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  Speaker 1: It is a Mount Rushmore Monday here on Stugatz & Company.
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  Speaker 3: Israel Gutierrez is off. Hopefully be back with us tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Smetana going to join us in about 15 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have the weekend observations as well. And T-Bob going
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  Speaker 1: to join us in hour number two. Taylor, put it
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  Speaker 1: on the poll, please. That's to got 790 on X.
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  Speaker 1: Were you rooting for Belichick? Also put this on the poll.
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  Speaker 1: Has Bill Belichick somehow become a lovable underdog?
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  Speaker 4: The answer to both of those is no.
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  Speaker 3: Well, for me, it was a yes. And also put
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  Speaker 3: this on the poll.
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  Speaker 1: Was that the biggest win of Bill Belichick's storied career?
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  Speaker 4: Stu, let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: What will you be doing Saturday, December 5th?
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  Speaker 3: I have no idea. Watching football.
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  Speaker 4: I know what I'll be doing. I'll be in Charlotte
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  Speaker 4: watching my North Carolina Tar Heels in the ACC championship.
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  Speaker 4: I just booked my flight and hotel.
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  Speaker 3: Did you really?
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: After a 15-10 victory over TCU, we have no idea
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  Speaker 1: if TCU is any good. I still have no idea
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  Speaker 1: if Carolina is any good. But I did find myself
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  Speaker 1: rooting for Belichick. Mikey, you didn't find yourself rooting for
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  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick? He's been through it the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 6: There is nothing that could happen on this planet to
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  Speaker 6: make me ever root for Bill Belichick in any form.
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  Speaker 4: And I happen to like North Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Mikey, that's a very dangerous game because I grew up
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  Speaker 4: a Jets fan and I said the same exact thing.
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  Speaker 4: And then Bill Belichick somehow wound up at my alma mater.
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  Speaker 4: And now I'm rooting for Bill Belichick.
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  Speaker 3: You're not though. Yes, I am.
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  Speaker 4: Don't say I'm not rooting for Bill Belichick because I
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  Speaker 4: want this to succeed. It hasn't succeeded. And that's why
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  Speaker 4: I've kind of been at the front line saying that
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  Speaker 4: it hasn't been working.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to say you're not rooting for Belichick.
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  Speaker 1: You said it plenty headed into the season.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Mikey, what are we talking about?
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  Speaker 4: I want it to work. Mikey, if Bill Belichick went
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  Speaker 4: to Fordham, if he was the Fordham Rams next head coach,
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  Speaker 4: you're telling me you wouldn't root for Fordham.
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  Speaker 6: He could go be the Fordham Rams head coach, go
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  Speaker 6: take them to the college football playoff. And then in
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  Speaker 6: the off season, take over Brian Cashman's job and Aaron
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  Speaker 6: Boone's job and turn them into the dynasty Yankees.
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  Speaker 3: And I still wouldn't root for Bill Belichick.
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  Speaker 1: I understand what you're doing there. I live with the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. He was the jet coach. He resigned after
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  Speaker 1: a day and then he took the Patriot job and
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  Speaker 1: he won six Super Bowls.
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  Speaker 3: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a guy you and I should be rooting for.
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  Speaker 1: Yet I found myself rooting for Bill Belichick.
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 1: Just because he's been through. The league has rejected Bill Belichick.
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  Speaker 1: Think about this, Mikey. He won six Super Bowls as
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  Speaker 1: a head coach.
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  Speaker 3: Six. Eight total.
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  Speaker 1: And yet when he was let go by the Patriots,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL said loud and clear, the entire NFL, you're
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  Speaker 1: not good enough to coach here anymore. And so then
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  Speaker 1: he was forced to go to Carolina. Pablo Torre is
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  Speaker 1: chasing him down. I mean, the guy, he left, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a house shirtless one day and there was a video.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the guy has been through it.
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  Speaker 1: And so yesterday or over the weekend, excuse me, in
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  Speaker 1: a 15 to 10 victory for North Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: And they are clearly. the number one team in the
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  Speaker 3: country right now.
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  Speaker 4: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: I found myself rooting for bill Belichick and I found
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  Speaker 1: myself and my wife is the one who brought it
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  Speaker 1: up to me.
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  Speaker 3: Is he the lovable underdog now? And I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know what? He kind of is.
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  Speaker 4: So you mentioned that we don't really know what to
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  Speaker 4: really make of either team this year. And I do
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  Speaker 4: think that's right with a week zero game in Ireland
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  Speaker 4: on a pretty sloppy field. I don't know if we
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  Speaker 4: learned if Carolina is good, but it feels safe that
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  Speaker 4: at the very least, they're not bad, which is bad
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  Speaker 4: news for the haters, which there are many, by the way.
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  Speaker 4: College football pundits couldn't wait to dunk on Bill Belichick
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  Speaker 4: and UNC. And then today, guess what was served up
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  Speaker 4: to them?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 4: Humble pie.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Couple servants. Paul Feinbaum. He actually acknowledged it today.
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  Speaker 4: Paul Feinbaum, come back for seconds, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: He said he was wrong, but we have no idea
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  Speaker 1: if he was wrong. He might still be right because
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if Carolina's good. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if TCU is good. And if Carolina is not good,
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  Speaker 1: what's that say about TCU? How about that?
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  Speaker 6: I'm fairly certain TCU is not good.
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  Speaker 3: Their season's over. I'm fairly certain. I might not know
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  Speaker 3: about North Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: I'm fairly certain I know about TCU.
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  Speaker 3: Taylor, how'd you feel? Like, honestly, you've been blasting Belichick.
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  Speaker 3: It's fine. You could do that.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're rooting for him, and that's fine. That's what
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  Speaker 1: sports fandom is all about. I mean, there are certain
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  Speaker 1: drives where I want to fire the Jets head coach.
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  Speaker 1: There have been quarters where I want the Jet head
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  Speaker 1: coach to be fired. And the very next quarter, I
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  Speaker 1: want him signed to an extension. That's how sports fandom works.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you feel today? Not about your opinions
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  Speaker 1: on Belichick. Just as a Carolina alum, you walked onto
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  Speaker 1: that football team. You want Carolina to have success. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: you've been critical of Belichick. But you're off to a
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  Speaker 1: 1-0 start. That has to feel good.
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  Speaker 4: It feels good. One, because right now at offensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 4: Bobby Petrino feels like one of the best play callers
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  Speaker 4: in college football, because I don't really think this, I
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  Speaker 4: still don't really think that this North Carolina offense is much,
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  Speaker 4: but Bobby Petrino found ways to scheme North Carolina open
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  Speaker 4: where the, the, the highlight for me on offense was
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  Speaker 4: their tight end. Jelani Thurman four catches, 94 yards, son
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  Speaker 4: of former NFL linebacker, Odell Thurman and WNBA all-star Cara Braxton.
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  Speaker 4: He transfers in from Ohio state. I think they got
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  Speaker 4: a guy.
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  Speaker 3: He looks good. And you love the quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Billy Edwards Jr. So going into that game.
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  Speaker 3: Mikey is so mad at you right now. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Going into that game, from people that I talked to
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  Speaker 4: in Chapel Hill, they said... The plan is we are
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  Speaker 4: going to play two quarterbacks. We've got a backup quarterback
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  Speaker 4: that we like in McNeil. He is going to play.
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  Speaker 4: And then I think you saw as that game kind
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  Speaker 4: of unfolded, Billy Edwards Jr. was more than sufficient at
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  Speaker 4: the quarterback position to where Carolina never really had to
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  Speaker 4: take him out and risk disrupting the rhythm that he
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  Speaker 4: was creating.
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  Speaker 3: I love Bobby Petrino. Everyone is just singing his praises.
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  Speaker 4: He's so back.
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  Speaker 1: 15 points against TCU. Three in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: You use the phrase lovable underdog.
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  Speaker 3: Bill Belichick, Bobby Petrino. No.
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  Speaker 6: No, there is nothing lovable about that coaching staff.
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  Speaker 3: And Lombardi. and lombardi yes uh dan bryles to coach
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  Speaker 3: the defense.
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  Speaker 1: Yes uh dan i know it's a strange thing to
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  Speaker 1: say but on a resume that includes six super bowl
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  Speaker 1: victories as a head coach do you think the victory
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend for belichick was the most important of his.
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  Speaker 5: Career well they brought home the crystal like they had
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  Speaker 5: a crystal trophy they brought home hardware i think that
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  Speaker 5: says enough Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Dan, great point. The NBA banner. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Dan, great point, because if you presented me two options,
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  Speaker 4: I could win the Super Bowl or the Lombardi Trophy,
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  Speaker 4: or I could win the Aer Lingus College Football Classic
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  Speaker 4: Championship Trophy.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I'm taking that trophy every time.
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you this, Dan.
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  Speaker 1: If you ask Belichick before the game, hey, the Aer
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  Speaker 1: Lingus Trophy, you can have it. You're going to win
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  Speaker 1: this game, but you have to give up one Lombardi Trophy.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think he would have done it?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Absolutely. Mix it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Pick one.
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  Speaker 5: When I was a kid, I wrestled. I always wanted
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  Speaker 5: a bronze because it was different. It was just different than,
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  Speaker 5: you know, there's gold, silver, whatever. But the bronze was
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  Speaker 5: a tough one to get.
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  Speaker 3: But you understand what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: When people start to question whether or not you're good
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  Speaker 1: at this, this thing you have done your entire life,
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  Speaker 1: and they start to question it. You've won six Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowls and the NFL is rejecting you. OK, Belichick needed validation.
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  Speaker 1: He needed to remind people, hey. I could still do this.
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  Speaker 1: I could still do this as a head coach. I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing it in college. I'm doing it at North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing it in Dublin, Ireland.
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  Speaker 3: Okay? Belichick needed that. He did. Carolina needed it. Belichick
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  Speaker 3: needed it more. Fair?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely. And I think he would trade in the Rams
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  Speaker 5: Super Bowl 53 win. Maybe not the 28-3 Falcons and
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  Speaker 5: maybe not Super Bowl 36 or against my Seahawks, but
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  Speaker 5: the one against the Rams in Atlanta, Super Bowl 53 win.
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  Speaker 5: definitely trade that one in for the Aer Lingus.
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  Speaker 3: We were all confused last week that Taylor was offered
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  Speaker 3: a free trip to Dublin, and he turned it down
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  Speaker 3: as a North Carolina alum, as someone who walked onto
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  Speaker 3: that football team, was part of that program. He turned
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  Speaker 3: it down. He didn't go to the game.
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  Speaker 1: That did not prevent him from putting together a song
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  Speaker 1: that he would have sang had he attended the game
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  Speaker 1: in a pub right after that victory.
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  Speaker 3: Play it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Bill sawed off for W with his hoodie and
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  Speaker 4: his frown. He brought the heels from Chapel Hill to
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  Speaker 4: shake that Irish town. The horned frogs came to meet him,
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  Speaker 4: all dressed in purple hue. But Bill had come for
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  Speaker 4: one thing, to show what the heels could do. They
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  Speaker 4: said the man was getting old, they said his time
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  Speaker 4: was through. Then Bill went off to Ireland and beat
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  Speaker 4: the hell out of TCU. They called the team a laughingstock,
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  Speaker 4: nobody gave a chance. They took the fight right to
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  Speaker 4: the frogs and did an Irish dance. They counted out Bibela,
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  Speaker 4: check and said he would go in lists. Well, you
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  Speaker 4: could kiss my Tar Heel ass while I go drink.
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  Speaker 3: A Guinness.
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  Speaker 4: A quarterback from Maryland, he's over six feet tall. He
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  Speaker 4: saved the heels in Ireland. His name is Billy Football.
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  Speaker 4: They said his coach was finished. His legacy was done.
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  Speaker 4: He left Lombardi in the States and then he finally won.
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  Speaker 4: Petrino called the offense. Oh, Bill controlled the D. The
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  Speaker 4: Fries came in as favorites, but that meant to me.
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  Speaker 4: They crossed the sea as underdogs with everybody short. That
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  Speaker 4: TCU would roll the heels while 1510 says more. The
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  Speaker 4: time for laughing's over. Coach Bill has got his team.
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  Speaker 4: When Carolina comes to town, they're going to cause a scene.
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  Speaker 4: I hope you had your fun. I mean it sincerely.
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  Speaker 4: You woke the sleeping giant. Next stop, the CFP.
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  Speaker 3: It was so good right till the end. I've heard
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  Speaker 3: that song four times now. And every time I know.
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  Speaker 4: The CFP is coming, it makes me cringe anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but the first couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 2: It's an amazing song.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: One of my favorites. Yeah, it really gets you moving.
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  Speaker 4: I started scouting who we might be playing that first
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  Speaker 4: round of the playoffs. I'm thinking Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 3: You wanted to fire Belichick.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, you'll laugh at this. McAfee is on.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's on. Something on ESPN is going on.
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  Speaker 1: And who was being wired up to go on the show?
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Petrino.
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  Speaker 4: He's so back. Never been more back. 15 points.
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  Speaker 3: 15.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you want to talk about Wednesday, 877-99 on Fox.
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  Speaker 1: That is 877-99 on Fox. We'll get to Taylor's mistake
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  Speaker 1: in just a second. The new Seahawks owner had a
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  Speaker 1: rough opening press conference. We'll get to that sound in
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  Speaker 1: just a second as well.
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  Speaker 3: But Isaac, if you can hear me, Ike. If you
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't mind coming back to the microphone. Oh, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Can you just read.
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  Speaker 1: The Lane Kiffin story you just gave us in the update?
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  Speaker 1: Just read it the way you read it during the update.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor has some thoughts on it.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I would be delighted to.
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  Speaker 3: Hang on.
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  Speaker 7: Let me get into character.
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  Speaker 3: Authoritative. Walter Cronkite. Peter Jennings.
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  Speaker 4: Walter Cronkite. Peter Jennings.
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  Speaker 7: Vanity Fair today published an excerpt of a new book
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  Speaker 7: about LSU head coach Lane Kiffin. The excerpt covered his
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  Speaker 7: time as Alabama's offensive coordinator, in which then head coach
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  Speaker 7: Nick Saban told a staff member regarding Kiffin, quote, keep
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  Speaker 7: him away from the sorority girls. Make sure they've graduated
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  Speaker 7: college or are working a job, unquote. An associate of
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  Speaker 7: Kiffin's also said a local bar owner called him and said, quote,
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  Speaker 7: your boy Lane's back in here asking where the hotties are, unquote.
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  Speaker 4: Taylor, what are we doing with Lane Kiffin where we're
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  Speaker 4: reporting every possible detail in this man's life?
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Sue him. He asked where the hotties are at.
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  Speaker 1: We're not liking him and we're making money off of him.
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  Speaker 1: That's what people are doing with Lane Kiffin.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, I know people are going to call me a
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  Speaker 4: lane defender. And yes, I am a lane defender. I'm
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  Speaker 4: a I'm a go Tigers through and through. I want
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  Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin to succeed at LSU because I know what
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  Speaker 4: it means for college football. Sue the man if he's
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  Speaker 4: going around asking where the hotties are.
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  Speaker 3: Or divorce him.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's a whole different story.
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  Speaker 3: I do not condone that. That's where you draw the line?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. What are we doing with Lane Kiffin? Lane
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  Speaker 3: Kiffin is doing it to himself.
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  Speaker 1: He has made himself, I mean, he's taken one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest jobs in America. He left the playoff team
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  Speaker 1: to take over a head coaching position at LSU. And
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  Speaker 1: he has put an end, through his actions and his words,
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  Speaker 1: has put himself in the spotlight. That's where he wants
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  Speaker 1: to be. And when you put yourself in the spotlight,
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  Speaker 1: people start reporting stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, but we know Lane Kiffin is a menace. Of course.
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  Speaker 4: And at LSU, I hate to say this, but at LSU,
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  Speaker 4: it's almost expected from your football coaches. Brian Kelly was
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  Speaker 4: the one who kind of broke the mold of not
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  Speaker 4: being a menace.
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  Speaker 1: Put it on the poll, Taylor. Would you want Lane
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  Speaker 1: Kiffin to be your head coach? Yes or no?
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  Speaker 4: Because, man, you're going to win some games.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to win some games. You're going to have
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  Speaker 3: reports like the one we just heard. What are my expectations?
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  Speaker 1: The expectations are high because Lane makes them high. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they're high expectations, of course.
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  Speaker 3: Would you want them? Yeah, but it depends.
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  Speaker 6: Like, if I'm at Alabama where the expectation is is
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  Speaker 6: to win the national title every year, then no, I
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  Speaker 6: probably don't want him, because Lane's never done that.
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  Speaker 3: But if my expectations are, hey.
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  Speaker 6: Make the playoff, win some games, be interesting, hell yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I want Lane Kiffin.
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  Speaker 4: I think the thing that comes with Lane Kiffin is
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  Speaker 4: when he becomes your head coach, you do kind of
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  Speaker 4: turn a blind eye, because we have T-Bob Hebert on,
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  Speaker 4: and T-Bob has kind of said before, he's going to
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  Speaker 4: defend Lane Kiffin until he's not his head coach anymore,
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  Speaker 4: and history has shown you Lane Kiffin is going to
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  Speaker 4: leave LSU, and when he does, he's going to leave
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  Speaker 4: a trail of fire behind him.
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  Speaker 1: Mikey, you made a face there when he tried to
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  Speaker 1: pronounce T-Bob. It's an easy word to pronounce.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. But Taylor's finding out that he's talking too
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  Speaker 3: much in too many places. I'm in my own head.
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  Speaker 4: I got the yips. This is like this is like
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  Speaker 4: when George Lombard from the Yankee shortstop had six errors
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  Speaker 4: in six consecutive games. And they're like, nobody's had six
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  Speaker 4: errors in six consecutive games for a Yankee shortstop since
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  Speaker 4: Roger Peckinpah. That's me right now. I got the yips.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll get to why he has the yips in
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  Speaker 3: a second. But you're right. It's a baseball hitter.
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  Speaker 1: And he's in a slump and he finally gets that
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  Speaker 1: meatball and he still misses it because T-Bob is that meatball.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's T-Bob.
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  Speaker 4: Roger Peckinpah is such a great baseball name.
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  Speaker 3: From the early.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: You call him T-Bag?
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: From the early 1910s.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: What's the name?
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: Roger Peckinpah.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Put it on the poll. Is that a great baseball name?
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: I don't want to try to pronounce it. This is
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: why Taylor has the yips. This happened yesterday towards the
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: end of the show.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: To get the all boat.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: It still hurts.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: That's me trying to say the old ball coach. To
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: get the all boat. Thank you.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: You're reeling. You're in a slump.
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: You got a little porky pig there in the middle.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: How many people did you hear from once they heard that?
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Because I find that more people comment on my mistakes
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: than they do on anything I have to say where
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: I don't make a mistake.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just a lot of people just checking in,
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: trying to get a state of the union from me,
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: just saying, hey, is everything okay? And I'm like, yeah,
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: I'm just fighting through this right now. Got to get
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: to the other side of this slump.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: I am told here, Mikey, let's see if it's as
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: bad as we thought it was. This is very quick work.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: They turned it around quickly. This is Taylor trying to
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: say T-Bob.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: Because we have T-Bob A-Bear on.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: T-Bear. T-Bag A-Bear.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: I think I said T-Bear, yeah.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I think you were headed towards bag. Let's hear it
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: one more time.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Because we have T-Bob A-Bear on.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: I'm just not seeing the ball well right now.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: It's okay, Taylor. You'll see.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Like Lombard, I come up as this great, exciting prospect.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: And then you put me out there and you're saying,
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: the one thing we don't have to worry about, George
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Lombard Jr., is his defense. And then all of a sudden,
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: I become a liability to the show.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Shake it off, kid.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I'm Chuck Knobloch.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Growing pains.
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: But you're one good joke away from being back. That's
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the beauty of talking. So the Seattle Seahawks owner, the
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: new owner, what's his name? Do we know the name
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: of this owner for the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: that no one is taking seriously, mostly me, by saying
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: they're not going to make it to the playoffs this year?
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know his name, but we do have sound.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: This is the new Seahawks owner. This is not the
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: way you want to start your ownership of a brand
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: new NFL team. Here's what he had to say during
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: his opening press conference.
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: Also, I happened to come to this country in 76
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: when the Steelers were winning the Super Bowl. So actually,
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: I was originally and still am a big Steelers fan. Also,
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: little known fact, but I still watch all the Steelers games, too.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Keep that fact to yourself.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: His name is V-Node. Again, when you're in a slump,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: this is not the name you want when you're in
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: a slump.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: You don't want to see Pedro, Randy Johnson out there
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: when you're in a slump.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: I get it. Go ahead.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but try to thunder through it and see if
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: you get your confidence back.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: V-Node, Kosla. No, that can't be right.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's not... Wow. Wow. It's not like any
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: of us would know.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Who rang the bell? Mikey, how would you feel about
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: the Jets.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Owner if we had a new owner? And Lord knows,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I wish we did. But if he stepped up to
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the podium.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Stop. I already like him.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Stop.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: He's new. I already like him. Yeah, but if he
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: acknowledges he's a fan of another team that he doesn't own.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: You're not Woody Johnson.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Welcome.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Welcome to the family. And I wouldn't blame Steelers.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: But when you're the Seattle owner and you're coming off
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl victory, you can come to the podium
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: and say little known fact. And why would we know it?
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Little known fact. I'm a Steelers fan.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: You could see. the other people in this press conference
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: when he says it the people behind him are like
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: wincing like oh no i can't believe he just said
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: that there's like one thing you can't say as an
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: owner right it's i root for another team because now
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: people are thinking steelers seahawks super bowl.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Yes who's he rooting for Secretly, who's he rooting for? Publicly,
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: we know he's rooting for.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: How about any trade made between the Steelers and the Seahawks?
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: You start to wonder. That's why you got to keep
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: these things quiet. Who does he root for? Publicly, he'll
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: say Seattle. He's the owner of the Seahawks. But privately,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: when he's alone with the family, they're all Steeler fans.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: They have the terrible towels. They've been going to games forever.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: They love Mean Joe Green. They love Jack Hamm. They
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: love Terry Bradshaw. They love the Steelers.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Louie Lips.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to rattle off Steeler names for the
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: rest of time. But secretly, they're all saying, let's go Steelers, right?
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: If you're a Steeler fan, you're a Steeler fan.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Is that fair?
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: I think he's 1,000% rooting for the Steelers because when
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: he's talking about his Steelers fandom, you could hear the
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: joy coming through. And that joy that you hear him
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: talking about his Steelers fandom, that doesn't really go away.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: I know when you buy a team, you become part
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: of that team, but your fandom doesn't really just go away. No.
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: No.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: Seattle will forever be business to him while Steelers are
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: his heart.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Pleasure.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: He's going to forever be like, hey, listen, I hope
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: Seattle does well because I want to make money.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: This is my business.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: But I'm a Steelers fan.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: That's a bad look. But it seems to me like
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: he wishes he was the Steelers owner and not the
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Seahawks owner. Just couldn't get the right price for Pittsburgh.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: The family wouldn't sell.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: Darn Roonies.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: I want to hear the sound again. Listen to him
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: laugh at himself, and he's the only one laughing.
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: Also happened to come to this country in 76 when
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: the Steelers were winning the Super Bowl. So actually, I
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: was originally and still am a big Steelers fan. Also,
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: little known fact, but I still watch all.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: The Steelers games, too.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: This sound also just goes to show you how disconnected
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: billionaires are from the casual sports fans.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Casual sports fans would never even... This thought would never
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: even cross their mind. Like, if I gave you $ 3 billion, Stu,
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: to buy a team and you went out and bought
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: a team, like, let's say in baseball you bought the
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Tampa Bay Rays. At your press conference, you know for
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: certain you would not say, hey, I grew up a
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Mets fan. I'm still rooting for the Mets.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Right, you can't say it. You just can't, right.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: But when you're so, like, disconnected from reality with all
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: these people and their billions of dollars... You don't even
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: think about trying to relate to the common man.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: No, I'm not even okay with him saying, Hey, when
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: I came to this country, I rooted for the Steelers,
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: but now my soul phone, you know, like you have to,
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: you have to draw a line where there was the
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: previous me who liked the Steelers and the new me
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: who likes the Seahawks.
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: So we're asking them not to be honest. And that's
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: part of what being an owner is all about, is
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: to lie.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Take a page out of Lane Kiffin's book.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: What are you doing to Lane Kiffin?
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: I love Lane Kiffin.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: 877-99 on Fox. I don't know why I'm giving out
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the phone number. Dominique Foxworth.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Now I got it. I have the yips right now.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: He feels better. It's either leaving. No, it's either. He
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: makes a good joke.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: He gets out of his slump or someone else does
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: something worse.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: And I just did it. And now he feels better
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: about himself. Damn.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: I do feel better about myself. This just goes to
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: show the apple does not fall far from the tree.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Dominique Foxworth.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson Company
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: live weekdays at 3 p.m. Eastern, 12 p.m. Pacific.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: We are thrilled to have a distracted Adnan Virk with
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: us today because he's watching a Taylor Fritz match. John
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Fanta is going to join us in hour number two.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Looking forward to that. The last time we spoke to Adnan. Now, Adnan,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I promised them that you and I would not spend
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: an hour and change here talking tennis.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: I want to. I could.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I could have a 60-minute rally with you back and forth,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: but I promised the guys here I would not do
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: 60 minutes on tennis because the last time we spoke
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: to you, you were headed to Rhode Island for the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Roger Federer Hall of Fame induction, and you're wearing your
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Fed hat today.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: So I promised them I don't know what to do.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: You and I want to talk tennis for an hour,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: and I have promised them that we won't do that today.
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: It's that constant balance, Stu. Our old boss, the great
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: Scott Shapiro at Eastern would tell me, you got to
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: play the hitch. You know, every hour, talk LeBron, talk NFL.
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: What I want to talk about, like, I just want
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: to talk about Roger Federer. And as you had said
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: to me, as you predicted to me, if you meet Federer,
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: that 20 seconds is going to end up being 20
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: minutes of content.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: It's one of those situations where people have said to me,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: so what was it like? And I go, listen, you're
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: going to get one of two versions, either the full
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: version or no version. I can't tell it to you
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: in 30 seconds. Oh, is this?
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: No, I'm going to tell you every damn detail of
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: meeting Roger Federer, my lifelong hero and favorite athlete and
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: favorite person. Aside from my wife and kids. So I
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: hope at some point we can dive in. Like I said,
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: how many of the people could just say they're locked
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: into Taylor Fritz right now?
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: But you're absolutely right. Six level. You love second set.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: It's going to be an interesting balance today.
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: Clippers Rams, what the audience deserves and what you and
• 25:25
  Speaker 9: I deserve, which is some hardcore tennis talk.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: But if you hear gaps, just it's us watching Taylor Fritz.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: It's Fritz's fault.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: What do you got Taylor?
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: So I'm going to extend an olive branch since Adnan's
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: here today. Let's get some tennis talk in right now.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Really? Yeah.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I want to hear some tennis talk.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I know, but Scott Shapiro told us to play the hits,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: and I promised Scott Shapiro we would do an hour
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: on tennis.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be the judge of how long that
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: tennis talk goes, but I want to hear some tennis talk.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: How about this, Taylor? How about this?
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: Do you want, because the Federer story, I'm not kidding,
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: that's going to be 15 minutes.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: I'm assuming we're saving that for a cheat block.
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: When you say tennis talk, do you want me to
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: start the Federer conversation or do non-Federer related time?
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: No, here, I'll start the tennis talk and then Taylor
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: will do whatever it is he's planning on doing here,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: but Let's start the tennis talk here. Were you thrilled
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: as Novak Djokovic, as a lover of Roger Federer.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: As Djokovic... Why are there snores? As Djokovic was.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Throwing up all over the court and losing to a
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: guy who qualified to get into the Open, the snoring's
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: annoying me, was Adnan happy because he doesn't want Djokovic
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: to tack on any more majors here?
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Was I happy? The ultimate rhetorical question. I was delirious
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: with joy. And the only thing that would have.
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: Made me happiest to God is if I actually stepped
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: to watch the entire match. When Novak won the third set,
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: I say he's up 2-1.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: It's 11 o'clock here on the East Coast. I'm going
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: to go ahead and go to bed. That was met
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: with the gleeful joy.
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: I felt like a child when I woke up at
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: 4.50 to go to the bathroom.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: I said, what? He lost in five seconds. I'm like, yeah, yeah.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: This is so great. This is going to be a
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: great day. What a perfect Capra to a weekend. I
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: get to meet... Roger Federer, hashtag Team Fed.
• 27:05
  Speaker 9: And then Novak loses on a Sunday night, arguably the
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: best 48 hours I've experienced in a long time.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: And people say, don't you have sympathy?
• 27:12
  Speaker 9: Of course I don't. He's up there puking away. If
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: you can't play, then don't play.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Just bow out. If you think you can play, then
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: credit to you. Battle it out. But you lost, and
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: you lost badly. Stewie lost 6-2, 6-1 before the final set.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: So what I say was illness.
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: But, I mean, the shot of him puking in slow motion,
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: I could have done without that.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: But macro on the best line afterwards, you know, this
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: guy's enjoying his big moment.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: And he says, see you on court 21 for your
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: next match.
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: Just completely douses the guy's dreamlike moment as he beats Djokovic.
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: But for me, as you said, I do not want
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: to see that majors record extended by Djokovic. I want
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: him to lose, and I want him to lose badly.
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: I think an interesting guy in this U.S. Open is
• 27:51
  Speaker 9: Ben Shelton. He won in four sets.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: And time! What? Oh, come on, we're going to do Shelton.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Come on, let us do Shelton. No, we can't. He's right. Time.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: He called it. And Scott Shapiro did train us to
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: play the hits. So let's play the hits. It's a
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Think About It Thursday.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Give me the imaging.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: You know that segment, Talk About It Tuesday, on Hockman, Crowder,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: and Solero? This is like that, but bigger and better.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: And 48 hours later, this is Think About It Thursday.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: It's a staple every Thursday. We're playing the hits.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: It's Taylor's attempt to counter-program a local show down here
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: in Miami.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Weird. We're a national show on Fox, but.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: It is a Think About It Thursday, 877-99 on Fox,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: if you would like to think with me and Adnet.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Taylor.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: So I saw a video on Snapback Sports on social media.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: A Cowboys fan was born in 2004. And he says
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: Emmitt Smith is his favorite cowboy ever, even though Emmitt
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Smith's last game in Dallas was in 2002. So that's
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: what I want to ask you guys. Can your favorite
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: player be someone who played before you were even born?
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: A lot of Jet fans will tell you that Joe
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Namath is their favorite Jet player, whether they were born
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: or not when he won the Super Bowl.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: I don't. He's not my favorite player. I think he's overrated.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: But Jet fans, some Jet fans who were not alive
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: in 1969, 70s, they will tell you that Namath is
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: their favorite jet of all time.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: It's ludicrous. It's absolutely ludicrous, Stu. And I liked your
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: point on Namath, by the way.
• 29:25
  Speaker 9: Years ago, Sports Illustrated had this great magazine which they
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: said overrated, underrated, and went through all the major figures.
• 29:32
  Speaker 9: Most overrated quarterback was Joe Namath. You look at his numbers,
• 29:34
  Speaker 9: the guy was a 500 quarterback. He just won the
• 29:37
  Speaker 9: unbelievable game. But you look at his numbers, there's no
• 29:39
  Speaker 9: way he should be mentioned with Brady, Aikman, Bradshaw, you
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: name it.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: This doesn't make any sense, Taylor.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Why on earth.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Give me any team. I mean, this is beyond absurdity.
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: That's like a Blue Jays fan born in 2000 saying,
• 29:52
  Speaker 9: Joe Carter's his favorite Blue Jays. Like, what are you
• 29:54
  Speaker 9: talking about? Just because you've seen the image of him
• 29:56
  Speaker 9: jumping around winning the World Series?
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Like, no. If Emmitt Smith's your favorite player, the earliest
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: you could have.
• 30:00
  Speaker 9: Been born is 1990. Maybe at five years of age,
• 30:02
  Speaker 9: you remember Emmitt Smith doing that. Like, that's like being
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: a Steelers fan born in 1987.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Who's your favorite player? Paul Amalo? Roethlisberger? No, Jerry Bradshaw.
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: What?
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: I love Frank Harris.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: That's stupidity. It depends on the team, though. It really does, right?
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: And that's why you're right.
• 30:18
  Speaker 9: With the Jets, it makes a little sense because, unfortunately,
• 30:20
  Speaker 9: your guys have been such futility. The one moment you go, well,
• 30:23
  Speaker 9: I have to clink that. What other Jet do I have?
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: I can't pick Nick Folk.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: What are we doing?
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: But if you weren't alive for the Cowboys run with Emmitt,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Michael Irvin, Troy Aikman, you were born after that run.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: and the Cowboys have been dreadful ever since. Maybe, and
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: you care about the Cowboys that much. It's like, it's
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: in your family. You're a Cowboy fan at birth. Maybe
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Emmitt Smith is your favorite Cowboy of all time because
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: you have no choice, you know?
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess it's true. If you just have a
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: complete lack of success, it wouldn't make sense.
• 30:49
  Speaker 9: It'd be like an Angels fan born in 04, and
• 30:51
  Speaker 9: all of a sudden, like, Darren Erstad, your favorite Angel.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Like, what about Mike Trout? Like, Mike Trout's never won anything.
• 30:56
  Speaker 9: I gotta go back to the Rally Monkey until they
• 30:57
  Speaker 9: won a World Series in 02.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: I'm riding with Jared Weaver.
• 31:00
  Speaker 9: I'm like, okay, I guess that's how we're gonna do it.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to put myself in these shoes and I'm
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: thinking right now, if today I had a son and
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: he grows up to be a Yankee fan and he's like, man,
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: all my dad does is wax poetically about Derek Jeter
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: or watching the yes network 24 seven and watching classics.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: The Yankees still haven't won a world series though. Their
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: last world series of 2009 Aaron judge has let me down.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Aaron judge junior has let me down too. I could
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: see that kid being a Darjeeter is his favorite player fan.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: And if that was my son, I would be damn
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: proud of him.
• 31:37
  Speaker 9: There's a big difference between saying I'm a big fan
• 31:39
  Speaker 9: and he's my favorite player.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: So think about this.
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: As an Eagles fan, I was born in 78. So
• 31:43
  Speaker 9: Cunningham's my favorite player, right? That makes sense. That's the
• 31:46
  Speaker 9: era which I grew up in. I love McNabb and,
• 31:48
  Speaker 9: of course, Jalen Hurtson. Saquon Barkley. So when I meet
• 31:51
  Speaker 9: Ron Jaworski at ESPN, I'm like, oh my God, Jaws.
• 31:53
  Speaker 9: I know he's an all-time great eagle, but I was
• 31:56
  Speaker 9: two when he was in the Super Bowl. He's my
• 31:59
  Speaker 9: favorite eagle.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I can say, Jaws, I love you. All-time great eagle.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Favorite player?
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: No.
• 32:04
  Speaker 9: So as a Yankee fan, you can say, I love
• 32:06
  Speaker 9: Derek Jeter, but it's supposed to be somebody more of
• 32:08
  Speaker 9: your era.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: It's a ludicrous argument.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: But the Eagles have had success since. That's the big difference, yes.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: So I have a perfect example, I think, Stu.
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: What about Chicago Bulls fans who have been born since
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: Michael Jordan?
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Jordan's their favorite Bull of all time.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: You have the greatest player of all time. He's not
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: your favorite Bull of all time?
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: He's your favorite Bull of all time, yes.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: If you were born after Michael Jordan stopped playing basketball,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: he is your favorite Chicago Bull of all time, of course, right?
• 32:33
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that's one where we have to make
• 32:35
  Speaker 9: an exception because he's so supernatural.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: And again, the Bulls have stunk.
• 32:39
  Speaker 9: That's the key point that Stu is pointing out, which
• 32:40
  Speaker 9: I think is key, is that that's the nuance. If
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: your team has still been good while you've been alive,
• 32:44
  Speaker 9: then you should have other players to rally around. But
• 32:46
  Speaker 9: if you're the Bulls, it's been a lot of dreck
• 32:49
  Speaker 9: ever since then. And Jordan's the greatest ever. So, yeah,
• 32:51
  Speaker 9: you know what? I'll allow an exception. Bulls, no matter
• 32:54
  Speaker 9: what you are, you can be a Michael.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Jordan if you care.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: What if you're a Laker fan that was born after
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the Shaq and Kobe run? And your choice is LeBron James,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: who won a championship in a bubble.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: It doesn't really count. Or it's Kobe. I would go Kobe.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: I would.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: And I'd be okay with it. Meaning he saw LeBron.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: He didn't see Kobe. He or she saw LeBron, didn't
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: see Kobe. And Kobe is still their favorite Laker.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: It's tough because the younger generation is growing up wanting
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: to be LeBron fans. But the older generation that is
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: influencing these kids as Laker fans, they don't really respect
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: LeBron's tenure in L.A.
• 33:30
  Speaker 9: Yeah, again, that's where the wrinkle becomes. I would argue
• 33:33
  Speaker 9: you had LeBron in purple and gold. It wasn't like
• 33:36
  Speaker 9: a cup of coffee. No, he was there. He served
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: substantial time.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: He loves the Lakers. But he doesn't feel like a Laker.
• 33:42
  Speaker 9: And the key point is, Stu, that championship was a joke.
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: People mention the Dodgers.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: It's their first world title since 2008. What are you
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: talking about? They go... Well, the COVID year, I go,
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: it was a 60-game baseball season.
• 33:53
  Speaker 9: That was the stupidest World Series title I've ever heard
• 33:55
  Speaker 9: of in my life.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Like, what? No one's taking that seriously. No one goes,
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: remember that arduous 60-game season?
• 34:01
  Speaker 9: And then Clayton Kershaw finally won a World Series.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: I'm like, no, it's completely diluted. It's a joke.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: How would you feel if one of your kids said, hey, Dad,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Favorite tennis player of all time is someone other than
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Roger Federer?
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: It's a great question.
• 34:16
  Speaker 9: One of my friends asked me the other day, he said, hey,
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: you know, since Federer's been gone, who do you root for?
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: And I go, no one. He said, what do you mean?
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: I go, I watch tennis, I love tennis, but....
• 34:25
  Speaker 9: No one will ever match the sheer wattage and beloved
• 34:29
  Speaker 9: nature I have towards Roger Federer.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: I like OJ Aliassime because I'm Canadian. I root for Felix, okay?
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Like I said, bounce Shelton to the left. He's got
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: a good serve. Okay, cool. Taylor Fritz, we're locked in
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: right now, you and me, but no one ever.
• 34:41
  Speaker 9: It often makes me think, I think it was Bill
• 34:43
  Speaker 9: Simmons who once said, a great sign of parental failure
• 34:47
  Speaker 9: is if your kids don't cheer for your teams. Like
• 34:50
  Speaker 9: if Taylor's kid Godwin was a Red Sox fan, he'd go,
• 34:52
  Speaker 9: you must hate your father.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: Like, wow, you really stuck it to him by doing that.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: So you're right.
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: If ever my kids didn't name Federer as their favorite player.
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: That is parental failure 101. Managerial malpractice by me.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: I poisoned them into thinking. When I told them I'm
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: going to run around to meet Federer, they said, oh,
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: he's the GOAT. He's LeBron.
• 35:11
  Speaker 9: If you had other people in the room, they'd go, well,
• 35:13
  Speaker 9: Joker's 24 majors. Nadal beat him head-to-head. My kids are
• 35:16
  Speaker 9: so poisoned by my nonsense. They're like, yeah, Roger's clearly.
• 35:20
  Speaker 9: He's the LeBron and the Michael Jordan of tennis. No
• 35:22
  Speaker 9: one's even close to this guy.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: I'm like, yes! I've got them believing my nonsense.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: And an I would rather my kid grows up to
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: be a Red Sox fan than he grows up to
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: be a Duke fan.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: That's a good question. What would be the least favorite
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: thing you'd like to see happen?
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: He loves the Yankees. He loves Carolina. He went to Carolina.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: He walked onto that football team. So you're saying that
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: you would rather your kid come to you one day
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: and say, hey, I'm a.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Red Sox fan, just as long as he doesn't say
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: he's a Duke fan, right?
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's where I draw the line.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: To be clear, though.
• 35:52
  Speaker 9: Taylor, again, I know we hate Duke, but Duke is
• 35:54
  Speaker 9: a great school. Imagine your son's going to Duke Law School.
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: And he happens to be a Blue Devils fan. You're
• 35:59
  Speaker 9: just saying fandom. What if he actually gets accepted to Duke,
• 36:02
  Speaker 9: which is a great institution? You're not gonna let him
• 36:04
  Speaker 9: go to Duke?
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: He's not gonna let him apply to Duke.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: And I'm definitely not paying that tuition.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: He gets a full scholarship. Full ride. Super smart kid.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: He's going to Duke Law School and you're going to go, sorry, buddy.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: He'd rather pay for him to go somewhere else. He would.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: You go to Elon down the street, buddy. Be a phoenix.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Not quite the same prestige as graduating from Duke. Elon
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: over Duke. That is unbelievable. That is a true thing
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: about a Thursday.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: Some people call Elon the Harvard of the South.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: No, that's not happening. There's no one saying that. Come on.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Still people is no people. Taylor, put it on the poll, please.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: That's the got 790 on X.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Does anyone refer to Elon as the Harvard of the South?
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: 877-99 on Fox.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Can your favorite player from your favorite team be a
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: player that you never saw play? 877-99 on Fox. That's
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: why we call it a Think About It Thursday. I'm thinking.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, I prefer not to think, but here I
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: am thinking. I just want to watch Taylor Fritz.