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Speaker 1: able to individual sport. It's easy, right if I'm roughing

425
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 1: it do all. If I'm Connor McGregor, if I'm Mike Tyson,

426
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:07,679
Speaker 1: if I'm whatever, I only have to back it up

427
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:09,920
Speaker 1: for me. My issue with Deebo was like, hey, Debo,

428
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:13,840
Speaker 1: like some of your offensive linemen's, let's be careful here.

429
00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,639
Speaker 1: But it didn't matter because Debo backed it up and

430
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:21,240
Speaker 1: he went in there and he destroyed the Philadelphia Eagles him,

431
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 1: Iuk too, George Kittle, Christian McCaffrey. They punked those guys. Now,

432
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,600
Speaker 1: those guys have got two big wins. They were off

433
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 1: short rest, they had to be exhausted. That's why I

434
00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,639
Speaker 1: like the Niners this week. But there's a difference of

435
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 1: winning the game, like, hey, listen, you win by twelve

436
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 1: points and you win like they won today. They annihilated

437
00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,440
Speaker 1: those guys. That was like, we fucking see you guys again,

438
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,040
Speaker 1: whether we got to come back here, whether you've got

439
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,320
Speaker 1: to come back to us, We're gonna be a big favorite.

440
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,360
Speaker 1: You saw that three points, double that motherfucker because we'll

441
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Speaker 1: be six or seven, that's what it looked like. And

442
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 1: Sirianni's hooting and hollering over there, like, bro, what are

443
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,880
Speaker 1: you doing calling timeouts? Now? Listen, Dom Desandro's my guy.

444
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,760
Speaker 1: I love Don Desandra. Everyone who's ever worked for the

445
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 1: Eagles in the football operations players swears by that guy.

446
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 1: No issue. Listen, you know this is this ain't palow Alto.

447
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 1: You know this is families, and you know there's a

448
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,560
Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on in South Philadelphia, right in

449
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,160
Speaker 1: the New Jersey area. It's a little bit different than

450
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:18,760
Speaker 1: some of the people where I come from are used

451
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 1: to the way things get done. My main issue with

452
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 1: that whole situation, I'm just sticking up for his guy

453
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Speaker 1: who's right there, and I understand why Kyle's pissed, is

454
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 1: no one needs to get thrown out like I said

455
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Speaker 1: earlier that just can't happen, not in the game of

456
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:34,199
Speaker 1: that magnitude like Niners Cowboys, like Niners Packers, like, we

457
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 1: need to get that again, and we need to get

458
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,439
Speaker 1: like the good thing about the NFC, which to me

459
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,440
Speaker 1: is clearly starting to separate from the AFC because the

460
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,680
Speaker 1: Niners clearly can win the Super Bowl. They're their favorite.

461
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Speaker 1: I think the Eagles, if they get a little healthier,

462
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: can win the Super Bowl. I actually think Dallas I'm

463
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,440
Speaker 1: not gonna pick them, but I'm not naive or dumb

464
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 1: enough as a football guy to go I take them seriously.

465
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 1: I look around the AFC, like, what's Lamar won one

466
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Speaker 1: playoff game, I'm gonna pick two. It to rattle off

467
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: three playoff games win the Super Bowl. It's much easier

468
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: to look at Hell. Even the Lions have some flaws.

469
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 1: You watch them today, the amount of talent they have

470
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 1: on their team, I think the sport is really starting

471
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: to shape up. And that stretch of that Niner Egle game,

472
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Speaker 1: the intensity behind it, and then this night game made

473
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Speaker 1: up for a pretty terrible morning beside the Denver Houston game.

474
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Speaker 1: And last but not least, I just I did a

475
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Speaker 1: video and talked about it to podcasts on Saturday night

476
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 1: after all the games. And like I said, I grew

477
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Speaker 1: up anyone my age, if you grew up loving football

478
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Speaker 1: in the nineties, Florida State was a bohemoth. They were

479
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Speaker 1: a national program. I've been following the program. I literally

480
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,720
Speaker 1: have a good buddy who is Norvelle's right hand guy,

481
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 1: helps pick the players, lead recruiter GM, whatever's official title is.

482
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,880
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for the program. But the moment their quarterback

483
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: went down, you're no longer that program. So this notion

484
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Speaker 1: of our resume, our resume, our resume, Well, the wins

485
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Speaker 1: you got were not with this team, not with your quarterbacks.

486
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Speaker 1: If Jordan Travis was still around, they have to be

487
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Speaker 1: in I would not argue. And if they were to

488
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Speaker 1: get screwed and had got left out when their starting quarterback,

489
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 1: I would totally understand the argument. But when you're rawing

490
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Speaker 1: out a third string quarterback or a backup quarterback who

491
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 1: also sucks and is old, I feel no sympathy. Now

492
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Speaker 1: here's what I've never had an issue with in sports.

493
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: When people's moms, when people's dads, when people's significant others,

494
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: when their brothers get very emotional and defend their guy

495
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 1: and say shit about their family's team. I get it.

496
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:37,879
Speaker 1: They're emotionally tied and close to the situation. There's a

497
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Speaker 1: difference between them and me and you just as a fan, right,

498
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 1: they are much closer to it, given that they're sleeping

499
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Speaker 1: with them, it's their son. Their investment in it is

500
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: just at a completely different level given their connection. So

501
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 1: I always give them some leeway when it's ever like,

502
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Speaker 1: can you believe what Aisha Curry said in Cleveland? Well, yeah,

503
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Speaker 1: it's her fucking husband. What do you think I ever

504
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 1: put any stock into any of that. I think that's

505
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 1: such catnip for the fucking booger readers on social media.

506
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,119
Speaker 1: Totally understandable, and these fans like, if you're a Florida

507
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: State fan, if you're a Florida State player, if you're

508
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 1: their coach, I be gutted. Probably doesn't even do a

509
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 1: good enough job of describing how you'd feel that picture

510
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,400
Speaker 1: today when it got announced Alabama and you could see

511
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,679
Speaker 1: the head coach sitting there in like sweats, and behind

512
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Speaker 1: him Jordan Travis whose leg is still wrapped up like

513
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 1: up to high and the soul out of Mike Norvel's body.

514
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 1: You could feel you could feel it like if you've

515
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: ever seen the movie Ghost was Swaze and Demi Moore,

516
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: like the souls leave. That's how you could see a

517
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,679
Speaker 1: sole leave. Jordan Travis looked like he saw a ghost.

518
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Speaker 1: I understand in that room, all the guys like we're

519
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: getting up. They were, they were rattled. Totally get it,

520
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 1: but I'm sorry. You're a four pennen point underdog against Georgia.

521
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,919
Speaker 1: Like you know what the committee did. They put Georgia

522
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Speaker 1: at six in Florida State at five because of optics.

523
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,239
Speaker 1: It had like a government feel to it, like this

524
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: would look good. They didn't believe that Florida State was

525
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: better in Georgia. They're literally a two touchdown underdog to

526
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Speaker 1: them in the Orange Bowl. They believe that Georgia was better,

527
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: but it wasn't worth putting Georgia at five and then

528
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,160
Speaker 1: because it would even have got louder because if Georgia

529
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 1: had beat Alabama, guess what, Florida State still wasn't gonna go.

530
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: Texas is third, Texas has lost. They believe that Texas,

531
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: as a one lost team, was better in Florida State.

532
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 1: Why because they are When you don't have a quarterback.

533
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Speaker 1: One thing I've learned as I've gotten older is the

534
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 1: word deserved. And I heard a great quote one time.

535
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 1: You don't deserve anything. You get what you negotiate. Right,

536
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: So like this notion of deserving, if you spend all

537
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 1: your time thinking you deserve things, you're gonna get lapped.

538
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 1: Now I understand like you deserve. If you're a Power

539
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: five team, your team's not healthy though you lost the

540
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 1: most important guy on your team, the quarterback, the most

541
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,439
Speaker 1: important guy in the sport. Here's the other reality, the

542
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: reason the SEC and the Big ten keep expanding and

543
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 1: m because they want to wipe you all out. You

544
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: realize when you bring a Target, when you bring a Walmart,

545
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 1: when you bring a Costco into an area, it wipes

546
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: out the little guy. That's what the Big ten and

547
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: the SEC are doing. And Florida State knows this. It's

548
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: why they've tried to get to the SEC. The problem

549
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 1: is they're involved in this television deal which is fucking

550
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: terrible and it signed for the next like ten years

551
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: with ESPN, so they're kind of stuck. There are no dummies.

552
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: If they had done what they did in the SEC,

553
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: they're in of course they would be what their second

554
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: best win is against an eight and four Clemson team.

555
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: I got news for you. If you had rolled your

556
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: backup quarterback or the third stringer against Clemson at Clemson

557
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: this season, you would have lost. So that win to

558
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: me means nothing. Like I said, completely understand the emotional

559
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 1: outpouring and anger and just resentment toward the whole thing,

560
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: threatening legal action, all the bullshit. I get it. That's

561
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: what happens during these situations. It was all justified, and

562
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: we have to come first. All this exists, not for

563
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 1: the teams and the players and the coaches. It all exists.

564
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: All this money now, especially the nil I had a scout,

565
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: he's not even a scout. He's got an assistant GM

566
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: tell me that one thing he's heard going into these

567
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: schools is like some of these coaches are less emotionally

568
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: invested in the player. They treat it more like the NFL.

569
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: It's like, well, you're making fucking four hundred grand, either

570
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 1: make a player get out of here. Where. Back in

571
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: the day, you know, if I even if I brown

572
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 1: bag yet fifty K, I get to know you. I

573
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: live with the ups and the downs. But now it's

574
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: become much more transactional. That's what this sport is. There's

575
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: a ton of money online. It's all transactional. And Alabama's

576
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,719
Speaker 1: a two point underdock. You would have been an eighteen

577
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: point underdock. This is just basic math. And Herbstreet said

578
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: this like no one wants to watch these bad games.

579
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: It's a fact no one wants to watch these bad games.

580
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: We saw the NFC Championship between the Eagles and the

581
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: forty nine ers when they didn't have a quarterback. How

582
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: was that? I don't know, the worst playoff game I've

583
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: ever seen, just as a viewer and lover of the sport. Right,

584
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: So that's what you guys would have been. You didn't

585
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: deserve it. Here's the other thing, It's not fair. Life's

586
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: not fair. It's a bitch. It sucks. You know. The

587
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: greatest lesson that will ever happen to all those Florida

588
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: State guys is to learn in that moment, God, you

589
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: can get screwed at the moment's notice. Welcome to America.

590
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: What a great life lesson, especially for all those guys

591
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: going into business. They're already ahead of the curve because

592
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: most of the people they're gonna compete competing against early

593
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: on in their professional career if they don't make it

594
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: to the NFL. Have never experienced something like that. The

595
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: greatest life lesson is when you get screwed, when you

596
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: fail things out of your control. You guys did everything

597
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: in your control. It just wasn't good enough because it's

598
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: not good enough, because you're not good enough. Like that's

599
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: an objective fact. Like the the betting angle just proves

600
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 1: like you would have been a multiple. You're a multiple

601
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: touchdown right now against Georgia. Who I got news for

602
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: you doesn't care at all about this Orange Bowl at all.

603
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: Half their team's probably gonna opt out. Their super Bowl

604
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: was Alabama and they lost. So if you think you

605
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: guys are devastated, that team doesn't give a shit about

606
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: this game. So this notion did they got screwed? I

607
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: guess personally maybe a little bit. From a football standpoint.

608
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: They're not better in Alabama. Hell, they're not better in Georgia.

609
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 1: They're not better in Oregon. Right now, the right thing happened.

610
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: So props for the committee for not worrying about quote

611
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,959
Speaker 1: unquote the blowback or what was gonna piss people up

612
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: on social media if more companies started operating this way,

613
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: maybe society would get back on track instead of being

614
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 1: worried about what's the blowback gonna be like on X,

615
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: here's a news flash. Who gives a fuck Make the

616
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: right decision, the volume