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Indiana Looks to Win National Championship & NFL Wild Card Weekend Recap · Height Differential

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  You ready to do this? Yeah.
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  It is the height differential. We're back.
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  That's the 66. Neil.
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  He's laughing over there. I'm the 410.
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  Nick, what are we going to talk about, Neil?
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  Always, always intro. I'll let I'll let you do the
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  intro. What are we going to talk about
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  today? I mean, there's a lot of things
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  we could talk about, but I mean, we're in the mix, the myths of
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  the College Football Playoff and, you know, coming down to
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  the championship game on Monday night.
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  So definitely got to talk some some college football when the
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  NFL playoffs started. Get into that little wild card
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  weekend 3-4. We have 4 really good games,
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  yeah. And a real bad game.
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  And I said it was going to be an upset.
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  Was not was not the good game. Four really good games, a really
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  bad game along the way there. And then I don't know what's
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  going on tonight. Bring nothing early in the
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  Pittsburgh game, but you know, lots of a lot of football to
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  talk about. Some college hoops.
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  Brooks kept his back in PGA Tour.
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  And I don't know, you send me some wild story about some dude
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  not using soap. So we've got to talk about that
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  as well. We'll get into all that, but you
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  started off with a College Football Playoff and I think
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  that's that's definitely a good place to start.
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  Miami sneaks out a win over Ole Miss.
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  A lot of people still saying there might have been API on
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  that last play. You're not getting that call.
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  And then and then Indiana just does what Indiana does and just
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  puts it on Oregon. Let's start with the the Miami
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  game. What was what was your take away
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  with the Hurricanes getting to win and advance into the
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  national title? That was a fantastic, fantastic
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  football game. I mean, we, we joked about it
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  when we say that, you know, you have to score 20 points to win.
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  Miami's putting up 3131 points, all offensive points as well.
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  So like, not even a defensive score, but a great, great
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  football game. Fourth quarter.
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  I think there's four lead changes in the fourth quarter,
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  all in the last 7 minutes. And you know, we were, I was
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  just kept waiting and waiting for the Miami offense to mess up
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  or Carson Beck to throw that pick, and he never did.
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  He played a good game, controlled the office, didn't
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  turn the ball over, drove him down the field and scored that
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  touchdown with 18 seconds left to get that victory.
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  But an absolutely fantastic football game on both sides of
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  the ball. I think Ole Miss played well as
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  well. No, they they both did.
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  And my take away from this game is really if Trinidad Chambliss
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  Chambliss wasn't, I still think he was the best player in the
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  the field. And I think that's why this was
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  a as close a game as it was. But I mean, Miami just
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  controlled the line of scrimmage and it was like every single
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  time they ran the ball, they were getting 5-6 yards.
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  And I mean, Fletcher was was just unstoppable running through
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  the tackles. And I mean Malachi Tony dude,
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  like dudes 18 years old and. Should be an high school, should
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  be a senior. Yeah, and it's just an
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  incredible talent. And you're right.
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  Carson Beck, he threw for 268 yards and didn't make mistakes
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  late in the game when they needed him.
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  And I mean, he looked like a guy that has been a a part of
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  championship teams. And I don't know if he's ready
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  to with the next step to beat IU, but and he he needs to see
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  people do it And he's been on great teams.
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  And I mean, he just doesn't make mistakes.
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  He he wins games. Yeah.
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  I mean, when it was like I said, there was that those four lead
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  changes in the last 7 minutes and you know, Ole Miss kicked
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  that field goal to take the lead about right around 7 minutes
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  left in the game. And Miami answers back with A4
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  play, 75 yard drive in a minute, 56.
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  So then you went boom, just score like that, Ole Miss
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  answers and what's Miami do? They absolutely just wore Ole
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  Miss down at the end. I mean, that last drive, let's
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  see here I had the note, it was da da da 15 plays, 75 yards.
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  And at the end of the game, you can just look at Ole Miss was
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  just gassed. I mean, the time of possession
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  was 41 minutes for a Miami and Ole Miss was 18.
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  So when your defense is on the field for 41 minutes, you know
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  they're going to get worn down. And I think that ultimately is
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  is what happened on that last drive, 15 plays.
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  They've been on the field for 41 minutes like it was it was
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  inevitable. I think that that that was going
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  to happen. No, and and like I said, when
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  you're getting 5-6 yards of pop every time you run the ball,
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  that's going to lead to having a 42 to 18 time of possession.
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  And you know, Miami's going to look to do the same thing
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  against IU because if they want to win that one, they're they're
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  going to have to control possession very similarly then
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  then they did against Ole Miss. Anything else on that game or
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  we'll go ahead and move to IU. No, I mean it just, I know Ole
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  Miss. I mean, Ole Miss kind of also
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  during the game they were moving the ball on them and we talked
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  about Miami defence being so they're really like great.
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  They moved the ball. They scored that long Lacy run.
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  But then they started settling for field goals.
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  They hit four straight field goals without.
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  I mean, they they'd move the ball, they'd get into the
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  scoring range and all of a sudden they're having to settle
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  for settle for field goals. I mean, you just take one of
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  those drives and put it in the end zone.
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  You're probably looking at Ole Miss in the national
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  championship game, but instead you know their drives would
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  stall. I mean, that's credit to Miami's
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  defensive bending and not breaking, but Ole Miss had the
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  chances there, but they settled for those 4 field goals instead
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  of touchdowns. Yeah, I mean, they were, they
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  were two for 10 from third down for the game and that that's a
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  big reason why you're settling for field goals.
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  But I mean, still an incredible job by Pete Golden and what was
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  remaining of a staff and even new staff that's coming in that
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  was added within the last couple weeks.
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  I mean, we talked about it last week how either you're going to
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  get Miami going home to play for a title or you're going to get a
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  staff that is thrown together trying to figure things out in
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  the run. And the game lived up to to all
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  the hype came down to the last play.
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  I agree with you. There's there's no way you can
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  call that Pi. But I mean, there there was some
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  contact there and it's just what what a good game.
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  And I mean, Miami, just, if you're controlling the game 42
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  minutes to 18, you're usually going to win.
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  And that's that's what they're going to have to do next week to
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  to beat IU. Yeah, I mean, is the, is the SEC
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  dominance in the sport? Is it over?
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  I mean, they're going to be arguing to get more teams in in
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  the playoffs so they can get more chances. 3 Three straight
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  years without an SEC team playing for Championship I.
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  Mean the trick is to do like the big 10 dude and have them play
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  each other so you're guaranteed a spot.
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  That's that is true. But you got to have two teams in
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  the Final Four to do that. Correct.
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  So yeah, I don't know, in the in the era of nil, it might be a
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  little level playing field parody.
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  Is is showing a fit. I mean, if you got a guy who's
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  anybody who's going to write checks and and help you get
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  players it it definitely does let even the playing field.
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  And I use proven that you can do it with a bunch of bunch of 4th,
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  5th year guys that are a lot older than everybody else.
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  And I mean, God, they just we talked about it, how it could
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  potentially be different, right last week and it was different.
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  They just it wasn't a close game at all of.
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  What we what we were expecting. I mean, it's incredible what
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  they're doing and like I use so good and they're beating teams
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  so badly that they're not conspiracy theories, theories
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  out there that they're hacking into the I clouds of their
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  opponents and stealing their practice videos and they know
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  exactly what's coming and etcetera.
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  Like no, they're just that well prepared.
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  Coach Lignetti just is that good of a coach that it looks that
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  way, but they're just that good of a team.
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  Yeah, I mean you start off with the pick 6 on the first play.
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  First play. And when you're already up
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  against it, you're playing a team that is playing was
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  entering the final four is clear favorite to win the title.
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  And you do that on 1st play, you put yourself behind the 8 ball.
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  I mean, you look at the stats, they're very even.
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  And a lot of that is because, you know, Oregon was able to
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  move the ball. second-half was when the game was in was already
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  put away. But Mendoza had three
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  incompletions. He only threw for 177 yards
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  because they really didn't need to move the ball that much.
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  But he had five touchdowns and no picks.
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  I mean, you, you sent me his numbers for the, for the
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  playoff. I mean, he's 31 for what, 38?
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  Yeah, 3031 for 30. 636. 31 for 36, eight touchdowns, no
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  interceptions. So he has three more touchdown
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  passes than incomplete passes in two games through the playoffs,
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  like against Alabama and Oregon. How's that?
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  Two of the best defenses, I mean, they're both top 20
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  defenses. They've outscored Alabama and
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  Oregon 94 to 25. But just five incompletions and
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  eight touchdown passes and no picks.
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  He has seven completions of 20 plus yards or more.
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  Yeah. I mean, that's a completion
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  percentage of 86%. 86.1% yeah, I guess it's incredible what he's
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  doing and just backing up his case of why he was the rightful
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  Heisman Trophy winner. They were what, a 3 1/2 point
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  favorite in this game? 3 1/2.
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  I'd say they covered I. Mean, I think I think it was
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  three against Alabama too, no and.
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  That was like it. Was supposed to.
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  Was it 7? Yeah, it was.
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  It was a decent, pretty big number.
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  Now, now it's going to be 7 1/2 in the title game against Miami.
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  But I mean, I don't know really what else to say about this
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  Indiana team that we haven't said all year when it comes to
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  breaking down this game. It's just when they play an
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  inferior opponent. And believe it or not, Oregon
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  and Alabama both are inferior opponents right now when you
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  talk about Indiana. And yeah, it's just they they
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  four different touchdown reception, four different guys
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  had touchdown receptions. I mean they do that still.
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  Like that's the story every single game.
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  Yeah. It's I mean.
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  I mean, it's just a freight train right now and I, I don't
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  see Miami slowing it down. I mean, I know Miami's it's
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  going to be in their own building.
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  They're going to be comfortable down there.
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  They get to stay at home, sleep in their own beds and do their
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  normal routine as if it's like basically like a home game for
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  them. But I don't think that they've
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  got the talent to to Matt to stop.
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  You know, we talked about how good their their defense is.
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  I don't think they're going to stop Indiana and I don't think
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  their offense is going to score on Indiana.
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  Mark Fletcher's just been an absolute beast in these
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  playoffs, but he hasn't faced a a defense like this.
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  No. And, and that was the thing last
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  week when we talked about Ole Miss and and Miami, we kind of
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  talked about this unstoppable defense versus this unstoppable
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  offense. Which one will bend first?
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  I mean, yeah, this is a story of Indiana's unstoppable offense
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  against Miami's unstoppable defense.
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  But Indiana's defense is just as good.
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  Yeah, they're just as good. Like it's a better defense than
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  Miami's defense, yeah. Like for Miami to pull this off,
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  I mean, First off, you talked about the home field and that is
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  an advantage. Yes, I know what Indiana has the
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  biggest alumni base in the country, right?
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  Correct. And they're going to they're
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  going to show up. So it's not going to be just
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  Miami. It would you say will it be
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  5050? You think it'll be even?
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  Will it be pro IU in Miami? Or probably about 5050 would be
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  my guess. I mean, Miami is 7 and one at
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  home this year. Yes, they're long loss coming to
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  the cards. Yeah, they're 18 and three over
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  the last three seasons. So they have had success at
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  home. I mean, the the way that they
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  they got to figure out a way to run the ball.
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  They got to figure out a way to control the clock.
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  I mean it if, if Indiana controls the possession, they
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  they have no chance. They the possession has to be 40
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  to 20 at least I think for Miami to have a chance.
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  They got to create turnovers, they got to get Mendoza to throw
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  a pick, they got to create create a fumble.
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  They forced 5 turn turnovers in the playoffs.
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  They've got 4 picks and a a fumble recovery to pick six
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  against Ohio State. Really kind of set the tone for
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  that game. If they can do something like
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  that where you're flipping the script a little bit on what IU
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  did against Oregon. I mean, that's what they've done
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  all year. They have 16 picks this year and
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  three of them they've returned for for touchdowns.
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  I mean, and you got to rely on Beck to not make mistakes.
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  He's thrown 4 touchdowns and only has one turnover in the
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  playoff and they got to keep doing that.
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  Yeah, yeah, Nope, you're right that that's that is the way
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  Miami's going to win. And like you mentioned, like
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  they're going to need IU to to to stumble along the way, like
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  you said, throw a pick or fumble the ball or something like that.
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  So as it would be something uncharacteristic for IU to do
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  for Miami to win the game. But I mean, IU's got the
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  advantage in the coaching and probably I, I think with we'll
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  see he'll have them ready. I just it's hard.
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  For me to, yeah, there's nothing.
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  Hard for me to see Miami winning this game, but I also thought
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  they were going to lose to to Ohio State and lose the Ole
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  Miss. And here we are at the national
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  championship game and they're in there as a as a double digit,
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  double digit seed. Well, it dude, like everybody
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  just talks about how good Miami's defense is and their 5th
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  best they average they giving up fourteen points a game.
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  But I mean, like you said, Indiana is even better.
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  They're second. We're giving up 11.
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  So like you don't even have a huge advantage there.
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  I talked about Miami having 16 picks.
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  Guess who has more? Indiana.
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  They have 18 on the season and and ranked 7th in the country.
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  And, and Miami's secondary has been where their issue is on on
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  defense. You know, they've given up over
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  200 passing yards a game on the season and I just don't think
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  that bodes well. Do what I.
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  Think they're a little banged up in the secondary too with some
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  injuries. Yeah, so, so it's.
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  A bitch. Good luck.
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  Yeah, you, you got to establish the run you got.
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  You got to try to get a turnover early to set the tone.
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  The otherwise I, I see the same thing happening we've seen in
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  the first two games. And like, we need to quit saying
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  that these games are going to be close because Sig and his crew
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  have proven that it's not going to be.
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  And like, if I mean, I think this is going to be a 2030 point
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  game. I really do.
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  And I wish I would have gone out on a limb and said this the
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  first two rounds, but it's Indiana.
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  Like, and did you see them play in Oregon?
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  You see them play in Alabama? That doesn't matter.
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  That doesn't matter. They they are the best team.
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  And if they go out and they don't make mistakes, they're
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  going to win by 2030 points. I agree 100% with you, yeah.
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  You got, you got nothing. No, that's you're spot on.
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  They are Alabama. Alabama and Oregon, you talked
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  about how you're worried they might lose.
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  I should have doubted it. I I don't know.
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  I don't know why, but because I mean, I guess like because the
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  two times they've played, you know, a really good team like in
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  Ohio State or in Oregon, they've been close games like they won
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  by three points against an Ohio State, They won by a ten against
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  Oregon. Like they blew out a lot of
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  teams, but they didn't blow out a lot of really good teams like
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  this. I didn't expect them to do this,
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  but they are. I mean they're.
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  Nobody expected to do this either.
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  Let's say, you know, for argument's sake, and we can talk
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  about this if and when it happens next week is if they do
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  come out and win this game by 20 or 30 points like they are in
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  the discussion, probably of one of the greatest football teams
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  ever. They have to be.
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  They have to be. Like, I don't know if they're as
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  good as that Joe Burrow LSU team or if they're as good as that
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  Miami team in the early 2000s, but they're up there, man.
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  They're. They're in the conversation and
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  look, they're they're the first team that's ever had to win
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  three games to do this. If they do it, which puts a
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  notch on their belt for sure. Wait.
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  They'd be what? They'd be what now?
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  They'll they they had to win three games to win.
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  Ohio State Ohio State won four last year.
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  We're not putting the putting them in the conversation.
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  One of the best teams ever. Oh, we're not, but I mean, this
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  is not unprecedented for. No, but I'm I'm saying as far as
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  best teams ever, yeah, correct. If you're talking about the the
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  Joe Burrow LSU team, they didn't have to win three games.
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  They won, yes, Correct. They won.
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  They won. Yeah, I'm not putting, I don't
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  think that Ohio State team belongs in that conversation as
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  as one of the best teams ever. I mean they came in as what, a
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  8910 seat? Last year there were like an 8.
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  Yeah, yeah. But I mean, and we've, we've hit
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  this so many times, but unlike anything we've ever seen in the
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  history of sports. And I mean, they're 60 minutes
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  away of playing the football that they've played all year and
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  don't even have to play a great game, just have to do what
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  they've done all year. And they'll be hanging a banner
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  at at the Rock. At the Rock.
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  Like how does that even make sense?
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  Well, it doesn't, man. I just remember the days back in
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  school and we went, you know, me and Tab and Brian Weigel and
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  Jeff Hall and, and, and the roommates, we, we went to the
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  games. We weren't some like the, the
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  typical students that, you know, oh, you got IU students don't go
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  to football games. They just tailgate in the field
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  and drink beer and don't even care.
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  And like, no, we actually were the the students that did go to
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  the games in the bad weather, in the cold, in the rain and wash
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  their teeth, get kicked in by Minnesota, you know, so.
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  Did you all? Would you all stay for the whole
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  game or you gone? No.
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  We stayed, man, we stayed. We stayed.
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  We walked from 3rd St. all the way to 17th St. to the stadium.
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  And I mean, we were those fans that that were there and
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  watched, like I said, get our butts, get whooped by a
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  Minnesota or a Michigan State and never would have dreamed
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  that IU football would be where they are right now.
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  No, I mean, and I mean I've been to several games at at IU when I
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  mean there was nobody there. There was nobody there when I
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  was. Yeah, no.
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  I mean, nobody there and it's just the into the season ticket
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  owners that have been going to games for 20-30, forty years.
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  Like I can't even imagine like what's going through their head
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  during these and they decide just this year, it's last year
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  too. Like how fun was last year when
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  it came out of nowhere. Like this year, you knew you
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  were going to be good. You didn't maybe know you're
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  going to be this good, but you knew you were going to be good.
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  And like, that's what being a fan is all about.
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  Like, like sticking it, like sticking it sticking in through
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  the thick and thin. Like when your team's terrible,
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  there wasn't a lot of thick either.
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  It was all thin for IUI mean the worst, the worst power
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  conference team in the history of college football.
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  And I don't know, it's just it's going to make a hell of a 30 for
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  30 and it's going to happen pretty quick.
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  They need to make one. There's nothing.
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  It's. Going to happen pretty quick,
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  but watch, we're watching it at the crib.
• 20:00
  Is that the plane? Oh.
• 20:02
  Yeah, we're talking about that maybe having some people over.
• 20:04
  Yeah, I think that's probably the plane get get a group of the
• 20:08
  the friends and watch it over here.
• 20:12
  Well, Indiana Hoosiers are playing for a national title.
• 20:18
  I mean, that's it. Like I got nothing.
• 20:20
  I got nothing. You.
• 20:23
  Got to finish the job. They do have to finish the job.
• 20:27
  You. I guess we can go in the order
• 20:30
  of playoff games. The Panthers were 10 point dogs
• 20:41
  and look like they're for a second.
• 20:42
  They might be in for the upset, but #9 did what number 9 did
• 20:48
  does and got them in the end zone late and they avoided a
• 20:53
  scare is a lot of the, I mean a lot of people are picking the
• 20:56
  Rams to win at all and they escape and move on, which is
• 21:00
  what it's all about at this point.
• 21:01
  Yeah, I mean, that was it was it was the first game in the
• 21:05
  playoffs and it started out with a great game.
• 21:07
  And I mean, were, are you surprised that it that it was
• 21:11
  close that the Rams that the, the, the Panthers had a chance?
• 21:15
  Because, you know, in Week 13, the Panthers took care of the
• 21:19
  Rams at home. So this is not unfamiliar
• 21:22
  territory for, for the, for the Panthers.
• 21:24
  They've already beaten this team once and they were on the
• 21:27
  doorstep of doing it again. But like you said, Matthew
• 21:30
  Stafford became Matthew Stafford and they scored that touchdown
• 21:33
  with two minutes left. And the Panthers on their last
• 21:37
  drive, didn't move the ball at all.
• 21:38
  And that was all she wrote. But.
• 21:41
  No, I mean, I was just, I mean I didn't think Carolina would
• 21:44
  score 31 points. And I mean Bryce Young was
• 21:48
  barely over 50% completion but threw for 264 yards.
• 21:51
  And I mean, Jalen Coker was a, was a, was a dude.
• 21:55
  He was a dude almost had 9 catches for 134 yards in a
• 21:59
  tutty. And I mean you, you got to give
• 22:03
  Carolina some credit for for sticking in there.
• 22:05
  The crowd was into it. They got behind early, had it
• 22:07
  look like the Rams might just kind of put it away early and
• 22:11
  Puka missed that one easy touchdown and that kind of spun
• 22:15
  the game a little bit. But, and Stafford hurt his hand.
• 22:18
  You thought maybe that would be an issue, but he was able to
• 22:20
  tough it out. And but no, I mean, there's
• 22:26
  something about having home field advantage in a playoff
• 22:29
  game. And I don't care if you're 8 or
• 22:30
  9 or or what your record is. So they didn't deserve it.
• 22:34
  But but still getting a road playoff win and and figure out a
• 22:37
  way to survive. I mean, that's what the playoffs
• 22:39
  are all about. And you got to give Stafford
• 22:41
  credit. And I think that's why he's
• 22:43
  probably going to be the MVP. Yeah.
• 22:47
  No, no, you're right. You're right.
• 22:51
  And then the bears do what the bears do.
• 22:54
  How do they keep doing it? I don't know.
• 22:57
  You're down 11 late. You're down what, at 18?
• 23:01
  Down 18 going to halftime. Yeah.
• 23:07
  And these fourth down plays that Kayla Williams continues to make
• 23:12
  when everything's on the line, it's what is this his seventh
• 23:18
  game-winning drive of the year when they needed to drive to win
• 23:23
  it late. And they're 11 and 6, meaning
• 23:25
  seven of their eleven wins have come on their last drive, which
• 23:29
  is the only time I bet it is when I bet against the Niners,
• 23:34
  the one time they didn't do it. So for all the Bears fans out
• 23:37
  there, I will not be betting on the on the Bears late because
• 23:41
  that will run their run. I don't want that on me.
• 23:44
  But I mean, it wasn't like, once again, Caleb Williams is only
• 23:49
  50%, but when he needs to make plays, he makes plays.
• 23:56
  And there was no love lost between the two coaches after
• 24:01
  the game. No, I saw that and that was kind
• 24:04
  of funny. That's that's what the sport
• 24:08
  needs. We need some more of that.
• 24:09
  We need some more fire. Well, let me When we did our
• 24:12
  rivalry rankings, what, a couple months ago or maybe about a
• 24:16
  month ago before the game, we included the Bears and the
• 24:19
  Packers. We did.
• 24:20
  And that's because it is one of the oh, it's the Otis rivalry
• 24:24
  and probably professional sports in the United States.
• 24:28
  Yeah. I want to if it's not.
• 24:31
  And yeah, like Ben Johnson, hating the Packers as much as he
• 24:36
  does is good for the rivalry. It's great for the, I mean, he,
• 24:40
  he came from, did he come from Detroit?
• 24:42
  Yeah, he was there, OC. Yeah, so I mean, he's he has a
• 24:45
  history of playing the Packers and you know, he probably hated
• 24:47
  the Packers from when he was in Detroit.
• 24:48
  And when you become the head coach of their big of Green
• 24:53
  Bay's biggest rival, I mean, you're probably going to hate
• 24:56
  him even another level. So it's good for the rivalry.
• 24:58
  I love it. I love his little locker room
• 25:00
  antics and everything that he did.
• 25:02
  Do you like to? Blow by?
• 25:04
  Yeah, why not? Are you a blow by guy?
• 25:07
  In a situation like that, you have an emotional game, you pick
• 25:10
  up the win. Basically, when it was down to
• 25:12
  the last play, you're fired up. I mean, I'm not going to sit
• 25:16
  there, shake your hand and talk to you for 5 minutes.
• 25:18
  I'm going to give you a quick handshake and I'm running and
• 25:20
  celebrating with my guys. I can't wait to get to that
• 25:23
  locker room and celebrate with my guys.
• 25:24
  So yeah, getting the handshake and.
• 25:27
  It was barely even a handshake. It was just shouldn't go.
• 25:29
  And he slid left too. Like I could never do it
• 25:34
  personally. Like if I was a head coach
• 25:35
  there's no way I could do it. But as a fan of a team, I kind
• 25:40
  of want my coach to be a Dick. I.
• 25:43
  Mean some of the greatest coaches are are that way, yeah.
• 25:46
  No, I and I mean, that's what Zach Taylor is not.
• 25:49
  He's clearly not that. No, he's not and.
• 25:53
  Like, I don't know, I kind of loved it.
• 25:57
  I kind of loved it. And as a Bears fan, I would love
• 25:59
  it. Like, I agree with you.
• 26:01
  I want my coach to hate every team they play, especially our
• 26:05
  division rivals. Yeah, yeah, you're going to
• 26:07
  respect them and show respect, but you hate them and want to
• 26:10
  beat them. And I want to see my coach in
• 26:13
  the locker room after the game saying F the team that we just
• 26:16
  beat. That's what he did.
• 26:19
  I mean, and you would never, ever would see Zach Taylor say F
• 26:23
  the Steelers or F the Ravens after they beat him.
• 26:26
  I really wish you would sometimes show me that he cares
• 26:29
  a little bit. You know, you, you'd want your
• 26:31
  coach to kind of have that edge, to kind of be a jerk, to be a
• 26:34
  maniac. Yeah.
• 26:36
  And I mean, as a human being, I'm like, no, it's kind of job
• 26:40
  as a fan of a team, that's kind of what I want to see.
• 26:44
  And. Like it was, it was an emotional
• 26:48
  game Like that came down to that last play.
• 26:49
  Like I said, like he's excited. He wants to get to the locker
• 26:52
  room and celebrate with his with his team.
• 26:54
  So give him a quick handshake and run off the field.
• 26:57
  I got no problem with it. I think he also.
• 26:59
  Got it up. I think there's also a little
• 27:02
  bit of strategy there too, like he wants to be a little bit of,
• 27:07
  you know. Yeah, I mean.
• 27:10
  You wonder if Lafleur. Packers don't like it.
• 27:12
  Packers. How will he?
• 27:14
  How will he respond? Will he start acting the same
• 27:15
  way back to him because he hasn't acted that way towards
• 27:18
  the Bears? No, he has not and.
• 27:21
  Where did all these cheese grater hats come from over the
• 27:24
  last month? Everybody has cheese grater
• 27:26
  hats. It's the first time the bears
• 27:28
  have been good in a while and now they they they're they're
• 27:30
  talking all the smack. He had the he had the actually
• 27:35
  had the cheese grater hat. He had the actual cheese grater
• 27:37
  on the set after the game. It was great and some freshly
• 27:41
  some fresh cheddar on the post game set.
• 27:44
  Yes, the Bills and Josh Allen finally came into this game, O
• 27:51
  and four and road playoff games. They were O and eight dating
• 27:55
  back to like the early 90s. In their last eight playoff
• 27:59
  games, they were down. They trailed late.
• 28:02
  But I mean, Josh Allen gets 10 yards on a on a tush push.
• 28:07
  Tush push, yeah. Get some down to the one they
• 28:11
  end up getting in on the next play and and then they they get
• 28:13
  a pick to seal it. But I mean, I think this, I
• 28:18
  mean, obviously it's a tough road for the Bills, but them
• 28:21
  getting that road win and getting that off off the snide a
• 28:25
  little bit, giving Josh Allen some confidence, I think could
• 28:28
  really kind of propel this team on a on a Super Bowl run.
• 28:33
  Yeah, I think the Bills are would be my choice to win the
• 28:36
  Super Bowl. And if they're not going to do
• 28:38
  it this year, then I don't know when they would with no Mahomes,
• 28:41
  no Burrow, no Lamar. You know, this is Josh Allen's
• 28:43
  time to shine. He's the superstar of these
• 28:45
  playoffs. He's the defending MVP.
• 28:47
  Like this is his moment, you know, And yesterday when when
• 28:51
  his team hit him the most, he stepped up and and let him on
• 28:53
  that touchdown drive. But a great game, Jackson.
• 28:56
  What a season Jacksonville had but a great game, 4-4 lead,
• 29:00
  changes in the fourth quarter. But Buffalo I think is just a
• 29:05
  little bit better. They're the better team.
• 29:07
  Think they're probably, in my opinion, probably the best team
• 29:09
  in these playoffs right now. But I mean nobody, I did not
• 29:15
  expect Jacksonville to even nobody expects Jacksonville to
• 29:18
  be here, but not let alone put up a fight in the first round of
• 29:21
  against against Buffalo and Josh Allen.
• 29:27
  No, I mean, yeah, give reward for how many in a row do they go
• 29:31
  into the playoff winning seven or eight in a row and and your
• 29:35
  your reward is to play Josh Allen and and Buffalo at at
• 29:39
  home. Tough match up.
• 29:41
  Yeah, definitely. It's tough.
• 29:43
  I mean, you're getting the best quarterback in the in the
• 29:46
  playoffs and I mean, there's nothing to hang their head about
• 29:50
  about for Jacksonville. And I don't know if you saw the
• 29:54
  the Post game. I did, Yeah.
• 29:57
  But there was a reporter that was basically saying what we're
• 30:01
  saying and saying the coach. And you can kind of see that
• 30:05
  Liam Cohen is down. I mean, you just got beat all
• 30:08
  you, you're exhausted. You're disappointed.
• 30:10
  And she's just like, no great season.
• 30:13
  Like keep your head up and you can see his face kind of lighten
• 30:16
  up. He did.
• 30:17
  I think he appreciated what she was saying to him.
• 30:21
  And there's a lot of people that are saying, you know what?
• 30:25
  That's not really acceptable in a press conference.
• 30:29
  That's not what a a reporter should be saying to a coach.
• 30:32
  What are your? What's your take?
• 30:34
  On that, why not? It's not like it's a regular
• 30:36
  season game. You're like, man, keep your head
• 30:38
  up coach. You almost pulled that one out
• 30:39
  here in week 13. No, his season is over and it
• 30:42
  was a great season To me. He's probably should be coach of
• 30:44
  the year, NFL coach of the year. You know, you take a
• 30:48
  Jacksonville Jaguar, You had the number two overall pick in the
• 30:50
  draft last year. You were terrible, and not only
• 30:53
  did you win the division, you won the division winning seven
• 30:57
  straight games. You're hosting a playoff game.
• 30:59
  You're taking the Buffalo Bills, who are probably the Super Bowl
• 31:02
  favorites with the defending MVP, down to the wire in a game
• 31:07
  that you could have and maybe should have won at the end
• 31:09
  there. I got no problem with it.
• 31:11
  Like the season's over. Like now.
• 31:13
  Wait, if if not, that's not the time.
• 31:15
  When's the time? Because she's not going to talk
• 31:17
  to him again. She's not going to talk to him
• 31:18
  again until next season. Look and look reporters and
• 31:23
  coaches develop relationships and.
• 31:24
  They're human like they're human beings.
• 31:27
  Like everybody who's mad about this, get off your high horse.
• 31:31
  They're human beings, like. And this is what?
• 31:35
  Like it was so wholesome. Yes, right, Yes.
• 31:38
  But you genuinely see his face be lifted by her encouragement.
• 31:42
  I don't I didn't see The Who they actually like.
• 31:44
  I never saw a picture of her, but she sounded like she might
• 31:46
  have been a little bit older than Liam Cohen because she said
• 31:48
  hold your head up, young man called him a young man.
• 31:50
  So I mean, that's, you know, that's just a sign of respect
• 31:54
  between two humans, like a genuine interaction.
• 31:57
  They got no issue with that. Yeah, I mean, you're seeing
• 32:00
  people like the AP reporters out there.
• 32:02
  Either be a reporter or be a fan.
• 32:04
  You can't do both. Why can't you be a reporter and
• 32:07
  respect the job that? Somebody what this isn't being a
• 32:09
  fan this. Was it was it was not a fan
• 32:11
  comment. That was not a fan comment.
• 32:13
  Look, hold your head up. You had a great year.
• 32:15
  Like nobody expected y'all to do what you did this year.
• 32:17
  Like you had a chance to be the one seed.
• 32:19
  Correct. No one into and you didn't do
• 32:21
  anything like you won all your games.
• 32:25
  No, I just thought this is what sports is about.
• 32:28
  And I, it was just to see his face go from being dejected to
• 32:34
  seeing him kind of light up and be like, you know what?
• 32:36
  We should, yeah, we're disappointed, but we should be
• 32:38
  proud of the job we did. And like everybody who's saying,
• 32:43
  just get out of here. Now, like I said, it was genuine
• 32:46
  interaction between two humans and he definitely looked like he
• 32:50
  appreciated the words that she was saying.
• 32:52
  Oh, there's no doubt. So I got yeah, it's dumb.
• 32:56
  Absolutely dumb. Super Bowl champs are done.
• 33:02
  I think that when I got right that you got wrong.
• 33:04
  You did pick that one, didn't you?
• 33:06
  Yeah, so that makes up for me picking the Chargers over the
• 33:09
  Patriots, but. Yeah, I forgot you picked that
• 33:13
  one too. I mean the Jawan Jennings
• 33:17
  touchdown pass to Christian McCaffrey.
• 33:19
  I mean Christian McCaffrey. I know he only had 100 total
• 33:22
  yards, 50 rushing, 70 receiving, but and I know that they're
• 33:28
  handing probably the MVP trophy to to to Stafford or maybe Drake
• 33:32
  May, but Christian McCaffrey needs to be talked about more
• 33:35
  for the MVP for what he does. I.
• 33:37
  Mean his numbers. He almost had 1000 yards
• 33:40
  receiving and rushing this year. No, he's a do it all kind of
• 33:43
  back and there's no question he's the the Swiss army knife of
• 33:45
  that team. And it's, it's good to see him
• 33:48
  finally stay healthy for for a whole season And, and you really
• 33:51
  showcase, you know, just how good he is because we knew he
• 33:54
  was good, but he wasn't playing full seasons.
• 33:57
  He was playing half seasons and missing games here and there.
• 33:59
  So, you know, it is good to see him finally healthy and doing
• 34:02
  this, you know, on a big stage. But this game and you know,
• 34:07
  Philadelphia LED pretty much the entire way, but I always felt,
• 34:15
  and I don't know if this was because they've had issues
• 34:18
  offensively. They, you know, I don't know
• 34:22
  what it was, but something told me that San Francisco was going
• 34:26
  to figure out a way to win this game.
• 34:28
  And in the end, that's what happened.
• 34:31
  And like, their linebackers are all banged up.
• 34:36
  They're they're playing guys that haven't played all year.
• 34:39
  And they were all over the field making stops.
• 34:40
  And I mean, what the Bengals couldn't do all year is get a
• 34:44
  stop on the fourth quarter when you're you've got the lead and
• 34:47
  they've got all these backups in there and, and they're figuring
• 34:50
  out a way to get stops. And you, you got to give
• 34:53
  Shanahan and his crew credit because I feel like they do this
• 34:55
  every year. They deal with injuries more
• 34:56
  than anybody else. At least it seems that way.
• 35:00
  And we're at least of the teams that are still successful.
• 35:03
  And I mean, party made plays when he needed to.
• 35:07
  He had he had two interceptions. And I mean, Juicyk had a couple
• 35:11
  huge plays, their full back and a huge start down reception to
• 35:16
  to keep a drive alive. And I don't know, like this 49er
• 35:22
  team, like it's going to be two NFC West teams playing to go to
• 35:27
  the title. Which one?
• 35:32
  Seahawks. Seahawks.
• 35:33
  Rams. Like who?
• 35:35
  Yeah, no, you're right. Oh, but I didn't expect it to
• 35:40
  happen. I thought that the Eagles win
• 35:41
  this game. Obviously we talked about it
• 35:43
  last week. The Eagles offense was just bad.
• 35:46
  It's been that. It's been a consistent all year.
• 35:49
  During the game, you've got A.J. Brown and Nick Sirianni going at
• 35:52
  it on the sideline like they just looked at a source.
• 35:55
  They just, I don't know, something's off.
• 35:57
  The offense was terrible, only putting up 19 points.
• 35:59
  You're not going to win very many games putting up 19 points.
• 36:02
  But you know, credit to the the Niners defense and Robert Sala,
• 36:06
  former head coach is DC out there.
• 36:08
  He's probably going to end up with a head coaching job.
• 36:10
  I would say this cycle. I would take him as a Bengals
• 36:12
  fan. I'd put him on my team.
• 36:13
  And I, I would love Robert Sala be my head coach because he's,
• 36:17
  he knows what he's doing and he's got his defense prepared
• 36:19
  and they were prepared yesterday and, and shut down the Eagles.
• 36:24
  Yeah. And you talked about A.J.
• 36:25
  Brown and yeah, you see that interaction on the sideline and
• 36:29
  then a big moment in the fourth down and he just straight drops
• 36:33
  the ball. That drop the ball going to go
• 36:34
  for a 30 to 40 yard gain. And they just didn't seem like a
• 36:40
  winning football team to me. And you can't have those issues.
• 36:46
  I don't think you can just flip the switch and turn it on in the
• 36:49
  playoffs, even if you are the defending Super Bowl champions.
• 36:51
  And you know, I give San Francisco credit.
• 36:55
  They had that big play to DeMarcus Robinson to start the
• 36:58
  game, that 61 yard game that set them up and they took the seven
• 37:01
  O lead. But I mean, they really didn't
• 37:03
  do anything the second and third quarter and their defense held
• 37:08
  serve against the Philadelphia offense.
• 37:09
  That maybe isn't all that good right now, But they they hung in
• 37:13
  there and were able to make plays in the fourth quarter and
• 37:16
  figure out a way to win on the road, which any, any time you
• 37:20
  went on the road in the playoffs, it's big.
• 37:22
  But when you can do it against the defending Super Bowl
• 37:23
  champions, it's it's even bigger.
• 37:27
  Yeah, yeah. So I'm kind of glad the Eagles
• 37:30
  lost. I mean, get some new blood in
• 37:33
  the in the Super Bowl. So now next week in the in the
• 37:39
  AFC side, we got the Bills going to Denver.
• 37:42
  Yeah. And then you've got it'll be
• 37:45
  either the Steelers or the OR the Texans going to the
• 37:50
  Patriots. Patriots, yeah.
• 37:52
  And then the Niners go to the Seahawks and the Rams go to the
• 37:56
  Bears. So Bills, Broncos, you go to
• 38:00
  Bills. Yeah, yeah, I'm, I know the
• 38:05
  Broncos are the one seed, but we've said, I've said all year,
• 38:08
  I'm still not sold on them. I mean, they've pulled out games
• 38:10
  that I can't believe they pulled out.
• 38:12
  And you know, they, they just lost to Jacksonville at home
• 38:16
  toward the end of the season and they lost about double digits to
• 38:19
  the to the, to the Jaguars. So Buffalo on the road already
• 38:23
  beating Jacksonville, winning a playoff game on the road.
• 38:25
  I see no issue with them going to Denver and winning.
• 38:28
  Yeah. And you know, you wonder like
• 38:30
  we've and I know they're not taking a month off like they do
• 38:32
  in college football, but you wonder if the Bills get a little
• 38:35
  bit advantage from playing last week too.
• 38:38
  So and getting that win on the road.
• 38:40
  And now they've got a little momentum.
• 38:42
  They're 1 1/2 point favorites. I'm I'm, I'm going the Bills.
• 38:46
  And then the other game on Saturday is, is going to be the
• 38:49
  Niners at the Seahawks. We just saw all this game, what,
• 38:53
  two well, two weeks ago, it was the last game of the regular
• 38:56
  season and, and the Seahawks just absolutely put it on the
• 38:59
  Niners. They couldn't do anything
• 39:01
  offensively. Which that was when that that
• 39:03
  was for the 1C. When the when that for the 1C.
• 39:06
  Yeah, no, yeah. Seahawks hold them to three
• 39:08
  points. That game was in San Fran.
• 39:12
  I just think the Seahawks are better.
• 39:14
  They'll probably end up winning the game, especially at home.
• 39:15
  But the 12th man, give me the Seahawks.
• 39:18
  No George Kittle for the Niners. You know, we saw Sam Darnold
• 39:27
  take his team to a one seed last year.
• 39:29
  And then he choked in the playoffs, Yeah.
• 39:31
  And you just beat this team. Yeah, they just got a little
• 39:35
  momentum with with the road win at Super Bowl champions.
• 39:40
  I just think there's something special about this Niners team
• 39:46
  and I, I think both one sees are going to get beat on Saturday.
• 39:49
  I mean, Sam Darnell has shown in the past he's susceptible for
• 39:53
  that 4 interception game like he he can, he can turn it over with
• 39:56
  the best of them. He's.
• 39:57
  He's going to have to because their defense is so good.
• 40:00
  Yeah, he's going to have to make mistakes.
• 40:03
  Brock party's going to have to limit his mistakes, but there's
• 40:06
  just something. Like I said, they were down the
• 40:09
  whole game against the Eagles and I just kept thinking the
• 40:11
  Niners are going to win. I there's something that tells
• 40:14
  me the Niners are going to they're not going to lose 2
• 40:16
  games in a row to the Seahawks. They're going to figure out a
• 40:18
  way to win late, and both 1 seeds will go down on Saturday.
• 40:24
  So Nick Evans, the biggest 49ers fan I know.
• 40:27
  I'm definitely not a Niners fan. Beat the Bengals in the Super
• 40:31
  Bowl twice, so Rams at Bears. I don't even know how to pick
• 40:38
  this one. Like it it.
• 40:41
  On paper, I think the Rams should should win by two
• 40:44
  touchdowns. But the Bears always find a way
• 40:48
  to get it done. They get it done every time.
• 40:52
  I don't know. I got I think the Rams are
• 40:54
  better. I think the Rams should win.
• 40:57
  But every time I doubt the Bears, they prove me wrong.
• 41:00
  I mean, I'm still going Rams, but I, I, I would not be shocked
• 41:03
  if the Bears pull this out. Vegas agrees with you, they are
• 41:05
  3 1/2 point favorites on the road.
• 41:08
  Seattle, I didn't mention that is 7 point favorite at home
• 41:11
  against the Niners, which I think that's really high.
• 41:16
  That is high. But I mean, at what point is
• 41:21
  this Bears magic going to run out?
• 41:27
  Like, I mean, I think if you put these two teams side by side,
• 41:31
  it's it's pretty clear you pick the Rams.
• 41:37
  But there's, they just, they just keep doing it.
• 41:40
  And you know, like you're talking about how good the 49ers
• 41:42
  are. The Bears were on the doorstep.
• 41:45
  They were at the goal line to win that game in San Francisco
• 41:48
  in Week 16. It's like they they've proven
• 41:51
  that they can play with the good teams in this league.
• 41:55
  This is just another another case of that, just another
• 41:57
  chance for them to prove it again.
• 41:58
  And I don't I, I hate to doubt them, but I don't.
• 42:04
  Know I I think this one is so hard to pick too.
• 42:08
  I've already went two Rd. teams, can I go 3 Rd. teams?
• 42:12
  And this would be the road team I would pick out of all of them.
• 42:15
  Yeah, I, I mean, I, I think it's like I, I think it's going to be
• 42:21
  two NFC West teams in the NFC title game.
• 42:25
  So give me 3 Rd. Rd. winners next.
• 42:31
  Week, I'll tell you who you're not going to pick on the road,
• 42:33
  and that's whoever wins this Steelers and Texans game going
• 42:37
  to New England unless you want to go with the Texans, who won
• 42:41
  eight straight. They, I mean they have the best
• 42:45
  argument. Might have won nine straight.
• 42:46
  They won the last week of the year, so they won nine straight.
• 42:48
  They have arguably the best defense in the in the NFL, but
• 42:53
  I'm not after seeing what the Patriots did last night.
• 42:57
  Their defence is incredible and Drake May is like Drake May's.
• 43:03
  Why I trust the Patriots and why I don't trust the Broncos?
• 43:08
  Because. They're Bo Nicks more
• 43:11
  trustworthy. More trustworthy than Bo Nicks?
• 43:13
  Absolutely. Like I think he's proven that.
• 43:16
  And yeah, Bo Nicks has had some great games.
• 43:19
  I don't trust him game in, game out.
• 43:22
  I think it's kind of scary what New England's building after
• 43:27
  what they did under Tom Brady. A little bit to me with Rabel
• 43:31
  with. Drake, Mike Rabel's The X Factor
• 43:33
  there. You know, he he comes in, cleans
• 43:36
  it up and look what they're they they they turn themselves into a
• 43:39
  two seed after being the worst team in football for like the
• 43:41
  last two to three years. Yeah, but.
• 43:45
  No, I mean, I I don't care if they play the Texans or the
• 43:48
  Steelers aren't I'm going Patriots.
• 43:50
  But it's not surprising what Rabel's doing.
• 43:52
  This is after I picked him to get upset last week just because
• 43:54
  I'm I was. Yeah, it's, it's not surprising
• 43:58
  what Rabel's doing there. I expected them to and I thought
• 44:00
  he was going to do a great job and, and and make them good.
• 44:03
  I just can't believe it. He he happened in one year.
• 44:07
  It's like the signeti of NFL football right now.
• 44:10
  Well, when you get a head coaching job, what is the most
• 44:14
  important thing? Players.
• 44:17
  Well, and specifically. Good players.
• 44:20
  Well, and and a quarterback. And a quarterback, yes.
• 44:23
  You, you, you can't win in this league if you don't have a
• 44:26
  quarterback. And, and when you take a job,
• 44:29
  it's I mean, can you? I mean, you look at Jacksonville
• 44:35
  like we we talked about Trevor Lawrence going down that road
• 44:38
  of, you know, maybe he's going down the road of two and, and
• 44:41
  falling apart and his career might have been over and he gets
• 44:44
  Liam Cohen injected into his veins and all of a sudden
• 44:46
  Jacksonville becomes. Well, Neil, he's a, he's a
• 44:50
  former first overall pick. I know that, but that mean
• 44:55
  people were ready to move on from him.
• 44:57
  Yeah. But I, I, I'm just saying like
• 44:58
  the most important position and maybe of all sports is a
• 45:00
  quarterback. It is.
• 45:02
  And when you take a job at a new team and you go there and you've
• 45:06
  already got Drake May, who's got a little bit over a half a year
• 45:10
  under his belt where he showed promise, that's that's a
• 45:14
  benefit. But see, that's, that's the
• 45:16
  difference between Rabel and Cohen is Rabel's going into to
• 45:19
  New England, where Drake May's only been there for he's still
• 45:21
  raw. He's only been there for a year,
• 45:22
  maybe played 1/2 a year last year because Kobe Brissette
• 45:25
  started. And then you got Liam Cohen,
• 45:28
  who's going into Trevor Lawrence, who's been in the
• 45:29
  league now for what, 6 years? I don't know.
• 45:31
  So what are you, what are we arguing here?
• 45:33
  Is that you're talking about the the key is having a good
• 45:36
  quarterback and New England has it.
• 45:37
  I'm, I'm not sold that Jacksonville had that good
• 45:40
  quarterback when Liam Cohen took over.
• 45:41
  I'm not saying I'm not sold that quarterback play is what made
• 45:44
  Jacksonville good. I I think that's why I would
• 45:49
  give Liam Cohen the the coach. That's that's the case.
• 45:52
  That's why I think he should be coached.
• 45:54
  He had to rebuild Trevor Lawrence's confidence.
• 45:56
  Yeah, because, you know, Trevor Lawrence has the tools.
• 46:01
  He's got the tools. Like he's already proven it.
• 46:02
  He's had good years. He's already took the
• 46:04
  Jacksonville to the playoffs. Yeah.
• 46:07
  I mean, you know, the kids Got Talent and Liam Coleman was able
• 46:11
  to to build his confidence up and that's why I don't remember
• 46:15
  their OCS name. But he's getting looks for for
• 46:17
  head coach jobs. He just interviewed with with
• 46:20
  Cleveland. So that's why Liam Cohen, I
• 46:24
  think is the coach of the year. But I mean, I just, I think it's
• 46:27
  scary kind of a little bit with variables building there in New
• 46:30
  England. And after seeing this New
• 46:32
  England dynasty with Tom Brady for so many years and being, I
• 46:37
  mean, a little bit happy that they're, they haven't been good
• 46:40
  for the last what, four or five years.
• 46:43
  And now it looks like they're going to be around for a long
• 46:46
  time again. I hate that you.
• 46:51
  Know what else is going to be around for a long time?
• 46:52
  It looks like. Duke Tobin.
• 46:57
  I'm not good at these. Sometimes I like I'm OK with
• 46:59
  these little. Duke Tobin.
• 47:02
  Did you listen to the presser? I did, I was at work.
• 47:05
  I, I, I read the, I read the, the transcripts, I read the
• 47:08
  quotes. I heard it all.
• 47:10
  It to me, it's still a bunch of word vomit.
• 47:12
  It's he still has confidence in the talent that we have.
• 47:15
  He wants to improve. He basically what I, what I, the
• 47:18
  gist of what I heard was he wants to improve the LeBron, the
• 47:21
  lines, the front lines of the offense and the defence, but
• 47:24
  mainly the defensive line. And his philosophy of pressuring
• 47:26
  the quarterback would will take off the pressure of the
• 47:28
  secondary. And maybe it wasn't all their
• 47:30
  fault because we didn't get pressure on the quarterback.
• 47:33
  We didn't do that last year either.
• 47:35
  You didn't fix it. Right, that's what I'm saying.
• 47:38
  It's all to me what thinks he understands the problem but he I
• 47:43
  need I need him to fix it. Before we RIP it into like, were
• 47:47
  there any positives you took from it?
• 47:49
  Because there were there were a few I took.
• 47:51
  What's here? What are your positives?
• 47:54
  I mean, I I think at least admitting that they need to do
• 47:56
  more on defense and they need to do more on free agency.
• 47:59
  Well, if he doesn't say that, he's not going to have a job,
• 48:01
  Nick, Of course he's going to say that.
• 48:03
  What are you trying to say? Hold on.
• 48:05
  So you expected so you're positive is he got up there and
• 48:08
  said that the defense wasn't good enough?
• 48:10
  What was he going to? Say good enough they didn't do
• 48:12
  anything in free agency. What was he going to say?
• 48:15
  He didn't talk last year either. He did, he just didn't talk at
• 48:21
  paycore after the season was over.
• 48:23
  That's. What I'm saying he didn't have
• 48:24
  this press conference last year. So no, I did not expect him to
• 48:27
  get up there and say, man, the defense, it wasn't their fault.
• 48:30
  Well, well, like, of course, if he doesn't get up there and say
• 48:32
  it's not acceptable, then they're going to have a problem.
• 48:35
  Otherwise, what are you talking for?
• 48:38
  No. I mean, yeah, but really, that's
• 48:41
  about the only positive I took from it.
• 48:43
  So the only problem was him admitting the defense wasn't
• 48:45
  good. Well, the numbers say that
• 48:46
  because we were 30th and 31st and scoring.
• 48:49
  To him, it was not just defense, it was not getting stops late
• 48:53
  and he's he and not playing complimentary football, which
• 48:57
  he's he's right with that. I mean, even when the defense
• 48:59
  was a little better, I mean the offense, I mean, you can't have
• 49:04
  two turnovers for pick sixes. You can't have how many, how
• 49:07
  many touchdowns did the offense give up this year?
• 49:09
  I agree. I mean, you can't do that
• 49:12
  either. So you have to fight, figure out
• 49:13
  a way to play complimentary football.
• 49:15
  But you're right, like it's he's very defensive the whole time.
• 49:22
  He like there was a question asked about trying to do get
• 49:27
  contracts done earlier and like, and you've got Dax Hill and
• 49:31
  you've got DJ Turner, guys that are eligible for contract
• 49:34
  extensions, go ahead and trying to get them done.
• 49:36
  And they he acts like they've tried to do that in the past.
• 49:40
  And no, you didn't. And that's why you had to over
• 49:43
  like pay more for Jamar and T. Like, if you would have got
• 49:45
  those done earlier, you would have spent less money and then
• 49:48
  your entire offseason wouldn't have revolved around their
• 49:51
  extensions and you would had an opportunity to maybe go after
• 49:54
  some more free agents, that is. Correct.
• 49:56
  Get in front of some of this stuff.
• 49:58
  That 100%. Quit telling me that.
• 50:01
  We've done it before. We've done it before.
• 50:04
  Yeah, you have. You got to the Super Bowl, you
• 50:06
  got to the AFC Championship. That was four and five years
• 50:10
  ago. That was four and five years
• 50:12
  ago. Just because you did it doesn't
• 50:14
  mean you can do it again. Like you have to change.
• 50:18
  Like you have to change the way that you're doing things.
• 50:21
  And, and I know it's small that I get a little bit of positives
• 50:26
  from the fact that he's like, we got to get in the free agency.
• 50:30
  And the reason is because they didn't do that last year and
• 50:34
  they knew this defense sucked. Is the reason they but is the
• 50:37
  reason they didn't do it last. And I don't want to give him an
• 50:40
  excuse because I think he sucks and he doesn't know what he's
• 50:43
  doing. But is the reason that they
• 50:44
  didn't do it last year's because they were so wrapped up in the
• 50:47
  Jamar and T and Trey drama and trying to get that done that
• 50:51
  they just basically ignored everything else because A, they
• 50:53
  probably didn't know how much money they had to spend and B,
• 50:56
  you know, it was just basically taking up all of their all of
• 50:58
  their focus. Well, if that's true, then
• 51:03
  that's just a negative on the franchise as well.
• 51:05
  Well, this is another because. You've got to be able to
• 51:07
  multitask. But, but I think you're right.
• 51:09
  I I think it absolutely played a role in why they weren't active
• 51:13
  in free agency. Maybe this so, so if you're
• 51:16
  looking for a positive, maybe the positive this year is you
• 51:19
  don't have that drama anymore. They're wrapped up.
• 51:21
  There's no looming big contract extensions that are out there to
• 51:25
  that magnitude. Trey's going to be a free agent.
• 51:28
  You know, you free up that space, that, that money that
• 51:30
  that his contract would have been.
• 51:32
  And you know, now let's just go out, focus on actually getting
• 51:35
  dudes. Just go get dudes.
• 51:36
  And I think I saw a quote when he was talking about improving
• 51:39
  the, you know, the pass rust and the pass rust.
• 51:41
  And, and if he doesn't do it for you, do it in the draft.
• 51:43
  Well, he's tried that in the draft over the last several
• 51:46
  years with Miles, Miles Murphy and Joseph Assai.
• 51:48
  And those guys are not working out.
• 51:50
  They're not working out. So you trying to address this in
• 51:52
  the draft and Shamar Stewart, Shamar Stewart, another example,
• 51:55
  you trying to address the pass rush in the draft.
• 51:58
  It it we need to stop with that. Let's just go get a proven dude
• 52:01
  that can actually get after the quarterback that knows what he's
• 52:03
  doing at this level. You also need to find somebody
• 52:05
  and get to the the quarterback from the deep, from the inside.
• 52:09
  That's not a edge rusher. Like if you can get some
• 52:11
  pressure up the middle too, you can add a guy of that caliber.
• 52:15
  They they. He tried that with Sheldon
• 52:17
  Rankings because rankings sacked Joe Burrell twice in a game and
• 52:21
  thought the Sheldon Rankings was the next coming of.
• 52:24
  That's another example of why they're idiots, because you had
• 52:27
  the worst rushing defense in the NFL.
• 52:29
  You lose DJ reader and you you don't replace him with another
• 52:33
  rushing rush stopper. You had a a a sack defensive
• 52:38
  tackle and that was just an embarrassment.
• 52:43
  Like I will say the thing that just irked me more than anything
• 52:49
  is him talking about how nobody works as hard as he does and
• 52:53
  look, but look, you can believe that.
• 52:56
  But I mean, whenever anybody says that, I just feel like you
• 53:01
  are you're defending like over defending yourself.
• 53:06
  Like if you're really good at your job, you don't need to tell
• 53:09
  somebody. Nobody works hard or not.
• 53:11
  The the the the high school kid bagging my groceries at Kroger
• 53:14
  down the street works as hard as Duke Tobin does.
• 53:17
  Like, that kid works hard. Everybody works hard at their
• 53:20
  job. Most people do work hard at
• 53:21
  their jobs. Because you want to be good at
• 53:23
  your job. You don't want to suck.
• 53:24
  Because then you get fired. And usually when you suck at
• 53:26
  your job, you get fired. Unless your name's Duke Tobin.
• 53:28
  It should go without saying, and if I'm conducting a job
• 53:32
  interview and somebody comes in and says nobody's going to work
• 53:36
  as hard as me, what is that? That does nothing.
• 53:42
  That's what I I doubt in you. That's an expectation.
• 53:45
  It's not a positive, it's an expectation.
• 53:49
  Obviously you don't know that you don't know that you can't
• 53:51
  prove it. You can't.
• 53:53
  Prove it. No, you're right.
• 53:54
  It is, it is tangible. Like you can't, you can't prove
• 53:57
  it. But also it's a, it's an
• 54:00
  expectation that you're going to come in and work hard at your
• 54:02
  job and work as hard as you can. Like, I don't know if anything
• 54:06
  like is working as hard as you or harder than you, but if you
• 54:09
  can tell me that you're working as hard as you can and that's
• 54:11
  all I can expect. But that is an expectation.
• 54:14
  It's not a, a brag on yourself. Oh, I'm working really hard at
• 54:16
  this. That's your job.
• 54:18
  Because otherwise you suck at your job.
• 54:20
  You get fired. And what you should was it what
• 54:23
  should be happening here as plain as day?
• 54:26
  And it's not happening. And and we talked about this
• 54:29
  last week and you didn't believe it was going to happen.
• 54:32
  But this just shows the differences in the franchises of
• 54:36
  the Cincinnati Bengals and it seemed like the Baltimore
• 54:38
  Ravens, who they missed the playoffs.
• 54:41
  What this one year didn't meet expectations and they fire a
• 54:45
  Super Bowl winning coach. A coach has gone to four AFC
• 54:48
  championship games, won multiple division titles, probably going
• 54:52
  to be in the Hall of Fame at some point, won a ton of games,
• 54:56
  more than he's lost. And they fired him after one
• 54:58
  year because they didn't meet expectations.
• 55:01
  And here we are hanging on to these bombs, Zach Taylor and the
• 55:04
  Duke Tobins, when we haven't made the playoffs in three
• 55:07
  years, when we've got the quality of talent of the Jamar
• 55:10
  Chase, the Joe Burrows, the T Higgins and the rest of those
• 55:13
  guys. Like we don't take it seriously
• 55:15
  like they do. They take it dead serious.
• 55:18
  Well, I, I said it last week when I told you that John
• 55:21
  Harbaugh was not going to get fired.
• 55:22
  Yeah, That if he does get fired, then I'm definitely going to
• 55:26
  fire Zach Taylor and he can come on, just drive on down to
• 55:29
  Cincinnati. I, I wouldn't fire John.
• 55:32
  I wouldn't fire John Harbaugh. I would not have either.
• 55:34
  I would not have either. I would have given him a little
• 55:36
  more leniency, but that's how seriously that organization
• 55:39
  takes winning. I do wonder like internally, if
• 55:42
  there were some things going on there that maybe with Lamar,
• 55:46
  that maybe their relationship. There was, there was the rumor,
• 55:51
  there was the rumor that the organization wanted him to get
• 55:54
  rid of Todd Monkin and Lamar and Monkin didn't get along and
• 55:58
  Harbaugh was going to stick with his guy.
• 55:59
  And that ultimately might be in the end of it, but.
• 56:03
  To hire somebody that I mean, and I think you're right, I
• 56:06
  think he is going to be a Hall of Famer to, to get rid of
• 56:08
  somebody like that. I think there's got to be some
• 56:10
  kind of internal things that you don't really see on the outside.
• 56:14
  And I, I think that played a role.
• 56:15
  But because I mean, like I said, you don't fire a guy because a
• 56:19
  rookie missed a kick. No.
• 56:22
  I mean, he's he's not fired if they're playing right now.
• 56:25
  Of course not. But to me that's what that's the
• 56:27
  difference is they take it seriously enough.
• 56:29
  If they didn't meet expectations, they're going to
• 56:32
  go in a different direction. And how there's not internal
• 56:34
  stuff with the Bengals makes no sense because they all suck.
• 56:37
  And if I'm Mike Brown, I'm going to Zach Taylor be like, win me
• 56:40
  some football games, Duke Tobin, win me some football games.
• 56:44
  What is it like? They'll sit around a campfire
• 56:46
  singing Kumbaya when they're winning five games a season next
• 56:51
  game of the season. And here I am, like honestly
• 56:54
  applauding them for putting Duke Tobin in front of people
• 56:57
  finally. Like, that's how that's how low
• 57:00
  the bar is. That's how low the bar is that
• 57:03
  I'm applauding them for making their de facto DM accountable.
• 57:08
  Like, it's not fair to Zach Taylor to have to answer for all
• 57:11
  the roster decisions, like, and he's the only one that ever
• 57:15
  answers to it. He's not the one making the
• 57:18
  decisions. Yeah, he's involved, but
• 57:20
  ultimately he's not making those.
• 57:22
  I I know I agree. But putting Duke Tobin on the
• 57:27
  podium didn't make me feel any better, didn't make me feel
• 57:30
  worse, didn't make me feel better.
• 57:32
  I'm in the same spot that I was before you got on the podium.
• 57:34
  I'm not going into next season with like, man, Duke's got a
• 57:37
  plan and we're going to be back. No, I still have 0 confidence
• 57:42
  that this organization's going to do anything right.
• 57:44
  Look, I left it, I walked in, so I wouldn't even walk in.
• 57:47
  But I I started walking watching that presser with even
• 57:53
  confidence and it's exactly the same like it did.
• 57:57
  That changed nothing. Like my confidence level for
• 57:59
  what the Bengals are going to do next year did not go up.
• 58:02
  It did not go down. Do I think, do I agree with him
• 58:05
  that I think they have a talented roster where they
• 58:07
  should be competitive next year? Absolutely I do.
• 58:09
  No, not. Absolutely I do.
• 58:11
  Not on the defense, but they got no talent on the DP, but you got
• 58:13
  to go to you guys. If you go make changes on
• 58:16
  defense, you get the right guys. But he was, the way he was
• 58:19
  talking was he trusts in the talent, he said he he said he
• 58:22
  would put his roster up against anybody in the NFL.
• 58:25
  And I think a lot of that is because of the offense.
• 58:27
  I would not do that. Yeah, it is the offense.
• 58:29
  I think a lot it better be because the offense, because if
• 58:32
  he's thinking it's because of the defense, it's about it's
• 58:35
  because you have the arguably the best offense in football.
• 58:40
  Yeah. And you've got the best
• 58:42
  offensive line that you've had. You got to re sign one guy, you
• 58:46
  bring Reisner back, you can then you've got your entire offense
• 58:49
  intact and. Although I do see.
• 58:52
  Sign a guy at every level of the defense.
• 58:54
  As much as we did praise their offensive line and how it was
• 58:57
  probably the best that they've had, they did still grade like
• 58:59
  29th in the league in pass protection and.
• 59:03
  This It's because they struggled early.
• 59:05
  Yeah, I. Mean they were a lot better the
• 59:06
  second-half of the year. Yeah, and you hope that that
• 59:10
  continuity will help them start off a little better at the
• 59:14
  beginning of next year. But they were, I mean, you bring
• 59:17
  in Roger, you they make no changes to the to the.
• 59:20
  I mean, you started a Dang rookie at guard and Fairchild
• 59:23
  too. I mean, you got to give him a
• 59:24
  time to adjust. But yeah, confidence level
• 59:29
  change of 0. They better make some changes,
• 59:34
  sign some guys, if not I, I don't know what's going to
• 59:38
  happen. This I I told you last week,
• 59:41
  this is your last chance to get it right.
• 59:43
  It's your last chance to get this right.
• 59:45
  I agree but do you like is is Joe going to walk away from
• 59:48
  Chase and T like they all three going to leave like?
• 59:55
  I don't know do. You get to watch any hoops this
• 59:58
  weekend. Yeah, yeah, we watched some some
• 1:00:04
  college hoops. We had our first YMCA 9 and
• 1:00:08
  under girls basketball game. I watched that Hoops.
• 1:00:11
  Let's break that down. How?
• 1:00:12
  They doing that hoops the 9 and under Northeast YMCA Valkyries
• 1:00:16
  took a tough loss 7 to 4 seven to four the Liberty.
• 1:00:21
  Where were we trailing the whole game?
• 1:00:23
  How'd it go down? No, no, we had a 2 nothing lead,
• 1:00:27
  got out to to a 2 nothing lead after the first quarter fell
• 1:00:30
  behind 5:00 to 2:00. Harper Rohr scored her first two
• 1:00:34
  points of her basketball career, was within one point and it
• 1:00:39
  ended up taking a tough L77 to 4 was the final. 7 to 4, but
• 1:00:44
  Harper had two of the four. Points.
• 1:00:45
  She had two points. I was proud of her.
• 1:00:47
  What? What heights?
• 1:00:49
  Are double to noon on Saturday so I missed I did miss most of
• 1:00:51
  the noon games on Saturday caught the second-half of the
• 1:00:55
  Cards game, which is really glad I didn't watch the first half
• 1:00:58
  because they struggled against Boston College and got it
• 1:01:01
  together in the second-half without their top two players
• 1:01:03
  and pulled out that victory by 13.
• 1:01:05
  So glad that they got it together in the second-half and
• 1:01:08
  but. BC is doing the same thing every
• 1:01:10
  game where they play a good first half and then they just
• 1:01:14
  completely fall apart in the second-half.
• 1:01:16
  Yeah, I did see Michigan. I watched that.
• 1:01:19
  That Michigan, Wisconsin game. To me, it was game of the
• 1:01:21
  weekend. That was it, that fantastic
• 1:01:22
  game, close the whole way through Wisconsin was just
• 1:01:25
  bombing in threes left and right.
• 1:01:28
  I mean, an incredible performance, shooting
• 1:01:29
  performance there, but what a big win for the Badgers in Ann
• 1:01:33
  Arbor, giving Michigan their first loss the season.
• 1:01:36
  Then bolauskas like at the beginning of the second-half,
• 1:01:41
  but 55. Straight like 5.
• 1:01:43
  He had eight threes coming to the game.
• 1:01:45
  He hits five in this one and this I mean, that's what you're
• 1:01:49
  going to have to do to be. I mean, Michigan was 18 point
• 1:01:53
  favorite in this game, but I mean they Wisconsin hits 15
• 1:01:59
  threes and Kodo for for Michigan in the second-half was just
• 1:02:04
  lights out and keeping them in the game when Wisconsin was
• 1:02:08
  shooting as well as they were. But I mean Blackwell and Boyd
• 1:02:11
  were just incredible for for Wisconsin and they they were 10
• 1:02:18
  and 5 going to this game. And maybe Greg Gard and his guys
• 1:02:22
  have found something because I mean, they look like a contender
• 1:02:25
  in that in that game. I mean, obviously you're being a
• 1:02:27
  Michigan team where everybody's talking about being as as good
• 1:02:31
  as anything we've seen in a long time.
• 1:02:32
  Yeah, I mean, Michigan was beating teams by 40 points
• 1:02:36
  almost every game. Yeah, I mean, Yaxel didn't have
• 1:02:39
  his best game, only had 14 points and six rebounds and
• 1:02:42
  wasn't crazy active there in the second-half.
• 1:02:45
  Like I said, it was it was mainly Kodo keeping them in the
• 1:02:47
  game. And it's but no, I was really
• 1:02:51
  impressed with with Wisconsin and I thought, I thought
• 1:02:54
  Blackwell and Boyd were both incredible there.
• 1:02:57
  And I mean, that's a game that get you to where, I mean,
• 1:03:02
  Wisconsin at this point was nowhere near the tournament.
• 1:03:04
  And now you've you knock off Michigan and all of a sudden
• 1:03:07
  you're right in the middle of it.
• 1:03:10
  Yeah, yeah. And then, you know, another Big
• 1:03:12
  10 game that was kind of disappointing as Indiana had
• 1:03:15
  Nebraska undefeated Nebraska at home, had him on the ropes up 16
• 1:03:19
  in the second-half. And this is a game that, for a
• 1:03:22
  resume standpoint, Indiana really, really could have used
• 1:03:25
  with the way that their season's going.
• 1:03:26
  And they let Nebraska off the hook and Nebraska stays
• 1:03:30
  undefeated somehow. Top 10 Nebraska basketball.
• 1:03:34
  Yeah, we've we've talked about Indiana football, Now let's talk
• 1:03:38
  Nebraska basketball. About that.
• 1:03:40
  We're in a we're in a flip flop world.
• 1:03:44
  This is Nebraska's fifth quadrant one win on the year.
• 1:03:49
  The only, only team that has more is Duke.
• 1:03:54
  They won last Week 2 road games at Ohio State and at Indiana.
• 1:03:58
  They were they were underdogs in both of those games and and win
• 1:04:02
  both of them to to remain undefeated.
• 1:04:03
  Like you said they were down 51 to 35 in in the second-half
• 1:04:07
  against IU rally to win 83 to to 77.
• 1:04:11
  It was DeMarcus Lawrence. They had a career high 27 that
• 1:04:15
  really kind of led that rally for the Cornhuskers.
• 1:04:19
  You know one thing about DeMarcus Lawrence spent his
• 1:04:25
  first two years in Nebraska. Yeah.
• 1:04:28
  Went to the Rhode Island, started 31 games last year,
• 1:04:31
  yeah, averaged 9.9 points. And then he's like, I'm going to
• 1:04:35
  go back. Go back to the great state of
• 1:04:37
  Nebraska. Goes back to Nebraska for his
• 1:04:39
  senior year, but I mean Nebraska's five and O and Lee
• 1:04:43
  played for the first time since the 60s and they move up to 8th
• 1:04:48
  in the AP, which is their highest ranking ever.
• 1:04:51
  I think it was that same team in in the in the late 60s.
• 1:04:54
  And I mean this is a team that they were picked 14th out of 18
• 1:05:00
  in in in the big 10. So kind of out of nowhere for
• 1:05:04
  Fred Hoiberg. And but I mean, you go on the
• 1:05:06
  road, you win both when you've got everybody watching you
• 1:05:09
  because you're 1 of 6 remaining undefeated teams and you're able
• 1:05:11
  to pull out both of them, that's pretty impressive.
• 1:05:14
  And now I think the team that everybody thought was going to
• 1:05:17
  be the last team to lose loses. So now there's only 5 undefeated
• 1:05:20
  teams. Yeah, I mean, Vandy, Vandy
• 1:05:23
  continues to roll. They didn't really play anybody.
• 1:05:24
  They played about LSU over the. Weekend.
• 1:05:26
  Oh, they they beat Alabama. Oh, that's right.
• 1:05:28
  During the week, yeah. And dude, I, I think this, this
• 1:05:32
  Vanderbilt team, I might, this might be a little hot take, but
• 1:05:37
  I think they're talent enough to win the whole thing.
• 1:05:40
  You buy it in on The Commodores. I really do.
• 1:05:43
  What is like what? What's in the water at James
• 1:05:45
  Madison that they're just producing these head coaches
• 1:05:47
  that are going other places and just dominating.
• 1:05:52
  Well, I mean, they put a lot of money in their athletics at
• 1:05:55
  James Madison. They get good coaches.
• 1:05:59
  And I mean, I don't know, I hope Preston Spiral is the next one.
• 1:06:05
  I really, I mean, as my guy at Moorhead, I hope he he's the
• 1:06:08
  next one to do it. But I mean, Vanderbilt, like
• 1:06:12
  Tyler Tanner to me is one of the more fun guards to watch in in
• 1:06:16
  all the country. Duke Miles.
• 1:06:18
  I mean, they're just I, I really was impressed with with
• 1:06:22
  Vanderbilt. And they've got a unique
• 1:06:24
  homecourt advantage with the way that they're their benches are
• 1:06:27
  lined up because, I mean, it gets teams, teams.
• 1:06:29
  Trouble. Homecourt advantage.
• 1:06:33
  But Kentucky gets a must, a must needed win against Mississippi
• 1:06:38
  State. They were down 12 and and.
• 1:06:41
  They did that, you know, without acquaintance and when without
• 1:06:44
  Low played 3 minutes and they're going to be without him the rest
• 1:06:47
  of the year now. So a little, little bit of a
• 1:06:50
  challenge for the Wildcats. Who's going to play point guard
• 1:06:52
  and see if they can overcome that, those injuries.
• 1:06:54
  But yeah, big win for them. They needed that one, I mean.
• 1:06:57
  You're they're down early and you're like, whoa.
• 1:07:00
  I mean, Mark Pope seat is getting really, really hot.
• 1:07:04
  And then I mean, they they they actually look like they do how
• 1:07:08
  to run offense there in the second-half.
• 1:07:09
  And Moreno was incredible. I'm very impressed with you,
• 1:07:12
  Melika Moreno in State Kid, Very impressed with him.
• 1:07:18
  But good win for the Cats, good win for the Cards.
• 1:07:20
  Both winning on Saturday and we're down to five undefeated
• 1:07:24
  teams. We already talked about Nebraska
• 1:07:26
  and and Vanderbilt. We still got Iowa State, still
• 1:07:31
  got Miami, Ohio and we still got the number one team in the land,
• 1:07:35
  Arizona. Who do you think is the last one
• 1:07:38
  to lose a game? I don't even know who Miami.
• 1:07:42
  I guess Miami of Ohio's in the conference play now, so they're
• 1:07:45
  just playing all matches. I just don't know much about
• 1:07:49
  Miami of Ohio. Let's look at what is Arizona.
• 1:07:59
  Arizona this week, I mean they got a pretty easy stretch coming
• 1:08:03
  up, 10 and 6. Arizona State, they are at
• 1:08:07
  Central Florida next Saturday. Central Florida was ranked
• 1:08:11
  before they just lost this week. Cincinnati's terrible.
• 1:08:16
  West Virginia, not very good. Maybe that game at that big
• 1:08:20
  Monday game on the 26th of January at BYU, that'll be a
• 1:08:25
  good one. Yeah, it would.
• 1:08:27
  I mean, Devante's been unbelievable.
• 1:08:30
  I mean, I don't, I don't know. I mean, if you if you made me
• 1:08:34
  pick off the top of my head, I'd probably just go Arizona because
• 1:08:36
  I think they're the best team. I haven't seen Miami, Ohio
• 1:08:39
  schedule. I don't know who they play, so
• 1:08:41
  I'm not really even including them.
• 1:08:44
  But my question for you before we kind of get off the college
• 1:08:48
  basketball topic, Nebraska is the only like Power 14 to never
• 1:08:54
  win NCAA tournament game. Will they win one this year?
• 1:09:00
  I mean, if you had, if I had to say right now, I would say yes,
• 1:09:02
  because right now they're trending to be a top three seed,
• 1:09:05
  which means they're going to play, you know, like Alcorn
• 1:09:07
  State or something, you know, in the NCAA tournament.
• 1:09:10
  They should handle that pretty easily.
• 1:09:11
  So I would say yes, as of right now.
• 1:09:14
  I mean, they're still, you know, another month and a half, two
• 1:09:18
  months left in the regular season.
• 1:09:20
  So as long as they don't don't have anybody go down with injury
• 1:09:23
  and they keep up what they're doing, I would say yes, Nebraska
• 1:09:27
  does get off. Yeah, get off.
• 1:09:30
  Jinx No, I agree. Like if, if they keep this up,
• 1:09:34
  like you said, right now, there are two or three seed and unless
• 1:09:37
  you run into a Saint Peters or Oakland, you're, you're, you're
• 1:09:41
  looking pretty good. Yeah.
• 1:09:46
  So Brooks Kepka is coming back. Yeah.
• 1:09:54
  Your thoughts? I'm happy about it.
• 1:09:56
  I'm happy about it. You know, the PGA Tour is better
• 1:09:59
  when the best talent is is on that tour.
• 1:10:01
  And Brooks, he's kind of been forgotten about the last couple
• 1:10:06
  years, as most of those live guys have.
• 1:10:07
  Because it's his fault. It is his fault, it's his fault,
• 1:10:10
  it's all of their faults. I mean, I, I can honestly say
• 1:10:13
  I've not watched a full live tournament.
• 1:10:15
  I don't even know where to find Fox.
• 1:10:19
  Fox, like actual Fox now was on ACWI think for a while.
• 1:10:22
  I don't know. Fox and Fox watch.
• 1:10:24
  To me, it's it's gimmicky golf. I'm glad they finally decided,
• 1:10:27
  oh, we're going to play 72 holes now.
• 1:10:29
  But no, like the PGA Tour is the superior tour and it's better
• 1:10:32
  when the best players are on that tour.
• 1:10:33
  So glad to see Brooks come back. I hope Jon ROM and and Bryson
• 1:10:37
  Dechambeau follow suit. Because I think though, and Cam
• 1:10:40
  Smith, because those are the only other three that under
• 1:10:43
  these new guidelines that can actually come back at this point
• 1:10:46
  in time. So hopefully they all wise up
• 1:10:49
  and they come back and, and get the exposure that they they
• 1:10:51
  deserve. And, and you know, and just
• 1:10:53
  makes the PGA Tour better. So it'll probably make it should
• 1:10:57
  make Brooks better, make the PGA Tour better.
• 1:10:59
  It just makes for better golf. So the penalty for for leaving
• 1:11:03
  and playing in illegal tournaments which live is on the
• 1:11:06
  PGA. To the PGA, the penalty is a
• 1:11:09
  $5,000,000 charitable donation. They're ineligible for player
• 1:11:13
  equity program for five years, which projects to be 50 to 85
• 1:11:17
  million or so in lost earnings. They're ineligible for the 2026
• 1:11:22
  FedEx cut bonus payout, which is a lot of money.
• 1:11:27
  I mean, they're all making close to $200 million with their
• 1:11:33
  contracts for for live. Yes.
• 1:11:36
  So that's, that's, that's not going to hurt.
• 1:11:38
  That's not going to hurt Brooks too much.
• 1:11:40
  He does get to participate in TGO.
• 1:11:42
  Yeah, we'll make some money from that.
• 1:11:44
  Yeah, he's also eligible for the President's Cup.
• 1:11:46
  And the President's Cup have have they decided when, if and
• 1:11:50
  when he will join the TGO? I haven't heard on TGO but he's
• 1:11:54
  going to play. I think he's playing in the
• 1:11:58
  waste management and the farmers.
• 1:11:59
  This coming up I did see that. But I mean, if you're Brooks
• 1:12:05
  kept good, like you just went and took the money, took a
• 1:12:08
  couple years off, wore shorts, played three rounds and now
• 1:12:11
  you're like, and now you get to come back like this.
• 1:12:14
  Is this This piddling is really nothing compared to what he made
• 1:12:18
  in Liv. Yeah, he's coming out on the
• 1:12:20
  plus side, like so like like I said, like if you're Brooks,
• 1:12:26
  like you've kind of been forgotten about, like nobody
• 1:12:29
  talks about you anymore. Nobody really watches you
• 1:12:32
  anymore. The your games kind of fall.
• 1:12:34
  I mean, I don't know if your game's falling off or not
• 1:12:36
  because I haven't watched you, but the time I have watched you.
• 1:12:38
  Performed well in majors. That's what I'm saying, that the
• 1:12:41
  times that I have seen you on playing golf is in the majors
• 1:12:43
  and you've not been very good last year, 2 years.
• 1:12:46
  So I'm glad he's back. I hope, I think it'll be good
• 1:12:49
  for him. Like I said, it'll be good for
• 1:12:50
  golf and I hope those other dudes, those other three, follow
• 1:12:55
  suit. I mean, if I'm wrong or Cam
• 1:12:58
  Smith or De Shambo and I see this is all it takes to get back
• 1:13:04
  on the biggest tour in the world after collecting my money, I'm
• 1:13:08
  going to collect my money, pay these little fines and go pay on
• 1:13:11
  the PGA Tour again. And look, this is what the PGA
• 1:13:13
  Tour wants because they want the best players.
• 1:13:16
  But these dudes win. These dudes won this.
• 1:13:22
  I think Bry, if I had to pick of who would do it next, I think
• 1:13:25
  Bryson would be the next one in. Line.
• 1:13:26
  See, I think, I think he's the one that might not do it.
• 1:13:29
  Why? Because I think he really enjoys
• 1:13:33
  the fact that he doesn't have to play every week, that he can do
• 1:13:37
  all these YouTube videos and I, I think he really relishes that.
• 1:13:41
  You don't have to play everywhere.
• 1:13:42
  I mean, what what are the PGA Tour?
• 1:13:44
  How many tournaments you got to play in like I?
• 1:13:47
  Mean you have to play in all the signature events.
• 1:13:50
  OK. And I, I just, if of the four, I
• 1:13:55
  could see him being like, Nah, I'm going to keep doing my own
• 1:13:57
  thing because he's his, his profile has actually gotten
• 1:14:02
  bigger after he's left. It's.
• 1:14:04
  Because he won a major. And it's because his his social
• 1:14:07
  presence is just increased exponentially.
• 1:14:10
  Well, he does do all those social media videos of hitting
• 1:14:13
  loft balls over his house and stuff, right?
• 1:14:15
  But you can still do that on the PGA Tour.
• 1:14:17
  Your social media presence doesn't have to go away because
• 1:14:19
  you're on a PGA Tour compared to live.
• 1:14:22
  But I mean, look at these penalties.
• 1:14:25
  I mean, yeah, you just like, all right, here's 5 mil.
• 1:14:27
  You can have that of I still got 195 left from my live bonus.
• 1:14:33
  Like it's it's a no brainer. Yeah, it's but the dudes that
• 1:14:40
  that went to live that aren't eligible for this.
• 1:14:43
  Yeah, you're stuck. I guess they they just stuck
• 1:14:45
  like Harold Varner. You ain't, you ain't getting
• 1:14:49
  back, dude. Dustin Johnson, Phil.
• 1:14:52
  I mean, all those guys are a little older, like Carol
• 1:14:54
  Varner's, not old guy. No.
• 1:14:56
  But he's also counting his money and he's ain't too worried about
• 1:14:59
  it either. No.
• 1:15:00
  So I'll let you open, Neil. And and you mentioned that this
• 1:15:06
  lady's going viral for making a video about how a guy she was
• 1:15:11
  dating for I guess months went several months during the
• 1:15:16
  relationship without having soap in a shower and not using soap
• 1:15:24
  to clean himself. I I mean, this real life, it
• 1:15:32
  seems to be real life. Yep.
• 1:15:34
  She where where what city was she from?
• 1:15:35
  Oh, Austin. Was she in Austin?
• 1:15:37
  Like I said, Austin, TX Yeah, So what?
• 1:15:40
  Based on her video, she says her and this dude are dating and
• 1:15:43
  she's at the apartment and is in the bathroom and notices he
• 1:15:47
  don't have soap in the shower. So then she confronts him about
• 1:15:51
  it, he gets some soap, puts the soap in the shower and then you
• 1:15:56
  know she checks it and none of the soap's gone.
• 1:15:58
  Like a couple weeks later and he finally confesses that no, he
• 1:16:01
  does not use the soap, just uses hot water.
• 1:16:05
  What is that guy doing? So what?
• 1:16:07
  Like, do you just stay? Do you just stay in there in the
• 1:16:09
  shower and just let the water hit you and that's it?
• 1:16:12
  That seems to be it. Dude at least like rub the water
• 1:16:14
  on you. Yeah, I would assume right.
• 1:16:17
  It's like you got a menu, not. Use soap.
• 1:16:20
  I just thought everybody automatically used soap.
• 1:16:23
  I thought that's why we invented soap.
• 1:16:26
  I didn't know we were Cavemen. I mean, I know there are people
• 1:16:28
  that are anti body wash because the chemicals this chemicals
• 1:16:31
  that, but get some, get some bar soap, get some kind of
• 1:16:33
  antibacterial soap, get some kind of soap that's going to
• 1:16:36
  scrub your body scrub, you know, scrub the areas that need to be
• 1:16:39
  scrubbed. For the people that are anti the
• 1:16:42
  chemicals there are plenty of options out there.
• 1:16:44
  Plenty of options. They're front of natural soaps.
• 1:16:47
  I don't think this is what is happening here.
• 1:16:50
  So my question then, is it like the girl's been on several dates
• 1:16:52
  with this guy he's not using? Why?
• 1:16:54
  Why weren't you seeing this dude?
• 1:16:56
  But does he not smell? I guess he just masks himself in
• 1:16:59
  so much Cologne as he's just masking himself in so much
• 1:17:02
  Cologne and deodorant. Does he use deodorant?
• 1:17:04
  I'm guessing he has to. I mean dude, he's using so I I
• 1:17:08
  am predicting he's using other stuff.
• 1:17:10
  Deodorant, it's just. That's like why?
• 1:17:13
  Like why are you dating this dude for as long as you are?
• 1:17:17
  Yeah, I would have. You would have been gone the
• 1:17:18
  first time I realized you didn't have soap in your shower.
• 1:17:20
  I wouldn't even have given you a chance.
• 1:17:22
  Like this, this is a, this is a Seinfeld episode.
• 1:17:26
  This is a Seinfeld episode. Like Jerry notices the the girl
• 1:17:30
  he's dating doesn't have any soap in her shower.
• 1:17:32
  So he puts some soap in there and he goes back in three days
• 1:17:36
  later. Oh, the soap's exactly the same,
• 1:17:38
  George. Like, it's like, that's what
• 1:17:40
  this is. And then they break up.
• 1:17:43
  He just doesn't have TikTok or Instagram or whatever she went
• 1:17:46
  on to to go viral. I, I just, I don't understand a
• 1:17:52
  lot of things here. I don't understand why you
• 1:17:53
  wouldn't use soap. I don't understand like smelling
• 1:17:55
  good. Is is one of my?
• 1:17:57
  Favorite shampoo? Like is he bald?
• 1:17:59
  He's got shampoo. What's he doing?
• 1:18:02
  If he ain't using soap, I don't think he's using shampoo or
• 1:18:04
  conditioner. And nasty.
• 1:18:07
  I doubt very seriously he's using deodorant.
• 1:18:10
  And. How does chick doesn't smell
• 1:18:13
  like the stick? How does he not smell?
• 1:18:15
  How are you with the stinky old dude?
• 1:18:18
  I don't know, like, what are you doing dating this dude?
• 1:18:21
  Like to me, why would you go out on social media and admit that
• 1:18:26
  you dated this stinky guy for as long as you did?
• 1:18:31
  Well, she probably wants to bring awareness to it so other
• 1:18:33
  women that that maybe you're going to go on a date with this
• 1:18:35
  guy know the truth. I mean this poor dude, his
• 1:18:42
  dating life is over. He's like he's single for a long
• 1:18:46
  time. Not if he finds a bar of Dove or
• 1:18:49
  a. Some Irish.
• 1:18:50
  Spring body washer. There's some, I mean, old buddy
• 1:18:53
  needs to go get some Irish Spring, give it a try, see if
• 1:18:57
  you like it. But you got to you got to do
• 1:19:00
  something, my guy. You can't go through your life
• 1:19:02
  with no soap. I.
• 1:19:04
  Mean and look, there's plenty. If you don't want these
• 1:19:07
  chemicals, there's plenty of options like every man Jack, I
• 1:19:11
  use it. There's there's there's no
• 1:19:12
  chemicals in that like it still smells.
• 1:19:15
  You still smell great like I mean, I don't want to smell good
• 1:19:20
  when I come out of the shower. Let's.
• 1:19:22
  Take a shower. Take a shower.
• 1:19:24
  You smell good, like one of life's greatest pleasures.
• 1:19:27
  When you smell good, you feel good.
• 1:19:28
  A. 100 percent, 100%. I don't know.
• 1:19:33
  Yeah. This this dude, he's he's toast.
• 1:19:35
  He's done dating. Life over, he's going to be
• 1:19:38
  alone for the rest of his life unless he and Mr. Dove come to
• 1:19:43
  an understanding. Mr. Dove, Yeah.
• 1:19:47
  Mr. Dove or Mr. Irish? Irish Spring.
• 1:19:51
  Irish Spring. So there was a viral video of a
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  bunch of kids at halftime of what was it in in Pennsylvania.
• 1:20:02
  Yeah, the Hershey Bears. Hershey Bears minor league
• 1:20:05
  hockey during one of their intermissions had a youth pee
• 1:20:10
  wee. They're basically pee wee's.
• 1:20:12
  They look like they were probably what, 7-8 years old?
• 1:20:14
  I don't know less than 10 little mini hockey players out there
• 1:20:18
  playing a little hockey game at one of the intermissions.
• 1:20:23
  And they all just go ham on each.
• 1:20:24
  Yeah, the problem was what was supposed to be a hockey game
• 1:20:27
  turning the turn into WrestleMania, and dudes are just
• 1:20:31
  throwing haymakers. And so it turns out it was
• 1:20:34
  staged. It was staged.
• 1:20:36
  And like you're watching it and you're like, if this isn't
• 1:20:38
  staged, the parents would definitely be out there trying
• 1:20:41
  to break this thing up. As soon as I noticed no coaches
• 1:20:43
  were on the ice trying to break it up, I was like, this seems
• 1:20:46
  like it's a staged act, but. Dude, they're throwing
• 1:20:48
  haymakers. They're throwing their whole
• 1:20:50
  bodies like dudes are on the kids on the ground and the
• 1:20:53
  goalies coming from the other hand and just straight duplexing
• 1:20:57
  him like Ronnie played. Goalie came in, he was like a
• 1:21:00
  bowling ball that just came in and knocked down a bunch of
• 1:21:02
  pigs. He just straight ran over 4
• 1:21:06
  dudes. And they're getting in trouble.
• 1:21:08
  Are they getting in trouble? Oh, they're getting in trouble.
• 1:21:10
  Yeah, I, I sent you that NBC article.
• 1:21:13
  Whatever Peewee Hockey Association of Pennsylvania,
• 1:21:17
  whatever they call themselves, said there will be repercussions
• 1:21:19
  for the coaches and the players. Why now?
• 1:21:25
  Why? If you're in the crowd and
• 1:21:27
  you're watching this game, are you not just loving this?
• 1:21:29
  No, because. We're not teaching our kids
• 1:21:31
  like. The best hockey team ever.
• 1:21:32
  No, we can't be having this, Nick.
• 1:21:34
  We can't be having this. Is it hilarious?
• 1:21:37
  Is it entertaining for the fans? Absolutely.
• 1:21:39
  But like fighting is a part of hockey, but it cannot be just
• 1:21:44
  fighting. Like these are kids.
• 1:21:46
  These kids do not need to be taught at the age of seven and
• 1:21:49
  eight years old to just drop the gloves and just start punching
• 1:21:52
  each other. It was all.
• 1:21:54
  Like the best thing, like at football halftimes is when the
• 1:21:57
  mascots play the kids, right? And the mascots just straight
• 1:22:01
  stiff arm the 8 year olds into the ground.
• 1:22:04
  Yeah, this is kind. Of a game of football, They're
• 1:22:07
  playing a game of football. They're not just.
• 1:22:08
  Hockey fights. There's fights in hockey.
• 1:22:11
  This isn't summer slam where they're out there giving them
• 1:22:14
  the rock bottom on the ice here, like no like play the hockey and
• 1:22:18
  if there's a fight occurs naturally, it occurs naturally.
• 1:22:22
  We're not just. We probably got a vowel.
• 1:22:23
  Disciplinary action Did somebody.
• 1:22:25
  Nobody got hurt. A bunch of kids.
• 1:22:27
  On they were all wearing those helmets with like when they were
• 1:22:30
  punching each other, they were wearing those helmets with the
• 1:22:32
  cage masks on so like they were basically hitting metal like I'm
• 1:22:37
  trying to punch you in the face on a full on face guard so it
• 1:22:41
  was kind of dumb to me it was all dumb was it entertaining yes
• 1:22:44
  because little kids just that's. The whole point of it, that's
• 1:22:47
  the whole. Point of it.
• 1:22:48
  But she shouldn't be teaching little kids.
• 1:22:50
  This is not this is not hockey. Oh my God.
• 1:22:52
  It was all good fun. They weren't saying go on the
• 1:22:55
  street and start beating my brand.
• 1:22:56
  What? What if little Johnny did get
• 1:22:58
  hurt? What happens if somebody did get
• 1:23:00
  hurt? Then you got a different issue,
• 1:23:02
  but I don't think anybody did. So they get off your high horse.
• 1:23:06
  Pennsylvania, whatever, whatever group you are, you don't need to
• 1:23:11
  do disciplinary action. Let the 8 year olds have fun.
• 1:23:15
  Let the let the people in the crowd enjoy it.
• 1:23:18
  I mean, you can't tell me you didn't enjoy watching the video.
• 1:23:20
  It was hilarious. There you go.
• 1:23:23
  But we they we cannot be using kids fighting as our forms of
• 1:23:27
  entertainment as grown adults. People just need to relax.
• 1:23:34
  This is not like it's not WrestleMania 62 out there.
• 1:23:38
  Like this is hockey. This is hockey.
• 1:23:40
  Kids having fun. Until Lil Johnny breaks his jaw
• 1:23:44
  because big fat goalie runs in with his full on gear just
• 1:23:48
  Spears you into the boards. What cuts his hand off with his
• 1:23:51
  skate. That reminds me, what's that?
• 1:23:54
  What was that scene? What was that?
• 1:23:56
  What was that scene in Mighty Ducks 2 where you do the sticks
• 1:23:59
  glove and then you pull the shirt off the opponent, then you
• 1:24:01
  start beating the crap out of them?
• 1:24:03
  See, they didn't go that far. They didn't even go that far.
• 1:24:07
  So glove no. No disciplinary action needed.
• 1:24:11
  Fulton, Reed, whatnot there. One thing we forgot to talk
• 1:24:13
  about was just Chicago State up to with a 10th of a second left
• 1:24:19
  and they call a timeout. Get a technical. 2 up to with
• 1:24:26
  the ball 110th of a second left on the video, it was not clear
• 1:24:31
  who called the time out. Did it come from the bench?
• 1:24:33
  I'm not, I'm not sure, but I think it was one of the, I think
• 1:24:36
  it was one of the players. Also, if you're the coach, you
• 1:24:39
  just say son, just throw the ball straight up in the air.
• 1:24:41
  Doesn't. Matter.
• 1:24:43
  Throw it up in the air. Doesn't matter.
• 1:24:44
  Does not matter. You just throw it straight to
• 1:24:47
  midcourt as high as you possibly can.
• 1:24:48
  Throw all you got to do. Or just throw it off somebody.
• 1:24:52
  There's a lot of things you can do with the 10th of the second.
• 1:24:55
  Just roll the ball on the floor. Just roll out there.
• 1:24:58
  Just roll it to the Yeah, they can't.
• 1:25:00
  Get the shot off. If the ball is on the floor, if
• 1:25:02
  you just rolled the ball out there, they can't pick it up off
• 1:25:05
  the floor and shoot. It like just.
• 1:25:07
  Just roll the ball called the time out.
• 1:25:10
  That's that's a brutal, brutal. Way to lose.
• 1:25:15
  They end up losing by three. Was this was this like where
• 1:25:18
  they throw in the game? Was this some point shaving?
• 1:25:21
  Maybe, but I mean, yeah, just just get the ball in here.
• 1:25:24
  And I, I guess before we wrap, we didn't do this last week, but
• 1:25:30
  the women's basketball team at the University of Louisville is
• 1:25:32
  playing some some good basketball right now.
• 1:25:34
  And. Great basketball right now.
• 1:25:36
  Put it on pit yesterday. Coach Walls got his 500th win
• 1:25:41
  against Virginia Tech last Sunday and I I saw Coach Walls
• 1:25:47
  on on Sunday and offered him my congratulations, Told him it was
• 1:25:51
  big time. He completely ignored me
• 1:25:54
  congratulating him and asked me when the Bengals play this
• 1:25:57
  weekend and I told him we had to buy and yeah, just glad to watch
• 1:26:06
  our defense. That's what it is.
• 1:26:08
  Yep, I saw Coach Walls in the elevator before the game
• 1:26:10
  yesterday and I told the elevator attendant to make them
• 1:26:12
  take the stage. But.
• 1:26:16
  Speaking of the the elevator attendant, like normally the
• 1:26:21
  nicest people ever at KFC, I'm center.
• 1:26:22
  Right. Great people, yeah.
• 1:26:25
  Leaving the game yesterday and I went up and saw the fans.
• 1:26:29
  So I'm leaving and a lot of the the staff is leaving at the same
• 1:26:33
  time. Yeah, couple assistants are
• 1:26:35
  already on the elevator and then another assistant is coming with
• 1:26:38
  couple kids to get on. The kid actually has the arm
• 1:26:42
  through the elevator to get on. And the flight attendant was
• 1:26:45
  like, no more not the flight, the elevator attendant, no more
• 1:26:48
  people. And like we're like the dude,
• 1:26:49
  his arm is in the elevator and it's another coach and doesn't
• 1:26:53
  even turn around, just yelling no more people, no more people.
• 1:26:57
  And like it was not, it was not the greatest situation.
• 1:27:01
  Oh boy. Yeah, but.
• 1:27:03
  Yikes. But no top 10 Louisville women's
• 1:27:06
  basketball #9 in the polls today.
• 1:27:09
  So top ten. They've got a really tough week
• 1:27:12
  coming up. On.
• 1:27:15
  The road at Notre Dame on Thursday at 6:00 and then on the
• 1:27:18
  road at NC State on Sunday. So this team will be tested and
• 1:27:23
  then they've got the California trip blooming at the end of the
• 1:27:26
  month. We'll go out and play Stanford
• 1:27:27
  and and Cal, which is always tough to do.
• 1:27:29
  So, you know, if they get through this stretch, you know,
• 1:27:34
  they're probably, I mean, right now they're the favorites to win
• 1:27:36
  the ACC. But if they can get through this
• 1:27:38
  tough stretch this week and come out with a couple victories,
• 1:27:41
  they're looking really good at hosting some NCAA Tournament
• 1:27:44
  games for the first time in 3-4 years.
• 1:27:46
  I. Was 22 yeah and looked like
• 1:27:49
  Notre Dame might be down a little bit and then they put a
• 1:27:51
  30 piece on North Carolina yesterday so they're they're
• 1:27:54
  getting right at about the same time.
• 1:27:55
  Hannah Hidalgo, we know how good she is.
• 1:27:58
  It'll it will be a good test, but I, I think this teamed up to
• 1:28:00
  it. I I think there's deep as
• 1:28:02
  they've been in a really long time and Amari Berry has been
• 1:28:06
  incredible the last month. I just Elif has been didn't play
• 1:28:11
  on Sunday, but she's been exceptional.
• 1:28:13
  Outstanding, outstanding. The growth, the growth of both
• 1:28:17
  Barry and Elif from what they were a year ago, you know, the
• 1:28:20
  confidence and just the growth of those two and the level of
• 1:28:23
  play that they're playing at right now has just been
• 1:28:25
  absolutely phenomenal. Then you add the pieces of, of,
• 1:28:29
  of Ziggler and Scott and, and Skyler Jones from the transfer
• 1:28:33
  portal, all three of them major contributors, you know, like
• 1:28:36
  this team, the, the chemistry on this team seems to be really,
• 1:28:39
  really good. They're all playing together,
• 1:28:41
  playing for each other, playing with confidence.
• 1:28:44
  And, you know, it's just a team that Coach Walls can can coach,
• 1:28:48
  you know, he can, he can be old Coach Walls again.
• 1:28:51
  And if he seems to be enjoying it, players are enjoying it.
• 1:28:54
  And this is this is when Louisville basket women's
• 1:28:56
  basketball has been at its best. It's been with teams that that
• 1:28:59
  look like this. Yeah, and I mean, I don't know
• 1:29:01
  if they've ever had front court depth like they have right now,
• 1:29:04
  like just a lot of Putra's getting some good minutes.
• 1:29:07
  Grace has has played well when she gets.
• 1:29:09
  Grace is going to be, I think when it's all said and done,
• 1:29:12
  Grace is going to be a fantastic player.
• 1:29:15
  Really, really excited to see what this team's going to do
• 1:29:18
  this year and like you said, we will learn a lot this week and
• 1:29:21
  but I'm I'm excited for it. And if you haven't got out to
• 1:29:24
  the KFC Young Center to watch this team, get out there and
• 1:29:27
  watch. Them you won't regret it and
• 1:29:30
  you'll you'll want to come back. Yep.
• 1:29:33
  So this is our longest pod. We, we, I think we need to stop.
• 1:29:37
  We're in a already close to an hour and a half See, There's no
• 1:29:40
  way anybody's listened this long.
• 1:29:41
  This is what happens when we cut our pods from 2A week to one a
• 1:29:44
  week. We got a lot talking about.
• 1:29:47
  We do, We do. So we got to figure out when,
• 1:29:50
  when are we going to come back next?
• 1:29:53
  Week we got to do Tuesday, right?
• 1:29:55
  You want to do Tuesday night after the championship game.
• 1:29:57
  Yeah, we got to go Tuesday. Maybe we'll get a What would Joe
• 1:30:01
  Ziegler do segment potentially coming up soon.
• 1:30:04
  All these segments like Juice's lunch Pail, the Carl trivia like
• 1:30:07
  the Joe, What would Joe do? Like we got to make these a
• 1:30:10
  regular thing. Got to get what would what would
• 1:30:12
  Joe do? Would be a good we got to get
• 1:30:13
  Joe Ziegler on here so. But if you hung with it this
• 1:30:17
  long, I I apologize that you listen to us for 90 minutes.
• 1:30:21
  We hope you enjoyed a little bit of it.
• 1:30:23
  But we will be back next Tuesday to break down what could
• 1:30:28
  potentially be the Indiana Hoosiers First College Football
• 1:30:32
  National Championship, which is just an incredible thing that I
• 1:30:38
  never thought I would say. Let's go, Hoosiers.
• 1:30:42
  I mean, remember they they just started randomly wearing three
• 1:30:44
  different helmets to try to make themselves just at least
• 1:30:48
  noticeable in the college football game?
• 1:30:50
  Yep, and they weren't even good helmets.
• 1:30:52
  Oh, the candy. The candy stripe Chrome was
• 1:30:54
  fantastic. They weren't even that good at.
• 1:30:56
  The candy stripe Chrome was good.
• 1:31:00
  We'll let you get out of here on that one for the 66, Neil, I'm
• 1:31:04
  the 410, Nick. Don't forget to follow us on
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• 1:31:20
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• 1:31:22
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• 1:31:26
  QQ. Give it.
• 1:31:32
  To me, uh oh, you freeze. You dead.
• 1:31:36
  Oh, you back. Oh, he's back.
• 1:31:39
  You left. You're back from the dead.
• 1:31:41
  You left, bro. No bro, you frozen.
• 1:31:44
  You got icicle over there.