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Hour Three | Who Goes Back-to-Back? NFL Turnarounds & Munchies · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: With Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in. OTB here, hour number three.
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  Speaker 3: Pala group dot com. All right, Matt. Indiana, to repeat,
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  Speaker 3: is the college national champion. Are the Seattle Seahawks to
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  Speaker 3: repeat as the Super Bowl champion? Well, there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of variables to consider here.
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  Speaker 5: Number one being it's extremely difficult and damn near impossible
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  Speaker 5: to do either. If you, I mean, when was the
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  Speaker 5: last time there was a repeat champion in the NFL?
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  Speaker 3: Chiefs. Chiefs. Chiefs. Georgia did it. Because Chiefs were going
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  Speaker 3: for a three in new orleans when they lost to
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  Speaker 3: the eagles right.
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  Speaker 6: I think or maybe there was one in between yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The chiefs yeah and then i guess that was.
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  Speaker 4: Quite an anomaly 23 and 24.
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  Speaker 3: And then the.
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  Speaker 5: In college george has done it i think they're the
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  Speaker 5: last team to do it but that's in this world
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  Speaker 5: of college athletics and sports that's a lifetime ago And
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  Speaker 5: it might as well be 100 years ago for that matter.
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  Speaker 4: Just for reference, before that, the last time somebody did
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  Speaker 4: it was the Patriots in 03 and 04. So there's
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  Speaker 4: like a 20-year gap between it happening.
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  Speaker 5: Like in college football, the difference in college football from
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  Speaker 5: five years ago to today is probably more of a
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  Speaker 5: difference in the biggest 100 years. So that was a
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  Speaker 5: different time when there was a repeat champion in college.
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  Speaker 5: So it is extremely difficult to do. There's so many
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  Speaker 5: things that have to go right to win a championship.
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  Speaker 5: You have to be good. You have to have the
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  Speaker 5: right makeup. You have to have the right coaches. You
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  Speaker 5: have to get lucky. And luck is taking advantage of opportunities, right?
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  Speaker 5: And certain teams do that. Certain teams don't. You have
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  Speaker 5: to have a call go one way. The ball is misshapen,
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  Speaker 5: so it has to bounce the right way every now
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  Speaker 5: and then. And plus, everybody else is really good. And
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  Speaker 5: now with college football, the rosters are turning over so much.
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  Speaker 5: But one thing that has stayed consistent is the coaching
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  Speaker 5: staff at Indiana, which is.
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  Speaker 3: Different than anything. Those guys have been together at, I think,
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  Speaker 3: four different places. I'm pretty sure those coaches have been
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  Speaker 3: together at four different stops, coordinators and head coach. That
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  Speaker 3: means something. It does mean something.
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  Speaker 5: So if we are trying to just make a huge guess,
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  Speaker 5: let's say who has the best chance, and again, the
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  Speaker 5: chance might be 15%.
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  Speaker 3: To win a championship for Indiana and 15% for Seattle.
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  Speaker 5: Let's just say that because Seattle's also going to be,
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  Speaker 5: Seattle's been overshadowed and how people are because of the Rams,
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  Speaker 5: someone in their own division that are people. And rightfully so, right.
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  Speaker 5: You're one of the best teams. They improve in the secondary. They, they,
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  Speaker 5: they bring the NFL defensive player of the year. Now
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  Speaker 5: the all time sack later, they bring him in. Now
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  Speaker 5: you got, might have Aaron Darnold that comes back. Like rightfully,
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  Speaker 5: people are talking about them. Um, but, just sitting over
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  Speaker 5: there as the reigning Super Bowl champs from that own
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  Speaker 5: division and beating that same Rams team in the NFC
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  Speaker 5: Championship game. But I'm going to say that I believe
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  Speaker 5: Indiana has the better chance between, if we're talking about
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  Speaker 5: who's got the better chance, between the Seahawks and Indiana
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  Speaker 5: to repeat as champions. Just because I do think they
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  Speaker 5: are a little bit underrated, going into this season, and
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  Speaker 5: I get it. Taylor, you made a great point we
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  Speaker 5: were talking about. There's still six. It's not like it's
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  Speaker 5: a huge disrespect. But if you take the Indiana logo
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  Speaker 5: off their helmet and replace it with an A, like
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  Speaker 5: if it's an Alabama on the side of their helmet
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  Speaker 5: on their jersey, then they're ranked number one this year,
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  Speaker 5: even if they replace the quarterback. The quarterback, I always
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  Speaker 5: forget his name.
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  Speaker 6: Josh Hoover.
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  Speaker 3: Josh Hoover. You forgot Fernando Mendoza. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: He's got Josh.
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  Speaker 5: Uber's got better stats going into Indiana than Fernando Mendoza
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  Speaker 5: did going into Indiana. And I'm not saying that the
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  Speaker 5: end result is going to be even close or similar
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  Speaker 5: to similar to what Fernando Mendoza was able to do,
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  Speaker 5: but like from a preseason ranking, I think it's a
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  Speaker 5: slightly disrespectful that they are fall outside of at least
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  Speaker 5: the top five going in. So for, for that reason,
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  Speaker 5: and just like this list that came out with the
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  Speaker 5: top 100 players in college football, they are tied for,
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  Speaker 5: they got seven. players in the top 100 and they
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  Speaker 5: have no five stars uh and i think that coaching
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  Speaker 5: continuity means a lot at the college level especially with
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  Speaker 5: everything else changing around so much i think continuity and
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  Speaker 5: that's why we're a little bit lower on old miss
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  Speaker 5: this year than others other people are because of how
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  Speaker 5: much change there was uh so I think if we're
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  Speaker 5: in it, no, it's a small chance. It's a low
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  Speaker 5: percentage chance. But if we are saying who has a
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  Speaker 5: better chance of winning, repeating as champion, I would say Indiana.
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  Speaker 6: I think that's a logical choice.
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  Speaker 7: Since Kurt Cignetti has been in the FBS, he was
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  Speaker 7: awesome at Elon and IUP.
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  Speaker 3: I get that.
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  Speaker 6: He's 46-6 in.
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  Speaker 3: The FBS.
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  Speaker 7: That's James Madison and Indiana combined. Neither of them were
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  Speaker 7: winning programs. when he took over and he is 46
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  Speaker 7: and six, I trust Kurt Cignetti.
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  Speaker 6: So I think they got a better opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 6: And you, you brought up the point that I made
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  Speaker 6: of like, yeah, they're still six.
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  Speaker 7: They're not 21. And then I brought up all the
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  Speaker 7: players they lost. They lost all those players and they're
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  Speaker 7: still six. Think about that. Like they got a lot
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  Speaker 7: of talent coming in as well.
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  Speaker 6: Like I think that's the choice. Seattle lost a good bit.
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  Speaker 6: Like they drafted you Darian price. I think he's great.
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  Speaker 7: I think he was a little bit underrated just because
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  Speaker 7: you had to split a backfield with Jeremiah loved. He
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  Speaker 7: lost Kenneth Walker. That's a Super Bowl MVP. No Tyreek
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  Speaker 7: Willen on your defense anymore. There's some pieces there that
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  Speaker 7: they got to fill in.
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  Speaker 3: Bobo's out for the year. That just happened. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Dude, that was such a... I saw that video yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: That's... Hey, Huff in the chat says Cignetti is a fraud.
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  Speaker 2: Who?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know about that. I don't know. How's he fraudulent?
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  Speaker 3: He's won everywhere he's ever been. 46-6 in the last...
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  Speaker 3: Taking over or losing programs? In Indiana, it's lost more
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  Speaker 3: than anybody, literally. In the history of college football. Of
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  Speaker 3: the sport. I don't know, man. It's a great question
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  Speaker 3: because Seattle's, they're running it back for the most part, too, though.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't add a ton. It's kind of their same team.
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  Speaker 3: They have some guys, like you said, Kenneth Walker, that
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  Speaker 3: are no longer on the team, but Zach Charbonnet and
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  Speaker 3: Jadarion Price being in the backfield. They're going to be
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  Speaker 3: good too now. Cervantes is a dog.
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  Speaker 6: He's apparently going to come back quicker than they thought
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  Speaker 6: from that knee injury.
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  Speaker 3: What they do with ACL injuries now, like he got
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  Speaker 3: hurt even later than Mahomes, but like when I saw
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  Speaker 3: Mahomes after an LCL and an ACL, not even have
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  Speaker 3: like a brace on and be Patrick Mahomes in early August,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, that used to be like minimum you're
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  Speaker 3: out for a year.
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  Speaker 6: Think about the Achilles.
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  Speaker 7: Daniel Jones, they believe he's going to start week one
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  Speaker 7: He toured that Achilles week in 10.
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  Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers tried to play in the same year that
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  Speaker 3: he toured his.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he was doing everything he could. He was
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  Speaker 3: going to see every specialist he possibly could.
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  Speaker 5: They were playing the Falcons, I believe, when we were
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  Speaker 5: up there for his. And I think he's like, if
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  Speaker 5: we win this week, I'm going to try to come back.
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  Speaker 3: Which is crazy. Like, no, no, you shouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 3: I bet he's still ninja flips out of bed, though.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt. Almost got a ninja getup this morning. She's
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  Speaker 3: feeling better. She's feeling better back here. And then as
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  Speaker 3: soon as you do that, that's when you– So, what's
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  Speaker 3: your answer? What do you think? Seattle over Indiana. I
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  Speaker 3: think Indiana is going to be good. But they lost
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  Speaker 3: some studs. They did. They lost some, like, guys that
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  Speaker 3: had that JMU DNA– Grinders, Aiden Fisher at linebacker.
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  Speaker 6: D'Angelo Pons at corner was a stud.
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  Speaker 3: D'Angelo Pons at dog. I mean, pick six against Oregon
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  Speaker 3: in the playoff. uh black at running back.
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  Speaker 6: I mean roman he lost running back he.
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  Speaker 3: Lost two receivers elijah surratt was a really good player
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  Speaker 3: omar cooper really good player we're talking about first and
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  Speaker 3: third round receiver mb was good at times for sure
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  Speaker 3: riley nowakowski fullback tied in got drafted by the steelers
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  Speaker 3: you know a lot of names my job it's impressive
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  Speaker 3: laundry what do you think.
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  Speaker 4: I think because of what you laid out how it's
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  Speaker 4: college football it's hard to play but it's hard or
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  Speaker 4: it's easier than the NFL and the schedule and everything
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  Speaker 4: and I think that given that the last time that
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  Speaker 4: it happened in college football was only like five six
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  Speaker 4: years ago and the gap between it happening in the
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  Speaker 4: NFL was like 20 years I think I'm going.
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  Speaker 6: To go with Indiana.
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  Speaker 4: I just feel like it's just easier to do it.
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  Speaker 5: And the last time it happened, it was probably maybe
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  Speaker 5: the top two quarterbacks of all time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. We've never seen. Fair point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Fair point. Sam Darnold, you could join that class. Come on,
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  Speaker 3: Sammy boy. You're still young. You're still under 30. Patrick Mahomes.
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  Speaker 3: Sam Darnold.
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  Speaker 4: I have to be honest. I didn't really pay attention
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  Speaker 4: to the Seahawks last season. So to me, last season,
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  Speaker 4: it felt kind of like, How did they get here?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if that's like the general consensus of
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  Speaker 4: the Seahawks because again, like I, I'm going to this season,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't pay attention to the NFL as much
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  Speaker 4: as I do college football. So I just don't know.
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  Speaker 5: They're so tucked away from a media standpoint. Like you
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  Speaker 5: don't really understand how far Seattle is.
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  Speaker 3: It's so far. It's very far. Far from everything. Everything.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody thinks like, oh, like, They're next to L.A. No,
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  Speaker 3: that is a long flight from L.A. to Seattle. They
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  Speaker 3: were really good all year.
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  Speaker 5: But to your point, no one's talking about them now,
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  Speaker 5: and they didn't really start talking about them until the
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  Speaker 5: end of the year.
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  Speaker 4: So like the playoffs, I feel like.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they're on hard knocks now, and they won,
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  Speaker 3: so it would be more this year. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I think the last 15 seasons, I believe, they've only
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  Speaker 5: had one losing season.
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  Speaker 3: Like, they are an epitome of consistency.
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  Speaker 7: And that's multiple head coaches, too. Like, they've been sneakily. Like,
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  Speaker 7: we always talk about the Steelers, right?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Steelers, Ravens, Seahawks are in that category of we
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  Speaker 3: might not be great, but we're never going to be bad.
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  Speaker 4: See, and that's the thing. Like, that's how much I
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  Speaker 4: don't pay attention to the Seahawks. I didn't know that
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  Speaker 4: they were that consistent. Like, I've thought that they weren't
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  Speaker 4: that great the past few years. So that shows you
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  Speaker 4: how much.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right. Yeah. Mike McDonald, their head coach, is a stud. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He's cut from the Kirby cloth. Like, he went to Georgia,
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  Speaker 3: coached under there. Like, that's his foundation. He's got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of Kirby in him.
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  Speaker 4: I love Kirby's fur.
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  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald was also a really good singer.
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  Speaker 7: Geno threw for 4,300 yards in that offense.
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  Speaker 4: A little yacht rock?
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all taught me about yacht rock.
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  Speaker 3: It's the best. What are you looking at?
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  Speaker 4: Mike McDonald on the hot coaches list.
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  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald. What? The singer? The guy that just covers Motown? No,
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  Speaker 3: the guy that was with the Doobie Brothers, bro.
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  Speaker 8: Duh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's like most known for covering Motown. I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to burn this place down. I'm a 40-year-old virgin.
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  Speaker 5: If you don't turn off this Mike McDonald. All right,
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  Speaker 5: so I'm the only person that's going to Seattle here.
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  Speaker 5: They got the Rams, bud. People are talking about them.
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  Speaker 6: And the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 5: They got the Cardinals, too. You ever seen Carson Beck play?
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  Speaker 5: I really do have the 49ers, though. 49ers won 12 games.
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  Speaker 3: They ain't going to be able to fill the team.
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  Speaker 3: They don't ever. They're not ever able to fill a team.
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  Speaker 3: And Shanahan, who's a wizard, just figures it out.
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  Speaker 6: Were you able to go to Dolphins training camp?
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  Speaker 3: We caught the Dolphins, but at the Commander's camp.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Me and Matt had a discussion off air while you
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  Speaker 7: were gone. I don't think the Cardinals are going to
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  Speaker 7: be the worst team in the NFL. I think it's
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  Speaker 7: the Dolphins.
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  Speaker 3: I actually think the Cardinals. Do you? Because the Dolphins
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  Speaker 3: have really good young players. They're just super young. Like,
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  Speaker 3: they've got football players. And what I mean by that
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  Speaker 3: is guys that got drafted later, but Jacob Rodriguez, Michael Taft,
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  Speaker 3: Kyle Lewis... They did a really nice job of just
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  Speaker 3: bringing in some dudes that love football. So they'll get
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  Speaker 3: great effort all season long. They're both going to be bad.
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  Speaker 3: Let's make no mistake about it. Caleb Douglas looks really
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  Speaker 3: good at receiver from Texas Tech. They're both going to
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  Speaker 3: be bad. The Cardinals could be historically bad, though.
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  Speaker 6: Do they play each other?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: Speaking of awful teams in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Raiders?
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  Speaker 4: Actually, I was going to go Falcons.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Tagovailoa's play made it impossible to name him starter. Impossible
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  Speaker 4: is a strong word.
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  Speaker 3: That's a tough look.
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  Speaker 4: That is a tough, tough look.
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  Speaker 3: Tua Tagovailoa kind of struggled so much that Michael Panix
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  Speaker 3: might be the starter game one and not have taken
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  Speaker 3: a rep in the preseason and just got cleared three
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  Speaker 3: days ago to go with the actual team period and
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  Speaker 3: not just seven.
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  Speaker 6: Right, like he's not even fully healthy.
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  Speaker 3: Guy Tua was so good when we– I mean, genuine,
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  Speaker 3: great answers.
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  Speaker 4: Impossible is a strong word.
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  Speaker 3: It was impossible to not like him when I interviewed him.
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  Speaker 3: He was incredible. But the first play of that practice
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  Speaker 3: that day, he threw a pick.
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  Speaker 5: Let me say this about this whole NFL season, looking
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  Speaker 5: forward to it. And I don't– and I need you
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  Speaker 5: to contain yourself.
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  Speaker 3: I need you to stay in that chair.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Look out for the Chargers this year. Dang! He's throwing
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  Speaker 3: you a bone!
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  Speaker 5: Mike McDaniel made Tua look pretty darn good. Got him
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  Speaker 5: a payday and made him look very good at times
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  Speaker 5: in that career. He's with the Chargers now. Don't forget
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  Speaker 5: that Mike McDaniel can coach some offensive football. With that
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  Speaker 5: type of weapon at on the right arm sitting on
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  Speaker 5: Justin Herbert's body.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Mike McDaniel might have himself a year.
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  Speaker 4: Between him and Jim Harbaugh both being there, I actually think.
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  Speaker 3: And, like, to that point, Tua had some great seasons. Right.
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  Speaker 3: At least statistically.
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  Speaker 7: People forget that because it fell off towards the end.
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  Speaker 7: But I saw something the other day about Ladd McConkie and, like,
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  Speaker 7: how good he's been in motion in his career, like,
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  Speaker 7: getting open. And the amount of motions that McDaniel runs, like,
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  Speaker 7: lad could have a good year i.
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  Speaker 5: Was like look out that's who i'm dropping look out
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  Speaker 5: for the west coast.
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  Speaker 6: I think amari and hampton's really good.
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  Speaker 3: As as football fans and i know we all have
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  Speaker 3: our own teams but as football fans the afc west
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  Speaker 3: plays the nfc west this year yeah so broncos chiefs
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  Speaker 3: chargers 49ers rams seahawks all those teams play yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean that's the two best divisions that's like That's
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  Speaker 5: eight Sunday nights right there.
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  Speaker 3: It really is. And you know who I feel really
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  Speaker 3: bad for? Who? The Cardinals and Raiders. They have to
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  Speaker 3: play all of those teams. That's what we should do.
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  Speaker 5: We should say, how many division wins will the Raiders
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  Speaker 5: and the Cardinals have combined when they play between their
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  Speaker 5: division and playing the.
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  Speaker 3: Counterpart? It could be none. It could be none. Except, well,
• 17:50
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  Speaker 3: you're saying?
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  Speaker 3: and I picked the Patriots who finished last in their division,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: and they won it, and they went to the Super Bowl.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Let's go around the NFL. Okay. We each pick one
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: team that finished last in their division that can finish first.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: And not like, yeah, they could. Well, anyway, they could.
• 18:20
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  Speaker 3: let's take a look at the NFL. Let's take a
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  Speaker 3: look at every team that finished last in their division
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  Speaker 3: just a year ago, because in the NFL, it's the
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  Speaker 3: thing that I love the most about it. There's parody, there's,
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  Speaker 3: You can be the team that finishes last, and all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden, here you go. You can rise to
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  Speaker 3: the top. Think about how excited people were to see
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• 21:18
  Speaker 3: time in the NFL? So a little quick refresher on
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: the teams that finished last a year ago. In the
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: AFC East, it was the New York Jets. In the
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: AFC North, it was the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC South,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: it was the Tennessee Titans. In the AFC West, it
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: was the Las Vegas Raiders. Let's go to the NFC.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: In the East, it was the New York Giants. In
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: the NFC North, it was the Detroit Lions. In the
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: NFC South, it was the New Orleans Saints. And in
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: the NFC West, it was the Arizona Cardinals. So, with
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: those teams now in mind, the team that finished in
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: last place, Matthew Clayton Flynn, that you think has the
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: best chance to not only be better, but to win
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: their division. To me, this is a two-team race. I
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: got two as well.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Between the Detroit Lions and the New Orleans Saints. Now,
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: the question was posed.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Bing, bing, bing.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: That who has the best chance of winning their division.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: It wasn't who's going to be the best team. The
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: Detroit Lions by far will be the best team from
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: all the teams that finished last in their division. However,
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: that division is stacked.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Every team had a winning record a year ago.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: The Bears won it last year at 11-6. Everybody else
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: was 9-8 and then the Packers were 9-7-1. Now you
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: take a look at the NFC South, the Saints are
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: not going to be near as good as the Lions
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: from a football perspective, but They probably have a better
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: chance of winning their division just because the division is, well,
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: the most poo in the whole NFL. Last year, the
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Carolina Panthers won it with an 8-9 record. You had
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: three teams in the division last year with an 8-9 record.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: The Saints only finished two back, 6-11. I think they
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: can improve that. I don't think the division's going to
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: be any better this year unless Blake, not Blake Baker,
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: Baker Mayfield.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Classic Baker. Classic mistake. Classic Bakers. Les Baker Mayfield takes
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: this huge chip.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: On his shoulder from this whole contract situation and just
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: has an incredible season, which is possible with that young man.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, for sure.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: I called him young man. That means I'm old. He
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: still thinks he can beat me in a race, which
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: is just not factual. I think there is a 50-50%
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: chance that the Saints win this division. I think there's
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: a 33% chance that the Lions win their division.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: So you're saying Lions better team. Saints better chances.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Okay. I like that. All right. Alondra, are you ready
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: to give a team? We're only supposed to give one.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Flynn gave two.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: I think that we are all kind of on the
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: same page where the Lions, I think, probably have the
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: better chance. And the Saints, because their division is so
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: bad and we don't know.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: It's 50-50.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: It's either going to be the Buccaneers or it's going
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: to be the Saints.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: I feel that as we sit here on– August the 27th.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: So I want to give y'all maybe something a little different.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: And maybe it might be a hot take.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: I got a different too. I like it. Let's go.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: I'm scared to say it.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Come on. No. I might be right there with you.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: The Giants?
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: The Giants! That makes sense.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: So the Giants, I feel like, will probably have a
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: way better season than they did last season. They only
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: had four wins.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Four and 13. They get John Harbaugh, who Matt thinks
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: is overrated.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl winning head coach.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: But I think he's a good coach, so we'll see.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: It is new, so we'll see if they can adapt
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: to it. But with Jackson Dart and Cam Scadaboo, I
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: feel like the Giants have a chance. I don't know
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: what the Eagles are going to look like. The Cowboys
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: are always hyped up going into the season, and then
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: they do Cowboys things.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Offense is great. Defense, probably a question mark.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: And then the Commanders, I mean, obviously we want them
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: to be good because of Jaden Daniels. But, I mean,
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: that organization, I feel like, has been kind of a
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: bit of a mess lately. The last couple of years,
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: they gave Terry that contract, which I feel like they
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: should have, but then Terry's hurt majority of the season
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: last season. Debo, where'd Debo go?
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: 49ers, back to the 49ers.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: So again, I think that the Giants is one that
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: I would like to enter into the conversation here.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: We're on the same wavelength, and I can appreciate the
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Giants' take there because to me, it is the Lions
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: and Saints. Those are the two obvious. But to give
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: you something different, I would have gone the Giants as
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: well I think when you look at Malik Nabors getting
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: back healthy, you draft Malachi Fields, and unfortunately they've had
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: some injuries in that receiver room, and they've had some
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: that are going to be out for the year. I
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: think he's going to be. I think Calvin Austin was
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: named yesterday. He's going to be out for the year.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: I was looking forward to seeing what he looked like
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: on that team Because I think he's a little jack-of-all-trades
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: type guy. But you get Darius Slayton. You've got Odell Beckham,
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: depending on how that all plays out with all the
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: veteran receivers that they sign. But you get Isaiah Likely
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: from Baltimore.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: Who I think is a stud.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: I do, too. You get Patrick Ricard from Baltimore. He's
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: one of the best fullbacks in the NFL. You pair
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: that with Jackson Dart. You're number two. Cam Scadaboo. You've
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: got an offensive line. Francis Mauinoa at right guard. You
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: drafted him in the first round. He is a mauler.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: I like all of that on offense. And then defensively,
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: you have Arvel Reese, Brian Burns, Thibodeau, and you have
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Abdul Carter.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: Think about the versatility.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: You've got to come up with some kind of a
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: package that scares offenses. And if you don't, by God,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: that is on you. That is on Denard Wilson, the
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: defensive coordinator, because you've got elite talent.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Do they do a lot of the same things? Sure.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: But you got to get them on the field at
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: the same time, some way, somehow, and you got to
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: come up with something.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: I saw an interview with them the other day.
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: Those four guys, it was talking about, like, they made
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: them guess, hey, who between y'all is going to have
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: the most sacks? And Arvel Reese raises his hand, and
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: the other three turn around to him. They're like, dude,
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: you're playing inside back or back up. You can have
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: the picks and stuff. You're not playing.
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: So there's a plan to get all four of them
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: on the field at the same time. Love that pick.
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: Malik Neighbors is, like, trending to be– Full go week one.
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: A lot of people thought it was, I mean, a
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: couple weeks ago they said week five or six of
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: the season. Now it looks like he's going to be
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: ready for the opener. Remember, him and Jackson Dart barely
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: played together last year. That's something we still haven't seen.
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: Scataboo's healthy. Tyron Tracy's a really good back as well,
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: who's behind Scataboo. They got some good talent, some young
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: talent on the team. The division, I think the division
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: might be.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: The offensive line? Tyron Tracy. Tyron Tracy. Oh, he threw
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: a no-hitter. Jay Ward demolished Jackson Dart. Yeah. You can't
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: be throwing no-hitters.
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: I think the division's weaker than it has been the
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: past couple years just because I don't know what the
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: Eagles are going to be. Dallas supposedly cleaned up their defense.
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: They did a good job signing guys, but you still
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: have to put those pieces together. We'll see what it
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: looks like. It's almost like they're one edge rusher away.
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: Only they can get a good one. I'm telling you, Matt.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Only they can get one.
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: And put them over the top.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: God, if I was the Bears, I'd be like, you
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: want to give one of those guys to us? We'll
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: take one of them.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Cowboys could really use somebody like Michael Parsons.
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: If they can get them. And then they're like, guys,
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: don't worry. We got Rashawn Gary in return from Green Bay.
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: I'm like, so you got the worst of the two players.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: Like, Gary's fine.
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: But to bring all this back, Saints are going to
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: win the division. Yeah, they are.
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: Am I up?
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're up.
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: All right, I'll go real quick. You don't have to
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: go quick. I like to go a little bit different.
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: You scored Tay-Tay.
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: I'm glad she did go a little bit different because
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: I didn't think we'd get here. I'll go the Lions,
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: and I get it. It's a chalk answer, but I
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: just wanted to talk about them because nobody's picked them yet.
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: I think they're going to win the division. Frank Ragnow retired, what,
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: three weeks before the season last year? When you lose
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: your starting center, that is big. They broke in two
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: brand-new coordinators, which is why they got a little bit
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: better as the.
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: Season went along.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: That's tough.
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: But talent-wise, they return a lot of guys. Sam Laporta
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: is supposed to be fully healthy. He was banged up
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: a year ago. You lose David Montgomery. that's a blow but.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: One it is a big blow gibbs is one of.
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: The best backs in the nfl and you bring up
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: a checo who could still be a solid number two
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: piece for a guy like a jameer gibbs but i
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: look at their schedule so they got the saints week
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: one at home we talked about how tough it is
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: for the saints first two weeks with the the uh
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: Lions and Ravens back-to-back. Then you have the Bills. After that, Jets, Panthers, Cardinals.
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: You should win all three of those games. Then you
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: got a tough game against the Packers. No big deal
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: after that. Vikings, Dolphins. There is one three-game stretch their
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: entire season where I'm like, oh, they could lose those three.
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: Buccaneers, Bears, and Patriots, 10, 11, 12.
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: Outside of that, after that three-game stretch, you finish with
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: the Falcons, Titans, Vikings, And then you got Bears, Giants,
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: Packers to finish the game.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: I mean, the season, that's a little tough.
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: But their schedule is broken up to where you just
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: win the games you're supposed to. You're sitting at pretty
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: much 10 wins already. I love their schedule.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: I love everything you said about them, and I agree.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Dan Campbell walks into a room. I'm like, Coach, where
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: are we fighting? Who is it? You tell me and
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: point me in the direction more than any coach I've
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: ever been around. David Montgomery not being on the team
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: should scare Lions fans. That's a big one. Pacheco's a
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: good player. He runs with his hair on fire, all
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: those type of things. He runs hard. He's not David Montgomery.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: He doesn't pass protect as well, and he doesn't catch
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: the football as well. David Montgomery, who's going to be
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: the lead back for the Houston Texans, I think he's
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: going to make them much better, and the Lions aren't
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: going to be as good without David Montgomery. He is
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: a dude. His vision is incredible. He does so many
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: things well. And he gets a chance now to be
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: the 1A and not the 1B, and I think he's
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: going to thrive because of it. I was hoping the
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Lions would draft a young running back in the third,
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: fourth round to be able to pair that with the
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: other two backs they have. Jameer Gibbs can do everything,
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: but he also has always been a part of a
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: running back by committee, kind of going back to our
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: LSU conversation. It doesn't mean you can't do it, but
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: it means you're better because of it, and I think
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: that could be something to watch for the Detroit Lions.
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  Speaker 10: back in OTB.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get to a little munchies with our guy, Chef
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  Speaker 3: Michael Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Get ready to tantalize your taste buds and leave this
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  Speaker 1: segment hungry. This is Munchies with Executive Chef Michael Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: Chef, how we doing? How we living, brother?
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  Speaker 8: And I'm good. You know, listening to a little Magic
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  Speaker 8: Star reminds me of my son, who's 16, has been
• 34:18
  Speaker 8: running the Bluetooth in my truck the last few days,
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  Speaker 8: and he's listening to Nirvana and Soundgarden.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, hell yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it makes me proud.
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  Speaker 3: It's those Seattle days that you had, right? Big influence.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, he went to a Pearl Jam concert with me,
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  Speaker 8: so not a lot of 16-year-olds get to say that much.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, now you're talking Flynn's language with the girl. Yeah,
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: we're talking, Chef. Only the good stuff.
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  Speaker 8: You know, I had a 14-year-old girl moment with Eddie
• 34:50
  Speaker 8: Vedder because I was on the field and my executive
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: sous chef and I, Mateo, were walking across the field
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  Speaker 8: in our getup and cut across a couple of people
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  Speaker 8: and almost ran smack over the top of Eddie Vedder
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  Speaker 8: and his wife. And I was... you know, like, Oh
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  Speaker 8: my God, Eddie, I'm so sorry. You know, like the,
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  Speaker 8: the octave went up and it was, uh, an embarrassing moment,
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  Speaker 8: but it happened nonetheless.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. All right. Hashtag munchies. Now that the
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: season is almost upon us, how far in advance do
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: you plan the menu for the week?
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  Speaker 8: Uh, so we're eight weeks out right now.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Um, it just allows us. Yeah. Eight weeks. So, One,
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  Speaker 8: the way we purchase stuff, it allows us to give
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  Speaker 8: our vendors a heads up on how much we expect
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  Speaker 8: to consume. And we change that as we move. So
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  Speaker 8: we will change things out to three weeks. Anything beyond
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  Speaker 8: three weeks, we just keep it still unless there's a
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  Speaker 8: specific concern. But we will write them eight weeks out
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  Speaker 8: and keep it eight weeks out and then have meetings
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  Speaker 8: constantly about the next three weeks, the next three weeks.
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  Speaker 8: because that allows us to forecast our vendors so that
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  Speaker 8: we know that we have enough product for our purpose.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 5: Chef, have you ever had to cut a player off
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  Speaker 5: from a certain dish? Like, you get the nice steaks
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  Speaker 5: or the lobster tails. You're like, hey, you've had enough
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  Speaker 5: of this. Save some for the rest of the guys.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we've asked them, you know, come back before, because
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  Speaker 8: we've had them, you know, like where they loaded four
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  Speaker 8: or five on a plate, and we're like, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 8: is it okay if you take two and come get two,
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  Speaker 8: just in case? You don't eat those two. We don't
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  Speaker 8: want them to get away. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's fair. How much does it change, Chef, from training
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  Speaker 3: camp mode to regular season mode? Because I just don't
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: know that people realize sometimes you can lose like 7
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: to 11 pounds per training camp practice just because you're
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: out there all day in the heat running around. It's
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  Speaker 3: not exactly the same in season mode.
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  Speaker 8: No. And for us, we don't like to knee-jerk. We
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  Speaker 8: like to steer the ship small, so to speak. And
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: so the menus, by and large, changed a little bit
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  Speaker 8: with consideration to all the other athletes coming in. But
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  Speaker 8: for productivity and production for us, it's almost predictable because
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: the meals are mandatory for football. So we know when
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  Speaker 8: they're going to be there. We know how many of
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: them are going to be there. It's really less impactful
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  Speaker 8: as football at that point as it is everybody else
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  Speaker 8: who has the option of whether they are or are
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: not going to come in. And so we have to
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  Speaker 8: keep our eyes on activities through all sports, who's traveling,
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  Speaker 8: who's competing, and have to have relationships with all those
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: directors of ops to know what's going on with them.
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  Speaker 8: To some degree, our lives have eased, though, because even
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  Speaker 8: though we're feeding more people we're not moving the meals
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  Speaker 8: around as much. So we know, you know, breakfast is
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  Speaker 8: six 30 to 10 o'clock. We know that a lunch
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  Speaker 8: is 11 to two. So, you know, in that it
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  Speaker 8: makes our lives significantly easier, but, um, it, it, I mean, we're,
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  Speaker 8: we've gone from 165, 195 to 350 for lunch, you know, and,
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  Speaker 8: and beyond that for dinner. So it's, um, it's just a, a,
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  Speaker 8: a longer and more intense, not, not more intense, but
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  Speaker 8: a longer, uh, Instead of it being super fast and intense,
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  Speaker 8: it's prolonged, if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 5: Doing the Lord's work over there for sure. Hashtag munchies, Chef.
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  Speaker 5: Best recipe for speckled trout fillets.
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  Speaker 8: I'm just kind of simple in the fact that I
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: like to do a beer batter. I don't necessarily prefer
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: the dry breading when I'm frying it. dish as a
• 38:49
  Speaker 8: whole to be honest with you i like light i
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: like light flaky kind of uh uh you know my
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: grandpa used to take me to long john silvers when
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  Speaker 8: i was a kid so i'm i'm an idiot for
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  Speaker 8: that that light fluffy you know like cakey breading so
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  Speaker 8: for me i'm going that direction is that like a
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  Speaker 8: beer batter like the the lighter one is that a
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  Speaker 8: beer yeah so It doesn't have to be beer. A
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  Speaker 8: lot of times they'll just put like sprinkling water or
• 39:18
  Speaker 8: sparkling water or something in there to make it fluffy.
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: You keep it really cold, the batter, so that it
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: holds the air inside of the batter versus allowing it
• 39:28
  Speaker 8: to to upward escape. Um, so you need to keep
• 39:31
  Speaker 8: it on ice real nice and thick. Um, and you
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  Speaker 8: don't want to beat the, um, the flour entirely smooth.
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  Speaker 8: You know, like there's, you want to keep some of
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  Speaker 8: those pockets and that, that forms, some of those little
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  Speaker 8: bread uh bread balls or dough you know like the
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  Speaker 8: doughy yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah hashtag munchies what's the best protein for gut health
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: i almost guess like eating protein and not feeling like
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: trash maybe or full or bloated yeah well.
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  Speaker 8: I mean it's it's it depends on the human being
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  Speaker 8: one that's first and foremost and gut health you know
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  Speaker 8: i there's there's a lot that goes into that i
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  Speaker 8: you know like probiotics and prebiotics are are something you
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  Speaker 8: know if you're Eat sauerkraut and pickles and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 8: Fermented foods are super healthy for gut health. Protein-wise, you know,
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  Speaker 8: what happens in the gut is kind of prolonged, slowed
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  Speaker 8: down when you put a lot of fat into it, right?
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  Speaker 8: And so the fattier the food is that you're putting
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: into your gut, the slower the process is as a whole,
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  Speaker 8: regardless of, you know, what your gut health looks like,
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  Speaker 8: I think. And so if you're super concerned about it,
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  Speaker 8: leaner meats, by and large, are going to benefit that. Um, and,
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  Speaker 8: and I think whole foods are always better than something
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: that comes out of a can or, or, um, highly processed, right?
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  Speaker 8: So if you're, you're looking at whole meats, you're looking
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: at lean meats, but it also needs to be paired with, um,
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: you know, like, I think that's why they have sauerkraut
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: and hot dogs. That's why you have pickles and burgers,
• 41:05
  Speaker 8: you know, like it, it, it, uh, it, it lends
• 41:08
  Speaker 8: to the digestive aid.
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  Speaker 3: All right, chef. We appreciate you. We love you. We
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: thank you. We're glad you're at a training camp. We're
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: glad you're out of the fire a little bit, even
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: though eight weeks of preparation makes me sweaty palm thinking
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: about that. But you've got it down pat, Chef, and
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: we appreciate you.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks, guys. Y'all take care.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: All right, there is Chef Michael Johnson, the executive chef
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  Speaker 3: for LSU Athletics, joins us every single Thursday here to
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: answer your munchie questions. All right, we'll step away. We've
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: got one final segment. What do we do in the
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: final segment around here, Matt? I think there's something like questions.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: I think we call it Ask the Bench. What's it
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: brought to you by? Ask the Bench. Brought to you
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  Speaker 3: Go for Ask the Bench. And we'll do it to
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  Speaker 3: close out the show here on this Thursday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Off the Bench.
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  Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves, it's Off the
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  Speaker 3: the bench favorite game to play at the casino. I
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  Speaker 3: love black, but I love roulette. I love, I love numbers. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I love like being with somebody and being like, what
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: was your number in high school? Or Hey, what's your, what,
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  Speaker 3: what was your number? Yeah. I love that. And we're
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  Speaker 3: and you're like, put five on it. I hit black
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  Speaker 8: Boom.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go. I had it before McAfee stole my story
• 44:35
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• 44:43
  Speaker 4: Is that the one with the dice?
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: That's the dice. Okay.
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: I do like that one when people are all gathered
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  Speaker 6: They're like, blow on it.
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: It's an exceptional game as a group.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: Now, it can go sideways real fast. especially if you're
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: sprinkling the numbers a little bit.
• 44:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: I like to sprinkle the numbers, play the odds. You
• 45:00
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• 45:02
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• 45:04
  Speaker 4: Ruin it for everybody.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: It'll ruin the night real fast. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But there's nothing like the vibes of being out with
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• 45:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: And the table getting hot. And everybody's winning. Yeah.
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: Before we get to the next question, can I tell
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: you all about some fun?
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: Yes. I love fun. Fun is my favorite.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: So this football season, during away games, I'm going to
• 45:27
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• 45:30
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• 45:42
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  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: Maybe not the Ole Miss one because we might be going,
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: but I don't know. But other than that, I'll be there. Also,
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• 45:58
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• 46:01
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  Speaker 4: It'll be a great time. Dos Equis. Tay?
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  Speaker 3: Nah, two squirts in the back of the neck. I
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  Speaker 3: think he's done. Favorite food to try that you have
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  Speaker 3: never had. Well, how's it your favorite to try if
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: you've never had it? Yeah, what the hell? Maybe like
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: the one you're intrigued by. What the hell? That's a
• 46:25
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  Speaker 6: My favorite food that I've never had.
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  Speaker 9: Shark.
• 46:29
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