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Hour 1 – Bowl Game Bonanza · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for listening to the Ben Mahler Show podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin, We're still allowed to play this song on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: I can't.
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  Speaker 4: Can I say it. I'm gonna get so much crap
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  Speaker 4: if I say it, I'm gonna say it in.
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  Speaker 2: The air everywhere the vast Fox Sports Radio network.
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  Speaker 4: Kevin figures Adam Alslin filling in for Big Ben Malor
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  Speaker 4: here on Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 2: This is this is the big time Adam. I me
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  Speaker 2: talking about a Fox Sports Radio legend that we're sitting
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  Speaker 2: in for right now.
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  Speaker 3: Big Ben Mallor, who I used to listen to up
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  Speaker 3: on kgk AM eleven forty up in Norcl I mean
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  Speaker 3: back in the day, and now we're filling in. This
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  Speaker 3: is kind of a big deal and I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It's a holiday. Happy New Year everyone.
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  Speaker 4: Happy New Year everyone out there on the East Coast
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  Speaker 4: and everywhere else. The about an hour left in twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty five for those out west, So looking forward to
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  Speaker 4: spending the next four hours.
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  Speaker 2: With you guys. Here on Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 4: where you can hit us up and talk to us
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  Speaker 4: about whatever's on your mind. Here on the on the eve,
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  Speaker 4: on New Year's Eve, I should say I have twenty twenty
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  Speaker 4: five into twenty twenty six, depending on where you may
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  Speaker 4: be listening.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I do have to say we have some early
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  Speaker 3: technical difficulties, so don't ask me to play first off
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  Speaker 3: right now, Kevin, of.
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  Speaker 2: Course, we doll machine.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, I'm trying to play something right now.
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  Speaker 3: Bring it ain't working. It ain't working, like it's not
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  Speaker 3: on my end. All I know is this New year,
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  Speaker 3: same machine.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it is.
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  Speaker 3: No this year, she says, from nineteen ninety five. What
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  Speaker 3: do you think that's my machine playing that? I thought
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  Speaker 3: so they're just playing like random soundtrucks.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's John Loraina. Just keep him rolling.
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  Speaker 3: Why it's like one button on the sound bar, that's
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  Speaker 3: all I can tell. Uh, it's just try every button.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, Kevin, let's just start talking about the
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  Speaker 3: upset tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 3: We don't need First off, we can go back to
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  Speaker 3: the old school method. I can say first off like
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  Speaker 3: Tupac and hit him up, which is the SoundBite for
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  Speaker 3: us Miami One. Dude, it ain't New Years if you
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  Speaker 3: don't got Michael Irving bringing out the belt on a
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  Speaker 3: gatorade bottle with a jersey on it and just going
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  Speaker 3: to town like that's how you're ringing the New Year.
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  Speaker 2: Doing a little bit too much. And I love Michael Irving.
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, you can't help if you ever
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  Speaker 4: have a chance to meet the guy in nicest person
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  Speaker 4: you will ever meet in your life, will sit there
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  Speaker 4: very charismatic. We'll talk to you almost like a politician
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  Speaker 4: to a certain degree. I have nothing negative about Michael
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  Speaker 4: Irvan as a person, but man, he really is dealing
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  Speaker 4: a lot of spotlight these last few weeks from the
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  Speaker 4: University of Miami.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you think he's like sister Jean a.
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  Speaker 2: Little well, a little bit to a certain agreement.
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  Speaker 3: I rest her soul. Did she pass ever?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like she just passed earlier this year.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Well that'll be the in memoriam segment we do
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  Speaker 3: later in the show when we talk about everyone who
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  Speaker 3: passed in twenty twenty five?
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  Speaker 2: Are we doing how we're doing that? By the way,
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  Speaker 2: that's news to me. Resnuck that one in on the rundown,
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  Speaker 2: didn't she Well, she snuck up.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, Oh my god, a New Year's miracle.
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  Speaker 4: Don't get cocky, kid, you know we're only four minutes
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  Speaker 4: into the show. I think could die in an instant.
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  Speaker 3: Check out the big brain on Briabrie. First of all,
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  Speaker 3: it had nothing to do on my end, Kevin. I
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  Speaker 3: just want to make that abundantly clear. This was not
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  Speaker 3: a technical issue over on my side here, of course,
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  Speaker 3: I want to see here. Throwing Lorain under the bus
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  Speaker 3: is what it sounds like.
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  Speaker 5: Man, I do not even know what an ir machine is.
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  Speaker 5: But thank you for bringing in new stuff into the studio.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, this is old stuff for us. This is
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  Speaker 3: old s this is before you were born. This is
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  Speaker 3: raindo early nineties.
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  Speaker 5: I work with Ben Maller, one of the dinosaurs of radio.
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  Speaker 5: Don't tell me you're bringing in old stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I actually have some Ben Mallor sound here.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. So I want everybody to be clear.
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  Speaker 4: That was the reign of that said that about Ben,
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  Speaker 4: and that was Adam that said that band was an
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  Speaker 4: old ass Dinosaurka the malin militia.
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  Speaker 2: Coming after me anyway, because I know how you guys operate.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm trying to be on my best behavior here tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not. It's the end of twenty twenty five. I'm
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  Speaker 3: going out sad. What does it matter?
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  Speaker 2: Holiday?
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  Speaker 3: Here we be, Look, Santa Claus, it's past. I got
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  Speaker 3: plenty of time to make up for being on the
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  Speaker 3: naughty list, now do you. And speaking of Ben Maller,
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  Speaker 3: Adam Ashland, I mean he literally called me Ashland before
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  Speaker 3: Adam Ashland.
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  Speaker 4: He's not alone though, I mean been multiple personalities who
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  Speaker 4: have called you out of your name before.
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  Speaker 2: Adam Aslin, Adam Ashlin.
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  Speaker 3: Adam Ashwish. I mean Brian Oslin, Brian Ausland. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if you don't even get the first name right, like
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  Speaker 3: I do. Have credit cards, Kevin, that's say l A
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  Speaker 3: N D instead of l U n d. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: when we put up that cliff last week, as we
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  Speaker 3: had Petro's papadaekas on but trying to bite a real show,
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  Speaker 3: who joined us and eviscerated the USC Trojans because he's
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  Speaker 3: like from there, he has ownership on that story.
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  Speaker 2: God, he's not the only one. You see what Linda
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  Speaker 2: White sweety yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I did not Lyndell or I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: I can repeat it on the air, put it that way.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know he popped his head up. I haven't.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't thought about Lindell White in a long time, since.
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  Speaker 2: He's thought a lot about the USC football program. I'll
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  Speaker 2: say that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, the fact that he didn't have that block in
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  Speaker 3: front of him to get that first down. But even
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  Speaker 3: the Fox Sports Radio little clip we put out with
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  Speaker 3: Petro saying if that if everything talking about Matt Lioner
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  Speaker 3: trying to make excuses for USC, even that said l
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  Speaker 3: A and d Adam oz Land like I'm from the
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  Speaker 3: land of oz It shot him. I can't get away
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  Speaker 3: from it. But that's fine, everything's fine now, we're good. No,
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  Speaker 3: I am over it.
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  Speaker 2: If everything's perfectly all right? Now we're fine. We're all
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  Speaker 2: fine here now, thank you?
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  Speaker 3: How are you You know where things aren't fine? Well,
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  Speaker 3: they're never fine there, but Ohio, Ohio losing this ballgame tonight,
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  Speaker 3: Kevin in the fashion they did being the number two seed.
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  Speaker 3: The main takeaway I have, the Colin Cowherd takeaway is this,
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  Speaker 3: thank goodness, we at least have a twelve team playoff,
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  Speaker 3: and thank goodness Miami got in because they have more
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  Speaker 3: than proven themselves. Notre Dame. I'm sorry, Brady Quinn, you
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  Speaker 3: guys have zero case. Not only did Miami beat you,
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  Speaker 3: they beat Texas A and m who beat you, and
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  Speaker 3: now they've taken out Ohio State to move on rolling
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  Speaker 3: their way into the semis.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this part is hard.
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, a few people when the very
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  Speaker 4: beginning of this debate happened between Miami and Notre Dame
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  Speaker 4: and being seven places apart in the initial CFP rankings,
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  Speaker 4: I was championing Miami the entire time. And yes, obviously
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  Speaker 4: Miami deserves to be here, and it was a great
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  Speaker 4: victory over Ohio State, in a great victory over an
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  Speaker 4: m last week. But I can't necessarily say that, well,
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  Speaker 4: this means that Notre Dame doesn't deserve to be in
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  Speaker 4: because who's to say Notre Dame basically played the exact
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  Speaker 4: same way that Miami played these last two weeks or
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  Speaker 4: whatever it's been. I guess it's been two weeks in
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  Speaker 4: between games or whatever it was between their last their
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  Speaker 4: playoff win in the first round. But ground and pound,
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  Speaker 4: dominant defense, that is how Notre Dame has won all
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  Speaker 4: season long. So I can't necessarily say that if Notre
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  Speaker 4: Dame made it to the situation and Miami didn't, that
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  Speaker 4: we wouldn't necessarily have the same results.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you're right, but Miami certainly is deserving at this.
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  Speaker 2: Point without a doubt.
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  Speaker 3: Kial didn't go in and just get run over by
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  Speaker 3: the Aggies. That didn't happen. They went into one of
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  Speaker 3: the toughest environments and got an ugly road victory. And then,
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  Speaker 3: as you mentioned, the Tito or Tea's ground and pound
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  Speaker 3: game traveled today to the Cotton Bowl to get this win.
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  Speaker 3: Over what I think I mean, most brackets for the
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  Speaker 3: playoff are busted, Kevin. They are Remember what we used
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  Speaker 3: to do for the bracket challenge back in the day.
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  Speaker 3: Look at the flowers. Flowers.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have to bring that back for college basketball
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  Speaker 4: Season two. I guess right, bringing in him out the CFP,
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  Speaker 4: why they hell not?
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  Speaker 3: People are going to be confused with all the guns
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  Speaker 3: being shot up into the air tonight. Yeah no, kidd
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  Speaker 3: at midnight here on the West coast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, in Ohio State, who I mean, without question, mostly
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  Speaker 4: has the most NFL talent on their roster, first round
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  Speaker 4: picks up and down, and for them to lose the
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  Speaker 4: way they lost against Indiana, Granted that was a close,
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  Speaker 4: tight game too, but Indiana kind of dominated them up front,
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  Speaker 4: and you can say for the most part of this game,
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  Speaker 4: and I know they made their run in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: The exact same thing happened with Miami.
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  Speaker 4: One thing we've said about the University of Miami under
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  Speaker 4: myro Crystal Ball, any team that he coaches, they're going
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  Speaker 4: to be good in the trenches, and that's exactly what
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  Speaker 4: they were early in this game, well, being able to
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  Speaker 4: bust off runs in the run game and really stuff
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  Speaker 4: Ohio State, and he has them to get nothing going
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  Speaker 4: offensively the entire first half of the game.
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  Speaker 3: They started with that level of physicality and they finished
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  Speaker 3: with that level of physicality while also going seven to
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  Speaker 3: fourteen on third downs mixed in on huge plays where
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  Speaker 3: at one point Carson Beck completed thirteen straight passes in
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  Speaker 3: the first half. A lot of them were dink and
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  Speaker 3: dunk passes, but in a game against Ohio State, you
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  Speaker 3: might have to do that, Julian saying, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying, he completed ten straight to start the second half.
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  Speaker 2: He was spectacular.
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  Speaker 3: I think the turning point of the ball game was
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  Speaker 3: they're down by three. They get the ball back from
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  Speaker 3: Miami at seventeen fourteen and the first penalty of the
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  Speaker 3: game got cold was seven minutes left in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 3: and it was a hold on Ohio State and it
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  Speaker 3: put them in a third and twenty situation. They got
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  Speaker 3: a short yardage gain out of it, they had to punt,
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  Speaker 3: and then on that punt they had another penalty. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they redid it and it ended up being a much
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  Speaker 3: worse punt where it was like a difference of twenty
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  Speaker 3: yards where Miami was starting with on that final drive instead.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the big thing the difference for me
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  Speaker 4: in the game was really the protection up front, because
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  Speaker 4: Julian Saying has basically been as great as he's been
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  Speaker 4: completely over over eighty percent of its passes, great numbers,
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  Speaker 4: but I think a lot of that was due to
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  Speaker 4: the fact that he had all data throw. He had
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  Speaker 4: all data throw all season long. These last two games
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  Speaker 4: against Indiana and Miami was sacked ten times, five times
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  Speaker 4: in each game.
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  Speaker 2: Run for his life.
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  Speaker 4: I will say this, in the second half of the
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  Speaker 4: game on Friday night, he showed himself well in that
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  Speaker 4: second half and the having that pressure as well as
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  Speaker 4: he possibly could trying to get out make plays. And
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  Speaker 4: you mentioned the h RA completions that he made two
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  Speaker 4: touchdown passes. He played well in the second half. But
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  Speaker 4: the exact opposite for what happened with Carson Beck, who's
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  Speaker 4: been more of your game manager type. If anything, Carson
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  Speaker 4: Beck is a guy that you don't want throwing the
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  Speaker 4: ball more than twenty five thirty times a game because
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  Speaker 4: he is prone to throwing interceptions. And these first two
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  Speaker 4: playoff victories from Miami, he's been a game manager, and
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the recipe for them to be able
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  Speaker 4: to win.
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  Speaker 3: If you told me somebody threw an I inc on
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  Speaker 3: a screen pass that went seventy two yards the other
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  Speaker 3: way in this ball game, I would have thought it
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  Speaker 3: was Carson Beck, not Julian saying that's the other thing.
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  Speaker 3: They miss a field goal, they give them seven points
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  Speaker 3: to Miami's defense. The margins are so slim in a
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  Speaker 3: battle like this. Now, Ohio State did recover after being
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  Speaker 3: down fourteen to nothing in the first half and missing
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  Speaker 3: that field goal at the end of it to come back,
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  Speaker 3: and then I think they had like two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: thirty yards on their next three drives and they kept coming,
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  Speaker 3: but Miami was able to keep them at bay even
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  Speaker 3: when you saw, I mean, Ohio State gets that touchdown
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  Speaker 3: with Bo Jackson, different Bo Jackson to start the second half.
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  Speaker 3: Mammy comes right back and kicks a fifty yard field
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  Speaker 3: goal where by the way, they recover their own fumble
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  Speaker 3: just to stay in fuel goal range to knock that
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  Speaker 3: down when their kicker was one for four last week
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  Speaker 3: with the wind, you could say, but against the Aggies,
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  Speaker 3: that was a huge play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I also want to say there's an excuse floating
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  Speaker 4: out there that, well, you know, Ryan Day, it took
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  Speaker 4: the play calling duties away from Brian Hartline because Heartline
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  Speaker 4: is distracted as a new head coach of South Florida
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  Speaker 4: has too much on his plate, which I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if it's necessarily wrong to a certain degree, especially knowing
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  Speaker 4: how the portal works and all this. These guys there's
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  Speaker 4: no way they can be fully committed to the current
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  Speaker 4: job when they know they have a future job that's
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  Speaker 4: of much more importance when they're head coach of a
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  Speaker 4: new program. I don't know if I can say that
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  Speaker 4: because I don't think execution or play calling was an
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  Speaker 4: issue for Ohio State. I think they just got beat
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  Speaker 4: like that that picks six, and I think Dusted said
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  Speaker 4: this on the telecast. It was like, that's just film study.
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  Speaker 4: Like the way that he read that play. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: Julian Sayin telegraphed the pass and he jumped it and
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  Speaker 4: ran it back. That was nothing but just heads up
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  Speaker 4: play by the defensive back and you know, being able
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  Speaker 4: to get stuffs in the run fits and all that.
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  Speaker 4: All of that was just execution. I just thought Miami
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  Speaker 4: executed better than Ohio State. So I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: I can necessarily blame this on play calling O'Ryan days part,
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  Speaker 4: especially based on the fact that was to your point,
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  Speaker 4: Ohio State's offense woke up in the second half. They
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  Speaker 4: just couldn't recover from their slow start.
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  Speaker 3: And the other excuse being made for Ohio State is
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  Speaker 3: they almost had a month off between games and that
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  Speaker 3: they had what happened to Oregon last season where they
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  Speaker 3: got the buy that the number one seed. I know,
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State was number two, but Oregon looked ill prepared
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  Speaker 3: for that. Ohio State buzz saw last season that had
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  Speaker 3: to beat Tennessee to get to them, And now Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State has the layoff and you talk about rest versus rust.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if that first half was just rust
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  Speaker 3: or physicality and them getting their ass beat out there,
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  Speaker 3: because Mario Cristobaul postgame on SVP on the Evil four
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  Speaker 3: Letter was like, hats off to our guys because we're
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  Speaker 3: some tough ass sons of bitches out there, and they were,
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  Speaker 3: and they have molers and we knew this coming into
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  Speaker 3: the season. Early in the year when they beat Notre Dame,
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  Speaker 3: we were all talking about how physical they were in
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  Speaker 3: the trenches. John Madden was right, it always goes back
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  Speaker 3: to winning the game in the trenches because everything starts
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  Speaker 3: there and everything can fall apart there if you don't
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  Speaker 3: have your es and order. In Ohio State, Julians saying
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  Speaker 3: in the first half, the way he was under duress,
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  Speaker 3: like it was hey, you better back it up. He
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  Speaker 3: was running for his life like it was brutal to watch,
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  Speaker 3: and they had another big sack in the second half
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  Speaker 3: on him that proved to be crucial. So they started strong,
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  Speaker 3: They started with that physicality, they finished with it, and
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  Speaker 3: they had their own screen pass really to put the
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  Speaker 3: ball game away on that third down late Miami.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The big thing for me, I guess is the fact
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  Speaker 4: that they were able to get contributions from other players
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  Speaker 4: other than Malachi Tony. Everybody knew was the biggest offensive
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  Speaker 4: threat that Miami had, and you knew Ohio State was
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  Speaker 4: going to look to take that away, and they did that.
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  Speaker 4: But the fact that Miami was able to run the
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  Speaker 4: ball for over one hundred and fift yards against the
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  Speaker 4: Ohio State team and put up the amount of points
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  Speaker 4: they put up against Ohio State, who allowed what an
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  Speaker 4: average of like eight point nine points per game, yeah
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  Speaker 4: or something this season.
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  Speaker 3: It was the best defense since twenty eleven Bama.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, it was an incredible effort by the
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: University of Miami.
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: So I would like to give them flowers and talk
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: more about what they did right than people harping on
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: what Ohio State did wrong.
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they did twist the pure snipple of
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: Ryan Day in this game, and he looked upset Blackbeard
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: himself out there. I also because he's been so good
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: in the past when he was calling plays. I don't
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: know if that had anything to do with it. He
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: wasn't calling plays against Indiana when it looked like, oh
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: they had a governor on and that was the excuse.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: Then well, they're not letting that dog off the leash yet.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: They're gonna wait for the playoffs to really turn up. Well,
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: you take a month off, do you lose some of
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: that competitive edge out there? And then if you have
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: to find it after getting your butts kicked in the
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: first half just to get into year, it's too late.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: Miami was too good. If they played this game ten times,
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: Miami might beat him six out of ten.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: I could see that.
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it's one of those there, to a certain degree,
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: kind of evenly matched because they're stylistically built the same way,
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: physical upfront, and who's gonna win a physical matchup? I mean,
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: when you're built the way those teams are both built
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: to your point in time or to your point it
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: can go back and forth. On any given day, who
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: was just more physical, who was able to make the
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: plays on that given day, and on Friday Night, it
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: just happened to be Miami. I guess my question to
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: you would be based on how Miami played against A
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: and M and against Friday Night. Is there a team
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: that they can't beat? I mean, why can't they win
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: the National Championship? If you're gonna be that stout defensively,
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: I know you might need a little bit more punch
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: offensively here and there. But if you're gonna be that
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: good on offense, you already played against one of the
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: best offensive lines, one of the best offensive units you're
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: going to face in this postseason.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Why can't you make a deep run to the championship?
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: Who can't you beat?
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: Well? George is very familiar with Carson Beck, and I
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: expect them to beat Old Miss tomorrow and that should
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: be the matchup in the next round.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Corre.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying they can't beat Georgia, but Georgia would
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: be favored against them, and I will doubt that the edge.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: I just think they're more dynamic. I don't trust Miami
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: enough to make as many of those crucial fifty to
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: fifty plays on those third down conversions, like they were
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: able to win this game just because Carson Beck can
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: go the other way very quickly at times. With him now,
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: he's been okay in big games and I'm rooting for him,
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: and I think it's a really interesting storyline if they
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: end up taking on Georgia. But I mean, your defense
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: keeps you in it. If you can run the ball
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: like that and still play defense, you're gonna be in
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: the game. I just think Georgia is a player too,
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: better on offense than Miami.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think most people felt that about Ohio
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: State comingga into Friday night's game too and saw how
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: that played. It's played itself out. So I guess congratulations
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: to University at Miami. And if you're Ryan Day, you're
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: probably back on the hot seat again because that's what
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Ohio how Ohio State works. If you imagine, by the
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: way Kyle Winningham comes in has a phenomenal seat an
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: end of the year.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Next year, Michigan.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: Beats Ohio State and Ohio State's probably gonna make the
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: playoff again. I'm sure they will, but you imagine what
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: happens if they lose to Michigan and don't win the
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: national championship next year, what people are gonna.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Say, Oh, yeah, he'll be right back where he was
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: square one. He is a year removed from having one
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: of the most dominant runs and winning the first ever
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: twelve team playoff. By the way, what have.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: You done for me lately? Because apparently what happens in
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: the past twenty four months isn't lately.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know there was so much disappointment and there
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: were a lot of losses to Michigan, but they were
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: able to win on the biggest stage. Now, some fans
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: might say, well, that was Chip Kelly. That was different.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: That was Chip Kelly. That's what they might say, because
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: he knew Oregon and they lit them up. Where was
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: that at the Rose Bowl? I believe last year when
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: it wasn't raining as much. Yeah, it's the same cross
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: to bear. It is difficult. It is a high pressure
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: situation for him always, But you knew what you signed
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: up for, and yeah, he'll be under the hot seat.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: But Julian Sand's coming.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Back right, Yep.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: They got a good young quarterback. They should still be
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: very competitive.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Oh, they'll be better than competitive. They're they're gonna win,
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: you know, a ten eleven games again next season. They
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: just they're returning too many guys. Even if they lose
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: a bunch of guys, they have five stars right behind
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: them coming in, so they're not gonna them being in
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: the playoff next year.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I don't think is gonna be an issue.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: This was so disappointing of a loss, though, because they
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: were double digit favorites at one point this week they
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: ended up I think minus nine and a half over Miami.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: So people aren't gonna forget this. Lord knows, somebody with
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: the belt will definitely not be forgetting this. I love it, honestly.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: It makes me laugh every time. The belt to ask
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: movement that has been going on in sports now and
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Michael Irving doing the most with it tonight, I'm good
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: with it.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: I'm sure it's not his intention to draw attention away
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: from the team, but to a certain degree I think
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: it does. It's like you can be on the sideline
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: and cheer when the team does well, but you're doing
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: a little.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Too much for me, Mike, he thinks he's on the
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: team still he does.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, what was that speech he gave?
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: It was Jamis Winston Esque afterwards talking about you're not
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: gonna take away my glory speaking about the past. Yeah,
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: I'm here for it. But I know we got more
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: to talk about with college football because there are some
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: games that are being overlooked right now, Kevin. And it's
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: kind of a change into the guard. It's a new
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: era of college football. When you got twelve teams in
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: how much do you care about these bowl games going on?
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: We had Texas Michigan earlier and as our friend David
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Vass would say, it was kind of whole hum. It
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: was a little bit ho hum out there. We'll talk
• 19:32
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• 21:37
  Speaker 3: just a few.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Huh.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Do they still have a Liberty Bowl? Was that happening today?
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: I'm confused.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I believe the.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Liberty Bowl does still exist. I know there was the
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Liberty Mutual Classic Bowl or something like that earlier. Today
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: it's on Friday. It's on Friday between Navy and Cincinnati.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Oh Brilliantah, I'll meet you there.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the point.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: It's not the same. The bowl games have outlived their usefulness.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Now if their usefulness is so much about money, that
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: maybe does happen. Yeah that what do you always say, Kevin?
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: The answer is money?
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: What was the question?
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: That's I stole that from Rick Neuheisel. But it's true
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: when it comes to these situations. So I looked into
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: this Adam too. So if you go back to last year,
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: so the end of twenty twenty four, all these bowl
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: games that were happening in December, some of the ones
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: that were not of note per se, you know, the
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Relia Quest Bowl, the Pop Tarts Ball, the alim Moo Bowl.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: You realize all of these lesser bowls that were not playoff.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Playoff games average between six and eight million viewers. That's
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: pretty significant during the holidays when you're putting on live
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: for I understand why if you're ESPN and Petrols told
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: us this on the on our FNA show last week
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: on Friday, Like, look, it's it's a TV event for
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: for the for they want to have some live sports
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: to put on. There's nothing else going on during the holiday.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: You put some live programming, you're gonna get eyeballs. Even
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: if it's just background noise, You're you're gonna get viewership.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: So I understand why they still do it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Passive viewing.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Heah, it's more of like a passive viewing for a
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: lot of people to be honest with you, like.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Me and the end of Stranger Things because it sucks. No,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: I haven't seen it all yet, no spoiler alert, but
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: six to eight million viewers. Yeah, the NBA Finals was
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: doing that last year. This is happening with random bowl
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: games right now now.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Grant if it's the Pop Tart Bowl and I have
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: to guess which Pop Tart is coming out at the
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: end of the game, then sure I might tune in
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: for that.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I thought I saw a pop tart at a barbecue,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: like who was getting barbecued? Like they threw it on
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: the barbecue there to advertise for it. Now, if it
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: was the brown sugar and cinnamon one, my fay, I
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: don't care which what charcoal gets on that thing, I'm
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: good with it.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: I take down force four six of those things easily.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Back in the day, the money will always justify the
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: bowl games.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I do care about his money.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: But back when it was the BCS and it was
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: one game for the championship, there was no tournament. There
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: was no four team playoff, definitely not a twelve team
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: playoff like we have now. We were starved for just
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: more college football. We'll take what we can get, and
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: those one off games, those bowl games, they felt like
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: little mini championships, like the mini Boss before the Final Boss.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Like say you're playing streets a Rage, you play the
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: weird guy with the knives at the beginning, and then
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: by the end you're taking on mister X.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Well, the you have Shiva whatever or Shiva whatever his
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: name is, and then you can say mister X is
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: just sitting in his chair creepily staring at you, fighting Shiva.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: And then once you beat him, he jumps from behind
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: the chair and brings out a giant machine gun.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: When's fifty cent doing the documentary on mister X. I've
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: always wondered about them all, but it was different. Before
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: we had all these games with real stakes, where teams
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: were moving on, we were just happy to get You
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: remember when Oklahoma took on Alabama. I think it was
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: the Sugar Bowl and it was still Bob Stoops versus
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: is Nick Saban, and I think Oklahoma won, And that's
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: when we really started to get that narrative of, well,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: if the SEC wins, it's because of the dominant conference.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: You know what it was? It was Utah at them.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: It was Utah Winningsham's first year and I believe it
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: was Saban's second year at Alabama something like it was
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: early in his Alabama tenure. I think before they ever
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: won a national title. And yes, you're one hundred percent right.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: Utah went into the Sugar Bowl and ran Alabama off
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: the field, and the narrative was why Alabama didn't want
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: to be there anyway? They had a greater site. They
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: had their site set on the National Championship. This is
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: a letdown, which I always thought was total bs. You
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: if you're on the field, you're practiced for a month
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: leading up to the game you're playing. We didn't have
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: a transfer portal back then. All your guys suited up, which,
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: by the way, I think is a big part of it.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: I'll get back to that in the second. But don't
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: give me the excuse because if Alabama would have won,
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: it's like, oh, another victory in the bowls bowl season
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: for it.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: The SEC is what they do.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so you just can't flip the narrative based on
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: what's convenient for you. But a big part for me
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: that takes away from the from of these bowls. It's
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: not the fact that it's like not the BCS anymore,
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: not the fact that they're not playoff games. I'm fine
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: with non playoff bowl games. The problem is there's such
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: high roster turnover. Guys are entering the portal once the
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: regular season ends. Half the time, you don't know who's
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: going to be there and not. Players are opting out
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: left and right. If they're opting out because they're in
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: the portal, or they're opting out because they have the
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: designs of going into the NFL draft, which I understand.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: We're never going to forget the Jalen Smith injury in
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: a non playoff BCS game or whatever it was back
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: back in the day at Notre Dame and it ruined
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: his entire career in his future, so I understand why
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: they do it. But players took pride and playing in
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: those bowl games, whether it was the Sugar Bowl, the
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Rolls Bowl, or the Capitol Won Bowl or something like that.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: All the players took pride and actually going, taking the
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: trip and playing in the game, and we had compelling matchups.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Now you have no idea who's going to be suiting
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: up for a team in a bowl game because these
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: guys are all entering the portal once the season ends.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: That's fair too, but for me, the relevancy of bowl
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: games stops when you know longer have teams that would
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: be top ten in a tournament, a fictitious one we
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: never had back in the day, which we do have now,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: so now we get to actually watch a playoff. So
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: it's just not the same if I'm watching LSU or
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Alabama or Boise State. Like we were very intrigued with
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Kellen Moore and those Boise State teams and their bowl games,
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: and it was bs when they pitted them against TCU.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: I remember they didn't want to put them up against
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: an SEC team in case they lost. That stuff was
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: really intriguing. Now it's just whatever, when's the next playoff game?
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: When's the next game that actually matters out there? When
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: you have twelve teams involved. Even when you had four
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: teams involved, bowl games still meant more to me. Now
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: it's still everybody has their own traditions, and the viewership
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: seems to be high enough to I guess justify them
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: continuing here because the money is always going to say so.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: But it just doesn't feel like the traditional Bowl season
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: like we used to have.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not like games have not been entertained.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: I mean on Friday, Michigan in Texas was much more
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: higher scoring than I ever thought it would be. Iown,
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Vanderbilt was good and they have both of their starting quarterbacks.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: In that matchup, Arizona and Duke was high scoring, entertaining
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: USC and TCU went to overtime. It's not that the
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: games aren't necessarily competitive. It just, like I say, it
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: just feels different, and I think it's because for me,
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: at the very least, as someone who considers himself a
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: little bit of a college football purist. Again, I do
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: not mind postseason bowls that are not playoff games, but
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: I can't have it.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: It's not gonna matter to me if it doesn't matter
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: to the players.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Well, we have the big issue for me, pass on
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: playing in a bowl game this season.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Multiple teams, by the way, Pass were playing bowl.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Game, but one was out of spite in Notre Dame.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: That tells you about the relevancy, like they don't even care.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: They view it as a consolation prize that nobody wants.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: High level players aren't competing if they know they have
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: a future in the NFL and they're not making big
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: nil money now to justify you know, the insurance or
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: whatever you need to play in a game like that.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: I think USC had twelve guys opt out. Now, that's
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: not an excuse for losing a TCU who had their
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: backup quarterback in there with the horn Frogs, of course,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: but still, yes, if you don't have the best players,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: you really aren't grading who's the better team coming out
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: of that game?
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: As much, yes, just as it glorified.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: I mean they're glorified exhibitions anyway to a certain degree,
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: but even more so at that point. Because look, the
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: and one thing that people who try to defend this
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: will say is like, well there's extra ball practices looking
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: ahead to the next season. Twenty percent of FBS players
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: transfer out at the end of the year, So you
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: have no idea all these practices that you're banking up
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: in December, I could be with a group of guys
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: who are not even gonna end up being there by
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: the time you get to spring ball.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: So what do the practices really mean at that point?
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Well, and we did have Brady Papinga on with us
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: recently and there was a Brady versus Brady, a Brady
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: off that the Brady Bowl actually was pretty good this
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: season between him and Brady Quinn here on Fox Sports Radio.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: And I do understand what Brady Quinn is saying, like
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: I'm not risking anything for what is pretty much a
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: meaningless game. I also understand what Brady Papina said, some
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: of that practice time could be valuable to guys, and
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: more so than anything what he said, it can be
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: a slippery slope at one point at what point do
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: we get to guys just packing it in at the
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: end of seasons because they aren't making the playoff. They
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: got four or five losses, it's a down year. They
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: don't want to risk injury either. We don't want to
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: head down that path. Now all of a sudden, regular
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: seasons are being more and more diminished, as people are
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: already worried about that with expanding the playoffs too. I
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: don't want to see that happen. So I understand both
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: sides of the debate. I probably would lean towards Brady
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Quinn a little bit more.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, I will say this, Adam, who's to say
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: that's not gonna happen, especially if there's a program that
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: has high enough expectations. If you are I'm just I'll
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: say Florida State or something, Hey, I expectations coming into
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: the season.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Things obviously didn't go the way that you planned.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: After you at the big up at the start of
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: the year against Alabama, If you are a no doubt
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: first round, top ten pick or something like that, and
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: you saw by the time you got to early November
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: that this season was in the dumpster, it will not
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: surprise me at all in the next couple of years
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: of a guy that says, yeah, I know there's three
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: games left in the regular season, but I'm leaving now.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: It's not a good sign to show to NFL teams.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: You're basically quitting on your team at that point in
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: time as part of the interview process. Almost But if
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: you're talented enough, I mean, look at the guys who
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: can get drafted into the NFL, Guys who with all
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: the things that some of these guys have done, If
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: you're talented enough, note that's.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Not gonna matter.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, talent over everything, that wouldn't be a concern or
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: the deciding factor for an NFL team, of course.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: So even taking the Bowl, if Bulls go away out
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: of that equation, I think that's probably something that's going
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: to come to a head at some point here in
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: the next couple of years.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: In the end, as much as we're bitching about bowls
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: and you know, getting after our member Barris here pretty
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: pretty hard. While it is the end of twenty twenty five,
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: in the end, do they really hurt any one by
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: continuing season. Maybe it's not like it used to be,
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: but it doesn't hurt anything. We still get our playoff.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: We still get our bowl games. They're there if you
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: want them, that's the thing.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: They're there if you want them, and plenty in between
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: six and eight million people apparently want them.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, one thing I've heard that I would want proposal.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I heard a couple of weeks ago that I actually
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: Some have come up with what if you took a
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: portion of the ball, because Petros brought this up to
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: us when we had them on our show. There's too
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: many baths, there's too many bowl games. There's not enough
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: good teams to fill the bowl games. So what I
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: would do is take some of these balls and move
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: them to the front of the season and have them
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: be like some part of like your college football kickoff
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: week or two weeks so whatever, and have these sponsorships
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: attached to these ball games at these neutral sites.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Maybe have a slotting system like you have now.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: The third ranked Big twelve team from the previous season
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: faces the third ranked SEC team from the previous season,
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: and they both play each other in the Sun Bowl.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Whatever it is.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Because the supply is supply and demand, the demand is
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: so high because people are just starved for college foot well,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: they will take anything. At the beginning of the season right. Well,
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: now we're being more picky and chuesy because we actually
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: have a twelve team playoff and we're like, ah, these
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: bull games. I don't know, maybe maybe the milk's gone
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: bad here on some of these things.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: But if Tennessee and Illinois are playing each other in
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: mid August, You're like, oh my god, this could be great,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: this could be a separator. This is like, these are
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: two I mean, solid programs in the in the Big ten,
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: in the SEC.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Who knows people are feeding for those games, like Michael
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Urbans feeding to get that belt out, But it's a
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: good use. I was gonna say something else was feeding there.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, look like he's a remember of jobasy the
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: ways out there taking his belt off and gyrating out
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: there on the sideline, just talking about feening.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: First of all, if I still have a six pack,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: it's sixty or whatever he is, And that was showing
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: off tonight, like he could actually go out there and
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: wear that mid riff jersey that they all used to
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: wear and look pretty damn good. Michael Irwy's in great shape.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Ezekiel Elliott wishes he had that.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: That's Oh yeah, well, are you doing too much?
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Eating. He's all eating.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Coming up next is FNA filling in for Ben Malor.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: We do have a little bit of stranger than fiction
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: for you, an animal addition, And I know we're almost
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: out of twenty twenty five, but snakes aren't gonna be
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: left in twenty twenty five. They're not going extinct. They
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: will still be with us in twenty twenty six. Thanks. Well,
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: that have to be snakes. As to my Happy New Year, well,
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: well we can get into that coming up next, because
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: I will tell you how to navigate the situation with snakes,
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: especially in Florida, Florida, man everywhere, but also in Australia.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: That's coming up next and Stranger than fiction as it's
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: FNA on FSR. I'm at Supulvida and Ventura come down
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: any day.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: FNA Cottonna Kevin figures out.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: I'm also back with you guys, filling in for Big
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: Ben Malard here on Fox Sports Radio. Coming up next hour,
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: got a very important question for you guys, and you
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: could chime in on X I can't fig one and
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: that follow out and make and also check in at
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox as we headed
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: to the New year, what change would you make to
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: your favorite sport or any sport for that matter. You
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: give me a sport that you hate, and he's like,
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: you know what, I'm so damn tired of football. Why
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: don't they use their feet more? If they use their
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: feet more in football, damn it, I will love it
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: more and I would accept it.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Who is the guy on sixty minutes, Kevin that you
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: have referenced many times back in the day, was like,
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: why is a orange called an orange, but a banana
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: is a banana? Why don't they call it a yellow?
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: I don't remember, that's right, ipund.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: It a little bit like that type of logic there
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: for a second, but I liked it.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, hey, whatever works for you.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: That's not necessarily where I'm going with it, but just
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: to give you a very elementary example of where you
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: can go with it, there it is.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: I'm going to make a change. The Clippers stopped losing.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Actually that's already happened.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Well, look at you, O.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Brie just rolled her eyes.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: What do they so they're only like, what thirteen games
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: under five hunds?
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Right? Did you know Brie's still playing an ugly sweater contest?
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: And she has her Phoenix Sun sweater on tonight. B
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: you notice fighting words, Brie, Brie.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: By the way, you notice how he just glossed over
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: my Clippers record despite the fact that they.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Can thirteen games underth mind mind er, do you want
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: to keep we can just keep saying that all show
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: it's actually just ten to now, Thank you very much.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, damn really closing in on the Utaw jazz there, Adam,
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: good job, guys.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of season left. Let me tell you something.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of show left here too, But we
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: got to get to stranger things.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Fast food customer defending perticies n called nine one one
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: after her McDonald's run out of McNuggets.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Strange.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: You can't give a drunk man riding a horse at
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: ewy and he got Unlike cards, ardes don't have motors,
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: they have in mind in their own Strange things begin.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Twenty four year old man now Jusa.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: They're throwing an alligator through a drive through window. Strange, Okay,
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: it's stranger than fiction here. You know, in Australia they
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: get to the New Year before most anywhere else in
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: the world, as they're nineteen hours ahead of us. Here
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: on the West Coast in the United States. So they
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: have seen the future and it's apparently much more dangerous
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: than we could have ever imagined, not only because maybe
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: the world financial system is about to crash and only
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Cooigne will be accepted and we're back to being subjects
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: of King Kanye West in twenty twenty six. Now that's
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: like a black Mirror episode I never need to see.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: It's because animals appear to be getting more and more
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: threatening and dangerous as they become more comfortable with us humans.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: So it's not all fun and games with the animal kingdom.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Like Jack Black and Paul Rudd running around with that
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: new Anaconda movie that's a comedy. Snakes, Why have to
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: be snakes? John Boyd didn't get swallowed, spit up and
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: then swallowed again for them to make Anaconta into a comedy.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: All right, But speaking of the movies, I'm speaking of Kanye, Well,
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: there is Snakes on a Plane, and Kanye had his
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: own snakes on a Plane line in a song before.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: Never seen snakes on a plane. There's snakes in a
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Subaru in Australia. As this week there was a coastal
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: carpet python that took a magic carpet type of ride
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: as it attached itself to a family vehicle and the
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: stowaway snake traveled nine hours across Queensland from Toowoomba to
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: the Central Coast as it was hitching a ride like
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Green Day on the fuel tank of the car. When
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: the family saw the three foot python underneath the chassis,
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: they pulled over at an Australian reptile park to have
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: a snake handler uncoil it. I'm just surprised they actually
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: have a reptile park. It seems redundant, Like, isn't Australia
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: just basically one big reptile park with dangerous animals everywhere?
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, if it's not the sharks, then the reptiles
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: will get you.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: I didn't know they needed parks or zoos there. The
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: whole continent is just that.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Well, the kangaroo will come and kick the crap out
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: of you too. Yeah.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: The wild animal thing we got in San Diego has
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: nothing on Australia. Australian Reptile Park Head of Reptiles, though,
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Dialon Wallace.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Dialon Dialond Dialond dialand dialand.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Said he's never seen a snake travel that distance before again.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Talk to Kanye about how far he went in that plane.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: But you snake huggers out there, don't worry. It was
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: on the fuel tank, which means it was safe because
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: the elements weren't getting to it on its nine hour
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: trip across the country and the continent. And I guess
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: being close to the turning wheels created like a lot
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: of ventilation to keep the snake cool.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the snake was a python again and unfortunately they
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: just shipped its ass back to Queensland. It made that
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: nine hour trip and they just.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Said I came all the way this damn way for
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: nothing and he throw me your rat or something. At least,
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: jeez Bill.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: It took that trip for a reason. To the Central Coast.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: I never thought that I'd be sympathizing with a freaking python,
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: but here I am.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: That snake. Want to see the beaches in the Central Coast, right,
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: They want a little vacation, little vaca. I wanted to
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: slither on the beaches, looking at the beaches, checking out
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: the honeys there.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: I always get worried about a python getting flushed down
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: the toilet in my apartment complex, and then I'm sitting
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: there and it goes through the pipes.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: And I did see win animals attack situation years ago,
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: when I've been haunted by that ever since.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: So yes, I'm right there with you.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: Things I probably have no that don't necessarily have to
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: be paranoid about, but I most definitely am.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: If I lived in Australia. Instead of one of those
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: bumper stickers that said, you know when cat haters have
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: one that says, can't find your cat, check under my tire,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: I'd say, if you can't find your pet python, seriously,
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: just check under your tire. It might be there. On
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: a nine hour road trip. They attached them selves there.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: He's getting figures. I'm I'm Moslin. It's FNA in for
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Ben Mallor here on Fox Sports Radio