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Speaker 2: It's New Year's Day. You know what that means?

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Speaker 3: Parades and the Rose Bowl because we are only moments

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Speaker 3: away from Alabama taking on Indiana and again, that will

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Speaker 3: have to change the way we talk about two different

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Speaker 3: first and foremost parades. I'm out on parades.

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Speaker 2: Parades are dumb. I don't know why everybody hangs out.

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Speaker 3: Like I turned on the TV this morning the Rose

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Speaker 3: Bowl parade was on, and I just I could not

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Speaker 3: have rolled my eyes any physically harder than I rolled them, Like,

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Speaker 3: how many people do we need to commentate on a parade?

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Speaker 3: I don't nderstand this book. I don't understand why we're

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Speaker 3: all just going to stand there on the street. Like

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Speaker 3: there is just a moment where you're standing there and

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Speaker 3: you're like, okay, the now the float has gone by.

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Speaker 2: Now what what is my interger? Yeah, I'm out. I'm

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Speaker 2: out on parades. Parades are not my thing.

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Speaker 1: That's a that's a tough one.

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Speaker 4: I've done the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York,

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Speaker 4: and that's you know, that's an experience and to itself,

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Speaker 4: right with the floats and the things like that, especially

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Speaker 4: if you're the I mean, it's been one hundred years

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Speaker 4: since I went. We were we were still living in

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Speaker 4: New Jersey at the time. And you go as a

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Speaker 4: kid and you're delighted by it and you see your

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Speaker 4: favorite Pokemon float or you see you know, whatever super

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Speaker 4: superhero character you want, and that's enough for you, right,

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Speaker 4: Like it's it's a delight.

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Speaker 1: For a certain generation.

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Speaker 4: But after a while and maybe you get if as

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Speaker 4: you're an adult, and we are you know, you and

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Speaker 4: I are are people or two people that do not

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Speaker 4: have children. Uh So, perhaps this is lost on us

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Speaker 4: in particular, but something for some of my friends who

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Speaker 4: have kids tell me is that the fun of having

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Speaker 4: kids at things like parades or things like Christmas is

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Speaker 4: that you lose some of your luster for that as

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Speaker 4: you get up there in age. But when you have kids,

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Speaker 4: you get to experience those things basically as a brand

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Speaker 4: new event through your kids. So maybe there's something too

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Speaker 4: that just to kind of play Devil's advocate nice guy,

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Speaker 4: which I never very often get to do.

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Speaker 3: So it's a very fair point by you, and I

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Speaker 3: think that when you have kids it changes sort of

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Speaker 3: the equation to everything. Like I chose not to have kids.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to have kids. Kids aren't something I

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Speaker 3: want my life. I have had to I love kids,

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Speaker 3: by the way, I just didn't want any of my own.

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Speaker 3: I have had to sort of reevaluate what that means

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Speaker 3: sometimes at Christmas, you know, like Christmas is weird if

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Speaker 3: you don't because I don't have a lot of family.

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Speaker 3: So since I don't have any relationship with the family

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Speaker 3: just a little weird when you wake up one day

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Speaker 3: don't need you to buy me a Christmas present. I

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Speaker 3: like it just that feels weird to me too.

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Speaker 2: So, like you know, I.

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Speaker 3: Do acquiesce that having kids, and I've told my friends before,

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Speaker 3: I think that is the one. There's a weird chapter

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Speaker 3: you look around like it's fine, it's great, it's a

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Speaker 3: good day. But when you don't have kids, it just

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Speaker 3: gets disconnected. Parades I will add to that list. I

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Speaker 3: and it's like it's a magic and wonder for them.

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Speaker 2: That's great. They weren't all kids standing at the Rose

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Speaker 2: Bowl parade, now, that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: But now we get the Rose Bowl and we get

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Speaker 3: Alabama versus Indiana, and look a huge To be very clear,

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Speaker 3: even though I have so many Alabama friends, Alabama grads,

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Speaker 3: I spent in and around Nashville, I know how many

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Speaker 3: of you love Alabama.

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Speaker 2: Got to help you lose today. I really do.

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Speaker 3: And I don't hope you lose because I care who

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Speaker 3: going and leaving certain teams for no good reason, like

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Speaker 3: we can't look through this matchup. And I really respected

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Speaker 3: the fact that even Nick Saban on Game Day today

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Speaker 3: reference the fact that, man, so many people say.

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Speaker 5: It's Indiana, it's Indiana. This is not Indiana. This is

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Speaker 5: the number one team in the country. This is a

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Speaker 5: team with an absolutely explosive defense that flew around to

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Speaker 3: That really surprised me. Yes, they've got some key injuries there,

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Speaker 3: they got to work out. They've got the Heisman Trophy winner.

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Speaker 3: They've got a couple of wide.

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Speaker 2: Receivers that are going to be drafted to play in

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Speaker 2: the NFL. This is not Indiana.

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Speaker 3: Like, oh my god, I wanted to make college football

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Speaker 3: the video game really hard this year, so I picked

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Speaker 3: Indiana to play, and what do you know, I'm in

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Speaker 3: the championship. Like that's the way we make it sound.

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Speaker 3: I need Indiana to win a title because A. I

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Speaker 3: think it opens up the floodgates for everybody else. B

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Speaker 3: It takes away the excuses for every other program there.

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Speaker 2: Well, we can't compete. Indiana figured it out and see it.

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Speaker 3: Forces us to start talking about Indiana and Alabama not

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Speaker 3: for who they've been, but for who they are right now.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's one of those things where this is the

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Speaker 4: kind of game that could force you to reimagine how

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Speaker 4: you view the construct of modern day college football, right

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Speaker 4: I think to a different extent. And obviously they're not

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Speaker 4: participating in a college football playoff game, but they have

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Speaker 4: been a champion multiple.

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Speaker 1: Times over as a program.

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Speaker 4: Despite just having lost to Penn State in the Mighty

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Speaker 4: and illustrious Pinstripe Bowl, Clemson, like Clemson, is one of

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Speaker 4: the biggest college football powers of my lifetime, of my

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Speaker 4: adult lifetime, certainly under Davo Swinning and all the success

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Speaker 4: and Nick Saban were up against them, or Urban may On,

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Speaker 4: Ohio State, or whatever the case may be. Like Clemson

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Speaker 4: willing to play the game, or at least Dabbo hasn't

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Speaker 4: new way that the game is being played.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: This is the thing that is so much fun to

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Speaker 4: watch about Kurt Signetti because I'm watching Nick Saban on television,

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Speaker 4: and Nick Saban is on television because he didn't want to.

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Speaker 4: He didn't want to go through what the new college

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Speaker 4: he's done what he needed to do. He is the

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Speaker 4: greatest coach in the history of the of that sport.

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Speaker 4: If he feels that he doesn't want to have to

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Speaker 4: But Kurtzignetti turned around and said, Hey, I'm gonna do

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Speaker 4: get him paid all over the place. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: What is that?

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Speaker 4: What is even Indiana's talent composite by like uh by

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Speaker 4: by recruiting class. I would venture a guest to say,

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Speaker 4: is what makes this entire situation so insane. So you

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Speaker 4: can do this now. Kurtzignety is obviously a very unique

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Speaker 4: the kind of things for your your Vanderbilts, your Dukes.

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Speaker 1: Your I don't know what's another.

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Speaker 4: What's another college football program that doesn't matter in a

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Speaker 4: power for conference? Pick whichever one you want. Indiana is

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Speaker 4: the best example in the Big Ten, for sure. I

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Speaker 4: don't know how many Kurtzigneties there are to actually do

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Speaker 4: because Vanderbilt had a really good season, even though it

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Speaker 1: So Diego.

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Speaker 4: Pavia has the Heisman Trophy season and Vanderbilt has the

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Speaker 4: best season in program history still by the way, and

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Speaker 4: Vandy is awesome. It's only the second time they've competed

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Speaker 4: I think the program's history. But a lot of Vanderbilt

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Speaker 4: the SEC, he'd be doing the exact same thing as

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Speaker 4: Clark Lee would at Vanderbilt, Like you have to grade

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Speaker 4: you would be correct. But I also just watched Clark

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Speaker 4: yesterday in the damn Relyaquest Bowl. Okay, Kurt Signetti has

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Speaker 4: Indiana double digit win seasons back to back for the

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Speaker 4: first time in program history. God knows, they've never been

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Speaker 4: favored against Alabama in the Rose Bowl in ways that

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Speaker 4: the number one overall draft pick when all of a

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Speaker 4: this and say, yeah, my program can do that.

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Speaker 1: All we have to do is just get the right guy.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the funny thing is, it's not about getting

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Speaker 3: the money, it's not about getting the players.

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Speaker 2: It's about both. And at some level.

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Speaker 3: I just looked it up and you know, twenty four

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Speaker 3: to seven with their recruiting rankings, Indiana is the thirty

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Speaker 3: third ranked recruiting.

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Speaker 4: Class or it's coming into coming in coming into this

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Speaker 8: Join me every weekday morning on my podcast, Straight Fire

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Speaker 3: It's fucking fits taking over Fox Sports Radio. He's Buck Rising.

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Speaker 3: I'm Jason Fitz. Will be with you all the way

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Speaker 3: up until seven pm Eastern time. The Rose Bowl is

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Speaker 3: And you know, frankly, so you lean all the way

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Speaker 2: He's an Indiana brad although he.

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Speaker 3: There is no doubt what is leaning is going to

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Speaker 3: That's the level of professionalism we are going to bring here, Buck,

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Speaker 3: I think that's important. I was buying you a little

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Speaker 4: I've never never, to your point, never been doing an

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Speaker 4: yard rushing one thousand yard receiving season for the second

439
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Speaker 4: time in his career. The last time he did it

440
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Speaker 4: was twenty nineteen. I think one hundred and ten is

441
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Speaker 4: the total in receiving yards that he needs to eclipse

442
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Speaker 4: that mark, which is outrageous, and he could very well

443
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Speaker 4: do that in this game. Seattle is going to be

444
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Speaker 4: thinking very much about that and they'll try and find

445
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Speaker 4: ways to stop him. I just, I mean, there are

446
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Speaker 4: so many different answers that Kyle Shanahan has on offense,

447
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Speaker 4: and Seattle's a tough defense. This is an excellent, excellent

448
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Speaker 4: matchup for us to get to conclude one of the

449
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Speaker 4: matchups for us to get to conclude the NFL's regular season.

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Speaker 3: With you could talk me into Christian McCaffrey for MVP.

451
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Speaker 3: I know, like this is where everybody just wants to

452
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Speaker 3: put it on Stafford, and that's that's fine Stafford according

453
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Speaker 3: to Vegas by the way, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I know.

455
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Speaker 3: Then everybody decided it was Drake May, and I will

456
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Speaker 3: remind you that Drake May and Jackson Dart have the

457
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Speaker 3: same number of wins over teams with the winning record,

458
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Speaker 3: So like, I don't know, I mean, what Christian McCaffrey

459
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Speaker 3: has done, and especially given how injured and beat up

460
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Speaker 3: everything has been for San Francisco just to think. And

461
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Speaker 3: this is the hardest part, and this is why I

462
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Speaker 3: constantly preached the same thing to you, Buck, Like if

463
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Speaker 3: there's any one big calling card, like if I was

464
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Speaker 3: asked what my main tenant for how to build a

465
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Speaker 3: successful football program like in college or the NFL, the

466
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Speaker 3: one thing that I truly believe more than anything, the

467
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Speaker 3: one thing I truly believe is no one player wins

468
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Speaker 3: you a championship. I truly believe that you have got

469
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Speaker 3: to have synergy from the top down on the types

470
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Speaker 3: of players that work in the system. Everybody's got to

471
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Speaker 3: be on the same page. And then you have got

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Speaker 3: to have depth. You've just got to have a way

473
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Speaker 3: to go next man up. Everybody says next man up

474
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Speaker 3: like it's this cute concept. You've got to actually have

475
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Speaker 3: a way to generate next man up. San Francisco. For

476
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Speaker 3: every single team that turns around and says, well, we've

477
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Speaker 3: been injured here, Kyle Shanahan, get turned around and say,

478
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Speaker 3: shut the hell up, right, because the injuries that they've

479
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Speaker 3: had all over the place, have they just haven't slowed

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Speaker 3: them down. And then to think of how good Mac Jones,

481
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Speaker 3: Like Mac Jones looked good enough this year that people

482
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Speaker 3: are talking about trying to trade for mac Jones. Like

483
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Speaker 3: that's where we are on this in Brock Party. I'm

484
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Speaker 3: so tired. I am so you know what I'm gonna

485
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Speaker 3: get on a Brock Party ramp. I'm gonna tell you

486
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Speaker 3: the truth. I'm gonna give you the gospel on Brock

487
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Speaker 3: Party that you needed to hear.

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Speaker 2: First.

489
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Speaker 3: Martin Weiss get us caught up on the scoreboards. Soo

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Speaker 3: we can see how this Indiana game's going.

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Speaker 1: First down Hoosiers.

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Speaker 9: Well there you go, Buck, First down Hoosiers. It is

493
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Speaker 9: as no, this is all It's gonna be. Second down Indiana.

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Speaker 9: But they're driving the ball down the field. Alabama had

495
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Speaker 9: a three and out earlier in the game, scoreless so

496
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Speaker 9: far with just four minutes and thirty seconds left in

497
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Speaker 9: the first quarter out here in Pasadena at the Rose Bowl,

498
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Speaker 9: Indiana and Alabama. Indiana the number one overall seed, undefeated

499
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Speaker 9: on the year, Alabama the nine seed with three losses

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Speaker 9: eleven and three. Oregon advance is twenty three to nothing

501
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Speaker 9: over Texas Tech.

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Speaker 6: And that was in the Orange Bowl.

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Speaker 9: Oregon with this massiful defense performance shutting down the Red

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Speaker 9: Raider offense Miami Beatlehouse Date and the Cotton Bowl twenty

505
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Speaker 9: four to four.

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Speaker 6: Team Miami, after needing.

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Speaker 9: That a large bit to make the playoffs, now made

508
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Speaker 9: the final four. Ole, Miss and Georgia will play in

509
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Speaker 9: the Sugar Bowl later tonight. Uh Lamar Jackson expected to

510
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Speaker 9: start for the Ravens on Sunday against the Steelers NFL

511
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Speaker 9: court of the NFL. New Orleans Saints quarterback Stevers Chris

512
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Speaker 9: Olave out for the finale due to a blood clot.

513
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Speaker 9: Packers quarterback Jordan love Clear's protocol but gonna sit out

514
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Speaker 9: until the playoffs start. Milik willis expected to go there.

515
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Speaker 9: Clayton Toone expected to go as well. Buccaneers cornerback Jamel

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Speaker 9: Dean and linebacker Anthony Nelson's going to be out due

517
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Speaker 9: to the against the Panthers that Buccaneers need to win

518
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Speaker 9: that game to make the postseason.

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Speaker 6: Packers that coach Matt Lafloor said Formers.

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Speaker 9: Dallas cornerback Trayvon Diggs could be in a lineup against

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Speaker 9: green Bay against the vike For green Bay against the

522
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Speaker 9: Vikings on Sunday. Diggs claimed off waivers after the Cowboys.

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Speaker 6: Released him earlier this week. Fellas back to.

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Speaker 3: He's Buck rising up, Jason Fitzmer hanging out with you

525
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Speaker 3: on Fox Sports Radio the Nex Spart and appreciate the

526
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Speaker 3: up on all of that. It's here's the thing, as

527
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Speaker 3: we will keep you updated on the college football accidents

528
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Speaker 3: that's happening. But this weekend we have the forty nine

529
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Speaker 3: Ers versus the Seahawks, and man, look, I was one

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Speaker 3: on one of our Yahoo shows that I was a

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Speaker 3: part of for several years since I coveraged, I constantly

532
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Speaker 3: argue with my co host and told everybody the same thing,

533
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Speaker 3: Brock Party was going to get paid.

534
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Speaker 2: And the number of people that.

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Speaker 3: Said, oh, you can't pay brock Party, Oh you can't

536
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Speaker 3: pay No, he's a system quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Kyle can't just get that anywhere.

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Speaker 3: And my answer to that has always been if Kyle

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Speaker 3: was simply if Kyle Shanahan could make any quarterback successful

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Speaker 3: in his system, they would have put those resources into

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Speaker 3: Trey Lance so they didn't have the egg on their

542
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Speaker 3: face for losing on the draft.

543
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Speaker 2: Right didn't matter because they got Brock. But the fact is,

544
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Speaker 2: and I.

545
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Speaker 3: Covered with college football at ESPN at the time, I

546
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Speaker 3: covered much of Brock Party's career. I've read more Brock

547
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Speaker 3: Party highlights in my career than ninety percent of the

548
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Speaker 3: people you will ever talked to. I didn't see a

549
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Speaker 3: single second of this coming, not a single second. Doesn't

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Speaker 3: change the fact that as we sit right now, Rock

551
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Speaker 3: Party is absolutely great. And I don't care. I don't

552
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Speaker 3: care Buck if it's the system, I don't care if

553
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Speaker 3: it's like, well, it's really shitning, And none of that matters.

554
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Speaker 3: What matters is that you've got two people that are

555
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Speaker 3: symbiotic in the way.

556
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Speaker 2: That they do business.

557
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Speaker 3: So you've got a coach and a quarterback that are

558
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Speaker 3: on the same page all the time, and a coach

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Speaker 3: that's calling the right place for that quarterback and a

560
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Speaker 3: quarterback that's executing the right place for that coach. And

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Speaker 3: just like I tell you all the time, I don't

562
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Speaker 3: think it's one or the other. It's like an eighties

563
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Speaker 3: tag team in WWE. You gotta have two guys that

564
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Speaker 3: are both bringing something, both bringing a heat. Right, Shanahan

565
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Speaker 3: with Brock Party is elite, And I don't really care

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Speaker 3: which side of it is elite.

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Speaker 2: I don't really care why it is or isn't. Brock.

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Speaker 3: What I care about is every single Sunday when I

569
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Speaker 3: see Brock party on the football field.

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Speaker 2: I know that that man can.

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Speaker 3: Beat the quarterback standing across from and I don't give

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Speaker 3: a damn if it's because he has a superpower as

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Speaker 3: a head coach. I just think we need to start

574
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Speaker 3: having a real conversation about Brock that isn't just painted

575
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Speaker 3: on where he's drafted, and instead it's painted around how

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Speaker 3: he's playing today.

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Speaker 4: Well, the only pushback that I would offer in that

578
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Speaker 4: situation is it does matter very much where he's drafted.

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Speaker 4: In fact, the most important thing I would argue in

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Speaker 4: any of these players' ability to succeed or fail is geography,

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Speaker 4: like more so than traits or mental makeup or any

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Speaker 4: of these other things like I would argue. And I

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Speaker 4: say that as somebody who is watching cam Ward in

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Speaker 4: Tennessee and just came back from Titan's practice about an

585
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Speaker 4: hour and a half ago. Have to navigate through all

586
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Speaker 4: of the problematic things that come with a franchise that's

587
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Speaker 4: picking number one overall, right, So I'm not saying that

588
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Speaker 4: parties super super advantageous situation being the last pick of

589
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Speaker 4: the draft, and anybody could have had a rock party,

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Speaker 4: and even Kyle Shanahan passed on brock Party how many

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Speaker 4: times before they picked him right as somebody who has

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Speaker 4: a level of personnel control with the San Francisco forty

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Speaker 4: nine ers as a head coach. There's not many coaches

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Speaker 4: that do have that ability or that right within their organization,

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Speaker 4: and even the Niners waited until the very last pick

596
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Speaker 4: of the NFL Draft to take brock Perty. He is

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Speaker 4: such a unique figure in this because to your point,

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Speaker 4: I don't know when, I don't know who the first

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Speaker 4: person a pioneer system quarterback is a means of using

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Speaker 4: it as a slur against these players.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who the first person was.

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Speaker 4: To do that, but I feel like they fundamentally misunderstand

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Speaker 4: football whomever that person was, because the quarterbacks, that's their

604
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 4: entire existence. They are coached on how to operate the system.

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Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes has a system that he plays with it

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Speaker 4: now he can do superhero stuff. Bo Hart Agree, who's

607
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Speaker 4: the play caller here in Tennessee, was talking about cam

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Speaker 4: Or today. We talked to assistant coaches after practice and

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Speaker 4: he said, you know, I know he can do the

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Speaker 4: Superman thing, but sometimes I just need him to be

611
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Speaker 4: Clark Kent, like I need him to get me to

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Speaker 4: I need him to get me to second and three,

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Speaker 4: I need him to take the dirty play to survive

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Speaker 4: for another down, as opposed to just trying to superhero

615
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Speaker 4: your way through it, because that's not how you win.

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Speaker 4: In the NFL, teams are preparing for players, yes, but

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Speaker 4: teams are also mostly preparing for the systems that they're

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Speaker 4: up against, the coaches and the tendencies. That's where the

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Speaker 4: chess match actually is. Whatever the players can give you

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Speaker 4: above and beyond replacement value, that's where the player superpower

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Speaker 4: superpower comes into play. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 4: the crux of football is system on system, not player

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Speaker 4: versus player. And for some reason, at some point in

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Speaker 4: time in our dialogue around football, we lost the threat.

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Speaker 3: On that if I could bring an entire gospel choir

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Speaker 3: into just sing Hallelujah and clap on beat behind you

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Speaker 3: while you spree while you say that it's so important

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Speaker 3: because look weird.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's a holiday that's even better.

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Speaker 3: I'm in on this because look, I get asked right

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Speaker 3: now a lot about quarterbacks because of my Raiders fandom,

632
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Speaker 3: and everybody says, well.

633
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Speaker 2: What do you want?

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Speaker 3: And I think we have to remember that The key

635
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Speaker 3: to modern quarterbacking is can you make the plays in

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Speaker 3: the system that you're asked to make on time, on schedule,

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Speaker 3: with the right read, and then when it all breaks down,

638
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Speaker 3: can you save your team several times? So, yeah, you've

639
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 3: got guys like Josh Allen that certainly when he came

640
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Speaker 3: into the league, it was clear he could save teams.

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Speaker 3: He could save the offense, it was clear from day one.

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Speaker 3: But he needed to work on his accuracy and his

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Speaker 3: mechanics to be capable of executing the actual system in

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Speaker 3: front of him. You've got guys like Caleb that Caleb

645
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Speaker 3: came in And one of the things that I was

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Speaker 3: told by somebody particularly smart around college football when we

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Speaker 3: were doing breakdowns, I was getting ready for my bread

648
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Speaker 3: in one of my draft shows. I asked him, I said, well,

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Speaker 3: what are the thoughts on Caleb? And he said, the

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Speaker 3: crazy thing is that Caleb does so many things so well.

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Speaker 3: And you'll look at this incredible play and you'll ask

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Speaker 3: immediately when you look back at the film, why did

653
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Speaker 3: you make that when the easy read was right there?

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Speaker 3: And I say that all the time, because what's Ben

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Speaker 3: Johnson had to do? Ben Johnson's had to figure out

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Speaker 3: how to get Caleb to play better on schedule. You

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Speaker 3: mentioned cam Ward, like the young quarterbacks got to figure

658
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Speaker 3: out how to play better on schedule. So there is

659
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Speaker 3: this element for me of if Brock comes in and

660
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Speaker 3: is able to play on schedule, but then also also

661
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Speaker 3: on top of being able to execute Kyle Shannan's offense

662
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Speaker 3: like he's a painter and he knows exactly what he's doing,

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Speaker 3: then you see plays like we saw last week where

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Speaker 3: he's rolling outside the pocket, jukes two people and throws

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Speaker 3: against his body to the corner of the front of

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Speaker 3: the end zone for a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Right, Like he made a play that's saved.

668
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Speaker 3: And Shanahan afterwards said, you know, I was nervous until

669
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Speaker 3: I was happy, right, So I just think to your point, Buck,

670
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Speaker 3: every quarterback like Mahomes is in part Mahomes because he's

671
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Speaker 3: had Andy Reid as his play caller and has his system.

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Speaker 3: And then on top of that, he makes Andy Reid better.

673
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Speaker 3: Andy Reid makes him better. He makes Andy Reid better.

674
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Speaker 3: Like this is simple to me.

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Speaker 2: You need a.

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Speaker 3: Coach that makes your quarterback better and a quarterback that

677
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Speaker 3: makes your coach better. And if Brock Perdy is doing that,

678
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Speaker 3: then I don't really care about any of the qualifiers anymore.

679
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Speaker 3: Like I trust the forty nine ers this I think

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Speaker 3: the Seahawks are a better team than the forty nine

681
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Speaker 3: ers top to bottom. I trust the forty nine ers

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Speaker 3: more though, because I trust Brought Party more than I

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Speaker 3: trust Sam Donald.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think that's That.

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Speaker 4: Is where the kind of conversations that we have about

686
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Speaker 4: these players individually beyond what the scheme provides them that

687
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Speaker 4: I think is fair because they both have.

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Speaker 1: Track records right and Party listen?

689
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Speaker 4: Party was It took him a little while this season

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Speaker 4: around into form, dealing with the injuries that he's dealt with,

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Speaker 4: and I mean, think about how foolish those And I'm

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Speaker 4: not saying that I didn't have similar conversations or even

693
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Speaker 4: similar thoughts, but like when Mac Jones was winning games

694
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Speaker 4: for the Niners, don't tell me it didn't cross America's

695
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Speaker 4: mind at some point in time to say, well, do

696
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Speaker 4: they really need to put Party back out there? Mac

697
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Speaker 4: Jones is playing pretty good football. Mac Jones. It's kind

698
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Speaker 4: of like a full circle experience for Kyle Shanahan, who

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Speaker 4: if you remember FITZI and I know you do because

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Speaker 4: you've covered the draft for many years, the draft that

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Speaker 4: they ended up taking Trey Lance. There was a lot

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Speaker 4: of conversation about how much Shanahan liked mac Jones and

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Speaker 4: how that might how that might fit within what it

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Speaker 4: is that he's trying to accomplish. And so you started

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Speaker 4: to see that once mac re signed with or signed

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Speaker 4: with San Francisco as a free agent after being drafted

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Speaker 4: by the Patriots, washing out there, going to Jacksonville for

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Speaker 4: a year.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the only other stop he had before

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Speaker 1: he ended up in San Francisco.

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Speaker 4: Mac Jones, but you had those conversations in real time,

712
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Speaker 4: and again you're talking about, all right, is the system

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Speaker 4: doing this or is the player performing at such a

714
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Speaker 4: high level within the system that it needs to be

715
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Speaker 4: acknowledged and they need to think about making meaningful change.

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Speaker 4: Thank God, the NFL coaches, or at least Kyle Shanahan maybe

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Speaker 4: other coaches are prisoner of the moment that way, because

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Speaker 4: I'm sure it was tempting at certain points in time

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Speaker 4: if you were if you had less conviction in the

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Speaker 4: people that you were putting in position, like Kyle Shanahan

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Speaker 4: and Brock Party and Kyle Shanahan and Mac Jones Kyle

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Speaker 4: Shanahan didn't bet to night, So as soon as Brock

723
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Speaker 4: Party's ready to go, we're putting them back out there.

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Speaker 4: And of course there were some things to work through.

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Speaker 4: The rest versus Rust's conversation that we had earlier in

726
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Speaker 4: the college football playoff. Party was definitely working through some rust.

727
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Speaker 4: But my god, I mean, if there was a late

728
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Speaker 4: season MVP candidacy to be had, Brock Perty's playing some

729
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Speaker 4: really high level football.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent, And I trust a beat up,

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Speaker 3: banged up, oh my god, forty nine Ers team to

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Speaker 3: be able to go on a run because the NFC

733
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Speaker 3: looks wide open. It's just absolutely why it looks wide

734
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Speaker 3: open right now, and that is It's gonna be an

735
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Speaker 3: epic matchup, obviously, but it's gonna be wild to try

736
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Speaker 3: and figure out how this all plays. That's not the

737
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Speaker 3: only huge matchup this weekend, though. There is one loser

738
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Speaker 3: leaves town and we now know that Lamar is going

739
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Speaker 3: to be in for the Ravens against the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: So what does it mean for that epic Sunday night matchup.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about it next these Buck Rising I'm Jason

742
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Speaker 3: Fitzbucking fits hanging out with the on Fox Sports Radio.

743
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 3: They just played a graphic on the Alabama Indiana game.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty stunning. Teams coming off of first round by

746
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Speaker 3: so far in the history of the college football playoff.

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Speaker 2: Not only ohen six.

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Speaker 3: We already knew that, but now we are through the

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Speaker 3: first quarter of this game between Alabama and Indiana. Indiana

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Speaker 3: coming off of bye teams coming off the buye have

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Speaker 3: been outscored forty five to three in the first quarter.

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Speaker 2: That's not good. That's not good.

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Speaker 3: Buck, It's bucking Fitz Buck rising, Jason fitz But Fox

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Speaker 3: Sports Radio that just continues to scream to why this

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Speaker 2: The way tire buying should be.

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Speaker 3: Forty five to three after the first quarter, like we

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Speaker 3: have an answer and rest versus rust, we have an answer.

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Speaker 3: Rust is real. This is all going to have to change.

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Speaker 3: There is no way that the powers of college football

766
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Speaker 3: are going to watch as their best teams continue to

767
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Speaker 3: just get picked off week will game one after these

768
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Speaker 3: buys over and over and over and over again and

769
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Speaker 3: not want to make a change.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's the but the conference commissioners will get involved.

771
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Speaker 4: I mean, Greg Sankey is not going to stand for

772
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Speaker 4: the idea of an SEC team getting eliminated in the

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Speaker 4: first round over and over and over again if they

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Speaker 4: get the first round by no matter how many teams

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Speaker 4: they get in the field, right, And I know that

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Speaker 4: is something that's going to come up.

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Speaker 1: Oh, is Alabama punning in the situation?

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Speaker 4: That seems like a little I don't know what yard

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Speaker 4: line they're on, So maybe I shouldn't say that. I

780
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Speaker 4: am trying not to give live time observations of this

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Speaker 4: game as we watch the Rose Bowl, because of course

782
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Speaker 4: I am invested in Indiana's success today.

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Speaker 2: For the first day of his life, he's invested in INDIANAFL.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's okay.

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Speaker 4: Like I think that's okay, you know, like I genuinely

786
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Speaker 4: like I went to I went to practice today.

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Speaker 1: I got my Indiana, I got my Indiana hoodie.

788
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Speaker 4: On and one of the wide receivers coach of the

789
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Speaker 4: wide receivers coach Tig Tubert comes up and said, I

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Speaker 4: didn't think you. I didn't know you were an Indiana fan.

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Speaker 4: I go, I'm I'm really not. But like, I just

792
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Speaker 4: want to see them do something cool. I want to

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Speaker 4: see my school do something awesome that's never been done

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Speaker 4: before by I went.

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Speaker 3: But you went to Indiana since they got years of

796
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Speaker 3: your life and money, Yes, you can celebrate.

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Speaker 2: It however you choose.

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Speaker 3: It is not my work, like you have given years

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Speaker 3: of money to Indiana at your level, I can't I

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Speaker 3: can't question that. Like at this point, you're allowed to

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Speaker 3: celebrate this run however you choose.

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Speaker 4: Okay, fine, as long as but I just want you

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Speaker 4: to note that I didn't need your permission to do

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Speaker 4: that anyway. I just wanted you to know on the

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Speaker 4: front end that I am going to do this regardless

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Speaker 4: of whether you're going to grant me said permission or not.

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Speaker 4: But I appreciate you giving me your stamp of approval anyway.

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Speaker 4: The structure of this is something that we've talked about

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Speaker 4: several times, whether it be on today's show or in

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Speaker 4: the last couple of days that we've been on where

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Speaker 4: we've just been bemoaning the layoff of the college football

812
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Speaker 4: Playoff and how much time it has been since we've

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Speaker 4: seen Indiana, Georgia, Texas Tech play play in these games.

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Speaker 4: Ohio State obviously looking like a shell of themselves last night.

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Speaker 4: And you posed a really good solution to this and

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Speaker 4: how you would reach structure where to you would put

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Speaker 4: these things back on college campuses, not just in the

818
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,280
Speaker 4: first round, right, you would play the entire college football

819
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Speaker 4: Playoff with home field advantage being on campus, and then

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Speaker 4: if you wanted to have a bidding situation for the

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Speaker 4: Orange Bowl to host the National Championship of the Rose

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Speaker 4: Bowl to host the national Championship. I'm summarizing, so if

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Speaker 4: I've missed any important points in your solution fits you

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Speaker 4: feel free.

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Speaker 1: To correct me.

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Speaker 4: The other part of this is just the nature of

827
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Speaker 4: the college football calendar anyway. There are so many different

828
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 4: webs or wires that have to be untangled here that

829
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 4: have completely ensnared the sport, that are working actively to

830
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Speaker 4: its detriment. Despite giving us I would argue this is

831
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Speaker 4: as much fun as college football has ever been because

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Speaker 4: of the nature of the field. Because of the current

833
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 4: environment and how it can create stories like Indiana and

834
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Speaker 4: Vandy and whichever you up and coming upstart program that's

835
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Speaker 4: been downtrodden for the vast majority of existence, all of

836
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Speaker 4: a sudden, it gets a little funding, it turns into

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Speaker 4: a real thing.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 4: I would argue that this is the best version of

840
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Speaker 4: college football from a competitive on the field product standpoint,

841
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 4: and it's just being it's being shipped away at it

842
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Speaker 4: every turn because they haven't taken the time in the

843
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Speaker 4: modern age to sit down and actually hammer out the

844
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Speaker 4: best version of this because what we know, what we

845
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Speaker 4: definitively know, is this is not acceptable. The way that

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Speaker 4: the structure is currently being or executed, for lack of

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Speaker 4: a better term, is Alabama is.

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Speaker 1: It ooh, fake punt?

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Speaker 4: Maybe fake punt, fake punt, fake punt, No, trying to

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Speaker 4: fake the defense out anyway. I am fascinated to see

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Speaker 4: who actually gets.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, shiny Bike, Buck Rising, shy Bike.

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Speaker 4: I want to say that I'm not going to do

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Speaker 4: this for the rest of the show, but I'm definitely

855
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Speaker 4: gonna do this for the rest of the show. My

856
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 4: point is I want to see how the adults are

857
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Speaker 4: going to operate when they get in the room and

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Speaker 4: who the adults actually are and who actually has the

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Speaker 4: best interest of college football in mind, college athletics in mind,

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Speaker 4: versus who's just satisfied to keep things status quo because

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Speaker 4: of the money that Capital One is giving the Rose

862
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Speaker 4: Bowl or whatever the case, or the Orange Bowl or

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Speaker 4: whatever the case may be. Like, these are the things

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Speaker 4: that make me insane. There's too many competing interests, and

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Speaker 4: you know it's gonna make it worse, not better. We

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Speaker 4: haven't talked about this story. I don't thank you and me.

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Speaker 4: This Utah situation where they're going to get investment from

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Speaker 4: private equity, so you're gonna have a variety of different

869
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Speaker 4: people on a board somewhere making decisions at least in

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Speaker 4: part on behalf of Utah football, and how many of

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Speaker 4: those people have competing interests. I understand that in a

872
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Speaker 4: perfect world those things would be aligned, but still, like,

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Speaker 4: I think it's only gonna get worse.

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Speaker 3: Well, and it's only gonna get worse. I'll talk for

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Speaker 3: a minute so you can watch what's about to happen.

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Speaker 3: I guess I'm ahead of you. It's only gonna get

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Speaker 3: It's only gonna get worse because there is a very

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Speaker 3: clear situation that solves all of this, and nobody wants it.

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Speaker 2: There's a very clear situation to solve the entire problem

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Speaker 2: of college football.

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Speaker 3: All it's gonna take is every single school coming together

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00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 3: with every single athlete and forming a collective bargaining situation

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Speaker 3: where the schools are bargained as one voice and all

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Speaker 3: the players unionize, which is going to take years in court.

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Speaker 3: And I will just remind everybody if you think that's

886
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Speaker 3: not the solution. Every single time there's been an NCAA

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Speaker 3: issue challenged in court, the players have won because it's

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00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 3: not constitutional to throttle back their ability to transfer, it's

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Speaker 3: not constitutional to throttle back their ability to earn money.

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Speaker 3: The courts have told you over and over and over

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Speaker 3: again that none of that is constitutional. So if you

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Speaker 3: really want to know what the change in college football

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Speaker 3: looks like, it's going to end up looking like the NFL,

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00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,800
Speaker 3: major League Baseball, the NHL, every other major professional sport.

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Speaker 3: Because Buck's right, there's going to be private equity money

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Speaker 3: in it. Everybody's going to be putting their equity around.

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Speaker 3: In the meantime, let's get you caught up. We'll let

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Speaker 3: you know what's going on in the Rose Bowl. Next,

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Speaker 3: we'll see if Buck is able to handle the drama

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Speaker 3: bucking fits on Fox Sports Radio