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Chuck & Buck 12-4 Hour 2: Headlines and ICYMI Jedd Fisch, NFL news & notes and Holiday Analytics part 3! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Peterson left wing up the floor, pulls up for long three.
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Speaker 2: D Mary Close.
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Speaker 1: Thirty six point seven ago, talks within one after being
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Speaker 1: ten the rights just four minutes ago.
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Speaker 2: Tony castor Cone on the call last night Ready Ort
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Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three k JRFM, the big
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Speaker 2: ten opener for Danny Sprinkle on the Washington Huskies. They
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Speaker 2: were down sixteen, were less than five minutes to go.
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Speaker 2: Rallied feverishly, as you could tell from that one call
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Speaker 2: from Tony Castra Cone, but did come up a little
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Speaker 2: bit short, losing to UCLA eighty two to eighty. Uh Man,
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Speaker 2: was there some shooting on display last night? Both teams
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Speaker 2: shot over fifty percent from the yield, both shot over
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Speaker 2: seventy percent from the line, Both shot over thirty eight
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Speaker 2: percent from three Problem is UCLA shot forty five percent
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Speaker 2: from three point land and they end up winning it
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Speaker 2: by a final score of eighty two to eighty.
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Speaker 3: Colors are ugly.
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Speaker 2: Up Next for the dogs will be the USC Trojans.
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Speaker 2: They've got pretty colored.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it ish if they hadn't screwed over the
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Speaker 4: fact twelve.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah today colors, pretty colors got a lot uglier
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Speaker 2: the moment they ruined the Pact Conference. USC is the
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Speaker 2: next opponent three o'clock this Saturday, and that will be
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Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, where Ashley used to own that town.
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Speaker 3: Yeah I did.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Time for your Frostbreed Corps light choice chill headlines
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Speaker 2: here on a Thursday, A bucket list Thursday. By the way,
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Speaker 2: it's just Ashley, Ryan and myself here for the next
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Speaker 2: couple of days. But let's talk about what else is
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Speaker 2: going on in the sports world. The College Football confer
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Speaker 2: Championships will be held this weekend. A lot of games
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Speaker 2: on Friday, the Big Boys won't play until Saturday. The
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Speaker 2: Big Ten Conference championship game featuring one versus two Ohio
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Speaker 2: State versus Indiana will be played at five o'clock Sunday
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Speaker 2: on Fox. Selection Sunday, we'll map out the twelve team
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Speaker 2: field for the second ever real NCAA College Football Tournament.
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Speaker 2: So we're just a few three days, as a matter
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Speaker 2: of fact, away from Selection Sunday and knowing the entire
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Speaker 2: tournament field and then left a big, big gu National
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Speaker 2: Signing Day was yesterday and the Washington Huskies finished with
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Speaker 2: It depends on what rankings you look at, but it
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Speaker 2: sounded like Scott Ecklund really slapped my hand yesterday when
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Speaker 2: I suggested a top twenty recruiting class. No no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: no TOAP thirteen. Buddy, Yeah, get with the program. Then
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Speaker 2: he washed my mouth out with soap right here on
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Speaker 2: the airwave. So good recruiting class. Terrific recruiting class for
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Speaker 2: Jedfish his second full off season in which to improve
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Speaker 2: the recruits. Meanwhile, the transfer portal will open on January second,
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Speaker 2: so that's obviously turning into a much bigger and bigger
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Speaker 2: deal every single year until they change rules. That's going
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Speaker 2: to be a major couple of weeks for every program
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Speaker 2: in the country, including the one here in Seattle. Thursday
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Speaker 2: Night Football will start week number fourteen of the season
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Speaker 2: Dallas at Detroit Man. This is interesting on a lot
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Speaker 2: of levels. You've got Detroit slumping right now, Dallas getting
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Speaker 2: red hot right now, and yet it's kind of feels
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Speaker 2: like a playoff game because there are so many good
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Speaker 2: teams this year in the National Football League, or at
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Speaker 2: least so many teams with very good records so far
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Speaker 2: in the National Football League this year, so it might
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Speaker 2: have like a playoff feel to it. Plus, with this
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Speaker 2: being the last week of the regular season of fantasy football.
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Speaker 2: In a lot of leagues, I would imagine everybody's either
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Speaker 2: got a cowboy or a lion, or we'll be facing
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Speaker 2: a cowboy or a lion in trying to get into
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Speaker 2: the playoffs. So it'll be fun from that perspective as well.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about the Seahawks and Falcons for an entire
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Speaker 2: hour coming up at eight o'clock twelve Man Roundtable today
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Speaker 2: with Greg Bell and with Hugh Millan. Kracken will be
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Speaker 2: in Edmonton taking on the Oilers tonight at six o'clock
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Speaker 2: the Crack and riding a three game losing streak. They
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Speaker 2: haven't scored on the power play in four games, so
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Speaker 2: let's get that going tonight at least as they take
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Speaker 2: on Connor McDavid and the Oilers tonight at six right
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Speaker 2: here on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. And Yes,
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Speaker 2: Major League Baseball Winter meetings start in three days. Make
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Speaker 2: sure you make your travel arrangements for that. There might
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Speaker 2: not be a hotel available to wherever you're going to
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Speaker 2: be with family during the winter meetings.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, you better be yeah, so check on that.
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Speaker 2: Also, check the weather. Last thing you want to do
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Speaker 2: is be stranded on a roadway somewhere and miss a trade.
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Speaker 4: I heard that Triple A is predicting record travel numbers
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Speaker 4: on the road.
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Speaker 3: So just be prepared.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just a joyous time of the year.
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Speaker 2: I just don't want you to run into any kind
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Speaker 2: of difficulty.
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Speaker 4: No, just make sure you pack extra snacks just in
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Speaker 4: case the there's a lot of people.
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Speaker 3: In your stuck in traffic.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and a hat, oh you need to add, and
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Speaker 2: an extra coat and some gloves. My mom still says
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Speaker 2: that to me every single day, fifty four year old man.
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Speaker 2: Every time I talked to her, Will you have an
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Speaker 2: extra hat and coat in your car? Don't you?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was terrible winter.
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Speaker 4: Well we learned nothing from nineteen twenty three that you
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Speaker 4: better be prepared to drive into a winter store.
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Speaker 2: That is the lesson we kicked. Mom was right.
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Speaker 3: The mom was right, all right.
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Speaker 2: So those are your headlines, brought to you by frost
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Speaker 2: brewed to cores like shoes Chill the Washington HUSKIESA as
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Speaker 2: I mentioned, nice signing day thirteenth in the country by
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Speaker 2: various different ranking systems out there an eight and four season.
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Speaker 2: We talked about it at length Ashley and I to
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Speaker 2: start the show today. Yeah, we were open to having
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Speaker 2: being sensationally overwhelmed at any point during the first two
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Speaker 2: years of the Jedfish administration. Yeah, we were open to
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Speaker 2: the idea that he blew away expectations and Washington would
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Speaker 2: be vying for a playoff spot this weekend. But when
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Speaker 2: you step back from it, it's been a real check
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Speaker 2: mark kind of couple of years.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 2: Jedfish got the team to be six and six in
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Speaker 2: a year in which the roster was devastated and he
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Speaker 2: had to hurry and play catch up to dig out
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Speaker 2: of a hole, and played a lot of freshmen last year,
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Speaker 2: and then in the second year eight and four with
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Speaker 2: a competitive couple of games against two of the best
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Speaker 2: teams in the nation. I'm not saying they came close
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Speaker 2: to winning those games or didn't get outplayed, but it
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Speaker 2: was competitive.
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Speaker 3: It was not blowouts, that's for sure.
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Speaker 2: It was the year before YEP, So progress was shown
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Speaker 2: on that front. The recruitinges keep getting better under Jedfish.
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Speaker 2: His reputation of how much ahead he is of this
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Speaker 2: NIL process, those reports are very positive for Jedfish. Yes,
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Speaker 2: there are always rumors about him going somewhere else, but
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Speaker 2: we also should have expected that too, So in terms
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Speaker 2: of realistic expectations, it seems like Jedfish has checked the
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Speaker 2: boxes in his first two years and he is definitely
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Speaker 2: staying for a third or at least that's according to
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Speaker 2: Jed in his conversation yesterday with Softy and with Dick
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Speaker 2: Fane on our station here at Sports Radio ninety three
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Speaker 2: point three KJARFM. And in case you missed that conversation,
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Speaker 2: we felt this would be a great opportunity to replace
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Speaker 2: some of it for you. So here is the Washington
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Speaker 2: Usky's head football coach, Jedfish, sitting down with our own
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Speaker 2: Dave Maler and Richard L. Fane to talk some Huskies football.
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Speaker 2: And we'll start with his response to Dick's question about
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Speaker 2: what needs to be done in the community, on campus,
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Speaker 2: within the building to generate more hype for this football
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Speaker 2: team heading into twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 6: I think that we just have to be behind our
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Speaker 6: team and the more positive, the more positive we are,
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Speaker 6: you know, the more positive the national media will look
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Speaker 6: at us. But you know, there's gonna be a there's
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Speaker 6: a prove it, there's a proven world that we live
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Speaker 6: in and It's going to be our job that when
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Speaker 6: we host Indiana, when we host ten State uh here,
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Speaker 6: that we're gonna you know, we've.
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Speaker 5: Got to come out on top. And we host Iowa here,
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Speaker 5: we've got to come out on top. And when we
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Speaker 5: go to Michigan State, and when we go to USC
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Speaker 5: and when we go to Purdue and you know, we
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Speaker 5: go to Minnesota, whatever the games are that we have,
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Speaker 5: we got to come out on top. And if you win,
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Speaker 5: you'll be RANKI. And that's what I tell our team.
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Speaker 5: Just win. If you keep winning, it doesn't matter where
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Speaker 5: you start, you'll finish in the top twelve. And that's
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Speaker 5: going to be our goal, no doubt.
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Speaker 7: Jed fish with us and Joe tell you what you
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Speaker 7: Dick and I mentioned the other day that we're gonna
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Speaker 7: have you on and the text line just blows up
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Speaker 7: with questions for you, right, I mean, we gotta Jaed,
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Speaker 7: we gotta have you come down here over the offseason
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Speaker 7: like he did last summer and sit in the studio
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Speaker 7: and just stare at the text line for about an hour.
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Speaker 7: All right, just see what people are asking, what the
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Speaker 7: questions they want to know, the answers they want to know.
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Speaker 2: Can I pull a couple off the text line from
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Speaker 2: the audience for you here, do you mind before you
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Speaker 2: take off? Is that all right?
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Speaker 5: Sure? Go ahead?
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Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 7: So this one's for the two five three. Ask Jed
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Speaker 7: why he didn't run the ball more against Oregon.
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Speaker 2: Mohammed was the hot hand and he took him out
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Speaker 2: of the game too early.
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Speaker 7: What do you say to people who have that take
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Speaker 7: on the game with the Ducks?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think we ran out thirty three times.
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Speaker 5: We probably could have kept running some more. I think
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Speaker 5: there were some opportunities that you know, that we probably
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Speaker 5: could have given him the ball a few more times.
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Speaker 5: I also think that we had some great opportunities there
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Speaker 5: to hit out some path that we didn't, and then
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Speaker 5: we hit on some that we needed to. So the
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Speaker 5: last seven plays of the game or five, we're passes
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Speaker 5: because we're down by twelve. Other than that, I think
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Speaker 5: we we ran the ball pretty decent. I love the
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Speaker 5: fact that we outgained them by sixty yards. It tells
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Speaker 5: me that we went from you know, a year ago,
10:18
Speaker 5: they outrushed us by over o one hundred yards. A
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Speaker 5: year ago, they had eleven more first downs than we
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Speaker 5: did this week. This year we had one first down
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Speaker 5: more than they did and we outgained them by sixty
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Speaker 5: so we're getting there. But yeah, we got to keep
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Speaker 5: running the ball and keep doing a great team that
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Speaker 5: can do both.
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Speaker 7: Softy, I'm considering buying season tickets for next year. I
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Speaker 7: love the group that's potentially coming back. Can you please
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Speaker 7: ask Jed if he can guarantee he'll be coaching Washington
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Speaker 7: in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 5: Respond to that, I will be coaching Washington in twenty
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Speaker 5: twenty six. He should buy his tickets. Okay, they should
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Speaker 5: buy their tickets. There was a there was a lot
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Speaker 5: of article and a lot of rumors about me now
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Speaker 5: coaching Washington, but that those ever came from me, And
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Speaker 5: I really one hundred percent believe in this team. I
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Speaker 5: believe in the jump that we made from year one
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Speaker 5: to year two, and I had zero interest in seeing
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Speaker 5: anything other than the jump we're going to make from
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Speaker 5: year two to three. And it would be very nice
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Speaker 5: to one day have a ten year at a place
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Speaker 5: that people can look back on and say, wow, that
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Speaker 5: was one hell of a run.
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Speaker 7: Well before you go, Jed, to get to that point
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Speaker 7: you want to get to and look, you know, I
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Speaker 7: think all of us see a bright future starting obviously
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Speaker 7: this offseason, you know, heading in the next year. But
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Speaker 7: Demand the season he had. I think if you were
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Speaker 7: to have told people at the start of the year that
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Speaker 7: Demand would have the year he had numbers wise, especially
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Speaker 7: against the big boys right Ohio State, Michigan, Oregon, I.
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Speaker 2: Think a lot of folks would have been disappointed.
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Speaker 7: You know, twelve sacks, five picks, two touchdowns in those
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Speaker 7: games and you went oh and three. So how do
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Speaker 7: you assess from your perspective the year that demon just had.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I talked to our team a little
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Speaker 5: bit about it, you know, and I said, you, guys,
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Speaker 5: when you look at last year, we were one hundred
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Speaker 5: and fourth in the country and scoring. This year we
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Speaker 5: were twenty third. We were one hundred and first and
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Speaker 5: third down this year we were seventh. We were seventy
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Speaker 5: fifth in the red zone, this year a fourteen, and
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Speaker 5: we were ninety seventh in touchdowns and this year a fifth.
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Speaker 5: So when you look at that type of jump, you
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Speaker 5: got to look at a twelve game You got to
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Speaker 5: look at a twelve game schedule, just like we did
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Speaker 5: a year ago. When you look at games against some
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Speaker 5: of the teams that were the better teams. I would
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Speaker 5: say that, you know, statistically, it wasn't much different than
12:35
Speaker 5: you know, a guy that might have been taking in
12:37
Speaker 5: the first round against teams like Michigan and Ohio State.
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Speaker 5: There's some really good defenses. I think Ohio State had
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Speaker 5: the record for the greatest defense in college football this year,
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Speaker 5: and I think they let up one hundred points or
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Speaker 5: less than one hundred points all season long. These guys
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Speaker 5: are elite, and we're working to become elite. But the
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Speaker 5: mom's nineteen, and when demon's twenty, he's going to be
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Speaker 5: better than when he was nineteen. And I think that
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Speaker 5: it's easy to get so excited about the mom when
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Speaker 5: we score fifty and sixty and seventy points and games
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Speaker 5: that we forget about the challenge. When you start playing
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Speaker 5: teams like Michigan, Oregon, Wisconsin in the snow, rain, whatever,
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Speaker 5: and we get real disappointed in certain outcomes and we
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Speaker 5: forget the fact that all we're going to do is
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Speaker 5: get better. And I believe that when you look at
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Speaker 5: what he's done overall, I thought he's had an elite
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Speaker 5: year for where he was as a true freshman. This
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Speaker 5: was his first year ever as a starter now as
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Speaker 5: a true sophomore, and he didn't red shirt when he
13:43
Speaker 5: got here. He played right away, and his receivers were
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Speaker 5: too true freshmen. He was playing with two true freshman
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Speaker 5: out of three. He was playing with a true sophomore
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Speaker 5: tight end, he was playing with a true freshman at tackle,
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Speaker 5: a true sophomore running back. When Jonah got hurt and
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Speaker 5: the truth, you know, and really with no backup behind them,
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Speaker 5: that were the two true freshmen that were behind them
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Speaker 5: both got hurt. So, you know, as I look at
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Speaker 5: what we've done and how we've done, and I think
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Speaker 5: that he's done some great things. And I can't wait
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Speaker 5: to watch what Deman does next year. When now you're
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Speaker 5: playing against those teams and you have a year of experience,
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Speaker 5: those teams are really really good on defense, and that's
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Speaker 5: been proven across the country.
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Speaker 2: Jetfish with Softy and with Dick Fane, excellent job by
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Speaker 2: those fellas. They do an excellent job every single day
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Speaker 2: in the afternoon starting at three o'clock right here at
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Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three kjar FM. If you
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Speaker 2: want to hear the entire conversation with coach Fish, you
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Speaker 2: can do so at our website to ninety three three
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Speaker 2: kjar dot com. Just gobble it all up. And of
14:47
Speaker 2: course you can check out their podcast every single day
14:50
Speaker 2: their entire show just put in podcast form while the
14:54
Speaker 2: show is going on. So all of that right at
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Speaker 2: your fingertips. There's a lot to discuss. Ashley and I
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Speaker 2: have already had a commonnversation this morning about some of
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Speaker 2: our fishues that we've had, but also wanting to make
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Speaker 2: sure that we don't let get in the way. And
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Speaker 2: I thought Demon Williams would be more consistently great boy.
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Speaker 2: There were some times I'm not sure I agreed with
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Speaker 2: that play calling, and I thought he was supposed to
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Speaker 2: be an offensive genius. You know, why didn't you give
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Speaker 2: Adam Muhammad the ball when Oregon doesn't seem didn't seem
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Speaker 2: to be able to stop him. Yeah, there are a
15:29
Speaker 2: lot of those things. But I'm going to tell you
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Speaker 2: something that.
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Speaker 3: You had a look on your face, so I'm excited
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Speaker 3: to hear this.
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Speaker 2: I just I mean that conversation, the part that we
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Speaker 2: chose to replay for you. The question started with Dick
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Speaker 2: Fane asking about how we got screwed over with the
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Speaker 2: preseason ranking. Basically, kind I just don't get it, and
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Speaker 2: I know you and I have argued about it. I've
15:54
Speaker 2: argued about it with Bucky, and I've argued about it
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Speaker 2: with Cam Cleveland, and I just don't get it anymore.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't impact anything anymore. The preseason rankings.
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Speaker 3: I was, I don't.
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Speaker 4: I think preseason rankings are stupid. I have never cared
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Speaker 4: about them. I think they're dumb because you're just basing
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Speaker 4: it on what you think a team's gonna do, now
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Speaker 4: what a team's done.
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Speaker 2: But there's nothing wrong with that. I think that's wonderful.
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Speaker 2: I think that that builds hype. I think that you know,
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Speaker 2: you spend your preseason and you get a preseason magazine
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Speaker 2: and you want to read up on your team, but
16:21
Speaker 2: you probably are going to, if you're a huge college
16:23
Speaker 2: football fan, read up on who they say it's going
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Speaker 2: to be the best teams. It doesn't impact anything anymore,
16:29
Speaker 2: does not. I think once upon a time it did
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Speaker 2: impact things, and that's unfortunate. But then again, I boycotted
16:35
Speaker 2: bowl games for twenty five years. Nobody else listening did. Yeah,
16:40
Speaker 2: it's not the pole's fault, Hey you Dick Fane is
16:44
Speaker 2: still blaming the knife for the murder. Hey, knives are
16:49
Speaker 2: great knives chop up broccoli and neat so that makes
16:53
Speaker 2: it easier to eat where or we be without knives?
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Speaker 2: Can they be used for the wrong thing? Yeah, yes,
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Speaker 2: absolutely they can. And I think that college football's done
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Speaker 2: a terrible job of giving the polls too much credit.
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Speaker 2: They used to let the polls pick the national champion. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't happen anymore. Like Texas Is started the season
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Speaker 2: number one. They're not making the tournament Nope, And they've
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Speaker 2: got an argument to make the tournament. But if the
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Speaker 2: polls mattered so much, Texas would be making the tournament
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Speaker 2: this year with a nine to three record. This up game,
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Speaker 2: but they're not going to make the tournament. Penn State
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Speaker 2: started the season number two. Are they still in the
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Speaker 2: top twenty five because they started the year at number two?
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Speaker 1: F No?
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Speaker 2: I mean Clemson fell out of the polls immediately. So
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Speaker 2: what that sports writers thought they were going to NFL's
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Speaker 2: pro scouts said Clemson had seventeen draft picks on their roster,
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Speaker 2: so they thought they were going to be better and
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Speaker 2: they weren't. And they fell out of the polls almost
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Speaker 2: immediately and haven't been able to recover. I mean Oklahoma
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Speaker 2: started at eighteen, there at eight. A and M started
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Speaker 2: at nineteen. There at seven, Indiana started at twenty, there
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Speaker 2: at two, Ole Miss started at twenty one, there at six,
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Speaker 2: Texas Tech started at twenty three. They're at four. I mean,
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Speaker 2: the polls do not keep you from your success. Losing
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Speaker 2: four games out of twelve keeps you from being ranked?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Kay, can we please stop blaming the polls? Still it
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Speaker 2: is twenty twenty five. I'm sorry that the polls, you know,
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Speaker 2: seduced your aunt Tilly and ran off with her and
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Speaker 2: left your cousins without a mother, because that's the way
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Speaker 2: that people act like. You can't forgive the polls for
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Speaker 2: what they did to you in nineteen eighty four. They
18:46
Speaker 2: do not keep the Washington Huskies from achieving greatness. That's
18:50
Speaker 2: not what kept the Huskies from being a playoff team
18:52
Speaker 2: this year. Losing four games kept them from being a
18:54
Speaker 2: playoff team.
18:55
Speaker 4: Losing to Wisconsins, for sure what kept them from being
18:58
Speaker 4: a playoff team. I think it's interesting because even if they.
19:00
Speaker 2: Hadn't lost that, they weren't going to get in with
19:02
Speaker 2: three losses.
19:03
Speaker 4: Well no, but I'm saying no, But I'm saying they
19:06
Speaker 4: had an opportunity going if they would have beaten Wisconsin
19:09
Speaker 4: going into the Oregon game, they would have had an opportunity, yes,
19:13
Speaker 4: but what that Wisconsin loss, there was no opportunity. And
19:16
Speaker 4: I just it's interesting with the preseason polls. Again, I
19:19
Speaker 4: don't care about them. It does not I don't look
19:21
Speaker 4: at it and be like, oh my god, my team
19:22
Speaker 4: is ranked number five. We're going to win the national championship.
19:25
Speaker 4: I understand the point of them. I understand the preseason hype.
19:28
Speaker 4: I think Dick Fane was kind of more saying like,
19:30
Speaker 4: how are we going to get more hype around this
19:32
Speaker 4: program and more preseason eyes on us? But it doesn't
19:35
Speaker 4: matter if you have preseason eyes on you. It matters
19:40
Speaker 4: what you do during the actual season.
19:42
Speaker 2: I mean, the facts are right, and I'm not saying
19:44
Speaker 2: that Dick was saying we didn't make the tournament because
19:46
Speaker 2: we were right glow. He's obviously not saying that. But
19:48
Speaker 2: that's where the conversation started that we replayed, and I
19:52
Speaker 2: was just like, I don't know. I mean, I guess
19:54
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna have to just sit in the room
19:57
Speaker 2: quietly in the corner because I am grow mostly outnumbered
20:01
Speaker 2: when it comes to this topic of conversation. But man,
20:04
Speaker 2: if you are still thinking that the polls are affecting
20:07
Speaker 2: the preseason polls are affecting the postseason polls, you're out
20:11
Speaker 2: of your mind.
20:11
Speaker 3: I don't think one has anything to do with each other.
20:14
Speaker 4: I just don't quite understand the point of the preseason
20:16
Speaker 4: other than to build hype.
20:17
Speaker 2: Well, but that's that is important. Yeah, building hype, getting
20:21
Speaker 2: people excited.
20:22
Speaker 3: It has no bearing on what actually happens in the season.
20:24
Speaker 2: Yesh, yeah, not at all. And fortunately we have twelve
20:28
Speaker 2: games to sort all of this out.
20:30
Speaker 3: To actually play football and get to the end of
20:32
Speaker 3: the year.
20:33
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, is Texas Tech jump from twenty
20:35
Speaker 2: three to four because of hype?
20:37
Speaker 3: No?
20:37
Speaker 2: They earned that, Yeah, they moved that that direction. Is
20:40
Speaker 2: Oregon rank fifth in the country because they started the
20:43
Speaker 2: year at number seven?
20:44
Speaker 4: No, it's because they have a bunch of uniforms, Yes, exactly.
20:48
Speaker 2: All right, Factor Fiction coming up next. Plus what an
20:52
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20:54
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21:16
Speaker 2: All right, Factor Fiction comes your way at seven thirty five.
21:18
Speaker 2: We're four minutes away from that, just a tie a
21:22
Speaker 2: bow on that previous conversation. By the way, Okay, you
21:25
Speaker 2: are right, by the way, I am. Everybody's right. Oh,
21:30
Speaker 2: the polls should have never preseason polls should have never
21:34
Speaker 2: meant as much as they should have. They are purely
21:37
Speaker 2: for marketing, which I think is a valuable tool.
21:41
Speaker 3: I definitely see the point of that part.
21:43
Speaker 2: Didn't Dick Vane and Jedfish cover that that all he
21:45
Speaker 2: wanted was to get some hype going people get excited. Well,
21:49
Speaker 2: that's what the polls do for all of college football.
21:53
Speaker 2: That makes those numbers mean something next to it gets
21:56
Speaker 2: you excited, and that's all they should have ever been for. Yeah,
21:59
Speaker 2: it's not the polls fault that college football was so
22:02
Speaker 2: stupid for one hundred years that they used them to
22:04
Speaker 2: determine a champion. That's on the idiots that were running
22:09
Speaker 2: college football, which there have been a lot of idiots
22:12
Speaker 2: that have been running college football for cential So in theory,
22:14
Speaker 2: you are right, it should never have been such a
22:19
Speaker 2: aggressively used in trying to determine the value of a team.
22:26
Speaker 2: But fortunately we are in a world where it doesn't
22:29
Speaker 2: matter anymore and we should be excited about that rather
22:32
Speaker 2: than still blaming the polls for crimes that were committed
22:36
Speaker 2: back in the day when people weren't nearly as outspoken
22:40
Speaker 2: about how they shouldn't be used this way. So you're saying,
22:42
Speaker 2: give the polls a break, man, I'm saying, the polls
22:45
Speaker 2: have never been to blame. Yeah, it's been college football,
22:48
Speaker 2: and college football finally has fixed their postseason for the
22:54
Speaker 2: most part. There's still some tweaks that we can make
22:56
Speaker 2: to it, but we finally have a legitimate postseason, and
22:59
Speaker 2: now they are using the polls the way that they
23:01
Speaker 2: should be during the course of this I get that,
23:04
Speaker 2: all right. Speaking of college football and a little bit
23:07
Speaker 2: about the National Football League because I was going to
23:10
Speaker 2: preview the NFL in this segment. Great game tonight, I mean,
23:13
Speaker 2: such a fun game tonight. Detroit and Dallas, I mean
23:16
Speaker 2: just fun on a lot of levels. We've got Cincinnati
23:19
Speaker 2: and Buffalo this weekend. We got Burrow versus Josh Allen.
23:23
Speaker 2: I was going to take Cincinnati in this game for
23:25
Speaker 2: factor fiction, but it's already been taken. Joe Burrow apparently
23:29
Speaker 2: both sides.
23:30
Speaker 3: I think that game, yeah, both sides.
23:32
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow apparently eighteen and three against the spread when
23:37
Speaker 2: he gets three points or more to his side, So
23:41
Speaker 2: that's a pretty good number. Joe Burrow tends to step up,
23:44
Speaker 2: and it's not like it's his comeback game. He got
23:46
Speaker 2: the rust knocked off last.
23:47
Speaker 3: Week and clearly that worked out pretty well soon.
23:50
Speaker 2: Yeah for the Bengals, Yeah, that was his Rust game
23:52
Speaker 2: and they blew out the Baltimore Ravens in his Rust game.
23:55
Speaker 2: So I do like Cincinnati in that game, just didn't
23:57
Speaker 2: get the chance to pick it. And then Pittsburgh takes
24:00
Speaker 2: on Baltimore this week. Did you hear the Ben Roethlisberger
24:03
Speaker 2: statement yesterday on this podcast? This is interesting, Okay Roethlisberger
24:08
Speaker 2: and I don't think he and Mike Tomlin have the
24:10
Speaker 2: best relationship, despite what beautiful music they played together. Ben's
24:16
Speaker 2: also strangely angry, and I don't know why it feels
24:20
Speaker 2: like this, like tracks, He's strangely angry at the world
24:24
Speaker 2: and people that he used to play with. But in
24:28
Speaker 2: his podcast he said that it is time for Tomlin
24:31
Speaker 2: and the Steelers to part ways, and I think part
24:35
Speaker 2: of it is I don't like seeing him. I don't
24:38
Speaker 2: like seeing the fans chant fire Mike Tomlin. He's just
24:42
Speaker 2: earn more than that.
24:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, he has.
24:43
Speaker 2: And so his statement was, I think it'd be good
24:45
Speaker 2: for Mike if he just they just decided to you
24:48
Speaker 2: know the times over twenty one years. How often does
24:50
Speaker 2: an NFL head coach last twenty one years? Well, and
24:53
Speaker 2: you never want one program.
24:54
Speaker 4: You never want someone like that that's a legend right
24:57
Speaker 4: to go out with fans booing him or one him
25:00
Speaker 4: to be fired.
25:01
Speaker 3: You want him to go out on his own.
25:02
Speaker 2: Here was his suggestion, Mike Tomlin should take the penn
25:06
Speaker 2: State head coaching.
25:07
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I don't know how that I believe that.
25:10
Speaker 2: Oh I love that.
25:11
Speaker 3: Oh do you?
25:11
Speaker 2: I think that's great because he loves the area. Yeah,
25:15
Speaker 2: known in the area. He went as far as saying,
25:18
Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin will be a better college coach than he
25:21
Speaker 2: was a pro coach. And so he said, with Penn
25:25
Speaker 2: State having difficulty finding somebody, if he doesn't want to
25:27
Speaker 2: leave Pennsylvania, then why how about that as a solution.
25:33
Speaker 2: I'll say this about Tomlin, if he becomes available, he's
25:35
Speaker 2: not going to have a shortage of offers. So that
25:37
Speaker 2: does show you the quality of the coach that you're
25:40
Speaker 2: dealing with here. But maybe it has gotten stale. I mean,
25:43
Speaker 2: that's an awful long stretch of mediocrity, and they're going
25:46
Speaker 2: to do it again this year. They're going to end
25:48
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Speaker 2: So obviously we got a nailed these things this week.
27:01
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27:18
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27:20
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27:23
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins this year. Even with their recent upsurge, I
27:28
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27:32
Speaker 2: to go on the road, and who knows what kind
27:35
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27:36
Speaker 2: Dolphins never played good, good in bad weather, cold weather.
27:40
Speaker 2: They're gonna be taking on the New York Jets. The
27:43
Speaker 2: Jets are getting points at home.
27:45
Speaker 4: They're trying to get that would it be their fourth
27:48
Speaker 4: win or their fifth win?
27:49
Speaker 2: Fourth win in six games. They've gone three and two
27:52
Speaker 2: over their last five, so they're playing The Jets are
27:55
Speaker 2: getting points at home, and even though Miami has turned
28:00
Speaker 2: their season around unexpectedly to me under Mike McDaniel, same
28:05
Speaker 2: things happening in New York. Those guys with the Jets
28:08
Speaker 2: are playing hard for Aaron Glint as they are for
28:11
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel, and I got to give him credit for that.
28:14
Speaker 2: But the truth of the matter is the Jets are
28:16
Speaker 2: playing better than the Dolphins right now. They've won three
28:19
Speaker 2: of their last five and they've covered four of their
28:21
Speaker 2: last five. The Dolphins have run into some pretty convenient
28:25
Speaker 2: scheduling to them. Meanwhile, the Jets are covering against the
28:28
Speaker 2: likes of the Ravens and the Bengals and others. And
28:32
Speaker 2: so I'm gonna say that the New York Jets are
28:35
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28:37
Speaker 2: So if you're gonna give me points as well, I'll
28:40
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28:43
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28:45
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28:47
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28:50
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28:53
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28:55
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28:57
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29:05
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29:07
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29:09
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29:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fun.
29:11
Speaker 2: So those are usually the ones I look for. So
29:14
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29:17
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30:16
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30:24
Speaker 2: won't get in the way to finally gab Gab gab
30:28
Speaker 2: during the roundtable. So no Bucky Jacobson today, it's Ashley
30:31
Speaker 2: and I. So he's left us to discuss holiday analytics
30:35
Speaker 2: here today. We've done this once per day for the
30:37
Speaker 2: last three days and it's all based off of the
30:40
Speaker 2: fact that coach Holmgren hates analytics and he hates when
30:44
Speaker 2: people prematurely celebrate the holidays.
30:47
Speaker 3: And I think it's funny.
30:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that steps on both of my feet. So anyway,
30:54
Speaker 2: Holmgren inspired holiday analytics segment every day this week and
30:58
Speaker 2: here we go. Ashley Vegas sets the over under for
31:01
Speaker 2: Turkey meals during the holidays at one and a half. Obviously,
31:07
Speaker 2: people do the Thanksgiving a lot of people. Most people
31:09
Speaker 2: do the Thanksgiving turkey and then a lot of people
31:13
Speaker 2: repeat it at Christmas. And yet had a conversation with
31:16
Speaker 2: my little sister the other day. She goes, it's so good,
31:18
Speaker 2: why don't we do it more often? A lot of
31:21
Speaker 2: people ask that questions reetart. But nonetheless we tend to
31:26
Speaker 2: just leave big turkey meals for the holidays. So the
31:30
Speaker 2: over under is one and a half. Now, over the
31:33
Speaker 2: course of time, statistics have suggested that you should eat
31:38
Speaker 2: no more and no fewer than four point eight six
31:42
Speaker 2: turkey meals during the span of the holidays, and that
31:45
Speaker 2: includes leftovers most often, if you're going to make a big,
31:48
Speaker 2: giant bird, you're gonna end up with leftovers.
31:51
Speaker 5: Yeah.
31:51
Speaker 2: Now, Bucky eats thirty six point five turkey meals. He's
31:54
Speaker 2: a lot, Yes, he loves it. It feels like to me,
31:58
Speaker 2: I'm not sure you're eating turkey. You might be eating
32:01
Speaker 2: an elk.
32:02
Speaker 4: I don't think anyone loves turkey enough to eat at
32:04
Speaker 4: thirty six times.
32:05
Speaker 3: But except except Yeah, that's what makes no sense.
32:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, but most people like Okay, if you're doing it
32:11
Speaker 2: both Christmas and Thanksgiving, and then you believe at least
32:15
Speaker 2: one more, yeah, leftover day and then maybe a little
32:19
Speaker 2: bit over leftover. Still, you might get up to around
32:22
Speaker 2: five meals of turkey food.
32:24
Speaker 4: I could see that. Okay, Yeah, that's an understandable amount.
32:27
Speaker 2: Now, new analytics, and this is what we're bringing into
32:30
Speaker 2: the equation. They suggest that there are better things to
32:34
Speaker 2: eat than leftover turkey.
32:36
Speaker 3: Okay.
32:37
Speaker 2: And although one shouldn't waste food, it's the holidays and
32:41
Speaker 2: pure enjoyment of the season would require you simply eat
32:45
Speaker 2: two point one five meals of turkey during the holidays. Ashley,
32:50
Speaker 2: do you believe in analytics.
32:52
Speaker 3: I do believe in the analytics.
32:54
Speaker 4: Yes, I would say two point one five is probably
32:58
Speaker 4: too much.
33:00
Speaker 2: And I very Dan Campbell in this area. Yeah, you
33:03
Speaker 2: guys weigh in on the analytics.
33:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, analytics.
33:07
Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna I'm gonna agree with this. I mean, obviously,
33:10
Speaker 4: I've told you guys before, we don't do turkey in
33:12
Speaker 4: our house because nobody in my family really likes turkey.
33:15
Speaker 3: I'm good with turkeys.
33:16
Speaker 2: Weird.
33:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've never had a problem with turkey. I but
33:19
Speaker 4: I have always just covered it in gravy, and it's
33:21
Speaker 4: all the stuff that goes with turkey, which I think
33:23
Speaker 4: most people would say, well, it's not the turkey itself,
33:25
Speaker 4: it's all the stuff with the turkey, the combination. Well,
33:28
Speaker 4: we just do that with red meat. But I would
33:30
Speaker 4: still be fine having turkey at Thanksgiving and a day
33:33
Speaker 4: of leftovers and then that's it, And yeah, that would
33:36
Speaker 4: be good.
33:37
Speaker 2: Then you fall underneath the analytics.
33:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, two point one five. Like maybe I get one
33:41
Speaker 4: little bite of turkey on the third day exactly, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
33:44
Speaker 4: that works for me.
33:45
Speaker 2: Maybe there's a little bit of gravy and you just
33:47
Speaker 2: you know, pour it and that's the whole Yeah, yeah,
33:50
Speaker 2: something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So you're believing in
33:54
Speaker 2: the analytics today. It's very progressive thinker on your part.
33:57
Speaker 2: And I didn't think and you've spared a lot of turkeys.
33:59
Speaker 2: Think about it. Everybody just did two point one five
34:02
Speaker 2: meals of turkey during the holidays. How many actual turkeys lives?
34:05
Speaker 2: I mean they could run off, you know and go
34:09
Speaker 2: backpacking in Europe.
34:10
Speaker 4: Instead they all got smoked by Bucky exactly.
34:15
Speaker 2: So you are definitely in it, and you are seeing
34:16
Speaker 2: more and more people well Christmas, really people do and
34:20
Speaker 2: I love this. What's my culture? What's my you know,
34:25
Speaker 2: it's and I'm not just talking about like praising your God.
34:29
Speaker 2: I'm talking about like my buddy Vince. They his last
34:33
Speaker 2: name's Marada, and so that's an Italian name, and they
34:36
Speaker 2: do an Italian food feast. That's their Christmas. And he
34:39
Speaker 2: didn't even think any He thought everybody did that. Yeah,
34:42
Speaker 2: when I first met him, I love that.
34:45
Speaker 5: You know.
34:46
Speaker 2: When I grew up, there were so many it was
34:48
Speaker 2: kind of like a snacks morgasbord. That was sort of
34:51
Speaker 2: the Christmas. We didn't have like some big, you know,
34:55
Speaker 2: meal like Thanksgiving. It was sort of like snacks all
34:59
Speaker 2: day long and plates and trays and trays of snacks
35:01
Speaker 2: would come out, like, oh, let me.
35:03
Speaker 3: Try That's that's what we do. Yeah on Christmas Day.
35:05
Speaker 2: That's been my Christmas over the years. But nonetheless, analytics
35:09
Speaker 2: are saying, yeah, you don't have to give into these
35:11
Speaker 2: stodgeonly ways of the past. There's a new way to
35:15
Speaker 2: eat at the holidays, and it's just not centered around turkey.
35:19
Speaker 3: Embrace it people.
35:22
Speaker 2: Yes, you don't want to end up as the what
35:27
Speaker 2: was the Chargers coach day? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you
35:30
Speaker 2: don't end up like him with with your turkey meal.
35:34
Speaker 2: But I didn't go well for him all right, twelve
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