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October 5,2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 6: Welcome to the Writer's Roundtable with Rusty Burson, Robert Cessna,
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Speaker 6: and your host, Chip Howard. The Writer's Roundtable is brought
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Speaker 7: All right, welcome in.
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Speaker 1: Superior Air Repair. We are joined by the editor. Of
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Speaker 1: the Eagle, sports editor Robert Sessa almost gave you a
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Speaker 1: promotion there, Cease. Hey, long as I get more money. Exactly.
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Speaker 7: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: People on Briarcrest, get off of Briarcrest. We're trying to
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Speaker 1: do a show here.
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Speaker 3: You know, I do appreciate the two people that let
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Speaker 3: me in. I had to go over and I go,
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Speaker 3: you know, there's a lot of little listeners that want
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Speaker 3: to show I get here.
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Speaker 1: I tell you what, if they would have known you're
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Speaker 1: on my show, you never would have gotten here.
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Speaker 7: There is no worse intersection than that one right there.
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Speaker 7: Over there by, you know, once you... Pass the Chick-fil-A. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: it's terrible. You know, it was like Brian High, that
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Speaker 7: whole thing.
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Speaker 1: No, it's awful.
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Speaker 7: You can wait, like, I mean, I used to drive
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Speaker 7: from Fort Worth to North Dallas every day, but I was, like, driving.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Sitting at that light, like, four times, right? Oh, no,
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Speaker 1: it's awful.
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Speaker 7: That's the worst intersection.
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Speaker 1: It's just awful.
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Speaker 7: But I love it now even more with all the
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Speaker 7: construction going on.
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Speaker 1: And Texas and university ain't real great either.
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Speaker 7: Well, you're right.
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Speaker 1: That main light. I sat through one today because of
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Speaker 1: stupid people.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, stupid people. Yeah, if you're one of them,
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Speaker 1: quit driving. You're killing me. So I was just saying
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Speaker 1: before we started. Listen to it. So A & M
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Speaker 1: did what I think would be the formula for this
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Speaker 1: team this year to win game seats on Saturday night, right?
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Speaker 3: I agree with it 100%. Only I think Arkansas is
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Speaker 3: the worst team in the SEC.
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Speaker 1: I agree with that. Now, that was going to be
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Speaker 1: my other caveat.
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Speaker 3: Now, that being said, everybody is talent in the SEC.
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Speaker 7: I think Arkansas should change its mascot from the Razorbacks
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Speaker 7: to the Antibiotics because they are just what the doctor
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Speaker 7: ordered for any sick team. Because, I mean, they are
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Speaker 7: really bad.
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Speaker 1: They're not very good.
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Speaker 7: No, they are bad.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: And, like, A & M had to, like, really try
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Speaker 7: not to score again, you know, up 34-7. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: They're not very good. No.
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Speaker 7: I mean, they don't do anything well.
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Speaker 1: I feel bad for the coach when you consider... They
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Speaker 1: have one good receiver.
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Speaker 7: I would go so far as to say they're not
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Speaker 7: going to win a conference game. I don't think so.
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Speaker 1: They might not. I don't have their... Well, I do
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Speaker 1: have their schedule. I'll look at that. I was going
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Speaker 1: to look.
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Speaker 3: Their only chance is if South Carolina... I think that's
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Speaker 3: the only one because South Carolina might... Quit?
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Speaker 1: They might leave the SEC in a couple weeks. I've
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Speaker 1: got their schedule. But my point being, it might be
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Speaker 1: a little bit difficult... To have that kind of style
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Speaker 1: against it. And let's just start with Saturday because Missouri
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Speaker 1: stuffed the run on Saturday.
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Speaker 3: You know what was interesting, Chip? I did some research
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Speaker 3: on that. Someone goes, wow, great idea, Sussner. But Missouri
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Speaker 3: has some defensive ends that are hurt.
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Speaker 1: They do. They're too fast.
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Speaker 3: They went with three defensive tackles.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 3: But they're quick. One thing you can always know about
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Speaker 3: over the years, Missouri.
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Speaker 1: They've had linemen now.
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Speaker 3: They had quick people, defensive end linebackers.
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Speaker 1: They have had linemen. You're right.
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Speaker 3: So when I heard they went with three defensive tackles
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Speaker 3: and they held Bada like 16 yards.
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Speaker 1: Yes. And Florida to 47 yards. Yes.
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Speaker 3: I said A & M could be in trouble.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Because I think. what you touched on, Edwards looks so
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Speaker 3: good running the ball. And they finally used the wheels
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Speaker 3: of Reed. So that's something you can almost beat anybody,
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Speaker 3: but not if you can't win the point of attack.
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Speaker 3: If suddenly they take Edwards and Owens away, and they're
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Speaker 3: concentrating on Reed, then I think A & M' s.
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Speaker 1: Going to be in trouble. Well, why wouldn't you do that?
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Speaker 3: And I'm interested, and you touch always this time, Chip, uh,
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Speaker 3: Missouri's had three tough games in a row now.
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Speaker 1: They have. I think A & M' s getting there. If
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Speaker 1: you've got to play them, this is a good time
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Speaker 1: to do it. And 11 a.m. in the morning. And
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Speaker 1: they were fired up on Saturday. I mean, this was
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Speaker 1: their stand. And we've seen this every week of this season,
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Speaker 1: which has made it unique. These road games have been
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Speaker 1: so difficult. And all of these early games, it seems
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Speaker 1: like the home team has just been frothing. And you're going, oh, wow.
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Speaker 1: And then the next week, they have to go on
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Speaker 1: the road like Florida did. You go, well... I thought
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Speaker 1: they were good.
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Speaker 7: I'll point out, though, that I think I said maybe
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Speaker 7: A & M' s catching LSU at a good time.
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Speaker 1: You did. You're not supposed to bring that up. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: don't bring that up.
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Speaker 7: That Missouri team is really impressive. But, I mean, here's
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Speaker 7: the deal.
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Speaker 1: They're getting quarterback play I didn't think they were going
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Speaker 1: to get. At least they did Saturday. From week to week,
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Speaker 1: you just never know. I thought Ole Miss was going
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Speaker 1: to win the national championship. Yeah, you're right.
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Speaker 7: LSU is going to be a fantastic team.
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Speaker 6: You're right.
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Speaker 7: And then I thought Florida was going to be a
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Speaker 7: dominant team. You're right. They were not even close to
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Speaker 7: being in that game.
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Speaker 9: Nope.
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Speaker 7: And just from week to week, you just never know.
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Speaker 1: You do not know.
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Speaker 7: Except for Georgia.
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Speaker 1: Except for Georgia. We'll see this week. Yeah, we'll see.
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Speaker 7: Alabama's a lot better than I thought.
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Speaker 1: They're good.
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Speaker 3: If you do some research about Missouri, what I like,
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Speaker 3: listen to some of the postgame, whatever. Drinkwits have lost
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Speaker 3: to nine straight ranked teams.
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Speaker 5: Yes, he has.
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Speaker 1: Guess what?
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Speaker 3: If a coach loses to nine straight ranked teams... He's
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Speaker 3: getting roasted on social media. Everybody says, can you win.
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Speaker 7: The big one? He doesn't listen to social media.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
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Speaker 7: None of them do. They don't.
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Speaker 3: Then what I have to laugh is, after the game,
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Speaker 3: Drinkowitz is saying, like, hey, it's no big deal, you know.
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Speaker 3: Let's talk about the game. I'm getting tired of this.
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Speaker 3: And at one point he said, can we talk about
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Speaker 3: the freaking game? I mean, you know, and so, you know.
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Speaker 7: Can we talk about how much Kansas is in the wrong?
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Speaker 7: I mean, can we talk about it?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So you can't tell me that he didn't have that
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Speaker 3: game circled, knowing, hey, we need to win this game.
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Speaker 3: And so he's got a big relief off. So do
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Speaker 3: they have a letdown?
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Speaker 7: That's what I'm thinking. He had a sense of joy.
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Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I get a sense of joy when I come here
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Speaker 3: at 5 o'clock on Mondays.
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Speaker 1: Me too. Me too.
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Speaker 7: I like that question, though. It was awesome.
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Speaker 1: It was awesome.
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Speaker 7: Why is it important to feel joy? I really like
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Speaker 7: that question.
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Speaker 1: Versus relief.
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Speaker 3: I love Delco's answer. Once again, you're talking about a
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Speaker 3: guy that graduated from Penn. And I like the fact,
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Speaker 3: I equate it to, you take Jimbo Fisher or someone
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Speaker 3: like that. Those guys are lifelong football coaches. And I
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Speaker 3: feel they're like, oh, they don't. If somebody says, oh,
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Speaker 3: don't worry about that, they do, but they brush it off.
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Speaker 3: With Elko, he's so smart, he wants to say, okay,
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Speaker 3: this guy goes in motion, this guy goes over here, da-da-da,
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Speaker 3: throws you the chalk and goes, okay, what do you do, Seth?
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Speaker 3: What do you do, person?
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Because he knows. You go like, wow, I don't know. Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Well, I mean, it was a good answer, but I
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Speaker 7: also was like. Okay, players just need to stop worrying
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Speaker 7: about what, I mean, the so-called experts think. It's such
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Speaker 7: a generational thing that, I mean, I know they always
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Speaker 7: read the newspapers, but now everybody, you know, you've got
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Speaker 7: so many experts. Yeah, it's like, and there's so many podcasts,
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Speaker 7: and there's so many different talking heads.
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Speaker 1: And apparently some of them aren't welcome at Kyle Field.
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Speaker 1: Apparently not. Well... You don't have to worry about me
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Speaker 1: and my podcast. I'm not going on the field. I
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Speaker 1: don't want to get arrested and tased.
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Speaker 7: No, absolutely not, man.
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Speaker 1: I'm not an influencer.
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Speaker 3: Apparently, they're pretty serious about that. Somebody got arrested and tased?
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Speaker 1: See, you need to pay attention to the social media.
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Speaker 3: Do I have to have a phone for that?
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Speaker 7: He's not an influencer. Exactly.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I would beg to differ. I would beg to differ.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, while I'm thinking about it, what
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Speaker 1: in the world? You're leading your own contest. Not anymore.
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Speaker 1: You're right at the top of my contest. I'm close
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Speaker 1: to you. What are you doing? It's experience, age. Is
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Speaker 1: that what it is?
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Speaker 8: Luck.
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Speaker 1: With luck. age comes experience?
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Speaker 11: Luck.
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Speaker 3: I don't laugh. You know, you guys are on it.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to write this. What I love about it,
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Speaker 3: we all pick what's known in the EGOR Prague panel.
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Speaker 3: This week, all five NFL games.
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Speaker 1: Come down to the last minute. I mean, you can
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Speaker 1: be 0-5 or 5-0.
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Speaker 7: I can't believe I picked against the Cowboys. I cannot
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Speaker 7: believe I did that.
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Speaker 12: I didn't.
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Speaker 1: And then Harvard. I picked against the Oilers. Harvard Colgate
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Speaker 1: decided on the last play. Kentucky, South Carolina. That's seven
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Speaker 1: games where just flip a coin.
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Speaker 9: I know.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy.
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Speaker 3: That's why we love football, but yet someone gets mad
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Speaker 3: if you.
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Speaker 1: Don't win all seven of those.
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Speaker 7: I don't know why I'm always looking up for, you know,
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Speaker 7: the Harvard score. You know, like, geez, like, Cease does
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Speaker 7: this to me. My wife's going, why do you care
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Speaker 7: about Colgate and Harvard?
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Speaker 1: Okay, I've told this story before, but back when I
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Speaker 1: used to be good at picking games, and I was winning.
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Speaker 1: Back in 22. I was winning his contest. Yeah. I
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Speaker 1: am screaming at the television on Christmas Day for the
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Speaker 1: blue-gray game. I mean, my family thinks I've lost my
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Speaker 1: ever-loving mind. And you talk about flipping a coin. It's
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Speaker 1: an all-star game on Christmas afternoon, and I'm screaming at
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Speaker 1: the TV when the gray quarterback throws an interception.
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Speaker 7: We're watching TV on Friday night, and I go, crap.
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Speaker 1: Like, what?
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Speaker 7: I said, Franklin just lost.
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Speaker 1: Yes!
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Speaker 7: Yes! I'm like, why do you care that Franklin has
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Speaker 7: a goal?
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Speaker 1: Same thing. The exact same thing.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I got to tell you this story. This is
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Speaker 3: part Americana. I went to Cove on Friday night. Coming back,
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Speaker 3: they took me through camera. You know, I forgot about
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Speaker 3: the game. I come up over the hill going to camera. 1151.
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Speaker 3: I'll bet there's over 100 people at the Dairy Queen.
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Speaker 1: The Dairy Queen's open. There's got to be Friday night, man.
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Speaker 3: And I go like the Dairy Queen is open on
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Speaker 3: a Friday night, 1150.
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Speaker 1: God bless high school football. Absolutely. Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: Where else do you have that?
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Speaker 1: There's there's two things that keep small towns going in
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Speaker 1: the state of Texas.
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Speaker 7: Dairy Queen and high school football.
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Speaker 1: Well, I would wrap Dairy Queen and high school football together.
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Speaker 1: The second the second, especially when you get west of
12:19
Speaker 1: I-35 is deer hunting.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, okay. So I remember before we had these phones.
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Speaker 1: Lano and a lot of those towns wouldn't exist without
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Speaker 1: deer hunting.
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Speaker 7: Before we had these phones, you had to actually call
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Speaker 7: the school that you were going to.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 7: And I always told people that it wasn't really a
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Speaker 7: small town if they didn't give you directions based on
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Speaker 7: where the Dairy Queen is.
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Speaker 1: Exactly. Yeah. Go to the Dairy Queen and go two
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Speaker 1: blocks past. Two blocks there.
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Speaker 7: Take a right.
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Speaker 3: When I first got into business and just trying to
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Speaker 3: track down scores, and I credit this all to George Brazil.
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Speaker 3: He was a famous writer.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Awesome American statesman.
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Speaker 3: When he couldn't get a high school score, he called
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Speaker 3: the Dairy Queen.
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Speaker 7: Wow.
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Speaker 1: So I did that, too.
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Speaker 3: He called the Dairy Queen. I said, hey, is anybody there?
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Speaker 3: What a great idea. What's the Rio Vista score? They go,
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Speaker 3: what was the score tonight? Someone hold the score.
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Speaker 1: You know what?
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Speaker 7: At College Station High School, I don't know if it
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Speaker 7: still is, but the Whataburger was the place to go
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Speaker 7: after all games.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: So when my kids were either playing or cheering, that
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Speaker 7: was the destination.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Whataburger.
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Speaker 1: It still is. I'd say I was up two years ago. Interesting.
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Speaker 3: Because I came back from a game late and I
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Speaker 3: wanted to stop in there and get something.
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Speaker 1: Forget it. The crowd was so money, and they were all,
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Speaker 1: I go, forget it. I just go to the house.
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Speaker 7: Too crowded. Nobody goes there anymore.
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Speaker 1: Exactly. Way to go, Yogi. Boy, did we get sidetracked.
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Speaker 7: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Friday night, you mentioned Franklin. Yeah. I'm watching Northwestern and
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Speaker 1: Penn State Friday night.
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Speaker 7: What a beautiful stadium.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh, what a stadium.
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Speaker 7: That is awesome.
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Speaker 1: That was, see, she got to see this stadium.
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Speaker 3: Well, I watched a little bit of the game the
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Speaker 3: following previous week. That's why I picked it when I
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Speaker 3: saw them play against Indiana.
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Speaker 1: But they're breaking in their new stadium this last Friday night.
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Speaker 7: It's gorgeous.
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Speaker 12: $ 875 million.
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Speaker 1: $ 875 million. That's what we all make together. It has
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Speaker 1: every bell and whistle you'd ever want. The female sideline
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Speaker 1: reporter is taking us on tours during every break, showing
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Speaker 1: what you can do, showing the food, showing where people
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Speaker 1: sit on the field. It is phenomenal. It only holds 35,000.
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Speaker 1: It looks twice that big.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, because it has that awning, right? And the lighting
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Speaker 7: is incredible. It looks like a day game.
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Speaker 1: So every seat is within 136 feet of the field.
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Speaker 1: That's how intimate it is. And it is unbelievable. It's
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Speaker 1: going to be a bucket list. I'm telling you, I
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Speaker 1: would love to go after seeing this thing, right?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, me too.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it is just beautiful.
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Speaker 7: It looks a lot bigger than that.
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Speaker 1: It does.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 13: And?
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Speaker 1: You could tell Northwestern was geeked up to open that stadium.
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Speaker 1: I had watched Northwestern against Indiana season week before. And
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Speaker 1: I went, you know, this quarterback's pretty good.
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Speaker 3: And Chip Kelly's a great quarterback whisperer.
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Speaker 1: And Chip Kelly is a quarterback whisperer and an offensive guy.
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Speaker 1: And Penn State still doesn't know what play he's going
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Speaker 1: to call.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 1: They were brutal. And I give Chip Kelly a lot
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Speaker 1: of credit because I'm telling you, they're going to have
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Speaker 1: to be reckoned with this year because they just are.
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Speaker 3: They have a quarterback and they've got an OC.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and they've got a stadium.
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Speaker 1: And a stadium that's just unreal.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I was really blown away by that.
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Speaker 1: I was too. But this is, you know, for $ 875 million,
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Speaker 1: I guess they got their money's worth.
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Speaker 7: I don't know which was brighter, the stadium or RG3' s suit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the suit.
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Speaker 7: God, that suit was unbelievable.
15:48
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. I'm glad to see him back on
15:51
Speaker 1: the air, by the way.
15:52
Speaker 7: Yeah, and him eating a hot dog right there.
15:54
Speaker 1: Eating a hot dog and trying to talk. Yeah. I
15:57
Speaker 1: was thinking about RG3 when I was looking at him
16:00
Speaker 1: and all these quarterbacks, and especially the ones that run.
16:04
Speaker 1: There's a lot of quarterbacks in the NFL that are
16:06
Speaker 1: hurt right now. And I'm not saying NFL quarterbacks hadn't
16:09
Speaker 1: been hurt before. But there's a lot more running-style quarterbacks
16:13
Speaker 1: coming out of college now. And the NFL has changed
16:17
Speaker 1: how they attack people now. And while not a big
16:21
Speaker 1: part of the game, they're going to run the football.
16:26
Speaker 1: It's just such a shame what happened to him and
16:28
Speaker 1: what the coach did to him.
16:30
Speaker 7: He's a really good announcer. I like him.
16:33
Speaker 1: He's bright. He's funny. He doesn't take himself too seriously.
16:37
Speaker 1: But I remember when they came to Kyle Field, he
16:39
Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of help there. And they had
16:41
Speaker 1: just crushed him. But that was the year he still
16:43
Speaker 1: won the Heisman, right? I remember that. And I had
16:46
Speaker 1: seen him the year before in Waco against Texas. And
16:50
Speaker 1: maybe it was that same season. I don't remember because
16:53
Speaker 1: he made that famous statement. I'm not sure, but I
16:56
Speaker 1: think Baylor University may have just won a Heisman trophy today.
17:00
Speaker 1: And I'll never forget that. And he was right because
17:03
Speaker 1: he put on a clinic. And he was just an
17:06
Speaker 1: unbelievable athlete. That should have been great in the NFL.
17:10
Speaker 7: He beat OU single-handedly.
17:11
Speaker 1: He did.
17:12
Speaker 14: Yeah.
17:13
Speaker 1: On a Friday night, I think.
17:15
Speaker 7: On a Friday night. I was in New York City,
17:18
Speaker 7: and I just remember, like, they were on the— In
17:21
Speaker 7: Times Square, they had this stuff going around Times Square.
17:25
Speaker 7: RG3 leads Baylor past Oklahoma. I was like, take photos.
17:29
Speaker 1: Well, if you'll recall, and that was the year. Baylor
17:33
Speaker 1: helped him. The next morning, they were doing game day
17:38
Speaker 1: at Jerry World. And I don't remember what game was
17:40
Speaker 1: being played. But he had just beaten OU that Friday night,
17:45
Speaker 1: and he showed up on the set of game day
17:47
Speaker 1: Saturday morning. At Jerry World.
17:51
Speaker 7: Very nice. It was brilliant.
17:53
Speaker 1: I don't know how I got off on that. It
17:55
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, but it was fun to talk about.
17:57
Speaker 7: I think he's a good announcer. I like him.
18:00
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get back to this stuff. Can A &
18:05
Speaker 1: M play like how they played Saturday against the better
18:12
Speaker 1: teams that are coming up on their schedule starting Saturday?
18:17
Speaker 3: I think so much depends on Reed and that offensive line.
18:21
Speaker 3: Because you've got to, unless you're Oklahoma, you've got to
18:24
Speaker 3: score some points. And it gets back to that offensive line,
18:28
Speaker 3: and can Reed feel comfortable? Because I just think, even
18:32
Speaker 3: in that game Saturday, There were holes in A &
18:36
Speaker 3: M' s secondary. If that quarterback could throw the ball, I
18:39
Speaker 3: think they'd have had at least 21 points. I thought
18:42
Speaker 3: A & M still wasn't able to get enough pressure
18:45
Speaker 3: on that quarterback who was really bad that day. So
18:48
Speaker 3: I think A & M' s going to have to go
18:49
Speaker 3: into any game mentally thinking they've got to score at
18:53
Speaker 3: least 21 points to win. And right now as it
18:55
Speaker 3: gets back to what can that offensive line do, what
18:58
Speaker 3: can Reed do? And it was a very conservative approach.
19:03
Speaker 1: Was.
19:03
Speaker 3: But I liked it because they needed confidence. And Elko
19:07
Speaker 3: knows that, being around that team.
19:08
Speaker 15: It was clean.
19:10
Speaker 1: We hadn't seen that. No turnovers.
19:12
Speaker 3: The penalties they had weren't that big a deal.
19:14
Speaker 1: Yep.
19:15
Speaker 3: But they played smart football. They got the big interception early.
19:19
Speaker 3: Was that a bad pass? Of course it was. But
19:21
Speaker 3: they took advantage of it. A & M and... Actually,
19:24
Speaker 3: they showed if A & M just gets close, they're
19:27
Speaker 3: going to get three points. They've got the best.
19:29
Speaker 7: Field goal kicker in the country.
19:30
Speaker 3: I was about to bring that up.
19:31
Speaker 7: No, I was just going to say that Austin Simmons
19:35
Speaker 7: is a lot better than K.J.
19:36
Speaker 1: Jackson. No doubt.
19:38
Speaker 7: And so if they're going to have those holes, he's
19:41
Speaker 7: going to pick them apart.
19:41
Speaker 1: And Missouri has a running back. I don't think Arkansas did.
19:44
Speaker 7: No, I don't think so either.
19:45
Speaker 1: No, Arkansas had multiple.
19:47
Speaker 7: I think A & M, to answer your question, I
19:49
Speaker 7: think A & M, can do this against the Citadel.
19:52
Speaker 7: But I don't think they can do it against Missouri
19:54
Speaker 7: because of the talent.
19:54
Speaker 1: They have to be better.
19:55
Speaker 4: Yes.
19:56
Speaker 3: And Missouri has to be down a little bit. Not
19:58
Speaker 3: up like they were for Florida and say, okay. But
20:01
Speaker 3: they're going to have a sellout. And Drinkowitz wants to
20:05
Speaker 3: beat A & M. He hasn't been able to beat
20:07
Speaker 3: A & M. They showed up. Remember he brought the
20:09
Speaker 3: big team in here a few years ago. They were horrible.
20:13
Speaker 3: Even like they tried to bait their saying that A
20:16
Speaker 3: & M took the wide receiver's shirt, whatever it was.
20:20
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah.
20:21
Speaker 7: I remember that.
20:22
Speaker 3: And A & M just kicked the dog out of it.
20:24
Speaker 3: Missouri was terrible that day. They were terrible that day.
20:27
Speaker 7: I got to give Missouri some credit, too, because I
20:30
Speaker 7: was watching that game, and that stadium is so much
20:33
Speaker 7: better than it used to be.
20:34
Speaker 4: It is.
20:34
Speaker 7: Remember when they had the end zone with the rocks?
20:36
Speaker 13: Oh, yeah.
20:36
Speaker 1: They've done a tremendous amount of work on it.
20:39
Speaker 7: It looks really good.
20:40
Speaker 1: It looks like a real stadium now.
20:41
Speaker 7: It does. It used to not have any atmosphere at all.
20:44
Speaker 7: I remember we were there the day they tore that
20:46
Speaker 7: press box down.
20:47
Speaker 1: Yes, they were.
20:47
Speaker 7: We all signed the final. But, man, I just thought
20:51
Speaker 7: that was one of the rinky-dinkiest most stadiums that I've seen.
20:55
Speaker 1: It's like going to a high school game.
20:56
Speaker 7: Yeah, and now it looks really good.
20:57
Speaker 1: It's like going to Independence Bowl.
20:59
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly.
21:00
Speaker 1: You know, I was thinking about this today when Elko
21:02
Speaker 1: was talking. Missouri has been, since they came into this league,
21:07
Speaker 1: I think we all agree they belong in the Big
21:10
Speaker 1: Ten and not in the SEC. but the Big Ten
21:13
Speaker 1: wouldn't take them. They're a Big Ten team. But because
21:16
Speaker 1: of that, they're just far enough on the outskirts, and
21:21
Speaker 1: it's Missouri, and they have gotten no respect. They didn't
21:24
Speaker 1: get a lot in the Big 12, but they kept
21:26
Speaker 1: beating people. And they have been pretty dang successful in
21:31
Speaker 1: the SEC, much more so than I thought and most
21:35
Speaker 1: people thought.
21:36
Speaker 7: Much more so than A & M. I mean, they've
21:38
Speaker 7: been a two-commerce championship game.
21:39
Speaker 3: They won the division the first two years they were
21:41
Speaker 3: in it.
21:42
Speaker 1: Pinkle was a great coach.
21:43
Speaker 7: Yes, he was.
21:44
Speaker 1: Gary Pinkle was a terrific coach. I think Drinkwich is
21:48
Speaker 1: pretty good. We'll see. He hasn't been great. They've been
21:52
Speaker 1: just good enough, but not good enough to beat the
21:54
Speaker 1: better teams.
21:55
Speaker 3: I think Drinkwich's got a chance. You go back to
21:58
Speaker 3: when it was 22, whatever, they ended up being disappointed
22:01
Speaker 3: in the Ohio State team in the Cotton Bowl. But
22:04
Speaker 3: he was 6-3 in ranked teams before he went in
22:06
Speaker 3: that skid of 0-9. So he was hearing it from
22:09
Speaker 3: the fans. Like you said, they're out in the middle
22:11
Speaker 3: or an outpost in the SEC right So they were
22:13
Speaker 3: an afterthought for like the last.
22:15
Speaker 1: Four or five years. Well, let me tell you who
22:16
Speaker 1: they have left besides A & M.
22:18
Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
22:18
Speaker 1: Look at this schedule. I saw it.
22:20
Speaker 8: Yeah.
22:21
Speaker 1: They go to Ole Miss.
22:23
Speaker 7: Okay.
22:24
Speaker 1: They play at Arkansas. They host Texas. They're at Georgia.
22:32
Speaker 1: And they have Kentucky at home. I mean, it's a
22:34
Speaker 1: brutal schedule. But. I'm looking at all these schedules now
22:38
Speaker 1: with all these teams that maybe some of us didn't
22:40
Speaker 1: think were going to be quite as good. I mean,
22:43
Speaker 1: tell me who has an easy schedule. Texas. Texas schedule
22:47
Speaker 1: is brutal. I'm just joking. I mean, it's horrible. It is.
22:50
Speaker 1: They've got to buy this week. They've got Oklahoma. Yeah.
22:53
Speaker 1: I don't buy that, by the way. I know. It's
22:55
Speaker 1: a rivalry game. I do not buy that. I'm with you.
22:58
Speaker 1: And the history of this game and most rivalry games is,
23:02
Speaker 1: It's for the underdog.
23:03
Speaker 7: You know, I'll tell you who does have an easy schedule.
23:06
Speaker 7: Not in the SEC, but Texas Tech. Georgia.
23:09
Speaker 1: Texas Tech. Texas Tech caught a break, right?
23:11
Speaker 7: They really did. And they're not nearly as good.
23:13
Speaker 1: Oh, they're not. No.
23:14
Speaker 3: You're right about Georgia. I don't think they have a
23:17
Speaker 3: tough schedule. I don't want it in front of me.
23:19
Speaker 1: Well, besides going to Tuscaloosa this week. They got Missouri
23:25
Speaker 1: at home, like you said. Let's see. Georgia is at Alabama. Alabama.
23:30
Speaker 1: They're home to Auburn. They have an open date. They
23:33
Speaker 1: have the annual Florida game, which this year is in
23:36
Speaker 1: Atlanta because they're redoing the stadium in Jacksonville. I don't
23:40
Speaker 1: know how that's going to affect things. That'd be interesting.
23:43
Speaker 1: It's going to be so different, right? So different after
23:47
Speaker 1: playing in Jacksonville for I don't know how many years, right?
23:51
Speaker 1: They have to go to Ole Miss, does Georgia. Okay,
23:55
Speaker 1: I stand corrected. That's a tough schedule. They host Missouri.
23:59
Speaker 1: I stand corrected. It's not, you know, with the Florida,
24:05
Speaker 1: Ole Miss, and Missouri games now. Yeah, and Kentucky's better.
24:11
Speaker 1: They don't play Kentucky. I'm sorry, I'm switching around. But
24:14
Speaker 1: they don't have to play Kentucky. A little tougher than
24:15
Speaker 1: I thought. But we'll know it's a point-and-a-half game right
24:18
Speaker 1: now after watching this Alabama and Keelan Russell play this
24:22
Speaker 1: last week and just destroy Mississippi State.
24:27
Speaker 3: Mississippi State's got a great quarterback.
24:29
Speaker 1: You're right. They may be a 7-5 team. They might be.
24:33
Speaker 1: They do have a great quarterback. But, man, Keelan Russell,
24:37
Speaker 1: suddenly he's jumped up. Several notches.
24:40
Speaker 3: But you also knew. But Taylor is hurt, isn't he?
24:43
Speaker 7: Who? Kamario Taylor got hurt. He is.
24:45
Speaker 1: He was limping. He wasn't full strength on Saturday.
24:49
Speaker 7: I mean, he's still a big, huge presence. Yes, he is.
24:53
Speaker 1: Not only was he hurt, but their running back was hurt.
24:56
Speaker 1: Bothwell was out. Fluff. He didn't play at all. So
25:01
Speaker 1: that's a killer for them. That's like Juan Lacy being
25:04
Speaker 1: done at Ole Miss.
25:05
Speaker 3: But like what you said is every week is almost
25:08
Speaker 3: a Super Bowl.
25:09
Speaker 12: It is.
25:10
Speaker 1: Let's be honest.
25:10
Speaker 3: If A & M wins this weekend, they feel a
25:12
Speaker 3: lot better about themselves.
25:13
Speaker 1: No doubt.
25:14
Speaker 3: But if they lose, then they're right back because what
25:17
Speaker 3: have you done for me?
25:17
Speaker 1: It's week to week, man. It is week to week.
25:20
Speaker 1: And then you've lost three games. Yep.
25:22
Speaker 3: And then you're looking at five. You're going to lose five.
25:25
Speaker 1: You're going to lose six. Got to go to Alabama.
25:26
Speaker 1: Got to go to Alabama. Yep. Every week.
25:29
Speaker 3: You can't look past. I don't care who you are.
25:31
Speaker 3: Because suddenly if Missouri loses this week, they're looking at
25:34
Speaker 3: being a 4-5 loss team.
25:36
Speaker 7: Absolutely.
25:37
Speaker 3: If they lose to A & M, how are they
25:38
Speaker 3: going to beat Georgia and Texas?
25:40
Speaker 7: I think you can look past Arkansas.
25:42
Speaker 1: Who? Yeah, you can look past Arkansas. They're terrible.
25:46
Speaker 7: I don't think Arkansas is going to give Tennessee much
25:48
Speaker 7: of a game either. I mean, Tennessee is okay.
25:51
Speaker 1: They're okay.
25:52
Speaker 7: But I was so unimpressed with Arkansas.
25:55
Speaker 3: The talent level. When you look at Tennessee's talent level,
25:59
Speaker 3: They'd have to screw it up. You've got to screw
26:00
Speaker 3: it up against Arkansas.
26:01
Speaker 1: Well, you know, Hypo still has a couple of games
26:07
Speaker 1: that you're going to look at and shake your head. Yeah,
26:09
Speaker 1: you're exactly right.
26:10
Speaker 7: I agree. In my mind. Maybe not.
26:13
Speaker 3: I think he gets some good teams. Tennessee's going to
26:16
Speaker 3: lose by a couple of touchdowns. I don't think they're
26:18
Speaker 3: that good. I haven't seen enough of them.
26:20
Speaker 9: Right.
26:21
Speaker 3: But just know that they have a quarterback problem, a
26:23
Speaker 3: young quarterback.
26:23
Speaker 1: They have a young quarterback. That's not a good position.
26:25
Speaker 1: Who's also hurt right now, by the way. He's banged up.
26:28
Speaker 3: Now– Tennessee, to me, in the last few years has
26:31
Speaker 3: benefited from a weak schedule. There's no doubt in my mind.
26:34
Speaker 1: Well, this year they host. They always play Alabama. They
26:37
Speaker 1: always play Alabama. They get them at home this year.
26:39
Speaker 1: They get Kentucky at home. They come here on November
26:43
Speaker 1: the 14th. They are hosting LSU on November 21st. So
26:48
Speaker 1: they've got a few games left.
26:50
Speaker 3: But they have home.
26:52
Speaker 1: They get big games at home. They get Kentucky at home.
26:54
Speaker 1: They get LSU at home. They get Alabama at home.
26:57
Speaker 1: Say what you will.
26:57
Speaker 3: It's a hard place to play. If he'd called a
27:00
Speaker 3: good game last year or two years ago, they'd have won.
27:03
Speaker 1: No doubt about that. He made some stupid calls. Very stupid.
27:07
Speaker 1: He lost the game.
27:09
Speaker 7: Yeah, another stupid coach, I think, is Beamer. He just
27:11
Speaker 7: does some things.
27:13
Speaker 1: He likes to come from ahead.
27:15
Speaker 7: They were 17 points ahead. They were up 17-0. They
27:19
Speaker 7: lost the game at home.
27:21
Speaker 3: He says it's one of the best venues in the country.
27:23
Speaker 1: Well, it is.
27:24
Speaker 3: It is, and you can't do that.
27:26
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Speaker 1: Especially from way above. Especially. So where is this team
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Speaker 1: the halfway point. on Saturday at Missouri? They got a
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Speaker 1: you know, they needed something positive to happen. No question.
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Speaker 3: If you were Holman Wiggins, you can say like, well,
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Speaker 7: of the Texas Rangers. They're about 500. They're a mediocre team. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: they're about 500.
33:41
Speaker 1: With a couple of good parts.
33:43
Speaker 7: Yeah, with a couple of good parts. And, you know,
33:45
Speaker 7: I mean, like the Rangers, you're like, they're not terrible.
33:49
Speaker 7: But they're not great. They're just mediocre. And they finished
33:53
Speaker 7: right at. 500. And this team, I think after this week,
33:55
Speaker 7: is going to be.
33:56
Speaker 8: 500.
33:56
Speaker 3: Well, you're right in the fact that they're an average
33:59
Speaker 3: team that hasn't proven anything. Even like right now, their
34:01
Speaker 3: best win is Arizona State. They just stuck at home
34:04
Speaker 3: against Baylor.
34:05
Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, Baylor destroyed them. Destroyed them.
34:07
Speaker 7: What in the world? I was texting my dad. My
34:10
Speaker 7: dad's like, what in the world? What got into Baylor?
34:13
Speaker 1: I was like. Once again, Arizona.
34:18
Speaker 3: State had a quarterback that couldn't make it at Kentucky
34:20
Speaker 3: when Kentucky was bad. Their coach has done great. But
34:24
Speaker 3: my point being is A & M is average right now.
34:26
Speaker 3: They're going to have great chances to prove there are
34:29
Speaker 3: good teams starting this week.
34:30
Speaker 1: They've got Missouri. They've got Oklahoma. They've got Alabama.
34:35
Speaker 7: Tennessee.
34:36
Speaker 1: South Carolina.
34:38
Speaker 7: So my thing is they're going to be 3-3 after
34:40
Speaker 7: this week. They'll probably be 4-3. They'll definitely be 4-3
34:43
Speaker 7: after they play Citadel. Four and four after they play Alabama.
34:46
Speaker 7: Five and four maybe after they play South Carolina. Five
34:50
Speaker 7: and five, who knows, if they play Tennessee. I mean,
34:53
Speaker 7: that's the kind of team I see.
34:55
Speaker 3: And if they are four and four rusty after break
34:57
Speaker 3: even with eight with only four to go, I think
35:01
Speaker 3: it's going to be tough for that team to be excited.
35:03
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
35:04
Speaker 3: Because you've got so many new players. And thanks to
35:07
Speaker 3: the– I'm waiting to see. I'd like to be wrong,
35:10
Speaker 3: but how– If you're making, let's say you came here
35:13
Speaker 3: for $ 200, 000 and the team's 4-4, are you really going
35:17
Speaker 3: to go to workouts that hard and to weight workouts
35:20
Speaker 3: and whatever knowing you're going to get that check anywhere?
35:22
Speaker 3: What are you playing for to go to the Texas Bowl?
35:24
Speaker 1: So what I would think.
35:27
Speaker 7: It's tough.
35:28
Speaker 1: I think it's tough. You would have a percentage of
35:30
Speaker 1: guys like that, right? that may or may not check
35:34
Speaker 1: out and may be here for that. You've got to
35:36
Speaker 1: have a few, just human nature. No, I agree with you.
35:38
Speaker 1: The bad apples. You'd hope the other guys are good.
35:40
Speaker 7: Exactly. Well, they're still playing for the spot in the NFL, right?
35:43
Speaker 1: Yes. That's true. And they're not only playing for a
35:47
Speaker 1: spot in the NFL, the young guys are playing for
35:50
Speaker 1: a spot either, A, to get more money next year
35:54
Speaker 1: or to go somewhere else and get more money next year.
35:57
Speaker 1: This is the NFL now, right? No doubt. This is
36:00
Speaker 1: the NFL. So individually, they know guys are looking at them, okay?
36:12
Speaker 1: And it may be other colleges. You want something to
36:15
Speaker 1: pop on tape for that sake? You may not have
36:19
Speaker 1: any loyalty to Texas A & M University. And there
36:23
Speaker 1: are guys all over the country that are playing at places.
36:27
Speaker 1: They didn't grow up watching that. In fact, it was
36:30
Speaker 1: so interesting to me. With K.J., when I was playing him,
36:35
Speaker 1: he was in Carthage. He said, they go, you know,
36:39
Speaker 1: what about Texas A & M? He goes, well, to
36:41
Speaker 1: be real honest with you, I never watched Texas A
36:42
Speaker 1: & M. Did you watch A.J.? No. No, I didn't
36:44
Speaker 1: watch A.J. It was so honest. After I knew I
36:47
Speaker 1: was coming, I did. Yes, that was an honest answer.
36:50
Speaker 1: It was awesome. And people are going, who? And there
36:54
Speaker 1: are still a handful of kids that grow up, want
36:57
Speaker 1: to be Aggies, want to be Longhorns, want to be.
37:00
Speaker 1: There's a handful. They watched TV. But that handful ain't
37:03
Speaker 1: nearly as large as it used to be.
37:05
Speaker 7: So my daughter did like a tour prior to the
37:08
Speaker 7: start of the school semester with a bunch of athletes,
37:11
Speaker 7: and they're from all over the country. And they were
37:14
Speaker 7: just so uninterested in the A & M traditions, and
37:16
Speaker 7: she was like, I was really kind of like ticked
37:18
Speaker 7: off that, you.
37:19
Speaker 1: Know, I grew up to be an Aggie.
37:22
Speaker 7: I'm so happy to be here, and they could care less.
37:26
Speaker 7: I'm like, well, that's the era we're in now.
37:28
Speaker 3: Well, and also, as we've seen this before, You worry
37:32
Speaker 3: about the guys in their last year that are going
37:35
Speaker 3: to be NFL eligible. They don't want to play hurt
37:39
Speaker 3: because that lowers their stock. They don't want to get hurt,
37:42
Speaker 3: and you've got to be careful about that. There's so
37:44
Speaker 3: many factors anymore. It's just not like it used to be.
37:46
Speaker 3: You used to have two and eight teams where people
37:49
Speaker 3: would go out and break their leg because they wanted
37:50
Speaker 3: to win the next game against Texas.
37:52
Speaker 1: Or they were so scared of the coach that they
37:55
Speaker 1: weren't going to loaf. That's true. They'd be running on
37:59
Speaker 1: Monday morning.
37:59
Speaker 7: Well, I'm sure Marcel is listening to the show right now.
38:02
Speaker 7: He's probably really upset that I think they're like the
38:04
Speaker 7: Texas Rangers.
38:05
Speaker 1: Right.
38:05
Speaker 7: You know, I mean, that's the reality. I just think
38:08
Speaker 7: it's just a kind of mediocre team. And this league
38:11
Speaker 7: is so strong. I mean, every week somebody's going to
38:15
Speaker 7: pop up. I didn't think Missouri was going to be
38:18
Speaker 7: this good.
38:19
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
38:19
Speaker 3: Oh, without a doubt. When I looked at it, I go.
38:22
Speaker 1: Maybe they're not. Maybe they're not. Maybe they've had their game. Maybe.
38:26
Speaker 3: At the beginning of the year, I said, hey, A
38:28
Speaker 3: & M always wins against Missouri lately. I mean, just
38:31
Speaker 3: mark that up as a win. I go, I'm worried
38:33
Speaker 3: about what happens in Alabama.
38:36
Speaker 7: You know, I'm worried about South Carolina. How quickly that's changed.
38:39
Speaker 7: Week to week.
38:40
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's week to week.
38:41
Speaker 7: I think Ole Miss is going to play for the
38:42
Speaker 7: last championship.
38:44
Speaker 6: No.
38:44
Speaker 17: No.
38:44
Speaker 1: They can't stop anybody.
38:45
Speaker 7: They can't stop.
38:46
Speaker 1: Florida.
38:47
Speaker 7: Who can stop Florida?
38:48
Speaker 1: Missouri.
38:50
Speaker 3: I will say history has shown Elko runs a tight ship.
38:54
Speaker 3: They've had no problems off the field these last couple years.
38:58
Speaker 7: They're focused.
38:58
Speaker 1: They have not. It took him a while to rein
39:01
Speaker 1: that attitude and to change that attitude, and he's done
39:04
Speaker 1: that without question.
39:06
Speaker 3: And the stories I've all heard from people I trust,
39:08
Speaker 3: that's the way he is. He's going to be up front.
39:12
Speaker 3: He's going to be up front. He's going to do
39:13
Speaker 3: it his way, and in the long run, that does
39:15
Speaker 3: win him.
39:15
Speaker 1: Oh, there's no doubt. I'm not on Elko's case, okay?
39:20
Speaker 1: I think Elko's a really good football coach. It remains
39:24
Speaker 1: to be seen if he made two mistakes by promoting
39:29
Speaker 1: coordinators from within his staff. And I will say again,
39:36
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to say that yet because the offensive
39:39
Speaker 1: line hasn't been very good. The quarterback hasn't been very good.
39:43
Speaker 1: And I don't care who the best offensive coordinator in
39:47
Speaker 1: the world is. If you ain't getting quarterback play and
39:49
Speaker 1: offensive line play, you're not going to be a very
39:51
Speaker 1: good coach.
39:52
Speaker 7: I will say this, that Marcel did a really good
39:54
Speaker 7: job not throwing the really dangerous balls.
39:57
Speaker 1: He did. He took care of the football.
39:59
Speaker 7: He did.
39:59
Speaker 1: And you have to do that.
40:02
Speaker 7: In the air, I thought his running was really good.
40:05
Speaker 1: Yes.
40:05
Speaker 7: And I thought he was wise. It was appropriate. Yeah,
40:08
Speaker 7: I thought he was wise with how he threw the ball. Absolutely.
40:11
Speaker 3: I thought, I'll never say it, but I thought in
40:14
Speaker 3: the past, these few games, I thought he was going
40:17
Speaker 3: too far down.
40:18
Speaker 1: In his progressions.
40:19
Speaker 3: I think he was looking for one receiver, two receiver,
40:22
Speaker 3: three receiver. I think they told him, you look for
40:24
Speaker 3: one receiver, two receiver, go. I think they made it
40:27
Speaker 3: easier for him to decide.
40:29
Speaker 1: I will say this. I think the offensive line's protection, especially,
40:33
Speaker 1: and again, you look at opponents, but it hasn't been terrible.
40:41
Speaker 1: I think they've improved that. It's improved, I think. I'll
40:44
Speaker 1: buy that. I think he was waiting too long. And
40:50
Speaker 1: I watch a lot of football all day long. And
40:53
Speaker 1: he ain't the only one that does this, right? He's
40:55
Speaker 1: not the only quarterback. It's just a really hard position
40:59
Speaker 1: to play. and a really hard position to play with
41:04
Speaker 1: all these 6'5, 300-pound guys that can run as fast
41:08
Speaker 1: as you can coming at you.
41:10
Speaker 3: But when you flip it on any game and the
41:13
Speaker 3: quarterback is hot, it's seemingly nothing the defense can do
41:18
Speaker 3: because the receiver's going to get open, he turns, the ball's.
41:20
Speaker 1: There, and we see that so many times. I saw
41:23
Speaker 1: it Saturday with Missouri.
41:24
Speaker 3: Look what Ole Miss, when they beat LSU.
41:26
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
41:27
Speaker 3: I mean, you look at the game. game that trinidad
41:30
Speaker 3: had i mean but we're seeing that more and more
41:33
Speaker 3: and the question is how many times can we see
41:36
Speaker 3: reed do that the rest of the year i don't
41:38
Speaker 3: know and you're right rusty he could turn out is
41:41
Speaker 3: he going to be like the rangers or is he
41:43
Speaker 3: going to be like the dodgers well next next day games.
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Speaker 1: Us Welcome back, it's the Writer's Roundtable. The old guys
45:22
Speaker 1: are with you. It's Robert Cessna, Rusty Burson. We're glad
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45:27
Speaker 7: Speaking of that, can I say something? I had this
45:29
Speaker 7: little kid who asked me, Like I was talking to
45:32
Speaker 7: him about how A & M always beats Arkansas, right?
45:35
Speaker 6: Yeah.
45:35
Speaker 7: And I said, I told him, I was like, listen,
45:37
Speaker 7: the last time A & M lost to Arkansas at
45:41
Speaker 7: Kyle Field was 1989. And he goes, are you alive
45:45
Speaker 7: back in 1989? I was like, yeah, I was alive
45:48
Speaker 7: in 1989. I was like, yeah.
45:49
Speaker 3: Kids say the darndest things.
45:53
Speaker 1: Art Linkletter. There you go, buddy. No one knows who
45:56
Speaker 1: that is but you and me. I know.
45:59
Speaker 7: Sorry to interrupt.
46:00
Speaker 1: No, no, that's good.
46:01
Speaker 7: When you said this old guy.
46:03
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no. You hadn't even gotten there yet.
46:06
Speaker 1: I was talking about, I don't know how this subject
46:11
Speaker 1: came up, but I told, oh, one of my friends
46:15
Speaker 1: was talking, and I told him about the, I said
46:18
Speaker 1: I was at the Cotton Bowl the year Roger Staubach
46:22
Speaker 1: won the Heisman Trophy. And he goes, I was at
46:25
Speaker 1: that game. I go, no way. He goes, I was.
46:28
Speaker 1: He said it was Texas against Navy. I said, yeah.
46:31
Speaker 1: I said Navy was number one in the country that year.
46:35
Speaker 1: Texas was undefeated. Navy had lost a game. I said,
46:39
Speaker 1: do you know who Navy lost to? He said, no,
46:42
Speaker 1: I don't know who Navy lost to. I said Navy
46:44
Speaker 1: lost to SMU in the Cotton Bowl in September that year.
46:49
Speaker 1: They had played on a Friday night game. In the
46:52
Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl. For TV ESPN.
46:54
Speaker 7: No.
46:55
Speaker 1: That was long before ESPN. He goes, how old were you?
47:01
Speaker 1: I said, I was 10 years old. I go, you know,
47:06
Speaker 1: still remember it, but I was 10 years old. All right,
47:09
Speaker 1: that's enough of that. I'm glad I remember 10 days ago.
47:13
Speaker 1: I watched some bad football this weekend. There wasn't a
47:16
Speaker 1: lot of great football on, I didn't think.
47:19
Speaker 3: I know we touched on Baylor. That was a huge
47:21
Speaker 3: win for Baylor and Aranda.
47:23
Speaker 1: I was shocked.
47:23
Speaker 3: I mean, you talk about in-state. When I turned it
47:26
Speaker 3: on and I got home late and I saw that score,
47:28
Speaker 3: I go, you've got to be kidding me. Yeah, I
47:30
Speaker 3: couldn't believe it either.
47:31
Speaker 1: I was flipping back and forth after the A &
47:36
Speaker 1: M game.
47:37
Speaker 3: You might have to hold on given... The Houston coach,
47:41
Speaker 3: Coach of the Year award, you know.
47:42
Speaker 1: Willie Fritz. Yeah, Willie Fritz. But he won. Found a
47:46
Speaker 1: way to win. He found a way to win. They
47:48
Speaker 1: weren't pretty. They weren't pretty there for a while, though.
47:51
Speaker 7: I mean, I was flipping watching that Texas Tech-Colorado game. Oh,
47:55
Speaker 7: that was ugly. You guys are ugly football.
47:56
Speaker 1: That was some ugly football.
47:58
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, in Colorado, I mean, it was 29-7,
48:00
Speaker 7: but Colorado gave Texas Tech, like, two touchdowns.
48:03
Speaker 1: Oh, they did.
48:05
Speaker 7: Yeah. I mean, the interception in the end zone. Yeah.
48:07
Speaker 7: That was awful.
48:08
Speaker 11: Horrible.
48:09
Speaker 1: It was just horrible. I think the bloom is off
48:12
Speaker 1: the rose for Dion, don't you?
48:14
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's no doubt.
48:15
Speaker 1: Okay, what about Pitt winning? Oh, my gosh. I'm so
48:19
Speaker 1: upset at that. Vote for me and give me a break.
48:23
Speaker 1: I'm so upset that that field goal was called no good.
48:27
Speaker 1: I think it was no good, but good gosh. I
48:30
Speaker 1: can't believe that Virginia Tech lost that game. That's another
48:34
Speaker 1: one of my losses this week.
48:35
Speaker 3: But that's the kind of way James Franklin does things.
48:38
Speaker 7: I thought Iowa would put up a little more effort
48:40
Speaker 7: against Ohio State.
48:42
Speaker 1: Well, when it was early and it was 10-6 and
48:45
Speaker 1: it was really kind of ugly and it was kind
48:48
Speaker 1: of late in the second quarter and I'm going, this
48:50
Speaker 1: is exactly the game they're hoping for, right?
48:53
Speaker 17: Yeah.
48:54
Speaker 1: Ohio State's got too much talent. You know, you look
48:57
Speaker 1: at Iowa. We've got a Heisman winner. Iowa is a decent. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
49:03
Speaker 1: And I always go, why is he running open with
49:09
Speaker 1: no one around him?
49:10
Speaker 3: How is that possible? He's the best receiver in the country. Well,
49:14
Speaker 3: I get that.
49:15
Speaker 1: But tackle it why i mean yeah why why aren't
49:18
Speaker 1: there three guys on him i don't get that i
49:21
Speaker 1: don't get that you can't question coaching look kirk fair
49:27
Speaker 1: has been around a long time he has a style
49:30
Speaker 1: in which he plays is not the prettiest style in
49:32
Speaker 1: the world but he wins with it But they didn't
49:35
Speaker 1: have enough athletes to compete with Ohio State.
49:38
Speaker 3: Well, they never do, but he's always going to win
49:39
Speaker 3: one game he shouldn't every year.
49:42
Speaker 1: Because he's going to play defense. He's a good coach.
49:44
Speaker 8: Right.
49:45
Speaker 1: Special teams are going to be good. And if it
49:47
Speaker 1: comes down to fairly even teams or that team makes
49:51
Speaker 1: a mistake, You know, yeah, but Ohio State was too
49:56
Speaker 1: good Saturday.
49:56
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was hoping Kaitlin Clark would be right, though. Oh, yeah, yeah,
50:01
Speaker 7: she was on game day. Yeah, she was really good, too.
50:05
Speaker 1: I saw Stanford Steve, a video he did from game day.
50:09
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, the tradition that they have
50:12
Speaker 1: created at Iowa for waving at those kids.
50:16
Speaker 7: That's awesome.
50:16
Speaker 1: I know. That just brings chills and tears every single time.
50:22
Speaker 1: When the entire stadium, the referees, the other team.
50:26
Speaker 7: It's maybe the coolest thing.
50:27
Speaker 1: It is the coolest thing in college football.
50:30
Speaker 7: I love it.
50:30
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. It is the best thing.
50:32
Speaker 7: In college football. No, you're exactly right. I love it.
50:34
Speaker 1: I don't know who thought of that. I'd like to
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Speaker 1: give that person a huge raise, whatever, whoever it was
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Speaker 1: that thought of it. But that is phenomenal.
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Speaker 17: Yep.
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Speaker 7: That's a lot better than touching the rock at Clemson.
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Speaker 1: Anything. I mean, you name me, and there's great traditions.
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Speaker 1: That's why we love college football. But this one just
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Speaker 1: hits to the heart.
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Speaker 3: And anybody who's ever seen it once remembers it. You
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Speaker 3: remember it.
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Speaker 1: And the reason I brought it up is because Caitlin
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Speaker 1: Clark was up there in the suite with the kids
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Speaker 1: when that was going on. Awesome. And Stanford Steve was
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Speaker 1: talking about visiting those kids. either I think it was
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Speaker 1: before the game that Friday night or whatever, and he
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Speaker 1: mentioned about five of them by name. And he couldn't
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Speaker 1: get through the interview.
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Speaker 7: By the way, Caitlin may have been one of my
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Speaker 7: favorite guest pickers because of the banter she had with
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Speaker 7: Nick Saban. Nick Saban goes, no, I'm picking Alabama. And
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Speaker 7: she's like, have you ever picked against Alabama? She was
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Speaker 7: really good. I liked her.
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Speaker 13: So I do have the who came up with the
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Speaker 13: wave for Iowa.
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Speaker 1: Okay, awesome.
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Speaker 13: So it is this gal named Krista Young.
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Speaker 7: Okay.
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Speaker 13: She posted on Facebook back in 2017 that everyone in
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Speaker 13: the stadium should turn and wave to the children watching
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Speaker 13: from the newly built University of Iowa hospital.
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Speaker 1: Wow. So just a random person who went viral. That's amazing.
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Speaker 3: Well, I can say this, and probably you guys as well,
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Speaker 3: you've been to some ballgame. A lot of ballgames does
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Speaker 3: stuff with hospitals.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: And I'm glad that they do because I've had a
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Speaker 3: chance to go watch A & M team go to.
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Speaker 1: Those a couple times.
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Speaker 9: Yes.
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Speaker 3: And when you see what it does for those kids,
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Speaker 3: they usually go to the kids.
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Speaker 1: No doubt.
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Speaker 3: You could think this is the best thing a.
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Speaker 1: Ball game does.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Because when you see it, you go like, those kids
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Speaker 3: are going to remember that.
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Speaker 1: And you forget the influence. The rest of their life.
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Speaker 1: That even college players have with these younger kids, right?
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Speaker 11: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 7: I mean, Chip, you're talking about tearing up. Every time
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Speaker 7: I see one of those, I make a wish.
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Speaker 1: Oh, good gosh. I don't want to start on that.
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Speaker 11: No, no.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 7: Let's go back to football.
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Speaker 1: So this weekend, normally– Texas-Oklahoma would be the premier game,
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Speaker 1: not only in college. I didn't look what's the spread
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Speaker 1: on that. Eight and a half. It went up to
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Speaker 1: eight and a half. But obviously, we talked a little
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Speaker 1: bit about Georgia-Alabama. I like Alabama for two reasons. I
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Speaker 1: like the quarterback a lot. And the fact is, no
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Speaker 1: one else owns Kirby Smart but Alabama. Kirby Smart has
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Speaker 1: had– That was Saban, mostly Saban. I get it. I
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Speaker 1: got you. I get it, but guess what? Kalen DeBoer
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Speaker 1: went to Georgia between the hedges and beat their butts
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Speaker 1: a year ago. He did. He did. I agree. And
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Speaker 1: they weren't as good a year ago.
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Speaker 3: And that's why you love the matchup because Kirby, he's
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Speaker 3: been there before, done it, and you're right. I always–
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Speaker 3: a lot of times I get down to, which we
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Speaker 3: always talk, quarterback, coach.
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Speaker 7: Yep.
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Speaker 1: Okay, trivia question. Who has the third highest winning percentage
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Speaker 1: of all time among major coaches against top 20 teams?
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Speaker 1: I guess Kirby Smart. Kalen DeBoer. Frank Leahy is like
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Speaker 1: number one on the list, and I forget who's number
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Speaker 1: two on the list. Kalen DeBoer is number three.
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Speaker 4: Hmm.
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Speaker 3: Because I say DeBoer hasn't coached that long.
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Speaker 1: Winning percentage. Winning percentage. So he's like 16-5. Okay. Against
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Speaker 1: top 25. Yeah, against ranked teams.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, 21.
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Speaker 1: That's a lot.
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Speaker 7: You said that you liked the quarterback, right?
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Speaker 1: I love him. I do, too. Russell, yeah.
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Speaker 7: Kalen Russell.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. He's getting better every game. Every week.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't great, especially against Kentucky in the first half,
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Speaker 1: and they had to fight like crazy. Yeah. And that's when, well,
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Speaker 1: this is Kentucky. Well, Kentucky's turned out to be a
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Speaker 1: pretty decent football team. But you're right, Cease. He's gotten
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Speaker 1: better every game, especially at taking care of the football.
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Speaker 7: Well, and Gunnar Stockton's a good quarterback.
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Speaker 1: He is. He is a good quarterback.
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Speaker 3: Right now, I would take Russell as my quarterback in
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Speaker 3: a big game. And, you know, that's interesting because... You
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Speaker 3: know Stockton's not going to make the big mistake.
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Speaker 1: He generally does not.
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Speaker 3: Now, Russell might try to make a big play. You're
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Speaker 3: exactly right. Which could lead to a big mistake or
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Speaker 3: a big touchdown. So what do you want to pick?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. That's tough. That's what I'm saying. That's
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Speaker 1: why it's a point-and-a-half game. It's a toss-up game. And
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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a really good game.
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Speaker 1: Between two teams that I don't think are going anywhere.
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Speaker 1: I don't think the loser of this game is... is
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Speaker 1: going anywhere personally. You know, you're right about that.
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Speaker 7: They're not going to make the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: No, no. I meant they're going to be around. That's
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Speaker 1: what I meant. That's a little bit like the Ole
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Speaker 1: Miss LSU game. They're not fading away, I guess is
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Speaker 1: the best way to put it.
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Speaker 3: But eventually. We're looking at these SEC matchups. A lot
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Speaker 3: of people are going to have two losses here pretty soon.
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Speaker 1: There's no question about that. Main good teams, not just
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Speaker 1: bad teams.
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Speaker 7: I see a lot of these other schools. I'm like, USC? Boy,
55:46
Speaker 7: they barely got by.
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Speaker 1: Don't get me started on that. We got to go, unfortunately.
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Speaker 1: We're out of time. Don't get me started on the visor.
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Speaker 9: Oh, man.
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