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Speaker 1: Well, it was NFL. Remember this offensive rookie of the year.

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Speaker 1: He was a Heisman Trophy winner eight years in the league.

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Speaker 1: Now Fox Sports, he's got the cowboy hat on. He

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Speaker 1: is ready to go RG three. Robert Griffin is now

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Speaker 1: joining US live. It was a cowboy hat weekend. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you that. It was nuts Saturday and Sunday. Let's

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Speaker 1: go back to Saturday. I said this when Nick Saban left,

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Speaker 1: Robert I said, Kaylin de Bor was the best, most

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Speaker 1: courageous higher you could do, because it would have been easy.

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Speaker 1: He'd go, oh, let's get let's go get Dan. He's

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Speaker 1: from the South, let's go get Dabbo. He's got a

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Speaker 1: Bama connection. And Greg Burns like, now I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: all the over to the Pacific northwest to and I said

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Speaker 1: that takes guts. The Bama people didn't want to hear it.

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Speaker 1: I thought, Robert, he out coached Kirby Smart. I thought

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Speaker 1: that was a coaching classic. What do you make of

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Speaker 1: Bama's win on the road.

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Speaker 3: Well, you're making a lot of great points there, Colin,

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Speaker 3: and that's why you're in the position that you were in.

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Speaker 3: And I'm gonna, first of all want to say thank

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Speaker 3: you for having me on the show. Completely honored to

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Speaker 3: share the airways with you. But when you look at

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Speaker 3: Kaylen de Boor, I agree with you, he did out

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Speaker 3: coach Kirby Smart, but it was more than that. I

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Speaker 3: thought that Kaylen de Boor has always been a hell

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Speaker 3: of a football coach. He's won every single way that

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Speaker 3: he's been and for him to take on the challenge

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Speaker 3: of replacing the greatest college football coach of all time,

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Speaker 3: some might argue the greatest coach of all time and

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Speaker 3: Nick Saban lets you know how much he believes.

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Speaker 4: In himself and his staff.

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Speaker 3: But after the loss to Florida State, I thought he

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Speaker 3: was self aware. He understood, you know what, I'm not

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Speaker 3: getting it done the way that I need to get

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Speaker 3: it done here at Alabama, and he changed his identity

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Speaker 3: and for a coach who's won in multiple different places

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Speaker 3: to make that admission and step in and say, you

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Speaker 3: know what, we're going to come up with a new slogan.

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Speaker 3: We're going to say, don't let up, no mercy. Why

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Speaker 3: did he say that, It's because Alabama had kind of

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Speaker 3: lost its luster a little bit, it had lost its

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Speaker 3: fear that it had put into people's souls when they

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Speaker 3: stepped on the field with them, and his quarterback, Ty Simpson,

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Speaker 3: stepped up to the podium, took full responsibility and said.

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Speaker 4: I will be better. And he's been better.

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Speaker 3: He's been one of the best quarterbacks in all the

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Speaker 3: college football. So I wonder what the Alabama fans are

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Speaker 3: saying now.

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Speaker 1: Right Listen, success is hard and it doesn't always happen quickly.

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Speaker 1: I always joke Saban lost the Louisiana Monroe's first year

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Speaker 1: and got smoked by Utah his second year. Now, he

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Speaker 1: took over a bit of a mess, But it's hard

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Speaker 5: The nil, the portal. You're losing, guys.

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Speaker 1: Now, I want to talk about I said going into

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Speaker 1: the year, I liked Drew Aller's potential. I watched Dante Moore,

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Speaker 1: Robert if I had a number one pick in the draft,

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Speaker 1: I would take Dante Moore. That kid's composure. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you played in this league. I was blown I mean

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Speaker 1: I thought he was good. I was blown away by him.

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Speaker 4: What say you yed? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Dante Moore is climbing up of draft boards faster than

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Speaker 3: he proved one simple thing.

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Speaker 4: He proved that the tools that he has.

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Speaker 3: Can travel to a big time playoff atmosphere, and that

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Speaker 3: his poise overcomes all of it. When you look at

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Speaker 3: Dante Moore there at the end of the game, when

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Speaker 3: I watch his tape, what I'm so impressed by is

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Speaker 3: the simple fact that he transferred from UCLA to go

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Speaker 3: He understood that it takes patience to make that happen.

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Speaker 3: And what do you see when you watch the tape,

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Speaker 3: staying in rhythm, not forcing the football to any one

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Speaker 3: coaches absolutely love this young man. Fourteen to one touchdown

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, one more college question. Then I want to

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Speaker 1: a really great perspective. So I defended Lincoln Riley I

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Speaker 1: The bigger issue is they brought Deanton Lynn on as

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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily blame the DC. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry, Robert.

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Speaker 5: I know what their.

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Speaker 1: Nil money is and I know what they recruit that

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Speaker 5: Who do you blame?

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Speaker 1: Is it this offense that maybe at practice you don't

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Speaker 4: And I know you know this very well, Colin.

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Speaker 3: You're out there, you're around a lot, you're around the program,

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Speaker 3: and when I look at this defense, I agree with you.

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Speaker 3: I think that it's the defense that's holding them back.

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Speaker 3: Look against Illinois gave up twelve point four or twelve

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Speaker 3: This team is field with's high level recruits. But in

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Speaker 3: tempo offense. Why cause it's putting your defense out there

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Speaker 4: For Utah, they averaged some of the.

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Speaker 3: Fewest plays played per game for their defense, and he

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Speaker 4: They say, fatigue makes cowards of us all.

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Speaker 3: So I wonder if that's a question that Lincoln Riley

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Speaker 3: it all falls on him, Colin, he's the head coach.

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Speaker 3: He's the high price, money making guy that was brought

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Speaker 4: So make the decision.

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Speaker 3: Are you going to go truly all the way up

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Speaker 1: So I want to shift to the NFL because you

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Speaker 3: Ben Johnson is the type of guy who's gonna stare

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Speaker 3: He's feeling good about himself. Well, guess what happened this

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Speaker 3: to make that growth process even better. The more they win,

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Speaker 3: That goes a long way. Winning cures all in. The

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Speaker 5: So I listen.

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Speaker 1: Aj Brown is showing to me a great patience because

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Speaker 5: Here is we got to give him credit like he's read.

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Speaker 5: I don't care if he's reading a book.

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Speaker 1: Every time they put a mic in front of him,

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Speaker 3: He's like, I don't know. You're not getting me easy completions, guys.

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Speaker 3: So we don't have these conversations on the national airways.

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Speaker 1: This is where I defend pro athletes. I can do

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Speaker 5: I don't know. I think it's tough.

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Speaker 1: I don't think fans quite understand how hard it is

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's hard.

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Speaker 5: You're tremendous.

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Speaker 1: Robert Griffin knowses college does his college and pro stuff.

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Speaker 1: You know, met you years ago at a volume party.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: No appreciate you having me on, Colin, and I'm on

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Speaker 5: All right, that's great stuff, some good points.

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Speaker 1: You know. It is interesting that he used Kobe Bryant,

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Speaker 5: Jmack with the news.

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Speaker 4: Heard on the news.

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Speaker 2: This is the herd Line News.

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Speaker 6: All right, Colin, let's revisit that Bears Raiders finish just

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Speaker 5: It's good snappers kind of blocked.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna sneak out of Allegiate Stadium for the twenty

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Speaker 6: Yeah, go ahead, I know you're excited. You're ear Bears

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Speaker 1: Not all wins are pretty, Buffalo yesterday did not play well.

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Speaker 5: So take them big picture.

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Speaker 1: There's some real I mean Washington, New Orleans, Baltimore and

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Speaker 6: Baltimore's debt was down six or seven, sorry, six to seven, huh,

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Speaker 1: And then they face a series of teams that aren't

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Speaker 6: I'm not saying they go in playoffs, but I'm saying

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Speaker 5: Right, Oh, I think absolutely. I think you feel great

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Speaker 6: Yeah, certainly. All right, Let's go to Monday night football

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Speaker 6: Colin Jets Dolphins tonight. Justin Fields is cleared from concussion protocol.

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Speaker 6: We're coming out fired up. We'll see what Breece Hall

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Speaker 6: Somebody wins. I don't know them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think. I think you're in the right space.

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Speaker 6: All right, final story is college football where your guy

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Speaker 5: He did.

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Speaker 6: They did have a bad start. I think they were.

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Speaker 7: I get it, you know, But I try to look

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Speaker 7: at the entire picture and what we've been able to

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Speaker 7: do here. But at the end of the day, we

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Speaker 7: got to find a way to win those games. I

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Speaker 7: totally get it. They're passionate and when we win, there's

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Speaker 7: nothing better. When we lose, there's nothing worse. So I

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Speaker 7: get it. I get the frustration that comes with a

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Speaker 7: fan base that has invested and cares.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, my take his you're at home.

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Speaker 1: You have the best backfield in the country, a top

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Speaker 1: five offensive line, and you have really good defensive personnel.

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Speaker 5: To me, that's a game you have to win. And

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Speaker 5: they didn't.

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Speaker 1: And I've defended James Franklin, but you got to win

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Speaker 1: that game. I mean, Dante Moore had not played in

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Speaker 1: an environment like that. Oregon's young, Oregon's a college team

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Speaker 1: traveling three thousand whatever, three thousand miles whatever it is.

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Speaker 1: That's a game you gotta win. Like it's not Bama Georgia.

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Speaker 1: Georgia doesn't have to win that. Georgia has won a

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Speaker 1: lot of big games. Ohio State's won a lot of

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Speaker 1: big games. That's a game you get, Oregon, That's that's

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Speaker 1: the biggest stadium Dante More has ever played in. You

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Speaker 1: got you got a ball control offense, and I thought

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Speaker 1: Drew Aller just looked pedestrian.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they too conservatively, Colin, there was no imagination in that.

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Speaker 1: That's the knock on James strength when he recruits. But

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Speaker 1: it's not a lot of there's not a lot of

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Speaker 1: you know, there's not a lot of juice.

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Speaker 6: He did not feel like like a mini Pacquiao fight

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Speaker 6: where neither side wanted to make a mistake and it

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Speaker 6: was just very safe boxing throughout. I'm like, dude, you're

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Speaker 6: at home. You got the white out. I'd get that

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Speaker 6: for Oregon.

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Speaker 1: Like if I was Oregon, I'd go into the first

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Speaker 1: quarter and I would feel out. I think that's one

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Speaker 1: of those games. If I was Penn State, I'd have

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Speaker 1: trick plays. I would put the pressure on Oregon. And

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Speaker 1: I thought Penn State played a little bit like a

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Speaker 1: road team. And it's like, no, no, no, you're at

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Speaker 1: home most of the time in college football. When two

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Speaker 1: good teams meet, take the home team. In the NFL,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, they say, now the NFL home crowd

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Speaker 1: is worth a point.

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Speaker 5: I think I think.

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Speaker 1: Penn State that's a seven eight point advantage. Dan Lanning

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Speaker 1: admitted that after the game, and I think.

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Speaker 2: You go in.

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Speaker 1: If you're Penn State and you you take big cuts.

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Speaker 6: As I remembered this play, I think it was seventeen

486
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Speaker 6: to three Colin in the third quarter, Oregon was rolling

487
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Speaker 6: like you can't have that now. Final note is you

488
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Speaker 6: have just repeat your national championship right now? Is it Oregon?

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Speaker 5: And who I would say?

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Speaker 1: If I had to bet right now, I'd say Ohio

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Speaker 1: State based on what I've seen, Ohio State, Oregon. I

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Speaker 1: can't trust Penn State. I mean, if you lose to

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Speaker 1: Oregon at home there, I can't trust you. And Texas

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Speaker 1: isn't good enough offense?

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Speaker 6: Can I give you a sleeper?

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Speaker 4: Bama?

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Speaker 6: The note, Well, Alabama's for sure. The Notre Dame fighting

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Speaker 6: Irish mister Carr, Oh, he looks amazing in Antem country.

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Speaker 5: That's Arkansas.

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Speaker 6: But still, I mean, Arkansas is a good SEC team.

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Speaker 6: They just fired their coach, I know, but still, come on, man,

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Speaker 6: it's Carr, a young quarterback going into Arkansas. You can't

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Speaker 6: go to Fayett Villain.

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Speaker 1: I want the highlights of that game. Arkansas played with

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Speaker 1: eight players defense stop it football.

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Speaker 6: Dame had forty two at the half. Listen, man, it

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Speaker 6: was impressive. Carr. He might be like a top five

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Speaker 6: quarterback in the country. It's Beck, Dante Moore and I

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Speaker 6: think Simpson for sure, right from Alabama.

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Speaker 1: If you ask GMS, I'll text one after the show.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe Dante Moore would not be the number

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Speaker 1: one pick.

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Speaker 6: He looks like he's ready to go in the NFL.

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Speaker 6: He was rolling out. I mean that kid looked now

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Speaker 6: that kid.

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Speaker 5: And he was a five star recruit.

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Speaker 1: I think out of Michigan he went, I think ended

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Speaker 1: up Ucla than Oregon.

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Speaker 5: He sat, so he's got some maturity.

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Speaker 6: Imagine that sitting for a year helped huh Art set

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Speaker 6: for how many Okay.

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Speaker 1: That was a I'm telling you, in college football, that

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Speaker 1: is a hard place to win an Oregon coach. If

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Speaker 1: you have a great coach and a great quarterback in college,

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Speaker 1: you can win anywhere. And I think that's what Bama has.

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Speaker 1: I think that Tys Simpson's really I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: Dante Moore, but he's good.

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Speaker 6: He's throwing darts.

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Speaker 5: Just like Jackson did. J Mack with the news, Well.

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Speaker 2: That's the news and thanks for stopping by.

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Speaker 5: The herd Line News show is flying by boy.

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Speaker 1: The show after us today is going to have a

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Speaker 1: lot of nuance, a lot of contextualization on Kansas City

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Speaker 1: hammering Baltimore. Now, I like Kansas City in that game,

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Speaker 1: I said, if you get me three, I would have

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Speaker 1: put it in my blazing five.

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Speaker 5: But that was.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I Mahomes hasn't done that for over two years.

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Speaker 5: Just seven on seven, pitch and catch. It's the hurt.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd weekdays

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Speaker 2: and noone Eastern, not a em Pacific.

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Speaker 5: A couple of month of the night football games tonight.

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Speaker 6: Like j Mack, I.

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Speaker 1: Think the Jets the Dolphins over is the play and

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Speaker 1: actually I'll uh, I'll take a favorite Denver at home

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Speaker 1: offensive sputtered. I think Sean Payton will get it right.

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Speaker 6: Why don't we Why don't we make it interesting? Since

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Speaker 6: you're gonna be out here soon? Why do we make

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Speaker 6: it interesting? You want a little wager on what I

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Speaker 6: don't know, Let's go Jets. You you love Mike McDaniel

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Speaker 6: and two, I'll take Jets.

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Speaker 5: I don't love Mike McDaniel and TOOA or the GM now.

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Speaker 6: Or the odor for the stadium.

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Speaker 1: I like going to Fort Lauderdale in Miami. I don't

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Speaker 1: like the football team. It was just funny yesterday the

556
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Speaker 1: base fall playoffs. Regular season's over. Steve Cohen's owned the

557
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Speaker 1: Mets forever. They've missed the playoffs three times and got

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Speaker 1: bounced in the wildcard round. They literally were the only

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Speaker 1: team in baseball that did not have a ninth and

560
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Speaker 1: income from behind wind with all that money, all that

561
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Speaker 1: Steve Balmer with the Clippers, all that money, playoff disappointment.

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Speaker 1: Everybody fears money. The both New York teams stink in

563
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Speaker 1: the NFL, though, Giants feel pretty good today. Everybody worries

564
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Speaker 1: about money, and here you got you know, you start

565
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Speaker 1: looking around sports right now. Milwaukee's the best team in baseball.

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Speaker 1: They swept the Dodgers earlier this year. Best team in baseball,

567
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Speaker 1: great bullpen, good starting staff, hit. I'm just telling you,

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Speaker 1: it's a Watching that game last night, everybody speak freaking

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Speaker 1: out in Green Bay and I'm like, these games now

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Speaker 1: where the kickoff comes out to all you need is

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Speaker 1: a is a fifteen yard completion and a penalty and

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Speaker 1: you're in field goal range. I mean, Matt Hasselback talked

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Speaker 1: about that earlier. You get into field goal range now

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Speaker 1: so fast. In the NFL, That's why I think betting

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Speaker 1: the NFL is harder than it's ever been. My last

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Speaker 1: year and a half never been harder. There's so many

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Speaker 1: backdoor covers. I've had three games this year. I thought

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Speaker 1: I had wrapped up. I thought I had the Raiders

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Speaker 1: wrapped up yesterday, and then all of a sudden, you know,

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Speaker 1: That's why I think you're also getting a higher percentage

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Speaker 1: of quarterbacks that can play because they come in with

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Speaker 1: so many snaps out of high school and college and

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Speaker 1: personal coaching, and then the NFL also the kickoffs. Now

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Speaker 1: you get better field position with a kickoffs, So between

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Speaker 1: the elevated quarterback play because of you know, a million reasons,

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Speaker 1: because of there's more great offensive coaches than we've ever had.

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Speaker 1: That's why you're seeing guys like Sam Darnold and Baker

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Speaker 1: Mayfield getting second and third chances and flourishing. And because

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Speaker 1: of you know, I mean that the rules are all

590
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Speaker 1: geared toward the offense. Is that you get these crazy games.

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Speaker 1: And I mean, Micah Parsons, what's the impact I said

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Speaker 1: before in the NFL, there's three things you have to

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Speaker 1: have to be great, great coach, great quarterback, and somebody

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Speaker 1: to protect his backside. What about receivers? What about him?

595
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Speaker 1: How Justin Jefferson knew yesterday. If you don't have the

596
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Speaker 1: quarterback and he didn't have protection, star receivers don't matter.

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Speaker 1: Jamar Chase did not make the playoffs last year. And

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Speaker 1: also at the bottom line is that's why I defended

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys getting a couple of number ones. Cowboys have

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Speaker 1: four number ones in the next two years. That gives

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Speaker 1: them massive flexibility in the draft, massive flexibility with the

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Speaker 1: cap because they're not paying Micah.

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Speaker 5: Cowboys are going to be fine. I like Mike. I

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Speaker 5: thought he was a good fit.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, you start looking around and you got

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Speaker 1: to have a coach, you got to have a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and you got to have somebody to protect the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Outside of that, you don't have to have anything. There's

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Speaker 1: so many different ways to win. Green Bay wins and

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Speaker 1: they're young, Seattle wins, and they're young Kansas City wins.

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Speaker 1: And they can't run the football. Philadelphia's reliant on the

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Speaker 1: run game, can't throw it consistently. There's a million I

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Speaker 1: still think I watched yesterday. I mean, Daniel Jones, he

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Speaker 1: looks like he can play. Daniel Jones Sam Darnold, Baker

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Speaker 1: Mayfield would not have happened fifteen years ago. There weren't

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Speaker 1: that many good offensive coaches, and the league wasn't as

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Speaker 1: quarterback friendly, and the kickoffs didn't come out to the

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Speaker 1: place they come out to now. And now, because the

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Speaker 1: kickers can kick easily from fifty five to fifty eight yards,

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Speaker 1: the whole offense has changed. I mean, I'm I'm sitting

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Speaker 1: there watching you know, Green Bay last night, and I'm

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Speaker 1: watching some of these late games and I'm like, you know,

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Speaker 1: even in college, I'm watching Illinois's got a great kicker.

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Speaker 1: I'm watching Illinois this week, and I'm like, all they

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Speaker 1: have to do is get to the forty yard line.

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Speaker 5: They'll be fine. I mean, the Raiders, it.

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Speaker 1: Got blogged, but the Raiders kicker has been a pro bowler.

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Speaker 1: All they got to get to is a forty yard line.

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Speaker 1: It used to be like thirty two yard.

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Speaker 5: Line was pushing it.

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Speaker 1: You know, then, oh it's a forty nine yeard you

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Speaker 1: wanted to get to, like the twenty eight yard line

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Speaker 1: and that you know that that felt.

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Speaker 5: Like a mid forty yard kick. That's okay.

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Speaker 1: Now it's like fifty eight, fifty seven to me, and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, that depends on the kicker, but I feel

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Speaker 1: pretty comfortable.

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Speaker 5: It used to be outside of about forty three yards.

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Speaker 1: You're like, oh no, I don't know if I feel

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Speaker 1: good about this. So and the big game of the

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Speaker 1: weekend beyond last night was Kansas City dominating Lamar. Matt

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Speaker 1: Hasselbeck came on earlier. It does feel like the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: are in Lamar Jackson. Spags is in Lamar Jackson's head.

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Speaker 8: I think there are some defensive coordinators that they don't

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Speaker 8: feel they don't fear certain great players. Lamar Jackson is

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Speaker 8: no doubt a great player, but for whatever reason, Steve

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Speaker 8: Spagnolo and the Chiefs I don't think they fear him

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Speaker 8: like the rest of the league does. The Chiefs they

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Speaker 8: feel like they've got a system and a game plan

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Speaker 8: that works with the Ravens, and it's tough when it's

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Speaker 8: such a rivalry game, and I wonder, I guess I

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Speaker 8: would wonder if Lamar feels like he's got to put

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Speaker 8: the team on his back when he goes up against

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Speaker 8: the Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 4: That's what I would wonder.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe it's that I do think Lamar is a

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Speaker 1: unique player. I don't think there's any answer ever for

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Speaker 1: Mahomes if he has protection. I don't think there's an

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Speaker 1: answer ever for Josh Allen. I do think their answers

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Speaker 1: for Matt Stafford put pressure on him. I do think

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Speaker 1: their answers for Lamar Jackson not many, and they're not sustainable,

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Speaker 1: usually over three and.

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Speaker 5: A half hours.

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Speaker 1: But there are answers for most quarterbacks, just not Mahomes

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Speaker 1: and Josh Allen pretty much ever, if they have reasonable help.

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's status for Sunday against Houston reportedly in question,

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Speaker 1: may not play.

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Speaker 5: See Tomorrow