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The Next Round: Josh Allen Is the NFL’s Ultimate Cheat Code + LSU-Ole Miss Headlines a Huge CFB Weekend | Hour 1 · The Next Round

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Speaker 1: A little history for you today as we roll into
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Speaker 1: a football weekend, week three of college football.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about what we saw last night, but we're
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Speaker 2: on the road.
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Speaker 1: 1976, it was 200 years of America when Gillette's opened,
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Speaker 1: the bicentennial. Now this year we celebrated 250 years, which means.
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Speaker 2: Kids, as you do the math, 250 minus 200 equals?
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Speaker 2: That would be 50. 50-year anniversary of Gillette's, and we're
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Speaker 2: on the road to kick off their 50th football season here.
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Speaker 2: How about that? Raise the Gillette's glass, everybody. You don't
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Speaker 2: have one yet? I don't have one, but I'll have
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Speaker 2: one shortly. Okay, they're going to open at 11 o'clock.
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Speaker 2: I told you guys, you see the Yellowhammer machines. I do,
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Speaker 2: I do. Yeah, so obviously the home of the Yellowhammer
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Speaker 2: for 50 years here. Great place to pre- and post-game.
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Speaker 2: A place that we all went when I was in
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Speaker 2: college years and years ago. And to think, I thought
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Speaker 2: Gillette's was old when I was here. I really did.
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Speaker 2: Now you're the old one. Yeah, I was like, that's
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Speaker 2: one of the landmark bars of all of Tuscaloosa. And
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Speaker 2: it's been here forever. I've heard so many great stories.
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Speaker 2: I've seen so many stories in person here. And it's
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Speaker 2: just a tradition. Unlike any other, stop by and see
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Speaker 2: us today. And then, of course, before and after Florida
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Speaker 2: State tomorrow. Now, think about this.
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Speaker 1: In 1976 at Gillette's, I believe the legal drinking age
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Speaker 1: in Alabama was 18 years old.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: So if you were a freshman or a sophomore and
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Speaker 1: you were in Gillette's drinking in 1976, there's a good
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Speaker 1: chance all those first Yellowhammer drinkers are all grandparents now.
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Speaker 2: Some of them might be great-grandparents. Some of them might
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Speaker 2: be great-grandparents. Some of them might have been parents nine
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Speaker 2: months after that first yellow hammer. I mean, I don't
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Speaker 2: want to get into all the scenarios. I'm just saying.
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Speaker 2: Let's just say the average drinker in here in 1976
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Speaker 2: was 20 years old. Okay. So that would put them
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Speaker 2: at 70 years old right now. That's right. Yeah. That's right.
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Speaker 2: Fourth quarter. Fourth quarter. Oh, yeah. For the original yellow
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Speaker 2: hammer game, raise up to four. One fourth quarter. This
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Speaker 2: one time is really easy. I watched another one of
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Speaker 2: these documentaries on AI and the apocalypse last night. Right. Boy,
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Speaker 2: it's a new one on Netflix. It just dropped this week.
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Speaker 2: AI and the apocalypse. Well, no, I just add like AI.
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Speaker 2: It's just so funny because there's so many guys that
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Speaker 2: are like, it's doomsday. Like in the next 10 years,
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Speaker 2: we're like seriously civilization as you know what is going on.
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Speaker 1: And it was running during college football last weekend. And
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Speaker 1: We'll go NFL first. Dominating performance.
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Speaker 2: By Buffalo.
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Speaker 1: 41-31 didn't seem that close. Here's the alarming thing. If
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Speaker 1: you're a Lions fan, I picked them to win the division.
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Speaker 1: So I'm scared about this. In the last six quarters,
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Speaker 1: their defense has allowed 71 points in six quarters of football.
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Speaker 1: That'll concern anybody.
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Speaker 2: It will. And I think most people were concerned on
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Speaker 2: the backside. Aiden Hutchinson's already got three sacks on the season.
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Speaker 2: I think they're fine up front. And look, I don't
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Speaker 2: think you can Look at what Buffalo does offensively and
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Speaker 2: panic about that. I go back last week with Houston, Texas.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Buffalo shredded that defense, and arguably that's the
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Speaker 2: best defense in the NFL. But Detroit, the concern is
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Speaker 2: at home last week having a 21-point lead, blowing that
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Speaker 2: to a second-year quarterback in Tyler Shuck. Not a huge
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Speaker 2: expectation for that Saints team offensively. I'm going to say this.
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Speaker 2: I think Josh Allen is the ultimate cheat code in football.
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Speaker 2: I think he is the best player on the planet.
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Speaker 1: At Hard Rock.Bets last night, his MVP odds got cut
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Speaker 1: in half.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how he doesn't have a Super Bowl.
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Speaker 2: It is amazing how he drops everybody else up. Because
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Speaker 2: I'll say this. They're probably a 7-10 team without him.
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Speaker 2: With him, you know, 12-13 wins. I mean, he is
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Speaker 2: just absolutely– he makes it look so easy. Aiden Hutchinson
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Speaker 2: was blanketing him last night. Should have been a sack.
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Speaker 2: And he just flips the ball out of bounds. Just
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Speaker 2: throws it away. It's so annoying.
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Speaker 1: I mean, try playing that twice a year. I mean,
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Speaker 1: try having it in your division. Like, a good friend
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Speaker 1: of mine texted me and said, I can't imagine having
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Speaker 1: this team in my division. And I'm like, you're right.
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Speaker 2: It's terrible. I mean, it's a– they're just so good.
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Speaker 2: They are so good. They're so annoying. He's 30 years old.
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen has got four-plus touchdowns, passing four-plus touchdowns, rushing
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Speaker 1: through two games. The first person in NFL history to
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Speaker 1: ever do that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, nine total touchdowns in two games against two really
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Speaker 2: good teams. Teams favored to win their divisions. The Texans,
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Speaker 2: the Lions last night. I just, I mean, are you
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Speaker 2: guys not shocked this guy doesn't have a Super Bowl?
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Speaker 1: I am, except that it's the Bills. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: think if he played for any other franchise, he'd have
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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl probably. I mean, the Bills are just
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Speaker 1: one of those franchises that have found every way possible.
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Speaker 2: To avoid winning a Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: And now, I mean, this iteration of the Bills, they're
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Speaker 1: finding every way possible not to make a Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: I mean, when we were growing up, They just found
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Speaker 1: ways not to win it when they got there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm afraid once he gets there, he's going to
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Speaker 2: be too good to deny.
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Speaker 1: Or he's going to get there and it's going to
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Speaker 1: feel like the feel-good story finally made it and all that, and.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be a complete disaster. It'll be the
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Speaker 2: worst game he's ever played. AFC is going to be
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Speaker 2: so fun to watch because it looks like Baltimore's back.
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Speaker 2: I don't know about Borough and Cincinnati. It looks like
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Speaker 2: Kansas City could be back. There's a lot of great
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Speaker 2: storylines in the AFC, but again– Your favorite's got to
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Speaker 2: be Buffalo, the way this guy's playing. I mean, you
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Speaker 2: lose receiver number one, D.J. Moore, to the A.C. joint.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't matter. He had zero catches last night, and they
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Speaker 2: still score 41 points. That's how good this team is.
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Speaker 2: Ed Oliver didn't play defensively. Didn't matter. He just makes
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Speaker 2: up for any kind of shortcomings they have, and for
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Speaker 2: them to go 41 last night. I mean, that's all
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Speaker 2: you think you would need with Detroit is 31 points, right?
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Speaker 2: You'd lose by double digits. You're thinking, I mean, Detroit's
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Speaker 2: hugely concerning. And I know you had them in your
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl. And I got that right, right? You had
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Speaker 2: Detroit in your Super Bowl? Yeah. Was it against the Bills?
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Speaker 2: It was against the Chargers who were 0-1. How about that?
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Speaker 2: Right now, that Super Bowl pick is on shaky territory.
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Speaker 2: That's okay. You limit those two. There's only 30 teams
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Speaker 2: left that can get there. Hopefully, the Rams will find
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Speaker 2: their way through. Move on. I don't know if you're
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Speaker 2: ready to move on from this. I had one more.
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Speaker 2: Josh Allen. I got a Jared Goff thing at the end. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and I've got a Dan Campbell thing. Okay.
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Speaker 1: I'll go first, and we'll go down the line. Hard
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Speaker 1: Rock Bets. Go enjoy it in your state. See if
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Speaker 1: you're available.
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Speaker 2: Hard Rock.
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, 30 years old. He's got 83 rushing touchdowns already.
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Speaker 1: He's 20th all time at rushing touchdowns.
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Speaker 2: Josh Allen.
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Speaker 1: When it's said and done, just having normal years, doing
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Speaker 1: nothing extraordinary, will project out to be fifth all-time in
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Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns, passing Adrian Peterson all-time. That's what doing nothing,
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Speaker 1: just doing what he's been doing.
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Speaker 2: But again, when I call him the ultimate cheat code,
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Speaker 2: when you watch him, if you can't keep him in
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Speaker 2: the pocket, you can't collapse that pocket, once he gets outside,
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Speaker 2: for his size, his speed, the athleticism, he can do
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Speaker 2: absolutely everything. Again, he is the ultimate cheat code right
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Speaker 2: now in football. I don't even think they need a defense.
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Speaker 2: I think they can just outscore anybody they play. By
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Speaker 2: the way, that stadium last night, Highmark, I give it
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Speaker 2: a Highmark. That was a great atmosphere. I enjoyed the
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Speaker 2: heck out of that. It was a great atmosphere.
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Speaker 1: I did see the local TV people roaming through the stands,
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Speaker 1: finding people that had the obstructed view and interviewing them.
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Speaker 1: There were a lot of them. And some of them
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Speaker 1: were like, this is not my season ticket. When I
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Speaker 1: bought it, I knew it had a bad view, but
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Speaker 1: it's worse than I thought. And some of them were like,
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Speaker 1: this is my season ticket. I'm going to deal with
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Speaker 1: this all year. And it's the staircase that comes up
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Speaker 1: at the glass that's in front of it. And then
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Speaker 1: people are coming up the stairs. And one guy was like,
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Speaker 1: all these people come up the stairs. They don't know
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Speaker 1: what section there is. So they stop and stand in
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Speaker 1: front of me while the play's going on.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, I get it. Does he stand up
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Speaker 2: at that point? Can you see when he stands up?
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Speaker 2: He didn't say.
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Speaker 1: I just know as a guy who hated to watch
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Speaker 1: the Bills games in that old stadium, I just never
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Speaker 1: liked it.
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Speaker 2: It was an enjoyable watch last night.
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Speaker 1: Even though I texted Brown first five or seven minutes
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Speaker 1: of the game, It wasn't digitized. my uh streaming feed
10:01
Speaker 1: but it was you could tell it wasn't crisp and
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Speaker 1: i just assumed because so many many people millions of
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Speaker 1: people were watching it it was taking um amazon a
10:10
Speaker 1: while to get it all dialed in but as soon
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Speaker 1: as i texted brown it spot on i was gonna
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Speaker 1: reply to you and say there's only one problem with my.
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Speaker 2: Feed Buffalo's up 21-0. Yeah. My take was the way
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Speaker 2: you go. Jared Goff.
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Speaker 1: Jared Goff passed 40,000 passing yards last night. When he
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Speaker 1: did that, did they show the graphic of how quick
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Speaker 1: he's done this? Did y'all see that last night? I
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Speaker 1: did not see that.
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Speaker 2: Has he done it quick? He has. He has done
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Speaker 2: it quick. I mean, he's 10 years in the league now.
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Speaker 2: He's the fourth quickest in NFL history. How about that?
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: He just passed 40,000 career receiving yards.
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Speaker 2: Passing yards. Passing yards. Excuse me. That would be something.
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Speaker 2: That would be a record. Yes.
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Speaker 1: In 153 games, the fastest to 40,000, you would.
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Speaker 2: Know this well, is... The fastest to 40,000? There's a
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Speaker 2: reason I'm saying you would know this well. No. No.
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Speaker 2: Phillip Rivers. Don't overthink this, man. Matthew Stafford. Yeah, Matthew Stafford.
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Speaker 2: That's the fastest. For whom golf is traded, right?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the funny thing. McVay was like, I'm
11:08
Speaker 2: done with this golf thing. It's not working. We've got
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Speaker 2: to get somebody in there.
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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan is second in 151 games. That doesn't surprise anybody, right,
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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan?
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Speaker 2: No. Dan Marino. Drew Brees is third in 152 games.
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Speaker 2: And tied with Jared Goff at fourth is Dan Marino
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Speaker 2: and one other quarterback. And it will blow your mind.
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Speaker 2: But Dan Marino... Was the gold standard for me. He was.
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Speaker 2: If you just said he was number one, I would
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Speaker 2: have been like. I would not have doubted. I'll go
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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. It's not Aaron Rodgers. Okay, so. Lance is out.
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Speaker 1: So this is tied with Dan Marino, fourth fastest to
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Speaker 1: 40,000 yards. It is now Jared Goff, Dan Marino, and
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Speaker 1: this NFL quarterback.
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Speaker 2: Still active? Still active. Oh, then I know. Who? Kirk Cousins.
11:51
Speaker 2: Kirk freaking Cousins. Wow. Wow. How has Kirk Cousins had
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Speaker 2: this career? I mean, look at his bank account.
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Speaker 1: I know, but it's nuts that he would be in
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Speaker 1: that category. I just read off. And it's not longevity.
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Speaker 1: It's the fastest in number of games played. Yeah, the
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Speaker 1: quickest to 40,000. That is mind-boggling. I just read off
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Speaker 1: names like Matt Ryan, Drew Brees, Dan Marino, Matt Stafford,
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Speaker 1: and Kirk Cousins is that category?
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Speaker 2: Mind-boggling. It is. Yeah. Okay, you had one. I was
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Speaker 2: just going to say, like, you know, I've never been
12:21
Speaker 2: a Danny Campbell fan at all. If I'm a Detroit fan,
12:24
Speaker 2: I'm really concerned because arguably you have the best collection
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Speaker 2: of offensive weapons with Laporte at tight end and Jamison
12:33
Speaker 2: Williams and Amon Ross ain't brown. And obviously Gibbs may
12:37
Speaker 2: be the best offensive weapon in the NFL right now.
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Speaker 2: You've got one of the best left tackles in B'nai Sewell.
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Speaker 2: You've got a quarterback that's hit 40,000 yards in Jared Goff.
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Speaker 2: And it looks like there's a good chance you're going
12:49
Speaker 2: to be outscored the majority of the games you play,
12:51
Speaker 2: giving up over 200 yards rushing. And by the way,
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Speaker 2: so undisciplined. Ten penalties last night. And some of the
12:56
Speaker 2: key moments of those penalties, an interception that instead of
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Speaker 2: 14-0 with Detroit having the ball, it goes 21-0 Buffalo.
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Speaker 2: When you're down 21-0 and Highmark gets Josh Allen, you
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Speaker 2: have no shot. I give him credit for at least
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Speaker 2: battling back and making it a simple experience. Is Campbell
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Speaker 2: a defensive-minded coach or an offensive-minded coach? Offense. That's the offense, yeah.
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Speaker 2: It looked like it. It's looked like it so far
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Speaker 2: in the last six quarters. It's looked a lot like it.
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll get into college football in a second,
13:24
Speaker 1: but if you're watching us at the Aliceville Correction Facility,
13:28
Speaker 1: it'll cost you $ 5 for me to remove that right.
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Speaker 2: Here all day long. It should be really interesting. You're
13:35
Speaker 2: dead center. And we always leave a seat for you
13:38
Speaker 2: guys on the right side of LT over there. We
13:41
Speaker 2: leave one out for the fans to come sit over there.
13:44
Speaker 2: We love road shows. Am I showing too much leg?
13:46
Speaker 2: Is that what you're telling me? I'm showing too much leg?
13:47
Speaker 2: It's summer, man. Well, actually, it's not summer anymore. We're
13:49
Speaker 2: past summer. Yeah, it's summer in the South. By the way,
13:53
Speaker 2: one college coach telling the Athletic, a Southern college coach, anonymous.
13:59
Speaker 2: I love anonymous coaches.
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Speaker 1: By the way, we're going to move week one to
14:03
Speaker 1: week zero next year here in the South.
14:05
Speaker 2: They need to rethink when we schedule the epic games.
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Speaker 2: He didn't say epic. He said the word.
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Speaker 1: In our two games, we've lost three referees. Forget the players.
14:15
Speaker 1: We've lost three referees.
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Speaker 2: Wait, who is this saying this? Anonymous coach in the South.
14:19
Speaker 2: He's like, we've got to play night games in the
14:21
Speaker 2: South if we're going to move that up deeper into August.
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Speaker 1: So, I mean, now it was a pulled hamstring, but
14:27
Speaker 1: was it the LSU Ole Miss game, or excuse me,
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Speaker 1: the Louisville Ole Miss game, where we lost the ref
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Speaker 1: to a pulled hamstring?
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So they had to go down.
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Speaker 1: That was pulled hamstring, but you wonder how much of
14:36
Speaker 1: that had to do with hydration and stuff like that.
14:39
Speaker 1: I don't know if those things can connect. Seems like
14:41
Speaker 1: a Pete Golding comment.
14:43
Speaker 2: But, you know, why not play these games at night
14:47
Speaker 2: and then on the East Coast and up in the
14:50
Speaker 2: Midwest and everything, you know, get your day games out
14:52
Speaker 2: of the way. You need to ask ESPN. They're paying
14:54
Speaker 2: all the money. They don't have any Northern or West Coast,
14:58
Speaker 2: high West Coast, Pacific Northwest SEC teams to broadcast.
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Speaker 1: SEC's going to have to expand a little bit.
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Speaker 2: By the way, the forecast here today, 99. Feels like 109.
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Speaker 2: Forecast tomorrow, 99. Feels like 109, 230 kick, Bryant-Denny Stadium,
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Speaker 2: about 400 yards behind this wall where we'll be. So
15:19
Speaker 2: it'll be hot, hot, hot.
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Speaker 1: I'm in a hoodie because the great folks here at
15:23
Speaker 1: Gillette's keeping those Jell-O hammers at a nice drinkable temperature
15:27
Speaker 1: throughout the day. College football last night, I couldn't get
15:30
Speaker 1: my upset alert home for a cover. 27-13, Pittsburgh wins it.
15:35
Speaker 1: Steve Vangeli's got a problem. Three interceptions the last game
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Speaker 1: and the loss to Cal. Two interceptions last night. I
15:43
Speaker 1: don't know how good Pitt is. And I don't think
15:45
Speaker 1: Syracuse is as bad as they look. That missed field
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Speaker 1: goal hurt them. Those interceptions hurt them. Those were makeable
15:51
Speaker 1: field goals. Syracuse was the play for me last night
15:54
Speaker 1: on the cover.
15:54
Speaker 2: I was disappointed. that they lost by 14. Yeah, I
15:57
Speaker 2: thought Mason Eichel didn't look his best. I do think
16:01
Speaker 2: that this Pitt team's pretty good when it all comes together. And, Jelly,
16:04
Speaker 2: that's the problem. We talked about it yesterday. Like, if
16:06
Speaker 2: he plays clean football, you're going to get a cover.
16:08
Speaker 2: It's going to be a competitive game. But you go
16:11
Speaker 2: back to last year, he threw three picks in this
16:13
Speaker 2: same game. And does he have six picks already this year?
16:16
Speaker 2: He does. Yeah, it's five in the last two games. Yeah.
16:19
Speaker 2: That's a problem. It's a big problem for Fran Brown.
16:22
Speaker 2: You know, you go back last year before Angeli gets hurt,
16:25
Speaker 2: Syracuse was pretty good. And then he gets hurt and
16:27
Speaker 2: they completely fall apart. I think they lost their last
16:29
Speaker 2: seven games last year. But I don't know. I mean,
16:32
Speaker 2: you know, you turn the football over, you can't win. Yeah.
16:34
Speaker 1: So tonight in college football, don't know how good 2-0
16:39
Speaker 1: Miami versus 2-0 Wake Forest will be. It is a
16:42
Speaker 1: road game for number five Miami. But they've been blitzing
16:45
Speaker 1: everybody 630 on ESPN. Our hard rock bets point spread
16:49
Speaker 1: on that one is 20 and a half, 20 and
16:51
Speaker 1: a half. That seems to be a skinny number relatively
16:55
Speaker 1: to what I think Miami could do.
16:57
Speaker 2: To Wake Forest. Miami should be able to score at
17:00
Speaker 2: will against most defenses, including Wake Forest and Winston-Salem. On
17:04
Speaker 2: the other side, how good is Gio Lopez in this
17:06
Speaker 2: Wake offense? How much success will they have against that
17:09
Speaker 2: Miami defense? That's the big question. I mean, on a
17:13
Speaker 2: shock meter, one to five, five being the most shocking
17:16
Speaker 2: that Wake pulls off the upset. Oh, I'd be five, yeah.
17:19
Speaker 1: Five, the way Miami has played. My God, they own
17:21
Speaker 1: Friday nights. Miami's the best team in America.
17:24
Speaker 2: On Friday nights.
17:25
Speaker 1: I would even go, I would be pretty shocked at
17:28
Speaker 1: a four level if it's competitive, if it's still in
17:31
Speaker 1: doubt as we go to the fourth quarter. And, you know,
17:34
Speaker 1: I watched Wake Forest go on the road and beat Purdue.
17:37
Speaker 1: who I think slightly improved. That's a pretty good win
17:40
Speaker 1: for Wake Forest, but this Miami team seems to be
17:43
Speaker 1: at a different level.
17:43
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, Wake can score, though. I'm not a
17:46
Speaker 2: big Gio Lopez fan, but they're averaging 38 points per game.
17:49
Speaker 2: I do think it's the first semblance of a test.
17:52
Speaker 2: I don't assume that Miami's got any shot like you
17:55
Speaker 2: of getting upset. No, but you've got to admit there's
17:58
Speaker 2: something about conference games. Even if teams are lesser, it
18:02
Speaker 2: is still a conference game. There's a familiarity there.
18:04
Speaker 1: I honestly don't know how often Wake and Miami have played,
18:08
Speaker 1: but conference games are just a little bit different.
18:10
Speaker 2: It's why, for instance, with Alabama, I'll give them credit.
18:13
Speaker 1: Kentucky may finish in the bottom third of the SEC
18:16
Speaker 1: again this year, but it's still a.
18:17
Speaker 2: Conference game, bro. Miami's won eight straight against Wake in
18:23
Speaker 2: this series, or whatever that is. I'm not surprised at that.
18:25
Speaker 1: I would love to hear what lanceslock.com, you can go
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Speaker 1: sign up there, has to say about.
18:30
Speaker 2: Maybe the game of the weekend when it's all said
18:33
Speaker 2: and done. We pour all the hype into.
18:35
Speaker 1: LSU Ole Miss, but when the weekend is done, we
18:38
Speaker 1: may look back and say, hey, SMU Louisville was the best.
18:42
Speaker 1: Or was it Friday night, number 22 Houston against number
18:46
Speaker 1: 13 Texas Tech, two 2-0 teams? Big 12 implications, 7
18:50
Speaker 1: o'clock on Fox tonight. Key injury updates for Texas Tech.
18:54
Speaker 1: They get back for the first time this year. Tight
18:57
Speaker 1: end Terrence Carter and edge rusher Trey White. First blush
19:02
Speaker 1: on this game, Houston and Texas Tech tonight.
19:04
Speaker 2: You first, Brown.
19:05
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I think Texas Tech has been underwhelming
19:07
Speaker 1: so far. They have played two games, one at home
19:10
Speaker 1: against Abilene Christian that I was willing to flush a
19:12
Speaker 1: little bit because it was Abilene Christian. Though my gut
19:15
Speaker 1: told me that Joey McGuire wanted to be impressive in
19:18
Speaker 1: that game and he wasn't holding things back for Oregon State.
19:22
Speaker 1: They struggled a little bit. They only won by 21.
19:24
Speaker 2: My gut told me put more stock into that.
19:27
Speaker 1: But then I kind of hesitated because I'm like, I mean, really,
19:29
Speaker 1: Texas Tech's got this roster. They're supposed to be this good.
19:31
Speaker 1: And then some of the same stuff showed up in Corvallis.
19:34
Speaker 1: This has been an uneven start, to say the least,
19:37
Speaker 1: for Texas Tech.
19:38
Speaker 2: And what?
19:39
Speaker 1: Maybe in the preseason, it didn't look like as big
19:41
Speaker 1: a challenge. After watching Texas Tech the first two weeks,
19:44
Speaker 1: this is a challenge. Well, and I go back to Houston, though.
19:47
Speaker 1: Week one against Oregon State.
19:48
Speaker 2: Same Oregon State team. Yeah, exactly. look, I had Houston
19:51
Speaker 2: minus the points. They couldn't get home. They had holes
19:53
Speaker 2: in their secondary. But again, I go back after watching
19:56
Speaker 2: Oregon State back-to-back weeks against these two teams. Oregon State
20:01
Speaker 2: can throw the football around a little bit. So, you know,
20:04
Speaker 2: with all that said, Will Hammond, That was kind of
20:07
Speaker 2: the question mark for Joey McGuire. He hasn't run the football,
20:10
Speaker 2: and this is a guy that is a dual threat quarterback.
20:12
Speaker 2: It's been very, very strange. He's completing 77% of his passes,
20:15
Speaker 2: but he's not running the football at all.
20:18
Speaker 1: It's been two uneven performances, but to Lance's point, rarely
20:21
Speaker 1: you've got an out-of-conference team that's a common opponent this
20:24
Speaker 1: early in the season. I hesitate on making comparisons on
20:28
Speaker 1: common opponents. But if you do that, they both kind
20:31
Speaker 1: of played Oregon State about the same, right?
20:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think the better quarterback is Connor Wegman.
20:35
Speaker 2: I was about to say, I think the better coach
20:38
Speaker 2: might be Willie Fritz. That's still kind of undecided. It's
20:41
Speaker 2: an interesting game. And, you know, when we looked at
20:43
Speaker 2: it in the offseason, even when we thought Sworsby was
20:45
Speaker 2: going to be the quarterback, the one potential loss or
20:48
Speaker 2: hiccup on the schedule looked like Houston going to Lubbock.
20:52
Speaker 2: It looks more in play now. I mean, that number's
20:54
Speaker 2: gone from it opened at 13 months ago, down to
20:58
Speaker 2: 7.5 right now. Very interesting game tonight. Yeah, lanceslock.com. If
21:02
Speaker 2: you want to play on that game tonight, I assume
21:03
Speaker 2: you have one on the way you're talking. I do, yep. Okay,
21:06
Speaker 2: so lanceslock.com to go there. Keep in mind, it's the.
21:10
Speaker 1: First Friday night home game for Texas Tech since 1941.
21:16
Speaker 1: They're reluctantly playing this game. Go back to a Next
21:20
Speaker 1: Round episode back in the summer where they were the
21:24
Speaker 1: billionaire team Cody Campbell was against moving this game to
21:27
Speaker 1: Friday night. They didn't want any Friday night games because
21:29
Speaker 1: of high school football in their part of the country.
21:32
Speaker 1: They haven't played one since World War II, 1941 on
21:36
Speaker 1: a Friday night. They're being forced to play it tonight
21:38
Speaker 1: on Fox. They've got a blackout. They're not happy about it.
21:41
Speaker 1: They're going to have an edge tonight.
21:43
Speaker 2: That'll be interesting to see how that all plays out
21:46
Speaker 2: tonight down in Lubbock, Texas.
21:48
Speaker 1: One other game tonight, Portland State against Oregon. How about
21:52
Speaker 1: this streak?
21:53
Speaker 2: The FCS.
21:55
Speaker 1: Has lost 209 straight games against the FBS. The FCS
22:00
Speaker 1: hasn't won one since 2022 against the FBS.
22:04
Speaker 2: Do you want to know what the correlation in 2022 is?
22:07
Speaker 2: What was that, Lance? Well, in 2021, we finally started
22:10
Speaker 2: paying athletes. 2022, it kind of got streamlined. And we
22:13
Speaker 2: got the portal going, too. Yeah, that's the difference, though.
22:16
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, any guys that are really good in
22:18
Speaker 2: the FCS, they get in the portal, they get paid.
22:20
Speaker 1: And FCS, they're losing teams. The two winningest teams of recent...
22:24
Speaker 1: have been North Dakota State's Jacksonville State, and both of
22:27
Speaker 1: them are FBS teams now.
22:28
Speaker 2: Houston State before that, game of Madison before that.
22:31
Speaker 1: All the Delaware, Delaware's now. I mean, all the good
22:34
Speaker 1: FCS teams just about have moved up to FBS. I mean,
22:37
Speaker 1: you're basically left with the Montanas and some of the
22:40
Speaker 1: Dakotas because North Dakota State's now, though. Oregon, Portland State,
22:44
Speaker 1: and Eugene tonight at Get Right, Get the Vibes Right
22:47
Speaker 1: game for Oregon.
22:48
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22:56
Speaker 2: I'm going to apologize to Tyler. It's going to be
22:58
Speaker 2: coming in hot. Coming in hot for Tyler. Tyler can
23:00
Speaker 2: get this done. Okay. It's coming in hot. Well, how
23:02
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23:05
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Speaker 1: I joked about LT's girlfriend, Maddie, being here and– helping
25:44
Speaker 1: you set up TVs tomorrow.
25:45
Speaker 2: Here's why it's a problem.
25:47
Speaker 1: Not every American does this now, but a lot of
25:51
Speaker 1: you watch on multiple screens, whether you've got three TVs,
25:54
Speaker 1: whether you've got a big TV, an iPad, a computer,
25:58
Speaker 1: a phone, a second TV. You try to watch more
26:01
Speaker 1: than one game. For me, often, my big TV, because
26:05
Speaker 1: I'm such a big SEC fan, my big TV, my
26:08
Speaker 1: main screen, if you will, is ABC all day.
26:12
Speaker 2: I lock it in at 11. It's ABC all day. Boom, boom, boom.
26:15
Speaker 2: You don't have to change. That's not the case tomorrow.
26:19
Speaker 2: Your best games aren't on ABC.
26:21
Speaker 1: All due respect to the one right behind Gillette's here,
26:23
Speaker 1: Florida State and Alabama. That's not the best game.
26:26
Speaker 2: I'll watch it.
26:27
Speaker 1: Because I got to talk Alabama for a living. ABC
26:30
Speaker 1: all day is usually, it's normally your choice. This is
26:34
Speaker 1: not that weekend. That has been my favorite thing about
26:37
Speaker 1: Disney getting the SEC rights.
26:40
Speaker 2: Right. Is that they do the ABC all day. I
26:42
Speaker 2: love that.
26:43
Speaker 1: The fact that I can turn it on ABC TV
26:46
Speaker 1: on YouTube, and there are days I never have to
26:47
Speaker 1: take it off.
26:48
Speaker 2: My main screen. I can't put together a way Georgia
26:52
Speaker 2: and Arkansas at 11 a.m.
26:54
Speaker 1: On ABC is at all entertaining, even from the jump.
26:58
Speaker 1: I've got Arkansas fans trying to get you to stay home,
27:01
Speaker 1: others trying to get you to wear sacks over your head.
27:03
Speaker 1: A golf course giving you $ 25, including cards to come
27:06
Speaker 1: play golf during the game.
27:08
Speaker 2: That's on main ABC. That may not even make a TV.
27:12
Speaker 1: For me in the 11 o'clock window, but the 11
27:14
Speaker 1: o'clock window is pretty bad.
27:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think it's interesting this week because you've
27:18
Speaker 2: got a lot of non-Big Ten SEC that are your
27:21
Speaker 2: better games in these windows. I mean, like the ACC,
27:24
Speaker 2: you can make an argument the first two windows, best game.
27:28
Speaker 1: You're talking about in London, Arizona State and Kansas, 11
27:31
Speaker 1: o'clock FS1. That's in the running for me and my
27:34
Speaker 1: SEC roots. My main TV may be NC State and Vandy.
27:39
Speaker 2: It's a little delayed, 1145 SEC Network.
27:42
Speaker 1: But I'm interested because you and I know NC State's
27:45
Speaker 1: better than what we saw against Virginia.
27:47
Speaker 2: Yep. and we want to see Jared Curtis, the five-star quarterback,
27:51
Speaker 2: make his starting debut, that could be a very entertaining game. Yeah,
27:55
Speaker 2: I know people are going to discount this, but C.J.
27:58
Speaker 2: Bailey right now is the much better quarterback on the field,
28:01
Speaker 2: as bad as he looked against Virginia. Not even close.
28:03
Speaker 2: Not even close. So, yeah, I think NC State is
28:05
Speaker 2: getting undervalued in that spot. But my 11 o'clock go-to...
28:09
Speaker 2: Because of the storyline would be North Carolina taking on
28:12
Speaker 2: Clemson and Dave Reynolds getting that first career start. That's
28:15
Speaker 2: straight out of game day.
28:16
Speaker 1: He's right in on ESPN at 11 o'clock.
28:19
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick, and you guys remember this, when he was
28:21
Speaker 2: the head coach of the New England Patriots, one thing
28:23
Speaker 2: that he completely dominated outside of winning six rings was
28:27
Speaker 2: rookie quarterbacks. 21-6 all-time against rookie quarterbacks. It's the same thing.
28:32
Speaker 2: You got a true freshman. And Tate Reynolds going against
28:36
Speaker 2: his defense, he has owned these kind of quarterbacks. And
28:40
Speaker 2: if Dabo's to lose this game and to drop to
28:43
Speaker 2: one and two, I mean, when we came into the season,
28:48
Speaker 2: one of the most winnable games on the schedule was
28:50
Speaker 2: this game.
28:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, you counted this as a win for Clemson, right?
28:53
Speaker 1: I mean, you were like, Clemson probably loses at LSU,
28:55
Speaker 1: I thought otherwise. Clemson loses at LSU. They'll bounce back.
28:58
Speaker 1: They'll be 2-1 after the North Carolina game. They could
29:00
Speaker 1: easily be 1-2 at this game now. Of course, North
29:03
Speaker 1: Carolina brings their.
29:04
Speaker 2: Baggage in, too.
29:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this is a really good Belichick defense for
29:08
Speaker 1: North Carolina.
29:08
Speaker 2: And he was already calling the defense. He and... Before Steve. Yeah,
29:13
Speaker 2: before Steve. The other guy. Well, since Steve stepped up.
29:16
Speaker 2: The other guy.
29:17
Speaker 1: But what makes this interesting is, if you're a Clemson fan,
29:20
Speaker 1: here's Tate Reynolds getting his start, not because of injury.
29:23
Speaker 2: He's starting. He's the five-star freshman. or four-star, whatever he
29:27
Speaker 2: was in the services. He's the future. This is an opportunity.
29:31
Speaker 1: If Tate looks good, the offense looks better against a
29:34
Speaker 1: good defense, that you can say, okay, we got blitzed
29:37
Speaker 1: by LSU in that circus in the opener. We stuck
29:40
Speaker 1: with the guy who was loyal to us in week two.
29:43
Speaker 1: Now we go to the future in week three. Pretty
29:46
Speaker 1: good win against North Carolina. You can start selling yourself
29:48
Speaker 1: as a Clemson fan. okay, I can see the light
29:52
Speaker 1: at the end of the tunnel. This could turn into
29:54
Speaker 1: an okay year. It goes just the opposite direction. If
29:57
Speaker 1: our future starts at quarterback and we lose to North
30:00
Speaker 1: Carolina and now we're 1-2, then the light at the
30:03
Speaker 1: end of the tunnel.
30:03
Speaker 2: May be the old train. Oh, look, this thing could be,
30:06
Speaker 2: I'm talking about disastrous as in a Florida State-type year
30:10
Speaker 2: over the last couple of years. When I look at
30:12
Speaker 2: the 10 remaining games for Davo and Clemson, There are six,
30:16
Speaker 2: in my opinion, that are more difficult than North Carolina.
30:19
Speaker 2: That's right. That's right. If you lose this one. If
30:21
Speaker 2: you lose this one, you've got a serious issue. And
30:25
Speaker 2: if this offense doesn't look better with this kid, then
30:28
Speaker 2: it may be an offense problem. It may be a
30:29
Speaker 2: Chad Morris problem. It may be an offensive line problem.
30:32
Speaker 2: It may be whatever.
30:34
Speaker 1: If this offense doesn't look better with a new quarterback,
30:36
Speaker 1: it could be long. You move to the 230 window.
30:39
Speaker 1: All due respect to Florida State, Alabama, I don't expect
30:42
Speaker 1: this to be as competitive as it was last year.
30:45
Speaker 2: That's 230 ABC.
30:47
Speaker 1: It'll be on my main screen because that's what I
30:49
Speaker 1: do as a sportscaster in Alabama. But if you're watching
30:53
Speaker 1: around the country, I will give you the best game
30:56
Speaker 1: of the weekend may actually be at 230, and it's
30:58
Speaker 1: not even on a major network.
31:00
Speaker 2: It's on ESPN2, SMU, and Louisville. That's a big game. Yeah,
31:04
Speaker 2: that's definitely the best game of the 230 window. I
31:06
Speaker 2: would have Florida State, Alabama kind of the third, and
31:08
Speaker 2: then outside a little bit of that window, another SEC
31:11
Speaker 2: matchup would be the second best in my opinion. But yes,
31:14
Speaker 2: SMU Louisville, when you look at the quarterback matchup, when
31:16
Speaker 2: you look at Lincoln Keenholz, what he's been able to
31:20
Speaker 2: do in the first couple of weeks as a starting
31:21
Speaker 2: quarterback for Jeff Brom, I think, and I said this
31:24
Speaker 2: after seeing him on that Monday night against Ole Miss,
31:26
Speaker 2: he is by far the best option he's ever had.
31:28
Speaker 2: And that includes Tyler Shuck, who is now starting for
31:31
Speaker 2: the New Orleans Saints. And on the other side, Kevin Jennings.
31:33
Speaker 2: All of his experience, the flash plays he makes, great
31:36
Speaker 2: quarterback matchup. It is. Do we consider State and South
31:39
Speaker 2: Carolina in the 230 window? That's right. It's 315.
31:41
Speaker 1: Okay, well then, I think what will be your two
31:44
Speaker 1: best games? Now, look, SMU-Lewisville, that is a playoff implication
31:49
Speaker 1: because the winner of that game has got a good
31:51
Speaker 1: path to play Miami for.
31:52
Speaker 2: The ACC championship.
31:54
Speaker 1: So you don't get a whole lot of games that
31:56
Speaker 1: feel like playoff elimination games. This kind of feels like
31:59
Speaker 1: one very early in the season. So there's implications to
32:02
Speaker 1: that game. Maybe not so in the state and South
32:04
Speaker 1: Carolina game, but I think your two most entertaining games
32:08
Speaker 1: are those two games, SMU at Louisville and state at
32:10
Speaker 1: South Carolina. I think both those will be close, entertaining,
32:13
Speaker 1: well-played games.
32:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know we'll get to Auburn and Florida
32:15
Speaker 2: in a little bit, but I was going to say
32:16
Speaker 2: that Mississippi State and South Carolina is kind of like
32:19
Speaker 2: that game as far as Winner's going to go to 3-0.
32:21
Speaker 2: There's a ton of pressure on Shane Beamer. There's really
32:25
Speaker 2: a lot of pressure on Jeff Levy coming off a
32:27
Speaker 2: 5-7 last year in year three. What did Jeff Levy
32:29
Speaker 2: do after three weeks last year? They fell apart. They
32:32
Speaker 2: were 3-0, though. It would be a different path this year.
32:36
Speaker 1: Tougher wins at Minnesota and over South Carolina.
32:39
Speaker 2: But 2-7 down the stretch as opposed to late shape
32:42
Speaker 2: and much better situation here. And that's the thing. If
32:46
Speaker 2: South Carolina wins this game, they've dominated the series in
32:49
Speaker 2: It's a good start for Shane Beamer. If Levy and
32:52
Speaker 2: Mississippi State win this game and Kamario Taylor plays like
32:54
Speaker 2: he played last week, that is going to be the
32:57
Speaker 2: talk of college football.
32:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's two good road wins at Minnesota and
33:00
Speaker 1: at South Carolina for them. That's a 3-15 window, and
33:04
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, just gut feeling, I don't feel like
33:08
Speaker 1: Kentucky's second half is as bad as that Kentucky team is.
33:12
Speaker 1: Kentucky at Texas A & M. Also in that 230
33:15
Speaker 1: window on main ESPN. Keep an eye on that one
33:18
Speaker 1: just to see what Kentucky shows up. Is it Kentucky
33:21
Speaker 1: first half or is it the Kentucky team that gave
33:23
Speaker 1: up 32 straight to Alabama? I'm not sold on Texas
33:27
Speaker 1: A & M yet.
33:28
Speaker 2: I'm not sure they fixed any of the holes they
33:30
Speaker 2: needed to build coming off.
33:31
Speaker 1: Their playoff last year. could be a sneaky good game,
33:35
Speaker 1: Kentucky-Texas A & M. Way down the list, but that game,
33:38
Speaker 1: Kentucky-Texas A & M, could be more interesting than Florida State-Alabama.
33:42
Speaker 2: Well, connecting these two, you go back, Cutter Boley was
33:44
Speaker 2: your quarterback last year at Kentucky. He ends up going
33:47
Speaker 2: to Arizona State. I don't know if Will Stein would
33:49
Speaker 2: have rather had Kenny Minchey, but last week, Cutter Boley
33:52
Speaker 2: had a lot of success until the fourth quarter. They
33:55
Speaker 2: turned it over. You had to pick six. Everything fell
33:57
Speaker 2: apart for Arizona State, but I guarantee you, Will Stein,
34:00
Speaker 2: looking at that defense... It's like, there's a couple of
34:02
Speaker 2: holes in Texas A & M' s defense that I didn't realize.
34:05
Speaker 2: So I wouldn't be surprised for Kentucky definitely to keep
34:08
Speaker 2: it as a number, but to make this an interesting game.
34:10
Speaker 1: And let me just say this, and I'm bad about this.
34:13
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many times in life that
34:16
Speaker 1: I wish for something.
34:18
Speaker 2: I wish for something. Feels like every day. Yeah, but
34:21
Speaker 2: in life, I mean, it could be anything, you know, abs, whatever, hair.
34:25
Speaker 2: And then you get something and it ends.
34:28
Speaker 1: Up being not what you want. You fans used to
34:31
Speaker 1: always bitch and moan. I don't like not knowing what
34:35
Speaker 1: time my game kicks until six days out, seven days out.
34:40
Speaker 2: I want to know when my game kicks off so
34:43
Speaker 2: I can make plans two weekends from now.
34:46
Speaker 1: Well, when you did that and we came up with, okay,
34:49
Speaker 1: we're going to tell you, maybe not exact start times,
34:51
Speaker 1: we're going to tell you the window. It's going to
34:53
Speaker 1: be a morning game. It's going to be an afternoon
34:55
Speaker 1: or evening game. Or it's going to be an evening game.
34:58
Speaker 1: We boxed ourselves in. And what we did, we screwed
35:02
Speaker 1: up this weekend in television in the SEC by doing that.
35:05
Speaker 1: Because at 11 o'clock on ABC, we have Georgia-Arkansas. If
35:08
Speaker 1: we had waited until Sunday or Saturday to build out
35:13
Speaker 1: this TV schedule, 11 o'clock on ABC could have given
35:17
Speaker 1: us Florida at Auburn, which is a terrific game. It
35:21
Speaker 1: could have given us Mississippi State or at South Carolina,
35:24
Speaker 1: which is a terrific game. We didn't know when we
35:27
Speaker 1: put out this schedule, making this an afternoon or evening window,
35:32
Speaker 1: that Camario Taylor and Lenore Sellers and that Mississippi State-South
35:36
Speaker 1: Carolina game was going to look as good as this.
35:38
Speaker 1: We didn't know it was going to be this, so
35:40
Speaker 1: we put it as an afternoon or an evening window
35:42
Speaker 1: because we didn't want it to get lost We didn't
35:45
Speaker 1: want to put it in an early window and that
35:47
Speaker 1: be something main.
35:48
Speaker 2: So if you were building the schedule, it would look
35:50
Speaker 2: like what? If I was building the schedule, 11 o'clock
35:53
Speaker 2: on ABC would either be Florida at Auburn. All due
35:56
Speaker 2: respect to my Auburn friends, I know you love the
35:58
Speaker 2: night game. I like the night game there. Oh, I know.
36:00
Speaker 1: But the B viewing, the B ceiling viewer, that game
36:03
Speaker 1: would bring in eyeballs coast to coast. But everyone's talking
36:07
Speaker 1: Camario Taylor. It would have been so easy if we
36:09
Speaker 1: had not already designated this as an afternoon slash evening game.
36:13
Speaker 1: to put Mississippi State, South Carolina, 11 o'clock on ABC,
36:17
Speaker 1: and everybody watched Super Camario in that game in a
36:20
Speaker 1: great atmosphere. That is such a much better game than
36:23
Speaker 1: people watching Georgia and Arkansas.
36:25
Speaker 2: But, I mean, Mississippi State, South Carolina is just not
36:27
Speaker 2: going to move the needle at all. But start with
36:30
Speaker 2: Camario Taylor. Yeah, but I still, I just don't think there's,
36:33
Speaker 2: the marginal fan knows about that guy yet. I think
36:36
Speaker 2: that changed over the last two weeks. I really do.
36:38
Speaker 2: I hope.
36:39
Speaker 1: To the primetime window, you can't go wrong. Everyone's going
36:42
Speaker 1: to watch LSU-Ole Miss. Florida-Auburn's the second best game. How
36:46
Speaker 1: are you doing your other TVs in that window, LT?
36:50
Speaker 2: I will have, obviously, LSU-Ole Miss. So the way I
36:53
Speaker 2: do my setup, and again, My reasoning is we do
36:58
Speaker 2: this for a living. And I do have a side hustle.
37:00
Speaker 2: And it's a tax rental. But I've got the big
37:04
Speaker 2: on one wall. That will be LSU Ole Miss. Then
37:06
Speaker 2: I've got what I call my door TV, at least
37:08
Speaker 2: according to my universal remote. So above my door, I've
37:12
Speaker 2: got a 65 right there. That is my second best,
37:14
Speaker 2: but just because of my vantage point where I sit
37:16
Speaker 2: on the couch. So that will probably at least initially
37:20
Speaker 2: start with Florida Auburn. After that, I start doing the
37:24
Speaker 2: quad boxes on a lot, but I don't know because
37:26
Speaker 2: I love this Virginia Tech-Maryland game. I'll get more to
37:28
Speaker 2: that in our pick three later on. Yep. I don't
37:30
Speaker 2: know which way you're going with that one. And West Virginia-Virginia,
37:35
Speaker 2: I think that's going to be a fun game. 630
37:36
Speaker 2: ACC Network, that's a fun game. But I've got to
37:39
Speaker 2: keep an eye on New Mexico-Oklahoma. Yep. Potential disaster game
37:45
Speaker 2: for Brent. Oh, it could be. I mean, New Mexico
37:48
Speaker 2: and Jason Eck, the last– FBS team they beat, or
37:51
Speaker 2: last ranked FBS, I should say, and I brought this
37:54
Speaker 2: up a couple of days ago, was Washington State two
37:56
Speaker 2: years ago with a combination of Ben Arbuckle and John Mateer.
37:59
Speaker 2: They're seeing them again getting 22 and a half points
38:01
Speaker 2: in that spot. Lugaville's on that game.
38:03
Speaker 1: I was actually texting with him about it last night,
38:06
Speaker 1: joking with him that in the preseason, I call this
38:08
Speaker 1: a trap game. So congrats, it'll be 60 to nothing.
38:11
Speaker 1: And I think Luka Bills and New Mexico respect her. Like,
38:13
Speaker 1: I don't know that he thinks this is just going
38:15
Speaker 1: to be a run out.
38:16
Speaker 2: Yeah. So those are– so number one would be LSU
38:19
Speaker 2: Ole Miss. Number two, Florida Auburn. Then I would go
38:22
Speaker 2: Virginia Tech, Maryland, and then West Virginia, Virginia. Those are
38:24
Speaker 2: all good games. Sneaky eye on– in Fort Collins, Colorado,
38:28
Speaker 2: BYU on the road against Colorado State. Jim Moore's first
38:31
Speaker 2: year there. That one can– Can sneak inside the number, maybe,
38:35
Speaker 2: for Colorado State.
38:36
Speaker 1: Somebody in the chat is asking broadcast crew assignments. I
38:39
Speaker 1: don't know if we can discuss that because we know.
38:41
Speaker 1: We haven't, but which games do they want? Well, they
38:43
Speaker 1: want to bam a Florida State. It's going to be
38:44
Speaker 1: Sean McDonough, Greg McElroy, their official TV home. They almost
38:48
Speaker 1: do as many games as Chris Stewart, Tyler Watts do.
38:52
Speaker 2: Sean McDonough, Chris Stewart. I picture Chris being that sheepdog
38:56
Speaker 2: and Sean McDonough being the wolf. Hey, Chris. Hey, Sean.
39:01
Speaker 2: We're collecting in again, aren't we? Yeah, we are. They
39:04
Speaker 2: do a lot of games. But it works out. That's
39:07
Speaker 2: my favorite crew. I love Tommy Dunn. Tommy Dunn is fantastic.
39:10
Speaker 2: I love him. But that is it. And for those
39:13
Speaker 2: that care, the Auburn-Florida game is Tom Hart. Great group.
39:17
Speaker 2: Great Tom Hart.
39:18
Speaker 1: He gets a night game again in the SEC.
39:22
Speaker 2: But it's a good one, Auburn and Florida. Would you
39:23
Speaker 2: guys rather have really good nine o'clock games or 11
39:27
Speaker 2: o'clock games? I like a good, I like a good
39:29
Speaker 2: nine o'clock game. Yeah. Yep. I don't know. I mean,
39:33
Speaker 2: then you get one with James Madison and San Diego state.
39:36
Speaker 1: I mean, dude, I think Purdue and UCLA will be
39:39
Speaker 1: entertaining as heck.
39:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be. Yeah. UCLA is surprised. I do
39:44
Speaker 2: think like I couldn't get to, I don't, I couldn't
39:47
Speaker 2: get the guts to go Purdue again.
39:48
Speaker 1: I don't think, what was the number of that?
39:50
Speaker 2: 14 and a half. 14 and a half. I almost
39:51
Speaker 2: went Purdue in the upset alert.
39:53
Speaker 1: And now sitting here as a loser, like Brown trying
39:56
Speaker 1: to buy back into the survivor pool. I'd love to
39:58
Speaker 1: buy back into the upset alert as we can take Purdue.
40:01
Speaker 2: We did, people used to complain about, or we've actually
40:04
Speaker 2: talked about like, man, having the good games at 11 o'clock.
40:07
Speaker 2: Now ratings have been fantastic.
40:08
Speaker 1: You got good games at 11 o'clock and they're not
40:10
Speaker 1: going anywhere. But I try to remind you guys of
40:13
Speaker 1: game day wrapping up with all that energy. Coach Corso
40:17
Speaker 1: puts on that headgear. Place going nuts. Everybody's cheering. And
40:20
Speaker 1: then you go to like Pam Ward at Purdue. Those
40:23
Speaker 1: were awful games, man. You remember how bad those were?
40:26
Speaker 1: There was zero atmosphere.
40:27
Speaker 2: That's right. And it was like Pam Ward and Todd Christensen.
40:31
Speaker 2: We don't get that name.
40:32
Speaker 1: Today, we have got Purdue facing Northwestern here at West Lafayette.
40:37
Speaker 2: There was some energy. Yeah. It's all gone now. And
40:40
Speaker 2: I know where you are. I think you're like me.
40:41
Speaker 2: You're indifferent on game day, Brown. I know it's not
40:43
Speaker 2: the way you like it.
40:44
Speaker 1: It's always on on Saturday. I never don't have it
40:46
Speaker 1: on on Saturday. Yeah, but do you pay a lot
40:48
Speaker 1: of attention to it?
40:49
Speaker 2: I watch the first probably half hour. Yep.
40:52
Speaker 1: Then I do all my Saturday stuff, and I try
40:54
Speaker 1: to make sure I'm back there by the picks, not
40:56
Speaker 1: because I care about the picks. I cared about them
40:58
Speaker 1: when Coach Corso did it. I loved Coach Corso's headgear.
41:00
Speaker 1: That was just part of Saturday morning.
41:03
Speaker 2: I want to be there for McAfee's kick. That's entertaining
41:05
Speaker 2: for me.
41:05
Speaker 1: I do like McAfee's kick, but I never know when
41:07
Speaker 1: that's coming, so I don't care. You know, most of
41:10
Speaker 1: the time you catch that on social media. It was
41:12
Speaker 1: legitimately a one kicker. I don't know why that bothers you.
41:15
Speaker 1: It's not your money.
41:18
Speaker 2: It's stupid, though. I don't think it is. I actually
41:20
Speaker 2: like it. It gives them another chance for less money.
41:22
Speaker 2: The problem so far is the kickers have been too good.
41:24
Speaker 2: That kid last week would have been kicked for half
41:26
Speaker 2: the division. And that's another thing is they find these people.
41:29
Speaker 2: It's not like they're just bringing somebody in. I like
41:31
Speaker 2: it when they've got a bad one. It's more fun
41:32
Speaker 2: when they've got a bad one. Then they'll have to
41:34
Speaker 2: limp a female in a little bit. She'll miss three times,
41:36
Speaker 2: and they'll let her continue to kick until she can
41:38
Speaker 2: absolutely make it. Or pick somebody out of the same.
41:40
Speaker 2: But the reason I bring up game day is I'm
41:42
Speaker 2: interested more that Morgan Freeman is going to be on
41:44
Speaker 2: that desk. I usually don't care at all. The only
41:47
Speaker 2: man that could bring peace to this rivalry is Morgan Freeman.
41:49
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41:52
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41:55
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42:21
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42:24
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42:30
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42:34
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42:37
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42:41
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42:43
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42:45
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42:48
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42:50
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42:51
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42:58
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43:01
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43:03
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44:49
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44:52
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44:55
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44:56
Speaker 2: So, Lance? What are your headlines today? I think we're
44:59
Speaker 2: probably all heading to the same place. Oh, really? Yeah. Maybe.
45:05
Speaker 2: Going one state over, a border state, the Oxford Gazette.
45:09
Speaker 2: And here we go. Tyler, let me know when it's up.
45:15
Speaker 2: Probably is up now. Yeah. We're going to go with it.
45:18
Speaker 2: There's a delay. You guys see it well after the
45:22
Speaker 2: audience sees it.
45:23
Speaker 1: Yeah.
45:23
Speaker 2: You might want to put it up on your phone
45:25
Speaker 2: to read it. Yeah, I got it right here. L.S. Ballou.
45:30
Speaker 2: Lane gets trained by former team as five different Rebels
45:34
Speaker 2: score touchdowns. Tigers get railed. Jeez. Yeah, it's a rough day,
45:40
Speaker 2: isn't it? Why has Ole Miss got so many players? Hey,
45:42
Speaker 2: what about the side headlines? Okay. Colonel Reb is crying.
45:46
Speaker 2: Former mascot voted second dirtiest old man in Oxford's newest poll.
45:51
Speaker 2: That's my favorite one so far. Why did Ole Miss
45:54
Speaker 2: have so many guys who were in 11? Isn't that
45:56
Speaker 2: a penalty? Just go ahead. You know, Tyler actually put
46:01
Speaker 2: that together. Oh, yeah. And then Tyler Morgan Freeman. Yep.
46:04
Speaker 2: Morgan Freeman on his recent trip to Oxford. Pretty cool town. Yeah.
46:11
Speaker 2: Kind of like it. Let's do mine next.
46:14
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Delta Daily where you see Pete
46:18
Speaker 1: Golding fishing. He's got a big shark on the end
46:21
Speaker 1: of it. But I have him saying, we're going to
46:23
Speaker 1: need a bigger boat. Joey Freshwater gets off the hook.
46:27
Speaker 2: LSU gets the win. I never read what AI writes
46:31
Speaker 2: down below it. Let me just read it real quick.
46:33
Speaker 2: Fishing legend Joey Freshwater made a close call this weekend
46:37
Speaker 2: when a monster shark took his bait. Wonder if Lane's
46:41
Speaker 2: ever had his bait taken in Oxford before. Right below
46:45
Speaker 2: that on the headlines, Holly Iroh. Instead of I roll, Holly,
46:50
Speaker 2: I row. Holly row. Oh, I got you. I got you.
46:52
Speaker 2: Apple creates new emoji of Holly's I roll off the weekend.
46:57
Speaker 2: I wonder what it says there. In a move no
46:59
Speaker 2: one saw coming. I wanted to read that.
47:01
Speaker 1: Apple announced today it'll be adding a new emoji to
47:03
Speaker 1: its lineup.
47:05
Speaker 2: Miss Holly, I row. Not bad for AI. And then
47:10
Speaker 2: the last one, Norvell goes home to an empty house.
47:13
Speaker 2: You found the photo.
47:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's the photo of the moving truck that he
47:17
Speaker 1: seemed to not know was at his house.
47:18
Speaker 2: That's right. And AI says.
47:22
Speaker 1: Mike Norvell goes home, no staff members, no family, and
47:26
Speaker 1: an empty house. The silence is deafening, says Mike Norvell
47:31
Speaker 1: of Florida State.
47:32
Speaker 2: AI's pretty good, man.
47:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, they write better stories than some people do. I
47:37
Speaker 1: guess we're learning in the media that AI actually writes
47:39
Speaker 1: some of the stories I actually read.
47:40
Speaker 2: Probably so. What do you have, Brownie? I'm going to Oxford, Mississippi. Yeah,
47:44
Speaker 2: I bet.
47:45
Speaker 1: The Oxford Rebel newspaper on Sunday said, Nobody notices midfield
47:50
Speaker 1: animal sacrifice at the LSU Ole Miss game.
47:52
Speaker 2: So much going on. They had a midfield animal sacrifice.
47:54
Speaker 2: Nobody noticed. That is unbelievable. Completely flew under the radar.
47:58
Speaker 2: Would ESPN show that? Nobody noticed, Lance. They didn't notice.
48:01
Speaker 2: There's so much going on at this game. It looks
48:03
Speaker 2: like a bad Chick-fil-A coming or something. Nobody noticed. Nobody
48:06
Speaker 2: noticed an animal sacrifice. Pretty crazy.
48:08
Speaker 1: Page two, was the viral video of Brown slapping Dunaway
48:12
Speaker 1: AI or not?
48:13
Speaker 2: Experts say no. No. Actually happened. And then page three,
48:16
Speaker 2: Florida State Seminole mascot. And by the way, I would
48:19
Speaker 2: laugh and not apologize. Hey, let's do this.
48:21
Speaker 1: Let's start reenacting big historical moments. Let AI do it
48:26
Speaker 1: with you and I as the characters. Knock me to
48:27
Speaker 1: the ground. Florida State Seminole mascot officially replaced by the
48:32
Speaker 1: 1980s crying Indian.
48:33
Speaker 2: Oh, man. The pollution Indian? The pollution Indian. He hated litter.
48:37
Speaker 2: And he hates Florida State losing football games now. Yeah.
48:40
Speaker 2: That's our headlines, what we expect. So around the board.
48:44
Speaker 2: In the headlines, you made it sound like you thought
48:46
Speaker 2: Ole Miss is going to win the game. Was that
48:48
Speaker 2: just for the jokes? No, no, no. I think Ole Miss. Yeah,
48:50
Speaker 2: I really do.
48:51
Speaker 1: I'm going LSU in my headline. I feel like LSU.
48:54
Speaker 1: We haven't talked about it. We talked about it all week.
48:56
Speaker 1: But today, you have a lean feel on that game?
48:59
Speaker 2: I like LSU, I think.
49:00
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we've talked about it all offseason, Lance.
49:03
Speaker 1: These games that are played. that are such big emotional games,
49:07
Speaker 1: I think sometimes it's a disadvantage to play them at home.
49:10
Speaker 2: I don't disagree, but I think when your head coach
49:12
Speaker 2: brings unneeded drama, which Lane Kiffin does, I think you
49:16
Speaker 2: guys are totally wrong when we talked about earlier this week,
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Speaker 2: the most precious. is on Lane Kiffin in this spot. Now,
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Speaker 2: I did see a playoff indicator. If Ole Miss loses
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Speaker 2: this game, their playoff odds drop to 8% to make
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Speaker 2: the playoffs with that difficult schedule. So, to me, this
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Speaker 2: is a game Ole Miss has just got to have,
49:32
Speaker 2: and I think it's a Trinidad moment. I think he's
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Speaker 2: that good. I think you make an argument he's the
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Speaker 2: best quarterback. in college football currently, and this is going
49:38
Speaker 2: to be the reason he's making $ 4 or $ 5 million.
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Speaker 1: More on that game as we go for three more hours.
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Speaker 1: Todd Furman coming up at the top of the hour.
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Speaker 1: We'll tell you about Gillette's here in just a second,
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Speaker 1: where we are to kick off this weekend. But some
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Speaker 1: quick NFL notes. Sean McVay hopes Aaron Donald plays on
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Speaker 1: Monday night.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, he practiced yesterday, and right now it's kind
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Speaker 2: of questionable whether or not he'll play. I really believe
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Speaker 2: for their home opener on Monday night, with those beautiful
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Speaker 2: soul jerseys you guys don't like, I think 99 will
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Speaker 2: be out there.
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Speaker 1: By the way, Bo Nix says he and the Broncos
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Speaker 1: are not freaking out. A lot of people I was
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Speaker 1: looking at last night like Jacksonville as an upset alert
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Speaker 1: winner on the road at Denver this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Jacksonville getting a win on the road at Denver. How
50:26
Speaker 2: could you not? The way Jacksonville has played their last
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Speaker 2: 10 games out offensively under Liam Cohen, And the way
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Speaker 2: Denver looked the other night with Bo Nix. I mean,
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Speaker 2: Bo Nix was like an unconfident. We've seen great Bo.
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Speaker 2: We've seen bad Bo. He looked like bad Bo. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It'll be 10 days by the time the Patriots play
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. They expect Henderson to be back at running back.
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Speaker 1: They get Pittsburgh this weekend.
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Speaker 2: I don't think Pittsburgh's very good. Aaron Rodgers disagrees. He
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Speaker 2: said we could be one of the surprises of the NFL.
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Speaker 2: I thought New England offensively looked awful, but they were
50:59
Speaker 2: going against arguably the best defense in football in Seattle
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Speaker 2: on the road. Drake Mays got to clean it up.
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Speaker 2: Three interceptions just can't happen.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Steelers, I mean, everybody focused, not everybody, but
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Speaker 1: a lot of people focused on how bad the Falcons
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Speaker 1: had gotten with Cooper Rush starting a quarterback because all
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Speaker 1: they got is her quarterbacks. And I think some of
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Speaker 1: it got overshadowed into how bad the Steelers played them.
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Speaker 2: I did not– I didn't like– Well, and Aaron Rodgers
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Speaker 2: after the game, hey, look, we won by seven. We
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Speaker 2: could have won by a lot more. We missed this.
51:27
Speaker 2: We missed that. But you did. Now, I had it
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Speaker 2: on a secondary TV, so I didn't pay a ton
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Speaker 2: of attention to it. Yeah. But I'm not a big
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Speaker 2: fan of the Steelers this year.
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Speaker 1: Drew Locke getting to start again for Seattle against the Cardinals.
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Speaker 2: Things sort of falling the Cardinals way early on. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: What will be interesting with the different weapons the Cardinals
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Speaker 2: have and what– Mike LaFleur has got at his disposal there,
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Speaker 2: is can they make plays against that Seattle defense? Because
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Speaker 2: on the other side, I thought the Cardinals defense was
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Speaker 2: really scrappy against Justin Herbert and that Chargers offense, and
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Speaker 2: I think they can hold Drew Lockett Bay. Would it
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Speaker 2: not be amazing if the Cardinals opened 2-0 on the
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Speaker 2: road against the Chargers and then against the defending champions? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and almost every survivor pool would be empty at that point.
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Speaker 2: Maybe so. A lot would be. Almost everybody at the
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Speaker 2: Cardinals can't do it, can we? San Francisco, though, against
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Speaker 2: your dog. Yeah, that's a popular pick, and I understand why.
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Speaker 2: Trend and angle. Bryce Young.
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Speaker 1: 4-1 all-time against the Atlanta Falcons. They play each other
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Speaker 1: this weekend, and Bryce is 4-1 all-time against the Falcons.
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Speaker 2: And Bryce was really, really good last week. He was
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Speaker 2: playing from behind the entire game against Chicago, but he
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Speaker 2: lit up that defense, and you didn't really notice because
52:35
Speaker 2: Chicago goes out and scores 59 points. Yeah, and then my.
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Speaker 1: survivor pool pick that they laughed at. I like Texans
52:42
Speaker 1: against the Bengals. Did we do our picks already? Oh,
52:47
Speaker 1: we got, we got to do the back rooms too.
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Speaker 1: We did do yours and mine's cause you had the
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Speaker 1: 49 Francisco. I've got Houston after laughter. We'll get the
52:55
Speaker 1: guys behind the glass coming up as we move throughout
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Speaker 1: the show. Joe Burrow though, tight back. Some people are
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Speaker 1: saying this could be a lingering, maybe season ending issue
53:05
Speaker 1: before it's said and done.
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Speaker 2: Imagine that with Joe Burrow. And, that this could be
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Speaker 2: his last year in Cincinnati. Well, it'd be a huge
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Speaker 2: mistake by the Bengals. But I mean, now, if he
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Speaker 2: can't stay, I kind of said that like the group
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Speaker 2: that did.
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Speaker 1: The Bengals, the Bengals, the Bengals. But if you can't
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Speaker 1: stay healthy, you can't stay healthy. And that has been
53:25
Speaker 1: the biggest issue with him so far. When he's, as
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Speaker 1: the old saying goes, he's well when he's, or he's
53:30
Speaker 1: ill when he's well. But he just cannot stay healthy.
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Speaker 2: I didn't think he looked very good last week. Well,
53:35
Speaker 2: that's only because he's already hurt. Yeah, you watch more
53:38
Speaker 2: of that game, but I thought he was kind of
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Speaker 2: pedestrian in that game. The Bucs gave them two short touchdowns,
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Speaker 2: and that's the difference in the game.
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Speaker 1: Eternal flame on the Bengals. Great dance song back in
53:47
Speaker 1: the middle. Yeah, a slow dance song. Yeah, absolutely.
53:50
Speaker 2: Not a get up and move your feet. Susanna Hopps
53:53
Speaker 2: on the show. Galetz is where we are in Tuscaloosa.
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Speaker 2: 50-year anniversary.
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Speaker 1: Home of the Yellowhammer, literally the closest hangout place to
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Speaker 1: Bryant-Denny Stadium, the perfect tailgate all weekend long, every game
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Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa. Come by Gillette's. We open the doors at
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Speaker 1: 11 o'clock. It should be a lot of fun. Todd
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Speaker 1: Furman standing by on the other side, hour two of
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Speaker 1: the next round, presented by Hard Rock Bets here on
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Speaker 1: Sports State.