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

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  Speaker 3: lot of water out here, but you can't even tell it.
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  Speaker 3: I think this field, which, you know, obviously Heinz plays
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  Speaker 3: I think the entire area needed it. All right, so...
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  Speaker 3: Let me get into pivot real quickly. There is a
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  Speaker 3: piece by Matt Zenitz on CBSSports.com. It says, Shador's clouded future.
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  Speaker 3: NFL coaches, execs say Sanders may not even be backup
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  Speaker 3: caliber after telling benching. After Deshaun Watson won Cleveland's starting job,
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  Speaker 3: NFL coaches and front office officials explain why Sanders faces
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  Speaker 3: an uncertain future and why some teams wouldn't trade for
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  Speaker 3: him even if he became This is leading up to
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  Speaker 3: the Browns' preseason game against the Bills last week. There
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  Speaker 3: was a widespread expectation inside the Cleveland building that Deshaun
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  Speaker 3: Watson would prevail over Shador Sanders to win the Cleveland
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  Speaker 3: starting quarterback job. It says while it was fair to
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  Speaker 3: question afterwards whether the sloppy showcase from Watson in that
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  Speaker 3: game and even more so his well-publicized postgame comments could
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  Speaker 3: impact head coach Todd Monken's thought process with the competition.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't end up deterring Munkin from going with the
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  Speaker 3: quarterback he believes clearly gives the Browns the best chance
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  Speaker 3: to win, Watson, whom he officially named as Cleveland's starting
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  Speaker 3: quarterback on Monday morning. It says, however, because of Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: the Browns are left with additional external skeptics that Watson
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  Speaker 3: will have any success as Cleveland's starting quarterback. It also
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  Speaker 3: led to another question among NFL coaching and front office circles.
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  Speaker 3: What's next for Sanders now that he officially lost the competition?
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  Speaker 3: The short answer, there aren't many, if any, NFL front
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  Speaker 3: office staffers that view him as a starting quarterback or
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  Speaker 3: caliber for the National Football League. Quote, him not being
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  Speaker 3: able to beat out Deshaun Watson, who hasn't played in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL in the regular season and in a game
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  Speaker 3: since his first Achilles injury in 2004, is probably telling it.
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  Speaker 3: One NFL front office staffer told CBS Sports, to be clear,
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  Speaker 3: there have been some positives from Sanders the last two
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  Speaker 3: years in Cleveland, including a 24-year year-old finishing 9-4-11 against
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  Speaker 3: the Bills on Saturday with a touchdown pass and interception
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  Speaker 3: that was a byproduct of a catchable pass tipping into
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  Speaker 3: the air off the hands of the intended receiver. There's
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  Speaker 3: also a clear chance he could end up starting at
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  Speaker 3: some point depending on the play of Watson. However, it
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't come as a surprise that the universal expectation around
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  Speaker 3: the league is that the future of the Browns quarterback
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  Speaker 3: room is currently playing for a college team and that
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  Speaker 3: it's not Sanders, Watson, the 2025 third-round pick, Dylan Gabriel,
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  Speaker 3: or rookie six-round selection, Talon Green. There are also even
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  Speaker 3: questions about Sanders fitting and the way he fits as
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  Speaker 3: a backup, including fair or not, because of the celebrity
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  Speaker 3: distraction components that come along with him being such a
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  Speaker 3: high-profile and polarizing figure. I'm going to stop right there
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  Speaker 3: and say this. And, you know, we do this.
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  Speaker 2: We.
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  Speaker 3: Do this. Who is we? People? Y'all?
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  Speaker 1: Me?
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  Speaker 3: Everybody? We do this. What do we do? We make
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  Speaker 3: somebody something they're not. Shador Sanders was never an NFL quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: He wasn't. He just wasn't. But because he was Deion's son,
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  Speaker 3: he was a nice college quarterback. He was a nice
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  Speaker 3: college quarterback. There's a lot of nice college quarterbacks. A
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  Speaker 3: lot of nice college quarterbacks. Look, Danny Warfel was a
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  Speaker 3: nice college quarterback. He won the Heisman, right? And I
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  Speaker 3: say nice. He was very good. Danny Warfel won the
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  Speaker 3: Heisman Trophy at Florida. He was not an NFL quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: And it's okay to say that. Deion Sanders, Hall of Famer, Cowboys, 49ers, Falcons.
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  Speaker 3: We take these guys that are megastars and we want
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  Speaker 3: to turn their kids into Into megastars. Look what we're doing.
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  Speaker 3: Beaver does it all the time with the Mannings. He's
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  Speaker 3: constantly on the Mannings, talking about how good the Mannings
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  Speaker 3: are going to be. Rightfully so, the Mannings are pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: But we take these guys. It's not fair. Shador didn't
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  Speaker 3: do that. I mean, some of this he did himself,
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  Speaker 3: but then he grew up a product of the system
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  Speaker 3: that we have with young athletes and that we want
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  Speaker 3: to make him a superstar. And he was a nice
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  Speaker 3: college quarterback. But he was never going to be, and look,
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  Speaker 3: he'll be on the roster. He's never going to be
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  Speaker 3: a starter in the NFL. It's just not going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: The guy doesn't have it. He doesn't have the moxie.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't have, you know, the ability as far as,
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  Speaker 3: you know, reading defenses. And that's okay to say that
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  Speaker 3: because there's a lot of guys like that. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of guys. Look, what's his name? Manny's guy. Will Levis.
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  Speaker 3: Will Levis is not an NFL quarterback. He's just not.
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  Speaker 3: Kenny Pickett is not an NFL quarterback. These guys were
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  Speaker 3: good college quarterbacks, but they're just not NFL quarterbacks. And
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  Speaker 3: when you throw in on top of the fact all
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  Speaker 3: of the noise that comes with Shador Sanders, it's just
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  Speaker 3: not worth the dime. It's just not. And it's not
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  Speaker 3: just me saying it. NFL executives are not saying it.
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  Speaker 3: Sanders slipping to the fifth round of last year's NFL
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  Speaker 3: draft wasn't just because of some pre-draft team interviews that
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  Speaker 3: reportedly didn't go well or concerns about him being a distraction.
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  Speaker 3: He says, frankly, there were a number of personnel– And
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  Speaker 3: scouting sources who told CBS Sports and other outlets that
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  Speaker 3: during the buildup to last year's draft, they didn't have
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  Speaker 3: starter grades for Sanders. Now, what defines a starter grade?
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  Speaker 3: How you throw the ball. Not just the deep ball.
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  Speaker 3: Not the fade route. It's how you read defenses. It's
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  Speaker 3: how your intermediate game is. It's how are you in
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  Speaker 3: between snaps. It's how are you Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
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  Speaker 3: All the stuff. They're saying he didn't grade right. He
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  Speaker 3: didn't grade. You know, I heard a caller on Doug
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  Speaker 3: Colson's show this morning And I can't even remember who
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  Speaker 3: it was. It was an Alabama fan. And he was
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  Speaker 3: just blown away that A.J. McCarron and some other Alabama
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  Speaker 3: quarterback weren't ever given a shot to be a pro quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't understand why because Joe Montana was. It's because
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  Speaker 3: some guys just aren't cut out to be NFL quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 3: It is a large, large jump to go from college
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  Speaker 3: to NFL quarterback and be really good as an NFL quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: The players are faster. The windows are smaller. The players
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  Speaker 3: are bigger. The scene is bigger. The playbook's more robust.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's so much that goes into it. Some
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  Speaker 3: guys just fit right into it. Jackson Dart fit right
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  Speaker 3: into it. Lamar Jackson fit right into it. It goes
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  Speaker 3: on to say that he didn't have the starting grades
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  Speaker 3: needed to be a starting quarterback just from a skill
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  Speaker 3: set perspective. that questions his capability to be an effective
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  Speaker 3: starter on the NFL level. Though Sanders wound up being
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  Speaker 3: the Browns' starting quarterback for their final eight games of
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  Speaker 3: the season, his quarterback rating, 68.1, ranked last in the
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  Speaker 3: NFL among quarterbacks with more than 22 pass attempts. NFL
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  Speaker 3: sources also still see clear weaknesses in his game just
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  Speaker 3: beyond arm strength. Now, when you say arm strength, you're
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  Speaker 3: not necessarily talking about throwing the ball on a fade
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  Speaker 3: route 50 yards down the field. Arm strength, throwing off platform,
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  Speaker 3: which means kind of cockeyed and sockeyed and throwing it
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  Speaker 3: across the field from one hash to the other and
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  Speaker 3: really putting it in a hole and doing all kinds
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  Speaker 3: of things that you see Patrick Mahomes do and Josh
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  Speaker 3: Allen do and Lamar Jackson and Dak Prescott. He's not
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  Speaker 3: that guy. He's He's not. And it's okay. Will Levinson
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  Speaker 3: isn't that guy either. But I think the NFL is
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  Speaker 3: finally coming up and saying, hey, look, let's stop pretending
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  Speaker 3: Shador Sanders is a starting quarterback in the NFL because
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  Speaker 3: of his last name. He's not a starting quarterback in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: It said, and while many around Sanders describe him as
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  Speaker 3: likable and genuinely being of good character, there have also
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  Speaker 3: been sources critical of the preparation at different points and
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  Speaker 3: who have referenced him as being challenging to manage at times,
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  Speaker 3: including last year, for example, when he knew he wasn't
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  Speaker 3: going to be the starter. He just didn't participate. He
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  Speaker 3: just didn't participate. He knew he wasn't going to be
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  Speaker 3: the starter, so he didn't participate, or he was lackluster
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  Speaker 3: in participation in game preparation. You can't have that. You
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  Speaker 3: just can't. And a lot of that is a byproduct
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  Speaker 3: of what he went through at Colorado. You know, if
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  Speaker 3: Deion wants to kick and scream and do all this stuff,
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  Speaker 3: he can kind of look in the mirror and say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: We'll wrap this up on Shador Sanders real quick. As
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  Speaker 3: articles are out here now and opinions from NFL brass
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  Speaker 3: that he's just not a starting quarterback in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: And he's also a product of the Browns. Let's not
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  Speaker 3: forget that. I mean, their starting quarterback moving forward for
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  Speaker 3: Cleveland is probably still in college, said in this article.
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  Speaker 3: But the Browns have had so many bad, what is it,
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  Speaker 3: we're I've lost count. Over so many years, it was
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  Speaker 3: like 19 or 20, plus you throw in the five here.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Sanders, Watson, Gabriel, pick a guy. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if this franchise is ever going to
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  Speaker 3: get right. I don't know if he's ever. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: here's the thing, and nobody's going to say this out loud.
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  Speaker 3: If I'm one of these quarterbacks, if I'm Darian Mintz
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  Speaker 3: at Miami, Arch Manning at Texas, if I'm Dotsie Moore
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  Speaker 3: at Oregon, Julian Standard at Ohio State, Trinidad Chambliss, I'm
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  Speaker 3: scared to death of getting selected by Cleveland. Something's not
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  Speaker 3: right there. Now, I like Todd Munkin, and I hope
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  Speaker 3: he can get it done there at Cleveland. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Todd Munkin is– and I almost called him Todd like
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  Speaker 3: I knew him. I don't even know Todd Munkin. I'll
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  Speaker 3: probably never meet the guy, and that's all right. Todd
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  Speaker 3: Munkin seems like a good dude, good football coach by
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  Speaker 3: all accords. Pull in for the guy, like to see
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  Speaker 3: winners win. But, yeah, if you're one of the quarterbacks–
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  Speaker 3: in this 2026 class that will be a part of
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  Speaker 3: the 27 draft, you're scared to death. You're like, I'll
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  Speaker 3: go anywhere except Cleveland. I would even go to Miami.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I'd go there. And I love
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  Speaker 3: the Dolphins. Cleveland, though, I don't want to go to
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  Speaker 3: the Cleveland Browns, and I don't want to go to
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  Speaker 3: the New York Jets. I mean, can we trade those
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  Speaker 3: teams out to the UFL and bring two teams up?
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  Speaker 3: All right, Thomas Castellanos, speaking of quarterback, officially joined– this
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  Speaker 3: is wild– This is so wild. There's so many wild
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  Speaker 3: things in college football. Thomas Castellanos, who was at Florida
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  Speaker 3: State last year, and was very marginal. I mean, the
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  Speaker 3: guy's got ability. The guy's got ability. He talks a lot.
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  Speaker 3: He likes to talk about himself. Let me go look
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  Speaker 3: at his stats from last year. Because it was supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be his last year of college football, he left
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  Speaker 3: Boston College and then went over to Florida State.
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  Speaker 2: And....
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  Speaker 3: Thomas Castellanos played in 12 games last year, completed 58.3%
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  Speaker 3: of his passes, 2,760 yards, 15 touchdowns and 9 interceptions, 8.9
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  Speaker 3: yards per attempt. Thomas Castellanos led Florida State in rushing, though,
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  Speaker 3: 137 carries for 557 yards and 9 touchdowns. Now, Florida
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  Speaker 3: State as a team rushed for 2,624 yards. So they
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  Speaker 3: were a 2,500-yard rushing team last year. They didn't have
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  Speaker 3: a dominant back. If you look at Cass Lowness last year,
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  Speaker 3: as a passer in his games, you know, against Alabama,
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  Speaker 3: he was only 9 of 14 for 152 yards, but
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  Speaker 3: he had a big day running the football. His best
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  Speaker 3: passing day of the season... was a loss against Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 3: That was on October 10th. And then East Texas A
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  Speaker 3: & M week two, he threw three touchdowns. All that
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  Speaker 3: to say is he was very average. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 3: a dual threat guy. Thought he was done. Well, he's not.
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  Speaker 3: He is officially a Texas Tech Red Raider. The former
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  Speaker 3: Florida State quarterback remains eligible under the Big 12's new
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  Speaker 3: pro-athlete rules after attending an NFL minicamp without signing a contract.
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  Speaker 3: positioning himself to back up Will Hammond. Now, here's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: So you ask yourself, why would Texas Tech go after
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  Speaker 3: a very average journeyman like Thomas Castellanos? Because they have nothing.
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  Speaker 3: And now look, this would be a heck of a story.
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  Speaker 3: A heck of a story if Thomas Castellanos, because I
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  Speaker 3: think he may end up middle of the season being
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  Speaker 3: the starting quarterback. If Will Hammond who took a serious
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  Speaker 3: injury last year, I believe to his knee. They feel
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  Speaker 3: like he's, you know, the reports, at least if you
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  Speaker 3: read the reports, whatever reports there are, he's getting back
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  Speaker 3: to healthy. He may end up being the starting quarterback
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  Speaker 3: at Texas Tech. It says former Florida State quarterback Thomas
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  Speaker 3: Castellanos is signed with Texas Tech out of the transfer
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  Speaker 3: portal just days after a Kentucky judge granted a temporary
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  Speaker 3: injunction in an eligibility lawsuit that included Castellanos and former
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  Speaker 3: Missouri basketball standout Mark Mitchell. Because Castellanos has an injunction,
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  Speaker 3: he will not be affected by the new ruling in
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  Speaker 3: the Colorado lawsuit that took away eligibility for qualified athletes
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  Speaker 3: in the class of 2022. And it's key he had
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  Speaker 3: not signed a contract. He was in NFL minicamp, but
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  Speaker 3: had not signed a contract. And that is key when
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  Speaker 3: you start differentiating between Thomas Castellanos and then maybe Lane Kiffin,
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  Speaker 3: who's down here trying to get lawsuits and get everything
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  Speaker 3: up in a tizzy and burn the whole house down.
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  Speaker 3: He says, more importantly, as it relates to his decision
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  Speaker 3: to play for Texas Tech, Castellanos would still be eligible
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  Speaker 3: even after the Big 12 Conference unanimously adopted the rule
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  Speaker 3: barring institutions from fielding professional athletes. The 5'9 Castellanos competed
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  Speaker 3: as a wide receiver during the Miami Dolphins rookie minicamp
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  Speaker 3: in May 2019. But because he went undrafted and did
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  Speaker 3: not sign a contract with Miami, he will be eligible
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  Speaker 3: to play this fall. League spokesperson or league spokespeople told
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  Speaker 3: CBS Sports Richard Johnson, the Big 12 made the announcement
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  Speaker 3: on Wednesday, hours after Castellanos committed to Texas Tech, about
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  Speaker 3: the pro players. So, you know, he'll have an opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: This gives Texas Tech some depth at quarterback. And I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be surprised to see him at some point be
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  Speaker 3: the starting quarterback for Texas Tech. 601-885-3776. That is the
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  Speaker 3: put a piece out. It says, Ryan Day didn't intend
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: to be prophetic. It says, while this gathering of boosters
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: inside the Covelli Center and the of Ohio State's athletics
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: campus four years ago was about pushing business opportunities for
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: athletes in the midst of a new world order in
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: college sports, it offered insight into the changing ecosystem or ecosystem.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: The Buckeyes head coach provided the roughly 100 local stakeholders
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: with An incisive figure, $ 13 million. $ 13 million. This was
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: back a couple years ago. That's how much name, image,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: and likeness money the Buckeyes needed to retain the bulk
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: of its roster in 2022. Quote, if the speed limit's
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: 45 miles per hour and you drive 45 miles per hour,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: a lot of people are going to pass you by,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: they said at the time. If you go too fast,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: you're going to get pulled over. Ohio State won the
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: national championship two years ago. And two years later, its
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: ballyhooed $ 20 million roster was the talk of college football
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: and representative of the increasing commercialization of the enterprise. But
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: with the 2026 campaign set to kick off this weekend
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: in week zero, that old figure might presently make the
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Buckeyes competitive at the high end of the group of six,
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: let alone the power four. Put that in perspective. Think
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: about that. What Ohio State won the national championship with
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: dollar-wise was This year, that's what you're looking at if
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: you want to be Boise. If you want to be
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  Speaker 3: that group of six teams that's going to possibly make
• 21:16
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• 23:14
  Speaker 3: how's your Thursday, sir?
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Thursday's Thursday. I always tell when it's football season because
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Thursday is usually my busiest day for media, busiest days
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: for MyBookie, busiest days for Doc Sports. So on Thursdays, Thursday, like,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: in about 45 minutes, I can guarantee you I'll have
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: a cocktail in my hand.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: There is no doubt. There's no doubt. Yeah, there's a
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: large slate of FCS games. Let me ask you this.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Do people around the country, is there, you know, maybe
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: even on a weekend like this weekend where you've got,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: you know, some week zero matchups, 7-8-9, do people play
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: a lot of FCS football?
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: They're starting to, because don't forget, about three years ago, like,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: all the sportsbooks, DraftKings, FanDuel, they finally started putting up
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: For FCS, normally they would just put the TV games
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: on there. Now, I tell people to be very cautious
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: when it comes to FCS games because oddsmakers move these
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: numbers a lot quicker than they move college football and NFL.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: You figure some of these games, I'll just use an example, Illinois,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Eastern Illinois, Murray State. If I bet $ 500 on Murray
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: State at $ 4. 50, they might move that number to $ 5. 50.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: If I bet $ 500 on UNLV versus Memphis, They're not
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: going to do nothing to that game of $ 500. You
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: have to be very cautious on line movement when you're
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: looking at FCS compared to college football and NFL.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: And what's the methodology behind that for them moving FCS
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: on a subsequent amount of money that wouldn't move, like
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: you said, a Memphis or.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Because they're getting very, very, very few action, and if
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: they are, they're getting one-side action. So if that Eastern
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Illinois Murray State, it's at Murray State, opened up at 2.5.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: It's right now 4.5. So you figure all the money
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: is probably on the home team Murray State. So if
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: someone wants to bet, let's say, $ 1, 000, $ 500 to $ 1, 000,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: and he bets Murray State, they're going to move it
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: a full point to get 5.5 so they can get
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: money at Eastern Illinois a lot quicker than they would
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: if they just moved it a half a point because
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: you figure FCS home field advantage is probably more heavily
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: bet-wise than it is for just a normal college football. Again,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Memphis UNLV, a lot of Memphis money coming in. They're
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: at the Death Star. They're in Las Vegas compared to
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Eastern Illinois where they're at Murray State.
• 25:34
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  Speaker 3: the promo code patio. All right, so we were talking yesterday,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: me and you, about this North Carolina TCU game. It
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: looks like it's kind of holding serve right now. This
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: line's moved a couple points this week.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it has. Mostly, like I said, 9.5 is pretty
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: much out there. But then FanDuel moved it, I think,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: maybe an hour ago back to 8.5. So now it's
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: a perfect middle spot still available. If you want to
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: take TCU, let's say, at 8.5 because I still think
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: and me and you both agreed on this last night,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: and me and you both agreed on it last week.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: This is going to be a solid 10 by Saturday.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Even though one book moved it to 8.5, FanDuel might
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: have just moved that to try to maybe they got
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: a heavy bet. Maybe Bill Belichick's girlfriend and sorority all
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: bet on FanDuel and bet money on North Carolina, which
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: was trying to get buyback on that. But I still
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: think TCU is going to be heavily, heavily bet. I
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: still think if you're going to bet, bet the first half.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Are we underselling, say we, the betting community and maybe
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: even just people that pick? NC State, I know Virginia
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: played for the ACC title game last year against Duke.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: NC State's been, you know, they kind of had an
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: off year last year. They've been a solid ACC program.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: They're a four-point dog on the road. It feels like
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: this may be a situation, especially early, where the wrong
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: team might be favored.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this game, for some odd reason, every game on
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Saturday's board, this one smells trapped to me. I mean,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: this one says, why is Virginia at home not five
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: and a half close to a six? I don't understand that.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: So this is a game that I can't wait to watch.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Like I said, I have a handful of games next
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: week and this week. I just want to watch and
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: see why this number is so I can maybe take
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: notes and maybe look down the road and bet this team.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Maybe because, okay, I saw week zero and how they played.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Maybe this is a team I'm going to play for
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: now on. This smells fishy, and I don't like fishy
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: games at week zero.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Robbie, as far as we're talking, week zero, Thursday edition
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: of the program. All right, so Jacksonville State, Sacramento State,
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: we talked a little bit about this last night, but
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: I'm asking you this today. Are you interested in either
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: one of these teams?
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: North Dakota State, the brand-new Mountain West team. North Dakota State.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: I'm very interested to see what they do because there's
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: a lot of new teams in the Mountain West that
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: shouldn't be there. Northern Illinois, what are we talking about?
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: But North Dakota State, can they hang around with UNLV
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: and everyone else in the Mountain West?
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I'm going to be very.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Interested to see what this North Dakota State, which just
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: lined open at 10 North Dakota State, and now it's seven,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: six and a half out there. So some Jacksonville State
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: money coming in.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't pretend to know about the financial backing
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: of North Dakota State. We've talked about Sacramento State and
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: the money coming out there in Sacramento, California. But North
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Dakota State, a very proud program, obviously coming out of
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: the FCS. They've won titles. They've been competitive. You would
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: think that taste that they have in their mouth, so
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: to speak, for victory. I'll be interested to see what
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: they do moving forward as far as money that they
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: put into NIL, money that they put into facilities. and
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: how big a player North Dakota State possibly could become
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: in the next five to ten years.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: I agree with you. I did an interview for a
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Mountain West conference, I think it was last weekend, and
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: I talked about North Dakota State, even if they weren't
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: in the Mountain West, they still get people that want
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: to go there because they've won there. It doesn't matter
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: if it was not Division I, but they still won championships.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what school you go to, you still
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: play for championships. So it's going to be very interesting.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I think they recruit well now that they're in the
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Mountain West because they're I think they're going to be
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: better than Hawaii. I don't think they're going to be
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: better than New Mexico and UNLV, but I have them
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: maybe coming in third place in the Mountain West, maybe beating,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I'll play in Hawaii and Wyoming, UTEP, San Jose State.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: I'm just getting a school. Oh, Northern Illinois. So I
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: think they're going to be better than those schools.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: And, of course, the nightcap, UNLV, Memphis, UNLV minus four
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: and a half. Dan Mullen says he's going to play
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: two quarterbacks. This will be interesting on several accords. Dan Mullen,
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: is a guy that a lot of publications feel like
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: if he has the right kind of year, he could
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: be back in the FBS next year with a job opening. Memphis,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: they have a new coach. Memphis has gone through a
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: couple coaches now with Charles Huff who should continue that success.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, this is not your grandfather's Memphis where they
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: were a 2-10 ball team every year. They're very competitive.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: I'm very interested in this ballgame.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, even though Memphis has a lot of new faces,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: especially on defense, but you know what? They have a
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: running back that went to the Ohio State, and I
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: think they're going to be able to run the ball.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Memphis always runs the ball. It doesn't matter who they
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: have in the backfield. And if they can run on UNLV,
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I think they can put some points on the board.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: That's why I think we see a lot of points
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: scored on this one. Puzzling that this total drops two points.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: opened up at 58-and-a-half, now 56-and-a-half. I like UNLV. I
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: still think they go with Sam Arnold, the old Auburn quarterback.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: I think he has majority of the snaps. But I
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: think it's going to be a lot closer game.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: What else is going on this weekend?
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: College Football Week Zero. Championship Little League World Series. That's
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: enough said. I mean, yes, we have UFC Japan. I
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: think at 6 in the morning. Can't believe I have
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: to watch MMA still drinking coffee, but that's going to
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: be interesting. But It's college football week zero.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Hey, who's favorite to win the Little League World Series?
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: I think right now I think the International. They had
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: some really good showings yesterday and today, so it's going
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: to be very interesting to see if the U.S. can
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: go back-to-back. They won last year.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Hey, make sure to find him on VSL.Sports. You can
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• 31:16
  Speaker 3: He's everywhere. He's Rafael Esparza. Esparza, have a great weekend.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: We talk next week. We'll have a load of games
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: to talk about.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Take it easy. Have a good weekend.
• 31:24
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• 32:42
  Speaker 3: All right, a man is charged with posing as a
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: San Francisco 49er wide receiver to con at least 26
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: women out of over $ 1. 3 million. Authorities have charged a
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: man who pretended to be a San Francisco 49ers wide
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: receiver with defrauding over two dozen women out of over $ 1. 3 million.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: The Department of Justice reported that authorities arrested Dajon Labre...
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Is it? Yeah, Dejan Labre Love, 35, and his alleged
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: accomplice Taylor Jamie Chan, 18, at a Boise, Idaho airport.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: According to a federal complaint filed in Portland, Oregon, prosecutors
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: charged the two men with wire fraud and conspiracy to
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: commit wire fraud. Quote, the scheme relied on Love's creation
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: of a fictitious persona and display of a lavish lifestyle
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: which Love realized presented to victims both in person and
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: on social media websites. The U.S. Attorney's Office said in
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: a statement, quote, Love convinced many of these victims they
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: were in sincere romantic relationships with Love, that he was
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: a sophisticated investor, and that Chan was his investment advisor
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: who helped Love grow a fortune worth tens of millions
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: of dollars. Now, this is the first I've read of this.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: It doesn't say this yet, but I would guarantee you
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: that these guys probably acted like they were crypto bros, right?
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, if I had to guess. They had a
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: fake Instagram account that made it look like he was
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: a 49ers football player, the San Francisco 49ers. On Instagram,
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Love showcased himself as a wide receiver for the San
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Francisco 49ers. He claimed he was not selected in the
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: NFL draft, but eventually made the team as a free agent.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: The Los Angeles Times reports that In an Instagram story
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: titled NFL Journey, Love held a 49ers helmet while driving
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: and said, I'm on my way to get my mom.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: I know I get a lot of fans who want
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: to know how football works or how I got involved
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: in the league. If you know me and see me
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: in person, I'll explain. I chose San Francisco because it
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: was the right time. I was kind of already living
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: in the Bay, and it just worked out for me.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Holy mother of world. So what kind of women... I
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: got so many questions about this story, and I'm looking
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: at this guy's Instagram account. He's got somewhere around 7,000 followers,
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: and he's got some photos, just normal photos. He's got
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: some guy, looks like he played in college, a photo
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: of that, some post-up pictures on some cars. He does
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: have a 49ers helmet. Of course, you can get that anywhere.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: It goes on to say, love romantically involved himself. with
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: many of the alleged victims, and he expressed his desire
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: to build wealth and a future with them. Love promoted
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: investment entities that didn't exist and said they would yield
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: enormous profits for both him and his victims. Additionally, Love
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: created fake bank and investment accounts and balances using phone applications,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: which he presented to the victims in order to legalize
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: the scam. Chan also claimed to serve as Love's investor.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: investment advisor in online investment-related communications. Quote, once victims had
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: no more money to invest or if they asked too
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: many questions, Love blocked communication with them but kept their money.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: The U.S. Attorney's Office continued, quote, one of the victims
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: identified and interviewed, none reported receiving any proceeds, returns on
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: their principal or investment account information after sending Love and
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Chan money. Financial records show Love and Chan received about $ 1. 3
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: million from victim investors. 26 victims have been identified, and
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: the FBI believes there are many more victims. What a
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: story this is. I mean, and it's an elaborate story, too, right?
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: You think about it. Two guys get together. Says, hey,
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: I'm going to pose as a San Francisco 49er. I
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: didn't get drafted. I chose San Francisco. It was the
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: right time. I just have to wonder about the women involved.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: that obviously he was good at identifying weak women, weak-minded women.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: And I don't mean that in a misogynistic way. I mean,
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: it's true. I mean, most well-put-together women are not going
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: to fall for a scam like this. And then why
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: would you give this guy the money? Because odds are
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: they probably never even met the guy in person. I mean,
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: he may have met a couple just to kind of
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: make it legitimate. The 12 hardest places to play in
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: all of American sports. Let's go through a list here.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Put together. Tiger Stadium LSU is one, and we know
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: how hard it is. Literally nicknamed Death Valley. Tiger Stadium
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: creates one of the loudest environments in all of sports.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Beaver Stadium at Penn State, the land of Happy Valley.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: Opposing teams are usually anything but. Beaver Stadium annually hosts
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: one of the most iconic nights in American sports, the, quote, whiteout.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke. We know how hard it is
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: and has been for decades to play there. Allen Fieldhouse
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  Speaker 3: in Kansas. We're talking college basketball. The inventor of basketball
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  Speaker 3: was once a coach at the university, so there's an
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  Speaker 3: expectation to defend his territory. Madison Square Gardens, the New
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  Speaker 3: York Knicks, and that's been a revived place since the
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  Speaker 3: resurgence of the Knicks in the NBA. Golden One Center,
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  Speaker 3: Sacramento Kings. It says, if you haven't heard of the
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  Speaker 3: crowd pop from Kevin Hueter's lead-taking three against the Jazz
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  Speaker 3: in a regular season game, you can't comment on this pick.
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  Speaker 3: The The light, the beam, the culture has absolutely supercharged
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  Speaker 3: this place recently, and fans have shown out for a
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  Speaker 3: team that has not had much on-court success. The steep
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  Speaker 3: seating and tight acoustics makes this arena extremely loud and
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  Speaker 3: tough to step into. Century Bell, Montreal Canadiens. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to pass on this. I don't know anything about hockey,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm just going to believe that this is true. Also,
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  Speaker 3: Livono Center, Carolina Hurricanes. I'm going to pass on that
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  Speaker 3: one as well. Fenway Park, Boston Red Sox. We know
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  Speaker 3: when the Sox are hot how hard this place is
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  Speaker 3: to play. It has been for decades in baseball. Oracle Park,
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  Speaker 3: the San Francisco Giants. You could say the same thing
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  Speaker 3: about that park and the Giants. When they've had really
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: good teams, that's been a tough place to go into.
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  Speaker 3: Lambeau Field, Green Bay Packers. And let's see here. Also,
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: Lumen Field, Seattle Seahawks. As they hold a sign up,
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: it says Louder 12s. So that's always... It seems like
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: a tough place to play in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 3: We do appreciate Rafael Esparza, and we appreciate Michael Katz
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  Speaker 3: jumping in again. We'll be back with you tomorrow on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have Heinz football for you coming up here in
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: a little over an hour. 6 o'clock pregame show coming
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: your way. Let me grab some notes real quick here
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  Speaker 3: while we've got about one minute. If you're just joining us,
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: just some notes that are out there. Let's see here.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: South Carolina's Shane Beamer continues to clown himself. As he
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: tells Chris Lowe, quote, there's a very quiet confidence on
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: this team heading into the season. Quote, we showed in
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: 2024 that we can accomplish everything here. And again, I
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: want to continue to say this. In 2024, they went 9-4.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't even play for the Southeastern Conference. They played
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: in a mid-level bowl game. What is he talking about?
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: What did they accomplish? Shane Beamer is an idiot. Hey, remember,
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: ketchup is king, bacon's a delicacy, aloha means goodbye. Be
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: a man of increase. We've reached the crescendo for this show.
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  Speaker 3: See you in an hour. We'll have Heinz Eagle football
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: for you tonight. Back in a bit.
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