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Chuck & Buck 1-20 Hour 1: The Hoosiers win the Natty! Gasman live from Miami and Charbonnet done for season... · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 4: there's a lot going on here on the show today.
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Speaker 4: We got a lot of terrific guests that we normally
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Speaker 4: have on here on at Tuesday. Tuesdays are always very busy,
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Speaker 4: and even though we've got a conference championship Game two preview,
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Speaker 4: which will be the major top all week long, certainly
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Speaker 4: we have a national championship game to discuss as well.
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Speaker 4: The Indiana Hoosiers pulled it off over the Miami Hurricanes
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Speaker 4: last night. They are national champs of college football and
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Speaker 4: one of the most impossible stories in the history of
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Speaker 4: college sports. They are calling it the greatest coaching job
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Speaker 4: in any sport, at any level ever. Kurt Signetti in
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Speaker 4: two short years leading the Indiana Hoosiers from the worst
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Speaker 4: program in college football Division one history to winning the
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Speaker 4: national championship in this highly competitive era that is modern
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Speaker 4: day college football, twenty seven to twenty one. The final
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Speaker 4: score the Hoosiers over the Canes last night terrific game.
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Speaker 4: It was a great game.
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Speaker 6: I mean, you know, it was one where if it
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Speaker 6: seemed like if they could continue to roll that they
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Speaker 6: would roll over even a good team like Miami. Miami's
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Speaker 6: defense is legit. They made it far more difficult on
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Speaker 6: the Hoosiers offense than it has been with anybody else
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Speaker 6: they've faced for majority of the season. And and and
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Speaker 6: yet they just found away still dug deep. They they're
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Speaker 6: they're a big team. They played tough. They went out
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Speaker 6: there and basically just kind of said, okay, when the
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Speaker 6: going got tough there towards the end, they didn't wither.
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Speaker 6: Neither team really withered down the stretch.
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Speaker 4: It just does steam.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well that rough in the passer call definitely helped,
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Speaker 8: but they had no problem on that final drive.
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Speaker 4: I was like, well, the twitch is what helped. I mean,
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Speaker 4: that was the worst twitch in the history of college football.
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Speaker 4: The Indiana offensive lineman's false start. I mean, the game
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Speaker 4: was over, yeah, and then he twitches suddenly go from
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Speaker 4: second and inches with three chances, and he would have
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Speaker 4: gone for it on fourth and one, but you're not
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Speaker 4: gonna go for it on fourth and six. Yea for
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Speaker 4: fourth and four, and so even though he did a
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Speaker 4: couple of times, so the twitch was going to give
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Speaker 4: him the ball back potentially, and I really thought the
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Speaker 4: way they had moved the ball in the second half,
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Speaker 4: they were gonna win that football game. I mean they
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Speaker 4: look there was too much time on the clock. Christ
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Speaker 4: of all used as timeouts perfectly. I think he coached
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Speaker 4: a hell of a game himself, by the way, and
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Speaker 4: it looked like Miami was gonna march and perhaps pull
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Speaker 4: off the stunner, but then the interception to end the
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Speaker 4: game certainly the biggest test that Indiana has received thus far,
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Speaker 4: and Miami did outplay them significantly in the second half.
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Speaker 4: But Indiana and Signetti, you know, those two fourth down executions,
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Speaker 4: they end up getting just enough points that decision not
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Speaker 4: to take the field goal and we need a touchdown,
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Speaker 4: realizing where the momentum was, realizing how much his defense
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Speaker 4: was struggling stopping Miami, and they did just enough to
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Speaker 4: pull off the Natty.
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Speaker 6: Well, the idea of I mean Signetti, just if you've
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Speaker 6: watched to many of his games, and I've watched all
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Speaker 6: of Indiana's games play, but I've watched more than a few,
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Speaker 6: and he just does definitely have a knackt for like
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Speaker 6: when you need to like call your time out to
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Speaker 6: get your team some rest or just gather them up,
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Speaker 6: and you know, it's the idea of even earlier in
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Speaker 6: the game, when it's like, boy, a field goal here
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Speaker 6: feels like they won. Even if you tack three points
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Speaker 6: on it feels like Miami would have won that situation.
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Speaker 6: He's like, all right, let's just go ahead and go
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Speaker 6: for it, trusting in his team, trusting that they're going
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Speaker 6: to do what they have done all year.
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Speaker 4: And they did it for the most part.
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Speaker 6: They they did a little bit more shooting themselves in
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Speaker 6: the foot, like you're talking about that twitch that almost
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Speaker 6: cost him. When I was with you, it felt like
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Speaker 6: he's one of the better I guess left tackles in
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Speaker 6: the game this year's played unbelievable and that the most
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Speaker 6: inopportune time, he just gets a little anxious and jumps
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Speaker 6: and you're like, oh man, they're not going to get
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Speaker 6: this right, because typically when you see a team that
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Speaker 6: you know they're going to run to try to make
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Speaker 6: you burn your time outs, it's not I mean, most
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Speaker 6: of the time the defense can can bow up and
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Speaker 6: stop you on that one. Sure enough they do. You're like,
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Speaker 6: oh my gosh, now you're they're gonna have to go
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Speaker 6: down and score a touchdown. But if they go down
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Speaker 6: to score, I mean that you know that they're going
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Speaker 6: to have enough time Considering in college, every first down
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Speaker 6: the clock stops and the incompletions it stops still like normal,
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Speaker 6: and so it Yeah, it felt to me like, oh man,
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Speaker 6: this is going to be really difficult for them to
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Speaker 6: hold onto this. But sure enough, I mean, Carson Beck
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Speaker 6: made one, you know, underthrow on that last one and
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Speaker 6: they end up taking it. And it was a sigh
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Speaker 6: of relief for anybody that is not a Hurricanes fan. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: that's for sure, which is me, which was most of America. Yes, yeah, look,
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Speaker 6: I mean Miami.
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Speaker 4: I don't have anything against Miami, and I think they're
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Speaker 4: a terrific team. I felt that way the entire time.
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Speaker 4: But there's no way that I mean, any right thinking
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Speaker 4: person they didn't have money on the line or didn't
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Speaker 4: have some sort of rude doing interest in Miami wasn't
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Speaker 4: rooting for that story to come through last night.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: It was incredible.
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Speaker 8: I mean, and if you are a sports fan, that
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Speaker 8: is the exact thing you want to see happen. I mean,
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Speaker 8: how many people did you see posting on social media
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Speaker 8: afterwards like who's playing Signetti in the movie, because that
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Speaker 8: that is a story book kind of season, kind of
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Speaker 8: two seasons. I mean, it was incredible and five Iron
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Speaker 8: and Palmer the Great and I were watching it and
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Speaker 8: on that and I got nervous. I was like, I
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Speaker 8: think they left too much time on the clock. And
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Speaker 8: then once that, once Beck got the roughing the passer,
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Speaker 8: and then right before the interception, I looked at them
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Speaker 8: both and I was like, after all this, Miami's gonna
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Speaker 8: win it in the last second, aren't they.
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Speaker 7: And then he threw the interception on the very next play.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, And Palmer the Great looks at me and she goes,
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Speaker 8: what were you saying. I was like, oh, I was
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Speaker 8: just trying to test him. I wanted to make sure
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Speaker 8: that they were ready.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, ready. It was a great play on the
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Speaker 4: ball and it secured the win for the Indiana Hoosiers
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Speaker 4: twenty seven twenty one. And to Bucky's point from earlier,
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Speaker 4: I mean, I thought Miami did a terrific job, better
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Speaker 4: than anybody else has done this year on bottling up Mendoza,
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Speaker 4: and yet Mendoza still had a great game. It's just
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Speaker 4: that there weren't many open receivers. Also a very interesting
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Speaker 4: tactic by the officiating crew. They weren't going to call
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Speaker 4: PI all night long, which I'm okay with as long
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Speaker 4: as you're consistent about it. And then you don't call
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Speaker 4: a PI with thirteen seconds to go. You know, when
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Speaker 4: you get players used to playing a certain way, then
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Speaker 4: you kind of have to let them play that way.
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Speaker 4: But they were letting them play, so Indiana receivers were
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Speaker 4: having a hard time getting open. Mendoza didn't make any
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Speaker 4: stupid rash. I gotta squeeze it in their decisions. He didn't,
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Speaker 4: you know, he got bottled up. That was the most
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Speaker 4: pass pressure he'd received all season long. To Signetti's point
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Speaker 4: after the game, and then when it came down to
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Speaker 4: it in the second half, when Miami's just marching and
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Speaker 4: they're still giving Indiana all sorts of trouble. As you
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Speaker 4: want the best player in the country to do, a
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Speaker 4: leader in the treat to do when it came down
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Speaker 4: to it, when it was third and seven or fourth
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Speaker 4: and four, he came through practically every time. Uh. And
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Speaker 4: the way that they chewed the clock was very valuable.
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Speaker 4: I mean it was the best. It was. The Heisman
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Speaker 4: Trophy winner, not at his best and yet making championship
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Speaker 4: plays down the stretch, and a head coach that all
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Speaker 4: the way to the very end pushed the right button.
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Speaker 4: It felt to me every single time, even the decisions
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Speaker 4: to go forward on fourth down, those were risky decisions,
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Speaker 4: and him to call the time out before they were
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Speaker 4: going to go for the field goal and then bring
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Speaker 4: together everybody and say, hey, you know, we got the
10:40
Speaker 4: look that we can run, that draw that we implemented,
10:44
Speaker 4: that quarterback draw implemented into practice this week. If they
10:48
Speaker 4: give us that same look, we can get the first down.
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Speaker 4: And sure enough, not only they get the first down,
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Speaker 4: they got the touchdown. I mean, it was just storybook, storybook, season, storybook,
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Speaker 4: just you know, already for the last two seasons overall.
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Speaker 4: And then it needed to be a great game, and
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Speaker 4: it was a great game, and it needed you needed
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Speaker 4: to sweat down the stretch to see if the Hoosiers,
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Speaker 4: the little Hoosiers could pull things off against Mighty Miami,
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Speaker 4: and the two guys that delivered them to the doorstep
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Speaker 4: of the national championship came through and it mattered most.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, the coach and the quarterback and that Charlie Becker
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Speaker 6: kid that he was talking about as like a Jordy
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Speaker 6: Nelson type guy. And those catches he had, I mean
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Speaker 6: the I mean the first one was behind him and
11:37
Speaker 6: now you'll see that ball. It feels like dropped in
11:39
Speaker 6: the NFL, I mean half the time, and yet he
11:42
Speaker 6: made a catch when it mattered the most, because I
11:45
Speaker 6: think if you don't, the beauty of that game was
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Speaker 6: the better team ended up winning in the end, and
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Speaker 6: yet it wasn't because of like fault necessary. It wasn't
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Speaker 6: like Miami didn't show up right. Their defense did exactly
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Speaker 6: what you would have hoped it would have done. I
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Speaker 6: mean they were all over Fernando Mendoza. They they were
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Speaker 6: making it difficult on him. Yeah, the referees just not
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Speaker 6: calling any defensive paths. Interference is something that is definitely
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Speaker 6: going to affect the team that has maybe the more
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Speaker 6: high flying or potent offense. But it was really those
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Speaker 6: guys up front, the Bane and the Ruben Acidador. I
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Speaker 6: mean those guys, I mean every single time that they
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Speaker 6: dropped back to pass, the sides of the offensive line
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Speaker 6: were just collapsing on him, and he, for the most part,
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Speaker 6: just got rid of it or took the sack. If
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Speaker 6: he had to, and then yeah that finally that one
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Speaker 6: player of the fourth down when they got the look
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Speaker 6: and he just decides. I was hearing him give an
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Speaker 6: interview about how it was if they go man, then
12:48
Speaker 6: he's supposed to throw or zone, he's supposed to throw
12:50
Speaker 6: one of the two. And they came out and it
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Speaker 6: was like half and half, and so he just had
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Speaker 6: to go, well, screw it, I'll die on this field.
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Speaker 6: And he went with that that draw anyways, and up
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Speaker 6: kind of running through one tackle and I think it
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Speaker 6: was Fain posted a picture a still shot of him
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Speaker 6: stretching out over the goal line like, well, we know
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Speaker 6: what the statue and in the end is going to
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Speaker 6: look like, yeah, sure it will because he's probably going
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Speaker 6: to be the next first pick overall. As a national
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Speaker 6: champion and the Heisman Trophy winner. He did what his
13:19
Speaker 6: team needed to do, even though it wasn't even close
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Speaker 6: to his best game. It was good enough to win,
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Speaker 6: and that's what that's what you want out of a
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Speaker 6: national championship.
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Speaker 7: I think, Yeah, and it was.
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Speaker 8: It was a great game, especially for really having no
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Speaker 8: dog in the fight other than just wanting to see
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Speaker 8: the story and the way I wanted the story to end.
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Speaker 8: I mean, you were glued all the way till the
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Speaker 8: very end at Fletcher from Miami.
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Speaker 7: He had a great.
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Speaker 4: Game, especially last second half. Yeah, and it looked like
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Speaker 4: they had an answer for him in that second half.
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Speaker 7: No, and that made me nervous, like very nervous for Indiana.
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Speaker 8: And I just think it's it was interesting what letting
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Speaker 8: having the refs just let them play because they were
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Speaker 8: I mean, Mendoza had those three hits where he got
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Speaker 8: just pummeled and there was no call.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think you let them play in that area.
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Speaker 7: Well, that's that's what I'm saying. That's what I was
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Speaker 7: gonna say.
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Speaker 8: So you don't call those which should have been called,
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Speaker 8: but then you call the roughing the passer at the
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Speaker 8: end of the game on the drive to keep it alive.
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Speaker 7: I'm like, I mean, those should be called all the time.
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Speaker 7: You can't just pick and choose those one.
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Speaker 4: I think they just missed those.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I don't think that that was not let them play championship,
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Speaker 4: just bleeding. I think that just bad officiated. I think
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Speaker 4: they just missed those and Signetti called them out And
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Speaker 4: we'll talk to Gene about that coming up today at
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Speaker 4: eight o'clock. I got a lot of things to discuss
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Speaker 4: with Gene Stare Tour today, CBS rules analysts, who joins
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Speaker 4: us every Tuesday at eight o'clock. But I'll say this,
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Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, I realized there are a lot
14:41
Speaker 4: of problems with college football and we're in this awkward,
14:44
Speaker 4: you know, adolescence phase. You know, the sports got pimples
14:48
Speaker 4: on its face and greasy hair and doesn't know what
14:50
Speaker 4: to do with it's you know, it's junk. You know,
14:54
Speaker 4: they're in that kind of phase right now. But the
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Speaker 4: product I mean that was that was an intense National
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Speaker 4: Championship game. And this system that we have in place
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Speaker 4: finally a tournament obviously got the right two teams. This
15:10
Speaker 4: wasn't just ushering Indiana to the National Championship Game to
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Speaker 4: face Georgia, because that's what the voters thought was the
15:18
Speaker 4: best process. That's what the voters thought were the two
15:23
Speaker 4: best teams that would give us the best show. And
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Speaker 4: here's Georgia that couldn't even get past their first game
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Speaker 4: in the tournament, for goodness sake. And so Miami earned
15:32
Speaker 4: their way there and then proved that they if they
15:35
Speaker 4: would have won that would have been. I don't think
15:37
Speaker 4: anybody box at them being crowned national champions with a
15:40
Speaker 4: fourteen and two record, considering the teams that they beat
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Speaker 4: on their way to winning it. The tournament it's still
15:48
Speaker 4: a little long, and it's still got I mean, we
15:51
Speaker 4: probably shouldn't be playing the National championship game on January nineteen.
15:55
Speaker 4: There's still a couple of issues with how exactly to
15:59
Speaker 4: do the format, even though we're in the infancy of it,
16:04
Speaker 4: and yet the tournament is the best postseason format we've
16:07
Speaker 4: had by a million miles in the history of the sport.
16:12
Speaker 4: I realize NIL causes a lot of turmoil and hand
16:17
Speaker 4: ringing and everything else, but the product that we've gotten
16:21
Speaker 4: the last two three years in college football is the
16:23
Speaker 4: best I've ever seen. So I think college football is
16:27
Speaker 4: actually on a great path despite all the complaints that
16:30
Speaker 4: we have, and as soon as we do iron out
16:32
Speaker 4: some of these wrinkles, some of them unforeseen when we
16:36
Speaker 4: journeyed into this wilderness that is NIL and all the
16:40
Speaker 4: different changes that we were going to have, my goodness,
16:43
Speaker 4: I mean, get rid of some of those obvious problems
16:46
Speaker 4: that the sport has, including its calendar and the product
16:49
Speaker 4: that we're getting and the free agency sort of energy
16:53
Speaker 4: that Nil has given us, and everything else. I mean, man,
16:57
Speaker 4: I just was thoroughly entertained from the beigin ending of
17:00
Speaker 4: the season to the end of the season by this sport.
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Speaker 4: Once again this year and maybe more so at any
17:05
Speaker 4: time in my life.
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Speaker 6: Well, the tournament most certainly is more entertaining. I mean,
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Speaker 6: just with the expanded aspect of it. You get to
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Speaker 6: watch teams if you weren't, you know, if it's not
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Speaker 6: your job to cover sports. You know, I don't know
17:18
Speaker 6: how much time some people will sit and log on
17:20
Speaker 6: as much time as possible to watch teams around the country,
17:24
Speaker 6: not just those that they follow or cheer for the
17:26
Speaker 6: most and that conference that they're in, but everything. Well,
17:29
Speaker 6: the expanded tournament, while there is definitely, like you said,
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Speaker 6: things that have to be ironed out, They have to
17:34
Speaker 6: figure some things out all across the board when it
17:37
Speaker 6: comes to college football because of the untethered part of it,
17:42
Speaker 6: that just kind of feels like it's not going to
17:44
Speaker 6: work forever, so get your arms wrapped around it. But
17:47
Speaker 6: the actual tournament itself, yeah, I don't think there's a way.
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Speaker 6: I don't think there's anybody that's ever watched college football,
17:52
Speaker 6: they could think this isn't the most entertaining version of
17:55
Speaker 6: college football postseason that we've ever, you know, ever witnessed.
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Speaker 6: To compare this to the idea of just somebody just
18:02
Speaker 6: voting on at the end of the year, that's your
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Speaker 6: champ versus getting to watch Indiana go through the run
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Speaker 6: that they did through the regular season, and the story
18:10
Speaker 6: was already written of the turnaround from the worst program
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Speaker 6: to the number one program, and then to run through
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Speaker 6: the playoffs after beating Ohio State and in their conference
18:19
Speaker 6: championship game, to run through the playoffs the way that
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Speaker 6: they did, the way that Miami didn't know if they
18:24
Speaker 6: were going to get in, and then they beat some
18:26
Speaker 6: teams that nobody thought they were going to beat to
18:29
Speaker 6: get to it, and it was the two best teams,
18:31
Speaker 6: but I think it was most certainly the best team
18:33
Speaker 6: versus the second best team, and the best team ended
18:36
Speaker 6: up winning it. I can't wait for him to continue
18:39
Speaker 6: to kind of trim the fat or get rid of
18:42
Speaker 6: some of the stuff that I think makes it a
18:44
Speaker 6: little bit ugly for some and maybe even majority of
18:48
Speaker 6: the college football teams out there. But as of right
18:50
Speaker 6: Now I'm not going to sit and focus on just
18:52
Speaker 6: the things that aren't perfect about the sport when we
18:55
Speaker 6: just got to witness what felt like a fairly perfect
18:58
Speaker 6: postseason and the way in which that storybook.
19:01
Speaker 4: Ending was ended for Indiana's great All right, let's find
19:04
Speaker 4: out what's on tap for today? Show, what's on tech,
19:11
Speaker 4: what's on TEP. I'll say first sixteen and O team
19:14
Speaker 4: ever in college football history. I know that they point
19:18
Speaker 4: out Yale and like eighteen ninety four. I mean, I'm
19:20
Speaker 4: not even sure they played with a football. I think
19:22
Speaker 4: they played with a raccoon, you know, under their arms
19:26
Speaker 4: all the way back in eighteen ninety four. I think
19:28
Speaker 4: it was like seven on five and they played with
19:30
Speaker 4: a raccoon, and I think the field was fourteen yards long,
19:34
Speaker 4: So I don't a different game. Yeah, I think it
19:35
Speaker 4: was a different game back then. So today to go
19:38
Speaker 4: sixteen and oh, I'm just gonna say, nobody's ever done that,
19:40
Speaker 4: Nobody's ever had a season like that, and certainly no
19:44
Speaker 4: fan base ever has had an experience like Indiana Usier
19:48
Speaker 4: fans have had the last couple of years. We're gonna
19:50
Speaker 4: chat with one at the bottom of the hour. The
19:53
Speaker 4: legendary Mike Gas too will be joining us the gas Man.
19:58
Speaker 4: We're gonna find out what he went through a emotionally
20:00
Speaker 4: last night, his take on Indiana becoming a national power
20:05
Speaker 4: when he's spent his entire life as a Hoosier fan
20:10
Speaker 4: wondering if they'd ever win. So Gas will join us here,
20:13
Speaker 4: what might us also asking us some Seahawks football too.
20:16
Speaker 4: Coming up at six thirty, the countdown to twenty twenty
20:19
Speaker 4: six begins Rick new Eisl it'll be our final conversation
20:24
Speaker 4: with him this football season. Today at nine o'clock, we'll
20:27
Speaker 4: certainly talk about Kurt Signetti's place in history. If I'm
20:31
Speaker 4: the Buffalo Bills, I'm calling Kurt Signetti this morning see
20:34
Speaker 4: if he wants to be the head coach, even though
20:36
Speaker 4: he's denied that he has any interest in the National
20:39
Speaker 4: Football League Seahawks rams of course NFC Conference Championship game
20:43
Speaker 4: this Sunday. Greg Bell will join us at seven oh
20:46
Speaker 4: five to give us the latest, including on Zach Charbonay's knee.
20:50
Speaker 4: We know that he's out for the postseason he tore
20:54
Speaker 4: his acl but certainly some questions to ask about the
20:58
Speaker 4: running game Zach Charbonay going forward, and much more with
21:01
Speaker 4: Greg at seven o five. Sunday's doubleheader will be the
21:04
Speaker 4: Patriots at the Broncos, followed by the Rams at the Seahawks.
21:08
Speaker 4: Jarrett Stidham will be starting for the Denver Broncos at quarterback. Meanwhile,
21:13
Speaker 4: the Titans and Dolphins both hired their head coaches last night.
21:16
Speaker 4: The Titans ended up with Robert Sollop from San Francisco,
21:22
Speaker 4: so he's going to get a second shot at being
21:24
Speaker 4: the head coach head coach in the National Football League.
21:27
Speaker 4: The Dolphins ended up signing Jeff Hafley, who was the
21:31
Speaker 4: Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator. So we'll have a Shark
21:34
Speaker 4: coachery board for you coming up today at seven thirty
21:38
Speaker 4: peng Ones over the Crack and yesterday six to three
21:41
Speaker 4: and afternoon tilt on Martin Luther King Day. Everett Fitzhi
21:44
Speaker 4: will join us today at eight thirty to discuss it.
21:47
Speaker 4: They'll take on the Islanders tomorrow at six thirty. NBA
21:50
Speaker 4: on MLK Day as well yesterday all day long, but
21:54
Speaker 4: the big story in the NBA was Lebron James not
21:58
Speaker 4: being named a starter and the All Star Game for
22:00
Speaker 4: the first time in twenty two years unbelievable run, but
22:05
Speaker 4: certainly did not deserve to be an All Star this season.
22:08
Speaker 4: College basketball, you dubbed Nebraska tomorrow at six o'clock on
22:14
Speaker 4: nine point fifty, as the Huskies will take on the
22:17
Speaker 4: seventh ranked team in America. They're undefeated, by the way,
22:20
Speaker 4: but coming up next. The gas man joins this, can't
22:24
Speaker 4: wait to hear the smile on his face. Sports Radio
22:27
Speaker 4: ninety three point three KJRFM to stab back. Beck looks,
22:33
Speaker 4: throws it down the field and it is intersupped by Indiana.
22:38
Speaker 4: WHOA what a play? And it is Jamori Shirk who
22:42
Speaker 4: comes up with the pick and he runs into.
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Speaker 5: The end zone.
22:46
Speaker 4: They're gonna call penally. Hey, good morning, It's Chuck, Buck
22:53
Speaker 4: and Ashley with you here. Highlight of last night's National
22:57
Speaker 4: Championship game, straight from the date of Indiana, the great
23:01
Speaker 4: Hoosiers State Indiana Radio and their legendary broadcaster. As we
23:06
Speaker 4: start here on this Tuesday morning, I just got to
23:09
Speaker 4: say before we bring our next guest on if he
23:12
Speaker 4: ever questioned how valued he was by the Seattle sports
23:17
Speaker 4: fan watching Twitter last night and person after person pointing
23:22
Speaker 4: out that they were thinking of Mike Gastineau and rooting
23:25
Speaker 4: for Mike Gastoneau and congratulating the gas Man on his
23:29
Speaker 4: Indiana Hoosiers winning the national championship game he now knows.
23:34
Speaker 4: I think that Seattle. The only thing that Seattle would
23:38
Speaker 4: have been happier for is if the Huskies won the
23:40
Speaker 4: National championship, then they were for Mike Gastineau's Indiana Hoosiers
23:44
Speaker 4: winning the national title. And joining us live from Miami
23:48
Speaker 4: this morning is Mike Gastoneau. Good morning, sir, Well, good.
23:55
Speaker 1: Morning, and thanks for those nice words. One of the
24:00
Speaker 1: nicest things about this was the number of people that
24:02
Speaker 1: reached out. And I think it's because I'm humbled that
24:07
Speaker 1: there's that many people that thought of me. But I
24:09
Speaker 1: think this story resonated with everybody because we've all got
24:13
Speaker 1: a team or a couple of teams that we've stuck
24:15
Speaker 1: with through thin and thin. You know, it's easy to
24:19
Speaker 1: be a fan of a team when it's winning, but
24:22
Speaker 1: it's hard to maintain that when they're losing year after
24:25
Speaker 1: year in creative and insane ways. And to have that
24:30
Speaker 1: under your belt and then something like this happened, you go, well,
24:33
Speaker 1: you know, I mean I was thinking last night and
24:36
Speaker 1: here like late in the game. I started thinking last
24:38
Speaker 1: time about the Gator Bowl in twenty nineteen when we
24:40
Speaker 1: blew a two touchdown lead in the last four minutes.
24:43
Speaker 1: You know, that's our history over the years, Even when
24:46
Speaker 1: we're in big game, something catastrophic happens, and it was
24:49
Speaker 1: it was really cool to be here and to be
24:52
Speaker 1: with my brothers and to and my wife or nay,
24:55
Speaker 1: and to watch it all happen. It was great.
24:56
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, let's start there. Then, what was the scene
25:00
Speaker 4: like for you? I mean you described it a little bit,
25:03
Speaker 4: but to actually make the effort to get there, to
25:05
Speaker 4: be there in person, I mean they shut off the
25:08
Speaker 4: cameras obviously after the postgame stage celebration, But what was
25:14
Speaker 4: it like to be there in person and what was
25:16
Speaker 4: your night like?
25:18
Speaker 1: The night well, to me in person was incredible, you know,
25:22
Speaker 1: just to watch it and to have this. You know
25:24
Speaker 1: what this story did for me is it returned my
25:27
Speaker 1: wonderment about sports. Where we're kids, we don't have cynesis
25:31
Speaker 1: and yet and then you get a little older and
25:33
Speaker 1: if you get into the business that we all chose
25:35
Speaker 1: to get into, you you see how the sausage is
25:37
Speaker 1: made a little bit kind of get a little cynical
25:39
Speaker 1: about everything this story. For me, I just didn't have that.
25:42
Speaker 1: And I'll say the vast majority in the end offense
25:46
Speaker 1: of that way. We have been for the last two years,
25:49
Speaker 1: in particularly for the last six weeks, every morning has
25:52
Speaker 1: been like Christmas morning. And we're an eight year old kid,
25:54
Speaker 1: you know, we just can't believe how happy we are.
25:58
Speaker 1: I can't believe this is happening. And another part of
26:01
Speaker 1: the story that to me is very is very sweet,
26:03
Speaker 1: is you know, I've been a fan, but I've lived
26:05
Speaker 1: all over and I wasn't going to you know, I'd
26:07
Speaker 1: try to get back for a game every couple of
26:09
Speaker 1: years at least. I was pretty good about that. My
26:12
Speaker 1: brother Mark graduated from Indianna in nineteen seventy three and
26:15
Speaker 1: joined the alumni organization, the Varsity Club. He has given
26:19
Speaker 1: them money and bought football tickets every year since then,
26:23
Speaker 1: which is how we're able to get text all these
26:25
Speaker 1: games because he's got a standing within. But he and
26:28
Speaker 1: he not only had football sea he has basketball season
26:31
Speaker 1: tickets too, which is a little leasier. He not only
26:34
Speaker 1: had football season tickets, he went to the games. It's
26:36
Speaker 1: not you can sell them anyway. What he was buying
26:38
Speaker 1: Indiana tickets for association.
26:39
Speaker 4: Oh he was.
26:42
Speaker 1: He was the one, you know, and he was there
26:44
Speaker 1: and if there were seven home games a year, he'd
26:46
Speaker 1: get to five of a minimum. And again, just hung
26:50
Speaker 1: in there and loved them. And so that that part
26:53
Speaker 1: of it's me. The night. It was incredibly long yesterday
26:56
Speaker 1: because the trophy getner in chief wanted to go to
26:59
Speaker 1: the games. So for the first time ever, I had
27:01
Speaker 1: to go through secret Service to get to a football game.
27:05
Speaker 1: And that just add And they were very I gotta
27:06
Speaker 1: say they were very efficient, but they basically told you,
27:09
Speaker 1: you know, the game starts at seven thirty. If you're
27:11
Speaker 1: not here by three thirty, you know you're gonna have
27:13
Speaker 1: trouble get in. So so you know, we left the
27:16
Speaker 1: hotel at two and we got back to the hotel
27:18
Speaker 1: at one am. So an eleven hour day to see
27:21
Speaker 1: a three and a half hour football game for the
27:23
Speaker 1: logistics involved. So it but it was, you know what,
27:26
Speaker 1: it was great. It never felt like it was dragging.
27:29
Speaker 1: It it's just just you know, you guys.
27:32
Speaker 4: Saw the game.
27:32
Speaker 1: I mean, on the one hand, I loved the Rose
27:35
Speaker 1: Bowl because with ten minutes to go in the second quarter,
27:38
Speaker 1: I'm like, this game is over, we can relax. This
27:41
Speaker 1: one was harder to love, but in the rearview mirror,
27:44
Speaker 1: it looks beautiful to them to found a way to
27:46
Speaker 1: get that win.
27:47
Speaker 6: Yes, I mean getting to watch a team that you
27:50
Speaker 6: rooted for and your your alumni of I mean getting
27:54
Speaker 6: to watch them for this whole storybook season is something
27:57
Speaker 6: that's pretty amazing. I mean, even as an outsider, not
27:59
Speaker 6: a who's your fan, I think a lot of people
28:02
Speaker 6: just jumped onto the bandwagon like this is pretty impressive.
28:06
Speaker 6: But and all of a sudden felt after that false start,
28:09
Speaker 6: it felt like, oh no, could this storybook end? Because
28:12
Speaker 6: of one of the best players on their team the
28:15
Speaker 6: left tackle flinches just a little bit early and gives
28:17
Speaker 6: Miami a chance. Did you get puckered up there? Were
28:20
Speaker 6: you thinking it was going to happen? Or did you
28:22
Speaker 6: just believe simply based on the storybook that you've been watching.
28:25
Speaker 1: I believe, But look, I'm gonna tell you, ninety percent
28:29
Speaker 1: of the peoples, not Eve said, the people who are
28:31
Speaker 1: my age certainly at that game, we're like, oh, man,
28:35
Speaker 1: I've seen this book, but I've seen this movie before.
28:38
Speaker 1: Oh you know, so I kind of threw it. I'll
28:42
Speaker 1: tell you bucket was when they when they beat the
28:44
Speaker 1: Ducks the first time. I knew they were gonna be
28:46
Speaker 1: good this year, you know, and what they did last
28:48
Speaker 1: year was remarkable, eleven wins, go to the playoffs, and
28:51
Speaker 1: I knew they would be good this year. I wouldn't
28:53
Speaker 1: expect you to plight be district. When they beat Oregon
28:55
Speaker 1: at Oregon and last ten minutes of that game is
28:59
Speaker 1: not really in doubt. Up by ten, they survived to
29:01
Speaker 1: pick six in the fourth sport. I walked toward that
29:05
Speaker 1: game thinking, you know what they're they're good enough to
29:07
Speaker 1: really do some pretty special things. Because we all know
29:09
Speaker 1: if you go into autsin you beat the Ducks and
29:11
Speaker 1: beat him pretty convincingly, you're a pretty good team. That's
29:15
Speaker 1: not that's not a crummy team that goes in and
29:17
Speaker 1: does that. And by then I just started thinking, there's
29:20
Speaker 1: there's a chance, and you know, you need a little
29:23
Speaker 1: you need a little kids met along the way, and
29:25
Speaker 1: certainly the Penn State game provided that. Although they might
29:28
Speaker 1: have they were I think they would have still made
29:30
Speaker 1: the playoffs with one loss, but you know, you know,
29:32
Speaker 1: so that's how the route changes. But I I was
29:37
Speaker 1: nervous at the end last night, but I just kept thinking,
29:40
Speaker 1: you know this, this I just I believe in the coach.
29:43
Speaker 1: I'm like, look, I'm not going to doubt him now,
29:44
Speaker 1: not after everything he's done. So you know, it was
29:47
Speaker 1: it was something.
29:48
Speaker 4: The great joining us here this morning talking about the
29:52
Speaker 4: Indiana Hoosiers winning the national championship last night. Lifelong fan,
29:57
Speaker 4: his brother's lifelong fans, and he was there in my
30:00
Speaker 4: Miami to see it all go down. I do want
30:02
Speaker 4: to ask you about Signetti that. I mean, the first
30:04
Speaker 4: time I was exposed to him, He's at a basketball
30:07
Speaker 4: game in Indiana, and I thought he was like saying
30:09
Speaker 4: some sort of you know, Carnival yard marker down there,
30:12
Speaker 4: who let this crazy guy out on the court, and
30:15
Speaker 4: what kind of promises is he making? And then in
30:18
Speaker 4: the next two years some believe he just gave us
30:23
Speaker 4: the greatest coaching job and the history of sports, regardless
30:27
Speaker 4: of level. What are your thoughts on that?
30:30
Speaker 1: I agree? I mean, I don't see how you can
30:32
Speaker 1: dispute that the guy. And then again, it would be
30:35
Speaker 1: one thing he could say, fluky if this is the
30:38
Speaker 1: first time he'd done this. This is exactly what he
30:40
Speaker 1: did at James Madison. The difference being James Madison had
30:43
Speaker 1: some success along the way before he got there. He
30:46
Speaker 1: did this at Elon, he turned around hem that did
30:48
Speaker 1: not have success. He had two really good years. And
30:51
Speaker 1: he did it, of all places, Indiana University, Pennsylvania, which
30:54
Speaker 1: is not affiliated with where he coaches now but just
30:56
Speaker 1: has the same name. You know, they were on a
30:58
Speaker 1: little bit of a hard time and so he had
31:00
Speaker 1: the track record to being able to do it. But
31:03
Speaker 1: back to the original point again, I'll speak for a
31:06
Speaker 1: lot of people. YEA. That night, when he comes out
31:09
Speaker 1: of a basketball game, and it's a short speech, he says,
31:11
Speaker 1: I've never taken a back seat to anyone in my life,
31:14
Speaker 1: and I don't plan on starting now. And everybody cheers,
31:17
Speaker 1: and he goes produce sucks and everybody goes nuts because
31:19
Speaker 1: you call out your rival. That's a smart thing to do.
31:22
Speaker 1: And then he said, but so does Michigan, and so
31:24
Speaker 1: its Ohio State. And I'm gonna I'll tell you. I
31:27
Speaker 1: think a lot of people wonder, man, you got enough
31:30
Speaker 1: funds in your account to.
31:31
Speaker 9: Cover a check like that, you know? And I mean
31:35
Speaker 9: I really I was kind of like, I don't know, man,
31:38
Speaker 9: this guy. I mean, I liked that he was leading
31:40
Speaker 9: with his chin. We've never anybody who really believed in
31:42
Speaker 9: the program before.
31:43
Speaker 1: That scent, but it just seemed disingenuous, Like, man, those
31:46
Speaker 1: guys have you know, We've we've beaten Ohio State finally
31:50
Speaker 1: this year, we got him three times. Three times in
31:53
Speaker 1: my life, I've been on a good green Earth for
31:55
Speaker 1: sixty five and a half years. We've beat them three times.
31:58
Speaker 1: You know. Think about that, and for him to say
32:01
Speaker 1: I sucking, I'm like, oh boy, oh boy, man, I
32:03
Speaker 1: hope you know what you're doing.
32:08
Speaker 4: It turned out that he did. I mean, it was
32:11
Speaker 4: it was perfect. I'll just ask you this to close
32:15
Speaker 4: this out, and then I'll let you get on to
32:17
Speaker 4: breakfast there in Miami. You might need something, so I
32:21
Speaker 4: would just ask. Like I grew up in Illinois, I
32:25
Speaker 4: know what Chicago Cubs fans went through, and I wasn't
32:28
Speaker 4: a Cub fan myself, but when they won that championship,
32:31
Speaker 4: I mean, I felt like I was on cloud nine
32:34
Speaker 4: for them, for them, and yet I think this story
32:39
Speaker 4: might be even better that. As big a story as
32:43
Speaker 4: that Cubs fan thing was, I mean, they had they
32:46
Speaker 4: had superstars over the years and didn't get it done.
32:49
Speaker 4: They had high payrolls over the years and didn't get
32:51
Speaker 4: it done. They had close calls and didn't get it done.
32:55
Speaker 4: You the Hoosiers football team has really just it been
33:00
Speaker 4: bad for one hundred years and never came close to this.
33:04
Speaker 4: So put that in perspective, I mean, is this like,
33:08
Speaker 4: is this even top the cubs one hundred year drought
33:10
Speaker 4: in your opinion?
33:12
Speaker 1: And the reason I'd say yes is that, you know,
33:14
Speaker 1: the Cubs had a remarkably fun year in nineteen eighty four.
33:18
Speaker 1: They you know, they got to the playoffs on not
33:21
Speaker 1: a regular basis, but they were there on several times.
33:24
Speaker 1: They had gotten to the World Series. I didn't know,
33:28
Speaker 1: they never got a seriously a the Series, and they wanted,
33:30
Speaker 1: but they had had a little bit of success. You know, Indiana,
33:33
Speaker 1: until seven weeks ago, had lost more college football games
33:37
Speaker 1: than any team in history. Seven weeks ago, we finally
33:42
Speaker 1: flew past Northwestern. Hey we're not we're not lasting anymore.
33:45
Speaker 1: We're second to last, right, you know. And it's just
33:48
Speaker 1: the amount of failure and the lack of success, and
33:52
Speaker 1: to the point where it was comical where you really
33:54
Speaker 1: almost had to You're not necessarily laugh at them, but
33:57
Speaker 1: you had to kind of laugh at the whole situation
33:59
Speaker 1: because you giving yourself crazy that, you know, three winning
34:03
Speaker 1: seasons in twenty nine years, they had won a total
34:06
Speaker 1: of three bowl games all time, and now in the
34:10
Speaker 1: last month they've won the Big Ten Championship, the Rose,
34:13
Speaker 1: the Peach, and now this one. So yeah, it's it's
34:17
Speaker 1: what it is. Is to me, the baseball story that
34:19
Speaker 1: it compares to a little bit is the ninety five Marriners,
34:22
Speaker 1: because you have to add in the other thing you have.
34:24
Speaker 1: The factoring with this story is it came from out
34:27
Speaker 1: of the blue. You know again those of us, you
34:29
Speaker 1: know the guy you guys can see stuff coming. Usually
34:32
Speaker 1: you're always right, but you're like, hey, here watch it.
34:34
Speaker 1: This was you know again people walked out of a
34:37
Speaker 1: basketball game. Man, I until I like him, but boy,
34:39
Speaker 1: oh boy, he's in for a run awakening when we
34:42
Speaker 1: played Ohios date in Michigan and instead he knew what
34:45
Speaker 1: he was doing. Yea, And they're twenty seven and two,
34:48
Speaker 1: I think over the last two years. Yeah, twenty seven
34:51
Speaker 1: and two. It's it's the coolest thing I've ever seen.
34:55
Speaker 4: When are you and Gros going to talk about it?
34:58
Speaker 1: Gras and eye on the the award winning. You know,
35:01
Speaker 1: Take five with Grouser Gas has been downloaded than any more.
35:04
Speaker 1: Pod has been downloaded more times than any podcast in
35:07
Speaker 1: the history of the world. Now I'm not sure if
35:09
Speaker 1: that's true, but I was told that, and so we'll
35:13
Speaker 1: I think we'll record on Wednesday, and a lot of
35:16
Speaker 1: more plug and stuff real quick, I do you. I'm
35:18
Speaker 1: one of the national editors to Lindy's College Football magazine
35:21
Speaker 1: that comes out every year in July, and I have
35:24
Speaker 1: a lot of fun with that and with the team
35:25
Speaker 1: that I work with, and they are doing for the
35:28
Speaker 1: first time in a lot a long time, they're doing
35:30
Speaker 1: a championship edition especial. So there'll be an Indiana edition
35:33
Speaker 1: of that magazine. It's still come up. It'll be out
35:35
Speaker 1: by the end of this week, I think, excuse me.
35:38
Speaker 1: And I've got I think half a dozen features in that,
35:42
Speaker 1: so if you're an Indiana fan, you'll be able to
35:44
Speaker 1: I'll post them in fall online. I don't think it'll
35:46
Speaker 1: be in retail stores in Seattle. It might be, but
35:49
Speaker 1: it will be available online and and and you can
35:52
Speaker 1: buy it there. So that's my that's my plug for
35:54
Speaker 1: the day. I gotta pay for this strip somehow, man.
35:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Well, enjoy the rest of it. We were
35:59
Speaker 4: all thinking about you last night. Happy for you and
36:03
Speaker 4: soak it all up down there.
36:06
Speaker 1: My wife and I love Seattle, and I loved it
36:10
Speaker 1: for a long time, and it meant a great deal.
36:14
Speaker 1: All the love I got on social media, really it
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Speaker 1: moved me quite a bit. So thanks to all those people,
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Speaker 1: and thanks to you guys. Great to hear from you.
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Speaker 4: All Right, Mike Aston joining us right here on Chuck
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Speaker 4: and Buck in the mornings. All right, we gotta talk
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Speaker 4: to some Seahawks football. Zach sharbonat what happened next? Sports
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Speaker 4: at seven o'clock plus. Greg Bell will be with us,
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Speaker 4: our Seahawks insider. Certainly, we are counting down the days
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Speaker 4: till the NFC Conference Championship game on Sunday, so we'll
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Speaker 4: get the latest, greatest information from Greg. I mean, there
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Speaker 4: was too much yesterday to get to in our conversation
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Speaker 4: with our Seahawks insiders, so we'll hit some of those
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Speaker 4: other topics that we couldn't quite touch with him yesterday
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Speaker 4: on the show. And now we've got more information about
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Speaker 4: Zach Sharboney. It was very strange because I know when
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Speaker 4: he went down in the game, my initial thought was, oh,
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Speaker 4: that does not.
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Speaker 7: Look Yeah, he grabbed the back of his leg, and that's.
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Speaker 4: One of the toughest guys in the on the roster,
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Speaker 4: one of the toughest guys in the NFL right there.
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Speaker 4: And when he goes down like that in a heap
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Speaker 4: and that big of a game, you know, I mean,
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Speaker 4: I just felt like something's terribly wrong. And then we
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Speaker 4: got the reports afterwards after the game that maybe there
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Speaker 4: wasn't anything and this was from McDonald, maybe there wasn't
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Speaker 4: anything structurally wrong. We're gonna have to see you. We'll
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Speaker 4: evaluate tomorrow morning. And then not long after our show,
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Speaker 4: we find out the news that, oh no, there's something
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Speaker 4: structurally wrong. He tore his ACL. He's not only out
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Speaker 4: for the playoffs, probably will be out for most of
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Speaker 4: next season as well. So I don't know if i'd
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Speaker 4: go as far as saying crushing blow after what I
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Speaker 4: saw from Ken Walker, but certainly not the best news
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Speaker 4: yesterday for the Seahawks.
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Speaker 6: Well, no, I mean, it's been a nice one two punch,
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Speaker 6: and I think that there there's a possibility that just
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Speaker 6: if you only need two more games, right, two more ws,
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Speaker 6: there's a high likelihood that you just let ken Walker
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Speaker 6: eat and if he stays healthy, it might be the
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Speaker 6: best of all worlds, right, instead of having some of
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Speaker 6: those touches that he would get go to Zach Charboney,
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Speaker 6: giving him to the guy that's more explosive.
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Speaker 1: It.
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Speaker 6: It may come out in the wash as if it's better,
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Speaker 6: but it will certainly take springs into account. The fourth
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Speaker 6: play of the game and he gets dinged up, you're
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Speaker 6: not in the same position you were when you had
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Speaker 6: Zach Charboney waiting in the wings to take some of
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Speaker 6: that burden off of him. So, yeah, I think you
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Speaker 6: start playing with fire. I mean, I'd rather lose my
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Speaker 6: backup or my one b running back then my starting
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Speaker 6: quarterback eample. But I but losing somebody at this point
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Speaker 6: in the season is never good.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. So we shouldn't whine and complain. I mean you can't.
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Speaker 4: I just our luck. Yeah, sure, it could do worse.
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Speaker 7: I think it could be worse while it's a mountain
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Speaker 7: of mile high tiers. Yes, and I feel very bad
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Speaker 7: for you.
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Speaker 4: Guys, It's true, I really do. I know you do.
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Speaker 6: I know you do genuinely, and yet I'm kidding. I mean,
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Speaker 6: it's it's losing anybody, a person that you rely on
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Speaker 6: on either side of the ball when you're getting ready
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Speaker 6: to your one game way from going to the super Bowl.
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Speaker 4: It's not good.
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Speaker 6: And Zach Sharbonney has been a good player for this team.
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Speaker 6: He is spelled ken Walker. It's part of I think
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Speaker 6: by design, so that they could keep him fresh and
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Speaker 6: keep him healthy the entire season. And he did a
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Speaker 6: great job for up until this point. And now all
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Speaker 6: of a sudden, if it's like, all right, can I
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Speaker 6: go do you for two games?
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Speaker 4: Well, there's no pacing him anymore, there's no need. I mean,
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Speaker 4: he's a free agent at the end of this season.
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Speaker 4: I know you were trying to nurse him through the
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Speaker 4: season with that, but two games to go, ken Walker
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Speaker 4: every carry, you know, you know, maybe he does get
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Speaker 4: a blow at some point, but probably the pass block.
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Speaker 4: Uh So, yeah, I mean, it's just I'm just giving
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Speaker 4: every carry to ken Walker from this stage forward. But
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Speaker 4: certainly not the best news. But look, I mean there's
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Speaker 4: nothing we can play. But I can't even believe how
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Speaker 4: healthy this team is at this stage in the season.
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Speaker 4: All right, let's okay, we're going to play a game now.
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Speaker 4: And well, and then again, we had two people get
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Speaker 4: hurt in practice last week.
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Speaker 8: We have people we had a bigger injury report coming
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Speaker 8: off the bye week.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well you don't have a bye this week, so
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Speaker 6: that's good. Things are looking up.
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Speaker 7: You guys are making me sweat around.
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Speaker 4: I just can't just ignore something just because there's people
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Speaker 4: nervous about stating.
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Speaker 7: Knock. All right, all right, there you go.
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