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Hour Two | Eligibility Court Drama & SEC Week 1 Slate · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Where the plays get broken down and science gets denied.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, they said I got to come off the bench.
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  Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench, live from the Raising
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  Speaker 1: Cane Studio.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in.
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  Speaker 2: OTB live from Rouse's little football Friday here. Football.
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  Speaker 3: Football.
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  Speaker 2: Actual football.
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  Speaker 3: With the ball and everything?
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  Speaker 2: In the stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Not in the corner.
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  Speaker 2: Ball will soon be placed on tee. Because I know
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  Speaker 2: you don't like boot meets ball.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Trying that one out. How'd it go?
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  Speaker 3: Tee on the grass.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Nope.
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  Speaker 3: So we do have that. So the entire stadium is
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  Speaker 3: going to be rocking.
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  Speaker 2: We do. And college game day is going to be rocking.
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  Speaker 2: The campus is already rocking. Like, just trust me, go
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  Speaker 2: down anywhere close to campus if you want to find
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  Speaker 2: yourself in a parking lot. Not like in an actual
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  Speaker 2: parking lot, but because you can't really go anywhere. The
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  Speaker 2: buzz is real. It's going to be fantastic. And love it,
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  Speaker 2: hate it, agree, disagree, whatever, whatever. Once that does happen,
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  Speaker 2: once you wake up tomorrow, for a short period of time,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's a day, you are going to forget about courtrooms,
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  Speaker 2: court cases, Commissioner Sankey, all of this. Because you're going
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  Speaker 2: to be focused on the actual game, the actual stadium,
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  Speaker 2: the LSU Tigers versus the Clemson Tigers. And you get
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  Speaker 2: to escape and you get to go watch the game
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  Speaker 2: that we've all been waiting for. Since Brian Kelly got fired,
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  Speaker 2: not just like since the end, but since Brian Kelly
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  Speaker 2: got fired, we've all been waiting for that. Once Lane
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  Speaker 2: Kiffin was announced as the head coach, we've all been
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  Speaker 2: circling this date. We've been looking forward to this date.
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  Speaker 2: We've been trying to find a path to get here quicker.
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  Speaker 2: How do we get there? We want to be in
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  Speaker 2: that stadium. So tomorrow when you wake up, You're going
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  Speaker 2: to do just that. It's going to be about football. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I can't promise you what Sunday and Monday and Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: Is this show going to continue talking about court cases?
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  Speaker 2: It's probably not. Just not our MO. It's not really
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  Speaker 2: what we do. But for a little short period of time,
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  Speaker 2: I think everyone's going to be able to escape away
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  Speaker 2: from the court cases and the drama.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that's been the most frustrating part about this thing.
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  Speaker 3: I get it.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter what side you like, where your opinion
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  Speaker 4: is with whether or not LSU should or could or shouldn't, whatever.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't really matter. The frustrating part for everybody on
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  Speaker 4: either side of the opinion has been it's a couple
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  Speaker 4: of days away from the first game that we have
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  Speaker 4: all been dying for. Ever since Lane was announced as
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  Speaker 4: the head coach for LSU, we've been waiting for Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Right. All of it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's cool to see them work in the transfer portal. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's cool to see a five-minute media period from training
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  Speaker 4: camp practice or spring ball practice, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: All that's cool. But we've been waiting on Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: And for whatever reason, all this has transpired in the
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  Speaker 4: last few weeks, last few days, and all we've been
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  Speaker 4: able to talk about or hear about or think about
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  Speaker 4: has been this court battle over two players.
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  Speaker 3: I get it. It's more than that. All right, just
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  Speaker 3: proving a point here.
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  Speaker 2: It's like 40.
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  Speaker 4: But we've been wanting so badly to talk about football
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  Speaker 4: and get to football, and we're almost there. And just
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  Speaker 4: like any big-time news story that comes across and steals
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  Speaker 4: the attention of everybody, everything, every show, this will soon
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  Speaker 4: be forgotten.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll be back, and football will always be there.
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  Speaker 4: And it'll still be here, and it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: here Saturday night in Tiger Stadium. By God, it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be absolutely electric. And we're going to kind of
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  Speaker 4: forget all about this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready for that.
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  Speaker 4: Man, do you think Lane's going to, like, just absolutely
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  Speaker 4: troll everybody and run Daquan out there first play?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was actually going to get to that. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: I would laugh at that. I was going to get
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  Speaker 2: to that because Wilson Alexander, who was here for a
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  Speaker 2: long time, did a great job on the beat. Now
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  Speaker 2: with on three, he did say that, you know, as
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  Speaker 2: we all do, that Wright and Harris are expected to
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  Speaker 2: be on the roster. He had a conversation with them.
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  Speaker 2: He also said that Wright told on three he would
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  Speaker 2: most definitely play against Clemson while Harris would need a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks to get ready. He had a foot injury,
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  Speaker 2: so he is eyeing the Ole Miss game for his return.
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  Speaker 2: So Daquan Wright said most definitely he feels like he
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  Speaker 2: is going to play against Clemson. Now how much, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. And what role, nobody knows. But that's a
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  Speaker 2: player that was in the courtroom yesterday saying, that is
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  Speaker 2: telling you he most definitely his verbiage expects to play. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Um, and if not this weekend, certainly by week two, again,
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  Speaker 4: like even, even at the professional, the real professional level,
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  Speaker 4: even at the NFL level, like it doesn't happen very
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  Speaker 4: often where you get signed and then you get thrown
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  Speaker 4: into a game without practicing at least next to the.
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  Speaker 3: People you're going to play against one time.
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  Speaker 4: Um, I'm trying to think of a case where I
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  Speaker 4: was on a team where somebody came in, like, on
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  Speaker 4: a Friday and played on a Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: I got to Denver. No, I got to Denver on
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  Speaker 2: a Thursday, played that next Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Got there on Thursday, played that next Sunday. Baker Mayfield.
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  Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield. That's the only person I can think of.
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday, Thursday. Got there on Tuesday, started on Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: That's the only one I can think of.
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  Speaker 4: And that's a great example.
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  Speaker 3: But did you ever have, like, Most people, new guys,
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  Speaker 3: and you.
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  Speaker 4: Have new guys coming in every single week, right, whether
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  Speaker 4: it's practice squad or somebody getting injured or a special
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  Speaker 4: teams guy. But then sometimes you would have a big-time
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  Speaker 4: player come in middle of the season. They'd at least
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  Speaker 4: get there on a Tuesday or a Wednesday and have
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  Speaker 4: at least one or two practices before they got thrown in.
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  Speaker 4: And still, if they did get thrown in, it was
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  Speaker 4: very small amounts. Now, it is different that he does
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  Speaker 4: know the whole offense.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Because in the examples you were giving, because we
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  Speaker 2: need to give context, when I got to Denver, I
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  Speaker 2: had no idea what Peyton Manning's offense was. Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 2: didn't know Sean McVay's offense when he got to L.A.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure there was maybe some stuff. But this is
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  Speaker 2: a player that has been in this offense for multiple years.
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  Speaker 4: And realistically, what they're going to do is they're going
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  Speaker 4: to have a– if Daquan is going to play a
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  Speaker 4: little bit, they will have a handful of– they'll have
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  Speaker 4: a package for him that he can go in.
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  Speaker 3: And be able to run those plays. Like, when he's in,
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  Speaker 3: he's going in for these specifically.
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  Speaker 4: If he's got to run a route that's not really
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  Speaker 4: in correlation with somebody else running a route.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like, they're not in tandem with each other.
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  Speaker 4: If he's just running a seam route or a stick
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  Speaker 4: route or a flat route, something like that.
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  Speaker 3: He'll have probably a pocket of plays that he can
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  Speaker 3: go in for.
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  Speaker 2: You know what would be the ultimate troll?
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  Speaker 3: Hand him the ball. First play.
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  Speaker 2: Throw him a bubble in the first play, I was
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  Speaker 2: going to say. Be in a tight end.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: It is pretty funny to think about it because it's
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  Speaker 4: a joke, but there is more than a 0% chance.
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  Speaker 3: That that happens.
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  Speaker 2: Gulf South says apparently the SEC has a rule that
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  Speaker 2: a player must be practicing for X amount of days
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  Speaker 2: before they can play. Acclimation period is actually in there,
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  Speaker 2: so you're not wrong on that. But again, Gulf South.
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  Speaker 3: What's a rule? You can't have rules around here.
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  Speaker 2: What's a rule? How do we follow the rule? And
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  Speaker 2: this isn't just like talking about LSU specifically in this
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  Speaker 2: one instance. We're talking about over the last five years
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  Speaker 2: of college football.
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  Speaker 3: What happens like the first time?
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  Speaker 2: But they do have that in place.
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  Speaker 3: You think a.
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  Speaker 4: Coach at some point this season, there's going to be
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  Speaker 4: a bad call on the field, like a personal foul,
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  Speaker 4: maybe a late hit, maybe a pass interference.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Argument with a coach. Coach gets fired up. He's like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to sue you. It was a bad rule.
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  Speaker 3: You think that's going to happen?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You should have put in your bold predictions yesterday if
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  Speaker 2: you think it's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: It's true. I don't know if it's that bold.
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  Speaker 2: Then that might be the norm. I'll sue you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man. It is.
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  Speaker 2: So, like, being in this seat and talking about this stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm going to, like, this is, I've said this before,
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  Speaker 2: but if you're new here, because I know we've got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people that are probably new. This is
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  Speaker 2: the main reason that I switched from college sports radio
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  Speaker 2: on SiriusXM to NFL radio on SiriusXM. I got offered
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  Speaker 2: the job, and sure, the NFL is the NFL, but
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  Speaker 2: I said, oh, I'm going to have 32 teams. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to have one sport and rules.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: That you can follow, you can talk about, and you
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  Speaker 2: can speak in absolutes. Nobody in this profession that covers
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  Speaker 2: college athletics right now can speak in absolutes. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think anybody can. You can act like you're the smartest
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  Speaker 2: guy in the room, and you can act like you
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  Speaker 2: can talk about things in absolutes, but you can't. Because
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing that's in absolute. There's nothing. It's everything. It's,
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  Speaker 2: I think, maybe, I've heard, they said, there's nothing right now.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just, it goes into a courtroom and... I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 4: And you have, you know, tens of thousands of people
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  Speaker 4: walking out there that think they have a law degree
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  Speaker 4: and actually know what's going on when no one really does.
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  Speaker 4: It's fun to speculate. It's fun to guess. It's fun
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  Speaker 4: to have a conversation with your buddies and be like, well.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they can't do this. They can do that.
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  Speaker 4: Like nobody, there's people out there that know, of course,
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  Speaker 4: but most people don't really know. I certainly don't know
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  Speaker 4: what's going to happen. I don't know what happens if
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  Speaker 4: they get a federal rule. in their favor, that city
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  Speaker 4: gets a favorable ruling in their favor. Can they go
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  Speaker 4: back and enforce their rules on what happened before the ruling? Like,
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  Speaker 4: can Lane be punted? Like, there's so much out there.
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  Speaker 4: And Pete said it on the call. Like, we don't
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  Speaker 4: really know what they can do afterwards. There might be
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  Speaker 4: someone listening out there that said, no, they can't go
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  Speaker 4: back and enforce rules before the ruling, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 4: There's probably somebody else out there that's saying, no, they
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  Speaker 4: actually can. So it's so intriguing. I don't even want
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  Speaker 4: to use the word fascinating because that has a positive
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  Speaker 4: connotation to me. Because this all, to me, is a
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  Speaker 4: negative thing for college football. Not necessarily this specific case,
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  Speaker 4: just the unknown, not having rules, not having a clear
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  Speaker 4: league with attorneys making rules on the fly.
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  Speaker 3: None of that's positive. I don't know if anybody can
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  Speaker 3: think it's positive.
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  Speaker 4: It's positive that LSU won the court case because everybody
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  Speaker 4: wants LSU to win at everything.
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  Speaker 3: But it's so intriguing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, them winning it, too, I think it for the
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  Speaker 2: moment feels like it protects you a little bit because
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  Speaker 2: if you would have lost it and then you fight
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  Speaker 2: it again i don't know but that's.
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  Speaker 3: The thing that pete was saying does it you don't
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  Speaker 3: really know if.
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  Speaker 2: It does protect you and that's what i said for
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  Speaker 2: the moment for.
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  Speaker 4: The moment you don't know if it's going to protect
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  Speaker 4: you i mean if you would have lost it then
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  Speaker 4: you would have known right there okay we're not going
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  Speaker 4: to put them on the roster then you got nothing
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  Speaker 4: to worry about going forward i think you know i
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  Speaker 4: think you gotta look over your shoulder a little bit
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  Speaker 4: right now so you do have to be careful but Also, locally,
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  Speaker 4: you're going to be held in contempt if you don't.
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  Speaker 3: Roster these kids.
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  Speaker 2: One thing I do want to kind of make sure
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  Speaker 2: we know about the two players that we're talking about,
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  Speaker 2: because I do keep seeing the same thing. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not even agreeing or disagreeing, but a lot of people,
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  Speaker 2: LSU fans, but certainly nationally, like it's a juice worth
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  Speaker 2: the squeeze. And they keep saying role players, role players.
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  Speaker 2: For Daquan Wright, I do want to point out, that
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  Speaker 2: he would have been your leading receiver last year. He
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  Speaker 2: would have been LSU's leading receiver last year. He's a player. Now,
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  Speaker 2: he might not be a pro player, like as far
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  Speaker 2: as making the Eagles or the Browns roster, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't think we can keep saying role player for him.
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  Speaker 2: He's a player that, again, would have led your team
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  Speaker 2: in receiving well.
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  Speaker 3: Not hard to do.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't, but he had over 600 yards, and nobody
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  Speaker 2: on your roster had over 600 yards. He didn't lead
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  Speaker 2: Ole Miss, but he would have led your team. If
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  Speaker 2: you don't remember who he is, he closed out the
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  Speaker 2: game against you a year ago. He had 39 catches
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  Speaker 2: for 635 yards and five touchdowns.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 2: So remember that.
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  Speaker 3: 39, 635. Got it?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to write that down.
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  Speaker 1: 39, 635.
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  Speaker 2: And why am I going to keep repeating that? Because
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  Speaker 2: then we're going to take what he did. Again, because
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  Speaker 2: we keep hearing role player, role player, role player. I
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  Speaker 2: think they have much bigger plans for Daquan Wright.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Then you go to the other side of it. And look,
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  Speaker 2: different coordinators. We're expecting more. I get all of that.
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  Speaker 2: But I just want to lay this out. All right. So, Matt,
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  Speaker 2: 39 catches, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For Daquan? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Trey Des Green had 33. Okay. How many yards for
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  Speaker 2: Daquan Wright?
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  Speaker 3: 635, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Trey Desgreen had 433. So he's better. I didn't say
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  Speaker 2: he was better, but I'm just telling you, everybody keeps
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  Speaker 2: saying role player, role player, role player. Daquan Wright is
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  Speaker 2: a dude in college football. Again, maybe he's not a pro.
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  Speaker 2: Pros don't just release bad players, right? Jack Pyburn got
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  Speaker 2: picked up by the Kansas City Chiefs, okay, because they
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  Speaker 2: got him. Well, the Chiefs picked him up, and Jack
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  Speaker 2: was the name before any other name. He was the
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  Speaker 2: biggest name of all of this. And the Chiefs said,
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  Speaker 2: he had how many sacks in the preseason? You're in
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City. You're not going to Baton Rouge.
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  Speaker 3: Right? Chiefs a little bit more self-confident than the Browns. Whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It's still like no team likes distractions, but they also
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  Speaker 2: like sacks. So they pick him up. I'm not talking
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  Speaker 2: about what he can be down the future, but I
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  Speaker 2: am telling you that he had 39 catches for over
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  Speaker 2: 600 yards and five touchdowns, and Trey Des Green, who
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  Speaker 2: we all think is going to have a monster year,
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  Speaker 2: had 33 for 433 and seven touchdowns. He's a player.
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  Speaker 4: And I brought that up about teams don't like distractions
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  Speaker 4: because he might have got released not because of his skills,
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  Speaker 4: not because he wasn't good enough. He might have got
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  Speaker 4: released and not even got an opportunity because of this
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  Speaker 4: court case. And you just made a counter-argument with the
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  Speaker 4: Pieburn and the Chiefs, but not every team's the same, right?
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  Speaker 4: The Browns might, could have released him because of the
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  Speaker 4: whole distraction part, not because of the skill set.
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  Speaker 2: He also wasn't on the field there. He had an
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  Speaker 2: injury or whatever. Darius, your comment, that was last year.
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  Speaker 2: He's not playing more than trade-ins. I didn't say that.
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  Speaker 2: That's why you have to listen to the nitty-gritty of it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying that he is a player that had more
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  Speaker 2: catches and more yards than trade as did a year ago.
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  Speaker 2: Trade as might end up being your best overall player
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  Speaker 2: on your team. It's to say that a year ago
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  Speaker 2: he had more. So to call him a role player,
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  Speaker 2: I think because forget what's happening in the courtroom, whatever
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  Speaker 2: for his actual skillset, I want to pay respect to
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  Speaker 2: what it is. And he had more catches and more yards.
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  Speaker 2: That's my point. He can be much more than just
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  Speaker 2: a role player. But he keeps getting thrown into that group.
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  Speaker 2: And just from the player perspective, I want to make
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  Speaker 2: sure we mention he's not just that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. But it still begs the question, is the juice
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  Speaker 3: worth the squeeze?
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  Speaker 4: And I don't have a great answer for that. I
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  Speaker 4: think common knee-jerk reaction would be no, it's not.
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  Speaker 3: And I think most people understand that.
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  Speaker 4: I think most of the fan base is saying it's
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  Speaker 4: just more of a principal battle it's not even really
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  Speaker 4: our other teams are doing it it's it's more i'm
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: just saying i'm not even justifying it but i'm saying
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: it is disrespectful to how good he was a year
• 16:20
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• 16:23
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• 16:25
  Speaker 4: those plays in their mind they're fighting for way more
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: than a role player that's the only part i'm trying
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: to make sure that we we mentioned yeah and i
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: was not i knew he was um very productive.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: But I'm glad we put some stats to it.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: So it kind of does paint the picture of exactly
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: what type of player you are getting. Assuming fully healthy
• 16:50
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• 16:54
  Speaker 4: week one in this first game versus Clemson. But I
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: would assume that he's going to make an impact at
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: some point during the season in a very positive way.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. And then Any better.
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  Speaker 3: He's a Peru football player.
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  Speaker 5: The next room, sometimes I wish she weren't you.
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  Speaker 3: I guess we never really moved on.
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  Speaker 1: It's really good to hear your voice.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds so sweet.
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  Speaker 5: Hearing those words, it makes me weak.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you let that list of an angel breathe, buddy. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: have you been following... I might have a record. An
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  Speaker 4: in the history of bold predictions.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: On which one?
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  Speaker 3: When yesterday I.
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  Speaker 4: Said one of my bold predictions for the college football
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: season was that UNC and Bill Belichick would mutually part
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: ways at some point during the season. Have you been
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: following what's happening over there at North Carolina?
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I have not, actually.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: It's pretty unbelievable.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: General Manager Mike Lombardi resigned yesterday after spending more than
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: a month on paid administrative leave to admit an investigation
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: stemming from a personnel complaint. But the investigation now has
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: widened to the entire football program. Investigators are now reportedly
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: asking about allegations that Defensive coordinator Steve Belichick used drugs
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: on the job and or provided drugs to at least
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: one North Carolina football player. A member of UNC's recruiting
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: staff had a sexual relationship with a player. Assistant coaches
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: may have had sexual relationships with members of the recruiting staff.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Steve Belichick has been on an undisclosed medical leave since
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: August 6th. UNC says the investigation remains ongoing and will
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: consider all appropriate corrective actions based on what it learns.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: A lot happening. So crazy to me.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Outside of that.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Outside of that, everything's going fine. They're 1-0.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: They did win a game.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Winning cures all, right? No, I don't think that's the
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: case here.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Sounds pretty serious. GM has had to step down. Been
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: out for a while. A lot of issues and, you know.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: situations just kind of tend to follow Belichick around a
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: little bit here and there and it's not good over
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: there anyway thought I'd just bring that up and it's
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: kind of shocking and surprising you know that clip of
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Steve Belichick on the sideline like kind of looking crazy
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: like he's got some performance enhancing drugs in him they
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: might not be prescribed.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: So your bold prediction was that Belichick and North Carolina
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: part ways.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Right Mutually part ways. I don't know.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Well, based on this, based on these allegations, if things
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: do not go real well for him and his staff,
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: it might not be mutual.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: But usually, even if you get fired, the guy with
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: the respect that Belichick has, known as the greatest NFL
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: coach of all time, usually that's the respect that we're
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: going to mutually part ways instead of, hey, you're fired.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: But, you know, we'll see.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: So it shocked me that his son, the one that
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: looks like licking the air on the sideline, is on drugs.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Crazy.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: This will be a great case study, I guess, of
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: does winning cure everything? Because they actually did look good
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: in their game in Ireland.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Did they look good? I mean, they did. I don't know.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: TCL was pretty bad.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Do you remember watching them?
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Do you remember watching them? This guy apparently was on drugs.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: There's no chance.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: No shot.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: That mullet what do you think he tells the barber
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: when he sits down party.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: In the front no party in the back business in
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: the front.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Or he just says hey as sarcastic of a haircut
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: as you can bud.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's um that's a telltale sign.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: That's a telltale sign if you've not seen the.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Video so We did have some actual football last night,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Georgia Tech in Colorado. Boy, was that a rock fight.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: My God.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Man, that was a rough watch. Man, Georgia Tech last year,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: they were fun to watch, and they were gritty, and
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: they were executing stuff, well-coached. Man, oh, man, do we
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: realize how important Haynes King is to a football team.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Man, it does.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: And how important an established leader quarterback is for a
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: team that might not be the most, like, top to bottom, like, talented. Well,
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Little Mendoza did play pretty good, though. He had some
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: moments where he made some really nice throws, nice plays.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: The supporting cast around him wasn't the best. But it
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: was like the definition of a first game of the
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: season for both those teams.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Now, I will say this. Both teams' uniforms looked really good.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: I liked the all-whites for Georgia Tech, and I liked
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: the shiny gold face masks for Colorado.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Both of the uniforms looked very good.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Every TV that I kept going to, and I told
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: you this last night, every TV I kept going to
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: was green. The gold was green. It had like a
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: green hue to it.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: That's not good. That'll change the filters, bud.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Not mine. Not the Flynn household. It was nice.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: And the uniforms looked very good. But the football looked
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: very bad.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, it did.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: It did not look good. A lot of running.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: You could tell that both teams did not completely trust
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: their young quarterbacks to go win a game. There was
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: lots of third and threes, third and fours where it
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: was a handoff. And I get it in this day
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: and age. Yeah, sometimes you see that now because you're
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: going to go for it on fourth down a little
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: bit more than you used to. But there was multiple
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: drives that were ended because of a no-yard run.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: But there was a lot of runs.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: I think there was a drive at the end of
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: the game for Colorado to try to go win it.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: I think there was like 16 or 17 runs in
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: a row or something like that.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Heck, yeah.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, it was your type of football, except they
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: were all clap counting and then the shotgun running. It
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: wasn't like good runs. But the running backs, they had
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: a game. Georgia Tech looked like the dominant team early on.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: They were physical. They just kept getting stopped. They couldn't
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: execute in the red zone. And then I think there
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: was two blocked field goals. Oh, I was so excited.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Georgia Tech did the thing that we talk about sometimes.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: They put a really tall guy on field goal block,
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: and they blocked it. A guy that was 6'9. We
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: always talk about that. Get the tallest guy in the world,
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: just put him on field goal block. And they did that,
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: and he blocked it.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: It was great.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: There was a shank, a field goal shank, a couple
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: of field goal blocks. There was a great block by
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Colorado at the end. Georgia Tech had set up. Yeah,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: got timed it up perfectly. Yeah, but Desiree made a
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: nice throw with like 30 seconds.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Left in the game, 30-ish, and hit a seam route.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: They get down to field goal range.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: I didn't like the game, the clock management by Georgia
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Tech at the end. I think there was about 17
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: or 18 seconds left with a timeout. I believe it
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: was second down, and they decide to run it, For
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: no yards, or maybe one or two yards or whatever,
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: to set up a 45-yard field goal.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Didn't love that.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Because they run the clock down, they take a timeout
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: with three or four seconds left. They should have thrown
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: it at least to get it to, at least to
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: try to pick up five, six, seven more yards, something
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: like that. I did not like the, with the timeout,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: I did not like the decision to run it with
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: 17 or 18 seconds left. I think that was poor
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: clock management, and they should be held accountable.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: And they lose the game.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Steve Belichick.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: 14-13. Utah beat Idaho 66-14. Missouri beat Arkansas Pine Bluff 54-14.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Let's see. UCF beat Bethune-Cookman 73-6. Wake Forest takes care
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: of Akron 38-16. You had, let's see. Oh, Rutgers. Oh, Rutgers.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: You lose to UMass. 37 to 21 umass gets their
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: first victory over a power four opponent since 1978 uh.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Umass quarterback looked really good he did he made very
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: accurate made a lot of plays outside the pocket um
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: i guess probably pretty surprising that the quarterback for umass
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: goes out there and plays like that but he made
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: some legit plays it was fun to watch Now, of course, I.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Didn't watch it. I saw the highlights, but the highlights
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: were real nice.
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  Speaker 2: If you did a deep dive into UMass and Rutgers,
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• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have not broken down that film just yet.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: It looks like it was really nice.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: He did play really well, though.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he did.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, to be able to, for UMass to be
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: able to beat Rutgers, you're probably going.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: To have to have good quarterback play.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: All right, we will go across kind of the SEC,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: look at the SEC slate of games, of course, including
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: the LSU and Clemson game, kind of give you the lines,
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  Speaker 2: give you some of these storylines and what we expect
• 29:08
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to some of the scorelines that
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  Speaker 2: we've already seen in the SEC. As we mentioned, Missouri 54,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Arkansas Pine Bluff 14. But then let's also look at
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: what's coming up in the SEC tonight. You've got Oklahoma
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  Speaker 2: hosting UTEP. Now, Oklahoma is a 40.5-point favorite, so watch
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  Speaker 2: that if you dare.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: You know what I found interesting? on that.
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  Speaker 4: Like, so they're 40 and a half point favorite. Um,
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  Speaker 4: there is Georgia's 46 and a half point favorite versus
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: like Tennessee state. So you have all these people playing
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  Speaker 3: Uh, sec, these, the.
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  Speaker 4: Top, top, top teams in the conference, top teams in
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  Speaker 4: the country and the lines about 40 to 45.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 4: It was interesting to me. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: Texas state has like a pretty strong squad. They're, Texas
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  Speaker 4: is a 29-point favorite over Texas State. Texas State is
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: not a bad football team.
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  Speaker 3: No, not at all. Matthew. Yes. Oh, boy.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: What conference does Texas State play football in?
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: I feel like it's a better one than it used
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: to be. I'm going to say What conference? Oh, God. Sunbelt.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: They play in the Pac-12. True story.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: From San Marcos, Texas?
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: They play in the Pac-12.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Pacific Ocean is not that far away.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: That's a really good point. Yeah. If you go through Mexico,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: it's not very far. True. It's a little further to
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: get there from the U.S.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: That's actually a pretty solid point by you.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Hmm. That's really the only type of points
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: that I make.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Yep. Solid ones. That's what they were thinking. Yeah, but.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can get there pretty quick. Go to Cabo.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Here is the first game on Saturday for the SEC.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: We'll go through the slate here. It is Alabama hosting
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: East Carolina. Alabama, 27 and a half point favorite. South
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Carolina hosting Kent State. South Carolina, 35 and a half
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: point favorite. Kentucky hosting Youngstown State. Kentucky a 22.5-point favorite.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Georgia hosting Tennessee State. Georgia, 46.5-point favorite. Texas hosting Texas State.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: You mentioned it, 29.5-point favorite. Tennessee hosting Furman. Tennessee's a 47.5-point favorite.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: And then you've got Arkansas, who's hosting North Alabama. who
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: is a 40.5-point favorite. You've got Texas A & M
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: hosting Missouri State. They're a 40.5-point favorite. You've got Vanderbilt
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: hosting Austin Peay. They are a 29.5-point favorite. You've got
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Mississippi State hosting Louisiana Monroe. Mississippi State, a 28.5-point favorite.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Florida hosting Florida Atlantic, a 26.5-point favorite. Then you do
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: have one other actual real football game, Baylor and Auburn.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Auburn right now, this game's in Atlanta, a seven and
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: a half point favorite. And then you've got LSU Clemson
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: in Death Valley, LSU a 10 point favorite. So you
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: have one game outside of the Sunday night game, which
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: is going to be Louisville and Ole Miss. That game's
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: going to be in Nashville. So one game on Saturday
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: involving an SEC team that is going to be a
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: single-digit line. Everything else is at least double digits, and
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: everything else is pretty much 40-plus. That is not a
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: banner slate.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: It is not a banner slate. But you know what?
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: There are a couple of good games, of course, this weekend.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: And that's really all that matters because it's the first
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: week of college football.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: So, you know, as long as we get a couple. And, look,
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: I'm really looking forward to the Baylor-Auburn game.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: I know I grew up a Baylor fan, so I'm
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: a little bit biased towards that. But I think it's
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: going to be a really good football game. Now, is
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: it going to be perfectly executed? No, I think this
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: is the week that you're going to see a lot
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: of sloppy play just from every team. You're going to
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: see mistakes made by LSU and Clemson this week. But
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to that game. I think it's going
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: to be a good game. What is it, six and
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: a half, seven, seven point spread?
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: Auburn Baylor.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Seven and a half.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Seven and a half.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Auburn's favorite.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: I'm going to probably pick Baylor to win that game.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: For what reason? I don't really know. You're going to.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Pick who to win that game?
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Baylor.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: And you don't know the reason?
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Sick them.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Because you're biased.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: Because they're going to sick them.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Because your father played quarterback at Baylor.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: They're going to sick them.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Don't act all brand new over there.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: DJ Lagway might win the Heisman this year. Who knows? Actually,
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: do you think he's going to have a bounce back year?
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: No.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Because I've seen him play. No, that old coach for
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Florida wasn't very good. It would be some heavy lifting.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: For DJ Lagway to be a good quarterback.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: He threw five picks the last time I saw him
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: play in person.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Did you see the tweets yesterday? It was pretty funny.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: I guess his mom was quoted, DJ Lagway's mom was quoted,
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: like there was a text conversation between him and his mother.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: You know, talking about, you know, trying to encourage her son, saying,
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: you know, the Lord's always with you. God's like, it's
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: in God's hand. Like, we're trusting him. Like, we do
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: in all things, in all life. And he's like, man,
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: I kind of feel like, and you go through a
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: hard time. Like, I feel like I'm forgotten right now.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: There was a.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: Guy that tweeted.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Wait, wait.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: I'm blanking on the coach's name.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Billy Napier.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: He said, Napier was so bad at Florida. It made
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: this man think.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: God just forgot about him.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: He was so bad as a coach in Florida.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: He thought the Lord forsaken him because of, oh, my God.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: Because of how bad they were. I'm cheering for him.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: I'm cheering for Aranda. You know, I don't know how long.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: I'm not cheering for Auburn. I don't know how.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: Long Aranda can make it as the Baylor coach.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: If they don't.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: He's on life support right now.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: They've got to do something, right?
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: And he's such a good human and a good leader
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: of men like that.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: They just it just have not it has not quantified
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: in the win-loss column and it has to at some
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: point that's the reason why he has a job because
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: he is such a good person uh but i would
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: uh i would love to see dj lagway it's he
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: seems like a really good kid um certainly has not
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: had the success i feel like he's one of these
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: guys that was really young and in like his body
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: was like grew but His body was not ready for
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: it to grow so much.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: You saw him. We saw him at SEC media days.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: It's like, wow, that guy looks the part.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: He's listed at 6'3, and we're like, hey, bud, you're
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: like 6'5.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: He's like, dude, just keep growing. And he kept having, like,
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: all these soft tissues. I think his body just probably
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: grew too fast. He wasn't growing into his body yet.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: And hopefully he has a little.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Bit of turnaround.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: And then we don't know what Auburn's going to be.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of excitement, I think, in that program.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: I think, was it Alondra that said that they might
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: be a team to watch that's going to overachieve this year?
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: We went through this exercise last week.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Maybe not. Maybe I'm misspeaking. For Auburn? Yeah.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, there you go.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: Look at me.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: You remembered it.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: Like an elephant.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: How impressed are you that I just hit the right button?
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: You did. Was it a guess? Yes.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Was it this one? No, I turned it off. You
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: think I'm going to let you touch these buttons? Absolutely not.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, let's get a little
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: breakdown of Louisville and Ole Miss. We talked about the
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: other games in the SEC. There's a nothing burger there.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Every point spread is like seven touchdowns, but one that
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: we're highly intrigued by. And, of course, we'll break down
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: LSU-Clemson before we get out of here today. But let's
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: look at Louisville and Ole Miss. We're going to have
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: the pontoon parlay. We're going to have what's the ticket.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: We'll have a final breakdown of LSU and Clemson. All
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: still coming your way. Stay locked in here to OTB.
• 41:09
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  Speaker 1: Tigers turn talkers. This is Off The Bench.
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• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Louisville.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 3: Louisville.
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  Speaker 2: In Nashville. It's going to be a good game.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: It's going to be a very good game.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Look, I'm not saying Ole Miss is going to outright lose,
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: but I'm just telling you it feels like a four-quarter game.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: What's the line again?
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Six and a half. It's gone down. I think there
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: was a seven and a half at one point. It's
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: now down to six and a half. And this isn't
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: like an Ole Miss slander type situation. Of course, the
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: LSU guys are talking about Ole Miss. This is actually
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: me giving a lot of love to Louisville. I think
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: they're a good football team. And I think they're going
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: to be in this game. I think it being a
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: neutral site game helps them. Ole Miss is going to
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: have the crowd, but it's not going to be like
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: it's played in Oxford. They've got a lot of new
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: pieces on that Louisville team. They're going to have five
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: starters on defense through the portal, and they're going to
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: have eight, I believe, on offense. But the thing to
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: pay attention to, like I told you yesterday, Isaac Brown
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: at running back for Louisville, he is a dog, and
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: he is going to get his And it all comes
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: down to some of the other stuff. Obviously, you've got
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: a new quarterback in there. You're going to have a
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: lot of new receivers. But I'm a big fan of
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Jeff Braum and how he can put together an offense.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: Brian Braum, one of your teammates, is the OC there,
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: his brother. It's going to be a game. It's going
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: to have some points, I think. I think it's going
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: to have a little bit of a shootout feel. I
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: think Ole Miss probably has the ball and scores, and
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: maybe they score with five minutes left and it's a
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: big defensive stop. I do think Ole Miss wins the game, probably,
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: but it's going to be a four-quarter game.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to take their full attention to win
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: that football game.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: I think so.
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: And I keep saying this because it was a little
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: bit of shock to me when I saw it at first,
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: and I keep saying this for– The people listening and
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: LSU fans thinking about, okay, LSU-Clemson, big game, big game,
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: big game. You could argue that Ole Miss-Louisville is a
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: bigger game than LSU-Clemson because we talked about the odds.
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: Clemson has the fifth lowest odds to win the ACC.
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: Louisville has the third. Louisville's plus 800 to win the ACC.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: Louisville plus 1450. So they almost have double odds. You're
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: talking about Clemson. You said Louisville twice.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: So Louisville has the better odds, and then Clemson's plus 1450.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Clemson has plus 1450. So on paper, the
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: people think preseason, Louisville is a better football team than Clemson.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: So Ole Miss, got your hands full.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Lincoln Keels, their quarterback, coming over from Ohio State, a
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: very highly, highly touted guy out of high school. All right,
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