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Mac & Bone Show - Tim Murray Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Tim Murray joins us here from Visa. Hey, Tim, what's
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  Speaker 1: going on, man? How you doing? I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just waking up here in Milwaukee just after a
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  Speaker 2: lovely evening at Lambeau Field.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, how about that, man? What was it like for
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  Speaker 1: the college game? It looked like a great freaking atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, atmosphere was great. I've never been to the Rose Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: but it kind of reminded me a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: the Rose Bowl in that it was kind of split
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  Speaker 2: right down the middle, half Notre Dame, half Wisconsin fans.
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  Speaker 2: A little sloppy start, I would say, for the Irish,
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  Speaker 2: for a team that, look, I think has aspirations to
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  Speaker 2: win the national title. I thought the second half was
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  Speaker 2: a little crisper and cleaner for them. We'll see what
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  Speaker 2: happens moving forward here, but the atmosphere there was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: That stadium is fantastic. It's just second to none. It's
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  Speaker 2: the first time I've ever been there, and it was
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  Speaker 2: really cool to take it all in inside the stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Tim, I picked Notre Dame to win it all this year.
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  Speaker 3: My only question has been, you know, not exactly easy
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  Speaker 3: to replace two first-round running backs in Price and, of course, Love.
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  Speaker 3: Is that the biggest question you would have? What's your
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  Speaker 3: question about Notre Dame entering the season?
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  Speaker 2: I think the offensive line people didn't talk enough about,
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  Speaker 2: and it kind of goes hand-in-hand with the running game.
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  Speaker 2: I did think the running game was a little bit
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  Speaker 2: better in the second half, as I mentioned. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look, when you lose Jeremiah Love and Jadarian
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  Speaker 2: Price and you've got a couple injuries on that offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: that is certainly concerning. I thought as the game went on,
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  Speaker 2: you saw a couple plays made from the wide receivers.
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  Speaker 2: But for me, watching last night, it kind of reconfirmed
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  Speaker 2: just how– good that defense is their one touchdown came
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  Speaker 2: on a double move and it can't happen. Uh, Notre
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  Speaker 2: Dame's corner got a beat on a double move, but
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  Speaker 2: I thought for most part, the defense is very sound,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, I think fortunately for Notre Dame, the way
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  Speaker 2: the schedules laid out is, you know, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be a massive favorite until, uh, the BYU game middle
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  Speaker 2: of October. So they got to work some things out
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  Speaker 2: for sure. Uh, but I think the run game, the
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  Speaker 2: offensive line, who's going to emerge as a big time playmaker,
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  Speaker 2: because there's one thing that I saw last night, Notre
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  Speaker 2: Dame doesn't have a Malachi Tony on their team, man.
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  Speaker 2: That guy is something else. And Notre Dame is going
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  Speaker 2: to have to figure out how to manufacture more offense.
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  Speaker 2: without a superstar like Miami has or a superstar like
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  Speaker 2: Texas or Ohio State. A lot of these teams have big,
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  Speaker 2: big-time receivers.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. No doubt about it. Tim Murray of Eason
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  Speaker 1: with us recapping week one of college football. Still got
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  Speaker 1: SMU Florida State coming up tonight. Obviously, we've talked a
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  Speaker 1: ton about the Clemson game. Clemson fans were hiding from us, Tim,
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  Speaker 1: on the text line for the first couple hours. Now
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  Speaker 1: they're just angry as hell. They've woken up and they're
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  Speaker 1: angry as hell in the 9 o'clock hour. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: did that game make you feel more like, oh, shoot,
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  Speaker 1: Clemson's in trouble? Or did it make you think, damn,
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin's got a squad this year? What was your
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  Speaker 1: biggest takeaway?
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  Speaker 2: We'll start with Clemson. You know, it's one of those
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  Speaker 2: games guys, you know, you mentioned what I do, you know,
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  Speaker 2: from a gambling standpoint and I said all week, I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 2: my brain, my gambling brain says I got to take
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  Speaker 2: Clemson here. But I was like, eh, I kind of
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  Speaker 2: feel like lane might try to put on a show here.
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  Speaker 2: So thankfully I stayed off of it. Didn't lose any
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  Speaker 2: money on that game. Um, I mean, look, Clemson, I
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  Speaker 2: think we'll still be okay in the ACC, but like, man,
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  Speaker 2: those are two different teams playing on, on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that, that, that was a different world. You
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  Speaker 2: look at those two programs. So, you know, we'll see
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  Speaker 2: what Clemson does in the ACC. I don't mean we'll
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  Speaker 2: see if they can go punch for punch with Miami
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  Speaker 2: in a, in a, in a month. I don't see
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  Speaker 2: how that's possible at this point. I mean, things can change.
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  Speaker 2: And then on the flip side, man, yeah, you look
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  Speaker 2: at LSU and, it seemed like all systems go there
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  Speaker 2: for the lane train with the talent that they had
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  Speaker 2: and just the playmakers that were flying around on that
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  Speaker 2: field on Saturday night. So they've got a challenging schedule,
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  Speaker 2: no doubt. But, yeah, it was quite impressive to see
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  Speaker 2: what LSU did from the jump there on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 3: Tim, just a side note here, your guy Willie P
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  Speaker 3: says hello. He's texting right now, and if I didn't
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  Speaker 3: say that to you, he'd be very upset with me.
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  Speaker 1: Like 40% of our guests lately are Willie P buddies.
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  Speaker 1: They all know Willie P. It's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: But Tim's the rare Willie P guy that's been on
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  Speaker 3: twice now. Usually we say... Willie P said, hello, then
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  Speaker 3: we can't get old. And then they never want to
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  Speaker 3: hang with us again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Who do you like tonight, Tim? SMU, FSU. I think
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  Speaker 3: the obvious play would be SMU, but remember last year, FSU, Bama,
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  Speaker 3: FSU out of nowhere stuns the world. What are you
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  Speaker 3: thinking about tonight's game?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's another one of those gambling brain games where I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking at it and this is going to be, I
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  Speaker 2: haven't checked in with odds makers today, but heading into
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  Speaker 2: the weekend, this was going to be a very lopsided
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  Speaker 2: ticket count all in on SMU. And I think a
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  Speaker 2: lot of it had to do with the performance we
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  Speaker 2: saw in week zero from Florida state. And obviously the
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  Speaker 2: perception of Florida state going into this year, look, I
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  Speaker 2: bet under six and a half wins on Florida state.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a long season for
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  Speaker 2: Mike Norvell. That said again, I kind of like them
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  Speaker 2: a little bit here in this game. Just once again,
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  Speaker 2: gambling brain, looking at that number hasn't really moved. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I was doing a radio hit last week and someone said,
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  Speaker 2: it's so obvious SMU is going to win. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: alarm bells going off. Like this is, this is going
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  Speaker 2: to be a spot here. So I think it'll be
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  Speaker 2: a competitive game. You know, is Kevin Jennings fully healthy?
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  Speaker 2: I know he's been dealing with some injuries. I'm not,
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  Speaker 2: fully sold on this SMU team. I think they're good.
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  Speaker 2: I think Miami is just in a class of their
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  Speaker 2: own in the ACC. Now Miami historically has always kind
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  Speaker 2: of figured out ways to mess it up. But coming
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  Speaker 2: into this year, guys, I had Miami 1, Louisville 2,
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  Speaker 2: and then SMU 3. So I was in SMU 2,
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  Speaker 2: Louisville 3. So once again, I didn't have SMU 9.
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  Speaker 2: I had them as the third best team in the ACC.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm really curious to see this game. What's the
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  Speaker 2: atmosphere going to look like Is it going to be
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  Speaker 2: classic Doak Campbell? Is it going to be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: mediocre Doak? Like what's going to look like tonight? But
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  Speaker 2: I think I have not bet the game. I do
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  Speaker 2: have a contest play. So there's a contest here in
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  Speaker 2: Vegas where you pick seven games against a spread each week.
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  Speaker 2: And I did take. Florida State plus three and a
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  Speaker 2: half in a contest play, but I don't have a
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  Speaker 2: personal play on it. I'll just say this. If you're
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  Speaker 2: assuming SMU is just going to roll, be careful. This
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  Speaker 2: does kind of feel like those typical games where you're like,
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  Speaker 2: this thing's a little closer than expected. So that's where
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  Speaker 2: I would be on this game tonight. It's week one. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: we've seen a couple of results that are surprising, most
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  Speaker 2: notably what we saw on Thursday night when a 29.5-point
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  Speaker 2: underdog absolutely destroyed Rutgers.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Right now on DK, 59% of the money coming in
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  Speaker 3: is on SMU, 41% Florida State.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Not that far off.
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  Speaker 3: Not that far off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought it would be a little higher. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that surprises me.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: So you talked about the Canes being your ACC pick, right,
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  Speaker 1: before the season. I mean, it feels like they are everybody's.
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  Speaker 1: But that was an eye-opener against Stanford. Again, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: acting like Stanford's the toughest they're going to have to play.
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  Speaker 1: But Mensah, it feels like Cam Ward was amazing two
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  Speaker 1: years ago. Beck was real good. I honestly think crystal
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  Speaker 1: ball has got his best quarterback now. And I mean
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  Speaker 1: him and Tony and bar Kate altogether. What do you,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think about Miami's national title chances?
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  Speaker 2: I said, coming into the year, I really believe that
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  Speaker 2: seven teams can win it. And Miami was a part
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  Speaker 2: of it because I expected Miami to be better offensively. Now, defensively,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see, right? They don't have Bain. They don't have Mesador.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I, I was at the Notre Dame Miami
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  Speaker 2: game last year and you just, it just looked different
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  Speaker 2: the way those guys came off the edge and could
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  Speaker 2: wreak havoc. And fortunately for Miami, you look at the schedule, uh,
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  Speaker 2: They got time. They got time to help that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of like Notre Dame with the run game. I
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  Speaker 2: think Miami's got talent defensively, but do they have game changers?
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  Speaker 2: But speaking of game changers. I mean, goodness gracious. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that was, that was different. What we saw on, on
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  Speaker 2: Friday night with Malachi Tony. I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if it was, I'm not going to sit here and
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  Speaker 2: pretend to be a coach or anything like that. I
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  Speaker 2: probably would have maybe tried to figure out different ways
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  Speaker 2: to cover Malachi Tony, just, but who knows, maybe he's
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  Speaker 2: just that unique of a talent. And then you bring
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  Speaker 2: in Cooper Barkay to your point. He's a guy that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, has such a great rapport with Mensa. And
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  Speaker 2: then we didn't really see anything from Mark Fletcher.
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  Speaker 1: No, they didn't run it really well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a guy that was crushing it. So
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  Speaker 2: I do think the offensive line couldn't get better. You know,
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  Speaker 2: but if you've got Mario Cristobal there, he's an offensive
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  Speaker 2: line guy.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: Man, this team is, I agree with you. I think
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  Speaker 2: they've got a better quarterback this year than they did
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  Speaker 2: the previous two years. I was just saying something because
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  Speaker 2: Cam Ward was obviously the number one overall pick and
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  Speaker 2: Carson Beck was a really, really good quarterback as well.
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  Speaker 2: So I think the sky is... the limit here. And
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, in two months, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: be in South Bend taking in Notre Dame in Miami.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that is a chance to be one
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  Speaker 2: of the games, if not the game of the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: If you can't tell based on all the games Tim
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  Speaker 1: has gone to recently or plans to go to, he
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  Speaker 1: is a Notre Dame fan. But unlike a lot of
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  Speaker 1: obnoxious Notre Dame fans, I grew up going to Catholic
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  Speaker 1: school with Tim. You are a likable one.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: You are a likable one, my friend. And And you
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  Speaker 1: claim Willie P as a buddy, which is cool, too.
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  Speaker 1: As a Duke fan, it's early in the season. Big
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  Speaker 1: difference between Darian Mensah and Walker Eget, the new quarterback
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  Speaker 1: at Duke. Just my early observation on this.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit of drop-off. He's not in that spread.
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  Speaker 2: and shred offense. No, no.
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  Speaker 1: They keep saying he was in an air-raid offense. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: is he good enough to raid? Yeah, can he shred
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  Speaker 1: through the air? It's crazy to me after watching him.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. We'll see how he plays moving forward. Tim
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  Speaker 1: Murray from VEASAN. Thanks so much for coming on, Tim.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: All right, guys. Talk to you soon.