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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how any show can't lead. Can't lead
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  Speaker 4: with his twenty minutes into the program, thanks blink, But
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  Speaker 4: can't lead without having a conversation about one of what
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  Speaker 4: I thought was the best stories in the NFL this season.
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  Speaker 4: Turning into an absolute bleep show. But what else would
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  Speaker 4: you expect from anything involving Stefan Diggs. He is facing
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  Speaker 4: now a felony charge of strangulation and a misdemeanor charge
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  Speaker 4: of assault from an incident that is now four weeks old.
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  Speaker 4: According to a police report, a woman went to police
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  Speaker 4: on December sixteenth and shared that she was working as
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  Speaker 4: a private chef on December second, as the date of
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  Speaker 4: the incident, when Diggs entered her unlocked bedroom and allegedly
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  Speaker 4: smacked her across the face after they had discussed money
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  Speaker 4: owed to her. According to police, she said she attempted
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  Speaker 4: to push Digs away when he allegedly tried to choke
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  Speaker 4: her with his elbow around her neck, and later threw
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  Speaker 4: her onto the bed and said lies when she said
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  Speaker 4: she had not been paid. After the alleged assault, According
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  Speaker 4: to this report, she left her position and the residence
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  Speaker 4: to stay with a friend. When she returned on December
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  Speaker 4: ninth to rech to Reever property, Diggs referred her to
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  Speaker 4: his assistant, who told the woman she had to sign
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  Speaker 4: a on disclosure agreement before she would be paid. She
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  Speaker 4: didn't sign. She didn't sign it for the report, and
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  Speaker 4: in foreign police on December sixteenth that she didn't want
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  Speaker 4: to file charges before deciding to do so on December
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  Speaker 4: twenty second, diggs attorney said in a statement that the
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  Speaker 4: allegations are unsubstantiated. Now, as somebody that has absolutely fallen
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  Speaker 4: in love with the story of the Patriots this year,
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  Speaker 4: Stefan Diggs has been one of those. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if the term would be bounced back, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: truly kind of reminding you that he's a dude.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the dude. He's a dude, And.
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  Speaker 4: The last few weeks, I think it's fair to say
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  Speaker 4: has been some of his best ball all season long.
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  Speaker 4: Had ten catches in the win over Baltimore, one hundred
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  Speaker 4: and thirty eight yards in that game, over one hundred
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  Speaker 4: yards in the Jets game, though, who hasn't had over
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  Speaker 4: one hundred yards receiving against the Jets. But I don't
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  Speaker 4: know what to think about this because it is a
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  Speaker 4: massive distraction leading up to the playoffs. And again, the
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  Speaker 4: Patriots are going all in this weekend to try to
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  Speaker 4: get the one seed and we'll see how that pans
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  Speaker 4: out for them. They don't control their own destiny because
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  Speaker 4: somehow they lost to the Raiders.
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  Speaker 3: So props to you, Coop for beating the Raiders twice
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  Speaker 3: this year.
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  Speaker 4: A very big task with the way things have gone
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  Speaker 4: for Vegas so far in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: But I again, I don't know what's true and what's not.
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  Speaker 4: I take people at their word, but what a terrible
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  Speaker 4: distraction to have at this point in the season. So
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  Speaker 4: Stefan Diggs, who has been one of the great stories
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  Speaker 4: this year, guy that has been questioned was Apparently the
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  Speaker 4: dude at about three different places resurrects his career in
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  Speaker 4: New England and on the week of I guess you
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  Speaker 4: could say, the week before the start of the playoffs,
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  Speaker 4: has this that drops as a massive distraction in the
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  Speaker 4: lap of the New England Patriots.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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  Speaker 4: I promised at the bottom of the hour a quick
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  Speaker 4: preview of the playoff games that are coming up over
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  Speaker 4: the next twenty four hours. First tonight, you get Ohio
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  Speaker 4: State versus Miami. Now, one side story to this game.
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  Speaker 4: Jeremiah Smith, the very talented wide receiver for the Buck Guyes.
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  Speaker 4: Whenever he made his collegiate decision, it came down to
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  Speaker 4: Ohio State and Miami. He's a Miami guy. He's a
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  Speaker 4: Miami guy. Nobody knew whether or not he was going
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  Speaker 4: to end up playing for the Buck Guyes or for
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  Speaker 4: the Hurricanes. He's had an outstanding run for Miami for
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  Speaker 4: Ohio State. Miami has kind of been, you know, fine
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  Speaker 4: without him, but it's been one of the major conversations
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  Speaker 4: leading into tonight's game. The other big conversation is Ohio
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  Speaker 4: State trying to repeat as hard as it is. And
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  Speaker 4: when Ryan Day spoke to the media yesterday, he was
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  Speaker 4: asked about the importance of the people in life, in
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  Speaker 4: around the program that have been leaders for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 3: Little at a lengthy will listen to a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 5: Always comes down to people. So when when you're winning,
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't say it's easy.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing's easy.
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  Speaker 5: But so I think when when you go through a setbacker,
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  Speaker 5: you go through adversity, that's when.
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  Speaker 3: You really find out about people.
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  Speaker 5: You find out about the people that are around you.
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  Speaker 5: You find out about.
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  Speaker 3: You know, how how tight your group is.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that it's been said before Ohio State
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  Speaker 5: you win with people and making sure that you have
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  Speaker 5: the right people around you.
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  Speaker 4: So Ohio State, that's an interesting kind of angle because
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  Speaker 4: they've had incredible turnover in people last year. Jim Knowles,
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  Speaker 4: their defensive coordinator, leaves goes to Penn State as a disaster.
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  Speaker 4: Your offensive coordinator, Chip Kelly wins a national championship with
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  Speaker 4: Will Howard as his quarterback, goes to Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: That was a disaster.
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  Speaker 4: Chip Kelly today became the offensive coordinator at Northwestern. What
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  Speaker 4: do they do they have Matt Patricia a chance in
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  Speaker 4: the college game, and you give him some dudes, and
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  Speaker 4: he was pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: This year, really good this year, elite this year.
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  Speaker 4: Meanwhile, on the offensive coordinator side of things, that turnover continues.
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  Speaker 4: Brian Hartline takes over as their O seed, does a
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  Speaker 4: fantastic job, so good that he gets hired as a
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  Speaker 4: head coach at USF South Florida, and now they've got
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  Speaker 4: to go with a new play caller, which is the
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  Speaker 4: old play caller. It's who else but Ryan Day. So
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  Speaker 4: constant turnover, but they've had good people in places that
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  Speaker 4: have Ohio State in a spot where they had to buy,
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  Speaker 4: they've got a chance to repeat, and they're doing it
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  Speaker 4: with two new coordinators and technically a third when you
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  Speaker 4: consider that Heartline's not even gonna call plays after calling
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  Speaker 4: plays all year long. Meanwhile, Miami has kind of become
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  Speaker 4: the place where transferred quarterbacks go and excel under Mario Christobal.
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  Speaker 4: Last couple of years we saw cam Ward develop into
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  Speaker 4: the top pick in the draft, and this year you've
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  Speaker 4: seen a guy who's had a roller coaster ride in
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  Speaker 4: Carson Beck, get things just in time to help Miami
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  Speaker 4: find themselves in a position where they're in this quarterfinals
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  Speaker 4: of the college football playoffs.
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  Speaker 6: Certainly, I think all of us saw some of the stuff,
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  Speaker 6: some of the noise surrounding the end of his tenure
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  Speaker 6: over at Georgia and then him starting his new tenure
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  Speaker 6: at Miami. And because he's so quiet and reserved and
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  Speaker 6: didn't get much time in front of the microphone in
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  Speaker 6: front of the media, I think some narratives kind of
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  Speaker 6: they ran on their own, and being around them from
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  Speaker 6: day one, one thing that really stands out. He's all
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  Speaker 6: about team, He's all about his teammates, and his work
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  Speaker 6: ethic is off the charts.
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  Speaker 4: So media day today didn't really give us any good
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  Speaker 4: I guess you could say bulletin board material. But it's
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  Speaker 4: gotta be a fun one tonight. The number wildly has
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  Speaker 4: not moved at all, no movement whatsoever in the line
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  Speaker 4: between Ohio State and Miami. I'm just making sure there
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  Speaker 4: was no shit. I say all this, and all of
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  Speaker 4: a sudden it's like, whoh, it's dount of seven and
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  Speaker 4: a half opened at nine and a half, stays at
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  Speaker 4: nine and a half. No real shift whatsoever. The only
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  Speaker 4: place where you've seen a little bit of movement is
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  Speaker 4: in the total. This game open at forty two and
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  Speaker 4: a half and is now down to forty and a half,
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know if that means they're foreseeing a
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  Speaker 4: little bit more of an offensive struggle than what they
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  Speaker 4: might have. But Ohio State Miami tonight six thirty Central,
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  Speaker 4: seven thirty Eastern the Cotton Bowl first quarterfinal game. Ohio
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  Speaker 4: State looking to repeat and looking to do something in
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  Speaker 4: these playoffs that hasn't happened yet in the very short
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  Speaker 4: era of the twelve team playoff. The team with the
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  Speaker 4: buye no team of the first round by one last year.
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  Speaker 4: But also remember no team that played on the road
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  Speaker 4: in the first round one last year. We've already seen
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  Speaker 4: that happen twice with Texas, A and M and the
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  Speaker 4: Alabama They came here to Oklahoma beat Sooners, but should
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  Speaker 4: be a fun one tonight. Miami might be getting hot
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  Speaker 4: at the right time. Ohio State, I mean again, consistently
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  Speaker 4: has been one of the best teams, if not the best,
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  Speaker 4: in college football. The only blemish on their record the
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  Speaker 4: Big Ten Championship game lost to Indiana Exercise the Demons
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  Speaker 4: and beating Michigan this year, beat Texas to start the season.
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  Speaker 3: It's really good football team. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: fun one tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Bottom of every hour, I've promised a quick preview of
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  Speaker 4: the college football playoff games if you missed last hour,
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  Speaker 4: we went in depth on what to expect in tonight's game.
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  Speaker 4: That's Ohio State in Miami and the Cotton Boll should
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  Speaker 4: be a fun.
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  Speaker 3: One. Number hasn't moved, it's nine and a half.
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  Speaker 4: Meanwhile, the other big game, I'm real excited about Texas
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  Speaker 4: Tech and Oregon Number one.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't seen a lot of Texas Tech this year.
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  Speaker 4: I live in and lived past tense in Big twelve
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  Speaker 4: country right now, Big twelve not near the top of
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  Speaker 4: that depth chart for a lot of college football fans.
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  Speaker 4: But man, Joy McGuire and Texas Tech have something special
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  Speaker 4: cooking and tomorrow night, I guess we can say now
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  Speaker 4: since it's officially New Year's Eve, they've got to find
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  Speaker 4: a way to slow down the unique and challenging running
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  Speaker 4: game of Oregon.
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  Speaker 3: Who's Joey McGwire is.
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  Speaker 8: They're very creative. You know, Will Stein does a great job.
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  Speaker 8: I know Will very well, excited for him getting a
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  Speaker 8: Kentucky job. And then one of the old line coaches
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  Speaker 8: is Max little brother, you know when he's going with
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  Speaker 8: him in Kentucky, and I think he has a lot
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  Speaker 8: to do with what they do run game wise. But
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  Speaker 8: they're one of the teams that we actually throughout the
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  Speaker 8: year in the offseason study because they are so creative
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  Speaker 8: in the in the run game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the.
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  Speaker 8: Biggest thing whenever we've talked about it and will continue
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  Speaker 8: to talk about it throughout the game, but what we
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  Speaker 8: have to do on defense is we have to set edges,
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  Speaker 8: we have to do a good job of taking on
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  Speaker 8: half a man and and try to push the ball
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  Speaker 8: where we wanted to go versus where they wanted to go.
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  Speaker 4: So I would say, of the four games that we
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  Speaker 4: have coming up, Oregon Texas Tech might be the least
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  Speaker 4: anticipated game of all of them, right, I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: do think Ohio State and Miami. I mean we can
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  Speaker 4: we can debate and discuss that that that might be
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  Speaker 4: number one, maybe Alabama, Indiana two, Ole Miss Georgia three,
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  Speaker 4: just because it's a rematch. But Oregon in Texas Tech
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  Speaker 4: probably fourth in interest unless you're Jeff Schwartz and you're
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  Speaker 4: an Oregon alum, or unless you're the great Cody Campbell
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  Speaker 4: and you're spending all this money to have Texas Tech
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  Speaker 4: where they are right now. But it's also to me
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  Speaker 4: the most fascinating game because of the storylines involving what
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  Speaker 4: Oregon doesn't have. Both their offensive and defensive coordinators are
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  Speaker 4: still coaching and are still preparing Oregon for the playoffs,
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  Speaker 4: but both have new jobs. Dan Lanning talked about that
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  Speaker 4: process in getting ready for Tomorrow Night with two coaches
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  Speaker 4: that are probably mentally already moving on to their next job.
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  Speaker 9: One thing I'll give great credit to coach Stein and
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  Speaker 9: coach Lapoi. They've worked their tails off. You wouldn't know
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  Speaker 9: a difference that they're taking other jobs. They're spend a
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  Speaker 9: lot of time at night working on the job that
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  Speaker 9: they're about to go into, but they's spent a lot
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  Speaker 9: of time during the day on the job that they
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  Speaker 9: have and the job that they feel responsible for towards
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  Speaker 9: our players. They've worked extremely hard and the players around
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  Speaker 9: them have prepared really, really hard, which has been awesome
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  Speaker 9: to see.
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  Speaker 4: I can't even imagine what it would be like to
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  Speaker 4: have the excitement of a team that you've Will Wilstein
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  Speaker 4: is the guy that I've covered quite a bit. He's
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  Speaker 4: the offensive coordinator at Oregon. You heard him mention he's
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  Speaker 4: taken on the Kentucky head coaches job. I can't even
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  Speaker 4: imagine what it's like to be getting ready for a
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  Speaker 4: playoff game. Your blood, your sweat, your tears, your fight,
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  Speaker 4: you scratch your claw, and you finally get to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: You finally get to the cusp of potentially playing for
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  Speaker 4: a national championship. And what happens, Well, you get another
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  Speaker 4: job and you finally reach the pinnacle of being a
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  Speaker 4: head coach, and for both of these coordinators in Power
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  Speaker 4: four leagues, burning the candle of both in pretty much
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  Speaker 4: what we're doing here on Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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  Speaker 4: I see my man, Mojo Rising is on the phone
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  Speaker 4: and he wants to talk about hour, well at least
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  Speaker 4: my beloved Raiders. So let's do this here. Let's do
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  Speaker 4: this Mojo Rising, the Mojo and what's going on?
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  Speaker 10: Many they gone through to the other side. Light on fire.
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  Speaker 10: Mister plank Man, you're filling in for the Godfather. You know,
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  Speaker 10: at the beginning to show you were talking about how
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  Speaker 10: filling in on this show you feel like you have
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  Speaker 10: some animosity from the callers, because, I mean, come on,
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  Speaker 10: the guys list, that's right. I mean, so anyway, I
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  Speaker 10: want to agree with the Lovely Lorrain on her suggestion
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  Speaker 10: that mister Coop he absolutely should play that card that
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  Speaker 10: you know he was in Liar Liar. I mean, come on,
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  Speaker 10: he was the son of Jim Carrey and Lyar Liar.
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  Speaker 10: That's beyond the classic movie, beyond the classic movie. If
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  Speaker 10: you don't know that movie, then you've been lost in
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  Speaker 10: the world. So if anybody who has a heart and
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  Speaker 10: you hear that, like, come on, why would you switch?
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  Speaker 10: I mean, come on, they're they're married, they're all they're
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  Speaker 10: Denver fans are all going to be super happy sitting
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  Speaker 10: at the game. So I think he's got an inside track.
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  Speaker 10: You know, if he uses that card, he may not
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  Speaker 10: even have to. He may just get there to people
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  Speaker 10: may be all happy and drunk already and they'll switch
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  Speaker 10: the seeds for him and everything. So I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 10: praying for the guy. And you know, being a Raider fan,
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  Speaker 10: that's why I called it, mister Plank, I argue with
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  Speaker 10: Arnie on Sunday nights, and you're right, the agony, the
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  Speaker 10: absolute agony of being a Raider fan. Now, you're right,
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  Speaker 10: we're never where. You're never going to be in a
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  Speaker 10: situation again because you're gonna have to even worry I'm
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  Speaker 10: about going to a playoff game because at this rate,
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  Speaker 10: the Raiders, I don't know, they'll never I don't think
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  Speaker 10: they're ever going to sniff the playoffs again, you know,
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  Speaker 10: And as a legendary Raider fan, I go back to
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  Speaker 10: the days in Super Bowl eleven when the Raiders beat
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  Speaker 10: the Minnesota Vikings. What was it thirty two to twelve
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  Speaker 10: or thirty two to fourteen when Fred bullitt Nikoff was
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  Speaker 10: the MVP of the Super Bowl and he never even
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  Speaker 10: he didn't even score a touchdown in that game. He
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  Speaker 10: just set up the two touchdowns from the begainn couldn't
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  Speaker 10: you imagine that that fled Blinkoff then even scored touchdown
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  Speaker 10: in nineteen seventy seven in the Super Bowl and won
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  Speaker 10: the MVP. That's how far I go about, mister Plank.
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  Speaker 10: So yeah, the agony, the absolute agony of being a
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  Speaker 10: Raider fan. I've called him before and told mister Mallard,
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  Speaker 10: there's an absolute embarrassment to see the Vegas crowds. It
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  Speaker 10: doesn't matter if it's the Panthers, it's half to half
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  Speaker 10: the stadium, like when the Niners play there, or the
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  Speaker 10: Chiefs play there, or the Broncos. It's all red or orange.
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  Speaker 10: It's it's it's an embarrassment, it truly is. I mean,
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  Speaker 10: and as a Raider fan, I don't I can't even
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  Speaker 10: survive watching them anymore. Honestly, I don't know how you
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  Speaker 10: feel about it, but it's just sad. It truly is sad. Mister.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate the phone call.
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  Speaker 4: I've been in a great mood. I have a good life. Well,
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  Speaker 4: my wife's happy with me this week. Kids seem to
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  Speaker 4: adore me. Got a good job. I'm sitting in for
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  Speaker 4: the Godfather, Lorraine and Cooper. Here life, I'm back home.
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  Speaker 4: It's not as cold here as it was in Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 4: Life is good. And then I reminded that I'm pinned
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  Speaker 4: with the hell of being a Raiders fan.
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  Speaker 3: Two things.
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  Speaker 4: The NFL made an egregious error air whenever they did
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  Speaker 4: not pair the Raiders with the Rams in LA.
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  Speaker 3: And I get it.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to do that either if I was
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  Speaker 4: Stan Kronky, because the Raiders are more popular in Los
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  Speaker 4: Angeles than the Rams or the Chargers would have been.
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  Speaker 4: And well, maybe this level of suck that the Raiders
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: are in right now, it wouldn't have mattered, because if
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: you think Vegas is a bit of a bandwagon town,
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: and I think it's fair to say, LA can jump
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: off that bandwagon whenever you're not as good as you
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: should be. And that's what hurt the Raiders whenever they
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: went back to Oakland. It's embarrassing. It's just it's bad
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: enough that you're bad. It's bad enough that you're a
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: bad team right now. Added to the fact that every
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: home game your stadium's taken over. Add into it that
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: the Chiefs, your hated rival, won the Super Bowl in
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: your stadium, and even though the Chiefs are bad, you
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: can't even enjoy it because you're But I watch what
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: the Jaguars are doing this year. I watch what the
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Bears are doing this year. I watch what teams that
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: sucked last year are doing this year. And I watched
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: what Washington did when they got a quarterback. They you
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: know what do all these teams have in common, Well,
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: they got a quarterback, and in the instances of Jacksonville
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: and Chicago, they got a coach that can work with
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: said quarterback, Liam Cohen. And Liam Cohen and Ben Johnson
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: have done incredible jobs in developing these quarterbacks. I was
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: listening to Antonio Pearce, and for as much animosity that
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: I think that he holds towards the Raiders, they were
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: trying to get him to say something bad about Max
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: Crosby being shut down, and Antonio pears was going through
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: his Max Crosby's a fighter, he wants to play YadA, YadA, YadA.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: And then he stopped and he said, but I would
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: really want a quarterback. And you know, Derek Carr is
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: what Derek Carr is. And I think Raider fans have
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: learned that he wasn't as terrible as many people try
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: to make him out to be when you consider that,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: I think Vegas since his final game that he played
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: is on like seven different starting quarterbacks in three years.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just terrible.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: So Antonio Pierce was always fighting to try to get
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: up and get what Jane Daniels. He thought the Raiders
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: should trade up to number two, give up everything to
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: get Daniels, and maybe it would have been a different
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: world for him. But there's a failed head coach who
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: had to go through a quarterback disaster, and he's like, listen,
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: you can get mad about, you know, telling a player
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: that he's hurt and he's gonna be put on ir
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: and you're not playing him, but you also need to
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: get in a position where you actually have a serviceable quarterback.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Geno Smith sucks, all right. I know this isn't breaking news,
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: and Seahawk fans are probably applauding, but the man cannot
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: handle adversity. It's one of the coolest career arcs you'll
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: ever seen. Guy was a backup for like and all
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: of a sudden gets to Seattle and resurrects his career.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: It's cool, but it's over. It's ov er over. As
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Arnie Spanier would say, go get Fernando Mendoza, Go get
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Dante more and maybe you get sucked into some of
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: these trade talks with Lamar Kyler.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Don't let yourself do that.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Evaluate your quarterback and get him, because I do think,
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: believe it or not, the Raiders have some dudes.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Genti's going to be a stud. Max Crosby is one of.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: The best edge rushers, if not the overall best defensive
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: players in the league. Your left tackle's been hurt all
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: year long. You've got a decent interior of your offensive
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: line and names like Kayleb Rodgers and Dylan Park.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Receiver needs help, corner needs help. But they got dudes.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Now. By the way, it would help if we didn't
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: have a senior citizen as our head coach too. And
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: can we normalize retiring at a regular age? I learned
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: last night.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: I did not know this.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: I did not know the Packers had the age rule
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: for the president of their franchise.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: I think it's the smartest thing that anyone could ever do.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Now, if you wanted to fight it, you'd probably win
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: in court because you know agest rules and things of
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: that nature. But when you turn seventy, you know what
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: you are within the Packers organization as the president.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: You're out.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: You've aged out. Can we normalize seventy being an age
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: where you're playing the back nine of your career and
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: you're not trying to rebuild a franchise. I'm so down, man.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Life is good. My life is great. I've never been
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: happier until I turn on that suck of a franchise
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: that just basically drains my will to live. And then
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: I gotta see Coop be all happy with his Broncos,
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: and I got to see both the Charger fans that
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: get all their celebrations, and I mean, it's just terrible,
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: just terrible right now. And then you gotta watch, by
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: the way, that was a pretty funny take. You got
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: to watch Titan fans, Mojo Risen, Titan fans come in
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: and take over your stadium.
• 22:02
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