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The Next Round: Lincoln Riley, Deion, Belichick & Dabo Face Make-or-Break College Football Weekends | Hour 1 · The Next Round

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Speaker 1: All right, we start day one of 61 straight days
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Speaker 1: of football tonight. That includes the NFL, Steelers and Browns
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Speaker 1: coming up on Prime tonight.
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Speaker 2: Sneaky big game. I did not think this would be
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Speaker 2: that big.
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Speaker 3: I mean, two and one, two and one.
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Speaker 2: Two and one, two and one.
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Speaker 1: Later in the show when we talk about that game,
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Speaker 1: I also want to ask the question, how does the
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Speaker 1: career end for Aaron Rodgers? Right now, looks pretty good
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Speaker 1: through three weeks. We'll talk about that. I've got something
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Speaker 1: else on the Prime thing I want to bring up.
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Speaker 1: Help me remember that, please.
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Speaker 3: Okay, we got it.
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Speaker 1: A couple of college football games that if you're with
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Speaker 1: our friends at Hard Rock Bet could be interesting for
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Speaker 1: you a little bit later on. And let's see. White Sox, Yankees,
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Speaker 1: Padres all clinched yesterday.
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Speaker 2: They did.
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Speaker 3: Who didn't clinch yesterday? That would be the Atlanta Braves.
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Speaker 3: And I threaded the needle because you laid one and
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Speaker 3: a half runs. We had Philadelphia at Lance's lot. So
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Speaker 3: we will take the 4-3 win in extra innings. It
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Speaker 3: stayed under the seven and a half, too.
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Speaker 4: It did.
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Speaker 3: Oh.
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Speaker 1: Well, the Phillies tried to give that one away. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Bryce Harper missing a missing a fly ball in right field.
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Speaker 1: So we get a game three and there's nothing more
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Speaker 1: exciting than a deciding game.
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Speaker 2: Three at Philadelphia.
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Speaker 1: No, all the games are going to be in Atlanta, Philadelphia,
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Speaker 1: Atlanta tonight, seven o'clock NBC Braves fans. You get that
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Speaker 1: night game tonight.
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Speaker 3: It's crazy. I mean, the grind of 162 game schedule
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Speaker 3: and then how quick these seasons went. You know, the
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Speaker 3: Red Sox had such a terrible start. Then they find
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Speaker 3: their way back and have one of Major League's best
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Speaker 3: records after that 14-game under-500 start. And then before you
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Speaker 3: could blink, they get run out. The same with the Astros.
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Speaker 3: And then last night, the Cubs, the incredible year they had.
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Speaker 3: But Alex Bregman and PCA go a combined 0-15 with
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Speaker 3: eight strikeouts in two games.
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Speaker 2: I saw Chad Withrow, the show that's before us, on
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Speaker 2: social media, Hutton and Withrow, Chad was saying, It is
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Speaker 2: a crime that you can win your division in Major
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Speaker 2: League Baseball, and then it comes down to a three-game series. Yes. Like,
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Speaker 2: if you're a wild card, fine. You earn that spot.
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Speaker 2: But if you win your division and you still have
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Speaker 2: to do this? Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it should at least be five.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it does feel like, I mean, I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I don't know what Major League Baseball is doing, Brown, because, like,
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Speaker 3: you know, we went and we sat at the bar
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Speaker 3: yesterday and wanting to watch. I was listening to White
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Speaker 3: Sox Astros. And when we sat down, wanted to put
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Speaker 3: it on, but it's on Peacock. And so, like, how
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Speaker 3: accessible are these games to your average fan?
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Speaker 1: I hate to tell people, but Peacock pops up on
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Speaker 1: NBC Sports as NBC Sports Network on YouTube TV. So
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Speaker 1: if you have YouTube TV, just fish down the line
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Speaker 1: and you see right there.
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Speaker 3: Tell this to a crunchy bartender that's got tats all
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Speaker 3: over it. Somebody just ordered a Long Island tea.
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Speaker 1: Well, I caught a little of the Braves Phillies, Phillies
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Speaker 1: Braves at Odie's in Homewood yesterday. I went by and
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Speaker 1: had a nice little sandwich and a cold beer. sitting
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Speaker 1: outside watching the Phillies Braves. I was having a great afternoon.
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Speaker 2: Time of your life. Yeah. I mean, I just, Withrow
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Speaker 2: makes a good point though. Chad makes a good point
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Speaker 2: that it feels weird. Here's why you can't do it though.
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Speaker 2: But you at least get all three at home is
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Speaker 2: what I was going to say. That's the trade-off for
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Speaker 2: being the division winner is, I know it sucks. You've
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Speaker 2: got to play a three-game series, but you at least
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Speaker 2: get them all at home.
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Speaker 1: But here's why you can't do it, because we've expanded
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. We have these other teams, these other four
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Speaker 1: teams that are just sitting there.
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Speaker 2: They are.
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Speaker 1: You can't sit there and rest those teams and get
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Speaker 1: out of sync for a best-of-five series. It's bad enough
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Speaker 1: with a best-of-three. My Tampa Bay Rays won't play again
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Speaker 1: until Saturday. They played Sunday. That's just out of your norm.
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Speaker 2: Because if you did a best-of-five, they would not play
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Speaker 2: probably until Monday. You would have to reserve Saturday and
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Speaker 2: Sunday for the ends of the best-of-five.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 1: So you're asking them to sit for an entire week, basically. Now,
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Speaker 1: as a fan, I'd love that because the Yankees' raise
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Speaker 1: starts Saturday night, prime time.
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Speaker 3: It's not a great college football Saturday night. It's not.
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Speaker 2: But it's still better than baseball.
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Speaker 5: It is.
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Speaker 3: There's a chance it'll make one of my big screens.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you're catching a break because this is a
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Speaker 2: pretty light primetime schedule.
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Speaker 3: I mean, the Dodgers will not find a TV on Saturday.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it just sucks. Well, I've become a bad fan.
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Speaker 2: What time do y'all start, Lance?
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Speaker 3: I've gotten spoiled with the Dodgers, 3 o'clock. Spoiled with
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Speaker 3: the Dodgers. Oh, well, that's the problem. I'm back on
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Speaker 3: the Lakers this year, but I haven't been a good fan.
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Speaker 2: No, but, I mean, 3 o'clock's the bad time for
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Speaker 2: them to be.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I know. That's where the good games are.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if you had a primetime first pitch,
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Speaker 2: you could make a case for it this week. You
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Speaker 2: could find at least a quad box for them. But
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Speaker 2: I tell you what, Braves fans have been really excited
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Speaker 2: about my projections this week. They love it when you
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Speaker 2: get involved on the show.
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Speaker 3: We've got a primetime game for them, too. We've got
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Speaker 3: a primetime game. But, I mean, I'm notorious in 17
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Speaker 3: years of.
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Speaker 2: Of starting a segment and never having an episode two, right? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: did we do Tell Me Something Good Tuesday this week?
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Speaker 3: We did not.
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Speaker 2: No, we missed that again?
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Speaker 3: How about Crash and Burn or Turn the Corner? Do
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Speaker 3: you remember that? I don't even remember us doing that.
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Speaker 2: Did we do that? I don't remember that. It had a.
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Speaker 3: Realistic car crash sound effect. Oh, yeah. So we even
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Speaker 3: did production for this. Crash and Burn or.
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Speaker 2: Turn the Corner.
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Speaker 1: Oh, we did production for Tell Me Something Good Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: Tell me something good! Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Where I thought on every Tuesday the world was so
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Speaker 1: negative we would just Do nothing but positives in that segment.
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Speaker 3: So episode one, pilot episode.
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Speaker 2: Okay, here we go. Let's see how we like this, Lance.
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Speaker 3: We get to grade it. Pilot episode. Tyler, hit the music.
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Speaker 3: Welcome in.
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Speaker 2: It is time for Righteous Jim Stone Locks. I'm a
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Speaker 2: fan so far. Let's see how this goes. Okay, okay.
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Speaker 3: Righteous Jim Stone Locke for the weekend. I've got no costume.
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Speaker 3: You know, I could. I can't say steal, but.
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Speaker 2: I could borrow a choir robe. Righteous Jim Stone Locke.
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Speaker 2: If you don't have that ready for next Thursday. Okay.
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Speaker 3: Phillies and Braves in a moment. That was apparently sack religious.
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Speaker 3: Quick to lightning. I think it's impossible for lightning to
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Speaker 3: hit right now.
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Speaker 2: We had an electrical surge in our headphones right after
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Speaker 2: Jim was talking about wearing a church robe for this.
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Speaker 2: We get reaction from Lance and Brown on all these
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Speaker 2: righteous Jim Stone locks today.
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Speaker 1: Maybe a play on the Phillies and Braves in a moment.
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Speaker 1: Stanford Wake Forest. Give me the over this weekend. Can
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Speaker 1: I get a hard rock bet total on that game?
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Speaker 1: I've got it at 53.5 right here. Maybe it is
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Speaker 1: adjusted a little bit on hard rock bet if you want.
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Speaker 2: To check that out.
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Speaker 3: I will check on hard rock bet. So we're talking
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Speaker 3: Stanford and Wake. Stanford and Wake.
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Speaker 2: That's where we're going to go for your first pick.
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Speaker 2: You build up, possibly, to Philly's Brave. Don't ever stop
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Speaker 2: the organ music during the Righteous Gemstone Live. Keep that
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Speaker 2: playing the entire time. All right.
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Speaker 3: And how many of these do we have? Just a
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Speaker 3: handful here.
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Speaker 2: I got 53 and a half at Hard Rock Bat
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Speaker 2: for Stanford and Wake. Give me the over here because
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Speaker 2: you know what Stanford and Wake Forest are? Horrible at tackling, Lance. Okay.
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Speaker 3: Some of the worst tackling teams in football. Give me
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Speaker 3: the over.
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Speaker 2: It's a Righteous Gemstone Lock.
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Speaker 3: Lock that one in. I'm told there are no player
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Speaker 3: totals yet.
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Speaker 2: But when we get to the weekend, I am comfortable
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Speaker 2: going up to over 150 yards for these two running backs.
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Speaker 2: Jaden Baugh for Florida, I'm comfortable going over 150. Whatever
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Speaker 2: the total is, if it's under 150, go over 150
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Speaker 2: on the player total for Baugh. And also, with Cam Cook,
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Speaker 2: West Virginia against Iowa State, I'm comfortable up to 150
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Speaker 2: yards on Cam Cook for West Virginia this weekend.
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Speaker 3: That's a righteous Jim Stone lot. Okay, not knowing what
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Speaker 3: the yardage numbers are for these two players.
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Speaker 2: I'm comfortable up to 150, so if it comes in
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Speaker 2: at 121.5. I haven't looked at it yet. I would
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Speaker 2: think that.
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Speaker 3: Baugh is, I mean, they're going to really lean on him,
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Speaker 3: but now you're starting to mix in... I mean, you're
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Speaker 3: sharing carries now.
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Speaker 2: Problem.
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Speaker 3: One big run.
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Speaker 2: One big run is what you need.
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Speaker 3: I'm comfortable up to 150.
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Speaker 1: So if it comes in at 149.5, play the over there.
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Speaker 1: That's a righteous gemstone lock. James Franklin, 3-1 all-time against
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Speaker 1: Pat Narduzzi.
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Speaker 2: That's a trend in our angle.
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Speaker 3: A little Friday night game. Not this time.
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Speaker 2: Give me Narduzzi, Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 3: They're the underdogs, right? Pitt is the other dog. Lock
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Speaker 3: it in. Give me Pitt to beat Virginia Tech.
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Speaker 2: At Hard Rock Bet, we have got Virginia Tech minus
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Speaker 2: the three.
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Speaker 3: You did not think I did any research on these, right?
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Speaker 3: Barely not.
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Speaker 2: Picked them out of the blue.
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Speaker 3: Gut feeling.
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Speaker 2: When you started with Stanford and Wake, I knew you
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Speaker 2: had not done much. Righteous Jim Stone lock number whatever
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Speaker 2: we're on. Deshaun Bishop's the running back at Tennessee. He is.
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Speaker 3: I have set a total for him in this game.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you have not given me that. We'll go into
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Speaker 1: a bunch of these totals in the next round part
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Speaker 1: of the show. I'm comfortable with Deshaun Bishop up to
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Speaker 1: 120 yards rushing this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 3: I'm just telling you where that number, you know, and
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Speaker 3: this is just me on the fly factoring. I had
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Speaker 3: it at 68 and a half.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: I'm comfortable.
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Speaker 2: I'm comfortable with an over at 68 and a half.
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Speaker 2: That's another righteous. Uh, It's going to rain in Starkville,
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Speaker 2: I'm told.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good chance.
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Speaker 1: What is Hard Rock Bet with the total there?
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Speaker 3: Not team totals, but the total in the game between
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Speaker 3: Alabama and Mississippi State. It's touching 60. It kissed 60 earlier.
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Speaker 3: I got it at 59 and a half.
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Speaker 2: I've got Hard Rock Bet right now, Jimmy D. This
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Speaker 2: music owns me, by the way.
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Speaker 3: You know Alabama. You know who I think is going
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Speaker 3: to come out?
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Speaker 6: Who?
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Speaker 3: Our boy who we did a show with down at
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Speaker 3: the beach. Steve Powers? No, the— The other concert with
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Speaker 3: Coder's concert.
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Speaker 1: No, the guy that wears the choir robe on stage.
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Speaker 2: Oh!
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Speaker 3: The Broken Bones guy. Yeah, St.
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Speaker 2: Paul and the Broken Bones. He's coming out where? Oh,
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Speaker 2: for this?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just his music.
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Speaker 2: He'd be crawling under the stage. Sixty and a half
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Speaker 2: Hard Rock Babs for your total.
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Speaker 3: Bama's got a great defense. I love this.
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Speaker 2: Take the over 16.5 between Mississippi State and Alabama.
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Speaker 3: A lot of points in the rain in that one.
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Speaker 2: Two more.
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Speaker 3: Miami and Clemson. I'm going to play this first half.
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Speaker 1: This makes you sound like a professional when you don't
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Speaker 1: play the whole game.
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Speaker 3: First half.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to take Clemson and the 9.5 points that
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Speaker 1: first half Clemson play there I think later on in
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Speaker 1: the game Miami pulls away Dabo has the choir the
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Speaker 1: choir and the crowd fired up Clemson keeps it close
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Speaker 1: first half I'll take nine and a half Clemson Dabo
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Speaker 1: five and two all-time versus Miami by the way oh wow.
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Speaker 3: And finally Phillies and Braves today.
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Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute so you've built all this up
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Speaker 2: to a Phillies Braves play where are you in this
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Speaker 2: series what is your record in this series.
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Speaker 3: Uh technically I'm two and oh i mean i i.
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Speaker 1: Pushed that number to one and a half yesterday but
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Speaker 1: i feel like they're not gonna let you cash that
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Speaker 1: ticket so they're not they're not technically you're not.
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Speaker 2: You have picked the proper winner i picked the proper winner.
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Speaker 3: I've already got a free play out on this at
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Speaker 3: lance's log.com so uh i am very interested to see
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Speaker 3: where you sit on this one.
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Speaker 1: I feel like with aaron nola pitching uh since i
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Speaker 1: think it's since july he's got almost a 2.0 era yeah.
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Speaker 3: That for the Braves. Phillies win today. Braves bats go cold.
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Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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Speaker 3: Phillies win today.
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Speaker 1: Phillies money line out of you? Phillies money line out
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Speaker 1: of me. That's my righteous gemstone locks.
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Speaker 3: Episode one. We'll see if episode two comes back. I mean,
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Speaker 3: a lot of times pilots don't get picked up. They don't.
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Speaker 2: They don't. They don't.
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Speaker 3: We're going to need feedback from the audience on this. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Just the music. People love picks, though.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's not, who's the trombone guy for Van Pelt?
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Speaker 3: I love him.
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Speaker 6: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Trombone Shorty, I believe.
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Speaker 2: Terrific.
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Speaker 3: You got a free play out on the Phillies Braves?
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Speaker 2: I do.
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Speaker 3: Lanceslock.com?
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You need to go to lanceslock.com to see the free play?
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Speaker 3: No, I can throw it out. I'm riding with the
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Speaker 3: righteous gemstone. I've got the Phillies as well.
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Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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Speaker 3: Does that bother you?
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Speaker 2: My gosh.
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Speaker 3: No, it doesn't.
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Speaker 2: Is that just a money line play? I gave you
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Speaker 2: 10 picks. There's a good chance I'm 1-9.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you're not going to go 0-10, right?
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Speaker 2: When would he do that?
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Speaker 1: Braves missed their chance yesterday, in my opinion, when they
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Speaker 1: were kicking it around and a couple opportunities, bases loaded.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, when Bryce misplayed that fly– That's when I thought
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Speaker 3: it was over. I thought the game was over, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Everybody watch the Odie's, too. And then three solo shots
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Speaker 3: to beat the Braves. That's got to be tough.
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Speaker 1: Night game over in Atlanta. Should be a lot of
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Speaker 3: I'm not a professional. I'm not very good at predicting games.
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Speaker 2: Am I, Lance?
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Speaker 3: Not very good. Not very good.
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Speaker 1: Steelers and Browns. The Steelers are rolling in at about
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Speaker 1: a two-and-a-half point favorites, where I saw it last when
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Speaker 1: I wrote that down on my sheet of paper.
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Speaker 3: Two-and-a-halves, right.
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Speaker 1: This Steelers team, with the way Aaron Rodgers is playing,
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Speaker 1: to me feels like a style of play that the
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Speaker 1: Steelers are very comfortable with. I can't see the Browns
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Speaker 1: being 3-1.
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Speaker 3: Can you? I do have a five-star on the side
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Speaker 3: of this one. Just a couple of things. Aaron Rodgers,
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Speaker 3: who's been playing football obviously forever, is going for another semi-milestone.
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Speaker 3: If he gets a win tonight, he will tie Tom
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Speaker 3: Brady with the most ever quarterback wins on a Thursday
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Speaker 3: night for whatever that's worth. He's got 13 right now. Pittsburgh,
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Speaker 3: this is pretty amazing. They are 0-9 on the road
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Speaker 3: versus AFC North teams on Thursday night. Four of those
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Speaker 3: losses to the Browns. Wow. Yeah. They have never beat
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Speaker 3: an AFC North team on a Thursday night for whatever
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Speaker 3: that's worth. The Browns, by the way, seven straight wins
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Speaker 3: on Thursday night. Wow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Now, when you throw that stuff out, I try to
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Speaker 1: listen to you, and I'm like, oh, Lance likes this side.
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Speaker 1: Lance likes this side. But I mentioned some streak like
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Speaker 1: that yesterday. For instance, Todd Bowles, my coach with Tampa Bay.
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Speaker 1: 0-12 against the spread. Longest losing streak since the Super.
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Speaker 3: Bowl era began. That's hard to do. It's one thing
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Speaker 3: losing 12 straight, but losing 12 straight against the number.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: When everything gets adjusted. And now he's got a backup
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Speaker 1: quarterback against Green Bay this weekend. I forget what it
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Speaker 1: was yesterday. Lance was like, or you could say he's due.
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Speaker 1: But it feels like it goes to 0-13 this week
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Speaker 1: with Tampa Bay.
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Speaker 2: I remember last Thursday. J.
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Speaker 3: Love Daniels, by the way, and I said in the offseason,
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Speaker 3: kind of kidding around with how he played in the preseason,
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Speaker 3: this guy will get a start or two.
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Speaker 2: No, here he is.
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Speaker 3: He's getting one.
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Speaker 2: I remember last Thursday reading somewhere that Kevin Stefanski was
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Speaker 2: undefeated on Thursday night. and then he remained undefeated last Thursday.
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Speaker 3: He really did.
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Speaker 2: That Browns thing, it's an interesting stat that for some
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Speaker 2: reason Stefanski and the Browns with him couldn't win on Sundays,
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Speaker 2: but they couldn't lose on Thursdays.
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Speaker 3: But if you want the other side of this, Deshaun Watson,
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Speaker 3: who's been really good, 2-0 his last two games, four touchdowns,
15:57
Speaker 3: no picks, he's 0-3 all-time against the Steelers, and he's
16:01
Speaker 3: taken 18 sacks in those three games.
16:04
Speaker 2: So, like, this is the old something's got to get.
16:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I could spin it either way. If
16:07
Speaker 3: I'm on, you know, a talk show in Portland right now,
16:10
Speaker 3: and if I like, you know, Pittsburgh, I'm like, you know,
16:12
Speaker 3: Deshaun Watson's 0 for 3, and he's taking 18 sacks
16:15
Speaker 3: against his Pittsburgh defense. Can't figure it out.
16:18
Speaker 2: Yeah.
16:18
Speaker 3: But if I wanted to go to the other side.
16:19
Speaker 3: I'll give out Browns.
16:20
Speaker 2: If I'm giving.
16:21
Speaker 3: Out the Browns, the Browns have won seven straight on Thursday.
16:24
Speaker 3: This is in Des Moines. Pittsburgh has never beaten an
16:27
Speaker 3: AFC North or 0 and 9 all time on the
16:30
Speaker 3: road on a Thursday night.
16:32
Speaker 7: Yeah.
16:33
Speaker 3: I feel Pittsburgh tonight. Brown, you got a gut? I'm
16:37
Speaker 3: with you.
16:38
Speaker 2: It's hard to believe this Browns team is going to
16:40
Speaker 2: be 3-1 to start the season. I mean, that is really,
16:42
Speaker 2: really difficult for me to believe.
16:44
Speaker 3: How does this end? I don't think either one of
16:46
Speaker 3: these teams is good. The Patriots are really struggling, and
16:49
Speaker 3: there's a little fodder out there that possibly Drake May
16:53
Speaker 3: and Mike Vrabel have gotten a little sideways, and they
16:55
Speaker 3: both had to do a little damage control yesterday.
16:57
Speaker 2: I saw it on TikTok this morning. One of the
17:01
Speaker 2: hosts up in Boston said, is saying Drake May is
17:05
Speaker 2: trying to tell us through coded language that he does
17:08
Speaker 2: not like his coach. So it's interesting you brought that
17:12
Speaker 2: up because I saw him talking about it in Boston.
17:14
Speaker 3: The reason I bring it up is Pittsburgh's one loss
17:16
Speaker 3: was at the Patriots 20-3. They got completely dominated. They
17:20
Speaker 3: could do nothing offensively. And that's a Patriots team that's
17:23
Speaker 3: really struggling right now.
17:24
Speaker 2: But apparently Orlovsky also. What did Drake May say? Do
17:27
Speaker 2: you know exactly what he said? Because I haven't seen
17:28
Speaker 2: what he said.
17:29
Speaker 3: I have not seen what he said. But I did
17:31
Speaker 3: see Vrabel say, hey, look, I had a lot of opportunities.
17:34
Speaker 3: I came to New England because I wanted Drake May
17:35
Speaker 3: to be my quarterback.
17:36
Speaker 2: Yeah. But that's what they're saying at Boston Sports Talk
17:39
Speaker 2: Radio is that Drake May is telling us through his words,
17:42
Speaker 2: through coded language, that he is not happy with Mike Vrabel.
17:45
Speaker 2: And then apparently Orlovsky also said something on ESPN. And
17:49
Speaker 2: Dan said something that kind of went along those same lines,
17:53
Speaker 2: so now everybody's saying Drake May is unhappy.
17:56
Speaker 3: He ain't playing good, I tell you that.
17:59
Speaker 1: Give me that Vrabel quote again because I will tell
18:02
Speaker 1: you how I would respond to that.
18:04
Speaker 3: Do you like your quarterback? Hey, look, I had plenty
18:07
Speaker 3: of opportunities to go different places, take different jobs. I
18:10
Speaker 3: came to New England because I wanted Drake May to
18:13
Speaker 3: be my quarterback.
18:13
Speaker 1: Didn't you say the same thing when you married your wife?
18:16
Speaker 2: Holy crap, I didn't think you were going to go there.
18:19
Speaker 2: Did you stand on a stage with a priest and
18:20
Speaker 2: say the same thing?
18:22
Speaker 3: Again, I can have options outside of certain situations.
18:25
Speaker 2: I thought the same thing, but I didn't think you
18:28
Speaker 2: would say it.
18:30
Speaker 3: Anyway, I mean, don't you think some Boston guy on radio? Oh,
18:33
Speaker 3: I'm sure. You'll be tuned in later today. This is
18:36
Speaker 3: why they were pulling for the regular season to start
18:39
Speaker 3: because that story has completely died down. It's completely dead.
18:43
Speaker 3: My one guarantee is neither Pittsburgh nor Cleveland will be
18:46
Speaker 3: in the postseason. So they can all be sitting at
18:48
Speaker 3: two and one right now. But this is going to
18:50
Speaker 3: be a Bengals or Ravens.
18:52
Speaker 2: Baltimore is the best team in that division. I mean,
18:53
Speaker 2: that's pretty obvious.
18:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're just not a whole.
18:55
Speaker 2: But now, Lamar Jackson did not practice yesterday, I do
18:59
Speaker 2: not believe. So now his health seems in question. Though
19:02
Speaker 2: he seemed fine at the end of that game. He
19:03
Speaker 2: was running, sprinting down the field to celebrate with his
19:07
Speaker 2: kicker at the end of that game.
19:08
Speaker 1: So tell me, how does this end for Aaron Rodgers
19:11
Speaker 1: this year? Does he drag them to the playoffs again?
19:14
Speaker 3: I do not think he drags them to the playoffs.
19:16
Speaker 3: I think it ends with.
19:19
Speaker 3: A 7-10, 8-9 type season.
19:22
Speaker 1: He has looked younger, though, these first three weeks. When
19:25
Speaker 1: I see him, he looks better than any point last year.
19:28
Speaker 3: I don't know. He's completing 58% of his passes, four touchdowns,
19:32
Speaker 3: two picks. They're 2-1, but their wins were over the
19:35
Speaker 3: Falcons with a backup quarterback by seven. And then last week,
19:39
Speaker 3: they did beat the Bengals. So that was an impressive win.
19:42
Speaker 2: Pretty good win.
19:43
Speaker 3: And I had to sit next to a couple of
19:44
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh fans at Buffalo Wild Wings. I thought I had
19:47
Speaker 3: a bad mouth. My gosh. While the game was going on? Yeah,
19:51
Speaker 3: and they won.
19:54
Speaker 1: So it's Pittsburgh, a little two-and-a-half point favor tonight in Cleveland.
19:58
Speaker 1: That kicks off the NFL weekend. We also have a
20:01
Speaker 1: little college football tonight. Western Kentucky, New Mexico State, 7
20:04
Speaker 1: o'clock on the CBS Sports Network. New Mexico State, the
20:08
Speaker 1: 2.5-point home favorite there. And North Texas, a 1.5-point favorite
20:12
Speaker 1: on the road at 3-1 Tulsa, 8 o'clock on ESPN.
20:15
Speaker 3: That's a sneaky good game. Those were really, really difficult
20:18
Speaker 3: against the number. I ended up staying away. Kind of
20:21
Speaker 3: leading North Texas. I think North Texas got more talent,
20:24
Speaker 3: but on the road to Tulsa, I don't know.
20:27
Speaker 2: Before we get too far from the... Righteous Gemstones? Well, no,
20:30
Speaker 2: that was excellent. I did enjoy that. From the Thursday
20:33
Speaker 2: night game, Lance, did you see the Andrew Marchand... He's
20:37
Speaker 2: a media guy. He covers the media, Andrew Marchand does.
20:40
Speaker 2: I'm going to try to pull it up so I
20:40
Speaker 2: can read it verbatim.
20:41
Speaker 3: He's a media guy that covers the media?
20:42
Speaker 4: No, no, no.
20:43
Speaker 2: He covers it for The Athletic. Well, he is a
20:44
Speaker 2: media guy, but he does cover the media for The Athletic.
20:46
Speaker 2: And I was going to see if I could find it.
20:48
Speaker 2: All right. So Andrew Marchand reports yesterday, Amazon re-signs Kirk
20:54
Speaker 2: Herbstreit to call Thursday Night Football. So Kirk gets no
20:57
Speaker 2: more off days ever. But the second part of it
21:00
Speaker 2: was what caught my attention in this report from Andrew Marchand.
21:03
Speaker 2: And he used to cover media for The New York Post.
21:05
Speaker 2: This guy's done it a long time. That's right. But,
21:08
Speaker 2: Andrew writes, the deal contains outs for a potential Sean
21:13
Speaker 2: McVay run.
21:17
Speaker 3: I knew you were going to go there. I really did.
21:18
Speaker 3: I have not seen that report.
21:20
Speaker 2: So Herbstreet signed a deal, but apparently there are outs
21:22
Speaker 2: in the deal if they can get Sean McVay.
21:24
Speaker 1: So Herb Street is like analysts in waiting if.
21:27
Speaker 3: Sean McVay comes?
21:29
Speaker 2: Placeholder? I don't know if they would do both. I
21:30
Speaker 2: don't think he would do both of them.
21:32
Speaker 3: How do you think Herb Street feels about that? Well,
21:33
Speaker 3: I mean, he signed the deal. I would assume he
21:35
Speaker 3: knew that.
21:36
Speaker 2: Was in the deal.
21:37
Speaker 1: Isn't he making $ 10. 5 just for doing that? I really
21:39
Speaker 1: don't know the number. I think I remember. Wasn't that
21:42
Speaker 1: prime deal $ 10. 5 extra million a year for Herb Street?
21:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think McVay is kind of miserable.
21:48
Speaker 2: Really?
21:48
Speaker 3: He just hates losing so much.
21:51
Speaker 2: God, he's done it twice already this year.
21:52
Speaker 3: I know, and there's a good chance there's a third
21:55
Speaker 3: coming up Sunday in Philadelphia.
21:56
Speaker 1: I just don't think he can take it anymore. And
21:58
Speaker 1: the whole Rams organization hate of losing. It's McVay, you, Stafford.
22:03
Speaker 2: Right, yeah.
22:04
Speaker 3: I think McVay does care a little bit more than me,
22:06
Speaker 3: but outside of that.
22:08
Speaker 2: Hey, but I just got to be honest with you,
22:11
Speaker 2: and maybe I'm alone in this. Sean McVay is the
22:13
Speaker 2: best coach in the NFL right now. Yes. So I'm
22:15
Speaker 2: not alone in that, I know.
22:16
Speaker 3: Sean McVay is the best coach in the NFL. Shanahan's
22:19
Speaker 3: pretty good. Yeah, but Shanahan's never won a Super Bowl. Now,
22:24
Speaker 3: if you look at him head-to-head, Shanahan dominates McVay, but
22:28
Speaker 3: I'm just.
22:28
Speaker 1: Saying full bodies of work. If you had the same health, players,
22:34
Speaker 1: and it was just coaching, I'm not saying Shanahan is
22:37
Speaker 1: better than McVay or McVay is better than Shanahan, but
22:39
Speaker 1: I'd put those two. That would be 1A, 1B for me.
22:42
Speaker 1: I mean, all time it's Andy Reid if you just
22:44
Speaker 1: look at their full resume.
22:46
Speaker 3: But, I mean, I'm just going.
22:47
Speaker 2: With this one at a time.
22:47
Speaker 3: And that's accomplishments.
22:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. But I will have to say this, when
22:52
Speaker 2: Scott gives us Sean McVay audio, it hurts my ears. Like,
22:58
Speaker 2: I can't imagine that guy doing a three-hour game on
23:00
Speaker 2: Amazon Prime. That voice is not made for.
23:02
Speaker 3: The voice isn't, but Collinsworth's voice is even worse.
23:06
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's great, yeah. But Sean McVay's voice,
23:08
Speaker 2: I don't think, is made for that occupation.
23:10
Speaker 3: I don't think he can keep the energy.
23:12
Speaker 8: Yeah.
23:12
Speaker 3: His energy is crazy.
23:14
Speaker 1: We used to work with a guy that would turn
23:17
Speaker 1: his bass... up a lot more and, uh, did classic
23:22
Speaker 1: rock 99 for years and years.
23:23
Speaker 2: Why are you talking to coded about Tony Curry? I
23:25
Speaker 2: know that's who you're talking about. I mean, he turned
23:26
Speaker 2: his voice, but Tony had a good radio voice. He did,
23:30
Speaker 2: but he made it even deeper. We can adjust the
23:32
Speaker 2: mics Jim. It's to me to make McVay a little deeper.
23:35
Speaker 3: Great coach.
23:36
Speaker 2: But anytime we play sound, like after a Rams game,
23:38
Speaker 2: I'm like, God, that voice.
23:39
Speaker 3: I think the reason they want him is just not
23:41
Speaker 3: only the insight, but just how knowledgeable, like.
23:45
Speaker 2: And he's young. You're getting young. He can do that
23:47
Speaker 2: a long time.
23:47
Speaker 3: They like the energy. The knowledge is crazy. Yeah, it's
23:51
Speaker 3: the brain.
23:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, but normally when you get those guys, you get
23:54
Speaker 2: them when they're 65, and you've only got a good five,
23:56
Speaker 2: six-year run with them.
23:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think what's going to happen with McVay, in
24:00
Speaker 3: my opinion, is he's going to go out with Stafford
24:01
Speaker 3: this year, win or lose. I think he will go
24:04
Speaker 3: into the broadcast booth. I think he will get sick
24:06
Speaker 3: of that in a couple of years. And he'll come
24:08
Speaker 3: back coaching, and it won't be for your team, and
24:09
Speaker 3: you'll need every bit of it. But I don't know
24:11
Speaker 3: if you all have noticed this, but Tony Romo has
24:13
Speaker 3: just disappeared. CBS said, yeah, we're going to start the
24:15
Speaker 3: year without Tony.
24:17
Speaker 2: And when's the last time you've thought about Tony Romo? Like,
24:20
Speaker 2: I would imagine you've seen him do his last game
24:22
Speaker 2: for some years.
24:23
Speaker 3: I think Romo got a little too comfortable. Like, Romo
24:26
Speaker 3: early was good.
24:26
Speaker 2: That's right.
24:27
Speaker 3: And then it's like he got a little lazy or whatever.
24:29
Speaker 2: And CBS was obviously looking for an out. And that
24:32
Speaker 2: DUI gave them the out. And, boy, I mean, he has, like, disappeared.
24:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, because if it was Tony Romo year one with
24:38
Speaker 3: the DUI, he's calling games right now.
24:39
Speaker 2: Correct, yes.
24:41
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25:09
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25:24
Speaker 1: Some of the things that should or shouldn't be happening
25:28
Speaker 1: on and around football programs. One of them that I
25:33
Speaker 1: really do think Tennessee is ruining a really good Saturday
25:36
Speaker 1: at Neyland Stadium, even though it may rain during the game.
25:39
Speaker 1: The smoky gray uniforms are going to be worn this weekend.
25:43
Speaker 1: As a fan who loves to see Auburn play these
25:46
Speaker 1: traditional games against Florida and Tennessee, it's been a while
25:49
Speaker 1: since Auburn has played at Neyland Stadium. And I would
25:53
Speaker 1: like to see Tennessee in their white football pants and
25:56
Speaker 1: that white helmet with the power T. But nope, they're
26:00
Speaker 1: going to wear the smoky grays this weekend. And it's
26:03
Speaker 1: just not a good looking uniform in my opinion. No,
26:06
Speaker 1: orange is a tough color. But Tennessee does it right.
26:09
Speaker 2: They do. And that orange and white uniform is just
26:11
Speaker 2: a classic SEC uniform.
26:13
Speaker 3: I just don't understand how you messed that up. Wasn't
26:15
Speaker 3: it Lane Kiffin that originally messed it up? I know
26:18
Speaker 3: he had the black. I know he had the black.
26:21
Speaker 3: Here's the smoky gray.
26:22
Speaker 2: Not a fan. It's just not a good look. No.
26:25
Speaker 2: It's just not a good look. You've got such a
26:27
Speaker 2: good uniform. Don't screw with it, man. It's a classic.
26:30
Speaker 2: I know if you're an Alabama fan, you're like, I
26:31
Speaker 2: hate that Tennessee orange. I get it. They're a rival, but.
26:35
Speaker 2: You can't argue that it's just a historic classic uniform
26:37
Speaker 2: in the SEC.
26:38
Speaker 3: Look, Heupel's a good coach, and if I took over
26:41
Speaker 3: one of these programs, I would go traditional uniforms, but
26:44
Speaker 3: I don't think Heupel has a mirror. I mean, you
26:46
Speaker 3: can look at him and see, right? I understand what
26:49
Speaker 3: you're saying.
26:50
Speaker 2: I understand.
26:50
Speaker 3: I understand.
26:52
Speaker 2: I just, I mean, there are certain schools, and I
26:54
Speaker 2: don't know where I draw the line on this, that
26:56
Speaker 2: never need to screw with their uniforms. I would say
26:59
Speaker 2: probably there are 16 schools in the SEC. I would
27:01
Speaker 2: say at least 8 to 10 have a uniform that
27:04
Speaker 2: should never be touched. And there are some I'm like, yeah,
27:06
Speaker 2: you don't have a ton of history. I don't really care. Yeah.
27:09
Speaker 1: Well, Florida is able to mix and match a couple
27:11
Speaker 1: really well. But this Tennessee great.
27:15
Speaker 3: Just not a good look. Now, I do like that
27:16
Speaker 3: star helmet now. Is that an ode to General Nealon?
27:19
Speaker 3: Is that what the star is? I assume, because he
27:22
Speaker 3: was a general.
27:23
Speaker 2: He was a general. He was an actual general. I
27:24
Speaker 2: don't know if he was a one-star.
27:25
Speaker 3: Brooks says the whole uniform is.
27:27
Speaker 2: Oh. Okay. All right.
27:28
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I respect General Nealon. Did they wear
27:30
Speaker 3: gray back then, Brooks? Thank you for your service.
27:33
Speaker 2: Yes.
27:33
Speaker 3: No, they did not.
27:35
Speaker 5: But I guess they do an annual smoky gray uniform
27:40
Speaker 5: every year now, and they use this as an opportunity.
27:42
Speaker 5: This is the 100th year since he became the head
27:44
Speaker 5: coach at Tennessee in 1926.
27:48
Speaker 3: It's the kneeling on the back of the helmet.
27:49
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27:51
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Speaker 1: Josh Heupel first, getting asked about the illegal onside kick
29:03
Speaker 1: that worked last week against Texas.
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Speaker 3: Josh, what were you thinking, man?
29:08
Speaker 7: Coach, just a comment on the onside kick. I know
29:11
Speaker 7: it was kind of a situation where I think it
29:14
Speaker 7: was illegal. Have you guys addressed that, and just how
29:17
Speaker 7: has that been for the start.
29:18
Speaker 6: Of the week? Yeah, that kick was actually run previously
29:22
Speaker 6: inside of this league. We had had earlier communication with
29:26
Speaker 6: the league as well.
29:27
Speaker 3: We'll adjust to.
29:27
Speaker 2: The new ruling.
29:29
Speaker 3: New rule?
29:31
Speaker 2: The ruling we got today as I was walking down here. Yeah,
29:34
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not a new rule. He's acting as if, well,
29:37
Speaker 2: why are we being singled out? Of course, I don't know.
29:40
Speaker 2: if he even knew. What, that rule? Yeah. I would
29:43
Speaker 2: assume no. He says it's been run in the league before. Well,
29:46
Speaker 2: I think he's talking about a dropkick. In fact, I
29:48
Speaker 2: think it was South Carolina that did it against Alabama, right?
29:51
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was a dropkick. But South Carolina,
29:54
Speaker 2: the onside kick two years ago in Tuscaloosa. So Alabama
29:59
Speaker 2: had that game in hand, and South Carolina came storming back.
30:02
Speaker 2: They recovered the onside kick, end up with a heave
30:05
Speaker 2: into the end zone to win the game. I think
30:06
Speaker 2: it was the same kick. I think that's what he's
30:08
Speaker 2: talking about.
30:09
Speaker 3: Really? Don't remember that. Don't either. There's touch the 35.
30:12
Speaker 2: Yeah.
30:14
Speaker 3: I'm pretty certain.
30:15
Speaker 1: So if you drop it onto the 35, is that revealable?
30:18
Speaker 1: If it misses, I can see green between the ball
30:20
Speaker 1: and the white? I would think so.
30:22
Speaker 3: I don't know.
30:23
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's a good question. I don't know
30:24
Speaker 2: if it's revealable or not, but. The rule says the
30:28
Speaker 2: nose of the ball has to be touching the 35.
30:29
Speaker 2: I do not believe this to be a new rule.
30:31
Speaker 2: I think this is a rule that has been in
30:33
Speaker 2: football for 100 years. But it's called the restraining line.
30:37
Speaker 2: The rule doesn't say the 35 because with a penalty,
30:40
Speaker 2: you could be kicking from the 30 or something like that.
30:43
Speaker 3: Or back in the old days, we kicked from the 40s.
30:45
Speaker 2: That's right, wherever it was. That's the restraining line.
30:47
Speaker 1: Alex Golish is the head coach at Auburn. He's been
30:52
Speaker 1: dealing with this staffer who has been arrested on felony
30:55
Speaker 1: charges for pumping out information that was supposedly to be
31:00
Speaker 1: private inside the Auburn organization from when he worked at Auburn.
31:04
Speaker 1: Claims to be a Tennessee student now. It was recruiting-based.
31:09
Speaker 1: Alex Goldish was asked about the Auburn former staffer yesterday.
31:12
Speaker 3: Is it a distraction?
31:15
Speaker 8: Literally no reaction. Taylor mentioned it. This ain't coach talk.
31:21
Speaker 8: Couldn't care less. Focus is on Tennessee and And that's
31:25
Speaker 8: a challenge to our team, too, right? Like, can we
31:26
Speaker 8: just be focused on what the heck's important? And like
31:29
Speaker 8: I talked about Monday, it truly is focused on Tennessee.
31:32
Speaker 3: Let's ride.
31:33
Speaker 8: Like, I shouldn't say I couldn't care less. I had
31:35
Speaker 8: thought about it one second. When the original situation came up,
31:40
Speaker 8: obviously had to make sure we dotted our I's and
31:42
Speaker 8: crossed our T's. But we have it in place. Like,
31:46
Speaker 8: there's nothing that I feel like, man, is going to
31:50
Speaker 8: affect anything in terms of how it got out.
31:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's a non-factor for this game this weekend.
31:55
Speaker 1: What is a factor is the quarterback. But I asked
31:57
Speaker 1: you guys, who's got the quarterback advantage in this game
32:02
Speaker 1: this weekend? And I will say this, that we did
32:06
Speaker 1: ESPN's quarterback ranking yesterday. CBS had theirs out today, just
32:11
Speaker 1: ranking the top 50 quarterbacks in college football, all classes,
32:15
Speaker 1: not just the Power Four. And Byron Brown was not
32:19
Speaker 1: in their top 50.
32:21
Speaker 3: With that said, Byron Brown right now is the better quarterback. Now,
32:25
Speaker 3: if you're projecting long-term, we care about Saturday. What about
32:29
Speaker 3: Saturday's game? I would say that Byron Brown, with that experience,
32:32
Speaker 3: is still the better quarterback. That's the quarterback I would
32:34
Speaker 3: rather have.
32:35
Speaker 2: Not that CBS is the Bible on this, but did
32:37
Speaker 2: they have Faison Brennan in the top 50? Do you
32:39
Speaker 2: happen to know?
32:40
Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't look for Faison Brennan.
32:41
Speaker 8: No, that's okay.
32:41
Speaker 2: You don't have to. I mean, that's 50 guys.
32:43
Speaker 3: Kids got a lot of upside.
32:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just curious if they say Byron Brown isn't
32:46
Speaker 2: in the top 50, but Faison Brennan is. And again,
32:48
Speaker 2: that's one outlet's opinion. So it's not the gospel by
32:52
Speaker 2: any stretch of the imagination. I think, given the choice,
32:55
Speaker 2: and I can't even believe we're having this discussion right now,
32:57
Speaker 2: if you go back to August with this discussion, you'd
33:00
Speaker 2: have said, oh my gosh, what? Byron Brown or Faisal Brandon?
33:04
Speaker 3: The for sure positive for Brandon, if you want to
33:06
Speaker 3: go in that direction, is zero turnovers.
33:09
Speaker 2: That's true. Seven touchdowns, no interception.
33:11
Speaker 3: And so Byron Brown has been a little careless with
33:13
Speaker 3: the football.
33:14
Speaker 2: He certainly has. Yeah, you cannot deny that. It started
33:16
Speaker 2: in the Baylor game, and it is, I guess, improved something.
33:19
Speaker 2: He had three picks in the Baylor game, so... You'd
33:21
Speaker 2: have to say it has improved, but it is still
33:23
Speaker 2: a concern.
33:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would have bet any amount of money that
33:26
Speaker 3: Faison would have turned one over on Saturday against Texas.
33:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, a true freshman playing against Texas in a big
33:31
Speaker 1: game like that? Brandon also not in the top 50.
33:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think Byron Brown has played his best football.
33:36
Speaker 3: I mean, the problem is now the competition really ratchets
33:39
Speaker 3: it up a little bit. He would have thought that
33:42
Speaker 3: against Baylor, Southern Miss, he would have put up some
33:45
Speaker 3: big numbers. I mean, I think he's been okay. A
33:49
Speaker 3: little disappointing.
33:49
Speaker 2: My concern for Byron Brown is Auburn's front communicating in
33:54
Speaker 2: a hostile environment like this. Keep in mind, Auburn has
33:58
Speaker 2: played a pretty good schedule with respect to what the
34:01
Speaker 2: rest of the country is playing. Historically, it's not a
34:03
Speaker 2: great schedule. But with respect to the rest of the country,
34:05
Speaker 2: a pretty good schedule. You know the one thing Auburn
34:06
Speaker 2: hasn't had to do yet? Go on the road.
34:09
Speaker 3: True road game.
34:09
Speaker 2: True road game. I mean, they played at Mercedes-Benz, which
34:12
Speaker 2: is a de facto home game, a default home game.
34:15
Speaker 2: And then they've played everything else in Jordan-Hare. This is
34:17
Speaker 2: the first time they've had to go on the road.
34:18
Speaker 2: Most teams are road-tested by now. Auburn is not. And
34:21
Speaker 2: that offensive line has already been a problem. And that's
34:25
Speaker 2: been a problem in friendly confines. And now you're asking
34:28
Speaker 2: them to communicate, Lance, in one of the most difficult
34:30
Speaker 2: stadiums in America.
34:31
Speaker 3: You were talking about San Diego Padres. Do they have
34:34
Speaker 3: the best home crowd in baseball right now? If they
34:36
Speaker 3: would have lost Game 1 to the Cubs, they still
34:39
Speaker 3: show up with those yellow towels in Game 2. The
34:41
Speaker 3: atmosphere is incredible. I just wonder where Tennessee is going
34:44
Speaker 3: to be after... all of that energy for that Texas game,
34:47
Speaker 3: albeit an 11 o'clock game, now this is a 2.30,
34:49
Speaker 3: are Tennessee fans still as excited as they were last week?
34:53
Speaker 2: I mean, there's got to be some deflation there, but
34:55
Speaker 2: I also think if I'm a Tennessee fan, I'm like,
34:57
Speaker 2: we took the number one, although I don't feel this
35:00
Speaker 2: way watching the game, we took the number one team
35:03
Speaker 2: in the country to the last second. Now, I watched
35:06
Speaker 2: that game, and it didn't feel like they took the
35:08
Speaker 2: number one team in the country to the last second.
35:09
Speaker 2: I don't know about you guys. Technically, they did. I mean,
35:13
Speaker 2: they've got ball in hand with a chance to score
35:15
Speaker 2: and tie the game up, right? Yeah, one of those
35:17
Speaker 2: was a word about the offense. One of those was
35:19
Speaker 2: a special team.
35:20
Speaker 1: Then one of them was sort of a late touchdown
35:22
Speaker 1: when you were going against them.
35:23
Speaker 3: Offensively, they weren't doing anything.
35:25
Speaker 2: They were not. So I didn't watch that game and
35:27
Speaker 2: feel like, you know what? Tennessee challenged Texas as much
35:30
Speaker 2: as anybody has. But the score told you you did,
35:32
Speaker 2: and you're there at the end of the game watching
35:34
Speaker 2: Tennessee with ball in hand and a chance to do something.
35:36
Speaker 2: Keep in mind, if you're playing this game at Hard
35:39
Speaker 2: Rock Bet, Wendell Moe, starting left guard for Tennessee, not
35:44
Speaker 2: expected to play.
35:45
Speaker 3: In this game. So he is likely out.
35:49
Speaker 1: And he's the starter at left guard there, a pretty
35:50
Speaker 1: important part of that Tennessee offensive line, as Auburn tries
35:54
Speaker 1: to go up and get a road win at Tennessee
35:58
Speaker 1: this weekend. Another big game, upset alert possibility with Florida,
36:04
Speaker 1: red hot, everybody's talking point, on the road in Como
36:08
Speaker 1: to play Missouri. Here's Eli Drinkwitz, cut 13 if you can, Tyler.
36:14
Speaker 1: Eli talking about trying to bounce back after their loss
36:18
Speaker 1: in Starkville against Red Hot Mississippi State.
36:22
Speaker 4: What do you need to see from your team this
36:23
Speaker 4: week in the response to that first loss?
36:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to bounce back.
36:27
Speaker 3: I think.
36:28
Speaker 4: This day and age, you know, everybody wants to have
36:31
Speaker 4: we want to be really quick to write people off
36:33
Speaker 4: and write chapters of a story or finality or obituaries
36:38
Speaker 4: or whatever.
36:39
Speaker 3: You want to say based off of one thing. But
36:41
Speaker 3: seasons are long seasons and.
36:44
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, it's not always going to go your way. Uh, again, the,
36:48
Speaker 4: the tail of the tape for us was a slow
36:50
Speaker 4: start and a slow finish in between. I thought the
36:53
Speaker 4: fight was tremendous. I thought the way our guys battled
36:56
Speaker 4: stayed together was good. It's just, wasn't good enough execution
37:00
Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter. I've been proud of the way
37:01
Speaker 4: they respond now. I mean, this is a really, really
37:05
Speaker 4: good football team we got coming in here. So we
37:07
Speaker 4: got to speed up the response and we got to
37:08
Speaker 4: have a bounce back factor for sure.
37:10
Speaker 1: Sadly for him, it's been a bad PR week for Missouri.
37:13
Speaker 1: They need this win pretty bad on the PR side
37:16
Speaker 1: of this.
37:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree.
37:17
Speaker 3: Austin Simmons playing good football, but this defense that was
37:20
Speaker 3: so good last year, 51 plays of 10-plus yards. That
37:24
Speaker 3: is the worst in the SEC. They gave up right
37:26
Speaker 3: at 500 yards last week to Mississippi State. They're going
37:29
Speaker 3: to have to clean it up against this Florida offense
37:31
Speaker 3: that is clicking on all cylinders.
37:32
Speaker 2: I just feel like, though, I got a sneaking suspicion
37:36
Speaker 2: Lance is right and is upset that Missouri wins this game.
37:38
Speaker 2: Florida's the better team.
37:39
Speaker 3: Yes, no doubt.
37:40
Speaker 2: Better team doesn't always win on a given Saturday. And
37:43
Speaker 2: I think that I'm just starting to feel, and we've
37:46
Speaker 2: only played one month of this, two more to go,
37:49
Speaker 2: starting to feel like that's the way this SEC is
37:51
Speaker 2: going to go this year. As soon as you think
37:53
Speaker 2: you've got a team figured out, they get a puzzling loss.
37:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is a manhood game. for Missouri back
37:59
Speaker 3: to everybody talking about look you guys have been ranked
38:02
Speaker 3: 31 of the last 39 polls but you're one and
38:03
Speaker 3: nine against ranked teams you don't deserve to be there
38:05
Speaker 3: what are people thinking you know Eli Drinkwitz has got
38:08
Speaker 3: to be able to.
38:09
Speaker 2: Flip this like you tell me Florida beats Ole Miss
38:12
Speaker 2: loses at Missouri can see it you tell me Allah
38:14
Speaker 2: and I'm not predicting this I'm just saying if this
38:16
Speaker 2: happened Alabama loses at State Saturday turns around to beats
38:19
Speaker 2: Georgia could totally see that happening Oklahoma gets embarrassed that
38:23
Speaker 2: Georgia beats Texas next week. I could totally see that.
38:25
Speaker 3: I mean, it's the NFL. This is where we are.
38:27
Speaker 3: That's what the SEC has come to.
38:29
Speaker 2: That's why my gut tells me Missouri wins this game,
38:32
Speaker 2: even though they never win these types of games under
38:34
Speaker 2: Eli Drinkwitz.
38:34
Speaker 1: And that's what was huge for Texas last week because
38:36
Speaker 1: it was a big win on the road in the SEC,
38:40
Speaker 1: which is a little bit more difficult. That was big
38:42
Speaker 1: for Texas. We'll see if Florida can do what they
38:44
Speaker 1: can do on the road at Missouri coming up this weekend.
38:48
Speaker 1: More on the SEC next. coming up a little bit
38:50
Speaker 1: later on. But when we come back, there are, let
38:53
Speaker 1: me see, I got one, I got two, I got three,
38:56
Speaker 1: I got four, I got five coaches who arguably could
39:01
Speaker 1: all not be back at their job next year who
39:04
Speaker 1: have a chance this weekend for a sort of storyline-turning win. Now,
39:10
Speaker 1: they're all underdogs, but they're, well, four of the five
39:13
Speaker 1: are underdogs, but there's a chance to flip the script
39:16
Speaker 1: this weekend for these five coaches who We'll walk through
39:19
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39:29
Speaker 3: All of our relationships here.
39:31
Speaker 1: You know, we talk bad things about the NIL world
39:35
Speaker 1: of college football all the time.
39:37
Speaker 3: Here's the good thing.
39:38
Speaker 1: Josh Ford, Alabama tight end who made that catch this
39:41
Speaker 1: past weekend, it's good that you.
39:43
Speaker 3: Can make money.
39:44
Speaker 1: This is real name, image, and likeness right here. J &
39:46
Speaker 1: J Apparel. quickly with the t-shirts out josh is able
39:51
Speaker 1: to make money off of that image there if you
39:53
Speaker 1: want to remember that catch in the back of the
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Speaker 1: end zone and go buy that t-shirt that one moment
39:58
Speaker 1: in time t-shirt there for that catch good for good
40:01
Speaker 1: i mean that's name image and likeness i mean i
40:03
Speaker 1: don't think anybody's ever going to buy it yeah.
40:05
Speaker 2: I mean i don't know how many people are going
40:06
Speaker 2: to have those but i think that is what i
40:08
Speaker 2: thought name and image and likeness would i did too
40:10
Speaker 2: yeah so if.
40:11
Speaker 3: I had a free one You guys don't want them?
40:15
Speaker 3: I don't have them. I was going to say, I'll
40:16
Speaker 3: gift it to somebody. J & J and Peril there.
40:19
Speaker 1: But I thought that was pretty cool because they used
40:21
Speaker 1: to sell jerseys with no name on the back and
40:24
Speaker 1: nobody got any money.
40:25
Speaker 3: At all back in the day. That catch to beat Georgia?
40:28
Speaker 3: He'll sell the shit out of them. That catch and
40:32
Speaker 3: a blowout win over South Carolina? Not so much.
40:34
Speaker 2: Give me one more, Josh. One more catch.
40:36
Speaker 3: It is a great catch. Did I miss it?
40:39
Speaker 1: I don't watch the pregame shows on Sunday like I
40:41
Speaker 1: used to. Did Is that a You Got Mossed moment?
40:45
Speaker 3: They still do You Got Mossed. It was on Monday night,
40:47
Speaker 3: but I think it's on Sunday now.
40:49
Speaker 2: Oh, is it?
40:50
Speaker 3: I think so. You Got Mossed.
40:52
Speaker 1: Let me know in the chat if they did that
40:54
Speaker 1: in the You Got Mossed segment this past week.
40:56
Speaker 3: That was a cool segment. I used to like it
40:57
Speaker 3: when Randy did that.
40:57
Speaker 2: Me too.
40:58
Speaker 3: Me too, right there. Randy was pretty entertaining.
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Speaker 2: everybody's out on Greg Sciano at Rutgers. Here comes Indiana
42:30
Speaker 2: this weekend.
42:31
Speaker 1: I got five coaches that can flip the script on
42:33
Speaker 1: their storyline. Any chance Rutgers can put up the fight
42:37
Speaker 1: they put up against USC? 7 o'clock Central, 8 o'clock Eastern,
42:41
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42:43
Speaker 3: Zero chance. Zero chance. Brownie?
42:46
Speaker 2: I will say no chance. I think Indiana gets their
42:49
Speaker 2: upset next week. Okay.
42:50
Speaker 1: Shiano not changing the storyline.
42:52
Speaker 2: Still in the doghouse.
42:54
Speaker 3: Just for what it's worth, again, Trent and or Engel,
42:57
Speaker 3: three straight Rutgers wins versus Indiana. Now they haven't played
43:00
Speaker 3: since Signetti.
43:01
Speaker 2: Took it over.
43:02
Speaker 3: That's old school Indiana. That's PC pre-Signetti.
43:05
Speaker 2: That's right.
43:06
Speaker 1: Washington on the road at USC. Washington has won three
43:11
Speaker 1: straight in this series. Uh, Everybody seemed to be packing
43:16
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley's bags after the loss this weekend. But I
43:19
Speaker 1: would say back in August, we didn't really expect USC
43:23
Speaker 1: to be unbeaten. We probably said, OK, if they lose
43:27
Speaker 1: to Oregon, they can still be a playoff team.
43:29
Speaker 3: But here comes Washington. Pretty important game. Yeah, I think
43:31
Speaker 3: the problem is what you're looking at with Gary Patterson's defense.
43:34
Speaker 3: They've given up. 35 to Louisiana, then 35 to Rutgers,
43:38
Speaker 3: then 41, a season high last week to Oregon. You
43:41
Speaker 3: had a 7-3 lead when Dante Moore gets knocked out
43:43
Speaker 3: of the game and you get beat by a backup quarterback.
43:46
Speaker 3: That's been the problem this week for Lincoln Riley and
43:48
Speaker 3: the way the entire team reacted and just the sideline
43:54
Speaker 3: behavior from USC. Washington hasn't been able to run the football.
43:59
Speaker 3: DeMond Williams is taking unnecessary hits. Seven sacks against Minnesota.
44:03
Speaker 3: Washington's been one of the most disappointing teams. Now, if
44:06
Speaker 3: they turn around and beat USC... All that's flushed. Well,
44:10
Speaker 3: that moniker then is on USC. That's your upset alert.
44:13
Speaker 2: It is.
44:13
Speaker 1: But if Lincoln Riley wins this game... They sort of
44:16
Speaker 1: are where I thought they would be back in August.
44:19
Speaker 1: They are just some bad PR. Why is everybody out
44:20
Speaker 1: on Lincoln Riley? It's a big opportunity for him.
44:23
Speaker 2: Well, because of just the look in the Oregon game. Like,
44:25
Speaker 2: if they had lost in overtime to Oregon and then
44:27
Speaker 2: won this game, I think USC fans would be like,
44:29
Speaker 2: you could flush it. Yeah, you could. You could get
44:31
Speaker 2: past it. But the fact that he lost that game
44:35
Speaker 2: to a backup quarterback who played for an entire half,
44:37
Speaker 2: not like two drives. The look with his player after
44:41
Speaker 2: the penalty and all of that. And then, Lance, they
44:42
Speaker 2: lost by two scores. Yeah, that was a– I mean,
44:45
Speaker 2: that's a two-score defeat on your own field.
44:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, not only are you up when Dante Moore goes out,
44:50
Speaker 3: you tie it up 27 apiece in the fourth. You
44:53
Speaker 3: end up losing by 14. Not only do you give
44:55
Speaker 3: up the most points you've given up all year in 41,
44:57
Speaker 3: you score the least amount of points you've scored all
45:00
Speaker 3: year in 27. So I think all that coming together,
45:02
Speaker 3: sold-out crowd, SC saying this was a signature game for
45:06
Speaker 3: Lincoln Riley, not being able to get it done. Yep. Boy,
45:09
Speaker 3: if they were to lose this game, they're counting money already.
45:12
Speaker 2: Wolves at the door now.
45:13
Speaker 3: Flip it around with Lincoln Riley.
45:15
Speaker 1: Deion Sanders changing quarterbacks at home in Boulder. Here comes
45:20
Speaker 1: Texas Tech. Primetime window on Maine Fox. A Deion Sanders win.
45:27
Speaker 1: And maybe the storyline flips a little bit on Deion Sanders'
45:30
Speaker 1: future at Colorado and what he can do there.
45:33
Speaker 3: Well, I'll be interested to see what Isaac Wilson can
45:35
Speaker 3: do because the fact of the matter is the Buffaloes
45:38
Speaker 3: have not scored more than 25 against a power four
45:40
Speaker 3: since November of 24. It's almost been two years since
45:44
Speaker 3: they've scored 25, which is not a high mark. On
45:47
Speaker 3: the other side, though, Joey McGuire, and this is flipped
45:50
Speaker 3: around a little bit with NIL, but in true road
45:53
Speaker 3: games at Texas Tech, he's coached in 22 of them.
45:56
Speaker 3: What do you think his record, true road games, 22
45:58
Speaker 3: games for Joey McGuire? 11 and 11. 11 and 11
46:03
Speaker 3: is the number. Hard to win on the road. I
46:05
Speaker 3: was going to say a little higher.
46:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's considering they went undefeated last year.
46:09
Speaker 3: Well, and two years ago when Colorado had that special
46:12
Speaker 3: nine-win season, they beat Texas Tech by double digits.
46:15
Speaker 2: Well, Colorado has to have this win. These three games
46:18
Speaker 2: for them are just absolutely brutal. They've got Texas Tech,
46:21
Speaker 2: they host Utah, and then they're at surprising Oklahoma State.
46:25
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a better chance they're 0-3 than anything else.
46:28
Speaker 2: That's your most likely outcome in that one.
46:30
Speaker 3: I'd be shocked if Texas Tech was to lose this
46:32
Speaker 3: game in Boulder.
46:33
Speaker 2: I would, too. But, I mean, they're about to go
46:36
Speaker 2: probably on a five-game losing streak here, Dunaway, and you're
46:39
Speaker 2: talking about changing narratives. That's only going to solidify the
46:43
Speaker 2: Deion narrative.
46:44
Speaker 3: But it's only 13.5 points, and we will have multiple
46:46
Speaker 3: two-touchdown dogs that will win outright this weekend.
46:49
Speaker 1: Everybody has started to plan for the future at North
46:52
Speaker 1: Carolina after Bill Belichick. But here comes Notre Dame this week.
46:58
Speaker 1: Notre Dame and North Carolina. right there in Chapel Hill.
47:02
Speaker 1: That is your right out of game day, 11 a.m.,
47:06
Speaker 1: 12 Eastern game, Notre Dame and UNC. Boy, Bill Belichick's
47:11
Speaker 1: team looks really different if they shock the world against
47:13
Speaker 1: the Irish this weekend.
47:14
Speaker 3: Well, he's only coached in one ranked matchup or against
47:18
Speaker 3: one ranked team since he's been at Carolina. That was
47:21
Speaker 3: a 17-16 overtime loss to Virginia. Right now, Notre Dame
47:25
Speaker 3: can't run the football. I mean, they have yet to
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Speaker 3: rush for 180-plus. It hadn't mattered. because they've completely dominated
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Speaker 3: their opponents. But, you know, going into the season, one
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Speaker 3: of the big question marks, Jeremiah Love, Jadarian Price, those
47:35
Speaker 3: guys are gone. How consistently can you run the football
47:38
Speaker 3: with a really good quarterback in C.J.
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Speaker 2: Carr?
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Speaker 3: Carolina can get after the quarterback. That Xavier Lewis kid's
47:44
Speaker 3: already got six sacks, third in the FBS, can't run
47:47
Speaker 3: the football, it puts pressure on C.J. Carr. I think
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Speaker 3: this game could be a little interesting. I really do.
47:53
Speaker 3: I've got a gut feeling it could be really fun, too.
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Speaker 2: Did you just tell me that Bill Belichick has coached
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Speaker 2: 15 games at North Carolina?
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Speaker 3: That's the ACC.
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Speaker 2: Only one of them is against a ranked team.
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Speaker 3: And it was Virginia.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was Virginia.
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Speaker 3: It could have been too highly ranked at that moment.
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Speaker 2: That's pretty remarkable that you could go 15 games in
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Speaker 2: a power conference, quote-unquote power conference, and only coach against
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Speaker 2: one ranked team. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And North Carolina, as a program, they've played 28 games
48:19
Speaker 3: against ranked teams. top three teams.
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Speaker 2: What do you think the longest string versus unranked will
48:24
Speaker 2: be in the SEC this year?
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Speaker 8: Two?
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Speaker 2: Two weeks, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Two weeks in conference. Oh, in conference.
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Speaker 2: It may not be more than one, but if you
48:32
Speaker 2: even factor in the out-of-conference, there's some that'll be three
48:34
Speaker 2: because their out-of-conference sucks so bad.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, per ESPN, though, 28 games, North Carolina's played against
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Speaker 3: top three teams Opponents in the history of their program.
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Speaker 3: What do you think the record is? 28 against top three.
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Speaker 2: So I remember the olds will remember this when, uh,
48:48
Speaker 2: Mack Brown was the coach at North Carolina before he
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Speaker 2: ever went to Texas. Bobby Bowden was running the ACC
48:52
Speaker 2: with Florida state and every year they would play North Carolina.
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Speaker 2: And every year they'd be like, cause North Carolina, it's
48:57
Speaker 2: Carl Torbush was the defensive coordinator that had this great defense.
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Speaker 2: They couldn't really score a lot, but they had a
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Speaker 2: great defense. Everybody's like, this is the year, this is
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Speaker 2: the year, this is the year. And every year Florida
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Speaker 2: state would run them out and it would always get
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Speaker 2: built up. Like finally, somebody is going to be Florida
49:09
Speaker 2: state and it's going to be North Carolina. 23-30, Florida
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Speaker 2: State wins, and it's not even a contest. 4-24. I mean,
49:17
Speaker 2: I would go lower than that. I'd go 2-26. Oh,
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Speaker 2: it's not even a contest.
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Speaker 1: 0-28 0-28 we'll see if they can shock the world
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Speaker 1: North Carolina and Notre Dame this weekend so I've given
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Speaker 1: you Shiano I've given you Lincoln Riley Deion Sanders Belichick
49:30
Speaker 1: all trying to flip the script and then here comes
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Speaker 1: this guy Dabo Sweeney Tyler hit it man.
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Speaker 6: I mean if you don't win the turnover margin in
49:38
Speaker 6: a game like this you ain't winning It's all about
49:41
Speaker 6: the ball.
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Speaker 2: You're just not winning.
49:42
Speaker 6: So we have to be elite in taking care of
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Speaker 6: the ball, and we've got to find a way to
49:48
Speaker 6: turn them over. It's just that simple. We've got to
49:52
Speaker 6: find a way to make some big plays on them.
49:54
Speaker 6: They're going to make some plays. And then you've got
49:56
Speaker 6: to hang in there, and you've got to give yourself
49:58
Speaker 6: a chance to win the game in.
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Speaker 2: The fourth quarter. This is a four-quarter game.
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Speaker 6: This ain't a game that– I mean, this is going
50:05
Speaker 6: to be down to the last play type of a
50:07
Speaker 6: ball game. You want to give yourself a chance. You've
50:12
Speaker 6: got to be able to settle into a game like this.
50:14
Speaker 6: Your dudes have to be dudes.
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Speaker 2: We've got good players, too.
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Speaker 6: We've got to win matchups. We've been in a bunch
50:22
Speaker 6: of these types of games. There's been a bunch of
50:23
Speaker 6: teams where we might not have been the better team
50:27
Speaker 6: on paper. If you go back and you look at
50:31
Speaker 6: the things I'm talking about, field position, turnover margin, some
50:35
Speaker 6: big plays, penalties, things like that. Those things make big
50:39
Speaker 6: differences in games like this where you don't have a
50:41
Speaker 6: big margin.
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Speaker 1: Miami and Clemson, they're at Death Valley, home field advantage
50:45
Speaker 1: for Dabo. This is one of those, I mean, they've
50:49
Speaker 1: played a little better since that blowout loss to LSU,
50:53
Speaker 1: but this is the first team they've played that has
50:54
Speaker 1: LSU-like talent. Again, we get to see how much they've
50:57
Speaker 1: improved since the opening night. I get the feeling, I
51:00
Speaker 1: know Hard Rock Betts giving.
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Speaker 3: Them no chance. 17 and a half.
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Speaker 1: I get the feeling you're giving him no chance.
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Speaker 3: Look, Gideon Davidson, you have established a weapon out of
51:08
Speaker 3: the backfield. Tate Reynolds, I don't know if he's good enough.
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Speaker 3: I mean, the success would be ball control, keeping out
51:15
Speaker 3: Darion Mintz's hand. Now, Mintz on the other side, we've
51:18
Speaker 3: talked about this, more touchdowns than incompletions on the season,
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Speaker 3: completing 89% of his passes. This will be a test
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Speaker 3: for him, though. I mean, he really has gone against air,
51:27
Speaker 3: so to speak. I know Wake Forest is not a
51:29
Speaker 3: bad team.
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Speaker 2: But you've played at Stanford and at Wake.
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Speaker 4: I mean.
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Speaker 2: Even a down Clemson, that's going to be an atmosphere
51:35
Speaker 2: that this team has not played in.
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Speaker 3: Right, right, right.
51:37
Speaker 2: So you hope that's enough.
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Speaker 3: But you look at Miami, they're number one nationally against
51:41
Speaker 3: the run, number two in total defense, number four in
51:44
Speaker 3: scoring defense, number three in scoring offense. Again, a lot
51:48
Speaker 3: of these numbers are built up based on opponents. But
51:51
Speaker 3: Miami will go in with a ton of confidence, and
51:54
Speaker 3: if Clemson gets behind early, you saw what happened in
51:56
Speaker 3: Baton Rouge.
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Speaker 2: And his key was forcing turnovers, understandably, but they're minus
52:00
Speaker 2: one on the season through four games in turnover margin,
52:02
Speaker 2: so they haven't been forcing enough. So he's trying to
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Speaker 2: do something they haven't been particularly good at so far
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Speaker 2: this year.
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Speaker 1: Of the five I gave you, how many of them
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Speaker 1: win their game this weekend? Shiano, Lincoln, Riley, Dion, Dabo,
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Speaker 1: and Belichick.
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Speaker 3: Just one. There's one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Lincoln.
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Speaker 3: Lincoln's the only one.
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Speaker 2: Even though it's my upset alert, I would probably pick
52:22
Speaker 2: Lincoln as well.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they're double-digit favorites.
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Speaker 2: I got them at nine and a half.
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Speaker 1: So some story book flips there for some coaches that
52:30
Speaker 1: have not gotten off to the best starts or haven't
52:33
Speaker 1: had the best press to start this season. When we
52:36
Speaker 1: come back, Chris Lowe at On3 did a look at
52:39
Speaker 1: September where he did some best and biggest disappointments of
52:44
Speaker 1: the week. In the next segment, we'll pull out our
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Speaker 1: dry erase boards, and I'll ask the guys one, two, three, four, five,
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Speaker 1: six categories to sort of crown the best and the
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Speaker 1: worst of September. That's next on the next round presented
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