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Texas-Ohio State Preview and State of CFB Conversation with Cedric Golden · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Third and final hour of the program here on Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio AM 13 under the zone. Here with you for
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  Speaker 1: another hour of the program. Craig Wade with you. Going
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  Speaker 1: to be joined here shortly by Cedric Olan, the Austin
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  Speaker 1: American statesman. He'll be with us here in just a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes. The update on the Major League Baseball scene.
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  Speaker 1: Rangers still lead the Mariners 2-0 as Texas bats in
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  Speaker 1: the top of the fourth in Seattle in that series finale.
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  Speaker 1: Astros have already won today. getting a ninth-inning home run
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  Speaker 1: from Cameron Smith to win over Philadelphia by a score
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  Speaker 1: of 2-1. Okay, I would say this. In boxing parlance,
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  Speaker 1: whenever you have a reigning champion getting ready to defend
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  Speaker 1: his title or have his next bout, whether it was
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  Speaker 1: Michael Buffer or anybody else, they would say something like,
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  Speaker 1: The reigning heavyweight champion of the world, Lennox Lewis or whoever.
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  Speaker 1: So in this case, it is only right to say
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  Speaker 1: the reigning Texas sports writer of the year as recognized
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  Speaker 1: by the National Sports Media Association, Cedric Golden of the
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  Speaker 1: Austin American Statesman who joins us now. I figured you'd
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  Speaker 1: like that because you've always been a big boxing aficionado.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I'm great.
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  Speaker 3: I love the boxing analogy. I'm reigning and defending. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how that equates. There are people in this
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  Speaker 3: state that can write circles around me, but I'll take
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  Speaker 3: the love.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know this, and I was kidding, because
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  Speaker 1: if you've won the title, you're not allowed to defend it.
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  Speaker 1: You can't. They used to do that to where you
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  Speaker 1: could win it in consecutive years, and I think Vern
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  Speaker 1: Lundquist won Texas SportsCast for like nine straight years one
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  Speaker 1: time back in the 70s to 80s. So then they
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  Speaker 1: changed this a few years ago. And so they said,
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  Speaker 1: you can win one, and then you can't win the
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  Speaker 1: next year, but you're eligible the following year.
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  Speaker 2: That I didn't know. Yeah. That I didn't know. Kirk Bowles,
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  Speaker 2: I thought Kirk Bowles won it.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was like Kirk Bowles and Kevin Sherrington
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  Speaker 3: of the Dallas Morning News just flip-flopped. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Every other year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe that explains it. I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know that. I was gearing up for a repeat.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I'll get nothing and like it.
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  Speaker 1: You get to be like at the Oscars, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and so when you won one year, you get to present.
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  Speaker 2: I presented, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Best supporting actor there.
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  Speaker 2: Best actor, yes.
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  Speaker 1: And you got a chance to enjoy my hometown of Greensboro, right?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: Good restaurant recommendations. Bev and I had a blast. Beautiful
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  Speaker 3: out there. Reminds me of East Texas, Craig.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It really does. A lot of pine trees. It was
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  Speaker 3: really pretty. And yeah, we enjoyed it. And we may
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  Speaker 3: go back next year, even though I'm not going to
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  Speaker 3: be winning it again.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great clinic to go to. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: you get with like-minded individuals and you're sharing ideas and
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  Speaker 1: all those kinds of things.
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  Speaker 2: It's really cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to hang out with Chuck Cooperstein, the
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  Speaker 3: voice of the Dallas Mavericks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was out there.
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  Speaker 1: There are very few people that are like of the
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  Speaker 1: same mind as Chuck is, though. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of out there, you know.
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  Speaker 3: He's kind of out there. He loves his Gators. Loves
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  Speaker 3: his Florida Gators. And I remember when, Craig, I don't
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  Speaker 3: even know if you know this. We were in the
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  Speaker 3: press box in Gainesville last year, the writers. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: sitting there going, yeah, I'm with Kirk Bowles. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: these guys didn't show up. Texas didn't show up. And
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  Speaker 3: I look up and I see this big guy in
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  Speaker 3: a Gators jersey walking through.
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  Speaker 2: With a credential. He goes, we got shot. And I go, Cooperstein,
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  Speaker 2: why are you in here?
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  Speaker 3: You're obviously not working in that Gators gear.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: He came all the way to Gainesville.
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  Speaker 3: I go, you came out here to Gainesville knowing full
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  Speaker 3: well that Florida was probably going to suffer a beatdown.
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  Speaker 3: And then Texas didn't show up. So it kind of
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  Speaker 3: worked out for him. But I was like, Man, that
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  Speaker 3: guy's got money to burn. Bussman's holiday, right? You know,
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  Speaker 3: before he got really going with the Mavericks there. And
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  Speaker 3: all that can mean, Sid, is what are the odds
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  Speaker 3: we'll see him in Austin on October 17th, right?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, it depends.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because the Mavericks don't start until... He's going to
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  Speaker 3: be in the press box.
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  Speaker 2: He's coming.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be here.
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  Speaker 2: He's coming. You know he is. He'll be there.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt about it. Since we're on the subject of
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  Speaker 1: the log horns, I wanted to get your overall take,
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  Speaker 1: not only on what you saw last week, but the
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  Speaker 1: run-up to this matchup. This is why I wanted you
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  Speaker 1: to be on this week to talk about this matchup
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  Speaker 1: because you were present for those other big matchups with
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State Buckeyes. So your thoughts on what you've
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  Speaker 1: seen so far, your overall take in this matchup with
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State.
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  Speaker 3: I want to tell you, I think Sarkeesian's quietly confident,
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  Speaker 3: very confident. The good thing about it, Craig, is they
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  Speaker 3: played really well in most areas. But they did just
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of things that he can still point
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  Speaker 3: to in film study in good, bad, and ugly. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Arch throws that interception. They had a dozen or so runs.
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  Speaker 3: They went for two yards or less. And so those
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  Speaker 3: are the kind of things you can go, excuse me,
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  Speaker 3: you didn't play perfectly, but you still scored 59 points.
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  Speaker 3: They gave up 108 yards in the second quarter, not
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  Speaker 3: their standard. So those are the kind of things you
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  Speaker 3: can point to. They're going to be hungry enough playing
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State, but they're not coming in fat and happy.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think Sarkeesian and Muschamp can seize upon
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  Speaker 3: that with the team leadership to let them know, hey,
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  Speaker 3: And the team right now, I think you'll agree with me, Craig,
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  Speaker 3: this is not the team that lost 14-7. This is
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  Speaker 3: a much more talented club on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking we might be in for a real treat,
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  Speaker 3: but I think Texas is miles better than the team
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  Speaker 3: that went to Columbus, and it starts with 16.
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  Speaker 2: 16's on another level right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it. I mean, you think about
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  Speaker 1: last year with Arch, and like I said, I always
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  Speaker 1: remember that first play, him dirting the ball there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get it to Wingo, and then, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just struggled. But the offensive line struggled, to be fair.
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  Speaker 1: There were four new ones last year. This offensive line
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  Speaker 1: looks a lot more fit, confident, and competent on the
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  Speaker 1: line from what we've seen so far.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the old offensive line coach, what was his name?
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  Speaker 3: I'm drawing a blank.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the day.
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  Speaker 3: Back in the day. What's his name? It'll come to me.
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  Speaker 3: The old offensive line. Matt, Coach McCorder. Coach McCorder always
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  Speaker 3: wanted freakish depth up front. And they would sub out
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  Speaker 3: four out and four in. This current crew's not to
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  Speaker 3: that point. But they've got some guys that can come in.
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  Speaker 3: Andre Kozio. Had some nice reps. Dylan Sikorski might be
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  Speaker 3: out playing Brandon Baker right now. So they've got guys.
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  Speaker 3: And Cole Hudson's not even a factor yet. And he
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  Speaker 3: might be back. They've got some guys that have gotten
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  Speaker 3: them that kind of depth that they're going to need
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  Speaker 3: because it's such a physical game. And I'm encouraged by Arch.
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  Speaker 3: One sack, they kept him pretty clean. And he didn't
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  Speaker 3: have to run at all. He's going to run this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not going to be running for his life.
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  Speaker 3: That's the one thing they didn't show was Arch Manning
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  Speaker 3: on design runs. I guarantee you Arch Manning's going to
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  Speaker 3: run against a defense that lost a ton of NFL talent.
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  Speaker 3: Caleb Downs no longer in the mix. Sonny Stiles no
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  Speaker 3: longer in the mix. Jack Sawyer, I think he might
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  Speaker 3: be gone. So those guys are no longer in the mix.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that Arch is going to be a problem.
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  Speaker 2: Not just with his arm, but with his legs.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see this as many do that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the old thing about trench warfare and however the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line and defensive lines of both sides? Because I know
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  Speaker 1: that one of the concerns that I've heard coming out
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  Speaker 1: of Columbus is their offensive line against the Texas defense.
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  Speaker 1: And you notice from Ryan Day's news conference, there were
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  Speaker 1: specific targeted questions about certain offensive linemen for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see that as being one of the big
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  Speaker 1: keys in this one?
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  Speaker 3: It always is. It always is. You're only as good
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  Speaker 3: as the fat guys up front. Those big boys, if
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  Speaker 3: those big boys are winning, then the athletes, and some
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  Speaker 3: coaches refer to the non-linemen as athletes. The Raheem Biles,
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  Speaker 3: those kind of guys. Colin Simmons is an elite athlete,
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  Speaker 3: even though he's up front. Those guys can really impact
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  Speaker 3: the game. I'm interested to see what these corners, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the Kobe Blacks, Grayson Littleton. I'm kind of interested to
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  Speaker 3: see how those guys hold up against these really good receivers. Because, Greg,
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  Speaker 3: if you look at it, Brad Jackson and Bo Sparks
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  Speaker 3: had a nice little rhythm going. Quick drops, getting the
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  Speaker 3: ball out, not allowing Colin Simmons to impact the game
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  Speaker 3: at first because he was taking two-step drops. And the
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  Speaker 3: receivers were getting open and they were matriculating it down
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  Speaker 3: the field. I expect Ohio State watched that tape and
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  Speaker 3: knew they're gonna try and figure out how to do
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  Speaker 3: something similar even though Julian saying doesn't move as well
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  Speaker 3: as a Brad Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: Senator Golden of the Austin American Statesman with us during
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  Speaker 1: this portion of the program. Let me get your thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just real excited. Of course, I read your work,
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  Speaker 1: you know, again. daily and every time it's out in
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  Speaker 1: the statesman. But I want to get your thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: the overall national college football scene. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: interesting how Sark said it, and he said it on
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  Speaker 1: Long Word Weekly when we had Matt Brown on with
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  Speaker 1: us last night. We'll hear it again when he said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, isn't it nice to have a game? And
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  Speaker 1: we're not talking about TROs and lawsuits and all that
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  Speaker 1: other kind of stuff. Does this thing calm down a
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  Speaker 1: little bit right now since, as I called it, LSU
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  Speaker 1: versus the SEC was the Soviets and the Cuban Missile Crisis,
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  Speaker 1: and they blinked and they backed down a little bit here?
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  Speaker 2: I hope so, brother.
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  Speaker 1: I do.
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 3: And we talked to Sark this afternoon, and he said
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  Speaker 3: the same thing. You know, it's good to be talking
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  Speaker 3: about a great game. The thing is, and we've talked
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  Speaker 3: about it online, Kirk and I are on our own
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  Speaker 3: Second Thought podcast, which dropped today.
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  Speaker 2: It's on YouTube.
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  Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin scores 51 points, blows out Dabo Sweeney, but
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  Speaker 3: it seems like it's not enough. He's still got to
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  Speaker 3: be reaching for that attention. It's like it's.
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  Speaker 2: All about him.
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  Speaker 3: Now, if 16 ADs and presidents voted to levy harsh penalties,
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  Speaker 3: if you're trying to sign pro's, onto your roster, then
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  Speaker 3: just leave it alone. You even had to get his
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  Speaker 3: digs in at halftime. How good would we have been
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  Speaker 3: with the pros? Okay, that guy got cut by the
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  Speaker 3: Cleveland Browns. How good could he be? I mean, how
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  Speaker 3: good could he be? And so for me, I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: that we're back talking about football. I'm glad we're talking
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  Speaker 3: about Steve Sarkeesian and Ryan Day and Julian Sane and
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  Speaker 3: Arch Manning and Jeremiah.
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  Speaker 2: And Coleman Wingo.
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  Speaker 3: Those are the stars that people are paying to see. 105,000
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  Speaker 3: people aren't going to show up to listen to you
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  Speaker 3: muse about the fact that the SEC put BTA basically
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  Speaker 3: on you for talking too much.
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  Speaker 2: Leave it be. Leave it alone.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it good enough to be what Dabo Sweeney said
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  Speaker 3: might be the best team in the country? Because Kurt
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  Speaker 3: Bowles is moving them from 11 in his poll all
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  Speaker 3: the way up to number one.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: So let's make it about the game that other stuff
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  Speaker 3: will take care of itself.
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  Speaker 2: These guys are making money.
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  Speaker 3: You go to a pro camp, you sign a contract,
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  Speaker 3: and you should know in your heart that you're no
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  Speaker 3: longer a college athlete.
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  Speaker 2: That should be the end of it. But guess what, Craig?
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  Speaker 2: It won't be.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Because there's a judge.
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  Speaker 3: Somewhere that lives down the street from the coach that's
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  Speaker 3: willing to bang– his or her gavel and do a
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  Speaker 3: TRO and we're right back where we started. It's a
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  Speaker 3: colossal guano show.
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  Speaker 1: It is. Yeah, no doubt about it. Okay, you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: Kirk moving LSU up to number one. Who do you
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  Speaker 1: think is the number one team? And will the winner
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  Speaker 1: of this Saturday's game have a rightful claim to be
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  Speaker 1: number one?
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  Speaker 3: I think it might be LSU, but I think the
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  Speaker 3: winner of this game, this is a This is a
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  Speaker 3: mega marquee matchup. Like your mentor, Bill Mercer, would say,
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  Speaker 3: this is a main event in any wrestling arena in America.
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  Speaker 3: I think the winner of this game, well, should have
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  Speaker 3: a rightful claim to number one because this is elite
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  Speaker 3: versus elite and Heisman candidates against Heisman candidates, Belitnikov versus Belitnikov,
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  Speaker 3: you name it.
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  Speaker 2: There is star power at every position. on this field.
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  Speaker 3: And whoever wins with everybody watching will be my pick
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  Speaker 3: for the number one team in the country.
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  Speaker 1: Senator Golden with us for a couple more minutes. Jump
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  Speaker 1: to the NFL. Who's the best team in the NFL?
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  Speaker 3: I'm picking the two teams I think are going to
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  Speaker 3: end up in the Super Bowl or the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 3: Rams if Matt Stafford doesn't wake up and realize that
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  Speaker 3: he's old. If Matt Stafford can do what he did
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  Speaker 3: last year and if they can get 75% of what
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  Speaker 3: we used to get from Aaron Donald. And we know
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  Speaker 3: that miles Garrett is in his prime. I believe that
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  Speaker 3: the Rams are going to win the Superbowl. And I
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  Speaker 3: think the Ravens have been knocking on that door. Either
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  Speaker 3: the Ravens or the bills in the AFC, but not
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  Speaker 3: going on that door. How bad was Drake May last night?
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  Speaker 3: That was bad, man. That was bad. But I think
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  Speaker 3: it's Rams Ravens in the Superbowl. And I'm leaning toward
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  Speaker 3: the Rams. They just, They have star power. They have
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  Speaker 3: pro bowlers. And they probably should have been there. They
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  Speaker 3: probably should have won it by now. But if Stafford
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  Speaker 3: can stay healthy, I think the Rams are the most
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  Speaker 3: complete team.
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  Speaker 2: In the league.
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  Speaker 1: How will the Cowboys do?
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  Speaker 2: They'll make the playoffs. They'll make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: I think that Harbaugh is going to light a fire
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  Speaker 3: under the Giants.
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  Speaker 2: So the NFC East kind of got sexy. It got
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  Speaker 2: kind of sexy.
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  Speaker 3: I think Sirianni's kind of nuts. But I'm probably leaning
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  Speaker 3: toward the Eagles to still win the division. And I
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  Speaker 3: don't think the Giants are talented enough to make the playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: but they're going to win more games. Jaden Daniels stays healthy.
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  Speaker 3: Dak Prescott has played well. And CeeDee Lamb, for what
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  Speaker 3: he's done, CeeDee Lamb had a down year last year.
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  Speaker 3: And if he had just been himself with what George
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  Speaker 3: Pickens had done, Cowboys probably would have won a playoff game,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm thinking they make the playoffs. They feel like
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  Speaker 3: an 11-6 or a 10-7.
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  Speaker 1: How good will the Texans be?
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  Speaker 3: It's an all-time great defense, but they don't have a quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think C.J. Stroud's the guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's not the answer?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not. You've heard of the sophomore jinx? He
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  Speaker 3: just had a junior jinx. So what's going on with that?
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  Speaker 3: He had a sophomore and a junior jinx, and now
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  Speaker 3: the senior jinx is coming up. He tried to give
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  Speaker 3: that game to the Steelers last year. I just don't
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  Speaker 3: know that he's the guy. I think he had one
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  Speaker 3: good year, and they are wasting an all-time great defense,
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  Speaker 3: and they're going to have to give him some money, Craig,
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  Speaker 3: because they're never going to be in the position where
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  Speaker 3: they're going to be able to take an arch or
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  Speaker 3: a sand. They're going to always be in the mix.
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  Speaker 3: for that division. So they're kind of caught between a
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  Speaker 3: rock and a hard place. I do not think he
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  Speaker 3: can lead them to special places. I am not a
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  Speaker 3: believer in C.J.
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  Speaker 2: Stroud.
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  Speaker 1: One final question. The chair you're sitting in right now
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  Speaker 1: was the chair you were sitting in when Sark did
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  Speaker 1: his Zoom availability this morning. Have you not moved from
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  Speaker 1: that chair before, during, or after the time with Sark?
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  Speaker 2: So you did watch the Zoom. So you will notice
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  Speaker 2: that the shirt is different.
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  Speaker 1: That is true. You did change your shirt.
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  Speaker 3: I did change my shirt. I did go, I've written
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  Speaker 3: two columns.
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  Speaker 2: I got to write one more.
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  Speaker 3: I went to the kitchen to, I went to the
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  Speaker 3: kitchen to do, to get some grapes and a protein shake.
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  Speaker 3: I did do that, but I've written two columns.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I got to write one more.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I did a newsletter and I did a podcast today.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: And so, yeah, Thursday is a production day for me
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: because I don't want to be doing much of anything
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: on Friday.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Okay. I'm with you, and I appreciate being the exclamation
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: point on a very active day for you. Hey, thanks,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: and I'll see you in the press box. I haven't
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: been over in the writer's box yet. I've only been
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: over where we broadcast from, but I'll come around over
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: to the east side.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: So you've been hanging out in Beverly Hills, and you
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: haven't visited us in Watts yet. Come visit us in Watts.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Watts is fine.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Have you seen where we work from? It ain't no
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Bev Hills.
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  Speaker 3: Uh i heard i heard that it's a smaller space
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: for you guys.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: It's a it's a it's a different space let me
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: put it to you that way it's a it's a
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: different space.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah come see us it's fine you know what
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: i i i wasn't i didn't take the tour with
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: bianco but uh we looked over you know when i
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: got in there and i looked and i sat down
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: and got the view of the field yeah fine yeah
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: there's worse places it's never going to be as good
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: as where we used to be craig right but we'll
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: take We'll take it.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: It sure beats working for a living.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. And I accepted that a long time ago.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: And I will tell you, I have broadcast from more
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: difficult places you can identify with this. Detroit against Italy
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving night, 1990 on the press box and on
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: top of the press box in Royce City.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, wow.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: There's other places. You've worked in some rather cozy confines
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: on the high school beat back in the day when
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: you were tearing it up in East Texas.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: And I cover the Cowboys Commanders, which they were the
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Redskins back then. Remember, that was the Tom Herman era.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: It was raining inside the press box. I'll never forget it.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: It was raining inside the press box. I was covering
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: up my MacBook like it was a newborn baby. That's
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: how concerned I was. So we've worked in a lot
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: worse circumstances. We got it better than 99.9% of the
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: people doing this, Greg.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I agree completely. I appreciate it, my friend. Thanks for
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: doing it, and I'll see you on Saturday.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, brother. Take care.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: All right, that's Cedric Golden, the uh award-winning columnist from
• 19:44
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• 19:47
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• 19:50
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• 19:55
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• 19:58
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• 20:01
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• 20:03
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