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Shohei's Unreal Game 4 & Chase, Bengals Keep Season Alive · Height Differential

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Give it, give it to me. We're here on a Sunday.
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It's the high differential. That's the six, six nil.
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I'm the 410, Nick, We did it. We, we, we missed the last two
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Sundays. I think your wife got on and
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said hey, we can't be slacking and we're.
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We're back on a Sunday. It's about time.
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Feels good to be back on a Sunday.
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I will say the Bengals playing on Thursday night helps the
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calls. Oh yeah, definitely.
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It's a little easier, but yeah, it's good to be here on a on a
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Sunday and a lot of a lot of things to talk about.
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Talk about some show. Hey, we'll talk a lot of college
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football, some NFL, but I mean, I think we got to start off with
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Shohei Ohtani's performance in Game 4, the NLCS, 6 innings
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pitch, 10 KS and three home runs.
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I don't know in the history of sports if we've ever seen
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anything like that. No, it's it is without question.
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In my mind, it's the greatest individual single game
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performance I've ever seen. I mean, like you said, not only
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do you hit three home runs in a clenching game of an NLCS to for
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your team to go to the World Series, you hit 3 bombs in
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itself. Like that's just that's
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impressive. And then not only that, you go
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on the mound, you pitch 6 innings, only give up two hits,
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no runs and ten KS and get the win as a pitcher.
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I mean, if you think about like in in Major League history, the
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pitch, the the players that have been the two way players and
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Babe Ruth comes to mind because he's probably the most famous to
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do ever do it. But Shohei Otani performance in
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Game 4 is in my mind, there's no question the greatest single
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game performance I've ever seen. Well, to prepare for the show,
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I, I got on ChatGPT and I asked the same question.
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I asked you to open the show and ChatGPT says utterly
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unprecedented in modern professional sports.
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Because I was just wondering if there's something else even out
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there comparable like and maybe a sport that I don't follow and
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maybe there's just something that exists.
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They the closest comparisons. They talk about Babe Ruth in
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1918 and 1919 where he once pitched A shutout and they hit a
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home run in the same game. But that was that was a regular
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season game and that was a game in June.
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So not to say not getting you to the World Series, but pitching
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non strong and hitting a home run.
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It's pretty, pretty crazy. And then they also talked about
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Otani's World Baseball Classic final, where he closed the game
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for Japan and and struck out Mike Trout.
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Mike Trout to win the title and but he didn't hit three home
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runs in that game. No, he did not.
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I mean, there, there's nothing that comes to mind.
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It's like this to me. It stands out as in any sport,
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like in any sport, for somebody to do what he did, it's it's not
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been done. It's just he's just a machine.
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He's an absolute machine and he's probably, he might be the
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best baseball, pure baseball player of all time.
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He's on his way. Well, he's two players.
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Yeah. He's two players and I know the
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whole salary thing with him is odd because it's all deferred,
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but no matter what you're paying him.
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If you're you're paying, you are getting two players.
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It's money well spent. I mean, I know he's making a lot
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of money. Like you said, it's all
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deferred, but it is money that's well spent.
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Well spent. There's like it still boggles my
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mind how the angels just like I let him go like.
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How how the angels never were anything they were they were not
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good with him and Mike Trout on the same team.
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They never even made the playoffs with those two guys.
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Like I don't know what was going on in in L in in like they're in
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LA as well. But with the Angels organization
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for you have that much talent, those two guys on your team, and
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then I even make the playoffs pretty bad.
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It's, it's like, but it, it just shows you baseball is different.
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Like if you had those two guys on a basketball team, you're
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going to the finals every year. If you've got two of the best
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players in baseball. I mean, they just got to have so
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many elements to be a good team. But I also was like, and it give
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me an analogy, give me a different sport that would be
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comparable to Otani's performance.
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And they gave me one for basketball and they gave me one
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for football. I think the football 1 is is
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better. I mean, it's probably got to be
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like football. It's got to be like a Deion
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Sanders going, playing both ways and catching 2 touchdowns and
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having a pick six or something. You know, it's something like,
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right, that kind of route. But I mean I, I don't know.
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So the basketball one, they said, is like Lebron's going 45
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and getting 8 blocks and 10 assists.
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I don't. And being a lockdown defender, I
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don't that's not comparable because that's what a basketball
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you you have everybody has to play correct both sides.
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Yeah, play both sides, yes. Now, so football is really you
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can compare it because players play offense and defense.
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So they said it would be like Mahomes or Josh Allen or Burrow
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throwing for 3:50 and 4:00 touchdowns and then intercepting
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2 passes as a starting safety. Yeah, which that would be
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comparable. I agree, yes.
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But we're never going to see that.
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No, of course not. I mean, Travis Hunter right now
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is the only one I know that actually plays both ways.
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And so like I said, he's got to catch 3 touchdown passes on
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offense and probably have two interceptions on defense and the
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Jaguars have to win like 50 to 7 if he does that.
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So it's there's nothing comparable.
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Yeah. And the Dodgers, you know,
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didn't have the regular season that they've had the last couple
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of years. But I mean, they're just
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waltzing through this this postseason and and now they'll
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just wait and see if it's going to be the Mariners or the OR the
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Blue Jays as as they try to win back-to-back World Series.
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Yeah, I mean, I, I don't see any way of stopping the Dodgers.
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I mean the the starting pitching that they have, the three headed
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monster in the rotation and then the offense that they have, it's
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going to be it's all task for whoever comes out of the AL.
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No, and I mean, that's the thing too.
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It's not just him either. Like their rotation has been
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incredible throughout the whole postseason.
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We went through the numbers on that in our last podcast.
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And in an era where we're seeing starters not, you know, go 678
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as often as they used to, they're they're kind of old
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school and in their way, they're pitching is set up and the the
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money they spend allows them to do that.
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But yeah, whoever wins, you know, in the ALCSI, don't the
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Dodgers just roll? And I don't, I don't see how
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they're going to get knocked off.
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No. And then Speaking of the ALCS,
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we talked about, you know, the the Mariners line up and who was
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hitting and who wasn't hitting on the last podcast.
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And I was rooting for my guy Gino Suarez.
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And he's not had quite, quite that good of a ALCS up until
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Game 5. And in game five, he came alive,
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didn't he? Well, he had.
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I mean, they needed him to. Yeah, yeah.
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What, 22 bombs had that Grand Slam in the bottom of the
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eighth. What, tied at two hits.
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That Grand Slam basically puts them up 3, two in the series.
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So they're on the doorstep now. Well, he's always been a streaky
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hitter, so you got to hope that he keeps that hot bat as as they
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come out to Toronto for Game 6 tonight.
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And but we we talked about if he got his back going, I mean, the
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Mariners are going to be dangerous.
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And now they're one went away from getting their first ever
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World Series. And I mean, it'd be, it'd be fun
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to watch the Mariners try to beat the Dodgers and get that
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first World Series. And but just playing in it for
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the first time, that fan base deserves that.
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No, there's no question like they.
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It would be awesome to see, there's no doubt.
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And always fun to watch the big dumper.
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Watch him get a few more ABS in in the In the Fall Classic.
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That's right. So we'll see if the the Mariners
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can clinch their first ever World Series tonight.
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And I guess we need to get into a little college football lot.
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Lot of good games. I think we need to start off
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with the one on Friday night as our own Louisville Cardinals
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took care of business and knocked off the previously
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undefeated Miami Hurricanes. How about that?
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I mean, what a game, what an absolute game.
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Jeff Brohm 4 and O now against top five teams when his team is
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unranked. You know, he pulled some some
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tricks out of the bag, started off that first drive with the
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the fake field goal set up, set up the first score and you know,
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like got a little creative with the offense took a 14 nothing
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lead. And you know, they they played
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well. The defense especially played
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well. Miller Moss played well.
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Chris Bell, like the entire group.
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Yeah, I mean, the thing with Miller Moss is, I mean, yeah, he
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threw for 250 yards. It was probably his best game of
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the season, but he didn't throw any picks.
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No turnovers. That's right.
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And you know, they won the turnover battle 4 to one.
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They had that the one Isaac Brown fumble.
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But you you pick off Carson Beck four times and it's going to put
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you in a in a good situation to win the game.
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Isaac Brown didn't look to me like he was 100% healthy, but he
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still had over 100 yards and. 15 yeah. 15, yeah.
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Averaged. He's 113 yards.
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So I mean, Isaac Brown, he looked good for most of the
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game, you know, minus that mistake he had late.
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But he he did look like Isaac Isaac Brown of old.
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Yeah, and Chris Brown, Chris Bell looked like one of the best
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wide receivers in the country. Yeah, 100.
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And 35 yards in two tighties so. Nine yeah, 9 for 1:36.
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First Cardinal with three straight 100 yard receiving
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games since 2/2 and 2/2 out Well in 2019, Chris Bell's, he's
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making some money now. I mean, he's he's proven it with
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his size and his speed. I mean, that's the name you're
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going to see on Sundays, you know, years to come.
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And the like, even dating back to his Purdue days, these are
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the games that you see Jeff Brown figure out a way to win a
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lot. And he's continuing to do that
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with with Louisville. And on the other side,
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Cristobal. It's the 10th time that Miami's
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lost as a favorite in his tenure.
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So if you kind of broke down the numbers going into the game, I,
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I don't, I don't know if the result would actually surprise
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you. No, I mean, and we, we give, you
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know, we've been talking about the Louisville offense, but
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like, let's, let's give some credit to that Louisville
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defense. I mean, absolutely.
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I mean, 4 picks they held Miami to 63 rushing yards on 24.
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It's nips 2.6 per rush. And you know, he coming in Miami
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averaged 163 yards on the ground.
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So, you know, they stopped the run.
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They forced Carson Beck to actually have to throw the ball.
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And when he did, I mean, the coverages were great.
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I mean, some of those picks were absolutely how they caught it.
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I mean, it was, I mean, incredible.
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TJ Capers with that, that last second or that last drive pick
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where he caught it with his fingertips.
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I mean, they, the defense were in great positions, like I said,
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stopping the run, making Beck throw the ball and it was just a
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great game playing all around. Yeah.
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And what we we talked about where we thought maybe the cards
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would be in the poll in 19, right?
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1919. And now they they get ABC team
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next week for homecoming and got to keep got to keep the train
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moving. Keep it moving.
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That's right. So looking at what game you want
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to talk about next? I mean, we got the, we got the
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Hoosiers on today. Well, you want to talk about
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your boys extension first because we talked about this a
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lot last week out. It was very likely that he
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wouldn't be at IU and they broke out the Piggy Bank.
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They sure did. I mean eight years, 93,000,000
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so it's 11.6 per year. Third highest paid coach now in
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college football behind Kirby Smart and Ryan Day.
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So I mean, I you, they, they're serious about it.
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They they ponied up, you know, they said we're, we're we're
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serious about this. We want football to have long
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term success even as a basketball school.
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So good for them, locked them up so all the all those rumors can
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be put to bed. And you know, like they came out
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and took care of business against Michigan State.
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I mean, they they struggled a little bit early on the
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defensive side. They were down 10 three, But
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then after that they just put it on them ended up winning at
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3813. And I mean, once again, Mendoza,
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he's might be the Heisman favorite.
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He's up there, but I, I, I just going back to signetti, like you
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really do just have to give the administration like credit for
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just absolutely unloading and give giving him that contract
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because what he's done for that program is it's unprecedent.
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I mean, I talked about last week how, you know, they've been
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mediocre at best throughout the pretty much their tenor and now
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for two years they're going to go to the playoffs both years.
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And if he loses, you're there's a very good chance you're going
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back to where you were. And the administration didn't
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want to risk that. And they haven't been they
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haven't been there a basketball school, but they haven't found
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the success in basketball that they, you know, yearn for
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recently. So you've got this guy football
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coach and lock him up and do your thing there and good on
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them because it's it's pretty crazy to watch with IU being one
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of the best football programs in the.
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Country too in the new poll. IU football ranked #2 in the
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country. Who would have thought that
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would ever be a thing? No, it's yeah, I never thought I
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would no, like not even, not even a question.
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But it just it makes you makes you realize if you can get a
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coach and a QB, you you can win in this in IO era.
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But you, you got to get those two things right.
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And obviously you've got to have other pieces as well.
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But if you can get those two pieces and then plug in
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everything else, you've got a chance to win.
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It's just that's a really hard thing to do.
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Yeah, no, you're right. So the number one team is still
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a house tape and nobody can score against them.
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Like shut out Wisconsin. And here's the scary thing
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Julian's saying is getting better and better every game.
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Threw for 400 yards, 4 touchdowns.
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Carnell Tate and Jeremiah Smith combined for 200 yards, and Tate
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had two receiving touchdowns. Wisconsin had 144 yards.
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So, and they're what, once they're 7?
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And and in those seven games, Texas scored seven, Grambling
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scored zero, Ohio scored 9, Washington scored 6, Minnesota
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scored three, Illinois scored sixteen.
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And two of those touchdowns were late.
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Wisconsin did not score. They have allowed 41 points in
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those seven games. That's, that is insane.
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That's just insane how good that defense has been all year.
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I mean, they, they're just, you know, they're just whooping
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teams left and right every Saturday.
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I don't, there's nobody that's in my mind, there's nobody
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that's going to slow them down. They are by far and away I think
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the favorite right now, to repeat, is the national title.
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Well, in their offense is just getting better.
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They are getting better hands, getting more comfortable and if
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that offense gets clicking, you know the weapons they have on
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offense and it's their QB is figuring it out and playing the
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way he played on Saturday. They're going to be tough to
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beat. But I will say one team,
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Alabama, looks like a team that might be able to play with the
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way Ty Simpson's playing right now.
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You know, they just went through this incredible stretch of
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they're the first team in SEC history to win four straight
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games against right teams with no buy when.
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And they beat Georgia, Vanderbilt, Missouri and
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Tennessee. And you know all this talk about
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Caitlin De Boer, his record against in ranked matchups, he's
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15 and 2 with the 882 win percentage was the highest
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winning percentage of all time. I mean, yeah, like they, they
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after that, whatever that was against Florida State to start
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the year, I don't know. But they quickly fixed whatever
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was wrong with them because they are just rolling teams right
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now. Like I said, like Tennessee was
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a good team coming in, Tennessee ranked #11 and Alabama just goes
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out and beats them 37 to 20. I mean, they just took a tool.
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Like as you said, Ty Simpson, two more touchdowns threw for
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253 yards and then, you know, it was a decent game early.
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And then that last play of the the first half and 99 yard pick
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six kind of put that game away. Took took it to a three score
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game at halftime when Tennessee was driving to to to to, you
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know, to make that A1 score game.
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But Alabama is just rolling teams right now, and that
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outside of Ohio State, they've got to be probably, in my mind,
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the second best team. Yeah, I I don't think there's
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question and but yeah, you're right.
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That 14 point swing at the end of the first half, it's just
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you're going in to score and instead they they're streaking
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down the sideline and getting 6 on their own.
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It's just, it's hard to overcome something like that.
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We saw we saw it at the beginning of the Georgia Tech
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Duke game where Duke was going in to score on the 1st Dr. of
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the game and they had a. Scoop in school?
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Where they ran at 98 yards and those plays where they just go
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the other way, it's just they're demoralizing.
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And when you're playing a team as good as Alabama, they're just
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that's, that's something that's really tough to overcome.
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Yeah. I mean, yeah, if you don't play
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a near perfect game, you're against Alabama, you're not
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going to have a chance. And Tennessee was not perfect.
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And they found out. And the Georgia Ole Miss game,
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you're wondering if anybody's ever going to get a stop.
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Just going back and forth. So both Curvy Smart and Lane
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Kiffin with their their antics on the sideline.
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Not sure who burned more calories, but they both were
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were very animated on the sideline.
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I mean, it looked like Ole Miss was they had that 10 point lead
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and then all of a sudden everything flips in the fourth
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quarter. Georgia outscores them 17 to
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nothing. Ole Miss had 13 yards in the
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fourth quarter and Georgia kind of cruises there to win.
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Stockton was 12 for 12 for 135 yards and three touchdowns in
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the second-half. Yeah, I mean, Stockton played
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like you played well. You mentioned like in the
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second-half, but he only had five incompletions for the game.
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He was 2631, two 89 and 4 touchdowns.
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No, no picks, 4 touchdowns. Like that's that's getting it
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done. And Georgia, like you said, it
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was Ole Miss looked like they had it then they had a good game
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plan. They were they were up going to
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that 4th and then just look like they ran out of gas.
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I don't know. But high scoring game, a lot of
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fun to watch. No, it was great and it was the
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first Rd. SEC game for Trinidad Chambliss
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in the 1st 3/4. I mean, he played great and then
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I don't know if Georgia's switched things up defensively
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or what in, in the 4th, but it just was a totally different
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game. And, and Georgia goes on to win,
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win by by 8. And that one the the Vanderbilt
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game going on at home and, and, and beating LSU.
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It's their first time, first season with multiple top 15
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wins. Yeah.
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I mean, it's the first time that they've been six and one since
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1950. I mean, you think about that.
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So it's 75 years. This is the best record they've
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had in 75 years. I mean, they've got it rolling.
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I mean, Pavia, another great game.
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You know, he had one touchdown throwing but ran for 86 yards
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and two touchdowns. I mean, the confidence in Vandy,
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like they, they're a confident team and they're a good team.
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So I mean, if you don't bring it like they're going to beat you
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and they they're probably, if you think about in the SEC
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landscape, they've got to be probably one of the what, the
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top three, four teams in the league.
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I mean, I, I don't know, like it's just, it's such a such a
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good league. We haven't even talked about
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Texas A&M yet who's who's still undefeated.
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But I mean, any, what they're doing at at Vandy is incredible.
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And you know, if Pavia plays the way he played yesterday, I mean,
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they're going to give Bama more of a challenge than they did a
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couple weeks ago. And like I said, he only had one
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rushing touchdown, but he, he had the, or he had one passing
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touchdown, but he had the rushing touchdown to give him
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the lead late. And then at the end of the game,
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he makes that smart play and, and slides down at the three to
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just let the clock run out. And I don't know, I and, and LSU
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got their offense rolling a little bit.
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Their offenses struggled, but I I just don't know how good LSU
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really is to be honest with you. No, I mean, Vandy, Vandy had a
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good game plan. They ran for 240 yards on LSU
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and LSU came into the game 21st ranked rushing defense in in the
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country only giving up 102. They bandy just took it to him
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and they just straight out bullied him and beat him.
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You said I I don't know how good LSU is.
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Their offense has struggled for most of the year and you know,
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they finally did put up some points.
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They put up 24 points yesterday, but the defense couldn't stop
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him. You fix one problem and all of a
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sudden you have another. I know I just I wonder if the
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fan base just get a little a little tired of Brian Kelly up
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up there and and we're down there in Baton Rouge, but.
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He's been. We need to talk.
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He's got that accent going though.
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That fake accent, Yeah, we need to talk about Texas A&M.
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And, you know, I, I think Mike Elko, like, probably loves it
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that they're sitting there undefeated #4 in the country and
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not too many people are talking about them.
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But they go to Arkansas. They, they're playing, you know,
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Petrino in his second game as the interim head coach.
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And figure out a way to win that 145 to 42.
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But we've talked about it time and time again.
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No matter how you win, as long as you can get that W, that's
21:26
all that matters. Yeah, and they're, they are
21:28
racking up the WS, there's no doubt about it.
21:30
Like you said, nobody's really talking about them.
21:32
They're not, they don't, you know, they're not blowing teams
21:35
out. They're not like a sexy style of
21:38
football, I guess. I don't know, like they're just
21:40
kind of quietly there and their top five teams.
21:43
I guess we're up to #3 now probably in the polls with Miami
21:45
dropping out, but nobody's talking about them.
21:48
It's probably like you said, how they prefer it.
21:51
You know, I I don't know what their remaining schedule looks
21:53
like, but they haven't played, you know, the Georgia's or they
21:57
haven't played, they haven't played Vandy yet.
22:00
And like I said, Vandy's probably one of the best teams
22:02
and they haven't played the Ole misses of the world yet.
22:04
So, you know, coming down the stretch, I don't know what their
22:06
schedule, have to look it up, but.
22:08
They have LSU, Missouri, South Carolina, then non con game
22:13
against Sanford and then they close at Texas so.
22:16
Nothing really so. Really, I mean, as far as being
22:18
in the SEC, their their schedule's pretty light.
22:20
Yeah, so it's nothing too tough the rest of the way.
22:22
So they are. They're in the driver's seat to
22:24
to get to Atlanta for that title game.
22:27
Yeah, you, I mean, I don't, I would imagine they're going to
22:30
be favored in every game. Yeah, looking at that schedule,
22:33
so and Oregon after the loss last week, just absolutely rose
22:37
records 56 to to 10. Georgia Tech remains undefeated
22:42
with the 27 to 18 win at Duke. They got 17 points in the fourth
22:46
quarter to kind of put that one away.
22:50
Notre Dame gets a late kick return touchdown to kind of get
22:53
some separation. In the USC game, they ran for
22:56
300 yards, ran for 230 yards and a touchdown himself.
23:03
Oklahoma got back on the winning track against South Carolina 26
23:06
to 7. AU remains undefeated with the
23:10
24 to 21 win over the utes. You got to love Bear, Brock
23:16
Bachman. Freshman QB.
23:18
Doesn't look like a conventional QB, Was committed to Stanford,
23:23
never played their transfer during the spring season and end
23:26
up at BYU. And where's #47 as a QB, you got
23:31
to like that. I do love that.
23:33
I do like that. And he's got a brother on the
23:35
team. He his name is Tiger.
23:39
OK, I like tigers. So bear and tiger.
23:42
Bear and tiger. Yeah, do.
23:44
You have any other, do you have any other animal siblings?
23:47
They got like a like a a lion in there or maybe a giraffe.
23:54
They might have a brother named Giraffe.
23:56
I'll have to look that up. I'll have the information on the
23:58
next show if if we'll talk about Snake and Giraffe the the the
24:03
two younger brothers. Texas beats Kentucky in
24:09
overtime. They had 100 and what, 79 yards?
24:18
And they had eight first downs? Kentucky had 26 first first
24:22
downs to Texas's 8. Kentucky had 395 yards to
24:27
Texas's 179. And in a Kentucky fashion, they
24:33
figure out a way to lose. Yeah.
24:35
Like if you're if you're a Kentucky fan, you're looking at
24:37
that and you just like, how did you lose this game?
24:41
Like it's almost unfathomable when you look at those stats on
24:44
how you only had 10 points or 13 points in regulation.
24:47
Like you need to win the game. Like you dominate a game like
24:50
that. You have to find a way to win.
24:52
And they did, somehow. Well, and you get a 22 yard play
24:57
on the first play of overtime you get down to the three.
25:02
And then you try to jump over the goal line from the five yard
25:04
line twice. They run the same play.
25:07
Same play twice, yeah. And it clearly was not going to
25:12
work on 3rd down and 1st off. If you're going to jump into the
25:16
end zone, you jump from the one or the 2, not from the five.
25:21
And then you do it twice in a row.
25:24
The first one wasn't even close, not even close.
25:27
Yards short and then you're like that, let's try this one again
25:32
and you're still 2 yards short. Like I, I don't know, I don't
25:37
understand it that that's, that's how you lose.
25:39
But they had no business losing that game.
25:42
Well, if I blindly had told you before, if you didn't watch this
25:46
game and I said one quarterback was 12 to 27 for 132 yards and
25:51
one quarterback is 31 to 39 for 258 yards, which one are you
25:56
going to think is Arch Manning and which one are you going to
25:58
think is Cutter Bully? Oh, there's no question.
25:59
You would think that the the second one there would be Arch
26:02
Manning. But he, you know, like some of
26:06
these throws he was making, like Texas receivers were open and
26:09
he's just throwing it behind him.
26:10
He's throwing it at their feet. It's like, I don't know what's
26:13
going on for like the hype that he has and the talent that he
26:16
has. He was just off yesterday.
26:20
I mean, I don't know, there's just so much pressure on on him
26:23
and it's, it hasn't been the product that everybody had
26:30
expected it to be. But I just can't imagine having
26:35
that amount of pressure to be so good at what you're trying to do
26:40
when really you haven't done anything before this year.
26:43
And he walks into that, the Ohio State game in the first game of
26:47
the season, expected to be one of the best players in the
26:48
country. And I mean, it's, it's not even
26:52
close right now to that. No, it's not.
26:55
It's I don't like they they come off a big win last week, you
26:58
know, against Oklahoma in that in that rivalry.
27:02
And, you know, you go into Kentucky and Kentucky hasn't
27:04
played well, you know, this year.
27:05
Do you expect them to kind of dominate?
27:08
And, you know, they have it. And Arch Manning was a big part
27:10
of why they struggled yesterday. So I yeah, I don't I don't know
27:15
if there's an answer. I don't know what the fix is,
27:17
but maybe it was just an off game.
27:18
But he he's had a couple off games, you know, this year.
27:21
So, but like you said, the pressure of being a Manning and
27:24
and all that came with it and him being a preseason Heisman
27:27
favorite and all that, it's it's tough to live up to And he's not
27:31
to this point, he's not living up to that.
27:34
Yeah. And I mean just the, the media
27:37
and I mean, everybody wants to talk about it because he's a
27:39
Manning and it's just, it's part of the business, right?
27:43
But it's, it's, it's got to be tough for him right now.
27:46
And I guess next week, Big Noon kickoff is going to going to
27:50
Bloomington for the the Hoosiers and the and the Bruins on
27:54
Saturday the the noon game. I mean, the Bruins three
27:57
straight wins since Arian Foster was fired.
27:59
So, you know, like they, they're, they're, they're better
28:02
now than within what we thought they were.
28:04
So, you know, I you can't sleep on them.
28:07
So they've got to come play the play, play a good game if
28:09
they're going to go out and win. So yeah, a lot of good games in
28:14
in college football. It's hard to believe we're over
28:17
halfway through the season already.
28:20
And then to get in the NFLI, think we got to start off with
28:22
Thursday Night Football. We were there.
28:24
Yeah. The Bengals rallied late and
28:28
Evan Mcpherson's Philgo with 9 seconds to go puts him up 33 to
28:32
31 as the Bengals knock off the Steelers and keep their season
28:37
alive. Do we get like a commemorative
28:40
Icy hot bowl trophy like they, you know, does Joe Flacco get a
28:44
one year supply of Icy hot to to rub on his muscles or, or how's
28:47
that work? Because Joe Flacco, he he came
28:50
out and he was firing on all cylinders manic.
28:52
He played a great football game through for 342 yards, 3
28:56
touchdowns and no picks. Like he had this Bengals offense
28:59
looking like a Bengals offense should look, you know, and yeah,
29:04
TT Higgins and Jamar Chase from point.
29:06
Jamar Chase setting the franchise record 16 catches, had
29:09
161 yards and a touchdown. T Higgins got in the end zone.
29:13
I mean, this Bengals offense finally got a running game going
29:15
with Chase Brown, who was over 100 yards on only 11 carries for
29:19
one O 8. So this Bengals offense looks
29:21
like the Bengals offense we expected it to look like with
29:23
Joe Burrow. It's just a different Joe that's
29:25
under center. Well, that's, I mean, the
29:27
running game is, is a huge key, huge part of it.
29:30
I mean, this first time they ran the ball year.
29:32
But I, I want the, the trophy. You've talked about the trophy.
29:35
There should be a big giant bottle of Icy Hot and it should
29:38
be presented by like Shap, like he should have been there at
29:42
midfield at the end of the game. And a big bronze bottle of Icy
29:46
hot. Yeah, within, like the lid could
29:48
come off of it and the light could shine.
29:51
But yeah, we'd like, you saw Louisville, they had Howard
29:54
Snellenberger's boots trophy so that they could have done
29:57
something similar to that. But I I think it would be really
30:00
cool if it would have been Shaq that that presented it to him.
30:03
Yeah, I mean, Shaq is the most famous spokesman for Icy Hot, so
30:06
yeah, I would agree with that. But no, it's, it's just we
30:11
talked about the struggles of Jake Browning and you see Joe
30:15
Flacco in his second game as a Bengal.
30:17
You can the weapons that he has, he's just absolutely giddy right
30:21
now. And you just he's getting the
30:24
ball out quicker than than Jake Browning was, which I mean, he's
30:28
a veteran. He he knows of the offensive
30:30
line is look better because I don't think they had to protect
30:33
as much. But we throw it to your guys,
30:36
dude. That's what he's doing.
30:37
That's why you paid Jamar and T the money that you did because
30:42
they are both #1 wide receivers and they both need to get the
30:46
ball. And Joe Flacco did that on on
30:49
Thursday night. And they were able to establish
30:52
their run game with Chase Brown averaging almost 10 yards of
30:55
pop, which prior to tonight or prior to Thursday night, we they
31:00
were lucky to get him average 2 to 3 yards of pop.
31:03
So if you can get the run game going with the weapons that they
31:06
have, that makes the offense get really scary.
31:09
And I mean, and Joe Flacco's just going to sit back.
31:12
There was an experience make the throws that he's they're open.
31:14
I mean, Jamar Chase was just running the same route over and
31:17
over and Pittsburgh couldn't do anything with it.
31:21
You sat at 16 patches dude. He had a million, like a million
31:24
targets every single time. Just throw it to Javar.
31:26
He absolutely abused Jalen Ramsey on Thursday night.
31:28
I mean, Jalen Ramsey was turned around.
31:30
He didn't know what was coming. He couldn't stop him.
31:32
They put him on T Higgins and TT Higgins made him look silly as
31:35
well. So, you know, but credit, credit
31:38
to the game playing. I mean, I'm hard on Zach Taylor.
31:40
I don't think he's a great coach.
31:41
I think that the talent that the Bengals have the talent of the
31:44
Bengals have mask a lot of his deficiencies, But he he called a
31:48
good game. And I, I don't know how much of
31:50
the game he called because after the game Joe Flacco said he
31:52
didn't understand half the plays that were being called and they
31:55
kind of just improvised half of them, you know, whatever.
31:57
But you know, I, I think most of it was probably Zach Taylor the
32:00
kind of the game plan that he he called and he said getting the
32:02
ball out quick, not relying on that offensive line to have to
32:05
protect the quarterback for 345 seconds in the pocket.
32:08
So, you know, I'll give Zach credit his flower, Zach Taylor,
32:11
his his flowers for this week. Hopefully, you know, moving
32:15
forward we see, we see more of this.
32:17
Well, I mean, yeah, this is like this team's not going to win if
32:20
I had scoring points and they really hadn't scored points all
32:24
year. And I mean, I guess in the
32:26
Jacksonville game a little bit, but they really hadn't scored
32:29
points all year. And it's just their defense not
32:32
going to be good enough to win 13 to 10 games.
32:35
But you talk about Zach Taylor and you talk about the T play,
32:40
the clincher where he's slid down at the three yard line
32:43
where he easily could have win and scored and you know it's a
32:46
very unselfish play. Very unselfish.
32:49
But you can't let your defense go back out there with a minute
32:52
to go or no how much time was left.
32:56
Like when he slid down it was over a minute, but a minute
32:58
first. Yeah, you can't let them.
33:00
They're they're going to score and you're going to lose.
33:02
There's no doubt in my mind that that defense would have not have
33:04
held up. They would have.
33:06
They would have won that game. But you talk about giving Zach
33:08
Taylor credit like he's in their ear during the play call saying,
33:13
hey, if you get loose, get down inside the five.
33:18
And because you know, your defense isn't very good.
33:22
You know, Trey's not out there and they make that play.
33:25
And I mean, you just feel so much better about Evan McPherson
33:28
taking a 35 yarder than you do with the defense stopping the
33:33
Steelers for the last minute and that.
33:35
Yeah. No, there's no, no question like
33:37
that. Your best chance to win is
33:38
exactly what happened. And as you said, credit, credit
33:41
goes to Zach Taylor for reminding the guys like, hey, if
33:45
you if you are, if you are loose and you are breaking away and
33:47
about the score, get down because the game is going to be
33:50
basically be over. And even.
33:52
I mean, even with 7 seconds left, I was holding my breath
33:55
because Aaron Rodgers just launched the ball 70 yards like
33:58
it was nothing. I'm like, oh, damn.
34:00
Like, oh, and then, you know, the defense made a good play,
34:03
knocked it down, but. I mean, everybody talked like
34:06
how they're both 40 years old. It's the second time and well,
34:08
the second matchup. Breeze and Brady did it several
34:11
times. But I mean, they both look
34:12
really good, both Flacco and Rodgers.
34:15
Look, Aaron Rodgers moved around.
34:16
We didn't get much pressure on. We had no sacks, but but
34:18
sometimes when we we actually did get a little pressure up the
34:20
middle. I mean, he just ran to the
34:22
outside. He escaped the pocket like he
34:24
was 25 years old and just flings the ball.
34:27
He throws the ball so effortlessly and throws it so
34:29
far, so effortlessly and accurately.
34:32
It's, it's incredible what he's doing at his age.
34:34
Yeah. And I, I you, I think you also
34:36
need to give the fan base their props after the stripe out two
34:41
weeks ago in in against Detroit, where there were so many Lions
34:44
fans and a lot of blue in the crowd.
34:46
And the stripe out was terrible. The white out was it was
34:49
awesome. Yeah, and this is we've been to
34:51
multiple Bengals Steelers games. And this to me, assuming that
34:55
Thursday night had a lot to do with it.
34:57
This is the by far and away the fewest Steelers fans I've seen
35:01
in Cincinnati in any of the games that I've been to.
35:04
So credit to Bengals fans for not giving away their tickets
35:06
and selling their tickets coming out sell out crowd wearing all
35:10
white. It looked great.
35:11
The fans were great, the atmosphere was great.
35:14
So kudos to to to the Bengals fans.
35:17
And kudos to the Bengals for saving their season because you
35:19
lose that one. It's the Steelers are pretty
35:22
much running away with it. And Mike Tomlin now, I mean, his
35:26
comments before the game where he talked about Cleveland and
35:28
how ridiculous it was that they traded Joe Flacco to in division
35:33
of rival, which I mean, I agree with him.
35:35
I agree with him. It's it's wild to me, but he's
35:38
hating that trading more now. Oh, he's right.
35:41
If he was good enough to be your starting quarterback, what are
35:43
you doing trading them to a division rival in their one
35:46
position of absolute need? Like, makes no sense.
35:50
But thank you, Cleveland. Yeah, so Joe Flacco and the
35:56
Bengals save their season and what what games took out to you
35:59
today? I think it's more of the
36:03
domination that the Kansas City Chiefs put on the Oakland
36:06
Raiders. I mean, they got Rashid Rice
36:08
back and he's in the end zone twice today.
36:10
And unfortunately, the Chiefs once again are the Chiefs and
36:13
they're good. So I think the domination of the
36:16
Chiefs says a lot about where they are and, and where they're
36:18
going. And, you know, they're looking
36:20
like probably one of the favorites in the AFC once again.
36:23
Right. I mean, Chinchana is a key for a
36:28
lot of these games today. The Rams just absolutely
36:31
dominate the Jags in in London 35 to 7.
36:34
The Browns put it on the fish. Mammals 31 to 6.
36:38
We need a welfare check on our guy Carl.
36:40
Yeah, Mike Vrabel and the Patriots, after being down
36:42
early, just completely put it on the Titans 31 to 13.
36:48
So a a lot of blowouts today. And what the Cowboys put it on
36:52
the Commanders 44 to 22. So a lot of blowouts today.
36:56
Yeah, a lot of blowouts and another one that was 14 point
37:00
game. But once again, I got AI got I
37:03
got to give myself credit. The Indianapolis Colts on the
37:05
road against a pretty good Chargers team put up 38 points.
37:09
They win that game, 3824 in a game that really wasn't it
37:12
wasn't close throughout. Like the Colts dominated from
37:15
start to finish and they're looking like, you know, a team
37:18
that they they can do some things.
37:20
Can we just, can we just point out the fact that you open that
37:23
by saying I got to give myself credit?
37:25
I do. I give myself credit.
37:26
I got to give myself. Credit.
37:28
You won't give me credit, so I'll give myself credit.
37:31
But no, dude, the goats, I mean week after week they just keep
37:37
doing it. And Justin Herbert threw for 400
37:41
and 28420 yards. But I think a lot of that when
37:44
they were, they were down big in the second-half and.
37:47
He had some, he threw that pick in the end zone.
37:49
He had some mistakes that really cost the Chargers in that one.
37:52
But I mean, Daniel Jones once again throws for almost 300
37:55
yards and Jonathan Taylor rushes for just under 100 yards and
38:01
just, I don't know. They're doing it.
38:03
I don't know how they're doing it, but they're doing it.
38:05
I think, I think they're going to move up on our on our top ten
38:08
list when we when we do that again on Wednesday.
38:10
Yeah, yeah, they'll, they'll climb in the New England
38:13
Patriots. I mean, I know that like you
38:15
mentioned, like it was a domination in in Tennessee and
38:18
Tennessee is just absolute garbage.
38:19
But how good does that feel for Mike Vrabel going back to
38:22
Tennessee and just sticking it to the team that they let you go
38:25
a couple years ago? I mean, it's, it's got to feel,
38:29
it's got to feel really good. But I mean, everybody knew that
38:34
the Patriots weren't going to win that game, you know?
38:38
The Titans. The The Titans weren't going to
38:40
win that game. The Titans are terrible.
38:42
They got off to to an early lead, but they weren't going to
38:45
maintain that. Since Variable was fired by the
38:50
Titans, he has the the Titans have 4 total wins in 24 games
38:55
since he was fired. The Patriots have five wins this
38:58
year. It's probably It's one of the
39:00
most baffling. If you're a a Titan fan, you've
39:04
just got to be like, what are we doing?
39:06
Like, what is the plan in tennis?
39:08
I don't see a plan. I don't see a way forward for
39:09
them. It's, it's a, it's, it's, it's a
39:14
disaster down in Nashville. I mean, they they've changed GMs
39:18
two or three times in the last five years.
39:20
They changed head coaches like nobody, like they're going to
39:25
have a hard time finding somebody wants to come in there
39:28
and be a head coach with the volatility in in that front
39:31
office. And I mean, it's just it would
39:37
be really hard to be a Titans fan right now, I'll just say
39:39
that. I know a guy who might want to
39:41
take that job because I don't think he's going to be coaching
39:43
college football much longer. Chapel Bill put Chapel Bill down
39:47
there and in Nashville. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure they'd
39:53
take him and I, I'm sure he, I don't, I mean, I guess he'd do
39:58
better there than he's doing to North Carolina, because you
40:00
can't do much worse than that. But.
40:02
Maybe his young girlfriend will take him out to the honky tonk,
40:05
teach him how to line dance a little bit.
40:06
Yeah, it'd be kind of fun to see Chapel Bill down there and with
40:10
some some cowboy hats on down in Nashville.
40:12
Yeah, she also might find her country music singer and move on
40:16
from a bill. So not sure, he not sure he
40:18
wants to do that. That could be.
40:22
Who's who's as bad as the Titans?
40:24
The Jets. The Jets.
40:26
The only, only team that has not won a game in the NFL is the New
40:31
York Jets. And once again, they don't put
40:32
up, they don't score a touchdown.
40:34
Again. Two straight games now with no
40:36
touchdowns. Yeah, and Justin Fields was
40:38
benched. I mean, The Jets were favored in
40:42
this game. Don't ask me.
40:44
They were favored by a point and a half.
40:48
But yeah, the The Jets are terrible.
40:50
The Bengals get to see them next week.
40:52
Hopefully they remain terrible for at least one more week.
40:55
That'd be nice. And another team who's joining
40:59
that list is the Miami Dolphins. I mean, one in six, two of today
41:06
had 12 completions for 100 yards and three picks.
41:09
And he got benched too. I saw that they brought in.
41:12
Viewers. Yeah, when viewers came in.
41:15
So I mean, I don't see McDaniel if you lose that badly to the
41:21
Browns, like, do you have a job? Tomorrow.
41:24
I mean, I there's speculation. I don't know.
41:28
Do you mean you just never know what these things?
41:30
But it's it's not like the Browns lit it on fire.
41:33
I mean, Dylan Gabriel threw for 116 yards.
41:36
Judkins was the star as he ran for 180 four 84 yards and three
41:40
touchdowns. But but not a ton of offense in
41:43
that game. But no.
41:45
But the the Dolphins just look awful.
41:46
And you heard Tua's comments last week after their game about
41:50
how players are skipping, you know, meetings and nobody knows
41:55
if it's mandatory to go to this or voluntary to go to that and
41:57
players aren't showing up for this and that players are late
42:00
to this code. Like, there's just seems like
42:02
there's no leadership, there's no direction.
42:04
Like it's just nobody cares down there is basically the vibe I'm
42:08
getting based on what Tua said. So if if the culture like is, is
42:13
that like, how do you not make a change?
42:15
I don't know. And I mean, two years ago he was
42:18
one of the hot young coaches in in the NFL and it's just gone.
42:23
And when you're when you're winning, you can wear those high
42:27
Capri pants with your your tags still on your shoe and you don't
42:32
look ridiculous. But when you're getting beat as
42:35
bad as they did against the brows and you're dressing like
42:37
that, you kind of look like an idiot.
42:40
Yeah, oh, he he. So he does look like an idiot.
42:43
There's no. Doubt, and I mean, 2 is, I mean,
42:45
he just signed his extension. So I, I don't know what they're
42:49
going to do because I, I don't think he's a terrible
42:51
quarterback. I don't know what's happening
42:53
down there. The I don't think the weather
42:55
was great and he's kind of struggled in bad weather games
42:58
in the past. So maybe that's just a kind of
43:01
what it was, but they got issues down there in Miami.
43:04
I think, I don't think 2 was very good, to be honest with
43:06
you. I think he's gotten, he's
43:08
regressed a lot from when he first joined the league and you
43:11
know, he, he's finally healthy and when he was healthy in the
43:14
past, he was good, but not something something's wrong.
43:18
But he's not. He's not very good.
43:20
Yeah, and I guess another one we need to talk about is the
43:25
Broncos rally from 19 down going into the fourth quarter to win
43:32
33 to 32. They so they scored zero points
43:36
in the 1st 3/4 and then put up 33 in the fourth.
43:40
Jackson Dart, they got a pass interference at the one Giants
43:44
did with under a minute to go and then Jackson Dart sneaked in
43:48
with 37 seconds left to go up 32 to 30.
43:52
And then the Broncos get down in in field goal range and let's
43:56
it's a 39 yard at the buzzer to win 33 to 32.
43:59
But 33 points in the fourth quarter to win the game after
44:04
not scoring in the first 3. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of
44:06
reminiscent of what they did in Philly what, 2 two weeks ago
44:09
when they their offense was just non existent and then all of a
44:12
sudden in the fourth quarter they came back from what, 17 or
44:15
something down against the Philadelphia Eagles on the road
44:18
and got that W 2 weeks ago. So I don't know, I, I hate it
44:23
because I don't want the Broncos to win because they're, they're
44:26
going to be right there with the bang.
44:27
If the Bengals have any hopes of making the playoffs, like they
44:30
need NFC teams to beat these AFC teams, I don't know.
44:34
The the Falcons and the Niners playing right now and and then
44:37
tomorrow night there's two of them, but one of them was really
44:41
interesting as as the Bucks go to Detroit.
44:44
All right, I think we had in our top ten.
44:47
We had the Lions in the Bucks as as 1/2.
44:49
Those were 1-2. That's right.
44:51
Where is is that game in Detroit or is it down in that in
44:54
Detroit? Yeah.
44:56
I mean, Baker Mayfield, we talked about him being one of
44:58
the the MVP, you know, front runner.
45:01
So this is the chance for him to set himself apart from others in
45:04
the league. If he can go up there and get
45:06
that win with Tampa. And, you know, Tampa's played
45:09
all these close games. I expected another good one
45:12
tomorrow night. So now this is a chance, another
45:15
opportunity for Baker Mayfield to to show he's the real deal.
45:18
Yeah, but I do I where you started.
45:21
I think that is the story of the week.
45:22
The the Chiefs are kind of back to being the Chiefs that we're
45:26
accustomed seeing. And I mean, I, I don't think the
45:29
Raiders are very good, but just to put it on them the way they
45:33
did. And they did commit a penalty
45:37
this week, too. Look.
45:37
At that. They committed.
45:40
They committed 5. We did get a lot of comments on
45:43
those posts saying hey, they they had four penalties but they
45:46
were declined. Doesn't matter.
45:47
Those don't go in the box score people.
45:49
Nope, doesn't matter. Those don't go in the box score.
45:52
That's when the official throws the flag after you know, they
45:54
already got a game. We'll throw a flag.
45:56
Just throw the throw them a bone just to say they'll be 3-1 and
45:59
you knowing it's going to be declined.
46:01
Nope, not not buying it. Yeah, so good weekend of our
46:07
action. Looking forward to the the Bucks
46:09
Lions game tomorrow night and we'll we'll be with you on
46:12
Wednesday to talk about that one.
46:14
But I guess you know, to kind of close we had the Giants are
46:20
looking for a new manager and looks like they're getting
46:24
closer and closer. So potentially making a higher
46:29
like we haven't ever seen before as the Tennessee Volunteers head
46:35
baseball coach Tony Vitello looks like he might be the guy
46:40
for the job, which Buster Posey's doing things a little
46:43
different in San Francisco because we've never seen
46:46
anything like this. No, this would, I mean, this is
46:48
unprecedented. This would be the first time in
46:50
Major League Baseball history that, you know, a college coach
46:54
takes of an MLB managerial job with no prior professional
46:57
experience. Never, never coached managed or
47:01
anything in professional baseball.
47:03
I think you mentioned. What is it?
47:04
This Tennessee job was his first head coaching gig of anywhere.
47:08
Yeah, he he took the job in 2018.
47:12
Since then, they've been to those supers 3 * 2123 and 24.
47:16
And then of course, they won it all in 24.
47:19
Before that, he was an assistant at Arkansas, TCU in Missouri,
47:23
and he played at TCU. He's he's only 47 years old.
47:27
Yeah, no, like I good for the Giants.
47:29
I actually think this could be a great hire.
47:31
He's a very fiery guy. I mean very passionate.
47:33
Like if you look at the what some of the things he does and
47:36
you know, he's very animated in the dugout.
47:38
He'll get after the managers. So you fire up his team, he'll
47:41
go after the other team sometimes too and the other
47:43
team's manager. So very fiery guy.
47:46
I think he's probably will will resonate well with the players.
47:49
They could be a player's manager.
47:52
So, you know, instead of recycling some of these fired
47:55
managers that are out there in Major League Baseball, why not
47:58
go for a new younger guy that, you know, that who's had success
48:02
in the college game and see what he can do?
48:04
Why not? Yeah, I mean, to me the college
48:07
game is so different than than the bigs.
48:09
It is. Yeah, it'll be a huge adjustment
48:11
and that's probably why we've never seen something like this
48:13
before. I, I, I do wonder if there's
48:17
like a previous relationship between Buster Posey and, you
48:21
know, Vitello. Maybe they already kind of know
48:23
each other. Maybe that's playing a role in
48:24
this. I'm not sure.
48:26
But the let's be real, the college game and, and Major
48:29
League Baseball are so different in just every aspect of it.
48:34
So, but it'll be interesting to see and if it works, maybe it'll
48:38
become something that that happens all the time.
48:40
But, you know, we've, we haven't even like college basketball and
48:45
football are more similar than baseball, you know, to Major
48:47
League Baseball. And you don't always see college
48:50
coaches have a ton of success at the pro level in no sports
48:53
either. No, you don't even like the
48:56
greatest college football coaches like Nick Saban goes to
48:59
the NFL and and kind of fails. So no, it doesn't work out very
49:05
often. But like I say, we've never seen
49:06
this in baseball. So maybe it'll be different and
49:09
for that for that sport. But I'm anxious to say, I hope.
49:11
I mean, it's not official yet. He's not hired.
49:14
It could come within the next couple days hopefully.
49:16
But I'm very anxious to see how this turns out because I think
49:20
it I think it could could go well.
49:23
Maybe you could be the Pete Carroll or the OR the Larry
49:26
Brown, you know, yeah, there's any coach that have done it that
49:28
have had success. It's just more often than not,
49:31
it's it's not successful, so. Yeah.
49:36
But now exciting week in football and it'll be I'm
49:42
excited to watch Shohei, whoever they play in the World Series
49:44
next week. See if maybe you have four home
49:47
runs and go 7 innings and strike out 13.
49:48
I wouldn't put it past them. I think he could do it.
49:51
Yeah, so. We're approaching college
49:54
basketball season coming up, so you know.
49:57
That is something to talk about. Yeah.
49:59
Like these exhibition games? Yeah.
50:02
What's, what's your thought process on it?
50:04
Like Kentucky's playing Purdue, Louisville's playing Kansas in
50:07
these exhibition games where normally, I mean, do you
50:10
remember when we played athletes in action like.
50:12
In action and you know, yeah, we have, who else do we have
50:15
outlook at the Athletes in Action and Globe Global All
50:19
Stars or something like whatever they were called?
50:21
Yeah, though I think this is absolutely great.
50:24
It's a it's a good test for your team to see where gauge where
50:27
you're at before the season starts.
50:28
And you know you'll you'll get exposed.
50:30
Like if you have flaws, they will get exposed and it gives
50:33
you a chance to fix them because you know, like some of these
50:36
teams that you used to play. I mean, it's what do we do?
50:39
It's a it's a practice basically like you, you don't know if if
50:42
something's wrong with your team or they're not good in one area.
50:44
Like it doesn't show up, but it will show up when Louisville
50:47
plays Kansas and Kentucky plays Purdue and some of these things.
50:50
I think Vanderbilt already played Virginia.
50:53
I saw Nebraska played BYU and that freshman from BYU was did.
50:59
How do you pronounce his last name?
51:00
Debonce or had 30 points in that game.
51:03
He's the number one overall recruit so.
51:05
Let you I'm going to let you tackle that one.
51:07
Yeah, I forgot how I can't pronounce his last name.
51:08
But anyways, they these, these early season, you know,
51:12
exhibitions. Good for the NCAA for allowing
51:14
these finally to happen. It gives fans.
51:17
When's the last time that Louisville had 20,000 fans for
51:21
an exhibition game like, but they're not coming for Kentucky.
51:23
Wesley No, but people are talking about this Friday night
51:26
at the Yum Center is going to be the place to be because #1 the
51:30
expectations that Louisville has.
51:31
But #2 we don't see Kansas. We've never seen Kansas come in
51:34
to Louisville. So it's something something
51:36
fresh, something new. It gives the fans to see their
51:39
first look at this Louisville team and and see how good they
51:41
are. I think it's awesome and like a
51:45
lot of people don't know these games are happening already.
51:48
They're just, they're just closed.
51:50
So like Louisville might potentially play at Kansas where
51:53
they but they just do it in in their practice gym and, and
51:57
nobody sees it. But if you're going to play
51:59
teams like this, you might as well do it in front of the fans
52:02
and get them a chance to see both teams.
52:04
And you make some money. And they're making money and
52:07
they're going to, a lot of them are raising money for charities
52:09
with these games, right? Louisville, Louisville second
52:12
game against Bucknell is a Friends of V Cancer Foundation
52:17
ticket. Some some money from ticket
52:19
sales goes back to the V Foundation on that one.
52:21
So yeah, you're right. So a lot of good things coming
52:25
from this and it's better basketball too, Like it's so and
52:30
don't expect it to be pretty because it's probably not going
52:32
to be pretty, but it it'll it'd be like that on both sides.
52:35
But and, and, and win or lose, if, you know, if Louisville
52:38
beats Kansas or Kentucky beats Purdue, doesn't mean that
52:40
they're going to win the national championship.
52:42
And if they lose to Kansas and they lose to Purdue doesn't mean
52:44
that they're a terrible team. So like, you can't really read
52:46
much into it. Like, like I think I saw in the
52:50
Vanderbilt, Virginia game that just happened.
52:52
You know, they played for 48 minutes.
52:54
They did quarters. Like it was it wasn't just like
52:56
you're normal. I don't know what to expect on
52:57
Friday and how they're going to do it.
52:59
But it's not your normal game and you're going to see
53:02
different lineups and it's not really going to be what you're
53:05
going to see in this regular season, but it will be
53:07
entertaining. But you know what?
53:09
That's another maybe fun thing for the fans because in these
53:13
close scrimmages, like you might play 3/4 and then just like,
53:17
hey, let's just blank the board and and let's just run out of
53:21
out of bounds place. So you might see stuff like that
53:25
which fans might get a better look of kind of what goes on
53:28
behind the scenes a little bit too, which could be exciting
53:30
because you're right, I bet they don't just go out there and play
53:33
two 20s. So that'll.
53:38
Be interesting. It's, it's kind of wild that
53:40
college basketball is almost here, but we'll, we'll, we'll
53:44
have plenty of college basketball coverage here on the,
53:47
the height differential as we are in the Mecca of college
53:51
basketball country. Yeah, you got to give a shout
53:53
out to our favorite women's basketball team, the Jeff Walls
53:56
LED Louisville Cardinals preseason #20 in the AP poll.
54:01
Yeah, they excited for that team too.
54:03
A lot, lot of new faces see how they see how they gel and they
54:09
get the privilege of starting the season out in Germany
54:11
against. Well, the.
54:13
Contending national champions. That's TBD with the government
54:16
shutdown, so we're still working on that.
54:18
So we'll see where they play. They'll play UConn, there's no
54:20
doubt about it. We're just not sure where it's
54:22
from. Germany, we'll see where they
54:24
might. We'll see where they end up
54:25
somewhere on the globe. So now basketball's almost here.
54:28
We're in the height of the the football season.
54:31
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54:35
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54:52
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54:58
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54:59
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