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Hutton & Withrow: SEC QB Debuts to Watch + Cam Ward Pressure & NFL Division Picks | Hour 2 · Hutton & Withrow Show

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  Speaker 2: And their name. So, yeah, this guy's actually putting his
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  Speaker 2: name out there. So I appreciate that, Gavin. Gavin Mayo says,
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  Speaker 2: I think you're misinterpreting the fan base. Not being soft
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  Speaker 2: on Cam, but being hard on, quote, media who make
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  Speaker 2: up a narrative for their clicks. I'm actually shocked you
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  Speaker 2: and Hutton have fallen into the style you have. I
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  Speaker 2: was a day one, midday 180 guy, and you all
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  Speaker 2: are unrecognizable now.
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  Speaker 1: How dare us talk about a team in a negative light?
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  Speaker 1: Let's raise pom-poms to this organization, Jeff.
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  Speaker 2: If you really are a day one, midday 180 guy,
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  Speaker 2: then you know that we are very recognizable to what
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  Speaker 2: we've always been, right? Our co-host on that show, Paul Kuharski,
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  Speaker 2: was the guy who got called out by the fan
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  Speaker 2: base for all time for being too hard on the
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  Speaker 2: Titans with tough questions, right? We are always going to
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  Speaker 2: be honest about what's going on. We were on midday 180.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to be on this show Hunt and
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  Speaker 2: I are never going to sugarcoat anything. I deny that
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  Speaker 2: we are unrecognizable right now based on us holding the
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  Speaker 2: organization to account. An organization, Hunt, that you said hasn't
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  Speaker 2: won two games in a row since John Robinson was
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  Speaker 2: the damn GM. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And I would say, Gavin, we can take it.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: I would see if this organization will be as accountable.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I'll say. The only thing recognizable about this
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  Speaker 1: organization is losing.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, fake narratives or making up a narrative. And I
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  Speaker 2: asked them, I said, what narrative did we make up
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  Speaker 2: about this team? Like, we've given you the stats about
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  Speaker 2: this team. They've been bad. They weren't good enough in
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  Speaker 2: the preseason for a second-year quarterback who was in the
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  Speaker 2: game to get reps because they needed it. We're just
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  Speaker 2: simply pointing that out.
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  Speaker 1: We keep referencing these three wins where one of them,
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  Speaker 1: you needed a damn player to fumble at the goal line.
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  Speaker 1: For the other team to win.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's bad. And the whole last part of the
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  Speaker 2: season when everything was a throwaway. Who was starting? Who
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  Speaker 2: started for the Chiefs, by the way, late in the year?
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  Speaker 2: Chris Olodekun?
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  Speaker 1: I had never heard of him, Chad.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know. I was like, did this guy play
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  Speaker 2: in college? I never heard of him. Never heard of
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  Speaker 2: him in college football either. Haven't heard of him since.
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  Speaker 2: TitanFanB writes in and says, Hey, at Chad Withrow, we
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  Speaker 2: hear crickets. This is how we know you really didn't
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  Speaker 2: pay attention to Cam Ward. What you said about Cam
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  Speaker 2: Ward's accountability was entirely wrong. Now let's pay attention to
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  Speaker 2: see if Chad's apology is as loud as his terribly
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  Speaker 2: bad statement. Let me tell Titan fan B this and
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  Speaker 2: anyone else who's demanding an apology. You won't get one
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  Speaker 2: ever from me about this. I will hold Cam Ward accountable.
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  Speaker 2: And what I'm talking about with Cam Ward in the
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  Speaker 2: I asked statement is not about even his we asked statement.
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  Speaker 2: It was a comical response to someone who, he was
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  Speaker 2: asked a legitimate question by someone you claim is not
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  Speaker 2: a reporter, but was granted access to a press conference
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  Speaker 2: about how great his performance was. And his response was
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  Speaker 2: to quiz the reporter on that and not answer the question.
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  Speaker 2: I want the quarterback who has struggled to be up
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  Speaker 2: front and say, yeah, it's not good enough. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to get better. We're working to get better. But I
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  Speaker 2: hold myself to a really high standard. And if that
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  Speaker 2: standard is not met, it's not good enough. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to work every day. I'm the first one here. I'm
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  Speaker 2: the last one to leave. I'm going to be the
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  Speaker 2: one working to make sure that it gets better. That's
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  Speaker 2: not difficult to say. And when you don't say that,
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  Speaker 2: I need a little bit more accountability. And you should
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  Speaker 2: demand that, too. Also, one overall pick.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. We're not we're not sitting here glazing over
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  Speaker 1: Xavier Restrepo for a day when he gets cut the
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  Speaker 1: final 24 hours later.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. And now that we're pissed off for greatness,
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  Speaker 2: let me go ahead and say this, too. The tributes
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  Speaker 2: to Will Levis that have come pouring in. Guys, look,
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  Speaker 2: and I've seen this from Titans fans, media, like, man,
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  Speaker 2: I know it didn't work out for Will Levis, but
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  Speaker 2: really good guy, and we'll always have that Falcons game.
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  Speaker 2: We'll always have that glorious Falcons performance.
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  Speaker 1: His first start was his best start.
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  Speaker 2: We'll always have that one Falcons game to remember, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking, this fan base has so little right now.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: That they're holding on to Will Levis' one good start.
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  Speaker 2: I know. His first ever start. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: How are you not angry about this, Titans fans? It's
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable to me.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's all they have, Chad. It's the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: If the Vols suck, it's a fan base. If you're
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  Speaker 1: a passionate fan about your team, it's all you've got.
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  Speaker 1: They can turn your mascot into a furry, into a
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  Speaker 1: feral furry, and you can still root on T-Rex.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but Tennessee Vols fans, let me defend the Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: Vols fans or SEC fans out there. Most of them
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  Speaker 2: are on the opposite end in that they just throw
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  Speaker 2: in the towel quickly in a season.
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  Speaker 1: And get really, really angry. Sure, but they still give
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  Speaker 1: their money.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then there are some that are going to
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  Speaker 2: defend no matter what at all times and act like
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  Speaker 2: everything's great, even if it's not so great, right?
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  Speaker 1: That lady's going to call and cry, okay?
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  Speaker 2: But the Titans fans I'm hearing from, they demand everyone
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  Speaker 2: be a cheerleader. And everyone just talk about how great
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  Speaker 2: this organization is and how it could be worse.
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  Speaker 1: That is because of a media core that does nothing
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  Speaker 1: but cheerlead on behalf of the organization. Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 2: And so they're going to get mad at those that don't.
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  Speaker 1: Chad, some debuts to pay attention to in the SEC.
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  Speaker 1: Three quarterback debuts. I have a feeling we're going to
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  Speaker 1: go to Rocky Top for one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Faison Brandon is one that we've been talking a
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  Speaker 2: lot about, right? I'm not saying that the Furman game
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  Speaker 2: is going to be a big indicator of what his
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  Speaker 2: season is going to ultimately be like, Hutton. But if
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  Speaker 2: we're looking at quarterbacks that I'm excited to watch because
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  Speaker 2: we have not seen them yet, he's close to the
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  Speaker 2: top of the list just in this first game. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be kind of like Titans preseason and Cam Ward.
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  Speaker 2: Very vanilla. I think offensively they're not going to try
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things. I think any– different play is
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  Speaker 2: probably going to be a setup for the Georgia Tech
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  Speaker 2: game in what they run. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the standard Josh Eiffel offense, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: running the football, I'm sure, in this game against Furman.
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  Speaker 2: It's get to halftime, get into the third quarter, get
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  Speaker 2: up four, five, six scores, and get out of there.
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  Speaker 2: And Furman's probably feeling the same way. Let's get our
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  Speaker 2: starters out of the game also because they've got a
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  Speaker 2: season to play. They don't want to get everybody injured.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm fascinated to see him from this perspective. We've
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  Speaker 2: heard about his work ethic. We've heard about him staying
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  Speaker 2: in the month of May when everybody else left and
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  Speaker 2: staying in the facility and doing all that. I want
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  Speaker 2: to see his legs. I want to see him run
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  Speaker 2: the football. That's not something I've seen a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see what type of dimension that adds
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  Speaker 2: to this hypo offense because we saw with Hendon Hooker
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  Speaker 2: exactly what that could do. I'm going to say the
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  Speaker 2: same about Keelan Russell at Alabama. We haven't really seen
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  Speaker 2: this level of it. I want to see how Kalen
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  Speaker 2: DeBoer and Ryan Grubb, they implement that in their offense,
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  Speaker 2: his ability to be an athlete and to run the football.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see how they utilize that in that
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  Speaker 2: Bama offense. They play ECU. A lot of people are
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  Speaker 2: making a big deal about the heat. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be hot all over the South Hut, and you say
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  Speaker 2: this all the time. It's hot. It's pointless talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be hot in the first few weeks
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  Speaker 2: of the season. It always is. It's going to be
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  Speaker 2: really hot in Tuscaloosa for this Alabama ECU game. But
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  Speaker 2: I want to see Kalen Russell play. The other one
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  Speaker 2: to me is Kenny Minchey at Kentucky. We've heard so
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  Speaker 2: much about this guy, Hutton, going back to Pope John
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  Speaker 2: Paul II here in Nashville, right? We haven't really seen him.
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  Speaker 2: We heard about how great he was at Notre Dame
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  Speaker 2: and how he almost won the job but didn't. Now
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky goes and pays. He was going to go to Nebraska,
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  Speaker 2: if you remember, and he got out of that deal
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  Speaker 2: and goes to Kentucky. He's getting paid a lot of
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  Speaker 2: money to be the quarterback in Lexington. I'm excited to
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  Speaker 2: watch him play. Shockingly enough, Youngstown State, who's a very
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  Speaker 2: good FCS program usually, that's one of the closest lines
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  Speaker 2: in the SEC this week. Kentucky's favored by 23.5 points
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  Speaker 2: in that game, and I think it's the fourth closest
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  Speaker 2: line outside of those power games happening, SEC versus other
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  Speaker 2: power conferences. So I'm excited to see what Kenny Minchin
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  Speaker 2: can do also. Those are the three guys I'm keeping
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  Speaker 2: an eye on this weekend, making their debuts. Faison Brandon
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  Speaker 2: Keelan Russell Kenny Minchie.
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  Speaker 1: We should add one more or really two more in
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  Speaker 1: one Blaise Berkowitz and Jared Curtis yeah in their first
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  Speaker 1: debut I know they're playing Austin Peay but um they're
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  Speaker 1: playing both quarterbacks and they're going to continue to play
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  Speaker 1: both quarterbacks moving forward So, you know, Berkowitz named a starter, but,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Jared Curtis is going to be playing, and
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  Speaker 1: at what point does he play well enough to take over?
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  Speaker 1: And then is he getting as many reps as he
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  Speaker 1: needs to before the gauntlet begins, what, week four, week
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  Speaker 1: five for Vanderbilt whenever they go nonstop through the SEC,
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  Speaker 1: the grind for a freshman quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: If Blaise Berlowitz wasn't named the starter– Jared Curtis would
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  Speaker 2: have absolutely been on my list that I just went
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  Speaker 2: through there. He probably knocks Kenny Menchie off.
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  Speaker 1: But Berlowitz should still be on there just based on
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he's been named a starter.
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  Speaker 2: Right. But Jared Curtis would be one. Look, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: as intrigued by Blaise Berlowitz as I am Jared Curtis,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe I should be because he won the job.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I'm intrigued just because they didn't
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  Speaker 1: give it to the guy making $ 2. 5 million or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Is it $ 2. 5 million?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's probably more than that.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot. I mean, it's a multi-year deal, but
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  Speaker 2: what do multi-year deals really mean in college football? But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you and I were both surprised when Berlowitz
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  Speaker 2: was the guy, but I've heard a lot from Vandy
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  Speaker 2: people who say, look, Tim Beck's offense is a complicated one,
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  Speaker 2: and it really does make more sense when you sit
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  Speaker 2: back and think about it that the guy's been with
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  Speaker 2: him the longest is going to give them a really
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  Speaker 2: good shot early on in the season. And probably Jared
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  Speaker 2: Curtis with his talent, at some point along the way,
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  Speaker 2: will win out once he gets a better grasp of
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  Speaker 2: the offense. Could be true, but yeah, I'm excited to
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  Speaker 2: watch them. It's tough to get excited about these games
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  Speaker 2: where it's 45, 40, 48-point lines, 51-point spread in Missouri
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  Speaker 2: over Arkansas Pine Bluff this week, but I am excited
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  Speaker 2: to watch these quarterbacks because I think the guys we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about, Hutt, give these offenses a different dimension of
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  Speaker 2: that we haven't seen in their most recent iterations. Ty
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  Speaker 2: Simpson's a good athlete. Ty Simpson's not a design run
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  Speaker 2: play guy, right?
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  Speaker 3: Right, right.
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  Speaker 2: Joey Aguilar's a good athlete. Joey Aguilar's not a guy
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  Speaker 2: you're going to call a ton of design runs for also.
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  Speaker 2: Faison Brandon's going to get some design run calls every game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's going to be implemented in that rush
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  Speaker 2: attack more so. Kenny Menchie, a very mobile, good quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Heard so much about him. He's more of a veteran
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  Speaker 2: guy that's getting his first start at Kentucky, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited to watch all these dudes.
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  Speaker 1: Curtis projected NIL valuation of $ 2 million. Blaze, $ 1. 1 per year,
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  Speaker 1: according to JT.
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  Speaker 2: $ 1. 1 million. That's his valuation for Mon3?
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  Speaker 1: For Blaze.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know what they're making, but those valuations
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  Speaker 2: are a good tool to look at to see what
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  Speaker 2: at least the industry believes they should be making for
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  Speaker 2: what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: We are indeed, yes. We're looking at division winners in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL today. And let's start with the AFC. And
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  Speaker 2: this is what I'm going. I'm playing the long game here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, much like we talked about with the Titans.
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  Speaker 2: It's about game 18. You know, it's about week 18.
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  Speaker 2: It's not about the start. It's about the finish here.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to finish strong with these picks for
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  Speaker 2: AFC division winners. Give me Cincinnati in the AFC.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Hutton, I was really, really, really wanting to take the
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  Speaker 2: big plus money on Pittsburgh. And Mike McCarthy's return with
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. But I went with a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a safer bet from a numbers standpoint. I think Cincinnati
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  Speaker 2: bounces back with Joey B this year. Joey Flacco coming
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  Speaker 2: back as the backup quarterback in Cincinnati. Give me the
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  Speaker 2: Bengals in an upset to win the AFC North. Another upset,
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  Speaker 2: Denver Broncos plus money. I think they were third in line.
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  Speaker 2: It was Chiefs, Chargers, and then Broncos. I like the
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  Speaker 2: Broncos to get it done again this year. The Houston
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  Speaker 2: Texans may be the easiest of the picks right now
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  Speaker 2: for me in the AFC South. And the Buffalo Bills,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to be. The Patriots, given
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  Speaker 2: their offseason and given that performance in the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to repeat as the division champ.
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  Speaker 2: Give me the Buffalo Bills in the AFC East.
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  Speaker 1: Not the Patriots, not the Dolphins, not the Jets, but
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  Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly not the New York Jets. Did not even consider
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: them as a possibility.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: See, I like the Chargers this year. I like Jim Harbaugh.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I like their run game. I think it'll be an
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: improved run game, let me put it that way. And look,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: sometimes it takes a quarterback falling in love, and this
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: guy is smitten. This guy is smitten off the field.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: He definitely is in love. It happened with Josh Allen.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: It can happen with Justin Herbert.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: I was surprised. I'm just looking at the Hard Rock
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Bet numbers that in order, it was Chiefs, then Chargers,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: then Broncos. I kind of thought Broncos might be the
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: second one in line there, but Hard Rock Bet and
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: the odds makers there, they're in line with you that
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: they really like the Chargers too. I realize they're studying
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: these based on where the public's going to go, but
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: that's just public money on the Chiefs.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I don't buy the Chiefs as winning this division. And
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: maybe we'll look back on this and be like, how
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: foolish with Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes, when's the last time
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: you thought about Patrick Mahomes?
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: It's been a while for me. When I watched Chris
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Alotican or whatever his name was start for the Chiefs,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: and I thought, man, oh, man, this team would be
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: a lot better with a healthy Patrick Mahomes.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: That's probably the last time I thought about him. I
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: guess I saw pictures of him at the Kelsey Swift wedding. Okay. Also,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I guess I thought about him then. It's a great question.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: I don't think about Patrick Mahomes as often as I should.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's coming off injury. You know?
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: So that's part of it. I'm kind of surprised it's
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: not the– you know, you've got– There is some tension.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: There's some tension with quarterback and head coach in Denver
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: a little bit. Seems like anyway.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I think Sean Payton likes a little tension. I think
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: that fuels him. That gets him going. That gets him up.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Coming up later this week, by the way, I'm going
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: to have my top NFL coaches.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: We'll find out where Sean Payton is going to be
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: on my list. That will be a depth chart coming
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: up later in the week. We'll put that in. Yeah,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: we're ready for that. Let's look at.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: NFC division winners as I laid it out. The Los
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Angeles Rams at minus 110. This is my highest confidence
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: pick in terms of a division champion.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Hey, how can you not go with this one, with
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: the Rams? They are like plus 500 or better odds
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl right now.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Now, they're in a tough division, too. They've got the
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: defending Super Bowl champion there, too, which I did consider
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: with the Seahawks. But I love the Rams this year.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Give me the Rams and the NFC West. Give me
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears, another plus-money pick. They are third in
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: line numbers-wise to win the NFC North, but I like
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: this Bears team. I think they get it done. A
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: big surprise in the NFC East for me, the Cowboys.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: This is the year, Hutton. We've been talking about it.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: When is it going to be the year for the Cowboys?
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: They break through, and they get the best of the
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Eagles this year. They win the NFC East, and let
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Baker bake. Baker Mayfield is going to bake for the
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC South. So I got Rams, Bears, Cowboys,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Bucs as my NFC division winners.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Cowboys, really? Cowboys.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Call it a gut feeling. I think it's going to happen.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: I feel good about Jerry's boys this year, and I
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: think they're going to win that division.
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• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I like the Rams pick over the Seattle Seahawks simply
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: because Aaron Donald is back.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: He's back.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald is back. And you pair that on the
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: outside with Miles Garrett and Matthew Stafford and that offense.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: How are they not the odds-on favorite? They are. They're
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the odds-on favorite to win the Super Bowl. Um, now
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the previous, the previous teams that have had the best odds,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: the way the Rams do, they don't go on to
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: win the Superbowl, but man, they are going to get
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: after the quarterback.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the Rams are, uh, it's sort of
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: the darling pick and it's like, it's everybody's brain pick, right?
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Like there's one team that's, that's a gut feeling about
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: it and this, but I think the Rams are the
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: one that you look at the roster. Uh, you look
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: at Matthew Stafford where he is right now in his
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: career and it's like, okay, this is the odds-on pick
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: to win it all. That normally doesn't work out for
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: those teams, but I'm with you. I love their roster.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I love Aaron Donald back. I think they're going to
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: get it done, and that's a very tough division year in,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: year out.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Now, who did you pick for the NFC North?
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: The Chicago Bears.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, the Bears again. See, I'm going Green Bay this year. Oh,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: by the way, do you know who was the last-placed
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: team Who finished last in the NFC North last year?
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: All had a winning record.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: The Minnesota Vikings?
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: The Detroit Lions.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Detroit Lions have the best odds to win the division
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: this year. You know why?
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Because the Detroit Lions, by finishing last, despite having a
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: winning record, they have a last place schedule, Chad.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that helps.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: They would be playing, if they had the AFC South,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: they'd play the Titans.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: That helps. That helps. Any game against the Titans helps
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: your chances of winning a division. I'll tell you that
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: for sure. Yeah, look, looking at the numbers at Hard
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Rock Bet, I was fascinated with that division because there's
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: not a big separation between one and four. And I
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: know the Vikings had the worst odds, the biggest plus money,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: and then it was the Lions, but it's very close. Lions, Packers,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: and I took the Bears, who were third in line.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Those three teams are pretty close in terms of money.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: This schedule is insane. Let's just go through the first
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: two months of the season for the Detroit Lions. You
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: ready for this?
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Saints, they visit the Bills. They will host the Jets.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: They'll visit the Panthers. They'll visit the Cardinals. They'll host
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the Packers. Then they'll host the Vikings. Then they will
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: travel to take on the Miami Dolphins. Chad, that is
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: their first two months of the season for your Detroit Lions. Wow.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: What's like the battle cry for Lions fans? You know,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: like bear down or whatever. Do they have one for
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: the Detroit Lions? Because I want to scream that from
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: a mountaintop. Whatever that battle cry is.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: The first two months, man. They're playing it. Yeah.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: What is that battle cry? I'm not sure.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Roar?
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Roar?
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Lions roar?
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I was just going to continue to
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: read through this. Patriots, Bucs, Bears. They do play the Titans.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, Chad.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Here's the NFC North by the numbers. I pulled up
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: the numbers here at Hard Rock Pet. Lions are plus
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: 160 to win it. Packers are plus 240 to win it.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Bears are plus 300. Then there's a big jump, and
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: it's Vikings plus 500. But those first three, it goes
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: from plus 160 to plus 240 to plus 300. So
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: that's a fun division to follow. The Steelers right now,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: if I'm going long odds to win the division, the Steelers,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: you can get them at plus 550 to win that division.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I may place a little side bet at Hard Rock
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Bet on those Steelers to win that division.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: You know what?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: In fact, Hutton, I've got my app open right now.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I'm going to do it right here. As we speak,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I'm going Steelers to win that division also, even though, yes,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I did pick Cincinnati.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: You could do it. Back your gut there. Back your
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: gut there. Lions, by the way, their slogan is grit,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: one pride, which is tough. One pride and defend the den.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Are they one of those teams, the old NFL teams
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: that has a fight song too? I wonder if they have.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Some of those teams have.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I don't remember their fight songs.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: I'm looking up right now to see if they have
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: a fight song, which would be incredible.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Bear down.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: The Detroit Lions fight song is... a song by da
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: worst band in da world in 2008. So I'm going
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: to assume that AI is not saying that they really
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: don't have a fight song. Did you say.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Da worst band in da world?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Da worst. D-A, one word. Worst spelled W-U-R-S-T. Maybe it's
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: a German polka band with that spelling. So this could
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: be like John Candy's band in Home Alone. Polka, polka, polka.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Maybe you've heard of that. Big and Sheboygan. The worst
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: band in the world, 2008, the Detroit Lions fight song.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: That's what pops up. So I'm assuming they do not
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: have one of those old school fight songs.
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• 28:01
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  Speaker 2: know his response.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: So Tennessee is going to wear a decal for Dolly.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: They are. They are indeed. Dolly Parton being honored all
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: over the place. The governor has an initiative.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, this is the dream war logo. Okay.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: To possibly rename BNA, the Nashville airport. in memory of
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Dolly Parton. And now the Tennessee Vols football team will
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: be honoring Dolly Parton all year by wearing a butterfly
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: on their helmet. Let me just say right now, let's
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: leave that logo up, if you can, JT, for us.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Because this logo right here, if Tennessee is a surprise
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: in the SEC, and they go 10-2 or 9-3, we
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: are going to be talking in November about the spirit
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: of Dolly Parton, the great lady. Of Tennessee, of East Tennessee.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: To honor General Neyland.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: The dame of the Smoky Mountains, the great, wonderful Dolly Parton.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Terrific soul that she was guiding the 2026 Tennessee Vols
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: to greatness. And they were on the backs of butterflies.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: And they were flying on the backs of butterflies to
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: the greatness.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Let's please not do that.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: And if Tennessee loses to Georgia Tech, everyone's going to say,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: look at these pansies wearing a butterfly on their helmet.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: We need to take that off immediately because it's turning
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: the team soft. That is my prediction one way or
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: the other. These decals will have no bearing on the season.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: I love that they're honoring Dolly Parton, but the reaction
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: will be one or the other. Either the spirit of
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Dolly Parton guides them, or they're a bunch of softies
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: because they're wearing a butterfly on their helmet.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Well, neither are true. Of course. Neither are true because, no,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: the spirit of Dolly will not be guiding them because MTSU, Chad,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: is also wearing something on their helmet, and they're doing
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: a jersey patch, in fact. And MTSU right now, they
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: have an over-under total wins of 3.5 in Vegas. So
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: let me tell you something. Whenever Derek Mason's football team
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: goes under 3.5 wins this year, are we going to
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: blame Dolly Parton? Does that mean Dolly Parton wanted to
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: condemn the Blue Raiders to hell?
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: No.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: No, he didn't. That's why I don't believe in superstitions.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: That's why I don't believe in luck. All these things.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Lucky socks. If you're wearing the lucky socks, why did
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: you lose whenever you finally decided to wash them whenever
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: you lost? Why did you lose if you're wearing them?
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: and they were so lucky. Just don't buy into it.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with the butterfly wings, maybe
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: the bullet butterfly wings, like Smashing Pumpkins.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: That's a great album. Yeah, if MTSU wins three games
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: this year, It's not going to be because God's more
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: of a Barbara Mandrell fan than Dolly Parton. That's certainly
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: for sure. I buy into the psychology of it. If
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: you think it works, maybe there's a little bit of
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: confidence involved with it. But of course, the socks you wear,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: the armband you wear. You doing something while you're watching
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: a game does not really factor into the game itself.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: It's really just, it's like a method to, you know,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: like somebody with ADHD that's going to like flip the
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: light switch on three times and off to make sure
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: it works. Or they like do the nervous tick things.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: That's making them feel better. So it's probably positively affecting
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: their own psychology. But you doing that three times has
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: no indication on whether or not the electricity works in
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: the house. Yeah.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: That's the same way I feel about sports. I will
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: be the first to get up at times and I
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: don't like the vibe in here. If I'm annoyed by
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: a situation watching a game because it's going south.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Even whenever you're alone or when you're with a group
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: of people is when you do that.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, both. If I'm alone, I might get up and
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: be like, I'm going to go lay in my bed
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: and watch this game a little bit under the covers.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: because I'm frightened by what's happening.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Because you're tired.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just because I'm sleepy. I'm a little sleepy. I
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: get a little drowsy watching certain sporting events, so I'm
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: going to go.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Lay down and take a little nap.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: But no, I will just go to change. But that's
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: changing my vibe. I'd love to hear from people in
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: the YouTube chat also, like little superstitions you have. None
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: of it works. Hutton's right. I don't buy into it working.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: I buy into the way it makes me feel. You know,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: it's like, When you go and post a long thing
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: on Facebook, griping about something, like complaining about something, and
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: I see this all the time.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: You're not really changing any outcome. What you're doing is
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: you're typing out and you're typing through it and making
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: yourself feel better. I buy that with superstition, especially for fans.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I'm going to knock on wood. And I do that
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: at times during a game. Like, oh, man, let's just
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: run the ball here and get this first down on fourth.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: And I might knock on something. And my wife says,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: you're a complete lunatic and a loser for doing that.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: She's probably right on both counts. I know that it's
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: not affecting the outcome, but me knocking on that wood
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: and hearing the sound of it makes me feel better.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I feel the same way about athletes. They do little things.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: All it does is make them feel better. It doesn't
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: change anything.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: What do you think, JT?
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: There's 100% chance I'm moving from one spot of the
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: couch to the other.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not wearing the same socks, but yeah, I will move. Yeah,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: I do that often. I'll also just be around. I'll
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: be around the family and I can feel myself getting
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: really irritated at what's happening. And I'm like, I'm going
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: to leave just because I'm going to be mad for
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: a little while. So I'm going to let you guys
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: hang out down here and do whatever you want. So
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: I'm not that person that's yelling at their kids because
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: of the football game.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: But JT, you're acknowledging that moving on your couch has
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with it, right?
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: 100%.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, that's strictly me and my own little
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: weird world, but But I will move from the couch
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: to the recliner, the recliner to the couch.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: I don't go lay down. Those that say the whole
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: jinx thing, like, hey, the kicker's made 33 extra points
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: in a row, and then sure enough, he'll miss the
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: extra point, had nothing to do with you saying that. Right?
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: But like, oh, you jinxed us. No, no, you're just
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: an idiot for believing in jinxes.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Well, all of these things, by the way, and JT
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: with his Ohio State Buckeyes and everyone else, They all
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: come back into play starting Saturday where everyone's going to
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: start doing these little things, even when one thing goes wrong,
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: that they're going to change it up. We got some
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: great responses coming in. Catfish Jake says, I will switch rooms,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: TVs broadcast.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: The gentleman.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Make up a random chore that needs to be done
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: if Bama is not playing great. Brooks says, In the chat,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: it says, I'm absolutely the same. Watching my team, I'll
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: go change shirts. I'll change rooms. I might stay standing
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: if several good plays happen while I've been up.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: But they're all acknowledging that it has nothing to do
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: with that, which I appreciate. This is funny.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: We all do it. I should just turn a camera
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: on me at some point and watch this. If you
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: want to see a crazy person exist in the wild,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: it's me when no one else is around. like watching
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: my team. I remember watching Tennessee-Mississippi State a year ago.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: My daughter was picking up with another softball team. They're
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: playing in a tournament. So my whole family is in
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Gallatin at a tournament. I go home early to watch
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Tennessee-Mississippi State. Tennessee had to score a touchdown late to
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: tie it. They go and win in overtime or double overtime.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: But that fourth quarter in overtime, I am pacing from
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: living room to kitchen, around the kitchen island and back,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: over and over in between each play, and then I
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: just get right up next to television. I'm looking at
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: the TV for the play. And then once the play's over,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: I'm pacing again, walking around. I'm going right back up
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: like a dog waiting on a tree, waiting for the
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: next play. And then I'm happy or I'm upset, and
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: I'm pacing again. It doesn't help the game at all.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: It somehow helps me process the game. I know that
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: I'm not alone with other fans out there.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Next year, Tennessee's going to honor General Nealon by having
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: butterflies on the jersey. What would be the.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: General Nealon decal that they're going to have? This is
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: the 100-year anniversary of General Nealon taking the Tennessee job
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: in 1926. So there's been a lot of General Nealon
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: talk about that. Oh, we should have that.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: They should have that. Do they not have that decal,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: or do they?
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm sure they're doing something. I don't
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: know what.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: That should be on the field. That's better than having
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: the smoky grays.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Better than having Pilot on the field?
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: That pilot money, those checks cash out. That pilot money
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: is paying.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: There's plenty of grass. That's all I'm saying. There's plenty
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: of grass to paint.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Of the teams that sell out, which they're all going
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: to do now, to like jersey logos or on the
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: field stuff, I will say Tennessee has tastefully done it
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: as well as anyone by not putting the pilot colors
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: on the field. So it's just the white pilot logo.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: You can barely see it. It's like the size of
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: the SEC logos. So I get Tennessee some credit for
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: like doing– if you're going to do it, do it
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: in a tasteful way. And then you've got the opposite
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: side of it where Texas' AD is saying, what, am
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: I going to put Sonic on a Texas Longhorn jersey? No,
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: we're not going to do that. Which I love the
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: arrogance of Texas. I kind of wish every school of
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: any clout was that way too. Like, no, I'm not
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: even going to take the check. We're good with money.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: I don't need it.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Don't need it. They should put the 100, like a
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: 100 in one of the checkered of the checkerboards, give
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: them an orange checkered box, and put one little small
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: logo in the end zone in honor of General Nealon.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: It's better than the jerseys.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: One of the 50-yard line was a silhouette of General
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Nealon kneeling down, the famous silhouette. That was the midfield
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: all year for Tennessee. Yeah.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, for one year, sure, why not? I like CBRT,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: but I'd like it. It's better than having no decal
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: whatsoever on the helmet.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, better than messing with the
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: checkerboard end zone. If you have a famous end zone,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: don't mess with that. But if you want to put
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: something different, if you want to put the dolly butterfly
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: at midfield for one game.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: No. Now, if you lose that game, you know exactly
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: what's going to be played if we're losing that game.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: No butterfly.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: You put the power T on the, no.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: That's a Tennessee first down brought to you by Dollywood,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: where you can get season passes right now for the fall.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: The water park is closed, but the amusement park is
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: wide open.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: I'm out of here.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go on that play.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go throw this chair into the Cumberland river.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: And, uh, Maybe it floats down to your neck of
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: the woods. Who knows?
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: You need a Jacob Lutz house call at this point
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: to come fix everything that's malfunctioning in your studio. I know.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Everything's going to hell. We're out. See you guys.