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Terminello's Take on CFB OT Rules and NFL Black Monday As Alex Garrett Podcast Network Turns 10 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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This week is the ten year anniversary of the Alex Garrett Podcast Network. So
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many iterations back in twenty fourteen, but I want to say this little note
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that I wrote on Facebook when Jerry Crowley, the GM of AM nine SEM
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of the Answer, revamped nine to seventy, bringing in Joe Piscopo, bringing
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in Dottie Herman, and really bringing in all these different hosts, and I
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was put on the board for a lot of them. It also increased my
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podcast arc and that's where the start of this podcast because all the people I
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work with on the air talking about politics, talking about the tax paying dollars,
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and I thought, man, my generation needs to know about this.
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We are warming up in the boat pen. And well, I started this
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podcast ten years ago, and just like nine to seventy, and just like
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the network, there's been growth all around. And I don't think we can
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go without saying that has been hand in hand. So for those who have
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been there from the beginning, those who joined along the journey, those guests
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I've had over the years, happy ten years. And right now I've got
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a very special surprise before we do. Terminello's take. Lou Terminello, your
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take is on one leg up. You know why because the main vein and
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this whole podcast is celebrating ten years. And guess what I'm with me right
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now that saw the inception of this alongside you take a guess who could it
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be? I wonder who it could it be? It's Matt Zambolin. All
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right, nice, I gotta give you an extra Piscutti today, lou And
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as an extra, I got Mark, who was there from the beginning as
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well. I'm here from the beginning. Okay, No, I think Mark
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was there when I put out the first microphone in the studio. We're we're
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all timers now, are we gonna get? You know, our name lifted
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up in the rafters somewhere of my podcast studio? Yes? But uh,
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ten years of this network, ten years of the over the station. There
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seems to be a parallel, doesn't there? Well? I would say so
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absolutely. Well. I think the parallel is is we love radio too much
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to leave. Yes, And even though I haven't been there, I still
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I still love radio. Even though every time I see every time I see
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a cockroach go by the floor, Loua, I think it's looking for a
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Piscatti crumb. It makes me think of you and all, and we have
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to give you credit for all the sports we've carried here. Well, that
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was a big That was a big thing that we did, which really brought
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the station a lot of uh, you know, credibility and a lot of
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notice along with with Joe Piscopo with the morning show and and everybody forgets we
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can't forget those what was that those two two and a half years of John
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gambling from eleven to one, all all that stuff. A seventy on the
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map, that's for sure. Well, a lot of greats have greased these
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halls, and especially with Alex and my Stell still here, I like to
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consider us among the greats, and and of course Mark de Boor. But
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it's been fun. Uh, the past ten has been great, and I
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look forward to the next ten. And you're gonna keep my top row.
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Year of the ny CFC was one of my favorites. A. Yeah,
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well, I remember I was recovering from the brain hemorrhage at that time.
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We started with in ye CFC. That's probably right, CFC. It was
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two hours, two hours and fifteen minutes and it was over. The game
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was over, you know it. That's the one good thing about soccer,
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it's really compartmentalized in a time block to keep that clock going. That's it.
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Well, I want to bring you three together, and Ryan's here too,
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been part of the history of the network as well, and for allowing
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me to grow my own stuff on the side. This has been a really
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amazing ten years and both of you are instrumental in this. So thank you,
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thank you, thank you, thank you. Alexander the Great. All
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Right, now it's on with Tarbanella's take, because we've got a lot to
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talk about today, don't we. Yeah, we have, we have some
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things to talk about because on Monday night. Yeah, let's talk about that.
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Because I'm still a low perturbed that the first score in overtime was not
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the final score in overtime for Michigan, and then you and I kind of
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say I on that, don't we, Well, the fact that Michigan won
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the game really had nothing to do because of the overtime period. I just
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don't like the college overtime. I mean, since they instituted in nineteen ninety
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six, I mean a start the team on the twenty five yard line and
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uh, already in field goal range. I don't understand that I don't know
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why they don't use the NFL type rules. And over the years they you
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know, you could go six or seven overtimes and you were getting scores of
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seventy three to sixty seven. And this year they did they changed that where
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you know, the first possession it would be a normal like we saw last
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week in the semi finals between Michigan and Alabama. Michigan scored, they kicked
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a single extra point. You can go for two if you want, but
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they came, they kicked a single extra point and then they stopped. They
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stopped Alabama. But if Alabama had scored, the second possession would have been,
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say Michigan scored, they would have had to go for a two point
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conversion by rule. And say if Alabama had scored and they had gone for
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two point conversion and the game was still tied, whether the teams may the
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two point conversions or both missed the two point conversions, then it really gets
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goofy. Then from the third possession to the end, whenever it's over,
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they put lace the ball at the three and they just run two point conversion
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plays one after the other. And Alex, it's a joke. Plus the
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fact that the team statistics and the individual statistics count, and that really especially
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when they played, they didn't play with the two point conversion. I was
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games one six or seven overtime passes were throwing for six hundred yards, throwing
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eight touchdown passes. It was a joke. Well, I'll tell you what
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you talk about, how and I'm watching the replay now and it felt like
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Korum did exactly what Joe Burrow did on the end around there against Alabama,
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which was fun to watch. By the way, I wouldn't have him mind
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having him as a giant next chair running back. I'm just saying, well,
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if you want to talk about the game on Monday night, which I
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think ironically it's a the preview of what will be a Big Ten Conference matchup
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for years to come. They're actually playing on October fifth, twenty twenty four,
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at Washington in the first year of this expanded Big Ten. But you
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mentioned Blake Korm. I mean, I think Michigan's path to victory is they
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have to win the time of possession. They have to control the clock,
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and Blake Korm is going to be a big part of that. He's a
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gutsy runner. He plays with a lot of heart, and I think that
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along with JJ McCarthy, who I don't love. I don't love him as
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a quarterback, but McCarthy plays with a lot of guts, plays with a
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lot of part like like Blake Korham. So they in my opinion, Washington's
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offense is so good. Michael Pennock Junior, who I thought should have won
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the Heisman Trophy. Uh, they got to keep him off the field with
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those receivers, and they could run the ball on on Washington. Michigan can
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this. They're vulnerable to the run, and Uh, that's the way I
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think that the game's gotta go if Michigan wants to win. If Washington,
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I mean, Washington could score in five ways. I mean Pennick Junior throws
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a beautiful ball, his quick release, he knows how to read the defense.
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His wide receivers, you know, Romadoozy, who I think maybe some
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NFL scouts, you know, we talked about Malvern Harrison Junior being the first
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wide receiver drafted. A Doomsey might be might be the first wide receiver drafted.
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I mean, he's that good. And jaylenn Polk, they have a
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great offensive line. They've only allow eleven sacks, which obviously plays right into
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Pennick's great ability. So it's going to be interesting. Michigan has a much
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better defense than Texas, so we'll see how that goes. But I think
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Michigan has to win a time of possession to win the game. I don't
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think it's going to be a blowout. A blowout would surprise me. But
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I slightly favor Washington in this game. But again, this could be Harboy's
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last game as Michigan coach. I know I was gonna talk about that now.
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Obviously, you know, the Husky game against Texas you or mentioned could
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have gotten overtime too. I mean, at least for all the blowouts we
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saw in the bowl season, at least these two were competitive. Right.
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Can the NJA arrested, you know, put hang its head on that.
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At least yes? And as I, as I said to you last week
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and week before, those other Bowl games are useless, meaningless. Just fill
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it for ESPN and Thought Sports won and any network that covers of forty three
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Bowl games, they're useless. That's why the best competitive games we saw was
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a National semi final. I mean, look at look at look at Georgia
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and Florida State. Florida State, twenty nine guys pulling out, twenty nine
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scholarship football players pulling out What an embarrassment for a team that was thirteen and
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zero. Horrible to that line of thing, though, there are a lot
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of people that speculated, well, Georgia's not in this because I don't want
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to see what happened in the in the championship game last year against TCU.
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Did that game against FSU show any kind of credence to that because they might
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have blown out this team. I don't think so. But no, I
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mean, if you want to know something, Alex and I think we talked
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about this. I thought, after winning twenty nine games in a row and
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forty five out of forty six games, even losing to Alabama in the SEC
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championship game by three points, I thought Georgia was gonna be one of the
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four teams in the playoffs. And if somebody wants to make an argument that
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george is the best team in the country, I'm not gonna fight them.
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I not now. Next year you won't have to worry about that. But
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by the way, I give a lot of credit to Kirby Smart saying,
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hey, what the hell is going on around here? Us winning by sixties
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shouldn't be happening. He did say that, you know, and I give
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him a lot of credit. I do. But at the same time,
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it's like in baseball, do you not swing the bat? I mean,
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I guess when you're on a roll, you gotta go to the end zone
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anyway, right, I mean, well, again, they took this Alex.
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It's not like like five of their best guys were gone. Twenty nine
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of their best guys were gone. I mean, even if you wanted to
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take it easy on them, maybe they did. Maybe they could score ninety
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on Florida State. Of course, the one guy I'd love to have on
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through all these I mean, you could say, harball, But come on,
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another New Jersey native, Notre Dames, Steven Jelly, third stringer going
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in there and beating up Oregon State forty points. I mean, look,
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it's another great story for New Jersey, isn't it. Well he went to
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Bergen Catholic, which was about ten months from where I used to live,
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and he did a great job. I did watch. I did watch a
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lot of that game. Actually I was watching was with you on when we
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were on the phone talking and I was very impressed with Steve Angelly and he's
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loyal to Notre Dame because he could he can go into transfer portal and he
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could start. I mean, if he was in the transfer portal and went
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to Rutgers, that would be such a boost for Rutgers. What a good
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fairing. I mean, a surprise firing, a great fairing. We talked
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about it last week against Miami and a win, which was great for the
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programming for Schiano to bring back some bull victory back here in Piscal that way,
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I mean, I mean, obviously, bowl gangs really don't mean anything,
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but they for certain teams like a Rutgers, they're using They're using that
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extra game for a lot of different reasons, for extra recruiting, just to
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you know, to to build a little bit more of a camaraderie. I'm
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a little built a little bit more history for the for for a school like
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Rutgers. But for a lot of these things, it means nothing. I
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mean, we saw how many plays pulled out. It's it's embarrassing and a
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kick for Rutgers. Melton MaTx melt in the cornerback pulled out two hours before
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the game. Are you kidding me? Now? Why can't coaches control this
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either? What is that about? Well, first of all, it's hard.
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Coaches could try to convince them. But say if one of those guys
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is convinced by the coach to play and he blows out his knee or Rich's
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achilles, and that courts and instead of being drafted in the second round,
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he's not after that at all, and he may not play it, and
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he may never play. So the coaches are in a very tough spot because
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the coaches, when you when you're playing for a coach, when parents give
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up their kid to play football or basketball or hockey, whatever the college sport
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is, they're entrusting the coach to take care of their kid. And that's
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not taking care of your kid. All right, One last one, last
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breaking news on college football before we move on to and I do want to
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cover some hockey because another great win for the Rangers last night, a great
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bounce back win after getting blown out by the Hurricanes. We'll talk about that
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in a second. But you know, Tiger Volia isn't that to his brother
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is entering the transfer portal? Why is that a big deal? And where
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do you see him going. I don't know where he's going to be going.
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But these guys going to the transfer portal. I mean I see that.
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The kid, you know, Kyle McCord left Ohio State, and the
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Kansas State quarterback Will Howard is going to Ohio State, Alex. It's crazy.
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If they don't get control of this, it's just gonna be nuts.
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And I don't like it. I really don't. I don't. I have
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no idea what these guys are doing. And I think it's clear Marcus Freeman
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was not the issue for Notre Dame. That's just their personal choice. And
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I know I don't is not Marcus Freeman's issue. It is not. I
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mean, Marcus Streaman is a good coach, he's done a good job,
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and it's it's not his issue. The other big New Year's Days story was
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that LSU won, and it was more so that Liberty, which is just
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down the street basically in Philly. You know, they in Pennsylvania. They
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made a big Bowl game. I mean they got blown out, but hey,
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that's a good nod for Liberty. You get there, right, Oh,
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of course it is. I mean they were thirteen oh, and I
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believe they're in Virginia. Liberty Virginia. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
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yep. And again they scored. They were only opening you know,
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the con tour us and they went downfield and they scored, they missed the
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extra point. They scored six nothing. And then after that from the second
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quarter on Oregon, I mean a super team, uh. And they wanted
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to win obviously, and they won forty five to six. But that's a
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good step for Liberty considering that, you know, three four years ago they
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were in Division two. They weren't even in Division one. And of course
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around here here Mark is his daughter goes to Liberty, so of course there's
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some rooting interest around these parts also for Rutgers, right, I mean everybody
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kind of roots for Rutgers in the Jersey part of AM nineteen seventy and what.
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Yeah, absolutely we want to see Rutgers successful. By the way,
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he makes interest, I will say, and Dave Populin love that they'll have
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Jerry Reco on this weekend. Did you know that on his radio chewers.
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I did not know that, so that means I'll be listening, and yeah,
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I'm on the production staff, So I figured why not promote a little
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bit for Dave He's always been a friend to us as he absolutely I worked
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with him at the nets and then I work with him at scene home.
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So there you go. But all that to say, this weekend Michigan versus
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or this Monday Michigan versus Washington. I feel like there's a lot of folks
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that say in upsets brewing, you know, And someone said to me,
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how fitting would be of the PAC twelve close the winner? I mean,
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that's that would be something one n't it? It would be And like I
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said a couple of minutes ago, I favor Washington slightly. The thing that
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would surprise me, like I said, I would be I would be surprised
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if the game's not competitive, that if that's a blowout. But I think
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there's some factors on each side. It's the end of the big the PAC
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twelve. Uh so that's a factor for Washington, Uh you know, as
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I mean, they don't feel like they are in the Big ten yet obviously,
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And uh then we all know what's gonna happen in Hardboarer. What's gonna
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happen to Jim Harbour? Is he going to leave? Because remember what's hanging
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over their head and his head is right, the NCAA allegations. I mean,
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yes, he's been suspended, but is in more to come? We
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don't know that. And I think that gives Michigan, the players and us
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against the world. Oh yeah, this is proving that these teams, these
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players want to play for Michigan and for Harbor. Right, this is what
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it's showing basically. Right. No, absolutely, But now now as we
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cross over into the NFL, obviously Monday and now in the last couple of
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years, it start on Sunday night. Monday is Black Monday. If Harbor
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doesn't want to go through all of the torture of what the and it could
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be his fault that he that he's put Michigan on probation, if they go
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on probation, or if there's any other sanctions against them, I don't know
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what's When that was the case, why didn't they do it already to prevent
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them from getting this far? That's the other question. Well, they may
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not have all of the information in or they may not reviewed all the information,
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but just say that, say that he just may not want to be
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deal with it, and he said hey, and he could say okay,
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especially if they win Monday night, I left it with your first championship in
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twenty six years, and who knows the Chargers who need a coach, dangle
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an incredible contract in front of him, and you go to the Chargers.
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You have a pretty good team and you have an outstanding quarterback. And have
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we've seen this year more than ever As by the end of Sunday there'll be
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sixty six different starting quarterbacks in the NFL. The Browns will start their fifth
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different quarterback on Sunday as they're resting Flacco. The Vikings have used four quarterbacks
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but have made five quarterback changes. The Jets have played four quarterbacks. The
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Giants have played three quarterbacks. I mean, it's a quarterback league, and
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when you have a chance to move, I think the way it is now,
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in my opinion, I think the quarterback is a factor and where you
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want to go it could be harbored. What's going to happen to Belichick?
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After Sunday? Will will? He? Will? He be gone from the
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Patriots after you know, twenty three years? After twenty three years, okay,
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I've been here. I've been here a long time. Just time for
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something new. Does Belichick go to the Los Angeles Chargers? I don't see
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him as a West Coast coach. But again, go to you go to
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the Chargers, you have a quarterback in plays, right, you know.
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Obviously the other place where they say Belichick would go would be Washington. I
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know. You know his father was a longtime coach at Navy in the area
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there, so that that. But again, who would you have to start
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off with Justin Herbert or Sam Howe. I don't know. No, I'll
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tell you what I mean. I know, right, you look at though,
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you look at what Jim Harbaugh has done with the quarterbacks alone. I
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mean, kay Mcnamerica comes to mind, McCarthy. He's really helped both of
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those careers get come along, hasn't he. You know, he's an excellent
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coach. He's an excellent coach ABO or no doubt about it. And yes,
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and he's one of the way his team plays is the way he played
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quarterback for the Bears and for the Colts when they almost beat Pittsburgh in ninety
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five in the AFC Championship game. Came down to the last play and the
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Pittsburgh was the much better team. But that so Monday's game will be interesting
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and everything after that will be interesting, but Alex Black Monday could be unbelievable.
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Washington, J ravera state. I don't think so. Atlanta, Arthur
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Smith is he state fifty to fifty? Chicago, Matt I would be surprised
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if the way the Bears have played the last couple of months, if the
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Bears would make a coaching cham It can't all be on Fields, you know.
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I think Fields is doing his damnest out there every game he can.
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I mean, it's just yeah, I know, and he's played very well.
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And then of course I good if Tampa. If Tampa Bay blow,
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If Tampa Blay blows the title, winning the division basically at nine and eight
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by losing to the Carol lineup Panthers, I think Bolts might be gone.
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And the Chargers need a coach. As we said, Carolina needs a coach.
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Vegas needs a coach. Do they take do they remove the interim tag
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from Antonio Pierce and give them the full time job, or do they say
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no, what we go? Do they go after Harbor? To me,
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Harbaugh, if he leaves Michigan, it's Vegas or the Chargers. And I
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mean I think most people say that, but again I'm glad to talking about
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this because I want to focus on rivalry weekend. I don't care what your
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record is, Lou, I don't care. The Giants are five and what
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eleven heading on this begining, I don't care. But it's your chance to
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knock off the Eagles for winning the division. I mean, these teams and
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the Jets have a chance to get a better record than the Patriots and Bill
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Belichick. I know it's different now, but come on, that does say
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something. Come in here firing up this Sunday. I know it's the last
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game of the year, coming fired up again to rival right, Well,
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I mean speaking from I know that the Giants have lost watch fifteen out of
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the last eighteen to the Eagles, and the Jets have lost fifteen in a
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row to the Patriots. So yeah, I would say, I would say,
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so, Alex, I agree with you. You know, you play
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as as the great Herman Edwards coach quote the great quote by Herman Edwards.
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You play to win the game. You do that, You're professional. Nobody
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wants to lose now. They may now the Jets and Giants may come out
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flat and just want to get into their cars and go home. I don't
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know. We've seen that many times, and you know, Nick Sirianni says
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he might rest some of the guys, which I really find hard to believe.
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I just I just don't believe that they have to win the division.
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I mean, they have to win a division. I agree with you.
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So I don't know. I don't know if Sirianne is just saying that to
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throw people off the you know, the track, or so. For the
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Giants, they come in a little better at shape because they almost had the
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Rams last week. They should have had the Rams last week, but they
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probably should, yes, But for more so, the Egos have come in
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limping. I mean it's not good. It's they've had some bad losses here
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down the stretch, and by some chance, the Giants speak them on Sunday
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they will go in the playoffs. Having those five out of six games,
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and even on that Christmas Day game that where they beat the Giants, they
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weren't very impressive. In my opinion. Tyrod came up and cleaned up a
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little bit after de Vito and held them well. I mean I thought the
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Giants held them pretty good. It just didn't They fell both the Jets and
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the Giants are going to be playing to win it. Now I'll show you.
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I'm so glad you mentioned Flacco because here you have a guy that should
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have been the Giants. The Jets back up again this year. If you're
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not gonna Mike White, maybe signed Flacco and see what happens. But you
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look at the two ones going to the playoffs. One's going on mccaf for
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Pat mcmcafee shows every week saying in some crab about somebody else, Kimmel and
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whatnot, Like, are the Jets gonna ever control? Can they control Aaron
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Rodgers? Firstly? And secondly, doesn't it look bad when your backup quarterback
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you had last year is going to the playoffs with the Browns while your your
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QB that was supposed to be the big higher uh is on TV instead of
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on the field. There's something wrong with that. Well, he did that
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last year too, Alex Swingers with Green Bay. He did that, he
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was on McAfee. Remember that. I really don't care about his few with
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Kimmel. I mean, I don't care, you know, Uh Kimmel is
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Kimmel, and uh yeah. The only thing I wanted to see I want
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to see Adam Dge is healthy and if you can get through a full season
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next year. Gotta remember, the guy's never been hurt. So that was,
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you know, a very very disappointing thing. Can they control I guess
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I could say, yeah, we don't want you on McAfee anymore. We'll
26:53
you know, we'll pay you the million dollars that McAfee pays. You just
26:56
don't be on there anymore. But again, has been on in the last
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two years every Tuesday, so and I know, but remember remember this year
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he had no games to talk about because he wasn't playing. So it's like
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last year McAfee would ask him what what was going on? You know,
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was referring to a game that he had played in with Green Bay. That's
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what the Tuesday was for. But now, I mean, since he got
27:26
hurt on the first series of plays of the season, they really didn't have
27:33
any games to talk about. So while we're on the AFC East, I'm
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hearing some people believe that the Dolphins could actually be disappointed at maybe even you
27:44
mentioned that. But could the Dolphins after their big year and you mentioned now
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they only had most of their Wednesday has under five hundred teams? Are they
27:52
gonna be a bust in the playoffs or what. Well, if they don't
27:56
succeed in the playoffs, they're going to be labeled the bus. But that's
28:00
gonna come over a caveat. They have a ton of injuries going into the
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playoffs, which is the one thing you don't want. That's why so many
28:07
teams rest their guys. Believe me, even though the Eagles want to win
28:11
the division or another team will probably want a better position. You want you
28:19
guys healthy, you really do. And they've lost their two best pass rushers,
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you know, Xavier Howard, don Uh, they're banged up the Dolphins.
28:33
Sunday Night's game between the Bills and the Dolphins, it's very very compelling.
28:41
I mean, just think six weeks ago we thought that we thought the
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Bills were dead. Now remember there's more pressure on the on the on the
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Bills because if they lose, they're probably not gonna make the playoffs. So
28:56
well, and I kind of was surprised at the Raymond were able to run
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all over Miami last week. That was I was. I did not expect
29:03
them to blow him out that much, but you know it happened. Yeah,
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No, I did not expect that that game to go the way that
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game wins. I agree with you and Baltimore too, because Lamar Jackson has
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had two bad playoff games. You know, he's had some bad playoff games
29:23
in his career, and uh, he's probably gonna win MVP. And he
29:30
I think he's better this year than he's than he's ever been. He throws
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the ball better than he's ever thrown it. Maybe he'll maybe if they don't
29:38
do well, they will remove everything about the Ravens again from his social media,
29:41
only to come back a year later. I mean, come on.
29:45
You know he's got a bit of a temper too, so I'm sure he
29:48
wants to He's motivated to do something this year. I'll tell you that much.
29:52
I could just sense it, you know. Yeah, no, he
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he is motivated. And uh they're a great organization. They're probably the best
30:00
organization along with the Steelers in the NFL. I'm seeing now about dot Com.
30:07
By the way, speaking of running quarterbacks, running backs, Derrick Henry
30:11
might be leaving the Titans for free agency. That's gonna be something to watch.
30:14
I know we're gonna cover all that after the Super Bowl, right that
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the world, so we'll see back to this week and Lamar, I mean,
30:22
obviously they're against the Steelers, and you know, those games have always
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been fun to watch, whether it's in steel City, in Pittsburgh or in
30:29
Baltimore. It always comes down to the wire, does it? It does?
30:33
And I mean they have they have a decent backup in Hunley, so
30:37
obviously they're not going to risk putting, uh, putting Lamar Jackson out there,
30:44
and I wouldn't either, and uh, but those games are always good.
30:48
But the Steelers remarkably, remarkably might make the playoffs. And I know
30:55
sometimes people criticize Tomlin, it's a hell of a coach man. He's a
31:00
heck of a coach. I mean, he really is. For saying he
31:06
could be out on the you know, out of a job, so and
31:07
you're like, no, Tolman's going to be there another year, And you're
31:11
right, He's always there. Even if they have the worst year, he
31:12
somehow finds his way back in there as coach. You know, he's never
31:15
had a losing record, he's never had a losing record as Steelers coach.
31:21
And he's been there watch sixteen seventeen years. Yeah, yeah, yep.
31:26
And Trubisky is a very interesting story, only because I saw him struggle in
31:30
Chicago and yet here he is. I mean, the guy and Pickett,
31:34
the two of them have kind of willed this team, haven't they. Well,
31:37
Mason Rudolf's the guy who saved them last two and obviously he's not the
31:45
long term answer, but Mason Rudolf has saved in the last two games unless
31:52
and he'll be quarterbacking the rest of the way, whether they make the playoffs
31:56
or not. But they've been The feelers are probably gonna look for a quarterback
32:04
also, even though I don't know. I don't think they've given up on
32:07
Kenny Pickett, but I think, uh, you know, they're going to
32:13
be looking for a quarterback upgrade if they can find one, do you think.
32:21
I mean, we'll talk about the draft too, but I'm just thinking
32:23
that Caleb Williams stilla. Is he still a big candidate to be drafted high?
32:28
Or is stockgun low for for some of these teams. The only thing
32:30
with Caleb Williams is he has a propensity to turn the ball over. That'd
32:37
be the only thing. And other quarterbacks have come up to me, and
32:40
I know we talked about Michigan and Washington, the guy that I think should
32:46
be drafted number one. And I and I'm not a draft nick. I'm
32:50
not, you know, one of these draft nick type guys. But boy
32:59
Pennis Junior, if I can't believe he can't be drafted in the first or
33:06
second pick of the draft, he's in my opinion, he's that good.
33:09
But you know, we'll see. They have to go through the Indianapolis for
33:19
this, you know, the scouting cowmine, and we'll see what happens.
33:22
But I love Michael Pennix Jr. I really do. I know well,
33:28
he was in the Heightsman running for a long time and he should have won
33:31
it. I didn't want it exactly. I don't know how he doesn't,
33:35
but I know that he was willing Washington every week. You know, one
33:37
thing about the NFL before we bounch to hockey and close up the football talk
33:42
is this has been a year upside down this I mean here in our own
33:45
backyard. Who'd have thought Jones and Rogers would be out for most of the
33:50
year, especially Rogers on four snaps. Who thought the Chiefs would only go
33:53
ten and six? Or you know, up until this point, I mean,
33:57
there's been a lot of upside down in this NFL hasn't there. It's
34:00
basically similar to what the baseball season was like, which was upside down.
34:06
But no, you're right, and it has not been. In my opinion,
34:08
I don't think this was a good year for the NFL as far as
34:12
the caliber of play on the field, and a lot of it had to
34:15
do with the quarterback injuries last week. Last week, out of the sixteen
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AFC quarterbacks, eleven of them were backups, only five who started on opening
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day. And whether it's that team's number one quarterback started last week, that's
34:30
amazing. And when you don't, when you don't have good quarterback play,
34:36
you don't have good games. No you don't. You don't. That's why
34:42
they protect these quarterbacks. Yeah, by the way, Josh Allen, I
34:46
think comes out victorious because Buffalo has been riding a good streak here the last
34:51
few weeks and I'm watching them, and of course I'm watching a lot of
34:55
the schedule this week, and I want the rivalry games to go. You
34:59
know, the team no room for I don't care what the record. I
35:00
don't care the Bears are seven and nine, beat them Tackers. I mean,
35:05
I have some respect. I'm telling you if I was the Packers,
35:07
and I think the pack the Packers are still in it. Uh nothing.
35:12
The Bears were like nothing more and they're playing very well. Than to go
35:15
up to Lambeau and uh and and and beat Green Bay. I agree with
35:22
you, they will. The Bears will play hard. I'm going to get
35:24
and give you that guarantee, and then uh well, we'll have to see.
35:29
Although eight and nine, of course, I think it's a win and
35:31
get in scenario to Green Bay. So Chicago is gonna want to knock them
35:37
out. Yeah. See, I guess the NFL wanted this last week to
35:43
be all rivalry, hoping for a different outcome in every in every division,
35:46
that all these would be more competitive. Is that what they're thinking? Was
35:51
right? Oh? Absolutely? I mean for a long time. I mean
35:53
I remember times where games weren't divisional the last week the season you know you
36:00
were playing you were playing the Seattle Seahawks, if you were the Jets or
36:07
uh, you know, a couple of years ago the Giants played I think
36:08
the uh, the Raiders. Those games, those games mean nothing. The
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NFL did a good thing by making the last week rivalry rivalry week as far
36:21
as divisional games go, all right, and I know we've talked about this
36:25
a ton of times, but well we see a different look team I met
36:30
life for both the Giants and Jets. When all of a sudden done,
36:34
I mean, will Joe Shane make the right moves? Well, the Jets
36:37
make the right moves and and and what do you see in the offseason here?
36:40
Well, obviously for the Jets is very simple. Just pray that uh,
36:46
they keep Rogers healthy. I mean that change that changes everything. But
36:51
they what their number one goal as far as rebuilding is getting that offensive lineup
36:58
to snuff, uh, Because really their defense is very good and the Briest
37:05
Hall is tremendous. I mean, and they've been underutilizing him because their offensive
37:10
line stinks. But even with that, he's seventh in the NFL in scrimmage
37:17
yards at eighty eight a game for running back, seventh in the NFL.
37:23
Obviously, they got Garrett Wilson's tremendous. They could they need another wide receiver,
37:28
but they have to build up the offensive line. They'll be very good.
37:31
I mean, the Giants have to build up their offensive line. I
37:34
mean eighty three sacks, I mean that's I mean, that's unbelievable. Daniel
37:42
Jones is going to be the quarterback next year. We'll know. We'll know
37:45
on Sunday night. Gihnt's gonna draft as high as two, as low as
37:52
six or seven. They're gonna have a chance to get one of the quarterbacks.
37:54
Whether it's Heisman Trophy winning Jaden Daniels, whether it's Michael Pennix junior,
38:00
whether it's Drake may or whoever it might be. Are you going to pass
38:07
on a quarterback and I think is done? You were telling me, right,
38:10
you say that's that's all. I don't think he's done as a player.
38:14
I just I think he's done as a giant. I mean, I
38:17
mean the Johnts would be really would really again, I think it would just
38:22
be a bad decision to give him a contract. I really. Look.
38:27
Look Isaiah Pichekhov of the piece drifted in the seventh round. He's been more
38:34
productive. Yes, I know he plays on a better team. He's been
38:36
more productive than Barkley. And you can go right down the line again,
38:40
I said it, and I love Barkley at Penn State. I'm a Penn
38:44
State guy. I like to see Penn State do well. I would have
38:49
never used my especially then when the Giants were trying to rebuild from you know,
38:53
trying to rebuild a team. I would have never picked a running back
38:57
number two overall. If I was, you know, a team like in
39:01
contention that somehow got the number two pick through a trade, whether it be
39:07
a Dallas or a Philly, then you can do it. But you can't
39:10
do it when you try and to build your team from scratch. That's just
39:15
my opinion. I would never draft the Jets that did the right thing.
39:20
They drafted the best running back in the draft two years ago with the thirty
39:24
fourth pick in the second round. After they drafted the the NFL offensive rookie
39:32
of the year Garrett Wilson, and the NFL defensive rookie of the year in
39:38
Sauce Cotton last year. Oh yeah, yeah, So, I mean those
39:43
first three picks that the Jets made last year were tremendous, all right,
39:46
Louis sleeper picks to make it to the playoffs. My pick is actually the
39:51
Falcons. I know there's a lot of hurdles for them, but I just
39:53
feel the Falcons. I know you were breaking a doubt for me before we
39:57
went on air today. Yeah, I mean Atlanta needs a little bit of
40:02
a miracle. They could only get in by winning the division, and Tampa
40:09
Bay would have to lose to the worst team in the league, the Carolina
40:13
Panthers, to get in. Can it happened, Yeah, it can,
40:15
it can happen. I think Tampa Bay if you want to talk about a
40:21
sleeper team that's not in the playoffs, I think they're pretty good. I
40:23
think Baker Mayfield's done a good job for them, and I actually thought they
40:28
would win a few more games than they did this year. But if they
40:32
lose to the Carolina Panthers on Sunday, they both getting fired. He's got
40:39
it. And on the ABC side, you know a lot of talks about
40:44
made about Allen's resurgeons and the Browns and Flacco you were mentioning earlier. But
40:50
don't sleep on the Jacksonville Jaguars. That's my other pick for this week and
40:53
for the playoffs scenario. That's just my thought process heading in the week eighteen.
40:58
Well, Trevor Lawrence is banged up, but he'll he'll play through it.
41:06
And yeah, I thought that I thought this was gonna be where they
41:09
were gonna take the big lead Jacksonville, so you know they have a tough
41:15
game. I mean, I know Tennessee has had a good year. But
41:20
you talked about you talked about Henry that he this was his last and it
41:28
is his last game in the tiny new form. I am sure he's going
41:31
to be fired up to go out on a good note. So Sunday will
41:38
be an interesting day. Sleeper team in the AFC is the Cleveland Browns.
41:45
If everything goes according to plan, they might play the AFC South winner in
41:54
the first round, even though it's on the road. I assume that Browns
41:59
will be favored, so they would be my sleeper. They would be my
42:05
sleeper team in the AFC. In the NFC, my sleeper team. The
42:14
Los Angeles Rams would be my sleeper team. He's done a great job.
42:17
Everybody thought they would win four games. I can't say the Lions because the
42:23
Lions are eleven and five, but again, if you want me to say
42:29
one to one A. Obviously the Rams would truly be a sleeper team or
42:35
the Lions, but the Lions have more cachet and have had more notoriety.
42:40
Who knows, you might see a Lions Brown Super Bowl and on that note,
42:45
I know we should talk about hockey, but we got a moment.
42:47
I really wanted to pick your brain about this college football stuff because the scenarios
42:52
of the overtime should be changed. And that's where we started today. And
42:57
one last thing, Lou, in twenty twenty four, I know we end
43:00
through this way, but for this show, where do you want to see
43:02
it go by the end of twenty twenty four? What's your goal for our
43:07
podcast? Yes, for Terminello's Take, I would like to I would like
43:10
to see it listen to buy more, more and more people, that's for
43:16
sure. And maybe we could we could do some things and obviously we've talked
43:21
about getting some doing more interviews and stuff like that. But I think there's
43:28
a lot a lot we can do to make the show to show better and
43:31
greater, and I thank you for giving me the opportunity to do it.
43:36
I always love your insight, Lou. That's why I have you on Terminello's
43:38
Take every week here, So even though it's a Friday, it's every week,
43:42
and I love this kind of en a week wrap up with you.
43:45
It's it's very fun. So let's do this again. I look forward to
43:50
it. Thank you very much, Alex