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Speaker 2: Well that's right, you heard the man. It is that

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Speaker 2: time of week. My name is Bernie Fraddle. We are

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Speaker 2: coming to live from the Fox Sports Radio studios here

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Speaker 2: six am Eastern, an absolute jam pack show. You think

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers have been dominant, Well I'll tell you just

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Speaker 2: how dominant they've been. Don't worry. We're gonna get to it.

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Speaker 2: I got about eight hours worth of stuff tonight. We'll

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Speaker 2: try to fit it into four. You know, the Chinese

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Speaker 2: have a no proverb that states, may you live in

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Speaker 2: interesting times? And when you take a look at this

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Speaker 2: college football season, this may be the most remarkable season,

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Speaker 2: newsworthy season that I can remember in a long long time.

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Speaker 2: Now less you think I'm defending James Franklin, and I'm not.

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Speaker 2: And we're gonna get to this a little later in

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Speaker 2: the show. Get the peeps to check in. There are

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Speaker 2: objective truths and there are personal feelings, and sometimes you

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Speaker 2: have to look at both. Just think about it. You

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Speaker 2: take over a program in twenty fourteen that was in

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Speaker 2: the doldrums two years removed from the jury to Sandusky debacle,

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Speaker 2: and I mean debacle. He spent the rest of his

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Speaker 2: days in an orange jumpsuit. And you turn the program

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Speaker 2: around just like you did in Vanderbilt one oh four

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Speaker 2: and forty five, fresh off of playoff last year, twenty

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Speaker 2: sixteen Big ten champions, four New Year's Day bull victories,

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Speaker 2: six seasons with ten or more wins, five seasons finishing

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Speaker 2: in the AP Top ten, seven seasons finishing in the

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Speaker 2: AP Top twenty. But I get it. Here comes the

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Speaker 2: big butt peewee. He was two and twenty against AP

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Speaker 2: top five teams, second worst than college football, and four

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Speaker 2: and twenty one against top ten teams. Those kind of losses, well,

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Speaker 2: they can get you fired, especially if you have designs

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Speaker 2: on telling everybody you're gonna win a national championship. This

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Speaker 2: team was built just like Michigan two years ago, in

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Speaker 2: Ohio State last year. But I digress. He didn't just

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Speaker 2: lose games. It looks like you lost the locker room.

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Speaker 2: But be careful what you wish for. It'll be interesting

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Speaker 2: to see where Tenant, Tennessee, where Penn State goes from here.

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Speaker 2: But shed no tears for James Franklin. They're paying him

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Speaker 2: fifty million dollars to go away. That's right. Until twenty

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Speaker 2: thirty one. He'll make six hundred and sixty seven thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars a month, one hundred and fifty nine thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: per week, twenty two thousand dollars per day, nine hundred

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Speaker 2: and thirteen dollars per hour. And in the last two

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Speaker 2: minutes that it took me to give this dissertation on

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Speaker 2: James Franklin, he made thirty one dollars. And in the

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Speaker 2: time it took me to say that, he made twenty

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Speaker 2: five cents per second. We'll get to that later. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: Kurt Signetti, it's good to be Kurt Signetti. Five years ago,

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Speaker 2: James Madison hires him four hundred and twenty five grand

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Speaker 2: a year. It's more than a lot of people make.

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Speaker 2: Two years ago, Indiana, they said, Kurt, we want you

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Speaker 2: to come coach for us. We'll pay you four and

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Speaker 2: a half million last year. At this time, we like Kurt.

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Speaker 2: We're going to extend him eight million annually. Tuesday or Thursday,

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Speaker 2: I think it was we gold to you, Kurt, we

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Speaker 2: googled you. You win. We're going to up you to

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Speaker 2: eleven point six million annually for eight years and I

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Speaker 2: was your day and I told you man that this

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Speaker 2: is a crazy college year. What wasn't so crazy, though,

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Speaker 2: is something that was relatively expected. Death taxes and teams

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Speaker 2: running the ball against USC. Notre Dame had a nice

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Speaker 2: month Saturday ran for three three hundred and fifteen yards,

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Speaker 2: forty six receiving yards, one hundred yard kickoff return. Judarian

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Speaker 2: Price and Jeremiah Love said, sc see, you wouldn't want

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Speaker 2: to be just all of the days where rain pouring

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Speaker 2: didn't matter. Marcus Freeman leans on his running back duo

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Speaker 2: and the Iriny is USC used to be running back?

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Speaker 2: You and the Irish run thirty four to twenty four.

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Speaker 2: It was evident very early, and it's been evident the

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Speaker 2: whole four years that Lincoln Roaldy has been there that

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Speaker 2: USC's defensive front doesn't stop the run the kind of did.

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Speaker 2: He gets Michigan, but I don't know if Michigan's that

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Speaker 2: good and Lincoln Rowley got a little cute, So I

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Speaker 2: don't think they'll be going to the playoffs this year.

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Speaker 2: But we'll see what Colin Coward has to say Monday.

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Speaker 2: He's the foremost authority on this. How about Alabama and

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Speaker 2: night and says, yeah, what do you expect? Penn State

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Speaker 2: doesn't win these games? But at least you never really

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Speaker 2: hear about them losing to the Appalachian States or you know,

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Speaker 2: in unceremonious fashion, and he's gone. Everybody has forgotten by

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Speaker 2: now that Alabama got trucked by Florida State a month ago,

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Speaker 2: six weeks ago. Florida State's three and three. They're about

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Speaker 2: to go th it's reinforced at stinky Stanford. But since then, remember,

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Speaker 2: in life, it's it's not what happens, it's how you react.

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Speaker 2: Four opponents, up, four ranked opponents, up four ranked opponents

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Speaker 2: the best team in the SEC. They polished off a

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Speaker 2: very tough stretch any team has faced this season with

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Speaker 2: a solid thirty seven to twenty victory over Tennessee and

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Speaker 2: they've beaten now Georgia, Vanderbilt, Missouri, and Tennessee in successive weeks.

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Speaker 2: And don't look now, Ty Simpson, he is as good

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Speaker 2: as shot you know him, Fernando, depending on who you

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Speaker 2: the flavor of the week is, he's right there in

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Speaker 2: the Heisman mix to win the Heisman Trophy. How about

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Speaker 2: Texas A and M. They're actually undefeated and they just

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Speaker 2: wait for you to make a mistake and then they

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Speaker 2: find a way to beat you. And not a lot

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Speaker 2: of people are talking about them. They have a couple

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Speaker 2: those next two road games, everybody will be, you know,

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Speaker 2: riding that bandwagon, just like the Indiana one, which is

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Speaker 2: very well deserved, by the way I think this Indiana

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Speaker 2: you know the Michigan State game today was a scrimmage.

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Speaker 2: But or Saturday, Sorry State fans, good luck with Jonathan C. Smith.

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Speaker 2: It didn't work with John L. Smith back in the day.

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Speaker 2: So you tried John C. Smith. How's that working out

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Speaker 2: for you? But the thing about Texas A and M

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Speaker 2: you can believe it, because two years ago we talked

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Speaker 2: they just can't couldn't quite get over the hump. But

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Speaker 2: to them. Big props to Arizona State. The situation can

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Speaker 2: be summed up this way. To be the man, you

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Speaker 2: got to beat the man. I just told Rick Flair's

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Speaker 2: still the case. See through the first seven weeks of

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Speaker 2: the season, Texas Tech, who everybody raved about, including me,

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Speaker 2: their nil program, and this was going to be their year.

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Speaker 2: They had basically been not only winning their games, they

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Speaker 2: to twenty two. Now, I don't think the Big twelve

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Speaker 2: that because we're in the playoff era and you don't

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Speaker 2: this new playoff realignment sort of conglomeration that's given us

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Speaker 2: are pretty cool matchups every week that we weren't used

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Speaker 2: kind of de factor playoff games. What was the narrative

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Speaker 2: going into the Notre Dame SC game Saturday, the loser

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Speaker 2: a de factor playoff game. You know, I don't think

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Speaker 2: Michigan can lose another game, right, how about Georgia? Better

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Speaker 2: late than never? Kirby Martz says, you're gonna have to

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Speaker 2: kill us. Well, maybe there's something to this because Lane

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Speaker 2: Kiffin and old missus A has a whether they like

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Speaker 2: them or not, they've got a legitimate offense. And they

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Speaker 2: hung thirty five points on Kirby Smart's team through the

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Speaker 2: this is kind of starting to look like a scrimmage. Well,

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Speaker 2: they did score touchdowns on their first five drives of

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Speaker 2: the game. The only other teams to do that against

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Speaker 2: Kirby Smart where like I think Ohio State or somebody.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, but games don't. It's a four quarter

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Speaker 2: foootball game, Lane, not a three quarter game. And Kirby

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Speaker 2: Smart showed why they are still going to be reckoned

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Speaker 2: with in the sec that defense put on a clinic

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Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter. They allowed Lane Kiffin and that

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Speaker 2: high powered offense thirteen total yards. Meanwhile, Georgia put up

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Speaker 2: seventeen points one by eight. Cover the number. In case

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Speaker 2: you are so inclined. How about Vanderbilt. You know, the

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Speaker 2: last time they were favored over LSU is nineteen forty seven.

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Speaker 2: I'm just full of stats here tonight. But they're racking

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Speaker 2: You gotta love Diego Pavia. He's a magic man. Now.

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Speaker 2: Vanderbilts all of a sudden six and one. They haven't

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Speaker 2: been six and one since nineteen fifty. But again we digress.

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Speaker 2: So you've got teams like Vanderbilt in Indiana and Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: I'm not even gonna waste my time talking about House State.

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Speaker 2: You know how good they are. They're ridiculous and the

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Speaker 2: who's ridiculous On the other way, Brian Kelly, I don't

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Speaker 2: know what happened to LSU, except the same thing always

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Speaker 2: happens to the LSU. All Right, here's the problem, here's

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Speaker 2: what Brian Kelly's dealing with, and he signed up for it,

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Speaker 2: and he had to know it. The three LSU coaches

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Speaker 2: before Brian Kelly, Nick Saban, Les Miles and ed Oordron

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Speaker 2: all won a national title by year four. If there

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Speaker 2: isn't all of a sudden, the miraculous, shocking turnaround of

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Speaker 2: which I can't see the next seven weeks, Brian Kelly

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Speaker 2: wanh wah wah wah wah. And I don't know if

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Speaker 2: if there will be a year five. Not not predicting

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Speaker 2: he'll be fired again. We're in a weird We're in

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Speaker 2: a weird, weird era of college football. But not happy

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Speaker 2: to LSU, not not at all. And they're not happy

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Speaker 2: in Clemson either. Just a year ago, at this time

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Speaker 2: Clets it was six to one. They beat Virginia forty

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Speaker 2: time ago. Don McLean. It just continues. The hit parrade

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Speaker 2: just continues. By the way, give it up, Give it

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Speaker 2: up to Jeff Brown and Louisville knocking Miami out the

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Speaker 2: other night. So look, I got eight hours worth of

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Speaker 2: And we have a hell of a at NFL slate

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Speaker 2: coming up. I'm gonna bring down one of my favorites

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Speaker 2: here works alongside Brent Musburger, a longtime NFL insider. My

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Speaker 2: man Amal Shaw is going to join us here. We'll

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Speaker 2: over some of these NFL games on the slate this weekend.

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Speaker 5: I'm doing well, Bernie.

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Speaker 5: How are you good.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad to have you because we've got a lot

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Speaker 2: want to get your quick take on Thursday night's game.

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Speaker 2: You saw two veteran quarterbacks zinging around the field, and

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Speaker 2: I think it's an indictment on some of the iron

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Speaker 5: Oh, there's no question about it. I mean, you know

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Speaker 5: But now you're so afraid of getting a fifteen yard penalty.

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Speaker 2: Oh especially I had kick returns especially. Yes, it never fails.

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Speaker 5: still a very good receiver, but he's no longer elite

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Speaker 5: So it's not that you know the Rams aren't capable

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Speaker 5: let's see what happens. You mentioned in Washington hand of

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Speaker 6: I don't have an.

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Speaker 5: Opinion one where the other on this matchup.

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Speaker 2: I will say this, the Saints play hard, and it

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Speaker 2: The one game that has a lot of interest for

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Speaker 2: I really like Cleveland here a lot. It's going to

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Speaker 2: You get a nice cozy line at home minus two

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Speaker 5: Your thoughts, Yeah, I like the number under the field

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Speaker 5: I like the Browns you mentioned defensively, with the team's

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Speaker 5: the line beat them handily. But they were in a

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Speaker 5: this Miami Dolphins team defensively couldn't plug a league.

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Speaker 2: You're you're so right, and listen whenever Kevin Stefanski, he's

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Speaker 2: and a half. We'll see, we'll see what happens. Right,

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Speaker 2: Dave Canalis has done some good things with Bryce. I

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Speaker 2: thank you very much. Thanks. I haven't been drinking, honest.

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Speaker 2: Here's the situation. Though, Justin Fields continued to amaze, and

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Speaker 5: I kind of agree with you, and I see it

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Speaker 5: knee injury. I don't know if he's going to be

430
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Speaker 5: in the lineup. I think there's better spots and better

431
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Speaker 5: games out there. And the one thing I'll tell people,

432
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Speaker 5: and also you talk about over the years on the show,

433
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:03,919
Speaker 5: is but you don't like the game before it stars

434
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,719
Speaker 5: waiting the Indian. You get so many better oppt Thursday night.

435
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 5: You could have gotten the Bengals. I thought they were

436
00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,119
Speaker 5: great play at home to begin with a five. You

437
00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 5: could have gotten ten and a half and a couple

438
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Speaker 5: numbers around there in that first half.

439
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Speaker 2: Yeah, divisional dogs at home and standalone games have been

440
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Speaker 2: pretty solid. Look one last thing about Justin Fields, because

441
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Speaker 2: I like him. I think he's a conferent professional, but

442
00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,080
Speaker 2: he's had fifty games to prove himself. He's a glorified

443
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Speaker 2: read read option quarterback, but he's a college version because

444
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 2: his default mechanism is to run. He just doesn't see

445
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Speaker 2: the field. He's late to react, late to release, typically

446
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 2: not very accurate. It's just not good. So enough on that,

447
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,360
Speaker 2: all right. New England at Tennessee is an intriguing game

448
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,440
Speaker 2: because it's a very tricky line. If I trust my eyes,

449
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,320
Speaker 2: because they tell me a lot. New England really actually

450
00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:55,719
Speaker 2: looks like a potential playoff team, But you don't want

451
00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:57,640
Speaker 2: to lay seven on the road. The National Football League

452
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Speaker 2: they got a new coach. I understand some six and

453
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Speaker 2: a half's out there now, but I kind of like

454
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Speaker 2: cam Ord. He's in a tough situation. But Tennessee is

455
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,480
Speaker 2: a hot mester, the worst team in the league. This

456
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 2: isn't like the NBA when you get a new coach

457
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 2: and they play with good the next night. I have

458
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 2: no feel for this game whatsoever. I'll tell you I

459
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,920
Speaker 2: could never take the points, but I wouldn't lay him either.

460
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Speaker 2: What do you think?

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Speaker 8: I tend to.

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Speaker 5: Agree with you, but I would if I'm going to

463
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Speaker 5: take a risk, probably take away New England if people

464
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Speaker 5: are still about to teases, even though they've induced the

465
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Speaker 5: heck out of them. At around my minus one twenty five,

466
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Speaker 5: in some place, it's much more difficult to play, but

467
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Speaker 5: I wouldn't have a problem. Teams in New England down

468
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Speaker 5: and normally I have a guy that would tease up.

469
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Speaker 5: Here's why if you look at outside of the Arizona game,

470
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Speaker 5: where let's be real here, if they score the touchdown,

471
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Speaker 5: I forget the running backs name. If he breaks the plane,

472
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Speaker 5: it's twenty eight to nine. When yeah, yep, we're not

473
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Speaker 5: even having these conversations. This team's oh and six and

474
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Speaker 5: they're looking to go oh seven. The other problem is

475
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Speaker 5: they made a bad coaching decision at the end of

476
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Speaker 5: the first half in the Denver game that allowed the

477
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Speaker 5: Broncos to get a touchdown. This is a revenge game

478
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Speaker 5: for Mike Rabele fired in Tennessee. They haven't been they

479
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Speaker 5: haven't been that competitive.

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Speaker 7: In a lot of the games.

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Speaker 5: Look, let's put it this way. When you're struggling against

482
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Speaker 5: the Raiders, you're in trouble. And that's what the issues

483
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Speaker 5: right now with this team. They're just they're just not

484
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Speaker 5: that good Tennessee. And we know the Raiders are bad.

485
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Speaker 5: And you know, if you'll Bill Parcel's line, you are

486
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Speaker 5: what your record is now. It's not an ideal situation.

487
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Speaker 5: But I think we've seen Drake may grow from last

488
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Speaker 5: year and the first six weeks of this season in

489
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Speaker 5: front of our eyes that win in Buffalo, who just catapulted.

490
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Speaker 5: In my opinion, Drake may from a confidence standpoint, into

491
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Speaker 5: the franchise quarterback for doing it. I've got some decent

492
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Speaker 5: pieces around him. I think we'll be able to defend.

493
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Speaker 5: Rabel always his teams are always well prepared. I love

494
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Speaker 5: the way he manages games. I think they take care

495
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Speaker 5: of business. It's not I'm going to tell you overall,

496
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Speaker 5: I thought this was a terrible weekend in the NFL

497
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Speaker 5: from a betting standpoint, even just maybe matchup standpoint as well.

498
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Speaker 5: But I wouldn't be head if you like New England

499
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Speaker 5: to lay the number, and I agree with you. Normally

500
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,119
Speaker 5: laying six and a half on the road is going

501
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,400
Speaker 5: to get you killed. But this is not a bad

502
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Speaker 5: spot against a very very bad teams.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't see Tennessee scoring more than ten

504
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 2: to thirteen points quite honestly, so they New England could

505
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 2: easily cover that. I just I think there's You're right,

506
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 2: this is a tough card. Speaking of the aforementioned Raiders

507
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,679
Speaker 2: catching eleven and a half at Kansas City, it's a

508
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,120
Speaker 2: hefty lion for an NFC rivalry. Three of the last

509
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 2: four games been seted by a touchdown or less. But

510
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Speaker 2: I do feel unfortunately this game does have blowoff potential.

511
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Speaker 2: I will not be on the game where she Reich

512
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Speaker 2: back for Kansas City. I feel like Kansas City feels

513
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Speaker 2: the roads, but the Raiders always save a little lecture

514
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Speaker 2: for the Chiefs. Do you have any feel for this game, Sunday?

515
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Speaker 5: I don't, And so you know logical today to take

516
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 5: the points in the NFL, you get these types of points,

517
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Speaker 5: like I thought that line between the Bengals and Packers

518
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Speaker 5: a couple of weeks ago was way too high at

519
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 5: fourteen or last week, excuse me. And you look at

520
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 5: this number of teams pretty high. But here's the problem.

521
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Speaker 5: You without brock Fowers in all likelihood, He's a key

522
00:25:58,440 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 5: card for the team offensively.

523
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Speaker 6: And the other thing is Bernie.

524
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Speaker 5: When you take a team, you know one thing I

525
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Speaker 5: like in college, when I take an underdog. I want

526
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Speaker 5: to take a team that I believe actually has a

527
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Speaker 5: chance to not only be competitive and comparative to cover

528
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Speaker 5: the number, but to really be in the game unless

529
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Speaker 5: you're getting somebody getting you know, twenty five thirty points

530
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Speaker 5: something like that. But when I look at this Raiders team, yes,

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Speaker 5: it's the NFL. They can be competitive, but I have

532
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Speaker 5: zero confidence in geno sense. Like he could have three

533
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Speaker 5: good drives, they may not score. I'm waiting for that

534
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Speaker 5: fourth drive to have either a sack, fumble or an interception.

535
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Speaker 2: You stole my thunder their big fellow. The one thing

536
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Speaker 2: that would keep me off the Raiders is what you

537
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 2: just said, and do you don't like just to throw

538
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 2: it to the other team. And he's already thrown ten

539
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 2: interceptions already, so I look for that hit parade to continue.

540
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Speaker 2: The Denver Broncos are, honestly, I think the real deal.

541
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Speaker 2: They're laying a substantial number here. You're laying a full

542
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 2: touchdown and I've seen seven and a half as well.

543
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Speaker 2: And quite honestly, the Giants kind of have got my attention.

544
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,880
Speaker 2: Lam all. They've averaged twenty three points a games since

545
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Speaker 2: Jackson start, Jackson Darts took over as the starter and

546
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 2: Cam scattable is you know, runaway bowling ball of butcher knives?

547
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,880
Speaker 2: Can Denver hang that number? In your view?

548
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Speaker 5: I like the Giants here. I think it's a few

549
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 5: too many points to look at that same game you

550
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 5: mentioned the Scataboo Humble. They had a big turnover in

551
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 5: that game. Game was tighter than the final score indicated

552
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 5: it seem. I thought they got a lot of conference

553
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,679
Speaker 5: from the win against the Eagles. They had three additional days.

554
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Speaker 5: But Phonix is a better quarterback when the pocket's on

555
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Speaker 5: the move. I think he's probably the best quarterback in

556
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Speaker 5: the NFL. When the pocket is moving and he's running

557
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 5: around stationery in the pocket, not quite as effective. I

558
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 5: think if you're the Giants, you have a renewed confidence

559
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 5: with Jackson, Dart Bernie. I'll tell you one thing that Listen,

560
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Speaker 5: Russell Wilson is a good person from everything that I hear,

561
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 5: but from a lot of people, and from a guy

562
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 5: I knew that played with the New York Yankees and

563
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 5: then from the NFL. So because he was in training

564
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 5: camp or spring training one year with the Yankees, for

565
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Speaker 5: whatever reason, he just doesn't seem to click with his

566
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Speaker 5: other teammate. I don't want to sit there and say

567
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 5: he's one way or the other. Is this type of

568
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 5: person out? He's not a bad guy. You just some

569
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 5: people don't have the ability to blend you well with

570
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Speaker 5: other people. And I feel like there has been a

571
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 5: boost a shot in the arm for the Giants. With

572
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 5: Jackson Dark starting and playing, this team feels more confident.

573
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 5: They've kind of been re energized. I'm not laying this

574
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Speaker 5: number with Denver. I'll take the Giants in the points here, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, I'm with you. I can't lie I fired on

576
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Speaker 2: the Giants. Also, I think I think Brian Dabele has

577
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Speaker 2: some enough pieces he can work with in their defensive front.

578
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 2: Seven is better than people realize. Wrap it up with

579
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 2: Amal Shaw, our NFL insider. A couple of games though,

580
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Speaker 2: that I think are of marquee value. I have interest

581
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Speaker 2: in this forty nine ers Atlanta Falcons game. I know

582
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 2: the Niners are a mass unit. I don't know who

583
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 2: put the bloyk. I don't know you've used Fred Warner,

584
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 2: but they do get George catleback. They're only laying two

585
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 2: and a half. Atlanta has split their two road games

586
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Speaker 2: this year. You never know what you're going to get

587
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 2: with the Falcons. You can lose started enough in Carolina,

588
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 2: or you can pull out a big game. Do you

589
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 2: have any few for this forty nine er Falcon game?

590
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 7: Yeah?

591
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 9: I really like the Niners here.

592
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Speaker 5: I took the Niners Niners in this game, laying two

593
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 5: and a half in this figure spot. First of all,

594
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Speaker 5: there's no way you can justify the fucking team less

595
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 5: than a three point road dog. And I get they

596
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 5: had the good win last week against Help me out here, Bernie.

597
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 5: Who they Buffalo? You know, they had a nice, nice

598
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 5: win against the Bills. But here's the thing that nobody's

599
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 5: talking about. Buffalo should be charged with perpetrating a fraud

600
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 5: because they are a fraud. That defense is terrible. Okay,

601
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 5: they can't stop anybody. I give Atlanta all the credit

602
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 5: in the world. They played a great game. They were,

603
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 5: but you know in the second half they struggled. The

604
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 5: didn't move the ball much. And remember this, the entire

605
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 5: world had written off the Niners when they went into

606
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Speaker 5: Los Angeles at SOFI, when they had the kid from

607
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 5: my Alabama. He's the quarterback right now, Matt Jones, Yes,

608
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 5: and so he comes in there, he plays well, he's effective.

609
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Speaker 10: You mentioned George.

610
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Speaker 5: Kittleback, you know who that helps. That helps CMC. This

611
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 5: team is still is dangerous. When you get CMC the

612
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 5: ball out of the backfield, you get a healthier George Kittle.

613
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 5: It helps the pass catching game. This team is dangerous. Yes,

614
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 5: they are a mass unit. You lose Fred Warner and

615
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 5: Nick Bosa. Fred Warners is good enny defensive player in

616
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Speaker 5: the National Football League, But to me, I still think

617
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Speaker 5: I don't want to go against the Niners. And I

618
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 5: don't know if there's a better coach in the NFL

619
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Speaker 5: when you have a maybe a condensed lineup, maybe not

620
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Speaker 5: as many of the assets that you want, and just

621
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Speaker 5: kind of sticking to his game plan, running the football,

622
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Speaker 5: managing the clock, doing what is necessary better than Kyle Shanahan.

623
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Speaker 5: Atlanta's got off to a good start, but remember they

624
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 5: got embarrassed in Carolina. This is not a great team.

625
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 5: They're a decent team. They're pretty good team, but let's

626
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 5: not act like you know, this is some great Falcons teams.

627
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Speaker 2: Last game. I'm with you on all that, and then

628
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Speaker 2: I like Dan honors as well. Monday night, first game

629
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Speaker 2: of the doubleheader the Lions. This people need to know this.

630
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 2: By the way, the Lions are averaging forty four points

631
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 2: at home this season, and I know they're banged up

632
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 2: on their secondary. But in fifty games as a coach,

633
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 2: Dan Campbell has never lost twice in his last fifty games,

634
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 2: two in a row is what I'm saying. So coming

635
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 2: off a loss, those are a bit of a runaway line.

636
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 2: Four and a half. I like the Lions six and

637
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 2: a half. I might be a spectator, but I still

638
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 2: think they could actually cover that number and win by

639
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 2: a touchdown. Your thoughts on the Lions Tampa Bay, Well, you.

640
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Speaker 5: Got Mike Evan banged up. He's going to be a

641
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 5: game time decision on Monday. You got to Mecca Buca

642
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 5: with a similar situation with the Hampshire. Both guys dealing

643
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Speaker 5: with that. I like Bucky Irving a lot for this

644
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Speaker 5: Tampa team.

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Speaker 11: He's out, that's a little bit of a blow in.

646
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 5: The past, catching game out of the backfield. You know,

647
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 5: White's done done an effective job this year running the ball.

648
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Speaker 7: But I'm with you.

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Speaker 5: I think the one thing that gets overlooked with Detroit

650
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 5: Jamo and Amen Ross Saint Brown, They've got guys that

651
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Speaker 5: can make place.

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Speaker 9: They are very, very dangerous, and I think at.

653
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Speaker 5: Home in that controlled environment in the Dome, this team

654
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 5: is danger especially coming off of a loss here. But

655
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 5: I like Baker Mayfield. But here's the thing that always

656
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 5: kind of separates Baker Mayfield from stepping into that category.

657
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 5: Of great players. You look at that Philly game, there's

658
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 5: an interception where you're sitting there watching the game, going

659
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 5: is this that colored lines?

660
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 8: Like what's going on here? Like who you throwing the

661
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 8: ball to?

662
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Speaker 12: And Baker.

663
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Speaker 5: For every you know nine great players, there's one they're like, Yo,

664
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Speaker 5: wait a minute, there's no way this guy just threw the.

665
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Speaker 7: Ball right there.

666
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 5: And so I think that sometimes can take away from

667
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Speaker 5: what Stampus Kittabull are doing. But I didn't play this one,

668
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 5: but I'm with you. I think you have to take

669
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Speaker 5: a look at potentially Detroit in this game.

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Speaker 2: Them all great stuff. As always, man, I'd love to

671
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 2: get you back on as we get toward get closer

672
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Speaker 2: to the.

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Speaker 5: Playoffs anytime, my friend.

674
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Speaker 2: Thanks that Tamal Shaw NFL and the Sadder worked alongside

675
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Speaker 2: Brett Musburger. Obviously he knows his stuff. Tremendous Football IQ.

676
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Speaker 2: be sure to tune into Fox Sports Radio's Countdown to

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Speaker 2: nineteen minutes away from the midnight hour here in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 2: Literally the clock will strike midnight, but figuratively and literally

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Speaker 2: wherever you're at, the midnight hour means you get the

688
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Speaker 2: last word. We got two really good topics tonight, polarizing

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Speaker 2: and in one one fun one. So we want to

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Speaker 2: hear from you. Eight seven seven nine nine six six

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Speaker 2: three six nine eight seven, seven, nine to nine on Fox.

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Speaker 2: We are nineteen minutes away from the midnight hour, and

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Speaker 2: coming up, I will set up the topics on the table.

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Speaker 2: As Lee Hamilton used to say, I'm Bernie Fraddworck Keimny.

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Speaker 2: Your line from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Studios.

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Speaker 2: Don't go away. You're listening to the Bernie Fratter Show

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Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. All right back in the Bernie

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Speaker 2: Fattle Show, Fox Sports Radio. Get those fingers ready. Eight

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Speaker 2: seven seven, nine nine six six three six nine eight seven,

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Speaker 2: seven nine to nine on Fox. We're twelve minutes away

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Speaker 2: from the midnight hour. See where I live in Vegas,

702
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,800
Speaker 2: it turns twelve midnight here in twelve minutes, perhaps the

703
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 2: same as you, but figuratively around the world, it's the

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Speaker 2: midnight hour. You get the last word? Sorry, Topic number one?

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00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 2: How could it not be James Franklin. Now, I'm not

706
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 2: defending him, nor am I defending the Penn State decision.

707
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 2: See what I want to hear from you folks tonight

708
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 2: is I'm assuming many of you are going to agree

709
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 2: with the decision that it maybe he needed to go,

710
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 2: But was it the right decision? Period? Was it the

711
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 2: right decision to do it? Now in the middle of

712
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 2: the year, they're paying in fifty million to go away?

713
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 2: I get it. He was four and twenty one against

714
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 2: top ten teams. He weren't going to win a national championship.

715
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 2: Three weeks ago they lost to Oregon and then after

716
00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 2: that poof right down the dumper. But overall record of

717
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 2: one oh four and forty five got to the playoffs

718
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 2: last year five New Year six Bowls won them six

719
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 2: seasons with ten or more wins. Conference Dominus twenty eight

720
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 2: wins over a three year period. Coach eighteen all Americans

721
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 2: right down the line. Fifty nine NFL draft picks. He

722
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 2: had seven top twenty finishes, five top ten finishes. I'm

723
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 2: not defending him, but be careful what you wish for,

724
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Speaker 2: because I don't know what their succession plan at Penn

725
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 2: State is. Maybe they do. So was it the right decision?

726
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 2: Number one? Was it the right decision now? Could they

727
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 2: have waited till the end of the season or do

728
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 2: you think it really had to be done now? And

729
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 2: the other thing is do you think his successor will

730
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 2: do what James Franklin couldn't do, and that's win the

731
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,359
Speaker 2: national championship or even just get to the National Championship game? Now?

732
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 2: I know that that Rule is the moment's rage. He's

733
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 2: a very good coach currently in Nebraska. You may have

734
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 2: noticed they got thump by Minnesota Saturday. Okay, happens rules

735
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 2: at Penn State alone. He's close friends with the ad

736
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 2: Pat Kraft. They work together at Temple. But you thought

737
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 2: James Franklin had a big game issue. Matt Rule has

738
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 2: lost eighteen straight games against top twenty five opponents. He

739
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 2: may be your leader though, to get the job well.

740
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 2: By the way, he was also a linebacker at Penn

741
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 2: State thirty years ago. The other name being mentioned is Elko,

742
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 2: Mike Elko. All right, so let's not go down that road.

743
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 2: We don't know. It's all speculation. It ain't gonna be

744
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 2: Kurt Signetti, right, anybody you mentioned, you have to answer yourself.

745
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 2: Are they going to do better than James Franklin did?

746
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 2: And I get it. Franklin lost gains, but it appeared

747
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:54,399
Speaker 2: he appeared to have lost the locker room. So topic one,

748
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 2: James Franklin, was it the right decision? Was it the

749
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 2: right decision to do it now or wait at the

750
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 2: end of the season? And number three will his successor

751
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 2: be able to deliver the thing that James Franklin was

752
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 2: not able to deliver? All right? If I had a

753
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 2: nickel for everybody I talked to since May that were

754
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 2: worried about the Dodgers, I kept telling people October, baseball

755
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 2: is different. This team's DNA is different. They got one

756
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:22,919
Speaker 2: under their belt. They've got power pitching. The strike zone

757
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 2: shrinks in the postseason. Everything is more intense. The Dodgers

758
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 2: aren't just winning their dominating look at their starting pitching.

759
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 2: What they did those four games in twenty eight innings

760
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 2: They averaged over seven innings to start only two hits.

761
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 2: Check that two earned runs. Nine hits. They struck out

762
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 2: thirty five, a cumulatively area of zero point sixty three unreal.

763
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 2: Lowest batting average allowed in a best to seven postgame

764
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 2: series in history. They held the Brewers to a batting

765
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 2: average of one to eight. Team that was the best

766
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 2: offense in the National League. Fewest runs allowed in the

767
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 2: postseason series limited the Brewers to four total runs at

768
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 2: a four game series. I remember after three games are going.

769
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 2: This is domination. The Brewers were only five for twenty

770
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 2: eight with men in scoring position. It struck out twenty seven.

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00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 2: All right, forget all the numbers. Here's the question. I

772
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 2: think the Dodgers have a high probability to repeat. Is

773
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 2: it good for baseball if the Dodgers repeat? Now, no

774
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 2: one's repeated in twenty five years. You've had twenty five

775
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 2: years now, so you've had a repeat team. And let

776
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 2: me tell you if they repeat, tell me who's gonna

777
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 2: stop him in twenty twenty six. But I'm getting ahead

778
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 2: of myself. Are dynasties good for sports? I think they are,

779
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 2: and I'm not calling them a dynasty, But would you

780
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 2: like to see the Dodgers repeat? Yes or no? And

781
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 2: do you think it's good for baseball? Yes or no?

782
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 2: So Number one, James Franklin wasn't the right decision, meaning

783
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 2: did they was right that they fired him in light

784
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 2: of his accomplishments, even though he didn't give them what

785
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 2: they really wanted. This is craziness. Number two, seventy of

786
00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 2: his games. I'm going to pay him fifty million to

787
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 2: go away. He has never been a winning national championship.

788
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 2: But well, the next guy. You know where I'm going

789
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 2: with that. Number two, the Dodgers, they are on the

790
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 2: doorstep of making history and repeating. Is it good for baseball?

791
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 2: If the Dodgers repeat? Do you want to see them repeat?

792
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 2: We'll talk about why dynasties are good or bad. I

793
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 2: think they're good for sports. They're polarizing. Number three. You

794
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 2: saw USC played Notre Dame Saturday. This is interesting. We

795
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,280
Speaker 2: don't know when they're gonna play again. Do you believe

796
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 2: that this historic rivalry, and it is historic, should continue.

797
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 2: This is a game that's embedded in both schools history,

798
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 2: history that goes back a long ways. I know Colin's railing. Well,

799
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 2: we can't have the game played in a blizzard. It's

800
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 2: never been played in a blizzard, Colin and there are

801
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 2: no blizzards in LA. And there's never been a blizzard

802
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 2: in in South Bend. When they play the game in October,

803
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 2: whatever doesn't happen. So do you want to see the

804
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 2: Notre Dame USC rivalry continue? There's none schedule at this

805
00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 2: point Dodgers if they repeat? Is it good for baseball? Yes?

806
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 2: Or no? And let's get heavily into the James Franklinton

807
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 2: because this is crazy time. We're living in crazy eight

808
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 2: seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine eight

809
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 2: seven seven ninety nine on Fox. It is the midnight hour.

810
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 2: We want to hear from you on these three topics,

811
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:19,839
Speaker 2: or you can even rant keep it locked. You listen

812
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 2: to Bernie Fratterle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

813
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio radio.

814
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 2: Stretcher heard the man Bernie Fradle Show keeps rolling right along.

815
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Speaker 2: My name is Bernie Fratlewick Kenedy lyon from the Fox

816
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:37,439
Speaker 2: Sports Radio studios here in Las Vegas, and the call

817
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 2: banks are lighting up, so I don't want to waste

818
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 2: any time. Let's jump right to it. It is in

819
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 2: fact the midnight hour? All right, James Franklin. Objectively it

820
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 2: was the right decision, but subjectively was it? And how

821
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 2: does the next successor do? Uh? The Dodgers on the

822
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,240
Speaker 2: virgin of repeating they're dominating? Is it good for baseball?

823
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 2: Haven't had a repeat in twenty five years in Notre Dame, USC.

824
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 2: According to Colin Carr, we can't continue this, can't play

825
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:06,360
Speaker 2: the game in the blizzard. It's never been played in

826
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,800
Speaker 2: the blizzard, but I think I think it needs to continue.

827
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 2: Let's get your thoughts. We waste no time. Let's get

828
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 2: off to the phone lines. As usual, we are joined

829
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 2: by our Ricky Henderson leadoff man. Do you ever reliable?

830
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 2: Jim from Massachusetts?

831
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Speaker 6: Welcome Jim, Hey, Bernie. I wouldn't have given the guy

832
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 6: fifty million on a buyout. I would have just let

833
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 6: him go and do the season out. But we live

834
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 6: in an age of instant gratifications, so you know, with

835
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 6: the Internet and everything, so people don't have time to

836
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 6: let things you know grow, you know, bloom and stuff.

837
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 6: So I wouldn't given him the fifty I would have

838
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 6: just let him do out the year and then you know,

839
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 6: deal with stuff after that. Instead of letting it be

840
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 6: talk for fodder now the rest of the year. I mean,

841
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 6: what does that do to the locker room?

842
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 10: You know?

843
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 6: So as far as the Dodgers go, I don't think

844
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 6: they're going to repeat. I mean I think I just

845
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 6: don't think they're going to do it. I think everybody's

846
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 6: against him. I mean, I like him, They're a good

847
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 6: team and stuff like that. Baseball is okay, but I

848
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 6: just don't think I think the I think the odds

849
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 6: are against them, but who knows, you know. And the

850
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 6: third one, keep the rivalry, keep them playing, you know,

851
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 6: I mean, even what's the point? You know, it's a

852
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 6: good game, everybody likes to see it and stuff like that,

853
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 6: and I just want to go off the grid. For

854
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 6: one thing for sure is LSU get rid of Kelly.

855
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 6: I'm an LSU fan. My dad, I got all relatives

856
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 6: down Louisiana, down the South and stuff. I followed him

857
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:36,760
Speaker 6: ever since I was the kid. He has no control

858
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 6: of those players. I mean, I'd like to know the

859
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 6: stat on fifteen penalties for acting like idiots. He has

860
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 6: no control of what's going on out there with those kids,

861
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 6: So bounce him and get somebody in there. That's a disciplinarian,

862
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 6: and then I think they can go places. Thanks Brent.

863
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 2: Good stuff is always Jim, and I think the trainers

864
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 2: on the tracks. I don't know how much longer Brian

865
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 2: Kelly will be there. He will certainly finish out this year,

866
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,239
Speaker 2: will most likely be back there next year. But you

867
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 2: heard my opening commentary, Les Miles at Orgeron, Nick saban

868
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,359
Speaker 2: Or they av in common. They won in their fourth

869
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:12,240
Speaker 2: year a national championship at LSU. Oh yeah, Brian Kelly's

870
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 2: in his fourth year. We take you back out to Vegas. Kyle,

871
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 2: Good evening, Kyle, how you been. What's up?

872
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 8: Bernie.

873
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:19,919
Speaker 12: I don't know if you can hear me too well

874
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 12: man driving right now.

875
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 2: But I can hear you know.

876
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 12: Everything's good, everything's great. Been working my butt off. But

877
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 12: let's jump right into it. First off, James Franklin, Man, Hey, listen,

878
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 12: the Big ten is the new SEC. If you're not winning,

879
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 12: sorry brother, you went from you had a winning record

880
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 12: a season ago, you were top right, you can't come

881
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 12: back the next season. Follow up with losses, big losses.

882
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 12: And don't get me wrong, I think the Oregon loss

883
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 12: really exposed them and his ways of how he's been

884
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 12: actually coaching. Moving on to the Dodgers. Do I want

885
00:43:58,040 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 12: to see the Dodgers repeat. No, because I'm tired of

886
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,359
Speaker 12: la fans. But is it good for baseball? I think

887
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 12: it is, Honestly, I do. Nobody wanted to see the

888
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 12: Bulls repeat in the nineties. Everybody routed against them, and

889
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 12: they just gave them more confidence to go out there

890
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 12: and do it again and again and again. Because if

891
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 12: you're not first, your last, and if you're you know,

892
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 12: if you're not winning, then of course you're going to hate.

893
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 12: So let them win if it does. And by the way,

894
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 12: show hal Tani's gonna have every Dodgers record by the

895
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 12: time the kid is done. Taking the deferred money I

896
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 12: think is a great option. Uh, You're able to create

897
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 12: more roster spots, You're able to get more batters out there,

898
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 12: You're able to get more you know, more for it.

899
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 12: You can get more bang for your buck at that point.

900
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 12: And don't get me wrong, Dodgers have a great fan base.

901
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 12: They put butts in seats, So I mean, if the

902
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 12: money is flowing in and you got guys that are

903
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 12: willing to take the lesser to make the team greater

904
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,319
Speaker 12: than hey, why not. Why not if you don't want

905
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 12: to see him repeat, stop them. And lastly, I'm agree

906
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 12: with the other caller. We need the rivalries to continue

907
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 12: to I mean, think about it. If we lost the

908
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 12: Paul Bunny In rivalry, or if we lost the Red

909
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 12: River shootout rivalry, If we lose any of these good

910
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 12: rivalries from these schools that have been going on for

911
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 12: sixty seventy eighty and even some of them one hundred

912
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 12: plus years of these two teams getting back and forth,

913
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:24,359
Speaker 12: then college football is going to lose its flavor. And

914
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 12: one key thing. This is the greatest college football season

915
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 12: since early two thousands, mid two thousands. We have so

916
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 12: many different upsets and so many different teams on the

917
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 12: weekend and week out basis that can beat you or

918
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 12: beat the schools that don't need to lose those games.

919
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 12: Love the show, Bernie always bless you and your family

920
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 12: and you guys, be good out there.

921
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 2: Matt, Thanks can back at you. Listen. I want the

922
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:58,320
Speaker 2: Notre Dame USC game to continue. This is a rivalry

923
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 2: that's embedded in the DNA fiver of these two institutions.

924
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 2: I've been to games at the Coliseum, but been to

925
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 2: multiple at at at I'm talking about USC Notre Dame

926
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 2: games at the Coliseum and in South Bend. It's special

927
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 2: and it almost always has some sort of postseason implication.

928
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 2: Solomon in Los Angeles joins us. Welcome in Solomon, thanks

929
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 2: for having on our patience.

930
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 7: Thank you, Hey, Bernie, thanks for protecting my call.

931
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 10: Man.

932
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 13: It's been a little while, and I appreciate speaking with you.

933
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, sub looks.

934
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 13: Number one, mister Franklin. If you think about it, Rosic Clinton,

935
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:35,879
Speaker 13: they pay a man fifty million bucks not to work.

936
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 13: My god, it's kind of an absurdity to that, isn't there.

937
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 2: But well, you know the way they negotiate these things

938
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 2: these days, it's always to protect the employee. And you

939
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 2: know the irony is Clinton Penn State said they're glad

940
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:52,240
Speaker 2: to pay it. But you're right, we're living in interesting times.

941
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:53,720
Speaker 2: Like I said, go ahead, Solomon.

942
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:55,240
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's okay.

943
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 13: Though sports is just nuts. Sometimes sports just gets nuts,

944
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:04,439
Speaker 13: you know. But the litmus test, because I'm a UCLA fan,

945
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:06,839
Speaker 13: it works for u c l A.

946
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:07,959
Speaker 8: My god, they.

947
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 13: Turned it around with the coaching change, so maybe that's

948
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 13: the way you got to go. Let's see what happens.

949
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 13: Regarding the Dodgers, I'm a Dodger fan. Of course I

950
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 13: want to see them repeat they quote unquote bad for baseball.

951
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 13: Excuse me, You've got to get over that. They do

952
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 13: it right. Why don't you just follow their battle plane

953
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 13: if you can. I understand you might have limited funds,

954
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 13: so do it to the level that you can. Why

955
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 13: do you want to penalize success? And as far as

956
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 13: money is concerned, I can guarantee you MLB wants to

957
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 13: see the Dodgers or the Yankees, or the Cubs or

958
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:47,399
Speaker 13: the Cardinals. They want to see the big teams in

959
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 13: the World Series because that's what people watch. Most of

960
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 13: that album is, Yeah, they're not going to watch you

961
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 13: know Milwaukee, Toronto, you know Milwaukee, Seattle, Well maybe Seattle

962
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 13: a little bit, bigger market. It ain't happening. It's not

963
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,479
Speaker 13: going to match the Dodgers. Okay, So it's still good

964
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,919
Speaker 13: for bigseball to have big time winners and big time teams.

965
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 13: As far as that see is concerned. As a UCLA fan,

966
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 13: I couldn't care less one way or the other.

967
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 2: But you're gonna get your crack at the at the

968
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 2: Trojans here coming up, pretty mull litten.

969
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 13: But as a sports fan, yeah, I want to see

970
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 13: those lives at least continue, and they should because it

971
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 13: definitely helps the sport, makes it interesting. I mean, you

972
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 13: don't want to homogen sport and get rid of these

973
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 13: kind of things.

974
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 2: Good stuff, Am, and don't be a stranger, buddy. Thanks

975
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 2: for checking in. I want to say one quick thing

976
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 2: before I get to Mark in Maryland, Mark your up

977
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 2: neicks hang for just a few seconds. Here the shrewdness

978
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:50,319
Speaker 2: with which the Dodgers have been managed and overseen this

979
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 2: year from the top down. Nobody has mentioned this. How

980
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:59,360
Speaker 2: ironic did all three of their big free agents Michael Conford, Confordo, Tanner,

981
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:03,800
Speaker 2: Scott and kurb none of them made the NLCS roster.

982
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 2: They were all left off. They're paying these guys that

983
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 2: combining forty six million dollars. Right, Some organizations were saying

984
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 2: fire the GM get an owner. How could you do that?

985
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:16,920
Speaker 2: Not the Dodgers. They're nine to one in the postseason.

986
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:19,320
Speaker 2: Put that in your pep and smoke it for a second.

987
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 2: Mark and Maryland Mark, thanks for your patience. You're up next.

988
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 8: How are you, Bronie? How are you? It's always a

989
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 8: pleasure man, you're doing it right, and everybody in sports

990
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 8: talk radio needs to listen to you because it's falling off. Okay,

991
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:38,399
Speaker 8: Now my take on James Franklin. It's very interesting. I've

992
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 8: always liked James Franklin because Franklin was the coach in

993
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 8: waiting at Maryland, and I never understood it. I think

994
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 8: it was under freegip, yes, and I wanted to see it.

995
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 8: And when he was stepped away, I thought it was

996
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 8: a big mistake Maryland made and they never quite recovered

997
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 8: until this year, until this latest administration. I liked the

998
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 8: new coach. Okay, so he went to State. Now, Penn

999
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 8: State always cherry picks the DMV area the best, and.

1000
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 9: He did it because he had local ties.

1001
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 8: He took them out best people, four or five star guys.

1002
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 8: I like James Franklin, Okay. I think he's a victim

1003
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:19,439
Speaker 8: of the Joe paternal era. And as far as as

1004
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 8: far as winning, I think that Penn State has unrealistic expectations.

1005
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 8: He did the job, he didn't win the big game.

1006
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 2: You're not wrong. Stay right there, because I want to

1007
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 2: back you up on this. I don't if you're in

1008
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 2: my opening commentary, and people need to be careful what

1009
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:40,919
Speaker 2: they wish for. I'm sure you remember, Mark, he took

1010
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 2: over in twenty fourteen, just a couple of years removed

1011
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 2: from the Jerry Sandusky debacle. They could recruited anybody and

1012
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:49,239
Speaker 2: look what they've done since. So that has to be

1013
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 2: part of the narrative. And he turned around Vanderbilt before

1014
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 2: he turned around Penn State. Continue on, I.

1015
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 8: Forgot that exactly exactly. It's not going to take long.

1016
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 8: Somebody's going to score him up because he's a diamond.

1017
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 8: He knows how to coach. I think he's just a

1018
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 8: victim of the stirker circumstances. I'm a big James Franklin fan.

1019
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 8: They pulled the guy. I don't know why you would

1020
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 8: do this in mid season.

1021
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 2: Well that's questionable. That's a weird one too, And you

1022
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 2: have to ask yourself, Mark, do you think his successor?

1023
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:22,359
Speaker 2: And I don't want to hear about Matt Rule. I

1024
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 2: like Matt Rool great. He played linebacker in Penn State.

1025
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:26,479
Speaker 2: He's lost to eighteen straight ranked teams.

1026
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,399
Speaker 8: Continue on, Matt Rul is not going to do any

1027
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:33,399
Speaker 8: better than James Franklin. You're right, No, I don't see

1028
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 8: anybody coming in there and make it a huge difference.

1029
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 8: I think Penn State made a mistake. I think he

1030
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 8: deserved another year. I know what the whole thing about

1031
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:47,839
Speaker 8: not winning the big Game, I don't think that it

1032
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,400
Speaker 8: was I think that was the narrative. I think it

1033
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 8: was an unfair narrative. He has it proved out. But

1034
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:57,399
Speaker 8: James Franklin has done the job. Okay, and I think

1035
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 8: Ben State's gonna regret it, I really really do.

1036
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 2: Now.

1037
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 8: Now getting back to the Dodgers. I love dynasties. That's

1038
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 8: what sports is about. Nobody remembers that parody is the

1039
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 8: worst thing in sports. Parody means mediocrity. All they did

1040
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 8: was because the owners wanted everybody to pay more money

1041
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 8: at the end of the season to say I've got

1042
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 8: such and such percentage of getting into playoffs. Okay, nobody

1043
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 8: remembers all that. No, I love the Dodgers. I love dynasties.

1044
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 8: I grew up with dynasties. People remember dynasties. Okay, I

1045
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 8: just want to segue real quick. Yeah us, thank you,

1046
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:45,440
Speaker 8: thank you, Bernie usc notes your name. I grew up

1047
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 8: on that. That's crazy. You need to keep the classics

1048
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 8: the classics. Okay, this is big time football. You should never, never,

1049
00:52:54,719 --> 00:53:00,439
Speaker 8: never even think about not scheduling that game. Okay, you're

1050
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 8: going to destroy the fiber of college football. This is

1051
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 8: a classic game. So no, I'm against that entirely. I

1052
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 8: think people tend to overthink things and they make it work.

1053
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:13,840
Speaker 8: Keep it. If it's work, you keep it the same. Okay,

1054
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 8: this thing every year. Every year people look at Notre

1055
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:20,280
Speaker 8: Dame in USC and if they have a good team,

1056
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:22,719
Speaker 8: good records and things like that, it's going to be

1057
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 8: a sellout.

1058
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 2: Good stuff. Mark appreciate it. And the thing about dynasties,

1059
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:32,320
Speaker 2: ever so quickly, they very much create compelling narratives, the

1060
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 2: drive fan interest, tremendous economic success, and they create a

1061
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 2: long term legacy. The opposite of love is not hate,

1062
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 2: its indifference. There are people who hate the Dodgers and

1063
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 2: hate the Yankees, but they'll watch right Spox, Sweet, I

1064
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 2: was hope you call the night.

1065
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 10: What do you got for us, Bud Well, It's hard

1066
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Speaker 10: to turn down an invitation, Bernie, it's great to be

1067
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 10: back with you. I know you're doing well because you

1068
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 10: had your Pepperoni lunchibles today.

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00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:03,840
Speaker 2: That's right, I watched it down with you. You who go ahead,

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00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:05,280
Speaker 2: Oh fabulous.

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Speaker 10: Well, the first thing I want to say is I

1072
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:09,239
Speaker 10: want to give a shout out to my work in

1073
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 10: State Beavers. They finally won a game. They're not zero

1074
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 10: and eighth, they're one and seven, So that's nice. James Franklin,

1075
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 10: I gosh, could the team have quit on him? I mean,

1076
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 10: he well, they won their.

1077
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 2: There's talk that he did lose the locker room. There

1078
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 2: is talk, but this is pretty dramatic. You're paying a

1079
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 2: guy fifty million to go away three weeks ago he

1080
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 2: had Oregon. We listen, they might not have ever won

1081
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:38,239
Speaker 2: a national championship with him. Maybe, but be careful what

1082
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 2: you wish for. Here. Here's the question, here's the real question.

1083
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:45,240
Speaker 2: Do you think Penn State will do better without James Franklin?

1084
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 2: Just yes or no?

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00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 10: No? No. The the interim coach is like.

1086
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 2: He better than the other guy I'm talking about. He

1087
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 2: won't get the job, but next year, you know it's

1088
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:55,800
Speaker 2: they're talking Matt rule Mike Elko.

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Speaker 10: I don't know, Well, maybe maybe they should. They should

1090
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:02,919
Speaker 10: try it, or honor Scott Frost. I mean, if they're

1091
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 10: willing to blow fifty million bucks and then do another

1092
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 10: big coach, you know, for more than that, Trump needs

1093
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:12,360
Speaker 10: to look at their federal funding and finding out what

1094
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,880
Speaker 10: what problems they've gotten while they're spending so much money.

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00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 2: Let's jump to you, Let's jump to the Dodgers. If

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00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 2: they win, is it good for baseball? No one's repeated

1097
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 2: since twenty five years.

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Speaker 10: Well, I hate, I hate to agree because that's not

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00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,880
Speaker 10: my thing, but yeah, it probably is. However, here in

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00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,399
Speaker 10: the Northwest, we're hoping that the MS take them down.

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00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:33,800
Speaker 10: They're one away from getting there to be interesting.

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00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:36,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a big game Sunday night, MS, and

1103
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 2: that's right, that's where you're at hey real quickly because

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00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 2: I want to get to everybody. Spok a USC Notre.

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00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:44,279
Speaker 10: Dame all right, USC, Notre Dame.

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00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 2: Colin out of continue?

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00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 10: Why? Yeah, Colin has gotten some ayahuasca from Aaron Rodgers probably.

1108
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:53,440
Speaker 2: What is this? Why you can't play the game in

1109
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 2: a Blizzard. It's never even played a Blizzard.

1110
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 10: Well, you know, you know what we need to do.

1111
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:00,400
Speaker 10: We need to we need to have it held in

1112
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:03,400
Speaker 10: Jerry's world with a giant snow machine and make it

1113
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 10: a blizzard. That would be terrific.

1114
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm down, I'm down, fock good listen I don't

1115
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 2: mean to be sure, but good to hear from me.

1116
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:12,319
Speaker 2: I want to get to everybody. We got to get

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00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 2: to Allen, Saint Louis, Dave and Phoenix, Andrew and Bakersfield,

1118
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:17,799
Speaker 2: John Northern California. I'm getting all of you. Thanks for

1119
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 2: so much for taking the time calling to be part

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Speaker 2: of the show. We will get to all of you.

1121
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:27,320
Speaker 2: I'm I'm Glad spock Vinson d ordering because less we forget.

1122
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 2: After winning a championship at LSU, they paid him eighteen

1123
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:33,160
Speaker 2: million dollars to go away, and when they called him in,

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00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:35,400
Speaker 2: it's hell. They were going to fire, but he was

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00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 2: getting eighteen million. He goes, all right, tell me when

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00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 2: you want to leave, and tell me where you want

1127
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 2: me to be. He could waiting at the eighteen million anyway.

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Speaker 2: I digress. I'm Bernie Frattle. We're coming to you line

1129
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 2: from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio staters. Keep it

1130
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:49,800
Speaker 2: locked the min that hour continues. You listening to the

1131
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 2: Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

1132
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:55,719
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1133
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:59,120
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1135
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Speaker 2: We're back in the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio.

1137
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 2: The midnight hour continues. We go out to Saint Louis,

1138
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 2: were joined by Alan Allen. Thanks for hanging on.

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Speaker 7: Buddy tonight talk in a while.

1140
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Speaker 2: How are you welcome back in doing well? Thanks?

1141
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 7: Thanks coming back and I'm gonna take it from the

1142
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:24,439
Speaker 7: back and we're working my way back. UFC Notre Dame.

1143
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 7: I think they should still play, and let's face it,

1144
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:30,560
Speaker 7: the question is who are they gonna be replace on

1145
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 7: the schedules with with with each team? Are they going

1146
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 7: to get another top ten school or are they going

1147
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 7: to play at San Jose State and nothing like that.

1148
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 7: Let's say, you know, with with the way the college

1149
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:46,919
Speaker 7: playoffs are now and the way they're picking teams, they're

1150
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 7: going your oh, your excuby, your Doncarper schedule is going

1151
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:56,439
Speaker 7: to have more more of an impact. And I think

1152
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 7: that if you replace it with some blood donor, that

1153
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 7: may hurt you the past, whether they if you lose

1154
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 7: USC or today if they lose each other, it may

1155
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 7: not hurt them as bad. Now far, the Dodgers are

1156
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 7: the third. I love the Dodgers are doing. I love

1157
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 7: dynasties let's face it, how many people you think were

1158
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:19,400
Speaker 7: happy Kansas City Chiefs didn't win the Super Bowl last year?

1159
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 2: A lot? Probably, Yeah, because I wasn't one of them.

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00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't. I don't roll that way, but

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Speaker 2: I get your point.

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00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 7: Yeah, they don't. They always and somebody always has to

1163
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 7: see the big the big guy get knocked off.

1164
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 2: If they win. If they win this season, I remember,

1165
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 2: it'll be their third World Series victory in five years. Yeah,

1166
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 2: that's something. And and it'd be the first time anybody's

1167
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 2: repeated in twenty five years.

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Speaker 7: Especially in baseball. You know, that's a that's a dynasty.

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00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 7: And let's face it, their picture staff is young.

1170
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Speaker 2: That four son, James Franklin, let's get yourself.

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00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 7: Okay, Matt, I'm going to ask you one more question

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00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:02,720
Speaker 7: about the Dodgers scenario. Could you imagine the game is

1173
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 7: closer to the ninetheen and them bringing no time the

1174
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 7: end of the closer? Would you like to see that?

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00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 14: No?

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00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, as a hitter or no. I would not like

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00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 2: to see it as a doctor fan. No, Tony can

1178
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 2: do anything. You can sell popcorn between an these off

1179
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:19,439
Speaker 2: you wants.

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00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 7: Yeah, Okay, As far as James franklincerned, I think James

1181
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 7: Franklin job was lost before the season even started. First

1182
00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 7: of all, the preseason polls had a rank too high,

1183
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 7: and of course people who pay attention to that, the

1184
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 7: expectations were high. What did we hear for the talking

1185
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:43,320
Speaker 7: heads on your Your network was a big network everybody.

1186
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:46,880
Speaker 7: They had a top five corn top five, top ten quarterback.

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00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 7: They had the best running back tandem in the in

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00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:54,480
Speaker 7: the country. When that didn't happen, all of a sudden,

1189
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 7: people expected to this, but they didn't get that. Then

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00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 7: they lost the You know, the loss of Oregon didn't

1191
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:04,360
Speaker 7: hurt them when they lost to the other two teams.

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01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,040
Speaker 7: I think I think that was there. That was their dollars.

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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, that because now they can't go

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01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 2: to the playoffs. The Oregon loss, they could have they

1195
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:13,560
Speaker 2: could have bounced back from right, and.

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Speaker 7: Everybody's talking about their fifty million dollars. You know, that's

1197
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,960
Speaker 7: do those the university the doesn't pay that salary. It's

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01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 7: the big boosters. So people go, oh, Fenn State from

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Speaker 7: Penn State do this. Penn State is not paying their salaries.

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Speaker 2: Well, you you bring up a really good point there,

1201
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:32,480
Speaker 2: Alan I've got some pretty good moss to tell me.

1202
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:34,760
Speaker 2: And that's not one hundred percent confirmed and not one

1203
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 2: hundred percent source. But the adities might be picking up

1204
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 2: a lot of that because they're going to be a

1205
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 2: Penn State sponsored next year. Solf.

1206
01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:45,720
Speaker 7: Yeah. Well, who's who's the biggest sponsor at Oregon Nike? Yeah,

1207
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:49,120
Speaker 7: So so every every school has big every school has

1208
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:51,840
Speaker 7: these big sponsors. And it's face it, Fenn State probably

1209
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 7: has a whole bunch of billionaire and billionaires that were

1210
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:58,560
Speaker 7: probably upset and was glad to help rate this check.

1211
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:02,400
Speaker 7: And if anybody thinks about I'll go after this about

1212
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:05,480
Speaker 7: the money, I don't care how much money they get

1213
01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 7: when they get fired. You can Jimbo Fisher Franklin if

1214
01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 7: they could coach one more game and give that money back,

1215
01:01:14,320 --> 01:01:17,919
Speaker 7: they would. No coach wants to get fired from a job.

1216
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 7: It's really humiliating because there are only a few Division

1217
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 7: I coaches take care of. Bernie is great, talk to

1218
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 7: you as always.

1219
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 2: Thanks, You're not wrong about that's a that's a that's

1220
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,480
Speaker 2: a blow to people. John in Northern California, I know

1221
01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 2: you had to go. Feel free to call back in

1222
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:36,880
Speaker 2: we go to Dave and Phoenix. Hi, Dave, how are you.

1223
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 10: Hello?

1224
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:41,040
Speaker 15: Bernie. I'm glad to talk to you and I can

1225
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:44,280
Speaker 15: cover all three topics for you here as far as

1226
01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 15: James Franklin, as far as James Franklin goes.

1227
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 7: A lot of people are saying, well, they.

1228
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 15: Had everybody coming back this year. Have these people not

1229
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 15: heard of Tyler Warren and.

1230
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 10: Have Bill Carter?

1231
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 16: Those are two pretty good players.

1232
01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think the implication it's just like two

1233
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:03,760
Speaker 2: years ago when Michigan had a bunch of guys coming back, Dave,

1234
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:05,640
Speaker 2: and last year Ohio State had a bunch of Yep,

1235
01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:09,040
Speaker 2: you're not wrong, but they had a three year starter quarterback,

1236
01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:13,040
Speaker 2: five draft choices that are projected, and the vast majority

1237
01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 2: of their starters. So, but you're not wrong. Those are

1238
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:17,560
Speaker 2: huge losses. But even with those guys, they didn't win

1239
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:19,440
Speaker 2: a damn thing. Continue on, Dave, I digress.

1240
01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 15: Okay, My point is last year they were so close

1241
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:26,960
Speaker 15: to beating Notre Dame and being in the National Title Game.

1242
01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 15: This year, obviously, they were so close to beating Oregon.

1243
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 15: They led by seven in overtime and then mysteriously they

1244
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:40,760
Speaker 15: managed to lose to U. Sala and Northwestern. But you

1245
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 15: know what, don't look now, somehow USLA in Northwestern they're

1246
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 15: both three and one in the Big Ten. I'm sure

1247
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:49,640
Speaker 15: that won't last. But Penn State did lose all three

1248
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 15: of those games back combined twelve points, and just maybe

1249
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:56,440
Speaker 15: if Drew Aller didn't get injured at the end of

1250
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:59,520
Speaker 15: that Northwestern game, they might have been able to make

1251
01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 15: that fourth down conversion and go down and kick the

1252
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 15: field goals.

1253
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 7: So I don't know. I think they should at least

1254
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:05,320
Speaker 7: let the.

1255
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 6: Season play out.

1256
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:06,520
Speaker 14: It was.

1257
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 2: It's just a no lot. Maybe more of the story

1258
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:11,920
Speaker 2: will come out, Dave. But to let a guy who's

1259
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 2: done the things he's done when seventy percent of his games,

1260
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:16,919
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera, go on ceremonies in the middle

1261
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 2: of the season like that, and I gotta ask you

1262
01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 2: real quickly, did you know? Just short answer, do you

1263
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 2: think his successor is going to do better than James

1264
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:26,080
Speaker 2: Franklin did?

1265
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:27,640
Speaker 7: Doubtful?

1266
01:03:27,880 --> 01:03:31,440
Speaker 15: I don't think so fair It's gonna be hard. Now,

1267
01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:35,320
Speaker 15: as far as the Dodgers, I must admit I'd like

1268
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 15: to see either Seattle or Toronto win the World Series.

1269
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:40,640
Speaker 15: I think I'm going to go down and make a

1270
01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 15: little bet on Blake Snell to be the MVP. As

1271
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:47,000
Speaker 15: long as it's not a four game sweep, he should

1272
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 15: be pitching in game one in game.

1273
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:50,680
Speaker 8: Five, So I kind of like that idea.

1274
01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 15: And then as far as Notre Dame USC, it's a

1275
01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:58,400
Speaker 15: great series. I think you and I can both remember

1276
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:01,600
Speaker 15: not only did the Bush push, but the Anthony Davis

1277
01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 15: six touchdowns a.

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Speaker 2: Next stay Agent, I'm so glad you brought that up,

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Speaker 2: because we are proud to be chronologically accomplished. And I

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01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 2: know my buddy Steve Hartman will remember this the next

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01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:14,640
Speaker 2: day in the LA Times and said Davis Davis, Davis, Davis,

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Speaker 2: Davis Davis six times across the top. They were trailing

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01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:21,560
Speaker 2: big time at halftime. And if I'm not mistaken, didn't

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Speaker 2: Davis Anthony Davis Dave score all six touchdowns in the

1285
01:04:25,400 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 2: second half?

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Speaker 15: Well, yeah, I think Notre Dame was up twenty four

1287
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:33,120
Speaker 15: to nothing, and then just before the half USA scored,

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01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 15: so it was twenty four to six at the half,

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01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:38,120
Speaker 15: and then it ended up fifty five to twenty four.

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Speaker 8: So right, I do somehow, I do.

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Speaker 15: Remember that I remember that game from nineteen seventy four,

1292
01:04:44,800 --> 01:04:46,920
Speaker 15: but sometimes I forget what happened ten minutes ago.

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01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:50,280
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts? And then get to that, Okay,

1294
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 2: we've already fair enough, go ahead.

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01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:55,920
Speaker 15: Yeah, I was just going to say the problem is

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01:04:55,960 --> 01:04:58,360
Speaker 15: that so many teams in college football just love to

1297
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:02,760
Speaker 15: schedule cupcakes, which to me is very unfulfilling as a fan.

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01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:05,240
Speaker 15: I don't like watching those games. So I don't know

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01:05:05,320 --> 01:05:07,680
Speaker 15: what we can do about it, but it's really a problem.

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01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:10,240
Speaker 15: And then the last time you had to call her

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01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:13,080
Speaker 15: just a minute ago, that asked whether sho hey Otani

1302
01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:15,960
Speaker 15: might actually come in and close out a game in

1303
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:18,960
Speaker 15: the World Series. Well, what about this scenario? If he

1304
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:23,360
Speaker 15: again starts only game four, Well, he'll be ready.

1305
01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:24,160
Speaker 6: If there's a game.

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01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:26,320
Speaker 15: Seven, Could he come in and close it out like

1307
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:29,160
Speaker 15: he did in the World Baseball Classic striking out Mike Trout.

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01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:32,640
Speaker 2: Oh, wouldn't that be something. I don't see that in

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01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:35,240
Speaker 2: the cards. I think they're going to keep him as

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01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 2: a starter. Great stuff, Dave, and I'd ever like to

1311
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:42,280
Speaker 2: correct people so hard. USC actually won that game forty

1312
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:46,720
Speaker 2: five twenty three. What's interesting about the Anthony Davis six touchdowns.

1313
01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:49,959
Speaker 2: Two were on kickoff returns ninety seven yards and ninety

1314
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:53,080
Speaker 2: six yards and air. Parsigeny, head coach of Notre Dame

1315
01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:56,120
Speaker 2: at the time, said we thought we could handle him.

1316
01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:57,560
Speaker 2: We weren't sure if we were going to kick to him,

1317
01:05:57,840 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 2: but forget it. He's the greatest I've ever seen in

1318
01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:04,320
Speaker 2: kickoff returns. He also scored on four rushing touchdowns. Andrew

1319
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:06,440
Speaker 2: and Bakersfield, thanks for your patience here on next.

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01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:10,000
Speaker 17: What's up Bernie? So, I don't know what to tell you.

1321
01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 17: I was sick of the dog, slept all night, all day,

1322
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:16,280
Speaker 17: woke up at ten forty six pm. I'm like, all right,

1323
01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:18,640
Speaker 17: let's go see if Bernie's on. I'll try and see

1324
01:06:18,640 --> 01:06:24,320
Speaker 17: if I can call in. So I only got that

1325
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:30,960
Speaker 17: USC Notre Dame. I think should definitely continue. UCLA USC

1326
01:06:31,200 --> 01:06:33,680
Speaker 17: is an awesome rivalry and I love it.

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01:06:34,280 --> 01:06:36,680
Speaker 2: Dodg Well, they're at the same conference, so that that's

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01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:39,720
Speaker 2: going to continue, I don't see. And that's there's something

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01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:43,439
Speaker 2: I don't know, Andrew. But what are the issues that's

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01:06:43,560 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 2: that's facing the continuation of SE Notre Dame. I mean,

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01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 2: Nick Saban has said your focus should be getting onto

1332
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:51,280
Speaker 2: the playoffs and if you had one more gauntlet to

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01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:53,760
Speaker 2: your schedule, because SC has already got a tough but

1334
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:56,880
Speaker 2: I think listen, you know, if you can beat Notre Dame,

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01:06:57,240 --> 01:06:59,040
Speaker 2: then that helps you get into the playoff. But could

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01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 2: continue on you.

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01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 17: Know, Dodgers Giants, great rivalry, yep, and you know it's

1338
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:12,960
Speaker 17: it's fun it it creates intensity. But and then Dodgers.

1339
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:17,200
Speaker 17: I guess I'll throw in a Taylor swift lyric. Okay,

1340
01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:21,160
Speaker 17: people throw rocks at things that shine, So let's go Dodgers,

1341
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:21,520
Speaker 17: let's go.

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01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:25,480
Speaker 2: And anything on James Franklin today tonight, Andrew, did we

1343
01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:29,320
Speaker 2: lose Andrew? Okay, thanks for checking in. I appreciate Okay,

1344
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:33,680
Speaker 2: thank you. So look eight seven seven nine nine six

1345
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:35,440
Speaker 2: six three six nine is still time to get in

1346
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 2: on these topics. I think we've covered some good ground

1347
01:07:39,720 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 2: and I like the objective sort of thought process. On

1348
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:48,000
Speaker 2: James Franklin. We got a tweet from Big Bad try

1349
01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 2: that again, Bernie big Rig rob Bernie number one. Franklin

1350
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:53,320
Speaker 2: should have been let go at the end of the year. See,

1351
01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:56,640
Speaker 2: I think there's some merit to that. It's there's something

1352
01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:59,240
Speaker 2: about cutting a guy and loose And I'm not really

1353
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:03,640
Speaker 2: defending Franklin per se. Something went awryther But when you

1354
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:08,000
Speaker 2: win seventy percent of your games, Big ten championships, made

1355
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:12,080
Speaker 2: the playoffs last year, repeated you know, repeated success in

1356
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 2: New Year's six Bowls. He coached eighteen All Americans, fifty

1357
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:19,919
Speaker 2: nine draft picks, seven Top ten finishes, seven Top twenty finishes,

1358
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:22,760
Speaker 2: five top ten finishes. I get it. He's four and

1359
01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:27,880
Speaker 2: twenty one against against you know, ranked teams, doing twenty

1360
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:31,200
Speaker 2: against top five teams. So you're not gonna get Kurt Signetti.

1361
01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:33,120
Speaker 2: He'd had been crazy to go there, but Indiana took

1362
01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:34,880
Speaker 2: care of that this week, so you don't have to

1363
01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:38,080
Speaker 2: worry about that. You mentioned Matt Rule. Well, I like

1364
01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:41,720
Speaker 2: Matt Rule and he's at Penn State alum. But has

1365
01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:44,280
Speaker 2: he beat ranked teams at Nebraska? Is he doing in

1366
01:08:44,360 --> 01:08:47,120
Speaker 2: Nebraska what Kurt Signetti did at Indiana?

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01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:47,600
Speaker 14: No?

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01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:53,120
Speaker 2: I did. Matt Rule played linebacker at Penn State. Great, Okay,

1369
01:08:54,040 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 2: you got rid of a guy and James Franklin that

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01:08:56,920 --> 01:08:59,320
Speaker 2: had quote I say this in quotes air quotes, big

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01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:02,519
Speaker 2: game issues. Okay, he did well. Matt Rule has lost

1372
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:05,519
Speaker 2: eighteen straight games against top twenty five opponents. All right,

1373
01:09:05,560 --> 01:09:08,280
Speaker 2: you wont Mike Elko Elko acc Coach of the Year

1374
01:09:08,320 --> 01:09:12,080
Speaker 2: in his first season as Duke's head coach. He's done

1375
01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:14,760
Speaker 2: a pretty good job at Texas A and M. The

1376
01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:18,640
Speaker 2: Aggies are undefeated this year. But does he pick up

1377
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:23,640
Speaker 2: where James Franklin left off? Can you know you have

1378
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:27,680
Speaker 2: no assurance to that? Darryl Griffith said, hell, yes, he

1379
01:09:27,840 --> 01:09:32,559
Speaker 2: deserved to go. He's talking about James Franklin. How many

1380
01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:36,560
Speaker 2: more big games would you like? Small game James to

1381
01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:40,280
Speaker 2: lose a dozen years worth? Isn't that enough for Penn State?

1382
01:09:40,360 --> 01:09:42,320
Speaker 2: If you ever wanted to make money, wait for a

1383
01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:44,200
Speaker 2: big game. Bet Penn States to pull him in a

1384
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:47,720
Speaker 2: big game and you hit big. James stinks And I

1385
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 2: can't argue with Darryl's premise because it's very simple. The

1386
01:09:52,040 --> 01:09:55,479
Speaker 2: bottom line is they paid him, they wanted to win

1387
01:09:55,520 --> 01:09:58,240
Speaker 2: a national championship. We'll get to more some of these

1388
01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:02,240
Speaker 2: tweets in a minute. Martin in Orange, California joint just

1389
01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:02,720
Speaker 2: welcome and.

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01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:05,759
Speaker 7: Martin, Hey, Bernie, how get do it? Tonight?

1391
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:06,000
Speaker 8: Man?

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01:10:06,439 --> 01:10:06,960
Speaker 2: Good? Thank you?

1393
01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:11,160
Speaker 11: Run down the topics for me one more time.

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01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:13,400
Speaker 2: Please let me start with James Franklin. Was it the

1395
01:10:13,479 --> 01:10:15,519
Speaker 2: right decision to fire him? Was it the right decision

1396
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:18,080
Speaker 2: to fire him? Five games end of the season and

1397
01:10:18,680 --> 01:10:23,200
Speaker 2: will his successor improve over what James Franklin did. Then

1398
01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:25,639
Speaker 2: you got see Notre Dame. Are they going to continue

1399
01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:28,479
Speaker 2: that rivalry? And the Dodgers if they win the World Series,

1400
01:10:28,840 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 2: you're talking potential dynasty three and five years? Is that

1401
01:10:31,400 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 2: good for baseball?

1402
01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:37,720
Speaker 11: On with Franklin? In my opinion, I wouldn't have fired him,

1403
01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:40,680
Speaker 11: but I wouldn't have fired him for this reason. I

1404
01:10:40,720 --> 01:10:43,960
Speaker 11: don't want the intern to succeed and then I'm stuck

1405
01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 11: hiring that guy because of the turnaround he had for

1406
01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:48,679
Speaker 11: the season.

1407
01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:50,160
Speaker 7: I would have kept my.

1408
01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:52,200
Speaker 11: Coach for the end of the season, fired him at

1409
01:10:52,240 --> 01:10:54,560
Speaker 11: the end of the season, hired who I wanted. But

1410
01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:57,720
Speaker 11: Penn State is a little bit ungrateful because I don't

1411
01:10:57,760 --> 01:10:59,880
Speaker 11: know if they remember where they were before.

1412
01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:01,760
Speaker 2: I talked about that at the top of the show.

1413
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 2: It's an excellent point. He took over right after the

1414
01:11:05,600 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 2: Jerry Sandusky debacle, when Penn State was completely in the doldrums,

1415
01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:10,360
Speaker 2: and he turned them around.

1416
01:11:11,360 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 11: I exactly agree with you, Bernie, So, I mean, they

1417
01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:17,920
Speaker 11: should really think about where they were before they hired

1418
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:24,400
Speaker 11: this man. I'm in la so the Dodgers being a dynasty,

1419
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:30,280
Speaker 11: I don't know, Bertie. I mean, I'm kind of torn

1420
01:11:30,360 --> 01:11:33,120
Speaker 11: because I love walking the excellence and walking how that

1421
01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:38,280
Speaker 11: organization is run. But then again, they just started winning, like,

1422
01:11:38,439 --> 01:11:40,200
Speaker 11: you know, in the last five years. I mean, because

1423
01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:44,160
Speaker 11: they've been dominant for about eleven years, so they just

1424
01:11:44,240 --> 01:11:46,519
Speaker 11: started going to these World Series the least five years

1425
01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:49,040
Speaker 11: and people are getting upset. And I get it, the

1426
01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:54,240
Speaker 11: evil Empire, like the Yankees, like the Lakers, like the Celtics.

1427
01:11:54,439 --> 01:11:56,920
Speaker 11: When you start winning, people hate you for some reason,

1428
01:11:57,320 --> 01:11:58,440
Speaker 11: like the Chiefs.

1429
01:11:58,800 --> 01:11:58,960
Speaker 18: You know.

1430
01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:02,680
Speaker 11: But me personally, I'm not a Dodger fan. I'm an

1431
01:12:02,680 --> 01:12:05,840
Speaker 11: Angel fan. But I enjoyed the excellence they run. Maybe

1432
01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:09,599
Speaker 11: it's because I followed an organization that is completely shocked.

1433
01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:15,160
Speaker 11: Last name SC.

1434
01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:22,280
Speaker 2: Currently there's not one schedule they got to continue it.

1435
01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:25,320
Speaker 11: Yeah, I have I have a I have a few

1436
01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:29,680
Speaker 11: buddies that are SC fans, and they're always telling me

1437
01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:33,599
Speaker 11: how great this Notre Dame se rivalry is and it's

1438
01:12:33,680 --> 01:12:35,479
Speaker 11: the national attention, and.

1439
01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:37,280
Speaker 9: This is I'm like, you know what, guys, I gotta

1440
01:12:37,320 --> 01:12:37,560
Speaker 9: get it.

1441
01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:41,760
Speaker 11: I understand it. I understand the history that goes with

1442
01:12:41,880 --> 01:12:45,439
Speaker 11: the game. But unless you're a Notre Dame or a

1443
01:12:45,560 --> 01:12:47,599
Speaker 11: USC fan. I don't think it has.

1444
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 7: The same type of fool as.

1445
01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:52,400
Speaker 11: Maybe something like an Army on Navy game where the

1446
01:12:52,439 --> 01:12:57,719
Speaker 11: whole country gets behind. That's just my penman, Ernie. Once again,

1447
01:12:57,800 --> 01:12:59,880
Speaker 11: I'm not a big Children fan. I'm a Bruins fan.

1448
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:02,960
Speaker 11: Go in, Chla, have a good night, Bernie.

1449
01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:05,840
Speaker 2: Thanks for checking in, Martin. And yeah, I'm really happy

1450
01:13:05,880 --> 01:13:09,880
Speaker 2: for Jerry newheisls written new class acts and you know

1451
01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:13,719
Speaker 2: they had athletes at UCLA. It was just a matter

1452
01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:16,720
Speaker 2: of getting after it. And boy, three weeks in a

1453
01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:19,400
Speaker 2: row coming up, we wrap up the bed Night Hour

1454
01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:21,840
Speaker 2: eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine.

1455
01:13:22,680 --> 01:13:24,599
Speaker 2: I will tell you why I think dynasties are good

1456
01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:26,760
Speaker 2: for sports. And if the Dodgers do win this year,

1457
01:13:27,320 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 2: that's three and five years, okay, And we haven't had

1458
01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:33,439
Speaker 2: a repeat champion in twenty five years, so just think

1459
01:13:33,479 --> 01:13:35,240
Speaker 2: about that for a minute. By the way, with the

1460
01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:37,800
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app, you can stream us wherever you happen to be.

1461
01:13:38,280 --> 01:13:40,479
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1462
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1463
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1464
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:49,200
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1465
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Speaker 2: sure to select. Fox Sports Radio is one of your

1466
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Speaker 2: presets in the iHeart app, so we'll always pop up

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Speaker 14: Up.

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Speaker 2: We continue with the midnight Hour and we have his

1470
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Speaker 2: special guests, the Legend Manuel and Guardina. He's up next.

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Speaker 2: I'm Bernie Frattle. We're coming to your line from Las Vegas,

1472
01:14:09,640 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Studios. Keep it luck here listening to

1473
01:14:12,360 --> 01:14:14,519
Speaker 2: the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. All right,

1474
01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:17,000
Speaker 2: back on the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio. Wrap

1475
01:14:17,160 --> 01:14:18,920
Speaker 2: it up at the minnight hour, and we are pleased

1476
01:14:18,960 --> 01:14:23,280
Speaker 2: to welcome and and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.

1477
01:14:24,400 --> 01:14:27,439
Speaker 2: Wake the kids, Alert the neighbors. Grandpa put on pants

1478
01:14:27,520 --> 01:14:31,439
Speaker 2: as we welcome in the Legend Manuel in Guardina, Manuel,

1479
01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:32,200
Speaker 2: take it away.

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01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:37,360
Speaker 16: I just want to celebrate.

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01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 7: Back.

1482
01:14:39,720 --> 01:14:42,560
Speaker 9: Hey, Bernie, you know I love you, baby, and I

1483
01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:49,559
Speaker 9: love these topices. Check it all these sy baby fans

1484
01:14:49,720 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 9: of the other teams that are not the Dodgers losing

1485
01:14:54,479 --> 01:14:59,320
Speaker 9: their ash about salary caps and g food money.

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01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:00,880
Speaker 11: I sat check, Bernie.

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01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:03,120
Speaker 8: We all played this by the same moves, right all teams.

1488
01:15:04,280 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 2: You know I've talked about this earlier in the year

1489
01:15:06,479 --> 01:15:09,200
Speaker 2: that there are multiple Dodger players who took less to

1490
01:15:09,240 --> 01:15:13,600
Speaker 2: stay with the organization and anyway, continue on it. You

1491
01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:14,120
Speaker 2: got the floor.

1492
01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:17,720
Speaker 18: No, no, you're right and see and now what's the

1493
01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:23,080
Speaker 18: key like with Tom Brady with even are you the man?

1494
01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:23,800
Speaker 7: That's what?

1495
01:15:24,240 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 17: Yeah?

1496
01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:27,400
Speaker 2: Okay, we lost you for a minute. Could you continue on?

1497
01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:30,760
Speaker 18: But yeah, I was just that was the same basically, man,

1498
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:33,880
Speaker 18: that's the way to do it. You know, winners take

1499
01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:37,120
Speaker 18: less sometimes if they want to win. Don't be mad

1500
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:39,920
Speaker 18: at the player, be mad at the game, be mad

1501
01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:43,719
Speaker 18: at your owners. The rest of you fans, stop bitching,

1502
01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:47,360
Speaker 18: getch your own because that's what we did. We've been

1503
01:15:47,439 --> 01:15:49,600
Speaker 18: through long, hard years.

1504
01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:52,320
Speaker 8: You know, twenty long hard years. Finally the last ten

1505
01:15:52,439 --> 01:15:55,560
Speaker 8: years have been really paying off and we're here for it.

1506
01:15:56,120 --> 01:16:01,200
Speaker 8: As far as the other things you were saying, James Franklin, Oh,

1507
01:16:01,320 --> 01:16:02,440
Speaker 8: James Franklin.

1508
01:16:02,080 --> 01:16:04,880
Speaker 2: Go ahead, going the other one. Those are the two topics, Well.

1509
01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:08,000
Speaker 18: I was gonna say, you know, notre game, man, This

1510
01:16:08,200 --> 01:16:14,280
Speaker 18: guy uh is showing like a little bit of cowardice. Man, Riley,

1511
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:16,160
Speaker 18: I mean, what are you talking about? I mean, you're

1512
01:16:17,160 --> 01:16:19,200
Speaker 18: shouldn't be scared to note the game. You shouldn't be

1513
01:16:19,240 --> 01:16:20,160
Speaker 18: bitching about nothing.

1514
01:16:20,640 --> 01:16:24,240
Speaker 8: Put that program back where it needs to do. Your

1515
01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:30,680
Speaker 8: damn job. Last week James Franklin's and that was a

1516
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:33,599
Speaker 8: good comp You know, Ohio State would always get double

1517
01:16:33,680 --> 01:16:36,439
Speaker 8: digit wins but never could get that big one. Seems

1518
01:16:36,520 --> 01:16:38,720
Speaker 8: like the same thing with James Franklin. Only time will

1519
01:16:38,760 --> 01:16:42,679
Speaker 8: tell if if the next guy is better. But if

1520
01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:46,080
Speaker 8: I was Penn State, I would definitely be going with

1521
01:16:46,800 --> 01:16:49,719
Speaker 8: Matt Rule. That's all I got for you, Bernie.

1522
01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:54,600
Speaker 2: Love appreciate, appreciate the energy as as always, and I

1523
01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:57,760
Speaker 2: want to talk about dynasties. And look, people can debate

1524
01:16:57,840 --> 01:16:59,720
Speaker 2: whether or not if the Dodgers win it this year,

1525
01:17:00,760 --> 01:17:02,400
Speaker 2: is it a dynasty. Well, if you win three in

1526
01:17:02,479 --> 01:17:05,800
Speaker 2: five years, when we haven't anybody repeat in twenty five

1527
01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:10,240
Speaker 2: years and they would repeat, you can have that conversation.

1528
01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:13,160
Speaker 2: But I also think the Dodgers would be favorites to

1529
01:17:13,640 --> 01:17:17,360
Speaker 2: come back next year and do it again. And Manuel

1530
01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:20,040
Speaker 2: brought up a good point about you know, they didn't

1531
01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:23,240
Speaker 2: just spend their way into a championship. I've talked about

1532
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 2: this in past shows, where we have records that show

1533
01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:32,960
Speaker 2: that spending money doesn't give you a World series always

1534
01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:36,639
Speaker 2: usually it doesn't. But the top five spending teams usually

1535
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:39,120
Speaker 2: give you a good regular season, which leads to more

1536
01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:41,960
Speaker 2: tenants and more revenues. But it's not just about money

1537
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:44,080
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers. Otherwise, I want to they did something

1538
01:17:44,240 --> 01:17:47,560
Speaker 2: very shrewd. No one's even talking about. Right before the

1539
01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:53,240
Speaker 2: National Legue Championship Series. There are three top free agents

1540
01:17:53,280 --> 01:17:56,120
Speaker 2: that they signed last year, Michael Conford, O Tanner Scott

1541
01:17:56,280 --> 01:17:59,840
Speaker 2: and Kirby Eates. They left him off the NLCS roster.

1542
01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:02,840
Speaker 2: And these are guys that people were upset about when

1543
01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:05,920
Speaker 2: the season started. Cost too much money, YadA YadA ya.

1544
01:18:06,360 --> 01:18:10,160
Speaker 2: Couldford have made seventeen million this year, Scott made sixteen million,

1545
01:18:10,240 --> 01:18:12,280
Speaker 2: Yates thirteen millions. So they make a total of forty

1546
01:18:12,320 --> 01:18:15,160
Speaker 2: six million. That doesn't include the costs of the luxury tax,

1547
01:18:15,560 --> 01:18:18,360
Speaker 2: which would have been lower. Without those three players. The

1548
01:18:18,479 --> 01:18:21,479
Speaker 2: Dodgers said, well, we're not bringing you along. Yeah, we

1549
01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:23,519
Speaker 2: may have spent the money on you, but you're not

1550
01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:27,479
Speaker 2: going to make the NLCS roster. That's shrewd. No one's

1551
01:18:27,520 --> 01:18:33,840
Speaker 2: talking about that now. Dynasties that are good. They again,

1552
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:37,240
Speaker 2: it creates a compelling narrative. You're someone bring up the

1553
01:18:37,320 --> 01:18:39,760
Speaker 2: chiefs Earlier we've heard people bring up the Golden State

1554
01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 2: Warriors or Yankees whatever. It drives fan interest on both sides.

1555
01:18:44,400 --> 01:18:47,080
Speaker 2: Because some people hate the Dodgers, some people love the Dodgers.

1556
01:18:47,160 --> 01:18:51,400
Speaker 2: But the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

1557
01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:55,040
Speaker 2: You have to have that same emotion invested to hate

1558
01:18:55,120 --> 01:18:57,439
Speaker 2: something as you do to love it, whether it's a

1559
01:18:57,479 --> 01:19:00,920
Speaker 2: ball club or whatever. This creates a long term legacy,

1560
01:19:00,960 --> 01:19:05,080
Speaker 2: It inspires future generations. It does things sustain success like this.

1561
01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:07,639
Speaker 2: And I can't say I'm a Dodger fan, per se.

1562
01:19:08,960 --> 01:19:11,840
Speaker 2: I respect excellence. I respect what the chiefs have done.

1563
01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:14,720
Speaker 2: And the truth of the matter is it's created in

1564
01:19:14,760 --> 01:19:20,479
Speaker 2: a tremendous economic impact in Los Angeles, but in any

1565
01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:24,280
Speaker 2: walk of life when you define excellence like Nick Saban

1566
01:19:24,320 --> 01:19:27,080
Speaker 2: did at Alabama and people got tired of him. I'd

1567
01:19:27,120 --> 01:19:31,200
Speaker 2: never did. But they represent sort of this rare and

1568
01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:37,880
Speaker 2: really compelling combination of talent, strategy, determination, consistency that people

1569
01:19:38,120 --> 01:19:40,519
Speaker 2: admire and they want some for themselves and are just

1570
01:19:40,680 --> 01:19:43,120
Speaker 2: not sure how to get it. By the way, dynasties

1571
01:19:43,160 --> 01:19:46,799
Speaker 2: are highly marketable. Remember the nineties Bulls, the New England Patriots.

1572
01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:49,519
Speaker 2: You may not like them, but dynasties are actually good

1573
01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 2: for Sports. So the Dodgers, you can't crown them yet

1574
01:19:53,600 --> 01:19:56,519
Speaker 2: at all. And we don't know who their opponent would

1575
01:19:56,520 --> 01:19:59,600
Speaker 2: be yet. Big game Sunday night between the Mariners and

1576
01:19:59,680 --> 01:20:02,360
Speaker 2: the Jayson coming up. Guess what starts Tuesday?

1577
01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:02,880
Speaker 10: The NBA.

1578
01:20:02,920 --> 01:20:05,800
Speaker 2: It's time for our NBA guru, Mark Medina, He joins us. Next,

1579
01:20:06,240 --> 01:20:08,559
Speaker 2: keep it locked. You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show

1580
01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:10,080
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio.

1581
01:20:11,360 --> 01:20:14,040
Speaker 1: Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

1582
01:20:14,439 --> 01:20:17,000
Speaker 2: That's right, you heard the man. Bernie Frattle Show keeps

1583
01:20:17,120 --> 01:20:19,439
Speaker 2: rolling right along. My name is Bernie Fraddle, who comes

1584
01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:22,600
Speaker 2: you live for the Fox Sports Radio studios here in

1585
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:28,360
Speaker 2: La Vegas. Take after three am Pacific and six am Eastern.

1586
01:20:28,840 --> 01:20:32,360
Speaker 2: And don't look now, but Tuesday night it all begins again.

1587
01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:37,040
Speaker 2: We're talking about the National Basketball Association. Three simple words.

1588
01:20:37,080 --> 01:20:42,559
Speaker 2: It's that time. Mark Medina back in the fold. Medina Magic,

1589
01:20:42,640 --> 01:20:45,479
Speaker 2: our Fox Sports Radio NBA guru and a writer for

1590
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:50,160
Speaker 2: essentially sports, joins us. Mark. It's upon us. The future

1591
01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:53,200
Speaker 2: always has a way of a riding, arriving ahead.

1592
01:20:52,920 --> 01:20:56,400
Speaker 16: Of schedule, Bernie, it sure does. And I know that

1593
01:20:56,479 --> 01:20:59,280
Speaker 16: there's a lot to unpack. I presume you'll have Lebron

1594
01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:02,519
Speaker 16: James and re update questions. I'm sure you'll have even

1595
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:04,959
Speaker 16: Browny James injury update questions.

1596
01:21:05,520 --> 01:21:08,519
Speaker 2: Hell, we might even do Bryce James the whole clarity. Well,

1597
01:21:08,560 --> 01:21:13,000
Speaker 2: who knows it?

1598
01:21:13,080 --> 01:21:17,120
Speaker 16: Forth, Lebron made it known he's not weighing on that timeline,

1599
01:21:17,240 --> 01:21:18,160
Speaker 16: so well I got.

1600
01:21:18,200 --> 01:21:23,120
Speaker 2: To tell you, yeah, sure whatever, Hey, no, in all seriousness, Okay,

1601
01:21:23,680 --> 01:21:27,879
Speaker 2: because I delve into this, Let's talk about Lebron's injury.

1602
01:21:29,040 --> 01:21:32,120
Speaker 2: It was reported what three to four weeks? Not buying it.

1603
01:21:32,520 --> 01:21:34,880
Speaker 2: I'm told we joked about this a couple of weeks ago,

1604
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:37,400
Speaker 2: the paint of the button. Now it's to sciatica, and

1605
01:21:37,520 --> 01:21:40,160
Speaker 2: he's been dealing with us since early summer. I'm going

1606
01:21:40,200 --> 01:21:43,719
Speaker 2: to predict we don't see Lebron on the floor till December.

1607
01:21:43,760 --> 01:21:45,880
Speaker 2: I'm going to predict he misses twenty games. This is

1608
01:21:45,880 --> 01:21:49,000
Speaker 2: a serious injury. And that's why I bring you on, Mark,

1609
01:21:49,040 --> 01:21:50,599
Speaker 2: because you can set the record straight, or you can

1610
01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:51,439
Speaker 2: give me your rejoinder.

1611
01:21:52,479 --> 01:21:55,080
Speaker 16: I think everything's on the table. You know, you could

1612
01:21:55,120 --> 01:21:58,680
Speaker 16: be very well right, but who knows. I mean, sciatica

1613
01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:02,360
Speaker 16: is a very serious injury. Now, I'm always saying this

1614
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:06,280
Speaker 16: for some perspective, but I think for Minors, saying the

1615
01:22:06,439 --> 01:22:09,400
Speaker 16: nature of the injury is different. But Steve Nash had

1616
01:22:09,600 --> 01:22:13,400
Speaker 16: sciatic issues during the tail end of his career and

1617
01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:16,840
Speaker 16: entering training camp in the twenty fourteen to fifteen season.

1618
01:22:16,880 --> 01:22:20,639
Speaker 16: You know what happened that season. Just before the regular

1619
01:22:20,720 --> 01:22:22,760
Speaker 16: season started, they announced that he would be out for

1620
01:22:22,840 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 16: the entire season, and then he eventually announced his retirement

1621
01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:33,200
Speaker 16: towards spring. So what your prediction is, it's not unreasonable,

1622
01:22:33,400 --> 01:22:36,640
Speaker 16: but I think for what it's worth, the nature of

1623
01:22:36,760 --> 01:22:40,519
Speaker 16: this specific injury is not as severe, and so I

1624
01:22:40,600 --> 01:22:45,920
Speaker 16: also want to be surprised that projected November timeline hits.

1625
01:22:46,120 --> 01:22:49,839
Speaker 16: But the bottom line is this anything can happen. Because

1626
01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:53,040
Speaker 16: when you're at forty years old about to turn forty

1627
01:22:53,120 --> 01:22:57,240
Speaker 16: one in December thirtieth, Father time doesn't just throw a

1628
01:22:57,320 --> 01:22:59,800
Speaker 16: bunch of punches with his right hand and his left hand.

1629
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:03,120
Speaker 16: Of a sudden, there's multiple hands that are throwing jobs

1630
01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:03,360
Speaker 16: at you.

1631
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:08,440
Speaker 2: Well, the thing that's concerning I think, in all seriousness,

1632
01:23:09,000 --> 01:23:11,720
Speaker 2: he's been dealing with this for almost three months now,

1633
01:23:12,479 --> 01:23:14,760
Speaker 2: so it hasn't healed to this point. I guess it

1634
01:23:14,840 --> 01:23:17,679
Speaker 2: was just a routine offseason workout. And to your point,

1635
01:23:17,760 --> 01:23:20,400
Speaker 2: Marcus spot on. He's forty one, he's got a lot

1636
01:23:20,439 --> 01:23:22,479
Speaker 2: of mileage on that body, going up and down ninety

1637
01:23:22,479 --> 01:23:24,800
Speaker 2: four feet on wooden floors for the last twenty five years.

1638
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:28,600
Speaker 2: So he's not going to heal as fast as he

1639
01:23:29,040 --> 01:23:33,000
Speaker 2: normally would. So it's a wait and see situation. You'll

1640
01:23:33,040 --> 01:23:35,880
Speaker 2: be on with me every show. I'm going to predict.

1641
01:23:36,080 --> 01:23:37,439
Speaker 2: I'm not wishing it on him, but I'm going to

1642
01:23:37,479 --> 01:23:39,479
Speaker 2: predict you're not going to see him before December.

1643
01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:43,200
Speaker 16: Well, think about this, Bernie. Even in the best case

1644
01:23:43,240 --> 01:23:47,479
Speaker 16: scenario mid December, that already knocks him out about fourteen games.

1645
01:23:48,240 --> 01:23:51,519
Speaker 16: And you know it's an eighty two game schedule. But

1646
01:23:52,240 --> 01:23:55,920
Speaker 16: there's an old adage in the NBA that front offices

1647
01:23:55,960 --> 01:23:59,160
Speaker 16: can evaluate a team after twenty five games, and so

1648
01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:03,080
Speaker 16: that the huge chunk of games where in the wild

1649
01:24:03,160 --> 01:24:06,120
Speaker 16: Wow Western Conference, where there's a bunch of teams that

1650
01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:09,200
Speaker 16: are worthy of making the playoffs, are worthy of making

1651
01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:12,559
Speaker 16: the plan, this is going to matter now. I think

1652
01:24:12,600 --> 01:24:15,680
Speaker 16: the saving grace that the Lakers have is they have

1653
01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 16: this player named Luka Dodgic on their team who's not

1654
01:24:18,960 --> 01:24:21,720
Speaker 16: only a really great player, but I think he'll win

1655
01:24:21,840 --> 01:24:25,400
Speaker 16: MVP this season. He's in you know, tip top shape.

1656
01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:29,960
Speaker 16: He's a lot healthier than he was last season. You

1657
01:24:30,040 --> 01:24:33,040
Speaker 16: know that the Lakers aren't championship contenders, but they do

1658
01:24:33,360 --> 01:24:37,120
Speaker 16: have a better roster around Luca with having a lob

1659
01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:40,120
Speaker 16: threat pick and roll partner with DeAndre Aid and some

1660
01:24:40,360 --> 01:24:42,760
Speaker 16: good defenders in the backcourt that can help them with

1661
01:24:42,880 --> 01:24:47,160
Speaker 16: Marcus Smart and Gave Vincent and so we've seen Luka

1662
01:24:47,240 --> 01:24:50,479
Speaker 16: Dodgrich carry a team on his back, and so I

1663
01:24:50,560 --> 01:24:54,200
Speaker 16: think that's the thing that gives the Lakers at least

1664
01:24:54,280 --> 01:24:58,880
Speaker 16: some relative calm that from a bottom line results standpoint,

1665
01:24:59,600 --> 01:25:02,640
Speaker 16: Lucas single handedly can at least make sure that they

1666
01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:04,680
Speaker 16: have a winning record while Lebron's out.

1667
01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:08,320
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you mentioned Gabe Vincent because it's my

1668
01:25:08,439 --> 01:25:12,760
Speaker 2: understanding that Gabe Vincent will start in Lebron's absence. Is

1669
01:25:12,800 --> 01:25:14,360
Speaker 2: that true? We're talking about a guy who average is

1670
01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:17,920
Speaker 2: about six points a game. He's six foot two. That

1671
01:25:18,040 --> 01:25:20,200
Speaker 2: in and of itself doesn't mean anything. But if you're

1672
01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:22,559
Speaker 2: six foot two, why not start? Brownie James what they out.

1673
01:25:26,040 --> 01:25:29,640
Speaker 16: Jokes tonight, well even more than he normally do.

1674
01:25:30,360 --> 01:25:33,160
Speaker 2: Don't forget to try the semi boneless spaghetti In all seriousness.

1675
01:25:33,160 --> 01:25:35,400
Speaker 2: Am I right about the gay Vincent thing? Though?

1676
01:25:35,880 --> 01:25:38,360
Speaker 16: Well, yes, let me parse us through though, because he's

1677
01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:42,759
Speaker 16: not the definitive starter. He started the preseason finale against

1678
01:25:42,800 --> 01:25:43,280
Speaker 16: the Kings.

1679
01:25:43,400 --> 01:25:43,600
Speaker 14: J J.

1680
01:25:43,800 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 16: Reddick made it clear that outside of Lebron and players

1681
01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:50,080
Speaker 16: that weren't available, that this would be their final so

1682
01:25:50,240 --> 01:25:53,519
Speaker 16: called dress rehearsal of what the Starry lineup would look

1683
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:56,280
Speaker 16: like opening night. So game Vincent is going to be

1684
01:25:56,360 --> 01:25:59,800
Speaker 16: that fifth starter opening night against the Warriors. But JJ

1685
01:26:00,040 --> 01:26:03,000
Speaker 16: red at caution that the starting lineup is very much

1686
01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:05,680
Speaker 16: subject to change, So I don't know how much of

1687
01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:08,599
Speaker 16: a sample size he's going to give that, but it's

1688
01:26:08,680 --> 01:26:12,000
Speaker 16: going to be fluid now. Gave Vincent is a respectable player.

1689
01:26:12,080 --> 01:26:15,160
Speaker 16: He has been hitting a lot of good shots in preseason.

1690
01:26:15,200 --> 01:26:17,559
Speaker 16: I know it's preseason basketball, but he was a pretty

1691
01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:20,080
Speaker 16: good player on the Miami Heat team that went to

1692
01:26:20,120 --> 01:26:23,560
Speaker 16: the finals in twenty twenty three. But I think the

1693
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:25,720
Speaker 16: other thing is he's a good locker room guy. He's

1694
01:26:25,760 --> 01:26:29,320
Speaker 16: a great defender, you know, on the perimeter, so he's

1695
01:26:29,400 --> 01:26:32,200
Speaker 16: going to shield Luca from some of that responsibility. But

1696
01:26:33,160 --> 01:26:36,240
Speaker 16: I will say that starting lineup combination did surprise some

1697
01:26:36,400 --> 01:26:42,360
Speaker 16: Laker fans because even in today's NBA positionless basketball, they

1698
01:26:42,439 --> 01:26:46,000
Speaker 16: are a pretty small lineup with you know, three guards

1699
01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:50,000
Speaker 16: in the starting lineup. But you know, it's imperfect solutions

1700
01:26:50,200 --> 01:26:54,200
Speaker 16: and gave a respectable player. But I think it is

1701
01:26:54,320 --> 01:26:57,200
Speaker 16: going to be matchup driven and if they do find

1702
01:26:57,280 --> 01:27:01,480
Speaker 16: a team that has a lot more size, they'll adjust accordingly.

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01:27:02,479 --> 01:27:05,320
Speaker 2: Talk Mark Medina or Fox Sports Radio, NBA Gur writer

1704
01:27:05,479 --> 01:27:09,800
Speaker 2: for Essentially Sports. I want to get into a very

1705
01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:11,680
Speaker 2: meaty topic, I think, and that's what we do in

1706
01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:15,080
Speaker 2: our segment. After a six year break, the NBA is

1707
01:27:15,160 --> 01:27:19,600
Speaker 2: returning to China, and I guess the Brooklyn Nets and

1708
01:27:19,640 --> 01:27:23,800
Speaker 2: Phoenix Suns played a preseason game there. But here's the

1709
01:27:23,880 --> 01:27:28,040
Speaker 2: situation coming out of the twenty nineteen dispute with you know,

1710
01:27:28,320 --> 01:27:31,759
Speaker 2: Darryl Morey posted a tweet about the Hong Kong protesters,

1711
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:35,000
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. It's taken a long time to reconcile,

1712
01:27:35,240 --> 01:27:38,320
Speaker 2: and China is a kind of a crucial market for

1713
01:27:38,439 --> 01:27:42,200
Speaker 2: the NBA. They have a massive fan base. What is

1714
01:27:42,280 --> 01:27:45,640
Speaker 2: your prognosis for a future relationship with the NBA and

1715
01:27:45,760 --> 01:27:47,759
Speaker 2: China and can it be what it was in the past.

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01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:50,840
Speaker 16: Yeah, I think that this was kind of the first

1717
01:27:50,880 --> 01:27:53,800
Speaker 16: sign of back to normal. You know, I think that

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01:27:54,040 --> 01:27:56,720
Speaker 16: the fascinating thing with this is that there were a

1719
01:27:56,800 --> 01:27:59,720
Speaker 16: lot of stages. Even though you know, the NBA got

1720
01:27:59,720 --> 01:28:03,719
Speaker 16: a lot of criticism for its business relationships with China

1721
01:28:03,840 --> 01:28:07,760
Speaker 16: because of the theratarian government and their human rights violations.

1722
01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:11,640
Speaker 16: You know, when there was a lot of outrage for

1723
01:28:11,840 --> 01:28:16,000
Speaker 16: Daryl Moury, you know, supporting the Hong Kong protesters, in

1724
01:28:16,840 --> 01:28:23,479
Speaker 16: the NBA's defense, they you know, defended his freedom of speech.

1725
01:28:24,160 --> 01:28:28,280
Speaker 16: They waved off any pressure from the Chinese government from

1726
01:28:28,360 --> 01:28:31,439
Speaker 16: actually firing Daryl Moury. They made it clear like Daryl

1727
01:28:31,479 --> 01:28:34,360
Speaker 16: Mory's not a league official, he works for an actual team.

1728
01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:38,720
Speaker 16: So they did stand up for those things. Now, they

1729
01:28:38,800 --> 01:28:42,160
Speaker 16: did essentially tell everyone, you know, shut up and dribble,

1730
01:28:42,200 --> 01:28:47,120
Speaker 16: don't get into politics when you're in China. But the

1731
01:28:47,240 --> 01:28:51,760
Speaker 16: reason why it took five years wasn't just about you know,

1732
01:28:52,000 --> 01:28:55,880
Speaker 16: letting the temperature calm down. You know, the pandemic complicated

1733
01:28:56,000 --> 01:28:59,840
Speaker 16: things because they couldn't even travel anyway. So you know,

1734
01:29:00,280 --> 01:29:03,280
Speaker 16: it took a few years for all those things to

1735
01:29:03,360 --> 01:29:08,519
Speaker 16: settle put but before twenty nineteen, the NBA was having

1736
01:29:08,880 --> 01:29:13,000
Speaker 16: you know, preseason events in China every year, so I

1737
01:29:13,160 --> 01:29:16,479
Speaker 16: expect that's what it's going to be moving forward. And

1738
01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:21,200
Speaker 16: they've often done that in other places too. They've done

1739
01:29:21,240 --> 01:29:23,920
Speaker 16: that in India, They've done that in London, They've done

1740
01:29:23,920 --> 01:29:26,559
Speaker 16: that in Spain, They're starting to do it in Mexico City.

1741
01:29:27,680 --> 01:29:31,240
Speaker 16: The NBA cares about domestic audience and they don't want

1742
01:29:31,280 --> 01:29:33,720
Speaker 16: to lose sight of that, but they also know that

1743
01:29:34,240 --> 01:29:37,679
Speaker 16: going global has been a huge innovator on why it's

1744
01:29:38,280 --> 01:29:41,519
Speaker 16: become such a popular league, getting back to the ninety

1745
01:29:41,560 --> 01:29:45,479
Speaker 16: two Dream Team in the Olympics in Barcelona. So it's

1746
01:29:45,520 --> 01:29:49,320
Speaker 16: a significant revenue stream. The biggest revenue stream is the

1747
01:29:49,439 --> 01:29:52,160
Speaker 16: TV rights deal that's happened in the United States, but

1748
01:29:52,800 --> 01:29:55,240
Speaker 16: you know all the global revenue streams, I would argue

1749
01:29:55,240 --> 01:29:56,599
Speaker 16: it is probably a distance second.

1750
01:29:57,880 --> 01:30:01,320
Speaker 2: Charlie Mark Medina Medina Magic every Saturday night here on

1751
01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:07,000
Speaker 2: the Bernie Fraders Show. Also a writer now for essentially sports.

1752
01:30:08,080 --> 01:30:10,519
Speaker 2: I want to circle back to Lebron and be fair

1753
01:30:11,280 --> 01:30:14,080
Speaker 2: because even though he hasn't won a championship since twenty twenty,

1754
01:30:14,960 --> 01:30:18,639
Speaker 2: the record, the numbers show viewership numbers are down when

1755
01:30:18,640 --> 01:30:22,479
Speaker 2: he doesn't play, and the Lakers are going to play

1756
01:30:22,479 --> 01:30:27,280
Speaker 2: a ton of national games this year, including with the

1757
01:30:27,360 --> 01:30:29,160
Speaker 2: Warriors Tuesday Night. We're a one and a half point

1758
01:30:29,800 --> 01:30:33,160
Speaker 2: favorite home dog. I'm sure you'll be at that game.

1759
01:30:33,200 --> 01:30:34,080
Speaker 2: I'm imagining right.

1760
01:30:34,080 --> 01:30:35,479
Speaker 16: Yeah, I'll be at that game for sure.

1761
01:30:35,600 --> 01:30:39,320
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, how does the league feel about this from

1762
01:30:39,400 --> 01:30:41,680
Speaker 2: the global perspective that they might not have Lebron for

1763
01:30:41,720 --> 01:30:42,360
Speaker 2: a couple of months.

1764
01:30:43,280 --> 01:30:46,879
Speaker 16: Yeah, the NBA never likes it when Lebron James's absence.

1765
01:30:46,960 --> 01:30:50,000
Speaker 16: To your point, he is a huge driver for the

1766
01:30:50,080 --> 01:30:53,320
Speaker 16: league's popularity, both for fans and people that don't care

1767
01:30:53,439 --> 01:30:57,680
Speaker 16: for him. But I think as long as there's an

1768
01:30:57,800 --> 01:31:02,320
Speaker 16: influx of all the other main stars available, it can

1769
01:31:02,439 --> 01:31:06,360
Speaker 16: offset that. I remember in the twenty nineteen twenty season,

1770
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:11,320
Speaker 16: they really took a hit with the TV ratings because

1771
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:17,240
Speaker 16: guys like Lebron, Steph Curry, Anthony Davis, Zion Williamson, they

1772
01:31:17,280 --> 01:31:20,599
Speaker 16: were Kevin Durant, they all had notable injuries all at

1773
01:31:20,600 --> 01:31:23,920
Speaker 16: the same time, and so that really hurt the league. Now,

1774
01:31:24,200 --> 01:31:27,080
Speaker 16: to be clear, with TV ratings, it's not like they're

1775
01:31:27,160 --> 01:31:31,320
Speaker 16: losing money. The TV money comes from the contracts itself,

1776
01:31:31,439 --> 01:31:34,680
Speaker 16: but they're mindful that, you know, when people seen in

1777
01:31:34,760 --> 01:31:36,800
Speaker 16: the game that gets some interest in the product, that

1778
01:31:36,920 --> 01:31:41,280
Speaker 16: got the to future games, to buy tickets and buy merchandise,

1779
01:31:41,479 --> 01:31:45,840
Speaker 16: and so Lebron is a pretty significant part of that

1780
01:31:46,040 --> 01:31:47,040
Speaker 16: revenue stream, but.

1781
01:31:47,240 --> 01:31:48,519
Speaker 8: So are all the other stars.

1782
01:31:48,560 --> 01:31:51,479
Speaker 16: So as it pertains to Lakers Warriors, you know, it's

1783
01:31:51,520 --> 01:31:55,000
Speaker 16: still going to help that players like Steph Curry, Luka, Doncic,

1784
01:31:55,080 --> 01:31:57,880
Speaker 16: and Draymond Green are suiting up as well as you know,

1785
01:31:58,040 --> 01:32:02,759
Speaker 16: two notable franchises that have pretty uh devoted fan bases

1786
01:32:02,800 --> 01:32:04,000
Speaker 16: with the Lakers and the Warriors.

1787
01:32:05,120 --> 01:32:08,160
Speaker 2: Wrapping it up with Mark Medinah, Mark, I got to

1788
01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:12,000
Speaker 2: ask about Russell Westbrook. With all due respect, he's thirty

1789
01:32:12,040 --> 01:32:15,560
Speaker 2: six years old. He's way past his prime whatever that was.

1790
01:32:16,560 --> 01:32:19,639
Speaker 2: And uh, if you're just a casual observer looking from

1791
01:32:19,680 --> 01:32:24,599
Speaker 2: the outside in is Sacramento, Uh, are they putting together

1792
01:32:24,640 --> 01:32:27,080
Speaker 2: a woody out on nostalgia movie or what is going

1793
01:32:27,160 --> 01:32:30,719
Speaker 2: on here? Because this is a lineup not built to compete?

1794
01:32:31,240 --> 01:32:34,599
Speaker 2: So what what's the reason they signed Russell Westbrook?

1795
01:32:35,080 --> 01:32:35,280
Speaker 7: Yeah?

1796
01:32:35,640 --> 01:32:38,840
Speaker 16: I think availability. Uh, you know, he didn't sign with

1797
01:32:38,960 --> 01:32:42,479
Speaker 16: anyone because the market dictated that he's not as valuable as.

1798
01:32:42,400 --> 01:32:43,120
Speaker 8: He once was.

1799
01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:46,720
Speaker 16: So that's number two. Number number one, number two. The

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01:32:46,880 --> 01:32:49,720
Speaker 16: Kings aren't expected to be a contending team or even

1801
01:32:49,760 --> 01:32:53,920
Speaker 16: a playoff team. They have good players individually, DeMar DeRozan,

1802
01:32:54,080 --> 01:32:57,720
Speaker 16: Zach Lavine, you know, Demontese Bonis, Keegan Murray, but they're

1803
01:32:57,720 --> 01:33:02,840
Speaker 16: already managing injuries and games haven't even started yet with

1804
01:33:03,000 --> 01:33:05,280
Speaker 16: the Monte Sebonis, that Kegan Murray, and so I think

1805
01:33:05,680 --> 01:33:08,479
Speaker 16: from their point of view, it's just adding another body,

1806
01:33:08,720 --> 01:33:12,240
Speaker 16: it's giving them roster flexibility, and I can't help but laugh.

1807
01:33:12,800 --> 01:33:15,439
Speaker 16: The Kings were in LA for their final preseason game

1808
01:33:15,439 --> 01:33:18,880
Speaker 16: against the Lakers. Doug Christie, the King's coach, is saying,

1809
01:33:18,960 --> 01:33:20,760
Speaker 16: you know, he just wants Russ to be the Russ,

1810
01:33:20,920 --> 01:33:24,000
Speaker 16: like he's the millionth coach to say the same thing,

1811
01:33:24,080 --> 01:33:27,519
Speaker 16: and then that team winds up finding out that, you

1812
01:33:27,600 --> 01:33:30,679
Speaker 16: know what, for all his competitiveness, he still has serious

1813
01:33:31,320 --> 01:33:35,720
Speaker 16: flaws in his game with his shooting, his defense, his adaptability,

1814
01:33:36,400 --> 01:33:39,160
Speaker 16: and so you know, when you look at his track

1815
01:33:39,240 --> 01:33:43,040
Speaker 16: record the last years with the Lakers, Clippers, the Nuggets,

1816
01:33:44,040 --> 01:33:46,280
Speaker 16: it just hasn't been a good fit because he hasn't

1817
01:33:46,280 --> 01:33:48,960
Speaker 16: been able to adjust his game. Even with the competitiveness

1818
01:33:49,360 --> 01:33:52,200
Speaker 16: and his willingness to come off the bench. Eventually the

1819
01:33:52,280 --> 01:33:54,120
Speaker 16: weaknesses are too big to ignore.

1820
01:33:54,880 --> 01:33:57,519
Speaker 2: No that Mark, that's so true. You pegged that last

1821
01:33:57,600 --> 01:33:59,400
Speaker 2: year hitting into the playoffs with Denver. I mean it,

1822
01:33:59,880 --> 01:34:04,200
Speaker 2: just wait, just Russ becomes Russ, all right. So Mark,

1823
01:34:04,320 --> 01:34:06,479
Speaker 2: it's upon us look forward to get you back on

1824
01:34:06,600 --> 01:34:08,880
Speaker 2: next week, as we'll have games under our belt and

1825
01:34:08,960 --> 01:34:13,439
Speaker 2: I'm sure plenty of new headlines to grace our NBA segment.

1826
01:34:14,160 --> 01:34:16,880
Speaker 16: Bernie, I'm sure we'll talk about Lebron and Browny again,

1827
01:34:17,040 --> 01:34:17,719
Speaker 16: just as we always.

1828
01:34:17,800 --> 01:34:21,960
Speaker 2: So that's right. I can't wait. Have a good week ahead, Mark, Thank.

1829
01:34:21,840 --> 01:34:22,559
Speaker 13: You, you too.

1830
01:34:22,680 --> 01:34:23,200
Speaker 7: Take care.

1831
01:34:24,840 --> 01:34:27,280
Speaker 2: For the best pregame show every week, and be sure

1832
01:34:27,320 --> 01:34:31,240
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1833
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1834
01:34:33,640 --> 01:34:35,920
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1835
01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:38,800
Speaker 2: three hours right up until kickoff. For all the best

1836
01:34:38,840 --> 01:34:40,920
Speaker 2: plays in the up to the season, injury news up

1837
01:34:40,920 --> 01:34:43,599
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1838
01:34:43,600 --> 01:34:45,920
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1839
01:34:45,960 --> 01:34:48,080
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1840
01:34:48,800 --> 01:34:53,080
Speaker 2: Coming up, we continue with the Bernie Fratto Show can Indiana?

1841
01:34:53,760 --> 01:34:56,720
Speaker 2: Can the Indiana Hoosiers really win it all? Yes? They can,

1842
01:34:57,160 --> 01:35:00,559
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why. Also coming up, we've got fantasy files.

1843
01:35:00,760 --> 01:35:03,120
Speaker 2: Get your lineups ready, Get your pens and pencils ready.

1844
01:35:03,400 --> 01:35:05,519
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1845
01:35:05,520 --> 01:35:08,679
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1846
01:35:08,720 --> 01:35:09,800
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1847
01:35:10,400 --> 01:35:13,280
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1848
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1849
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1850
01:35:21,040 --> 01:35:21,679
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1851
01:35:22,760 --> 01:35:25,880
Speaker 2: We're back at the Bernie Frattle Show Fox Sports Radio

1852
01:35:26,400 --> 01:35:30,559
Speaker 2: either way, five hours and seven minutes from the resumption

1853
01:35:30,880 --> 01:35:37,280
Speaker 2: of NFL Week seven. How about that? Can Indiana win

1854
01:35:37,280 --> 01:35:39,639
Speaker 2: a national championship in football this year?

1855
01:35:40,680 --> 01:35:40,880
Speaker 7: Yes?

1856
01:35:41,200 --> 01:35:45,439
Speaker 2: I say they can. When you consider what Kurt Signetti

1857
01:35:45,479 --> 01:35:47,679
Speaker 2: has done in just twenty games in Indiana, it's nothing

1858
01:35:47,720 --> 01:35:51,479
Speaker 2: short of remarkable. They're basically a shoeing now for the

1859
01:35:51,520 --> 01:35:56,960
Speaker 2: college football Playoff, pending something completely unforeseen that I wouldn't

1860
01:35:57,000 --> 01:36:00,400
Speaker 2: be able to get my mind around, and they've got

1861
01:36:00,439 --> 01:36:06,479
Speaker 2: the makeup to legitimately continue what's been started. Let me

1862
01:36:06,560 --> 01:36:10,400
Speaker 2: give you just a little revisionist history here, see, because

1863
01:36:10,400 --> 01:36:13,439
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago, Oregon went to Penn State and

1864
01:36:13,439 --> 01:36:16,280
Speaker 2: they sort of struggled in the first half, but in

1865
01:36:16,360 --> 01:36:21,599
Speaker 2: the second half, their offense got going and they hammered

1866
01:36:21,680 --> 01:36:24,759
Speaker 2: Penn State at Penn State, and yeah, that went overtime,

1867
01:36:24,840 --> 01:36:29,240
Speaker 2: but Oregon really did what they wanted in the second half. Well,

1868
01:36:30,360 --> 01:36:33,000
Speaker 2: Orton was a check that Indiana was a twenty seven

1869
01:36:33,080 --> 01:36:38,400
Speaker 2: point favorite against Michigan State Saturday, and they toyed with

1870
01:36:38,479 --> 01:36:41,000
Speaker 2: Michigan State in the first half and the second half

1871
01:36:41,000 --> 01:36:42,760
Speaker 2: they kind of played with the food and they won

1872
01:36:42,880 --> 01:36:45,400
Speaker 2: thirty eight to twenty three. So why do I bring

1873
01:36:45,439 --> 01:36:47,679
Speaker 2: that up? Because it was last Saturday's the game against

1874
01:36:47,760 --> 01:36:53,240
Speaker 2: Oregon that caused us all to look at this team differently.

1875
01:36:53,760 --> 01:36:56,640
Speaker 2: They were violent on defense, they set the edges, they

1876
01:36:56,680 --> 01:37:01,599
Speaker 2: have two NFL wide receivers, and Fernanda Mendoz's goods. See

1877
01:37:01,680 --> 01:37:06,400
Speaker 2: because in that game, Oregon also started slow on offense

1878
01:37:06,479 --> 01:37:10,680
Speaker 2: in the first half. But here's the thing. They never

1879
01:37:10,800 --> 01:37:15,360
Speaker 2: got going because Indiana's defense held Dante more who was

1880
01:37:15,760 --> 01:37:19,120
Speaker 2: everybody's favorite for the Heisman Trophy two weeks ago. They

1881
01:37:19,160 --> 01:37:21,440
Speaker 2: held him completely in check for the rest of the afternoon.

1882
01:37:21,800 --> 01:37:24,320
Speaker 2: In the second half. Now, this is Oregon in augstin

1883
01:37:24,720 --> 01:37:29,360
Speaker 2: Nobody does this to Oregon in Onsen. They only gathered

1884
01:37:29,600 --> 01:37:32,920
Speaker 2: sixty four yards of offense. Yes, they had ten second

1885
01:37:32,960 --> 01:37:37,559
Speaker 2: half points. Seven became courtesy of a pick six, three

1886
01:37:37,640 --> 01:37:39,560
Speaker 2: with a field goal, And as the game went on,

1887
01:37:40,400 --> 01:37:44,240
Speaker 2: you saw the Indiana Hoosiers football team due to the

1888
01:37:44,360 --> 01:37:49,720
Speaker 2: Oregon Ducks in Oregon what America has seen Oregon do

1889
01:37:49,920 --> 01:37:53,120
Speaker 2: to so many teams over the past several years, which

1890
01:37:53,240 --> 01:37:59,759
Speaker 2: means imposing their will. Indiana has a Heisman Trophy candidate quarterback,

1891
01:38:00,160 --> 01:38:04,320
Speaker 2: an offensive line that's extremely physical upfront, and they will

1892
01:38:04,400 --> 01:38:07,680
Speaker 2: outwork you. They outworked a mighty team like Oregon, and

1893
01:38:07,800 --> 01:38:15,080
Speaker 2: they played violent, nasty, suffocating defense at Oregon. And by

1894
01:38:15,120 --> 01:38:17,640
Speaker 2: the way, Indiana's ability to run the ball has been

1895
01:38:17,720 --> 01:38:20,760
Speaker 2: questioned heading into the Oregon game. They didn't go nuts

1896
01:38:20,760 --> 01:38:23,000
Speaker 2: against Oregon on the ground. In fact, they averaged three

1897
01:38:23,040 --> 01:38:25,960
Speaker 2: yards or carry. But it was enough because that opened

1898
01:38:26,000 --> 01:38:29,280
Speaker 2: up enough passing lanes and created time for Fernando Mendoza,

1899
01:38:29,960 --> 01:38:33,400
Speaker 2: who through for two point fifteen and a touchdown. So

1900
01:38:33,600 --> 01:38:38,519
Speaker 2: by dominating Oregon last week, especially in the second half,

1901
01:38:38,960 --> 01:38:42,400
Speaker 2: Indiana made the statement We're not just some happy go

1902
01:38:42,560 --> 01:38:45,280
Speaker 2: lucky you feel good story. Maybe we'll find our way

1903
01:38:45,320 --> 01:38:48,240
Speaker 2: back into the college football Playoff like we did last year. No,

1904
01:38:49,080 --> 01:38:51,920
Speaker 2: this is a team that's not showing up to Hail Caesar.

1905
01:38:52,240 --> 01:38:55,080
Speaker 2: They want a conqueror Caesar. Now, if you're into analytics,

1906
01:38:55,600 --> 01:38:58,519
Speaker 2: I got nothing against analytics. I've told people a thousand times.

1907
01:38:58,560 --> 01:39:01,800
Speaker 2: For me, analytics are a guideline. They are not an

1908
01:39:01,840 --> 01:39:05,719
Speaker 2: inflexible anchor. The game is played by human beings. Indiana

1909
01:39:05,760 --> 01:39:08,559
Speaker 2: can win the whole damn thing, even though the projection

1910
01:39:08,720 --> 01:39:12,080
Speaker 2: models only give them a five percent chance, primarily because

1911
01:39:12,560 --> 01:39:15,040
Speaker 2: they're in the same conference as Ohio State and they

1912
01:39:15,080 --> 01:39:18,000
Speaker 2: remain the favorite. But this is going to be decided

1913
01:39:18,040 --> 01:39:22,440
Speaker 2: on the field. And if Indiana can do to Oregon

1914
01:39:22,640 --> 01:39:26,280
Speaker 2: what they did to Oregon in Oregon, and look what

1915
01:39:26,320 --> 01:39:28,200
Speaker 2: they did Illinois, it beat him sixty three to ten,

1916
01:39:28,640 --> 01:39:32,880
Speaker 2: they're smoking teams. And I just explained why. But the

1917
01:39:32,960 --> 01:39:35,760
Speaker 2: game at Oregon showcase their ability to perform against the

1918
01:39:35,800 --> 01:39:41,840
Speaker 2: top rank opponent. Right, it wasn't just a win. It

1919
01:39:42,000 --> 01:39:45,920
Speaker 2: was an historic ten point road win against Oregon, whose

1920
01:39:45,960 --> 01:39:49,560
Speaker 2: ranked third first ever road win for Indiana against the

1921
01:39:49,600 --> 01:39:55,120
Speaker 2: top five team for the program. Best best of my knowledge, again,

1922
01:39:55,880 --> 01:39:59,280
Speaker 2: can they win it all? Yes, I think they can.

1923
01:39:59,560 --> 01:40:02,400
Speaker 2: Now you have to do it. But under the leadership

1924
01:40:02,439 --> 01:40:07,640
Speaker 2: of Kurtz Signetti Indiana, it proved dramatically over last year

1925
01:40:07,640 --> 01:40:09,360
Speaker 2: and they were pretty good last year. They went from

1926
01:40:09,400 --> 01:40:13,519
Speaker 2: a successful program last year, I would say, to a

1927
01:40:13,640 --> 01:40:18,800
Speaker 2: legitimate national title contender this year. Last year Signetti and

1928
01:40:18,920 --> 01:40:21,240
Speaker 2: Indiana won eleven games, they got a trip to the

1929
01:40:21,280 --> 01:40:24,920
Speaker 2: College Football Playoff appearance. But this team has built on

1930
01:40:25,080 --> 01:40:27,799
Speaker 2: that success in a big way. They are a legitimate

1931
01:40:27,960 --> 01:40:33,240
Speaker 2: national championship contender. Hey, they started this season with a

1932
01:40:33,400 --> 01:40:36,000
Speaker 2: second They what a seven to zero record, They got

1933
01:40:36,040 --> 01:40:39,479
Speaker 2: a point differential of two hundred and sixteen. They're dominating people.

1934
01:40:40,400 --> 01:40:42,920
Speaker 2: They're dominating people, and they're four to zero the Big Ten.

1935
01:40:44,360 --> 01:40:45,479
Speaker 10: So what more.

1936
01:40:45,960 --> 01:40:50,280
Speaker 2: Fernando Mendoza, the quarterback transfer from Cal, He's also emerged

1937
01:40:50,320 --> 01:40:54,599
Speaker 2: as a legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate. He is the engine

1938
01:40:54,680 --> 01:40:57,599
Speaker 2: behind that offense. But you've got other key offensive players

1939
01:40:57,920 --> 01:41:01,639
Speaker 2: like their receivers Elijah Sir, Omar Cooper, E J. Williams.

1940
01:41:01,680 --> 01:41:03,320
Speaker 2: Two of those are going to play in the NFL.

1941
01:41:03,600 --> 01:41:07,920
Speaker 2: They're contributing significantly. And again, the defense allowing only eleven

1942
01:41:07,960 --> 01:41:10,880
Speaker 2: points a game and they have plenty of standout players

1943
01:41:10,920 --> 01:41:15,360
Speaker 2: most of you haven't heard of. And yes, you know

1944
01:41:15,479 --> 01:41:19,080
Speaker 2: Illinois they held them to ten. Illinois beat USC they

1945
01:41:19,160 --> 01:41:23,040
Speaker 2: held Oregon to twenty. No one does that, not in outsen.

1946
01:41:23,560 --> 01:41:26,320
Speaker 2: So you ask yourself, can Indiana win the National Championship?

1947
01:41:27,120 --> 01:41:31,040
Speaker 2: I say yes, I genuinely, I genuinely believe they can't.

1948
01:41:31,360 --> 01:41:32,760
Speaker 2: I can't get it out of my mind.

1949
01:41:32,880 --> 01:41:33,040
Speaker 10: You know.

1950
01:41:33,160 --> 01:41:38,360
Speaker 2: Sometimes again I said this many times. I trust my eyes.

1951
01:41:38,400 --> 01:41:41,559
Speaker 2: They tell me a lot. And when I saw Indiana

1952
01:41:41,760 --> 01:41:45,559
Speaker 2: set the edges against Oregon with such authority, they were

1953
01:41:45,680 --> 01:41:48,439
Speaker 2: violent on defense, they won the line of scrimmage, and

1954
01:41:48,520 --> 01:41:51,480
Speaker 2: they were incredibly efficient on offense. They were not overmatched,

1955
01:41:51,479 --> 01:41:54,639
Speaker 2: they were poised. They were the anti Penn State, literally

1956
01:41:54,720 --> 01:41:57,400
Speaker 2: the anti Penn State. And if there's only one knock

1957
01:41:58,479 --> 01:42:00,360
Speaker 2: you have to have on James Frankin. It just felt

1958
01:42:00,439 --> 01:42:02,599
Speaker 2: like a lot of times these teams, particularly in big games,

1959
01:42:02,880 --> 01:42:05,439
Speaker 2: did not play free and easy. There was tension there,

1960
01:42:05,720 --> 01:42:09,280
Speaker 2: there was something there that inhibited them. But I digress.

1961
01:42:09,720 --> 01:42:11,720
Speaker 2: All right, we are five hours away from kickoff. You

1962
01:42:11,760 --> 01:42:15,479
Speaker 2: got to get your fantasy lineups set, get your pens

1963
01:42:15,520 --> 01:42:19,280
Speaker 2: and pencils ready. Here comes some knowledge. It's time for

1964
01:42:19,400 --> 01:42:20,840
Speaker 2: the Fantasy Files.

1965
01:42:23,200 --> 01:42:28,519
Speaker 3: Fantasy Files with Brandon Deutsch, your go to fantasy football

1966
01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:30,200
Speaker 3: segment A Got one Gone.

1967
01:42:32,080 --> 01:42:35,360
Speaker 14: Hello, and welcome to Fantasy Files with Brandon Deutsch on

1968
01:42:35,479 --> 01:42:38,080
Speaker 14: The Bernie Frado Show. We're gonna win our matchups this

1969
01:42:38,320 --> 01:42:41,160
Speaker 14: weekend like we do every week, and we're gonna start

1970
01:42:41,600 --> 01:42:45,599
Speaker 14: Jamison Williams against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Jamison Williams had

1971
01:42:45,640 --> 01:42:48,000
Speaker 14: that breakout game last week. He wasn't too great the

1972
01:42:48,040 --> 01:42:49,680
Speaker 14: few weeks before that, but Tampa Bay is one of

1973
01:42:49,720 --> 01:42:52,879
Speaker 14: the worst secondaries in all football, which is shocking considering

1974
01:42:52,960 --> 01:42:55,840
Speaker 14: how dominant they've been so far this season. I would

1975
01:42:55,880 --> 01:42:58,640
Speaker 14: sit Keenan Allen against the Colts. Qj's back. You got

1976
01:42:58,680 --> 01:43:01,400
Speaker 14: Lad McConkey, whose target has been substantial all year, but

1977
01:43:01,439 --> 01:43:04,439
Speaker 14: the production's finally catching up to him. I would make

1978
01:43:04,520 --> 01:43:06,960
Speaker 14: sure that Keenan Allen stays on your reg especially after

1979
01:43:07,080 --> 01:43:10,760
Speaker 14: back to back six or less fantasy point games. I'd

1980
01:43:10,800 --> 01:43:13,280
Speaker 14: start Jordan Addison against the Philadelphia Eagles.

1981
01:43:13,439 --> 01:43:15,479
Speaker 2: This is a big game to go.

1982
01:43:15,640 --> 01:43:18,799
Speaker 14: Up against Ringo and Adorri Jackson, who have been picked

1983
01:43:18,840 --> 01:43:22,599
Speaker 14: on week after week by opposing wide receivers. Now, justin Jefferson,

1984
01:43:22,880 --> 01:43:24,760
Speaker 14: we know is gonna go off, but I think Jordan

1985
01:43:24,800 --> 01:43:27,519
Speaker 14: Adison and Justin Jefferson can both go off against this

1986
01:43:27,640 --> 01:43:31,080
Speaker 14: Eagles secondary that can be exploited this season. I'd sit

1987
01:43:31,200 --> 01:43:33,360
Speaker 14: Bam Knight against the Green Bay Packers. Green Bay has

1988
01:43:33,360 --> 01:43:35,960
Speaker 14: one of the best run defenses in all of football.

1989
01:43:35,960 --> 01:43:38,639
Speaker 14: What's their big problem their secondary, right, and they're gonna

1990
01:43:38,640 --> 01:43:40,160
Speaker 14: be down the entire game the Cardinals, so they're not

1991
01:43:40,200 --> 01:43:42,439
Speaker 14: gonna run, They're gonna have to pass. They're gonna be

1992
01:43:42,479 --> 01:43:44,719
Speaker 14: down the entire game. So Bam Knight is not gonna

1993
01:43:44,760 --> 01:43:47,760
Speaker 14: get any looks. The only fantasy production possible for him

1994
01:43:48,439 --> 01:43:51,160
Speaker 14: is a touchdown. Make sure to start Jordan Mason against

1995
01:43:51,200 --> 01:43:54,400
Speaker 14: the Philadelphia Eagles. I'm starting Jefferson, I'm starting Adison. I'm

1996
01:43:54,439 --> 01:43:56,880
Speaker 14: starting Jordan Mason against the Eagles. I don't like this

1997
01:43:57,439 --> 01:43:59,880
Speaker 14: game at all. From the Eagles side of things. I

1998
01:44:00,040 --> 01:44:02,800
Speaker 14: think Saquon can go off of besides him if we're

1999
01:44:02,840 --> 01:44:06,599
Speaker 14: looking at simply the Minnesota Vikings. In this game, Jordan

2000
01:44:06,720 --> 01:44:09,680
Speaker 14: Mason is going against a defense that has given up

2001
01:44:10,040 --> 01:44:13,120
Speaker 14: one hundred yards a game to running backs. They're sixth

2002
01:44:13,200 --> 01:44:16,000
Speaker 14: in the league at six most rushing yards per game,

2003
01:44:16,040 --> 01:44:18,559
Speaker 14: giving up the Philadelphia Eagles. So Jordan Mason's gonna get

2004
01:44:18,600 --> 01:44:20,439
Speaker 14: a touchdown, He'll get one hundred plus yards rushing. They're

2005
01:44:20,439 --> 01:44:22,760
Speaker 14: coming off of the bye, so he's healthier, the whole

2006
01:44:22,760 --> 01:44:24,760
Speaker 14: team's healthier. I think this is a nice spot for

2007
01:44:24,840 --> 01:44:27,280
Speaker 14: Minnesota to actually win this game. I'd sit Ovin Kamara

2008
01:44:27,320 --> 01:44:30,040
Speaker 14: against the Chicago Bears, whose run defense has looked better.

2009
01:44:30,120 --> 01:44:32,599
Speaker 14: Kamara hasn't done anything all year, and Kendrey Miller gets

2010
01:44:32,640 --> 01:44:35,200
Speaker 14: a lot of snaps. The percentages for him keep going up.

2011
01:44:35,560 --> 01:44:37,599
Speaker 14: I would keep him on the bench. I'd start lat

2012
01:44:37,680 --> 01:44:41,800
Speaker 14: McConkey against the Indianapolis Colts. Really like that matchup for him.

2013
01:44:41,920 --> 01:44:44,080
Speaker 14: I mean, he's coming off of back to back games

2014
01:44:44,479 --> 01:44:46,280
Speaker 14: where he's just gone off and he's gonna do it again.

2015
01:44:46,320 --> 01:44:49,439
Speaker 14: I don't think QJ being back changes much. I truly

2016
01:44:49,560 --> 01:44:52,160
Speaker 14: think that this is going to be when one of

2017
01:44:52,240 --> 01:44:55,639
Speaker 14: the better starts of the week. I'd sit Hollywood Brown

2018
01:44:55,680 --> 01:44:59,200
Speaker 14: against the Las Vegas Raiders. I just don't like any

2019
01:44:59,320 --> 01:45:01,680
Speaker 14: Chiefs that aren't named Rashee Rice moving forward at the

2020
01:45:01,720 --> 01:45:05,120
Speaker 14: flex position. That means that Xavier Worthy and Travis Kelcey

2021
01:45:05,160 --> 01:45:08,320
Speaker 14: are actually shaky starts on a weekly basis. In Hollywood Brown,

2022
01:45:08,360 --> 01:45:11,040
Speaker 14: Taekwon Thornton. Their days are over of production. Is so

2023
01:45:11,120 --> 01:45:14,599
Speaker 14: Rashi Rice monopoly on this offense. Moving forward, I would

2024
01:45:14,720 --> 01:45:17,880
Speaker 14: start Michael Pittman against the Chargers. This is a game

2025
01:45:17,880 --> 01:45:20,680
Speaker 14: where I think the Chargers defense does get exploited. Their

2026
01:45:20,720 --> 01:45:24,040
Speaker 14: secondary hasn't played that well. I like Michael Pittman to

2027
01:45:24,120 --> 01:45:26,400
Speaker 14: have another big game. He's had a really resurgence year,

2028
01:45:26,439 --> 01:45:28,040
Speaker 14: I would say because last year he didn't have a

2029
01:45:28,040 --> 01:45:30,280
Speaker 14: great year. I know Anthony Richardson was playing quarterback, and

2030
01:45:30,320 --> 01:45:32,800
Speaker 14: the quarterback changes a lot. Daniel Jones has played great.

2031
01:45:33,360 --> 01:45:35,080
Speaker 14: I do think the Chargers win this game, but I

2032
01:45:35,160 --> 01:45:37,920
Speaker 14: think Michael Pittman will have fifteen to twenty fantasy points.

2033
01:45:38,200 --> 01:45:40,960
Speaker 14: I would make sure to also say Xavier Worthy against

2034
01:45:40,960 --> 01:45:44,200
Speaker 14: the Raiders again Rashee Rice monopoly, that he's a must

2035
01:45:44,240 --> 01:45:46,599
Speaker 14: start again if you guys want to go into must starts.

2036
01:45:46,640 --> 01:45:47,719
Speaker 2: I don't think it needs to be said.

2037
01:45:47,960 --> 01:45:50,880
Speaker 14: If you've kept Rashi Rice for about seven weeks, you

2038
01:45:50,960 --> 01:45:53,120
Speaker 14: should be setting him in your lineup right like he

2039
01:45:53,320 --> 01:45:55,080
Speaker 14: has to start if you drafted him.

2040
01:45:55,320 --> 01:45:56,200
Speaker 2: He is a wide receiver one.

2041
01:45:56,200 --> 01:45:57,840
Speaker 14: I think he's one of the more disrespected players in

2042
01:45:57,840 --> 01:46:00,760
Speaker 14: the National Football League, especially in fantasy football. I would

2043
01:46:00,840 --> 01:46:04,559
Speaker 14: make sure to sit all other chiefs in that at

2044
01:46:04,600 --> 01:46:07,360
Speaker 14: the flex position on that roster except Travis Calsey. I

2045
01:46:07,400 --> 01:46:09,280
Speaker 14: think Travis Calsey is a solid start in this game

2046
01:46:09,320 --> 01:46:12,280
Speaker 14: as well. At start Kendrick Bourne against the Atlanta Falcons.

2047
01:46:12,320 --> 01:46:14,160
Speaker 14: This is a primetime game. Who's going to be playing

2048
01:46:14,200 --> 01:46:16,200
Speaker 14: quarterback for the San Francisco forty nine ers.

2049
01:46:16,240 --> 01:46:16,519
Speaker 2: Guess what?

2050
01:46:16,600 --> 01:46:18,719
Speaker 14: It's Mac Jones again. So who's his favorite target?

2051
01:46:18,800 --> 01:46:19,320
Speaker 2: Kendrick Bourne?

2052
01:46:19,320 --> 01:46:21,320
Speaker 14: Who did he play with the New England? Kendrick Bourne?

2053
01:46:21,360 --> 01:46:23,280
Speaker 14: Who have we said to start the last few weeks?

2054
01:46:23,360 --> 01:46:26,320
Speaker 14: Kendrick Bourne? And who's been right us? Kenrick Bourne is

2055
01:46:26,400 --> 01:46:28,560
Speaker 14: going to go off again. I'm pretty confident about that,

2056
01:46:28,720 --> 01:46:30,280
Speaker 14: and I make sure to sit Cooper Cup against the

2057
01:46:30,320 --> 01:46:33,439
Speaker 14: Houston secondary that is elite. Stingley's awesome. They have one

2058
01:46:33,479 --> 01:46:35,560
Speaker 14: of the best pass defenses in all of football. I

2059
01:46:35,640 --> 01:46:37,519
Speaker 14: expect JSN to be able to go off, but not

2060
01:46:37,720 --> 01:46:40,200
Speaker 14: Cooper Cup. Make sure to start Rashad White against the

2061
01:46:40,240 --> 01:46:43,160
Speaker 14: Detroit Lions. No Bucky Irvan again, primetime matchup for sehad

2062
01:46:43,200 --> 01:46:45,960
Speaker 14: White has utilized in the passing game, as are all

2063
01:46:46,160 --> 01:46:48,799
Speaker 14: starting running backs for the Buccaneers. Didn't matter if Bucky

2064
01:46:49,320 --> 01:46:51,240
Speaker 14: or Rashad was playing, They're going to be must starts.

2065
01:46:51,360 --> 01:46:54,200
Speaker 14: Sit Kenneth Walker against the Houston Texans. Don't like this

2066
01:46:54,320 --> 01:46:57,960
Speaker 14: matchup at all. Canine is getting like his carries are

2067
01:46:57,960 --> 01:47:00,320
Speaker 14: getting taken away by Zach Charbonay in the red zone,

2068
01:47:00,560 --> 01:47:03,000
Speaker 14: so that already limits his fantasy upside because he's not

2069
01:47:03,040 --> 01:47:06,320
Speaker 14: getting touchdowns right, and you couple that with the fact

2070
01:47:06,360 --> 01:47:08,800
Speaker 14: that he's had four Fantasy points in back to back games.

2071
01:47:09,320 --> 01:47:11,000
Speaker 14: He's just not trustworthy. And a guy that I would

2072
01:47:11,040 --> 01:47:14,080
Speaker 14: lock in start is Quinn Shawn Judkins against Miami. I

2073
01:47:14,160 --> 01:47:15,680
Speaker 14: think this is one of the better starts of the week.

2074
01:47:15,720 --> 01:47:18,840
Speaker 14: Miami's run defense is atrocious, and I'd sit Tyler Algier

2075
01:47:18,880 --> 01:47:21,160
Speaker 14: against the San Francisco forty nine ers on prime time.

2076
01:47:21,439 --> 01:47:23,280
Speaker 14: I really think that he's not going to do anything,

2077
01:47:23,360 --> 01:47:25,920
Speaker 14: especially if Bijean is going to go off. I know

2078
01:47:26,040 --> 01:47:27,960
Speaker 14: Algier had a touchdown last week, but I just don't

2079
01:47:27,960 --> 01:47:30,640
Speaker 14: see it happening again, especially against the San Francisco run

2080
01:47:30,680 --> 01:47:32,400
Speaker 14: defense that has been pretty good recently.

2081
01:47:32,560 --> 01:47:33,519
Speaker 2: Well that's it for me today.

2082
01:47:33,560 --> 01:47:36,639
Speaker 14: I'm Brandan Deutsch on The Bernie Frido Show with fantasy files.

2083
01:47:36,680 --> 01:47:39,599
Speaker 14: You can find me at PSD Takes on x Brandan

2084
01:47:39,760 --> 01:47:42,719
Speaker 14: s Deutsch on TikTok and Instagram. Back to you, Bernie,

2085
01:47:42,800 --> 01:47:43,959
Speaker 14: let's all win our matchups.

2086
01:47:44,720 --> 01:47:48,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, the comments on the forty nine ers talkins game

2087
01:47:48,360 --> 01:47:51,080
Speaker 2: caught my attention most. I think this is a Mike

2088
01:47:52,120 --> 01:47:58,080
Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan's statement game. Mac joneson Kendrick Bord the Front Defense.

2089
01:47:58,800 --> 01:48:02,920
Speaker 2: Hope you took notes there, because fantasy football is it's

2090
01:48:03,000 --> 01:48:05,040
Speaker 2: kind of big business. My son's in a big time league.

2091
01:48:05,040 --> 01:48:08,000
Speaker 2: He's in first place and the Winter wins. I'm not

2092
01:48:08,040 --> 01:48:09,360
Speaker 2: going to give you them a month. They're going to win,

2093
01:48:09,439 --> 01:48:12,280
Speaker 2: but it's a nice, nice little chunk of change. Speaking

2094
01:48:12,360 --> 01:48:17,400
Speaker 2: of money. Speaking of money, you know, we talked a

2095
01:48:17,400 --> 01:48:20,519
Speaker 2: lot about James Franklin tonight and the Penn State is

2096
01:48:20,880 --> 01:48:23,680
Speaker 2: going to owe him fifty million, which to pay they

2097
01:48:23,760 --> 01:48:29,040
Speaker 2: give him every penny part of the deal. They're not

2098
01:48:29,200 --> 01:48:31,839
Speaker 2: the only ones. Penn State is not the only college

2099
01:48:31,840 --> 01:48:35,920
Speaker 2: football program that's going to be spending money on a

2100
01:48:36,120 --> 01:48:39,160
Speaker 2: coach that's no longer working there. As a matter of fact,

2101
01:48:40,479 --> 01:48:42,560
Speaker 2: it's been a As I said at the top of

2102
01:48:42,600 --> 01:48:46,360
Speaker 2: the show, this has been an incredibly eventful college football

2103
01:48:46,400 --> 01:48:49,040
Speaker 2: season so far. What if I told you that college

2104
01:48:49,080 --> 01:48:53,040
Speaker 2: football programs will in fact spend north of two hundred

2105
01:48:53,720 --> 01:48:57,439
Speaker 2: million in bios this season alone, and we're not even

2106
01:48:57,479 --> 01:49:01,760
Speaker 2: done yet. I'll give you some details coming up. I'm

2107
01:49:01,800 --> 01:49:03,800
Speaker 2: Bernie Fraddle. We're coming to line from Las Vegas Fox

2108
01:49:03,800 --> 01:49:06,439
Speaker 2: Sports Radio Studios. Keep it locked. You're listening to the

2109
01:49:06,479 --> 01:49:08,920
Speaker 2: Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio. How We're back

2110
01:49:08,920 --> 01:49:12,760
Speaker 2: at the Bernie Frattle Show Fox Sports Radio, comingy live

2111
01:49:12,920 --> 01:49:16,920
Speaker 2: from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Studios. We are

2112
01:49:17,360 --> 01:49:20,880
Speaker 2: what four hours and forty six minutes away from the

2113
01:49:21,080 --> 01:49:26,519
Speaker 2: Rams and the Jacksonville Jaguars teeing it up in London

2114
01:49:27,560 --> 01:49:31,400
Speaker 2: as NFL Week seven resumes after what has been another

2115
01:49:31,600 --> 01:49:36,559
Speaker 2: rockets college football Saturday. We had a caller on our

2116
01:49:36,600 --> 01:49:41,479
Speaker 2: midnight hour mentioned, in somewhat amazement, how can you pay

2117
01:49:41,479 --> 01:49:45,519
Speaker 2: a guy fifty million dollars not to work? Well, this

2118
01:49:45,720 --> 01:49:48,840
Speaker 2: is the era of college football that we are in.

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Speaker 2: As I said at the top of the show, the

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Speaker 2: old Chinese proverb may you live in interesting times? We are.

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Speaker 2: This has been an incredibly crazy college football Season's already

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Speaker 2: been nine coaches is fired. Of course, you know about

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Speaker 2: James Franklin at Penn State. Mike Gundi to Oklahoma State,

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Speaker 2: Trent Dilford, Alabama Birmingham, Brent Priet Virginia Tech, Trent Bray

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Speaker 2: at Oregon State, Deshaan Foster EA c LA, Troy Taylor

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Speaker 2: at Stanford, Kenny Burns at Kent State, Sam Pittman at Arkansas.

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Speaker 2: Well added up, and the respective schools who made the

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Speaker 2: decision to send these guys packing will be spending upwards

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Speaker 2: of two hundred million or more in buyouts. Now, it's

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Speaker 2: not that these schools are going to go broke doing this.

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Speaker 2: They just piss away money. They're about as irresponsibly irresponsible

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Speaker 2: their money is. You could find again early half basically

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Speaker 2: this weekend was sort of the facto halfway point of

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Speaker 2: the college football season. Now, I don't you know, look,

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Speaker 2: I don't want to the dead man walking stuff. People

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Speaker 2: have said, you know, Billion Napier could be gone. Luke

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Speaker 2: Fickel at Wisconsin already could be gone, perhaps Gary Norville.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not wishing that on any of those guys.

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Speaker 2: Nor am I predicting it. This is just the group

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Speaker 2: think echo chambers speaking. But let's get to the chase.

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Speaker 2: By the year's in the combined cost of all the

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Speaker 2: biouts already are going to be more than two hundred

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Speaker 2: million dollars. How is it? This is what the caller

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Speaker 2: was asking. How the hell is it that these institutions

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01:51:34,920 --> 01:51:40,360
Speaker 2: manage to negotiate these contracts and hamstring themselves by having

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Speaker 2: to pay two hundred million dollars to people who will

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01:51:43,400 --> 01:51:48,519
Speaker 2: no longer be working for them anymore. Okay, two hundred

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Speaker 2: million dollars is enough to pay for several thousand full scholarships,

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Speaker 2: so we're not talking about chump chains here. And how

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Speaker 2: does schools keep agreeing to these? You can call them

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01:52:04,479 --> 01:52:10,680
Speaker 2: ridiculous one sided coaching contracts that cost I don't have

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Speaker 2: a funny line, cost a lot. So consider let's consider

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Speaker 2: the mechanics of what takes place in these negotiations. Okay,

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Speaker 2: you have the athletics director, who I wouldn't want that job,

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01:52:23,360 --> 01:52:26,720
Speaker 2: couldn't wish it on me. They spend ninety almost one

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Speaker 2: hundred percent of their time fundraising marketing facilities, answering fan

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01:52:31,320 --> 01:52:35,600
Speaker 2: mail about why do your hot dogs suck? Why are

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01:52:35,640 --> 01:52:39,240
Speaker 2: the concession stands lines too long? And then they also

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01:52:39,360 --> 01:52:41,200
Speaker 2: have to hire a coach, not that often but more

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01:52:41,240 --> 01:52:44,120
Speaker 2: often than usual, but typically every three to five years. Okay,

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Speaker 2: and you have to do it quickly. You can't mess around.

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01:52:48,960 --> 01:52:52,040
Speaker 2: But on the other side, now you have highly trained,

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Speaker 2: experienced superagents and their job is to represent the coaches

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Speaker 2: and to get them as much money as astible, even

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Speaker 2: if their client is fired. And the truth of the

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01:53:06,560 --> 01:53:08,519
Speaker 2: matter is the agents are a hell of a lot

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Speaker 2: better at doing what they do, then the athletic directors

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Speaker 2: are better at doing what they do. Let's take James Franklin,

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01:53:16,520 --> 01:53:21,519
Speaker 2: because he he is going to uh, you know, his

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Speaker 2: results at about twenty five percent of all the bounce

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01:53:24,520 --> 01:53:26,720
Speaker 2: of all the coaches fired, there's been nine so far.

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01:53:27,560 --> 01:53:29,760
Speaker 2: So he was hired back in twenty fourteen. He'd done

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Speaker 2: a great job at at Vanderbilt. He'd turned that program around.

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Speaker 14: And I.

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Speaker 2: You should remember this if you're a sports fan. Coming

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01:53:39,880 --> 01:53:44,360
Speaker 2: out of the whole Jerry Sandusky debacle, it just looked

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01:53:44,640 --> 01:53:48,679
Speaker 2: awful for Penn State. They even took Joe Paterno's statue down,

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Speaker 2: and they had they were in this post scandal NCAA

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Speaker 2: consent degree to decree and they were in. They were in.

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01:53:57,760 --> 01:54:01,200
Speaker 2: They weren't in purgatory, they were in hell. And somehow

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01:54:01,320 --> 01:54:05,760
Speaker 2: by his third season James Franklin won a Big Ten championship.

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Speaker 2: In fact, he won eleven games in three of the

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01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:13,240
Speaker 2: four seasons. Up until twenty nineteen, the COVID year, they

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01:54:13,400 --> 01:54:16,040
Speaker 2: weren't good. They were four and five. But then in

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01:54:16,320 --> 01:54:20,040
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one they started out five and oh and

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01:54:20,160 --> 01:54:24,439
Speaker 2: actually had two wins over ranked opponents, and they went

2187
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Speaker 2: from number nineteen in the preseason all the way up

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Speaker 2: to number four. While this was going on, USC fired

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Speaker 2: Clay Hilton two games into the season, and that created

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01:54:34,640 --> 01:54:38,320
Speaker 2: sort of this almost season long speculation on who would

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01:54:38,320 --> 01:54:42,520
Speaker 2: be the Trojans next coach. Well, guess whose name kept

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01:54:43,000 --> 01:54:47,480
Speaker 2: showing up. Guess whose name rocketed to the top list

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Speaker 2: of candidates, Yeah, you guessed it, James Franklin. By the

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Speaker 2: end of the season, it was reported that James Franklin

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Speaker 2: had fired his agent hired super agent Jimmy Sexton. Jimmy

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Speaker 2: Sexton is a guy who's negotiated hundreds of millions of

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Speaker 2: dollars in contracts, salaries, and of course buyouts for people

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Speaker 2: like Kirby Smart, Nick Saban, Liam Kiffen and The Caller

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01:55:19,400 --> 01:55:23,960
Speaker 2: also brought up Jimbo Fisher member Jimbo Fisher got sent

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01:55:24,080 --> 01:55:26,840
Speaker 2: packing by Texas A and m They gave him ninety

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Speaker 2: million reasons to leave, and they paid it well. Jess

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Speaker 2: who negotiated that contract Jimmy Sexton. So Sexton wasted no

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01:55:35,600 --> 01:55:44,760
Speaker 2: time and leveraging the fact that James Franklin, who had

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01:55:44,840 --> 01:55:48,320
Speaker 2: been reported at the time was a little nonplus with

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01:55:48,440 --> 01:55:51,080
Speaker 2: some of Penn State's facilities and some of their other

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01:55:51,120 --> 01:55:57,800
Speaker 2: football investments, and allegedly had made statements to the athletic

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01:55:57,920 --> 01:56:01,040
Speaker 2: director for Penn Stayed at the time. I believe his

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01:56:01,160 --> 01:56:04,280
Speaker 2: name was Sandy Barber, that she needed to do meet

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Speaker 2: some demands or else all of a sudden, So this

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01:56:07,560 --> 01:56:14,040
Speaker 2: guy's got all this leverage. But unfortunately, as the negotiation

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Speaker 2: went on, Franklin did what Franklin it's been sort of

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Speaker 2: his moniker. Lost some games he shouldn't have lost. They

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Speaker 2: lost to Michigan, they lost to Illinois, and all of

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01:56:26,320 --> 01:56:29,760
Speaker 2: a sudden, they're seven and four heading into Thanksgiving week.

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Speaker 2: But in the negotiation Barbara announced, screw it, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: keep Jane Franklin. They gave him a ten year, seventy

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Speaker 2: five million dollar contract extension fully guaranteed for a coach,

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01:56:45,120 --> 01:56:47,280
Speaker 2: even though he'd accomplished a lot, had not yet even

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01:56:47,320 --> 01:56:50,480
Speaker 2: reached the college football playoffs in eight full seasons there,

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Speaker 2: and we don't know if he was bluffing or he

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01:56:54,400 --> 01:56:56,120
Speaker 2: would have really gone to sc or s he would

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Speaker 2: have hired him. USC ended up hiring Lincoln Riley. That's

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Speaker 2: his story for another day. But that's just a tip

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Speaker 2: of the iceberg. See, coaching salaries have gone through the

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Speaker 2: roof in the last twenty years. I mean, remember, in

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Speaker 2: addition to the windfall that James Franklin got, USC gave

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Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley, who had come from Oklahoma, a ten year,

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Speaker 2: one hundred and ten million dollar contract. And what the hell,

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01:57:23,800 --> 01:57:27,440
Speaker 2: let's you said, we've got fomo, Let's give Brian Kelly

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Speaker 2: a ten year ninety five million dollar deal. And the

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Speaker 2: most insane deal at that time was the ten year,

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01:57:35,000 --> 01:57:39,240
Speaker 2: seventy five million dollar deal Michigan gave. Checked that Michigan

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01:57:39,360 --> 01:57:42,960
Speaker 2: State gave mel Tucker, who's since been fired. But if

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Speaker 2: you go back and remember Meltucker his first two years

2235
01:57:47,080 --> 01:57:50,360
Speaker 2: beat Michigan his first two years, which caused him to

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01:57:50,400 --> 01:57:55,120
Speaker 2: walk on water temporarily. But here's the real kicker. None

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Speaker 2: of the four schools I just mentioned, Oklahoma, Michigan State, USC,

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Speaker 2: or pen State have gotten the return they really wanted.

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Speaker 2: But what they have done is reset the market for

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Speaker 2: every other coach who's looking to get paid. Big Texas

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Speaker 2: A and m you know, gust Malzan at Auburn. All

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01:58:16,080 --> 01:58:20,880
Speaker 2: these guys get these massive, massive buyouts. By the way,

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01:58:22,320 --> 01:58:27,360
Speaker 2: according to a USA Today coaching database that lists salaries

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01:58:27,840 --> 01:58:33,000
Speaker 2: that was recently put forth to the public, of the

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01:58:33,160 --> 01:58:37,880
Speaker 2: thirty highest paid coaches in college football, none of them

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01:58:37,960 --> 01:58:42,360
Speaker 2: have a buyout of less than twenty million dollars. That's

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01:58:42,720 --> 01:58:47,080
Speaker 2: how that happens. So the truth of the matter is

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01:58:48,280 --> 01:58:53,200
Speaker 2: the money is there, agents are shrewd, the pressure to

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01:58:53,320 --> 01:58:56,720
Speaker 2: win is enormous, and even though there are no guarantees,

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Speaker 2: you're going to pay through the nose to get a guy.

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Speaker 2: And I'll be curious to see, let's say, just for

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01:59:03,040 --> 01:59:07,720
Speaker 2: purposes of this discussion, Pennce State hires Matt Rule. They're

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01:59:07,760 --> 01:59:11,000
Speaker 2: gonna probably have to break the bank or Mike Elko

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01:59:11,400 --> 01:59:14,320
Speaker 2: probably have to break the bank. And if four years

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Speaker 2: down the road neither one do the job and the

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Speaker 2: same thing happens, they'll pay through the nose to wave

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Speaker 2: goodbye as well. And that's the way college football rolls.

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01:59:25,640 --> 01:59:29,240
Speaker 2: Circa twenty twenty five if you are wondering how these

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01:59:29,320 --> 01:59:31,880
Speaker 2: things happen, how a guy can be paid fifty million

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01:59:32,200 --> 01:59:34,560
Speaker 2: to go home? Keep it locked and listened to Bernie

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Speaker 2: Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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01:59:37,440 --> 01:59:40,120
Speaker 1: Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well that's right, you heard the man. Bernie Fratterles show

2264
01:59:43,440 --> 01:59:46,160
Speaker 2: keeps rolling right along. My name is Bernie Frattle. We

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Speaker 2: are coming you live from the Fox Sports Radio studios

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01:59:49,680 --> 01:59:52,640
Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas. Take you up to three am Pacific,

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01:59:53,160 --> 01:59:55,080
Speaker 2: since the am Eastern. We are four and a half

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Speaker 2: hours away from Rams. Jacksonville in London. Is seven of

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Speaker 2: the National Football League season continues. After Thursday Night's track

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Speaker 2: beat between they called the icy Hot Bull. Well, if

2271
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Speaker 2: he played that game, he might have needed some icy hot.

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Speaker 2: There was nothing but points. The theme tonight has sort

2273
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Speaker 2: of been the craziness of the college football season because

2274
02:00:22,280 --> 02:00:24,960
Speaker 2: it simply has been. And I've got more to get

2275
02:00:25,000 --> 02:00:28,400
Speaker 2: to because there have been surprises or it's been disappointments,

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Speaker 2: and I just kind of want to have this mid

2277
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Speaker 2: term analysis as it were. I mean, we had three

2278
02:00:35,200 --> 02:00:38,520
Speaker 2: teams that started this college football season in the top

2279
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Speaker 2: four of the AP twenty five, and three of the

2280
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Speaker 2: top four spent time now not even ranked one, just

2281
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Speaker 2: fired its head coach. Now, if there's one thing that's

2282
02:00:49,680 --> 02:00:57,160
Speaker 2: consistent in college football, it's change, So we have major changes. Again.

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Speaker 2: I've talked about this team a lot, but just to

2284
02:00:59,320 --> 02:01:03,160
Speaker 2: put a caper on it, Indiana has surprised probably more

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02:01:03,200 --> 02:01:07,120
Speaker 2: than any other team in college football. We knew they

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02:01:07,160 --> 02:01:08,920
Speaker 2: were good. They were good last year. I didn't know

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02:01:08,960 --> 02:01:11,880
Speaker 2: they'd be this good this year and the first year

2288
02:01:11,920 --> 02:01:14,840
Speaker 2: of the Kurtz signety era. They talked about the soft

2289
02:01:14,880 --> 02:01:17,920
Speaker 2: schedule and they got in and they didn't fare great

2290
02:01:18,000 --> 02:01:21,360
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, but they've beaten two top ten teams

2291
02:01:21,400 --> 02:01:24,520
Speaker 2: in six games. They body slammed Illinois and then they

2292
02:01:24,600 --> 02:01:29,280
Speaker 2: went into Oregon at Oustin Stadium and Oregon at the time,

2293
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Speaker 2: I had not lost a home season game since October

2294
02:01:32,920 --> 02:01:35,720
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. That was the longest active home win streak.

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Speaker 2: Rank number third. They hand Oregon their first regular season loss,

2296
02:01:40,600 --> 02:01:45,000
Speaker 2: thirty to twenty. It was incredibly impressive. Fernando Mendoza is

2297
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Speaker 2: the quarterback. Curtis Rourke was capable last year, but Fernanda

2298
02:01:48,920 --> 02:01:52,920
Speaker 2: Mendoza is a Heisman Trophy guy. But Indiana's defense is legit.

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Speaker 2: They ranked eighth nationally and yards per played aloud. I

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Speaker 2: mean we're talking the Alabama's, the Ohio States, and Georgia's.

2301
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Speaker 2: Indiana is you have to mention them in that mix. Now,

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Speaker 2: they were violent against Oregon State, they accept the edges,

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02:02:05,520 --> 02:02:07,560
Speaker 2: they won the line of scrimmage. But they're not the

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Speaker 2: only team that's been a pleasant surprise this year. How

2305
02:02:09,560 --> 02:02:14,080
Speaker 2: about the Virginia Cavaliers now Tony Elliott And this is

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02:02:14,120 --> 02:02:17,440
Speaker 2: where sometimes patience matters. In his first three years as

2307
02:02:17,520 --> 02:02:23,400
Speaker 2: Virginia's head coach, he only won eleven games. Actually, Virginia

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Speaker 2: has a chance to win that many this year. They

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Speaker 2: score points at will. They're averaging forty three points a game,

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Speaker 2: and they've got a quarterback who's on his four school

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02:02:32,760 --> 02:02:37,320
Speaker 2: of six season, again the weirdness of college football, Chandler Moore,

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02:02:37,480 --> 02:02:40,600
Speaker 2: seventy percent completion rate. They have a bunch of other

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Speaker 2: guys that have contributed. Yes, they had a bad loss

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02:02:45,600 --> 02:02:51,120
Speaker 2: sort of to North Carolina State in Week two, but

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Speaker 2: go figure, this actually didn't count as a conference game.

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Speaker 2: So the three and zero in the ACC five and

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Speaker 2: one overall. How about the Cincinnati Bearcats. Yes, it's a

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Speaker 2: make or break season for Scott's sadderfield, but so far,

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02:03:05,600 --> 02:03:07,680
Speaker 2: and again he's only a third year coach. It this

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Speaker 2: is how they do it now. When you pay these

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02:03:09,360 --> 02:03:13,440
Speaker 2: kind of big bucks, well, you know you gotta come through.

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati's done that. They're six and one, they're winning big.

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02:03:19,400 --> 02:03:23,440
Speaker 2: They are probably in line for a pretty good bowl game.

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02:03:23,840 --> 02:03:27,440
Speaker 2: I don't think there'll be a playoff team, but Cincinnati's

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Speaker 2: a sneaky contender for a conference title. I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: that they'll do it in the Big Twelve. But again,

2327
02:03:35,280 --> 02:03:39,320
Speaker 2: there's an offense that is producing and it's got the

2328
02:03:39,400 --> 02:03:41,200
Speaker 2: kind of results for Cincinnati that's got them in the

2329
02:03:41,280 --> 02:03:45,680
Speaker 2: national conversation. Same with the USF. They started out that

2330
02:03:45,840 --> 02:03:51,840
Speaker 2: blowout that an opening Wells Labor Day weekend. It was

2331
02:03:51,880 --> 02:03:54,200
Speaker 2: a Friday night game. They blew out a Boise State

2332
02:03:54,240 --> 02:03:56,280
Speaker 2: team that was actually ranked twenty fifth at the time,

2333
02:03:57,320 --> 02:04:00,200
Speaker 2: and they were expected to be good. They reached earn

2334
02:04:00,280 --> 02:04:03,520
Speaker 2: sixty seven percent of their production from last year. But

2335
02:04:03,640 --> 02:04:06,640
Speaker 2: then not only did USF beat Boise State, they follow

2336
02:04:06,680 --> 02:04:11,760
Speaker 2: up the next week and knocked off Florida, and that

2337
02:04:11,920 --> 02:04:15,360
Speaker 2: was in a swamp where Florida had just beaten Texas. Again,

2338
02:04:15,400 --> 02:04:18,600
Speaker 2: it's a crazy year. All right. Now, they did get

2339
02:04:18,600 --> 02:04:21,520
Speaker 2: their butt handed to them by Miami, but since then

2340
02:04:21,560 --> 02:04:26,720
Speaker 2: they're averaging about sixty points a game. So look, if

2341
02:04:26,800 --> 02:04:31,440
Speaker 2: you lef can stay away from turnovers, they are a

2342
02:04:31,560 --> 02:04:33,839
Speaker 2: type of team that can give anybody, just about anybody

2343
02:04:33,920 --> 02:04:37,480
Speaker 2: a scare. But again, a very pleasant surprise. But James

2344
02:04:37,520 --> 02:04:42,040
Speaker 2: Franklin's old team, Vanderbilt, oh my goodness. They were two

2345
02:04:42,080 --> 02:04:45,160
Speaker 2: and a half point favorite Saturday to LSU. Haven't been

2346
02:04:45,160 --> 02:04:48,880
Speaker 2: a favorite against sales Usonince nineteen forty seven. Vanderbilt is

2347
02:04:48,960 --> 02:04:50,600
Speaker 2: now six to one, and they look good doing it.

2348
02:04:51,440 --> 02:04:54,960
Speaker 2: They're somewhat similar to Indiana. They're a team that had

2349
02:04:55,480 --> 02:05:00,400
Speaker 2: success in twenty twenty four that was unexpected, but this

2350
02:05:00,600 --> 02:05:06,040
Speaker 2: year it looks more like genuine magic. They have a quarterback,

2351
02:05:06,080 --> 02:05:09,160
Speaker 2: a very dynamic quarterback in Diego Pavia. He's basically picked

2352
02:05:09,200 --> 02:05:12,080
Speaker 2: up where he left off. He's also a Heisman finalist.

2353
02:05:13,520 --> 02:05:15,400
Speaker 2: The sign of a good team is you have to

2354
02:05:15,480 --> 02:05:20,160
Speaker 2: beat good opponents. You can't just beat inferior opponents. Well,

2355
02:05:20,200 --> 02:05:23,840
Speaker 2: believe it or not, Vanderbilt has now beaten five straight

2356
02:05:24,440 --> 02:05:27,120
Speaker 2: Top twenty five opponents, and they're also in the top

2357
02:05:27,160 --> 02:05:31,400
Speaker 2: twenty five. Well. The list of teams that have disappointed

2358
02:05:31,680 --> 02:05:37,400
Speaker 2: is frankly crazier than the teams that have been pleasant surprises.

2359
02:05:38,520 --> 02:05:40,520
Speaker 2: I'm getting tired of talking about ten State, but we

2360
02:05:40,640 --> 02:05:43,240
Speaker 2: have to. They were picked by a lot of folks,

2361
02:05:43,360 --> 02:05:45,920
Speaker 2: not me, to win it all this year. Now they're

2362
02:05:45,920 --> 02:05:50,720
Speaker 2: three and four. They're three and four, and they're zero

2363
02:05:50,760 --> 02:05:52,280
Speaker 2: to four in the Big Ten. Did you hear that

2364
02:05:52,440 --> 02:05:55,520
Speaker 2: Penn State is own four in the Big Ten seven

2365
02:05:55,600 --> 02:05:58,920
Speaker 2: games of the season. They are now with an interim coach.

2366
02:05:59,000 --> 02:06:03,720
Speaker 2: You lost in his debut to Iowa Saturday. Six games in.

2367
02:06:04,400 --> 02:06:06,600
Speaker 2: They will be paying out the second biggest buy out

2368
02:06:06,600 --> 02:06:09,200
Speaker 2: in the history of college football. As you know, James

2369
02:06:09,240 --> 02:06:12,800
Speaker 2: Franklin was let go after three straight losses and drew

2370
02:06:12,880 --> 02:06:15,480
Speaker 2: allers out for the rest of the year. It looks

2371
02:06:15,560 --> 02:06:18,360
Speaker 2: like they brought in Jim Knowles from Ohio State to

2372
02:06:18,440 --> 02:06:21,480
Speaker 2: take the defense to quote the national championship level, and

2373
02:06:22,240 --> 02:06:26,760
Speaker 2: in truth, they've regressed. Nothing has gone right for Penn State.

2374
02:06:27,560 --> 02:06:30,120
Speaker 2: If it was Randon Nichols, they'd beholding a sieve. Everything

2375
02:06:30,200 --> 02:06:32,840
Speaker 2: they do is gone just bad. This is an ugly

2376
02:06:32,960 --> 02:06:35,440
Speaker 2: season for Penn State. We'll see who they hire. Not

2377
02:06:35,600 --> 02:06:39,920
Speaker 2: much better for Davilos Swiney, they're three and four. I

2378
02:06:40,000 --> 02:06:42,600
Speaker 2: didn't buy this that they We were told the pieces

2379
02:06:42,640 --> 02:06:45,920
Speaker 2: were in place for Clemson to return to national title contention,

2380
02:06:46,880 --> 02:06:49,360
Speaker 2: and they allegedly had this. Now they've had this in

2381
02:06:49,400 --> 02:06:52,120
Speaker 2: the past and what you would call an NFL themed

2382
02:06:52,160 --> 02:06:55,640
Speaker 2: defensive line in a quarterback who they want to tell

2383
02:06:55,720 --> 02:06:58,200
Speaker 2: us about Heisman buzz I never bought it. Kate Klebnick,

2384
02:06:59,040 --> 02:07:02,400
Speaker 2: he's a tough guy and he's a competitor. But they

2385
02:07:02,520 --> 02:07:05,880
Speaker 2: just don't They don't move the needle, not even close.

2386
02:07:06,920 --> 02:07:10,480
Speaker 2: Clemson has completely face planted. They're worse start in twenty

2387
02:07:10,560 --> 02:07:15,919
Speaker 2: two years. Last year Dabos Swinney somehow got the Clemson

2388
02:07:15,960 --> 02:07:19,760
Speaker 2: team out of a three loss hole. But look when

2389
02:07:19,760 --> 02:07:23,120
Speaker 2: those when you start losing games to non conference opponents

2390
02:07:24,080 --> 02:07:26,440
Speaker 2: like they did last year and this year, you pick

2391
02:07:26,520 --> 02:07:29,760
Speaker 2: up where you left off and you lose games that

2392
02:07:29,840 --> 02:07:36,080
Speaker 2: people expected to win. Look, look, Clemson, if they go

2393
02:07:36,160 --> 02:07:38,440
Speaker 2: to the College Playoff this year, it will be as

2394
02:07:38,480 --> 02:07:44,120
Speaker 2: a spectator. Meanwhile, Texas man, they escaped that. Kentucky and

2395
02:07:44,200 --> 02:07:48,000
Speaker 2: Kentucky's you're better than people think. But they're five and two,

2396
02:07:48,080 --> 02:07:50,760
Speaker 2: they're two and one in the SEC. And you know

2397
02:07:50,880 --> 02:07:55,080
Speaker 2: you always have to juxtapose just about everything with what

2398
02:07:55,360 --> 02:08:00,000
Speaker 2: expectations were, and these massive expectations for Texas this year,

2399
02:08:00,560 --> 02:08:02,080
Speaker 2: they just had to show up, throw the ball in

2400
02:08:02,120 --> 02:08:04,360
Speaker 2: the field. Arch Manning was gonna win the highestman. Texas

2401
02:08:04,400 --> 02:08:07,480
Speaker 2: was gonna win the National Championship. They played that tough

2402
02:08:07,560 --> 02:08:10,800
Speaker 2: game Week one against Ohio State, even though Peyton or

2403
02:08:11,400 --> 02:08:15,480
Speaker 2: arch didn't look so good. The truth of the matter

2404
02:08:15,640 --> 02:08:19,960
Speaker 2: is when you come just one player, two plays away

2405
02:08:20,000 --> 02:08:22,240
Speaker 2: from reaching the National Title game each of the last

2406
02:08:22,280 --> 02:08:25,320
Speaker 2: two seasons, you feel like you're really knocking on the door.

2407
02:08:26,720 --> 02:08:29,320
Speaker 2: Something's wrong with Texas. I don't know. I don't know

2408
02:08:29,360 --> 02:08:33,840
Speaker 2: what it is. Arch Manning has not lived up to

2409
02:08:33,880 --> 02:08:37,800
Speaker 2: the hype. He did have a turnover free performance against

2410
02:08:37,840 --> 02:08:41,280
Speaker 2: Oklahoma last week, completed seventy eight percent of his passes.

2411
02:08:42,680 --> 02:08:45,120
Speaker 2: But this Heisman campaign was a fagezi. It never really

2412
02:08:45,160 --> 02:08:47,840
Speaker 2: got off the ground. And the preseason long arms were

2413
02:08:47,920 --> 02:08:50,680
Speaker 2: number one. They're anything but that. And this is a

2414
02:08:50,840 --> 02:08:53,800
Speaker 2: really bad thing for a team. I'll tell you one

2415
02:08:53,840 --> 02:08:55,840
Speaker 2: more thing that's really bad for a team that has designs.

2416
02:08:55,880 --> 02:08:58,720
Speaker 2: They win in the National Championship, they're averaging fifth to

2417
02:08:58,760 --> 02:09:02,320
Speaker 2: fifteenth most penalties game and you don't do that. You

2418
02:09:02,360 --> 02:09:06,680
Speaker 2: don't make those kinds of mistakes. Kansas State they're kind

2419
02:09:06,720 --> 02:09:10,280
Speaker 2: of headed in the right direction now, but they've been

2420
02:09:10,280 --> 02:09:13,440
Speaker 2: a bit of a disappointment as well. Same with South Carolina.

2421
02:09:13,960 --> 02:09:15,880
Speaker 2: Like the rest of the teams on the list, they

2422
02:09:15,960 --> 02:09:18,520
Speaker 2: got a quarterback that just hasn't taken the step forward

2423
02:09:18,560 --> 02:09:20,520
Speaker 2: he was expected to take. I had a lot of

2424
02:09:20,560 --> 02:09:23,240
Speaker 2: people try to tell me that it was Lenora's Sellers

2425
02:09:24,480 --> 02:09:28,040
Speaker 2: was the best quarterback in the SEC. Not you know,

2426
02:09:29,080 --> 02:09:33,839
Speaker 2: not Arch Manning. I'm not gonna name all the quarterbacks.

2427
02:09:33,840 --> 02:09:35,440
Speaker 2: You know where I'm going with that. He's only had

2428
02:09:35,480 --> 02:09:37,960
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventeen rushing yards this season. He's been

2429
02:09:38,040 --> 02:09:40,480
Speaker 2: sacked a ton. Now, I get it. The game Cocks

2430
02:09:40,480 --> 02:09:43,680
Speaker 2: they have an offensive line that's been injury ravaged. They

2431
02:09:43,720 --> 02:09:46,200
Speaker 2: can't really protect the quarterback, so they don't have a

2432
02:09:46,240 --> 02:09:49,880
Speaker 2: lot of time to throw. One thing that's become a

2433
02:09:50,120 --> 02:09:54,800
Speaker 2: tremendous mid season surprise. Give it up to EUCLA. I

2434
02:09:54,840 --> 02:09:58,400
Speaker 2: remember the day when UCLA was the goods and then

2435
02:09:58,400 --> 02:10:02,320
Speaker 2: you know the Terry Donahue, Ara, etc. Could I mean,

2436
02:10:03,080 --> 02:10:07,400
Speaker 2: I've never understood why athletes would not just line up

2437
02:10:07,400 --> 02:10:09,880
Speaker 2: to want to go there. And they had a ninety

2438
02:10:09,920 --> 02:10:12,320
Speaker 2: eight Their football team in ninety eight, coach by Bob

2439
02:10:12,400 --> 02:10:15,080
Speaker 2: Toledo should have gone to the National Championship game. They

2440
02:10:15,080 --> 02:10:17,240
Speaker 2: had a little bit of a debacle when the coach

2441
02:10:17,240 --> 02:10:19,160
Speaker 2: would't let him wear a certain jersey and they went

2442
02:10:19,200 --> 02:10:21,120
Speaker 2: down to Miami and lost to Edgar and James. It

2443
02:10:21,280 --> 02:10:24,520
Speaker 2: just hasn't been the same since. But three in a

2444
02:10:24,640 --> 02:10:28,240
Speaker 2: row and looking good doing it, you know, they almost

2445
02:10:28,320 --> 02:10:33,000
Speaker 2: helped They basically helped James Franklin signed the death warrant

2446
02:10:33,040 --> 02:10:35,400
Speaker 2: there by. Not only did they beat Penn State, but

2447
02:10:35,440 --> 02:10:38,600
Speaker 2: the way they beat Penn State. Then they get on

2448
02:10:38,800 --> 02:10:41,160
Speaker 2: they get on a plane and go to Michigan State

2449
02:10:41,240 --> 02:10:43,400
Speaker 2: and just toyed with Michigan State. And then they came

2450
02:10:43,480 --> 02:10:45,840
Speaker 2: back and beat I think an above average Maryland team

2451
02:10:46,000 --> 02:10:49,680
Speaker 2: on Saturday, and Maryland was a team that started four

2452
02:10:49,720 --> 02:10:54,800
Speaker 2: and oh. But UCLA has gotten creative. They use fake punts,

2453
02:10:55,120 --> 02:10:59,080
Speaker 2: they use onside kicks, they have defensive linemans blocking on offense.

2454
02:10:59,720 --> 02:11:02,240
Speaker 2: They do what they take to do. Jerry new Heeisl,

2455
02:11:03,480 --> 02:11:07,240
Speaker 2: who was buying larger backup quarterback at UCLA, the son

2456
02:11:07,320 --> 02:11:09,200
Speaker 2: of Rick new Heisel, but he had the one big

2457
02:11:09,280 --> 02:11:12,360
Speaker 2: game at Texas, one big game of Texas, And I

2458
02:11:12,440 --> 02:11:15,680
Speaker 2: think it's just cool if both USC and UCLA could

2459
02:11:15,680 --> 02:11:20,560
Speaker 2: be more relevant nationally in Los Angeles just like they

2460
02:11:20,640 --> 02:11:25,480
Speaker 2: used to be. They're starting to gather attention, including from

2461
02:11:25,760 --> 02:11:30,600
Speaker 2: people like mc cronin. Right, he's been praising the football team.

2462
02:11:32,200 --> 02:11:35,760
Speaker 2: He says, you know, he says, things get lost in

2463
02:11:35,800 --> 02:11:37,520
Speaker 2: the mix because all the money they're getting paid to

2464
02:11:37,520 --> 02:11:40,000
Speaker 2: there's still kids. It's not easy to live through this

2465
02:11:40,120 --> 02:11:45,360
Speaker 2: pressure cooker, et cetera. Et pretty pragmatic report, but again,

2466
02:11:45,520 --> 02:11:48,160
Speaker 2: I don't know what crazier can go on this college

2467
02:11:48,200 --> 02:11:51,640
Speaker 2: football season. It looks like Ohio State's still buttoned up.

2468
02:11:52,600 --> 02:11:55,600
Speaker 2: But what happens when they go to Michigan on November

2469
02:11:55,640 --> 02:12:01,800
Speaker 2: twenty ninth? People? You know that's lying in wait. So

2470
02:12:02,480 --> 02:12:05,120
Speaker 2: even though we're halfway through, it's been an incredibly raucous,

2471
02:12:05,280 --> 02:12:10,120
Speaker 2: crazy college football season. We're not done yet, and who

2472
02:12:10,240 --> 02:12:13,600
Speaker 2: knows what the future brings, and I'm here for it.

2473
02:12:13,680 --> 02:12:17,760
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see what the future brings. Well,

2474
02:12:17,800 --> 02:12:20,280
Speaker 2: I know what the past has brung. And I got

2475
02:12:20,360 --> 02:12:23,800
Speaker 2: to ask you, did Shohio Tani play perhaps the most

2476
02:12:23,960 --> 02:12:30,000
Speaker 2: magnificent game of all time? He helped Seal, the Dodgers

2477
02:12:30,120 --> 02:12:33,160
Speaker 2: and the National League pennant. But it wasn't that he

2478
02:12:33,240 --> 02:12:35,240
Speaker 2: did it, it was the way he did it. Let's

2479
02:12:35,280 --> 02:12:38,120
Speaker 2: revisit that ever so quickly. Coming up, I'm Bernie Frattle.

2480
02:12:38,600 --> 02:12:40,440
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02:12:43,200 --> 02:12:44,560
Speaker 2: Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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2487
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2488
02:13:04,040 --> 02:13:06,240
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2489
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2490
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02:13:26,040 --> 02:13:30,080
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2496
02:13:32,200 --> 02:13:36,440
Speaker 2: Speaking of reviews, I don't know if they're going to

2497
02:13:36,480 --> 02:13:40,000
Speaker 2: be able to find a higher league for Shohey Otani,

2498
02:13:40,800 --> 02:13:44,240
Speaker 2: but he continues to stretch the dimensions of what a

2499
02:13:44,360 --> 02:13:47,440
Speaker 2: human being is capable of doing on a baseball field,

2500
02:13:47,560 --> 02:13:53,920
Speaker 2: especially in such a high leverage situation. He was pitching

2501
02:13:54,040 --> 02:13:57,680
Speaker 2: and leading off, Oh nothing, that right off the bat,

2502
02:13:57,760 --> 02:14:00,640
Speaker 2: That right there, he's a head scratcher in the annals

2503
02:14:00,720 --> 02:14:04,280
Speaker 2: of baseball. And he was on nothing, throwing a two

2504
02:14:04,360 --> 02:14:08,240
Speaker 2: hitter against a team with the best record in the

2505
02:14:08,520 --> 02:14:11,920
Speaker 2: entire league, National League, and American League. And then he

2506
02:14:12,040 --> 02:14:14,160
Speaker 2: manages to lead off the game with a home run,

2507
02:14:14,320 --> 02:14:16,040
Speaker 2: the first leadoff for him at as a pitcher in

2508
02:14:16,080 --> 02:14:20,400
Speaker 2: the history of the major leagues. As he continued the

2509
02:14:20,520 --> 02:14:24,480
Speaker 2: process of single handedly putting the team on his back

2510
02:14:25,160 --> 02:14:27,320
Speaker 2: and putting the Dodgers in the World Series in the

2511
02:14:27,360 --> 02:14:32,320
Speaker 2: position to defend its twenty four title and become the

2512
02:14:32,360 --> 02:14:36,400
Speaker 2: first team in twenty five years to repeat. So the

2513
02:14:36,480 --> 02:14:39,480
Speaker 2: first home run nothing, He turned on a cutter four

2514
02:14:39,560 --> 02:14:43,640
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy feet to right center field, and the

2515
02:14:43,720 --> 02:14:46,960
Speaker 2: next thing, you know, by the time it landed, actually

2516
02:14:47,240 --> 02:14:49,120
Speaker 2: that was a third home run, that was four seventies

2517
02:14:49,120 --> 02:14:55,640
Speaker 2: over the roof. People were so giddy they couldn't They

2518
02:14:55,760 --> 02:14:58,200
Speaker 2: retired from clapping and cheering, and they just started laughing,

2519
02:14:59,600 --> 02:15:04,200
Speaker 2: because this was you could easily argue, and you can't

2520
02:15:04,240 --> 02:15:08,280
Speaker 2: say the World Baseball Classic was, and you can't say

2521
02:15:08,360 --> 02:15:12,840
Speaker 2: maybe last year was because real Tani didn't pitch. Could

2522
02:15:12,880 --> 02:15:18,040
Speaker 2: you argue that the other night it was the most

2523
02:15:18,080 --> 02:15:22,120
Speaker 2: important game of Shohotani's career And what if you do?

2524
02:15:22,320 --> 02:15:27,600
Speaker 2: He produces the most exhilarating performance, and there have been

2525
02:15:27,680 --> 02:15:30,640
Speaker 2: some in baseball. Reggie Jackson at three home runs in

2526
02:15:30,720 --> 02:15:32,960
Speaker 2: Game five of the nineteen seventy seven World Series to

2527
02:15:33,040 --> 02:15:36,320
Speaker 2: clinch the World Series, but he did to offer three

2528
02:15:36,360 --> 02:15:40,160
Speaker 2: different pitchers, and he did it three pitches, but he

2529
02:15:40,200 --> 02:15:46,800
Speaker 2: didn't pitch. He didn't pitch. He also walked in his

2530
02:15:46,880 --> 02:15:49,200
Speaker 2: fourth a bat, so three three home runs in a walk,

2531
02:15:50,360 --> 02:15:55,000
Speaker 2: and did I mention that he also struck out ten hitters.

2532
02:15:56,400 --> 02:15:58,600
Speaker 2: No one can say that they've ever seen anything like

2533
02:15:58,720 --> 02:16:05,480
Speaker 2: this before, because we haven't. You know, everybody's into this

2534
02:16:05,840 --> 02:16:08,640
Speaker 2: exit velocity stuff, and the numbers just start to become

2535
02:16:09,320 --> 02:16:14,320
Speaker 2: a little mind bottling and confusing and frankly nonsensical. But

2536
02:16:14,440 --> 02:16:20,200
Speaker 2: if you're into such things, not only did did Otani

2537
02:16:20,320 --> 02:16:23,240
Speaker 2: hit three home runs, he had the three highest exit

2538
02:16:23,360 --> 02:16:26,400
Speaker 2: velocities one hundred and seventeen miles an hour, one hundred

2539
02:16:26,400 --> 02:16:28,400
Speaker 2: and sixteen miles an hour, and one hundred and fourteen

2540
02:16:28,480 --> 02:16:31,800
Speaker 2: miles an hour, the three top distances four hundred and

2541
02:16:31,840 --> 02:16:34,240
Speaker 2: seventy feet, four hundred and forty six feet, four hundred

2542
02:16:34,240 --> 02:16:36,400
Speaker 2: and twenty seven feet, and oh, by the way, while

2543
02:16:36,400 --> 02:16:40,400
Speaker 2: he was on the Mound eleven top pitch velocities ranging

2544
02:16:40,520 --> 02:16:43,280
Speaker 2: from anywhere from nine to nine point two miles an

2545
02:16:43,280 --> 02:16:45,119
Speaker 2: hour to just done one hundred and one miles an hour.

2546
02:16:46,280 --> 02:16:50,120
Speaker 2: What the he? I mean, even even the natural Roy Hobbs,

2547
02:16:50,160 --> 02:16:51,920
Speaker 2: who was supposed to be the greatest, didn't do this

2548
02:16:52,360 --> 02:16:55,360
Speaker 2: that I could remember. But here's what's interesting. I people

2549
02:16:55,400 --> 02:17:00,040
Speaker 2: ask me, how are you worried about Otani's slump? What? What?

2550
02:17:01,120 --> 02:17:06,200
Speaker 2: Come on? Come on? You knew eventually this guy. And

2551
02:17:06,800 --> 02:17:09,240
Speaker 2: by the way, while that conversation was taking place, the

2552
02:17:09,320 --> 02:17:11,840
Speaker 2: Dodgers were already eight and one in the postseason. Now

2553
02:17:11,879 --> 02:17:14,520
Speaker 2: they're ninety one. The week leading up to it, most

2554
02:17:14,560 --> 02:17:18,240
Speaker 2: of the discussion was whether Otani could could do such

2555
02:17:18,280 --> 02:17:23,360
Speaker 2: a thing. Okay, I believe Otani is deserving and should

2556
02:17:23,400 --> 02:17:25,920
Speaker 2: win his third straight MVP in his fourth and five years,

2557
02:17:26,440 --> 02:17:28,720
Speaker 2: But he only really started ramping up as a pitcher

2558
02:17:29,280 --> 02:17:32,720
Speaker 2: okay throughout the throughout this season because he had his

2559
02:17:32,760 --> 02:17:36,440
Speaker 2: second elbow construction, and on the days he pitched, the

2560
02:17:36,520 --> 02:17:39,879
Speaker 2: numbers were decent, not great, but the Dodgers were determined

2561
02:17:39,920 --> 02:17:46,920
Speaker 2: to make it work. When October rolls around, baseball becomes

2562
02:17:47,440 --> 02:17:52,359
Speaker 2: quite a bit different. Strike zones shrink, power, pitching is rewarded,

2563
02:17:52,959 --> 02:17:55,440
Speaker 2: umpires want hitters to get the bat off their hands,

2564
02:17:56,040 --> 02:18:01,400
Speaker 2: and everything is intensified. Have that DNA now think they

2565
02:18:01,440 --> 02:18:04,080
Speaker 2: won one last year? They always had the DNA, but

2566
02:18:04,200 --> 02:18:06,360
Speaker 2: now that they won one last year, it's like they

2567
02:18:06,400 --> 02:18:09,119
Speaker 2: were just biding their time. I never doubted that when

2568
02:18:09,120 --> 02:18:10,600
Speaker 2: they got to October, and I said it more than

2569
02:18:10,640 --> 02:18:14,840
Speaker 2: once on the air, wait till October baseball starts. But

2570
02:18:15,080 --> 02:18:17,680
Speaker 2: what was interesting is the Dodgers made a decision to

2571
02:18:17,720 --> 02:18:21,200
Speaker 2: push back his National League Championship Series start. He was

2572
02:18:21,280 --> 02:18:25,400
Speaker 2: supposed to go Game two so he could have a

2573
02:18:25,520 --> 02:18:29,240
Speaker 2: day off after to travel to Game four, and the

2574
02:18:29,360 --> 02:18:32,560
Speaker 2: Dodgers insist that had nothing to do with the quality

2575
02:18:32,600 --> 02:18:36,440
Speaker 2: of his bats, and I believe him. Okay, However, he

2576
02:18:36,520 --> 02:18:40,480
Speaker 2: wasn't having necessarily great at bats. The concern was might

2577
02:18:40,560 --> 02:18:44,120
Speaker 2: he have trouble compartmentalizing because It's one thing to do

2578
02:18:44,240 --> 02:18:46,000
Speaker 2: this during the regular season, which hadn't done in a

2579
02:18:46,040 --> 02:18:47,920
Speaker 2: couple of years. It's another thing to do when you're

2580
02:18:47,920 --> 02:18:53,320
Speaker 2: trying to repeat his World champions So Game four rolls around,

2581
02:18:53,560 --> 02:18:57,680
Speaker 2: and it seemed like there was less risk and it

2582
02:18:57,800 --> 02:19:02,240
Speaker 2: was a situation on the Dodgers are up three to zero.

2583
02:19:02,360 --> 02:19:06,880
Speaker 2: So if there's any uncertainty that Otani can do this

2584
02:19:07,720 --> 02:19:09,200
Speaker 2: for the remainder of the playoffs, if we get to

2585
02:19:09,240 --> 02:19:11,720
Speaker 2: the World Series where he can pitch and hit and

2586
02:19:11,840 --> 02:19:13,560
Speaker 2: lead off and do it at the highest level on

2587
02:19:13,600 --> 02:19:17,120
Speaker 2: the biggest, granted stage, Game four was going to be

2588
02:19:18,040 --> 02:19:21,000
Speaker 2: a primer. It was going to be a referendum, all right,

2589
02:19:22,520 --> 02:19:26,200
Speaker 2: But people forgot they were dealing with Shoe Otani. He's

2590
02:19:26,240 --> 02:19:30,320
Speaker 2: not normal. I'm told that. The week league up to

2591
02:19:30,400 --> 02:19:35,320
Speaker 2: that Game four, Otani himself was quite irritated. Okay, he

2592
02:19:35,440 --> 02:19:38,760
Speaker 2: was tired of getting the same questions asked, and frankly,

2593
02:19:38,840 --> 02:19:42,720
Speaker 2: he was not happy with his own results. What did

2594
02:19:42,760 --> 02:19:46,720
Speaker 2: he do? He went to work. He went to work.

2595
02:19:47,440 --> 02:19:50,600
Speaker 2: He channeled all of his if this guy is capable

2596
02:19:50,600 --> 02:19:52,360
Speaker 2: of getting angry, I don't know, all of his anger,

2597
02:19:52,720 --> 02:19:55,760
Speaker 2: all his frustration, and went to work and just prepared.

2598
02:19:57,280 --> 02:20:01,560
Speaker 2: He spent multiple hours before the game getting into his

2599
02:20:01,680 --> 02:20:04,560
Speaker 2: usual schedule working on his pitching warm up. Then he

2600
02:20:04,640 --> 02:20:06,720
Speaker 2: headed to the batting cage an hour before the game,

2601
02:20:07,120 --> 02:20:09,520
Speaker 2: and then he took time to watch the Mariners and

2602
02:20:09,600 --> 02:20:15,640
Speaker 2: Blue Jays to study, and the hitting coach, Robert Vanskoyek, said,

2603
02:20:16,360 --> 02:20:18,720
Speaker 2: I don't want to call this guy a robot, but

2604
02:20:18,840 --> 02:20:24,240
Speaker 2: he's so routine oriented it's almost robotic. But the truth

2605
02:20:24,320 --> 02:20:28,800
Speaker 2: of the matter is robots can't think and reason. Otani can't,

2606
02:20:28,840 --> 02:20:33,520
Speaker 2: and all those doubts fueled his fire. They made him ready.

2607
02:20:34,840 --> 02:20:39,120
Speaker 2: And the truth of the matter is Otani apparently told

2608
02:20:39,200 --> 02:20:43,480
Speaker 2: some people that in Japanese, those who could understand him, says,

2609
02:20:43,480 --> 02:20:49,119
Speaker 2: it's going to be my turn to perform and after

2610
02:20:49,200 --> 02:20:53,600
Speaker 2: the celebration, right, and it's been ten months now since

2611
02:20:53,640 --> 02:20:56,720
Speaker 2: the Dodger signed him to a ten year, seven hundred

2612
02:20:57,120 --> 02:21:00,800
Speaker 2: million dollar contract, Otani had a smile on his face

2613
02:21:00,840 --> 02:21:05,240
Speaker 2: and said, one down, nine more to go. I really

2614
02:21:05,280 --> 02:21:07,640
Speaker 2: can't wait for the World serious to start next Friday.

2615
02:21:08,000 --> 02:21:09,760
Speaker 2: I don't know who it's gonna be. I actually think

2616
02:21:09,760 --> 02:21:12,600
Speaker 2: it's gonna be the Blue Jays. Could be wrong. I

2617
02:21:12,680 --> 02:21:14,360
Speaker 2: had the Dodgers in blue Jays at the beginning of

2618
02:21:14,400 --> 02:21:16,680
Speaker 2: the playoffs. The Blue Jays are down three to two,

2619
02:21:16,760 --> 02:21:19,520
Speaker 2: but they're coming home. But either way you slice it,

2620
02:21:20,040 --> 02:21:23,800
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are going to be heavy favorites. Yes, they

2621
02:21:23,840 --> 02:21:26,440
Speaker 2: set a record three hundred and twenty nine million dollars

2622
02:21:26,480 --> 02:21:31,879
Speaker 2: in payroll, and Otani's decision with some people took uppers

2623
02:21:31,920 --> 02:21:34,840
Speaker 2: to to defer the costs. But when you look at

2624
02:21:34,879 --> 02:21:40,879
Speaker 2: the six innings pitch, two hits, ten strikeouts, it was impressive.

2625
02:21:41,040 --> 02:21:43,280
Speaker 2: But when you couple three home runs on top of that,

2626
02:21:44,040 --> 02:21:47,080
Speaker 2: and he had to follow Blake Snell, who threw a

2627
02:21:47,160 --> 02:21:52,800
Speaker 2: one hitter, ten strikeouts, no scoreless, scoreless, you know, I

2628
02:21:52,840 --> 02:21:56,920
Speaker 2: think eight scoreless hittings allowed what one hit to hits. Here,

2629
02:21:57,040 --> 02:21:59,680
Speaker 2: Schenoba Yamamoto pitched a three hit, one run complete game.

2630
02:22:00,800 --> 02:22:05,200
Speaker 2: Those performances made in a very tough act to follow,

2631
02:22:05,320 --> 02:22:10,080
Speaker 2: even for a guy like Shoeyotani. So for a guy

2632
02:22:10,280 --> 02:22:14,280
Speaker 2: even like Otani to completely take over the game the

2633
02:22:14,400 --> 02:22:19,480
Speaker 2: way he did on Friday leads you to believe that

2634
02:22:19,720 --> 02:22:21,600
Speaker 2: just when you think you've seen it all, we're still

2635
02:22:21,600 --> 02:22:23,960
Speaker 2: going to see something new. And I'm here for it.

2636
02:22:24,280 --> 02:22:28,120
Speaker 2: But for one night, I don't know people may argue

2637
02:22:28,120 --> 02:22:32,199
Speaker 2: about it, Shohetani may very well have played the most impactful,

2638
02:22:32,280 --> 02:22:36,920
Speaker 2: magnificent game in the history of Major League Baseball. We've

2639
02:22:36,959 --> 02:22:39,680
Speaker 2: covered all on the show. We've talked a ton of football.

2640
02:22:39,720 --> 02:22:43,359
Speaker 2: We've talked to NBA, We've talked baseball, We've talked college football.

2641
02:22:44,200 --> 02:22:48,240
Speaker 2: We also talk to the other football, futbol. We call

2642
02:22:48,280 --> 02:22:51,320
Speaker 2: it soccer, they call it football. It's time for Christophet's

2643
02:22:51,360 --> 02:22:51,960
Speaker 2: World of Soccer.

2644
02:22:53,480 --> 02:23:10,000
Speaker 3: The greatest goals finishes, the international drama. It's all here

2645
02:23:10,160 --> 02:23:13,720
Speaker 3: in this report from the World of Soccer. Last day

2646
02:23:13,760 --> 02:23:18,120
Speaker 3: of the regular season for MLS. Here uh the not

2647
02:23:18,200 --> 02:23:20,640
Speaker 3: a lot of drama for the top of the league.

2648
02:23:20,959 --> 02:23:24,560
Speaker 3: Philadelphia Union has not only already lifted the Supporters Shield

2649
02:23:25,080 --> 02:23:28,520
Speaker 3: two weeks ago, which is the award for the regular

2650
02:23:28,640 --> 02:23:30,600
Speaker 3: season and for having the most points in the regular season.

2651
02:23:30,680 --> 02:23:35,000
Speaker 3: What a what a fascinating idea for North American sports.

2652
02:23:35,120 --> 02:23:37,040
Speaker 3: I'm being a little bit facetious here, but I do

2653
02:23:37,240 --> 02:23:41,000
Speaker 3: think with expanded playoffs, which the way we treat playoffs,

2654
02:23:41,240 --> 02:23:43,840
Speaker 3: we should honor the regular season a little bit more

2655
02:23:43,879 --> 02:23:46,560
Speaker 3: than we do. Obviously, in soccer, a lot of times

2656
02:23:46,600 --> 02:23:47,920
Speaker 3: there are no playoffs.

2657
02:23:48,080 --> 02:23:51,680
Speaker 19: You win your domestic League MLS kind of stands in

2658
02:23:51,760 --> 02:23:54,520
Speaker 19: a very interesting uh spot in that they have an

2659
02:23:54,560 --> 02:23:57,760
Speaker 19: award for the regular season and the MLS Cup. But regardless,

2660
02:23:57,760 --> 02:24:01,840
Speaker 19: Philadelphia Union lifts the supporters two weeks ago. They're also

2661
02:24:01,920 --> 02:24:05,040
Speaker 19: locked up in the number one seed in the in

2662
02:24:05,120 --> 02:24:08,000
Speaker 19: the MLS Cup playoffs that will be coming and if

2663
02:24:08,080 --> 02:24:11,680
Speaker 19: my calculus is correct, even with a San Diego win,

2664
02:24:11,760 --> 02:24:14,760
Speaker 19: the Vancouver white Caps have sewn up the number one

2665
02:24:14,840 --> 02:24:18,760
Speaker 19: seed in the Western Conference. There'll be some drama with

2666
02:24:18,879 --> 02:24:22,280
Speaker 19: the bottom of the table that has all been sorted out.

2667
02:24:22,320 --> 02:24:25,240
Speaker 19: On Saturday next week we will get into the MLS

2668
02:24:25,360 --> 02:24:28,600
Speaker 19: Cup preview to talk about what's been going on there

2669
02:24:29,200 --> 02:24:32,840
Speaker 19: and where Lionel Messi shall be in all of this,

2670
02:24:33,800 --> 02:24:38,280
Speaker 19: along with the great LAFC and Seattle Sounders, this, that

2671
02:24:38,400 --> 02:24:40,959
Speaker 19: and the other thing. But we turn our attention now

2672
02:24:41,080 --> 02:24:43,880
Speaker 19: a little bit towards Europe. First off, last time we

2673
02:24:43,959 --> 02:24:48,360
Speaker 19: had talked about Harry Kane, the miraculous Englishman. He had

2674
02:24:48,760 --> 02:24:52,000
Speaker 19: set a record to reach one hundred goals with a

2675
02:24:52,040 --> 02:24:54,920
Speaker 19: club in a very short period of time, just over

2676
02:24:55,080 --> 02:24:57,520
Speaker 19: I believe, one hundred matches. Now he has had one

2677
02:24:57,600 --> 02:24:59,920
Speaker 19: hundred and four goals and one hundred and seven matches,

2678
02:25:00,040 --> 02:25:05,000
Speaker 19: which is fairly insane even with Bayern Munich. Der Classicer

2679
02:25:05,160 --> 02:25:10,040
Speaker 19: happened here on Saturday, that is, between Bayern Munich and

2680
02:25:10,120 --> 02:25:11,160
Speaker 19: Borisia Dortmund.

2681
02:25:11,480 --> 02:25:14,320
Speaker 3: Harry Kane scored his four hundredth club goal of.

2682
02:25:14,320 --> 02:25:18,879
Speaker 19: His entire career in there as Bayern Munich defeats Dortmund

2683
02:25:19,240 --> 02:25:22,960
Speaker 19: to one. However, where we turn our attention now is

2684
02:25:23,160 --> 02:25:30,200
Speaker 19: to changing chairs very quickly if you have not been

2685
02:25:30,280 --> 02:25:34,160
Speaker 19: keeping up with the saga of Nottingham Forest, a club

2686
02:25:34,280 --> 02:25:39,720
Speaker 19: that I really celebrated when they came up from the

2687
02:25:39,879 --> 02:25:45,000
Speaker 19: depths of the English league system to the Premier League.

2688
02:25:45,080 --> 02:25:46,359
Speaker 2: This has been a club of the eighties.

2689
02:25:46,440 --> 02:25:49,000
Speaker 19: It was a fantastic club in Europe, one of the

2690
02:25:49,080 --> 02:25:51,000
Speaker 19: founding members of the Premier League, and have been on

2691
02:25:51,120 --> 02:25:55,600
Speaker 19: really tough times. They are now on their third manager,

2692
02:25:55,720 --> 02:25:57,520
Speaker 19: or will be on their third manager once they figure

2693
02:25:57,560 --> 02:26:01,040
Speaker 19: out who the next one is. In just this eason alone,

2694
02:26:01,959 --> 02:26:09,000
Speaker 19: and because minutes minutes after really minutes like nineteen minutes

2695
02:26:09,040 --> 02:26:12,680
Speaker 19: after or so a three nil victory at home to

2696
02:26:12,959 --> 02:26:19,120
Speaker 19: Chelsea when final the owner sacked Angi Potiskaglu, who had

2697
02:26:19,160 --> 02:26:21,920
Speaker 19: been with the club for eight matches and had not

2698
02:26:22,160 --> 02:26:25,560
Speaker 19: won a single one of them thirty nine days. That

2699
02:26:25,720 --> 02:26:29,400
Speaker 19: is how long Engine potus Koglu had at Nottingham Forest

2700
02:26:29,440 --> 02:26:33,920
Speaker 19: before being sacked. Five Premier League losses, no wins across

2701
02:26:34,080 --> 02:26:37,720
Speaker 19: eight competitions, and again he is the second one.

2702
02:26:37,760 --> 02:26:38,200
Speaker 1: Already.

2703
02:26:38,959 --> 02:26:41,640
Speaker 19: Their first manager they entered the year with was Nunio

2704
02:26:41,720 --> 02:26:45,440
Speaker 19: Spirrita Santo, who was appointed the head coach of west

2705
02:26:45,480 --> 02:26:49,039
Speaker 19: Ham United on a three year contract after I believe

2706
02:26:49,200 --> 02:26:52,560
Speaker 19: like having an eight year contract not long ago with

2707
02:26:52,640 --> 02:26:57,600
Speaker 19: the Nottingham Forest. The all these manager and coach contracts

2708
02:26:57,640 --> 02:27:02,280
Speaker 19: are basically written on napkins in and torn up just

2709
02:27:02,600 --> 02:27:05,320
Speaker 19: randomly on the drop of the hat. There are so

2710
02:27:05,520 --> 02:27:08,360
Speaker 19: many managers you can go through and look at how

2711
02:27:08,440 --> 02:27:11,560
Speaker 19: many lasted less than one hundred days, less than one

2712
02:27:11,640 --> 02:27:12,240
Speaker 19: hundred days.

2713
02:27:12,480 --> 02:27:13,640
Speaker 2: And here's the crazy part.

2714
02:27:13,879 --> 02:27:17,440
Speaker 19: This isn't even like the least amount of days I've

2715
02:27:17,480 --> 02:27:19,760
Speaker 19: seen a manager get in the last five years. That

2716
02:27:19,840 --> 02:27:26,360
Speaker 19: would be to Leeds United Sam Allardies, who watched his

2717
02:27:26,480 --> 02:27:29,520
Speaker 19: club kind of fall into the relegation zone under his

2718
02:27:30,080 --> 02:27:34,160
Speaker 19: under his supervision vision thirty days. He only got thirty

2719
02:27:34,240 --> 02:27:37,720
Speaker 19: days on the job a month, ay calendar month.

2720
02:27:37,920 --> 02:27:38,960
Speaker 2: It's insane.

2721
02:27:39,720 --> 02:27:43,120
Speaker 19: It's insane, and it's because they're usually the easiest guys

2722
02:27:43,160 --> 02:27:46,120
Speaker 19: to get rid of. Obviously you're not happy with the players,

2723
02:27:46,200 --> 02:27:49,560
Speaker 19: you fire the coach, but that axiom is never more true.

2724
02:27:50,120 --> 02:27:52,520
Speaker 19: But in the world of soccer, where you can change

2725
02:27:52,560 --> 02:27:54,440
Speaker 19: these guys out at the drop of the hat, and

2726
02:27:54,560 --> 02:27:56,760
Speaker 19: yet there are still guys who are going to line

2727
02:27:56,840 --> 02:28:00,920
Speaker 19: up and an I for the Nottingham for job because

2728
02:28:01,440 --> 02:28:03,600
Speaker 19: it is still a pretty good job.

2729
02:28:04,120 --> 02:28:05,160
Speaker 3: Sean diish.

2730
02:28:06,440 --> 02:28:11,080
Speaker 19: Disch has been managing at Everton and had some careers

2731
02:28:11,120 --> 02:28:14,119
Speaker 19: before then, including a ten year stint with Burnley. Everton,

2732
02:28:14,160 --> 02:28:17,200
Speaker 19: of course no longer in the Premier League. Mansini a

2733
02:28:17,320 --> 02:28:22,760
Speaker 19: form Manchester City manager. Both would be very look Nottingham

2734
02:28:22,800 --> 02:28:25,640
Speaker 19: Forrest is down in the relegation zone right now, thirty

2735
02:28:25,800 --> 02:28:27,920
Speaker 19: matches to play, understood, but they're also playing in the

2736
02:28:28,000 --> 02:28:30,480
Speaker 19: Europa League. This is a club with a lot of pride,

2737
02:28:30,720 --> 02:28:32,520
Speaker 19: This is a club with a lot of hope and

2738
02:28:32,680 --> 02:28:34,680
Speaker 19: history for them and they need to get off the

2739
02:28:34,760 --> 02:28:38,200
Speaker 19: mat pretty quickly. Finally, Bernie, it would be remiss if

2740
02:28:38,240 --> 02:28:42,480
Speaker 19: we ended world of Soccer without mentioning the absolute return

2741
02:28:43,040 --> 02:28:45,240
Speaker 19: of Earling Holland, who was a bit on a cold

2742
02:28:45,320 --> 02:28:50,320
Speaker 19: streak during that international break we had while you were

2743
02:28:50,360 --> 02:28:56,480
Speaker 19: away Holland crushed Israel. Norway put up a tremendous ass

2744
02:28:56,600 --> 02:29:01,080
Speaker 19: whooping on Israel, Holland scoring a hatch and back, of

2745
02:29:01,160 --> 02:29:04,959
Speaker 19: course now with eleven goals for Manchester City as they

2746
02:29:05,080 --> 02:29:08,560
Speaker 19: slide into second place on the Premier League table, just

2747
02:29:09,040 --> 02:29:13,680
Speaker 19: behind Arsenal as Liverpool bounces a step Still early again,

2748
02:29:13,720 --> 02:29:17,560
Speaker 19: there's still thirty match days still to go, but man

2749
02:29:17,680 --> 02:29:21,480
Speaker 19: City could really use his goal scoring prowess to come

2750
02:29:21,560 --> 02:29:24,199
Speaker 19: back and in full roar, if they hope to hold

2751
02:29:24,280 --> 02:29:27,000
Speaker 19: off both Arsenal and Liverpool and get back to their

2752
02:29:27,040 --> 02:29:29,000
Speaker 19: winning ways, we'll see you next time on the World

2753
02:29:29,040 --> 02:29:29,440
Speaker 19: of Soccer.

2754
02:29:31,560 --> 02:29:35,360
Speaker 2: So Earling Holland is an individual I'd never heard of

2755
02:29:35,520 --> 02:29:38,760
Speaker 2: until we broke this segment out a couple of years ago,

2756
02:29:39,680 --> 02:29:42,880
Speaker 2: and now he's well, let's just put it this way.

2757
02:29:43,560 --> 02:29:46,760
Speaker 2: Earling Holland is to soccer what Wayne Gretzky was to hockey.

2758
02:29:47,520 --> 02:29:50,640
Speaker 2: He's an instant goal scorer. So you hear names like

2759
02:29:50,720 --> 02:29:53,680
Speaker 2: that dropped and then when games are played perhaps they

2760
02:29:53,720 --> 02:29:56,600
Speaker 2: take on a little bit different significance right around the

2761
02:29:56,640 --> 02:29:59,760
Speaker 2: corner from a World Cup, which is what got this

2762
02:29:59,840 --> 02:30:04,400
Speaker 2: thing started back in twenty twenty two. The fall of

2763
02:30:04,440 --> 02:30:09,360
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two the soccer segment. So I'm sure there'll

2764
02:30:09,360 --> 02:30:12,760
Speaker 2: be lots of news, lots of updates, and lots of

2765
02:30:13,040 --> 02:30:17,560
Speaker 2: storylines to accompany that is World Cup Soccer comes to

2766
02:30:17,720 --> 02:30:20,800
Speaker 2: North America. It's just around the corner coming up. We

2767
02:30:21,080 --> 02:30:25,320
Speaker 2: wrap up the show, and this past week was the

2768
02:30:27,720 --> 02:30:32,400
Speaker 2: anniversary of I think the most infamous, famous, certainly the

2769
02:30:32,480 --> 02:30:36,400
Speaker 2: most noteworthy talked about trade in all the sports. And

2770
02:30:36,520 --> 02:30:40,080
Speaker 2: it's appropriate to bring up because the Football NFL trade

2771
02:30:40,160 --> 02:30:43,120
Speaker 2: deadline is two weeks from Thursday, tw weeks from Tuesday,

2772
02:30:43,760 --> 02:30:47,840
Speaker 2: number fourth, two weeks from Tuesday, four o'clock Eastern time.

2773
02:30:48,879 --> 02:30:50,760
Speaker 2: I can assure you there will be nothing that will

2774
02:30:50,800 --> 02:30:54,560
Speaker 2: compare come close to comparing to the trade that took place,

2775
02:30:55,520 --> 02:30:58,400
Speaker 2: which I'll remind you of and give you some details

2776
02:30:58,480 --> 02:31:01,400
Speaker 2: you may have Forgottenernie, Freddeck were company live from the

2777
02:31:01,440 --> 02:31:04,480
Speaker 2: Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio studios here in Las Vegas.

2778
02:31:04,560 --> 02:31:06,280
Speaker 2: Keep it locked you listen to Bernie Fraddle Show on

2779
02:31:06,320 --> 02:31:08,280
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. All right, wrapping it up on the

2780
02:31:08,320 --> 02:31:11,960
Speaker 2: Bernie Frattle Show, I want to thank my producers Mark

2781
02:31:12,000 --> 02:31:19,480
Speaker 2: and Brienna appreciate all the efforts before I dive into

2782
02:31:19,560 --> 02:31:23,600
Speaker 2: this crazy trade you know, it's funny. The Detroit Lions

2783
02:31:23,640 --> 02:31:25,720
Speaker 2: were the darlings the last couple of years and then

2784
02:31:25,959 --> 02:31:28,040
Speaker 2: no one's really talking about him this year. And I

2785
02:31:29,040 --> 02:31:33,360
Speaker 2: just want to say this about that before the season start.

2786
02:31:33,360 --> 02:31:35,280
Speaker 2: I do this every year with Jason McIntyre. I go

2787
02:31:35,360 --> 02:31:40,480
Speaker 2: in a straight fire podcast and we talk about some

2788
02:31:40,600 --> 02:31:43,560
Speaker 2: progmastifications for the season. I predicted the Lions would go

2789
02:31:43,600 --> 02:31:45,120
Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl, and I'm not backing off that.

2790
02:31:46,200 --> 02:31:49,240
Speaker 2: They've been a model consistency since it started twenty twenty three.

2791
02:31:50,040 --> 02:31:53,040
Speaker 2: Listen to this. Since twenty twenty three, who's got the

2792
02:31:53,080 --> 02:31:55,960
Speaker 2: best winning percentage in the entire National Football League? Seven

2793
02:31:55,959 --> 02:32:01,400
Speaker 2: to ninety five the Lions point inferentials. The Lions ranked

2794
02:32:01,440 --> 02:32:04,879
Speaker 2: first DAI, averaging thirty one points a game that ranks first,

2795
02:32:05,480 --> 02:32:07,879
Speaker 2: three hundred and ninety eight yards per game that ranks first,

2796
02:32:08,840 --> 02:32:13,200
Speaker 2: pats touchdowns eighty two that ranks first, running touchdowns sixty

2797
02:32:13,280 --> 02:32:17,240
Speaker 2: four that ranks first, and the opponent's rushing yards per

2798
02:32:17,280 --> 02:32:20,600
Speaker 2: game will be ninety three per game. Save for complete

2799
02:32:20,920 --> 02:32:25,560
Speaker 2: mass unit injuries last year from Thanksgiving on and they

2800
02:32:25,600 --> 02:32:28,480
Speaker 2: may have gone last year, we'll never know, but they're

2801
02:32:28,520 --> 02:32:30,440
Speaker 2: not done this year. And I would not go to

2802
02:32:30,560 --> 02:32:33,520
Speaker 2: sleep on the Detroit Lions, not in a million years.

2803
02:32:34,240 --> 02:32:37,320
Speaker 2: And I think they will take care of business Monday

2804
02:32:37,400 --> 02:32:40,360
Speaker 2: night against a very good Tampa Bay Buccaneer team, a

2805
02:32:40,440 --> 02:32:43,240
Speaker 2: very well coached Tampa Bay Buccaneer team, and of course

2806
02:32:43,280 --> 02:32:51,359
Speaker 2: they're rocketship quarterback Baker Mayfield. All Right, So last Sunday,

2807
02:32:51,560 --> 02:32:55,920
Speaker 2: a tremendous sort of maybe tremendous isn't the right word,

2808
02:32:55,959 --> 02:33:02,640
Speaker 2: but a very noteworthy historic date in the NFL came

2809
02:33:02,720 --> 02:33:06,400
Speaker 2: and went, an anniversary as it were. It was the

2810
02:33:06,520 --> 02:33:11,920
Speaker 2: thirty sixth anniversary of October twelfth, nineteen eighty nine, in

2811
02:33:12,000 --> 02:33:17,040
Speaker 2: which the Dallas Cowboys traded herschel Walker to the Minnesota Vikings.

2812
02:33:18,320 --> 02:33:22,360
Speaker 2: And people will never stop talking about that. That was

2813
02:33:22,440 --> 02:33:26,080
Speaker 2: actually a three team deal, but a total eighteen players

2814
02:33:26,440 --> 02:33:31,440
Speaker 2: and draft picks, and you can trace one how the

2815
02:33:31,520 --> 02:33:35,440
Speaker 2: Cowboys managed to gravitate from a one to fifteen team

2816
02:33:36,320 --> 02:33:39,360
Speaker 2: to a team that actually won three Wing three rings

2817
02:33:40,040 --> 02:33:46,280
Speaker 2: in the next four seasons. Now, had Jimmy Johnson and

2818
02:33:46,480 --> 02:33:50,760
Speaker 2: Jerry Jones not had their separation, I think they would

2819
02:33:50,760 --> 02:33:53,400
Speaker 2: have won five Super Bowls in a decade of the nineties.

2820
02:33:54,440 --> 02:34:01,040
Speaker 2: But it's speculation, but it's I think a lot of

2821
02:34:01,120 --> 02:34:03,560
Speaker 2: folks feel that had that team stayed together and you

2822
02:34:03,640 --> 02:34:07,600
Speaker 2: know what I mean, but it didn't. But regardless, when

2823
02:34:07,640 --> 02:34:11,160
Speaker 2: the Cowboys traded herschel Walker to Minnesota, well, Dallas also

2824
02:34:11,320 --> 02:34:15,280
Speaker 2: traded their third round choice in nineteen ninety, its tenth

2825
02:34:15,360 --> 02:34:17,440
Speaker 2: round choice in nineteen ninety, and its third round choice

2826
02:34:17,480 --> 02:34:22,680
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety one old Minnesota. Okay. So, Meanwhile, Minnesota

2827
02:34:22,760 --> 02:34:27,879
Speaker 2: traded linebacker Jesse Salomon, linebacker David Howard, quarterback Isaiah Colt,

2828
02:34:28,360 --> 02:34:31,560
Speaker 2: and defensive end Alex Stewart to Dallas with three draft picks.

2829
02:34:32,080 --> 02:34:36,080
Speaker 2: Dallas didn't cut all four players, which shocked Minnesota and

2830
02:34:36,320 --> 02:34:41,280
Speaker 2: triggered conditional picks, which ultimately led to eight picks. This

2831
02:34:41,640 --> 02:34:47,000
Speaker 2: was just highway robbery. They weren't just any eight picks.

2832
02:34:47,959 --> 02:34:50,600
Speaker 2: It was a first round pick in nineteen ninety, a

2833
02:34:50,680 --> 02:34:52,880
Speaker 2: second round pick in nineteen ninety, a sixth round pick

2834
02:34:52,920 --> 02:34:55,640
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety, a first round pick, a second round

2835
02:34:55,680 --> 02:34:58,440
Speaker 2: pick in nineteen ninety one, a first round pick, a

2836
02:34:58,520 --> 02:35:01,520
Speaker 2: second round pick, and a third round in nineteen ninety two.

2837
02:35:02,680 --> 02:35:06,680
Speaker 2: Minnesota also traded running back Darren Nelson to Dallas. Wherever

2838
02:35:06,680 --> 02:35:09,400
Speaker 2: you remember Darren Nelson was a star at Stanford I

2839
02:35:09,440 --> 02:35:11,880
Speaker 2: don't know, okay, career in the NFL, who then immediately

2840
02:35:11,959 --> 02:35:16,119
Speaker 2: traded Darren Nelson to San Francisco for the Charger's fifth

2841
02:35:16,200 --> 02:35:19,760
Speaker 2: round choice in nineteen ninety, which Dallas then sent to Minnesota.

2842
02:35:20,360 --> 02:35:24,760
Speaker 2: Without that trade, the Cowboys would not have eventually acquired

2843
02:35:24,840 --> 02:35:31,360
Speaker 2: Emmitt Smith, Russell Maryland, and Darren Woodson. As for hershel Walker,

2844
02:35:32,120 --> 02:35:35,640
Speaker 2: he actually played eight more seasons and ironically ended up

2845
02:35:35,720 --> 02:35:39,240
Speaker 2: playing his last two years with the Cowboys, which I'm

2846
02:35:39,240 --> 02:35:44,480
Speaker 2: sure people forget as a backup thirty two games, managed

2847
02:35:44,480 --> 02:35:49,160
Speaker 2: a total of one hundred and two yards and one touchdown. Now,

2848
02:35:49,280 --> 02:35:52,680
Speaker 2: what's funny is when you go back Initially everybody thought

2849
02:35:52,720 --> 02:35:55,440
Speaker 2: it was a horrible deal for Dallas, but not Jimmy Johnson.

2850
02:35:56,360 --> 02:36:01,120
Speaker 2: Jimmy Johnson bragged about the deal, call it quote the

2851
02:36:01,280 --> 02:36:06,800
Speaker 2: grain check that the Great Train Robbery, which it was

2852
02:36:07,760 --> 02:36:11,280
Speaker 2: an ESPN agreed because many years later they did one

2853
02:36:11,320 --> 02:36:14,280
Speaker 2: of their thirty for thirty features and it was called

2854
02:36:14,360 --> 02:36:21,199
Speaker 2: the Great Train Robbery. Herschel Walker turned into multiple Super

2855
02:36:21,240 --> 02:36:25,240
Speaker 2: Bowl Championships, Hall of Famers, and winning seasons for the

2856
02:36:25,320 --> 02:36:27,920
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys, and they would dearly love to have those

2857
02:36:28,000 --> 02:36:31,120
Speaker 2: days back. Well, we are in a full calendar. And

2858
02:36:31,200 --> 02:36:33,360
Speaker 2: by the way, I know you know this, we talked

2859
02:36:33,400 --> 02:36:35,000
Speaker 2: about it earlier. The start of the twenty five to

2860
02:36:35,000 --> 02:36:40,800
Speaker 2: twenty six NBA season is beginning Tuesday. There are two games,

2861
02:36:40,840 --> 02:36:44,199
Speaker 2: including Golden State at Los Angeles, without Lebron. This also

2862
02:36:44,280 --> 02:36:48,480
Speaker 2: starts the NBA's new eleven year, seventy seven billion dollar

2863
02:36:49,080 --> 02:36:52,080
Speaker 2: media rights deal with their new media partners NBC and Amazon,

2864
02:36:52,560 --> 02:36:55,840
Speaker 2: and a bunch of games across all kinds of platforms.

2865
02:36:56,360 --> 02:37:00,640
Speaker 2: The NBA first ever exclusively stream games on Pete Cockran.

2866
02:37:00,680 --> 02:37:03,320
Speaker 2: Amazon joined the party, and the NFL's doing it. There

2867
02:37:03,360 --> 02:37:06,160
Speaker 2: off doing it. But the start of the season's gonna

2868
02:37:06,200 --> 02:37:08,640
Speaker 2: look a little bit different because, for the first time

2869
02:37:09,600 --> 02:37:12,920
Speaker 2: in twenty three years, Lebron James will not be available

2870
02:37:12,959 --> 02:37:15,600
Speaker 2: to play an opening night. They say it's going to

2871
02:37:15,640 --> 02:37:17,760
Speaker 2: be out three or four weeks due to the satica nerve.

2872
02:37:18,320 --> 02:37:20,240
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be longer. He's been nursing it

2873
02:37:20,280 --> 02:37:22,440
Speaker 2: since July. I don't think you're going to see Lebron

2874
02:37:22,560 --> 02:37:25,880
Speaker 2: until December. I'm not predicting it. I'm not wishing it

2875
02:37:25,959 --> 02:37:28,160
Speaker 2: on him. I'm just giving an opinion. I'm paid to

2876
02:37:28,240 --> 02:37:31,600
Speaker 2: have opinions. I think Lebron's gonna miss games into December.

2877
02:37:31,840 --> 02:37:37,600
Speaker 2: This is healing slowly, very slowly. And here's the interesting

2878
02:37:37,720 --> 02:37:39,600
Speaker 2: thing I know. I back on Lebron a lot. He's

2879
02:37:39,600 --> 02:37:42,400
Speaker 2: still one of the league's most popular players that showed

2880
02:37:42,440 --> 02:37:44,680
Speaker 2: up in the ratings last season when viewership numbers were

2881
02:37:44,720 --> 02:37:48,040
Speaker 2: a hot topic after a slow start. But with James

2882
02:37:48,080 --> 02:37:50,720
Speaker 2: to sit out the air, we'll see if the new

2883
02:37:50,800 --> 02:37:54,240
Speaker 2: broadcast partners start to feel the hit. Because the Lakers

2884
02:37:54,280 --> 02:37:56,600
Speaker 2: are scheduled for the second game of Opening Night Tuesday night,

2885
02:37:57,080 --> 02:37:59,680
Speaker 2: the first on NBA and NBC since the twenty oh

2886
02:37:59,800 --> 02:38:04,920
Speaker 2: two NBA Finals, which coincidentally, ironically a year before Lebron

2887
02:38:05,000 --> 02:38:08,080
Speaker 2: James was even drafted. So the double header is also

2888
02:38:08,080 --> 02:38:10,039
Speaker 2: going to Aaron Peacock, which would be the first regular

2889
02:38:10,080 --> 02:38:14,480
Speaker 2: season NBA game on their streaming network. Los Angeles will

2890
02:38:14,520 --> 02:38:17,920
Speaker 2: have thirty four national games this year, and they're scheduled

2891
02:38:17,920 --> 02:38:20,400
Speaker 2: to play eight national games between now and the end

2892
02:38:20,400 --> 02:38:23,920
Speaker 2: of November, not including the games an NBA TV. They'll

2893
02:38:23,920 --> 02:38:27,720
Speaker 2: play the Warriors, the Tea Wolves twice, the Grizzlies, the Spurs,

2894
02:38:27,760 --> 02:38:31,080
Speaker 2: the thunder the Clippers, and the Mavericks, all without Lebron.

2895
02:38:31,400 --> 02:38:35,120
Speaker 2: In my opinion, unless Lebron is back, say November twenty

2896
02:38:35,160 --> 02:38:38,560
Speaker 2: eighth or twenty fifth, I think he's gonna miss time,

2897
02:38:39,160 --> 02:38:42,000
Speaker 2: more time than they want him to miss. But that's

2898
02:38:42,040 --> 02:38:44,520
Speaker 2: not necessarily a bad thing. He needs to heal. He's

2899
02:38:44,560 --> 02:38:47,800
Speaker 2: been dealing with the satica nerve since July. He doesn't

2900
02:38:47,840 --> 02:38:49,800
Speaker 2: heal as fast as he used to, and you don't

2901
02:38:49,800 --> 02:38:52,640
Speaker 2: want a reoccurring thing. Lebron played seventy games last season.

2902
02:38:53,120 --> 02:38:54,720
Speaker 2: He said his goal was to play all Lady two.

2903
02:38:55,200 --> 02:38:58,120
Speaker 2: Well that's not gonna happen this year, but it'll be

2904
02:38:58,200 --> 02:39:00,360
Speaker 2: a preview for the Lakers and the league of what

2905
02:39:00,520 --> 02:39:03,200
Speaker 2: life will be like after Lebron. I do believe this

2906
02:39:03,240 --> 02:39:06,120
Speaker 2: will be Lebron's last year with the Lakers. Can do

2907
02:39:06,280 --> 02:39:08,200
Speaker 2: for the Bernie Frontles show, See you next week, Keep

2908
02:39:08,240 --> 02:39:11,120
Speaker 2: it locked up next They're great. Andy Furman My Fox

2909
02:39:11,280 --> 02:39:12,240
Speaker 2: Sports Radio,