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CFB on TNT Previews 2nd Round of College Football Playoff · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: All right, the first round is in the books. That
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  Speaker 1: means we are on to the quarterfinals. Bama, Indiana, Oregon, Texas, Tech, Ole,
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  Speaker 1: mess Georgia and Miami. Ohio State takeyo. We're gonna start
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  Speaker 1: there the Cotton Bowl in Arlington, Texas on New Year's Eve.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State and Miami again the rematch of the two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and two national championship. Ohio State Miami.
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  Speaker 2: What's your thoughts. I gotta go with Ohio State.
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  Speaker 3: And as much as I love Miami and I think
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  Speaker 3: they can come in and really throw a monkey rinch
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  Speaker 3: in the whole system. I believe in Matt Patricia's defense
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  Speaker 3: and he's gonna make sure he takes away Madlicatton, Melicott,
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  Speaker 3: Tony on the offensive side from Miami. So I think
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  Speaker 3: that's the biggest thing that was that's gonna be taken away.
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  Speaker 2: And then also Carson Beck.
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  Speaker 3: I believe that Ohio State's defense is gonna make Carson
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  Speaker 3: Beck turn the football over. I like Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State, true national title contender, talent all over the
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  Speaker 1: field to stud wide receiver, offensive and defensive lines, and
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  Speaker 1: now motivated after a loss in that Big Ten final.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely they should come in here with their hair on fire,
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  Speaker 4: understanding what's at stake here. I think they're gonna win
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  Speaker 4: the ball game as well. I got Ohio State. I
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  Speaker 4: think that julians saying is gonna understand that he's got
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  Speaker 4: to get the ball to those playmakers early and often.
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  Speaker 4: And I think personally, Ohio State has the number one
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  Speaker 4: defense in the country and it's gonna be hard to
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  Speaker 4: score points on them.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm Miami, Takio already got to weigh in on
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech and Oregon. That is the Orange Bowl in
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  Speaker 1: Miami on New Year's Day. Here is the tael the
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  Speaker 1: tape three to zero all time Oregon is against Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 1: Last time they faced off twenty twenty three, Oregon went
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  Speaker 1: into Lubbock and won thirty eight to thirty vic I
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  Speaker 1: already heard Takiyo say, what are you picking in this game?
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  Speaker 2: Man? I'm gonna be honest.
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  Speaker 4: After what I saw tonight, I'm still optimistic about what
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  Speaker 4: Oregon can do offensively and Dante more and the things
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  Speaker 4: that he did, so I'm picking Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: I think Oregon.
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  Speaker 4: Has the easiest route to the championship when you look
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  Speaker 4: at the Bracts, and I'm going to Oregon and Dante
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  Speaker 4: Moore and that offense.
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  Speaker 1: The interesting thing is Joey Maguire spoke during the week
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  Speaker 1: about how last year all the teams that had to
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  Speaker 1: buy they all lost in this round last year. I
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  Speaker 1: know you spoke to some people at Georgia. How are
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  Speaker 1: they preparing to deal with that this year?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you got to understand this. Kirby Smart.
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  Speaker 5: He has this meticulous preparation process that he goes through.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's the difference from last year.
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  Speaker 5: A little more mature team last year, younger team this year.
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  Speaker 2: Banged up this year.
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  Speaker 5: So it's a different approach because now at this point.
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  Speaker 2: They just want to get healthy.
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  Speaker 5: They want to They go through this process of meetings,
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  Speaker 5: walk through yes, back to meetings, walk throughs again, and
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  Speaker 5: it's highly intensive. But the idea is to put you
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  Speaker 5: through these mental hurdles without killing your body. It's late
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  Speaker 5: in the season, yep. I mean they want to make
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  Speaker 5: a run. They got to be as fresh as possible.
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  Speaker 1: A champ staying on you the Rose Bowl and Pasadena
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  Speaker 1: that's also going to be on New Year's Day. Indiana
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  Speaker 1: and Alabama. Kurt Signetti used to work at Alabama. Alabama's
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  Speaker 1: coach Kaylen Debor used to work at Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think about these two teams?
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  Speaker 1: Indiana the number one team in the country, which way
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  Speaker 1: to Allen on this one?
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  Speaker 5: Well, based off history, I'd be a little nervous about
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  Speaker 5: Alabama if I was Indiana, But Indiana's a different team.
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  Speaker 5: I think their defense proved that they could stop some
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  Speaker 5: of the top player playmakers in the country.
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  Speaker 2: They know they got four wideouts they got to deal.
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  Speaker 5: With and a running game that's trying to get going
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  Speaker 5: with Alabama.
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  Speaker 2: But I got Indiana. I'm going to Alabama on this one.
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  Speaker 4: I think upfront, the game is run by the horses
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  Speaker 4: up front on both sides of the ball. And what
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  Speaker 4: I saw in that game against Oklahoma is they really
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  Speaker 4: dominated up front, anchored down, especially defensively, and stopped whatever
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  Speaker 4: Oklahoma was trying to do. And I think Mendoza isn't
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  Speaker 4: as mobile as Materier, so he's going to be a
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  Speaker 4: sitting duck. And if they can get back into that
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  Speaker 4: backfield and cause havoc.
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  Speaker 2: I think Alabama's going to do a good job of
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  Speaker 2: keeping them intact.
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Old Mess is going to be the Sugar Bowl
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  Speaker 1: in New York Orleans.
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  Speaker 2: That of course, is on.
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  Speaker 1: The nighttime of New Year's Day, Gunnar Stockton. They faced
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  Speaker 1: off earlier this year. Ole Miss had the lead up
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  Speaker 1: nine going in the fourth quarter, did not score, got
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  Speaker 1: outscored seventeen to nothing. They always like to say, it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to be the team twice, which way to you lean, Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: Old Miss?
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  Speaker 2: How bout damn damn right, man, damn right, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: I always wanted to say that.
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  Speaker 4: Nah.
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  Speaker 3: Look, let's be real when you look at this matchup.
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  Speaker 3: Old Miss came out and scored the first five possessions
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  Speaker 3: of the game, and so like, you can't play any better.
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  Speaker 3: And Lane Kiffin is gone, And I think Lane kiffen
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  Speaker 3: his superpowers are. Yeah, I'll have you prepared, but it's
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  Speaker 3: an internal clock that he understands and knows. It's a
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  Speaker 3: timeliness that I can call certain plays. He's not there anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Ken Charlie weis junior. Can't he replace that? And so
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  Speaker 3: for me, I thought they played the best game that
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  Speaker 3: they possibly could. Still came up short. They feel short
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  Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter, could not get a stop on
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  Speaker 3: the defensive side. I'm picking the Dolts with this.
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  Speaker 1: Go dogs, and Lane Kiffin made himself two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars today, which is you know, like I.
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  Speaker 2: Said, it's a good agent right there. That's a great agent.
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  Speaker 1: Also tweeted, congrassed all the coaches and players, especially coach
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  Speaker 1: Golding seeing his two boys on the sideline. Great win today,
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  Speaker 1: beat Georgia in the boot. What let's take a look
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  Speaker 1: at some of our primetime players and who were looking
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  Speaker 1: at for the second round. Chev I'm gonna start all
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  Speaker 1: the way to the left there, D'Angelo Ponds. You threw
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  Speaker 1: this in the group chat. Not a name everyone's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Why has he got your attention?
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  Speaker 5: Well, he's five nine, one seventy, But let's not get
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  Speaker 5: caught up.
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  Speaker 2: In his statue.
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  Speaker 5: The kid is tough, and I'm gonna show you three
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  Speaker 5: plays what he did give up catches, so young corners
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  Speaker 5: understand it's okay when a receiver catches the ball. The
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  Speaker 5: only thing that matters you get his ass on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: So he has really tough.
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  Speaker 5: He reminds me of two of my nineteen ninety nine classmates,
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  Speaker 5: a mix of dre Bli and Antoine Winfield making players
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  Speaker 5: and tackling.
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  Speaker 2: This kid is tough.
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  Speaker 5: He's somebody to watch now he needs to go. Think
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  Speaker 5: about these four names, Jeremy Bernard, Isaiah Harden, Ryan Williams,
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  Speaker 5: and freshman Lottie Brooks, because boy, he got his hands
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  Speaker 5: full with Alabama.
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  Speaker 2: They are gonna be tough. I think he can handle
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  Speaker 2: it them.
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  Speaker 1: We tried to get a campaign to send Jacob Rodriguez
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  Speaker 1: to New York. Instead, he won the Negersky, the Lombardi.
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  Speaker 1: I think he won the buck Gets as well. Big
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  Speaker 1: twelve Defensive Player of the Year to Keyo, one of
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  Speaker 1: your favorite players in college football.
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  Speaker 3: My favorite player in college football just stashed Jacob Rodriguez.
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  Speaker 3: And let's start with this play here, smart enough to
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  Speaker 3: recognize to tackle.
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  Speaker 2: In the guard pulling.
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  Speaker 3: He gets in the hip pocket, runs down the running
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  Speaker 3: back from the backside. And look, this is film studying
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  Speaker 3: right here. He understands motion coming across, He changes the defense,
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  Speaker 3: puts him into his own I stay straight ahead and
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  Speaker 3: he knows this. Receivers coming back across. He sticks his
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  Speaker 3: foot in the ground, comes straight downhill.
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  Speaker 2: Boom.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know if he missed a tackle all season.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe he missed the tackle. But this is
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  Speaker 3: probably one of the most impressive ones understanding, just having
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  Speaker 3: the icumen of understanding the zone conception. He doesn't need
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  Speaker 3: him to play and just jumping it bro correct like
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  Speaker 3: this dude, forced fumbles, got interceptions, tackles for losses.
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  Speaker 2: It's not by accident. He was the player of the
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  Speaker 2: year in the Big Twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone likes to talk about Jeremiah Smith, but Cardinal Tate
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  Speaker 1: being mocked right now is a top five thick in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL drive.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't think he was anywhere close to that
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  Speaker 4: coming into the season. I think he was looked at
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  Speaker 4: as a solid receiver next to Jeremiah Smith. But boy
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  Speaker 4: has he gotten opportunities and made the best of them
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  Speaker 4: all year long. Wo impress me to moses him just
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  Speaker 4: going deep and make high pointing the ball and finishing
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  Speaker 4: off impressive catches with touchdowns. But here he is in
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  Speaker 4: the slot, which is gonna make him that much more touted.
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  Speaker 2: At the next level.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna need to play inside and outside, understanding how
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  Speaker 4: to run routes against nickels and safeties, but again using
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  Speaker 4: the leverage going outside of that, outside of that linebacker,
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  Speaker 4: cutting across the face and just going up and making plays.
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  Speaker 2: We need this in two more angles.
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  Speaker 4: Because he just understands how to go up high, point
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  Speaker 4: the football, make catches in traffic, helmet, comes off, still
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  Speaker 4: comes down with the football.
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  Speaker 2: He just played with a tenacity.
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  Speaker 4: While Jeremiah was seeing a lot of coverage and seeing
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  Speaker 4: a lot of double teams, he really took advantage of
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  Speaker 4: his single coverages on the backside.
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  Speaker 1: And the team at Ohio State faced for the Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten Championship Indiana and Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner
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  Speaker 1: eight total touchdowns, one interception in the less three games.
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  Speaker 2: He took a shot in.
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  Speaker 1: The beginning of that Big Ten Championship game that I
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  Speaker 1: think everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Looked and went, oh, no, he might not be back.
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  Speaker 1: Brother comes in for one snap, he goes back out
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  Speaker 1: there and plays a nearly flawless game. Formando Mendoza to
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  Speaker 1: me when I hear him, gives me Andrew luck vibes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: complete brainiac. Knows how to diagnose a defense, but also
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  Speaker 1: has the physical tools, the mobility to open receivers down
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  Speaker 1: the field, and his accuracy is special.
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  Speaker 4: It's really impressive when you watch him throw the football around.
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  Speaker 4: He throws it to spots where only his receiver can
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  Speaker 4: get it, and if he doesn't get it, it's gonna
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  Speaker 4: go out of bounds. He's not turning the ball over
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  Speaker 4: and that's what's been most impressive, him hitting his receivers
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  Speaker 4: in stride on time, especially that last throw to Amari
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  Speaker 4: Cooper to win that game a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: That was very, very impressive.
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  Speaker 1: We have some special quarterback play in the final eight
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  Speaker 1: here for the college football playoffs. They're either guys you
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  Speaker 1: can rely on or guys like Dante Mora Mendoza. You go,
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  Speaker 1: I could see him being special to the next level
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, without a doubt.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, look, we are stacked with quarterbacks, but we
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  Speaker 5: forgot to mention one guy on that string, Gunner Stockton
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  Speaker 5: talking and he is surrounded by a talented Georgia team.
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  Speaker 5: But I've been so impressed with how he's just kept
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  Speaker 5: just kept his head on straight hoys throughout the playoffs,
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  Speaker 5: I mean throughout the season and ready for the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to seeing how he handles the pressure
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  Speaker 5: going forward, because last year I'm sure it's one he
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  Speaker 5: wants to forget, and getting a win in the playoffs
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  Speaker 5: is gonna make him forget all about last year and
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  Speaker 5: look forward to the next season