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Show open! Andrew Zimmel talks about Arch Manning and Paul Finebaums comments · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: The free Arteart radio app as well as on the
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  Speaker 1: so if you missed any of it, we're there as well,
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  Speaker 2: A lot to get into.
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  Speaker 1: On this first day of July, we have Inconceivable this hour,
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  Speaker 1: we also have NBA Free Agency. Did the Bucks accidentally
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  Speaker 1: ruin their title shots by letting Damian Lillard walk away?
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you about that a little bit later,
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  Speaker 1: but first it is maybe the quote of the month,
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  Speaker 1: and it's already the first of the month. It's Paul
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  Speaker 1: Finebaum this morning on Get Up and Call. Let's hear
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  Speaker 1: with mister Finebaum, the true authority of college football, the
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  Speaker 1: true authority of the SEC, had to say about arch
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  Speaker 1: Manning the absolute ruf.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a reasonably good chance at Arch Manning
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  Speaker 3: will be sitting on the front row in New York
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  Speaker 3: at the Heisman ceremony. That's assuming that his team does
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  Speaker 3: what it's supposed to do and compete for not only
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  Speaker 3: the SEC, but for the national championship, and I really
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  Speaker 3: believe they will. I think Steve Sarkisian, who's one of
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  Speaker 3: the most amazing play callers I've ever seen, made a
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  Speaker 3: critical mistake late in the year. He was way too
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  Speaker 3: loyal to quinn Ewers, who was banged up and was
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  Speaker 3: really ineffective. Had arch Manning been instituted in the second
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  Speaker 3: half of that game, like Nick Saban did a couple
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  Speaker 3: of years ago, with a tongue of I loa, I
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  Speaker 3: think there's a reasonably good chance that Texas would have
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  Speaker 3: beaten Ohio State and won the national championship.
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  Speaker 2: They're very capable of doing.
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  Speaker 3: It again this year. I believe also that arch Manning
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  Speaker 3: is the best college football quarterback we have seen since
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  Speaker 3: Tim Tebow entered the scene in two thousand and six.
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  Speaker 1: So let's start right there at the end, because there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot to get into with Fine Bomb. Fine Bom
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  Speaker 1: gave us plenty to talk about, but we'll start here.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime you invoke the name of Timothy Tebow, you were
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  Speaker 1: going to get the highest of high expectations. Now, do
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  Speaker 1: I think Tim Tebow's the greatest college quarterback of all time?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe?
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of guys who have had
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  Speaker 1: better single seasons than Tebo. I think about Joe Burrow
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  Speaker 1: with that LSU team, sixty touchdowns. It's hard to beat
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  Speaker 1: that Johnny Manzel might have been a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: electric at Texas A and M and his Heisman season.
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  Speaker 1: But if you gave me somebody's career, if I could
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  Speaker 1: go and scherry pick a career of college football, I'm
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  Speaker 1: taking Tim Tebow. So when you compare him to Tebow,
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  Speaker 1: when you compare arch Manning to Tebo, immediately the stakes
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  Speaker 1: are raised. Yeah, Texas is coming into the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five twenty sixth season as a preemptive favorite to try
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  Speaker 1: to win a national championship, something that Steve Sarkisian has
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  Speaker 1: not yet been able to do at the University of Texas.
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  Speaker 1: And the expectations are ginormous for this program because they
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  Speaker 1: are the University of Texas. That's just how it goes
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  Speaker 1: in the state, That's how it goes nationally. This is
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  Speaker 1: the flagship, this is the brand. So I look at Finebaum,
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  Speaker 1: who has been known every once in a while to
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  Speaker 1: try to throw something in the spokes of some of
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  Speaker 1: these national championship contending teams, and I almost hear this
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  Speaker 1: as fodder, a little bit of the outside noise to
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  Speaker 1: throw the long runs off their game, to throw Arch
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  Speaker 1: Manning off this game, and to throw meat red meat.
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  Speaker 1: I should say to those Internet trolls who are going
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  Speaker 1: to love every misstep, every misfire from this team. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't imagine that's going to happen a ton this year,
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  Speaker 1: but I do think that there are going to be
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  Speaker 1: times there. It's going to be games, there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be quarters where arch Banning looks like a guy who's
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  Speaker 1: playing his first full season under center. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that that's insane to say. I don't think that that's
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  Speaker 1: incorrect to predict that there will be games, there will
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  Speaker 1: be times, there will be situations where he's going to
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  Speaker 1: look like a quarterback who's starting his first season of
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  Speaker 1: college football. He was a good backup last year. He
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  Speaker 1: has the most important name in football. He is from
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  Speaker 1: a lineage that not just him. He has a name,
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  Speaker 1: but he also has two Hall of Fame quarterback uncles,
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  Speaker 1: and he has a grandfather who was special in his
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  Speaker 1: own right in Archie Manning. This is the name. This
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  Speaker 1: is the first family of football in America. When you
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  Speaker 1: have those expectations, when you have that last name, it
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  Speaker 1: matters a little bit more, obviously, and you played for
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  Speaker 1: the University of Texas. Somehow, the stakes are even higher.
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  Speaker 1: So that was my first major takeaway is that to
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  Speaker 1: compare him to Tebow. For Fine Bomb to come on
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  Speaker 1: television on the first day of July where things are quiet,
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  Speaker 1: it felt like he was just trying to make some noise,
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  Speaker 1: try to put something out there to get some clicks.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't love that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't love that you're using the University of Texas
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  Speaker 1: and Arch Manning to do that.
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  Speaker 2: That would be my first thing. The second thing is.
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  Speaker 1: That Fine Bomb is playing right into the internet conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: theory that some of the we call them the Tinfoil
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  Speaker 1: Hat Gang, have been putting out there for months, for
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  Speaker 1: almost a year now, that Sarkesian should have moved off
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  Speaker 1: of Quinn when Quinn had some of those injuries late
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  Speaker 1: in the season, moved to Arch and give him the
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  Speaker 1: key come playoff time. And we've heard it compared to
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  Speaker 1: when Saban took the ball away from Jalen Hurts in
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  Speaker 1: the National Championship at halftime, gave it to a tongue
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  Speaker 1: of Aloa and they won the National Championship. But I
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  Speaker 1: hate to break the news to you that those days
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  Speaker 1: are the past. Those days you don't exist anymore. What
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  Speaker 1: you are in now is a new era of college football.
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  Speaker 1: We just saw thee Or Texas Totate University go to
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  Speaker 1: the Pac twelve yesterday for a little bit more money. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we are in a situation now that is the closest
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  Speaker 1: we are ever going to get to player empowerment in football.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: College game has turned into semi pro game. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: do that as a college football coach, and we're never
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  Speaker 1: going to see a situation like Saban had in the
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  Speaker 1: National Championship again. You have to ride with your starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: That's just how it goes from here on out. Because
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  Speaker 1: the sixteen fifteen year old quarterback who's coming up, who's
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  Speaker 1: going to be the next quarterback of your favorite team?
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  Speaker 1: They have that in their head that, hey, I remember
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  Speaker 1: at halftime of a last game of the SEC schedule,
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  Speaker 1: the slate that Sarkisian took the ball away from the
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  Speaker 1: starter and gave it to me, gave it to the backup.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you're the starter, your entire time, you're
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  Speaker 1: looking over your shoulder worried that somebody's gonna take your job.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have a successful football program doing that. We
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  Speaker 1: said it then that Sarkisian was doing the right thing
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  Speaker 1: by riding with Queen yours. If he can play, he
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  Speaker 1: needs to play. But you also are in a spot
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  Speaker 1: now where you're trying to recti act, retroactively change the past.
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  Speaker 1: You're trying to retroactively move the goalposts and say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: Art should have been playing. I'm gonna be honest with
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  Speaker 1: you here, Okay, I think Sarkisian might be the smartest
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  Speaker 1: college football coach in America. I'm gonna be honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's one of the smartest college or football
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  Speaker 1: coaches that we've had in the last twenty five years.
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  Speaker 1: What he has been able to do at the University
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  Speaker 1: of Texas is a statement towards that. So if he
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  Speaker 1: says I'm gonna ride out with the guy who got
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  Speaker 1: me here in Quinn, I'm gonna jump in the back
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  Speaker 1: seat and say drive me there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on all on board with coach sark That's just me.
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  Speaker 1: Now, maybe you are sitting there saying, oh, well, I
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  Speaker 1: would have rather had arch Banning play. Well, that's easy
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  Speaker 1: to play the results. It's easy to play the results
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  Speaker 1: after not winning the national title, saying well, if.
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  Speaker 2: He would, but we don't know that. You don't know
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  Speaker 2: that I don't know that.
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  Speaker 1: I think that they've made the right decision at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that fine bomb going on get up
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  Speaker 1: on a random Tuesday morning in July. Saying that Sarkesian
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  Speaker 1: made a misstep is very easy to play the results.
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  Speaker 2: It's very easy to play the results of that.
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  Speaker 1: There's not another college football coach in America, not Ryan Day,
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  Speaker 1: not Davo Sweeney, Nobody would have taken the ball out
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  Speaker 1: of Quinnever's hands because they know the world that they
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  Speaker 1: live in today. They know the world that they live
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  Speaker 1: in today. That is a player empowerment era. And then
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  Speaker 1: if you are the type of guy who's going to
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  Speaker 1: take the ball away from your starting quarterback and give
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  Speaker 1: it to the backup, then no starting quarterback then can
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  Speaker 1: trust you. Whether he's banged up, maybe he has a
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  Speaker 1: couple bad interceptions, he's looking over his shoulder. You can't
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  Speaker 1: also fin football games like that, Yeah, Cole, Well, hindsight's
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and so I think that would be gone
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  Speaker 1: farther with Arch. We don't know that, we don't know
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  Speaker 1: what would have happened. But also if we're winning with Quinn,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine, And there's honestly, I liked the approach sark
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  Speaker 1: is taking with Arch. Just pump the breaks, be patient
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  Speaker 1: with him. He's going to be fine. He's not pushing
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  Speaker 1: him down our throats or anything like that. Pump the breaks.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be fine. Let him develop. It takes time.
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  Speaker 1: He's not forcing it.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what I really appreciate about the whole sark situation,
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  Speaker 4: in him developing Arch and coaching him the right way.
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  Speaker 1: I will say that the outside noise that Longhorn fans
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  Speaker 1: remember from five or eight or nine is now like
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  Speaker 1: goes ten, fifteen levels higher because of social media, because
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  Speaker 1: of the Internet, because of everything we have today. The
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  Speaker 1: outside noise on this season is going to be unlike
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  Speaker 1: any other season that Longhorn fans can remember because there's
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  Speaker 1: legitimate title chances this year. Last year, first year in
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  Speaker 1: the SEC, they exceeded a lot of people's expectations. You
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  Speaker 1: come into year number two, you have a year of
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  Speaker 1: SEC football under your belt. The outside noise this year
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  Speaker 1: is going to be second to none in the history
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  Speaker 1: of the Longhorns football program. How is Sarkisian going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to make sure that that doesn't get in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room? That will be the truest test I
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  Speaker 1: think this season call. Yeah, I completely agree.
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  Speaker 4: But also it doesn't matter if you're playing at Ohio
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  Speaker 4: State or San Jose State. Every team is going to
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  Speaker 4: give you their all because you just have a target
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  Speaker 4: on your back coming into the season of oh well
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  Speaker 4: we fell short the year before, but hey, you know
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  Speaker 4: we got arch revamping. Everything you know is looking up
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  Speaker 4: to win a national championship. But every team is going
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  Speaker 4: to be gunning for you in every fan and every
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  Speaker 4: media member is going to do what they can to
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  Speaker 4: you know, get the clicks and get the and really
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  Speaker 4: try and cause that outside noise. I think Starks doing
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  Speaker 4: a great job as well as containing that as much
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  Speaker 4: as he can. But Fine Bomb, I'm not. I agree,
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  Speaker 4: but don't agree type of thing. It is slow season.
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  Speaker 4: I understand it. It's a Tuesday, you know, Fine Bam
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  Speaker 4: knows what he's talking about. So again, it's just cut
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  Speaker 4: the outside noise, focus on what's in front of you,
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  Speaker 4: be patient with it, and let's go win a national championship.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing Fine Bamb and I are going to
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  Speaker 1: agree on is that Arch Band is sitting front row
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  Speaker 1: at the Heisman ceremony probably most likely will be happening,
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  Speaker 1: all right. When we come back NBA free agency. Did
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  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Bucks already ruin their title chances on day
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  Speaker 1: number one?
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about it next.
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