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The Next Round: College Football’s Biggest Weekend: Texas-Tennessee, LSU-A&M, Ole Miss-Florida | Hour 1 · The Next Round

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Speaker 1: And welcome to Auburn, Alabama.
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Speaker 2: It's a football weekend as we get going down here
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Speaker 2: at Moe's Original Barbecue, downtown Auburn, a few steps away
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Speaker 2: from the trees that will get rolled, hopefully after the
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Speaker 2: game coming up on Saturday against Vanderbilt. Jim Dunaway, Ryan Brown,
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Speaker 2: Lance Taylor back there in the next round studios in Birmingham.
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Speaker 1: And we'll get to a ton of stuff today.
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Speaker 2: That includes Steve Sarkeesian having a really a personality trait
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Speaker 2: that I have.
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Speaker 1: And I'll explain to you what that is coming up.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about all the big games, including a very
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Speaker 2: interesting triple header that we have after.
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Speaker 1: It's not bowl season yet, but we've.
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Speaker 2: Got a three o'clock in the afternoon central time game today.
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Speaker 2: And we'll, of course, get into the NFL. Lance, how
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Speaker 2: are you doing on this football Friday, man?
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Speaker 1: I am good.
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Speaker 3: I hate that I'm missing Moe's Barbecue and being down
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Speaker 3: on the plains and enjoying Bud Light with you guys.
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Speaker 3: But I've got something this weekend that I'm not overly
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Speaker 3: excited about, but we don't have to get into that.
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Speaker 3: But anyway, I've got to post up here for a
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Speaker 3: few hours and get on the road and see what happens.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I just, I don't get fall weddings, man. I don't
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Speaker 3: understand them. I don't get them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I heard the funniest thing yesterday. I was at the
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Speaker 4: sales office before the show. Unless it's on the phone.
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Speaker 1: It goes, well, if everybody's not feeling well, maybe I
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Speaker 1: shouldn't come up there. Yeah. Yeah. That got shut down.
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Speaker 2: There's a stomach virus going around. I actually missed, I
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Speaker 2: actually missed a Thanksgiving at the, at the, uh, Mentone, uh,
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Speaker 2: I think it was two years ago.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it was last year.
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Speaker 2: It was two years ago, maybe, that Maggie said, hey, man,
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Speaker 2: Wednesday night, stomach virus going on. I was like, you know,
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Speaker 2: I cannot miss that Friday show.
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Speaker 1: It is huge. Yeah, the one we're talking about not
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Speaker 1: doing this year? Yeah, that one. It is huge.
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Speaker 2: So I am out. I'm going to skip out on that.
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Speaker 2: No stomach virus.
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Speaker 3: At least it's not a big weekend in college football.
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Speaker 3: It's six ranked games, first time since 2023.
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Speaker 4: Biggest SEC, I mean, you could argue the biggest SEC
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Speaker 4: regular season day in conference history.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I think that's true.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you can make that argument. Hey, we're here
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Speaker 2: in Auburn at Moe's Original Barbecue. Thanks to our friends
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Speaker 2: at Bud Light. Easy to drink, easy to enjoy.
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Speaker 1: And Lance, you know how these things go. They're always great.
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Speaker 2: drink deals here throughout the day to get you ready
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Speaker 2: for a big weekend of Bud Light.
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Speaker 3: You know, Moe's is one of those places, obviously the
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Speaker 3: incredible food, but it's also, it's kind of a destination
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Speaker 3: for a good time. You know, not only the Moe's
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Speaker 3: down there, the Moe's in Birmingham, but Bud Light's going
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Speaker 3: to have specials all day. The Bud Light girls will
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Speaker 3: be out there. They'll be giving merch out. So go
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Speaker 3: join our guys down there at Moe's getting ready for
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Speaker 3: a little Vanderbilt Auburn, which Should be a fascinating game.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how you guys feel about this, Brown.
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Speaker 3: I think you had a Vanderbilt lean. Watching Jared Curtis,
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Speaker 3: I think he's just going to get better and better.
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Speaker 4: It's a tough spot for Auburn, I think. And I
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Speaker 4: know we got four hours to cover everything in that
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Speaker 4: one game, but just first blush, the thing that has
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Speaker 4: worried me about Auburn all week is their inability to
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Speaker 4: protect Byron Brown coupled with Vanderbilt's ability to get after
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Speaker 4: the quarterback. And I think that's a bad combination for Auburn.
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Speaker 4: That's not going to be the only thing that will
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Speaker 4: determine the outcome of this game, but it is a
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Speaker 4: certain weakness that Auburn has had exposed, and it is
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Speaker 4: something that Vanderbilt is very good at doing. So I
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Speaker 4: think that is a massive, massive storyline in this one, obviously.
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Speaker 2: On my oversized index card, Vandy Auburn is a non-play
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Speaker 2: for me this weekend.
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Speaker 1: Staying away. Staying away from that one, Lance.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's shocking because you play 90% of the games
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Speaker 3: on the board.
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Speaker 1: I've only got seven that I'm playing right now as
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Speaker 1: I sit here.
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Speaker 3: How will you fill out your 25-team parlay if you
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Speaker 3: actually leave that out?
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Speaker 1: That doesn't count. That doesn't count.
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Speaker 2: The parlays are– that game's too close for me to
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Speaker 2: put in my 20-game parlay, by the way. That point
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Speaker 2: spread's not big enough. It's harder to do a 15-team
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Speaker 2: parlay once you get to this part of the season.
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Speaker 2: You don't have a bunch of– 20-point money line plays
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Speaker 2: that I have not hit one of them yet.
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Speaker 2: because I actually got one right yesterday.
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Speaker 1: I was leaning Falcons. I joked about it on the air.
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Speaker 2: And everyone, you know, I think Forrester's out of the
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Speaker 2: survivor pool now because he took the Packers.
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Speaker 1: Great pick there, Forrester. At least it was close to
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Speaker 1: a blowout game.
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Speaker 2: And I even told you guys, I even manipulated the
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Speaker 2: point spread where I won one of my biggest wins.
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Speaker 2: I took the Falcons and gave six and a half
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Speaker 2: points last night. It was a dominant run performance. They
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Speaker 2: just ran it down Green Bay's throat last night.
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Speaker 3: Well, that was the difference. I mean, when you look
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Speaker 3: at Green Bay up front, they're having issues. Now they've
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Speaker 3: lost seven of their last eight games going back to
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Speaker 3: last year, including the postseason. Green Bay 9 carries 17 yards.
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Speaker 3: The Falcons 41 carries 242 yards. B. John was B.
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Speaker 3: John last night, and I think it shows you when
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Speaker 3: you have an NFL quarterback, which Michael Penix might not
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Speaker 3: be one of the top 15 or 20 guys in
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Speaker 3: the league, but he is a quality NFL starting quarterback.
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Speaker 3: When he's healthy, you see what Kevin Stefanski can do
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Speaker 3: with this offense. Drake London was fantastic. B. John was
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Speaker 3: next level. Green Bay, I don't know what we take
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Speaker 3: more out of this, guys. Are the Falcons a serious
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Speaker 3: player now if Penix can stay healthy in the NFC South?
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Speaker 3: Or is Green Bay just a bad football team?
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Speaker 4: I think Green Bay's a bad football team.
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Speaker 1: No offense to the Falcons. I think the Falcons aren't
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Speaker 1: a very good football team. Now, Bijan Robinson, Bijan Robinson
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Speaker 1: is one of the best players in the NFL. It's great.
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Speaker 1: London almost had 200 yards receiving. Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 4: But, I mean, really, Lance, the Packers should have back-to-back
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Speaker 4: losses to the Jets and the Falcons. So you tell me,
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Speaker 4: are they a good team?
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Speaker 1: If you're going to lose back-to-back to the Jets and
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Speaker 1: the Falcons, I don't think you're a very good team.
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Speaker 3: They're a penalty away, really bad clock management by the
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Speaker 3: Jets from being 0-3 right now. And at that point,
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Speaker 3: they would have lost, what, eight straight games?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And that's a problem. We can say, hey, no Micah Parsons.
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Speaker 3: That's kind of when the fall started. Micah Parsons is
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Speaker 3: really good, one of the best defensive players in the
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Speaker 3: NFL right But he's not the difference in eight consecutive games.
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Speaker 3: And the same people are talking about, well, if Josh
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Speaker 3: Jacobs was there, they could run the football. Maybe a
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Speaker 3: little bit better. I just look at the offensive line.
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Speaker 3: The offensive line's been a mess.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I look at the defense. Because Atlanta ran it down
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Speaker 2: their throat last night. And I know Bijan Robinson is
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Speaker 2: that good. But Brian Robinson had some good runs last night, too.
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Speaker 2: The former Alabama running back. So all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: my Buccaneers... right now look to be by far the
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Speaker 2: worst team, at least off to the start, in the
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Speaker 2: AFC South of what you've seen from the Saints, the Panthers,
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Speaker 2: and the talent you have on that Falcons roster. I'll
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Speaker 2: say this about the NFL this weekend. There are two
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Speaker 2: other games that I find interesting. And one of them
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Speaker 2: involves your Rams, Lance. Rams at Broncos, when that game
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Speaker 2: rolls around this weekend, that's an interesting game to me
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Speaker 2: on what do the Rams look like now on the
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Speaker 2: road And I'm really interested, and it won't be a
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Speaker 2: fair judgment for the Broncos, But I want to see
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Speaker 2: what Bo Nix looks like against an elite defense. It's
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Speaker 2: an intriguing game to me. More on the Denver side
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Speaker 2: against the Rams this weekend. What do you think of
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Speaker 2: Rams-Broncos this weekend?
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Speaker 3: It's a tough game. I'm right there on the Bo
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Speaker 3: Nix situation. He played okay last week. Jacksonville's a much
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Speaker 3: better team than people give them credit for. Jacksonville's a
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Speaker 3: team that went into Denver, beat them last year. But
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Speaker 3: for Denver to snap out of that funk and how
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Speaker 3: bad they looked against Kansas City to get that home win...
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Speaker 3: Big for Bo Nix. I just, I don't know how
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Speaker 3: he's going to be against this defense. More than likely,
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Speaker 3: Puka is not going to play in this game again,
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Speaker 3: which is a massive factor for the Rams because, you know,
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Speaker 3: Sean Payton and Denver know, let's slow down Devontae Adams
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Speaker 3: and offensively the Rams are going to have a problem.
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Speaker 3: So it should be a great game. Rams slight favorite
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Speaker 3: two and a half here. Would like for him just
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Speaker 3: to get out of there with a win, but I
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Speaker 3: don't know. That Denver defense is legitimate.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it is what they're living on because,
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Speaker 4: as Lance said, Bo Nix with the injury. Coming back,
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Speaker 4: he's just looked okay. I mean, this Puka thing, though, Lance,
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Speaker 4: has got to be concerning for you. I mean, they
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Speaker 4: keep saying his hip is not responding to treatment, as
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Speaker 4: the last I read. I know you've probably seen further
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Speaker 4: updates than that, but this is starting. I don't think
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Speaker 4: it sees an ending by any stretch of the imagination,
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Speaker 4: but it does seem a little bit concerning, doesn't it?
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Speaker 3: It's very concerning because he is arguably, I mean, led
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Speaker 3: the NFL in receptions last year.
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Speaker 1: He's one of the top two or three receivers right
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Speaker 1: now in the league.
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Speaker 3: And without him, you know, I just don't know how
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Speaker 3: dynamic this offense can be. You know, they run a
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Speaker 3: lot of three tight end sets. Obviously, Devontae Adams, even
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Speaker 3: at his age, is still a borderline elite guy. But, man,
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Speaker 3: it would be such a massive loss. And I talked
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Speaker 3: to you guys about it last week. You know, they're
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Speaker 3: trying to figure out whether or not to give Puka
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Speaker 3: that lucrative contract. There's some things that he's done off
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Speaker 3: field that they don't really trust. The organization doesn't. So
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Speaker 3: they're evaluating that. And he's battled injuries. You know, he
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Speaker 3: only missed one game last year, but he was always
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Speaker 3: a little nicked up. So if you can't stay on
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Speaker 3: the field, you've got question marks off the field, it's
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Speaker 3: going to be really difficult for them to give him
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Speaker 3: one of those massive contracts.
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Speaker 1: Interesting there.
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Speaker 2: One other game before we get into the college game
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Speaker 2: in the NFL this weekend. It's not a must-win yet,
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Speaker 2: I guess, for the Houston Texans, but a very interesting game.
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Speaker 2: Houston on the road at Indianapolis. D'Amico Ryan's a very
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Speaker 2: popular former Alabama player. a team that was penciled in
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Speaker 2: as a playoff. They're facing 0-3 if they can't go
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Speaker 2: on the road and get a win at Indianapolis. How's
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Speaker 2: that one on your radar this weekend in the NFL?
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Speaker 3: Well, it's a fun AFC South game, and I do
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Speaker 3: think this Texas team, they've got to get off the snide.
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Speaker 3: Week one, you kind of understood. Josh Allen did incredible
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Speaker 3: Josh Allen things, comes in with four total touchdowns, basically
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Speaker 3: carved up that defense. It was a track meet. Houston
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Speaker 3: had ball in hand to win the game at the end.
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Speaker 3: Couldn't get it done, but then last week, they kind
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Speaker 3: of looked lost against that Cincinnati defense. That's concerning. The
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Speaker 3: Colts are also 0-2, so they're battling for their lives.
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Speaker 3: Go back last year, though. Houston, only 16% of teams
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Speaker 3: since we expanded to 14 teams in the playoffs. go
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Speaker 3: on and make the postseason after starting 0-2. Houston was
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Speaker 3: one of those teams last year. Not only 0-2, they
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Speaker 3: started 0-3. So they don't want to fall behind another
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Speaker 3: game here. So this is a massive game in the
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Speaker 3: AFC South.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's a little bit of the NFL.
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Speaker 2: Lance'sLock.com, Lance'sLock.com to get plays throughout the weekend, including today's game,
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Speaker 2: Saturday's college football, but of course the NFL game. coming
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Speaker 2: up on Sunday, lanceslock.com. All right, we'll jump to the
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Speaker 2: college game here. Again, we're broadcasting from Auburn. Brownie and
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Speaker 2: I down here in Auburn ahead of the Vandy-Alabama game.
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Speaker 2: Last week, we were in Tuscaloosa. Just real quickly, if
12:21
Speaker 2: you watched last week's show, I did bring up a
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Speaker 2: Florida State fan and tried to interview him on headset.
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Speaker 2: Is that why we're on stick mics today?
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Speaker 1: No, no, we're just, you know, a little different. Trying
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Speaker 1: something new today. I was trying something new, you know.
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Speaker 1: That way, you know, if I want to take a drink,
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Speaker 1: I They're not taking my drink. I don't know. Just checking.
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Speaker 1: We changed it up a little bit this week. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Stick mics. I like it.
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Speaker 5: I like it.
12:42
Speaker 3: You know what they've got there that you guys will love? Now,
12:45
Speaker 3: we want to promote Bud Light, and I see the
12:46
Speaker 3: Bud Light neon right there between you guys. But I
12:49
Speaker 3: know both of you guys like Bushwhackers, and they've got
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Speaker 3: a really, really good Bushwhacker.
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Speaker 1: You can see the machine from where we are. Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: It has that Floribama feel to it almost with that
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Speaker 2: machine over there. I know how to work that machine
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Speaker 2: by the way. I got trained on the one at
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Speaker 2: the floor. It's a good comparison. Moe's Barbecue does have
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Speaker 2: a little Floribama.
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Speaker 1: Feel to it. It does. It really does. The coloring?
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Speaker 2: I think we could tell them we know the mix, man.
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Speaker 2: We can mix those push records if you guys are
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Speaker 2: running low. If you need me to go over there
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Speaker 2: and work the swirl, I'll do it, man, all day long.
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Speaker 1: You want a topper?
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Speaker 2: Let's jump into college football, love. Forrester and Tyler, if
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Speaker 2: you can give me, let's see, where is our cut
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Speaker 2: number eight? Get cut number eight ready. Because number one, Texas,
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Speaker 2: is on the road to play 14th-ranked Tennessee this weekend.
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Speaker 2: And President Trump, reportedly, first reported by Clay Travis, is
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Speaker 2: going to be at Neyland Stadium. Now, we talked yesterday,
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Speaker 2: Brown and I, LT, we've been at games before with
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Speaker 2: the President of the United States. But that was before
13:51
Speaker 2: the helmet communication was part of college football.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 2: I did not know this. And here is the trait
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Speaker 2: that Sark and I share. Sark has taken a factual story,
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Speaker 2: and apparently he's enhanced.
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Speaker 1: It a little bit. Made it his own.
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Speaker 2: Something I do often, and for entertainment purposes only. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if Sark's doing it for entertainment purposes only,
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Speaker 2: but here is Steve Sarkeesian talking about concerns. They're prepared
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Speaker 2: for actually losing the helmet communications during tomorrow morning's game
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Speaker 2: in Knoxville and because of the president of the United States.
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Speaker 6: It won't change anything for us from a logistic standpoint,
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Speaker 6: timing standpoint of getting there. This will actually be my
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Speaker 6: second time. I've had one other opportunity to do that.
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Speaker 6: And one thing that you have to be aware of
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Speaker 6: when the president goes to any game is that anytime
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Speaker 6: he enters the stadium or leaves the stadium or changes
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Speaker 6: locations within the stadium, they cut all communication. So they
14:49
Speaker 6: cut your headsets. They cut headsets to coaches. They cut
14:53
Speaker 6: headsets to coach-to-player communication. So you have to have a
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Speaker 6: plan for that if and or when, and you get
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Speaker 6: no warning. So that just gets cut out. So you
15:01
Speaker 6: have to have a plan for that to adjust if
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Speaker 6: and or when. If he comes in middle of the
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Speaker 6: first quarter or leaves in the fourth quarter or decides
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Speaker 6: he's got to use the restroom, whatever that looks like,
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Speaker 6: you've got to be prepared to have no comms for
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Speaker 6: a short amount of time.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so that's Sark.
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Speaker 2: And he went on to tell the story. that my
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Speaker 2: buddy Mario Cristobal dealt with it last year. Now, he
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Speaker 2: said it was the final drive that they didn't have
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Speaker 2: comms in the final part of the fourth quarter, including,
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Speaker 2: he thought, the final drive. CBS, John Talty, Matt Zenitz
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Speaker 2: have talked to Miami, and then Kurt Cignetti's been very upfront.
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Speaker 2: It seems like it was just a small portion.
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Speaker 1: Like two plays.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, like two plays around the six-minute mark.
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Speaker 1: Sig actually said it was one of the Miami touchdowns.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think it was the touchdown. Yeah, not the final drive.
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Speaker 2: But Lance, Brownie, did y'all know that was a thing
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Speaker 2: when the president moved around that we would lose communications?
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Speaker 1: I guess Brownie, LTA. They scramble the communications so that.
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Speaker 1: All communications.
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Speaker 4: All communications so that they are the only ones communicating
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Speaker 4: the president's whereabouts and nobody else can hear where the
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Speaker 4: president is, Lance. I had no idea this was a
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Speaker 4: thing when he was at these games.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I've never thought about it, but I guess
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Speaker 3: if you really play it out in your mind and
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Speaker 3: try to process it, It makes sense. Does anybody have
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Speaker 3: the balls to tell Donald Trump, hey, let's wait till
16:26
Speaker 3: the game. Let's wait till all zeros on the clock
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Speaker 3: before we move around. This is a very important game
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Speaker 3: in the SEC this weekend.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm assuming if he's at the Texas-Tennessee game,
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Speaker 1: he's sitting with Tennessee people, right?
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Speaker 6: Right.
16:38
Speaker 4: Because I know when he came to Alabama, we know
16:40
Speaker 4: the guy who gave up his suite for President Trump
16:44
Speaker 4: for 2019.
16:47
Speaker 1: Was it the 2019 LSU game?
16:48
Speaker 6: Yeah.
16:48
Speaker 1: So the guy that gave up his suite. So generally,
16:50
Speaker 1: they go to a big-time booster and they're like, hey, look. Well, actually,
16:54
Speaker 1: he's been back again since then. No, he came to
16:55
Speaker 1: the Bama-Georgia game.
16:56
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the one.
16:57
Speaker 1: That's the one that gave up the suite. That's the one. Okay,
16:59
Speaker 1: so we know the guy that gave the suite up
17:00
Speaker 1: for that one. And that's kind of what they do.
17:03
Speaker 4: But he's going to be sitting, Lance, I would imagine,
17:05
Speaker 4: with Tennessee fans, probably not Texas fans. So, like, if
17:08
Speaker 4: Tennessee's got the ball in a critical situation and President
17:11
Speaker 4: Trump does, you know, they'll, all right, boys, they're going
17:14
Speaker 4: to be like, uh-uh.
17:16
Speaker 1: If Texas is about to start recruiting, don't you have
17:19
Speaker 1: to go pee? Yeah, get on out of here. Don't
17:20
Speaker 1: you need to go to the restaurant? I don't know why.
17:22
Speaker 3: I just visualized him sitting with the Mannings, but I'm
17:25
Speaker 3: sure you guys have heard. Peyton Manning came out and
17:28
Speaker 3: said he's pulling against his alma mater.
17:29
Speaker 2: How do you guys feel about that? We talked about
17:32
Speaker 2: it a little bit earlier this week. It was the
17:35
Speaker 2: day you were gone. We talked about this. How do
17:37
Speaker 2: you feel about that? Because I feel like the nephew
17:42
Speaker 2: should understand that It's a sports thing. I'm cheering for
17:45
Speaker 2: you to do as good as you can, but in
17:47
Speaker 2: the sports world, I want you to have a 400-yard
17:49
Speaker 2: passing game and lose by one to Tennessee because I'm
17:52
Speaker 2: a ball for life.
17:53
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that?
17:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, if it's his kid, I get it.
17:57
Speaker 3: His nephew, different story. I'm still pulling for Tennessee if
18:02
Speaker 3: I'm Peyton Manning, and like you just said, I'm hoping
18:04
Speaker 3: Arch plays extremely well. At that point, you kind of
18:07
Speaker 3: want to shoot out, but you want Tennessee to find
18:09
Speaker 3: a way to win.
18:09
Speaker 1: Yeah.
18:11
Speaker 3: I mean, look, family's important, but what Peyton did for
18:14
Speaker 3: that university, I just find it hard to believe he
18:17
Speaker 3: is pulling against Tennessee.
18:20
Speaker 4: What if Arch was a dog? Would you pull for
18:23
Speaker 4: Arch or pull before you went to school?
18:24
Speaker 3: I don't know. That's a complicated question, Brown.
18:28
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah.
18:29
Speaker 4: I'm complicated now for Lance. I mean, dog versus school.
18:31
Speaker 4: I don't know what he does.
18:32
Speaker 2: On our drive to Auburn today, coming down 280, we
18:36
Speaker 2: were coming down that hill towards Auburn out of Dadeville.
18:42
Speaker 2: And the back of a red pickup truck was a.
18:47
Speaker 1: Labrador.
18:48
Speaker 4: No, it kind of looked like it had some bulldog
18:50
Speaker 4: in it. It was a big, thick dog. It was
18:52
Speaker 4: a big dog. Maybe boxer.
18:55
Speaker 1: Maybe a big boxer.
18:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was unleashed and unbridled, unboxed in the back
19:03
Speaker 2: of a pickup truck. And it would get up on
19:05
Speaker 2: the silver toolbox, Lance, and lean around and stick its
19:08
Speaker 2: head out and slide a little bit. On that toolbox,
19:12
Speaker 2: and it had no restraints, no safety procedures to keep
19:15
Speaker 2: him in, and all it would have taken is that guy,
19:18
Speaker 2: one little bump, one little swerve, and that dog was
19:20
Speaker 2: off to the side going 60 miles an hour. I
19:22
Speaker 2: was nervous for the dog, and I encouraged Brownie, let's
19:26
Speaker 2: pass this thing because I don't want the dog to
19:28
Speaker 2: bounce and hit us if it slides off. It was
19:30
Speaker 2: the most, to me, when I went by, I gave
19:34
Speaker 2: him the Dunaway limp.
19:34
Speaker 6: Oh, no.
19:35
Speaker 2: I gave him the Dunaway look. You don't love that dog.
19:39
Speaker 2: Or you wouldn't have him in the back of that
19:40
Speaker 2: pickup truck like that.
19:42
Speaker 7: Labrador bulldogs are known for their sure-footedness.
19:47
Speaker 5: Are they?
19:48
Speaker 1: I've never heard of a Labrador. Bulldog. Let's just say
19:54
Speaker 1: we couldn't pick that dog out of a lineup because
19:56
Speaker 1: we've got different descriptions. I don't think it was a
19:59
Speaker 1: purebred anything.
20:00
Speaker 3: If we're trying to arrest that dog, we've got problems
20:03
Speaker 3: with you two guys. I'd love to see the artists
20:05
Speaker 3: sit down and try to sketch it out. That's how
20:07
Speaker 3: we used to ride in pickup trucks in the 70s
20:09
Speaker 3: and 80s. They'd throw us all back.
20:12
Speaker 1: We did that with kids.
20:13
Speaker 2: We have this funny thing called this This hand, this
20:16
Speaker 2: disposable thumb.
20:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, opposable, not disposable.
20:19
Speaker 5: Opposable.
20:21
Speaker 2: That dog had four paws sliding on a silver toolbox
20:25
Speaker 2: in the back.
20:26
Speaker 4: I know he over-exaggerates, Lance, but he's not over-exaggerating this.
20:29
Speaker 1: Like, the dog, I thought it was about to fall
20:31
Speaker 1: out of the truck. Because it came from one side
20:32
Speaker 1: of the truck to the other around the curb.
20:34
Speaker 4: As we pulled up, he's like, oh, new human. So
20:36
Speaker 4: he comes running across the toolbox, and I'm like, oh,
20:38
Speaker 4: my God, he's about to fall out.
20:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't trust Bullet to, like, I only can
20:41
Speaker 3: roll the window down so much because I'm afraid he's
20:44
Speaker 3: going to jump out. So I would be more fearful
20:46
Speaker 3: that the dog in the back would just jump out. But, yeah,
20:49
Speaker 3: not a good owner. At least it's fall weather out there.
20:54
Speaker 3: I took the dogs for a walk earlier this morning.
20:55
Speaker 3: 62 when I hit the door.
20:57
Speaker 7: I know.
20:58
Speaker 1: It feels great.
20:59
Speaker 2: I got a little hoodie on here because the air
21:01
Speaker 2: conditioning is kicking here at Moe's. Wonderful original barbecue here
21:05
Speaker 2: in Auburn. I threw in wonderful, but it is. It's
21:07
Speaker 2: not in the sign, but it is wonderful. Absolutely. Turn
21:12
Speaker 2: that thermometer up. No, I like the fall feel for
21:16
Speaker 2: an Auburn football game this weekend.
21:18
Speaker 1: Vandy and Auburn.
21:19
Speaker 2: That's what brings us to town with our friends at
21:21
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21:25
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21:28
Speaker 2: our show continues on the other side. We'll talk to
21:31
Speaker 2: Todd Furman coming up in hour number two. When we
21:34
Speaker 2: come back, though, we'll go ahead and give.
21:36
Speaker 1: You the early headlines. Oh, wow.
21:37
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21:42
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21:45
Speaker 2: we expect to see, whether it's tonight, Saturday. We worked
21:50
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21:52
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22:10
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22:13
Speaker 1: And then in Birmingham, you.
22:14
Speaker 2: Get Navy playing UAB after that, and then Clemson and Cal.
22:18
Speaker 2: Pretty nice on a Friday to have Army and Navy
22:20
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22:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was unaware of this until you told me
22:26
Speaker 4: there's a 3 o'clock game today, and I thought you meant.
22:28
Speaker 1: What bowl game is that? No, I thought you meant tomorrow.
22:31
Speaker 1: You were talking about, I didn't know what you meant.
22:32
Speaker 2: And I looked it up. Yeah, we've got an Army-Navy doubleheader,
22:35
Speaker 2: and the Navy portion of it is at UAB. Yeah,
22:37
Speaker 2: it should be a lot of fun tonight at Protective Stadium.
22:39
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22:41
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22:44
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Speaker 2: All right, before we do our headlines, Lance, northwestern Indiana tonight. Sadly,
23:59
Speaker 2: this is the most competitive game Indiana's played so far.
24:02
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, it is. There's no doubt.
24:05
Speaker 3: And Aiden Childs, the way he played last week against Colorado,
24:08
Speaker 3: I mean, Northwestern took him to the woodshed.
24:10
Speaker 1: 41-7.
24:11
Speaker 3: David Braun, we've talked about this guy. in year four
24:14
Speaker 3: for Northwestern, three of those four years winning years. He's
24:17
Speaker 3: done a hell of a job there, and they're playing
24:19
Speaker 3: with a lot of confidence. And we'll finally see. I
24:22
Speaker 3: know that people have been a little critical on Josh Hoover.
24:25
Speaker 3: I don't really know why. The numbers have been really good.
24:28
Speaker 3: Kirk Cignetti had to come to his defense earlier this year,
24:30
Speaker 3: or earlier this week, I should say. But this will
24:33
Speaker 3: be his first test. I think Northwestern, it's still a
24:36
Speaker 3: big number, 21 and a half. I'm not giving out
24:39
Speaker 3: this game, but probably would lean Northwestern.
24:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, just to keep it inside the number, not that
24:46
Speaker 2: Indiana's going to lose this game, but Brownie, this is
24:50
Speaker 2: a big discussion. They're out of conference for the Big Ten.
24:53
Speaker 2: They get into conference play this weekend, but according to
24:56
Speaker 2: the FPI folks at ESPN, seven Big Ten teams did
25:02
Speaker 2: not play through three weeks a team in the.
25:05
Speaker 1: Top 60 of the FPI. Indiana's one of those. So
25:09
Speaker 1: too is UCLA, Penn State, Washington, Iowa, USC, and Nebraska.
25:15
Speaker 1: That's the top 60 in the FPI.
25:17
Speaker 4: I hate it that college football has become that, that
25:20
Speaker 4: you could go through your entire non-conference and not even
25:22
Speaker 4: play a top 60 team.
25:23
Speaker 1: Sucks.
25:24
Speaker 4: I mean, just to be honest about it, if you're
25:26
Speaker 4: a Big Ten team, and you named some brands there,
25:28
Speaker 4: I mean, Nebraska, I mean, UCLA is not a brand.
25:31
Speaker 1: Who else did you name? Well, I mean, Indiana, Penn State.
25:35
Speaker 4: Yeah.
25:36
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, Lance, here's my point, Lance.
25:39
Speaker 2: If I'm a Penn State fan, I may have a
25:41
Speaker 2: pretty good football team, but I know Indiana is a
25:43
Speaker 2: pretty good football team, and this is the best time
25:46
Speaker 2: to be an Indiana fan. Lance, if I'm an Indiana fan,
25:49
Speaker 2: in this greatest time of our football history, I hate
25:52
Speaker 2: that we gave away a quarter of the season again,
25:54
Speaker 2: and we do it every year, of playing nobodies. I
25:57
Speaker 2: want to go watch my teams play good teams.
26:00
Speaker 1: I get that.
26:01
Speaker 3: I think Indiana fans, though, are just going to buy
26:03
Speaker 3: into what Cignetti's saying. Hey, look, we're not going to
26:05
Speaker 3: play these difficult out-of-conference games. I don't blame him for
26:07
Speaker 3: not playing them. I mean, but these games are absolute jokes.
26:11
Speaker 1: They really are.
26:11
Speaker 3: I mean, I didn't realize Western Kentucky was going to
26:14
Speaker 3: be as bad as they are this year. So Western Kentucky,
26:17
Speaker 3: I mean, I can kind of handle that, but, you know,
26:19
Speaker 3: the Howards of the world don't make a lot of sense.
26:22
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel bad for Klatt, honestly. Y'all know
26:24
Speaker 1: we love Klatt on this show, but Lance, he has
26:26
Speaker 1: been saddled with some crap games, and it's not Fox's fault.
26:30
Speaker 1: It's the Big Ten's fault. They've got nothing for him
26:32
Speaker 1: to show or nothing for Fox to show.
26:34
Speaker 4: And, you know, they get in conference play, and again,
26:36
Speaker 4: they got Ohio State-Illinois this week, which Illinois is, what,
26:40
Speaker 4: about a three touchdowns? How big a dog is Illinois
26:44
Speaker 4: in that game?
26:44
Speaker 1: Three touchdowns?
26:45
Speaker 5: 27 and a half.
26:47
Speaker 1: I mean, they finally get a conference game. for clat
26:50
Speaker 1: and it's a 27 and a half points for.
26:52
Speaker 2: Ed that's that's ridiculous that's the big lowercase big noon
26:56
Speaker 2: kickoff yeah so far in the big tent all right
26:59
Speaker 2: we're about to do our headlines where we try to
27:01
Speaker 2: predict some things that are happening or have some commentary
27:03
Speaker 2: of some things that are going on uh tyler refresh
27:06
Speaker 2: my memory i think i said me lance and brownie correct.
27:10
Speaker 1: That is that the order correct okay that is what
27:12
Speaker 1: you said literally three minutes ago all.
27:14
Speaker 2: Right this is our segment every week where we try
27:16
Speaker 2: to project the headlines let's start with mine in the
27:19
Speaker 2: caribbean queen this week uh the headline the main headline
27:24
Speaker 2: tobago happy for trinidad success i.
27:27
Speaker 1: Mean who wouldn't be if you watch the olympics you
27:30
Speaker 1: get that.
27:31
Speaker 2: Yeah tobago happy for trinidad success every i mean everyone's
27:34
Speaker 2: talking trinidad even in the caribbean.
27:36
Speaker 1: Yes the caribbean queen yeah the ocean.
27:39
Speaker 2: Yeah Madden voice as bad as Chris Pratt's Super Mario character.
27:45
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw the trailer last night, guys,
27:48
Speaker 2: in the NFL game, or maybe you've clicked on Prime,
27:51
Speaker 2: but they hit it a lot in the game last night.
27:53
Speaker 2: This movie, I don't care how good it's going to be,
27:56
Speaker 2: it's unwatchable because of Nicolas Cage's voice of.
28:00
Speaker 1: Trying to be John Madden. Did you see it, Lance?
28:03
Speaker 2: Did you see the trailer for the movie?
28:05
Speaker 1: I did.
28:06
Speaker 3: I like Nick Cage. He is a weird dude. I
28:08
Speaker 3: never understood it when we first talked about this over
28:12
Speaker 3: a year ago when they cast him to play John Madden.
28:14
Speaker 3: It just didn't make a lot of sense.
28:16
Speaker 1: Yeah.
28:17
Speaker 4: Tyler, and anyone can answer this, but I think Tyler
28:20
Speaker 4: might be best suited for it. What is closer, me
28:24
Speaker 4: doing Bane or Nick Cage doing John Madden?
28:29
Speaker 1: You doing Bane.
28:30
Speaker 3: It's not even close.
28:32
Speaker 1: And I know I don't sound like him. I'm doing
28:34
Speaker 1: it as a bit. It is you doing Bane. Oh,
28:37
Speaker 1: that's hard.
28:38
Speaker 4: It's you doing just about anybody. Can you imitate anybody
28:42
Speaker 4: better than Nick Cage can imitate John Madden?
28:44
Speaker 2: We were listening to the folks on the fan coming in,
28:47
Speaker 2: and they nailed it. Nicolas Cage doing Madden sounds like
28:50
Speaker 2: he's the same character he was in Con Air.
28:54
Speaker 3: No, there's no way, because Con Air, he plays a
28:57
Speaker 3: guy named Cameron Poe. It is the worst Southern accent
29:01
Speaker 3: I have ever heard.
29:03
Speaker 4: But, I mean, his Madden accent doesn't, it's not even
29:06
Speaker 4: like he's trying to do Madden. I don't know what
29:08
Speaker 4: he's trying to do, but it was like, I love football.
29:11
Speaker 1: How hard would it be him in there? It's such
29:15
Speaker 1: a weird accent. I love football and I want to
29:17
Speaker 1: play more football.
29:18
Speaker 2: It doesn't sell a job at all. I know we
29:20
Speaker 2: couldn't have got the guy that does impersonations.
29:22
Speaker 1: Frank Caliendo. We couldn't get Caliendo to act. to be
29:25
Speaker 1: Madden in this? It would be better than this.
29:27
Speaker 2: But how hard would it have been for him to
29:28
Speaker 2: voice over off camera just the lip sync with Nicolas Cage?
29:33
Speaker 1: It would be better than this.
29:34
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's worse than Chris Pratt's Mario. I actually got
29:38
Speaker 7: used to the Chris Pratt Mario while those movies.
29:42
Speaker 3: I never even knew the Chris Pratt Mario thing.
29:45
Speaker 7: It's just Chris Pratt's voice.
29:46
Speaker 1: That's it.
29:47
Speaker 7: It's just not a Mario game.
29:49
Speaker 1: So we got seven players. I don't think I'm going
29:51
Speaker 1: to put my name on that. It does not sound
29:54
Speaker 1: like John Madden at all.
29:58
Speaker 2: A little tip of the hat there, Tyler, for the
30:01
Speaker 2: Chris Pratt Super Mario pull there on bad voice movie things.
30:06
Speaker 1: I do have Google at home. Ryan, you sound like
30:08
Speaker 1: Kermit the Frog. Did you see the trailer, though? I did,
30:13
Speaker 1: but you sound like Kermit the Frog right now.
30:16
Speaker 2: My other headline, a little inside baseball, if you saw
30:19
Speaker 2: what everybody was talking about in the sportscasting industry, they
30:22
Speaker 2: were piling on our buddy Shannon Terry, all three sports
30:26
Speaker 2: and rivals, trying to help kids who are not on
30:29
Speaker 2: anybody's radar get on the radar for a small fee.
30:32
Speaker 1: I mean, it is capitalism.
30:36
Speaker 2: So my other headline is, The college football playoff committee
30:39
Speaker 2: will evaluate playoff contenders for only $ 499.
30:41
Speaker 1: Everybody would pay it.
30:45
Speaker 4: Everybody would pay it. Everybody but UCLA. They'd be like, God,
30:49
Speaker 4: that's another thing we can't pay.
30:50
Speaker 2: Go ahead and pay $ 499.
30:52
Speaker 1: But I didn't understand why people were piling on Shannon
30:54
Speaker 1: Terry so much. You didn't?
30:56
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, a lot of people don't like Shannon
30:58
Speaker 2: because of the... Well, there's some jealousy out there, there's
31:01
Speaker 2: no doubt. I mean, Shannon has been extremely successful, Lance,
31:04
Speaker 2: but I mean, when you run a company that's built
31:08
Speaker 2: on evaluating players for recruiting purposes, and then you say,
31:12
Speaker 2: I will evaluate you for $ 4.
31:14
Speaker 1: 99. Now, Lance Shannon's argument was, the best we could
31:18
Speaker 1: do is evaluate like 6,000 players.
31:19
Speaker 4: So, There's 1.4 million, so you do the math. A
31:23
Speaker 4: bunch are going to get left out. So if you'll
31:26
Speaker 4: pay us, we'll do it.
31:27
Speaker 2: And I assume one of them, Lance, was Trinidad Chambliss.
31:29
Speaker 2: I don't know if he had a rival or an
31:31
Speaker 2: on-three star rating, but he was at freaking Ferris State.
31:34
Speaker 1: So if the Chambliss family.
31:36
Speaker 2: Had had $ 499, maybe he wouldn't have spent four years
31:40
Speaker 2: at Ferris State.
31:41
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
31:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I don't know where I fall on this.
31:45
Speaker 3: I mean, I understand, like, you've only got so much bandwidth.
31:48
Speaker 3: And if they've got to use their resources to go
31:51
Speaker 3: out and evaluate these kids, it's going to cost them money.
31:54
Speaker 3: So I kind of get it from that angle, and
31:56
Speaker 3: I kind of get my people. The look isn't the best,
32:01
Speaker 3: but I kind of see where he's coming from, though.
32:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, but at $ 499 a head, I can hire a
32:06
Speaker 1: new scout, right? Well, I'm sure that's part of the plan.
32:11
Speaker 2: I mean, I could get a new scout to find
32:13
Speaker 2: a diamond in the rough. I just thought that was interesting.
32:15
Speaker 1: Okay, let's do Lance's. Headlines here. Tell us, Lance.
32:19
Speaker 3: We are going to go to Knoxville. Big game there.
32:22
Speaker 3: If you guys heard about it, Texas, Tennessee tomorrow. The
32:25
Speaker 3: Longhorn latest phased and confused. Arch bad, but Brandon worse.
32:33
Speaker 3: Horns win ugly. You see Sark there. Thing I like
32:37
Speaker 3: about them high school girls, I get older and older.
32:40
Speaker 1: They stay the same age.
32:44
Speaker 3: And then Tyler came up with this one on his own.
32:47
Speaker 1: I love it.
32:47
Speaker 3: Tell us about Tuberville, Tyler.
32:48
Speaker 7: So Tuberville wins best in show at the Furry Takeover
32:53
Speaker 7: 2026 after accidentally boarding the wrong flight.
32:57
Speaker 6: Yeah.
32:59
Speaker 3: He's going to mullet out for a reason.
33:02
Speaker 6: Yeah.
33:03
Speaker 2: I would tell you, how can I say this nicely?
33:07
Speaker 1: Yeah.
33:09
Speaker 2: I'll just put it this way. Coach Tuberville did not
33:12
Speaker 2: graduate from Auburn where they graduate a lot better out
33:16
Speaker 2: loud readers. Him reading on the floor the other day,
33:19
Speaker 2: this bill, when he was discussing this, it was not a,
33:23
Speaker 2: it was, it was.
33:25
Speaker 1: It's hard to read his finger to read. It may
33:30
Speaker 1: have helped. It may have helped.
33:31
Speaker 3: He should have got Nick Cage to show up as
33:34
Speaker 3: John Madden and read for him.
33:36
Speaker 1: I love football. I don't like furries, but I love football.
33:43
Speaker 2: The furry thing. Listen, I don't care what you do.
33:45
Speaker 2: Just don't come on the plane drunk, man. I would
33:50
Speaker 2: rather have.
33:50
Speaker 1: A non-furry pilot land than a non-furry pilot. No, a
33:55
Speaker 1: furry pilot land than a non-furry pilot crash. Oh, yeah.
33:58
Speaker 2: I'd rather have a sober furry pilot than I would
34:01
Speaker 2: a drunk non-furry.
34:02
Speaker 1: Yes. I mean, I don't care if you've got a
34:04
Speaker 1: bear costume in your carrier.
34:06
Speaker 4: Ultimately, Lance, ultimately, ultimately, Lance, the one thing I want
34:09
Speaker 4: a pilot to have is ability to land.
34:11
Speaker 1: Right? I mean, that's my starting point. And clarity. I
34:13
Speaker 1: want you to be a good pilot.
34:14
Speaker 3: You know, I saw the movie Flight with Denzel, and
34:17
Speaker 3: it was semi-based on a situation now. the plane landed
34:21
Speaker 3: in the Pacific ocean, everybody died. So they're going to
34:23
Speaker 3: Hollywood it up a little bit, but I didn't fly
34:25
Speaker 3: for nine months after that.
34:28
Speaker 5: Yeah.
34:29
Speaker 2: Hey, by the way, flight attendance, attendance. I, I, I mean,
34:35
Speaker 2: we all have imagined things that some of them have
34:37
Speaker 2: done over the years. I mean, going to a furry festival.
34:40
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's pretty minor, pretty minor, whatever. Yeah. So, That's
34:44
Speaker 1: a funny headline, though, especially when he's dressed in Aubrey.
34:47
Speaker 1: I like that one. Brownie, give us your headline. All right.
34:49
Speaker 4: My headline is from the Yale leader in College Station, Texas.
34:52
Speaker 4: After a win at LSU, Texas A & M coach
34:54
Speaker 4: Mike Elko asked if he can also have a purple
34:56
Speaker 4: Taco Bell card. He wants the Devontae Adams Kevin Hart treatment.
35:00
Speaker 1: Why not? they would probably be hesitant to give this one.
35:05
Speaker 1: What do you think he could do with a purple
35:07
Speaker 1: Taco Bell card?
35:07
Speaker 3: I mean, Kevin Hart, like, you know, one burrito, he'd
35:10
Speaker 3: probably have to cut it up three times, three different
35:12
Speaker 3: meals for Kevin Hart. It's like feeding a bird, but Elko, man.
35:17
Speaker 1: But I've already got the Elko commercial plan.
35:21
Speaker 2: Elko would be, hey, Coach Mike Elko, Texas A & M,
35:24
Speaker 2: you've heard about the fourth meal.
35:25
Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you about the fifth meal. Yeah.
35:30
Speaker 1: Five through seven.
35:32
Speaker 4: Page two, while President Trump visits Texas-Tennessee game, Senator Mitch
35:35
Speaker 4: McConnell visits Iowa-Michigan.
35:38
Speaker 1: Can you just see him smiling?
35:40
Speaker 2: He would be the only one smiling at that game.
35:43
Speaker 2: Don't expect a lot of offense in that one.
35:46
Speaker 3: Don't expect a lot of offense. I do have a
35:48
Speaker 3: side on that game I do like a lot. I
35:51
Speaker 3: told you guys I was only giving up 4.3 points
35:54
Speaker 3: per game and only allowing 176 yards. I got tortured
35:59
Speaker 3: watching Iowa early on this year. The quarterback play is
36:03
Speaker 3: absolutely abysmal. You guys have heard this before.
36:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
36:09
Speaker 2: Brown thinks you're picking Iowa. I think you're picking Michigan.
36:12
Speaker 2: You have to go to lanceslog.com to find out what
36:14
Speaker 2: he's really picking.
36:15
Speaker 1: That's right.
36:16
Speaker 2: But Brown thinks he has you read that you're picking
36:19
Speaker 2: Iowa because he's got Iowa in the upset alert. He
36:22
Speaker 2: just did the old Statue of Liberty. He just did
36:25
Speaker 2: this right here.
36:27
Speaker 1: He got it right.
36:28
Speaker 2: I think you're telling me you're picking Michigan. So LanceIsLocked.com
36:31
Speaker 2: to go find out really who Lance is picking.
36:33
Speaker 1: Is one of us right? One of us is right.
36:35
Speaker 3: One of you guys is spot on.
36:38
Speaker 1: Okay.
36:39
Speaker 4: And on page three, designers admit the one task AI
36:42
Speaker 4: had no answer for. Creating a good Oklahoma offense.
36:45
Speaker 1: Just can't do it. Sorry, guys. AI can only do
36:47
Speaker 1: so much.
36:48
Speaker 2: You can't spell Arbuckle without AI, can you?
36:51
Speaker 1: There's no I in there.
36:52
Speaker 2: Yeah. That's our headlines going into a big college football weekend.
36:57
Speaker 2: There was baseball clinching yesterday. We had four teams that clinched.
37:01
Speaker 2: Padres clinched. The Cubs clinched. Cleveland clinched. And our boy
37:07
Speaker 2: on the back row, from a couple of years of
37:10
Speaker 2: 100 losses... Scott Forrester, Chicago White Sox. By the way,
37:14
Speaker 2: a set of twins just walked by, college twins. You
37:16
Speaker 2: rarely see that. They chose Auburn together. And the Chicago
37:20
Speaker 2: White Sox just clinched.
37:22
Speaker 1: Talking about the Minnesota Twins. How do they factor into this?
37:24
Speaker 2: No, two blonde-haired college students that were identical twins walking by,
37:29
Speaker 2: coming from a hot yoga class.
37:31
Speaker 3: Within 60 seconds, Dunaway's like, we've all wondered what stewardess do.
37:40
Speaker 1: It's a Friday, man. And the White Sox are in love, man.
37:44
Speaker 1: They're in the playoffs. Tell us about your White Sox, Forrester.
37:47
Speaker 1: All right.
37:47
Speaker 8: Well, you know, I may be a little biased. I'm
37:50
Speaker 8: definitely a little biased here. But best story in baseball.
37:54
Speaker 8: They won 41 games two years ago. The worst team
37:59
Speaker 8: in the history.
38:00
Speaker 5: Of Major League Baseball two years ago. They've lost. They
38:04
Speaker 5: had lost.
38:04
Speaker 8: 100 games in a row, three years in a row.
38:08
Speaker 8: Nobody had made the playoffs after doing it twice in
38:11
Speaker 8: a row.
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Speaker 5: They're in the playoffs.
38:14
Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Yeah, congratulations.
38:16
Speaker 3: It is a great story.
38:17
Speaker 5: Agreed.
38:20
Speaker 1: Lance says that as if you don't think they can
38:22
Speaker 1: do anything in the playoffs.
38:23
Speaker 5: I don't think they can do anything either. I mean,
38:25
Speaker 5: I don't know.
38:25
Speaker 3: I mean, you go back to the Braves in 21,
38:27
Speaker 3: what the Braves were the 12th seed coming in and
38:30
Speaker 3: They ended up winning it. Baseball is a weird sport.
38:33
Speaker 3: I seriously doubt they will win it, but it would
38:35
Speaker 3: be an incredible story.
38:36
Speaker 8: Hey, so I've brought this up before when I think,
38:39
Speaker 8: I want to say the Tigers did this, but so
38:42
Speaker 8: the Royals or the White Sox clinched with a win
38:45
Speaker 8: at the Royals place yesterday, and the Royals put congratulations
38:50
Speaker 8: to the White Sox on their scoreboard.
38:52
Speaker 5: You know, maybe I'm just too petty for this, but,
38:56
Speaker 5: you know, I wouldn't like this.
38:59
Speaker 2: No, I would never hold my hand. I don't think
39:03
Speaker 2: the Yankees did it for Tampa Bay the other night.
39:05
Speaker 1: No, I wouldn't.
39:06
Speaker 5: I highly doubt it.
39:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy.
39:08
Speaker 2: What's the first thing that the– have you ever been
39:11
Speaker 2: to a high school football game?
39:12
Speaker 1: If the home team wins, they leave the scoreboard up.
39:14
Speaker 5: Oh, you shut that thing off.
39:15
Speaker 1: If you're the home team and you lose, you shut
39:17
Speaker 1: that thing off immediately. They do it at college. I
39:21
Speaker 1: know they do it here at Auburn. If Auburn loses,
39:23
Speaker 1: that scoreboard's off quick. Yeah, you don't want that photo,
39:25
Speaker 1: do you?
39:25
Speaker 4: Yeah.
39:25
Speaker 1: It's off quick. But props to the Royals.
39:29
Speaker 5: Classy move. I guess.
39:31
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess. I wouldn't want my team.
39:32
Speaker 4: I like if the Dolphins and God knows the Bills
39:35
Speaker 4: and the Patriots have clinched stuff on our field.
39:37
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want that. Don't congratulate them.
39:40
Speaker 2: Baseball playoffs start on next week.
39:44
Speaker 1: Next Tuesday, I think. Monday or Tuesday.
39:46
Speaker 2: So we're to that part of the year where we'll
39:48
Speaker 2: start getting the the wraparound of football blended in with
39:52
Speaker 2: post-season baseball, which is always one of my favorite.
39:55
Speaker 1: Times of the year. All right.
39:57
Speaker 2: All knee deep in college football. When we come back,
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Speaker 7: They're out on their own now.
41:49
Speaker 1: You see them on ESPN. Their little bus-like studio, is
41:54
Speaker 1: it a school bus? I really couldn't tell you.
41:56
Speaker 3: I would seriously doubt it is a school bus. I
41:59
Speaker 3: think it's just made up to look like a school bus.
42:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks really good.
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Speaker 2: I was just thinking, Lance, because we go on these
42:05
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42:08
Speaker 2: We were on the road at 6 this morning to
42:10
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42:13
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42:16
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42:21
Speaker 5: A school bus?
42:22
Speaker 1: Like a Madden Bruiser? But a big RV.
42:24
Speaker 2: A big RV.
42:29
Speaker 1: I just looked it up.
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Speaker 7: They customized a 1974 Bluebird school bus to use as
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42:36
Speaker 1: So we all doubted it.
42:39
Speaker 7: They bought it for $ 10, 000 and then converted it.
42:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought it looked legit because it had that
42:44
Speaker 2: little handle. Remember that hard handle they had, that silver
42:48
Speaker 2: one you had to open the door and shut the door?
42:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you got to a railroad track and everybody
42:52
Speaker 1: had to get quiet. Yeah. Anyway, maybe in the future,
42:56
Speaker 1: maybe the 2027 season, we can think about for these
43:00
Speaker 1: road shows, having an RV all weekend long. That would
43:02
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun to hang out in. You
43:03
Speaker 1: went from a bus to an RV now. Well, I
43:05
Speaker 1: don't know. When you said bus, you went with one
43:07
Speaker 1: of those tour buses? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
43:10
Speaker 5: It would be a lot of fun.
43:11
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk football now, Lance and Brownie. We
43:14
Speaker 2: got four ranked matchups in the SEC this weekend. And
43:19
Speaker 2: I brought this up loosely yesterday, but I want to
43:24
Speaker 2: get reaction now because we didn't really get into it.
43:27
Speaker 2: Texas number one, Tennessee 14. By the way, Hollywood smothers
43:30
Speaker 2: some issues on whether or not how healthy he is,
43:33
Speaker 2: how much he'll play in this game, if he'll play
43:34
Speaker 2: in this game. But I want to ask, loser of
43:37
Speaker 2: these games, what's left for them the rest of the season?
43:41
Speaker 2: What does a loss in these ranked SEC games mean
43:44
Speaker 2: for them? So let's go Texas number one loss for them. Lance,
43:49
Speaker 2: start us off here. What does a loss this weekend
43:53
Speaker 2: mean for you for the Texas Longhorns?
43:55
Speaker 3: A loss for Texas, well, it would mean more on
43:59
Speaker 3: the Tennessee side. With that said, Texas gets a little
44:03
Speaker 3: bit of a pass because they were able to come
44:04
Speaker 3: back in that fourth quarter. Now imagine if they wouldn't
44:08
Speaker 3: have beaten Ohio State, and now they absorb loss number
44:11
Speaker 3: two before we even hit the month of October. So
44:13
Speaker 3: I think they can take on a loss here, and
44:15
Speaker 3: they're still going to be okay. But the thing that
44:18
Speaker 3: would bother me is how bad they were on the
44:20
Speaker 3: road last year with Arch and with Sark. And if
44:23
Speaker 3: that continues in road challenge number one of the 2026
44:28
Speaker 3: season against a true freshman quarterback, that's a problem.
44:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, see, I'm with Lance.
44:34
Speaker 4: I think a loss for Texas, aside from college football
44:37
Speaker 4: playoff implications or SEC championship implications, you've got a road
44:41
Speaker 4: problem if you can't win this one. Because, I mean, again,
44:44
Speaker 4: I'll give credit to Conor O'Gara. for the first one
44:47
Speaker 4: I saw throwing the stat out that Arch Manning has
44:49
Speaker 4: two overtime road wins. He has not won a game
44:52
Speaker 4: in regulation on the road, and if you lose this one, Lance,
44:54
Speaker 4: it would just seem like now you're starting to stack
44:57
Speaker 4: these road losses, and you've got to play more road games.
45:00
Speaker 4: I mean, you've got a road problem at that point.
45:02
Speaker 3: Well, and that was Kentucky and Mississippi State. And I
45:06
Speaker 3: heard a stat this morning, and I didn't grab the
45:09
Speaker 3: entire thing, but It was just basically, Sark is awful
45:13
Speaker 3: against the number on the road.
45:15
Speaker 1: True road games at Texas. Awful against the number? Yeah,
45:20
Speaker 1: against the spread. Yeah, and this number is, where is
45:23
Speaker 1: it right now? Four, four and a half? Four and
45:24
Speaker 1: a half.
45:25
Speaker 3: Texas, four and a half. And a total of 56
45:27
Speaker 3: and a half.
45:28
Speaker 1: Yeah.
45:29
Speaker 6: Eesh.
45:30
Speaker 2: Todd Furman coming up at the top of the hour
45:31
Speaker 2: to talk more numbers with Lance.
45:33
Speaker 1: He'll join us from Las Vegas. I did want to.
45:36
Speaker 1: You mentioned a great point.
45:37
Speaker 2: A Texas loss means Tennessee's actually beaten the number one
45:40
Speaker 2: team in the country.
45:40
Speaker 1: Oh, it's huge for Tennessee.
45:42
Speaker 2: Walt's in deep, knee-deep into the college football playoff race.
45:45
Speaker 2: What does a loss for Tennessee do for you, Lance?
45:48
Speaker 3: A loss for Tennessee, I guess, is somewhat expected, although
45:52
Speaker 3: this fan base is going nuts. We talked about the
45:54
Speaker 3: ticket prices. You know, get-ins are $ 350 plus. Really good
45:57
Speaker 3: tickets are $ 1, 000 plus. A loss for Tennessee, it depends.
46:04
Speaker 3: If they're really competitive, if it comes down, you know,
46:07
Speaker 3: Clay brought this up on our show yesterday, how Tennessee
46:10
Speaker 3: should have beaten Georgia. They missed that late kick. They
46:13
Speaker 3: did kind of spiral after that. But I do think
46:16
Speaker 3: if they were to lose to Texas with all of
46:18
Speaker 3: this buzz, if it was a really, really tight game
46:21
Speaker 3: with a freshman quarterback, I think you could build on that.
46:25
Speaker 4: I mean, I think Tennessee can reach at least everything
46:28
Speaker 4: I thought they could reach if they lose this game.
46:30
Speaker 4: I did not consider Tennessee... a real playoff contender. I mean,
46:33
Speaker 4: they were a fringe, fringe, fringe playoff contender. So if
46:36
Speaker 4: you lose this game, I don't think you've lost anything
46:39
Speaker 4: for Tennessee that you were going to reach. And I mean,
46:42
Speaker 4: with a true freshman quarterback, and even though true freshmen
46:45
Speaker 4: aren't what they used to be, did you think this
46:47
Speaker 4: team was going to run through and make the.
46:48
Speaker 1: College football playoffs? I did not.
46:50
Speaker 4: But I mean, if it's a close loss, like if
46:52
Speaker 4: you're right in the game at the very end, I
46:54
Speaker 4: think you leave this game as a Tennessee fan thinking,
46:57
Speaker 4: We've got our quarterback, and the future's bright.
46:59
Speaker 2: Heupel's biggest win at Tennessee to date still is.
47:03
Speaker 1: 2022 over Alabama.
47:05
Speaker 2: Would this one pass it if Tennessee beats number one Texas?
47:08
Speaker 2: Would that surpass that 2022 win, ending the losing streak
47:13
Speaker 2: to rival Alabama?
47:14
Speaker 3: I don't think it would. At that point, we penciled
47:17
Speaker 3: Tennessee in the college football playoff. It didn't happen because
47:20
Speaker 3: they fell apart against, I guess, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, both
47:23
Speaker 3: won two. I forgot, but That was a really, really
47:26
Speaker 3: good Tennessee team and the streak that was going on
47:29
Speaker 3: behind it. I mean, you saw the overflow. You were
47:31
Speaker 3: up there on the field. We all watched it. That
47:34
Speaker 3: was an incredible moment. What it would do for Tennessee, though,
47:37
Speaker 3: is I think it puts them in the top 10.
47:39
Speaker 3: And if you would have told me going into October,
47:41
Speaker 3: Tennessee was a top 10 team with Faison Brandon starting quarterback,
47:45
Speaker 3: I would have been blown away.
47:46
Speaker 4: I mean, Lance, if they win this game, you do
47:48
Speaker 4: have to start looking at that schedule and saying, all right, 10-2,
47:51
Speaker 4: get some in. Where do I find more than two
47:53
Speaker 4: losses if I'm going to knock Tennessee out of this thing?
47:56
Speaker 3: So after this, they host Auburn next week. Then they
47:59
Speaker 3: go to Arkansas. I mean, if you're beating Texas, I'm
48:02
Speaker 3: going to go on and say those are wins.
48:03
Speaker 1: 6-0.
48:04
Speaker 3: Then you've got Alabama coming into town. You've had two
48:07
Speaker 3: of the last three years you've beaten Alabama. At South Carolina,
48:11
Speaker 3: let's just say Bama's a loss. At South Carolina, win.
48:14
Speaker 3: Kentucky and Neyland, a win. At A & M, that
48:18
Speaker 3: looks a little different now. and LSU, and then at Vanderbilt.
48:22
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah. If they win this one, you can
48:26
Speaker 1: say that's a playoff.
48:27
Speaker 4: If you can beat Texas, if you're good enough to
48:29
Speaker 4: beat Texas, you start looking at the rest of that
48:31
Speaker 4: schedule and saying, where do I find more than two losses?
48:34
Speaker 3: I'm in at 10-2. The young kids won't remember this.
48:36
Speaker 3: We all remember a day the winner of Tennessee and
48:39
Speaker 3: Florida played for the SEC championship. More than likely, they
48:42
Speaker 3: were playing for a national championship. Can you imagine if
48:45
Speaker 3: Tennessee and Florida both win tomorrow, both are 4-0, Florida's
48:49
Speaker 3: going to be close to the top 10. Tennessee's probably
48:52
Speaker 3: going to be in the top 10, which would just
48:53
Speaker 3: be really amazing.
48:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, except for the fact that they don't play.
48:57
Speaker 2: Sadly, we don't have that great rivalry game from the 90s.
49:01
Speaker 3: And we're guaranteed somebody out of Starkville this weekend, whether
49:04
Speaker 3: it's Missouri or Mississippi State, one of those two is
49:07
Speaker 3: going to go to 4-0, and they're going to be
49:08
Speaker 3: in the top 15.
49:09
Speaker 1: Yeah.
49:11
Speaker 2: Missouri, Mississippi State quickly here, so we get to Furman
49:14
Speaker 2: here in about five minutes. Mississippi State playing host to Missouri,
49:18
Speaker 2: both ranked, both at the bottom end of the top 25.
49:20
Speaker 1: Loser of that game, what does it mean?
49:23
Speaker 3: The loser of this game, I think if you're Missouri,
49:27
Speaker 3: if you're If you're Mississippi State, you can still build
49:29
Speaker 3: on this. I think Missouri fans are going to be like, damn,
49:31
Speaker 3: when are we going to get over this hump? I
49:33
Speaker 3: know it's a ranked team. I know it's on the road,
49:35
Speaker 3: but it still is Mississippi State. When you look at
49:37
Speaker 3: Mississippi State, Jeff Levy is 2-15 in the SEC. I can't,
49:45
Speaker 3: I mean, it's hard to say who this game is
49:47
Speaker 3: more important to because I still don't take either one
49:50
Speaker 3: of these seriously, even with a win as a playoff contender. Now,
49:54
Speaker 3: If Mississippi State was to win this and Camario goes
49:56
Speaker 3: for 400 total yards and five touchdowns and he just
50:00
Speaker 3: looks even better than he looked on the road last week,
50:03
Speaker 3: then this is becoming a massive story. And I think
50:06
Speaker 3: one player like that, we've seen it before, can create
50:09
Speaker 3: special seasons. So I think it would be a bigger
50:11
Speaker 3: talking point if Mississippi State wins this.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think if you're Mississippi State, Lance, here would
50:17
Speaker 4: be my concern. If you lose this game, you started
50:19
Speaker 4: 3-0 last year. And then you just never could find
50:22
Speaker 4: that next important win after that, right? You lost to
50:25
Speaker 4: Tennessee at home. You lost to Texas in overtime at home.
50:28
Speaker 4: And if you lose this one, all of a sudden,
50:30
Speaker 4: you know, is that in the back of your mind?
50:31
Speaker 1: Here we go again. And, oh, by the way, who
50:33
Speaker 1: comes to town next week but Alabama. So, I mean,
50:37
Speaker 1: it makes that Alabama game even more critical to keep
50:40
Speaker 1: that forward momentum. You know what I'm saying?
50:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't even know how realistic this is, Dunaway. Like,
50:45
Speaker 3: if you beat Missouri, which you're a touchdown favorite right here,
50:49
Speaker 3: you're probably going to be, regardless of how this plays out,
50:51
Speaker 3: Alabama's going to be right at a touchdown favorite. But
50:54
Speaker 3: after Alabama, you've got to go to LSU, you host Oklahoma,
50:57
Speaker 3: you've got to go to Texas. That's all in a row,
50:59
Speaker 3: those four games. So even if they were to win
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Speaker 3: one of those three or one of those four and
51:05
Speaker 3: they start off the season at 5-3, that to me
51:09
Speaker 3: would be a huge step in the right direction.
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Speaker 2: Missouri, though, I think fans, they've been so close, I
51:16
Speaker 2: think they are thinking playoffs. And for Mississippi State, It's
51:19
Speaker 2: more about being legitimate, you know, good bowl contenders. Quickly,
51:24
Speaker 2: the A & M LSU loser, both with already losses. Brandon,
51:28
Speaker 2: go first here. A & M LSU loser is?
51:30
Speaker 1: Well, your loser is out of the playoffs.
51:33
Speaker 4: Lance, I don't know that there's a legitimate recoverable road
51:36
Speaker 4: for either one of these teams with what they have
51:38
Speaker 4: left if they are already saddled with two conference losses
51:41
Speaker 4: and we haven't even entered October.
51:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think for A & M, I think
51:45
Speaker 3: Elko right now, he was asked point blank about Marcel Reed.
51:49
Speaker 3: If they lose this game and they lose it going away,
51:52
Speaker 3: Reed probably struggles again on the road. At that point,
51:56
Speaker 3: you're starting to think if you're Elko, well, I might
51:58
Speaker 3: have a quarterback problem.
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Speaker 1: You'll also take.
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Speaker 3: Into account that 10 guys on the roster that got
52:03
Speaker 3: you to a college football playoff last year are playing
52:05
Speaker 3: on Sundays now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it is.
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Speaker 4: If you lose this for either one, I think, I mean,
52:13
Speaker 4: I just don't know how you can make a case
52:15
Speaker 4: for going to the playoffs.
52:16
Speaker 3: I was going to say, I don't see LSU losing
52:19
Speaker 3: this game. This would be a much bigger story, I believe,
52:22
Speaker 3: if LSU is now a nine and a half point
52:24
Speaker 3: favorite was to lose this game.
52:26
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. The last one is Ole
52:28
Speaker 1: Miss at Florida for the loser of this game.
52:32
Speaker 2: Does it really matter? Both of them are going to
52:35
Speaker 2: be perceived playoff contenders. Obviously, it's probably bigger lands for
52:38
Speaker 2: Ole Miss, right?
52:39
Speaker 3: Well, the way I see this, if Florida wins it,
52:41
Speaker 3: and we talked about it yesterday, then all of a
52:43
Speaker 3: sudden you're like, damn, this is probably a 10-2 team,
52:46
Speaker 3: and they're going to the college football playoff in year
52:48
Speaker 3: one under John Sumrall. On the other side, if Ole
52:51
Speaker 3: Miss is able to come down from maybe the biggest
52:54
Speaker 3: win in their regular season history, and they're able to
52:57
Speaker 3: go on the road as a three-and-a-half point dog and
52:59
Speaker 3: win this, I think we need to start talking about
53:01
Speaker 3: Ole Miss winning a national championship possibly.
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Speaker 5: Wow. Yeah.
53:05
Speaker 1: How about that conversation? We haven't had that one in
53:07
Speaker 1: a while, have we? Until the playoffs, before the playoffs
53:10
Speaker 1: last year. But you guys would get me.
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Speaker 3: I mean, if you're able to knock off LSU with
53:14
Speaker 3: all of that pressure and all of that hype, and
53:16
Speaker 3: then you're able to come down, go on the road
53:18
Speaker 3: to a Florida team that is just crushing it offensively
53:21
Speaker 3: and win that game, that would tell me a lot
53:23
Speaker 3: internally what's going on with Pete Golding and those guys.
53:26
Speaker 2: Outside of the SEC, equally big, Oregon and USC, and
53:30
Speaker 2: to some degree, Iowa and Michigan as well, in a
53:34
Speaker 2: huge day of college football. We'll talk about that with
53:37
Speaker 2: Todd Furman coming up on the other side. Lance and
53:39
Speaker 2: him will have a great little conversation. By the way,
53:43
Speaker 2: the turnaround at West Virginia continues so far. Rich Rod's
53:48
Speaker 2: zone read offense. Has Michael Hawkins, the top-rated quarterback when
53:54
Speaker 2: it comes to QBR in college.
53:56
Speaker 1: Football, was it Oklahoma? And they don't have him anymore there.
54:05
Speaker 1: They've got John Mateer.
54:06
Speaker 2: They thought they were getting something else, and they haven't
54:09
Speaker 2: gotten the guy they thought they were getting. All right,
54:11
Speaker 2: when we come back, live from Auburn, It's LT and
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Speaker 2: Todd Furman talking a little point spreads about the big
54:18
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