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Who will be in and who will be left out · Sports Exchange

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  Speaker 1: Good evening everybody, and welcome to another edition of the
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  Speaker 1: Sports Exchange. Oh wait, I'm confused. I'm in the wrong
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  Speaker 1: seat tonight. Wait a minute, Scott, You're supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: in this seat doing this stuff. But hold your horses, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Scott's feeling a little under the weather. He's gonna give
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  Speaker 1: us a good segment and then he's off to bed.
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  Speaker 1: So without further ado, I'm taking over the reins. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna introduce my panel tonight. Scott, besides not feeling well,
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  Speaker 1: how are you.
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  Speaker 2: Drummed uping up energy to come on our premiere show?
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  Speaker 2: Three of my favorite people hanging in there in the bed.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be there shortly, but we're going a good show tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I know if you're leaving the charge, you've come so far.
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, thank you, thank you. And then the
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  Speaker 1: person that started Sports Exchange with you, mister George Icorn,
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  Speaker 1: how are you tonight?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing good, Candy, good to have you here, and
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  Speaker 3: good to be with JB and Scott of course.
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  Speaker 1: Always awesome, awesome. And then to our favorite sideline sports
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  Speaker 1: persona none other than mister JB. Ellis, how are you
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  Speaker 1: doing tonight.
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  Speaker 4: JB doing good. Glad to be here, Glad Scott was
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  Speaker 4: able to make it for a segment. Hopefully you know,
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  Speaker 4: it gets better. We're all good going forward.
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  Speaker 2: I'll still the chat and real quick, John, Joshua Door,
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  Speaker 2: you know what he kept telling me all day.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta get on, you got to get.
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  Speaker 2: On all right, we managed josh Padia for helping me
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  Speaker 2: generate just a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And Joshua, I don't think it's a matter of him
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  Speaker 1: getting enough mustard or courage to hop on. Scott doesn't
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  Speaker 1: need a courage to be behind a microphone at all.
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  Speaker 1: He just needs his health to get on here, not courage.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't lack courage behind a microphone, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Josh, I actually used mustard on my Cody Islands
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  Speaker 2: is what I do, or my Sour trop and my
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  Speaker 2: Toastmaster's events on Tuesday. I use mustard and relish is
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  Speaker 2: what I did.
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  Speaker 3: Let's think.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, we're gonna have a plethora of topics tonight,
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  Speaker 1: but we're gonna start out with one big one that
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  Speaker 1: everybody or a lot of people are talking about right now.
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  Speaker 1: For some reagion reason, the college Football Playoff Committee just
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  Speaker 1: can't seem to shake the idea that the Crimson Tie
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  Speaker 1: deserve a playoff spot, regardless of whether the format is
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  Speaker 1: it four teams or twelve teams. For the second straight season,
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  Speaker 1: that affinity for Alabama could come at the expense of
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  Speaker 1: a school from the state of Florida. Last year it
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  Speaker 1: was Florida State, and this year right now it's Miami. Now,
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  Speaker 1: obviously they the committee has not made their final selection
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  Speaker 1: that comes after the conference championship games, but the spokesperson
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  Speaker 1: has told everybody that those teams that are not playing
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  Speaker 1: this weekend will not change in ranking. So if that
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  Speaker 1: happens and there's no change in ranking, the Miami Hurricanes,
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  Speaker 1: who only have two losses, will not make the slate
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  Speaker 1: for the College Football Playoffs. With that being said, mister Scott,
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  Speaker 1: MotorCity mad Mouth, drumming up enough and gumption to come
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  Speaker 1: on the show tonight, tell me your thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Number one, you know they've left the most exciting
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  Speaker 2: team out of the College Football playoff because when you
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  Speaker 2: do that, you lose cam Ward and he will definitely
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  Speaker 2: he's a heck of a player. You also have Damian Martinez.
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  Speaker 2: You have a lot of great offensive firepower, there, you
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  Speaker 2: really really do. I mean, of course you can't forget
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  Speaker 2: Zigger Ristreppo, who've been catching everything on the planet. And
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  Speaker 2: I was in the Miami Hurricanes record books. But here's
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  Speaker 2: the thing. Miami lost to two unranked opponents. If they
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  Speaker 2: wanted to get in or could get in, they had
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  Speaker 2: to at least win one of the two that they lost,
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  Speaker 2: Georgia Tech or Syrahcubes. Now Syracuses a much better team
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  Speaker 2: than most people think. Think about it. The quarterback I
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  Speaker 2: think his name was what Kent McCord, right, I believe
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  Speaker 2: is what his name is, you know, transferred to Syracuse
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  Speaker 2: from Ohio State. Hughes viewed as escapegoat when Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: lost to Michigan a year ago. I don't like this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going somewhere else that don't appreciate me up here.
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  Speaker 2: So what is though, what happens with Ohio State this year?
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  Speaker 2: They still lost against Michigan with another quarterback camp playing
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  Speaker 2: Kent McCord on this one, Kenya, No, Then Kent McCord
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  Speaker 2: leads Syracuse to a really good year. Think about I
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  Speaker 2: saw Syracuse play at the book of a tombol Us
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  Speaker 2: that beat him by forty plus points in a shutout.
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  Speaker 2: So now you've got a Syracuse team that's totally turned
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  Speaker 2: things around. Miami's up twenty one to nothing in the game,
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  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, Syracuse got back in it.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you the old adage that goes is this,
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  Speaker 2: the longer an underdog sticks around, the better chance they
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  Speaker 2: have a winning.
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  Speaker 3: That happened in two cases.
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  Speaker 2: On Saturday, Michigan kept hanging around against Ohio State, and
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  Speaker 2: as far as I'm concerned, Ryan Day hopes to see
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  Speaker 2: another day. Okay. Meanwhile, on the flip side of the occasion,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think not Syracuse is a very unrespected team.
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  Speaker 2: But Miami had to win one of those two un
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  Speaker 2: ranked opponent's games, and they did not do that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we saw the wake Forest game where they got back
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  Speaker 2: on track on and ended up winning by a waii margin.
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  Speaker 2: So the reality is Miami had their opportunities. People are saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: why did they go for the field goal instead of
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  Speaker 2: go for the fourth down? And you'd like tenago well
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  Speaker 2: over one Mario percentages. And I've gotten to know him
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  Speaker 2: as the heck of a football coach. He really, really
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  Speaker 2: truly is. He was going by analytics. Get that. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'll never second against him. He doesn't give us a
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  Speaker 2: hard time with the media under no uncertain terms. He doesn't,
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  Speaker 2: so I'll give him a pass. But the reality of
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  Speaker 2: the situation is Miami had to win one of those
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  Speaker 2: two games.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what this thing is about Alabama getting in.
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  Speaker 2: I don't get it. I don't have enough in me
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  Speaker 2: tonight to talk about the Crimson time. Maybe in a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks or so, we'll see what happens. But
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  Speaker 2: that's that's the reality of the whole situation. It really,
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  Speaker 2: really is. So I would have loved to see the
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  Speaker 2: game get into the college football playoff. I really was.
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  Speaker 2: And they started off repressive with a great win against Florida.
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  Speaker 2: And they again ten wins and two losses for a
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  Speaker 2: program three years ago that was in a rebuilding mode,
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  Speaker 2: isn't bad. Mario christ was on the right track to
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  Speaker 2: do a lot of good things. And you know he's
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  Speaker 2: figuring out the transfer portal, he's figuring out nil.
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  Speaker 4: So that's what you have.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see though, I mean, the final makeup of
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  Speaker 2: it is still not over yet until Sunday, and then
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about it. Probably if not on this particular show,
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  Speaker 2: inside the Picks can we'll definitely address it for sure,
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  Speaker 2: as well as any other shows that we may come
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  Speaker 2: in contact.
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  Speaker 3: But that's what they have.
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  Speaker 2: I do believe they case deserves being it opportunities for there,
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  Speaker 2: they just did not see them this time. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to tell you one last thing before I exit.
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  Speaker 2: Andy Borgalis, exavierras Repo, and cam Ward will be playing
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  Speaker 2: on Sundays.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So before I go to George and JB, I
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  Speaker 1: want to just add a couple different things that throw
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  Speaker 1: into the mix. So I get Alabama's three losses, Miami
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  Speaker 1: has two. Miami dropped six points six spots for losing
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  Speaker 1: on the road to the nine and three Orange. That's
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  Speaker 1: further than previous number two Ohio State falling for scoring
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  Speaker 1: just ten points and losing at home to the seven
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  Speaker 1: and five Michigan as a twenty and a half point
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  Speaker 1: favorite the same day. The other thing I want to
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  Speaker 1: put out there and I get two losses, three losses,
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  Speaker 1: more wins against top five hundred. There is one common
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  Speaker 1: opponent that both Miami and Alabama played this year, and
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  Speaker 1: they both played South Florida. The Crimson Tide struggled mightily
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  Speaker 1: against the Bulls at home, taking a narrow fourteen to
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  Speaker 1: thirteen lead to the fourth quarter before exploding for three
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns in the final five minutes and fifty seconds to
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  Speaker 1: win forty two to sixteen. The Hurricanes shut out South
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  Speaker 1: Florida in the second half of their Week four contest
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  Speaker 1: and won fifty to fifteen. So with some of those
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  Speaker 1: other added elements, George, what are your thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: You know, infatuation, This comes up so often in the
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  Speaker 3: last several years, but it's all so important. I know, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: we got to get Alabama in you know Alabama, this
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  Speaker 3: Alabama that Okay, Saban's out of there. They still worship
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  Speaker 3: the ground that Alabama walks on. And this stuff's gonna
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  Speaker 3: stop because obviously last year they were shown to be
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  Speaker 3: not contenders. Now this year, even with three losses, they're
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  Speaker 3: pushing him in there. And I agree with you, Scott
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  Speaker 3: in Candy, I mean in Miami, real good year. And
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  Speaker 3: granted they did not win one of those two that
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  Speaker 3: you had mentioned, Scott, and I do believe that that
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  Speaker 3: was the killer right there. But the fact of the
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  Speaker 3: matter is is, you know, if you're not the strong
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  Speaker 3: Alabama team, Michigan team. They got five losses, but they
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  Speaker 3: don't have three. But all I'm saying is, I don't
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  Speaker 3: care what your name is, if it's that big a name,
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  Speaker 3: you still have to rank these teams based upon their
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  Speaker 3: performance this year and counting for history and counting for
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  Speaker 3: I know what they always do. They don't claim they
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  Speaker 3: do it, but counting for a size, does their alumni,
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  Speaker 3: does their fan base travel? All this stuff goes into it.
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  Speaker 3: It's still it's still not the perfect method. And it's
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  Speaker 3: this year it's proven out again it's not perfect. I
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  Speaker 3: don't like it either. Something's got to change.
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  Speaker 1: JB. Your thoughts so far.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, the fact that it's the first year
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  Speaker 4: of the twelve team playoff and Alabama is begging to
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  Speaker 4: be let in. It's phenomenal, you know, because they were
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  Speaker 4: in every playoff like imaginable for how long and now
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  Speaker 4: there's twelve teams and this great institution of football is
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  Speaker 4: begging to be one of the twelve. And you know what,
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  Speaker 4: they just open logue. Now. This season has been strange.
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  Speaker 4: There's been many upsets up and down the line, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and it has happened to every team. You know, when
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  Speaker 4: it comes down to it. Cam Ward is a phenomenal quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: He's a guy who I hope goes to New York
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  Speaker 4: for the Giants because we need somebody. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think Miami's biggest problem is they're not a great team.
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  Speaker 4: They're a good team, you know, but unfortunately they're not
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  Speaker 4: great yet. And they'll they'll be great if Crystal Ball
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  Speaker 4: does this thing over the next few years and builds it,
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  Speaker 4: because he's done a great job getting them to where
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  Speaker 4: they are now. But they had too many issues where
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  Speaker 4: they toyed with opponents, and like Scott said earlier, if
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  Speaker 4: you allow a team to stay in the game, eventually
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna catch you a couple of times, you're gonna lose,
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  Speaker 4: you know. But they didn't lose any game that they
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  Speaker 4: were capable of winning this year, and they won some
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  Speaker 4: that were ugly, but still at the same time, it's
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  Speaker 4: not the SEC playoffs. You know, we don't need eighty
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  Speaker 4: five three loss teams getting into this twelve team playoff.
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  Speaker 4: Alabama does not belong. Miami has done an impressive job
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  Speaker 4: this year going out there and beating the teams on
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  Speaker 4: their schedule. Yes, they have two losses, but you know
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  Speaker 4: two is better than three. And you know, I would
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  Speaker 4: argue that the SEC is not the best conference this year.
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  Speaker 4: If you want to say who's the best conference, I
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  Speaker 4: would say the Big Ten is by far and a
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  Speaker 4: way better than the SEC. This year, we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: To me, the biggest phenomenon with this year's college football,
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  Speaker 4: every single conference championship game for all the big conferences
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  Speaker 4: has a team that just went into the conference. This year.
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  Speaker 4: You got SMU and the ACC, you got Oregon in
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  Speaker 4: the Big TED, you got Texas and the SCC, and
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  Speaker 4: I believe in the Big Twelve, it's I think b
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  Speaker 4: y uf I'm correct, could be wrong. I figured I
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  Speaker 4: looked at it yesterday. It's just shocking that you know,
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  Speaker 4: all these conferences which had great teams of them already,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the SEC, the Big TED, they were phenomenal conferences.
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  Speaker 4: But yet somebody that they brought into the conference got
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  Speaker 4: all the way to the championship. So that just goes
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  Speaker 4: to show me al Baba doesn't belong. They're not They're
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  Speaker 4: not there anymore. Sit down, shut up, You're done. But
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  Speaker 4: in Miami, a chance, you know, South Carolina, who has
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  Speaker 4: three losses, would be a better choice, but I'd rather
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  Speaker 4: see Miami get there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and let's face it when they talk about, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't win a book against ranked opponents, but their losses,
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  Speaker 1: their two losses were for a total of what nine
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  Speaker 1: points between the two games, whereas Alabama lost one game,
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  Speaker 1: what twenty one to three? Like they just and if
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  Speaker 1: you look at let's just look at total offense, Miami
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  Speaker 1: has the most yards out of all of the college
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  Speaker 1: out of all the schools Alabama with six four hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty nine yards. Alabama ranks thirty eighth with five thousand,
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  Speaker 1: seventy three yards. When you look at points, Miami leads
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  Speaker 1: in total scoring points with five hundred and thirty Alabama
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  Speaker 1: has four hundred and twenty six. Now I get obviously
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  Speaker 1: defense matters, so let's look at defense because I was
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  Speaker 1: just pulling that one up and I the let's see
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  Speaker 1: Miami again three eight hundred and thirty nine in Alabama
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  Speaker 1: three nine and seventy one. So in some of these
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  Speaker 1: categories they're also ahead of them. I think you, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you look at strength of schedule, but you also look
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  Speaker 1: at strength of schedule is great, but these schedules are
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  Speaker 1: made years in advance. You know, you have your conference,
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  Speaker 1: but the outside the conference sometimes you these schedules are
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  Speaker 1: way out in advance. You don't know if they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be good or bad or not, and not with nil,
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  Speaker 1: how many things have changed with that whole dynamics changing.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's really hard sometimes to put that
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  Speaker 1: on a team, like your strength is schedule your strength.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Scott, you're well.
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  Speaker 2: We point the South though. Okay, yes, they're made in advance.
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  Speaker 2: When you have expansion coming in, they had to really
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  Speaker 2: rip them up and do them all over again. Keep
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  Speaker 2: in mind, on last night's edition on Inside the Pick ten,
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  Speaker 2: we talked about SMU going from the death penalty to
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  Speaker 2: the ACC championship and not even collecting any revenue from
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  Speaker 2: the conference for nine years. But when you got Dallas
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  Speaker 2: oil money, Okay, don't worry, you don't need any relevant
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  Speaker 2: for nine years. You moved up in classes what you
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  Speaker 2: ended up doing. So you know what you've got Oregon,
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  Speaker 2: who's been an excellent team as well. So there's two
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  Speaker 2: the additions, so you knew they would be.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, USC ended.
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  Speaker 2: Up getting humble Pie when they came in here. Oklahoma
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  Speaker 2: got humble Pie when they ended up going into the
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  Speaker 2: SEC in Texas is just a great program, and they
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  Speaker 2: made the acclamation. Well, yes, a non conference portion of
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  Speaker 2: the schedules were made a little in advance, but the
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  Speaker 2: conference schedules had to get rewritten pretty quickly to accomminate
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  Speaker 2: the expenses.
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  Speaker 1: Conference.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but non well, Michigan, for example, they had Texas
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  Speaker 3: on the on the on the board for years. I
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  Speaker 3: mean you know that that was like you said, that
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  Speaker 3: was set up a long time ago. Well, they didn't
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  Speaker 3: know they were also going to have to Oregon and
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  Speaker 3: Southern cal and Ohio State on and on and on.
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  Speaker 3: I mean as a crappy year from Michigan. But I'm
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  Speaker 3: just saying that, yeah, the non conference part. And Scott
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  Speaker 3: is right, there are some teams that did have to
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  Speaker 3: adjust and maybe back away temporarily from a long standing opponent.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't see Michigan or Michigan State play Notre Dame,
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  Speaker 3: which we don't see regularly like we used to. But
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  Speaker 3: I agree, I mean these schedules got tougher for a
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  Speaker 3: lot of teams. I give Oregon a lot of credit,
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  Speaker 3: you know, coming into the Big Ten, all the travel,
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  Speaker 3: all the miles, the distances and all that and here
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  Speaker 3: they are sitting pretty Of course Penn State could spoil it,
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  Speaker 3: but we all know that Oregon is going to be
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  Speaker 3: one of the top seeds. But I'm just saying, you're right.
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  Speaker 3: You're coming into a brand new conference, JB, and you
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  Speaker 3: you hit that spot on. Man. You know all these
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  Speaker 3: conference games championships have one of the new brothers, his
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  Speaker 3: new brother in them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and going to the chat room, I just want
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  Speaker 1: to address blows, he says. I see Xavier getting the
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  Speaker 1: highest and Xavier is not up for the heisman. Cam
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  Speaker 1: Ward is up for the heisman for Miami, but not Xavier.
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  Speaker 1: There it's cam Ward. It's the guy from Colorado that
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  Speaker 1: plays both, Travis Hunter, he plays both. And then who else?
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  Speaker 1: There's who else is up for heisman?
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  Speaker 2: Do you guys know war Obviously we got cam wore?
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  Speaker 3: Is it Dion Sign the quarterback up board Sanders?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but he's way out of the list. The guy
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  Speaker 4: from Boise State, I think is the front runner. G
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  Speaker 4: T right now. I think between him and Travis Hunter
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  Speaker 4: right now are the two top people.
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  Speaker 1: And he thinks Chris has Oregon winning. Okay, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't see.
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  Speaker 2: I could care really less about the Heisland Trophy. It's
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  Speaker 2: not the ticket to winning it a super Bowl. I
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  Speaker 2: could use that as a topic somewhere else.
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  Speaker 3: But not tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Xavier's not up for the Heisman, but I do see
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  Speaker 1: him being in the NFL next year.
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  Speaker 3: No, there a lot of these job Yeah, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 3: it is.
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  Speaker 1: It is, Scott. You have any more you want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about it?
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  Speaker 2: No? I think I pretty much have said my piece
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  Speaker 2: going to be on here. Talk about the canes with you,
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  Speaker 2: Candy and JV and George. I know you're doing a
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: good job taking us for us away. Thanks and everybody
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: have a great look rest and Phil we'll do that.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Okay, thank you.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, guys, let's do a little Mlbjan Soto. Where's he
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: gonna where? Where's he gonna wind up? Where do you
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: guys think? JB? Why don't we start with you?
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: So it's no no long loss thing that I'm a yankeith.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: I would love for her to stay. Uh do I
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: see him stay? Scott Boris This is agent, which means
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: it's going to be a long drawn out, crazy process.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: You know, I have a feeling he's going to go
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: wherever he wants to go, money wise, you know, the
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: best team would be the Mets. I would think they're
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: probably the number one target with the most money to
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: offer him. But you know, it depends on what he
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: really wants. I mean, I think the Yankees offer is
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: going to be somewhat close. I don't know if they
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: would match what Cohen would throw at him with the Mets,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: but we'll see. I mean, to me, it was kind
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: of telling back in September when he hit the home
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: run in Seattle and he made the comment, well, now
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: he had a home run at every stadium, that'll be
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: great for free agency. That he wanted a lot of
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: money and he was going to get it either way.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: But to me, that was the wrong time to talk
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: about free agency. So if he leaves, no love loss.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: But you know, of course he's a great player. I
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: love to see him stay in the Bronx, but I
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: think he's going across the city over Queens to City
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Field with the Mets.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: George, what do you think?
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that seems to be the indication that the Mets
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: are the ones that will win the sweepstakes. Well, it's
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: tough to have the Yankee say goodbye to him. I mean,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: my goodness, they came that close, obviously the winning it
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: All this year, losing in the in the series quar
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: to one to the Dodgers. But you take a look
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: at his record. I mean, he had five years in
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Washington with the National Soto Dead and then in two years,
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: as you might recall, in San Diego, but one of
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: those was the COVID season, So his stats were very
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: small compared to obviously what they would have been the
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: first of those two years in San Diego. And then
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: look what you did for the Yankees. One hundred and
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: fifty seven games, one hundred and sixty six hits, forty
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: one homers, one hundred nine ribies, and one hundred and
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: twenty nine walks. And you know, it's it's going to
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: be a big, big, big hole in that Yankees line
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: up next year if they do lose him. But you know, hey,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: look look what happened on Tony you know what I mean.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: He went from one city in southern California, yeah, La,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: to another another team, And the same thing could happen
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: this year with Soto crossing over from Yankee Stadium over
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: to to City Field. Then you know, like you said, JB,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: they got a lot of money the Mets are going
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: to have a lot of money to throw around. They
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: always do seem to, maybe not as much as the
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Yankees and the Dodgers, but obviously they smell success. They
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: they want to close the deal and bring Sodo over there.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: That's my thinking too.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: The floor the floor for Soto's new deal is widely
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: considered to be six hundred million, with seven hundred million
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: reportedly becoming increasingly likely if interested teams are willing to
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: add a fourteenth or fifteenth to acquire the twenty six
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: year old. Could you imagine being under contract for fourteen
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: or fifteen years and on a baseball contract, mind you,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: not like us that normally work have contracts like that,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: But I mean six to seven hundred million.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's the same thing with Migual Cabrera.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: You know, the Tigers paid the price, they paid the price,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: but the last few years they got very low run
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: production power from him. And I know he's one of
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: the greatest ever. I'm not condemning that, of course not.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: But you're right. You bring these guys in, say you
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: give them these contracts, and like like you said, Joe,
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: you know you got borrows and they're doing all the
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: pullings and trouble making, all the trouble. It is tough,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: but that's what the market's going to bear for somebody
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: of this status. I mean, but it is crazy. It
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: is absolutely crazy. When they're that old. Some of them
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: may not even be able to walk. Ugh, what do
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: you think?
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I just look at that. You know, he's
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: still twenty six, So signing a fourteen year contract doesn't
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: make much sense to me. You know, he still got
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: his five great years ahead of him now. I get
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: that he wants long term success and long term money,
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: I guess because it takes all the pressure off of him.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: But if he signed a five year deal now and
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: he has the five projected years he would have, what
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: would he be worth in you know, three to five years.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: I disagree with this long term deal for him. I
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: think it's actually better for the clubs because you look
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: look at the NBA for example, you know, look at
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: what a guy makes now, and look at what you know,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: if you signed a five year deal five years ago,
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: you would have gotten ripped, you would you would have
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: lost so much money with the course of the five years.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: You know. I don't think it's the right move. I mean,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: I get that it's guaranteed seven hundred million, six hundred billion,
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: But if you took I don't know, you said to
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: the team, Okay, I'm gonna do a four year deal,
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: but I want a little bit more. Give me sixty
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: five per So you already being around two sixty after
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: four years what his stats would command, he'd have no
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: trouble probably getting the rest of that money at the
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: end of the time.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: But but do they think that maybe he'd be declining
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: at that point or not have too many more really
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: good years and then not want to go as long
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: term out. I don't know, Joe, I don't know what
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the answer to that is. And the answer could be,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: you know, what if he gets injured and stuff like
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: that and can't fulfill all of it either as well.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: So I mean, it's a it's a crap shoot for
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: either one. I suppose.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean I get the you know, seven
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: hundred million guaranteed. I get. I just you know, if
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: I'm one of the best players of all time and
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: he's in that group, that one day could be. He's
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: not that one now, but he could be what I
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: want to lock myself in and not have a chance
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: to renegotiate. Yeah, he could try it, force a renegotiation,
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: but he looks bad doing it, and the team will
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: have no no reason to say, okay, let's do it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: You know, if you signed for five years, four years
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: at that kind of money, I think he can get
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: the other four hundred million, five hundred million out of
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: problem with the number Sea's going to put up. You know,
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: I get the issue is always you know, if he
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: gets hurt, But I mean, you take chances of life
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: between two hundred million and seven hundred million. Do you
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: need the difference if you lost that bet? Is it
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: going to change your life that much?
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: You know? I agree, I agree. I think I think
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: it is better for him to be at a point
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: where five six years from now, going back to the
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: negotiating table and proving that you know, hey I did this,
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: I did that, you know, and my agent's going to
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: push this even higher. The threshold of be higher. Oh,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: I know what you're saying, Candy, the result of an injury.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: We know that.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: But like I said, the Tigers got screwed because they
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: waited and waited and waited, and Miguel tried different things
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: to get him better shape, better training, techniques and all that,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: but he just lost the zip on his back. And
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: you know, they did the same thing with the designated hit.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: I remember a guy named Martinez was in Detroit and
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: he's the same way. They kept him around two years
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: too long. That's because that Dombrowsi gave him a sweetheir
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: deal in Mike Yelich. But all I'm saying is that
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: this kid soo yeah, he's got Hall of Fame written
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: all over him. I would be leaning towards more of
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: JB your scenario than I would. You know, the long
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: term fourteen year stuff, but it is, it's a crapshoot.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: I agree.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: The only way I would do a long term deal
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: like that is if I had an opt out after
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: four or five years, because if the market changes, which
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: in sports it does, you know, it goes up by
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions. If I
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: had an opt out after like year five, eight, and twelve,
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: because who knows what baseball you can play pretty decent
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: up until almost forty if you have that longevity and luck.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: You know, if I have that opt out in there,
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: by all means I would sign a long deal. Otherwise,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: not what a shorter deal.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, So let's move on and turn it to the
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. Today suspended wide receiver Deontay Johnson one game
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: without pay for conduct detrimental to the team. The team
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: van Johnson for refusing to enter Sunday's game against the
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. What do we think about what the Baltimore
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Ravens and what Deantay Johnson did. Let's start with you, JB.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: So, was there a reason here if used to go
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: in the game? He was recently traded there? Did he
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: know the playbook was there? You know? Was he unsure
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: of what his role was going to be? You know,
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: So there's a little bit more to the story. It's
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: not as if he was with the team all year
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: and it's week thirteen and he just says, I'm not
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: going in. You know, he's there five days and you
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: know he said or short term and he'd say he
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: doesn't want to go in. So I kind of could
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: see it both ways, GB.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: But he was traded on October twenty ninth, so he's
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: been there. He in seven games with the Panther Panthers
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: had caught one pass for six yards, and in four
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: appearances with the Ravens while only playing only thirty nine
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: offensive snaps. So he's played four games now with the
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Okay, I mean you know so that I don't know.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, if you're not going to go with the
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: game with the coach tells you, and you're there the amount
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: of time, there's really no excuse for it. You know,
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: it's your job. That's what you get paid to do.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: You don't get paid to stand on the sidelines. You know,
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: if you're told to go with the game, get in
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: there and do what you gotta do.
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: George Thoughts, Yeah, I was. I was surprised too, And
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: I don't know what if there's any kind of injury
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: or something holding him back. I know that, you know
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: the Ravens abatement.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: He was sidelined in the game, you know, in the
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: second half with a knee injury, and then you've got
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: this situation here with Johnson not really wanting to go in.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: I mean, we don't have the whole story here, like
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: you said, but yeah, he was traded. I'm Carolina at
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: the Baltimore way back at the end of October. Come on, now,
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: he should have no problem adapting to the playbook. He
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: should have a positive attitude regarding practicing. You're going from
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: the Ouhu to the penthouse. Although now I really think
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: that Baltimore was clearly overrated, like the forty nine ers.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: This year, it's getting to be more and more like that.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: But the fact of the matter is is you're pro
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: okay and you're getting good paid, good money, just as
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: all the receivers are on that Baltimore team, and you've
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: got to perform when they ask you to perform. You've
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: got to go out there and play your best. And
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: it's just not a sport to be half asked about
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: or to be oh, you know, crying about I didn't
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: get this kind of playing time, or whatever was going
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: through his mind could have been something on the home front.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: We don't know. Like you said, Jab, there'd be more
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: than more to the story than will ever know, probably,
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: But John Harbaugh, you know you don't mess around with him.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: This guy's been a coach a long time in this league,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: and he can he can smell with dirty red, if
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: you so to speak. And I don't mean it that bad,
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: but I mean he can that something was going on there,
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: and hey, you're not ready to go in when I
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: asked you to go in the or the offensive coordinator
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: wanted to send him in or whatever. Hey, you could
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: just take a seat. And you know that's a tough move.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: And now they come and say, oh, you're suspended one game, boy,
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: and it doesn't look bad. I mean, that doesn't look
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: good at all for Deontay Johnson. I'm sorry. The kid
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: still has good potential, but you got you gotta play
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: this game one hundred and ten percent every week, every Sunday.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: So knowing that, now let's twitch a little bit and
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: talk a little bit about what happened after some of
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: these rivalry games this past weekend especially, And I know
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: you're just gonna like roll your eyes. I can already
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: see it now begin versus Ohio State. We have we
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: have to bring it up because it caused a police
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: officer to have to go to the hospital and get
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: treated for injuries he sustained trying to stop the fighting.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: They had to mace players on the field from fighting
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: to stop them from fighting. And now, yes, they came
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: down and they handed Michigan, the School of Michigan, and
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the School of Ohio State one hundred thousand dollars each
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: team has to pay. But what But what consequences are
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: there for the players that were on the field that
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: actually did the fighting. What do we do with that?
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Where do we go from here to stop that?
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Like?
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: And how did it come to that? Like, we were
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: talking about this on a different show that I was
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: on the other night, and I said, you know, I said,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: in some of the big games for hockey, you have
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: fighting during on the ice, during the game, during the game,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: and then after the game you have sportsmanship and you
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: go and you high five everybody after you know, they win,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: like a big championship or something. Where did we go
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: wrong and we stopped doing that and we went to
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: fighting at the game and having to, let's say, disrespect
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the other team by saying, okay, I got to take
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: my flag and post it on top of your logo
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: on your field. Like, I get, you just won a
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: big game, you were big underdogs, but to kind of
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: do all that, So kind of give me your thoughts
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: about any or all of that. George, We'll start with you,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: since you're from Michigan.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: Well, I was not happy. In fact, I was appalled
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: by that action. I really was. This trick has been
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: tried before in various football stadiums when they run around
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: with the flag and try to plant or I've even
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: seen a stupid behavior like stopping on the logo. I
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: think some NBA guys have done that too. You go
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: to center court and you stomp on the logo if
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: you're with a visiting team after you won. This is nonsense.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: It really is nonsense. I was appalled by it. I
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: was not happy about it. I'm not pointing fingers at
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: either side because they were both guilty. Uh Michigan, that
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: wasn't illegal to do what they did. So if they
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: did bring out the flag, then obviously that was something
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: that had been done before. But Ohio, fate was poed
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: and they had a right to be and losing a
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: game like that as twenty some point underdogs. But you know,
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: this goes much further than this. How about all these
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: fans that were turning a blind guy to We're back
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: into the ripping down goal posts now, you know, and
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: it kind of I thought that stuff stopped, you know,
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: five ten years ago, or you know, every time your
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: team upset somebody, you know, take those goal posts and
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: women and men fans, it doesn't matter male or female
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: sitting on those posts. Injury could happen to throw them
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: the carrying the post and taking into the river. Come on,
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: you know, so we've got a lack of security, is
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. We really do, because they turned their
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: head the other way when they see after an upset
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: fans run all over the field. Did you know that
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: those fans that run out of that field, the loser
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: of that game is not on the field. I'm surprised
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: we haven't more. You know, some smartlek fan tried to
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: cold cock the coach or one of the players on
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: the opposing team. You're letting all these fans on the field,
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: and like I said, the teams aren't even dispersed yet.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Of course they're not back in that tunnel yet. But Michigan,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: here's one thing I will say, they can't have it
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: both way. Because when Michigan State and them got in
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: and they got into that tunnel dispute at Michigan Stadium,
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: the first thing that Michigan did is they ran to
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: the police, They ran to the prosecutor's office. I'm not
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: saying it was right or wrong, and they haul those
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Spartan players into court. Oh so what happens now? Oh,
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: it's all settled. I'm sorry. You know, our players acted
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: like that, and even the Big ten that's a slap
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: on their wrist one hundred thousand dollars. Fine, they make
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: money hand over fist, as we know on the big
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: sports like football and basketball. But all I could say is, yeah,
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: both teams are guilty of this, maybe Michigan a little
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: bit more. I'm not a big fan of pepper spray
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: being sprayed on a player, but they wouldn't stop their violence.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: I guess the cops are out there, but the fact
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: of the matter is you can't have it both ways.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: There's got to be more security, and they got to
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: get rid of that rule about carrying flags around that
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: that's nonsense. That's got to stop too. I'll get off
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: my soapboxes. I want to hear what JB and Candy
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: have to say.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: JV. Listen, nobody likes their opponent. You know, when you're
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: playing the game for the sixty minutes during the game,
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: you could hate your opponent. You can't try and hurt
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: them because that shows no class, but you could literally
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: hate them for that sixty minutes. I'm okay with it. Well,
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: the game ends, act like you've done it before. You
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: don't need to go play at the flag at midfield
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: and be disrespectful to somebody else's house. You just weren't
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: showed the utmost disrespect by beating them. Now shut up,
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: celebrate on your sideline, jump up and down, do whatever.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Get off the field, go home. Be an adult. You're
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: over eighteen in college. Be an adult. There's no reason
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: to show disrespect for the people you're playing. It's there.
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: It's disgusting, and it's not Michigan. It's not you know,
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: any particular team there. Everybody does it. You know, Yeah,
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: I get it's a huge rivalry. I get you beat
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: the team they were right number two. I get it.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: Go to the locker room, go out for dinner with
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: the guys, have a party at the frat house, whatever
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: you want to do. Get off the field. Listen, you
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: know they lost and on the opposite side, you lost
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: the game. Who cares that they put a flag at midfield.
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: Go to the locker room, figure out what you can
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: do to be better next week. Get a life. You
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: don't need to fight over that. You want to know
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: what's a legitimate fight. What happened to Trevor Lawrence? How
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: his linemancame and had his back. Now I still think that,
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: you know, is this tried to hurt him? I think
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: it was inadvertent, But that's my opinion. I haven't watched
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: the play. I'm just going from my experience dealing with
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: professional athletes. Most of them don't try and hurt other
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: players intentionally. But if you're playing and you think someone
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: tried to hurt your guy intentionally, yes, that to me
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: is an allowable excuse to fight. Besides for that planning
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: a flag, go in the locker room, listen to your coach,
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: learn how to be better for next week. Don't waste
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: your time with this because all you're gonna end up
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: doing is getting suspended, getting arrested, getting hurt, and none
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: of that's going to help your career or your team.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: So grow up.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: The sad thing that I will say is it was
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: probably I'm guessing it was senior day. It would have
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: been the last game Ohio State players regular season, so
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: it's senior day, and I feel bad for all those
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: seniors that that's how they got to go. I mean,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: and they're probably some of them were probably involved in it.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they were or weren't because I
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: don't know personally, but it's sad that that's that's the memory.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: You're gonna leave your home field that you've played on
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: for however many years, whether you are transfer in and
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: you've only played one year or but you're gonna leave
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: with that feeling on your home field for so you
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: play the next game, whether it be you know, on
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: your home field, whether it be you're coming back next
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: year or you're not coming back.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: That was it.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what's sad. What's sad you have lost we
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: respect for people and you just beat you just if
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: you are upset, you're angry, you don't like your rival,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: like said, show it on the field during the game.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Whatever game you play, you know, don't intentionally harm them,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: but play your best for you and your team to
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: beat them. And if you get beat, you get beat,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: you know. And then what I would say is, if
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: you are the opposing team, go celebrate in the locker
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: room so that you can do it behind closed doors,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: because yes it's your right to do it, and yes
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: you can go by your fans and maybe have a
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: couple of minutes celebration with them, but then go off.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Let the home team, especially on the last game of
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: the season like that, so that the seniors could go
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: around and maybe walk around and say thank you to
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: you know, I've seen hockey teams where they'll the home
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: team will come out and they'll shake their sticks on
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: the ice, you know, kind of as a thank you
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: to all the fans for being there, because, let's face it,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: that's the last time I'm a lot of those seniors
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: are going to be on that stage at home, at
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: their home stadium, whatever stadium it is. So that's where
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: I think it's just really sad.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: Well, I agree, and hockey does it the right way.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: You know, in the Stanley Cup playoffs, I don't care
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: if it's the first round or the Cup finals. They're
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: always there at center ice to shake each other's hand.
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: That is such a class way of doing it, and
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: that's been a tradition in hockey for god knows how
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: many years. But you're absolutely right, guys, you know, take
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: that celebration, JB and Candy, you know, do that in
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: the locker room. Do it back when you get back
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: to campus. As a matter of fact, Michigan, they were
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: all invited to the Michigan hockey game that night So
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: once they got back to ann Arbor, coach Moore and
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: several of the players were introduced at the hockey game,
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: but unfortunately that was all marred by the talk about
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: what happened on the field. So, yeah, this stuff's got
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: to stop. I mean, we don't need violence, we don't
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: need more aggression and more you know, bad things going
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: on like we've seen.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: So let's go move over to the NFL. I want
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: to talk a little bit. The previous employers of Saquon Barkley,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Derick Henry and Josh Jacobs surveyed the landscape and decided
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: not to prioritize keeping alpha running backs. Now they rank one, two,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: three among NFL rushing leaders for teams that collectively are
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: twenty four and nine. The teams that let them walk
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: are a collective seven and twenty six. So what do
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: we think about the previous employers letting Saquon Barkley, Derrick Henry,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: and Josh Jacobs go any thoughts stort, We'll start with you.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: Well, I think it all comes down to when and
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: Mail Farr Junior has talked about this on Inside the
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: Pigskin any many times, and the fact that the relegation
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: of the running, the running back, the rusher. You know,
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: over the last many years, it's just been diminished, and
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: and he always wonders why, And you know, I don't
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: know what's wrong.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know, because look at the Detroit Lions. They're
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: successful because they got two guys in that backfield that
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: are willing to go and play their best to every game.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: You know, they're both you know, if they won't be
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: the one of them, maybe both of them will be
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: a thousand nind Rushers this year. I'm talking about Montgomery
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: and Gibbs. But the but the fact of the matter
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: is is that I don't know if they didn't feel
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: that Barkley, you know, fit in you mentioned about Henry
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: and and what was the other one, Jacobs? You know,
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: you don't change his scenery is nice though, for any
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: athlete when it's necessary. So in defense of those trades, uh,
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: these guys here leading the league the top three after
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: moving around, I mean that tells you a little bit
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: about something. But it also tells me something about not
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: getting along with his previous coaches. Whatever the reasons were,
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: I didn't like it playing there, so I want to trade.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: I mean there's there's a lot of stuff that goes
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: on behind the scenes. But it is kind of funny though,
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: and it and it hurts all the teams that they
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: left because these guys are having a hell ofthy air,
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: especially Barkley and Henry. Oh, I don't know, it's it's
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: you know, you gamble a lot when you trade running backs.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: But boil boy, this one's coming back to haunt their
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: former teams.
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: So you know, look at Saquon Barkley, Derrick Henry, and
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: Josh Jacobs. They were on three horrible teams. Even with
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: them on the teams, they were horrible. Now I know
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: the New York Giants better than the other two. I
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: could tell you Saquon Barkley would not be having the
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: same year if he was playing in Mett Life Stadium
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: as he's having by playing in Lincoln Financial Field. Different team,
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: different offensive line, different coach. You know, not that Saquon's
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: not great, because you know he had over a thousand
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: yards multiple times with the Giants, but you know, they're
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: just not set up the same. The offensive line does
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: not compare, and he would not have gotten the Giants
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: to the amount of wins that they have at Philadelphia.
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: He was blessed to be get a good position. Derrick
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: Henry very similar. The Titans were, you know, kind of
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: the same as the Giants. You know, they don't really
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: have a great quarterback, they don't have a very good defense,
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: they don't have really much and Derrick Henry wasn't going
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: to make them a playoff team. Josh Jacobs, he's a
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: little different. He went from leading the league of rushing
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: one year to a really horrible year. Wasn't hurt, just
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: couldn run the ball very well, and the Raiders gave
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: up on them, and the Packers took a chance Aaron
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: Jones and it's working out well for them. So I
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: don't really fault the Raiders as much as I do
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: the Titans of the Giants, because I think that they
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: do that they had, you know, studs and what they had.
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: But at the same time, I don't think either would
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: have made a difference for those teams. It's just a
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: bad look when you let somebody like that go for
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: almost nothing or nothing.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: And the one thing that I will say that I
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: know Melfar has said numerous times on Inside the Big
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Skin is the devaluation of running backs is kind of
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: awful because if you think about it, the running back
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: touches the ball more than any wide receiver because they
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: can be a pass they can be a pass catcher,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: and they have to run the ball. So like they're
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: in a lot more plays, they're doing a lot more.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: So why they've gotten devalued and people weren't value them
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: as much, it's kind of beyond most of us considering
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: they are very important.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: But so we'll see then. Yeah, and I was just
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: going to add Candy and JB. Don't forget too that
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: with these offenses, a lot of these running backs are
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: not getting enough action because the quarterback runs the ball
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: a lot. We know the trend in the last half
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: dozen or more years. You know, draft a quarterback that
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: can run the ball, run the ball, you know, so
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: in a way, that's taken a little bit away from
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: the running game, but it's added a new dimension. I
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: think a lot of these teams are really sold on that, Gee,
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: we got to have this mobile quarterback ge he can
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: run whenever we need them and all this. So I
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: think that might be one of the factors. I'm not
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: saying it's a good factor, but I think I might
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: be one of the factors on some of these coaches
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: and these staffs. You know, if they have a mobile
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: quarterback like that, Just.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: Saying so quick question, does Mike McCarthy deserve a new
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: contract in Dallas? And if he doesn't, do you think
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: he'll get another coaching job? And where we'll start with
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: George h.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: Well, I haven't given this a whole lot of thought.
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: I don't think. I think Jerry Jones has got to
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: move on. I really do. And you know, it's not
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: all Mike's fault, of course not. We know that there's
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: been some lot of problems there building the interior line
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: they've been and you know, Dak has been hurt a
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: lot and a lot of you know, negative stuff going on.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: And plus Jerry's got to have his finger in everything.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: And I mean, I know he's got a great, a
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: great track record. But the fact matter is is, you
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: know again, Yankees, Cowboys, I mean, these are America's teams,
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: and yet they're not winning at all anymore. And I
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: do think that Mike's a good coach, but I do
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: think it'd be better for the franchise if he moved on.
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: Where he would end up going, I don't know, there's
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: so many coaches that are on the hot seat right now,
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: and the opening in Chicago now after they fired their coach.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, he might possibly go back there and uh,
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: but there'll be a team's looking looking for him. But
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: I think he I think Jerry should move on and
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: try something different because it's certainly not working as far
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: as championships go, or anything near a championship.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: JB.
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: Your thoughts, Yeah, I mean, I can't understand why they
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: would want to keep Mike. Great coach, super Bowl winner,
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: but it's just not working. Like George said, you know,
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: Jerry first of all got to fire himself as the GM,
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: which will never happen. Derek Henry wanted to play in Dallas.
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: You know, he could have could have figured out how
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: to get him in the budget, but yet gave DAK
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: and CD all this money and they can't roll the
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: ball to save their life right now. But it's just
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: not working with Mike. Not that he's a bad coach.
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: Sometimes you know, it's just not the team. You can't
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: get what you want with a certain team. You know,
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: you just can't get the message, you know, on the personnel.
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: It could be for many reasons, you know, it doesn't
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: mean that he's a bad coach. It's just not the
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: right situation. So and it's be better for him to
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: go somewhere else. He'll get a job if he wants what.
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: He's good enough and he's proven he can win. It's just,
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: you know, it's not working there, and I don't know
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: if i'd want that job, to be honest with you,
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: I'd rather, you know, I could think of about twenty
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: other jobs in the NFL. I want. I don't want
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: to have to deal with Jerry. Jerry's out there, you know,
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: if we're talking business and like how to build stuff,
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: how to get an empire. Yeah, I want to be
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: next to Jerry twenty four to seven coach his team.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: I don't want nothing doing it. Good luck, Jerry, find
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: somebody else, Okay.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: Predictions for tomorrow night's game, green Bay goes into Detroit.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Detroit is number one in the and the count in
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: our division. They have one loss. The Packers have three losses.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: Last time they played Detroit took beat green Bay in
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: green Bay, but the last time they played in Detroit,
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: the Packers beat Detroit, and Detroit has numerous defensive players
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: that have gone down to injury. So JB your prediction.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Who's going to win tomorrow night's gamesten.
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: You can't go against Detroit at this point. They just
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: keep winning and it's an important game. They have to
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: keep their lead over Philly, so they need to win
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: Green Bay. They're making the playoffs no matter what is
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: a wildcard. They're a game behind the Vikings, the two
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: games behind the Packers, behind the Lions. A win would
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: be huge for them. They're just not there yet. They're
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: way ahead of where I expected them to be, you know,
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: two years into Jordia Love's starting career. I'm glad to
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: see where they are, but they're just not the Lions yet.
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: But this is by far. If the Vikings can stay
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: where they are, this is going to be the best
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: division of football for at least seven years between those
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: four teams, because they're all really they all have a
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: lot of talent and they're all going to be getting better,
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: except for the Lions, who are near where they should
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: be right now and how long can they stay there?
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: But they're still going to be there a few years,
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: So you're looking at least five to seven years as
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: being the best division of football.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: George, your predictions for myrow night.
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, it is hard. It is hard, even though,
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: to go against the Lions because even though all these injuries,
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: you know, they still find a way of making something
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: out of it. And Detroit's offense and their defense is
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: stepped up the last few weeks. Jaron Glenn has done
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: a nice job. Oh all year, really, but I mean
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: it's really you know, Houston, they didn't really do any
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: kind of domination. You know, they even the Thanksgiving Day game,
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: the Bears could have won or at least tied that
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: game with better clock management. So there are a lot
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: of people I'm hearing a lot of whispers reading stories
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: about they're thinking Detroit's gonna go on a two out
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: of three losing streak or one one clown called a
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: show today and they're gonna lose their next three, which
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: I don't think they will. But they do have a
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: tough schedule at the Lion still, and green Bay is
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: not an easy opponent for Detroit. You mentioned Candy and
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: that game on Thanksgiving last year. Very few people gave
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: green Bay much of a chance to beat Detroit, but
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: they did, and that was the last time they were
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: in town. Now, the fact of the matter is is
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: that these injuries, though, are going to catch up with
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: any team if they multiplay. And that's what's happening. They're
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: losing two or three guys a week. You know, Malcolm
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: Rodriguez last week went down, and then of course you
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: got Taylor Decker apparently he's not gonna be ready tomorrow.
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: And of course we got Hutchinson is out, and you know,
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: injuries all over. And I think that it's a testament
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: to Brad and to Dan Campbell. The fact of the
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: matter is is they are so deep, and they made
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: this roster one of the deepest, could be the deepest
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: ever in Lion's history as far as I know. But
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, they really did a good job of having
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: backups and having guys on the practice squad and scouting
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: that the what did they call the waiver wire the
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: waiver list and stuff. He's constantly there's constantly bringing people
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: in and uh and and I really I find it
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: impossible to go against the Lions, although I will say
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: it's going to be a very close game. I'll go like, maybe, oh,
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  Speaker 3: let's say thirty one to twenty for Detroit.
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  Speaker 1: So Detroit can clinch the spot in the playoffs with
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: an eleventh straight victory, which would a franchise record. For
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: you guys, your coach said that you're in playoff football
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: right now. This is the type of stuff that you
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: live for, and that's the stuff that gets you ready
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  Speaker 1: for the tournament. Green Bay also has a lot to
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: play for. They can pull within a game of the Lions.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: If they can split the series, this game is going
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: to be important to us as well. Now. I think
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: one of the biggest keys to this game will will
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: green be a Green Bay be able to slow down
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: your running game, Jamar Gibbs and David Montgomery. I mean,
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: you guys have been the first teammates in league history
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: to run for at least ten touchdowns in consecutive seasons,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: have combined to average more than one hundred and forty
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: yards on the ground per game. Now, the Packers had
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: limited San Francisco's Christian McCaffrey to thirty one yards on
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: eleven attempts and held Miami to thirty nine yards rushing
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: in their past two games. So I think that's gonna
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: be one of the keys for at least Green Bay.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: And I don't care what our records are because I
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: think anytime an NFC opponent plays another NFC opponent, they
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: play each other tough. I don't care who what record
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: you're having, if you're a one in ten or a
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: ten and one, you're gonna come and play that game.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: It's like your biggest rivalry games that we saw in college.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: You know, you bring your your tough stuff your a game.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: Home field has not always been an advantage in this series. Lately,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: the road team has won four straight games, going back
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: to Detroit closing the twenty twenty two regular season when
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: you guys kicked us out of the playoffs. But you
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: just never know. So I think it'll be a really
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping it'll be a really good game. Of course,
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: I'm on the opposite side for you, George. That's okay.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: I respect you and your team is having an awesome year. Yeah,
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: but I do hope that my Packers can come in
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: and beat you guys. So, but I think it'll be
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: a very good game. So I'm looking forward to it.
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: Besides that game for this weekend, what NFL game are
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: you guys looking forward to watching this weekend? And I'll
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: start with you, JB.
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  Speaker 4: That's a great question, you know, Honestly, looking at the schedule,
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: not much that excites me this week, probably if it's
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: not that game. I actually want to see what the
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: Panthers do against the Eagles. They covered four straight games.
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: They won the first two against two really bad teams,
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: but then they lost by the three to the Chiefs
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: and the three to the Bucks. Race Young's playing a
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: lot better since they put them back in. Just for
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: pure entertainment, I want to what they do against the Eagles,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: because the Eagles like to blow teams out, so kind
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: of see where both teams fall and that I think
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: that to me is going to be an exciting game.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: George, what about you, Well, there's a couple of them
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: that come to mind. I think Cousins returning to Minnesota
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: to face a former team is just going to be
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: really really interesting because it wasn't that he was disliked
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: it all in Minnesota, but they're obviously not going to
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: be many fans and it's very slimmlarily similar to when
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: Stafford came back to Detroit, as you guys recall last season,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: where he was booed and I mean, they love Cousins
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: when he was in Minnesota, but hey, he's moved on.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: Atlanta is not having a good year, but Minnesota certainly is.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: That's going to be an early game that I want
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: to watch. The later game is going to be Buffalo
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: at the aforementioned Stafford Rams because the Rams are struggling.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: They need a win, but Buffalo is played out of
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: their minds right now, Josh Allen, and that's gonna be
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: an interesting game. I'm looking forward to that late game. Yeah,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: Buffalo at LA. And then, like I said, the early
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: one is Atlanta and Minnesota. How about you, Candy.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Well, obviously tomorrow night's game is is it for me?
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: But I also think what it'll be interesting could be
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: Seattle and Arizona. They're both playing pretty good. That's a,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: you know, another contest that could really And the other
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: one that kind of intrigues me is I know San
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: Francisco is really depleted, but they're playing the Bears, and
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: the Bears have been playing better, so I think that
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: could be an interesting game to see how the defenses
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: go against each other we've seen, you know, it'll be interesting.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: I also think we all know Trevor Lawrence went down
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: with concussion protocol, but he has also now been played
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: on IR he's having shoulder surgery. So I think the
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: Jaguars Titans game could be interesting even though they're both
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: not good teams, but they're both at the same not
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: good teams. See what will happen with that that game
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: as well. So one last question, what college game are
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: you most looking forward to this weekend? And we'll start
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: with you, George.
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  Speaker 3: Well, obviously being a big big ten guy, I'm looking
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: forward to the Penn State Oregon game that's going to
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: be on CBS and I believe eight o'clock at night.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: They're playing it in neutral site obviously, Lucas Oil Stadium
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: in Indianapolis. And just I'll get him put my two
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: cents in her. I wish they would rotate that game.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: Certainly Ford Field and Detroit deserves one of those Big
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: ten championship games. But obviously i'll get off that soapbox.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: But anyways, Oregon number one, what can you say? Penn State?
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: You know, you know, they they've had a they've had
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: a not so good several years past. Okay, because they
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: seem to play well, but they're never well enough to
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: beat like an Ohio State or a Michigan or perhaps
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: in Oregon. So we'll see if this Penn State team
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: is a little bit different and could maybe pull off
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: that upset. I don't think so, but I'm looking forward
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: to that one. The Big Ten Championship game is going
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: to be a really good game.
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  Speaker 1: JB. What do you Which college game are you looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to?
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  Speaker 4: So? I think I want to see SMU Clemson. I mean,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 4: I'm not sold that Clemson is, you know, as bad
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 4: as their record at nine and three, but I like
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: the way SMUs played this year coming into the ACC.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 4: They've done a great job, you know, go on eleven
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 4: and one. I'm excited to see them. I don't think
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 4: I saw them enough this year to me. The other
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 4: the other two big other conference games don't really do
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 4: anything for me. I don't think Penn State stands a
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: chance against Oregon, and I hope Texas, you know, slaps
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 4: Georgia around that. I like Georgia just to because of
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: the whole Alabama thg. You know, I want the SEC
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: to look as stupid as possible. And the only one
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 4: that's going to happen is if Texas just walks all
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: over Georgia and you know, maybe the committee will say
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: maybe this this league isn't decade, we've got to throw
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 4: in Miami, and.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: I think, I mean, I think there's some other interesting
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: I think the Big Twelve championship, Number fifteen Arizona State
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: against number sixteen Iowa State. Those are, you know, two
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: closely together, both ten and two. First in the Big twelve,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: a second in the Big Twelve puts two good ones together.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: I think that could be a good game and it'll
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: be interesting. I looking for to seeing if these games
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: are competitive games, and if they're not, then what does
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: that do? And I think, honestly, I think the guy
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: that I forget what his name is, that was talking
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: about the college football playoffs, I think you're premature in
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: saying that there can't be any movement with the teams
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: that aren't playing this week, because depending on how these
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: games look, that has to play a role, because it's
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: a game that they're playing, whether they you know, I
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: get it, they made it to the conference championship. But
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: I think you can't blanket statement that it can't change
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: anything at all. But that's my two cents. George. Let
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  Speaker 3: You did a great job, Candy, Yep, definitely a great job.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, real quick. This week we lost the legend lu
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  Speaker 3: So rest in peace, and Oscar, you'll be remembered by
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