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Rafael Esparza Interview · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Turning to sports, wait Wimberley on the afternoon Drive.
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  Speaker 3: Take you through Thursday, royal to you by my book,
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  Speaker 3: he dot ag Rafaela Sparsa kind of enough to give
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  Speaker 3: us some time? Who's got a jam pack schedule on
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  Speaker 3: your radio? Sparsa? Are you able to breathe this time
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  Speaker 3: of year with everybody getting ready for football?
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  Speaker 4: At that time of year, it's preseason? I mean, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I love how everyone's jones in about preseason. I can't
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  Speaker 4: believe I heard all day today about it. I can't
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  Speaker 4: believe Beca's not playing for Arizona. He's the MVP candidate.
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  Speaker 4: Has he not playing because he's the only quarterback? They
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  Speaker 4: had a good game so far. But it is what
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  Speaker 4: it is. Football is King. I always have to accept
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  Speaker 4: it this time of year. But I mean, it's preseason people.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, wait a minute, now, you're not anti
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  Speaker 3: football though, right.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm not anti football. I'm just anti how how
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  Speaker 4: we make it King of all kings? You know me,
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  Speaker 4: I don't believe that we should have three hundred and
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  Speaker 4: sixty five day and tell showing we have ten days
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  Speaker 4: of the draft, combine stuff all over to you. I
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  Speaker 4: mean it's just I mean, come on, people, it's overkilling.
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  Speaker 3: Well that but that's that's the NFL monetization machine though, right,
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's why they're doing that. I mean it's yes,
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  Speaker 3: it's necessary, you have to have the draft and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But for the NFL, I mean it's how can we
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  Speaker 3: I say we they how can they turn another dollar
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  Speaker 3: because the general public will spend it?
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  Speaker 2: Correct?
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  Speaker 4: Well then correct, But I mean, you know me, I'll
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  Speaker 4: take college football in the day of the week in
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  Speaker 4: the NFFL.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of college football, let's look at you know, the
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  Speaker 3: AP pole should be out sometime this weekend. I know
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  Speaker 3: it's a preseason poll, and you know I agree with
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  Speaker 3: We were talking junior college football with one of our
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  Speaker 3: local teams here earlier this week and they're athletic directors
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  Speaker 3: that I don't know how we have a preseason poll
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  Speaker 3: when all these teams change over same way with the
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  Speaker 3: with the college ranks. I mean, the teams are are
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  Speaker 3: are you know, all different? But when you look at
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  Speaker 3: the players and I'm gonna go buy uh, you know
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  Speaker 3: this shop, I'm looking at here pin Gaming. We can
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  Speaker 3: look at my bookie. I think they're all pretty similar.
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame, Mohave State at the top along with Texas.
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  Speaker 3: These are national Championship odds Indiana, Oregon, Georgia, Miami, Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like this field might be the most exciting
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  Speaker 3: field that we've seen in a number of years. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if that's because of the transfer portal, because
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  Speaker 3: the money going into these teams, But I don't know
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  Speaker 3: that one team is better far and away better than
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  Speaker 3: the other.
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  Speaker 4: Is it? Well? I mean, I think some of the
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  Speaker 4: top teams have that the guy that the reason why
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  Speaker 4: we're talking about them, I'm talking okay, Texas has a manning.
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  Speaker 4: Oregon's always going to be up to because their speed.
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  Speaker 4: Ohio State is always going to be up to because
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  Speaker 4: who they recruit and who they pay for the same
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  Speaker 4: team with a lot of the SEC teams Georgia, LSU, Alabama.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, we're going to talk about those teams, and
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  Speaker 4: we're going to talk about those teams every year, even
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  Speaker 4: if they did not project it to be. Let's see
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  Speaker 4: the national champion. We're always gonna mention those ones, but
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  Speaker 4: I mean we were. Indiana is still up there. I
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  Speaker 4: think the you is going to be up there. I
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  Speaker 4: feel bad for Florida, the Gators. I think I think
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  Speaker 4: Florida now is a youth football a state unless for
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  Speaker 4: some reasoned if the Gators can turn things around. I
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  Speaker 4: love what Miami the Hurricanes are doing right now. So
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  Speaker 4: there's teams in there. We haven't seen Texas Tech up
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  Speaker 4: there in football, but they're spending a lot of money
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  Speaker 4: right now. So I like the teams that I look
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  Speaker 4: up there and I'm like, wow, we haven't seen those
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  Speaker 4: teams in football in college football for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Does it feel like, you know, we sometimes overblow this
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  Speaker 3: and more so in the NFL with quarterbacks every year
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  Speaker 3: it's so well, this class is going to be the
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  Speaker 3: best quarterbacks class. That's eighty three always reference eighty three
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  Speaker 3: is kind of ground zero this year though. I mean
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  Speaker 3: when you look at college football quarterback situations at Notre Dame,
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State, Texas, potentially Indiana, Oregon, Georgia, Ole, mess and
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  Speaker 3: you can there's there's other quarterbacks with USC. It feels
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  Speaker 3: like this is a true year of the quarterback in
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  Speaker 3: college football. Some really good ones.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's really not that hard to say this is
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  Speaker 4: a top quarterback class because what the class we just
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  Speaker 4: went through. But I thought it was one of the
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  Speaker 4: worst classes. I mean, just the top two with the
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  Speaker 4: Manning More Sellers. There's a lot of interesting names, but
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  Speaker 4: that's gonna be up there. But I still think this
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  Speaker 4: draft class we went we went to could be one
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  Speaker 4: of the worst classes, at least for some reason. Mendoza,
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  Speaker 4: let's say pulls a rabbit up his hat and he's
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  Speaker 4: the real deal and he puts the Raiders on the map,
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  Speaker 4: then I think that could change. I think one of
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  Speaker 4: these quarterbacks needs to put their team on their back
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  Speaker 4: and put them in the playoffs. I just don't see
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  Speaker 4: any of those quarterbacks that got drafted to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Raphaelos Spars and my bookie dot Ag get in and
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  Speaker 3: play today as you move forward through this year. All right,
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  Speaker 3: So if we're talking value for national championship picks, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, we talk about value picks, that's for those
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  Speaker 3: that don't sports game a whole lot. We're talking, you know,
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  Speaker 3: what can you pick and then get them more, turning
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  Speaker 3: your money in Texas A and M eighteen to one,
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  Speaker 3: Texas Tech sixteen to one, Bama, maybe at twenty to
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  Speaker 3: one or LSU. Where's your value one or two that
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  Speaker 3: you're looking at right now.
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  Speaker 4: I'll take Texas Tech over A and M. Just the
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  Speaker 4: amount of money they are throwing at the football program,
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  Speaker 4: the quarterbacks that they've been able to provide their offense
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  Speaker 4: in there. So I'll take the Texas Tech, which you
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  Speaker 4: can get anywhere between. I think I've seen them as
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  Speaker 4: high as twenty five to one Texas Tech up there,
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  Speaker 4: Ole Missed there's another one. I know people, I hope
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying, I hopefull you guys are sitting down. I
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  Speaker 4: did mention the SEC team, but Old Miss. I mean
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  Speaker 4: every only wants to talk about Georgia, but I like
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  Speaker 4: Old Miss. They're chipping their shoulder. Everyone wants to talk
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  Speaker 4: about Kiffin and LSU, but Ole Miss can be one
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  Speaker 4: of those teams that can shock everybody, and I'll throw
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  Speaker 4: I'll throw a wrinkle out there.
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  Speaker 1: B Yu.
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  Speaker 4: I mean they're a quiet team. We saw them their
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  Speaker 4: success last year. They have a lot of starters coming
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  Speaker 4: back on defense. I mean, I think there are anywhere
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  Speaker 4: between ninety to one to one hundred and one. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not saying, oh, double mortgage your house or ask your
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  Speaker 4: wife for a double allowance so you can put BYU,
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  Speaker 4: but they could be up there, just to put them
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  Speaker 4: in the mix where you can hedge off that ticket.
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  Speaker 3: I've won twenty three games last two years. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's you know, what's interesting about them is when
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  Speaker 3: they left the independent status and jumped into the Big twelve,
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  Speaker 3: they kind of took a dip and then whatever they did.
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  Speaker 3: You know, obviously they've got money because they put rosters together.
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  Speaker 3: We know about the Mormon calls there and the fact
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  Speaker 3: that a lot of their players are older. Whatever they're
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  Speaker 3: doing has worked, and I agree with you. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: outside of Texas Tech, you look at BYU, that they
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  Speaker 3: could be a team that not only wins the Big twelve,
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  Speaker 3: gets in the playoff and maybe makes some noise.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's why. I mean one thing you
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  Speaker 4: mentioned that no one really talks about the their athletes are.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to see a lot older but mature
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  Speaker 4: because they've gone to their missions and they probably seen
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  Speaker 4: a lot and done a lot that most people have
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  Speaker 4: never will see in a lifetime, so they when they
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  Speaker 4: come back, they've changed people, and like I said, I
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  Speaker 4: think their age, uh and their leadership in the locker
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  Speaker 4: room needs to be mentioned. I mean their first three
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  Speaker 4: games or there can be three, no they I think
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  Speaker 4: I know it's Utah Tech, Arizona and Colorado State and
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  Speaker 4: then they have a bye before they go to TCU. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: So I mean they can really go into the TCU
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  Speaker 4: game three and oh and anything happens after that. I
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  Speaker 4: know they have to play Notre Dame this year though, too.
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  Speaker 3: Let me ask you about Clemson. I'm looking at their
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  Speaker 3: odds seventy five to one to win the national title.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's been that that low, maybe
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  Speaker 3: since Dabo's first or second year there, and I'd have
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  Speaker 3: to go back and look at you know, historical you
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  Speaker 3: know Vegas data on this ord on this is the
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  Speaker 3: is the luster totally gone off? Embasy lost it.
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  Speaker 4: We were going to have this conversation September sixth because
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  Speaker 4: when they go through when they have to play LSU
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  Speaker 4: and they lose, I think we're going to have that
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  Speaker 4: issue because this is not this is not the same
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  Speaker 4: Clemson team because they won't get with the new college program.
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  Speaker 4: Danilo Street, I don't understand his tankics. I don't understand
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  Speaker 4: why he's still there. Uh, they lose the LSU, they
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  Speaker 4: could go, they could lose the cow. I think their
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  Speaker 4: second road game, Oh, they played what I think they
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  Speaker 4: played Georgia Southern UH and Charleston Southern. They played both
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  Speaker 4: of those. Those could be their only double digit wins
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  Speaker 4: because I think every other game, I think it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be tough. Even their homecoming game against Metallica Slash
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  Speaker 4: spot Tech is going to be a tough one.
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  Speaker 3: What else is going on this weekend?
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  Speaker 4: Not much, Just like it's preseason. Anywhere in the country
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  Speaker 4: is hot, so he really can't go outside because it's
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  Speaker 4: so hot everywhere. So just sit around and watch the
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  Speaker 4: Cubs to continue to win games. Preseason NFL and why
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  Speaker 4: Jake won't invite me to his podcast. I saw him
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  Speaker 4: post on Instagram.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to send you a text on that
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  Speaker 3: literally today, so you'll be getting a text on that
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  Speaker 3: so we can set that up.
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  Speaker 4: They saw it, that promoted it, and nothing like that
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  Speaker 4: was sanamojis. I'm the guy in the swing, but swinging
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  Speaker 4: by himself. That's me.
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  Speaker 3: Now that we still have sunlight in the day, so
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  Speaker 3: you'll get it today before the sun goes down.
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  Speaker 4: But that's all I'm doing. I'm listening to your whole podcast,
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  Speaker 4: all your your back ones, all your all your old ones.
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  Speaker 3: There you go, all right, Well, well you'll get a
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  Speaker 3: text before the sun goes down. Thank you, Raphila Sparza,
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  Speaker 3: my bookie dot ag. Hey, I'll text you here a bit.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate your brother.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to you next week.
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  Speaker 3: You have a good one, say Rafila Sparsa, my bookie
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  Speaker 3: dot ag more. Coming your way from Brandon High School
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