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Speaker 1: You ready to check your feelings at the door? Check

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Speaker 1: it out, checking out. This is am I Reister or

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Speaker 1: am I Row. We're bringing you facts and only the truth. Now,

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Speaker 1: am I Reister or am I Row? We need to

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Speaker 1: talk about Travis Hunter's injury on the cheap shot by

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Speaker 1: Henry Blackburn in the Colorado Colorado State games. Now, if

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Speaker 1: you didn't see it, Blackburn came over from his safety

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Speaker 1: position put his shoulder into Hunter's ribs well after that

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Speaker 1: sideline pass already sailed over Hunter's head. Now, Blackburn was

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Speaker 1: trying to knock Hunter out of the game, and it worked.

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Speaker 1: It was a cheap shot. But after Hunter came out

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Speaker 1: of the game, he got sent to the hospital for evaluation.

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Speaker 1: And all we know now is that Hunter is knocked

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Speaker 1: out for several games and until he gets back. Henry

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Speaker 1: Blackburn should be suspended too, but he won't be because

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Speaker 1: you can intentionally try to injure somebody you want in

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Speaker 1: college football, so as long as you don't lower your

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Speaker 1: head when you do it, lower your head with on

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Speaker 1: a tackle like Weaver states the Seami Covin did against

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Speaker 1: Utah last week. Kicked out of the game. Lower your

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Speaker 1: shoulder into the ribs are the best player on the

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Speaker 1: field at full speed well after the play has ended.

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Speaker 1: Stay in the game, but the ball gets moved forty

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Speaker 1: five feet ahead. Now, Henry Blackburn isn't gonna go unpunished.

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Speaker 1: This is from a young man who is from Boulder,

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Speaker 1: Colorado walking around in his hometown is going to be

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Speaker 1: a little less comfortable now that people like Lebron James

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Speaker 1: are tweeting about his dirty hit. However, he will be

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Speaker 1: able to play in the first half of the next

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Speaker 1: week's game versus Middle Tennessee State, while his teammate Mohammad

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Speaker 1: Kamara will have to sit out because he got flagged

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Speaker 1: for targeting on his hitd of Shador Sanders. And I

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Speaker 1: know that people are gonna say this is about Colorado.

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Speaker 1: Oh stop talking about You wouldn't even be saying this.

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Speaker 1: I've been saying this for years in other sports, not

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Speaker 1: just college football. When you make a dirty play, you

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Speaker 1: should be out the same amount of time as the

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Speaker 1: person that you made the dirty place against is out.

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Speaker 1: And this is less about Henry Blackburn and more about

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Speaker 1: how it exposes the ncublea's ridiculous refusal to address the

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Speaker 1: fact that a massive portion of the targeting costs involve

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Speaker 1: accidental contact and end up being judgment calls from referees

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Speaker 1: who are watching slow motion replays of a fast motion play.

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Speaker 1: There needs to be a differentiation between incidental and non

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Speaker 1: malicious contact that the NCUBA wants to discourage and the

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Speaker 1: intentional type of plays that can ruin somebody's career and

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Speaker 1: physical well being. And nobody understands the need to keep

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Speaker 1: players as safe as possible in a game intensely more

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Speaker 1: physical than I do. I had to take these hits.

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Speaker 1: I've had multiple back surgeries. But I'm a former offensive

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Speaker 1: player that's here to tell you that trying to take

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Speaker 1: the football out of football by differentiating between things that

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Speaker 1: happen when a defender is trying to make a play,

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Speaker 1: Like when Mississippi States Sean Preston Junie got tossed for

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Speaker 1: tackling a non sliding Jaden Daniels in their game against LSU.

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Speaker 1: This is football. Bad things happen to good people sometimes. Now,

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Speaker 1: at most it should have been a penalty for leading

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Speaker 1: with a helmet. I can live with that, But for

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Speaker 1: the rules as they're written to create the reality that

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Speaker 1: it's less egregious for a safety to use his shoulder

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Speaker 1: as a weapon on a defensive receiver. After the play

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Speaker 1: inns that's a joke. We can try and rind the

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Speaker 1: game of lower crowns and launching. That's a notable pursuit.

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Speaker 1: Stuff like what Denver Broncos Kareem Jackson did to Washington

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Speaker 1: Commanders tight end Logan Thomas on Sundays needs to involve

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Speaker 1: punishments that span the length of injuries that they might cause.

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Speaker 1: I feel the same way about Henry Blackburn, but if

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Speaker 1: the illegal contact seems unintentional, throw the flag. Make it

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Speaker 1: a teachable moment instead of an overly punitive action that

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Speaker 1: shifts the balance of competition in the game. Let that

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Speaker 1: sink in