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Speaker 2: get in on the conversation onto it. Yeah, yes, everybody.

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Speaker 4: Else, well, you're in any for other reasons.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but why not pile on? Why not just like

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Speaker 2: It's always a free for all when Monty and I

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Speaker 2: one Jason Stewart a happy New Year.

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Speaker 5: To you, Jason, Hello everybody.

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Speaker 2: All right, Chris Purfett is here, He's going to be

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Speaker 2: here for a little while and Iowa Sam takes over.

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Speaker 2: But uh, happy new Year, Chris Purfetz, Happy New Year everyone.

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Speaker 2: And the one and knows only Isaac Lohan Crown is

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Speaker 2: after news desk. Also not an idiot like me and

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Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin. We'll get to that in a sack. But

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Speaker 2: happy New Year, Isaac.

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Speaker 5: It's not easy being low and crazy.

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Speaker 2: That is true. I feel like I have company being

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Speaker 2: an idiot with me and Lane Kiffin. Not for the

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Speaker 2: same reasons, but it sure didn't feel like the ole

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Speaker 2: Miss Rebels missed their old head coach last night and

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Speaker 2: that Sugar Bowl win against Georgia, not.

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Speaker 4: Even a little bit.

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Speaker 3: And I know the first half for ole Miss didn't

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Speaker 3: out of that half they I don't know, I don't

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Speaker 3: know what was said to Trinidad Chamliss, but he was

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Speaker 4: And I just was wondering the whole time, what is

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Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin thinking? What is he doing?

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Speaker 2: I thought the same thing, you know, So what did

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Speaker 2: you think that Lane Kiffin was thinking as he was

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Speaker 2: holding hands with Kim Maulky at the LSU women's basketball

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Speaker 3: You know, I was here with Aaron Torres, who was

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Speaker 3: cheering or like reacting to Trinidad Chambliss every time he

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Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god. And I think Lane

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Speaker 4: Kiffin was like, no, no, no, no, no, drump that ball.

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Speaker 4: That's what I think Lane Kiffen was doing.

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Speaker 2: I think you're absolutely right. And I think that human

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Speaker 2: nature or the good the little devil and the angel

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Speaker 2: talking yeah yeah, the angels like those are your guys,

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Speaker 2: Those are your guys, here for them, and the Devil's like,

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Speaker 2: you got work to do at LSU. They need to lose.

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Speaker 2: Ole Miss is nothing without you. And that's probably the

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Speaker 2: voice that took over in his head. For as much

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Speaker 2: it could really hamper his efforts for getting players in

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Speaker 2: the transfer portal and that whole deal. So I think Ultimately,

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Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin's new job took over in what he wanted

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because he knows what's going to come with that.

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Speaker 3: I feel like he he had a tweet ready or

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Speaker 3: to put all guys, you tried your hardest.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm so proud of you.

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Speaker 3: But instead he couldn't send that tweet and all he

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Speaker 4: Whatever, And it was like, you know, he didn't want

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Speaker 3: That because in reality, like you said, I don't think

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Speaker 4: They did not need him to go out there and

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that there's And you've worked with me

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Speaker 2: The first thing I want to do is say, like,

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Speaker 2: I do with Carry Roads. Yes, let's say I missed

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Speaker 2: and I ask you, Monty, how did this? How did

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Speaker 4: You want me to say it went fine, but we

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Speaker 2: I don't want to hear that it may have been

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Speaker 2: and I may not have been missed at all, but

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Speaker 2: what Lane Kiffin wanted. Land Kiffin wanted to be missed,

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Speaker 2: stay at ole Miss and try to see this run

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Speaker 2: through it's national championship. He made the decision to leave,

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Speaker 2: But I know that in the heart of hearts, he

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Speaker 3: I totally agree that he wanted to be missed, but

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Speaker 3: I think it was something else, not just that he

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Speaker 3: wanted to be missed. Dan he wanted to be right.

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Speaker 3: He said he was leaving because he wanted to go

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Speaker 3: win a championship. So right now you have left a

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Speaker 2: And not only not only did they beat Georgia last night,

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Speaker 2: they avenged the loss from the regular season when they

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Speaker 2: But to the Bulldog's credit, they were able to rebound.

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Speaker 2: Miss story comes to an end and we're all sad. Instead,

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Speaker 3: You did feel like within the two minutes that it

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Speaker 3: the sense of you were running out of time. You know,

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Speaker 3: after this great three third quarter started the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 4: And then they managed to still get the win.

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Speaker 3: And the end of that game, did anyone know what happened?

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Speaker 3: No one knows what happened at the end of that game.

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Speaker 3: It was a stage out three times. Dan, I know

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Speaker 2: It reminds you if you see that TikTok clip where

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Speaker 2: the eighth grade game, and some kids got to like

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Speaker 2: Golding took a picture with his kids, and then they

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Speaker 2: off because they reviewed the backwards pass on the kickoff.

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Speaker 2: That lost a second. Uh uh. By the way, another

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Speaker 2: But we just thought as soon as the one hit

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Speaker 2: is over. Not so fast, my friend, as Lee Corso

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Speaker 2: would say, yeah, Mazi, it took forever. It took like

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Speaker 4: No, it was.

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Speaker 3: It was an awesome ending because it was hilarious as

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Speaker 3: you just saw it unravel like it's over. No it's not,

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Speaker 4: Off this win in a convincing way. They didn't just

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Speaker 3: They won it because they came back exactly, came back.

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Speaker 4: In the second half. They adjusted, and they took you down.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that the Georgia fourth down call wasn't great,

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Speaker 2: intriguing because Manti, I think that you hit it on

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Speaker 2: the head of ole Miss proving Lane Kiffen wrong that

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Speaker 2: think he thinks he can win multiple championships at LSU.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that he thought that he could win

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Speaker 2: I don't know if ole Miss wins that game with

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Speaker 2: there seems to be something else going on with this

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Speaker 2: I feel that there is now that there is something

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Speaker 2: lane kiffen to LSU and transfer to be an LSU Tiger.

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Speaker 2: There are players on ole Miss's team that will do

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Speaker 2: that and get their NIL money. But if lane Kiffin

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Speaker 2: is in the semi finals of the college football Playoff.

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Speaker 2: I think it was his dismissed, his leaving and his

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Speaker 2: I want to bring in Jason Stewart because one of

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Speaker 4: What a win for Ole Miss.

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Speaker 3: But I agree with you that that Oregon Texas Tech game,

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Speaker 4: This meant something. It had no like, no aura, no,

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Speaker 2: It was not cinema. That's what the kids like to say.

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Speaker 2: On a scale of one to one hundred, I gave

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Speaker 2: that in twenty twenty six. She is Mancey Belagio's Dan

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Speaker 2: For a lot of that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and then the night before you know, I'm sorry

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Speaker 2: That's and we're going to dive into that because I

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Speaker 4: Yes this is yeah, you were wrong.

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Speaker 3: But just to Sam's point that I actually think even

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna.

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Speaker 4: Set up Texas Tech. And I couldn't tell.

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Speaker 6: You one thing that happened in that game that was

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Speaker 4: I couldn't tell you one play that stood out in

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Speaker 3: I could see Fanana Mendoza making throws in the third quarter,

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Speaker 4: I don't remember anything of it. Even though the other

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Speaker 3: Had moments, it was so it's so different even though

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Speaker 2: The only thing worse than not being in on the

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Speaker 2: Like when you hear everybody got together it was a

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Speaker 2: I'm there. We covered that earlier. I feel like I'm

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Speaker 4: I absolutely have been all about it all season.

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Speaker 2: And this is coming from someone who's never really had

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Speaker 4: I have vacation in that world.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, just take twelve weeks in the in the fall. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: maybe maybe into January.

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Speaker 3: I don't have any real estate, you know what I'm saying, Like,

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Speaker 4: Yes, I have a grand time.

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Speaker 2: I think Jason Stewart you're kind of in that same boat.

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Speaker 2: I know that you're like you'll pull for the Syracuse

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Speaker 5: And I'm an adopted old miss for these playoffs. And

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Speaker 5: I think. And Kurt Signetti said something yesterday that I'd

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Speaker 2: this is what happened. This is what happened. I submitted

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Speaker 2: And Kurt Signetti said, and this feeds into my pet peeve.

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Speaker 2: It would be one hell of a movie. And then

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Speaker 1: Who would stars Kurt Signetti in the movie?

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Speaker 7: I don't know about that one, but there'd be a lot.

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Speaker 7: There'd be a big cast of characters. Because it's all

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Speaker 7: There's been a lot of first It is kind of surreal.

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Speaker 7: There's no doubt about it. I understand why there's been

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Speaker 2: Poo poo pooh.

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Speaker 1: And perfectly said Kurk, congratulations.

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Speaker 5: Now, good, good for him, good for Signetty. And I

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Speaker 5: Would it be a hell of a movie just for

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Speaker 2: No, And they couldn't call it Hoosiers, like so like

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Speaker 2: Reese Davis. I think that Reese Davis is as good

437
00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:11,520
Speaker 2: at his job as anybody else that does that job

438
00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,840
Speaker 2: in sports media. That was an awful follow up question.

439
00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:18,720
Speaker 2: And good on Signetti for taking the wheel and bringing

440
00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,639
Speaker 2: it back, because I'm sure he was caught off guard

441
00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:25,840
Speaker 2: by the whole movie. But it's Pasadena, it's Hollywood, it's

442
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,840
Speaker 2: la it's the whole deal, and so you're playing into

443
00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:32,800
Speaker 2: that by Signetti saying what he did and then to

444
00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,399
Speaker 2: ask him who would play him in that role just

445
00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:40,879
Speaker 2: completely derailed. It was an eighteen car trail train derailment

446
00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,960
Speaker 2: with that question. But Signetti brought it back on track.

447
00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,919
Speaker 5: I mean, it's under the umbrella of the thing that

448
00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,800
Speaker 5: I really can't stand, which is the old cliche that

449
00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:51,640
Speaker 5: writers go to and that reporters go to, and you'll

450
00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,560
Speaker 5: hear athletes say it that Hollywood would never be able

451
00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,880
Speaker 5: to write this story. You always hear that as an

452
00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:01,600
Speaker 5: exaggeration of just a routine short story. And I'll always

453
00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:03,600
Speaker 5: say this, and I'll put a button on this, this

454
00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,280
Speaker 5: portion of this. They made a movie about a snail

455
00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:12,399
Speaker 5: that won the ND five hundred. It's called Turbo. You

456
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,199
Speaker 5: could watch it. Maybe it was a good movie. But

457
00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,920
Speaker 5: once you've made that movie, I don't think any athlete

458
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:22,160
Speaker 5: or sports announcer could ever say that Hollywood writers would.

459
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,880
Speaker 5: They would kick you out of the room if you proposed.

460
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:25,520
Speaker 2: This, right.

461
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, Nowadays, with the movies and shows that come out,

462
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:29,680
Speaker 3: anything is possible.

463
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:33,919
Speaker 4: Right now, I understand that there is no real stakes.

464
00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:35,600
Speaker 3: If you were to make a movie about Indiana, but

465
00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,000
Speaker 3: I do think it can be done.

466
00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,680
Speaker 4: And Brad Pitt would play Kurt Signetti. There we go.

467
00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:41,920
Speaker 2: You got Chad Pitt.

468
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,120
Speaker 3: I just think that he is maybe a smidge young,

469
00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 3: but you know, with the little makeup and whatnot.

470
00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:49,359
Speaker 2: I wish they were around the same age. Actually, I

471
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,840
Speaker 2: wish you would have said, Sidney Sweeney. I wish that

472
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:55,480
Speaker 2: would have been his answer. That would have shown so good.

473
00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 2: That would have been how dumb is this question?

474
00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:57,720
Speaker 6: Was?

475
00:21:58,080 --> 00:21:59,120
Speaker 4: Yes, that would have been.

476
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:03,119
Speaker 3: But I think like there's just such bad movies and

477
00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:05,760
Speaker 3: television out there that it may be better than you

478
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,960
Speaker 3: think a story about well.

479
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. Never there's never like Hollywood's never made

480
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:14,400
Speaker 2: like an underdog story. I never like never like never

481
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 2: has happened.

482
00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,640
Speaker 4: But this isn't an underdog according to me. People they're

483
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,239
Speaker 4: not an under now, they're not. They spent a lot

484
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:21,439
Speaker 4: of money, they should be here.

485
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,639
Speaker 2: Yes, but you also do have the right people. There

486
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,200
Speaker 2: are people who spend a lot of money and you're

487
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,040
Speaker 2: not the right people, and it doesn't work, and like,

488
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,119
Speaker 2: this is this is the portion. I'm glad that you

489
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 2: said that, because this is the portion where I feel

490
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:33,919
Speaker 2: like I'm an idiot and I feel like I'm an

491
00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:40,200
Speaker 2: outsider as someone who is admittingly an Ohio State football fan,

492
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 2: I cannot jump on the Indiana bandwigon. But it took

493
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:50,400
Speaker 2: what happened yesterday and really what happened on New Year's

494
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,200
Speaker 2: Eve night with Ohio State losing for me to realize

495
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 2: why I was an idiot on New Year's Eve afternoon

496
00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:01,439
Speaker 2: when I said it would be a failure and it

497
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 2: would be an awful situation for college football if you

498
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 2: had Indiana, Miami, Ole, miss In Texas Tech winning games.

499
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,919
Speaker 2: Three of those four things happened, and now as we

500
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:18,760
Speaker 2: see here on January twenty, January second of twenty twenty six. Honestly, Manci,

501
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 2: I feel embarrassed for myself because I feel it was

502
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,360
Speaker 2: an elitist take. I feel it was one coming from

503
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 2: a spot that did not see other places. And I know,

504
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 2: in this world of hot take and people want you

505
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 2: to argue and disagree the whole time, I am here

506
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 2: admitting my wrongs that this bracket probably couldn't have gotten

507
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,639
Speaker 2: any better from what transpired yesterday and what transpired on

508
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve night. Sure you love the brands, and

509
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 2: maybe that's the problem with college football is that there

510
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,240
Speaker 2: are too many big brands we talk about the blue bloods,

511
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 2: we talk about all the jobs there are, you know,

512
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,640
Speaker 2: six or seven jobs you can't turn down in college football.

513
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 2: Maybe that's the problem with it. Maybe that's the problem

514
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,200
Speaker 2: that we're all so sick of Alabama. As an Ohio

515
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 2: State fan, I knew ninety percent of the country was

516
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 2: rooting for Miami on New Year's Eve night and the

517
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 2: ten percent were We're Ohio State fans, Like that's that's

518
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 2: the reality of it. Maybe we were sick of Clemson

519
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 2: in the runs that they made, like we needed something

520
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 2: new and we needed something different, and that was a

521
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 2: blind spot for me. And now in seeing how things transpired,

522
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:28,160
Speaker 2: seeing link Kiffin, levele miss and things that they didn't

523
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 2: have a shot against Georgia because I just thought Georgia

524
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 2: was the better team, Georgia had the better players. That

525
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 2: wasn't the case. And I feel that's why I'm an idiot.

526
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 2: So my wife doesn't have to still be on hold

527
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 2: for an hour, Like I fully admit that I was

528
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 2: an idiot because I felt my view was so narrowed.

529
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 2: I can't jump on the Indiana bandwagon. There's no way

530
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 2: that that's happening. I don't care who now wins the

531
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:55,919
Speaker 2: college Football Playoff Championship. But I can recognize, and it

532
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 2: really took old miss to do it, but I can

533
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 2: recognize how these stories have given new life to college football.

534
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 3: You know, I think Dan, a lot of people actually

535
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 3: probably saw the situation like you did. Not that they

536
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 3: were Ohio State fans, but maybe they were the Georgia fans,

537
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,640
Speaker 3: the Alabama fans, the Oregon fans, right, I think.

538
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 4: They saw it the way you did it that you

539
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 4: did as well.

540
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 3: And it's people like me and Jason from the outside

541
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 3: that have not looked at it, not looked at it

542
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 3: with blinders because we don't have a team, so we're

543
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 3: kind of just kind of for the fun ride. We

544
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 3: hear this story, we see this game, we watch this person,

545
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 3: this player, this coach, and we're like, of course, I

546
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 3: just think we see it from a different perspective. And

547
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,879
Speaker 3: then now with nil, basically like if you can spend money,

548
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:46,400
Speaker 3: which we see some more teams are doing that, it's

549
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:51,160
Speaker 3: even in the playing field. Maybe spending money has made

550
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,160
Speaker 3: it okay now in college football, right because now there

551
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 3: aren't these teams that are just so dominant that it's

552
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:58,879
Speaker 3: clear as day that you are gonna move on to

553
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 3: the next round. I think that's actually a really good

554
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 3: thing for college football, because when NIL first opened up,

555
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:06,919
Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, this is bad idea.

556
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:07,640
Speaker 4: This is going to go about.

557
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 3: And I know there's still some parts of it that

558
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 3: I think need to be fixed and whatnot, but clearly

559
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,399
Speaker 3: the playing field has even out for the teams that

560
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 3: can spend money, for the schools that can spend money

561
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 3: and can actually do this. But I think a lot

562
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 3: of people actually felt like you did, Like real college

563
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 3: football fans that have been around for years and.

564
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 4: Years, I feel like they looked at it the way

565
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 4: you did.

566
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 2: I want to get to I know Jason wants in

567
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 2: on this. I do want to say. One thing is

568
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,199
Speaker 2: I also thought that last year's semi final, where you

569
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 2: had these established programs of Texas, Ohio State, Penn State,

570
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 2: Notre Dame, that that's what that's what you wanted in

571
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 2: college football. You wanted those four teams. And I thought

572
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 2: last year's playoff was good, Like Texas Ohio State maybe

573
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,880
Speaker 2: wasn't a great played game, but it was dramatic. Penn

574
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 2: State and Notre Dame was a low scoring affair, and

575
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 2: Notre Dame at a heck of a comeback against Ohio

576
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,679
Speaker 2: State in the National Championship game, just couldn't complete the

577
00:26:57,680 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 2: deal in Ohio State ends up winning. But you had

578
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,679
Speaker 2: those four big brands, and I thought, Wow, that's what

579
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 2: the committee, that's what the fans would want to pick

580
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 2: if we could pick it. And I couldn't have been

581
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 2: more wrong, Jason.

582
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 5: I just think what Monsi said is so true. Like

583
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 5: I think for us kind of casual fans, I follow

584
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 5: college football just because I'm in the industry, just because

585
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,919
Speaker 5: I need to. But like, there are so many people

586
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 5: and you have to think about it. This is like

587
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 5: a symptom of our industry. There are so many people

588
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 5: with takes and they make their predictions, and when the

589
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 5: predictions don't come right, they're like really bitter about things.

590
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,919
Speaker 5: I just felt in the last forty eight hours a

591
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,120
Speaker 5: lot of those people that make predictions, that think they

592
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,120
Speaker 5: know college football so well, and they were making these

593
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 5: absolute takes after the playoffs, seating all this stuff, they

594
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 5: were just kind of groveling the last couple of days.

595
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 5: It was kind of fun to watch and then most

596
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 5: of us I think that and this is good for

597
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 5: college football. By the way, the people that are just

598
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 5: kind of tuning in now, are like this is fun. Yeah,

599
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 5: like that was really fun.

600
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 2: You know. Yeah. I think Ole miss put a lot,

601
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 2: you know, a lot of fun into it last night.

602
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 2: The Indiana story. The thing that I can't get over

603
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 2: with Indiana is it just gets better and better.

604
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 4: It's crazy.

605
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 2: So like last year, like them making the playoff as

606
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 2: it was, and then they lose to Notre Dame. That

607
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 2: could have been the high point. That could have been

608
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 2: the high point of kurtent Signetti's time in Bloomington, and

609
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 2: we would have said, remember when he took him to

610
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,360
Speaker 2: the college football playoffs, like Indiana a top ten team,

611
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 2: imagine that. So then their run this year of being undefeated,

612
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 2: of winning at Oregon, a, beating Ohio State in the

613
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 2: Big Ten title game, and then going to the Rose Bowl.

614
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 2: So just to see Indiana's name in the Rose Bowl

615
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 2: as something the end zone that we hadn't seen, to

616
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 2: see not only them beat in Alabama but dismantled Alabama,

617
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 2: and I thought that Alabama is not the same as

618
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 2: it once was, and I think that it was evidence

619
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 2: last night. But to see how they took that Alabama

620
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 2: team apart, and we're just better than they are, Like

621
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 2: it just it keeps on getting better for Indiana and

622
00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 2: now I'm like sitting then, like it when when does it?

623
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 2: When does the bottom fall out? Because it does for

624
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 2: every college football program except one, and now that may

625
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 2: be the one where it never does.

626
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 3: And we haven't even mentioned Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman winner,

627
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 3: and what he's doing and his interviews and how fun

628
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 3: he is and goofy and like how he's winning over people.

629
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 3: I feel like just by how he comes across, like

630
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 3: there's nothing negative to be said about Fernando Mendoza.

631
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 4: Chris Signetti you could argue if you wanted to.

632
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 2: Or Francisco Mendoza. I think Jason would agree.

633
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a good one.

634
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, Iowa Sam, I am curious from your perspective. I'm

635
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 2: also curious from Isaac's perspective as well. I feel Isaac

636
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 2: very neutral despite the USC UCLA roots that run through

637
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 2: his house. I want to start with you, Iowa Sam,

638
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 2: though as an Iowa fan, being familiar with Indiana, how

639
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 2: not just Indiana, but even this final four? Do you

640
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 2: enjoy this final four? Do you like these matchups? How

641
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 2: have you taken this all in?

642
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 6: I'm blown away by like, I just I don't know.

643
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 6: Kurt Signetti has this magic potion for just turning in

644
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 6: the program into exactly what he wants in the last

645
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 6: two years, so that's been unbelievable.

646
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 2: Are you wrapped up in it? Like, do you want

647
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 2: Indiana to win it all?

648
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 6: I'm like it went from Indiana when Kurt Signetti started.

649
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 6: I looked at like their jerseys, their colors, their emblem,

650
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 6: and I'm like, it's Indiana now.

651
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 2: I'm like, I look at it. I looked at them differently,

652
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 2: I really do.

653
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 6: I'm like, they're like a power and it's because of

654
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Speaker 6: Kurt Signetti because I really don't know much about their players.

655
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Speaker 6: I know he got a lot of he took a

656
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Speaker 6: lot of players with him from James Madison. But I'm like,

657
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 6: even those guys, how are they this good? They're supposed

658
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Speaker 6: that was a James Madison was an FCS team up

659
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Speaker 6: until a few years ago, and they've been in the

660
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Speaker 6: FBS and then you know, they made the playoff, and

661
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 6: there must be something magical about James Madison. But to

662
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 6: like watch Indiana for years and years be occasionally get

663
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Speaker 6: to a bowl game, you know, and win a bowl game,

664
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Speaker 6: maybe go like eight and five or nine and four

665
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 6: is like a really really good year for them for

666
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Speaker 6: them to just like they've I mean there's for them

667
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Speaker 6: to go, did you even better than last year?

668
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Speaker 2: It's just even more mindful. Yeah, Indiana has something that

669
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 2: not every college team has, and that's dudes. Like they

670
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 2: have got guys like there's you. You can look at

671
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 2: a college roster and be like they got great kids,

672
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 2: and you can look at a college roster and be like,

673
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 2: they got great guys, and they're different because these are

674
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 2: these are men, These are big, big guys like Charlie

675
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Speaker 2: Becker just posting someone up in the end zone on

676
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 2: a post route like like they've got there. The physical

677
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 2: nature of their players has such an effect as well

678
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Speaker 2: that matches the top programs in the country. Isaac kind

679
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Speaker 2: of from a Switzerland neutral point of view, I'm not

680
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Speaker 2: sure if he's got any interest, but uh, actually he's

681
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 2: tied up. But I think that the neutral people, the

682
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 2: neutral people are sitting there saying, yeah, I'm I'm along

683
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 2: for the ride, whether it be Ole, miss, whether it

684
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Speaker 2: be Indiana in those scenarios.

685
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Speaker 4: Whether it be Miami. I think unless you were.

686
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Speaker 2: This is yes, this on the side. This is my

687
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 2: point about yesterday is so Miami. Of when Miami beats

688
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Speaker 2: Ohio State, Miami, it's not like Miami's a likable program,

689
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,719
Speaker 2: like Michael Irvin was not disliked during his playing career,

690
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 2: Like who likes the cowboys? Right? Then he's winning and

691
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 2: then he's dancing in your face. Now he's he's doing

692
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 2: his dances. He's wearing that same long sleeved you know,

693
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Speaker 2: University of Miami Hurricane shirt. He's doing his belt.

694
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he did that just to show his abs. Did

695
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 4: you see his abs?

696
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Speaker 2: Of course that's why he did that.

697
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Speaker 4: That was I was like, oh, that's why you're taking

698
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 4: your shirt off, got it.

699
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Speaker 2: But it's also why I think and I think that

700
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Speaker 2: Ohio State's probably the most disliked brand in college football

701
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 2: right now. Alabama was probably up there. I think Notre

702
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 2: Dame is up there. But it's why people could rally

703
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 2: behind Miami and and a a strutting Michael Irvin. Ray

704
00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 2: Lewis was the subdued one on the sidelin. It's like,

705
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,719
Speaker 2: when does that ever happened? But that's what happens when

706
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 2: you get Michael Irvin on the sidelines of the you

707
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 2: and it's an upset Carson Beck, let's be real, probably

708
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 2: not one of the most likable quarterbacks. That's something that

709
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 2: you're warming up tos like, and here he comes in

710
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 2: and he's bulldozing Ohio State safeties trying to get first downs.

711
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 2: Like people are warming up to that because they also

712
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 2: beat the defending national champions, and so all of that

713
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 2: taken into account, I think has made it very, very

714
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Speaker 2: good for college football.

715
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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

716
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Speaker 3: I don't know what's happening on those sidelines, but I

717
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 3: feel like they hate just so you know, they hate

718
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Speaker 3: from like Ohio State and like those schools that have dominated.

719
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Speaker 3: It's more of a hate because of the domination with

720
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Speaker 3: like Miami. It's it's like the other stuff as to

721
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Speaker 3: why people are annoyed by them, you know what I mean.

722
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's very different. It's very different.

723
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Speaker 2: I think that I think people hate Ohio State's fan

724
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 2: base more than they actually hate Ohio State. I think

725
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 2: people probably don't like Michael Irvin doing that stuff on

726
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 2: most days and being cocky and being show voting, because

727
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,959
Speaker 2: that's all Miami was. They were the you, they were

728
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 2: the outlaws, the all of that stuff. They were the

729
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 2: team that you wanted to be but couldn't be. I

730
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 2: think all of that plays into why you would dislike

731
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Speaker 2: a team. Do you think that the fan base, though

732
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Speaker 2: of Ohio State, makes people go to the other side?

733
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Speaker 2: I felt that when I saw social media on how

734
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 2: many people were excited about what happened with Miami beating

735
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Speaker 2: Ohio State on New Year's Eve, and there were just

736
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Speaker 2: as many people happy for Indiana to beat Alabama and

737
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 2: happy for Ole Miss to beat Georgia. That's what I

738
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Speaker 2: got the sense of.

739
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Fox Sports Radio had the best sports talk lineup

740
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741
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742
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Speaker 2: Junning us now, fresh off of a New Year celebration

743
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Speaker 2: and a great day of college football. Former Buccaneers GM

744
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Speaker 2: Mark Dominic joins us here on Fox Sports Radio. Hey Mark,

745
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 2: Happy New Year.

746
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Speaker 8: How are you happy New Year? I'm great, looking forward

747
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 8: to some more football over the next couple of days

748
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 8: as well.

749
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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's how much do you watch what transpire yesterday?

750
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 2: I know there's an NFL I but obviously some of

751
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 2: these guys are going to be in the NFL at

752
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 2: some point in there in their lives. How do you

753
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 2: watch a New Year's Day tripleheader with the top quality

754
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 2: of football that we had yesterday.

755
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Speaker 8: Well, you know, it's hard. Sometimes I'm able to keep

756
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 8: myself and plant down in front of a TV and

757
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 8: watch the entire thing and just enjoy it. And sometimes

758
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 8: I'm able to catch pieces of it. I'm not going

759
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 8: to be acting like I watched something I didn't see,

760
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 8: but I was able to watch a lot more of

761
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 8: the I'd say the old Miss Georgia game that that

762
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 8: was the one that probably put the most time into.

763
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Speaker 8: But we've got four teams in here that you know,

764
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Speaker 8: I've seen all season long, and you know, I don't know,

765
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Speaker 8: you know, I find it fascinating what Saban said about Miami.

766
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 8: It seems to be coming true how dangerous they may be.

767
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 8: But I'm just I don't think anybody really understands how

768
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 8: good Indiana really is because it just feels so out

769
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Speaker 8: of place.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Mark, Happy New Year. Let's start here with Trinidad.

771
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Speaker 3: Chambliss, what do you see as maybe this ceiling for him?

772
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Speaker 4: Or does he go to the NFL.

773
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Speaker 3: I know he's trying to get another year of eligibility,

774
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Speaker 3: but what do you see in Trinidad Chambliss.

775
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

776
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Speaker 8: So I think he's a very exciting football player to

777
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 8: watch when you when you watch him and just what

778
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 8: he's able to do for Old Miss it has been

779
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,800
Speaker 8: amazing for his you know, production and him just tossing

780
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 8: the ball around the field. I really you know, I

781
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 8: like that he's coming here from where it was Fairs State,

782
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 8: if I remember, Yeah, and be really played exceptionally well.

783
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Speaker 8: And what I love about what he's done was the

784
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 8: fact that his touchdown interception ratio is so strong. Right,

785
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 8: just the three turnovers this year, that has been a

786
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 8: big piece of why he's been so effective. He just

787
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 8: doesn't turn the ball over and he's still running the

788
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 8: ball effectively as well. I hope he gets one more year.

789
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Speaker 8: I don't think it's a bad thing for to play

790
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 8: one more college football. He's still only twenty three years old,

791
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 8: and knowing that, you know, if you get into this

792
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 8: league and play for a long time, you could play

793
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 8: your mid thirties, late thirties as we're seeing now. So

794
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 8: it'd be great for him to see another season to

795
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 8: kind of build on what he's done. But if he

796
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 8: decides to make the jump, you know, I feel like

797
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 8: people are going to enjoy getting to know him from

798
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Speaker 8: a character standpoint.

799
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Speaker 2: I've already started to hear it. Mark Dominic joining us

800
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 2: here on Fox Sports Radio. She's Monte Bolanos. I'm Dan Beyer.

801
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 2: Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner, Indiana's number one. They're

802
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 2: rolling on possible potential number one overall pick. When you

803
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Speaker 2: see a guy like Mendoza, does he have the qualities

804
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 2: of someone that you would want to take number one overall?

805
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Speaker 8: Well, fields like it, right, I mean, everything seems to

806
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 8: be coming together in terms of like his production and

807
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 8: his play and obviously what he's done, you know, with

808
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 8: the Maxwell Award and the Walter Campi He's won just

809
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 8: about every award you can win, right, So he's kind of,

810
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 8: you know, checked the box there. I think the big

811
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 8: thing for me is just getting to know the player.

812
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 8: I think what you like about him is that every

813
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 8: year he's improved, whether it's completion percentages, yards, touchdowns, et cetera.

814
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 8: He's gotten better and better and better, and that's what

815
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 8: you like to see in any player. He's certainly got

816
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 8: a lot of production and a lot of play time

817
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,359
Speaker 8: underneath his belt, which makes you feel good. With three

818
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 8: full seasons in that regard in terms of cal and

819
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 8: then obviously Indiana this year. You know, the thing that

820
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 8: and I've talked about this a little bit is is

821
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Speaker 8: getting to know the character of the kid kind of

822
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 8: like what we just talked about is the time you

823
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 8: can spend with them to understand what makes them tick

824
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 8: and how do they tick and how do they handle

825
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 8: the locker room. And it's not just meaning the quarterbacks guys, right,

826
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Speaker 8: it's also just talking to the coaching staff, the equipment staff,

827
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 8: the trainers, the other players on the team and getting

828
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 8: a sense of what is mendo what's he like as

829
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 8: a leader, who did he hang out with, who are

830
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 8: his best friends on the team. All those things kind

831
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,280
Speaker 8: of come together to find out is the guy worthy

832
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 8: of being you know, this number one pick over all

833
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 8: the draft, and we're going to get to know about that.

834
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 8: But Mendoz has certainly put himself in a great position

835
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Speaker 8: so far.

836
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Speaker 3: Let's shift gears here and go to the NFL. Some

837
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 3: divisions are still up for grabs NFC South Panthers and Buccaneers.

838
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 3: Can you pinpoint the what happened in the downfall with

839
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay this year?

840
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's an amazing drop. And it's just been shocking

841
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,280
Speaker 8: to me to watch this team that started the season

842
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 8: so strong and now they're not even in control of

843
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 8: their own destiny. And that's that's you know, that's amazing

844
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 8: because they at that buy, I think there were six

845
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 8: and two at the buy and they've only won one

846
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,399
Speaker 8: game since, and you know, it's been I think, very

847
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 8: frustrated organizationally. I mean, they've had four straight losses in

848
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 8: a row of under you know, four or less points

849
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 8: and any one of those turn and this is a

850
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 8: little bit different of the season. It's hard for me

851
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 8: to really point the but I think it's the offensive,

852
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 8: you know, just the offensive. And I don't want to

853
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 8: just put on the coordinator, but certainly the pieces of

854
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 8: the offense. It doesn't feel like it's you know, functioning

855
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 8: the way it had over the last couple of years.

856
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 8: Hence that's why those two guys have gone on to

857
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 8: be head coaches. You think about the Buccaneers last year,

858
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 8: and they were averaging almost thirty points a game, especially

859
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 8: down the stretch. They were crushing it. You know, this year,

860
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 8: when you look at them, they're averaging closer to that

861
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 8: twenty two to twenty four points a game and the touchdowns,

862
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 8: you know, the difference between them winning the last four games, right,

863
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 8: So I think it's just, you know, you can have

864
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 8: the same players, but play calling is an art and

865
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 8: it takes time and it's hard to do, and it's

866
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 8: a lot harder to do when you're in the boot

867
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Speaker 8: than when you're on the couch because you're like, oh,

868
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Speaker 8: we always run, but you're like, you got to set

869
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Speaker 8: up the run. So I do think it's in the

870
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Speaker 8: offense whether they've learned enough and feel comfortable keep moving forward.

871
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 8: I don't see a big change. I don't see Todd

872
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 8: Bowles being let go. That's to me, having worked for

873
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 8: the Glazers and nineteen years there. I think maybe they

874
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 8: would make a change of coordinator potentially, but I think

875
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 8: that would be the only real change I think, because

876
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 8: I think when you look at the roster from an

877
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 8: offensive standpoint, and Mike Evan's not being around this year

878
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 8: with his injury certainly is a big piece of that too.

879
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 2: Mark Dominic joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, he

880
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 2: said it himself, twenty years more than twenty years in

881
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Speaker 2: NFL front Office's former GM of the Buccaneers joining Monci

882
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Speaker 2: Bolanios and myself Dan Byer. Here on Fox Sports Radio,

883
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers admitted that he's got options coming up. Also

884
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 2: admitted that maybe not as many options as others or

885
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 2: options that he once had, but he is going to

886
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Speaker 2: be a free agent. Do you think playing in twenty

887
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 2: twenty six is a realistic possibility for these now Steelers quarterback?

888
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,839
Speaker 8: I actually don't. I think he's done. I think this

889
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,879
Speaker 8: is his last run. My gut instinct is this is

890
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,800
Speaker 8: Aaron's final role through the National Football League and hopefully,

891
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 8: you know, for him and for the Steelers organization, they

892
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 8: get to go to the postseason with it and see

893
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 8: what he can do. But it just feels like to me,

894
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 8: every year feels harder, longer, tougher, and when you think

895
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 8: about his stats and his legacy, at least you know,

896
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 8: he feels like he's riding out on a much more

897
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 8: Aaron Rodgers type of season. I know the yards aren't

898
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 8: there like he's used to, but the touchdowns, the interceptions,

899
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 8: the ability to be in the postseason or potential to

900
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 8: put them in the postseason all as part of it.

901
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 8: I think with the loss, I think I'm certain he's retired.

902
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 8: I think with the win. It's just kind of the

903
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 8: only thing would be is how far can they get

904
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 8: in the postseason? If that gets the adrenaline going. But

905
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,479
Speaker 8: I truly believe that this is Aaron's last year.

906
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 3: What do you think happens with Daniel Jones and the Colts?

907
00:41:55,719 --> 00:42:00,040
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think there's a great story. I think you

908
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 8: can find common ground there in terms of, uh, some

909
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 8: type of a deal. Maybe it's it's it's something a

910
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 8: little bit obviously like a Baker Mayfield mindset. It's going

911
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 8: to be a big beast is you know, and I

912
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 8: assume that you know, the GM the head coach will

913
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 8: both be back. But I think it's going to be

914
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,359
Speaker 8: in that range where they're gonna they're gonna look and say, hey,

915
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 8: how can we how can we rework this contract? And

916
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 8: I know it's just that what was a one year,

917
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 8: fourteen million dollars deal?

918
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 2: You know.

919
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 8: I think the agent and that the player both would

920
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 8: be wise to kind of stay where they are for

921
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 8: another year, uh and and just kind of build on

922
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,479
Speaker 8: it and continue to build on continuity instead of change,

923
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 8: change change for the sake of change. He's gotten money

924
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Speaker 8: in his pocket. I mean, he's made what one hundred

925
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 8: and twenty million dollars in his career ready. So this

926
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Speaker 8: is about Daniel Jones making the right career move, and

927
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 8: I think the right career move for him is a

928
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Speaker 8: stay put. So I think you find something that's built

929
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Speaker 8: with incentives, you're going to have to get that number,

930
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 8: probably the twenty five to thirty in the base just

931
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 8: because of the quarterback position. But I think you can

932
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 8: build a lot more into time snaps, touchdowns, you know, postseason,

933
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,320
Speaker 8: all those things to build it up to a more reasonable,

934
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 8: you know, one year deal potentially, to see what you

935
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 8: can do. I'd like to do a one year deal

936
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 8: from the coast to make sure I believe in what

937
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 8: I've seen it stay healthy, and I think for Daniel Jones,

938
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Speaker 8: a one year deal you know, gives him, you know,

939
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 8: more stability, but a chiefs to bite that apple. Really

940
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Speaker 8: in twenty twenty seven.

941
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 2: I think it's so intriguing on so many different levels

942
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:28,720
Speaker 2: because I mean, there's there's no guarantee he's one hundred

943
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 2: percent from from this injury next season. You also have

944
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson, who you've given opportunities to so much, and

945
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,320
Speaker 2: then now he doesn't seem a part of your future.

946
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 2: But you're probably not going to pick up his fifth

947
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 2: year option. I wouldn't think that you would if you're Indianapolis.

948
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 2: But I have no idea what the future of Richardson is.

949
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 2: But it's also in a way mark where Jones may

950
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 2: have been sought you know, sought after throughout the league

951
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 2: if he was fully healthy, and now the Chiefs get him.

952
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,360
Speaker 2: Just the whole scenario to me is I have no

953
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 2: idea where they're going to find this middle ground, and

954
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,839
Speaker 2: with all the other pieces moving around, that's why I

955
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 2: just I find it fascinating in Indianapolis.

956
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 8: No, I do too, And again, if I'm the Colts,

957
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 8: if I can build something with a lot of I

958
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 8: know this contray has some incentive bases also, but you know,

959
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 8: build something with playtime percentage, build something with wins, build

960
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 8: something with postseason, and be able to put something in

961
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Speaker 8: front of Daniel Jones that could get to you know,

962
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,280
Speaker 8: forty forty five, maybe even up to fifty million dollars

963
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 8: based off of you know, if you can take us

964
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 8: to the Super Bowl and win it. Sure, I think

965
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 8: every owner's sign up for that. But I think at

966
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 8: the same point to your point, ideally for the Colts

967
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 8: is like I I'd rather, you know, I'm happy to

968
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 8: pay more in a year from now to prove that

969
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 8: you can stay on the football field and you can

970
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 8: do this again. The sad thing for Daniel Jones is

971
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 8: besides his rookie year, he's still never thrown for more

972
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 8: than what twenty touchdowns and only his rookie year, So

973
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:55,439
Speaker 8: he hasn't done anything to say, hey, let's get over

974
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 8: the top and let's just go make this payday. And

975
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 8: so I think that the both sides really really need

976
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 8: to understand that the best move truly is for him

977
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 8: just to stay put one more year, build on what

978
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 8: he's learned, stay in the same system, and then you know,

979
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 8: in twenty twenty seven you become a free agent or

980
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 8: you know, the tag is right around the corner.

981
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 2: It's Friday, Black Monday is coming up fast. Sometimes it's

982
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 2: black Sunday night after after some of these games. Do

983
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 2: you have a ballpark number on how many vacancies that

984
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 2: we could see coming up after Sunday's games.

985
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 8: Yes, It's it's tough because there's there's some teams out

986
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 8: there that you know, obviously have already made changes. I do.

987
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:39,839
Speaker 8: I do think the Raiders will be one and done.

988
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 8: I do feel like that's going to be Pete Carroll's

989
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 8: going to be in Peek Carroll will be out. Yep,

990
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 8: nothing against Pete Carroll specifically, but it's just, you know,

991
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 8: I just don't see the future there, and I think

992
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 8: you want a younger coach to jump in there and

993
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 8: kind of be the Tomlins, so to speak, or the

994
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 8: John Horbaugh where he's going to be there for you know,

995
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 8: you're looking for the fifteen twenty year coach and that's

996
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 8: what you're hoping to find. And I think there's some

997
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 8: really interesting younger coaches that are coming through the systems

998
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 8: right now. My guy. You usually we see what six

999
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,879
Speaker 8: to eight total openings. I feel like we're gonna get

1000
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 8: the lower end of that. You know, a lot of

1001
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 8: people are clamoring for m Morris. I think he holds

1002
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 8: on for another season, you know, those kind of jobs.

1003
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 8: I have a feeling I think Arizona probably stays put

1004
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 8: is just because of Kyler Murray in that situation. So

1005
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,319
Speaker 8: I don't feel like we're going to see quite as

1006
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 8: much extreme, but I still think we'll probably be you know,

1007
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 8: when it's also and done, probably at least six openings.

1008
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,280
Speaker 2: Well, we'll find out next week and we'll be talking

1009
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 2: about those openings because they likely will be open when

1010
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 2: we talk to you next Mark, We appreciate it. Enjoy

1011
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 2: Week eighteen and Happy New Year. Thanks so much, Happy

1012
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 2: New Year.

1013
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 8: Thanks for having me on.

1014
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 2: Guys. She's Manti Blanios, I'm Dan Byer. It is Fox

1015
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 2: Sports Radio. I think about five or six. There's there's

1016
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Speaker 2: all these also these rumblings about if the Browns end

1017
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 2: up making a move with Kevin Stefanski land somewhere, and

1018
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 2: then if the Browns make a move, would would Cleveland

1019
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 2: be interested? And maybe Mike McDaniel of Miami something that

1020
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 2: we'll get into. But I would say six, if I

1021
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 2: were to put a number on it, I would say

1022
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:14,479
Speaker 2: six head coaches get relieved of their duties. He said

1023
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 2: the low of six or eight. I thought about a

1024
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 2: handful plus one, So I'm saying six.

1025
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,839
Speaker 4: Just scanning through it, I feel like he.

1026
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 2: Six got you already.

1027
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, raiders, he thinks I agree, agree, I agree with

1028
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 4: that one.

1029
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 2: Jason Stewart is thinking and j E. T s Jets

1030
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 2: Jets Jets. I hope so as as an opening, I think.

1031
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 4: That hasn't opening.

1032
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 3: I do really think that maybe Arizona I agree.

1033
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 2: I side with you. Mark thinks said Jonathan Gannon is safe.

1034
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 2: I don't think that that is the case.

1035
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 4: I don't think so either.

1036
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 3: And I know, I know two people have already told

1037
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 3: me that Todd Bowles isn't going anywhere. And I don't

1038
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 3: know how Tampa Bay does not look at the situation

1039
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 3: just like, yeah, I don't know, I don't know.

1040
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 2: I think Raheem Morris saved this job with the Falcons

1041
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 2: win against the Buccaneers and then what they did against

1042
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 2: the Rams. Yeah. Yeah, I think that there was like

1043
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 2: prior to that, there were a lot of questions. But

1044
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 2: Mark Dominic thinks that Raheem Morris is safe. I think.

1045
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 2: I think there could be a surprise, Like I think

1046
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,879
Speaker 2: that there could be a move with with Kevin Stefanski.

1047
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 2: I think that McDaniel stays with the Dolphins. But then

1048
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 2: if that happens, is there's some sort of move something

1049
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 2: that we'll all get into. But I think six is

1050
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 2: going to end up being the number that we get.

1051
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 2: Maybe seven. There could be a huge surprise. You'll find

1052
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 2: out maybe if a team, you know, crashes out in

1053
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 2: the playoffs, somebody's like, all right, we'll move on from them.

1054
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 2: Plus you have the Raider, the Ravens and Steelers situations, right,

1055
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,399
Speaker 2: So I don't think Harbon Tomlin, I really don't think

1056
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 2: that they're in jeopardy, but they could be a part

1057
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:50,759
Speaker 2: of the conversation.

1058
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 4: Agree. I don't think they're in a hot seat, but

1059
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 4: I think the seat.

1060
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:58,439
Speaker 3: Is warm, yes, for both, but it's like it's not hot,

1061
00:48:58,480 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 3: it's so warm.

1062
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 2: And I think that how these seasons have played out,

1063
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 2: there is going to be there's going to be a

1064
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 2: tipping point, and I just don't think that we've gotten

1065
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 2: there yet