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Best of The Ben Maller Show · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin, we're still allowed to play this song on the radio.
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  Speaker 3: I love it well, Daddy and family forever the little.
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  Speaker 4: Big Ben Mallards label.
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  Speaker 3: You're on Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 4: I can't. Can I say it? I'm gonna get so
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  Speaker 4: much crap if I say it, I'm gonna say it
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  Speaker 4: in the air everywhere the vast Fox Sports Radio network.
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  Speaker 4: Kevin figures Adam Alslin filling in for Big Ben Maler
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  Speaker 4: here on Fox Sports Radio. This is the big time, Adam.
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  Speaker 4: I mean talking about a Fox Sports Radio legend that
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  Speaker 4: we're sitting in for right now.
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  Speaker 3: Big Ben Mallor, who I used to listen to up
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  Speaker 3: on kgk AM eleven forty up in Norcl I mean
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  Speaker 3: back in the day, and now we're filling in. This
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  Speaker 3: is kind of a big deal and I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It's a holiday. Happy New Year everyone.
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  Speaker 4: Happy New Year everyone out there on the East Coast
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  Speaker 4: and everywhere else. About an hour left in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 4: five for those out west, So looking forward to spending
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  Speaker 4: the next four hours with you guys here on Fox
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  Speaker 4: X That's where you can hit us up and talk
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  Speaker 4: to us about whatever's on your mind. Here on the
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  Speaker 4: on the eve, on New Year's Eve, I should say
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  Speaker 4: have twenty twenty five into twenty twenty six, depending on
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  Speaker 4: where you may be listening.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I do have to say we have some early
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  Speaker 3: technical difficulties. So don't ask me to play first off
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  Speaker 3: right now, Kevin.
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  Speaker 4: Of course we do. I'll get a new machine.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, I'm trying to play something right now.
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  Speaker 3: Bring it ain't working. It ain't working, like it's not
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  Speaker 3: on my end. All I know is this.
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  Speaker 4: New year, same machine. That's what it is.
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  Speaker 3: No, Yeah, this year, she says, from nineteen ninety five,
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  Speaker 3: What do you think that's my machine playing that.
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  Speaker 4: I thought.
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  Speaker 3: So they're just playing like random sound trucks.
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  Speaker 4: Now that's John Lorain and just keep him rolling. Why not?
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  Speaker 3: It's like one button in the sound. That's all I
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  Speaker 3: can tell. Uh, it's just try every button. I don't know, Kevin,
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  Speaker 3: Let's just start talking about the upset tonight, please. We
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  Speaker 3: don't need first off, we can go back to the
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  Speaker 3: old school method. I can say, first off like Tupac
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  Speaker 3: and hit him up, which is the SoundBite for US
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  Speaker 3: Miami one. Dam It ain't New Year's if you don't
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  Speaker 3: got Michael Irving bringing out the belt on a gatorade
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  Speaker 3: bottle with a jersey on it and just going to
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  Speaker 3: town like that's how you're ringing the New Year.
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  Speaker 4: Doing a little bit too much. And I love Michael Irvan.
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, you can't help if you ever
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  Speaker 4: have a chance to meet the guy in nicest person
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  Speaker 4: you will ever meet in your life, will sit there
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  Speaker 4: very charismatic. We'll talk to you almost like a politician
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  Speaker 4: to a certain degree. I have nothing negative about Michael
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  Speaker 4: Irvan as a person, but man, he really is dealing
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  Speaker 4: a lot of spotlight these last few weeks from the
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  Speaker 4: University of Miami.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you think he's like sister Jean a little bit, well,
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  Speaker 3: a little bit to a certain degree. I rest her soul.
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  Speaker 3: Did she pass ever?
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  Speaker 4: I feel like she just passed earlier this year.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well, that'll be the in memoriam segment we do
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  Speaker 3: later in the show when we talk about everyone who
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  Speaker 3: passed in twenty twenty five?
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  Speaker 4: Are we doing how we're doing that? By the way,
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  Speaker 4: that's news to me. Re snuck that one in on
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  Speaker 4: the rundown, didn't she.
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  Speaker 3: Well she's snuck up by the way, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: a New Year's miracle.
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  Speaker 4: Don't get cocky, kid. You know we're only four minutes
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  Speaker 4: into the show. I think could die in an instant.
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  Speaker 3: Check out the big brain on Bria Brie. First of all,
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  Speaker 3: it had nothing to do on my end, Kevin. I
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  Speaker 3: just want to make that abundantly clear. This was not
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  Speaker 3: a technical issue over on my side.
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  Speaker 4: Here, of course, I want to see you're throwing the
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  Speaker 4: rain under the bus, is what it sounds like that.
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  Speaker 5: I don't even know what an IR machine is. But
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  Speaker 5: thank you for bringing in new stuff into the studio.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, this is old stuff for us. This is
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  Speaker 3: a s this is before you were born. This is
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  Speaker 3: ra early nineties.
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  Speaker 5: I work with Ben Maller, one of the dinosaurs of radio.
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  Speaker 5: Don't tell me you're bringing in old stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I actually have some Ben Mallor sound here.
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  Speaker 4: Wow. So I want everybody to be clear. That was
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  Speaker 4: the ragna that said that about Ben, and that was
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  Speaker 4: Adam that said that band was an old ass dinosaur.
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  Speaker 4: The malin militia coming after me to anyway, because I
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  Speaker 4: know how you guys operate. But I'm trying to be
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  Speaker 4: on my best behavior here tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not. It's the end of twenty twenty five. I'm
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  Speaker 3: going out, sad. What does it matter?
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  Speaker 4: Holiday?
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  Speaker 3: Here we be, Look, Santa Claus, it's past. I got
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  Speaker 3: plenty of time to make up for being on the
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  Speaker 3: naughty list, now do you. And speaking of Ben mallor
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  Speaker 3: Adam Ashland, I mean he literally called me Ashland before
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  Speaker 3: Adam Ashland.
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  Speaker 4: He's not alone though, I mean been multiple personalities who
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  Speaker 4: have called you out of your name before Adam Ashlin,
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  Speaker 4: Adam Ashlin.
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  Speaker 3: Adam Ashless. I mean Brian Oslin, Brian Ausland. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if you don't even get the first name right, like
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  Speaker 3: I do. Have credit cards, Kevin, let's say l A
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  Speaker 3: n D instead of l U N D. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: when we put up that cliff last week, as we
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  Speaker 3: had Petro's papadakas on trying to bite a real show,
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  Speaker 3: who joined us and eviscerated the USC Trojans because he's
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  Speaker 3: like from there, he has ownership on that story.
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  Speaker 4: He's not the only one you see with Linda White
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  Speaker 4: sweety yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I did not Lyndell or I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: If I can repeat it on the air. Let's put
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  Speaker 4: it that way.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know he popped his head up.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't thought about Lindell White in a long time,
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  Speaker 3: since he's.
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  Speaker 4: Thought a lot about the USC football program. I'll say that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, the fact that he didn't have that block in
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  Speaker 3: front of him to get that first down. But even
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  Speaker 3: the Fox Sports Radio little clip we put out with
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  Speaker 3: Petro saying, f that ef everything talking about Matt Lioner
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  Speaker 3: trying to make excuses for USC, even that said l
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  Speaker 3: A and d Adam oz Land like I'm from the
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  Speaker 3: land of oz It shot him. I can't get away
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  Speaker 3: from it. But that's fine. Everything's fine now, we're good machine.
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  Speaker 3: No I am over it.
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  Speaker 1: If everything's perfectly all right, now we're fine.
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  Speaker 4: We're all fine here now, thank you?
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  Speaker 3: How are you? You know where things aren't fine? Well,
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  Speaker 3: they're never fine there, but Ohio, Ohio losing this ballgame tonight,
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  Speaker 3: Kevin in the fashion they did being the number two seed.
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  Speaker 3: The main takeaway I have, the Colin Cowherd takeaway is this,
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  Speaker 3: thank goodness, we at least have a twelve team playoff,
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  Speaker 3: and thank goodness Miami got in because they have more
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  Speaker 3: than proven themselves. Notre Dame. I'm sorry, Brady Quinn, you
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  Speaker 3: guys have zero case. Not only did Miami beat you,
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  Speaker 3: they beat Texas A and m who beat you, and
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  Speaker 3: now they've taken out Ohio State to move on rolling
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  Speaker 3: their way into the semis.
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  Speaker 4: Well, this part is hard. And by the way, a
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  Speaker 4: few people when the very beginning of this debate happened
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  Speaker 4: between Miami and Notre Dame and being seven parts places
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  Speaker 4: apart in the initial CFP rankings, I was championing Miami
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  Speaker 4: the entire time. And yes, obviously Miami deserves to be here,
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  Speaker 4: and it was a great victory over Ohio State and
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  Speaker 4: a great victory over an m last week. But I
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  Speaker 4: can't necessarily say that, well, this means that Notre Dame
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  Speaker 4: doesn't deserve to be in because who's to say that
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  Speaker 4: Notre Dame basically played the exact same way that Miami
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  Speaker 4: played these last two weeks or whatever it's been. I
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  Speaker 4: guess it's been two weeks in between games or whatever
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  Speaker 4: it was between their last their playoff win in the
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  Speaker 4: first round. But ground and pound dominant defense, that is
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  Speaker 4: how Notre Dame has won all season long. So I
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  Speaker 4: can't necessarily say that if Notre Dame made it to
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  Speaker 4: the situation and Miami didn't, that we wouldn't necessarily have
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  Speaker 4: the same results.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you're right, but Miami certainly is deserving at.
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  Speaker 4: This point without a doubt.
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  Speaker 3: Kial didn't go in and just get run over by
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  Speaker 3: the Aggies. That didn't happen. They went into one of
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  Speaker 3: the toughest environments and got an ugly road victory. And then,
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  Speaker 3: as you mentioned that, Tito Ortez ground and pound game
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  Speaker 3: traveled today to the Cotton Bowl to get this win.
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  Speaker 3: Over what I think, I mean, most brackets for the
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  Speaker 3: playoff are busted, Kevin, are remember what we used to
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  Speaker 3: do for the bracket challenge back in the day. Look
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  Speaker 3: at the flowers Flowers.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to bring that back for college basketball
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  Speaker 4: season two, I guess right. Bringing in him now for
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  Speaker 4: the CFP, why they hell not?
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  Speaker 3: People are going to be confused with all the guns
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  Speaker 3: being shot up into the air tonight. Yeah, no, kidd
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  Speaker 3: at midnight here on the West coast.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, in Ohio State, who I mean, without question,
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  Speaker 4: mostly has most NFL talent on their roster, first round
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  Speaker 4: picks up and down, and for them to lose the
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  Speaker 4: way they lost against Indiana, Granted that was a close,
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  Speaker 4: tight game too, but Indiana kind of dominated them up
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  Speaker 4: front and you can say for the most part of
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  Speaker 4: this game, and I know they made their run in
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  Speaker 4: the second half. The exact same thing happened with Miami.
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  Speaker 4: One thing we've said about the University of Miami under
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  Speaker 4: myro Crystal Ball, any team that he coaches, they're going
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  Speaker 4: to be good in the trenches, and that's exactly what
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  Speaker 4: they were early in this game, well, being able to
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  Speaker 4: bust off runs in the run game and really stuff
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  Speaker 4: Ohio State, and he have them to get nothing going
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  Speaker 4: offensively the entire first half of the game.
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  Speaker 3: They started with that level of physicality and they finished
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  Speaker 3: with that level of physicality while also going seven to
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  Speaker 3: fourteen on third downs, mixed in on huge plays where
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  Speaker 3: at one point Carson Beck completed thirteen straight passes in
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  Speaker 3: the first half. A lot of them were dinking dunk passes,
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  Speaker 3: but been in a game against Ohio State, you might
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  Speaker 3: have to do that, Julian saying. By the way, I'm saying,
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  Speaker 3: he completed ten straight to start the second half.
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  Speaker 4: He was spectacular.
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  Speaker 3: I think the turning point of the ball game was
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  Speaker 3: they're down by three. They get the ball back from
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  Speaker 3: Miami at seventeen fourteen, and the first penalty of the
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  Speaker 3: game got cold was seven minutes left in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 3: and it was a hold on Ohio State and it
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  Speaker 3: put them in a third and twenty situation. They got
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  Speaker 3: a short yardage gain out of it, they had to punt,
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  Speaker 3: and then on that punt they had another penalty. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they redid it and it ended up being a much
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  Speaker 3: worse punt where it was like a difference of twenty
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  Speaker 3: yards where Miami was starting with on that final drive instead.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the big thing the difference for me
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  Speaker 4: in the game was really the protection up front, because
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  Speaker 4: Julian Saying has basically been as great as he's been
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  Speaker 4: completely over over eighty percent of his passes. Great numbers,
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  Speaker 4: but I think a lot of that was due to
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  Speaker 4: the fact that he had all data throw. He had
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  Speaker 4: all data throw all season long. These last two games
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  Speaker 4: against Indiana and Miami was sacked ten times, five times
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  Speaker 4: in each game, running for his life. I will say this,
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  Speaker 4: in the second half of the game on Friday night,
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  Speaker 4: he showed himself well in that second half and having
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  Speaker 4: that pressure as well as he possibly could trying to
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  Speaker 4: get out make plays. And you mentioned the h RA
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  Speaker 4: completions that he made two touchdown passes. He played well
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  Speaker 4: in the second half. But the exact opposite for what
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  Speaker 4: happened with Carson Beck, who's been more of your game
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  Speaker 4: manager type. If anything, Carson Beck is a guy that
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  Speaker 4: you don't want throwing the ball more than twenty five
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  Speaker 4: thirty times a game because he is prone to throwing interceptions.
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  Speaker 4: And these first two playoff victories from Miami, he's been
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  Speaker 4: a game manager, and I think that's the recipe for
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  Speaker 4: them to be able to win.
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  Speaker 3: If you told me somebody threw an I inc on
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  Speaker 3: a screen pass that went seventy two yards the other
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  Speaker 3: way in this ball game, I would have thought it
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  Speaker 3: was Carson Beck, not Juli Insane. That's the other thing.
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  Speaker 3: They miss a field goal, they give them seven points
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  Speaker 3: to Miami's defense. The margins are so slim in a
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  Speaker 3: battle like this. Now, Ohio State did recover after being
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  Speaker 3: down fourteen to nothing in the first half and missing
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  Speaker 3: that field goal at the end of it to come back,
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  Speaker 3: and then I think they had like two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: thirty yards on their next three drives and they kept coming,
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  Speaker 3: but Miami was able to keep them at bay even
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  Speaker 3: when you saw, I mean, Ohio State gets that touchdown
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  Speaker 3: with Bo Jackson, different Bo Jackson to start the second half.
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  Speaker 3: Mammy comes right back and kicks a fifty yard field goal,
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  Speaker 3: where by the way, they recover their own fumble just
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  Speaker 3: to stay in fueld goal range to knock that down
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  Speaker 3: when their kicker was one for four last week with
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  Speaker 3: the wind, you could say, but against the Aggies, that
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  Speaker 3: was a huge play.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And I also want to say there's an excuse
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  Speaker 4: floating out there that well, you know, Ryan Day, it
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  Speaker 4: took the play calling duties away from Brian Hartline because
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  Speaker 4: Heartline is distracted as a new head coach of South
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  Speaker 4: Florida has too much on his plate, which I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if it's necessarily wrong to a certain degree, especially
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  Speaker 4: knowing how the portal works and all this. These guys,
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  Speaker 4: there's no way they can be fully committed to the
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  Speaker 4: current job when they know they have a future job
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  Speaker 4: that's of much more importance when they're head coach of
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  Speaker 4: a new program. I don't know if I can say
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  Speaker 4: that because I don't think execution or play calling was
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  Speaker 4: an issue for Ohio State. I think they just got
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  Speaker 4: beat like that that picked six, And I think Dusty
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  Speaker 4: Devorceek said this on the telecast. It was like, that's
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  Speaker 4: just film study. Like the way that he read that play.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Julian Sayin telegraphed the pass and he jumped
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  Speaker 4: it and ran it back. That was nothing but just
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  Speaker 4: heads up play by the defensive back and you know,
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  Speaker 4: being able to get stuffs in the run fits and
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  Speaker 4: all that. All of that was just execution. I just
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  Speaker 4: thought Miami executed better than Ohio State. So I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if I can necessarily blame this on play calling
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  Speaker 4: O'Ryan day's part, especially based on the fact that was
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  Speaker 4: to your point, Ohio State's offense woke up in the
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  Speaker 4: second half. They just couldn't recover from their slow start.
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  Speaker 3: And the other excuse being made for Ohio State is
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  Speaker 3: they almost had a month off between games and that
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  Speaker 3: they had what happened to Oregon last season where they
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  Speaker 3: got the buy that the number one seed. I know,
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State was number two, but Oregon looked ill prepared
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  Speaker 3: for that Ohio State buzz saw last season that had
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  Speaker 3: to beat Tennessee to get to them, And now Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State has the layoff and you talk about rest versus rust.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if that first half was just rust
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  Speaker 3: or physicality and them getting their ass beat out there,
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  Speaker 3: because Mario Cristobaul postgame on SVP on the Evil four
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  Speaker 3: Letter was like, hats off to our guys because we're
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  Speaker 3: some tough ass sons of bitches out there, and they
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  Speaker 3: were and they have molers and we knew this coming
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  Speaker 3: into the season. Early in the year when they beat
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame, we were all talking about how physical they
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  Speaker 3: were in the trenches. John Madden was right. It always
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  Speaker 3: goes back to winning the game in the trenches because
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  Speaker 3: everything starts there and everything can fall apart there if
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  Speaker 3: you don't have your s and order and Ohio State
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  Speaker 3: Julians saying in the first half, the way he was
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  Speaker 3: under duress, like it was, hey, you better back it
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  Speaker 3: up here. He was running for his life like it
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  Speaker 3: was brutal to watch. And they had another big sack
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  Speaker 3: in the second half on him that proved to be crucial.
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  Speaker 3: So they started strong, they started with that physicality, they
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  Speaker 3: finished with it, and they had their own screen pass
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  Speaker 3: really to put the ball game away on that third
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  Speaker 3: down late Miami.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. The big thing for me, I guess is the
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  Speaker 4: fact that they were able to get contributions from other
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  Speaker 4: players other than Malachi Tony, who everybody knew was the
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  Speaker 4: biggest offensive threat that Miami had, and you knew Ohio
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  Speaker 4: State was going to look to take that away and
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  Speaker 4: they did that. But the fact that Miami was able
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  Speaker 4: to run the ball for over one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 4: yards against the Ohio State team and put up the
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  Speaker 4: amount of points they put up against Ohio State, who
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  Speaker 4: allowed what an average of like eight point nine points
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  Speaker 4: per game, yeah or something this season.
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  Speaker 3: It was the best defense since twenty eleven Bama.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it was an incredible effort by the
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  Speaker 4: University of Miami. So I would like to give them
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  Speaker 4: flowers and talk more about what they did right than
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: people harping on what Ohio State did wrong.
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they did twist the pure snipple of
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: Ryan Day in this game, and he looked upset Blackbeard
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: himself out there. I also because he's been so good
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: in the past when he was calling plays. I don't
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: know if that had anything to do with it. He
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: wasn't calling plays against Indiana when it looked like, oh
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: they had a governor on and that was the excuse.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: Then well, they're not letting that dog off the leash yet.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: They're gonna wait for the playoffs to really turn up. Well,
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: you take a month off, do you lose some of
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: that competitive edge out there? And then if you have
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: to find it after getting your butts kicked in the
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: first half just to get into year, it's too late.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: Miami was too good. If they played this game ten times,
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: Miami might beat him six out of ten.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: I could see that. Yeah, Well, it's one of those
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: there to a certain degree, kind of evenly matched because
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: they're stylistically built the same way, physical upfront, and who's
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: gonna win a physical matchup? I mean, when you're built
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: the way those teams are both built to your point
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: in time or to your point. It can go back
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: and forth. On any given day, who was just more physical?
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: Who was able to make the plays on that given day?
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: And on Friday Night it just happened to be Miami.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: I guess my question to you would be based on
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: how Miami played against A and M and against Friday Night?
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: Is there a team that they can't beat? I mean,
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: why can't they win the national championship? If you're going
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: to be that stout defensively, I know you might need
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: a little bit more punch offensively here and there, But
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: if you're gonna be that good on offense, you already
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: played against one of the best offensive lines, one of
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: the best offensive units you're going to face in this postseason.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: Why can't you make a deep run to the championship?
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: They can't you?
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: Who can't you beat?
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Well? George is very familiar with Carson Beck, and I
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: expect them to beat Old Miss tomorrow and that should
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: be the matchup in the next round.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: Corre.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying they can't beat Georgia, but Georgia would
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: be favored against them, and I will out at the
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: edge I just think they're more dynamic. I don't trust
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Miami enough to make as many of those crucial fifty
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: to fifty plays on those third down conversions like they
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: were able to win this game just because Carson Becka
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: can go the other way very quickly at times. With
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: him now, he's been okay in big games and I'm
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: rooting for him, and I think it's a really interesting
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: storyline if they end up taking on Georgia. But I mean,
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: your defense keeps you in it. If you can run
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: the ball like that and still play defense, you're going
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: to be in the game. I just think Georgia is
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: a player too, better on offense than Miami.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think most people felt that about Ohio
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: State coming against a Friday night's game too, and saw
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: how that played. It's played itself out. So I guess
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: congratulations to University at Miami. And if you're Ryan Day,
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: you're probably back on the hot seat again because that's
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: what Ohio Ohio State works. If you imagine by the
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: way Kyle Whitningham comes in has a phenomenal season end
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: of the year, next year, Michigan beats Ohio State, and
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Ohio State's probably gonna make the playoff again. I'm sure
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: they will. But you imagine what happens if they lose
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: to Michigan and don't win the national Championship next year,
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: where people are gonna.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Say, oh, yeah, he'll be right back where he was
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: square one. He is a year removed from having one
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: of the most dominant runs and winning the first ever
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: twelve team playoff. By the way, what have you.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Done for me lately? Because apparently what happens in the
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: past twenty four months isn't lately.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: I know there was so much disappointment and there were
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: a lot of losses to Michigan, but they were able
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: to win on the biggest stage. Now, some fans might say, well,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: that was Chip Kelly. That was different. That was Chip Kelly,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: That's what they might say, because he knew Oregon and
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: they lit them up. Where was that at the Rose Bowl?
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: I believe last year when it wasn't raining as much. Yeah,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: it's the same cross to bear. It is difficult. It
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: is a high pressure situation for him always, but you
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: knew what you signed up for, and yeah it'll be
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: he'll be under the hot seat. But Julian Sand's coming
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: back right yep, that's they got a good young quarterback.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: They should still be very competitive.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Oh they'll be better than competitive. They're they're gonna win
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: you know, a ten eleven games again next season. They're
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: just they're returning too many guys. Even if they lose
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: a bunch of guys, they have five stars right behind
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: them coming in, so they're not gonna them being in
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: the playoff next year. I don't think it's gonna be
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: an issue.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: This was so disappointing of a loss, though, because they
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: were double digit favorites at one point this week. They
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: ended up I think minus nine and a half over Miami.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: So people aren't gonna forget this. Lord knows, somebody with
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: the belt will definitely not be forgetting this. I love it, honestly.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: It makes me laugh every time. The belt to ask
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: movement that has been going on in sports now and
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Michael Irving doing the doing the most with it tonight,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I'm good with it.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: I'm sure it's not his intention to draw attention away
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: from the team, but to a certain degree I think
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: it does. It's like you can be on the sideline
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: and cheer when the team does well, but you're doing
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: a little much for me, Mike.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: He thinks he's on the team still does What was
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: that speech he gave? It was Jamis Winston esque afterwards,
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: talking about you're not gonna take away my glory speaking
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: about the past. Yeah, I'm here for it, but I
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: know we got more to talk about with college football
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: because there are some games that are being overlooked right now, Kevin.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: And it's kind of a change into the guard. It's
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: a new era of college football. When you got twelve
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: teams in how much do you care about these bowl
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: games going on? We had Texas Michigan earlier and as
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: our friend David Vassa would say, it was kind of
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: whole hum. It was a little bit ho hum out there.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: We'll talk about that next. He's Kevin figures Amna Moslin.
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• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Happy New Year out there to the West Coast, Happy
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: New Year, and if you're.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: So Marget.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: And for our friends listening Hawaii, still got a couple
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: hours to go.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Y'all get a New Year every day?
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah exactly.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Is this one of those opportunities where it's okay to
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: get drunk on the radio. It feels like it should be.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: If Anderson Cooper and his boyfriend can get drunk on
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: the CNN broadcast, why can't we, Kevin.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: I guess there's no rules saying that we can't. The
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: girls are wasted in the other room greatly frowned upon.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: I don't think that that's the baby. Let's go necessarily
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: true right now. I appreciate the honesty. I do love
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: that about you.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: My very first radio job in Oregon, the morning guys
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: who come in at four am, they kept a bottle
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: of fireball whiskey in their drawing at every morning, every morning.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Okay, that was like the first time I felt like
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: I should stop drinking. I had a fireball incident. I
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: had a Mario Brothers fireball incident where I woke up
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: the next morning because the fireball gets you with the
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: indigestion when you got to get the PEPs at ac. Yeah,
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: the esophagus is burning, it's on fire. That's the worst
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: option possible. First, of all those Oregon guys, I would
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: have thought they would have waked and baked, not waked
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: into fireballs like that. That too, okay, maybe a little
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: bit of both Jega bombs down here teeth Well, I hope.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: You guys are just college at one point, I'm sorry,
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: just did you bring up fireball? And like you know,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: we're young, we're broke, we don't have any money, and
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: all we had was my roommate's older brother had a
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: bottle of Fireball that he hadn't opened, and he's like, well,
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: it was cheap to pay for it. Yeah, it was
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: an absolute nightmare.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: You can't smell cinnamon anymore.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: It's just auxious thousand.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: It's like if you have a certain drink when you're sick,
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: and then you always associate it with being sick, like
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: having seven Up or something like that. Now I can't
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: have seven up when I feel fine. It doesn't work
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: for me. Even sprites too close they had to take
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: away see or missed because it ruined things for me.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Now it's story. Yeah, I Fireball's the worst thing ever.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: You know what, in twenty twenty six, I'm going to
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: continue to not drink. That just sealed it for me.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: That's sure.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Just non resolution fireball incident. I can't have it. And
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: hopefully you guys out there tonight are being safe, ye
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: are staying off the road, are not doing whatever. Michael
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Irving was at the Miami game that had him going
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: like that, or he brought out the belt like none
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: of us can wear belts anymore. Michael Irving has all
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: of them.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Kevin. That was an impressive performance by the University of
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Miami and they maybe even more oppressive performance by Michael
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Irvin down there on the sideline.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Can I say this? Somebody tweeted in that they want
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: more hate towards Ohio State, they want more trash talk,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: even though the story should be about Miami winning. As
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Ben Maller would say, the losing locker room has the
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: bigger story. Right.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Well, look, we did bring up Ryan Day, and you
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: know the fact that, as their rational West fans are,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: just won a national championship last year, did beat Michigan,
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: and all of a sudden finds himself in a situation
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: where people the fan base is upset and there's new
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: blood at Michigan. I will not downplay again if Michigan
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: finds a way under Kyle Whittingham to jump up next
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: year and beat Ohio State going into the playoff. I
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: do think. I don't think Ohio State realistically is gonna
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: entertain getting rid of Ryan Day. But I do think
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: that those conversations are gonna start being had as ridiculous
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: as they are because that's just where the standard is
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: for university like that.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Look, Spock's weed, who got to me? I follow out
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: of Maya on X who wants us to go after
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Ohio State more. I mean, I said they twisted his
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: nipple ring. That's what Miami did to Ryan Day in
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Ohio State.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Get excited.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like his black Beard is fake. They're
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: all frauds there, apparently, because they got bounced in their
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: first game of the playoff this season. And they've got
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: way too many stickers on their helmets. Okay, it's not
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: that serious.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Some of them. Do you have to earn those stickers
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: at it?
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: I don't know. They're sticker happy. It felt like there
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: were way less stickers back in the game or back
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: in the day.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: So you're saying that, uh that Ryan Days like Oprah,
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: everybody gets a sticker, whether they earn it or not.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, these parts of going around these everybody gets a star,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: everybody got nay plus all that stuff. Ohio State maybe
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: that's what they lost the game actually because they were
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: over confident, because they felt like they were better than
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: they actually were. Because every helmet you could barely see
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: the helmet. They probably didn't feel safe out there. They
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: thought they were just being protected by damn stickers.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, look I would rip into Ohio State if
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: they lost to James Madison. It's not like, with the
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: all due respect to James Madison.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Hey, Mario Cristo ball never wins a big game until now.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: If I had a crystal ball and I looked into
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: it and it said Miami was going to win this game,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't believe it.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Well, his game management certainly calls a lot of things
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: into question, but again, considering how this game played out,
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: he didn't really have to have a big decision come
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: come to a head for him because they dominated the
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: line of scrimmage. Now, maybe that's an indictment of Ohio State,
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: and maybe because it's happened in back to back games
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: for them against Indiana and Miami. If you want to
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: hope that against them, sure, but they still have a
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: stacked roster. They have all the talent in the world.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: You said, if they played Miami and Ohio State played
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: each other ten times, that maybe Miami will win six,
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: maybe you'll be five and five. I think that's just
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: how this game played out.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Okay, Wait, I don't know. Wait a second. They played Texas,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: they barely won. They played Indiana, they barely lost, and
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: the kicker missed a Blair Walsh esque twenty seven yard
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: er and missed another one in the at the end
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: of the first half. They played Miami and they lost
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: every good team to decent team that they played, because
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know how good Texas was. I mean, they
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: ended up beating Michigan. They finished strong, and arch Manning
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: looked better. But to start off the season when they
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: weren't very good, every good team Ohouse they played. I
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: don't know, Kevin, they played a lot of nobody's in
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: between all those close games against decent competition. I think
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: they may be big fat phonies. They were valued.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: So see, this is what the guy who tweeted you
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: this is what he wanted?
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Is this not what you want?
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Is this what you want?
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Are you not entertained?
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Which is not a bad point at him, So you.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Know, I'm just saying I finally got to a good
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: point and all my hopeless ranting about Ohio State. They
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: didn't play the stiffest competition. No, they weren't battle tested enough.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: A pretty paddy cake Big ten schedule all the way around.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: When you think about it, what's your schedule and how
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: it falls on a given year. It has as much
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: to do with whether or not you make the postseason
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: as anything. Yeah, So I don't know that is that
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: is very much an accurate indictment of them that you
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: had there.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: It just feels like piling on though, going after the
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: state of Ohio. You know, in Cincinnati, and they haven't
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: had a lot of success in Cleveland.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: So it's just it's usually just Ohio State University, not
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: the entire state of Ohio.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like, I have a friend from Cleveland, Okay,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Mike Tucker, mother Tucker, we used to call him, and
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: I still have a soft spot for those teams that
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: he rooted for. Now, Ohio State has had a lot
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: of success in their history. They're an outlier. Not this year,
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: baby bout.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Okay it, God forbid. They don't win the national championship
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: every single solitary season.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: They didn't even come close. Kevin, that was belt to assy.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: She had a fat ass, you know what I mean? Yeah, Mike, Mike,
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Michael Irvan, where you bess in two thousand and one,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: the last time Miami won a national championship, we're talking
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: about belta asses. And I look in I love Michael
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: over my personal.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Problems, all right, whatever what do you mean?
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Where he's been ste it's about Belta ass and talking
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: trash about Ohio State. Not that Mike is doing that,
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: but just piling on Ohio State is a phenomenal program.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: They're gonna bounce back. They're not going anywhere. They had
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: a bad year. It happens. I thought Alabama won the
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: national championship every single year in the next sabment, even
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: though they did the majority of the time he was in.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: Wasn't every year.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: You're right, You're right. He set unrealistic expectations. But the
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: U is back. First, Texas was back. They made the
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: playoff last year, made a bit of a run, got
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: lucky against Arizona State. Now Ohio State is not back.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: You Miami? Miami is back? When will USC be back?
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Their next st up? Right on who's back?
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: Am?
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: I take some time about they find themselves a defensive coordinator. Yeah,
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: good luck with That's a bit of an issue. That
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: final play was unreal. I was watching that.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: I don't want to out anyone, but my close personal
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: friend Carlo Jimenez, voice of the Clippers on the radio side,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: went to USC just out.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: At him and gave away his job, his government name
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: where he lives. Cool. I don't want to take this.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: You don't have to take this from Adam Carlough.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: The signature call is Nylon and it's a good one.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: But uh, he was not happy seeing that live and
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  Speaker 3: me being the one showing him the play live as
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  Speaker 3: it happened on my phone. I thought live actually first,
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  Speaker 3: and then rewounded for him and made it seem like
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: it was going to be live as that frog stomping
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  Speaker 3: happened against USC with TCU the other night.
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  Speaker 4: That was really really hoping Carlo would just smack the
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  Speaker 4: phone out of your hands as you tried to put
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: it up to his face.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Well, I got an otter box case or whatever the
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: hell it is like, it's been through worse.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, just taken throw it halfway across into it dome.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, where we are burying the lead here? First of all,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: it's New Year's. It is happy New Year. We're in
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  Speaker 3: for Ben mallor I'm out of Maslin. He's Kevin Figures
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  Speaker 3: and you know what, let's play it. We haven't played
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  Speaker 3: it in a while.
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  Speaker 4: It's not funny the Paddle O'Brien inspired jingle, thank you Petros.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: It is a New Year's so we got to theme
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  Speaker 3: things out here in the show, Kevin, you had this
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: brilliant idea lay it on me.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how brilliant it was, but I was thinking,
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  Speaker 4: people talk about New Years and having different resolutions, and
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: maybe that's something that we can get into a little
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  Speaker 4: deeper at the very end of this hour. But as
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: far as the sports landscape goes, you know, people talk
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: about issues that they have with certain sports. I know
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: instant replay is a big deal in in the NFL,
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: and what should be reviewed and what shouldn't be reviewed
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: really in any sport if it's about that in the
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: NBA when it comes to fouls or goaltending and Major
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: League Baseball with fair fair foul, or whether there should
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: be a skyjash, just any number of things, issues that
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  Speaker 4: you could potentially have with whatever sport you decided to follow,
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: and if there could be a sport that you would
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: love to follow, but because of something that really grinds
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: your gears about it, you've just decided to check out.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: I'm out. I don't want to watch it anymore.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: As a burned my saddle with this sport, not only a.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Little bit a little bit. So the question is, if
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  Speaker 4: there's one thing you can change about your favorite sport
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: or any sport. What would it be and why? Pop
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: quiz hotshot.
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  Speaker 3: Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox If you guys
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  Speaker 3: want to tell us, I could start with this, Kevin. Now,
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: this could be something that's pretty universal for many sports.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm gonna say this specifically about the NBA because
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: it is at least a twenty five year old problem
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  Speaker 3: for the association. We got to get rid of, not
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: just divisions conferences in the National Basketball Associations.
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  Speaker 4: Is a Fred Rogan special right here the West.
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  Speaker 3: How dare you?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, that's it through you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry twenty twenty six and you're still calling me
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  Speaker 3: Fred Rogan. This is going to have a bad take.
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  Speaker 4: This is the company that you live in, or Adam?
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: What table takes like that? Sorry?
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Company of Wolves? Look, how the hell was she that
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  Speaker 3: quick with it? I thought I was quick on the
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  Speaker 3: instant replay machine.
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  Speaker 5: Damn, you don't count with being quick because you come from.
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  Speaker 4: Your own brain.
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  Speaker 3: That's not sexual. All right. So that's our first one
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  Speaker 3: of the new year.
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  Speaker 4: Here you go.
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  Speaker 3: Look, the NBA has had a problem for over twenty
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  Speaker 3: five years. I can go back to Jordan retiring the
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  Speaker 3: second time with Chicago. Since then, the Western Conference has
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: dominated and I think won the head to head overall
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  Speaker 3: series against the Eastern Conference every year except for one.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was two thousand and nine when it
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: was the Lakers in Orlando Magic and the Eastern Conference
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: actually beat the Western Conference more than the West beat
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: the East overall record wise that season. That's it. So
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: we got all these teams that are in a blood
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  Speaker 3: bath and a gauntlet every year. Everybody talks about the
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: SEC is so difficult to get through in these conferences
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  Speaker 3: and it's not fair. No, no, no. The Western Conference
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  Speaker 3: in the NBA has been the worst case of imbalance
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: between schedules and not having things leveled out. And if
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: they could just go one through sixteen, the best team
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: in either conference, I mean the West might have twelve
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: teams in. There would definitely be years like that. You
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: do need to balance things out because the West plays
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: each other more correct.
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  Speaker 4: So I was gonna be my question to you is
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: how do you balance out the schedule with the format
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: like that?
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: You could figure it out. There are ways, dude, I mean,
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: come on, those.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: People who make way much more money than you that
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: can figure that out.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Hey want to toe. I can get you a toe.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: They can figure this out somehow, just smooth things out.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: They can go in rotation with certain conferences every year,
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: like we see in the NFL, where a team from
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: an NFL division ends up playing a certain AFC division
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: one year and around robin format that type of thing.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: There are much better ways than what we're seeing right now.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it is a serious problem because I
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: root for teams in the Western Conference, so I'm a
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: victim of the conference and balance that is going on
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: in the NBA. Otherwise, the Clippers would have probably fifteen
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: championships by now if they had the easier route out
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: of the Eastern Conference. Ben Maller would agree with that. No,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: he would.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't disagree that Ben would agree. I disagree
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  Speaker 4: with that. Take me off, Excuse.
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  Speaker 3: Me, all right, Kevin, you want to give me your
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: New Year's resolution in sports?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to go to college football on this one.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: And it might sound like a minor thing, but it
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: actually has a big trickle down effect with a lot
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: of other situations. We really need to go back to
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: one national signing period in February for college football, and
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: I think Petros alluded to this when we spoke to
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: him last two It's just just with the early December
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: signing period, it affects so many different things. Coaches get
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: fired earlier, coaches are in a rush to be hired
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: earlier so that you don't lose early commitments when it
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: comes to the December recruiting class. Remember Signing Day used
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: to be a big deal. Yeah, it used to be
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: National Signing Day in February. In the couple of weeks
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: leading up to it, you would have the All American Army,
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Navy whatever it was called, a high school All Star game,
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: and a lot of guys will commit and play there.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: They still play the game, but no one really pays
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: attention to it because all the big time commits have
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: already done by the time you even get to the
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: first of the year.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you that All Star Game over the
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: NBA All Star Game. That's something else has to change.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: But you will take care of it. No egos on it.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: I love Noah and the NBC's done a phenomenal job,
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: but I don't think there an I don't think there's
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: any fixing.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Ah, All right, what are you fixing here?
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah? So I would have the National Signing Day go
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: back to February like it was. That's the only time
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: that you can sign an official letter of intent. The
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: early signing period goes away the idea that you have
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: to have these seventeen year old kids enter a semester
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: early or whatever. Does it help, sure, but just put
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: everybody on a level playing field, because what that does
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: there is a less coaching ball down. There's less rushing
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: when it comes to firing and hiring coaches. Guys like
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: Brian Hartline, you know, won't get their play calling due
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: these taken away from them because they're so distracted. Back
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: in the day, guys would get jobs. Coordinators with teams
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: would get jobs, and they would stay with the team
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: through bowl season even if they accepted a head coaching position,
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: because the landscape just wasn't changing so often while they
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: were still with their team. It's really hard to manage
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: being an offensive coordinator or a defensive coordinator for a
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: playoff team now while also trying to manage all the
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: things that are potentially happening with your school that you're
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: going to later. I think if you get to take
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: the burden of responsibility off of them when it comes
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: to recruiting. They have done that with the transfer portal,
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: and honestly, I think I would move the transfer portal
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: to be even later, maybe have signing the day before
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: the transfer portal, and do all knock all of that
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: stuff after the games are played. There's too many things
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: taking attention away from the game that's being played on
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: the field. That's what I just want to separate more
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: of the administrative stuff away from the play on the field.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's the biggest issue that college football
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: is facing.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: The college football calendar is an unmitigated disaster, and that
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: was put under the microscope of course with Lane Kiff
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: and leaving to go to LSU and how that played out,
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: and now we got Ole Miss without them tomorrow taking
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: on Georgia. But Kevin, we've got some phone calls here.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: It's always seven ninety nine on Fox. Must be a
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: good subject. James calling from Tacoma. James, what's up? You're
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: on FNA. I've had a Mosley's Kevin figures in for
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Ben mallor.
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  Speaker 7: Hight, not just the NBA, like he suggestsed, from all sports,
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: including the NFL. They're seedings top fourteen teams. NFL get
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: the playoff Scuse, look what's happening this weekend. If they
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: lose to the forty nine ers, they go to the
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: down to the number five seed, and they could have
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: a thirteen to four record. It has to play on
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: a road to Campo or Carolina, and which will have
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: like eight or nine wins they get the host, whereas
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: as will have thirteen wins and have it pay on
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: the road.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Now, James, are you a Seahawks fan or are you
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: just a concern sports fanatic and you want you want
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: fair fairness, that's all. You're unbiased.
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: No, I'm a sports fan, even the NBA, but they
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: break to have spurs and finals.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Ooh yeah, I like where your heads at.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: I agree with you. That's a great call. And we
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: talked about this with the NFL. We talked about the
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: Detroit Lions of the proposal they made at the NFL
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: meetings last year trying to see if they can get
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: the seeding situation fixed in the NFL so that a
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: division winner doesn't get a guaranteed home playoff game. I
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: still think that's something they need to pound the table
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: for because it's utterly ridiculous. And he has a good
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: point there's no reason why the loser of Seattle in
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: San Francisco should be relegated to have to go on
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: the road to face the team with the worst record.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: That doesn't make any sense.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: But if it's a Carolina Panthers, we can make an exception.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Ken, No, we can't.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Why you're right, they're gonna lose either way.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: But exactly, I wasn't gonna say that out loud. I
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: didn't want to like upset you completely.
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  Speaker 3: But I want fairness. I want teams who want to win.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: I want teams who deserve to be in that position
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: based off record. Look at the NFC West, it might
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: be the toughest division in sports right now. You have
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: three teams that are getting in that all could have
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: twelve wins or more this season. It's been staring the
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: NFL in the face since when was the seven to
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: nine Seahawks team that.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Won the n eleven or twenty twelve?
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: I believe, Yeah, So it's been an issue. The problem
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: is I still think the owners have to vote on it.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: They do, and some of these owners with terrible teams,
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: they're never going to give in, especially Eastern Conference teams
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: in the NBA. Those owners will never vote for it.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: They have to have a majority. It's not going to happen,
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: but it'd be nice, and it's my New Year's resolution.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: Still very idealistic, but you know what, I'm right there
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: with you. I'm right there with you. We have more
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: calls that we need to get to. It gets you
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: guys on the other side again eight seven to seven
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: ninety nine on Fox changes that you would make to
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: your favorite sport or any sport. Here in the New Year.
• 39:59
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• 40:01
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