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Episode 51: The Crazy Sheet Podcast: Big10 Preview for the 2024 Season · The Crazy Sheet - CFB Handicapping

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. At your favorite time
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  Speaker 1: of week, you download the crazy sheets, you get your
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  Speaker 1: podcast out, you snuggle around the fire, you jump in
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  Speaker 1: your car. I don't give a damn what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about some college football. I'm Mark, I'm
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  Speaker 1: here in the podcasting studio, Scottie. I can tell by
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  Speaker 1: looking at your pretty face that you're at home. Brother.
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  Speaker 2: How the hell are you, man? I'm great excited.
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  Speaker 3: I'm hoping this season is gonna be as good as
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  Speaker 3: my first prediction about a head coach. Because literally, we
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  Speaker 3: record our first podcast of the day and Deshaun Foster
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  Speaker 3: comes out and is a complete and utter disaster at Big.
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  Speaker 2: Ten media days. What in the hell was that about?
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  Speaker 1: I it was startling, It was it was startling at best.
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  Speaker 1: I had had it on on a side TV in
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  Speaker 1: my office, and I had listened to Lincoln Riley talk
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  Speaker 1: about Mike Leach need to be in the hall, a
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  Speaker 1: beat pit a little tweet out about it, and Deshaun
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  Speaker 1: rolls out there. And I love that guy as a player,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean when he played at UCLA. But that
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  Speaker 1: was the most awkward ninety seconds of an interview I've
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  Speaker 1: seen in a long.
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  Speaker 2: Time, no doubt about it. It was crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was just what I didn't understand. Is
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  Speaker 3: I understand being nervous. He looked completely unprepared. But candidly,
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  Speaker 3: it's what I think is going to happen on Saturdays too.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think he's ready for this job.
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  Speaker 3: I understand UCLA got themselves stretched out over their skis.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't get the success of it. Candidly, there doesn't
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  Speaker 3: seem like there's a lot of day to day support
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  Speaker 3: for that program from a fan standpoint. But I just
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  Speaker 3: don't think he's ready for this job. And I think
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  Speaker 3: yesterday was a prime example. You cannot come out to
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  Speaker 3: that environment and be that unprepared. Not with a statement
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  Speaker 3: not I'm just excited to be here doesn't cut it.
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  Speaker 2: You have to do a better job of that.
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  Speaker 3: So again, I hope our predictions throughout the season are
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  Speaker 3: going to be as good as that, because I'm telling
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  Speaker 3: you it's going to be a train wreck, complete and
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  Speaker 3: utter train wreck.
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  Speaker 1: This.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's gonna be Kevin steel a
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  Speaker 3: Baylor bad, but it's going to be bad.
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  Speaker 2: This is going to end poorly because that's a hard
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  Speaker 2: job already.
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  Speaker 3: It's a hard job that nobody cares about anyway, so
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  Speaker 3: you know it is what it is. But boy got
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  Speaker 3: started off right at Big ten Media Days. Have you
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  Speaker 3: been listening to college This is a this is a
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  Speaker 3: great point to college sports radio on XM. They have
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  Speaker 3: been doing something great. And I started to bring this
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  Speaker 3: up yesterday, but they're asking all the coaches a non
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  Speaker 3: football question that they want to ask the next coach
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  Speaker 3: who's coming on, And I want to talk about Sonny
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  Speaker 3: Dyke's first because it was fabulous. He had Brent Brennan
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  Speaker 3: coming on behind him and they had coach together, which
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  Speaker 3: I did not know they knew each other. I think
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  Speaker 3: they were on somebody's staff together, or maybe he was.
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  Speaker 3: I think Dykes actually was on a staff when Brennan
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  Speaker 3: was playing, But anyway, by some reason they knew each
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  Speaker 3: other and they ask him what he wanted to do.
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  Speaker 2: He so, well, I want to know if he's going
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  Speaker 2: to come over to.
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  Speaker 3: The house on Friday night for barbecue and cocktails. And
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  Speaker 3: he was like, I mean, I grew up my whole
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  Speaker 3: life going home. I'd get through playing my high school
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  Speaker 3: games and I'd roll in and there'd be Jackie Sheryl
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  Speaker 3: or Arci Slocomb or Grant Taff for you know, and
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  Speaker 3: he starts.
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  Speaker 2: Naming all this.
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  Speaker 3: Dow used to come to the US to come to
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  Speaker 3: Spike Dykes's house on Friday night before They're going to
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  Speaker 3: play on Saturday, and they'd be drinking whiskey and hanging out.
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  Speaker 3: Best story ever, I think that ought to be required
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  Speaker 3: of coaches the night before games. And we need a
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  Speaker 3: Netflix documentary about it. Can you imagine how awesome that
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  Speaker 3: would be?
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  Speaker 1: It would be good, It would be good. These stories
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  Speaker 1: are true, and the only reason I know this is
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  Speaker 1: my brother in law's dad. It's gonna sound like a
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  Speaker 1: cousin's of a cousin story with Spike Knykes's best friend.
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  Speaker 1: They lived next door to each other until he passed
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  Speaker 1: away in Horseshoe Bay, and I had the privilege to
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  Speaker 1: get to play golf with Spike a cup of times.
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  Speaker 1: And he was the prototypical old school football coach where
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  Speaker 1: he had analogies and color commentary on things and shit
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  Speaker 1: that you had never heard people use to describe things before.
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  Speaker 1: And it was just phenomenal the way he would blow
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  Speaker 1: these out and he would tell these stories about how
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  Speaker 1: when they would come to town to play, the coaches would
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  Speaker 1: typically get together. You know, they were friendly and they
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  Speaker 1: would get together, and he had a few that he
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  Speaker 1: didn't like. But those are absolutely true stories that went
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  Speaker 1: on back in the day of college football in the
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  Speaker 1: eighties and nineties.
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  Speaker 3: And what I love about Dyke's coaching in the Southwest
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  Speaker 3: Conference in the eighties, nothing is cheating like cheating was
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  Speaker 3: going on then back then. I mean you had Jackie,
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  Speaker 3: you had Smu, you had I mean Arkansas's chief, Texas
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  Speaker 3: was cheating. Everybody was just going at it, and they
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  Speaker 3: Eddie's friends.
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  Speaker 2: With all these guys, it was a fabulous lead in.
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  Speaker 3: And I just thought, oh, can you imagine if we
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  Speaker 3: would have had one of those with Nick Saban and
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  Speaker 3: a variety of coaches that it could but less Miles's
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  Speaker 3: who came to mind. Can you imagine the awkwardness of
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  Speaker 3: one of those being taped him him at him, at
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  Speaker 3: him at less Miles's house, having to have a cocktail
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  Speaker 3: with less Less talking about some off the wall stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it would have been pure comedy. I mean
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  Speaker 3: just I just think about some of those conversations and
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  Speaker 3: how much fun they would be to listen to and
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  Speaker 3: what they had to say. You know, oh yeah, of
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  Speaker 3: what of what they had to say? So anyway, great, great,
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  Speaker 3: totally agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: So they were going to talk about the Big Tens, Goutie.
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten's interesting. Uh. The Big Ten to me has
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  Speaker 1: transformed itself into the second biggest conference in the country.
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  Speaker 1: And when I say transformed itself, I'm only going to
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  Speaker 1: step back to COVID because you've got to remember during COVID,
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  Speaker 1: they nearly didn't play football, right. They were literally gonna
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  Speaker 1: throw the tile in and go, we're not doing this
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  Speaker 1: until Sanky and the said we're gonna play football. And
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  Speaker 1: the dipshit that was running the Big Ten at the
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  Speaker 1: time said, I guess I should pay attention since my
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  Speaker 1: kids on the roster at Mississippi State that I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: let him play, but we're not gonna let all our
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  Speaker 1: schools play. So he's gone. Big Ten's got some leadership.
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  Speaker 1: They have married themselves to the SEC. These two are
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  Speaker 1: the conferences that are obviously going to be driving the
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  Speaker 1: train over where college football goes in the next couple
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  Speaker 1: of years. Uh. And this year you've got an interesting mix.
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  Speaker 1: You bring in the four biggest brands from the Pac twelve.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that we're gonna get some Big ten after dark.
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  Speaker 1: I've looked at some schedules, but no times have been
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  Speaker 1: released on these things. And yeah, you bring in USC, UCLA, Washington,
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  Speaker 1: and Oregon into this mix. And not only that, you've
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  Speaker 1: already got you know, Ohio State, Michigan, the defending Natty Champ,
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  Speaker 1: and a Penn State team that is the most irrelevant
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  Speaker 1: nine win team of the last ten years in this conference.
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  Speaker 1: And then you've got a lot of middling teams that
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  Speaker 1: are in there. And so the Big is interesting to me.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's some value in the Big ten. I'm
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  Speaker 1: very intrigued with the travel and how that's gonna work,
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  Speaker 1: because there are some long travel flights. I mean, trying
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  Speaker 1: to get from fucking you know, the West Coast to Piscataway.
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  Speaker 1: That's a long trip, bro. And it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and these are college kids. These aren't pros that are
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  Speaker 1: going out you know, that are programmed into this. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm fascinated to see how the Big ten's gonna work.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mentioned this and we'll talk to about when
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  Speaker 2: we get to them, but there's a key stretch in here.
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  Speaker 2: For the Oregon Ducks.
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  Speaker 3: Who I think, probably on paper and at Dylan Gabriel
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  Speaker 3: State's healthy, maybe the second best team in this league.
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  Speaker 2: And yet they've.
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  Speaker 3: Got a stretch where three out of five weeks they
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  Speaker 3: go East at Purdue, home to Illinois, at Michigan, home
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  Speaker 3: to Maryland, at Wisconsin. So that Wisconsin game could be
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  Speaker 3: a total disaster for those guys.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're talking tired.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna have played Oh heck, what is that eight
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  Speaker 3: weeks in a row leading into that They're gonna be tired.
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  Speaker 3: That's three long trips. You talk about a gambling game, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: I have got a note about November sixteenth in my
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  Speaker 3: calendar for when we start calling games and looking at
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  Speaker 3: lines and really studying those teams. There's no way that's
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  Speaker 3: not going to affect it. Those are some big, big numbers.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll get into one other thing. When we're looking
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  Speaker 3: at the big at the Big ten, the exact opposite
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  Speaker 3: in most cases of what I think the SEC did,
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  Speaker 3: where they really put some tough roads out there for
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  Speaker 3: some marquee teams. You've got some teams that have cupcake schedules,
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  Speaker 3: I mean complete cupcakes. Rutgers, let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about it when.
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  Speaker 2: We get to them.
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  Speaker 3: But holy smokes, did those guys get a gift for
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  Speaker 3: what has got a chance to be a decent team.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, well, I don't want to call off too much,
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  Speaker 3: but excited about the Big Ten. Look, you know, I've
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  Speaker 3: always loved this team. I always felt like this was
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  Speaker 3: the second best league, thought it was the I've always
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  Speaker 3: felt like it was the SEC with just different accents.
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  Speaker 3: I think they play physical football and get after it.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of good teams. You mix up those
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  Speaker 3: teams and these teams into a jar and they're probably
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  Speaker 3: all going to go five and five.
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  Speaker 2: Against each other.
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  Speaker 3: When you take top to bottom, best teams against worst teams,
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  Speaker 3: the conferences are very very equal. I think the Big
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  Speaker 3: Ten adding a couple of the teams they have is
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  Speaker 3: going to help really put some top end teams because
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  Speaker 3: when you mix in Oklahoma and Texas and the SEC,
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  Speaker 3: they would have separated without.
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  Speaker 2: A change from the top end.
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  Speaker 3: But these two leagues are head and shoulders with everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: Although I like.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of what the Big Big Twill's doing too,
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  Speaker 3: So we'll talk about that when we get to them.
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  Speaker 2: So here we go, big ten baby, let's.
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  Speaker 1: Get it rolling. We'll do it just like we did
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  Speaker 1: the SEC. We'll start an autabetical order. We may not
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  Speaker 1: hit every team if you want to bag on a
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  Speaker 1: have a good time, hopefully, pass on some knowledge and
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  Speaker 1: get you ready for some college football. First team's got it,
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  Speaker 1: The Illinois Fighting a LIONI. Bert Bilima enters season four
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  Speaker 1: for the ILLIONI coming in this season. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he has performed as well as he has
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  Speaker 1: other than that first season. Last year, this team was
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  Speaker 1: five and seven. They bring back Luke Atwater, the Atwiler,
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  Speaker 1: the old old Miss transfer quarterback that's back in here.
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  Speaker 1: They bring back most of the offensive line. But when
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  Speaker 1: I look at this squad and I look at their schedule,
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  Speaker 1: I see another losing season for the Aliana this year. Defensively,
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  Speaker 1: I think they're really gonna have some struggles. But their
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  Speaker 1: schedule doesn't set up great. I mean, they've got Kansas
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  Speaker 1: is in there. Kansas is gonna be good, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that's a tough one. At Nebraska, which I think
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  Speaker 1: is improved at Penn State produce a dumpster fire. Then
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  Speaker 1: they've got Michigan Oregon, and so I look at this
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  Speaker 1: team as if this team can get to six and six,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a great achievement. I'm shading to the
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  Speaker 1: under at the five and a half win mark. Vegas
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  Speaker 1: has this team slotted at what we got here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Vegas has got it at five and a half. Is
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  Speaker 1: the number over is juice to even if you're going under,
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  Speaker 1: it's minus one thirty and that's about where I've got
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  Speaker 1: this team rated. I don't see any value in trying
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  Speaker 1: to make a play on the total on this one
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  Speaker 1: because that five to six win mark is right there.
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  Speaker 1: In those games that they're they're gonna be, they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be favored in six games and so past that, I
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  Speaker 1: just but I think they could get road graded in
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  Speaker 1: quite quite a few of these.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know that they're gonna win a road game,
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  Speaker 3: because I do think Nebraska's got a chance to be better.
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  Speaker 3: I do think that program's on the right track. Their
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  Speaker 3: best chance at a road game to me is to end
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  Speaker 3: the year. Because I'm a fan of what Ruggers has
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  Speaker 3: got going. I think they're They're back in a bowl
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  Speaker 3: game this year. I think they think their schedule is favorable,
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  Speaker 3: So I'm not I'm not a fan of this from
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  Speaker 3: a from a schedule standpoint, and I do think the
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  Speaker 3: team is just going to be mad.
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  Speaker 2: Altemeyer's got to do it better. He's got to play better.
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  Speaker 2: It needs to stay healthy as well. Uh. He was
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  Speaker 2: banged up a good bit, so needs to stay healthy.
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you that the the aligna I got
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  Speaker 3: to steal in a quarterback a kick named Petty Uh
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  Speaker 3: Kip from my hometown in Mississippi, tremendous athlete, fast as
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  Speaker 3: absolute lightning, had a knee injury. Uh is the reason
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  Speaker 3: he was not a bigger recruit. The kid can run
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  Speaker 3: like the wind when he's healthy, and they he played
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  Speaker 3: in a in a spread where all he did was
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  Speaker 3: fling it, so he didn't run as much as he's capable.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Burt hangs on long enough, he may have a quarterback
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  Speaker 3: who can make something happen.
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  Speaker 1: So that, yeah, I think if Bert gets to a bowl,
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  Speaker 1: they keep him. I don't know what the incentive is
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  Speaker 1: is to pull the you know, pull it out from
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  Speaker 1: under him there. I mean, Illinois has been fairly irrelevant.
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  Speaker 1: He's got some excitement around him. So if he gets
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  Speaker 1: them to six wins, I think Burt comes back another
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  Speaker 1: year having the big Orange on the sideline Indiana. Moving
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  Speaker 1: on last year, this team went three and nine, one
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  Speaker 1: in eight in the Big Ten. Vegas has currently got
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  Speaker 1: them at the exact same number that they have Illinois
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  Speaker 1: five and a half, juiced a little bit to the over,
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  Speaker 1: but pretty even odds in there. This game is interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Kurt Signetti comes over here from James Madison, moving up
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  Speaker 1: from the Sunbelt. Signetti's never had a losing record in
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  Speaker 1: his thirteen years of coaching, and he takes over in
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  Speaker 1: Indiana program that has had some success, but after Kaitlyn
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  Speaker 1: Deboorn and Michael Pennix left, they really fell off. After
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  Speaker 1: that COVID year, Curtis Rourke transfers in. He did some
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  Speaker 1: great work at Ohio. This is a big jump jumping
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  Speaker 1: from the MAC, which is not a great you know,
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  Speaker 1: the MAC is not a great Group of five conference
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  Speaker 1: like it used to be. But he was the offensive
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  Speaker 1: player of the Year last year moves over into this
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten. This is a big opportunity for him.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big opportunity Signetti. Signetti's got a very unique offense.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be able to put some points
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  Speaker 1: up and hang around in some games. But where this
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  Speaker 1: team is really has gonna have to stay healthy. If
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna try to get to six wins and make
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  Speaker 1: a Bowl and keep that thirteen year streak is they've
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  Speaker 1: got to stay healthy in the trench. They are really
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  Speaker 1: thin in the O line of the D line, and
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  Speaker 1: they cannot afford to get banged up with injuries in there,
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  Speaker 1: because if they do, it's gonna get wonky really really quick.
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  Speaker 1: Their schedules manageable FIU Western, Illinois, Ucla, and Charlotte to
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  Speaker 1: open the season, and then they get Maryland and at Northwestern. Realistically,
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  Speaker 1: if this team's got some cajones, they could be five
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  Speaker 1: and one, four and two, you know, coming through this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think at UCLA Indiana, you're gonna laugh.
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  Speaker 1: If Indiana is getting six and a half seven, we
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  Speaker 1: may be riding with the Hoosiers in that one. We'll
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  Speaker 1: just have to see where it's gonna go. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna fade away from this team right now,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm interested to see what Signetti and these guys
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  Speaker 1: are gonna do. I think they're gonna get some numbers
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  Speaker 1: and may get some great backdoor covers. I just don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you're gonna be a pull out six or
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  Speaker 1: seven wins.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I want to tell you something, h I'm fascinated
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  Speaker 3: to see mcal kamara how he does in the big
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  Speaker 3: against taking the upgrade in steps.
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  Speaker 2: That guy made a lot of plays.
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  Speaker 3: He had two starts and twenty six and a half.
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  Speaker 2: Tackles for a loss in his career at JMU.
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  Speaker 3: I'm fascinated to see how that guy turns around and
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  Speaker 3: comes out that's big time. So I just I want
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  Speaker 3: to see if he is that player. And I've been
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  Speaker 3: You talk about a guy who can make some things happen.
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  Speaker 2: I think it says a lot about Signetti.
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  Speaker 3: How many guys he's brought over from JMU, lot of transfers.
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  Speaker 3: They got guys coming from all over Texas, A and
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  Speaker 3: M was Virginia, Stanford. I mean, you start Notre Dame,
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  Speaker 3: Texas Tech, Wait, Forest, They got guys coming in from everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm interested like you to see what Signetti does.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that he can avoid the non winning season.
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  Speaker 2: But when I.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: Tell you this was the best hire of the off
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: season for this program, it's hard for me to really
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: communicate how much I like to hire. Signetti was as
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: good as they could hope. I mean, it was absolutely
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: a best case scenario for them and a worst case
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: scenario for JMU with a guy who's in his sixties,
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: which is the only reason Signetti was not on everybody's radar.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: But the bottom line, the guy can coach football.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you. Like I said, I plan
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: on watching this team really closely and seeing if there's
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: some opportunities there. But it's I like everything about it.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: I just hope it can produce. But there's a lot
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: of moving parts that they're gonna have to get right.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Stand in the eyes, bro. Let's go to the offensive powerhouse,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: the Iowa Hawk guys, who will be bringing in Tim Lester,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: a new offensive coordinator this year, hoping to spice things
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: up a little bit. They've also got transferred quarterback in
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Cad Magnamara. He'll be starting this year. He was on
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: the roster last year. I watched some cutups of the
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: spring game. He looked better than I anticipated. Lester runs
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of eleven formation, So I'll be fascinated to
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: see if a team that has been running the ball
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage and has been tight in
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: you for the last fifteen years is going to come
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: out in some three wide splits with a one back.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure from that standpoint. Offensive line, They've got
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: a shit ton of snaps that are coming back on
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: the squad now. This offensive line, though, I don't know
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: that it's as good as it's been in the past,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: because they've turned out some massive offensive line NFL prospects players,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: so on and so forth, and so they've got a
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: ton of returners. I just wonder about the physicality that
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: they've got from this standpoint. Defensively, Phil Parker, in my opinion,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: is the most underrated defensive coordinator in the country. The
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: guy does more with bless and he just develops talent.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: And you know, they lost I think they lost their
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: strength and conditioning coach. Didn't he get wrapped up in
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: that whole mess of urban myri Yeah, I thought so,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Phil Proctor, I think so it was, And I think
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: you've seen a little bit of a downgrade of the
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: defense from that standpoint, but from the trench, this team's
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: always good. Last year they started up a little bit
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: slow defensively and from penetrations and sacks, but you know
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: you're always going to get an effort from this team.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: This to me is like the most buttoned up program
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: over the last ten years that just kind of gets overlooked.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: It's literally a flyover state and program. But I like
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: what they're doing here. They lose their two best players,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: they lose their punter last year hit If you didn't
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: watch you, I can't remember the kid's name. He pinned
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: those team teams so deep, just crazy, every single every
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: time he got out there. And then they lost Cooper Dezine,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: who was drafted in the first round cornerback, but they've
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: replaced him. Secondary wise, they look good. I took a flyer,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I've got a unit that I split on Iowa to
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: win the Big Ten, and I took Iowa to win
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: the National Championship with hoping that I could build a
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: hedge portfolio out of this. Because Iowa schedule it sets
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: up as friendly as could be for this team. What
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: are your thoughts?
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love this. I love this schedule.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: I mean they get Iowa stayed at home, which is early.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Road games are certainly manageable at Michigan State, at UCLA,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: at Maryland, at Minnesota, and then they're also at Ohio State.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: But other than that, man, you're talking a manageable schedule.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Home games in the league or Washington, Northwestern, Wisconsin, and Nebraska.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: I think this team's got a chance to win ten
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: or eleven games. I think they are legitimately a playoff contender, and.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I don't think most people.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Most people are looking at I would thinking that this
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: is a well run program. They know how to compete.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: When teams come in here, they're gonna they're gonna get
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: hit in the mouth, and that is that's not gonna change.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: I've watched this team go into bowl games, compete against
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: some of the best teams and most talented teams from
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: the Southeastern Conference. I don't want to hear that these
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: guys can't play and can't make it and can't get
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: it done.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: They can. I think, Look, I think they did.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: A nice job on the higher at offense coordinator, but
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: I think it's dumbass. Youre wanting to make changes just
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: win baby. Just when the Ale Davis philosophy, just when
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: you're winning ten games, just keep riding it. I mean,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: that's the bottom line is take COVID year out of it.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: The last four years they've won ten games three times. Yeah,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: I mean they were six and two and twenty when
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: they played in all Big Ten schedule. I mean it
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: is this is a really, really well done program. I
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: think they are playing as high of a level as
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: I has ever played. And that is not a shot
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: at Hayden Fry that team. These teams are really really
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: good and when you compare it to the talent in state,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: for the production that they're getting, it's incredible.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree in my thought on taking them.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Just so people are like scratching their head on win
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the Big Ten. There's no divisions anymore. And so when
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: you look at their schedule how it sets up against
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: some of these other schools. Let's say they lose at
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Ohio State and maybe I don't know, I don't know
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: where the other game they drop on here is.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: I think their next most likely game to lose is
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Iowa stayed at home.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: It could be, and that's not going to hurt them
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: in the Big Ten. I mean in the Nebraska game.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: In the years the next most likely, that's exactly right.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: And so you look at this team and how it
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: sets up, and all they've got to negotiate themselves around
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: is Oregon and Ohio State, and those two teams play
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: each other, and Oregon's got some tougher games on their
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: schedule than what Iowa has. So my thought is, if
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: you can get them into the dance bro, you can
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: bet the other side and take a profit out of
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: this thing, because you're getting some pretty long odds on
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: them to win the conference and even win the Natty.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: And that standpoint so well, and not to overdo the schedules,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: but Iowa gets an off.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Week before Ohios, before Ohio State.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Ohio State's got road games sandwiched around Iowa at Michigan
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: State and at Orgon.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: So again, I just like how the schedule sets up,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: and when you're looking preseason that teams that have got
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: a chance to do things, then I think that's big time.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Maryland Terrapins eight and five last season. I've got this
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: team slotted to finish in the bottom third of the
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Big Ten and have land up. Mike Laxley's in there,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: you got Josh Gattis and Kevin Sumlin are are the
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: offensive coordinators, and Brian Williams defensive coordinator. This team loses
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: some they've got. They bring back their wide receiver room,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: which I think is they got some frisbee catching dogs
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: as talented, but little Tua is gone. They also send
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: some offensive linemen to the league, and so they lose
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: a big chunk of what they've got there from a
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: quarterback since point, I think that's MJ. Norris is gonna
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: get the start from everything I've been reading through the
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: notes and who he's gonna come in and play in
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: this position here. Defensively, they return most of their front seven.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: They're thin in the back, but they're athletic. I don't
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: really have a read on Maryland. I just know this Connecticut,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: that game they open up the season with is already
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: taking money. The Connecticut lines moved several points since it
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: opened up at circa early in the summer, and so
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I got no idea what you're gonna get from the Terps.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: But I can tell you this much. They could easily
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: make it all the way to Northwestern and be undefeated.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: They got to go down to Virginia should be a
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: game that they should win, but they get to the
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: back end of that schedule USC, Minnesota, Oregon, Rutgers, Island,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Penn State. They could ease dropped four or five of
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: those games and fade off into oblivion. So that's all
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: my only read on Maryland. I don't have a deep
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: dive on this one too hard.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't have a deep dive, but not. I mean, look,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: we don't have to lament that.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: I have not had a that had a high impression
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: of Locksley, but he has significantly outperformed what I thought
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: he was going to do up here. But I think
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: his pipeline of guys that get run off from Georgia
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: and Alabama is kind of starting to shut down a
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: little bit, as those kids don't have contact with him
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: and things like that.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: So I think now it's more of a of a
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: of a dive.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: I think Virginia they probably lose, and I agree with you.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: I think it's very likely they really struggle down the stretch,
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: so I expect them to come out fast. But I
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: think this team is a bold team at best.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: I think I think.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: They need to be hoping for six wins and Vegas
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: really doesn't really disagree with me very much.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: They're saying the over under is six.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: So and if you'll go over six and a half,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: which is they're giving you a plus one sixteen.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: So they don't they think this.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Team's a six win football team just like I do.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: I think this is a five or six win football team.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Returning National champions Michigan Wolverines. This is gonna be a
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: completely different team than what you saw last year. New
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: coaching Ron Moore. We've talked about this a couple of times.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: You've almost got a completely new roster. They lost a
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: ton of players to the NFL draft, people graduating very
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: thin on the offense. Defensively, they bring back a couple
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: of key starters. But what's your read on what we're
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: gonna get out of Michigan and Sharon Moore's first season?
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this defense is gonna be nasty.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think they've got a bunch of guys
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: who are going to go in the NFL Draft. And
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: everybody saw how many guys they got drafted last year.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: The differences. They had a lot of offensive guys getting
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: drafted last year.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: This year, it's gonna be a ton of defensive guys,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: I think this defense is nasty. I think they're gonna
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: be in a lot of close games. I think that
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: is one reason. More is trying to do ground and
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: pound to try to keep ball games close. Let's not
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: let don't have a ton of experience, make a bunch
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: of mistakes and take us out of a football game
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: because our defense can keep us in. It kind of
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: sounds like Iowa, who's won a lot of.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Them football games over the years.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: So now I think the schedule is tough, and I
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: think that, but it's manageable as well. I mean, they're
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: really you look at this, They're going to have to
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: wet the bed to not win nine games, and they're over.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: A total has dropped to eight and a half. And
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: so when it was at nine to nine and a half,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: I was an under.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Now I'm an.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Over really handalyzing these teams and starting to get into it.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: They get USC at home, now that's in September, unfortunate
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: for them. November they get Oregon at home, but they
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: could easily lose both of those ball games. They're at Washington,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: at Illinois, at Indiana.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Those are manageable.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: At Ohio State obviously is probably a loss, but I
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: mean they're going to have to lose to Northwestern, Michigan State, Minnesota,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Arkansas State, Presno State at home. I also think they
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: lose to Texas. So the bottom line is they've only
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: got three or four. They got four games. I think
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: they can lose on this schedule, or or at least
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: very close where what I'm calling toss up games, or
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: they're underdogs. They're not going to lose all four of them.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: So I'll take nine and go over the under over
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: under win total here. Even though I think Sean Moore
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: has got the learning curve, as I discussed on a
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: previous podcast, so I think there's I think they will
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: lose a game or two just simply because he's gonna
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: have some learning curve. But I think this team is
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: still super talented in this defense, gonna be really good.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Michigan State bringing in a new coach, Jonathan Smith's coming
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: over from Oregon State. I really really like this higher.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I like everything about Jonathan Smith, from watching him play
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to how he coached Oregon State built that team up.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: The identity that he gave that team I thought was great.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I anticipate that's going to transfer well to Michigan State
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: with the type of players that you can recruit in there.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: This team brings in twenty fourteen players off the portal,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: which is not abnormal when you bring in a new coach.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: He brings Aiden Childs in, who was the backup quarterback
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: but did get some stats last year playing for Oregon State.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: When dj Ungleile was hurt, they played in there, so
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: he brought him over. They brought in a couple of
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: different key position players that I think could help this
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: team spring out to it over under win total. I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: think on this team's four and a half, which I
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: think is about right from looking at this this team
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: is it's four and a half, four and a half,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: juice heavy to the over at one fifty five and
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: some books that you've got there. Defensively, this team should
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: be okay. But their schedule I think is actually pretty manageable.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: But they get a lot of the old guard of
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the Big Ten and it's gonna be a lot of
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: slog fest in there. But I could see this team
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: going over four and a half wins if Aiden Childs
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: is able to play.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I couldn't agree more. I love Jonathan Smith. I
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: think he's a good I think he's a good coach.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: He took over what was as a program in shambles
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: at Oregon State, had kind of been through some coaching turnover,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: comes over, does a great job. Everybody knows what he's
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: done the last couple of years. If you leave your
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: alma mater, you've got to feel good about the opportunity
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: you're getting. So obviously he's excited about this opportunity. Love
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: the defense coordinator higher here, Joe Rossi comes over from Minnesota.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: He's put up some really, really good defenses. He was
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: also Rutgers, I think it was Rutgers before that, really
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: good defensive coordinator. Again, we talked about it. They got
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: a lot of people that's played a lot of snaps
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: over there on that side of the defense. So I
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: think they're going to be good on defense, and I
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: think Smith has got a chance to get them Bowl eligible.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Based on this.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Based on this schedule, again, they're playing a lot of
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: teams near them in the league, The Rutgers, the Purdue, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Those are the schools on the schedule. Look, they do.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Play at Michigan, Iowa, at Oregon Ohio State, so no
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: favors there. The real difficulty and why I think this
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: over under is so low as they play at Boston
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: College and at Maryland two of the first four weeks
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: of the season. So when a team that's learning and
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: getting its feet under is.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Going to get put in a couple of difficult.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Environments early because Boston College obviously going to be fired up.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: They got a fresh start with Bill O'Brien as well.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: So moving on, Oh, Scott, they have two players you
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: might want to jot in for your all name team.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Quinarius No, we make sure you get this right, Quinn
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Darius Dunnaghan. He's obviously Irish Catholic. And then yeah, they
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: have k Ron Lynch Adams. That's kay comment to the
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: top capital Ron Lynch Adams. So make sure you know
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: both of those guys because they may be honorable mentions
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: on your roster.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: That that absolutely is the case. I have filing that.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: That is my work.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Travel nightly, just peruse the rosters and come up with
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: a all named team. And yes, we are not going
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: to pay attention to position. I may do it by
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: position as well. We're just giving we're gonna give you
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: the twenty two best names and football. We may go
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: twenty four, because now we got some of these rugby
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: kickers and stuff like that, and we may get some
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: great names there too.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Minnesota the Golden Gophers. PJ. Fleck Row the boat baby.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I think this is season number eight for him. Team
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: went six and seven last year, three and six in
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the Big Ten. This team really struggled last year to
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: find an identity at think caliac Manus, the quarterback is
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: transferred in conference. He's over at Rutgers now if you're
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: looking for him, because it's a fun name to say.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: But this team last year, they can't figure out if
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: they want to be a ground and pound type team,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: if they want to try to throw it downfield. They've
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: lost a lot of their key position players and that standpoint,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: they bring back most of the old line of defensive line.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: I think if this team has a chance to get
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: back to a bowl and be relevant in the Big Ten,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: it's gonna have to be a defensive front that they've got.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Their schedule is extremely manageable in my opinion, but it's
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: gonna have to be a physical control the game from
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: a defensive front. I hate to say this as a comparison,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: but in Iowa game plan, I don't know what we're
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: gonna get offensively from this thing. I've read through notes.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I can't get a read one way or the other,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: and so I'm in a hard pass on anything Minnesota.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Max Brox Brosmer coming over from New Hampshire at quarterback
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: year six. Baby, you got to always love a year
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: six guy making it making making the transfer over. So look,
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: I think Minnesota is going to struggle there pretty much
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: everything we've all seen.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: They're picked near the bottom of the league.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: I like Fleck and these lines are always really really good.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: They got a lot a lot of people that have
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: played a lot of snaps back on defense.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: But I just think this team is going to struggle.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Justin Whaley is a really really.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Good player for them on the on the back end
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: at cornerback. Uh, he's a guy that's played a little
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: bit of offense for him as well. Kids a really
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: really talented player.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got no read on this team. Bringing a
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: quarterback over in his sixth year from New Hampshire to
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: playing a power five power forward does not sound great
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: to me. Uh, Nebraska, man, would I be excited to
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: see Nebraska come back? Matt Ruhle coming in his second
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: season here looking forward to as he was gonna do.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I was in Omaha for the College World Series, spent
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: some quality time with some Nebraska fans. They're excited about
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: this team. It's gonna be interesting to see what they're
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: gonna do. Offensively. They brought in that highly tithed recruited freshman, uh,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Dylan Rayola, whose uncle had a comp uh I think
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: played at Nebraska. Made me on the coaching staff there.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Brought him in from Arizona. They're counting on this kid
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: to start as a true freshman. Hendrick Harberg. He's gonna
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: be back this year just in case this doesn't work out.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I think they could have some growing pains. I am
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: fascinated by this game too. When they play Colorado has
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: to come up there and play them. But everything you
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: see defensively looks like it's gonna be strong, and Matt
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Rule loves a good, strong defensive front. I watched him
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: do it at Baylor. He rebuilt that and offensively this year,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: their mixed in some new things and they look like
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: they're gonna go go. Uh, they're gonna run it. I
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: think they're gonna run a three four two or they're
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: gonna go to a three five on the defense from
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: what I've been reading. So I'm interested to see how
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: this team's gonna play.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: You're interested in week two, I'm interested in week in
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: week one. I just want to see them get a
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: win against a you know, against the team they're just
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: significantly better than, and how they handle it. I think, Nobra,
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna believe Nebraska is on its way back when
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: I start seeing them drill the average teams on their schedule.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: When I when I see a thirty eight seven.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Or a thirty eight to three or whatever on that schedule,
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: I agree with you. Colorado is fascinating. Northern Iowa not
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: a game they need to look past. Uh that this
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: team is someone that I don't think can still take
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: anyone lightly.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: That team has surprised Iowa.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: State, so I mean, if they could beat them, they're
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: certainly capable of beating this Nebraska team.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Uh So they need to be aware of that as well.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: I like, again, the schedule here they did them did
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: them some favors, although they got a tough little sled
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: in there. They do get an off week in the
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: middle of it, but they are they have off week
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: October twelfth. They're at Indiana, at Ohio State home to UCLA,
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: off week at USC home to Wisconsin, at Iowa.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: There's their stretch.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, what's this football team going to do where?
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: What do they do on those four road games? What
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: do they do with those couple of home games sandwiched
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: in those four road games. That's a tough stretch and
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: really puts them in what I think is a difficult
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: spot at Iowa late in the season, especially if they
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: lose those two previous games, which are certainly capable of doing.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: I just want to say, I don't think Wisconsin's going
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: to this year.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I know we're going to get to them in a.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Little bit, but I don't think they're gonna be very good.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: So I also don't want to overplay that game in
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: this stretch. I think that's the game they're the most
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: likely to win, honestly, and Ucla, obviously, I don't think
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be very good.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: So Northwestern David Brown got the coaching job after stepping
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: in as the interim last year when we lost coach
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Pat Damn. I still can't believe he's gone. This team
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: won eight games last year and you look at their
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: schedule this year, and you can't find eight wins that
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: they've got, but they overperformed last year. Over under win
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: total in Vegas is four and a half. On this team,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: they don't have a field. Have you seen their field?
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I've been there, I stood on it. It's literally you
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: could throw a rock from the sideline into Lake Michigan.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: They are gonna be right on the water. I think
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: that if you're looking at this team, I don't have
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: a handle on where they're gonna go, but looking at
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: weather in Chicago and wins is gonna be interesting from
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: a over under total betting perspective because they are literally
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: playing on a practice field next to Lake Michigan, and
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the win is gonna be whipping its ass off and
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be cold over there. That's all I got
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: on Fourthwestern at this point.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's gonna be. Uh this last year significant.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: I thought they would be a complete other mess. I mean,
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: remember Brian was coming in and was just on the staff.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: It's not like they had even hired me. They promoted
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: a dude who was brand new to the staff.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Which last year and.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: Did a tremendous job. Candidly, it's a and and they
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: had such a train wreck. It reminds me a lot
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: of what's going on at Utah State right now. Candidly
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: what they did, but they overperformed. It's like that team rallied.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: I never expected that team. I thought that team was
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: gonna win three games, and I talked about it in
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: our big and preview and I couldn't.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Have been more wrong.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Although again, you just look at this roster and it
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: just simply does not pack up.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: You got Mike Wright taking over at quarterback.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: He is a one dimensional guy, can't throw the football
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: very well. Was at Mississippi State, was at Vanderbilt. I
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: don't they still have Helenski, but I'm assuming Right's gonna win.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: This job just because of how athletic he is.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: But if they're not gonna put him out and try
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: to run and do some spread and read options, Wright's
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: just no help to them at all. So may see
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Helenski back there at quarterback for them. So anyway, I
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: don't think this team's gonna be I don't think this
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: team's gonna be very good. I think they're gonna be
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: one of the They're significantly in the bottom half of
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: this league, but I think they're in the bottom four or.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Five Ohio State two teams start with an er and
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: the big ten I think are all in or bust
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: to try to win the Natty this year. Uh they
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: bring in Will Howard quarterback from Kansas State, which is
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: interesting to me because I'm not sure he was gonna
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: start there. They ran off Kyle McCord, who's now the
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: starting quarterback at Syracuse. They've got Devin Brown, who's got
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: some snaps under his belt. And then they actually got
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the number one quarterback in the country at a high
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: school from Carlsbad, California. Julians said, is coming in kid
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: that originally went to Alabama, but when Dubor came in,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: he transfer immediately to Ohio State. They also bring in
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Qishawn Judkins, so they've easily got the two top running
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: backs in the country, two of the top ten running
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: backs in the country, probably the best running back tandem
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: we've seen since Lindell White and Reggie Bush at USC
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: back in their National championship runs. That they bring there.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Wide receiver room still looks great, Jeremiah Smith. If you
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: have this guy is gonna be a freak. And he
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: is gonna be a freak. I know most of y'all
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: haven't seen this kid play yet, but trust me, he
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: does things different when he gets the ball. Ecuba's back,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Carnal tates so offensively, I think this team's gonna go.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: I'm also Chip Kelly left the head coaching job at
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: UCLA to become the offensive coordinator there. Now, it's never
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: been a hidden secret that Chip Kelly does not like recruiting,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure he took this job with the stipulation
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: that he's getting paid a million plus and he doesn't
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: have to recruit anything. He just gets to diagram and
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: call plays. That being said, I kind of wonder if
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: the game's passed by a little bit because if you
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: remember when he was at Oregon, you had never seen
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: offense like that these guys. I mean, it was like
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: a video game and you were playing like pee wee
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: football teams and they had speed coming out their ears.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: But he's never been able to replicate that even, you know, never,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's because he hadn't had
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: the talent that he had at Oregon at the time
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: or what it can be. But anyway, they bring him in. Defensively,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: they've got Jim Knowles still calling this. They've got two
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: defensive tackles two deep on their FOURD that are both
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: gonna end up in the NFL. But there were five
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: star recruits coming in. Not sure why they're still there
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: as seniors. I mean, they're entire defensive line as seniors,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: which is crazy because they're probably all going to end
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: up in the league. This team, to me is win
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: or bust. They're over win totals at ten and a
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: half shaded to the over at minus one fifty five.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: They're plus one thirty five to win the conference. Ryan
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: days fifty six and eight, but interestingly enough, against top
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: five teams, he's two and six and it hit. They
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: don't beat Michigan this year, there's no way he's coaching
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: there next year.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, which is absolutely insane.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: I think there's I have several.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: Points about the Ryan Day firing and this coaching staff
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: in general. First I'm interested to see is the Kelly
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Hi are gonna be like the Jimbo Fisher. Oh, I'm
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: hiring an offensive coordinator deal. Oh, we're gonna run my
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: offense and win the games on the line. I'm gonna
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: be calling plays. Very fascinated to see how that goes
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: that they're considering firing a guy who's lost eight games
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: in six years is wild to me. I mean, it's
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: still really hard to win a national title and and
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: everything's got to go right.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: You got to have some breaks. They have had not breaks.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, look, if Marvin Harrison doesn't get hurt against
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: Georgia two years ago, he's won his knack because they
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: win that football game. If he doesn't get hurt, I'm
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: convinced of that, and then go crush TCU. So I
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: just don't they're not that far off. Fired a guy
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: with eight losses to me is nuts. But I agree
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: with you one hundred percent. This dude doesn't win a Natty,
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: especially with a playoff.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: I think he's gone.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: And I think the playoff's gonna make it even harder
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: to win a Natty because you got to replicate against
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: good teams. You talked about, You talked about his record
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: versus top five teams. Now he's going to be two
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: or three to win a Natty, and so I think
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be tough. But he's also still really young,
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: and young coaches have learning curves. That's exactly what I'm
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: talking about. Resawan Moore it's got six years into his career,
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: go lass Nick Saban. If it's six years a head coach,
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: he was who he is when he was winning national titles.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Because the dude that was coaching Michigan State is not
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: the same guy who was Alabama from nine on. He
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: wasn't And I just think let's not let's just bad
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: the breaks here. I do want to point out one
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: thing you talked about. All these guys are coming back.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: I tell you why they're coming back because they spent
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: twenty million in nil last year via their athletic director.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: I was gonna talk two hundred and thirty five thousand
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: dollars a kid. You know, everybody ain't getting to thirty five.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: They've got dues making four and five million dollars. You're
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: not a first round or you're taking a pay cut,
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: why wouldn't you come back? I mean that if I'm
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: making three or four million dollars to go have a
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: chance to win a Natty, to play. It's why Morvan
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: Harrison I honestly, until they knew he was going to
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: be and I think.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: It was always the case.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: The top five pick, there were people that are like,
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: why when you come back, got to remember, it's a
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: rookie salary cap in the NFL, and some of these
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: guys can make what they're making in the NFL. You're
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: playing a position where you may not get hurt. Why
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: wouldn't you come back? I think this is going to
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: be an interesting football team. I think they do have
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: a lot of pressure on them. How does that affect
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: day is the fascinating part of their playoff team. I
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: don't think there's any way they can't get in the playoffs.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: I think you have to take them to win over
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: ten and a half games where the schedules at at
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: Oregon at Penn State are really the only games that
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: They can lose.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: The rest of everybody else is at home, and I
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: don't think they're going to lose to them.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: I don't think they lose to Michigan at home this year.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: Although they've done it, but Jim Harball is not on
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: the sideline now, and Harball is still a really, really
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: good football game.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: I would I like Ohio State here. I would tell you,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: if you can find a yes to make the playoffs
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: at hething minus, I'd probably say three point fifty. I
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: would probably lay it. I think this team's got a
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: great shot to go undefeated when and when they match up,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: they the best team on their schedule. I think they're
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: gonna play is Oregon, and that's an interesting game too,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: because if you look at Oregon's recruiting, Damn Dan Lanning
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: has done one hell of a job taking over this
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: thing for Mario Cristobal. He comes in here up. This
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: will be his third season. He's twenty two to five,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: comes in here, He's got this thing on the rails.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. They bring in Dylan Gabriel from Oklahoma.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: I feel like Dylan Gabriel has been playing football forever.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: That's because he has.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Is he as old as I am, I mean, the
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: only but uh, they bring in Dylan Gabriel. Then you've
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: got Dante Moore who transferred in from UCLA to be
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: the backup quarterback. This UCLA team is gonna be explosive.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: They got one of the best white two wide receivers
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: in the country in Tess Johnson and Evan Stewart who
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: transferred from Texas A and M. I think this team
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: is going to score in bunches, and I think where
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: this team is gonna struggle and they're gonna have to
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: prove it to me, and they've never done it. Not
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: one time. It proved to me that you can win
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: a physical game. I mean, look at them last year
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: against the University of Washington, Joe Moore Award winning offensive
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: line and Oregon, to me, on paper, was a better team,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: and they got fucking dominated both times that they played
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: this team. And if you're gonna move into the Big
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Ten and play you're gonna have to play physical in
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: the trench. I know Lanning knows that this team's gonna
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: have to prove it to me that they can get
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: it done, because on paper, this team has got a
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: shot to win the national Championship.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: No doubt about it. I couldn't agree more.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: I think this is this is a team again in
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: their playoff found I don't think there's any way either
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: one of these teams, doesn't you know? The thing is
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: mark on the on the physical game other than Ohio State,
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: who is that?
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: Though their schedule, their schedule this year sets up so good.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: They get Ohio State at home in mid October, Man,
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: that could be fabulous. I mean, they're they're at Michigan
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: and that obviously is their toughest game. Cannot imagine seem
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: to be any less than ten and two. Uh, they
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: have failed if they If they go less than ten
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: and two, they get Washington at home again, They're at Wisconsin,
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: to get Maryland at home, Illinois at home, they're at Purdue,
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: They're at UCLA's. That sets up pretty good. They do
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: play Oregon State at Oregon State, but I just don't
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: think that's going to be the same team, uh that
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: it has been.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: But they have lost.
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: I think it's three of the last four in Corvallis,
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: so uh, they got to go up there and got
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: to win that ball game.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: But I think this Oregon DUC team is really good.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Phil Knight's eighty six years old this year, and I
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: think he is all in on trying to win the
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: national championship. And that's why they have given this team
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: everything they need. I think Lanning's done a good job.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: I'll give you an interesting play. I think taking Oregon
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: to win the Big Ten, it's somewhere between plus one
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: ninety and plus two to ten or some of the
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: numbers I'm seeing, is not a bad bet. Here's why
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: they're gonna end up most likely playing for the Big
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Ten championship, I think, and if they don't, obviously you're
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: gonna lose the bet. But you're not gonna get a
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: two to one bet if they're the dog coming in
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: here to play Ohio State. Let's say they lose to
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Ohio State and they have to rematch and play them again.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: There's no way you're gonna get two to one on
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: that team again in that game. So that's basically you're
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: buying that ticket to hold it to hope that they
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: make the Big Ten, and you're gonna get a two
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: to one ticket, which you're not gonna get that money line,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: and you could hedge out the other way if you
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: want a two from an Ohio State perspective. But I'm
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: just putting that out there because these two teams are
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: far and above the best two teams in.
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: The conference, no doubt about it, no doubt, there's no
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: doubt about it. Although I will tell you I really
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: like that Penn State schedule so well, I don't know that.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: They're not going to be right behind you.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Penn State's interesting to me. This team's ten and three
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: last year. James Franklin will be starting year number eleven
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: he's eighty eight and thirty nine over his tenure there.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: He brings back his quarterback and Drew Bayler. I thought,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: I thought he underperformed last season. I was really expecting
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: this team to make an offensive jump. It didn't, I got.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, when you look at their schedule at West
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: Virginia is interesting to me because West Virginia was so
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: disrespected last year that I think this team's gonna have
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: a big ass chip on its shoulder when they get
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: ready to play. But then past that, I mean, other
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: than the fact at USC at Whiskey, Ohio State. You know,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, they've got three or four games in there,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: but I don't think they you know, I think USC
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: in Ohio State are probably the only two games on
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: their schedule they could lose.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I am, I completely agree with this. I man,
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: this schedule sets up so good for them. Nine and
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: three gets them in the playoff.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: And and I think I don't see how they're worse
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: than nine and three. And I do like the defense
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: coordinator higher. I think Tom Allen, while not didn't do
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: a tremendous job at the end, because he did overall,
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: I would say he did a pretty darn good job
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: at Indiana as a whole, because Indiana is a tough job.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: But he is a good defense coordinator, and I think
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: that is going to I think that's gonna be at
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: at at worst and even switch with them losing Manny Dias,
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: but I think that may even be a slight upgrade.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: So I like Penn State. Again, I think these are
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: three teams that are that are playoff bound. James Franklin
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: this is the playoff and I think he's fired. And
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: but again, this is a team that's got a chance
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: to win ten games for the third straight season, and
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: you know this is a tough league.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: What do you expect.
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: Penn State's obviously expect the national championships, But again, you
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: gotta make the playoff here. If you're James Franklin, I
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: think he has to get to the playoff.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: So that being said, I don't disagree with you. And
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: the other thing I like Hiri is they've got a
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator coming in here I can call a nikky.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: He was at Kansas and so there could be some
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: new wrinkles to this offense that we haven't seen the
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: last couple of years. And I'll be really interested to
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: see what if I get to read more of that
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: when they start getting into camp and you start getting
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: some notes to see how this offense is gonna change.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to watch either spring game
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: or not, and so I'll be really interested to see
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: how that's gonna roll. But now I agree with you,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: and I think Penn State could be one of those teams. Again,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: if you're trying to build a portfolio getting ready to
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: hedge when you're for the twelve team tournament, you can
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: get some pretty long odds on Penn State to win
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: the thing where you could look to be betting the
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: other side in game one, depending on who they're gonna play,
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: because if they do go nine to three or they
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: do go ten to two, they're gonna be hosting Opening
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Weekend and travel in the Happy Valley. Can you imagine
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Boise traveling the Happy Valley to have to either opening
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: game or something like that. I mean, that'd be a rough,
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: rough venue to get into. But at the same time,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: you could get up like a Penn State. You could
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: get a Penn State Alabama game in opening weekend, which
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: how awesome would that be?
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely tremendous. I mean, can you imagine. I mean,
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: how great that'd be?
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: All right, shot, I'm skipping Perdue. Rutgers is the only
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: thing I'm gonna mention is I like this team. They
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: bring in Athon calliac Manus from Minnesota. I like everything
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: about Crick Ciano and the fact that this team gets
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: overlooked all the time. It played physical, it played above
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: its head last year. I look to play on this
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: team as much as possible this season, but I don't
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: have a good overall read. I think this team's gonna
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: get to a bowl, and that would be my bet.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: I think this team's getting to a ball Love this schedule.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: You talk about dodging the best teams in the league,
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: candidly the best team and the Big Ten that they're
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: going to play. Honestly, who I think the best team
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: on their schedule is is a non conference game at
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: Virginia Tech. The next best team they plays at USC.
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: I think USC is the best team. That's the best team.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: They skip Penn State, they skip Oregon, they skip Ohio State,
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: and they skip Michigan. That is a gigantic gift if
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: you are a Rutgers fan and an over underwin total.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: If this team's ever gonna do something. This is the year.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: This team's got a chance to win seven eight games.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: I totally agree with you, and that's why I said
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: I'll be on Rutgers quite a bit. I mean, I'm
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: looking forward to watching them play every week because I
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: know nobody else is gonna be watching the eleven o'clock
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: game kickoff in Piscataway. I'll be watching that in the
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: Iowa game every week. But anyway, moving on, got two
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: teams from Los Angeles. As we know if you watch
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: the Desahn Foster news conference, one of them is UCLA,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: the other one's USC UCLA. I'm gonna sum this up
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: to you real quick. This team is gonna be bad, bad,
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: bad bad. Ethan Garbers is going to start a quarterback
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: for this squad. He's not mobile, pretty one dimensional. And
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: what they've got from this standpoint, they do bring back
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: some talent, couple starters here and there, But this team, Bro,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: I'm so under on this team. It's unpossible for me
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: to explain to you how under I am on this team.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, They're gonna be. There's no reason for me to
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: lament this. This is a mass this is a disaster.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: It's a guy that's over his head, will will get rolling.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: You know that's the Let's move on to SC They're
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: a lot more fun to talk about. I think you,
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: like I said this, this experiment is gonna end in disaster.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: UCLA's under over Underwind totals five and a half. The
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: under is shaded to minus one ninety in some books. Bro,
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: that's like betting the No. Four No. Ten. You're laying
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: two to get one in case you're trying to figure
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: that one out. USC Trojans, Lincoln Riley, fascinating, Miller Malls
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: is gonna start at quarterback. They almost reboot the entire offense.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Defensively is where this team has struggled Offensively. I think
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be fine. Everything I've read from what got
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: out there, I think this team's still going to be
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: a solid effort. I like in Week one against LSU
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: getting six and a half, looking for a seven if
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: I can find one. Also think that game probably goes
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: over the total. But really where you're gonna dig into
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: this team to see if they can handle everything as defensively?
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Do you think this defensive is proved because they got
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: rid of Grinch and they brought in a new quarterback.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know much about their new defensive coordinator, but
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: if this team can figure out somehow to put a
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: defense together, I think they've got a chance to finish
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: in the top four in this league.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: And you know, I mean, look, they brought in a
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: really young football coach, and I think that is you know,
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: you know, his dad's Anthony Lynn from NFL. So man,
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: I have no idea how this experiment is going to
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: work on defense.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: I will tell you two things.
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: I think quarterback is fascinating to me, and this is
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: a quarterback driven offense. Last year, everybody had just assumes
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: they're going to go way down production because because of
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: the change, and they lost obviously Else Williams, who's first
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: picking the draft. They just he didn't play within this offense.
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: He made tons of mistakes. He didn't take what was
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: given to him, he didn't check down, he didn't take
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: He made a lot of mistakes.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: Miller Moss comes in in the bowl game and.
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: Looks like everybody expected this offense to look last year,
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: and they played great. I think he had six touchdowns,
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: played absolutely fabulous. Does he play within the offense and
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: he's great. I can't wait to sympath. Then they bring
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: in Jaden Mavia, the kid who was the freshman at
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: UNLV last year. What do they do with that guy?
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: Because that guy's electric and so you're like, I mean,
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: if this is a guy who gets as much out
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: of quarterbacks and Lincoln Riley as you can physically get
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: fascinated to watch, But I also question how good this
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: team really is. I loved Euquavius Marks. He is a
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: great kid. He played his ass off for Mississippi State
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: and in a lot of games with all he had.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: At one point last year, that kid's hamstring was torn
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: up so bad that he had literally a band around
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: his leg to help him pull it back.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: So he could still play.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: You don't get tougher than that. And you want me
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: on board with you? You be that kind of damn
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: warrior people talk about being warriors.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: That's a warrior getting out there. Hope.
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: This kid's great, but at the end of the day,
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: he's just not that high end of a back as
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: much as he's carried the football. And I can't like
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: this kid anymore than I do, and I mean that,
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: but I don't think he's a high end and up
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: back for those guys to compete at a high level.
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: Mix in on their defensive side. They bring us to
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: Carlos Nicholson Fromsissippi State as well. When you're taking multiple
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: Mississippi State transfers and they're starting s c's not where
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: they need to be at a talent point. That's not
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: a shot on either one of these kids, because I
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: think Nicholson's a I think he's an NFL guy. But
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: you're talking about guys that you know that.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: That I don't that.
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know if SC's where it
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: needs to be, and you mixed in a thirty four
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: year old young coordinator.
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: Let's see.
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, now, look, we've also seen coaches with their
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: dads that are really good too, so I mean, you know,
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: he may be fabulous because because Lynn is Anthony, Lynn
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: is a great defensive football coach, so it's it's not
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: a shadow him against age.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: Some of these guys are so young.
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: But the game's coming a lot faster too, So uh,
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: I'm just interested to see what the defense is going
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: to do.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: They're talented, but uh, I'm interested to see what they do.
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: Although I think Moss, if he plays within the system
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: the way he did and does what's aska and they
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: got a chance to be great.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: I see, this is where I was gonna go with this,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: because I really felt last year watching Caleb Williams play,
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: you know, having a Heisman trophy in his pocket, number
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: one pick little Prima, Donna ish h little, But it
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: was like you're watching backyard football. Man. It was just
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: snap it and go, And I mean it's just it
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: was weird running around.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: I mean so I and you could tell every time
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: you watched him, you could.
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: Tell Lincoln Riley super frustrated with the decision making he's making.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: And so I think he kind of thought he was
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: like Brett Farve in his prime and could just he
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: could outrun or out throw anything. And so I look
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: to see if he can get Mitch, if he can
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: get Moss to play within the offense like the quarterbacks
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: that he had at Oklahoma, and he can go and
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: if he can, I think this team can put up
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: a shit ton of points. And so Zach Ryan Branch,
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: that guy is a difference maker on special teams and
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: out wide. And so, like I said, Game one, LSU
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: over sixty two, I've already bet it. I've got plus
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: six and a half in pocket ready to roll out
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: there to elite stadium week one, and then they play
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: at at Michigan week three, and so you're gonna know
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: pretty quick what we're gonna get out of this USC
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: team because this is a difficult schedule, and if they
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: can somehow manage to play defense and control some trench,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: this could be an interesting surprise team. I've got him
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: rated my number four team in the Big Ten.
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like I said, I'm interested to see how they do.
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: And again I'm interested to see how they use the
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: transfer to see come in run some wildcat and short yardage,
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: you know, some things like that. I mean, the kid's electric,
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: So I mean again, Lincoln Riley is a is a
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: genius as an offensive mind, and you can't you can't
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: limit that. And what did Mike Leech always have with
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: his best offenses a guy who played within the offense,
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: and that I think is critical for him as well.
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: Lincoln Riley gets a guy who will play within the
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: offense and they may hang up some big numbers, especially
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: when you guys who can come in in short yardage
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: and fourth downs and things like that and do some
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: things from a from an athleticism standpoint, that Moss may
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: not can do so again, I'm like you, I'm fascinated.
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: To watch his team. We should find out early.
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: I like this team a lot, as I talked about
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: briefly against LSU. So I'm excited about excited about this
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: team to see where it goes.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Washington team that made it to the National Championship last year.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: We had some chips on them. Brings in a new
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: head coach and Jed Fish transfer. He comes in from
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: Arizona where he had great success last season last two seasons,
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: really did a good job there. This is a hard
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: reboot for this squad, though, Bro. They do not bring
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: back a whole lot of reps on their too deep
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: in this offense. And so I look at this team
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: that went fourteen and one last year with the over
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: under win total currently slated at six and a half.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: That's a hard fall. I mean, that's like a TCU
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: fall after they got their.
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: Hair, and they're gonna be lucky to get hit.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: Mark.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. And as much as I like
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: Washington as a program, their schedule is not set up
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: to be I mean, their schedule is not terrible, but
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: it's rough. And I mean cause you know, they're gonna
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: get all you can get out of Washington State week three,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: even though that team's kind of through there, and so
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: the first part of their schedule I think's manageable. The
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: at Rutgers game, Holy ding Dong. That's a long road trip.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: You're basically gonna have to fly for Canada to get there.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: But once you get into the meat of the Big Ten,
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a struggle for the squad.
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with the I think they take a
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: big step back.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: Look, Fish was not They were not very good at Oregon,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: I mean at Arizona his first season. I don't think
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: they're going to be that bad, certainly because there's too
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: many guys who have played too many snaps on this
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: on this team.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: But it's a whole new group of guys. I mean
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: they have, I think they have. I believe I read
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: it was forty six first year players. I believe that's right.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: So it's a it's a huge number of guys. This
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: is their first year. Will Rogers takes over at quarterback.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: I'll be honest, I'm interested to see how that fip goes.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: I don't know that he's athletic enough for them to
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: do remotely what they were doing.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: You've got a cop, You've got a couple.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: Of famous NFL guys whose kids are coordinators, So Pete
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: Carroll and Belichick's kid who coordinators, so fascinated, fascinated to
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: see what's going to go on with this team. Will
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: Rodgers want to say this too, cheering for that guy.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: Just as much as.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: He gave all he had, Mississippi State's problems last year
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: were certainly not a result of Will Rodgers.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: There were more a result of him getting hurt.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: But that kid staying when he knew he was a
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: bad fit was a gut check kind of deal, and
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: I candidly he should have transferred for his own benefit,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: but loved the university and wanted to stay and loved
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: his teammates. Good for that kid. Hope he has a
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: huge year in this offense. I know that that's going
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: to happen.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: Do we know if Steve Belichick, if Stephen Belichick is
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: still rocking that like eighty style mullet with the hair
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: comb front down in the front.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: There, I do not, but man, I hope so. Can
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: you imagine what that would look like it was just
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: a headset on? I mean it would be. He's so awesome.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: Hey, don't overlook that guy. Man. He took some shitty
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: New England Patriot teams with some defenses in like they
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: leaned on him. I mean, way beast, Tom Brady be gone.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: He's a good defensive mind. I like the guy, and
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: he's weird as hell. I mean, I think he coaches
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: with a fat dip in and typically his tongue out,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: which I can get down with. On that last team
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: I want to talk about, Wisconsin Badgers. This team, to
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: me is so con using. They bring in Luke Fickle,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: he takes this job, finally got a chance to step
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: up and get back into the Big Ten. They bring
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: in long Ago is the offensive coordinator, and they're gonna
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: run this moderated air raid system. They did not have
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: their roster to run it at all last year, and
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: it was just kind of a mess all season long. Defensively,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: this team couldn't quite figure out the direction they wanted
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: to go. They finished up seven and six. I've got
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: this team as a mid tier team in the Big Ten.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: I'm curious to see if they can even run this offense.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: It looks like Tyler Van Dyke is going to be
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  Speaker 1: the starting quarterback. Bryden Locks the backup there. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think Mordecai is there anymore. I think he may have
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  Speaker 1: graduated and moved on in their third string quarterbacks a
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  Speaker 1: kid that went to our high school. And the only
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  Speaker 1: reason I know Tyler Van Dyke's gonna be the QB
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  Speaker 1: is because I ran into the kid a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago and he told me they named Van Dyke
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback coming out of spring and Van Dyke I
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  Speaker 1: think last year at Miami it was obvious there was
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  Speaker 1: something wrong there and he just couldn't get it rolling
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  Speaker 1: in what was going on. I mean, he took a
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  Speaker 1: step back. But I you know, they've Chez Malucy comes back,
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  Speaker 1: Tywee Walker comes back offensive line, They've bring a couple
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  Speaker 1: of starters back. I just can't figure out if this
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  Speaker 1: is a good fit for what Wisconsin wants to do.
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  Speaker 1: I think their schedule is actually I mean, they got
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  Speaker 1: Alabama at USC and then it kind of nails up
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  Speaker 1: at Penn State Oregon. You know, so their schedule sets
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  Speaker 1: up to me like this is a seven and five,
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  Speaker 1: six and sixteen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that trip for Bama up there is gonna be
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  Speaker 3: a fascinating game. I think they're gonna drill them, but
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  Speaker 3: I think that is gonna be a fascinating game.
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  Speaker 2: They'll be all zoosed up for that ball game. I'm
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  Speaker 2: with you.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is the middle of the road team
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  Speaker 3: like Fickle, But you know, I think I think it's
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  Speaker 3: still a time a little bit of time on the conversion.
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  Speaker 3: I do think Van Dyke in this situation has a chance.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a huge feel long ago guy, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm in the minority on that around the country.
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  Speaker 2: But I think Van Dyke is I think he's got you.
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  Speaker 3: If he's remotely anything what he was like as a freshman,
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  Speaker 3: he's got a chance.
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  Speaker 2: To be really good.
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  Speaker 3: He got really bad under under Crystal Ball both years,
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  Speaker 3: so I think as a you know, I think that
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  Speaker 3: hadn't worked out well for him.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be honest.
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  Speaker 3: I was surprised to see Van Dyke not go to
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  Speaker 3: Duke after the success he had playing under manny Ds
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  Speaker 3: as a freshman.
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  Speaker 2: So I was kind of surprised by that.
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  Speaker 3: Clearly, Wisconsin is a better, better school, better position, probably
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  Speaker 3: has got better talent around him than Duke was gonna have.
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  Speaker 2: But with that success level, I am kind of surprised
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  Speaker 2: he didn't go there.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, what are your plays? Do you have any in
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  Speaker 1: pocket plays?
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  Speaker 2: So I do. I am look.
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  Speaker 3: I said on Michigan that now with that number dropping
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  Speaker 3: eight and a half, I think the over is the
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  Speaker 3: right Uh is the right play on them?
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: I am also looking over on Rutgers. I like those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I think that team's gonna gonna win some ball games.
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  Speaker 3: I like is over seven and a half. I think
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  Speaker 3: that team's got an outside shot at the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: I do too.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about their schedule, So those are the teams
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  Speaker 3: I'm selling on UCLA. I think under at five and
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  Speaker 3: a half is the way on those guys. So all
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  Speaker 3: of those things are things that I'm I'm looking at.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think Rutgers is a seven to eight
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  Speaker 3: win football team.
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  Speaker 1: I'm over on Rutgers. I've got an Iowa ticket, Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I split between the Natty and the other
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  Speaker 1: one to kind of hedge myself. I've got an Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State ticket and an Oregon ticket both to beget in
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  Speaker 1: the tournament and win the Natty on that one. And
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: I am going to add a bet as we get
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  Speaker 1: off of this DraftKings Game of the Year line September fourteenth.
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  Speaker 1: I am going to be taking Alabama minus nine against Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna go ahead and get down on
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  Speaker 1: that and put that game in. So that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: where I am on the big ten right now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all right, Well, if you're if you're gonna do that,
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give you two more on that line. If we're
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  Speaker 3: going to well these are early. Texas is week two.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Texas is Week two. They're minus three and a
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  Speaker 1: half at Michigan. I would win.
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  Speaker 3: I'll go I'll go ahead and lay that out there.
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  Speaker 3: I'll lay three and a half for them at Michigan.
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  Speaker 2: I think they win that.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, i'd put those two in and uh, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get ready to rock and roll on this one. I'll
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: tell you what, man, I am excited about football season
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: coming up. I'm kind of excited about a couple of
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: these money line parlays we might be able to get
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  Speaker 1: involved in early in the season. I'll give you one
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  Speaker 1: other play. Coastal Carolina under I did a hard dive
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: on this team the other night, and uh, I think
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: with grats and mccallby and gone, and you know you're
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: the second year of the new coaching staff. I think
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: this team's gonna be really bad. U get you at
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: Coastal Carolina under their win total, which I think is
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: six and a half or seven somewhere in there. That's
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  Speaker 1: all I got, brother, You got anything else?
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  Speaker 2: Man, That's all I got. Just excited. We'll be back
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• 1:07:03
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