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9-10-26 - The difference Nix & Maye/Bo Nix is a mountain lion & also Spirit Halloween/CFP expanding again? · The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is the Appetizer Hour with Brett Cain on demand.
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  Speaker 1: Check out Brett weekday mornings at 6 on Altitude Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio 92.5 and on the Altitude Sports Radio app.
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday night football.
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  Speaker 3: Ice.
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  Speaker 1: Check.
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  Speaker 4: Beer.
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  Speaker 5: Check.
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  Speaker 4: Beans, check.
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  Speaker 1: Wieners, check. Let's do this. In May, looking to throw
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  Speaker 1: to the end zone. Touchdown tight end rookie, Eli Raritan's.
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  Speaker 6: First NFL TD.
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  Speaker 5: 45-yard line in New England.
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  Speaker 6: Fourth and one under center lock.
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  Speaker 5: Fakes the handoff.
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  Speaker 1: Throws a pass.
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  Speaker 2: Caught.
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  Speaker 1: 40-yard line.
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  Speaker 7: Breaking the tackle.
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  Speaker 8: 35-30.
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  Speaker 7: It's Jackson Smith and Zygmunt.
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  Speaker 3: 15, 10, 5.
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  Speaker 1: Touchdown!
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  Speaker 5: Touchdown Seattle! 45-yard catch and run by the explosive Jackson
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  Speaker 5: Smith and Jigba!
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  Speaker 6: Fourth and one! An extra point will tie early in
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  Speaker 6: the fourth. Third down five. Patriots down by three. 26
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  Speaker 6: seconds to go. Shotgun snap to May. Moved down to
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  Speaker 6: the pocket. Throws a pass. End zone.
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  Speaker 7: Intercepted!
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  Speaker 5: In the end zone! Was he inbounds? Intercepted by Jobe.
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  Speaker 5: Seattle has picked off May.
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  Speaker 7: They've done it again.
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  Speaker 5: The defense of Seattle.
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  Speaker 7: Has done it again.
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  Speaker 6: Drake May has thrown his third interception in this quarter.
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  Speaker 7: Saturday is fun day.
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  Speaker 2: Church is on Sunday. Then we get the barbecue out.
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  Speaker 2: It's Wednesday night football.
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  Speaker 7: Tailgating party, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 8: So listen, when it comes to a conversation we just
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  Speaker 8: had not too long ago, there is something that is 1,000%
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  Speaker 8: a factor as to why the Broncos got to where
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  Speaker 8: they did last year and also why the Patriots got
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  Speaker 8: to where they did last year.
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  Speaker 7: Bo Nix has never done that.
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  Speaker 8: Three interceptions in the fourth quarter, including the last one
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  Speaker 8: is just, it is such quarterback malpractice of you are
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  Speaker 8: in position for a chip shot field goal to at
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  Speaker 8: a very minimum send the game into overtime where it's
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  Speaker 8: you against Drew Locke and the Seahawks backup quarterback offense.
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  Speaker 8: You're almost, I don't want to say you're sure to win,
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  Speaker 8: but if you had to put odds on it, it's
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  Speaker 8: not even close. And to attempt to make that throw
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  Speaker 8: to Mack Hollins with a guy right in front of him,
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  Speaker 8: underthrow him, all the different things that led up to
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  Speaker 8: that final play.
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  Speaker 7: Drew Locke, or I'm sorry, Drew Locke.
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  Speaker 8: Bo Nix has just never done that. To be fair,
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  Speaker 8: Drew Locke didn't do that either last night. All I'm
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  Speaker 8: saying is, when you have a quarterback that you trust
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  Speaker 8: at the end of a football game, that when the
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  Speaker 8: pressure is at its highest, and the moments are really tight,
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  Speaker 8: do you have a guy that shrinks in that occasion,
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  Speaker 8: or do you have a guy that rises to it?
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  Speaker 7: And I think this is exactly why... The confidence I
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  Speaker 7: feel in.
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  Speaker 8: The Broncos and the hope here for the Broncos moving
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  Speaker 8: forward this year, very simply, if you get a more
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  Speaker 8: consistent first through fourth quarter, I think the Broncos are
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  Speaker 8: going to be, once again, one of the best teams
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  Speaker 8: in football. Because that's just something Bo Nix would never
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  Speaker 8: do last night.
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  Speaker 1: Never.
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  Speaker 8: I honestly didn't think Drake May was that guy either.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, if you look at Drake Mays' numbers from
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  Speaker 8: last year, he had only eight interceptions. I believe the
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  Speaker 8: only game he's had in his career, or I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 8: all of last season, that was a multi-interception game, was
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  Speaker 8: the Super Bowl, of all things. It's just, it's a
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  Speaker 8: dumbfounding decision. And I know there were some early reports on.
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  Speaker 8: Sam Darnold's hip, that looks like they got good news
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  Speaker 8: on that front. Now, I don't know what the good
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  Speaker 8: news is. McDonald said after the game that they were
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  Speaker 8: able to rule out a fracture.
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  Speaker 7: So that's good.
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  Speaker 8: But for him to go down after the first drive
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  Speaker 8: of that game last night, head into the blue tent,
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  Speaker 8: and then walk off the field, and then it was
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  Speaker 8: Drew Locke time, you'd assume he's going to be missing
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  Speaker 8: some amount of time. in the next week, two weeks,
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  Speaker 8: three weeks, whatever. But the Patriots were given this gift.
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  Speaker 8: It's kind of like, if you guys remember, Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 8: running out with the American flag for the New York
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  Speaker 8: Jets and then four plays into the season was out
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  Speaker 8: for the year. And that crowd that was so electric,
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  Speaker 8: there was just this pin drop silence after the first
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  Speaker 8: drive of the game. I don't want to say Seattle
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  Speaker 8: was pin drop silent, but you could feel just the
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  Speaker 8: energy gets sucked out when they saw that drew lock
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  Speaker 8: had to come in the game and to.
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  Speaker 7: Do locks credit thought he played fine.
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  Speaker 8: Like didn't do anything crazy spectacular, but he was really good.
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  Speaker 7: Solid. Didn't make mistakes. Um, He did the.
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  Speaker 8: Very easy thing that I think every quarterback who is
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  Speaker 8: taking over for a guy like Sam Darnold in Seattle
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  Speaker 8: right now would do, which is find JSN and let
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  Speaker 8: him do all of my work for me. Give him
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  Speaker 8: the football and let him run past five other guys
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  Speaker 8: for a touchdown. Pretty good strategy. I just, I couldn't
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  Speaker 8: believe that fourth quarter. Couldn't believe it. There is something
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  Speaker 8: to a quarterback when the game matters most.
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  Speaker 7: And maybe, I.
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  Speaker 8: Don't know how else to say it, the recent evidence
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  Speaker 8: of Drake May isn't great in that department. When the
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  Speaker 8: games matter the most. He was excellent for much of
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  Speaker 8: last year. Now, I don't know what to do with
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  Speaker 8: this information. If you go back to last year for
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  Speaker 8: where the Patriots were schedule-wise, it has now been ranked
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  Speaker 8: as the third easiest schedule last year, their schedule. Third
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  Speaker 8: easiest in NFL history. Which I don't like using numbers
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  Speaker 8: and stats like that because it does.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, you have an easy schedule, but when you're beating
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  Speaker 8: teams by 20, 30 points, isn't that what should happen?
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  Speaker 8: But when you look at, maybe they just weren't pressured
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  Speaker 8: all that much.
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  Speaker 7: You know, in the same way.
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  Speaker 8: That we sort of discussed this, one score wins and
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  Speaker 8: your record one score wins, maybe a little bit unsustainable.
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  Speaker 8: You can at least point to your quarterback and say,
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  Speaker 8: at least in those moments, he shows up clutch. In
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  Speaker 8: the case of Drake May last year in one score games,
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  Speaker 8: when you got to the playoffs, when things mattered, I mean,
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  Speaker 8: he wasn't spectacular against the Chargers in the wildcard round.
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  Speaker 8: He wasn't anything especially great against the Texans in the
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  Speaker 8: divisional round if they didn't hand, you know, five turnovers
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  Speaker 8: to him.
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  Speaker 7: Perhaps they lose that game.
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  Speaker 8: He certainly wasn't great in the Broncos game in the
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  Speaker 8: AFC championship, and he wasn't great in the Super Bowl either.
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  Speaker 8: And then you get to this moment, you're playing against
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  Speaker 8: the Seahawks again, you're on the road, crowd's loud, close game.
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  Speaker 8: And in the fourth quarter, three drives, all ending in interceptions.
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  Speaker 8: All I'm saying is, it's pretty crazy to think Drake May,
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  Speaker 8: maybe in big moments, is a little bit of a
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  Speaker 8: guy that shrinks. And one thing about your quarterback here
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  Speaker 8: in Denver is that he doesn't. And there has not
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  Speaker 8: been a game at all that I can think of,
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  Speaker 8: and correct me if I'm wrong here, that you would
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  Speaker 8: say that late in a game, Bo Nix blew it
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  Speaker 8: in the way that Drake May did. Now, I think
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  Speaker 8: the Patriots are going to be fine. I think a
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  Speaker 8: lot of times in week one, games are weird. Opening
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  Speaker 8: games of.
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  Speaker 7: The season, weird.
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  Speaker 1: Weird.
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  Speaker 8: But every single advantage you could have asked for in
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  Speaker 8: coming back and playing a defending Super Bowl champion on
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  Speaker 8: the road to start the year is quarterback goes out
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  Speaker 8: immediately on the first drive. We have ample opportunity late
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  Speaker 8: in the game to take, um, to take advantage. We
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  Speaker 8: have a fourth quarter final drive situation in which all
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  Speaker 8: I need to do is make sure the ball stays
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  Speaker 8: in our hands. And at minimum, we go to overtime
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  Speaker 8: and probably win.
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  Speaker 7: Pretty crazy. 3 0 3 5 0 4 0 9
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  Speaker 7: 2 5. Um, Heck of a way to open up
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  Speaker 7: the season. It continues.
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  Speaker 8: Tonight, as you will hear it right here on Altitude
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  Speaker 8: Sports Radio 92.5, that game in Australia between San Francisco
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  Speaker 8: and the Rams.
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  Speaker 7: I just saw a video of the Rams getting in yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: Just nuts.
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  Speaker 8: Get there, touchdown, go out, 24 hours later, let's play
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  Speaker 8: some ball. And I'm always fascinated at the decisions of
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  Speaker 8: Some teams, when you're playing overseas, huge different time zone stuff.
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  Speaker 8: Do you get there early and acclimate to the new
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  Speaker 8: time zone? Do you just get there with as short
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  Speaker 8: a turnaround as you can to just try and stay
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  Speaker 8: in routine? Now, the Rams have done this before. I
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  Speaker 8: believe Nellie Adam Schefter told us that the Rams did
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  Speaker 8: this last year when they played in, was it London
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  Speaker 8: or whatever, and won by like 30 points.
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  Speaker 7: So this strategy has worked for them already.
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  Speaker 8: But that game tonight is going to be right around 6.30.
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  Speaker 8: And you can hear it right here on Altitude Sports
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  Speaker 8: Radio 92.5. A couple of texts coming through here. Drake May,
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  Speaker 8: regular season versus easiest schedule versus Drake May in the
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  Speaker 8: playoffs are two different players. In rugby, we call them
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  Speaker 8: B-side all-stars. I don't want to put that on him
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  Speaker 8: yet because I still think there's a wealth of of
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  Speaker 8: evidence to come here on, on what kind of player
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  Speaker 8: Drake may is, but I will tell you this. It's
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  Speaker 8: certainly not a great look at the start of his
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  Speaker 8: career that that's what's happening. The, the throws that were
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  Speaker 8: made that were interceptions too. You know, I, you always
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  Speaker 8: want to give credit to the defensive player for making
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  Speaker 8: a play because they were decent plays made by the defense,
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  Speaker 8: but But I mean, just god-awful what-was-that kind of throws. Like,
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  Speaker 8: looks like almost miscommunication type of throws. And to stay
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  Speaker 8: in that game, if you told me somebody threw three
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  Speaker 8: fourth-quarter interceptions that led to them losing the game, everybody
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  Speaker 8: would have answered Drew Locke, right?
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  Speaker 7: Out of those two, everybody. So a lot more to
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  Speaker 7: discuss here as we roll along.
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  Speaker 8: 303-504-0925 as we broadcast from the back is in Shanker Studios.
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  Speaker 8: Again, got another NFL game tonight that you can hear
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  Speaker 8: right here on 92.5 between the Rams and the Niners
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  Speaker 8: in Australia.
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  Speaker 7: Do want to get more of a look towards this.
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  Speaker 8: Weekend's game and games and Monday Night Football tonight. Somebody's
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  Speaker 8: saying they got called out by Sanford again yesterday. So
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  Speaker 8: we'll discuss. I just, I'm blown away at the finish
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  Speaker 8: of that game and how the Patriots blew that. So
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  Speaker 8: we'll get a lot more into this as we go along.
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  Speaker 7: Stick around. So here's one thing to monitor. This is always,
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  Speaker 7: you know, a troublesome game.
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  Speaker 8: When you look at schedules before the season start and
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  Speaker 8: try and really predict, well, how difficult is this schedule
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  Speaker 8: compared to how easy this schedule is, you don't really know.
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  Speaker 8: The teams that you might think are cakewalks could be
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  Speaker 8: teams that.
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  Speaker 7: Find it one year.
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  Speaker 8: And then you have teams that you're expecting to be
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  Speaker 8: really good that suffer maybe some injuries, and then it's
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  Speaker 8: not all that bad.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know. the severity of Sam Darnold's hip injury.
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  Speaker 7: They said they initially got great news.
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  Speaker 8: He's going through another MRI today. I would assume he's
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  Speaker 8: going to miss some amount of time. The question is
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  Speaker 8: how much. And the second part to that question is,
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  Speaker 8: you play Seattle on Thursday, October 15th, which would be
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  Speaker 8: about a month. Could he be out for that game?
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  Speaker 8: And if he is, that changes a lot of things
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  Speaker 8: because now a very difficult game against the defending Super
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  Speaker 8: Bowl champs that kind of end caps the beginning of
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  Speaker 8: the season where your first six weeks look like it's
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  Speaker 8: going to be a really, really tough stretch. Perhaps you
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  Speaker 8: get a little gift if Sam Donald's still out of
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  Speaker 8: the lineup and you have to face Drew Locke as
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  Speaker 8: opposed to him at mile high. I think the Broncos
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  Speaker 8: defense would welcome the opportunity to get after Drew Locke again.
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  Speaker 7: I do. But in the.
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  Speaker 8: Case of whether Darnold's going to make that game or not,
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  Speaker 8: even if he does, maybe he'll be a little bit rusty.
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  Speaker 8: You just don't know the severity of this thing, but
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  Speaker 8: I would assume if it's enough to keep him out
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  Speaker 8: of that game, it's not like he's playing even with
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  Speaker 8: an extended week next weekend. I'd be very surprised if
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  Speaker 8: he did. So you could be given a gift here
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  Speaker 8: moving forward on that Thursday night game against the Seahawks
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  Speaker 8: in week six. Now, I will say this. Pretty impressed
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  Speaker 8: with Drew. Again, I think that they really, as much
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  Speaker 8: as they could, tried to take that.
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  Speaker 7: Game sort of out of his hands and call really
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  Speaker 7: safe plays you know, a lot.
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  Speaker 8: Of quick throws, run the football as much as you can.
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  Speaker 7: It's not like the Seahawks were super effective. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: they go out.
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  Speaker 8: Here's the drives for Drew Locke. Five plays, 20 yards punt.
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  Speaker 8: Four plays, 17 yards punt. Five plays, 20 yards punt.
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  Speaker 8: Six plays, 19 yards and a half. Four plays, 19
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  Speaker 8: yards punt. Seven plays, 31 yards field goal. Five plays,
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  Speaker 8: 67 yards touchdown. That, by the way, was capped off.
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  Speaker 8: It was really just a seven-yard catch that turned into
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  Speaker 8: a 40-yard run with JSN running by everybody. But to
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  Speaker 8: his credit, here's what he did do. Patriots make mistake
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  Speaker 8: by throwing an interception to start the fourth quarter. You
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  Speaker 8: cap that with a touchdown on the very next drive.
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  Speaker 8: Tie the game up at 10-10. They gift you another interception.
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  Speaker 8: Drew Locke takes him down the field to get him
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  Speaker 8: in field goal range, and now you have a 13-10 lead.
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  Speaker 8: You get another interception, and you take a knee, and
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  Speaker 8: it's ballgame.
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  Speaker 7: I just... I think they played it really safe.
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  Speaker 8: If they need to play extended time with Drew Locke,
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  Speaker 8: the Seahawks are going to be in a little bit
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  Speaker 8: of trouble.
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  Speaker 7: I like Drew. I've always liked Drew Locke.
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  Speaker 8: I think the story on this, though, is if Drew
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  Speaker 8: Locke is playing for an extended period of time for you,
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  Speaker 8: probably not great. No, he's got a career stat line
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  Speaker 8: that looks a lot better like a quarterback from the
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  Speaker 8: early 2000s, which is a touchdown-interception ratio of around 1-1,
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  Speaker 8: completion percentage south of 60%. I think they had the
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  Speaker 8: graphic up.
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  Speaker 7: Last night.
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  Speaker 8: I can't remember the time frame of it, but his
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  Speaker 8: career completion percentage is 60, and for a minimum of
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  Speaker 8: 500 attempts, and I forget where they started the date
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  Speaker 8: on that stat, but it was the second worst in
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  Speaker 8: the league.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe it's since he entered the NFL. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 7: I just, you know, I think the Seahawks are in
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  Speaker 7: a little bit of trouble if he's getting extended time.
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  Speaker 9: And also, point of order, Your Honor. Coach Sanford didn't
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  Speaker 9: come after you again yesterday. That texter Lance, who's one
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  Speaker 9: of our faithful listeners, and every time he texts and
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  Speaker 9: I see the name Lance pop up, all I can
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  Speaker 9: think of is Tropic Thunder.
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  Speaker 3: Lance!
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  Speaker 9: What the heck did I just hear, Lance? When they're
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  Speaker 9: all around the campfire. Anyway, that's neither here nor there.
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  Speaker 9: What he said is, Brett, you got to get after
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  Speaker 9: Sanford today. After he completely misrepresented your Chiefs take.
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  Speaker 7: Which he did.
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  Speaker 9: This guy goes out and tweets that Drake May is
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  Speaker 9: good at football.
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  Speaker 7: That was yesterday.
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  Speaker 9: It was, I pulled the tweet here. It was at
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  Speaker 9: 7 24 PM mountain time. He said, all right, I'm
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  Speaker 9: done disparaging. Drake may dude can play.
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  Speaker 2: And then I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: Paging freezing cold takes. He has been getting killed since then.
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  Speaker 9: So that's what Lance was saying is like coach Sanford's
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  Speaker 9: now over to Caner. You got to tee off on him.
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  Speaker 8: Um, To be fair, there were a couple throws that
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  Speaker 8: Drake May made where I was like, all right, those
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  Speaker 8: are really good throws. It's just, it's the going brain
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  Speaker 8: dead at the end of the game part that is crazy.
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  Speaker 8: That's the one that confused the hell out of me
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  Speaker 8: just because I didn't, I didn't think that was possible.
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  Speaker 8: And especially the last throw, you know, one of the
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  Speaker 8: interceptions kind of tipped up in the air. Another one
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  Speaker 8: came after Romeo Dobbs just let one literally go straight
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  Speaker 8: through his hands when he's wide open. The last throw
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  Speaker 8: is you're guaranteed to tie the game and send it
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  Speaker 8: into overtime and likely win. Again, this is a battle
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  Speaker 8: between you, the AFC representative in the Super Bowl with
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  Speaker 8: a guy who finished second in the MVP race last
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  Speaker 8: year at quarterback, versus a team that has their backup
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  Speaker 8: quarterback in, and yes, defending Super Bowl champs, but backup
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  Speaker 8: quarterback in the game heading into OT in a game.
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  Speaker 7: That he's probably not all that prepared for.
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  Speaker 8: It feels like you kind of got it in the bag,
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  Speaker 8: but can't believe.
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  Speaker 7: The decision that he made. Now, Sanford....
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  Speaker 8: It was sort of the kiss of death. He goes,
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: all right, fine, Drake May's good. And then Drake May
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: has three consecutive drives with interceptions to close the game.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: And before that, a three and out.
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: Again, when you start to feel a little bit of pressure,
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: I think it lets you know a lot about who
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: your quarterback is. And all I could think about last
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: night in watching the Patriots, and specifically Drake may melt,
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: is that you don't have that here. That you have
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: a quarterback that does the opposite. That you almost, you know,
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: I heard Matthew Stafford say this before, earlier in his career.
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: He was asked this question, and I think this is
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: a good mentality to have under center. He was asked this,
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: would you rather be up three with a minute left
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: in your defense on the field or down four with
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: a minute left with your hands on the football. And
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: he said, I'd rather be down four with my hands
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: on the football. And I think that's how your quarterback
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: has to be. Like, you feel almost more confident being
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: down late in the fourth quarter if you have the
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: football as opposed to when your defense is on the field.
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: And it doesn't mean you don't have confidence in your defense,
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: but you want to be the.
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: Reason why your team wins or loses because you have
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: that much confidence in yourself. And I think Bo Nix
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: is a guy that's like that. You know, listen, Cortland
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: Sutton was asked about Bo Nix yesterday. Here's what he
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: said about him getting back on the field. If we
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: got it, Nelly.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Knowing just how he is, I'm looking forward to watching
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: him go out there and shake on Monday night because
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: he's like that, I don't know, like a mountain lion
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: that's in the zoo that's just pacing. I saw a
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: mountain lion at the Colorado Zoo. He was just pacing
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: back and forth. I was like, y'all don't want that
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: boy to get out. It's not going to be good.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: But that's what Bo reminded me of. Mentally, you could
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: tell that he's just like, I'm ready to go do this.
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: I would have gone with a lion or a tiger.
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: Mountain lions are scary, though. I get that. But we've
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: all seen it.
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: We'll call it the big kitty cat pace.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: When they're standing- No.
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: When they're standing up against the glass, I don't know
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: why that always makes me laugh.
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: Like, every time, that makes me laugh.
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: Literally, every time you play this, Nelly, I swear to God,
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: it happens to me just a few days before this.
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: I got this pickup, food pickup, walking in to go
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: get my order. Walking by a car and the same thing,
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: there's a dog camped out the window that I don't
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: see until it loses its absolute mind.
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: Oh my, it's horrifying.
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: But we've seen the big kitty cat pace back and
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: forth right there on the glass at the zoo.
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: You've seen it.
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: And you're like, if this glass drops, we're lunch. Actually,
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: we're a side dish. But Bo Nix then was asked about,
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: Colton Sutton said you're like a caged big kitty cat.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: What do you think?
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: You know, I think out here there's different animals that
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: you could encounter, and I hear a lot of times
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: it's mountain lions and bears you don't want to come across.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: So I guess that's a good comparison, you know, one
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: that I'll take.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: And, you know, I definitely think, The thing about Mountain
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Lions is usually when you notice them, it's because they
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: noticed you a long time ago.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I'm just excited to get out there. I feel like
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I'm pacing.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: I feel like I've been in this practice schedule for
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: a long time. It's exciting to get out there and
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: go play another team. Really exciting. I know our guys
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: are going to respond well.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I feel like I've got a great group with me.
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: I feel like Bo Nix actually taking you through the... Yeah,
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: I know there's a lot of animals here.
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: That you don't want to encounter. A mountain lion, a bear.
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: If you see them, they've seen you for a while.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: Let me tell you this. I was out in Idaho
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: Springs last weekend. And it's like the first time I
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: kind of took baby Jamal Cale out there. And it
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: was really nice. Got her out like... Not hiking, but
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: just got her out in the mountains. And she was
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: starting to wander off by herself. I'm like, that's okay.
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: Got an eye on her.
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: And then I realized, like, I don't want to be
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: helicopter dad, but there is a lot of trees and
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: big hills and stuff that you can't see over the
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: top of.
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: If one of those things just kind of popped up
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: out of nowhere, I.
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: Feel like I got to be kind of close. I
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: can't let her venture too far. Now, Bo Nix, one
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: of the reasons why I'm excited about this year is
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: this is all about acquiring information. This is about setting
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: data points for future markers of success or failure. Like
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: I don't play the stocks, but I would assume this
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: is kind of like playing the stock game. What you're
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: doing with Bo Nix and a upcoming contract in the
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: next couple of years is is you're playing the game of,
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: if I make this kind of investment on this company,
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: will I see a return for my money? And it
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: feels like this is kind of the year that's going
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: to give you the proper data points that you're going
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: to need. And that's going to come in in a
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: couple of different forms. It's going to come into one,
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: just straight up wins and losses, what are the results.
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: At the end of the year.
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: But I think more specifically for him, This is dangerous
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: territory because I'm going to venture into some place I
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: don't know exactly what I'm talking about, but my wife
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: kind of works in this industry, so I have a
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: very vague knowledge of this.
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: When businesses need.
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: Quarterly points of revenue to hit, it feels like if
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: that was Bo Nix, Bo Nix doesn't hit the first
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: quarter and he doesn't hit the second quarter. And maybe
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: he gets about even on the third, but just absolutely
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: demolishes the fourth. He's almost like, how about this? He's
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: a mall Santa business. I do nothing in March. But
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: I tell you what, you get me November, December, we're making.
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: Some cash, buddy.
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: You're saying Bo Nix is spirit Halloween?
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: It's spirit Halloween, absolutely. It's like we have no revenue
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: in April. But you give me.
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: September, October, we're making cash.
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: And what I need Bo Nix to become is a
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: year-long business. That's what I need.
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: And if that happens, then I think you feel perfectly
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: fine in your investment. Now, can I ask the people
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: a question? For somebody who has little to no knowledge
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: on anything financial or how business works.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Straw poll.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: Was that a decent analogy? Yes or no?
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: 303-504-0925.
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: Was it okay, at least?
• 29:32
  Speaker 8: Right now, Bo Nix is spirit Halloween, and I need
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: him to become a year-long business. That's my goal. So 303-504-0925.
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: Was it at least decent? Chad Brown's going to join
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: us at 8 o'clock. Jeff Legwald at 9 o'clock. Bud
• 29:58
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• 30:00
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• 30:04
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• 30:07
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• 30:15
  Speaker 8: Sports Bar at 3. Texture says, maybe the best analogy
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: we've heard in the appetizer hour. Fortune 500 level take,
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: they say.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: I don't know business very well, but that sounds pretty
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: accurate to me.
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: That's what I like to hear.
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: I have jumped into these waters that I have no
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: idea what's underneath. It could be a great white. And
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: I took the risk.
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: And it paid off.
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: Ooh la la.
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: Someone's going to get laid in college. Yeah.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Um.
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: Again, games continue tonight. Niners, Rams in Melbourne, Australia.
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: 635 right here on 92.5 back after this.
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: All right, so a few things here. I was looking at,
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: you know, this.
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: Has been out in the ether for a while, but
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: Heather Dinich posted a story yesterday about college football in
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: their playoff and then the leaders of the college football
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: playoff On Tuesday, they agreed to open up a 30-day
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: negotiating window with ESPN.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: And this is basically the discussion.
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: Here's a quote from the college football playoff committee.
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: I suppose.
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: The CFP has decided to move forward in its evaluation
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: of potential playoff expansion to 24 teams by beginning a
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: media rights discussion with ESPN. This does not represent a
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: decision or commitment to expand, but rather an opportunity to
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: engage with ESPN and gather additional information to help determine
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: a path forward. The CFP will provide additional updates when appropriate.
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: So here's the deal.
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: I've mentioned this about college football before college sports, I guess,
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: overall in that as human beings, we are, we're not
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: great with change. Change is difficult. If you've ever moved
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: out of your hometown, if you've lived in a different city,
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: if you've picked up your life, gone somewhere else, if
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: you started dating a new girlfriend, if you start anything
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: that involves big changes in your life, if you have kids,
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: It's hard because.
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: We're creatures of habit.
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: And the habit or routine that we have is meant
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: to provide some ease that you kind of know day
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: to day, all right, I have this I have to
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: do around this time. I always try and work out
• 33:02
  Speaker 8: around my lunch break. I tried all this different stuff.
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: The reason we do this is because it sets your
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: mind at ease. And when things change, There's an angst
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: that comes with it. And then when things change a
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: lot very quickly, there's almost always going to be a
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: hugely negative reaction. And I don't think there's any better
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: example of something that is in sports that has changed
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: so much of how they do business in such a
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: short time frame than college athletics. whether it's the transfer
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: portal stuff, the NIL, but now when you get in
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: the football territory alone, you went from the BCS to
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: the college football playoff, college football playoff expanding to four,
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: college football playoff expanding to 12. All that stuff happened
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: in an instant almost. And now they're talking about going
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: to 24. And to me, They'd love to have a
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: 2014 playoff because those games.
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: Are going to get ratings for them. They're going to
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: be worth the cash.
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: They always had this hurdle though before that they had
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: to climb that they never, I think, could legally explain
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: how they do it.
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: Here's what the hurdle is.
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: 15 years ago, Kids play college athletics. They do so
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: on a scholarship. And that was your payment. Maybe you
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: got a stipend on the side. Maybe a few guys
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: get paid under the table. But mostly, you get paid
• 34:50
  Speaker 8: with a college scholarship. And that agreement is, I agree
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: with this scholarship that I will go to practice and
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: play in 12 games, including conference championship games and.
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: Or bowl games.
• 35:06
  Speaker 8: Well, we can make a lot more money if we
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: have a bigger playoff. But how do we explain that
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: you're now going to do more work for the same
• 35:15
  Speaker 8: amount of cash, right?
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: That's the discussion.
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: We can open up a playoff and we can expand
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: this thing even more, but now guys aren't asked to
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: play 12 or 13 games a year. They're asked to
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: play 14, 15, 16 games a year. If somebody at
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: your work said, hey, Steve, your job is now going
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: to be instead of, you know, eight hours a day.
• 35:47
  Speaker 8: You have to work 10 hours a day, but I'm
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: not giving you a raise.
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: Nobody would accept it.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: That's a setup.
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: They said, well, how do we get around that?
• 35:58
  Speaker 8: And then NIL money and the idea of amateurism goes
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: out the window. Now nobody cares. It's like, this is
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: your job. Your job now is you play sports until
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: the sports season ends. And I think with all of
• 36:18
  Speaker 8: these lines being blurred, you now put 24 teams on
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: the table. They get to have marquee football games, more
• 36:27
  Speaker 8: of them that they can charge more advertising money for,
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: and all these things start to fall into place.
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: It will save.
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: The idea of a 2014 playoff feels very excessive. You're
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: telling me virtually every team in the top 25 is
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: going to be competing in the playoff by the end
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: of the year? That seems like a lot, and it
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: seems like there's a lot of fat.
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: On that bone. Ultimately, does it matter?
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: No.
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: And here's why. I'd watch....
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: I'd certainly watch. And I guess that's all that really matters.
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: But if you think about it right now, I'm just
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: going to take this, actually, we'll go back to last year.
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: Last year's final college football poll.
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: Okay?
• 37:21
  Speaker 8: So you go back to 2025. College football playoff final rankings.
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: Here's what the playoff would be, probably. You would get
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: All the teams that we saw last year, Indiana's, Ohio State's, Georgia's,
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: Texas Tech, all these teams, right? But you would add
• 37:43
  Speaker 8: in Vanderbilt in Utah, in Arizona, in Virginia, in Houston,
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: in Georgia Tech, in Iowa. Teams like that would also
• 37:54
  Speaker 8: get in. And the question is, do you really need
• 37:57
  Speaker 8: to see it? Probably not.
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: But will you watch? Probably so. And that's kind of
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: the point.
• 38:15
  Speaker 8: I don't think it's good for necessarily.
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: The sanctity of what that sport used to be.
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: You know, college football's claim to fame, what separated them
• 38:29
  Speaker 8: from the NFL was always, it was two things.
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: That are now erased entirely.
• 38:35
  Speaker 8: It was pride for the school and the community that
• 38:39
  Speaker 8: you played for.
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: That was the big thing. That's where all of, as
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: Vic says, the pomp and circumstance come in. It's about.
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: It felt a lot more like a.
• 38:49
  Speaker 8: Community effort than maybe pro sports do at times where
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: it's guys just sort of chasing the bag.
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: But secondly....
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: What they pumped as their separator from the NFL was
• 39:02
  Speaker 8: every single game matters. If you lose a game in
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: week three, maybe that keeps you out of a national
• 39:09
  Speaker 8: championship discussion. Not even close to that case anymore. It
• 39:14
  Speaker 8: is full-fledged NFL minor league. In almost every way. Bunch
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: of teams make the playoff now. If you lose early,
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: you can make up for it. There's moving and shaking
• 39:28
  Speaker 8: with rosters every single year. All that different stuff. But
• 39:34
  Speaker 8: I guarantee you, they're like, hey, we aren't making any
• 39:37
  Speaker 8: commitments to this.
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: I'm like, yes, you are.
• 39:40
  Speaker 8: You're opening up this negotiating window to get to 24.
• 39:44
  Speaker 8: And I would think it would have to stop there,
• 39:46
  Speaker 8: but who knows? I also thought in the NFL, it's like,
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: all right, if they move from 16 to 17 games,
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: they'll probably go to 18 and stop there. But now
• 39:54
  Speaker 8: you're hearing 20 somewhere down the road. Maybe it just
• 39:59
  Speaker 8: doesn't ever stop.
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: Maybe that's it. Texture says, you serious, Brett? I watched
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: the Pop-Tart Bowl. Here's the thing.
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: For the other bowl games that are part of the playoff,
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: I'll casually watch them. If I'm at a bar and
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: the TV's on, yeah, I'll peek up at it a
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: few times. I don't think I'd ever turn it on like,
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: I have to go watch this.
• 40:23
  Speaker 9: Well, that's your loss because the Pop-Tart Bowl is appointment television.
• 40:27
  Speaker 9: I'm still mad at Vicks Irish for turning down probably
• 40:31
  Speaker 9: the best non-playoff bowl game.
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: You just like to see them jump in the toaster.
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: That's what you like.
• 40:36
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and last time I checked, this was America. If
• 40:39
  Speaker 9: I want to see a life-size Pop-Tart get eaten by
• 40:41
  Speaker 9: a bunch of college kids, then I'm going to tune
• 40:42
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• 40:43
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• 40:57
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