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Mac & Bone Show - Lee Sterling Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Does our next guest handicap court cases at all on
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  Speaker 1: the website? Who's a bailiff to watch this weekend? It
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  Speaker 1: is time, man, to do this again. A sure sign
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  Speaker 1: that football is here. Lee Sterling, our official Mac and
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  Speaker 1: Bone handicapper from Paramount Sports and ParamountSports.com. Back for another
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  Speaker 1: season on Fridays at 725 to give you some winners.
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  Speaker 1: Lee Sterling, we welcome you back for another season, man.
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  Speaker 1: How have you been doing? How was your summer?
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  Speaker 2: Incredible.
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  Speaker 3: I actually went to Norway, talked into it by the family.
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  Speaker 3: But let me tell you something, you know, like Japan's
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  Speaker 3: kind of the nouveau place to go on vacation. But
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  Speaker 3: if anyone's looking for a great trip, Going through the
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  Speaker 3: fjords and seeing the glaciers and the people are so
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  Speaker 3: incredibly nice. I would put it on everyone's bucket list.
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  Speaker 2: And you guys gave me an idea. Really?
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  Speaker 3: Why don't we start Sports Court TV?
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine?
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about that. That would be a hit, baby.
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  Speaker 1: I believe right now it's called the SEC Network. ESPN
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  Speaker 1: and Court TV teaming up, man. I'm telling you, they
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  Speaker 1: would have so much content, Lee. All right, Lee.
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  Speaker 4: We now go to Georgia where a football player has
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  Speaker 4: gotten into a vehicle and he's now approaching 75 miles
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  Speaker 4: an hour.
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  Speaker 1: They could have live speeding cam down.
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  Speaker 2: There in Athens. 75, 105.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I said he's approaching. He's going face, picking up speed.
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  Speaker 1: 75 is before he gets out of the parking lot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he was in the parking deck.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to have Lee back. We got games to
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  Speaker 1: talk about, though. Let's do it, Lee. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: these games and who you like. Let's start with Duke
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  Speaker 1: and Tulane. Duke trying to get revenge for last year's loss.
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  Speaker 1: It is a different Tulane team, obviously, with Summerall and
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  Speaker 1: some players moving on. Duke's a nine-and-a-half point favorite. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think?
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  Speaker 3: I want whoever will Hall's agent is a new head
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  Speaker 3: coach there at Tulane. How do you get a job
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  Speaker 3: when you went 14 and 30 at Southern miss? I
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  Speaker 3: don't get it and get fired. So that's just the
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  Speaker 3: way things work. You got to have the right agent here.
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  Speaker 3: The green waves roster is okay, except for the skill positions.
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  Speaker 3: And I like Duke's addition here. This Walker, you get
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback from San Jose state. He just didn't have
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  Speaker 3: enough players around him. So he can throw the ball around.
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  Speaker 2: The yard here.
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  Speaker 3: I like Duke here. I think they, they run away
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  Speaker 3: and hide 41, 20.
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  Speaker 4: Look at Lee and myself getting off to a nice
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  Speaker 4: start here, Mac, in the 2026 campaign.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. I like it. No romper rooms yet.
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  Speaker 4: None of that yet. Auburn-Baylor, big 330 game tomorrow. What's
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  Speaker 4: the right side of this one? Auburn, the favorite here.
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  Speaker 2: So, Baylor, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, I mean, there's a lot of coaches that are
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  Speaker 3: on the hot seat. And He is certainly one of them.
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  Speaker 3: So they, I mean, last year, what happened in that
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  Speaker 3: first game, Dave Miranda's defense, I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean, they just got run through.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't stop Auburn, maybe Auburn's best game the last
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  Speaker 3: four or five years. So you got to think he's
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  Speaker 3: a defensive wizard. He's going to come up with a
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  Speaker 3: game plan.
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  Speaker 2: This year. And I like his quarterback, DJ Lagway.
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  Speaker 3: He played hurt. He was probably 75, 80% tops last year.
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  Speaker 3: They're the Gators were just trying to protect him. So
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  Speaker 3: I think Auburn, it's going to take a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of time here. So everyone thinks they're going to get
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  Speaker 3: off to a fast start. You know, they brought over
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  Speaker 3: almost the entire roster, but everyone talks about Byron Brown
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  Speaker 3: and how great he is good runner. But as a pastor,
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  Speaker 3: I think he's inconsistent. They only told total 30 points
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  Speaker 3: against Miami and Florida and, uh, I, I, this game
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  Speaker 3: kind of reminds me of North Carolina. I think Baylor's
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  Speaker 3: going to pull the upset here. Wrong team favored Baylor
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  Speaker 3: straight up 30 to 27.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. How about that one? Hey, what first wrong team
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  Speaker 1: favorite of the season bone from Lee Sterling. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: there's many more to come. You could find Lee's picks. ParamountSports.com.
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  Speaker 1: He'll tell you how to go about it, what they've
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  Speaker 1: got going on for the big week one Labor Day weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to some more of these picks here, though, Lee.
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss-Louisville, what a game, what a fun matchup that
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  Speaker 1: is on Sunday night. The Rebels are right around a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown favorite. What do you say?
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  Speaker 3: And everyone remembers Louisville's game last year against Miami, you know, two.
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  Speaker 2: Weeks to prepare.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff Brom came up with almost 25 new plays. They
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  Speaker 3: pulled the upset, but the rest of the year was
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  Speaker 3: not very good. In fact, he went four and nine
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  Speaker 3: against the spread on the year and he gets a
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  Speaker 3: contract extension. He's going to try to come up with
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  Speaker 3: some trickery here. Problem is he's going to be playing
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  Speaker 3: a backup quarterback coming over from Ohio state here. And
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  Speaker 3: I think that Ole miss everyone's talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback might be the best, obviously the Trinidad, Chambliss
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  Speaker 3: Lacey might be the best running back in the country,
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  Speaker 3: but what is going to be the difference and get
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  Speaker 3: them to maybe a 10 or 11 game winning season here?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's on defense and I love what they
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  Speaker 3: did at linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: They bring in this kid.
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  Speaker 3: Keaton Thomas, Keaton Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: Was at Baylor.
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  Speaker 3: Had over 219 tackles the last two years and Luke
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  Speaker 3: Farrelly from Cal these two guys combined for 210 tackles
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  Speaker 3: last year. So I think they're going to be stronger
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  Speaker 3: up the middle on defense here. And I think as
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  Speaker 3: long as Ole miss doesn't take injuries and that could
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  Speaker 3: happen by week four or five, they don't have the depth,
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  Speaker 3: but I like Ole miss here.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes you got to lay it.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to play it, Ole miss Pulls away 36-23.
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  Speaker 4: Luke Farrelly, Mac, from Cal, but also spent 30 minutes
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  Speaker 4: at Clemson in a classroom.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: That is true.
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  Speaker 4: Bama ECU tomorrow at noon. Bama favored by 28-and-a-half. What's
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  Speaker 4: the right side of this game with a large spread?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Bama might, you know, be a little smarting because
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  Speaker 3: the preseason ranking and the way the season ended last year.
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  Speaker 3: So they're ranked as low as 13 in some of
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  Speaker 3: these polls here, ECU. I would have taken a look
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  Speaker 3: at them if they returned their quarterback and a lot
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  Speaker 3: of other key players and coaches, but Caitlin Hauser went
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  Speaker 3: to Illinois.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't look good last night.
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  Speaker 3: Whenever he has to step up against decent competition, they
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  Speaker 3: lost their offensive coordinator to Ole Miss, defensive coordinator to
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  Speaker 3: South Florida. So big season.
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  Speaker 2: Here for Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: If Alabama and that coaching staff want to keep their job,
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  Speaker 3: they got to win here and win big. Blowout special,
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  Speaker 3: Bama rolls here, 42-10.
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  Speaker 1: All right, ECU Pirate fans, it's not personal. It's just business.
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  Speaker 1: All right, it's just business for Lee. He wants you
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  Speaker 1: to know that. And Pirate fans might be fearing that
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  Speaker 1: result as well themselves. All right, let's get to the
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  Speaker 1: LSU Clemson. What a damn soap opera so much of
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  Speaker 1: the lead-up to this game has been. And it seems
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  Speaker 1: like all of it involves Lane Kiffin in some way, shape,
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  Speaker 1: or form. But they will actually play a football game, Lee,
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday night in LSU's Death Valley tonight. LSU, 10.5-point
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  Speaker 1: favorites against Clemson. How do you feel? What's the right
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  Speaker 1: side of that one?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if LSU wants to contend and get into the
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  Speaker 3: college football play, they got to run the football better
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  Speaker 3: last year, 104 rushing yards per game that ranks 118th
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  Speaker 3: out of 134 teams. They only had 10 rushing touchdowns.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're going to be much better there. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they brought in maybe the best offensive lineman in the portal,
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  Speaker 3: the kid from Colorado, he'll be a first round pick.
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  Speaker 3: If he stays healthy, a couple other kids brought in
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  Speaker 3: some wide receivers that are dynamic.
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  Speaker 2: And a quarterback, Sam Leavitt.
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  Speaker 3: Who, when he's healthy and he's healthy now could be
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  Speaker 3: a top five quarterback in college football Clemson. I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, maybe Davos expired. I love guys like John Harbaugh.
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  Speaker 3: He was great with the Baltimore Ravens, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: his message just got old after a while. And I
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  Speaker 3: think it's gotten old and might be time for him
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  Speaker 3: to move on. He looked tired last year, looked like.
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  Speaker 2: He figured out.
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  Speaker 3: He just didn't have the horses anymore. His kids weren't
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  Speaker 3: playing up to their potential.
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  Speaker 2: He's lost.
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  Speaker 3: Or the top five defensive lineman. He named a starting quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: but I have a feeling he might end up playing
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  Speaker 3: two here. If they have problems, the joint's going to
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  Speaker 3: be rocking and Baton Rouge here. I'm going with the
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  Speaker 3: not Clemson tigers, the LSU tigers 30 to 17.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there you go. Lee likes Lane to get
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  Speaker 1: a cover and a double-digit win in his first game
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow night. However that turns out, man, that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a spectacle in Death Valley tomorrow night. All right, Lee,
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  Speaker 1: people are excited. You know people are already thinking about
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  Speaker 1: what wagers they're going to place, and you can help
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  Speaker 1: them out. What do you got going on for week
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  Speaker 1: one at Paramount Sports?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I want them to put a little jingle in their pocket.
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  Speaker 3: I have three games for tonight, and I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to sell them. If you go to ParamountSports.com on the
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  Speaker 3: homepage to join our mailing list, just fill out your information,
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  Speaker 3: and we will email you by 12 noon today.
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  Speaker 2: Three free selections. So I want to win for you first.
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  Speaker 3: That way you want to come back and maybe join
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  Speaker 3: us for the rest of September or the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the season. We've won 32 or 33 years here.
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  Speaker 2: We won six of.
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  Speaker 3: The last seven Superbowl, six of the last seven college
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  Speaker 3: football championships. So I want you to feel that, that what,
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  Speaker 3: what it's like to win and win on a consistent basis.
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  Speaker 3: So go to paramountsports.com, just fill it out, join our
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  Speaker 3: mailing list and, and, you'll get those plays sent to
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  Speaker 3: you and looking forward should be a fun, fun season.
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  Speaker 2: And if everyone thinks everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Has always asked me who's, who's going to, who's going
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  Speaker 3: to win it all. No one knows if anyone had
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  Speaker 3: Indiana and Miami playing the championship game last year, you'd
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  Speaker 3: be taking them and picking out lottery tickets every single night.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a great unknown, and that's what makes college
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  Speaker 3: football and the NFL so great.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Lee. Appreciate you. So happy to have you back, man.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck this weekend, and we'll talk to you next
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  Speaker 1: week when we get the NFL in the party, man.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds good. Take care.