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INSTANT REACTION: Troy Buchanan win over Francis Howell, Thursday 1st Round Playoff Football · Gateway Sports Venue Show

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Speaker 1: How y'all doing on this beautiful November thirtieth evening, which
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Speaker 1: is where I'm recording right now. It's about a live
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Speaker 1: reaction about three hours or so after Troy Buchanan's convincing
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Speaker 1: forty two to twenty four victory over the Francis hal Vikings,
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Speaker 1: their rivals, and they beat him again for the second
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Speaker 1: time this season, and I think the first time was
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Speaker 1: in a very similar score as well as the last
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Speaker 1: time they won forty three to twenty seven back in
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Speaker 1: Week six, I believe, and then tonight forty two to
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Speaker 1: twenty four kind of in similar fashion too. Troy was
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Speaker 1: dominant with the run game. They were able to score
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Speaker 1: at will for the most part. They scored on their
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Speaker 1: first five full possessions. The one time they didn't score
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Speaker 1: in the first half was when they ran out of time,
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Speaker 1: and they weren't in any particular rush to get anything going,
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Speaker 1: so they were able to score whenever they wanted to.
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Speaker 1: For the most part. Francis Halle had some six Offensively,
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Speaker 1: they were able to move the ball a lot. Derek
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Speaker 1: Chupp might have had his best game of the season,
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Speaker 1: or at least the best I've seen him play all season,
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Speaker 1: and he and Shake Specker, who are two juniors by
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Speaker 1: the way, so they'll be back next year.
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Speaker 2: They had a really good connection.
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Speaker 1: Specker had two touchdown receptions from Chup and I was
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Speaker 1: able to get some things going. But unfortunately for them,
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Speaker 1: they coughed up the ball three times and had six
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Speaker 1: fumbles all together, so they had a hard time keeping
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Speaker 1: the football in their hands.
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Speaker 2: And probably the biggest play of the.
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Speaker 1: Game was a blocked punt in the first quarter by
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Speaker 1: Tristan Wilkie of Troy.
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Speaker 2: It was a junior linebacker. That was an eight point swing.
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Speaker 1: It was six to it was you know, it was
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Speaker 1: seven to three at that point in time, made it
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Speaker 1: nine to three, and then Troy scored on the next
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Speaker 1: possession on a thirty three yard touchdown pass from sophomore
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Speaker 1: Carter Shaef to senior running back Lennon would Commit Carter Dow.
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Speaker 1: I've obviously had some time to think about this game.
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Speaker 1: I don't have all the stats with me, but I've
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Speaker 1: been working on the highlights and I have the score
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Speaker 1: graphics out for that. But I have seen highlights of
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Speaker 1: the game, the big one, so it's all fresh in
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Speaker 1: my memory now. And with this win, Troy advances to
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Speaker 1: the Class six District four semi finals, where they will
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Speaker 1: not travel very far. It's it's basically at GAC Saint
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Speaker 1: Charles County slash Lincoln County District for Troy.
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Speaker 2: Right there.
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Speaker 1: They will take on the Saint Dominic Crusaders, who are undefeated.
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Speaker 2: At nine to zero, I like Troy in this one.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we're going to save this for later in
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Speaker 1: another podcast, but I've met my meat. Reaction is if
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Speaker 1: Troy can block like they block tonight, and if they
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Speaker 1: were able to stop the run like how they did
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Speaker 1: it against how Saint Dominic is going to be probably
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Speaker 1: a better team as far as the football though, They're
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Speaker 1: going to be a probably a tougher route for Troy.
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Speaker 1: But if Troy plays like they did over all the night,
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Speaker 1: I really like their chances of winning that game, and
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Speaker 1: I think they got a good chance of winning the district.
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Speaker 1: But I want to talk more about the game because
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about that later on on Sunday
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Speaker 1: on the live show.
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Speaker 2: Catch that live if you can. And by the way, guys,
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Speaker 2: we got a last check.
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Speaker 1: We have over thirteen hundred views on that so I
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Speaker 1: cannot thank you guys enough for that's that's really cool,
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Speaker 1: and that means you guys are awesome because all we
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Speaker 1: do is produce it and we just hope you guys
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Speaker 1: can watch, so really really love you guys for that.
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Speaker 1: It means a lot. Chris Wender was probably the MVP,
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Speaker 1: not even probably. He was the MVP of the game
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Speaker 1: for rushing touchdowns. He also had a big touchdown, not
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Speaker 1: a touchdown, he didn't have a He had a reception
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Speaker 1: downfield that ultimately set up one of his rushing touchdowns.
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Speaker 2: He was He was even good.
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Speaker 1: As a safety on defense as well. He made a
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Speaker 1: few plays there. So he was all over the field
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Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball, doing a lot. He
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Speaker 1: is as you'll actually hear in this Later in this episode,
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Speaker 1: I got an interview from Brett Brett Wiggers, the head
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Speaker 1: coach of Troy Buchanan. He says that Chris Weiner is
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Speaker 1: well he Carter dow is the thunder, and Wender is
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Speaker 1: the lightning to what they have in the backfield.
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Speaker 2: Those are two high quality running backs.
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Speaker 1: Weinger doesn't have the you know, a big you know,
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Speaker 1: college commitment that like with Carter dal House, the Lynnon Wood,
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Speaker 1: but he is a really sound, high school football running
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Speaker 1: back an athlete in general. So I mean the fact
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Speaker 1: that Troy has those two guys. They even have a
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Speaker 1: really good potential sophomore running back who's gotten plenty of
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Speaker 1: touches this season, plenty of reps, but he's injured right now.
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Speaker 2: We're not sure how long. That's what I was told.
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Speaker 1: So really, if that guy wasn't out, they'd have three guys,
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Speaker 1: but they have two for now, and just the future
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Speaker 1: of this Troy program is looking really good.
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Speaker 2: Guys.
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Speaker 1: Their offensive line, I tweeted this out, they are the best.
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Speaker 1: They have the best offensive line west of the Missouri
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Speaker 1: River in the metro area. And that's that's involving quite
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Speaker 1: a bit, quite a few teams right there. That's at
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Speaker 1: least over twenty teams, actually more than that, probably thirty.
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Speaker 2: Teams in our metro area that we cover, and it
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Speaker 2: makes sense.
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Speaker 1: I probably would have said that before the season, and
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Speaker 1: it's held serve to this point. I saw a lot
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Speaker 1: tonight from them, and they were impressive to do that
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Speaker 1: against holl twice this season, because this is a really
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Speaker 1: well coached Francis Hall team, and you know, the last
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Speaker 1: two years have they've it's not been so.
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Speaker 2: Great for them.
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Speaker 1: You know, they've they've been a really competitive team, by
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Speaker 1: the way, but they placed a lot of pretty good teams,
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Speaker 1: and you know, unfortunately for them, this is the second
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Speaker 1: year in a row that they've lost in the first
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Speaker 1: round of the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: It's been a long time.
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Speaker 1: Since that's happened to them, back to back years where
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Speaker 1: they don't want a playoff game. And I don't know
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Speaker 1: what their immediate future holds for them, but I just
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Speaker 1: know for Troy, these guys are here to stay. They're
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Speaker 1: going to be contenders for a long time. If they
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Speaker 1: keep this going, if if Wiggers can stay for a while,
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Speaker 1: if this is what he wants to do, and you know,
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Speaker 1: keep a lot of his staff around and just or
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Speaker 1: if you can't just make good hires to replace them
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Speaker 1: over the years, Troy Buchannan, they are going to be
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Speaker 1: really consistent for a long time. Kind of maybe like
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Speaker 1: a new Francis Howell and the GAC South.
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Speaker 2: And that might make help people.
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Speaker 1: Just shudder, but I think it's the truth because for
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Speaker 1: a long time Francis Hall dominated the GAC South and
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Speaker 1: they were for many years the best team in the
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Speaker 1: GAC or St.
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Speaker 2: Charles County whatever. I mean.
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Speaker 1: I know Troy's not in there technically in Lincoln there
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Speaker 1: in their Lincoln Counties, they're pretty much their own county.
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Speaker 1: But we're just gonna we're gonna lump them in there
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Speaker 1: with St. Charles County in this case right here. And
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Speaker 1: I think Troy for for years to come and can
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Speaker 1: be the best team. And the GAC has to offer
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Speaker 1: because they're one of the biggest schools in the state
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Speaker 1: and they're seemingly all in on football in that community there,
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Speaker 1: it's the thing to do. If you're a young boy,
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Speaker 1: if you're a teenage boy, you're going to most likely
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Speaker 1: be playing football in some way, shape or form. And
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Speaker 1: that's who they are now. They're developing into a football community.
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Speaker 1: I say this because they only have two senior starters
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Speaker 1: in their offensive line, and they had to replace three
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Speaker 1: pretty good seniors last year in their line, and they've
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Speaker 1: seemingly done that. They block so well, they're so disciplined,
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Speaker 1: they're really well coach. They're tough, and they're physical, they're smart,
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Speaker 1: they know what to do. They don't run that many plays. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: it's a little easier to do that because you do
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Speaker 1: that repetitively for so long.
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Speaker 2: Like I said, they're kind of they're not. You know,
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say.
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Speaker 1: They're a total football factory yet, but they're a fact
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Speaker 1: re developing smart physical lineman for sure at this point.
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Speaker 2: And they're they're and their depth.
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Speaker 1: That athlete is actually going up to because tonight, I mean,
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Speaker 1: last year they had some pretty good athletes, but tonight,
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Speaker 1: like one like Winder and.
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Speaker 2: Dow were just dogs for them, two guys.
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Speaker 1: And it's a shame that Hunter Humphrey tore his a
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Speaker 1: cl in Week two because I'm gonna say right now,
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Speaker 1: and I know it's easy for me to say this
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Speaker 1: without having any evidence to back it up, but I
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Speaker 1: think how I'm sorry, I think Troy would be undefeated
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Speaker 1: right now if Humphrey was still playing, because that just
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Speaker 1: makes their offense that much harder, that much harder to beat,
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Speaker 1: you know, with with with a speed stir at quarterback
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Speaker 1: there who could all who also can throw the football
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Speaker 1: a little bit too. But now they got Carter Schaeffer,
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Speaker 1: who's a sophomore. That guy's got a bright future. He's
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Speaker 1: not He's not. He does not have Hunter Humphrey speed.
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Speaker 1: He's really kind of a pocket quarterback at six foot three.
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Speaker 2: But that guy can throw.
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Speaker 1: He can throw, and he read the game well tonight
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Speaker 1: and he can read a defense well from what I saw,
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Speaker 1: you know. And it's a big game for a sophomore
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Speaker 1: against Francis how that's a big deal for Troy. So
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Speaker 1: he handled himself really well and he's had all Fortunately
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Speaker 1: for him, he's had a long time to settle in
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Speaker 1: this season. You know, next week it will be his
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Speaker 1: tenth game, I believe of the season where he's well. Actually,
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Speaker 1: he's made an appearance in every game so far. So
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Speaker 1: really he's got more than got his feet wet by now,
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Speaker 1: and so he.
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Speaker 2: Should be ready to go.
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Speaker 1: And if in a way, he's kind of like a
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Speaker 1: junior at this point, you know, from a just a
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Speaker 1: football perspective, because you already have this many reps this
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Speaker 1: late into the season, you're not just a sophomore. You're
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Speaker 1: somewhere in between a sophomore and a junior right now,
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Speaker 1: closer to being a junior. So, yeah, the Trojans are
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Speaker 1: They have a really good immediate future with football. The
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Speaker 1: Cup is not better than them. Yeah, they lose some
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Speaker 1: They're gonna lose some pretty good players. You know, they
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Speaker 1: lose winger. They've already lost him free he's out for
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Speaker 1: the season, and the gonna lose Dow And you know,
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Speaker 1: Tallon Rowland has been a I think a four year
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Speaker 1: starter for them at linebacker at least three and he's
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Speaker 1: been a he's a captain, he's.
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Speaker 2: At the beginning of the year, I was told he
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Speaker 2: was a heart and sold the team.
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Speaker 1: Troy's gonna lose a lot of guys every year, but
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Speaker 1: they're gonna, you know, replace them that that's that's why
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Speaker 1: it's exciting for them that they're gonna replace a lot
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Speaker 1: of these guys because they have the depth and they
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Speaker 1: got a crap load of players in their system.
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Speaker 2: And they got two big middle schools.
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Speaker 1: Both with feeder programs who feed into the high school.
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Speaker 1: They're in a really good spot and they're really taking
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Speaker 1: full advantage of the size of their community and as
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Speaker 1: far as football goes, And so I was just really
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Speaker 1: impressed with them tonight of how they handled themselves, how
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Speaker 1: they played it out against how you know they're not because.
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Speaker 2: This is a not Troy team, but.
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Speaker 1: You wouldn't have known any better if you just seeing
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Speaker 1: them for the first time, because they're they're a well
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Speaker 1: oiled machine and uh yeah, so that was that was
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Speaker 1: pretty cool to see them play like that tonight.
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Speaker 2: Other scores real quick.
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Speaker 1: Oakville barely edged Limburgh nineteen to seventeen. First game back
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Speaker 1: for Maximacatis if if I were if I got that
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Speaker 1: last name right, he had a pretty ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: Touchdown catch in the first half, make it nine to seven.
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Speaker 2: Really tight game between two.
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Speaker 1: I owed absume rifles, Limburg and Oakville, probably in the
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Speaker 1: same you know, two South County teams I was thinking about.
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Speaker 1: I got old, so I have, uh, I do picks
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Speaker 1: of the week every week. I have never gotten all
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Speaker 1: twenty five picks right. But so far, I'm nine for nine.
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Speaker 1: Some of these games really the Troy and the Oakville
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Speaker 1: games were really the two kind of toughest games, so
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Speaker 1: to speak, but I managed to get both those rights
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Speaker 1: so far. So I'm off to a good start nine
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Speaker 1: for nine and probably gonna have some bad picks eventually
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Speaker 1: this week, But so far, so good as as of
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Speaker 1: this recording. Anyway, just a tough year for Limberg Man
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Speaker 1: finished three and seven.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, I mean they got some bad breaks.
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Speaker 1: I mean I knew before the season they had talent,
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Speaker 1: but just not really just no depth. And then I
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Speaker 1: think by their third game in the season there starting
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Speaker 1: running back got hurt and he wasn't and he didn't
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Speaker 1: play for like the next several weeks, so him out,
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Speaker 1: their run game was already struggling, and it just continued
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Speaker 1: to kind of.
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Speaker 2: Snowball in that way.
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Speaker 1: You know, managed to fight for a few wins there
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Speaker 1: and had some really close losses. They had a really
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Speaker 1: tough close loss to lad And week three which got
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Speaker 1: them to being owen, made them owen three there, and
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Speaker 1: kind of apparent to everybody at that time this is like,
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Speaker 1: this is just going to be a down year for Limburg,
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Speaker 1: and fortunately it was for them, but in the.
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Speaker 2: Same token for Oakfeldt.
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Speaker 1: The second time they beat Lindberg this season, and this
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Speaker 1: this game was a lot closer than the first one.
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Speaker 1: They won thirty four to fourteen in Week one one,
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Speaker 1: which at the time felt a.
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Speaker 2: Little bit like a statement victory.
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Speaker 1: Now looking back, probably really wasn't, just you know, because
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Speaker 1: looking at Lindberg season how that went out. But this
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Speaker 1: is a defense that Oakfield's defense has been really good
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Speaker 1: this season. Guys, I'm telling you, I mean, you look
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Speaker 1: at their stats, the stats back it up. I don't
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Speaker 1: know who particularly stood out for them tonight, but again
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Speaker 1: as a unit, they did a really good job. I mean,
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Speaker 1: probably their best game of the season was only did
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Speaker 1: they beat Writtener. I think, yeah, they beat I think
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Speaker 1: they beat Rittner. I think they shut them out too.
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Speaker 1: I think it was like thirteen to nothing, final score,
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Speaker 1: fourteen to nothing, something like that, fourteen to seven. I
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Speaker 1: think it was fourteen to seven. They beat Writtener. And
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Speaker 1: then they held Northwest. You know, not the that's a
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Speaker 1: team who not the greatest team, not a good strength
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Speaker 1: to schedule, but they got a hell of a player
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Speaker 1: and Cohen Starke at quarterback.
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Speaker 2: They held that team to they beat them ten to seven.
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Speaker 2: That's a really good.
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Speaker 1: Offense that they have at Northwest hold them, held them
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Speaker 1: the seven points with a really good quarterback, really good
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Speaker 1: dual threat quarterback. So they were able to come up
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Speaker 1: again and win a game, and when a first round
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Speaker 1: game that they have historically been bad at in the
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Speaker 1: district format since ever since twenty twelve, they have a
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Speaker 1: bad history in the first round of play first of
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Speaker 1: all playoffs in general. But they were able to win
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Speaker 1: that game, and now they're gonna have to go to Jackson,
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Speaker 1: go to the pit, and go to go down to
14:27
Speaker 1: the Sarlac pit. For those Star Wars fans who understand
14:29
Speaker 1: that reference, which man going down if you're a Saint
14:33
Speaker 1: Louis County team specifically in South County or Jefferson County, Linburg, Goakville,
14:39
Speaker 1: secman talking to you. Yeah, it is a Starlac pit,
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Speaker 1: and it's been a lot of misery for years for
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Speaker 1: those teams there.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be a really, really.
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Speaker 1: Tough game for Oakville, but if their defense can can
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Speaker 1: still put them in good positions to win, they'll have
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Speaker 1: a chance, Like as long as they can just get
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Speaker 1: a chance. If they can get a chance in the
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Speaker 1: second half half of the game there against a perfect
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Speaker 1: not a perfect perfect record wise Jackson team, Yes, nine
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Speaker 1: to zero, then that's I think all they can ask
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Speaker 1: for at that point. So it's been a great season
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Speaker 1: for the Tigers eight and two right now, best season
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Speaker 1: in a long time.
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Speaker 2: Mike Ginge head coach.
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Speaker 1: I believe in his fifth season, and I've heard coaches
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Speaker 1: say that usually if it just takes typically five years
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Speaker 1: to really get the program where you want it to be,
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Speaker 1: which for a lot of coaches is pretty daunting and scary.
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Speaker 2: It's like, wait a.
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Speaker 1: Minute, I gotta this has got to take five years
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Speaker 1: essentially for this to happen, to like, for everything to
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Speaker 1: fall into place essentially.
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Speaker 2: But this year a lot has fallen.
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Speaker 1: Into place for Oakville and it's I root for stories
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Speaker 1: like that, because that's a program that's historically not really
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Speaker 1: been good. I've been in their stadium. There's not a
15:50
Speaker 1: whole lot of plaques there.
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Speaker 2: They do.
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Speaker 1: They did have a team in nineteen seventy five who
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Speaker 1: went ten and oh but didn't make the playoffs. So
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Speaker 1: that's that's seventy five teams for all intents and purposes,
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Speaker 1: their best team ever. And because Misha had a crappy
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Speaker 1: system back then, they weren't able to go to the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: I say crappy because they just didn't have enough teams
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Speaker 1: qualify in seventy five. At that point they had only
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Speaker 1: eight teams would qualify for the playoffs, which is just
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Speaker 1: not enough. But anyway, they changed that, and I think
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Speaker 1: seventy nine or eighty to sixteen, there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: undefeated teams, you know who didn't make the playoffs in
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Speaker 1: the sixties and seventies and even some of the eighties,
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Speaker 1: which was a damn shame.
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Speaker 2: Oakville was one of those casualties. But Tigers, it's a
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Speaker 2: good night to be a Tiger. On Thursday night.
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Speaker 1: Now it's you'll be listening to this, it'll be Halloween,
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Speaker 1: So happy Halloween, everybody.
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Speaker 2: I got really nothing much else. There's a decent amount
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Speaker 2: of the games a night, but those are games that
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Speaker 2: all went the way that they should have gone.
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Speaker 1: On a relatively peaceful, calm but entertaining Thursday night football
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Speaker 1: to kick off the playoffs in Missouri in the Saint
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Speaker 1: Louis area. So all right, you guys will hear from
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Speaker 1: me all weekend. Then we'll be back on Sunday to
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Speaker 1: review the games and then later preview the second round
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Speaker 1: of the playoffs, where things will really get started, at
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Speaker 1: least on the Missouri side of things.
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Speaker 2: See you guys at peace,