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The Next Round: Alabama’s Keelon Russell vs. Arch Manning: Who Faces the Most Pressure in College Football? | Hour 1 · The Next Round

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  Speaker 1: Jim Dunaway, Lance Taylor, Ryan Brown, live. The next round
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  Speaker 1: is on now. Live show now.
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  Speaker 2: It's the next round presented by Hard Rock Bets right
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  Speaker 2: here on Sporting State. Jim Dunaway along with Lance Taylor,
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Brown, Tyler Brooks and Forrester behind the big glass
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  Speaker 2: today as we get rolling. We'll try to make it
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  Speaker 2: through two hours without talking about NFL players coming back
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  Speaker 2: and more rulings, but Just so you know, the Big
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  Speaker 2: 12 has followed suit. The ACC is expected to follow suit.
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  Speaker 2: And the College Football Playoff Committee is actually going to
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  Speaker 2: say that if you roster a pro player, you can't
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  Speaker 2: participate in the playoffs. So that should cover a lot
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  Speaker 2: of bases there. We won't jump into that today. We
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  Speaker 2: will get into some LSU jersey numbers. That is a
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  Speaker 2: sign of the times down at LSU. One guy got
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  Speaker 2: that jersey probably because he got his feelings hurt over
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  Speaker 2: the last week. And another guy got his jersey because
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  Speaker 2: he's dating the coach's head coach. head coach's daughter.
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  Speaker 1: Are they still together?
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  Speaker 3: Is that still a thing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised that there's not more.
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  Speaker 4: Just because Lane Kiffin is such a unique brand that
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  Speaker 4: that there's not more of that out there. Like you
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  Speaker 4: see Libby Dunn and Paul Skeens all over the place.
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  Speaker 4: You would think that you would see more of that.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like a real relationship, Skeens and Dunn, right?
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  Speaker 1: It does.
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  Speaker 2: I know you were hesitant on Kelsey and Swift all
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  Speaker 2: those years.
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  Speaker 1: Still don't know about that one. They are married. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people that are married.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to the wall for this one. At LSU,
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  Speaker 2: they give out the jersey number seven every year. an
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  Speaker 2: offensive and defensive player who are considered to be the
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  Speaker 2: best playmakers. Now, one of them is Whit Weeks, who
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  Speaker 2: dates Landry Kiffin. He got the number seven yesterday. And
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  Speaker 2: so did tight end Tredez Green. He got the number
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  Speaker 2: seven yesterday. If the best playmaker on offense was your
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  Speaker 2: tight end, why have you been doing all this other
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  Speaker 2: crap this whole time? That's a great point. He's good
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  Speaker 2: enough to wear jersey number seven. Why are we even
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  Speaker 2: doing this?
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  Speaker 1: Which is as big an honor as you can give
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  Speaker 1: to a current LSU player to wear the jersey number seven.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they hold that in reverence. And you are
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  Speaker 1: out trying to shop for a guy from the NFL
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  Speaker 1: at that same spot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's almost just like it's a flag. This is
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  Speaker 4: how much talent we have. He's putting more and more
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  Speaker 4: pressure on himself, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it has to be. reaching the boiling point
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  Speaker 2: of chemistry inside that locker.
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  Speaker 1: Room, too. Yeah, got to be. Got to be. And
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  Speaker 1: that's one thing that we'll never know.
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  Speaker 4: Until you get out there and there's some extreme insiders
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  Speaker 4: that might know how that locker room is right now
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  Speaker 4: and who likes who and who dislikes who.
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  Speaker 1: But those are things that you just never know rolling
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  Speaker 1: into the season.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what they did yesterday at LSU. So that's
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  Speaker 2: about as much as we're going to talk about the
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  Speaker 2: NFL back-to-college scheme today unless we get some breaking news.
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  Speaker 2: something bigger than the ACC just being the last one
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  Speaker 2: to hook their train to this let's ban the pro
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  Speaker 2: guys coming to college.
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  Speaker 1: I want to start off, though, with the actual games.
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  Speaker 2: We are two days away now on our countdown from
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  Speaker 2: college football actually being played on the field. And I
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  Speaker 2: mentioned this yesterday, and I want to bring the graphic
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  Speaker 2: up here, but Bud Elliott, he literally called this the
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  Speaker 2: sit your ass on the couch Saturdays, five of them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And first of all, that's a great sign. We've got
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  Speaker 2: five days.
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  Speaker 1: This day and age. Five of them. Sadly, most of
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  Speaker 1: them are not going to be in the first three weeks. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the best college football weekends of 2026 from
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  Speaker 2: Bud Elliott College Football there, ranked by the number of
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  Speaker 2: prime games. And we all would say November 7th is
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  Speaker 2: number one. That's a historic day of college football. And
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  Speaker 2: for those that may be on the audio platforms, I'll
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  Speaker 2: give you these games quickly. Oregon at Ohio State, Miami
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  Speaker 2: at Notre Dame. I mean, just stop there and it's
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  Speaker 2: a great Saturday. Alabama, LSU, BYU, Utah, Georgia at Ole Miss,
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  Speaker 2: Penn State at Washington, maybe with playoff implications, Oklahoma at Florida,
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  Speaker 2: and James Franklin, Virginia Tech at probably playoff contender SMU.
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  Speaker 2: And that is a great Saturday of college football.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why we included that last one, but hey, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like you.
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  Speaker 2: Needed to bounce the graphic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he wanted to get a day games. If Franklin
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  Speaker 1: gets a go in at Virginia Tech, I mean, an
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  Speaker 1: upset of SMU. Manageable schedule.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what it's going to look like with
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  Speaker 4: the transfers coming in for the Hokies, but. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they could be surprisingly good in what seems to be
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  Speaker 4: kind of a weak, balanced ACC right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but boy, that first column right there, though.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Auburn is bringing South Florida players to Auburn.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're bringing Penn State players to Virginia Tech,
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  Speaker 2: it's almost like.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably an upgrade, right? It's like they're, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, South Florida, I'm not saying Auburn's not going
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  Speaker 2: to be good.
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  Speaker 1: I just.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like going from Penn State to Virginia Tech,
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  Speaker 2: I may have improved the roster there a little bit. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: none of these are week one, by the way, but
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  Speaker 2: September 26th, So we get to this one pretty early.
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  Speaker 2: It's the second best weekend. Oklahoma at Georgia. Oregon at USC.
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  Speaker 2: Texas A & M at LSU. That would be LSU
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  Speaker 2: coming off the Ole Miss game. Texas at Tennessee. Iowa
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  Speaker 2: at Michigan. Ole Miss at Florida. Now, I know what
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  Speaker 2: you're going to say. Jim, that's not half as good
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  Speaker 2: as the one you just read.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. But it's pretty good. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: really good.
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  Speaker 4: If Michigan was at Iowa... make it a little bit better. But, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's a great weekend of college football.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have all the TV times on that one
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  Speaker 1: just yet, because I was going to say, Brad, I
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  Speaker 1: wish we were in charge of the TV times. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: But primarily we don't Lance because the SEC has got
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  Speaker 1: four games on hold in that middle window. Vandy at Auburn, Oklahoma, Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss at Florida and Texas A & M at LSU.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to wait for a little bit and see
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  Speaker 1: how some of this plays out before they start throwing
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  Speaker 1: TV times on there. Um, But, boy, if you could
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  Speaker 1: get one of those SEC games. Well, you've already got
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  Speaker 1: one early. Texas at Tennessee is in the early window.
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  Speaker 1: Just don't know if it's ABC or ESPN. Throw another
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  Speaker 1: one at 2.30, another one at primetime, and have Oregon
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  Speaker 1: at USC either at 2.30 or primetime. Thank you. That
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  Speaker 1: would be fantastic right there.
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  Speaker 2: The third best week is back into November. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: three and four. One, three, and four are all November.
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  Speaker 2: So November to remember again this year. Number three on this,
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  Speaker 2: Michigan at Oregon. Ole Miss at Oklahoma, Texas at LSU,
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  Speaker 2: USC at Indiana.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Utah at Arizona, and then Tennessee at Texas A & M.
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  Speaker 2: That's November 14th. Lance, it's almost hard.
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  Speaker 1: To make an argument that all six of those games
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  Speaker 1: will not have college football playoff implications. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: for both teams. And that's the design of the playoffs, right?
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  Speaker 1: Playoff meaningful games in November. Just go through them. Michigan
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  Speaker 1: and Oregon. By November 14th, you don't feel like Oregon's
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  Speaker 1: eliminated and Michigan may not be.
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  Speaker 4: Michigan could be one of those surprises like Virginia Tech
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  Speaker 4: and the ACC.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I agree. Oregon 100% will be in it.
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss at Oklahoma I mean both should be in
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  Speaker 1: it both should be in it both could be eliminated
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  Speaker 1: they've got difficult schedules Texas at LSU same yeah I
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  Speaker 1: agree both USC at Indiana I mean that could be
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  Speaker 1: do or die for USC by then with their schedule
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  Speaker 1: that's right and Utah and Arizona I mean that both
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  Speaker 1: those teams are factors in the Big 12 in the
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  Speaker 1: Big 12 the race to the Big 12 championship well think.
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  Speaker 4: About this at that point that's one week after the
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  Speaker 4: holy war that's right so let's just imagine and let's
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  Speaker 4: just say that it plays out like this Utah wins
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  Speaker 4: that game at home in Salt Lake where they're going
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  Speaker 4: to be favored should be favored I know that's kind
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  Speaker 4: of flip back and forth, but they win that game,
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  Speaker 4: then they go on the road to what should be
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  Speaker 4: a really good Arizona team that could really throw a
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  Speaker 4: wrench in everything in the Big 12.
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  Speaker 1: And then Tennessee at A & M speaks for itself.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's a sweet day. To your point, though, Ole.
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  Speaker 2: Miss-Oklahoma, that may be an elimination game.
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  Speaker 1: Could be, with their schedules, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That may be the two SEC teams that are closest
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  Speaker 2: to the bubble at that point.
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  Speaker 1: It's not crazy to say with their schedules that that
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  Speaker 1: is the one game that doesn't have playoff implications. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: would the slate those two have to play? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you could make an argument that they're both out of
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  Speaker 1: it by that game. I don't think they will be,
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  Speaker 1: but you could certainly argue.
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  Speaker 2: November 21st is the fourth best sit-on-your-butt-on-the-couch weekend. SMU at
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame. That's a sneaky, hard game for Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about Notre Dame's easy schedule. They're the most
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  Speaker 2: picked team likely to go unbeaten.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing.
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  Speaker 4: Notre Dame loses these home games. You know, you go
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  Speaker 4: back to the baffling the Marshalls in the northern Illinois,
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  Speaker 4: but last year it was Texas A & M.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: So, you know, I would say, man, it'd be a
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  Speaker 4: much better game if it was in Dallas, but I
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  Speaker 4: don't know. Notre Dame seems to slip up at all.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think the point spread right now is?
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame, nine and a half.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd say seven and a half. About the time
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  Speaker 1: they kick? Yeah. Yeah, Notre Dame team's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a juggernaut.
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  Speaker 2: They are, but their toughest games are Miami and maybe
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  Speaker 2: this SMU team.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Texas A & M at Oklahoma, Indiana at Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Indiana-Washington is an interesting game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, right now I would list Indiana as
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  Speaker 4: a three and a half point favorite.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to what I'm about to say right here. That
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  Speaker 1: could be do or die for Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: And Washington. It could be an elimination game for both
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  Speaker 2: of them.
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  Speaker 1: There is no doubt.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Virginia Tech at Miami, LSU at Tennessee, and Arizona at
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  Speaker 2: Kansas State.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, he's stacking this Big 12.
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  Speaker 4: So Arizona then upsets Utah, who just beat BYU. Now
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  Speaker 4: they've got to go to Manhattan in a sneaky good
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  Speaker 4: year one Colin Klein with Avery Johnson back for his
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  Speaker 4: fourth year.
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  Speaker 1: Then they pull off the upset. And then at that
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  Speaker 1: time we're talking about, man, this Big 12 is wild.
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  Speaker 2: So one September, three November, and then there's one weekend
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  Speaker 2: in October, October 17th, that gives you Ohio State at Indiana,
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  Speaker 2: Penn State at Michigan, Notre Dame at BYU. There's another
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  Speaker 2: tricky Notre Dame game.
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  Speaker 1: It is tricky.
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  Speaker 2: Alabama at Tennessee. And the last two times Alabama's been there,
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  Speaker 2: they've lost. And Florida at Texas.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Alabama-Tennessee going crimson-orange jerseys.
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  Speaker 1: That is correct.
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  Speaker 2: They are, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, that's five good weekends there. Sadly, week
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  Speaker 2: number one is not on there, but there's good enough
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  Speaker 2: games to get you through the other ones. But that
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  Speaker 2: November 7th at the top of the board there is–
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  Speaker 2: That's a historic weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Part of it is because Alabama and LSU got so
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  Speaker 1: good that it became the must-see game in the SEC.
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  Speaker 1: But it feels like for a while, that first weekend
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  Speaker 1: in November has been your best weekend schedule-wise of the year.
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  Speaker 1: It may not play out as your best weekend of
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  Speaker 1: the year. Some others have. But schedule-wise, it seems like
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  Speaker 1: more often than not, that first week in November, that
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  Speaker 1: first Saturday in November, we find ourselves with an incredible
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  Speaker 1: college football schedule. Even in the preseason, that one's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know. I mean, you look
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  Speaker 1: at those games, and I know you were like, boy,
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  Speaker 1: Virginia Tech-SMU, but heck, by then, who knows? You know,
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  Speaker 1: the way the ACC goes, LA could be the two
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  Speaker 1: top teams in the standings. Could be. The way that
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  Speaker 1: conference plays.
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  Speaker 4: But, I mean, it's the most fascinating conference. Is it
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  Speaker 4: still the SEC just because there's so much talent? We
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  Speaker 4: went through one through eight teams that realistically could be
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  Speaker 4: in Atlanta in December.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's eight or nine teams that think they're
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  Speaker 2: going to the playoffs this year.
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Florida and Auburn can be optimistic. Are you including Missouri
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  Speaker 4: in front of Florida? Missouri's ranked number 25. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think they belong there. I would actually put Florida at
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  Speaker 4: 25 before I would Missouri, but Missouri's a ranked team.
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  Speaker 1: Are you including Tennessee? I'm including Tennessee. I'm including Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: I would include Tennessee. You would include Tennessee as a
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  Speaker 1: fan base that thinks they should go to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: Two years removed from the playoff with Jim Knowles coming
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  Speaker 4: in and taking over that defense. I think much like
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  Speaker 4: Keelan Russell, Tennessee fans are excited now about Faison Brandon.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look, I mean, the truth is, and we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about it a lot, Heupel gets good quarterback play. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's not quite to the level of in Heupel I
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  Speaker 1: trust a quarterback, but he's pretty dang close. Yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: pretty close. Yeah, Ryan Day's there.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, just in the SEC, Lane Kiffin, Kalen DeBoer,
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  Speaker 4: and I think he's right there with them.
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  Speaker 1: And really, Sark. I mean, I trust in Sark's quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: I know Arch Manning wasn't great to start the year
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  Speaker 1: last year.
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  Speaker 2: I just thought that was interesting from Bud Elliott, and
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  Speaker 2: he put that out on socials, and it was fun
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  Speaker 2: to share with everybody as we get ready to enjoy
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  Speaker 2: this upcoming college football season together. We are also getting
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  Speaker 2: ready to name a few more quarterbacks. Alabama this year
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  Speaker 2: opens with East Carolina. East Carolina named their starting quarterback yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Mitch Griffiths is the.
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  Speaker 1: Starting quarterback for East Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: He has played at Wake Forest, North Texas. Last year
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  Speaker 2: was a backup at Texas Tech, and now he's the
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  Speaker 2: starter at East Carolina. When they come to play Alabama
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  Speaker 2: in the opener, their backup is Emory Williams.
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  Speaker 1: Who he beat out. So that's the two QBs that
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  Speaker 1: are coming to town. Yeah, I'm not even familiar with
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  Speaker 1: the kid.
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  Speaker 4: And normally in these situations— guys find their way even
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  Speaker 4: if it's from an ohio state to an east carolina
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  Speaker 4: to be a starting guy yeah i wonder.
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  Speaker 1: If he's kicking himself at least and leaving texas tech
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  Speaker 1: i don't know if he would have been the backup
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  Speaker 1: behind sorsby as well.
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  Speaker 4: We've got texas tech quarterback news this morning too or
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  Speaker 4: late yesterday which is kind of crazy with all that
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  Speaker 4: said i mean the pirates are replacing 21 of 22
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  Speaker 4: starters so as surprising as they were last year i
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  Speaker 4: just don't have a lot of expectation and even if
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  Speaker 4: they are better than advertised how difficult is it going
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  Speaker 4: to be road You know, road week one, putting this
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  Speaker 4: thing together with 21 new starters.
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  Speaker 2: LT mentions Thomas Castellanos, who Arthur, he was the quarterback
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  Speaker 2: that beat Alabama last year at Florida State, one-time Boston
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  Speaker 2: College quarterback, is now the Texas Tech backup. Is there
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  Speaker 2: a chance, and I don't know the numbers, but is
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  Speaker 2: there a chance he's getting more money to back up
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  Speaker 2: at Texas Tech than he's got any time in his career?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what Florida State was paying him last year.
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  Speaker 4: I think they had to pay him a pretty good
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  Speaker 4: amount to pry him from BC in conference.
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  Speaker 1: But boy, Texas Tech had to have a backup.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because I still think, although they have cleared Will
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  Speaker 4: Hammond for week one, how healthy is he?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, as the Swordsby thing unfolded, Castellanos held
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  Speaker 1: a lot of cards. Because you've got to have a backup.
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  Speaker 1: Your backup is now your starter in Will Hammond. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what you pay a backup.
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  Speaker 1: I know what reportedly Austin Mack's getting paid to backup
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  Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa. And it's the college version of Chase Daniel,
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  Speaker 1: if some of these numbers are correct. I mean, Chase made,
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  Speaker 1: we kid Chase, a kid had chased about it when
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  Speaker 1: he was on the show last week about what kind
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  Speaker 1: of living he made as an NFL backup. It's starting
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  Speaker 1: to be a pretty good spot in college too. And
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  Speaker 1: that's only going to increase because as kids hit the
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  Speaker 1: transfer portal, quarterback depth is not what it used to be.
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  Speaker 1: So having a quality backup is going to be very important.
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  Speaker 1: Because in the offseason, your guy could bail. Your room
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  Speaker 1: could be empty.
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  Speaker 4: Like backups for Joey McGuire. Last year, it was weird
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  Speaker 4: because Barron Morton, who's now on the Patriots roster, I
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: don't know if he's going to make the 53-man or not.
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: He was more of a traditional quarterback. And you look
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: at Will Hammond, very athletic, can run the football. Now
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: they bring in Castellanos that just kind of goes right
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: behind him. It makes a lot of sense.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Like if Auburn had hired John Summerall, I wonder who
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Auburn's starter is this year. They've got Byron Brown because...
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: they hired Alex Golish.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: Well, you assume that he probably brings in the same
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: offensive coordinator, so it probably is Aaron Filo.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: It's probably Aaron Filo for Georgia Tech, right?
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: That'll be something to watch in that game, yeah. Already,
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: if you're an Auburn fan, you got Golish, you're happy
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: with Golish.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: But there was a moment you thought you were getting
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: John Sumrall.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my point was, you've got your quarterback because he
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: played for that head coach, and that's where he chose
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: in the transfer portal. And maybe Deuce Knight doesn't bail
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: if Golish doesn't, if it's Sumrall. I don't know how
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: that would play out, but You know, that's the whole
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: reason Byron Brown's your starter is because he's the head coach.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Memphis named Marcus Stokes their starting quarterback. He was at
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: West Florida last year. He'll quarterback at Memphis. He beat
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: out Aaron Nolan, a one-time Blue Chip recruit. So those
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: are some starting quarterbacks named. I want to ask a
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: question about pressure and not pressure. And for that, we'll
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: go cut five, Tyler, if you can. Lincoln Riley here. Now,
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: he gets asked about if he is more relaxed. uh
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: going into this season and uh he starts off uh
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: with a person who probably knows the answer to.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: That i don't know maybe ask my wife she might
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: be a better a better judge um i don't know
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: i've like made a conscious decision to to try to
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: be more that way i mean i am excited and
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: confident about what we're doing i mean there's no that's
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: real um So, you know, do I have that feeling
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: of confidence and is that fun? And is it fun
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: to see some of these things that we've been working
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: on for years and years start to come to fruition
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: or come to fruition? Yeah. Like it's sure it is.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: It's been a, it's been a long road here. And, and, um,
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: and so seeing some of those things that came through
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: that were just kind of ideas years ago or thoughts
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: or hopes or whatever, like that's, that's fun to see.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: And it does energize you and excite you. And, I
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: do have a lot of confidence in the football team
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: that I think we have a chance to be and,
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: you know, really the program that we have a chance
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: to be here in the next several years. I mean,
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: it's a fun job right now, for sure.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: If I said give me five coaches that have the
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: most pressure on them this year, and I'm not talking
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: hot seat getting fired here, but, you know, that may
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: be part of it. The five biggest named coaches that
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: have the most pressure on them.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, let's start at the top. Oregon.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: Oregon.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: You would say Dan Lanning is absolutely number one?
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. He's got the same amount of wins over
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: the last four years, in his four years at Oregon,
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: than Ryan Day has at Ohio State.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: But you know what's missing? National championship. National championship. I
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: think Marcus Freeman.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, I really do.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: They missed the college football playoff last year. You look
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: at this schedule. They are going to be favored in
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: every one of their games. The expectation is national championship
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: or boss.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Everybody likes him.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the first two you gave I thought seemed very
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: comfortable in their skin and very comfortable at their jobs,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: and I would not have gone either one of those ways.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I like your perception of that.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: But I do think that internally they've got a lot
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: of pressure. I mean, these guys are perfectionists, and they
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: have done everything right except win a national championship, more
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: so for Dan Lanning.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: But I think I would put him there. Sark, definitely.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: You got to agree with that. 100% on Sark. He
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: would have probably been at the top of my list. Yeah,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: and I'm just going down the top 25 in a word.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: And I believe Sark could get– there's a path to
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: where Sarkisian is not the coach next year at Texas,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: in my opinion.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: That path might be if there is an NFL opportunity
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: and you're like, I'm tired of beating my head against
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: the wall here. No, I think if they're 8-4, I
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: think big money people could fire him. Oh, no, no,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: that too. But even at 9-3 or 10-2 and– Not
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: as deep in the college football playoff as you want
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: to be or whatever the case might be. You could
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: see him, if the offer were there, taking an NFL
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: head coaching job. Caleb DeBoer? I mean, DeBoer is a.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: 100%.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: It's a given. It might be number one. And Lincoln Riley.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Those would be my five. So you would put Riley
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: on there.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Maybe we should have whiteboarded this. Because I look at
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: guys like Pete Golden. Obviously, there's a ton of internal
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: pressure there. But he took a little off himself with
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: the way he handled the transition last year and winning
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: playoff game.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: But I.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: When you start talking pressure, what's the old saying? Pressure
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: burst pipes? What is it?
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, pressure burst pipes. BBP. Yeah, something like that. It
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: also makes diamonds. Yeah, the first time they lose. Who's that, USC?
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: First time Pete Golding loses a game.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Especially if it's Louisville.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: In the opener. Let it be LSU. It's even worse.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, LSU will be bad, but especially if it's Louisville.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Then I think Golding's... pressure changes. And I think it
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: very quickly could get very heated on Golding in Oxford
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: because of how good it's been the last few years.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: You know, and there's other ones that we could sprinkle in.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: I agree on Golding. Obviously, Lane Kiffin is there, but
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: it is year one. He's doing himself no favors by
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: all of the exterior.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Stuff going on.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: But how about a guy like Matt Campbell at Penn State?
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Penn State, you make the semis, then you fire your
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: coach in season the next year. What is the expectation there?
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Now everybody in the world is like, Penn State's got
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: a pretty easy schedule. And then Matt Campbell, this guy's
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a really good coach. I mean, I think your day
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: one expectations are 10 and 2 bare minimum. And that
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: is a lot of pressure.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Mike Elko, he's done a great job in two years,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: but he can't beat Texas.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: So what you're telling me is there's a lot of
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: coaches that are under pressure. That's the nature of the business.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Every coach is under a certain amount of pressure, and
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: a lot of them put it on themselves. I bring
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: this up because of a comment Louis Riddick made, and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: when we come back, I will tell you the comment
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Riddick made about a certain player, and I want you
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to tell me the player you think is under the
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: most pressure this year. He named a player yesterday on ESPN.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: College or NFL? College player. That's under the most pressure.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: NFL exhibition, we'll talk about that here in the opening hour.
• 20:59
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• 21:08
  Speaker 2: roll on here, before we jump back into our college
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: football NFL conversation, the world continues to celebrate the life
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: of Dolly Parton. Yesterday, 26 of the top 30 most
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: downloaded songs on iTunes were Dolly songs.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: That's great.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: I saw on Netflix, I was just kind of scanning around.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Maybe it was Netflix or maybe it was just, I
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: don't know, one of these streaming services, but.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: It had all these Dolly movies available. Yeah.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: So 26 of the top 30 songs were Dolly songs yesterday.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: And it has worked out because they planned this six
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: years in advance. The next named storm in the Atlantic.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: We're to the D. Get out.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Are you serious?
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys saw some of the
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: memes out on the coffin. I did. She would have
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: laughed at it. She would have laughed her ass off. Oh, yeah.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: I would imagine. There's a hump. Oh, yeah. Yeah, too.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Her longtime joke was, I have small feet because things
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: don't grow in the shade.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: That was always her joke.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: It's just amazing how long she's been an icon. Because
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: if you go back and watch one of my favorites,
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Urban Cowboy 1980, you know, in Gillies, they have, you know,
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: kind of a sidebar to the whole movie going on
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: is a.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton lookalike contest early in the movie.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: 1980. 1980. That's a long time.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's very popular, and everyone continues to celebrate her life.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: How about flags at half-staff? I mean, you've lived a
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: heck of a life as just a normal citizen. You
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: never served in politics to get flags at half-mast for
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: a week?
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: Empire State Building turned pink at 925.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: The Space Needle did that. They were all over the world, really,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: but all over the country for sure. Structures that could
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: light things up, lit it up pink.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Or purple, whatever it was.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: And now there's a petition in Nashville with about 100,000
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: signatures to rename the Nashville International Airport to Dolly Parton
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: International Airport.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I would say that's easy. I would sign off on that. Oh,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: heck yeah. Why would you not? Absolutely. That would be really,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: really cool.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I think I saw someone say that almost at the
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: same time, the head of the, not the Democratic.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Party, but Oh, I saw the Democratic Socialist Party.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Democrat and the Republicans almost at the same time, almost
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: identical tweets and posts on social media. They almost were
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: exactly the same celebrating Dolly Parton.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: It was the head of the DSA and President Trump.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: And it was almost identical. And the person I saw
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: this like, I don't know anybody else in the world
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: that could get two people.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Back to what you talked about, the approval rating. Like
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: there is nobody that has ever said anything that at
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: least we know. that is negative about Dolly Parton. She's
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: the furthest thing from polarizing.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and just recently they've tried to ask her questions
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: about President Trump or about this or about that, and
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: she's like, I'm a star.
• 23:52
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  Speaker 2: Give me the quarterback you think is under the most
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: pressure going into the season. Louis Riddick gave a name yesterday.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, I just don't see how it can't be
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Arch Manning. I mean, and I know, again, like coaches,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: a lot of quarterbacks are under pressure. But this guy
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: entered college with an immense amount of pressure because of
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: the name on the jersey. And now you kind of
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: had a disappointing season, even though, as you frequently point out, fairly,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: it was better at the end than it was at
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: the beginning. He got better at the end that people
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: tend to forget. But it's almost national championship or bust
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: for him.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I've got five guys that jump right
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: now just like the coaches.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: They really do.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: And I would start with Arch just based on the name.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Dante Moore is another one of these guys that if
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Dante Moore would have come out, he would have gone
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: before Ty Simpson, in my opinion. I know everybody says
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Sean McVay and Les Snead were in love with him.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: But Dante Moore would have gone before. He came back
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: for one reason, sole reason only, to win a national championship.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I heard a discussion that it would have been closer
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: in Las Vegas' eyes between Dante and Mendoza.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: That maybe they would have gone Dante Moore instead of Mendoza.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: But to give up being a franchise quarterback already, to
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: come back to college, there was one sole purpose. It
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: was to win a national championship. He's got to be included.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Darian Mensah, now going to Miami. They've done everything but
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: win a national championship with the run last year. He
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: is probably... outside of figures we don't know about Arch,
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: the highest paid quarterback in college football.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: More on that in a second. We've got a list
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: for you. I think Mensah would be right there.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: I think Trinidad Chambliss. It's almost like he's single-handedly carrying
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: this Ole Miss program right now. He finally gets approved
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: and gets reinstated. And now with this brutal schedule, Ole
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Miss fans just expect this to be another 11-win season.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: So there's a ton of pressure on him. And then
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: I would go Sam Leavitt, another one of these high-paid
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: quarterbacks that comes in, and automatically guys like Jordan Rodgers
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: are saying it's national championship or bust.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Can I point out how interesting it is? And I
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: don't think you just left him out. I think you
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: just didn't really consider him in this, and maybe rightfully so.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: But he's about to start his second year, did not
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: win a national championship in his first, and we almost
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: never mention Julian Sayen in these types of conversations, the
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Ohio State starter. And that is a pressure-packed job no
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: matter what.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: And the biggest play in that game was a, Horribly
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: bad read when the cornerback jumped the route, passed out
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs, that pick six return. That was a
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: brain freeze from saying.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: It was a great play. Probably wasn't expecting that guy
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: to be there. Didn't look like it when he threw
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: the pass.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Here's why there's not as much, though. I've got a
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: theory on why there's not as much. He's going to
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: play three more years. That's my theory, is that he's
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: not going to go to the NFL. It doesn't appear.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: He's going to play a while.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: I think he's got literally three more years of college football.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Can he do this one? Oh, no, with the 5-5. Yeah,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: with the 5-5, he's going to have three more years.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, he is too small now.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Look, I mean, there might be people that talk him
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: into Bryce Young might end up winning 10 or 11 games,
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: get back to the postseason, and people point to him.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: But I think Julian Sane, with the money that he
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: can make at Ohio State, I think he's locked in
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: for the next three years.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Louis Riddick.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Said the quarterback's under the most pressure this year in
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: college football is Keelan Russell. I knew you were going
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: to say that, too, when you set it up. I mean,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: I can see it.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: If you consider the pressure that Keelan DeBoer is under,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: To go deeper in the playoffs. And the Alabama team
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: is under from their fan base to look more like
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: a Nick Saban team, which is what Alabama's fan base wants. Right.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: They can say all they want that they support Caleb DeBoer.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: And I think he should because I think this show
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: has been as out front on any show as any show.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: It's saying we think the guy's a really good football coach.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Give him time. He'll get it right. But the expectation
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: is get this thing more like Saban.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the quarterback's going to have to do a lot to
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: do that. So I can see Keelan Russell.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: I mean, internally, probably like if they're going to take
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: it to the next level. I mean, obviously, we've talked
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: about the offensive line and the running backs have got.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: To be better.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Defense has got to be where it was last year
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: or even better than that. But he's going to have
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: to carry a lot on his shoulders. But I just
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: don't know a quarterback that's never started the game outside
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: of Arch Manning that can have that kind of pressure.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I just wonder is part of the pressure is that
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: there's a Competent number two behind him, the perception that
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Austin Mack is right there over his shoulder.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: Like that leash could get yanked quickly.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I think the pressure is that Jersey's crimson and the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: pants are white. I mean, I think that's the pressure.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Alabama's quarterback, that comes with an immense amount of pressure
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: no matter what the situation.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: But obviously it does almost everywhere for a.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Big program, right?
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, I would say there's more pressure on Gunner.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: Stockton to win a playoff game. this year after going
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: 0-2 as a starting quarterback for Georgia.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: C.J.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Carr has yet to win a playoff game. I think
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: there's other guys that I would stack in front. Even
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: to me, John Mateer, with the expectation going into last year,
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: how far that fell short at least for Mateer. The
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: team obviously gets to the college football playoff, but Mateer
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: did not play even close to his potential. So I
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: think there's a stack of quarterbacks that would be for Keelan,
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: in my opinion.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just wonder if you're a guy like Mensah,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: is there anybody you look over your shoulder? I mean,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: no matter what I do, man, I'm the guy.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but if.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: You don't play Cam Ward-like football, your team's not going
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: to win every game.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though, back to Russell. Like, do you
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: think it is– Like there have been quarterbacks at Alabama
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: and at other schools. And boy, this is going to
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: sound like a shot at Ty Simpson. And please understand
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It is not. I got a ton
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: of respect for Ty Simpson. There have been harder acts
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: to follow than that at Alabama. Oh, yeah. And at
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: other schools. It's not just Alabama at other schools at
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Ohio State. You know, there have been harder acts to
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: follow than what Julian saying may be. But there have
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: been harder acts to follow than Ty Simpson. Jalen Milrow
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: had a really difficult follow. Oh, my gosh. You dropped
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: him in right after Bryce Young. the first Heisman Trophy
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: winning quarterback in Alabama football history. Bryce Young had to
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: follow Mac Jones. And I know you may laugh, but
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: that offense was insane in 2020. It was the best
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: single-season offense in Alabama history. And he had to follow
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Tua Tungvaluwa, who was one of the best quarterbacks ever
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: to play at Alabama. I mean, there have been tougher
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: acts to follow. And I think if you had that
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: situation for Keelan Russell, this would be even more pressure-packed.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I do think he catches a little bit of a
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: break there. Not that people don't love Ty Simpson. But
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Ty didn't exactly set the world on fire. Ty Simpson
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: didn't throw for 5,000 yards and 43 touchdowns or something
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: We are going to look back one day, especially if
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: Ty ends up playing well in the NFL, and we're
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: going to be like, man, you're talking about a handcuffed quarterback.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: How he won 11 games and got to a college
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: football playoff with a terrible offensive line, no running backs,
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: receivers dropping the football.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: All over the place. Won a playoff game on the road.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Against a great defense. But do you think overall Keelan
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Russell will be viewed better than Ty Simpson this year?
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: I do because I think, well, I don't know about
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: this year. That's right. Before he's done, I would say. Yeah,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: before he's done. Yeah, before he's done.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: You know, Dunaway has always alluded to 2027. Alabama fans
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: don't want to hear that. But when you look at
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: the roster and how everything stacks up, 2027 makes a
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: lot of sense.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: And by that time, Keelan, you know.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: We fast forward this conversation in one year, we might
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: be talking about Keelan Russell's best quarterback coming back in
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: college football.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: That's right. Could be. Because you're losing so many quarterbacks, too,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: we assume. Apparently not Julian Sands. Yeah, not Sands and
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: not Arch Manning this week. We both have gone there. LTS,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Julian Sands serving 10 to 12.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Hey, wouldn't that be exciting if you're Ohio State and
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Julian Sands?
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Yes. Hey, go on and lock me into a three-year deal.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go ahead and tell you guys right now,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: I'm staying through my– Fifth year.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I'm your quarterback from now on. How much can you
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: pay me?
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: I would buy real estate in Columbus if I'm him.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I really would. I'd buy a badass house, and I'd
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: just go on and lock it down for three years.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you really, at that point, you have
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: a more stable quarterback situation, sorry, Brown, than the Dolphins,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: than the Cardinals. I mean, you start naming NFL teams,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: the Buckeyes would have a better.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: I got to bring this up because, you know, it
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: always comes back to the Rams. Because you brought the
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: Dolphins up. I saw a graph today.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I cracked the NFL door.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: No, I saw a graph today, and it was the
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: last time the Rams had beaten all 31 teams.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: And the team that goes the furthest back is the Dolphins.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: You were at that game.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: No.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: The Dolphins whipped the Rams' ass at Halloween. Oh, that's right.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: That's right, on Halloween.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: And then I threw the Ottoman in the Redmont Hotel
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: when you guys came back from 13-0. But it was
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: 2001 was the last time.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: The Rams beat them.
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I was saying you were at the last Dolphins win
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: over the Rams, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The one down,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Jakeem Grant returned the punt.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: During COVID in 2021. But that's pretty wild that it's
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: been 25 years since the Rams have beaten the Dolphins.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: If you play them this year. I know.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Here's the Oregon coach, Dan Lanning. getting asked about how
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: ready Dante Moore is for this season to start with
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: all these expectations.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: How would you describe Dante's determination at this point to
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: just get out there, finally get into a game and
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: do what he does?
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think he's gone through phases here throughout fall
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: where it's like, okay, I'm completely focused on what my
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: job is. But part of being Dante, what makes him
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: so special is being Dante when he's out there playing
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: with joy, playing with confidence, knowing, hey, I've been through
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: this a million times. We've given him a ton of
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: different looks. this fall that he hasn't really seen consistently before.
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: And I think that's been really good for him as
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: a player, but when he's out there playing with joy
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: and has a level of focus and is demanding of
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: the guys around him, we really separate as a team
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: and he's done a good job of that.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is. He's a difference maker and they've got,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: this is Oregon's most talented team under Dan Lanning on paper.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: I would agree.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: You brought up the fact that you lose Tosh as
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: your defensive coordinator and You lose Will Stein, one of
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: the best offensive coordinators, and Drew Meringer is coming in
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: and taking over this offense.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: And, you know, I don't know.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: I mean, I just assume they're going to be really good. But,
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: you know, there could be, you know, some cross-communication and
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: things might be a little bit different for Oregon this year.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Here is– do you have something? No, it's just some
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: smirker in your face.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: I do.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: It's just a random– I can't get past it, though. Like,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: when we watch Oregon video, I feel like I'm watching
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: video from Mars. It's like Oregon is this displaced college
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: football program out in the middle of nowhere. We're like, oh,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: wait a minute. We've got video from Oregon. It's just
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: like they're– And what does his cup say? Like, I
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: know I'm not a coffee guy. I can't tell. Maurice
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: does love to put a name on there. Is it
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Good Lanning?
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: It says Coach Lanning.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Coach Lanning. Oh, okay. You know, that's probably from the
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: smoothie bar in their performance. Yeah, it should be. But
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: do you understand what I'm saying? It's like there's this
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: displaced program that's out in the middle of nowhere, and
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: it's Oregon. They're like, look at us.
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: Does it add to it the fact that every press
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: conference looks like they're sitting at a boardroom meeting?
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: It does. It does.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: That backdrop helps. I've always hated that look. Sitting in
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: that chair at that table.
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: And it's the players do it, too.
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: It's like every time I see Scott cutting stuff up
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: from Oregon's video, like press conference stuff, I'm like, God,
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: that looks so weird to me.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: It looks like they're at a city council meeting with
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: the microphone. I know.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: The wall looks like leather. It looks like that's a
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: leather wall. I like how our friends from Toyota, they sneak.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: In there, though. Sneak it in.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm with you, Brooks. It does look like
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: he's a U.S. representative in Congress and somebody's in front
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: of a panel. He's like, okay, Coach Lanning, you've already
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: been sworn in. Let's go ahead and— You've got to
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: press a button for his mic to turn on.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: It's got the red little ring on it. I'm going
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: to plead the fifth here. I'm sorry.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: If you remember, you only have five minutes. You brought
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: up Mars. I saw these pictures from Mars yesterday. I
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: don't know if you guys saw them.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I did. Yeah, those things. The resolution on the pictures
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: from Mars were incredible. Yeah. It just looked like a
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: bad day in Arizona. It did.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: I thought to myself, that looks sort of livable. Oh, God.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, again, if you don't like green, it looks
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: sort of livable.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like I really expected to walk in here today.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Jeeves, can you pull them?
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: I expected to walk in today and Forrester have some
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: AI version when that camera starts to pan and get
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: over to something over here, some funny joke of his, like,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: you know, quarterback, Falcons quarterback room, you know, Dusty and
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: the Relics over there.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: But they were amazing photos that came down yesterday. Yeah.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, you look like you're in the desert.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Second one up now yeah i mean i i mean
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: livable yeah that first page was the yeah the first
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: page page number two yeah that one right there yeah
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: i mean boy you i mean it's like phoenix man
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: i i did not like phoenix the first time i
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: ever went because people got rocks for yards And everything's
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: just brown. Do you guys.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: Wear 30 or 50 when you're out playing golf?
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: I wear 50 on my face. What do you think
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: you'd have to wear on Mars? You're further from the sun.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: That's good.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I think there's more sun exposure or something
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: on Mars, yeah.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I roll with a sport 50, by the way. Yeah,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: I do too. I had heard at one point there's
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: a certain SPF that once you get over it, it
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: really is. I've heard that too. You're only buying into numbers.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I think it's 50. Is it 50? I think it's 50, yeah.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: We are SPF 100 here on the next round presented
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: by Hard Rock Bets and Sporting State. Real quickly, the
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: highest paid quarterbacks in college football are updated a list
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: from Pete Nacos at On3 Sports through their research. These
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: are what the highest paid quarterbacks are getting paid. And
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: you mentioned a couple of them, LT. So we've got
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: the dollar figures to back that up. Darian Mensah, according
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: to Nacos, and these are pretty firm numbers at On3 Sports,
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: North of $ 6 million.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Is what he's making. Good for him.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: I think he is for sure one of the best
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: quarterbacks in college football. Is he worth $ 6 million? I
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: think the only way you get your $ 6 million back
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: is if you make a run like you made last.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Year, right?
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: There's only one NFL rookie quarterback that would make this list.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Fernando?
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: And it's Fernando Mendoza. And I don't think he's number one.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: No, he wouldn't be.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Dante Moore. and Trinidad Chambliss both at $ 5 million, according
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: to Pete Nichols.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Chambliss had all the leverage because Kiffin had left and
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: would gladly have taken Chambliss with him. And it was
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: a victory for Ole Miss to keep him. So, buddy,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: he cashed right in.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: How many guys are working their ass off right now saying,
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Trinidad at this time last year, nobody knew his name.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: He was coming out of Ferris State. Ferris State transfer
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: probably making nothing.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: And now he has hit the equivalent of the small
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: lottery in Florida.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: So if you're sitting there in Blinn Junior College or
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Ferris State or all those.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I could be him. Play hard.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Sam Leavitt and Josh Hoover at $ 4.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: 5 million.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: DeMond Williams, who is trying to leave, hung around with
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: his $ 4 million contract.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: That ain't a lot in Seattle.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: And then Drew Messamaker, $ 3. 5 million at Oklahoma State. If
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: I'm the head coach there, man, I'm taking you with
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: me to Oklahoma State, and you're.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Still going to work me for that? Yeah, you're going
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: to work me for $ 3. 5 million?
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: Coach Morris, I love you, but I've got other opportunities.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, he had options, I'm sure, yeah.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm sure he said, listen, your system worked
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: because of me. You're making $ 7 million a year because
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: of me. Yeah, Lane would have taken him. Highest paid quarterbacks,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: that's Pete Nacos on 3Sports. Always great research to get
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: from Pete there. When we come back tonight in the
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: NFL exhibition play, still to come, three brands that have
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: taken a step back.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: We'll explain that to you as well.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: But a little NFL football next right here on the
• 40:17
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• 40:20
  Speaker 2: the NFL has pulled the plug on the Pro Bowl again,
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: probably for the final time. They've done the Manning thing
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: the last couple of times, right? So they're not even.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Going to do that now.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: They're going to announce a Pro Bowl team every year
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: just to continue that tradition. 88 players on the list.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: And they'll be invited to a celebration party out during
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl week this year in Los Angeles. So if
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: you're a Pro Bowler, you'll get a chance to be
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: honored at a big party wherever the Super Bowl is
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: every year.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: So it'll be.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: sort of an announcement, no game, no flag football, none
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: of that stuff anymore.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can't remember. Like, I never even– I
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: didn't even know the Mannings. I guess maybe I knew
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: they were doing something. Yeah, I remember they did those games. Yeah,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: it was Manning-produced, Omaha Productions, but they did, like, flag
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: football and skills competitions and stuff like that. Yeah, and
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: they coached– each Manning coached a team, AFC, NFC. Yeah,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I never saw it.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: But, like, way back in the day, I used to
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: love the, you know, the old Aloha Bowl.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know why it felt better in Hawaii.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: And players participated, you know.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: And they played an actual game with pads. I hated
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: it because it was always the sign that it was
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: the very.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Last football you'll see. It was a very sad way
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: to end the season.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: I think it was an honor at one time because
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: people started to defer. And I think what happened was
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: people started to make more money. Like it used to
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: be a way to get a pretty good check and
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: a good vacation. And now these guys are making so
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: much money. It's just not that important. I wonder what
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: the attendance will be like for this event in Los Angeles.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like it would be a private party,
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: to be honest.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm just like, I mean. You mean among
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: the players.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: If Josh Allen gets upset in the AFC Championship, do
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: you think Josh Allen's going to show up at this party?
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Hard to think that he would.
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• 43:17
  Speaker 2: New England, Cleveland, San Francisco and Vegas, and the Rams
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: and the Chargers. I'll start Rams-Chargers, not because you're a
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: fan there, but that is a popular pick. to sort
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: of be a Super Bowl preview, 9 o'clock NFL Network tonight.
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: Well, look, I mean, the majority of people are going
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: to have the Rams representing the NFC just because on
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: paper and what we saw last year to improve that
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: 12-win team that really should have gone on and won
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: a Super Bowl. I understand why everybody's saying that. On
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: the other side, you know, the Chargers have made a
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: couple of adjustments. We talked about Mike McDaniel calling the
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: offense now. They lose Jesse Minner. Their defensive coordinator now
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: is Baltimore's head coach, but I think the Chargers are
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: going to be improved. Interesting thing in this game is
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: the Rams, once again under Sean McVay, have not played
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: a starter at all in the preseason. They are 2-0,
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: but this could be like an Austin Mack situation based
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: on this. So it looks like Ty Simpson, Stetson Bennett's
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: going to be the number two. Ty Simpson will get
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: the start tonight, but Matthew Caldwell will come in and
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: play probably the second half. He was the backup to
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: Arch Manning last year. Nobody knew this because he never
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: played at Texas, but now he's getting an opportunity in
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: the NFL. He's not going to make the roster, but
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: I just think it's interesting that it's a Matt Castle-like situation.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: But Simpson starting is not indicative of what the actual
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: depth chart is right now. I think it is. You
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: think Simpson's the backup week one?
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: No, I think Simpson starting means he's at the three.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Yeah, it's not indicative that he's
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: in front of Stetson. Bennett.
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  Speaker 2: This is the weekend that you don't get a lot
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: of the starters.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: And that's what I was trying to say. Everything's pretty
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: established now. That's what I was trying to say. This
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: does not mean Simpson's the backup. This means Simpson is
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: likely the third.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: You're trying to keep right now four running backs. Who
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: is that fourth you're going to keep? You're keeping six receivers.
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  Speaker 4: Who is that six? You'll see those kind of guys
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  Speaker 4: play this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: And Matthew Caldwell, this is just an exhibition tape for
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: him to send other.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: Now, Justin Herbert is going to start for the Chargers.
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: Really weird how these coaches have different.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Beliefs on who should play in these games. Feels like
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: a roll of the dice. He's going to play seven
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: to nine plays. Yeah. Seven to nine plays. Hopefully one drive.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Seven to nine plays. How is that going to impact you?
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: You do not play a regular season game for two
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: weeks now. I don't get it. I don't get how
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: seven plays in an exhibition game. You know how it
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: impacts if he goes down in those seven. That's a
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: bad impact. Yeah.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Because you have these control practices.
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: Like the Rams and Chargers may have gotten together this
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: week and done some mutual practices if they didn't. But
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: you have.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Earlier in the year.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: No contact quarterback. No contact quarterback. You're more controlled there.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Nobody's hitting the quarterbacks there.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: That's right. You know what they do in a live game?
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: They try to hit the quarterback and I just don't
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: see how seven to nine plays in an exhibition game
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: tonight is going to help you when the season starts
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: two weeks from yesterday, right? In Australia.
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: And it's crazy how these butterfly effect moments. But the
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: most impactful injury I remember, and almost breaking down watching this,
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: was when the Chargers played the Rams in 1999, the
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: final preseason game, and Trent Green went down with a
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: knee injury. Rodney Harrison... hit him low. He was done.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: Dig for mill gets on the podium, starts crying. Kurt
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: Warner's going to be our guy.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I was like, who in the hell is Kurt Warner?
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: We're done. There it went.
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: They won their first championship ever that year. And you
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: never know what's going to happen. But, uh, that was
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: at that point, it seemed like a devastating injury.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Uh, here locally, I was at a place called, uh,
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Baumhauer's wings when that happened. And I was hosting the original, um, the,
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: the league that was owned by the wrestler, uh, McMahon,
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: what was the name of that league? XFL, the original
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: XFL coaches show with Jerry DiNardo as the coach. And
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: we were recording it with a live audience at Buffalo
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: wild wings. And that happened on the screen. And that's
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: all we're trying to do a show. And that's all
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: everybody in the sports bar is talking about is, Oh
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: my God. In the exhibition game, the Rams just lost
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: their starting quarterback.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Uh, it was crazy.
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: And I'll stick with it.
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: You guys have heard me say before, Trent green from Indiana, uh,
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: Way before Fernando Mendoza would have won the MVP that year,
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: they still would have.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Won a Super Bowl. Good analysts on CBS now, by
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: the way. I like drinkers.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: But all those players were so good around him. So
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: here's my question, and we'll talk about the rest of
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: the games in a second. But my question, I am
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: of the belief that I do not like the NFL preseason.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: I hate these preseason games. Why not just go to
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: 18 games? I think the players would sign off on this.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Let's go 18 games, no exhibition games. And you do
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: all your roster cutdowns from the joint practices? Joint practices
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: or camps or whatever. The joint practices are primarily starters, right?
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: However you want to build your team, you build your team.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the beauty of the preseason for the
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: franchise is the players hate them. There's no doubt. I
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: think the players, I think you're right. The players would say,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: we will completely punt preseason and you can play 18 games.
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: The owners like the preseason because it's pure profit for them.
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: And I've still never understood how it's pure profit because
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: the television's weird on preseason.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: It is, but they don't have to pay the players.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: The players make a base salary for preseason, and it's
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: a smaller than normal salary. They do pay them, but
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: it's base.
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: But how much money can you make on tickets to
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: a preseason game and concessions?
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Do they sell them as part of the season ticket?
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Do they cram those in there, or do they sell
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: them separately? I can't remember. I think they're separate. So anyway,
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: so the owners do make some profit on those things
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: and they sell the TV rights, not for the big money,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: but they do sell them locally and they make some
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: money on that. And, you know, parking concessions, all those
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: things add up. So I do think the owners like
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: them because of that. But the players, I think, would
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: be fine. I'll punt that. I think where the franchises
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: would not like it is how do I evaluate? Roster
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: spots 53 to 73. Joint practices. Back to your point.
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: But I think the joint practice is you're working your starters.
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: You are, but you still mix in these guys. And again,
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: I'm all about what is equitable. And this is equitable
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: if everybody's just playing 18 games instead of the preseason games.
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: And the NFL Network can get involved and show a
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: lot of these joint practices. Like as fans, I'd rather
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: watch a joint practice than a preseason game anyway.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: To me, and listen, it's bad either way, but to
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: go down in an exhibition game or go down in
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: week one of an 18 game schedule i would much
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: rather go down and it's more palatable to me to
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: go down in a game that matters than an exhibition game.
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah when tom brady went down week one against the
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: chiefs and matt castle took over you're like damn that
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: is a terrible break but it's the regular season but they.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: But i think they want to start when they start
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: right you're not saying push the nfl to week one
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: with the college football i think they'd still like to
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: start that week after labor day that's fine And now,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: this year, the Super Bowl is Valentine's Day, so that
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: 18 games would push it Almost to the end of February,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: which again, I'm not complaining about. You could play the
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: NFL till March 5th and I'd watch it. I don't care.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: And President's Day is the 15th, right? Yeah, you're finally
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: getting what you've always wanted. Yeah, except we'll still be working.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Except you'll be working. We will, but a lot of people.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: A lot of Americans will get it. Good for them.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: Give me a storyline you're watching on these games tonight.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: First one, 6 o'clock NFL. Pittsburgh and Buffalo tonight. Storyline
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: you're watching in this one, First Lance.
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: Pittsburgh and Buffalo, I guess who is going to be.
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: Mason Rudolph is going to be that number two, but
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: Drew Aller, can he stick? Can he make a run?
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: We kind of know what you're getting with Mason Rudolph.
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: The future quarterback I don't think is on this roster,
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: but could Drew Aller make that push?
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: Buffalo's done a pretty good job of getting some weapons
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: in the receiving core this offseason for Josh Allen, right?
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: I think they've gotten better. You know, it was interesting.
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: It got really heated this morning. I was watching our
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: man Dan Orlovsky, and he was talking about how bad
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: the rate, not, not how bad they were, how unknown
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: the ravers Ravens receivers are. And there were other guys
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: on the panel that are like, these receivers are better
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: than Buffalo's. And I mean, he was really going to
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: bat for the Buffalo bills receivers.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Um, I don't know. DJ Moore is a huge addition.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: That's my point. Yeah. But what the bears now.
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: To the bills, but, but outside of that, like, you know,
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: Shakir was good last year. Key on Coleman still hasn't
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: done anything. Kincaid's a solid tight end and, you know,
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: James cooks a really good bag, but, They still, I mean,
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: outside of, if Josh Allen was to ever go down
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: and Kyle Allen took over.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: Patriots-Browns tonight, 7 Central, 8 Eastern on prime.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Well, you're not going to get Watson, Sanders, or Dillon
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: Gabriel in this one. You're getting Talon Green in this one.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: The former Arkansas quarterback gets the start for Cleveland tonight.
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: I made a prediction back in May when he got
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: drafted that he will start a game this year. He
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: has just got raw talent, and he is a full-out sprinter,
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: massive guy that can just fly. He's just got all
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: of this raw talent.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Do you think they keep him and punt Dylan Gabriel?
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Let me back up. I think Gabriel may play tonight.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: I think they're trying to evaluate Gabriel in green.
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: I think what will happen is you've got to carry three,
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: and I could see them have a fourth on the
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: practice squad.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: San Francisco and Vegas tonight. mendoza's had a great game
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: in a so-so game be pretty interesting to see what
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: he does tonight against the 49ers.
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah he's been really really bad under pressure and you
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: know you're gonna get a lot of that in the
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: nfl i don't think he had to deal with nearly
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: as much of that last year in bloomington but yeah
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: it's it's more about and also identifying some weapons for
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: this raiders team you know genti right now is is
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: questionable with that ankle injury you know you got brock
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: bowers but Speaking of wide receivers, you don't have a
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: lot of wide receivers on that roster.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: And the Rams and the Chargers at 9 o'clock on
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: the NFL Network tonight. You can get a play on
• 52:27
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• 52:30
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• 52:50
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