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Speaker 1: All Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester

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and Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where the.

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Speaker 1: Plays get broken down, then science gets denied.

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Speaker 2: I gotta come off the bench.

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Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Mercedes

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Benz Baton Rouge Studio starts now.

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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back here.

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Speaker 4: Now we're number two OTV here on this Wednesday morning.

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Speaker 3: There's an eight people.

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Speaker 4: There's a coach's poll, but the only poll that matters

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is the OTB Top twenty five. A little quick recap

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twenty five, Boise State twenty four, Memphis twenty three, Baylor

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twenty two, Georgia Tech twenty one, Tennessee twenty, Iowa State

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a number nineteen, Texas eight and four at number eighteen,

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Indiana at seventeen, Old miss at sixteen, the Florida Gators,

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and coming in at number fifteen, Matthew.

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Speaker 2: Did you call him?

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Speaker 3: Texas A four, Texas eight and four?

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Speaker 2: All right, I like it. I've never heard of before.

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Speaker 3: I've said it every day i've done the recap.

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Speaker 2: I don't really, I don't listen. I drifted it out,

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all right. So at number fifteen, at number fifteen, you

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know I was thinking about the list yesterday, the top

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twenty five, I thought it was just starting to get

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a little repetitive. Little we had to shake things up

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a little bit. So I was like, oh man, what

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did I do? I take Texas, I put him at fifteen.

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I don't know. I decided to not do that. Okay,

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We're going to shake it up a little bit. I'm

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going to pick a team that is in the ap

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pole in the Coach's Poll, ranked a little bit lower

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than fifteen or higher, whichever one. They're not ranked as

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good as fifteen on the other polls, and I believe

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that this is a team that has the potential be

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based on a schedule and a really couple of games

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that are going to really gonna determine the season for it.

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We're gonna go to the Big twelve. Okay, we've been

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stuck in the SEC for a couple of couple of

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picks in a row. We're gonna go to the Big twelve,

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and we're going to keep it inside the lone Star

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State Number fifteen, Texas Tech Red Raider. Okay, I don't

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hate it all right, those boys out in Loving Texas,

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they are teeing up. There's a lot of buzz. There's

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a lot of excitement in the air for the Texas

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Texas Tech Red Raiders. In the AP they're number twenty three,

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I believe in the coaches pulled their number twenty four,

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But in the real list, the real top twenty five,

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they are going to come in at number fifteen. And

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you know what, I'm basing this off the fact of

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what I believe that they could end up at the

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end of the year. All Right, so the Big Twelve,

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they are boasting one the easiest schedule in the Big Twelve. Hey,

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their main games that you got to focus on are

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Kansas State in Arizona State, and I believe it is

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very likely that they could win one or both of

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those games. We'll see how it all plays out. Is

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their first time being ranked this high, which is twenty

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three in the AP pole since two thousand and eight.

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I think this first time first time they had a

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preseason ranking in both of the AP and coaches polls.

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I believe twenty eleven, two thousand and four, they were

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eight and five lost to Arkansas in the Liberty Bowl.

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But this year they do feel like they are a

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legit contender. Despite the fact that their last outright conference

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championship was in nineteen fifty five. Can you believe that?

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Coach champs? They were co champs in the Southwestern Conference

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in nineteen seventy six and nineteen ninety four. But now

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Texattech has emerged as one of the top spenders in NIL.

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They're boasting a fifteen point two million dollar fund four

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in IL, completely solely dedicated to football only, and that

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has kind of led the way. They brought in the

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top portal class leading into this twenty twenty five season,

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including a five star offensive lineman Felix oho o Yo

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who got they signed him, They paid him five point

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one million dollars. They are returning quarterback Byron Morton. Do'

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say that right? Byron? I think it's Baron Barn Barn

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the e h R E N Baron Morton twenty seven

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tds last year, eight interceptions, three three and thirty five year. Yeah,

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very solid year. Actually, you know, when we think of

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old school Texas, this is in the Graham Herald days,

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Mike Leech days. They actually brought in some help on defense.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, to your point, they brought in through the

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transfer portal. They brought in nine guys on offense, ten

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guys on defense. Hell, they even brought in two kickers

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through the transfer portal. So they have been as active

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they and like I said, they had the number

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one ranked transfer class, and I think they had three

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players on their defense that are on the preseason Bednerick Award,

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so on that list at least. So they got some guys,

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fourth season now. So look, it's all gonna come down. Look,

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you could have we could easily go Arizona State, Kansas State,

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but I think Texas Tech because of their strength to

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schedule because of this here later on, I know, I

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know it's gonna be tight. We'll see. I just believe

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it's simile strength to schedule. They win one of those games,

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they got an opportunity to be the exactly ranked fifteenth

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team at the end of the year.

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Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, I like this pick.

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Speaker 5: And they are really uh getting ahead in the nil

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space in all sports.

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Speaker 2: It's I mean, they're like you get that Land money.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Canada, she was like the only one getting paid

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a million dollars, like the highest paid softball player ever,

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and you know GM James Blanchard comes in and just

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starts bulldozing through stuff. So I I like that pick.

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Speaker 2: What a hype? What a hype? Onderm right now there?

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Speaker 5: They should be expensive roster.

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Speaker 2: Yeah they got that Landman money, that Texas Panhandle oil country. Yeah,

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they got it.

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Speaker 5: Get your tortillas out.

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Speaker 2: Look like you go to your point.

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Speaker 4: I have been there when they've phwn the tortilla is

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on the field after a big upset.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of cool.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, to your point, Like everybody talks about SMU spending

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all this money, like Texas tex right there with them.

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Baron Morton, I mean you laid out the numbers, but

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like he also completed like sixty four percent of his

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passes last year with that touchdown interception ratio. That's impressive.

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They're better this year on the outside than they were

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last year.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a good pick. That may be a sleeper.

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Not on this show. They're not not on this show.

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Speaker 3: They're awake. They're awake, fully awake.

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Speaker 2: We're woke'll be excited. I'm gonna know this ship. Guns up?

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Is that what they say?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, guns up?

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Speaker 3: Get your guns up. Yeah, say that too.

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Speaker 2: Tech. Yeah, so we were. When I was in high school.

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Our mascot was the Red Raiders and a lot of

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uh we called Texas Tech the thirteenth grade of our

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high school. A lot of people went there. Yeah, you know,

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being a state school, it was like had the big

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you know, Louisiana Techas that was thirteenth grade, a little

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bit academically, a little bit more forgiving to be accepted

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at the time. But I've personally never been the weapon.

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I went really like a long time ago.

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Speaker 5: One of my best friends went to Tech and she

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went the same time that Patrick Mahomes was there, and

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uh yeah, I mean it's exactly what you would imagine.

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Speaker 7: It to me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Greater Tyler, Texas area.

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Speaker 3: White Castle, white House, white House, White Castle's here.

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Speaker 6: Home with the ten pound mosquitoes. If we've ever had

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I've been to a game out.

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Speaker 2: There, all right?

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Speaker 3: Is that where Johnny Menzel went to He went there

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Speaker 2: Yeah, white House, because I remember it's like pretty much

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all the same.

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Speaker 4: But when I met Johnny Manziel at Manning Passing Academy

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when he was still at A and M his last year,

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the year he got kicked out of Manning Passing Academy,

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the only player to ever get kicked out.

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Speaker 3: Sure, before he got kicked out, I remember him coming

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up to me, Man, you played with me, flude. It

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was a ball boy for them growing up. That dude

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was awesome. I'm like the Saint Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 2: Then, I know, got to be a different guy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Johnny Manziel. Yeah, his senior year or whatever, his

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last year at A and M. I guess it would

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have been junior year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was big. Matt Flynn guy, your ball boy. Apparently,

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do you remember that?

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Speaker 6: Okay, he remembered Matt forgets the small people along the way.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, little guys.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 4: To Matt's point, their schedule, they got Arkansas Pine Bluff

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in the opener, They've got Kent State, They've got Oregon State.

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got a tough road game September the twentieth at Utah.

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They get a bye week, and then it's at Houston.

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You get Kansas at home. You're at Arizona State, Oklahoma

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State at home, at Kansas State, BYU at home, UCF

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at home, and at West Virginia like Matt said, October

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the eighteenth and November the first, that's going to be

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your most difficult games for Texas Tech on the road

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against the number eleven and number seventeen teams in the country.

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Speaker 2: So and only two of those teams on their schedule

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are in the preseason the top twenty five yeah ranking list.

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So I believe that they have the number one easiest

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schedule in the Big Twelve leading end of the season.

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Now we'll see how that plays out, and I think,

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like the eightieth overall in the country easiest schedule.

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Speaker 4: Big twelve is gonna be fun. It is going to

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be chaotic energy every single week.

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Speaker 3: It was last year.

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Speaker 4: And if you like, from top to bottom, the teams

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in that league are as close as any other league

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that we have. And I know there's probably some people

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that are immediate doing some shade. Yeah they're all bad teams.

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That ain't the case. There is some quality football in

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the Big Twelve this year, and I think the top

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team and the bottom team. Hell, we saw it last year.

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Arizona State was supposed to be the bottom team. They won,

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They won the whole league, and so it's gonna be

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that same thing this year.

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Speaker 3: You're right.

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Speaker 2: The Big Twelve is a really fun league to watch.

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It's like a better quality, bigger school version of action.

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That's how I feel like these games play out, like

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the craziest stuff that could happen will happen, and it

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can happen and will happen. So I'm excited about the

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Big Twelve just watching it because, like you said, there's

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a lot of really good teams. There's no one big dog,

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there's not two big dogs. There's a lot of people.

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Like whoever's standing on top of the Big Twelve it

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could be one of eight teams, maybe sixty of.

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Speaker 6: Us really good quarterback conference, like for this year, Yeah,

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sixteen or sixteen teams.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm just saying, like half of them probably

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got like a realistic shot.

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Speaker 3: I think, Oh, I certainly think there's eight teams that

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have a shot.

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Speaker 2: But it's going to be Texas tick oh maybe maybe

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get second. I have been put him at fifteenth, whatever,

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he's gonna put him at fifteen.

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Speaker 4: That's going to be a Big Twelve team in the

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next fourteen teams. I can promise you that because I'm

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picking one of them. If somebody else doesn't do it,

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well done. Well done, Hey, break.

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Speaker 3: Down, let's go TV.

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Speaker 2: No, guess that's what it's going to be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thirty seconds you came in extra time. Haid Off

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quality usage told us to be quiet before the segment study.

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He was like, everybody be quiet. That's seriously what he said.

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Speaker 7: He did.

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Speaker 2: It was either going to be Texas Tech or it

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was going to be who else? Do I think?

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Speaker 3: I no, no, no, no, no, no spoils? Okay, there

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might be another team?

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Speaker 2: Is shaken up?

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Speaker 4: Question before we take a break, Is Texas Tech the

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closest team to the west can and Coyotes? Like physically no,

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just like in your thought process of like watching Varsity Blues,

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is Texas Tech the closest to the West for it's.

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Speaker 5: A pretty good comparison, Yes, because it's not Baylor.

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Speaker 2: No, oh yeah, I mean it absolutely is.

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Speaker 3: It's not a and M. There's not a cold.

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Speaker 2: I would think like geographically speaking too, it would be

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that area would be a little bit more. I think

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that like the oil country out there.

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Speaker 3: You got that going forward too.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, but when I think of Texas Tech, of course,

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I just like my mind it's not even really I.

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Speaker 5: Think it's Cliff Kingsbury it's like the pan.

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Speaker 3: I mean, like you got to keep going.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying we say West Texas. If I said

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it that it means too it's a panhandle.

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Speaker 4: I'm telling you, if you want to see Lubbock done

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the right way, have West Walker and Cliff Kingsbury as

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your host on your official visit.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 7: Man.

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Speaker 2: I just tell you what beautiful, glorious years they had

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Speaker 3: Shout out Danny, Michael Crabtree.

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Speaker 2: How fun was that thing? That gay? I'll never forget

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watching them beat Texas in Texas Tech Michael Crabtree. Oh yeah,

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at the end of the game. Yeah, that was an

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, that was one of those all timers for sure.

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All Right, we gotta take a break. We'll do it.

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Speaker 4: We got I got Chris Marler joining us about fifteen

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minutes from now here in studio. We'll continue talking college

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Speaker 1: In ULSU football twenty four to seven, you're listening to

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off the Bench, Gene says it that.

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Speaker 3: Scared, all right. Welcome backin OTV.

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Speaker 4: Yesterday we talked about John Matteir Oaklan Home a quarterback

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and some of his Venmo transactions.

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Speaker 3: Sports gambling. How are we doing on that story progressing gambling? Well?

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Speaker 4: John Matteir did release a statement he said, the allegations

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that I once participated in sports gambling are false. My

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previous Venmo descriptions did not accurately portray the transactions in question,

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but were instead inside jokes between me and my friends.

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Speaker 3: I have never bet on sports.

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Speaker 4: I understand the seriousness of the matter, but recognized that,

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taken out of context, those Venmo descriptions suggest otherwise. I

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can assure my teammates, coaches and officials at the NC

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DOUBLEA they have not engaged in any sports gambling.

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Speaker 6: I believe No, Yeah, I believe in He said it

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was an inside joke that we just wouldn't get it.

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Speaker 2: Look, what's more believable that it was an inside joke

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between probably two like a couple of nineteen year old kids,

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or that he actually did at it and wrote it.

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Speaker 4: Out like a nerd inside joke, Because yesterday when we

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were having the conversation, I was thinking, if we have

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had Venmo in college, some of the descriptions that me,

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you steltz, I mean put a.

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Speaker 2: Name on it would have like we would have like

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I would have been mowed you for something like when

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maybe you got my cover at friends. Yeah, and I

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was I was Ben Milling you back five bucks. I

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would have put illegal steroids or anabolic steroids on it

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for sure. For sure I would have put maybe sports

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gambling on it, just something to make us laugh. But

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the stupid part was, is he made it public? Yeah,

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just make it private. Yeah. And again this was maybe

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they make it private, you can just hack into it.

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Speaker 3: Who knows, uh, but I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't probably did it.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if anything comes with this, but again.

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Speaker 2: It shouldn't.

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Speaker 3: I just I've met him very briefly.

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Speaker 4: My gonna act like I know him, but just meeting

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him and seeing kind of the way he carries himself.

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So I told you, like, you're reminded me of a

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mix of Baker Mayfield and Flynt, like that's who he was.

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Speaker 3: I just can't.

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Speaker 4: Imagine he would have put sports gambling, if that's what

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it in fact was.

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Speaker 2: Just I can't imagine anybody, like I said yesterday, under

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the age of sixty, actually putting what they are sending

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somebody money for, like.

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Speaker 4: Ever, like actually, like you know, certainly when it's amongst friends,

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like like you said, like if you if we were

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out and you you picked up the first round, like

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I'm gonna send you some stupid back to fat like

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the payback yep, like just now I would right now

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as a forty year old man, like I'm sending him

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back something stupid.

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Speaker 2: Yeh, say here's twenty bucks and description your balls are

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showing or something like something weird.

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Speaker 3: Oh glad you saved that one for eight twenty two

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and not seven twenty two.

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Speaker 2: Now the kids already dropped off people, just adults listening

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now and the sick kids that's sitting at him.

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Speaker 4: Was that a ace van tura to reference bumble bee tuna,

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bumble bee tuna? No, he says what you just said,

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like after that, Yeah, that's why I was wondering. Okay, No,

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you don't remember that.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's just like ingrained to be so deep down. Yeah,

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says that around the fire to the guy next.

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Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. Yeah. One thing about ta that man? Have

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seen every movie?

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Speaker 2: Watch a lot of movies, TV shows now, not some movies. Yeah,

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did you say you were Parks of right guy? No,

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never seen it? Okay, fair enough. They made good television

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this day. These days, television's probably better than most movies.

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So these days, have you got a question for the room?

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Who should have been ranked number one? In the AP

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and Coaches poll. Should it have been Texas or somebody else?

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Because they are the first, right, the first number one

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preseason AP team to start this season as an underdog,

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the first.

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Speaker 3: We've ever seen. We talked about it a little bit yesterday.

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Speaker 4: So should the team that they're playing, the defending national champion,

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should they have been ranked number one?

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Speaker 3: No, you think Texas should have?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Wait, say that again. Oh yes they should have. Sorry,

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as your asset of Texas should have yea. So I

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saw somebody talking about it. I think the closest ever

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matchup like gambling line for the number one team in

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the country on opening day was a team being minus

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four number one team in the country minus four. I

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think it was like Florida State and like the nineties,

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this like this is and they're now they're underdog.

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Speaker 4: This is the first time that a team has started

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like the start of the season, the first game of

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the year, the team that was preseason number one, the

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first time ever that they have been an underdog in

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the first game, the first time ever.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so.

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Speaker 3: Ws Ohio State nine number.

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Speaker 2: It's really dumb. That's where we talked about this yesterday. Basically,

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the people voting for them, voting for Texas as number one,

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are saying that they are going to win the first

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game of the season. It's the only way that you

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ranked them number one, the only way, And if they do,

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more power to them, Like good luck stopping the arch

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man in hype train if that happens. Good luck trying

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to like keep him off of first team All American

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no matter what he does. So I think it's a

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if you're going to be underdog, you can't be number one.

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That's why I gave you that. Like the the last

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time the closest gambling line ever for a number one

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team prior to this going into Week one was minus four, right,

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that was the closest match and they were the favorite.

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So I don't know, it's wild. I mean, that's why.

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And for both of them to do it too. I

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get the coaches play like the coaches aren't spending time

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going through this, like he said sid Poll, It's not

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like I think Brian Kelly's going there and dissecting every

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team and looking at you know, strength to schedules. Now're

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not doing.

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Speaker 3: He's worried about his guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so they're not doing. But like the AP

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to do that. That means most of the Associated Press

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is choosing Texas to win game number one.

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Speaker 4: They don't even have Ohio State as the number two team.

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They're actually number three in the AP Top twenty five.

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Penn State comes in at number two, and they made

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the semi finals last year. It was a close game,

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competitive game against Notre Dame. But I still there's still

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something I need to see from them. I love their

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running backs. I mean, they've got two guys that could

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be All Americans, like first team All American type running backs.

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But Tyler Warren balled them out so much a year ago.

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That's why he was a first round pick. That's why

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he's going to be a good player on Sundays for

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the Colts. They went and got a couple guys out

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of the portal I receiver. But I have a hard

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time believing that you're going to be without Abdul Carter,

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who was a top five without Tyler Warren, and you're

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going to be better than you were a year ago,

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like Drew Roller. Still there's something that is missing for

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me for him to be one of the quarterbacks that

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we talk about with a K club Nick with a

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Garrett nus Meyer. I don't have him in that category.

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Speaker 3: Some people do. I don't see it. Penn State's one

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that's going to prove some things to me as well.

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Speaker 2: Penn State just had like last year was their closest

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they ever actually getting it done, like getting whatever. The

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hype is there. They always have the preseason hype. They

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always look go gangbusters the first half the season. They're

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like it the like when Wisconsin was kind of doing

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their thing, they were like a little souped up version

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of them. Like they always have the hype they always

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should be. It's like the wood It should have could

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a team every single year and for them to be

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preseason ranked the head of Ohio State, that is the Kulda. Yeah,

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it's not should have would They're the ones that actually

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go out and do it. You're in, You're out. I

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don't know. I think it's a pretty dumb top three myself.

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Speaker 4: I know you're you're burning back there, like getting talked

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in three minutes. I know you're ready to give a

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take on one of these teams.

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Speaker 6: No, I mean, I absolutely think of how the State

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should be ranked number one just because they have the

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best offensive and defensive player in college football. They're the

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defending national champs. I think they're going to beat Texas

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week one. But going to your Penn State thing, like,

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I agree one because so many people are going to say, oh, well,

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Nick Singleton and k Tron Allen are back. Yeah, you

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had that last year and it wasn't good enough and

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you're worse in almost every other spot. Now you have

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your quarterback back. But everyone's points to the playoff game. Hey,

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he didn't complete a pass two receiver in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: True.

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Speaker 6: Did you get significantly better at receiver in the offseason?

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Not really, and you lost your unicorn and Tyler Warren.

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I just don't see it in Penn State. They're still

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gonna have a good defense, They're still gonna have an

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elite running game.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of all they are. Give me a give

473
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me a NFL comparison to Penn State. I got mine

474
00:23:58,759 --> 00:24:01,720
right now. And I always think I'm comparing Penn State

475
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:07,720
to the Pittsburgh Steelers right now now. Maybe maybe not

476
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:09,519
this year because they're not going to fall.

477
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Speaker 3: They have some years.

478
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Speaker 2: And they got they got a head coach that is

479
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a proven winner, awesome for the program. He is the

480
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,799
face of that program, and you can't imagine life without him.

481
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But but I just can't get it done.

482
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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 2: Look, well let's take let's take Tomlin's like we're just

484
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,000
talking about the last ten fifteen years, right of Thomas

485
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Krek because obviously he has got it done with with

486
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big Ben there, but it's just that one that's always

487
00:24:38,039 --> 00:24:39,880
going to be there, always going to be a threat.

488
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But they lost the first round of the playoffs for

489
00:24:43,039 --> 00:24:46,839
the last five six years, so we'll see. But uh, yeah,

490
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,079
that's the and you can't justify getting rid of him.

491
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,440
But at some point you gotta like look in the

492
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,480
mirror and say, at what point do we stick our

493
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foot in the ground and say we have to make

494
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,720
it could change if we want to take the next level.

495
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Speaker 4: Pretty good con sad anybody Steelers have actually gone and

496
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,440
then you know, won Super Bowls. I guess that would

497
00:25:08,519 --> 00:25:11,039
be the difference. Yeah, it hasn't been. It hasn't done

498
00:25:11,039 --> 00:25:15,079
it in yeah, forty years. Eighty six, eighty six. Last

499
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time they won a nationally eighty six seven It was

500
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eighty six, so not a backcom look at you, well done, sir.

501
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Speaker 3: Eighty six eighty six was.

502
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Speaker 2: The last time one. It got to be fifteen so no,

503
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it was sixteen seventeen.

504
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Speaker 3: They won that rookie year.

505
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the last time they won.

506
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Speaker 3: And then okay, y'all beat him.

507
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Speaker 2: We didn't beat them, and they hadn't been nex. It's

508
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almost been twenty years. So it was two thousand and nine,

509
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:39,079
two thousand and nine.

510
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Speaker 3: You need to chill out putting years on stuff like that.

511
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:42,240
Really it was.

512
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Speaker 2: It was the eight football season, but February nine. Yeah,

513
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,519
so seventeen years. Yeah, we're y'all were rookies.

514
00:25:49,759 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody needs to chill out with all the years

515
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:52,400
you're throwing around.

516
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:53,839
Speaker 2: We get it, people, we're old.

517
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Speaker 3: All right, we'll take a break when we come back.

518
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,319
Speaker 4: I got Chris Marlin Louisiana Sports dot Net will join

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00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,759
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541
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sign them all right.

545
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Speaker 4: Walking back in O TV one, O four five, ESPN,

546
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Baton Rouge and welcome on our guy, Chris Marler Louisianasports

547
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dot Net onto the show.

548
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Speaker 2: What's up?

549
00:27:37,799 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 3: Brother? How we doing? How we living?

550
00:27:39,559 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 2: Uh?

551
00:27:39,839 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 4: Not your first time to be on air with me.

552
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,359
I mean, we've been doing this for like a long time.

553
00:27:44,519 --> 00:27:47,720
Back when you were with Saturday down South. You came

554
00:27:47,799 --> 00:27:49,799
on Hanging with Hester nighttime Radio.

555
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 8: You did. I thought this was my first time.

556
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,519
Speaker 3: Made it. I checked the I checked the archives, check

557
00:27:56,559 --> 00:27:59,079
the logs. I checked the archives. You did? You joined

558
00:27:59,160 --> 00:27:59,920
us on Hanging with Hester.

559
00:28:00,039 --> 00:28:00,640
Speaker 8: What did I say?

560
00:28:01,079 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 7: So?

561
00:28:01,839 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 3: You know that's a long time ago. I got ct.

562
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,440
It's a whole deal. So there's no chance I remember that.

563
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 7: I remember you coming to the Collegeball Hall of Fame

564
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,559
to talk about the tween nineteen SEC Championship and we

565
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,680
had a lot of Georgia fans there and I was

566
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,039
trying to play caid a little bit to that fan base,

567
00:28:18,079 --> 00:28:20,240
and I was, you know that twenty seventeen was pretty good,

568
00:28:20,279 --> 00:28:22,240
and I'll never forget. You looked over me and you go,

569
00:28:22,279 --> 00:28:24,279
I'm wearing a ring right now from the national Championship

570
00:28:24,279 --> 00:28:24,839
team for that year.

571
00:28:24,839 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 8: And I was like, okay, I'll be quiet.

572
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 3: For those I don't know, maybe for the championship or

573
00:28:30,799 --> 00:28:34,119
it's like there's very few times I've had it on,

574
00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:36,640
but maybe I did. I don't know. It's in a

575
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,359
box with some dust on it. I do know that

576
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:39,640
right now.

577
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 4: But the two thousand and seven Georgia does have some

578
00:28:43,119 --> 00:28:45,880
qualms with US winning the national championship because they beat Hawaii.

579
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 8: Yeah here in the state though, which is in the

580
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:50,200
Sugar Bowl.

581
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Speaker 4: Shout out our guy, Cole Brennan, Rest in peace, legend,

582
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:54,920
absolute legend.

583
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Speaker 3: How's the movement?

584
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:56,599
Speaker 2: Man?

585
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,079
Speaker 3: Moved to Baton Rouge? What two weeks ago?

586
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,759
Speaker 7: Now? Three weeks ago, got engaged on Thursday and moved

587
00:29:01,799 --> 00:29:04,880
on Saturday. And if your listeners are wondering, if you

588
00:29:05,079 --> 00:29:07,920
do that many life changes in forty eight hours, don't ever,

589
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,519
just don't do that. No, it's been awesome, man. We

590
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,920
we came here from Atlanta. I'm from Atlanta, lived in

591
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,079
Columbia Southline for a while. I don't know what took

592
00:29:16,079 --> 00:29:17,119
me so long to get here.

593
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Speaker 3: We love it here.

594
00:29:17,839 --> 00:29:18,519
Speaker 8: It's just been awesome.

595
00:29:18,759 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 7: It hasn't even been that hot, which is I don't

596
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,440
want to jinx it. I don't want to jinx it,

597
00:29:22,839 --> 00:29:25,240
but like it has been. Everyone has been so nice.

598
00:29:25,279 --> 00:29:29,319
The food's unreal. Our Corgi Pepper loves it like we're

599
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,160
just we're we're so happy, man, We.

600
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Speaker 3: We love it.

601
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Speaker 2: What have you been what what kind of meals. Have

602
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,480
you been dying then too, like where are we? Where

603
00:29:36,519 --> 00:29:39,240
are we frequented all of them, all of the meals.

604
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Speaker 7: Was talking yesterday on Cameron he was like, yeah, I

605
00:29:41,839 --> 00:29:43,559
gained twenty pounds in was like, brother.

606
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Speaker 8: Me too.

607
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Speaker 3: Yeah, weird, Yeah it happened.

608
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Speaker 8: He said.

609
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Speaker 7: It was just jump alive. It was like five meals

610
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a day. But no, we went to we went to

611
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radio bar with your producer, a lot of radio bars,

612
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but I was told not to and Pie from Taylor

613
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,119
We're told lot. You said it wasn't that good.

614
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,839
Speaker 3: Excuse me, Look, I mean you can't trust the skinny

615
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:04,640
guy with food.

616
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 7: That jaw lines and taxed way too much to do that.

617
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,000
But no, we've been to Superior way too many times.

618
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Speaker 3: Way that happens. Yeah, I love it though that tends

619
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to happen.

620
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Speaker 4: I want to have you on today because you have

621
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been a training camp like every single day, so you've

622
00:30:17,839 --> 00:30:19,440
had a chance to watch a team and just get

623
00:30:19,599 --> 00:30:22,519
like a different perspective like yeah, obviously we played there

624
00:30:22,799 --> 00:30:25,880
and you know we're gonna have inherent biases, Yeah, towards

625
00:30:26,039 --> 00:30:28,480
kind of what we see. What have you seen from LSU,

626
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,559
because you've seen what they look like when they can

627
00:30:30,599 --> 00:30:33,000
win a championship, Like, is this a team that you

628
00:30:33,079 --> 00:30:35,079
think is going to be in the conversation all season long?

629
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:35,599
Speaker 8: Well, isn't.

630
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Speaker 7: As a Division two college baseball player, I'm glad you

631
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:38,839
can bring me on to talk about this.

632
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Speaker 3: Yes.

633
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Speaker 7: No, So, I mean I don't know if this is

634
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a national championship team out of the gates because there's

635
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,400
so many working and moving parts to it. I mean,

636
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:50,880
like like there's the thing that jumps out to me

637
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,759
the most and I go to more so, like, all right,

638
00:30:52,759 --> 00:30:55,599
what are the concerns because the receivers, the receivers what

639
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,359
I was most excited for, and the receivers I feel

640
00:30:57,359 --> 00:30:58,759
like you could draw names out of a hat, put

641
00:30:58,759 --> 00:31:00,559
any three you want there on the and they are

642
00:31:00,599 --> 00:31:02,359
going to toward secondaries for most of the year. Like

643
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,880
there's not a ton that are better than them on

644
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:06,960
on the field. They're going to play in the schedule

645
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,119
this year, there's concerns on the schedule, like they like

646
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,519
are they gonna be better at being able to stop

647
00:31:11,559 --> 00:31:13,359
mobile quarterbacks because the Norseeller's just come in to town

648
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:14,119
all that kind of stuff.

649
00:31:14,319 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 3: But they've run from the very get go right and the.

650
00:31:16,759 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 7: Main but the main thing is, like, you got to

651
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:19,880
get to ten wins to get to the playoff in

652
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,319
the first place. I fully believe it's a ten ten

653
00:31:22,359 --> 00:31:23,880
win team. I look at the roster, I look at

654
00:31:24,039 --> 00:31:26,680
them like the way they've looked in camp. I've said

655
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,319
this since the preseason magazines came out, before the rankings did.

656
00:31:29,759 --> 00:31:31,799
I don't think there's eight teams that are better than

657
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,359
LSU from a roster standpoint.

658
00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:33,759
Speaker 3: I know there's not.

659
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,079
Speaker 8: That's the top five roster in the country that I

660
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,359
feel very confident that.

661
00:31:38,039 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 7: But then you start looking at how you win those

662
00:31:39,519 --> 00:31:41,920
big games, Like the offensive line is an issue, and

663
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,759
it's been an issue throughout camp, and you're gonna start

664
00:31:43,839 --> 00:31:46,119
five new players. I think DJ Chesh is the only

665
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,079
returning guy from last year. He's not gonna start to center.

666
00:31:48,119 --> 00:31:50,759
Berylin More is And they've struggled a lot. They've gotten better,

667
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,839
but they they have a long way to go, I think.

668
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,759
So it's also it's a work in progress. Like for

669
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,519
for any team to go through the schedule and out

670
00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:02,720
of the gate that Clemson D line, that's gonna be tough,

671
00:32:02,799 --> 00:32:03,920
that's gonna be really tough for them.

672
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,799
Speaker 2: So you've been there, you've been to You've gone to

673
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,000
most of practices, right, so you've got you've got in

674
00:32:09,039 --> 00:32:11,680
your eyes on it. You've been watching the personal When

675
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,880
you go to practice. What are you trying to focus

676
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,640
most on. Are you trying to, like see who playmakers

677
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,359
are in east side? Are you looking at the parts

678
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,759
of the team that people are a little bit more?

679
00:32:21,839 --> 00:32:24,400
Are you watching the offensive? Are you watching the defensive line?

680
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:25,839
What do you try to focus on when you go.

681
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,759
Speaker 7: My main focus is that don't don't do anything stupid,

682
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,799
sure trouble, failed.

683
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:31,759
Speaker 2: To do lose your credential.

684
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at this show who among us?

685
00:32:35,039 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 8: I walked out of it yesterday.

686
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:37,319
Speaker 7: They were like, all right, guys are allowed to watch practice,

687
00:32:37,319 --> 00:32:39,160
And I pull my phone out there like that phone's

688
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:39,799
without a phone.

689
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Speaker 8: I'm like, yeah, I'll just I'll leave. It's fine.

690
00:32:42,319 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 7: No, But I think the offensive line, I think is

691
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:45,920
one of the most intriguing parts. One of the things

692
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,000
I guess me personally have been focused on more fascinating

693
00:32:48,039 --> 00:32:49,759
with is trade as green as a blocker.

694
00:32:49,839 --> 00:32:51,039
Speaker 8: How is he doing the fundamentals?

695
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 7: You've got to do some of it for sure, right,

696
00:32:52,759 --> 00:32:55,160
and so him and Bower sharp, but Bower sharp has

697
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,119
been one of the most consistent players in camp, like

698
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,359
and not just from like a oh that's a that's

699
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:00,279
a good safety to have.

700
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Speaker 8: He's got good hands, like I mean, he's been like

701
00:33:01,759 --> 00:33:04,440
one hand catches. He's been really really good. The offensive

702
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:05,680
line it's one of those things too. It's like a

703
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:06,200
spring game.

704
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,119
Speaker 7: It's like it's hard to look at at the offense

705
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,400
and say, well, you know, the offensive line has been awful,

706
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:11,839
because then you look at you like, well, the defensive

707
00:33:11,839 --> 00:33:14,960
line may be incredible, Dom McKinley and and Gooden. But

708
00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:17,000
the main things I'm focused on is just like some

709
00:33:17,119 --> 00:33:18,720
of those little things that I feel like you need

710
00:33:18,799 --> 00:33:21,640
to improve upon from last year. And and like Nussmeier,

711
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,559
I think he looks really good, but I think gonna

712
00:33:23,559 --> 00:33:25,200
give him time to throw because that's when he has

713
00:33:25,279 --> 00:33:26,559
kind of struggled. Like you saw the A and M

714
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,920
game last year. There and then the other big part

715
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:30,680
of the secondary as well. I think they've looked really

716
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:31,160
good as well.

717
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 4: There's certainly a big question mark coming in just because

718
00:33:33,759 --> 00:33:36,319
it has not been to the standard ls you's certainly

719
00:33:36,359 --> 00:33:38,359
seen in the defensive back got over the last couple

720
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,799
of years. But if we just look at the SEC,

721
00:33:42,079 --> 00:33:44,000
you kind of look at the hierarchy of the SEC.

722
00:33:44,279 --> 00:33:46,799
It's fascinating this year because the teams that are typically

723
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,599
at the top are starting over at quarterback and they've

724
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,680
got some guys that that maybe Toys Simpson ends up

725
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,720
being great, maybe gunnerstock that ends up being great, But

726
00:33:55,039 --> 00:33:56,880
they don't even have a lot of hype of you know,

727
00:33:57,039 --> 00:33:59,400
arch Manning has all the high but we don't know

728
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,279
what arch Man going to be. And then the teams

729
00:34:01,319 --> 00:34:03,440
that are trying to get to that point. You're Florida's,

730
00:34:03,519 --> 00:34:06,599
South Carolina's LSU. They got a dude right a quarterback

731
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,400
and how that plays out it is the most interesting

732
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:09,440
thing to me in the SEC.

733
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,639
Speaker 7: I think it's so bizarre to watch Texas because we

734
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,639
have just for whatever reason, they haven't won a national title.

735
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:18,880
They haven't won an SEC title. I said this to

736
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:20,760
media days. I don't know if everyone I was holding

737
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:21,480
my hand up the whole time.

738
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 8: You guys saw it. They I don't think they had

739
00:34:23,559 --> 00:34:24,280
the entire time.

740
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 7: I don't think anybody in that room knew that Georgia

741
00:34:27,079 --> 00:34:29,119
beat them once, let alone twice in a building that

742
00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:30,199
was like three hundred yards away.

743
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 8: Yeah, because Texas has become the overall favorite.

744
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:33,199
Speaker 1: It is.

745
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,199
Speaker 7: It is bizarre to me that they are so like

746
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,599
the media is so enamored with them. I think Georgia

747
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:41,320
is going to be really, really good, even though they

748
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,920
are starting over at quarterback, because that's when when's the

749
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,920
best we've seen Georgia. It's when they had a dude

750
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,440
that was like, his nickname was the Mailman. It was

751
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:49,719
at walk Off, you know what I mean, he was

752
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,079
in college for eighteen years. But also like having a

753
00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:52,480
kid like.

754
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 3: That that, well, Gunner looks like he's been in college

755
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:54,880
for eighteen years.

756
00:34:55,039 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, he's a coach, right, yeah, he is the dad.

757
00:34:57,960 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 3: I don't know if he really is, but he looks like.

758
00:34:59,599 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 8: He's got that powers hairline. So if you can play

759
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:02,480
like or something.

760
00:35:02,639 --> 00:35:05,679
Speaker 7: Yeah, it is no, but I think that I think

761
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,960
you're also right about the fact that, like, it is

762
00:35:08,039 --> 00:35:10,119
odd that because you look at people talk about LSU

763
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,840
and in South Carolina, especially in this middle tier, and

764
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,639
I don't put Florida in that tier because I think

765
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,840
DJ Lagway is great. He doesn't have around him what

766
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:19,639
those other two schools have around him at all.

767
00:35:19,599 --> 00:35:23,119
Speaker 4: And Midland North do feel different because like if if

768
00:35:23,199 --> 00:35:26,360
they go down, the team's completely different. I'm not saying that,

769
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,519
you know most quarterbacks when you go down, but still

770
00:35:28,599 --> 00:35:30,960
like even LSU, like they've got a guy who started.

771
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 3: SEC games behind us.

772
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:32,079
Speaker 2: MR.

773
00:35:32,199 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 4: Now you don't want that to happen, but like Lagway

774
00:35:35,639 --> 00:35:37,760
and Sellers mean so much to their team. We're talking

775
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,199
about like a four win swing.

776
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,039
Speaker 7: Maybe, Yeah, I don't think Florida's taken the field at

777
00:35:42,079 --> 00:35:45,079
any point since the spring and someone hasn't been injured.

778
00:35:45,119 --> 00:35:47,960
It's like it's not just Lagway, It's like it is

779
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:49,400
the receivers, all kind of stuff. So I think it

780
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:50,440
is interesting for sure.

781
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,039
Speaker 4: I mean, even Vanderbilt's got a guy that they feel

782
00:35:53,079 --> 00:35:55,840
really good about. Man probably is Electric.

783
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 8: Hant dreams, right.

784
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 7: I mean Auburn again, if they beat Auburn, they they are.

785
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,039
I believe they're already ahead in the all time series,

786
00:36:03,639 --> 00:36:04,440
like twenty one to twenty.

787
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 2: So you know that. Yeah, I kind of want to

788
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,760
like steer this back to LSU a little bit because

789
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,320
you brought it up with opening game facing a mobile quarterback. Cake,

790
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,679
let me like, well, LSU, the whole season, we're going

791
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,159
to face Diego Pavia. Litorcella's John Mattier like we are

792
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:23,119
going to be facing dynamic quarterbacks all season. So I

793
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,159
have to think with kind of the preseason like acknowledgment

794
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,440
from the coaching staff at LSU, like we were focusing

795
00:36:29,519 --> 00:36:32,000
on game one, like we want like that is our focus.

796
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,559
I believe that they've been game playing a little bit

797
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:40,760
from a defensive side. Have you seen defenses wrinkles way

798
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,679
they're playing Harold Perkins, way they're playing their safeties. That

799
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,679
lead you to believe, all right, they're actually like kind

800
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:50,360
of game planning their defensive philosophy right now around stopping

801
00:36:50,599 --> 00:36:52,119
keeping a mobile quarterback contained.

802
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:53,800
Speaker 7: I think that I think you're just talking about going

803
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,599
from year one of year two and making improvements on

804
00:36:55,679 --> 00:36:58,719
the on the very obvious things that this team struggled with,

805
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,000
and that was one of them. And I tell you what,

806
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:03,000
like it. I don't know what they're gonna do with

807
00:37:03,039 --> 00:37:04,360
defensive line. It feels like they kind of have an

808
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,159
understanding who's gonna be interior of fun. I think it's

809
00:37:06,159 --> 00:37:08,440
gonna McKinley. I think it'sna be good. But from the

810
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,960
back seventh standpoint, that seems pretty set like that that

811
00:37:11,199 --> 00:37:13,480
that seems like like delaying is gonna man down or

812
00:37:13,559 --> 00:37:16,000
man one of the spots. Stamps is gonna be the

813
00:37:16,039 --> 00:37:19,360
other corner. You're gonna have Halsey. And then Taylor helped

814
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,920
me out here who's zero at the other safety. So

815
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:23,679
they've been they've been.

816
00:37:23,639 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 8: Kind of back there at safety.

817
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,079
Speaker 7: And then but like the linebackers, both Weeks brothers and

818
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,920
like Manning like the main spots, and then having Harrold

819
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,440
Bible to Perkers be able to kind of like play

820
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:34,199
at star position.

821
00:37:34,559 --> 00:37:36,519
Speaker 8: He seems way more comfortable than he he has.

822
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,199
Speaker 7: He like the amount of times I've heard I told

823
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:41,960
this to Taylor, the amount of times I've heard someone yo,

824
00:37:42,119 --> 00:37:44,800
good perk like in practice, like.

825
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 8: It's been I can't get kicked there already.

826
00:37:48,639 --> 00:37:51,159
Speaker 7: Sure, but no, So I I think that they're gonna

827
00:37:51,199 --> 00:37:52,960
be I think they've they're going to be improved on it.

828
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,400
I think they're just like last year at times it

829
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,480
felt like at some point of the season everything just

830
00:37:58,519 --> 00:38:00,159
started falling apart and they couldnt figure out how to

831
00:38:00,199 --> 00:38:01,760
get out of it. Like the A and M game

832
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:03,639
is like a perfect example, because it's like you're all

833
00:38:03,639 --> 00:38:05,639
of a sudden, it's a quicksand And so I think

834
00:38:05,679 --> 00:38:07,320
they should be more improved on that side.

835
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,039
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to, uh to seeing that improvement.

836
00:38:11,119 --> 00:38:14,199
Speaker 4: Certainly. It's something that you know, Blake Baker from what

837
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,000
Matt House was to what Blake did last year. Now

838
00:38:17,119 --> 00:38:20,639
let's take another another jump. Yeah, we usually use initials

839
00:38:20,679 --> 00:38:22,199
when we say it, like he did yesterday.

840
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 3: That's on me. That's a rookie move by veteran players.

841
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 4: That's a bad right there, Yes, yes, exactly, Marlar. We

842
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:33,039
appreciate it, sir, glad to have you in town. Yeah,

843
00:38:33,039 --> 00:38:35,119
it should have been on my side. Yeah, short kings

844
00:38:35,119 --> 00:38:39,119
over here, low man win stop saying a quarter you're

845
00:38:39,159 --> 00:38:41,039
forty years old. All right, we'll take a break more

846
00:38:41,079 --> 00:38:43,559
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851
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853
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854
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855
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856
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857
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860
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861
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863
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865
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867
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868
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Speaker 1: From players to legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU football

869
00:39:49,199 --> 00:39:50,440
like only champions can.

870
00:39:51,639 --> 00:39:56,679
Speaker 8: On my side of town, that lonesome feeling comes to

871
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,599
my world.

872
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,800
Speaker 2: There's an across the railroad track.

873
00:40:12,599 --> 00:40:16,599
Speaker 8: I got a table for two weighing back.

874
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 4: If you don't like this song, I don't like you,

875
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:21,719
you can get out.

876
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 3: I'm just telling you right now, I don't know who

877
00:40:24,559 --> 00:40:27,000
you are, where you come from, you can get out.

878
00:40:30,639 --> 00:40:36,760
Speaker 2: Hey, as a former running back, your heart has to

879
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:41,679
be singing for joy right now. James Cook, James Cook

880
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:46,480
the latest running back to get paid, to get a

881
00:40:46,559 --> 00:40:50,719
contract extension at the running back position that was you

882
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,400
know for a long time thought it was in the decline.

883
00:40:53,559 --> 00:40:54,880
Speaker 3: I don't get it. I don't get it.

884
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 2: I don't.

885
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 4: Finally, but I never got The Eagles won the Super

886
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,880
Bowl last year, right, they're pretty good a running back.

887
00:41:04,599 --> 00:41:06,719
Like even when the Chiefs were winning the Super Bowls,

888
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,800
it was because of Mahomes. But think about like the

889
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,559
role that Pacheco played down the stretch, and like their

890
00:41:12,639 --> 00:41:13,719
offense kind of changed.

891
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:15,760
Speaker 3: I just don't get bad.

892
00:41:15,639 --> 00:41:17,639
Speaker 2: They were last year with Pachecko on the bench. They

893
00:41:17,639 --> 00:41:18,480
couldn't run it at all.

894
00:41:18,559 --> 00:41:21,039
Speaker 4: I just I've never understood it. Like you look at

895
00:41:21,079 --> 00:41:24,360
the top teams across the NFL, it's like, sure like

896
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:29,079
they might have a dude at quarterback, great receivers. If

897
00:41:29,159 --> 00:41:32,320
you can't run the football, it changes the math, and

898
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,360
so why not put value. I get the tread on

899
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,400
the tires. I get like, if we make it to thirty, like,

900
00:41:38,679 --> 00:41:41,199
let's celebrate the hell out of that, because if you're

901
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,719
thirty at running back, you're forty at any other position.

902
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,519
I get all of that, But it's like, if you

903
00:41:46,639 --> 00:41:48,280
got a guy that has proven he can do it

904
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:49,719
past twenty eight, twenty nine.

905
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, give him some dollars, some money.

906
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,599
Speaker 2: There was a stretch period of time where a star

907
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:58,559
running back did not mean you were didn't bring championships.

908
00:41:59,599 --> 00:42:02,639
Then that was probably the reason for the decline because

909
00:42:02,639 --> 00:42:05,079
you could plug and play like James Stark's for us.

910
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:06,519
He was a big guy, but he was like a

911
00:42:06,559 --> 00:42:12,599
fifth round pick Miss Buffalo, the Buffalo Buffalo, University of Buffalo.

912
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,800
Speaker 3: You talked about this the other day. You're right right, So,

913
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:16,119
like he feels like he should have played.

914
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:18,280
Speaker 2: So for a period of time, a lot of people

915
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:22,519
are getting it done with late rounders, low paid guys

916
00:42:22,599 --> 00:42:24,840
and being able to spend on quarterback, spind on receiver,

917
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,920
defensive end, left tackle, and things like that. But the

918
00:42:28,039 --> 00:42:32,079
emergence has swung back around. The star running back is

919
00:42:32,159 --> 00:42:35,039
making such a big difference because, like we talk about

920
00:42:35,079 --> 00:42:38,400
a lot the x's and o's, the philosophy of football

921
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:40,800
is like a roller coaster. There's ebbs and flows to it.

922
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,280
It changes. Philosophy has change when an offense. When an

923
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,880
offense starts doing something new, defense reacts. Once a defense reacts,

924
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,039
the offense picks something else to do and then it's

925
00:42:50,159 --> 00:42:53,039
just it's it's a cyclical thing. Like that's a circle,

926
00:42:53,159 --> 00:42:55,960
that's a big one. So, like we can look at

927
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,000
the top paid running back Saquon Barkley's average. He's getting

928
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,280
twenty point six million a year, Christian McCaffrey at nineteen,

929
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,760
Jonathan Taylor fourteen million, Alva kamar A twelve point twenty five,

930
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,559
Josh Jacobs twelve million, Darris what do he means to

931
00:43:08,599 --> 00:43:13,000
the package? What means Henry fifteen million. So James cook

932
00:43:13,119 --> 00:43:17,320
just signed a new three year, three year, no four year,

933
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,599
I'm sorry, four year extension added new money forty eight million.

934
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,239
Thirty of the porter one thirty of it's guaranteed. So

935
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,639
he's he's going to be averaging twelve million dollars in

936
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:26,079
new money.

937
00:43:26,159 --> 00:43:28,280
Speaker 3: He signed the deal that his brother was kind of

938
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:28,960
always looking for.

939
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,320
Speaker 2: And like we talked about that Buffalo Bill seam. As

940
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,480
much as Josh Allen means that team, James James Cooks

941
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:40,159
means just probably he's the second most important on that

942
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:41,079
team what.

943
00:43:41,119 --> 00:43:41,599
Speaker 3: They want to do.

944
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,400
Speaker 4: Like he sets up a lot of their offensive success.

945
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They have brand name receivers out there. Last they got

946
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great value receivers, which is fine. Like they it works

947
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for them.

948
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he had over a thousand yards rushing last year,

949
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sixteen touchdowns. He was a touchdown score machine like Daily

950
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Fantasy me and by somen what do we get? James

951
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Cooks is who we're going after.

952
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Speaker 3: I like the lessons you're teaching Huck sports cards in

953
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Daily Fantasy. I love it.

954
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Speaker 2: I love it has gotten him into he loves football.

955
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Speaker 3: He you might as well started nine.

956
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Speaker 2: And I get for like Josh Allen m v P

957
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last year, Khalil Shakir keyon Coleman, Dalton kind Mac like

958
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knocks they had do have a Mark Cooper, Yeah.

959
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Speaker 4: A Maari Cooper is a better football player than I

960
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ever thought about being. But he's on the way other

961
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side of it.

962
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Speaker 2: So they just had a little contract dispute. There was

963
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a little holdout or a hold in, sit in, whatever

964
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you want to call it. James Cooks was in camp,

965
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but they were renegotiated. Wasn't practicing, but they got that

966
00:44:41,119 --> 00:44:44,960
figured out. Pay that man his money, paid the man

967
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his mon and they did that very important bills. Josh

968
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Allen killing it, but the running back is the winner.

969
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I knew that you had some joy in your heart.

970
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Speaker 3: I appreciate that.

971
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Speaker 2: I didn't know if like you, were too embarrassed at

972
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talk about it, so I wanted to highlight it.

973
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Speaker 4: I mean, name another position that is going to run, block, block, past, block, catch, run,

974
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and even sometimes throw.

975
00:45:10,119 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 3: Does it all? That's a running back position? Real quick?

976
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Twenty seconds?

977
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Speaker 2: Do we know what?

978
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Speaker 3: Don't splash the pot? What movie that's from?

979
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Speaker 2: I don't.

980
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Speaker 3: Let's splash rash? Okay, thank god?

981
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Speaker 2: Hey, that's mine money.

982
00:45:25,039 --> 00:45:28,039
Speaker 4: All right, we'll be back our number three little would

983
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you rather Wednesday? We got Dear Delandre though when we come.

984
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Speaker 1: Back off the bench.

985
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986
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