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Texas A&M Rallies to Stay Unbeaten & Is It Time for Zac Taylor To Go? · Height Differential

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Give it. Give it.
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To me, what's up? It's the height differential.
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We're back. We're recording on a Monday
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night as we missed on Sunday because Thanksgiving dinner went
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a little long, but we'll get into that.
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I'm the four foot 10, Nick. That's the six foot 6 nil and
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like I did say, we did not record on Sunday night because
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dude, my nieces and nephews weren't leaving and I wasn't
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just going to be the first one to leave to record the.
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Pod they they had they have school today like they did put
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them to bed over there 1:00 how you have a 10 hour Thanksgiving.
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Well, we I think when I finally left it was like 930.
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Bro nieces and nephews should have been in bed before then.
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I mean with the rotating schedule with elementary school,
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I think my nephews go to school at like 940, so it's not like
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they had to get up early. I mean, I don't know.
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Also, not going to lie, I needed maybe the day to decompress
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after watching that fiasco in Pittsburgh.
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You. Needed a day to decompress.
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That happened yesterday. I know.
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So how would you? I needed some time.
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I needed some time. We can all just be honest.
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You were hungover from the day of debauchery.
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Like you all don't feel good. I don't feel good.
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And then you're like, I can't record.
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So I'm like, well this sucks. Decided to play golf at being
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picked up at 8:30. Probably was not my brightest
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idea for Sunday morning. But we know where your
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priorities. Are it played a role?
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It played a role. I'm not going to lie, I think I
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was. I was in the same position you
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were on on Wednesday. Night I think, I think you all
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are listeners are an apology because your priorities were
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just messed up yesterday well. I wasn't going to leave the fam
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when I'm. Getting ready to be out of your
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shows. You chose the booze and the
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golfing over over over recording a pop.
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We, we played with, we played with pops and we played with
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some older guys shot from the old Mantees and shot 41 from the
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old Mantees yesterday. It's a big difference.
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Way big difference. What is your shirt you wearing?
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It's Adidas. What is that logo?
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I said Adidas golf like pull over.
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An A with a Golf Club? Yeah, that's for Adidas.
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Yeah, well, I see it's an Adidas brain, but I didn't know that.
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I thought it was some goofy lid golf, some nonsense they're
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pulling or something. I'm not buying any live March 54
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or 72, but I guess we need to get into all this.
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A lot of football action this week will start in college
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football and I we don't really need to go too deep in one and
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two. Ohio State and Indiana as Ohio
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State remains undefeated, was without Carnell Tate, Jeremiah
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Smith was limited, but they really got the Russian game
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going at 222 yards rushing, got 100 yard kick off and just
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rolled past UCLA who was playing without Nico.
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And I mean, do you have anything to add to that game other than
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Ohio State's good? Nope.
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Honestly I didn't even watch a single minute of it so not
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really much to add. I figured they would take care
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of business. They did.
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They're still number one. That's it.
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Indiana was only up 10/7 and 1/2 and Signetti did not.
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He just kind of went in, was cool and was just like, look, we
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just got to take care of business.
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And that's what they did in the second-half of Mendoza was
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sacked five times. So, you know, Wisconsin got a
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little pressure on him. But in the second-half, he
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completed 92% of his passes, had almost 300 yards, had three of
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his four touchdown passes in the second-half.
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And they cruised to a 31 to 7 victory as.
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They just kind of put it on. He just continues week after
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week. Mendoza just continues to
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strengthen his Heisman resume. I mean, he had four touchdowns
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on Saturday and two incompletions.
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So he had double the amount of touchdown passes, the passes
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that hit the ground. And then over his last five home
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games, he has five more touchdown passes than
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incompletions in five games total combined.
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Those numbers don't even seem real. 21 touchdown passes and 16
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incompletions over his last five home games.
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I mean, how do you do that? I don't know, but like, if you
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have to look them up to to believe it because, yeah, you're
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right. I mean, it's just incredible
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numbers. And to add on to that, he now
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has 30 touchdown passes on the season, which is an IU record.
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They are 11 and O for the first time in their history as just
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week after week they continue to break record after record and
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and now what they just Purdue and with a win over win at
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Purdue, I believe they get their first ever birth in the Big 10
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championship and. They're off this week.
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We. Lock a spot in the playoff, too.
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Yeah, off this week. So they have a week to prepare
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for the mighty Boilermakers, but a Friday night post, Friday,
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what we call that Black Friday special.
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Friday night special next week at Purdue.
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Purdue hasn't won a league game in two years, so can't imagine
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that it'll be much of a challenge.
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So they'll be rolling right on in to the College Football
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Playoff and the Big 10 title game, probably facing Ohio
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State. Probably, probably, but just.
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I mean, it's just like you're, you're only up three at the
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half. But I mean, I don't think as an
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IU fan, you're really sweating that one.
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And they, they, they just put them on the second-half.
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And I mean, they just just do what better teams are supposed
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to do. And they continue to do that
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week after week. The the game of the week I think
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ended up being the the A&N game as they were down 30 to 3:00 at
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half. At home, too.
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At at home and Riley scored 28 straight in the in the
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second-half. They had a fourth and 12 from
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midfield on that first drive and decided to go for it.
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Marcel Reed ended up scrambling and I think 2 plays later he
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threw a 30 yard touchdown pass and then they scored on four
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straight drives to to take the lead.
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I mean, regardless, you're down 30 and three.
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You figure out a way to win and that's the name of the game.
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You're A&M, you've got some room for error because you haven't
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lost yet. But you don't want to create
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that and, you know, lose that game against South Carolina
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because then that takes away that room for error that you
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have. Yeah, I mean, you're all you're
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fighting, you know, to get that spot in the SEC title game as
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well. You lose that and you're
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probably, you know, in a in a several way tie with one loss
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with a couple other teams. You know, it was it was an
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important game. They finally, I guess, woke up
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at halftime because they came out and just absolutely
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dominated that second-half. Well they Marcel Reid had two
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picks and and a lost fumble. One of the lost fumbles was
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picked up and returned for a touchdown in the first half by
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South Carolina. But he ends up finishing with a
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career high 439 yards and and and 3T DS.
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Just a incredible second-half is like I said, they went on to
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score four straight possessions. They outscored or out gained
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South Carolina 371 to 76 in in the second-half.
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So really just the tide was turned.
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But you wonder, like, if they don't go for it on that 4th down
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at midfield on the first drive and you punt the ball and you
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give it to South Carolina, is the outcome of this game totally
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different? Yeah.
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I mean, very, very, very likely, yeah.
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But prior to yes or prior to Saturday, teams in the SEC were
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O and 286 since 2004 when trailing by 27 points or more.
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Hey, I mean, when you, if you're South Carolina and you make
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history, the wrong side of history like that, that's what
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leads your to firing your your head coach.
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And that's exactly what happened after this game as Beamer.
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Shane Beamer is now looking for a new job.
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Yeah, but, and look, this is a this was kind of a revenge game
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for A&M, too. South Carolina beat A&M pretty
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handily last year at the end of the season and kind of sent A&M
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into a tailspin when before that game, they were kind of on the
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verge of maybe making the postseason.
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So there was a revenge element to this.
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Like, the bottom line is you just got to figure out ways to
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win. And when you're staring at 30 to
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3, the clock is kind of your biggest nemesis there, right?
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And I mean you, you just score on four straight and figure out.
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But here's another thing too. They get the lead 31 to 30 and
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there's like 5 minutes left there on the 1 yard line and
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they decide to run a trick play where Reed goes wide left.
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They throw a backwards pass to him from the running back.
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It's a fumble. South Carolina picks it up.
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And now all of a sudden, because you're playing how to be running
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all these trick plays when you really don't need it, you're
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already up, South Carolina has a chance to go win the game.
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They move the ball a little bit, but then back-to-back sacks by
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A&M put them in 4th and long and they were able to secure the
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win. But why are you running a play
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like that when you've battled back from 30 to three?
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You lead 31 to 30, there's 5 minutes left, You got the ball
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at the 1 yard line. Yeah, and you're trying to be
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cute. I mean, that's like, yeah,
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you've dominated that entire second-half.
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Like, there's no reason reason to be cute.
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Just line it up, run it in and extend the lead like you don't
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like. You're dominating and all the
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momentum is on your side. I don't know what you're doing.
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Yeah, that one was really kind of just like what?
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Like you've done all this and now yours going to be South
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Carolina. Go ahead, go take another chance
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to try to beat us. I didn't understand that play.
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It did end up working out. Did you see the issue with the
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the South Carolina wide receiver and the police officer?
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Sure did. And I don't know what that
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police officer was thinking. I mean, they were South Carolina
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just scored. He ran up the tunnel, looked
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like he might have hurt himself a little bit, ran up the tunnel.
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Two of his other guys go to check on him.
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They're walking back to the field and this Jack wagon just
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decides he's just going to try to walk right through him.
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What's he doing? But it wasn't that he just
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walked. Through he gives him like a
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forearm and then he turns around and yells at him like, go away
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Sir. Like what are you doing?
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Like I could see maybe if you accidentally walked into them,
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but then like the way he stopped and like was kind of yelling at
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them a little bit after it happened.
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Like what? What is going on?
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Why is he walking up the tunnel? I don't know that either.
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Like, I don't know, they walked really far down the tunnel after
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the play, but it did look like he had injured himself a little
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bit and I think they were going to check him out.
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And then they're all three coming down together.
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And yeah, I don't know why all of a sudden.
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Going up there while they're. Coming straight down the middle
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too. Yeah, I, I Adam.
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Yeah. Just kind of a bizarre scene,
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but I mean, it caught the eye of LeBron James and several other
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people talking about this police officer and.
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I think they and police said that he was relieved of his game
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responsibilities after that. Which I guess I mean, I don't
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think he should lose his job over that.
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But not not that. You lose the right to, I mean,
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that's a fun job for police officers to work sideline in in
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college football games. Yeah, put it now.
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I think he's, I mean, at least put it slap a yellow vest on him
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and put him in the parking lot. He can direct traffic on the way
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out. But just kind of a odd scene
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there. I don't like it.
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Just like even if you just accidentally run into him like
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you would apologize or something instead of acting like you're
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mad at the football player for walking down the tunnel.
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Yeah, that was no accident. There's no accident there.
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But A&M figures out a way to win even though they were down 27
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points at half. Takes care of Texas 35 to 10.
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Gunner Stockton throws 4 touchdown passes and throws for
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299 yards. I mean, it's close game
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throughout. Georgia scores.
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I think it was the third quarter and they're leading 14 to 10 and
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then they run that Ontag kick. Well, how many touchdown passes
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did you say Stockton threw? Threw 4 touchdown passes. 5
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touchdown, 5 total touchdown. Sorry, 5 total touchdowns.
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Yeah, he had a rushing as. Well, yes, correct.
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All right. You're going to come at me with
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that the stat guy. You're.
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The stat guy over there. Well, I mean, well, come on now,
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let's give him a little more credit.
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He had another touchdown give. Him I did say through.
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I didn't say had, I said through.
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You're discounting him and his running ability.
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But after Texas interim George's lead to 14 to 10 in the third
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quarter, he had a 13 yard touchdown pass and they followed
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that with an onside kick and. Yeah, yeah.
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So Texas really hadn't moved the ball that well all game.
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What do you think's going in Kirby Smart's mind on that
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onside kick? They had to just see something
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on film and. I think they saw something like,
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you know, if, if their their return setup looks like this,
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then you know, we can exploit them in in this way.
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And I mean, nobody's expecting it like you said, like they
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hadn't been moving the ball. George was already winning.
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Just take it deep, play defense, get the ball back and go score
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again. So nobody expected it.
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So great awareness by Georgia and Kirby Smart.
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Like you said, they probably saw something that they knew they
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could exploit and they did it. Yeah, and really once that
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happened, it was just it was kind of curtains for for the
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Longhorns, the 21 to O fourth quarter just kind of puts them
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to bed. Texas is ranked 10th in the
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country. I think, I think me and you are
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both integrates that they're probably not the 10th best team.
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Arch Manning's numbers were fine.
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He had 251 yards, a touchdown and a pick.
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But. Texas, Texas, Texas.
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To me, they're the Chicago Bears of college football.
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They have a good record, but man, they just find ridiculous
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ways to try to somehow just win games.
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And that's what they're doing. Like, you know, like the
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Kentucky game where they they put up what, 10 points, 13
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points regulation and Kentucky kind of beat themselves.
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They should have lost that. There's a couple other games
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that they probably. Yeah, the next week.
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Yeah, the next week, that's right.
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Yeah. They came back from 17 in the
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fourth quarter. So, you know, they, to me,
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they're, they're the Chicago Bears of, of, of college
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football where they're just winning these games that they
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probably shouldn't be winning. I do think Georgia, who you
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know, has had slow starts throughout the year, it didn't
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really have that on on Saturday. And I think they're really kind
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of rounded into form a little bit.
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Gunner Stockton is playing his best football.
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So they're A-Team. I think obviously with them
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being 5th in the country, they're A-Team to be reckoned
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with, but I think they're playing the best football that
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they've played all year. And then the the other big SEC
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battle was Oklahoma going to Alabama and Oklahoma's defense
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really kind of shined in that one as as they and Alabama is
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what, 17 game home winning streak I believe and win that
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123 to 21. Yeah, I mean, and it didn't take
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a superhuman effort from John Material.
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I mean he only threw for 138 yards.
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Uncle Coleman only reigned for 74 yards on the ground.
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So it was all their basically their defense because their
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offense didn't really do much in that game, but they didn't.
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They did just enough. Well, they they had that pick
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six yeah, whenever it's a close game and and it's not just a
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pick six at 87 yard pick 6 by Eli Bowen that I mean, when
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you've got two teams that are even like that, that's really a
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play that can kind of flip the script.
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Alabama out gained Oklahoma 406 to 212.
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So and like you said, material only had 161 total yards and
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Todd Simpson threw for 330. But they've really limited them
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on their last four drives as Oklahoma held them to 57 yards
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over their last four drives. They had 17 points off of
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turnovers. So they were able to get the
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lead by by forcing turnovers and then really held the offense in
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check of the last four drives to to secure that win.
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No, I mean, that's the story. You look at the if you look at
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the box score, like you said, it was 4 O six to two, 212 on the
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total yards. But the turnover battle was plus
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three in favor of Oklahoma. You know, Alabama 3 turnovers.
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Oklahoma, they didn't move the ball very well, but they didn't
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make the mistakes. They didn't turn it over.
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They didn't give Alabama short fields.
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They scored some points on defense and and that's that's
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the story is just taking care of the ball and forcing those
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turnovers. And now I think, I mean, this
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kind of securely puts Oklahoma in the in the conversation to be
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in the playoff. Yeah.
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But and material didn't have a great game, but I think he is
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getting healthier. He was putting up great numbers
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at the beginning of the year. If he could start doing that
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again with the way that this defense is playing.
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I mean, this was always the plan, right, bringing Brent
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Venables in to Oklahoma. The plan was always to have a
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defense that could kind of carry your team and if they can
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continue to play this way and then get better play from the
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tier. When we were talking about the
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first month and a half of the season where he was potentially
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A Heisman candidate, that's not the case anymore.
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But if he can get back to that play with this defense, they can
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make some noise. No, absolutely.
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Then we look at Ole Miss rallies late to to beat Florida.
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But really, I mean, I thought it, I thought this game was in
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Gainesville because they're talking about we, we want Lane.
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And it was just Florida fans at, at the game in, in Oxford
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chanting for Lane to come come to Gainesville.
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And I don't know, both LSU and Florida seem to be recruiting
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them pretty heavily. And I think the the AD there at
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Ole Miss is getting a little fed up with it and wants a decision.
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I mean, that's pretty brazen. And then Florida fans to go into
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enemy territory and just start chanting, we want your coach.
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I mean, man, what a statement that is.
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But no, I think you're right. If you're the AD there, you you
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hear that and it's like, well, you know, what are you?
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What are you going to do? You know, it's like you you
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mentioned before we got on here that you, you setting in what a
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deadline for lane to come out and say what he wants to do.
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That's the. Talks I mean they said that
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already that his ex-wife has been to Baton Rouge and and and
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been to Gainesville. I mean, you know how.
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I mean, we hear that all, I mean, there's all trackers and,
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oh, there's a flight going from, you know, Baton Rouge to Ole
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Miss. And it could just be, you know,
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that's a standard route. Like you can't believe all that
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nonsense. I I think, I mean, they're
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obviously in great. They're 10 and what, they've had
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one loss, they're 10 and one six and one in the SEC.
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They're in great position to be in the playoff lane.
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Kiffin just has the reputation to always be on the move me to
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find him and I'm at Ole Miss and I've they're they're telling me
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that they're going to give me all this backing and they're
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talking about how they're going to put money into the program.
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And you've already proven that you could have success and now
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you're taking the next step and looks like you might get to the
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playoff. I mean, I I would take the
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little extra money they're probably going to give me and
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stay there, but I don't know if Lane Kiffin really if that's how
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he operates. Yeah.
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I mean, I can't speak for Lane and like you said, he has the
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reputation of jumping around, but I don't know why you would
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want to go over and go and start over somewhere else, take over a
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struggling program that I mean, Florida historically is not a
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struggling program, but they've been.
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They haven't been good since Urban Meyer left.
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Right. Like they've been down the last
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couple years. So you're basically going to go,
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you have a good thing going. You're 10 and one, you're right
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in the mix. Try to get to the SEC
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championship game, you're squarely in the mix for a
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playoff spot and then go to take over a three and seven Florida
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team. And with all the expectations
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and pressure you're going to feel there already, you're 1.
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I mean, you go and start over and you don't succeed in your
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one. They're already going to,
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they're going to be jumping on you already.
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So I would just you got a good thing going.
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I don't know. I don't understand why you would
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give up a good thing. I don't either, but this is is
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not going to go away. And I mean, it really is kind of
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overriding, you know, the success that this Ole Miss team
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is having. I mean, Trinidad Chambliss had
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another great game. Lacey had 224 yards and three
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touchdowns on the on the ground. This is a good Ole Miss team.
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And I don't know. And look, maybe it's not his
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fault. Maybe.
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I mean, obviously if you're you're a coach in these
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openings, people are going to, you know, suggest that this
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might be happening. But I I just feel like it's kind
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of taking over the story of the the good football that these Ole
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Miss players are. Yeah, no.
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And that's kind of a shame. It is kind of a distraction
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when, you know, other schools are rumored becoming after your
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coach and you're still have a lot to play for.
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You have a national championship to play for.
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So it's definitely distracting, has to be distracting.
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So it's not really fair to the players or the fans for that
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matter. You know, if you're the AD, you
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just wish that Lane would come out and say something instead of
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just leaving everybody in in limbo.
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It's not the way it is these days.
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Yeah, I don't I don't see him doing that.
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But Texas Tech, after taking care of BYU last week, just
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absolutely put it on UCF and our boy Joey Rodriguez, they were
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talking about him being a Heisman Trophy candidate.
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They did a little something extra to try to get him on the
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on the stage last week or on Saturday.
21:28
You see the coach's quote, you said everybody's talking about Q
21:31
BS for Heisman. So we decided to put him at QB
21:34
and what did he do? He scores a touchdown.
21:36
So I mean, they're embracing it, man.
21:38
They're embracing his celebrity. They're embracing his his
21:40
Heisman campaign. He had an interception.
21:43
He scored a touchdown on offense, had an interception on
21:46
defense, was the leading tackler with 9 total tackles.
21:50
He had a pass defended. Like he's just all over the
21:52
place. I mean, I again, defensive
21:55
players for Heisman's, like I think I looked it up, the last
21:58
one was Chase Young in 2019 from Ohio State that ended up going
22:02
to New York as part of that ceremony.
22:04
So it's not often, it's not, it's not probably a realistic
22:08
thing that a defensive player will will win.
22:10
Eisman, like I said, Charles Woodson I think was the actual
22:12
last one to do it. But I love it.
22:14
I love the the the campaign they're putting behind this guy.
22:18
Yeah, no, it, no, it's cool and it it'll be fun to to see what
22:22
other kind of quirky plays they they utilize the rest of the
22:26
year to try to. You can do that too when you're
22:28
up by 40 points. And.
22:30
You're just rolling and Texas Tech is in a really good spot.
22:35
It's to get to the playoffs as they they lead the Big 12.
22:39
Notre Dame went to Pitt as Pitt hosted game day and Notre Dame
22:45
kind of showed Pitt that they're not quite at their level yet.
22:48
Jeremiah Love I it was early in the game, one of the coolest to
22:54
the house runs I may have ever seen where he just straight hit
22:57
circle button at the 50 yard line and just duped every single
23:03
pit defender and then took it all the way to the house.
23:06
And he's another guy that, you know, we haven't talked about
23:09
him much on this show, but he's another guy that might be on his
23:13
way to New York. Yeah, he's the best running back
23:15
in the country. You know, he had another awesome
23:17
game on Saturday against Pitt. But yeah, not a lot of people
23:22
are talking about him as they should mean they should, because
23:25
he's he's that good. BYU rebounds with the big win
23:29
over TCU, Utah. I mean, Utah has just absolutely
23:35
killed some teams this year. One on Saturday, 55 to 28, Miami
23:40
gets right, gets a 41 to seven win over NC State.
23:43
And then Georgia Tech, who I guess they're in the driver's
23:47
seat in the ACC, but it takes a come from behind win at BC
23:54
against a team who hasn't won since week one against Fordham
24:01
to I just I don't know what to I mean, I Haines keen.
24:05
I really like him, but like, I guess in the end it's just like,
24:09
hey, them do you figure out a way to win and that's all that
24:12
matters. But can you really be down in
24:15
the fourth quarter? Gets A1 win BC team.
24:17
I mean, not they were just sleepwalking in that game.
24:19
I don't know if they just thought they'd get off the bus
24:21
and kick the ball off and all of a sudden, you know, they do.
24:24
The game would be over and they'd be walking out of there
24:26
with a victory without having to do anything.
24:27
So I mean, Boston College made them work for it.
24:30
They had to outscore them nineteen to six in the fourth
24:32
quarter just to get that two point victory.
24:34
So I mean, they they them in Virginia, I think are the
24:38
driver's seats since Virginia House Duke the other day.
24:42
So they're both sitting there with one conference loss.
24:45
They went out and SMU is also there with one conference loss
24:47
as well. So I mean, they, they are in the
24:51
driver's seat, but Maine, they, they took a long detour to get
24:53
back on the road. Yeah, but figured out a way to
24:57
win. Haynes King almost threw for 400
24:59
yards they they had 19 points in the fourth quarter to come back
25:02
and win that one. Michigan wins with the with the
25:07
late field goal at Wrigley Field, which it's, it's, it's
25:11
always cool when they're playing college football games at
25:14
Wrigley Field. And I mean with Northwestern
25:16
Stadium, they're they're doing all that construction right now.
25:19
I mean, you go from a stadium that's out of construction that
25:22
I think is basically like a soccer stadium to Wrigley.
25:25
It's a big difference. Yeah, no.
25:28
Cool. Anytime you can put a sporting
25:29
event at Wrigley Field, it's it's good.
25:31
And you you talked about Virginia taking care of Duke.
25:35
So and then South Florida, who a lot of people had, as you know,
25:39
that non power 4 power five team to get in the playoff loses,
25:44
loses to Navy and that American race.
25:47
I don't know if that if that last playoff team is going to
25:51
come out of the American, but that that the league is all just
25:54
kind of tightened up there. Yeah.
25:56
I mean, South Florida, the after that win at Florida earlier in
26:00
the year and people were talking about them as as being in like
26:04
the driver's seat of getting that non power four spot.
26:07
But, you know, a couple losses here and now it looks like James
26:10
Madison might be in that spot. Yeah, and could they potentially
26:14
play IU? Very well, good, that would be
26:17
awesome. So that would then that would,
26:19
that would be interesting. No, but it's, it's hard to
26:24
believe what we're already in week 12.
26:27
It's crazy how fast it goes. James Franklin appears like he's
26:31
going to be heading to Blacksburg to be the the head
26:35
coach of the Hokies. You, you talked about Beamer
26:37
getting fired at South Carolina. He's probably the I mean, he's
26:42
got to be the biggest name coach that Virginia Tech's had since
26:45
Frank Beamer was there. Yeah, I think it's a great
26:48
landing spot for for James Franklin as well.
26:50
Like, you know, you, you had success, you have success where
26:54
basically everywhere you've gone.
26:56
You were just in the College Football Playoff last year with
26:59
Penn State. But now, you know, you don't
27:01
have to face the Ohio states in the Michigan's every year in the
27:05
powerhouse Indiana football team that they've got up there in
27:08
Bloomington now. So, you know, the ACCI think for
27:11
him is a great landing spot. It's a winnable conference,
27:14
especially in years like this year when Clemson and Florida
27:18
State are are down and Miami is, you know, they're good, but
27:21
they're not the Miami that everybody expected them to be.
27:24
So it's a good landing spot. He can win.
27:27
He can win there, he can win now.
27:29
I mean you can turn it around as long as they give him the
27:32
resources and the inil money that they everybody says that
27:34
they promised them. So for him, it's a good to me,
27:38
it's a good situation for him. Yeah, I think it's a great
27:42
situation and they've got a, they've got a great football
27:45
tradition if if they're going to put money behind it.
27:48
And you're right, the the schedule in the ACC is just
27:51
different than it is in the Big 10 and and the SEC.
27:55
That's just the way it went. Miami and Florida State aren't,
27:59
you know, in the top five like they used to be with the ACC was
28:03
hoping they were going to be when they brought them over.
28:07
That just hasn't been the case here here recently.
28:09
Clemson's been down. And no, I, I do, I think it's a
28:12
good spot for James Franklin. And it works out really well for
28:16
Penn State, too, as they renegotiate his buyout from 49
28:22
million to $9 million. That's more manageable.
28:28
Yeah, yeah. Like that's, I don't even like,
28:32
I just, I don't know how. Like is that just him being a
28:35
nice guy? No, I think that actually was
28:38
part of the agreement that when he got fired, it was in the
28:41
buyout clause that he had to at least attempt to get another
28:46
job. And if he landed another job,
28:49
Penn State would just have to pay the difference of whatever
28:51
he's getting paid the new job compared to what his old cost.
28:53
So he was making 9 million a year, Penn State, and he's
28:56
making 8 million a year here at Virginia Tech.
28:59
Penn State kicks in that extra million to basically make it
29:02
even. So I think that's kind of what
29:04
happened. To you, all these coaches not
29:05
have this clause in their contract.
29:07
They, no, they do not. No, no, they don't.
29:09
Some are just you pay me all the money and you pay me all the
29:13
money up front, or you pay me over five years, you pay me over
29:15
three months or whatever. But no, not all.
29:18
Do I think this was a smart play by Penn State of having that?
29:22
You think? Yeah, a smart play.
29:25
I mean, James Frank could have gone and done TV.
29:28
But he could have. He could have told Virginia Tech
29:30
I'll coach for $100 a year and then make Penn State be on the
29:33
hook for nice, basically the whole buyout if you wanted to.
29:36
Yeah, he also could have gone and done TV.
29:38
He could have done TV. I just you go from 49 to 9, I
29:42
mean just think about how much that change changes the budget
29:46
lines for Penn State for the next 7 years.
29:50
Like it just, I like Penn State. Good on you for getting that in
29:57
his contract because these buyouts are crazy.
30:02
And I mean, I, I don't think that's in Brian Kelly's
30:05
contract. I think he's he's going to be
30:08
owed up all of that money over the next couple months, I think.
30:11
So I guess need to get into the NFL.
30:15
Do we have to? Yeah, let's start with the
30:17
Bengals and then we can get into everything else.
30:19
You good with that? Sure, there's not much to say.
30:22
It's just another dumpster fire after week.
30:26
After week, the fire just gets hotter and hotter in the
30:28
dumpster. Well, it was it was for all the
30:33
I know because like I said, I had Thanksgiving on on Sunday
30:37
and you know what the score was the majority of the first half.
30:40
The kids do. The kids do 6-7.
30:44
The Bengals score, they tie the game on extra point, they get a
30:47
penalty. Pittsburgh gets a penalty.
30:49
So Zach Taylor decides we'll take a point off the board and
30:52
we'll go for two. Oh, let's start there.
30:54
Let's go piece by piece here. Why, why, why are we taking the
30:56
point off the board? Why are we taking the point off
30:59
the board? You can get, you can move it up
31:01
an extra yard closer to the goal line, but come on, you've tied
31:05
the game. Let's take the tie like it's
31:08
early in the game. We're not chasing points in the
31:10
first quarter. It's the first quarter.
31:12
Take the point that's on the board, especially when you run
31:15
some stupid play that you ran on the two point conversion that
31:19
went absolutely nowhere and then all of a sudden you're losing
31:22
the game. That's the issue.
31:24
That's the issue. Like I have.
31:25
No, I really don't have a problem.
31:27
We're going for it. I have a problem with it.
31:29
Like if you you got to think that you can get a yard.
31:31
Nope. Not this.
31:32
Nope. Nope.
31:34
But I mean, I also understand because they have but you take a
31:39
point off and then it's 6-7 the almost the entire first half
31:42
until the last drive of the of the second quarter where the
31:46
Bengals have two rough in the passer penalties and a 30 yard
31:49
gain and they end up stopping them again in inside the the 10
31:54
and hold them to a field up. They only allowed ten points in
31:58
the first half the Bengals defense.
32:01
They did. They they had they held them the
32:06
two of seven on 3rd down in the first half and forced 3
32:10
consecutive punts. The Bengals defense and the
32:16
offense couldn't do anything. Play complimentary football.
32:21
The offense, I mean, the first drive of the game for the
32:23
offense was actually really, really good.
32:25
They were running the ball. Chase Brown would look like he
32:27
was going to run all over Pittsburgh in that game off that
32:31
first drive. Joe Flacco had that nice down
32:33
the sideline pass the T Higgins for for a for a touchdown and
32:37
then it looked like we were going to be off and rolling like
32:39
we just were against Pittsburgh 3-4 weeks ago.
32:42
And then the came all to a screeching halt.
32:46
Yeah, I mean, the Bengals didn't do anything in the second-half.
32:50
Joe Flacco threw a pick six. Yeah.
32:52
Fumble another. Another fumble 6. 6.
32:56
And. Don't tackle anybody.
32:58
Gino Stone just needs to be cut tomorrow.
33:01
I mean, if he's if he's active and for the rest of the season,
33:04
this I, I why look ultimate active?
33:09
He should. Be I don't have look, I I could
33:12
fake my way through coaching baseball.
33:14
I could coach fake my way through coaching basketball.
33:17
Admittedly, I could not coach football like I just, I could
33:21
not. But when it's that?
33:22
Evident now when you say coach football like you could, you're
33:25
saying you can't coach the techniques of tackling and the
33:28
techniques or you like you can make decisions on OK, you suck,
33:32
you're not playing. What I can do that I don't
33:35
understand that like I all the formations and all that, like I
33:39
don't know enough about it where I could coach.
33:41
But you know when you know when a player is playing well and
33:44
when a player sucks. But you know, see Barrett Carter
33:48
in space, I'm like, all right, well, we're not getting to stop.
33:52
When I see Geno Stone and he has to make a tackle and he was
33:55
like, oh, he's going to bounce off of him and he has no chance.
33:58
He doesn't even try. He just throws his body at a
34:01
guy, doesn't use his arms, doesn't try to wrap up anything.
34:04
He just tries to throw his body at somebody and then he just
34:07
hits the ground and the runner just keeps running.
34:10
It's just an embarrassment that Geno Stone is an NFL player.
34:14
Well, and I like you asked him to take a pay cut in the
34:18
offseason because he wasn't what you thought he was when you
34:21
signed him. And instead of cutting him, you
34:24
asked him to take a pay cut. And then you're like, wow, but
34:26
you'll still play every single snap.
34:28
Gave up 27 points. They've given up 27 points in
34:31
nine straight games. Ties the NFL record.
34:34
The Chargers also did that in 2020.
34:37
That date backs to 1920, dates back over 100 years.
34:42
So they've allowed fourteen points in the fourth quarter and
34:47
five straight games. That is an NFL record.
34:50
The 84 points allowed in the fourth quarter over the last
34:53
five games, ties in NFL record. They converted 1/3 and 17 and I
34:58
think 2-3 third and Elevenths. Oh yeah, third and third along
35:02
was the the theme of yesterday. You get the the Pittsburgh
35:05
Steelers in the 3rd and over 10 and it was almost an automatic
35:09
first down on. The and it was just little
35:10
screen passes. That was it.
35:13
All I had to do was just all I had to do was just tackle
35:14
somebody and they couldn't do. The NFL average on 3rd and 10s
35:18
is 19%. The Bengals are last in the NFL,
35:20
coming to the game at 30%. They had allowed six of 23rd and
35:26
10 conversions on the season. On Sunday, they allowed three
35:30
alone, which is tied for the most this year.
35:35
I mean. In, in, in.
35:37
At halftime, you're like you said, you get the ball to start
35:39
the second-half, you're down 10/6, Aaron Rodgers is out of
35:43
the game, so you're facing Mason or Rudolph.
35:46
You're thinking we might be able to do something here and it was
35:51
just an absolute opposite. They just butt whooped us on
35:54
both sides of the ball and just boat raced us in the
35:57
second-half. Yeah.
35:59
As as then and then you got and then like your your son, you the
36:03
Zach Taylor apologist. You just love Zach Taylor, which
36:06
to me makes yes, you do. You love fest with Zach Taylor,
36:11
which makes no snits. The man on 4th and one from
36:14
midfield. When you're down to touchdowns,
36:16
everybody knows you're not going to punt the ball.
36:19
You get up under center and you try to draw them off sides and
36:22
waste the time out. What are you?
36:24
What are you doing right there? Run the play.
36:27
You want to try to draw them off, that's fine, but you don't
36:30
burn the time out. What you do is run the play.
36:31
You sneak it, you get the first down, absolutely inexcusable.
36:35
And then coming out of a first. Down lucky on that.
36:37
They got lucky there. Well then coming out, then you
36:39
had to burn it. Then right after that you burned
36:41
another time out because you couldn't get the play call in
36:43
because the play clock was running down to 1.
36:45
And then you take a delay a game after a first down.
36:47
No, I mean. That's your head coach, That's
36:50
your guy. I mean, I'd fire.
36:52
Thank you. That's fine.
36:54
I'd fire Duke, I'd fire Zach Taylor, and I'd fire Al Golden.
36:57
Glad you finally came around. I mean, you have to.
37:01
Yes. You have to.
37:02
There's no doubt, but will they I?
37:05
Don't know. In your opinion, what's I want
37:08
you to look at your little crystal ball yellow magic 8 ball
37:11
over there once you shake it up real nice and good real quick
37:14
and look into that future and what does the what do the
37:18
Bengals look like next year with those 3?
37:21
Is Duke Tobin here, is Zach Taylor here, and is Al Golden
37:23
here next year? Well, I'll rank them.
37:26
Who's most likely to be there? I think Duke Tobin's most likely
37:29
to be there because he's been there since 1999.
37:31
Insane. Absolutely insane.
37:33
I mean, he's the first one that I would fire.
37:36
Absolutely. So I'll give you 2 rankings,
37:38
I'll give who's most likely and I'll give you who I would Duke.
37:40
Tobin is the first I would fire and he's the most likely to
37:43
still be there. Yes, Zach Taylor and Al Golden
37:46
are are a package deal because Zach just hired him from Notre
37:52
Dame. So I mean, they can't neither
37:56
one of them can be under staffed next year.
37:58
Neither one of them like you have to start fresh.
38:00
You keep DJ Turner, you maybe keep Demetrius Knight just
38:04
because he's a rookie and but there's not many other pieces on
38:08
that defense that you bring back next year and.
38:11
You got to start. Completely over your offense is
38:13
completely set. You hardly.
38:15
You don't have to do anything on offense.
38:18
No, I agree with that. You don't have to touch it.
38:21
Everybody is back your hope and I I hate that we're doing this
38:26
in, in week 11. But yeah, you have to start
38:30
completely fresh on, on defense. So I mean, the the bottom line
38:35
is you this can't be your coaching staff and this can't be
38:39
your front office next year. But there's a chance that that
38:45
Zach will not be here. There's a chance that Al Golden
38:47
will not be here. I think the chances are very
38:50
slim that Duke Tobin will not be.
38:52
Here, that's unfortunate. We I guess we got to talk about
38:55
the spin clown show. I mean, they were getting in it
39:00
as him and Jalen Ramsey as much as I've seen two players get in
39:04
it and they had they were just hanging on to each other's face
39:07
masks there for 5 minutes at at at one point.
39:11
And dude, Jalen Ramsey is. Well, he's got a history.
39:14
He's got a history. Of it.
39:16
Yeah, I mean, he and AJ Green were duking it out at midfield
39:20
when he was a Jaguar, got AJ and AJ Green was one of the most
39:23
level headed, calm guys and that I've ever seen play for the
39:26
Bengals. And he's out there throwing
39:28
punches at Jalen Ramsey because he's just a punchable guy, I
39:30
guess. Well, I mean, yeah, you're
39:32
right. Like if you're getting AJ to act
39:34
like that, do you have a good ability to get into people's
39:40
heads and make them want to punch you in the face?
39:42
Yeah. And I think that's kind of what
39:44
went on yesterday. And look, there's and there's
39:46
already bad blood between Jamar and Jalen Ramsey.
39:52
You see, you see Ramsey throw the punch.
39:54
I mean, can we quit punching people in the helmet That's also
39:57
didn't see the spit until later, R says I ain't spit on that guy.
40:03
Well, the video shows otherwise. Jamar.
40:06
Make clear he's not going to say, yeah, I spit on him.
40:09
I think. I think he was maybe hoping that
40:11
you couldn't tell on video knowing damn well he did do it.
40:14
I mean, I don't blame him for saying I didn't do it.
40:16
But yeah, that evidence is, is pretty clear.
40:19
Like we got to stop spitting on people.
40:21
Like again, how does this just keep happening?
40:25
I don't know Jalen Carter. Did it?
40:27
What? You're grown adults.
40:29
Yeah. It's just gross.
40:30
I mean it's just gross. And Jalen Carter did the DAC in
40:36
week 1. He didn't get suspended they
40:39
said oh he missed the whole game so it basically was a
40:43
suspension. But it looks like Jamar is going
40:46
to be the first player ever suspended for an entire game for
40:49
spitting. I mean, it's warranted.
40:51
I I can't disagree with it. What it was the fine $100,000,
40:55
is that what I saw? Close to it, a little bit less
40:57
than that. I mean, it's a, it's a game
40:59
check. So it's a 118th of his pay.
41:02
Yeah. That's a lot of money.
41:04
He's appealing. I I don't see how this gets gets
41:07
overturned but. I mean, he does he, he deserves
41:11
it. It doesn't matter at this point
41:13
anyway. No.
41:16
And I mean what? You have the Patriots and you
41:18
have the Ravens twice. Bills.
41:21
And the bills over the next 4 weeks, I mean you're.
41:23
Going to be you're just, you're playing for the draft pick now.
41:26
Yeah, and I, I guess Joe, I guess Burrow will still play if
41:29
he's ready, but I don't. Still pressure on him if he
41:33
comes back at least. No.
41:34
Well, yeah, but no, I mean get that pick.
41:39
Yeah. Because.
41:42
But then Duke Tobin will probably mess it up.
41:44
We'll get a we'll get a nice top five pick and Duke Tobin will
41:47
probably just screw it up and pick some guy that has never had
41:50
a sack in his college career or something nonsense like that.
41:54
Well, Trey's never going to play again either, so he's already
41:58
doubtful for next week so. Yeah, it's, it's the show going
42:04
on. This isn't.
42:06
This isn't a Bengals show. We need to quit our venting.
42:09
But it's just it's so frustrating.
42:12
Well what what non Bengals game stood out to you yesterday?
42:16
I. The one that stood out to me the
42:18
most and I we say this every week.
42:21
I don't know how it keeps happening, but the Denver
42:23
Broncos just continue to find ways to win games and they beat
42:27
a damn good Chiefs team yesterday.
42:30
They also. They also really separated
42:33
themselves in the AFC West. Yeah, no, yeah.
42:36
Like for a team, that's what that's already leading that
42:37
division, you know, to just keep digging the Chiefs hole deeper
42:41
and deeper. Good for them.
42:43
But I I don't understand how it keeps happening.
42:45
It's like I said, we we've said we're not Bo Nick's believers on
42:49
this show, but their defense is really, really good.
42:51
So good for the Broncos. They keep finding ways to do it,
42:55
and as long as they keep winning, that's all that
42:58
matters. Look and look, you've you've
43:00
said we're not huge Bonex believers and I think I've been
43:04
even more of a a hater of Bonex than you have.
43:08
But yesterday his fifth fourth quarter comeback of the year.
43:15
And that's what they just keep doing.
43:17
They keep finding ways to win games late.
43:20
He finished with almost 300 yards, had a huge third and 15
43:24
conversion on that game-winning drive to Cortland Sutton and and
43:28
then he hit Troy Franklin down down the sideline to set up
43:30
Lutz's 35 yard game-winning field goals.
43:35
Yeah, their defense is the story of this team.
43:38
And they forced the Chiefs twice in a row to go 3 and out when
43:42
they had a chance to extend the lead late.
43:45
Yeah. But I mean, I have gotten on bow
43:48
Knicks, but I didn't think he was great.
43:50
He he was good yesterday and was a big reason why he won that
43:54
game. And here's you wanted a crazy
43:56
stat. The Chiefs last year were 11.
43:59
And oh, and one score games this year.
44:04
Do you know what the record is in one score games?
44:07
Something in five Were they Two and five?
44:09
One and five. Oh, and five.
44:11
Oh, and five. They're five and five overall
44:15
and. All 5 by 1 score.
44:17
Yep. And the the Chiefs now, or
44:21
they're the Chiefs are five and five and the Broncos are, are
44:25
they? They're nine and two.
44:27
So so 3 1/2 games clear. Yeah, Yep.
44:31
I mean, that's that's that's what what stood out to me was
44:34
just the Broncos continue to win.
44:36
And I think the other game that stood out to me was what we
44:38
thought was going to be the game of the day.
44:40
And it it turned out to be a pretty good one in terms of
44:43
score. But Sam Darnold just was awful
44:46
yesterday. Awful.
44:48
And you know, I had the Seahawks as my best team in the NFL.
44:51
You had the Rams as your top pick and the Rams came out on
44:54
top of that Two point victory. But 4 interceptions for Darnold
44:58
yesterday? Brutal.
44:59
Yeah, and he's really struggled against the Rams and, and more
45:05
specifically against their defense coordinator Chris Shula.
45:09
In the three games against his defense, he's O and three and
45:13
he's been sacked 12 times and he's thrown 5 picks.
45:16
And I think wasn't it? Didn't they lose to the Rams
45:18
when he was with Minnesota last year in the play offs?
45:20
Yep. Yep.
45:22
So he's what against every other, every other coordinator,
45:28
he's 21 and four and you know, they the Rams bring pressure.
45:33
And I think it's just proven that that's kind of Sam Donald's
45:37
kryptonite right now is when he's pressured, he he makes
45:40
mistakes and and that's what happened on on on Sunday.
45:44
But I mean, if you, if you made me, if we're doing this on
45:48
Wednesday and I get first pick, I'm going Rams as the best team
45:51
in all and Stafford continues to play well.
45:54
Yeah, I mean, and losing to the Rams, I don't think makes the
45:58
Seahawks, you know, I I still think they're probably one of
46:00
the top three, four teams in the league.
46:03
And Sam Darnold's not going to do this.
46:05
Haven't he's proven he's better than this.
46:07
So I'm I'm just chalking this up as a one off for him.
46:10
Like you said, he struggles against this team and this
46:12
defensive coordinator. So Seahawks will be fine, but
46:16
the Rams? Rams are just better.
46:19
Yeah, the the Bills at home beat the Bucks 44 to 32.
46:23
Josh Allen was kind of a Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with some of
46:28
the great plays he was making and some of the just did you see
46:32
the two handed pass that he threw from his own end zone as
46:35
it got picked like one of the worst interceptions I've ever
46:38
seen. But he ends up with 317 passing
46:42
yards, 3 passing touchdowns, 2 interceptions, and then three
46:46
more rushing touchdowns. And they limited Baker Mayfield
46:50
to just 173 yards as, as, as the Bills took care of the Bucks.
46:56
The the game, the game last night was I, I think everybody
46:59
was looking forward to that one. And it with, you know, Detroit
47:03
going into Philly and Jared Goff look bad.
47:07
Yeah, no, the Lions. Yeah, the Lions look bad.
47:10
Jared Goff look bad. Eagles weren't that impressive
47:12
either. I mean just a boring 16 to 9
47:15
boring game. And, you know, it was cold and
47:18
windy and it was gusty. And Jared Goff was 14 of 37, and
47:24
he's had a history of struggling in these cold, windy games.
47:27
And that that continued last night.
47:30
And yeah, like you said, it didn't seem like the Eagles
47:32
really wanted to win the game either.
47:35
But we did see a tush push get stopped.
47:37
We did. Yeah, I did see that actually.
47:38
Yes, Yes, we did. There's a blueprint now for
47:42
somebody that for a team to, to, to follow that they can stop it.
47:45
Yeah, the the Ravens were trailing early but came back to
47:48
win at Cleveland and we got to see Shadora Sanders for the
47:53
first time. Yeah, I don't think that win as
47:56
well as he was hoping it would go. 41647 yards in a pick.
48:01
I saw one stat that said if he would have just dropped back and
48:07
spiked it, he would have had a higher QB ranking, QB rating if
48:11
he would have done that. But you know, there's also like
48:14
saying that Stefanski is not not played him at all with the first
48:18
strangers in practice and that was the first time that he's
48:21
been out there with them. And I don't know this, this
48:24
whole handling of Shadour and their 50 quarterbacks that they
48:28
have in Cleveland has just been odd all year.
48:31
It's odd. I mean, I don't think Shadour is
48:34
a bad talent. I just think, you know, like he
48:36
just, I don't think it's something he's prepared, like
48:39
you said, that he hasn't gotten the reps He's just not.
48:41
He just came in and look like he didn't really know what to do.
48:44
Can we talk about probably the best, worst team or the worst
48:49
best team in football, the Chicago Bears, and how they just
48:53
continue to just somehow win games?
48:55
7:00 and 3:00. Seven and three in first place
48:59
in the NFC North, a division that we all expected to be one
49:03
of the best in football with the Packers, the Lions and the
49:07
Vikings. But the last second field goal
49:10
yesterday to beat the Vikings. So they win that by two the week
49:13
before they win by four against the bad Giants team.
49:17
We all know what happens when they pulled out that last minute
49:20
victory against the terrible Bengals.
49:22
You know, they they beat the commanders by one.
49:25
They beat the Raiders by one. Like they they have all of these
49:28
close games against these bad teams that they are just barely
49:32
winning. They are not a good football
49:34
team. And that either 7-8 and what we
49:37
say they were. There are 7 and 3.
49:40
Seven and three and in first place, I I I does not make sense
49:44
to me. I mean, they were up 16 to 3
49:46
going into the fourth quarter. The Vikings, who had moved the
49:50
ball at all the entire game, get 2 scores to go up.
49:53
And then what do the Bears do? They get a they get a field goal
49:57
with the gun. They kick return, Yeah.
49:59
Do yeah and and then get a field goal with the gun.
50:02
But. I just don't understand how it
50:04
keeps happening. JJ McCarthy was 16 of 32 and
50:08
guess what? Kayla Williams was also 16 of
50:11
32, both with 50% completion percentages.
50:15
Justin Jefferson had five catches for 61 yards.
50:19
He's on pace for just 1200 yards and three touchdowns this year
50:22
and kind of showed his frustration on on Sunday.
50:25
I know Darnold struggled, but you you've got you got to
50:30
wonder, did they screw that one up by not bringing him back?
50:33
Because he's been really good until till yesterday.
50:37
Yeah, yeah. I mean really the the Patriots
50:42
continue to win on Thursday night.
50:44
The Dolphins win in Madrid on a game-winning field going
50:48
overtime. The Panthers are six and five.
50:52
I talked about them maybe being a team when we had to figure out
50:56
teams they weren't going to make the playoffs or that didn't make
50:59
the playoffs, that might make it this year.
51:00
They were the one of the teams I mentioned.
51:01
I didn't really believe myself. I don't even know what your
51:04
reason, I don't even think you even remember your reasoning for
51:06
it, but somehow they're sitting there 6.
51:08
And five, but they're six and five.
51:09
I mean, listen to the playoffs. In the AFC right now, the one
51:18
seed is the Denver Broncos. The two seed is the New England
51:23
Patriots and the three seed is the Indianapolis Colts.
51:27
If you would have bet that at the beginning of the year, for
51:30
those three teams that win the Division, I think you're going
51:32
to be making a lot of. Money.
51:33
Yeah. Although I did call the Colts,
51:34
so can you know? Well, that's one of three.
51:36
I don't you have to get two more to win to win that bet.
51:42
And then I mean, I still don't think the the Steelers are that
51:45
good and they're sitting there four seed because they're
51:49
leading the North and then. I don't know we if we can go
51:52
back and find episode 1 of this show.
51:55
And when we did these predictions, I may have said the
51:58
Broncos was going to we're going to win that division.
52:01
I know I said they were making the playoffs and I'm I was
52:03
cussing the Chiefs out for I thought they were going to
52:05
regress. I might have said the Denver
52:07
Broncos. We need to go back and pull the
52:09
pull the tape on that. Well, it's all out there.
52:11
I mean, that's that's the saying like this list lives on the
52:14
Internet for all eternity, so. I'm going to, I'm going to pull
52:19
the tape. We're going to pull the tape
52:20
from episode one or two and and find that segment because I, I
52:23
might, I might have had two out of 3 here.
52:26
Yeah. And then your bears are now, I
52:28
mean the Eagles and the Rams won two seeds in NFC, but then your
52:31
bears are the three seeds in the NFC right now.
52:36
Rob Jones is rejoicing over in Plainview right now.
52:39
I don't know, like just there's really, I don't think there's
52:43
great teams this year. No, I, I, if you asked me to
52:47
pick the Super Bowl champion, I would probably tell you the
52:49
Baltimore Ravens. And they're sitting there at 500
52:51
on the season. So there's not a lot of great
52:54
teams. But I don't know.
52:55
We'll see when it when it comes down to crunch time, will all
52:58
the teams that have have risen to the top in the past couple
53:01
years, the Bills, the Chiefs, the Ravens, will they continue
53:04
to do that as wild card teams or will some of these newcomers
53:08
prove that they're not frauds? I don't know.
53:11
I may not. I just, I know there's like, I
53:16
just, it's hard to trust these teams, you know, I just, I don't
53:22
know. It's Oh yeah.
53:23
That's what people love about the NFL is you just never know
53:27
from year to year who's going to be in the playoffs.
53:30
And I mean, honestly, it makes what the Chiefs have done even
53:33
more impressive. The fact that they've been able
53:35
to run it off over the last, you know, 5-6 years and and be there
53:38
every year when the league does change as much as it does.
53:41
But I know one team is not making a playoffs, and that is
53:44
your Cincinnati. New York Jets.
53:46
Well, oh, you want to talk about the New York Jets?
53:48
Justin Fields out as quarterback.
53:50
Yep, benched again. Yep, he.
53:53
He led his team to 500 yards 3 weeks ago.
53:55
He beat us. 500 yards. He led his team to 500 yards.
54:00
Sure did. You know, one thing we didn't
54:01
talk about, and I think we talked plenty NFL on Wednesday
54:05
on our last show and we meant to, so I think we need to
54:10
address it, is Shohei. Yeah, unanimous MVP.
54:17
Four and five years. Four and five years.
54:20
He. Multiple leagues.
54:23
He's the first player in all of the Big Four sports.
54:28
So baseball. NBANFLNHL, who has won MVP in a
54:32
championship championship in each of his first two seasons
54:35
with the team. I mean, we, we've already got
54:39
into it. I mean, have we ever seen
54:41
anything like this before? But I mean, Barry Bonds is the
54:45
only but he had 7 MVPS so that's the only one that that show hey
54:50
trails and just I mean, and I mean, if he does what next year,
54:55
what he's done, he's going to win it again.
54:57
I'd like to see there be a year and it's probably won't happen
54:59
because I don't think he's good enough to do.
55:03
He might be good enough to do it, but he's not quite Paul
55:06
Skeens level. But if he could somehow win an
55:09
MVP and a Cy Young in the same season?
55:11
I just, I don't think that's going to happen.
55:13
I don't know either because there's too many other good
55:15
pitchers out there. He's talented enough to him he
55:18
could do it. That would be it.
55:20
I mean, that's. Being a Cy Young Award winner
55:25
and he's hitting 56 bombs AT12530 RBIs.
55:30
Oh, I mean, it's, it's insane, dude.
55:32
It is absolutely insane but oh another one him and Joe Morgan
55:37
are the only players to have won MVP award in the World Series in
55:40
back-to-back seasons. I just.
55:46
He's one of one. So many, so many different
55:48
numbers and he's just going to keep breaking home.
55:50
And I just always go back to how did the angels just let him
55:55
walk? How they not win with him?
55:58
And how did they not win with him and Mike Trout?
56:00
But well, Speaking of the the Angels in the in the American
56:04
League, what are your opinions on the ALMVPA?
56:07
Little controversy there with Aaron Judge getting it over the
56:10
big dumper. He's got to go to the dumper
56:12
man. I would have said so too,
56:14
setting switch catcher records, switch hitting records.
56:18
And I think the fact that you're a catcher just adds another
56:21
element to it. Yeah, it's harder to play the
56:24
the grind on your body as a catcher's a lot more than
56:27
playing left field or center field or whatever, Aaron Judges.
56:31
Yeah, 100%. Yeah.
56:32
I mean, it's the big market Yankees over the little market
56:37
Mariners really. I I I think.
56:40
That's a big. Reason why I mean the Cal
56:44
Raleigh should have been MVP but there was no argument who was
56:47
the MVP in the other league. So we got what was this one
56:51
story you was telling me about where dudes like 6 foot 2 and
56:56
he's trying to become like even taller.
56:59
Yeah, I've never heard of this. Maybe you have, but what do they
57:03
call? Oh, believe me.
57:04
If I would have heard about it, I would have researched it.
57:07
They call going from 4:10 to to five. 2 is a big difference than
57:11
6/2 to 6/6. A popular looks maxer.
57:15
I don't know what a looks, never heard of the words what that
57:18
means, don't know. But this dude, I don't even know
57:22
where he said the article, doesn't think said where he's
57:23
from. I think he's not from here.
57:25
I don't think he says he is $100,000 spending on limb
57:31
lengthening surgery to go from six two to six foot 6.
57:35
So adding 4 inches of height to his body by basically they're
57:40
breaking the bones in his legs and stretching them out or
57:44
something. And I, I, I mean you going to
57:47
spend $100,000? How much how much you spending
57:50
to go from 4/10 to 6/6? Well, no.
57:53
Well, 4/10 to 6/6 then. How much would that cost?
57:57
I think I'd look a little goofy. To get out the checkbook.
58:00
I think I'd look a little goofy. I I don't understand this at
58:04
all. Like.
58:05
It's got to hurt. My whole life, like I just want
58:09
to get to 5 foot. I want to get this surgery would
58:11
get me there. Yeah, this surgery would get me
58:14
there. But and I've had surgeries, I've
58:17
like clearly like hip replacement.
58:20
I've had surgeries and they do they cut your bone and they like
58:24
it's just it's wild. But I am not doing this for I'm
58:28
still going to be short. You're still going to be short.
58:32
You're still going to be 5 two. Now Mugsy Bogues is 53.
58:34
Prince was 5 two. You're over that 5 foot
58:37
threshold, which just sounds better.
58:39
It could unlock a whole another door of some some fine looking
58:42
females for you. It could, it could.
58:45
I'm not going to research this. I also don't have $100,000 to
58:48
spend. But what is dude doing?
58:51
And he's he's like 6 foot 2 is average.
58:54
He's like 60, but it's not. It's like 90 percentile of
58:57
height. Yeah.
58:59
Yeah, but he's like, I want to get to the 99, the 95 or the 99.
59:02
But like what? I I don't like.
59:04
I don't. Yeah, but also.
59:07
A looks Maxer. So yeah, he just has all these
59:11
surgeries to make himself look what he thinks is more
59:14
attractive. They're breaking your bones and
59:17
doing all this to like you're probably going to live in pain
59:21
for the rest of your life. Like I just don't see how this
59:23
is successful and you just walk around normally at 6 foot 6 the
59:26
rest of your life. There's going to be some, some
59:30
some complications. It has to be with some, some
59:34
pain, some arthritis probably. I don't know what you got going
59:37
on in there, but there's just no way you're getting a little
59:39
comfortable life adding 4 inches to your your bone leg bones
59:43
dude. You play wiffle ball in the
59:44
front yard, that wiffle ball hits you in the shin.
59:46
You you're probably going to break your leg in half.
59:48
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm not, I'm not trying to
59:54
do that to to get to 5 foot 2 and also spend $100,000 I.
59:59
Hope I don't. I don't know what he's trying to
1:00:01
accomplish. Like I don't know what his end
1:00:03
goal is like. I think it was what he's trying
1:00:05
to accomplish is get idiots like us and blogs to talk about him
1:00:08
so he can make some money that way.
1:00:10
If you want to get to 5 foot, my God we can start a a height
1:00:13
differential GoFundMe page for Nick Evans to get to 5 foot.
1:00:16
Might have a couple donations come in.
1:00:18
Well, I want the full 4 inches, so I want to get to 5 foot 2 if
1:00:22
we're going to do it all. Right.
1:00:23
I think we could probably. 4 inches like how could I don't
1:00:27
understand how this works. I can see like. 4 inches.
1:00:30
It's a good amount of inches. Yes.
1:00:35
Like how do you, I don't understand how it grows back.
1:00:37
Like do they do it gradually? Like do you have to cut off an
1:00:40
inch and then grow back and then do it or is it a one time like I
1:00:43
didn't see where they said. It didn't have multiple surgery.
1:00:47
Yeah, I don't know. I don't.
1:00:48
Know and is it where do they cut you?
1:00:50
Do they cut you below the knee? It said they break his tibula or
1:00:55
fibula here. Let's let me pull this back up
1:00:57
here. It did.
1:00:59
It did say in the article what they cut.
1:01:01
So it but it is all below the waist.
1:01:05
Yes, to me, the way I write it was it was so you.
1:01:08
Just got long legs and a little bitty torso like it's not going
1:01:12
to be. I mean, do you have to do your
1:01:13
arms next? Like do you break your arms?
1:01:15
Like how does? Like it's not going to.
1:01:16
Be well that didn't make you taller unless you're walking
1:01:19
around on your arms and legs there, but you're you're going
1:01:24
to lose some symmetry, which to me I always thought like
1:01:29
attractiveness was based on symmetry.
1:01:31
Yeah, I think if you licked in your legs, you got licked in
1:01:33
your arms, right? I don't know.
1:01:35
I don't. Are you reading it live on air?
1:01:39
Yeah, I'm, I'm trying to figure out, find where they said where
1:01:42
the where the surgery was. Also, look smacking is a new
1:01:48
social media trend where people try to look like Patrick Bateman
1:01:51
from American Psycho, aiming to maximize your looks.
1:01:55
I see. Yeah.
1:01:56
So you're trying to look like that specific dude.
1:01:59
Yeah, Oh, you break a bone, your tibia and your femur, and
1:02:04
gradually pull the bone segments apart, which in turn stimulates
1:02:08
new bone to grow in the gap. I don't know.
1:02:12
I just don't see how this could be successful.
1:02:13
You're just going to be walking around one day and your legs
1:02:15
going to snap in half is what's going to happen.
1:02:17
Almost dude just they make the shoes that give you like 3
1:02:21
inches. You just shove an insert in your
1:02:23
shoe. I've tried them, they're very
1:02:26
uncomfortable. Or just walk around on like 4
1:02:28
inch stilts. Just wear long pants for the
1:02:29
rest of your life and just put some stilts in there.
1:02:32
I mean, there's a lot of things you can do, yeah.
1:02:36
Yeah, I just. This get on your shoulders.
1:02:39
This to me just doesn't seem like it's going to be
1:02:41
successful. But that's I can get on your
1:02:42
shoulders and we can just put a big giant 4X football jersey on
1:02:46
me. Like the scene in Little Rascals
1:02:47
where they stack four of them on top of each other and walk into
1:02:50
the bank and try to get a loan. Yes, yes.
1:02:54
So no, I'm not doing the surgery.
1:02:57
I'll just stay 410. That's good, because otherwise
1:03:00
we'd have to rename the height differential.
1:03:02
Well, no, we'd still 6/6 to five too.
1:03:04
You could still be height differential no if.
1:03:08
Lesser height differential. Let a lesser height differential
1:03:12
and then then we got police officers arrested kids for
1:03:14
saying 6-7 in Indiana. Yeah, we do some elementary
1:03:18
school in Indiana. They police officers came into
1:03:21
the elementary school, told kids it was a city ordinance that
1:03:24
they can't say 6-7, and started handing out tickets to the kids
1:03:28
for doing 6-7. Good on those police officers.
1:03:31
Although the tickets are fake, it was just a fun news story.
1:03:34
But I mean, we should start throwing kids in jail at this.
1:03:36
Point. I hope they're not really
1:03:37
throwing. We should throw these kids in
1:03:39
jail at this point. Your own.
1:03:41
Your own daughters are going to be thrown in jail.
1:03:43
Them I'll I'll take them down personally.
1:03:45
How much? How much was the fine?
1:03:48
I didn't, I didn't. I didn't see that Part 1.
1:03:50
You, you missed an opportunity there.
1:03:53
Oh, was it $6.70? You just say I think it was it
1:03:58
was either 6 or $7.00 or you say it was $67 it.
1:04:00
Probably was. Yeah, but I'm telling you, all
1:04:04
five of my nieces and nephews over the house today, first half
1:04:07
of the Bengals game. I mean, it's said on scoreboard
1:04:10
6-7 the entire half and. You think that's why Zach Taylor
1:04:13
decided to take the the extra point off the board and run some
1:04:16
stupid two point conversion play?
1:04:17
It's because he's other cackling and giggling on the sidelines
1:04:21
because it was 6-7 for the whole life.
1:04:22
Yeah, she did it on purpose. He's a child.
1:04:25
He did it on purpose. He's.
1:04:26
Trying to be like JC Hoyt at Oklahoma State.
1:04:28
He did it on purpose. Yeah, let's throw these kids in
1:04:31
jail. Stop the 6th 7th thing.
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It ain't going anywhere, dude. Some point it will when
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something else comes along that's even more stupid.
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It's the word of the year, the dictionary word of the year.
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Not even. Words. 2 words.
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It's not even words. The 2 numbers.
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God. I think we've talked enough
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gibberish let you read your read the article live on air so we
1:04:59
can figure out why how this dude stretches his bones out.
1:05:02
No, I knew it was thought it was a tip.
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Yes, I had to go double check. Just a quick double check,
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discount, double check. We met, we missed you for day
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debauchery. Yeah, there was.
1:05:11
There was some good cussing outage there for a little bit.
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I was on kid duty for most of the day.
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Yeah. But yeah, it was it was still
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kind of lame. We'll get back at it next year.
1:05:22
Josh is like, he's the one that always talks about it.
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When's it going to be? When's it going to be?
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I told him I'd host it this year.
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Then they realize you're all going to be a troll pub for 10
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hours. You open to close Troll pub?
1:05:32
We went to Goodwood for dinner and they went back to troll.
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Don't love troll pub I. Mean.
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I only the troll pub put a nice little hammering on you because
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you were not in good form yesterday.
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Well, but but then I when they leave I go to hoops after so.
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Oh no, you did. Yeah, So what?
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I'm going to do with you. Then we got up in the morning.
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We shot a 41 from the old Mantis.
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You are an old man. I had 7 bogeys and two bars.
1:06:01
That's pretty good. They had no blow up holes, but
1:06:04
it's a lot different hitting from 320 out than it is hitting
1:06:08
from 420 out. Yeah, on two holes.
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They even hit for the women's teeth.
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They're like this. I was really long.
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We're going to the Reds. Was that right?
1:06:16
Whatever. Cedar so all.
1:06:20
Right. But before we get off here, make
1:06:24
sure you're following us on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music,
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Amazon. Hit them all, hit the subscribe
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button. You watch this on YouTube, you
1:06:33
get to see video of all this stuff I.
1:06:35
Don't. Know do you really want that?
1:06:38
But I do leave, I do leave for Cincy on Thursday night and then
1:06:42
we fly to the Caymans on Friday. So no, we we've got games on
1:06:48
Sunday night, so. So we're going to be without a a
1:06:52
podcast for two weeks. No, no, we'll do.
1:06:54
I will do a pod while I'm in the Caymans for sure.
1:06:57
I'll be off that Wednesday. So I have games Sunday, Monday
1:07:00
and Tuesday, the men's tournament and then and those
1:07:05
are at night and then the women's tournament I believe is
1:07:08
just Friday and Saturday, the next Friday and Saturday.
1:07:11
So we'll we'll find time to do the pod.
1:07:13
But let's plan on Wednesday this week since I'm travelling on
1:07:16
Thursday. And then after that, we'll do,
1:07:21
we'll do a pod live from the Cayman Islands.
1:07:24
Oh can't wait for that. You can be on the beach, bare
1:07:26
chested on the beach. If, if, if that's what the
1:07:29
people want to see. Well you told them to start
1:07:31
watching it on YouTube so you got to give people a show.
1:07:35
Yep. Hit that.
1:07:35
Subscribe. You get to see me bare chested
1:07:37
doing the show in the Cayman Islands next week.
1:07:41
Drinking drinking some 7 fathoms rum and some some cake.
1:07:45
I can't remember what the name of their their beer was but it's
1:07:49
all good. 7 Fathoms Rum I'm bringing a bottle home with me
1:07:52
this time, but we'll talk to you on Wednesday.
1:07:54
What'd you say? So bring me one too. 2 bottles.
1:07:58
OK, I can do that. We'll we'll be back with you on
1:08:01
Wednesday. You've been listening to height
1:08:02
differential. We'll see you there.
1:08:06
Give it to. Me so you got to start listening
1:08:11
to these they're so good I. Don't know, I've had to.
1:08:15
When do we record?