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Chuck in the Morning 9/22 H4: Rick Neuheisel, A Thirst for Hirst & One Last Thing · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: As part of our continuing in-depth college football coverage, it's
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  Speaker 1: time for our weekly visit with college football analyst and
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  Speaker 1: former head coach Rick Neuheisel. Brought to you by Taco
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  Speaker 2: here on this Tuesday. Chuck Powell, Anders Hirsch, Travis Moger
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  Speaker 2: with you. And if it's 9 o'clock on Tuesday, it's
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  Speaker 2: taco time. You better believe it. It's time for our
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  Speaker 2: conversation with college football insider from CBS Sports and, of course,
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  Speaker 2: former UW head football coach Rick Neuheisel is with us
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  Speaker 2: here on the program. Good morning, coach.
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  Speaker 3: How the heck are you, my friend? All is well?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great, and I have all of it. My
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  Speaker 2: entire well-being is responsible by Ole Miss pulling off the
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  Speaker 2: win over LSU. Otherwise, I'd be a miserable wreck of
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  Speaker 2: a human being right now.
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  Speaker 3: That was a wonderful college football game. That was a
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  Speaker 3: wonderful college football game. That had every element of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: crowd way into it, great drama, kind of just– A
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  Speaker 3: happy place to be. Now, playing Baton Rouge at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the game. was a little bit of a
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  Speaker 3: troll job, but you know what? That's part of college
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  Speaker 3: football at the point too. And if that's as violent
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  Speaker 3: as it got, we can live with that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We can live with that. Yeah. And were you buying lanes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, sympathetic press conference afterwards where he was just
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  Speaker 2: moved by everything that he saw in Oxford after the
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  Speaker 2: game was over?
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  Speaker 3: The problem for Lane is he plays the bad guy
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  Speaker 3: so well that when he tries to go the other way,
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  Speaker 3: he can't do it. He can't pull it off. That
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  Speaker 3: would have worked had he done it long ago, but
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  Speaker 3: he didn't. He played this villain wrong. which he is
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  Speaker 3: absolutely perfect at. The Dr. Pepper ad where he just
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  Speaker 3: rolls up the window is my favorite ad. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's Lane in a nutshell. That's Lane to the whole
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  Speaker 3: rest of the world. The window just going up. I'm
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  Speaker 3: doing Lane. And he does it well.
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  Speaker 2: What did it mean for Ole Miss in the moment
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  Speaker 2: and also big picture?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a giant platform that they now have taken,
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  Speaker 3: not just the program, but also their head coach, Pete Golding.
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  Speaker 3: And you know what you get for it? You get
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  Speaker 3: to go to Gainesville and take on a team that's
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  Speaker 3: feeling like they're back. You know, John Sumrall has done
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  Speaker 3: a really, really good job, at least in the early going,
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  Speaker 3: of getting the confidence back for that Florida program who's
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  Speaker 3: been kind of outside looking in. and they want desperately
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  Speaker 3: to be back in the relevant uh category and this
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  Speaker 3: is an opportunity and their favorite their favorite against Ole
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  Speaker 3: Miss is uh Ole Miss comes to town.
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  Speaker 2: Why would why do you think that is um I
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  Speaker 2: mean I lived in Vegas for a while and the
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  Speaker 2: general rule was if it doesn't make sense stay away
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  Speaker 2: from it somebody knows something but also Vegas they're about
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  Speaker 2: getting the money even. So you would think that Vegas
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  Speaker 2: would play off of the Ole Miss momentum coming out
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  Speaker 2: of that game, and instead Florida is going to be
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  Speaker 2: the favorite. What do you make of that?
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  Speaker 3: So Brian Kelly is on our inside college football desk,
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  Speaker 3: and obviously the former head coach of Notre Dame, but
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  Speaker 3: most recently LSU. He says in the SEC, the home
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  Speaker 3: field is, is not worth three points, it's worth a touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that what you see in Gainesville with
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  Speaker 3: that program wanting so desperately to be back is going
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  Speaker 3: to be a zoo. And the kind of attention that
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  Speaker 3: Ole Miss just went through, when you get up that high,
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  Speaker 3: you naturally come back down to earth. How quickly they
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  Speaker 3: can respond and get back up and feel as fast
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  Speaker 3: as they felt on the turf there in Oxford is
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  Speaker 3: anybody's guess. But I can see, especially with, you know,
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  Speaker 3: John Sumrall hired Buster Faulkner to be his offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 3: He brought with him Aaron Filo from Georgia Tech. So
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback there is in an offense that he's comfortable with.
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  Speaker 3: They have a great running back and a kid by
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  Speaker 3: the name of Jaden Baugh, who's already almost halfway to
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  Speaker 3: 1,000 yards after three games. He's been fantastic. So if
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  Speaker 3: you can run the ball against this Ole Miss defense
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  Speaker 3: and play a little keep away from Trinidad, you have
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  Speaker 3: a good chance. So add that to the home field.
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  Speaker 3: I can see why there's that kind of excitement for
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  Speaker 3: the Gators.
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  Speaker 2: Too early to be talking Heisman right now. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to go ahead and set that rule for the
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  Speaker 2: show for a couple of weeks. But I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: cheat a little bit. Who's playing the best right now? Chambliss,
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  Speaker 2: Malachi Toney, Jeremiah Smith, or other?
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  Speaker 3: To me, Chambliss has been phenomenal because of the stages
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  Speaker 3: he's been on. But the guy you can't take your
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  Speaker 3: eyes off is Malachi Toney. So far in the college
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  Speaker 3: football season, there's been two receiver 10-catch halves. So somebody
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  Speaker 3: caught 10 passes in one half of football. Both of
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  Speaker 3: them are Malachi Toney. And he's, he's a special cat now.
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  Speaker 3: And when you watch him block, and I would tell
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  Speaker 3: you this, if Mario Cristobal would build a nickel package
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  Speaker 3: and have him go in and just cover somebody like
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  Speaker 3: we saw Travis Hunter do a few years ago, you
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  Speaker 3: talk about Heisman, it would be, uh, almost a shoe-in
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  Speaker 3: for me.
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  Speaker 2: Well i mean you know what does it shouldn't require
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  Speaker 2: that i mean i i think that we could acknowledge
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  Speaker 2: a fun phenomenal wide receiver season it doesn't have to
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  Speaker 2: be a quarterback right coach come on no we.
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  Speaker 3: Can do that davante smith got that done yeah uh
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  Speaker 3: And certainly we've got other examples, Johnny Rogers, Tim Brown,
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  Speaker 3: and so forth. But the bottom line here is this guy...
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, the quarterback, Darian Menza, hit 24
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  Speaker 3: passes in a row to start the game. So... I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you can see where the vote gets spread, but in
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  Speaker 3: terms of just your eyes locking in on a guy,
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  Speaker 3: Malachi Toney's pretty special. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Rick Neuheisel is with us. Our college football insider joins
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  Speaker 2: us every Tuesday at 9 o'clock thanks to the delicious
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think of Oregon 84, Portland State nothing?
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  Speaker 3: I think message delivered by Dan Lanning. And it just
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  Speaker 3: was unfortunate that it had to be delivered to the
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  Speaker 3: poor Portland state program because they didn't do anything to
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  Speaker 3: deserve that. There's a point in time where you can
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  Speaker 3: call off the dogs, but he was so upset that
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  Speaker 3: there was a lackadaisical kind of effort the week before
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  Speaker 3: in Stillwater that he was going to make a point, uh,
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  Speaker 3: And I think we get that, although I just feel
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  Speaker 3: badly that it came at the expense of a program
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  Speaker 3: that was obviously overmatched. It's going to be interesting to
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  Speaker 3: see what happens in Los Angeles. You talk about two
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  Speaker 3: fan bases that have been out lost in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: The Gator fan base, they haven't been part of the
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  Speaker 3: college football playoff. And the Trojan fan base, they haven't
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  Speaker 3: been part of the college football playoff. And both of
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  Speaker 3: them kind of thought themselves, having won national championships in
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  Speaker 3: this century, they think of themselves as that kind of program.
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  Speaker 3: So both are absolutely giddy about this opportunity to stamp
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  Speaker 3: themselves as a legitimate candidate.
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  Speaker 2: UW wants to consider itself that as well. I mean, they...
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  Speaker 2: have a proud football program that you've been a huge
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  Speaker 2: part of in the past. And this was a year
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  Speaker 2: where they were going to break through and maybe contend
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  Speaker 2: for the college football playoff. But through three games, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't feel like they're there right now. What is your
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  Speaker 2: reaction to Jed Fish's start to his 2026 season?
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  Speaker 3: They haven't found the recipe for their running game. And
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  Speaker 3: so there's two choices. Either you keep tinkering and trying
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  Speaker 3: to find it with all sorts of combinations of quarterback
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  Speaker 3: run and how much you want to do that, or
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  Speaker 3: you just disband it and just throw the ball because
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  Speaker 3: you have that kind of wildly talented quarterback. And it'll
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  Speaker 3: be interesting to see what Jed picks to do this
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  Speaker 3: week against Minnesota. Minnesota is a Midwestern, you know, tough,
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  Speaker 3: gritty team, but they're not very fast. We had them
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  Speaker 3: on CBS the other day against Mississippi State, and they
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  Speaker 3: were unable to keep up with the Bulldogs' speed. And
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  Speaker 3: I think Washington's faster than Minnesota as well. So Jed
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  Speaker 3: may see an advantage just throwing the ball a bunch,
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  Speaker 3: assuming the weather will allow for that. But at day's end,
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  Speaker 3: if they're going to make it to the– you know,
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  Speaker 3: be in this conversation when we get to November, they're
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  Speaker 3: going to have to develop some consistency and run the
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  Speaker 3: ball so that they can play, you know, keep away
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  Speaker 3: when necessary.
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  Speaker 2: We had a lot of conversations last week about just
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  Speaker 2: how often DeMond Williams should run the football based off
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  Speaker 2: of the conversation you and I had last week. I
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  Speaker 2: think Soft even went as far as asking uh jed
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  Speaker 2: about the possibility of turning him into uh your primary
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  Speaker 2: running weapon and i think jed's response was in essence
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  Speaker 2: we're not ready for that we're not ready to go
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  Speaker 2: there i'm looking back uh coach at lamar jackson who
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  Speaker 2: wasn't exactly tim tebow the way he was built um
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  Speaker 2: back at louisville right He carried the ball 232 times
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  Speaker 2: as a junior, 260 times as a sophomore. He was
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  Speaker 2: clearly their number one running weapon. I know DeMond is
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  Speaker 2: smaller than even Lamar, but it's not like Lamar Jackson
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  Speaker 2: was Jerome Bettis out there. So why not? Why not
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  Speaker 2: let DeMond Williams carry the ball 15 times a game?
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  Speaker 3: You don't need to have 15 carries. Certainly, if he's
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  Speaker 3: your most talented runner, you can add to his inventory.
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  Speaker 3: But again, you also are risking hits on him that
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  Speaker 3: you really kind of would rather not have because of
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  Speaker 3: his importance to the offense. And, but I would offer
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  Speaker 3: that if you're dropping him back a bunch, you're, he's
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  Speaker 3: also at risk in that situation as well.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So we had this conundrum when I was there back
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  Speaker 3: when Marcus Tuiasosopo was our quarterback, we took his high
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  Speaker 3: school offense and kind of built around it and basically
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  Speaker 3: won 20 of the next 24 games by building a
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  Speaker 3: quarterback run game that allowed it for him to have
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  Speaker 3: better chances down the field with his throwing arm. And
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  Speaker 3: to me, if you don't have another way to run
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  Speaker 3: the ball, the quarterback run is the easiest way to
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  Speaker 3: get yourself back into balance as an offense.
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  Speaker 2: What's your 30-second scouting report on the Golden Gophers?
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  Speaker 3: They're tough. They're gritty. Their quarterback, Drake Lindsey, is a
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  Speaker 3: dropback guy. So I think their biggest problem and why
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  Speaker 3: they're not going to win the Big Ten is they're
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  Speaker 3: not fast enough. And so to me, anything you can
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  Speaker 3: do to beat them running, especially their front seven, getting
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  Speaker 3: that gun going sideline to sideline is a benefit for
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  Speaker 3: the Huskies this week.
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  Speaker 2: Rick Neuheisel is with us, our college football insider. Every
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday at nine, we talk college football with him and
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  Speaker 2: we've got a full slate this weekend. Boy, I mean. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: we've had the last two weeks, just one monster game,
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  Speaker 2: but we didn't have that slate where, you know, six
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  Speaker 2: top 25 matchups. Well, for the first time this season, coach,
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  Speaker 2: we've got that. Uh, and so let's run.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Let's run through a few, which, which, what do you
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  Speaker 2: have at CBS? Let's start right there.
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  Speaker 3: We got Iowa at Michigan, uh, which is going to
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  Speaker 3: be a absolute. uh slugfest uh iowa actually is moving
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  Speaker 3: the ball this year but it's against some lesser competition
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  Speaker 3: uh when they played iowa state the only fbs uh
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  Speaker 3: only uh power 14 that they played they they scored
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  Speaker 3: 16 points so i think a 17 13 type of
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  Speaker 3: game but a thriller down the stretch and In the
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  Speaker 3: big house, and it'll feel like Big Ten football. I
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  Speaker 3: promise you.
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  Speaker 2: Why can't Michigan run the ball? I mean, are they,
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  Speaker 2: for the first time in a long time, just that
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  Speaker 2: suspicious up front?
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  Speaker 3: They're 18th of 18 teams in offense in the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 3: Yet they beat Oklahoma who also is now struggling, uh,
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  Speaker 3: with their running game. Michigan's going to win this game
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  Speaker 3: with their defense. And Kyle Whittingham is very well versed
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  Speaker 3: in how to do that. Having done it for years
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  Speaker 3: at Utah. Um, I think Michigan wins because of the
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  Speaker 3: big house, but, uh, I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a fun game and I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: one that goes down to the, yeah, the last few minutes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I almost took Iowa today in our factor fiction. They're
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  Speaker 2: getting five and a half points. Um, as the road team.
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  Speaker 2: So kind of like in.
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  Speaker 3: A game that you think is going to be decided
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  Speaker 3: by a field goal is probably a good pick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking. All right. Let's bump to Texas
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  Speaker 2: versus Tennessee in the battle of shades of orange here.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be played in Knoxville. So Rocky top's going to
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  Speaker 2: have that edge. And yet Texas does feel like the
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  Speaker 2: better football team. So how does that balance out?
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  Speaker 3: You know, that one, we're going to find out all
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  Speaker 3: about Tennessee. They've got a young quarterback by the name
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  Speaker 3: of Faison Brandon that I think Josh Heupel is going
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  Speaker 3: to try to protect, meaning that not put a lot
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  Speaker 3: on his plate. So this is going to be about
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  Speaker 3: Texas running the football. Oh, excuse me, stopping the run.
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  Speaker 3: And if they can do it, then Texas will have
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  Speaker 3: their way. But to me, Tennessee's dangerous. And Josh Heupel,
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  Speaker 3: who comes from the old spread them out offense and
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  Speaker 3: then just count numbers, right? This is kind of from
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  Speaker 3: Art Bryles. The wider you get your receivers, the more
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  Speaker 3: those linebackers have to accordion out. And if they accordion
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  Speaker 3: too far, now you run inside. If they don't accordion out,
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  Speaker 3: you throw the ball out there quick and you take
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  Speaker 3: advantage of some skilled wide receivers and make it simple
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  Speaker 3: for the quarterback. It's going to be an interesting cat
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  Speaker 3: and mouse game. Game day is there. It's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a scene. You know what? I think Tennessee is
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  Speaker 3: going to give them a whale of a game. I
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  Speaker 3: don't say when, but I think we're going to get
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  Speaker 3: to the fourth quarter in this one.
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  Speaker 2: Is Oklahoma in trouble at Georgia?
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  Speaker 3: On its face, you would say yes, because Georgia is
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  Speaker 3: putting up all kinds of yards. Their quarterback Gunner Stockton
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  Speaker 3: is 84% on the season as a passer. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they're doing everything right, but Oklahoma and Brent Venables, they
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  Speaker 3: play defense and they will play defense well against, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I think this game gets the fourth court. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to take Georgia. But I don't think it's by as
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  Speaker 3: much as the odds makers. I think they got it
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  Speaker 3: as two touchdowns right now. I don't see that.
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  Speaker 2: What was your highest completion percentage for a season?
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  Speaker 3: I broke the record at UCLA with 69.2. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: By that time, that's... But no screens. We didn't have
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  Speaker 3: any screens, and we had very little in the way
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  Speaker 3: of quick games. So I don't have a lot of
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  Speaker 3: these ways to throw the ball behind the line of
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  Speaker 3: scrimmage as often as these guys are throwing it right now,
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  Speaker 3: which is a good way to play because it's a
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  Speaker 3: running game. It's a glorified sweep.
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  Speaker 2: Right, right. Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah, I mean, imagine
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  Speaker 2: you would have been right there in Stockton territory had
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  Speaker 2: you had a screen game at UCF.
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  Speaker 3: Couldn't throw it hard I couldn't throw it far but
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  Speaker 3: I could throw it to the right.
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  Speaker 2: Person Missouri versus Mississippi State the Bulldogs have jumped into
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  Speaker 2: the rankings this week is this a sleepy great one.
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  Speaker 3: This is a really good game because this guy playing
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  Speaker 3: quarterback for Mississippi State is really unique athlete and looking
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  Speaker 3: like it's coming to him very easily. His name is
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  Speaker 3: Camario Taylor. He's a 6'4, 230-pound gazelle that makes it
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  Speaker 3: look simple. and Austin Simmons is the quarterback for Missouri.
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  Speaker 3: He was the kid who was going to be the
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  Speaker 3: starter at Ole Miss last year and got hurt, and
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  Speaker 3: this kid by the name of Trinidad Chandler came and
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  Speaker 3: Wally pipped him, right? And so now you've got these
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  Speaker 3: two quarterbacks going head-to-head, and Mississippi State watched their team
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  Speaker 3: go on the road to Minnesota and to South Carolina,
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  Speaker 3: win both those games, and now they're coming home, so
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  Speaker 3: the Cowbells will be rocking tonight. All right. Last game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be a good game. Last one
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  Speaker 2: for you. I'd like nothing more for Lane Kevin to
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  Speaker 2: be two and two at the end of Saturday. They're
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  Speaker 2: facing Texas A & M. So I'm assuming that Ole
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  Speaker 2: Miss is an underdog against Florida because Vegas is expecting
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  Speaker 2: some sort of letdown after that emotional high on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: What happens in your experience when you lose the game
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  Speaker 2: like that? Does your team come back hungrier the next week,
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  Speaker 2: or do you have the same sort of monster letdown
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  Speaker 2: that Ole Miss could potentially experience?
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  Speaker 3: Well, both A & M and LSU having lost last
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  Speaker 3: week will be hungry to get that taste out of
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  Speaker 3: their mouths. But again, you're going to Tiger Stadium, which
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  Speaker 3: is just going to be rocking. I'm going to take LSU...
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  Speaker 3: For whatever reason, Marcel Reed, they haven't developed a complete
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  Speaker 3: offense around him. And so when he struggles throwing the ball,
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  Speaker 3: they don't have a go-to. And I don't see him
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  Speaker 3: as talented as some of these other quarterbacks when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to downfield throwing. So in a raucous environment where
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  Speaker 3: they're not going to be able to hear, like Tiger
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  Speaker 3: Stadium and Death Valley, I'm going to take LSU in
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  Speaker 3: that game.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Well, we've given a lot of picks here this week,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: a lot of breakdowns. Do you have one that you
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: love that could be your taco time pick of the week?
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: I do have one that I absolutely love, and I'm
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: going to give it to you. We are going to take... Uh,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: we're going to take the Oregon ducks over the Trojans.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: I think Oregon, I think Oregon finds themselves and plays
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: their tail off and can run the ball against the
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Trojans as Rutgers did. And, I think they get themselves
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: back in the conversation. All right.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Wow. You guys need like a 14 hour pregame show
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: this week, by the way. Cover all this stuff.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: There's a ton of them now. There's a ton of them.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, those are just the ranked games. I mean, there
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: are a lot of really good games this weekend.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: You know what else is a sleepy good game is
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Western Michigan, who should have beaten Michigan. They have Boise
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: State coming to Kalamazoo. That's going to be a great game.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just give me another thing to do on Saturday, Coach. Yeah,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: I've got enough games to watch. I'm going to get
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: saddle sores. I'm going to be watching so much football
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: this weekend.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: You enjoy them, my friend. They'll be great wins. Then
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: let's get the Huskies another win.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: That'd be nice. All right, thanks, Coach. Appreciate it.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: See you now.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: All right, Rick Neuheisel joining us right here on Chuck
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• 21:18
  Speaker 2: coming up next, I might be hungry, thanks to the
• 21:21
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• 21:25
  Speaker 2: You have a thirst. A thirst. A thirst for Anders Hurst.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. A thirst. A thirst. A
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: thirst for Anders Hurst.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Do they, though?
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Well... not so subliminal message fair enough fair enough okay
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: uh so uh yes um as we build the uh
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: the new show over time obviously we're gonna add layers
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: to it just like we did with the uh the
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: old show uh and so already i'm like you know
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: what thirst for anders hearst should not be me coming
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: up with topics It should be Anders coming up with topics,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: and then we will decide whether or not we had
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: a thirst for that particular take or topic. And so
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: here you go. In its brand new and I think
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: permanent form, it's time for a thirst for Anders Hurst.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: All right, so first on the docket today, kind of
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: goes along with our Drew Locke conversation, but the statement
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: is not only is Drew Locke currently the best backup
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: in the NFL– I would take him over at least
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: four current starters in the National Football League. Jacoby Brissett,
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: whoever's starting Atlanta, we hear now it's Michael Penix. And
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: I'm a huge believer in Michael Penix. I still believe
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: he's going to be a very good NFL quarterback. But
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: the last two games that Drew Locke has had would
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: be the two best games in Michael Penix's career. Malik Willis,
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I'd take him over Malik Willis right now. And Deshaun
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Watson in Cleveland. And I'd even hear the argument from
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: possibly two more, now I'm not saying career-wise, but currently.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins, Aaron Rodgers? I think you could. I'll put
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: it this way, and I'm very satiated by this topic.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Very quenched. At the beginning of this season, the list
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: would have featured zero players. I agree with that.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Zero.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Zero. And you're already up to four and contemplating six.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: This is the whole point to what we were talking
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: about earlier. Yeah, a lot of people would take this as, oh,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: this is why you keep him. No, this is why
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: you trade him. And maybe you do get there eventually.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying as soon as Sam comes back to
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: practice Wednesday. But I'm saying when you get to the
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: NFL trading deadline. So there's no doubt that the stock
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: is flying up the charts for the first time in
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: his career. it's flying up the charts. His value has
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: never been higher than it is right now.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: I think that's, and I should revise. This is what
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: you don't trade him. Like you don't just trade him
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: no matter what. You don't just get anything for him.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: You obviously float them out there. See what you can get,
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: whatever your value is that you like are cutting it off. Hey,
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: I won't take anything less than a third round pick
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: or even a second round pick.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Don't even float them. You just let them come to you.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: If somebody gets desperate enough, there you go. I think
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I like it. I like it.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: The Kraken needs someone to take the jump offensively for
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: them to be successful this year. Whether that's Maddie Beneers,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Shane Wright, Berkeley Caton, even Mackie Samaskevich. There's a lot
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: of thoughts that he was kind of held behind a
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: really thick depth chart in Florida. So there's a possibility there.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: But the big thing is only teams with no players
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: with 60 points last year were Vancouver, Calgary, and Seattle.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: And even that is a little generous because Vancouver would
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: have had Quinn Hughes get more than 60 points, but
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: they traded him two months before the season ended. So really,
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: two teams had a player not reach 60 points, and
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: that was Calgary Flames and Seattle Kraken. They need someone
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: to take the jump and be that guy. Look, and
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: I realize the more goals you score, the more points
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: like you get, obviously. So it's kind of a butterfly effect.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Once one player comes in, it makes everyone else around
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: them better. It gets them more points, but they have
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: had no one really to carry that load. And even
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Seattle has only had one player reach 70 points in
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: a season. And that was Jared McCain in 2022, 23.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: I think there were 21 or 22 teams last year
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: that had a point per game player. Seattle's never had
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: a point per game player. All right, well, you've made
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: me thirsty, but here I am over here on the
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: other side of the room.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Time. And the water is like a walk. and it's
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: being guarded, so I need you to bring me a
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: cup of water. Who's that person going to be? Tell
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: me that there's a guy on the roster that could
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: become that player. There is one that could.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying it will happen this year or even ever,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: but there are possibilities. I think Matty Beneers, we know
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: what he is. He's a 55 to 60 point player.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: That's a good two way center. That's that's going to
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: be good defensively on both sides of the ice.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: I think Mackie Samaskevich, as I talked about, has the
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: potential in a team that's going to give him more
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: ice time, is going to kind of definitely.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Have the opportunity to take that next step. I don't
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: know if he will or not.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: Shane Wright was the guy probably with the most talent,
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: but for whatever reason, it has not shown.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Up at the NHL level. I am stunned he's still
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: on this team.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: I am too, to be completely honest, especially considering all
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: the off-season drama. But for me, the guy that I
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: am most.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Here it is. I'm going to quench my thirst.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: There it is.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: The guy that I am most intrigued by slash I
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: think is the most likely to take that step eventually
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: is Berkley Catton.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: He.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: showed benton very excited many flashes last year and i
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: realized like hey like what i think he had 40
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: or 30 or 40 points last year so that's nothing
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: to bat an eye about but he has the tools
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: to become one of those guys to drive offense so
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: to speak make everyone else around him better and um
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: i think he's entering his age 21 season maybe he's
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: age 20 season actually So there's still room for growth,
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: but that's the guy I'm watching, and I think he
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: has the ability to kind of be that guy. That's
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: the big kind of question mark for the Kraken this
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: year since they didn't make any external additions.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: I'm satisfied. Next. The Mariners. My thirst is still there.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Need to get back to walking more in order for
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: the offense to be successful.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Singles, doubles, triples. Do not play at T-Mobile Park. Which
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: makes no sense. But it's true. If you look at
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: the numbers, it's true.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: So be the home run and walk team. Be a
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: team full of Kyle Schwarbers and Munataka Murakamis.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Follow them.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Not get them. It's a little exaggerating. But yes, that
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: should be what you lean into more as an offensive philosophy.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Less than the gap to gap, put the ball in play. Like,
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: strikeouts are just outs. But as much as you strike out,
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: you better walk, too. So that's kind of where it
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: evens out. You can't have one without the other.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Boy, that would be interesting. Because it makes logical sense.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: We strike out too much. We don't play enough small ball.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: We don't know how to manufacture runs. We're just sitting
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: around waiting for the home run. And if you don't
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: hit the home run, you lose.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: And if you're saying, if they actually went with, you
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: know what the problem is? We're not striking out enough.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: We need more strikeouts. Therefore, more home runs.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: More walks. More guys swinging for the fences, taking pitches.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: We're just going to be an... exclusive walk homer strikeout
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: yeah one of three options franchise three two.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Outcomes uh lean into the current game and i okay
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: i'm obviously exaggerating a little bit i don't.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Expect every short i don't expect every.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: Single player to have that mentality but i'm talking about
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: the offensive philosophy as a whole i think one of
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: the reasons julio rodriguez has really gone down offensively for
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: majority for his entire career at this point is because
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: after 2022 and 23, which were two very strong seasons
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: for him, there was this thought of, Hey, he strikes
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: out too much. You got to put the ball in play.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: And he became almost too much of a contact hitter,
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: at least in his eyes, even though his batting average
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: has also gone down.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, he is clearly like designed to go up the middle,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: go gap to gap. Edgar and Kevin have worked on
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: him with that. And maybe not as aggressive, pull happy,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: as what he was when he first came up. But
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: then again... Don't forget how many years, two, three years
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: where we spent like, why is he trying to hit
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: a 700 foot home run every at bat? I don't
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: want him to go back to that either. No, there's
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: a balance, obviously, for sure.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: Like I'm not, I'm not telling these guys to have
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: zero situational awareness and just swing for a home run
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: every single time you go to the plate. But as
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: an offensive philosophy, I think you need to have the,
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: I keep going back to Kyle Schwarber is a great example.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: He strikes out a lot.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: But he also walks a lot, and he zones in
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: on a very small area of the strike zone, and
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: he cranks everything in that zone.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I tried to trade for Kyle Schwarber two off-seasons ago.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: I love him and his team, to be completely honest.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I want to revisit. I think I gave up Castillo
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: and Munoz in that trade. I would take that. Too late.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Even if it was three years ago. I don't think
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: you liked it then.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: I like the idea of Schwarber at first and Rob
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Deere at second and Dave Kingman at shortstop. Yeah. Yeah.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Just a whole team. Mototaka Murakami. Chris Carter at third. Yeah,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: let's do it. Three true outcomes. Yeah, three true outcomes.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Gunnar Henderson would fit into that plan. Riley Green. That's
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: all he does. Yeah. I got one more. Oh, quick.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Really quick. Okay.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: A little pet peeve, non-sports related. When people squeeze the
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: toothpaste tube in the middle instead of the bottom. Just
• 31:04
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• 31:05
  Speaker 2: 100%. Infuriates me. Okay, wait. Okay. Because I might do that,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: but I have my own tube. I'm not sharing it
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: with anybody else. So does that only apply to somebody
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: if you share a tube? Yeah, because then I don't
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: have to look at it if you have your own.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: If I shared a tube and that was important to you,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: then I would squeeze from the bottom. But if I've
• 31:29
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• 31:31
  Speaker 2: want to. But then when it.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: Gets low, then you have to squeeze it from the bottom,
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: pull it all the way up.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Just squeeze it from the bottom. It automatically moves up.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: That's how you do it. Or you're just not going
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: to worry about 17 cents worth of toothpaste and you
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: toss it and you get another tube. Fair enough. You
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? Yeah. And again, that might be
• 31:50
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• 31:54
  Speaker 2: close out the show with one last thing here on
• 31:57
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  Speaker 2: All right, final segment of the radio program here. It
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  Speaker 2: one last thing? I'm going to focus.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: A lot of talk has been on the National League
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: MVP conversation between Pete Cromstrong and Shohei Otani.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: That's over, isn't it?
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: I think PCA has kind of locked that up. For me,
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: the American League MVP conversation is really interesting. I think
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: Jordan's going to win it. But there's kind of not
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: a true value placed based on this because Jordan Alvarez
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: doesn't play in the field. And yes, he's insanely good offensively,
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: the best hitter in the sport this year. But you
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: have to dock in points for the fact that he
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: doesn't play on the other side of the ball. Then
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: you have someone like Junior Caminero.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Who'd probably get my vote. I think he.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Would get mine as well, who is having a great
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: offensive year, not as good as Jordan's. is playing in
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: the field, but not at a supreme position or anything
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: like that. He's playing third base and a good third base,
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: but he's not like an elite defender or anything like that.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: But he gets value for playing in the field.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: And then even, I'm going to throw in one more,
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: Cam Schlittler for the New York Yankees, who actually has more.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: I clearly no longer host with Bucky. A pitcher gets
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: thrown into the conversation. He would never, ever put a
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: pitcher in the MVP conversation.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: Look, I'm not saying that he should get it. But
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: he at least is part of the conversation for me
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: because he, I mean, not just because he has more war.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: He has more war than both those guys. So that's
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: the kind of best example.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: But how much value he's brought into the, he's been
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: the best pitcher in the American League.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: By a large margin. That's why they have to sell
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: young Warren. I get it.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't vote for him, but he at least has
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: to be part of that. I think there's a little
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: bit of murkiness with how value is calculated with these
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: MVP discussions.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: It's not just offense. Well, I like that you are
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: including a pitcher. I would not. I think the pitcher
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: has to be a little more dominant than even Schleyer.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Littler has been in order to vote for it. But
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: there have been plenty over time. Pedro Martinez should have
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: won an MVP. So I don't think they should be
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: excluded from the conversation. So I'm at least proud of
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: you for not excluding a pitcher, a starting pitcher from
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: the conversation. All right, Travis, what's your one last thing?
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: So I have an appointment to get a haircut. later
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  Speaker 2: today boy you need it i know everyone.
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  Speaker 5: On youtube can see my my jufro that is warmed
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  Speaker 5: on my head uh so i i have a haircut
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  Speaker 5: later today and i stumbled upon this fact yesterday coincidentally
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  Speaker 5: completely just out of the blue neil armstrong became involved
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  Speaker 5: in a legal battle with his former barber of 20
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  Speaker 5: years because his barber kept his hair and sold it
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  Speaker 5: for three thousand dollars wow And Neil Armstrong sued to
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  Speaker 5: have that money either given back or donated to charity.
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  Speaker 5: And so I'm going to advise my barber today that
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  Speaker 5: they can keep my hair for when I become as
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  Speaker 5: famous as Neil Armstrong.
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  Speaker 2: And they can sell it. When you land on the moon, man,
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  Speaker 2: is that going to be terrible. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Good idea. Good plan. Thank you. It's called a retirement plan, people.
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  Speaker 2: Or I'm going to shave my head and keep my
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  Speaker 2: own hair and sell it off.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Love it. I like it. Are you back tomorrow? Do
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  Speaker 2: we know if you're back tomorrow? I don't know. You
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  Speaker 2: don't know that? I don't know that. I can't wait
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  Speaker 2: to see your new hairdo. You'll see it eventually. Eventually,
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  Speaker 2: at some point, I'll see your new hairdo. I'm going to,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I've got time to tell this story.
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  Speaker 2: Probably don't. But I have a thumb, my thumb injury,
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  Speaker 2: by the way. Yes, I had a Pop-Tart incident, as
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  Speaker 2: it's being called now.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 2: And so I do have I mean, that's a blister.
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  Speaker 2: That's a decent blister. I got a blister on my
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  Speaker 2: thumb from it. But you know what was crazy, what
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  Speaker 2: got me thinking about was Wiley Brown. You would not
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  Speaker 2: know Wiley Brown. You would not know Wiley Brown. There
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  Speaker 2: probably aren't two listeners that have heard the name Wiley Brown.
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  Speaker 2: He used to play for Louisville back in the 70s,
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  Speaker 2: the Louisville Cardinals basketball, and he had a prosthetic thumb
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  Speaker 2: that he wore. It was like a strap, and then
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  Speaker 2: the thumb was... Did he not have a thumb? No,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't have a thumb. He had to have a
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  Speaker 2: prosthetic thumb so that he could catch the ball and
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  Speaker 2: grab rebounds. And he was a very good player for
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  Speaker 2: those Louisville Cardinal teams. Well, one time they won a
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  Speaker 2: big game, and in the celebration it came off. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't think anything of it. He wasn't going to disrupt
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  Speaker 2: the celebration. Well, eventually they swept his prosthetic thumb. gathered
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  Speaker 2: up all the trash threw it away so wiley brown
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  Speaker 2: and his teammates spent like hours going through the trash
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  Speaker 2: after a louisville basketball game trying to find his prosthetic
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  Speaker 2: bum so that because he needed it because i think
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  Speaker 2: they were playing like in two days they didn't have
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  Speaker 2: extras yeah they didn't back then they didn't have extras
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  Speaker 2: you're lucky to have it it's probably homemade to begin
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  Speaker 2: with yeah probably whittled it you're right like i can't
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  Speaker 2: make another one of those by saturday.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, my thumb injury got me thinking about the best
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  Speaker 2: thumbless basketball player that I can remember. All right, we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk to you tomorrow at 6 a.m. Greg Bell and
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: his swollen foot coming your way next on Sports Radio
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