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Hour 3 – Geoff Schwartz stops by! · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 4: Coming up later next segment, we got Jeff Schwartz to
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  Speaker 4: join the show Football Analysts. We'll talk college football with him.
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  Speaker 4: We'll talk NFL football with him.
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  Speaker 2: Gots talk about his Oregon Ducks man, big game coming up?
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  Speaker 4: What about my Orgon Ducks here, Kevin, come.
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  Speaker 3: On, with all due respect him, he actually, you know,
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  Speaker 3: suited up and wore the color.
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  Speaker 4: What's the difference?
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  Speaker 2: Sweat and got injured and played.
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  Speaker 4: I have a friend that was born in Oregon, didn't
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  Speaker 4: go to the university, but I have just as much
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  Speaker 4: you know, a pool towards them.
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  Speaker 2: I am mistaken, you're right. Matter of fact, you're more
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  Speaker 2: of a duck than Jeff Schwartz could ever be.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Jeff Schwartz, Joey Harrington, I am all about
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  Speaker 4: that duck life, Me and puddles. All right, let's get
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  Speaker 4: to it.
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  Speaker 2: College football forecast with F and.
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  Speaker 4: A Oh Kevin. Speaking of the Ducks, they are favored
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  Speaker 4: by point and a half over Texas Tech and the
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  Speaker 4: Capitol One Orange Bowl coming up just mere hours from now.
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  Speaker 2: They are and I think they should be. I mean
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  Speaker 2: to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 3: Like, as good as Texas Tech has been, especially defensively this.
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  Speaker 2: Year, offensively they could be a little shaky.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Grant you can say the only loss that they had
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  Speaker 3: earlier in the year against Arizona State is when they're
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  Speaker 3: starting quarterback Baron Morton was injured, and that is true.
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  Speaker 3: But offensively, this is not the Mike Leech Texas Tech
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  Speaker 3: offense that's flying high and scoring seventy points a game
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  Speaker 3: or anything like that. They're good, They're very good, but
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  Speaker 3: they're certainly not dominant or great or unstoppable. And for
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  Speaker 3: as much talk as Texas Tech's defense gets, people sleep
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  Speaker 3: on Oregon's defense for whatever reason, and I don't know
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  Speaker 3: why that happens to be the case. They play in
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  Speaker 3: a better conference against better competition. This is no hate
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  Speaker 3: or disrespect to the Big twelve. But BYU is a
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  Speaker 3: good team. But ultimately I know they beat them twice,
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  Speaker 3: but they were a one trick pony. As good as
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  Speaker 3: their quarterback quarterback was, they really wrote their running game
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  Speaker 3: and a BYU couldn't run anybody, they couldn't win. And
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  Speaker 3: they got Utah early in the season. Two in Utah
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  Speaker 3: is a team, but again, know where close to where Oregon.
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  Speaker 5: Is to me?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think Oregon should be favored in this
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  Speaker 2: game and I like the Ducks to win it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I might go Doctor Evil with this as well. How
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  Speaker 4: about no to Texas Tech. I actually feel pretty strongly
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  Speaker 4: about Oregon in this ball game. Now that may change
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  Speaker 4: early tomorrow morning as the game kicks off at nine
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  Speaker 4: am Pacific time. But look, this Oregon Ducks team. They
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  Speaker 4: have played stiffer competition. They have lost, but it was
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  Speaker 4: a very close game to Indiana, granted at home, but
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  Speaker 4: that kind of put Indiana on the map. Once they
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  Speaker 4: won in Austin, who had the longest home winning streak
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  Speaker 4: at that time. That was when everybody turned their heads.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that was the initial heisman moment from
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  Speaker 4: Fernando Mendoza after throwing the pick, coming back down the
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  Speaker 4: field and scoring a touchdown. They won by ten, but
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  Speaker 4: it was a one score game with four minutes left
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  Speaker 4: or something like that. It was a very close game
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  Speaker 4: they played usc They obviously weren't the Big ten championship game.
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  Speaker 4: But this Oregon team has a different level of focus
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  Speaker 4: To me, I just feel like I know it's a
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  Speaker 4: different quarterback this season, but Dan Lanning has been waiting
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  Speaker 4: to get back to this point. It's something I've heard
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  Speaker 4: from our good friend Joel Joel Clatt. He's been talking
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  Speaker 4: about this a lot how Oregon Our show.
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  Speaker 2: Every single week from not for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 4: Once in a while he went thirty six and forty
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  Speaker 4: with his college football picks.
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  Speaker 5: That's all.
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  Speaker 4: It happens to the best of us, even Joel Klatt.
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  Speaker 4: But this Ducks team, their season starts now. It feels
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  Speaker 4: like they got a little bit of a warm up
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  Speaker 4: against JMU in the opening round. That was good for them,
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  Speaker 4: but they came in so flat against Ohio State last
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  Speaker 4: season in the Rose Bowl and I think we're down
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  Speaker 4: like twenty eight to nothing in the first quartern baking.
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  Speaker 4: They have been waiting for this moment to make up
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  Speaker 4: for that complete implosion against Ohio State, to prove that's
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  Speaker 4: not who they are, that's who they were, That's not
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  Speaker 4: who they are. So this is a team that I
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  Speaker 4: think is with a laser type of focus right now,
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  Speaker 4: and they're just more dynamic on the offensive side of
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  Speaker 4: the ball, and they're getting wide receivers back finally that
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  Speaker 4: they have been missing throughout a lot of this season
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  Speaker 4: that nobody's been talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Brian and a couple of others, And a big
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  Speaker 3: thing for them is the fact that, yes, they're great
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  Speaker 3: at running the ball.
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  Speaker 2: They have like a five headed monster at running back.
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  Speaker 3: To be honest with you, there's really even though Whittington
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  Speaker 3: is kind of the bell cow, they really spread it
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  Speaker 3: around a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And I know Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 3: Is dynamic the I know that they spread it around
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  Speaker 3: a lot when it comes to the running game. But
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  Speaker 3: if he stopped, but Texas Tech is great at stopping
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  Speaker 3: the run.
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  Speaker 4: Cool.
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  Speaker 3: You think Dante Moore, who's being talked about it as
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  Speaker 3: the potential best quarterback in the draft, can't let you
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  Speaker 3: up in the passing game.
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  Speaker 2: He wants something that deep ball thrower in the league.
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  Speaker 3: That's something that Oregon has that Texas Techa just hasn't
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  Speaker 3: seen this year Texas Tech. And this is no disrespect.
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  Speaker 3: You can only play who's on the schedule. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: not faulting them for who they've played, but you have
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  Speaker 3: to take it when you're looking at and trying to
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  Speaker 3: acap you know how this matchup is going to play out.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: I don't I'm not gonna say, I don't think. I
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  Speaker 3: know they have not faced a passing attack that can
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  Speaker 3: be as dynamic as its Oregon attack can be. So,
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  Speaker 3: even if Texas Tech is going to continue to be
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  Speaker 3: stiff against the run and not allow Winnington and those
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  Speaker 3: guys to have room on the ground, Dante Morgan throw
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  Speaker 3: the ball forty five times, and I feel confident that
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  Speaker 3: Oregon can win this game. That wouldn't bother me at all.
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  Speaker 3: And if that gets to a point, Adam, My thing
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  Speaker 3: is if this game is played in the team to
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  Speaker 3: the twenties advantage, Texas Tech one thousand percent, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if Texas Tech, even as good as they are defensively,
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  Speaker 3: can slow down this Oregon offense enough. The problem is,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if Texas Tech's offense can score enough
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  Speaker 3: to keep up with them. Well, even if Oregon having
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  Speaker 3: a Orgon's everything like thirty nine points a game or something,
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  Speaker 3: a down game for them will be thirty one points.
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  Speaker 3: My confident that Texas Tech can score thirty one points
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  Speaker 3: offensively against his Oregon defense, I don't know if they can.
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  Speaker 4: It's strength versus strength with Oregon's running game against Tech,
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  Speaker 4: who is giving up the fewest yards per carry in
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  Speaker 4: college football, just two point three. Oregon's over six.
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  Speaker 2: Yards per carry.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned they kind of do it by committee with
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  Speaker 4: all the good backs that they have, so guys stay
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  Speaker 4: in rotation and they stay fresh out there. That's just
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  Speaker 4: tough to deal with. It's gonna be one in the
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  Speaker 4: trenches in a style. I guess in some ways what
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  Speaker 4: we saw tonight, But I do expect a higher scoring
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  Speaker 4: game possibility with Oregon in Texas Tech. But you're right,
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  Speaker 4: if it's a game played in his thirties, advantage Oregon.
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  Speaker 4: If Texas Tech is slowing them down, it's a close
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  Speaker 4: game like that. It's like we haven't seen Oregon come
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  Speaker 4: through in those situations though. Either against Iowa, Dante Moore
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  Speaker 4: threw one of the best passes of the season to
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  Speaker 4: finish them off, and IWA just got a big victory
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  Speaker 4: over Vandy earlier today. Now, we can't put stock into
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  Speaker 4: bowl games. I'm not going back on what we just
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  Speaker 4: said earlier today, but this Oregon team is really talented,
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  Speaker 4: and I think out of all the teams that had
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  Speaker 4: to play in the opening round, they're the most dangerous.
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  Speaker 4: They're the one that could go out and win the
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  Speaker 4: whole damn thing. That's how I feel. And maybe i'm biased,
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  Speaker 4: damn because I'm almost from there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you're almost from there, okay, And that's a
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  Speaker 3: bit of a stretch.
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  Speaker 4: I'll say, visited Eugene once for the people.
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  Speaker 3: There, And I know Dan Lanning was really heated after
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  Speaker 3: they beat James Madison and thought they let go of
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  Speaker 3: the rope in the second half and allowed them to
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  Speaker 3: come back and cover the spread and one thing that
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  Speaker 3: and people are kind of holding that against Oregon, saying like, see,
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  Speaker 3: if they do this against a good team, they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: end up losing. Guys realizing the second half Oregon pulled
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  Speaker 3: all of their starters. Yeah, and James Madison did not.
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  Speaker 3: They did not give up. They kept all their starters
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  Speaker 3: in the game. So you basically had Oregon second and
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  Speaker 3: third stringers playing against James Madison's ones, and that's why
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  Speaker 3: James Madison was able to come to mount that comeback.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 4: And it's not to get a little bit complacent out
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  Speaker 4: there when you're up that big like they were.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're asking guys to come off the bench, you
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  Speaker 3: don't play that much to also come in and also
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  Speaker 3: have an edge with knowing that they're up by thirty
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  Speaker 3: points or whatever it is. That's just difficult to ask
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  Speaker 3: anybody to do so well. Do not take anything away
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  Speaker 3: from the second half of that JMU game. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's going to have any sort of effect on how
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  Speaker 3: the starters actually perform against Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 2: That's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: I'll say this though. If Oregon loses the game, Ohio
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  Speaker 4: States out yep. If Oregon loses, I'm going to be
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  Speaker 4: looking at the Big Ten a little bit sideways and
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  Speaker 4: just wondering, wait a second, or they as good as
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  Speaker 4: we thought? I mean, how many great out of conference
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  Speaker 4: games did they play to really be tested? We thought
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  Speaker 4: the Texas game was a big test. It wasn't. Ohio
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  Speaker 4: State barely straight by and Texas, I mean, they had
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  Speaker 4: issues all season long. They still almost made it. They
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  Speaker 4: won today, fine, But I don't know. Now we start
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  Speaker 4: to look at conference supremacy and who really was the
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  Speaker 4: best when you start to get matchups like these. Now,
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  Speaker 4: if Oregon goes on to win, Indiana wins, they face
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  Speaker 4: off in the semi finals, that's a great rematch and
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  Speaker 4: it's Big Ten supremacy. But I do wonder what the
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  Speaker 4: talk is going to be if Oregon loses this game,
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  Speaker 4: surrounding the Big Ten now.
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  Speaker 3: Well also when it comes to the Rose Bowl at
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  Speaker 3: Alabama and Indiana, which we'll get to in a little
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  Speaker 3: bit as well. We'll talk to our next guest about
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  Speaker 3: that as a matter of fact. On the other side,
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  Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio host and NFL analysts and college football
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  Speaker 3: Coming up in a little bit, we'll dive back into
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  Speaker 3: these today's matchups. I should say, in the college football playoff,
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  Speaker 3: we already talked about Oregon and Texas Tech, still got
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  Speaker 3: to get into Indiana and Alabama, as well as the
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  Speaker 3: rematch between Ole Miss and Georgia. But coming up now, Adam,
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  Speaker 3: we have a special guest to join us to talk
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  Speaker 3: about that and some big happenings here in the final
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  Speaker 2: Let's get to it well. Twenty twenty seconds.
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  Speaker 4: The Year of the Horse, but our next guests the
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  Speaker 4: year of the Duck. As he played his college ball
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  Speaker 4: at the University of Oregon before being drafted by Mike
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  Speaker 4: Carolina Panthers in two thousand and eight, where he started
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  Speaker 4: what would be an almost decade long career in the
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  Speaker 4: trenches doing the dirty work while using the power of
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  Speaker 4: the swarz to block some dudes who are as big
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  Speaker 4: as pizza the Hut. It's former NFL offensive lineman who
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  Speaker 4: you know here on Fox Sports Radio with the Fellas
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  Speaker 4: is Jeff Swartz joining us on FSR. Jeff, Happy New Year,
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for coming on FN.
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  Speaker 5: A good morning, get up through good night. I don't
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  Speaker 5: know why I thought it was morning time. It's early
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  Speaker 5: off the morning time it's been. It's been a busy week.
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  Speaker 5: I don't even know what day it is, but I'm
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  Speaker 5: glad to be with you guys talking.
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  Speaker 4: Ball a bit of a whirlwind. Appreciate you coming on.
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  Speaker 4: Let's talk about the Ducks here. You know we've already
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  Speaker 4: talked about one college football playoff game in the books,
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  Speaker 4: but give us a preview of your Ducks against the
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  Speaker 4: Red Raiders and how does the organ gets get this done?
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  Speaker 5: Later today? Yeah, oh man, I'm looking forward to it. Look,
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  Speaker 5: I think some important things that we saw last year matter,
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  Speaker 5: and I think it will matter a little bit this year. Right,
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  Speaker 5: So it doesn't mean even we gonna lose the game,
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  Speaker 5: but I think being here is going to matter, right,
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  Speaker 5: And Oregon's been here before, and when you look at
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  Speaker 5: the teams playing that have been here before, and how
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  Speaker 5: well they prepared themselves. They're preparing all season to play now,
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  Speaker 5: So I mean, organ they've talked about this like they're
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  Speaker 5: preparing themselves all year to play on January first, So
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  Speaker 5: ivan they had done this season is up until this
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  Speaker 5: point for that day now of course beyond that. Right,
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  Speaker 5: last year it felt like we peaked too soon, and
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  Speaker 5: the opposite was stript of how to state it was
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  Speaker 5: basically ready to peak at the right time. And so
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  Speaker 5: I feel like we're in a good spot just mentally
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  Speaker 5: having done this last year over Texas Tech. Right, this
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  Speaker 5: is new for them. I'm not saying they're just happy
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  Speaker 5: to be here, but that certainly is a fair mindset
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  Speaker 5: to have in which the first time in the postseason.
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  Speaker 5: They've never been in the playoff before, right, and the
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  Speaker 5: organism program has been before this year. So just mentally,
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  Speaker 5: I like what we're at from that perspective. And then
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  Speaker 5: there's on the game like itself, Like Oregon is the
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  Speaker 5: best offense Tech Attach has seen, and they have great
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  Speaker 5: players Bailey Height and Rodriguez and Roberts fantastic, Like they're incredible,
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  Speaker 5: they're great, like all the things that people said about
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  Speaker 5: them all true, But they also just haven't seen an
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  Speaker 5: offense quite like Oregon. Like the offense. The best offense
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  Speaker 5: theive Fax two is probably Utah, but they can't throw
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  Speaker 5: the ball. So I'm looking forward to watching that matchup.
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  Speaker 5: And seem like gives the Texas Tech defense scale. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you know scales up right, can scale up to play
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  Speaker 5: a much better team. Oregon has played really good defense
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  Speaker 5: is so far this year. They played Iowa, they played
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  Speaker 5: as much as meaning at Penn State. They have multiple
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  Speaker 5: really good defensive players going the NFL. You know, they
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  Speaker 5: played Indiana like they've played teams that are close to
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  Speaker 5: Texas Tech. Not quite of course, And so I just
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  Speaker 5: think we're ready to go. I think we're prepared, and
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  Speaker 5: I like where we're at as a team and should
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  Speaker 5: be a really fun game.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Shuts joining us here on fn A on FSR.
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  Speaker 3: Then let's talk about the rose ball speaking of teams
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  Speaker 3: that have been there before. So Indiana made it to
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  Speaker 3: the playoff last year, obviously didn't end the way that
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  Speaker 3: they wanted. So they're now back as the one seed
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  Speaker 3: taking on an Alabama program that you know they set
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  Speaker 3: up residency and college football playoff games. So just from
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  Speaker 3: that standpoint and based on what you said in the
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  Speaker 3: Oregon Texas Tech matchup, I guess both of these teams
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  Speaker 3: have experience in this situation. Do you believe that Indiana
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: having that experience going to the playoff last year can
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: help their case this year going up against a legacy
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: school like Alabama and the Rose Bowl.
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: Absolutely it's gonna help. And Indiana is much better than
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: last year like that, those aulisms are sure, there's much
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: better than they were last season. Just a bad match
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: up for Alabama just stylistically, right, you have a Indian
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: team that's built in the trenches and that's not really
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: where Alabama excels this year, which is shocking mistake is
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: Alabama for so many years obviously we know has been
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: a bunch a team building the Henries, but they almost
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: to passer well and they don't run the ball well.
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: And so those two things are i mean really hard
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: to do with Indiana. You can't be one dimensional and
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: Indian does not make mistakes. They don't make errors, and
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: they're a methodical team. Right, They're like a Boa constrictor
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: like they just sort of just like like this kind
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: of like just like slowly slowly, just like you know,
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: the more you breathe, the more you struggle, they just
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: constrict you, right like that's what they that's where they play.
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: And they've won every big moment this year, every big game.
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: So I'm looking forward that one and I do think
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: that they end up winning and covering that game in
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: the end does so.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: I know we still have games to be played here
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: in the college football playoff and a lot of these
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: guys could potentially help their NFL case based on how
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: they perform. But it seems to be the top three
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: quarterbacks and it's not the strongest quarterback draft class just
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: in general, but whether you're talking about Tysimpson and Alabama,
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Dante More and then Fromanda Mendoza, those are seemingly the
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: top three available guys who will be eligible for the draft.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: We don't know if Dantey Moore is going to decide
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: to come out yet or not, but just based on
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: what you've seen from those three guys, do you agree
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: with the notion that Fernanda Mendoza is head and shoulders
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: the best prospect of the three or how do you
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: handicap those three quarterbacks as we head into the head
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: into the playoff and into the NFL draft season.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Coming up here in a few months.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: Even those are the best. Now, I'll say, you know,
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: Dunpey Moore is is gonna be if he came back
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: for one more year, which is certainly impossible, and I
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: hope Organ hopes that that happens. He makes more NFL
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: throws than Mendoza does throughout a game. I think Mendoza's
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: a little bit just better. He's played more football. I mean,
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of information that quarterbacksly start one year
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: in college football to go to the NFL, and he
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: started some games of true freshman season, just aren't as
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: prepared to play versus a guy like Mendoza who's been
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: a long time starter. And so you know, again Dante
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: Moore has more NFL throws in him. He also has
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: more mistakes, right, Like I think as he can value
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: coming back for another year. But I do think if
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: they were going out, there will be talking about him
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: being him being one be who's the third.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Guy you mentioned a Ti Simpson from Alabama.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: I think he's very firmly the third guy in that conversation.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: And I'll hope we look the two look. Oregon really
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: hopes Dante Moore comes back. The results of this playoff
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: will maybe determine that because they're they're like all in
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: on twenty six. They've all been planning for twenty six
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: to be their championship sort of run. They're a tiny
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: bit ahead of schedule this year with all the new
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: guys they had, they have a very young roster and
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: in the secondary new guys are offensive line, wide receiver,
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: running back. I mean they're young at some positions that
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: you know, they are hoping guys come back and don't
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: go the draft, so another one. So they're hoping more
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: comes back with jobs to take out a quarterback. And
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: what was funny because in entering the college well season
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: there were like seven guys what's first we thought for
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: the first round picks and that's not remotely going to
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: do what happens.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, before we move on to the to the NFL, Jeff,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: you send a tweet out the other day talking about
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: bowl game results having no big picture takeaways, and I
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: agree one thousand percent, And it just brings to question
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: the future of the bowl structure as we currently have it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: If we're playing all these playoff games.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: That are gonna matter, it's going to expand at some
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: point in time, but what difference does it make when
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: it comes to all these other bowl games and even
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: if they are really good matchups and really good finishes,
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: if they ultimately doesn't amount to anything.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: What difference does it make?
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: You played in college football during an era where if
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: you didn't make it to the BCS title Game or
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: you know, you still had a chance to go to
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: the Rose Bowl if you went to an organ or
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Sugar Bowl if you're an SEC team, And now that
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: just doesn't seem to matter because they're part of the
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: college football playoff structure. So if your consolation prize is
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: going to no disrespect to the Sun Bowl or somewhere
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: like that, I just don't understand what the value is
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: of the ball system. So just I guess the way
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: that you look at it right now, what should be
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: the future of the non college football playoff bowl structure.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Well, look, if you were go over the ratings, I
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: would imagine on the days the Bulls will played this
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: to the highest rates thing on television. And some of
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: these bowls with the good teams are really good. They've
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: been good both obviously USC TCU. Right was that last night?
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: Now you know there was a game earlier today with
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Iowa and Vanderbilt. That was good. I mean, these are
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: good Bowl games, Like they're fun to watch now, Look,
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: is a law of tech Southern miscreat? Not really, but
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: there had some really good Bowl games when the better
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: teams start start playing them. So I don't think it's
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: going anywhere. You know, are they going to move the
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Holiday Bowl out of Mobile and the Live Quest Bowl,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: which I think used to be when it used to
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: be called Sintrids Bowl. Maybe no, it's not the Six's Bowl.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: I think whatever. Like you know, those those games might
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: be not playoff games, but I still think it matters.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Look for ninety percent of teams, making a Bowl game
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: is still a big deal, right, It's extra practice, you
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: get to swag, you know, going to different Now guys
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: have nil money, but you know, the free gifts were
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: like in pretum was like awesome, like a month of
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: pre diem and free gifts and so those things were
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: things we look forward to. And I still think that
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: a lot of more competitive they want to play in
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: these games, and they've been good for the most parts.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: You get sort of near you know, near the new year,
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: when the better teams are playing.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: We got Jeff Schwartz on with us on the f
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: and a takeover the Ben Mallors Show. Happy New Year, everyone,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: So let's move up to the big leagues. You obviously
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: played there for almost a decade, Jeff. And look, I
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: want to know your opinion on this NFC or AFC
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: North matchup. I should say, between John Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin,
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: who do you think is under more pressure to win
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: this game and get into the playoffs.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: Ooh, I think it's Tomlin because they were the favorite
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: like minus like seven fifty two weeks ago. And it
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: sounds like Lamar is going to play right. He practiced today,
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: I believe, or a leave it. He was looked at
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: as as participating.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Well, participating degree yeah, full practice is what I last saw.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: So yeah, and I think today it's more like by
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: the time of the year, it thought very walk through
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: issh on Friday on Wednesday. But I still like that
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: he's out there. I think if I'll pitch it their
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: home first of all, right, their home and they're they're
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: going to blow this lead, this division lead. And there's
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: a lot of smoke on Tomlin right now, like he
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: he doesn't want to playoff games with twenty sixteen. Are
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: they gonna except a nine to eight year and a
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: collapse at that very end to sort of better rival Harbaugh.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: You know, they've had a sort of a bad year
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: with injuries, and there's obviously a little bit of maybe
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: something between you know, him and Lamar And I think
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: it's firmly on the Steelers, man. I think the Steelers
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: have got to be the one who win this game,
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: or there'd be questions about whether or not Tom that's
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: coming back.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: How about a division you know extremely well, and that
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: being the NFC South, the Carolina Panthers taking on the
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Buccaneers at the start of
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: the season, Jeff, people were talking about Baker Mayfield being
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: the MVP. They got off to that five and one
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: start and then it's all come crashing down. I guess
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: do you think how much pressure do you think is
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: on Todd Bowles and do you think that his job
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: might be on the line if Tampa Bay does not
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: find a way to win the division here? And also
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: just talk about your Carolina Panthers too, by the way,
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: and how they've surprised a lot of people to even
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: be in this position at the end of the regular
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: season at this point.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: I don't like chaos in my life very much, but
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: I do enjoy it. I do enjoyed every now and then.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: And in this situation is obviously the Panthers lose to
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: the Bucks, so they're eight and nine, the Bucks are
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: eight and nine. The Falcons beat the Saints on Sunday,
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: and then the Panthers go to the playoffs as they
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: are three way times for eight and nine say the
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: tie break because that is the chaos scenario. But I
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: think that's gonna be avoy because the Panthers are gonna
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: win on Sunday. I was always Taeday, she started afternoon. Look,
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Tampa Bay's lost seven of eight and they have not
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: been very good losses, right, And it feels like Todd Bowles,
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: he's done a great job. They've been competitive for so
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: many years. It's just wearing off, right, His message is
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: wearing off. The team's older, a little bit hurt, a
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: little beat up, and they're not having the impact that
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: he used to have. And I think winner losing this game,
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: that's probably it. It's probably it for him as the coach.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: And it looks eventually it just runs this course. It
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: doesn't mean that he can't beat a head coach somewhere else,
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: or that he's not good coach anymore. But you lose
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: seven of eight like this, and their Falcons losses and
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Saintans losses and Dolphins losses like these are losses that
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: you favored in right and and oftentimes like it wasn't
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: close against its all, but they were down ten points
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: in the fourth quarter, I believe. So those losses add up,
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: and you know, I just think it's time to find
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: a new coach. Might be time to move off Baker Mayfield.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: And you know he know he's been hurt this year
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: with the shoulder and he's non throwing his shoulder. I
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: think has been has been a little jacked up. But
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: still it's just it's still a good way to end
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: in Carolina. Though they've won, they've one loss ten weeks
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: in a row, I think, which is kind of wild.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: They have just been very consistent when when they're good,
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: they've been really good. Packers win, beat the Rams, beat
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: the Bucks two weeks ago, and they lost us and
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: we didn't play well. I was starting to play better
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: on Satday. It's been their pattern for ten weeks now.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Jeff been looking at the other game Saturday night is
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: for the number one overall seed in the NFC between
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: the San Francisco forty nine Ers and the Seattle Seahawks.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Who do you think needs the number one seed in
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: the buy more between these two teams in order to
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: make it out of the NFC.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: Oh, who needs it more? Probably the Niners with their
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: defense needs it more. My NFC champion is probably the
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: team who wins this game. I mean, you have such
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: an advantage having that one other that one week off. Man.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: You know, the Niners offense has just been so good
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: with Brock Purdy this last month, it's been He's been
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: so good. But the defense there, they lost too many
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: in rushers, they lost Fred Warner. It's just not good enough.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: And I can't get enough stops and they have one
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: way to win games, and so one less game, I
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: think we get them, you know, in that situation. Kyle
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: Shand has an incredible job this year, guys, he really has.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: With Seattle. I just don't trust Stan Darnold. I mean
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: it's kind of that simple. And you know, if he
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: had one left game, you feel much better about him.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: But I just don't think like Donold is the guy
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: to lead this team to like the promise land. So,
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: I mean, I use this analogy all the time. Roger
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Goodell is handing them a Bardi trail off to someone
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: at the end of Super Bowl what is it this
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: year fifty seven or whatever it is? And is that
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: quarterback Sam Donald is he's seeing the trophy with Sam Donald?
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: Like the trophy has been held? Is the handed to
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Jalen Hurst, Patrick Mahomes, Stafford and Tom Brady for like
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: eight straight seasons? Like it is it really going to
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: to Sam Donald? I just can't see that Can Soldier
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: as a picture of that. You're going to Sam Donald,
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: obviously going to brock Perdy. I can't see one to
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: Sam Donald. So maybe that's a super unfair way to
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: look at it. But think about who's won the last
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: I mean it's been it's been Eagles. It's been basically
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: Tom Brady, two Eagles Chiefs, and one Stafford. So like
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: the last ten seasons basically right since twenty sixteen, That's
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: that's who's who's one. Like, it makes sense when you
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: think about who's going up the trophy the end of season.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: Nick Folds one obviously is a little bit weird, but
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: the Eagles were so good that season. But otherwise, man,
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: I just I don't think it with Donald so a
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: big game for him Saturday night.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: So Jeff, how about the AFC.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Can you envision Josh Allen raising the trophy now that
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: he does not have the hurdle of someone like Patrick
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Mahomes stopping him.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: But Buffalo's had their issues this year.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: They've been inconsistent, They've been unable to stop the run,
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: and have struggled defensively at times and have a dearth
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: of talent offensively when it comes to weapons for Josh Allen.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Do you see a possibility that Josh Allen puts on
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: his cape and carries them to a potential Super Bowl
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: championship this year?
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Out of the AFC.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: The AFC is the hardest one for me because the
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: NFC has Stafford has pretty like Jalen Hurts. It's got
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: guys where you're just like, you know they've either done
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: it before or you know they put good film on,
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: you know, and you know they can do it. The
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: AFC again, like it has the faulty to having a
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: buy I mean, Denver I think is in line for
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: the buye right because the Chargers are resting everyone and
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: they just have to win this weekend and they're and
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: they had to buy I mean, it's one less game, man,
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: Like it's so important. Think about you know, the two
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: seed Patriots are having to play Buffalo and they're having
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: to play maybe Jacksonville and then having to play the Broncos.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: The Broncos might get you know, the Chargers beat up Chargers,
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: they might get you know, a Bill's team that can't
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: play any defense. Like, it's one less game. So I
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: have to fall to the Denver in this situation. You know,
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: Bowe Nicks has been a little bit better. If Houston
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: had one home game, I'd feel great. But they're just
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: not going to have a home game and they're not winning.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: Three rugans at offensive line. Every team in the in
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: the in the East has some In the East, AFC
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: is something that could be feels like a fatal flaw,
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: where like, yeah, they can do it, but they have
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: to avoid doing that bad thing for an entire week.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: Last one, for me, Jeff, did Matt Stafford lose the
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: MVP of that performance against Atlanta?
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: I think this discussion is so silly to me. A
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: guy is a heavy favorite to an MVP he has
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: one bad half after he threw for four hundred and
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: fifty yards on the road in Seattle. And now Drake
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: made the MVP. So the award is essentially best player
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: in the final game of the season. Like that, that's
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: what the award has become. Drake Mays had a good season.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: It's the easiest schedule in the NFL. They've didn't one
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: team in the NFL I think win to me, not
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: one team they did in thirteen. They didn't one team
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: with a winning record as of right now, and of
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: course you know that that might change with some results
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: of this past weekend or is up cooming we guy should say,
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: but Stafford's done it better job with injuries to Davonte
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: Adams with a much tougher schedule. I think it's Matt Stafford.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's Drake May. Now Oswood say otherwise,
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: and I'm not sure. I think actually three awards come
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: down to this weekend. MVP, Offensive Workdie of the Year,
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: and Coach of the Year will all come down to
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: this weekend, which I get Coached the Year because that's
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: simply like you know, if Shanahan wins the one seed,
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: I could see him getting it. Raybel wins the two
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: seeds like sevens a little bit of sense. Otherwise, other awards,
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: what does it matter if tet Roy McMillan has a
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: big game like that, he has a big game with Telly,
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: he wins the award, But what means Okay, why one
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: game would matter that much? Like if the award is
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: for the season, in my opinion or for a chunk
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: of time, it's not for I played best in the
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: final game.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Of the season, last one for you, Jeff, before we
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: let you run. Because another organization, you know, well as
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: the Kansas City Chiefs. Your brother played there for years
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: and a lot of people are talking.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: About the dynasty is now over.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: They got eliminated from the postseason, and Mahomes is injured,
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: and I mean, as far as I know, he's still
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: coming back next year, and Andy Reid is still there.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they need to do a little bit of retooling.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: But is it food for people to.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Say that the Kansas City And I know the AFC
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: West is improving with the Danver Broncos and the Chargers,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: but people are basically just throwing dirt on the Kansas
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: City Chiefs.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: And I don't really understand it. Jeff, where do you
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: sit on that narrative?
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: Oh? People hate dynasties for some reason. I just like
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: watching good teams play. It's just so funny. Like people
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: are like, how I like the underdog. I'm like, do you?
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: Because we get the ratings for TV when Underdog's play,
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: no one watches them play. I don't want you want
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: like people watch Cowboys Chiefs play, They're not watching Jacksonville,
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: Tennessee play like congratulations on being under I don't get
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: I just don't get at it people loved. I'd rather
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: watch the Chiefs play and watch you know, the best
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: quarterback in football, player Josh Allen, player Joe Burrow play
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: in the playoffs. They being out kind of sticker rather
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: be in the postseason. The Chiefs the number one thing
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: they have to do. And so I can't answer the
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: question now until I see who they hire to be
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: the offensive coordinator. If they Matt Naggy I think will
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: be head coach. It's time for Andy Wait to branch out.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: He needs to get someone from a different coaching tree.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: I'd love to get him some sort of Shanahan McVeigh
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: type and just update the offense. The thing about the
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Shanagan offense, Mcveay offense, whatever, whoever want to give them
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: credit to is obviously you know, Mike Shanahan, but it's
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: they find ways to get easy yards. Formationally bootlegs screams like,
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: it's just get some easy yards. The Chief offense give
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: zero easy yards right now. They do nothing said easy
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: and that's what it has to be updated. You can
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: keep the West Coast passing concepts and some of the
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: stuff he's done over the years, but we gotta find
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: the yard. So if they do that, I feel really good.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: I've really you know, feel good, much better about where
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: they are as an organization. If he just brings back
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: someone from his tree, I feel less excited about where
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: the Chief will be next season.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, it'd be easier to get easy yards if
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: they had a Schwartz brother guarding form and block form.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Still he's Jeff easier, easier if.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: They had Jeremiah Love at running back, but they probably
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: can't drop the nine overall, easier like if they had
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: like a running back and the running backs are not
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: getting a lot of issues with the cheese. But yeah,
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: I mean, look they're gonna lose the Raiders. I guess
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: I don't know. Raiders can't be anybody but go the way. Yeah,
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: it went the way it went this year. It's unfortunate,
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: but I think it's too early to throw on a
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: dynasty grave.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: He is Jeff Schwartz, a Fox Sports radio also with
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: the YouTube channel follow him there. Schwartz is smarter than you.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: As the podcast, He's definitely smarter than us.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: We're smarter now for having talked to him. I know that.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: My new Year's resolution be as smart as Jeff Swartz
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: going into twenty twenty six. Jeff, thanks for doing this
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: here on f and A on FSR THA.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: Here guys, have a good weekend.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: And years later, you know, I feel like I got
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: some brain hatches going on just talking with Jeff there.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Well, you guys are basically basically, you know, all in
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: sympatico when it comes to the Oregon Ducks. I mean,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: you guys just waxing poetically about all your love and
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: affection and how good they're going to do this weekend.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: My god, well you feel the same way. We all
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: have a kinship when it comes to the Ducks and
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: winning this game against Texas Tech.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I thought, Kevin no change my mind. I'm taking them.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: What a hater.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: Through you?
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: No, not in the least.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: Is it just because you have to root for teams
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: named the Raiders? Because you should really stop doing that
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: at some point.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really bad for my health. It's not paying
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: off for me very well.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: The Raiders leave them in twenty twenty five, Kevin, Come on, now,
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: they ever quit them? You're right because they could have
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: the number one overall pick.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Come on, I'm sure they'll find a way to screw
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: that up to No.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Wait a second, Fernando Mendoza could be guy for them
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: and could be the guy we're talking about. Next, when
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: we return to the college football forecast, we'll preview number
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: nine Alabama taking on Indiana right in our own backyard
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: here at the Rose Bowl. Coming up next, this is
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: the Ben Mallor Show. I'm out of Mosley's Kevin figures.
• 34:16
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• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Nice of you guys to drop by FNA COTTONNA, welcome
• 34:23
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• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I'm out of Mosley's Kevin figures.
• 34:27
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• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Thanksgeting Jeff Schwartz for joining us in the last segment
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: talking some NFL and college football. One thing we did
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: talk about was the Rose Bowl Alabama and Indiana coming
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: up from rain. He passed Adena, California on Saturday, Or
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: excuse me, I should I say Saturday? It feels like
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: a college football Saturday on what is it? Thursday afternoon?
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: About the time of year, Adam, where all the days
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: kind of run together. I have no idea what day
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: of the week it is anymore.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: Time of year. It's day one of the New year. Heaven,
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Happy New Year. By the way, it is twenty twenty six,
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: And yes, we got a great matchup right in our
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: own backyard here at the Rose Ball. Was that a
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: sarcastic clap that we got that right? Hey, it's day
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: one of twenty twenty six. Look at it New Year.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: I am bleeping brilliant.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: Look at us figuring things out here on the calendar.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: All right, Kevin said, there is weather a little bit wet,
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: a little bit rainy out there. Who do you think
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: would favor in this matchup?
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Oh? Indiana one thousand percent.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Fyll the way Indiana and I think from a matchup
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: standpoint is should be their favored number one anyway, which
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: they should be, and I think they potentially win this
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: game going away. I realized losing Stephen Daley and the
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: defensive line is a big loss. He's one of their
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: best down defensive linemens, so that's certainly gonna hurt.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: How did he get hurt again?
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: Oh? Unfortunately celebratings with the fans after their victory in
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: the Big Ten game.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Not quite Martine Gramatica, but I mean not that far
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: from it.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: I hate it. Why would the football gods let that happen?
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: Why have you forsaken us like that?
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: He deserves better.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: He does.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: And Alabama's biggest weakness is their offensive line. Indiana's best
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: strength defensively is upfront, So just based on that, if
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: you look at it that way, the major advantage to
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Indiana ty Simpson has been good when he's been protected,
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: and when he's not, he hasn't been Now, I know
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: that's not really something, you know, some crazy thing to
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: throw out thereous it's obvious to if any quarterback doesn't
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: have time to throw. Look at what happened to Julian
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: saying on Friday night, he's not going to be as effective.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: But what you're going to find yourself in if you're
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Alabama is a situation where you couldn't you can't run
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: the ball. You couldn't run the ball even against bad
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: teams this year. That's just something that for whatever reason,
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: they were incapable of doing. So now you're telling me
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: that ty Simpson has to drop back potentially forty five
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: times to beat this Indiana team. That's a recipe for disaster.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: See it happening.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: I'll give Bama this. It was impressive to see them
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: come back against Oklahoma, redeem themselves with that loss at
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: Homes to them during the regular season, and then beat
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: them in the opening round after being down seventeen to nothing.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: But Indiana's it's.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: A different beast in Oklahoma's offense sucks and Alabama struggled
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: against them.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: That's the other side of the ball.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Alabama's defense is this is not Nick Saban's defense, so
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: they have that working against them too.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: Indiana, to me, is the most complete team in this tournament.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: I don't know if they have a rematch against the
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: Ducks how that could go, but we still have to
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: get to that point. Bama is very talented, but as
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: you mentioned, they have an obvious weakness with not being
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: able to run the football. And then if you can
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: pin your ears back and get after Tys Simpson because
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: you know they have to pass it, especially if you
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: get up early in the ballgame, they're in trouble. And
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: I think this could get out of hand. And that's
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: probably why Indiana's minus seven and a half when it
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: comes to the betting odds in this ball game, when
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: you think this is Alabama. When's the last time Alabama
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: in a playoff game since we've had the playoff going
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: back to the fourteen playoff, has been an underdog by
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: seven and a half points.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Have they ever been an underdog in a college football
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: playoff game? They may never have been.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: I know obviously they lost a couple, but I don't
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: know if they've ever actually entered in as a dog before.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: They're the overdog that has the dog in the webcage
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: that has a tiger in there. Typically, but it's not
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: Nick Saban's Alabama team, and they have serious flaws.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: They do, and so it's just really hard to overcome.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: From just a pure football matchup standpoint, what Indiana does
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: best is what Alabama struggles against the most. So just
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: as sometimes it comes down to just being as simple
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: as that. And now, look big game situations. Alabama does
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: have guys who've been on that roster. Ty Simpson is
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: one of them that are from the Nick Saban days.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: It's a program that knows how to win, that's been
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: in big situations, that played in a Rose Bowl a
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: couple of years ago. So I'm not taking that experience
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: factor away from them. But sometimes you can have all
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: the experience in the world if you just ain't good enough,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: you ain't good enough. By the way, go back to
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: Friday Night, same situation with Miami and Ohio State. Ohio
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: State have been there plenty of times over the past
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: couple of years. Miami had not didn't matter.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Okay, I do have to say this in Alabama's favor.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: I don't want to go roll tied with it here,
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: but there was a roll tide. There was a revelation
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: in that game against Oklahoma. H who's this lady brook
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: fella who had two touchdowns, who hadn't scored all season
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: long at receiver. We came into the year talking about
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: Ryan Williams. He hadn't done much, but all of a sudden,
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: Brook balls out against Oklahoma with two spectacular touchdowns, acrobatic plays,
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: showing off the athleticism. Is that something they can tap
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: into a little bit more, because if they're.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Going to make a run.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: I think they are one of those teams because we
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: talk about their flaws, somebody else is going to have
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: to step up and rise up in a big moment
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: here to propel them forward and definitely to get back
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: past Indiana.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, whether it's Brooks, Horton, Bernard, I don't know what
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: happened to Ryan Williams this year. He talks about it
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: at Media Days earlier this week, saying he's just trying
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: to do whatever it takes for the team to win.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: If it means him having a huge game, great, If
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: not great, well you kind of need a little bit
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: more production from a guy who was that dynamic last year.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't love that. I don't answer no.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: I will love him to be more pissed off and
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: be more demonstrated about the fact that he didn't have
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: a good year and he wants to step up and
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: have some big games here in the postseason.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: Like that, Books, you had three losses this season, you
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: almost didn't get in. They definitely needed more from you.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I wasn't necessarily through, he said. I guess
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: quote unquote the right thing about being a team guy. Sure,
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: but it's like, no, I'm one of the best players
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: in the nation. I haven't played well this year. I
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: need to step up be better for my football team Indiana.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: The start contrast in this game, when it comes to
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: running the football, they're tenth in the country. Bama is one.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Twenty, Sobama doesn't even try.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: The other thing is Indiana is number one when it
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: comes to a third down conversion rate, and that's what
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: we saw win this game tonight that we'll talk about
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: more coming up. Miami going seven to fourteen and getting
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: those crucial third downs was the difference in winning that
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: ballgame against Ohio State. More f and a on FSR
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: coming up next,