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Robert Griffin III on Jayden Daniels' Injury, Why Texas Tech Will Win CFP | Cleats & Convos w/ Deebo · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to please and gunfolds presented by state Form.
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  Speaker 1: would like to introduce former Heisman quarterback winner and Pro
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  Speaker 1: bowler r G three was had my guy.
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  Speaker 2: What's up brother, I'm doing good. Appreciate you having me
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  Speaker 2: on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, appreciate you joining. I'm gonna start the show
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  Speaker 1: off with a little game called plus or release press
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  Speaker 1: meaning false, release meaning true.
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  Speaker 2: You got it.
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  Speaker 1: You were born in Japan.
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  Speaker 2: Release.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember anything from living there?
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I was two and a half when we when we
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  Speaker 3: moved out of there, So my parents said, I was
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  Speaker 3: running around a bunch and tried to jump off one
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  Speaker 3: of the military folks into the ocean. So thankfully they
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  Speaker 3: caught me.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, you was a wild, a little through your already.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, for sure. Second, when basketball was your second
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  Speaker 1: best sport in high school? You was a trisport athlete
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  Speaker 1: in high school football, track and basketball. That is released. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: did you ever want to pursue track? I did?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 3: Actually know a lot of people don't know this, but
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  Speaker 3: I actually ran track in college before I ever played football.
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  Speaker 3: So I graduated early and then ran track in the spring,
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  Speaker 3: went to the I won the Big Twelve Championships, won regionals,
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  Speaker 3: and got third at nationals. Went to the Olympic Trials
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  Speaker 3: in two thousand, two thousand and eight, and got eleventh
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  Speaker 3: at the Olympic Trials as an eighteen year old. So
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  Speaker 3: I definitely thought about it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, what you ran?
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  Speaker 2: I ran a four hund hurdles.
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually the fastest seventeen year old ever in the
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  Speaker 3: history of the world, and the foreigner hurdles ran forty
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  Speaker 3: nine twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, we got to pull it up in the world. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Oh, we got two more for you. Press
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  Speaker 1: or release. Your favorite superhero is spider Man.
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  Speaker 3: That's a press My favorite superhero is the Incredible Hawk.
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  Speaker 3: And I've been very upset with Marvel that they made
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  Speaker 3: him look so weak against Thanos, just getting tossed around
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  Speaker 3: like crazy.
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  Speaker 1: So my favorite you're a Marvel movie guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, youan, I think I think, uh, you know
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  Speaker 3: me and you we should get a role in Marvel.
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  Speaker 2: We need some more black superheroes, do you feel me?
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I think fun that'll be lit up. That'll be
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  Speaker 1: lit up for sure. Presser release. You were recruited by
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  Speaker 1: Texas to play wide out.
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  Speaker 3: That is a release they offered me as an athlete
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  Speaker 3: wide receiver or safety. And then, uh, little known fact,
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  Speaker 3: Mac Brown after my freshman year when we played them
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  Speaker 3: at Texas walked to me in the middle of the
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  Speaker 3: field and offered me a scholarship to transfer to Texas.
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  Speaker 3: This is before the transfer portal debo. So he he
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  Speaker 3: wanted me to set out two years and come to
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  Speaker 3: Texas and be his quarterback after he saw us play.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, we decided to just go ahead and
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  Speaker 3: beat the butt for the next couple of years at Bayleord.
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  Speaker 1: What made you choose Baylor?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it was faith, you know, my my mom, you
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  Speaker 3: know Christian, My mom wanted me to go to Baylor.
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  Speaker 3: It was closer to home, about an hour away. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, ultimately I was offered a walk on scholarship
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  Speaker 3: by Baylor as a four star recruit by Guy Morris
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  Speaker 3: rest his soul passed away recently, so I committed to Houston.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna play basketball, run track, and play football.
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  Speaker 3: And then our brows, my coach, got the job at Baylor,
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  Speaker 3: took me from Houston with him to Baylor, and the.
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  Speaker 2: Rest is history.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely the history.
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  Speaker 2: That was his recruiting pitch debo.
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  Speaker 3: His recruiting pitch was, are you gonna come to Baylor
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  Speaker 3: and we're gonna do something that's never been done before.
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  Speaker 3: And he said in four years, he said, in three years,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna be in the running for the Heisman, And
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  Speaker 3: he was spot on. In three years we were, and
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  Speaker 3: in the fourth year we wanted.
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  Speaker 1: I had a good team out there. Who was some
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  Speaker 1: teammates you play with.
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  Speaker 3: You already know all these awards don't come by themselves.
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  Speaker 3: So wide receiver, I had Kendall Wright. He was a
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  Speaker 3: first round pick, you know for the Tennessee Titans. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen a guy run better when the ball
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  Speaker 3: is in the air, you know, kind of like you
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  Speaker 3: like when the ball's in the air, you you find
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  Speaker 3: a way to get there, regardless of what your forty
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  Speaker 3: time is, different type of speed, So I had him.
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  Speaker 3: I had Terrence Williams as a receiver for the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: He's a third round pick. I had Josh Gordon. I know,
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  Speaker 3: you remember that guy. So we had Josh as a
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  Speaker 3: freshman and he was unbelievable. He ended up getting kicked
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  Speaker 3: out for the same reasons he got kicked out of
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  Speaker 3: the league as a freshman from Baylor. Uh you know, imagine,
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  Speaker 3: you know, smoking weed and doing all that stuff at
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  Speaker 3: at a Christian university. You know, they front upon those things.
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  Speaker 3: So we had some great players, had some great offensive lineman.
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  Speaker 3: Danny Watkins was a Canadian who played football for two years,
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  Speaker 3: ended up being a first round pick guard for the Eagles.
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  Speaker 3: H Jason Smith was the second pick overall by the
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  Speaker 3: Rams after my my freshman year Baylor.
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  Speaker 2: So you have some we have some ballers, man, guys,
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  Speaker 2: we have some.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, Yeah, for sure. Now we're going to play another
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  Speaker 1: game called guest the Performance. We're gonna show you a
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  Speaker 1: picture of your game cleats, and you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: guess the stat line.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And if you can't guess the stat line, I have
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  Speaker 1: three hints for you that can help.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, I can I can use the context clues.
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  Speaker 3: That's against the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Dang, I don't even know that line.
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  Speaker 3: I mean two touchdowns, I got, I got some hints.
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  Speaker 1: I got some hints for you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, give men all right.
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  Speaker 1: Game was played three days after Christmas. Okay career high
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  Speaker 1: in passing yards in the game.
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  Speaker 2: Career high in passing yards in a game.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so opposed to thirty seven three, thirty six, okay,
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  Speaker 1: thirty six?
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  Speaker 2: All right? Quarterback was uh Godlee? Was it? Tony Romo?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? That was That was one of your hints. Who's
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  Speaker 1: trying to go, We're trying to help you get your
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  Speaker 1: your passing yards touchdown the interceptions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's bad.
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  Speaker 3: See you see the career high at the pass of
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  Speaker 3: the yards with the two picks.
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  Speaker 2: I hate that.
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  Speaker 1: That's why. What was it like playing against the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: back in the day? We say back in the day
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  Speaker 1: years ago?
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  Speaker 3: I know, bro, but it feels like forever ago. This
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, that's eleven years ago. The Cowboys in
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  Speaker 3: the at the time as the Redskins. Now it is
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  Speaker 3: the Commanders, like one of the greatest robberies in all sports.
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  Speaker 3: So like when you step foot into that, you already know,
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  Speaker 3: like there's nothing like Cowboy week when you play for
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  Speaker 3: the Commanders, and I know you felt that. You know
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  Speaker 3: since you've been there as well the fans. You can win.
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  Speaker 3: You could lose every game. If you beat the Cowboys twice,
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  Speaker 3: it might be happy. Now you might not be happy.
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  Speaker 3: But the fans would be like, yes, we got one on.
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  Speaker 1: Them for sure. What do you remember playing against that
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  Speaker 1: defense with DeMarcus Lawrence?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think that year DeMarcus Lawrence was there,
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  Speaker 3: So I don't think DeMarcus ware was there anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: But Lawrence was a guy like freakish athlete, got the size,
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  Speaker 3: the speed off the edge. You know, we did a lot,
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  Speaker 3: we did a lot of zone read type concepts, and
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  Speaker 3: he was the guy that was tough to do that
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  Speaker 3: against because he would tackle both of us, you know,
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  Speaker 3: me and the running back. Instead of like trying to
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  Speaker 3: pick one, he would pick both. And those guys are
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  Speaker 3: very rare. Yeah, I said, those guys are very rare,
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  Speaker 3: The Max Crosbies of the world, the Miles Garrets of
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  Speaker 3: the world.
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  Speaker 2: They can pick both.
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  Speaker 3: And you don't really want to be sitting there as
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  Speaker 3: a quarterback deadfoot reading them too often because they'll just
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  Speaker 3: close blankey.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's w W no. For sure, let's see picture two.
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  Speaker 2: Oh gonna say a that is.
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  Speaker 3: Is that if you need Thanksgiving twenty twelve Thanksgiving, okay,
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  Speaker 3: stat line. Stat line was another three hundred yard game.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was three twenty three twenty three or four?
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  Speaker 3: Was it three and one?
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  Speaker 2: Three testdowns? One pick two, four and one? I'm cutting
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  Speaker 2: myself day? Is cut myself short a little bit?
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, you are two and two versus Tony Roemore
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  Speaker 1: in your career. What do you mean about facing him?
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  Speaker 3: Tony was always a scrappy player, you know, like today
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  Speaker 3: you got the Baker Mayfields, the Sam Darnold's, uh those
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  Speaker 3: guys that you know, brock Perty you know as you
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  Speaker 3: know that can move around a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: They got moxie. That was Tony.
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  Speaker 3: Like you always knew the Cowboys were going to be
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  Speaker 3: in most games that they played because of his ability
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  Speaker 3: to escape. I had a great moment with Tony after
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  Speaker 3: not this game, but it was the game later in
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  Speaker 3: that same year when we beat them to go to
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs, and he had been getting killed by the
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  Speaker 3: media like he's not a quarterback, he's remember that. So
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  Speaker 3: like after the game I talked to him and here
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  Speaker 3: I am as a rookie, not really knowing what to
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  Speaker 3: say or not to say, and I was like, hey, Tony, man,
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  Speaker 3: I just want you to know you're a much better
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  Speaker 3: quarterback than they say you are. And the way he
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  Speaker 3: looked at me, was like, what is this rookie talking about? Like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just trying to you and I know, I know
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  Speaker 3: how hard it is to play the position.
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  Speaker 2: But it was fun.
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  Speaker 3: It was fun to play against him and you know,
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  Speaker 3: not basically be competitors in the booth calling games now
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Final picture.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, we got the brace on, so this gotta be
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  Speaker 2: oh for you. That's gonna be thirteen twenty thirteen. What's
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  Speaker 2: the hen.
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  Speaker 1: Santana Moss was your wide receiver? One?
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  Speaker 2: Okay Moss, I definitely need another one.
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  Speaker 1: High passing attempts in this game.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty passing, fifty passing attempts? Sheesh? Is this against the Packers?
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford was the quarterback. You win again?
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  Speaker 2: Detroit Lions, Detroit Lions.
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  Speaker 1: Okay there, yep, all right, Stephan.
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  Speaker 3: I had fifty passing attemps against the Lions. God dang
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  Speaker 3: fifty that I got hit a lot in this game.
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  Speaker 3: I remember that they had zig Ziggy Yanza the d
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  Speaker 3: n So. Fifty pass attempts. I'm gonna say to eighty passing,
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  Speaker 3: stop shorting yourself, okay? Three three twenty passing.
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  Speaker 1: Three twenty six, twenty six Okay, zero tugs, no touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: One pick Detroit Lions.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I don't even said Matthew Stafford.
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  Speaker 3: Arm talent, arm talent, Like he got the same arm
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  Speaker 3: talent today that he had in twenty thirteen and that game.
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  Speaker 2: And he's thirty seventy. Bro, Like that's man, that's tough.
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  Speaker 1: He can throw.
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  Speaker 3: He can throw it off platform, on platform, in rhythm,
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  Speaker 3: off rhythm, on the run, off his back foot, no
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  Speaker 3: look passes. That's that's the one thing we got to
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  Speaker 3: be better about with Matthew Stafford. We love Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 3: and what he's been able to do, and I do
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  Speaker 3: think he'll eventually be the greatest quarterback of all time.
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  Speaker 3: But Stafford is the one who really originated the no
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  Speaker 3: look past and does it at least five times a game.
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  Speaker 2: So I got a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Played against him. Man, I played against him.
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  Speaker 2: What's your experience like with him?
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  Speaker 1: You know? Like I just said, we was just talking
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  Speaker 1: about NFC Championship game. Man, he was just bro. He
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  Speaker 1: was throwing some he was doing some throws that I'm
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  Speaker 1: bro like, somebody second do something like It's just he's
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  Speaker 1: just he's never rattled, like he's comfortable, like you just said, man,
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  Speaker 1: he can make every throw his orange strength crazy and
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  Speaker 1: you could just see what he's still doing now with
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  Speaker 1: him and Davonte and Puka and the rest of those guys.
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  Speaker 1: They played real good ball right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, dangerous, very dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely is a right. Speaking of performance, you had a
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  Speaker 1: great rookie year. What you remember the most about that year?
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  Speaker 3: What I remember the most was having the best left
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  Speaker 3: tackle in the history of football, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Like Trent, we call him the silver back, and when
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  Speaker 3: I came into the locker room, you know, it was him,
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  Speaker 3: London Fletcher, Santana Moss. We had Chris Cooley at the
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  Speaker 3: time at tight end, and I just there's a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of vets there who really just wanted you to earn it,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. They were ready to win,
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  Speaker 3: team had won in a few years, and I just
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  Speaker 3: wanted to prove to those guys that I was worthy
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  Speaker 3: of being their quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what I remember most.
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  Speaker 3: And then we went on a run to win the
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  Speaker 3: division after starting three and six one seventh straight. So
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  Speaker 3: that was just a truly roller coaster ride of a
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  Speaker 3: rookie year that turned into pretty much a diamond.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. What did you like the most about
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  Speaker 1: the team that year when y'all when you led the
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  Speaker 1: team to the title.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just like the energy.
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  Speaker 3: You know you you felt this, you know at time
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  Speaker 3: start your career, like every fan is gonna every player
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  Speaker 3: is gonna say, Man, our fan base is the best
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  Speaker 3: in the world, and especially when you win in right,
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  Speaker 3: but in DC, Like there is something special about winning
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  Speaker 3: in Washington, d c uh to the point where your
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  Speaker 3: team when you go to the mall, like everybody's drake,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: That year we would go to the mall.
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  Speaker 3: I go to the mall with Trent and my receivers,
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  Speaker 3: whether it be Santana Leon or Hankerson, Pierre Garsoon, and
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  Speaker 3: as soon as we stepped foot out the car, it
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  Speaker 3: was like all the fans were there. And and this
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  Speaker 3: wasn't a time when you were telling people where you
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  Speaker 3: were at, but they just like facial recognition, the want
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  Speaker 3: to to be around the guys. It was truly a
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  Speaker 3: special feeling. I remember one time we went to the
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  Speaker 3: mall and it was like it was me and seven
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  Speaker 3: other teammates.
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  Speaker 2: Pierre Trent was there. We had a bunch of D'Angelo Hall.
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  Speaker 3: Our corner was there with us, and there was like
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  Speaker 3: at least three thousand people in the mall, all following
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  Speaker 3: us from store to store. It was a truly unique experience.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, when you went in DC, the fans
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  Speaker 3: love you. They love you more than the president of
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  Speaker 3: the United States, and like that's that's the crazy part
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  Speaker 3: about it. I really enjoyed that. With the team winning
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  Speaker 3: on the field and then seeing everybody win off the
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  Speaker 3: field was really cool for show.
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  Speaker 1: For show. Kirk Cousins was drafted the same year you
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  Speaker 1: was in DC as well. Yep, what was the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: room like with him in it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: See, like people think, some people think like me and
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  Speaker 3: Kirk had beef or something like that, and we didn't.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, we did have some beef. The beef
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  Speaker 3: that we had was a Chipotle burrito in Rookie Mini Camp.
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  Speaker 3: We came in and they had us room together, and
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  Speaker 3: for some reason, we ordered two burritos from Chipotle, but
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  Speaker 3: they only gave us one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so we cut.
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  Speaker 2: It ship out. So we cut the burrito in half
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  Speaker 2: and we share. We shared the burrito. We have the burrito.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very.
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  Speaker 3: Proud of Kirk for what he's been able to accomplish.
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  Speaker 3: I know a lot of people knock him saying like
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  Speaker 3: he hadn't won the big games, and he hasn't done this.
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  Speaker 2: He does, hasn't done that.
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  Speaker 3: But for what he has done in his career and
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  Speaker 3: how he's changed his family's life, I'm very happy for him.
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  Speaker 3: He's I think he's made like some of the most
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  Speaker 3: money of any quarterback UH in NFL history, and he's
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  Speaker 3: you know, played on a couple of different teams, but
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  Speaker 3: he's been the leader, and he's had a long career.
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  Speaker 3: You know, injuries shortened my career, and I know he
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  Speaker 3: had an injury a few years ago that that looks
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  Speaker 3: like it might, you know, wipe out the back half
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  Speaker 3: of his But I'm very proud for him, proud of
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  Speaker 3: his uh, you know, happy for his family that he's
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  Speaker 3: able to change their lives in the way that he has,
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  Speaker 3: UH and continue to get back to the game of football.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Speaking of Kirk, he took over the
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  Speaker 1: game for you the day injury in twenty thirteen playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Did you feel, I mean, how did you feel leading
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  Speaker 1: up to that game?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I was pretty banged up going into
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  Speaker 3: that game we had. It had been a few weeks
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  Speaker 3: because I originally hurt myself against the Baltimore Ravens with
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  Speaker 3: Helodinada hitting me and tearing my l CL, and then
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  Speaker 3: in that game I tore my ACL against the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 3: But going into it, I felt okay, and I tweaked
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  Speaker 3: my injury early in the game, after like our second
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  Speaker 3: drive we were up fourteen to nothing, and then at
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  Speaker 3: that point Dbo, It's like like it's fight or flight.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: You want to play. You want to be out there
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: for you guys. You're trying to do everything you possibly
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: can to put it on the line because we don't
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: know how many how many Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays, sometimes Saturdays
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: we're gonna get in the NFL. And I wanted to
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: be out there and put it on the line for
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: my teammates and you know, try to go out there
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: and help them win the game.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: And I just wasn't able to do that.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: You know that that decision, the decision to play, wasn't
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: the issues coming back from the injury the next year
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: too soon, in hindsight, is the thing that I would
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: I would definitely take back. But I'm always a guy
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: that believes. You try to put it on the line
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: for your guys and then you learn from your mistakes.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, for show, that's definitely how it is. We have
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: seen several quarterbacks try to play through injuries. In your opinion,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: do you think you were good enough to play through it?
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Oh? Man, that's that's yeah. Like every guy like Dbo,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: you've had injuries, you know, and you'd be like, am
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: I as fast? Nah? I am I as strong?
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Nah?
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: But can I get it done? Like the way that
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: we're wired. We all think we're superheroes. And I think
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: the biggest lesson that I learned was when you come
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: back out and you step on that field, it's not
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: just about what you think you can do.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: You need the.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Team to take care of you right and protect you
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: from yourself. But when you go out there, whatever is
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: put on tape, that is what people see. They don't
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: go back and watch the tape and say, no, Deebo
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: had a springed ankle this game. Oh, Debo had a
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: broken collar bone in this game, and he played through it.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: They don't say that. They just watched the tape and
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: they say, oh, he doesn't look as fast, he doesn't
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: look as strong. He didn't make that catch. He didn't
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: do this, he didn't do that, and I think for me,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I realized that. So I always advise players now because
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: I've been through it, debo, don't go out there and
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: play if you're injured. If you're hurt, told different story,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: tore it all, pill whatever, may be, hitch over the hump, right,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: but if you're injured. I was injured in Washington, so
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't have if I could go back and do
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: it again, I wouldn't have played the rest of that
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: year in twenty twelve down the stretch. I wouldn't have
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: come back in twenty thirteen and played as early as
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I did. I actually would have sat out the entire
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: twenty thirteen year just so I could get back healthy.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: There's a difference between stubborn your toe on the side
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: of the bed right and breaking your foot. You don't
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: want to go play on a broken foot. You can
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: stub your tone and keep going. So if you're hurt,
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: play through it. If you're injured, sit out, get fully healthy.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Not for show. For shure. You was drafted second overall
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: and won the Heisman. JD was drafted second overall and
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: won the Heisman. What do you like about his game?
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I love everything about his game. Listen, I'm I'm JD.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm one of Jdi's biggest fans. Had
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: a chance to call two of his games in college
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: before he got to Washington, and I felt like him
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: coming there.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: You obviously going there he had.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: He has a really great supporting cast, new owner, new
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: head coach, new offensive coordinator, leaders like yourself, Zach Ertz
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Eckler you know before he also got hurt and also
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: PRIs up you know.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: For Zach with his torn a cl So I'm a
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: huge JD five fan.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: I think his ability to process, and you've probably experienced this.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: He can and everyone's like wild by his ability to run,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: but his ability to get through his progressions one to
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: two to three.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: A very smart player.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: He uses augmented reality and virtual reality to study blitzes
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: and things, and I've had those conversations with him.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: I just love his poison, his demeanor. Man, he is.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: He's a guys guy, you know, and he's a great leader.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: So I don't have anything bad to say about him,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: you know, other than I want him to get healthy
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: and not be out there playing with seventeen different ailments.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what advice do you have with JD five as
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: you go through his career?
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Just to don't ride the roller coaster?
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: You know it's for some reason in DC. The social
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: media of it, all right, The fans, I feel like,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: have been amazing. The media has gotten better on how
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: they cover the team. But I see the tweet that
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: you guys put up because my feeling is he shouldn't
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: play another game this season. It's not because you guys
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: are out are just out of the playoffs. It's not
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: because the record is bad. It's because he's had like
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: three or four injuries that have popped up. Knee injury, hamstring,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: he dislocated his elbow. Then this past game got pushed
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: down and re injured that same elbow. It's like, at
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: this point, the team, in my opinion, needs to protect
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: him from himself because you know this debo and we've seen.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: It flying around.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: They're like, well, we don't want JD five to become
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: like RG three did when my career got you shortened
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: by injury.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: He's not me.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: His situation is completely different than my situation was. But
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: I think as a team, my advice to him would
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: be it's.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Hard to do. It's hard to say.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: All right, I actually need to get healthy, because if
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I get pushed down and hurt myself, I'm I'm not
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: helping anybody. If I can't go out there and truly
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: be myself, I should just be gearing up for next year.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I can still be a leader, I can still be
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: there for my teammates. But I think that the advice
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: I have for Jaden is don't allow the outside noise
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: to necessarily affect how he leads and what he does
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: and how he plays. But at the same time, my
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: advice to the team and the commanders would be, take
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: care of you, young quarterback. You need him for the future.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: You don't need him just for this upcoming Sunday.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: No, for sure. After Washington and Cleveland, you play next
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: door in Baltimore. Lamar Jackson the team that same year.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: What was your time like in Baltimore and what was
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: it like being teammates with Lamar Jackson.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you this story.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: I don't think I've told anybody this one yet, but
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: I got signed before Lamar was drafted. When we drafted
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Lamar with a thirty second pick, I believe it's twenty eighteen.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Like Steve Smith was on the NFL Draft coverage and
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: I sent out a tweet and I'm like, man, I
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: can't wait to work with Lamar Jackson because I knew
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: at this point in my career, like I was gonna.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Be a mentor type guy.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: You know, if I got a chance to play, I
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: would go out there and do the best I could
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: to get another opportunity to extend my career. But I
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: knew what my role was in Baltimore, and I tweeted
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to work with him.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: And Steve was on the air and I'm.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Watching at the house, and he said, they pulled up
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: my tweet and he said, what you mean you can't
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: wait to work with him?
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: You about to get cut? And I like my heart dropped.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: I'm like, damn, am I.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Gonna get cut?
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: So the next day.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: I go into work and my quarterback coach's name was
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: James Urban. He pulled me aside debo and he said,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: I just want you to know that tweet last night
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: saved your job. And he said there was some concern
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: maybe that because we brought in Lamar it would be
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: to whatever, but you sending out that tweet. Everyone in
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: the organization saw it and realized that you were the
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: best guy to help mentor Lamar Jackson because of what
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: you had been through. You when you talk about like
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: a tweet saving your job, I never anticipated that, and
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: that's not why I sent it out.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I really am.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: I just truly wanted to work with Lamar, and I'm
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: grateful I got three years with him. Baltimore showed me
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: a lot Debo. You were in the organization in San
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: fran where they were about winning. I think you believe
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: they did it the right way. Baltimore did it the
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: right way, from the heg from the ownership all the
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: way down. They showed me what it's supposed to be
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: like in the NFL. Guys having each other's back, the organization,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: having the players back, taking care of the players the
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: right way.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: So I'm very grateful for that.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Because John Harball is the best NFL coach I ever
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: played for.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Foot show for show at the player. You chose the
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: media route, mainly doing college football coverage. Who oh, what
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: got you into the media.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to join the media, devo. I'm gonna
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: be honest with you. I'm gonna be honest with you,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: I really.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Didn't love the connotation you know this in the locker room,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: like you're.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Doing this show.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: And there's been some shows that players have done that
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: have been very controversial, but generally speaking, in the locker room,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: no one loves first Take or the debate shows because
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: they feel like they're tearing down the players. So then
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: when you're a former player, you go on those shows,
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: like I've been in those conversations with players, They're like, man,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: why is this guy over here and tearing this down?
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: He knows what it's like to be in this locker room.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Why is he doing that? So I didn't want to
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: be I didn't want to do that at all. So
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: in twenty one, in twenty seventeen, I was out of
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: league for a year and I didn't do anything.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I trained, I stayed ready.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: So when I was a free agent in twenty one,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: I told myself I wasn't gonna not do anything again.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: So I went and I decided to do an audition
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: with Fox. ESPN heard about my audition, brought me in
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: for an audition and offered me double with Fox. It
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: offered me and then boom, I was in the door
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: calling college football games, and then in six months I
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: was on Monday Night Countdown doing the NFL type stuff.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: And what I realized quickly Debo, was you don't have
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: to do it a certain way.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: You just have to be good at what you do.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: And I was very adamant in defending the players, very
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: adamant and not creating false narratives about players. And that's
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: why I think I was able to break through in
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: the way that I did because I always give people
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: the real analysis, not just something that I know is
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: going to go viral, right, and it's not always liked,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong. Not everything you say is going
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: to be liked. But you don't have to tear players
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: down to try to get to where you want to
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: be in the media.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Now for shore, speaking of college football, the Heisman finalists
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: just got revealed. Who is your Heisman picked? And why?
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm gonna be honest with Debo. I think
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: it's a crime against humanity.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: The Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez is not in New
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: York for the Heisman Trophy.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: I know everyone will.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Say, hey, ah, he's a linebacker.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: You know, did he how many touchdowns did he score?
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: I think Texas Tech has the best defense in the
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: country and he was a leader of that defense. His
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: numbers are comparable and better than man Titeos when he
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: was a Heisman finalist. So Jacob Rodriguez was my pick
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: to be in New York. I think based off the
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: guys that went, Fernando Mendoza from Indiana, you got Jeremiah
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Love from Notre Dame, Diego Pavia from Vanderbilt, and Julian
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Saying from Ohio State.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I think it's very clear who.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Is going to win the Heisman now, and it'll be
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Fernando Mendoza. I don't know if you saw his interview
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: after the Ohio State game, but the guy was he
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: was about to cry right like you get You could
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: sense the emotion, like, hey, we're the number one team
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: in the country, undefeated, were the favorite to win the
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: collegetball playoffs, and we just won the Heisman. Like it
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: was overwhelming for him, and I think he will come
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: out on top based off of who ended up going.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Who runner up, because I ain't got a lot of
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: that they're running back from to Dame. That boy is
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: that boy? That boy should like they kind of like
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I would say, they treated like the MVP Award of
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the NFL. But should no quarterbacks we consider more for Heisman.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Oh you know we had Travis Hunter last year.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, No, I think you're spot on.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: I do think that there should be more positions represented
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: at the Heisman Trophy ceremony. And speaking of that, I
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: do also say we had Marcel Reid on our show
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: out of Podka with LG three this week, and he
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: I think he should also have been a Heisman finalist,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: but with the year that they had a text a
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: in them. But I think Jeremiah Love at Notre Dame
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: the way he finished the year, because if you looked
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: at his numbers midway through the season, no one would
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: have said, oh yeah, he's going to be a Heisman finalist.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Because the Heisman, it is about the most exciting player
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: in the country and the best player in the country.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: But there's a lot of great players that put up
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: great numbers that never get an invite to the Heisman because.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: They have five or six losses.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: So I always try to tell people, you can't look
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: at it in a vacuum like Notre Dame. We lost
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: two games, So Jeremiah Love is going to be in
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: the running despite the fact that he's not the leading
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: rusher in the country. So he had that spin move
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago, and I think that spin
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: move is what got him to New York.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: He spun his way all the way to New York.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: And he's a dynamic player and his celebration, you know,
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: the love breaking the hearts of these defenses is pretty
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: sweet too.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Now it's time for the Don't Settle Segment, presented by
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: State Farm. We talked about college football a little earlier.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: The bracket just got revealed. Everyone is talking about Norda Dame.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: But before we talk about Norda Dame, let's talk about Vanderbilt. Okay,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: you know, I was in college Vanderbilt. It was not
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: a you know, it was not a good team. And
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the way that they was playing this year, only losing
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: two games, there's a lot of there's a lot of
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: good teams that only lost two games that didn't make it.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: And we sit here and look at Bama, who's lost three,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: and you know, Obama always got Bama always got the advantage.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I just think not only Norre Dame got snubbed, but
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: it was the other good It was a lot of
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: good other teams that got snubbed as well.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, d Bo, this was the perfect year for expansion talk, right,
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: if we had sixteen teams get in, Yes, there'd be
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: some conversations about some of the nine and three teams.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: But Vanderbilt gets in.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: You're talking about Notre Dame gets in, BYU gets in.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Utah probably gets in as well. I think, uh Vanderbilt,
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: the way that they played and how exciting Diego Pavia is,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: a lot of people want them in the playoffs. I
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: think the biggest weirdest thing was that the committee punished
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: BYU for losing in the conference championship game with only
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: one loss and didn't punish Alabama. And now Bama's got three,
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: BYU has two. BYU's on the outside. No one's even
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: talking about him except for me and a couple other
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: people who are outraged about it. But Bama did get
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: that SEC bias.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Who do you put Notre Dame over?
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: I think you put in Notre Dame over Alabama. You know,
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: I saw the tweet up on the screen about Notre
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Dame deciding to not go to a bowl game, and
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Deebo that that decision isn't just about not being in
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: the college ball playoff. As you say there, I don't
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: blame them for doing it, but where are ball games
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: played at? Like the ball game that they would have
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: gone to was going to air on ABC and ESPN,
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: So because of that, they don't want to benefit the
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: network that they feel like kept them out of the playoff.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: And I don't blame I don't blame Marcus Freeman and
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: his team for saying, you know what, we're just not
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: going to do it. We're not going to do it
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: at all. And I expected because they were very upfront
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: about it.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: No for sure. For this segment, we're going to predict
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: the college football playoffs. So we got first round. We
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: got James Madison versus Oregon.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: I'm very happy for James Madison getting into the Collage
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: ball Playoff.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: I am picking Orgon in this game.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: You got Alabama versus Oklahoma.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: You know I'm gonna go to Oklahoma.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: I think Jeometeer is fully healthy now and Oklahoma's gonna
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: get that win.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Tulane versus Ole Miss.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Going with Old Miss despite not having their head coach.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: I think all of their coaches are back except for
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin, So I think Ole Miss Trinidad, Chambliss and
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Kawan Lacey pull it.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Off Miami versus Texas and New I ain't gonna lie
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: like it. I'm gonna be many Hey fan show a.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Malakai Tony is an absolute dog. I think that it
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  Speaker 3: comes down to can my quarterback win this game in
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  Speaker 3: more ways than one?
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I'm going to go with Texas A
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  Speaker 2: and M and Marcel Reed no.
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  Speaker 1: For shuffles sold. Now, who you think is going to
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  Speaker 1: win the National championship?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I think I think Texas Tech is going to win
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  Speaker 3: the National championship. And I say that because when they
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  Speaker 3: face Indiana, that defense.
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  Speaker 2: For Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 3: Texas Tech has the best pass rush in the country,
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  Speaker 3: Romelo Height, David Bailey on the outsides, Lee Hunter in
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  Speaker 3: the middle. You got Jacob Rodriguez and be Ben Roberts
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  Speaker 3: had two picks in the Big Twelve Championship game.
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  Speaker 2: They smother you out. They're big, they're physical.
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  Speaker 3: They got two running backs with Jacoby Williams and also
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  Speaker 3: Cameron Dickie out there, as I say, getting Dickie with it.
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  Speaker 3: And they got a veteran quarterback who can absolutely ball
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  Speaker 3: with three receivers outside and a tight end that George
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  Speaker 3: Kittle would absolutely love with the way that he can
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  Speaker 3: make plays. So I think Tech is the people are
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  Speaker 3: sleeping on Tech because they're so enamored with Indiana and
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: But if Texas Tech is.
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  Speaker 3: Healthy going into that game against Indiana in the semifinals,
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  Speaker 3: I think that they're the ones that end up winning
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  Speaker 3: the national championship.
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  Speaker 1: So do you think Texas Tech is the best team
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  Speaker 1: in college football?
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  Speaker 2: I do? I do. I think they're the best team.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're the most complete team in college football
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  Speaker 3: because of all the reasons that I mentioned, And they're
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  Speaker 3: going to get tested against Oregon because Oregon is a
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  Speaker 3: team that positioned by position. I don't know if anyone's
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  Speaker 3: recruited better than Dan Lanning at Oregon. So they're going
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  Speaker 3: to have ballers. It's just a matter of do they
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  Speaker 3: have the experience to pull it off. And I think
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  Speaker 3: I think a lot of people are sleeping on Tech
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  Speaker 3: Tech because there's some bias towards the Big Twelve where
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  Speaker 3: they don't think that the Big twelve teams can hang.
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  Speaker 2: And I think Tech is going to prove that wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, if it wasn't Texas Texas Tech, who is your
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  Speaker 1: sicket team that you think would win it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, second team for me, what would be Indiana. I
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  Speaker 3: have been saying in all season long that I thought
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  Speaker 3: Indiana was the best team in the country and Texas
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  Speaker 3: Tech was the best defense. Now with Indiana beating Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State the way that they beat them, Fernando Mendoza showing
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  Speaker 3: you that clutch gene that he has, Elijah Sarratt, I
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  Speaker 3: think that Indiana has been the best team in the country,
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  Speaker 3: and now it's a matter of who's the best team
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  Speaker 3: as we go through these rounds. We're gonna have three
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  Speaker 3: four weeks off for some of these teams. How do
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  Speaker 3: they recuperate and get ready to roll? And that to me,
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  Speaker 3: if it's not Tech, I would roll with Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, guys, there you go r G three Breaking Predictions.
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  Speaker 1: That's time for the Don't Settle segment presented by State Form.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about qbs both NFL and college. So let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about the best qbs in the NFL. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about Lamar Jackson. What other quarterbacks in the league have
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  Speaker 1: your attention?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so my top.
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  Speaker 3: Five I'll go I'll go at number five would be
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  Speaker 3: Jared Goff I think Jared Goff doesn't get the love
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  Speaker 3: he deserves. Detroit Lions quarterback efficient in the play action game.
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  Speaker 3: The Lions are always a threat with Jared Goff at
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  Speaker 3: the helm, and I think he deserves that respect. Number four,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going with Matthew Stafford. We talked about him earlier,
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: his arm, talent, his ability to lead. I feel like
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: he's healthier than he's been in the last three or
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  Speaker 3: four years, and it's showing on the field with Devantie Adams,
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Pooka Nakua and that two headed, you know, monster running
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  Speaker 3: back they have right now with Blake corm and Karen Williams.
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  Speaker 2: Number three, I'm going with Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I know some people might be upset that he's
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: at three, but let me tell you, Josh Allen is
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: a beast. This is a very respectful number three ranking.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's a big guy, uh makes a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of incredible plays. You're never out of a game no
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  Speaker 3: matter how much you're down. With Josh Allen at quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Number two, I'm going with Lamar Jackson. And I know
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  Speaker 3: Lamar has not had the greatest year the year, but
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  Speaker 3: I am giving these rankings based off of how I
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  Speaker 3: believe these guys have played over the past couple of seasons,
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  Speaker 3: and Lamar is a guy that will figure it out
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  Speaker 3: down the stretch. I think the Ravens will make the
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  Speaker 3: playoffs despite you know, being six to seven right now,
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  Speaker 3: and number one I'm going Patrick Mahomes and and this
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  Speaker 3: is this to me, It's gonna take at least five
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  Speaker 3: years of somebody just absolutely out playing Mahomes to remove
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  Speaker 3: him from that number one spot.
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  Speaker 2: Dee Bo, I feel like sometimes people get tired of greatness.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you have I played, I'm tired of you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, people get tired of greatness.
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  Speaker 1: Like Lebron.
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  Speaker 3: James hit on Lebron. He's one of the greatest. I
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: think he's the said greatest all the time. I'm a
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  Speaker 3: Jordan kid, so I'm always lod to Mike. But people
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  Speaker 3: get tired of it and they start picking at it.
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  Speaker 3: So with Mahomes, I think people get tired of how
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  Speaker 3: great he is. He's still, in my opinions, the greatest
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  Speaker 3: quarterback in the galaxy.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sorry that you've had to play so many
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowls.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we mentioned Matthew Stafford. Matthew Stafford is in
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the MVP race. Do you think he should win or
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Drake May. Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that is a great question, Deebo. That's why you're
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: doing what you're doing, all right. I think right now
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  Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford is the in the lead for the MVP.
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  Speaker 3: And unless they stumble down the stretch, you know, not
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  Speaker 3: too many games left the rest of this season. But
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: the way that Drake May has turned around his career
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  Speaker 3: this this year alone, Vrabel coming in as the head coach,
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  Speaker 3: giving that team an identity, and you see a different
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  Speaker 3: Drake May. I never saw this version of Drake May
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  Speaker 3: at North Carolina, and I called games for him at
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: North Carolina. So I've been utterly impressed with his decision making,
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  Speaker 3: his ability to make the off schedule plays. If if
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  Speaker 3: the Rams falter here in the last couple of games,
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  Speaker 3: I could see Drake May winning the NFL MVP. But
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  Speaker 3: right now, I got to give it to the thirty
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  Speaker 3: seven year old who's playing like he's twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so all right, out of your top five lists,
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  Speaker 1: I kind of shift back a little bit. Out of
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  Speaker 1: your top five list, who is an honorable five if
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  Speaker 1: you had to p.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the honorable five?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Baker Mayfield, I think gets gets an honorable mention.
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  Speaker 3: Just been so impressed with the bounce back that he's
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  Speaker 3: had in his career. He's playing like Baker from Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 3: chip on his shoulder, flag planting, you know, like that Baker.
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  Speaker 3: He's he's fully bought back into that and I love
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  Speaker 3: that for him. I would say Sam Donold is an
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  Speaker 3: honorable mention there as well. I think that that Sam.
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  Speaker 3: You know what he's been able to do in Seattle,
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  Speaker 3: Him and Jackson Smith and Jigba have been dynamic, like
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  Speaker 3: out of this world. And I know Seattle is very
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: happy and Minnesota's very upset that he is he is
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: no longer there. Jordan Love I think would also get
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  Speaker 3: an honorable mention. I know it's been a little bit
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: of up and down year for him and for the
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  Speaker 3: Packers at times, but I think he is certainly worthy
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  Speaker 3: of being a French as quarterback. It's just hard to
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  Speaker 3: crack that top five when you have those names that
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: have been there in there so consistently, it makes it
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  Speaker 3: very difficult to make it.
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  Speaker 1: Noah for sure, for sure, But thank you for tuning
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  Speaker 1: in to this episode of Cleating Combos presented by State
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  Speaker 1: Farm don't settle for just any insurance when they're state
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  Speaker 3: Brother, Appreciate you, my guy, for doing it again sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: All love,