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Speaker 2: I'd say this is good news for those of us
Speaker 2: that you know, are worried about. I mean, this weather sucks.
Speaker 2: It's not good for anything. There's always the hey, we
Speaker 2: needed some rain because you know, we didn't have rain
Speaker 2: for a long time. But I mean I can't imagine
Speaker 2: anybody it's like, yeah, let's keep this weather going. So
Speaker 2: I think this is good news. It's encouraging. So apparently
Speaker 2: the National Weather Service is about to downgrade from high
Speaker 2: wind warning to a wind advisory. I would assume that
Speaker 2: means that, like the wind is going to lighten, wouldn't
Speaker 2: you think that's what it means? John?
Speaker 3: At that point, I guess it's just you know, be
Speaker 3: be cautious still, but you don't have to be overtly
Speaker 3: alert the way maybe you need to right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like that's that's one of those things
Speaker 2: that like, you know, that type of change might impact
Speaker 2: when they want to start the Lotterer than Life festival
Speaker 2: today if they end up doing that, you know. So also,
Speaker 2: apparently eight thousand people here in Louisville are without electricity
Speaker 2: because of the of the winds, which again maybe you
Speaker 2: know for me and from what I'm looking at here
Speaker 2: on this WDRB map, it looks like the wind it's
Speaker 2: not as bad in Bullet County where I am compared
Speaker 2: to other areas Jefferson and looks like looks like Oldham too.
Speaker 2: East Louisville has had a lot more wind issues than
Speaker 2: we've had where I'm at. But anyways, so it is
Speaker 2: coffee and company. We are fuel about Thornton's here on
Speaker 2: Sports Talk seven ninety hour, number two on a Friday,
Speaker 2: as we get you said for the weekend, obviously a
Speaker 2: big football weekend once again, and I think with Louisville
Speaker 2: and Notre Dame, you know, it's still early. You can
Speaker 2: still say that it's early for both teams. I mean,
Speaker 2: Louisvill's only played three games and with football only having
Speaker 2: like twelve games. I'm sure I'm not the only one
Speaker 2: that sees it this way. But like, there's not a
Speaker 2: whole lot of data to pull from a college football
Speaker 2: season when you talk about evaluating teams, because I think
Speaker 2: you could even get to a team statistics after seven
Speaker 2: or eight games. And yeah, I mean that's who they are, right,
Speaker 2: you've played that many games, and if your numbers are
Speaker 2: reflecting that you're a really poor defensive team, then you
Speaker 2: know what, you're a really poor defensive team. But because
Speaker 2: it's not eighty instances, it's just eight, like a random
Speaker 2: thing could happen, and it really isn't that big of
Speaker 2: a shock because it's not as if they've shown you
Speaker 2: something you know, twenty five times like you see in basketball,
Speaker 2: or you know, I don't know. I just so I
Speaker 2: think these numbers make sense, but it's not as I
Speaker 2: think these numbers are real. So certainly that makes sense.
Speaker 2: I think these numbers are worth looking at. But I
Speaker 2: also realize like it's still relatively early and doesn't mean
Speaker 2: that just because these teams have had this some you know,
Speaker 2: this type of identity this early on, that it's going
Speaker 2: to be that way the rest of the way, including tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But if you are Louisville and you're looking at Notre Dame,
Speaker 2: you know they've been they lost at home in the
Speaker 2: Northern Illinois. I'm sure you're going to try as best
Speaker 2: you can if you're Jeff Brown, to take some things
Speaker 2: from that matchup. Right, what did Northern Illinois do that
Speaker 2: you can learn from. They could put note, they could
Speaker 2: put Notre Dame in a vulnerable spot. I'm sure Ron
Speaker 2: English has watched that game many times. So they're beatable.
Speaker 2: But you know, I don't know if you can like,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you want to Louis is not
Speaker 2: at their best if they're going to try to play
Speaker 2: the way that Northern Illinois did to beat Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: So I think it's pretty clear. Notre Dame is a
Speaker 2: team that is really good defensively, top twenty nationally in
Speaker 2: total defense, really good at stopping the run, and if
Speaker 2: they do have any spot on their defense that is vulnerable,
Speaker 2: it would be defending the pass. Now it's not as
Speaker 2: if they're getting gashed through the air weak in and
Speaker 2: week out, but they're not nearly as good defensively when
Speaker 2: it comes to containing a quarterback that wants to air
Speaker 2: it out as they are just lining up and stop
Speaker 2: in the run. So if you are looking at them
Speaker 2: as a defense, you know, if you're looking at them offensively,
Speaker 2: they run the ball pretty well. They got a really
Speaker 2: good running attack and they don't have much of a
Speaker 2: passing game. But it's tricky because I've been saying it
Speaker 2: all week, and it's not like it's my own opinion.
Speaker 2: I mean it is mine, but I know others shared.
Speaker 2: It's not like I came up with something that nobody
Speaker 2: else thought of, But like, you're gonna make Riley Leonard
Speaker 2: beat you with his arm. You're gonna you're gonna try
Speaker 2: to do that, And that sounds kind of weird because
Speaker 2: Riley Leonard's not some freshman that's getting the start because
Speaker 2: of an injury and you're just gonna dare him to
Speaker 2: make plays. Rolly Leonard's a good quarterback. He's shown that
Speaker 2: throughout his career. But as we were discussing yesterday with
Speaker 2: our guests from Notre Dame Tyler Horka, who covers the
Speaker 2: Irish for on three Sports, you know, he just hasn't
Speaker 2: shown that this year, like he at Duke two years ago,
Speaker 2: and I didn't realize this untill Tyler told us he
Speaker 2: had better numbers than Kayleb Williams at USC. Like he
Speaker 2: was really really good at Duke two years ago, and
Speaker 2: he was good last year too, but he was just
Speaker 2: banged up. They played a tough schedule, so like to
Speaker 2: say that, yeah, we're just gonna sit back and let
Speaker 2: this guy beat us. You know he can, he just
Speaker 2: hasn't really shown anything this year that would make you
Speaker 2: think he's gonna do it this time around, especially with
Speaker 2: Louisville having a defense that we think is pretty damn good. So,
Speaker 2: you know, not letting him get loose and and you
Speaker 2: know take off is because this is something I didn't
Speaker 2: realize to look into the numbers. I knew he was
Speaker 2: a guy that can take off and make plays with
Speaker 2: his legs, but he's actually been you know, that's a
Speaker 2: weapon for them, is him running around, not you know,
Speaker 2: taking one of the house because he's got it, you know,
Speaker 2: electric speed, but just because he's big and that's a
Speaker 2: part of his game. That's something he's always done as
Speaker 2: a quarterback. He's big and he knows how to you know,
Speaker 2: find spots to take off and get a first down,
Speaker 2: make a big play. So you know, that's that's that's
Speaker 2: that's what you're gonna do if you're Louisville, is to
Speaker 2: try to make you know, try to keep him contained
Speaker 2: when it comes to taken off and just see if
Speaker 2: he can sit in the pocket and make make plays
Speaker 2: that he's not been able to make this year against
Speaker 2: teams that aren't as good as you defensively, now maybe
Speaker 2: Texas A and m IS. I mean, they're off to
Speaker 2: a pretty good start. They're only losses to Notre Dame,
Speaker 2: and they're coached by Mike Elko, who is known for
Speaker 2: being a defensive specialist. But I don't think it's a
Speaker 2: stretch to say because I'm not basically. I mean, look,
Speaker 2: you can look at Louisville's you can look at their
Speaker 2: performance this year, and I think this checks out. But
Speaker 2: I am willing to acknowledge that it's not just about
Speaker 2: this year. I know they got dudes back from last
Speaker 2: year and some guys for many years that we know
Speaker 2: are really really good players. Now one of those guys
Speaker 2: were man to be seen if he's gonna play, although
Speaker 2: I do think he will. I think you'll get Quincy
Speaker 2: Riley out there, But how healthy he is, I don't know.
Speaker 2: So you know you're gonna if you're Louisville, you're gonna
Speaker 2: make Riley Leonard put the put together the best performance
Speaker 2: he's had it in his young four game Notre Dame career.
Speaker 2: By making plays in the pocket. That's what you hope
Speaker 2: to do. Now, if you're Notre Dame. On the other side,
Speaker 2: if you're looking at Louisville and you're trying to find
Speaker 2: where they may be vulnerable, it's exactly that. I mean
Speaker 2: in Louisville is a tough team to analyze. If I'm
Speaker 2: Marcus Freeman and I'm looking at tape, I would just
Speaker 2: throw away. I mean, I'd watched it, but I wouldn't
Speaker 2: put a lot into what I saw Louisville do against
Speaker 2: Jacksonville State in Austin p I mean, I'm getting really
Speaker 2: bad with names as I bring up every now and then,
Speaker 2: but like I literally keep forgetting the names of those
Speaker 2: two teams because like it's such a I mean, it's
Speaker 2: a way, it was a waste of time, if we're
Speaker 2: being honest here. So you just have the Georgia Tech game.
Speaker 2: As far as watching Louisville play against a competent opponent,
Speaker 2: and in that game, I think it's kind of tough
Speaker 2: for to even figure him out then because you don't
Speaker 2: expect to get a defensive touchdown or a special team's touchdown.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was good for Louisville to be able
Speaker 2: to make those plays. I don't think it's luck, but
Speaker 2: it's not something you expect to happen. But the best
Speaker 2: playmaker on the ground in that game last week was
Speaker 2: who it was? A quarterback for Georgia Tech. Why I
Speaker 2: am not forgetting his name not relevant, but is it
Speaker 2: Haines King? Yeah, Haines King, Thank you, John So Haines King.
Speaker 2: I mean he was able to get loose and make
Speaker 2: some plays. Heck, the kid from Jacksonville State. I mean,
Speaker 2: the game was out of hand. It wasn't as if
Speaker 2: he was doing things that were making you worry if
Speaker 2: you'd be able to beat Jacksonville State. But he got loose,
Speaker 2: and you know, and those are the ones that stand
Speaker 2: out more than anything, because if Georgia Tech guy does it,
Speaker 2: you're willing to acknowledge. Okay, that guy's pretty good and
Speaker 2: he is Haynes s Ken's good quarterback. But if somebody
Speaker 2: for Jacksonville State does it, you're thinking, wait a second,
Speaker 2: this guy plays for Jacksonville State. He was at Firman
Speaker 2: last year. What the hell's he doing out here running
Speaker 2: all over us? And he didn't really run all over us.
Speaker 2: He had a few plays that were impressive, but you know,
Speaker 2: you just look at those games different because of the opponent.
Speaker 2: So if I'm Notre Dame, I don't really know what
Speaker 2: to expect from Louisville. I mean, I think you probably
Speaker 2: watch Tyler Schuck on film and feel like they've got
Speaker 2: somebody there that you know, you clearly have to account
Speaker 2: for defensively, because he can make some big plays with
Speaker 2: his arm, and he's shown that in his career, and
Speaker 2: he's shown that at times this year. I mean in
Speaker 2: the George Tech game, you know, there were a couple
Speaker 2: of balls that, you know, not a lot of quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: I feel like we'll be able to make. I mean,
Speaker 2: especially the one where cha Quartery Brooks got turned around,
Speaker 2: but still that ball was exactly where it needed to be,
Speaker 2: that Chris Bell touchdown. That was a change at the
Speaker 2: line from from Shuck who just realized, hey I got
Speaker 2: something here. So you know, I I we're still figuring
Speaker 2: out a lot of teams, these two teams included, but
Speaker 2: I was thinking about it from the Notre Dame side,
Speaker 2: like what we're like, what are you? What are you
Speaker 2: trying to do to to kind of neutralize Louisville and
Speaker 2: their strengths. And it's not to say well there's just
Speaker 2: too good. There's nothing you can do, trust me. That's
Speaker 2: not what I mean. But you know, the rushing attack
Speaker 2: was really nonexistent against Georgia Tech, but it was gaudy
Speaker 2: against Jacksonville State and Austin p But like does that
Speaker 2: mean anything? So in a way, I kind of like
Speaker 2: Louisville in a spot here to where I don't know
Speaker 2: if you have like the perfect game plan, and that
Speaker 2: means you can't win. Trust me, It's not like I'm saying,
Speaker 2: what are they gonna do? They don't who they're gonna play.
Speaker 2: Louie's gonna show them something that they've never seen before.
Speaker 2: That's not what I'm indicating. It's just, you know, I
Speaker 2: think for Louisville, they've seen Notre Dame lose a game
Speaker 2: to a bad team, and they've seen them beat Texas
Speaker 2: A and M, and there's things you can take from that.
Speaker 2: Now doesn't mean you're gonna see the same thing you
Speaker 2: know when they played them all borrow. But I think
Speaker 2: it really is pretty simple with Louisville. Easier said than
Speaker 2: done because quarterbacks have taken off on you and made plays.
Speaker 2: But you have to know that that's gonna be a
Speaker 2: big emphasis for Ron English and Jeff Brohm to not
Speaker 2: let this guy extend plays and just take off in
Speaker 2: truck you because he can do it all right real quick.
Speaker 2: On the Kentucky side, I'm I've looked at two different
Speaker 2: little write ups here about from people who cover sports
Speaker 2: wagering that are kind of laying out what they're what
Speaker 2: they like, what they're going to do in this matchup.
Speaker 2: And you know, my thought here for Kentucky if they
Speaker 2: have a chance to win, and I don't really think
Speaker 2: that they do, I shouldn't say, you know, they have
Speaker 2: no chance, but like, I just think this matchup is
Speaker 2: really really bad for them. I mean, defensively, Kentucky is
Speaker 2: certainly going to give Ole Miss a challenge that they
Speaker 2: haven't had yet this year. And I think Kentucky's defense,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, is really really good. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know how many games they are gonna win
Speaker 2: this year, but like their defense from a personnel standpoint
Speaker 2: is really really good and it may end up being
Speaker 2: one of the better defenses that Old Miss plays all year. Like,
Speaker 2: I don't think that's a stretch. Ole Miss is still
Speaker 2: obviously gonna play Georgia and there's some other teams in
Speaker 2: the SEC that clearly are good defensively, but like Kentucky
Speaker 2: may be a team that ends up with six wins
Speaker 2: this year, five wins, but I think people would still
Speaker 2: be able to say, but man, their defense is really good.
Speaker 2: So the issue for Kentucky is that I just, I mean,
Speaker 2: they're gonna have to get stops early because if Ole
Speaker 2: Miss gets up early ten points even I just I
Speaker 2: mean Kentucky playing from behind with an offense that has
Speaker 2: yet to score a touchdown and sec play, it's just
Speaker 2: not ideal. Doesn't mean it can't happen. But this Old
Speaker 2: Miss defense, which usually you know, you just think of
Speaker 2: offense with Lane Kiffen because he's an offensive coach. Not
Speaker 2: to say that Old Miss always has bad defense, but
Speaker 2: you know, Kentucky likes the ground and pound, right, that's
Speaker 2: what they want to do. It's Mark Stoops. He gets
Speaker 2: aroused with football games that are played where neither team
Speaker 2: gets double digits six to three. If a six to
Speaker 2: three victory for Mark Stoops, he's got to change his
Speaker 2: underwhear immediately. That's just that's what he It's what he likes.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe you guys watch a dual content on
Speaker 2: the internet. I mean, I don't. I don't even know
Speaker 2: what it is. I know it's a thing out there.
Speaker 2: I mean I've never done it. But and you know,
Speaker 2: you're you're like looking over your shoulder when you're on
Speaker 2: your laptop, like, is your wife's gonna walk in? I
Speaker 2: maybe when you were a kid, your mom's gonna walk
Speaker 2: in and they see you looking at you know, something
Speaker 2: on Bangbros. Or something. Mark Stoups is looking over his
Speaker 2: shoulder because he's looking at an inappropriate football scores where
Speaker 2: teams win three to nothing, or you go five overtimes,
Speaker 2: nobody scores, and then finally you get a field goal.
Speaker 2: That's what he likes. That's what gets him going. Anyways.
Speaker 2: They win to run the ball, Oh Miss the number
Speaker 2: one defense in the country when it comes to stopping
Speaker 2: the run. They're giving up thirty four point fifty rushing
Speaker 2: yards per game. Did you hear me, John Alden? They're
Speaker 2: giving up thirty four and a half rushing yards per game.
Speaker 2: Is that not insane?
Speaker 3: I could get thirty four rushing out rushing yards.
Speaker 2: On one play. On one play. Again, I think a
Speaker 2: lot of that does speak to the fact that they
Speaker 2: they haven't played many good teams. However, they also went
Speaker 2: out and bought a bunch of really good players on defense.
Speaker 2: That's why they're in this position. They're not only a
Speaker 2: well coached team, but they've got they got dudes.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: They utilize their their collective in a major way. So
Speaker 2: Kentucky's rushing attack those two, I mean, it wasn't as
Speaker 2: if they were killing it against Georgia. Neither team was
Speaker 2: great offensively, but chip Trainum's been out and they ended
Speaker 2: up going with I think a transfer running back who
Speaker 2: didn't play a whole lot las year. I forget his name,
Speaker 2: and he played decent against Kentucky or I'm sorry against Georgia.
Speaker 2: But now you's bet to go up against you know,
Speaker 2: an old miss defense that is really really good at
Speaker 2: doing exactly that, stopping the run. So they were supposed
Speaker 2: to get chip Trainum back this week, I thought, And
Speaker 2: now things have changed in a major way. I know
Speaker 2: Matt said this morning on KSR that he he might
Speaker 2: have surgery, or he might have he might have actually
Speaker 2: said that he's expected to have surgery, which will potentially
Speaker 2: end his season because of this injury that he's got.
Speaker 2: It went from he's cleared to play I think Tuesday,
Speaker 2: maybe Wednesday, questionable, Thursday, doubtful, Today out and he might
Speaker 2: have surgery. So for those who don't know, trip train
Speaker 2: him is that's the running back who transferred to Kentucky
Speaker 2: from Ohio State. So you don't really know what you're
Speaker 2: missing because he hasn't played just yet. But clearly that's
Speaker 2: a guy that you would imagine would win healthy, would
Speaker 2: be a big part of your offense. So I don't
Speaker 2: want to say Kentucky can't keep this thing close, because
Speaker 2: I do have a lot of respect for their defense.
Speaker 2: But I just think even if their defense plays well,
Speaker 2: I don't know if their offense is going to be
Speaker 2: able to in any way keep up because their offense
Speaker 2: has not been good at this point this year, I
Speaker 2: mean total offense. Let me see where we are here
Speaker 2: and look the numbers. Again, four games in that's better
Speaker 2: than you know, one or two. But when you have
Speaker 2: two of your four games, like for example, Louisville two
Speaker 2: of their games, I don't even care about the numbers
Speaker 2: because of who they played with Kentucky. You can look,
Speaker 2: and this is just being fair, you can look at
Speaker 2: the South Carolina and Georgia game and look at their
Speaker 2: offensive numbers and realize they're dreadful, but also know well
Speaker 2: it's because they played a really, really good defensive front
Speaker 2: in South Carolina and Georgia, who you know, might have
Speaker 2: the best defense in the country. But right now, when
Speaker 2: it comes to total offense, by the way, Indiana number eleven, John,
Speaker 2: how about.
Speaker 3: That, I'm not surprised, But again they haven't played nobody.
Speaker 3: We'll see if they can do some versions in Maryland.
Speaker 2: Louis again, Louisville last week, I don't know. I you know,
Speaker 2: they were out gained against Georgia Tech. I'm surprised to
Speaker 2: see them in the top fifteen with five hundred and
Speaker 2: four yards per game, But then again, you know, back
Speaker 2: to the first two games they played. That is what
Speaker 2: those numbers are making it to where they are. They're
Speaker 2: up there. But with Kentucky, I mean, there are one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty four teams in FBS, Kentucky's one hundred
Speaker 2: and fourteen in total offense. And again maybe that's skewed
Speaker 2: a little bit, just like Louisll's numbers are because of
Speaker 2: the opponents. But they've also played a couple of bombs
Speaker 2: and they moved the ball, but not you know, not
Speaker 2: the way maybe they probably wanted to against those caliber
Speaker 2: teams off company. We are feel about Thorton's here on
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Speaker 2: set to join us coming up here, uh in just
Speaker 2: a few minutes. But one thing that I will say,
Speaker 2: I this this is somebody said. I used to talk
Speaker 2: about how the playoff expanding would be bad for college
Speaker 2: football or not really bad, but I just thought it
Speaker 2: would be a waste of time. And then I chose
Speaker 2: to embrace the fact that this could. This is this
Speaker 2: makes this makes it to where there's there's so much
Speaker 2: more inclusion at the top of the sport because you
Speaker 2: can you can be great for who you are, where
Speaker 2: you're winning ten games annually or something like that, but
Speaker 2: not make the fourteen playoff just because there's only four
Speaker 2: spots and it's really difficult to get there without you know,
Speaker 2: being perfect. Almost in the twelve team playoff, you can
Speaker 2: you can have really good years and make multiple appearances
Speaker 2: in the playoff, and I think you can view those
Speaker 2: as big, big steps for your program. It's still delusional
Speaker 2: to think you're a national championship contender, because I think
Speaker 2: that I would I have no idea if if we
Speaker 2: see a first time national champion in football in my lifetime,
Speaker 2: that's an exaggeration. I'm thirty five years old. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: thirty six years old. I hope to live a really
Speaker 2: long time. But tell me which program you think that
Speaker 2: has never won a national championship in football is just
Speaker 2: knocking at the door about to make it happen. I mean,
Speaker 2: I maybe Oregon breaks through at some point. They've always
Speaker 2: been the team that kind of has has flirted to
Speaker 2: be towards the top, but they've never broke through and
Speaker 2: actually got it done. But I just I think the
Speaker 2: teams that win the national championship moving forward are going
Speaker 2: to be ones that have a tradition and history with
Speaker 2: multiple national championships previously. So you know, the playoff expanding
Speaker 2: makes it to where you can at least feel and
Speaker 2: maybe we're just lying to ourselves, but hey, I'll lie
Speaker 2: on myself a lot of myself every day, probably a
Speaker 2: lot of myself five minutes ago. I don't know, I believe,
Speaker 2: but you want to believe, right live in your own world.
Speaker 2: But I used to say that it was a waste
Speaker 2: of time because of that, because like, what are we
Speaker 2: doing here. This will not give us any new like,
Speaker 2: this is not going to prove that the teams that
Speaker 2: get left out are actually deserving in their national champion
Speaker 2: and ship caliber. So this person who's sent in this link,
Speaker 2: this is from barstool sports dot com, and I you
Speaker 2: know again, I'm all, I love that the playoffs expanded.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be good for college football moving forward.
Speaker 2: But it makes it to where this Georgia and Alabama game,
Speaker 2: think about it, what it would what would be on
Speaker 2: the line here if there was not a twelve team
Speaker 2: playoff that makes sense, John, Like, this would be a
Speaker 2: game to where this will absolutely have a huge impact.
Speaker 2: Not to say you both can't eventually get there, but.
Speaker 3: Like, but it's one of those games where because they're
Speaker 3: so highly ranked and if they had a competitive game,
Speaker 3: the narrative would be, oh, both of these teams will
Speaker 3: get in if they keep winning. That's exactly what it
Speaker 3: would have been if it was still four teams.
Speaker 2: But right now though, with twelve, you can like this
Speaker 2: game really, you know, you want to win it. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of value because you're you'd be getting a
Speaker 2: win against you know.
Speaker 3: Now it's more about conference. This is like a step
Speaker 3: toward getting to the championship and getting higher seed.
Speaker 2: When LSU and Alabama played years ago, go I think
Speaker 2: it was it was when Joe Burrow was there to
Speaker 2: a hadn't they to? I hadn't I think to it
Speaker 2: got hurt in that game actually where it was really serious.
Speaker 2: But in that that game, I mean it's a regular
Speaker 2: season game where really the season was on the line. Right,
Speaker 2: those are two teams in the SEC West. Obviously, you
Speaker 2: know you could have banked on a or you could
Speaker 2: have hoped for an upset for one of those two teams.
Speaker 2: But like those two teams getting a chance to represent
Speaker 2: the West in the SEC Championship is is going to
Speaker 2: be a huge factor in making the college football playoff. Well, Alabama,
Speaker 2: you know they came up short against LSU and that
Speaker 2: you know that essentially made it to where they weren't.
Speaker 2: I mean, again, the chances of them getting in would
Speaker 2: have been and they didn't get in that year, did
Speaker 2: they don't think they did? That would have been in
Speaker 2: two thousand and was it nineteen when Burrow was taken
Speaker 2: over college football was nineteen? But it's funny because I
Speaker 2: don't think they made it. But I'm here double checking
Speaker 2: because I'm like, wait a second, Nick Saban made every playoff,
Speaker 2: didn't he was it twenty twenty?
Speaker 3: It well, the champion ship was played in twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: I believe, But nineteen was the season. Maybe I'm wrong
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe I'm way off eighteen nineteen. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: But nonetheless I don't. I mean, I'm not looking at
Speaker 2: like if it's not my team, you know, I'm not really,
Speaker 2: I'm not really you know, I'm gonna watch it. I
Speaker 2: hope to see good football, especially when I can bet
Speaker 2: on it. But like, I'm not like, oh, this is
Speaker 2: gonna do, this is gonna just if it's not my team.
Speaker 2: That's in a game where a look, if you don't
Speaker 2: win this one, you're like, for example, Notre Dame tomorrow,
Speaker 2: they know if they lose to Louisvilley're out, and they
Speaker 2: lose to anybody, they're probably out. But Louisville's a team
Speaker 2: that obviously can beat them. They beat them last year
Speaker 2: and they're a top fifteen team, so you know, Notre
Speaker 2: Dame fans like they know, like their season depends on
Speaker 2: every game the rest of the way starting tomorrow. Really,
Speaker 2: I guess since they lost the Northern Illinois. But like
Speaker 2: that doesn't like if I was watching this game as
Speaker 2: a just because I want to watch a good football
Speaker 2: game as a as a casual observer, not somebody that
Speaker 2: was watching as a fan, it wouldn't it wouldn't make
Speaker 2: any difference to me about like what it does for
Speaker 2: the postseason. I would just want to watch good football
Speaker 2: and hopefully went a bet. I mean, that's just you know,
Speaker 2: I'm keeping up with the playoff race is certainly you
Speaker 2: know what people do. But anyways, let's get to a break.
Speaker 2: We'll come back on the other side and bring him in.
Speaker 2: He is Brian Edwards from Vegas Insider dot com. We'll
Speaker 2: get his thoughts on this weekend's college football matchups as
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Speaker 2: All right, let's bring him in. He's Brian Edwards from
Speaker 2: Vegas Insider dot com. How we doing on a Friday afternoon? Brian,
Speaker 2: you're staying safe down there and in Florida. I assume
Speaker 2: you're there. Maybe you've left to take cover.
Speaker 4: No, man, we're in northwest Florida and we got forced
Speaker 4: to it. Didn't even lose power or internet, just uh,
Speaker 4: you know, some pie straw and some steaks in the yard.
Speaker 5: We got fortunate.
Speaker 2: Well, good, good, that's uh, that's good to hear. I've
Speaker 2: I'm just scrolling through social media throughout the day to day,
Speaker 2: and man, it's I mean, I knew it was gonna
Speaker 2: be severe, but some of the videos that have surfaced
Speaker 2: from north from North Carolina is just crazy, crazy stuff.
Speaker 2: But let's get into it. I know we've got a
Speaker 2: lot of college football action this weekend, including tonight We've
Speaker 2: got a couple of decent games for a Friday night.
Speaker 2: I think you got an acc match up between Virginia
Speaker 2: Tech and Miami, and then Washington and Rutgers.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: When it comes to Washington, they just played a national
Speaker 2: championship last year. However, they're underdogs at Rutgers, which just
Speaker 2: seems crazy. I mean this, not that this matters, but
Speaker 2: a team that played in the national championship game the
Speaker 2: year before, albeit circumstances are are factored in here to
Speaker 2: know the dogs at Rutgers the next year, It's got
Speaker 2: to be an all timer here right.
Speaker 4: Short week two in a cross country trip and Runters
Speaker 4: is playing really good football. Three and zero straight up,
Speaker 4: two and one against the spread. Go into Blacksburg, a
Speaker 4: very tough place to play. Take a fourteen to nothing
Speaker 4: lead in the first quarter. Last week, led sixteen to
Speaker 4: seven at halftime, twenty three to seven early third. Now
Speaker 4: the Hookies rallied, but Rutgers got a game winning field
Speaker 4: goal late.
Speaker 5: They're getting good quarterback play.
Speaker 4: From Caliakamana, the Minnesota transfer six to one TDI and
Speaker 4: t Ratio.
Speaker 5: Rutgers's gotta work horse running back in Kyle Manongai.
Speaker 4: They they're getting outstanding O line play, and I like
Speaker 4: Rutgers laying one on one and a half.
Speaker 2: Schiano like he that was the best thing for him
Speaker 2: going back to Rutgers, right, Like, I think mutually beneficial
Speaker 2: for both sides. Like it just seems like those two
Speaker 2: are meant to be together, all right, Alderman, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Ole Miss and Kentucky. I mean, I I'm I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do with this game. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna touch it. But we've been actually talking about
Speaker 2: this match up here in the last last segment, just
Speaker 2: because I just think Kentucky would even if they play well,
Speaker 2: I just can't see them being able to keep up
Speaker 2: offensively with this ole Miss team. I think early on
Speaker 2: this was around seventeen. Now I'm seeing fifteen, fifteen and
Speaker 2: a half. You got anything here for this matchup, this
Speaker 2: s SEC matchup?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like Ole Miss.
Speaker 4: It's even down to fourteen and a half at the
Speaker 4: Westgate Slipper book. But that's that's the only fourteen and
Speaker 4: a half I see. I'd like to hit hit seventeen.
Speaker 4: I've made the number.
Speaker 5: Eighteen and a half. This is if there's a unit
Speaker 5: in college.
Speaker 4: Football that I trust the most right now, it's old
Speaker 4: missus offense. Now, certainly Kentucky's had the best defense that
Speaker 4: they've faced. They played lights out against Georgia defensively, but
Speaker 4: I just don't see Kentucky.
Speaker 5: Generating enough offense over the course of sixteen minutes, kind
Speaker 5: of like you were saying, Nick.
Speaker 4: And I just think eventually they get some separation and
Speaker 4: win by twenty one to twenty four points.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, if I was trying to guess
Speaker 2: as to why this thing is, I mean, I thought
Speaker 2: it could be higher than seventeen as well. It's got
Speaker 2: to be because Ole miss schedule just hasn't been that
Speaker 2: challenging yet. And Kentucky did play Georgia close. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I will miss the man. They look like a They're
Speaker 2: like a monster right now, So I probably won't touch it.
Speaker 2: But I'm with you on that one, all right. So
Speaker 2: when it comes to uh, Cincinnati, you know, they they
Speaker 2: had an embarrassing start to their season with a collapsing
Speaker 2: loss to Pittsburgh, and I think Scott Saderfield, I don't
Speaker 2: know how much he's actually on the hot seat just
Speaker 2: because I don't know what if Cincinnati is the kind
Speaker 2: of program. They would move on for a guy, move
Speaker 2: on from a guy after just a couple of years.
Speaker 2: But they did bounce back and got to win against Houston.
Speaker 2: What do you what do you think in this one
Speaker 2: against Texas Tech? It's weird saying this is a Big
Speaker 2: twelve matchup, but Cincinnati in the Big twelve. You know
Speaker 2: it'll never be normal to me, but it is a
Speaker 2: conference matchup. What do you like here?
Speaker 4: I made Cincinnati at one and a half point road favorite.
Speaker 4: I woke up Sunday morning last week and FanDuel.
Speaker 5: Had Texas Tech at seven, and I wish, I wish
Speaker 5: I'd had a FanDuel account. I knew that was a
Speaker 5: terrible number.
Speaker 4: And by the afternoon it was down to four. I
Speaker 4: got sin c plus four. Sunday night, it dropped a
Speaker 4: two and a half. But now it's up to three.
Speaker 5: And I see a.
Speaker 4: Couple of three and a half are popping here in
Speaker 4: the last hour or two, one of them being at Circa.
Speaker 4: So I like Cincinnati plus three. They should be undefeated.
Speaker 4: They had a twenty seven to ten lead with a
Speaker 4: minute left and the third at home to pit but
Speaker 4: allowed pitt to rally for a twenty eight to twenty
Speaker 4: seven win. But they're getting great quarterback play from Indiana
Speaker 4: transferred Brendan Sowersby.
Speaker 5: He's completed sixty five point.
Speaker 4: Three per cent of his passes for one thy fifty
Speaker 4: five yards, eight touchdowns.
Speaker 5: No picks, and he also has three rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 4: I think Cincinnati was outright in love itck give me
Speaker 4: the Bearcats.
Speaker 2: Brian Edwards, Vegas Insider dot com is our guest joining
Speaker 2: us here on Sports Talk seven ninety talking about the
Speaker 2: college football slate on Saturday. We'll certainly get to some
Speaker 2: NFL as well. But one of the other big matchups,
Speaker 2: I'd say Georgia Alabama clearly the biggest game of the weekend,
Speaker 2: and then Louisville Notre Dame is also a game. You know,
Speaker 2: it's two top sixteen teams that a loss here for
Speaker 2: Notredame would certainly end their pursuit for the playoff. But
Speaker 2: Penn State in Illinois not a game that I would
Speaker 2: have said a few weeks ago. I'll expect to be
Speaker 2: a big matchup, but here we are. I know Penn
Speaker 2: State better, they're deserving favorites, they're at home, but no
Speaker 2: respect for Brett Bee Malay here. I would I am
Speaker 2: shocked that this number is so big. You have any
Speaker 2: anything here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've made Penn State a fourteen point favorite, So
Speaker 4: I'll go Illinois plus eighteen as.
Speaker 5: A road underdog.
Speaker 4: During Belima's tenures, they're ten and three against the spread
Speaker 4: and Luke Altminor is playing fantastic ten touchdown passes without
Speaker 4: an interception, and they remember they went to Happy Valley
Speaker 4: and one outright as a twenty four and a half
Speaker 4: point underdog back in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 5: So I like Illinois plus eighteen.
Speaker 2: All right? The other big the big game, This one's
Speaker 2: a standalone. Really, it's Bama and Georgia. I don't even
Speaker 2: know if I'm going to get in on this one.
Speaker 2: I probably will at some point when we get closer
Speaker 2: to kickoff. I'm just looking forward to watching what is
Speaker 2: probably going to be a pretty damn good game. But what
Speaker 2: do you like here? Obviously, Nick Saban no longer around,
Speaker 2: Kirby Smart's been on top. But I've seen this thing
Speaker 2: move back and forth. I mean one and a half
Speaker 2: right now? Is that? Is that what it currently is at?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: But I see you pick them at circa But most books.
Speaker 5: Are one and a half or one, you.
Speaker 4: Know, with Georgia favored first home underdog spot for Alabama
Speaker 4: since two thousand and seven, but they have absolutely.
Speaker 5: Dominated Georgia through the years eight and.
Speaker 4: One in the last nine head to head meetings, and
Speaker 4: the only went for Georgia game in twenty twenty one
Speaker 4: when Mechi had torn his aclu in the SEC Championship
Speaker 4: game and then Jamison Williams, who was having a huge
Speaker 4: first half, blew his knee out in the second quarter,
Speaker 4: and then Bama just didn't have any weapons offensively in
Speaker 4: the second half. But Milroe's playing great. Eight touchdowns, no picks,
Speaker 4: six rushing touchdowns as well.
Speaker 5: I like Bama to win out right, But I want
Speaker 5: to clarify it.
Speaker 4: It's not one of my stronger plays in terms of
Speaker 4: you know, units, amount wise, et cetera.
Speaker 5: But I am on Bama. But it's pretty small play.
Speaker 2: What about what about LSU South Alabama Major Apple White
Speaker 2: having a hell of a first season as the head coach.
Speaker 2: There there are two three touchdown underdogs. I don't know
Speaker 2: what y'all have you explain what you're going to do here.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to say it. I'm a crazy person.
Speaker 2: I don't expect this to happen. But I'm putting something
Speaker 2: very small on a South Alabama money line. Again, I'm
Speaker 2: a nut. I think they could do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I already have.
Speaker 4: I put a small play on plus eight sixty five
Speaker 4: and this is probably one of my stronger plays. And
Speaker 4: I got plus twenty two early in the week. But
Speaker 4: I still like.
Speaker 5: It at twenty one or it's twenty and a half
Speaker 5: and a lot of books I would buy the half
Speaker 5: point to twenty one.
Speaker 4: Keep in mind, during Week two loss at Ohio twenty
Speaker 4: seven to twenty, South Alabama didn't have their star quarterback
Speaker 4: go Lopez.
Speaker 5: He was out in that game, but he's healthy now.
Speaker 4: In three games this year, eight hundred and forty three
Speaker 4: passing yards, nine touchdowns, no picks. He's also got one
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty nine rushing yards and two touchdowns and
Speaker 4: eight point zero yards for carry.
Speaker 5: Average. LSU is zero and four against the spread.
Speaker 4: They just lost their best player, Harold Perkins to a
Speaker 4: torn ACL they were already down starting defensive tackle and
Speaker 4: Guillery to a season ending injury, and although they won
Speaker 4: by double dignits last week, they never got ahead of
Speaker 4: the number against UCLA. If they get ahead of the
Speaker 4: number against South Alabama, the back door will be wide
Speaker 4: open because LSU is just not playing elite defense at
Speaker 4: least out the last couple of years compared to you know,
Speaker 4: the two decades previously.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you can mean right now. I mean
Speaker 2: you look at LSU. They just don't have any momentum.
Speaker 2: You mentioned that big injury, that of course is devastating
Speaker 2: to them, and then they could have easily and probably
Speaker 2: should have lost to South Carolina. So again they'll probably
Speaker 2: still win. But yeah, I think South Alabama can cover
Speaker 2: that big number, maybe with relative ease, and who knows,
Speaker 2: maybe they do pull off the big upset. All right,
Speaker 2: the Hoosiers. I think Indiana football has become cool? Is
Speaker 2: that crazy to say? Brian like Signetti has not only
Speaker 2: a he's a good coach, but like Indiana football is
Speaker 2: being like not looked at as like a sleeper to
Speaker 2: make the playoff by anybody, at least not that I'm hearing,
Speaker 2: but like he's brought some attention there with the way
Speaker 2: he carries himself. He's always been a winner, and they're winning.
Speaker 2: Although their competition hasn't been great, they do have a
Speaker 2: they do they have they have a four and oh,
Speaker 2: start first four and oh start for Indiana ever, sorry,
Speaker 2: first coach in Indiana history to start four and oh.
Speaker 2: And now they've got Maryland, who I don't know how
Speaker 2: to figure them out? Indiana's favorite here? Do you have
Speaker 2: any action on this one?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I like Indiana minus six and a half or seven.
Speaker 4: And when your show's over, Nick, go look at Indiana schedule. Man,
Speaker 4: They're gonna be favored in a lot of games that
Speaker 4: they have left.
Speaker 5: And this program has never won ten games.
Speaker 4: They've won nine twice in nineteen forty five, in nineteen
Speaker 4: sixty seven. And I've made a very small play on
Speaker 4: Curtis rook a one hundred to one to win the
Speaker 4: Heisman because I think they're going at least nine to three,
Speaker 4: maybe ten and two, And there's the outside chance that
Speaker 4: they're undefeated with two weeks to prepare going at Ohio State,
Speaker 4: and that would be a ten and o team. I'm
Speaker 4: not saying they're definitely gonna be ten and oh, but
Speaker 4: there's a chance that all of these games are winnable
Speaker 4: except at Ohio State. But that'll be a big nowh
Speaker 4: story if they're ten to zero going at Ohio State.
Speaker 4: And even if they lost and r played well. I
Speaker 4: think you would be in the Heisman mixed. So right now,
Speaker 4: he's completed seventy five point five percent of his passes
Speaker 4: one thy thirteen yards, eight touchdowns, no interceptions, and he's
Speaker 4: got two rushing.
Speaker 5: Touchdowns and Maryland's one h three nationally.
Speaker 4: In pass defense. I like Indiana minus six and a
Speaker 4: half or seven.
Speaker 2: My producer, the company man himself, mister John Alden, is
Speaker 2: a big time Hoosier football fan. He's not just one
Speaker 2: of these guys that cheers for Indiana basketball and then
Speaker 2: occasionally he'll turn on a football game. He he's been
Speaker 2: there through the tough, tough years of Indiana football, which
Speaker 2: most of the years of Indiana football have been tough
Speaker 2: and not good. But they've got it rolling now. So
Speaker 2: that explanation there as to why you like the Hoosiers
Speaker 2: and why you think they could end up having a
Speaker 2: pretty damn good record the rest of the way. I
Speaker 2: know that made him very happy. And it's it's and
Speaker 2: you're right, it's probable. I mean, they've got to schedule
Speaker 2: the rest of the way that makes it to where
Speaker 2: they should be favorites from what we've seen thus far.
Speaker 2: All right, real quick. Any NFL plays you like on Sunday?
Speaker 5: You know, I'm waiting on a lot of injury information.
Speaker 2: The only got so many injuries.
Speaker 4: Yeah it's Denver plus seven and a half. And now
Speaker 4: you know, I've been away from my computer for a
Speaker 4: little while. I'm sure a lot of injury information has
Speaker 4: come out in the last hour or two, but I
Speaker 4: gotta review it. So the only thing I can commit
Speaker 4: to right.
Speaker 5: Now is Broncos plus seven and a half.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I last question outside of the Bills,
Speaker 2: and maybe you think it's somebody different, who who's good
Speaker 2: in the NFL? Like, who do you feel like legitimately
Speaker 2: it has the chops to potentially be a real contender.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think you're gonna still go with the
Speaker 2: Chiefs and teams that you know, but that's because of
Speaker 2: what they've done in recent years. They haven't looked great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nobody's really looked great other than you know, the
Speaker 4: Vikings are obviously looking fantastic. The Packers have looked good
Speaker 4: the last two weeks with a backup TV, but yeah,
Speaker 4: nobody's been super duper impressive. But I mean, I think
Speaker 4: once the forty nine ers get healthy, they'll probably be
Speaker 4: in good shape. And you know, the Eagles are a
Speaker 4: kind of at least the defense played pretty good last week.
Speaker 4: I think the Ravens will be fine. I think Detroit
Speaker 4: is still pretty.
Speaker 5: Dog on good.
Speaker 4: But yeah, nobody is has looked really great. And these
Speaker 4: underdogs are five and a half points or more have
Speaker 4: basically been automatic. I think the stat is thirteen and
Speaker 4: two against the spread with ten outright wins if I'm
Speaker 4: not mistaken.
Speaker 5: I tweeted it out earlier. But yeah, it's been Uh,
Speaker 5: it's a lot of parody.
Speaker 4: So much my eliminator, my eliminator League one and fifty
Speaker 4: two people. After three weeks ninety two, I've got Wow,
Speaker 4: and I've got the Niners, and I'm super nervous about it.
Speaker 2: Wow. I mean that that makes sense though, just considering
Speaker 2: all the I mean, you had teams that looked like
Speaker 2: they were on fire playing against teams that looked like
Speaker 2: they were maybe the worst team in the league, and
Speaker 2: sure enough they went out right. It's been really, really
Speaker 2: hard to predict, which of course makes it very hard
Speaker 2: to win money betting. I've had had no luck this
Speaker 2: thus far. Hopefully that changes here sooner. Brian, thanks for
Speaker 2: making time for us brother, and enjoy your weekend, enjoy
Speaker 2: the football. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 5: Thanks guys, job a great we again.
Speaker 2: All right, that's Brian Edwards fro Vegas Insider dot com.
Speaker 2: Good stuff there. Let's get a quick break out of
Speaker 2: the way. A lot of talk in the last couple
Speaker 2: of days has been about the UNLV quarterback Matthew Sluca,
Speaker 2: who just decided to you know what, You're not gonna
Speaker 2: pay me. That's why I'm here. I came here because
Speaker 2: you told me you're gonna pay me this money, and
Speaker 2: now you're telling me you're not. I'm out of here.
Speaker 2: But somebody tried to swoop in and salvage the situation,
Speaker 2: but the school said no, which I think is pretty telling.
Speaker 2: Quick break, don't go anywhere, keep it locked right here.
Speaker 2: On Sports Talk seven ninety so, a Las Vegas Casino VP,
Speaker 2: a big money guy in Vegas apparently offered one hundred
Speaker 2: thousand dollars for nil money to UNLV quarterback Matthew Sluca
Speaker 2: to prevent him from, you know, leaving and salvaging that situation.
Speaker 2: Because unov's in a good spot. I mean I was
Speaker 2: looking yesterday at their at their schedule, and you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say these teams that they beat are
Speaker 2: good because I don't. I don't really think they are.
Speaker 2: But hey, when you are a G five team and
Speaker 2: you're playing teams from the Big twelve, you know you're
Speaker 2: expected to lose in most instances. And they beat Houston
Speaker 2: and beat them bad, and they beat Kansas before anybody
Speaker 2: knew Kansas stunk. So they've got Syracuse coming up next Friday.
Speaker 2: That'll be a big game for him. But that game
Speaker 2: is in Vegas, it's not in Syracuse, so you know,
Speaker 2: in Syracuse, it's tough to know if they're any good
Speaker 2: or not. To be honest with you, I mean, they
Speaker 2: end up losing to Stanford the other night, and that
Speaker 2: was not something anybody saw coming, at least not me.
Speaker 2: I mean, they were big favorites in that game, and
Speaker 2: I'm bitter because I've lost it. Nobody cares about Stanford
Speaker 2: and Syracuse. But anyways, you know they they're going to
Speaker 2: be favored and probably every game the rest of the
Speaker 2: way other than two. So losing your quarterback in UNLV,
Speaker 2: most people don't give a damn, and I get it,
Speaker 2: but for them, losing your quarterback when you have started
Speaker 2: the season so strongly. And again it's not like they've
Speaker 2: i mean, they're not ranked or anything, but they're not
Speaker 2: far from the top twenty five. And again there's a
Speaker 2: spot that goes to a G five team in this playoff,
Speaker 2: and there is you know, right now as we speak,
Speaker 2: they're they're in the mix for it. And usually if
Speaker 2: you lose your quarterback that changes things. But it sounds
Speaker 2: like they're the backup another transfer kid who came from
Speaker 2: FCS an FCS school. They I mean sounds like they're
Speaker 2: confident he's going to be able to pick up where
Speaker 2: SLUCA left off. But anyways, back to this story about
Speaker 2: the VP. He was denied, like UNLV denied the request,
Speaker 2: which that's I mean, Brett McMurphy's the first person I
Speaker 2: saw the report of that story. I mean, that's is
Speaker 2: that not pretty telling of the whole situation here, Like
Speaker 2: maybe they think it's already gone so bad that where
Speaker 2: they just think it's best for everybody to move on
Speaker 2: and go both ways and go their separate ways, because
Speaker 2: it's just become a public pr thing, right, Like it's
Speaker 2: an issue where he's claiming that, you know, they lied
Speaker 2: to him, and that does that even if the kid
Speaker 2: made it up, which I don't think he did. Even
Speaker 2: if the kid made up the fact that he was
Speaker 2: offered one hundred thousand dollars verbally and said that's what
Speaker 2: he was going to get through nil from an assistant coach,
Speaker 2: even if that's the case, it's still a bad you know,
Speaker 2: in any lot about it, it's still a bad pr
Speaker 2: look for UNLB to where now the perception is going
Speaker 2: to hurt them that they don't have any money. And
Speaker 2: they may not have any money, but I just I
Speaker 2: don't know. It's very rare to see a school step
Speaker 2: in and say, yeah, we're not gonna work, We're gonna
Speaker 2: we're not gonna let you give us an al money.
Speaker 2: Everybody needs an al money. But I think they just
Speaker 2: believed that it's best for them to separate and move on.
Speaker 2: And his teammates were really hyping up the backup, almost
Speaker 2: as if they're happy this guy's gone. My guess would
Speaker 2: be that they were blown away to hear that he
Speaker 2: was offered one hundred thousand dollars, because I'm sure and
Speaker 2: that's probably in a conversation a lot of guys have.
Speaker 2: I mean, I wouldn't want to know if I was
Speaker 2: a college athlete what another guy on my team was
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Speaker 2: it would make me feel a certain way if if
Speaker 2: I know, hey, that guy he's not producing like I am.
Speaker 2: He's you know, he's not working as hard as I
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