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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports.
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  Speaker 2: Oh what's going on? Hope all is well. Mallard, Militia
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  Speaker 2: as we've got Coop, Loraina, Big Ben. They're all in Boston,
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  Speaker 2: Little Mallard meet and greet over there. Hope all is
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  Speaker 2: well with everybody safe travels, having a great weekend, meeting
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  Speaker 2: the people. It's all great, fantastic love that Ben does that.
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  Speaker 3: And hey, I get some extra cash.
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  Speaker 2: I can bet first half overs like I did with
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  Speaker 2: the Thunder and the Lakers.
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  Speaker 3: On Thursday night. That was a good one. It's a
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  Speaker 3: good one. Now I'll search some the betting lines.
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  Speaker 2: You know, maybe I'll get you a little forecasted potential
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  Speaker 2: win on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see as we go into the wee hours. But
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  Speaker 2: what I want to focus in on now is the
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  Speaker 2: NCAA Tournament. So it's official. It's finally happened. Just as
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  Speaker 2: everybody was clamoring like more more, we need more teams,
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  Speaker 2: need more teams for my bracket to fill.
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  Speaker 3: I need more more, please more.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I'd go out in the streets and I
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  Speaker 2: was just bombarded with people like mar Brian, can you
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  Speaker 2: do it more? We need more teams. No one was
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  Speaker 2: doing that. Absolutely no one was doing that. And yet
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  Speaker 2: we've got more teams that are gonna be in the
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  Speaker 2: NC Double A Tournament. It is growing to seventy six teams.
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  Speaker 2: It starts this upcoming season, twenty six twenty seven season.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna have a lot more teams. We're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: twelve first round games, and we're gonna have eight sixteen.
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  Speaker 3: Seeds and we're all gonna play each other. What are
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  Speaker 3: we doing.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna have eight sixteen seeds play each other and
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  Speaker 2: like the NC double as.
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  Speaker 3: Saying, well, you know you can. You can say you
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  Speaker 3: won an NC double A Tournament game if you win that.
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  Speaker 3: What are we doing?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 3: I'm just not a fan. I'm not gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, kicking and screaming like this is the
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  Speaker 2: dumbest thing in the history of sports. I just don't
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  Speaker 2: know why we're messing with something that's so great. The
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  Speaker 2: NCAA Tournament is fantastic, and all you're doing with this expansion,
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  Speaker 2: you're giving us more reason to not pay attention to
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  Speaker 2: the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: Why would you do that? I just don't understand. The
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  Speaker 3: only reason you do it is for money.
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  Speaker 2: It's a straight money grab, and I would have more
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  Speaker 2: respect for the powers that be that are forcing this
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  Speaker 2: to happen if they just came out and came out
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  Speaker 2: and said it. Instead of like, well you can say
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  Speaker 2: you want a tournament game, it's like, oh yeah, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna put up banners for one sixteen beating another sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's no, that's not a great sales pitch or
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  Speaker 2: you know whatever. There, Oh this is. This is great
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  Speaker 2: for the student athletes. It's a great experience, and more
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  Speaker 2: get to experience it. It's like, bro, we know you're
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  Speaker 2: just trying to make money. You're making more money. That's
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  Speaker 2: what it's about. So if you just said that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: at least respect it more than Oh no, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: about the kids. It's about the student athletes and their
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  Speaker 2: experience here. No, it's not stop it, man, it's just
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous what we're doing here.
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  Speaker 3: But that's where it is.
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  Speaker 2: And you are you're watering down the regular season even more.
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  Speaker 2: You're giving me less incentive to pay attention when football
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  Speaker 2: is going on. Right, like, I'll be watching ball left
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  Speaker 2: and right. I got enough ball to watch. And now
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  Speaker 2: that more teams are getting into the NCAA tournament. Why
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  Speaker 2: exactly am I tuning in in November December? Why why
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  Speaker 2: am I watching? What's the point, right if they went
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  Speaker 2: the other way and they kept it at sixty eight
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  Speaker 2: or you know, I know they're not going to go backwards.
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  Speaker 3: But let's say they're like, we're trimming it back to
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  Speaker 3: sixty four.
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  Speaker 2: We really don't need this excess fat over here. It's
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  Speaker 2: like okay, and they're like, another thing that we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to have home games for the first
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  Speaker 2: two rounds of the NCAA tournament. It's like, if they
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  Speaker 2: were to do that, it's like, okay, Well, the regular
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  Speaker 2: season means a little bit more. There's incentive to watch.
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  Speaker 2: If you're able to get one of the higher seeds
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  Speaker 2: and potentially have two home games, that's a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: But they're going the exact opposite way. They're like, no, actually,
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  Speaker 2: more teams are gonna get into the field.
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  Speaker 3: Of seventy six right now.
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  Speaker 2: And you're looking at some of these bum teams that
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  Speaker 2: are they would have been tournament teams this last season.
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  Speaker 2: If expansion happened one year prior, these teams would be
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  Speaker 2: in We're looking at some of these records, man it's
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  Speaker 2: like Auburn was seventeen and sixteen.
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  Speaker 3: I got to see him actually in the NIT. It
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  Speaker 3: was kind of cool.
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  Speaker 2: I went there because I went to the final four
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  Speaker 2: and I got to see the final four games, got
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  Speaker 2: to see the championship game, and then sandwiched in between,
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  Speaker 2: they had the NIT Championship in Indianapolis also, so I
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  Speaker 2: went to that. It was actually really cool. But Auburn
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  Speaker 2: didn't belong in the NC DOUBLEA tournament. They belonged in
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  Speaker 2: the NIT. Same with IU. Indiana didn't belong in the
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  Speaker 2: NC DOUBLEA tournament. They belonged in the NIT, and they said,
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  Speaker 2: actually no, we're gonna not accept a bid and stay
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  Speaker 2: at home, thank you very much. But those teams didn't
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  Speaker 2: belong in the tournament. Now those teams will be in
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  Speaker 2: the tournament. It's just wild, man. I don't understand it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like that. It's I really.
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  Speaker 2: Do wonder the bracket is such a draw for March madness?
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  Speaker 2: How are you gonna fill out your bracket? Are we
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  Speaker 2: gonna still treat this like Tuesday and Wednesday don't really
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  Speaker 2: count and we just fill it out from Thursday on
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  Speaker 2: as Are we still doing that or do we have
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  Speaker 2: to fill out the Tuesday one Wednesday portion, and you
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  Speaker 2: got all these sixteen versus sixteen games, and well, maybe
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  Speaker 2: there's an eleven that makes a run, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you do have to fill it out on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, at least for the first year, if
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  Speaker 2: you have to fill it out by Tuesday, I'm not participating.
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  Speaker 3: I'm out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm out as I'm taking a stand. I will only
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  Speaker 2: fill it out from Thursday on. That's that's the real tournament.
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  Speaker 2: All this like excess a pay us a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more cash. No, I don't have time for that. It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: And there were a lot of head coaches in college
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  Speaker 2: basketball that were like, yeah, I don't really get it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what we're doing. I don't know who
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  Speaker 2: was calling for this. Mark few was against it. John Caliperi,
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  Speaker 2: he was like, if we're gonna expand it, you gotta
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  Speaker 2: keep the little guys in there. You know, this shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: just be all about power for schools and getting the
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  Speaker 2: big boys. We got to get some of the little
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  Speaker 2: guys in there. That's what makes the tournament so special.
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  Speaker 2: So he was going from that perspective, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: Underwood at Illinois's like, this is dumb. I'm paraphrasing, but
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  Speaker 2: he's like, what are we doing? Why we don't need this?
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  Speaker 2: So like the coaches aren't even happy with it. It's
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  Speaker 2: just it's not good. I don't know why you're messing
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  Speaker 2: with something that doesn't need to be messed with at all.
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  Speaker 2: And speaking of that too, there's even more momentum for
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  Speaker 2: a twenty four team.
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  Speaker 3: College football field.
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  Speaker 2: Now this, I will go kicking and screaming into the
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  Speaker 2: night if it comes to this. We don't need twenty
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  Speaker 2: four teams in the college football playoff. The college football
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  Speaker 2: regular season is the most meaningful regular season in all
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  Speaker 2: of sports in this country. I don't know about soccer
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  Speaker 2: and this, and I don't know, maybe the premier league
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  Speaker 2: it's more important.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about sports in this country. Okay, college football
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  Speaker 2: is the premium regular season. It's still even though it's
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  Speaker 2: been watered down a little bit because we've got more
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  Speaker 2: teams in the playoff.
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  Speaker 3: We went from two to four to now twelve.
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  Speaker 2: It hasn't been watered down by leaps and bounds where
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  Speaker 2: you can just check out for most of the regular
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  Speaker 2: season once your team has won you know, seven eight
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  Speaker 2: games is like, okay, I see where it's going.
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  Speaker 3: Just wake me up. When when we know their playoff.
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  Speaker 2: Seating, you know, like that's not where we're at. It
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  Speaker 2: hasn't been watered down to that degree. The regular season
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  Speaker 2: still is meaningful. And think about last season where my
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame fighting Irish were left out in the cold.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you don't lose to Miami, if you
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  Speaker 2: don't lose to Texas A and m they're certainly in
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  Speaker 2: the field. So the regular season was really meaningful. The
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  Speaker 2: first game of the year between Notre Dame and Miami
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  Speaker 2: turned out.
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  Speaker 3: To be completely meaningful.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't want to get to a point where
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  Speaker 2: a twenty four team field it's just Mulligan City.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you lose the game, it's a Mulligan.
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  Speaker 2: You lose another game, Yeah, you probably find you probably
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  Speaker 2: lose three or four depending on your brand name.
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  Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I hate.
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  Speaker 2: That idea and coming up with specifics now with this
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  Speaker 2: potential twenty four team field. Thank goodness for the SEC
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  Speaker 2: by the way, pushing back on this, the Big ten
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  Speaker 2: is the one leading the charge, like we need twenty
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  Speaker 2: four teams and the SEC is like.
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  Speaker 3: Do we do, we really Greg's thinking it.
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  Speaker 2: The SEC is just like, yeah, not really feeling that.
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  Speaker 2: If the SEC was on board, we would already have
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  Speaker 2: twenty four teams. But we're just speculating and kicking around.
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  Speaker 3: The ideas and this and that.
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  Speaker 2: But I've seen some of the specifics that they're talking
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  Speaker 2: about and how the format would work if we do
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  Speaker 2: go to twenty four teams, and I hope we never
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  Speaker 2: get there. Sadly, I think it's just a matter of time.
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  Speaker 2: Most likely it will go to sixteen teams first, and
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  Speaker 2: then you know, by the following Tuesday afterward, they'll already
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  Speaker 2: push it to twenty four. That's sort of you know
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  Speaker 2: how it's gonna go. We're eventually going to get there.
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  Speaker 2: There's way too much smoke for there to be no fire.
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  Speaker 2: But the way this could potentially work, if you have
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  Speaker 2: twenty four teams in the playoff field, the top eight
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  Speaker 2: ranked teams would get a first round by and how
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  Speaker 2: stupid did this sound? While Seeds nine through twenty four
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  Speaker 2: play in the first round on campus's.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my lord, what are we doing? Man? Like, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 3: you don't belong. There's nothing wrong with saying you don't belong.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why so many sports are getting into
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  Speaker 3: like the orange slices business, where it's like everybody deserves
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  Speaker 3: orange slices.
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  Speaker 2: Though it's like, no, they don't win more games and
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  Speaker 2: you earn your way in.
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  Speaker 3: You don't win enough games. Hit the freaking road. You
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  Speaker 3: don't belong. Get out right, Like, what do we doing?
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  Speaker 2: Like we're talking about doubling the college football playoff field.
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  Speaker 3: We already tripled it. Think about it.
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  Speaker 2: We went from four to twelve. Now we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: doubling twelve. It's it's too much. It's absolutely too much.
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  Speaker 3: Now. I'm not great at typing while talking. That's one
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  Speaker 3: of the things I'm just I'm not I'm not great at.
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  Speaker 2: But I would like to see the standings, the final
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  Speaker 2: rankings from last season, just to give you an idea.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, here we go. That's not too bad. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: making strides over here.
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  Speaker 2: So this is probably the Okay, the final rankings. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go to like week sixteen. All right, let's go to
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  Speaker 2: week sixteen, the college football playoff rankings. Week sixteen. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let's let's scroll.
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  Speaker 3: Down, down, down, down, down a little bit more. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we've got It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: James Madison got in there, but you know whatever, they
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  Speaker 2: got a group of six, group of five, whatever the
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  Speaker 2: hell they are right now. James Madison got in number
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  Speaker 2: twenty three. That would be your Iowa Hawkeys. They were
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  Speaker 2: eight and four on the season. We would have a
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  Speaker 2: four lost team in the college football playoff. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: we don't need that. I'm sorry, I'm not a fan.
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  Speaker 2: We would have let me count. Georgia Tech had three losses.
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  Speaker 2: Houston had three losses, Virginia had three losses, Michigan had
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  Speaker 2: three losses, Arizona had three losses. Usc had three losses,
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  Speaker 2: Texas had three losses. Alabama, who got into the playoff,
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  Speaker 2: had three losses. So we've got seven three loss teams.
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  Speaker 2: If you add Iowa to the mix, you'd have eight
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  Speaker 2: teams from last season that at least had three losses
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  Speaker 2: that would all.
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  Speaker 3: Be in the playoff.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm not for that at all. It
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  Speaker 2: would greatly water down the regular season. I hate all
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  Speaker 2: things about this potential twenty four team college football playoff.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not on board whatsoever. And as much as I
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  Speaker 2: love college football, it would turn off to the point
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  Speaker 2: in the regular season. I wouldn't be watching games like
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  Speaker 2: I do. I really wouldn't. I just wouldn't be as
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  Speaker 2: drawn to it. I'd be like, you know what, Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: I can I can go grocery shopping, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: can do some other things. I can do this, do that,
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  Speaker 2: And Sunday is ball. Sunday is all day ball, baby,
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  Speaker 2: But Saturday, if they stretch it to twenty four teams,
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you what, man, I would not be watching
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  Speaker 2: as many games as I do.
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  Speaker 3: I watch college football games.
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  Speaker 2: From sun up to sundown and then some you know,
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  Speaker 2: like I'm doing it. I'm watching it until games aren't
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  Speaker 2: on anymore, and I work in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even care. I'm a ball a holic over here.
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  Speaker 2: But you stretch it to twenty four, I would be
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  Speaker 2: greatly turned off to the point where I'm not watching
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  Speaker 2: your product as much as I do right now.
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  Speaker 3: Why would you want to do that? I think this too.
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  Speaker 2: Last thing I'll say is this, I wish that the
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  Speaker 2: powers that be, whether it's the NC double A or
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  Speaker 2: any of these committees that are suggesting this or that
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  Speaker 2: college commissioners, you know, all this type of stuff, I
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  Speaker 2: wish that they would stop thinking only about the bottom line.
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  Speaker 2: The dollars and cents of everything, and what's good for
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  Speaker 2: the sport? Okay, I get why the powers that be
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  Speaker 2: would want to stretch the NC DOUBLEA tournament on the
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  Speaker 2: men's and the lady side by the way to seventy
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  Speaker 2: six games. They're gonna get some more cash. Is that
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  Speaker 2: what's best for either tournament? Especially on the ladies' side.
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  Speaker 2: You talk about talent disparity, it's night and day between
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  Speaker 2: the haves.
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  Speaker 3: And the have nots. It's like who wants to get
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  Speaker 3: kicked in the teeth by U kon? Oh? How about
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  Speaker 3: the seventy sixth team in the nation? Like, what are
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  Speaker 3: we doing? Man? Like, that's not what's good for the game.
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  Speaker 2: That's not what's good for the sport. So what's good
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  Speaker 2: for the bottom line? And I hate that the bottom
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  Speaker 2: line keeps winning and winning and winning and winning, and
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  Speaker 2: it's staring you in the face.
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  Speaker 3: This is not what's good for the game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, the bottom line, though, will make more cash,
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  Speaker 2: so NA, screw it, let's just do it. I wish
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  Speaker 2: that wasn't the thinking at all, and unfortunately it's the
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  Speaker 2: thinking far too often these days. It's just the way
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  Speaker 2: it is now. One thing that I really wouldn't mind
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  Speaker 2: seeing changed. They're talking about getting rid of the conference
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  Speaker 2: championship games in college football. I really wouldn't care about that.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're useless at this point, even with a
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  Speaker 2: twelve team college football playoff, if they did away with
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  Speaker 2: those things and sort of, you know, shorten the length
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  Speaker 2: of the season they're talking about, Hey, when the regular
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  Speaker 2: seasons over, boom, we're playing playoff games.
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  Speaker 3: Some of the layoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Indiana, they had twenty seven days off. It is a
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven day gap between the Big Ten championship game
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  Speaker 2: when Indiana beat Ohio State, remember that low scoring game
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  Speaker 2: thirteen ten. It was twenty seven days between the Big
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  Speaker 2: Ten championship game and the Rose Bowl when they smacked
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  Speaker 2: around Alabama. Twenty seven days in between those, and then
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  Speaker 2: when they smacked around Bama there were ten more days
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  Speaker 2: before they smacked around Oregon in the semi finals. There's
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  Speaker 2: way too much time off, man, I don't get that.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, if you went straight from the regular season,
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  Speaker 2: got rid of the conference championship games, go right into
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: If you expand it to sixteen, Okay, I get it.
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  Speaker 2: I won't go kicking and screaming into the night, but
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  Speaker 2: no hard pass on twenty four.
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  Speaker 3: But I'd be fine with that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think it's so stupid where college football
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  Speaker 2: is right now, as much as I love it to have,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: basically what it's free agency, that's what the transfer portal is.
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  Speaker 2: You've got free agency going on during the college football playoff.
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  Speaker 2: That shouldn't be a thing. Imagine the NFL having free
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: agency during the NFL playoffs. That's the dumbest thing ever.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL would be like, that's we wouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: Do that, though.
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  Speaker 2: That's really stupid. It's like, yeah, exactly why is college
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  Speaker 2: football doing that? So if you shorten the length of
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  Speaker 2: the regular season, or at least start your playoffs right
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: after the regular season ends and don't have these huge
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  Speaker 2: gaps in between when you're playing and all of that,
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  Speaker 2: just get right to it, bro and you finish the
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: second week in January.
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  Speaker 3: That's way better than the way it is right now.
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  Speaker 2: And they're scheduled, you know, the next couple of seasons
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  Speaker 2: they're playing, it's like January twenty fifth, January twenty fourth,
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  Speaker 2: those are the next two years when they're scheduled to
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: have the championship games.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: That's too late in the calendar man.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: So they got a lot to work on in college football,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: and I hope one of the things is not a
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: twenty four game playoff or twenty fourteen playoff. It's just
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: we gotta maintain the integrity of the regular season at
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: some point. And some of these bum teams don't belong.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with saying that, man, you don't belong.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Better luck next year at winning games. Okay, until then,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: hit it, get out, exit stage right, go away, all right?
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox is your phone number?
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Oh man, I see one of my buddies is on
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: deck and he's already hit me up on X. I
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: know exactly what he's gonna say, and I loathe anybody
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: who has this to say.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: You gotta say.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: He's gonna do it. I can see it. I can
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: fill in my bones. We'll do that.
• 18:58
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• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I love this tweet from Late Night Drug Tester. He
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: wrote in and says, nice, you got the producers breakdown
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: of the vikings wide receivers. Now let's hear his take
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: on Vergara or Hathaway. So, Patty, I'm sure you you
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: didn't hear this, But man, I was filling in for
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Big Ben last night and I was with.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Coop and Lorena.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so justin Cooper he told me, he was like, hey,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: by the way, you see People magazine they named Anne
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Hathaway the most beautiful woman in twenty twenty six. Okay,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: And for the people who listened to, you know, the
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: show last night, don't worry, don't worry. We're not gonna
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: do like nine hours of this tonight is We're not
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: gonna run it back. But because Late Night drug tester
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: tweeted this, I gotta break it down for my guy,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Patti Sweekaser, you know. So basically I was like, this
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: is ridiculous. What are we doing here?
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Like, Anne Hathaway is a beautiful woman. She's a beautiful girl,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: and she's very talented and all that, but dude, the
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: most beautiful woman of twenty twenty six, We're going a
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Too far over here, you kidding me?
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: And so my example was, if Sophia Virgara is walking
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: on the beach and Anne Hathaway is walking on the beach,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: are you.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Looking at Anne more than Sophia? You're out of your
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: freaking mind.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: If you are so yeah, that's my take on it, Patty.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: But if you would like to weigh in, where are
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: you on the Sofia versus Anne debate?
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Right there?
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: I mean again, this all comes down to personal preferences
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: everybody and like you know, types and styles. But again,
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: I this is neither here and there. I do have
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: a take, okay, And if you're having to pick between
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: those two, I think they're both gorgeous.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: I like them.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: They're both awesome. That said, I'm not gonna be on
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: the fence here, I will. I'm strictly hard on the
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Sophia For gar Alane, let's go. I have a thing
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: for Latina's come on, Oh she's she's dynamic, she is,
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: she's amazing. So that's you know, listen, and she's funny.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: She's really funny, right family.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: For anyone who's like, well, Anne Hathaway, she's she's great actors,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: she's really talented. It's like, well, so Sophia, Sophia's got talent.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: It's not just looks, but man, that looks a man
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: looks man man alive the long what freaking do you do?
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: You?
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Did you see where Tom Brady was linked to Vergara. Yeah,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: they were like they were doing the love boat type thing.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I don't think it was the the Verabel Russini love boat, right,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: they were. They were doing some sort of boating or whatever.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, Tom Brady was you know, in for
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: the night or I'm like freaking Brady Man. He's living
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: the playboy life right now. It's like, yeah, you know,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I'm free. Oh, Vergara's on the text. Yeah, I'll swing through,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: don't worry.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah as well.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like freaking Brady Man, freaking Brady Man. He's
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: living his best life. There's no doubt.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: So my guy Gunner is in Minnesota. He already tweeted
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: me in the wee hours here tonight, and I'm sure
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: he's about to tell me I told you, Brian, Well
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: you right, what do you have to say, Gunner?
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: What's going on? Buddy?
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Oh Brian just sitting back to your relax on my
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: lunch break. And I'm thinking, oh, well, and Brian's I'll
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: give him a call.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: I appreciate that, man. It's always good to hear from you.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Okay, Well, Denver to that one game more than
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: I thought. Got a few more. Dancer and Jaspers at
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: home they might take one and one more Inania. We'll
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: pay and shop in Minnesota and then we'll give see
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: it rupp the mien give we pull that off. I
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: think it's gonna be a finot us in the next.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Now, No, Gunner, I feel like Game two shook you
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: up a little bit because you went from I'm you
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: went from your Timberwolves beating Okase too. If we could
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: give them a run for their money. That's what Game
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: two did to you, Gunner.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: It shook you up. That's the truth of this matter
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a little bit just we weren't shorting a
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: bad but we take up when we take you up here,
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: gun to Spurs. We'll get back into our groove and
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: taking on Okahma City and see the next to the finals.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: That's akay, the Knicks coming out of the East though,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: huh okay.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I got come out of you.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I don't have I don't hate that prediction.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, little og Yoby a little hamstring string that's not
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: good though, not good with og being a little bit
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: nicked up right there.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Not good, Gunner.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: They got a good they'll be fine.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: One more thing though, I go football here. Yeah, Panthers
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: had one of the best off seasons. I gotta say
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: it right now.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: By the way, Gunner, how are you? How are you
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: a Panthers fan and not a Vikings fan? How did
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: that happen?
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Vikings was terrible when I was younger. It was it
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: was brutal.
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: That was that was bad to watch.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: I cannot watch it.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: The only reason why I watched him I was a
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Darren Sharper fanya.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Uh huh.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: And it looks like he goes and does when he's
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: out of football, he goes and does that thing. So yeah, correct,
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: one of the best off seasons to get two of
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: the best defensive players in the league and offensive line.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: During the draft, we picked up one of the best
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: offensive linemen often tackled in the college for above and Georgia.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: That's gonna be great for us. I think we'll have
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: a great season.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Goal thirteen wins thirteen wins for the Carolina Panthers. Like,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I hate to do this, Gunner, but I gotta keep
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: track of your bad predictions, you know what I mean,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Like you get some of them right, but man, you
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: get something wrong.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Like they're not gonna sniff thirteen wins.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, it will. We're a two of everyone wrong.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: We're we have We had the best rookie receiver last year.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: He's gonna be upgrading this year and getting almost two
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: thousand yards. I'm gonna say it right now. And we
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: have a great running back. No one's really seen much
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: of Jonathan Brooks. He's a show everyone who he is.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: He hasn't got play much. He'sn't injured, he's healed now,
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: he had a whole season. Heel. He's gonna show his speed.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: We'll have another dynamic doing running back with True Behobbard
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: and him. It was like Diato Williams and Jonas Stewart
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: running back to you.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Again, it's it's almost too much to keep up with here, gunner.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: You just snuck in that Ted McMillan is gonna get
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: to two thousand receiving yards when Bryce Young is his quarterback.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: You just snuck that in, and then you started talking
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: about Jonathan Brooks and all kinds of other stuff.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: I gotta go. There's no chance. I would love to know.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know. If I could pull it up right here,
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: I would let what would you guess?
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: And I don't know this, what would you guess Ted
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Rowan McMillan, who's a great wide receiver, what would you
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: guess his receiving yards is set at for the season
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: like the betting line where you could take over on
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: what do you think it's realistically said at for Ted McMillan. Yeah,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'll have to check it out. That's
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: not a bad guess. So you're gonna you're on your
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: lunch break right now, Gunner. You're gonna put all the
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: money tonight, all the money from a you know, the
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: next handful of months here on the over for Teed McMillan.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: You got to hammer that thing.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: I would yeah, yeah, thing I would do. But it's
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: like right now, I have a couple of other apps
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: on going on right now. There's no football on it yet.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: I have two other apps that go on for on predictions.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: I'm doing pretty well on lately.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's good, that's good. I'm trying to thumb through.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Oh I found it.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, Gunner, Gunner, you your guy who you're you're seeing?
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: You got hoop dreams of two thousand receiving yards in
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: the twenty sixth season, Tedoro and McMillan is at least
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: on DraftKings and I can look at other sports books,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: he is at nine hundred and forty nine and a
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: half yards. That's his line. He's not even at a
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: thousand yards. God, what is happening over here?
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: What a joke that is? They'll they're not they don't know.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: This offensive line will be mail the block bridge down
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: and long enough, he'll be able to get out there
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: fasts and get that receive right now?
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Man, all right, are they What are the t Wolves
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: doing on Friday night? Game three? Huh? They they responding
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: after a thirty eight point drubbing.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: Oh oh yeah, they're responding. So Jamie so Rudy Gobert's
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: a play lockdown deep, can stay against Joker, no problems.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: So they're they're gonna win outright. We're going money line
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: on this.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're winning out They're winning out right.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Yes, okay, all right, if I lose, I'm blaming you.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, don't worry about Louising.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: I love you, I love the comience.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Seventeen point win.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: At the least seventeen point win in Game three, okay, Yes,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna hold you to them, right, I'm writing all
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: these predictions down, Gunner, I gotta keep track and stuff.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: All right, man, you have a good evening at work, buddy.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Thanks for calling us on your lunch and I appreciate that.
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: Man.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Yep, there he is.
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: There.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: He is Gunner in Minnesota. Roots for the Carolina Panthers,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: not the Minnesota Vikings. I don't see TETAROA. McMillan listed
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: on draft on bet MGM. I don't see that listed.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: But you could get him at nine to forty nine
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: and a half at draft Kings.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, that's that's lower. Two thousand would be soaring
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: over that total right there. So I don't know.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Maybe you parlay the McMillan over with the Detroit Lions
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: over ten and a half season wins.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe you do that. All right, let's go back
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: out to the phones.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Here.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: We've got Andrea. She's on deck.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: She's over in Berkeley. What's going on, Andrea, you're on
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah, enjoying your show. And it was interesting. Aaron Rodgers
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: mentioned today that he's thinking of continuing playing, and I
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: heard Benvoyce going Aaron Rogers. He always says that thing
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: about Rogers, And curiously enough, Brian, I don't know if
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: you knew this, but Aaron's really into astrology.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's way into it.
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, Like if you google Aaron Rodgers astrology, they'll
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: talk about how he's into it. He's actually a client
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: of a colleague of mine, and I have his actual
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: birth time because he's into astrology.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Can I guess? Can I guess what time?
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah? Go right ahead, I'm going to.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Say Aaron Rodgers was born at twelve eleven PM in
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: the afternoon.
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: Close. He was actually born December two, nineteen eighty three.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: So he's a free spirited Aquarius two fifty PM in Chico, California.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, by the way, is there anything whether you're an
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: AM or a PM baby, is there anything associated with
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: that Andrew at all?
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: Changes your rising sign, Brian. So if you're born, you know,
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: in the morning, say you're born around dawn, you might
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: have the same rising sign as your son's sign. And
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: if you're born in the evening, it might be the opposite.
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: So the more exact birthtime the better. And since Aaron's
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: are into astrology, he's happy to give it out and
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: share it. So he's got five planets and free spirited
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: Sagittarius and Scorpio moon. I know you can relate to that.
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: So he's got that intensity there, trus rising. And what's curious,
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: he's forty two. He's having his midlife crisis. So when
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: that's thirty nine to forty two, So when we have
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: that rite of passage, we make you know, career changes,
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: some people, you know, change career paths. But he's saying
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: he wants to return. And a couple of years back,
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: I wrote his sports astrology for the Athletic and talking
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: about his Ayahuasca journeys and his travels, and you know
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: how he's really very free spirited person, but he's still
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: very ambitious. So there he is wanting to return to
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: the Pittsburgh Steelers. So you know, again, forty two is
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: not old, but I guess in the sports world it's
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: somewhat old. So it'll be interesting to see, yeah, the next.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: So this is what I'm curious about. What gets you
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: out of your midlife crisis? You know what I mean?
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, did you just reach forty three and you're like, ask,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: screw it, I don't even care anymore about what is it?
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: What is it that typically happens for people? Yeah?
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: No, that's an excellent question. That's the time of ending,
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: the new beginning. So people leave careers that are unfulfilling,
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: they leave relationships that are unfulfilling. You know, there was
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: that joke about, oh, he's having his midlife crisis. He
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: you know, buys a new convertible, takes off with you know,
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: his secretary. That was like old timey and you know
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: it's basically no, not to what you're talkiring, but what's
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: the next step? What else do you want to do
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: besides what you're currently doing. So if you retire from
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: one job, what do you want to do next? Because
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: forty two is still young. So the midlife crisis, it's
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: a rite of passage. Regardless of your birth date, Brian,
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: it happens to everyone chronologically between thirty nine.
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: And forty two.
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: So it's a time of great change. Basically whatever out lived,
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: it's creative usefulness. It's a good time to make positive
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: changes in that direction.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: You ever have like a post midlife crisis.
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, depending on your individual chart. That's an excellent question.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: So what age range are we looking at here?
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: Well, the midlife crisis is thirty nine to forty two. Yeah,
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: the SATA return is twenty eight to thirty and that's
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: a very maturing transit. And then you can have your
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: own personal transits, like what's happening currently that affects your
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: natal chart, compare and contrast it to the forecast, which
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: is what's happening currently. So beyond your you know, write
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: a passage chronological transit, you can have a personal transit
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: as well. That's very transformational.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: So we've got a lot going on over here.
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no, it's basically a map of optimum timing
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: and we all have free will. But it's nice to know,
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: you know, certain things happen twenty eight to thirty, thirty
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: nine to forty two. The second satur return is fifty
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: eight full astrological lifetime eighty eight. So it's always interesting
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: to see these major write a passage transits and then
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: to layer on your own personal transits as well. So
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: you know, never a dull.
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  Speaker 4: Movement, no, no doubt.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Well, Andrew, we got to run. But it's always great
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: to hear from you. Appreciate your time, man, yeah, and
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: hope you have a great evening in the.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Wee hours here. I always appreciate you.
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: Oh yes, I enjoy your scorpio energy.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely appreciate that. Yes, yeah, it's it's anger masked
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: as scorpio energy.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean. It's uh, it's like how
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: you put that, Yeah, very well.
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's passion, it's intensity. There you go, determination, you
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  Speaker 7: use it uses.
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  Speaker 3: You, yeah, no doubt. Well, thank you, Andrew. I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: So eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That is
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: the phone number. By the way, I'm sorry, I just
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: wrote something down going back to Gunner where you mentioned
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Darren Sharper A brief, brief, brief story. But I went
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: to a Saints game. It was actually in two thousand
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: and nine, that was their Super Bowl winning season, and
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: there was a guy outside the stadium and he was like,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: these ain't Joe Daddy Saints. These shop a Saints. I
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: never forgot that. It was one of my favorite moments
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: of any football game. You just had to be there
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: for that. But they ended up winning a Super Bowl
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: that season, and then you know, sadly, Darren Sharper turned
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: out to be a serial rapist.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: Horrible.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: But man, I'll tell you what, going to that Saints
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: game that year. I've been to every NFL stadium, but
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Jacksonville Stadium. I haven't been to a Jacksonville Jaguars game.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: I do have to go to Levi's. I've been to
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: a Niners game, but I haven't been to the new stadium,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: so I guess I have to check that off. But
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: I've been almost everywhere, and man, that Saints when you
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: got in town, literally the whole town. I got into
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: the city and I took the bus. I took the
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: bus to meet my friends and everybody was just talking Saints.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: It was like it was like sports radio, but people
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: are like, Hey, what do you think about this?
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Running back here? What do you think about this matchup
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: this week? It was amazing. I loved it.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: It was awesome, awesome, awesome stuff. One of my favorite
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: experiences going to a Saints game when they were really,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: really good. It's just a party in the stands. Man,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: it was really fun. All right, we'll get back to
• 37:52
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• 38:46
  Speaker 2: So our producer in the wee hours here is Patty Sweet.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: As I always love to say, I don't know what
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: it is. It's a nWo type thing with the two
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: sweet I love that. So Patty is with us. And Patty,
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: you're not only a Seahawks fan, you're also a Vikings fan.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Is that right?
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you root for two teams in the NFC.
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: Yes, I do someone I'm a fan of both growing up.
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: It's not even like new either, so some would frown.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: On this, but I like that.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: You are a bold man and you don't care what
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: the frowners have to say or what their expression is
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: on their face.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: You're gonna do what you want to.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: Do, right, absolutely? Oh man, I wear a loud and
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: proud now. Granted, Brian, I've been wearing more Seahawks stuff
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: a little bit more recently because you know, maybe something
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: big happened. But I still wear my Viking stuff. Like
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: for Justin Jefferson.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, you still repped the Jefferson jersey from
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: time to time, you know, rock.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Out the purple. I get it.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: So how about this Juwan Jennings former forty nine Ers
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: wide receiver. He is now a Minnesota Vikings wide receiver.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Signs a deal one year worth up to thirteen million dollars,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: and I like this right, he's gonna be a number
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: three receiver behind Justin Jefferson obviously and Jordan Addison. I
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: like this addition third and Juwan right. That was the
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: thing with the Niners, right to throw it to Juwan.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: He'll move the chains. He's a reliable receiver, great blocker.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: It's a good pickup for you guys, honestly, Like I
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: do have an opinion on that too, Like so Kevin
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: O'Connell and the Vikings. He kind of actually runs similar
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: type of offenses to like the Shanahan type offense, at
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: least the passing, like downs and like play Now. I
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: know they have Kyler Murray now and you know their
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: quarterbacks kind of rotating list here, but they kind of
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: run similar things. And Juwan Jennings as a three is
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: actually kind of underrated. No one's really gonna look at that, like,
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: but the way that they're setting up, you're right because
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: they got you know, you got Justin Jefferson, you got
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: jets there, and you got Addison now him as a three. Honestly,
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: I kind of also view Jennings as maybe more of
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: like a insurance policy for Addison. Not that like Addison's
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: gonna leave, but you know, Addison kind of has some
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: problems here and there with some some some silliness. I
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: still love Addison, no wrong, I love Addison, but I
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: think that's more of an insurance of, you know, if
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: he can't and I quote hold his water in certain
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: regards here, uh, in case you know, he messes up again.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: I think I say, yeah, It's what I would say,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: is you missed the show last night where I was
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: basically the one, you know in a sea of Kyler Murray.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: Just all Kyler Murray. Kyler, Kyler Murray, Kyler.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: I've never seen an off season where one guy had
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: been basically criticized for seven straight years and then in
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: one off season it's like, oh, you know, Kyler Murray
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: with this offense, with this head coach, mi, Kyler Murray
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: could put up some real numbers. It's been the off
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: season of that, and I'm like, I gotta see it
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: to believe it. I'm not gonna say that he can't
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: do it. He's certainly a talented player. Well, you haven't
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: seen it for seven years. I got to see it
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: with the Vikings to totally buy into it. And I
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: did say, Patty, I'm gonna close one ear on this one.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: This could hurt a little bit. If we're looking at
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: the top quarterbacks in the NFC North, if we're ranking
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: the four guys, he is fourth of four.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Now that's subject to change.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: He could put it together and revive his career, and
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: he could make magic with Justin Jefferson on the field.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: Who knows. So it's not set in stone.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: It's always going to remain this way, but as of
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: right now, he is number four of four NFC North quarterbacks.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: He is not better than Caleb Williams. He's not better
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: than Jordan Love. He's certainly not more productive than Jared
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: goff Is. He's the fourth guy right now and until
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: he puts it together, that's where he's gonna be. So
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: I think it's a nice pickup for the Vikings and
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: for Kyler Murray. But I just I don't get the
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: amount of positivity for Kyler Murray heading into this thing.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: I get there's reason for optimism, but the optims missing,
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Like the volume has been cranked up to the max,
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: in my opinion, and I just don't get it.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: I don't get it. That's that loud. People are that
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: excited about this.
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: And honestly, I actually agree with you on this, Brian,
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: like and like and yes, like I'm in I'm an
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: you know, eternal optimist, unless when it comes to the
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: Lakers here where I'm feeding him. But I tend to
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: be more the you know, cautiously optimistic type and all
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: that stuff. Now Kyler Murray, yes, now he is now
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: my guy in Minnesota. I you know, I will rep it.
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: I didn't hate the move. I didn't love it. I
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: didn't hate it just because I still wasn't technically against McCarthy,
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: but I thought Kyler Murty like, no, it's fine. I
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: for the for seven years. Again he's coming from the
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: NFC West, and yeah, right, I don't have to go
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: down the well of how I know him well just
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: because my other team, right, the Seahawks. But for seven years,
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: Brian I was calling Kyler like a lot of potential,
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: a lot of upside. But honestly, when push came to shove,
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: he was and I quote mid you know what I mean,
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: like totally. Now he's with you know, change of scenery.
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: We've seen it with Donald. We've seen it just you know,
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: we've seen it with Gino, with Donald, We've seen it
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: with so many of these quarterbacks, Like wow, who knows.
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: And Minnesota is very offensive minded. Kevin O'Connell can definitely
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: turn it around. Cardinals also have pretty you know, not
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: great coaching. Now it's a new era, but he's not
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: he's not there anymore. But like Cardinals didn't have the
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: greatest even Kingsbury wasn't the greatest head coach type stuff.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: But like it's just Minnesota could be that. I'm optimistic
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: he's got a lot upside, but I wouldn't be surprised
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: if Kyler kind of looks okay, but again, okay to
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: me is still he's just mid. That's just him, you
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: know what.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: I yeah, that's you know, he could very well. Look okay,
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: you know it's one game plays really well, next game
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: it's like, what the hell was that, Kyler? What are
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: we doing right now?
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Or he's banged up.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: He's been banged up quite a bit of his career,
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: So can you remain upright? That's the first part of this,
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: and can he revive his career be very productive?
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: They could still be good, man, They could be still
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: good even if he's like, let's just say mide and okay,
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: they could still be a playoff team because I do
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: think Minnesota does have enough on the defensive side, I
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: especially Brian Flores running that defense, like they could probably
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: you know, push like a wild guard playoff types in there.
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: I know they got to deal with like the Lions
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: and the Packers and Bears, oh my, but like like
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: they could still like if he's good enough even like
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: c plus average mid like Dak Prescott. I'm throwing shade
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: at Cowboys here, but if Dak Prescott can can kind
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: of put like the Cowboys into contention, Kyler Murray does
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: the same thing with a better defense. Like, I think
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: that can happen there.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, man, I love the Lions this season.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: I think it's the resurgence of the Detroit Lions. I
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: just think that was a one off last season and
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: they were nine to eight. They were a last place
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: team and had a winning record. That's a tough division, man,
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: But I think the Lion's going to be a lot
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: better this season. They've upgraded that offensive line. That offensive
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: line was pretty rough. I saw a stat I don't
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: know if I can grab it for you on the fly,
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: but it was something about the Lions and how they're
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: o line. I've been like, wow, I didn't realize it
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: was that bad. This is a bad, bad formula. They're
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: this leak.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: Here you go.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Detroit's offensive line. They finished with the second worst pass
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: block win rate in the NFL last season. They were
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: at fifty six percent. Think about that second worst past
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: block win rate and you have Jared Goff as your quarterback,
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: who it's crazy. He can't move at all. He can't
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: perform under pressure. If there's a pass rush in his face, that, dude,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: is a disaster. But you know they upgraded the old line.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: You draft Blake Miller seventeenth overall, first round pick, you
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: got kidnay Sewell going over to that left side. So
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: if that offensive line is better, the trickle down effect
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: is going to be mammoth. And I just think from
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: a scheduling standpoint, dude, last year for the Lions it
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: was Murderer's Row. It was crazy what they had to face,
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: especially on the road. Now you're facing a last place schedule.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: It's night and day. What it was and what it
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: will be, it's crazy, man. So I think the Lions
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: are going to be really, really good. I do have
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: a bet on the Lions over ten and a half wins,
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: and I also have a parlay Patty on the least.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have them.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Over ten and a half wins, and I hit I
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: don't know, like a week ago or so on Jalen
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: Duran the Piston center under twenty three and a half
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: points and rebounds in one of the games of their
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: first round series. So I only have to wait about
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: eight months to see if the Lions leg of that
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: parlay cash is it?
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: You know? Just Measley? Eight months? Oh, yeah, wait, you know,
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: no big deal.
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: Well, the injuries or like, you know, something can drastically
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: good happen for good or bad.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it's just you know, just settle in here.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: You know, you don't have to have instant gratification over here.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: Sometimes the best things come to those who wait. Sure,
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: so hopefully that'll be the case. We don't know the
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: exact order of these schedules. We will next week. NFL
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: schedule released for all these teams. But when I'm looking
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: at the Lions and who they face, so they're facing
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: the NFC South and the AFC East. I think both
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: of those are advantageous. Right, if you're picking a division
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: in the NFC that you'd like to face top to bottom,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: it have to be the NFC South, Right, what else
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: would you pick?
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: Who's the juggernaut?
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: The Panthers won that division, they had a losing record, Right,
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: you'd absolutely pick the NFC South and the AFC East.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: My Dolphins are brutal, the Jets are awful, right, the
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: Patriots and Bills. So that's the division. Those are the
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: divisions that they face. And then it's the last place schedule.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: So they're hosting the Giants hosting the Titans, They're at
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: the Arizona Cardinals. Listen to their road record, our road schedule,
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: So it's the three division teams at the Falcons, at
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: the Panthers, at the Bills, at the Dolphins, at the Cardinals.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: That's what the Lions are facing. Man, this schedule lightens
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: up greatly. They won nine games playing a brutal schedule
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: last season. Now they play a much more favorable schedule.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: They're not gonna win two more games.
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: Come on, and now it is with a second year
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: of with Dan Campbell in charge of the offensive coordinator stuff,
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: especially because it was kind of you know, with Ben
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: Johnson leaving going to the Bears. So that that and
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: the old line, I'm sure we're like huge in kind
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: of stunting them kind of offensively. There. Also the O
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: line play has to be a lot better too.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, let me get out to the
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: phone here. Let's get to the militia, shall we we
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: roll out the red carpet for you. Let's go to James.
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: He's in Tacoma. He's got some thoughts for us.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: What's going on? James?
• 49:58
  Speaker 8: Yes, I know you're I'm sure a gambler and you
• 50:01
  Speaker 8: talk a lot about points, spreads, or I'll tell you
• 50:03
  Speaker 8: something happened to the last football season that I wish they
• 50:06
  Speaker 8: would change, and that was there's a football game where
• 50:10
  Speaker 8: the total rushing yards combined rushing yards two teams was
• 50:15
  Speaker 8: one hundred and eighty one and a half. So I
• 50:18
  Speaker 8: took over over one hundred even to one.
• 50:21
  Speaker 7: And a half.
• 50:21
  Speaker 8: Well, with too much to go in the game, the
• 50:24
  Speaker 8: team's already had a combined one hundred and eighty five
• 50:27
  Speaker 8: marking yards. So here I'm thinking I won, rady passed
• 50:31
  Speaker 8: my ticket. Well, then with too much to go in
• 50:35
  Speaker 8: the game, both teams stay were way ahead by next
• 50:38
  Speaker 8: thirty some point. So the team that was ahead showed
• 50:41
  Speaker 8: great sportsmanship by simply taking the knee three times to
• 50:47
  Speaker 8: run out the clock. By taking the knee every time
• 50:50
  Speaker 8: they took a knee first down between second and thirteen,
• 50:54
  Speaker 8: third down between third and one, So that one hundred
• 50:57
  Speaker 8: and eighty five rushing yards with two muchs togo ohn
• 51:01
  Speaker 8: seventy nine, which end up be less than hry eighty
• 51:05
  Speaker 8: one and a half. Yeah, oh, by them taking the
• 51:07
  Speaker 8: knee to run out the quack. They need to change this.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: It's the joys of gambling, right, there, James. You know,
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: it's it's brutal, it's tough. It's funny because BETMGM. I've
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: got an account with them, and they're they're really good
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: about giving you your money right away. But what's bad
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: is that what you've detailed and if I've had running
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: backs that have gone over and the cash hits my
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: account and then whatever, they have a three yard loss
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: and they're no longer over and then you get the
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: bet MGM email, and it's so funny.
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: It's so professional.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: It's like, sorry, that win that you thought you had
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: not so much anymore. You know, I'm paraphrasing. It's a lot,
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: it's a lot more professional than that. But yeah, man,
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: it's the joys of gambling right there. You know, every
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: now and then it does go your way. I appreciate
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: the call, James. Good to hear from you.
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  Speaker 3: Man. I didn't know you could you could.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: I didn't know you could even do that do the
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: combined rushing yards for both teams. I should have asked
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: them which which teams we're playing in that game.
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  Speaker 3: But it's the worse. I don't know why they do that.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: What's weird is, I'll say this real fast, I'll get
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: back back out to my guy. Emmett wants to check in.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: But what's weird is in the NFL, for quarterbacks, if
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: they take a knee, it's subtracted from that quarterback's rushing yardage.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: And in college they will subtract sack yardage from the
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: quarterback's individual rushing.
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  Speaker 3: Yardage, which makes no sense.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: In college, they also if the quarterback takes a knee,
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: they don't subtract that from the quarterbacks rushing total, so
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: it's completely backwards.
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  Speaker 3: It's so weird.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: I wish the NFL, if a quarterback takes a knee,
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: I wish that would be more of like a team
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: rushing yardage thing than an individual rushing yardage thing.
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  Speaker 3: I just think it doesn't make logical sense.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Even college doesn't take it away from the quarterback's individual
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: rushing yardage right there, and it's listen, it's so stupid.
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: You want to be really annoyed.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: It's so stupid that quarterbacks have their rushing yardage in
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: college subtracted by sacks. A quarterback, let's say, I don't
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: know Taylor Green has rushed for I don't know, fifty yards,
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: and you've got him over forty five and a half,
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: he drops back to pass. Arkansas's losing. He takes a
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: ten yard sack. Well, guess what he's down to forty
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: yards rushing now, It's like.
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: What he took a sack? That counts against me? He's like, yep,
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: it does. It's so stupid.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know why college does that, but I think
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: they do have it right when they don't subtract the
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: you know, the the kneel downs from the individual rushing total.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: It's it's so strange how that works out between college
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: and the NFL.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: All right, my guy is on with us. He's in Washington.
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: What's going on? Blind Emmitt?
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: My guy?
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: How are things Brian?
• 54:06
  Speaker 6: No, I'm doing great. I just want to say we're
• 54:08
  Speaker 6: starting strong. To Washington callers back to back, love to
• 54:10
  Speaker 6: see it. How are you doing, Brian?
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: Pretty good? Man? Things are good. Yeah, things are fine.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Everything. What's on your mind? Sports wise? What's burning on
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: your sports brain? I know you got text.
• 54:21
  Speaker 6: I was gonna call and talk about the NBA playoffs,
• 54:24
  Speaker 6: but you and a Patty Sweek got to talking and
• 54:29
  Speaker 6: I wanted to come and kind of share this year
• 54:30
  Speaker 6: I had about the vikings. So do you guys remember,
• 54:33
  Speaker 6: and it's still a conversation. I'm still kind of a
• 54:35
  Speaker 6: believer in this narrative that Kevin Stefanski, Vikings head coach
• 54:39
  Speaker 6: is a quarterback whisper. So you bring in a guy
• 54:42
  Speaker 6: like Kyler Murray, who the past few years in Arizona,
• 54:45
  Speaker 6: like you guys are saying, it's been nothing but just atrocious,
• 54:48
  Speaker 6: has not worked out. But yes, the Cardinals are in
• 54:51
  Speaker 6: a tough division, but Kyler's play has looked awful. I
• 54:53
  Speaker 6: don't think that's anything to do with the division. So
• 54:56
  Speaker 6: here's what I'm thinking. All right, either this is gonna
• 54:59
  Speaker 6: work out and Keavin Stefanski is gonna look great again,
• 55:03
  Speaker 6: and you know what, this is gonna show that JJ
• 55:06
  Speaker 6: McCarthy is trash and if you're the Viking, you need
• 55:08
  Speaker 6: to move on from him and exting Kyler. That's best
• 55:10
  Speaker 6: case scenario. But you know what's gonna happen if Kyler
• 55:14
  Speaker 6: Murray just plays crappy and it's the same old Arizona
• 55:17
  Speaker 6: Kyler Murray, which I actually think is highly unlikely.
• 55:19
  Speaker 8: I like the signing.
• 55:20
  Speaker 6: I think that this is the most competent that he's
• 55:22
  Speaker 6: had in a long time, considering the defense, considering a
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: top five wide receiver in the league, and also Jordan Addison,
• 55:28
  Speaker 6: who's not a bad receiver in his own means when
• 55:30
  Speaker 6: he's not dealing with his legal issues. So if this
• 55:34
  Speaker 6: doesn't work out, then Kevin Stefanski just had the craziest
• 55:37
  Speaker 6: fluke of all time with Kirk cousin Sam Darnold, like
• 55:40
  Speaker 6: the two games of Josh jobs that we saw out
• 55:42
  Speaker 6: of him. Like, that's kind of what crossed my mind
• 55:45
  Speaker 6: during that last segment there, Brian.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, listen, and I always appreciate you checking in,
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: and I just think that, Look, Kevin O'Connell definitely knows
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: what he's doing. JJ McCarthy won. He was daisy fresh rookie.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: That's part of this.
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: But two, he.
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: At some point in the season JJ McCarthy had made
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: a number of starts and they were like, all right,
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: we're starting back.
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: From you know, ground zero here.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: Like this dude's fundamentals are so bad. His footwork is
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: so bad. This dude is totally overstriding and the ball
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: is just sailing because his footwork is so awful. Like
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy didn't even have the basic things taken care of.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: And look, maybe he'll grow as time goes on. But
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: the Vikings are in a mode right now that JJ
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: McCarthy is not caught up with. The Vikings roster is
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: really good. They won fourteen games the season prior to last.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: They're in go for it mode, and they're not in
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: a space where it's like, you know, the young kids
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: taking his lumps and he's learning on the job and
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: then maybe it be a.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: Little bit better. They're not there, They're beyond that.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: So I can absolutely see why they're moving on, and
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: make no mistake, they're moving on like it's just so funny.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: They can say whatever they want. The actions tell the
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: full story. They hitch their wagon to Kyler Murray at
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: least for twenty six. They also picked up Carson Wentz
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: in case Kyler gets banged up. And they don't even
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: trust JJ McCarthy is a backup. Right now, they can
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: say all they won, like, oh, JJ's cool with this.
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: Look.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: Man, It's like if your girl is like, no, you know,
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: I'm with you, I'm committed to you. I'm just gonna
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: go with my girls to Vegas for the weekend and
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: you know we're gonna go to the club every night
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: and there might be guys that are shirtless there, but
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: I'm committed to you, and you know, maybe I'll take
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: some selfies with it after a while.
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: You're just hearing this stuff.
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: You're like, it doesn't sound like she could say she's
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: committed all she wants, but she's clearly not committed. That's
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: what the Vikings, their actions are telling you. They're not
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: committed to JJ McCarthy, and they shouldn't be. He's just
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: not advanced enough to mesh with how advanced their roster is.
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: It's a bad fit, y know.
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: Maybe he can take his lumps with the I don't know,
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: the Arizona Cardinals or something like that, but it's not
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: gonna be in Minnesota. Man, They're beyond that, all right,
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