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Hour Two | 24-Team College Football Playoff Debate & Richard Dickson Talks LSU · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester.
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  Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench, live from the Raising
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back here.
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  Speaker 4: Off the Bench, hour number two on a football Friday.
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  Speaker 5: So it looks like we got a 2014 college football
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  Speaker 5: playoff coming up. Looks like that's going to be the deal.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I've been flopping like a politician on this because I
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  Speaker 5: know it's coming down the tracks and I know it's
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  Speaker 5: going to happen. And I probably still feel like this way,
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  Speaker 5: but I'm like, all right, we go from two to four.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's see how it works out. We'll go decade.
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  Speaker 2: Then we go from four to 12. All right, cool.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see how it works out. It's like, no, let's
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  Speaker 2: just give it like three years. Hey, what?
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  Speaker 5: Like we gave four teams 10 years. Like let's make
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  Speaker 5: sure that we want to do this. And I still
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  Speaker 5: think like adding 24, that's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And what kind of matchups are we going to get?
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  Speaker 5: But I do think I've softened like a little bit
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  Speaker 5: on this take because doing NFL every day now, I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 5: 14 of.
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  Speaker 2: The 32 make it. Right. Every single year. So 24
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  Speaker 2: of 138.
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  Speaker 5: You can be like, yeah, but obviously those teams are
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  Speaker 5: closer to each other.
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  Speaker 2: And just hear me out a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: It's not the same in college football.
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  Speaker 2: It's not as close as far as the teams. But
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  Speaker 2: it's getting closer.
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  Speaker 5: We're getting as close to the NFL as we've ever
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  Speaker 5: been before with teams that historically have not been great.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now they're competitive.
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  Speaker 5: Teams that have always been great, now they're kind of
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  Speaker 5: a little bit middle of the row here and there.
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  Speaker 5: And they've got to do something special to be able
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  Speaker 5: to elevate their play and We're getting more parity than
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  Speaker 5: we've ever gotten before in college football. It is getting
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  Speaker 5: more pro-like because, well, there's free agency. Hell, there's basically trades.
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  Speaker 5: I actually don't think it's the worst thing in the world.
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  Speaker 5: And I have been on the complete other side of this,
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  Speaker 5: but if it's going to happen, I'm talking myself through it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, well, if you're going to have 14
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  Speaker 5: of 32– if you have 24 of 138, and it
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  Speaker 5: continues to go this way, it continues to be as
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  Speaker 5: close to the NFL as we've ever seen it before,
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  Speaker 5: maybe by the time, maybe a couple years down the road,
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  Speaker 5: maybe it's something where 24 teams are very close to
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  Speaker 5: each other and we get a really good.
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  Speaker 2: College football playoff. Yeah, so you're right.
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  Speaker 4: There is way more parity in college football. We really
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  Speaker 4: didn't know which direction It would go with the whole
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  Speaker 4: NIL world, with players getting paid. We kind of thought
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  Speaker 4: it might get top-heavy, but it has given a lot
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  Speaker 4: more parity out there. Now, I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 4: the best parity in the world. I talked about that.
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  Speaker 4: I can't remember if it was this week or last week.
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  Speaker 4: But the NIL, the new NIL world of people changing
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  Speaker 4: every single year, roster turnover, has given parity, but not
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  Speaker 4: necessarily because smaller schools are catching up.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 4: The bigger schools are playing worse football. I think the
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  Speaker 4: quality of football is lower than it has been. Now,
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  Speaker 4: I say that watching the first half of the season.
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  Speaker 4: It looks like you just got a lot of teams
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  Speaker 4: out there still trying.
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  Speaker 2: To figure each other out. Now, at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the season, we'll see what happens there.
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  Speaker 4: But I've turned on the TV every single Saturday all
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  Speaker 4: year long, and I've watched bad football play. being played
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  Speaker 4: by good teams or apparently good teams or at least
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  Speaker 4: the blue bloods i've watched bad football because you got
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  Speaker 4: again you got a roster full of brand new people
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  Speaker 4: that have never played with each other like in the
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  Speaker 4: professional levels you can do it but you're not getting
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  Speaker 4: the whole roster turning over our whole defense our whole
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  Speaker 4: offense like you like we got here yeah like you're
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  Speaker 4: not getting that like a complete hall like new hall
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  Speaker 4: every single year so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's parity.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if the parity is the best, but
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  Speaker 4: we're not going to change that. But what you can
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  Speaker 4: do with parity is get a bigger playoff, and that's
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  Speaker 4: what they've done.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you, though. It is weird. It's weird timing, though.
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  Speaker 2: It's like 12 for so little amount of time. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: 12 I thought was a good number. Do you know
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  Speaker 2: any details? I would like to see it breathe a
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  Speaker 2: little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Is there any details that have come out with it,
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  Speaker 4: like these are automatic qualifiers? Like if you win this conference,
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  Speaker 4: you're in. If you win that conference, you're in, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 4: That's when it gets to me. The automatic qualifying thing
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  Speaker 4: is good. You can argue and shake your fist at
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  Speaker 4: the group of people, the selection committee. But even at 24,
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  Speaker 4: there's going to be a selection unless there's concrete rules
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  Speaker 4: about getting in. And maybe there is. I just don't
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  Speaker 4: know it. But I was looking for that yesterday when
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  Speaker 4: I saw it.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't see any other details. That will be fine-tuned,
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  Speaker 5: and that will come out. They'll figure that out.
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  Speaker 2: That matters.
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  Speaker 5: That definitely matters. How do you get in the playoff?
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  Speaker 5: And then Conehead49 inside the chat on 3 said it best.
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  Speaker 5: If you want the playoffs, watch the NFL. Keep college
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  Speaker 5: sports independent. The problem with that is, though, we've gone
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  Speaker 5: way past that already. That's not even in the rearview
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  Speaker 5: mirror anymore. That's how far we've gone down the road.
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  Speaker 5: That's the problem.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody yesterday being like, protect the sport I love. I
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  Speaker 2: get it.
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  Speaker 5: I understand that. But we left that a long time ago.
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  Speaker 5: That ship sailed many, many years ago. So that's where
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  Speaker 5: I'm at. I would love for it to be back
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  Speaker 5: like it used to be. And when you lost a
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  Speaker 5: regular season game, you were absolutely crushed because you're like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: If we lose one more, then we're done.
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  Speaker 4: To me, that's the thing that made college football special
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  Speaker 4: and different.
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  Speaker 5: Right, but we left that years ago. When we decided
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  Speaker 5: to go to four teams, really, but certainly 12, that's
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  Speaker 5: already gone. I don't like it, but, again, that ship sailed.
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  Speaker 5: When we played and we lost a game, it was devastating.
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  Speaker 4: To me, college football is not good enough football to
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  Speaker 4: not have weekly implications. The quality of it isn't good
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  Speaker 4: enough to me, and that's how I watch the game.
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  Speaker 4: In the NFL, the quality is such high-quality football. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you're watching and you're building up, and I'm not the
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  Speaker 4: only one that shares that opinion. Look at the viewership
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  Speaker 4: compared to the NFL. But when there is implications every
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  Speaker 4: single week, that's what the intrigue is. That's what the
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  Speaker 4: craziness is about. That's what the college football frenzy is.
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  Speaker 4: Like when you're playing in the regular season, like the
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  Speaker 4: viewership is going to be even further down. But the
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  Speaker 4: playoffs will be great.
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  Speaker 5: And, look, this is not like I'm not championing for
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  Speaker 5: 24 teams. I think we need to chill at 12
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  Speaker 5: and see how it goes and see what's up more
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  Speaker 5: than three years. But I can see where they're going
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  Speaker 5: because in their mind they're thinking it is as close
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  Speaker 5: to the NFL as it's ever been before. Those numbers
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  Speaker 5: that I've kept, you know, I keep giving out. And
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  Speaker 5: I get where they're going to be, 24 to 138.
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  Speaker 5: More teams got to get involved. You got to learn
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  Speaker 5: more teams. There's going to be more teams. So we're
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  Speaker 5: going to get there. Like, that is going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like the narrative about people saying that bowl
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  Speaker 4: games have always meant nothing and been, like, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Like, bowl games meant a whole hell of a lot
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  Speaker 2: to me. Yeah. I love bowl games. I did, too.
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  Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Fast pass in Orlando for the
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  Speaker 2: Capital One Bowl?
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  Speaker 5: So, I just don't like the narrative. Excuse me, we're
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  Speaker 5: here for the Capital One Bowl against Iowa. This little
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  Speaker 5: lanyard means we can skip to.
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  Speaker 2: The front of the line, right?
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Cool. We good with this?
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  Speaker 4: 19-year-old working is like, I don't care, man.
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  Speaker 2: Just get out of here. Just shut up. Just go away.
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  Speaker 4: But, like, the narrative about the whole bowl games, like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, might as well make them all playoff games.
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  Speaker 4: I get it. I see that. And I see what
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  Speaker 4: you're saying. But to say that bowl games have.
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  Speaker 2: Never mattered is ridiculous because I loved it. I played
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  Speaker 2: in them.
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  Speaker 5: And it mattered a whole hell of a lot. No,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you know I'm with you. I mean, 05
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  Speaker 5: Peach Bowl was huge, huge for us. It was huge
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  Speaker 5: for you individually, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously you had a whole team that cared
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  Speaker 2: for both sides of the ball because you fought afterwards.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 5: Like 06 against Notre Dame?
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  Speaker 2: And it wasn't until recently. It wasn't until recently.
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  Speaker 5: Like I had knee surgery and played like eight days
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  Speaker 5: later because like I'm not missing I'm are you I'm
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  Speaker 5: not missing a sugar bowl against Notre Dame are you
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  Speaker 5: kidding me kidding me now and that was for like
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  Speaker 5: if you won that you were going to be considered
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  Speaker 5: the third best team in the country I was like
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  Speaker 5: I'm like that didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Matter like you got, this could be for the 32nd
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  Speaker 4: best team in the country.
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  Speaker 2: It was Notre Dame in my home state in the
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  Speaker 2: sugar bowl. Yeah. I'm missing that.
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  Speaker 4: And it's only until recently people started sitting out bowl
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  Speaker 4: games to, you know, help their pro career and which
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  Speaker 4: I completely understand too. But, and so like in the,
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  Speaker 4: in the last 10 years, I get it. Like I
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  Speaker 4: get where this has moved. I get how it's sped
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  Speaker 4: up and we've all moved to this and, We moved
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  Speaker 4: to 12 teams, and now we're okay with 24 teams.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine. Whatever.
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  Speaker 4: But, like, don't say that it never mattered because it
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  Speaker 4: sure as hell did. And it's different now. I think
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  Speaker 4: college football is different. And, you know, I've screamed at
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  Speaker 4: the clouds enough about college football. I think college sports
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  Speaker 4: in general is in a really stupid place right now.
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  Speaker 4: The product on the field. That's been the argument, though.
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  Speaker 4: The product on the field is still really good, so there's.
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  Speaker 2: No room to complain. Up to this point in the season,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the product's been that good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm not just saying that because LSU's lost two games.
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying that I'm watching everybody. I'm watching the big boys.
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  Speaker 4: I'm watching the best. Georgia's been good. Everybody else has.
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  Speaker 2: Been okay.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Notre Dame, everyone thinks it's good. They hadn't
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  Speaker 4: played a ranked team in 331 days.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but that's just going to continue to trickle down.
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  Speaker 5: The more as the talent gets spread around, you're not
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  Speaker 5: going to have domination like you once did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't need to see bad football. I
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  Speaker 2: don't need to see people run wide open everywhere and
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  Speaker 2: nobody seeing them and missing throws and busting coverages and
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  Speaker 2: busting assignments because all these teams are brand new every
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  Speaker 2: single day.
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  Speaker 4: All these coaches are brand new. Coaches are jumping shift.
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  Speaker 4: Other coaches are getting hired and getting elevated. Now you've
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  Speaker 4: got bad coordinators. Now you've got bad head coaches. Now
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  Speaker 4: you've got brand new rosters. I mean, you've got to admit.
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  Speaker 4: And viewerships now.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on.
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  Speaker 5: Brett in the chat, if a bowl game let me
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  Speaker 5: skip the line of Guardians of Galaxy and Epcot, I'd
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  Speaker 5: take that over at Natty.
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  Speaker 2: That's well done.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was Disney, yeah. It was Disney where we just, like,
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  Speaker 5: we had these lanyards. I don't even know why we
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  Speaker 5: had lanyards. It was, like, our credentials to get into
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  Speaker 5: the hotel. That's what it was. And we brought them,
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  Speaker 5: and we're like, hey, we're at the bowl game. They
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  Speaker 5: said we could, like, skip everybody. We rode every ride, like,
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  Speaker 5: seven times.
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  Speaker 2: It was incredible. We just flashed them real fast.
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  Speaker 5: That was before they had, like, the fancy little wristbands.
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  Speaker 2: They had the fancy wristbands. That was before scanning. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: there was no scanning. There wasn't scanning. Hell, you still
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  Speaker 2: had your... your phone on a clip on your hip.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah people used to be walking past the line we
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  Speaker 4: were i mean we were those college kids that you.
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  Speaker 2: Know you you run into and you're like those those
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  Speaker 2: turds yeah because they're oh fast pass sorry we're going
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  Speaker 2: the front fast pass fast pass that was us yeah
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  Speaker 2: fast pass not a big deal we did it though
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  Speaker 2: yeah remember they roped us in were you with us
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  Speaker 2: they roped us in during the.
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  Speaker 4: Um went to disney during that week during the day
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  Speaker 4: And we wanted to get the Fast Pass. We wanted
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  Speaker 4: to go to the front of the line.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But this was a different park. It wasn't as easy. Right.
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  Speaker 4: And they're like, we will take you the whole day.
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  Speaker 4: You can go to the front of the line. It's
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  Speaker 4: on every ride. But you got to walk this float
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  Speaker 4: down this parade.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It was like their daily parade they had.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We had these floats. We're like, okay, yeah, sign us
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  Speaker 2: up for that. Let's do it. So like four or
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  Speaker 2: five of us. Were you with us?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: We were roommates back then. We had to wait like
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  Speaker 4: an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And, like, do this training to hold this float. And
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember if it was, like, a Mickey head
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  Speaker 2: or it might have been just, like.
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  Speaker 4: A star or something. Like, it was a big float. Like,
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  Speaker 4: it took three or four people to hold it. And
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  Speaker 4: we had to practice.
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  Speaker 2: We had to wait in line. It was this big parade.
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  Speaker 4: And we had to walk this damn float down this
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  Speaker 4: parade in Disney three days before the Capital One Bowl.
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  Speaker 4: And we get there. And I think she walked us
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  Speaker 4: to one ride. And then she ghosted us. She disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So... She lied to us. They got us back. Huh?
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  Speaker 2: They got us back. They got to get back on us. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they got to get back. They heard about us. We
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  Speaker 2: were infamous. Yes, Mitchell, you do hear.
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  Speaker 5: 1,000 miles in the background, Hunt's playlist.
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  Speaker 2: You absolutely do. Vanessa Carlton?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Miss, give me confirmation. Yep. She was confident
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  Speaker 2: in that, too. Should she be on the burnt CD tour?
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  Speaker 1: No. No.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she didn't have a lot of hits, but,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she can come out for a couple songs, right?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, she can play in the crowd. She can
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  Speaker 4: play in the crowd for snacks. Yeah, okay, fair enough.
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  Speaker 4: We're not paying her.
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  Speaker 2: Last thing about the playoff. Okay. Before I move on. So, wait.
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  Speaker 2: Before you say this, are you... Happy about it? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to pretend I'm happy about it. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't move the needle for me one direction or the other.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying because I knew it was coming down the track.
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  Speaker 2: And if there's not rules, I don't really care. You're
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  Speaker 2: still going to have a committee.
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  Speaker 5: Can I just say, like, the only thing that I
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  Speaker 5: want that will never happen, it can't happen, like, if
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  Speaker 5: we are going to truly, like, do this, and, again,
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  Speaker 5: not saying that we're asking for it or that you
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  Speaker 5: have to like it. I don't really love it. But
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  Speaker 5: if we are going to be something that looks more
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  Speaker 5: like the NFL– There has to be some kind of
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  Speaker 5: way to make everybody play somebody. We can't have teams
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  Speaker 5: out here playing one ranked team, and they're fighting for
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  Speaker 5: the same playoff as a team that's playing five or
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  Speaker 5: six ranked teams. That, to me, is– I don't know
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  Speaker 5: how you fix it because there's conferences. There's no teams
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: that do that.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. There's multiple. Your favorite team does it. I don't
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: know how you do it.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: But that, to me, has always been the big disconnect.
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: As you add and you add and you add, I'm like, okay, well,
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: if you're not going to reward this team for being 9-3,
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: although they played five ranked teams, three on the road,
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: and this team that was 11-1 who played one ranked
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: team and housed the Little Sisters of the Poor, that's
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: what we need to figure out first.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: How do we fix that? What team was that? Little
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Sisters of the Poor. Okay.
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: All right. Little Sisters. I don't remember. I heard that
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: somewhere along the way, and I've used it before. I
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: don't really know. Let's dive into it. Directional School U.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: How about that? Is that better? Little Sisters of the Poor.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Feels like something my dad said, and now I'm a
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: little nervous.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: Did I say something bad?
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: God, now I lost my whole train of thought here.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: Flynn, every conference should have the same amount of conference games.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: And every other power conference, say it's nine, right? It's
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: a big number that we've talked about. Nine conference games
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: and one power four opponent. Every single Big Ten, SEC, ACC,
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: Big 12. Because teams like Indiana, actually the last three, Indiana,
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: Ohio State, and Michigan, the last three national champions, haven't
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: played a non-conference power four team.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Interesting. That uniformity has to happen.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: Now, you're going to have schedule imbalance even if that
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: does happen because my power four opponent is going to
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: be Clemson and yours is going to be Purdue.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm just trying to think of like two teams.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying? Then just do the seeding
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: off your record. Don't do it off of what the
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: assistant to the head coach votes. Don't do it to
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: what media members vote. Do the bracket, the seedings based
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: on record.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: And also force Notre Dame's ass to join something. Yeah.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Get in a conference. Just kick them out.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: The fact that they get special treatment year after year
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: after year.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: And, look, I'm going to be honest with you.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: It's genius scheduling by them because what they do is
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: they get middle-of-the-road power four teams. They get Stanford, and
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: they get UNC, and they get Purdue, and Michigan State,
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: and they're like, Look.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: We got 12 power four opponents. It's like, no, you don't.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: You got the bottom feeders of these conferences, and then
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: they throw in the, like, oh, we'll get Miami.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: We'll get one.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: And that's part of the ACC scheduling agreement that they have.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: It's like, what they're doing, it's going to keep them
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: in the same position where they have some mulligans. Now,
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: last year, the only reason their mulligans didn't help them
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: is because the two teams that they lost to also
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: had playoff resumes, so they couldn't put them in the playoff.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: But, like, if we're going to have an NFL-like playoff
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: and we're going to have all these things that we
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: want to be similar, you've got to force people to
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: start playing something very similar.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: To each other. You say it's smart by them. You
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: say it's genius. I say it's cowardly.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: It's kind of like when you find a big deer,
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: a big buck, like a big old buck who's just, like,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: has a big rack. He's six years old in the woods.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: And everybody's like, that old buck, he's smart. He outsmarts
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: us every single year. Deer aren't smart. The big ones
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: that are old, they're just scarier than everybody else. They're
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: a little bit more cowardly.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: More scared. More scared. No, it's scarier here, buddy. When
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: we're talking about Notre Dame, it's scarier. They're scarier. They're
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: more cowardly than everybody else. They're not smarter. They're just
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: more scared. Okay? So that's all they are. And, of course,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: everybody wants to see the big buck. Everybody wants to
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: see Notre Dame and give them all the credit in
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: the world. But really, all they are is scared.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: So kick them out. Take their helmets away. Don't let
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: them play.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: But if we continue, which we have, and we're going to,
• 19:48
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• 19:50
  Speaker 2: slide and let them get away with that, what are
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: they going to do? Continue doing that. It's human nature, buddy.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: And they're not going to stop. It's called human nature,
• 19:58
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  Speaker 1: So Locked in on LSU football 24-7. You're listening to
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  Speaker 7: I just realized that we're in the middle of.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: A grocery store.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And when we come back.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: From break, I probably look like I'm in a silent
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: disco over here.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I've got my headphones on and dancing around. That was
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: a good song. Kind of forgot about the grocery goers here. Why?
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: My guy making the sushi over there. He's probably like,
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  Speaker 2: what's that guy dancing on? I can't wait. We are
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  Speaker 2: breakfast sushi. I mean, you did already... Annihilate. I was
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  Speaker 2: eggs and hash browns? I inhaled them. You did? I
• 22:40
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• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I chewed. I'm not an animal, Jake.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Hey, did you see that we got flying cars now?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I thought it was AI at first. But then I
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: realized it wasn't. We got flying cars, Tesla. What the
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: hell's going on? You know, when most people get bored,
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: most people look for a hobby.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Well, they do. They pick up golf, pick up tennis.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Maybe if you're bored, you look on TV and maybe
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: you look at a new show to start. Like, what
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: can I binge? What can I stream right here? Maybe
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: take up mahjong as a new hobby. That's a new
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: crave going around. Everybody's doing it. Everybody craves.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Elon Musk was like, let's just make cars fly. And
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: he did it. In a weird way to present it, too.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Just in a reverse ramp. Oh, sweet. Barrel roll? Well,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, that was awesome.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: The Jetsons told us like 40, 50 years.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Ago it was going to happen. I know. And it's
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: like Elon watches.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: old movies and shows and the depictions of the future.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And just wants to do that. I respect it.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: I don't know if flying cars are going to be
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: a thing. I don't trust people driving on the ground.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: A lot of bad drivers out there. Can you imagine
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: just a bunch of pilots out there? No. Driving flying cars.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I think I'll pass. It'd have to be all automated. Yeah.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: But you could at that point see as the crow
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: flies how close things are.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Touche. I know. If you've ever had to go over
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: to Plaquemine or Port Allen. Yeah. Or Brulee. Yeah. Yeah.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: That wouldn't be bad. But if you look at that.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: That's what it needs to be. Instead of ferries. Flying cars.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Flying cars. But they only get to go where the
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: ferries went.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: You've got to figure that out. Just hover over the water.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: It would take less time to figure out how to
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: make flying cars than it would be to build another
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: bridge here near Baton Rouge.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Because I don't think that'll happen. They're trying to. Right
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: in front of where I live. I know nothing about
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: bridge politics, but.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: If you're listening to us, don't make a video about
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: us complaining about the bridge.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Why? Can't do that. Because they made one. Alondra was like,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: you know, when's this street going to open back? Yeah.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: By the lakes of Baton Rouge. Yeah. They did? Yeah. Well,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: when is it?
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Alondra, can we have some investigative reporting? When was the
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: street supposed to open and when's it actually opening?
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: So the street was closed from, like, June 2024, and
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: it was supposed to open August 31st of 2026, so, like,
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: two months ago. And after I got superimposed onto this
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: video without my permission, he said that in November I
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: think it's supposed to open back up.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Cool. All right.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Well, it's just like any construction I'm about to find
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: out at my house. Probably not going to be when you.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Think it is. If they say March, think November.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Do you think that kind of like with houses, you
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: think building that new road, you think they went under budget?
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, definitely. Like they were quoted a price, obviously. Yeah.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Probably went under budget. No doubt. Saved a little bit
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: here and there. I bet they haven't spent that much
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: doing the whole lake deal over there by LSU. No, no.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Creating earth. Creating more earth over there on the lake.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: That's probably pretty cheap.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Quick, easy. But it's going to look good.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: Couple years eventually just kind of like that new bridge
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: get uh you might as well just get a flying
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: ferry i'm just saying like if you're gonna use oh
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: yeah why don't i just figure that out like i
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: mean elon is coming bringing rockets here to louisiana you
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: think you could help you your boys out over here
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: just kill a flying ferry maybe that was part of
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: the deal yeah we'll let you set up your rockets
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: here if you build us a flying ferry that'd be cool.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: I forget about that.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Anyway, the flying car was objectively badass, especially the slowed-down version.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: This guy liked these hydraulic jets from the bottom and from.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: The side, too, to stabilize it. That was sweet. With
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: the price of diesel, I bet that fuel's cheap, too.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's cheaper than diesel, for sure. My God.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: I picked the wrong time in the history of America
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: to buy a diesel truck.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: What's that? What's it cost you to fill up there, bud?
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Pretty penny. Last time it was like $ 175. God. It's
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: a big tank. But I will say this. I drive
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: from my house to the radio station, to my office,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: and to my house. Yeah. And I don't really drive
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: anywhere else. Especially during football season. We ain't going many places.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: And if you do, you take the wife's car.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Because I got to bring the people these takes about
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: flying cars.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: So I do only fill up maybe once a month. Well, hell,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: at $ 175, I'd hope so. I know. I know. It's
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: a lot. Jeez. Write that thing off. Hi. I'm Matt Flynn, F-A-B-T.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I'm here for a loan. For what, sir? For a home?
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: For your business? To fill up? To fill up gas.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Fill up my tank. In this economy? You don't just
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: put 10 in? That'd be sweet. It used to last
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: a whole week. Anyhoos. All right. Flying cars. It's awesome.
• 28:31
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• 28:33
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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in OTB here live from Rouse's
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  Speaker 2: Burbank and Lee. We've got Alondra.
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  Speaker 5: Tete back in the Raising Cane studio in downtown Baton Rouge.
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  Speaker 5: at Rouse's.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, brother? How we doing? Doing good.
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  Speaker 6: I want to apologize in advance to the guys at
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  Speaker 6: few kids around here that think this is the playground
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  Speaker 6: for a moment.
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 4: They did at commercial. They said, can we go roam around?
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  Speaker 4: And you said, yeah. And they went, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go. They took off running.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I hadn't seen that look since we used
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: to order pizza on TGIF night when Boy Meets World
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: was about to come on.
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  Speaker 2: Can we get pizza? They were fired up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Can we get two pizzas? You know, the kids these days. Independence.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: So fired up. You'll walk around our houses.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 6: Was and got a road and went and got stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you seen Richard? About four or five hours ago.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Come on, they'll be back. That's how it was.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine? Oh, my. You did it. Can you
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  Speaker 2: No.
• 31:54
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• 31:55
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• 31:58
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• 32:01
  Speaker 6: I'm like, poke my head out.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: It's because social media. And we're all in tune to
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: what's happening everywhere. There used to be a little blind
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: ignorance back in the day. The world's always been a
• 32:11
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  Speaker 6: I saw a deal where it said today is actually
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  Speaker 6: we know about every kidnapping from California to New York.
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  Speaker 6: You know about everything. It happens in another country, you
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: hear about it. Back in the day, you knew what
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  Speaker 6: happened in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. And if somebody got kidnapped
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• 32:36
  Speaker 4: I think historians actually, since World War II, I think
• 32:39
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• 32:42
  Speaker 2: The Great Peace.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Even though there are little things happening, and we think
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: it's bad, we're just hyper-aware of everything.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Because we're watching what's going on all over the world
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: in seconds.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Back in the day, the only reason you knew what
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: was going on was because of unsolved mysteries in 2020.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Unsolved mysteries. That's the only time you ever heard about
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: any bad stuff. That is a blast from the past.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Forensic Files. That's a good one, too. All right, Dixon.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: How are we feeling? Coming off a loss at Kentucky.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: I just hate that place. That's a tough place to play.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: I hate it.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: I've lost every time I've been there as a player
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: covering the team 0-3.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, when we.
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: I mean, I tell a story about our game a
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: lot of times, and I've talked to y'all about it.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: I mean, I didn't like our team's mindset in that game.
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: I felt like I wanted to fight half of our
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: team before the game because everybody was, like, joking and relaxed. And,
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: you know, Brett Hounds was out, and then Early was out,
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: and then people started getting banged up. And, you know,
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: that was the first time when Les Miles and Henson
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: called me in the office that Monday because I was, like,
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: in tears, ready to fight. Like, you're no longer a sophomore.
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: You're allowed to slap somebody in the face. Like, we've
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: got to have some leadership because I think the coaches
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: saw it, too. That was the one time in my
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: career I remember that locker room was not a good–
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: before the game.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Right. Like, everybody was just relaxed, joking, like it was no,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: it's just Kentucky.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: And then we go out there and get our books.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: What was the team we played before? What was the
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: week before? Florida. It was Florida, okay. Yeah.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I remember going into that game, and maybe
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: it was a hangover from the Florida game.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just remember going into that game.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: I didn't practice that week.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: I was not as confident and as prepared with the
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: game plan that week. I don't think anybody was. And
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: I don't know if that's because we installed new plays.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: We had a lot of shotgun runs, which I hated.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like we installed a new offense that week.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: We did. But maybe a lot of that's on us, too.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Maybe we just didn't give it the attention it needed.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: That's on Gary, actually. I'm not taking any of that.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: It's Croton.
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: But Helms went out, Miller went in, and then I
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: think there was more than– I mean, I know Early
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: was out. Early was trying to come back.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Stelts got knocked out of the game. Yeah, Stelts got–
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: By Dickey Lyons, yeah.
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: It was one of those games, like, people kept going out,
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: and it was triple overtime.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I understood post-route, but LaFell. Yeah, I
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: remember that one. No, I don't.
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: I do remember Les Miles cussing Henson out because we
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: ran a necker that you threw to Keith Zinger.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: And the way.
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: He called the play, they had me on the backside
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: running the slam flat. And Keith running the deep over.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I threw the deep over. And you threw
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: the deep over and he dropped it. Yeah, I remember
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: him dropping it.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: I got cussed out and Henson got cussed out. They're like,
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: you're supposed to run the deep over. I'm like, you
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: called the play.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I cut a gun run. We had a puller.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: We had the tackle pull on the thing from right
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: to left.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: And I kind of cut it too far back.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: I cut a backside A gap and tried to do,
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, like try to do too much.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: At the end of that game. I remember calling one
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: of my many quarterback powers of the year.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: I called it like middle of the field or something.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: I remember I got like six or seven yards.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I remember getting stuck. And I was like, ooh, that
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: one hurt. I wasn't low man on that one.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: When people talk about Kentucky, I like to go back
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: and say that was a really damn good Kentucky team too.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. I mean, they were 14, 15.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: 17. 17?
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Okay, I knew they were in the teens. Jacob Tammey,
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Wesley Woodyard.
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: I tell the story all the time. The first time
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: me and you talked about, you talked to me about
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: wearing 18.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was taking Tammy.
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: We're sitting there, and you're like, man. I was like,
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: I don't know, man. You're like, no, that looks really good.
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: Look at the tight end for Kentucky. Look at Tammy.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. 18 looks great on a tight end. It does.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Looks good. That was your convincing point. Sold. Yeah, so
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: 20 years later, that's what happened in the Kentucky game. Yeah, anyway.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: And then, well, that's what happened Saturday.
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: Fourth and one, why don't we, like, I know, like,
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: I listened to his explanation, and I can get it. Like,
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: if he goes for it on fourth and one and
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: misses it, everybody's like, well, why didn't you trust the defense? But, like,
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: that's such a typical Lane Kiffin move right there. Like,
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: I've watched it for years at Ole Miss. You're at midfield,
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: win the game, go get one yard. Like, I remember
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: what had happened. I was like, it's game over.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: I'm good. Stood up, ready to go. And I saw
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: the punt team come out, and I was like. I think,
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: so Chris asked me on the radio, he's like, all right,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: put on your coaching headset.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: And I knew where he was going. So he's like,
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: all right, put on your coaching headset. And I said,
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: go for it. Like, before he, I was like, you
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: go for it. I was like, look, and I said
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: this on the broadcast. I was like, I'm from the
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: school of Les Miles, like, where you don't even think
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: about that. And I really, I'm with you. And Lane's
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: been in.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: That world, too.
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Like, that's always kind of been his M.O., And so
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: when I saw– it was less than a yard.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: And, like, when I saw that, I was like, oh, well,
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: they've got a running quarterback. They've got a running back
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: that understands how to find a little gap, and then
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: he presses the gap. So even if it's not blocked
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: up perfectly– and I've always said this. Even if there's
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: a free running linebacker in the A gap, B gap,
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: wherever you're running it, that then goes on the running
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: back to find a way to get a yard.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Like that– it's me versus him. I'm going to find
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: a way to get a yard.
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: And so– Like replaying that is just still like that's
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: the one in the game.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: And I'm with you. Like I heard him talk about
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: it in the defense at that point had been, you know,
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: put in bad situations and they held in the field
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: goal attempts and they've been playing well.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: So I get that point of it. But when you
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: have less than a yard to finish the game. My
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: thought is that's where you finish.
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: I feel like if they punt the ball, there's still
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: an opportunity. Like it's not as hard to get back
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: to that field goal range. Whereas where they're at. you
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: can probably hold them to a field goal. So I
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: was thinking it was field goal either way.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Go ahead and go get it. But I don't know.
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: I hadn't watched the film. This is one that I've
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: kind of ignored. It's the first time I've even talked
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: about football. I haven't listened to one radio show, one podcast.
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: Thanks for listening, bud.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Thanks, bud. I didn't want to relive it. Hey, you
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: know what?
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: Y'all know that I'm a little bit temperamental. I get
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: a little mad.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: So is he. But, You watch the film. I know
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: you break down. Sorry I care, Matt.
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: Guys, Eye in the Sky is freaking awesome.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Love it. Thank you.
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: Thank God that I don't have to do that anymore
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: and I don't want to compete with you. But what
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: was up with the offensive line? Like, you told me
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: fourth and one, we averaged two and a half yards
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: a carry. What was going on? Like, were we not
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: getting a push? Could you see why he's not confident
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: with that?
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: So, we talked about a lot of– so, the game
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: plan was really strange to me from a running game
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: standpoint because you could have– I think you could have
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: ran duos and isos and outside-inside zone all day. Now,
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: they played really hard. They played better on defense than
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: they had the whole season. But we– The game plan
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: was pulling a lot of people, at least early on.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: We ran so many counters, so many tackle, tight ends,
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: pulling around, so many like, you know, we ran.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Sweeps when people like. Long developing players.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: Long developing, you know, and you get it when you're in,
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: when you have receivers and tight ends that are split
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: out or off the line of scrimmage, part of the count,
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: the box count, and guys and then linemen pulling around.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: They were trying to sort so many things out. And
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: there's always like one person that either didn't get the
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: mic call or missed his assignment. and so there's always
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: one person free and they were just they were trying
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: to move side to side more than they were trying
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: to move north and south in the running game which
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: a lot of times it works and a lot of
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: times that's part of the game plan and i think
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: that's a good tool to have but they relied on
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: that a little too much now on the second half
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: they got into a little bit more normalized running game,
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: and they had success with it. They were getting downhill,
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: getting some good double teams, getting to the second level.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: It just... Yeah, they should have gone for it.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: I mean, you go get a yard. Now, maybe if
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: this was the Brian Kelly era. You're talking about the
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: last couple years. I'm scared to death of a yard.
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: We can do it. I want it third and 11.
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: I feel good third and 11, but I'll do it.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Fourth and one.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: The last couple years, I hated getting nine yards on first.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: I hated it. The drive was over. You can't get
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: a yard. We got nine yards on the first play.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: It was over. You know we were punting. But, yeah,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: and I get it.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: From a coach's standpoint the explanation is sound right the
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: explanation is sound but this day and age in college
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: football i was stunned that he didn't go for it
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: i was shocked and yeah and he should have and
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: he'll admit it and he'll never punt again the punter
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: will not a ball will not touch that punter's foot
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: the rest of the season here's my other thing on
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: that like and this is where i completely understand but
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: everybody in the world knew kentucky was gonna go for
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: two Oh, yeah.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Because they did it a week before.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: And as soon as they scored, Chris was like, let's
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: see what they do. I said, they're already holding up two.
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: I was a coach, and I get that you're first.
• 40:57
  Speaker 6: You want to secure the extra point. But you know
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: for a fact if they get it, they're going for two.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know if right there I'm like. Might as
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: well go for two.
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: Even though I'm the first one to score, I know
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: in my mind that if we don't stop them, they're
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: going for two and they're going to win this game.
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: So it's almost I feel like you have to go
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: for two out of the game. You know what we
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: hadn't talked about? Who lost the game?
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: Who went out there as the captain and made the
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: coin toss? Because, you know, we called it being the
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: busy game.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Who missed it? Did they call heads? I don't remember who.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: You know tails never fails. Yeah. Who called that? I
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: Because, you know, you do that. You send them to
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: the field. You let them go score, and then we
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: get to go for two being the away team.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: So whoever had the coin flip lost us the game.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: So everyone's blaming Lane about the punt. I'm blaming whoever
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: called the coin flip. Fair enough. Tough. All right.
• 41:44
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• 41:46
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  Speaker 5: We talked about the playoff going to 24 teams. We
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  Speaker 5: are fighting back and forth about what they said years
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel about 2014's? We talked about it
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: a little bit earlier.
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: I mean, the closer we get to the NFL, which
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• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Well, the NFL's got 32 teams. I don't love the way.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: They don't have 24 in the playoffs. I don't love
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: the way you say that. The closer we get to
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  Speaker 2: the NFL.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: We're getting from a quality of football standpoint, you're getting
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the offseason. But the parity. I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about the parity in the offseason. The ability to add
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• 44:54
  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about the actual, no.
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  Speaker 5: Think about the game last night.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: We're like, dude, that sucked. That was ugly. That would
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Of course.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm not saying that on the field product. Now,
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: the parity portion of it, yes. But I'm talking about
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• 45:13
  Speaker 6: Matt, so from the standpoint of the clock or the helmet,
• 45:17
  Speaker 6: in the NFL, do they have about the same time
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: frame where.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: They can talk to you up to? Yeah, it cuts
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: off at. 15 seconds?
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: 15 or 18.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: 15 in college.
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: So, you know, I hear a lot of people complaining
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: about the quarterbacks are dumber these days because they don't
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: have to think. They get everything from the sideline. And
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: then the coach, they don't huddle. They get lined up.
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  Speaker 6: So the coach tells them, here's your read. Here's what
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: you got to do.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: Call it. Sure.
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: But how much of that, why doesn't that happen as
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: much in the NFL? The coach didn't really talk to
• 45:41
  Speaker 6: you a lot. No, the coach tells you.
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: Like with the jayden daniel situation this past weekend they
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: 100 should have been talking to jayden daniel it's been
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: like you gotta you gotta throw it away like this
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: is like any special situations but i think in college
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: and i don't know i've never had a headset in
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: college but like from what you hear they're talking to
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: them more about coverages and things.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Like that they're in cover too you need to look they.
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  Speaker 4: Never really talked to us about like that unless it
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: was a special one-off situation in the nfl like every
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: now and then they would talk to you and every
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: now and then they would tell you about be alert
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: for this coverage yeah but they're not yeah i mean
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: college quarterbacks are getting done did.
• 46:17
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• 46:21
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  Speaker 2: in the Advocate in 2025. Well, that's Tommy's Windows Doors
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  Speaker 2: and Siding. All they do is stack awards over there
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  Speaker 2: and make sure that you are dealing with the best
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  Speaker 2: customer service out there. GoTommies.com. So go to GoTommies.
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  Speaker 4: GoTommies.com if you've got a project happening right now. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: you're adding on to your house. Maybe you're building a
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: brand new house. Maybe you just bought a house. And, man,
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  Speaker 4: these doors need changing. These windows look rotted. Whatever it is,
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  Speaker 4: make sure you work with the best. Call Tommy and Asim.
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  Speaker 4: Let him show you why they win award after award
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  Speaker 4: after award.
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  Speaker 2: Go to gotommies.com.