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COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF second round preview: Who wins? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  They're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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  Why not put it in one of the top three offensive players in the
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  league? We're going to be looking at
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  I. Let's do it.
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  com. CFB Playoff Second round preview
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  of the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff Kickoff
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  New Year's Eve with #10 Miami facing off #2 Ohio State in the
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  Cotton Ball in Arlington, TX. Ohio State is 9.5 points
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  favorites with a defense that hasn't allowed more than 16
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  points in a game this year. The other three games will be on
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  New Year's Day with #5 Oregon face it off #4 Texas Tech in the
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  Orange ball in Miami. Oregon is 2.5 point favorites
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  with an offense that averages 39.3 points per game going
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  against Texas Tech's defense that has only allowed more than
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  17 points just twice this year #9 Alabama will face off #1
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  Indiana at the Rose Bowl in California In a game where
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  Indiana is a 7 point favorite. Indiana is number has #1 it has
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  the number one wide receiver Omar Cooper who led them with 58
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  catches and 804 yards with will be active for this game #6 Old
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  Miss will face off #3 face off against #3 George Georgia in the
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  Sugar Ball in New Orleans. Georgia is 6.5 point favorites
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  in the game. Georgia has won nine straight
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  games and handed Old Miss their only loss during the regular
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  season, winning 43 to 35. Old Miss will be without Lane
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  Kiffin and much of their coaching staff from the first
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  match up. Speedy, where do you want to go
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  first? Where do you want to have it?
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  Because I know you're the college football group.
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  Where do you want to go? You know what we ended?
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  We ended with the Ole Miss Georgia in the read off.
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  Let's start with there with the ex Lane Kiffin first challenge
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  against the Georgia team that already beat them in the regular
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  season. I, I will say this, I expect
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  Georgia to go all the way to the championship.
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  I think they're as good as any team in this tournament.
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  They have, they always have one of the best defenses in the
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  country. They got a great running game.
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  I I don't know about the quarterback play and that that's
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  the question and it always. Is we need them to go all the
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  way too. No, you we are a a Georgia bar
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  in in midtown. That's right.
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  That's Georgia, goes it's it's fun to.
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  Watch more money for you too man.
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  We, we should have known. We, we, we would have sent Jeff
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  over there. He would have loved us.
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  Yeah, to me, to me, I think the Bulldogs are expected to win
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  this game. Now, that doesn't mean Ole Miss
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  can pull it off. And Ole Miss with no really
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  their whole coaching staff, no Lane Kiffin.
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  And they showed, they showed that they can win without them.
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  They won by what, 20 points their last game?
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  Yeah. Like 41 attacks.
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  And they they put up 50 points in that game.
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  So do you. Think, do you think that plays
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  into their favor or it hurts them where you like?
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  You know what? Here's the middle finger
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  confidence. We can win without you.
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  Confidence, I, I think the fact that they have a rookie coach
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  that is taking over for Lane Kiffin, A defensive coordinator
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  that's never done it before, has a chance to go to the semis and
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  knock off the Georgia Bulldogs, a national championship team
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  with one of the great defensive minds in college football.
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  It makes a lot of sense that this game could go back and
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  forth. I I mean speed, you look at the
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  potential of this game, do you think that this game sticks out
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  from maybe in Alabama, Indiana? I I have said.
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  I said this. Does that line steer you?
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  Does that. Line steer you a little bit both
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  teams have good offensive lines. I think what it is is I Lane
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  Kiffin even though they lost that game 43 to 35, they still
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  had a good offense in that game. They this was probably the best
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  team besides Alabama when they beat Georgia played against that
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  Georgia defense that has that kind of reputation especially in
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  the front 7. So Trinidad Chambliss is a good
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  quarterback they have a good receiving core like now doing it
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  with another offensive coaching staff.
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  I think Charlie Weis junior did return for their game against
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  Tulane, but he was the only one of that offensive assistant
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  coaching staff that return. I'm just curious game plan wise
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  because are they going to deviate so much because they
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  don't have Kiff in there? And are they going to be able to
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  incorporate those same kind of content because this Ole Miss
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  defense is not? It's still good, but it's not
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  the Ole Miss defense of last year when they were the best
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  defense in the SEC last year and they missed the playoff because
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  they lost a couple bad games late in the year.
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  Now, I think if Lane Kiffin was there, I would give I would give
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  Ole Miss a little bit of inch like Errol was saying, Georgia,
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  their passing game is still kind of questionable and that's where
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  I think that could be the damage of reputation.
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  But their running game, if they can control the game in their
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  defense still wins in college football.
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  It's not like in the NFL where you kind of have to have a top
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  12 quarterback and you can get away with having a a good or
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  well coached defense. In college football, outside of
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  really LSU recently and Ohio State last year, there's not a
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  lot of prolific teams with prolific passing attacks that
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  are winning these national championships.
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  So I think Georgia still has the edge in that regard.
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  I think this is a different type of game that you see and.
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  Low scoring, I think they have the easiest way to a
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  championship, a national championship if they win this
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  game against old miss because obviously I we were talking
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  about the the fact that Indiana might have the easiest way, but
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  honestly, no, if Indiana knocks off Alabama, they're matched up
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  against who? Indiana would play Oregon OR.
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  Texas Tech next. That's right.
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  And, and to me, I think Georgia just goes straight, right.
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  So who if Georgia wins this game, who do they say?
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  Then they would face off the Ohio State or Miami winner.
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  So I I that's true. That's true.
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  Maybe. Now it's interesting because
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  Georgia beat Ohio State a few years ago.
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  That was the game we were mocking W about.
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  Got a good happy New Year. So let's let's go into that.
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  If that happens now Ohio State, that doesn't mean Ohio State is
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  going to win that game against Miami because obviously Miami
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  they have the beck and and beck has the opportunity to really
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  prove himself to be a higher draft pick than a lot of people
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  consider him to be. They're saying that he's a early
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  second round pick, maybe mid second round pick going into
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  this class, but so was Jalen Hurts and look what Jalen Hurts
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  has been he's a he's a champion. He's this guy has been
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  sensational. Now Beck is a different type of
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  quarterback and I think that Beck has an opportunity to shine
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  and shine bright against the Ohio State Buckeyes where
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  everybody thinks if Ohio State wins it, they a lot of people
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  believe Ohio State is still the number one team in the nation.
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  They think that Indiana knocking them off was to me, it was just
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  a close game and really luck. It was the battle of the
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  kickers. That's what the that was what
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  the game was. But I do believe that Ohio State
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  is I think has weaknesses and I think Indiana prove that they
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  have weaknesses in that game, in that that conference
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  championship game. So I think that when you look at
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  Miami, I'm not saying Miami is is a great team and a great
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  roster. I do think they're very well
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  coached and I think they have a star quarterback.
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  Now, again, we we know saying, saying his special kid and this
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  guy is going to win a Heisman. He's definitely going to win a
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  Heisman at least once before he plays an NFL football game.
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  But I'll tell you this, he should have never been in the
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  top five for the Heisman voting. And he was I I think he's and
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  I'm not taking shots at him. He's a pretty boy.
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  That's what he is. That's what he looked like.
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  When I, when I get a chance to meet him, out of all the guys,
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  he was the prettiest. So I'm not saying that doesn't
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  mean he can't play the game. But you're going into a big
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  game. You're a freshman, There's a lot
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  of pressure on you. And you have Beck, who's been in
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  college. He's been in college football
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  for how many years? Yeah, five years.
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  He, he's been in this. I don't know if he's been in
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  this stage, but he's in big stages.
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  He's been in stages and he's found ways to win and I do
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  believe that the advantage goes to the veteran quarterback in
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  Miami. That's why I think even though
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  everybody expects Ohio State with the 9.5 favorite when it
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  comes to their defense and what they can do on on the defensive
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  side of the ball, why couldn't Miami put up enough numbers to
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  beat the Ohio State Buckeyes? Miami's defense has a shot to
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  keep this game competitive because they do have one of the
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  top 10 pass rushes in the nation.
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  And if Ohio State's offensive line has an off game like they
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  did against Indiana or even against Michigan in the
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  beginning of that game, they did not.
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  They did not play great. Then Miami, if they can get that
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  defense going, can definitely keep this game close.
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  For a while. I was worried about the way
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  Miami's offense played their last game against Texas A&M.
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  Texas A&M is a top defense as well.
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  They were the best defense in the SEC.
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  That's that's year. I know you Giant fans are going
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  to be watching a player in Caleb Downs.
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  Yeah, I know Fish has like a like this infatuation with this
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  guy. Caleb Downs and Arvel Reese, two
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  of their stars on Ohio State, probably two of the five best
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  defensive players in the country this year, too.
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  So that's what makes it tough on Miami.
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  Miami's They had offense that move the ball effectively for
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  much of the first half of that texting.
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  And every time you mention Caleb Downs, I think Fish has a boner.
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  I mean, I, I can honestly see Fish with the smirk on his face.
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  Oh, give me Caleb. Give me Caleb.
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  I'll, I'll go down. Yeah, Wes was the original 1
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  when he got recruited over there from already transferred over
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  from Ohio. They remember he was in Oklahoma
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  before that too and was a star on a really bad Oklahoma defense
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  for a while. And yeah, that go down for
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  Downs. Yeah, go down for.
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  Yeah, you might. Do you think the running game
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  for Carson Beck, they they have to establish that early for for
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  it to open up the field a little bit?
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  Yes, because I don't know if I could trust the passing game as
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  consistently when it comes to Miami has some decent wide
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  receivers, but they're not really known for it as much now.
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  It's something I mentioned last week is Mario Cristobal when he
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  coached at Oregon, beat Ohio State back in 2021.
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  And offensively, they've always played well against Ryan Day,
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  whatever defensive coordinator they have.
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  They switched around defensive coordinators, obviously, but
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  this type of defense that they've had with Ohio State,
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  which really hasn't changed that much.
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  And I'm curious to see if he adapts a lot of those concepts
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  with a different type of team. With Miami, Carson Beck I think
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  is more of like a he's a smart quarterback, but he's not overly
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  flashy, but sometimes when he gets.
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  He's got a good arm, man. He has a good arm.
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  You just can't have the early turnovers and that's where I
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  think the running game does factor in in the first half,
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  especially because Miami is going to have to win this game
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  on their defense and ball control and not let Ohio
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  State-run away with it early, which is something you saw
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  Indiana do very effectively in that game.
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  Indiana also stopped the run very well and Ohio State both
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  their running back were. You not impressed with what they
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  did against Texas A&M? The Texas A&M where a top three
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  team, you know, really throughout the nation the whole
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  year. But I feel like that game was a
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  tale of like 2 halves like you saw like.
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  Not really, it was just an ugly defensive duel it.
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  Really. Was Miami moved the ball better?
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  They just had a kicker that missed a bunch too.
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  And you got a chance to see why I believe Beck could be a lot
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  better than people think he's going to be in the NFL is that
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  the guy can make every single throw.
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  And, and when, when you put up those kind of numbers in a game
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  where where you expected, I believe, and I thought Texas A&M
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  was going to run away with the game because I thought flat out
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  as far as overall talent, I believe Texas A&M, Georgia, Ohio
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  State, where the as far as all around talent have the out of
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  all the 12 teams were the three best teams when it came to
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  talent on their roster. And Texas A&M just got
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  outclassed by a Miami team. Now, obviously it was a sloppy
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  game. It was an ugly game, but you
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  expect the better teams to win those sloppy games.
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  That's what you expect. And, and Miami just showed you
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  why they can pull off those sloppy games.
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  Ohio State lost an ugly game against Indiana.
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  That was an ugly game. And if it goes to an ugly game,
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  I'm I'm going to put my money on Miami because Ohio State has a
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  young quarterback that's put in a position that's never been
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  there before and and has a chance to win a national
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  championship in his rookie season.
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  I think that's a lot of pressure to put on a young quarterback.
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  Yeah, it's interesting. You're right.
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  No adversity. Ohio State face their biggest,
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  their smallest win, I think before that Indiana game was a
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  17 point win. And that's where, if Miami can
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  get that game to be a ugly defensive duel, or even Georgia
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  in the next round, if they beat Ole Miss and Ohio State beats
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  Miami, they can get it to be an ugly defensive duel too.
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  That definitely makes it into the favor of one of those teams
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  because yeah, those offenses aren't great.
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  Georgia is the opposite where they had Carson back in the last
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  few years and now they have a freshman with Gunner Stockton.
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  Her first time started with Gunner Stockton and then Beck,
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  who's like a fifth year quarterback that's experienced
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  making the smart decisions. That's where it comes down to
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  coaching. And I've always questioned, even
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  though Ryan Days won a national championship, sometimes in game
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  coaching could be a little off and if Cristobal can get it,
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  really if Cristobal can get it where he knows the reputation
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  against him, it could definitely make an interesting matchup.
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  I also think Miami trying to prove it to the committee too
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  was something that factored into their win on A&M.
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  I'm interested to see what Jeremiah Smith's going to do in
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  this game because we know what Jeremiah Smith is.
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  The guy is one of the most explosive wide receivers we've
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  ever seen. And we've talked about Ohio
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  State, Carson. Backed the backup for Georgia
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  when? They Yes, he was.
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  Yes, he was. He was.
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  Yes, he was. That's him.
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  Bannon was the starter. Yep.
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  And, and, and one of the main reasons why he left and he went
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  into the portal is because he believed that Georgia wasn't
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  giving him the better opportunity or giving him the
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  opportunity. You sure it wasn't his
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  girlfriend and the money? I don't think so.
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  I think it had a lot to do with the way Georgia was treating him
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  and he thought that he should have had a chance to be the
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  number one guy. And, and I think they were
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  looking past him. They they saw other guys in and,
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  and, and guys that they were recruiting over the last two or
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  three years that they felt were better options than him.
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  And and caution back made the better choice going to Miami
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  because he has a chance to prove himself if Miami knocks off Ohio
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  State. And like I said, look at the
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  talent Ohio State has there. Jeremiah Smith is going to be a
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  top three pick next year. I don't think there's an
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  argument to that. And, and you look at that class
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  next year with the quarterbacks and game changing players that
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  are going to be in next year's draft class, Jeremiah Smith
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  might be the biggest game changer out of all of them and
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  he's going to go in the top 3. And when you look at Ohio State,
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  they've got they probably got six guys on the offensive side
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  of the ball that are probably going to be first round talents
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  this year on on the defensive side of the ball, might have six
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  or seven guys that are going to go in the top 2 rounds of this
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  year's draft. The first, first round and
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  second round could be thirteen guys from the Ohio State
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  Buckeye. Think about it.
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  Think about how crazy that is. You have 13, maybe 14 guys that
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  could go in the first two rounds of the NFL draft.
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  Yeah, but. That's interesting, but what's
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  the most guys that have been drafted?
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  LSU in 2020, it was like 16. Players.
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  I remember that too. Guys, yeah, they had it.
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  Wasn't even chasing that draft either.
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  Chase always couldn't declare because he sat.
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  Out Burrow, right? Burrow was the first pick.
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  They had Clyde Edwards, Hilaire, they had a couple offensive
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  lineman. They had a lot, a lot of that
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  defense to a lot of their edge rushers went in early.
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  Not of them, not a lot of them have been amazing in that draft.
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  Jefferson obviously too has been amazing and obviously Burrow.
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  But it's 15 or 16 total players that shattered the previous
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  record I think was. 11 And what I've read is that the prediction
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  is, is that there could be thirteen guys out of this class
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  that could go what is this? What is he saying over here?
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  Looks like those are the projected first round picks.
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  Yeah, Downs. That's the aisles too.
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  Is. That's in the first round.
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  That's first round alone. Good.
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  Good job, Fish. Four to six guys that could go
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  in the first round and they're they're saying.
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  Even so, even on the low end there, there's eleven.
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  Yeah, on the on the low end. I what I've read and I, I've
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  spoken to a couple of draft, you know, gurus that we know.
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  He told me that he could see 13 to 14 guys going in the first
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  two rounds from the Ohio State Buckeyes, which is ridiculous
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  when you think about it in this class and, and the talent, the
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  amount of talent, everybody says this is a weak class.
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  They always say that and it turns out to be a really, really
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  dominant class. Every time they tell me, oh,
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  this is a terrible class. Remember the source Garner
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  class? Oh, that was horrible, horrible
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  class. This big blunder.
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  I mean, come on, man, Look how many all pros came out of that
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  class. Look how many guys that right
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  now going into the Pro Bowl, out of that class, I think there's
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  like five guys. Hold on, is, is the Pro Bowl
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  kind of 1 Is it? It's weird because, and I'm I'm
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  not going to talk trash because he's from here, but like Luke
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  Gifford got in and they got in as special teams.
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  But like when you look at like what he did to like earn that
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  and obviously they have different systems that you know
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  he's in and he hasn't seen obviously as much time on the
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  field, but hasn't really done anything different.
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  Special teams is different though, because because you
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  could also be a gunner, you could be a tackler, you could be
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  a long snapper. I mean, we we speak to a lot of
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  people that are Gunners in the NFL that you never even heard
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  of. You never even heard of the guy.
• 19:39
  And oh, by the way, he's one of the top three Gunners in all of
• 19:42
  the league. When you look at it, statistics
• 19:44
  and analytics would tell you that he is never heard of the
• 19:46
  guy. I mean, The Jets have a gunner
• 19:48
  right now. That's it.
• 19:49
  A top ten player in the league. I mean, he might be the only top
• 19:53
  ten player that Jets have and he's a gunner.
• 19:57
  I mean, it doesn't when when you think about it, you don't look
• 20:01
  at those positions until you realize how good a team is when
• 20:04
  and when they're when you look at special teams, The Jets have
• 20:07
  always had a good special teams. The team, but everything else
• 20:12
  has just been up and down. You don't you don't look at
• 20:15
  special teams to be important until the playoffs because
• 20:17
  special teams could win you a Super Bowl.
• 20:19
  How many times have we've seen that?
• 20:21
  So I it makes a difference when you have good special teams and
• 20:24
  good coaching. So I, I, I.
• 20:26
  Look at Why do you think special teams has changed with the new?
• 20:30
  Rule Oh my God, it to me, it's gotten worse.
• 20:33
  I, I think it's gotten worse because to me, let's say you
• 20:38
  kick the ball and, and, and remember the only when you're
• 20:42
  running, you cannot start running until the ball hits the
• 20:46
  guy's hands. You cannot start running.
• 20:49
  And everybody says, well, hey, they're still, they're still
• 20:52
  getting down there and still stopping.
• 20:54
  But now players, if they decide not to run, they automatically
• 20:57
  go to the 35 yard line. Automatically, the 35 yard line,
• 21:00
  they're almost half of the field already.
• 21:03
  They're pretty much at the 50 yard line.
• 21:05
  They're 15 yards away from the 50 yard line.
• 21:08
  And now with these kickers, the way they can kick, they can kick
• 21:11
  6570 yards. All they got to get to is the 50
• 21:15
  yard line to get 3 points I mean.
• 21:17
  Isn't isn't this the most 50 plus yard field goals that have
• 21:21
  been kicked this year? Most 60 yard field goals kicked
• 21:24
  of all time. Including the NFL record by Cam
• 21:27
  Little with the. Jags, it's ridiculous.
• 21:28
  These guys in the Bulls are thinner or they say has more
• 21:31
  air, which has more pop and they're saying all this stuff.
• 21:35
  But it's alarming to me when you think about it, if you don't run
• 21:39
  and you decide not to run with the ball and you start at the 35
• 21:42
  yard line, you all you have to do is get to the 50 and these
• 21:46
  guys are going to kick it 6065 yards.
• 21:48
  They're going to kick it. So all you got to do is get to
• 21:50
  the 50 yard line. You got a chance to kick 3
• 21:52
  points and does that make the game fun to watch?
• 21:56
  It doesn't. And I think a lot of these new
• 21:59
  changes, these rule changes have affected the game.
• 22:02
  Some people, I mean, want to see more offense and others, if
• 22:05
  you're a defensive guy and I know there's a lot of people
• 22:07
  that love defense, you wonder, does this benefit the defensive
• 22:10
  side of the ball? Does it help?
• 22:12
  Do you draft defensive players in the first round anymore?
• 22:15
  Think about it, why would you draft a defensive player when
• 22:18
  it's become an offensive game? I'm going all offense.
• 22:22
  Why do I need to draft defense? Because if you're starting at
• 22:25
  the 35 yard line, no matter how good your defense is, they're
• 22:29
  going to get 3 points no matter what.
• 22:31
  And look at the and look at the points.
• 22:33
  There are more points being scored now than there ever has
• 22:36
  been. Think about it.
• 22:38
  At one point there was a game this year there was like what,
• 22:41
  95 points in a game or something like that.
• 22:44
  It's ridiculous. The Ravens and the.
• 22:45
  It's a basketball game. Now 41 to 40.
• 22:48
  I mean, there's more points. We just saw the Niners game
• 22:51
  yesterday too. Now I don't know the analytics.
• 22:54
  I'm sure Fish is looking it up right now.
• 22:56
  There's a I, I would probably bet you there were more points
• 23:00
  scored this year than there was last year.
• 23:03
  I'm I'm willing to predict it. A lot of the good offenses are
• 23:06
  really good and I think that's why you seen a lot more of those
• 23:09
  shootouts. Even the bad teams were scoring.
• 23:12
  Even the Giants got 30. 4 The Jets, you can't score for crap
• 23:16
  because they have no. And the Raiders.
• 23:17
  And the Raiders, but everybody else, we're putting up points.
• 23:20
  I mean, honestly, it's alarming when you see the games in the
• 23:24
  rules because the rules bowled well for the offense.
• 23:26
  So to me, look at the look at the Buckeyes, look at all the
• 23:30
  good teams right now in the nation, all the top defensive
• 23:33
  players that are coming out of this class.
• 23:34
  Are you drafting defense in the first, in the top 10 or are you
• 23:38
  drafting all the offense? I if I'm AGM, I'm going all
• 23:42
  offense because those are the guys that are are going to bold.
• 23:45
  Well, with the new rules of the NFL, am I right or wrong,
• 23:48
  Speedy? Yeah, those are the ones that
• 23:49
  are going to officially with the versatility that you see with
• 23:52
  offense. And I think that's why you have
• 23:54
  a lot of these receivers that are going to go earlier in the
• 23:56
  draft too. And even tight ends like using
• 23:58
  those prospects like Brock Bowers, like Tyler Warren, that
• 24:00
  can play all over the place, too.
• 24:02
  I want to get into the Alabama game because everybody, even
• 24:07
  though Indiana is the favorites of winning the game, a lot of
• 24:10
  people think this is going to be one of those games that's going
• 24:13
  to be an upset Alabama that's squeezed and beat Oklahoma.
• 24:18
  Oklahoma. Oklahoma, as they call them,
• 24:22
  Lincoln Riley, who practically built that that program and then
• 24:25
  went over there to USC. And we don't hear much about USC
• 24:28
  football anymore except some of the players that come out of the
• 24:31
  offensive talent that come out of there.
• 24:33
  They have a wide receiver coming out of that of that team this
• 24:36
  year that it could be a late first round draft pick.
• 24:39
  Nevertheless, I I look at this game and if Indiana don't play
• 24:46
  early top end defense against this Alabama Crimson Tide, this
• 24:51
  game could get out of hand early in the game.
• 24:53
  Mendoza is going to get a lot of pressure on him and Alabama is
• 24:56
  not. This might be the first year
• 24:58
  that I can say and Alabama's always known for their defense.
• 25:01
  I would say they're not what everybody thinks they are
• 25:05
  defensively. They they have a good, they've
• 25:07
  got a bunch of good defensive players, but they've been up and
• 25:09
  down all season long. They've been, they've lost games
• 25:13
  that their defense just didn't show up to.
• 25:16
  We've never seen a Nick Saban defense do that.
• 25:18
  Even when the Nick Saban defense is lost, they were in the game
• 25:22
  and they play top 10 defense. The games that they lost and and
• 25:26
  there were games that they won this year, they defers just
• 25:28
  didn't show up. It was their offense and I I
• 25:32
  think they have one of the best running games right now in the
• 25:34
  nation. Their offensive lines always
• 25:36
  elite and, and you can see what they're doing and, and they have
• 25:39
  one of the best offensive minded coaches in all of college
• 25:42
  football speedy. Oh yeah, they definitely do.
• 25:44
  And you look at Alabama reputation in the past has never
• 25:47
  been that type of defensive, offensive identity does this
• 25:50
  level. And I think risk receiving core
• 25:53
  is very fascinating in this game against an Indiana defense that
• 25:56
  is very good. Like they've been underestimated
• 25:58
  for a while. They've built it up and they're
• 26:00
  always known for their running game in the past with their
• 26:02
  defense, but not to this level. And Alabama is an interesting
• 26:05
  wild cards like a factor in one of the guys that have been on
• 26:08
  our show in the past was a transfer over there in CJ Dupree
• 26:10
  at tight end who's been good offensive line.
• 26:13
  It's going to have a couple first round picks as well and a
• 26:15
  ride receiver in Ryan Williams that is really polarizing for
• 26:18
  Alabama because he burst on the scene last year as a 17 year old
• 26:22
  against Georgia in that game that Wes was actually at and he
• 26:26
  was looking like one of the best receivers in college football
• 26:28
  for a while and then all of a sudden he's dropped off.
• 26:30
  In recent years he's made some boded drops and stuff like that,
• 26:32
  but now he started to play well again and you just up and down.
• 26:35
  So it's tough to tell with that. I'm curious to see with the bye
• 26:39
  weeks how that's going to factor.
• 26:40
  Long. I mean, think about it.
• 26:42
  Indiana has that. Kills momentum, right?
• 26:45
  Last year you saw. It last year you saw it.
• 26:47
  Now they changed the structure a little bit because obviously
• 26:50
  they don't have the the Boise State being the three seat and
• 26:52
  Arizona State being the four seat scenarios like you did last
• 26:55
  year where those teams were the conference champions, you know,
• 26:58
  they were rated as high. They still have the top 4
• 27:00
  conference champions still being those teams, even though Ohio
• 27:02
  State lost their conference championship.
• 27:04
  But nevertheless, you're dealing with a situation that's still a
• 27:07
  team like Indiana that doesn't have as much experience, could
• 27:09
  be unprepared for. And that's why I was saying last
• 27:11
  week, Kirk Signetti, it's interesting with him because he
• 27:14
  has a lot of experience with JMU, but the FCS games happen
• 27:18
  earlier. So they don't have this as long
• 27:19
  of a break in order to do that. So I'm curious how prepared he
• 27:22
  will be and who the game planning advantage will go to at
• 27:25
  that point. Because Kayla and Nabor's
• 27:27
  experienced coach a little. Bit very experienced and he he's
• 27:30
  he's played in the national championship with Washington
• 27:33
  with 22 great players in Michael Pennix and and and obviously the
• 27:38
  the talent that they had over there they what doons Roma doons
• 27:42
  you see what he's doing in Chicago.
• 27:43
  How about Ty Simpson versus Fernando Mendoza 2 guys that are
• 27:47
  going to go into the first round and Ty Simpson a lot of people
• 27:50
  questioning some people think he could fall out of the top ten
• 27:54
  and might be a teens type of draft pick.
• 27:57
  That's what they're saying I'm I'm reading that they might they
• 28:00
  might fall to 17 or 16 unless somebody trades up for him.
• 28:04
  It's crazy to think that way when everybody he was saying
• 28:07
  that it, Simpson and Fernando Mendoza were the two
• 28:10
  quarterbacks that everybody was talking about maybe fighting for
• 28:12
  that number one spot early in the season.
• 28:15
  Yeah, I was. Curious on it because he is
• 28:17
  somebody that sat for a while at Alabama, could have transferred
• 28:21
  even in 2023. He was there when Bryce Young
• 28:23
  was still there as a as a freshman and he sat there.
• 28:26
  He stayed committed to the program, stayed to make
• 28:28
  committed to the coaching change when Nick Saban retired.
• 28:30
  I guess maybe it was something that was he was told because it
• 28:32
  was inevitable and now he's getting his chance to play
• 28:36
  finally. They had Jaylen Milro there the
• 28:38
  last two years too. Jaylen Milro was kind of an up
• 28:40
  and down, flash of the Pan type quarterback, but was mostly
• 28:42
  good. So they never, they never took
• 28:44
  him out. They never had any need to take
• 28:45
  him out. They made the playoffs in 2023
• 28:47
  in that controversial year where I don't know if they should have
• 28:49
  got in over Florida State. Ties like the prototypical
• 28:52
  quarterback that everybody looks at.
• 28:53
  He's a mobile quarterback that can throw on the run.
• 28:56
  He makes his throws on a run. Mendoza's that he's not flashy.
• 29:00
  He's a guy that stands in the pocket.
• 29:01
  He's going to step into the pocket.
• 29:03
  He's going to let the ball go and he's very accurate.
• 29:05
  He's one of the more accurate quarterbacks.
• 29:07
  So to me, when you look at the contest here of two quarterbacks
• 29:11
  and it's a tale of two tapes and you look at Indiana, to me,
• 29:15
  Indiana has been the best team throughout the country all
• 29:18
  season long. But if you look at the teams
• 29:20
  that they've beaten, they've only beaten 3 really good teams.
• 29:23
  Indiana didn't really beat elite teams all season long.
• 29:27
  It was set up for them to go undefeated into this this
• 29:30
  tournament. Now the question I want to bring
• 29:33
  fishing because I talk about offensive lines and I for years
• 29:37
  Alabama has been so dominant when, when they, the way they
• 29:42
  recruit players. And this might be an important,
• 29:46
  important year to watch how good Alabama's offensive line is
• 29:51
  going to hold up for, for them against the Indiana team.
• 29:54
  The, the, to me, the Hoosiers have been a very good defensive
• 29:58
  team this year, very, very good. And the way Alabama's offensive
• 30:02
  line has played in the second-half of the season has
• 30:05
  been very, very good. And I, I, that's to me, it's
• 30:09
  been known. Everybody knows what Alabama
• 30:11
  could do. If you have an offensive line
• 30:12
  that could beat you on the trenches, no matter how good
• 30:15
  your defense is, they could shut you down.
• 30:17
  And there's always going to be changes.
• 30:20
  Do you think they made changes the right way for the playoff or
• 30:26
  do you think that there's better ways that they could do it as
• 30:29
  far as like using some old methods mixed with the new
• 30:33
  methods to make it? Well, the only way to do it
• 30:36
  without using the bye week Java just based on the number of
• 30:38
  teams if they weren't expanded to 16, but again they decided to
• 30:42
  keep it's too. Long.
• 30:43
  They wait too long Why? Why are we waiting till, I don't
• 30:47
  know, New Year's Day and New Year's Eve to watch Indiana
• 30:50
  play? Indiana hasn't played in three
• 30:52
  weeks. You're.
• 30:52
  Going to tell me that's a. Long time at.
• 30:54
  This point as a coach Fish, do you, do you want that
• 30:57
  consistency and not that long, obviously the long layoff, maybe
• 31:01
  you can get some guys healthier, but do you want to take the
• 31:05
  momentum into it or do you take that extra time or how to like
• 31:09
  how do you look at it from your perspective?
• 31:12
  So two things. Let me start with your question
• 31:14
  first. Java, the momentum thing.
• 31:16
  If you listen to the analytics gurus, there's no such thing as
• 31:19
  momentum. I think anyone who's ever played
• 31:22
  a sport competitively knows that's not true.
• 31:24
  Maybe we don't know how to quantify it today, but it's a
• 31:27
  real thing, right? It's a real thing.
• 31:29
  And when you have, you know, everyone's in rhythm, you know,
• 31:33
  you have, for example, like Ohio State saying he's this freshman
• 31:37
  quarterback, but he was hitting passes like 80% clip because
• 31:40
  they're in this rhythm. It's really hard to create
• 31:44
  getting hit when you're not playing a real game.
• 31:48
  So it ends up becoming how well do you practice during those
• 31:52
  weeks and how physical are you during those practices?
• 31:57
  At the same time trying to stay healthy, but at the same time
• 31:59
  trying to make sure that we're getting good enough looks ready.
• 32:03
  How do you do that as a coach to try?
• 32:05
  I'll tell you what I did. This is a problem we have with
• 32:08
  high school kids on long road trips.
• 32:10
  So we had a game up in Binghamton area, so it was like
• 32:13
  a 2 1/2 hour drive. We've see somebody on a long
• 32:15
  road trip and they were just going at it before the game and
• 32:20
  I'm looking across the field. I'm like their lineman are
• 32:23
  bigger than ours. That's a problem and I just look
• 32:26
  at my other coach, I'm like, just get out the boards.
• 32:27
  Let's go board drills. We're just going to go live for
• 32:30
  the next 10 minutes. one-on-one, you push me back sumo wrestling,
• 32:34
  just literally get the physicality going because if you
• 32:38
  don't wake up, we're going to be down 28 nothing before we blink
• 32:42
  because we're coming out so flat and coming out flat is the is
• 32:47
  the killer of every team. You know, that's when like the
• 32:49
  coach, you know, at the end of the game, like, oh, you know, we
• 32:52
  may have got that screwed on that pass interference, but we
• 32:54
  came out flat in the front first quarter and that's why we lost
• 32:57
  this game. It wasn't one call by the
• 32:59
  officials because we came out flat.
• 33:01
  And it's the thing that you don't even know.
• 33:03
  Some teams, they need to be like really amped up.
• 33:06
  Like you've been on different teams Java where like there's a
• 33:09
  lot of rah rah guys in the locker room in some situations,
• 33:12
  in some situations, like it's eerily quiet when guys are
• 33:15
  locked in. So sometimes you just it's like
• 33:18
  just the vibe of the team and it's hard to say.
• 33:21
  And I think a lot of it's the vibe of the coach and, and can
• 33:23
  the coach keep them, especially at this, at this stage of the
• 33:26
  game, locked in and focused and like physically locked in.
• 33:31
  It's not just knowing your plays at this level, it's being ready
• 33:34
  to play and hit like collision style.
• 33:37
  Like think about like guys like Kyle Hamilton when he played in
• 33:41
  college, he was this unbelievable safety In other
• 33:43
  games. It he was an unbelievable
• 33:46
  athlete in the college game. He just was going sideline to
• 33:49
  sideline and no one else could do what he did.
• 33:51
  And you see guys like that and you're like, he doesn't need to
• 33:55
  be playing a lot of reps That guy can get a couple of weeks
• 33:58
  off. Give me that guy ready.
• 34:00
  Maybe he's like a, he's slow for a play or two.
• 34:03
  He'll be fine. I'd rather him be healthy.
• 34:06
  So I want to make sure of that going in.
• 34:09
  I'm really happy to get the bye. But then there's other teams
• 34:12
  where it's like, you know, if this guy doesn't play every
• 34:14
  week, he's kind of crap. You know, he kind of gets that
• 34:17
  into bad habits. Offensive lineman.
• 34:20
  This is a real critical thing. Like guys don't aren't
• 34:22
  consistent with their hands. It's not just hand placement,
• 34:26
  it's you know how you're handling guys going inside move
• 34:30
  on you to outside move. If you're keep getting caught by
• 34:32
  something, well, obviously they're doing it for a reason to
• 34:36
  you. You need to figure out why
• 34:37
  you're getting beat on something.
• 34:39
  But if you can't figure it out, you, you just suck for that
• 34:43
  game. So there's like a whole bunch of
• 34:45
  like, you need to know your players and as a coach, you need
• 34:48
  to figure out who needs what kind of coaching in those two
• 34:52
  weeks that you're off. I I personally would rather have
• 34:55
  the bye week than not to get my guys healthy and trust that I
• 34:58
  can coach them. Up.
• 34:59
  I'm not waiting ready for the game.
• 35:01
  I'm not waiting three weeks. If I'm Indiana, I work my ass
• 35:04
  off all year round stuff and I got to wait three weeks to get
• 35:09
  my quarter final game going and I'm playing.
• 35:12
  I'm matched up against the Alabama Crimson died a team that
• 35:17
  has been national champions. Obviously de Boer is not Nick
• 35:20
  Saban, but the way they recruit players, they have a tremendous
• 35:24
  amount of talent over there on their roster.
• 35:26
  And you're matched up against Ty Simpson.
• 35:28
  To me, was a Heisman Trophy candidate all season long until
• 35:31
  really the last five games of six games of the season where he
• 35:35
  fell off. And he hasn't really been the
• 35:38
  same player. But you seen opportunity when
• 35:41
  you're when you're when you're recruiting a player or your NFL
• 35:45
  scout and you're looking at players that you think will fit
• 35:49
  that NFL culture. You're not looking at Mendoza
• 35:52
  anymore. You're looking at that Ty
• 35:54
  Simpson because his mobility, his ability to move outside of
• 35:58
  the pocket and and run and throw and his, his ability to do
• 36:02
  things in and escape from problems outside of the pocket.
• 36:06
  That's what you look at. And that's where I think that
• 36:08
  this game could go to Alabama side.
• 36:11
  If Ty could get out of the pocket and do the things that
• 36:14
  he's good at and make Indiana fall out of discomfort of the
• 36:20
  positioning on the defensive side of the ball.
• 36:22
  I think he's going to make it a long, long day for that Indiana
• 36:25
  defense. And I, I think it's going to be
• 36:28
  a problem for Indiana. So to comment on what you asked
• 36:31
  me before about the offensive line, I think this game
• 36:34
  specifically is an offensive line game.
• 36:37
  Now, Alabama's probably going to have a slight advantage in the
• 36:40
  offensive. Line 100%.
• 36:41
  They do 100%. But it's not all talent, right?
• 36:45
  It's got to be more like how they functionally handle
• 36:48
  blitzes, the how good their scheme is and how well they can
• 36:51
  execute their scheme, getting combo blocks up to the second
• 36:54
  level and so on and so forth. Like all those little like those
• 36:58
  like buzzwords you hear coaches say.
• 36:59
  But what, what we're really talking about is even if they're
• 37:03
  a little bit better, it doesn't. It's it's like you can get a
• 37:07
  slight advantage from it only when it's like a massacre of
• 37:11
  like how much better than the game is over.
• 37:13
  But at this level, we already saw them hang with Ohio State.
• 37:17
  We already saw them beat Ohio State.
• 37:20
  Hang with them. Physically, they're going to be
• 37:23
  able. To They didn't wait.
• 37:24
  They didn't have to wait three weeks to play Alabama.
• 37:28
  You're right, you're right. But Alabama's got to wait three
• 37:31
  weeks for them too. And I think the thing that you
• 37:33
  have to. Alabama had to wait 2.
• 37:35
  Weeks, right Signeti. They played Friday.
• 37:37
  They played last Friday. Yeah, well, a week, OK.
• 37:39
  Well, regardless, Signeti's not sitting around doing nothing.
• 37:44
  You got to remember this guy I know who's the first ever
• 37:47
  back-to-back coach of the year. The thing that I really like, I
• 37:50
  met the guys. They're I met the guys, they're
• 37:52
  blitz packages that they do. They're kind of a little bit
• 37:55
  more creative than what a lot of teams face.
• 37:58
  So Alabama's going to be tested. It's not the talent of the
• 38:02
  player that's going to be tested.
• 38:04
  It's going to be the talent of the.
• 38:05
  Scheme. You know what's?
• 38:06
  Interesting talent of what they're doing.
• 38:07
  Fish, you say that though too and you brought up something and
• 38:10
  like the coach is obviously not staying stagnant or whatever.
• 38:13
  So do you think too this is almost as much as it is on the
• 38:17
  field? Do you think it's it's the game
• 38:19
  of the coaches and how they prepare them with that weight?
• 38:23
  That is obviously we'll never see and you can't really
• 38:26
  quantify that, but how you obviously you have your schemes,
• 38:29
  you have your packages, you have all that, but where they keep
• 38:33
  them prepared not only physically, but mentally to know
• 38:36
  with that weight, get guys healthy where it's kind of a a
• 38:39
  chess match between the coaches to see if somebody does come out
• 38:44
  flat or if they don't and and who was better prepared in here
• 38:48
  in that complex of what it is here's.
• 38:49
  What I will say from that and I, I, I'm sorry, cut in, but
• 38:52
  because I, I know everybody looks at the coaching and, and
• 38:55
  the coaching means a lot in college football.
• 38:58
  But to me, the, the cream always rises to the top.
• 39:03
  And I believe with these games, no matter how good the coaching
• 39:08
  is, the players have to show up in the game and make the plays.
• 39:11
  It's not the coaches. The coaches will try to put you
• 39:14
  in the right position to succeed.
• 39:16
  It's to me, it's, it's those guys.
• 39:18
  Are they going to show up in the game and do the things that they
• 39:21
  need to do to come out the winner?
• 39:23
  And I just look at this game and I look at Alabama and I look at
• 39:26
  it a team like Indiana, Indiana's never been in position
• 39:30
  like this before. Alabama has they're always
• 39:33
  there. Every year they're there.
• 39:35
  And that's why everybody thinks that this could be an upset
• 39:38
  Alabama is going to knock off the Hoosiers because the
• 39:41
  Hoosiers are never there. Though this is the first time
• 39:44
  the Hoosiers have been a number one seed, first time ever.
• 39:48
  But when it comes to college football, they've ever been a
• 39:51
  number one seed and they have the Heisman Trophy winner that
• 39:54
  everybody thinks is just going to rise right off to the sunset
• 39:57
  and win a national championship. I like Mendoza, I think he's
• 40:00
  special, but one player doesn't win championships.
• 40:04
  I've said this about Tom Brady. Everybody can say whatever they
• 40:06
  want. Tom this, Tom that.
• 40:08
  Tom Brady, if you look at his success rate in the Super Bowl,
• 40:13
  Tom Brady, some of his best games were his losing games.
• 40:16
  I mean, seriously. That and that's just the facts.
• 40:19
  Facts are look at Patrick Mahomes.
• 40:22
  Patrick Mahomes wasn't great in the Super Bowls and but he wins.
• 40:25
  But they always win the MVP. Why?
• 40:27
  Because he's the quarterback. And I look at this the same way
• 40:30
  everybody's looking at the quarterback play Ty Simpson
• 40:33
  versus Fernando Mendoza, whoever comes out and plays better is
• 40:37
  going to win. Wrong again.
• 40:39
  I do believe Fish, you're absolutely right.
• 40:42
  I think this is the battle of the offensive line.
• 40:44
  Whoever plays better on the offensive line, you're going to
• 40:48
  see early that team is going to win.
• 40:50
  I and I just think both teams have great offensive lines.
• 40:54
  Alabama, I just think to me always have the elite of elite
• 41:00
  and the boar. To me, one of the best offensive
• 41:03
  minds in college football, you could say top three.
• 41:06
  Who's the kid? Who's the guy from Texas?
• 41:08
  He's Sarkeesian, they say is the best.
• 41:11
  They say he's the best offensive mind in college football right
• 41:14
  now, and they believe we'll be an NFL coach again.
• 41:17
  One one way or another. He's right, right on to him and
• 41:20
  Signeti. I think he's he's great coach
• 41:24
  and he's great. It's great that he wants coach
• 41:25
  of the year. Who cares?
• 41:27
  It's all about winning national championship.
• 41:30
  Nick Saban never cared about. Here's the deal.
• 41:33
  You're like, you're like writing him off before.
• 41:35
  I'm not I met the guy. I was one of the I met the guy I
• 41:40
  I understand what type of person he is.
• 41:42
  You do when he walked in the room all the meat Mendoza was
• 41:46
  over there when when he walked into the room the the cameras
• 41:50
  were off Mendoza. So the way he he controls.
• 41:54
  The people strike you kind of like like a football version of
• 41:57
  Calipari. You want.
• 41:59
  You want me to. You want me to tell you who he
• 42:01
  reminds me of? And it's it's it's crazy to say
• 42:04
  why I believe Bill Parcells. He went up there and the first
• 42:09
  thing he said to his team when he went up there and when he was
• 42:12
  screaming, when he walked off the stage.
• 42:15
  Very simple guys enjoy this because when it comes to Monday,
• 42:20
  we're not having fun anymore. It's time to practice.
• 42:23
  That was the first thing he said before he even spoke to the
• 42:26
  media. So like, that's why I think
• 42:29
  they're going to win. And I just want to say I do
• 42:31
  believe Alabama's got a better line, but I don't believe they
• 42:35
  have a better coach. I think this guy might be
• 42:38
  special. I think he's waited a very long
• 42:41
  time to get to this point and what he's done and trying to get
• 42:44
  them locked in to play this game.
• 42:47
  Look, you brought up Nick Saban. And to answer your question,
• 42:50
  Java, you know, Nick Saban put his players in a position to be
• 42:55
  successful, but he always wanted to have an advantage
• 42:58
  athletically. So he out recruited everybody
• 43:00
  and did things probably under the table to make sure that he
• 43:03
  did. That was his game.
• 43:04
  And when he had the advantage, he'd exploit you.
• 43:05
  But if he didn't have the advantage like he didn't in a
• 43:08
  lot of those Georgia games, it becomes physically those two
• 43:12
  teams were even for years and eventually I think Georgia
• 43:14
  surpassed them a little bit. Physicality wise.
• 43:18
  Physicality wise, right, But for the longest time they were very
• 43:20
  even. So what happened in those games,
• 43:22
  you kind of have to out scheme people.
• 43:24
  You have to have the teams that don't make all the penalties.
• 43:27
  You have to have the team that doesn't crumble when the big
• 43:31
  play comes in. You have to have the guts to go
• 43:34
  to a guy you've only seen do it in practice into A tag of Iola
• 43:38
  and when it's been Jalen Hurts his team all along and win the
• 43:41
  national championship with a freshman like that's type of.
• 43:45
  Just be 2015 Ohio State that with three different
• 43:47
  quarterbacks. Right.
• 43:49
  Well, but The thing is like those guys, those were great
• 43:51
  coaches that understood their teams and it's stuff that you
• 43:55
  can't see during the week. You can't see it because it's
• 43:58
  something that's behind closed doors and it's kind of like.
• 44:02
  I'm betting on the guy that's done it before and I and again,
• 44:06
  I I want to see Mendoza go. I want to see Indiana shock the
• 44:09
  world and and do it and face off next.
• 44:12
  Week What is the board done? Morgan, or to be fair.
• 44:15
  De Boer hasn't won anything. Yeah, but de Boer's been hasn't
• 44:18
  won. De Boer's been to a national.
• 44:19
  Champion Washington did beat a Texas team that was a.
• 44:22
  Lot more time dude. De Boer was picked by Alabama.
• 44:25
  I'm just saying he he has. To be the next coach.
• 44:28
  I'm just saying he hasn't won everything.
• 44:29
  Just think about this. Out of all the coaches they
• 44:32
  could have picked to take over for Nick Saban's job, they
• 44:35
  picked the boar. They could have taken anybody.
• 44:38
  They took the boar. Anybody would have taken that
• 44:40
  Alabama. You can't tell me, though.
• 44:42
  Nick Saban didn't have any say in that.
• 44:43
  Maybe, maybe, probably did, but probably.
• 44:46
  That was the case. Like why wouldn't they were like
• 44:48
  thrown the farm at Dabo sweetie, I mean.
• 44:50
  Nick Saban played against the boar.
• 44:51
  He knows what it is to play against the boar in a national
• 44:54
  championship. So he he knows.
• 44:56
  And we've seen Saban's lineage and what guys have moved on when
• 45:00
  they've been under Saban. So you can't tell me that he was
• 45:03
  like, this is the next dude. I, I will say this and I, I
• 45:07
  saved the final game because I think this is going to be the
• 45:10
  best game. I really do.
• 45:12
  Everybody's looking at me and I probably think I'm crazy, but I
• 45:15
  think Oregon versus Texas Tech is the best game of the week.
• 45:21
  I I I really do believe that. And the odds are the closest
• 45:25
  obviously or 2.5 I an organ has a chance.
• 45:30
  I mean they have more and more a lot of speedy thinks could be
• 45:34
  the best quarterback in his class.
• 45:36
  The talent that this kid has is unbelievable.
• 45:40
  The speed, the ability, the agility that this kid has
• 45:43
  stepping outside of the pocket, making throws, great arm,
• 45:47
  everything. But he cannot start early in his
• 45:51
  NFL career as the number one guy.
• 45:53
  He would be the number 2. He's going to have to sit and
• 45:56
  ride the bench for at least a half a year to understand how
• 45:59
  the the speed of the game works for him.
• 46:01
  If he goes to a team that's going to start him, he's going
• 46:03
  to fail. But this is such an interesting
• 46:06
  game because Texas Tech is one of the best defensive teams in
• 46:08
  the country and Oregon is always one of the best offensive teams
• 46:12
  in the country. And Danny Lanning, how do you
• 46:16
  not like this guy? You want to tell?
• 46:18
  Everybody knows he's my favorite coach.
• 46:21
  He is my favorite guy. I want to get Danny landing on
• 46:23
  the show because I I would have a lot of fun with the guy.
• 46:26
  His personality, he's his edge to his anybody.
• 46:30
  Go and check out his locker room, his speeches, they're
• 46:32
  hilarious. He doesn't, he doesn't hold
• 46:35
  anything back from his players to the media to anybody.
• 46:39
  He is the prototypical person you want as your head coach and
• 46:44
  to go into this game. I would love to be in that
• 46:46
  locker room before the game and hear his pitch to his team.
• 46:51
  Oh, we got a chance to play Indiana.
• 46:54
  We can knock off the the number one seed.
• 46:56
  We, we can go all the way, guys, we can go all the way.
• 46:59
  So I just I look at this game and there's so many things that
• 47:03
  can happen in this game. And I think whoever wins this
• 47:06
  game, whoever they're matched up against, Alabama, Indiana, I
• 47:10
  wouldn't be surprised if they win and knock off Alabama or
• 47:16
  Indiana. I, I really do believe it
• 47:18
  because that's, that's who they would match up against, right?
• 47:21
  I think Oregon or Texas Tech can knock off any one of these guys,
• 47:26
  Alabama and Indiana, just because Texas Tech has proven
• 47:29
  this year that they could stop anybody defensively, stop
• 47:31
  anybody. It doesn't matter who it is,
• 47:33
  what quarterback is, what offense, what coach.
• 47:36
  I've seen this team run through people.
• 47:37
  They just don't score a lot. And and that's always been the
• 47:40
  problem all season long. But they can run the ball, and
• 47:43
  running in defense is all about winning championships.
• 47:47
  You ask any great coach, go ask Alabama, Nick Saban.
• 47:50
  Why did they dominate so many years?
• 47:53
  Is because they always had the best running game and they
• 47:55
  always had the best defense. And they dominate the line of
• 47:58
  scrimmage because they have a great offensive line.
• 48:00
  Texas Tech has all of that, and Oregon, they have the lightning
• 48:04
  switch. They got the coach and they got
• 48:07
  the quarterback and honestly could be the best quarterback,
• 48:10
  speedy in all of this tournament if he shows up and plays at the
• 48:16
  top of his game. Oregon also has a chip on their
• 48:18
  shoulder too because of what happened to them last year.
• 48:20
  They were the number one overall seed.
• 48:21
  They got smoked by Ohio State badly in that second round match
• 48:25
  up and they know that they can't just play just talent driven
• 48:29
  based on that and what we were talking about last week, Dan
• 48:31
  Lanning saying that he was not impressed with their performance
• 48:33
  in the second-half too. Don't you love that?
• 48:35
  But he knows that. Kind of thing to be true.
• 48:37
  They just can't coast on talent, just even against a team like
• 48:40
  JMU that has a good reputation of winning FCS championships.
• 48:44
  So now obviously they dominated the game, but still they should
• 48:46
  dominate that game and Oregon talent wise coming into the year
• 48:49
  was thought of as probably a top 7.
• 48:51
  How many ducks have we had on this show in the last 10 years,
• 48:54
  Speedy? Three, I believe.
• 48:56
  Three Ducks? And how many Ducks were coached
• 48:58
  by Dan? Dan Lanning 2 And what did they
• 49:01
  say about Lanning? He is the coach that everyone,
• 49:04
  all the players want to rally around because of the he he's
• 49:07
  kind of like he comes off as kind of loose on the field.
• 49:10
  But in the like you said, in the like press conferences, in the
• 49:14
  team meetings and stuff, he could be very tough.
• 49:16
  And that's where I think is makes Oregon an interesting
• 49:19
  wild. Where is Gonzales come from?
• 49:21
  What? What's Oregon?
• 49:22
  OK, did you hear what Gonzales said after this game after
• 49:26
  knocking off The Jets when they asked him about the Oregon game
• 49:29
  against Texas Tech? Did you hear?
• 49:30
  What he said. Pretty, it's pretty simple,
• 49:33
  Gonzalez says. And remember, he is is it's his
• 49:37
  alma mater and all that other stuff.
• 49:38
  So we all understand this. But he said if there's any coach
• 49:42
  that you can trust in a big game that's going to rally the troops
• 49:45
  and get you to play, no matter how unhealthy or healthy your
• 49:49
  team is, it's Dan Lanning. And and he says that Lanning is
• 49:52
  the best coach, no, no doubt in this tournament and is going to
• 49:56
  find a way to knock off the exit stack.
• 49:58
  And I'm telling you right now. I think that goes to what Fish
• 50:01
  was talking about, about how like coaches have to have that
• 50:05
  innate ability to understand and how you challenge guys with
• 50:09
  breaks and whatever and we still.
• 50:11
  Especially from learning from last year, that's where I think
• 50:14
  he has to understand it. Now it's a different team with a
• 50:16
  five seed do you think? This is the year, sweetie, that
• 50:18
  if Oregon knocks off Texas Tech, do you think this is the year
• 50:22
  that they can surprise and shock people and go to a national
• 50:25
  champion? They could I I again, I I look
• 50:28
  at the Alabama and Oklahoma and Indiana cluster those three as
• 50:31
  being like the the teams to beat.
• 50:33
  Oregon only lost to Indiana though, by 10, and that's their
• 50:37
  only loss to the regular season. They have just as much talent I
• 50:40
  think besides. And that was the game, and I'll
• 50:43
  tell you this, that was the game.
• 50:44
  Mendoza came out and said that he knew that he had a chance to
• 50:47
  win the Heisman Trophy when he beat Oregon.
• 50:50
  That was the game that changed everything because there were a
• 50:53
  lot of questions. Oh, could I win the Heisman?
• 50:55
  He said that when we beat Oregon, we went to Oregon and
• 50:59
  beat Oregon, right? That changed everything for us.
• 51:02
  Everything. And that kind of that kind of
• 51:04
  thing is definitely enticing of what Oregon could be as
• 51:07
  potential redemption type thing. Because again, it's going to be
• 51:09
  hard. I mean, you can win going
• 51:11
  undefeated in college football. We've seen it probably more than
• 51:13
  anything just because of the power, the power struggle and
• 51:16
  just having less games as a whole.
• 51:18
  But Oregon was one of those teams that got victimized by
• 51:20
  their own success last year, getting spoke by Ohio State.
• 51:23
  And now you look at a case of Dan Lanning, who comes from
• 51:25
  Georgia. He was one of the defensive
• 51:27
  assistants over there. You have an Oregon team that is
• 51:29
  offensively sound. Their defense is good, but it's
• 51:32
  not something you would know for it.
• 51:33
  So that makes an interesting class too, like game planning
• 51:35
  wise on this kind of defense too.
• 51:37
  And then Texas Tech on the other side has a defense that's
• 51:39
  unbelievable, especially in that front 7 going up against an
• 51:42
  offensive line in Oregon that's also one of the best too.
• 51:44
  So you have a lot of good game planning matchups there.
• 51:46
  What's going to be an interesting one of Baron Morton?
• 51:48
  Baron Morton, their starting quarterback for Texas Tech deal
• 51:51
  with a leg injury, how healthy he is.
• 51:53
  And it goes to what you were asking before Jabba.
• 51:55
  There might want to be one of the teams that benefit off of
• 51:58
  the fact that they had to wait because they have more of a
• 52:00
  younger coach that can game plan to counter landing.
• 52:03
  And they have a quarterback that can get healthier as a result
• 52:05
  because he's showing really good flashes this year.
• 52:06
  He's just very inconsistent. But if they can win their
• 52:09
  defense in a neutral site it could definitely be interesting.
• 52:12
  And if they do advance to the next round I would probably
• 52:14
  wouldn't favor them. But it depend on how they win
• 52:16
  this game. I never know.
• 52:17
  With these tournaments, you can't favor anybody.
• 52:20
  It doesn't matter how good Ohio State is or Indiana and who they
• 52:23
  have on their team and their roster.
• 52:25
  It's all about it. It's anybody's anybody's game.
• 52:27
  It's one game. There's no playoff.
• 52:29
  That's the thing about football. You play one game.
• 52:31
  If you show up that game, you win.
• 52:32
  You don't show up that game, you lose.
• 52:34
  And I, and there's any when, when you look at these two
• 52:37
  teams, if there's a surprise in this tournament that can go to a
• 52:41
  national championship, these are the two teams, Texas Tech and
• 52:45
  Oregon. Because I think Oregon, as far
• 52:47
  as offensively sound, this is the best offensive team in the
• 52:50
  nation. I don't care what anybody says.
• 52:52
  You know what's interesting about that, like how they're
• 52:54
  built is he wants to have all the great athletes on offense so
• 52:59
  he can coach up the defense 100%, like really good players
• 53:02
  on defense. But he's not.
• 53:04
  He just wants to out athlete people on offense and he that's
• 53:08
  what he does. The problem that Oregon runs
• 53:10
  into is when they go against like really athletic secondaries
• 53:14
  and they can't get open like that Penn State game was real
• 53:17
  hairy for them. And that was what, you know, set
• 53:20
  off Gent that that spiral for James Franklin to get fired.
• 53:23
  They lose that in double O. They win it in double overtime
• 53:26
  and it kind of propels them forwards Oregon.
• 53:28
  But you got to remember like they've been in a lot of close
• 53:31
  ones. I don't think they're
• 53:33
  necessarily great talented on the defensive side.
• 53:36
  I think they're great coached on the defensive side.
• 53:38
  I think they're really talented on offense.
• 53:41
  I think they're coached well in offense, but I worry that if
• 53:43
  they run into a team that's more athletic than them, like we
• 53:47
  we've talked about earlier in this conversation, I think
• 53:50
  they're the squad that ends up in trouble out of all these
• 53:53
  other. Teams.
• 53:54
  I wonder when, when the way everything is set up and the way
• 53:58
  the committee obviously decides who gets into these, these
• 54:02
  tournaments, the 12 team tournament to go all the way for
• 54:05
  a national championship. When you look at how they're
• 54:08
  matched up and how they consider these guys are going to be
• 54:10
  matched up when they play one another, if they get out of that
• 54:13
  round and they get into the quarterfinals, If they wanted to
• 54:16
  see these matches catch ups. And I believe that when you look
• 54:20
  at Texas Tech and what they can do on a football field and
• 54:23
  again, Alabama, when you look at Alabama and Indiana, Alabama and
• 54:28
  Indiana never played this year. They never played against one
• 54:30
  another, so they never seen each other.
• 54:32
  So, but guess what? Indiana and Oregon have seen
• 54:36
  each other and if they match up against each other, if Indiana
• 54:39
  knocks off Alabama, I agree with you, Speedy.
• 54:43
  The match up bolds better in a better position for Oregon.
• 54:47
  And if Oregon knocks off Indiana, that's smooth riding
• 54:51
  all the way to a national championship.
• 54:53
  And we're talking about more, could you imagine more who a lot
• 54:57
  of people believe is going to be a top five pick if he wins a
• 55:00
  national championship or knocks off Mendoza?
• 55:03
  Do you look, if you're the Raiders, you look at, hey, you
• 55:06
  know what, let's bring in more. Let's sit, let him ride the
• 55:09
  bench for a, you know, 6-7 weeks.
• 55:11
  And this is the guy that we're going to ride because we need a,
• 55:14
  we need a mobile quarterback because we have no offensive
• 55:16
  line. Like you said, fish so and more
• 55:19
  is that kind of guy. So is Ty Simpson.
• 55:22
  I'd stay away from Ty Simpson at #1.
• 55:24
  That early, yeah. But more speedy, you might be
• 55:27
  right all around talent. What this guy could do on a
• 55:30
  football field offensively. I I mean, who's the last guy you
• 55:34
  seen that could run and throw like this guy?
• 55:36
  There's a. Lot of Jaden Daniels in his game
• 55:38
  to me 100%. And that's why I think he's
• 55:41
  still Caleb Williams. Caleb Williams, yeah.
• 55:44
  And I think again, decision making wise is the only main
• 55:46
  reason I'm thinking he's wrong just because he this was his
• 55:49
  first full year as a starter. Last year he was kind of
• 55:50
  mistreated by Chip Kelly and that at UCLA and that led to his
• 55:54
  whole debacle of him getting fired this year.
• 55:57
  And then I think he stepped down on my own state.
• 55:59
  But like. And here's the thing, and I'm
• 56:00
  sorry to cut you off. If if you look at the Raiders
• 56:03
  and they bring in more, you fire.
• 56:05
  And I'll just say this, I love I love their their old codes.
• 56:08
  I love them. I, I going after Kubiak, I am
• 56:13
  absolutely hiring Kubiak to be my head coach and have this guy
• 56:18
  develop him because you know, his father, Kubiak won and with
• 56:22
  the Broncos. This guy is one of the best
• 56:24
  offensive minds the NFL has had as an offensive coordinator and
• 56:28
  head coach. Go ask Peyton Manning.
• 56:30
  Peyton Manning said that Kubiak is one of the smartest offensive
• 56:33
  minds he's ever worked with. So think about it that way.
• 56:36
  When you look at Kubiak and his son, his it's his son worked his
• 56:40
  way up all these years. Look what he's done with Seattle
• 56:43
  and now look what he could do over there with the Raiders with
• 56:46
  a young quarterback with the mobility this kid has to get out
• 56:50
  of trouble. I think it's I I absolutely do
• 56:53
  this if I'm if Moore proves himself in this tournament to be
• 56:56
  important and and show that he could show up in the big game
• 56:59
  and make the plays. I'm absolutely if I'm the Vegas
• 57:02
  Raiders going after more fish is right.
• 57:04
  You have a better offensive line.
• 57:05
  You need to you need to clean something up, and this guy is a
• 57:09
  guy that can clean up a lot of deficiencies your offensive
• 57:12
  blind doesn't give you. Yeah, and that's why I was
• 57:14
  mentioning when we talked about the Oregon and JMU game that
• 57:16
  Dante Moore still has a lot of those Jameis Winston blunders in
• 57:20
  his in his game too, where he had some really bad
• 57:22
  interceptions. And that's why I think he really
• 57:25
  has to adhere to the coaching right away and whoever does
• 57:28
  draft him can't start him right away because of that.
• 57:30
  I think the Patriots that Drake may have up until Week 6 his
• 57:33
  rookie year and then they played him.
• 57:34
  He has to Morris to sit longer for me.
• 57:36
  But I think that reputation wise especially, he does go far in
• 57:39
  this tournament. If he does end up being some
• 57:41
  good teams and playing well, gets a good team could
• 57:43
  definitely help. Who do you think is the best
• 57:45
  quarterback in in in a 12 team draw like this all around
• 57:50
  talent. And I'm going to ask all of you
• 57:51
  guys if if you guys follow and you've been following the end of
• 57:54
  the college, college season, who do you think is the most most
• 57:58
  talented overall quarterback out of all 12 teams?
• 58:01
  I would give it to more right now but I think saying is very
• 58:03
  close too. I like him a lot.
• 58:05
  How about you job? Are you staying most talented?
• 58:07
  Or all around talents all around.
• 58:09
  Talent gonna be the best in the NFL.
• 58:11
  No, I don't know about that because we don't know how they
• 58:12
  can develop and where they. Get go to.
• 58:14
  We can look at it like this and we've seen a lot of great
• 58:18
  quarterbacks in college football that haven't done anything in
• 58:22
  the NFL like so are we just taking it as a college football?
• 58:26
  As a talent of the quarterback. Take a whack at it.
• 58:29
  If you look at the all around talent that these guys deliver
• 58:32
  as quarterbacks. I got an easy answer to this.
• 58:34
  His name's Mendoza. He is so good at putting the
• 58:39
  ball wherever he wants it. It's not just that he hits the
• 58:42
  guys that are open. He does the thing that Eli
• 58:45
  Manning used to do and it's like he would put it on his left
• 58:49
  shoulder, underneath the shoulder pad in the one spot
• 58:52
  that is easy to catch. Like he knows where to put the
• 58:55
  ball for different scenarios. And he's playing well beyond his
• 59:00
  years with the type of throws that he makes.
• 59:02
  You don't see guys making those throws in college.
• 59:05
  He just is making professional throws that are high level.
• 59:09
  It's it's not like like Saiyan's doing a great job.
• 59:12
  He's hitting. He had what, 7880% completion
• 59:15
  for? 8 That's not the reason I mainly
• 59:16
  like. Him.
• 59:17
  He also has Jeremiah Smith the throw too.
• 59:19
  That's why I don't. I'm not going to put his number
• 59:21
  one point though. It's not like it's hard to throw
• 59:23
  Speedy to to top ten. You know, Tate might be a top
• 59:27
  ten pick. I don't think he is, but.
• 59:29
  I wouldn't draft a little worried about him, but yeah.
• 59:32
  Right. Well, he's got great hands, you
• 59:34
  know, like, and as far as the the quarterback having to sit, I
• 59:37
  mean, Brady Cook wasn't drafted. He's playing for The Jets US
• 59:39
  right now. You know, it doesn't matter if
• 59:41
  they're going to sit or not at the beginning of the season.
• 59:44
  Can they contribute at some point in their first year, even
• 59:46
  if it's not a lot? And that's really, really what
• 59:49
  you want to see. I think Jackson Dart contribute
• 59:51
  a little bit in this first year. They weren't going anywhere, but
• 59:54
  we got to see some flashes. That's all you're looking for
• 59:57
  for some of those project quarterbacks.
• 59:59
  More if I'm the Raiders. I don't take him at 1.
• 1:00:03
  I don't think I'm taking a project at one.
• 1:00:05
  That scares the crap out of me. Last time they had a first
• 1:00:08
  overall pick, Arrow Russell, they took a project at one.
• 1:00:12
  His name was Jamarcus Russell. Hey, Kevin knows all about that.
• 1:00:15
  And it's the worst draft pick of all time, literally.
• 1:00:19
  Is it worse than Ryan Leaf? Yes, it's worse.
• 1:00:22
  Yeah, it is worse because I think Ryan Leaf, single season
• 1:00:26
  wise, might have had the worst. Like paid.
• 1:00:28
  Morning had a very bad single season as a rookie.
• 1:00:31
  I mean, how many interceptions did he throw that year?
• 1:00:33
  He wasn't stopped in the air with the purple drink, though.
• 1:00:38
  That's fine. I, I again, I, I'm not, I don't
• 1:00:42
  know what the Raiders are going to do and they're obviously
• 1:00:44
  going to fire their head coach because it seems like nobody is
• 1:00:48
  buying into his crap. And Geno Smith looks like he's
• 1:00:51
  done. I, I, I if I were the Raiders,
• 1:00:54
  I'm bringing in a mobile quarterback because there's no
• 1:00:57
  way if you bring in Mendoza that he is going to survive.
• 1:01:00
  No matter who you bring in as a head coach, it's not going to
• 1:01:02
  make any sense. And there's not enough offensive
• 1:01:05
  lineman that are going to be available.
• 1:01:07
  They usually aren't in free agency, so good luck on that.
• 1:01:11
  And who you going to draft? The Raiders don't have a lot of
• 1:01:13
  draft stock. They really don't, no, they just
• 1:01:15
  have their normal. Amount, They just have their
• 1:01:16
  normal amount. It's not like they have the the
• 1:01:18
  Cowboys or The Jets. The Jets are overloaded with
• 1:01:20
  draft stock overloaded. So The Jets can sit pretty at 3
• 1:01:25
  and say, you know what, we'll draft more.
• 1:01:26
  We'll have them sit. For a year, they're not doing
• 1:01:28
  that. I know they're not doing up to
• 1:01:29
  one for Mendoza. We'll see the draft stock to do
• 1:01:32
  it. I mean, I'm sure we'll talk
• 1:01:34
  about it as you're closer to the.
• 1:01:35
  Track I want to say one thing about college football and what
• 1:01:39
  we've watched so far in college football and what I think the
• 1:01:42
  and job I asked, what do you think that the NCAA needs to
• 1:01:45
  change to make it better? I, I think that obviously the
• 1:01:50
  way they're creating and recreating it.
• 1:01:52
  I, I, I like the 12 team thing. I I would bring in more teams.
• 1:01:57
  I would cut the season down. That's what I would do.
• 1:02:01
  I wouldn't play as many games in a regular season and I would
• 1:02:04
  make a tournament, I would say about like March Madness.
• 1:02:07
  I'm not as many teams with March Madness.
• 1:02:09
  Obviously I would. So what's?
• 1:02:11
  So what's your number? What speedy?
• 1:02:14
  What would be a good #24? So you won 24, so that would be
• 1:02:18
  6 different brackets. Six different brackets and you
• 1:02:22
  fight for a national championship.
• 1:02:24
  Or three brackets and eights. Yeah, so how many games you
• 1:02:26
  would have to play? Because you have to that would
• 1:02:28
  be 3 or 4 extra games, right? Yeah, cuz then you're how many
• 1:02:31
  games do they play in the? Season so you.
• 1:02:33
  It'd be a lot easier if you did 32 and 16 whatever and did it
• 1:02:37
  like that. Whatever, whatever, however way
• 1:02:39
  they want to do it, the fact is, is I think they.
• 1:02:42
  Should make a bracket. Would you have?
• 1:02:43
  Every every conference champion, no matter what it is.
• 1:02:47
  They automatically make it, they automatically win and they get
• 1:02:51
  the number one season. So if you had like a top 24,
• 1:02:55
  yeah, the top eight would get it would be like the division
• 1:02:57
  champions and the top teams. Besides that, they get a buy and
• 1:03:01
  then all the other teams they're playing in this like
• 1:03:04
  quarterfinal, yes. Then they they move on to face
• 1:03:07
  the top 8 and then it goes like that and it's just like.
• 1:03:10
  Something like that exactly. Adding an extra week yeah to
• 1:03:13
  what they already. Have.
• 1:03:14
  I think it makes more sense, It'll be more fun and it gives
• 1:03:17
  these undercard or these these other teams that you wouldn't
• 1:03:21
  expect to to be fighting for a national championship to maybe
• 1:03:24
  get, you know, shock the world and get into the semis or the
• 1:03:27
  quarters and make a run for that that the trophy.
• 1:03:30
  The group 51, but where it goes back to kind of what we talked
• 1:03:33
  about earlier, right? It's like some of those buys do
• 1:03:36
  help. Like Fish said, it's like, yeah,
• 1:03:38
  I I do like those so I can get a guy healthy.
• 1:03:41
  Where now it it creates that that momentum factor kind of
• 1:03:45
  what we talked about that the Fish is 100% right to hit the
• 1:03:48
  nail on the head when he's just like they say you can't do it.
• 1:03:52
  Well, you can't do it because you can't quantify that you
• 1:03:55
  there's no way to measure what that is.
• 1:03:59
  It's like there's a lot of dudes in sports that you look at him
• 1:04:03
  and you're like, that's not it. But yet he goes out and shows up
• 1:04:06
  every day because you can't quantify what's right here.
• 1:04:09
  You can't quantify what's right here.
• 1:04:11
  You just can't do that. So I think I, I love that
• 1:04:15
  dynamic because now it's like, OK, here we go, here we go, here
• 1:04:19
  we go. And there's certain things about
• 1:04:21
  it where, like you said, you you might get a Cinderella like we
• 1:04:25
  do in March Madness every once in a while, where right now it's
• 1:04:30
  we kind of know like there's maybe one or two teams that get
• 1:04:34
  in. Where should other teams have
• 1:04:36
  got in? Yeah, probably.
• 1:04:39
  But then that's where this conversation comes to the head.
• 1:04:43
  It's like, what is that right number?
• 1:04:45
  Jabo also about recruiting players, if you make a run to a
• 1:04:49
  national championship and you're not a known commodity and you're
• 1:04:53
  you have a great coach and that coach gets a chance to prove
• 1:04:56
  himself as a coach, maybe he gets one of these high profile
• 1:04:59
  jobs or it just opens up an opportunity.
• 1:05:02
  NIL Speedy, I told you to reach out to that organization.
• 1:05:06
  We're going to we're going to work on going to this NIL thing
• 1:05:09
  at Indianapolis. I forget where it is, but
• 1:05:12
  they're where they're getting all the players, the top 250
• 1:05:15
  high school players to go over there and talk about how the,
• 1:05:18
  how the NIL money goes and how the portal works.
• 1:05:21
  And I, I still am trying to learn the portal.
• 1:05:24
  So when you look at a tournament like this, it opens up a lot of
• 1:05:28
  different views on how the NIL can bring in players from
• 1:05:32
  different parts of the world or the country and bring in more
• 1:05:36
  money and, and more opportunity for these schools to get to get
• 1:05:40
  to the top or get an, an opportunity to make a run for a
• 1:05:43
  national championship. What do you want to expect?
• 1:05:45
  I think it makes a lot of sense. I think it, it, it's, it'll be
• 1:05:47
  fun. It'll be interesting.
• 1:05:49
  So we'll see. I think college football and the
• 1:05:53
  way they're bringing in money and I, I don't like these ball
• 1:05:55
  games. It's just so stupid.
• 1:05:57
  I the, what do they call them? The atom bomb ball.
• 1:06:00
  They have all different names. The Taco ball.
• 1:06:02
  I mean, come on, some of. Some of the bowl names now are
• 1:06:05
  just getting out of hand. The Pop Tarts and then they're
• 1:06:09
  like toasting the. Pop Tart Bowl.
• 1:06:13
  I won't. I don't care.
• 1:06:14
  The Snoop Dogg Arizona bull, when he was literally doing a
• 1:06:17
  live interview and he caught the kick that I mean, that's going
• 1:06:22
  to go down in history. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:06:28
  our golf clap of the day. This deserves a golf clap.
• 1:06:32
  No doubt. Golf clap.
• 1:06:34
  Golf clap. Well, ladies and gentlemen, my
• 1:06:38
  Golf Club of the day. Well, hopefully they're not
• 1:06:40
  pushing money onto the table. I don't know what they're doing,
• 1:06:43
  but guess what? It might be open for
• 1:06:45
  conversation. Kawhi Leonard, ladies and
• 1:06:48
  gentlemen, had his career high. It wasn't with the Spurs, it
• 1:06:52
  wasn't with Toronto when he won a championship.
• 1:06:54
  No, it's with those lonely Clippers.
• 1:06:57
  Ladies and gentlemen, 55 points as the Clippers right now on a
• 1:07:02
  four-game winning streak. And what does that smell?
• 1:07:04
  I don't know what it smells, but I tell you what, Kawhi Leonard
• 1:07:08
  is showing you why, when healthy, this guy's has been one
• 1:07:11
  of the best players in all of basketball.
• 1:07:13
  This guy has been the cornerstone of winning a
• 1:07:17
  championship when he was in Toronto.
• 1:07:19
  And this is a guy that I don't know if could be a cornerstone
• 1:07:21
  with the Clippers anymore because of his injuries and his
• 1:07:24
  knee problems, but absolutely still has it.
• 1:07:27
  And maybe at the trade deadline, if the Clippers do not believe
• 1:07:30
  they can make a run this year and they know they can't get rid
• 1:07:33
  of James Harden because the beard man can't, can't do it
• 1:07:37
  anything right? He makes more steps than
• 1:07:38
  baskets. Ladies and gentlemen, I would
• 1:07:41
  absolutely look at Kawhi Leonard is a hot ticket for another
• 1:07:46
  team. And I'm going to tell you this,
• 1:07:48
  the Knicks have been talking about it for years.
• 1:07:50
  They got a player, an OG and an Obi, but OG who's never won,
• 1:07:56
  Kawhi Leonard who has. If you want to win a
• 1:07:59
  championship, you go all in. Kawhi Leonard might be another
• 1:08:04
  picture of perfect time for the New York Knicks.
• 1:08:07
  So my golf clap goes to Kawhi Leonard.
• 1:08:10
  Hopefully there's no money being drawn onto the table, but he had
• 1:08:14
  an unbelievable game. So my golf clap goes to the
• 1:08:17
  Kawhi man himself. And maybe a trade ship at the
• 1:08:22
  trade deadline for an NBA team. Think about it.
• 1:08:26
  It's been a great year. It's been a full year with Jabba
• 1:08:29
  Chamberlain. It's been a full year with Fish.
• 1:08:32
  It's been a full year with all of you guys.
• 1:08:34
  It's been a great one. The factor where we are and
• 1:08:38
  where we're going to be next year could be special.
• 1:08:41
  I, I couldn't have done it without any of you guys.
• 1:08:45
  I again, specifically the work that gets put on on put in on
• 1:08:51
  the back end is, is amazing and I appreciate everybody's hard
• 1:08:55
  work and dedication. I, I have a lot of love for
• 1:08:58
  everybody, all the fans out there listening to us and TuneIn
• 1:09:01
  and download and look out for the craziness that could come
• 1:09:05
  about this show. We appreciate you guys and I, I
• 1:09:09
  guess I'm going to speak for, I guess unless Jabba wants to
• 1:09:12
  speak to for, for the fans. I, I appreciate everybody that
• 1:09:18
  puts the work into this show. So.
• 1:09:20
  Yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't know if words can express you
• 1:09:24
  guys have literally, I thought I was a sports fan.
• 1:09:28
  I wasn't. And you guys have opened my eyes
• 1:09:31
  to so many things and where I pay attention to so many things
• 1:09:35
  different because I don't want to sound like a Jackass.
• 1:09:38
  And you guys have just like opened me up where I look at
• 1:09:42
  sports so differently and it's made me look at life
• 1:09:46
  differently. And, you know, just embodying
• 1:09:50
  what sports can do for all of us and not only opening us up to to
• 1:09:58
  different perspectives and different thoughts and views,
• 1:10:01
  but opening us up as people. And you think that's the
• 1:10:04
  greatest thing about sports. And I think that's the greatest
• 1:10:06
  thing about this show because you don't ever know what you're
• 1:10:08
  going to get. And it's been awesome.
• 1:10:11
  It's been frustrating at times. It definitely has.
• 1:10:14
  I love you guys, but it has been and you know, we crawl before we
• 1:10:20
  walk and it's just been it. It's going to be a fun journey.
• 1:10:24
  And I know it's frustrating sometimes for for all of us in
• 1:10:28
  in different ways, but I'm so grateful to have these moments
• 1:10:35
  and, and where I can, I can share my thoughts and I can be
• 1:10:39
  me. And then, and you guys don't
• 1:10:41
  judge me and our fans don't because I love them because
• 1:10:46
  they're the reason why we do this.
• 1:10:48
  We love sports, but we love giving a different perspective
• 1:10:52
  and maybe a different thought or a different view.
• 1:10:54
  So man, I hope it's been a fun year.
• 1:10:59
  I think we've learned a lot from each other and I, I truly,
• 1:11:02
  genuinely appreciate that. And it's been a tough year for
• 1:11:05
  everybody. Like, I mean, that's, that's
• 1:11:07
  life though. But what we look forward to is,
• 1:11:10
  is the things that lie ahead and just very fortunate to be in
• 1:11:16
  this opportunity and and do these things with you guys.
• 1:11:19
  So I appreciate first and foremost, because I know time is
• 1:11:23
  precious and I appreciate your guys's time.
• 1:11:26
  And more importantly, I appreciate you use the effort
• 1:11:29
  and the fact that you care about what we're doing and just thank
• 1:11:34
  you guys so much. I mean, there's, there's not
• 1:11:36
  much more I can say. I want to before I let everybody
• 1:11:39
  go and I want to thank everybody on Apple and Spotify that TuneIn
• 1:11:44
  and download and write all these crazy things on all the Reddit
• 1:11:51
  fans that say the the most derogatory funny things I've
• 1:11:56
  ever seen in my entire life. And on Instagram and TikTok and
• 1:12:01
  Facebook and all the fans, Jabba the mouth fans in worldwide
• 1:12:05
  sports radio network fans out there and all the guys that do
• 1:12:08
  their shows, you know, from, you know, Josh Silverberg and his
• 1:12:12
  father and Eric and and then snowman.
• 1:12:15
  Thank you to them for really putting out a good product.
• 1:12:19
  And and like I said, next year is a week away or less than a
• 1:12:24
  week away, actually a couple days away.
• 1:12:27
  And I'm going to say one thing to all the fans and all the
• 1:12:30
  people out there and all the podcasts out there, watch out.
• 1:12:35
  That's all I'm going to say. You can take it whatever way you
• 1:12:38
  want. Watch the F out.
• 1:12:41
  That's it. Anyway, I'm.
• 1:12:43
  Just going to give you 2 lines, Errol, that no one has got a
• 1:12:46
  more original show than what we do here.
• 1:12:49
  Everyone's got sports takes, but no one has the creativity.
• 1:12:52
  People are stealing segments from us that we see on the big
• 1:12:55
  shows. 100% that I know that I came up with with you on the
• 1:12:59
  phone, Errol. You know, so I'm real proud of
• 1:13:03
  kind of being a trendsetter as well in an industry that seems
• 1:13:07
  to be a lot of the same. Lost, Absolutely lost.
• 1:13:11
  You're absolutely right. Fish lost.
• 1:13:13
  And that's what you're seeing right now with a WFAN.
• 1:13:17
  And they're firing people and many people go and Trinity
• 1:13:20
  Sports is gone and everything is flopping around and they're
• 1:13:24
  trying to figure out what to do next.
• 1:13:26
  Here's what you do. Watch out and look at the the
• 1:13:29
  talent that's out there and realize that there is talent
• 1:13:32
  right in front of your faces. Open up your checkbooks and get
• 1:13:36
  ready because you're going to be paying.
• 1:13:38
  That's all I'm going to say. You're going to be paying
• 1:13:40
  because you had, you had this sitting for such a long time and
• 1:13:46
  you're going to be paying. That's all I'm going to say.
• 1:13:48
  That's it. I, I had to add that because I'm
• 1:13:51
  just disgusted with the garbage that I've seen on television and
• 1:13:54
  radio over the last couple of years and it makes me sick to my
• 1:13:57
  stomach. Anyways, I'm going to let you
• 1:14:00
  guys say your final goodbyes for the new year.
• 1:14:03
  Tommy, you first. Yeah, you guys pretty much said
• 1:14:06
  a lot of it. You know, we've been putting a
• 1:14:08
  lot of work and especially thanks to you guys, you know, I
• 1:14:11
  don't think any of us can do ones job without the other.
• 1:14:14
  So I really do appreciate, you know, all the hard work that you
• 1:14:16
  guys put into the show. You know, I really appreciate
• 1:14:18
  you guys, you know, being welcomed in every to every.
• 1:14:20
  Week. It's fish and speedy, just so
• 1:14:22
  you know. Of course, yeah, Fish and
• 1:14:23
  speedy, you know you guys are awesome.
• 1:14:25
  Jabba and Arrow, you know you guys being the on air talents.
• 1:14:27
  Of course, you know you guys doing what you guys do.
• 1:14:30
  You know it's all appreciative. Of course, even Nathan.
• 1:14:33
  Shout out to the man. Nathan is in here, the PR
• 1:14:35
  manager, the man himself. But you, it's been a whole hell
• 1:14:41
  of a 365 days and looking forward to another 365 with
• 1:14:45
  y'all. Yeah, it's I've definitely been
• 1:14:48
  appreciative of all you guys are bringing me in eight years ago
• 1:14:51
  and seeing all different people come and go with this network
• 1:14:53
  too, but always supporting me and always helping me out with
• 1:14:57
  everything on the on the show and throughout the network as
• 1:14:59
  well. And all the guys that have been
• 1:15:01
  coming and going on this show as well.
• 1:15:03
  Fish, you brought a new, new vibe since you joined the show
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  back in January of 2024 and you've done a lot of great
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  things. Tommy, you've been always a the
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  social media guy, fun guy to talk with offset a lot of the
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  time, even before Jabba you came along and Jabba reaching out to
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  you for the first time as a guest.
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  I reached out to a lot of different Yankees and first time
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  we ever had you in the show, you were a tremendous storyteller
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  and and reached out at the time with the Yankees playoffs.
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  And obviously we built something very nice and Nathan as well,
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  and Nick Goody Nathan. Nick Goody.
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  That. Shout out to Goody.
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  Yeah, Goody, Goody. The first time we had him on the
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  show, it was funny. It was actually the first week
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  we had Sylvester Williams on the show last year, too.
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  It was also the same week we had Goody on the same day and and
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  Goody Goody. I remember Goody because he came
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  in 10 minutes early. I never saw a guest come in that
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  early ever. And he was so fired up.
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  He was so funny and always brought that good vibes.
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  And of course, Nathan is our PR guy doing some great things.
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  All this event planning, all that stuff, fantastic.
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  And shout out to all the fans, all the ones I've met in person,
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  all the ones I have it in person for supporting what we do.
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  Here, I don't want to say something else before I go to
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  Jabba Chamberlain. I didn't think this was going to
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  work. I didn't all right, I did.
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  I'm going to be honest with you, I didn't think it was going to
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  work, but it's been a fun ride and it's going to be a fun ride
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  in 2026 because I I feel like we've built a good, good vibe
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  and a good relationship. We have our differences at
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  everything that we do, but that's what partners usually do.
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  But I, I've grown to understand who you are as a person, not
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  just as an athlete that I followed as a kid and or like to
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  watch you throw a ball. I, I, I like throwing pitches at
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  you and I'm sure you like to throw jabs at me, but I, I feel
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  like we've built something and we're, we're building something
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  that could be something really, really special.
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  And I think fans, and I say this with with love and compassion,
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  if if it wasn't for the people that understand what we're
• 1:16:57
  trying to do here, we wouldn't be here.
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  So thank you to all of you guys. Anyways, that's it, Good night.
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  Thank all of you, appreciate it well. 2026 Here we come.
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  It is the worldwide sports radio network, radio Network, Radio
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  network.