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College Football Playoff Quarterfinals Preview & Bengals Beat the Cardinals to Win Second Straight · Height Differential

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  We're back. Hope everybody had a great Merry
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  Christmas and wish you also a happy New Year as this will be
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  our last show of 2025. It is the height differential.
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  That's the 66 Neil, I'm the 410 Nick, happy to be back.
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  We've got college football to talk about the NFL, college
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  basketball has gone crazy, and we'll we'll recap with some of
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  the best stories of 2025. But I guess First off, how was
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  Christmas? Yeah, yeah, let's talk about
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  Christmas. Little recap of Christmas.
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  Christmas was good, man. You know, we got back from sunny
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  South Florida after a bowl win and rolled right into Christmas
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  Eve and, you know, had four straight days of, of stuff to do
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  with the fan. But you know, All in all, it was
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  great. The kids, kids loved it.
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  They got, I think everything in on on Santa's wish list wish
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  list myself. I got a Home Depot gift card, a,
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  a shoe rack and a, and a hat rack.
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  So that's what you get when you're 38.
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  That's 38 year old, 38 year old Christmas present.
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  So what? What about you?
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  Well, I got an electronic air pump so you can pump the tires
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  and I got a heating pad. So yeah, you're getting old.
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  When you get old, this is what you get.
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  But no, it was, it was great. Spent Christmas Eve with the fam
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  to celebrate Christmas and to celebrate my birthday.
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  And then Christmas Day went to, went downtown to the cathedral
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  for, for Mass and then just hung out with the parents all day and
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  watched Christmas Story, followed by the Christmas
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  vacation, followed by Elf. And then I had never seen it,
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  but we finished the day watching the new Grinch.
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  OK. I didn't watch it as intently,
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  but. It.
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  Seemed like the a really nice Grinch, like he he wasn't as
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  mean as. I don't know if I know.
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  The OG or the original? Yeah, I don't know if I know the
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  I don't know if I know the new Grinch.
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  I've seen the Jim Carrey one in like the OG.
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  But what's this new Grinch you speak of?
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  How? How old is this movie?
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  I think it's 2019. Benedict Cumberbatch is the
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  voice of the Grinch. Pharrell does a lot of the music
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  and is the narrator. You got to check that I have not
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  not. It's a, as my mom and my sister
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  would say it's, it's just, it's beautifully done.
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  A lot of colors, a lot of colors.
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  It dives more into the life of Cindy Lou Who.
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  She's more of a leader instead of just being like a just
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  somebody who's who's kind of there.
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  But I didn't watch it super intently, but I took that was, I
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  mean 4 movies in you kind of. Yeah, you got it.
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  It's hard, but we got some naps in throughout the movies and had
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  some good food. But it was a good, relaxing
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  Christmas. Nice, yeah.
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  But needed better sports on Christmas?
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  The NFL. Yeah, the NFL games when they
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  when they, I mean, it's hard to do when you release the
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  schedule, you anticipate those games, you know, being good
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  games. Nobody could have foreseen the
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  Chiefs, you know, being kind of as bad as they were and Patrick
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  Mahomes tearing his ACL and Garter Mint shoes on turn his
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  ACL. So that turned out to be a very,
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  very good game. But I mean, even the other ones
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  who who else played on a Christmas Day there?
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  The Lions were terrible. Yeah, the Lions were absolutely
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  terrible. That's right.
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  I'll be honest, I had. I did not turn on a Netflix game
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  because I wasn't interested. We were watching movies.
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  I did turn on eventually to watch the end of the Chiefs game
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  to see them lose to the Broncos. Honestly, I kind of enjoyed the
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  fact that I could watch Christmas movies instead of
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  because I remember last year, the Bengals are standard, the
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  Ravens are, the Steelers were playing on Christmas Day.
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  Yeah, so you're locked in and and you want to watch the whole
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  game. It was actually kind of nice to
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  be able to kind of celebrate and watch Christmas movies.
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  Yeah, yeah, and the the other the Cowboys Commanders game
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  wasn't bad, but neither of those teams were playing for anything.
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  Nobody really cared and I never was really a big fan of NBA on
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  Christmas Day. I never really paid much
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  attention to it because it's just another regular season game
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  out of the 81 games that they already play or 82 games that
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  they already play. So to me, not that exciting.
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  I'm with you, Christmas. Christmas movies were on all
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  day. I didn't watch any NBA.
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  Now, back in the day when it was Jordan and the Bulls, yeah, I
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  would have watched it. But it's a little different now.
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  If the Bulls would have played, I probably would have watched it
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  because that's really the only NBAI watch until it gets later
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  in the year. Unless it's late in late in the
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  game. I'll probably turn on and watch
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  the end of it if it's close. But Nope.
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  Not a lot of sports on Christmas spin it watching Christmas
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  movies, The classics. All of them on our top eight
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  list except for the new Grinch. We didn't have any Grinches on
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  our list, which is I guess could be seen as controversial, but we
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  watched the time and then we watch Home Alone the the night
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  before and I guess are we we going to try to do that or be
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  prepared for it to break down? Who got it worse, Harry or
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  Marvin? Home Alone.
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  Yeah, we got to get into that, yeah.
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  So we can close with that and, and the best of 2025, I think we
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  got to start with College Football Playoff starts on New
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  Year's Eve with Miami, Ohio State.
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  Yeah. Do the Hurricanes have a chance
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  to pull off the upset or do you want to start off ranking or
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  upset? You want to go through every
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  game how you want to do. It Yeah.
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  Well, we can. I mean, we'll go through every
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  game, but I think ranking the possibility of upsets is a good
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  way to go about it. And if we're talking about this
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  one, the the first game of the playoff in Miami of Ohio State,
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  I put that as the least likely upset of all four games.
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  I just don't think that Miami really has much of a chance.
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  Ohio State's favored by 9 1/2. You know, just watching Miami
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  and Texas A&M at Miami, defense is pretty good.
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  But their offenses, I don't know if they're going to score a
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  point. I guess it's Ohio State defense.
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  So I just don't think the Hurricanes have it in them on
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  Michael Irvin's going to be a little disappointed come come
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  midnight, rolling into 2026 with a loss.
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  But no, I don't see, don't see the Hurricanes having much of a
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  shot at this one. OK.
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  And I guess this is a good way to start it.
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  You've got the Hurricanes as the least likely to pull off an
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  upset in the first round. I've got a different game that I
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  think is least likely for an upset.
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  I'm going with Ole Miss over Georgia.
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  I mean, we've already seen this game before.
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  Ole misled. It was a great game.
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  It was a. Competitive game.
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  It was a good game. It was a good game.
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  Ole misled 3526 going in the fourth quarter.
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  Neither team punted until I think the 1213 minute mark in
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  the fourth quarter. I don't see this happening
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  again. I think George has improved
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  since, you know, since the team they were at the beginning of
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  the season where they were coming for Bond to win every
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  game. They've only given up 29 points
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  combined in their last four. You know, Ole Miss, I know they
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  got the win with with Pete Golding as as their head coach.
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  In the open round against Tulane, they gave up 410 yards
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  to Tulane. I know they didn't get in the
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  end zone, but Tulane was able to move the football.
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  I just think this is going to be a totally different game than
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  the one we saw earlier in the season.
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  So I've got Ole Miss beating Georgia's my least likely, and
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  then I'd probably go Miami over Ohio State as my third least
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  likely upset. I I will say this, Miami's
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  defense is really good. They are very good.
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  Yes, they are good. I mean, Ohio State without
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  question has the best defense in college football, both scoring
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  defense wise and total defense. But Miami ranks 10th in in yards
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  per game and 4th in points per game.
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  They've only allowed thirteen points a game.
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  We saw what they did, what they did against Texas A&M, really
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  limiting them and really just kind of turned an ugly game.
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  I think the weather played a little bit of a factor.
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  When Ohio State has faced good defenses like we just saw in
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  Indiana, they didn't put up a ton of points.
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  They didn't put up a ton of points against Texas.
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  I still think Ohio State wins this game.
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  But I look at that the what is the under?
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  I am definitely taking the under in that game because I just
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  think it's going to be both. These defenses are really good.
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  No, I mean, you're you're not wrong.
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  It's it's most likely will be a low scoring affair.
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  Like you said, you know, when Ohio states face the good
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  defense, like we just saw at Indiana, you know, they didn't
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  really do much and and they don't give up a lot of points.
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  I mean, just looking back through their scores, there's
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  SMU put up 26 on them, will put up 24.
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  You know, other than that, that's really that those are the
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  two highest scorers scoring offenses that they that they've
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  allowed points to. So I mean, it's it'll be a low
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  scoring game, but I think Ohio State just is the better team.
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  I I do too, and that's why I'm. Taking coach, better team,
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  better coach, I think that they probably they find a way to do
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  it. They've been before.
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  And it's 40 1/2 I, I think that's a lot of points for, for
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  this match up. So.
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  Me, you're looking at like a 20/21/20 ish type of game.
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  But yeah, I think it goes under that.
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  Probably like a 14 to 10/17/10 something like that maybe?
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  Yeah, I, I do think you don't. Miami, I think will try to run
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  the ball more than it did against Texas A and MI think
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  they kind of found that rhythm in the second-half.
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  So look for them to really try to establish Mark Fletcher, look
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  for Ohio State to try to establish the ground game too,
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  which will get the clock rolling.
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  Play into that, get that under making it even more possible.
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  But I've got Ohio State win and I think it's going to be a low
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  scoring affair, but that is my third least likely upset.
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  What's your third least likely? Yeah.
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  And we've we've just flip-flopped my 3:00 and 4:00
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  and year three and four. I would say that Ole Miss
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  beating George is the third least likely thing to occur.
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  Basically for the same reasons that that you said that they are
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  the most, the least overall, least likely.
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  Those same reasons. I put them at 3:00.
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  OK, so your second least likely? Second, least likely, I'm going
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  to go with Alabama over Indiana. I actually do think that it's
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  it's the seven point spread. I think it's too high.
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  I'm I'm concerned about this game, to be honest with you.
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  I'm concerned about these. It's Alabama.
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  They've been on the stage before.
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  You know, they've won. They prove an issue.
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  They can win big games. You know, they've beaten several
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  ranked teams. They've won at Georgia on this
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  year. They just went into a good
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  Oklahoma into to to on the road and beat them in round one.
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  So Alabama, they they're, they're coming off, you know,
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  playing a game in the last two weeks.
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  Indiana's been off for a month. I don't know if that hurts or
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  helps, but Alabama's ready. I'm a little nervous about this
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  one. Well, you know, you brought up a
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  good point. I think with, you know, being
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  off and, and last year we saw all the teams that got vibes.
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  And. Look, we changed the rules and I
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  think that's going to play a play a role.
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  We're not going to see that again.
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  But how much of a factor did that play into the fact that all
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  the teams that didn't get a chance to play lost?
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  And, you know, I, I think that could be to to Alabama's
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  advantage and you I, I think you have to go this one at #2.
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  I really thought about trying to move this one to to #1 because I
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  just think out Indiana's that much better than Alabama.
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  Yeah, I mean, you trust in Kurt Zignetti.
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  You know, he always has the Hoosiers ready to play.
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  So I use defense. I think we'll we'll probably
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  shut down Indiana's offense. I don't know if if Alabama's
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  going to be able to move the ball and put up points on a
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  defence like this. I don't think they but how much
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  will losing Stephen Daly a fact if you're losing your leading
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  tackle for loss, your leading sax guy?
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  I mean, I know Indiana's really good, but they are they as deep
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  as some of these other contenders that are always, you
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  know, in the mix? Like do they they?
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  He was already there, had replaced what Kellen Wyatt, who
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  went out earlier in the year that was supposed to start at
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  that spot and daily comes in can.
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  Will that be an issue? And that's maybe another reason
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  why I've got it at #2. I'm expecting a good game.
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  Here's I think, I think they cover.
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  I think they cover. It means you maybe pick one or
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  the other. OK.
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  I, I just, I know Alabama was down 17 over against an Oklahoma
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  team, which I don't know how good they've been in the
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  second-half of the season. Indiana has proven it all year
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  long that against inferior teams, they are just going to
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  put it on you. And as wild as it is to say, I
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  think Alabama is an inferior team.
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  So give me Alabama in the points.
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  And there was a big part of me that wanted to put this as my
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  least likely upset. But the more and more I look at
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  this game and I'm going to lean Texas Tech, and I think people
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  are kind of not giving Texas Tech probably the respect that
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  they deserve, the fact that they are 2 1/2 point dogs.
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  I mean, Texas Tech's comes in this game.
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  We've talked about Ohio State's defense, right?
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  We've talked about Miami's defense.
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  We've talked about Indiana's defense.
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  Texas Tech's defense ranks third in total defense and scoring
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  defense in the country. Now, did they face some of the
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  great offices in the Big 12? Maybe not, but I mean they put a
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  lot of money in that front 7. They've they've been good all
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  year in Oregon's games where they face great defenses.
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  What they scored thirteen points on offense.
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  I'm not counting the pick six against IU and they scored
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  sixteen points against Iowa. And this is another game where
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  the over under is 51. Give me the under because I've,
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  I think these are two great teams.
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  I think it could come down to who's better at the end, Dante
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  Moore or Baron Morton. In that case, I would probably
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  lean Dante Moore because I think he's a better quarterback.
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  But Morton's also a fifth year guy that's been at Texas Tech
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  for all five years that wants to win for that school.
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  I think this is going to be a really fun game.
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  My bet would be the under. I'll take Texas Tech, but I
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  mean, this really is kind of a coin flip.
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  Yeah, I'm, I'm a little surprised that Oregon's favored.
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  When you look at the Big 10 and the Big 12, Oregon's probably
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  face more better competition than what Texas, Texas faced.
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  Like you said, you're giving all the credit to Texas Tech's
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  defense at they're ranked 3rd and you know, as you should, but
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  their offense can also put up points.
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  I mean, you're just looking at their last couple of games.
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  You know, they put up 34 on BYU, 49 on West Virginia, 48 on
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  Central Florida, 43 on Kansas State, 42 on Oklahoma.
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  They're scoring in the high 30s and 40s game in and game out and
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  they are just absolutely blowing out teams.
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  They had that one loss at Arizona State midway through the
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  year, but other than that they haven't had a close game.
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  I mean it's just been blowout city non-stop.
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  So yeah, their defense is ranked 3rd and they're not giving up a
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  lot of points or a lot of yards, but their offense can can lap
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  the scoreboard a little bit. Yeah, No, I, you know, I, I'm, I
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  think Barry Morton's been really good.
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  And in an era where we don't see a lot of quarterbacks that hang
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  around for for for for five years and with the same program.
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  I mean, he's thrown hadn't thrown for a ton of yards, 2600
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  yards, but 22 pick, 22 touchdowns and four picks.
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  I mean, is he's not going to be drafted as high as Dante more,
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  but that doesn't always matter in these games, right?
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  So I don't know. Are are you laying in Texas Tech
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  to win? Yes, I'm I'm that is that's what
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  yes, Texas Tech to win outright. That's why I have that as since
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  they are underdogs, is my number one choice for for upset.
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  So we we all went chalk here. Yeah, which?
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  With the way that they changed the playoff, I mean, that's not
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  uncommon. I think a lot of people would
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  probably have chalk here. Yeah, it I mean, so just skip
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  the 12 game playoff. Let's just roll straight to this
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  I. Don't know no, it it's it'll be
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  a fun weekend or not even a weekend midweek here with New
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  Year's Eve and New Year's Day. So looking forward to it.
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  We'll be we'll be out watching the IU game in that Rose Bowl
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  and cheering on the Hoosiers and hopefully they keep this thing
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  rolling do. You like to set up being New
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  Year's Eve in New Year's Day. Yes, absolutely.
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  I mean, you're keeping, you're basically you're keeping the
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  Rose Bowl. the Rose Bowl is always a New Year's Day game.
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  So you keeping the tradition of the Rose Bowl being being there
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  and, you know, nobody's working on New Year's Day.
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  So, you know, loaded up with some great college football
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  games three straight, you know, it's a full day.
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  Why not? I mean, I think that's
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  absolutely perfect. And I look, you're not going to
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  be too hammered to watch the game on New Year's Eve night at
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  7:30 when it starts. Now, the end might get a little
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  fuzzy if, if it's close, but no, I, I, I love this setup, the
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  triple header on New Year's Day with these three big games.
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  Now, the other bowl games that are happening that day kind of
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  get lost. But that's where we are now with
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  this new setup. Are there other actual bowl
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  games happening that day? I would assume there are.
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  I mean, I don't see the biggest. Do you not think there's any?
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  I think they probably pushed it to the second would be my guess.
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  I mean. I obviously probably should have
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  looked this up ahead of time, but.
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  Let me, I can, I can pull it up real quick.
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  I I don't think that there are other bowl games that day which
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  would. Be just absolutely wild
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  considering that January 1st is the day for bowl games.
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  A lot of games. New Year's Eve, I think you're
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  right, A lot of games. New Year's Eve for the day and
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  just three Yep, those are the only and then we get back at it
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  with four games on January 2nd. So yeah, they they cleared the
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  way. They cleared the way for the
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  College Football Playoff, as they should.
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  Because like I. Mean back in the day what, 10-15
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  games? Well, let me right, but let me
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  ask you if you're Cheez its and you're sponsoring?
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  The bowl there's no way you're going to get.
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  Like I'm not playing on New Year's Day against these three
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  games. Like if I'm a sponsor of a bowl
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  game, I'm refusing my bowl game to be on a college football
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  going up against College Football Playoff.
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  Makes it makes subtle sense. It makes subtle sense.
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  I guess the last question before we move on, you already talked
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  about Michael Irvin saying he's going to whip the Ohio State
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  jersey with this belt. We don't really do.
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  We need to go into that. No, he's just a crazy person.
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  I love Michael Irvin. I mean, he took that 12 man
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  jersey. It was just just to go into town
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  on it. And then he's like calling
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  Maurice Clarett, saying that he wants him to come to the game,
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  so where's Jersey? So when they lose, he can take
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  it off of him and beat it on the garbage can.
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  He's he's an insane human, but I like Michael Irvin.
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  I like his passion for the game. And he got to do that at College
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  Station as Miami beat Texas A&M on the road.
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  Should these top four playoff teams, are they getting a
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  disservice for the fact that they don't get to host a home
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  playoff game? Yeah, no, I think they
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  absolutely are. You know, you, they've earned
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  it. They've earned at least some
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  sort of advantage. Well, their advantage is to buy.
• 19:22
  That is the advantage. Some I actually might think it
• 19:25
  could be technically, maybe a disadvantage.
• 19:27
  But it's not. You get to free, you get a free
• 19:29
  pass. You do get a free pass, but no.
• 19:33
  That is the advantage. But I no, if you're doing the
• 19:36
  first round at home sites, I think these teams, the best of
• 19:39
  the best, deserve a chance to plan for other home fans.
• 19:41
  Like, could you imagine IU and Alabama and Bloomington IN and
• 19:45
  how much that would be in the atmosphere that would bring?
• 19:48
  And a lot of people are talking about how they think Alabama's
• 19:50
  going to win. I don't if it's in Bloomington,
• 19:52
  I don't think as many people are saying that.
• 19:54
  No, exactly. So you you're not getting the
• 19:57
  home field advantage. But then again, if you do that,
• 20:00
  then. Then there's no Rose Bowl,
• 20:01
  there's no Sugar Bowl, there's no Cotton Bowl, there's no, you
• 20:04
  know, these is. There another way to fix that?
• 20:07
  What's that? Is you just move those back to
• 20:10
  four non playoff games, give them to somebody else.
• 20:15
  When you going to watch, You going to watch?
• 20:17
  You going to watch Iowa versus? I'm not saying I'm not.
• 20:23
  Like Iowa versus Washington in the Rose Bowl.
• 20:25
  Well, would you rather that be the case and there not be home
• 20:29
  games like there is now? I just, I just think if you go
• 20:32
  into this round with them all four being home games, the
• 20:37
  atmospheres are going to be crazy and they're not.
• 20:40
  I mean, it's going to be 5050 at most of these venues close to
• 20:42
  it. The atmosphere will be fine.
• 20:45
  But if you got Alabama at IUI, mean just think about that
• 20:49
  environment. Yeah, and.
• 20:52
  Then and Texas Tech will get such an advantage over Oregon.
• 20:56
  Yeah. And.
• 20:58
  Ohio State, Miami, and yeah, yeah, I'm injured, yeah.
• 21:01
  So basically you're taking 4 bowl games, you're moving them
• 21:04
  out of the playoff, you're giving them to whatever you
• 21:06
  said, like Iowa, Washington or whatever.
• 21:08
  Nobody's watching these things anyways, which is This is why
• 21:12
  Orange Bowl and the Cotton Bowl are like, no, don't do it
• 21:15
  because not as many people, not as many eyes are going to be on
• 21:19
  it. So it's probably not going to
• 21:20
  happen. It's money, my guy.
• 21:21
  They're not. Money.
• 21:22
  It is money. Too much money.
• 21:25
  But it would be really cool if these games were hosted.
• 21:28
  Unless you just rename. And then you then and then you
• 21:30
  keep the semis in the championship.
• 21:32
  This would you just still put the sponsorship and all that and
• 21:35
  call it the the Cotton Bowl but just the cotton bowls being
• 21:39
  played in Columbus, OH this year no, you can't call it the
• 21:42
  Goodyear Cotton Bowl and we're. Going to put we're going to put
• 21:44
  the Rose Bowl in Bloomington. No, you can't do that.
• 21:48
  Well, the Rose Bowl, to me, the Rose Bowl is like the top of the
• 21:51
  top one of the top bowl. Like that should be always
• 21:53
  because you're going to go back to neutral sites in the semis.
• 21:57
  So just have the Rose Bowl be a semi final, permanent semi final
• 21:59
  match up. That's fine.
• 22:01
  Like when the there used to be a big four, there used to be a big
• 22:04
  four. It was the Orange, the sugar,
• 22:06
  the Fiesta and the Rose. Correct.
• 22:08
  So put the bowl in. Columbus.
• 22:11
  Put the Peach Bowl in Bloomington or whatever, and
• 22:17
  then you know. You could potentially do that
• 22:19
  like. You still can keep three out of
• 22:21
  the four. You can keep three out of the
• 22:22
  four as they are in neutral sites because you have 3 neutral
• 22:25
  site games. If you you know for the semis in
• 22:27
  the finals, you just whatever. The Peach and the cotton go back
• 22:32
  to what they were. They're out of the playoff.
• 22:34
  You run your four quarters at home venues.
• 22:37
  The sugar, the cotton or the sugar, the Fiesta, the the
• 22:40
  orange and the Rose alternate every year.
• 22:45
  Who gets the playoff? Yeah.
• 22:47
  And then you row to the national championship.
• 22:49
  Fine with me. No, I I'm all for it.
• 22:50
  I'm all for for these teams hosting, but it's.
• 22:53
  Not going to happen because of money.
• 22:57
  But if you go to a 16 team, which I think is probably coming
• 23:01
  down the Pike at some point, nobody gets a buy and then you
• 23:05
  would be hosting a first round playoff game.
• 23:07
  But in a year like this, it'd be like James Madison that they'd
• 23:10
  be hosting instead of Alabama. But there will be a time where
• 23:13
  these top four teams will probably end up hosting a game
• 23:16
  because there will be no more buys in the 16 team playoff.
• 23:19
  Yeah, everything is always going to expand.
• 23:22
  So you don't need to expand it. You don't need to.
• 23:26
  I think it's coming though. Don't.
• 23:28
  You I think it's coming, but we always got to change stuff like.
• 23:33
  You have a DS crying on television and.
• 23:36
  Tell your teams to be better. Don't disagree.
• 23:39
  I'll lose games. They'll disagree.
• 23:41
  Anything else on playoff? Nope, just looking forward to
• 23:44
  it. We'll talk about it again next
• 23:47
  week. Michigan's got a new coach.
• 23:49
  They do. They got a good one too.
• 23:51
  Yeah, he retired a couple weeks ago.
• 23:55
  Yeah. Which still is just kind of odd
• 24:00
  to me, but it's I he's at was that we looked it up. 34 years
• 24:06
  of Utah, 21 years as a head coach.
• 24:08
  Yeah, Has had a ton of success there.
• 24:10
  Really, that's just kind of built that program.
• 24:14
  But he retired before this Michigan job opens up.
• 24:16
  And I guess he really wasn't sure if I think he was content
• 24:20
  with being done coaching. Yeah, I mean, there wasn't
• 24:22
  really. He just kind of just stepped
• 24:24
  down and there wasn't, there was no controversy around.
• 24:27
  It wasn't like that he was in trouble for anything or you
• 24:29
  know, there wasn't any health issues that we knew of going on
• 24:32
  or anything like that. It's just kind of he would just
• 24:34
  kind of burnt out. It's what it seemed like and he
• 24:35
  was just ready to move on. And I guess when a job like
• 24:39
  Michigan comes calling, you pick up that phone.
• 24:42
  Yeah, he's what, five years old? I think close to that.
• 24:48
  So he's not going to be there for 20 years.
• 24:51
  I wouldn't think. Went to back-to-back Rose balls,
• 24:53
  Rose bowls at Utah in 21 and 22 lost them both career record
• 24:58
  there is 177 and 88. So has had a ton of success and.
• 25:03
  He's won two PAC 12 titles. He's won a Mountain West title.
• 25:05
  He's 10 and two this year they were ranked 15th.
• 25:07
  I mean, you get a quality coach like that this late in in the
• 25:11
  coaching carousel season because you know, like everybody else
• 25:14
  was already claimed their guys and you're kind of looking
• 25:17
  around and like who's left and you've got a guy that's the
• 25:21
  coaching the number 15 ranked team in the country.
• 25:24
  That doesn't have a job. That doesn't have a job.
• 25:26
  So yeah, you, I don't think you're paying a buyout to me.
• 25:29
  I don't think that's what I'm saying.
• 25:32
  Kind of just fell on their lap almost.
• 25:34
  And that's a, it's a great pickup.
• 25:36
  But it when when he took the Michigan job, he said he wasn't
• 25:39
  sure if he was finished coaching or not.
• 25:40
  He knew he had a lot of left in the tank, could count on one
• 25:43
  hand the number of jobs he'd be receptive to.
• 25:45
  Michigan, obviously, I would say it's one of those schools.
• 25:48
  And now he's there. I, I look, Michigan, you're in a
• 25:54
  tough spot. You, you lose your coach, like
• 25:56
  you said, after most of the coaching carousel was over, you
• 26:00
  got this guy who's had success for over 20 years and now he's
• 26:03
  doing it in a, in a big powerful conference.
• 26:05
  I mean, there may be, is there a little bit of concern the fact
• 26:08
  that he was content to retire maybe a little bit, But as an
• 26:13
  athletic director when you're doing the interviews, I mean, I
• 26:16
  think that's 100% something you talk about.
• 26:19
  Did you just, you just basically retired couple weeks ago there.
• 26:23
  You sure you want to jump back into this?
• 26:25
  And. I obviously got an answer that
• 26:27
  was, you know, made it worth it. Yeah, I mean, as you mentioned,
• 26:31
  he's he's 66 years old. He did just step away.
• 26:35
  So it to me, I don't know if this is a long term solution for
• 26:38
  Michigan or is this just the stopgap to get you through, you
• 26:42
  know, maybe the next four or five years.
• 26:44
  Hopefully, you know, he wins some some games, maybe try to
• 26:46
  get you to the a couple big 10 championships or compete for
• 26:49
  national championship. And then you know, once you get
• 26:52
  to the the height of the pinnacle again, you move on.
• 26:54
  So like there was just like there, to me, there was a lot of
• 26:58
  options out there. He was available.
• 27:00
  I think it could be like a, a short term, couple year
• 27:02
  solution. Looks like he's 66 years old.
• 27:05
  So it's definitely probably not a long term solution.
• 27:08
  Then you see what the next big thing is here in a couple years.
• 27:12
  Yeah, that would be my only concern, the the fact that he
• 27:16
  already retired. But I mean, he's got the
• 27:18
  credentials. You've got a guy on there who is
• 27:22
  going to be excited to come in and see what he can do.
• 27:24
  I I think you're getting 10 years I would say at the most.
• 27:27
  I don't even know if he's going to go tie.
• 27:28
  I guess I think it's more like a 545 year solution.
• 27:32
  That's why I said. That's why I said that the most.
• 27:35
  Yeah. But I mean, I've talked to some
• 27:38
  Michigan people and they're really excited about this hire.
• 27:41
  I don't see why they wouldn't be.
• 27:42
  Yeah. What's our boy T-bone thing?
• 27:46
  He was excited. He was excited.
• 27:48
  And I mean, we're were they ever sold on Shrum Moore?
• 27:51
  I don't know. Yeah.
• 27:53
  But I mean, the fact that you you lose your coach after almost
• 27:56
  everybody's hired coaches and you're able to get a gala at
• 27:58
  that quality, I think is a win regardless of the fact whether
• 28:03
  you don't know if he wants to retire or not.
• 28:05
  No, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's an A+ hire in my mind,
• 28:09
  absolutely. We were in Cincy on Sunday.
• 28:14
  Yeah, it was 60° warmer than it was two weeks prior.
• 28:21
  So you you did not have to scrape ice and snow off your
• 28:23
  seat this week. No ice on the seats.
• 28:27
  We did get to sing the Bengals fight song.
• 28:30
  Song we did several times, five times to be to be exact as the
• 28:38
  Bengals kind of look like the team that a lot of Bengals fans
• 28:43
  hope that they look like all year.
• 28:45
  Putting it on an inferior team 37 to 14 as they just, I mean
• 28:51
  waxed the Arizona. Cardinals, yeah, I mean, it
• 28:53
  wasn't close. It was, you know, as a as a
• 28:56
  Bengals fan, one of the more fun games that we've been to.
• 28:58
  We come off the most miserable game of our lives and get to
• 29:01
  enjoy 65° sunny weather in in late December and watch our team
• 29:07
  go up 30 on on the Cardinals. And are the Cardinals on an
• 29:11
  inferior opponent? Absolutely.
• 29:12
  But you do what you're supposed to do to inferior opponents and
• 29:15
  that's just absolutely kick their butts.
• 29:17
  And the Bengals did it in in every phase of the game.
• 29:19
  I mean, offensively, they threw the ball well.
• 29:22
  Joe Burrow at 305 yards, 2 touchdowns, no picks.
• 29:25
  The running game was going Chase Brown over 100 yards out in the
• 29:29
  end zone twice. I mean, we're out there.
• 29:32
  They was going so well that we started throwing out routes to
• 29:35
  our 325 LB offensive lineman and watching him chug down the field
• 29:40
  for 21 yards. So it was fun.
• 29:42
  The defense played well. I mean, it was overall it was
• 29:44
  fun. We saw Shamar Stewart get his
• 29:46
  first NFL career sack on Sunday. So things were going well in all
• 29:52
  phases of the game. So it was a lot of fun.
• 29:54
  Just wish that it it meant something but you know.
• 29:58
  It I mean it, it means momentum for the next season.
• 30:02
  Stop it. You get tired of hearing that?
• 30:04
  Stop it. But we were walking in the
• 30:07
  stadium and we knew that Jamar Chase hadn't scored since
• 30:10
  October. Yeah.
• 30:11
  You knew that Joe was going to try to get him the ball and get
• 30:14
  him in the end zone. Yep.
• 30:15
  So hit me. Hit me a little little little
• 30:17
  first Test first Tuddy Jamar. Good for you Which?
• 30:21
  Was which was a good first it. Was a great move I.
• 30:24
  Mean, but yeah, I mean Joe Burrow I think had one in
• 30:27
  completion on passes where he wasn't in under pressure.
• 30:31
  So and he had a clean pocket pretty much the whole game.
• 30:35
  The offensive line has been as good as it's been.
• 30:37
  It's been really good. I mean, uncle, Uncle Steve sent
• 30:40
  us that that graphic this morning on the O line grades
• 30:45
  from like the past six weeks and all of them are ranked up in in
• 30:48
  the top 15, most of them in the top 15, top 20 in the NFL in
• 30:52
  their positions. So it's been been really,
• 30:55
  really, really good. Their second overall, I think in
• 30:57
  the last six games on their pass protection numbers, it's I would
• 31:02
  not touch the I would bring all those guys back offensive.
• 31:05
  I wouldn't really touch the offense at all to be honest
• 31:07
  with. You no, you don't I mean, you
• 31:08
  got to you got to resign Dalton Rosner, but I, I think there's
• 31:11
  mutual interest and I think that'll get done.
• 31:15
  But yeah, overall the the defense was continues to look
• 31:20
  better. I mean, I know Arizona isn't the
• 31:23
  best offense in the NFL, but they've scored some points this
• 31:25
  year and other than that one play to to Michael Wilson where
• 31:31
  we forgot the Bengals forgot how to tackle and look like what
• 31:33
  they've looked like all year. Just brutal.
• 31:36
  I mean, you see the steel pictures with five defenders
• 31:40
  around him he's and that doesn't count the sideline, which would
• 31:43
  be a six defender and he somehow finds a way to score.
• 31:49
  I mean, Dax Hill was was good yesterday.
• 31:52
  DJ Turner continues to be good. The linebackers played better.
• 31:57
  Still not great, but they played better.
• 31:59
  That was we got a good pass rush.
• 32:01
  I mean, how would you end up with 3-4 sacks?
• 32:03
  I think defensive. Yeah.
• 32:04
  But I I think that's good. But I think a lot of that has to
• 32:07
  do with the coverage too. Yeah.
• 32:11
  So look, I just, I just don't want to get into this a positive
• 32:16
  momentum. Everything stays the same.
• 32:18
  That's what's happened in the last several years and that's.
• 32:21
  That's that's the route they're on right now.
• 32:24
  And I think it's week 17. There's there's 6 and 10.
• 32:28
  And I mean, I have lost all confidence in the fact that
• 32:32
  there's going to be any changes to the coaching staff or to the
• 32:36
  front office. So now my full commitment is
• 32:41
  just make moves in the offseason like Go signed a veteran at the
• 32:47
  1st at the first level, the second level and the third
• 32:49
  level. Use Trey's money to go go sign
• 32:52
  people because Duke's going to be there.
• 32:54
  I'll tell Al Golden's going to be there and Zach's going to be
• 32:57
  there all. Right, that's I can't take that.
• 33:04
  But you got to do like they did at the beginning of the Zach
• 33:07
  Taylor era, where you're going to get you're signing Larry
• 33:10
  Ogun, Joby's you're signing DJ readers, you're signing a woozy
• 33:14
  ace. You're signing.
• 33:16
  Yeah. Who else am I leaving out?
• 33:17
  Ron Bell. Ron Bell, you know you're
• 33:21
  signing Mike Hilton, that these are the signings, that they.
• 33:25
  This is the offseason where it has to happen and.
• 33:29
  Who's going to put the pressure on the front office to do that?
• 33:32
  That's where I think the players need to get involved.
• 33:35
  Well, I mean, they there should be pressure.
• 33:36
  You've lost. You've not gone to the
• 33:38
  postseason three years in a row. Do you need more pressure?
• 33:40
  Than last year, yeah, there wasn't last year.
• 33:43
  We can fix it with the new our new defensive coordinator.
• 33:47
  You you made it to the Super Bowl, then you go to the AFC
• 33:50
  title game and then all of a sudden you can't even make the
• 33:52
  playoffs for three straight years.
• 33:54
  And we like people are OK with that.
• 33:55
  Like, what are we doing? You're wasting, you're wasting
• 33:58
  Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase and T Higgins and Chase Pratt.
• 34:01
  You're wasting one of the greatest offenses.
• 34:03
  If not, it's probably is the greatest offense in Bengals
• 34:06
  history. Well, and now you've got that
• 34:08
  with an offensive line that is not one of the worst in the NFL.
• 34:12
  You got us, but you can't score 40 points and lose like they
• 34:15
  have This year. They scored 40 points in loss
• 34:17
  this year. They scored 38 points in loss.
• 34:19
  I mean. We've talked about their record
• 34:20
  when you can't, like if I'm Joe Burrow.
• 34:24
  I'm going to the front office and I'm basically forcing their
• 34:27
  hand. Well, do you not think he's
• 34:28
  doing that? I don't know.
• 34:31
  I mean, he did it last year with T, with Jamal.
• 34:33
  He got his, he got his offensive weapons, he got it.
• 34:35
  Right. No, he got Trey back.
• 34:38
  You got trade back. This year, you're not bringing
• 34:40
  Trey back. No, but I would franchise him
• 34:43
  and trade him. I mean, I would love that, but I
• 34:45
  don't trust the organ. I don't trust them to do it
• 34:48
  effectively. Like, just take his $35 million
• 34:52
  and split that into the three players, one at each level.
• 34:57
  Yeah. And continue to hope that Miles
• 35:00
  Murphy continues to get better. You know that.
• 35:04
  Mark. Stewart continues to get better.
• 35:07
  I mean, TJ Sighton's back again. Next year is a free agent I
• 35:10
  think. Huh.
• 35:12
  Osaya free agent. Yeah.
• 35:13
  So Osaya is a free agent, but I mean, you could potentially
• 35:16
  bring him back. But if you don't, if you're not
• 35:18
  going to do anything with the staff or the front office,
• 35:21
  you've got to improve the personnel on defense.
• 35:24
  Well, Gino, if they don't do that.
• 35:25
  They don't. You know, if Gino Stone is on
• 35:27
  this roster in 2026, I'm not going to a game.
• 35:30
  He will not be. He will not be on the I.
• 35:31
  Will not go to a single game if Gino Stone is on the roster.
• 35:34
  I promise you. If Dax Hill is on my roster, I
• 35:37
  will not go to a single game. If what?
• 35:39
  If Dax Hill is a starter on this defense, I might not go to a
• 35:42
  single. Game.
• 35:42
  Well, Dax Hill has been really good.
• 35:43
  Not Dax Hill. Sorry Cam Taylor Britt.
• 35:47
  Cam Taylor Britt is on my roster.
• 35:48
  Sorry if he's on my roster. Here's the thing, Cam might be
• 35:52
  on the roster. He better not start.
• 35:53
  It won't be as a starter and it'll be because they've got him
• 35:57
  pretty cheap because nobody else has offered me a contract.
• 35:59
  So that shouldn't be the reason that you're not a fan next year,
• 36:05
  but he you do not want him to be one of your starting corners.
• 36:10
  No. We already got into the the
• 36:11
  Christmas Day games. They were all just pretty bad,
• 36:16
  so we don't need to get into that.
• 36:19
  Texans what How many in a row they've won?
• 36:21
  Now they're 11 and five. They've won eight in a row.
• 36:27
  Yeah, Jacksonville and on West 7th, I think they keep winning,
• 36:30
  but so does Jacksonville. They they can't actually ever
• 36:33
  catch up. Yeah, the the Colts go on three
• 36:36
  with Philip Rivers and now they just announced that he will not
• 36:38
  start and wait at Luke 18. But I I guess the story of this
• 36:43
  week was the Steelers had a chance to clinch the AFC North.
• 36:49
  All they had to do was beat the Browns, who had three wins on
• 36:54
  the year, and they couldn't do it.
• 36:58
  I it's unbelievable. I mean, that's you would think
• 37:01
  as a, as a Steelers fan, I mean, I know DK Metcalf was suspended,
• 37:05
  but it's the Cleveland Browns. Like I don't understand what the
• 37:10
  issue is with the Steelers and the Browns, but it's they just
• 37:14
  seem to be the Browns seem to be the Steelers kryptonite.
• 37:16
  Yeah, they've lost, what, four in a row in in Cleveland?
• 37:23
  That's just crazy. But yeah, you've got.
• 37:29
  I mean, I showed you the Mike Tomlin stat, right?
• 37:31
  What is it? Well, the Steelers are winless
• 37:34
  in their last five games, so they're O four and one in their
• 37:37
  last five games when they play a team that is eight games or more
• 37:41
  below 500, O four and one in their last five against teams
• 37:45
  that are 8 games or more below 500.
• 37:48
  And look, there's been talk about Mike Tomlin being on the
• 37:51
  hot seat in Pittsburgh, and then two weeks ago, it looks like
• 37:55
  they're in a perfect position to to cleanse the AFC North.
• 37:59
  And then they go and do that and.
• 38:01
  I mean, I don't know if he should be on the hot seat
• 38:04
  because the man just continues to win and have winning seasons
• 38:06
  every single year, including this one.
• 38:08
  But if you somehow lose at home next week to one of your most
• 38:12
  hated rivals, if not the most hated rival, Baltimore Ravens to
• 38:15
  lose the division and lose out on the playoffs in a year that
• 38:20
  the AFC North has been absolutely pretty bad.
• 38:23
  I mean, it's been pretty bad. Lamar's been hurt.
• 38:26
  The Ravens aren't the normal Ravens.
• 38:28
  The Bengals aren't the normal Bengals.
• 38:29
  The Browns are still the Browns. And you choke that away.
• 38:32
  I mean, I don't think he should be on the hot seat because he,
• 38:35
  like I said, he wins. But that's that's going to be
• 38:36
  tough to stomach in the offseason.
• 38:38
  Well, the Ravens are favored and the momentum's on their side.
• 38:42
  They might be with or without Lamar.
• 38:44
  They played well without Lamar playing with the.
• 38:46
  Ravens What a concept. Hand the ball to Derrick Henry.
• 38:50
  What a. Concept.
• 38:53
  Like for for real? Like what a concept?
• 38:56
  Where's it? Been.
• 38:57
  Where's it all been? But yeah, I mean.
• 39:01
  If the Ravens figure out a way to win this division, and I mean
• 39:04
  like I said, they're favored, next week, it'll be.
• 39:07
  With the fact that. Lamar has missed as many games
• 39:10
  as he had, and when he's played, he hasn't looked even close to
• 39:13
  what Lamar were accustomed to seeing.
• 39:15
  And they were, what, one in five to start?
• 39:17
  The year, yeah, I mean. It.
• 39:21
  And there's been a lot of talk about will Harbaugh or will
• 39:25
  Lamar not be back next year? And I mean, if they figure out a
• 39:30
  way to win the division this year, I know, I know the
• 39:32
  division's down and that plays a factor.
• 39:35
  But I mean, you got to give them some credit for that.
• 39:39
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 39:41
  I if I wouldn't be surprised if the Ravens will lose on Sunday
• 39:46
  if Harball is is not there going into next year.
• 39:53
  But if they, like you said, if they find a way to win it, win
• 39:55
  the division, then all of a sudden they're hosting a playoff
• 39:57
  game and anything can happen when you're home field advantage
• 40:00
  in the NFL playoffs. So they probably will.
• 40:04
  May or may not be favored in that depending on who they're
• 40:06
  playing, but I don't think the AFC North team's going to be
• 40:09
  favored. Regardless who they play the
• 40:11
  five scene. Yeah, it could be Buffalo or
• 40:15
  could. Yeah, yeah.
• 40:16
  But I mean the. NFL got what they wanted, yeah,
• 40:21
  and. That game's immediately Sunday
• 40:22
  night. Yeah.
• 40:25
  And then you got. The Bucks and the.
• 40:26
  Panthers on Saturday afternoon. For the division.
• 40:30
  If the Panthers win, they do what the.
• 40:34
  Bucks are eliminated. After the.
• 40:35
  The win last night by Atlanta, so the Bucks cannot win the
• 40:40
  division is that I'd tell you I was reading.
• 40:42
  Earlier today that if the Bucks won, they won the division, but
• 40:45
  if they they needed, they needed the Panthers have to win to
• 40:50
  clench it. Is it over?
• 40:53
  It is. They.
• 40:54
  Might. Well, No.
• 40:56
  Well, let's see. Seven and a It's not the
• 40:59
  Falcons. Yeah, if the Falcons win.
• 41:02
  If the Falcons. Win on Sunday.
• 41:05
  I think the Bucks are out, yes. So the Panthers.
• 41:09
  Win, they're in. If the Bucks win, they need the
• 41:11
  Falcons to lose, yes, correct. So they.
• 41:13
  Don't technically control their own destiny because they have to
• 41:16
  win. You have a chance, correct?
• 41:18
  And then they need other help. Instead of it just being a
• 41:21
  straight up yeah, instead of it being yeah.
• 41:24
  And that's because the Falcons. Are now seven and nine overall
• 41:28
  and four and one on prime time games as they as they went up 21
• 41:32
  nothing and held on to beat the well didn't held on they got a
• 41:34
  late filled up to beat the Rams who.
• 41:37
  Now have lost two in a row. The 49ers.
• 41:40
  Bears game on Sunday. Night was was probably the game
• 41:43
  of the week. We were looking like the Bears
• 41:45
  have been down. That's a 2 minute warning in
• 41:47
  almost every game and they always figure out a way to win.
• 41:50
  It looked like it. Was going to happen again.
• 41:54
  Brock Pardi. And the Niners, man.
• 41:57
  They look legit, they're good, put up 42 points.
• 42:01
  Yeah, no, they, they are good. They're what are they in 3rd
• 42:05
  down the division or second in the division?
• 42:07
  They can still win the division. Yeah, they're. 12:00 and 4:00.
• 42:10
  Yeah, then he has a win and a Seattle loss.
• 42:13
  Yeah. I mean they could be the.
• 42:16
  One seed. That's incredible.
• 42:18
  Yeah, The the. Niners could be the one seed.
• 42:20
  If everything plays out right next week, yeah, they've got the
• 42:23
  second fewest losses. Yeah, in the league, yeah.
• 42:27
  No, that would be incredible. I mean, that's like a great job
• 42:30
  out there by San Francisco. I mean, it's a team that we
• 42:33
  haven't really talked about all these West Coast.
• 42:35
  I mean, it's it's been Seahawks and Rams, Seahawks and Rams,
• 42:39
  Seahawks and Rams. And we've kind of slept on the
• 42:43
  49ers. I mean, we haven't really ranked
• 42:44
  them high in our our weekly top 10s, but this week I think that
• 42:49
  they'll be up there. What do you want to start that
• 42:51
  right now? We can.
• 42:54
  Yeah, Who's got the first pick? I think I've got the first pick.
• 42:58
  And I mean, I, I think you got to go to the other team in in
• 43:02
  the NFC West, the Seahawks. Yeah, no, I would agree with
• 43:06
  that. I mean, I've had.
• 43:07
  Them in my top, either my top pick or second pick for like the
• 43:10
  last several weeks. So I mean, they're the only team
• 43:13
  in the league with there's no no, there's one other team
• 43:15
  there, two other teams. So they're tied for the NFL lead
• 43:18
  with only three losses, but they're playing in probably the
• 43:22
  toughest division in the NFL, and I would put them at one as
• 43:26
  well #2 this is a hard. This is hard, Yeah.
• 43:31
  I mean. I mean, I would have maybe you
• 43:33
  said. Buffalo until they lose to the
• 43:35
  Eagles at home. And then, you know, you're
• 43:38
  sitting there looking at the at the Broncos at 13 and three and
• 43:42
  never really been a big believer in the Broncos, but you know,
• 43:45
  they just lost at home to Jacksonville two weeks ago,
• 43:50
  Holly. And then we just talked about
• 43:51
  the. 49ers, I guess I'll go. New England Patriots at #2 at 13
• 43:56
  and 3 leaders in the actually they're now they're the division
• 44:00
  winners since Buffalo lost. So division winning New England
• 44:05
  Patriots, I'll put them at #2 yeah.
• 44:08
  And I mean. Drag May is now the leading
• 44:10
  candidate to win the MVP, which is just just crazy dude, I'm
• 44:16
  going we haven't talked about them much, but I'm going Niners
• 44:19
  at 3rd. I mean they've.
• 44:21
  Overcome the injuries they've. Had and are playing the best
• 44:25
  football they played all season. Brock Pardi looks incredible.
• 44:30
  Give me the Niners next at 4:00. I'll go the Jacksonville.
• 44:33
  Jaguars, They've won seven in a row.
• 44:35
  Like I said, Houston Texans have won eight in a row but can't get
• 44:38
  gain any ground on them. Seven in a row.
• 44:41
  They had that big win in a pretty dominating fashion in
• 44:44
  Denver just last weekend. So I would take Bob Jacksonville
• 44:48
  Jaguars to 12:00 and 4:00 at the number three spot or four spot.
• 44:53
  You get a bunch. Of 11 and five teams here that I
• 44:57
  would like to pick, but I mean, I just, I can't ignore the
• 45:01
  Broncos at at 13 and three at six.
• 45:04
  I think it would be irresponsible to to go somewhere
• 45:08
  else with that pick. I don't.
• 45:11
  I mean, I know they're 13. And three, but we briefly talked
• 45:14
  about him and who's playing the best football right now in the
• 45:17
  NFL, and it's AW8 in Houston. Is that what you got here?
• 45:22
  Yeah. I'm going Houston now at number.
• 45:24
  What are we on number six? I mean, they're 11 and five,
• 45:27
  like I said, W 8. So we started out three and five
• 45:30
  will make the playoffs and that's a team that you don't
• 45:32
  want to face in the playoffs because they they are hot.
• 45:34
  Do you trust CJ Shroud enough? I trust them enough.
• 45:37
  That I think they can win. Give me the Eagles.
• 45:43
  Yeah, defending Super Bowl champions.
• 45:45
  It was between them and the Rams, and the Rams are lost two
• 45:48
  in a row, and the Eagles are defending champs.
• 45:50
  So I'm going now. It's hard to trust the Chicago
• 45:52
  Bears. I know they're. 11 and five
• 45:53
  yeah, I'll probably go the Rams next.
• 45:56
  I mean, I know they they're they're on a on an L2.
• 46:00
  Let's let's go with the Rams. They they almost came back and
• 46:04
  won that last night in Atlanta, but it's hard to ignore them. 11
• 46:07
  and five in the toughest division in football.
• 46:10
  We'll go Rams, and I mean I'm clinging, but.
• 46:13
  I I'm I can't not put Josh Allen in the Bills on this list, so
• 46:17
  give me them at 9:00. We got the Chargers.
• 46:22
  I mean, I guess you got to go with another division winner at
• 46:26
  #10 with the Chicago Bears. I mean, they showed enough fight
• 46:30
  in that game against the 49ers where I actually think that
• 46:32
  they're better. I still can't believe that
• 46:34
  they're good, but they're better than still that.
• 46:37
  I give them crunch. They just keep winning games.
• 46:40
  And you thought it was going to happen again on Sunday night and
• 46:42
  it finally doesn't. I mean, they've they keep.
• 46:45
  Surprising me week after week. So maybe it's time we start
• 46:48
  trusting them a little bit and we'll I'll put them in the top
• 46:50
  ten. You just look at the Super Bowl
• 46:52
  odds. And it just shows you this
• 46:57
  season is just so different than maybe any season we've ever
• 47:00
  seen. The Seattle Seahawks are the the
• 47:05
  number one choice at plus 550. The Rams are plus 600, the
• 47:09
  Broncos 800. The Niners are 900.
• 47:13
  I mean, it's just so wide open. It's wide.
• 47:16
  I mean, yeah, you don't. Have that dominant Chiefs team
• 47:19
  or the dominant Patriots team or even the Eagles we thought might
• 47:23
  be more dominant than they were this year, and they're really
• 47:25
  not. I mean.
• 47:27
  If I had to. If I had to pick who I honestly
• 47:30
  think wins the Super Bowl, I'm probably going with the Buffalo
• 47:34
  Bills still, even though they lost at home.
• 47:37
  When I date with, I'm showing like, I don't know why he went
• 47:40
  for two just you had all the momentum in that game against
• 47:43
  the He's wide open. You kick the field goal.
• 47:48
  You kick the extra point, you go to overtime, you got all the
• 47:50
  momentum. You just came back from 2 scores
• 47:52
  down at home. I think they.
• 47:56
  No question when that game in overtime if they would have just
• 47:58
  trusted it, yeah, I mean it plus.
• 48:01
  One, they're +1000 and you're getting Josh Allen, who of this
• 48:06
  group, I think there's no question he's the best
• 48:09
  quarterback of the group. I mean, maybe Matt Stafford, but
• 48:14
  I mean the Niners at +900 maybe. I mean you're getting.
• 48:18
  Them at a lot better. Price than the Seahawks and the
• 48:20
  Rams. I mean, three out of the top
• 48:22
  four are all in the same division and the Seahawks are 13
• 48:25
  to 3 in that division, which is, I mean, the Chargers are +2000,
• 48:30
  the Bears are plus 1700. I mean, Justin Herbert could go
• 48:35
  on a run. I I just, I don't, I just.
• 48:39
  Nobody. 'S great and and it goes back to
• 48:43
  just the Bengals man, just not ruining your season.
• 48:48
  I'd feel like you'd have a chance.
• 48:49
  Even with the defense they have right now, I would think they
• 48:52
  have a chance. I mean we did just see him put
• 48:54
  up 0 points. Against Baltimore.
• 48:56
  But yeah, I mean, that's that's another.
• 48:59
  Team that that. If they sneak in is interesting
• 49:02
  is the Baltimore Ravens plus 2200 that's.
• 49:06
  Crazy because they'd be hosting a first.
• 49:07
  Round playoff game, if they get in, you've got Derrick Henry,
• 49:12
  who's still one of the best running backs in the league, a
• 49:15
  decent defense and a two time MVP is your quarterback.
• 49:19
  I don't, I don't think they're very good.
• 49:20
  So. I, I don't, I don't either, but.
• 49:23
  I wouldn't sleep on them. I mean, they had the Patriots on
• 49:26
  the ropes. They blew, absolutely blew that
• 49:28
  game against the Patriots. And then they go into Green Bay
• 49:31
  and dominate the Packers. Yeah.
• 49:33
  I mean, they've looked good the last two weeks.
• 49:35
  But and they kicked our butts and you think that?
• 49:37
  We can beat anybody. So I mean, we've had.
• 49:40
  The Bills on the ropes. I know we had the Patriot got a
• 49:43
  chance to beat the Patriots with Joe Flacco.
• 49:46
  I know. Wait, it's just the difference
• 49:49
  between 10:00 and 6:00 and 6:00 and 10:00?
• 49:52
  It's so minuscule. Yeah.
• 49:54
  And it's just, it's frustrating. Yeah.
• 49:57
  Especially when you've got one of the best quarterbacks and one
• 49:59
  of the best offenses in the league.
• 50:01
  You just need your defense to be mediocre to not like mediocre to
• 50:06
  not good. You just can't be the worst.
• 50:10
  Be the 20. 4th ranked defense. I would love to be the 24th
• 50:14
  ranked. Defense, it is what it is.
• 50:17
  But no, it'll be it'll be a lot of fun this weekend with couple
• 50:20
  division races still to be determined.
• 50:22
  So I'll be tuned in on on that Steelers Ravens game for sure.
• 50:26
  And then I guess transition to college.
• 50:28
  Hoops and all the talk, and I think as it probably should be,
• 50:36
  is about. Baylor signing.
• 50:38
  James Naji, who was drafted by the Detroit Pistons and the 2023
• 50:46
  draft with the 31st pick, traded to Boston, then traded to the
• 50:54
  Knicks in the trade that involved Karl Anthony Towns,
• 50:58
  Dante Vincenzo and Julius Randall in 2024.
• 51:04
  Was traded, included in a trade with All Stars, and now he's
• 51:07
  signing with Baylor. Ineligible immediately.
• 51:11
  Eligible immediately on top of it.
• 51:15
  Can play in the. Spring semester.
• 51:17
  Explain it. I can't.
• 51:19
  I mean, I honestly, I can't. And, you know, a lot of people
• 51:23
  want to blame Baylor or Scott Drew or, you know, like
• 51:27
  Louisville and Pat Kelsey took a kid from the G League and
• 51:29
  there's a couple other kids from the G League that are that are
• 51:31
  following that same route. But it's not their fault.
• 51:34
  I mean, they're playing within the rules.
• 51:36
  It's just that there are right now doesn't seem to be any
• 51:39
  rules. Like it doesn't seem to be any
• 51:41
  rules. There's no, and I think that's
• 51:43
  what most of these college coaches, coaches, Tom Izzo and
• 51:46
  you've heard John Calipari's comments, you know, recently.
• 51:50
  I think they're more looking at the NCAA for leadership and
• 51:54
  guidance and there's just nothing there right now.
• 51:57
  So the NCAA doesn't want to get sued a million times.
• 52:00
  And the easiest way for them to not get sued a million times is
• 52:03
  to just say you're eligible. It's just gotten out of hand.
• 52:06
  I mean, like, I don't see how you can be involved in official
• 52:10
  league business in the top professional league in the
• 52:12
  world. Like you've been traded in and
• 52:17
  then go back to college and and look and if he's an.
• 52:20
  American born player. He couldn't do this.
• 52:23
  He couldn't do this. It's and it's just looking at it
• 52:28
  on the surface, it makes 00 sense.
• 52:34
  Yeah, something that would never have been that.
• 52:38
  Would couldn't even imagine it but three years ago, but to
• 52:42
  their defence. If you're going to let, if
• 52:46
  they're going to let you get this guy, you go get and he
• 52:48
  wants to come play. And you got the.
• 52:50
  Money to pay, Yeah. I mean, what does Tiger said?
• 52:53
  I mean, he, I didn't know they told us he could play.
• 52:55
  So I'm happy. Yeah, I mean, he never, never.
• 52:58
  Played a college game and it's not like like there's a lot of
• 53:03
  teams currently that have professional basketball players
• 53:06
  on their, on their college rosters from, you know, leagues
• 53:09
  in Germany, leagues in Turkey, leagues in Australia, like all
• 53:12
  these overseas leagues that these players have played
• 53:14
  professionally in Greece and etcetera that have been eligible
• 53:18
  and have been playing, you know, for a year or two now.
• 53:21
  So it's the same type of deal. It's just the NBA is just looked
• 53:24
  at as the the high, I mean, as it should be.
• 53:26
  It's it's the top of the top. It's the greatest professional
• 53:28
  league in the world, but there's no really no difference between
• 53:35
  professionals for overseas playing in a professional in the
• 53:37
  American professional league playing.
• 53:39
  It's the same logic, yeah. I mean every, everything changed
• 53:44
  obviously in 2021 and we knew, I mean that it.
• 53:51
  Was going to kind of be the wild wild.
• 53:52
  West, when the whole NRL thing went, went into effect.
• 53:57
  I mean, the whole point was for people to be able to get paid
• 54:01
  for doing sponsorships and to sign autographs and they should
• 54:05
  be able to get paid for that, right?
• 54:07
  But now it's just, it's blank checks, it's collectives, it's
• 54:12
  and there's nobody that is regulating anything now.
• 54:16
  There's no collective bargaining agreement.
• 54:17
  None. Of none of that it's it is kind
• 54:20
  of it's chaos. Do do you I mean?
• 54:23
  With this kid for Baylor. He's probably not getting paid
• 54:25
  that much what to get traded to from the Bulls to the Clippers
• 54:30
  or the Wolves or whatever. He's probably he's going to go
• 54:32
  make more playing college basketball than he is as a
• 54:34
  professional. And that's the way most of these
• 54:37
  kids are that that are doing this.
• 54:39
  Yeah. I don't I.
• 54:40
  Mean does college basketball, college football, do they all
• 54:45
  need individual commissioners? Does their needs just need to be
• 54:48
  1 commissioner that is right like it?
• 54:51
  There needs to be some sort as are his rights.
• 54:55
  So like this? Kid from Baylor.
• 54:57
  Are his rights owned by an NBA team?
• 54:59
  Like who was he with the Wolves? He's already been through the
• 55:01
  draft. Oh no, that's.
• 55:02
  What I'm saying is like so. If he's, I would say the Knicks
• 55:05
  have his rights, so the. Knicks OK, so if he's good, I.
• 55:07
  Don't know for a fact if he's good.
• 55:09
  Does he just re enter the? Draft.
• 55:11
  And if you're the Knicks and you're like hold on now.
• 55:13
  Like you don't just get him. This whole thing is just how
• 55:18
  does. It work if you've I don't.
• 55:20
  Know I don't. That's what doesn't make any
• 55:22
  sense. Well, then, the NBA.
• 55:24
  But the NBA? Has to come out and say
• 55:25
  something then too. It's like if this kid does come
• 55:28
  back like he has to go back to the team that he left would be
• 55:31
  my guess. Well, and then you're telling me
• 55:34
  before we get. On I didn't even know about
• 55:35
  this. Trenton Flowers, who's played a
• 55:38
  game for the Bulls this year, played six games for the
• 55:40
  Clippers last year, is looking to get back in the college
• 55:43
  hoops. Yeah, he's averaging 2.
• 55:45
  Points a game in his two games played this year for the Bulls.
• 55:48
  He just played on December 7th in an actual NBA game.
• 55:51
  Eight games total in his career. I but he's never played in
• 55:56
  college. Like all these kids that have
• 55:59
  come have never played college basketball.
• 56:02
  And if you're a kid like Flowers or, or a guy like the the guy
• 56:05
  that that we're just talking about that went to Baylor Naji,
• 56:09
  this is a chance. For you to reset.
• 56:12
  Well, try to get. Your try to get your.
• 56:14
  Prospects back up and then hopefully you know, the second
• 56:16
  go around you actually make it like it's a degree.
• 56:21
  Even a thought. In any of this?
• 56:22
  No. Not at all.
• 56:25
  Not even. In, it's not even in the.
• 56:27
  Thought process, no. And, and that's what Calipari's
• 56:30
  point. Was, was, you know, if you have
• 56:32
  a kid that transfers, transfers 4 different times, is that kid
• 56:35
  going to get a degree? It's impossible.
• 56:37
  It's impossible for you to transfer four different times
• 56:39
  and have everything transfer over and all your credits match
• 56:42
  up and this and that and for you to get a degree.
• 56:45
  And, and his point was spot on. It's all about following the
• 56:48
  money. The college degree does not
• 56:51
  matter. Nobody's thinking about that.
• 56:53
  And he made a lot of good points, yeah.
• 56:56
  He did. I mean, let's be fair, like he
• 57:00
  used to be a way ahead of the game back in the day.
• 57:02
  And now it's a level playing field and then you get a little
• 57:05
  perturbed a little bit, right. But it is unfair to a lot of lot
• 57:10
  of like, like somebody was in this spot on Baylor that was
• 57:13
  going to get playing time and now you're getting you're
• 57:16
  getting stepped over in the middle of the season.
• 57:17
  Oh, that's yeah, that's. What's really hurting it's it's
• 57:20
  hurting a lot of high school kids that aren't getting going
• 57:23
  to get opportunities to play college basketball that they
• 57:25
  would have gotten in the past. Or if they get opportunities,
• 57:28
  it's going to be at a lesser school.
• 57:29
  Yeah. And then the Cal talks about.
• 57:31
  How he's the only idiot that's recruiting high school kids
• 57:35
  because that's what he wants to do, because he loves helping out
• 57:38
  their families and changing their lives.
• 57:40
  And how most, most schools, their chances to go into the NBA
• 57:44
  is less than 1%. But if you play for me, it's,
• 57:48
  it's better. And that's why I'm still
• 57:50
  recruiting college or high school kids.
• 57:54
  You can recruit 27. 28 year olds that have already been in the
• 57:57
  league, would you rather have that than an 18 year old?
• 58:00
  Yes. So when LeBron, LeBron James
• 58:03
  Never. LeBron James never played a a a
• 58:05
  a minute of college basketball. So it 40, whatever age he is
• 58:09
  that he decides to hang it up, Come on, come on back to bring
• 58:13
  him to college. See, I mean important to this.
• 58:14
  He can do it. You imagine LeBron.
• 58:17
  James playing college. Basketball, I mean, he, he could
• 58:20
  do. It but and if we had a little
• 58:23
  more like Kyle went on for seven minutes and had a bunch of ideas
• 58:28
  I I'd like to break them down a little more in detail because I
• 58:31
  do think he had like if you get 5 years to play Four Seasons, I
• 58:36
  agree with that 100% I agree too and I.
• 58:39
  Love the idea. Of the fact that you go to the
• 58:41
  same school for four years, then you get a fifth year.
• 58:44
  Like, I love that because that's what I miss the most about
• 58:48
  college hoops is the continuity and getting to say, getting to
• 58:51
  see players grow from freshman to senior year with the same
• 58:54
  staff, you know, limiting transfers.
• 58:57
  They I think that should be the case.
• 58:58
  Now, if your coach leaves, then that grants you maybe another
• 59:01
  one. But if you leave twice with the
• 59:04
  with with the coach not leaving, then you have to sit out like
• 59:06
  you used to. There needs to be some sort,
• 59:09
  There needs to be guidance, rules, guidance.
• 59:12
  Also pick N. IL or pick transfer portal but
• 59:15
  maybe you don't get both you you signed with the team out of high
• 59:19
  school three-year commitment. Oh, I mean I, that's, I mean I.
• 59:22
  Think you can write the? I mean, you should be able to
• 59:24
  write those into N IL contracts, but they're not doing it.
• 59:27
  They're not. I know they're not, but.
• 59:28
  I they. Should, but as kid may not, may
• 59:31
  not sign that because he doesn't want to be restricted like that.
• 59:34
  But if you're looking for, you know, a $4 million deal or
• 59:38
  $3,000,000 deal, you can sign it.
• 59:40
  We'll give it to you. But you need to be here for
• 59:42
  three years, yeah. I mean, we've seen, we've seen
• 59:46
  kids sign deals and not play at all.
• 59:48
  Yeah. I mean, it's just when there's
• 59:51
  no rules, when there's no rules. I don't know.
• 59:55
  It's just it's and this is going to continue to happen.
• 59:57
  It's going to get to change. You get it more wild and you're
• 1:00:00
  going to and you're going to start losing.
• 1:00:03
  You know those those all time great coaches like like we have.
• 1:00:06
  I mean, I think that's probably. But yeah, like Roy Williams got
• 1:00:08
  out of the game and Mike Schefsky got out of the game and
• 1:00:13
  they got out. When they were older, though,
• 1:00:14
  they probably were. Going to get out earlier like
• 1:00:16
  Tony Bennett. Tony Bennett, 20.
• 1:00:17
  Bennett is and Jay Wright. Are big examples.
• 1:00:20
  Bruce Pearl got out, you know, so.
• 1:00:22
  Next, I mean your next ones that are going to start leaving like
• 1:00:25
  the Tom Izzo's, like how much more is Tom Izzo going to?
• 1:00:27
  I mean, is he done after this year?
• 1:00:30
  Is he done after next year? I mean, it doesn't sound like
• 1:00:32
  it. I, I think he kind of does
• 1:00:34
  things a little differently. I don't know, but it doesn't
• 1:00:36
  sound like he's, he's fed up with some of these rules.
• 1:00:38
  But I I've got no little like I haven't heard anything about him
• 1:00:44
  almost being done. But you didn't hear anything
• 1:00:45
  about about Jay Wright or Tony Bennett either, did you?
• 1:00:47
  Until it happened. So Bruce Pearl, Bruce Pearl just
• 1:00:49
  came out of nowhere. I mean, well, Bruce Pearl wanted
• 1:00:52
  to make sure it's not got a chance.
• 1:00:53
  Yeah, it's good to make sure some, but.
• 1:00:56
  Yeah, like you're, you're going. To drive off these legendary
• 1:00:58
  coaches. But there needs to be something
• 1:01:03
  that's, I will say this, the. The talent level in college
• 1:01:07
  basketball, it's very it's. Really good, very high.
• 1:01:10
  And they're all freshmen. They're all freshmen.
• 1:01:13
  A lot of lot of good freshmen, they're not. 30s maybe year olds
• 1:01:16
  that have. Played in the league, these are
• 1:01:17
  all 18 year old kids that are coming in and dominating maybe
• 1:01:20
  one of the best freshman classes we've.
• 1:01:22
  Seen so I mean the the state of the level of college basketball
• 1:01:27
  is is great yeah, and it is some college football too.
• 1:01:30
  But at some point you got to have some kind of just a little,
• 1:01:37
  maybe not even laws, just guidelines like something to go
• 1:01:40
  off of. And to me, it's pretty should be
• 1:01:46
  clear cut. If you signed an NBA contract,
• 1:01:49
  probably not. Eligible for college.
• 1:01:51
  Basketball, I don't think that that's that tough.
• 1:01:53
  What if you sign a contract in the top German?
• 1:01:55
  League or the top Australian league or the top, you know,
• 1:01:58
  Spanish league. I think the same should apply.
• 1:02:02
  I I. I I don't think that's very
• 1:02:04
  tough. I agree with you.
• 1:02:06
  I just. If you signed a pro contract,
• 1:02:08
  you shouldn't be able to play what is amateur basketball,
• 1:02:11
  right? I mean, I don't know while Tiger
• 1:02:19
  turned 50. Can't believe he's already that
• 1:02:22
  old, huh? How cool would it?
• 1:02:25
  How cool would it be to see? Him play on Champions Tour,
• 1:02:27
  which is now eligible for No. I think it would be great.
• 1:02:30
  I mean, you obviously get the ratings that the Champions Tour
• 1:02:32
  probably would love, because I don't tell you the last time I
• 1:02:35
  watched the Champions Tour event, but you get the radio.
• 1:02:38
  No, not that. I mean, I've gone to a Champions
• 1:02:41
  Tour event. I've gone to two senior Pgas,
• 1:02:44
  but no, never actually that to my knowledge.
• 1:02:48
  Watched one on TV. But I would if Tiger was
• 1:02:49
  playing. Well, yeah, yes.
• 1:02:52
  Everybody. Would the ghosting whoop up on
• 1:02:55
  Bernhard longer? I mean if.
• 1:02:59
  You look at the list of guys that are probably playing on
• 1:03:01
  that tour, it's probably impressive.
• 1:03:02
  I mean, like the Lee Westwood's have got to be on that tour now.
• 1:03:05
  And who else around Jeff Leonard plays in a lot of Stewart sinks.
• 1:03:09
  Probably on there. Yep.
• 1:03:11
  Yeah, like, but Bernard longer still really good.
• 1:03:13
  Too. It's a good list of people.
• 1:03:16
  That were awesome when you know in the last end of 20 years the
• 1:03:19
  point of it, you want to have some name recognition.
• 1:03:21
  Yeah. So no, I mean, I think it would.
• 1:03:23
  Be fun. I would watch it.
• 1:03:25
  Yeah, I think a lot of people would watch it.
• 1:03:27
  I mean, people are watching Tiger and the TGL, yeah.
• 1:03:31
  So if he's going to play, I mean, I there's, I don't think
• 1:03:34
  he'd ever play a full schedule, no, and try to win the the
• 1:03:40
  Champions Tour Championship, but I think he would at least play
• 1:03:42
  in the majors. Because I think he's, I mean,
• 1:03:44
  he's still probably wants to compete on the PGA Tour.
• 1:03:48
  I mean, he's played 11 events in.
• 1:03:49
  The last five years, yeah. So he's got to get healthy.
• 1:03:53
  He does. He's got to I.
• 1:03:55
  Mean he's not going to play. To embarrass himself?
• 1:03:56
  No, he won't, and I don't think. He would on the Champions Tour.
• 1:04:00
  I, I, I think he still thinks that in his mind.
• 1:04:02
  He, I mean, he, he's one of the ultimate competitors.
• 1:04:05
  He's going to want to play, you know, the Jordan Spiess and the,
• 1:04:10
  and the Justin Thomas's and the JJ spawns and the Rory
• 1:04:14
  Mcilroy's. Like he's going to want to play
• 1:04:15
  against those guys and not Bernhard longer.
• 1:04:18
  So I think if he's healthy, he's going to probably try to plan as
• 1:04:20
  many PGA Tour events as he can. But I can see him definitely
• 1:04:23
  playing a senior U.S. Open or Senior British Open or
• 1:04:27
  something like that. You know, I mean it would, it
• 1:04:29
  would be cool. It would be cool.
• 1:04:32
  And I mean, as golf fans, you want to see Tiger play for as
• 1:04:39
  long as he possibly can, right? And I mean, the Champions Tour
• 1:04:44
  gives him a chance to keep playing when he gets in the 60s
• 1:04:48
  and maybe he can get healthy because he hasn't been healthy
• 1:04:52
  for the for the last five years. And maybe in five years from now
• 1:04:55
  he's 55 and he's finally feeling pretty good.
• 1:04:58
  And maybe he decides to play, yeah, you know, several
• 1:05:00
  champions. I mean, I think he want.
• 1:05:02
  To me, I think he would want to stay, get healthy and play as
• 1:05:04
  long as he can and at least try to have a chance to play with
• 1:05:07
  his son Charlie. If Charlie's good enough to make
• 1:05:09
  the tour, no, I agree with that. But he's not.
• 1:05:11
  Going to He's not going to be able to win.
• 1:05:15
  Don't tell him that. You know, don't tell him that he
• 1:05:17
  is Tiger. But when he's getting closer to
• 1:05:19
  5560, your chances of winning on the regular will diminish even
• 1:05:23
  more. Correct.
• 1:05:24
  And I mean, but seeing him and Charlie play it together would
• 1:05:28
  would be would be pretty cool. That will be kind.
• 1:05:31
  But I think you're right. The fact that there's no way
• 1:05:35
  Tiger's 50 years old, his world just means we're.
• 1:05:39
  Old did you? Did you get a chance to watch
• 1:05:42
  any? I talked about the Christmas
• 1:05:44
  movies I watched. Did you get a chance to watch
• 1:05:46
  any? Oh yeah, and I did watch just.
• 1:05:48
  Friends, just for your knowledge and you didn't watch Bad Santa?
• 1:05:52
  And I did not watch Bad Santa. What the hell was your homework
• 1:05:55
  assignment? No, didn't watch bad.
• 1:05:57
  I did watch 4. Christmases very, very good.
• 1:06:00
  Very good. OK but I watch Just Friends just
• 1:06:03
  for you. Good, because I do my homework.
• 1:06:05
  Well, you said you didn't watch it all the way through.
• 1:06:08
  No, I finished it last night. Did you enjoy it?
• 1:06:11
  I mean I. I've I've seen it, it's a good.
• 1:06:12
  Movie. It's just not a Christmas movie.
• 1:06:14
  How is it not a Christmas movie? Christmas is over before the.
• 1:06:17
  Movie show they had the greatest Christmas.
• 1:06:20
  Display in the town and Amy Faris just drives the car and
• 1:06:23
  stuff that's like Christmas stuff.
• 1:06:26
  Not even into the movie. Like if the movie still has 30
• 1:06:28
  minutes left the the movie has been in darn Christmas.
• 1:06:32
  It just keeps going. Also the man just is terrible.
• 1:06:36
  Like the whole time he's back trying to pimp and he's
• 1:06:40
  terrible, flies back home, cries and then just flies back in
• 1:06:43
  there together. Yeah, yeah, It's just.
• 1:06:47
  It's that easy? No, but it is.
• 1:06:50
  A It's a funny movie. It's a Christmas movie.
• 1:06:52
  It's not a Christmas movie. It.
• 1:06:52
  Is a Christmas movie. What else?
• 1:06:57
  What else? 4 Christmases.
• 1:06:58
  Just friends, Yeah. I mean, I mean, I had to watch.
• 1:07:01
  Vacation. Well, vacation multiple times
• 1:07:03
  during the holiday season. I had Christmas Story on repeat
• 1:07:06
  on TBS on Christmas Day the whole time.
• 1:07:09
  So watch that. We've we've watched off this
• 1:07:11
  this season. I mean, yeah, we hit all the all
• 1:07:13
  the favorites, all right. Home alone.
• 1:07:17
  Yeah. Which to be fair, your your
• 1:07:20
  digital short that was put out there made me look like I was
• 1:07:23
  saying Home Alone was not a Christmas movie.
• 1:07:25
  And I had never said that, never said it wasn't.
• 1:07:28
  I said based on your logic, you or could be saying that it
• 1:07:32
  wasn't. But I had it.
• 1:07:33
  I drafted Home Alone in one of my ties, my second overall, my
• 1:07:36
  third overall, but second choice of Christmas movies.
• 1:07:39
  So it is a Christmas movie to set the record.
• 1:07:41
  I see what you're saying to set it straight.
• 1:07:43
  It is. It's way more of a.
• 1:07:45
  Christmas movie than just friends.
• 1:07:47
  But who gets it worse? Margaret Harry.
• 1:07:50
  I mean in Home Alone One. I mean, I've got AI.
• 1:07:53
  Got a look I. Actually looked up the list and
• 1:07:55
  I had, I had a an answer before I did this and now it just kind
• 1:07:58
  of reconfirms that I was probably right.
• 1:08:01
  I have a list of all of the bad things that happened to both of
• 1:08:05
  them and I think Harry, Harry definitely has it worse.
• 1:08:11
  Give me the. List.
• 1:08:12
  Yeah, so Harry Poor. Harry gets shot in the groin by
• 1:08:15
  the BB gun before Marv. He slips and falls on the ice.
• 1:08:19
  Gets his right hand burned. When he tries to open the door
• 1:08:22
  handle, it has the M imprinted on it from the doorknob.
• 1:08:25
  He gets his head blown by a blowtorch when he opens the
• 1:08:29
  door. He gets smacked in the stomach
• 1:08:32
  by a a crowbar by Marv when the tarantula is on his face.
• 1:08:37
  Wild move by Marv. Yeah, I know.
• 1:08:40
  He falls. After tripping on a wire and is
• 1:08:42
  knocked unconscious after all. That did it.
• 1:08:46
  Like he got whipped her so much and he trips on the wire and
• 1:08:48
  that's when he goes unconscious. Unconscious.
• 1:08:52
  And they both end up getting hit by the snow shovel by old man
• 1:08:55
  Marley at the end there. But I mean, that's, that's hard
• 1:09:00
  to overcome. And I, I don't even know how
• 1:09:02
  he's still alive, to be honest with you.
• 1:09:04
  But the blowtorch to the to the to the head just seems to be
• 1:09:08
  that would, would, would, would kind of do the trick.
• 1:09:10
  But I mean. Poor hair.
• 1:09:17
  Harry's feet or Marv's feet, Marv.
• 1:09:19
  Yeah, poor Marv. 'S feet.
• 1:09:22
  I mean the the stepping on the nail.
• 1:09:24
  Is is pretty bad and Marv gets hit with the the iron right in
• 1:09:28
  the face falls down the laundry chute.
• 1:09:32
  Yeah, that that he gets the nail in the foot and his feet are
• 1:09:35
  all. Tarred up and then instead of
• 1:09:38
  walking, keep him walking up the steps.
• 1:09:39
  He's already halfway up, hit a nail, falls backwards, goes back
• 1:09:43
  outside, climbs through the window and then where?
• 1:09:45
  His feet on ornaments. Just crunching him one at a time
• 1:09:51
  like his poor feet. Yeah.
• 1:09:53
  But I, I. Do think?
• 1:09:55
  Overall, Harry had to get it a little.
• 1:09:57
  I mean, to me there's nothing. Worse than getting your head lit
• 1:10:01
  on fire by a blowtorch. So I think Harry has the overall
• 1:10:04
  worst experience or worst punishment.
• 1:10:10
  Gets me more than anything. It didn't go all the way in the
• 1:10:13
  foot, He. Kind of just he felt.
• 1:10:16
  It and then I. Think maybe he stopped.
• 1:10:19
  OK, I think taking the iron to the face might be worse than the
• 1:10:23
  nails. I mean, they both got it bad.
• 1:10:24
  They both got it bad. I mean, you got Harry's got. 3rd
• 1:10:28
  degree burns on his face, third degree burns on his hand, is
• 1:10:31
  shot in the groin by ABB gun, and then Marv decides to go all
• 1:10:36
  Tonya Harding on him while trying to kill a tarantula and
• 1:10:39
  just drills him with a freaking crowbar.
• 1:10:41
  Like it's just. I think Harry has it worse but
• 1:10:44
  they they both and still them trying to climb the rope to.
• 1:10:48
  The tree house. This is just an awful decision.
• 1:10:53
  Wait. What do you think's going to
• 1:10:55
  happen? I mean, they're not very.
• 1:10:57
  Smart. I mean as you said there, didn't
• 1:10:59
  you say there was a Family Guy? Yes, Family Guy with competent.
• 1:11:03
  Robbers, competent robbers, Robbers walk in.
• 1:11:06
  Hey. There's little cars on the
• 1:11:08
  ground, Don't step on them, you might slip.
• 1:11:10
  Oh yeah, there's ice on the steps, so I just walked around.
• 1:11:15
  Hey, guys. I got a tarantula bull.
• 1:11:17
  Shoots him in the face and he falls down steps like how?
• 1:11:20
  How these two decide that they're going to rob a house
• 1:11:24
  with really no weapon of choice except for a crowbar.
• 1:11:27
  Not not exactly the smartest dudes out there.
• 1:11:29
  And I would think that maybe after like the first two booby
• 1:11:32
  traps, you might pause and say maybe this isn't the the house
• 1:11:35
  that we want to mess with it. But Nope, we're just going to
• 1:11:38
  keep getting our heads blow torched and tar.
• 1:11:41
  We are, we have what do we have? Glue and then feathers.
• 1:11:44
  So he looks like a chicken. Well, that's one of the best
• 1:11:46
  parts. Why?
• 1:11:48
  Why are your shoes? Why the?
• 1:11:49
  Hell, are you dressed? Like a chicken?
• 1:11:52
  That's probably. The best part like.
• 1:11:54
  Doesn't even make sense. The feathers and the Saran wrap
• 1:11:57
  and the IT doesn't even make doesn't hurt you at all.
• 1:11:59
  It's just like Kevin is just playing around at that point.
• 1:12:02
  Well, none of the movie makes sense.
• 1:12:04
  The The robbers are the most incompetent robbers of all time.
• 1:12:07
  And then you've got Kevin, who will go out to the store and buy
• 1:12:10
  groceries and a toothbrush and never once mentioned to anybody,
• 1:12:14
  hey, I'm some home alone with my family's in France.
• 1:12:17
  And these two guys are trying to rob my house who doesn't mention
• 1:12:20
  it to anybody, Nobody, hey. And the best news is it.
• 1:12:24
  Happens again the next Christmas.
• 1:12:26
  So then next year we get to debate who gets it worse at home
• 1:12:29
  alone too, yeah. Like it's just it's a great
• 1:12:33
  movie, but none of it makes any sense.
• 1:12:36
  No, but it is a fantastic. Movie and if they shot him in
• 1:12:39
  the head immediately and he fell down the steps, the movie would
• 1:12:42
  suck. And that's why that's true.
• 1:12:45
  I mean as a. Kid, it was the best.
• 1:12:48
  Like seeing them, seeing those guys go through all that.
• 1:12:51
  So yeah. But we're going, Harry.
• 1:12:54
  Yeah, I. Think Harry gets it worse.
• 1:12:56
  But it it's close, Yeah. I, I don't think, I mean I, I
• 1:13:00
  think Mars. Feet get it worse, but overall,
• 1:13:02
  I think Harry the the all the fire and the burning and yeah,
• 1:13:06
  it's pretty tough and then he gets crowbar in the stomach by
• 1:13:09
  his own partner, which maybe takes it over the top.
• 1:13:13
  Hard to believe that 2025 is almost over.
• 1:13:17
  Yeah, you got you got a biggest sports story or any story
• 1:13:22
  overall for the I think I got 2 that.
• 1:13:24
  Come to mind that make my my list.
• 1:13:27
  I think we we witnessed and I've said this back in in October or
• 1:13:31
  November, early November that I think we witnessed probably the
• 1:13:34
  greatest World Series in my lifetime, at least with going to
• 1:13:39
  Game 7, going to extra innings when it looked like the Blue
• 1:13:42
  Jays were going to win. And then you know, the Dodgers
• 1:13:45
  come storming back in the ninth with a home run and then Will
• 1:13:47
  Smith in the 10th in Game 7. So the World Series to me, I
• 1:13:51
  think it's probably the top storyline, but one that we
• 1:13:55
  didn't mention earlier that we were talking about.
• 1:13:56
  I think, how about the Ryder Cup and the the the Sunday comeback
• 1:14:00
  by the US that I know they fell short, but the Ryder Cup was a
• 1:14:04
  lot, a lot of fun watching it on that Sunday.
• 1:14:09
  Just to stick with golf, I think Rory finally getting the, you
• 1:14:13
  know, winning the Grand Slam was was was pretty cool.
• 1:14:18
  Watching him almost choke it away and winning in the playoffs
• 1:14:21
  and being able to finally get that green jacket really kind of
• 1:14:24
  stands out to me. But I mean, Shohei just
• 1:14:28
  continuing to do what he's doing and just these numbers and
• 1:14:33
  winning MVPS and doing things that we've never seen before
• 1:14:39
  obviously stands out. So I mean Oklahoma.
• 1:14:45
  City winning the winning. This idol, I mean, whoever
• 1:14:47
  thought Oklahoma City Thunder would win NBA championship and
• 1:14:50
  and do it in the way they did it, where they dominated both
• 1:14:53
  the regular season and the postseason, they're dominating
• 1:14:55
  the regular season again. So far this year.
• 1:14:58
  Dude I remember seeing SGA. Here at the Derby City Classic,
• 1:15:01
  when nobody was really talking about him, Yeah.
• 1:15:05
  And I mean. Obviously.
• 1:15:07
  Kentucky had a bunch of good players coming in on that class,
• 1:15:09
  but he was one of the few guys that they weren't really talking
• 1:15:13
  about too much. And they end up, I mean,
• 1:15:17
  starting midway through the year.
• 1:15:18
  And I mean, just now he's branding MVP and one of the best
• 1:15:21
  players in the league. And it's good to see small
• 1:15:23
  market teams, you know, win titles That just kind of hard to
• 1:15:27
  believe that 2025 has already come to a close.
• 1:15:29
  We've we're on episode #24 I think, which is just also kind
• 1:15:36
  of crazy. Yeah, 520. 575.
• 1:15:40
  And 25. So we did 25.
• 1:15:41
  And 25, we did, 25 and 25 we'll try to do much.
• 1:15:44
  More than 26 and 26. I think getting off to a a start
• 1:15:47
  in January instead of a start in August will will set us up for
• 1:15:50
  that no And 26 will be loaded with.
• 1:15:53
  With some good sports, you know, we, we still have the College
• 1:15:55
  Football Playoff to come here in early 2026.
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  And then I believe the Olympics come up in February.
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  So we'll have some Olympic stuff.
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  And then World Cup, the US is hosting World Cup in the
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  summertime. A lot of big stories.
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  That could come here in 2020. 6 Did you accomplish anything in
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  25? Did you set your goals and did
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  you get them accomplished in 25? Of course not.
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  I mean not. To be honest, I don't think I
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  set any goals in 2025. Did you Did you have goals?
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  Yeah, I did. What were your goals?
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  I. Worked out half.
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  Of the days of every. Month, at least half the days I
• 1:16:30
  got to do it tomorrow to finish. But if I do it tomorrow, what
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  does a workout include? What is that?
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  Like walking to and from your kitchen.
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  I usually do like a mile make. Sure.
• 1:16:40
  I'm doing a mile and a half and then I've got some some
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  exercises that I'm doing in between.
• 1:16:44
  Where are you doing a mile and 1/2 at?
• 1:16:46
  You got a treadmill? At the house?
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  At the house? You got a treadmill at the
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  house? Nope.
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  So. We if you saw me.
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  At my house, you would think I'm a maniac.
• 1:16:53
  Because you're walking around in circles.
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  In your living room. Yep, I learned that I am not.
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  Going to motivate myself to go to the gym, so I'm just going to
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  invent a home workout and it's been successful.
• 1:17:05
  Michael, we need to get you like.
• 1:17:08
  Some kind of used trail we got to, we got to get a treadmill
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  donated to you or something. I don't need it.
• 1:17:12
  Yeah, I mean, I got my looking running.
• 1:17:17
  Circles in your living room. This was something a crazy
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  person would do. Well, it's not just in my living
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  room. I walk throughout the.
• 1:17:22
  Entire house so it's it's kind of it would remind you of home
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  alone when my when Michael Jordan's on the train track can
• 1:17:30
  you walk fast in your. House for you to get your heart
• 1:17:33
  rate up to the level of where it should be.
• 1:17:36
  OK, yeah, OK. And I like to do a barefoot too,
• 1:17:39
  because. That builds your your, your foot
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  muscles, OK. I feel like you should set some.
• 1:17:44
  Goals for golf for you for 2026 maybe not finish dead last in
• 1:17:48
  the golf tournaments that you play in that's that's definitely
• 1:17:51
  a goal that's. Definitely a goal.
• 1:17:52
  Maybe what? Did we break 90 this year for
• 1:17:55
  you? Yeah, a couple times.
• 1:17:58
  So do we need to break 85? Is that the next?
• 1:18:00
  Goal I would love. I would love to break it.
• 1:18:02
  Yeah, 85, OK. I think we can get under 80.
• 1:18:06
  OK. Eventually, OK, maybe 2020, I
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  need to hit, I need to hit the ball A.
• 1:18:12
  Little farther, yeah. And I just, I don't.
• 1:18:15
  Know how to do? That well, do you have weights
• 1:18:16
  at the house? You can slow some.
• 1:18:17
  Weights right we got I bought some bands that's.
• 1:18:20
  Going to be the next thing I'm incorporating in my my workouts.
• 1:18:23
  OK, yeah, we got to get that, get that upper body.
• 1:18:25
  Strength up. Well, what about you?
• 1:18:26
  These are all my goals. What do you got?
• 1:18:28
  I don't know. I have to think about that one.
• 1:18:31
  And we got to keep growing this. Thing too I mean.
• 1:18:33
  By by the end of 2026 I want more than get our followers up
• 1:18:37
  more than 4 listeners. Maybe get the fives?
• 1:18:39
  Yes, yes. So, I mean, we did.
• 1:18:42
  Have what, over 10,000 on the on the TikTok last week?
• 1:18:47
  Oh yeah. On the the Bengals.
• 1:18:48
  Short where we vented about the cold weather and like.
• 1:18:53
  And that's the thing, like the genuine emotion.
• 1:18:56
  Like. Shows through on videos like
• 1:18:58
  that we got 15,000 views like 400 likes like a lot and
• 1:19:03
  everybody agreed with us most. People agreed with us.
• 1:19:05
  I think it was more, it might have been 400 comments.
• 1:19:07
  But everybody, I mean, how would you not?
• 1:19:10
  Agree with this. I like.
• 1:19:11
  How would you not agree with? This but hope.
• 1:19:13
  Everybody had a great Christmas, whatever you celebrate, had a
• 1:19:17
  great time hanging out with fam and happy New Year to everybody.
• 1:19:22
  Here's to. The I mean, let's have a good
• 1:19:24
  20. 6 Let's make 26 better than 25.
• 1:19:27
  That's a good goal. Can we do that?
• 1:19:30
  Yeah, I think so. So.
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