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Why Has Only One Player Reportedly Opted Out Of The College Football Video Game? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buck Guys tomorrow morning for Sunday, March tenth. I'm your host,
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  Tom Moore. The Akron game is in one hundred and seventy four days.
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  The game begets Michigan in two hundred and sixty five days. Today,
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  we're going to do something a little different. You're actually going to get to
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  hear an episode of The Daily Huddle that's kind of the national version of this
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  show from our sister site, Saturday Glory dot com. Garrett does a great
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  job on that show every single day talking about a lot of interesting national topics
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  with regard to college football. So today you're going to get to hear him
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  talking about the EA Sports College Football Game, obviously a very big topic for
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  a lot of our audience, and this is a really interesting part of that
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  story because, as you're going to hear Garrett talk about proughably ninety percent of
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  college football players have signed up to be a part of that video game,
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  and there is only one player who's been publicly reported to be opting out.
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  That is Arch Manning, the backup quarterback at Texas, who obviously has a
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  last name that makes his case a little different than some other folks, but
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  This is an interesting, interesting episode because Garret kind of goes into some of
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  the whys behind why arch Manning might be opting out when a lot of other
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  high profile college football players might not be. So here's a little taste of
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  the Daily Huddle podcast from Saturday Glory dot com. If you like it,
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  this podcast, you can subscribe there, leave him a five star rating and
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  review as well. So here is Garrett talking about arch Manning and EA Sports
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  NCAA College Football twenty five. So a report came out and I think it's
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  important to remain somewhat skeptical of these reports, but for the purpose of today's
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  episode, and Matt Brown from Extra Points has been kind of the leader in
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  reporting on the EA College Football twenty five video game, and he's adamant,
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  like, hey, you should be weary of these reports. And so you
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  know what I'm gonna err on his side of the coin that take every report
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  that this player or that player is not going to participate in the EA College
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  Football twenty five video game with a grain of salt. But there was a
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  report from ANWA Richardson, who covers Texas football, that arch Manning will not
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  appear in College Football twenty five the video game, and first of all,
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  the vernacular that they use. He said, quote, I'm told arch is
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  focused on playing football on the field, and the resulting responses to that have
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  been objectively hilarious. That the idea that like arch Manning didn't know that,
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  like, hey, you don't actually live inside the PlayStation five, right,
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  Like they're not just calling you at all hours of the night for you to
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  come play football in this video game. All you got to do is take
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  thirty seconds sign a PDF that says you're going to be in the game,
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  and that's that's all there is to it. But arch Manning is not your
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  average college football player, and it's easy to lose sight of that because he's
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  not on the field playing a ton at Texas and yet is still a member
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  of the football royal family. Arch Manning is not I think I think the
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  number was ninety percent of college football players that are eligible to be in the
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  game so far have said yeah, I have filled out the paperwork, have
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  participated in the the necessity, the necessary requirements to be in the game.
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  Ninety percent which is awesome, which is great, which is huge, because
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  there was a lot of discussion about whether some might because the idea is you're
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  gonna get six hundred dollters and a free copy of the game, which to
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  the overwhelming majority of college football players is awesome. Six hundred dollars and a
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  free copy of a video game you're probably gonna spend seventy to eighty to one
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  hundred dollars to buy anyway, is cool. That's great. But there was
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  a lot of discussion about, Okay, well, this guy might not participate
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  because six hundred dollars, he thinks he's worth more than six hundred dollars,
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  YadA, YadA, YadA. So Matt Brown says, be wary of some
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  of the reports that come out about whether or not this guy will not definitively
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  be in the game. But the report is that arch Manning is not going
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  to be in the game. Arch Manning maybe more than any other college football
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  player, and I think there's a very small group of college football players like
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  this that, for instance, Shador Sanders is in a similar boat to arch
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  Manning, where not only are you a college football player, you are a
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  brand, and not only are you a brand. You're an extension of a
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  brand, and that is both a blessing and a curse. It comes with
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  both pros and cons that Arch Manning is going to someday, whether it's at
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  Texas or whether it's somewhere else, find himself playing on a college football field,
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  and arch Manning is going to do really well if he wants to any
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  ANIL game. He's going to make a lot of money, like Shadoor Sanders
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  makes lots of money being a college football player. One because Shadoor Sanders is
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  a very good college football player. In two because the name association, brand
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  recognition with your father being one of the all time greats. Now, arch
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  Manning's obviously father isn't one of the all time greats, but his grandfather was
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  a great college football player and a great NFL player, and two of his
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  uncles, one of them is already in the Hall of Fame and the other
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  will someday be in the Hall of Fame. So arch Manning is not your
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  average college football player. Because to the other backup quarterbacks at Texas, if
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  they're in EA Sports College Football twenty five, do they necessarily care if they're
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  a seventy four rating. No, they're just happy to be included in the
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  game. Now you've heard the you know that the game could be used as
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  motivation that Khalil Mack wore forty six in college because that was his NCAA rating
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  the first time out. Khalil Mack can afford to be number can can afford
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  to be rated forty six overall in a video game. But when you are
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  a brand, when you are bigger than just your name, and I'm not
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  saying that Arch Manning is bigger than Texas Longhorns football or anything of that magnitude,
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  but he is a brand and he has to protect that brand. And
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  whether he recognizes that as a young pup or somebody inside his inner circle or
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  posse or whatever you want to call it, whether they recognize that or not,
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  you have to protect the brand. Right, McDonald's, Walmart, Toyota
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  can't afford to have their brand damaged by this thing or that thing. In
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  the same vein that Arch Manning can't afford to be a seventy one or seventy
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  four overall player in EA Sports college football, because if that is your rating
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  and he's not going to be, I would venture to guess and this is
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  just speculation that the Madden ratings were always really drastically different than the college football
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  player ratings, where in nc DOUBLEA fourteen, right, you could be a
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  quarterback at Louisiana Monroe and be an eighty six to eighty eight overall, where
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  like Kirk Cousins in Madden, is this eighty two. He's one of the
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  top fifteen quarterbacks in the NFL, and you're rated as an eighty two.
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  I would venture to guess that maybe some of the ratings for College Football twenty
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  five the video game, are gonna be closer to Madden than they are to
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  NCAA six back in the day where just like if you could run really fast
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  and you played at a Power five program, you were ninety overall. I
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  think you're gonna be closer to a more Madden style. Where in NCUBA fourteen,
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  the second or third string quarterback at Texas still might have been rated as
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  an eighty two or an eighty four when the starter was a ninety five.
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  I don't think you're gonna get that in college Football twenty five. And I
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  don't think Arch Manning, in the Arch Manning brand and the Manning family as
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  a whole can take the chance that Arch Manning, who is viewed as depending
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  on the way you look at it, is viewed as another generational talent on
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  one side of the coin, and the other side will say if his name
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  was Arch Smith, he wouldn't have he wouldn't have a Power five offer.
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  But the same things were said about Peyton Manning when he was coming out of
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  college, was that if his name was Peyton Smith instead of Peyton Manning,
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  he never would be in contention for the number one overall pick. And there
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  are people that will tell you that he's the greatest regular season quarterback in NFL
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  history. So you can put all that stuff aside. But when you're a
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  brand, you can't take the chance, especially when you have the ability to
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  make truthfully hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars partnering with other brands.
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  If you're a seventy four overall in EA Sports College Football twenty five,
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  you can't take that chance. You can't take the possibility that something you don't
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  have any control of whatsoever other than you signed a PDF, sent it back
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  to EA Sports and said yup, count me in. You can say that
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  number sixteen. Arch Banning from New Orleans, Louisiana is a sophomore quarterback in
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  your game, and after that, you don't have any control over how you
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  are associated with that game, with your with your rating, with your name,
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  image and likeness in that space. Arch Manning can't take that. Can't
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  take the chance that the game can damage his reputation, damage his standing,
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  damage his brand. Shador Sanders is in the same boat. Can't take the
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  possibility. Can't take the chance. Now. I think I think Shadoor Sanders
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  probably could because I think there's a good chance Shadoor Sanders could be on the
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  cover of the game. Now, arch Manning is the backup or third string
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  quarterback in Texas, doesn't have the chance to be on the cover of the
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  game. But Shadoor Sanders. If we're all awaiting, you know who's going
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  to be on the cover, and there are there are ideas of you know,
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  it should be the players who would have been on the cover the tech
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  the decade that the game didn't exist in et cetera. But if they go
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  with the current player, Shadoor Sanders has a really great chance to be on
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  the cover. So he has a little bit different motivation a little bit different
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  reasoning to either step into the game or not step into the game. But
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  for arch Manning, somebody who has to be hyper focused and aware of the
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  perception around not only him, the program that he goes to, what it
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  really is sort of like a political family. It's sort of like a political
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  dynasty, right where you know, my dad was this my It's almost like
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  being part of the Kennedys, where everything you do is going to be hyper
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  fixated upon because of the lineage that you come from. And so you can't
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  like if arch Manning wanted to say, Hey, I want to transfer to
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  Tulane, I want to transfer to Louisiana Monroe, Louisiana Tech, some group
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  of five school, I don't know that he can do that because of the
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  brand, because of the association that your name carries, and the quality and
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  the expectations that come with having that last name. Again both a blessing and
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  a curse. He's lived a really great, probably privileged, exciting life that
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  nobody else can relate to other than him. But along with that comes some
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  negatives. And one of the negatives is you have to worry about things that
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  nobody else in the quarterback room at Texas has to worry about. There is
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  a pressure to there, there is an expectation there because of that last name,
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  and the people around him are probably telling him, Hey, you just
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  can't afford to potentially not be highly rated and let that damage some of your
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  earning potential in the future for the next year, because at the end of
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  the day, and maybe some of those brand partnerships to sponsors, the potential
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  nil deals that come for Arch Manning, maybe they don't care that just having
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  that association with the Manning name is good enough for them. But at a
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  time in diving, at a time in advertising where everybody is worried about getting
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  their bang for their buck, YadA, YadA, YadA, can you afford
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  to spend do a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars nil deal with a seventy
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  four overall quarterback or seventy one, seventy two, seventy seven even no,
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  you can't. So Arch Manning is not your average college football player. He
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  can't just sit back and sign the PDF for THEA Sports sends him to say,
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  yep, I'm in. He's got a weigh a lot more than that,
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  and if it comes out ultimately that he's not in the game. Does
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  that suck? Yeah, because I want to see everybody in the game.
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  I want to see the college kids get their six hundred bucks in a free
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  copy of the game. I want the biggest and best players, names,
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  brands, et cetera in the game. But I also don't envy arch Manning
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  because he's in a different spot than everybody else is and it's the one.
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  It's one of those times where it's the downside of being in a spot that
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  nobody else is in. That'll do it for today's episode of The Daily Huddle.
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