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The Next Round: Is Arch Manning the Problem? Texas Faces Red River Reality Check | Hour 2 · The Next Round

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Speaker 1: Back with you on the next round presented by Hard
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Speaker 1: You know, I occasionally overreact to things in the offseason.
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Speaker 1: One of those was Cam Coleman leaving Auburn, going to Texas.
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Speaker 1: 12 catches, 208 yards, four touchdowns. Not a horrible stat line.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he leads the team in touchdowns.
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Speaker 2: Tell that to Jeremiah Smith. That's a game for him.
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Speaker 1: It really is.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 1: He leads the team in touchdowns. He's second in receiving
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Speaker 1: yards from them. But, I mean, he'd be more important
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Speaker 1: to Auburn right now than he's, well, he leads the
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Speaker 1: team in touchdowns and receiving. I don't know. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Is it a Cam Coleman problem? I don't know. That's
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Speaker 1: why when you say it'd be more important to Auburn,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: this is a Cam Coleman problem.
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Speaker 2: Best offensive minds in all of football. I know Arch
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Speaker 2: has been up and down, but still. I mean, if
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Speaker 2: Cam is this talented, which I think he is, Sark
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Speaker 2: is going to scheme where you get him touches.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. It's very strange. It could be an Arch problem,
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Speaker 1: which is the same problem Cam had at Auburn, where
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Speaker 1: the quarterback, if he was open, couldn't get him to football.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's the problem. Or maybe it's Cam Coleman. can't
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Speaker 1: be open enough to get throws to him. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Maybe Cam and Ashton Daniels should have just stayed in Auburn.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Ashton's putting up good numbers. But Bama Hammer last
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Speaker 1: night on Twitter did some screenshots and posted these. All
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Speaker 1: three of these guys I overreacted when he left Alabama.
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Speaker 1: Keon Keeley, who I thought was an up-and-coming star at Alabama,
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Speaker 1: never really had done a whole lot. And I remember
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Speaker 1: HaHa Clinton Dix had reacted when fans were going crazy
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Speaker 1: about Alabama losing these three players last that the tape
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Speaker 1: doesn't back up you guys overreacting to these guys. Go
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Speaker 1: watch the tape like the coaches do, and there's a
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Speaker 1: reason why these guys are walking out the door. Keon
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Speaker 1: Keeley at Notre Dame this year, the senior defensive lineman,
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Speaker 1: has one solo tackle.
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Speaker 2: What do you think he's been paid for a tackle?
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Speaker 1: The return on.
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Speaker 2: Investment is quite low. $ 850, 000 and you've.
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Speaker 1: Got a tackle. Quay Rousaw, when he left Alabama defensive end,
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Speaker 1: I was like, whew. And you need him. You maybe
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Speaker 1: have to move around positions. You don't understand that. That's
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Speaker 1: the one guy we've talked about. If he were in Tuscaloosa,
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Speaker 1: he would have to change positions to get on the
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Speaker 1: field because he's not playing in front of Pierre. He
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Speaker 1: has one sack, three solo tackles. That's for the season.
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Speaker 1: So Ohio State's played some dogs along the way. And
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Speaker 1: he's got three solo tackles, one sack. The guy I
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Speaker 1: was most upset about losing was James Smith, defensive tackle,
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Speaker 1: because that guy had an edge to him. 6'3, 306
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Speaker 1: pounds from Montgomery. I mean, he was just mean. I'd
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Speaker 1: watch him afterwards. I thought, that's the kind of toughness
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Speaker 1: you need on a defensive line. And Ohio State's getting
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Speaker 1: a playmaker there. And again, they have played, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I don't know who all they played. They played Texas,
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Speaker 1: but they played some dogs along the way here. He
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Speaker 1: has one solo tackle. And the guys that replaced them,
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Speaker 1: the Devin Tompkins, the Terrence Green, those guys have been
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Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. studs for Alabama I mean look.
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Speaker 2: Texas Illinois and Iowa not bad obviously but Ball State
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Speaker 2: and Kent State yeah like you would think you'd rack.
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Speaker 1: Up yeah you think you'd have eight tackles oh well
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Speaker 1: six of those came against Ball State and Kent State
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Speaker 1: yeah but at least you'd have six tackles yeah but
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Speaker 1: but but nothing and I'm with you like if it
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Speaker 1: kept it was not going to keep Yonze Pierre off
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Speaker 1: the field because he was already on the field that
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Speaker 1: was the reason Quay Russo was leaving as he had
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Speaker 1: looked at and is like I got Wally pipped is
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Speaker 1: a very old saying, but when I was out injured,
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Speaker 1: the better player got on the field, I'm never getting
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Speaker 1: my spot back. But if you told Alabama fans you
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Speaker 1: can have James Smith or Devin Tompkins, What do you
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Speaker 1: think that answer is.
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Speaker 2: Going to be?
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Speaker 1: James Smith.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no.
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Speaker 1: Alabama fans.
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Speaker 2: I'm talking about now, but going into the season, it
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Speaker 2: would have been like James Smith 100%.
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Speaker 1: 100%. If you're like, all right, guys, if you did
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Speaker 1: a poll, if Clinton Dix did it, all right, we're
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Speaker 1: going to do a Twitter poll here, Alabama fans. We
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Speaker 1: can either pay James Smith to stay or we got
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Speaker 1: this Devin Tompkins kid. a defensively challenged USC, a team
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Speaker 1: that never plays defense. Yeah, we can go get him.
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Speaker 1: Which one do y'all want? I think James Smith wins
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Speaker 1: the poll going away. Going away. Now that you've watched it,
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Speaker 1: you're like, I wouldn't trade Devin Tompkins for most any
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Speaker 1: defensive tackle. I would like to know how much Notre
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Speaker 1: Dame and Ohio State are paying those three players.
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Speaker 2: Well, just Devin Tompkins. I mean, just pure numbers. I mean,
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Speaker 2: he's got 19 tackles on the air, eight tackles, eight
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Speaker 2: solo tackles. For a defensive lineman, and he's got three sacks.
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Speaker 1: If Alabama is paying Devin Tompkins, what, Kwe Rusaw and
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Speaker 1: Keon Keeley are getting paid combined? Oh, yeah. It's an
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Speaker 1: amazing deal. Alabama got the better end of that trade.
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Speaker 1: Or James Smith. Or James Smith. Any of those two
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Speaker 1: you combine, if that's what Devin Tompkins is getting paid
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Speaker 1: to play at Alabama, you made an incredible trade there. Oh,
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Speaker 1: and trust me, and this is all kudos to Courtney Morgan,
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Speaker 1: who manages the roster for Alabama. But if you take
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Speaker 1: what Keon Keeley, James Smith, and Quay Russo are getting paid,
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Speaker 1: and give me Caleb Woodson, Terrence Green, and Devin Tompkins.
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Speaker 1: For the same amount? Oh, I guarantee you those three
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Speaker 1: are making less than those three. I would think you
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Speaker 1: probably got, yeah, you probably got those three for less. Yeah, crazy.
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Speaker 1: But Klatt was on yesterday, and he had this to
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Speaker 1: say about Texas. I asked him the question, is there
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Speaker 1: a chance you can be the number one team in
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Speaker 1: the country in the AP polls but in SEC power rankings,
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Speaker 1: be number three in the SEC. Is that possible? Here's
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Speaker 1: Joe Klatt.
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Speaker 4: I think Texas is better on paper than they are
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Speaker 4: on the field. Their resume looks incredible, and as such,
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Speaker 4: if you're evaluating that, they probably should be number one
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Speaker 4: in the country. But when you watch them, they are
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Speaker 4: sloppy and inconsistent, and they played three games gritty, incredible
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Speaker 4: series of football, both offensively and defensively, to beat Ohio State.
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Speaker 4: You know, there is a 5% chance that game goes
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Speaker 4: the way that it did. We all know that, right?
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Speaker 4: There's 12 things that happen in that game that if
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Speaker 4: any one of them go the other direction, Ohio State
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Speaker 4: wins the game. And if two or three of them
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Speaker 4: go Ohio State's direction... You know, even just like a
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Speaker 4: small minority of those things go Ohio State's direction. They
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Speaker 4: don't only win the game. They win it by multiple
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Speaker 4: possessions on the road, which we don't normally see in
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Speaker 4: big matchup games, top five games. So outside of that,
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Speaker 4: they were really sloppy against Tennessee and got away with it.
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Speaker 4: Didn't play great against UTSA. Arch's numbers are very pedestrian
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Speaker 4: and average.
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Speaker 1: So.
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Speaker 4: They're going in as the number one team in the country,
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Speaker 4: and that is a throw-the-records-out style of game. It's a
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Speaker 4: throw-the-records-out style of environment. I know that Oklahoma is anemic
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Speaker 4: on the offensive side.
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Speaker 5: Of the ball.
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Speaker 4: I would fully agree with that. Their defense is fine.
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Speaker 4: We all know that. And against Texas' offense, which has
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Speaker 4: just kind of sputtered through games at times, they have
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Speaker 4: not been dominant. They are more dominant on paper than
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Speaker 4: they are on film. And for that reason, I think
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Speaker 4: that it's probably appropriate that they're number three in the
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Speaker 4: power rankings in the SEC. I don't think that they
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Speaker 4: should be the number one team in the country based
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Speaker 4: on film. They should based on resume. I wouldn't be
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Speaker 4: surprised at all if they were in a really tough
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Speaker 4: one-possession environment this Saturday in Red River.
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Speaker 1: So when you heard him say that yesterday, did you
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Speaker 1: agree with him? I agree with him 100%.
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Speaker 2: When you go back, Texas-Tennessee... Auburn's offense was just as
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Speaker 2: productive or more than Texas' was in Neyland.
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Speaker 1: That's a good point.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Texas was 2-12 on third downs in Neyland.
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Speaker 2: They ended up going 262 total yards. They win the
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Speaker 2: game by three. They did just enough. But if you
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Speaker 2: take away that fourth quarter against Ohio State, three points
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Speaker 2: in those first three quarters and then 262 total yards,
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Speaker 2: 3-12 on third downs against Tennessee, and now they've got.
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Speaker 1: Probably the best defense they've seen.
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Speaker 2: Now, Oklahoma's coming out of a bye, too, so I
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Speaker 2: think you've got to factor that in. This is going
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Speaker 2: to be the best, and they are going to be
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Speaker 2: foaming at the mouth. Whether or not they can get
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Speaker 2: it done, this is going to be a hell of
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Speaker 2: a test for Texas.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I agree completely. It is not shocking if Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: wins this game. I didn't want to draw the wagon again. Oh,
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Speaker 1: you would have gone there? I liked it, yeah. It's
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Speaker 1: going to be called an upset, and it should be.
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Speaker 1: It's a point spread upset. Texas is number one. It's
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Speaker 1: not as big an upset as it will be painted
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Speaker 1: because I really think these two teams are the Spider-Man meme.
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Speaker 1: The Spider-Man pointing at one another. They are, I guess,
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Speaker 1: Arch is better than Mateer. Yes. But if you take
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Speaker 1: that away, these teams are a lot alike. They're both
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Speaker 1: really good defensively. And they both struggle to generate points offensively.
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Speaker 1: The only difference is you've got a better quarterback at Texas,
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Speaker 1: which actually makes it even more puzzling. They have so
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Speaker 1: much more talent offensively on the Texas team. It's not
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Speaker 1: even close. You would think that. I mean, let's go.
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Speaker 1: I think it is. I mean, Cetania's really good. Is
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Speaker 1: he better than Cam Coleman? No, he's definitely better than
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Speaker 1: Cam Coleman. That's not Texas' best receiver. Yeah, Wingo. Ryan Wingo.
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Speaker 1: Is Cetania or Wingo better? Wingo. Wingo. But it's not
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Speaker 1: far out. Coleman's better than him, too. No, he's not.
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Speaker 1: What has Cam Coleman ever done that makes you think he's...
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Speaker 1: Satane is really good. He hasn't had a quarterback ever.
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Speaker 1: Neither has Cam Coleman, to be fair. But what has
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Speaker 1: Coleman ever done? Hollywood Smothers in the run game. The
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Speaker 1: running backs are better than Oklahoma's.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we're Leak Brown and Hollywood Smothers for sure.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I'll give you that. I don't know about offensive line.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to assume Texas is better because Oklahoma's is awful.
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Speaker 1: That makes it even more puzzling. Why can Texas not
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Speaker 1: score points? I'm not disagreeing with you guys. I'm just
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Speaker 1: saying that Texas has more talent on the offensive side
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Speaker 1: of the football. But not disciplined either, though. No, no, no.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're coming off an 11-penalty, two-turn over game.
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Speaker 1: It appears from the outside that it is a poorly
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Speaker 1: coached group of players. Yes. At Texas or at Oklahoma?
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Speaker 1: At Texas. I don't want to.
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Speaker 2: Say that about the defense, though. I think Muschamp's done
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Speaker 2: a hell of a job with this defense. The offense
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Speaker 2: is just, it seems like they're going in different directions.
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Speaker 1: I'm a huge Sark fan, and I hate to believe this,
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Speaker 1: but I believe Sark is a good coach, and I
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Speaker 1: don't want to be the guy that gets 15 yards
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Speaker 1: for a late hit on Arch Manning, but it really
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Speaker 1: does seem like if Sark has shown me all these
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Speaker 1: years he's a great play caller, and you've got all
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Speaker 1: this offensive talent, then at some point, eventually, by doing
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Speaker 1: the math, it ends up it's Arch. But you're never
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Speaker 1: going to let your backup see that we could do
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Speaker 1: something special with the backup. It is becoming increasingly difficult
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Speaker 1: to say it's anything other than Arch. I think Arch Manning,
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Speaker 1: we talked all his whole career, basically, about wearing the
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Speaker 1: mantle of that Manning name and how difficult it is.
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Speaker 1: In this case, I think it's actually given him a
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Speaker 1: break Like if this guy's name was Arch Simpson, he'd
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Speaker 1: be getting killed. Maybe benched, but he'd be getting killed.
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Speaker 1: It's just so weird. We are having such a difficult
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Speaker 1: time as football fans looking at Texas, seeing them struggle
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Speaker 1: on offense with a quarterback, Lance, that has Manning on
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Speaker 1: his jersey and saying, there's your problem right there is
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Speaker 1: the one with Manning on his jersey. It's just hard
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Speaker 1: to say that. Because the rest of his family was
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Speaker 1: not that way. But people are saying it finally. Well,
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Speaker 1: I think I do think people are a little hesitant.
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Speaker 1: It's become almost impossible to ignore Lance. You know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying? Yeah. I mean, you keep watching it and
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Speaker 1: you're like, I can try to excuse everything else away.
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Speaker 1: And I keep coming back to the fact that I
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Speaker 1: just don't know that they're getting great quarterback play.
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Speaker 2: But if you go back last year, that's what's so bad.
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Speaker 6: I know.
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Speaker 2: Because you heard all the hype. I didn't know anything
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Speaker 2: outside of the name. And this guy's ultimately going to
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Speaker 2: be good because of the lineage. But if you go
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Speaker 2: back to last year, the way he played in the
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Speaker 2: the the final 60% of the season was high-level football.
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Speaker 1: He's behind Mateer, by the way, in the SEC. I mean,
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Speaker 1: when you look at yards per game, which is not
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Speaker 1: always the best measurement, but yards per game, he's behind Mateer.
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Speaker 1: Completion percentage, he's behind Mateer. They're almost identical in touchdown
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Speaker 1: to interception, 8-4 for Mateer, 7-3 for Arch. Yardage, he's
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Speaker 1: behind Mateer. They've played the same amount of games, and
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Speaker 1: in almost every statistical category, he's behind Mateer, who we
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Speaker 1: call an awful quarterback. Mateer has been a huge disappointment,
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Speaker 1: but he's better than Arch so far this year against
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Speaker 1: a fairly comparable schedule. I would say Texas and Oklahoma played.
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma's had to go to Georgia. Texas hosted Ohio State.
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Speaker 1: It's fairly comparable, and Mateer has him in every statistical category.
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Speaker 2: Just real quick, his last five games last year, 4-1,
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Speaker 2: the one loss was to Georgia, 15 touchdowns, one pick.
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Speaker 2: He was playing high-level football last year.
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Speaker 1: One of those was against playoff-bound Texas A & M.
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Speaker 1: They lost to Georgia. Who were the other wins?
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Speaker 2: It was Vanderbilt, but that was a good Vanderbilt team.
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Speaker 2: He completed 75, 76% of his passes and three touchdowns,
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Speaker 2: no picks.
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Speaker 1: Arkansas, A & M, Michigan. A & M had a
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Speaker 1: good defense. Michigan had a good defense. That was a
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Speaker 1: bowl game, so I got a discount. Maybe this coming
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Speaker 1: off the buy-in to Red Rivers when Arch hits his
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Speaker 1: stride a little bit. One more thing here, an upset
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Speaker 1: alert in our next segment. Yesterday at the Little Rock
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Speaker 1: Quarterback Club, Brown and Forster and I were texting this yesterday.
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Speaker 1: The Tyson chicken guy was there. And he was asked,
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Speaker 1: Cody Campbell at Texas Tech is able to do this
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Speaker 1: with his money. And he's able to turn the Texas
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Speaker 1: Tech program into what it is. Wait, real quick.
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Speaker 2: So the Tyson guy was asked directly, like, why.
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Speaker 1: Can't you be this guy? He is speaking at the
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Speaker 1: Little Rock Quarterback Club. It's amazing sound. John Tyson was
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Speaker 1: setting up there, and he gives a really funny answer.
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Speaker 1: He says, well, you know, he's got oil, and I've
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Speaker 1: got chickens. It's a great line. But you nailed what
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Speaker 1: I was going to bring up. He's getting asked at
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Speaker 1: the Little Rock Quarterback Club, John Tyson, who gives a
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Speaker 1: ton of money, especially to Arkansas basketball, why aren't you
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Speaker 1: giving more? Net worth, real quick, Lance, on the robot
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Speaker 1: says $ 2. 7 billion.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, he's got money that it doesn't
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Speaker 2: matter how much he gives, but there is a little principle. Like,
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Speaker 2: why am I the guy that is responsible for funding
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Speaker 2: this program? Cody Campbell is an ex-Texas Tech player. I
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Speaker 2: love Arkansas athletics, but I'm not just going to throw
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Speaker 2: money in a hole.
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Speaker 1: Go look at that logo you got on the field.
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Speaker 1: I paid for that. I buy these suites. I probably
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Speaker 1: paid for part of this stadium upgrade. Oh, by the way,
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Speaker 1: I paid for your whole basketball team. I'm paying for Calipari.
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Speaker 1: How much more do you want me to give? But see,
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Speaker 1: and this is where I think fans just, they get
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Speaker 1: so blinded by their favorite, the love for their favorite team.
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Speaker 1: It's hard to grasp this. Billionaires don't become billionaires by
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Speaker 1: investing in things that don't give them a return on investment.
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Speaker 1: They become billionaires by putting a little amount of money
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Speaker 1: into something that gets them a big amount of money.
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Speaker 1: NIL for these guys is not that. It is for
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Speaker 1: Cody Campbell because he's got an emotional attachment. I can
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Speaker 1: only guess John Tyson's life is the same whether Arkansas
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Speaker 1: wins one game or 12 games.
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Speaker 2: And I want to bet that Cody Campbell is also
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Speaker 2: involved in a lot of these roster moves.
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Speaker 1: And Tyson, he's almost playing Jerry Jones. Yeah, and that's
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Speaker 1: the thing.
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Speaker 2: These billionaires also are very successful because they're very involved
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Speaker 2: with their money. With their company, and they don't want
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Speaker 2: to get involved with the football program. But does the
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Speaker 2: football program even want them involved?
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Speaker 1: Do they want Mr.
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Speaker 2: Tyson to come up and say, hey, this is the
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Speaker 2: quarterback you need to go out and get. This is
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Speaker 2: the guy I'll pay for.
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Speaker 1: The video circulating of Irsay's daughter walking up to a coach,
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Speaker 1: tapping a coach. Well, it looks like a coach, staff member.
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Speaker 1: on the shoulder asking about a play. Why don't we
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Speaker 1: call that play? Can you tell me why we call
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Speaker 1: that play? She's got a play sheet. She's on the sidelines. Hey,
17:59
Speaker 1: but it's her investment. I mean, I think it looks crazy.
18:02
Speaker 1: I get it, but go back to your vodka and tonic. No,
18:04
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I wouldn't want that if I'm the coach,
18:06
Speaker 1: but she's personally invested, like this Tyson guy. I mean,
18:10
Speaker 1: I doubt he wants to deal with roster moves, but
18:14
Speaker 1: when people invest that kind of money, they want to
18:16
Speaker 1: have some say. Yeah, but if he did step it
18:18
Speaker 1: up and he's like, you know what?
18:19
Speaker 2: I am going to give $ 25 million a year for football.
18:23
Speaker 1: How different could it become? Arkansas would change overnight. Well,
18:27
Speaker 1: that's what they're hoping happens. And, you know, Brandon Marcello
18:32
Speaker 1: of CBS, who lives in the area, has written extensively
18:35
Speaker 1: about what they did wrong that sort of pissed off
18:38
Speaker 1: the Walmart folks. So it was the regent. The Walmarts
18:40
Speaker 1: were publicly backing the Waltons, were publicly backing a candidate
18:45
Speaker 1: for the regent of the university system. And they hired
18:47
Speaker 1: a different guy, and apparently there were some hurt feelings.
18:49
Speaker 1: I think I would have hired the guy the Waltons
18:51
Speaker 1: were backing. How did you not, right? How did you
18:53
Speaker 1: not hire the guy the Waltons were backing?
18:54
Speaker 2: We know how the world works.
18:56
Speaker 1: That's part of it. By the way, Cody Campbell, with
18:59
Speaker 1: a great reply on Twitter, let me tell you something.
19:02
Speaker 1: This SOB has plenty of chickens. The difference is Joey
19:06
Speaker 1: McGuire of Texas Tech. Money is money, but football is
19:08
Speaker 1: still football. I mean, think about it like this.
19:10
Speaker 6: Yeah.
19:11
Speaker 2: Do you think you buy more chicken in a week
19:13
Speaker 2: or fill up your gas?
19:15
Speaker 1: I buy more oil than chicken for sure. Well, it's
19:17
Speaker 1: about 50-50 for me. It's pretty close. But most of
19:21
Speaker 1: my money goes to oil and chicken.
19:24
Speaker 2: But, Jeeves, I mean, how many chickens are we killing
19:26
Speaker 2: a year?
19:26
Speaker 1: It's crazy. I don't know if you guys have ever
19:28
Speaker 1: seen this. You don't want to do the math. Here's
19:31
Speaker 1: how you look at this, though. I got to have
19:33
Speaker 1: the oil to get to the chickens. I don't have
19:35
Speaker 1: to have the chickens to get to the oil. What
19:37
Speaker 1: came first?
19:38
Speaker 6: Just in the United States, it's approximately 8 billion to
19:42
Speaker 6: 10 billion chickens each year.
19:44
Speaker 1: And that doesn't make sense. That is a... Because it's my...
19:50
Speaker 1: 350 million, right? Yeah. But is my chicken breast at Chick-fil-A,
19:55
Speaker 1: is that a breast of chicken? Or is that chicken
19:57
Speaker 1: that's formed into a breast? That's a great question. You
20:00
Speaker 1: know what I'm asking? I do not know the answer
20:01
Speaker 1: to that.
20:01
Speaker 6: Now, I think for Chick-fil-A, that is whole breast.
20:04
Speaker 1: But then if you go to like... You know, some
20:08
Speaker 1: very consistent.
20:09
Speaker 2: Let's say I go to Dairy Queen to get a
20:11
Speaker 2: chicken sandwich.
20:12
Speaker 6: I don't know what they use, but a lot of
20:14
Speaker 6: times when you get nuggets, if it's like perfectly consistent,
20:18
Speaker 6: like at, you know, a restaurant that has golden arches.
20:22
Speaker 1: Oh, you're getting a beak in it. Yeah, yeah.
20:25
Speaker 6: It's... Have you seen the.
20:26
Speaker 1: Let me pull it up. Yeah, there's sometimes... But anyway,
20:29
Speaker 1: do the math. I mean, how many billion did he
20:31
Speaker 1: say are bidding... Getting killed? Eight billion. Eight to ten billion.
20:34
Speaker 2: Okay, and we've got 350 million, so how much chicken
20:36
Speaker 2: are we eating?
20:37
Speaker 1: Well, I think some of that's also getting exported, though. Like,
20:40
Speaker 1: we're exporting a lot of it. That's not eight billion
20:42
Speaker 1: chickens killed for us to eat. Well, there are chickens
20:44
Speaker 1: all over the world. Well, there are, but I think
20:46
Speaker 1: we export a lot. Is it the most important bird
20:49
Speaker 1: in the world? Yeah. Yeah, it's got to be. I mean,
20:52
Speaker 1: I don't even know what's second, Jim. The bald eagle
20:55
Speaker 1: for us. Is it the most important? I don't want
20:58
Speaker 1: to see this.
21:00
Speaker 6: At the Golden Arches, the pink slime picture, that's not real.
21:04
Speaker 6: But this is what happens. It's just all ground together
21:07
Speaker 6: and then mixed. So that way it's a homogenous.
21:10
Speaker 1: Literally don't want to see how the sausage is made.
21:12
Speaker 1: Literally don't want to see.
21:12
Speaker 5: Well, that's chicken.
21:13
Speaker 1: I'm well aware. That's how they make their nuggets?
21:16
Speaker 2: Yep.
21:16
Speaker 1: Burger King's working or theirs. I don't know if you've
21:18
Speaker 1: seen the commercial.
21:19
Speaker 5: I have, yes.
21:19
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to ask you. They bring all those
21:21
Speaker 1: people in to eat a free lunch.
21:22
Speaker 2: I give you $ 10, 000 cash right now, but everything is
21:25
Speaker 2: laid out that you've eaten that you don't realize you've eaten.
21:27
Speaker 1: No. Oh, no. I don't want to know. Fingers, toes.
21:31
Speaker 1: I've got to eat again.
21:31
Speaker 7: Tongues.
21:32
Speaker 1: I've got to eat again. I think you've done that
21:34
Speaker 1: once for me in my household. My wife was a
21:37
Speaker 1: vegetarian for 18 months.
21:39
Speaker 2: No, I watched one documentary.
21:42
Speaker 1: One documentary. Food Inc. or whatever it was. And by
21:44
Speaker 1: the way, it sat on my sports room table for weeks.
21:48
Speaker 1: I never watched it because I knew I liked steak
21:51
Speaker 1: too much. She watched it and didn't eat steak for
21:54
Speaker 1: 18 months. It affected me for a day. Can we
21:56
Speaker 1: hear the guy? Have we got time? Sure. I mean,
21:58
Speaker 1: I just want to know if he was joking. He
22:01
Speaker 1: did lie. Here is the, let me get his name again.
22:05
Speaker 1: John Tyson. John Tyson of Tyson Foods at the Little
22:08
Speaker 1: Rock Touchdown Club.
22:09
Speaker 2: When you look at those other guys and what Cody
22:11
Speaker 2: Campbell has done at Texas Tech, I mean, he's completely
22:14
Speaker 2: by himself changed that whole program.
22:17
Speaker 3: Well, he's got oil, I've got chickens. So we'll start there.
22:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, that's a joke you make when
22:32
Speaker 1: you're like, guys, I'm not going to beat Cody Campbell.
22:35
Speaker 1: Y'all can beg me to beat Cody Campbell all you want.
22:38
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be Cody King.
22:39
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, the question is somewhat tacky.
22:43
Speaker 1: That's what bothered me.
22:44
Speaker 2: I guess somebody's got to ask it, though, but maybe
22:47
Speaker 2: over a bourbon.
22:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for coming up right here in front of
22:50
Speaker 1: all these people. I hope he ran it by him
22:51
Speaker 1: early on. Well, yeah, you never know. Tyson may have
22:54
Speaker 1: wanted to say that line. Yeah, I think he probably did.
22:57
Speaker 1: Felt very prepared. Yeah. His laugh, by the way, is
23:00
Speaker 1: exactly like that guy. That's what I thought of from
23:03
Speaker 1: the Simpsons. He laughed exactly like that guy laughs. It
23:07
Speaker 1: was insane. All right. Some sad news. We'll do upset
23:11
Speaker 1: alert in the next segment. We go to break here
23:13
Speaker 1: with the passing of Dennis Franchoni, one-time Alabama coach.
23:17
Speaker 2: Damn, I did not know that.
23:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, 75 years old. I think the announcement has come
23:21
Speaker 1: this morning. It has, yeah. That Dennis Franchoni has passed away.
23:26
Speaker 1: I have not looked at any of the details yet,
23:28
Speaker 1: but there was a time after his time at Texas
23:32
Speaker 1: A & M that he battled depression tremendously. A short
23:37
Speaker 1: time in In Tuscaloosa, the guy who actually had me
23:41
Speaker 1: over his house and said, hey, I want you to
23:42
Speaker 1: host the my coaches show. And I did for one year.
23:46
Speaker 1: And then then he left. He had received a diagnosis
23:51
Speaker 1: of cancer in a kidney in 2016. He worked back
23:57
Speaker 1: and then he received another cancer diagnosis in 2021, but
24:01
Speaker 1: went into remission after treatment. But he has passed away
24:04
Speaker 1: now at, what was his age? 75 years old. A
24:09
Speaker 1: guy that, because of his exit, is not a beloved
24:13
Speaker 1: Alabama coaching figure. No, but I thought he was a
24:15
Speaker 1: really good football coach. And, you know, the first year
24:17
Speaker 1: at Alabama, he was kind of digging out of the
24:20
Speaker 1: mess DuBose had left, won the Iron Bowl, finished on
24:23
Speaker 1: a high note. That second year at Alabama, that was
24:25
Speaker 1: a good football team. Really good football team.
24:27
Speaker 2: And, you know, it's kind of unexplainable. I mean, it's
24:30
Speaker 2: a rivalry game against Auburn, but you know, if they
24:32
Speaker 2: win that game, you look back on that season and
24:34
Speaker 2: they seem like one of the best two, three, four
24:37
Speaker 2: teams in college football.
24:38
Speaker 6: Yeah.
24:39
Speaker 1: And people did not like the way he exited, Jim.
24:42
Speaker 1: I think his... I know I didn't. No, I'm sure
24:44
Speaker 1: you didn't. You were lied to. One of the worst
24:46
Speaker 1: days in my broadcasting career. And unfortunately lied to you.
24:49
Speaker 1: But I also, you know, I think his side of
24:52
Speaker 1: the story privately had always been he was misled on
24:56
Speaker 1: He felt like he was misled on how severe the
24:58
Speaker 1: sanctions were going to be, and he did not want
25:00
Speaker 1: to stick around and fight through that because he had
25:03
Speaker 1: not made a decision to take the job to fight
25:05
Speaker 1: through that. And whether he was misled or not, I
25:08
Speaker 1: don't know. But I was really surprised it didn't work
25:10
Speaker 1: at A & M. He was better at Texas A &
25:12
Speaker 1: M than I remember him being, according to the stats here.
25:15
Speaker 2: I think it was eight wins a year, much like
25:17
Speaker 2: most Texas.
25:18
Speaker 3: A & M coaches.
25:18
Speaker 1: Well, he had that one bad Oklahoma game that stands out.
25:20
Speaker 1: 32-28 in five seasons, three bowl games. Texas A &
25:26
Speaker 1: M defeated Texas in the final regular season game in 2007,
25:30
Speaker 1: and then Franchoni resigned from his position after that win there.
25:34
Speaker 1: But that was surprising that he was 32-28. In his
25:37
Speaker 1: five seasons there.
25:39
Speaker 2: I think that was satisfying for Alabama fans.
25:41
Speaker 1: It was. That Oklahoma game. It was 77-3, wasn't it?
25:43
Speaker 1: Something like that. In which the Oklahoma band played the
25:46
Speaker 1: Alabama fight song. That's always been the urban legend. I've
25:48
Speaker 1: never known if that was true. No, I heard. We
25:50
Speaker 1: played the audio at NBC 13. Did you really? They
25:53
Speaker 1: really played the Alabama fight song? They played the Alabama
25:55
Speaker 1: fight song. I mean, how petty is that? That is
25:57
Speaker 1: quite petty. You get your band to learn that? That
25:59
Speaker 1: is quite petty.
25:59
Speaker 2: You know what we're going to do today? Learn the
26:01
Speaker 2: Alabama fight song.
26:01
Speaker 1: We're not playing Alabama. I know. And that's amazing.
26:04
Speaker 2: The band knew that they were going to whip his ass.
26:06
Speaker 1: Keith says the way he exited then is the new normal,
26:08
Speaker 1: which is true. There's been 100 coaches that have done
26:11
Speaker 1: exactly what Dennis Franchoni did. Oh, yeah. Since he did it.
26:14
Speaker 1: What was his gold letter or whatever? You guys remember that?
26:16
Speaker 1: He had like an insider. Oh, Mike McKenzie was the
26:20
Speaker 1: guy's name.
26:20
Speaker 3: Yeah.
26:21
Speaker 1: And he would send a letter out to whoever, I guess,
26:23
Speaker 1: supporters or whatever. Mike McKenzie still living? I could not
26:27
Speaker 1: tell you.
26:28
Speaker 6: Yeah.
26:29
Speaker 1: For some reason, I think he passed. He was kind
26:32
Speaker 1: of his media arm, basically. It was the first time
26:34
Speaker 1: I'd ever seen a coach have one of those. And
26:35
Speaker 1: I've told this story before, but we would do the
26:37
Speaker 1: coaches show on Sundays then. And at our desk, a
26:40
Speaker 1: lot like this. Huge desk. And with Mike Shula after that,
26:46
Speaker 1: Shula would sit with me. We'd watch the highlights. It
26:49
Speaker 1: was a lot of highlights back then. They do it
26:51
Speaker 1: differently when Saban got there and the way they do
26:52
Speaker 1: it now. But we'd watch. It was an hour show,
26:55
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, or maybe it was 30 minutes.
26:57
Speaker 1: We'd watch a ton of highlights, and then the coaches
26:59
Speaker 1: would talk over almost every play of the game. And
27:04
Speaker 1: then we'd sit and talk about the game and talk
27:06
Speaker 1: about the highlights. And Franchoni would never come in and
27:10
Speaker 1: sit with me. He asked for me to host the show.
27:13
Speaker 1: He would never come in in advance and sit with
27:15
Speaker 1: me to watch the highlights. He'd watch them in another room,
27:18
Speaker 1: and McKenzie would come back and forth and tell me
27:21
Speaker 1: things that Coach wanted to bring up over this highlight.
27:24
Speaker 6: Wow.
27:25
Speaker 1: Here's what Coach wants you to ask him, what you
27:27
Speaker 1: want to talk about. Meanwhile, Nick Saban, greatest ever do it.
27:31
Speaker 1: We stopped doing the highlights. He would come down, and
27:34
Speaker 1: he was like, let's make this as quick as possible.
27:36
Speaker 1: So he'd basically do intro, comment before the break, outro,
27:40
Speaker 1: and he was gone. My whole hosting of the Nick
27:42
Speaker 1: Saban Show. Welcome into the Nick Saban Show. He's Nick Saban.
27:46
Speaker 1: I'm Jim Dunaway. Alabama wins it tonight, 34-3. Coach, big
27:51
Speaker 1: win here at home.
27:52
Speaker 5: Da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
27:53
Speaker 1: Here's Eli with the first half highlights.
27:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean, are coaches even doing these shows anymore?
28:00
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think they've turned into— They used
28:03
Speaker 1: to be a big deal, obviously.
28:04
Speaker 2: I mean, I remember the Bear Bryant coaching show.
28:06
Speaker 1: What he used to do is in front of a
28:07
Speaker 1: live studio audience. Did you know that? Yes. That's crazy
28:10
Speaker 1: to think about. At a local TV station. You don't
28:13
Speaker 1: have a live studio audience. They'd clap, you know, coach.
28:15
Speaker 2: No, well, you think about the money you probably could
28:17
Speaker 2: get for that for NIL right now.
28:19
Speaker 1: Bear Bryant would record his in Birmingham at different TV
28:23
Speaker 1: stations over the time, but I think it was at
28:25
Speaker 1: NBC 13 for most of the Bear Bryant show. You
28:30
Speaker 1: think Bourbon was in that coke? He would stay in Birmingham,
28:35
Speaker 1: even if the game, he'd come to Birmingham, if the
28:36
Speaker 1: game was in Tuscaloosa, if the game was at Legion Field,
28:38
Speaker 1: he'd stay in Birmingham. I think it was Michael's or
28:42
Speaker 1: others down on, it used to be a strip. You're
28:44
Speaker 1: right about that. They'd have a room upstairs and they
28:46
Speaker 1: would eat and play cards and talk and everything. And
28:50
Speaker 1: many times I heard that he would come straight from
28:52
Speaker 1: that room to record on a very early Sunday morning,
28:55
Speaker 1: the Bear Bryant show. Which probably. Which by the way,
28:58
Speaker 1: made the golden flake chips all more important because we
29:00
Speaker 1: all had munchies at that point.
29:01
Speaker 2: You think any working girls ever went through that top room?
29:05
Speaker 1: I was never there. I could not comment. Dennis Franchoni
29:10
Speaker 1: passing away at the age of 75, a one-time Alabama coach.
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30:37
Speaker 1: you the rules here in a second before Esther throws
30:39
Speaker 1: up the flashing light to let everybody know we're to
30:42
Speaker 1: the upset alert. The rules are pretty simple. It gets
30:45
Speaker 1: tougher as the year goes on because I cannot tell
30:47
Speaker 1: you how many three and a half point lines there
30:51
Speaker 1: are this week. There has to be It has to
30:53
Speaker 1: be seven or eight lines that are three and a half.
30:56
Speaker 1: A significant number, three and a half, is in the
30:58
Speaker 1: gambling world, right?
31:00
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you don't want it to be on three.
31:05
Speaker 2: You want to get it off three, so yeah. So
31:07
Speaker 2: three and a half is a big number. We play
31:09
Speaker 2: the minimum spread at four and a half. Five points
31:12
Speaker 2: for a cover, five points plus the spread for an
31:17
Speaker 2: outright winner. Who were the outright winners last week, Forrester?
31:22
Speaker 2: Do we have a couple? Oh, everybody got one.
31:26
Speaker 1: How about that? So everybody but me and Brown got
31:31
Speaker 1: one last week. Is that correct? Mine covered. I did
31:33
Speaker 1: not get the outright win. But you've had an outright
31:35
Speaker 1: win this year.
31:35
Speaker 6: I have.
31:36
Speaker 1: I had one week one.
31:37
Speaker 5: I definitely did not get one.
31:39
Speaker 7: I made possibly the worst pick in the history of
31:44
Speaker 7: our upset alerts.
31:45
Speaker 1: My team lost 34-7 after my team losing 35-6 last week. Yeah,
31:51
Speaker 1: but listen to Scott. I'm being outscored at a tremendous rate.
31:54
Speaker 5: I can beat that. I promise.
31:56
Speaker 7: The defensive coordinator of the team that I picked in
32:00
Speaker 7: upset alert got fired in the first quarter of the.
32:05
Speaker 1: Game walked off the field technically he was relieved of
32:08
Speaker 1: his duties of calling plays not fired he then quit
32:11
Speaker 1: yeah that's that's that's pretty amazing i've never in my
32:14
Speaker 1: life seen that one yeah have you seen the colorado
32:16
Speaker 1: state jim more yeah you've seen the video yeah he
32:19
Speaker 1: is laying into it heard the uh post-game press conference
32:22
Speaker 1: too that he wasn't i just relieved him of his
32:24
Speaker 1: duties i didn't kick him off the coaching staff he
32:27
Speaker 1: decided tyson decided to leave and uh And that's on him.
32:30
Speaker 1: He's no longer with our program. So I would assume
32:33
Speaker 1: in H.R. that is he quit. Yeah. He wasn't.
32:38
Speaker 5: Yeah.
32:38
Speaker 6: Yeah.
32:38
Speaker 1: Way to do it. Yeah. So there are the rules
32:42
Speaker 1: four and a half in the standings one more time.
32:44
Speaker 1: So everybody has one outright win. That includes Brooks. Your
32:47
Speaker 1: first one in two years. Right. Just the first one ever. Yeah.
32:51
Speaker 1: As an employee up here. So that's two years. Right.
32:54
Speaker 1: So tell me who was your winner.
32:57
Speaker 8: My winner last week was, oh my God, I forgot
33:00
Speaker 8: who it was.
33:01
Speaker 1: It wasn't Scott. I got a lot going on in
33:03
Speaker 1: my brain. It wasn't Scott.
33:04
Speaker 5: Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: Minnesota, that's right.
33:06
Speaker 8: I picked the Golden Gophers and I was watching the game.
33:10
Speaker 8: So yeah, I just forgot who it was. But yeah, Minnesota.
33:14
Speaker 8: Had a feeling and you know. They delivered for me.
33:18
Speaker 1: And LT had an outright winner.
33:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Missouri, easy, easy outright winner. I still can't
33:24
Speaker 2: get over Miami of Ohio blowing that game against Cincinnati.
33:27
Speaker 2: Had a 28-point lead. If I've got that, I'm on
33:29
Speaker 2: top of the standings right now.
33:32
Speaker 1: At one point, we've done this for years and years.
33:35
Speaker 1: At one point, because I thought about this as I
33:37
Speaker 1: was watching Missouri kill Florida. At one point was our
33:41
Speaker 1: upset alert. I thought it was. The margin of victory.
33:44
Speaker 6: Yeah.
33:45
Speaker 1: At one point it was. It was. Back in the day.
33:47
Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
33:47
Speaker 1: To where LT not only would have gotten five points
33:50
Speaker 1: for the win. I would have gotten 28 for the game.
33:52
Speaker 1: He would have gotten 28 points because of the massive
33:55
Speaker 1: blowout it ended up being. So now we just add
33:57
Speaker 1: in the point spread, right? Yeah, now it's just the
33:59
Speaker 1: point spread. I think we did that to encourage you
34:00
Speaker 1: to get out there occasionally on point spreads and not
34:03
Speaker 1: just hover around the four and a halves and stuff
34:05
Speaker 1: like that. But the fact that you not only covered
34:08
Speaker 1: and it was a blowout, would have been a game-changing statistical... anomaly,
34:14
Speaker 1: if you will, Missouri beating Florida that bad. So with
34:17
Speaker 1: all that said, let's run through this week's upset alert. LT,
34:21
Speaker 1: despite the win, you're still tied down at the bottom,
34:24
Speaker 1: but at very close standings now. Why don't you start
34:26
Speaker 1: us off? Who's your winner this week? So it looked
34:29
Speaker 1: like Virginia Tech was about to go to 5-0. Do
34:32
Speaker 1: you have this? No, I wanted it so bad, and
34:34
Speaker 1: I was like, ah, I started it.
34:35
Speaker 2: It looks like Virginia Tech was about to go to 5-0.
34:37
Speaker 2: They missed the field goal after a 14-point lead. Believe
34:40
Speaker 2: it or not, Cal is not played well. They're 2-3
34:44
Speaker 2: on the season, but they have led in all five
34:45
Speaker 2: of their games. They're 1-4 against the number, but Virginia
34:49
Speaker 2: Tech going all the way from Blacksburg, all the way
34:51
Speaker 2: to Berkeley, a weird day game for Cal. I do
34:55
Speaker 2: like Sagapula Telly playing well. He hasn't played great this year.
34:59
Speaker 5: Look at you.
34:59
Speaker 1: But I think he plays well here.
35:01
Speaker 2: And I think Cal gets the outright win over Virginia Tech.
35:06
Speaker 1: 100% that hits now. By the way, I... The fact
35:07
Speaker 1: that I wanted it and didn't play it. One take bear.
35:10
Speaker 1: It's not bad, is it?
35:11
Speaker 5: Not terrible.
35:11
Speaker 1: That's Oski, I think they call him. I don't know.
35:13
Speaker 1: Oski or Oski.
35:14
Speaker 5: It is Oski.
35:15
Speaker 1: Oski. Thank you, Scott. It is the most... I messed
35:18
Speaker 1: up on my L on my Cal. It's the most seen.
35:21
Speaker 1: As a guy who plays EA Sports College football, it
35:24
Speaker 1: is the most cut to mascot. They go to Husky
35:26
Speaker 1: a lot.
35:26
Speaker 5: A lot.
35:27
Speaker 1: Interesting.
35:27
Speaker 2: During Cal games. Has he ever won the MasterCard mascot thing?
35:31
Speaker 1: I don't know. What about the Livmont student section? I
35:34
Speaker 1: don't know if somebody in Silicon Valley is a Cal
35:38
Speaker 1: grad that designed the way the game is played, but
35:42
Speaker 1: they cut to the Cal mascot a lot if you're
35:45
Speaker 1: playing Cal.
35:45
Speaker 6: Yeah.
35:46
Speaker 1: That's interesting. Interesting. You're probably right. Being in Silicon Valley
35:49
Speaker 1: is probably a Cal fan. Yeah, but it goes a lot.
35:52
Speaker 1: We're going to show.
35:52
Speaker 6: Us shocking with the old NBA jam. The developer of
35:57
Speaker 6: the game was a big Bulls fan and or no,
36:00
Speaker 6: excuse me. He was a big Pistons fan. And so
36:02
Speaker 6: if you played the Bulls against the Pistons, you would
36:04
Speaker 6: miss every last second buzzer beater.
36:06
Speaker 1: Oh, that sucks. That works good.
36:08
Speaker 6: Nobody knew until 20 years later.
36:11
Speaker 1: I like that.
36:11
Speaker 2: What a bunch of bullshit.
36:14
Speaker 1: Brooks, can you go two for two? The other guy,
36:17
Speaker 1: like Lance, that got a winner last week. Who do
36:19
Speaker 1: you have?
36:20
Speaker 8: They have not played well this year, but they've won
36:22
Speaker 8: five in a row against the Duke Blue Devils. I'm
36:25
Speaker 8: going to go Georgia Tech coming off a bye at home.
36:28
Speaker 8: Plus seven and a half against.
36:29
Speaker 1: The Duke Blue Devils. I know Duke's 4-0.
36:31
Speaker 8: They maybe should be ranked according to Danny Cannell, but
36:36
Speaker 8: I like Tacking an upset this week.
36:40
Speaker 1: It feels like a good pick there. At some point, right,
36:44
Speaker 1: they've got to play better. They're too good of a
36:46
Speaker 1: team to play as bad as they do. Well coached.
36:48
Speaker 8: And, you know, I don't know. Albert Mendoza has not
36:51
Speaker 8: been great so far this year.
36:52
Speaker 1: Did you say well coached? I think he is a
36:56
Speaker 1: good coach.
36:56
Speaker 8: I think they've just not played well.
36:59
Speaker 1: I think he's a good coach. I'm wondering about his
37:01
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator hire. Replacing Buster Faulkner. They are the worst
37:07
Speaker 1: team in the ACC. I don't even know if you
37:09
Speaker 1: can debate it. Stanford, Lance, is really bad. Stanford just
37:11
Speaker 1: beat them, though. I know. At home.
37:14
Speaker 5: I know.
37:14
Speaker 1: Sometimes the best team doesn't win a specific game. Stanford
37:18
Speaker 1: has been so bad in all the rest of their games.
37:21
Speaker 1: But you're right. It's a battle. I don't know which one. Yeah.
37:24
Speaker 1: I'll go next. I'm riding with Klatt this week. It's
37:28
Speaker 1: a tough rivalry game. Best team doesn't always win. I
37:35
Speaker 1: pictured John Mateer, who played in this game, injured last year.
37:39
Speaker 1: I can just see him doing enough and putting on
37:42
Speaker 1: the golden cowboy hat when it's all said and done.
37:47
Speaker 1: Is that what that is up top, the golden cowboy hat? No,
37:49
Speaker 1: that's the downward horns. Oh, I thought that was a wig. Yeah,
37:52
Speaker 1: I thought it was a wig too, like the Lego,
37:54
Speaker 1: the people you put the... Right, right, right, right. The
37:57
Speaker 1: molded plastic hat. Now what is this? That looks like
37:59
Speaker 1: a bird's nest. I thought it was a beard. That
38:03
Speaker 1: is a deep fried Reese's cup, which is now at
38:06
Speaker 1: the Texas state fair this year. You give me a
38:08
Speaker 1: thousand guesses. I wouldn't have gotten it. Maybe it's a special.
38:12
Speaker 1: It's my deep fried Reese's cup special. This would give
38:15
Speaker 1: me Oklahoma plus eight and a half. The OU is
38:18
Speaker 1: not bad there. And this game's always unpredictable. We go
38:21
Speaker 1: back last year.
38:22
Speaker 2: Remember Florida was up and down the field on Texas
38:25
Speaker 2: very next week. Everybody was like, Oklahoma's going to win
38:28
Speaker 2: this game. Texas goes out. Arch Manning plays well. They
38:31
Speaker 2: dominate Oklahoma. I like where you are, but I've.
38:35
Speaker 1: Gotten burned way too many times in Oklahoma. Lance has
38:37
Speaker 1: sold Oklahoma, but I like your play right there. Really,
38:41
Speaker 1: I try to do big block things so that Brock
38:43
Speaker 1: can see it later on and comment, oh, Oklahoma, I.
38:46
Speaker 5: Can see that.
38:47
Speaker 1: Who's Jim got? Jim, why don't you have a, is
38:49
Speaker 1: it the turd special? It does look that way on
38:53
Speaker 1: the screen. It could be. The turd special is not
38:56
Speaker 1: out of the realm of possibility there. And I'm horrible
38:58
Speaker 1: at drawing a hand, apparently, too. Nobody recognized the upside down.
39:02
Speaker 1: All right, that gets us to Forrester this week. Forrester,
39:05
Speaker 1: what do you have, man?
39:07
Speaker 5: All right. It went so well for me. Oh, there
39:10
Speaker 5: goes the money.
39:10
Speaker 2: Oh, God.
39:11
Speaker 5: We're in shambles.
39:12
Speaker 6: It's not the worst thing to happen.
39:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. That was well down the list.
39:19
Speaker 2: Yes.
39:19
Speaker 5: We're in shambles earlier.
39:22
Speaker 7: So last week, I picked a team that I had
39:25
Speaker 7: never seen this season. I'm going to do it again
39:27
Speaker 7: this week. We're going to Alton UCLA. They're going to.
39:35
Speaker 5: Run up, run it up and down the field. That's
39:38
Speaker 5: Wayne Knight throwing the stiff arm on the duck feathers
39:42
Speaker 5: go flying. God. Bob Chesney's such a good-looking guy.
39:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a good-looking coach. Look at him in those sunglasses.
39:49
Speaker 1: It's uncomfortable.
39:50
Speaker 2: They are fourth in the FBS in rushing, 282 yards
39:53
Speaker 2: a game, and they're 4-0 against the number.
39:57
Speaker 1: In my opinion, this will be a brutal beatdown, Forrester.
40:00
Speaker 1: Oregon will beat the crap out of UCLA.
40:01
Speaker 2: I think we're going to know a lot about Oregon.
40:03
Speaker 2: If Oregon comes out and wins this game going away,
40:05
Speaker 2: Oregon is back. I think the way they played in
40:07
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter against USC, and we're going to see
40:12
Speaker 2: how good Oklahoma State is, but UCLA....
40:16
Speaker 1: I think they're good, but are they this good? Wayne
40:18
Speaker 1: Knight taking the helmet off his ass. I don't think so.
40:22
Speaker 1: By the way, Dante Moore back at practice. They could
40:26
Speaker 1: be holed this week. He had helmet and pads and
40:30
Speaker 1: ran through the workout.
40:32
Speaker 2: There couldn't be different-looking Wayne Knights, by the way.
40:34
Speaker 6: I agree.
40:35
Speaker 1: I thought about UCLA, too, but I just couldn't trust
40:38
Speaker 1: them against Oregon. Cal was my top choice. That's good.
40:42
Speaker 1: I'd like to Georgia Tech, too.
40:44
Speaker 2: Cal was your top choice, but you didn't play him.
40:46
Speaker 1: It was my top choice, but I believed this one better. Well,
40:50
Speaker 1: if you believe that one better, that's your top choice.
40:53
Speaker 1: I've got one guy who texts me all the time, Kevin,
40:56
Speaker 1: who listens to our show, and he tells me all
40:58
Speaker 1: the time that Cal sucks, Cal sucks, Cal sucks. I
41:02
Speaker 1: couldn't stop hearing him when I was going to pick them.
41:04
Speaker 1: I mean, they do suck. Yeah. But you picked them.
41:08
Speaker 2: Can they suck a little less at home against Virginia
41:11
Speaker 2: Tech coming all the way across after that? Really, really
41:15
Speaker 2: tough loss.
41:15
Speaker 1: And my other, the play I wanted to play was
41:18
Speaker 1: Texas A & M. Bandit, I know you're here. Texas
41:20
Speaker 1: A & M, I couldn't find anywhere that was three
41:23
Speaker 1: and a half. Not three and a half. I wanted
41:25
Speaker 1: A & M at plus four. Did I get them
41:27
Speaker 1: four and a half? Because I think A & M
41:29
Speaker 1: goes in and beats the other one. Why did you
41:31
Speaker 1: need four and a half if they're going to beat them? Well,
41:33
Speaker 1: it's three and a half. It's a minimum. It's got
41:35
Speaker 1: to be at least four or four and a half
41:37
Speaker 1: for us to play them. I got you. So it
41:38
Speaker 1: wasn't enough. But if it was four, you could play
41:40
Speaker 1: it at four and a half. That's right. But it
41:41
Speaker 1: was three and a half. I watched all morning long. Bandit,
41:44
Speaker 1: what are you staring at? Your piece of shit special. Yes.
41:53
Speaker 1: How much of the deep fried Reese's cup would you eat?
41:56
Speaker 1: All of it. I'm starving. What's up, boys? How we
42:01
Speaker 1: doing today? Doing great. I gave you, don't you look?
42:05
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. Real quick, Bandit.
42:09
Speaker 2: He has blown the load on five different colors, or
42:12
Speaker 2: at least.
42:13
Speaker 1: Oh, here we go. These markers are shot. The marker
42:16
Speaker 1: police back after the Bandit. You know why he's doing that?
42:19
Speaker 1: Because he's at the bottom. If he was at the top,
42:20
Speaker 1: he wouldn't care. Yeah. I would imagine it's some red,
42:24
Speaker 1: some blue. Potentially. We'll tell you in a moment if
42:28
Speaker 1: you won't get ahead.
42:30
Speaker 8: Scott and I saw the bandit up here up until
42:32
Speaker 8: about 3 o'clock working on this.
42:34
Speaker 5: Oh, he's working overtime on this one.
42:36
Speaker 1: Grabbed a gin, called police, get a welfare check. He's
42:40
Speaker 1: not on the golf course. He's not at home.
42:42
Speaker 5: We might have missed a tee time for this one.
42:44
Speaker 1: Poor Jen's like, it's a Monday. Ryan's not playing golf today.
42:48
Speaker 1: I wonder if he's having an affair.
42:50
Speaker 5: Nope.
42:50
Speaker 1: Driving logos, drawing logos. He has an affair with the
42:53
Speaker 1: upset alert. Course closed on Mondays. I may as well
42:55
Speaker 1: have one. I gave you another winner last week. That's
42:58
Speaker 1: not why we're here though. I'm not here to give
42:59
Speaker 1: you winners. Any idiot can give you winners as you
43:01
Speaker 1: guys have shown. I'm here to give you outright winners,
43:04
Speaker 1: which I'm going to do this week. And I've been
43:05
Speaker 1: on this game all summer long. Now I watch the
43:09
Speaker 1: show occasionally. Okay. I do catch a show occasion. It's
43:11
Speaker 1: very entertaining. Um, Dunaway, the guy that does all the
43:16
Speaker 1: stat stuff in the back. Brooks, is that his name? Yeah,
43:19
Speaker 1: Brooks does our graphics and a bunch of stats. Because
43:21
Speaker 1: I always hear you say, like, Brooks, can you see
43:23
Speaker 1: since the fall of the Roman Empire how many lunar
43:25
Speaker 1: eclipses we've had? You do stuff like that for Brooks. 14.
43:29
Speaker 1: And Brooks found that number. So, Brooks, I'm going to
43:31
Speaker 1: bring you into my pick. Who's got the longest win
43:33
Speaker 1: streak in the nation right now, Brooks? The Indiana Hoosiers.
43:36
Speaker 1: And how many games is that? 21. And that's where
43:40
Speaker 1: it ends, boys. We're going Nebraska. Catching seven and a
43:45
Speaker 1: half at home. The old happy corn husker is going
43:48
Speaker 1: to give Indiana some hardcore corn. That was going to
43:53
Speaker 1: be my Friday headline. I've got to write a new
43:55
Speaker 1: headline now. Some hardcore corn coming Indiana's way. Blocked in
43:59
Speaker 1: some states.
44:00
Speaker 6: Nebraska.
44:01
Speaker 5: Lance did say that you blew the load on this.
44:04
Speaker 1: You'll have to prove your age to watch this one.
44:08
Speaker 1: Seven and a half points Nebraska's getting. Tyler, I didn't
44:11
Speaker 1: think you'd be able to do this today, but we
44:13
Speaker 1: fixed it. We don't need them.
44:15
Speaker 5: We don't need them.
44:16
Speaker 1: We've got all their microphones back. Nebraska, seven and a half.
44:20
Speaker 1: They win it outright. The win streak is over. It
44:23
Speaker 1: sucks we don't have a good yellow. Hardest part about it.
44:27
Speaker 1: Hair and corn. You've got enough. You did it with
44:29
Speaker 1: the hair. Why didn't you do it with the corn?
44:31
Speaker 1: It faded.
44:31
Speaker 8: I got a good yellow back here on my desk.
44:34
Speaker 1: That's a great time for me to find that out, Brooks.
44:36
Speaker 1: Thank you.
44:37
Speaker 8: It's the old Crabby markers that no one else uses.
44:39
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good corn husker. Thank you very much.
44:41
Speaker 1: It really is. I like that logo. I think you
44:42
Speaker 1: drew the face to look like you, though. Wait, let
44:49
Speaker 1: me see the face. I don't think he looks like me. Well,
44:51
Speaker 1: I mean, compared to the happy Cornhusker. He looks like
44:53
Speaker 1: he's taking a mean shit. Look at that face.
44:55
Speaker 6: He looks kind of presidential.
44:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, he does kind of look like a president. Brown
45:00
Speaker 1: was class president five years running. Your face would look
45:04
Speaker 1: like that, too, if your Cornhusker was coming out of
45:06
Speaker 1: the side pocket like that. That's where they put it
45:08
Speaker 1: in the logo. Big piece of corn. This is your
45:10
Speaker 1: Peroni disease special. Is that what it is? No, it's
45:13
Speaker 1: a beer, isn't it?
45:15
Speaker 2: No, Peroni is a beer.
45:16
Speaker 1: I do not think that's a beer. No, Peroni is
45:19
Speaker 1: a beer, too.
45:19
Speaker 5: No, Peroni is a beer.
45:20
Speaker 1: It's both a beer and a disease. It's an Italian beer.
45:24
Speaker 2: A crooked dick and an Italian beer.
45:26
Speaker 1: Oh, they're the same name. Yeah, because I knew it
45:28
Speaker 1: was a beer. I didn't think I got the disease correctly. Yeah.
45:31
Speaker 1: You get one from drinking one. I do enjoy a
45:36
Speaker 1: good Peroni. I've heard. Yeah, when I'm across the pond.
45:39
Speaker 1: All right, that's our upset alert. We've got Nebraska... Cal
45:44
Speaker 1: and Oklahoma in here. And then the back room, we
45:48
Speaker 1: have UCLA and Brooks-Gavis Georgia Tech. So one of those
45:53
Speaker 1: surely will pull an upset this week in week six
45:56
Speaker 1: of college football. When we come back, some final thoughts
45:59
Speaker 1: around college football on some ins and outs. Plus in
46:03
Speaker 1: the NFL, good news for the Philadelphia Eagles. Not so
46:07
Speaker 1: good news for the Seattle Seahawks. That's next on the
46:11
Speaker 1: next round presented by Hard Rock Bet on Sporting State.
46:14
Speaker 1: Coming up in our next round part of the show today,
46:16
Speaker 1: Brock Hewitt will be with us, but also we'll talk
46:18
Speaker 1: about a fascinating quarterback matchup in Tuscaloosa that involves Keelan
46:24
Speaker 1: Russell and Gunnar Stockton. By the way, Colin Simmons, who's
46:29
Speaker 1: part of the Red River this weekend, do you know
46:32
Speaker 1: Decorian Moore of Oregon and Keelan Russell were all on
46:37
Speaker 1: the same Duncanville high school team. I bet they won state.
46:41
Speaker 1: I would hope. I hope they did. But that's a
46:44
Speaker 1: pretty talented little high school team in Duncanville when you
46:47
Speaker 1: got DeCorean Moore, Colin Simmons, and Keelan Russell there. And
46:51
Speaker 1: by the way, Bryce Underwood was the number one rated
46:54
Speaker 1: quarterback in that class with Keelan Russell. Keelan was number two.
46:57
Speaker 2: You know, the one thing about Bryce coming out, and
46:59
Speaker 2: if you saw him, and I've told the story a
47:01
Speaker 2: million times, we were at that on three.
47:02
Speaker 1: He already looked like an NFL quarterback.
47:05
Speaker 2: But people talked about the competition coming out of Michigan,
47:08
Speaker 2: the high school competition, and maybe not as good.
47:10
Speaker 1: And you heard that about Arch, too. Well, because Arch
47:13
Speaker 1: played small school private ball in Louisiana. But I always
47:17
Speaker 1: pointed back, so did Peyton and so did Eli. And
47:20
Speaker 1: things can change. It's been a long time between Peyton
47:22
Speaker 1: and Eli and Arch. But it really didn't impact them. But,
47:28
Speaker 1: you know, that Texas– But Texas high school football competition
47:34
Speaker 1: has proven time and time again that it prepares you
47:38
Speaker 1: for some big things. Interesting that we're in a world
47:41
Speaker 1: now where we'll talk more about Keelan Russell in a second,
47:45
Speaker 1: where Keelan Russell is doing what he's doing, and Bryce
47:48
Speaker 1: Underwood is where he is with Michigan right now. A
47:51
Speaker 1: couple of notes from the NFL. We'll get back to
47:53
Speaker 1: college football when we go to our next round part
47:56
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48:09
Speaker 1: In the NFL, good news for the Eagles, not a
48:13
Speaker 1: serious injury for Saquon Barkley, or at least not as
48:16
Speaker 1: serious as they first thought. He is week to week now,
48:19
Speaker 1: and that is great news for the Eagles that struggle
48:21
Speaker 1: for any offense. Well, it's great news because you lost
48:24
Speaker 1: Tank Bigsby.
48:25
Speaker 2: You're number two back, and you're down to Will Shipley
48:27
Speaker 2: right now, and The Eagles team seems to be heading
48:31
Speaker 2: in the wrong direction, and now I'm addicted to this
48:34
Speaker 2: Philadelphia sports talk.
48:35
Speaker 1: I got in the wrong thing for Lance yesterday. I
48:38
Speaker 1: got in the car, and I had still left it
48:40
Speaker 1: on WIP on SiriusXM, and I texted Lance and said,
48:42
Speaker 1: you've got to get over there and listen. It was
48:45
Speaker 1: meltdown city from their face.
48:47
Speaker 2: Yeah and all it is is they don't talk about
48:49
Speaker 2: you know LeBron is now a Philadelphia 76er they don't
48:51
Speaker 2: care about the Phillies rearview mirror everything is Eagles everything
48:55
Speaker 2: is killing Sirianni.
48:56
Speaker 1: Right now Sirianni Jalen Hurts could you know he can't
48:59
Speaker 1: even make all he can make is the easy throws.
49:01
Speaker 2: I was listening last night on the way to the
49:02
Speaker 2: New York butcher shop Hugh Douglas host a Monday night
49:05
Speaker 2: show Landon Dickerson dropped by and I was listening to
49:08
Speaker 2: them just cut it up about how bad this Philadelphia
49:11
Speaker 2: offense is right now.
49:12
Speaker 1: But that is good news. What does Landon say? He's
49:15
Speaker 1: he's injured right now right what does he say and
49:17
Speaker 1: he's still part of the team yeah.
49:18
Speaker 2: He just you know they were talking about going to
49:20
Speaker 2: London this week because they're you know going over there
49:22
Speaker 2: to take on the Jags and they asked him if
49:24
Speaker 2: he watched football and he's like no not really um
49:28
Speaker 2: it was kind of a boring conversation yeah.
49:30
Speaker 1: But they were saying i mean they were down on
49:31
Speaker 1: jalen hurts on that one show right after our show
49:33
Speaker 1: yesterday well i think what.
49:35
Speaker 2: It's showing now is you know we always discount jalen
49:39
Speaker 2: hurts he's a guy that's been to a couple of
49:40
Speaker 2: super bowls he's won a super bowl but now he
49:43
Speaker 2: doesn't have a lot of talent around him and he's
49:44
Speaker 2: struggling yeah but.
49:46
Speaker 1: That happens with a lot of quarterbacks right well because
49:49
Speaker 1: the host was like matt stafford had a terrible game
49:51
Speaker 1: but he gets a pass because he's matt stafford and
49:53
Speaker 1: i wanted to say He's a Hall of Famer. That's
49:55
Speaker 1: why he's getting the pass. We've seen him be a
49:57
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. Now, Hurts has won a Super Bowl.
49:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Stafford in that fourth quarter was unbelievable.
50:03
Speaker 1: But the point the host was making is that Hurts
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Speaker 1: hampers an offensive coordinator. Like, you can't hold Sirianni responsible.
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Speaker 1: He's having to call plays for Jalen Hurts. And the
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Speaker 1: other guy was like, well, we never said this about
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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts when we were going to the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: Everything was fine. Twice. Not once, twice.
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Speaker 2: But two years ago, Saquon was unbelievable. And I heard
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Speaker 2: somebody make kind of the comparison between Two years ago,
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Speaker 2: Saquon was what B. John Robinson is right now, and
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Speaker 2: then you had an A.J. Brown, and you had a
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Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts with a different offensive line, and when you
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Speaker 2: got into that third and short or fourth and short,
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Speaker 2: it was 100% a given. They were 0-2 in that
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Speaker 2: situation against the Rams on Sunday. It's just a completely
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Speaker 2: different offense, and I think Jalen's about to get really,
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Speaker 2: really exposed.
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Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels returns this week for Washington. Seattle, in your
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Speaker 1: division with the Rams, LT, they've got some running back issues.
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Speaker 1: Jadarian Price now on the IR. Zach Charbonnet not back
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Speaker 1: yet with an ACL, so they are hurting at the
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Speaker 1: running back position. Meanwhile, the guy they let walk out
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Speaker 1: the door, the Super Bowl MVP, Kenneth Walker. 537 yards
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Speaker 1: through four games. Is that tops in the NFL right now?
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Speaker 1: It might be. How is it not Bijan? Bijan played
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Speaker 1: his fifth game last night. Kenneth Walker is tops right now.
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Speaker 1: Through four games, hasn't played his fifth yet, but Bijan's
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Speaker 1: right there with him. You let that guy walk out
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Speaker 1: the door. Easy to say now, though. There were a
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Speaker 1: lot of factors that went into that. Very, very difficult
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Speaker 1: to give a lucrative contract. To a running back they
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Speaker 1: chose not to. They thought Jadarian Price would step right in.
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Speaker 1: Obviously injured now. Who did they sign yesterday? It was
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Speaker 1: a journeyman. Mixon. Joe Mixon. Okay. Former Cincinnati Bengal. Former
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengal. And Clemson Tiger? No. Oklahoma Sooner. Oklahoma Sooner.
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Speaker 2: But that's a big game this weekend. Obviously San Francisco
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Speaker 2: will do our power rankings tomorrow in the NFL. But
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Speaker 2: San Fran goes to Seattle.
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Speaker 1: 4-0 versus 3-1. So that's some NFL news. One final
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Speaker 1: note from the NFL. The guy who writes the media
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Speaker 1: stuff for The Athletic used to be with you. Richard Deitch? Nope, Marshawn. Oh,
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Speaker 1: Andrew Marshawn. Andrew Marshawn reporting that the CBS has worked
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Speaker 1: out a deal, they believe, and nobody's reporting yet with
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Speaker 1: Tony Romo that he's not coming back. He was still
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Speaker 1: owed $ 72 million on a 10-year, $ 180 million deal because
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Speaker 1: of lack of preparation and unreliability. They believe, according to
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Speaker 1: Andrew Marchand, they have gone down there and worked out
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Speaker 1: a settlement. And since there is no fight back lawsuit
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Speaker 1: or anything from Romo, they believe that he got most
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Speaker 1: of the $ 72 million he's still owed. which they say
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Speaker 1: for six years of service and $ 180 million, it could
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Speaker 1: be one of the worst sports contracts of all time. Well,
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Speaker 1: now he can be lazy. Not just in broadcasting. Of
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Speaker 1: all time. Of all time. So it doesn't look like
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Speaker 1: Romo's coming back to CBS. We'll come back on the
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Speaker 1: other side and talk some college football. That's it for
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Speaker 1: us live on Sports State. You guys have a great day.
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Speaker 1: Clay and Buck's up next.