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Hour 1 - Playoffs?!? · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 2: each hour after this one rank the matchups for Week
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Speaker 2: eighteen will have much more. Speaking of more, let's get
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Speaker 2: things started with college football and my Ducks and Dante
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Speaker 2: Moore here in first off, there's no time. Let's rock. So,
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Speaker 2: as I said last night, Oregon has been waiting for
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Speaker 2: this moment to redeem themselves after what Ohio State did
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Speaker 2: to them at the Rules Bowl last year in the
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Speaker 2: first iteration of the college football twelve team playoff. Oregon
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Speaker 2: embarrassed themselves. It was embarrassing for them, It was embarrassing
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Speaker 2: for Dan Lanning. They got smoked at the Rose Bowl
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Speaker 2: and they were the number one overall team in the country.
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Speaker 2: They had not lost a game, they had already beaten
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Speaker 2: Ohio State. And last week, well a couple of weeks ago,
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Speaker 2: it was James Madison who they started off this year's tournament,
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Speaker 2: the twelve team tournament we have now in college football. Well,
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Speaker 2: James Madison wasn't exactly the team they were looking to
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Speaker 2: start with to get the revenge tour underway. But it
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Speaker 2: was a good warm up, almost like a scrimmage at times,
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Speaker 2: as opposed to the like long layoff they had last
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Speaker 2: year before taking on Ohio State. So my Ducks came
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Speaker 2: out in this game today like they were shot out
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Speaker 2: of a cannon and Ship Kelly was still the head coach.
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Speaker 2: With their up tempo offense, the Chain gang couldn't keep
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Speaker 2: up with them. At first, it was brilliant against that
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Speaker 2: aggressive pin your ears back Texas Tech defense. Use their
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Speaker 2: aggressiveness against them and get the ball out quick. They
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Speaker 2: looked unstoppable. It was like the quick quack car wash chain.
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Speaker 2: And then David Bailey sacked Dante More and they had
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Speaker 2: to settle for a field goal. Texas Tech gets it back,
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Speaker 2: tries their own up tempo offense, and all it did
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Speaker 2: for them was lead to a punt quicker. The Ducks
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Speaker 2: get the ball back, convert a fourth and two at
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Speaker 2: midfield to Kenyon Sadik, and then tried a fourth and
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Speaker 2: one play to run it and they got stopped again
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Speaker 2: by that great Texas Tech defense. Now, Oregon's defense pretty
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Speaker 2: damn good as well, as a lot of people found
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Speaker 2: out today. They got Tech to go three and out,
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Speaker 2: and while Oregon only had three points at the end
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Speaker 2: of the first quarter, they ran twenty five place. They
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Speaker 2: controlled the clock even with how good Texas Tech's defense is.
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Speaker 2: But Oregon's defense is no slash, and on the second
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Speaker 2: play of the second quarter, true freshman Brandon Finny gets
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Speaker 2: that first pick. Nobody talking about how good Orgons defense is.
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Speaker 2: This was their moment to shine a little bit, not
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Speaker 2: Morton's and the quarterback for Texas Tech. That was just
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Speaker 2: his fifth pick all season long, but it was a
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Speaker 2: bad one. Now, Texas Tech in that front seven, they
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Speaker 2: look like a damn NFL team out there, like on
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Speaker 2: All Madden Mode, that type of thing. It honestly looks
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Speaker 2: like the Red Raiders would beat the Las Vegas Raiders
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Speaker 2: right now. The Raiders sucked. No, I'm not, that's disrespectful.
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Speaker 2: It is, but the Las Vegas Raiders are also trying
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Speaker 2: to lose and tank for the number one pick to
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Speaker 2: get Fernando Mendoza. We'll talk about him in a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Oregon's best play, honestly in the first half was a
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Speaker 2: fake punt, and it was a great fake like Meg
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Speaker 2: Ryan's fake in when Harry met Sally rip Rob Reiner.
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Speaker 2: That fake punt works so well. I'm like, hey, why
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Speaker 2: not do that fake punt thing on first down, second down,
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Speaker 2: third down two? That's Orgon's best offense so far. But
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Speaker 2: they get it to texts two and they're going forward.
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Speaker 2: After all, if you're willing to do that at midfield,
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Speaker 2: you can't not go forward at the two yard line,
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Speaker 2: David Bailey bats down Dante Moore's pass rolling to his
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Speaker 2: right that had no chance again. I was especially upset
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Speaker 2: at this point because my breakfast burrito that I ordered
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Speaker 2: arrived at the same time, and I wanted to be
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Speaker 2: celebrating the feast with a not a turnover on downs
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Speaker 2: at the goal line. I have to emotionally eat to
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Speaker 2: handle stressful games like this. Oregon eventually gets the ball
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Speaker 2: back though, as Finny recovers a fumble by Tech, but
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Speaker 2: of course they have to settle for a field goal.
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Speaker 2: They at least didn't try to go for it again.
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Speaker 2: Texas Tech defense is the best that I have seen.
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Speaker 2: I texted my buddy at one point, I can't believe
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Speaker 2: how good this d is. That's not sexual. Texas Tech
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Speaker 2: defense has Oregon and Dante Moore completely shook at the
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Speaker 2: line of scrimmage in that first half where he's trying
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Speaker 2: to read their defense pre snap during the snap too,
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Speaker 2: and instead he's taken the football off of his face
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Speaker 2: on some of these miscues on shotgun snaps like it
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Speaker 2: was unbelievable. Texas Tech and that defense, I can't say
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Speaker 2: enough about them, but I can talk about Organ's defense too.
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Speaker 2: Because the second best defense might be Organs Against Texas
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Speaker 2: Tech's offense, the Ducks are up six to nothing at
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Speaker 2: the half. Oregon at the ball for twenty two minutes,
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Speaker 2: Texas Tech just eight minutes. It took me longer than
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Speaker 2: those eight minutes to eat that big ass breakfast burrito.
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Speaker 2: I got so out of nowhere. At the half, Third
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Speaker 2: Eye Blond in old Ass Stephen Jenkins is performing. It's
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Speaker 2: not just his third eye, his mind's eye that's blind anymore. Though.
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Speaker 2: He's old enough where I'm not sure if he can
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Speaker 2: see for reels. Love him the deep cuts from Third
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Speaker 2: Eye Blond, especially in the first two albums Elite. They
6:30
Speaker 2: of course played semi Charmed Life though, because it's like
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Speaker 2: their most catchy song, even though it's actually about Crystal meth.
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Speaker 2: Do you want to get hot?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's you you want to cook crystal meth.
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Speaker 2: This stat is crazier than doing crystal meth. Dan Lanning
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Speaker 2: is forty one in one when leading at the half,
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Speaker 2: now forty two in one. The second half starts and
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Speaker 2: the Red Raiders offense looks like the Las Vegas Raiders
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Speaker 2: on the Raiders suck. Yeah, it was bad. Tayo Ooy
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Speaker 2: Young La Young concrete, they call him. He rips the
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Speaker 2: ball away from that statue under center for Tech in Morton,
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Speaker 2: and they have it at the six and the first
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Speaker 2: offensive play they run, they get their first touchdown Jordan Davison.
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Speaker 2: Ducks are up thirteen to nothing. Here's something though, that
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Speaker 2: had me furious. Well, now I'm getting very irritated. Organ
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Speaker 2: gets the ball back and they go for it. On
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Speaker 2: fourth and two at Tech's forty six, Dante Moore throws
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Speaker 2: a pick to Ben Roberts. Why even go for that?
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Speaker 2: You're up two scores, it's thirteen to nothing. Your defense
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Speaker 2: is lights out. You can stop them. You can get
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Speaker 2: the ball back with a new set of downs right
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Speaker 2: about there, Dan Lanning, what are we doing? The kids
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Speaker 2: are playing to tailer counts, are screwing it up. We
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Speaker 2: gotta have some situational awareness time and score and field
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Speaker 2: position in big games. Dan Lanning's decision making has been
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Speaker 2: questioned before by others and even himself. He apologized in
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Speaker 2: the first half for not getting more points and just
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Speaker 2: taking the chip shot field goals. But Tech they had
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Speaker 2: three first downs in their first drive in the third quarter,
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Speaker 2: after having three first downs total in the first half alone.
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Speaker 2: I had already ordered my victory Sunday on door Dash. Yes,
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Speaker 2: I followed up the big aspirrito with the Sunday let
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Speaker 2: me eat. Okay, it's fine, Why don't you take a
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Speaker 2: taste of the drink there? That too, you were opening
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Speaker 2: the door, though, I would say, Dan Lanning, by making
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Speaker 2: that move, you were opening the door for the game
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Speaker 2: to flip momentum wise. Luckily, Tech throws a pick in
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Speaker 2: the end zone on a jump ball, and Finny has
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Speaker 2: another pick their true freshman at corner, and that pretty
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Speaker 2: much all but sealed it for Oregon, as they kicked
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Speaker 2: another field goal that was sixteen to nothing, and then
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Speaker 2: they smoked Baron Morton once more before it was over
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Speaker 2: by a player named Blake Purchase. Somebody tweeted this out quote.
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Speaker 2: For Texas Tech to end up having their season ended
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Speaker 2: by a dude named Purchase sacking their quarterback is peak irony. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Dan Lanning, by the way, then called a time out,
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Speaker 2: ran up the score a little bit, or maybe I
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Speaker 2: don't know, was working on his team and not so
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Speaker 2: much worried about your team. You don't want him to
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Speaker 2: score again. Stop him. Your defense is pretty damn good,
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Speaker 2: Texas Tech. You want to try out plays on that
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Speaker 2: defense maybe and show that you're ready for the next opponent.
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Speaker 2: It's a physical football game out there. Like, let me
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Speaker 2: get this straight. Last week people were upset with Oregon
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Speaker 2: or were doubting them because they gave up some scores
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Speaker 2: late after the game was out of hand against James Madison,
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Speaker 2: and now they're mad at Oregon for running through the
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Speaker 2: tape and continuing to play hard up sixteen. Nothing. Y'all
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Speaker 2: are just gonna look to criticize anything with them. I
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Speaker 2: don't understand it. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive. I am
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Speaker 2: wearing an Oregon Ducks hat. But you know what Texas
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Speaker 2: Tech coach Joey McGuire said postgame quote, I hope Dan
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Speaker 2: Lenning wins the whole damn thing. They didn't seem too
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Speaker 2: bothered by it, So it looks like me and my
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Speaker 2: Ducks got the last laugh here, mister peepers. It was
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Speaker 2: so annoying at duck Hunt, that dog laughing at you
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Speaker 2: every time you missed the Ducks out there. All right,
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Speaker 2: enough of my ducktails. Time to get to Oregon's next opponent.
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Speaker 2: And we found out pretty early who would be as
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Speaker 2: the Indiana Hoosers beat down h Hoosiers. The Alabama Crimson
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Speaker 2: Tide lost thirty eight two three at the Ruse Bowl
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Speaker 2: as Fernando Mendoza went fourteen of sixteen passing with three touchdowns. Honestly,
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Speaker 2: it wasn't even that close. This was complete domination. And
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Speaker 2: what's crazy about this is Indiana became the first team
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Speaker 2: in the twelve team playoff with a buy to not
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Speaker 2: losehoo oh they won all right, Indiana was not rusty
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Speaker 2: Ohio State, Texas Tech. What's your excuse this season? This
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Speaker 2: year's second year the twelve team playoff, Indiana had all
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Speaker 2: that time off too. What was Oregon's excuse last year?
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Speaker 2: Or Georgia's or Boise States or Arizona States by teams
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Speaker 2: were zero and six in the twelve team playoff format
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Speaker 2: in the quarterfinals until Indiana came in and said, f
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Speaker 2: you're by say bye to Eddie one that is playing us.
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Speaker 2: But the first half of that ballgame, they're just so
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Speaker 2: stout up front. They forced you into mistakes and eventually
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Speaker 2: they're going to capitalize on them. They were balanced on
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Speaker 2: the offensive side eighty six yards rushing, ninety three yards
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Speaker 2: passing for Indiana beautiful balance and they're up seventeen to
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Speaker 2: nothing in the first half after a slow start because
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Speaker 2: of BAMA mistakes, not converting on a fourth down, the
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Speaker 2: Tye Simpson fumble in the first half. They just they
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Speaker 2: wait for you to beat yourself and while you're trying
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Speaker 2: to get by their defense, good luck. They're going to
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Speaker 2: force you into those mistakes eventually. The thing with them is,
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Speaker 2: and it's a little bit terrifying because that first game
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Speaker 2: Oregon played at Austin against Indiana, when everybody realized, oh
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Speaker 2: is Indiana Hoosiers are for real? Kurt Signetti is a monster,
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Speaker 2: a different type of monster. They are a machine out
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Speaker 2: there with their precision, with their attention to detail and
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Speaker 2: just making mistake free football out there. That touchdown to
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Speaker 2: Becker from Mendoza a thing of beauty after the tie
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Speaker 2: Simpson fumble, and Mendoza in the red zone has been
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Speaker 2: well perfect, I guess perfect. Yeah, he hasn't had a
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Speaker 2: turnover and he was perfect in this game as well.
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Speaker 2: They come out of the half after being up by
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Speaker 2: seventeen nothing. Some people are trying to make the example
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Speaker 2: of oh, you know, this is analogous to what happened
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Speaker 2: in the opening round, BAMA was down seventeen to nothing
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Speaker 2: to Oklahoma. This is not Oklahoma, this is this is Indiana.
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Speaker 2: This is different. They get a stop, they get the
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Speaker 2: serat touchdown, and BAMA is down twenty four to nothing.
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Speaker 2: Now you're down twenty four to nothing and you're Bama
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Speaker 2: and they ended up getting into a goal line situation
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Speaker 2: where they settled for a field goal. That's a little
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Speaker 2: bit soft. I would say, you're down twenty four to nothing,
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Speaker 2: you have to score touchdowns? Are you just trying to
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Speaker 2: put some lipstick on this pig and not get totally
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Speaker 2: shut out? You didn't want to be thirty eight to zero,
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Speaker 2: thirty eight to three look so much better out there.
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Speaker 2: I cannot stand when coaches do this. And I don't
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Speaker 2: know what's gonna happen Calen de boor now, but coaches
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Speaker 2: that will just do enough to try not to lose
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Speaker 2: too poorly instead of trying to win the football game.
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Speaker 2: Not to channel Herm Edwards here or anything, but back
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Speaker 2: to Kurt Signetti. The guy scares the hell out of me.
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Speaker 2: Bobby Knight would have loved him. He's a monster and
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Speaker 2: he's created one now at Indiana. Kurt Signetti is that
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Speaker 2: evil movie villain in a sports movie that sucks, but
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Speaker 2: it also sucks playing him, Like I've already seen my
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Speaker 2: Ducks loosed him once at home. Signetti is out there
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Speaker 2: chasing perfection. They're looking to destroy you, crush your souls
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Speaker 2: along the way. I think when they showed that stealth
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Speaker 2: bomber that flew over the stadium at the Rose Ball
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Speaker 2: at the half like he was in it and gave
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Speaker 2: his players a thumbs up like, Okay, we're up seventeen.
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Speaker 2: We can do better. They did when in thirty eight
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Speaker 2: to three. So I just don't know what you're gonna
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Speaker 2: do against this Indiana ball club because they're now proving
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Speaker 2: it on the big stage. Last season it was well,
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Speaker 2: they got bounced early in the playoff, but that was
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Speaker 2: just year one with Signetti. I mean, this team won
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Speaker 2: three or four games the year before he came to Indiana,
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Speaker 2: and now they look like one of the blue bloods
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden. It's incredible. And by the way,
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Speaker 2: I'm not hearing a damn thing from Notre Dame fans
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Speaker 2: who are saying, see, Alabama didn't belong, They shouldn't have
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Speaker 2: been here, they shouldn't have been in this spot. Look,
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Speaker 2: Alabama at least won a game in the playoff. They
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Speaker 2: beat Oklahoma Indiana. I don't know if anybody's beating them.
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Speaker 2: There's no shame in losing to Signetti and this Indiana team.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. They're trying to go like Ohio State went
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Speaker 2: last season, just buzzsaw through the playoffs. They're going for
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Speaker 2: chainsaw their leather face out there. That's how scary this
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Speaker 2: team is. But Notre Dame. You have no argument. Stop stop.
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Speaker 2: I know Bbama had three losses. They still had a
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Speaker 2: much better win against Georgia. What was your best win?
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Speaker 2: Your best win was two losses, close losses to Miami
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Speaker 2: and to Texas A and M and then Miami. Well
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Speaker 2: they've won two games already in the playoffs, including beating
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Speaker 2: Texas A and M. Who beat you? You don't get
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Speaker 2: to talk dead men, tell no tales. That's how this works.
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Speaker 2: You're out. I don't want to hear peep for mister
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Speaker 2: peepers Eus. This dog's name, by the way, in duck
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Speaker 2: Hunt or Notre Dame fans right now, I'm sorry. You
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Speaker 2: don't got a leg to stand on. The argument doesn't
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Speaker 2: hold water. If you want to say you should have
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Speaker 2: been in over JMU and Tulane. Fine, there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of teams that should have been in over them by
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Speaker 2: you can make a case too. The twelve team playoff
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Speaker 2: is still flawed. But just because now Bama finally lost
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Speaker 2: and you want to dance on their grave and say
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Speaker 2: we were better on that team by what metric? Because
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Speaker 2: if you had one less loss, you also didn't play
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Speaker 2: an SEC schedule. You're still picking and choosing who you
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Speaker 2: want to play every season. You won't join a conference. Yes,
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Speaker 2: you play the ACC teams and you lost to the
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Speaker 2: best one you played. I just I don't understand the
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Speaker 2: Golden domer stuff. It is infuriating to see how many
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Speaker 2: people will bend the knee in this whole USC Notre
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Speaker 2: Dame debate, which we got into a little bit last
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Speaker 2: night as well. It's it's tired. I'm sorry. They haven't
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Speaker 2: won a championship since nineteen eighty eight. That's how long
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Speaker 2: it's been for Notre Dame. Yet we treat them like
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Speaker 2: their Bama in the modern age, like they won seven
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Speaker 2: or eight or whatever the hell Nick Saban did. Yeah, well,
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Speaker 2: this Bama team not exactly that. This Bama team. They
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Speaker 2: got run out of the Rose Bowl by a team
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Speaker 2: getting their first victory or the first team to do
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Speaker 2: it with a bye week, and they look dominant. So
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Speaker 2: there's no excuse for anybody else that wants to say, oh,
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Speaker 2: there's too much time off at a negative getting the
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Speaker 2: bye week in the twelve team playoff, it didn't look
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Speaker 2: like that for Indiana. They were well prepared. Kurt Signetti
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Speaker 2: is just different, him coming out initially at that press
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Speaker 2: conference and saying that, uh, I win, Google me, ask
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Speaker 2: Jeeves me, MetaCrawler me, you could do it all, net
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Speaker 2: escape me, whatever, Firefox me. He's right, he just wins. Yo.
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Speaker 2: You look at the facial expressions on the sideline from Signetti.
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Speaker 2: It's intimidating. It's scary. I'm worried for my ducks in
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Speaker 2: the semi finals. Now, I was hoping Bama was gonna win.
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Speaker 2: How often do you feel like that?
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Speaker 1: Man?
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Speaker 2: I hope we get Bama next. How often is Bama
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Speaker 2: almost an eight point dog in a game? What are
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Speaker 2: we talking about here? Indiana? Is that good? And I
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Speaker 2: tried to talk myself into it a little bit. With Alabama.
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Speaker 2: They say, you know, they got a ton of talent,
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Speaker 2: They just put it together and we'll see it could
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Speaker 2: be interesting. They rushed for twenty three yards. They can't
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Speaker 2: run the ball. Meanwhile, Indiana two hundred and fifteen yards
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Speaker 2: on the ground, one ninety two through the air. The
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Speaker 2: balance that you want to achieve like it's karate kid.
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Speaker 2: This is I don't know if they go on to
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Speaker 2: win this thing. This is one of the biggest stories
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Speaker 2: in sports history, this turnaround at Indiana. And when everybody
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Speaker 2: was talking about, well, Penn State has the job opening.
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Speaker 2: Now look at all these job openings, Kurt Signetti, Why
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Speaker 2: don't you move on up? Why don't you go somewhere else?
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Speaker 2: Why instead? Why isn't the perspective I'll turn this place
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Speaker 2: into a winner. I'll turn Indiana into Penn State. Why
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Speaker 2: do you want to follow all these traditional past glory
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Speaker 2: schools that had a run of success forty years ago
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Speaker 2: and you're always going to be me against an era
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Speaker 2: of college football it doesn't exist anymore. Why not start
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Speaker 2: your own? I think Signetty did the right thing staying there,
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Speaker 2: and the money is good and everybody can pay. It's
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Speaker 2: just incredible, though, to see what a well oiled machine
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Speaker 2: this program has become. Can you cop it up next
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Speaker 2: gonna talk about Stranger Things now. I haven't watched the
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Speaker 2: last hour of the finale in episode eight because it's
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Speaker 2: like two hours. Gotta catch up. What do you mean
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Speaker 2: are you gonna give me a spoiler?
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Speaker 2: Here's the thing. The show was never that good to
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Speaker 2: me that I'm really worried about the spoiler. Maybe the
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Speaker 2: first couple of seasons. I'm almost over it. I'm hearing
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Speaker 2: feeling about it. We're talking about stranger things, right, Yeah, yes,
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Speaker 2: I'm also not cut up. I just have to scroll
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Speaker 2: quickly whenever I see anything relating to the stranger things. See,
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Speaker 2: that's a problem. Don't look, don't look. Game of Thrones days,
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Speaker 2: it was like we were all watching it together at once.
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Speaker 2: But because Netflix drops the entire season, or the second
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Speaker 2: part of season five, you can just blow through it.
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Speaker 4: And a f and at.
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Speaker 2: Now. I may have buried the lead selfishly because I
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Speaker 2: wanted to talk about my Oregon Ducks a little bit earlier.
23:09
Speaker 2: If you didn't melodiced kind of a Ducks fan, I
23:11
Speaker 2: wouldn't even kill him a duck hunt. It didn't feel right.
23:14
Speaker 2: I tried to kill the dog a few different times,
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Speaker 2: mister peepers, because he laughed at me all the time,
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Speaker 2: just like that. But there was a game as I
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Speaker 2: played the intro from coach Eric Taylor in one of
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Speaker 2: the greatest shows of all time, Friday Night Lives Full Hearts.
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Speaker 4: Let's go, Let's go play some football.
23:34
Speaker 2: Ole Miss wins Ole Miss. If there was one game
23:38
Speaker 2: that I would have been sure about, it's this one.
23:44
Speaker 2: Georgia somehow lost and got beat at their own game
23:48
Speaker 2: by a team they beat in the regular season the
23:50
Speaker 2: same way. Ole Miss just beat them. Tonight, Trinidad. Chambliss
23:55
Speaker 2: offered some bliss to Ole Miss after everything that had
23:59
Speaker 2: gone on, the turmoil with Lane Kiffin, part rat, part snake,
24:03
Speaker 2: whatever you want to say about him, They don't miss
24:06
Speaker 2: him at all. They just got their best victory in
24:10
Speaker 2: seventy years, sixty years without Lane Kiffen. Trinidad was special.
24:17
Speaker 2: They're gritting this game down by nine. They looked like
24:21
Speaker 2: they out Georgia. Georgia. Kirby Smart was undefeated in rematches.
24:28
Speaker 2: When he sees the team a second time in the
24:30
Speaker 2: same season, Kirby Smart four and Ohero no longer. Georgia
24:35
Speaker 2: was plus forty six in fourth quarters. They won every
24:39
Speaker 2: damn close game except for the game against Bama. Because
24:42
Speaker 2: Kirby Smart can't beat Bama. Well, Obama's out, so I
24:45
Speaker 2: wouldn't have thought of anything that would have put some
24:47
Speaker 2: wind into sales, like nobody can stop us. Now we're
24:50
Speaker 2: winning this thing. They went back to back a few
24:53
Speaker 2: years ago at Georgia and now they're one and done.
24:57
Speaker 2: And what this means is so far, what are teams
25:01
Speaker 2: one in seven in the semi finals? In this new
25:04
Speaker 2: playoff format, you get a bye. As I was talking
25:08
Speaker 2: about last segment, you tend to show up not looking
25:14
Speaker 2: like yourself, and that's what Georgia was. In the fourth quarter.
25:19
Speaker 2: Ole Miss beat them at their own game, and it
25:22
Speaker 2: was beautiful to watch. I gotta say, I'm not trying
25:25
Speaker 2: to hate on the dogs, but that win was special.
25:28
Speaker 2: Somebody tweeted out right afterwards. All it took for ole
25:31
Speaker 2: Miss to win the biggest game in school history was
25:33
Speaker 2: for Lane Kiffin to not be the coach. There's I mean,
25:38
Speaker 2: I know Georgia was favored. I know some people are
25:41
Speaker 2: die hards with Old Miss, but how many of you
25:44
Speaker 2: are really that confident that you were gonna win this game?
25:47
Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin touted as one of the best play callers
25:49
Speaker 2: in the sport, and they went it without him. Trinidad's
25:54
Speaker 2: better without him making all the plays late down by nine.
25:59
Speaker 2: As I met mentioned, they end up maybe getting screwed
26:03
Speaker 2: a couple of different times, so speak that. I don't know.
26:07
Speaker 2: I saw a face mask on Lacy anybody else see that?
26:11
Speaker 2: How about those two PI calls to get Georgia within
26:14
Speaker 2: field goal range to tie the ball game. At that time,
26:19
Speaker 2: everyone on X everyone on Twitter was saying, Oh, this
26:22
Speaker 2: is rigged. Where's Tim donaghy at like they are calling something.
26:29
Speaker 2: Steve Francis would say that talk with Jim Gray, it
26:33
Speaker 2: looked like they wanted to get that matchup between Georgia
26:39
Speaker 2: and their former quarterback in Carson Beck with Miami, and
26:43
Speaker 2: that would be the golden goose for this college football
26:47
Speaker 2: playoff year. The storylines would run rampant instead. Ole Miss said, no,
26:53
Speaker 2: we're going to crash everybody's party here. We're going to
26:56
Speaker 2: make the big plays and that little smoke or whatever
27:00
Speaker 2: you call it to get them to within field goal range.
27:04
Speaker 2: And I still don't know what the hell happened with
27:06
Speaker 2: that safety that was reviewed for like twenty minutes. I
27:09
Speaker 2: was like, are they gonna screw them over? Like what
27:11
Speaker 2: happened with Miami in two thousand and three against Ohio State.
27:15
Speaker 2: Are they going to try to take this game away?
27:16
Speaker 2: So Georgia advances somehow. This game was a movie. It
27:21
Speaker 2: was that type of performance. It was thirty nine, thirty
27:25
Speaker 2: four is your final. I don't know how they got
27:27
Speaker 2: to thirty nine with that safety. That was weird. But
27:30
Speaker 2: ole Miss came back on them this time. Remember Gunnar
27:35
Speaker 2: Stockton went twelve for twelve in the second half of
27:37
Speaker 2: that game. During the regular season between these two teams,
27:40
Speaker 2: ole Miss was up. Lane Kiffin lost another big game,
27:44
Speaker 2: a game that was tight against one of the best
27:46
Speaker 2: in the SEC. They look like the same old ole Miss.
27:50
Speaker 2: Now they have a kicker who knocks a forty seven
27:54
Speaker 2: yarder through to put him up by three with seconds remaining.
27:59
Speaker 2: That's a big kick in college. I know, forty seven
28:02
Speaker 2: doesn't mean a lot for the NFL. Guys are kicking
28:06
Speaker 2: seventy yarders now in college. You never trust those kids
28:09
Speaker 2: with those kicks. It was right down the middle. I
28:12
Speaker 2: was clutchutch, clutch, but that slot fade to get the
28:17
Speaker 2: big gain to get them into field goal range and
28:20
Speaker 2: the throw by Trinidad just ice in his veins D'Angelo
28:23
Speaker 2: Russell style like okay, he's much better than that or
28:27
Speaker 2: Dilo at one time, you know, was thought of He's
28:29
Speaker 2: a one time All Star with the Brooklyn Nets, he
28:31
Speaker 2: was an alternate. I just say that was extremely clutched, clutch, clutch,
28:38
Speaker 2: and it felt like everything was gonna go George's way,
28:41
Speaker 2: just like it had at the end of so many games.
28:43
Speaker 2: I think six of their seven SEC wins this season
28:47
Speaker 2: occurred in the fourth quarter where they had to retake
28:49
Speaker 2: the lead. They were the gritty team that nobody could
28:52
Speaker 2: beat when it came down to it. And ole Miss
28:57
Speaker 2: is in this whirlwind over the last month because the
29:00
Speaker 2: college football calendar is a disaster and Lane Kiffin had
29:04
Speaker 2: to leave him high and dry, or he didn't have to,
29:06
Speaker 2: he chose to. If I'm LSU, I'm kind of I'm
29:10
Speaker 2: not saying buyer's remorse or seller's remorse or whatever, but
29:14
Speaker 2: I'm giving them a little bit of a side eye. Say,
29:16
Speaker 2: your team just got their best victory without you, and
29:21
Speaker 2: we just gave you everything to come to LSU and
29:26
Speaker 2: they're they're beaten Georgia and you're gone. How much did
29:30
Speaker 2: you really mean to them? As a play caller? I
29:33
Speaker 2: thought it was one of the best victories in the
29:36
Speaker 2: new playoff system, even going back to when it was
29:39
Speaker 2: just four teams, which is only three years ago. And
29:42
Speaker 2: this thing will advance to sixteen soon and then twenty
29:45
Speaker 2: and it will keep growing. It's like a blob, this
29:49
Speaker 2: college football Playoff committee. This is what they do.
29:53
Speaker 1: I told they've done at the league office.
29:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, the league office. They're evolving, and by a I
30:01
Speaker 2: mean they realize, oh, we get more playoff games, we
30:04
Speaker 2: get more money, like this is not difficult. All you
30:07
Speaker 2: care about his money, But this was an Aldheimer. Kirby
30:12
Speaker 2: Smart felt invincible against everybody but Bama. An ole Miss
30:18
Speaker 2: said enough of this or blowing the doors off the
30:21
Speaker 2: aura of Georgia and the Dogs and Kirby Smart and
30:25
Speaker 2: I still can't believe what he did. And I know
30:28
Speaker 2: they tied the game anyways, But on that fourth down,
30:31
Speaker 2: they didn't convert where they did a fire drill out there,
30:36
Speaker 2: where they had their special teams out there like they're
30:38
Speaker 2: going to punt it, and then just brought in their
30:41
Speaker 2: offense thinking they could catch ole Miss by surprise, and
30:44
Speaker 2: instead Gunner Stockton gets smoked as their left tackle refused
30:49
Speaker 2: to block on that play that to me might have
30:53
Speaker 2: been the biggest play of the game. And I'm not saying, look,
30:57
Speaker 2: coaches are more aggressive than ever on fourth downs. I'm
31:00
Speaker 2: a Ducks fan. I get it with Dan Lanning. Still,
31:03
Speaker 2: there were probably a few times today where he even
31:05
Speaker 2: said it at the half, they should have just taken
31:07
Speaker 2: the points. That's not why they lost the game necessarily,
31:11
Speaker 2: but I don't know that that definitely helped the confidence
31:13
Speaker 2: of Old Miss to get that stop in that moment
31:16
Speaker 2: when they already had pulled a fake pun on them
31:18
Speaker 2: with Kirby Smart and Georgia. Well, this time it didn't
31:22
Speaker 2: work out in their favor. Ole Miss thirty nine, the
31:25
Speaker 2: Bulldogs thirty four. Ole Miss is taking on Miami in
31:29
Speaker 2: the semi finals. On the other side of the bracket,
31:32
Speaker 2: we got my Ducks taken on Indiana, who looks kind
31:36
Speaker 2: of unbeatable. But I still have hope quick time out,
31:39
Speaker 2: well come back. I'm at a Moslin in for Ben
31:41
Speaker 2: Maller here on Fox Sports Radio. We got a talk
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Speaker 2: stranger things. I'm sorry nobody give me any spoilers that
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Speaker 2: sign at follow out of may. Don't you dare give
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna rank every matchup starting at the top of
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Speaker 4: Let's up, guys, were won't be challenged that I've been
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33:40
Speaker 2: With Babs all day. Just keep a power clubs off
33:43
Speaker 2: her passing race. Watched that out as Kennelman Well, like many,
33:46
Speaker 2: I've been watching the final season of Stranger Things during
33:49
Speaker 2: the holidays. I finished Even Stranger Things already. That was
33:53
Speaker 2: the fifty cent Diddy documentary Even Stranger Well, that one
33:57
Speaker 2: is sad, but true Stranger Things looks going out sad
34:01
Speaker 2: as Season five to me has easily been the worst
34:03
Speaker 2: season of the show. It's not Game of Thrones bad
34:06
Speaker 2: where you're questioning why you invested in the first place,
34:09
Speaker 2: all that time building up over years. Winter's Coming, Eh,
34:13
Speaker 2: Winter's Coming, Yeah, kind of is pretty lame, actually, but
34:16
Speaker 2: Stranger thinks is definitely coming across as an overly complicated,
34:21
Speaker 2: convoluted mess. At times. Maybe it's jump the shark or
34:25
Speaker 2: jump the dema Gorgan in this case, a little bit sloppy,
34:28
Speaker 2: little half baked, and they are definitely banking on you
34:32
Speaker 2: giving it a pass because of past earned charm and
34:36
Speaker 2: nostalgia back when the series still felt imaginative and unique,
34:40
Speaker 2: even though it's all homage to eighties films and pop culture,
34:44
Speaker 2: but too much of it suffers from wait, is this real?
34:47
Speaker 2: Or are they in someone's mind? Is it Vecna's mind?
34:50
Speaker 2: Is it Will's mind? Are they in the upside down world?
34:52
Speaker 2: I don't know. Now there's an in between world, a bridge, wormholes,
34:56
Speaker 2: exotic matter. Nancy is just gonna yea turn into ramble
35:01
Speaker 2: all of a sudden. That's fine. I just didn't feel
35:04
Speaker 2: like it was built up very well.
35:05
Speaker 4: That's a sexy rambo if I ever seen one.
35:09
Speaker 2: It's like the equivalent some of the stuff they're doing
35:11
Speaker 2: in this season of punching your VCR to get things
35:15
Speaker 2: to work, Like Nancy just shoots her shotgun at exotic
35:21
Speaker 2: matter and somehow that was supposed to make things better.
35:25
Speaker 2: Like just shoot it with a gun. If it's too
35:27
Speaker 2: hot outside, just shoot the sun. That's all you do, right,
35:30
Speaker 2: that's physics, you know, like the rain. Just shoot, take
35:32
Speaker 2: a shot at the clouds. I don't understand what Nancy
35:35
Speaker 2: was doing.
35:36
Speaker 4: Is that where you ended?
35:37
Speaker 2: Is that about where you're at? No, I've gotten a
35:39
Speaker 2: little bit further. Okay, And look, I'm a film snob
35:42
Speaker 2: here and a TV snob, and I know it's sci
35:45
Speaker 2: fi and fantasy, but they keep stacking new information faster
35:48
Speaker 2: than you can digest it. And uh, it's a bit much.
35:52
Speaker 2: They're creating more questions than answers. I would say. The
35:54
Speaker 2: scene to scene beat is basically the rhythm goes as follows,
35:58
Speaker 2: like it's let's come up with crazy plan, so crazy
36:02
Speaker 2: it might work to then let's have a heart to
36:04
Speaker 2: heart conversation. Now they just volley that back and forth,
36:08
Speaker 2: back and forth. But something they've been teasing for a
36:10
Speaker 2: while finally happened. They paid this off. Will came out
36:15
Speaker 2: as gay and is having psychic powers too, and telekinesis.
36:19
Speaker 2: He's like a sorcerer, he's like eleven, but him revealing
36:23
Speaker 2: his sexuality right before their last hurrah, their final mission
36:26
Speaker 2: scene that they're about to execute the ultimate plan finally,
36:31
Speaker 2: it feels a little bit forced. It's also weird seeing
36:35
Speaker 2: them build this up and make it into such a
36:37
Speaker 2: big deal because it's twenty twenty five. Like Ellen came
36:41
Speaker 2: out on her show in nineteen ninety seven, it was
36:43
Speaker 2: almost thirty years ago. That was groundbreaking. And while I
36:47
Speaker 2: know the show takes place in the eighties, so that
36:49
Speaker 2: would have been taboo at the time, we are watching
36:51
Speaker 2: it in twenty twenty five. So why is it such
36:54
Speaker 2: a focal point or a plot point for will to
36:56
Speaker 2: be gay? Like anyone cares it's twenty twenty five, it's
36:59
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Now, I know it's still an issue.
37:02
Speaker 2: I'm not saying there aren't hate crimes or anything, but
37:04
Speaker 2: I was confused and bewildered at first because it felt
37:07
Speaker 2: so dated and out of touch.
37:09
Speaker 4: It's the end of the world. Look, that's what you
37:12
Speaker 4: were focusing on right now.
37:14
Speaker 2: A lot of people were, they were criticizing it, but
37:16
Speaker 2: there's a silver lining here. I was taught a lesson. Okay,
37:20
Speaker 2: they're all trying to save the world as crisis mode,
37:23
Speaker 2: and yeah, Will came out as gay, We're happy for him,
37:27
Speaker 2: and now you can snap Vecta's leg again. Finish them
37:31
Speaker 2: off please. But I thought about it after episode seven there,
37:35
Speaker 2: excuse me? What did I say? Look? Will, We're happy
37:39
Speaker 2: for you. But I thought about it after episode seven
37:44
Speaker 2: and I realized I'm kind of a dumbass. Like, really,
37:48
Speaker 2: they weren't trying to do anything groundbreaking there. They weren't
37:51
Speaker 2: giving their commentary on sexual orientation, not that there's anything
37:55
Speaker 2: wrong with that. I think the larger messages they were saying, basically,
38:01
Speaker 2: anything you are afraid about, any secret you build up
38:04
Speaker 2: in your mind and torture yourself over and think people
38:07
Speaker 2: aren't going to understand the stuff you hide from your
38:10
Speaker 2: friends and family. Well, if they really are that, they
38:13
Speaker 2: will understand. They were basically using Will coming out as
38:17
Speaker 2: gay in a time where it was especially controversial as
38:20
Speaker 2: a device to say, whatever you might personally be struggling
38:23
Speaker 2: with that's holding you back from living your best life
38:26
Speaker 2: and being your true self, you should unburden yourself from that.
38:30
Speaker 2: For you, it could be something totally different, just something
38:33
Speaker 2: that you're apprehensive about telling.
38:35
Speaker 5: People that's so deep. Look, Wow, that's me. Okay, that's
38:39
Speaker 5: how you find your super I had an epiphany. Wow,
38:41
Speaker 5: that's how I saved the world, like eleven. Now, it
38:44
Speaker 5: doesn't mean doing something thoughtless or reckless and hurting someone
38:48
Speaker 5: else along the way to personal enlightenment. But I think
38:51
Speaker 5: it's a worthy message.
38:52
Speaker 2: Honestly, I think it's an honorable move to put the
38:55
Speaker 2: rest of the show aside for a second and talk
38:58
Speaker 2: about that. And maybe I don't know in the new year,
39:03
Speaker 2: if you're struggling with something, afraid to share it, talk
39:05
Speaker 2: to someone, talk to someone you trust, a professional. Could
39:09
Speaker 2: be anything that's weighing on you. Do not let it
39:11
Speaker 2: follow you into twenty twenty six. That's just how I
39:15
Speaker 2: interpreted the scene. So maybe one of the things that
39:17
Speaker 2: I'm learning here for my New Year's resolution is just
39:22
Speaker 2: seeing the good and things, looking for more positives because
39:26
Speaker 2: it's hard to live in the negative. Sure, I could
39:29
Speaker 2: steal over Stranger Things and it being a chore to
39:31
Speaker 2: finish this series because it's just not as good, or
39:35
Speaker 2: I could see there's some good things about the show.
39:37
Speaker 2: Right now. I'm often called overly critical ahole atam. I
39:42
Speaker 2: can be very negative, very cynical, and I still will
39:45
Speaker 2: be because it tends to be more entertaining. And it's
39:48
Speaker 2: okay to demand better out of entertainers or out of
39:51
Speaker 2: professional athletes. It's fine to acknowledge that some of these
39:56
Speaker 2: kids in this show somehow are worse actors now than
39:58
Speaker 2: when they started. It's fine the negatives though in life
40:03
Speaker 2: that consume you, like you're defeating yourself, letting that stuff
40:08
Speaker 2: ruin your day. And that's just me talking to myself,
40:11
Speaker 2: trying to remind myself of that and keep a positive attitude.
40:15
Speaker 2: But it might not be the worst advice. Also, Holly
40:18
Speaker 2: Wheeler sucks and she's had way too much screen time.
40:23
Speaker 2: I thought we were going to focus on the original
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Speaker 2: cast here it's the final season. I like Derek. I
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Speaker 2: think he's really the breakout star of this season. Is
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Speaker 2: he the one the fact kid that swears a lot?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? They all swear a lot. They're really enjoying their
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Speaker 4: cussing scenes right now.
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Speaker 2: Well, the stakes are that hot, the weight of the moment.
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Speaker 2: It turns you into Bobby Knight. That's how it has
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Speaker 2: to be. I'm fine with the cussing and I'm fine
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Speaker 2: with some of the violence they have done. It's not
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Speaker 2: all bad. That conversation with Steve and the one kid
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Speaker 2: with the curly hair where he was like demystifying Eddie
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Speaker 2: who died last season, and was like Eddie was just
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Speaker 2: an idiot. He got himself killed for no reason. That
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Speaker 2: was great. And that's not a spoiler alert because that
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Speaker 2: happened way before episode eight. Don't you dare tell me
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Speaker 2: what happens in episode eight. I still have an hour
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Speaker 2: and fifteen minutes left. I'm sorry there were basically no spoilers.
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Speaker 2: I did my best NFL talk coming up next, I'm
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Speaker 2: out of Maslin and for Ben Maller here on Fox
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Speaker 2: Sports Radio.