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Speaker 1: to the Herd podcast. We go. It is a Friday.

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Speaker 1: Wow Wow, what a day yesterday in college football, Major

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Speaker 1: major NFL games This weekend Hawks Niners, Steelers Ravens one

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Speaker 1: hour from now our final regular season blazing fives. I

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Speaker 1: like it last week, Dogs this week. Favorites Wherever you

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Speaker 1: may be, however you may be listening. Happy New Year

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Speaker 1: to those tuning in listening, whatever platform it is. Well,

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Speaker 1: I have nothing against Alabama football. That was a glorious

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Speaker 1: beat down yesterday, was it not? In the Rose Bowl,

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Speaker 1: Indiana sent a sport wide message the SEC dominance is over.

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Speaker 1: The Hoosiers pushed around the Crimson Tide for three and

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Speaker 1: a half hours. The new reality is Bama can't run

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Speaker 1: the football and Georgia can't stop any good offense. It's

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Speaker 1: Miami Indiana, at least for this year. Who are the

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Speaker 1: new bullies on the block and the harsh truth to

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Speaker 1: all you traditionalists, of which I am not one. You

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Speaker 1: are and you were wrong, dead wrong. Conference realignment, nil

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Speaker 1: transfer portal. What a glorious new world we live in.

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Speaker 1: It's more even, it's more unpredictable. Alabama can't stack a roster,

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Speaker 1: either can Georgia or LSU. There are more paths to

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Speaker 1: via bill. Now, we had a fifteen year run on

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Speaker 1: this sport, maybe twenty we're at this time of the year.

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Speaker 1: It was Georgia, it was Ohio, stay, it was Alabama,

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Speaker 1: it was Clemson. You choose that, give me more Miami, Indiana, Oregon?

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Speaker 1: Oh myth, I mean I love it. In fact, to

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Speaker 1: put a stamp on it. In the last three years,

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Speaker 1: the Big Ten four and oh head to head against

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Speaker 1: the SEC. We sort of predicted it a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago. We said, there's a lot of money in

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Speaker 1: those Big ten schools, there's a lot of money in

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Speaker 1: those cold weather legendary universities. It's going to start pouring

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Speaker 1: in now. Everybody can pay players the SEC. Georgia's defense,

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Speaker 1: come on, he can't stop a good offense. Alabama got

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Speaker 1: pushed around by Indiana. People often ask is the America

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Speaker 1: can dream possible? Damn straight, It's called Indiana. Who's your football?

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Speaker 1: From pathetic to powerful, awful to awe inspiring, doormat to dominance,

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Speaker 1: great coach, the right boosters, remarkable quarterback, they play real defense.

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Speaker 1: Is Indiana of the best tackling team that you've seen

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Speaker 1: in recent years? I mean they were a dog with

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Speaker 1: flees my entire life. Even in the league Corso days,

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Speaker 1: everybody loved them. They weren't very good, but I watched Indiana.

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Speaker 1: You just change uniforms. This is a better college football.

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Speaker 1: This is a much much better college football. Not because

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Speaker 1: Alabama got housed. Because Ole Miss is now representing the South,

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Speaker 1: not Michigan or Ohio State or Penn State. Indiana's representing

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Speaker 1: the Midwest. Impossible not to root for unless you're playing them.

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Speaker 1: We still have a West Coast power, We still have

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Speaker 1: an SEC. I don't know the Mendoza line. By the way,

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Speaker 1: if he's not the number one pick, I don't even

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Speaker 1: understand football. Fourteen of sixteen, three touchdowns, no picks, And

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Speaker 2: First of all, my team and I want to give

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Speaker 2: all the goor to God. What historic venue, the Rosebult

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Speaker 2: just a great conglomerate of individuals coming together and really

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Speaker 2: forming complimentary football. Coach sig has hit on us no complacency,

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Speaker 2: But once we got our few on the ground, we

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know what you're saying in a little

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Speaker 1: be cool. That was Johnny manziel I like that number

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Speaker 1: all right. I want to talk about Miami beating Ohio

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Speaker 1: season in the old system, if you were ranked like

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Speaker 1: College football today, and all the old timers push back.

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Speaker 1: It's a little bit more like the NFL. You're allowed

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Speaker 1: mistakes when you're fourteen or twenty four shouldn't be punitive,

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Speaker 1: mostly for life, and I mean the Steelers in the

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Speaker 1: Ravens play Sunny Night. You talk about flawed teams, I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to watch the winner gets into the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: That's not a weakness, it's a strength of the NFL. Miami,

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Speaker 1: the Hurricanes are precisely what right about the new system

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Speaker 1: six and zero against ranked teams. We're gonna count every game.

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Speaker 1: But you can lose to louisvill You can lose in conference.

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Speaker 1: It's okay, those weird conference games mid season. These kids

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Speaker 1: you can practice. All these teams are flawed. Michigan. Last year,

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Speaker 1: Ohio States, a twenty point favorite, loses to rival Michigan

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Speaker 1: that point fourd. They bulldoze people. It takes a while,

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Speaker 1: and we know this in the NFL. We thought the

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Speaker 1: And it used to be like week eight, Week nine,

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Speaker 1: Fiesta Bowl, maybe the Citrus Bowl. Alamomoble, It's not the

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Speaker 1: way it works anymore. Super Mario, oh Chrystal ball after

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Speaker 1: that lost to Louisville. Just like in life, it's a lesson.

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Speaker 1: He took a negative, he made it positive. He embraced

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Speaker 3: We don't think we have arrived by any stretch, but

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Speaker 3: they converted the third and eighteen and then the touchdown

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Speaker 3: it off with an interception. Those are all Those are

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Speaker 3: great counter punches. Those are just really like left hooks

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Speaker 1: I think Indiana is going to I think meet Miami

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Speaker 1: in the National Championship, But like the NFL, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: I think Indiana buy a field goals, probably the best

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Speaker 1: I love where we're at in this sport. Give me

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Speaker 1: more of Indiana all missing a shootout Oregon that's always entertaining,

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Speaker 1: and the Canes. Kaynes Row was good for college football,

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Speaker 1: got a personality jmck that was I'd like to say

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Speaker 1: it's crazy, but it's not. After watching last year where

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Speaker 1: Ohio State loses a huge favorite of Michigan, You're like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they just rolled through people until this year

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Speaker 1: By the way, Ohio State lost to two teams that

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Speaker 1: college football. Indiana's going to be a tough.

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Speaker 4: Out, very tough.

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Speaker 5: I was blown away by the Trinidad Chamberliss story last while.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I can't stop reading about this kid. A

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Speaker 5: year ago, he's playing, you know, Division two, winning a

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Speaker 5: have like a comparison for him in the in the NFL,

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Speaker 5: I was thinking Johnny Manzel, like he's running around doing

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Speaker 4: It all works.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, I don't know. It was week eight

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Speaker 1: on the show, and I said, I get Dak Prescott vibes,

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Speaker 1: A little smaller Dak Prescott vibes. Where now Dak moved

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Speaker 1: very very well in college and wasn't as big and

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Speaker 1: good old line a Mississippi State. I get little Dak vibes.

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Speaker 5: But he's going to be up against it against this

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Speaker 1: Oh, a little bit of a different beast.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, George, what happened to the Georgia defense, Colin, This

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Speaker 4: It's all in the NFL.

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Speaker 5: I saw no pass rush, I mean, and anytime they blitzed,

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Speaker 1: That was a fun game last night. Oh, it was

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Speaker 1: a great game last night.

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Speaker 1: Steelers Ravens Sunday Night going to be ugly, but the

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Speaker 1: headlines I'm reading this morning illustrate what's at stake. Here's

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Speaker 1: one of them. Aaron Rodgers anticipates having options if he

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Speaker 1: wants to play next year. The Steelers signed Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: for games like Sunday. Are Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh's

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Speaker 1: jobs at stake? Here's another one. Lamar Jackson says he'll

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Speaker 1: play Sunday night. You'd hope it's like a season finale

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Speaker 1: of your favorite TV show. All the storylines and all

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Speaker 1: the plot lines are coming to a conclusion. Wrap a

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Speaker 1: bow on it, Sunday night. I do think if the

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Speaker 1: Ravens lose, the world doesn't necessarily end. John Harbaugh comes back,

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Speaker 1: their defense when healthy. You can just chalk it up to,

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Speaker 1: you know, Lamar wasn't right, But if the Steelers lose,

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Speaker 1: it's basically been a rerun J Mack with a news.

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Speaker 6: No, this is the herd Line news.

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Speaker 1: Trinidad Chambliss, who didn't start the year as the starting quarterback.

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Speaker 9: With the goal of this season of watch Trinidad came

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can I can defend Lane Kiffin moving, but

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Speaker 1: But seventy one percent completion percentage, five touchdowns, no picks

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Speaker 5: All right, let's start with the Orange Bowl colin fun

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Speaker 5: game between Oregon and Texas Tech. If you like sloppiness

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Speaker 9: We've talked to our guys about being battle tested all

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Speaker 1: And that game went back and forth in a lot

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Speaker 9: You know, struggled at times to go score points in

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Speaker 9: Our offense showed up when it mattered most there at

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Finny had quite a game. I think Oregon's really good.

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Speaker 1: They could have just kicked field goals in one and

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Speaker 1: it should be it should be noted James Madison blown out,

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Speaker 5: Well, they might have beat Alabama yesterday. Alabama was terrible.

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Speaker 5: I'll just say this. Did you notice that the three

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Speaker 5: Texas Tech look asleep for most of that game.

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Speaker 1: Could you make the layoff less? Could you move the

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Speaker 5: let's move on to the NFL. Eagles are resting a

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Speaker 5: and go.

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Speaker 4: It just hasn't been working.

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Speaker 5: Left tackle Jordan Milatta still believes despite the ups and downs,

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Speaker 5: confidence is high.

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Speaker 10: God we have I think we've been here before, We've

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Speaker 10: been downed before. We've had these same questions heading into

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Speaker 10: playoffs last year. You know, and so like for us,

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Speaker 10: it's just we welcome that challenge. It's not like we're

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Speaker 10: just pushing it under the corpit. We're doing everything we can.

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Speaker 10: We've been here before, we've been doubted, and every time

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Speaker 10: we've proven them all. That's why I have confidence, That's

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Speaker 10: why everyone does.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of new playoff teams, a lot

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Speaker 1: of in the AFC where you've got like a Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: you're like, you know, or or like New England or

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Speaker 1: now NFC at Chicago. It is different, Peyton Manning, US

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Speaker 1: don't say that there's regular season speed, there's playoff speed

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Speaker 1: and then their super Bowl speed and like playoff speed

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Speaker 1: is different. It is really really intense. As you pointed out,

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Speaker 1: when you have a bye in the college football playoff,

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Speaker 1: that first series or two, that team that just played

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Speaker 1: last week or you know, did not have a bye,

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Speaker 1: they're playing at a different speed. In the first Miami

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Speaker 1: was playing at a totally different speed than Ohio State.

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Speaker 1: So I Philadelphia, I think this is they're built to

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Speaker 1: win games in this postseason. I think that would be

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Speaker 1: a bad early round matchup for the Rams. I think

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Speaker 1: Seattle matches up with them pretty well. But outside of that,

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Speaker 1: they have a matchup advantage on a lot of these

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Speaker 1: NFC teams.

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Speaker 5: To talk about teams that could use the bye, I

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Speaker 5: mean they can't get the buy, but Saquon Barkley could

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Speaker 5: use the rest. He hasn't been getting to anything. Lane

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Speaker 5: Johnson coming off injury. Jalen Carter, Who's gonna sit this week?

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Speaker 5: He had the shoulder issue. Like the Eagles are a

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Speaker 5: beat up team.

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Speaker 4: Remember the long playoff run last year.

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Speaker 5: I think they're going to be fine, and I'm starting

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Speaker 5: to lean toward them coming out of the out of

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Speaker 5: the NFC column. I know you're a Seattle guy, but

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Speaker 5: this Eagles team, man, if they got healthy. Final story

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Speaker 5: is the New York Giants head coaching search. Let's just

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Speaker 5: say it's swinging into high gear under Joe she Colin.

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Speaker 5: Prominent reporters who are credible are putting together a list

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Speaker 5: of guys.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready for this?

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Speaker 5: Mike McCarthy a name we've been talking about on the

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Speaker 5: show for months. He's at the top. The rest of

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Speaker 5: the guys defensive guys. Jeff Hafley of the Packers, Chris

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Speaker 5: Shula of the Rams, Jesse Mentor of the Chargers and

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Speaker 5: former Raider head coach Antonio Pierce, who pretty clearly is

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Speaker 5: going around telling everybody, see, I wasn't.

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Speaker 1: The problem last year.

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Speaker 4: They sting.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you're a Giants fan or you

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Speaker 5: kind of inspired by by this list, so I'll laugh.

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Speaker 1: I think Mike McCarthy may not excite you. You're not

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Speaker 1: gonna win the press conference. But won a lot of

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Speaker 1: games when Dak was upright, twelve wins a year, and

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Speaker 1: Dall when he had Dak and he was winning a

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Speaker 1: lot of games. He and Aaron Rodgers went sideways. Some

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Speaker 1: of these coaches, you know, Lane Kevin at LSU is

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Speaker 1: gonna win the press conference. Mike McCarthy is never going

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Speaker 1: to win a press conference. But I think he's a

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Speaker 1: very capable coach. I really do.

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Speaker 5: McCarthy is definitely not taking this job before finding out

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Speaker 5: what's up in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: Okay, did you get the.

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Speaker 4: Dents to coach Joe Burrow? Should the chief Bengals run

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Speaker 4: off their head coach?

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Speaker 5: That's the most prominent job in the market, and who knows?

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Speaker 5: Just Buffalo flame out in one round? And would you

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Speaker 5: rather coach Jackson Dart or Josh Allen? Like, come on,

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Speaker 5: I think McCarthy.

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Speaker 4: Is that way.

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Speaker 1: I think the Cincinnati job is more perilous than you do.

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Speaker 1: Burrow's health upstairs. Beyond frugal, they don't make free agent moves.

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Speaker 1: Everybody feel, even their star players who they drafted, there's

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Speaker 1: always a holdout field to it. I think Cincinnati is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at the Bengals history, they've

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Speaker 1: actually been so good drafting the most important position. Go

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Speaker 1: back to Anderson, to Carson Palmer or Boomer a Siasin

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Speaker 1: and Andy Dalton and Joe Burrow. They always always every

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Speaker 1: decade the Bengals get quarterback right, And what do they

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Speaker 1: have to show for May? What's the common thread in

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Speaker 1: that upstairs? So I don't think the Bengals job is

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Speaker 1: one I would take. I love Burrow, but you and

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Speaker 1: I've talked about this. If Burrow has one more injury,

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Speaker 1: don't you have to draft the quarterback? Don't you have

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Speaker 1: to think about it?

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Speaker 4: I think you probably got to do what do that?

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Speaker 1: Anyway?

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Speaker 4: But I'm curious.

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Speaker 5: Jackson Dart is the AP feeling and you got the

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Speaker 5: number two pick.

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Speaker 1: Well, the Giants roster isn't bad. Skataboo comes back. Jackson

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Speaker 1: Dart A lot of energy. I've been arguing this for years.

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Speaker 1: I've been proven wrong. But I think the Giants actually

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Speaker 1: have some good players. I just it's just a weird franchise.

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Speaker 1: Who has more better players. Giants are Eagles. Eagles by

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Speaker 1: a mile.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Giants are Cowboys Giants.

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Speaker 1: Oh, you just know the Cowboy players. You know Sadia,

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Speaker 1: you know Dak. I do like the Cowboys O line

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Speaker 1: in run blocking. They're not good in passtro, but they're

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Speaker 1: good run blockings, all right. J mclens Well, that's the

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Speaker 1: news and thanks for stopping by the Herd Line News.

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Speaker 1: Blazing five A lot of favorites.

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Speaker 3: I like.

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Speaker 1: A lot of favorites. Four out of my five picks

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Speaker 1: I like favorites. Also, some thoughts on Caleb Williams. Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: night in what could be one of the games of

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Speaker 1: the season. I think it's going to be the Seattle

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Speaker 1: Seahawks at the Niners. Darnold and brock perty We're gonna

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Speaker 1: go to our big board. We always do this in

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Speaker 1: the biggest of games, ten best players. I think you'll

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Speaker 1: be surprised by that.

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Speaker 6: Neck be sure to catch live editions of The Herd

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Speaker 6: weekdays and noon Easter non a em Pacific.

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Speaker 5: There's some more great football coming your way in the

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Speaker 5: Trust and will Holiday Bowl.

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Speaker 4: NOA and Arizona take on as and you say, can't

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Speaker 4: miss showdown in.

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Speaker 5: San Diego tonight seven thirty Eastern, four thirty Pacific on Fox.

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Speaker 1: I trust you will be watching. I'm going to watch

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Speaker 1: the Niners Seahawks tomorrow night. I think it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: great if Sam Donald beat San Francisco and the Seahawks

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Speaker 1: get the number one seat in the NFC. I am

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Speaker 1: smoking a cigar on the set in La Monday with

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Speaker 1: the I Told You So budget. I like Sam and

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Speaker 1: a lot, and it's really more the journey than the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a very good quarterback. Bit reckless at times,

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Speaker 1: but a very good quarterback. But a lot about quarterbacking

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Speaker 1: in the NFL is survival just sort of like all

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Speaker 1: of our twenties, right, Like Mahomes gets Andy Reid out

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Speaker 1: of college and Voe Nicks gets Sean Payton. That's like

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Speaker 1: being bored into a trust fund. It's hard to screw

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Speaker 1: it up. But Sam Donald, twenty year old, goes to

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Speaker 1: the Jets bad head coach front office over at SKIS.

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Speaker 1: That's like the rest of us when we're twenty we've

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Speaker 1: got student loan debt our boss is a jerk car

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Speaker 1: keeps breaking down that that's like, that's a real twenty

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Speaker 1: year old experience. And that's what Sam Donald had, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean, your mom and dad get divorced.

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Speaker 1: That's how a lot of us for in our twenties.

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Speaker 1: And so I think Donald's an easy guy to root for,

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Speaker 1: and I think brock Perty's got a little bit of that,

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Speaker 1: although we got Kyle Shanahan being the last guy draft

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Speaker 1: at Iowa State, he's easy to root for. But I

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Speaker 1: think it's a battle of two quarterbacks, Donald and Purty

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Speaker 1: on heaters with a lot of skeptics, and here's Sam

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Speaker 1: Donald on the showdown.

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Speaker 11: At the end of the day, it's just football, you know.

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Speaker 11: And I think that's the best part about it is,

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Speaker 11: you know, people want to make it a little bit

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Speaker 11: bigger than it is.

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Speaker 1: But we're just going out there.

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Speaker 11: We're playing against the Niners, a really good football team,

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Speaker 11: a team that we're going to be prepared for, and

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Speaker 11: you know it's going to be great though. You know

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Speaker 11: the fans are going to be into it. It's gonna

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Speaker 11: be a great atmosphere. But other than that, it's it's football,

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Speaker 11: and we'll be ready.

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Speaker 1: To go for it. So in big, big regular season games,

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Speaker 1: I pull out the big board and I say, let's

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Speaker 1: see who's got the ten best players. You cross your fingers.

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Speaker 1: If Trent Williams and George Kittle can play, I think

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Speaker 1: they will. I think in terms of highest end players,

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Speaker 1: San Francisco's got more of the ten best players in

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Speaker 1: this game. I think Christian McCaffrey's the best. Jsn is second,

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Speaker 1: then George Kittle and Trent Williams. All three of those

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Speaker 1: Niners are Hall of famers, then Donald and Brock Purty

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Speaker 1: five and six. I don't care who you put in front.

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Speaker 1: If you like Purty, put in five, Donald six. But

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Speaker 1: I do think the depth is not close. I think

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Speaker 1: Seattle's roster defensively, this is a mismatch Byron Murphy, Devon Witherspoon,

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Speaker 1: Nick Eman, Wori, DeMarcus Lawrence. If I went to fifteen,

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Speaker 1: it'd be mostly Seattle players. So I think if Kittle

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Speaker 1: and Trent Williams play, this is a really really good

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Speaker 1: football game. Blazing five. It's one of my picks. But

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Speaker 1: we've got to be honest here in terms of depth

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Speaker 1: and youth and speed and defense. It's a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a mismatch. This Seattle roster is stacked. I want

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Speaker 1: to go and again, I love Donald. I think it's

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Speaker 1: the journey is the part that I appreciate because I

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Speaker 1: you know, I hear all the time about twenty year olds.

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Speaker 1: It's hard for twenty year olds to get jobs. It's

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Speaker 1: hard for twenty year olds in my generation. It's hard.

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Speaker 1: Twenties are hard. You don't make a lot high expectations.

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Speaker 1: Your first job usually stinks. But I think what what

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Speaker 1: Donald's been able to do, it really proves the quarterbacking

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Speaker 1: in this league. A lot of it is not how

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Speaker 1: you start, it's how you finish. It's survival. Can you

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Speaker 1: overcome that first awful boss, that first awful job, And

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Speaker 1: that's what Donald's done. I want to go back to

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Speaker 1: Indiana beating Alabama. One of the things that is really

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Speaker 1: hard is that college football has always been sort of

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Speaker 1: a trick addition sport. It's got an older fan base.

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Speaker 1: The NBA fan base is much younger than the college

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Speaker 1: football fan base, and traditions incredibly powerful. That's why these

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Speaker 1: fans have so much trouble letting go of these unwatchable,

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Speaker 1: awful Bowl games. I've been watching the Shakrish ball and

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Speaker 1: they're unwatchable. There's nobody at these games, and the ratings

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Speaker 1: have got into the tank. But I think people forget

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Speaker 1: this Indiana. The last two years in college football, not

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Speaker 1: Alabama has had the best point differential. They've been beating

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Speaker 1: the crud out of everybody the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: They have the number one red zone offense, the number one,

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Speaker 1: number two scoring defense. They have a better record the

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Speaker 1: last two years than Notre Dame, Georgia and Ohio State. Yeah, Indiana,

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Speaker 1: but it's like the Coke Pepsi taste test. Pepsi won

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Speaker 1: it forever. But you know, you've always been drinking Coca

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Speaker 1: Cola and your parents did, your brother did everybody? Did

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Speaker 1: you see the commercials and so was Coca Cola is better.

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Speaker 1: I remember years ago Pepsi was winning all those taste

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Speaker 1: tests consistently, And yeah, it's funny. I live in a

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Speaker 1: neighborhood that's got a Peach coffee in a Starbucks. I

646
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: like peach coffee Starbucks's packs. I can't get a coffee

647
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: at Peach in thirty seconds Starbucks. I'm sitting waiting in line.

648
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 1: You know, marketing is powerful. Indiana is really good. I

649
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,840
Speaker 1: think Indiana is the best team I had predicted Wednesday.

650
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 1: I said they're gonna blow Alabama out. Indiana told her

651
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: Ban Mayer Indiana was gonna blow Alabama's doors off because

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00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: I watch a lot of college football, and I'd watched

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00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: the Alabama play six or seven times. They couldn't run

654
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: the football and you never knew what you were going

655
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: to get. I watched Indiana five or six times this year,

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Speaker 1: ten times last couple of years. When Indiana went to

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00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: Oregon and thumped Oregon, that game was not as close

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00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: as the score they thumped Oregon. Ohio State went to

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00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: Oregon last year and lost. Oregon is always good, always

660
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: top six or seven, and Indiana went there and thumped them.

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Speaker 1: It was like, Oh, this isn't a good story. This

662
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: is a really good team. In fact, the only team

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Speaker 1: I think matches up with Indiana is Miami. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if Oregon matches up. They didn't earlier this year,

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Speaker 1: and ole Miss does not match up at all with Indiana.

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Speaker 1: I think Miami does. I think the way to beat

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00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: Indiana you gotta stop the run game. You gotta make

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00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza really uncomfortable, and I think Miami has the

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00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: ability to do that. But it's a brand thing. It's

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Speaker 1: just it's hard to get over Indiana Hoosiers thumping Alabama.

671
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: They didn't beat Alabama, they imposed their will, They inhumiliated them.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna blame Caitlin to Bull all you want. INDI

673
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: hands a much better team, and I got to tell you,

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Speaker 1: Indiana is the best coach team I've seen in a

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00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: long time. When Bama went to try to pull them

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00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: off sides on the fake punt when Ty Simpson was

677
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: in the game, went to the line to try to

678
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: fake Indiana out, Hoosiers were totally prepared for it. So

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Speaker 1: Kurt Signetti. The other thing I love about the Indiana story,

680
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: and this is why I gave Belichick a fighting chance

681
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: at Carolina. It used to be I always thought college

682
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: football was a young man's sport because you were on

683
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: the road going to all these high school games recruiting.

684
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: But college football now, this is why Whittingham at Michigan,

685
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Speaker 1: I think he'll be pretty good, great, I don't know,

686
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: he'll be pretty good. A lot of college football now

687
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: is staff building and administrative. I mean, you're right in

688
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 1: your check you get out the check book. If you

689
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: got the right donors, you're buying seven or eight starters,

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00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: high end starters. So Indiana's got good business school. A

691
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: lot of graduates made a lot of money. They're giving back.

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00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: They found a coach, he's a good administrator, he's got

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Speaker 1: an excellent staff. His offensive coordinator probably in the next

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00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: couple of years, gets a big job. But it's I

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Speaker 1: think this is just so good for the sport. Everybody

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Speaker 1: in college football and I understood it. I was talking

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00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: to somebody last night about this. College football fans are older,

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00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: and older Americans love their traditions and a lot of

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00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 1: traditions Augusta. It's great. There's a lot of old stuff

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Speaker 1: I like. But college football traditions were I mean really,

701
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: outside of the Rose Bowl, you could have most of them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Give me Michigan, Ohio State, give me

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00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: a Rose Bowl. A lot of this stuff was you

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00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: were you had to force yourself to really argue. It's

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Speaker 1: really fascinating. I what we're watching now is unbelievable. We

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00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: are just Indiana. It's I know you're all going like

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00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 1: because even Miami. You've seen Miami be like physical and great.

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00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 1: You know you all missus had some way Lane Kiffin.

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00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: Last several years, you've seen old mis draw forty on people.

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00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 1: You've seen Oregon now since the Chip Kelly Mike Bollotti days,

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00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 1: you've seen them in big games rolling people. Indiana is

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Speaker 1: like what and all Nick Saban's buddies are telling them, yeah,

713
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 1: you guys are gonna crush him. No way, and he

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Speaker 1: has way better, way better. I think everybody when I

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Speaker 1: said the other day I said Indiana is going to

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Speaker 1: blow Alabama out, people are like, whoa, whoa, whoa. I

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Speaker 1: would have gotten less pushback if I'd have said Bama's

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Speaker 1: going to blow out Indiana. In fact, I told a buddy,

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Speaker 1: Who've got a lot of money on this game, I said,

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Speaker 1: I cannot believe how many people are online or on

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Speaker 1: TV saying Bama's gonna win comfortably. Have you watched Have

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Speaker 1: you watched Alabama play? Indiana is so much better than Alabama.

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Speaker 1: Forget the coaching, Who's got better players, way better at quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Their receivers maybe aren't quite as good, but front end back,

725
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: the defense, the old lines much better. So college football

726
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: has never been more transitional, and that transitional nature of

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00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: it the portal is is. I think Indiana is now

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Speaker 1: a beacon of optimism and a beacon of hope for

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Speaker 1: the sport. I mean, when you think about Indiana most

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Speaker 1: of our lives, it was Bobby Knight, I mean that

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Speaker 1: was it. And if you really followed academics, you're like

732
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Speaker 1: good business school. Oh, Bloomington's kind of a cool town.

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Speaker 1: You never thought football, Well, those days have changed, and

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Speaker 1: I really am I don't necessarily think people are saying, ooh,

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Speaker 1: Kurt Signetti, take another job. This is what I said

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Speaker 1: about Lane Kiffin. I'll defend you taking LSU. But if

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Speaker 1: Ole Miss has the right boosters, you're watching Old Miss

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Speaker 1: with this coaching staff. I don't know. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you can win a Natty at Old Miss, but

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Speaker 1: if you can win one at Indiana and their favored

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Speaker 1: to than you probably can the old traditional great jobs.

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Speaker 1: Right now, Indiana football is better than USC sorry and

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Speaker 1: Alabama and Clemson. I'm sorry. It is blazing five neck