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College Football Playoff Semifinal Preview & Bengals Bring Back Zac Taylor · Height Differential

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  You ready? This is the height differential.
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  It's our first episode in 2026. That's the 66 NIL.
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  I'm the 14. Nick.
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  We got plenty to talk about. We're going to break down and go
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  into the College Football Playoff Final Four, which will
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  happen this Thursday and Friday. A bunch of NFL to get into a lot
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  of coaches getting fired. Some, some, some, some were not
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  fired somewhere. And then we'll talk a little
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  college hoops and get into some other stuff.
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  But I guess Neil, we're Can you believe it's already 2026?
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  Hey, it's it's 2026 off to a a great start.
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  I must say, after the Indiana Hoosiers absolutely take it to
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  the Alabama Crimson Tide on New Year's Day.
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  So 2026 off to a great start for me.
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  New Year's Eve was great. I don't know, we went had a
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  little party at some of our, our friends house, saw the ball drop
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  at midnight and came home with the bed.
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  So I don't know, would you do anything exciting?
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  We were going to go over the big dogs and it it didn't happen.
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  So then I just went up the hoops and I had a couple, couple beers
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  and. Bring in the New year hoops.
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  Yeah, so there you. Go.
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  Nothing, nothing, nothing too crazy, but there.
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  You go nothing, nothing, nothing says New Year's like some
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  boneless wings and champagne. Well, I didn't have any boneless
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  wings, but I had a lot of Bud Lights and some little too many
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  shots as well, probably. There you go.
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  Yeah, I guess we can get into go straight into the College
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  Football Playoff. Do you want to start with the I
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  guess we should start with the Fiesta Ball since that game
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  comes first. We can obviously get into your
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  Hoosiers, but let's start with the Fiesta Ball.
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  Who thought we were going to be seeing Miami and Ole Miss?
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  Yeah, neither one of us, because I'm pretty sure we had those two
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  teams as our least likely upsets and look what happened.
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  They both did it. So if you listen to the High
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  Differential podcast, which I, I hope you are, if you're
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  listening, if you're hearing us, that means you are We don't know
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  ball. So we don't know ball.
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  We, we just talk a bunch of nonsense and did not expect
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  either one of those teams to be in the position that they are,
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  especially Ole Miss with all the kind of circus that went around
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  the coaching turn over there and who's coaching, who's not
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  coaching and, and all that. But man, credit to them.
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  They played a great game against Georgia after, you know, they
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  lost to Georgia early in the year, earlier in the year and
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  and came back and got that revenge.
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  I mean they've lost one game and they led for 3/4 in that game
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  and then blew it in the 4th and that was Georgia and then they
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  ended up getting a revenge on them last week.
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  I mean, I didn't like all these games and now we've seen it
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  teams with the buyer one and seven overall.
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  Indiana's the only team that's one after getting a buy and
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  we'll get into that in their game more.
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  But even them on their first Dr. Mendoza gets sacked twice.
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  They go 3 and out. They kind of were able to get in
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  the rhythm after that, but I didn't think Georgia played
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  terrible in this game. No, it it was this game was
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  definitely the game of of the quarterfinals.
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  I mean it was back and forth. It was close pretty much the
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  whole way. You know, Georgia kicks the
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  field goal with less than a minute to play to tie it and Ole
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  Miss goes right down the field and and kicks that game winner
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  with six seconds left. So you know, it was by far the
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  the the best game of the four. And you know, you, you talked
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  about it with the, the teams on byes being 1:00 and 7:00.
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  And we mentioned like, is it a disadvantage not playing for a
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  month? Only these teams that are,
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  they're coming off, you know, a game from the week before, the
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  week 10 days before are backing in game shape.
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  And you know, you take that month off and it's like almost
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  like you're starting a season over.
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  Yeah, I mean, but I don't think that played that much of A role
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  in this game because it's I don't I didn't think Georgia
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  came out and and played poorly. I mean, they they built a lead
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  and really looked like they were in control.
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  And, you know, but the best player on the football field to
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  me was was Trinidad Chambliss. And when they were able to, you
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  know, get pressure on him, he was able to make those Superman
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  hero plays to keep Ole missing drives.
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  I mean he's running back to the 5 yard.
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  Line almost into his own end zone.
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  He not ran into his own end zone and came out of it.
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  And I mean, it helps when you've got the best player and on
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  whatever day that was New Year's, New Year's Day, he he
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  was the best player. And I think that he was the
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  reason why they were able to come out victorious.
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  I don't think it was because George was on a by and was kind
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  of sleepwalking. I don't I don't think that was
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  the case. That's been the case in some of
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  these games. Yeah.
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  And I don't think that was the case in that game.
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  I. Don't think in this game it was
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  either. I mean, like you said, Trey,
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  that Chambliss was the best player on the field and he threw
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  for 362 yards and two touchdowns.
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  I guess the pretty good George defense.
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  Hey, yeah, I mean, Ole Miss, Ole Miss won it for a little bit of
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  that game. George, I used to, George was in
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  controller up 9, but Ole Miss was just the better team that
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  day. And which to me is just kind of
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  surprising. Like I said, with all the the
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  stuff that went off or swung around after their last game in
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  the Egg Bowl and Lane Kiffin leaving and who's coaching and,
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  and all that. So credit to that coaching staff
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  to get these guys focused and have a game plan together to to
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  beat Georgia. Yeah.
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  And and then on the other side, I mean, I don't think either one
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  of us obviously didn't see this one coming as well as Miami's
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  defense continues to play to play lights out in the playoff.
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  They're not doing a ton offensively, but they haven't
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  had to in the first two games. And I do think maybe the BI
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  affected Ohio State a little bit potentially.
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  I don't think they played as smooth as game as as I said,
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  like I don't think it affected Georgia.
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  I think maybe it did affect Ohio State, but I mean, Miami and
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  their two games have rushed for 330 yards.
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  So it's a lot of people are comparing this Miami team to
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  Ohio State, who made the run through four games and won it
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  all last year. Yeah, I mean, the story is
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  Miami's defense, obviously, especially their defensive line,
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  probably the best in the country with Ruben Bayne leading the way
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  there. And you know, they showed it
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  once again against against Ohio State, They had that defensive
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  touchdown, which really kind of set the tone when they were up
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  7. Nothing to put them up two
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  scores. Yeah I mean Mark Fletcher's a
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  beast. They they dominated pretty much
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  that they they were in control that whole game against Ohio
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  State. And you look at Ohio State it's
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  it's did we over overestimate them?
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  Like did they you know that the three games where they played
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  their quality team or they're the top three teams that they
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  played all season. They put up low scoring number
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  that what they had ten against IU or something like that.
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  And against Texas they put up a 13 and then 14 here against
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  Miami. So, you know, when when the
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  competition gets tougher, Ohio State just doesn't seem to put
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  up very impressive offensive numbers.
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  Well, I mean, I think it's kind of what you see in college
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  football. You don't get to play everybody.
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  You're kind of stuck in playing your conference.
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  You get one or two non conference games and then
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  sometimes you get situations like this.
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  But now we've got Miami and on this who, who are you leaning
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  towards to to go to the ship? That's a tough one, man.
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  That's a tough one. And if I had to pick a team that
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  I would probably say, I mean, I keep going against the Canes,
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  but I'm probably going to say Ole Miss would be my my favorite
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  to win that. Like I said, they've only lost
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  one game all year. They've been challenged.
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  They played in the SEC. So they've been challenged
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  against some good teams, mainly Georgia twice and some other
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  good ones in Miami. You know, we keep on, I keep
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  underestimating them. I mean, with that defense, I
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  wouldn't be surprised if they won, but I just think Ole Miss
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  might be just a little bit better.
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  I don't know. Well, I I think whoever wins
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  this game is going to have to score 20 points at least.
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  Yeah. And who do I have more
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  confidence in doing that? I don't know.
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  Like we've talked about how good Miami's been rushing the
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  football, and that's what they want to do.
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  They don't want to. They want Carson Beck to just
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  kind of control the game, don't make mistakes and rely on that
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  running game. Like I said, they have 330
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  rushing yards in their first two games.
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  Ole Miss has given up 150 yards per game throughout the entire
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  year, so that lends to think that maybe Miami can have
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  success running the ball. They still got to get to that 20
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  point mark. I think who wins that game to me
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  when it comes down is because Miami's going to get pressure
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  with their front four. They don't have to blitz.
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  They're going to bring that front 4.
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  They're going to get pressure on Chambliss.
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  Can he make plays like he did against Georgia where he's out
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  of pocket? Because if he starts running
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  around and making those lineman run all over the place and wears
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  him out a little bit, maybe that plays in the favor of Ole Miss?
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  I, I think it's a tough game. I thought you were going to go
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  to Miami. I really did.
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  And I was going to go on this because I just, to me, Trinidad
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  Chambliss is the best player on the field at this point.
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  And that makes me want to lean Ole Miss.
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  I didn't go Ole Miss last week because of all the coaching
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  staff stuff. And now there's more changes.
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  Some of them are driving or flying back and forth between
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  Oxford and Baton Rouge. That's true.
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  I I This is why I had it as the least likely upset last week.
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  Yeah. And or and now I'm kind of
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  flipping to where I don't think it matters.
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  I just want to roll the momentum and see them go all the way
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  without lane given. Yeah, it's, I think it's going
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  to be a close game, I think, and I think you're right.
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  It's, you know, you score the 20 points, you're probably going to
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  win. I think Ole Miss wins if they
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  don't make mistakes and turn the ball over.
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  So they don't turn the ball over.
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  I think their offense is good enough to get to that 20 point
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  mark. I get even though Miami's
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  defenses is top, you know, 10 in the nation or top whatever they
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  are in the nation. I mean, you look at Ole misses
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  offensive outputs in the last. I mean they haven't scored less
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  than 30 points since October 11th when they scored 24 against
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  Washington State. But ever since then they put up
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  over 30 and even into the 40s. So their offense I think is good
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  enough to get to 20 points against Miami.
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  As long as they don't turn the ball over, I think Ole Miss
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  probably does win. It's definitely a game where
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  it's a tale of two strengths. It's my Ole Miss's offense
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  against Miami's defense. If Miami is able to get a lead
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  early by running the football and then then may I, I think it
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  definitely leans in favor of the Hurricanes.
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  This is not a game that they want to get behind.
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  And no, no, no, they they won't. They won't, yeah, they won't
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  win. Play it from when when you need
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  Carson Beck to come from behind. If they get up 10 O early, I
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  mean, I know we saw our oldest come back against Georgia.
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  I think, I think Miami's defense is is a little better than
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  Georgia's. Can they do it two games in a
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  row against a better defense? I don't know, but I I'm
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  surprised you're going on this. I'm going on this as well.
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  Yeah, I mean, there's it wouldn't shock me if we went the
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  other way either. I think it'll be close.
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  Nothing's going to shock you at this point.
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  No, it's true. And look, here's the thing.
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  Like either way, we get to see Pete Golden take Ole Miss to the
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  championship without half the coaching staff.
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  Or we get to see Miami play for a championship in their home
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  stadium and they're the last team that got in and now they
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  have a chance to to play for a title and potentially their home
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  stadium. Yeah, that would be good, yeah.
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  Well, to get to the Peach Bell, just I guess First off your
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  thoughts on you already kind of touched on a little bit, but
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  your thoughts on Indiana is just putting it on the Crimson Tide.
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  I mean, it was a dominating performance.
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  I mean, I mean, 38 to three, I didn't, I did not see that
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  coming. I thought IU would win, but I
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  thought that it would be maybe A1 score game.
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  But I mean, it was just dominate the IU defense.
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  Absolutely outstanding offense. Also great.
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  You know, Mendoza didn't have to do too much, but what he did, he
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  was almost perfect. He was 14 of 16 for 192 yards
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  and three touchdowns. And then on the ground they ran
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  for 215 yards. So offensively, A+.
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  Defensively holding Alabama to three points, A+.
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  And I know Simpson went out with an injury.
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  Was that right after halftime? So at that point the game was
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  pretty much over anyway. Yeah.
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  So I don't really think that they were going to come back,
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  but dominating performance on both sides of the ball for
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  Indiana I. Mean it kind of looked like what
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  Alabama used to be right yeah I mean just fundamentally sound
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  not missing tackles like they just do everything perfect like
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  it really like they just execute everything at all.
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  They don't miss tackles in the open field every play they run I
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  feel like they run it to perfection.
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  It's just I didn't think like everybody was talking about
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  that's that's one of the few things I think we got I got
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  right is I didn't think Alabama was going to be in Indiana and
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  you waver on a little bit just because once how do you see
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  Indiana and you see the name Alabama and it makes you waver.
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  I mean, that's really what it what it was, yeah.
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  But what we've seen all year long is Indiana, if they play an
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  inferior team, they put it on and I don't care if this team is
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  Alabama, they still were an inferior team and they put it on
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  them. I mean Indiana is the clear cut
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  best team in the country and they if they play 2 games as
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  well as they can and should play, they'll win a title.
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  Yeah, I mean, I I'm a little worried about the game coming
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  up. I know they've already beat
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  Oregon once and we'll get into it, but I, I think Oregon's the
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  best team the left. I mean, if they get through
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  Oregon, I think they win the title.
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  Well, I, I guess we'll go ahead and switch over to to Oregon,
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  who? I mean, we talked about Texas
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  Tech's defense, yeah, and being one of the best in the country.
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  But offensively, they had moved the ball all year and they don't
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  get a point against this Oregon defense, who obviously played
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  their best game defensively that they had played all season, just
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  needed 23 points to win. And now, I mean, there really
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  isn't a lot to dive into that game.
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  It was just a dominating performance by Oregon.
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  Yeah. I mean, do you have anything to
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  add? No, I mean, you shut out Texas
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  Tech. Yeah, like you said, only 23
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  points to win and you still win by 23 at the minutes.
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  That's pretty good. You know, the Oregon offense
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  against, like we said, that Texas Tech defense was was their
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  strength all season. And you know, Oregon still put
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  up, you know, 390 yards on them, 245 passing, only 64 on the
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  ground. But they really didn't need to
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  do much to to win so. No.
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  And for all everybody's questioning their defense after
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  James Madison in the second-half was kind of having their way,
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  they they put they put those questions to bed real quick.
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  And I mean 4. Turnovers, 4 turnovers by Texas
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  Tech really kind of did them. And I think there was one pick
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  in the end zone in that game as well.
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  And so, yeah. But really just a a clear cut
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  dominating performance by both of these teams.
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  And, and now we do get a rematch in the Peach Bowl.
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  I mean, do you say any way that the result is different this
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  time? I can see it, Yeah.
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  I mean, that was it. The the the game in Eugene was
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  was a close one. I mean, IU didn't win it until
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  late. And when they had that
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  interception to kind of seal it, they only won by what was it
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  like 3 I believe and find that score.
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  Nope. They went up winning by 10, but
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  they put it away late. But that game was close almost
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  the entire way. It was 20 to 20 in the fourth
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  quarter. So, you know, Oregon was right
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  there with them. I know that was at home.
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  So it makes it more impressive that IU went into Eugene and
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  won. I could see the result being
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  different. I don't think it will be
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  different, but Oregon's a really, really good football
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  team. Like I said, I think they're
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  probably the second best team left in this playoff.
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  So if I you can get through it, I think they they probably take
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  the whole thing. I mean, for the rankings, yeah,
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  they are. I mean, I think talent wise, I
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  think overall they are like if you just use the eye test, I
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  think they are. Going into the Tech game, the,
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  the one thing that I said about Oregon is their offense has not
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  been that great when they're playing top level defenses.
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  They, they didn't score a ton of points against Indiana.
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  They didn't score a ton of points against Iowa.
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  And you know, I mean, they scored 23 against Texas Tech,
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  but that's, you know, I mean, and they really didn't need to
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  put a ton of points up. So I, I can't, I think you can
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  kind of push that one aside. But Dante Moore threw for less
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  than 200 yards the last time out through 2 picks, was sacked 6
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  times. Yeah, but Oregon has now seen
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  Indiana's. Defense, I was like to say
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  you've probably have learned from that.
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  Like you, you know what Indiana can do and you've seen it first
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  hand. So now you make those
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  adjustments and you know, Dante Moore's one of the top
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  quarterbacks expected to go in the draft.
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  Like if it's not Mendoza at one, it would be him.
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  So, you know, it's a little. Bit on the other side, who is
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  trying to get a sixth year come back to Ole Miss, but these are
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  three of the best quarterbacks in the country.
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  So like Moore's got the talent to improve on 186 yards and two
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  touchdowns. Like I would be shocked if he
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  puts up better numbers than that.
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  But like you said, like you've seen this defense, once you're
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  you're you know what you're getting yourself into, you make
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  the adjustments. And Will Stein is who's still
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  the offensive coordinator there before he goes to Kentucky is 1
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  is regarded as one of the best offensive minds in college
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  football. So I think he he makes the
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  adjustments necessary. And I would expect Oregon's
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  offense to perform better than what they did.
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  Yeah, we'll see. We'll see.
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  And you got to try to get, they got their defenses got to get
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  some pressure on Mendoza. You know, the one thing that he
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  does sometimes is take sacks. So they they got to try to make
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  that happen. But I I just, there's there's
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  nothing. There's no way that I can bet
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  against Indiana. No, I wouldn't.
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  I would not either. I, I mean, if I think Indiana
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  wins and I expect it to be a largely pro Indiana crowd down
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  in Atlanta because it's not too far from from Indianapolis and
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  in the heart of Indiana. So I mean, it is a drivable
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  trip. It's not for the other guys.
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  It is not for not for Oregon. So I would expect it to be a pro
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  huge pro Indiana crowd, which plays into the Hoosiers favor.
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  And like it's, I think they ultimately they do win, but I
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  think it will still be a pretty good game.
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  One thing we didn't touch on was the offensive line and what Pat
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  Coogan. What winning the the Rose Bowl
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  MVP? Yeah.
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  I mean, they did give up two sacks on the first drive, so I
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  was kind of surprised by. That well after that.
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  They were, yeah, they were lights out.
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  After that. And look, we're talking about
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  the BI not being ready. They weren't ready for three
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  plays. Yeah.
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  And then it was, it was like, all right, let's go.
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  Yeah. But do you really?
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  Whoever wins this game you think wins it all, yes.
• 19:21
  So I'm not so sure on that. Do you think Ole Miss could beat
• 19:23
  one of these teams? Because you have Ole Miss
• 19:25
  beating Miami, so you think Ole Miss?
• 19:26
  I think I think Ole Miss or Miami could can beat Oregon.
• 19:30
  Could they beat Indiana? OK.
• 19:32
  I mean anything can happen but if they both teams play their
• 19:35
  best games now. Indiana's A national champion
• 19:38
  football team would be unbelievable.
• 19:40
  I. Mean we've talked about it.
• 19:41
  Blows my mind. There's there's nothing, there's
• 19:44
  nothing comparable about it in in college athletics and
• 19:49
  athletic and athletics maybe ever.
• 19:51
  And then on top of playing in the semi finals and playing in
• 19:54
  the Peach Bowl on Friday, the transfer portal is open.
• 19:58
  Guys are making recruit like trips to campuses and Kurt
• 20:02
  Zignetti is hosting transfer portal guys on campus and he's
• 20:06
  cleaning up in that too. Yeah, well, they've they've made
• 20:08
  one move than anybody else. One of the top quarterbacks he's
• 20:12
  got one of the top wide receivers coming in from from
• 20:15
  Michigan State like he's cleaning up in the portal, all
• 20:17
  while preparing to try to get to a national championship.
• 20:20
  Game and also like Dan Lanning is right like you shouldn't have
• 20:23
  to do both of these at the. Same.
• 20:24
  No, it's, it's absolutely ridiculous that that, that this
• 20:27
  has happened. Like I I don't know how they
• 20:29
  finished the tournament before New Year's Day, but.
• 20:34
  Why can't you just open the portal?
• 20:37
  Yeah, after on February 1st. I mean, I don't know, but it's
• 20:43
  it's the same in basketball too. I mean, I guess because you want
• 20:46
  to get guys enrolled for the winter semester, so they are
• 20:50
  spring semester, so they could play spring ball at the new
• 20:52
  school. I mean, I'm guessing that's
• 20:53
  what's behind. That's what it is.
• 20:54
  That's why they. Want it open?
• 20:55
  Yeah, yeah. But.
• 20:56
  And I mean, look, the teams that I'm playing right now, they,
• 20:59
  they ain't crying for the teams that are that are asking to do
• 21:02
  that's all, all at the same time.
• 21:03
  I mean, I guess it's true. If you if you don't want to have
• 21:06
  to deal with it, then I guess your team could suck and not be
• 21:08
  playing right now. Yeah, just just lose games and
• 21:11
  don't play. But it is.
• 21:12
  It is a mess. Yeah, but.
• 21:14
  It absolutely is a mess. But it's not affecting old Kurt
• 21:17
  Zignetti. He's cleaning up in the portal
• 21:18
  and I'm sure he'll have his guys ready to go on Friday.
• 21:21
  It is just, I mean, you cannot say enough about the job that
• 21:27
  that he did his first year. Now he's one of two up in it in
• 21:31
  his second year. It's just it's remarkable.
• 21:34
  And now Indiana is the heavy favorite to win a national
• 21:39
  title. They bring it home.
• 21:41
  Today, NFL. Yeah, we talking about the games
• 21:44
  or we talking about the coaches first?
• 21:46
  Well, I. Well.
• 21:47
  We just talking about the Bengals for another.
• 21:49
  Let's just start with the Bengals.
• 21:51
  I mean the game like it was clear they had no interest in
• 21:56
  getting Joe Burrow hurt. Bunch of quick outs, didn't
• 21:59
  really run their full offense until the last drive of the game
• 22:01
  where they they ran the classics where they got T with the back
• 22:04
  shoulder. Jamar across the middle finally
• 22:07
  got him in the end zone to take the lead.
• 22:09
  Joe misses the throw on the two point conversion to put him up 3
• 22:12
  where he had him. Browns get 2 defensive scores.
• 22:17
  McPherson misses two extra points, and that's how you end
• 22:21
  up losing. I mean, that's what it is.
• 22:23
  It's more of the, I mean, not the game doesn't really matter,
• 22:26
  to be honest with you. I didn't watch the game because
• 22:29
  A wasn't on local TV and B, we had women's basketball game.
• 22:32
  So I was working. But I did catch, you know, read
• 22:35
  about it, caught, caught the highlights.
• 22:36
  And it's more of Cincinnati just beat themselves than Cleveland
• 22:40
  wanted. I mean, the two defensive
• 22:41
  touchdowns. I mean, Cleveland scored six
• 22:43
  offensive points. Six.
• 22:45
  Yeah. And.
• 22:47
  And three of. Two missed extra points, a
• 22:49
  missed 2 point conversion, 2 missed extra points.
• 22:51
  I mean, that's what it is. I mean, the Bengals just lost
• 22:53
  the game themselves and they once again goes back to not
• 22:57
  being prepared. You're coaching all of it,
• 23:00
  whatever it doesn't. Look, here's my thing.
• 23:03
  Like we we talked all about this last week, like all the
• 23:06
  momentum, like whatever this fake momentum at the end of the
• 23:09
  season, I'm glad I'm I'm glad they're going in the offseason
• 23:12
  with a loss. Now does it making changes?
• 23:15
  No, but I'm glad they're going to this season with a loss and
• 23:19
  we're not able to talk about, hey, we went into the end of the
• 23:23
  season winning three in a row, winning five in a row like they
• 23:25
  did last year. They don't get that talking
• 23:27
  point. But before we move on, no
• 23:30
  offense, that was his third time this year that he has put the
• 23:34
  ball on the ground and another team has picked it up and
• 23:37
  scored. And one other stat for you.
• 23:41
  Only three teams this year saw that in one game have had a pick
• 23:46
  six and a scoop and score. It's happened all three times
• 23:49
  against the Cincinnati Bengals. All three of them, yes.
• 23:52
  Against the Vikings, the Steelers.
• 23:54
  Steelers. Yep.
• 23:55
  And Noah Phantom was involved in all three of those scoop and
• 23:58
  scores. Yes, yes, Zach Taylor in his his
• 24:05
  post game says that was a fitting way to end the season.
• 24:12
  Like what? What do you think when you hear
• 24:16
  the head coach say that? Because he ain't wrong.
• 24:18
  It's fitting, but it's. But that's not taking response.
• 24:22
  But he's not taking responsibility for the way the
• 24:24
  season went. It's like, oh, it's just
• 24:25
  fitting. Like it was just bad luck that
• 24:27
  things just didn't go our way. It's like, no, they didn't go
• 24:30
  your way because you didn't have the team prepared to play good
• 24:32
  football. Like take some responsibility
• 24:35
  it, it is a fitting way, but it's fitting because you made it
• 24:38
  that way. Well, how many?
• 24:40
  How many times this season have they had the lead with less than
• 24:44
  two minutes to go in a game? And how many times have they
• 24:49
  stop the defense from scoring in that situation and won the game?
• 24:54
  Zero times. Yes, and the only time they did
• 24:58
  win a game late was game one when Cleveland missed a field
• 25:02
  goal at the buzzer. So it wasn't because your
• 25:04
  defense. And you could also game Game 2
• 25:07
  when Browning scored with what? But they didn't let, they didn't
• 25:11
  give him a chance to get the ball back, really.
• 25:13
  Right. So I mean, that also happened in
• 25:15
  the Steelers win. Yeah.
• 25:18
  I mean, T Higgins slides down. So the defense.
• 25:20
  Doesn't. Have another chance?
• 25:22
  Yeah, no, you're right. So.
• 25:23
  In order to win games, you either got to score at the
• 25:25
  buzzer or your players got to take these inside of five and
• 25:28
  rely on kicking a field goal to win it.
• 25:30
  It's pretty sad. Jamar Chase, they asked him
• 25:32
  about what? What do you think Zach meant
• 25:35
  when he said this? A fitting way.
• 25:37
  Oh, he said. You'd have to go ask Zach.
• 25:39
  He wouldn't even like what he's. Talking about.
• 25:40
  Yeah, he's like, yeah, yeah. And look it it, it is fitting.
• 25:45
  And this is the way that you've lost every game.
• 25:48
  But instead of saying it's fitting, say our defense isn't
• 25:52
  good enough to hold teams in the final minute to win games.
• 25:57
  And if they were, our record would have maybe flipped 345
• 26:01
  games. And if you do that like you're
• 26:06
  in the playoffs. But this defense is what we knew
• 26:09
  they were. Changing your defensive
• 26:11
  coordinator and adding two rookie linebackers and one
• 26:16
  defensive lineman is not going to go from being the worst
• 26:19
  defense to even 20th. They got worse.
• 26:23
  They got worse. And now you're in the same exact
• 26:26
  situation and you're bringing everybody back.
• 26:32
  How many coaches got fired today?
• 26:33
  I don't know of at least 4. How many ended up getting fired?
• 26:37
  At Falcons fired. Mahit Morris is gone.
• 26:40
  Browns. Raiders.
• 26:42
  Pansky gone. Carols, Cardinals.
• 26:45
  Yes, gone. Is there another?
• 26:50
  I don't. I didn't write them down, but
• 26:51
  the plenty of coaches got the axe today.
• 26:55
  Except the one that's probably deserve it the most.
• 26:58
  But we knew it wasn't going to happen.
• 27:01
  And I will. There was one telling thing
• 27:04
  today. One telling thing.
• 27:07
  Yeah, in Mike Brown's statement talking about how they believe
• 27:11
  in this staff and they're all coming back next year, he
• 27:14
  mentioned Duke Tobin. Yeah.
• 27:18
  Duke Tobin usually does not get mentioned.
• 27:21
  Usually he's in the what? Does that tell?
• 27:22
  So what is that telling you? At least tells me that they are
• 27:27
  aware that the job that he did last offseason wasn't enough.
• 27:32
  OK. And they still believe in him
• 27:35
  because he's been there 20 something years and he had
• 27:37
  drafted Achille Smith in 1999. They still believe in him.
• 27:40
  But I do think it shows that they're at least aware that they
• 27:45
  need to do more in the offseason.
• 27:46
  Well, they better be aware. Every fan in Cincinnati's
• 27:50
  probably emailing Mike Brown saying get rid of Duke Tobin.
• 27:53
  He's probably heard the name Duke Tobin more times in his the
• 27:56
  last six months than he has in the previous ten years.
• 27:59
  I mean, have you? Yeah, everybody has.
• 28:03
  So of course he's aware. And do Tobin, who never talks to
• 28:06
  the media, guess what he's doing on Friday?
• 28:09
  I don't even want to hear you. I.
• 28:10
  Mean it's going to be interesting what he says like
• 28:13
  the fact that. Would you?
• 28:14
  Do you believe anything that he says?
• 28:16
  Well, we'll, we'll see what he says, OK?
• 28:18
  But the way this team was constructed with that defense
• 28:25
  and the fact that you thought, I don't know if they thought or
• 28:29
  not, there was no way that that defense was going to help you
• 28:32
  win games. No, there's just no way.
• 28:34
  No. And I hope that he admits that a
• 28:40
  little bit on Friday because they have to do more.
• 28:44
  You have to do more. They are.
• 28:46
  They are seventh in the They ranked 7th in cap space with
• 28:50
  like $77 million available on that accounts, with Trey's money
• 28:54
  coming off the books. All of that money should go to
• 28:57
  defense. Don't touch the off and bring
• 28:59
  back Reisner. Everybody else back that on that
• 29:03
  offensive line. Did you know of?
• 29:05
  No, they are. Everybody else is back on that
• 29:08
  offense. Don't touch it.
• 29:11
  All defense, all $70 million of it defense, they better spend
• 29:16
  it. They better spend it.
• 29:18
  If you got the space, spend it. Well, yeah, it and we talked
• 29:23
  about this last week. It has to be like the off the
• 29:26
  the free agent signings where they brought in Trey and they
• 29:28
  brought in Vaughn Bell and they brought in that's that you have
• 29:32
  to do this again and you have to get it right.
• 29:35
  And hey, Joe Burrow was his hair all grown out and he's running
• 29:42
  his fingers through it the entire press conference.
• 29:45
  But. He kind of looks like a bomb.
• 29:48
  And he needs a haircut. But this, he said it.
• 29:52
  Should he go see Tammy at the Fern Creek Craigslist?
• 29:55
  He needs to go see somebody. But this offseason as big as it
• 29:58
  gets and look, I get on the national media for this
• 30:04
  narrative that he doesn't want to be here, that he's going to
• 30:07
  retire, that he's that he's going to leave and all this.
• 30:11
  But if you do this again and you make.
• 30:13
  This is your last chance. This is your last chance to get
• 30:15
  this right, because if you don't get it right this year, it's
• 30:18
  over. It's done.
• 30:20
  And it's an absolute disservice to not only him, to Jamar Chase,
• 30:26
  to T Higgins, to Chase Brown, to all those guys on that offense.
• 30:31
  Yeah, this is your last chance to get it right.
• 30:34
  And you finally got your offensive line.
• 30:37
  It's the best offensive line they've had since Joe's been
• 30:40
  there. Correct.
• 30:41
  And you've got a chance to bring that same offensive line back to
• 30:44
  have continuity, which we know how important continuity is when
• 30:47
  it comes to offensive line. Yeah.
• 30:50
  And Risner in his post game is just talking about how much he
• 30:53
  wants to be here. And he just hopes that the
• 30:58
  organization wants him there too.
• 30:59
  And I, I mean, but we, we've made, we've said a lot of bad
• 31:03
  things about the organization. I don't think if they can't get
• 31:05
  this one done, but it's just I think.
• 31:08
  We're not the only ones that feel this way.
• 31:09
  I mean, I sent you the Nick Lachey can Nick Lachey by the
• 31:13
  team because Nick Lachey thinks like us.
• 31:15
  I don't. Think he's that rich?
• 31:17
  90° they they didn't go 20 times platinum enough to what did what
• 31:22
  did. Nick Lachey say.
• 31:24
  It's all right. Let's read his quote here for
• 31:26
  you. He posted this on his social
• 31:29
  media. I think it was Instagram or
• 31:30
  something. But Nick Lachey, this is a quote
• 31:35
  from Nick Lachey. This is a slap in the face to
• 31:37
  all Bengals fans and build a team around them.
• 31:42
  As you said, he's more than 98%. Right.
• 31:44
  He's more than you stole. We stole my line.
• 31:46
  But. Yeah, he's absolutely right.
• 31:49
  He's 198% right. Like that's the way that I don't
• 31:54
  understand how we can all see it in old Man.
• 31:57
  Brown's doesn't understand it. But he might understand it.
• 32:01
  He just don't want you don't want to spend it.
• 32:04
  I look they're loyal to a fault and look loyal can be a good
• 32:08
  quality. It can.
• 32:11
  But I just think that this offense deserves somebody else
• 32:17
  in charge. I don't get a sense of 100%
• 32:21
  confidence in this staff when I hear Joe talk, when I hear Jamar
• 32:25
  talk. No.
• 32:26
  And you want that. And look, this offense is fine.
• 32:29
  Like everybody's talking about take away play calling from
• 32:31
  Zach. I it's, that's not why they're
• 32:34
  losing games. There's times where I'm like,
• 32:37
  what like? His decision making, his
• 32:39
  decision. Making happen with any that
• 32:42
  that's going to happen with any play caller.
• 32:44
  His game management and his decision making is poor and it
• 32:48
  happened yesterday and we saw it on the the one where it was
• 32:51
  fourth and one and we took the delay of game and we should have
• 32:54
  gone forward and there's another time or you know, you maybe you
• 32:56
  shouldn't have gone forward and you did.
• 32:59
  But it happens time and time again where they take delay of
• 33:01
  games or they're not lined up ready and they're like they just
• 33:04
  look a mess. And that's on the head coach.
• 33:08
  And that has nothing to do with play calling.
• 33:10
  He needs to grow up. But I I mean the his play
• 33:15
  calling is not why they're losing games.
• 33:17
  I didn't. No, it's not.
• 33:18
  But he needs to grow up as a game manager.
• 33:22
  That's a big part of being a head coach, I think.
• 33:24
  I think he, I think more importantly is you need to be a
• 33:26
  team manager and you you got to play complimentary football.
• 33:30
  Yeah, because how many times do we see this team play
• 33:33
  complimentary football this year?
• 33:35
  0. No, I think twice.
• 33:37
  When Baltimore. The last two.
• 33:39
  Before this one when it was already over.
• 33:41
  Maybe the Baltimore game at Baltimore.
• 33:44
  Yeah, potentially, maybe 3. We created what, 4 turnovers for
• 33:48
  five turnovers? But I don't know, just it's
• 33:51
  disheartening to see all these teams make moves and you know
• 33:53
  your team's not going to make move and and then it doesn't.
• 33:57
  Speaking of making moves and we can get off the Bengals finally,
• 34:00
  will the Baltimore Ravens make a move?
• 34:03
  I mean, I don't see that. I mean, that's that's the
• 34:06
  speculation going around right now is will Jim John Harbaugh,
• 34:10
  will John Harbaugh be back next year?
• 34:12
  What that that team looks like? Well, if he's not, then I'm
• 34:16
  going to go be in charge of the Bengals and fire Zach Taylor and
• 34:18
  bring him to Cincinnati. I would.
• 34:21
  Agree, that would make no sense to to fire him.
• 34:24
  I mean, you're going to fire a guy because your kicker missed a
• 34:27
  44 yard field goal or in a in a season, in a season where you
• 34:31
  started one in five and all you need.
• 34:33
  Was that might be why you fired the guys because you started,
• 34:36
  you had no business starting one in five and you missed the
• 34:39
  playoffs. But they did.
• 34:41
  I mean they. Ravens the Ravens had.
• 34:42
  But the roster the Ravens put together?
• 34:44
  They have no business missing the playoffs.
• 34:45
  Well, here's look, we can get to that game last night.
• 34:48
  Both those teams suck. Like neither one of those teams
• 34:51
  are good. Like yeah, they both kept
• 34:54
  scoring because both defenses are terrible.
• 34:56
  And we've talked about how bad all the defenses are in the AFC
• 34:59
  North all year. Yeah, like they those are not 2
• 35:03
  good football teams. Those are two bad football
• 35:06
  teams. They can't figure out a way to
• 35:07
  stop the other team. It's true.
• 35:11
  That is true. And it just so happened that a
• 35:15
  rookie who had been great all year just wasn't up to the
• 35:20
  moment. And that's why Aaron Rodgers and
• 35:22
  Mike Tomlin are going to the playoffs and John Harbaugh and
• 35:24
  Lamar aren't. And is that going to be a if if
• 35:27
  you're going to fire John Harbaugh anyways, like, but I'm
• 35:31
  not because they lost that game either way, can't be a reason
• 35:35
  why you fire somebody. No, I just think maybe because
• 35:37
  you missed the playoffs with a roster and talent that has no
• 35:41
  business missing the playoffs. Kind of like Cincinnati's
• 35:44
  offense. What?
• 35:45
  Is their is their roster that great?
• 35:49
  I think so, yeah. Is it like neither defense is
• 35:52
  good like they're getting older like these aren't the same
• 35:57
  Pittsburgh Baltimore defenses that we've seen in the past like
• 36:01
  and we're acting like it is I. Mean Baltimore.
• 36:03
  Yeah, they've had a lot of injuries, too.
• 36:05
  I mean the last, but when you're Baltimore and you're coming off
• 36:08
  an AFC title appearance and then last year you would you lose in
• 36:12
  Buffalo with a chance to go to this because Marc Andrews
• 36:15
  dropped that two point conversion.
• 36:16
  Like you're a play away from getting back to the AFC
• 36:19
  championship game 2 two years in a row and then all of a sudden
• 36:22
  you start with one in five and miss the playoffs.
• 36:24
  What was that about? That's because their defense
• 36:27
  wasn't good at the beginning of the year.
• 36:28
  And also Lamar, even though he made plays yesterday, it's still
• 36:32
  not the MAR that we're the Lamar we're used to seeing.
• 36:35
  I think yesterday was the Lamar. No, it's not.
• 36:37
  It's broken plays like you could have, you could have made.
• 36:42
  That throw that throw on 4th and 9 just put them into field goal
• 36:45
  range before they missed field goal was great.
• 36:47
  Yeah, fantastic catch by Isaiah likely on the other end.
• 36:51
  Yeah, but like, he completed what, 11 passes for 250 yards
• 36:56
  because over 100 of them came on 2 busted plays.
• 36:59
  And you can tell when he's rolling out that this is not the
• 37:02
  same Lamar. He's not 100% healthy.
• 37:05
  He hasn't been. Well, he's not as fast as he was
• 37:08
  when he was a rookie. I mean, he's not going to outrun
• 37:10
  dudes anymore. We're not.
• 37:11
  Talking about a rookie we're talking about.
• 37:12
  Last year, I don't know he's I wouldn't say he's not as good,
• 37:15
  he's just not as fast. He just, he's not 100%.
• 37:18
  He's not 100%. I don't know that 100% Lamar is
• 37:22
  even going to be the same Lamar that you expect.
• 37:24
  Well, maybe not, but he's he's not at 100% capacity right now.
• 37:28
  And I mean, they took advantage of I mean the same play twice.
• 37:34
  It's like, look, it was a replay where they just gets completely
• 37:37
  free, which I don't understand how it happens.
• 37:40
  But just my bottom line on that one is neither one of those
• 37:45
  teams are very good. And I would be shocked if if the
• 37:51
  Steelers even really give the Texans a run for them.
• 37:55
  So Raheem Morris talked about him.
• 37:58
  He's one of the coaches that got fired.
• 38:01
  They were like 4 and one in prime time games.
• 38:07
  They were eliminated from playoff contention on November
• 38:12
  the 30th when they lost to The Jets 27 to 24.
• 38:18
  And if you lose The Jets, you should be eliminated from
• 38:19
  playoff contention. You should have like a
• 38:22
  three-year right in Bain. Yeah, right.
• 38:24
  Yeah. So they're eliminated from
• 38:26
  playoff contention on November the 30th, and then they lose the
• 38:29
  Seahawks. They win their next four, and
• 38:32
  they end up in a tie with the best record in the NFC South.
• 38:35
  Even though they were eliminated, that's in November.
• 38:39
  That's wild. The Jets, In their five games
• 38:43
  after beating the Falcons, all losses are outscored 188 to 54.
• 38:49
  And they also, and they also finished the season with goose
• 38:54
  egg. And Glenn did not get fired.
• 38:56
  Also how about The Jets go 17 games full season and don't have
• 39:02
  an interception? 0.
• 39:04
  Zero. Like not not even like a tip
• 39:07
  ball that just falls into a defender's hands 0 like
• 39:12
  everyone, like every team gets a lucky interception.
• 39:14
  Like you know, like that ball that's tipped in the air
• 39:16
  deflected something here, an overthrow quarterback makes an
• 39:19
  overthrow in his lanes right in the safeties lap.
• 39:21
  I mean, even Gino Stone had more than one interception this year
• 39:24
  and he's the worst safety in the league, and it's all because the
• 39:26
  ball's just somehow magically thrown right to him.
• 39:28
  Not the only thing he does well. Neil is sometimes play center
• 39:32
  field. He just wait for the ball to hit
• 39:34
  him in the lap. But how does that not happen to
• 39:37
  The Jets? Not one time.
• 39:38
  Well. Terrible football team.
• 39:42
  Terrible, terrible football team that.
• 39:45
  There have been terrible football team before.
• 39:47
  The Cincinnati Bengals. There have been, oh, and 17
• 39:49
  football teams before. The Browns, the Lions, and they
• 39:52
  all at least have an interception.
• 39:53
  Yep, this team didn't get one. That sounds blood.
• 39:56
  That blows my mind. This team didn't get one, No.
• 39:59
  And there was another play. This the Colts.
• 40:05
  Did you see the play in the Colts game?
• 40:07
  No. They ran a fake punt like on 4th
• 40:09
  and five OK in the first half against the Texans.
• 40:13
  Yeah. They get it.
• 40:16
  They leave the fake punt unit out there.
• 40:18
  They. Went like first down, no huddle.
• 40:22
  They left it out there, yeah. There's like, what?
• 40:24
  No. Or did they huddle up?
• 40:25
  They, they just went no huddle. OK, they get a 12.
• 40:28
  They get a 12 man, 12 man on the field penalty against the
• 40:31
  Texans. Smart, OK.
• 40:35
  Didn't win on the game, but I just, I was just, I'd never seen
• 40:40
  a team leave their punt unit out there after running a fake punt
• 40:44
  and picking it up and leaving them out there for first down.
• 40:46
  Thought that was something that was.
• 40:48
  I mean, when you're eliminated from the playoffs, you can get
• 40:51
  creative with doing stupid stuff like that and make it fun.
• 40:53
  So good for. That the The only other game
• 40:57
  that's mattered this week was the Bucks.
• 41:00
  In the Panthers game, the Panthers lose, lose 3 out of
• 41:05
  their last four. But then thanks to the Falcons
• 41:09
  beating the Saints, yeah, they still get in the playoffs.
• 41:12
  Do the Panthers? I mean, the Panthers have some
• 41:14
  big wins this year and then they beat they have.
• 41:16
  They have they have less wins than they have.
• 41:19
  I mean, no, they they're under 5.
• 41:21
  They're hosting a playoff game at with a record of 8:00 and
• 41:24
  9:00. But in those eight wins, they've
• 41:28
  beaten the Rams, they've beaten the Green Bay Packers, they've
• 41:33
  beaten what's at the time I thought was a good Dallas
• 41:36
  Cowboys team, you know, so they've beaten some some decent
• 41:39
  teams along the way. So any one game can they win?
• 41:44
  Sure. But more than likely, they're
• 41:46
  going to lose. Well, they're 10 point.
• 41:49
  Who are they? They're playing the Rams again,
• 41:51
  right? They're playing the Rams, they
• 41:52
  just beat them. Beat them on Yeah, right after
• 41:55
  Thanksgiving on the 30th. So it's not unheard of they can
• 42:00
  do it. I don't think they will, but
• 42:02
  it's possible. If you you get 10 points, you've
• 42:05
  taken that against a team that they just.
• 42:07
  Win. Nah.
• 42:10
  Wait. Say that again.
• 42:12
  Like they're getting 10 points at home.
• 42:13
  I mean, if you were to, would you, would you take them?
• 42:16
  Probably not, but it I mean, I'll probably get burned by it.
• 42:23
  But also like, can we stop with this?
• 42:25
  If you have a losing record, you don't get in the playoffs, you
• 42:27
  just go to the fourth wild card team.
• 42:29
  Just get a fourth wild card team in there, some team that at
• 42:32
  least is a couple games above 500 and, and, and let's go like
• 42:35
  you should not be a playoff team with a losing record.
• 42:38
  Well, do you know who gets in before you make up this, this,
• 42:42
  this point that you want to bring up?
• 42:44
  Because it's it's JJ McCarthy in the Minnesota Vikings.
• 42:49
  But they've got a winning record.
• 42:52
  They do. So yeah, I think the Vikings
• 42:54
  deserve you don't think the Vikings have deserve a better
• 42:57
  have a better shot than the the Panthers.
• 43:00
  I mean, they won one more game. The Panthers won their division.
• 43:04
  I don't know, Like it's a. Terrible division.
• 43:07
  Well, I think it's not like the the Vikings won one more game.
• 43:11
  I, I don't know, like if there would have been a team that was
• 43:14
  10 and seven, I would have. Liked the scene.
• 43:16
  I would have like maybe if if it's not the Vikings then then
• 43:20
  the lions. The lions are also not 8 either.
• 43:22
  1 maybe? You should, maybe you should get
• 43:23
  into the College Football Playoff where you can just pick
• 43:25
  and you want to get in, because that ain't how the NFL works.
• 43:28
  I just think that in the losing record, no matter if you win
• 43:31
  your division, you should not be in the playoffs.
• 43:33
  Yeah, that's why I brought up the question like but.
• 43:38
  So you're hosting a home game. Like, how ridiculous is that
• 43:41
  that the Saint Louis or that the LA Rams have to go to the
• 43:45
  Panthers in this playoff game? Yeah, I mean, it's not the first
• 43:48
  time this has happened. Like you shouldn't just
• 43:51
  automatically get home field advantage because you win your
• 43:53
  division. This is a this is a annual
• 43:55
  problem with the NFC South. This is not the first time the
• 44:01
  the Bucks usually are the they take advantage of this.
• 44:06
  And now the Panthers are taking a heck of the AFC SA ton of
• 44:08
  times, too. 12:00 and 5:00 and have to go across the country
• 44:13
  and play an 8 and 19 if four more wins and have to play on
• 44:18
  the road makes no sense. They need to change that.
• 44:22
  You agree with that. What do you do?
• 44:24
  Like if you win your division, maybe you get in the playoffs,
• 44:27
  but you you see based on record. So then put the put the the the
• 44:33
  the Panthers as the eighth seed and.
• 44:36
  I don't think I I don't think I would have a problem with.
• 44:38
  That and not the four seed. But so is is your.
• 44:42
  If they are 9 and eight, they get to host.
• 44:44
  No, only if you. Only if you're a top four seed.
• 44:47
  OK, so you just have to have a top 4 record regardless of the
• 44:50
  correct? So your division winners get in
• 44:52
  but then the top 4 records. But you don't automatically.
• 44:55
  It's just like the College Football Playoff, like you win
• 44:58
  your your conference, you're in, but that doesn't guarantee you a
• 45:01
  buy or doesn't guarantee you a home game.
• 45:04
  You seed. You seed based on record.
• 45:06
  You can get in, but you might be the eighth seed, as it should
• 45:09
  be. I can get down with.
• 45:11
  That I. Mean an 89 team hosting a team
• 45:14
  that his 12 and 5 doesn't doesn't make a ton of sense.
• 45:19
  And that game will be Saturday at 4:30.
• 45:22
  Surprise, surprise. Surprise, surprise.
• 45:24
  The Saturday night game Packers at Bears.
• 45:27
  We just saw this one a couple weeks ago.
• 45:29
  Do you think the Bears going to do it again?
• 45:32
  Will they split in the regular season?
• 45:33
  They just split the regular season.
• 45:36
  I mean, I've kept doubting the Bears all year and they keep
• 45:38
  winning, so no reason to doubt them here.
• 45:40
  I think at home, I think the Bears win.
• 45:43
  What's the spreads? Only 1 1/2, so almost a toss up
• 45:46
  there. Jordan Love is supposed to play
• 45:49
  I. Mean that that definitely helps.
• 45:52
  Do I think the Packers are a better team?
• 45:55
  Probably, but instead of doubt. Doubted the Bears all year and
• 45:59
  they've proven me wrong. And with it being at home, I
• 46:03
  would go Chicago. Yeah, I mean, I I think I'll go
• 46:07
  Packers just because they've got a little more experience, but
• 46:12
  the Bears, this is probably going to be a close game.
• 46:14
  And what has the Bears done all year?
• 46:15
  They win close games. Until they lost to the Niners,
• 46:19
  Yeah. And I don't know, I'll.
• 46:21
  I'll go Packers in that one. The final game in the NFC will
• 46:25
  be Sunday at 4:30. 49ers at the Eagles should be, I think this
• 46:30
  one I'm looking forward to. Yeah, I mean, did Purdy got hurt
• 46:34
  in the finale other day, didn't he?
• 46:36
  He'll play. Is he supposed to play?
• 46:38
  I mean, I'm probably going Eagles.
• 46:41
  I'm going I'm going Niners in that one.
• 46:43
  I I don't trust the seagulls offense.
• 46:45
  Their defense is, is good and I mean that's their, but I don't
• 46:50
  see them slowing down this 49ers offense.
• 46:53
  I, I mean the 49ers were, I mean the Seahawks are just their
• 46:59
  defense is incredible, but they had an opportunity to win the
• 47:01
  one, get the one seed. I I just think they've been
• 47:04
  playing better as of late. I'm going the Niners in that
• 47:06
  one. Yeah, yeah.
• 47:08
  I don't know. I think playing a playoff game
• 47:11
  in Philadelphia is going to be tough, but I wouldn't be
• 47:15
  surprised if the Niners won it. I think it'll be a good one.
• 47:18
  Bills at Jags, which I think is super enticing.
• 47:23
  I think that's probably the if I had to pick, I'd say that's
• 47:26
  probably the game in the first round, would you not?
• 47:28
  Sunday at 1:00. Like, don't you think that's the
• 47:31
  most intriguing match up out of all six?
• 47:33
  Yeah, I mean, the Bills are a 1 1/2 point favorite on the road.
• 47:37
  And I mean, I, I, I think if I was making a A line, I would
• 47:42
  have something similar to that. Yeah.
• 47:45
  I mean, Liam Cohen to me is the coach of the year like people
• 47:52
  are. Over variable.
• 47:54
  Yeah, I, I, I do because I, I think people were almost
• 47:57
  counting Trevor Lawrence's career is done and.
• 48:01
  I agree, I probably would would say the same.
• 48:03
  I think he's probably coached the only because he's a first
• 48:05
  time head coach. Yeah, and, and, but also the
• 48:08
  fact that, I mean, a lot of people were thinking Trevor
• 48:12
  Lawrence might be in the same position that Tua is in right
• 48:14
  now. Yeah, after this season.
• 48:16
  And instead, you, you're 13 and 4, you had a chance to be the
• 48:20
  number one seed in the AFC. Yeah.
• 48:24
  I, I just think it's an incredible job that he's done
• 48:26
  now when picking this game. I, I think this is Josh Allen's
• 48:30
  chance to win the Super Bowl. I think he's going to take
• 48:32
  advantage of. It well, it's his best chance
• 48:34
  he's had. I think he's going to at least
• 48:35
  get there. I don't know if he's going to
• 48:36
  win it, but I'm I'm taking the Bills.
• 48:38
  I mean, when you're in a playoffs with no Mahomes, no
• 48:41
  Burrow, no Lamar, you know, this is this is your chance. 100%.
• 48:47
  So I think he takes advantage of it.
• 48:49
  I think they win that game and I think they probably, if I had to
• 48:52
  pick a winner of the of the AFCI, think I'm taking Josh
• 48:55
  Allen and the Bills overall. Yeah, I I just said yeah, the
• 49:00
  same thing. And look, and it's probably us
• 49:02
  both being hard headed because the Bills have been there and
• 49:05
  the rest of these teams haven't, and they've lost some games this
• 49:08
  year that they shouldn't have. But he's the best quarterback in
• 49:12
  this tournament and so I'm rolling with him.
• 49:16
  Chargers at Patriots Sunday night, 8:00 I mean.
• 49:19
  I I think the Patriots win that one.
• 49:22
  I would say that they win that one pretty easily too.
• 49:24
  The two scores, 2 score. Patriot win.
• 49:26
  Upset. Justin Herbert, You're going
• 49:28
  with Justin Herbert, the Chargers.
• 49:30
  Yeah. My God.
• 49:32
  One always happens. This is for Drake Bay's first
• 49:35
  time, just not Justin Herbert's first time.
• 49:38
  Jim Harbaugh's proved that he can win these games.
• 49:41
  I know their offensive lines banged up a little bit, but
• 49:45
  they're New England's only a 3 1/2 point favorite at home,
• 49:49
  which tells me that Vegas thinks this game's going to be a lot
• 49:52
  closer. And some people think, too,
• 49:54
  there's going to be an upset. This is the one I'm rolling
• 49:56
  with. There was an upset.
• 49:57
  It's going to be it. I know that.
• 49:59
  We just said how bad they are. It's going to be the Steelers
• 50:01
  over the Texans at home. Tell me why.
• 50:04
  Just dot, it's at, it's at Pittsburgh.
• 50:07
  They have the home field advantage which.
• 50:09
  Is so do the Panthers. You didn't pick the Panthers.
• 50:10
  Well, the Panthers suck. They're 8-9.
• 50:12
  At least the Steelers have a winning record.
• 50:15
  But Mike Tomlin, Mike Tomlin has has been here.
• 50:18
  I mean he does this year in and year out, Don't doubt Aaron
• 50:22
  Rodgers, he doesn't. Win playoff games year in and
• 50:25
  year out. He has it, but most of the ones
• 50:26
  he's lost have been on the road. The ones you.
• 50:29
  Lose were in IU the last time he won a playoff game.
• 50:31
  I mean, the, the most ones you, but they've all pretty much been
• 50:34
  on the road. I don't know.
• 50:35
  I think I, I'm, I'm not sold on the Texans.
• 50:37
  I know they've won. I mean when they won in a row.
• 50:40
  Best defense in the league? Yeah, I don't think.
• 50:44
  I think, I think if there's a chance for an upside, it's going
• 50:46
  to be, it's going to be. Pittsburgh So Texans are a
• 50:48
  three-point favorite on the road.
• 50:51
  I think Texans, I mean, I think the Texans win, don't get me
• 50:53
  wrong. I don't, I don't think there.
• 50:55
  I at least had the stones to take an underdog, you're just
• 50:59
  saying this is the most likely one.
• 51:01
  Yeah, it is most likely. I don't think there will be
• 51:03
  enough. I don't think there's going to
• 51:04
  be an upset in the first round. There won't be.
• 51:06
  There's always an upset in the first round.
• 51:08
  Well. When we get on this pod next
• 51:09
  Monday, I'll be like, Nick, there was no upsets and you'd be
• 51:11
  like, you were right. But yeah, there's no way.
• 51:15
  There is absolutely no way I'm taking the Steelers in this one.
• 51:19
  They they will not score double digits unless they get a
• 51:22
  defensive score. Is it possible?
• 51:25
  I'm just telling you all right, we won't get too much into it
• 51:29
  because we've already gone almost an hour.
• 51:32
  There are 6 college basketball teams and I promise you at some
• 51:38
  point we will start diving into the college basketball a lot
• 51:40
  more. There are 6 undefeated teams
• 51:44
  right now. Michigan, Arizona, Nebraska.
• 51:46
  Who won tonight, Iowa State, Vanderbilt, Miami, Ohio.
• 51:50
  At this point last year, do you know how many undefeated teams
• 51:54
  there were? What what was is, is this a
• 51:57
  trick question? It was there at least one.
• 51:59
  Oh God, I was 2 undefeated teams at this point last year.
• 52:03
  Houston and somebody else. There was 1.
• 52:07
  Was Houston. It was Tennessee.
• 52:10
  They were 14 and O, and they lost the next week to the
• 52:16
  eventual national champion Florida Gators, 73 to 43, so
• 52:23
  they emphatically got beat. Yeah.
• 52:28
  I mean, and just to give you a stat on Michigan to kind of talk
• 52:33
  about how good they have been, they beat UFC 96 to 66 to
• 52:38
  improve the 13 and O they're the first team in AP poll history to
• 52:44
  win three straight games against ranked opponents by 30 points or
• 52:49
  more. That's crazy.
• 52:53
  It's just putting it on everybody.
• 52:55
  That's insane. And I mean, we've talked about
• 52:59
  it, how talented these teams are.
• 53:02
  I mean, Michigan and Arizona, they're going to be up there all
• 53:06
  year. Yeah, but I need I need to.
• 53:11
  Can we talk about the Nebraska Cornhuskers though?
• 53:14
  To me, that's the that's the darling of the season so far.
• 53:19
  I mean well. Both the Fred Hoiberg's
• 53:21
  connections are undefeated. He's the coach at Nebraska, used
• 53:25
  to be the coach at Iowa State. Yeah.
• 53:27
  And and both of these teams are undefeated.
• 53:30
  But like like. They beat.
• 53:31
  They win at Ohio State tonight. Yeah, but like they they've
• 53:35
  beaten good team. Like they they beat Creighton by
• 53:37
  21. They have a road win or a ranked
• 53:39
  Rd. win already at Illinois when Illinois was 13.
• 53:43
  They win a ranked game at home against a top 10 Michigan State
• 53:46
  the other day and then another Rd. win tonight at Ohio State.
• 53:49
  Like they just continue to keep rolling.
• 53:52
  I mean they're they're winning close games.
• 53:55
  It's not like they're dominating some of these games, but they're
• 53:57
  playing good teams and they're finding ways to win.
• 53:59
  No, the Illinois game, they hit a game winner at the buzzer to
• 54:02
  win that one. And their radio guys with the
• 54:06
  run that they're on and the calls that they're making in
• 54:08
  these games are they're winning the Internet right now.
• 54:12
  So if you haven't listened to some of their calls, just Google
• 54:17
  Nebraska basketball radio guy calls and they're fantastic.
• 54:25
  The call in the game when they beat Michigan State over the
• 54:28
  weekend. What was it that they?
• 54:32
  What was it that he said? Make room for Daddy is what they
• 54:36
  said he. Said he's been mean.
• 54:40
  Because they're in the top 10. They're talking about being,
• 54:42
  they're saying we're moving into the top ten.
• 54:45
  Make room for Daddy. OK.
• 54:48
  So should if I was more prepared I would have their names.
• 54:52
  I do not have that, but if you haven't listened to their calls,
• 54:56
  definitely check that out. Michigan radio guys got it.
• 54:59
  Yep. No, Nebraska.
• 55:01
  Oh, I'm sorry, Nebraska Radio. Yes, yes.
• 55:04
  Vanderbilt gets Alabama I think in the next week.
• 55:09
  I think that's probably where they, I think that's where
• 55:11
  they're trained. They when that one, they'll
• 55:12
  really, you really can kind of start looking at them.
• 55:15
  They their coach came over from James Madison.
• 55:18
  Yes, see the Kurt Signetti of men's basketball.
• 55:22
  He could be. He could be.
• 55:24
  I mean, I'll tell you James Madison, man, they, they invest
• 55:28
  in their facilities and their coaches and.
• 55:33
  They've got a pretty decent alumni base over James Matt.
• 55:35
  100% they got some money over there.
• 55:37
  We got some money, yeah. We we got to see dodgy he got in
• 55:42
  the game at TCU. Didn't take long.
• 55:46
  He did. He was booed.
• 55:47
  First of all, he had a jersey without his name on it.
• 55:51
  He got booed. And then his stats weren't
• 55:53
  overly impressive, right? Was it like 5 points, 4 rebounds
• 55:56
  or somewhere along those lines or?
• 55:58
  They lost. They did lose.
• 56:00
  They did lose. He had five points, was 2 for
• 56:04
  three, had four rebounds, almost fouled out.
• 56:05
  He had four fouls. But but yeah, I mean, dude, they
• 56:10
  got him into a game so quick that the jersey didn't even make
• 56:12
  it. He's faster than FedEx.
• 56:16
  Like they had to get him into a game so quick before he was
• 56:18
  ruled ineligible, but. So yeah, he's, I think he's
• 56:21
  supposed to wear 46. He's wearing #50 no name on the
• 56:24
  back of it. Booed by TCU fans.
• 56:27
  And dude, I'd Boo too. I mean, I'm not booing it.
• 56:32
  He's still like, like, what are we doing?
• 56:34
  He what is he 20 or 122 years old?
• 56:37
  Am I blowing? He's 30. 4.
• 56:39
  He might be he's 34 then maybe I'm booing him, but.
• 56:43
  No, I think legitimately I think he's.
• 56:45
  Don't believe him Boogie. If you're not.
• 56:47
  If you're mad about him playing, you don't want to play him booty
• 56:49
  in CAA. I think he's 2425.
• 56:52
  That's fine. I mean, I'm not doing a 24 year
• 56:54
  old person playing basketball, but if you're mad about it and
• 56:57
  you got you got you take exception to it, don't you?
• 57:00
  Write the NCAA letter, call up Charlie Baker and Boo him on the
• 57:04
  phone. Put his number and I'll get
• 57:06
  guaranteed people we'll be calling.
• 57:08
  But then if their team gets him, they don't care, right?
• 57:11
  Right. If it's your team that gets him,
• 57:12
  who cares? Yeah, cats and the Cards both
• 57:16
  coming off a loss this week. Yeah.
• 57:19
  Which which loss is more concerning?
• 57:21
  I don't think it's much of A of a debate.
• 57:23
  I mean, losing at Stanford's not not great.
• 57:27
  You know, Wolves got, they've got a couple issues on the
• 57:30
  defensive end trying to stay in front of people and play defense
• 57:34
  without fouling. I mean, both games on the West
• 57:36
  Coast and we go to the West Coast and winning both games is
• 57:38
  hard. Only one team did it last year.
• 57:41
  But you don't play defense without fouling both games.
• 57:44
  They had a lot of fouls, a lot of foul trouble.
• 57:47
  Just so happened they made shots against California and didn't
• 57:49
  make shots against Stanford. And you know, this team is, is,
• 57:54
  is they're a top 10, top 15 team when Mike L Brown junior plays.
• 57:58
  And without Mike L Brown junior, they're still really, really
• 58:01
  good team. I still think they're a top 25
• 58:03
  team, but it's completely different.
• 58:05
  It's completely different. Yeah, and look, it some games
• 58:09
  just have the look and the onset you're like this, this is going
• 58:12
  to be a tough one. And you can it's that game just
• 58:16
  kind of had that feel. And like I don't think people
• 58:20
  put enough into the fact that how hard it is to go out West
• 58:23
  and win two games when you're there for a week and you're
• 58:27
  getting ready to come home and then you've got Duke on the
• 58:29
  horizon and you're playing without your best player and the
• 58:33
  threes aren't falling like they normally do.
• 58:36
  And look, this team is really relying on three-point.
• 58:40
  And when they're not falling, they're sometimes going to have
• 58:42
  issues. But I mean, Stanford was just
• 58:47
  coming off a loss and, and they played really well and made
• 58:50
  shots and Louisville can't get enough stops.
• 58:53
  I'm I'm not that concerned about Louisville.
• 58:55
  They obviously they need to get Michael Brown back on the back
• 58:58
  on the floor and. Who?
• 59:01
  I'm not going to be there on Tuesday night.
• 59:03
  No, they're, they're still they're, they're a very, very
• 59:05
  good basketball team even without him.
• 59:08
  But they are a great basketball team when they're all playing
• 59:12
  and they're playing together, so.
• 59:14
  And we've seen how good they can be.
• 59:15
  This this game reminds me a little bit of the what the
• 59:19
  Georgia Tech game last year. Yeah, Yeah, I would agree with
• 59:23
  that. But I mean, give Stanford
• 59:25
  credit, like that freshman they have was a a Corey that put up
• 59:29
  28. I mean, he's this bird.
• 59:31
  I mean, he's the third leading freshman scorer in the country
• 59:34
  right now. And he was ranked I think come
• 59:37
  out of high school, like in the one 80s like didn't give very
• 59:40
  many offers. I heard he was supposed to go to
• 59:42
  Harvard or something like that and ended up going to Stanford
• 59:45
  and nobody really talked about him.
• 59:47
  And here he is sitting third in the country and and scoring for
• 59:49
  freshmen. So they got and they got some
• 59:52
  talent. And when they need a buckets, he
• 59:54
  was getting them. Yeah, right.
• 59:56
  And well, that's what we see Mikel do for Louisville.
• 59:58
  When they need buckets, he goes and gets them.
• 59:59
  So I it's I go out West winning both.
• 1:00:04
  I think it's tough. You don't have your best player.
• 1:00:08
  Yeah, it sucks to lose, but. I mean, I this Kentucky team,
• 1:00:12
  they get, they get a win against St.
• 1:00:13
  John's, they get quaintance back, you think maybe they're
• 1:00:17
  going to start playing some better basketball.
• 1:00:18
  And I don't know what offense they're running all game against
• 1:00:23
  Alabama and they ain't getting stops.
• 1:00:25
  They ain't stopping anybody. We knew that from the beginning
• 1:00:27
  of the year, but I thought at least they would score with the
• 1:00:29
  people and half the time I don't know what they're running.
• 1:00:33
  Because I didn't, I did not see any.
• 1:00:34
  I mean, I caught pieces of the of the Alabama game flipping it
• 1:00:40
  around and that's how they were down big early.
• 1:00:43
  They made a late run. I think they made a late run to
• 1:00:45
  cut it. I was watching, they cut it to 9
• 1:00:48
  and then Alabama just went on like a little 67-O run and put
• 1:00:50
  it right back to and was that really Jeopardy?
• 1:00:52
  But. When they're down that big,
• 1:00:54
  they're never going to get enough stops to get completely
• 1:00:56
  back. Correct.
• 1:00:58
  I mean, they almost did against Louisville, but their offense
• 1:01:01
  was. Missing 6 free throws kind of
• 1:01:03
  also. Well, that was that was even
• 1:01:05
  before that too. They got it to 4.
• 1:01:07
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I don't know, this team's
• 1:01:10
  got issues and I don't they a lot of fans are complaining
• 1:01:15
  about their rotations not playing the right guys together.
• 1:01:19
  I don't count them out though, man.
• 1:01:20
  I mean, they've got, they still have talent.
• 1:01:21
  They Got Talent, talent. I I would not put it past them
• 1:01:24
  to turn this thing around. You know way had 22 and 8 and.
• 1:01:28
  I mean, they're about to enter a stretch of very, very winnable
• 1:01:32
  games, I believe. Aren't they playing like
• 1:01:33
  Mississippi State, LSU, Missouri in the next three games?
• 1:01:37
  Or Missouri? They got Missouri at home.
• 1:01:40
  They got Missouri, Mississippi State, LSU in the next 3.
• 1:01:42
  Yeah. So I mean, they should handle
• 1:01:44
  those teams and. Then they get Tennessee on the
• 1:01:46
  road and then they get Texas an Ole Miss So.
• 1:01:49
  I mean they they theoretically should win five of the next 6.
• 1:01:52
  Well, I don't. I don't.
• 1:01:53
  I think they need to. They've got to get some.
• 1:01:57
  Yeah, they got to get some confidence, but I don't know if
• 1:02:01
  if. Obviously I'm more concerned if
• 1:02:03
  I'm a Cats fan than I am a Cards fan right now.
• 1:02:05
  You wouldn't know it based on Twitter.
• 1:02:08
  Well, do what? Said you wouldn't know that
• 1:02:11
  based on feign reactions on Twitter.
• 1:02:14
  Well, fans are fans are fans. Fans are fans, that's right.
• 1:02:19
  That's why they're called fanatics.
• 1:02:22
  All the bowl games, You see all these ceremonies pre Yeah.
• 1:02:26
  Did you see the parachuter at the Armed Forces Bowl?
• 1:02:29
  I did, got caught in the field goal net and then he fell right.
• 1:02:35
  Yeah, it wasn't hurt. OK my soul fall, but also.
• 1:02:40
  How does that not happen more often?
• 1:02:42
  Well, why is the field goal net up when a parachuter's coming
• 1:02:44
  in? Oh no, put the net down.
• 1:02:46
  It shouldn't be, right? Oh no, like put the net down.
• 1:02:51
  Nobody's kicking pool goals every.
• 1:02:53
  Every single time I see it it's I'm amazed how they get so close
• 1:02:56
  to laying on the axe. Yeah.
• 1:02:59
  And like, is this one of those days where they didn't know that
• 1:03:02
  the net was up? There's no way.
• 1:03:04
  Like the facilities? I mean, if you're the, I mean if
• 1:03:08
  you're the like, I don't know if he got off course or if that was
• 1:03:11
  supposed to be his course. That's the way he was supposed
• 1:03:14
  to be going. But if you're the parachuter and
• 1:03:16
  you're coming in that you're, you probably can't tell if the
• 1:03:18
  Nets up from that high up. I mean it looks clear if you.
• 1:03:22
  Look at it from certain angles, you can't see the net at all.
• 1:03:24
  Right, it's some thin wire, like he probably didn't even notice
• 1:03:27
  it until it was too late. But I don't understand if you're
• 1:03:30
  the bowl game, why the Nets up when you've got a parachute guy
• 1:03:33
  coming in from that direction? Dude, he knows what it feels
• 1:03:36
  like to be like a bug and get caught in a spider web now.
• 1:03:39
  Get so. Like, like you don't see that
• 1:03:41
  thing coming at all. No, that's accidentally it No,
• 1:03:44
  you that's true. I, I, I, yeah, I, I mean, I put
• 1:03:47
  the blame on the bowl game on this one to be.
• 1:03:49
  Honest, but I didn't think about that.
• 1:03:51
  Do you think normally the Nets are down?
• 1:03:54
  I would assume so because I'm. I'm because I'm just thinking he
• 1:03:59
  was off course, but maybe he was on course and this was a
• 1:04:03
  facilities issue where they didn't put the net down.
• 1:04:06
  I think you should put the net down regardless if he's on
• 1:04:08
  course or off because he could get off course.
• 1:04:10
  Like why would you have another obstacle that could just get the
• 1:04:13
  guy like put the Nets down? Like he might have been off
• 1:04:16
  course, but even if he's off course, the net should not have
• 1:04:18
  been up because this is 100% preventable. 1000%.
• 1:04:23
  Like nobody's kicking field goals when the parachute guys
• 1:04:25
  coming in so we don't need the field goal Nets up.
• 1:04:28
  Yes. I don't, I don't, I don't, I
• 1:04:30
  don't get it. Come on.
• 1:04:32
  And on armed forces, we got to do better.
• 1:04:34
  Military boy was it who? What ball was it?
• 1:04:36
  That was the armed forces, that was the Lockheed Martin.
• 1:04:39
  It's. The one that was in Dallas, I'm
• 1:04:43
  not 100% played in that. There's so many days.
• 1:04:45
  But we might have played it. I guess one more ball game we
• 1:04:47
  want to talk about before we get out of here is Wake Forest beat.
• 1:04:51
  Who'd they beat? A team that didn't even have a
• 1:04:53
  5. 100. Yeah, Mississippi State, Five
• 1:04:56
  and seven Mississippi. State the Dukes.
• 1:04:57
  Mayonnaise Bowl Not only does Coach Dicker take the bath and
• 1:05:04
  the mayonnaise. We got the whole family
• 1:05:05
  involved. He brought the whole fail.
• 1:05:08
  The mayonnaise that they dumped on them looks a lot more runny.
• 1:05:13
  So you don't think it's real mayonnaise?
• 1:05:14
  I mean, I'm not a mayonnaise guy, so I'm not an expert in it,
• 1:05:18
  but mayonnaise is thick, right? Yeah, but if you if you try to
• 1:05:24
  dump the actual real man, like it's not going to come out of
• 1:05:27
  that cooler, you're going to need a spoon to start slapping
• 1:05:29
  it. Dude, it's a liquid.
• 1:05:31
  Slop. And that's like you have to slop
• 1:05:32
  it out of the cooler if it was like the real thick mayonnaise.
• 1:05:35
  Oh. Watch the video.
• 1:05:37
  It's it's a straight liquid coming out like.
• 1:05:39
  Maybe it's ranch dressing made it look like mayonnaise.
• 1:05:42
  Well maybe they just water it down because all mayonnaise is
• 1:05:45
  is what eggs and oil. Well, yeah.
• 1:05:49
  That's all it is, right? Yeah.
• 1:05:50
  So, yeah, they could have watered it down.
• 1:05:52
  It might be real mayonnaise, but like you said, watered down.
• 1:05:54
  So it does come out of the cooler because otherwise like
• 1:05:55
  you're, you're scooping that with a spoon.
• 1:05:57
  But if you beat five and seven, Mississippi State, you taking a
• 1:06:00
  Mayo bath. Yes, you won the Duke's Mayo
• 1:06:03
  Bowl. My God, of course you are you.
• 1:06:05
  Drinking in the whole. You like you take the Mayo bath,
• 1:06:08
  you take the cheese at bath, you eat the pop tart in the Tony the
• 1:06:12
  tigers, you get the cornflake bath.
• 1:06:14
  Like the potato bowl, you get the French fries on on top of
• 1:06:18
  you. I mean, I'm really disappointed
• 1:06:19
  in the Bush's big bean bowl. We didn't dump the beans, but at
• 1:06:22
  least they had a big old bowl of beans to eat for for.
• 1:06:24
  And they were in the trophy, which is pretty cool.
• 1:06:26
  Do I they? Were in the trophy.
• 1:06:28
  Yeah, Which was, yeah. So like, you know, that like
• 1:06:30
  that was fine, but I mean, the gimmicks of the bowls are what
• 1:06:34
  make them fun. So like these different bass and
• 1:06:37
  these different things that are coming out of these coolers on
• 1:06:39
  the on the coaches. And like, did you see the Pop
• 1:06:41
  Tart Bowl, the ratings that it got?
• 1:06:44
  Yeah, because people just want to see those the Pop Tarts go
• 1:06:46
  through the toaster. I'm sorry, like, like Notre Dame
• 1:06:49
  didn't want to play in it, but they would have been the most
• 1:06:51
  watched bowl game. Yeah, and like it's, I think
• 1:06:54
  it's on all these bowl games because nobody cares.
• 1:06:58
  Nobody can have to do the gimmicky stuff.
• 1:07:00
  If they do the pop tart or you do the mayonnaise.
• 1:07:03
  Yes, people watch it. Like people show up for that,
• 1:07:06
  Yes, and like the pop tarts have the pop tarts running around the
• 1:07:10
  whole game like they're 4. Different They've got sprinkles
• 1:07:14
  in the end zone, they've got sprinkles on the helmets,
• 1:07:16
  sprinkles on the sidelines. Well, they do it right.
• 1:07:20
  The Pop Tarts bowl does it perfectly.
• 1:07:22
  And the this was the first year Bush's baked bean, Bush's being
• 1:07:26
  sponsored a bowl game and they did it right.
• 1:07:27
  I was there and there was beans on literally everything.
• 1:07:30
  Bean hats that they gave out. We had bean shirts, bean hats.
• 1:07:34
  There's bean baked bean chapstick that I put in my
• 1:07:37
  wife's stocking. Like there is, there's beans on
• 1:07:40
  everything, beans on literally anything that you could put a
• 1:07:43
  big bean on. They had a big bean on it.
• 1:07:45
  So their branding was on point, on point.
• 1:07:48
  So they did a great job. A lot of these Bulls do a
• 1:07:50
  fantastic job of just making it entertaining and making it fun
• 1:07:53
  for the fans that are there and the fans that are watching at
• 1:07:56
  home. Well, Next up you turn the end
• 1:07:58
  zone into a big old bucket of beans or a big old pile of
• 1:08:02
  mayonnaise. So you guys diving into the end
• 1:08:04
  zone? It'd be kind of fun.
• 1:08:06
  Yeah, I don't. I don't know how you can finish
• 1:08:08
  your route, but unless you, unless you're Jesus, you can
• 1:08:11
  walk on mayonnaise. But but yeah, that all these
• 1:08:14
  ball games need to be creative if they want people to watch
• 1:08:17
  them. And most of them, yeah.
• 1:08:19
  We're not. I mean, now the playoffs here,
• 1:08:21
  people aren't showing up just to watch two teams that didn't make
• 1:08:25
  playoffs in a boring ball game. You need to go watch Stranger
• 1:08:28
  Things. Is it too late?
• 1:08:29
  Are you going to watch it tonight?
• 1:08:30
  We're going to try it 2. Hours.
• 1:08:32
  How long is it? It's a 2 hour finale.
• 1:08:34
  You are, you got, you are not going to watch it tonight.
• 1:08:38
  Be over by 12:49. Let's see.
• 1:08:41
  Well, let's get you out of here. So you're not going to yelled
• 1:08:43
  out about a wife? I've been yapping with you too
• 1:08:45
  long. But all right, let's get out of
• 1:08:49
  here so more can watch strangest things not get yelled at by his
• 1:08:52
  wife. I'm still having watched season
• 1:08:54
  4. You quit, you're done with it.
• 1:08:58
  I mean, I hadn't watched it. When was Season 3, like 2019?
• 1:09:03
  Yeah, I mean, I, I was off for the last couple weeks, said I'd
• 1:09:06
  watch it, and it never even crossed my mind.
• 1:09:09
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• 1:09:11
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