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EA Sports College Football 26 Release Day: Buckeyes To Know For The Game · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Monday, July seventh. I'm
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  Speaker 1: from the start of Big Ten Media Days. Tony Kevin
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  Speaker 1: have that to look forward to in just a couple weeks.
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  Speaker 2: But something you have to look.
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  Speaker 1: Forward to on Monday is the release the early release
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  Speaker 1: that is, of College Football twenty six from EA Sports.
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  Speaker 1: The second edition of the new College Football Game comes
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  Speaker 1: out on Monday for those who paid the extra money
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  Speaker 1: for the early release. If you want the regular release,
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  Speaker 1: that comes out on Thursday. But since that's sort of
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  Speaker 1: the news of the day, going to turn things over
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  Speaker 1: to Garrett Seawright. He has a look at some of
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  Speaker 1: the highest rated players in the game. This is from
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  Speaker 1: the Daily Huddle podcast feed. I'm sure a lot of
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  Speaker 1: you will be playing with the Buckeyes if you have
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  Speaker 1: the game. Jeremiah Smith is the highest rated player in
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  Speaker 1: the game, a cover athlete. The second highest rated player
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  Speaker 1: in the game also a Buck guy. That would be
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Downs. Colonel Tate and Max Clayer also rated higher
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  Speaker 1: than ninety as players in the game. But Garrett on
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  Speaker 1: this episode of the Daily Huddle podcast, He's going to
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  Speaker 1: be looking at the most important position in football, and
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  Speaker 1: probably the most important position in the game. The highest
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  Speaker 1: rated quarterbacks in EA Sports College football twenty six.
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  Speaker 3: Quarterback is the most important position in college football. I
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  Speaker 3: know that, you know that everybody knows that, and very
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  Speaker 3: rarely do teams see a lot of teams success without
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  Speaker 3: being at least serviceable at quarterback. Most championship calendar teams
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  Speaker 3: don't win in spite of their quarterback play. They win
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  Speaker 3: because of their quarterback play. And that's why it's the
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  Speaker 3: most important position. Knowing that it's the most important position,
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  Speaker 3: the discussions about who's the best, who are the top five,
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  Speaker 3: who are the top ten, fifteen to twenty quarterbacks in
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  Speaker 3: college football? Is always an interesting discussion, and one of
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  Speaker 3: the things that kind of exacerbates that discussion is the
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  Speaker 3: rankings from EA Sports College Football twenty twenty six. They
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  Speaker 3: have released the rankings for their top five rated quarterbacks
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  Speaker 3: in the game. So I think it's an interesting discussion
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  Speaker 3: about who did make the list and who maybe has
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  Speaker 3: a case to make the list. So the top five
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  Speaker 3: players three finished with the same exact overall rating ninety
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  Speaker 3: two overall, Clemson quarterback Kid Klubnick, LSU quarterback ericnus Meyer,
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  Speaker 3: and Penn State quarterback Drew Aller. I'm an on the
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  Speaker 3: record questioner of Drew Aller. When he has time to
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  Speaker 3: stand in the pocket, stand there all day and throw,
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  Speaker 3: is he the best quarterback in America? Probably? If he
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  Speaker 3: has to move at all, he becomes an average two
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  Speaker 3: below average quarterback. Kate Klubnick, I think is a pretty
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  Speaker 3: good player. Is he ninety two overall and should be
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  Speaker 3: tied for the best quarterback in the game.
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  Speaker 2: I think he could absolutely make that argument.
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  Speaker 3: I'm an on the record guy that I think Garrett
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  Speaker 3: nus Meyer is the first overall pick in the NFL
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  Speaker 3: draft in twenty twenty six, and if he's not, I
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  Speaker 3: think Brian Kelly has to answer some questions about why
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  Speaker 3: Garrett mus Meyer is not the number one overall pick
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  Speaker 3: in the twenty twenty six NFL Draft. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: Drew Aller is tied for the best quarterback in college football,
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  Speaker 3: and if I have to die alone on that hill,
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  Speaker 3: that's fine. But Garrett Nussmeyer Kate Klubneck absolutely have cases
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  Speaker 3: to make that they deserve to be the top rated
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  Speaker 3: quarterback in the game.
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  Speaker 2: I have no qualms with that.
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  Speaker 3: Sam Levitt had a really good campaign at Arizona State
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  Speaker 3: last year.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder what the.
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  Speaker 3: What the sophomore season looks like for him without Cam Scataboo,
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  Speaker 3: because he's gonna have to carry the entire load in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five and not Cam Scataboo, and I don't
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  Speaker 3: know that you have a whole lot of reason to
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  Speaker 3: think that he can't do it.
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  Speaker 2: I just feel like that might be premature to.
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  Speaker 3: Say Sam Levitt is one of the five highest rated
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  Speaker 3: players at the position in the game. And then Lenora
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  Speaker 3: sellers like Sam Levitt had a really big twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: four and the expectations are sky high.
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  Speaker 2: I think both Arizona State and.
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina's hopes this year rely on Sam Levitt playing
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  Speaker 3: out of his mind and Leonora Sellers playing out of
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  Speaker 3: his mind.
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  Speaker 2: And even if those.
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  Speaker 3: Two players play out of their minds, I feel like
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  Speaker 3: there's still a decent chance that they don't get to
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  Speaker 3: where they want to go. So those are the top
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  Speaker 3: five rated quarterbacks ninety two, ninety two, ninety two, and
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  Speaker 3: ninety one ninety one, which leads me to wonder, what
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  Speaker 3: are the overall ratings for players like Arch Manning at Texas,
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  Speaker 3: Oklahoma quarterback John Mattier, Iowa State quarterback Rock Obeckt, Georgia
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  Speaker 3: Tech quarterback Haines King, Florida's DJ Lagway. If these five
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  Speaker 3: guys are ninety ones and ninety two's, what are Rock Obcked,
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  Speaker 3: John Mattier, Haines King, DJ Lagway?
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  Speaker 2: Because they're not.
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  Speaker 3: Far behind, and I would venture to guess that if
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  Speaker 3: EA Sports College Football twenty six released the top ten
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  Speaker 3: quarterbacks in their rankings, you might see those five names next.
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  Speaker 3: Can you make the case for DJ Lagway instead of
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  Speaker 3: Sam Levitt?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so.
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  Speaker 3: Lagway through way more interceptions than sam Levitt did last year,
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  Speaker 3: but Haines King threw way fewer interceptions and is similarly
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  Speaker 3: athletically built as Sam Levitt as Lenora's Sellers, Rocko beck
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  Speaker 3: to Diowa State. I think the cyclones whole chances of
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  Speaker 3: them having a remotely successful twenty twenty five relies on
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  Speaker 3: rock Obeck playing at a really high level. I furthermore,
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  Speaker 3: I think that Brent Venable's job at Oklahoma might rest
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  Speaker 3: on how well John Mattier plays. There are a lot
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  Speaker 3: of different factors into what goes into a high rated quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: and I think one experience matters. You look through the
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  Speaker 3: top five. Kate Klubnick played a lot of football, So
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  Speaker 3: if Drew Alleren and Garrett's miner, Drew Allen and garttnus
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  Speaker 3: Myne as I mentioned, I think if you were to
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  Speaker 3: go down the list of who is likely to be
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  Speaker 3: in the next group of top ten quarterbacks, John Mattiers
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  Speaker 3: played a lot of football, rock O Beckt and Haines
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  Speaker 3: King have started a lot of games for their teams,
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  Speaker 3: experience matters. But also if you look at these players,
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  Speaker 3: Leonora Seller, Leonora Sellers big Dude, and I think that's
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  Speaker 3: where some of this gets lost because DJ Lagway six
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  Speaker 3: three two forty.
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  Speaker 2: And that might be giving him a little bit of grace.
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  Speaker 3: Sam Levitt six foot two, two hundred pounds, Laura Seller
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  Speaker 3: six foot three, two forty pounds. When you go Drew
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  Speaker 3: Aller six y five, two hundred and thirty pounds, excuse me.
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  Speaker 3: Kate Clubnick also a rather large dude at the quarterback position.
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  Speaker 3: There are a couple of things in factor into these
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  Speaker 3: rankings that I don't know, the factor into the actual
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  Speaker 3: how much these players are good, right, Because if I
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  Speaker 3: were to ask you, close your eyes and picture me
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  Speaker 3: a prototypical NFL star quarterback, You're thinking somebody who's between
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  Speaker 3: six foot three, six foot five, between two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: ten to two hundred and thirty pounds, has a rocket
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  Speaker 3: right arm. You're picturing Tom Brady, Peyton Manning. Guys who
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  Speaker 3: fit that bill, like it or not, Kate Klubnick, Garritt,
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  Speaker 3: nus Meyer, Drew Aller fit that bill. They are the
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  Speaker 3: prototypical dream scenario NFL quarterback. And I don't think it's
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  Speaker 3: necessarily a coincidence that somebody like John Mattiir, who's a
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  Speaker 3: little smaller and might not have the pro prospects that
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  Speaker 3: somebody like Kate club Nick, Drew Aller Karennssmeyer might have.
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  Speaker 3: There's a reason that I think somebody like potentially Luke
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  Speaker 3: Altmeyer at.
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  Speaker 2: Illinois isn't on the list.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin Jennings at SMU kind of in that same boat
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  Speaker 3: of maybe don't fit the prototypical NFL quarterback and therefore.
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  Speaker 2: They don't get the recognition.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm here to tell you that the quarterback play
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  Speaker 3: in college football is as good as it's ever been.
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  Speaker 3: There are you could go down the list for a
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  Speaker 3: long time, Sawyer Robertson, a Baylor, Darien Menza Duke. There
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  Speaker 3: are a lot of really, really really good quarterback and
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  Speaker 3: the reason that doesn't translate to the NFL, I think
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  Speaker 3: isn't the quarterback's fault, and it isn't the college football
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  Speaker 3: coach's fault. I'll let you figure out the connect to
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  Speaker 3: the dots on who I think is to blame for
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback play not being as great in the next
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  Speaker 3: level of the game. But I find these really interesting
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  Speaker 3: that there's not a lot of distinction between these top
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  Speaker 3: five players. It's one overall point between the top five,
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  Speaker 3: And that's probably why you didn't get the top ten,
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  Speaker 3: because I would bet you that numbers six through ten
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  Speaker 3: are probably ninety overalls. The other thing that caught my
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  Speaker 3: eye is there's no group of five players in the
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  Speaker 3: top five qbs. Interesting, You've got a kind of a
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  Speaker 3: pretty big swath there of the college football world and
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  Speaker 3: none of them reached ninety one overall at that spot.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's part of the homogenization of the
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  Speaker 3: college football rankings with the Madden rankings, right, Like, there
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  Speaker 3: are very few ninety five overall Madden quarterbacks or ninety
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  Speaker 3: nine and Madden quarterbacks. Where in the decade that before
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  Speaker 3: the decade long pause in the College Football twenty six
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  Speaker 3: video game series, there were a lot like you could
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  Speaker 3: be a ninety overall and be the quarterback at Toledo
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  Speaker 3: or Louisiana lafa Yete. That wasn't out of the realm
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  Speaker 3: of possibility. I think I liked it better that way.
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  Speaker 3: I want to know your thoughts. Did you like the
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  Speaker 3: ratings before the game got relaunched or do you like
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  Speaker 3: them better now where it's more closely aligned to Madden.
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  Speaker 3: Drop your comments in the comments below. Also want to
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  Speaker 3: hear your thoughts on who you think the top five
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  Speaker 3: quarterbacks are. Is Kate Klubnet, Garrett Nus Meyer and Drew
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  Speaker 3: Aller the consensus top three quarterbacks in the sport going
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  Speaker 3: to twenty twenty five. Let me know your thoughts in
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  Speaker 3: the comments below. That'll do it for today episode of
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