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A Fun College Football Season Thus Far! (PST Episode 583) · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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Speaker 1: What's going on, everybody. It's Jeff here. I wanted to
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Speaker 1: let you know we recorded this podcast episode on Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: September tenth, twenty twenty four, so by the time you
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Speaker 1: hear this, some things may have changed here or there,
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Speaker 1: but we hope you enjoy the show. Welcome to the
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly
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Speaker 1: sports podcast show in the world, eleven years strong. We
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Speaker 1: got a great show coming your way this week. The
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Phillies. We certainly got to get into them, and
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Speaker 1: we will be getting to them right off the that
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Speaker 1: the injury bug has hit this team, and also the
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Speaker 1: rotation carousel is continuing with this Phillies team. The Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: Union Boy, they're looking for some answers as the end
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Speaker 1: of the season approaches. We're gonna be talking about this
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Speaker 1: team of what fortunes lie ahead for them. And then
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Speaker 1: the Flyers rookie camp that's gonna kick off this week.
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Speaker 1: We're certainly gonna get into some talk there, and then
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Speaker 1: we've got some Eagles Falcons talk before the Monday night
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Speaker 1: game and what we're thrown down on the table this week.
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Speaker 1: We've got John Bueler from Fans Sided he's gonna be
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Speaker 1: joining us to break down what we've been seeing early
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Speaker 1: within this college football season. I am Jeff Warren. I'm here,
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Speaker 1: my good buddy, Lenn Hunsicker. I know you're a little tired, Lend,
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Speaker 1: but other than that, how you doing, buddy?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing good. Yeah, just I was watching the Phills
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Speaker 2: earlier and do a show here and yeah. So they're
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Speaker 2: in the midst of an interesting stretch. Lost a couple
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Speaker 2: of bad games in the Marlins there and now they're
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Speaker 2: currently had an exciting game last night against Tapa, and
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Speaker 2: I believe they're up. They're up last night when I
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Speaker 2: came up to do the show, they're up four to three.
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Speaker 1: So absolutely, yeah. I mean, why don't we just start
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Speaker 1: getting into some Phills talk right off the bat like
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Speaker 1: we have on our agenda here. Like I said, Lend,
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Speaker 1: the injury bug has really hit this team and it
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Speaker 1: kind of stinks the fact that JT. Real Muto, yet
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Speaker 1: again is injured. Alec Bohm mister consistency throughout this season.
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Speaker 1: He's had a left hand strain, and Austin Hayes he's
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Speaker 1: had a kidney infection, which has kept him out of
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Speaker 1: the line up at Mundo as well, and I.
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Speaker 2: Saw it's exactly what he happened there.
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Speaker 1: Exactly Edmundo Susa Susa. Sosa has been having some backspasms
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Speaker 1: as well. We're getting to that point in the season,
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Speaker 1: Lend where injuries here, I mean, while not necessarily the
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Speaker 1: most damning to this team, but you know you feel
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Speaker 1: the effects, especially with a guy like like I said,
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Speaker 1: mister consistency throughout this season, Alec Bohm, when he's not
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Speaker 1: in the lineup, you know you miss that consistency with
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Speaker 1: this team. Because Bryce Harper hasn't hit a home run
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Speaker 1: in a month. He's certainly from a power perspective, not
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Speaker 1: getting it done. You need consistency, like Alec Bowman, they
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Speaker 1: just don't have it at this point.
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Speaker 2: Well, and to top all of that off, I don't
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Speaker 2: know if you had been watching the game tonight, but
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Speaker 2: Kyle Schwarber, who has been hands down their hottest hitter,
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Speaker 2: was on first base, Trey Turner was up. I guess
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Speaker 2: it was a pickof Attempee slid back into first and
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Speaker 2: then Turner hit a home run. But then Schwarber's next
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Speaker 2: time through the order he was pinch hit for with
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Speaker 2: Buddy Kennedy, so that makes you wonder what happened to Schwarber,
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Speaker 2: because man, you want to talk about a guy that
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Speaker 2: they can't afford to lose as hot as he is
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Speaker 2: right now, that would be I mean hopefully if it
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Speaker 2: was it was like, you know, a couple of days,
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Speaker 2: but man, anything beyond that would be really a big
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Speaker 2: blow to this offense.
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Speaker 1: It really, it really would, because I mean they need
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Speaker 1: offensive consistency right now. Like you said, Schwarber, as we know,
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Speaker 1: you know he's been he's been the hottest guy BOM
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Speaker 1: with his consistency throughout this season as well. It's been
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Speaker 1: good to see what Trey Turner has been able to
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Speaker 1: do since the All Star break. But I guess that
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Speaker 1: leads us to Bryce Harper here, and I don't know,
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Speaker 1: are you concerned about the fact that Harper just hasn't
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Speaker 1: been able to take that power to the next level
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Speaker 1: at this point in the season. I mean, we're we're
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Speaker 1: almost at mid September here, lenn and he's not hitting
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Speaker 1: home runs. I mean, that's that's part of his bread
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Speaker 1: and butter and what he has done for this offense.
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Speaker 1: Like I'm getting a little worried about it.
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Speaker 2: It's I mean, especially with this time of year. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you know the weather, you know, the weather being warmer.
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Speaker 2: I mean it's kind of cool down a little bit,
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Speaker 2: but you know, you get it in those July August
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Speaker 2: September months and you know what Charlie Man and we
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Speaker 2: used to call hitting season. And then you're kind of like,
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Speaker 2: all right, well, you know, where's the power because you
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Speaker 2: know it's hotter out that the balls traveling better, and
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Speaker 2: you just anticipate more, you know, more power.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it.
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Speaker 2: Hasn't been for harpery. It's manifested in the form of doubles.
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Speaker 2: You know. Right before I went up to bed, he
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Speaker 2: had what looked like a home called back to the
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Speaker 2: fan interference. I guess fan leaned over the fence and
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Speaker 2: ended up being like a ground world double for him. So,
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's there, but it's just not there
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Speaker 2: enough that you know, he's he's putting balls over the fence.
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Speaker 2: So I you know, I don't know what's happening right now.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's one of those things where Okay,
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Speaker 2: this time of year, everybody's got nagging injuries and maybe
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Speaker 2: there's something with Harper that we don't know about.
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Speaker 1: Who knows Yeah, that is true, because he does like
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Speaker 1: to keep his uh, he does like to keep his
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Speaker 1: injuries to himself, as we know, you know, I mean,
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Speaker 1: he'll uh, he'll uh. I guess. Let the Phillies front
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Speaker 1: office brats and the the the managers there know every
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Speaker 1: now and then. But it's uh, I don't know. I'm
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Speaker 1: concerned about it. I'm concerned about whether or not Bryce
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Speaker 1: Harper because I thought two weeks ago, I'm like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: he's been a little slump with the home runs. You know,
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Speaker 1: now is the time. Now is the time where he's
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Speaker 1: going to be able to, you know, get back to form.
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Speaker 1: We just haven't seen it yet, And I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I guess that leads a to the next part of
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Speaker 1: the discussion with the Phillies Len the fact that we're
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Speaker 1: not having this offensive consistency like we saw the first
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Speaker 1: half of the season, and then we continue to see
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Speaker 1: this rotation, the starting rotation carousel. I mean it continued.
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Speaker 1: I mean this past week the debut of Seth Johnson,
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Speaker 1: My goodness, that was an utter and complete disaster. But
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Speaker 1: you know, the injuries to the starting pitching staff have
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Speaker 1: really hurt. They've hurt during the second half of the
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Speaker 1: season here, and the Phillies I think are at this point,
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Speaker 1: are they like eighty five and fifty eight? I actually,
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Speaker 1: I think that they're somewhere around there. I think as
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Speaker 1: of us recording this and eighty six and fifty eight,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry again. Yeah, so I don't know the pitching
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Speaker 1: carousel here. I feel like like the sky's not falling
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Speaker 1: by any stretch of the imagination. But I feel like
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Speaker 1: this team needs stability, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: Well, you got you know, I mean, you got guys
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Speaker 2: that need to kind of round into for them a
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Speaker 2: little bit more, but you've got your core for like,
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Speaker 2: and once you go into playoffs, you know, you you
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Speaker 2: pair it down to a four man rotation anyway. And
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Speaker 2: let's let's face it, those four guys, we know who
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Speaker 2: they are. Barring an injury, it's gonna be you know, Wheeler, Nola,
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Speaker 2: Suarez and Sanchez those your four guys, hands down. You
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Speaker 2: know again, God forbid, you know there's an injury, but
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Speaker 2: you know that's who it's going to be. So as
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Speaker 2: long as those guys are consistent and pitching, well, I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 2: you do have to, you know, play that game for
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Speaker 2: the for the rest of the regular season, where you
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Speaker 2: know who's the fifth starter and all that stuff, and
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Speaker 2: you know, obviously Taiwan Walker's had a really rough year,
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Speaker 2: and you know guys that they've plugged and Seth Johnson
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Speaker 2: couldn't find the plate the other night, So I yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's it's been tough. I mean, I'm going to know,
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Speaker 2: Colby Howard's been in there a little bit, and you know,
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Speaker 2: you've been had some Tyler Phillips in there, and it's
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Speaker 2: so it's kind of mixing match. But yeah, I mean
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Speaker 2: I think they're just trying to get by until he
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Speaker 2: e's the playoffs and you have those four guys.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. I read a stat on Phillies Nation dot com.
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Speaker 1: You know, we love Tim Kelly and Destiny Legardo, the
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Speaker 1: writers over there. They pointed out that the Philly starters
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Speaker 1: and the number five spot have combined to allow for
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Speaker 1: twenty one earned run since Allard's demotion back on August
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Speaker 1: twenty sixth. August twenty sixth, so in four Big league
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Speaker 1: outings this season, Allard has actually had a three point
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Speaker 1: five zero eer. But man, that number five spot allowing
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Speaker 1: twenty one to earn run since his demotion. That hurts man,
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Speaker 1: that really really hurts this team when the offense isn't clicking.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and that's a big thing. I mean the
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Speaker 2: beginning of the season, you know, when everybody had seemed
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Speaker 2: like was giving you seven good innings every night, yep,
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Speaker 2: and the offense is clicking, that's one thing. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean that stuff gets magde when the offense isn't
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Speaker 2: hitting as well and stuff like that, and you do wonder, Okay,
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Speaker 2: who is that fifth guy going to be? And especially
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Speaker 2: you know, as you go through the season and Suarez
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Speaker 2: is banged up a little bit and you know, guys
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Speaker 2: get hurt and then so now you're filling in two
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Speaker 2: spots instead of one. That you know, that happens, and
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Speaker 2: it happens to every team. I mean, you know, there's
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Speaker 2: very very few teams out there that ever are like, Okay,
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Speaker 2: we got five guys, and we're confident in all five
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Speaker 2: of them, you know, every time out. I mean, that's
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Speaker 2: just it's a rarity. So I mean, I think the
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Speaker 2: Phillies are in a in a pretty decent spot with
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Speaker 2: what they have, as long as those guys are you know, consistent,
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Speaker 2: you know. But yeah, I mean, you're you're just kind
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Speaker 2: of trying to, you know, get through this last month
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Speaker 2: of the season, and you know, then you got your
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Speaker 2: four and you can kind of figure out your bullpen
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Speaker 2: at that point as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting how you use that word decent. They're
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Speaker 1: in a quote decent spot, but just a few months
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Speaker 1: ago we were saying they're in a really good spot.
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Speaker 1: Like we've gone from there in a really good spot
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Speaker 1: to a decent spot. And that's what we're seeing now though,
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Speaker 1: you know. And it's just the confidence level I think
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Speaker 1: with the fan base. I don't know, Maybe it's just me, man,
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's just me. I just I'm not just feeling
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Speaker 1: as confident as we're heading into, you know, toward mid
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Speaker 1: end of September here with this team. I mean, when
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Speaker 1: when they're have trouble, they're having trouble with the Marlins
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Speaker 1: and split a series with them, Like, yes, they're decent,
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Speaker 1: they're decent, but man, I want more than decent at
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Speaker 1: this point, I really do.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 2: And here's the thing. So, first thing with the Marlins,
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Speaker 2: I don't have the numbers in front of me to
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Speaker 2: you know, back it up or whatever, but it just
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Speaker 2: to me, it feels like as long as those two
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Speaker 2: teams have been playing each other it you know, it
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Speaker 2: feels like the Marlins have always, no matter how good
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Speaker 2: one team or how bad the other team is, the Marlins,
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Speaker 2: for whatever reason, even when they're fielding a quad a team, yeah,
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Speaker 2: always seem to give the Phillies trouble. And I don't
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Speaker 2: know why that is, but and it might not be
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Speaker 2: the stats might not even bear that out, but it
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Speaker 2: just feels that way with that team. I'll never understand it.
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Speaker 2: You know, a couple of weeks ago, I think this,
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Speaker 2: you know, the maybe the kind of the sky is
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Speaker 2: falling thing was maybe a little bit more warranted when
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Speaker 2: they were in that that really brutal stretch. You know,
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Speaker 2: coming out of the All Star break, they have found
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Speaker 2: their footing a little bit. I know, at one point
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Speaker 2: they had won eight out of ten, you know, you know,
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Speaker 2: coming in and I think the last two games of
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Speaker 2: that Marlin series, so you know, they have been a
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Speaker 2: little bit more steady, found their footing a little bit,
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Speaker 2: you know, and all that. So, I mean, they're in
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Speaker 2: a better place than they were a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: We can at least, you know, admit.
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Speaker 1: That absolutely absolutely all right, But did you have anything
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Speaker 1: else for the Phillies. You want to get into here
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Speaker 1: before we get onto the next topic and the next
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Speaker 1: team here.
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Speaker 2: No, just good health and hitting. I mean some of
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Speaker 2: these guys, you know, Harper obviously first and foremost, but
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Speaker 2: you know, you've had certain guys all year. Bryson Stott
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Speaker 2: has not had the year that I think a lot
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Speaker 2: of people thought that he would. You know, you've got
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Speaker 2: guys that just need to step it up, especially if
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Speaker 2: there's going to be you know, guys that are out
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Speaker 2: for a while, there's gonna have to be some guys
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Speaker 2: that are that are you know, picking it up.
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Speaker 1: Yep, absolutely all right, let us know what you're thinking
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Speaker 1: about this team. We'd love to hear from you, Philadelphia
12:13
Speaker 1: Sports Table at gmail dot com. We'd love to read
12:15
Speaker 1: your email here on the show and respond to it.
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Speaker 1: But next, we want to get into a Philadelphia team
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Speaker 1: that it has been quite disappointing this season, even though
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Speaker 1: they won their last match the Philadelphia Union. At this
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Speaker 1: point in the season, Lend, they are still looking for
12:31
Speaker 1: answers as the end of the season approaches, and you
12:36
Speaker 1: know it begs the question should we already be looking
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Speaker 1: towards the off season here with regard to this team,
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Speaker 1: because look, they're scheduled the rest of the way. I mean,
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Speaker 1: outside of DC United, every team that they're going to
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Speaker 1: be facing, whether it's Inner Miami, Cincinnati, Columbus, it's not
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Speaker 1: going to give them any reprive basically for the difficulties
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Speaker 1: that this Union team is facing already and potentially missing
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Speaker 1: the playoffs for the first time since twenty seventeen. So,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. They had a recent win approximately what
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Speaker 1: about a week ago or so, six days ago, and
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Speaker 1: it's still it's been such an up and down year
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Speaker 1: for this team. And I think at this point in
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Speaker 1: time they are one point back from Atlanta from when
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Speaker 1: I was reading the standings in terms of really trying
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Speaker 1: to make the case for that last wild card spot.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they're going to get there, but
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Speaker 1: the schedule doesn't get any easier, buddy.
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Speaker 2: No, it does not. And you know, and right now
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Speaker 2: they're at a point where things are tough because of
13:47
Speaker 2: you know, guys that are on their respective national teams
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Speaker 2: that have been called up. Yeah, I know, there's been
13:52
Speaker 2: a bunch of that stuff. You know, you look at
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Speaker 2: a guy like tyber Ebo, who has been you know,
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Speaker 2: hands down there their best offensive player over the past
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Speaker 2: couple of weeks. He has joined Israel for the UEFA
14:03
Speaker 2: Nations League matches in September. Andre Blake, their goalie, is
14:07
Speaker 2: back with Jamaica Jesus Buenos with Venezuela guy that they
14:11
Speaker 2: just brought in, Dan LeJean Jacques has been called up
14:15
Speaker 2: for Haites Coca CAF League matches. So there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of stuff that's going on right now with you know,
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Speaker 2: a team that's not that deep to begin with, right
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Speaker 2: And it's just like, well, man, all these guys are
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Speaker 2: and look, you know that Union aren't the only team
14:33
Speaker 2: this is happening to. I mean every team across you
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Speaker 2: know MLS that has international players, and they all do,
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Speaker 2: they're all facing this too. But you know, the Union
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Speaker 2: wouldn't be in the position that they are in right
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Speaker 2: now in the standings if they had more depth and
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Speaker 2: more quality, which they don't, right, So, I mean that's
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Speaker 2: where they're going to run into problems here, I think
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Speaker 2: over the next couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, let's not forget the slow starts to
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Speaker 1: just about every freaking game this season and how frustrating
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Speaker 1: it is.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that is just something that has unfortunately been
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Speaker 2: a fact of life for them this year. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: I just, uh, I don't understand it. But yeah, a
15:14
Speaker 2: lot of it, I think, you know, goes back to
15:18
Speaker 2: you got to spend the money about put a good
15:21
Speaker 2: team on the field. Uh, and you know, they they
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Speaker 2: haven't really that they they don't have the horses that
15:29
Speaker 2: I think a lot of these other teams haven't. That's
15:32
Speaker 2: a shame because you know, I know that when they
15:35
Speaker 2: were you know, in their stretch winning that Supporter Shield
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Speaker 2: Trophy and making to the MLS Cup Final, I mean
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Speaker 2: there there was there were people talking about the Union
15:44
Speaker 2: that you know, I hadn't really been talking about them previously.
15:48
Speaker 2: So I think, you know, like any team in the city,
15:51
Speaker 2: if if you if you give you give people a
15:54
Speaker 2: reason to care, they're going to show up. Right now
15:57
Speaker 2: if you watch any of their matches on TV, even
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Speaker 2: like the Suns of ben section, it's a little sparse
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Speaker 2: and it's you know, the enthusiasm for the team is
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Speaker 2: not there right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly like I mentioned you before, the Unions they
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Speaker 1: sit just one point behind Atlanta United in the Eastern
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Speaker 1: Conference in Phillyate Atlanta are two of eight teams battling
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Speaker 1: for one playoff spot. All that sit within approximately I believe,
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Speaker 1: like two points of each other here, So every single
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Speaker 1: point counts for the Union from here on out. Len
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Speaker 1: And like I said, schedule is not gonna get any easier.
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Speaker 1: We know that. I think we're kind of seeing the
16:34
Speaker 1: writing on the wall here with regard to you know,
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Speaker 1: what's gonna happen with this team. I mean, it's obviously
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Speaker 1: not gonna surprise anybody if they if they do not
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Speaker 1: make the playoffs. But again, like you were saying, they're
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Speaker 1: gonna have to spend money in the playoffs if that
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Speaker 1: or I'm sorry, the postseason. In the offseason, they're gonna
16:50
Speaker 1: have to spend money if they really want to see
16:52
Speaker 1: a change, If they really want to see a change,
16:54
Speaker 1: they're gonna need to spend some money. And this organization
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Speaker 1: has not given us the confidence that they're that they
17:03
Speaker 1: are willing to do that, And I wonder, I wonder
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Speaker 1: what type of pressure would need to come from the
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Speaker 1: fans and the fan base in general to actually get
17:12
Speaker 1: that to happen. I fans have been pressuring I think
17:15
Speaker 1: ownership to do something like that, and it just just
17:18
Speaker 1: hasn't happened.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if you I mean, and that's the thing,
17:23
Speaker 2: like you know, you mentioned with the playoff race. I mean,
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Speaker 2: for as frustrating as this season has been, there, I mean, look,
17:29
Speaker 2: they're they're you know, it's you're basically playing for the
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Speaker 2: right to get knocked out in your first game because
17:34
Speaker 2: you know you're going to be a lower seed you know,
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Speaker 2: most likely. But you know, for as frustrating as this
17:39
Speaker 2: season has been, it's still right there. I mean, it's
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Speaker 2: still within grasp if they you know, if they want
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Speaker 2: to be a playoff team. It's there for them if
17:48
Speaker 2: they if they want to do it. But it's just
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Speaker 2: a matter of getting it done. And you know, with
17:52
Speaker 2: regard to you know, ownership and stuff like that. Go
17:55
Speaker 2: if you if you follow the Union on Instagram or
17:59
Speaker 2: on Twitter, you go on their account after and look
18:03
Speaker 2: at the comments after losses, and you know, you know,
18:07
Speaker 2: it's just you know, people you know, railing about Sugarman
18:10
Speaker 2: and Curtain, which I think is a little you know, tactically, yes,
18:15
Speaker 2: sometimes he deserves it, but you know, it's a little
18:18
Speaker 2: unfair when you don't you don't have the players and
18:20
Speaker 2: other teams do. Yeah, but there's a lot of atriol
18:24
Speaker 2: among the core base that's still there that are like,
18:28
Speaker 2: you know, they are like, I don't know if I'm
18:30
Speaker 2: going to renew Apple TV next year because it's my
18:32
Speaker 2: main means of watching the Union. I don't know if
18:34
Speaker 2: I'm going to renew my season tickets. Sugarman out. You
18:37
Speaker 2: know you won't you read You're going to read this
18:39
Speaker 2: stuff all the time, as I do whenever I look
18:41
Speaker 2: at the comments and those you know, posts after a loss, right,
18:44
Speaker 2: and it's people are and it's their core followers.
18:48
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18:52
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19:45
Speaker 1: Flyers Rookie camp kicks off this week. Hockey's in the air,
19:49
Speaker 1: my friend, Hockey is definitely in the air. And while
19:53
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys that we're gonna be keeping
19:56
Speaker 1: our eyes on during rookie camp. You know, mattve Mitchkoff,
20:00
Speaker 1: of course he's going to be up with the big
20:01
Speaker 1: team this year, but rookie Jet Luchenko, Oliver Bonk, Denver Barkie,
20:08
Speaker 1: just to name a few. You know, these are some
20:10
Speaker 1: of the guys we're going to be watching and following
20:12
Speaker 1: to see how their development is going to be going
20:14
Speaker 1: this year and when some of these guys might actually
20:17
Speaker 1: potentially be joining the team during this rebuild. Man, I'm
20:21
Speaker 1: really looking forward to following what some of these some
20:24
Speaker 1: of these rookies do and some of these really young guys,
20:27
Speaker 1: because you know, there's a there's some talent in this
20:29
Speaker 1: system here, and it's gonna be interesting to follow.
20:32
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was actually driving home from work today and
20:35
Speaker 2: just flipping around and came upon the NHL Network and
20:40
Speaker 2: there's one guy had said he's like, twenty four more
20:43
Speaker 2: days until the season starts. Yeah, hell all right, they
20:48
Speaker 2: said eleven days until preseason stuff starts. So like, wow, man,
20:51
Speaker 2: that's like, yeah, you look at the counter and it
20:54
Speaker 2: is September tenth, but you're still like, damn already.
20:58
Speaker 1: I know, I know. Well, the Rookie Game is going
21:00
Speaker 1: to be happening in Lehigh Valley this weekend. You know,
21:03
Speaker 1: was it Home and Home?
21:04
Speaker 2: Do they? Is it a series or is it just one.
21:06
Speaker 1: Game they're doing it? I believe it's a series if
21:08
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken. I mean it's gonna be the rain. Yeah,
21:10
Speaker 1: it's the Rookie Series at the PPL Center in Allentown.
21:14
Speaker 1: The Flyers are going to play a two game rookie
21:17
Speaker 1: series with against New York Rangers.
21:19
Speaker 2: Have they released a roster for that game.
21:22
Speaker 1: I don't think they have yet. I've just seen some
21:24
Speaker 1: I would like, Yeah.
21:25
Speaker 2: I would like to see who they're who they're dressing
21:28
Speaker 2: for those and if it's more than one game, chances
21:30
Speaker 2: are different players are gonna you know, maybe getting you know,
21:34
Speaker 2: in different games, right product the same team for both games,
21:38
Speaker 2: But yeah, I would be very interested to see who
21:40
Speaker 2: who's going to be out there.
21:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be interesting to follow Oliver Bonk
21:45
Speaker 1: this season here after being selected by the Flyers with
21:48
Speaker 1: the latter part of their two twenty twenty three first
21:52
Speaker 1: round picks. He's a defenseman that's coming off a really
21:57
Speaker 1: good season with the London Knights. So so look nineteen
22:01
Speaker 1: years old at this point. It's not eligible for the
22:04
Speaker 1: American Hockey League this season. However, you know his performance
22:09
Speaker 1: in the rookie camp and NHL camp this September, I
22:12
Speaker 1: think it's going to be a real test to his
22:13
Speaker 1: game's growth since last year. I'm gonna be keeping my
22:16
Speaker 1: eyes on Oliver Bonk and seeing what he does because
22:19
Speaker 1: he could be part of this rebuild long term. And
22:22
Speaker 1: again Jet Luchenko the rookie, looking forward to seeing what
22:25
Speaker 1: he's going to be doing on the ice as well.
22:27
Speaker 1: As folks may know he was the Flyers twenty twenty
22:29
Speaker 1: four first round pick, and I guess he's likely going
22:33
Speaker 1: to need a year to be ready to really challenge
22:37
Speaker 1: for any type of NHL roster spot, you know. I
22:39
Speaker 1: mean he's eighteen years old at this point, here his
22:42
Speaker 1: first rookie camp. These two guys, I'm really going to
22:45
Speaker 1: be looking forward to seeing what they do this coming season.
22:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, those are two interesting names. You know.
22:52
Speaker 2: A Bank, you know, is a guy that from everything
22:55
Speaker 2: anytime I read like you know, a prospect or you know,
22:59
Speaker 2: we're talking about the liar system or we're talking about
23:01
Speaker 2: the top prospects in each system, Bank is a guy
23:04
Speaker 2: that you know is pretty well regarded. You know. So
23:08
Speaker 2: you know, you draft a guy in the twenties and
23:10
Speaker 2: you're like, okay, we'll see you know, your your expectations
23:14
Speaker 2: maybe aren't as high as it would be for a
23:16
Speaker 2: top ten pick, but you know, every but everything I
23:20
Speaker 2: read about him that the new prospect writers hold him
23:23
Speaker 2: in pretty high regard, and you know they I've read
23:26
Speaker 2: nothing but good things about you know, what he's been
23:28
Speaker 2: doing so far. You know, both him and Barkie or
23:32
Speaker 2: with London in the in the CHL So you know,
23:37
Speaker 2: maybe another year of them being there if that's the case,
23:42
Speaker 2: would be you know, good with them, maybe you know,
23:45
Speaker 2: getting chemistry or whatever the two of them, maybe getting
23:49
Speaker 2: a chance to play with each other more would be
23:52
Speaker 2: interesting to me. And then with Lichenko, it's interesting to
23:57
Speaker 2: me because you know, when he was taken, I think
24:00
Speaker 2: a lot of people are like, well, Helenius is on
24:02
Speaker 2: the board right and everything I'm reading, Helenius is a
24:05
Speaker 2: guy that you know, a lot of people think are
24:08
Speaker 2: going is going to be you know, NHL ready from
24:11
Speaker 2: day one, and he's going to be in Buffalo's lineup
24:14
Speaker 2: on on day one, which you know you're like, why
24:17
Speaker 2: why did the Flyers take that? But the thing I'm
24:20
Speaker 2: going to be looking at with Lachenka this year isn't
24:22
Speaker 2: you know, obviously you want to see how he's going
24:23
Speaker 2: to do in this rookie camp, But to me, it's
24:26
Speaker 2: more of how he does in the CHL this year.
24:29
Speaker 2: Going back to gelf you know, because I think the
24:35
Speaker 2: reason he was picked was he was a you know,
24:38
Speaker 2: for I guess he was seventeen when he was drafted,
24:41
Speaker 2: and he's one of those like birthdays that just barely
24:43
Speaker 2: made the cut to be in that draft. So he's
24:46
Speaker 2: young for that draft draft class, and I think that
24:49
Speaker 2: you know, that's something the teams look at. They your
24:52
Speaker 2: birthday for whatever reason. In these draft classes a lot
24:55
Speaker 2: of times, you know, if everything else is equal, right,
24:58
Speaker 2: you know that two, So it'll be interesting to see. Uh,
25:03
Speaker 2: he's a guy that obviously they think has a lot
25:05
Speaker 2: of development ahead of him, and a guy that they think,
25:08
Speaker 2: you know, is a guy that maybe if he was
25:10
Speaker 2: in next year's draft, he would be taken a lot
25:12
Speaker 2: higher because I think they're looking to him to make
25:16
Speaker 2: a big step forward in his uh, you know, year
25:20
Speaker 2: after this year, after being drafted, he's a guy that
25:23
Speaker 2: I think that there they think is going to make
25:25
Speaker 2: a major leap as a prospect and have a lot
25:28
Speaker 2: of people talking about him. And then he's a guy
25:30
Speaker 2: that's in our system because you know, they drafted him
25:33
Speaker 2: when he was drafted this year, You're like, whoa, there
25:37
Speaker 2: might be a lot more helium with regard to his
25:39
Speaker 2: name at this time next year. So that's I think
25:43
Speaker 2: what the Flyers Brass is banking on when they drafted him.
25:46
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, absolutely.
25:48
Speaker 2: Look, and I think we're we're both staying away from
25:52
Speaker 2: mitchkov because it's the obvious guy we want to pick
25:57
Speaker 2: somebody else. But you know.
26:01
Speaker 1: Exactly, I was just gonna say, we're not gonna get
26:03
Speaker 1: into division. We're not gonna talk about Mitch Covrey here.
26:05
Speaker 1: We have plenty of time to talk about him. We're
26:07
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about him a ton, and like Lynn said,
26:10
Speaker 1: the obvious choice that everybody's gonna be watching during the
26:13
Speaker 1: Rookie Series at the PPL Center in Allentown this coming weekend,
26:17
Speaker 1: and just you know, throughout the course of this early
26:19
Speaker 1: part of you know, camp and in the early part
26:22
Speaker 1: of the season. So that said, enough Flyers talk. Now
26:26
Speaker 1: let's get into some football talk. We're gonna start off
26:28
Speaker 1: with the Philadelphia Eagles here Eagles Falcons Monday Night Football,
26:32
Speaker 1: the Eagles first home game of the season. Thoughts about
26:37
Speaker 1: where the Birds need to really clean up things heading
26:40
Speaker 1: into Week two, and I mean, frankly, lenn it really
26:43
Speaker 1: is the quarterback position. Look as we said on our
26:48
Speaker 1: pregame show this week on our Opposition Territory show we
26:52
Speaker 1: haven't talked about on the table Talk show with Mark
26:55
Speaker 1: Schofield from Espionation this past week, quarterback play was not good.
27:00
Speaker 1: In Week one. You saw a lot of quarterbacks not
27:03
Speaker 1: playing during the preseason, they were getting the rust off
27:06
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts obviously one of those quarterbacks. However, Hurts actually
27:10
Speaker 1: produced the fifth most passing yards in Week one. Even
27:14
Speaker 1: though he did that again, still a lot of rust.
27:18
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got to make smarter decisions when he's
27:21
Speaker 1: in the pocket. He's got to make smarter decisions with
27:23
Speaker 1: the ball when he's throwing it. Had two terrible, terrible interceptions.
27:28
Speaker 1: So Jalen Hurts needing to take some steps forward, and
27:32
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna get it done because he's a
27:34
Speaker 1: fantastic talent, Lenn, He really is. I'm not gonna sit
27:37
Speaker 1: here and crap on Jalen Hurts. They won down in Brazil.
27:41
Speaker 1: We did the postgame show last week. We weren't necessarily
27:44
Speaker 1: happy with his performance. Could have been a lot worse.
27:47
Speaker 1: I think, however, this team, you know, they had a
27:50
Speaker 1: lot of resiliency, especially from a defensive standpoint, that really
27:53
Speaker 1: kept him in the game. It didn't help, or I
27:56
Speaker 1: should say it did help that the Green Bay Packers
27:59
Speaker 1: were sloppy as well. Week one a slopfest for the
28:04
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles in a lot of different ways. But I
28:06
Speaker 1: think if Hurts can find his footing. I think he
28:09
Speaker 1: could light up week two quite frankly, which I think
28:11
Speaker 1: he might actually because of the struggles that the Falcons
28:15
Speaker 1: went through against Pittsburgh Steelers. So I'm looking at Jalen
28:19
Speaker 1: Hurts and I'm thinking he's really going to have a
28:20
Speaker 1: bounce back week from last week to this coming week
28:24
Speaker 1: on Monday night football on primetime. So that's what I'm
28:27
Speaker 1: going to be looking for you. What about you, buddy,
28:29
Speaker 1: specifically your thoughts on what they're really going to need
28:32
Speaker 1: to clean up heading into week two?
28:34
Speaker 2: Well, Herts is the obvious thing, but I mean, and
28:36
Speaker 2: I'm interested to see. Okay, it's a different environment, obviously.
28:40
Speaker 2: It's it's a home game, and it's a true home game.
28:43
Speaker 2: It's not just one that counts as a home game
28:45
Speaker 2: on the on the Eagles schedule. It's an actual home
28:48
Speaker 2: game right in their city and their stadium and all
28:51
Speaker 2: that good stuff. So that should be helpful as well
28:54
Speaker 2: as the fact that you know, listen, you you followed
28:57
Speaker 2: the NFL much much, much more more intensely than I do.
29:01
Speaker 2: You could probably tell me a lot more about the
29:03
Speaker 2: Atlanta Falcons defensively than I would know off the top
29:07
Speaker 2: of my head. But I'm willing to bet that the
29:10
Speaker 2: Falcons defense is probably not as strong as Green Bays.
29:13
Speaker 2: Am I am?
29:14
Speaker 1: I correct in, You are very correct in that, and
29:18
Speaker 1: especially from a secondary standpoint as well. You've got two
29:21
Speaker 1: very undersized cornerbacks starting against AJ Brown and Devonte Smith.
29:27
Speaker 1: I think our receivers are going to completely eat this
29:30
Speaker 1: coming Monday night.
29:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, I mean, okay, you're you're at home. He
29:35
Speaker 2: has had a game now to get the rust off
29:37
Speaker 2: his belt, you know, off him. You know, he's going
29:40
Speaker 2: up against an easier defense than you know, he faced
29:44
Speaker 2: in Green Bay last week. So yeah, I want to
29:47
Speaker 2: see progression this week because of all the reasons that
29:51
Speaker 2: I just mentioned there, I expect progression. And if I
29:54
Speaker 2: don't see it, then okay, then that's you know, maybe
29:58
Speaker 2: the the feeling of being a little bit nervous, I
30:02
Speaker 2: think is a little bit more legitimate. So yeah, that
30:06
Speaker 2: hurts his obviously. I mean it's the number one thing
30:11
Speaker 2: I don't know about Atlanta's line. But will they get
30:14
Speaker 2: more of a pass rush than they did last week?
30:17
Speaker 2: That's another biggie for me. There you go, Saquon, you know,
30:21
Speaker 2: will will you know? Will they continue you know utilizing
30:25
Speaker 2: him as well as they did last week. So there's
30:28
Speaker 2: a number of things, but hurts to me is obviously
30:31
Speaker 2: the biggie.
30:31
Speaker 1: Absolutely. All right, Well, go back into the podcast feed.
30:35
Speaker 1: If you have not heard the Eagles Falcons preview show,
30:39
Speaker 1: head on over there. I spoke with Aaron Freeman from
30:41
Speaker 1: the Locked On Falcons podcast. We had a great conversation
30:45
Speaker 1: about it. Listen to the pregame show there and Len
30:49
Speaker 1: before I let you go here, buddy, and before we
30:51
Speaker 1: go to break scoring predictions for this coming week's game again,
30:55
Speaker 1: Monday Night football, Eagles first home game against the Falcons.
30:59
Speaker 1: I'm going with an Eagles win and I'm actually going
31:01
Speaker 1: with thirty four to sixteen. I think the Eagles are
31:04
Speaker 1: going to decisively win this game. What do you think
31:07
Speaker 1: is going to happen in terms of the score this week, buddy.
31:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm kind of in the same range as you.
31:12
Speaker 2: I have thirty two to nineteen Eagles. I do think
31:17
Speaker 2: that they're They're just a better team. And you know,
31:20
Speaker 2: I didn't expect the Falcons to lose to Pittsburgh. Who
31:24
Speaker 2: are you know? Just really, I mean, there's not much
31:29
Speaker 2: going on there offensively, no in Pittsburgh, So I mean,
31:32
Speaker 2: if they if they couldn't beat the Steelers, I can't
31:35
Speaker 2: imagine they're gonna, you know, farewell against the Eagles. So
31:39
Speaker 2: thirty two to nineteen.
31:39
Speaker 1: For me, I really quick I said that. I said
31:43
Speaker 1: to Aaron Freeman on the Lockdown Falcons podcast, I was
31:46
Speaker 1: like that the relationship between Kirk Cousins, because Kirk Cousins
31:50
Speaker 1: is a good quarterback. He is a good quarterback in
31:53
Speaker 1: this league. Not the greatest in the world, but he's good.
31:56
Speaker 1: But the relationship and the chemistry between his receivers, the coaches,
32:00
Speaker 1: everything needs to start manifesting for this team, and it
32:03
Speaker 1: needs to happen sooner rather than later, you know. It
32:06
Speaker 1: just it really bugs me that a lot of coaches
32:08
Speaker 1: like Siriani are not playing their starters during the course
32:11
Speaker 1: of the preseason, even if it is for a few series.
32:14
Speaker 1: It really bothers me, man, because like, you can't get
32:17
Speaker 1: that chemistry going, the relationships going with these with these
32:21
Speaker 1: players to manifest itself on the field. So I think
32:25
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins is gonna have still some difficulty up up
32:28
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, and it could permeate throughout the rest of
32:31
Speaker 1: the early part of the season because right after the
32:32
Speaker 1: Eagles they got the Chiefs to play. It could be
32:35
Speaker 1: zero to three for the Falcons.
32:38
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if that's a fad throughout the
32:40
Speaker 2: league that has happened in terms of like, we're not
32:43
Speaker 2: going to play our starters at all. Again, you would
32:45
Speaker 2: know a lot more about that than I would. But
32:47
Speaker 2: I feel like if it is a fat it's going
32:49
Speaker 2: to be a short lived one because teams are going
32:51
Speaker 2: to see, like, man, we're not ready for the start
32:54
Speaker 2: of the season. Yeah, I'm not asking you to play
32:56
Speaker 2: your starters for a half, give them a couple series, two,
33:00
Speaker 2: three series, and then you can go figure out who
33:02
Speaker 2: your fifth linebacker is gonna you know, fitth string linecker
33:05
Speaker 2: is gonna be you know, you know, knock yourself out
33:08
Speaker 2: at that point, but you know, you gotta at least
33:10
Speaker 2: give these guys something otherwise, you know, hell, why have
33:14
Speaker 2: him show up at camp at all? Just come on
33:16
Speaker 2: opening night and we'll see what's what? You know? Absolutely
33:19
Speaker 2: so uh yeah, that that to me is I think
33:22
Speaker 2: that fad is gonna be very short lived.
33:24
Speaker 1: I hope you so, yeah, I hope so, buddy, I'm
33:26
Speaker 1: gonna let you go. You have any final thoughts before
33:28
Speaker 1: we head out of here and had to break.
33:31
Speaker 2: No, just uh hope they're good health for the fills here.
33:35
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we need good health for the pills. And again
33:38
Speaker 1: sky's not falling. But uh, we're gonna keep talking about
33:41
Speaker 1: this team on this show. We are gonna take a
33:43
Speaker 1: break and we'll be back in just a bit. All right,
33:46
Speaker 1: we are back. Let's get into some college football talk here.
33:49
Speaker 1: It's early in the season. We got a great guest.
33:52
Speaker 1: It's what we're throwing down on the table and now
33:55
Speaker 1: on the table. It is great to have him back
34:00
Speaker 1: on the podcast to get into some college football storylines
34:03
Speaker 1: that were following early in this season. He is from
34:06
Speaker 1: Fans Sided and he is also from the False Start
34:10
Speaker 1: College Football podcast, and it's great to have him on
34:14
Speaker 1: the show. We've got John Bueller. How you doing. John.
34:16
Speaker 3: Great to be back, Jeff Glad we're talking about college
34:19
Speaker 3: football and maybe not necessarily the big NFL game this
34:22
Speaker 3: weekend because boys not look good versus Selers.
34:25
Speaker 1: Look. I mean, we did our we did our Eagles
34:28
Speaker 1: Falcons preview show. And before we get into some college
34:32
Speaker 1: football talk here, like I gotta say, like, I mean,
34:35
Speaker 1: they kind of held up a little bit the Falcons
34:37
Speaker 1: kind of held up against the Steeler, a really really
34:40
Speaker 1: good defense with the Steelers, but of course they didn't
34:43
Speaker 1: come out on top. They're always rusty to start the year.
34:46
Speaker 1: It seems like the Falcons are always slow to start
34:48
Speaker 1: the year.
34:48
Speaker 3: John, I know, brittles start to the season. We got
34:51
Speaker 3: the Eagles next and the Chiefs, and then he got
34:53
Speaker 3: a Saints bucks and then he is evens up a
34:56
Speaker 3: little bit. Maybe Kirk Cousins can actually walk by.
34:58
Speaker 1: That baby can That's we hope, gosh, hopefully he can. Folks,
35:03
Speaker 1: make sure you're following John on the Twitter slash x
35:07
Speaker 1: at bueller one one eight. He is a great, great
35:10
Speaker 1: follow I got that correct, right. I do have new
35:13
Speaker 1: glasses here, so all right, great, I got the glasses
35:15
Speaker 1: are doing me well here. So let's start off our
35:19
Speaker 1: discussion here with a particular college football team that we
35:22
Speaker 1: all kind of were like, oh, my gosh, what happened
35:26
Speaker 1: to them? And I'm talking about Notre Dame. My gosh.
35:30
Speaker 1: An interesting team and one of only five college football
35:34
Speaker 1: teams without a touchdown pass so far this season. It's
35:37
Speaker 1: quite astonishing what we've seen from Notre Dame thus far. John.
35:41
Speaker 1: Of course, they lost to Northern Illinois this past week
35:44
Speaker 1: shocked the world. Some questions are persisting about this team,
35:49
Speaker 1: and even though their remaining schedule really kind of seems
35:52
Speaker 1: to show us that they likely have a successful season
35:55
Speaker 1: here at the end of the day, how should we
35:57
Speaker 1: be looking at Notre Dame at this point given the
36:00
Speaker 1: challenges that they're facing early in this season.
36:03
Speaker 3: I'm so mad at it. I'm so mad, Like if
36:06
Speaker 3: I was there, if I was their parent, They're getting
36:08
Speaker 3: grounded for like a month, Like we're gonna go to school,
36:11
Speaker 3: They're going to do their their their activities, and then
36:13
Speaker 3: they're gonna go to their room and do their homework
36:16
Speaker 3: all off season long. I had Notre Dame in a
36:18
Speaker 3: group of about seven teams that were playoff locks. You know,
36:21
Speaker 3: pretty much everybody had the Georgia's and Texas, Oregon, Ohio
36:26
Speaker 3: States is like certainties, and then Notre Dame is in
36:28
Speaker 3: that same group with your Penn State, Nitney Lions, and
36:31
Speaker 3: the old miss Rebels is like, Okay, they're probably going
36:33
Speaker 3: to get in. That's how I felt. I had Notre
36:36
Speaker 3: Dame going twelve and zero. I had them getting the
36:38
Speaker 3: five seed. I had them playing Georgia and like the
36:41
Speaker 3: Orange Bowl and like the National semis.
36:43
Speaker 1: Okay, and.
36:46
Speaker 3: I I understand that going to college station's tough. You
36:49
Speaker 3: know you're going up like Riley Leonard's going up gets
36:52
Speaker 3: his former head coach and Mike Elko when they were
36:54
Speaker 3: at Duke. Now he's on the A and M sidelines.
36:56
Speaker 3: But it's I could not be more disappointed in Notre Dame.
37:02
Speaker 3: Like the thing that really bothers me is like they
37:06
Speaker 3: got to stop messing around with the poor quarterback and
37:08
Speaker 3: get some kid out of high school.
37:10
Speaker 1: Right.
37:10
Speaker 3: I understand that the Drew Pines and the Tyler Buckner's
37:12
Speaker 3: of the world didn't take but Riley Letard's not Riley Leward.
37:16
Speaker 3: But he can't run and he just is. I hate
37:19
Speaker 3: his body language on the sideline and he looks like
37:21
Speaker 3: a Philip Rivers his cousin, like blaming everybody else. It's
37:24
Speaker 3: just not as good, right, It's.
37:26
Speaker 1: Right, man, I just Notre Dame. They have talent. They
37:30
Speaker 1: have talent on the team, and it's just not coming
37:33
Speaker 1: together the way that I think it's going to. And
37:36
Speaker 1: that's basically what I was saying at first here, you
37:38
Speaker 1: know this first topic here, they have the talent. I
37:41
Speaker 1: think they're going to get things together. You look at
37:43
Speaker 1: their schedule and you say to yourself, Okay, they should
37:45
Speaker 1: be winning a lot more games here in the very
37:47
Speaker 1: near future. And again we saw what happened with Northern Illinois. However,
37:52
Speaker 1: I think they gotta get They have the talent, they
37:54
Speaker 1: just got to get it together.
37:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, it's like I had and I have
37:59
Speaker 3: them going twelve to zero. A lot of people felt
38:00
Speaker 3: they were like a ten and two team. Yeah, probably
38:02
Speaker 3: in the playoff mix with that schedule as national independent,
38:06
Speaker 3: probably not going to lose to Purdue, But then again,
38:08
Speaker 3: what we saw last week, anything's.
38:09
Speaker 1: Up in the air exactly.
38:11
Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to beat USC now. I
38:13
Speaker 3: think that team's kind of firing all cylinders with Dean
38:16
Speaker 3: Tublan calling the defense there. But like to me, that
38:19
Speaker 3: loss in Northern Illinois, that feels like two losses.
38:22
Speaker 1: Yea.
38:22
Speaker 3: Even if they won out and they're eleven to one,
38:24
Speaker 3: I think the committee is going to be like, now,
38:25
Speaker 3: that's a ten and two team, and we're going to
38:27
Speaker 3: take a ten and two team out of the Big
38:30
Speaker 3: ten the SEC over them and probably like an eleven
38:33
Speaker 3: to one team that doesn't play for a conference championship
38:36
Speaker 3: out of the Big twelve or the ACC. So yeah,
38:38
Speaker 3: Notre Dame, you gotta went out and you got to
38:40
Speaker 3: be impressive to get back in the playoff because you're
38:42
Speaker 3: in the doghouse right now.
38:43
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Well, it's interesting, how you know you mentioned you
38:46
Speaker 1: mentioned USC. I wasn't even going to talk talk about
38:49
Speaker 1: this quite frankly, but you know, you look at changing
38:53
Speaker 1: perceptions of certain teams. I think already early this season,
38:56
Speaker 1: Notre Dame is won, of course, just talking about them.
38:59
Speaker 1: I mean Iowa State, I think, is another team. You know,
39:02
Speaker 1: we're changing the perception of them in USC. Usc everybody's thinking, oh,
39:07
Speaker 1: they're coming into the Big Ten, they're gonna get dominated
39:09
Speaker 1: right out of the gate, blah blah blah. You know,
39:12
Speaker 1: they look like a pretty solid team thus far. And
39:16
Speaker 1: it's just interesting how the perception within the college football
39:19
Speaker 1: landscape has altered a bit, I think. So maybe that's
39:23
Speaker 1: a conversation for another time, John, But I mean there
39:27
Speaker 1: were some real close games this past week as we're
39:29
Speaker 1: moving along with the conversation here, My Penn State Ninteellions
39:33
Speaker 1: almost lost a bowling Green. I was actually at that
39:35
Speaker 1: game with my family. I was completely shocked throughout the game.
39:39
Speaker 1: And so what we were seeing, especially from the Nitney
39:42
Speaker 1: Lion defense and a defensive line and defensive front that's
39:44
Speaker 1: supposed to be pretty dominant, and they were just getting handled.
39:48
Speaker 1: And while Alabama won this past week, it was more
39:51
Speaker 1: of a survival kind of game for them as well.
39:55
Speaker 1: So what do you attribute to the lack of I
39:58
Speaker 1: would say real and sheer down dominance that we really
40:01
Speaker 1: have not seen yet from some of these top college
40:04
Speaker 1: football programs early this season. What are your thoughts here?
40:08
Speaker 3: I think it's interesting your group, both Alabama and Penn
40:10
Speaker 3: State together they're kind of dealing with the exact same thing. Like, Okay,
40:13
Speaker 3: Bama's four, Penn State's eight. In my projections for the playoffs,
40:17
Speaker 3: they're both getting in right now. Penn State a little
40:19
Speaker 3: more comfortably than Alabama. But you know, as you're watching
40:23
Speaker 3: Penn State play Bowling Green, you're like, that team's pretty
40:26
Speaker 3: good there down at Bowling Green too. Harold Fannin's NFL
40:30
Speaker 3: prospect Scott Leffler might be the next like coach to
40:34
Speaker 3: go to bigger, better things like Urban Meyer, Dave Plos
40:36
Speaker 3: and you know, Babers and Bowling Green was not my
40:40
Speaker 3: pick to win the MAC. But they were in my
40:41
Speaker 3: colleague and Fall Star co host Cody Williams pick to
40:44
Speaker 3: win the MAC. So that's that's not a bad team.
40:46
Speaker 3: They're they're pretty good then with you know, I guess
40:49
Speaker 3: with the Alabama with usf Alex Golishkin really coach, They're
40:52
Speaker 3: kind of limited offensively, but they've kind of given Alabama
40:55
Speaker 3: scare the last two seasons. Got to play one more
40:58
Speaker 3: time in twenty six. Yeah, that worked out really great there,
41:00
Speaker 3: Greg Brands scheduling then. But it's like, I think the
41:04
Speaker 3: biggest thing is it's it's it's the coaching changes and
41:08
Speaker 3: you know, you talk about trying to make the adjustments there.
41:11
Speaker 3: It's a little more profound there in Alabama with Klein
41:14
Speaker 3: de Borr coming in with a whole new staff. But
41:16
Speaker 3: with Penn State, you know, you got to replace Mike
41:18
Speaker 3: Yourstitch with Andy Coltnicki, you got to place Manny Diaz
41:21
Speaker 3: with Tom Allen. And I kind of feel with Penn State,
41:24
Speaker 3: like from AFAR, everybody was getting on Tom Allen's case.
41:27
Speaker 3: I feel that like Tom Allen's trying to go in
41:29
Speaker 3: there with respect again, you know, a former competitor and
41:31
Speaker 3: division with Penn State. At Indiana, he's like he's trying
41:35
Speaker 3: to step on a you know, James Franklin's toes a
41:37
Speaker 3: little bit. Whereas Andy Coldnicky, that guy special. Look a
41:40
Speaker 3: look at look at the difference. At Kansas. They're not
41:42
Speaker 3: good anymore.
41:42
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah.
41:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, Andy Cold Nicky is going to be It's gonna
41:45
Speaker 3: be just fine. With Penn State, it's gonna take a
41:47
Speaker 3: little more time. Alabama, you've got a new head coach
41:51
Speaker 3: and you've got four new coordinators, two coordinators on both
41:54
Speaker 3: sides of the ball. It's insane. So the defense is
41:57
Speaker 3: figuring it out. Kane Wamack again had a bit at
41:59
Speaker 3: Ayu with Debor. He's really good. Came over from South Alabama.
42:03
Speaker 3: Maurice Linguist at Buffalo. They're kind of figuring it out together.
42:07
Speaker 3: Looks better than what we saw out of p Golding
42:09
Speaker 3: previous years offense. That's the problem. Yeah, because he thought
42:14
Speaker 3: it was going to be Ryan Grubb. Ryan Grubb's gonna
42:16
Speaker 3: come with me from Seattle. Well he went back to
42:18
Speaker 3: Seattle to go be on Mike McDonald's staff with the Seahawks.
42:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you got to.
42:22
Speaker 3: Promote from within, and you're like Nick Sheridan kind of
42:24
Speaker 3: call plays that one year in Indiana he wasn't good.
42:27
Speaker 3: And then JaMarcus Shepherd's kind of a really good wide
42:30
Speaker 3: receivers coach, but he's not calling plays. And then Debor
42:33
Speaker 3: that's his bread and butter, and that's probably why Washington
42:35
Speaker 3: lost national championship. He's like, Okay, I'm gonna step on
42:38
Speaker 3: grubs turf and call plays and get away from being
42:40
Speaker 3: the CEO type. Once they figure out some sort of
42:43
Speaker 3: like line of demarcation with whose responsibilities are what, they'll
42:46
Speaker 3: figure it out. But this is going to cost them
42:47
Speaker 3: at least twice.
42:48
Speaker 1: Yeah this year, no question. Absolutely. I know our listeners
42:52
Speaker 1: are probably gonna call me a broken record after saying this,
42:56
Speaker 1: and I said it on our Eagles and Falcons preview shop.
43:00
Speaker 1: John is that relationships matter so much between coaches and
43:04
Speaker 1: players in terms of what you're going to inevitably see
43:07
Speaker 1: on the field. And you know, whether whether it's Eagles Falcons.
43:10
Speaker 1: You know you have the Falcons with new coaching staff,
43:13
Speaker 1: there's a new quarterback at the helm, You've got new
43:16
Speaker 1: pieces of the puzzle. You're trying to put it all together.
43:19
Speaker 1: The relationships at the end of the day, really matter,
43:22
Speaker 1: and what you're telling us right now, whether it's Alabama,
43:25
Speaker 1: whether it's Penn State, these new relationships with these coordinators
43:28
Speaker 1: and these players, they need to start meshing, they need
43:30
Speaker 1: to start gelling. That chemistry needs to be there in
43:33
Speaker 1: order to see success on the field. So I think
43:36
Speaker 1: it's a very underrated type of not even a storyline,
43:41
Speaker 1: but an aspect to sports. I think in general that
43:44
Speaker 1: folks don't always realize and that folks sometimes just whether
43:48
Speaker 1: they or not, they don't want to talk about it
43:50
Speaker 1: or they just kind of push it off to the side,
43:52
Speaker 1: the relationships between coaching and the players really do matter
43:57
Speaker 1: in terms of the chemistry and what happens on the field.
43:59
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to get on my soapbox air
44:01
Speaker 1: for just a second. We talked about again on the
44:04
Speaker 1: Eagles Falcons podcast. Folks go back in the feed listen
44:07
Speaker 1: to that great preview show. But I wanted to move
44:10
Speaker 1: along here with our conversation and talk about Texas because boy,
44:14
Speaker 1: they really do look like a national championship team. They
44:17
Speaker 1: absolutely dominated Michigan, and as we know, Michigan is a
44:21
Speaker 1: weekend team from last season, of course, but Texas is
44:24
Speaker 1: really able to move the ball at will up and
44:27
Speaker 1: down the field. John, what are your thoughts on what
44:30
Speaker 1: we've been seeing from Texas and can they really be
44:33
Speaker 1: the top dogs this year in college football?
44:36
Speaker 3: Right now, I think they're one of two teams that
44:38
Speaker 3: can win a national title, along with my Georgia Bulldogs. Yeah,
44:41
Speaker 3: I'm gonna pick Georgia over them for obvious reasons. I
44:44
Speaker 3: mean until I see otherwise. Well, they play in Austin
44:47
Speaker 3: in a few weeks, we'll see what happens. They'll probably
44:49
Speaker 3: meet in Atlanta, and they'll probably meet in the playoff
44:50
Speaker 3: for a third time. Right, this goes? But I knew
44:54
Speaker 3: that Texas was going to dog walk Michigan the whole time.
44:57
Speaker 3: We kind of knew that from like a mile away.
44:59
Speaker 3: It's like this Michigan team is going to be a
45:01
Speaker 3: shell of itself. I don't know why Davis Warren is
45:03
Speaker 3: the quarterback or you know, Alex Orgy, I don't know
45:07
Speaker 3: if he could throw a football. Why don't you go
45:09
Speaker 3: why don't you go get Jordan McLeod in the transfer portal?
45:12
Speaker 3: Why don't get Dante Moore? I feel like there's just
45:15
Speaker 3: Charon Moore. Just still think it's Jim Harboss team. Like
45:17
Speaker 3: you're the head coach, but to go back to Texas,
45:20
Speaker 3: Sark is absolutely in his back. Sark knows exactly who
45:23
Speaker 3: he is right now. He was coaching a Big twelve team,
45:26
Speaker 3: but an SEC team of the Big twelve. The transitions seamless.
45:31
Speaker 3: He's got so much talent. I'm really impressed with the defense. Yes,
45:34
Speaker 3: you lost Jeff Choate to the Nevada job, but you
45:36
Speaker 3: still have Kwietkowski. I forget if his name is Nick Repete.
45:39
Speaker 3: One of them is the Football Player Leagues coach. He's
45:42
Speaker 3: really good. I thought losing CJ. Baxter was going to
45:46
Speaker 3: be an issue at a running back. Now they've got
45:49
Speaker 3: They've got guys there.
45:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, they do with.
45:52
Speaker 3: Everything really well on all three phases. My only concern
45:55
Speaker 3: is Quinnyears' health. He could be Matthew Stafford or he
45:59
Speaker 3: might be Samer.
46:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, there's a big difference there there really is.
46:05
Speaker 3: They both got paid the same, they both number won.
46:08
Speaker 3: But like, as long as Quinn yours is healthy, he's
46:11
Speaker 3: going to be a top ten pick, probably top five.
46:13
Speaker 3: Michigan's front seven is really good and Mason Graham's gonna
46:17
Speaker 3: be He's like the next Letric Cox.
46:18
Speaker 2: He's special.
46:19
Speaker 1: Yeah.
46:19
Speaker 3: Uh And but if they put arch Manning out there,
46:22
Speaker 3: he's not ready for this, and that's the only way
46:25
Speaker 3: this could go. We only hope that like Texas can
46:27
Speaker 3: stay healthy. I think they've got enough pieces right there.
46:30
Speaker 3: But like that's my only concern. This team is really
46:32
Speaker 3: really good.
46:33
Speaker 1: Yeah again, folks, we're talking to John Bueller from Fan Sided.
46:37
Speaker 1: Also you can check out and hear him on the
46:41
Speaker 1: False Start College Football podcast as well. Follow him on
46:45
Speaker 1: the Twitter slash x at Bueller one one eight. He's
46:48
Speaker 1: a great, great follow and I wanted to get into
46:52
Speaker 1: the ACC with you, John, very very interesting conference to follow.
46:57
Speaker 1: Miami is currently at the top of the ranking in
47:00
Speaker 1: that conference, but man Louisville and North Carolina they're undefeated.
47:04
Speaker 1: Yet you still have Clemson there hanging around there, you know,
47:08
Speaker 1: toward the top of the conference too, even though they
47:10
Speaker 1: have had one loss. What are your thoughts on how
47:13
Speaker 1: the ACC is really taking shape early this season? What
47:17
Speaker 1: we could see from this conference.
47:20
Speaker 3: How I feel about the ACC right now is how
47:22
Speaker 3: I thought I would feel about the Big Twelve. Like
47:24
Speaker 3: it's just been pure chaos.
47:25
Speaker 1: Yeah.
47:26
Speaker 3: I did pick Miami to win the ACC. I had
47:29
Speaker 3: them going eleven to one. Their only loss would be
47:31
Speaker 3: at Cal, who's sneaky good. Look at them getting a
47:34
Speaker 3: win at Auburn, that's exactly Yes, Yeah, Cal winning at
47:37
Speaker 3: Auburn and the AEC. What a world we be living.
47:39
Speaker 3: But I think with Miami that thin can drive itself.
47:43
Speaker 3: I don't think Mario Cristobal is a good coach at all.
47:45
Speaker 3: I don't think he can spell his name if he
47:47
Speaker 3: gave them all five letters. Shannon Dawson's the real deal
47:50
Speaker 3: as O see, and I think across the board, they've
47:53
Speaker 3: got a trio with cam Ward, Damian Martinez and Xavier
47:57
Speaker 3: Ristrepo that I don't think anybody else in the ACC
48:00
Speaker 3: can really compete with Florida States down they're really dealing
48:04
Speaker 3: with the fact that Alex Adkins had the show cause
48:07
Speaker 3: in the three game suspension for trying to poach amarous
48:09
Speaker 3: memesway from Georgia got caught. Yeah, that'll probably help them
48:12
Speaker 3: out being really good next year because he can't leave
48:14
Speaker 3: for another job until twenty six.
48:17
Speaker 2: Louisville.
48:18
Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought them up because I would not
48:21
Speaker 3: say that there was fluky or fraudulent a year ago.
48:24
Speaker 3: But like they had a really soft schedule. Jeff Brahms
48:26
Speaker 3: a fantastic coach. Look at how much produced falling off
48:30
Speaker 3: since he left. Tyler Schuck might be a lot better
48:32
Speaker 3: than we thought. Louisville's gonna be ranked in the top
48:36
Speaker 3: fifteen here pretty soon, and we're gonna have to take
48:38
Speaker 3: them seriously. Uh, North Carolina. We'll see what happens. I
48:42
Speaker 3: don't know if Max Johnson's good. Harald's the quarterback now apparently,
48:45
Speaker 3: so we'll see what happens with Mac Brown. Keep an
48:48
Speaker 3: eye on Boston College with Thomas Castellanas. Yeah, not Castiana's Castellanas. Yes,
48:55
Speaker 3: the flyball of DF.
48:56
Speaker 1: Left, Yes, exactly exactly.
49:00
Speaker 3: Bill O'Brien really wanted to go back to Boston and
49:03
Speaker 3: Castalanis is really good. They dominated FSU. Georgia Tech sneaky
49:08
Speaker 3: good too. Syracuse to look at Colm McCoy playing really
49:11
Speaker 3: well there for fran Brown. Acc could be a lot
49:14
Speaker 3: of fun. But at the end of the day, that
49:16
Speaker 3: league is only getting one team in the playoff. It's
49:18
Speaker 3: probably gonna be Miami. The only way they get two
49:20
Speaker 3: in there is if like a ten and two team
49:22
Speaker 3: like Louisville beats them in the Miami is like eleven
49:24
Speaker 3: to two. It's like, Okay, you kind of gotta put
49:25
Speaker 3: itim in right. ACC is gonna be a lot of fun.
49:28
Speaker 1: ACC is definitely gonna be a lot of fun. And
49:31
Speaker 1: as we look at the top ten here, and let's
49:35
Speaker 1: look at that, let's look at the top ten here.
49:37
Speaker 1: You know, I'm wondering which team currently is we're recording
49:40
Speaker 1: this here on Tuesday, September tenth. Here, which team do
49:43
Speaker 1: you think is the most underrated in terms of the
49:46
Speaker 1: current top ten rankings? John, who do you think that
49:49
Speaker 1: would be?
49:49
Speaker 3: And why I didn't mean a Budy or Biscuit. It's
49:52
Speaker 3: Penn State, no question.
49:53
Speaker 1: I was thinking you were going to say that too,
49:55
Speaker 1: because that's what I've been thinking too, especially after the
49:57
Speaker 1: performance this past week from Bowling Green when they played
50:00
Speaker 1: Bowling Green, I should say and in the.
50:03
Speaker 3: At the end of the year that the Bowling Green
50:04
Speaker 3: win is gonna look a lot better. Like that team's
50:05
Speaker 3: gonna win about eight nine games, probably win their bowl game.
50:08
Speaker 3: Be like they'll be like I don't know who's who's
50:11
Speaker 3: like an SEC team that's gonna go like six and seven,
50:14
Speaker 3: Like they'll they'll be like they'll be like South.
50:16
Speaker 1: Carolina a Bowl orthing like that.
50:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, but when I look at Penn State, there's seven
50:22
Speaker 3: names I can rattle off very easily with coaches and
50:26
Speaker 3: players like Okay, yeah, Drew Allard, Nicholas Singleton of Dual Carter,
50:30
Speaker 3: Julian Fleming, James Franklin, and Tom Allen, Andy gold Decky.
50:37
Speaker 1: Yeah.
50:38
Speaker 3: And again I'm I'm out of Atlanta. I cover the
50:39
Speaker 3: sport nationally and it's it's hard to be like and no, yeah,
50:43
Speaker 3: that's your team. I George is my team. We could
50:45
Speaker 3: probably go about fifteen twenty thirty people deep with our
50:48
Speaker 3: respective squads, but I could do that very easily with
50:50
Speaker 3: Penn State. They've got a lot of talent and it
50:54
Speaker 3: seems steady. Even though like the coordinator changes are there,
50:59
Speaker 3: they will be impactful. I think the fact there's no divisions,
51:03
Speaker 3: no team in the Big Ten benefits more from that
51:05
Speaker 3: going away than Penn State.
51:06
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
51:07
Speaker 3: Ye, you know, yeah, you still got to probably play
51:09
Speaker 3: Ohio State annually because it's kind of like a rival,
51:12
Speaker 3: but you're not dealing with the Michigan's of the world.
51:14
Speaker 3: I know that there's all these like protected things.
51:16
Speaker 1: But that that helps.
51:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, it helps. Ole miss in the SEC whereas this
51:21
Speaker 3: hurts the Iowas and the Kentucky's because they're the same program.
51:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, all right, Penn State being the underrated team.
51:28
Speaker 1: I love it in the top ten here when you
51:31
Speaker 1: look at these top ten rankings. Now again, as we're
51:35
Speaker 1: closing out our conversation here, John, which team do you
51:38
Speaker 1: think is the best chance to actually get knocked out
51:40
Speaker 1: of the top ten sooner rather than later? When you
51:42
Speaker 1: see everybody here, who's that one team that kind of
51:45
Speaker 1: looks weak to you? And you can say to yourself,
51:47
Speaker 1: you know what, I can see him getting knocked out
51:49
Speaker 1: of this top ten list.
51:51
Speaker 3: I might be I might might might, I might be
51:53
Speaker 3: stroking my ego here a little bit. I kind of
51:55
Speaker 3: predicted Michigan in Florida State to fall out. And I
51:58
Speaker 3: think Organ's a bunch of frauds right now. The adult
52:01
Speaker 3: trust Oregon at all. There's something missing. I love Dan Lanning,
52:06
Speaker 3: He's a great coach. Will Stein's still a good oc Yeah,
52:10
Speaker 3: And it pays me, It absolutely pains me to say this.
52:15
Speaker 3: Bons Bonox is really good for that team.
52:17
Speaker 1: Yeah.
52:18
Speaker 3: I think there's a stark drop off from him to
52:20
Speaker 3: Dylan Gabriel with Delian Gabriel may be more likable, but
52:25
Speaker 3: he's not the size like Dylan. Gabriel's maybe six feet tall,
52:28
Speaker 3: he's left handed, he's a six year senior. You've always
52:31
Speaker 3: kind of like, oh, he's gonna be so good you see,
52:32
Speaker 3: Ahwa's gonna be so good Oklahoma, And there are moments,
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Speaker 3: but like he's not going to carry the team on
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Speaker 3: his back. Maybe you got the maybe Evan Stewart brought
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Speaker 3: some of that Texas A and M stink with him
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Speaker 3: in the transfer portal. Yeah, there's maybe don't play teams
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Speaker 3: from Idaho anymore like the Vandals. And Boise's pretty good,
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Speaker 3: Ashton Genty's he might be the best running back in
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Speaker 3: college triple and again you have Nicola Singleton, I've got
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Speaker 3: Trevor Aten, and then there's Ali Gordon over there at
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Speaker 3: Oklahoma State. Yeah, Ashingity is really good. But with Oregon,
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Speaker 3: I'm like, you can't play like that in beat Ohio State?
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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? And don't forget this.
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Speaker 3: They gotta finish non conference play this weekend. They gotta
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Speaker 3: play in Core of Allas. That's their super Bowl. Everybody's
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Speaker 3: leaping right, Yeah, it's a it's Trent Bray's alma mater.
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Speaker 3: No one's given the Beavers a chance, and that's a
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Speaker 3: that's a trap game. Oregon's probably gonna win. But like
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Speaker 3: I hadn't Oregon. I had Oregon playing Georgia for a
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Speaker 3: national championship, and I was going through with my twelve
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Speaker 3: team playoff, like who's making it this week? They're my
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Speaker 3: first team out, Yeah, and I just they gotta they
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Speaker 3: gotta prove it to me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: This does not feel like a Dan Landing team. This
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Speaker 3: doesn't even feel like a Mike Belotti team. This kind
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Speaker 3: of feels like some of the soft energy you would
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Speaker 3: see with UH, Chip Kelly and definitely with UH. With
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Speaker 3: Mark Helfrich, it was I'm pretty concerned if I'd be
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Speaker 3: Oregon right now. Hopefully they can prove it, but like
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Speaker 3: they've they've not been impressive at all in the non conference.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was great talking to you, John Folks. John
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Speaker 1: Buehler from Fan Sided and also the False Start podcast
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Speaker 1: college football podcast. Follow him on the Twitter slash x
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Speaker 1: at Buehler one one eight Buddy, it was great talking
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Speaker 1: to you again. I love talking college football with you.
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Speaker 1: Come back, Let's talk some more college football in the future.
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Speaker 3: My friend, absolutely, absolute pleasure to be on here, Jeff,
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Speaker 3: thanks for having me and.
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Speaker 3: Mhm.