how most alpha dogs react when things

1003
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 3: go wrong. They pick themselves up, dust themselves off, get

1004
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 3: back in the fight. Right now, we don't know how

1005
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 3: teams respawn after the kind of success. I mean, this

1006
00:48:59,200 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 3: shocked the world.

1007
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 4: I do know this.

1008
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 3: Tom Brady texted to Door Sanders the next morning and said,

1009
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 3: don't be satisfied. And I don't think Deanna let them

1010
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 3: let them let down. Can they execute in much the

1011
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:18,319
Speaker 3: same way? I think Nebraska is challenged to score points offensively.

1012
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 3: They don't really have much of a passing game. So

1013
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 3: I'm baffled on this one because that line that was

1014
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 3: created whereby TCU was a twenty two point favorite, was

1015
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 3: based on last year's power ratings. That's the only way

1016
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 3: they can do these things. People have to know that

1017
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 3: in Vegas, a petting line is not a predictor. It's

1018
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 3: merely an instrument to create equal action on both sides

1019
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 3: so the sportsbooks can maximize profit and minimize risk. That's

1020
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 3: all it is. It's not a predictor. So that twenty

1021
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 3: two point line was created based on last year's power ratings.

1022
00:49:56,160 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 3: The original send off line of Nebraska laying mon and

1023
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,800
Speaker 3: a half was based on last year's power ratings. Well,

1024
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 3: there's eighty six new players on the roster, including sixty

1025
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 3: eight new scholarship players, and as you can clearly see,

1026
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 3: they cut some legitimate playmakers and they executed well. And

1027
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 3: I was super impressed with Jaanor Sanders.

1028
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 4: He sees the field, he's.

1029
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 3: Got excellent footwork and mechanics.

1030
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 4: His decision making is good.

1031
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 3: He tells an extremely catchable ball. He's got a good arm,

1032
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 3: he's accurate, he makes the right decision, gets it to

1033
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 3: the right guy. I was looking at an NFL offense

1034
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 3: executed with a bunch of guys's just brought together. Well,

1035
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,800
Speaker 3: you know, in a sense, Nebrafka is in the same situation.

1036
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 4: They're breaking in.

1037
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 3: A new quarterback and they've got a new coach, and

1038
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 3: they're jinxed. How off you saw the game against Minnesota.

1039
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 3: They're just jinks. So my eyeball tells me that if

1040
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,439
Speaker 3: you put these two teams on the field, I'm having

1041
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 3: a hard time believing Colorado doesn't run a rough shot.

1042
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 3: At the same time, his history tells us that you

1043
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 3: have to expect the unexpected. When the line moves ten

1044
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:05,359
Speaker 3: and a half points. So that's my long winded way

1045
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 3: of saying, this is a very unpredictable game. I'm really

1046
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:10,959
Speaker 3: looking forward to seeing it. It'll be it'll kick off,

1047
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 3: you know, noon eastern, nine am Pacific, coming straight out

1048
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:18,360
Speaker 3: of the you know, the the Fox Moon Kickoff Show.

1049
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 6: No doubt, and definitely looking forward to that to see

1050
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 6: how Dion and the Buffaloes respond after that big emotional

1051
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 6: win last week at TCU. Were there a couple any

1052
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,400
Speaker 6: other games that stand out on today's slate for you, Bernie?

1053
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 3: Yeah? Why do we do this, Kevin, Let's take care

1054
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 3: of your business. On You're in. I like to talk

1055
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 3: about Oregon, Texas Tech. I'll explain why. I want to

1056
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 3: talk about oldness, Tulane and Texas A and in Miami Perfect.

1057
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:44,319
Speaker 7: We'll get into all of that.

1058
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 6: And speaking of Shadorah Sanders, what's the noise around him

1059
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 6: in NFL circles. We'll talk about that with Bernie frattele

1060
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:52,919
Speaker 6: as well. Coming up here the Bernie Friddle Show here

1061
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 6: on Fox Sports Radio.

1062
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 7: Don't go anywhere.

1063
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 6: Back in on the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio,

1064
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:01,839
Speaker 6: Kevin figures here with you the studio, join by the

1065
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 6: man of the hour, mister Bernie fred I'll talk to

1066
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 6: some college football. We'll get into the NFL on a

1067
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 6: little bit. All right, now, let's throw it out to

1068
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 6: our guy, Bernie Bernie Fretto.

1069
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 7: What's going on?

1070
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,360
Speaker 3: Yeah? And I want to remind to Kevin tonight. She

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Speaker 3: game another Fox game seven pm Eastern has caught my

1077
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:40,320
Speaker 3: eye because these are two programs that had huge preseason expectations.

1078
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 3: Oregon puts up eighty one against Portland State. Bo Nicks

1079
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 3: has that offense looking like the Harlem Globetrotters. Meanwhile, Texas

1080
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 3: Tech had a terrible loss, losing to Wyoming in double overtime.

1081
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:55,839
Speaker 3: The Pac twelve or the Pack four or the Pac

1082
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 3: two or whatever you want to call it. Now they're

1083
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 3: thirteen and oh so far a soken Oregon go on

1084
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:04,839
Speaker 3: the road where Texas Tech is looking to rebound. That

1085
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 3: is not an easy area to play in there in

1086
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:10,440
Speaker 3: lubb of Texas, and it's going to be hot. Have

1087
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 3: you given any thought.

1088
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 7: To that game, Kevin, you know before the season started.

1089
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 6: I actually did, But seeing how things played out last

1090
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 6: week with Texas Tech and just how you know, uninspired

1091
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,799
Speaker 6: they looked in that loss at Wyoming is uh that

1092
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 6: was difficult one to swallow, and I know what to

1093
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 6: double overtime. It was close, but I mean this is

1094
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 6: one where Texas Tech, I believe, correct me if I'm wrong,

1095
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 6: they were double digit favorites.

1096
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 7: Going into Wyoming.

1097
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:34,879
Speaker 6: Uh So to have to be that uninspired and lose

1098
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 6: to a Wyoming team was depressing.

1099
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 7: So uh my expectation.

1100
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 6: Look, Oregon is still only favored by six points, and

1101
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 6: I do think that's because, as you mentioned, they're having

1102
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 6: to go to a tough place that's gonna be humid,

1103
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 6: it's gonna be hot for a team coming down from

1104
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:50,359
Speaker 6: the Pacific Northwest, it's gonna be tough, tough conditions for them.

1105
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 6: But I'll be honest with you, just based off of

1106
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 6: how and it's only one week, I understand that, and

1107
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 6: it's you're stepping up in competition this weekend for both

1108
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:00,359
Speaker 6: teams it's I'm hard pressed to see how Texas Tech

1109
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:02,720
Speaker 6: finds a way to cover the spread in this one.

1110
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 3: Yeah. And the other thing too is, if I'm not mistaken,

1111
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:09,399
Speaker 3: Texas Tech BLEUW of a substantial lead in that game. Yeah,

1112
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 3: we'll see how they rebound. Oregon currently ranked thirteenth, and

1113
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 3: this is a good This is a good team who

1114
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 3: historically has had great success in the Big Ten, and

1115
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 3: that's where they're headed to the Big Ten. The other game,

1116
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 3: another game that's caught my eye. Ole Miss currently ranked twentieth.

1117
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:30,959
Speaker 3: They're at tu Lane, They're ranked twenty fourth. Somebody better

1118
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,280
Speaker 3: start paying attention to this to Lane team and Willie

1119
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 3: Fritz and an outstanding here last year bust and their

1120
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 3: bowl game pushed around a very good South Alabama game.

1121
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 3: Tou Lane currently the only group of five school currently

1122
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 3: ranked in the top twenty five. And listen, they're all

1123
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 3: Miss is a very talented team, and I don't think

1124
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:54,839
Speaker 3: that I don't think that bothers to Lane at all

1125
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,879
Speaker 3: because sc put better talent on the field during last

1126
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 3: year's Cotton Bowl and you saw that turned out. So

1127
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 3: this will be an interesting battle between two quarterbacks. Jackson

1128
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 3: Dark from Old Miss who's once a USC trojan, and

1129
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 3: Michael Pratt of Tulane both looked great Week one thoughts.

1130
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:15,759
Speaker 6: My big thought is I'm looking at this over under

1131
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:17,800
Speaker 6: Bernie at sixty six and a half, and I'm thinking

1132
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:20,759
Speaker 6: over all day. To be honest, I can see both

1133
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,240
Speaker 6: of these teams scoring into the potentially into the forties.

1134
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:25,400
Speaker 6: You mentioned how great of a year two Lane had

1135
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 6: last season in the finish against USC. The question that

1136
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 6: I have Bernie that that's interesting. If you're Old Miss,

1137
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 6: what do you stand to gain by taking a true

1138
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:35,759
Speaker 6: road game against a team like Tulane.

1139
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 7: You know, it's one thing if you're.

1140
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 6: LSU and you go into what's essentially a home game

1141
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,200
Speaker 6: for Florida State in Orlando and you lose to a

1142
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 6: blue blood in the ACC that's ranked in the top five,

1143
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 6: that's going to be hovering around the college Football playoff

1144
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:50,240
Speaker 6: conversation all season long. Your LSU, you take that loss,

1145
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 6: it's not gonna end up hurting you too much. If

1146
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 6: you're Old Miss and you're an SEC team, you go

1147
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,760
Speaker 6: on the road at a group of five opponent who's

1148
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 6: been really good over the last few years, you know

1149
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 6: you really don't stand to gain a whole lot by winning,

1150
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 6: but you stand to potentially lose a lot if you lose.

1151
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 6: I just found it interesting that ole Miss decided to

1152
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 6: do this, and this isn't a home and home. I

1153
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:09,799
Speaker 6: looked at their schedule next season. Tulane is not on

1154
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 6: their schedule going at ole Miss next year. Just a

1155
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 6: very interesting schedule decision for all Miss to take this game.

1156
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 3: It is interesting. And I would just say this, These

1157
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 3: schedules are made sometimes three, five, seven years in advance,

1158
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:27,520
Speaker 3: so I'm not sure what the thinking was, but I

1159
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 3: will say it is. Tulane has very They've quitted themselves

1160
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:36,320
Speaker 3: very well when it comes to, you know, competing against

1161
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 3: power five schools. The final game, well, actually there's two games.

1162
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,799
Speaker 3: I'm gonna sneak in a sixth game, Texas A and

1163
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:46,799
Speaker 3: M at Miami. Texas A and M ranked twenty third,

1164
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:51,160
Speaker 3: Miami unranked. It's a rematch of last year's game. It

1165
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:53,359
Speaker 3: was kind of an ugly one. Texas A and M

1166
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 3: won seventeen to nine, and neither team could complete a

1167
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:02,320
Speaker 3: forward pass, neither team could convert third down. But here's

1168
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:06,360
Speaker 3: what's interesting. Texas to A and M Kevin could be

1169
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 3: one of those teams lying in the weeds this year

1170
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 3: because even though Jimbo Fixture reluctantly hired the new offensive coordinator,

1171
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 3: Bobby Petrino, they put up fifty two points against New Mexico. Yeah,

1172
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 3: I was New Mexico, but I saw a lot of

1173
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 3: schemes and personnel groupings really taking advantage of Texas A

1174
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:30,919
Speaker 3: and M's athletes. And I'm sure you know we talked

1175
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 3: about them many times, the nil program that allowed Texas

1176
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 3: A and M to bring in the number one recruiting

1177
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 3: class of all time last year, but it didn't manifest

1178
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 3: on the field. Well, all of a sudden, they have

1179
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:46,200
Speaker 3: an offensive coordinator and they're breaking in a new offense,

1180
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 3: and they averaged seven yards per play last week, and

1181
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 3: they moved the ball at will. So I don't expect

1182
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 3: Miami to win this game. Texas A and M three

1183
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 3: and a half point favorite on the road. Interestingly enough,

1184
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 3: you dress up Texas A and M as a road dog,

1185
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 3: and they never seem to do well or a road favorite.

1186
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 3: I mean, but they looked potentially very scary offensively, and

1187
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 3: I'm not so sure, you know, Mario Crystal Baul in Miami,

1188
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 3: they've never really kind of gotten that program. Off the ground.

1189
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:21,040
Speaker 3: Nowhere near the old days, you know, the Great Kane,

1190
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 3: you know, Hurricane days. But Texas A and M is

1191
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 3: something to watch because when you look at the conference

1192
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:29,720
Speaker 3: and they're in, and the schedule they're in, if they

1193
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:32,240
Speaker 3: start to do something crazy and all of a sudden

1194
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 3: they're five and six and seven and eight and oh whatever.

1195
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 3: I don't getting ahead of myself, but that Bobby Patrino

1196
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:41,560
Speaker 3: offense with the athlete that Texas A and M has

1197
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:45,800
Speaker 3: tomorrow is like a nice referendum on whether or not

1198
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 3: they can go on and beat a quality Power five

1199
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 3: program on the road.

1200
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 7: So I couldn't agree with you more.

1201
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:56,160
Speaker 6: And this is if there was any high profile coach

1202
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 6: that was on the hot seat, and we can argue

1203
00:58:58,120 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 6: whether he was actually on the hot seat or not

1204
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 6: because of his contract, it was Jimbo Fisher at Texas

1205
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 6: A and M. Because they've fallen so woefully beneath expectations since.

1206
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:07,600
Speaker 7: He's been there.

1207
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 6: You know, you mentioned the hiring of Bobby Patrino, and

1208
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:13,480
Speaker 6: all is also extremely encouraged by how that offense looked

1209
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 6: last week. And Connor Wigban looks like a completely different

1210
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 6: player now again. I'llbe it it was against New Mexico. Well,

1211
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 6: look totally different, completely confident standing back there last week.

1212
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 7: Look, they have offensive weapons.

1213
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 6: The talent at Texas A and M as you mentioned,

1214
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 6: with the top recruiting classes, has never been an issue.

1215
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 6: Is just being able to put that together and getting

1216
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 6: them to jail. You know, you still have mus Muhammad,

1217
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 6: who didn't really do a whole lot last week, who's talented.

1218
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 6: Evan Stewart had a big game for them, was a

1219
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 6: big time recruit.

1220
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 7: And you're right. I like Mario Christaball.

1221
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 6: We know we can coach the offensive line, and I

1222
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:44,440
Speaker 6: do think Miami will end up being better this season.

1223
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 6: But I like Texas A and m To your point,

1224
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 6: it's usually not the smartest pick to take them as

1225
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 6: a road favorite just based on their history, But I

1226
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 6: agree with you one hundred percent, and I think this

1227
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:57,240
Speaker 6: can be a bounce back season for them. And you

1228
00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 6: look at how their schedule shakes out early on. You

1229
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:01,920
Speaker 6: get this victory on the road against Miami, you got

1230
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 6: home games against Louisiana Monroe and an Auburn team that's

1231
01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:08,400
Speaker 6: rebuilding before you end up hosting Arkansas. You get yourself

1232
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 6: off to a pretty good start here. Who knows how

1233
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:12,320
Speaker 6: this season could take off for Texas A and M.

1234
01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:14,800
Speaker 6: And it could end up being a boon for Jimbo Fisher,

1235
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 6: whether he was drug in, kicking or screaming, or not

1236
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 6: having to bring in Bobby Patrino as his offensive coordinator,

1237
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:21,919
Speaker 6: it could be the best thing that ever happened to him.

1238
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 3: It could be. And to be fair, Miami of Ohio,

1239
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 3: who was Miami of Florida's opponent last week, they're a

1240
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 3: good program. Miami of Florida held Miami of Ohio to

1241
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:38,800
Speaker 3: just three points last week. And Miami the Kynes are

1242
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 3: also bringing it breaking in a new officer offensive coordinator,

1243
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 3: guy named Shannon Dawson. They ran for two hundred and

1244
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:46,920
Speaker 3: fifty yards on the ground last week. Something to watch. Finally,

1245
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:48,919
Speaker 3: want to speak one more in here. The one game

1246
01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 3: I have fired on Stanford is catching twenty nine points

1247
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:56,640
Speaker 3: against USC. And if you understand the history between these

1248
01:00:56,640 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 3: two schools and how good Standford look last week? Yeah,

1249
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 3: I was at Hawaii, but they got a pair of

1250
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 3: outstanding running backs who ran the ball at will And

1251
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 3: if they're able to run the ball at USC and

1252
01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 3: keep the ball out of Caleb Williams hands, I mean

1253
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 3: the USC probably shows up and puts up fifty tomorrow.

1254
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 3: Stanford doesn't have a whole hell of a lot of

1255
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:18,840
Speaker 3: speed on defense, but that feels like it's a fifty

1256
01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:21,440
Speaker 3: to thirty one type game to me. I think Stanford

1257
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 3: hangs at twenty nine points. If they're able to run

1258
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 3: the ball, they can choose some clock and perhaps allow

1259
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:31,240
Speaker 3: SC to have as many as two less possessions. But

1260
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 3: if you look at the history between those two schools,

1261
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 3: going back to when Jim Harbaugh, even before when they

1262
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 3: were SC was a forty point favorite, Like back in

1263
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:42,920
Speaker 3: two thousand and four, Stanford went out right and he

1264
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 3: yank Pete Carroll Danny says, what's your deal? What's your deal?

1265
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:49,560
Speaker 3: Those two schools do not like each other. It's a

1266
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:52,040
Speaker 3: West Coast tilt that maybe a lot of people around

1267
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 3: the country won't see. But I will very much be

1268
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 3: interested in watching Stanford USC tomorrow night.

1269
01:01:57,440 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 6: I'm with you with this twenty nine point spread because

1270
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:02,520
Speaker 6: your point, Stanford a team that wants to be able

1271
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:05,600
Speaker 6: to run the ball. We know USC has their deficiencies defensively.

1272
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 6: They brought in Barr Alexander from Georgia and a couple

1273
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:09,800
Speaker 6: of other guys up front to help four to fly

1274
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:12,480
Speaker 6: their defensive line. But a couple of things. So that's

1275
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 6: one of a couple of things USC has working against them.

1276
01:02:14,840 --> 01:02:17,520
Speaker 6: One that Stanford likes to run the ball and defense

1277
01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 6: is very soft. Their defense is extremely soft. And two,

1278
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:22,680
Speaker 6: with the new rules this year and talking about it

1279
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 6: from a point spread standpoint, now that the clock continues

1280
01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:27,800
Speaker 6: to run on first downs, if you're Stanford and you

1281
01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 6: can sustain a couple of drives, the issues with USC

1282
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:32,440
Speaker 6: you really have been giving up explosive plays and not

1283
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 6: necessarily long drives. But if Stanford can sustain some drives,

1284
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:38,880
Speaker 6: they can probably keep this game in a lower scoring territory.

1285
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:40,480
Speaker 6: Now I'm not saying they're going to hold USC under

1286
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:43,080
Speaker 6: thirty points, but I'm saying they can definitely cover that

1287
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:45,320
Speaker 6: twenty nine point spread. And that's because they can play

1288
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Speaker 6: more ball control and take more time off of the clock.

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Speaker 6: So I think that's something that will work in their favor.

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Speaker 3: All right, coming up, let's talk about Shador Sanders. He

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Speaker 3: currently ranks six a months underclass and he is a

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Speaker 3: legitimate NFL pross making no mistakes. I'll tell you why.

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Speaker 3: Coming up the first Cavin, let's go back to you

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Speaker 3: with the latest.

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Speaker 6: All right, well, let's start with the US Open, because

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Speaker 6: we're gonna have a rematch of the twenty twenty one

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Speaker 6: US Open at Flushing Medals coming up Sunday. On Friday,

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Speaker 6: Daniel Medvedev upset top rand Carlos Alcoraz in four sets.

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Speaker 6: Medvedev will scare off against Novak Djokovic, who defeated Ben

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Speaker 6: Shelton to advance to his tenth US Open final, third

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Speaker 6: time in his career that he has made it to

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Speaker 6: the final of all four majors in a calendar year

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Speaker 6: and Major League Baseball. On Friday, the Giants overcame a

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Speaker 6: late three run deficit to defeat Colorado nine to eight.

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Speaker 6: There are four and a half games back of Arizona

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Speaker 6: for the final wildcard spot in the National League. Emmanuel

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Speaker 6: class A picking up his major league leading thirty ninth

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Speaker 6: save in a six to three Cleveland victory in Anaheim,

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Speaker 6: Oakland over the Rangers six to three. Texas has lost

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Speaker 6: seven of their last eight. Bryce Elders struck out nine

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Speaker 6: and seven innings of work leading Atlanta over the Pirates

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Speaker 6: eight to two. You had victories for the Orioles, Brewers

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Speaker 6: and the Dodgers who won in Washington. In college football

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Speaker 6: Friday night, Kansas defeated Lanois thirty four to twenty three

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Speaker 6: Indiana Curbs from Indiana States forty one to seven. As

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Speaker 6: we come back here on the Bernie Fredo Show here

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Speaker 6: on Fox Sports Radio, we talked about Colorado's epic victory

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Speaker 6: last week at TCU. Shdora Sanders with his coming out

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Speaker 6: party on the national stage on the FBS level.

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Speaker 7: He was a four star.

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Speaker 6: Recruit coming out Bernie a couple of years ago and

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Speaker 6: obviously decided to join his father down at Jackson State.

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Speaker 6: So as a four star recruit was obviously recruited by

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Speaker 6: a lot of big name programs, has the physical tools.

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Speaker 6: What did you see from shadro Sanders and what are

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Speaker 6: you hearing about his potential NFL prospects moving forward?

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Speaker 3: Well, and we'll start with that part first, because if

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Speaker 3: you look at the top rank qbs in terms of

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Speaker 3: their NFL potential, Caleb Williams is number one, Drake Mayn

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Speaker 3: North Carolina's two, JJ McCarthy Michigan, Riley Leonard out of Dooke.

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Speaker 3: He saw how dynamic he looked a Monday night against

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Speaker 3: Clemson Quinn. You were in Texas and then of course

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Speaker 3: Hudor Sanders. So this is good air to be in,

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Speaker 3: and I think he's earned it. Unless folks were, you know,

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Speaker 3: living under a rock or on Mars, they missed the

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Speaker 3: you know, the son of Dion Sanders. He threw for

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Speaker 3: a school record of school Colors, has been playing football

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Speaker 3: a long time, sets the school record in his first

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Speaker 3: ever start on the road against the national champion runner

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Speaker 3: up PCU returned seven starters on defense. He throws for

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Speaker 3: five hundred and ten yards eleven yards per completion, four

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Speaker 3: touchdown in the upset, and that prompted Joel Klack to

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Speaker 3: say he's one of the best quarterbacks I've ever seen

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Speaker 3: wear a Colorado uniform, or certainly it's one of the

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Speaker 3: best games I've ever seen. Now part of the reason,

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Speaker 3: and make no mistake, shoot Or Sanders is an NFL prospect.

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Speaker 3: I've been doing this a long time and I covered

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Speaker 3: the Lions for ten years.

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Speaker 4: He sees the field, he's.

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Speaker 3: Got excellent footwork, He's got very good mechanics because decision

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01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:05,520
Speaker 3: making is superb. He's got a nice arm, he's accurate,

1352
01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:08,560
Speaker 3: makes the right decision, gets to the right guy, throws

1353
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:12,800
Speaker 3: a very very catchable ball. So part of the reason

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Speaker 3: he was I wouldn't say unknown, but certainly below the radar,

1355
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:21,560
Speaker 3: is because he'd been at Jackson State. Now he led

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Speaker 3: them to a twenty three to three record the past

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Speaker 3: two seasons. He'd done enough, I think, to very much

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Speaker 3: catch the eye of professional scouts. But until you are

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Speaker 3: able to get on the field against Power five competition

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Speaker 3: or in a major college conference, there will always be

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Speaker 3: questions whether they're fair or not. But based on Schudoor

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Speaker 3: sanders Colorado debut, the answer to the question is a

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Speaker 3: lot clearer. Now, okay, he in addition to the numbers

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Speaker 3: that just gave you, Shoudoor Sanders completed better than eighty

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01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:57,480
Speaker 3: percent of his passes. He was thirty eight or forty seven.

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Speaker 3: And you know the TCS defense, we don't know how

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Speaker 3: good they are this year, just because they returned seven starters.

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Speaker 3: It may be one of the lesser defenses or worse

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Speaker 3: defenses Colorado faces all season. And you have to get

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Speaker 3: some credit to Sean Lewis, their offensive coordinator, Colorado's offensive coordinator,

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Speaker 3: for creating the game plan. And you got to give

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Speaker 3: some credit to Travis Hunter and Dylan Edwards However, Sanders

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Speaker 3: was electric. There's no other way not to say he wasn't.

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Speaker 3: One of the things I noticed he showed an constinctive

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Speaker 3: feel for the game and the evan flowed the game

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Speaker 3: and how to use his athleticism to move the pocket.

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Speaker 3: I love the way he operates from the pocket. Justin fields,

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Speaker 3: with all due respect ignotes he really operates from the pocket.

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Speaker 3: I was really impressed by his poise is don field accuracy.

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Speaker 4: He doesn't you know, he doesn't.

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Speaker 3: Default to take off and run under pressure. He stays

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Speaker 3: controlled and you can see him clicking. He works through

1383
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 3: his reads, he finds passing windows, he's thos receivers open,

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Speaker 3: he's got a deep ball touch, and he did it

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Speaker 3: the entire game. So those are my observations.

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Speaker 4: What did you see?

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Speaker 6: I saw the exact same thing. Someone who has the size,

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Speaker 6: who has the poise to be able to make all

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Speaker 6: those plays under duress too, in a hostile environment on

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Speaker 6: fourth down, to be scrambling out outside of the pocket

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Speaker 6: to make a throw across his body in the biggest moment.

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Speaker 6: You know it's now you can say it was ill advised,

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Speaker 6: but the fact that he had the physical ability to

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Speaker 6: be able to do it at the moxie to be

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Speaker 6: able to make that play. That's both volumes for me

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Speaker 6: in your first game, but by the way, a host

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Speaker 6: of brand new teammates, Bernie. That's the amazing part about

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Speaker 6: really this whole and this Colorado team is that there

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Speaker 6: just was no continuity. And that's why people thought that

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Speaker 6: they would struggle so much this season, not from a

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Speaker 6: talent standpoint, but because none of these guys had played together.

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Speaker 6: For them to come just come right out of the

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Speaker 6: chuot and just pick apart that TCU defense, which as

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Speaker 6: you mentioned, had seven returning starters, was really something to see.

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01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 6: And what was it four players over one hundred yards receiving.

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01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:09,960
Speaker 6: I mean he picked them apart the entire game. So

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Speaker 6: from a physical standpoint, he has the total package, and

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Speaker 6: obviously you mentioned from the vision of the mobility, he

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01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 6: has the look of an NFL quarterback. I guess the

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Speaker 6: question for me, as you mentioned all those top prospects

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Speaker 6: coming out are potentially coming out in the twenty twenty

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Speaker 6: four NFL Draft. If you're Shedeur Sanders and it's early on,

1413
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:31,800
Speaker 6: he could burst onto the scene and be Robert Griffin third,

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Speaker 6: who came out of nowhere and was a top pick.

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Speaker 6: Do you think that because it's such a deep quarterback class,

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Speaker 6: it would potentially give him pause and maybe want him

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Speaker 6: to return for another season at Colorado.

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Speaker 3: I think it's likely he probably does return for another

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Speaker 3: season in Colorado. But that's not to say he's not

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Speaker 3: a bona fide NFL prospect, And I think he would

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Speaker 3: have been even had he never transferred from Jackson State,

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Speaker 3: because when you consider what he did at Jackson State

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Speaker 3: for thirty forty touchdowns and only six picks last year,

1424
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Speaker 3: and in two years there he threw seventy touchdowns and

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Speaker 3: fourteen interceptions. He not only has proven he's a good

1426
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:15,400
Speaker 3: distributor of the football and he understands offensive concepts, but

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01:10:15,439 --> 01:10:17,920
Speaker 3: he went in with a brand new coordinator. He never

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01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:20,200
Speaker 3: worked with a brand new system, all the things that

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Speaker 3: go with it, all new athletes, and he showed that

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01:10:23,479 --> 01:10:27,080
Speaker 3: he could completely grasp and understand everything that Sean Lewis

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01:10:27,360 --> 01:10:31,000
Speaker 3: had planned for him. I mean, that just doesn't happen

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01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:34,519
Speaker 3: that much. So I think, you know, we have to

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01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:36,439
Speaker 3: let the situation play out. We have to let the

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Speaker 3: season play out. When they get you know, teams get

1435
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:42,760
Speaker 3: him on film, we'll see how he can adjust, because

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01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:45,240
Speaker 3: it's always going to be a game of adjustments. But

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Speaker 3: I would say this, the future is very bright and

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01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:51,320
Speaker 3: he is an absolute bonafide NFL prospect. I would say

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01:10:51,479 --> 01:10:53,840
Speaker 3: first round he'll be a first round pick. I really,

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Speaker 3: I really do mean that. I don't throw around that

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01:10:56,280 --> 01:10:59,360
Speaker 3: kind of phrase very lightly. Coming up, Kevin, I want

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01:10:59,360 --> 01:11:02,599
Speaker 3: to talk about some betting trends as we head into

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01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:06,000
Speaker 3: Saturday that people might want to know about and get

1444
01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:09,960
Speaker 3: into a couple of interesting NFL betting trends. Lines can

1445
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Speaker 3: be deceiving.

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Speaker 6: Kevin absolutely looking forward to a week one of the

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01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:15,800
Speaker 6: nflc then kicked off on Thursday. The full slate on

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Speaker 6: Sunday afternoon. Coming up, This is the Bernie Fratto Show

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Speaker 6: on Fox Sports Radio. Don't go anywhere, all right, all right,

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01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:24,760
Speaker 6: we are back on the Bernie Fratto Show here on

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01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:27,320
Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radios. Kevin Figus here at the Fox Sports

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01:11:27,320 --> 01:11:30,240
Speaker 6: anchor desk, joined by the man of the hour, the

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Speaker 6: Great Bernie Fratto. Out in Las Vegas, and speaking of

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Speaker 6: Las Vegas, the hub of the sports gambling world here

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01:11:37,680 --> 01:11:40,160
Speaker 6: in the United States. And let's talk some gambling, some

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01:11:40,760 --> 01:11:43,960
Speaker 6: intriguing betting lines coming up later today, are Bernie, and

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Speaker 6: then we'll get into the NFL time permitting.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 3: com slash match. By the way, one final thing Kevin

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Speaker 3: about Colorado and.

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Speaker 7: Uh and uh Nebraska.

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01:12:12,720 --> 01:12:17,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, Nebraska, believe it or not, that is the most

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01:12:17,080 --> 01:12:21,080
Speaker 3: heavily bet game, which I think people have probably figured out,

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01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:25,600
Speaker 3: but it's that that game has been bet. That individual

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Speaker 3: game has been bet more than any other of the

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Speaker 3: thirty two NFL games on Sunday. That thing a lot. Yes,

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01:12:34,200 --> 01:12:37,879
Speaker 3: eighty one percent of the money is on the Colorado Buffalo.

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01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:40,439
Speaker 3: So either the sportsbooks are going to be happy or

1475
01:12:40,479 --> 01:12:43,200
Speaker 3: the betters are going to be happy to see what happens.

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01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:46,120
Speaker 3: This is almost unprecedented the way this has happened. And

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01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:50,800
Speaker 3: by the way, listen, you know people can poo poo

1478
01:12:50,840 --> 01:12:54,519
Speaker 3: what Colorado did. Maybe wasn't you know, TCUs defense wasn't

1479
01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:57,960
Speaker 3: good blah, blah blah, a fluke Clemson, who's been a

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01:12:58,040 --> 01:13:02,040
Speaker 3: national you know, powerhouse last few years. They scored only

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01:13:02,120 --> 01:13:05,000
Speaker 3: seven points Monday night. That's the fewest in a game

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01:13:05,080 --> 01:13:10,000
Speaker 3: against an unranked opponent under dabblos Sweeney's entire tenure. It's

1483
01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:12,960
Speaker 3: the fust points scored by an AP Top ten game

1484
01:13:13,520 --> 01:13:16,320
Speaker 3: and a season opener against an unranked opponent in the

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01:13:16,479 --> 01:13:20,920
Speaker 3: last thirty five years. Wow, Ucaly lost to Tennessee twenty

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01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:27,080
Speaker 3: four to six back in nineteen eighty nine. So any

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01:13:27,120 --> 01:13:29,040
Speaker 3: final thoughts on Colorado Nebraska.

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Speaker 6: No, this is one of the more intriguing games of

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01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:33,560
Speaker 6: the weekend, even though it's only one ranked team and

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01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:35,760
Speaker 6: Nebraska doesn't look like there's much to ride home about

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01:13:35,760 --> 01:13:37,400
Speaker 6: because there's just there's so much injury.

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01:13:37,400 --> 01:13:38,280
Speaker 7: You really don't know.

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01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:41,200
Speaker 6: Did Colorado just get up and right off of the

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01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:44,519
Speaker 6: you know, lack of expectation that was riding their back

1495
01:13:44,600 --> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 6: going into the game against TCU. You know, we'll have

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01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:49,880
Speaker 6: to see what happens. So I'm extremely intrigued. Doesn't see

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01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:52,200
Speaker 6: how this game plays out. But again, if I were

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01:13:52,240 --> 01:13:53,840
Speaker 6: to throw a couple of chekeos on this, I would

1499
01:13:53,840 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 6: definitely take Colorado to cover the spread. But part of

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01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 6: me is surprised that it has that much action compared

1501
01:13:59,920 --> 01:14:01,479
Speaker 6: to the NFL games, But a part of me, because

1502
01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:03,760
Speaker 6: of the Deon Sanders effects and the effects he's had

1503
01:14:03,760 --> 01:14:06,800
Speaker 6: on college football so far, I'm not really that surprised, Bernie.

1504
01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:09,880
Speaker 3: To be honest, Hey, this is show business and there's

1505
01:14:09,920 --> 01:14:12,720
Speaker 3: no better showman than Dion Sanders. And I will say this,

1506
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:15,639
Speaker 3: I'm hearing reports that there's a lot of high, big

1507
01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:19,599
Speaker 3: name celebrities looking for hotel rooms in Boulder, Colorado right now.

1508
01:14:19,600 --> 01:14:21,760
Speaker 3: They want to be part of this party. This is

1509
01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:23,599
Speaker 3: going to be so fun to watch, and Kevin loll

1510
01:14:23,640 --> 01:14:26,559
Speaker 3: and behold, it kicks off in eight hours and eleven minutes,

1511
01:14:26,600 --> 01:14:29,960
Speaker 3: so anyway, you know, people are always it's not too

1512
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:33,559
Speaker 3: soon to really start to look ahead. The NFL is

1513
01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:39,760
Speaker 3: back in full seddle on Sunday. Obviously, he's officially kicked

1514
01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:42,880
Speaker 3: off Thursday night with the Lions and Chiefs and top

1515
01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:44,840
Speaker 3: of the hour, we're going to get to what I

1516
01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:48,200
Speaker 3: consider to be five events. Will be watching for sure, Kevin,

1517
01:14:48,240 --> 01:14:50,920
Speaker 3: You and I will chop that up. But people are

1518
01:14:50,960 --> 01:14:57,479
Speaker 3: always looking for trends and angles bet especially on Week one,

1519
01:14:57,520 --> 01:15:01,280
Speaker 3: which could be very profitable if you're looking history. About

1520
01:15:01,320 --> 01:15:03,800
Speaker 3: thirty minutes from now, I'm going to talk about the

1521
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:07,479
Speaker 3: importance of betting divisional dogs and what's happening and how

1522
01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:10,519
Speaker 3: I explain that. But believe it or not, you look

1523
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:13,000
Speaker 3: at some of these lines since two thousand and five,

1524
01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:17,080
Speaker 3: it's you have a tendency to say, well, look at

1525
01:15:17,120 --> 01:15:20,160
Speaker 3: Baltimore laying ten, they're going to kill Houston. Houston is

1526
01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:23,639
Speaker 3: going to be terrible, blah blah blah. Not so fast,

1527
01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:26,479
Speaker 3: my friend. It's two thousand and five. Favorites at six

1528
01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:29,120
Speaker 3: or more points in the National Football League Week one

1529
01:15:29,600 --> 01:15:32,240
Speaker 3: only thirty nine and fifty two against the spread. That's

1530
01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:37,960
Speaker 3: forty three percent Week one underdogs of eight or more points.

1531
01:15:38,400 --> 01:15:42,080
Speaker 3: In the last twenty years, they're twenty five and nine

1532
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:45,000
Speaker 3: against the spread. They cover seventy four percent of the time.

1533
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 3: Teams that missed the postseason and open as Week one

1534
01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:53,160
Speaker 3: road dogs fifty one and twenty nine against the spread.

1535
01:15:53,240 --> 01:15:57,040
Speaker 3: So you have to expect the unexpected. What's the translation

1536
01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:03,599
Speaker 3: bick one Week one spreads, Kevin, They have a tendency.

1537
01:16:04,240 --> 01:16:06,000
Speaker 4: You gave way too much.

1538
01:16:05,920 --> 01:16:11,160
Speaker 3: Credit to the team that played last year versus what

1539
01:16:11,320 --> 01:16:14,840
Speaker 3: you are looking at this year. For instance, Houston was

1540
01:16:14,960 --> 01:16:17,719
Speaker 3: rough last year, but that's not the team they're gonna

1541
01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:20,759
Speaker 3: field this week. It could be entirely different, and history

1542
01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:24,760
Speaker 3: very much tells us that, So you've got to be

1543
01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:28,280
Speaker 3: very discerning. Not only the Bay heard Mike Carmen and

1544
01:16:28,320 --> 01:16:32,080
Speaker 3: Jason Smith talking about this New England catching four points

1545
01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:34,360
Speaker 3: at home against Philadelphia. Now, and New England won't have

1546
01:16:34,400 --> 01:16:38,759
Speaker 3: a top ten defense, but Philadelphia they were a whisker

1547
01:16:38,760 --> 01:16:42,320
Speaker 3: from winning the super Bowl last year, and they even

1548
01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:44,479
Speaker 3: bulked up a little better on defense. But what if

1549
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:48,120
Speaker 3: I told you since two thousand and five Super Bowl

1550
01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:52,640
Speaker 3: losers Week one the following year are only two and

1551
01:16:52,760 --> 01:16:56,160
Speaker 3: sixteen against the spread. And part of that is because

1552
01:16:56,200 --> 01:16:59,680
Speaker 3: they're expensive. You're going to pay that tax for a

1553
01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:02,559
Speaker 3: team going to the super Bowl a year before.

1554
01:17:04,520 --> 01:17:07,559
Speaker 6: Yeah, makes total sense. Especially and look going on playing

1555
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:09,519
Speaker 6: the New England Patriots or Bill Belichick knowing what he

1556
01:17:09,600 --> 01:17:12,160
Speaker 6: draws up defensively. I know there's issues on offense with

1557
01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:14,320
Speaker 6: their offensive line and Mac Jones what is he going

1558
01:17:14,400 --> 01:17:16,640
Speaker 6: to be this year? But that's a tough one for me.

1559
01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:18,320
Speaker 6: That almost would be a game that I wouldn't touch.

1560
01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:22,080
Speaker 6: Bernie the Houston Baltimore situation is interesting because if you

1561
01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:25,240
Speaker 6: just look on paper, Houston turning over their offensive line,

1562
01:17:25,240 --> 01:17:27,120
Speaker 6: a lot of the starters are heart rookie head coach,

1563
01:17:27,200 --> 01:17:30,679
Speaker 6: rookie quarterback. You don't know what to expect necessarily on defense.

1564
01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:33,639
Speaker 6: All signs are pointing to Baltimore running them off the field.

1565
01:17:33,640 --> 01:17:36,040
Speaker 6: But as you mentioned, bow is the record fifty six

1566
01:17:36,080 --> 01:17:38,160
Speaker 6: and twenty something against the spread. When you have a

1567
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:40,519
Speaker 6: double digit dog, you know, coming in in Week one

1568
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:43,679
Speaker 6: based on last year's expectations, it'd almost be a spread

1569
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:45,439
Speaker 6: that I wouldn't want to touch either, because you just

1570
01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:48,799
Speaker 6: don't know what to expect coming from a team like Houston.

1571
01:17:48,800 --> 01:17:49,960
Speaker 7: So that that's a tough one.

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Speaker 3: Well, that is a tough one, and I'm glad you

1573
01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:55,040
Speaker 3: brought that up because it engender is a conversation. What

1574
01:17:55,080 --> 01:17:57,760
Speaker 3: do I mean by that? There's old saying when the

1575
01:17:57,800 --> 01:17:59,320
Speaker 3: ball is in the air, you want to be on

1576
01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:01,639
Speaker 3: the side of the worth. But clearly the books are

1577
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:07,360
Speaker 3: going to need Houston. People are firing on Baltimore. Lamar

1578
01:18:07,479 --> 01:18:12,880
Speaker 3: Jackson's back, Odell Beckham's gonna play listen Baltimore is on

1579
01:18:12,920 --> 01:18:14,760
Speaker 3: the short list. Okay, I don't know what they're gonna do.

1580
01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:19,800
Speaker 3: This year. But here's what's interesting. Houston actually added some

1581
01:18:20,560 --> 01:18:23,880
Speaker 3: pieces in the offseason. They're bringing Sheldon Rankins and Jimmy

1582
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:27,639
Speaker 3: Ward that's going to improve their defense, Shaq Mason, Josh Jones.

1583
01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:29,800
Speaker 3: They bulked up their offensive line, which I think he

1584
01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:34,160
Speaker 3: just said, and they drafted well. They got Will Anderson,

1585
01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:35,599
Speaker 3: the best defender in the draft.

1586
01:18:35,920 --> 01:18:36,599
Speaker 4: I think CJ.

1587
01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:40,439
Speaker 3: Stroud will show promise and last year's number three pick

1588
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:45,280
Speaker 3: Derrick Stingley Junior, I think will improve. Remember they hired

1589
01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:49,120
Speaker 3: Demko Ryans, who's the defensive specialist. He did very well

1590
01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:51,639
Speaker 3: with the forty nine ers, and last year the Texan

1591
01:18:51,720 --> 01:18:55,760
Speaker 3: was very quietly ranked tenth and what's called defensive DVOA

1592
01:18:55,840 --> 01:18:59,360
Speaker 3: over the back half of the season, which essentially which

1593
01:18:59,439 --> 01:19:04,720
Speaker 3: essentially out how you did versus expectations and the league average.

1594
01:19:05,120 --> 01:19:08,200
Speaker 3: Believe it or not, the last eight games to get

1595
01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:11,720
Speaker 3: in the season, Houston ranked number two against the pass.

1596
01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:15,479
Speaker 3: So don't be surprised that their defense allows them to

1597
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:18,680
Speaker 3: hang around. Baltimore is a high floor team. They got

1598
01:19:18,720 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 3: a rushing attack, a stout defense. But I think Baltimore's

1599
01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:24,719
Speaker 3: also changing their offense to go more pass heavy this year.

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Speaker 3: So I will tell you. The pros are on the

1601
01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:29,559
Speaker 3: Houston Texas plus ten.

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01:19:29,880 --> 01:19:32,360
Speaker 6: I don't sleep on that offense for Houston either. John

1603
01:19:32,400 --> 01:19:34,600
Speaker 6: Metchi back healthy this year. You're bringing a veteran like

1604
01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:37,559
Speaker 6: Robert Woods. Dawson Schultz can catch the balls underneath that

1605
01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:39,800
Speaker 6: tide end. They can definitely make an impact. We'll be

1606
01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:42,679
Speaker 6: back here on Fox Sports Radio. This is the Bernie

1607
01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:45,759
Speaker 6: Fraddle Show. Don't go anywhere. Yes, it is the Bernie

1608
01:19:45,760 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 6: Fratles Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Getting ready to

1609
01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:52,120
Speaker 6: kick off the NFL season. The regular season began this

1610
01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:55,360
Speaker 6: past Thursday night with the Detroit Lions, someone Bernie holds

1611
01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:57,559
Speaker 6: near and dear to his heart, getting a big victory

1612
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:01,920
Speaker 6: in Kansas City. Fools lay games coming up on Sunday,

1613
01:20:01,920 --> 01:20:03,920
Speaker 6: and of course the big Monday night matchup with Aaron

1614
01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:08,360
Speaker 6: Rodgers making his Jets debut. Bernie, welcome back in Excited

1615
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:09,840
Speaker 6: for the start of the NFL season.

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01:20:10,720 --> 01:20:14,200
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Kevin and I want to remind folks. Tonight show

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Speaker 3: the way tired buying should be now. So Kevin, he

1622
01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:34,679
Speaker 3: nailed it. There we are, what thirty six hours away

1623
01:20:34,880 --> 01:20:38,439
Speaker 3: from the NFL. He's kicking off an ernest fulls lay

1624
01:20:38,479 --> 01:20:42,479
Speaker 3: the games on Sunday. But the first storyline that I

1625
01:20:42,520 --> 01:20:45,679
Speaker 3: want to chop up has to do with the Monday

1626
01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:51,080
Speaker 3: night game and Aaron Rodgers' New York debut. Obviously, expectations

1627
01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:53,879
Speaker 3: are through the roof for the Jets this season. Rogers

1628
01:20:53,960 --> 01:20:58,000
Speaker 3: joined the team that only had one real hole last year,

1629
01:20:58,040 --> 01:21:01,879
Speaker 3: and that was a quarterback. Jets have an excellent defense.

1630
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:05,080
Speaker 3: They have an excellent defense, They've got talent on both

1631
01:21:05,120 --> 01:21:08,719
Speaker 3: sides of the ball, plenty of skilled position players. Even better,

1632
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:12,639
Speaker 3: this year, you add a Hall of Fame quarterback. It's

1633
01:21:12,680 --> 01:21:16,000
Speaker 3: not outlandish to say, well, wait a minute, now, you

1634
01:21:16,040 --> 01:21:19,800
Speaker 3: can draw a parallel or even a comparison three years

1635
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:22,559
Speaker 3: ago when the Buccaneers added Tom Brady and they win

1636
01:21:22,600 --> 01:21:26,280
Speaker 3: a championship their first year. So that's kind of a template.

1637
01:21:26,920 --> 01:21:30,559
Speaker 3: Here's the kicker, Kevin. As you well know, the Rogers

1638
01:21:30,640 --> 01:21:34,519
Speaker 3: addition is not without risk. He's shown over the past

1639
01:21:34,840 --> 01:21:38,599
Speaker 3: two decades he can be very cantankerous when things don't

1640
01:21:38,640 --> 01:21:41,200
Speaker 3: go well on the field. He's a perfect fit for

1641
01:21:41,240 --> 01:21:44,679
Speaker 3: the Jets. He is he a perfect fit for New York.

1642
01:21:45,160 --> 01:21:47,840
Speaker 3: This is a guy who had some squabbles with.

1643
01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:50,880
Speaker 4: The media in Green Bay, and I don't know anybody.

1644
01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:53,400
Speaker 3: That thinks the Green Bay media is brutal. So how

1645
01:21:53,479 --> 01:21:58,080
Speaker 3: will Rogers react when he gets his first unflattering article

1646
01:21:58,120 --> 01:22:00,639
Speaker 3: on the back cover of the New York Post. This

1647
01:22:00,720 --> 01:22:05,080
Speaker 3: is a real question now. If you watch Hard Knocks,

1648
01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:07,719
Speaker 3: and I did, and we've talked about it in previous shows,

1649
01:22:08,160 --> 01:22:12,639
Speaker 3: everything's donkey Dory the honeymoon situation. But people don't escape

1650
01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:17,840
Speaker 3: their nature. Kevin, I'm just waiting for the inevitable time

1651
01:22:18,280 --> 01:22:20,960
Speaker 3: in the National Football League, you put your game plan

1652
01:22:21,080 --> 01:22:24,920
Speaker 3: down and then things fall apart. How might Rogers react

1653
01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:27,559
Speaker 3: and how might that change the dynamic in the locker

1654
01:22:27,640 --> 01:22:30,120
Speaker 3: room when the blue was finally off the rose. You

1655
01:22:30,240 --> 01:22:33,400
Speaker 3: deal with human beings here, highly charged human being. So

1656
01:22:33,600 --> 01:22:37,040
Speaker 3: the long and short of it is, you've got Aaron Rodgers'

1657
01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:41,599
Speaker 3: debut performance on the field is one thing. How Rogers

1658
01:22:41,680 --> 01:22:45,360
Speaker 3: is going to react if there's a hiccup also remains

1659
01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:46,960
Speaker 3: to be seen, right, and.

1660
01:22:46,880 --> 01:22:49,439
Speaker 6: You have to expect there's gonna be some sort of pickups. Now, Look,

1661
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:51,320
Speaker 6: it could be the Tampa Bay situation where they just

1662
01:22:51,360 --> 01:22:54,200
Speaker 6: catch fire, or it could be when Brett Favre went

1663
01:22:54,240 --> 01:22:56,160
Speaker 6: to Minnesota and they took the league by storm and

1664
01:22:56,400 --> 01:22:59,160
Speaker 6: basically ran everybody off the field until that you know,

1665
01:22:59,280 --> 01:23:01,880
Speaker 6: NFC Champions game against the Saints.

1666
01:23:02,080 --> 01:23:03,400
Speaker 7: But that's a good question.

1667
01:23:03,439 --> 01:23:05,240
Speaker 6: You know, he's been prickly with the media in the past,

1668
01:23:05,240 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 6: and we've certainly taken a lot of shots at him nationally.

1669
01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:09,000
Speaker 7: But to your point, the.

1670
01:23:08,920 --> 01:23:13,000
Speaker 6: Green Bay media is fairly soft compared to especially it's

1671
01:23:13,080 --> 01:23:15,120
Speaker 6: completely soft compared to that New York media.

1672
01:23:15,560 --> 01:23:17,920
Speaker 7: And the issue with Aaron Rodgers is he's gonna be himself.

1673
01:23:17,960 --> 01:23:19,479
Speaker 6: You don't get to, you know, forty years old and

1674
01:23:19,479 --> 01:23:20,840
Speaker 6: then been in the league for as long as he's

1675
01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:23,439
Speaker 6: been and gonna change the way that you act. So

1676
01:23:23,560 --> 01:23:26,240
Speaker 6: my issue is once that does happen, and once he

1677
01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:29,320
Speaker 6: turns into Aaron Rodgers as we know it, what effect

1678
01:23:29,400 --> 01:23:31,360
Speaker 6: is that going to have on the locker room. How

1679
01:23:31,400 --> 01:23:34,480
Speaker 6: does Robert Salah you know effect, you know, handle that situation,

1680
01:23:34,960 --> 01:23:36,920
Speaker 6: and will it have a trickle down effect on the

1681
01:23:36,920 --> 01:23:39,320
Speaker 6: rest of his teammates If things start to go south

1682
01:23:39,680 --> 01:23:42,439
Speaker 6: and Aaron Rodgers becomes the same aloof Aaron Rodgers who

1683
01:23:42,479 --> 01:23:45,160
Speaker 6: were used to seeing. That is an interesting question that

1684
01:23:45,200 --> 01:23:47,120
Speaker 6: I do think has not been discussed by many people.

1685
01:23:47,160 --> 01:23:49,240
Speaker 6: I think most people just are just looking at you know,

1686
01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:51,519
Speaker 6: sunshines and rainbows and this guy's just going to come

1687
01:23:51,520 --> 01:23:53,840
Speaker 6: in and be the finishing touch. But I do think

1688
01:23:53,880 --> 01:23:57,000
Speaker 6: it's a great question that you ask, what if things

1689
01:23:57,000 --> 01:23:58,920
Speaker 6: don't get off to a good start, what if things

1690
01:23:58,920 --> 01:24:01,880
Speaker 6: start not going well with the New York media, how

1691
01:24:01,880 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 6: does Aaron Rodgers react? And then in turn, how does

1692
01:24:04,880 --> 01:24:07,519
Speaker 6: his teammates and the rest of the organization react to

1693
01:24:07,560 --> 01:24:08,679
Speaker 6: Aaron rodgers reaction.

1694
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Speaker 3: And it bring up a good point because Robert Salam

1695
01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:15,960
Speaker 3: may need to mediate. There may be a situation there

1696
01:24:16,680 --> 01:24:19,960
Speaker 3: where there has to be a shriff from the room.

1697
01:24:20,680 --> 01:24:23,679
Speaker 3: And again, I don't want to cast as persions. I'm

1698
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:27,280
Speaker 3: not predicting anything negative. It's just that things have a

1699
01:24:27,280 --> 01:24:31,800
Speaker 3: way of unforeseen circumstances arising. So we'll see how that.

1700
01:24:32,160 --> 01:24:35,600
Speaker 3: And by the way, right out of the gate, Rogers

1701
01:24:35,680 --> 01:24:38,840
Speaker 3: will face it off against Buffalo, and I know people

1702
01:24:38,840 --> 01:24:43,519
Speaker 3: are I think, not really giving Buffalo their dude neatly

1703
01:24:43,560 --> 01:24:46,040
Speaker 3: ignoring that von Miller got hurt last year, they had

1704
01:24:46,120 --> 01:24:49,479
Speaker 3: multiple other injuries. They had the really scary situation with

1705
01:24:49,560 --> 01:24:53,040
Speaker 3: the mar Hamlin. They had the oddball travel situation that snowstorm.

1706
01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:55,280
Speaker 3: They had to go to Detroit back to back games

1707
01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:57,880
Speaker 3: for four days. They played on a Sunday, then turn

1708
01:24:57,960 --> 01:25:00,800
Speaker 3: right around and when they're on Thanksgiving. Buffalo had an

1709
01:25:00,840 --> 01:25:03,960
Speaker 3: odd ball, topsy turvy season and then they got knocked

1710
01:25:03,960 --> 01:25:08,040
Speaker 3: out of the playoffs. But listen, they're still intact as

1711
01:25:08,040 --> 01:25:10,880
Speaker 3: soon as they get von Miller back. The point I'm

1712
01:25:10,920 --> 01:25:13,640
Speaker 3: making is right out of the gate, green Bay is

1713
01:25:13,680 --> 01:25:17,839
Speaker 3: a very tough opener, and again it's Monday night football.

1714
01:25:18,400 --> 01:25:20,280
Speaker 3: The other part of that, too is look at green

1715
01:25:20,320 --> 01:25:22,320
Speaker 3: Bay's first five games and then to buy and then

1716
01:25:22,360 --> 01:25:25,840
Speaker 3: the next two those first seven games, if Green Bay

1717
01:25:25,920 --> 01:25:28,760
Speaker 3: was four and three or three and four, check out

1718
01:25:28,760 --> 01:25:30,720
Speaker 3: of state green Bay, I meant the chet they were

1719
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:33,280
Speaker 3: four and three or three and four by not surprise it.

1720
01:25:33,400 --> 01:25:35,559
Speaker 3: That doesn't mean they can't come back and still be

1721
01:25:36,160 --> 01:25:38,439
Speaker 3: you know, eleven and six or ten and five. But

1722
01:25:38,600 --> 01:25:42,320
Speaker 3: how they start is going to be critically watched. Speaking

1723
01:25:42,320 --> 01:25:45,439
Speaker 3: of how they start, what does rock Purdy do for

1724
01:25:45,479 --> 01:25:48,320
Speaker 3: an encore I think he's going to be heavily scrutinized

1725
01:25:48,360 --> 01:25:48,839
Speaker 3: this season.

1726
01:25:49,560 --> 01:25:50,240
Speaker 4: Let's be fair.

1727
01:25:51,200 --> 01:25:53,880
Speaker 3: Rock Purdy had an excellent debut as a rookie, and

1728
01:25:53,920 --> 01:25:56,400
Speaker 3: the Niners have supported them. But now all of a sudden,

1729
01:25:56,400 --> 01:26:01,080
Speaker 3: there's a ton of pressure associated with this team, their

1730
01:26:01,120 --> 01:26:03,800
Speaker 3: Super Bowl aspirations, and they're not gonna be able to

1731
01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:06,000
Speaker 3: speak up on anybody. Brock. You know, he was seven

1732
01:26:06,040 --> 01:26:10,200
Speaker 3: to zero games. He started their defensive championship caliber, perty

1733
01:26:10,200 --> 01:26:14,560
Speaker 3: did a great job of managing the offense, not making mistakes.

1734
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:17,880
Speaker 3: But all of a sudden, now there's a different dynamic

1735
01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:20,519
Speaker 3: as the Niners end of the season with all kinds

1736
01:26:20,560 --> 01:26:21,480
Speaker 3: of expectations.

1737
01:26:21,720 --> 01:26:22,679
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you wonder.

1738
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:24,599
Speaker 6: You know, as good as they are defensively, you mentioned

1739
01:26:24,640 --> 01:26:26,080
Speaker 6: it's a championship level defense.

1740
01:26:26,080 --> 01:26:26,679
Speaker 7: They have talent.

1741
01:26:26,880 --> 01:26:29,240
Speaker 6: You kind of breakout season last year at receiver, George

1742
01:26:29,280 --> 01:26:32,439
Speaker 6: Kittles excellent. You mentioned the two edit monster with Deebo

1743
01:26:32,560 --> 01:26:36,439
Speaker 6: Samuel and Christian McCaffrey. But when plays need to be made,

1744
01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:39,200
Speaker 6: you just won in big games. Ian, Look, they didn't

1745
01:26:39,200 --> 01:26:41,280
Speaker 6: have They didn't have him last year against Philadelphia. He

1746
01:26:41,320 --> 01:26:43,200
Speaker 6: can argue whether or not I don't know if they

1747
01:26:43,240 --> 01:26:45,519
Speaker 6: would have beaten Philadelphia in the NFC Championship game even

1748
01:26:45,560 --> 01:26:47,200
Speaker 6: if Party were there, but he certainly would have given

1749
01:26:47,240 --> 01:26:49,519
Speaker 6: them at least a puncher's chance, which they didn't have

1750
01:26:49,640 --> 01:26:53,439
Speaker 6: last season at all going into that matchup. But does

1751
01:26:53,479 --> 01:26:55,320
Speaker 6: Brock Party have what it takes in a nip and

1752
01:26:55,360 --> 01:26:57,679
Speaker 6: tuck situation in a tight game to make plays down

1753
01:26:57,680 --> 01:26:58,120
Speaker 6: the stretch?

1754
01:26:58,680 --> 01:27:00,000
Speaker 7: And I think that's a big question.

1755
01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:02,800
Speaker 6: And as good as San Francisco's defense is, I don't

1756
01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:04,800
Speaker 6: think this is the twenty fifteen Broncos or the two

1757
01:27:04,800 --> 01:27:06,040
Speaker 6: thousand Ravens defense.

1758
01:27:06,400 --> 01:27:08,200
Speaker 7: You know, they they're good. I just don't know if

1759
01:27:08,240 --> 01:27:10,640
Speaker 7: they're overly dominant. So Brock Party's gonna have.

1760
01:27:10,640 --> 01:27:12,600
Speaker 6: To take a step forward and at least prove that

1761
01:27:12,640 --> 01:27:15,280
Speaker 6: he can be more than a caretaker and actually connect

1762
01:27:15,360 --> 01:27:16,920
Speaker 6: and make plays when they matter most.

1763
01:27:17,280 --> 01:27:19,400
Speaker 7: And that's the big question mark whether or not he

1764
01:27:19,439 --> 01:27:20,400
Speaker 7: can actually do that.

1765
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:25,240
Speaker 3: So one of the other things I'm watching I was

1766
01:27:26,400 --> 01:27:30,720
Speaker 3: I took note the Bjohn Robinson was drafted so high

1767
01:27:30,800 --> 01:27:34,400
Speaker 3: with the eighth overall Kevin something like that, correct, Yes, okay,

1768
01:27:35,240 --> 01:27:37,320
Speaker 3: by the Atlanta Falcons. And one of the features I

1769
01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:38,719
Speaker 3: do every year, I'm gonna do this is my Saturday

1770
01:27:38,800 --> 01:27:43,840
Speaker 3: Night Joe. In eighteen of the last twenty years, at

1771
01:27:43,920 --> 01:27:48,519
Speaker 3: least one team has gone from worse to first every year.

1772
01:27:48,760 --> 01:27:52,920
Speaker 3: Last year it was obviously Jacksonville, and in twenty eighteen

1773
01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:56,640
Speaker 3: two teams actually did it, including Mitch Terbiski's Bear, who

1774
01:27:56,680 --> 01:27:58,760
Speaker 3: went twelve and four that year. They would I won

1775
01:27:58,840 --> 01:28:02,000
Speaker 3: a playoff game ahe been for the double doink field goal. Right,

1776
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:08,360
Speaker 3: But they've got the Jets, Atlanta, the Bears, the Browns,

1777
01:28:09,000 --> 01:28:14,960
Speaker 3: the Washington Commanders, the Houston Texans, and Denver Broncos. And

1778
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:17,639
Speaker 3: then last but not least, or maybe last and least

1779
01:28:17,640 --> 01:28:20,960
Speaker 3: to the Arizona Cardinals. The Atlanta Falcons are the team

1780
01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:23,479
Speaker 3: I hermark that I think has the best chance to

1781
01:28:23,520 --> 01:28:25,720
Speaker 3: do it, even more so on the Jets. All Right,

1782
01:28:25,760 --> 01:28:27,880
Speaker 3: the Jets I think can make the playoffs, but that

1783
01:28:27,880 --> 01:28:30,400
Speaker 3: doesn't mean they're going to win the division because I

1784
01:28:30,479 --> 01:28:32,599
Speaker 3: really believe Buffalo can very much win the division.

1785
01:28:32,640 --> 01:28:34,280
Speaker 4: I believe Miami can win that division.

1786
01:28:34,439 --> 01:28:36,040
Speaker 3: New England not so much. But they're going to be

1787
01:28:36,080 --> 01:28:40,440
Speaker 3: a tough out. Okay, So when you look at the Falcons,

1788
01:28:40,840 --> 01:28:44,080
Speaker 3: one of the reasons I believe so strongly that they

1789
01:28:44,240 --> 01:28:47,080
Speaker 3: are more likely to go from last to first is

1790
01:28:47,120 --> 01:28:49,600
Speaker 3: a division they're in, right, I don't think they're in

1791
01:28:49,640 --> 01:28:53,160
Speaker 3: a great division. And I'm not a Derek Carr guy.

1792
01:28:53,200 --> 01:28:55,080
Speaker 3: I've never been a Derek Carr Guy's good guy at

1793
01:28:55,120 --> 01:28:57,719
Speaker 3: sixty three and seventy nine as a starter, not great

1794
01:28:57,720 --> 01:29:00,519
Speaker 3: in the red zone, not great in the fourth quarter. Look,

1795
01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:03,439
Speaker 3: New Orleans has a lot of question marks. They got

1796
01:29:03,439 --> 01:29:05,720
Speaker 3: a lot of talent on paper. Right, you got a

1797
01:29:05,760 --> 01:29:09,559
Speaker 3: rookie quarterback in Carolina and Tampa Bay he's having all

1798
01:29:09,640 --> 01:29:11,639
Speaker 3: kinds of issues of their own. So all of a sudden,

1799
01:29:11,920 --> 01:29:14,920
Speaker 3: you look at Atlanta. I think they're real. I think

1800
01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:18,000
Speaker 3: they're a lot. They got an excellent roster, and I'm

1801
01:29:18,120 --> 01:29:22,680
Speaker 3: going to be watching very closely how they used Pijon Robinson.

1802
01:29:23,080 --> 01:29:25,840
Speaker 3: Right when's the last time, Kevin, we're in a pass

1803
01:29:25,840 --> 01:29:26,439
Speaker 3: happy league?

1804
01:29:26,520 --> 01:29:26,880
Speaker 4: Right now?

1805
01:29:27,479 --> 01:29:29,599
Speaker 3: When's the last time a rookie running back came into

1806
01:29:29,640 --> 01:29:31,960
Speaker 3: the league with this much hype? I'm trying to remember,

1807
01:29:32,080 --> 01:29:33,000
Speaker 3: and you I.

1808
01:29:32,960 --> 01:29:35,240
Speaker 6: Can't really remember, to be honest with you. Maybe Christian

1809
01:29:35,320 --> 01:29:38,639
Speaker 6: McCaffrey maybe right fair.

1810
01:29:39,400 --> 01:29:39,559
Speaker 3: But.

1811
01:29:41,640 --> 01:29:45,240
Speaker 4: I just I think because because of what he did

1812
01:29:45,240 --> 01:29:48,200
Speaker 4: at Texas, and when you're talking about a guy for

1813
01:29:48,439 --> 01:29:52,000
Speaker 4: three seasons average just under seven.

1814
01:29:51,840 --> 01:29:55,360
Speaker 3: Yards of carry. He deserves. The hyde ran for sixteen

1815
01:29:55,439 --> 01:29:58,880
Speaker 3: hundred yards last year in just twelve games. So the

1816
01:29:58,960 --> 01:30:00,840
Speaker 3: question is how many ca are they going to give

1817
01:30:00,880 --> 01:30:04,280
Speaker 3: bee Jon Robinson? Now, Teams have been much more willing

1818
01:30:04,280 --> 01:30:07,080
Speaker 3: in recent years to just kind of spread the wealth.

1819
01:30:07,520 --> 01:30:11,360
Speaker 3: It's been a running back by committee, right, And Atlanta

1820
01:30:11,400 --> 01:30:14,000
Speaker 3: has a kid, Tyler al jear Hell. He rushed for

1821
01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:16,840
Speaker 3: almost eleven hundred yards last year, and so I think

1822
01:30:16,880 --> 01:30:20,479
Speaker 3: you're going to see a run heavy offense. And part

1823
01:30:20,520 --> 01:30:22,920
Speaker 3: of that is because they've got to give Desmond Ritter

1824
01:30:23,560 --> 01:30:26,599
Speaker 3: support and it's you know, they're handing him the keys

1825
01:30:26,600 --> 01:30:29,679
Speaker 3: of the car. Different dynamic now. But I think if

1826
01:30:29,840 --> 01:30:34,320
Speaker 3: Atlanta gives Jon Robinson the ball enough and he stays healthy,

1827
01:30:34,760 --> 01:30:38,479
Speaker 3: he has the potential to put together a crazy rookie season.

1828
01:30:38,600 --> 01:30:41,320
Speaker 3: You know what I mean by that? You cannot rule

1829
01:30:41,320 --> 01:30:43,439
Speaker 3: out the possibility. I know this may sound like a

1830
01:30:43,439 --> 01:30:45,439
Speaker 3: hot take. I don't even know what a hot take means,

1831
01:30:45,479 --> 01:30:47,000
Speaker 3: but I just said that as long as part of

1832
01:30:47,000 --> 01:30:51,160
Speaker 3: it is, if Bjon Robinson gets enough carries, he could

1833
01:30:51,160 --> 01:30:53,719
Speaker 3: come close to two thousand yards from scrimmage this year.

1834
01:30:54,120 --> 01:30:56,080
Speaker 3: And I will tell you because he can catch them

1835
01:30:56,120 --> 01:30:58,479
Speaker 3: all in the back. He does it all right. The

1836
01:30:58,560 --> 01:31:02,559
Speaker 3: question is I'll be watching, how will they in effect

1837
01:31:02,920 --> 01:31:05,960
Speaker 3: us Bejon Robinson this year? Will they turn them loose?

1838
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:09,479
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a good question. And they have so much

1839
01:31:09,479 --> 01:31:11,519
Speaker 6: depth in their backfield. They also have they still have

1840
01:31:11,560 --> 01:31:13,919
Speaker 6: you mentioned Tyler our year? They still have Cordello Patterson

1841
01:31:14,360 --> 01:31:16,599
Speaker 6: and really giving all the support that they possibly can

1842
01:31:16,640 --> 01:31:19,200
Speaker 6: to Desmond Ridder with weapons on the outside. Mac Hollins

1843
01:31:19,280 --> 01:31:21,599
Speaker 6: is a big body receiver to go along with Drake London.

1844
01:31:22,160 --> 01:31:25,000
Speaker 6: You're hoping that the tight end that they drafted Kyle

1845
01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:27,519
Speaker 6: Pitts from Florida a couple of years ago, stays healthy

1846
01:31:27,520 --> 01:31:29,800
Speaker 6: and makes an impact. And I'm with you. I think

1847
01:31:29,840 --> 01:31:32,040
Speaker 6: Atlanta has as good of a shot as anybody. If

1848
01:31:32,080 --> 01:31:34,320
Speaker 6: you want to call bottom feeders who ever finished last

1849
01:31:34,320 --> 01:31:37,200
Speaker 6: in the division last year, because A, as you mentioned,

1850
01:31:37,280 --> 01:31:40,400
Speaker 6: their division isn't that great and B just their overall

1851
01:31:40,400 --> 01:31:42,920
Speaker 6: schedule as a whole isn't the most challenging. I mean,

1852
01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:45,559
Speaker 6: you're hosting the Vikings, You're on the road at the Cardinals.

1853
01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:48,800
Speaker 6: At a certain point, you're taking a Colts that's a

1854
01:31:48,880 --> 01:31:51,240
Speaker 6: team that's rebuilding that you have at home. So the

1855
01:31:51,280 --> 01:31:55,880
Speaker 6: schedule along with their divisional schedule, shapes up for Atlanta, who,

1856
01:31:55,880 --> 01:31:57,880
Speaker 6: by the way, I believe, won six games last year

1857
01:31:57,920 --> 01:32:00,439
Speaker 6: when people thought they might win two or three. They

1858
01:32:00,439 --> 01:32:03,920
Speaker 6: overshot their win total last year expected win total. So

1859
01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:05,879
Speaker 6: it would not surprise me in the least if Atlanta

1860
01:32:06,200 --> 01:32:08,960
Speaker 6: made a run and potentially challenged for the division this year.

1861
01:32:09,760 --> 01:32:13,479
Speaker 3: Right, Look, the X factor is still going to come

1862
01:32:13,520 --> 01:32:17,719
Speaker 3: down to death and the Ritter. He's an unproved quantity

1863
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:20,960
Speaker 3: at quarterback. They're going to rely heavily on their rushing attack.

1864
01:32:21,520 --> 01:32:25,920
Speaker 3: The bottom line, I wouldn't say that Falcons are the

1865
01:32:26,040 --> 01:32:29,640
Speaker 3: strongest of the eight teams I just mentioned, but if

1866
01:32:29,720 --> 01:32:32,120
Speaker 3: you look at the opportunity to have the division they're in,

1867
01:32:33,160 --> 01:32:36,080
Speaker 3: it's right. And look eighteen to the last twenty years,

1868
01:32:36,520 --> 01:32:40,280
Speaker 3: someone has gone from worse to firth finally back to

1869
01:32:40,320 --> 01:32:43,040
Speaker 3: the Lions. Look, the Lion's now one to zero. I

1870
01:32:43,120 --> 01:32:45,160
Speaker 3: talked about this at the top of the show, but

1871
01:32:45,320 --> 01:32:48,559
Speaker 3: we had our technical difficulties and how the decision they

1872
01:32:48,600 --> 01:32:52,360
Speaker 3: made to let Aubrey Pleasant go after seven weeks last

1873
01:32:52,400 --> 01:32:55,360
Speaker 3: year changed the defense and that's part of the reason,

1874
01:32:55,479 --> 01:32:56,800
Speaker 3: big part of the reason they went eight and two

1875
01:32:56,800 --> 01:33:01,200
Speaker 3: down the stretch and in camp camp Sutton and TJ. Gardner, Johnson,

1876
01:33:01,240 --> 01:33:04,559
Speaker 3: Emmanuel Moseley. They draft Jack Campbell, the draft Brian Branch

1877
01:33:05,320 --> 01:33:08,639
Speaker 3: and even before they did that, Detroit kind of shocked

1878
01:33:08,640 --> 01:33:11,559
Speaker 3: people last year by finishing nine to eight after starting

1879
01:33:11,600 --> 01:33:14,880
Speaker 3: out one and six. So here's the question, where do

1880
01:33:14,920 --> 01:33:19,000
Speaker 3: they go from here? I think it's possible they win

1881
01:33:19,040 --> 01:33:22,960
Speaker 3: an NFC North title again. The Vikings are going to

1882
01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:27,040
Speaker 3: be a factor, certainly. They went thirteen and four last year,

1883
01:33:27,120 --> 01:33:29,679
Speaker 3: seven to zero one score games, which is a little

1884
01:33:29,680 --> 01:33:33,080
Speaker 3: thing called the Kageram theorem having to do with the

1885
01:33:33,120 --> 01:33:35,759
Speaker 3: points you score versus the point the points you allow,

1886
01:33:36,240 --> 01:33:38,640
Speaker 3: and it extrapolates what your record should be. And the

1887
01:33:38,720 --> 01:33:42,240
Speaker 3: fact that the Vikings went thirteen and four last year

1888
01:33:42,280 --> 01:33:44,920
Speaker 3: and actually gave up three more points and they scored

1889
01:33:44,920 --> 01:33:48,280
Speaker 3: on the season, that doesn't happen a year ago. Now,

1890
01:33:49,400 --> 01:33:52,400
Speaker 3: sat right by behind the same microphone, talked about the

1891
01:33:52,479 --> 01:33:54,679
Speaker 3: Raiders coming back to Earth. They were ten and seven

1892
01:33:54,720 --> 01:33:58,040
Speaker 3: and twenty twenty one. They let Rich Pasaci go. They

1893
01:33:58,040 --> 01:34:00,280
Speaker 3: had a similar situation where they gave up thirty five

1894
01:34:00,280 --> 01:34:03,000
Speaker 3: more points. That record should have been seven and ten.

1895
01:34:03,400 --> 01:34:05,240
Speaker 3: I thought the Raiders would go seven and ten in

1896
01:34:05,280 --> 01:34:06,080
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two.

1897
01:34:06,439 --> 01:34:06,960
Speaker 4: I was wrong.

1898
01:34:06,960 --> 01:34:12,160
Speaker 3: They went six and eleven. A Thagrian theorem typically doesn't lie.

1899
01:34:12,520 --> 01:34:14,080
Speaker 3: The Vikis are not going to be able to get

1900
01:34:14,080 --> 01:34:16,439
Speaker 3: away with what they got away with last year. Bears

1901
01:34:16,439 --> 01:34:19,000
Speaker 3: are very much an unknown quantity, as are the Green

1902
01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:22,599
Speaker 3: Bay Packers with Jordan Love. So the door is open

1903
01:34:22,680 --> 01:34:23,320
Speaker 3: for the Lions.

1904
01:34:23,400 --> 01:34:26,280
Speaker 7: Your thoughts, I agree, I think the door is wide open.

1905
01:34:26,320 --> 01:34:27,960
Speaker 6: I think it's kind of the Lions and the Green

1906
01:34:27,960 --> 01:34:30,320
Speaker 6: Bay Packers division to lose, and it's gonna be between

1907
01:34:30,320 --> 01:34:32,719
Speaker 6: those teams. I believe from a just a pure talent

1908
01:34:32,800 --> 01:34:35,920
Speaker 6: standpoint one to fifty three or one to sixty, I

1909
01:34:35,960 --> 01:34:38,000
Speaker 6: do believe the Green Bay Packers are the most talented

1910
01:34:38,000 --> 01:34:40,200
Speaker 6: team in the division. You just have question marks as

1911
01:34:40,240 --> 01:34:43,280
Speaker 6: to what Jordan Love is going to be. If he's serviceable,

1912
01:34:43,600 --> 01:34:45,040
Speaker 6: I think that'll be good enough for them to be

1913
01:34:45,040 --> 01:34:47,280
Speaker 6: able to win the division. For Detroit, can you have

1914
01:34:47,320 --> 01:34:50,479
Speaker 6: more defensive efforts like you had on Thursday night, while

1915
01:34:50,479 --> 01:34:52,960
Speaker 6: also taking into account that they didn't have Travis Kelcey

1916
01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:55,120
Speaker 6: on the field as well, that's obviously a major factor.

1917
01:34:55,400 --> 01:34:57,479
Speaker 6: But if they can just be solid defensively, they don't

1918
01:34:57,479 --> 01:35:00,600
Speaker 6: have to be great offensively. You're gonna have better performances

1919
01:35:00,600 --> 01:35:02,720
Speaker 6: than you did against Kansas City. You're gonna be one

1920
01:35:02,760 --> 01:35:04,400
Speaker 6: of the better offenses in the league this year. I

1921
01:35:04,479 --> 01:35:06,720
Speaker 6: have no doubt about that. With Detroit, get some health

1922
01:35:06,760 --> 01:35:09,320
Speaker 6: up front, offensively, get that running game going some more.

1923
01:35:09,479 --> 01:35:10,920
Speaker 6: It's just a question of whether or not they can

1924
01:35:11,000 --> 01:35:13,280
Speaker 6: keep up the defensive effort. If they can, they're going

1925
01:35:13,360 --> 01:35:14,800
Speaker 6: to be right in the thick of it in the

1926
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Speaker 6: NFC North. So I think that's a two team race

1927
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Speaker 6: between Detroit and Green Bay.

1928
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Speaker 3: So coming up, Kevin, I want to hit some quick

1929
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Speaker 3: hitters on some NFL Opening week nuggets that are food

1930
01:35:25,720 --> 01:35:28,880
Speaker 3: for thought. But as I mentioned about thirty minutes ago,

1931
01:35:29,439 --> 01:35:33,360
Speaker 3: Divisional Dogs Week one have been absolute money in the

1932
01:35:33,439 --> 01:35:37,800
Speaker 3: National Football League for since twenty fourteen. Seventy four percent

1933
01:35:37,840 --> 01:35:42,600
Speaker 3: of the time, you have eight teams, eight divisional matchups

1934
01:35:43,080 --> 01:35:53,960
Speaker 3: this week Opening Week Broncos, Raiders, Falcons, Panthers, Bengals, Browns, Jags, Colts, Bears, Packers, Seahawks, Rams, Cowboys, Giants,

1935
01:35:53,960 --> 01:35:57,479
Speaker 3: and then Bill's Jets. Column eight. And one of the

1936
01:35:57,520 --> 01:36:02,680
Speaker 3: reasons that Divisional Dogs Week one have been so profitable

1937
01:36:02,760 --> 01:36:07,599
Speaker 3: the last ten years, it's really not brain surgery most

1938
01:36:07,640 --> 01:36:11,360
Speaker 3: teams start at full strength, they're still very optimistic. Depression

1939
01:36:11,400 --> 01:36:15,080
Speaker 3: hasn't said in yet. Good teams typically take two, three

1940
01:36:15,200 --> 01:36:18,080
Speaker 3: four weeks to fully jill and start to break apart

1941
01:36:18,120 --> 01:36:21,880
Speaker 3: from the pack. Plus coaches have had months to game plan.

1942
01:36:22,360 --> 01:36:25,920
Speaker 3: This really leads to a lot trader games and the

1943
01:36:26,080 --> 01:36:30,160
Speaker 3: likelihood not only of dogs covering, but pulling upsets. So

1944
01:36:30,560 --> 01:36:33,679
Speaker 3: if you look at those eight games that I just mentioned,

1945
01:36:34,920 --> 01:36:39,720
Speaker 3: you will you should expect more than fifty percent for

1946
01:36:39,800 --> 01:36:44,520
Speaker 3: the dogs to cover. But I would not be surprised

1947
01:36:44,640 --> 01:36:48,479
Speaker 3: at all if all of those eight games you saw

1948
01:36:49,000 --> 01:36:53,160
Speaker 3: three of those two or three of those games where

1949
01:36:53,200 --> 01:36:56,040
Speaker 3: the dog wins outright, it would not surprise me at all.

1950
01:36:56,439 --> 01:36:58,920
Speaker 3: If the Jets beat the Bills outright, they're a dog.

1951
01:36:59,240 --> 01:37:02,479
Speaker 3: If the Giants beat the Cowboys out right, there a dog.

1952
01:37:02,960 --> 01:37:06,360
Speaker 3: If the Packers beat the Bears out right, there a dog.

1953
01:37:06,960 --> 01:37:09,559
Speaker 3: If the Browns beat the Bengals, all right, they're a dog.

1954
01:37:09,640 --> 01:37:12,160
Speaker 3: Any of those games jumping you, Kevin, I.

1955
01:37:12,120 --> 01:37:13,840
Speaker 6: Mean a couple of them. To be honest with you,

1956
01:37:13,880 --> 01:37:15,439
Speaker 6: I mean you meant to mention the Browns. What is

1957
01:37:15,439 --> 01:37:17,679
Speaker 6: Deshaun Watson going to look like after having a full

1958
01:37:17,760 --> 01:37:20,160
Speaker 6: you know, offseason under his belt, and was Joe Burrow

1959
01:37:20,200 --> 01:37:22,080
Speaker 6: going to look like having not played in the preseason

1960
01:37:22,080 --> 01:37:24,639
Speaker 6: for his second consecutive year. He did not get off

1961
01:37:24,640 --> 01:37:26,280
Speaker 6: to a good start last year, if you remember, I

1962
01:37:26,280 --> 01:37:28,200
Speaker 6: believe he turned the ball over five times in the

1963
01:37:28,200 --> 01:37:29,960
Speaker 6: season opener to begin the year.

1964
01:37:30,080 --> 01:37:32,759
Speaker 7: Last season, New York taking on Dallas.

1965
01:37:32,840 --> 01:37:34,960
Speaker 6: How Darren Waller, whether or not he plays, is going

1966
01:37:35,040 --> 01:37:37,479
Speaker 6: to be big, is a huge target for the New

1967
01:37:37,560 --> 01:37:40,360
Speaker 6: York Giants. So but the spotlight for me, honestly is

1968
01:37:40,360 --> 01:37:42,000
Speaker 6: the one I mentioned the second and go is Cleveland

1969
01:37:42,040 --> 01:37:44,920
Speaker 6: and Cincinnati and how Deshaun Watson and that offense. He

1970
01:37:44,960 --> 01:37:47,720
Speaker 6: has no shortage of weapons to throw to. It's just

1971
01:37:47,760 --> 01:37:49,599
Speaker 6: whether or not he still has it. And I find

1972
01:37:49,600 --> 01:37:51,360
Speaker 6: it hard to believe that even after sitting out a

1973
01:37:51,360 --> 01:37:53,840
Speaker 6: full season or season and a half, whatever it was, that.

1974
01:37:53,840 --> 01:37:54,479
Speaker 7: He's lost it.

1975
01:37:54,520 --> 01:37:57,479
Speaker 6: And I think after having an entire offseason under his belt,

1976
01:37:57,800 --> 01:37:59,680
Speaker 6: would not be surprised if Cleveland got off to a

1977
01:37:59,720 --> 01:38:01,920
Speaker 6: big start this weekend, you know.

1978
01:38:02,040 --> 01:38:05,800
Speaker 3: And they've historically, or certainly in recent history, Cleveland's really

1979
01:38:05,800 --> 01:38:08,200
Speaker 3: had their way with Cincinnati. Just one of those deals,

1980
01:38:08,640 --> 01:38:10,599
Speaker 3: but they've had their number. And the thing I'm watching

1981
01:38:10,640 --> 01:38:13,839
Speaker 3: most in that game is the effect that Jim Schwartz

1982
01:38:13,880 --> 01:38:16,680
Speaker 3: and that aggressive defense, that downhill defense is going to

1983
01:38:16,760 --> 01:38:21,000
Speaker 3: bring and what kind of effect that has on Cincinnati's offense.

1984
01:38:21,520 --> 01:38:24,200
Speaker 3: Cleveland is poised on paper if you look at a

1985
01:38:24,280 --> 01:38:28,320
Speaker 3: pretty good roster on paper, especially defensively. We'll see if

1986
01:38:28,320 --> 01:38:33,519
Speaker 3: the Jim Schwartz effect can you produce results week one.

1987
01:38:33,880 --> 01:38:36,639
Speaker 3: So it'll be interesting to watch eight divisional games coming up.

1988
01:38:37,080 --> 01:38:40,639
Speaker 3: I've got multiple opening week nuggets. Just who's for thought, Kevin?

1989
01:38:40,720 --> 01:38:42,640
Speaker 6: All right, looking forward to that more. You mentioned the

1990
01:38:42,640 --> 01:38:46,599
Speaker 6: eight divisional matchups. Key games start a Week one of

1991
01:38:46,640 --> 01:38:49,080
Speaker 6: the NFL season. Get off to a good start in

1992
01:38:49,120 --> 01:38:52,799
Speaker 6: your division. This is the Bernie Fratto Show on Fox

1993
01:38:52,840 --> 01:38:55,880
Speaker 6: Sports Radio. Stick and State America will be back back

1994
01:38:55,920 --> 01:38:57,320
Speaker 6: on the Bernie Fratto Show.

1995
01:38:57,080 --> 01:38:59,320
Speaker 7: Here on Fox Sports Radio.

1996
01:39:00,520 --> 01:39:04,000
Speaker 6: Got a full slate of NFL action coming up on Sunday,

1997
01:39:04,600 --> 01:39:07,240
Speaker 6: eight divisional matchups. We discussed a little bit of Cleveland

1998
01:39:07,320 --> 01:39:10,400
Speaker 6: and Cincinnati a little bit last segment, Bernie, I know

1999
01:39:10,439 --> 01:39:11,760
Speaker 6: there's a lot more that you want to be able

2000
01:39:11,760 --> 01:39:13,639
Speaker 6: to get into here in a couple of minutes.

2001
01:39:14,600 --> 01:39:19,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bud. The thing is, the NFL is always tinkering,

2002
01:39:19,640 --> 01:39:23,800
Speaker 3: and if we don't need any more, you know, slowdowns

2003
01:39:23,960 --> 01:39:29,839
Speaker 3: in pace of play or reviews. You know, honest, Kevin,

2004
01:39:29,840 --> 01:39:32,160
Speaker 3: there's a side of me that if we just went

2005
01:39:32,200 --> 01:39:34,880
Speaker 3: back and forgot about replay, I'd be okay with it

2006
01:39:34,920 --> 01:39:36,760
Speaker 3: because it delays the game. But believe it or not,

2007
01:39:37,439 --> 01:39:41,600
Speaker 3: a new rule this year, all failed folk down conversions

2008
01:39:41,640 --> 01:39:45,240
Speaker 3: are not going to be automatically reviewed, same as turnovers

2009
01:39:45,280 --> 01:39:48,280
Speaker 3: and scoring plays. All that does is flow things up.

2010
01:39:48,560 --> 01:39:50,080
Speaker 3: Were you aware of that rule? I was not.

2011
01:39:50,200 --> 01:39:52,640
Speaker 6: Actually that one slipped under the radar, at least on

2012
01:39:52,680 --> 01:39:53,120
Speaker 6: my radar.

2013
01:39:53,200 --> 01:39:54,040
Speaker 7: I was not aware of that.

2014
01:39:54,160 --> 01:39:56,920
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, So I mean I get it. The you

2015
01:39:56,920 --> 01:39:59,400
Speaker 3: know your team scores, you're a fantasy guy. You're all

2016
01:39:59,400 --> 01:40:01,240
Speaker 3: excited and they're going to count. Now they got to

2017
01:40:01,280 --> 01:40:04,320
Speaker 3: review it. Here we go, and same with turnovers. Now

2018
01:40:04,320 --> 01:40:06,479
Speaker 3: they're gonna do the same thing with four on the

2019
01:40:06,600 --> 01:40:10,280
Speaker 3: fourth down conversions that fail. You go fourth on fourth down,

2020
01:40:10,320 --> 01:40:12,439
Speaker 3: If you don't make it, they're going to review it,

2021
01:40:12,479 --> 01:40:15,760
Speaker 3: whether you like it or not. Finally, we talked about

2022
01:40:15,840 --> 01:40:19,759
Speaker 3: these teams in the AFC North. We talked about the Ravens,

2023
01:40:19,760 --> 01:40:22,560
Speaker 3: we talked about the Bengals, we talked about Cleveland, and

2024
01:40:22,640 --> 01:40:24,880
Speaker 3: they'll certainly not. Forget the Pittsburgh Steelers.

2025
01:40:25,439 --> 01:40:27,720
Speaker 4: You know, all AFC.

2026
01:40:27,320 --> 01:40:30,160
Speaker 3: North teams currently have a preseason win total here in

2027
01:40:30,240 --> 01:40:34,160
Speaker 3: Vegas of nine or more games. That has never happened

2028
01:40:34,560 --> 01:40:37,519
Speaker 3: in the history of the NFL where one division has

2029
01:40:37,600 --> 01:40:42,960
Speaker 3: every team projected to win to finish the season with

2030
01:40:43,120 --> 01:40:46,479
Speaker 3: the winning record. Part of the reason I bring this up, Kevin,

2031
01:40:47,040 --> 01:40:48,680
Speaker 3: I would really get a kick out of this if

2032
01:40:48,720 --> 01:40:53,400
Speaker 3: we saw this under the new playoff format. It's not inconceivable.

2033
01:40:53,439 --> 01:40:55,200
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, there's even a prop be

2034
01:40:55,360 --> 01:40:59,160
Speaker 3: here in Vegas seven to one you can get. Will

2035
01:40:59,240 --> 01:41:03,960
Speaker 3: all four teams in any division make the playoffs? Well, Kevin,

2036
01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:08,400
Speaker 3: I'll ask it. Ravens, Bengals, Brown, Steelers. Would it shock

2037
01:41:08,520 --> 01:41:10,840
Speaker 3: you what to agree? Would it shock you if all

2038
01:41:10,840 --> 01:41:13,280
Speaker 3: for of those teams made the playoffs?

2039
01:41:13,720 --> 01:41:16,960
Speaker 6: Well, it would shock me because that's just so inconceivable

2040
01:41:17,080 --> 01:41:20,920
Speaker 6: that that would happen, because those are all four quality opponents,

2041
01:41:20,920 --> 01:41:23,240
Speaker 6: are quality teams. Obviously they're going to beat up on

2042
01:41:23,280 --> 01:41:25,640
Speaker 6: each other at some point. But you look at the

2043
01:41:25,680 --> 01:41:28,600
Speaker 6: rest of the AFC, if I'm extrapolating out to the

2044
01:41:28,600 --> 01:41:30,519
Speaker 6: other divisions, if you look at the AFC East, I

2045
01:41:30,600 --> 01:41:33,200
Speaker 6: think we can all agree that Buffalo the Jets certainly

2046
01:41:33,200 --> 01:41:35,639
Speaker 6: have a shot. Miami's not going anywhere. The Patriots will

2047
01:41:35,640 --> 01:41:38,720
Speaker 6: at least be competitive. The AFC South is probably the

2048
01:41:38,760 --> 01:41:42,320
Speaker 6: weakest division in the conference, so you'd imagine Jacksonville is

2049
01:41:42,320 --> 01:41:45,000
Speaker 6: probably going to be the top dog there. Well, the

2050
01:41:45,080 --> 01:41:46,880
Speaker 6: Chargers make a jump this year and make it back

2051
01:41:46,880 --> 01:41:49,360
Speaker 6: to the postseason again, Kansas City's not going to go anywhere.

2052
01:41:49,439 --> 01:41:51,479
Speaker 7: Denver could not to potentially improve.

2053
01:41:51,840 --> 01:41:54,200
Speaker 6: So, just based on the depth of the AFC as

2054
01:41:54,200 --> 01:41:57,519
Speaker 6: a whole, I don't think that that's likely to happen.

2055
01:41:57,560 --> 01:41:59,400
Speaker 6: I think it will be more likely in the NFC

2056
01:41:59,400 --> 01:42:01,880
Speaker 6: because the NFE is extremely top heavy, with about two

2057
01:42:01,960 --> 01:42:04,360
Speaker 6: or three and probably just two teams that really stand

2058
01:42:04,400 --> 01:42:07,639
Speaker 6: above everybody else. But because the AFC as a conference

2059
01:42:07,720 --> 01:42:10,640
Speaker 6: is just so difficult top to bottom, it will be

2060
01:42:10,680 --> 01:42:13,240
Speaker 6: hard for me to see all four teams from one

2061
01:42:13,240 --> 01:42:15,080
Speaker 6: division making the postseason.

2062
01:42:16,280 --> 01:42:18,680
Speaker 3: Fair enough, one final quickie, I got to squeeze this

2063
01:42:18,800 --> 01:42:22,120
Speaker 3: one year because it's significant. The New York Jets. The

2064
01:42:22,160 --> 01:42:25,840
Speaker 3: aforementioned New York Jets, well, we all agree their defense

2065
01:42:25,920 --> 01:42:28,919
Speaker 3: was pretty good last year. They allowed the fourth fewest

2066
01:42:28,920 --> 01:42:31,760
Speaker 3: two points per game in the NFL. Last season, the

2067
01:42:31,880 --> 01:42:36,400
Speaker 3: last time Aaron Rodgers was a quarterback of a team

2068
01:42:36,840 --> 01:42:40,400
Speaker 3: that had a scoring defense that ranked that high was

2069
01:42:40,439 --> 01:42:44,920
Speaker 3: a twenty ten season and the Green Bay Packers went

2070
01:42:44,920 --> 01:42:47,840
Speaker 3: on in the Super Bowl that year. Just food for thought.

2071
01:42:48,240 --> 01:42:51,000
Speaker 3: All right, coming up, we will have Chris Purfetz Worli soccer.

2072
01:42:51,000 --> 01:42:53,200
Speaker 3: But first to come back for our guy, Kevin Chick

2073
01:42:53,439 --> 01:42:54,240
Speaker 3: was all.

2074
01:42:54,200 --> 01:42:56,760
Speaker 6: Right And Friday night on the Diamond, Bernie Brays picked

2075
01:42:56,800 --> 01:42:59,400
Speaker 6: up their ninety second victory of the season. It was

2076
01:42:59,439 --> 01:43:01,320
Speaker 6: an eight to two he went over the Pirates as

2077
01:43:01,400 --> 01:43:03,720
Speaker 6: Ronald Lacuno Junior hit his thirty fifth home run of

2078
01:43:03,720 --> 01:43:04,080
Speaker 6: the year.

2079
01:43:04,360 --> 01:43:04,559
Speaker 7: JD.

2080
01:43:04,680 --> 01:43:06,960
Speaker 6: Martinez fresh off of the disabled list with a home

2081
01:43:07,040 --> 01:43:09,800
Speaker 6: run for the Dodgers, excuse me the injured list for

2082
01:43:10,000 --> 01:43:12,040
Speaker 6: the home run for the Dodgers eight to five victory

2083
01:43:12,040 --> 01:43:14,760
Speaker 6: there over Washington. Rangers lost their fourth in a row

2084
01:43:14,840 --> 01:43:17,839
Speaker 6: as they got nipped by Oakland sixty three. Xander Bogarts

2085
01:43:17,840 --> 01:43:20,320
Speaker 6: went deep for the Padres and an eleven to two

2086
01:43:20,400 --> 01:43:23,120
Speaker 6: drubbing of Houston. Who's lost who had their three game

2087
01:43:23,160 --> 01:43:26,080
Speaker 6: wins streak snapped. Baltimore picked up its sixth trade victory

2088
01:43:26,160 --> 01:43:29,200
Speaker 6: and in eleven to two victory over Boston wins for Cleveland,

2089
01:43:29,439 --> 01:43:34,160
Speaker 6: Minnesota and Miami College Football. Jayden Daniels Jaylen Daniels for Kansas,

2090
01:43:34,200 --> 01:43:37,160
Speaker 6: not to be confused with Jayden Daniels of LSU two

2091
01:43:37,240 --> 01:43:39,519
Speaker 6: touchdown passes for the Jayhawks thirty four to twenty three

2092
01:43:39,600 --> 01:43:42,840
Speaker 6: victory over Illinois. At the US Open, Daniel Medvedev defeated

2093
01:43:42,880 --> 01:43:45,960
Speaker 6: world number one Carlos Alcaaz to advance to the final

2094
01:43:46,040 --> 01:43:49,759
Speaker 6: round against Novak Jokovic. As we return back to Bernie

2095
01:43:49,800 --> 01:43:53,360
Speaker 6: Frado Mora on the NFL slate for US Bernie moving forward,

2096
01:43:54,200 --> 01:43:54,679
Speaker 6: all right.

2097
01:43:54,600 --> 01:43:57,200
Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Kevin, and of course his time every week,

2098
01:43:58,160 --> 01:44:03,400
Speaker 3: even though World Cup, there is never any shortage of

2099
01:44:03,600 --> 01:44:07,760
Speaker 3: news and developments, and even a or the achievement as

2100
01:44:07,800 --> 01:44:10,000
Speaker 3: the youngest player at ever scorre in a European game

2101
01:44:10,640 --> 01:44:12,680
Speaker 3: happened this week in Spain. That's why we bring you

2102
01:44:12,760 --> 01:44:16,240
Speaker 3: at this time every week. Chris purfets World of Soccer.

2103
01:44:18,280 --> 01:44:28,920
Speaker 9: The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drum.

2104
01:44:30,880 --> 01:44:34,839
Speaker 7: Him aim, It's all.

2105
01:44:34,600 --> 01:44:37,559
Speaker 1: Here in this report from the World of Soccer.

2106
01:44:39,240 --> 01:44:42,200
Speaker 10: The summer transfer window closed this week, Bernie, and once

2107
01:44:42,240 --> 01:44:46,000
Speaker 10: more we reckon with the fact that the Premier League might.

2108
01:44:45,920 --> 01:44:46,759
Speaker 7: Be too big.

2109
01:44:46,840 --> 01:44:49,920
Speaker 10: Here, for the third time in three years, Premier League

2110
01:44:50,000 --> 01:44:56,560
Speaker 10: net spending on transfer window acquisitions surpassed one billion euros.

2111
01:44:57,000 --> 01:44:59,479
Speaker 10: The grand total comes in right now at about one

2112
01:44:59,520 --> 01:45:02,160
Speaker 10: point t two nine billion euros, which is about one

2113
01:45:02,200 --> 01:45:05,080
Speaker 10: point three to nine million US dollars. Now, that's still

2114
01:45:05,080 --> 01:45:06,880
Speaker 10: not as much as last year, which they're past one

2115
01:45:06,880 --> 01:45:09,880
Speaker 10: point four to four billion, But I think there was

2116
01:45:09,960 --> 01:45:11,920
Speaker 10: a reason for that, and we'll get to it in

2117
01:45:11,960 --> 01:45:14,400
Speaker 10: a second. It's important to know that transfer spending for

2118
01:45:14,560 --> 01:45:17,960
Speaker 10: teams can be really difficult sometimes. Unlike over here in

2119
01:45:17,960 --> 01:45:23,000
Speaker 10: the United States, clubs have their finances fairly private, although

2120
01:45:23,040 --> 01:45:27,080
Speaker 10: they often disclose these two journalists for various reasons. It

2121
01:45:27,120 --> 01:45:30,200
Speaker 10: also doesn't include any kind of free transfer or free

2122
01:45:30,200 --> 01:45:33,679
Speaker 10: agency deals, which, while more rare and soccer versus North

2123
01:45:33,720 --> 01:45:36,840
Speaker 10: American sports, still do happen from time to time. But

2124
01:45:36,920 --> 01:45:40,439
Speaker 10: with the net spend estimated at over a billion euros

2125
01:45:40,479 --> 01:45:44,559
Speaker 10: once again, it is once more putting into terms how

2126
01:45:44,600 --> 01:45:48,559
Speaker 10: frustrating it can be sometimes for the modern landscape of

2127
01:45:48,600 --> 01:45:51,200
Speaker 10: the Premier League. For the longest time, the Premier League

2128
01:45:51,280 --> 01:45:54,439
Speaker 10: sold itself on being the top of the pile of

2129
01:45:54,479 --> 01:45:56,920
Speaker 10: English soccer, but at the top of a pile that

2130
01:45:57,000 --> 01:46:00,599
Speaker 10: was still attainable, where clubs could still break in from

2131
01:46:00,640 --> 01:46:04,880
Speaker 10: the championship and show themselves to be part of the

2132
01:46:04,920 --> 01:46:07,400
Speaker 10: cream of the crop, where much like the NFL, on

2133
01:46:07,479 --> 01:46:11,040
Speaker 10: any given weekend, a team could beat another team on

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Speaker 10: the pitch. But most of this spending is becoming concentrated

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Speaker 10: in the top teams, and the teams that spend the

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01:46:16,960 --> 01:46:20,879
Speaker 10: most are concentrated at the top of the table. Usually

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01:46:20,960 --> 01:46:23,439
Speaker 10: one might say, okay, so what that all makes sense?

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01:46:23,720 --> 01:46:26,280
Speaker 10: But consider that we're kind of in a situation much

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01:46:26,439 --> 01:46:30,000
Speaker 10: like how college football has become, and Bernie I do

2140
01:46:30,120 --> 01:46:32,519
Speaker 10: reach for the college football analogy more than something like

2141
01:46:32,560 --> 01:46:36,120
Speaker 10: say George Steinbrenner and his Yankees, because at the very

2142
01:46:36,160 --> 01:46:39,280
Speaker 10: least George Steinbrener's Yankees still had a reasonable chance to

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01:46:39,320 --> 01:46:41,640
Speaker 10: lose in spite of all their spending. It's not the

2144
01:46:41,680 --> 01:46:44,280
Speaker 10: same playing field when we're talking about college football and

2145
01:46:44,360 --> 01:46:48,040
Speaker 10: Premier League soccer anymore. Parody is being lost, and with

2146
01:46:48,160 --> 01:46:51,519
Speaker 10: that lost parody comes with an elite cast of the

2147
01:46:51,600 --> 01:46:55,360
Speaker 10: league where quite honestly, there's not a lot of chance

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01:46:55,439 --> 01:46:57,760
Speaker 10: for them to ever slip and fall, and thus much

2149
01:46:57,800 --> 01:47:01,719
Speaker 10: the drama is taken out of the Premier League. Likewise,

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01:47:02,080 --> 01:47:05,439
Speaker 10: teams that come up, like saylot Intown this year, really

2151
01:47:05,479 --> 01:47:08,720
Speaker 10: have no shot to ever compete, and the idea of

2152
01:47:08,760 --> 01:47:12,160
Speaker 10: something like Lester City to win the whole thing in

2153
01:47:12,200 --> 01:47:15,960
Speaker 10: a given year feels more and more far fetched. It's

2154
01:47:15,960 --> 01:47:18,040
Speaker 10: also jarring to see this much spending at the top

2155
01:47:18,280 --> 01:47:21,240
Speaker 10: when if you look at say, the lower tiers of

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01:47:21,320 --> 01:47:25,000
Speaker 10: English soccer down in say League Two, the National League,

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01:47:25,439 --> 01:47:28,400
Speaker 10: anywhere else on the pyramid, a lot of clubs are

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01:47:28,439 --> 01:47:31,760
Speaker 10: facing financial woes and this money at the top is

2159
01:47:31,800 --> 01:47:36,640
Speaker 10: not trickling down to the rest of the English ecosystem

2160
01:47:36,720 --> 01:47:40,200
Speaker 10: that developed so much fine talent. The top of English

2161
01:47:40,200 --> 01:47:42,680
Speaker 10: soccer ultimately is going to rest in the hands of

2162
01:47:42,760 --> 01:47:47,120
Speaker 10: the big spenders, the elites, the Manchesters, the Liverpool's Tottenham

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01:47:47,840 --> 01:47:51,519
Speaker 10: and maybe Newcastle United who has joined those ranks. Things

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01:47:51,520 --> 01:47:54,000
Speaker 10: to an injection of Saudi money, and speaking of the

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01:47:54,040 --> 01:47:57,479
Speaker 10: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, that might also be the other

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01:47:57,600 --> 01:48:00,800
Speaker 10: story from this transfer window. It might also be why

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01:48:00,840 --> 01:48:03,639
Speaker 10: the Premier League spending was slightly down this year because

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01:48:04,360 --> 01:48:06,960
Speaker 10: the Saudi Pro League has shown that they are willing

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01:48:07,280 --> 01:48:12,360
Speaker 10: to attack transfer targets in Europe and play a play

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Speaker 10: hardball in the same sense that many European leagues and

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01:48:16,200 --> 01:48:18,559
Speaker 10: their clubs do when it comes to getting the best

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01:48:18,600 --> 01:48:22,240
Speaker 10: talent around the world. Transfers to Saudi Pro League grabbed

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01:48:22,280 --> 01:48:25,680
Speaker 10: headlines across the world because that's exactly what they were

2174
01:48:25,720 --> 01:48:28,240
Speaker 10: meant to do. They were meaning to go after guys

2175
01:48:28,320 --> 01:48:33,680
Speaker 10: like Kareem Benzema and Naymar and Saudiomane and Genie Naldom.

2176
01:48:33,960 --> 01:48:36,200
Speaker 10: These are names that are meant to draw the attention

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01:48:36,360 --> 01:48:39,280
Speaker 10: to the Saudi Pro League in turn to hopes to

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01:48:39,280 --> 01:48:41,200
Speaker 10: do exactly what they've been able to do this summer,

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01:48:41,240 --> 01:48:43,719
Speaker 10: which is to get other countries in Europe and North

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01:48:43,760 --> 01:48:47,559
Speaker 10: America to carry the league, to pay attention to the league. They,

2181
01:48:47,800 --> 01:48:50,920
Speaker 10: much like MLS, are in the competition for eyeballs in

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01:48:50,960 --> 01:48:54,120
Speaker 10: a vast media market. And right now, while I think

2183
01:48:54,240 --> 01:48:57,200
Speaker 10: MLS still has that inside track thanks to the enduring

2184
01:48:57,360 --> 01:49:01,160
Speaker 10: power of Lionel Messi to be a story every week

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01:49:01,640 --> 01:49:05,719
Speaker 10: in North America, rest assured, the Saudis are not quite

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01:49:05,800 --> 01:49:06,759
Speaker 10: done just yet.

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01:49:07,120 --> 01:49:08,639
Speaker 7: And this is one that I.

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01:49:08,600 --> 01:49:11,400
Speaker 10: Think spooks leagues in Europe a little bit more because

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01:49:11,400 --> 01:49:14,120
Speaker 10: they're now competing for their stars in a way that

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01:49:14,560 --> 01:49:18,519
Speaker 10: MLS hasn't quite done. Just yet, and I think also

2191
01:49:18,680 --> 01:49:21,719
Speaker 10: MLS is aware of it. In light of the Messy effect,

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01:49:22,000 --> 01:49:25,120
Speaker 10: there's been a lot of talk among MLS owners to

2193
01:49:25,320 --> 01:49:28,200
Speaker 10: change a lot of the rules that Major League Soccer.

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Speaker 7: Currently relies on.

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01:49:30,120 --> 01:49:33,839
Speaker 10: As we talked about before, Bernie, MLS is near unique

2196
01:49:34,240 --> 01:49:38,200
Speaker 10: among the major players in world professional soccer in that

2197
01:49:38,280 --> 01:49:41,360
Speaker 10: it has a salary cap that's normal for US, that's

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01:49:41,479 --> 01:49:45,360
Speaker 10: not normal for soccer. And in addition to the salary cap,

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01:49:45,600 --> 01:49:49,360
Speaker 10: there are a lot of rules about roster construction. There's

2200
01:49:49,400 --> 01:49:52,800
Speaker 10: a lot of rules about designated players that don't count

2201
01:49:52,800 --> 01:49:55,720
Speaker 10: against the salary cap versus those that do, and it's

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01:49:55,720 --> 01:49:59,559
Speaker 10: a hard salary cap. It's not only stimmied the MLS

2203
01:49:59,560 --> 01:50:02,920
Speaker 10: in get big stars. At times, it stopped them from

2204
01:50:02,960 --> 01:50:06,240
Speaker 10: doing things that would allow them to have greater flexibility

2205
01:50:06,479 --> 01:50:09,320
Speaker 10: in constructing their rosters in MLS, which would set up

2206
01:50:09,360 --> 01:50:12,400
Speaker 10: those teams for better quality of play. It's a lot

2207
01:50:12,439 --> 01:50:15,880
Speaker 10: of economic terminology here, but rest assured Bernie, it's something

2208
01:50:15,880 --> 01:50:17,000
Speaker 10: the MLS is aware of.

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01:50:17,240 --> 01:50:18,960
Speaker 7: They want better, more.

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01:50:18,800 --> 01:50:21,800
Speaker 10: Well rounded rosters, and at some point they want to

2211
01:50:21,800 --> 01:50:24,200
Speaker 10: be in a position so they can bring more players

2212
01:50:24,280 --> 01:50:28,120
Speaker 10: like Leonel Messi over that are big name stars. But

2213
01:50:28,160 --> 01:50:31,679
Speaker 10: to do that, the current rules have to change. MLS

2214
01:50:31,720 --> 01:50:34,280
Speaker 10: has a great thing going with Lionel Messi right now,

2215
01:50:34,640 --> 01:50:38,080
Speaker 10: but at some point it's going to hit a ceiling

2216
01:50:38,640 --> 01:50:41,040
Speaker 10: because they can't bring more of him over.

2217
01:50:41,600 --> 01:50:43,200
Speaker 7: The rules have to change.

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01:50:43,520 --> 01:50:45,320
Speaker 10: I know this is a lot of financial talk, Bernie,

2219
01:50:45,320 --> 01:50:47,600
Speaker 10: but it's one of these things that I am genuinely

2220
01:50:48,080 --> 01:50:51,040
Speaker 10: fascinated by, not just in this sport, but in all

2221
01:50:51,080 --> 01:50:53,400
Speaker 10: other sports, especially college football as well.

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01:50:53,640 --> 01:50:55,720
Speaker 7: We are in an international break right now.

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01:50:55,800 --> 01:51:00,360
Speaker 10: Shout out to Lamine Lamal being the youngest player in

2224
01:51:00,400 --> 01:51:04,599
Speaker 10: a European qualifying to score. Sixteen years fifty seven days

2225
01:51:04,680 --> 01:51:07,680
Speaker 10: old and he scored for Spain in a seven to

2226
01:51:07,680 --> 01:51:11,120
Speaker 10: one match against Georgia, not even seventeen, and he's playing

2227
01:51:11,160 --> 01:51:15,280
Speaker 10: for the senior club for Spain and for Barcelona. All

2228
01:51:15,320 --> 01:51:18,200
Speaker 10: accounts of scouting that I've seen says this kid might

2229
01:51:18,240 --> 01:51:21,400
Speaker 10: be the next great thing to really come from Barcelona,

2230
01:51:21,720 --> 01:51:23,880
Speaker 10: and it's a fascinating to watch him play for his

2231
01:51:24,040 --> 01:51:24,679
Speaker 10: national team.

2232
01:51:25,200 --> 01:51:26,120
Speaker 7: He's now the youngest.

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01:51:25,880 --> 01:51:29,320
Speaker 10: Player to score in a euroqualifying match, taking the record

2234
01:51:29,360 --> 01:51:33,759
Speaker 10: from who Gareth Bale who did it at seventeen years

2235
01:51:34,040 --> 01:51:36,880
Speaker 10: eighty three days, And that is the world of Soccer

2236
01:51:37,840 --> 01:51:41,240
Speaker 10: Chris Burpfett's World of Soccer Chris Berffett able to contain

2237
01:51:41,320 --> 01:51:44,200
Speaker 10: himself after the Lions big victory this past Thursday.

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01:51:43,840 --> 01:51:48,960
Speaker 3: Night, Bernie, absolutely, I thought to Chris, and he is

2239
01:51:49,000 --> 01:51:52,759
Speaker 3: his podcast and believing they're dancing in the aisles in Detroit.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't take much. But be that as it may. Yeah,

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01:51:56,960 --> 01:52:00,240
Speaker 3: So we do the World of Soccer Friday nights heading

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01:52:00,240 --> 01:52:03,759
Speaker 3: into Saturday one thirty am, and then of course Saturday

2243
01:52:03,800 --> 01:52:08,240
Speaker 3: night's heading into Sunday to thirty am. Specific both times.

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01:52:08,280 --> 01:52:14,160
Speaker 3: Specific I should I should note that, Kevin before we

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01:52:15,479 --> 01:52:17,439
Speaker 3: wrap up the show coming up here in a minute.

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01:52:18,400 --> 01:52:20,760
Speaker 3: I wanted to get your thoughts ever so quickly on

2247
01:52:20,840 --> 01:52:25,519
Speaker 3: the feb World Cup basketball. The US team lost to

2248
01:52:26,320 --> 01:52:29,080
Speaker 3: Lithuania and then they follow up they lose to Germany.

2249
01:52:29,120 --> 01:52:33,960
Speaker 3: So now o'babble Canada, five am Pacific our time, Sunday

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Speaker 3: morning for the bronze, Benal, do you have any thoughts

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01:52:36,520 --> 01:52:37,120
Speaker 3: on that whole deal?

2252
01:52:37,680 --> 01:52:40,479
Speaker 6: Well, it's disappointing that we lose in the World Cup

2253
01:52:40,479 --> 01:52:43,040
Speaker 6: for the second cycle in a row. And you say, well,

2254
01:52:43,040 --> 01:52:45,080
Speaker 6: we're not sending our the best of the best, but

2255
01:52:45,160 --> 01:52:47,679
Speaker 6: for years we didn't and we still were able to win.

2256
01:52:48,080 --> 01:52:50,040
Speaker 6: It's just another example of Bernie of how the rest

2257
01:52:50,080 --> 01:52:52,000
Speaker 6: of the world is caught up. And one of the

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01:52:52,000 --> 01:52:55,160
Speaker 6: big issues that pointed itself out, especially in that Lithuania loss,

2259
01:52:55,200 --> 01:52:57,519
Speaker 6: was the fact that we were just too small, didn't

2260
01:52:57,520 --> 01:52:59,760
Speaker 6: have enough size. We're playing Jared Jackson at center when

2261
01:52:59,760 --> 01:53:02,720
Speaker 6: he's power forward, and it really showed itself on the

2262
01:53:02,760 --> 01:53:05,880
Speaker 6: international stage. You know, as much as the NBA is going,

2263
01:53:05,920 --> 01:53:08,720
Speaker 6: you know, small ball and positionless, you have a lot

2264
01:53:08,720 --> 01:53:11,439
Speaker 6: of traditional basketball lineups in the world stage, and it's

2265
01:53:11,439 --> 01:53:13,919
Speaker 6: going to really hurt you from a rebounding and defensive

2266
01:53:13,960 --> 01:53:16,599
Speaker 6: standpoint when you play at that stage. So I think

2267
01:53:16,640 --> 01:53:18,800
Speaker 6: that was the glaring thing that stood out to me

2268
01:53:18,880 --> 01:53:21,080
Speaker 6: for a team USA throughout this FEBA run.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well said, it's interesting. You Basketball clearly is an

2270
01:53:26,640 --> 01:53:32,120
Speaker 3: international sport. But I maybe I'm naive. I feel if

2271
01:53:32,160 --> 01:53:35,160
Speaker 3: we send NBA players there, we had, you know, Anthony

2272
01:53:35,360 --> 01:53:37,360
Speaker 3: Edwards is not a ham and Egger, right, we have

2273
01:53:37,600 --> 01:53:43,559
Speaker 3: good players. So the size issue, certainly against Lithuania weird

2274
01:53:43,600 --> 01:53:46,519
Speaker 3: its head. So maybe it was just roster construction. I'm

2275
01:53:46,560 --> 01:53:49,720
Speaker 3: not sure, or you know, I don't know how much

2276
01:53:49,760 --> 01:53:51,680
Speaker 3: heat Steve curll take could he take to me? But

2277
01:53:51,800 --> 01:53:54,280
Speaker 3: I get a feeling they'll fix this before the next

2278
01:53:54,280 --> 01:53:57,840
Speaker 3: go around, as it happened after eighty eight from John

2279
01:53:57,880 --> 01:54:01,160
Speaker 3: Thompson and the Folks lost to r visas the bonus,

2280
01:54:01,200 --> 01:54:03,840
Speaker 3: and you know that created a dream team. So maybe

2281
01:54:03,880 --> 01:54:09,280
Speaker 3: we need a FEBA a dream team right now coming up.

2282
01:54:09,560 --> 01:54:12,280
Speaker 3: And by the way, not for nothing. I got it, Kevin.

2283
01:54:12,280 --> 01:54:15,400
Speaker 3: I know this is crazy. We're seven hours and seventeen

2284
01:54:15,439 --> 01:54:22,120
Speaker 3: minutes away from Colorado, Nebraska, and I'm genuinely excited to see.

2285
01:54:22,800 --> 01:54:24,280
Speaker 3: What is the encore.

2286
01:54:23,960 --> 01:54:24,320
Speaker 4: Going to be?

2287
01:54:24,840 --> 01:54:27,960
Speaker 3: Is Nebraska going to surprise them? Will Colorado'll pick up

2288
01:54:27,960 --> 01:54:30,920
Speaker 3: where they've left off? What will the atmosphere be like there?

2289
01:54:32,120 --> 01:54:35,600
Speaker 3: And we talked about this earlier. There's historical precedent now

2290
01:54:36,120 --> 01:54:38,960
Speaker 3: as good as Colorado looked, whenever a team week one

2291
01:54:39,960 --> 01:54:43,000
Speaker 3: is a twenty or more point underdog and they pull

2292
01:54:43,040 --> 01:54:46,800
Speaker 3: the upset, it's only happened six times since nineteen eighty

2293
01:54:46,880 --> 01:54:50,760
Speaker 3: nine where a team was a twenty point underdog and

2294
01:54:50,800 --> 01:54:53,200
Speaker 3: they won out right week one. In the following week,

2295
01:54:53,280 --> 01:54:55,040
Speaker 3: all those teams were zero to six.

2296
01:54:55,560 --> 01:54:56,440
Speaker 4: Only one of those.

2297
01:54:56,320 --> 01:54:59,960
Speaker 3: Teams was favorite the following week. That was Southern Mississippi.

2298
01:55:00,280 --> 01:55:02,960
Speaker 3: They had upset Dion Stanners on Florida State in nineteen

2299
01:55:03,040 --> 01:55:05,800
Speaker 3: eighty nine as a twenty two point underdog. The following

2300
01:55:05,800 --> 01:55:09,080
Speaker 3: week they were favored against Mississippi State lost out right. Well,

2301
01:55:09,120 --> 01:55:12,560
Speaker 3: now Colorado will be the second team favored. So I

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01:55:12,560 --> 01:55:15,560
Speaker 3: got to tell you, Kevin, I'm interested to see how

2303
01:55:15,680 --> 01:55:17,720
Speaker 3: this is going to play out. We're just a little

2304
01:55:17,760 --> 01:55:21,600
Speaker 3: over seven hours away from kickoff coming up. As I

2305
01:55:21,680 --> 01:55:23,640
Speaker 3: mentioned at the top of the show before, we haven't on.

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01:55:23,760 --> 01:55:27,120
Speaker 3: I apologize to the folks. We had some technical difficulties tonight.

2307
01:55:27,520 --> 01:55:31,040
Speaker 3: We had some issues here in Las Vegas. We had

2308
01:55:31,080 --> 01:55:34,120
Speaker 3: an area outage with the internet. I got to get

2309
01:55:34,120 --> 01:55:36,400
Speaker 3: that worked out. I'm trying to get it worked out,

2310
01:55:37,080 --> 01:55:39,720
Speaker 3: and so we'll resume our game burnings midnight trivia game

2311
01:55:39,760 --> 01:55:43,640
Speaker 3: next Friday, of course, and we'll get to we'll get

2312
01:55:43,640 --> 01:55:45,600
Speaker 3: to all that. But I mentioned at the top of

2313
01:55:45,640 --> 01:55:47,440
Speaker 3: the shield there are three types of people in the world.

2314
01:55:47,800 --> 01:55:50,160
Speaker 3: Those who make things happen, those who watch things to happen,

2315
01:55:50,160 --> 01:55:51,360
Speaker 3: those who wondered what happened.

2316
01:55:51,680 --> 01:55:52,240
Speaker 4: We saw the.

2317
01:55:52,200 --> 01:55:57,000
Speaker 3: Lions going to Kansas City on their field and knock

2318
01:55:57,040 --> 01:56:01,080
Speaker 3: off the defending world champions. We saw Colorado head to

2319
01:56:01,280 --> 01:56:04,600
Speaker 3: TCU and beat the runner up, the national runner up

2320
01:56:05,080 --> 01:56:09,440
Speaker 3: PCU horn Frogs in very impressive fashion. We also lost

2321
01:56:09,480 --> 01:56:13,480
Speaker 3: in American treasure this last week, Jimmy Buffett, who dominated

2322
01:56:13,520 --> 01:56:17,680
Speaker 3: the headlines for five decades. Kevin, I'll throw it back

2323
01:56:17,720 --> 01:56:20,480
Speaker 3: to you and we'll talk about Jimmy Buffett coming up.

2324
01:56:20,600 --> 01:56:22,840
Speaker 6: All right, we'll take a trip to Margaritaville on the

2325
01:56:22,880 --> 01:56:26,360
Speaker 6: other side with Bernie Fratto show here on Fox Sports Radio.

2326
01:56:27,160 --> 01:56:29,960
Speaker 6: Bringing it home here on Fox Sports Radio, the Bernie

2327
01:56:30,080 --> 01:56:32,840
Speaker 6: Fredo Show. Thank you guys for joining us for the

2328
01:56:32,880 --> 01:56:35,000
Speaker 6: show today and Bernie, I know last week we said

2329
01:56:35,040 --> 01:56:37,000
Speaker 6: goodbye to a legend, a music legend.

2330
01:56:38,240 --> 01:56:40,360
Speaker 3: Vin, thanks so much for do any further on to

2331
01:56:40,400 --> 01:56:43,520
Speaker 3: thank the crew Fome, great job to stepping up Kevin

2332
01:56:43,560 --> 01:56:46,800
Speaker 3: and of course Mark Ramsey all their difficult circumstances and

2333
01:56:46,920 --> 01:56:53,600
Speaker 3: Shane moving Guarde. Great job guys keeping us glued together tonight. Yes,

2334
01:56:53,680 --> 01:56:56,680
Speaker 3: we lost an American treasure this week. For it's worth,

2335
01:56:56,880 --> 01:56:59,960
Speaker 3: believe it or not, Jimmy Buffer never even had an

2336
01:57:00,040 --> 01:57:03,240
Speaker 3: number one hit. He never really even received critical acclaim

2337
01:57:03,280 --> 01:57:06,680
Speaker 3: for his guitar playing or singing voice. He wasn't praised

2338
01:57:06,720 --> 01:57:10,000
Speaker 3: as a great musician. But through the power of story,

2339
01:57:10,440 --> 01:57:13,680
Speaker 3: and you did the perfect segue, Kevin a minute ago.

2340
01:57:13,840 --> 01:57:17,840
Speaker 3: Through the power story, Jimmy Buffett took everybody to an

2341
01:57:17,840 --> 01:57:21,360
Speaker 3: imaginary place where the beer was always cold, but people

2342
01:57:21,400 --> 01:57:25,960
Speaker 3: were warm, both served up in generous dosis. And what

2343
01:57:26,000 --> 01:57:29,600
Speaker 3: did Jimmy Buffett do that enable him to, you know,

2344
01:57:29,760 --> 01:57:34,360
Speaker 3: mesmerize the nation for five decades. He didn't sell you know,

2345
01:57:34,440 --> 01:57:36,360
Speaker 3: it really wasn't selling boats.

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Speaker 4: Music, food, booze.

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01:57:37,560 --> 01:57:41,240
Speaker 3: He sold the escapist. That's what Jimmy Buffett did. Think

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01:57:41,240 --> 01:57:44,160
Speaker 3: about the recent people listen to the radio show, they'll

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01:57:44,160 --> 01:57:48,080
Speaker 3: watching football tomorrow. All the things you can do. Buffett

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01:57:48,120 --> 01:57:52,000
Speaker 3: was a great, shining example of creating a vehicle where

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01:57:52,000 --> 01:57:55,120
Speaker 3: people could go live that care free life without stress.

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01:57:55,600 --> 01:58:00,000
Speaker 3: And his songs and his concerts, whether they were brought

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01:58:00,120 --> 01:58:02,200
Speaker 3: cast on radio stations, are serious.

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01:58:02,640 --> 01:58:03,680
Speaker 4: They moved his fans.

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01:58:03,840 --> 01:58:09,760
Speaker 3: This petition of this fictional place called Margaritaville, and obviously

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01:58:09,840 --> 01:58:13,160
Speaker 3: Buffett had been there's no such a place as Margaritaville. However,

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01:58:13,600 --> 01:58:16,000
Speaker 3: it reminded him of his days at Key West. It's

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01:58:16,000 --> 01:58:19,400
Speaker 3: all about your escapism quote. I'm not the first one

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01:58:19,440 --> 01:58:21,840
Speaker 3: to do it. I'll probably not be the last, but

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01:58:21,920 --> 01:58:24,560
Speaker 3: it's part of the human condition. You've got to have

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01:58:24,680 --> 01:58:26,600
Speaker 3: some fun. You got to get away from whatever you

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01:58:26,640 --> 01:58:29,960
Speaker 3: do to make a living, whatever stretching you out, you

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01:58:30,040 --> 01:58:33,360
Speaker 3: hope in life to have. It's fifty to fifty work fun,

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01:58:33,840 --> 01:58:37,640
Speaker 3: and Jimmy Buffett said, after fifty years so far it's

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01:58:37,680 --> 01:58:38,200
Speaker 3: worked out.

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Speaker 4: Kevin, you could take it from here.

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Speaker 3: Your thoughts on.

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Speaker 6: Jimmy Buffer, well, thank you, Bernie much appreciate it. Brother

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Speaker 6: Jimmy Butler. You know the soundtrack to many of our summers.

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01:58:47,680 --> 01:58:50,080
Speaker 6: You know, feel good music we all love and we'll

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Speaker 6: all miss Jimmy Buffett, gone too soon, passed away last weekend.

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Speaker 6: Thanks again to Shay and Mark. Thanks you guys for

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Speaker 6: joining us here on Fox Sports Radio. This has been

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Speaker 6: the Bernie Ratto Show. Coming up next, it'll be Anthony

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Speaker 6: Gargato and the Fellas with a new special family member

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Speaker 6: of the FSR family

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Speaker 7: Coming up next here on Fox Sports Radio.