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August 3, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 3: I back from parts unknown. This portion of the program
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  Speaker 3: i know You're not going to believe this, but I've
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  Speaker 3: had four weeks to prepare for this one show and
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be pretty good. The guru of college football,
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  Speaker 3: Phil Steele, is going to join me here in a
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  Speaker 3: few moments. In fact, Phil is going to join me
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  Speaker 3: today and tomorrow because we have so much to talk about.
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  Speaker 3: Today we will talk about in general everybody but the SEC.
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  Speaker 3: And tomorrow we'll talk about the SEC in Texas, A
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  Speaker 3: and M with Phil Steele. At the bottom of the hour,
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  Speaker 3: our first SEC football preview. The Tennessee volunteers are on
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  Speaker 3: deck for our first report. In the second hour, Rusty
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  Speaker 3: Berson is going to join me. It is trading day
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  Speaker 3: in Major League Baseball. We will talk about who did
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  Speaker 3: and who did not get traded. So that is show
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  Speaker 3: number one dog gone. I know, normally I say we
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  Speaker 3: try to do one good show a week. I think
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow might be pretty good as well with the return
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  Speaker 3: of Phil Steele. So we've got that going on, which
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  Speaker 3: is nice. Like I said, it's trading deadline in Major
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  Speaker 3: League Baseball. Jacob de Gram, according to The Athletic, has
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  Speaker 3: told the Rangers no, he has a no trade clause.
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  Speaker 3: He wants to stay with the team. He has a
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  Speaker 3: five year, one hundred and eighty five million dollars contract
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  Speaker 3: and is under contract through next season. It's also believed
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  Speaker 3: that the Rangers had approached other players with no trade clauses,
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  Speaker 3: including Corey Seeger and Nathan Valdi. No, that's me, sorry,
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  Speaker 3: but as of right now, it doesn't appear the Rangers
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  Speaker 3: are going to move those big contract, big name people.
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  Speaker 3: They have acquired left handed pitcher Adam Maco from the
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  Speaker 3: Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for Josh Smith and minor
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  Speaker 3: league pitcher Josh Steven and they have designated for assignment
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  Speaker 3: right handed pitcher Chris Martin, who is one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: three years old and had an ERA of nine so
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  Speaker 3: far this year for the Rangers. The Rangers have lost
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  Speaker 3: five in a row. They are under five hundred by
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  Speaker 3: two games. They are two and a half games behind
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  Speaker 3: the Astros, and they begin a homestead and with the
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  Speaker 3: San Francisco Giants. Cal quantrill Is on the mountain tonight.
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  Speaker 3: For the Rangers, they're entering a period in which they're
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  Speaker 3: playing teams with records quite a bit below five hundred,
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  Speaker 3: but that's never stopped the Rangers. Before the Astros are rolling.
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  Speaker 3: They're in first place, winners of six in a row.
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  Speaker 3: They are hosting Toronto. We will have that game for
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  Speaker 3: you tonight at six forty here on the Zone. Christian
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  Speaker 3: Javier is back will get the start, his fifth start
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  Speaker 3: of the year and only his second start since returning
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  Speaker 3: from the IL. The Blue Jays, said Shane Bieber to
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  Speaker 3: the Mound, they are a disappointing fifty two and sixty.
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  Speaker 3: The Boston Red Sox and made a blockbuster trade for
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  Speaker 3: Orioles catcher Adlie Rushman, five player deal for Baltimore, including
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  Speaker 3: pitching prospect Anthony Ianson. Rushman long considered the core piece
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  Speaker 3: of the rebuild in Baltimore. Not exactly sure what the
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  Speaker 3: Orioles are doing. The Phillies acquired veteran infielder and three
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  Speaker 3: time batting champ Luis Aures from the Giants. Right handed
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  Speaker 3: reliever Caleb Killian going from the Giants to the Phillies.
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  Speaker 3: So Areys rebounded from a disappointing year a year ago.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see and there'll be others. The deadline is less
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  Speaker 3: than an hour away. We will hear about deals after
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  Speaker 3: the deadline as well. The Brewers ace Jacob Misroski, knowing
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  Speaker 3: he has not been traded, he is calling out the
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  Speaker 3: ground screw at Angels Stadium in Anaheim, saying the pitching
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  Speaker 3: mound was quote awful, one of the worst I've had,
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  Speaker 3: dry rock hard. It was bad. Misroski gave up two
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  Speaker 3: runs in seven innings, struck out ten asked the crew
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  Speaker 3: to come out to adjust the mound multiple times during
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  Speaker 3: the game, but he said the loss was his. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not blaming the mound. Misroski, who throws like a thousand
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  Speaker 3: miles an hour, has been pretty good this year. USC
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  Speaker 3: and Notre Dame announced they're renewing their rivalry in twenty
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  Speaker 3: thirty with a four game series that will feature back
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  Speaker 3: to back season openers. They started playing in nineteen twenty six.
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  Speaker 3: They played ninety five times. USC said it wanted to
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  Speaker 3: continue playing, but facing Notre Dame late in the season
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  Speaker 3: affected its playoff chances, which is interesting because you know
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  Speaker 3: they had done a lot under Lincoln Riley, and the
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  Speaker 3: Aggie basketball team is spending time in the Bahamas. They
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  Speaker 3: played Victoria this afternoon and won one hundred and twelve
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  Speaker 3: to eighty eight at the Baheamar Resort in NASA. Seven
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  Speaker 3: players in double figures. Mackenzie Imbaco and PJ. Haggerty led
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  Speaker 3: the scoring, and Bacco had six seventeen. Haggerty, who was
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  Speaker 3: a leading scorer in Division one last year, had sixteen.
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  Speaker 3: Zach Clements had thirteen, Jamie Vincent had thirteen, Nico Munday
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  Speaker 3: had fourteen, to Sean Archie had twelve. Jalen Shelley had twelve.
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  Speaker 3: I know a lot of these are new names for
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  Speaker 3: some of you. I think they have a couple of
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  Speaker 3: more games down there, and let's see. They had a
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  Speaker 3: nineteen to two scoring spree in the first half, sixty
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  Speaker 3: to thirty six lead at halftime. They will play tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: afternoon at four o'clock against Toro's De Vai, a profession
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  Speaker 3: old team from Columbia. So there you go. That is
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  Speaker 3: basketball and bucket ball getting to play a little extra
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  Speaker 3: I'm not exactly sure, but Scott Spiezio, a former World
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  Speaker 3: been a lot of ups and downs. We will and
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  Speaker 3: he also there's also a documentary film out about him,
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  Speaker 3: so we will hear about that tomorrow, I think on
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  Speaker 3: the program and if we're lucky, Mallory will rejoin us.
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  Speaker 3: I think Mallory is still around. You know, I've been
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  Speaker 3: gone a while, and thanks to everybody who helped fill
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  Speaker 3: in during my absence while I'm thinking about it. Normally,
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  Speaker 3: Ryan Starr will be with you on Friddy, but Jared
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  Speaker 3: and Jason will be here on Friday to fill in.
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  Speaker 3: So we've got that going on. Okay, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: take a break. Phil Steel, college football Guru, is going
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  Speaker 3: to join us when we come back. Our SEC preview
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  Speaker 9: last season after A and M played Texas here and
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  Speaker 9: A and M one. You know, Urick is one of
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  Speaker 9: the assistant coaches that was under coach Kennedy here. He's
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  Speaker 9: now with Sean Miller at Texas and I was talking
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  Speaker 9: to him after the game and he was like, all
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  Speaker 9: these boys better get their licks in this year because
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  Speaker 3: Next year, like they already knew at that point.
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  Speaker 9: Don't worry about this season. We've we've got we've got
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  Speaker 3: He is Phil Steel. Phil Steele's College Football Preview is
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  Speaker 3: that right, Phil. You did perfect, awesome, and we will
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  Speaker 3: we will before we're done, give the audience opportunity that
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  Speaker 3: there are ways to connect with you throughout the football season.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 8: Chip.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's get going. Let's explain the difference between
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  Speaker 3: your power pole and your Top forty pole.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the power pole is where I ranked the team's
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  Speaker 2: power rating wise, and there's just the overall talent of
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  Speaker 2: the team. And then my top forty is where I
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  Speaker 2: rank versus the schedule. So you'll see some group of
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  Speaker 2: six teams up there my top twenty five because I
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  Speaker 2: expect them to win ten games this year, but those
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  Speaker 2: teams are generally not in the top twenty five talent wise,
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  Speaker 2: they'd be behind the power four teams. So the power
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  Speaker 2: pole tells you where they are total strength wise and
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  Speaker 2: the top forty factors in the schedule.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So the first thing that jumps out is
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame is number one on both.
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  Speaker 2: Phil Yeah, I'm bullish on Notre Dame. This year starts off.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a defensive guy, and last year they held opponents
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  Speaker 2: in ninety five yards per game below their average. They
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  Speaker 2: have nine starters back on defense. This year they have
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  Speaker 2: my number one rated defense, number five d line, number
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  Speaker 2: one linebackers, number one DBS. Now, I'm also on the
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  Speaker 2: Joe Moore Award Committee, one of the twenty one committees
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  Speaker 2: I'm on, and the High Value Offensive Line Play. Guess
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  Speaker 2: what I ranked the Irish number one offensive line in
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  Speaker 2: the country. So if you've got the number one offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: number one defense, you're in good shape. Oh how about
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  Speaker 2: an experienced quarterback? CJ. Carr, currently the Heisman front runner,
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  Speaker 2: had a twenty four to six ratio in his first
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  Speaker 2: year as a starter. Last year, he's back along with
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  Speaker 2: his wide receiver Jordan Faison. They add in a couple
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  Speaker 2: of Ohio state transfers and Milin Graham and Quincy Porter.
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  Speaker 2: They get Jaden Greathhouse back from injury. That unit's loaded
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  Speaker 2: and while they lose Jeremiah Love and Jadarian Price. I
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  Speaker 2: like the running back replacements, especially with the surrounding talent
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  Speaker 2: manufactor in the schedule. Toughest two games are at BYU
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  Speaker 2: and home again it's Miami. I got a favorite in
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  Speaker 2: all twelve games. I think they could stay fresh throughout
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  Speaker 2: the season, play a lot of backups. I got the
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  Speaker 2: Irish winning at all this year.
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  Speaker 13: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: And that's one thing that I know you do. Will
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  Speaker 3: you put out your top twenty five? You have to
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  Speaker 3: look at the schedule, don't you fill Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, it is huge, And you know sometimes you get
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  Speaker 2: a team that's at the top of the conference pickwise,
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  Speaker 2: but they're playing one of the tougher schedules that usually
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  Speaker 2: drop them down.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so let's and by the way, we'll talk
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  Speaker 3: SEC tomorrow. But you have Georgia two, Ohio State is three,
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  Speaker 3: Indiana is five, Oregon is six. The Big Ten looks
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  Speaker 3: like it's possible they could have a national champion for
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  Speaker 3: the fourth year in a row.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be remarkable if it was Oregon as well,
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  Speaker 2: because that would be the fourth different team from the
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten in four years to win a national title.
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  Speaker 2: That would be simply remarkable. And you know the thing
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  Speaker 2: about Oregon this year, I did not expect Dante More
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  Speaker 2: to be back. I thought he'd be in the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: a top five draft pick. This year, he's back. The
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  Speaker 2: receiving corpus is banged up. Last year. They're back. All
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  Speaker 2: four starting defensive linement probably could have gone to the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: They're all back. This a loaded Oregon team. They do
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  Speaker 2: have to play Ohio State down the road during the season,
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  Speaker 2: but as Miami and other teams have showed, you could
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  Speaker 2: drop a game or two in the regular season. As
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  Speaker 2: long as you make the playoffs, the best team gets there.
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  Speaker 2: And I think having that defense and Dante More quarterback
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  Speaker 2: they're going to be dangerous this year.
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  Speaker 3: You I think have Indiana higher rated going in the
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  Speaker 3: season than some do. Phil.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really like the Hoosiers, and you know there's
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  Speaker 2: question marks on quarterback. You're losing Fernando Mendoza. But the
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  Speaker 2: one thing I want to say is going back to
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  Speaker 2: my conversations with coach Signetti. When James Madison moved up
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  Speaker 2: from the FCS to the f it was the first
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  Speaker 2: time I got to talk to him, and we're going
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  Speaker 2: over the roster and he had just lost an All
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  Speaker 2: conference quarterback and they had no experience at QB and
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  Speaker 2: they're moving up from FCS to FBS. So my coach,
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  Speaker 2: I got questions about your quarterback. He's like, Phil, I
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  Speaker 2: have had a All conference quarterback every year i've been
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  Speaker 2: a head coach. I'll have one this year and guess what,
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  Speaker 2: they had one. And he's proven it each and every year.
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  Speaker 2: And I asked him this year how he felt about
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback position, and he said, Hoover's in about the
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  Speaker 2: same shape Mendoza was last year. You got a veteran
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  Speaker 2: quarterback that's throwing for nearly ten thousand yards now under
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  Speaker 2: the toothledge of a guy that produces all conference quarterbacks
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  Speaker 2: every year, plenty of supporting talent all the way across
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  Speaker 2: the board. And when I factor in the schedule Chip,
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  Speaker 2: which we talked about, I only have him. I have
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  Speaker 2: them favored in every game except for one. I got
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  Speaker 2: him a pickum game home against Ohio State. Other than that,
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  Speaker 2: I got favored in eleven games. I think Indiana's a
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  Speaker 2: great shot not only getting back to the playoffs, but
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  Speaker 2: perhaps winning at all.
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  Speaker 3: Well. Could Signetty be your coach of the Year three
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  Speaker 3: years in a.
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  Speaker 2: Row would definite be remarkable. I think Dabbo was twice
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  Speaker 2: in the year once, but Signetty. And I'll tell you what, Chip.
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  Speaker 2: There's been eight teams that have had a bye week.
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  Speaker 2: They've been off for an entire month in the playoff Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and their opponent has just played the previous week.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Seven of those teams lost. Yes, only one guy has
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  Speaker 2: managed to overcome the buye and guess who that was.
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  Speaker 3: So he's pretty good, that's what you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it exactly. In fact, you know, when I
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  Speaker 2: was talking to coach McGuire in Texas Tech this year
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  Speaker 2: going over the roster with them, one of his main
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  Speaker 2: concerns is how are they going to prepare for that
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  Speaker 2: bye week this year because it really affected him last year.
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  Speaker 2: That was terrible Oregon.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were terrible. Miami of Florida Crystal Ball. We
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  Speaker 3: saw him up close and personal last December, Phil at
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  Speaker 3: Kyle Field. You think this this team is capable of
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  Speaker 3: making another deep run, right?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, They're the most talented team in the ACC
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  Speaker 2: this year Chip when you take a look at him.
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  Speaker 2: They added Darien Menza coming in from Duke. He may
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  Speaker 2: even top what Carson Beck did last year at quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: and he brings his top receiver with him in Barkate,
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  Speaker 2: Cooper Barkate. This year, they joined Mark Fletcher at running back,
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  Speaker 2: who is super impressive in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: And that guy, that guy let it up in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: didn't he.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's two hundred and twenty five pounds and
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  Speaker 2: it gives you the power. And then you got Malachi
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  Speaker 2: Tony who is one of the most dangerous players in
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  Speaker 2: college football. Just get the ball in his hands. Now,
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  Speaker 2: your biggest question with Miami has got to be offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: They only have one starter back, right, But I have
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  Speaker 2: been talking to Mario christaball since he was the head
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  Speaker 2: coach at Florida International way back when. And this guy
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  Speaker 2: always has a top notch offensive line. So is that
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  Speaker 2: a concern of mine? Not really, Christ of Ball will
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  Speaker 2: develop an offensive line. This a loaded team, the most
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  Speaker 2: talented team in the ACC.
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  Speaker 3: Could Tony win a Heisman?
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  Speaker 2: Quite possibly, especially with all his versatility. You know, he's
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  Speaker 2: He threw seven passes last year. I think that is
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  Speaker 2: Exactly was super impressive in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Man, that guy, that guy let it up in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: didn't he?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's two hundred and twenty five pounds and
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  Speaker 2: it gives you the power. And then you got Malachi Tony,
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  Speaker 2: who is one of the most dangerous players in college football.
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  Speaker 2: Just get the ball in his hands. Now, your biggest
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  Speaker 2: question with Miami has got to be offensive line. They
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  Speaker 2: only have one starter back, right. But I have been
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  Speaker 2: talking to Mario Christaball since he was the head coach
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  Speaker 2: at Florida International way back when, and this guy always
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  Speaker 2: has a top notch offensive line. So is that a
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  Speaker 2: concern of mine? Not really? Christ of Ball will develop
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  Speaker 2: an offensive line. This a loaded team, the most talented
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  Speaker 2: team in the ACC.
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  Speaker 3: Could Tony win a Heisman.
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  Speaker 2: Quite possibly, especially with all his versatility. You know, he's
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: a punt returner he receives, they've run the ball. He
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: threw seven passes last year. I think that is a
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  Speaker 2: distinct possibility. I like that pick there, Chip, are you
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  Speaker 2: calling for him?
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking he could. I mean, he's really good phil
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  Speaker 3: as you very well know. Then what was he seventeen
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  Speaker 3: when the season started last year?
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, so I think that he definitely has
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  Speaker 2: that opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: All right, you mentioned Joey maguire. Let's look at the
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Big twelve a little bit. Texas Tech is your favorite,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: but also BYU you think they have their best team
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  Speaker 3: in a while.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And addressing both those teams, when you look at
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Texas Tech this year, you know, I hadn't picked number
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: one in the magazine, and folks say, well, now, what
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: do you think without Soresby. I'll be honest with you.
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  Speaker 2: When I wrote the magazine at the start of June,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I was ninety percent sure they're not going to let
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Brandon Sorsby play. Yeah, so I listed him as starter,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: but in reality, I'm thinking, there's no way this guy's playing.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: All my power ratings were adjusted for no Soresby. Then
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: they announced he's going to play, and I'm like, oh,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I got adjust my power ratings. Then they announced he's
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: not going to play. So it's back to where I
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: wrote the magazine. So I feel the exact same way
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  Speaker 2: about Texas Tech as when I wrote the magazine as
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I do now. And when you look at their schedule,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: you know they play the number eighty one schedule. I
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: have at least a touchdown favorite in all twelve games.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I agree, I think coach McGuire's best. Our biggest concern
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: has to be how are we going to contend with
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: that bye week? Because they are loaded this year, tons
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: of talent both sides of the ball, and they replaced
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: all the defensive guys with NFL caliber defensive guys. Money
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: tucks in today's nil era and that with Byu. I've
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: been talking to coach Skataki all eleven years, has been
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: a head coach, and after I got off the phone
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: with them hung up. I'm like, this is the best
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: team coach Skataki has had in his eleven years. They
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: are massive on the offensive line, they go three deep there,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: their defensive front seven outstanding in While they lose a
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: linebacker like Jack Kelly, they replace them with Kata Lave
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: coming in from Cal it's a loaded team. And how
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: about last year Beer Brockmeyer didn't even join the team
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: until the fall. Yeah, now he's been there and it's
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun watching number forty seven at quarterback.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: They also return LJ. Martin at running back. They don't
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: play Texas Tech during the regular season, and I know
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: the Big Twelve title game last year was thirty four
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: to seven. I think if they line up against Texas
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Tech again this year, it'd be a much better game.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Okay, while I'm thinking about it, BYU is one of
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  Speaker 3: your surprise teams. One of your top surprise teams. Utah
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: is also in that list. I tell you what, the
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Holy War may be fun this year.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. And last US was a good game, Yes,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: And I thought coach Winningham probably went for it on
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: fourth down a little too much in that one, and
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: they ended up losing by three points because they got
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I think they went for it three times, got stopped
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: all three times, scoring zero. And I originally thought, okay,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Winningham's gone to four key players, but then going over
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: the team with coach Scalley, as long as they developed
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: the offensive line and defensive line, which he feels confident
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: they could he felt they were better coming out of
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: the spring. They've got the offense with Devin Dampier and
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Bird Fickland. They've got the running backs with Parker and Bray,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: They've got talent on the defensive side of the ball,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: and they've got a manageable schedule. I rate at number
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: sixty two in the country road games this year against
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Iowa State, Colorado, Cincinnati, Arizona, and TCU. The latter two
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: would be the toughest to road games. And then, of course,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: as you mentioned, the Holy War against BYU November seven,
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  Speaker 2: that's might just determine who plays Texas Tech in that
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  Speaker 2: Big twelve title game.
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  Speaker 3: All right, before I let you go, Phil, a couple
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: of just some thumbnails on a couple of State of
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Texas teams. You like SMU, A lot of people like
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: SMU this year.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Kevin Jennings was playing with a bum ankle last year.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Half his interceptions weren't his fault. I think he's a
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Heisman contender. And remember SMU was one win away from
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: playing in the ACC title game for a second straight year.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: They just blew that col game. And what they do
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: they got that scored the winning touchdown against some Kendrick Rafael. Oh,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: let's go bring him in as their running back. So
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: if you can't beat them, join him. He's added to
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: the offense. I think they're a team that is an
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: ACC contender.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Willie Fritz and Houston. Willie Fritz is one ever where
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: he's been and this program looks like it's on the
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: way up.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they've got you know, Fritz never had a
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: five star quarterback before. Now he's got two in Connor
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Wigman and Keyshawn Henderson, and rated quarterback out of high school.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: This year they had in one thousand yard rusher and
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Mackay Hughes. Hughes actually ran for one thousand yards under
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Willie Fritz at Tulane. So I like that defense looks
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: really really solid this year. The only negative on Houston
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: they have to play at Texas Tech and at Utah
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: and also at Kansas State and at West Virginia. It's
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: a pretty tough Big twelve schedule with that road slate,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: five Big twelve road games, none of them in an
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: easy spot.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: And you like TCU a little bit going into the year, Phil, Yeah.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: And I was talking to coach Dike's and he felt
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: that the last two years. The two nine to four
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: seasons they had very disappointing. He wants more and I
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: am high on their quarterback, Jaden Craig. Jaden Craig is
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: six three, two hundred and thirty pounds, probably would have
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: been a fifth round draft pick this year. He's got
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: three years experience playing in the IVY League for Harvard,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: and I think he's going to step in and be
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: an NFL prospect this year. Cut down on the turnover
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, TCUs can be highly competitive.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: One area where they're strong. Coach Sdyke said that the
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: offensive line is the best they've had in a long time.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: He said the defensive line is the best they've had
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: in a long time. If you're strong at the line
• 29:13
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  Speaker 14: Obviously, run the you know, there's been some floats about
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  Speaker 3: Jim Knowles comes to Knoxville from stints at Penn State,
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  Speaker 15: this team as fairly young in the Saints, but very
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee has its biggest games at home Texas, Alabama, LSU
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  Speaker 3: little bit, and the Astros from the Weekend series. I
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  Speaker 3: have a friend in Houston, obviously, big Astros guy. I
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  Speaker 3: just sent him a white flag emoji yesterday afternoon. It's like, okay,
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  Speaker 18: Make it to the Houston Astros seem unstoppable recently, as
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  Speaker 18: the weekend series sweep over the Texas Rangers mark sixth
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  Speaker 18: straight wins and eleven wins out of the last twelve games.
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  Speaker 18: Here's manager Joe has spotted yesterday on how the recent
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  Speaker 18: stretch shows that Houston will be a playoff competitor.
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  Speaker 20: What we need to do. This is the things that
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  Speaker 20: we need to do to get to the postseason right,
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  Speaker 20: regardless of who the opponent is, Like, we need to
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  Speaker 20: play good baseball, starting pitching, bullpen, situational hitting, all those things.
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  Speaker 20: Like you know, we believe and that's all I care.
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  Speaker 20: We believe that we are the best team in the West,
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  Speaker 20: and we know one of the best teams in the
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  Speaker 20: American League. And that's all. That's all it matters to
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  Speaker 20: me and to our club.
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  Speaker 18: Now the focus turns to the Blue Jays visiting for
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  Speaker 18: a three game series. The Astros took two out of
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  Speaker 18: three games when they met back in June. First pitch
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  Speaker 3: It is a Monday edition. It is definitely Monday for me.
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  Speaker 3: And the goal is to remember how to do this
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  Speaker 3: and maybe get a little better as the week goes on.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: That's the goal. That doesn't necessarily mean we'll meet all
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: of that. I believe the players report on Wednesday and
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: we'll be having some football interviews and the countdown. You
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: know when when I the countdown begins when I say
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: it begins, and it begins when we start doing the
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: SEC preview. Obviously we'll be having Kurt Bowles join us soon.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: Tony Catalina will be joining us soon. Robert Sessna will
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: be back for the Writers Roundtable. Soon, all of these
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: football features will begin. And then once September hits, man,
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: it goes quick. It always goes quick. It's the dog
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: days of summer in Major League Baseball. It's definitely the
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: dog days if you're a Rangers fan. I thought they
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: played good baseball against Tampa, and I think Tampa's really good.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: Game two of that Tampa series was just pivotal and
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: every single bounce and everything that happened in that game
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  Speaker 3: in that close That was a close, well played, hard
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: fought series. They ended up losing the last two of
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: that series, but I thought they played and pitched well.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: That didn't necessarily hit well, but Tampa I had something
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: to do with that.
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  Speaker 14: And then.
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  Speaker 3: This weekend, you know, I was texting with Rusty and
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  Speaker 3: another Ranger's friend. It's like we're talking about twenty three,
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: and I said, here's the difference in twenty three. In
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: twenty three, Corey Seeger was like a Hall of Fame
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: caliber player. Right A Doley Scarcia had the year of
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: his career. Several players had career years in twenty three,
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: which when you win World Series, you know that has
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: to happen. Well, this weekend, the Rangers didn't have the
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: real Corey Seeger. I don't know if there will be
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: another real Cory Seeger. But he's only thirty two. That
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: is not ancient by any stretch of the imagination. I
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: still think he has some baseball left. He's too good
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: a player. For the last two years he hadn't been
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: very good. But what the Astros have right now is
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: one of the top one or two or three players
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: in baseball. You are down. Alvarez has just been unbelievable.
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: He was named the Player of the Month for July.
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  Speaker 3: If the season ended today, he'd win the triple crowd.
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  Speaker 3: He has been phenomenal. We're gonna hear from Skip Schumacher
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: of the Rangers, and then in a minute we'll hear
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: from Joey Spot. But let's hear from Skip Schumacher.
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  Speaker 21: You know, a couple of challenges that didn't go our away,
• 48:59
  Speaker 21: and so we didn't have and he left high leveraged
• 49:02
  Speaker 21: moment right there with Jock Peterson on deck. You know,
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  Speaker 21: I I know it's tough. I get it. Todd's been
• 49:09
  Speaker 21: a really good umpire for a long time, but that
• 49:12
  Speaker 21: moment is a big call, crucial call that you just
• 49:15
  Speaker 21: got to get right. And I felt like it was
• 49:18
  Speaker 21: a a chance to make a difference in the game.
• 49:21
  Speaker 21: With Jock on deck, are you know, arguably our hottest
• 49:23
  Speaker 21: hitter with bases loaded and take a chance. But it's
• 49:27
  Speaker 21: it's hard, I get it, and so it felt like
• 49:30
  Speaker 21: it was a state my case. Well, Tampa. Tampa did
• 49:34
  Speaker 21: a really good job against us. You know, they're in
• 49:37
  Speaker 21: first place for a reason. They shut down our offense
• 49:39
  Speaker 21: when we were feeling really good about ourselves and unfortunately
• 49:43
  Speaker 21: kind of carried over here in in Houston. Then a
• 49:46
  Speaker 21: combination of things that happened here. A rocker really good today.
• 49:49
  Speaker 21: I thought it gives a chance to win, but you know,
• 49:52
  Speaker 21: there's just a lot of traffic for the other side
• 49:54
  Speaker 21: on on with the runners in score position. It felt
• 49:57
  Speaker 21: like almost you know, every inning there was guy on
• 50:00
  Speaker 21: and base and and they capitalized. So, you know, our offense,
• 50:04
  Speaker 21: you know, struggled a little bit this this road trip,
• 50:07
  Speaker 21: and unfortunately the Houston offense was was clicking.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 21: I've said it before that you know, we're trying to
• 50:13
  Speaker 21: win each day. That the trade deadline and all that
• 50:15
  Speaker 21: stuff is for you know, the front office and that
• 50:18
  Speaker 21: type of thing. The guys in the clubhouse. You know,
• 50:19
  Speaker 21: we're trying to win, you know, each day series. But
• 50:22
  Speaker 21: it was a challenging road trip, you know, unfortunately during
• 50:26
  Speaker 21: this this stretch and we're we're gonna have to get
• 50:28
  Speaker 21: get right at home.
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: You know. The call he was talking about in the
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: seventh was runners two runners on. Nicky Lopez had worked
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: to count and on a three to two he got
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: wrung up on a ball that was two inches low.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: It was an obvious miscall. Unfortunately, the Rangers had challenged
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: a couple of other strikes early in the game and
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: they they both got overturned, and in my opinion, huge mistake,
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: huge mistake. I saw I was watching, Uh it was
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: the Dodgers in Red Sox I think last night. Okay,
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: the Red Sox had a player who challenged a call
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  Speaker 3: third strike and it was an obvious strike. Okay, young kid,
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: I forget his name. He's been really good. He is
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: four to seventy seven out of four seventy eight players
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: and terrible challenges this year. This guy hasn't won a
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: challenge yet. And the Red Sox had like a three
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: or four run lead, and it was like the middle
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: of the game, and he immediately challenges this call third strike.
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: I'm going, man, anybody can see that's a strike. Everybody
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: can see that's a strike. Well, it was a strike.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: He got run up, and sure enough, this kid's terrible. Right.
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  Speaker 3: If I'm the manager, I'm glad, please do not challenge
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: any more pitches. And so the Rangers had no challenges
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: left in this huge situation. I'm and look, they got
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: out played for three games. Okay, I'm not saying that,
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: but in this situation, the seventh inning, it was a
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: tie game, right, it was a tie game, and they
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: would have had the bases loaded with their hottest hitter,
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: Jack Peterson coming to the plate, but they didn't have
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: a challenge. Schumacher got thrown out arguing you can't argue
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: against the Aps, right, I mean, you just can't. But
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: that was on them for not having a challenge left
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: in a critical situation. So when things are going bad,
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: this kind of stuff that happens. All right, let's hear
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: from Astro's manager Joe a spotted.
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  Speaker 20: Just playing our our tails off man on both sides
• 53:08
  Speaker 20: of the ball. The energy the execution, the just the
• 53:12
  Speaker 20: determination by this club. You know, right now we we
• 53:15
  Speaker 20: just play our best baseball and just stop to bottom
• 53:20
  Speaker 20: both sides. Like we're just doing a lot of things
• 53:22
  Speaker 20: very well. But I love the energy. I love like
• 53:24
  Speaker 20: we are. We're locked in. We're trying to accomplish something
• 53:28
  Speaker 20: and and that's that's the type of baseball that you
• 53:31
  Speaker 20: need to play to accomplish what we try to accomplish.
• 53:33
  Speaker 20: Ken Smith, big knot starting to get hot again. Kire me,
• 53:37
  Speaker 20: You're done all tois some Guda bats.
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  Speaker 8: You know.
• 53:39
  Speaker 20: Wait, that's a big pinch hit. I think he's four
• 53:42
  Speaker 20: for four with two walks with Basis lowed it. So
• 53:45
  Speaker 20: coming off the bench, he's done it before. And that's
• 53:47
  Speaker 20: a bigger bat. And and he came through for us.
• 53:49
  Speaker 20: We just you know, run the course and and we
• 53:52
  Speaker 20: we know what we need to do. I want our
• 53:54
  Speaker 20: attention to be on on on our club, like what
• 53:58
  Speaker 20: we need to do. This is the things that we
• 53:59
  Speaker 20: need to do to get to the postseason, right regardless
• 54:03
  Speaker 20: of who the the opponent is, Like we need to
• 54:05
  Speaker 20: play good baseball, starting pitching, bullpen, situational hitting, all those things,
• 54:11
  Speaker 20: like you know, we believe and that's all I care.
• 54:14
  Speaker 20: We believe that we are the best team in the West,
• 54:16
  Speaker 20: and we know one of the best teams in the
• 54:17
  Speaker 20: American League, and that's all. That's all it matters to
• 54:19
  Speaker 20: to me and to our club, it's let's go out
• 54:21
  Speaker 20: and take care of business. You know, I thought he
• 54:23
  Speaker 20: was good. You know, I asked him to, you know,
• 54:26
  Speaker 20: to pitch on on regular rest. We've asked him to.
• 54:31
  Speaker 20: You know, he's been taking the ball and grinding for us,
• 54:33
  Speaker 20: so we got to be really cautious of his workload.
• 54:37
  Speaker 20: And but man, he gets the ball, let's go, I'm
• 54:39
  Speaker 20: attacking someone. I'm I'm he just he's got that mentality.
• 54:43
  Speaker 20: And then our bullpen comes in and again does a
• 54:45
  Speaker 20: really nice job blew by first career safe. It's awesome stuff.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: All right, that's Joe Aspata. Uh, they're playing well, you're on.
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: Alvarez has reached base in eighteen straight games since July tenth.
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: He is hitting four thirty eight fifteen runs, eight doubles,
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: six homers, seventeen RBI, eighteen walks. And the Rangers, God
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: bless them. I gotta ask Rusty this. They keep pitching
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: to Jordan Alvarez. I saw a tweet today and I
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: don't remember who is by going. I swear I'm telling
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: the truth. I wish that the Rangers would walk Jordon
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: Alvarez for the rest of his career. And I don't
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: disagree with that. He he owns the Rangers. Altuvey used to,
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: but Jordon owns the Rangers, and bye gosh, they keep
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: pitching to him. They walked him twice Saturday. That wasn't enough.
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: The bases were loaded last night and the game was
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: pretty much over because they had already scored a couple
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: of runs. I think in the eight I told my
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: wife walk them. They used to walk Barry Bonds with
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: the bases loaded. They walked Barry Bonds with the bases
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: loaded all the time, and I said, walk him. Well,
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: guess what first pitch to run double? Now I don't
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: know if they would have saved a run by walking him.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: It didn't matter. Again at that point, it's too late.
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: But at what point do you say, Hey, this guy
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: just really owns us I think we're going to walk him.
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: Apparently Schumacher hasn't reached that point yet. I hope that
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: he will. It's too late. Now they're fording, which is
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: another stupid thing. I just got to get this off
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: my chest. These teams aren't going to play again. It's
• 56:50
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