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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for listening to the Ben Mahler Show podcast.

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Speaker 1: It's me Ben. Be sure to catch us live every

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Speaker 3: Ah, yes, good.

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Speaker 2: Morning everybody, our good evening, our good afternoon, or I

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Speaker 2: guess goodnight, as the great Ben Maler would say in

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Speaker 2: the air.

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Speaker 3: Everywhere, it's Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: The only show I think, just just my opinion, the

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Speaker 2: only show whereas a fill in, people truly just hate you.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I've never really understood this. And again, being

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Speaker 2: someone who is both a night oul and an early

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Speaker 2: morning person, now it doesn't mesh well. It's not a

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Speaker 2: good fit in life. Whenever you love to stay up late,

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Speaker 2: but then in the same vein you have to get

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Speaker 2: up early. Never good mix in life. But welcome to

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Speaker 2: the battle that I fight every single day. But I

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Speaker 2: say it, it's it's kind of like I don't I

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Speaker 2: don't know if it's like a badge of honor.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if it's a I don't know if

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Speaker 3: it's a concern.

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Speaker 2: Whichever way, I consider it pretty awesome that you can

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Speaker 2: fill in on every show on Fox Sports Radio. And

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Speaker 2: I've come pretty close, you know, filling on two prose,

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Speaker 2: filling on Colin Covino and Ridge whatever. This is the

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Speaker 2: only show where people just out of the gate like,

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Speaker 2: f this guy, it's not been Where's Ben?

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Speaker 3: What's your deal? And then if you do.

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Speaker 2: Something like just slightly away from one but maybe the

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Speaker 2: mal or militia enjoys or is used to oh my goodness,

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Speaker 2: oh my god, it's complete and utter disdain. That's not

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Speaker 2: how Ben does it. So I'll pup. I'll get this

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Speaker 2: opportunity very often. But I also feel like, just in

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Speaker 2: true to reality, I feel like I got called up

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Speaker 2: to the show. This is the moment. Some would say

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Speaker 2: that their ultimate goal would be to sit in here

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Speaker 2: or I don't know, maybe maybe two pros and a

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Speaker 2: cuple I don't know, you know, Morning Drive and you

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Speaker 2: And let me explain. First of all, good morning Lorena.

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Speaker 2: For those that aren't aware, I think, is it fair

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio on our Sunday night show? Is that right now?

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Speaker 4: First time? I was just thinking about that yesterday on

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Speaker 4: my drive home. I was like, oh my gosh, I

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Speaker 4: haven't worked with you since literally my first when I've

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Speaker 4: set and then I went on full time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, Arnie span your and I do a

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Speaker 2: you've chased him away. He will never work the overnight

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Speaker 3: I think it's twofold, by the way, just to.

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Speaker 2: Be fair for Arnie, just like they give it right,

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Speaker 2: that he has made it clear that he can't do

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Speaker 2: You know, Arnie's getting up there in age a little bit,

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Speaker 2: let's just be honest, and he's got a very busy

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Speaker 2: my man, Arnie specure can be. Arnie has one show

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Speaker 2: he does every single week. That's unless he's called upon

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Speaker 2: to fill in here on Fox Sports Radio and he's exhausted.

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Speaker 3: He's like, I got the Sunday night show. I got

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Speaker 4: Radio is a hard gig.

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Speaker 3: It can be.

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Speaker 2: I am a big I don't want to say I'm

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Speaker 2: But I my point of bringing it up is not

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Speaker 2: But it's really more than anything else to say. The

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Speaker 2: and it's and it's bouncing back when you have a backslide.

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Speaker 2: Right whenever I'm sitting there eating Christmas cookies like I

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Speaker 2: the case of Coop, then uh Coop, it's one thing

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Speaker 3: It's hard to keep it there. Right, your backslide a

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Speaker 2: Really Yeah, I like that. I like that. I always

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Speaker 2: me whenever I get a chance to work with Coop

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Speaker 3: The Ben Mahlor Show and he always knew Coop as

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Speaker 2: He's a big deal. So this is a big deal

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Speaker 2: I'm pomped to hang out over the next and not

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Speaker 3: And then this summer I.

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Speaker 2: we're not counting down tonight, but three hours and fifty

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Speaker 2: So welcome in, Lorrain and Coop. Good to hang with you.

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Speaker 2: Let's have some fun tonight. As always, if you know

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Speaker 2: kind of you committed hourly segments tonight, and here let

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Speaker 2: I didn't get the schedule this week? Am I on tonight?

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Speaker 2: to file charges before deciding to do so on December

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Speaker 2: twenty second, diggs attorney said in a statement that the

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Speaker 2: allegations are unsubstantiated. Now as somebody that has absolutely fallen

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Speaker 2: in love with the story of the Patriots this year,

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Speaker 2: Stefan Dis has been one of those. I don't know

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Speaker 2: the term would be bounced back, but you know, truly

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Speaker 2: kind of reminding you that he's a dude. I'm the dude.

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Speaker 2: He's a dude, And the last few weeks, I think

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Speaker 2: it's fair to say has been some of his best

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Speaker 2: ball all season long. Had ten catches in the win

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Speaker 2: over Baltimore, one hundred and thirty eight yards in that game,

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Speaker 2: over one hundred yards in the Jets game, though, who

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Speaker 2: hasn't had over one hundred yards receiving.

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Speaker 3: Against the Jets.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know what to think about this because

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Speaker 2: it is a massive distraction leading up to the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: And again, the Patriots are going all in this weekend

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Speaker 2: to try to get to one seed and we'll see

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Speaker 2: how that pans out for them. They don't control their

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Speaker 2: own destiny because somehow they lost to the Raiders.

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Speaker 3: So props to you, Coop for beating the Raiders twice

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Speaker 3: this year.

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Speaker 2: A very big task with the way things have gone

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Speaker 2: for Vegas so far in twenty twenty five. But I again,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what's true and what's not. I take

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Speaker 2: people at their word, but what a terrible distraction to

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Speaker 2: have at this point in the season. So Stefan Diggs,

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Speaker 2: who has been one of the great stories this year,

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Speaker 2: guy that has been questioned was apparently the dude at

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Speaker 2: about three different places resurrects his career in New England

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Speaker 2: and on the week of I guess you could say,

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Speaker 2: the week before the start of the playoffs, has this

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Speaker 2: that drops as a massive distraction in the lap of

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Speaker 2: the New England Patriots. Big deal to you eight seven

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Speaker 2: seven ninety nine on Fox. Big deal to me because

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Speaker 2: I think that this is worthy of questioning whether or

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Speaker 2: not this could be something that implodes his run. The

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Speaker 2: NFL's got to act right, gotta way till all the

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Speaker 2: facts come in. You can't just need your can suspend him.

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Speaker 2: But what a terrible, terrible distraction for this team heading

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Speaker 2: into the playoffs. All right, when we come back, recap

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Speaker 2: the big news of the day, I'm not gonna try

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Speaker 2: to bore you too terribly much throughout the night with

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Speaker 2: the college football fights that are going on. But holy smokes,

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Speaker 2: are some college basketball coaches grand standing like crazy? And

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Speaker 2: we'll start our preview of the college football playoffs as

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Speaker 2: we look at the Cotton Bow. We look at Miami

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Speaker 2: and Ohio State to get you ready for the four

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Speaker 2: team playoffs and the Ben Mallord Show. I'm Chris Blank,

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Speaker 2: sitting in on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: A big story coming up in exactly I'm big on

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Speaker 2: countdowns here twenty nine minutes tonight, Coop, is playoff ready?

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Speaker 2: How playoff ready? We'll find out at the top the

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Speaker 2: next hour. I just out of curiosity, Coop, was this

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Speaker 2: an online purchase? Was this a Facebook marketplace purchase? I mean?

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Speaker 3: Or is this straight up off of a third party.

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Speaker 6: Lender directly from Ticketmaster?

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Speaker 1: Wow?

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Speaker 4: Wow?

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Speaker 2: As Rob Parker would say, I don't know. Sometimes here

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Speaker 2: is my old man, get off my lawn. Take. I

514
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Speaker 2: don't know how some of you people can afford to

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Speaker 2: go to games. I mean, I just don't. It's unbelievable

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Speaker 2: how expensive it is. And Coop will have a story

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Speaker 2: that we'll see whether or not you're in with him,

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Speaker 2: because I'm impressed, Coop. Let me tell you if The

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Speaker 2: Raiders makes me just sad thinking about it, If the

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Speaker 2: Raiders ever get to a point where they get back

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Speaker 2: to the playoffs. Probably would do just about anything I

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Speaker 2: could to go, but I think I'm in a pretty

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Speaker 2: buying should be. All right, We're monitoring the story tonight

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Speaker 2: involving Stefan Diggs. Meanwhile, speaking of Digs, the Cowboys release

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Speaker 2: Trayvon Digs. I mean, last I remember thinking about Trevon Diggs.

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Speaker 2: He was a Pro Bowl He had signed a five year,

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Speaker 2: ninety seven million dollar contract extension in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: but has played in just twenty one games over the

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Speaker 2: last two years because of knee injuries. Toys left acl

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Speaker 2: last two years ago, missed six games last year because

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Speaker 2: of it, and this year he's missed eight games. So

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys just decided tis better to punt. I don't

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Speaker 2: expect him to get picked up off waivers by you know,

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Speaker 2: any of the any of the tank tacular teams.

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Speaker 3: But you know, maybe there's a spot.

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Speaker 2: Maybe there's a spot in a place like Buffalo or

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Speaker 2: I don't know, New England for his brother is I mean,

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Speaker 2: maybe there's an opportunity for him. Field Yates said that

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Speaker 2: there is no guaranteed money on his deal beyond this season,

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Speaker 2: so if you are to claim Trevon Diggs, you would

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Speaker 2: be on the hook for four hundred and seventy two

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars for week eighteen plus, man, what is it here?

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Speaker 2: Fifty eight grand? If he's active this week might be

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Speaker 2: worth the risk, if you need some depth and if

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Speaker 2: you think that he can be healthy. But it's funny.

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Speaker 2: There was a part of me when I saw he

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Speaker 2: was cut, like, we live Cowboys football here. I'm in

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Speaker 2: a market that gets some cram down your throat every

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Speaker 2: single weekend. But I'm not like checking out their depth chart.

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Speaker 2: I'm not reading all the updates. I thought the damn

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Speaker 2: wasn't he hadn't he been playing pretty well? Then you

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Speaker 2: look and you realize since he signed that contract, since

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Speaker 2: he got paid, Yeah, I've done jack squat.

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Speaker 3: So Cowboys decide to make a move. We'll see if

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Speaker 3: anyone picks them up.

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Speaker 2: And again, you had two bowl games that were fantastic tonight,

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Speaker 2: both of them and two of the three in walk

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Speaker 2: off fashion. Here's what it sounded like with the University

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Speaker 2: of Illinois. You were that right old Brett Bielima, whom

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Speaker 2: we all love to just call Bert has his team

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Speaker 2: beat d SC. Three seconds left, alto in the middle

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Speaker 2: of the field from dude, pull the winds, snap back

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Speaker 2: kick in the air.

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Speaker 1: The pick is.

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Speaker 2: We do.

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Speaker 6: It's God.

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Speaker 2: I do appreciate that because I grew up in Saint

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Speaker 2: Louis and we're like torn between being an Illinois and

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Speaker 2: Missouri fan. I appreciate the energy of the analyst that

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Speaker 2: says that's what we do. No, we don't not at

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Speaker 2: the University of Illinois. We don't win. We don't win

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Speaker 2: bowl games. But congratulations because tonight you did in taking

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Speaker 2: out Tennessee thirty to twenty eight. And then in overtime Lincoln.

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Speaker 3: Riley told you they're close. They're close at USC.

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Speaker 2: In fact, he said after the loss tonight, it's taken

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Speaker 2: them a long time, but that window is now open

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Speaker 2: for USC. But it wasn't open tonight. Says, dumps at

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Speaker 2: left pain les one tackle in two and Dodds the

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Speaker 2: So let's.

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Speaker 4: Take the double at tux Fide to the ped to

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Speaker 4: the five.

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Speaker 2: He say, yet bad.

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Speaker 11: Let's see it's like Dolla's touchdown can't seals the deal

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Speaker 11: Here tonight, O, the horn Frogs have filed the betrick

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Speaker 11: against USC one four time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty twenty seven. TCU beats USC and the Alamo Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Thank you to both the Illinois Radio Networks and the

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Speaker 2: TCU Radio network. Two big Bowl games. Now, I promise

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Speaker 2: at the bottom of the hour a quick preview of

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Speaker 2: the playoff games that are coming up over the next

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Speaker 2: twenty four hours. First tonight you get Ohio State versus Miami. Now,

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Speaker 2: one side story to this game. Jeremiah Smith, the very

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Speaker 2: talented wide receiver for the Buckeyes. Whenever he made his

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Speaker 2: collegiate decision, it came down to Ohio State and Miami.

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Speaker 2: He's a Miami guy. He's a Miami guy. Nobody knew

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Speaker 2: whether or not he was gonna end up playing for

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Speaker 2: the buck guys, for the Hurricanes.

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Speaker 3: He's had an outstanding run for Miami.

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Speaker 2: For Ohio State, Miami has kind of been, you know, fine,

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Speaker 2: without him, but it's been one of the major conversations

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Speaker 2: leading into tonight's game. The other big conversation is Ohio

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Speaker 2: State trying to repeat as hard as it is, and

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Speaker 2: when Ryan Day spoke to the media yesterday, he was

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Speaker 2: asked about the importance of the people in life and

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Speaker 2: around the program that have been leaders for Ohio State.

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Speaker 2: Little at a lengthy will listen to a little bit

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Speaker 2: of It.

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Speaker 9: Always comes down to people. So when when you're winning,

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Speaker 9: I wouldn't say it's easy. Nothing's easy, But I think

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Speaker 9: when when you go through a setbacker, you go through adversity,

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Speaker 9: that's when you really find out about people. You find

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Speaker 9: out about the people that are around you, You find

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Speaker 9: out about you know, how how tight your group is.

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Speaker 9: And I think that it's been said before ward to

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Speaker 9: Ohio State, you win with people and making sure that

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Speaker 9: you have the right people around you.

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Speaker 2: So Ohio State, that's an interesting kind of angle because

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Speaker 2: they've had incredible turnover in people.

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Speaker 3: Last year. Jim Knowles, their defensive coordinator, leaves goes to

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Speaker 3: Penn State.

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Speaker 2: I was a disaster. Your offensive coordinator, Chip Kelly, wins

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Speaker 2: a national championship with Will Howard as his quarterback. Goes

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Speaker 2: to Las Vegas. That was a disaster.

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Speaker 3: Chip Kelly today became the offensive coordinator at Northwestern. What

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Speaker 3: do they do?

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Speaker 2: They give Matt Patricia a chance in the college game

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Speaker 2: and you give him some dudes, and he was pretty

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Speaker 2: good this year, really good this year, elite this year. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: on the offensive coordinator side of things, the turnover continues.

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Speaker 2: Brian Hartline takes over as their O seed, does a

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Speaker 2: fantastic job, so good that he gets hired as a

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Speaker 2: head coach at USF South Florida, and now they've got

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Speaker 2: to go with a new play caller, which is the

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Speaker 2: old play caller. It's who else but Ryan Day. So

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Speaker 2: constant turnover, but they've had good people in places that

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Speaker 2: have Ohio State in a spot where they had to buy.

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Speaker 2: They've got a chance to repeat, and they're doing it

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Speaker 2: with two new coordinators and technically a third when you

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Speaker 2: consider that Hardline's not even gonna call plays after calling

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Speaker 2: plays all year long. Meanwhile, Miami has kind of become

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Speaker 2: the place where transferred quarterbacks go and excel under Mario Christobal.

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Speaker 2: Last couple of years we saw cam Ward develop into

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Speaker 2: the top pick in the draft, and this year you've

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Speaker 2: seen a guy who's had a roller coaster ride in

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Speaker 2: Carson Beck get things right just in time to help

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Speaker 2: Miami find themselves in a position where they're in this

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Speaker 2: quarterfinals of the College Football Player.

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Speaker 8: Yes, certainly, I think all of us saw some of

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Speaker 8: the stuff, some of the noise surrounding the end of

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Speaker 8: his tenure over at Georgia and then him starting hit

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Speaker 8: his new tenure at Miami. And because he's so quiet

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Speaker 8: and reserved and didn't get much time in front of

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Speaker 8: the microphone in front of the media, I think some

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Speaker 8: narratives kind of they ran on their own, and being

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Speaker 8: around them from day one, thing that really stands out.

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Speaker 8: He's all about team, he's all about his teammates, and

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Speaker 8: his work ethic is off the charts.

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Speaker 2: So media day today didn't really give us any good

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Speaker 2: I guess you could say bulletin board material. But it's

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Speaker 2: gonna be a fun one tonight. The number wildly has

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Speaker 2: not moved at all, no movement whatsoever in the line

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Speaker 2: between Ohio State and Miami. I'm just making sure there

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Speaker 2: was no shift. I say all this and all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden it's like, whoh, it's out. A seven and

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Speaker 2: a half opened at nine and a half stays at

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Speaker 2: nine and a half. No real shift whatsoever. The only

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Speaker 2: place where you've seen a little bit of movement is

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Speaker 2: in the total. This game open at forty two and

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Speaker 2: a half and is now down to forty and a half.

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Speaker 2: So I don't I don't know if that means they're

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Speaker 2: foreseeing a little bit more of an offensive struggle than

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Speaker 2: what they might have. But Ohio State Miami tonight six

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Speaker 2: thirty Central, seven thirty Eastern, the Cotton Bowl first quarter

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Speaker 2: final game. Ohio State looking to repeat and looking to

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Speaker 2: do something in these playoffs that hasn't happened yet in

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Speaker 2: the very short era of the twelve team playoff. The

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Speaker 2: team with the buye no team of the first round

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Speaker 2: by one last year. But also remember no team that

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Speaker 2: played on the road in the first round one last year.

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Speaker 2: We've already seen that happen twice with Texas A and

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Speaker 2: M and in Alabama they came here to Oklahoma and

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Speaker 2: beat the Sooners. But should be a fun one tonight.

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Speaker 2: Miami might be getting hot at the right time. Ohio State,

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Speaker 2: I mean again, consistently has been one of the best teams,

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Speaker 2: if not the best, in college football. The only blemish

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Speaker 2: on their record the Big Ten championship game, lost to

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Speaker 2: Indiana Exercise the Demons, and beating Michigan this year, beat

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Speaker 2: Texas to start the season.

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Speaker 3: It's really good football team. It's gonna be a fun

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Speaker 3: one tonight.

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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what, if you are someone that

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Speaker 2: doesn't care about college football, but yet you're an NFL fan,

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Speaker 2: this might be the game with the most NFL prospects

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Speaker 2: on the field. I mean, there are dudes that you're

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Speaker 2: gonna watch get drafted in April this year, in April

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Speaker 2: next year, in April the following year. I mean, Jeremiah

704
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Speaker 2: Smith might be one of those guys next season that

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Speaker 2: we're talking about as potential top pick in the draft.

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Speaker 2: That's how good he is at a receiver for Ohio State,

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Speaker 2: so well worth through time. Ohio State in Miami. Right now,

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Speaker 2: I'm leaning towards Miami covering the number, but I think

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Speaker 2: Ohio State's gonna win the game. And as it stands

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Speaker 2: right now, it's very split. It's very split money wise.

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Speaker 2: Fifty nine percent of the bets have been placed on Miami,

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Speaker 2: but fifty eight percent of the money has been on

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Speaker 2: Ohio State. And as I said, a line that's seen

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Speaker 2: zero movement. All right, when we come back your turn,

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Speaker 2: we'll get your calls at eight seven, seven ninety nine

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

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Speaker 2: sixty nine, and our first trip through the tweets to

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Speaker 2: the show. Ben is out.

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Speaker 3: I'm Chris Plank sitting in Lorrain and Cooper here on

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller

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Speaker 5: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome back in it's been malor Show on

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. Lorrain and Cooper here. Ben is off.

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Speaker 2: What's been getting back? He didn't like vacations, does he? Lorena?

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Speaker 4: He hates vacations?

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Speaker 2: All right? Man? Goodness man, Hi, I got I gotta

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Speaker 2: shoot you guys this picture. That's a good little treat

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Speaker 2: that we got. Happy birthday to Jesus. Celebrate with a

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Speaker 2: little smoke on New Year's Eve for many of you.

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Speaker 2: Happy New Year's Eve too, question, Coop, Lorena, I guess

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Speaker 2: Loraine will start with you New Year's Eve worth the

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Speaker 2: celebration or overrated holiday thoughts?

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Speaker 6: I think I like it?

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 4: I like the idea of rebirth right, like re setting

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Speaker 4: your goals. It's a nice little you know, like monopoly

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Speaker 4: when you go around the board again, right, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I like it actually passing go.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, Coop, which way do you stand?

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Speaker 4: I like dressing up too well.

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Speaker 6: I think that, uh, Lorena's answer is a little ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: But that being said, Lorena's answer is a little ridiculous,

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Speaker 4: you know what, Coop.

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Speaker 3: That being said, you guys have to be in the

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Speaker 3: same room.

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Speaker 7: I do think that it is a fun It's like,

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Speaker 7: you know, it's a reason to party, right, so why not.

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Speaker 7: But I don't think it means anything. It doesn't mean anything.

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Speaker 7: It's just another day on the calendar and another another

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Speaker 7: rotation around the site.

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Speaker 2: Behind it, i'm o ears meaning behind it? Go ahead,

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Speaker 2: like the rebirth, the wiping away of the year that was,

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Speaker 2: those types of things. Yeah, let me look it up, Okay,

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Speaker 2: go ahead. So Coop, I would assume by your approach here,

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Speaker 2: you're kind of like me, where there's no big plans tonight.

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Speaker 6: No, I have I have plans.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 7: But like I said, I think it's a reason to like,

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Speaker 7: you know, go out and have fun and do stuff.

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Speaker 7: But like I mean, and you know, you toast to

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Speaker 7: like a good New Year. Sure, but like the like

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Speaker 7: you know, like resolutions and and any like deeper meaning

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Speaker 7: behind it being a new year, I just I just

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Speaker 7: roll my eyes at it a little bit.

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Speaker 2: I I have constantly thought that if you need a

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Speaker 2: day on the calendar to suddenly say all right, this

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Speaker 2: is when I'm gonna be healthy or this is when

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Speaker 2: I'm going to start eating right, I've always kind of

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Speaker 2: pushed back on that. It's like why not start? Why not? Now,

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Speaker 2: you know, why not just go ahead and do. It's like, well,

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Speaker 2: hold on a second here, I've got to have that date.

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Speaker 2: And I don't want to question anyone trying to get

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Speaker 2: into a fitness journey. But I will say this. I

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Speaker 2: always laugh whenever people call it amateur night. It's like,

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Speaker 2: oh dude, it's the amateur night. Well I'm sorry, Chad

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Speaker 2: that you're chugging down tall Boys on a Tuesday and

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Speaker 2: that makes you a better alcoholic than the people that

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Speaker 2: are going to fire it up tonight. But I mean,

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Speaker 2: come on, oh yeah, no uh Lee.

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Speaker 4: He actually complains about that because on big holidays, even

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Speaker 4: the bars that he goes to on a regular basis,

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Speaker 4: they have chuck like cover turn right. He's like, well,

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Speaker 4: you guys need to go home and let us regular

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Speaker 4: people out here.

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Speaker 2: Interesting.

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Speaker 4: Interesting, that's a way to see it.

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Speaker 2: I have a lot of friends who feel the same way.

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Speaker 2: That lead us a lot of friends that feel that way.

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Speaker 2: It's like, I'm not going out on New Year's Eve.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, well, that's fine, but you're kind of telling

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Speaker 2: on yourself that you're probably more of a drunk than

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Speaker 2: everyone else. It's going out and having fun tonight. Hey, Lee,

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Speaker 2: So in your opinion, then Lrena, you're buying into the refresh,

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Speaker 2: the renewed start. All things are, all things are new,

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Speaker 2: and it's worth celebrating.

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Speaker 4: Yes, a time for rebirth, fresh starts and making you know,

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Speaker 4: good on your human life.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I listen. I don't have a hot take on it.

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Speaker 2: I'm just always curious because for some it's the biggest,

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Speaker 2: i mean absolutely the biggest day of the world.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's New Year's Eve.

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Speaker 2: It's where they party, it's where they celebrate, it's where

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Speaker 2: they wipe clean everything that is once again new.

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Speaker 3: And then there's other people that just couldn't care less.

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Speaker 2: I will say as I'm as I've entered, you know,

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Speaker 2: kind of becoming an elder Statesman.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it more. I feel like it comes around

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Speaker 3: a lot faster.

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Speaker 2: I feel like the one thing that's kind of bad

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Speaker 2: about New Year's Eve is that it's I feel like

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Speaker 2: we just celebrated New Year's Eve, going from twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: four to twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: It's like, sure, happy New Years, Like did we just

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Speaker 3: do this like a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: But I use it as an opportunity to say be smart,

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Speaker 2: don't drink and drive, don't do it, celebrate like crazy crazy,

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Speaker 2: but make sure you have a sober rite. There's so

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Speaker 2: many people out there, and if it's lyft, if it's uber,

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00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 2: whatever it might be, there's so many opportunities to make

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Speaker 2: sure that you don't have to risk it. So don't

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Speaker 2: start twenty twenty six in jail. It's Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 2: stick around