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Speaker 2: The way tire buying should be huge Sports Weekend. Really

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Speaker 2: been waiting for this one so much to get to.

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Speaker 2: By the way, in an hour they've made for TV

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Speaker 2: Invitational Tournament. We're gonna talk about it in the midnight hour.

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Speaker 2: Your calls, you know what to do. You guys have

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Speaker 2: done a great job on this the last few weeks,

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Speaker 2: and it kind of reminds me, kind of reminds me

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Speaker 2: of a situation, you know, the great Willie Nelson. Years ago,

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Speaker 2: he got in the hot water with the irs and

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Speaker 2: a fair amount of fines, but somehow, through negotiation, he

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Speaker 2: managed to hold on to his prize possession, which was

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Speaker 2: his golf course. Will he had his own golf course,

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Speaker 2: loves to golf, and he consented to an interview after

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Speaker 2: the whole or A deal was over with, and he

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Speaker 2: invited a reporter to his house where the backyard deck

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Speaker 2: oversaw the eighteenth finishing hole, and the reporter says, Willie,

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Speaker 2: I know you love the golf, but why was it

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Speaker 2: so important that you kept your golf course. Will He says,

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Speaker 2: It's simple. When you own your own golf course, you

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Speaker 2: get to decide par. See that eighteenth finishing hole, it's

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Speaker 2: a par fourteen and yesterday I birded. It kind of

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Speaker 2: reminds me a lot of the Made for TV Invitational tournament.

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Speaker 2: The committee for the last nine years has simply got

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Speaker 2: to pick who they were want irrespective of certain data.

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Speaker 2: And we all know that there's a fundamental flaw because

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Speaker 2: there are five Power Conference teams and of course there

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Speaker 2: are only four slots open. Right. Well, it was always

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Speaker 2: going to bite this somehow, someway, and this year it

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Speaker 2: we're going to get to that. It's a very polarizing game.

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Speaker 2: I'm on record as saying seventy percent Jim Harbaugh is

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Speaker 2: gonna leave. He hired a power agent, Don Yee several

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Speaker 2: weeks ago. They kept it out of the media. He

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Speaker 2: represents Tom Brady, he represents Sean Payton, and I know

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Speaker 2: there are a lot of factors into this, but not

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Speaker 2: the least of which he wants to win a super

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Speaker 2: Bowl if you know, if you know people back there,

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Speaker 2: he never got over loosed in the Super Bowl to

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Speaker 2: his brother. So Michigan also a polarizing story with the

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Speaker 2: Connor Stallions situation, and they're a polarizing team. People either

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Speaker 2: love them or hate them. And Michael Penis in Washington.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that Michigan's seen anything like this. But

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Speaker 2: the bottom line is I like to get your thoughts.

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Speaker 2: We'll do this at midnight. Be ready for it the

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Speaker 2: minnet hour. Who would you want to see win? What's

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Speaker 2: the bigger story in your view? Or you know, is

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Speaker 2: it hate watching for you. We'll get to all that

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Speaker 2: and you'll get your predictions maybe as well. But first

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Speaker 2: the NFL the playoff picture is now coming to real focus.

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Speaker 2: For Week eighteen, We've got the final week at the

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Speaker 2: enn of for regular season. It begins Saturday, and there's

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Speaker 2: a lot left to be decided before the playoffs actually

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Speaker 2: begin a week from now. Only half of the division

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Speaker 2: races have been decided. There are still ten teams fighting

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Speaker 2: for five remaining playoff spots. Here's some important things to

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Speaker 2: watch for as the season wraps up and everything gets

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Speaker 2: rolling Saturday, one thirty Pacific. Ironically, the most pivotal game

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Speaker 2: host Buffalo on Sunday Night Football. The winner, well, they'll

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Speaker 2: the division if the game ends in a tie. Okay,

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Speaker 2: let's not go there. But the bottom line is Miami

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Speaker 2: has already clinched a spot in the playoffs, but it's

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Speaker 2: if they don't win Sunday. Now, the Bills can still

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Speaker 2: get into the playoffs with a loss, but they'll require

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Speaker 2: if Buffalo loses, they will only advance if one of

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Speaker 2: there's plenty of incentive for them to win this game

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Speaker 2: because when they come out on South, they have the

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Speaker 2: they'll be the number six seed. They'll have to travel

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Speaker 2: There's also an AFC South deadlock. The Jaguars, Colts, and Texans, well,

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Speaker 2: of that game will clinch at least a spot in

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Speaker 2: Jacksonville loses to the Titans on Sunday. Now, the Jags

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Speaker 2: only need a victory over Tennessee to clinch the division,

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Speaker 2: but they would need losses by the Steelers in Denver

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Speaker 2: door is still open for the Steelers. People are gonna

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Speaker 2: you're gonna see the Ravens B team And as long

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Speaker 2: this gets convoluted, but a Steelers winning a tie in

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Speaker 2: There's even a narrow chance for the Steelers to get

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Speaker 2: to know the knucklehead that sits up at night and

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Speaker 2: figures all this stuff out. I couldn't do it. I'm

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Speaker 2: But figuring out these if this then that scenarios. You know,

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Speaker 2: that's fine work there. Now, last week's games dramatically changed

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Speaker 2: the Lions. So now Dallas and Philadelphia they have identical

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Speaker 2: record and conference games. Now both teams have you know,

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Speaker 2: it's the National Football League. You cringe when you hear

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Speaker 2: things like this, but both teams have what I would

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Speaker 2: say relatively easy games. Sunday I say easy and quotes

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Speaker 2: the Eagles face the New York Giants, and the Giants

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Speaker 2: are five and a half underdogs at home and sharp

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Speaker 2: money's on the Giants. This is not going to be

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Speaker 2: an easy game for the Eagles. Meanwhile, the Cowboys face

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Speaker 2: the Commanders or laying a Brazilion points. I expect the

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Speaker 2: Cowboys to prevail there. Now, the only way for Philadelphia

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Speaker 2: to win the division is to beat New York and

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Speaker 2: hope Dallas loses to Washington. The Eagles, well, they've skidded.

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Speaker 2: They've lost for their last five games, which means they're

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys. They're in position now to clinch the number

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Speaker 2: two seed, so two unclaimed NFC spots. Five of seven

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Speaker 2: NFC postseason births have been claimed. The only two remaining

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Speaker 2: would be a disaster. I would consider this. I don't

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Speaker 2: like to use the word choke job, but come on,

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Speaker 2: if Tampa Bay doesn't win the division, all they have

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Speaker 2: to do is clinch against the Carolina Panthers, who I

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Speaker 2: the National Football League. You take nothing for granted. If

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Speaker 2: they can actually get in as a wildcard with a loss,

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Speaker 2: as long as the Seahawks lose and the Green Bay

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Speaker 2: I've heard a thousand times this is the Bears Super

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Speaker 2: Bowl and Justin Field's audition. He's ten and twenty seven

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Speaker 2: as a starter. He's one three hundred yard game in

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Speaker 2: Justin fields thing again. I would be very surprised if

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Speaker 2: a good game to watch. Now Packers lost, that would

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Speaker 2: win over the Cardinals and a Green Bay loss to qualify. Well,

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Speaker 2: that they're actually seven and nine. The record is seven

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Speaker 2: the Packers, Seahawks and neither of the Saints are bucks

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Speaker 2: to secure a playoff spot. So you think week eighteen

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about the Raiders because that coaching hire

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Speaker 2: is I think all well, currently there are three openings.

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Speaker 2: I know that I can put my finger on eight.

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Speaker 2: to Kevin Bollinger. Kevin, how are you, buddy, Bernie.

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Speaker 2: Right back at you, and of course Sunday I will

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Speaker 2: Get the check. No, that's an excellent point. One hundred

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Speaker 2: Kevin, You're spot on knowing what I know. I think

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Speaker 2: Well, said Kevin. I appreciate as always great stuff. Enjoy

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Speaker 10: All right, Bernie.

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Speaker 11: Friday night in the NBA, the Warriors defeat at the

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Speaker 11: twenty nine points. LA has lost four games in a row.

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Speaker 11: De montesabonus a triple double for Sacramento. They defeated Toronto

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Speaker 11: one thirty five to one thirty Clippers have won fourteen

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Speaker 11: of their last sixteen games. Or the hottest team in

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Speaker 11: the NBA A one eleven to ninety five victory in

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Speaker 11: New Orleans. You have victories for Dallas, Chicago and the Knicks,

438
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Speaker 11: who hammered the Sixers one twenty eight to ninety two.

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Speaker 11: In college hoops top rank, Purdue beat number nine Illinois

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Speaker 11: eighty three to seventy eight to improve to fourteen and one,

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Speaker 11: fourth ranked Yukon picking up an eighty eight to eighty

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Speaker 11: one victory. An NFL News, Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence expected

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Speaker 11: to be a game time decision for their matchup against

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Speaker 11: Tennessee on Sunday as he continues to nurse a shoulder injury.

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Speaker 11: Falcons quarterback Tylor Heineke a game time decision against New

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Speaker 11: Orleans as he battles an ankle issue.

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Speaker 10: Back to Bernie Fredo, all right.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Kevin, and remember now. Top of the hour,

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Speaker 2: midnight the midnight hour. It is on your calls eight seven,

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Speaker 2: seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine ninety six,

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Speaker 2: six three sixty nine tonight, we want to talk about

452
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Speaker 2: what I consider to be a polarizing subject. To Michigan Wolverines.

453
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Speaker 2: Are you rooting for them? Are you rooting against them?

454
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh Connor stallions the whole set of Michigan ops.

455
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Speaker 2: If you get my drift, what would be the bigger story?

456
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Speaker 2: What would you like to see? Who do you predict

457
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 2: will win? Last week when we went into the Russell

458
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Speaker 2: Wilson situation and we had some great calls, it was

459
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Speaker 2: a highly charged situation, all right. The Lakers, Oh my goodness,

460
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Speaker 2: they lose Wednesday night against Miami without Jimmy Butler. The

461
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Speaker 2: heat got hot there. Oh wow, No, pun intendant, see

462
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Speaker 2: what I did there? Didn't mean to do that. They

463
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Speaker 2: lose Friday night to the Memphis Grizzlies by fourteen. Don't

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Speaker 2: look good doing it either way? Is there trouble in Paradise?

465
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Speaker 2: Has an NBA Cup champion in the history of the

466
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Speaker 2: NBA ever missed the playoffs? We've got to research that.

467
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,439
Speaker 2: And we have a situation now after it looks so

468
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 2: the Lakers look so good recently that the season is

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Speaker 2: going off the rails. I don't think. I don't think

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Speaker 2: that's hyperbolic. And now there's all of a sudden, all

471
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Speaker 2: kinds of mounting criticism on head coach Darvin Ham. I

472
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 2: understand Lebron's still pissed. Hell he wants he wants Eric

473
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Speaker 2: Spolster fired. Remember those days? All right? Ham appears to

474
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Speaker 2: be struggling a little bit to keep a firm grip

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Speaker 2: on the Lakers culture, on the Lakers locker room. Why

476
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 2: I'm told too many changes to the starting lineup in rotation.

477
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Speaker 2: I think there's been eleven lineup, starting lineup has been

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Speaker 2: been used so far, whatever the case may be. And uh,

479
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Speaker 2: and in the last three games or three or four games,

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Speaker 2: he's used three. And apparently now there's a disconnect between

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Speaker 2: the coach. I thought Darvin Ham did a whale of

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Speaker 2: a job last year. How it could change so dramatically overnight,

483
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Speaker 2: so quickly, I don't know. But that's Lebron, that's the NBA.

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Speaker 2: The Lakers are trying very hard to turn their season around. Okay,

485
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Speaker 2: tonight though, they just did not look good. I can't

486
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Speaker 2: you just know when you know, they're blaming Darvin Ham

487
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Speaker 2: and his decisions for the players struggling and struggling to

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Speaker 2: find a rhythm. And the situation is bad enough that

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Speaker 2: now here you go, they're raising questions about whether or

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Speaker 2: not Darvin Ham is here for the long haul. Some

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Speaker 2: of the lineups, especially the decision to bench D'Angelo Russell

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Speaker 2: and play without a secondary ball handler, well that's been

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Speaker 2: internalized behind closed doors for you know a little bit here.

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Speaker 2: So the Lakers have now lost ten of their last

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Speaker 2: thirteen games since winning the inaugural in season NBA Cup.

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Speaker 2: They fall into tenth in the Western Conference, and I

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Speaker 2: would say this that it feels like Darvinham might be unnoticed. Okay, now,

498
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Speaker 2: not an immediate threat. I don't think they're gonna fire

499
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 2: a mid season I'd be very surprised. But if you

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Speaker 2: listen to between the lines things that are being said,

501
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 2: clearly he seems to be alienating in the locker room,

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00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 2: or he's on the verge of very much alienating the

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Speaker 2: locker room. I get it. There's been some bad luck

504
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,719
Speaker 2: during the losing streak, and they've all had some injuries

505
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 2: that's been an issue. However, you've got two Hall of

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Speaker 2: famers and Lebron James and Anthony Davis. They're both healthy

507
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 2: and things still aren't clicking. So when that's the case,

508
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 2: scrutiny's inevitable. It's going to fall on the head coach.

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Speaker 2: That's just the way it works, you know it. It's

510
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 2: always been that way. It's always gonna be that way.

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Speaker 2: Come it up as we premium at midnight hour, we

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Speaker 2: take a look at Washington and Michigan and how they

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Speaker 2: both survived a dramatic Monday and moved on, and uh,

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Speaker 2: we give our thoughts before we turn it over to

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Speaker 2: you in the midnight hour. I'm Bernie Frattle. We're come

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Speaker 2: to you live from the Las Vegas and Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: Radio tarret dot com studios. Keep it locked right here.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Right back in the Bernie Final Show, Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 2: coming to live from the Tyraq dot com studios here

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Speaker 2: five am. Eastern, coming up midnight, the midnight hour, your

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Speaker 2: calls eight seven, seven, nine, nine sixty six three sixty nine.

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Speaker 2: I believe this final year of the Made for TV

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Speaker 2: Invitational Tournament, the real tournament can't get here soon enough.

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Speaker 2: Next year it'll be a month long. It'll start December twentieth.

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Speaker 2: Some of the games on campus sites can't wait. It's

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00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 2: going to be so much better, quite honestly, but somehow

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Speaker 2: the committee actually I think really very much managed to

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Speaker 2: get it right. We had outstanding semi final games and

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Speaker 2: an outstanding championship game Monday, I believe on Tap. By

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Speaker 2: only Monday night, but it already seems like a long

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Speaker 2: time ago. Let's refresh our memories on how both Washington

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00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 2: and Michigan and I think survive is the correct characterization.

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00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 2: Bama led by a touchdown just a couple of minutes

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Speaker 2: to go in the game, and the Michigan offense in

546
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 2: this second half had been stifled and people were tweeting

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Speaker 2: this fields over and ended up going in overtime, and

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00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 2: you know what happened, and I think it led to

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Speaker 2: by the way, after watching Florida State, they kind of

550
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Speaker 2: lost their claim for being job. But let's talk about

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Speaker 2: that clearly. By excluding Florida State, the Committee evidently made

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Speaker 2: their best playoff. All right, Well, I don't call it

553
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Speaker 2: a playoff. It's to still have made for TV Invitational tournament.

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00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 2: Now why do I say that? Because Monday semi finals

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Speaker 2: they produced the best day in the history of the playoff.

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Speaker 2: It just simply did even better than last year's. We've

557
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 2: had great games with two games and back to back

558
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Speaker 2: like this, both going down to the absolute final play

559
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 2: the absolute final play, tension right and left, pressure, right

560
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Speaker 2: and left, hopes and dreams, human interest stories, memories, highlights,

561
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Speaker 2: expectations blown up, all coming down to one place. It

562
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Speaker 2: was incredible. Okay, I want to start with the second

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00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 2: game first, because Washington almost blew the Sugar Bowl. They

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Speaker 2: led by two touchdowns. You could sit there and watch

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00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 2: as the Huskies almost made Michael Pennix's performance an afterthought. Okay,

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Speaker 2: four hundred and sixty one yard night, that's just simply

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Speaker 2: what he does. And if anybody doesn't think this Washington

568
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 2: team is good, or you just you think they're for

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Speaker 2: an S team or they're not physical. Look, they've played

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Speaker 2: nine ranked teams in the last two years. They're nine

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Speaker 2: to zero. They've been an underdog five times. They have

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00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 2: won all five games. Outright, you better be aware of

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Speaker 2: the Washington Huskies. When they beat Texas thirty seven thirty

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Speaker 2: one on Monday night, it marked a tenth straight victory

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00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 2: by ten points or lest he was the fifth straight

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Speaker 2: one score game. It's a testament to the fact that

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Speaker 2: the Huskies have this collective skill set. Michael Penix not

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00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 2: only has the best receiving core in the nation to

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Speaker 2: throw to. All Right, someone saying an early show, well,

580
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 2: Michigan Seed receivers like this, it's all Marvin Harrison. Hey,

581
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 2: he had about one hundred and seventy yards against him.

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Speaker 2: That was Kyle McCorry. That was a joke compared to this. Sorry, Now,

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Speaker 2: he not only has Penis, not only has the best

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Speaker 2: receiving corps in the country to throw to, but he

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00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 2: has an offensive line that won the Joe Moore Award

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Speaker 2: as the best unit in the nation. Remember going into

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00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 2: the Michigan game Alabama and at Jalen Milroe, he'd been

588
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 2: sacked forty two times already. I give Michigan top credit

589
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 2: for disguising their schemes and coming from every whitcher angle

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00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 2: to confuse the hell out of Jalen Monroe Milroe. That's

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Speaker 2: not gonna happen against Washington. I'm not saying Michigan's not

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Speaker 2: gonna be able to pressure. Michigan's gonna hold their own

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Speaker 2: on the line of scrimmage against anybody. But this Washington

594
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 2: unit is so under raided people don't talk about them.

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00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 2: They're offensive line is tremendous. If they protect Michael Pennis Penn, who,

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Speaker 2: by the way, gets the damn ball out of his hand.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you this is just this is going to

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Speaker 2: be one for the ages. I believe the Dogs. The

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Speaker 2: Huskies underdogs for a second straight game for the third

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Speaker 2: time in the last four and basically, and I thought

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Speaker 2: Texas was a hell of a team. There are lots

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Speaker 2: of people I respect that thought Texas would be the

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Speaker 2: team the last man standing. They got on the feet

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Speaker 2: with Washington, who beat Oregon twice this year, and they

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Speaker 2: were a ten point underdog here in Las Vegas. In

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Speaker 2: the second match went out right. Washington domine dominated that

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Speaker 2: game for about fifty nine minutes. So now Washington has

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Speaker 2: the opportunity to bring down the curtain on the PAC

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00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 2: twelve an incredible grand fashion. Can you imagine that? I

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00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 2: guess if you want to be snarky, you could say

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Speaker 2: this is an all Big ten matchup. But the remnants

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Speaker 2: left to the PAC twelve, they have a chance to

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Speaker 2: win the championship. Ironically, in the last year the PAC

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Speaker 2: twelve's existence and a PAC twelve team has not won

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Speaker 2: the national championship. In this most recent iteration of the

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Speaker 2: main for TV invitational format, Oregon got in against Ohio

617
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Speaker 2: State in January of twenty fifteen. An urban minors Ohio

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Speaker 2: State team took care of that. That was a good

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Speaker 2: Oregon team. Now the Huskies really, ironically also were one

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Speaker 2: of the teams that dealt the ultimate death blow by

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Speaker 2: bolting to the Big Ten starting next season in the

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Speaker 2: last football game as a member of the PAC twelve. Well,

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Speaker 2: maybe they make up for it by delivering their first

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Speaker 2: national title. If you're wondering the last time a national

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Speaker 2: title was won by a Pac twelve team, that was,

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Speaker 2: of course, Pete Carroll's USC Trojans back in two thousand

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Speaker 2: and four. And it would be I think fitting to

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Speaker 2: take down Michigan, who has been the Big ten powerhouse

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Speaker 2: of what clearly was a down Big Ten season. But

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Speaker 2: I think it would be a fitting way to shut

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Speaker 2: things down for the Pac twelve. Anyway, As I said,

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Speaker 2: Washington led by as many as thirteen in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 2: they found themselves up by six, but then the next

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Speaker 2: thing you know, Texas is in the red zone and

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Speaker 2: under a minute to play. The Huskies even held the

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Speaker 2: ball up thirty seven thirty one with one on nine left.

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Speaker 2: At that point. By the way, I think it was

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Speaker 2: about one in the morning in the East Coast. I'm

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Speaker 2: guessing a lot of people said, Okay, that's a wrap.

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Speaker 2: Washington's gonna win. There's a minutes ago, minute nine, They're

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00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 2: up thirty seven to thirty one. They're gonna win. But Washington,

642
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, produced one of the worst late game

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Speaker 2: drives you'll ever see. Then that opened the door for

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Speaker 2: Quinn Eewers in Texas to drive down to the Washington

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Speaker 2: twelve yard line. They had four shots at the end

646
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 2: zone Texas did. Now. I can't say Washington's been known

647
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 2: for their defense this year. Matter of fact, teams have

648
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 2: run the ball pretty successfully on them. But they've been

649
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 2: an opportunistic defense, and they've been a defense that has

650
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 2: made important plays when they need to make them. Their

651
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 2: defense is not on par with Michigan's, but I will

652
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 2: guarantee you michigan Is offense is nowhere near on par

653
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 2: with Washington's. Somehow, Washington came through did what they needed

654
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 2: to do as they've been doing. They saved the collapse

655
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 2: back to Michael Pennix. He casually dropped dimes the entire game.

656
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 2: His performance was breathtaking. Now you should be used to

657
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 2: seeing this, even if you're a Big Ten fan. He

658
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 2: did this in Indiana three years ago before transferring over.

659
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 2: If he can stay healthy, clearly he's a first round

660
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 2: draft pick. But if he can stay healthy, listen, he's

661
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 2: got as high a ceiling as anybody I've seen. He

662
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 2: gets the ball out of his hand, he's incredibly accurate.

663
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 2: He makes great decisions with the ball and executes quickly.

664
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Speaker 2: I don't think Penis had a bad pass all game

665
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:58,240
Speaker 2: Monday night. If he's anywhere close to that good This Monday, well,

666
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 2: I don't know how Michigan beats him. And there's a

667
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 2: lot of thiss in there. So again back to the

668
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 2: irity in the last year the conference's existence. So let's

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Speaker 2: talk about Washington's opponent, Michigan. I think there were a

670
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 2: lot of people who discounted at Michigan against Alabama. I

671
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 2: was one of them. I thought Alabama would beat Michigan.

672
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 2: Alabama simply didn't look the part. Give Michigan credit. They

673
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 2: did what they needed to do. But again, when it

674
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 2: was twenty to thirteen, time was winding down and Michigan

675
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 2: needed a fourth down gutsy call by Jim Harball. But

676
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 2: I want you to go back and watch the film

677
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 2: on that tip pass that Roman Wilson hauled in around

678
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 2: the five yard line. Watch it from a panoramic view.

679
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 2: That ball's not tipped. It's probably picked off by Alabama

680
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 2: of due to a defensive back jumping that route. Go

681
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 2: back and watch it. Don't take my word for it. Now,

682
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 2: Michigan did prevail at the end, they don't, you know.

683
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 2: Ask cow just how many Michigan beat Alabama twenty seven

684
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 2: to twenty and some folks felt like that was the

685
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:08,240
Speaker 2: de facto national title game. No offense to Texas at Washington,

686
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 2: but that was sort of like the prevailing attitude. And

687
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Speaker 2: I remember someone saying about a week ago, you know, oh,

688
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 2: it's going to be Texas. If it's not Texas, going

689
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 2: to be insinting. Nobody was talking about Washington win it all.

690
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 2: They were the least talked about team in terms of

691
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 2: who's likely to win this whole darn thing, to which

692
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 2: I tho to myself, well, I know how good this

693
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 2: team is. Ironically, they'll probably be the one to do it.

694
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Speaker 2: But Michigan's defense was out of this universe. They were otherworldly.

695
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 2: You never expect to see an Alabama team bullied at

696
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage, and to be fair, Alabama's offensive

697
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 2: line was not good this year. It was one of

698
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 2: their peccadillos all year. But they were bullied at the

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00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 2: line of scrimmage and the Wolverines defensive line was not

700
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 2: only unblockable, but I would say that they ran schemes

701
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Speaker 2: that really confused Alabama and they basically turned Jalen Miller

702
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 2: into an average quarter back. We're maybe not even an

703
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 2: average quarterback. So on the final quarterback draw, which is

704
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 2: one of the lamest plays I've ever seen. And to

705
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 2: end a game on fourth and goal, they stuffed him,

706
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 2: you know, they hit him hard at Rocky Balboa and

707
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 2: it was kind of a banner moment for Michigan, who's

708
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 2: been a decorated program. But you know, all of a sudden,

709
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 2: now people are talking about through Steinsteling situation. They're talking

710
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,760
Speaker 2: about how this team might be a team of destiny

711
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 2: in Harbaugh and so on sofa, which leads us to

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Speaker 2: midnight because this is a highly charged situation. There are

713
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Speaker 2: people that are angry at Michigan, people that are angry

714
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Speaker 2: at Harball. Connor Stilliams was at the rose Ball I'm told,

715
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Speaker 2: so are you rooting for Michigan? Are you rooting against Michigan?

716
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 2: Do you think Michigan will win? Do you think it'll

717
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 2: be their come up? And if they get beat by Washington,

718
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 2: what do you expect? What are you rooting for? And

719
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 2: feel free to comment on how this plays over the

720
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 2: whole season. And let's not be a cute Harball. I

721
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 2: give it a seventy percent chance to leave. How does

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00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 2: that play into your thoughts about this game? Is far

723
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 2: ball again? We'll be flirting with the NFL. You can

724
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 2: count on it, and might Michigan find themselves on some

725
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,359
Speaker 2: kind of probation next year. Not probation, but you get

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00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 2: my drift. So there you have it. Dial them up

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Speaker 2: up next the midnight hour, keep it lock Bernie Fraddle Show,

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. Well that's right, you heard the man.

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Speaker 2: Bernie Fraddle Show keeps rolling right along. My name is

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Speaker 2: be here we go. It's the midnight hour time.

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Speaker 10: Right now, the midnight.

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Speaker 2: It's here from you eight seven seven nine nine six

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Speaker 2: six three six nine. We'll take your calls. This championship

739
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 2: game Monday is as polarizing as I've seen in a while.

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Speaker 2: You got a head coach of one team that has

741
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 2: his foot halfway out the door. I give it seventy

742
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,359
Speaker 2: percent chance where they'll be back in the NFL next year.

743
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 2: You got a team that the NCAA is dealing with

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00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 2: with some ramifications that they'll certainly come down on twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four. You've got the Connor Stallion situation people talking about.

746
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 2: You've got some people consider the upstart Washington Huskies overmatched.

747
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,320
Speaker 2: You don't know what you're talking about. There are lots

748
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 2: of angles. So do you want Michigan to win and

749
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 2: finish the job? Would that be the story you want?

750
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 2: Would you want Michigan to lose? Do you think that

751
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:42,280
Speaker 2: would be their come up? And what are your thoughts

752
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 2: and what should we be watching for here? Okay, because

753
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 2: you've got lots of matchups that I think will draw

754
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 2: your attention above and beyond the Horrball stuff or the

755
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 2: Connors Stallion stuff. Michigan's offense different. Check that Michigan's defensive

756
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 2: line versus Washington's offensive line. You saw what Michigan did

757
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 2: to Alabama. I don't think they'll do that against Washington.

758
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 2: Michigan's got a couple of stud dbs. Will Johnson to

759
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 2: Rod Moore, how do they handle roma? Doonsay? Against Alabama?

760
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 2: They played eight nine yards off the line of scrimmage.

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00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 2: You can't do that against Washington. JJ McCarthy versus Washington's

762
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 2: Michael Pennix Junior. That's a fair comparison. McCarthy's made his

763
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:26,439
Speaker 2: share of plays this year. How about Washington's other wide

764
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 2: receivers Jalen McMillan, Jalyn Polk versus Mike saint er Still

765
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 2: and Josh Wallace. How about Washington's running back Dylan Johnson.

766
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Speaker 2: He's banged up. Michigan's linebacker Junior Colson, you expect to

767
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 2: spy him. Michigan's got a stud offensive line, but their

768
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 2: Michigan starter. Michigan has a wide receiver and Roman Wilson

769
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Speaker 2: that made a key play to help them win the game.

770
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Speaker 2: He showed up. Lady's been good all year against Washington

771
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Speaker 2: DB's Tobar Mohammad and Ason Turner. There are lots of

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00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 2: matchups here, and I will tell you I believe this

773
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:03,359
Speaker 2: game he's going to be a real battle. So let's

774
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 2: hear from Let's go out to the Lions Poppy from

775
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 2: San Diego Popery. I didn't know you liked college football.

776
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:10,760
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts?

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Speaker 5: Of course college football? You know you know I'm the

778
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 5: first annual Bernie's Bunking Bed Trampion. I hope the defending

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00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,399
Speaker 5: trampion calls and gives his opinion. But as I told

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Speaker 5: you before, Bernie, I gave my prediction on Michigan. I

781
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,280
Speaker 5: told you Michigan was going to go to the National

782
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 5: Championship and they're going to win it. And what I

783
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,280
Speaker 5: leve about Jim Harbo's teams, they're playing for the coach,

784
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Speaker 5: and I'm going to teve you that trip back that

785
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,280
Speaker 5: I predict they're going to win the first half minus

786
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Speaker 5: two and a half and I'm taking the money line

787
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 5: and the whole game, my name is four and a half.

788
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Speaker 5: They're going to cover their It's a statement went for

789
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 5: Jim Harbor, and he's going to go to the NFL.

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Speaker 5: Like I told you guys before and when you heard

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Speaker 5: it here first and Bernie, what are you thinking about that?

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Speaker 2: Bernie, thanks for calling Poppy, appreciate it. I don't know,

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00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,799
Speaker 2: I'm not laying points. That's not to say Michigan won't win.

794
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 2: And yeah, you did predict Michigan woud beat Alabama. Probably

795
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 2: was a little bit curious what you were thinking when

796
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:09,879
Speaker 2: they were down twenty to thirteen with about a minute

797
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 2: and a half to go. I know Kurt from California

798
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 2: also picked Michigan to win after picking Alabama would be

799
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Speaker 2: Georgia's these two for two and I will have to

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Speaker 2: say this so on fairness. Kurt believed that one of

801
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Speaker 2: the issues that Michigan would would would would what are

802
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 2: the reasons that Michigan would present a challenge to Alabama's receivers.

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00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 2: They would play in press coverage. Actually they didn't do that.

804
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 2: They were seven eight nine yards off the ball. Let's

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Speaker 2: talk about Let's talk to our crew for just a second.

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Speaker 2: I think seven seven ninety nine nine Fox, if you

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Speaker 2: want to weigh in on this, I think it's a

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00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 2: polarizing game with lots of backstories. Kevin figures, you know,

809
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Speaker 2: do you have interest in this game and what are

810
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 2: your thoughts and all the things I've just talked about

811
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Speaker 2: with respect to the storylines revolving Michigan Alabama or check

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Speaker 2: that Michigan walking. I'm scarry. Oh.

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Speaker 11: I have all the interest in this game for multitude

814
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 11: of reasons. One, I just think the contrasting styles. This

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Speaker 11: is the first time that I can think of a remime, Bernie,

816
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Speaker 11: where you have two teams who played literally the opposite

817
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 11: style of football. This is a wide open offense in

818
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Speaker 11: Washington versus a ground and pound Michigan offense from the

819
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Speaker 11: Big Ten. Both teams are going to be in the

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Speaker 11: Big Ten next year. This is kind of the PAC

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Speaker 11: twelve's last stand. I don't even know if George klaoff

822
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Speaker 11: Goff is gonna even be there. He probably shouldn't, but

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Speaker 11: so that's a layered storyline. You mentioned the Connor stallions

824
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 11: and whether the fact that he was at the Rose

825
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 11: Bowl last week smiling for pictures and the stands, just

826
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 11: kind of flaunting in front of the NCAA was with

827
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Speaker 11: something to behold, But that has no bearing. Michigan deserves

828
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Speaker 11: to be there. They beat up Alabama last week in

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Speaker 11: classic fashion. I think it's gonna be a phenomenal matchup.

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Speaker 11: I don't know which way it's gonna go. If I

831
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Speaker 11: had to pick, i'd pick Washington because I don't think

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Speaker 11: that Michigan can came up with their skill position players.

833
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 11: But Michigan certainly out muscled Alabama up front, so you

834
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Speaker 11: know that's kind of where the battle is going to

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Speaker 11: be one too, So it's a tough one to pick.

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Speaker 11: I think this is one of the more This is

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Speaker 11: the least confident I've been in any particular team. Going

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Speaker 11: into a national championship game, I usually feel like I

839
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Speaker 11: have a pretty decent beat on it. This is the

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00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 11: game can literally go either way. I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 2: It literally could go either way. And you bring up

842
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 2: some good points about Washington. Michael Penix poses a much

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00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 2: different test for the Michigan defense than what Jaln Milroe

844
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Speaker 2: did because Milroe was more of a running threat. Is

845
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Speaker 2: his season high for passing yards in a game was

846
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Speaker 2: three hundred and twenty one. Pennix averages well north of

847
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Speaker 2: that number, and he put on a show against Texas

848
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Speaker 2: twenty nine to thirty eight. I think four hundred and

849
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Speaker 2: sixty one yards. However, Michigan has the best scoring defense

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00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 2: in the country and Washington has one of the highest

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Speaker 2: scoring offenses. My think, Kevin, having watched Michigan against a

852
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 2: couple teams that could pass a little bit, Maryland could.

853
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,839
Speaker 2: They moved the ball at will against Michigan. Ohio State

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00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 2: was too conservative, but when they decided they wanted to

855
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Speaker 2: open up, they actually outgained Michigan. Kevin, you've seen Washington

856
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 2: enough to know tell people about their offensive line. It's

857
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 2: the best in the country. People wi't realize how good

858
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 2: it is.

859
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 11: Won the Joe Moore Award that goes to the best

860
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:05,720
Speaker 11: offensive line unit in the entire nation, and this award

861
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 11: is voted on by former offensive linemen who work in

862
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,839
Speaker 11: the media covering college football, who watched these games, who

863
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 11: know what's going on. Look go back and look at

864
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 11: last week against Texas, because a lot of people that

865
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 11: were picking Texas said that Washington's offensive line wouldn't be

866
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 11: able to hold up. They have two top ten defensive

867
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 11: tackles and those guys play decently well. One thing that

868
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 11: worked and look as good as Washington's offensive line is

869
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 11: there were times that those d linemen did break through,

870
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 11: but Michael Pennocks, like a season pro, was able to

871
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 11: just do a little shoulder dipper slide to the left

872
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 11: or slide to the right and give themselves some extra

873
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 11: time to find receivers downfield. That's something that Jaln Milroe

874
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:41,399
Speaker 11: hasn't been able to do. And really all season long,

875
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 11: when Alabama had a lot of success offensively, it's when

876
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 11: he was actually able to sit back in the pocket

877
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 11: have time to throw deep. One thing that makes Washington

878
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 11: so dangerous, it's not just the deep game, but they

879
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 11: can actually hit you underneath as well. With guys like Westover,

880
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 11: they have really good tight ends, so they can really

881
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 11: beat you however they want. They can run the ball

882
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 11: a little bit and hopefully their running back is healthy

883
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 11: after getting banged up last week. He's going to end

884
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 11: up playing. But that's going to be a big yeah,

885
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 11: Dylan Johnson. So that's gonna be a big factor too.

886
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 2: What is the nature of his injury. I know he's

887
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 2: not one hundred percent he is going to play, but

888
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 2: is it the type of injury that's debilitating enough that

889
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 2: it changes Washington's offense in any way.

890
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 10: Only in that he can be a little bit less effective.

891
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 11: They say it's one of those injuries that, you know,

892
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 11: the only way it's really gonna heal is if he

893
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 11: just has a little bit of time off.

894
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,280
Speaker 10: But he can't necessarily make it worse.

895
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 11: But he was a huge weapon for them, and you

896
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,320
Speaker 11: know that usc victory they had at the Coliseum, he

897
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 11: ran for well over two hundred yards and had a

898
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 11: lot of good games after that.

899
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:36,720
Speaker 10: He kind of found this stride.

900
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 11: So as much as Washington loves to throw the ball

901
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 11: and have success through the air, Dylan Johnson, at least

902
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 11: as good as.

903
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 10: Good at keeping people honest.

904
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 11: So if nothing else, Look, he didn't even run for

905
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 11: a lot of yards against Texas. I think he ran

906
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 11: for like forty something yards, But the threat of having

907
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 11: the run game is something that would keep that Michigan

908
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 11: pass rush ones. So they can't just tee off on

909
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:56,799
Speaker 11: Michael Pennis in the past game. So I think if

910
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 11: Dylan Johnson is healthy enough, just for them to be

911
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:03,320
Speaker 11: respectable in the game, have to keep them HONESTI defensively,

912
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,280
Speaker 11: I think that's really going to work in Washington's favor.

913
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 11: And ultimately, I just don't think Michigan can have enough

914
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:11,879
Speaker 11: offensive firepower they can ground Alabama's offensive because we saw

915
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 11: it happen early in the season at times before they

916
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 11: really hit their stride late in the year. This Washington offense,

917
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 11: with the exception of that Arizona State game, has really

918
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 11: been on fire all season long.

919
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 2: To's percent, he covered a lot of good ground there

920
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 2: and I agree with a lot of it. And apparently

921
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 2: whatever Dylan Johnson's injury was, he's been dealing with it

922
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,800
Speaker 2: for better part of two months and he merely reaggravated

923
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 2: it against Texas. But Kalin de Borer says he will

924
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:37,839
Speaker 2: play money. And there's another guy we haven't talked about,

925
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 2: Kevin Kalen Borr to me, Kalen de Boor, he caught

926
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:43,920
Speaker 2: my eye at Fresno State and everywhere he's been. If

927
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:48,399
Speaker 2: you google this guy, he's not only produced results, he's

928
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 2: brilliant in his offensive and defensive schemes. And he's the

929
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 2: type of guy I think hardball's getting sucking all the

930
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 2: air out of the room. But Kalen de Borer Washington's

931
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:01,959
Speaker 2: head coach. He needs to get his flowers. They're nine

932
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 2: to zero in their last nine games against rank teams.

933
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,399
Speaker 2: They've been an underdog five times. They're five and zero

934
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 2: outright in this games, including a ten point underdog to Oregon.

935
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 2: They beat Oregon twice and Alabama. Kevin, I'll tell you what.

936
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go out and say it. I think

937
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 2: Washington wins this game. I'm gonna call thirty four to

938
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 2: thirty one. You got the last word.

939
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 10: I'm with you on that.

940
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 11: Kaitlyn ni bor by the way, just one of those

941
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 11: crazy routes, similar to Chip Kelly in some census, who

942
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 11: was a small college guy. I don't think Chip is

943
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 11: ever a head coach at a small college level. But

944
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 11: Kaitlyn the Boar came from the Naia level and just

945
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 11: kind of worked his way up, took Indiana and I

946
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:36,400
Speaker 11: know it was the COVID year, but turn that offense

947
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 11: into one of the best offenses in the nation. This

948
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 11: is Indiana football we're talking about. With Michael Pennocks before

949
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 11: he ended up leaving and going to Fresno State, as

950
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 11: you mentioned, just a great route for him and you know,

951
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 11: an amazing story to get Washington to where they are.

952
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 11: Nobody saw this coming and Michael Pennocks all of a sudden,

953
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 11: despite the fact that he had a great season.

954
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:55,319
Speaker 10: You look at last week's game.

955
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 11: If he plays well this coming Monday, you know, he's

956
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 11: already climbing up draft boards and people are talking Michael

957
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,239
Speaker 11: Penning's possibly being in the conversation of being in the

958
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 11: out just outside the top five or the top ten

959
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 11: of the NFL draft. I can certainly see it happening.

960
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 11: I'm with you, though, Bernie. You know, I think this

961
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 11: gets into if this game does get into the thirties,

962
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 11: this absolutely is gonna be Washington's game because I don't

963
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 11: know if Michigan actually has enough offensive firepower to be

964
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,240
Speaker 11: able to keep up. So if Washington scores thirty four points,

965
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 11: I'm actually looking probably at more of like a thirty

966
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 11: four to twenty one. If Michigan's going to win this game,

967
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 11: this is probably gonna have to be twenty one to seventeen,

968
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,399
Speaker 11: twenty four to twenty sort of situation. And I don't

969
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 11: know if they can slow down the Washington offense that much.

970
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,800
Speaker 2: If Bama could put up twenty on Michigan right Washington

971
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,720
Speaker 2: scores less than thirty, I'll be shocked. I do expect

972
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 2: Michigan to run the ball, though, even Texas averaged six

973
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 2: yards of play on the ground. But give me a

974
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:46,439
Speaker 2: passing offense over a running offense any day. Excellent stuff.

975
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:48,440
Speaker 2: Cant's go back out to the phones, who're joined by

976
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:52,240
Speaker 2: Phil from Jacksonville. Fill your thoughts tonight on the National

977
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 2: Championship Game.

978
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 7: Thinks and gentlemen. Normally I would I've gone along with hardball.

979
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 7: I'll like past, but he's in a rough year this year,

980
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:05,800
Speaker 7: and I believe in karma. I believe Washington's going to

981
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:11,880
Speaker 7: put a beat down on Michigan. He's done some stuff

982
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 7: incorrectly and he's going to get this come up in

983
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 7: this and I like him, but up to this point

984
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 7: he's done some well we'll just say, very controversial things,

985
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 7: and he's definitely done him okay, And my opinion is

986
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:29,879
Speaker 7: the car is going to get to him.

987
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 2: Phil appreciate you checking in tonight. Uh, it's an interesting

988
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:39,280
Speaker 2: angle I have. He's that premise is not the first

989
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:42,359
Speaker 2: time I've heard that from folks, and I know people, Oh,

990
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,799
Speaker 2: it's only a cheeseburger. You don't understand. You don't lie

991
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 2: to the judge, you don't lie to the NCAA. The

992
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 2: cover up's always worse than the cheeseburger. There are some

993
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 2: other minor infractions, but he added up and he become

994
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:54,359
Speaker 2: death by a thousand cuts and Michigan just had their

995
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 2: notice of allegation, will have to answer for that in

996
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,920
Speaker 2: ninety days. And they haven't even got to the Connor

997
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 2: Stallion stuff yet. So there is an aspect to that

998
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 2: what Phil was talking about, and I'm not dismissive of it.

999
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 2: You just don't know how these things work. And if

1000
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:11,319
Speaker 2: there's going to be a blowout in this game, and

1001
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 2: I do not think there'll be one, and I'll just

1002
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 2: merely simply define a blood is If one of these

1003
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 2: teams win by double digits, it's going to be Washington

1004
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 2: because when I see what Michael Penox can do, and

1005
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 2: I've been doing this a long time, and they have

1006
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 2: three NFL wide receivers, a stud tight end, a stud

1007
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 2: running back, the best offensive line of Collins football. Let

1008
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 2: me take you back in history a little bit. The

1009
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,840
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy eight Rose Bowl, Michigan played Washington. Michigan was

1010
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 2: a fourteen point favorite. Ricky Leach led the number one

1011
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 2: Michigan rank Wolverine and that incredibly prolific offense against the

1012
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 2: Big ten into that game. No one thought Washington had

1013
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 2: a chance. But I'd seen Washington play. I saw him

1014
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 2: play USC that year, and I got to tell you

1015
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 2: they had a guy by the name of Warren Moon

1016
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 2: who was I guess you could say I right handed

1017
00:53:57,080 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 2: Michael Pennix and Warren Moon picked Michigan Apark. Their defensive

1018
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 2: backs are running into each other. Well, the game's come

1019
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 2: a long way. Michigan had not seen a passing attack

1020
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 2: like that, and JJ McCarthy has his tendency to roll right,

1021
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 2: row right, roll right, roll right, keep rolling right, and

1022
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 2: then throw across his body into a SA hands and

1023
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 2: they pull it off for the big tim Remember Bama

1024
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 2: picked him off the first play of the game. Guy

1025
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 2: had a foot out of bounds. So I don't know

1026
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:24,240
Speaker 2: Phil's premise in Jacksonville. I'm not so sure he's wrong.

1027
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 2: If this game ended up being a thirty four to

1028
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 2: twenty one Washington, I would not be surprised. But we

1029
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:34,359
Speaker 2: we shall see coming up. A lot of folks feel

1030
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 2: the final week of the NFL season is sort of

1031
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:41,439
Speaker 2: convoluted and it's not as important. But it's actually very

1032
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 2: important for a handful of people, not just teams. And

1033
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:48,560
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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. Hi,

1041
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,720
Speaker 2: right back on the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio.

1042
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 2: Come to live from the tirerac dot Com studios here

1043
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas take you up to two M Pacific,

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Speaker 2: five em Eastern. It's amazing. The future always has a

1045
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 2: way of arriving ahead of schedule. We are already to

1046
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 2: the final week of the NFL season, Week eighteen, and

1047
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 2: it can be convoluted for the fans. Some teams they're

1048
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:38,760
Speaker 2: fighting for their lives. Others they're gonna rest starters because

1049
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:42,480
Speaker 2: they want to prepare for the postseason. But whether you're

1050
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:46,720
Speaker 2: a successful franchise or the least successful franchise, and maybe

1051
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 2: you I say this in air quotes, have nothing to

1052
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 2: play for, that's not the way the National Football League works. Players.

1053
00:55:55,520 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 2: Many players still have a lot on the line. So Saturday,

1054
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:06,520
Speaker 2: Week eighteen, remember it also represents the final opportunity for

1055
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 2: players to hit their contract incentives, many of which are

1056
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:14,879
Speaker 2: very lucrative and they are tied to regular season statistics.

1057
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 2: So whether or not you're playing to secure a playoff

1058
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:25,400
Speaker 2: spot or whatever, here are five of what I believe

1059
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 2: the most noteworthy and certainly attainable goals that are on

1060
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 2: the line this weekend which would bring these individual players

1061
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,479
Speaker 2: the incentives are looking for. How about Baker Mayfield, who's

1062
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:41,399
Speaker 2: been quite a story this year. He's got two point

1063
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 2: two million on the line. The goal make the playoffs.

1064
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:48,279
Speaker 2: They make the playoffs, Baker Mayfield gets a cool one

1065
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:52,319
Speaker 2: million dollars, and all Tampa Bay has to do is

1066
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 2: win and be Carolina to make the playoffs. I see

1067
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 2: that all like it's easy. It's never easy. If he

1068
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:01,640
Speaker 2: finishes in the top ten to four pass categories, that

1069
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:04,440
Speaker 2: would pay him an additional three hundred thousand dollars each.

1070
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 2: So how close is he to doing it to get

1071
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:11,200
Speaker 2: in that two point two million again? Beat Carolina? He

1072
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 2: currently ranks sixth and TD passes eighthen yards ninth and

1073
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 2: passer rating and tied for ninthen yards per attempt. We'll

1074
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 2: see what he does. How about Geno Smith? They wrote

1075
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 2: him off. He ain't right back, but he ain't gonna

1076
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 2: not sign his name on a two million dollar check

1077
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 2: unless the following happens. The Seahawks need to make the

1078
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 2: playoffs and Gino gets a two million dollars bonus. How close, Well,

1079
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 2: first the Seahawks have to beat Arizona. That might not

1080
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 2: be as easy as you think. They gotta hope the

1081
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:49,920
Speaker 2: Bears beat Green Bay and then after that if that,

1082
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 2: if that doesn't happen, or you need a bunch of

1083
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 2: scenarios involving ties, which I talked about at the top

1084
00:57:55,400 --> 00:58:00,400
Speaker 2: of the show. Kansas City chief stud defensive end Christian Owns.

1085
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 2: Make no mistake, he's the real deal. He gets a

1086
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 2: one point twenty five million dollar bonus as long as

1087
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 2: he has ten sacks this season. How close is he?

1088
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 2: He's already got nine and a half sacks. You would

1089
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 2: expect he would get one to collect that million. One

1090
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:21,160
Speaker 2: point twenty five mil. Another defensive end for the Cleveland

1091
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 2: Browns also one of the great stories of the National

1092
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:28,840
Speaker 2: Football League season this year. The season this year, Jadavian Clowney.

1093
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 2: He has a seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars bonus

1094
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 2: on the line. All he has to do get nine

1095
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 2: sacks this season. How close is Jadevian Clowney? He has

1096
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 2: eight point five sacks and he already got himself a

1097
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 2: million dollar bonus for getting five sacks, and then seven

1098
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 2: sacks gets it to nine, another seven hundred and fifty

1099
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 2: grand something you can watch while you are sipping your

1100
00:58:56,440 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 2: favorite beverage. Finally, Tennessee Titans, who've become one of the

1101
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 2: worst stories this year the National Football League, they're star

1102
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 2: wide receiver. Well, he was his star at one point.

1103
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 2: DeAndre Hopkins. Well, he has seven hundred and fifty thousand

1104
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 2: dollars on the line his goal. He has to collect

1105
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 2: seventy five receptions, one thousand and fifty yards, and eight touchdowns.

1106
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:28,040
Speaker 2: That would give him an additional two hundred and fifty

1107
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 2: thousand dollars each for each one of those landmarks. As

1108
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 2: it were, He's got sixty eight receptions, so if he

1109
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 2: catches seven balls Sunday, that'll get him to seventy five.

1110
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 2: He's got one thy and eleven yards. He just needs

1111
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:49,480
Speaker 2: to accumulate thirty nine yards receiving yards, he gets two

1112
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:53,920
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand. He's caught six touts down passes

1113
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 2: this year. He'd have to catch two more touchdown passes

1114
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 2: to collect the seven to fifty. But the good news

1115
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 2: is Hopkins has already earned one point five million bonuses

1116
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 2: in each of those categories cumulatively just to get to

1117
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:11,200
Speaker 2: this point. So when you add up those five players,

1118
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 2: you might wake up Sunday morning and say, well, it's

1119
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:20,080
Speaker 2: Week eighteen, let's get to the playoffs. But for these guys, cumulatively,

1120
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:24,000
Speaker 2: that's almost seven million dollars a loan between those five players,

1121
01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 2: and there are dozens of other smaller incentives for players

1122
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 2: all around the league that are looking to grab and

1123
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:32,320
Speaker 2: so they're gonna want that playing time, They're gonna want

1124
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:36,919
Speaker 2: to get those stats so they can cash in. That's

1125
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 2: the way it works. By the way, last Saturday night

1126
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:43,360
Speaker 2: we had a very spirited show because on these airwaves

1127
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 2: we talked at length about the Brad Allen crew and

1128
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 2: the way it ended in the Detroit game. Well, so

1129
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 2: much for a referees being held accountable. When you turn

1130
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 2: on your TV Saturday when Pittsburgh plays Baltimore, guess so

1131
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:03,840
Speaker 2: you're going to see referee Brad Allen. Yep, that's right.

1132
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 2: And if you're scoring at home, and I hope you

1133
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:10,160
Speaker 2: are home underdogs like the Ravens. They're actually twenty nine

1134
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:15,160
Speaker 2: and seventeen against the spread sixty four percent with Brad

1135
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:18,760
Speaker 2: Allen in the last seven years, including five and three

1136
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:23,080
Speaker 2: against the spread this year. Divisional games, thirty one and

1137
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 2: seventeen to the under with Brad Allen since twenty sixteen,

1138
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:31,880
Speaker 2: including four and two to the under in twenty twenty three.

1139
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,920
Speaker 2: I know Baltimore is going to sit a lot of

1140
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 2: their starters. I'm not sure for how much of their game,

1141
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 2: but I still have a feeling that Baltimore prevails. I'm

1142
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 2: not interested. I'm not involved in this game in any

1143
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:48,160
Speaker 2: way in a betting from a betting standpoint, but this

1144
01:01:48,240 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 2: Baltimore team is not right scary, and all of a sudden,

1145
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 2: now Pittsburgh with expectations. I don't know that they're the same.

1146
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 2: I just feel like I tip. I give a tip

1147
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:01,480
Speaker 2: of the cap to Mason Rudolph, but I feel like

1148
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:05,360
Speaker 2: he might be doing it with Mears coming up. We're

1149
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:07,680
Speaker 2: not done. We're gonna continue to dive heavily into the

1150
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:11,320
Speaker 2: NFL's final week. There are six very pivotal storylines. You're

1151
01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:13,720
Speaker 2: gonna want to pay close attention to another guy we

1152
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:15,880
Speaker 2: want to pay close attention to. Let's go back to

1153
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:19,240
Speaker 2: our guy, Kevin Figures with the latest All.

1154
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:19,880
Speaker 10: Right, Bernie Well.

1155
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 11: Friday Night in the NBA, the Grizzlies handed the Lakers

1156
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:26,200
Speaker 11: their fourth consecutive loss, one twenty seven to one. Thirteen

1157
01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 11: was the final score. Marcus Smart scoring twenty nine points

1158
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:32,840
Speaker 11: to leave Memphis and scoring Golden State held off Detroit

1159
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:35,240
Speaker 11: one thirteen to one oh nine, but they did lose

1160
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 11: Chris Paul to a fractured hand, which will require surgery.

1161
01:02:38,840 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 11: The Kings have won four of their last five. They

1162
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 11: defeated Toronto one thirty five to one thirty a triple

1163
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 11: double for Polo Banco in a one twenty two to

1164
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:49,720
Speaker 11: one twenty Orlando victory over Denver. The Knicks won their

1165
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:52,640
Speaker 11: third straight in a victory over Philadelphia one twenty eight

1166
01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:55,640
Speaker 11: to ninety two. Phoenix, Dallas and Cleveland with wins as well.

1167
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:58,560
Speaker 11: And the NFL Saints running back Alba Kamara is questionable

1168
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 11: for their matchup against Atlanta with than ankle injury. Jaguars

1169
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 11: quarterback Trevor Lawrence likely a game time decision against the

1170
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:08,080
Speaker 11: Titans with a shoulder issue. In college basketball top Rink,

1171
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:11,040
Speaker 11: Purdue improved to fourteen and one. They defeated number nine

1172
01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 11: Illinois eighty three to seventy eight. Back to Bernie Frido.

1173
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 2: Kevin, I know you follow the Lakers, and I know

1174
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 2: we may have to do some deep research on this,

1175
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:23,680
Speaker 2: but has a defending NBA Cup champion ever not made

1176
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 2: it to the playoffs the same year?

1177
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:29,160
Speaker 11: Well, not quite yet. No, we'll have to see is

1178
01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 11: our first time for everything, Bernie.

1179
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:34,240
Speaker 2: You know, here's where I would honestly be very concerned

1180
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 2: if you're a Laker fan. They started out two to

1181
01:03:36,560 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 2: ten last year, but Darvinham did a hell of a job.

1182
01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:42,680
Speaker 2: He rallied the troops, Anthony Davis started to get healthy

1183
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:44,840
Speaker 2: at the right time, Lebron came on, They brought in

1184
01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:48,040
Speaker 2: some good additions and they were ascending. They started to

1185
01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:50,560
Speaker 2: ascend in mid January and by the time they got

1186
01:03:50,560 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 2: to the playoffs, they were pretty impressive. He seemed to

1187
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 2: be going the opposite way this year, Kevin.

1188
01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:58,160
Speaker 11: Yeah, and there's a bunch of different factors as to why,

1189
01:03:58,160 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 11: and there seems to be a disconnect. And I know

1190
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 11: the athletic report at this earlier in the week that

1191
01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 11: the players are frustrated with the rotations, saying that Darvin

1192
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 11: Ham is too quick of a hook, not leaving that

1193
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 11: Luton guys figure things out. Doesn't have his best players

1194
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 11: on the floor together. Darvin Ham says, Look, we've had

1195
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:14,560
Speaker 11: so many injuries. I'm just trying to find lineups that

1196
01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:18,480
Speaker 11: actually work together. So I can see both sides of it.

1197
01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 11: But just playing and simple Burnie, they just don't have

1198
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:22,880
Speaker 11: the horses at this point in time, they have too

1199
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:26,120
Speaker 11: many guys who either can't shoot or are they're good

1200
01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 11: defenders but can't shoot, or they can shoot and they're

1201
01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:28,720
Speaker 11: not good defenders.

1202
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 10: You don't have enough two way players.

1203
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:33,320
Speaker 11: Lebron and Anthony Davis for once, they're actually pulling their weight,

1204
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:36,160
Speaker 11: they're staying healthy, they're playing in every single game. Those

1205
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:38,600
Speaker 11: guys at thirty and thirty again, both those guys whatever

1206
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 11: thirty points on Friday night against Memphis. They're just not

1207
01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:44,320
Speaker 11: getting enough from the other guys and that's their big issue.

1208
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:46,920
Speaker 11: So they're gonna have to end up swinging another big trade.

1209
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:48,880
Speaker 11: Now will they be able to do that? I'm not

1210
01:04:48,880 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 11: one hundred percent sure. Is that difference maker out there?

1211
01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:54,720
Speaker 11: I don't necessarily see at this point in time, it's

1212
01:04:54,720 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 11: still relatively early in the season. In the Western Conference

1213
01:04:57,520 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 11: is a bit of a jumble mess, though there is

1214
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:01,840
Speaker 11: some pulling away at the top. The top four seeds

1215
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:03,959
Speaker 11: are definitely pulling away from the bottom to a certain degree,

1216
01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:06,280
Speaker 11: and they did make it in to the conference finals

1217
01:05:06,280 --> 01:05:08,280
Speaker 11: after getting out of the play in tournament last season,

1218
01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:09,320
Speaker 11: so it's still possible.

1219
01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:11,240
Speaker 10: But as of right now, things do not.

1220
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:13,920
Speaker 11: Look good and it's hard to find any positives as

1221
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 11: them potentially trending forward here, at least in the near

1222
01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:18,240
Speaker 11: future without making a deal.

1223
01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:22,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, the trend seems negative three and eleven since the

1224
01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:26,760
Speaker 2: n season tournament, ten different lineups which haven't clicked. And

1225
01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 2: I understand that Darvin Hams, she's trying to find a

1226
01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:33,760
Speaker 2: rotation that can be consistently productive. And as you mentioned,

1227
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:38,960
Speaker 2: both Lebron and Anthony Davis not only performing but playing

1228
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:40,800
Speaker 2: a lot of minutes. And you gotta wonder three months

1229
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 2: from now, when it starts for real, how that extra

1230
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:45,960
Speaker 2: mileage will affect those guys. You're not getting any younger.

1231
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 2: All right, There are six I think significant storylines heading

1232
01:05:51,200 --> 01:05:53,880
Speaker 2: into the final weekend of the NFL. If I can

1233
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:57,400
Speaker 2: only watch one game, I'd probably watch the Bills Dolphins.

1234
01:05:57,600 --> 01:06:00,840
Speaker 2: So you go back to mid November, look like they

1235
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:03,640
Speaker 2: would really make a run at the AFC East. They

1236
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:05,480
Speaker 2: were in the midst of that five game winning streak

1237
01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:07,880
Speaker 2: and they beat the Bills on that kicking do over

1238
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:12,480
Speaker 2: in a primetime game. But Buffalo has very much rebounded.

1239
01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:15,560
Speaker 2: They've played great football. They've got this winner take all

1240
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 2: clash for the division crown and the number two seed,

1241
01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:21,320
Speaker 2: and they've had four good wins in a row inning

1242
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:25,600
Speaker 2: entering the game Sunday night against Miami, which will be

1243
01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:27,400
Speaker 2: a hell of a game. The Dolphins one and four

1244
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:31,920
Speaker 2: this season against teams in playoff contention. They've been humiliated twice.

1245
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,920
Speaker 2: They allowed a perfect passer rating to Josh Allen in October,

1246
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:38,480
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson looked like a Hall of Famer, which he

1247
01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 2: might be. And last week's fifty six to nineteen route

1248
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:44,560
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden when you realize that Jalen

1249
01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 2: Ramsey missed the first Bills matchup, well, Allen fed Stefon

1250
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:52,640
Speaker 2: Diggs for three touchdown catches and he had a career

1251
01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:58,080
Speaker 2: day that day. However, Ramsey is back and the Bills

1252
01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:01,960
Speaker 2: they have improved. Now the Dolphins after re have to group.

1253
01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:05,880
Speaker 2: And I would say the interesting thing too, is this

1254
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 2: buils me away that Sunday Night Buffalo. If they lose,

1255
01:07:10,480 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 2: there's a scenario which I'll give to you in a

1256
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:15,960
Speaker 2: few minutes here that there's a crazy playoff scenario where

1257
01:07:15,960 --> 01:07:19,360
Speaker 2: Buffalo could be on the outside looking in. If they win,

1258
01:07:19,920 --> 01:07:21,880
Speaker 2: they probably win the division. They do win the division,

1259
01:07:22,440 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 2: but if they lose, you talk about a pendulum swinging

1260
01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 2: from one side to the other. That's why this game

1261
01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:30,760
Speaker 2: is going to be so interesting. The NFC seeding jumble

1262
01:07:30,800 --> 01:07:32,280
Speaker 2: is still very much up in the air. That's a

1263
01:07:32,320 --> 01:07:35,080
Speaker 2: key storyline. We know that the forty nine ers have

1264
01:07:35,200 --> 01:07:38,400
Speaker 2: the NFC buy, but very little else in the rest

1265
01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 2: of the conference is settled. We know the Cowboys, lines,

1266
01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:45,000
Speaker 2: and Eagles will finish second, third, and fifth in some order.

1267
01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:49,320
Speaker 2: Their accumulative home record is nineteen and four, which makes

1268
01:07:49,360 --> 01:07:57,320
Speaker 2: the number two seed very, extremely, very desirable. Now, Dallas

1269
01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:00,520
Speaker 2: can seal up that number two seed just by beating

1270
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:04,040
Speaker 2: the Commanders. Philadelphia would secure it if they beat the

1271
01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:06,760
Speaker 2: Giants on the road and the Cowboys lose. Now, unless

1272
01:08:06,760 --> 01:08:10,960
Speaker 2: the Cowboys and Eagles both lose, the Lions playoff path, well,

1273
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:13,200
Speaker 2: looks like they're going to be settled on the number

1274
01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:17,800
Speaker 2: three seed, and of course that could lead to the game.

1275
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:20,639
Speaker 2: A lot of folks would like to see Matt Stafford

1276
01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:24,720
Speaker 2: and the Rams visiting Detroit on Wildcard weekend, and the

1277
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Speaker 2: winner of that game would subsequently have to visit Dallas

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Speaker 2: for Philly the San Franz. Well, that's where it gets

1279
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:34,600
Speaker 2: fun watching these playoffs. The final NFC Wildcard birth is

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Speaker 2: the Packers to lose. I give it up to Jordan Love.

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01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:40,320
Speaker 2: He's won me over this year, and I mean that

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01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:44,040
Speaker 2: he's completing sixty eight percent of his passes. He's throwing

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01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:48,559
Speaker 2: nineteen touchdowns three interceptions in November and December. And that's

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Speaker 2: what has really for me highlighted absolute rapid growth. Jordan

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01:08:54,439 --> 01:08:56,519
Speaker 2: Love has the chance to do something in his first

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01:08:56,600 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 2: year as a starter that neither Brett Fax Aaron Rodgers

1287
01:09:01,360 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 2: did and that's go to the playoffs. And it hasn't.

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01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:07,240
Speaker 2: It's helped the Packers that the Seahawks have cratered down

1289
01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:09,800
Speaker 2: the stretch. The Vikings need to beat the Cardinals and

1290
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:14,320
Speaker 2: the Lions respectively. Look you gotta hope Jordan Love gets

1291
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:17,519
Speaker 2: rattled by the Bears defense, which makes plays. If you

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01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:22,800
Speaker 2: are a see Seahawks fan, okay, now Bears by the

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01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:26,880
Speaker 2: way their defense. They've picked off their opponents twenty two

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Speaker 2: times this year, twenty two interceptions. That leads the National

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01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:33,880
Speaker 2: Football League. The NFC sound title is still showing a

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01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:36,880
Speaker 2: lot of drama. The Buccaneers. If they lose to the

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Speaker 2: lowly Panthers, well, that would allow Sunday's Falcon Saints game

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Speaker 2: to clinch that Division, and I don't expect that to happen.

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01:09:45,040 --> 01:09:47,479
Speaker 2: I think Tampa Bay is pretty good and I would

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01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:50,919
Speaker 2: be surprised if Carolina got them. If Tampa Bay prevails,

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01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:54,400
Speaker 2: New Orleans could get the last wildcard spot if they

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01:09:54,439 --> 01:09:57,920
Speaker 2: win and both the Packers and Seahawks lose. The Saints

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01:09:57,960 --> 01:10:00,840
Speaker 2: are uninspiring. They're five hundred, but they've only lost one

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01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:02,479
Speaker 2: by once by double digits. But you know how I

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01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 2: feel about Derek car said at the beginning of the year,

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01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:06,000
Speaker 2: I said, before the years that are during the year,

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01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:08,679
Speaker 2: come on, man, and do you really expect Dennis Sillend

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01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:11,439
Speaker 2: to win as a favorite? I don't, So let's move along.

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Speaker 2: One of the storylines that's taken shape is the Eagles.

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01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:21,240
Speaker 2: There are the reigning runner up Super Bowl entrant last year,

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01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:24,320
Speaker 2: and Saturday Night on my show, I'm going to give

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Speaker 2: a historical perspective on how unkind the following season in

1313
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:32,200
Speaker 2: the NFL is to teams who lost in the Super Bowl. Well,

1314
01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:35,920
Speaker 2: the Eagles defied that, but perhaps it's regressing back to

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01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:38,519
Speaker 2: the mean with their fourth straight losses. Now there are

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01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:42,840
Speaker 2: really glaring differences between this year's Eagles and last year's team.

1317
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:46,840
Speaker 2: They've had a bit of a free fall, and last

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01:10:46,920 --> 01:10:53,320
Speaker 2: year in offensively, the Eagles were eighth in points scored against.

1319
01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:55,400
Speaker 2: Check that in their defense they were given it. They

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Speaker 2: were eighth their defense giving up points. They're twenty ninth

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Speaker 2: their sixteenth in defense of sacks. Last year they lived

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Speaker 2: the NFL in defensive sacks. This year, they're twenty fourth

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01:11:05,320 --> 01:11:08,040
Speaker 2: in takeaways. Last year they were fifth their twenty third

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01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:12,800
Speaker 2: turnover differential. Last year they were third, and their secondary

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01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:15,800
Speaker 2: has been getting shredded this year. Philadelphia has a lot

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Speaker 2: more passing touchdowns than every team in the league except

1327
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 2: the Commanders thirty four passing touchdowns against the Eagles this year. Philly, though,

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01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:29,959
Speaker 2: somehow this year, found ways to beat the Bills, Chiefs, Cowboys,

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01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 2: and Dolphins, and then they had those beatdowns against the

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Speaker 2: forty nine Ers and Cowboys. Then the Eagles blew their

1331
01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 2: fourth quarter leads against Sea Aleen Arizona. So with the

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Speaker 2: real Eagles, please stand up. I think Jalen Hurts has

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01:11:41,920 --> 01:11:46,120
Speaker 2: been unfairly beat up. Right, they do have three legit

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Speaker 2: playmakers and aj Brown, Devonte Smith Andandres Swift. They still

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Speaker 2: got to go to defensive line. Jalen Hurts a little

1336
01:11:52,920 --> 01:11:55,320
Speaker 2: less accurate, a little less explosive. I still like him.

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01:11:55,439 --> 01:12:01,200
Speaker 2: Maybe he really does. Miss Shane Steichen kid, who has

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01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:05,200
Speaker 2: been phenomenal in this I think I think Demiko Ryan

1339
01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:08,559
Speaker 2: should be coach of the Year. But CJ. Stroud, what

1340
01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:12,519
Speaker 2: a story If they beat the Colts on Saturday in

1341
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 2: Indianapolis to reach the playoffs? Can you imagine that? Can

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01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:22,479
Speaker 2: you imagine that? I think Stroud is the surefire offensive

1343
01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:24,760
Speaker 2: rookie of the year, and he's on track to join

1344
01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:28,439
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert, Andrew Luck and Cam Newton as four thousand

1345
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:33,519
Speaker 2: yard rookie passers. He leads the group. He's Everything he's

1346
01:12:33,560 --> 01:12:36,599
Speaker 2: done this year has been otherworldly in my view. He's

1347
01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 2: only thrown five picks and he's taken a ton of

1348
01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:43,559
Speaker 2: shots downfield. They have not, you know, put a governor

1349
01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:48,920
Speaker 2: on him, you know. And it's an interesting juxtaposition c J.

1350
01:12:49,120 --> 01:12:51,599
Speaker 2: Stroud and Gardner Minshew, and one of them is going

1351
01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:55,599
Speaker 2: to rule the Antsy South. Now that's another story. Anthony

1352
01:12:55,680 --> 01:12:59,800
Speaker 2: Richard Richardson got hurt. He was doing very well, and

1353
01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:03,360
Speaker 2: Minshew has become sort of this veteran back up go to.

1354
01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:07,120
Speaker 2: He made the Colts, help make the Colts very resilient.

1355
01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:09,320
Speaker 2: They're six and two and one score games, second best

1356
01:13:09,320 --> 01:13:12,720
Speaker 2: in the NFL, and Indy is not a good defensive team.

1357
01:13:12,760 --> 01:13:15,640
Speaker 2: They ranked twenty seventh the defense, and believe it or not,

1358
01:13:15,680 --> 01:13:19,479
Speaker 2: even though they've missed Jonathan Taylor for a lengthy period

1359
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:23,719
Speaker 2: this year, they still ranked tenth in points. So here's

1360
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:27,200
Speaker 2: the situation. You know, one of those teams are are

1361
01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:31,639
Speaker 2: gonna be dancing on Sunday night. The Jags avoid a disaster.

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01:13:31,720 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 2: They blanked the Panthers last week to win for the

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01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:36,639
Speaker 2: first time in December, and they retained the division lead.

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01:13:36,680 --> 01:13:38,240
Speaker 2: They're also nine to one when they rushed for at

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01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:41,599
Speaker 2: least eighty yards, but they disappoint when Trevor Lawrence doesn't

1366
01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:44,439
Speaker 2: get enough support. Finally, who's going to end up with

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Speaker 2: the number two pick? The Panthers. They've won two games

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01:13:49,320 --> 01:13:53,360
Speaker 2: this year. They're their implosion. Well, that netted the Bears

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01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 2: the first overall pick, and the four win teams could

1370
01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:59,519
Speaker 2: still get the second pick. The Commanders, Cardinals, and Patriots.

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01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:03,360
Speaker 2: They host the opponents of varying levels. I think Bill

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01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:06,439
Speaker 2: Belichick absolutely wants to beat the Jets. He owns the Jets,

1373
01:14:06,479 --> 01:14:10,599
Speaker 2: he hates the Jets as a whole, backstory there, and

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01:14:11,160 --> 01:14:13,760
Speaker 2: it's going to be bad weather, and there's talk that

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01:14:13,880 --> 01:14:16,760
Speaker 2: this may very well to one hundred percent be Bill

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Speaker 2: Belichick's last game on the sidelines for the New England Patriots.

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Speaker 2: So I don't expect New England to I do expect

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Speaker 2: New England to win on Sunday. Coming up, a couple

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Speaker 2: more storylines we get to. I want to get to

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Speaker 2: this Bills Buffalo Bills potential crazy playoff scenario. So the

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Speaker 2: Bills do control their own destiny in Week eighteen, but

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Speaker 2: there's a chance they could face a very unique scenario

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Speaker 2: Sunday night in the final game, game number two seventy

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Speaker 2: two of the NFL season if the following happens. Would first, remember,

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01:15:47,040 --> 01:15:50,519
Speaker 2: the Bills will travel to Miami Sunday night football final

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01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:54,400
Speaker 2: game of the season. But depending on what happens prior

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01:15:54,560 --> 01:15:58,160
Speaker 2: to that contest, well, the Bills could face this scenario

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01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:01,080
Speaker 2: where they're either one if you're the number two seed

1405
01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:07,880
Speaker 2: in the AFC, or they're eliminated from the playoffs altogether. Now,

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01:16:09,160 --> 01:16:13,439
Speaker 2: the drama could be easily removed Saturday, because if the

1407
01:16:13,479 --> 01:16:20,080
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers lose, well, then Buffalo is gonna be in

1408
01:16:20,160 --> 01:16:22,280
Speaker 2: the playoffs. The question will be whether or not they're

1409
01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:25,000
Speaker 2: a wild card or whether they win their division. But

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01:16:25,080 --> 01:16:29,960
Speaker 2: if the Pittsburgh Steelers win and the Jacksonville Jaguars win

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01:16:31,280 --> 01:16:36,639
Speaker 2: and the Houston, Texas Indianapolis Colts game does not into

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01:16:36,680 --> 01:16:41,799
Speaker 2: the tie. These tiles are killing me again. If the

1413
01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:46,360
Speaker 2: Steelers win Saturday, the Jacksonville Jaguars win Sunday, and Houston

1414
01:16:46,439 --> 01:16:51,519
Speaker 2: Indy that game does not into the tie, well, the

1415
01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:53,720
Speaker 2: Bills are gonna have an all or nothing game Sunday night.

1416
01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:55,320
Speaker 2: Though I think that's gonna happen. No, I don't think

1417
01:16:55,320 --> 01:16:57,040
Speaker 2: it's gonna be all or nothing. I think the Bills

1418
01:16:57,520 --> 01:17:00,360
Speaker 2: are likely gonna be okay. They're gonna find their way

1419
01:17:00,360 --> 01:17:02,839
Speaker 2: into the playoffs, and I think they're gonna beat Miami

1420
01:17:03,280 --> 01:17:06,559
Speaker 2: Sunday night. The way this Bills team has played, they're

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01:17:06,560 --> 01:17:09,840
Speaker 2: more physical than Miami, and Miami's banged up, and I

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01:17:09,960 --> 01:17:12,680
Speaker 2: think you're gonna see a massive effort out of the

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01:17:12,680 --> 01:17:16,280
Speaker 2: Bills and they'll get it done. A couple of other things. Pukatsua,

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01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:19,839
Speaker 2: he can get the rookie receiving record if the Rams

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01:17:20,439 --> 01:17:23,280
Speaker 2: get him the ball for just a total of twenty

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01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:27,160
Speaker 2: nine yards against the Niners. His season low output this

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01:17:27,240 --> 01:17:32,800
Speaker 2: year is twenty six yards, which is certain he should eclipse. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you remember this name back from nineteen sixty

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01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:41,520
Speaker 2: Bill Groman. He holds the rookie receiver record for yardage.

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01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:44,960
Speaker 2: By the way, Cincinnati's Trey Henderson. He has an eight

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01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:48,519
Speaker 2: game sack streak that increased his sack total of seventeen,

1432
01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:53,040
Speaker 2: which is a career high, which ties he was a

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01:17:53,080 --> 01:17:54,639
Speaker 2: stud in the Super Bowl you remember a couple years

1434
01:17:54,680 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 2: ago to Henderson, he ties TJ. Watt for the league lead.

1435
01:17:58,320 --> 01:18:01,960
Speaker 2: He can spoil Wat's bid to become the first official

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01:18:02,760 --> 01:18:05,719
Speaker 2: three time champion. How about the kicker for Dallas, Brandon

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01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:10,799
Speaker 2: Aubrey another story, A converted pro soccer defender. He's thirty

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01:18:10,880 --> 01:18:14,040
Speaker 2: five for thirty five on field goals as an NFL rookie.

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01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:17,120
Speaker 2: If Aubrey kicks two field goals and makes them both,

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01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:21,000
Speaker 2: that's part of the redundancy department and Dallas is final.

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01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:24,840
Speaker 2: He'll match Mike Vanderjacks perfect rate. He was thirty seven

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01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 2: for thirty seven back for the two thousand and three

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01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:32,000
Speaker 2: Indianapolis Colts. By the way, Josh Allen Jalen Hurts, whoever

1444
01:18:32,080 --> 01:18:35,639
Speaker 2: finishes with more rushing touchdowns, both have fifteen. They'll set

1445
01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:38,439
Speaker 2: a new record for quarterbacks. They've surpassed Cam Newton's mark

1446
01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:41,360
Speaker 2: of fourteen from twenty eleven, and Church is the only

1447
01:18:41,439 --> 01:18:47,360
Speaker 2: quarterback besides Cam Newton to have a dozen rushing touchdowns

1448
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:51,200
Speaker 2: in multiple seasons. So a lot to watch, a lot

1449
01:18:51,240 --> 01:18:53,080
Speaker 2: to keep an eye out for. It's not just a

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Speaker 2: nothing weakend coming up, you know much. He has been

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Speaker 2: talked about Michigan's cheating scandal and quotes I'm gonna give

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Speaker 2: you the history of college football cheating. You might get

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Speaker 2: a kick out of this story. I'm Bernie Frattle. Keep

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Speaker 2: it locked listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio. That's right, you heard the man Bernie Frales

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Speaker 2: show keeps a roller right along. My name is Bernie

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Speaker 2: About an hour ago, we dove into the finals matchup

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Speaker 2: between Washington and Michigan, and irrespective of the final result

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01:19:42,080 --> 01:19:45,839
Speaker 2: in this game, it will almost be impossible for people

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Speaker 2: to reference the twenty twenty three season surrounding the Michigan

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01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:58,040
Speaker 2: Wolverines and not have an overtone of the stories involving

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Speaker 2: Connor stallions and the stealing or however you want to

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Speaker 2: characterize it, Jim Harbaugh and the cheeseburger gate, all those things,

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01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:12,000
Speaker 2: the six games that Jim Harball was not on the

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Speaker 2: sidelines for this year, a self imposed three games suspension

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01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:19,120
Speaker 2: to start the season, and then the three pivotal games

1472
01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:24,320
Speaker 2: against Penn State, Maryland in Ohio State. But that's all

1473
01:20:24,360 --> 01:20:28,360
Speaker 2: water under the bridge now because Michigan is in the

1474
01:20:28,439 --> 01:20:31,600
Speaker 2: National Championship Game for the first time, and even the

1475
01:20:31,640 --> 01:20:34,960
Speaker 2: BCS ERA and certainly in this most recent made for

1476
01:20:35,040 --> 01:20:38,679
Speaker 2: TV Invitational tournament era can't wait for the game Monday night.

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Speaker 2: What's interesting though, we try to cover it all. We

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01:20:42,040 --> 01:20:43,920
Speaker 2: do cover it all the Bernie Fratle Show, and we

1479
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:47,840
Speaker 2: try to give you historical perspective and context. So when

1480
01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:51,760
Speaker 2: you hear about cheating in college football, and you hear

1481
01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:55,679
Speaker 2: about karma, like Phil the caller mentioned about an hour ago,

1482
01:20:56,760 --> 01:21:00,640
Speaker 2: you have to you have to have some context, You

1483
01:21:00,680 --> 01:21:03,559
Speaker 2: have to ask some text year because in the history

1484
01:21:03,600 --> 01:21:06,680
Speaker 2: of the NCAA football, which has been played well over

1485
01:21:06,720 --> 01:21:11,679
Speaker 2: one hundred years, there has been a phenomenon of cultural cheating.

1486
01:21:12,760 --> 01:21:16,280
Speaker 2: Probably the story you remember most most prominent. Thirteen years ago,

1487
01:21:16,800 --> 01:21:21,120
Speaker 2: Ohio State University released what it felt was an adequate

1488
01:21:21,160 --> 01:21:25,840
Speaker 2: punishment for their transgressions that involved Terrell Pryor and several

1489
01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:31,919
Speaker 2: other Buckeyes due to the tattoo Gate scandal. They elected

1490
01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:35,000
Speaker 2: to vacate their twenty ten season, which included twelve wins

1491
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:37,559
Speaker 2: as well as a Big Ten championship in a Sugar

1492
01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:40,960
Speaker 2: Bowl victory that happened, you remember the first year Urban

1493
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:42,720
Speaker 2: Minor took over the team, they were not eligible to

1494
01:21:42,720 --> 01:21:44,320
Speaker 2: go to a ball game, and they went twelve to zero.

1495
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:49,880
Speaker 2: The story has become common knowledge in sports and certainly

1496
01:21:49,880 --> 01:21:54,479
Speaker 2: in the sports world, and it's been referenced in talk

1497
01:21:54,600 --> 01:21:57,040
Speaker 2: radio as recent as a week ago as a comparison

1498
01:21:57,680 --> 01:22:01,640
Speaker 2: to what you know, the NCAA could theoretically try to

1499
01:22:01,680 --> 01:22:05,400
Speaker 2: do to Harbaugh with respect to their relationship with the NFL,

1500
01:22:05,439 --> 01:22:09,400
Speaker 2: which frankly I'm not buying. But the timeline of events

1501
01:22:09,560 --> 01:22:13,120
Speaker 2: unfolded in such a man at Ohio State that it

1502
01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:16,960
Speaker 2: really painted the players, the coaches, and frankly the university

1503
01:22:17,760 --> 01:22:21,120
Speaker 2: in a bad light. And you know from Terrell, prior

1504
01:22:21,320 --> 01:22:23,639
Speaker 2: to the players, to the administration, to the head coach

1505
01:22:23,680 --> 01:22:27,679
Speaker 2: Jim Tressel himself. It was a staying on Ohio State.

1506
01:22:28,479 --> 01:22:31,960
Speaker 2: That's only one of many, many, many, many, many many

1507
01:22:33,120 --> 01:22:39,000
Speaker 2: situations involving allegations of college football cheating. Many years ago

1508
01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:42,920
Speaker 2: North Carolina, University of North Carolina, he had thirteen players

1509
01:22:42,920 --> 01:22:48,719
Speaker 2: suspended for improper contact with an agent. University of Michigan

1510
01:22:50,160 --> 01:22:55,200
Speaker 2: conducting unauthorized practices during the offseason. You all know about

1511
01:22:55,200 --> 01:22:57,720
Speaker 2: the situation with Reggie Bush and USC and his parents

1512
01:22:57,800 --> 01:23:01,559
Speaker 2: allegedly receiving payment and gives from an agent. Auburn. They

1513
01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:06,639
Speaker 2: had a cam Newton investigation the same year. Oregon LSU

1514
01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:11,439
Speaker 2: and CAL. Many years ago they were accused of illegal

1515
01:23:11,479 --> 01:23:15,320
Speaker 2: recruitment by a Scott named Willie Lyles. And the truth

1516
01:23:15,360 --> 01:23:18,720
Speaker 2: of the matter is, you know, throughout the BCS era

1517
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:22,599
Speaker 2: there were non BCS teams almost getting under the Championship Games,

1518
01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:28,800
Speaker 2: greatest college seasons, but there were always being headlined by

1519
01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:32,599
Speaker 2: what would be characterized as a cheating scandal. No different

1520
01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:39,040
Speaker 2: this year, No different this year. I you know, if

1521
01:23:39,040 --> 01:23:41,920
Speaker 2: the water cooler is still a reference, I guarantee you

1522
01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:46,080
Speaker 2: people over the water cooler have been talking about Michigan

1523
01:23:46,520 --> 01:23:51,639
Speaker 2: and what happened this year, and the Connor Stallion situation

1524
01:23:51,760 --> 01:23:55,080
Speaker 2: and the cheeseburger situation and the suspensions and all the

1525
01:23:55,120 --> 01:23:58,120
Speaker 2: things I just mentioned. Here's what you might find interesting.

1526
01:23:58,960 --> 01:24:02,640
Speaker 2: Cheating in college foot goes all the way back to

1527
01:24:02,720 --> 01:24:07,000
Speaker 2: the very early days of college football. In fact, in

1528
01:24:07,120 --> 01:24:11,840
Speaker 2: nineteen oh nine Michigan. Yeah, that same Michigan Wolverine team.

1529
01:24:12,560 --> 01:24:15,519
Speaker 2: They had a player by the name of James Joy Miller.

1530
01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:19,720
Speaker 2: He played in all seven games for Michigan. He was

1531
01:24:19,760 --> 01:24:21,960
Speaker 2: the best player on the team, and he helped the

1532
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:26,200
Speaker 2: Wolverines to a six to one record. However, and again

1533
01:24:26,240 --> 01:24:30,840
Speaker 2: this is nineteen oh nine, Miller never went to or

1534
01:24:30,920 --> 01:24:35,160
Speaker 2: even enrolled in any classes during the season. He was

1535
01:24:35,200 --> 01:24:37,320
Speaker 2: not a student at Michigan, but he was on the

1536
01:24:37,320 --> 01:24:41,080
Speaker 2: football team. Yeah, that happened. I'm not sure Twitter how

1537
01:24:41,120 --> 01:24:42,960
Speaker 2: Twitter dealt with it then, but I'd have to go

1538
01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:46,960
Speaker 2: back and look the national media did. There was a

1539
01:24:47,080 --> 01:24:50,600
Speaker 2: national media then caught out of this, and frankly, that

1540
01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:56,800
Speaker 2: exposed one of the very earliest college football scandals. Eighty

1541
01:24:56,880 --> 01:25:02,360
Speaker 2: years later, you had arguably the biggest and most notorious

1542
01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:06,360
Speaker 2: scandal in NCAA history. They did a lengthy thirty for

1543
01:25:06,439 --> 01:25:09,599
Speaker 2: thirty on it called the Pony Excess. I'm talking about

1544
01:25:09,720 --> 01:25:13,160
Speaker 2: SMU and the Pony Express, the SMU football program. They

1545
01:25:13,280 --> 01:25:16,800
Speaker 2: flat out paid players to come to their school and

1546
01:25:16,840 --> 01:25:23,320
Speaker 2: play for the team. That ordeal had major statewide implications,

1547
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:27,559
Speaker 2: involved a lot of powerful businessmen, involved state politicians, and

1548
01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:31,519
Speaker 2: oh yeah, it became a national story that brought a

1549
01:25:31,560 --> 01:25:35,719
Speaker 2: hot light media spotlight down on the campus on Dallas

1550
01:25:35,760 --> 01:25:40,320
Speaker 2: on the football team, which led to repeat violations, and

1551
01:25:40,400 --> 01:25:43,559
Speaker 2: it led to the It led the NCAA to impose

1552
01:25:43,640 --> 01:25:47,479
Speaker 2: something that is the most serious sanction that could happen,

1553
01:25:48,240 --> 01:25:52,760
Speaker 2: and I'm told it will never happen again. SMU was

1554
01:25:52,840 --> 01:25:59,120
Speaker 2: given the death penalty thirty years later, thirty five years

1555
01:25:59,160 --> 01:26:02,479
Speaker 2: later from that, it still persists. One of the most

1556
01:26:02,520 --> 01:26:08,920
Speaker 2: important reasons that people should study history is because, as

1557
01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:10,680
Speaker 2: you know, someone once said, you could be doing to

1558
01:26:10,680 --> 01:26:14,960
Speaker 2: make the same mistake twice. But even if you avoid

1559
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:18,120
Speaker 2: doing so, you must realize that if you've made a mistake,

1560
01:26:18,160 --> 01:26:21,160
Speaker 2: you must realize the mistake itself. In the instance of

1561
01:26:21,240 --> 01:26:26,320
Speaker 2: college football, I don't know that folks have come to

1562
01:26:26,320 --> 01:26:30,479
Speaker 2: the conclusion that I mean this, They've come to the

1563
01:26:30,520 --> 01:26:34,559
Speaker 2: deduction that cheating is not worth it. It appears to

1564
01:26:34,560 --> 01:26:37,240
Speaker 2: be worth it because of the way the system has

1565
01:26:37,280 --> 01:26:42,719
Speaker 2: set up the rules and the culture it surrounds the game.

1566
01:26:43,920 --> 01:26:48,759
Speaker 2: And the truth of the matter is that in only

1567
01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:55,639
Speaker 2: rare circumstances like SMU, it's a situation where schools still

1568
01:26:55,800 --> 01:27:00,360
Speaker 2: benefit from cheating. Now, let's go back to nineteen oh nine.

1569
01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:03,200
Speaker 2: Michigan cheated to win. They brought in James Joy Miller.

1570
01:27:03,520 --> 01:27:06,439
Speaker 2: They wanted to win for Pride. It's all was going

1571
01:27:06,439 --> 01:27:10,400
Speaker 2: on back then. Tho TV rights or anthing Pride. SMU

1572
01:27:10,439 --> 01:27:13,160
Speaker 2: did the same, but instead of lying about a tendency,

1573
01:27:13,280 --> 01:27:16,960
Speaker 2: is money to make it happen boosters. They pumped in

1574
01:27:17,080 --> 01:27:20,960
Speaker 2: thousands of dollars. They funded this practice, which was illegal.

1575
01:27:20,960 --> 01:27:25,160
Speaker 2: They actually had players on payroll and they'd rub elbows

1576
01:27:25,200 --> 01:27:28,559
Speaker 2: at their local country clubs. And guess what that SMU

1577
01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:31,920
Speaker 2: had bragging rights over Texas at Texas, A and M

1578
01:27:31,920 --> 01:27:35,920
Speaker 2: and Houston and Baylor right on down the line. Today,

1579
01:27:36,960 --> 01:27:41,640
Speaker 2: the motive to cheat is a lot more to do

1580
01:27:41,720 --> 01:27:47,000
Speaker 2: with economics and pride. Because you get to the National Championship,

1581
01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:50,840
Speaker 2: you get to the playoffs, you get to a big

1582
01:27:50,880 --> 01:27:54,920
Speaker 2: time bowl game. It means a lot of money right now.

1583
01:27:57,360 --> 01:27:59,759
Speaker 2: The funny thing about it is college while college football

1584
01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:02,360
Speaker 2: is still basically considered amateur outfitlics, we're talking about a

1585
01:28:02,360 --> 01:28:06,599
Speaker 2: billion dollar business, multi multi billion dollar business. And when

1586
01:28:06,600 --> 01:28:10,880
Speaker 2: you got this much money involved in any sport, there's

1587
01:28:10,920 --> 01:28:15,519
Speaker 2: no room for error. And so teams, coaches, programs, they're

1588
01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:20,840
Speaker 2: willing to take risks because they want that profit that

1589
01:28:20,920 --> 01:28:24,000
Speaker 2: can be made cheating and trying to get away with it.

1590
01:28:25,320 --> 01:28:27,759
Speaker 2: Ask any of them behind closed doors. I remember Jimmy

1591
01:28:27,840 --> 01:28:31,320
Speaker 2: Valvano talked about this once, the late great Jimmy Valvano.

1592
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:34,760
Speaker 2: It's a better option than losing. They can't afford to

1593
01:28:34,800 --> 01:28:39,240
Speaker 2: lose coaches. There's so much pressure. Coaches work their entire

1594
01:28:39,240 --> 01:28:42,360
Speaker 2: adult lives to become the head of a big time

1595
01:28:42,400 --> 01:28:45,320
Speaker 2: college football program. Once they get there, they are expected

1596
01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:50,760
Speaker 2: to continue to win and revitalize the program if they

1597
01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:53,840
Speaker 2: take over a bad one, continue to success if the

1598
01:28:53,840 --> 01:28:55,840
Speaker 2: programs had success in the past, and if they're not

1599
01:28:55,880 --> 01:28:58,040
Speaker 2: able to do so, they are out on the street.

1600
01:28:59,560 --> 01:29:03,080
Speaker 2: Although they might get a very nice payday to go away.

1601
01:29:03,320 --> 01:29:05,720
Speaker 2: Jimbo Fisher, but he's not the only one. But they

1602
01:29:05,720 --> 01:29:07,160
Speaker 2: don't want to be out on the street. They want

1603
01:29:07,160 --> 01:29:10,000
Speaker 2: to be working. The only way to compete in excels

1604
01:29:10,040 --> 01:29:13,400
Speaker 2: to have every advantage that your opponent has. So if

1605
01:29:13,400 --> 01:29:15,000
Speaker 2: the guy in the next stayed over is paying for

1606
01:29:15,040 --> 01:29:17,479
Speaker 2: his players to come, well the new coach must as well.

1607
01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:21,120
Speaker 2: Now see nil has really sort of changed all that

1608
01:29:21,920 --> 01:29:24,280
Speaker 2: hell name image like this, it's become a free for

1609
01:29:24,360 --> 01:29:26,920
Speaker 2: all free agency. Forget the Wild West. It's the battle

1610
01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:30,719
Speaker 2: of Baton's pay for play. It's go to the highest bidder.

1611
01:29:30,880 --> 01:29:33,760
Speaker 2: Let's face it, I understand one of the first questions

1612
01:29:33,960 --> 01:29:36,280
Speaker 2: players ask recruiters now is how much are they gonna

1613
01:29:37,120 --> 01:29:39,439
Speaker 2: pay me? And if you don't, you're gonna lose recruits

1614
01:29:40,200 --> 01:29:42,120
Speaker 2: and you're gonna have a team that's not as well prepared.

1615
01:29:42,120 --> 01:29:45,080
Speaker 2: You're gonna have a team that's not as well successful,

1616
01:29:45,320 --> 01:29:48,479
Speaker 2: You're gonna have less depth, you're gonna have less wins.

1617
01:29:48,800 --> 01:29:51,120
Speaker 2: Ultimately you're gonna be out of a job. So what

1618
01:29:51,160 --> 01:29:54,120
Speaker 2: does the coach get. Well, he stands in line to

1619
01:29:54,120 --> 01:29:58,639
Speaker 2: get pay raises and national recognition awards, and the players, well,

1620
01:29:58,680 --> 01:30:01,000
Speaker 2: they stand to benefit as well. Even back in the day,

1621
01:30:01,040 --> 01:30:04,439
Speaker 2: guys like Reggie Bush Cam Newton, although it didn't you

1622
01:30:04,479 --> 01:30:10,160
Speaker 2: know it ended with perhaps you would call asterisks if

1623
01:30:10,200 --> 01:30:15,760
Speaker 2: you were in their own right, they've benefited. So you

1624
01:30:15,800 --> 01:30:18,000
Speaker 2: get an eighteen year old who's been told his entire

1625
01:30:18,040 --> 01:30:20,439
Speaker 2: life he's great, he'll be a star. What a risk

1626
01:30:20,479 --> 01:30:23,479
Speaker 2: are they really taking. I realized that Reggie Bush no

1627
01:30:23,520 --> 01:30:25,600
Speaker 2: longer has possession of his heisman, but you know, he

1628
01:30:25,680 --> 01:30:28,360
Speaker 2: won it. No one can take that away. With the

1629
01:30:28,439 --> 01:30:31,519
Speaker 2: national championship, no one can doubt Reggie Bush was still

1630
01:30:31,520 --> 01:30:34,680
Speaker 2: the best player in college football that season and went

1631
01:30:34,720 --> 01:30:39,880
Speaker 2: on to have a good professional career. Truth of the

1632
01:30:39,960 --> 01:30:42,960
Speaker 2: matter is, the culture around college football doesn't really aim

1633
01:30:43,040 --> 01:30:47,680
Speaker 2: prevent cheating. They advise against it. But maybe that's a

1634
01:30:47,720 --> 01:30:50,640
Speaker 2: mistake in and of itself. You don't see it by

1635
01:30:50,680 --> 01:30:56,759
Speaker 2: the public. But nonetheless there's influence. There is things where teams, players,

1636
01:30:56,800 --> 01:31:02,519
Speaker 2: coaches and you knowmistrations, they cross the line. I'm not passing.

1637
01:31:02,800 --> 01:31:04,920
Speaker 2: I'm not painting the whole nation with a broad brush.

1638
01:31:05,040 --> 01:31:07,000
Speaker 2: But what's the old joke, If you ain't cheating, you

1639
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:07,519
Speaker 2: ain't trying.

1640
01:31:07,840 --> 01:31:08,040
Speaker 7: Now.

1641
01:31:08,080 --> 01:31:11,120
Speaker 2: I am not condoning this, I'm not saying you do.

1642
01:31:11,200 --> 01:31:13,680
Speaker 2: I'm sure there are some clean programs out there. I

1643
01:31:13,720 --> 01:31:17,160
Speaker 2: don't know what the NCAA does, what resolution they propose,

1644
01:31:18,240 --> 01:31:21,639
Speaker 2: but the basic belief is that the majority of all

1645
01:31:21,840 --> 01:31:24,840
Speaker 2: NCAA programs have violated rules in one way or another,

1646
01:31:25,280 --> 01:31:27,720
Speaker 2: And the truth of the matter, the NCAA does not

1647
01:31:27,840 --> 01:31:32,639
Speaker 2: have the resources to completely or thoroughly investigate every school

1648
01:31:32,640 --> 01:31:34,799
Speaker 2: in the manner that would be fair, that would be efficient,

1649
01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:40,880
Speaker 2: that would be conducive to conducting their daily business. For

1650
01:31:40,960 --> 01:31:44,120
Speaker 2: that reason, the only way you usually find out about

1651
01:31:44,120 --> 01:31:48,440
Speaker 2: infractions is through the schools themselves. There are no solutions,

1652
01:31:48,760 --> 01:31:52,560
Speaker 2: and the NIL has gone a long way in curtailing

1653
01:31:52,600 --> 01:31:54,280
Speaker 2: some of this, but I still think there's a lot

1654
01:31:54,320 --> 01:31:58,240
Speaker 2: of funny business. So there you have it. The phenomenon

1655
01:31:58,280 --> 01:32:01,160
Speaker 2: of culture of cheating goes back to nineteen oh nine.

1656
01:32:01,640 --> 01:32:04,400
Speaker 2: But Michigan had a star player who wasn't even enrolled

1657
01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:08,080
Speaker 2: at the school, didn't take a single class, and Michigan

1658
01:32:08,120 --> 01:32:13,439
Speaker 2: had a very good team that year. So when they

1659
01:32:13,479 --> 01:32:16,240
Speaker 2: do write the history books, I do believe you will

1660
01:32:17,400 --> 01:32:21,439
Speaker 2: you will certainly have a footnote with Michigan whether they win, lose,

1661
01:32:21,520 --> 01:32:24,679
Speaker 2: or draw. Sunday night, well, you can't draw, and it's

1662
01:32:24,720 --> 01:32:28,200
Speaker 2: Monday night. The truth of the matter is this is

1663
01:32:28,360 --> 01:32:33,639
Speaker 2: a side story, a headline, a footnote that will follow

1664
01:32:33,680 --> 01:32:37,479
Speaker 2: the Michigan program forever. However, they're not the only one,

1665
01:32:38,640 --> 01:32:42,200
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1672
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1673
01:33:04,800 --> 01:33:08,519
Speaker 2: They own the town. But there's actually another team in

1674
01:33:08,560 --> 01:33:11,599
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. They might have figured it out. They actually

1675
01:33:11,640 --> 01:33:14,719
Speaker 2: won big again Friday night. Let's give them a little

1676
01:33:14,760 --> 01:33:17,000
Speaker 2: bit of flowers at least this point in the season.

1677
01:33:17,479 --> 01:33:20,000
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1683
01:33:37,320 --> 01:33:41,280
Speaker 2: maybe have it figured out? We're almost halfway through the

1684
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Speaker 2: NBA season and I think it's sure to say that

1685
01:33:46,080 --> 01:33:51,439
Speaker 2: the two Los Angeles basketball teams are polar opposites. Get it.

1686
01:33:51,680 --> 01:33:54,479
Speaker 2: They get off to a rocky start in James Harden's

1687
01:33:54,520 --> 01:33:57,360
Speaker 2: first few weeks with the team, But the Clippers are

1688
01:33:57,360 --> 01:34:00,599
Speaker 2: on a heater. Man, They're not nineteen and five since

1689
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Speaker 2: November seventeenth. Meanwhile, you know, the Lakers are stumbling. We

1690
01:34:04,520 --> 01:34:08,200
Speaker 2: talked about it early. Since winning the n season tournament

1691
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Speaker 2: on December ninth, they're now three and eleven. The Clippers

1692
01:34:11,840 --> 01:34:14,200
Speaker 2: are now in fourth place in the West. They're twenty

1693
01:34:14,240 --> 01:34:18,360
Speaker 2: two to twelve. The Lakers are in tenth place at

1694
01:34:18,439 --> 01:34:24,200
Speaker 2: seventeen and twenty. I believe so. A couple of nights ago,

1695
01:34:24,800 --> 01:34:28,720
Speaker 2: the Clippers pick up a solid road victory at Phoenix

1696
01:34:29,640 --> 01:34:32,960
Speaker 2: one thirty one one twenty two. Their top three players

1697
01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:37,120
Speaker 2: were dominant. Paul George had thirty three, Kawhi Leonard had thirty,

1698
01:34:37,200 --> 01:34:40,080
Speaker 2: James Harden had twenty two, but with eleven assists. Oh,

1699
01:34:40,080 --> 01:34:44,280
Speaker 2: by the way, Kawhi Leonard is really excelling. He's averaging

1700
01:34:44,320 --> 01:34:46,599
Speaker 2: almost thirty three points a game. He's shooting sixty four

1701
01:34:46,640 --> 01:34:49,799
Speaker 2: percent from the field in his last eight games, averaging

1702
01:34:50,600 --> 01:34:53,080
Speaker 2: you know, let's just put it this way, he looks

1703
01:34:53,120 --> 01:34:57,200
Speaker 2: like the Kawhi Leonard in Toronto. The Clippers followed up

1704
01:34:57,240 --> 01:35:00,880
Speaker 2: Friday night with an impressive road win at New Orleans

1705
01:35:00,960 --> 01:35:06,400
Speaker 2: one eleven ninety five Kawhi Leonard nineteen points, nine rebounds.

1706
01:35:07,800 --> 01:35:10,320
Speaker 2: The biggest difference for the Clippers, though, has been the

1707
01:35:10,360 --> 01:35:13,680
Speaker 2: lineup change they made shortly after the Harden trades. He

1708
01:35:13,720 --> 01:35:17,559
Speaker 2: had number seventeenth. The team was in a six game

1709
01:35:17,680 --> 01:35:20,320
Speaker 2: losing streak. We're going to talk about this with Mark

1710
01:35:20,360 --> 01:35:27,000
Speaker 2: Madeena on Saturday night. But tyrone Leo replaced Russell Westbrook

1711
01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:30,280
Speaker 2: in his starting lineup with Terrence Mann. Now. Man's been

1712
01:35:30,280 --> 01:35:33,840
Speaker 2: in the league five years, very good athlete, swingman out

1713
01:35:33,840 --> 01:35:37,040
Speaker 2: of Florida State. He had been named a starter before

1714
01:35:37,160 --> 01:35:41,800
Speaker 2: the season, but he actually sprained his ankle in practice

1715
01:35:42,320 --> 01:35:45,960
Speaker 2: two days before the opener and ends up missing the

1716
01:35:45,960 --> 01:35:46,920
Speaker 2: first six games.

1717
01:35:48,280 --> 01:35:48,439
Speaker 1: Well.

1718
01:35:48,479 --> 01:35:52,080
Speaker 2: While he was out, the Clippers acquired Harden from the

1719
01:35:52,080 --> 01:35:55,559
Speaker 2: Philadelphia seventy six ers, and he took Man's spot in

1720
01:35:55,600 --> 01:35:58,400
Speaker 2: the starting lineup. Man then came off the bench in

1721
01:35:58,479 --> 01:36:02,960
Speaker 2: his first four appearances before tyrone Leos made the decision.

1722
01:36:03,000 --> 01:36:05,439
Speaker 2: Wait wait a minute, I'm gonna shake up the lineup

1723
01:36:05,479 --> 01:36:08,880
Speaker 2: We've lost six in a row. Man is not gonna

1724
01:36:08,880 --> 01:36:12,920
Speaker 2: be a starter instead of Russell Westbrook. Man is young,

1725
01:36:13,400 --> 01:36:19,840
Speaker 2: he's athletic. Frankly, he's exactly what the Clippers needed to

1726
01:36:19,960 --> 01:36:27,000
Speaker 2: compliment their high scoring well trio. The guys I just mentioned, right, Kawhi, Leonard, Paul, George,

1727
01:36:27,439 --> 01:36:33,280
Speaker 2: James Harden. He's a compliment. He's also happens to be

1728
01:36:33,479 --> 01:36:39,200
Speaker 2: a very good defender whose impact on the team is obvious.

1729
01:36:38,960 --> 01:36:44,160
Speaker 2: It's immediately evident. Defense is desire. It's the one thing

1730
01:36:44,800 --> 01:36:47,960
Speaker 2: that stands out among all coaches and scouts. If you

1731
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:50,400
Speaker 2: can impact the team, if you can unpack the game

1732
01:36:50,439 --> 01:36:53,280
Speaker 2: even though you don't have the ball, you are valuable.

1733
01:36:54,120 --> 01:36:57,760
Speaker 2: And he has Terrence Mann has shown that. So all

1734
01:36:57,760 --> 01:37:00,960
Speaker 2: of a sudden, you roll out this line up of

1735
01:37:01,120 --> 01:37:06,799
Speaker 2: James Harden, Kawhi, Leonard, Paul George, Terrence madd and Vika Zubach. Well,

1736
01:37:07,760 --> 01:37:10,799
Speaker 2: this group, this is nothing to sneeze at. They're averaging

1737
01:37:10,920 --> 01:37:15,000
Speaker 2: seventeen and a half points more than their opponents per

1738
01:37:15,120 --> 01:37:18,639
Speaker 2: one hundred possessions this season. That is no small feat.

1739
01:37:19,720 --> 01:37:22,320
Speaker 2: You have the combo of Harden, Leonard, George Zoo. Back

1740
01:37:22,360 --> 01:37:27,680
Speaker 2: in Westbrook, they were averaging twenty one points fewer than

1741
01:37:27,720 --> 01:37:32,519
Speaker 2: their opponents per hundred possessions. All the respect this isn't

1742
01:37:32,520 --> 01:37:37,160
Speaker 2: about Russell Westbrook bashing. But here we go again. That's

1743
01:37:37,240 --> 01:37:42,240
Speaker 2: simple change. Maybe the Clippers have figured this thing out. Meanwhile,

1744
01:37:42,360 --> 01:37:45,559
Speaker 2: as you heard me mention earlier, the Lakers earned desperate

1745
01:37:45,600 --> 01:37:48,720
Speaker 2: need of a spark. They lose to Miami the other night.

1746
01:37:49,360 --> 01:37:53,679
Speaker 2: Miami was without Jimmy Butler. That was their eighth defeat

1747
01:37:53,720 --> 01:37:57,400
Speaker 2: in ten games. They followed up with a double digit

1748
01:37:57,479 --> 01:38:01,080
Speaker 2: loss to the visiting Memphis Grizzlies Friday night. That's not

1749
01:38:01,320 --> 01:38:05,759
Speaker 2: nine defeats in their last eleven games. Very disappointing because

1750
01:38:05,800 --> 01:38:09,040
Speaker 2: you come back to your whole Marina after playing eight

1751
01:38:09,080 --> 01:38:11,200
Speaker 2: of the last ten games on the road, and you

1752
01:38:11,320 --> 01:38:15,760
Speaker 2: probably you promptly drop two games in a row. As

1753
01:38:15,800 --> 01:38:18,240
Speaker 2: I joked earlier, I think lebronso pissed off now he

1754
01:38:18,280 --> 01:38:22,519
Speaker 2: wants Eric's pulster fired again. Look, I joked with Kevin

1755
01:38:22,560 --> 01:38:25,680
Speaker 2: as an NBA Cup champ ever missed the playoff. I

1756
01:38:25,720 --> 01:38:28,320
Speaker 2: don't think it's automatic that the Lakers finished in the

1757
01:38:28,360 --> 01:38:31,680
Speaker 2: top ten. They should bet. I'm not saying it's automatic

1758
01:38:31,720 --> 01:38:38,120
Speaker 2: because there's some concerns there's trouble in paradise. Darvin Ham,

1759
01:38:38,520 --> 01:38:42,439
Speaker 2: I believe was a key cog in presiding over the Lakers'

1760
01:38:42,479 --> 01:38:45,320
Speaker 2: success last year. Made no mistake. It was a successful season.

1761
01:38:45,880 --> 01:38:48,799
Speaker 2: Maybe not by their standards, but you consider they started

1762
01:38:48,840 --> 01:38:51,439
Speaker 2: out two to ten, and then they found their way

1763
01:38:51,479 --> 01:38:54,320
Speaker 2: into the playing got through the play in, found their

1764
01:38:54,360 --> 01:38:57,760
Speaker 2: way into the conference finals. They weren't going to be Denver. No,

1765
01:38:58,680 --> 01:39:01,000
Speaker 2: but considering where they'd been too before, the way that

1766
01:39:01,080 --> 01:39:04,000
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis stepped up big and came through with minutes,

1767
01:39:04,000 --> 01:39:07,360
Speaker 2: and the way the Lakers role players embraced their roles

1768
01:39:08,360 --> 01:39:10,120
Speaker 2: and did what they needed to do. And I give

1769
01:39:10,160 --> 01:39:12,479
Speaker 2: Darvin Ham a lot of credit for that for helping

1770
01:39:12,479 --> 01:39:16,760
Speaker 2: that team to coalesce this year third derailing, while the

1771
01:39:16,800 --> 01:39:20,000
Speaker 2: Clippers appear to be flourishing. I get it, it's only January.

1772
01:39:20,479 --> 01:39:22,920
Speaker 2: But as Arnie Spander would say, the show's tonight, we

1773
01:39:23,000 --> 01:39:26,360
Speaker 2: got to talk about what's happening now. Darvin Ham is

1774
01:39:26,360 --> 01:39:31,320
Speaker 2: struggling to find a lneup that can be consistently productive

1775
01:39:31,320 --> 01:39:33,559
Speaker 2: and find a rotation that be consistently productive, and now

1776
01:39:33,560 --> 01:39:36,800
Speaker 2: we're hearing they just having a difficulty keeping a grip

1777
01:39:36,800 --> 01:39:39,400
Speaker 2: on the locker room due to the constant changes in

1778
01:39:39,400 --> 01:39:42,439
Speaker 2: the starting lineup, and there's I guess a disconnect now

1779
01:39:42,520 --> 01:39:45,360
Speaker 2: between the coach and the team. The Lakers really need

1780
01:39:45,400 --> 01:39:47,920
Speaker 2: to turn their season around. Was that long ago they

1781
01:39:47,920 --> 01:39:52,920
Speaker 2: were celebrating in Las Vegas, flying high right, sort of

1782
01:39:53,360 --> 01:39:55,599
Speaker 2: seeing season tournament, But it was a big deal. That's

1783
01:39:55,640 --> 01:39:59,000
Speaker 2: what Adam Silver wanted. But since in there three and eleven,

1784
01:39:59,520 --> 01:40:02,320
Speaker 2: and you know, you got to have a scapegoat. Right now,

1785
01:40:02,320 --> 01:40:06,599
Speaker 2: it's Darvin Ham. They're blaming him for the players that

1786
01:40:06,640 --> 01:40:09,800
Speaker 2: are struggling to find a rhythm. The situation is bad

1787
01:40:09,880 --> 01:40:13,519
Speaker 2: enough that now questions are being raised about Darvin Ham

1788
01:40:13,560 --> 01:40:16,640
Speaker 2: and his standing some of the lineups. Of course, the

1789
01:40:17,080 --> 01:40:20,160
Speaker 2: one decision to bench D'Angelo Russell and play without a

1790
01:40:20,160 --> 01:40:23,599
Speaker 2: secondary ball handler that's been scrutinized inside the four walls.

1791
01:40:24,439 --> 01:40:27,400
Speaker 2: So look, I get it. The Lakers admittedly have had

1792
01:40:27,439 --> 01:40:30,559
Speaker 2: some bad luck during this losing stretch. They've had some injuries.

1793
01:40:30,640 --> 01:40:34,200
Speaker 2: That's been an issue. However, when you've got Lebron James

1794
01:40:34,240 --> 01:40:36,639
Speaker 2: and Anthony Davis, they're both healthy and they're both productive,

1795
01:40:36,680 --> 01:40:38,880
Speaker 2: they're both playing a lot of minutes and things still

1796
01:40:38,880 --> 01:40:44,200
Speaker 2: aren't clicking. When that's the case, there's gonna be questions

1797
01:40:44,240 --> 01:40:48,280
Speaker 2: something to watch coming out Chris Purfet's World of Soccer.

1798
01:40:48,320 --> 01:40:50,519
Speaker 2: But first we go back to our guy, Kevin Figures

1799
01:40:50,560 --> 01:40:53,040
Speaker 2: with the latest the NBA.

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01:40:53,160 --> 01:40:56,320
Speaker 11: There Bernie with some bittersweet news for Golden State and

1801
01:40:56,360 --> 01:40:59,200
Speaker 11: a former Clipper, Chris Paul. They be defeated Detroit one

1802
01:40:59,280 --> 01:41:01,880
Speaker 11: thirteen to By the way, did the Warriors twenty six

1803
01:41:01,880 --> 01:41:04,760
Speaker 11: points for Steph Curry, But Chris Paul did fracture his

1804
01:41:04,840 --> 01:41:06,960
Speaker 11: left hand. He's going to be out for a while

1805
01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:10,320
Speaker 11: as it will require surgery. Talking about the Lakers, they

1806
01:41:10,320 --> 01:41:13,360
Speaker 11: did lose to Memphis, their fourth consecutive loss, one twenty

1807
01:41:13,400 --> 01:41:16,280
Speaker 11: seven to one thirteen was the final despite thirty two

1808
01:41:16,320 --> 01:41:18,800
Speaker 11: points from Lebron James, who's quote after the game said,

1809
01:41:18,960 --> 01:41:22,439
Speaker 11: we just suck right now makes sense to me, thirty

1810
01:41:22,439 --> 01:41:25,639
Speaker 11: one points from Grayson Allen Sons beating Miami won thirteen

1811
01:41:25,680 --> 01:41:28,360
Speaker 11: to ninety seven. Who wins for Dallas, Indiana And you

1812
01:41:28,439 --> 01:41:31,080
Speaker 11: mentioned the Clippers. Twenty four points from Paul George. They

1813
01:41:31,080 --> 01:41:34,400
Speaker 11: were all over the Pelicans, one eleven to ninety five.

1814
01:41:34,600 --> 01:41:36,960
Speaker 11: A couple of college hoops matchups. Number one per Due

1815
01:41:36,960 --> 01:41:40,639
Speaker 11: defeating number nine Illinois eighty three to seventy eight. Zach

1816
01:41:40,800 --> 01:41:43,200
Speaker 11: Edy just ten points, but he did have fifteen rebounds

1817
01:41:43,200 --> 01:41:45,720
Speaker 11: in the victory fourth ranked Yukon in eighty eight to

1818
01:41:45,840 --> 01:41:49,040
Speaker 11: eighty one victory over Butler. In the NFL, Packers running

1819
01:41:49,080 --> 01:41:52,439
Speaker 11: back aj Dillon out against Chicago with a stinger. Falcons

1820
01:41:52,560 --> 01:41:55,479
Speaker 11: quarterback Taylor Heineke a game time decision against New Orleans

1821
01:41:55,560 --> 01:41:56,719
Speaker 11: with an ankle injury.

1822
01:41:57,080 --> 01:41:58,000
Speaker 10: Back to Bernie.

1823
01:41:57,680 --> 01:42:01,360
Speaker 2: Freddo Kevin, just to quickie on the Lakers Friday night?

1824
01:42:01,400 --> 01:42:03,640
Speaker 2: Did you happen to hear that post game sound for

1825
01:42:03,760 --> 01:42:06,920
Speaker 2: that one reporter who felt it necessary to ask Lebron

1826
01:42:07,000 --> 01:42:09,439
Speaker 2: James what do he thought of Ricky Rubio's career?

1827
01:42:10,920 --> 01:42:14,320
Speaker 10: I did not hear it live. I saw the quote afterwards.

1828
01:42:14,360 --> 01:42:16,200
Speaker 10: I didn't unfortunately, was not able to hear it, though.

1829
01:42:16,200 --> 01:42:18,879
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to. We've got the sound in the system.

1830
01:42:18,920 --> 01:42:21,240
Speaker 2: I think Jason Smith and Mike Harmon played it at

1831
01:42:21,240 --> 01:42:23,800
Speaker 2: the very end of their show, right before I was

1832
01:42:23,840 --> 01:42:25,960
Speaker 2: signing on. It is worth a listen, Kevin. You'll get

1833
01:42:25,960 --> 01:42:27,360
Speaker 2: a really good laugh out of it. You might even

1834
01:42:27,360 --> 01:42:30,960
Speaker 2: want to use it later tonight, but you in particularly

1835
01:42:30,960 --> 01:42:35,240
Speaker 2: will appreciate you can hear the absolute how Lebron and

1836
01:42:35,479 --> 01:42:40,639
Speaker 2: justifiably so. It's just completely flabbergasted by this question, which

1837
01:42:40,680 --> 01:42:42,880
Speaker 2: is a non secuitar on its best day, a right

1838
01:42:43,080 --> 01:42:47,439
Speaker 2: good stuff Tonight, Kevin is as always appreciate it, Barney.

1839
01:42:47,800 --> 01:42:50,000
Speaker 2: At this time of the show, you should know it

1840
01:42:50,040 --> 01:42:52,479
Speaker 2: by now. We cover it all. And there's a little

1841
01:42:52,479 --> 01:42:54,479
Speaker 2: sport they call it football around the world. We call

1842
01:42:54,520 --> 01:42:57,760
Speaker 2: it soccer the United States, and there are always storylines

1843
01:42:58,000 --> 01:43:01,360
Speaker 2: on and off the field. It's time Christophett's World of Soccer.

1844
01:43:02,920 --> 01:43:15,680
Speaker 12: The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drum Hi,

1845
01:43:18,760 --> 01:43:22,200
Speaker 12: It's all here in this report from the World of Soccer.

1846
01:43:22,520 --> 01:43:25,839
Speaker 3: Winter is the fun time and the money time in soccer.

1847
01:43:25,920 --> 01:43:28,120
Speaker 3: More on that in a bit. It's been a minute

1848
01:43:28,160 --> 01:43:31,360
Speaker 3: since the World of Soccer has taken a look at

1849
01:43:31,520 --> 01:43:35,759
Speaker 3: England first and foremost FA Cup in action this weekend,

1850
01:43:35,840 --> 01:43:39,400
Speaker 3: the third round, as things start to get really heated up,

1851
01:43:39,560 --> 01:43:43,800
Speaker 3: Sunday's bringing us a couple of wonderful, wonderful matches our

1852
01:43:43,840 --> 01:43:48,000
Speaker 3: old friends over and Wrexham. The stars of FX is

1853
01:43:48,040 --> 01:43:51,280
Speaker 3: welcome to Rexhom. That club there that we've come to

1854
01:43:51,360 --> 01:43:55,040
Speaker 3: know and love is in action on Sunday nine am

1855
01:43:55,200 --> 01:43:59,800
Speaker 3: Eastern taking on Shrewsbury Town. A fun little thing there

1856
01:43:59,840 --> 01:44:02,280
Speaker 3: to to keep an eye on on your streaming services,

1857
01:44:02,439 --> 01:44:05,280
Speaker 3: but really the real gem of the weekend is at

1858
01:44:05,280 --> 01:44:07,440
Speaker 3: eleven thirty am East Coast.

1859
01:44:07,080 --> 01:44:10,000
Speaker 10: Time, Arsenal and Liverpool.

1860
01:44:10,200 --> 01:44:14,480
Speaker 3: A big time match up here early in the rounds

1861
01:44:14,520 --> 01:44:19,880
Speaker 3: of the FA Cup. Arsenal and Liverpool both big heavyweight

1862
01:44:19,920 --> 01:44:24,080
Speaker 3: Premier League heavyweight contenders. Now Arsenal's fallen on a little

1863
01:44:24,080 --> 01:44:26,240
Speaker 3: bit of a harder time here in this halfway point.

1864
01:44:26,280 --> 01:44:29,000
Speaker 3: They're still not out of it yet, still holding on

1865
01:44:29,120 --> 01:44:32,880
Speaker 3: to the top echelons, coming into the weekend fourth with

1866
01:44:33,040 --> 01:44:37,040
Speaker 3: forty points in the Premier League, while Arsenal Liverpool excuse me,

1867
01:44:37,360 --> 01:44:41,120
Speaker 3: holds a three point lead over aston Villa as the

1868
01:44:41,160 --> 01:44:45,800
Speaker 3: pacesetters in the Premier League. Should be an incredibly fun one.

1869
01:44:46,840 --> 01:44:50,760
Speaker 3: Michil Arteta, the manager for Arsenal, is calling for a

1870
01:44:50,800 --> 01:44:53,240
Speaker 3: hostile crowd in this clash. Maybe not the words I

1871
01:44:53,240 --> 01:44:57,000
Speaker 3: would use in anything where Liverpool is involved, but certainly

1872
01:44:57,080 --> 01:45:01,360
Speaker 3: the team needs firing up. This may not be their priority,

1873
01:45:01,400 --> 01:45:03,280
Speaker 3: I think if you ask Arsenal, they'd like to win

1874
01:45:03,560 --> 01:45:06,559
Speaker 3: the Premier League title, but the f A Cup would

1875
01:45:06,640 --> 01:45:09,320
Speaker 3: absolutely be a nice notch and you know, to get

1876
01:45:09,320 --> 01:45:13,240
Speaker 3: into style here against Liverpool. Very interesting though Liverpool will

1877
01:45:13,240 --> 01:45:17,400
Speaker 3: be without two very big stars for them as Mohammed Sala,

1878
01:45:17,560 --> 01:45:22,400
Speaker 3: their superstar, will miss time for this and he's going

1879
01:45:22,520 --> 01:45:25,160
Speaker 3: to the Africa Cup of Nations playing for his home

1880
01:45:25,240 --> 01:45:29,320
Speaker 3: country of Egypt. Liverpool is also without their Japanese midfielder

1881
01:45:29,640 --> 01:45:32,920
Speaker 3: Wataro Endo as he is heading for the Asian Cup,

1882
01:45:33,240 --> 01:45:36,439
Speaker 3: kind of underscoring the fact this is a very busy time.

1883
01:45:36,280 --> 01:45:36,720
Speaker 10: Of the year.

1884
01:45:36,840 --> 01:45:40,439
Speaker 3: Still every part of the year is busy for soccer,

1885
01:45:40,520 --> 01:45:45,400
Speaker 3: and interesting comments by Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp who joked

1886
01:45:45,439 --> 01:45:48,800
Speaker 3: about he's not exactly wishing those countries well and you know,

1887
01:45:49,040 --> 01:45:51,720
Speaker 3: he was asked about it and said no, he's he

1888
01:45:51,800 --> 01:45:54,880
Speaker 3: kind of hopes they bomb out pretty quickly and I

1889
01:45:54,880 --> 01:45:57,280
Speaker 3: can't blame him. He wants Endo and Sala back as

1890
01:45:57,320 --> 01:46:00,840
Speaker 3: soon as possible for English club glory, especially after the

1891
01:46:00,880 --> 01:46:03,559
Speaker 3: couple of years that have been a little bit more

1892
01:46:03,600 --> 01:46:06,760
Speaker 3: trying for Liverpool since their title. But it does once

1893
01:46:06,800 --> 01:46:10,679
Speaker 3: again reemphasize how crowded this calendar is and the competing

1894
01:46:10,760 --> 01:46:14,080
Speaker 3: interest between nation and club, even at the best of

1895
01:46:14,120 --> 01:46:16,640
Speaker 3: times for a league leader like Liverpool is.

1896
01:46:17,280 --> 01:46:18,200
Speaker 10: But really here Bernie.

1897
01:46:18,240 --> 01:46:20,519
Speaker 3: The big news of the week, the big news of

1898
01:46:20,560 --> 01:46:24,240
Speaker 3: this entire month, as it were, in the world of soccer,

1899
01:46:24,680 --> 01:46:28,320
Speaker 3: is that the winter transfer window is open and it

1900
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Speaker 3: is going to remain open for most of the major

1901
01:46:31,520 --> 01:46:35,840
Speaker 3: nations in Europe until February first. The ones who are

1902
01:46:35,840 --> 01:46:39,879
Speaker 3: going to be wheeling and dealing mostly Spain and England

1903
01:46:39,920 --> 01:46:42,200
Speaker 3: and maybe some more on the second level here in

1904
01:46:42,280 --> 01:46:46,240
Speaker 3: Germany in Italy as well. And it's interesting for a

1905
01:46:46,280 --> 01:46:49,800
Speaker 3: lot of reasons. Let's start with valuation, which has been

1906
01:46:49,920 --> 01:46:54,000
Speaker 3: skyrocketing across the transfer market for years and years now

1907
01:46:54,400 --> 01:46:58,000
Speaker 3: in soccer. It's the one that gets all of the

1908
01:46:58,360 --> 01:47:04,200
Speaker 3: interesting numbers, the eye popping numbers about soccer, because it's

1909
01:47:04,240 --> 01:47:07,519
Speaker 3: the value we see versus contracts. They're a little more

1910
01:47:08,240 --> 01:47:11,320
Speaker 3: close to the chest, if you will. But we do

1911
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Speaker 3: get to see transfer numbers when the transfer fees come

1912
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Speaker 3: out for these players, for clubs getting back what is

1913
01:47:17,840 --> 01:47:21,240
Speaker 3: basically their cash value on a player when they did

1914
01:47:21,360 --> 01:47:25,000
Speaker 3: leave for another club. Now, the French International Center for

1915
01:47:25,080 --> 01:47:31,959
Speaker 3: Sports Studies CIEs their Football Observatory, publishes estimated transfer values

1916
01:47:32,280 --> 01:47:35,240
Speaker 3: every year and to really underscore how much things are

1917
01:47:35,320 --> 01:47:39,120
Speaker 3: sailing so high, we have some of the values out now.

1918
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Speaker 3: They publish this on the third of January. Leading the

1919
01:47:42,439 --> 01:47:46,640
Speaker 3: headlines here for most eye popping, eye watering numbers is

1920
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Speaker 3: the English forward Jude Bellingham for Real Madrid, who CIS

1921
01:47:51,680 --> 01:47:55,760
Speaker 3: estimates his value in transfer window to be at two

1922
01:47:55,880 --> 01:48:00,880
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty seven point five million Europe or to

1923
01:48:00,880 --> 01:48:05,439
Speaker 3: put that into US dollars, about two hundred and ninety

1924
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Speaker 3: two million. It's staggering, and it's actually even more than

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01:48:09,720 --> 01:48:12,080
Speaker 3: the second man on the list, the man we've talked

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Speaker 3: about for so much, Earling Holland, the Norwegian striker for

1927
01:48:15,800 --> 01:48:20,320
Speaker 3: Manchester City, valued at two hundred and fifty one million euros.

1928
01:48:20,560 --> 01:48:24,680
Speaker 3: Real Madrid actually owns three of the top four players

1929
01:48:25,200 --> 01:48:28,759
Speaker 3: in estimated transfer value. Also adding to that, Venisius Junior

1930
01:48:29,080 --> 01:48:33,400
Speaker 3: and Rodrigo Goyez, both Brazilian players and both about twenty

1931
01:48:33,439 --> 01:48:37,679
Speaker 3: three years of age, really underscoring just how much talent,

1932
01:48:37,760 --> 01:48:42,080
Speaker 3: how much young talent, is at the Spanish Titans of

1933
01:48:42,200 --> 01:48:45,519
Speaker 3: Real Madrid, and once again how much these values are

1934
01:48:45,560 --> 01:48:47,800
Speaker 3: just skyrocketing the now. That's not to say they're not

1935
01:48:47,840 --> 01:48:51,320
Speaker 3: going to send these players over somewhere in a transfer

1936
01:48:51,400 --> 01:48:54,479
Speaker 3: and get this money. These are all players very much

1937
01:48:54,479 --> 01:48:57,360
Speaker 3: so in their early twenties who are prime and proper

1938
01:48:57,520 --> 01:49:00,360
Speaker 3: for Real Madrid, they'd be crazy to give a lot

1939
01:49:00,360 --> 01:49:03,240
Speaker 3: of them. But it just really just sets the pace

1940
01:49:03,400 --> 01:49:06,759
Speaker 3: for how valuable it is to get some of these players.

1941
01:49:06,920 --> 01:49:11,080
Speaker 3: And really the Real Madrid aren't even thinking about selling

1942
01:49:11,120 --> 01:49:13,880
Speaker 3: at this point. They want the biggest piece out there.

1943
01:49:14,120 --> 01:49:17,400
Speaker 3: They want Killian Inmbope and this has been the time

1944
01:49:17,439 --> 01:49:19,840
Speaker 3: of year that people are saying, this is it. This

1945
01:49:19,880 --> 01:49:23,240
Speaker 3: is the final push for Killing and Bope to see

1946
01:49:23,240 --> 01:49:26,040
Speaker 3: if Real Madrid, the club that has wanted him for

1947
01:49:26,080 --> 01:49:28,719
Speaker 3: so long, we'll be able to bring home Killing and Bope.

1948
01:49:29,200 --> 01:49:32,400
Speaker 3: The amazing French player who we saw in the World Cup,

1949
01:49:32,560 --> 01:49:35,799
Speaker 3: who has wanted to play for Real Madrid his entire life,

1950
01:49:35,840 --> 01:49:39,280
Speaker 3: currently playing for the French club Paris Saint Germain. But

1951
01:49:39,960 --> 01:49:42,360
Speaker 3: he has said himself that you know, it's not so

1952
01:49:42,520 --> 01:49:46,200
Speaker 3: rosy at Paris Saint Germaine. He missed playing alongside Lionel

1953
01:49:46,280 --> 01:49:49,559
Speaker 3: Messi who went stateside into Miami, which was really the

1954
01:49:49,600 --> 01:49:54,559
Speaker 3: first knell that this era of PSG football was really over.

1955
01:49:54,960 --> 01:49:57,000
Speaker 3: And the good news is is that the camp of

1956
01:49:57,080 --> 01:50:00,639
Speaker 3: Killing and Bape we might get a decision sooner rather

1957
01:50:00,680 --> 01:50:05,080
Speaker 3: than later, thanks to the French newspaper le keep the

1958
01:50:05,200 --> 01:50:09,080
Speaker 3: rumor being that this is a decision here. Hopefully we

1959
01:50:09,160 --> 01:50:13,200
Speaker 3: will see in the coming days. Now killing Embappe's contract

1960
01:50:13,200 --> 01:50:16,320
Speaker 3: with Paris and Jermaine is expiring at the end of

1961
01:50:16,360 --> 01:50:19,920
Speaker 3: the year here, but PSG really is in no rush

1962
01:50:20,000 --> 01:50:23,640
Speaker 3: to get rid of him and try to recoup some

1963
01:50:23,680 --> 01:50:25,639
Speaker 3: of the costs that they would lose if he decided

1964
01:50:25,680 --> 01:50:28,800
Speaker 3: to leave on a free transfer, because if he did,

1965
01:50:28,840 --> 01:50:32,360
Speaker 3: he would probably waive loyalty bonus payments worth up to

1966
01:50:32,400 --> 01:50:36,919
Speaker 3: about one hundred million euros. This is a very exciting time, Bernie,

1967
01:50:36,920 --> 01:50:41,160
Speaker 3: most of all because of killing Himbappe. A phenomenal, phenomenal

1968
01:50:41,160 --> 01:50:44,439
Speaker 3: player who could be going to very big places, and

1969
01:50:44,479 --> 01:50:47,320
Speaker 3: we want to see him playing on the biggest stage.

1970
01:50:47,439 --> 01:50:50,080
Speaker 3: For now, we'll wait with baited breath for the next

1971
01:50:50,320 --> 01:50:51,120
Speaker 3: world of soccer.

1972
01:50:51,960 --> 01:50:54,840
Speaker 2: That good stuff, Chris and Imboppi. He's worth the price

1973
01:50:54,920 --> 01:50:57,400
Speaker 2: of admission. You have to see him to believe him.

1974
01:50:57,880 --> 01:51:00,240
Speaker 2: He was incredible in the World Cup last year and

1975
01:51:00,280 --> 01:51:02,800
Speaker 2: every time he steps on the field he's a goal

1976
01:51:02,840 --> 01:51:07,200
Speaker 2: scoring machine. Coming up, we wrap up the show and

1977
01:51:07,240 --> 01:51:10,080
Speaker 2: we have one particular NFL owner who had his own

1978
01:51:10,200 --> 01:51:14,280
Speaker 2: version of drinks on me, you know, actually drinks on you,

1979
01:51:14,880 --> 01:51:18,160
Speaker 2: and we might have a little surprise for you as

1980
01:51:18,200 --> 01:51:20,720
Speaker 2: a PostScript from tonight's Laker game. You want to hang

1981
01:51:20,760 --> 01:51:22,800
Speaker 2: around for that. I'm Bernie Frattle. We're coming to you

1982
01:51:22,840 --> 01:51:25,759
Speaker 2: live from Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio, Tirack dot Com Studios,

1983
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Speaker 2: Doko Way. You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on

1984
01:51:28,320 --> 01:51:30,880
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. All right, wrapping it up on the

1985
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Speaker 2: Bernie Fratterle Show, coming to live with tyrat dot Com

1986
01:51:34,160 --> 01:51:39,640
Speaker 2: Studios here in Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio. Before I

1987
01:51:39,680 --> 01:51:41,719
Speaker 2: go any further, I want to take my broadcast team

1988
01:51:41,760 --> 01:51:44,920
Speaker 2: back in Los Angeles. Been with me since eleven pm

1989
01:51:44,960 --> 01:51:49,040
Speaker 2: Pacific on Saturday night, or check that Friday night. Kevin

1990
01:51:49,080 --> 01:51:53,519
Speaker 2: Figures on the updates, Mark Ramsey are technical producer and

1991
01:51:53,560 --> 01:51:58,200
Speaker 2: of course Say Mogengard are a executive producer. I would

1992
01:51:58,240 --> 01:52:02,120
Speaker 2: be back on these airwaves at eleven Saturday night. Got

1993
01:52:02,120 --> 01:52:05,599
Speaker 2: a massive show. We'll break down further the championship game

1994
01:52:05,640 --> 01:52:09,240
Speaker 2: between Michigan and Washington, as well as the NFL Week

1995
01:52:09,280 --> 01:52:13,280
Speaker 2: eighteen coverage and much much more, including fresh new editions

1996
01:52:13,280 --> 01:52:16,680
Speaker 2: of Brand New Fool and What My Name? Before I

1997
01:52:16,720 --> 01:52:21,240
Speaker 2: get to a story that we've brought to closure on

1998
01:52:21,240 --> 01:52:27,760
Speaker 2: one particularly beleaguered NFL owner. I believe we were able

1999
01:52:27,800 --> 01:52:31,120
Speaker 2: to find that classic the bron question that a reporter

2000
01:52:31,200 --> 01:52:33,360
Speaker 2: asked him after the Lakers game on Friday night. Let's

2001
01:52:33,400 --> 01:52:36,599
Speaker 2: let's give it a listen. He's a question not related

2002
01:52:36,640 --> 01:52:39,280
Speaker 2: to to the game. If you around me, rig Ruby

2003
01:52:39,320 --> 01:52:42,840
Speaker 2: announced his retirement from the NBA yesterday, what do you

2004
01:52:42,880 --> 01:52:46,400
Speaker 2: think all the career that he has got in the NBA.

2005
01:52:51,000 --> 01:52:52,880
Speaker 13: I'm not really in the mood to answer that question,

2006
01:52:52,960 --> 01:52:57,719
Speaker 13: but I respect Ricky. Congratulations on a hell of a career.

2007
01:52:58,200 --> 01:53:03,080
Speaker 13: And if I don't seem sincere when you see this

2008
01:53:03,200 --> 01:53:06,439
Speaker 13: video because we got with the game.

2009
01:53:09,240 --> 01:53:10,880
Speaker 2: He kind of Kevin, did you hear that?

2010
01:53:11,080 --> 01:53:11,920
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's great.

2011
01:53:12,120 --> 01:53:14,240
Speaker 2: He kind of went on, there's there's actually more to it.

2012
01:53:14,479 --> 01:53:16,920
Speaker 2: He said, nothing nothing against you, Ricky. I like you.

2013
01:53:17,000 --> 01:53:19,200
Speaker 2: But maybe I'll answer this question at a different time.

2014
01:53:19,200 --> 01:53:22,479
Speaker 2: But I'm not in the ahead you're gonna say something.

2015
01:53:22,520 --> 01:53:24,880
Speaker 11: Yeah, with all due respect to Ricky Rubio, this isn't

2016
01:53:24,920 --> 01:53:28,120
Speaker 11: you know, This isn't Paalgasol or Nicola jokicch or some

2017
01:53:28,240 --> 01:53:30,800
Speaker 11: you know, phenomenal Hall of Fame international player. He had

2018
01:53:30,800 --> 01:53:34,160
Speaker 11: a very solid career, but I mean and toil Lebron's point,

2019
01:53:34,160 --> 01:53:36,240
Speaker 11: regardless of who it was. At that point, Tom, considering

2020
01:53:36,240 --> 01:53:38,479
Speaker 11: how the team is playing a bit of a bit

2021
01:53:38,520 --> 01:53:40,839
Speaker 11: of a tone dev question, I would say, oh.

2022
01:53:40,720 --> 01:53:42,040
Speaker 10: My god, time and.

2023
01:53:42,040 --> 01:53:44,040
Speaker 2: Place talk about a non secret or what the hell

2024
01:53:44,080 --> 01:53:45,479
Speaker 2: does that have to do with the price of rice?

2025
01:53:45,680 --> 01:53:48,320
Speaker 2: What do you think of Ricky Rubio's career? The guy?

2026
01:53:48,720 --> 01:53:52,599
Speaker 2: You know, I just thought it was one of those things.

2027
01:53:52,600 --> 01:53:54,599
Speaker 2: It's like a nice little piece of candy that we

2028
01:53:54,640 --> 01:53:57,200
Speaker 2: can all enjoy for five minutes and it's on. It's

2029
01:53:57,240 --> 01:54:00,599
Speaker 2: on to the next thing. And you know, I'm usually

2030
01:54:01,520 --> 01:54:05,080
Speaker 2: not wavering from an opportunity to take a shot at Lebron,

2031
01:54:05,120 --> 01:54:07,280
Speaker 2: but out this time, I thought he handled himself really well,

2032
01:54:07,439 --> 01:54:11,679
Speaker 2: and he was very respectful towards Ricky Rubio. We didn't

2033
01:54:11,680 --> 01:54:13,440
Speaker 2: get the rest of the cut going, and you were saying.

2034
01:54:13,160 --> 01:54:14,639
Speaker 11: There was just a lot more he could have said

2035
01:54:14,640 --> 01:54:17,759
Speaker 11: that he didn't, so he was very thoughtful. For a second,

2036
01:54:17,760 --> 01:54:19,479
Speaker 11: he had a bit of a pause because in his mind,

2037
01:54:19,520 --> 01:54:21,599
Speaker 11: he was like, what the bleep did you just ask him?

2038
01:54:22,280 --> 01:54:24,720
Speaker 2: She sat through eight thousand of these things, and he's like,

2039
01:54:25,120 --> 01:54:27,719
Speaker 2: wait a minute, did I just hear that? Right? First

2040
01:54:27,720 --> 01:54:30,840
Speaker 2: of all the young man asking the question. You know,

2041
01:54:30,920 --> 01:54:33,000
Speaker 2: he was doing his best in English, but I guess

2042
01:54:33,000 --> 01:54:35,600
Speaker 2: in English might not have been his first language. I

2043
01:54:35,640 --> 01:54:38,000
Speaker 2: had trouble following along the first couple times. But the

2044
01:54:38,000 --> 01:54:41,160
Speaker 2: point of the matter is is they were actually there's

2045
01:54:41,160 --> 01:54:43,840
Speaker 2: actually a little bit more of the cut, and he

2046
01:54:43,880 --> 01:54:45,600
Speaker 2: went on to sort of Lebron went on to sort

2047
01:54:45,640 --> 01:54:48,880
Speaker 2: of apologize to Ricky Rubio, Well, one guy that I

2048
01:54:48,920 --> 01:54:52,440
Speaker 2: don't know if he's going to apologize. But as you

2049
01:54:52,600 --> 01:54:58,200
Speaker 2: as you have heard by now, last week, the Carolina

2050
01:54:58,240 --> 01:55:03,560
Speaker 2: Panthers owner David tep while watching his team lose in

2051
01:55:03,600 --> 01:55:08,280
Speaker 2: what has been a very unceremonious season in Carolina this year,

2052
01:55:09,080 --> 01:55:12,200
Speaker 2: he appeared to throw the context of a of the

2053
01:55:12,360 --> 01:55:15,080
Speaker 2: drink that was in his hand from the box. After

2054
01:55:15,120 --> 01:55:18,200
Speaker 2: the Panthers twenty six nothing lost to the Jags last Sunday,

2055
01:55:19,160 --> 01:55:23,080
Speaker 2: and the NFL sat at the time they were aware

2056
01:55:23,120 --> 01:55:26,160
Speaker 2: of the video and they had no further comment, But

2057
01:55:26,240 --> 01:55:28,720
Speaker 2: two days later they did have a have a comment.

2058
01:55:28,800 --> 01:55:34,200
Speaker 2: Now I'm not really one hundred percent sure how to Kevin.

2059
01:55:34,240 --> 01:55:36,200
Speaker 2: Let me just ask you this. If you're worth twenty

2060
01:55:36,280 --> 01:55:42,280
Speaker 2: billion dollars, it's three hundred thousand dollars. I'll be three

2061
01:55:42,360 --> 01:55:45,200
Speaker 2: hundred thousand, three hundred thousand, but if you're worth twenty thousand,

2062
01:55:45,240 --> 01:55:48,360
Speaker 2: that's a three dollars fine. So three hundred thousand dollars

2063
01:55:48,360 --> 01:55:51,800
Speaker 2: for quote unacceptable conduct, that is just fine. Do you

2064
01:55:51,800 --> 01:55:53,560
Speaker 2: feel like that puts a dent on anything?

2065
01:55:53,720 --> 01:55:55,560
Speaker 10: No, he found out in his couch cushions. What is

2066
01:55:55,560 --> 01:55:59,560
Speaker 10: that supposed to do? Who cares directly? Ride that off

2067
01:55:59,560 --> 01:56:01,680
Speaker 10: to Jerry you or something stupid?

2068
01:56:01,880 --> 01:56:04,920
Speaker 2: Stupid? And then the NFL issues a statement, quote, all

2069
01:56:05,080 --> 01:56:09,440
Speaker 2: NFL personnel are expected to conduct themselves at all times

2070
01:56:09,440 --> 01:56:13,440
Speaker 2: in ways that respect our fans and favorably reflect on

2071
01:56:13,480 --> 01:56:18,200
Speaker 2: their team in the NFL. Unquote Okay, who writes his stuff?

2072
01:56:18,600 --> 01:56:19,800
Speaker 2: So freshman in high school?

2073
01:56:19,840 --> 01:56:24,840
Speaker 10: No, it sounds like Chad Gpt to me, could Beach or.

2074
01:56:24,840 --> 01:56:28,320
Speaker 2: Chad Ocho Sinkle one or the two. But look, I

2075
01:56:28,360 --> 01:56:31,280
Speaker 2: mean that's like one of those platitudes. It's like, don't

2076
01:56:31,280 --> 01:56:33,960
Speaker 2: play with matches or don't play with lighters either. If

2077
01:56:33,960 --> 01:56:37,800
Speaker 2: you're Tyrek Tyreka Hill's house, that's a story for a

2078
01:56:37,840 --> 01:56:40,840
Speaker 2: different day. Look, I don't know what really proceeded in

2079
01:56:40,920 --> 01:56:44,800
Speaker 2: temper throwing his drink. There were fans or a fan

2080
01:56:44,960 --> 01:56:48,720
Speaker 2: who I think, apparently we're hearing accounts have been kind

2081
01:56:48,720 --> 01:56:53,000
Speaker 2: of riding teparol game and acting poorly towards him. Come on, man,

2082
01:56:53,040 --> 01:56:55,280
Speaker 2: you gotta be a lot better than that. This isn't

2083
01:56:55,400 --> 01:56:59,960
Speaker 2: just any NFL you know, participant or official or employ

2084
01:57:00,320 --> 01:57:03,000
Speaker 2: We're not talking about the chief cook and bottle washer,

2085
01:57:04,040 --> 01:57:06,120
Speaker 2: the guy who sweeps up the stadium. Nothing against him.

2086
01:57:06,160 --> 01:57:10,120
Speaker 2: They all perform important duties. This is the owner of

2087
01:57:10,160 --> 01:57:13,520
Speaker 2: a freaking team. You gotta be approved to be an

2088
01:57:13,560 --> 01:57:15,879
Speaker 2: owner of it. You know. Mark Cuban was not approved

2089
01:57:16,080 --> 01:57:18,000
Speaker 2: to on a Major League Baseball team many years ago.

2090
01:57:18,000 --> 01:57:20,600
Speaker 2: I think it really bugged him. It's not easy, but

2091
01:57:21,240 --> 01:57:24,440
Speaker 2: having observed one of the league's owners disrespect to paying

2092
01:57:24,480 --> 01:57:27,960
Speaker 2: customer by dumping a drink on him, regardless of the circumstances,

2093
01:57:28,400 --> 01:57:30,000
Speaker 2: it's not something you want to see. I get it.

2094
01:57:30,080 --> 01:57:32,840
Speaker 2: Caroline is two and fourteen this season. They've already made

2095
01:57:32,880 --> 01:57:34,920
Speaker 2: a big coaching change. He started out one to ten.

2096
01:57:35,360 --> 01:57:38,800
Speaker 2: Things haven't improved much under Chris Taber, and Temper's feeling

2097
01:57:38,840 --> 01:57:41,560
Speaker 2: the heat. I don't know why he owns the team,

2098
01:57:41,800 --> 01:57:44,160
Speaker 2: but I understand he's not the most patient guy in

2099
01:57:44,200 --> 01:57:46,800
Speaker 2: the world. I guess the fan he threw the drink

2100
01:57:46,880 --> 01:57:50,600
Speaker 2: on can attest to that three hundred grand. There you

2101
01:57:50,640 --> 01:57:53,320
Speaker 2: have it all right. That'll do it for the Bernie Fraterisher.

2102
01:57:53,440 --> 01:57:55,720
Speaker 2: See you Saturday night at eleven. Keep it locked up

2103
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Speaker 2: next to the fellas. Fox Sports Radio