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Top 25 Countdown, Venmo Scandals & SEC Talk · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: All Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
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  Speaker 1: and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where the.
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  Speaker 1: Plays get broken down, then science gets denied.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta come off the bench.
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  Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Mercedes
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  Speaker 1: Benz Baton Rouge Studio starts now.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back here.
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  Speaker 4: Now we're number two OTV here on this Wednesday morning.
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  Speaker 3: There's an eight people.
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  Speaker 4: There's a coach's poll, but the only poll that matters
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  Speaker 4: is the OTB Top twenty five. A little quick recap
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  Speaker 4: twenty five, Boise State twenty four, Memphis twenty three, Baylor
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  Speaker 4: twenty two, Georgia Tech twenty one, Tennessee twenty, Iowa State
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  Speaker 4: a number nineteen, Texas eight and four at number eighteen,
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  Speaker 4: Indiana at seventeen, Old miss at sixteen, the Florida Gators,
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  Speaker 4: and coming in at number fifteen, Matthew.
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  Speaker 2: Did you call him?
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  Speaker 3: Texas A four, Texas eight and four?
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  Speaker 2: All right, I like it. I've never heard of before.
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  Speaker 3: I've said it every day i've done the recap.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really, I don't listen. I drifted it out,
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  Speaker 2: all right. So at number fifteen, at number fifteen, you
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  Speaker 2: know I was thinking about the list yesterday, the top
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, I thought it was just starting to get
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  Speaker 2: a little repetitive. Little we had to shake things up
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. So I was like, oh man, what
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  Speaker 2: did I do? I take Texas, I put him at fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I decided to not do that. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: We're going to shake it up a little bit. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to pick a team that is in the ap
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  Speaker 2: pole in the Coach's Poll, ranked a little bit lower
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  Speaker 2: than fifteen or higher, whichever one. They're not ranked as
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  Speaker 2: good as fifteen on the other polls, and I believe
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  Speaker 2: that this is a team that has the potential be
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  Speaker 2: based on a schedule and a really couple of games
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  Speaker 2: that are going to really gonna determine the season for it.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna go to the Big twelve. Okay, we've been
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  Speaker 2: stuck in the SEC for a couple of couple of
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  Speaker 2: picks in a row. We're gonna go to the Big twelve,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to keep it inside the lone Star
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  Speaker 2: State Number fifteen, Texas Tech Red Raider. Okay, I don't
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  Speaker 2: hate it all right, those boys out in Loving Texas,
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  Speaker 2: they are teeing up. There's a lot of buzz. There's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of excitement in the air for the Texas
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  Speaker 2: Texas Tech Red Raiders. In the AP they're number twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: I believe in the coaches pulled their number twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: But in the real list, the real top twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: they are going to come in at number fifteen. And
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  Speaker 2: you know what, I'm basing this off the fact of
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  Speaker 2: what I believe that they could end up at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the year. All Right, so the Big Twelve,
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  Speaker 2: they are boasting one the easiest schedule in the Big Twelve. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: their main games that you got to focus on are
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  Speaker 2: Kansas State in Arizona State, and I believe it is
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  Speaker 2: very likely that they could win one or both of
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  Speaker 2: those games. We'll see how it all plays out. Is
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  Speaker 2: their first time being ranked this high, which is twenty
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  Speaker 2: three in the AP pole since two thousand and eight.
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  Speaker 2: I think this first time first time they had a
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  Speaker 2: preseason ranking in both of the AP and coaches polls.
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  Speaker 2: I believe twenty eleven, two thousand and four, they were
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  Speaker 2: eight and five lost to Arkansas in the Liberty Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: But this year they do feel like they are a
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  Speaker 2: legit contender. Despite the fact that their last outright conference
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  Speaker 2: championship was in nineteen fifty five. Can you believe that?
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  Speaker 2: Coach champs? They were co champs in the Southwestern Conference
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy six and nineteen ninety four. But now
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  Speaker 2: Texattech has emerged as one of the top spenders in NIL.
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  Speaker 2: They're boasting a fifteen point two million dollar fund four
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  Speaker 2: in IL, completely solely dedicated to football only, and that
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  Speaker 2: has kind of led the way. They brought in the
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  Speaker 2: top portal class leading into this twenty twenty five season,
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  Speaker 2: including a five star offensive lineman Felix oho o Yo
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  Speaker 2: who got they signed him, They paid him five point
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  Speaker 2: one million dollars. They are returning quarterback Byron Morton. Do'
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  Speaker 2: say that right? Byron? I think it's Baron Barn Barn
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  Speaker 2: the e h R E N Baron Morton twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: tds last year, eight interceptions, three three and thirty five year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: very solid year. Actually, you know, when we think of
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  Speaker 2: old school Texas, this is in the Graham Herald days,
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  Speaker 2: Mike Leech days. They actually brought in some help on defense.
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  Speaker 2: Not going to say they're the best defensive wherever they be.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, to your point, they brought in through the
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  Speaker 4: transfer portal. They brought in nine guys on offense, ten
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  Speaker 4: guys on defense. Hell, they even brought in two kickers
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  Speaker 4: through the transfer portal. So they have been as active
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  Speaker 4: as anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they and like I said, they had the number
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  Speaker 2: one ranked transfer class, and I think they had three
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  Speaker 2: players on their defense that are on the preseason Bednerick Award,
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  Speaker 2: so on that list at least. So they got some guys,
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  Speaker 2: They got a coach that's been there I believe is
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  Speaker 2: fourth season now. So look, it's all gonna come down. Look,
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  Speaker 2: you could have we could easily go Arizona State, Kansas State,
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  Speaker 2: but I think Texas Tech because of their strength to
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  Speaker 2: schedule because of this here later on, I know, I
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  Speaker 2: know it's gonna be tight. We'll see. I just believe
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  Speaker 2: it's simile strength to schedule. They win one of those games,
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  Speaker 2: they got an opportunity to be the exactly ranked fifteenth
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  Speaker 2: team at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, I like this pick.
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  Speaker 5: And they are really uh getting ahead in the nil
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  Speaker 5: space in all sports.
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  Speaker 2: It's I mean, they're like you get that Land money.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Canada, she was like the only one getting paid
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  Speaker 5: a million dollars, like the highest paid softball player ever,
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  Speaker 5: and you know GM James Blanchard comes in and just
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  Speaker 5: starts bulldozing through stuff. So I I like that pick.
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  Speaker 2: What a hype? What a hype? Onderm right now there?
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  Speaker 5: They should be expensive roster.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah they got that Landman money, that Texas Panhandle oil country. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they got it.
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  Speaker 5: Get your tortillas out.
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  Speaker 2: Look like you go to your point.
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  Speaker 4: I have been there when they've phwn the tortilla is
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  Speaker 4: on the field after a big upset.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of cool.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, to your point, Like everybody talks about SMU spending
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  Speaker 6: all this money, like Texas tex right there with them.
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  Speaker 6: Baron Morton, I mean you laid out the numbers, but
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  Speaker 6: like he also completed like sixty four percent of his
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  Speaker 6: passes last year with that touchdown interception ratio. That's impressive.
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  Speaker 6: They're better this year on the outside than they were
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  Speaker 6: last year.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a good pick. That may be a sleeper.
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  Speaker 2: Not on this show. They're not not on this show.
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  Speaker 3: They're awake. They're awake, fully awake.
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  Speaker 2: We're woke'll be excited. I'm gonna know this ship. Guns up?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what they say?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, guns up?
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  Speaker 3: Get your guns up. Yeah, say that too.
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  Speaker 2: Tech. Yeah, so we were. When I was in high school.
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  Speaker 2: Our mascot was the Red Raiders and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: uh we called Texas Tech the thirteenth grade of our
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  Speaker 2: high school. A lot of people went there. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: being a state school, it was like had the big
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  Speaker 2: you know, Louisiana Techas that was thirteenth grade, a little
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  Speaker 2: bit academically, a little bit more forgiving to be accepted
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  Speaker 2: at the time. But I've personally never been the weapon.
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  Speaker 2: I went really like a long time ago.
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  Speaker 5: One of my best friends went to Tech and she
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  Speaker 5: went the same time that Patrick Mahomes was there, and
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  Speaker 5: uh yeah, I mean it's exactly what you would imagine.
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  Speaker 7: It to me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Greater Tyler, Texas area.
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  Speaker 3: White Castle, white House, white House, White Castle's here.
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  Speaker 6: Home with the ten pound mosquitoes. If we've ever had
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  Speaker 6: I've been to a game out.
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  Speaker 2: There, all right?
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  Speaker 3: Is that where Johnny Menzel went to He went there
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  Speaker 3: for a little while.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, white House, because I remember it's like pretty much
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  Speaker 2: all the same.
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  Speaker 4: But when I met Johnny Manziel at Manning Passing Academy
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  Speaker 4: when he was still at A and M his last year,
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  Speaker 4: the year he got kicked out of Manning Passing Academy,
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  Speaker 4: the only player to ever get kicked out.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, before he got kicked out, I remember him coming
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  Speaker 3: up to me, Man, you played with me, flude. It
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  Speaker 3: was a ball boy for them growing up. That dude
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  Speaker 3: was awesome. I'm like the Saint Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Then, I know, got to be a different guy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Johnny Manziel. Yeah, his senior year or whatever, his
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  Speaker 4: last year at A and M. I guess it would
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  Speaker 4: have been junior year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was big. Matt Flynn guy, your ball boy. Apparently,
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  Speaker 3: do you remember that?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, he remembered Matt forgets the small people along the way.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, little guys.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: To Matt's point, their schedule, they got Arkansas Pine Bluff
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  Speaker 4: in the opener, They've got Kent State, They've got Oregon State.
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  Speaker 4: All those games are going to be at home. They've
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  Speaker 4: got a tough road game September the twentieth at Utah.
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  Speaker 4: They get a bye week, and then it's at Houston.
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  Speaker 4: You get Kansas at home. You're at Arizona State, Oklahoma
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  Speaker 4: State at home, at Kansas State, BYU at home, UCF
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  Speaker 4: at home, and at West Virginia like Matt said, October
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  Speaker 4: the eighteenth and November the first, that's going to be
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  Speaker 4: your most difficult games for Texas Tech on the road
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  Speaker 4: against the number eleven and number seventeen teams in the country.
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  Speaker 2: So and only two of those teams on their schedule
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  Speaker 2: are in the preseason the top twenty five yeah ranking list.
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  Speaker 2: So I believe that they have the number one easiest
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  Speaker 2: schedule in the Big Twelve leading end of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Now we'll see how that plays out, and I think,
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  Speaker 2: like the eightieth overall in the country easiest schedule.
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  Speaker 4: Big twelve is gonna be fun. It is going to
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  Speaker 4: be chaotic energy every single week.
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  Speaker 3: It was last year.
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  Speaker 4: And if you like, from top to bottom, the teams
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  Speaker 4: in that league are as close as any other league
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  Speaker 4: that we have. And I know there's probably some people
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  Speaker 4: that are immediate doing some shade. Yeah they're all bad teams.
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  Speaker 4: That ain't the case. There is some quality football in
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  Speaker 4: the Big Twelve this year, and I think the top
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  Speaker 4: team and the bottom team. Hell, we saw it last year.
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  Speaker 4: Arizona State was supposed to be the bottom team. They won,
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  Speaker 4: They won the whole league, and so it's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: that same thing this year.
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  Speaker 3: You're right.
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  Speaker 2: The Big Twelve is a really fun league to watch.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a better quality, bigger school version of action.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I feel like these games play out, like
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  Speaker 2: the craziest stuff that could happen will happen, and it
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  Speaker 2: can happen and will happen. So I'm excited about the
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  Speaker 2: Big Twelve just watching it because, like you said, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of really good teams. There's no one big dog,
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  Speaker 2: there's not two big dogs. There's a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: Like whoever's standing on top of the Big Twelve it
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  Speaker 2: could be one of eight teams, maybe sixty of.
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  Speaker 6: Us really good quarterback conference, like for this year, Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: sixteen or sixteen teams.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm just saying, like half of them probably
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  Speaker 2: got like a realistic shot.
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  Speaker 3: I think, Oh, I certainly think there's eight teams that
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  Speaker 3: have a shot.
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  Speaker 2: But it's going to be Texas tick oh maybe maybe
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  Speaker 2: get second. I have been put him at fifteenth, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna put him at fifteen.
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  Speaker 4: That's going to be a Big Twelve team in the
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  Speaker 4: next fourteen teams. I can promise you that because I'm
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  Speaker 4: picking one of them. If somebody else doesn't do it,
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  Speaker 4: well done. Well done, Hey, break.
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  Speaker 3: Down, let's go TV.
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  Speaker 2: No, guess that's what it's going to be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thirty seconds you came in extra time. Haid Off
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  Speaker 3: quality usage told us to be quiet before the segment study.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, everybody be quiet. That's seriously what he said.
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  Speaker 7: He did.
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  Speaker 2: It was either going to be Texas Tech or it
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  Speaker 2: was going to be who else? Do I think?
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  Speaker 3: I no, no, no, no, no, no spoils? Okay, there
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  Speaker 3: might be another team?
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  Speaker 2: Is shaken up?
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  Speaker 4: Question before we take a break, Is Texas Tech the
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  Speaker 4: closest team to the west can and Coyotes? Like physically no,
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  Speaker 4: just like in your thought process of like watching Varsity Blues,
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  Speaker 4: is Texas Tech the closest to the West for it's.
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  Speaker 5: A pretty good comparison, Yes, because it's not Baylor.
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  Speaker 2: No, oh yeah, I mean it absolutely is.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a and M. There's not a cold.
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  Speaker 2: I would think like geographically speaking too, it would be
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  Speaker 2: that area would be a little bit more. I think
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  Speaker 2: that like the oil country out there.
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  Speaker 3: You got that going forward too.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, but when I think of Texas Tech, of course,
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  Speaker 2: I just like my mind it's not even really I.
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  Speaker 5: Think it's Cliff Kingsbury it's like the pan.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like you got to keep going.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying we say West Texas. If I said
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  Speaker 2: it that it means too it's a panhandle.
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, if you want to see Lubbock done
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  Speaker 4: the right way, have West Walker and Cliff Kingsbury as
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the game. Yeah, that was an
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  Speaker 2: electric factory.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, that was one of those all timers for sure.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, we gotta take a break. We'll do it.
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• 14:57
  Speaker 4: Yesterday we talked about John Matteir Oaklan Home a quarterback
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  Speaker 4: and some of his Venmo transactions.
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  Speaker 3: Sports gambling. How are we doing on that story progressing gambling? Well?
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  Speaker 4: John Matteir did release a statement he said, the allegations
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  Speaker 4: that I once participated in sports gambling are false. My
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  Speaker 4: previous Venmo descriptions did not accurately portray the transactions in question,
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  Speaker 4: but were instead inside jokes between me and my friends.
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  Speaker 3: I have never bet on sports.
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  Speaker 4: I understand the seriousness of the matter, but recognized that,
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  Speaker 4: taken out of context, those Venmo descriptions suggest otherwise. I
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  Speaker 4: can assure my teammates, coaches and officials at the NC
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  Speaker 4: DOUBLEA they have not engaged in any sports gambling.
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  Speaker 6: I believe No, Yeah, I believe in He said it
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  Speaker 6: was an inside joke that we just wouldn't get it.
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  Speaker 2: Look, what's more believable that it was an inside joke
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  Speaker 2: between probably two like a couple of nineteen year old kids,
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  Speaker 2: or that he actually did at it and wrote it.
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  Speaker 4: Out like a nerd inside joke, Because yesterday when we
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  Speaker 4: were having the conversation, I was thinking, if we have
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  Speaker 4: had Venmo in college, some of the descriptions that me,
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  Speaker 4: you steltz, I mean put a.
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  Speaker 2: Name on it would have like we would have like
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  Speaker 2: I would have been mowed you for something like when
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  Speaker 2: maybe you got my cover at friends. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 2: was I was Ben Milling you back five bucks. I
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  Speaker 2: would have put illegal steroids or anabolic steroids on it
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  Speaker 2: for sure. For sure I would have put maybe sports
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  Speaker 2: gambling on it, just something to make us laugh. But
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  Speaker 2: the stupid part was, is he made it public? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just make it private. Yeah. And again this was maybe
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  Speaker 2: they make it private, you can just hack into it.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows, uh, but I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't probably did it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if anything comes with this, but again.
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  Speaker 2: It shouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: I just I've met him very briefly.
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  Speaker 4: My gonna act like I know him, but just meeting
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  Speaker 4: him and seeing kind of the way he carries himself.
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  Speaker 4: So I told you, like, you're reminded me of a
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  Speaker 4: mix of Baker Mayfield and Flynt, like that's who he was.
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  Speaker 3: I just can't.
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  Speaker 4: Imagine he would have put sports gambling, if that's what
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: it in fact was.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Just I can't imagine anybody, like I said yesterday, under
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: the age of sixty, actually putting what they are sending
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: somebody money for, like.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Ever, like actually, like you know, certainly when it's amongst friends,
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: like like you said, like if you if we were
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: out and you you picked up the first round, like
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna send you some stupid back to fat like
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: the payback yep, like just now I would right now
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: as a forty year old man, like I'm sending him
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: back something stupid.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Yeh, say here's twenty bucks and description your balls are
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: showing or something like something weird.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Oh glad you saved that one for eight twenty two
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: and not seven twenty two.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Now the kids already dropped off people, just adults listening
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: now and the sick kids that's sitting at him.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Was that a ace van tura to reference bumble bee tuna,
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: bumble bee tuna? No, he says what you just said,
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: like after that, Yeah, that's why I was wondering. Okay, No,
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: you don't remember that.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's just like ingrained to be so deep down. Yeah,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: says that around the fire to the guy next.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. Yeah. One thing about ta that man? Have
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: seen every movie?
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Watch a lot of movies, TV shows now, not some movies. Yeah,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: did you say you were Parks of right guy? No,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: never seen it? Okay, fair enough. They made good television
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: this day. These days, television's probably better than most movies.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: So these days, have you got a question for the room?
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Who should have been ranked number one? In the AP
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: and Coaches poll. Should it have been Texas or somebody else?
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Because they are the first, right, the first number one
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: preseason AP team to start this season as an underdog,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the first.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: We've ever seen. We talked about it a little bit yesterday.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: So should the team that they're playing, the defending national champion,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: should they have been ranked number one?
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: No, you think Texas should have?
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Wait, say that again. Oh yes they should have. Sorry,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: as your asset of Texas should have yea. So I
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: saw somebody talking about it. I think the closest ever
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: matchup like gambling line for the number one team in
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: the country on opening day was a team being minus
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: four number one team in the country minus four. I
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: think it was like Florida State and like the nineties,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: this like this is and they're now they're underdog.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: This is the first time that a team has started
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: like the start of the season, the first game of
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: the year, the team that was preseason number one, the
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: first time ever that they have been an underdog in
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: the first game, the first time ever.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Ws Ohio State nine number.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: It's really dumb. That's where we talked about this yesterday. Basically,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the people voting for them, voting for Texas as number one,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: are saying that they are going to win the first
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: game of the season. It's the only way that you
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: ranked them number one, the only way, And if they do,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: more power to them, Like good luck stopping the arch
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: man in hype train if that happens. Good luck trying
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: to like keep him off of first team All American
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: no matter what he does. So I think it's a
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: if you're going to be underdog, you can't be number one.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: That's why I gave you that. Like the the last
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: time the closest gambling line ever for a number one
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: team prior to this going into Week one was minus four, right,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: that was the closest match and they were the favorite.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: So I don't know, it's wild. I mean, that's why.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: And for both of them to do it too. I
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: get the coaches play like the coaches aren't spending time
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: going through this, like he said sid Poll, It's not
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: like I think Brian Kelly's going there and dissecting every
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: team and looking at you know, strength to schedules. Now're
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: not doing.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: He's worried about his guys.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so they're not doing. But like the AP
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: to do that. That means most of the Associated Press
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: is choosing Texas to win game number one.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: They don't even have Ohio State as the number two team.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: They're actually number three in the AP Top twenty five.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Penn State comes in at number two, and they made
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: the semi finals last year. It was a close game,
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: competitive game against Notre Dame. But I still there's still
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: something I need to see from them. I love their
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: running backs. I mean, they've got two guys that could
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: be All Americans, like first team All American type running backs.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: But Tyler Warren balled them out so much a year ago.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: That's why he was a first round pick. That's why
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: he's going to be a good player on Sundays for
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: the Colts. They went and got a couple guys out
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: of the portal I receiver. But I have a hard
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: time believing that you're going to be without Abdul Carter,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: who was a top five without Tyler Warren, and you're
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: going to be better than you were a year ago,
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: like Drew Roller. Still there's something that is missing for
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: me for him to be one of the quarterbacks that
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: we talk about with a K club Nick with a
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Garrett nus Meyer. I don't have him in that category.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Some people do. I don't see it. Penn State's one
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: that's going to prove some things to me as well.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Penn State just had like last year was their closest
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: they ever actually getting it done, like getting whatever. The
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: hype is there. They always have the preseason hype. They
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: always look go gangbusters the first half the season. They're
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: like it the like when Wisconsin was kind of doing
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: their thing, they were like a little souped up version
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: of them. Like they always have the hype they always
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: should be. It's like the wood It should have could
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: a team every single year and for them to be
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: preseason ranked the head of Ohio State, that is the Kulda. Yeah,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: it's not should have would They're the ones that actually
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: go out and do it. You're in, You're out. I
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: don't know. I think it's a pretty dumb top three myself.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I know you're you're burning back there, like getting talked
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: in three minutes. I know you're ready to give a
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: take on one of these teams.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: No, I mean, I absolutely think of how the State
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: should be ranked number one just because they have the
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: best offensive and defensive player in college football. They're the
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: defending national champs. I think they're going to beat Texas
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: week one. But going to your Penn State thing, like,
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: I agree one because so many people are going to say, oh, well,
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: Nick Singleton and k Tron Allen are back. Yeah, you
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: had that last year and it wasn't good enough and
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: you're worse in almost every other spot. Now you have
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: your quarterback back. But everyone's points to the playoff game. Hey,
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: he didn't complete a pass two receiver in the playoffs.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: True.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: Did you get significantly better at receiver in the offseason?
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: Not really, and you lost your unicorn and Tyler Warren.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: I just don't see it in Penn State. They're still
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: gonna have a good defense, They're still gonna have an
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: elite running game.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: That's kind of all they are. Give me a give
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: me a NFL comparison to Penn State. I got mine
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: right now. And I always think I'm comparing Penn State
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: to the Pittsburgh Steelers right now now. Maybe maybe not
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: this year because they're not going to fall.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: They have some years.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: And they got they got a head coach that is
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: a proven winner, awesome for the program. He is the
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: face of that program, and you can't imagine life without him.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: But but I just can't get it done.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: Now.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Look, well let's take let's take Tomlin's like we're just
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: talking about the last ten fifteen years, right of Thomas
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Krek because obviously he has got it done with with
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: big Ben there, but it's just that one that's always
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: going to be there, always going to be a threat.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: But they lost the first round of the playoffs for
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: the last five six years, so we'll see. But uh, yeah,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: that's the and you can't justify getting rid of him.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: But at some point you gotta like look in the
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: mirror and say, at what point do we stick our
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: foot in the ground and say we have to make
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: it could change if we want to take the next level.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Pretty good con sad anybody Steelers have actually gone and
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: then you know, won Super Bowls. I guess that would
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: be the difference. Yeah, it hasn't been. It hasn't done
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: it in yeah, forty years. Eighty six, eighty six. Last
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: time they won a nationally eighty six seven It was
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: eighty six, so not a backcom look at you, well done, sir.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Eighty six eighty six was.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: The last time one. It got to be fifteen so no,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: it was sixteen seventeen.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: They won that rookie year.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the last time they won.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: And then okay, y'all beat him.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: We didn't beat them, and they hadn't been nex. It's
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: almost been twenty years. So it was two thousand and nine,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: two thousand and nine.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: You need to chill out putting years on stuff like that.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Really it was.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: It was the eight football season, but February nine. Yeah,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: so seventeen years. Yeah, we're y'all were rookies.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody needs to chill out with all the years
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: you're throwing around.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: We get it, people, we're old.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: All right, we'll take a break when we come back.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: I got Chris Marlin Louisiana Sports dot Net will join
• 25:59
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  Speaker 2: What's up?
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Brother? How we doing? How we living?
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Not your first time to be on air with me.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: I mean, we've been doing this for like a long time.
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  Speaker 4: Back when you were with Saturday down South. You came
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  Speaker 4: on Hanging with Hester nighttime Radio.
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  Speaker 8: You did. I thought this was my first time.
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  Speaker 3: Made it. I checked the I checked the archives, check
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  Speaker 8: What did I say?
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  Speaker 7: So?
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: You know that's a long time ago. I got ct.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: It's a whole deal. So there's no chance I remember that.
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: I remember you coming to the Collegeball Hall of Fame
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: to talk about the tween nineteen SEC Championship and we
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: had a lot of Georgia fans there and I was
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: trying to play caid a little bit to that fan base,
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: and I was, you know that twenty seventeen was pretty good,
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: and I'll never forget. You looked over me and you go,
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: I'm wearing a ring right now from the national Championship
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: team for that year.
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: And I was like, okay, I'll be quiet.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: For those I don't know, maybe for the championship or
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: it's like there's very few times I've had it on,
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: but maybe I did. I don't know. It's in a
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: box with some dust on it. I do know that
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: But the two thousand and seven Georgia does have some
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: qualms with US winning the national championship because they beat Hawaii.
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah here in the state though, which is in the
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: Sugar Bowl.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: Shout out our guy, Cole Brennan, Rest in peace, legend,
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: absolute legend.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: How's the movement?
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Moved to Baton Rouge? What two weeks ago?
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: Now? Three weeks ago, got engaged on Thursday and moved
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: on Saturday. And if your listeners are wondering, if you
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: do that many life changes in forty eight hours, don't ever,
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: just don't do that. No, it's been awesome, man. We
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: we came here from Atlanta. I'm from Atlanta, lived in
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: Columbia Southline for a while. I don't know what took
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: me so long to get here.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: We love it here.
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: It's just been awesome.
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: It hasn't even been that hot, which is I don't
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: want to jinx it. I don't want to jinx it,
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: but like it has been. Everyone has been so nice.
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: The food's unreal. Our Corgi Pepper loves it like we're
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: just we're we're so happy, man, We.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: We love it.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: What have you been what what kind of meals. Have
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: you been dying then too, like where are we? Where
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: are we frequented all of them, all of the meals.
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: Was talking yesterday on Cameron he was like, yeah, I
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: gained twenty pounds in was like, brother.
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: Me too.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, weird, Yeah it happened.
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: He said.
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: It was just jump alive. It was like five meals
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: a day. But no, we went to we went to
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: radio bar with your producer, a lot of radio bars,
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: but I was told not to and Pie from Taylor
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: We're told lot. You said it wasn't that good.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Excuse me, Look, I mean you can't trust the skinny
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: guy with food.
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: That jaw lines and taxed way too much to do that.
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: But no, we've been to Superior way too many times.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Way that happens. Yeah, I love it though that tends
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: to happen.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: I want to have you on today because you have
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: been a training camp like every single day, so you've
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: had a chance to watch a team and just get
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: like a different perspective like yeah, obviously we played there
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: and you know we're gonna have inherent biases, Yeah, towards
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: kind of what we see. What have you seen from LSU,
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: because you've seen what they look like when they can
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: win a championship, Like, is this a team that you
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: think is going to be in the conversation all season long?
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: Well, isn't.
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: As a Division two college baseball player, I'm glad you
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: can bring me on to talk about this.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: No, So, I mean I don't know if this is
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: a national championship team out of the gates because there's
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: so many working and moving parts to it. I mean,
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: like like there's the thing that jumps out to me
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: the most and I go to more so, like, all right,
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: what are the concerns because the receivers, the receivers what
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: I was most excited for, and the receivers I feel
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: like you could draw names out of a hat, put
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: any three you want there on the and they are
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: going to toward secondaries for most of the year. Like
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: there's not a ton that are better than them on
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: on the field. They're going to play in the schedule
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: this year, there's concerns on the schedule, like they like
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: are they gonna be better at being able to stop
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: mobile quarterbacks because the Norseeller's just come in to town
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: all that kind of stuff.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: But they've run from the very get go right and the.
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: Main but the main thing is, like, you got to
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: get to ten wins to get to the playoff in
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: the first place. I fully believe it's a ten ten
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: win team. I look at the roster, I look at
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: them like the way they've looked in camp. I've said
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: this since the preseason magazines came out, before the rankings did.
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: I don't think there's eight teams that are better than
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: LSU from a roster standpoint.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: I know there's not.
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: That's the top five roster in the country that I
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: feel very confident that.
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: But then you start looking at how you win those
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: big games, Like the offensive line is an issue, and
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: it's been an issue throughout camp, and you're gonna start
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: five new players. I think DJ Chesh is the only
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: returning guy from last year. He's not gonna start to center.
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: Berylin More is And they've struggled a lot. They've gotten better,
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: but they they have a long way to go, I think.
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: So it's also it's a work in progress. Like for
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: for any team to go through the schedule and out
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: of the gate that Clemson D line, that's gonna be tough,
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: that's gonna be really tough for them.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: So you've been there, you've been to You've gone to
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: most of practices, right, so you've got you've got in
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: your eyes on it. You've been watching the personal When
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: you go to practice. What are you trying to focus
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: most on. Are you trying to, like see who playmakers
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: are in east side? Are you looking at the parts
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: of the team that people are a little bit more?
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Are you watching the offensive? Are you watching the defensive line?
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: What do you try to focus on when you go.
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: My main focus is that don't don't do anything stupid,
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: sure trouble, failed.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: To do lose your credential.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look at this show who among us?
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: I walked out of it yesterday.
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: They were like, all right, guys are allowed to watch practice,
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: And I pull my phone out there like that phone's
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: without a phone.
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: I'm like, yeah, I'll just I'll leave. It's fine.
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: No, But I think the offensive line, I think is
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: one of the most intriguing parts. One of the things
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: I guess me personally have been focused on more fascinating
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: with is trade as green as a blocker.
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: How is he doing the fundamentals?
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: You've got to do some of it for sure, right,
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: and so him and Bower sharp, but Bower sharp has
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: been one of the most consistent players in camp, like
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: and not just from like a oh that's a that's
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: a good safety to have.
• 33:00
  Speaker 8: He's got good hands, like I mean, he's been like
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: one hand catches. He's been really really good. The offensive
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: line it's one of those things too. It's like a
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: spring game.
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: It's like it's hard to look at at the offense
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: and say, well, you know, the offensive line has been awful,
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: because then you look at you like, well, the defensive
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: line may be incredible, Dom McKinley and and Gooden. But
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: the main things I'm focused on is just like some
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: of those little things that I feel like you need
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: to improve upon from last year. And and like Nussmeier,
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: I think he looks really good, but I think gonna
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: give him time to throw because that's when he has
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: kind of struggled. Like you saw the A and M
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: game last year. There and then the other big part
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: of the secondary as well. I think they've looked really
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: good as well.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: There's certainly a big question mark coming in just because
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: it has not been to the standard ls you's certainly
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: seen in the defensive back got over the last couple
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: of years. But if we just look at the SEC,
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: you kind of look at the hierarchy of the SEC.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: It's fascinating this year because the teams that are typically
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: at the top are starting over at quarterback and they've
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: got some guys that that maybe Toys Simpson ends up
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: being great, maybe gunnerstock that ends up being great, But
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: they don't even have a lot of hype of you know,
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: arch Manning has all the high but we don't know
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: what arch Man going to be. And then the teams
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: that are trying to get to that point. You're Florida's,
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: South Carolina's LSU. They got a dude right a quarterback
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: and how that plays out it is the most interesting
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: thing to me in the SEC.
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: I think it's so bizarre to watch Texas because we
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: have just for whatever reason, they haven't won a national title.
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: They haven't won an SEC title. I said this to
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: media days. I don't know if everyone I was holding
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: my hand up the whole time.
• 34:21
  Speaker 8: You guys saw it. They I don't think they had
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: the entire time.
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: I don't think anybody in that room knew that Georgia
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: beat them once, let alone twice in a building that
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: was like three hundred yards away.
• 34:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, because Texas has become the overall favorite.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: It is bizarre to me that they are so like
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: the media is so enamored with them. I think Georgia
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: is going to be really, really good, even though they
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: are starting over at quarterback, because that's when when's the
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: best we've seen Georgia. It's when they had a dude
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: that was like, his nickname was the Mailman. It was
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: at walk Off, you know what I mean, he was
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: in college for eighteen years. But also like having a
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: kid like.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: That that, well, Gunner looks like he's been in college
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: for eighteen years.
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, he's a coach, right, yeah, he is the dad.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know if he really is, but he looks like.
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: He's got that powers hairline. So if you can play
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: like or something.
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it is no, but I think that I think
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: you're also right about the fact that, like, it is
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: odd that because you look at people talk about LSU
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: and in South Carolina, especially in this middle tier, and
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: I don't put Florida in that tier because I think
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: DJ Lagway is great. He doesn't have around him what
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: those other two schools have around him at all.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: And Midland North do feel different because like if if
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: they go down, the team's completely different. I'm not saying that,
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: you know most quarterbacks when you go down, but still
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: like even LSU, like they've got a guy who started.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: SEC games behind us.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: MR.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: Now you don't want that to happen, but like Lagway
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: and Sellers mean so much to their team. We're talking
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: about like a four win swing.
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: Maybe, Yeah, I don't think Florida's taken the field at
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: any point since the spring and someone hasn't been injured.
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: It's like it's not just Lagway, It's like it is
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: the receivers, all kind of stuff. So I think it
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: is interesting for sure.
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, even Vanderbilt's got a guy that they feel
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: really good about. Man probably is Electric.
• 35:55
  Speaker 8: Hant dreams, right.
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: I mean Auburn again, if they beat Auburn, they they are.
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: I believe they're already ahead in the all time series,
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: like twenty one to twenty.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: So you know that. Yeah, I kind of want to
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: like steer this back to LSU a little bit because
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: you brought it up with opening game facing a mobile quarterback. Cake,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: let me like, well, LSU, the whole season, we're going
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: to face Diego Pavia. Litorcella's John Mattier like we are
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: going to be facing dynamic quarterbacks all season. So I
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: have to think with kind of the preseason like acknowledgment
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: from the coaching staff at LSU, like we were focusing
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: on game one, like we want like that is our focus.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: I believe that they've been game playing a little bit
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: from a defensive side. Have you seen defenses wrinkles way
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: they're playing Harold Perkins, way they're playing their safeties. That
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: lead you to believe, all right, they're actually like kind
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: of game planning their defensive philosophy right now around stopping
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: keeping a mobile quarterback contained.
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: I think that I think you're just talking about going
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: from year one of year two and making improvements on
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: the on the very obvious things that this team struggled with,
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: and that was one of them. And I tell you what,
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: like it. I don't know what they're gonna do with
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: defensive line. It feels like they kind of have an
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: understanding who's gonna be interior of fun. I think it's
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: gonna McKinley. I think it'sna be good. But from the
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: back seventh standpoint, that seems pretty set like that that
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: that seems like like delaying is gonna man down or
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: man one of the spots. Stamps is gonna be the
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: other corner. You're gonna have Halsey. And then Taylor helped
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: me out here who's zero at the other safety. So
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: they've been they've been.
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: Kind of back there at safety.
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: And then but like the linebackers, both Weeks brothers and
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: like Manning like the main spots, and then having Harrold
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: Bible to Perkers be able to kind of like play
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: at star position.
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: He seems way more comfortable than he he has.
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: He like the amount of times I've heard I told
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: this to Taylor, the amount of times I've heard someone yo,
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: good perk like in practice, like.
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: It's been I can't get kicked there already.
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: Sure, but no, So I I think that they're gonna
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: be I think they've they're going to be improved on it.
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: I think they're just like last year at times it
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: felt like at some point of the season everything just
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: started falling apart and they couldnt figure out how to
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: get out of it. Like the A and M game
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: is like a perfect example, because it's like you're all
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: of a sudden, it's a quicksand And so I think
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: they should be more improved on that side.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to, uh to seeing that improvement.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: Certainly. It's something that you know, Blake Baker from what
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: Matt House was to what Blake did last year. Now
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: let's take another another jump. Yeah, we usually use initials
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: when we say it, like he did yesterday.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: That's on me. That's a rookie move by veteran players.
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  Speaker 1: From players to legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU football
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  Speaker 1: like only champions can.
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  Speaker 8: On my side of town, that lonesome feeling comes to
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  Speaker 8: my world.
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  Speaker 2: There's an across the railroad track.
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  Speaker 8: I got a table for two weighing back.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just telling you right now, I don't know who
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  Speaker 2: Hey, as a former running back, your heart has to
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: be singing for joy right now. James Cook, James Cook
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: the latest running back to get paid, to get a
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: contract extension at the running back position that was you
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: know for a long time thought it was in the decline.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: I don't get it. I don't get it.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: Finally, but I never got The Eagles won the Super
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  Speaker 4: Bowl last year, right, they're pretty good a running back.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: Like even when the Chiefs were winning the Super Bowls,
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: it was because of Mahomes. But think about like the
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: role that Pacheco played down the stretch, and like their
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: offense kind of changed.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: I just don't get bad.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: They were last year with Pachecko on the bench. They
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: couldn't run it at all.
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: I just I've never understood it. Like you look at
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: the top teams across the NFL, it's like, sure like
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: they might have a dude at quarterback, great receivers. If
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: you can't run the football, it changes the math, and
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: so why not put value. I get the tread on
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: the tires. I get like, if we make it to thirty, like,
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: let's celebrate the hell out of that, because if you're
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: thirty at running back, you're forty at any other position.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: I get all of that, But it's like, if you
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: got a guy that has proven he can do it
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: past twenty eight, twenty nine.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, give him some dollars, some money.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: There was a stretch period of time where a star
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: running back did not mean you were didn't bring championships.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Then that was probably the reason for the decline because
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: you could plug and play like James Stark's for us.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: He was a big guy, but he was like a
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: fifth round pick Miss Buffalo, the Buffalo Buffalo, University of Buffalo.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: You talked about this the other day. You're right right, So,
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: like he feels like he should have played.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: So for a period of time, a lot of people
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: are getting it done with late rounders, low paid guys
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: and being able to spend on quarterback, spind on receiver,
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: defensive end, left tackle, and things like that. But the
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: emergence has swung back around. The star running back is
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: making such a big difference because, like we talk about
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: a lot the x's and o's, the philosophy of football
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: is like a roller coaster. There's ebbs and flows to it.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: It changes. Philosophy has change when an offense. When an
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: offense starts doing something new, defense reacts. Once a defense reacts,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: the offense picks something else to do and then it's
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: just it's it's a cyclical thing. Like that's a circle,
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: that's a big one. So, like we can look at
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: the top paid running back Saquon Barkley's average. He's getting
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: twenty point six million a year, Christian McCaffrey at nineteen,
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor fourteen million, Alva kamar A twelve point twenty five,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs twelve million, Darris what do he means to
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: the package? What means Henry fifteen million. So James cook
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: just signed a new three year, three year, no four year,
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, four year extension added new money forty eight million.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Thirty of the porter one thirty of it's guaranteed. So
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: he's he's going to be averaging twelve million dollars in
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: new money.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: He signed the deal that his brother was kind of
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: always looking for.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: And like we talked about that Buffalo Bill seam. As
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: much as Josh Allen means that team, James James Cooks
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: means just probably he's the second most important on that
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: team what.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: They want to do.
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: Like he sets up a lot of their offensive success.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: They have brand name receivers out there. Last they got
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: great value receivers, which is fine. Like they it works
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: for them.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he had over a thousand yards rushing last year,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: sixteen touchdowns. He was a touchdown score machine like Daily
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: Fantasy me and by somen what do we get? James
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Cooks is who we're going after.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: I like the lessons you're teaching Huck sports cards in
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  Speaker 3: Daily Fantasy. I love it.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: I love it has gotten him into he loves football.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: He you might as well started nine.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: And I get for like Josh Allen m v P
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: last year, Khalil Shakir keyon Coleman, Dalton kind Mac like
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: knocks they had do have a Mark Cooper, Yeah.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: A Maari Cooper is a better football player than I
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: ever thought about being. But he's on the way other
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: side of it.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: So they just had a little contract dispute. There was
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: a little holdout or a hold in, sit in, whatever
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: you want to call it. James Cooks was in camp,
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: but they were renegotiated. Wasn't practicing, but they got that
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: figured out. Pay that man his money, paid the man
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: his mon and they did that very important bills. Josh
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Allen killing it, but the running back is the winner.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: I knew that you had some joy in your heart.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: I didn't know if like you, were too embarrassed at
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: talk about it, so I wanted to highlight it.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, name another position that is going to run, block, block, past, block, catch, run,
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: and even sometimes throw.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Does it all? That's a running back position? Real quick?
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• 45:20
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