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Speaker 2: The games Mike the Bulldog Beyond You on jr R.
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Speaker 3: Injury Attorneys. This morning, Well, special Teams Blunder turns turns
Speaker 3: things around quickly in the Monday night affair in Dallas
Speaker 3: last night, Doggie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dallas versus the Bengals. Not that the game meant
Speaker 2: anything because both teams are not having a great season obviously,
Speaker 2: but yeah, games tied with what about two minutes one
Speaker 2: fifty three remaining games tied. Cincinnati's punting, Dallas boxed the
Speaker 2: punt and one of Dallas's defenders Amani or a warrior
Speaker 2: or a warrier, that's how you said. So he tried
Speaker 2: to field the bouncing ball. He did not field it correctly,
Speaker 2: and the Bengals recover and they go down recover the ball,
Speaker 2: and then Joe Burrow throws a forty yard touchdown pass
Speaker 2: to Jamar Chase to win the game. It's hard to
Speaker 2: blame the guy because the ball bouncing bounces right there
Speaker 2: and he's just sort of reacting to it. So but
Speaker 2: he still didn't sleep last night.
Speaker 3: Well, when the usually you don't see the block punk
Speaker 3: going beyond the line of scrimmage in most cases, which
Speaker 3: the rule is a little different once that happens, and
Speaker 3: thus the end result here not good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the special teams coach of the of the
Speaker 2: Cowboys was just waving get away from the ball. So yeah,
Speaker 2: Cowboys end up losing the games. So hey, there's seasons
Speaker 2: about over. The Bengals nor the Cowboys are gonna make
Speaker 2: the playoffs. So again, it was a good game, you know,
Speaker 2: as far as star players, because the Bengals have some
Speaker 2: really good players, but as far as beatingful games, not
Speaker 2: very meaning. Uh. Heisman Trophy finalists were announced yesterday. You know,
Speaker 2: the Bulldog is a voter, but I'm not allowed to
Speaker 2: tell you who voted.
Speaker 3: Bulldog. You can make a case for any of these
Speaker 3: guys I think this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dylan Gabriel, Travis Hunter of Colorado, Dylan, of course,
Speaker 2: with Oregon, Boise State's Ashton gent, Miami's cam Ward. You're right,
Speaker 2: this is about as hard to vote as you could get.
Speaker 2: I meant cam Ward of Miami without him, what are
Speaker 2: the Hurricanes? I meant we saw what they were last year?
Speaker 2: And he leads the nation in passing unbelievable passing statistics.
Speaker 2: Miami had the the you know, highest scoring offense in
Speaker 2: the country. Aston Genty ran for twenty five hundred yards.
Speaker 2: I think that's the third most in NCAA history for
Speaker 2: Boise State. He led Boise State into the playoff. Dylan Gabriel.
Speaker 2: If Dylan Gabriel wins, I mean, he's obviously the quarterback
Speaker 2: of the number one team. His stats do not stack
Speaker 2: up with cam Ward this year, but you look at
Speaker 2: his I mean you can almost give it to him
Speaker 2: as a career award, a career award because he's He's
Speaker 2: broken a lot of passing records in the NCAA and
Speaker 2: he is the quarterback of the number one team in
Speaker 2: the country.
Speaker 3: Load a loaded team. So it's not all on him
Speaker 3: as much as some of these other guys. So it's
Speaker 3: it's hard to weigh this in the end.
Speaker 2: And he's almost forty years old, I mean, in his
Speaker 2: ninth season. And Travis Hunter, I mean, he's a two
Speaker 2: way player. He's the best receiver in the Big twelve,
Speaker 2: he's the best defender in the Big twelve. He plays
Speaker 2: almost every play, So I think he's gonna win. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna tell you I voted for, but I think
Speaker 2: he's gonna win it.
Speaker 1: I'm leaning towards him too. What about you, Lynch, you
Speaker 1: take your heart out of Miami and everything else.
Speaker 3: I probably, uh probably Hunter just just you don't see
Speaker 3: that two way thing anymore, not at that He's amazing,
Speaker 3: not at that level.
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, speaking of college football, uh so, reading
Speaker 2: this story this morning in the Sentinel about Miami, you
Speaker 2: know they're coming to the Pop Tarts Bowl to play
Speaker 2: Iowa State, and uh is Cam weren't even gonna play
Speaker 2: in that game, he says, he is. But you're already
Speaker 2: seeing a bunch of players opting out of these bowl games.
Speaker 2: Florida's playing Tulane in the Gasparilla Bowl. Tulane's quarterbacks already
Speaker 2: opted out. There's another quarterback for a bowl team, oh
Speaker 2: the duke. The duke quarterback has already entered the transfer portal,
Speaker 2: so he's opted out of their bowl game. College football
Speaker 2: has to do something about this. I mean, these bowl
Speaker 2: games are meaningless enough. With a twelve team playoff, all right, now,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have bowl games. We're already, I mean, we've
Speaker 2: seen it for a couple of years. Now you've got
Speaker 2: these Bowl games where the key players aren't even playing.
Speaker 2: Why would you even And if you've seen the ticket
Speaker 2: prices in some of these Bowl games, why would you
Speaker 2: buy a ticket and travel to a Bowl game when
Speaker 2: it's It's again, it's meaningless to begin with. But now
Speaker 2: you don't even have the players in it.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Pat and myself and somebody else we're
Speaker 1: talking about it yesterday. Pat's all about Travis Hunter playing.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't play Ward or cam Ward. I wouldn't play
Speaker 1: taking that roll in the dice on that injury.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well let's let's let's let's be very specific about
Speaker 3: wording here. He says he's going to play. He didn't
Speaker 3: say how much he's going to play. He could come
Speaker 3: in for the first series. Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow. By the way, you mentioned the other day,
Speaker 2: I didn't know it was so drastic the NBA TVs Bad.
Speaker 2: They're down, like they were down thirty per almost thirty percent. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in the first month of the season, and people are
Speaker 2: trying to figure out why they're down. I mean, you
Speaker 2: go anything from you know, load management, go woke, go broke,
Speaker 2: you know, the dearth of American stars in the league.
Speaker 2: What do you guys think it is a combination? What
Speaker 2: can I tell you locally? What I think it is
Speaker 2: here locally? Is that what I can't see a magic
Speaker 2: game with my TV provider? Can you pat We're we're
Speaker 2: in the minority. I know that, but I'm saying there's
Speaker 2: got to be in a couple of other places. I
Speaker 2: just think people are kind of okay but that. But
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the national TV rating. I think about
Speaker 2: every I'm talking about ESPN, Like ESPN's national broadcasts are
Speaker 2: down almost thirty percent.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: I have had nothing to do with Bally Sports, Florida
Speaker 2: or anything.
Speaker 3: I think there's just a general lack of enthusiasm outside
Speaker 3: of the cities that have teams. There's just too many
Speaker 3: people just have too much going on in their lives
Speaker 3: that NBA just in the big scheme of things, it
Speaker 3: just doesn't.
Speaker 2: Know what else, you know what else. It's sort of
Speaker 2: like college basketball now, there's just too many games, and
Speaker 2: there's too many games. The players aren't taking the game
Speaker 2: seriously during the regular season, so everybody's just sort of
Speaker 2: waiting for the playoffs. I ain't but.
Speaker 3: We've got the Cup tournament continuing tonight with the Magic
Speaker 3: in Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: That's right, going to Milwaukee. The Cup is on the line.
Speaker 2: I wish the and I realized nobody really takes his
Speaker 2: NBA Cup seriously, But I do wish the Magic, you know,
Speaker 2: had their players to at least be able to compete
Speaker 2: for it tonight.
Speaker 3: It'd be nice to see how they would fare at
Speaker 3: full full strength. Yeah, right, so Lightning, and we're the Lightning.
Speaker 3: Tonight they travel to Edmonton, and I think we covered
Speaker 3: most of the stuff. You're not going to give us
Speaker 3: a hint on who you voted for, hon Dog, I
Speaker 3: already did.
Speaker 2: He said who I thought was going to win?
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