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Speaker 1: Joe Theismann going to join us on the show today.
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Speaker 1: David Braun, the head coach at Northwestern, going to join
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Speaker 1: us in hour number two.
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Speaker 3: It is a Think About It Thursday here.
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Speaker 1: On Sugata Company Live, and we'll get to that in
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Speaker 1: just a second. There's baseball going on, the ALCS, Taylor.
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Speaker 1: It is rare where we're doing a show and there's
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Speaker 1: a game with major stakes attached to it on television
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Speaker 1: while we're doing the show, but you have game three
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Speaker 1: of the Guardians and Rays right now.
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Speaker 3: I can't do play-by-play, but it's 3-2 Guardians over the Rays.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Stu, if you're wondering why I might have a little
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Speaker 4: bit of extra pep in my step today, if you've
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Speaker 4: noticed walking around the I heart building here.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I have noticed.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 4: The Dodgers are down three. Oh, the Brewers, the Brewers
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Speaker 4: got the brooms out. We're getting ready to get this
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Speaker 4: Dodger team out of the playoffs. It turns out all
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Speaker 4: the talk are the Dodgers bad for baseball. Turns out
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Speaker 4: the Dodgers might just be bad at baseball.
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Speaker 1: They're not bad at baseball. I mean, they're one of
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Speaker 1: four teams remaining in baseball. They've won the world series
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Speaker 1: the last two years, but it's tough winning three in
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Speaker 1: a row. Do you think they come back?
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Speaker 3: No, they're dead. If you saw.
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Speaker 4: So yesterday as I'm watching that game and the Brewers
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Speaker 4: hit back-to-back home runs in the seventh, I believe, off Snell.
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Speaker 3: Yes, who never gives up home runs.
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Speaker 4: Who never gives up home runs, and especially to lefties
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Speaker 4: at that too. They were cutting around Dodger Stadium and
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Speaker 4: it was going from like Mookie Betts' sad face to
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Speaker 4: Max Muncy's sad face to a fan's sad face to
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Speaker 4: Shohei Otani's sad face I just kept rewinding it on
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Speaker 4: my YouTube TV, and I said, oh, this is going
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Speaker 4: to get me until however long this lockout is for baseball.
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Speaker 4: I could just have this moment saved in my head
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Speaker 4: and etched in my memory, just these sad Dodger faces.
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Speaker 3: Right. Misery loves company.
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Speaker 1: And nobody's more miserable than me right now.
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Speaker 3: Because of your Yankees.
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Speaker 1: And you're familiar with those sad faces because you see
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Speaker 1: them every year.
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Speaker 5: I am the sad face.
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Speaker 1: You are, huh? So I'm not into the baseball. It's
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Speaker 1: exciting that we have a game on. I just wish
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Speaker 1: it was a game that I cared about.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a game where if it was at
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Speaker 4: like 8 p.m. tonight, there's a good chance I'm not
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Speaker 4: watching it. But just because it's something that you can
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Speaker 4: put on at the office, it helps pass the time by.
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Speaker 1: The fact that we have the Brewers up 3-0, the
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Speaker 1: fact that we have the Guardians and the Rays up,
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Speaker 1: in the ALCS. And it seems like one of those
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Speaker 1: two teams will face the Brewers in the World Series.
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Speaker 1: This is a big win in terms of negotiations for baseball, right?
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Speaker 1: Because they can point to the Brewers and say, see,
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Speaker 1: The players can say, see, you don't have to trade
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Speaker 1: for Scooble to.
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Speaker 3: Make it to a World Series. The Dodgers did. We didn't.
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Speaker 3: The Dodgers are not in the World Series. We are.
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Speaker 3: That's a big win, no?
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Speaker 4: So I saw a conspiracy theory on social media, Stu,
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Speaker 4: that the Dodgers might be throwing this season to allow
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Speaker 4: the Brewers to get to the World Series. Because then
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Speaker 4: at the winter meetings, the Dodgers will throw their hands
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Speaker 4: up and say, eh, we all the small market teams
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Speaker 4: made it. We don't need a salary cap. Anybody could win.
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Speaker 4: And then everybody's going to agree when it's the Brewers
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Speaker 4: or the Rays or the Guardians lifting the World Series trophy.
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Speaker 4: And then next, once the lockout ends, the Dodgers strike back.
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Speaker 4: And the Dodgers sign Scooble. The Dodgers sign Jose Ramirez.
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Speaker 4: The Dodgers sign Mike Trout. The Dodgers sign whoever they want.
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Speaker 4: It's kind of like they're losing the battle by bowing
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Speaker 4: out of these playoffs.
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Speaker 3: Winning the war.
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Speaker 1: But they win the war, correct. Business as usual for
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Just spend as much money as you can.
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Speaker 1: They'll be back.
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Speaker 4: Whatever money they miss out on by not going to
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Speaker 4: the World Series and whatever money they wind up spending
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Speaker 4: on their unlimited spending, they'll make it back tenfold.
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Speaker 3: No doubt.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of speculation going on about Jalen Hurts.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to think about it Thursday in a second here.
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Speaker 1: What are the details here on Jalen Hurts being out
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Speaker 1: indefinitely here for the Philadelphia Eagles?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so Jalen Hurts is out for Sunday's game versus
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Speaker 4: the Panthers due to a superficial blood clot in his calf.
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Speaker 4: The team says the clot was discovered Saturday in London,
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Speaker 4: but doctors cleared him to play against the Jaguars. A
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Speaker 4: follow-up ultrasound Wednesday revealed that the clot had moved, prompting
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Speaker 4: the team to rule him out as doctors determined the
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Speaker 4: appropriate treatment.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor, but it's probably once you have
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Speaker 1: a blood clot, it's not good to fly. I learned
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Speaker 1: that from Chris Bosh and other NBA players. Like it's
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Speaker 1: dangerous to fly if you have a blood clot, right?
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Speaker 4: Yeah. To fly back. And like, how was he even
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Speaker 4: clear to play in the game? That's what me and you,
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Speaker 4: let's get one thing clear.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 4: We're not doctors.
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Speaker 3: No, we're not doctors.
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Speaker 4: We're not doctors.
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Speaker 3: Put it on the poll. Are me and Taylor doctors.
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Speaker 4: We are maybe the furthest thing away from doctors. Yes.
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Speaker 4: But if my quarterback is, had just gotten discovered to
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Speaker 4: have a blood clot, I'd almost assume there was no
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Speaker 4: chance that he was playing in the game.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 4: And again, with those assumptions, I'd assume there's almost no
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Speaker 4: chance that he could then fly home without worrying about
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Speaker 4: making the situation even worse, which is what it sounds
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Speaker 4: like happened in Philadelphia.
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Speaker 3: Now, again, I'm not a doctor, okay? You're not a doctor.
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Speaker 4: Not medical advice, yep.
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Speaker 1: I think it's safer to play in an actual NFL
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Speaker 1: game with a blood clot than it is to fly
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Speaker 1: in an airplane.
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Speaker 3: How about that? But we're not doctors.
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Speaker 4: And now it seems like the Eagles are turning to
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Speaker 4: Tanner McKee, their backup quarterback.
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Speaker 3: What an opportunity, yes.
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Speaker 4: You know who else has an opportunity that might not
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Speaker 4: have had an opportunity before?
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Speaker 3: Who?
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Speaker 4: So on October 9th to free up a roster spot,
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Speaker 4: the Philadelphia Eagles actually released Andy Dalton. Because if you
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Speaker 4: remember in that Monday night game against the bears, yes.
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Speaker 4: When Jalen hurts had to go to the tent, Andy
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Speaker 4: Dalton was the quarterback that came in. Now, I need
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Speaker 4: everybody to forget that when Andy Dalton came in, he
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Speaker 4: very quickly threw a red zone interception that basically cost
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Speaker 4: the Eagles the game and took them out of the
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Speaker 4: game almost immediately. But when the Eagles released Andy Dalton,
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Speaker 4: Andy Dalton sitting around at home mulling multiple offers from
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Speaker 4: other teams, and now Jalen Hurts is out, all of
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Speaker 4: a sudden, You hear that? Opportunity is knocking on the
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Speaker 4: Red Rifle's door.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he is back. Well, he has a chance to
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Speaker 1: be back. Don't you think other quarterbacks might think, hey,
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Speaker 1: I could do it in Philadelphia? But Saquon is out
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Speaker 1: as well. Like, they're banged up that game.
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Speaker 4: Devonta Smith is out as well. Their injury report is ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: At this point.
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Speaker 1: That helps Nick Sirianni's case in the event that he
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Speaker 1: is on the hot seat. He could say, listen, everyone's hurt.
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Speaker 1: What do you want me to do?
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Speaker 3: You know? It'd be funny if Dallas, who.
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Speaker 1: you know, has the only healthy starting quarterback in that division,
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Speaker 1: loses the division to Jameis Winston or Tanner McGee.
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Speaker 3: Tanner McKee. McKee, I'm sorry. Mormon Missile.
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Speaker 4: So you would have the Mormon Missile, and if you
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Speaker 4: bring back Andy Dalton, the Red Rifle.
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Speaker 3: Wow, what a quarterback room.
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Speaker 4: Just off nickname alone, that might be the best quarterback
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Speaker 4: room ever. But it feels like if you're looking at
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Speaker 4: the NFC East standings right now, it feels like the
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Speaker 4: giants are going to just almost win this division by,
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Speaker 4: by fault at like maybe nine and eight. Like it
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Speaker 4: doesn't really feel like a team has to go over
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Speaker 4: 500 to win this division where you watch the Cowboys.
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Speaker 4: everybody loves the Cowboys are everybody's darling in September.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 4: By October, everybody's kind of tired, tired of them and
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Speaker 4: sees their, their very clear flaws. You don't trust the
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Speaker 4: Cowboys to win a big game. The commanders, you don't
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Speaker 4: trust Jaden Daniels and Jaden Daniels health to, to stay
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Speaker 4: out there. Even if he did stay out there.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 4: And then you have the Philadelphia Eagles now who, if
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Speaker 4: Jalen hurts, Mrs, you know, a month of this season,
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Speaker 4: that puts their season into question. The team, it feels like,
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Speaker 4: as crazy as it is to say, that you have
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Speaker 4: the least questions about is the New York Giants starting
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Speaker 4: Jameis Winston.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and they have a good coach, but the pressure
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Speaker 1: is really on Dallas now. It's early in the season.
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Speaker 1: They're 2-3. The Giants are 3-1-1. The pressure is on
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys and Shoddy because you have Dak Prescott. You
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Speaker 1: have this talented team. You have two great wide receivers.
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Speaker 1: The defense was supposed to be improved.
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Speaker 3: It hasn't.
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Speaker 1: But the pressure is really ratcheted up now on Dallas
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Speaker 1: simply because they have the last quarterback standing in that division.
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Speaker 1: And so I have to think there is even more
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Speaker 1: pressure on Dallas and Brian Schottenheimer than there was before
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Speaker 1: the season even started.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And the Cowboys next two games are on primetime where
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Speaker 4: the Sunday night football game this week on the road
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Speaker 4: in Green Bay against the Packers and then the Monday
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Speaker 4: night football game next week against the Eagles is My
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Speaker 4: problem with this Cowboys team, and I believe when we
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Speaker 4: had Mina on, Mina made this point too, the Cowboys
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Speaker 4: made so many moves on the defensive side of the
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Speaker 4: ball because that's where they had the most question marks.
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Speaker 4: They drafted a defensive end in the first round. They
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Speaker 4: drafted Caleb Downs in the first round. Quinnen Williams from
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Speaker 4: the Jets comes over. Joey Porter Jr. from the Steelers
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Speaker 4: comes over. Their defense is worse than last year. It's
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Speaker 4: almost impossible that they could have focused that many resources
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Speaker 4: on the defensive side of the ball and have a
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Speaker 4: worse product.
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Speaker 3: It's odd. Defense is random, though.
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Speaker 1: Like the Texans were this, you know, all-world defense last year.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying they played poorly this year, but
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Speaker 1: they haven't really met the expectations. Defense, to me, feels
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Speaker 1: like a random thing. You could have a defense that
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Speaker 1: was great one year and have the same exact personnel
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Speaker 1: the next year.
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Speaker 3: They're just not as good, right? Is that fair?
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Speaker 4: But the personnel is better, and you could say that
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Speaker 4: defense is random. Is it random that the Cowboys struggled
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Speaker 4: to stop Jalen Daniels, who was making his first start
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Speaker 4: as an undrafted rookie? right where where the bucks pull
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Speaker 4: off that upset on thursday night football last week like
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Speaker 4: the the baseline for this cowboys defense with those moves
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Speaker 4: that we just mentioned should at least be competent they
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Speaker 4: don't even feel like they're they're at competency right now.
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Speaker 1: Right I do feel like there are going to be
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks like coming out of the woodworks, wanting to play
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Speaker 1: for Nick Sirianni and the Eagles.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Phillip rivers, like all kinds of people, all kinds of
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Speaker 1: former quarterbacks are calling up Howie Roseman. And he's not
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Speaker 1: answering that phone because I think he believes in his backup.
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Speaker 3: I do. I really do. I actually think he believes
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Speaker 3: in Tanner McKee. I'm sorry. I said it wrong earlier.
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Speaker 4: So what if we have a reunion possibility here? Minnesota Vikings.
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Speaker 4: Kyler Murray's playing great. Howie Roseman calls the Eagles and
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Speaker 4: calls the Vikings and says, let's bring back Carson Wentz.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Because no one gives credit to Carson Wentz for winning
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Speaker 1: that Super Bowl that year.
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Speaker 3: It all goes to Nick Foles.
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Speaker 1: Even though Carson Wentz through 11 games was probably the
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Speaker 1: MVP of the NFL that year.
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Speaker 3: And no one seems to care.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's the reason that team got– they were
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Speaker 1: off to a 10-1 start, I believe, that year. I
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Speaker 1: like that, a reunion of Carson Wentz back to Philadelphia,
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Speaker 1: full circle type stuff, and he can redeem himself for
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Speaker 1: merely going 10-1 in a year in which the team
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Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and just from a storyline perspective, that would be
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Speaker 4: the most intriguing because I don't– Tanner McKee might turn
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Speaker 4: into a solid NFL quarterback. There's nothing exciting about him
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Speaker 4: starting right now. There's nothing really exciting about Andy Dalton
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Speaker 4: coming back. At least with Carson Wentz, you have that
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Speaker 4: storybook ending for his career where he came in with
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Speaker 4: all this promise from North Dakota State and then falls
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Speaker 4: off after that ACL injury where he never really looked
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Speaker 4: like the same quarterback after that. But we were... I'm
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Speaker 4: thinking about this now. The fact that the Eagles released
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Speaker 4: Andy Dalton.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 4: We got robbed of a revenge game spot because they're
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Speaker 4: going against the Carolina Panthers.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but not a real revenge game.
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Speaker 1: I mean, no one thinks of Andy Dalton as a
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Speaker 1: Carolina Panther and they're not playing the Bengals.
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Speaker 5: What kind of revenge?
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Speaker 4: What's the qualification for a revenge game? Like if Baker
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Speaker 4: Mayfield plays the Rams, is that a revenge game for
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Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: If Baker Mayfield plays the Browns, that's a revenge game
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Speaker 1: for Baker Mayfield.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but Baker Mayfield, so Baker Mayfield might be the
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Speaker 4: exception here because every game that Baker Mayfield plays.
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Speaker 3: In his mind. Is a revenge game.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Put it on the poll.
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Speaker 1: Is every game a revenge game regardless of the opponent
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Speaker 1: for Baker Mayfield?
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Speaker 4: And even though Baker Mayfield, you know how like if
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Speaker 4: let's say an NBA player gets drafted like 27th overall,
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Speaker 4: they could list out like who went one through 26th.
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Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield strikes me as the player who gets mad
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Speaker 4: that you didn't draft him, but then he also has
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Speaker 4: to remember he went first overall.
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Speaker 3: No one could pass up on him.
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Speaker 4: He's mad that they didn't trade up for him.
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Speaker 3: Always finding a chip on his shoulder.
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Speaker 1: A revenge game has to be against a team that
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Speaker 1: you're most associated with, right? It's like if Aaron Rodgers
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Speaker 1: played the Jets, it's not a revenge game. If he
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Speaker 1: plays the Packers, it's a revenge game.
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Speaker 4: I think that we have different definitions of revenge games.
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Speaker 1: Well, if the Jets play Seattle, it's a revenge game
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Speaker 1: for Geno Smith and Sam Darnold.
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Speaker 3: How about that?
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Speaker 4: Double revenge game. I mean, what if the Jets play
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Speaker 4: the Raiders? You're saying that's not a revenge game for Geno?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: We're just going to have to agree to disagree here.
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Speaker 1: And if Kirk Cousins played against the Vikings, that would
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Speaker 1: be his revenge game. I know we played for a
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Speaker 1: lot of teams, but it's the Falcons. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: The Falcons come to town. That's not a revenge game
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Speaker 4: for all the commanders too. I mean, when you close
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Speaker 4: your eyes and think of Kirk cousins, it's the commanders, right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got it wrong. It's without question the Commanders.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 4: But I think the Vikings would also like a word there.
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Speaker 4: The Falcons would not.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Gatz and
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Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 3: It is a Thursday. That means we have to think.
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Speaker 3: Give me the imaging. Think about it Thursday.
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Speaker 2: You know that segment, Talk About It Tuesday, on Hockman, Crowder,
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Speaker 2: and Solero? This is like that, but bigger and better.
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Speaker 2: And 48 hours later, this is Think About It Thursday.
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Speaker 1: This is Taylor's attempt to counter-program a local show down
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Speaker 1: here in Miami, Hockman, Solano, and Crowder.
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Speaker 3: Taylor, take it away.
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Speaker 4: Quick one here today. Does a players only meeting just
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Speaker 4: mean that your season is already over?
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Speaker 3: Interesting here. The Cowboys had one.
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Speaker 1: Taylor, have you been you were a walk on at
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Speaker 1: the University of North Carolina on the football team? You
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Speaker 1: went there for track. Did you ever participate in a
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Speaker 1: players only meeting?
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Speaker 4: So we only had one players only meeting and it
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Speaker 4: was a positive players only meeting actually because we were
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Speaker 4: six and seven in 2014. Right. The next year we
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Speaker 4: spent the entire offseason working so hard.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And it leads up to week one where we're playing
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Speaker 4: South Carolina. We lose to South Carolina in an embarrassing fashion.
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Speaker 4: We lose like 17, 13. Our offense underperformed like crazy
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Speaker 4: in that game. After that game, we had a players
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Speaker 4: only meeting. We won 11 straight games after that.
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Speaker 3: Really? So it worked?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Well, we lost to Clemson and Deshaun Watson in the
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Speaker 4: ACC title. Then we gave up the bowl game rushing record.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Baylor, I think, rushed for 670 yards.
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Speaker 3: But the rare players-only meeting after a game. Yeah, just
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Speaker 3: one week.
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Speaker 1: After week one. What do you imagine? Mike Tomlin was
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Speaker 1: asked about this. Brian Schottenheimer loved it. He thought it
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Speaker 1: was great. I'm wondering how Shotty knew. If it's a
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Speaker 1: players-only meeting, why does the coach know that they had
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Speaker 1: a meeting? But we digress here. What do you imagine
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin's response was to the Cowboys having a players-only
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Speaker 1: meeting five weeks into the season?
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Speaker 4: If I know Mike Tomlin like I think I know
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Speaker 4: Mike Tomlin, there's no way that he could enjoy a
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Speaker 4: players-only meeting.
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Speaker 1: His quote was, I think you are dead. But it
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Speaker 1: worked for you. It worked for Carolina. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: reeled off 11 straight until you met Deshaun Watson.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was kind of a situation like, like in
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Speaker 4: the water boy, when Rob Shiner was like, Oh no,
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Speaker 4: we suck again. When we lost the South Carolina, we
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Speaker 4: had that panic internally for like five seconds. Like, Oh no,
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Speaker 4: like this might be another year that ends with us
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Speaker 4: losing in the quick lane bowl to Rutgers.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Which is how the previous season ended.
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Speaker 3: Right. Well, six and seven.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
16:48
Speaker 3: Yes.
16:49
Speaker 4: We got to Detroit and we lost the Rutgers.
16:52
Speaker 3: That's the prize. We're going six and seven Rutgers. It's
16:54
Speaker 3: a meaningless bowl.
16:56
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas in a Detroit hotel. Then we bounced back
17:02
Speaker 4: 11 straight.
17:03
Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Do you wonder, like, did any of the players tell
17:06
Speaker 1: your coach that they had a players only meeting?
17:08
Speaker 4: So coaches are aware of players only meetings. They're just
17:10
Speaker 4: not allowed to be in them.
17:12
Speaker 3: Okay.
17:12
Speaker 1: This seemed like a limited players only meeting, like just
17:15
Speaker 1: the leaders. And I'm wondering who the leak is on
17:17
Speaker 1: the Cowboys.
17:20
Speaker 3: Who cares?
17:23
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson company
17:26
Speaker 2: live weekdays at 3 p.m. Eastern, 12 p.m.
17:29
Speaker 3: Pacific.
17:32
Speaker 1: Before we get to why Mikey A is insanely jealous,
17:36
Speaker 1: let's rank the games for the weekend, NFL and college.
17:39
Speaker 3: Give me the music, please.
17:40
Speaker 4: So I'll start us off with college football.
17:47
Speaker 3: All right. Mikey doesn't love the NFL slate.
17:50
Speaker 2: I mean....
17:52
Speaker 3: It's a tough one.
17:53
Speaker 7: Listen, keep behind the curtain.
17:55
Speaker 8: If my shtick wasn't just doing the NFL here, I'd
17:58
Speaker 8: probably put a lot more college games on this list
18:01
Speaker 8: this week than I normally do.
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Speaker 1: Luckily, my shtick is whatever I want it to be,
18:04
Speaker 1: and I'm just going to bounce back and forth, okay?
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Speaker 4: My number five game of the week in college football.
18:12
Speaker 4: Alabama versus Tennessee. Great rivalry game.
18:15
Speaker 7: That's number five.
18:17
Speaker 4: Terrible rivalry name. The third Saturday in October. That is
18:21
Speaker 4: so lazy for how good these two programs are. But Tennessee,
18:26
Speaker 4: it's George McIntyre starting over Faison Brandon. They've replaced Faison
18:32
Speaker 4: Brandon because surprise, surprise, a true freshman is not ready
18:35
Speaker 4: to play SEC defenses.
18:38
Speaker 7: By the way, Show me another rivalry that tells you
18:41
Speaker 7: what the date is.
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Speaker 5: Because I didn't know.
18:42
Speaker 7: It was the third Saturday until you told me.
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Speaker 3: I had no idea as well. I wrote it down.
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Speaker 1: It's such a ridiculous nickname for a rivalry game.
18:53
Speaker 3: The third Saturday in October?
18:55
Speaker 4: It is so lazy. Like, you have BYU and Utah,
18:58
Speaker 4: the Holy War. You have Ohio State, Michigan, the game.
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Speaker 4: Third Saturday in October is just like a reminder, like
19:05
Speaker 4: when your dentist appointment is.
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Speaker 3: It's October 17th. That's all it is.
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Speaker 4: Well, it's not October 17th all the time.
19:10
Speaker 1: Well, this year it is, though. All right, Mikey, your
19:16
Speaker 1: fifth best game of the week here.
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Speaker 8: My fifth best game of the week actually got changed
19:22
Speaker 8: because of some injury news.
19:25
Speaker 7: My fifth best game is the Panthers at the Eagles.
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Speaker 8: It was ranked higher until we found out that the
19:30
Speaker 8: Eagles might be without Saquon Barkley, Devante Adams, and now
19:34
Speaker 8: definitely without Jalen hurts.
19:38
Speaker 7: At this point, I'm just looking at the Panthers.
19:40
Speaker 8: Like if you can't beat the Eagles team like this,
19:43
Speaker 8: then you just can't win.
19:45
Speaker 1: Yes, but you never know with the Panthers. That's the
19:47
Speaker 1: beautiful thing about the Carolina Panthers.
19:48
Speaker 4: You never know what Panthers. team is getting on that
19:51
Speaker 4: field and that's the.
19:52
Speaker 1: Beauty in them who is the Eagles backup Tanner McKee
19:57
Speaker 1: oh that guy he's got an opportunity I mean listen
20:01
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback's the most popular guy on the team
20:03
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia takes on a whole new meaning this guy
20:07
Speaker 1: has a good game and beats Bryce Young he'll be
20:09
Speaker 1: the most popular guy in Philadelphia look at Nick Foles
20:12
Speaker 1: I think.
20:12
Speaker 4: There are certain parts of the Philadelphia fan base that
20:15
Speaker 4: is rooting against Tanner McKee this week because they know
20:18
Speaker 4: if Jalen Hurts just comes back next week okay Tanner
20:22
Speaker 4: McKee stunk this week we move on if Tanner McKee
20:25
Speaker 4: is even slightly good yes this is something that could
20:28
Speaker 4: tear apart that locker room very.
20:29
Speaker 1: Fast right plus it'll always be hanging over him right
20:32
Speaker 1: plus the fan base doesn't want nick sirianni winning with
20:34
Speaker 1: a backup invalidating what a great coach he is yeah
20:40
Speaker 1: a lot on the line in this game there really
20:43
Speaker 1: is all right number five for me is going to
20:46
Speaker 1: be tonight's game Thursday night football, Seahawks and Broncos. I'm
20:51
Speaker 1: not certain the Broncos are any good.
20:53
Speaker 3: Why? What do you mean? It's not a great slate.
20:55
Speaker 5: Yes.
20:56
Speaker 3: Seahawks Broncos. Yes.
20:58
Speaker 1: It's a big game for both teams. I don't know
20:59
Speaker 1: if the Broncos are any good. I think the Seahawks
21:02
Speaker 1: are really good. They'll be there in the end. But
21:04
Speaker 1: I'm more interested to see how Denver plays against Seattle
21:07
Speaker 1: and if Bo Nix can figure it out because Bo
21:09
Speaker 1: Nix has been dreadful so far this season. So for,
21:12
Speaker 1: you know, terrible slate, not a lot of great games.
21:15
Speaker 1: So that's number five for me. Taylor, you're number four.
21:18
Speaker 3: Back to college.
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Speaker 4: My number four game of the week in college football,
21:24
Speaker 4: Notre Dame going to Provo to take on BYU. This
21:27
Speaker 4: game would be higher if L.J. Martin, BYU's star running back,
21:32
Speaker 4: was playing in the game. Weird things happen in Provo.
21:36
Speaker 4: I'm rooting for a BYU upset just because of the
21:39
Speaker 4: Mike Golick and, I hate to say it, Jessica Smetana factor. Yeah.
21:44
Speaker 4: Part of me would like to see Jess happy as
21:46
Speaker 4: a Notre Dame fan.
21:47
Speaker 3: Yes.
21:48
Speaker 4: But it's that Notre Dame brand that I still can't
21:50
Speaker 4: get over.
21:50
Speaker 3: Right. Yes. Taylor, put it on the poll. Please do
21:53
Speaker 3: weird things happen in Provo.
21:55
Speaker 4: That doesn't come back.
21:56
Speaker 3: It does. Tough place to play. Mikey, you're number four here.
22:05
Speaker 7: You know it's a bad week when I have the
22:07
Speaker 7: New York Jets on the line.
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Speaker 3: But number four game of the week, the.
22:11
Speaker 7: Jets at the Patriots.
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Speaker 8: Jets are riding high over a big win against the
22:16
Speaker 8: Cleveland Browns.
22:17
Speaker 7: And the Patriots, maybe Drake May is back. Maybe not.
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Speaker 3: May? Maybe. I don't know.
22:24
Speaker 7: Let's find out.
22:25
Speaker 3: All right.
22:27
Speaker 1: Keep the NFL music going here. Number four for me
22:29
Speaker 1: is Texans and Jags. That's how bad the slate is.
22:33
Speaker 1: I am taking a team that has one win, they're 1-4,
22:36
Speaker 1: taking on the Jacksonville Jaguars at 9.30 in the morning
22:40
Speaker 1: in London. Jacksonville's home away from home.
22:43
Speaker 3: Or is Jacksonville their home away from home?
22:48
Speaker 7: Good question.
22:48
Speaker 8: I just find it funny that you have the defending
22:52
Speaker 8: Super Bowl champions against an AFC championship opponent over a 1-14.
22:59
Speaker 1: Well, listen, a lot of people love the Texans headed
23:02
Speaker 1: into the season. I think all three of us love
23:04
Speaker 1: the Texans headed into the season. Championship defense that got
23:07
Speaker 1: off to a shaky start.
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Speaker 3: C.J. Stroud has been good. This is an opportunity for
23:11
Speaker 3: the Texans.
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Speaker 1: They can save their season here and get back into
23:15
Speaker 1: things with a big win over Jacksonville, and that's why
23:17
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued by the game. I just want to see
23:19
Speaker 1: if the Texans are all the way back, because if
23:22
Speaker 1: they beat Jacksonville, then they're as talented as everyone said
23:25
Speaker 1: they are headed into the season.
23:27
Speaker 3: Make you a deal.
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Speaker 7: Texans lose this game, they never make this list again.
23:31
Speaker 3: Deal.
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Speaker 5: Deal.
23:33
Speaker 3: But if they win this game, they could be on
23:35
Speaker 3: the list for the remainder of the season.
23:36
Speaker 1: Sure.
23:36
Speaker 3: Okay.
23:37
Speaker 7: Sure.
23:38
Speaker 3: Okay. Taylor, you're number three.
23:42
Speaker 4: My number three game of the week. It's the two
23:44
Speaker 4: teams that are coming off demoralizing wins against the Florida Gators,
23:49
Speaker 4: where everybody thought Florida was good. Missouri kicked the crap
23:53
Speaker 4: out of Florida. Ole Miss kicked the crap out of Florida.
23:56
Speaker 4: Now those two teams are squaring off. You have Austin Simmons,
23:59
Speaker 4: Ole Miss' former quarterback, now at Missouri. Ooh, that's a
24:02
Speaker 4: great game. beautiful revenge spot yes.
24:05
Speaker 1: Uh you bring up old miss uh i feel like
24:07
Speaker 1: people are forgetting about old miss and the fact that
24:09
Speaker 1: they have the best player in the country yeah it.
24:12
Speaker 4: Doesn't help that their big win against louisville looks like
24:15
Speaker 4: it's getting worse.
24:16
Speaker 1: Every week nothing like a big win at the time
24:19
Speaker 1: that gets worse as time goes on put that on
24:22
Speaker 1: the poll is there anything worse than a win that
24:26
Speaker 1: feels big at the time but gets worse with time
24:29
Speaker 1: it's terrible uh mikey you're number three here.
24:33
Speaker 8: My number three game, the Buffalo Bills, fresh off their
24:36
Speaker 8: big Monday night win at the Raiders.
24:40
Speaker 7: Come on, Raiders. I want to see something.
24:42
Speaker 8: I want to believe you have two losses in a row.
24:47
Speaker 3: Come on, Raiders.
24:47
Speaker 7: I'm trying to believe in you. What are you doing
24:49
Speaker 7: with come on, Raiders?
24:50
Speaker 5: Come on, Raiders.
24:51
Speaker 4: Sounds like a bad soccer cheer. Come on, you Raiders.
24:57
Speaker 5: Come on, you Raiders.
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Speaker 3: Do you think we see Mendoza in that game?
25:03
Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 8: No.
25:04
Speaker 3: Okay. Well, what if the Bills are blowing them out?
25:06
Speaker 2: Maybe.
25:07
Speaker 3: Then maybe.
25:07
Speaker 7: Still no.
25:08
Speaker 3: All right. Number three, back to the college music, please.
25:14
Speaker 3: I'm with Taylor. I love this BYU-Notre Dame game. Crazy
25:18
Speaker 3: things happen in Provo.
25:22
Speaker 4: BYU has such a great shade of blue.
25:25
Speaker 3: They do.
25:26
Speaker 1: It's a great shade. Put that on the poll. Does
25:28
Speaker 1: BYU have a great shade of blue?
25:30
Speaker 9: No.
25:31
Speaker 3: The only blue in sports that's better is?
25:34
Speaker 7: Dodger blue.
25:35
Speaker 3: Carolina blue.
25:37
Speaker 5: Agreed.
25:37
Speaker 3: Carolina blue. Dodger blue is pretty good.
25:40
Speaker 7: I don't think of Carolina in sports.
25:43
Speaker 1: I'm just intrigued by this game because Notre Dame has
25:47
Speaker 1: not played anybody, and I want to see them play
25:49
Speaker 1: someone and see how they do once they play somebody.
25:52
Speaker 1: So I am intrigued. That's number three for me, BYU
25:55
Speaker 1: and Notre Dame. I think Notre Dame wins that game
25:57
Speaker 1: fairly easily.
25:59
Speaker 4: My number two. Game of the college football weekend. It's
26:03
Speaker 4: a rematch of the big 10 championship, Ohio state, Indiana.
26:08
Speaker 4: Now this game would probably be higher if I wasn't,
26:11
Speaker 4: I'm not down on Julian saying Julian saying just doesn't
26:14
Speaker 4: blow me away because I think there's a crutch there of.
26:18
Speaker 4: We have Jeremiah Smith. I'm just going to throw this
26:20
Speaker 4: ball downfield and hope Jeremiah Smith bails me out. So
26:23
Speaker 4: this game is at number two for me just because
26:25
Speaker 4: I want to see Jeremiah Smith go up against that
26:28
Speaker 4: Kirk Cignetti defense and see if Ohio State could avenge
26:31
Speaker 4: their loss from last year's Big Ten Championship. And Ohio
26:36
Speaker 4: State desperately needs this game having one loss already to Texas.
26:40
Speaker 1: Yes, you said normally this game would be higher. It
26:43
Speaker 1: could only be one spot higher.
26:44
Speaker 4: Normally it would be my number one game of the week.
26:48
Speaker 3: All right, Mikey, go ahead.
26:50
Speaker 8: Number two game, Sunday Night Football, the Micah Parsons revenge game,
26:54
Speaker 8: even though he won't be playing. So I guess we'll
26:56
Speaker 8: call it the Kenny Clark revenge game. Dallas at Packers.
27:01
Speaker 8: Cowboys seem to be headed down in a downward motion,
27:04
Speaker 8: while the Packers, big win last week against Chicago.
27:08
Speaker 7: That's my number two game.
27:10
Speaker 3: All right, number two for me. Back to the college music, please. Oh, yes.
27:14
Speaker 2: Listen.
27:15
Speaker 3: Listen. A tradition unlike any other. The third Saturday in October.
27:22
Speaker 1: How can you leave it off your list?
27:27
Speaker 7: I know the date.
27:28
Speaker 3: It is Alabama. It is Tennessee. Both teams need it.
27:32
Speaker 1: It feels like one of those de facto playoff games,
27:34
Speaker 1: even though Alabama is clearly one of the best 12
27:37
Speaker 1: teams in the country. But Bama at Tennessee, third Saturday
27:42
Speaker 1: in October. We all know what that means. It's a
27:45
Speaker 1: big game. And that's my number two. A game for
27:49
Speaker 1: the weekend.
27:50
Speaker 4: Yeah, unfortunately, no Ryan Coleman Williams in that game for Alabama.
27:53
Speaker 4: They'll be without their star wide receiver.
27:55
Speaker 3: But it's still the third Saturday in October, though, right?
27:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, you could pencil that in.
27:59
Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Can you?
28:02
Speaker 1: All right.
28:03
Speaker 7: When do they play this game next year?
28:05
Speaker 3: Do we know?
28:06
Speaker 4: I believe the third Saturday in October.
28:09
Speaker 3: It's such a terrible name.
28:12
Speaker 4: I can't get over how bad it is.
28:14
Speaker 1: I almost moved it up to number one when you
28:15
Speaker 1: told me the name of the game. But I'll leave
28:19
Speaker 1: it at number two. All right, Telly, your best game
28:21
Speaker 1: of the weekend is? My number one game of the weekend.
28:25
Speaker 1: Big rivalry matchup this week. There's a lot of rivalry
28:28
Speaker 1: games for this early in the season. We're kicking off
28:32
Speaker 1: 3.30 p.m. Eastern on ESPN2. It's a battle for the
28:36
Speaker 1: victory bell.
28:37
Speaker 4: UNC going down Tobacco Road to take on Manny Diaz
28:41
Speaker 4: and the Duke Blue Devils.
28:43
Speaker 3: Yep.
28:45
Speaker 4: Big chance for Belichick to beat the defending, reigning ACC
28:49
Speaker 4: champions in Duke. This team looks completely different than last year.
28:55
Speaker 7: You feel good about yourself?
28:58
Speaker 3: It's a bad slate. I mean, it really is. And
29:01
Speaker 3: he cares about Carolina.
29:02
Speaker 4: Victory bell, Mikey. Find another team this weekend playing for
29:06
Speaker 4: the victory bell.
29:07
Speaker 3: Right, right.
29:08
Speaker 7: He's right about that, Mikey. They are playing on the
29:11
Speaker 7: third Saturday.
29:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's not for a bell. I mean, it's
29:13
Speaker 3: just a third Saturday in October. That's all it is.
29:16
Speaker 4: That game with Tennessee and Alabama, it's known for whoever
29:19
Speaker 4: wins gets to smoke cigars on it. Have worked that
29:22
Speaker 4: into the rivalry name instead of just listing out when the.
29:26
Speaker 3: Game is being played. How exactly would you work that
29:29
Speaker 3: into the name of the rivalry game?
29:30
Speaker 4: The Cigar Bowl.
29:33
Speaker 3: Done. Good answer.
29:35
Speaker 2: Quick.
29:36
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you. I mean, it's like you wanted
29:38
Speaker 1: me to ask you that question because... you had the
29:40
Speaker 1: answer and i fell for it i walked right into
29:43
Speaker 1: it jesus all right so duke carolina for taylor mikey
29:47
Speaker 1: what do you have Number.
29:49
Speaker 8: One game, it's tonight, Seattle at Denver. I don't know
29:52
Speaker 8: how Stu had this. This is two teams that we
29:56
Speaker 8: expect to be there at the end. JSN has no
29:59
Speaker 8: injury designation. I'm higher on both of these quarterbacks than
30:03
Speaker 8: most of you. I'm expecting– the only thing I don't
30:06
Speaker 8: like is that it's Thursday.
30:08
Speaker 7: Otherwise, this would easily just be the game.
30:11
Speaker 4: Of the week.
30:11
Speaker 3: All right, let's go.
30:12
Speaker 1: I was laughing all afternoon after Kirk Herbstreit told us–
30:17
Speaker 1: that he shows up to these games and NFL players
30:19
Speaker 1: are limping around and Kirk's walking fine.
30:21
Speaker 5: He's like, hey, guys.
30:24
Speaker 1: The visual of that just made me laugh. Number one
30:29
Speaker 1: for me, back to college.
30:31
Speaker 3: It is simple. It is Ohio State at Indiana, Cignetti
30:37
Speaker 3: Day School.
30:39
Speaker 1: I'm just interested to see if Indiana can keep this
30:41
Speaker 1: thing going, man. Ohio State needs the game. I think
30:43
Speaker 1: that is a big factor for this game. Ohio State
30:46
Speaker 1: cannot afford to lose again. Indiana can't afford a loss here,
30:51
Speaker 1: and therefore I think Ohio State is going to have
30:54
Speaker 1: more pressure on them, but I think that pressure is good,
30:56
Speaker 1: and I think Ohio State wins the game. I just, listen,
30:59
Speaker 1: I have Cignetti fatigue. I want to see somebody beat
31:02
Speaker 1: him and beat him badly on his home field, and
31:04
Speaker 1: I hope it's Ryan Day and Ohio State.
31:06
Speaker 3: Because I like Ryan Day. How about that?
31:08
Speaker 4: Really? You have this game higher than watching Billy Edwards Jr.
31:10
Speaker 4: travel to Wallace Wade Stadium? You know, after week one,
31:13
Speaker 4: you said he looked like Tom Brady.
31:14
Speaker 3: You did.
31:15
Speaker 4: Yeah, he couldn't look further from Tom Brady right now.
31:17
Speaker 4: I think I got to get my odds checked.
31:20
Speaker 3: It was a good week one, though. It was. Yes.
31:23
Speaker 3: You were excited for it. Mikey. that concludes the top
31:27
Speaker 3: five games of the week. Thank you.
31:29
Speaker 1: You can keep the music going if you want, because
31:30
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about Mikey age, jealousy. What is
31:33
Speaker 1: going on here with you and your wife? Why are you,
31:35
Speaker 1: why are you jealous? How many years have you guys
31:37
Speaker 1: been married?
31:38
Speaker 6: 11.
31:39
Speaker 3: Okay.
31:40
Speaker 8: 11 years. And, and frankly, she, she, I came home
31:46
Speaker 8: last night from bowling and she was in bed and
31:49
Speaker 8: I was watching the, I was watching the baseball game. Yeah.
31:53
Speaker 7: And she said, what's going on in the baseball game.
31:55
Speaker 7: And I said, I can't believe it. Brewers are winning.
31:59
Speaker 7: She said, yeah, it's a conspiracy.
32:02
Speaker 6: I said, what?
32:03
Speaker 7: She goes, yeah, it's a conspiracy.
32:05
Speaker 8: They want the brewers to win so that a small
32:09
Speaker 8: market team wins.
32:10
Speaker 7: I said, where did you hear that? She said, oh,
32:13
Speaker 7: I saw it on Instagram. Somebody had a hot take.
32:16
Speaker 8: And I don't know that I've ever been so jealous
32:18
Speaker 8: in my life that my wife is getting hot takes
32:20
Speaker 8: from somewhere else.
32:22
Speaker 3: Right.
32:22
Speaker 8: Like, she cheated on me with hot takes, which is
32:25
Speaker 8: kind of worse.
32:26
Speaker 3: Yes. You would rather have sex with somebody? It's close.
32:34
Speaker 5: It's close.
32:37
Speaker 7: You don't give you don't give you don't give another man's.
32:39
Speaker 5: Wife hot takes.
32:40
Speaker 3: Right.
32:40
Speaker 7: OK, so that's my job.
32:42
Speaker 3: Yes.
32:42
Speaker 1: So what are you thinking? You're saying like, hey, I
32:44
Speaker 1: give you hot takes all day. I do this for
32:45
Speaker 1: a living. I actually do this. Right. You get them
32:49
Speaker 1: for my show or you don't get hot. OK, it's
32:53
Speaker 1: a great take, though.
32:54
Speaker 3: And I think she's right. Whoever she got the take from.
32:57
Speaker 1: I think that person is right, because this works out
33:00
Speaker 1: well for baseball, doesn't it?
33:03
Speaker 6: I don't care.
33:04
Speaker 8: It's, I shouldn't be giving that to my, that's, that's,
33:07
Speaker 8: that's the equivalent of sending another man's wife pictures that
33:10
Speaker 8: don't belong getting sent.
33:11
Speaker 5: Right.
33:12
Speaker 1: Okay.
33:12
Speaker 7: You don't give another man's wife hot take.
33:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, but she's not communicating with this person. She's just
33:16
Speaker 1: stealing hot takes and giving them to her husband. And
33:19
Speaker 1: she thinks her husband is going to be impressed because
33:21
Speaker 1: she has a hot take.
33:24
Speaker 8: She doesn't have a hot take. She stole another man's
33:26
Speaker 8: hot take and gave it to me.
33:27
Speaker 1: Yes, but she stole a hot take to give it
33:30
Speaker 1: to you in an effort to impress you, to show
33:33
Speaker 1: you that she's interested in the thing that you do
33:35
Speaker 1: and talk about every day for a living.
33:37
Speaker 4: She basically bought you flowers.
33:39
Speaker 5: Right. Yes.
33:40
Speaker 8: Yes.
33:41
Speaker 5: Baseball conspiracy. Yes.
33:44
Speaker 3: In a vase.
33:46
Speaker 7: She gave me the flowers another man gave to her.
33:49
Speaker 1: Yes.
33:49
Speaker 3: Is it vase or vase?
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Speaker 1: He is the head football coach at Northwestern. David Braun
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Speaker 1: joins us right now. Coach, you cracked the AP Top 25.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you don't care about that. I'm sure you
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Speaker 1: tell your team not to pay attention to any of that.
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Speaker 3: Am I correct?
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Speaker 6: You are exactly correct.
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Speaker 9: I wish you could have been in our staff meeting
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Speaker 9: on Sunday and our team meeting on Monday. It was
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Speaker 9: very direct that if we hear any chatter of that
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Speaker 9: around here. I'm coming after you. We got to stay
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Speaker 9: focused one day at a time. But you must have
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Speaker 9: been listening in, Stu Gatz.
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Speaker 3: No, I just know how coaches think.
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Speaker 1: And I know they don't want to talk about that
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Speaker 1: stuff and they don't want their teams to get too
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Speaker 1: high on it.
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Speaker 3: Right. Like that's that's why you tell them to stop
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Speaker 3: paying attention to it.
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Speaker 9: You know, I think it's one of those things that's
34:46
Speaker 9: really important in the offseason, even leading into the season, like.
34:51
Speaker 9: we do want to dream big and we do want
34:53
Speaker 9: to redefine the expectations around this program. This program has
34:57
Speaker 9: achieved so many things, but going back to coach Barnett,
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Speaker 9: you know, when, when he, you know, coined the phrase
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Speaker 9: of expect victory, people looked at him like he was crazy,
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Speaker 9: but look what that, that team did and look how
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Speaker 9: that's built over the years with coach walk and with
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Speaker 9: coach fits and the program has achieved great things, but
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Speaker 9: there's also this opportunity to, to redefine our expectations.
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Speaker 6: But when you get into the season, it's so.
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Speaker 9: Critical that us as coaches and players are just focused.
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Speaker 6: On our habits, our preparation, our process.
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Speaker 9: And I know that's so cliche, but it matters because
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Speaker 9: it's really easy to get distracted for sure.
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Speaker 1: What has Chip Kelly, who is your offensive coordinator, what
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Speaker 1: has he meant to that program, to you as a
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Speaker 1: head coach, to have another guy with head coaching experience
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Speaker 1: on the sidelines and a lot of it, both at
35:44
Speaker 1: college and the NFL?
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Speaker 3: What has he meant to you guys and that program?
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Speaker 6: He's been transformational.
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Speaker 9: And going through that process and making a decision to
35:53
Speaker 9: make a change And just looking at Northwestern offense over
35:58
Speaker 9: the last decade, you know, we knew that we needed
36:02
Speaker 9: some form of transformational change. And Chip is all of
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Speaker 9: that in terms of his understanding of the offensive structure
36:13
Speaker 9: and how to maximize the talent that you have on
36:15
Speaker 9: a roster. And to be honest with you, there was
36:19
Speaker 9: no doubt in my mind as Chip and I had
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Speaker 9: conversations that he was the right person at the right
36:23
Speaker 9: time to lead our offense.
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 9: What I didn't fully understand is how much he was
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Speaker 9: going to help me as a head coach. I knew
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Speaker 9: he had extensive head coaching experience, but it was really
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Speaker 9: the first time in my career as a head coach
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Speaker 9: that I have someone on staff that I really can
36:41
Speaker 9: bounce ideas off of and we can have really healthy
36:44
Speaker 9: collaboration and conversation around The thing that's fun for me
36:49
Speaker 9: to do is literally step in his office and say, hey, Chip,
36:52
Speaker 9: I need you to put your head coaching hat on.
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Speaker 6: And he'll give me this look of like, Dave, I
36:56
Speaker 6: don't want to put that hat on right.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 9: But he does, you know, and it can be as
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Speaker 9: minor as like practice structure to things of, you continue
37:09
Speaker 9: to build donor relations the right way, how we construct
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Speaker 9: a roster, how we navigate this new landscape of college football.
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Speaker 6: There's no doubt that, that he's made me better as
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Speaker 6: a head coach.
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Speaker 4: Coach, I love college football and you are a great
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Speaker 4: defensive mind, but even some of the formations that Chip
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Speaker 4: Kelly brings out, are you like, what the heck are
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Speaker 4: some of these?
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Speaker 9: Yes.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 9: I mean, I think guys, I have to tell you, like, honestly, honestly,
37:36
Speaker 9: There have been times, whether it be sitting in an
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Speaker 9: offensive staff meeting or sitting in an offensive unit meeting
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Speaker 9: or watching a walkthrough in fall camp where I'm like,
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Speaker 9: what in the actual are we doing right now? And,
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Speaker 9: you know, it's there's this this part of you that like.
37:54
Speaker 9: wants to like rein it back in and box it in.
37:57
Speaker 9: And the clarity that I've gotten is like, you don't
37:59
Speaker 9: hire one of the most creative football.
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Speaker 6: Minds of all time and, and, and box that in,
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Speaker 6: you know, the, the creativity.
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Speaker 9: And the fun part for me is like, even out
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Speaker 9: of practice, like the subtle nudge from Chip, he's like, Hey,
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Speaker 9: check this out.
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Speaker 6: You know? And I'm watching, I was like, man, how
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Speaker 6: do you defend that?
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Speaker 3: You know?
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Speaker 6: I mean, like that's, that's the creativity that I love. He's,
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Speaker 6: he's finding ways to differentiate us.
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Speaker 9: And, uh, it's a reflection of him, the offensive staff,
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Speaker 9: but also our players of their willingness to just lean
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Speaker 9: into it.
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Speaker 1: I'll get to your game against Michigan State, which is
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Speaker 1: fascinating on a lot of different levels. I'll get to
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Speaker 1: that in just a second, but I just want to
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Speaker 1: go back to a couple of weeks ago. You opened
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Speaker 1: up the new stadium on the Northwestern campus. It looks
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Speaker 1: beautiful on television. You beat Penn State. You beat them
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Speaker 1: pretty good, and Chip really flexed his offense, and you
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Speaker 1: flexed your defense.
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Speaker 3: In that game.
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Speaker 1: That game in a new stadium went as well as
38:52
Speaker 1: it possibly could for you, right?
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Speaker 6: It did, you know, and.
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Speaker 9: I think something I had to guard against, our players
39:00
Speaker 9: had to guard against, all of us had to guard
39:02
Speaker 9: against was like this, this level of pressure in terms of,
39:07
Speaker 9: you know, you're opening this new stadium, the best stadium
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Speaker 9: in all of college football. You're playing a great Penn
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Speaker 9: State team Friday night.
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Speaker 6: And there's so much of you that just wants to
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Speaker 6: make sure that it goes right.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 9: You know, to start this this this new era off
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Speaker 9: the right way. And um, I I'm just really proud
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Speaker 9: of our players and, um, the staff of you know, we,
39:31
Speaker 9: we told him, I said, guys, our focus needs to
39:33
Speaker 9: be on us and it needs to be on football.
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Speaker 9: Like our job tonight is, is to go win a
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Speaker 9: football game. And that's where our focus needs to be.
39:41
Speaker 9: But Stu gots to, to, to feel and see our
39:44
Speaker 9: students section, like the experience that our students here at
39:47
Speaker 9: Northwestern were having, you know, as a part of a
39:50
Speaker 9: big 10 football program and truly like they they're, they're
39:54
Speaker 9: a part of this team. They, they impact the game
39:56
Speaker 9: and they've.
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Speaker 6: Bought into that. And, To feel the energy in the community.
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Speaker 9: We know this, you know, college football in the right
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Speaker 9: venue has such an ability to bring community together in such.
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Speaker 6: A unique way.
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Speaker 9: And you could feel that. And we have felt that
40:12
Speaker 9: in these first two home games. And I'm so excited
40:16
Speaker 9: to see where we're going to take this.
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Speaker 3: You're getting emotional talking about it.
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Speaker 1: Just going back to that first game, you were emotional
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Speaker 1: walking through that tunnel, correct?
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Speaker 9: Without a doubt I mean walking out of that tunnel
40:27
Speaker 9: running out with the team um like it it it
40:31
Speaker 9: felt like a dream it didn't seem real and then
40:34
Speaker 9: for us to execute the way that we did and
40:37
Speaker 9: uh you know to feel the energy throughout the game
40:40
Speaker 9: and come away with the win um you know I
40:42
Speaker 9: said a post game it's You pray for opportunities like that.
40:46
Speaker 9: And just to hear to not only hear, but feel
40:50
Speaker 9: just that the community and the buy in. I said
40:53
Speaker 9: a postgame, you know, anyone that's on the fence of like,
40:56
Speaker 9: do I need to check this out? Do I really
40:58
Speaker 9: want to be a be a part of this? Do
41:00
Speaker 9: I do I want to show up for games like
41:02
Speaker 9: don't miss out? There's something special going on in Evanston
41:05
Speaker 9: right now.
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Speaker 1: What's the coolest thing in that new stadium? Is there
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Speaker 1: something that kind of stands out for you?
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Speaker 9: You know, gosh, we could be here for three hours,
41:12
Speaker 9: but I'm only allowed one, one answer that, that, that,
41:18
Speaker 9: that student section is like, just, I mean, they're standing up,
41:22
Speaker 9: they're making noise. The thought behind in terms of what's
41:26
Speaker 9: going on pregame for the students.
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Speaker 6: I mean, it's like, it's incredible. And it's, it's what
41:32
Speaker 6: we've dreamt of, of just, this is such a unique place,
41:35
Speaker 6: such a special place.
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Speaker 9: But for our students here to feel like they have
41:39
Speaker 9: a place that's for them on game day around college football,
41:42
Speaker 9: it's incredible.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 5: Awesome.
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Speaker 4: Coach, how do you convince an entire locker room that
41:46
Speaker 4: Northwestern can accomplish things that people have spent what feels
41:50
Speaker 4: like decades telling them aren't possible? Yeah.
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Speaker 9: You know, I, I think it starts with, with messaging
41:56
Speaker 9: to the team in the off season. And, um, You know,
42:00
Speaker 9: that's the time that you talk about your goals. You
42:02
Speaker 9: don't talk about your goals during the season. You talk
42:04
Speaker 9: about your goals in the offseason to make sure that
42:06
Speaker 9: your actions are reflective of achieving those goals. But it
42:10
Speaker 9: also comes down to recruiting as well. Like any young
42:14
Speaker 9: man that I get a chance to sit down with,
42:17
Speaker 9: I ask him a simple question. Do you think you're
42:19
Speaker 9: the right person to help us win Big Ten championships?
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Speaker 6: And that's a two-part question.
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Speaker 9: If you don't think you're the right person and you
42:25
Speaker 9: don't believe that that's going to happen while you're here,
42:28
Speaker 9: then this isn't the place for you because, you know,
42:31
Speaker 9: as our team operates in the offseason, there's a mentality
42:34
Speaker 9: that everything that we do better be reflective of competing
42:37
Speaker 9: and winning big-time championships. And if you don't believe you're
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Speaker 9: the right person and you don't believe that's going to
42:43
Speaker 9: happen here, you won't enjoy your experience here. And I
42:47
Speaker 9: think that framing is really important just to make sure
42:50
Speaker 9: you're building a certain level of belief that not only
42:53
Speaker 9: can we compete with anyone in the country, but we
42:55
Speaker 9: can beat anyone in the country.
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Speaker 3: Right. You can also point to Indiana.
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Speaker 1: Coach, if I told you like 10 years ago that
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Speaker 1: Indiana would be on top of the college football world
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Speaker 1: and you guys would be ranked inside the top 25,
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Speaker 1: you would have laughed me out of the room, man.
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Speaker 9: What Kurt has done, what that program has done, it's incredible.
43:16
Speaker 9: But it's also a reflection of this new landscape of
43:19
Speaker 9: college football. If you're fortunate enough to create alignment with
43:23
Speaker 9: with your board, with your president, with your AD. You
43:26
Speaker 9: got the right people on board and there's a certain
43:28
Speaker 9: level of belief and investment. You know, it's college football
43:33
Speaker 9: is prime for anyone have an opportunity to accomplish really
43:37
Speaker 9: special things.
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Speaker 1: I know you're focused on the next game, but we
43:39
Speaker 1: had a discussion yesterday about who was going to be
43:42
Speaker 1: the next Indiana and Northwestern kept coming up.
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Speaker 3: It was myself, Bear, T-Bob, A-Bear.
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Speaker 1: We all thought Northwestern potentially could be the next Indiana.
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Speaker 3: Because of you, coach. Because of you, of course. Yes,
43:53
Speaker 3: that's right.
43:54
Speaker 1: And the stadium and Chip Kelly and how beautiful that
43:57
Speaker 1: campus is, city of Chicago. It really has all the
44:00
Speaker 1: makings of a school that could have, you know, a
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Speaker 1: top tier college football program.
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Speaker 3: It does. Right.
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Speaker 9: You know, and you already alluded to like right now,
44:10
Speaker 9: laser focused on Michigan State.
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Speaker 6: But, you know, taking the opportunity to zoom out.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
44:15
Speaker 6: Like, why not us?
44:17
Speaker 3: Right.
44:18
Speaker 9: And we got the right people in place. We got
44:20
Speaker 9: the best AD in the country in Mark Jackson. Our
44:23
Speaker 9: new president, Meng Chang, like he's a competitor. He understands
44:27
Speaker 9: the value of athletics and football on top of being
44:31
Speaker 9: the right person, you know, at the right time for Northwestern.
44:35
Speaker 5: Yeah. Why not us?
44:36
Speaker 3: Why not you? Right.
44:38
Speaker 1: It's going to be an emotional game going against Michigan State.
44:41
Speaker 1: You are coaching against the guy you replaced at Northwestern,
44:44
Speaker 1: Pat Fitzgerald.
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Speaker 3: That's going to be emotional for both of you guys. Right.
44:48
Speaker 3: I know you're tight. I know the families are tight.
44:50
Speaker 1: That's going to be super emotional for both of you guys.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: You know, it's, it's, it's, it's one of those things that,
44:56
Speaker 9: you know, starting off the week, you know, and I
44:58
Speaker 9: even spoke about it with our staff and our team,
45:00
Speaker 9: you know, guys, this isn't about me. This isn't about
45:04
Speaker 9: coach Fitz. This isn't about a child's going back to
45:06
Speaker 9: East Lansing. It's, it's not about those things. It's about
45:09
Speaker 9: the game in between the white lines, but it is
45:11
Speaker 9: important to acknowledge it, you know, because naturally there's going
45:14
Speaker 9: to be emotion tied to that. Cause you know, there's,
45:18
Speaker 9: There's relationships there, real relationships there. But I think when
45:21
Speaker 9: you can acknowledge it and then shift your focus to
45:23
Speaker 9: the things that really matter, it positions your team to.
45:26
Speaker 6: Focus on the game. And that's what truly does matter.
45:29
Speaker 9: But what I will say is, you know, I'm not
45:33
Speaker 9: sitting in this chair right now with this incredible opportunity
45:37
Speaker 9: without Coach Fitz.
45:38
Speaker 6: You know, he believed in an FCS defensive coordinator.
45:42
Speaker 9: Was willing to go out on a limb and say,
45:44
Speaker 9: you know what, this guy can do it in the
45:45
Speaker 9: Big Ten, and that's something I'll forever be grateful for.
45:48
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Taylor.
45:49
Speaker 4: Coach, what does make your quarterback, Aiden Childs, special? Because
45:54
Speaker 4: I remember watching him briefly at Oregon State, and then,
45:57
Speaker 4: as you mentioned, the past couple of years at Michigan State.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, number one, I think it's the right partnership.
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Speaker 9: It starts with Aiden, but the partnership between him and
46:06
Speaker 9: Chip and then Jerry Neuheisel, there's just the right partnership there.
46:10
Speaker 9: And the thing about Aiden that I think makes him
46:13
Speaker 9: really unique and really special is he wants to be
46:15
Speaker 9: coached hard. He wants to be told the truth. He
46:17
Speaker 9: wants to be pushed to his absolute best. And And
46:21
Speaker 9: Chip and Jerry are going to do that, but he
46:24
Speaker 9: doesn't want it sugarcoated. Like he doesn't want it, you know,
46:28
Speaker 9: spoon fed to him. Like the volume of offense that
46:31
Speaker 9: we're asking him to operate and asked him to operate
46:33
Speaker 9: from day one when he started in the middle of spring.
46:35
Speaker 6: Ball, there was ups and downs in spring.
46:38
Speaker 9: You know, there was ups and downs over the summer,
46:40
Speaker 9: but his level of consistency because he's leaned into that
46:43
Speaker 9: challenge over fall camp and into the season is I
46:46
Speaker 9: think it speaks to his competitiveness, his maturity, his humility. And, uh,
46:51
Speaker 9: you know, that guy doesn't have a C on his
46:52
Speaker 9: chest just cause he's a starting quarterback. He earned that,
46:54
Speaker 9: like his teammates voted that and his ability just to
46:58
Speaker 9: connect with not just the offensive starters or not just,
47:01
Speaker 9: you know, some guy, like he has an ability to
47:03
Speaker 9: connect with every single guy on this roster. And, uh,
47:07
Speaker 9: you know, it's, uh, It reflects in his leadership.
47:10
Speaker 3: His talent really jumps off the screen.
47:12
Speaker 1: I would say there were some bumps in the road
47:14
Speaker 1: even early on this season, but it seemed like against
47:17
Speaker 1: Penn State, everything started to click for him. And he
47:20
Speaker 1: seems like he's the most confident he's been since he's
47:23
Speaker 1: been at Northwestern. Like right now, I have to guess, Coach,
47:26
Speaker 1: is the most confident your quarterback has been since he
47:29
Speaker 1: arrived at Northwestern.
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Speaker 6: I would agree.
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Speaker 9: And, you know, I think it's, you know, when you're
47:35
Speaker 9: starting quarterback, models, humility, and confidence, which he does daily.
47:42
Speaker 9: Like that, that, that permeates throughout your entire team. And that's,
47:45
Speaker 9: that's what I love about this group. There's this level
47:48
Speaker 9: of humility of like, we know we're far from a
47:50
Speaker 9: finished product. We have so much work to do, but
47:52
Speaker 9: there's also this underlying confidence of like, if we prepare
47:55
Speaker 9: the right way and we take it one day at
47:56
Speaker 9: a time, we can beat anyone in the country. And
48:00
Speaker 9: if we take that for granted and lose that humility
48:03
Speaker 9: and think we've figured it out, we can.
48:05
Speaker 6: Lose to anyone in the country. But Aiden embodies that.
48:08
Speaker 9: And when you're starting, quarterback embodies that. It's easy for
48:11
Speaker 9: the rest of the locker room to fall in line.
48:13
Speaker 3: Mikey A., I'm thinking it. I know you're thinking it.
48:16
Speaker 3: I know Taylor's thinking it.
48:17
Speaker 1: We have a lot of obligations, a lot of stadiums,
48:20
Speaker 1: a lot of games to go to. But New Stadium, Northwestern, Chicago.
48:25
Speaker 1: I'm thinking we take the show. Top of the list.
48:29
Speaker 5: Easily.
48:30
Speaker 1: Well, we need the invite from Coach here. I'm thinking
48:32
Speaker 1: we take the show. We do it live right from
48:34
Speaker 1: the sidelines.
48:34
Speaker 3: What do you think? Let's go, man.
48:37
Speaker 6: You said it. The invite's there. You guys need to
48:42
Speaker 6: be here. Don't miss out. We would love to have you.
48:45
Speaker 2: All right.
48:45
Speaker 3: How do you think Chip would feel if I asked
48:47
Speaker 3: him if I could call a play? The first play.
48:48
Speaker 3: What do you think?
48:49
Speaker 5: You know what?
48:51
Speaker 9: I think he'd get a big smirk on his face and, boy,
48:54
Speaker 9: we'd say no.
48:57
Speaker 3: I think you're right. Taylor, did you have something there?
49:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, Coach.
49:01
Speaker 4: There's a Big Ten coach whose son is a commit
49:05
Speaker 4: to your school. Any worry there that it might be
49:08
Speaker 4: like a Trojan horse being sent into your program?
49:11
Speaker 3: A spy!
49:12
Speaker 5: A spy!
49:16
Speaker 6: Technically, based on NCAA compliance, I'm not allowed to say anything. What, what, what,
49:21
Speaker 6: what I will say, what I will say is.
49:24
Speaker 9: You learn a lot in this chair and you get
49:27
Speaker 9: a chance to build these relationships. And, uh, my, my
49:31
Speaker 9: opportunity to get to know coach day over the last,
49:34
Speaker 9: you know, going into year four now, um, I, I think,
49:37
Speaker 9: you know, anytime that family gets involved and you're recruiting
49:40
Speaker 9: someone's son, um, there, there, there can be a unique
49:44
Speaker 9: dynamic there.
49:45
Speaker 6: And I think it's reflective of the level of, of trust.
49:48
Speaker 9: That I have in coach day, the way that he
49:51
Speaker 9: runs his program and a level of respect, um, hopefully
49:54
Speaker 9: mutual respect and, uh, You know, you find certain head
49:59
Speaker 9: coaches in the league that you feel like you can
50:01
Speaker 9: lean on, And since day one, Coach Day has been
50:03
Speaker 9: one of those guys that I feel like has been
50:05
Speaker 9: willing to have real conversations with me and helping me
50:08
Speaker 9: navigate being a head coach in this league.
50:10
Speaker 3: You play Ohio State November 14th.
50:13
Speaker 1: Will you lock off all communication between father and son
50:17
Speaker 1: during that week?
50:18
Speaker 3: What do you think?
50:19
Speaker 5: You know what?
50:24
Speaker 9: All I'll say is I think the dynamic– you know,
50:29
Speaker 9: in the day household that week will be a unique
50:32
Speaker 9: one for sure.
50:33
Speaker 1: Coach, we're so happy for you. I'm so happy for you. Congratulations.
50:37
Speaker 1: Good luck against Michigan State. It will be emotional going
50:41
Speaker 1: up against Coach Fitzgerald, but I know you guys love
50:44
Speaker 1: each other a lot. So I'm happy for you. I'm
50:46
Speaker 1: happy for the school. I'm happy for the program. And
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Speaker 1: I do believe you're the next Indiana.
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Speaker 3: I do believe that. I firmly believe that. I think
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Speaker 3: you are the school that's next.
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Speaker 9: Well, I can't tell you how much I appreciate you
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Speaker 9: guys having me back on. It's always a pleasure, and
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Speaker 9: we can't wait to have you guys in Evanston.
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Speaker 3: All right, we're doing it. I think the Iowa game,
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Speaker 3: that's the game I have circled. Iowa at home, yes?
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Speaker 3: I mean, Taylor, we good?
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Speaker 4: I'm in.
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Speaker 3: All right, we're in.
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Speaker 1: We have made promises to five separate universities that we're
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Speaker 1: coming to one of their games, and we're getting short
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Speaker 1: on time. We better get on it and get a
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Speaker 1: road trip together. Coach, thank you. Your game I will
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Speaker 1: go to. Your game will be there for the Iowa game.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for doing this, man. We appreciate it. Congratulations.
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Speaker 3: Good luck the rest of the season.
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Speaker 6: Thanks, guys.
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Speaker 1: There's no time like October. The NLCS is here, streaming
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Speaker 1: live on Fox 1. The back-to-back World Series champion Dodgers
51:51
Speaker 1: take on the top-seeded Brewers in an NLCS rematch, one
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Speaker 1: series away from the World Series. This is win-or-go-home baseball.
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Speaker 1: Every pitch matters. This is the moment the whole season's
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Speaker 1: been building to every pitch, every swing, every walk off.
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Speaker 1: Don't let it pass you by streaming live on Fox one,
52:10
Speaker 1: catch the Dodgers versus the Brewers live on Fox one.
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Speaker 1: There's no time like October and there's no better place
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Speaker 1: to stream the magic.
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Speaker 3: Than Fox one. All right.
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Speaker 1: Our thanks to Joe Theismann and David Braun for joining
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Speaker 1: us on the show today. Mikey, what is going on
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Speaker 1: with college football playoff expansion? We are a, They're going
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Speaker 1: to do this. There's no question that they're doing this
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Speaker 1: because there's money involved. But we're going from 12 teams
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Speaker 1: to what?
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Speaker 3: What are we doing?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so the college football playoff is nearing a deal
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Speaker 8: to expand the field to 24 teams in 2027.
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Speaker 7: That's coming for Pete Thamel.
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Speaker 8: And one of the funniest parts about the whole story
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Speaker 8: is it says, on September 9th, ESPN and college football
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Speaker 8: entered a 30-day negotiation window to determine what the value
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Speaker 8: of a 24-team would be. The window closed on October 9th.
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Speaker 8: But discussions continue because there's just way too much money.
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Speaker 5: That's just going to happen.
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Speaker 1: Just to be clear, that means Wake Forest, Boise State, SMU,
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Speaker 1: all those teams will be playoff teams this year.
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Speaker 7: Like you wanted.
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Speaker 3: That's not what I wanted.
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Speaker 1: Northwestern outside looking in. No, I was fine with the BCS.
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Speaker 1: This is not what I wanted. I didn't ask for
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Speaker 1: any of this. I mean, we're going straight from 12
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Speaker 1: to 24.
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Speaker 3: Why? Because it's easy just to double it up.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. So I see both sides of this argument where one,
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Speaker 4: obviously there's the money side and the other side is saying,
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Speaker 4: you know, we don't need more games. We don't need
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Speaker 4: the product more diluted to determine who's the champion. You
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Speaker 4: really need four teams on most seasons to decide who
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Speaker 4: the best college football team is. But the fact that
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Speaker 4: we're getting more college football playoff games on campus is,
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Speaker 4: I'm kind of there for, because I think that's an
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Speaker 4: underrated part in this.
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Speaker 1: So if that's the, if that's one of the products,
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Speaker 1: one of the things that stems from expanding the 24 teams,
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Speaker 1: more home games on college campuses, you're there for okay
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Speaker 1: with it.
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Speaker 3: Is that what you're saying? Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Like, like I think back to a couple of years
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Speaker 4: ago when Indiana went on the road to Notre Dame
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Speaker 4: in a playoff game, right? Like the fact that you're
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Speaker 4: now getting these type of big winter go home games
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Speaker 4: that On college campuses, instead of, you know, the the
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Speaker 4: the Citrus Bowl or the Outback Bowl. I do like
54:21
Speaker 4: that element of college football where I'd almost rather the
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Speaker 4: entire playoff be. Let's just go to the higher the
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Speaker 4: higher seated team.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 4: Let's play these games on campus.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting because guys like Lincoln Riley,
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Speaker 1: who would be in the playoff this year, can now
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Speaker 1: just point like when they when he's on the hot
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Speaker 1: seat again. If he's ever on the hot seat again
54:39
Speaker 1: because it's a 2014 playoff, he can point to the
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Speaker 1: last season and say, hey, I made it to the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: How are you going to fire me? Why am I
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Speaker 3: in the hot seat?
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Speaker 1: The point is to get to the playoff, to give
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Speaker 1: yourself a chance to win a championship.
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Speaker 3: And I did it.
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Speaker 1: It just gives coaches who have so much job security
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Speaker 1: even more job security than.
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Speaker 3: They already have. And for that reason, I don't like it.
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Speaker 7: We have to move the line. We have to move
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Speaker 7: the line from you made the playoff to you won
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Speaker 7: X amount of playoff games.
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Speaker 6: That's what we have to do.
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Speaker 3: Right. You hosted a home game.
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Speaker 5: Exactly. Yes.
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Speaker 3: Put that on your resume.
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Speaker 1: Don't put on the resume, hey, I was a 24
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Speaker 1: team in a 2014 playoff.
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Speaker 3: Ridiculous. Have a great night, everyone.