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October 26, 2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 6: Hey there, Braves Valley football fans. This is Cal McNeil
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  Speaker 4: Let's go.
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  Speaker 8: Welcome to the Writer's Roundtable with Rusty Burson, Robert Cessna,
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  Speaker 8: and your host, Chip Howard. The Writer's Roundtable is brought
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  Speaker 8: to you by Intec and First Financial Bank.
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  Speaker 9: Great to have you with us on a Monday with
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  Speaker 9: Rusty and Cease. And we're just all giddy about the
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  Speaker 9: news that a Waffle House is coming to Bryan.
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  Speaker 3: If you weren't with us in the first hour.
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  Speaker 9: Brian Bayer, Bobby Gutierrez, uh, made that announcement and, um, no,
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  Speaker 9: no timetable. There's stuff to be done obviously. So it
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  Speaker 9: won't be tomorrow, but I asked if I could get
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  Speaker 9: my order in already, but I don't think they're quite
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  Speaker 9: taking orders yet.
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  Speaker 10: So Chip, you know, I've been serving in this Kairos
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  Speaker 10: prison ministry for many years. One year there was this
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  Speaker 10: little guy, he took a locking to me and, uh,
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  Speaker 10: He had been a really bad man at one point
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  Speaker 10: in his life. He had a swastika tattoo on his face,
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  Speaker 10: and he was in this walker, tattooed all up. Again,
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  Speaker 10: he took a liking to me, and he accepted Christ
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  Speaker 10: at the end of the walk, which is, thank God
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  Speaker 10: he did, because he died fairly shortly after that. But
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  Speaker 10: he spent most of our free time, he'd come over
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  Speaker 10: and he'd give me elaborate details on if I was
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  Speaker 10: going to rob something, the Waffle House is the place
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  Speaker 10: to go. And I finally told him, I was like, man,
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  Speaker 10: we don't even have a Waffle House in Bryan County.
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  Speaker 4: So immediately when I heard that news, I've got a
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  Speaker 4: backup plan if things go bad.
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  Speaker 9: Wow.
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  Speaker 7: Why Waffle House though?
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  Speaker 4: So we know who to come after.
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  Speaker 10: There's usually one person in the back, and they keep
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  Speaker 10: a set. Oh, he went into great detail about all this.
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  Speaker 7: They've changed security since he's been in prison.
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  Speaker 9: So you need to be part of the new Waffle
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  Speaker 9: House security team.
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  Speaker 4: Design team. Design.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 3: You definitely need to throw that to them.
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  Speaker 10: Matter of fact, I texted some of those guys on
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  Speaker 10: the prison ministry that I serve with, and they were
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  Speaker 10: all going, Okay, well, hopefully you keep that job at Mirabai.
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  Speaker 4: That's awesome. Yeah, I thought you'd enjoy that.
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  Speaker 9: I could use a waffle right now, as a matter
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  Speaker 9: of fact. So it's good to be that time of day.
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  Speaker 4: They have some of the best hash browns you can get.
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  Speaker 4: I love the hash browns. Smothered, covered.
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  Speaker 3: I do love the hash browns.
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  Speaker 7: It's the way to start the show.
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  Speaker 11: It is.
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  Speaker 7: Aggies could have used a Waffle House Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that was the problem.
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  Speaker 9: They should have pregame at the Waffle House.
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  Speaker 7: Don't use that stuff that their nutrition says. So I've
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  Speaker 7: been thinking about this.
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  Speaker 9: I've got a question for both of you guys.
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  Speaker 3: So when the season started, you looked at, oh, I've got.
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  Speaker 4: To go to Alabama.
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  Speaker 9: Didn't know what the team was going to be like.
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  Speaker 9: Thought they were going to be good. If you predicted
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  Speaker 9: 10-2 or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, well, one of those losses is going to
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  Speaker 3: be in Alabama. They're not going to win in Alabama.
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  Speaker 9: So now people seem furious that they lost at Alabama. Now,
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  Speaker 9: it's like, did you expect, even now, when you're not
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  Speaker 9: doing real well, did you expect to.
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  Speaker 4: Go to Alabama and win?
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  Speaker 9: I mean, they played, I thought for two quarters especially,
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  Speaker 9: they played very well.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'll jump on this first, Cease.
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  Speaker 11: Sure.
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  Speaker 10: At the beginning of the year, I would have said, no,
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  Speaker 10: you can't win at Alabama. You're not going to win
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  Speaker 10: that game. But the reality is, Alabama's not that good.
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  Speaker 4: Fair. That's fair.
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  Speaker 10: And Alabama, I kept watching them going, and them can
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  Speaker 10: easily win this game.
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  Speaker 3: They can win this game.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah. And that was my take, and that's what probably
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  Speaker 10: the disappointment is, is when you watch Alabama, they're like,
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  Speaker 10: this is not Nick Saban's Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: That's correct. You're right.
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  Speaker 4: But on the other hand.
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  Speaker 10: I really, you know, I said last week, I thought,
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  Speaker 10: you know, 14 points is a lot. My prediction is
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  Speaker 10: A & M covers that. They lose the game, but
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  Speaker 10: they don't get blown out.
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  Speaker 4: And so it was about what I expected.
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  Speaker 10: And so I turned the TV channel, and I didn't
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  Speaker 10: think about that game for another second all weekend long.
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  Speaker 10: Because here's the deal is that I've come to expect
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  Speaker 10: this from A & M. You know, in the last
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  Speaker 10: three decades, I can count four really good seasons.
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  Speaker 12: 98.
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  Speaker 4: 2012, 2020, and 2025.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, we're talking about really exceptional seasons.
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  Speaker 4: Those are it.
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  Speaker 10: The norm is to be underachieving and to be disappointed.
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  Speaker 10: So I'm like, I guess I'm the picture of apathy
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  Speaker 10: right now, but it just didn't bother me.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care. It's like, that's a bad situation.
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  Speaker 7: Of course, Alabama was one of my losses for A
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  Speaker 7: & M going into the season. Watch the Alabama-Georgia game.
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  Speaker 7: in Missouri the way they're doing, I go, man, that's
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  Speaker 7: two pretty good teams. Yes. But I go, you know,
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  Speaker 7: they've got to go to Tennessee. Then I watch Alabama
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  Speaker 7: against Tennessee, not nearly as good.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 7: And so I say Alabama's still going to win this game. But,
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  Speaker 7: you know, it wouldn't surprise me if it was close
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  Speaker 7: just because when I saw Alabama three tough games in
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  Speaker 7: a row in the SEC.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 7: So when I get to the game and you get
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  Speaker 7: in the press box and you find out, you know,
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  Speaker 7: Alabama's already missing like three or four starters. And any
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  Speaker 7: time anymore at old NIL, when you are missing starters,
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  Speaker 7: and we're talking about their best secondary person and their
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  Speaker 7: best receiver. Then as the game unfolds in the first half,
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  Speaker 7: they lose three more starters.
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  Speaker 4: Targeting was big, I thought.
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  Speaker 7: They get their second best player in the secondary out.
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  Speaker 7: They get a lineman out. They get another defensive. They're
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  Speaker 7: running their third defensive tackle. And as the game unfolded,
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  Speaker 7: I go, A & M can win this game. Matter
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  Speaker 7: of fact, I think A & M right now is
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  Speaker 7: the healthiest team coming off the Citadel. I said to myself,
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  Speaker 7: A & M is going to win that game. Then
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  Speaker 7: fourth and inches, game over. And it's just.
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  Speaker 3: That was the play.
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  Speaker 7: You talk about fragile because I said... It is. I
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  Speaker 7: watch these fans in Alabama. I go, Alabama is one
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  Speaker 7: haymaker away from... They're out of this game. Because their fans...
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  Speaker 7: They're not used to seeing a team fixing to lose
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  Speaker 7: their third game.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 13: It doesn't look good. The fans have shown it. Missed
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  Speaker 13: field goal. He never missed field goal. He'd been perfect 12-for-12.
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  Speaker 13: And you go, they're going to lose this game. And
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  Speaker 13: A & M, I gave them all the credit. They
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  Speaker 13: come back from two turnovers.
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  Speaker 4: They're leading.
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  Speaker 7: They've had the ball 10 more minutes than Alabama. Alabama
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  Speaker 7: is on the ropes.
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  Speaker 14: Yep. And, you know.
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  Speaker 7: To me, it goes back to quickly. I watched the
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  Speaker 7: game ago. A & M' s gone 4-1.
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  Speaker 10: Well, and the early thing is that they responded on
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  Speaker 10: the road. They fall behind 7-0 to pick 6. But
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  Speaker 10: then they come back and they're up 14-10, and you're like, oh, okay, well,
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  Speaker 10: that's the first time on the road this team has
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  Speaker 10: responded a long time.
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  Speaker 7: Scored a touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, and so, okay, then Marcel started to play
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  Speaker 4: pretty well.
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  Speaker 14: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, obviously there's some confusion going on because I
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  Speaker 10: listened to the press conference, too. Mike Sherman says we're
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  Speaker 10: not snapping the ball.
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  Speaker 7: Mike Elko.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Mike Elko.
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  Speaker 7: Mike Sherman said it, too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Mike Yoko says, yeah, we weren't snapping the ball.
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  Speaker 4: And then the quarterback says, yeah, well, we were.
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  Speaker 7: He said miscommunication.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't say that they were snapping.
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  Speaker 4: He said miscommunication.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He did not say that.
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  Speaker 4: I misunderstood that.
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  Speaker 7: And then what makes this bad, in my opinion, is
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  Speaker 7: I go– they're going to pick up just a few inches.
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  Speaker 7: They get this ball, they're going to go down and
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  Speaker 7: get maybe another field goal. I mean, they got the momentum,
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  Speaker 7: and then all of a sudden.
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  Speaker 9: But I would not have, I wouldn't have gone for
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  Speaker 9: that at their own 45 seats, personally.
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  Speaker 7: I understand, but I thought they were. And then once
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  Speaker 7: I saw Reed look to the sidelines, I go, they're
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  Speaker 7: not going to go for it. Which I didn't think
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  Speaker 7: was a bad call.
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  Speaker 4: No, I didn't either.
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  Speaker 7: But what happened was, then they get, they tap the water,
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  Speaker 7: not supposed to. And then I thought, Olin asked a
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  Speaker 7: great question in the postgame. Did you think about taking
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  Speaker 7: a timeout? Because as soon as I saw Reed look
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  Speaker 7: to the side, I go, they need to take a timeout.
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  Speaker 7: Because the last thing you want to do is give
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  Speaker 7: up 45 yards or at least 25 yards.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was part of the deception, personally.
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  Speaker 9: When he comes out from under center and looks at that,
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  Speaker 9: you know, at that point, I'm going, they're.
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  Speaker 3: Not snapping it.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: They're just trying to draw them offside.
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  Speaker 7: That's what I did, too, but then they snapped it.
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  Speaker 3: And then the center snapped it, of course.
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  Speaker 4: And you're right.
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  Speaker 3: That was the ball game.
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  Speaker 9: And it's not just, by the way, I want to say, yes,
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  Speaker 9: they're fragile. But it's not just A & M. I've
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  Speaker 9: watched lots of football all day long. You can't afford
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  Speaker 9: to make that mistake.
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  Speaker 3: At that point.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't care what team you watch. Any game.
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  Speaker 9: You can't do it. And they had overcome a pick six.
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  Speaker 9: I'm going, well, you very seldom do that, especially as
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  Speaker 9: you mentioned, Rusty, on the road.
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  Speaker 12: Right.
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  Speaker 3: When you're the 14-point underdog, they overcame that.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm going, hey. They overcame two turnovers in the
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  Speaker 4: first half.
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying, hey, these guys are playing pretty good football.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they do. The defense is playing.
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  Speaker 9: Marcel looked great from that point on to the end
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  Speaker 9: of the half. And then in the second half, you're going, hey,
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  Speaker 9: what happened to the guy we just saw for a
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  Speaker 9: quarter and a half?
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  Speaker 10: Exactly.
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  Speaker 9: Because now we're watching the guy we've watched most of
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  Speaker 9: the year, right? He was great for that point.
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  Speaker 3: But then he wasn't.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the announcers were raving about him.
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  Speaker 7: Rightfully so.
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  Speaker 3: Rightfully so. He was making all the throws.
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  Speaker 9: You know, it looked like they were calling the plays
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  Speaker 9: that they needed to call. Offense is such a rhythm, right?
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  Speaker 9: You're either in it or you're out it. And, man,
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  Speaker 9: once they got that rhythm, you're going, hey.
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  Speaker 4: Play call is a lot easier when your quarterback's playing well.
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  Speaker 9: When your quarterback's playing well, you've got a lot more
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  Speaker 9: plays at your disposal.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 9: Right?
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  Speaker 7: But that made that loss that much tougher because it
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  Speaker 7: was there for the taking.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 7: They win that. They're on the plane. They beat a
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  Speaker 7: 13th-ranked team. They beat Alabama. They're 2-3 in conference play.
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  Speaker 7: Everything looks good. Instead, they get 15 yards on nine
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  Speaker 7: plays after that penalty. They get– Alabama gets 90 on
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  Speaker 7: like nine. They're not stopped on anything. They go right
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  Speaker 7: down twice and score. I mean, the game is over.
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  Speaker 7: But Chip touched on it. It's just not A & M.
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  Speaker 7: This is the ball we have right now.
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  Speaker 10: Their quarterback made a big play late in the game,
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  Speaker 10: and Marcel didn't. And, you know, that touchdown pass that Alabama.
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  Speaker 4: Had, that was a beautiful pass.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, big time.
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  Speaker 4: Beautiful catch.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: And that was the big play that they needed.
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  Speaker 10: And A & M didn't come up with one in
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  Speaker 10: the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 4: Or didn't come up with any good plays, really.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 7: And once again is people running open in the secondary.
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  Speaker 7: Can't get pressure on the quarterback. Then the flip side.
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  Speaker 7: When the game was on the line, they were getting
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  Speaker 7: pressure on Reed sometimes with three players. And there was
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  Speaker 7: no– you know, it's just a reoccurring problem.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I thought there was times where A &
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  Speaker 4: M did get pressure on the quarterback. I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 4: for the most part.
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  Speaker 7: And that stretch he talked about.
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  Speaker 4: So it wasn't just offense playing well. I thought the defense.
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  Speaker 7: Was– Oh, they did.
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  Speaker 3: But that's part of it, isn't it?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Because when the defense goes, hey– Marcel's on. We've scored
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  Speaker 9: a couple of touches. We've got the lead.
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  Speaker 4: We've got a chance. We've got a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Get the ball back.
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  Speaker 7: Get the ball back.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 9: And so all of that plays together, right? It all
• 13:02
  Speaker 9: plays together.
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  Speaker 4: And so Saka in the backfield. How about that? Exactly.
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  Speaker 7: He goes, take that, Rusty. Turn around and point it
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  Speaker 7: towards you.
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  Speaker 3: I saw that.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I mean.
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  Speaker 7: They were making plays. They're the ones making the plays,
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  Speaker 7: not Alabama.
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  Speaker 4: And that's probably what has people so frustrated. Exactly.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Because they were– it was there.
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  Speaker 4: Because Alabama was there for the taking.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And if you give them their third straight loss.
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  Speaker 3: They're done.
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  Speaker 7: Going into an open week, they're done. Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: And, you know, it's kind of like the year where
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  Speaker 10: Jimbo had the opportunity to beat Alabama, you know. And
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  Speaker 10: it's like it comes down to that last play. And
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  Speaker 10: that last play still sticks in my mind. It's like,
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  Speaker 10: didn't you really give your receiver a chance?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: If you can do plays 1 to 100, it's 101
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  Speaker 7: on my list.
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  Speaker 4: That's the worst play.
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  Speaker 7: Horrible play call. I was like, you took a timeout
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  Speaker 7: for that?
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 10: But it's so rare that you get an opportunity to
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  Speaker 10: win at Alabama.
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  Speaker 7: And he had Alabama on the ropes there. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: Alabama's saying, we're going to lose this game. If they
• 14:04
  Speaker 7: call the right play, we're going to lose the game.
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  Speaker 14: Yep.
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  Speaker 7: And they didn't call the right play. And they didn't
• 14:11
  Speaker 7: call the right play again?
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  Speaker 10: Who had Kentucky leading the conference on this stage?
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  Speaker 3: Unbelievable, isn't it?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I was laughing. They did the TV games for
• 14:19
  Speaker 7: two weeks. A big game, Kentucky and Tennessee.
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  Speaker 9: So we were talking about this earlier today with some folks,
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  Speaker 9: and I think we visited about this before. But with
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  Speaker 9: the transfer portal, trying to get linemen together, right, that
• 14:35
  Speaker 9: have been together, It is so difficult.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: Kentucky, and I need to look. I didn't look it up.
• 14:41
  Speaker 9: They must have a pretty good offensive line coach because
• 14:44
  Speaker 9: they went to Portal, too, to get offensive line.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: Like most teams did, right? They got fourth, if I'm
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: not mistaken. And they're playing great.
• 14:50
  Speaker 7: Four out of five.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: They're playing great together. You know, you look here, not
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: so much. You look at Austin, not so much.
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: And they both have good.
• 14:59
  Speaker 9: They have enough money to go get linemen, right? So
• 15:01
  Speaker 9: that's not the issue. The issue is they missed either A.
• 15:06
  Speaker 9: They missed on those guys that they thought were good.
• 15:09
  Speaker 9: Or B, they're not being developed properly. Or maybe it's
• 15:14
  Speaker 9: a combination of both.
• 15:15
  Speaker 7: Well, while hopping around, Aranda got fired, and I looked
• 15:18
  Speaker 7: at a comment. He said, gone in the season, they
• 15:20
  Speaker 7: put all their money into linemen. They needed linemen. And
• 15:23
  Speaker 7: I agree. Baylor's not on the level of the SEC,
• 15:26
  Speaker 7: but let's say they bought the second tier. They got
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: the worst second tier.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: Hey, they were 4-1 three weeks ago, and they're talking about, hey,
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: you're saving.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: His job, and they're surprised.
• 15:34
  Speaker 10: They just hammered Arizona State, and they're 4-1, and then
• 15:37
  Speaker 10: they go back-to-back TCU and Kansas.
• 15:39
  Speaker 7: But they got the second tier. They couldn't run the
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: ball these last two games. And it gets back to
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: what you said. They thought those guys, they could run
• 15:46
  Speaker 7: the ball. They don't. He's run out of time.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:49
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's like buying a car anymore. You've got
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: to be careful what's under the hood. You better be careful.
• 15:56
  Speaker 7: You've got to get something that's going to go.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: But I want to go back to that development, too, Cease.
• 16:01
  Speaker 16: Oh, yeah.
• 16:01
  Speaker 7: I'm with you.
• 16:04
  Speaker 9: That's, to me, that is more crucial than ever before
• 16:07
  Speaker 9: because you're not having linemen like we used to have,
• 16:11
  Speaker 9: red shirt, and then by the time they're fourth and
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: fifth year.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Guys, hey, this offensive line is great.
• 16:16
  Speaker 9: We've seen that here at A & M over the
• 16:18
  Speaker 9: last five or six years, right?
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: We've seen that happen. That doesn't happen anymore.
• 16:23
  Speaker 9: So you've got to throw all of these guys in
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: a pot, and you've got to develop them like today.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: You don't have until next year.
• 16:31
  Speaker 10: Like you said, that 2020 season was so great. The
• 16:34
  Speaker 10: 2012 season was so great. The common denominator was those offensive.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Lines were fantastic.
• 16:39
  Speaker 10: Kellen Mond looked really good that last year behind that
• 16:42
  Speaker 10: offensive line.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Because he wasn't running for his life.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: And if you go back, Johnny Manziel, everybody knows Johnny Manziel.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Johnny Manziel could take a nap in the pocket sometimes. Yeah.
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: You're going to have to look around college football. It's
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: what offensive line coach can get five or six guys
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: and four of them coming in, whether it's January 1st
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: or whatever. And have them ready to go come September 1st.
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: That's the gelling you're going to have to have. Because
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: you're going to have to be ready to go. Because
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: like in the SEC.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: With little experience, again, I'll get back to together.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: Togetherness, yeah.
• 17:18
  Speaker 9: You can get them physically ready to play in September cease.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: But you have, what, three? How many practices in the spring?
• 17:28
  Speaker 9: Yeah. and a couple of scrimmages, and you think they're
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: going to be ready to play, you know, an SEC
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: opponent by the second week of September?
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Well, it's also, Chip, you can't miss out on the
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: talent evaluation. You cannot miss.
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: There you go.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: You cannot miss.
• 17:41
  Speaker 10: I mean, because if you miss out on it, because
• 17:43
  Speaker 10: obviously it looks like Elko did miss out.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: And we've said this, right?
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: He's swung and missed at a few.
• 17:50
  Speaker 10: I'll be the first to admit I was excited because
• 17:52
  Speaker 10: all of them are coming from SEC schools.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 17:54
  Speaker 10: But, you know, I've been disappointed with how they actually–
• 17:58
  Speaker 10: produced right yes.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: Well like you said like i do when they when
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: when the kentucky came here how good their line was
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: oh it was great they whipped a and m and
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: it's been continued both sides yeah exactly and it's you
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: look it's continued yes it has.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Continued they've they've continued to whip.
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: People and they've won a lot of games by one
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: score and that gets back to coaching it does everything
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: and Chip says it all. That line is getting finer
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: and finer. Here's the thing.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: About Kentucky, what they did.
• 18:27
  Speaker 10: They came in here to Kyle Field, and they had
• 18:30
  Speaker 10: a monumental win here. But the really impressive thing is
• 18:34
  Speaker 10: they've built on it.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Had they just beaten A & M and then failed
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: to win... Turned into Kentucky.
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: It could have still been their good season.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: They hammered South Carolina at South Carolina. South Carolina's proven
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: to be a pretty good team. They beat LSU.
• 18:47
  Speaker 10: LSU can look as good as anybody in the country
• 18:50
  Speaker 10: like they did last weekend.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Yes, they can.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: They won at.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Oklahoma, and Oklahoma's beating Texas. We're talking about parity. They
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: take care of business against Vanderbilt.
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: Kentucky's impressive.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: They are. And so now they've got an off week.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: They've got two weeks to get ready for Tennessee.
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: Maybe they'll stick how good they are and they won't.
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: But you're right. You're right about it. How it's changing, Chip,
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: you say that line is so fine.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's fine.
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: Because I think the A & M Alabama came down
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: to one play. I feel if they went for it
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: and picked it up, they win.
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: The hardest thing in this era of the NIL, I think,
• 19:21
  Speaker 10: is to continually go through.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: We've seen it every week. There's upsets. And so the
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: fact that Kentucky has continued to build on it.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Be consistent.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: It's pretty impressive.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: See, even if they would have punted, they might have
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: won that game.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Oh, I agree.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Because the defense had been playing well up to that point.
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: It was so deflating, and you gave Alabama a big
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: boost because they were on the ropes.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: No doubt. They went right in.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: It's like they went into the corner, and they dumped
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: this cold Gatorade on them. They go, man, I'm ready.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: I'm ready.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: And they went out and just jumped all over them.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: They did.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: It was four plays, 45 yards, touchdown. Five plays, 55 yards, touchdown.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: It was like Alabama was trying to give this thing
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: an opportunity. They were. And A & M was like, no,
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: we don't want it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: And I listened to your deal about DeBoer was asked
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: what was different And he didn't really give the answer.
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: They didn't. Because they were a different team in the first,
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: second quarter to that last quarter because they look unbeatable.
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: You get the ball nine plays and score twice.
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: They have done that this year. They have been much
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: better for whatever reason in the second half. If you
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: could put Texas at the first half and Alabama in
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: the second half, then you might have a national championship contender, right?
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Good call.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: So who knows? I mean, who knows?
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: And Rusty said on this last week, they're going into
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: the bye right now. If you're A & M, your
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: best victory is Arizona State, which means you don't have
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: a best victory.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Signature win.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: After eight games, they do not have a good win.
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: I mean, that's tough because we all want to succeed
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: in whatever we do. And now you get an extra
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: week to think about what you haven't done. It's not good.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: And when you look at the.
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: Standings, A & M' s at the very bottom– ahead of
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: only Vanderbilt.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: And that's kind of like eye-opening, right? It's just like
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: one and four.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: Well, when you consider last year they were 11-0.
• 21:09
  Speaker 16: I know.
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: I mean, you know, but getting back to the NIL,
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: getting about everything, it's hard to say, okay, we're going
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: to build on this, whoever you are. You're only as
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: good as your last game. I mean, you've got to
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: get out there and get after it. And injuries in
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: this nine-game schedule, while Texas has lost their best offensive lineman,
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: I mean, they beat Ole Miss, but at what cost?
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: Is that going to cost them?
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: And the receiver, apparently, too.
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: Is that going to cost them any game down the road?
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: I know we'll get to it, but it's like week
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: to week is one thing, but like Chambliss looked like
• 21:39
  Speaker 10: he didn't.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: He did not have a good game. No, he didn't.
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: He did not have the Trinidad-Chambriss game that we expect
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: from him.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: The cockiness.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: If he had, they would have won, obviously.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: He had a couple of flashes, but for the whole game,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: he wasn't.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: He wasn't a typical trainer.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: But you know what?
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: From what I've read, and I don't know enough about it,
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: especially in the first half, what Muschamp did confused the
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: heck out of all of them in terms of bringing
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: people back, linebackers, only rushing a few. keeping him in
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: the pocket, not allowing him out of the pocket. And
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: they obviously were given a gift and got some momentum
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: in the second half. But that first half.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Muschamp knows his exes' nose. He does.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: He's a defensive guru.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: He figured out Marcel. He did.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's really good at coaching defense.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: There's no doubt.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: If they were really good offensively, they would be number one.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: You're right.
• 22:42
  Speaker 9: So while we're talking about it, I'm thinking this way, too.
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: I'm thinking this is a team that's beaten three top
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: ten teams this year.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Three top ten teams.
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: They were ranked number one, and yet, and yet, they're
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: sitting there and you're going, I don't trust them.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: I don't believe in them. That's coaching, is it not?
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: I mean, 14 penalties for how many ever yards, and
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: they can't cover an onside kick?
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: And you're at home?
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's... And you've.
• 23:11
  Speaker 9: Lost to a team that last week at home where
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: you've won, I don't know how many in a row
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: before then, that were 110th in defense and they run
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: all over you.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: It's like, is that not coaching?
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and they lost to a pretty mediocre Oklahoma team.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, a horrible Oklahoma team.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: I'd say an average, yeah.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: Great defense.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: It's a rivalry game. I understand that. Yeah, yeah, it
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: was a rivalry game, but still.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Good gosh.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: But how you do it.
• 23:37
  Speaker 14: Right.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: That's, I mean, mistake after mistake after mistake.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and again, I read the story in The Athletic today.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, I hadn't seen that.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: The lead was.
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: Texas could win the national championship. Texas could also not
• 23:51
  Speaker 10: even come close to making the college football playoff.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: It's true.
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: You can say that about a lot of teams, though.
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: But you can say that about a lot of teams
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: right now. There's no doubt about it.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: And you know what?
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: As a fan, you look around and you go, you
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: don't know what's going to happen. And I kind of
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: like that. I mean, because it's just like everything. So
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: I have a stat, 11 losses by top 10 teams
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: in the last three weeks. Never happened in a three-week
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: period in the Associated Press before.
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: You know, last week I was bragging that I was
• 24:18
  Speaker 10: above 500 in my poll against the spread.
• 24:22
  Speaker 14: Went 3-11.
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: You should have bragged on there.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: And I'm sitting there watching.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I can't imagine picking a spread.
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: I'm watching the scores, and I keep saying to myself
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: on Saturday, I go, you know, UCLA is in the
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: Big Ten. I have a rough time.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: I cannot.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: And I go, they're unbeaten.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Cannot fathom that. I still can't.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: I said that myself.
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: I'm still going Pac-12, USC, UCLA, Oregon, Washington. I'm still
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: going Pac-12.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: I cannot.
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: Lou was talking about bowl projections today, and he said,
• 24:54
  Speaker 10: you know, Houston can face SMU.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: I was like, no, no.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: No, they can't face SMU.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: They're the same conference.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: No, they're not.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: SMU is the ACC.
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: No, when I saw that, I go– Can UCLA make
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: the college football play? They were horrible last year. I
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: go like, they're unbeaten.
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: I guess this coach can pretty much, if he doesn't
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: want to stay at UCLA, go where he wants to.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: It's just week to week. Who had Texas Tech losing
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: to Cincinnati? I mean, crazy.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: That's nuts.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: And not even a close game.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: Okay, we all knew that Texas Tech was down a
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: little this year.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: We did, right.
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: And you knew they were going to lose again. They
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: had been.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Walking on the tightrope, but Cincinnati?
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: I didn't know who to, but Cincinnati.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: And they got punked. It wasn't like, you know, it
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: was a fluke. They got smoked.
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: It was the most expensive roster in the Big 12
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: versus the cheapest.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Hey, it even had Cody Campbell tweeting out, this is unacceptable.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Uh-oh, uh-oh.
• 25:44
  Speaker 14: Oh, no.
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: I mean, after the game, he's going, this is unacceptable.
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: I'm going, well, you're paying for it. I paid for this.
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: That was the point.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Wasn't it?
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Yes, it was.
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: He's going, if I'm going to write these checks, you're
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: going to have to beat Cincinnati. I got to the
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: press box at Alabama. I'm looking up, and they're both teams.
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: One team in red, one team in white. And I'm watching,
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: and I go... Man, Tech's coming back in about five minutes.
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: I go, wait a minute, that's Cincinnati. They're just beating
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: the crap.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Out of Tech. They did.
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: And you go, really?
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: They did.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Hey, I do want it on record.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: I did pick the Houston game, though. I did pick
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Utah to win.
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: I picked, most people pick, Utah was a six-point pick.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Utah was a favorite.
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: I was kind of surprised. But I turn it on,
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: and it's like, this looks like the Big Ten. It's
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: three to nothing at the half or something like that.
• 26:32
  Speaker 9: I'm going, what is going on? Okay, we need a break.
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: And I watched enough of the Indiana game against Michigan.
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: That was like watching paint drop.
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: Do you know there were 22 straight incomplete passes in
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: that game?
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: That's hard to do.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: That is really hard to do.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: That's really hard to do.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Even for A & M. I mean, that's hard to do.
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: And A & M wasn't playing.
• 26:53
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 26:53
  Speaker 9: Well, I said when the year started, Josh Hoover, I
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: don't think he's going to replace– I don't think he's
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: going to replace that quarterback.
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: But you know what? They won.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: They did.
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: And I laughed. It was their first win in 1967.
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: And I go, I was a freshman in high school.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: It's horrible. I was about ready to say BYU's elite.
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: But didn't we talk about that after that huge emotional win,
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: having to cross the country and play there?
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: Your little listeners know that.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: And play in the heat and the humidity.
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: It was a big 12 rivalry game.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, those two schools, they hate each other.
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: UCF and BYU go wild.
• 27:39
  Speaker 9: We're trying to keep Central Florida and BYU up from
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: killing each other.
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: Just throw three letters out there. Who knows?
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  Speaker 9: Financial Bank. I don't say that I blame him necessarily cease,
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  Speaker 9: but it.
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  Speaker 3: Was almost comical when we get that text.
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  Speaker 9: This morning going, there will be no availability for A
• 32:40
  Speaker 9: & M football this week.
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  Speaker 7: Well, here's the deal on that. We talked out on
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: a length driving back from good old Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: How was that drive?
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: Oh, I like the drive because we drive to Meridian,
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: so you take a couple hours off. Got a couple
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: good eating places along the way, and then you get
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: up and go two hours.
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  Speaker 3: See, snow's where the good eating places are.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 17: Of course.
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  Speaker 7: Waffle House? No, no. Rusty's in Vicksburg.
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  Speaker 4: I like Rusty's.
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: That's a good place.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: We had the Walnut restaurant on the way back.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Quick side, like, there's, like, there's four Aggies dressed up
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: when we go to, where's the barbecue place in Alabama.
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: But anyway, we're waiting in line there. So Alex goes
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: over and talks to these four guys. And then the
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: one guy comes over and his daughter went to school
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: with Cassie. One of the guys, they're 68, so they
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: took them to the Alabama game. So we see them
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: before the game. Next day, we're eating in Walnut Hills
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: in– In Shreveport, I mean, in Vicksburg, the guy comes
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: over and goes, you guys know where to.
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: Eat, don't you?
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: I go, so do you guys. So do you guys.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: But your original.
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: Question, I got sidetracked. What was your original question?
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: I don't remember.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: How to drive to Alabama.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: The drive.
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's okay.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: The drive to Alabama is better than what?
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, always better than coming home. No, we were talking about,
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: we asked that several times, about the no press conference.
• 34:05
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: And I said, here's the deal is you go back
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: to past years. This is his third year. He did
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: have some kind of press conference. Last year it was
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: the coordinators, what have you. That being said is, would
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: I hope that he show up as coordinators? Yes. B,
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: what's going to be asked new? And, you know, Uganda
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: can beat a dead horse so much. And right now,
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: there's nothing positive to say around A & M football.
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: I hate to say it, but until they win a game...
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: and people are going to ask, are you going to
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: bench Marcel Reed? Are you going to bring in the backup?
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: Are you going to relieve Wiggins of his offensive coaching duties?
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: Are you going to change the defense? That's the questions
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: they have been asking, and that's the questions they would ask,
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: and only Elko knows the answer to those. He probably
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: wouldn't share them anyway if they're going to change starters
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: before South Carolina.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: No doubt.
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: Change schemes or whatever. He's not going to tell the media.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: No doubt.
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: And right now, you throw in the cesspool comment a
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: couple weeks ago.
• 35:04
  Speaker 10: You have to get lucky to have a really good
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: backup quarterback anymore.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, no question.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: And that's just the reality. You don't have this... Five-star
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: who's going to wait.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Waiting his turn.
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: Bear Bryant had three of those lined up. You don't
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: have those anymore.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: No, it just didn't happen. If you don't see your
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: opportunity to play right away, you're going to go somewhere else.
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: And that's why a lot of these guys are on
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: their third or fourth school.
• 35:28
  Speaker 10: And so it's very rare that you see a program
• 35:33
  Speaker 10: that's going to, oh, the backup's really good.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: And so the star gets hurt. And the next guy
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: comes in and, you know, plays really well.
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: I mean, we saw it.
• 35:41
  Speaker 10: It wasn't that long ago when Marcel came in for relief,
• 35:45
  Speaker 10: and he was really good.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: And he took Connor's job.
• 35:49
  Speaker 9: Hey, Trinidad Chambliss, you know, took Austin's job.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: You know, and it can happen. You touched on about
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: the cohesiveness of the offensive line. Here you've got a guy,
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: Reed started about 29 or 30 career games now. You
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: want to put in a guy that's had less than
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: 30 snaps. Odds are the guy with 30 queer starts
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: is a little bit better. But you're right. You never
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: know when you're going to catch lightning in a bottle.
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: And eventually, guess what? What has A & M only done?
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: They've lost. They've lost.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, if he had shown it in practice,
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: he'd be in there by now.
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: Correct.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's reality.
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: The coaches are never going to put the worst players
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: out there.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, he answered that post-game.
• 36:30
  Speaker 9: He said, if I'd have thought, you know, and, you know,
• 36:34
  Speaker 9: Brady was warming up and all of that. He said,
• 36:39
  Speaker 9: if I'd have thought that that gave.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Us the best chance to win.
• 36:42
  Speaker 9: I mean, some fans think, oh, you're paying them this
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: or you're doing that.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: I'm going, no, no, the coach has to win.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: And he knows that.
• 36:53
  Speaker 9: You don't have to remind any of these head coaches
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: that they're getting paid a lot of money to win.
• 37:00
  Speaker 9: And they're going to do everything in their power they think.
• 37:05
  Speaker 9: can win a football game. And if you think it's
• 37:08
  Speaker 9: any different from that, you're nuts. Because these guys are
• 37:12
  Speaker 9: paid to win now.
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: You want to say to some of these rich donors,
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: what did you do to get rich? You're very good
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: at it. I'm not going to tell you how to
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: run your oil wells. I'm not going to tell you
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: what interest rates you need to charge in your banks.
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: That's your field. And Elko's getting paid $ 10 million, $ 11
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: million because he knows how to coach football. And if
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: he doesn't get it done right, he won't be coaching
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: football here in three, five years, whatever.
• 37:35
  Speaker 10: I mean, the talent evaluation is going to be critical
• 37:38
  Speaker 10: this next year because.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: In this era, you have hope that you can turn
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: it around right away. Quickly.
• 37:43
  Speaker 10: Yeah, but you may have to go spend more money on.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: A quarterback than you have before.
• 37:49
  Speaker 10: I mean, $ 3 million is probably not going to get
• 37:51
  Speaker 10: the quarterback that you really want.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: But I was talking to Dusty about this today.
• 37:57
  Speaker 9: How many great quarterbacks, and that may be part of
• 38:03
  Speaker 9: the issue right now with the chaos in college football.
• 38:06
  Speaker 9: When you start talking and you start naming the great
• 38:10
  Speaker 9: quarterbacks until Saturday night.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Like I said, Trinidad had a bad game. If he'd
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: have had his.
• 38:17
  Speaker 9: Normal game that I'm used to watching him play, Ole
• 38:19
  Speaker 9: Miss would have won that game.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: But he wasn't very good. So when you.
• 38:23
  Speaker 9: Start looking at guys and you go, oh, this guy's
• 38:26
  Speaker 9: just a sophomore. We're going to go spend $ 5 million
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: on him. Who is that right now?
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 38:33
  Speaker 10: Based on what his team has done with him and
• 38:36
  Speaker 10: without him, I'd say Kamario Taylor.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: Yes. He'll be paid a lot of money.
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: You hit the exception. He's number one.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: He'll be paid a lot of money.
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: And he's going to get the most money.
• 38:46
  Speaker 9: If he wants to leave. We've talked about this. He's
• 38:49
  Speaker 9: a Mississippi guy.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: He may not want to leave.
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: He could get $ 6 or $ 7 million from an Oregon,
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: Ohio State, A & M, Texas.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: You can money whip him to leave Mississippi. You can
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: tell him, hey, listen, you can always go back to Mississippi.
• 39:02
  Speaker 7: You hit the number one. That's the guy.
• 39:06
  Speaker 9: I mean, Stockton's upper class, Gunner Stockton, he's not going anywhere,
• 39:10
  Speaker 9: you don't think. Julian Sane is hurt. I don't think
• 39:13
  Speaker 9: he's going anywhere. Minset, Miami, they just brought in. I
• 39:17
  Speaker 9: don't think he's going anywhere. They're number one in the country, okay?
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: C.J.
• 39:21
  Speaker 9: Carr at Notre Dame is a Heisman candidate. I mean,
• 39:25
  Speaker 9: but he's an upper class guy, right?
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and I wouldn't pay $ 6 million for him, would I?
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: seen of him.
• 39:32
  Speaker 9: I mean, you start going down the list of some
• 39:34
  Speaker 9: of these guys. They caught lightning in a bottle with Minchie,
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: the Notre Dame quarterback. We talked about Kentucky. He has
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: played really, really well. He's not spectacular, but he's not
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: getting a beat either. He's playing good football.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Here's what the deal is. What if.
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: All programs, we've seen this now in basketball, the salaries
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: were announced last week, whatever. Let's say you're going to
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: pay $ 45 million if you're A & M in Texas.
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: You put $ 7 million into a quarterback, and he blows
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: his knee out in a spring practice. I mean, it
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: could happen. And suddenly, where is your team? I mean,
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: I get it. You've got to go get the guy.
• 40:11
  Speaker 9: Hey, there's talk, Cease, that Arch may not be coming
• 40:14
  Speaker 9: back next year. He's ruined his NFL draft as far
• 40:18
  Speaker 9: as I know this year. So who's going to pay
• 40:21
  Speaker 9: big money for Arch Manning?
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: That's a good question.
• 40:24
  Speaker 9: I mean, but it may be, and we've talked about
• 40:27
  Speaker 9: the ego of these coaches before. They all have egos,
• 40:31
  Speaker 9: almost all of them. And they're going, well, Sark couldn't
• 40:35
  Speaker 9: get anything out of Arch, but I can because I
• 40:38
  Speaker 9: see the possibilities. He couldn't do it, but I can
• 40:42
  Speaker 9: do it.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: And conversely, if Sark cannot develop a Manning.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: He ain't going to the NFL.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: He's not going to the NFL. I'm talking about Sark.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: That's what I'm talking about. Here also we need to
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: talk about, I want to look around. at offensive coordinators
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: and defensive coordinators.
• 40:59
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: If I'm Mike Elko, I think a bigger decision, does
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: he bring back Holman Wiggins? Does he bring back Hemp Hill?
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: Or does he go out and get O.C.? Just give
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: him and let him bring in the quarterback. I'm not
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: saying he should or shouldn't, but those are decisions.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: He has to make.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, that's got to be a big decision.
• 41:19
  Speaker 10: Unless the season dramatically turns, I think you've got to
• 41:22
  Speaker 10: go hire a new offense coordinator.
• 41:23
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, just to appease the masses, if nothing else, right?
• 41:27
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's not leaving.
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: We've seen other coaches do that. You've got to make
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: some changes.
• 41:33
  Speaker 10: Elko's not going anywhere. True. He may have to change.
• 41:38
  Speaker 9: Nor, in my opinion, should he. No, I don't think
• 41:41
  Speaker 9: you're saying that, right? I'm not saying that at all.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: I think he's proven he can coach.
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: He did great in the portal two years. So he's
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: two out of three.
• 41:49
  Speaker 10: Going into the season, the one thing I would say
• 41:51
  Speaker 10: is he has proven he can evaluate the portal.
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: And this year he missed on some guys that we
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: thought were going to be really good.
• 41:59
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, the receiver from Alabama, I thought he was
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: going to be really good. He's been really disappointing. If
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: I was him.
• 42:05
  Speaker 7: Now, this is a question we kicked around in the
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: car coming back. What if Reed has digressed so much
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: that Holman Wiggins goes, I can't do nothing with this guy.
• 42:15
  Speaker 7: I mean, this guy, he just doesn't– Throw to the
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: guys that are open. He can't spot his second guy,
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: his third guy. We need a new quarterback. And once again,
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: only guy can answer that is Mike Elko.
• 42:27
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: I mean, should he bring in a new offensive coordinator
• 42:31
  Speaker 7: or just bring in a new quarterback? And that's why
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: they're getting paid the big bucks. And we're not. We
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: just sit here and we're overreaction Monday.
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: We're going to take a break. We're going to talk
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: a little bit of basketball.
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: I was at Moody Coliseum yesterday.
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, you were?
• 42:47
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: Awesome. I'll listen to that, Dan.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: I wasn't there the whole game because I was already
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: up there.
• 42:52
  Speaker 14: Okay.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: So I said, hey, I'm already up there, and we'll
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: talk about that when we come back.
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  Speaker 9: here on the Writer's Roundtable. Help, Rusty Burson, Robert Sessa
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  Speaker 9: every Monday. We were talking, our conversations off the air
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  Speaker 9: are always better. But we were talking about the fact
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  Speaker 9: that in this day and age, you can fix things
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  Speaker 7: Let's be honest, you bring in a Cassius Howell, your
• 46:42
  Speaker 7: defense could get fixed immediately. You're able to rush the quarterback.
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  Speaker 7: You get interceptions. What if you get two Cassius Howells?
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  Speaker 7: What do you do then? And what if you get
• 46:52
  Speaker 7: the next quarterback like Kentucky? Right, the next big thing.
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  Speaker 7: He goes right in there and he wins every close game.
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  Speaker 9: There has to be a little luck involved because, you know, Rusty,
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  Speaker 9: you were saying how it's become like the NFL. As
• 47:06
  Speaker 9: analytical and as much as they study and as much
• 47:09
  Speaker 9: as they interview, they still cannot tell you if they're
• 47:14
  Speaker 9: getting a quarterback that can get them wins.
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  Speaker 3: I still think that is.
• 47:20
  Speaker 9: Now, offensive line takes time, but a quarterback evaluation is, Man,
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  Speaker 9: that is a flip of the coin. And it always
• 47:30
  Speaker 9: has been.
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  Speaker 10: Well, that's what Ole Miss did so well when they
• 47:34
  Speaker 10: got Trinidad and Chambliss. And up until last week, he's
• 47:38
  Speaker 10: been looking really.
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  Speaker 4: Good this year, too. He didn't look good against Texas.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: He did not. I didn't like him.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: Now, he's playing a pretty good defense, too.
• 47:45
  Speaker 12: No, you're right.
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  Speaker 4: That's a great point.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, because we just sat here and talked about
• 47:49
  Speaker 10: how good that defense is.
• 47:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But, yeah, for the most part, you don't know if
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: you're going to get the quarterback. You don't know. And
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: it may not be from Alabama. It may be from
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: North Texas. Or it may be from some smaller school.
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  Speaker 3: Or a junior college somewhere.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You don't even hear about the junior college.
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  Speaker 3: You do not anymore, do you?
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  Speaker 7: That's true. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: You don't. I mean, it's almost like, you remember the
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: Juco transfers?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, that was a big deal.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Michael Bishop was a Juco.
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  Speaker 7: Michael Bishop played out at Viking Stadium.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: And so you just never knew when you were going
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  Speaker 10: to get lucky with a Juco. But now it's so
• 48:26
  Speaker 10: much easier now to go. And I saw the rankings,
• 48:30
  Speaker 10: the re-rankings. The Athletic does it every week, right?
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  Speaker 14: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 4: And so they had A & M at 44. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 4: And they had– that's four spots above North Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, wow.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: North Texas has a quarterback.
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they do.
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  Speaker 8: You know?
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: And so, you know, and– Look.
• 48:46
  Speaker 9: What Oklahoma State's done with the North Texas quarterback and coach, right? Yeah.
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: They're in the top 25 this week. Mestermaker has been
• 48:53
  Speaker 9: one of the best quarterbacks of the season.
• 48:54
  Speaker 10: So I was watching the North Texas Navy game just
• 48:58
  Speaker 10: because I know somebody, Dylan Carnes, who played at College
• 49:01
  Speaker 10: Station High School.
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  Speaker 4: I know the Carnes family. He returned a punt for
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: a touchdown.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, cool.
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  Speaker 4: Which was really cool. His mom and dad were there.
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  Speaker 4: Very cool. But, yeah, North Texas, they look pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: And Mestermaker. I mean, you knew he was good at
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: North Texas, but you're going, well, is that going to translate?
• 49:18
  Speaker 9: It's North Texas. Well at quarterback, yeah, my thing is
• 49:23
  Speaker 9: throwing and catching. That's in any level, right? I mean,
• 49:26
  Speaker 9: I don't care which level you're talking about. So you
• 49:31
  Speaker 9: get one of those guys, you're in the top 20 again.
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  Speaker 9: No, I haven't.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he takes over. He's a manager.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, how's he doing?
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  Speaker 4: I haven't paid much attention.
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  Speaker 3: What teams is he with?
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  Speaker 4: He's the Raiders. Okay.
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  Speaker 10: So anyway, he's the manager of Taco Bell, and he's
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  Speaker 10: really involved in talking. So he doesn't do a very
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  Speaker 10: good job with taking the order, and the customer is
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  Speaker 10: in the drive-thru, and he shakes his hand.
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  Speaker 4: And says, Nice. That's good. That's good.
• 50:04
  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 9: I said we're going to talk a little bit of basketball.
• 50:08
  Speaker 9: I went up to Moody yesterday. I was already up there.
• 50:10
  Speaker 9: Went to Moody yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: That's why I did all those fouls.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 7: That's what I was going to say.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was me.
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  Speaker 9: Because after I left, they started scoring some points. But
• 50:24
  Speaker 9: the majority of the first half, was just hand-to-hand combat.
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  Speaker 9: It was like, and I want to say, it's like
• 50:35
  Speaker 9: they've never played together before.
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: Guess what?
• 50:38
  Speaker 9: There's 15 of them that haven't, right? You shake them up,
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  Speaker 9: you throw them on the court. Now, I know they're practiced.
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  Speaker 9: I know they've had a scrimmage. But it's like, well,
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  Speaker 9: they've never played together before. But in the second half,
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  Speaker 9: you know, and Bucky said on our postgame, it's like, well,
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  Speaker 9: the first half, I don't know who that was. We
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  Speaker 9: had practiced like that.
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  Speaker 3: We had played like that.
• 51:00
  Speaker 9: But when they turned the lights on and put people
• 51:02
  Speaker 9: in the stands, you know, but obviously P.J.
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  Speaker 3: Haggerty could score. That's the first thing we know, right?
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  Speaker 9: That kid led the nation in scoring last year.
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  Speaker 3: He can score.
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  Speaker 4: We do know that.
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  Speaker 10: I listened to that game, Chip, and it reminded me very,
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  Speaker 10: very much of last year in the game against SMU.
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  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 51:22
  Speaker 10: Because they allowed SMU to get way ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Then they came back, they took the lead, and then
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: they let it get away.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Playing kind of dumb.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: Similar game.
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  Speaker 4: Fortunately, this game didn't count.
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  Speaker 3: No, it didn't count. Last year's game did count.
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  Speaker 12: Yep.
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: And so I'm really looking forward to it.
• 51:37
  Speaker 10: Yeah, but Haggerty, he hit 26?
• 51:40
  Speaker 7: 28, I think.
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: Okay. Yeah.
• 51:42
  Speaker 10: I mean, I don't think that overall McKenzie Mbako had
• 51:46
  Speaker 10: that great a game, did he?
• 51:49
  Speaker 9: He did get on the boards. He had 12 points
• 51:51
  Speaker 9: and eight boards. But he was minus 16.
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: He did hit two threes. He was two for six.
• 51:59
  Speaker 9: They didn't shoot threes at all well.
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  Speaker 3: They were six for 26. And they were even worse
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: before they hit the last few.
• 52:04
  Speaker 10: Which is really weird because Bucky would rather.
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: Have you shoot the threes than the twos for the
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  Speaker 4: most part.
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  Speaker 17: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: But I would say this.
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  Speaker 9: Any game that features 94 free throws, you can't really
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  Speaker 9: tell anything.
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: That's the other thing he said. What a terrible game
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: to watch.
• 52:21
  Speaker 9: And, you know, it took like three hours to play
• 52:23
  Speaker 9: because there were 94 free throws, which– Leads me to officiating,
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  Speaker 9: which leads me back to football.
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  Speaker 3: I just, I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: What can, we have replays, and sometimes I don't get
• 52:37
  Speaker 9: those right. But my gosh, you can't, I believe that
• 52:43
  Speaker 9: they need coaches' challenges like the NFL to a game.
• 52:49
  Speaker 9: I believe they should be able to challenge pass interference.
• 52:52
  Speaker 9: That's always been a really difficult call to make for
• 52:56
  Speaker 9: any official. And we have seen pass interference, non-calls, change
• 53:02
  Speaker 9: the outcome of games with top 10 teams the last
• 53:05
  Speaker 9: three weeks. And I guess it's because I watch more
• 53:10
  Speaker 9: SEC football probably than any other conference. But they have
• 53:16
  Speaker 9: not improved their officiating in this conference.
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
• 53:20
  Speaker 10: What frustrates me more than anything is when they have
• 53:23
  Speaker 10: a replay and they can– that ball was clearly out.
• 53:27
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 53:27
  Speaker 10: And yet they give them– there was a call like
• 53:29
  Speaker 10: that in the A & M game. It's like, you know,
• 53:32
  Speaker 10: it looked like the ball was out.
• 53:33
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: And then they gave the possession to the Alabama receiver.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: Said it was a catch.
• 53:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Get it right. Like, why do you look at that?
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: And I hate to, like, conclusive.
• 53:45
  Speaker 10: Just give me– I mean, have somebody with– The ability
• 53:49
  Speaker 10: to really judge that and say, you know what, this
• 53:53
  Speaker 10: may not be conclusive, but this looks like the right
• 53:56
  Speaker 10: call here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: I'm frustrated when I watch.
• 54:01
  Speaker 9: The two things I see when I watch football all
• 54:04
  Speaker 9: day long is how many mistakes teams make, which we've
• 54:08
  Speaker 9: talked about, that will get.
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: You beat every single time. Coaches' decisions, mostly.
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  Speaker 9: And officiating that just stands out and and every game
• 54:20
  Speaker 9: there's blatant calls either missed or made when they shouldn't
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  Speaker 9: have been made right at key points and look i
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  Speaker 9: know they're going to miss calls i get it you
• 54:31
  Speaker 9: you can't be perfect right but man they have to
• 54:36
  Speaker 9: upgrade it it is just Coaches are losing jobs over
• 54:40
  Speaker 9: bad calls.
• 54:41
  Speaker 10: So I don't know what– I agree with you. There's
• 54:44
  Speaker 10: a way to go back and replay with pass interference.
• 54:48
  Speaker 10: I just think– of course, there's apples and oranges here.
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: But I think baseball is a much better game now.
• 54:53
  Speaker 12: It is.
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: I agree with you.
• 54:55
  Speaker 10: You can challenge the two times in the strike zone.
• 54:58
  Speaker 10: And it's so quick and it just– I think it's
• 55:02
  Speaker 10: made the umpiring better because– Yes.
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: I think it has too.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: They've got to be focused.
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  Speaker 17: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And it can't be their zone. It has to be
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: the strike zone.
• 55:12
  Speaker 14: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: I think your system might help with the flags because
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  Speaker 7: if you watch the SEC, defense specs are so good.
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  Speaker 7: They hold all the time because it's so quick. They
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  Speaker 7: know where to grab and whatever. And you see a
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  Speaker 7: lot of plays that aren't made. Because the guy is.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's not difficult.
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  Speaker 7: It is difficult.
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  Speaker 3: The athletes are huge. They're fast. Everything happens fast. I
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  Speaker 3: get it.
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  Speaker 4: I agree.
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  Speaker 10: I think whether they referee this now, you have one
• 55:43
  Speaker 10: hand in the receiver, they're not going to call it.
• 55:44
  Speaker 10: As soon as you get that second hand on there,
• 55:47
  Speaker 10: you're going to get the flag.
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