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One Leg Up on College Football Playoff Coverage With Terminello's Take 12-21-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's Alex Garrett and before we get to our
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  Speaker 2: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 1: Terminello's take. I had to do it once again, and
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  Speaker 1: of the show and lou what away for Fanatics Friday
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  Speaker 1: yesterday with Jay Paterno. I mean, come on, that was
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  Speaker 1: such a wealth of college football knowledge from a legendary
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  Speaker 1: family right.
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  Speaker 3: There, Alex, thanks for having me again as we all ways, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: it was a tremendous interview. I enjoyed it. You were tremendous.
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  Speaker 3: It was you got you and and Jay had great chemistry.
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  Speaker 3: There was a great, great pace of the interview and
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  Speaker 3: anybody who wants to talk about the state of college
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  Speaker 3: football today, even going back to uh some Penn State
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  Speaker 3: Joe Paterno history. Uh, it was. It's it's definitely worth
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  Speaker 3: worth listening to. So anybody out there I would listen
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  Speaker 3: to that. That interview between you and j Perturnal it
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  Speaker 3: was excellent.
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  Speaker 1: And hopefully we have one as the Nitney lines run continues.
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  Speaker 1: Penn State has an edge. I told with him, yes, Sir,
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  Speaker 1: Drew Aller, and you know they're they're tight end as well.
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  Speaker 1: They should win today. I mean that's why they played
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 3: Though SMU is a threat. They have good speed, they
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  Speaker 3: have good athletes. Uh, they've They've done a spectacular job
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  Speaker 3: in their first year in the powerful conference, going undefeated
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  Speaker 3: the regular season in the ACC.
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  Speaker 2: They have good team speed.
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  Speaker 3: Jennings their quarterback, who did not have a good first
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  Speaker 3: half again and Clemson the ACC championship game but bounced
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  Speaker 3: back in the second half, is somebody to be worried about.
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  Speaker 3: That being said, Penn State has a deeper roster. Penn
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  Speaker 3: State has probably the more talented roster. They'll be playing
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  Speaker 3: in Happy Valley and will probably be about twenty five degrees.
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  Speaker 3: Southern Methodist plays out of Dallas, so they're not used
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  Speaker 3: to this type of weather, so it'll it'll be an
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  Speaker 3: interesting game. I think out of all the the road games,
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  Speaker 3: this would probably be the second road team that I
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  Speaker 3: think would have a chance to win, you know, after
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee and Ohio State tonight, but Penn State should advance
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  Speaker 3: to the Fiesta Ball against both Boise State and as
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  Speaker 3: we said last week, you know, I really think the
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  Speaker 3: lower care for the bracket is where you want to be.
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame obviously advancing last night with an emphatic win
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  Speaker 3: this school are The closeness of this final score does
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  Speaker 3: not indicate how well Notre Dame was in control of
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  Speaker 3: that game, But being in the lower half of that bracket,
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  Speaker 3: especially at Carson Beck, it seems like he's going to
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  Speaker 3: be out for the entire playoff. I think Notre Dame
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  Speaker 3: had a great chance to beat Georgia even if Beck
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  Speaker 3: was healthy. I think it's gonna be a low scoring game,
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  Speaker 3: and the Penn State and Boise State game is going
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  Speaker 3: to be a little bit interesting in the Fiesta Bole
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  Speaker 3: because I think it's gonna be points scored in that game.
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  Speaker 3: But again, Penn State has to win today. Obviously, I
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  Speaker 3: think they will. But SMU has done a great job
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  Speaker 3: this year in elevating from a group of five program
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  Speaker 3: to a power conference like the ACC.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Lou, we talked about coaches and quarterback combos
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  Speaker 1: and I've watched and Gaby and I have watched Penn State,
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  Speaker 1: and the Alan Franklin duo is great. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: remember back in the Minnesota game, Franklin sort of yelled
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  Speaker 1: on and then came back and you know, encourage them
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  Speaker 1: a couple of minutes later. But they have a good
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  Speaker 1: combination and I think that's why Penn State's where they
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  Speaker 1: are right now today.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you want to talk about coaches, the coaches
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  Speaker 3: with the most pressure on them in this first round
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  Speaker 3: and probably even throughout the College Playoff are going to
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  Speaker 3: be Ryan Day of Ohio State and James Franklin of
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  Speaker 3: Penn State. I mean, James Franklin's a lot of his
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  Speaker 3: in game decisions have been questioned. He's one in fourteen
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  Speaker 3: against top ten teams in his tenure.
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  Speaker 2: At Penn State.
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  Speaker 3: So he's been successful to a point, but hasn't gotten
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  Speaker 3: him over the hume. Just like Ryan Day, hasn't against Michigan,
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  Speaker 3: being one in four against Michigan, so that the pressure
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  Speaker 3: is on these guys, Alex, They're going to feel it
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  Speaker 3: tonight if it's a close game and there's a key decision,
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  Speaker 3: do I go for it?
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  Speaker 2: Do I kick a field goal?
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  Speaker 3: Do I punt a play call that may not be effective,
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  Speaker 3: that may happen. Yeah, these guys are gonna be under
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  Speaker 3: the pressure pressure tonight. I think Ryan Days under more
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  Speaker 3: pressure because the Ohio media that follows Ohio State really
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  Speaker 3: could be really just relentless, well unforgiving.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at the river that that downtown Columbus has.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Tennessee bands want to put it in the
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  Speaker 1: Shoto River. I think that's how you say it, which
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  Speaker 1: is in Columbus downtown. So maybe maybe a gopals would
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  Speaker 1: be in the river for Tennessee tonight. I'm hoping so
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  Speaker 1: as someone who is also a fan of Michigan. Man,
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  Speaker 1: there are a few teams out there I follow now
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  Speaker 1: I think of it. But let me talk about last night.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the score about Notre Dame, but Riley Leonard
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  Speaker 1: and Riley we trust. I was saying it all night
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  Speaker 1: because the kid can run the kid can pass and
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  Speaker 1: they blew the doors off Indiana last night. I know
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  Speaker 1: the scores twenty seven to seventeen, but last I saw
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  Speaker 1: it was twenty seven three or something like that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Riley Leonard owned the night. Notre Dame owned the night.
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  Speaker 1: And you talk about a coach, I'm really proud of
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman. Took the really escaping of Brian Kelly and
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  Speaker 1: turned it into something amazing with this program. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Kelly left him in the dust. Freeman had to pick
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  Speaker 1: up the pieces and now he's got them a couple
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  Speaker 1: of games away from the final again. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just it's amazing. When he's done. I'm really proud of
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  Speaker 1: that guy. That head coach.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Marcus Freeman has done a great job obviously, you
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  Speaker 3: know the surprising departure of Brian Kelly a couple of
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  Speaker 3: years ago, and he's done an amazing job. After Game
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  Speaker 3: two where they were, you know, thirty point favorites and
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  Speaker 3: lost that home to Northern Illinois and they haven't lost since.
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  Speaker 3: Is this an all time Notre Dame team?
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  Speaker 2: It is not.
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  Speaker 3: Is this a team that could win the national Championship?
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  Speaker 3: I think it is. And you know I've been on.
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  Speaker 3: I've been on them for a while now as they
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  Speaker 3: progressed store in the second half of the season. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I think they have a great shot to get to
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  Speaker 3: the final and probably I think Oregon will probably get there.
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  Speaker 3: They have a great shot. They're physical, like we said,
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  Speaker 3: they they run the ball last night, even after the
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  Speaker 3: ninety eight yard run by Jeremiah Love, they only ran
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  Speaker 3: for ninety five more so, you know, and Indiana has
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  Speaker 3: has done a spectacular job. I mean, they had won
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  Speaker 3: They won eleven games this year, and which was more
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  Speaker 3: than they won the last three years combined. They have
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  Speaker 3: the most losses in the history of the NCAA. In
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  Speaker 3: the history of the NCAA as far as losses go,
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  Speaker 3: they have small games than anybody.
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  Speaker 2: So what.
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  Speaker 3: Sinnetti has done with them in his first year as
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  Speaker 3: coaches is beyond remarkable. But Notre Dame was physical they
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what's gonna happen right throughout these playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: The Notre Dame Georgia game, I think is going to
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  Speaker 3: be a knockdown, drag out of fair of physicality. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's gonna be a low scoring game. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be a thirteen to ten game. Again, we
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  Speaker 3: don't know for sure. It doesn't look like Carson Beck
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  Speaker 3: is gonna play at all in the playoffs. Gunners, you
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  Speaker 3: know Stockton, I mean, he's an experience. I cannot see.
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  Speaker 3: I cannot see Notre Dame losing. But I think the
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  Speaker 3: game is going.
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  Speaker 2: To be tight. But we'll see. It's still a ten
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  Speaker 2: days away.
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  Speaker 3: I really, as I said, I really, I really like
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame right now.
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  Speaker 2: I really do in that bottom half of the bracket.
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  Speaker 1: It's so funny. I was wearing my Irish shirt and
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  Speaker 1: I happened to meet one of Arthur I Dallas essocialates
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  Speaker 1: last night at his party. And his nephew is Stockton,
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  Speaker 1: starting against starting against Notre Dame next week. How funny
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  Speaker 1: is that? So I met his uncle last night.
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  Speaker 3: Well that is funny now, one guy I really wanted
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  Speaker 3: an unsung hero for Notre Dame Jordan's court. Seven balls
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  Speaker 3: for eighty nine yards last night. He had the big
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  Speaker 3: second half kickoff return. And he was also an outstanding
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  Speaker 3: midfielder on their national championship team that won the national
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  Speaker 3: championship back in back in May, and he walked on
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  Speaker 3: the middle last year he won he won the MVP
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  Speaker 3: and Sun Bowl last year, and that that that kid
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  Speaker 3: has been a great under the radar job for coach
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  Speaker 3: Freeman and Notre Dame. No Dame has something going, they
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  Speaker 3: have something. They have some calmer going for them right now.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see no And as I said earlier in Riley,
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  Speaker 1: we trust. I mean what a pick. You talk about
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  Speaker 1: the benefits of the transfer portal, Well, Notre Dame has
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  Speaker 1: certainly benefited from this transfer from Duke and it's shown.
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  Speaker 1: I guess after week two people are a little worried,
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  Speaker 1: but he's really shown his He's earned a shamrocks if
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  Speaker 1: you if you ask me, I agree, Well, what else
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  Speaker 1: is on your mind this week? Because obviously we haven't
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  Speaker 1: even covered the NFL because locally it's not good. I
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  Speaker 1: am happy for Denver and Sean Payton because you know,
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  Speaker 1: bow Knicks struggled a little bit in the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the season, but look at him. He is in the
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  Speaker 1: running for offense, you know, Rookie of the Year.
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  Speaker 2: Am I right, Absolutely no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, after his first four weeks, bow Knicks you know,
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  Speaker 3: looked like a look like a rookie and looked like
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  Speaker 3: he had a long way to go, and he did.
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  Speaker 2: But he's closed the gap so so much. He's uh,
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  Speaker 2: I think he's terrific.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, I think it's it's gonna be either him
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  Speaker 3: or Jayden Daniels for the offensive Rookie of the Year
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  Speaker 3: in the in the NFL. So we're gonna have to
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  Speaker 3: wait and see how the last four weeks play out.
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  Speaker 3: I never thought Denver would be in the position that
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  Speaker 3: they're in, but that's uh, you know, that is obviously
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  Speaker 3: a credit to to Sean Payton.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: They've they've done They've done it. They've done a terrific job.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, tomorrow we're going to see maybe a change
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  Speaker 3: of the guard, probably for good. And when Michael Pennix
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  Speaker 3: starts for Atlanta, and you remember everybody was on Atlanta
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  Speaker 3: and criticizing them for drafting Michael Pennock's eighth overall even
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  Speaker 3: though he had already signed Kirk Cousins, who's coming off
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  Speaker 3: that terrible injury that achilles tendentire And obviously it has
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  Speaker 3: not been a good year for Cousins physically. It looks
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  Speaker 3: like he might have lost some of his arm strength.
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  Speaker 3: He's definitely hesitant. He's had some good games. I mean
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  Speaker 3: five for five hundred yards in the game earlier this year.
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  Speaker 3: But a report ESPN Adam Schetter reporting that the Falcons
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  Speaker 3: are going to cut him by March seventeenth so that
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't get his tenth ten million dollar roster bonus.
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  Speaker 3: So he will probably be a free agent again, and
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  Speaker 3: if somebody's looking for a quarterback, I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: he's done next year, he'll have a year recovery from
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  Speaker 3: the from the Achilles, so we'll be here further down
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  Speaker 3: in recovery. And you know, you can get them like
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  Speaker 3: like a little bit, and I don't know how exactly
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  Speaker 3: if they line up, just like how the Steelers got
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  Speaker 3: Russell Wilson. They got them basically for minimum money, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, the Falcons would would have to pay the
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  Speaker 3: difference of somebody signs cousins. And in the league, as
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  Speaker 3: we talk about every week, where quarterbacks are at a premium,
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  Speaker 3: I assume he will be on somebody else's roster next year.
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  Speaker 2: So they paid him ninety million dollars for fourteen games. Alex.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty good, that's pretty that's a pretty good job if
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  Speaker 3: you can get it.
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  Speaker 1: I know, and I'll tell you I made this joke
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  Speaker 1: to a few of my friends, I said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Pendix was supposedly mentored by Cousins, but he learned how
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  Speaker 1: to be bench or how not to get Like. It's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of weird how he was supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: a mentor now he's filling in. But that's the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and I also think, let's face Achilles tendon injuries,
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  Speaker 3: they're really hard to come back from. And uh, he
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  Speaker 3: got he suffered that Achilles tendon injury like at the
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  Speaker 3: end of November. So it's just been about a year.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, you know we've seen what we've seen it
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  Speaker 3: with Rogers. Obviously his Achilles tendon injury set him back.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just even with modern medicine, it's just
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  Speaker 3: a really tough injury to come back from.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: But Kirk Cousins will be in the NFL next year
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  Speaker 3: on a quarterback needy team, and we know there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of them.
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  Speaker 1: Well one could be the Jets if things are as
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  Speaker 1: reports say. I don't even know if I believe them.
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  Speaker 1: With Rogers coming back or.
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  Speaker 3: Well, in my opinion, if it's going to be between
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  Speaker 3: Rogers and Cousins, I'm taking Rogers. I mean to me,
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  Speaker 3: it wouldn't even I would I wouldn't even have to
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  Speaker 3: think twice.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't either. You don't think then he You don't
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  Speaker 1: think he's gonna do the far reincarnation totally. Then you
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  Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna up to Minnesota like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: No, Alex, I think he could. It depends on what
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  Speaker 2: the Jets do.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's in the Jets hands, and it's in
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  Speaker 3: I mean, let's face they're not. They're going to hire
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  Speaker 3: a new coach and new general manager and it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be what those guys want to do. And uh, yes,
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  Speaker 3: held it could be. You gotta remember fov was a
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  Speaker 3: free agent, so there was no cap pick for the Jets.
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  Speaker 3: There'll be a cap hits for the Jets no matter
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  Speaker 3: what Rogers does, So we'll have to wait and see.
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  Speaker 3: But I could see that. Yeah, No, I could see
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  Speaker 3: him playing somewhere next year. I mean, I'll throw out
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  Speaker 3: a team where I think that he would probably fit
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  Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh. If Pittsburgh gonna continue to go with the
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  Speaker 3: with Russell Wilson, I don't know. I mean, let's face it,
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  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh is offensively challenged for.
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  Speaker 2: The most part, so we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, or Rogers might say, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, I played twenty one years, I'm done, But
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  Speaker 3: it's I would It's not gonna be Kirk Cousins. I
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  Speaker 3: just not. If it comes down to the two of them,
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  Speaker 3: that's for sure. It won't be Kirk Cousins.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know the Vikings. And I've said this too,
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  Speaker 1: I think that the worst nightmare for Giants and Jet
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  Speaker 1: fans would be that the Vikings are in the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl with two x quarterbacks of New York And that
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  Speaker 1: would be something else of Darnold and Jones, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as a as A QB one QB two made it
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. With the Vikings, it could happen though,
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  Speaker 1: because they are a threat right now across the NFL
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  Speaker 1: as much as the Lions. I think the Lions are better,
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  Speaker 1: but I feel like the Vikings are there in the running.
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  Speaker 3: One.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is the problem with the lines right now.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, their offenses spectacular, but they have lost so many
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  Speaker 3: guys Alex defensively, they have lost starters. They have lost
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  Speaker 3: backups to those starters they watch.
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  Speaker 1: When Aiden Hutchinson went down with the horrible injury to
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  Speaker 1: end this season, it just looked awful.
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  Speaker 3: They've lost Hutchinson, they lost Alex and Zeone, They've lost cornerbacks,
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  Speaker 3: they've lost safeties. They lost three more guys last week
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  Speaker 3: and they lost to Buffalo. Their offense is prolific and healthy,
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  Speaker 3: but fifty two percent of the defensive starters and backups
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  Speaker 3: are injured. And that's it's hard. That's why you can
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  Speaker 3: never look way ahead in the NFL. It's week to week.
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  Speaker 3: So right now, because of their health, and it could
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  Speaker 3: change in two weeks, could change tomorrow. I would have
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  Speaker 3: to say Philadelphia would be the lead, the lead dog
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  Speaker 3: to get to the.
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl right now in the NFL, just because of health.
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  Speaker 1: And how about that turnaround? Remember last year we were like,
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  Speaker 1: what is Sirianni doing? They kept losing and now they're back,
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  Speaker 1: you know atop the NFC's it's it's that turnaround. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, Saquon is a big part of that. I
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  Speaker 1: realized that. And he's just on a better team with
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  Speaker 1: better protection. I'm gonna just say that right here. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't have the protection with the Giants. Look what he
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  Speaker 1: can do with a great front line.
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  Speaker 3: And they have a great front line. Alex, you are
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  Speaker 3: right their front line. That offensive line is my god,
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  Speaker 3: it's tremendous.
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  Speaker 1: And that's without you know, because I thought Kelsey retired, right,
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  Speaker 1: So that's without Jason Kelsey, a new center.
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  Speaker 2: That's great.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's still a solid front line for the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned Buffalo, and last week I had read somewhere
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  Speaker 1: where they were arresting some guys I don't know against
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  Speaker 1: the Lions. I really don't want the Bills that took
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  Speaker 1: there to take their pedal off the medal because they
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  Speaker 1: could get the first seed in this conference. And I
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  Speaker 1: know what they did last year with the first seed,
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  Speaker 1: but give them another chance, like get get that. I
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: think they know only deserve it. Allan deserves the host
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: every home game because of his you know, he's m
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: VP type year. Let's just say that they should not
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: with their uh, take the put off the pedal, if
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: you will. They should keep going and get.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: That first seed.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I agree with you, Alex, they should. They should keep
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: the pedal.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: To the medal. Uh and uh.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I think that they should try to get that one seed.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know how badly Mahomes is. Patrick Mahons' ankle
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: injury is apparently he's playing the same afternoon against against Houston,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: and then they got to play in four days. You know,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: the four teams that playing, they are going to be
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: switching opponents and playing on Christmas Day. And you heard
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: DeAndre Hopkins complaining about playing three games in eleven days,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: and you've heard me complain about.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: That early in the year.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: The Jets in their first eight games, eight nine games,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: had to play twice, three games in eleven days.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: And as DeAndre Hopkins.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Said the other day, the NFL is always talking about
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: player safety, and then they're having us play three games
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: in eleven days this late in the season. He's one
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: n correct And you know, the greedy NFL commissioner, the
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: greedy NFL owners are just looking to get every last
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: dollar out of Netflix, Amazon Prime, Peacock, NBCCBS, ABC, Slash, ESPN.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: It's unbelievable, it really is. It's unbelievable that that the
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Players Association allows them to get away with this kind
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: of fracture type scheduling that certainly doesn't help player safety.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: No, it doesn't. So Pittsburgh plays Baltimore today for thirty
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Houston case at one o'clock. Well about Houston is they've had.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: You know, I thought it was going to be a
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: bigger building year with CJ. Stroud, but they've had a
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: shaky year. Right, it seems like Houston fans are not
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: happy where they're at. What's your ANALYSI well, then.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Because they should be happy because they clinched the playoffs
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: spot with four weeks ago with the UH in the season. Yes,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: the AFC South is not a great conference, not a
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: great division.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: We know that.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: And has UH they taken a little bit of a
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: step back. Yeah, they were more dynamic last year, but
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: I think that that they were a good teams Alex
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: two years ago they were two and fourteen, So you know,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Rome or a championship team isn't built in a season
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: in the day. Depending on their seating and the and
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: matchups that they're in, they they could definitely UH win
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: a couple of games in the UH postseason. Do I
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: think they'll get to a Super Bowl?
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Apps?
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I do not, but they fan if the fans, the
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: fans shouldn't be upset with with the Houston Texas, They're
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: gonna be good for a long time.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Well, I think CJ. Stroud's the future and I know
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: he's only been there too year, but he's the future.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: He's the now future for that team. Let's switch gears
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: because you know, I know you want to talk about
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: this and this week the Rangers have made a few changes,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean the Cogo trade surprised me, lou
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I thought that he should have gotten more of a
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: chance to play. But this whole downstair. I remember last
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: year they went like twelve and twelve during a stretch.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: This is the worse of a stretch. I mean, I
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: think I'd ever say that because the Rangers never have
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: maybe one game under five hundred stretch at a time.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: But this is something that I'm not used to in
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the season. I mean, I'm used to them having the swing,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: but not like this. Is there just a lost locker
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: room now, lou Is? Is there? I don't getting the
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: truber was the answer?
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Is jury just.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Trying to financials? What's your take on all this?
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Well, the difference between what happened last year leading up
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: to the All Star Break and this year is last
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: year that they still had the chemistry. This year it
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: seemed like the chemistry is is has broken down and
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I you know, hey, it's Chris Drewy. He puts the
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: roster together. It's it's his Uh, it's it's his decision
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: making on building the roster along with the coach, with
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: with with uh Peter Lavollette. And they're not gonna get
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: rid of the Lavolette. If they're doing that, then Drewy
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: is looking just to protect himself. Uh, obviously that's his decision.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Would make him look bad, but I think he might
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: be messing around a little bit too much with with
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: the roster, and not only that by leaking and I
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: hate to use that term leaking, but by talking about
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: guys before he got before he got rid of them,
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: like we talked about. Crier has been on the block allegedly.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know if if that's gonna happen before the
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: trade deadline, but uh, it seems to be a lot
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: of tension in that locker room.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: And I know they had a.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Meeting with Drury and the players the day before, uh,
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: yesterday in Dallas, and the Rangers had a nice win
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: last night thanks to just Durkin, who stopped twenty one
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: power play shots. Gabby Gaby said, what.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Did you say again?
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Was phenomenal?
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he said he saved them last night.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, uh, and then you know that that was
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: he's their best player and uh to twenty one power
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: play shots that he saved the most since nineteen ninety
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: nine two thousand season in the NHL. So uh again.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: But when you see games like last Saturday, that embarrassing
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: loss at the Garden to the Kings, the five to
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: one loss, then they lost the next night to Saint
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Louis team that that they their roster is better than UH.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: And then you know they lost the Predators who are
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: going through a rebuilding season. And I got Pan Aaron
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: back last night. You know, he missed a couple of games.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: That was that was good. DeAndre Miller is still out,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: but he was having a nowhere season. When going back
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: to Capocaco, I saw him playing junior and I saw
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: him play in the World Championships, the World Championships, not
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: the junior World Championships, the World Championships, which include NHL
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: players and players from other professional leagues around the world.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: And he was eighteen years old and he looked like
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: a man, and he did and he didn't look out
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: of place playing against NHL players who were twenty five,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: twenty six, twenty seven, thirty years old. So I thought
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: he was going to be a star, and he was
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: drafted right behind Jack Hughes. Now, obviously Jack Hughes drafted
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: number one, has established himself and is a much better
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: player than Capocaco. But at that point it was almost
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: like a toss up for the most part, because I
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: really thought Capocaco was going to be a top six
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: forward and he only had sixty one career goals. So
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: but the Rangers problems seemed to be deeper than we
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: even know. You know, Banajet, he's minus seventeen. You know,
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Lafonnier signs this big deal, he's minus fourteen, you know,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: plus minus Alex. If the next six segment of games
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: leading up to the Four Nations Tournament, where there's going
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: to be that ten day break from February twelfth to
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: the twentieth, and then I guess they start a couple.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Of days later, it's key for the Rangers.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: If the Rangers are still in the squadmire and still
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: skating in mud and have and needings to stirk and
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: to bail them out of every game, like he did
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: early in the season when they started off twelve and four,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: he covered up all of their He didn't.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Allow that whole postseason last year, right either reason why
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: they were even in the conference final. As far as
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I'm concerned, Oh.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: No, there's no question about it.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: So if they don't clean up those little details by.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: February twelfth, this could be.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: This could be a lost season for the Rangers, a
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: lost season that Alex I never thought would have happened
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: this year.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Never.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: I I really thought it was again a run to
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: the conference finals or the Stanley Cup finals. It could
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: still happen. Yes, we've seen it in hockey, but it
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: has to turn around soon.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: But if the Rangers knew they want to get rid
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: of true, But why name him captain? I'm still trying
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: to figure this.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Well, they name they named him captain. Obviously he was
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: captain when before they put him on the block. You know, hey,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: it happens, I mean, you know, it happens. I mean,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: let's look at let's look at all these teams. Look
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: at anders Lee. I mean he was on the block.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Uh last year or a couple of years ago. Should
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: we resign them? That was the talk.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Let's stop with Andenersley right there, because he is now
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: eighth on the Islanders all time goal scoring list, and
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I feel like New York didn't hype that up enough.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Anders Lee is the heart and soul of the Islanders,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: and I hope he never leaves that team because he
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: is as I say, the Hartons all that team. Obviously
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: he was healthy those couple of years, they would have
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: beat Tampa, you know, I believe so.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: No, he could have.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Absolutely he could have made a difference in one of
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: those two conference those final four finals, no.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Doubt about it, you know. So we'll see.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: But I think the Rangers have to be lifted last
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: night and they have to gain something by seeing how
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: a player likes a stirkin. I mean, gave Huck, gave
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: him everything last night. And if that doesn't start to
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: radiate with the rest of the team in that locker room,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: that would be disappointing.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: But we'll see that what happened to out there? Am
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I right? That Repy was back on the ice too, So.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, Rempy is a fool. I mean at five
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: minute penalty took last night. He's played twenty two NHL games,
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: He's been booted from four for them. Mike Matt Rempy
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: does not belong in the NHL. He's everything that's wrong
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: with the NHL. I believe in aggressive play. Matt Rempy
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: can't play. That's my opinion.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I'm glad I brought that up.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Because did you did you see did you see that hit?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I did not. He left his.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Feet, he elbowed, he elbowed the Dallas player in the head.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: He got kicked out of the game, and he deserved
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: to get kicked out of the game, and he deserved
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: to be suspended. I want to see what the NHL
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: is going to do today.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: He's going to be suspended. Matt Rempy's useless.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: He might be good in the nineteen sixties and seventies,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: he's useless in my opinion.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: He also doesn't score as much either, so I don't know.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: He has no skill Alex. He has no skill except
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: his fists.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and obviously I do think the Rangers need a
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: big man. Maybe it's not him, but I thought, can
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: you have.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Got There are guys like that.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: You're one hundred percent right, A guy like Tom Wilson,
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: who I think goes over the line. But Tom Wilson
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: of the Capitols scores goals. He could score in a
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: power play. Yes, I would consider him a dirty player,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: no doubt. Remember what he did to Paneren then the
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: a couple of.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Years ago for that, and he didn't really get to spend there, right,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: But if.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: If Rempy had Tom Wilson's skill, that would be different.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: But that's just I'm just using as an example. You
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: need aggressive guys, you need heavy body checkers. But again,
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: fantas Hirsturkin last night and the Rangers penalty killed, they
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: were able to kill that five minute penalty that he
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: took with seven minutes to.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Go in the game.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Why is he even on the ice with seven minutes
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: to go in the game.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: I know they would down the forward because they traded
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: top Capo Coppo and I understand. But again, I think
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: the Rangers still have a chance to be okay. But
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: this next segment leading up to February twelfth is going
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: to be the the key period. If they get through these,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: If they get to February twelfth and they're still in
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: decent position, I think that the to be okay, and
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: I think they can make a deep run.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: I do. The talent is too good.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I think, as everybody knows, just getting in the playoffs
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: is the first step and then whatever happens from there
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: that that's a new new season, so I just get
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: in the postseason and see what happens next. Hey, Lou,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I gotta ask you about another segment that we've just finished,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the NBA Cup, And you know, I find it kind
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: of ridiculous because it's a segment of the NBA games
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and I don't even know what you get as a reward,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: like one extra win. It's such a weird thing. I
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: guess a lot of cash goes with it too. But hey,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the Knicks were in the semifinals, so there's that.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: But did you excign you? Did you ex sign you
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: that the Knicks were in the semifinals of a cup?
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, let let's put it this way, Alex. The players,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: the players on each.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Winning team, and these guys are making more money than
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: you could shake a stick out in the NBA got
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: five hundred and sixteen thousand dollars, So every member in
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Milwaukee Bucks got five hundred and fifteen thousand dollars winning
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: the Cup. But and that and the championship game between
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Milwaukee and Oklahoma City doesn't count in the standards. The
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: other games do. But again, if you want to if
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: you want to give it some juice, this is just
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: my my two cents on it make it instead of
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: you know, like they have that group play where they
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: this year they played every Friday night in group play.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Have have that group play just concentrated for two weeks.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Close down the regular season for two weeks and play
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: and play the group play in the semi finals and
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: the finals and the quarters in a two week period
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: and get it over with. But if it's concentrated, I
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: think it would be more interests. There were nights, you know, there.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Are that it's like, it's like, is this an NBA
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: regular season game or an NBA Cup game?
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Beause that's right that you're one hundred percent correct, That's
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: exactly right, Alex.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: And then the way they designated it just we're is
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: stupid because one night on a Tuesday, it's NBA Cup thing,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: and then the next day's and the only thing I
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: know about it is because the cups are different, the
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: court's a different color entirely.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: That's right, You're a hundred percent correct.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: So but you know, I do like when the Knicks
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: are competitive or anything, because it just is a pride
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: thing for New York. I think that you know, hey,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: we're in the semifinals. I don't know, and the Knicks
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: needs some good news here, and I think.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Carl Let's have a good team.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: I think Karl Anthony town has made a big difference.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: And look, it might be, you know, getting rid of
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Devincenzo as much of a three pointer. Maybe he wasn't
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: that glue in the club, in the locker room. I
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: don't know, but done, something's better with this team with
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Kat on it.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: So yeah, Well, the thing is Cat's just a better
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: player than a Vincenzo or or Julius Randall.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: I want to know why.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Out of the clear blue sky, the Minnesota Timberwolves so
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: close to getting to the finals all of a sudden
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: a week before training camp trade call Anthony Towns. I
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: really want to know why that happened. I have no idea.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Well that that's puzzling to me because Minnesota's taken definitely
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: taking a step back.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Well they have, and you know, Anthony Towns, I guess
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: you're right the reason why Minnesota got to where they
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: got to last year.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: He's an MVP candidate, Alex.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: He's the reason why the Knicks are gonna get where
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: they are. And you know what everybody last year was
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: talking about workload for brunts, and at least he's got
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: a supporting cast. Not to say Towns is the Soto
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: of the like twenty twenty four Yankee Soto, but right
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: now he is taking the pressure off like Soto took
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: the pressure off judge. So it's it's sort of a parallel.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I see there. But we'll see how the season plays
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: out for that team.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Again, No, I think the I think they're gonna be.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: They're in I think they're in great shape. First of all,
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: the Eastern Conference sticks, and let's call it like it is.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: You got you got Boston, you got you got Cleveland.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know how legit Cleveland is even with their
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: great record. Obviously, they have done a great job so far.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Milwaukee seems to be playing better. We'll see if that lasts.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Orlando's a team on the com but their best two
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: players are injured. Of course, the Celtics are the champs
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: and they'll be right there. So this is an opportunity
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: for the Knicks to to go to win more than
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: one round, which they haven't done since.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: You know, am I right that they had led the offense?
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Uh categories the NBA? Are they leading offensive categories here?
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Who's that Alex.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: The Knicks I heard there.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes they are that. They they are. They are
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: one of the top offensive teams in the league, and
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: I believe I don't know if they still are, but
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: they were leading the league in points per game.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Well there you go, all right, Lou Going back to
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: my original topic here we started with the college football playoff.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Did you, growing up watching college football ever think a
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: twelve playoff system wouldever be implemented and do you think
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: it will work?
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  Speaker 2: I think it will work.
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  Speaker 3: When I was growing up, they voted for the national champion,
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  Speaker 3: which was an embarrassment. And they always say, well, they
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  Speaker 3: they can't have a playoffs s'steen because of to protect
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  Speaker 3: the balls. And now it's gonna remember in those days
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: there were only about twelve or thirteen bowls, not the
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  Speaker 3: ridiculous amount of games that they are now that are
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  Speaker 3: totally meaningless. There should have been a playoff back in
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  Speaker 3: the fifties. They really should have. I think it will work.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: I actually want to see the rest of this playoff,
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: how it goes. I probably I was leaning towards an
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: eighteen playoff, but they went to twelve, and they apparently
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: they might even expand it to fourteen and twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I hear.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows that's true or not. Who knows where it
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  Speaker 3: will end up. But it's all about TV money, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's gonna work.
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  Speaker 1: I really do, well, I think so. I think it
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  Speaker 1: draws an excitement to it that we haven't seen in
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: a little bit when it comes to ball season, because
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  Speaker 1: it's sort of downplay. It sort of eliminates all the
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: number of bowl games that seem useless. I hate to
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: say it that way, but it's just like you, you're right,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: the coverage of the ball games that are too many
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  Speaker 1: to begin with. At least it takes a little alleviation
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  Speaker 1: from that. It puts it on something worth it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, it'll be it'll be a fun one.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, Syracuse is in the Bowl season two,
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  Speaker 1: which is fun, and we get to carry that game
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  Speaker 1: on ninety seventy next week.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Well, speaking about playoffs, a little little note that that
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: did not get a lot of notoriety this year. Obviously,
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: the IVY League no longer plays Division one football and
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: they haven't four for a long time, and they play,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in the FCS, not the FBS, the FBS,
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  Speaker 3: the Division one, that's what should be called. But they
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: finally may they're finally coming out of the dark ages
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. For the first time ever, they're going
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: to allow their teams, if worthy, to participate in the
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: FCS playoffs, So the conference champion will get an automatic bid.
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  Speaker 3: And the IVY League never even had a tie breaker,
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  Speaker 3: so they would have two way ties, three way ties
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  Speaker 3: for the IVY League championship, and they're going to come
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: up with a tie breaker. So that's something you look
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: forward to for people who follow the teams here at
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: the Northeast or in the IVY League. Remember there's no
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: scholarship money for these players in the IVY League, there's
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: no n i L, there's no graduate transfers, so it's
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: basically still as pure an amateur sport as you can get.
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  Speaker 3: But having the champion and maybe some large teams in
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: the IVY League play in a player and the FCS playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a positive thing.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: One Well, Lou this was a great Terminillo's take. We
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: covered it all prior to kickoff of the Big Slate today,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: starting with Pennze SMU Enjoy the day.
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  Speaker 3: Alex, thank you, you and Gabby have a wonderful day
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: watch in football and hockey and basketball because that's what
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: I'm going to do.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: And of course, Merry Christmas because we won't talk to
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: you till after Christmas, So Merry Christmas to you.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: Merry Christmas, Alex, thank you for another great year of
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: having me on, and I assume we'll talk between New
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Years and Christmas with another Terminillo's take.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, Christmas week is my favorite week, no matter what
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I agree much as I complain about the Bowl season,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: and it's fun to have those bowl games in between
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Christmas and New Year's Okay, it is fun to have them.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 3: It makes for good TV watching on a Tuesday afternoon,
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: like at two thirty in the afternoon, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Alex.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: All Right, that's termin Tho's take on One Leg Up
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  Speaker 1: with Alex Garrett