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NFL Season Kickoffs Tonight, Baker Mayfield’s $165M Extension, and LSU and Kiffin Fold to SEC but Trolls · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to The Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: The season is here. Hallelujah. Football is back.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously college football has been back, but now we have
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  Speaker 2: the NFL, so it is officially football season.
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  Speaker 1: And I am personally so grateful.
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  Speaker 2: It kicks off tonight and we've got an incredible matchup
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  Speaker 2: to enjoy. First game of the season is a rematch
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  Speaker 2: of the Super Bowl. The Patriots will be looking for
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  Speaker 2: revenge against the Seahawks, who beat New England 29-13 in
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  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, Super Bowl 60 in the San Francisco area.
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  Speaker 2: I was not at the Super Bowl, but I was
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  Speaker 2: in San Francisco for the Super Bowl. And I think
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  Speaker 2: it will be an interesting one. Both teams, obviously... Had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of key turnovers this offseason, and it makes
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  Speaker 2: it more interesting because it really isn't a direct Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl rematch when you talk about some of the key
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  Speaker 2: pieces that aren't there anymore in the additions that they
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  Speaker 2: both teams have added. A quote from defensive lineman Leonard
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  Speaker 2: Williams said, I don't think a single person in the
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  Speaker 2: building is patting themselves on the back for what we
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  Speaker 2: did last year. I think everybody in the building understands
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  Speaker 2: we have to start from the bottom all over again
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  Speaker 2: to get to the top of that mountain.
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  Speaker 1: We have to start at the bottom.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot to be watching for in this starting
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  Speaker 2: game for the 2026 NFL season.
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  Speaker 1: A.J. Brown's debut. Now, A.J.
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  Speaker 2: Has been a point of contention for media, for fans,
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  Speaker 2: and now he has a new destination. He, I won't
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  Speaker 2: say has a lot to prove, but people are going
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  Speaker 2: to be watching to see how this performance goes.
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  Speaker 1: And I do think that they need to get him
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  Speaker 1: the rock early.
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  Speaker 2: Darian Price is replacing Kenneth Walker III and filling in
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  Speaker 2: for injured Zach Charbonnet.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of pressure on the rookie for Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: Drake Mays' development beyond how Brown and Romeo Dobbs are
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  Speaker 2: incorporated into the offense. I want to see him continue
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  Speaker 2: to improve over his first two seasons and without running
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  Speaker 2: back Travion Henderson for this game. So Ramondre Stevenson will
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  Speaker 2: be shouldering the rushing load Mike Frabel, obviously, has been
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  Speaker 2: in the news this offseason. Mike McDonald, a Super Bowl winner,
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  Speaker 2: a very hard-knocks old-school guy, but will he be able
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  Speaker 2: to continue to deliver, especially coming off of a massive
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl win? Now, New England has lost four of
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  Speaker 2: its last five season openers. Coach Frabel has a 2-5
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  Speaker 2: record in season openers. For some of you gambling folk
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  Speaker 2: out there, that's an interesting little nugget.
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  Speaker 1: Again, A.J.
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  Speaker 2: Brown making his debut, I think is very important. You
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  Speaker 2: want to get him off on the right foot in
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  Speaker 2: New England. And with all of the conversations surrounding his
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  Speaker 2: departure from Philadelphia, he is one of, I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think is kind of looked over as one of the
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  Speaker 2: best receivers in the league. And to pair him with
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  Speaker 2: Drake May and get him back with Mike Vrabel is,
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's a.
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  Speaker 1: Very interesting concoction.
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  Speaker 2: And people are going to have a lot of eyes
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  Speaker 2: on the Patriots this year after the way that their
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  Speaker 2: season finished last year when no one really expected them
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  Speaker 2: to be in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold, how is he going to look?
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  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold has finally defeated the ghost, got a Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl win, shut everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Up, including myself. What's he do this year? Now, does
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  Speaker 1: he have to do anything this year after what he
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  Speaker 1: did last year? I don't really know, but he is.
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  Speaker 2: Won 14 starts and thrown for more than 4,000 yards
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  Speaker 2: in each of the last two seasons. So he has
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  Speaker 2: been on a roll and he is coming off the
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  Speaker 2: highest of highs.
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  Speaker 1: So I think this is a great Super Bowl rematch.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of interesting new storylines, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of pieces to pay attention to, and I will
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  Speaker 2: be locked in. Staying in the NFL, it came down
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  Speaker 2: to literally the last day.
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  Speaker 1: I see you. I see you, Baker. Buccaneers got their guy.
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  Speaker 2: I had a feeling that this was going to get done,
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  Speaker 2: even if it did go into the season, although Baker
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  Speaker 2: said he was done talking about it. We've heard that
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  Speaker 2: a million different times when it comes to these contract negotiations.
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  Speaker 2: But Baker is locked up for three more seasons after
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  Speaker 2: this year with an extension reportedly worth $ 165 million. They
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  Speaker 2: did cease negotiations after Baker reportedly turned down a two-year
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  Speaker 2: deal worth $ 50 million a year. So this deal will
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  Speaker 2: pay him $ 55 million a year over time.
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  Speaker 1: Three seasons.
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  Speaker 2: He is 31 years old. So that puts him in
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  Speaker 2: the same bracket as Matthew Stafford, Josh Allen, Jordan Love,
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  Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence, and Joe Burrow.
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  Speaker 1: And to his credit, he never said he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: reset the market.
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  Speaker 2: He just wanted to be compensated for what he accomplished
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  Speaker 2: in Tampa Bay, the two straight NFC division titles and
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  Speaker 2: a playoff victory. I think that Baker deserved to be paid.
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  Speaker 2: I was actually kind of shocked that it took this
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  Speaker 2: long to get it done. He is clearly the franchise
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  Speaker 2: guy there. He is beyond proven himself. He's clearly a different,
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  Speaker 2: more mature player than he was in Cleveland and in
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  Speaker 2: his stints.
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  Speaker 1: Around the league. And I think this is the right
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  Speaker 1: choice for both of them.
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  Speaker 2: Bucks owner Joe Glazer said in a statement that Baker's
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  Speaker 2: arrival marked an important new chapter for the organization. And
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  Speaker 2: over the past three years, he's established himself as the
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  Speaker 2: unquestioned leader of our franchise. I always thought that after
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  Speaker 2: the deal was signed, right? This contract, the largest in
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  Speaker 2: the history of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, reflects our belief
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  Speaker 2: in Baker, his leadership on and off the field, his
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  Speaker 2: competitive spirit, resilience, and commitment to winning, embody everything we
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  Speaker 2: want in our players. You know, with the contract negotiations,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, look, you're trying to save money and someone's
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  Speaker 2: trying to make money.
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  Speaker 1: So no one's going to end up being completely happy.
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  Speaker 2: As you quote my good friend Shady, you should walk
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  Speaker 2: away from a negotiation both not getting what you want
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  Speaker 2: and getting something that you wanted.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like this is a deal Baker can
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  Speaker 1: feel good about.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that long-term on the Bucs side if things
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  Speaker 2: don't end up working out this year. So I think
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  Speaker 2: the guys in Baker's tax bracket have deals longer than
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  Speaker 2: four years. So the money and the length seems to
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  Speaker 2: fit for both Baker and the Bucs.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is a good deal.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is the right thing to do to
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  Speaker 2: not have this hovering over your quarterback going into the
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  Speaker 2: season and having him betting on himself when Baker's accomplished
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  Speaker 2: what he has there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it just, it makes sense to me.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, a dramatic weekend at LSU with the beatdown
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  Speaker 2: of Clemson and the SEC freaking out over what Lane.
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  Speaker 1: Kiffin has been talking about with these two.
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  Speaker 2: Players that were with the NFL and decided to try
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  Speaker 2: to come back and play for LSU, Daquan Wright and
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  Speaker 2: Zavian Harris. had signed NFL contracts before attempting to return
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  Speaker 2: to the school and being allowed to play. They did
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  Speaker 2: not actually play, obviously, in the NFL or any preseason games,
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  Speaker 2: but it has clicked up an insane amount of controversy.
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  Speaker 2: And basically the SEC threatened to kick them out of
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  Speaker 2: the conference, which was never going to happen. But they
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  Speaker 2: sent very, obviously, a very, very, very clear message to
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  Speaker 2: LSU that they weren't playing around. And LSU has folded.
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  Speaker 2: They have decided not to add the two players. They
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  Speaker 2: have added two more players to their roster. So it
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  Speaker 2: will complete it at 105 players and that will lock
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  Speaker 2: the roster for the rest of the year. And that
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  Speaker 2: eliminates the program's ability to add Daquan Wright and Zavian Harris.
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  Speaker 2: This is a report according to football insider, Pete Thamel
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  Speaker 2: of ESPN. So, so ends the saga of, Lane Kiffin
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  Speaker 2: and the pro players. But before it ended, he still
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  Speaker 2: got a couple little jabs in at halftime when they
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  Speaker 2: were beating Clemson. He said, imagine if we had pro players.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing about Lane Kiffin. He's going to troll.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to troll. He's going to kick up dust.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to cause problems. He's going to ruffle feathers.
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  Speaker 2: And he is consistent with that. He is the bad
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  Speaker 2: boy of college football right now. He's the villain. And
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  Speaker 2: he's a proper one at that.
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  Speaker 1: And I love it. I'm okay with it. Listen, it's
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  Speaker 1: not affecting me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here for it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not affecting me or my school. So I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited that Lane is behaving badly and upsetting the
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  Speaker 2: SEC to the point where they're quoting their constitution and
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  Speaker 2: threatening to kick LSU out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that that is going to have some more fallout.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's upset a lot of really big time
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  Speaker 2: college football people. And yeah, I mean, listen, this is
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  Speaker 2: the drama, right? There's never a dull moment in college football.
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  Speaker 2: There's always guys trying to find ways around the rules.
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  Speaker 2: There's always guys trying to find loopholes to win. The
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  Speaker 2: pressure is immense and it's only going to get worse now.
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  Speaker 2: They have Ole Miss just around the corner. That's going
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  Speaker 2: to be an absolute must watch for the ages. And
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  Speaker 2: they started off with absolutely thumping Clemson after, of course,
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  Speaker 2: Dabo has climbed up on his high horse and He's
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  Speaker 2: soapboxing about doing things the right way. And listen, you
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  Speaker 2: should follow the rules, right? You should play fair. But
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  Speaker 2: Dabo consistently talks about how he doesn't like NIL and
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't want to pay players and they do things
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  Speaker 2: differently there. Well, doing things differently, honey, got you completely
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  Speaker 2: whooped on 51 to 10.
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  Speaker 1: Nasty work.
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  Speaker 2: And Clemson's fall off has been tremendous and you're not
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  Speaker 2: proving anything. by doing things the old school way when
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  Speaker 2: times have changed. And I always want to reiterate, this
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  Speaker 2: is the NCAA's fault.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever mayhem is.
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  Speaker 2: Going on with NIL, with these rules, with understanding the
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  Speaker 2: very thin line between pro and amateur anymore is the
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  Speaker 2: NCAA's fault.
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  Speaker 1: They knew this was coming. Everyone knew this was coming.
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  Speaker 1: This was not a secret.
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  Speaker 2: Once you could make money on the internet using your face,
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  Speaker 2: and your name image likeness, this was an inevitable outcome.
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  Speaker 2: Once people were getting hundreds of thousands of subscribers on
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  Speaker 2: their YouTube page, you are not going to tell young
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  Speaker 2: people that they cannot make money from social media, from
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  Speaker 2: branding while you guys are breaking in billions.
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  Speaker 1: It makes no sense. It never did.
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  Speaker 2: And now there are, there's laws protecting them. And listen,
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  Speaker 2: when these changes happen, there is an adjustment period and
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  Speaker 2: it has.
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  Speaker 1: Taken a while.
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  Speaker 2: And there are still a lot of old school people
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  Speaker 2: pushing back on NIL and how things should be run.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's wildly egotistical.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's incredibly coded because they do not want
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  Speaker 2: these kids making money. They do not want parents involved.
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  Speaker 2: They do not want these kinds of changes happening.
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  Speaker 1: But it's here.
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  Speaker 2: So rather than fighting it, rather than trying to manipulate
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  Speaker 2: the situation into something old school something that doesn't exist
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  Speaker 2: anymore adjust with the times and listen lane saw loophole
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  Speaker 2: and he tried to take it and they obviously shut
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  Speaker 2: it down and we're all moving forward but i think
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  Speaker 2: it's just and then it's another chapter in this you
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  Speaker 2: know wild wild west of the nil and why people
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  Speaker 2: will not just figure it out they need to just
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  Speaker 2: figure it out college college football specifically is at such
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  Speaker 2: a weird place right now when it comes to these
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  Speaker 2: kinds of conversations about what is pro and what is
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  Speaker 2: fair and how to do things. And I remind everyone
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  Speaker 2: that NIL is not just college football. It's all of
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  Speaker 2: college sports. It benefits everyone. And the way that college
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  Speaker 2: football is run is wildly different than these other sports.
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  Speaker 2: Just the money that they bring in, the amount of scholarships,
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  Speaker 2: the amount of humans that it requires to run one
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  Speaker 2: of these top level programs.
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  Speaker 1: It's like astronomical. So I just.
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  Speaker 2: Don't have a lot of sympathy for how chaotic it
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  Speaker 2: has gotten because I feel like it could have been avoidable.
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  Speaker 2: At least a lot of it could have been avoidable
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  Speaker 2: and there could have been guardrails in place that made
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  Speaker 2: things a lot simpler. And they just simply didn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: They just passed the buck and here we are. Lane
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  Speaker 2: trolling everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine if we had pro players.
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  Speaker 2: Love it.
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