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- 0:01Speaker 1: football.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to the North floor sports network.
- 0:16Speaker 2: It is just another football Monday, not that many of your left.
- 0:20Speaker 2: You got what?
- 0:21Speaker 2: Two to the Super Bowl after the Super Bowl, that's right, it was a lot of good games, man.
- 0:31Speaker 2: The last one, oh, another wide ride for the bills and a player game.
- 0:36Speaker 2: What a good game.
- 0:37Speaker 2: That was, what a good game.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Competitive was.
- 0:42Speaker 1: I'll use the word competitors back and forth.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Josh Allen gave it everything he had.
- 0:47Speaker 2: He did run in the hard.
- 0:49Speaker 2: I Thought his legs might be the difference, but you know he might never make a better throw in his career that long deep throw.
- 0:59Speaker 2: He made the big 70 yards in the air.
- 1:01Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a hell of a throw and you got to make that catch.
- 1:06Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, chief's offense came to play the running game, the checker in particular.
- 1:14Speaker 1: Well, angry Russian.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Hmm, guys running over people and it was like the fumble they had out out of the end zone that resulted in a touchback, gave the bills a chance, but I Just don't understand drove down had to feel the chance to kick the field goal and they missed it.
- 1:33Speaker 1: But yeah, it's a good game.
- 1:35Speaker 1: Yeah, it was it was.
- 1:37Speaker 2: They were missing some linebackers.
- 1:39Speaker 2: The chief's advantage of that.
- 1:40Speaker 2: Kelsey the Ravens, they took care of business.
- 1:45Speaker 2: They struggled a little bit in the first half, yeah, but man they really Came out crap out of everybody In the second half they might just roll their way to the title.
- 1:56Speaker 2: Man, I don't know.
- 1:57Speaker 2: That's a great matchup.
- 1:59Speaker 2: It's gonna be a fun matchup.
- 2:00Speaker 2: I think the chief showed that they're tough.
- 2:03Speaker 2: The defense is Not.
- 2:05Speaker 2: They find that Snead guy finally gave it his first touchdown of the year.
- 2:11Speaker 1: On a per?
- 2:12Speaker 1: Yeah, but you saw it.
- 2:13Speaker 1: You saw it.
- 2:14Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point Also.
- 2:15Speaker 2: it's just amazing catch right, so I.
- 2:20Speaker 1: Don't know man.
- 2:21Speaker 2: Kansas City, and then you have Patrick Holmes.
- 2:24Speaker 1: I think the Ravens defense is Considerably better than the bills, right, that's the difference, yep.
- 2:30Speaker 1: Well, we'll talk about that later, but Kyle Hamilton is your Niners.
- 2:37Speaker 2: Yeah, he almost picked it.
- 2:38Speaker 2: Right got away with it.
- 2:40Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the Packers came out ready.
- 2:45Speaker 1: They did.
- 2:46Speaker 1: Aaron Jones is one of the most underrated players in the NFL.
- 2:49Speaker 1: Yeah, jordan Love got a lot better throughout the season.
- 2:54Speaker 1: He played really well, made some great throws, made a horrible decision at the end there.
- 3:00Speaker 2: Yep.
- 3:01Speaker 1: Brock Purdy clearly had a problem throwing that football Right.
- 3:05Speaker 2: He got lucky with a few well but hey, we'll go back to the start from the.
- 3:11Speaker 2: How I started, lamar Jackson was 16 and 22, 152 yards to touchdowns, 11 carries a hundred yards to touchdowns.
- 3:18Speaker 2: Four touchdowns, man, like four overall touchdowns.
- 3:21Speaker 2: How are you gonna?
- 3:23Speaker 1: You're not, you're gonna lose, right?
- 3:24Speaker 1: That's plain and simple.
- 3:26Speaker 1: Till somebody shows that it can be done Like he's, I don't think they're gonna lose.
- 3:32Speaker 2: Well, they had it not.
- 3:33Speaker 2: You know, they had Edwards and Hill.
- 3:35Speaker 2: Give them another combined 106 yards on the ground and then cook got it in the end.
- 3:40Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know Dalvin coming in the ball for three or four carries.
- 3:44Speaker 1: Like that's the thing.
- 3:44Speaker 1: Dalvin can come in and just all of a sudden just bust one of his, his old school long runs, and be done for the day.
- 3:53Speaker 2: And they, you know they.
- 3:54Speaker 2: But Zay flowers led the team and catches.
- 3:56Speaker 2: There was only four for 41, but he's, they don't really need dangerous you know they're gonna try to.
- 4:02Speaker 2: Yeah they run that ball.
- 4:04Speaker 1: They look like the best team.
- 4:05Speaker 1: They got it rolling.
- 4:08Speaker 2: It's gonna be a great game, though that defense with a new coordinator has really looked good.
- 4:14Speaker 2: Right guys, a lot of stuff.
- 4:16Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know so, andy Reid well, yeah, it's a couple newer.
- 4:21Speaker 1: You know, time onkins.
- 4:24Speaker 1: Not so much a new guy, for you know the Ravens often, but he's Compared to what's his name spags on the other side.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Yeah, the defensive coordinator, right I.
- 4:34Speaker 1: Mean, Kansas City's defense played well right when it was time to shut it down, they shut it down.
- 4:43Speaker 2: That was a hard fought game.
- 4:44Speaker 2: Josh Allen gave it everything that he had.
- 4:46Speaker 2: Kansas City the offense looked really good actually.
- 4:52Speaker 2: I mean, the offense looked tough when you have, when you give him a home guys caught the bull weapons?
- 4:58Speaker 2: Yeah, and he catch the ball.
- 4:59Speaker 1: Yeah, when you catch the passes and they change the.
- 5:02Speaker 2: They change the way they threw it later.
- 5:04Speaker 2: They didn't throw those, those balls that they have been dropping, so they changed it.
- 5:08Speaker 2: Yeah give it a lot easier.
- 5:10Speaker 2: Passes over the middle.
- 5:11Speaker 1: That's the best game that.
- 5:12Speaker 1: That what's his face?
- 5:13Speaker 1: That was Valdo scantley.
- 5:15Speaker 1: Yeah that's the best game he's playing in a while right.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Especially in a big game.
- 5:19Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 5:20Speaker 1: So that was big they.
- 5:21Speaker 1: You know they look sneaky man.
- 5:24Speaker 1: You could definitely see him making it, but the ravens just look so good.
- 5:29Speaker 2: So yeah, but I mean I'm telling you the chiefs, that's gonna be a good test.
- 5:34Speaker 2: We'll see, we'll find out, but it's gotta be the late game, though right Even though that's the early game, is it?
- 5:41Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously cuz they're out in the bay.
- 5:43Speaker 2: But it's the rushing game for Kansas City that changes it.
- 5:47Speaker 2: They're gonna be able to stop the run and force my homes and those Telegraph passes.
- 5:55Speaker 2: It's gonna be a lot tougher defense, a lot better linebacking core that you're gonna face in Baltimore when this time around better defense overall.
- 6:04Speaker 2: Yeah, so We'll see man in the NFC.
- 6:10Speaker 2: You got the Niners who beat the Packers Right, man it was really you were really well dressing about that one.
- 6:19Speaker 1: Yeah, I like Dibo goes out.
- 6:22Speaker 1: What third play of the game?
- 6:23Speaker 1: Yep, for two of the first three plays went to him, I think.
- 6:27Speaker 1: Right, it was pretty obvious the entire game plan was gonna be centered around him, until they, like, took him out of the game.
- 6:34Speaker 1: Um.
- 6:36Speaker 2: Well, when, also when you throw I mean purdy gave him a couple ones and they didn't catch him.
- 6:40Speaker 1: Yeah, he got really lucky, so you gotta catch me now, but the Packer.
- 6:44Speaker 2: I think that was the difference of the game.
- 6:45Speaker 2: If they catch one Of those, they win.
- 6:48Speaker 1: Yeah, they catch one of those picks, yeah, but you know, ended up that's um, that's kind of the way he lives, dude.
- 6:55Speaker 1: Well, he didn't have any picks on the game and we said, if he didn't turn the ball over, they'll win.
- 7:01Speaker 1: Yeah, and they did because he didn't catch him.
- 7:04Speaker 1: But I didn't catch him right, all they had him there, he had two right in their hands.
- 7:09Speaker 1: Easy, easy one was probably gonna be taken to the house.
- 7:12Speaker 2: You saw it in the other NFC game, the Bucks game.
- 7:15Speaker 2: They, the Bucks, dropped a couple.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Yeah easy ones that golf gave them and you.
- 7:21Speaker 2: You got to take those when they're giving them to you.
- 7:23Speaker 2: Those top picks are really huge.
- 7:27Speaker 1: Yeah, changes the game.
- 7:28Speaker 1: Lions look really good on offense.
- 7:32Speaker 1: When they got it humming, they got.
- 7:34Speaker 1: They got some weapons.
- 7:35Speaker 1: Yep, their defense is still suspect.
- 7:37Speaker 2: Well, you're gonna have the Niners who?
- 7:38Speaker 2: Brock Purdy was, 23 or 39, I mean he wasn't that Great, but he led, led him down there when he had to, yeah, and but McCaffrey, 98 yards on the ground, two touchdowns.
- 7:51Speaker 2: Right and they they went to kiddo.
- 7:53Speaker 1: They got kiddo, they went to kiddo if they started going a little more to macafery.
- 7:57Speaker 1: They just, you know, we'll see and yeah, it's gonna be tough without, but they clearly the, the focal point but yeah, the focal point of the, the offense, was gonna be Debo for that game.
- 8:07Speaker 1: So they kind of, you know, like same thing with the dolphins, with Tyreek Hill, when he gets injured in the game they kind of have to adjust on the fly.
- 8:14Speaker 1: So it it's screw some things up.
- 8:17Speaker 1: I think Debo is gonna try to play this week and they said it wasn't a fracture in the shoulder, so he's 50 50, you know he's gonna hurt he's gonna be Be able to throw it.
- 8:26Speaker 1: I mean the line give up yards.
- 8:28Speaker 1: It's not raining.
- 8:30Speaker 1: I mean Baker was able to get 350 on, yeah, well, the lion's timely pigs, though, but the lions are one of those feast or famine type defenses.
- 8:39Speaker 1: I, just I, I'm.
- 8:43Speaker 1: You really need to get the running game going more.
- 8:46Speaker 1: I thought I thought Shanahan went away from the the run game you know, in the second and third quarter especially.
- 8:56Speaker 2: Well, you know, they're probably out though right, that's Drey Greenlaw coming in clutch.
- 9:01Speaker 1: What do you have?
- 9:02Speaker 1: Two picks.
- 9:03Speaker 2: Let's see either golf's gonna go to a second or purdy's gonna go to his first.
- 9:06Speaker 2: So some, Some gives.
- 9:09Speaker 2: So one of these guys is gonna go into the Super Bowl right.
- 9:13Speaker 1: You're either gonna get the Lions finally get into the Super Bowl, which would be it'd be big man They've never been yeah.
- 9:19Speaker 1: You know, they've never even dreamt of.
- 9:21Speaker 2: I don't see it early.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Nah, I mean, I don't know, though I much rather would have had the Niners playing the Bucks if I had to pick between the teams.
- 9:33Speaker 2: Yeah, they have weapons All over the field.
- 9:37Speaker 2: What I don't see, golf being able to do it on the road.
- 9:39Speaker 2: If you can do it on the road against that defense in San Francisco, then they deserve it.
- 9:44Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, find out.
- 9:46Speaker 1: I mean, they're all just work earning a chance to go get beat by Baltimore man it's.
- 9:50Speaker 1: It is what it is.
- 9:53Speaker 2: So you like Baltimore first glance.
- 9:57Speaker 1: I do Baltimore at home.
- 9:59Speaker 1: You know, if my homes pulls it off, then just add another.
- 10:03Speaker 2: He was 17 and 23 215 yards to touchdowns.
- 10:07Speaker 1: No picks my homes.
- 10:09Speaker 1: That's the home.
- 10:09Speaker 2: That's the product that he didn't throw any, though he didn't look like he put any up a chance.
- 10:15Speaker 2: As far as you know, we just talked about golf.
- 10:18Speaker 2: He didn't have any picks either, and so either did the other right, but but he also threw it right to him, right right, and I didn't see that in my homes.
- 10:32Speaker 1: Well, my homes is at the point in his career where just not even gonna look at stats.
- 10:36Speaker 1: It's gonna be like it Does he keep winning games?
- 10:39Speaker 1: And he just keeps winning games.
- 10:41Speaker 1: You have seven completions, but the difference in the game there were those seven completions that he made.
- 10:47Speaker 1: Obviously it's it now.
- 10:49Speaker 1: He's just gonna find a way to win it.
- 10:50Speaker 1: It's not gonna look good all the time, but I don't think they're gonna get done.
- 10:56Speaker 2: Get about 15, I mean 15 carries, 97 yards for Pacheco.
- 11:00Speaker 1: Yeah that's anyone eyes the game, hey, you would ice the game if you don't give it to they can hard man on the two yard line on some stupid little wide receiver.
- 11:10Speaker 2: Throw the ball be efficient.
- 11:12Speaker 2: Let that defense that you have rest, because they have.
- 11:15Speaker 2: They have a defense.
- 11:16Speaker 2: They have shut down players, all pro type players, on both and In Christians, and then Snead the corner.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Yeah, locks them down.
- 11:25Speaker 1: So well, they got they.
- 11:27Speaker 2: They have the linebackers to.
- 11:29Speaker 1: Underrated guys.
- 11:30Speaker 1: Man Right, tranquil right that that He'll timely, timely, timely blitzes, timely sacks big defense is why that.
- 11:40Speaker 2: That's why they had him in the game.
- 11:41Speaker 2: That's the difference in the team all year.
- 11:43Speaker 2: Yeah and they struggled at points when the offense you maybe try to do too much, but this is they played who they were, who they against Buffalo.
- 11:53Speaker 2: On the road they looked efficient, ran running the ball, throwing it over the middle to Kelsey Scanling when he had to caught it.
- 12:00Speaker 2: Boom.
- 12:01Speaker 1: Yeah, but we'll see man.
- 12:02Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely this is gonna be.
- 12:04Speaker 2: yeah, this is gonna be a great game.
- 12:06Speaker 2: I can't wait for this game.
- 12:08Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 12:08Speaker 2: Baltimore, Kansas City.
- 12:09Speaker 2: Man, this is heavyweight Title man.
- 12:12Speaker 2: I mean you have to to be the champ.
- 12:14Speaker 2: You got to beat the champ.
- 12:15Speaker 1: What time is kicker?
- 12:16Speaker 2: Marjak, it's at three o'clock Sunday.
- 12:18Speaker 1: Nice.
- 12:19Speaker 2: Yeah, Lamar Jackson has to beat Patrick Mahomes.
- 12:22Speaker 2: Get over that hump.
- 12:24Speaker 1: Yeah, you got a big he's got.
- 12:26Speaker 2: I think he has Right he's got the MVP, he's got both of them.
- 12:30Speaker 2: Will have two MVPs, yep.
- 12:32Speaker 2: But the difference now is Mahomes has their championships.
- 12:36Speaker 2: Yeah and you don't.
- 12:40Speaker 2: You have the team around you right, there's nothing you can say.
- 12:43Speaker 1: Nothing you can say about it.
- 12:44Speaker 2: You have the weapons.
- 12:45Speaker 2: Yeah on offense.
- 12:47Speaker 1: So you have the defense winnable game.
- 12:48Speaker 1: Kansas City has a really good defense, but this is a winnable game.
- 12:52Speaker 2: This is gonna come down to everything in your favor.
- 12:54Speaker 2: Plays better yeah yeah.
- 12:55Speaker 2: Who plays better at that position?
- 12:59Speaker 1: I think the difference is gonna be Lamar Jackson killing him with his legs.
- 13:05Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing, man.
- 13:06Speaker 2: He never when.
- 13:07Speaker 2: Lamar before it was like oh, you gotta contain his legs as a wildcard.
- 13:11Speaker 2: Now you have to worry about so many other aspects of the offense and he's getting the ball to flowers, to Odell, you gotta worry about him.
- 13:18Speaker 1: Well, they'll be kind of like yeah the running game.
- 13:20Speaker 1: Now you know, saying going for 11, for 16, 160 yards and a couple of touchdowns is like it's not a big deal anymore for Lamar Jackson.
- 13:30Speaker 1: When he first got it he was like wow, that's great.
- 13:32Speaker 2: They've been saving it though.
- 13:34Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the difference.
- 13:35Speaker 1: He can just make that the standard, what he can do from a passing standpoint 100 yards last game.
- 13:40Speaker 1: Because he continues to kill you with the legs Like his speed and his ability as a runner.
- 13:45Speaker 1: It's not going away as the years progress.
- 13:48Speaker 1: Like you know, running backs who take huge beatings and stuff they lose his step Even after two to three years.
- 13:54Speaker 1: The Marge action is just incredible.
- 13:56Speaker 1: That's gonna be the difference in the game.
- 14:00Speaker 1: What I think is gonna be the difference of the game is Kansas City is just not gonna be able to find a way to stop that.
- 14:06Speaker 2: We'll see man Shit.
- 14:07Speaker 2: I can't wait for that one.
- 14:08Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 14:10Speaker 2: I think I'm leaning one way, though.
- 14:12Speaker 2: We'll pick that later.
- 14:15Speaker 1: We'll pick it later Pick it later, man, I'll go back and forth.
- 14:20Speaker 2: I can't wait for that one.
- 14:21Speaker 1: I mean, you go ahead and put the lines.
- 14:22Speaker 1: I'm picking the lines, oh, you are the lines and shit.
- 14:25Speaker 1: Yeah, man, yeah I am.
- 14:28Speaker 2: What a great story it would be.
- 14:29Speaker 2: It would be what a great story.
- 14:31Speaker 2: I mean, just see the lines make it to the NFC championship.
- 14:34Speaker 2: Last time they made it to the NFC championship, nfc championship was against the Hogs.
- 14:39Speaker 2: Yeah 91, I remember that.
- 14:43Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 14:44Speaker 2: They got demolished.
- 14:45Speaker 1: Dude, nobody was beating that team.
- 14:46Speaker 2: Mark Ripkins.
- 14:47Speaker 1: Yeah, he Team, he put together one year man, one year, he just let it, he put his body on the line, he let it all hang out had one really good year.
- 14:57Speaker 1: It helps when you have guys like Ricky Sanders and Art Monk, gary Clark that was the trio man.
- 15:03Speaker 2: Those receivers were nasty the strength of this Lions team is the offense.
- 15:09Speaker 2: Yeah, they have some playmakers on the defense.
- 15:12Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that's the thing, the young guy.
- 15:14Speaker 1: Back then the Lions were just Barry Gotta.
- 15:16Speaker 2: Watch out for him though, cause that's the kind of guy that can change the game.
- 15:20Speaker 2: He can maybe get to purdy.
- 15:21Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta get it out, you gotta keep him.
- 15:25Speaker 1: Well, they got guys on defense.
- 15:26Speaker 1: They got guys, you gotta keep that's.
- 15:28Speaker 2: That's again.
- 15:29Speaker 2: I mean you can say that's an easy pick, but it's gonna again come down to Brock playing efficiently If he plays that way and doesn't give him doesn't give him bigs, San Francisco's gonna win this game, you gotta run the ball Easy, Cause they're gonna be.
- 15:45Speaker 2: They should be able to move the ball.
- 15:46Speaker 1: You have a Hall of Fame left tackle, use him.
- 15:50Speaker 1: Nobody else in football like Trent Williams.
- 15:53Speaker 1: You're gonna have to ride that guy in the running game.
- 15:56Speaker 1: Figure out ways to dominate the line of scrimmage.
- 15:59Speaker 1: If you're San Francisco, yeah.
- 16:03Speaker 2: Maybe you want to watch that.
- 16:04Speaker 1: Wow, there wasn't much going on nothing going on in college football right now.
- 16:08Speaker 1: College hoops.
- 16:09Speaker 2: The Knowles Came up short against Clemson Tigers and snapping the five game winning streak.
- 16:16Speaker 1: Yeah, um, I Thought they did a pretty good job of keeping you know PJ Hall's points Under control and a gas.
- 16:25Speaker 1: Yeah, that guy's just a beast man.
- 16:29Speaker 2: I got another one too.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Yeah, they do, but it's PJ Hall like, yeah he is.
- 16:35Speaker 1: I think he's gonna Probably when he should win player the year in the conference.
- 16:39Speaker 2: Well, clemson was struggling in the conference.
- 16:41Speaker 2: They needed that game.
- 16:42Speaker 1: Yeah Well, the conference is wide open Florida.
- 16:44Speaker 2: State Still five and two in the league.
- 16:46Speaker 2: But that margin for error much smaller.
- 16:51Speaker 1: I mean, it's a keep coming shot on the road again.
- 16:54Speaker 2: You know, really, you have to yeah, you got to win, or tomorrow, shit, you got to, you got to get on another street.
- 16:59Speaker 1: You can't afford to well, you can't let me probably more than five.
- 17:02Speaker 2: Three more games, yeah, all year if you have any chance at the tournament.
- 17:08Speaker 1: Right.
- 17:08Speaker 1: Well, right now, being realistic dude, the NIT would be a.
- 17:12Speaker 1: That would be good.
- 17:13Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm looking forward to it if they can get on it, and that's still something that they're gonna have to earn.
- 17:18Speaker 1: Right, that's why you can't let this loss like mount and become five losses.
- 17:23Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, last season the losing streak was ridiculous.
- 17:27Speaker 1: It was just a spiral.
- 17:29Speaker 1: I don't see this team mentally going having that kind of collapse.
- 17:33Speaker 1: I mean now whether it keeps them from Reeling off L's, who knows yeah, well, they don't really have the three-point shooting other than Darren Green.
- 17:44Speaker 2: Yeah, like nobody's living died with their hit and hitting the three you know, and well, they don't have anybody with that rep in today's game.
- 17:51Speaker 1: You need to have that, you need to have you do and that that comes back to the way that you've built the program.
- 17:56Speaker 1: You know They've always kind of sacrificed some things and what they're looking for.
- 18:04Speaker 1: You know the guy's a really good three-point shooter, but he's only six one.
- 18:08Speaker 1: He may not be getting a sniff From Hamming Company you know, so, yeah, well, you live and die with the big guards man.
- 18:17Speaker 2: Yeah, I Think Bob a Miller needs to be more aggressive.
- 18:22Speaker 1: Yeah and he was doing a really good job of doing that, but the size of Clemson down though, yeah, was clearly a factor, and I knew they may be getting a little tired man, this grind is starting to pick up.
- 18:35Speaker 1: You know They've.
- 18:36Speaker 1: I don't know how many games is now in the last week and a half, but you just got it.
- 18:41Speaker 2: Well, you got out shot by 11%, you know.
- 18:44Speaker 1: So 51%, 40%, you're not yeah, I got a bigger problem with the only.
- 18:50Speaker 1: He made four, three just just the jump shots.
- 18:53Speaker 2: You know you're out rebounded by 17.
- 18:57Speaker 1: That's another.
- 18:57Speaker 2: that that's where you got killed, pj I knew you're gonna get out rebounded in that game, but you couldn't be Almost doubled up like you were the other guy got free down low.
- 19:07Speaker 1: They were just they were killing them.
- 19:09Speaker 1: Um, you can, you can live with one three-point shooter man is if you can hit your jump shots, if anybody else could just actually make shots.
- 19:19Speaker 1: And that's what they struggle to do at times.
- 19:22Speaker 1: Everybody just drives, yeah, the rim.
- 19:25Speaker 1: Some of them can finish at the rim, some can't.
- 19:28Speaker 1: You know, premo's got a couple nice little shots out there a little, but even even then he's not, you know, maybe maybe 60% with it, if that.
- 19:40Speaker 2: All right.
- 19:40Speaker 2: Well, what about?
- 19:42Speaker 1: so that's your basketball.
- 19:43Speaker 2: Yeah, what about the portal?
- 19:47Speaker 1: the portal.
- 19:47Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's pretty much closed For now.
- 19:53Speaker 1: Never closed till April now.
- 19:55Speaker 1: Now it's all the behind-the-sees and stuff.
- 19:57Speaker 2: It's the the tampering and the, the constant battling and the not gonna get a play, or where do I sit on the roster?
- 20:07Speaker 1: right, right, I Don't know, man.
- 20:11Speaker 1: I think that you know with the last couple moves from Alabama, obviously they'd lost Julian saying their big-time signee to Ohio State.
- 20:20Speaker 1: I Mean you may see a little bit of movement like that.
- 20:24Speaker 1: I don't know that.
- 20:26Speaker 1: I Don't want to say that Alabama is gonna just go crazy when the April portal opens up, but I do know that they're gonna be looking for some, some players.
- 20:38Speaker 1: So everybody better hold on to their butts.
- 20:40Speaker 1: Oh right, we had to go, yeah.
- 20:44Speaker 1: I mean it?
- 20:49Speaker 2: Well, you gotta get on out of here, man.
- 20:51Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but sports are slowing down.
- 20:56Speaker 1: Man, it's getting to be basketball scene and no football.
- 21:02Speaker 2: Just not NBA yet.
- 21:04Speaker 1: Nah, I mean I don't really pay attention to the playoffs, yeah pretty much.
- 21:08Speaker 2: I like to check it out Like almost like I used to in baseball back in the day when I had the papers.
- 21:14Speaker 2: You check the standings.
- 21:16Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of games.
- 21:18Speaker 1: I mean there's too many franchises that just aren't even taking the season seriously Before it even starts.
- 21:24Speaker 1: You know, I say a lot of games don't really matter to the other team playing Whatever.
- 21:30Speaker 1: I'll pay attention during the playoffs, man, when it gets competitive, that's right.
- 21:38Speaker 2: Well, is it junior day.
- 21:41Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this past weekend junior day, yeah, kiddie pool, kiddie pool, nothing really big.
- 21:47Speaker 1: It just seems that they're going to actually focus on linebacker recruiting for the first time in a long time.
- 21:54Speaker 1: I should yeah, yeah, mike, I guess is going to make it an emphasis Maybe take a little bit of control of the wheel there, hopefully I'd like to hear that I do.
- 22:07Speaker 1: Maybe they'll keep coach Shannon out of the state of Texas so we won't have to sign any more linebackers than in WU-Tep.
- 22:17Speaker 1: And you still looking for a coach?
- 22:20Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not really talking a whole lot about it.
- 22:25Speaker 2: No, Keep an eye out for that.
- 22:29Speaker 2: But I'm excited about the championships, the NFL conspiracy I see the way Baltimore versus San Francisco.
- 22:40Speaker 1: I say why not Lions versus Chiefs?
- 22:41Speaker 1: I mean, you can make a case for it.
- 22:43Speaker 1: You either want it.
- 22:44Speaker 1: Wait for the color.
- 22:45Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks purple, but it could be blue to somebody.
- 22:48Speaker 1: The color button yeah, yeah there you go, there you go.
- 22:56Speaker 2: Well, we got hoops tomorrow night.
- 22:59Speaker 1: Hoops, there it is Hoops there, it was Hoops there, it was there, it went there, it went Again.
- 23:06Speaker 2: Oh God, I know it's better than last year, but they need to.
- 23:10Speaker 2: Don't let it go into.
- 23:12Speaker 1: don't let that one loss turn into a third.
- 23:14Speaker 2: That's vital man, we're now all of a sudden.
- 23:16Speaker 2: We'll keep it on it, we'll watch it, we'll react to it.
- 23:19Speaker 2: We'll talk to you next time, right here on the North Florida Sports Channel.