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Thursday Edition of the Drive - Hour One · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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Speaker 2: Shop beav. How many minutes do we walk today?
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Speaker 4: This afternoon came in at forty two.
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Speaker 2: So you're pacing around forty seven? Is that accurate?
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Speaker 4: Around forty seven?
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Speaker 2: What do you mean like forty on average forty seven
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Speaker 2: minutes in the afternoon per day.
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Speaker 4: Oh, it's somewhere around there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I try to I try to go no less than forty.
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Speaker 2: Oh, no less than forty. Yeah, because in their old strategy,
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Speaker 2: like if you go used to it was if you
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Speaker 2: walk less than thirty on a treadmill, then you're not
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Speaker 2: really doing anything. You don't start a caloric burn. Is
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Speaker 2: that kind of your your deal here, like you got
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Speaker 2: to get so many minutes in to get the calorie burn. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: And I well, it's also just my brain space. Like
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Speaker 5: if I'm coming up and something's at like thirty eight minutes,
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Speaker 5: I'm like, well, I gotta get forty or if I'm
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Speaker 5: at forty one, most times I'll think, well I have
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Speaker 5: did forty five now, but today I couldn't. I was like,
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Speaker 5: you know what, forty two is good. Let's go inside.
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Speaker 2: I like this. So you've got a Tom Brady mentality
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Speaker 2: to all this, like just reach for the next, reach
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Speaker 2: for the next. Yeah, I like it. All right, let's
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Speaker 2: get into it. A lot to get to here. We
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Speaker 2: got some news out of Southern Miss. We've got some
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Speaker 2: renaming going on, potentially for the stadium down there at
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Speaker 2: the Rock, also baseball facilities at Southern Miss. A lot
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Speaker 2: going on in college sports, but none bigger than the
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Speaker 2: guys that are coming to or want to come back
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Speaker 2: to college. We were on this yesterday and it continues
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Speaker 2: today as Chris Hummer with CBS Sports dot Com open
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Speaker 2: the floodgates how college football affers are reacting to the
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Speaker 2: fallout of NFL players returning. I cannot believe we are here.
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Speaker 2: I'm serious. I can't believe we are right here in
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Speaker 2: this moment where NFL players are going to be allowed
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Speaker 2: to come back to college. You know, I had somebody
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Speaker 2: tell me yesterday and I hadn't thought about this, And
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Speaker 2: I'll go ahead and give credits Rod from his Tomb
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Speaker 2: sports Medicine. I don't think he'd mind me telling you,
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Speaker 2: because Rod was seventeen or fourteen years in the NFL
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Speaker 2: with the Jacksonville Jaguars and a few more. As far
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Speaker 2: as a leite trainer, he says, here's what nobody's thinking
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Speaker 2: about these guys from the NFL. So you leave college
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Speaker 2: and let's say the seniors go to you know, the
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Speaker 2: Senior Bowl or the Hula Bowl or whatever they do,
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Speaker 2: and then they go to the combine. Well, they've spent
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Speaker 2: the last nine, you know, months, basically focused nothing but
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Speaker 2: on their body. Now, college athletes work out really hard.
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Speaker 2: But NFL training tables, NFL prep all this stuff, NFL camps.
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Speaker 2: They're going to be in unbelievable shape. Now the college
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Speaker 2: athletes are too, but just they've been, they've been at
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Speaker 2: the pro game, and now they're going to be allowed
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Speaker 2: to come back to college. That's going to be a
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Speaker 2: big difference. Man. This story is just crazy and I
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Speaker 2: can't believe we're here. As Chris Hummer reports on cbsports
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Speaker 2: dot Com, he says, another week and other earth shattering
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Speaker 2: lawsuit in college football. Nineteen days after the judge in
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Speaker 2: Colorado issued a sweeping temporary restraining order that allowed all
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Speaker 2: class of twenty twenty two athletes to return to school
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Speaker 2: for a fifth year, a judge in Louisiana issued an
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Speaker 2: order Wednesday yesterday that now allows double digit football players
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Speaker 2: to return to the sport in twenty twenty six, with
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Speaker 2: an added caveat the NCAA can't enforce its rules to
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Speaker 2: prevent players who signed professional contracts from returning to college.
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Speaker 2: I just don't understand how judges have this kind of
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Speaker 2: power over this kind of stuff. I mean, I know
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Speaker 2: judges are smart for the most part, but they don't
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Speaker 2: know everything about everything. This just blows my mind. And
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Speaker 2: remember this was all brought on because the NCAA passed
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Speaker 2: a law that says, hey, now, moving forward, you've got
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Speaker 2: five years to play five if you turn nineteen or
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Speaker 2: you first year enrolled in college, you got five to
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Speaker 2: play five. Well, these other guys are saying, well, we
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Speaker 2: didn't get our five. We didn't get our five. We
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Speaker 2: want our five. Well, it's supposed to start this year,
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Speaker 2: moving forward, not look backwards. That means current players on
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Speaker 2: NFL rosters such as Tampa Bay Buccaneers edge rusher Jack
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Speaker 2: Pyburn and Cleveland Browns tight end to Kwan Wright, both
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Speaker 2: of whom were part of the lawsuit, can return to
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Speaker 2: college right entered the transfer portal today, just literally less
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Speaker 2: than two hours ago, Cleveland Brown's tight end former Old
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Speaker 2: Miss product to Kwan Wright, has entered the transfer portal.
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Speaker 2: The former Old Miss star is currently on the Browns roster.
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Speaker 2: The scope of the ruling is limited. It applies only
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Speaker 2: to the players in the lawsuit and is a temporary
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Speaker 2: measure until an injunction hearing is held, But it still
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Speaker 2: set off a bomb in college football front offices as
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Speaker 2: team's now scramble to deal with the impact. Should they
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Speaker 2: go after one of the players who's now eligible, could
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Speaker 2: one of their former players, say one cut by an
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Speaker 2: NFL team goes soue to return. How long will this
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Speaker 2: even last? Or will another develop development prevent these players
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Speaker 2: from playing college football this season? Those are the questions
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Speaker 2: that front offices and staffords are asking at this point. Quote,
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Speaker 2: you find the person that knows what's going on, and
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Speaker 2: you let me know, an SEC director of Player Personnel
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Speaker 2: to the CBS Sports in the midst of the chaos.
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Speaker 2: This is what CBS Sports is hearing from sources around
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Speaker 2: the college football landscape about the lawsuit in Louisiana and
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Speaker 2: what it means. Just one week before the start of
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Speaker 2: the season, says, are more lawsuits coming, yes, quote a
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Speaker 2: lot more. Despite the NCAA and Colorado District Judge Charlotte
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Speaker 2: Sweeney clarifying earlier this month that the July ruling wouldn't
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Speaker 2: override the NCAA's rules regarding players who have signed NFL contracts,
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Speaker 2: there were still teams in recent weeks that remained in
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Speaker 2: contract contact with camp camps of players in that category
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Speaker 2: who were interested in the possibility of returning to college.
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Speaker 2: It's got a ready teddy teddy, welcome in, brother, How
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Speaker 2: you doing? Hey? You doing?
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Speaker 1: Man?
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Speaker 6: As an old myths fan and the Lane kiff lane
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Speaker 6: Kiffin did all of this. You can't tell that a
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Speaker 6: klawn right whole myths? What Judge, Louana, Judge, this has
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Speaker 6: lane Kiffin written all over.
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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, how did lane kiffen do this?
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Speaker 6: Okay, right, whole myths?
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Speaker 2: Right? Well, yeah, but there's players from like, you know,
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Speaker 2: ten different universities.
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Speaker 6: I know what state? Lane?
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Speaker 2: Oh so you say you I get, I get where
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Speaker 2: you're going? Now, Judge, you think lane Kiffin is trying
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Speaker 2: to buck the system here.
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Speaker 6: To a judge, Yeah, and he he openly speaks how
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Speaker 6: the system is broken or whatever. But you know, we
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Speaker 6: loved it when he was an ocre and I kind
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Speaker 6: of still love it because because of Lane Kiffing, Old
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Speaker 6: Miss is still Goldie learned the portal stuff from Lane
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Speaker 6: gets obviously, and so yeah, I mean Louisiana Ole Miss
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Speaker 6: starts tight end elus, he's not really loaded a tight end. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: Lane Giffon did it. Well, someone blame you know, no
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Speaker 6: matter what happens a Lane Giffons faught as far as
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Speaker 6: I'm con but.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my story and I stick to it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm just messing with the album, man.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 6: And it just really is a bad looking And how
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Speaker 6: about the n c double A that they couldn't have
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Speaker 6: done this back in December of the last year or
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Speaker 6: or right after the playoffs? When did they? When do
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Speaker 6: they do it two weeks before the season starts?
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Speaker 2: Well, remember the nc dou Lane didn't do this. The
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Speaker 2: judges in these states did it. Then the five.
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Speaker 6: Years, But who made the five years to play five?
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Speaker 2: Well the n CUAA did They did that several months ago?
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Speaker 6: It was several months ago. Okay, yeah, all right.
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Speaker 2: So yeah the other five to play five?
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Speaker 6: The rights on the wall. Some of these players aren't
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Speaker 6: gonna make Roster said, let's go back to coll This
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Speaker 6: is what's happened.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, they're gonna make more money in college than you
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Speaker 2: would on a practice squad.
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Speaker 6: Boy, everybody is man. You just can't blame them that.
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Speaker 6: You can get it, get it, But it's it's you're
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Speaker 6: getting ugly and nasty. What's gonna watch It's just gonna
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Speaker 6: be an ugly and nasty while we watch it.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, we'll all watch this train wreck together.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 2: the show with this story on players returning from college
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Speaker 2: to the NFL. It says while there were players who'd
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Speaker 2: sign NFL, who had signed contracts who had hoped to
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Speaker 2: explore return to college, there were reservations about being the
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Speaker 2: first one to file a lawsuit in order to try
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Speaker 2: to regain college eligibility. Now players don't have to worry
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Speaker 2: many around front offices expecting the developments on Wednesday. As
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Speaker 2: one personnel staff or hit quote, it's going to open
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Speaker 2: the floodgates for these types of lawsuits. And a Big
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Speaker 7: Man is the Are we living in a crazy time
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Speaker 7: for college football team?
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Speaker 2: I'm baffled. I mean, I really am. I mean, I
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Speaker 2: I just I can't even put into words. I never
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Speaker 2: would have. You know, we talked about this when basketball
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Speaker 2: did it last year and you saw a couple you know,
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Speaker 2: D League players, you know, come back here in Alabama.
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Speaker 2: Had a kid that came in and he played for
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Speaker 2: a game or two and there was a lawsuit he
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Speaker 2: had to sit and he ended up not being able
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Speaker 2: to play. And then people said, oh boy, here we go.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna hit football, and we thought, no, it's not
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Speaker 2: hitting here.
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Speaker 7: We are hitting football in a big way, right, even
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Speaker 7: bigger because there's going to be so many guys and
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Speaker 7: there's so much more money to.
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Speaker 2: Go back to college. It is. And I don't know
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Speaker 2: what these teams do with this. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 2: there's there's so many questions I have with this. I
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Speaker 2: believe based on yesterday and reading through some of the verbage.
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Speaker 2: Let's just take the LSU linebacker that's with Cleveland. He
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Speaker 2: could come back to lsuf I'll take you, or he
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Speaker 2: can go into the portal for a week and wherever
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Speaker 2: he wants to go and think about this. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you take Kurt Signetti for instance, in Indiana and I'm
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Speaker 2: just using them as the national champions. They lost a
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Speaker 2: you know, not a significant but some key players off
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Speaker 2: that defense. He goes, oh, wait a minute, I need
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Speaker 2: a linebacker there. He is, right there, come on down. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: But what happens because school has started in a lot
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Speaker 2: of places. You know, Mississippi State almost started this week.
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Speaker 2: You know, classes started, They're starting around the country. So
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Speaker 2: how do you form that in you've got a roster
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Speaker 2: that's full eighty five one hundred guys? Do you kick
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Speaker 2: somebody off? Right?
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Speaker 7: I mean, there's just so many questions I have with this.
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Speaker 7: I can't begin to figure out how they're gonna put
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Speaker 7: it all together. But if a guy can play, he's
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Speaker 7: gonna get on a team, right, and literally I mean,
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Speaker 7: and I mean a college team, right, Because why would
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Speaker 7: you be a practice player. I want to say, it's
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Speaker 7: like two point fifty to be a practice player when
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Speaker 7: you're gonna be making five hundred maybe a million.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And I made a comment on this, I think
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Speaker 2: it was yesterday, and I said something about chump change,
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Speaker 2: you know, and somebody had called me. I don't know
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Speaker 2: the text time. Well, that's not chump change. Two hundred
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Speaker 2: fifty three, I get it. That's a lot of money
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Speaker 2: I'm talking about in retrospect of what these guys can
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Speaker 2: make relative to their craft. It's chump change because they
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Speaker 2: can come back to college, like you said, and just say,
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Speaker 2: forget these practice squad stuff. I'm going back to play.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go try to improve my style. That's the
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Speaker 2: other part, right, that's the other part.
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Speaker 7: Not only is it two three, maybe four times is
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Speaker 7: much as you would make as a as a practice player,
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Speaker 7: but now you could have an opportunity to show out
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Speaker 7: and and get and get drafted at a better position.
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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this. And we haven't even gotten
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Speaker 2: down the rabbit hole here, and I wonder if the NFL,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure they are can you draft a player twice? Huh? Maybe? Right?
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Speaker 2: Good question. If you got drafted, say in the seventh
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Speaker 2: round this year, and you're gonna get cut and you
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Speaker 2: come back to college, can you reinsert back into the draft.
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Speaker 7: So we I don't know that we've ever had that
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Speaker 7: happen right now. I mean I would think, you know,
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Speaker 7: especially a guy goes out and has a great year
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Speaker 7: in college.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Can they would that all put open
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Speaker 2: the NFL up for lawsuits too? Like, wait a minute,
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Speaker 2: wait a minute, somebody says I want to go back
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Speaker 2: in the draft. I don't know it just I have
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Speaker 2: so many.
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Speaker 7: Questions right right, maybe maybe, Jake, I don't know where
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Speaker 7: to start. Yeah, it's it's wild, it's wild. But hey,
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Speaker 7: we got games coming up.
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Speaker 2: Obviously we're gonna see some players come back and be
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Speaker 2: a part of these games. Uh, the property looks great,
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Speaker 2: Everything looks good. Ballots was good. I had launched with
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Speaker 2: Derek and uh, we got to chat about everything going on. Man,
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Speaker 2: it's it's the calm before the storm right here.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, And you know right now we getting
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Speaker 7: a little baseball. You're going to see a pick up
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Speaker 7: here closer to you know, five five thirty. And we've
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Speaker 7: got a preseason. You know, we had we had a
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Speaker 7: lot of action on preseason last week. We'll have a
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Speaker 7: lot of action tonight tonight. I got one too, Jake, one,
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Speaker 7: I like tonight. Uh, let me pull it up. I
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Speaker 7: think I was right about my pick last week. Right,
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Speaker 7: let me pull it up here.
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Speaker 2: Let's see who did you take last week? Last week?
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Speaker 2: It was the Chargers. You did chake the Chargers last week,
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Speaker 2: and I like him again this week. Uh well, harbar.
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Speaker 7: You know he's petty, right, you know he wants to
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Speaker 7: win these And then also I read where the Niners
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Speaker 7: got a bunch of injuries. They're not really gonna be
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Speaker 7: starting everybody. So I'm on the Charges again. And oh
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Speaker 7: how did Mendoza? Huh yeah, oh man, he looked great.
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Speaker 7: But I gotta fade him tonight. I'm going with the
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Speaker 7: Texans tonight.
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Speaker 2: Got you? Yeah, Texans, Texans? You talking about to Let's see,
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Speaker 2: I'm in week one. Let's get to the preseason. I'm
18:19
Speaker 2: on the wrong tab here. Yeah, Raiders in Houston. And
18:22
Speaker 2: I did see a report earlier Mendoza's gonna play for
18:23
Speaker 2: a half tonight. So you know they've got Kirk Cousins
18:27
Speaker 2: and Mendoza. They're going back and forth over the quarterback issue.
18:30
Speaker 2: They may have to start him, right, I mean, I
18:34
Speaker 2: mean they may have to start him. I mean the
18:35
Speaker 2: guy is looks to be very legit. But you know,
18:38
Speaker 2: this is the last preseason week. I think that we'll
18:41
Speaker 2: see a lot of the starters play because next week
18:45
Speaker 2: they won't. You know, there's gonna be some minimal play
18:47
Speaker 2: because we're getting down to you know, we're getting down
18:49
Speaker 2: to the trim. Trim now, I mean we're trimming the fat.
18:51
Speaker 2: We as in the league is trimming the fat down
18:53
Speaker 2: to the fifty three man. So I mean we're getting
18:56
Speaker 2: real close now. And and Kirk Cousins, I mean, what
19:00
Speaker 2: I hold this Kurt, Oh gosh, he's got to be
19:02
Speaker 2: I'm gonna guest thirty eight. But I'll look it up.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, he's he's up there, but he's God bless him. Right,
19:08
Speaker 7: he's still out there. You gotta hold on the Cousins.
19:11
Speaker 7: But I say you start Mendoza.
19:14
Speaker 2: Uh no, I agree with you.
19:17
Speaker 7: And and you know that's less wear and tear and
19:19
Speaker 7: in ky if you if you if if you need
19:21
Speaker 7: to bring Cousins in, you know he's not. It'll be
19:25
Speaker 7: later in the season. He's not worn down, you know.
19:27
Speaker 7: Cousins thirty eight. I just guess that. I mean, I
19:29
Speaker 7: was like, he looks thirty eight. He's I know, I've
19:33
Speaker 7: been watching him form teen years.
19:34
Speaker 2: Now. Hey, I just got this text. I'm gonna ahead
19:37
Speaker 2: just give John Bond credit form Mississippi State quarterback. Great.
19:40
Speaker 2: And of course he's been on the air he says, Hey,
19:42
Speaker 2: the NFL has the rights for three years unless they're cut.
19:45
Speaker 2: And what happened with the what happened with the junior
19:49
Speaker 2: college eligibility. It was at one point that it didn't
19:53
Speaker 2: go towards your fourth year of school. Yeah, so there's
19:57
Speaker 2: a lot of questions on these players coming back. You know,
20:01
Speaker 2: I don't know if now you know it was five
20:04
Speaker 2: years to play four, right, you could get a red
20:07
Speaker 2: shirt in there. It could be your first year, it
20:09
Speaker 2: could be your sophomore year, if you had an injury,
20:10
Speaker 2: it could be your junior year, or even your senior year.
20:13
Speaker 2: But now you got five to play five moving forward,
20:16
Speaker 2: So I don't know. There's there's a lot of questions
20:19
Speaker 2: from the NFL side to the you know, and and
20:22
Speaker 2: again if so, do these teams cut it? Well, I
20:25
Speaker 2: guess they would have to cut them, right.
20:26
Speaker 7: So right, so so but then that doesn't that bring
20:29
Speaker 7: the question back up again?
20:32
Speaker 2: Yes? Right? Are they eligible? Right? So, they retained the
20:35
Speaker 2: rights unless they cut them. Yeah, and if they cut
20:37
Speaker 2: them then it's just but the quest my question is
20:40
Speaker 2: can they go back into the draft. We've never seen
20:41
Speaker 2: anything like that. Do we just have it all? Right?
20:44
Speaker 2: We're gonna get into, uh with Keith, We're gonna get
20:47
Speaker 2: into some of these national championship picks, some of these
20:49
Speaker 2: win totals. It's time to really kind of sharpen the
20:52
Speaker 2: the knife on, or sharpened the act, so to speak,
20:54
Speaker 2: on these win totals. Mississippi State and Jeff Levy obviously,
20:58
Speaker 2: uh you know Ole Miss and they make another playoff run.
21:02
Speaker 2: Southern miss is getting a new naming rights to their
21:04
Speaker 2: football stadium. I want to get into that too. So uh,
21:07
Speaker 2: they're they're in some sort of a agreement on that.
21:10
Speaker 2: Let me get you a note or two real quickly here.
21:12
Speaker 2: Speaking of Indiana. Indiana quarterback transfer quarterback from TCU Man.
21:19
Speaker 2: There's some cutups out here of him in practice at Indiana.
21:22
Speaker 2: They're indoor practice facility. This is this is uh, you
21:25
Speaker 2: know pad on pad He looks good and reports out
21:29
Speaker 2: of Indiana. Just reading some of them, they think he
21:32
Speaker 2: is on pace to give them what Mendoza did last year.
21:36
Speaker 2: Oh nice.
21:37
Speaker 7: Wow, So we've got them at ten and a half,
21:41
Speaker 7: ten and a half even money for the over, minus
21:46
Speaker 7: one twenty four for the under.
21:48
Speaker 2: Indiana, Yeah, ten and a half, ten and a half. Wow.
21:51
Speaker 2: That's there's a lot. Of course, if we were in
21:53
Speaker 2: the state of Indiana, the over would be pure right
21:56
Speaker 2: through the roof, right their schedule, it lends itself to
22:00
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Speaker 2: So we're sitting here looking at h Josh Hoover highlights
23:47
Speaker 2: for practice in Indiana. Keith, I don't know that this
23:50
Speaker 2: team's gonna go anywhere. I mean, I mean, the whole
23:54
Speaker 2: football world is so upside now right now. Everything we
23:57
Speaker 2: just talked about in the first segment about you know,
23:59
Speaker 2: the players come back to Indiana is the king of
24:02
Speaker 2: the castle in football. I mean, it's just it's it's
24:04
Speaker 2: so wild. So let me get some of these other
24:06
Speaker 2: notes in here real quickly and get your thoughts on
24:11
Speaker 2: some of this Yeah, Chris Hummer with the CBS Sports
24:15
Speaker 2: quote open the floodgates. More lawsuits are coming. Many questions
24:19
Speaker 2: remain on everything going on. Yeah, Raiders number one overall picked,
24:23
Speaker 2: Fernando Mendes is expected to play roughly a half tonight
24:26
Speaker 2: versus the Texans before Aidan O'Connell replaces in the second half. Also,
24:32
Speaker 2: you know we told you. Dekwon Wright, former Missed product
24:34
Speaker 2: tight end with the Cleveland Browns, has officially entered the
24:37
Speaker 2: NCAA transfer portal, which would tell me he's been cut right.
24:41
Speaker 2: Played college football at Virginia Tech and at Ole Miss.
24:46
Speaker 2: And let's see here. Also some other notes out here.
24:52
Speaker 2: Former Seahawk and SMU running back TJ. Harden has entered
24:55
Speaker 2: the transfer portal. So he is a former Seahawk SMU product.
25:00
Speaker 2: He is in the transfer portal. Harden, who was a
25:03
Speaker 2: part of this Louisiana lawsuit. He ran for a college
25:06
Speaker 2: career of twenty four hundred and forty five yards, twenty
25:08
Speaker 2: one touchdowns and stops at SMU and UCLA. Also huge
25:13
Speaker 2: news coming out of Southern Miss. Southern Miss football and
25:16
Speaker 2: Southern Miss baseball. Renaissance Bank has acquired the naming rights
25:19
Speaker 2: to the stadium formerly known as MM Roberts Stadium, that's
25:22
Speaker 2: the football stadium. The deal is a ten year deal
25:25
Speaker 2: worth thirteen million, seven hundred and six thousand, eight hundred
25:28
Speaker 2: and thirty eight dollars, also rendering some surface for a
25:31
Speaker 2: proposed upgrade to Pete Taylor Park. So that's big news
25:35
Speaker 2: for Southern Miss. And you know, some people may not
25:37
Speaker 2: like the whole naming rights, then Keith, as far as
25:40
Speaker 2: you know, hey, we're going to take MM Roberts Stadium,
25:42
Speaker 2: which is forever, as long as I've been alive, I've
25:44
Speaker 2: been the name of Southern missis Stadium. Now it's going
25:46
Speaker 2: to be Renaissance Bank Stadium. But that's where we are
25:52
Speaker 2: with private equity, and yeah, I mean, look, it's survival
25:56
Speaker 2: for a lot of a lot of schools. And you
25:57
Speaker 2: take a school like Southern Miss that's not in the
25:59
Speaker 2: Southeast Conference, they're not in the Big Ten, They're never
26:02
Speaker 2: gonna be in either one. The Big twelve has been
26:05
Speaker 2: extremely innovative on how they've been able to churn money
26:09
Speaker 2: with naming rights and jersey patches and all this stuff.
26:11
Speaker 2: So you know, proaps to South mister finding a way
26:14
Speaker 2: to you know, make some money here, and we're talking
26:16
Speaker 2: about a team who's over under three and a half
26:19
Speaker 2: three and a half or southerns Wow.
26:22
Speaker 7: Right, so he get it where you can. But I'm
26:26
Speaker 7: not a big fan of the name changing. You know,
26:29
Speaker 7: I can't keep up anymore, you know, I just I
26:33
Speaker 7: can't keep up. I kind of let it go, you know,
26:37
Speaker 7: whatever they're calling it this year.
26:40
Speaker 2: Ah, No, I'm with you. I mean, it's very, very
26:42
Speaker 2: hard to make it up. Hey, how about this NFL markets?
26:46
Speaker 2: This is courtesy of front Off of Sports. NFL markets
26:48
Speaker 2: that spend the most on merchandise per Nielsen and Scarborough
26:52
Speaker 2: NFL Fandom Index. So going into the season, who do
26:56
Speaker 2: you think who do you think is at the top
26:58
Speaker 2: of NFL merch dice sales? Team Wise, Giants, Cowboys not
27:06
Speaker 2: on the list? Wow? NFL markets that buy the most, Oh,
27:12
Speaker 2: not sell the most, that's right, NFL markets that buy
27:14
Speaker 2: the most merchandise.
27:15
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, So a market meaning New York or Los Angeles. Yeah, hm,
27:23
Speaker 7: And so I guess it's not like a New York
27:26
Speaker 7: or Los Angeles.
27:27
Speaker 2: No, it's Kansas City.
27:29
Speaker 1: Wow.
27:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Kansas Kansas City market, followed by Buffalo and
27:33
Speaker 2: then Philadelphia.
27:34
Speaker 7: Well, no, not to cut you off, Jake, but right,
27:38
Speaker 7: I guess it makes sense because football is king there
27:41
Speaker 7: there's no base well there's the Royals.
27:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no basketball. Now, I'm sure the Cowboys merchandise
27:48
Speaker 2: is at the top of sales. But you know how
27:50
Speaker 2: many people in the doubt you know Dallas has such
27:52
Speaker 2: a is it fair to say? And I know there's
27:54
Speaker 2: NFL fans everywhere of every team. I mean, you know
27:57
Speaker 2: you probably get a you probably had a repers of
28:00
Speaker 2: at least one person of all thirty two teams in
28:02
Speaker 2: there through a season. But Dallas is still the brand.
28:08
Speaker 2: And I hate to say this, it's still Notre d Amish, right, Yankesh,
28:14
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, Lakrish. Right, It's all over the place. So
28:19
Speaker 2: you got people buying from all over. But the Kansas
28:21
Speaker 2: City market buys more merchandise than any other NFL market,
28:26
Speaker 2: followed by Buffalo, Philadelphia, Green Bay slash Appleton.
28:29
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I was gonna say Green Bay because when
28:31
Speaker 7: you said Kansas City and Buffalo, I started thinking Green.
28:34
Speaker 2: Bay, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Baltimore. You know what blue collar places? Yeah,
28:43
Speaker 2: you know it is New Orleans and Jacksonville. Wow. So
28:50
Speaker 2: when you think about that, you know, because Duvall and
28:52
Speaker 2: that whole deal there. Yeah, it makes sense. I just
28:54
Speaker 2: thought that was kind of interesting when you're talking about
28:57
Speaker 2: markets and what they buy. Also, we'll get into this
29:00
Speaker 2: little later on. The NFL is not happy about Nielsen's
29:02
Speaker 2: changing of methodology for the upcoming twenty six twenty seven
29:05
Speaker 2: TV season television season. The league told front Off of
29:08
Speaker 2: Sports the changes quote take effect August thirty first, are
29:12
Speaker 2: overly rushed. I have not looked at this. I like
29:14
Speaker 2: to always look at this stuff together. But Nielsen making
29:16
Speaker 2: some changes, which I'm sure that's going to depict how
29:19
Speaker 2: Nielsen which hold you know that is the ranking product
29:22
Speaker 2: for TV and radio. It has been for one hundred
29:24
Speaker 2: years or almost one hundred years. I'm assuming they have
29:28
Speaker 2: changed something in the way they are doing this that
29:30
Speaker 2: the NFL does not like. Because if the ratings, even
29:35
Speaker 2: though they tweak the numbers, and the numbers drop, well,
29:38
Speaker 2: that could affect AD revenue, right, It con affect absolute
29:41
Speaker 2: AD revenue. So that's probably why the NFL doesn't like it.
29:45
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29:51
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29:56
Speaker 2: all time earnings number one in professional golf one hundred
29:59
Speaker 2: and twenty million plus. Scheffler is at one nineteen nine
30:04
Speaker 2: sixty four four eleven, and then Roy McElroy won sixteen
30:08
Speaker 2: four eighty eight. Well the purses have gone up, of course,
30:12
Speaker 2: you know.
30:12
Speaker 7: Yeah, I wonder where he is as far as wins, right,
30:16
Speaker 7: you know what I mean?
30:16
Speaker 2: How far behind Tiger he is there? Yeah?
30:18
Speaker 7: But yeah, I want to say, uh, Scotty had a
30:22
Speaker 7: great outing last week, but I want to say Scotty
30:24
Speaker 7: was like plus three.
30:26
Speaker 2: Early on, so he may not pass him this week.
30:29
Speaker 2: He may not make the cut.
30:30
Speaker 7: Right, let me see, Scotty Scheffler where you at?
30:37
Speaker 2: Check that out? And also, modern offense is stuck in
30:39
Speaker 2: a archaic times. Hey, here's the last time your team,
30:43
Speaker 2: a couple teams in the Power four had a top
30:46
Speaker 2: ten ranked scoring offense. What you got on sheeffer? Where's
30:48
Speaker 2: he had? Plus three through nine? Plus three? Okay? Plus
30:51
Speaker 2: three two nine? So and we're on day one, yeah,
30:53
Speaker 2: of that tournament. Yeah, the leader is the leader is
30:56
Speaker 2: minus six on the day, Okay, so he's got some
30:59
Speaker 2: ground man, he's.
30:59
Speaker 7: Got some If I look his odds up, I bet
31:02
Speaker 7: he's still in the top three.
31:03
Speaker 2: Of course, yes, So when's the last time of your
31:05
Speaker 2: team team had a top ten scoring offense in the country,
31:08
Speaker 2: Ole miss just last year twenty twenty five, Tennessee last
31:12
Speaker 2: year Texas Tech believe it or not, last year, Mississippi
31:17
Speaker 2: State nineteen forty. So it's been quite a while. That
31:21
Speaker 2: can't be right. That can't be right, nineteen forty. I'm
31:25
Speaker 2: going off this list here that somebody shared. LSU twenty
31:28
Speaker 2: twenty three. The last time, of course, twenty nineteen. They
31:31
Speaker 2: rolled the roost. Virginia nineteen ninety, Boston College nineteen eighty four.
31:36
Speaker 2: Shout out Doug Flutie, by the way. Also, let's see
31:40
Speaker 2: I'm looking at some of these others. Penn State twenty seventeen,
31:45
Speaker 2: Auburn twenty ten. You gotta go all the way back
31:47
Speaker 2: to the Cam Newton ear. I mean, you gotta go
31:49
Speaker 2: back to the Camwton Newton hear for Auburn the last
31:52
Speaker 2: time they had a top ten scoring offense, Which is
31:54
Speaker 2: crazy to think, you know, because Gus Malsan had some
31:56
Speaker 2: really good offenses in there. Obviously, he was a big
31:59
Speaker 2: part of what Cam Newton did as the offensive coordinator.
32:02
Speaker 2: Gene Chiswick was the head coach and then he took
32:04
Speaker 2: that job and had had some really good offenses two
32:07
Speaker 2: thousand and nine for Arkansas. I believe we're going back
32:09
Speaker 2: to Bobby Petrino when he was at Arkansas. Georgia twenty
32:13
Speaker 2: twenty three, Alabama twenty twenty two, Kentucky nineteen ninety eight.
32:18
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32:23
Speaker 2: I just, you know, I just remember some of the
32:25
Speaker 2: which is crazy because I can't remember something you told
32:27
Speaker 2: me thirty minutes. I'm with you, Tim Couch. Uh, he's
32:31
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34:11
Speaker 7: No, uh, well, tonight, Like I already said, I'm I'm
34:14
Speaker 7: big on the Chargers tonight, and I'm leaning towards the Texans,
34:19
Speaker 7: uh and probably both unders. But I'm not going way
34:23
Speaker 7: out on a limb on those just just pulling up
34:26
Speaker 7: the futures and uh, you know, looking at uh looking
34:29
Speaker 7: at these team totals.
34:31
Speaker 2: So have you do you have a national championship pick
34:33
Speaker 2: yet for college football? Jake?
34:37
Speaker 7: Ah, all right, if I had to go, We're gonna
34:42
Speaker 7: look for value now somebody that's gonna be ten to
34:45
Speaker 7: one or greater. Yeah, okay, Uh, ten to one are greater.
34:52
Speaker 7: So oh wait about how about Penn State at seventy
34:55
Speaker 7: five to one.
34:56
Speaker 2: They've been in the news lately. Oh they have for
34:58
Speaker 2: all the wrong reasons, right, for all the right but
35:01
Speaker 2: you know, are they seventy five to one? Yeah, but
35:04
Speaker 2: they're not gonna be bad seventy five to one. I
35:08
Speaker 2: don't know that I would put them on my value
35:10
Speaker 2: picked on.
35:10
Speaker 7: No, But you know what, Jake, you know what we
35:13
Speaker 7: do have to make the playoffs. I kind of like
35:18
Speaker 7: that one. Now, those don't pay great odds, right right,
35:22
Speaker 7: you know, Notre Dame minus one thousand, Ohio State minus
35:27
Speaker 7: three hundred, you know, but Ole Miss plus two hundred.
35:33
Speaker 2: Getting two to one. Yeah, Ole Miss make the college playoff. Yeah,
35:37
Speaker 2: they can make the college playoff? You know, will they have?
35:39
Speaker 2: If you look at projections across the country. It's fifty
35:44
Speaker 2: to fifty split. Half of them probably say they will,
35:46
Speaker 2: half of them probably say they won't. You know, usc
35:50
Speaker 2: A plus two fifty looking at the same sheets you're
35:52
Speaker 2: looking at. You know, b yu, it plus three fifty
35:56
Speaker 2: may be a good, big value because if they win
35:58
Speaker 2: the Big twelve and the coaches and the Big twelve
36:00
Speaker 2: picked them in the preseason, then that would be your play.
36:05
Speaker 2: Florida Florida one. I'm not you know, look, there's a
36:09
Speaker 2: lot of people that's high in Florida to be a
36:11
Speaker 2: quote dark horse. I think it's a good value, but
36:14
Speaker 2: I mean, Florida's got dudes. It's just can they pull
36:16
Speaker 2: it all together? You know, if you want a Boise
36:19
Speaker 2: State as that group of five team a group of
36:20
Speaker 2: six at plus four fifty, how about Clemson at seven
36:24
Speaker 2: to one. Woo, Yeah, I guess for a value pay
36:28
Speaker 2: if you think, you know there's a resurgence there that's
36:30
Speaker 2: to make the college football playoff. Memphis Tigers at eleven
36:34
Speaker 2: to one, out of the group out of the G
36:36
Speaker 2: six two lane at twelve to one. Let's see here,
36:42
Speaker 2: I'm just looking through a couple more of these. I'm
36:45
Speaker 2: gonna tell you the flyer I would take. And it
36:48
Speaker 2: was a two win team last year, and they got
36:51
Speaker 2: nineteen to one odds to to get to the College
36:53
Speaker 2: Football Playoff. And I'm not picking them to win this conference.
36:58
Speaker 2: But Oklahoma State brought in North Texas's staff, and that
37:05
Speaker 2: is a staff that is by all accounts, very very good.
37:08
Speaker 2: If you look at what they did at North Texas
37:10
Speaker 2: last year, they brought a lot of players over quarterback
37:13
Speaker 2: that is really good. A lot of people feel like
37:16
Speaker 2: they may be a dark horse to flip like, and
37:19
Speaker 2: you know, everybody looks for the next Jordan, the next
37:21
Speaker 2: Kobe all that, who's the next Indiana. A lot of
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Speaker 2: people said, maybe Oklahoma State nineteen to one to make
37:27
Speaker 2: the College Football Playoff. Maybe look at the Oklahoma State
37:31
Speaker 2: Cowboys out of the Big twelve. Huh.
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Speaker 7: And you know what, Jake, when you said good quarterback,
37:37
Speaker 7: I had to think about Texas well.
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Speaker 2: Of course, yeah, I mean I have Texas win in
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Speaker 2: the National Championship. Oh but now, like somebody told me
37:45
Speaker 2: the other day, it's like, oh, why don't you just
37:46
Speaker 2: go out on a limb there with that one? They
37:48
Speaker 2: still haven't done it right, and they had you know,
37:50
Speaker 2: but I like this Texas team. I believe in Arch Manning,
37:55
Speaker 2: I believe in what Steve Sarkisian's doing. But again I
37:58
Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised if they didn't win it either. And
38:00
Speaker 2: so what do we we have them at seven to
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Speaker 2: one to make the No, I think there's to win
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Speaker 2: it all.
38:05
Speaker 7: That's to win it all. Yeah, yeah, seven to one
38:06
Speaker 7: to win it all. To make the playoff, you probably
38:09
Speaker 7: gotta lay money. I was, how about Arts to win
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Speaker 7: the Heisman. Let's see, is he is he the leader
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Speaker 7: in the clubhouse?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 2: CJ Carr? Okay, And that's that's I mean, that's fair.
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Speaker 2: Arch is eight to one to win the Heisman. But
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Speaker 2: remind people, you cannot parlay right future picks.
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Speaker 7: Right now, certain ones you can't like for. And let's
38:33
Speaker 7: say but that one I know you can't. Let's say
38:36
Speaker 7: I want Texas to win it all and Arch to
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Speaker 7: win the Heisman, and Jake it's not letting me do it.
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Speaker 2: No, that's there you go. So look at some of
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Speaker 2: these conference skate of conference odds here like prinstance, in
38:49
Speaker 2: the Big Ten, the Big Ten is really close to
38:52
Speaker 2: the first three. Ohio State plus one eighty to win
38:54
Speaker 2: at Indiana plus two sixty, Oregon plus two seventy five.
38:57
Speaker 2: The next closest team is USC at four team and one. Yeah,
39:01
Speaker 2: that's where Vegas has this thing out so that they
39:03
Speaker 2: I coin this a three headed race of swords. If
39:07
Speaker 2: you go to the Big twelve, it's Texas Tech minus
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Speaker 2: one twenty one b YU at six to one. Then
39:13
Speaker 2: you taw at eight and a half to one. If
39:15
Speaker 2: you wanted to take a flyer on those Oklahoma State
39:18
Speaker 2: Cowboys I was talking about, you can get them at
39:21
Speaker 2: thirty to one to win that conference. If you continue
39:25
Speaker 2: to look down through here, it's hard to believe the
39:28
Speaker 2: PAC twelve is back. But this is such a diluted
39:32
Speaker 2: version of the PAC twelve. Boise State plus one fifty,
39:34
Speaker 2: San Diego State four to one, in Fresno State five
39:37
Speaker 2: and a half to one, with Texas State six to one.
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Speaker 2: Southeastern Conference Georgia plus two seventy five Texas three to one,
39:43
Speaker 2: and then Alabama and Texas A and M next two
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Speaker 2: teams up at eight and a half to one to
39:48
Speaker 2: win the SEC. You can come out here and get
39:51
Speaker 2: Old miss at ten to one to win the SEC.
39:53
Speaker 2: Bret Vnables at Oklahoma just signed a new contract today.
39:56
Speaker 2: We got to get into that. He's a ten million
39:58
Speaker 2: dollar man coach. I don't know why they locked him up.
40:01
Speaker 2: You know, we've had two teams in the SEC, excuse me,
40:04
Speaker 2: in the off season that if things go wrong, we'll
40:07
Speaker 2: want to get rid of their coach. One is at
40:09
Speaker 2: Alabama with Kaitlyn de Bor and then Brent Vnables at Oklahoma.
40:12
Speaker 2: Both got new contracts now this year in the off season.
40:14
Speaker 2: But anyway, you can get Oklahoma at twelve to one,
40:17
Speaker 2: Florida at twenty to one. If you're a believer in
40:21
Speaker 2: Missisippi State, Arkansas, you can get him at two hundred
40:23
Speaker 2: and one to win the SEC. And let's see here
40:29
Speaker 2: Conference USA Liberty plus two sixty, the Mid American Conference,
40:33
Speaker 2: Miami of Ohio. You know that MAC is always you
40:37
Speaker 2: just I mean, look at this, Miami of Ohio plus
40:40
Speaker 2: three fifty, Western Michigan plus three fifty, Toledo four to one.
40:44
Speaker 2: And uh, let's see also the Mountain West New Mexico
40:47
Speaker 2: at plus two twenty UNLV plus two forty. So there's
40:51
Speaker 2: your kind of your conference races out there.
40:53
Speaker 7: And I wanted since you brought up Okay State, the
40:56
Speaker 7: over under is at six and a half and that's
40:59
Speaker 7: plus one eighteen and.
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Speaker 2: That feels like, uh, it feels like something that you
41:03
Speaker 2: would you know, you'd crush the over.
41:05
Speaker 7: All that right, I mean, you know the way the
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Speaker 7: way you like them, Jake, you know, yeah, giar me tell.
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Speaker 2: You the slam dunk. This is the easiest win of
41:14
Speaker 2: the year. What do you got easy? I'm telling you
41:16
Speaker 2: this is the easiest win of the year in week zero,
41:20
Speaker 2: next week, next week, not this week. TCU is favored
41:24
Speaker 2: by eight over North Carolina. And whether they're playing Dublin,
41:29
Speaker 2: you take TCU and you crush that eight. They are
41:32
Speaker 2: going to destroy North Carolina TCU. Okay, that is that
41:37
Speaker 2: is you won't find an easier slam dunk than that
41:39
Speaker 2: one right there next weekend?
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Speaker 7: Well all right, Jake, I like it. I'm gonna put
41:44
Speaker 7: it on my card. And I got another one. I
41:47
Speaker 7: got one for you. I told you this one a
41:49
Speaker 7: couple of weeks ago. Uh Rutgers minus thirty and a half.
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Speaker 2: That's such a big lot, but some teams do cover it, right,
41:59
Speaker 2: I got I got a big line for you.
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Speaker 7: How about Missouri playing Arkansas Pine Bluff Missouri minus fifty.
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Speaker 2: One fifty one and you know, somebody will take the
42:07
Speaker 2: somebody will take them with that, they'll give them fifty one.
42:10
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but you know, I can remember. It's been
42:13
Speaker 2: several years ago, and I can't remember who I took.
42:16
Speaker 2: I was sitting in this in this room in here,
42:18
Speaker 2: came over. We did a Saturday show when we deal
42:21
Speaker 2: them on Saturdays here, and I took the points of somebody.
42:25
Speaker 2: I think they were playing Oklahoma or USC or somebody.
42:27
Speaker 2: It was like thirty eight or forty Keith. By the
42:30
Speaker 2: middle of the second quarter, they had come back, and like,
42:35
Speaker 2: I picked the underdog and took the points. By the
42:37
Speaker 2: middle of the second quarter, I had lost. I'm like,
42:39
Speaker 2: what did Like it was just the team that was
42:43
Speaker 2: favored was up and down fielding up, and it was
42:45
Speaker 2: just like, you gotta be kidding.
42:46
Speaker 7: Me, because you gotta think, well to win by seven touchdowns,
42:49
Speaker 7: maybe you gotta square every possession. Yeah, right, you have
42:52
Speaker 7: one punt and now you're you're winning by sixty seven, right,
42:56
Speaker 7: And look, fifty one is the biggest one I've seen.
42:59
Speaker 7: But uh, oh Io State's playing ball State. Wio State's minus.
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Speaker 2: Fifty, minus fifty, you know, and you gotta look, I
43:05
Speaker 2: think it's It's important to look back at some of
43:07
Speaker 2: the coaching characteristics of these coaches, like does you know
43:11
Speaker 2: Nick Saban was always one he wouldn't hit the over
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Speaker 2: a whole lot. He would always take the foot off
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Speaker 2: the gas, put the other guys in the end, you know.
43:19
Speaker 2: But some coaches like Steve Spurrier was going to hit
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Speaker 2: the gas. He didn't care. He was just throwing touchdowns.
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Speaker 7: Well, you know, I think a nice value on some
43:27
Speaker 7: of these high spreads would be first half.
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Speaker 2: Bets, no doubt about it. Keith Hardy wather us. We're
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