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Speaker 1: Good Morning at seven am hero and Monday December twenty third,

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Today in bed Rouge, you can expect sunny skies with

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a high of sixty six and our one of today's show,

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we'll react around one of the college football playoffs and

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the one of four or five ESPN channel. Our number

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one of Off the Bench Live from the Mercedes Benz

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of Bedridge Studios starts now.

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas from Off the Bench presented by All Star Toyota.

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Join Jacob Hester and t Bob Avery as we spread

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some holidays year and talk all things sports live from

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the Mercedes Benz of Baton Bruce Studio.

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Speaker 3: Let's get this Christmas party started. Sin's a tell me

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if you.

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Speaker 4: Till my fun Look, it's Santa towning issue, really can

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because get get it?

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Speaker 3: Yoah?

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Speaker 5: What's going on y'all? Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 6: I hope everybody is having a wonderful Monday morning here.

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Hopefully you're off of work, you got a nice coffee

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in hand, and you're excited to enjoy an excellent pre

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Christmas season. As we are here on the eve of

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Christmas Eve, Turkey's going in the brine, he's getting ready

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for church tomorrow, Presence getting ready for Santa coming to town.

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Speaker 5: What a time to be alive.

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Speaker 6: And here we just experience our first ever round of

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the twelve team playoff. And my god, it takes a

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lot of takes to get too on today's show. So

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if you are listening and you're up and about, welcome

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you want to get involved. YouTube dot com, slash one,

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O four five ESPN is how you can do so,

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having to buy you forward YouTube chat. I'm teaba baby.

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We got Jake Hester, we got Joran. We've got Taylor

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hanging out of us today at lives out Jake. What's

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up man?

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Speaker 5: How are we feeling? Merry Christmas? Merry Christmas? Uh, you're

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not ta Bob, You're olof. I love warm ugs. I

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think ninety three Alabama should have made the playoffs. That's

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what you sound like, an idiot. Tide fans.

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Speaker 6: You're real loud before that Tennessee game done, quiet and

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down a little bit out of that now.

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Speaker 5: And then whe there, Oh Alabama.

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Speaker 6: Bare They did, I guess listening on radio, I'm I'm

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in an adult sized to whole off costume. So actually

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my second costume of the morning, I worked out an

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evolved this morning, an adult sized Buddy the Elf pajamas.

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Speaker 5: So we are off to a brooring Christmas Eve eve.

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What's up though?

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Speaker 6: Man?

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Speaker 5: How's the weekend? No? No traveling?

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Speaker 7: No stay back and watch football? Yeah no, no traveling.

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Got a chance to sit back watch all the games.

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Memphis and his little indoor soccer team had two competitive games,

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and so that was fun. Already, get a couple dubs there,

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family time, got a lot done. So no, it's a

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good weekend. I felt bad. He's like, we got so

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much done with you here this weekend.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, imagine that.

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Speaker 7: Sorry about that. I'll see you in February. Seeing a

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month actually mid February.

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Speaker 5: It's brutal, Jordan, what's up? Welcome? I wish Thelandrew is here,

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but I guess you're okay. No, it's cool, man. I

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do what I do. I do what I do.

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Speaker 6: Merry Christmas going on? Uh so, where where's your family?

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Is your family in New Orleans?

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Speaker 5: Where are they at?

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Speaker 7: Uh?

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Speaker 8: Well, my mom's gonna leave to go back to Shreveport.

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My grandpa, he's uh, he was in the hospital. I yeah,

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I mean, so she's gonna go back up there to

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go go back with him. So she's not gonna be

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here for the holidays, but my dad and my sister

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probably go by my grandparents.

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Speaker 5: Okay, All right on, man, So you're not going to Streetport, No,

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I can't. I got work. Okay, right on, Tita. What's

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up with you?

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Speaker 6: Man?

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Speaker 5: How you doing today? Oh too, Bob. It's a good day, dude.

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Heck of a football weekend. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Look, we got till about six pm tonight. Okay, I

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gotta fake it till I make it. You get through that,

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and we are partying the next two days. Yes, shut out,

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I mean probably not leaving the house.

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Speaker 6: Uh, tyitay pulling double duty on December twenty third, doing

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off the bench seven to ten am in then AFR

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Speaker 5: So uh, maybe I'll be maybe I'll.

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Speaker 6: Be a little bit nicer the tailor today. So look,

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we have a lot of uh, we have a lot

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of playoff talk to get to. Jake got us some

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fantastic gifts too, we can unwrap and uh later in

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the show. But we got a lot of playoff talk

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to get to a lot of portal combat to get

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to Saints Packers is coming up later tonight NFL over

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the weekend, and I think we gotta okay, we need

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to there in the next commercial break, guys, make a

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priority of seeding this movie bracket and start putting votes

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out there to the people. And there's gonna be quick votes,

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and see if we can advance through this thing. Maybe

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we can, maybe we can't, maybe do aver all fair

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as well, but we will. We will complete the Christmas

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movie bracket. Okay, fair enough, Okay, let's start. Let's just

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start with the playoffs because of course, right, let's go

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ahead and get this show started.

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Speaker 5: Playoff problem.

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Speaker 6: They broke in. What's wrong? Did the wrong teams get in?

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These are all questions that are being asked after the

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four home teams completely dominate the four games over the weekend, Jake.

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In my opinion, it is not as much that you

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got the wrong teams in the field.

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Speaker 5: Though. Look, if you want to make that argument, there

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are arguments to be made, but I think.

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Speaker 6: It's still tough to say, well, how would you have decided?

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Like we get into that. I think though, the root

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of maybe what went wrong from a matchup standpoint this

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weekend is mainly in seeding, right, And I did not

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think seeding was that big of a deal because I

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thought these teams were closer than they ended up being.

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and I was dead wrong in my analysis. I thought

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Tennessee had a real chance. I mean, I know how

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State had an advantage of will. However, I though Tennessee

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had a real chances.

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Speaker 5: I was.

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Speaker 6: So the point is, before people were talking about seeding,

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I'm like, yeah, it's kind of dumb, but whatever, I thought.

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Speaker 5: These games are still gonna be close. It is what

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Speaker 6: But if you had seeded this based on how these

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teams were ranked, two of these teams would have not

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been playing this weekend, right, And so in theory, maybe

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maybe you get some better games there instead of maybe

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now you might have two weeks a row where get

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a couple upsided matches.

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Speaker 5: But I will say this, though a lot of.

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Speaker 6: People came away from this weekend very negative, very angry,

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very rare. I don't the games were not enjoyable to watch,

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they were not exciting to watch. But I am excited

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to watching to watch the four winners going forward, because

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everybody that won this weekend looked so damn good that they, like,

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every one of them looked like a national championship caliber team. Yeah,

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and that has me very excited going forward. There's a

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lot of victory lapping over, like the playoff suction, it's

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broken and never should make sure. Okay, Like, we got

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a lot of games up to play, guys like, and

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they're only gonna get better and more exciting. So I'm

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pumped up. I think all the four teams that won

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look like they could legitimately win a national championship. But

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I do think I don't know if you can change

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this for next year, but I do the seeding maybe

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is the root of some of the mismatches here, and

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Speaker 7: Obviously a lot of people didn't like the fact that

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we had, you know, Boise State and Arizona State get

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a bye and I look, we'll see and you know,

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people speaking on those two teams like those teams hadn't

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even played yet, so it's like you're speaking on those

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an absolute love for them.

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Speaker 5: I would love for them to do well.

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Speaker 7: But uh, you're right though about like Tennessee, Like a

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lot of people's narrative did change once Tennessee got blown out.

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Look like Penn State SMU, like that one was kind

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of exactly how I thought it was going to play out. Yeah,

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I'm very bullish on Notre Dame. On off campus, they

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were like, hey, pick three teams to win a national championship,

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and I went Oregon, Notre Dame.

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Speaker 5: Texas, That's the three that I chose.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, So like I wasn't surprised there either.

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Speaker 6: Well, and if you'd see it just off the rankings,

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it would have been Notre Dame in Texas getting the

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buys right, or maybe Penn State it would have been

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Speaker 5: Or maybe, I mean because Notre Dame couldn't.

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uh they actually that they would have been the conversation. Maybe,

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but look, we have first round blowouts in the NFL

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all time. I understand that maybe the receding, maybe that

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Boise State probably would have been playing SMU. Yeah, I mean,

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maybe you get a better game there. I do understand that,

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we're gonna get Ohio State in Oregon, We're gonna get

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Notre Dame Georgia. Can't wait to cover that game, and

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we don't know about Arizona State, we don't know about

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Boise State just yet.

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Speaker 5: And I upset that it was just clunker after clunker. Yeah. Absolutely,

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I was expecting some great football.

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Speaker 7: Watched every spend a lot of time making a gumbo

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getting excited for it, and I felt like gumbo is

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the most exciting part of the weekend. I mean, none

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of these get not one, not one of these games

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was interesting and intriguing, Like Indiana at the at the

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end kind of made it a little bit spicy there.

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a Hoosier's way. So even Texas and Clemson, like Clemson

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had a little comeback, I'm like, they're not gonna win.

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Speaker 6: It was a strong I thought it was a I

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thought it was an impressive shutting of the door. After

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Clemson did get a little hot. Like I'm a Clemson fan,

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I'm actually not feeling terrible. Yeah, because club nicking those

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freshman wide receivers looked very good. It's a very good defense,

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and like you can carry that into next year and

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be pretty excited about your potential of your Clemson, Like

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Clemson could be back as a national championship contender next season.

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with that fourth and goal stop, then they immediately respond,

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around Climson can get down to the one, and then

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they come up with a fourth down stop. Then they

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have into the game, but they didn't call that one

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a first down in the but like basically into the

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game it was. It was an emphatic finish from Texas there.

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a very good team regardless of schedule because how they

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had handled who they played on their schedule, And for

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all of Kurt Signetti's brash courage, it seemed to kind

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's the most disappointing.

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Speaker 6: Part, Like go out on your sword, don't go out

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trying to lose by ten, do the things that maybe

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end up losing by thirty five, But like, you gotta

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do it like that fourth and eleven. And I get

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what he's saying after game, He's like, I mean, we've

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done nothing up to that point, So what I think'm

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gonna get fourth Elevenses and hopes and dreams. But it's like,

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but that's not the point. You have to go for

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it because you have to you don't even have a choice,

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Like at that point, Notre Dame, even when they're not scoring,

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they're spending five six minutes of drive. They are just

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suffocating you, and you're allowing them to do it without

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using everything at your disposal. And so I mean between

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that kicking the field goal, I think when they were

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down seventeen with like a short fort down, like just

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a lot of not winning football, not aggressive decisions from

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Signetti and kind of interesting, Jake in that we didn't

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get to see Signetti make decisions from behind a lot

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this year. No, I mean, they dominated the entire years.

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have to evolve going forward, is being willing to engage

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in more risk when you have.

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Speaker 5: To because the game flow dictates you have to. Yeah.

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I mean when he punted, I was completely shocked.

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Speaker 7: So see that's somebody that with the way that he talks,

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you thought, oh man, he's going to be on the

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front foot. He's going to try to get back in

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this game. If you lose by forty, be damn, but

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we're going to go out fighting. And then when he

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played it safe's like you don't play it safe in

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the playoffs. No, bro, what do we talk play safe

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in the playoffs? Dude?

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Speaker 5: I have been in that situation.

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Speaker 7: Like I've been in a playoff game where it's been

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tied up, we get the ball back, he got like

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thirty seconds left. It's like, let's go win this deal,

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and we took a knee went to overtime. I'm like,

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what do we got timeouts left? Like what are we

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doing here?

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Speaker 5: And game? And you have PR seventeen at the time?

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Speaker 7: Wow in Mile High where see what are we doing?

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You can kick a long field goal? Woxy, what are

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we doing?

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Speaker 8: You know?

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Speaker 7: But we took an nay with thirty something seconds left

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with two timeouts with Peyton Manning, So like, I hate, like,

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I don't like any of that.

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Speaker 5: And I was shocked when they did.

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Speaker 7: That because it just felt like with the way that

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you know, he was talking before the game, he was

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going to go for broke.

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Speaker 5: I did not. He did not.

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Speaker 6: And it's actually like and then you saw Smu and

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it looked like at first Lastly was about to teach

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Signetti and Jenning's just completely imploded. I mean, you saw

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the power of the home field in that Penn State game,

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because remember SMU had the early, they stop him three

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and out, they get the ball back, they're driving, they

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have fourth and one, and it's a perfect A lot

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of times, Jake, we talked about play calls and whether

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or not they're good or bad, and we only use

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the result. This is one where we can all agree

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it was a good play call, but it just didn't work.

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They ran that naked boot on fourth and one, and

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he had both the first down and he had the touchdown,

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and he got neither as he tried to do a

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little too much do it behind the receiver, incomplete turnover

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on downs. And that was just the start of Jennings night.

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I gotta say. I mean, we talked about it coming

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into the round. The two themes of a lot of

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the teams you were identifying talking about this first round

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of games or defense and the power of home field,

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And both defense and the power of home field were

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on display this week in his Penn State. Just yeah,

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I mean, it looks like it looked like watching poor Jennings,

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he looked like he was just a normal human battling

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a frost giant and just getting the hell beat out

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of him.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he was.

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Speaker 7: He was having around Nathan Peterman territory, like all game long.

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You know a lot of group chats talking about that

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over the weekend because Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 5: I mean, come on, I got the like six aerceptions

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NFL game.

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Speaker 7: But that's what he felt like. It's like, man, the

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Monstars team came down here and took his talent.

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Speaker 5: What is going on? And like once you saw that, you.

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Speaker 7: Knew there was no because he needed to play like

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dynamic football for them to have a chance to win.

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Speaker 5: Against that team. You can do like he did.

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Speaker 7: He had you know, multiple turn at six what against

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the Duke and they found a way. You can do

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that against Duke and Duke's not bad, they're nine when

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football team. You can't do that on the road in

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the playoff game against Spence State, Like that game was

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the one that I felt like, look like two different

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levels of football.

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Speaker 5: Uh yeah, a Notre Dame a little bit. That one.

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Speaker 6: It looked like two different levels. Yeah, Like the bodies

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were just different. Rojas looks so big on the edge.

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Was it de Luca who came up with the other

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Pig six linebackers?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I mean Drew Aller looks like a jot like Josh Allen,

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like straight up. I mean, he's not as good as you,

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but he looks exactly like Josh Allen.

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Speaker 5: A lot of people love Drew Alick in the NFL

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draft community. I can see that. I can see that

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for sure.

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Speaker 6: Also, I mean, you know, big white Penn State quarterbacks,

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there's a ton of them in the NFL. They never start,

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but they're littered throughout there.

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Speaker 5: They'll be a random Penn State quarterback. It's gonna be mine.

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Speaker 6: Okay, I was gonna go with Tracey mcswirly. There's one other.

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Who's the other one that I'm missing that's been in

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the recent lineage? Oh Hackenberg? Yeah yeah, yeah, they're all

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the same guys.

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Speaker 5: I'll go Carry Collins.

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Speaker 6: They're all the exact same guy. Oh Carry played for

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shut Out? Yeah okay, so then okay, so those are

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those two games. Uh. Clips of Texas was actually pretty good.

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Like I said, like you got some semblance of excitement there.

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But again, that's a game that analysis wise, we really

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everybody nailed it, not just to us, but like Clips

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that can't stop the run, we said it, they're awful

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run defense, and sure enough Texas runs the ball for

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three hundred yards. I would be very concerned if I'm

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a Texas fan though about if you run into an

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elite rush defense, Like how did Georgia be Texas?

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Speaker 5: Both times?

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Speaker 6: They completely shut the run. I don't think Quinn's got

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the goods when you put it on him. I don't

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think Quinn's championship caliber when you make him win.

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Speaker 7: It, which is so odd because there's so much of

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him that is, but the parts that are not feil egregious,

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Like when you watch him play, it's like, oh man,

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that guy can spin it in like two seconds later.

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Speaker 5: T It's like, what in the hell is he thinking? Yeah,

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what is he saying out there?

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Speaker 7: He will throw a ball to a squatted corner more

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than any quarterback in the country.

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Speaker 5: It is wild to me.

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Speaker 7: I'm like, y'all, what is he It's like, you'll run

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a ten yard come back into a corner that's waiting

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on He's like, I can fit it in there.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, dude, you can. Nobody can. A rocket launcher

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couldn't fit it in there. But he'll do it.

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Speaker 6: He'll do it every game and he's not really a

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rocket launcher thrower. He's like that his beautiful touch. Yeah,

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feathery touch, incredible spiral all that. But it's not a

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rocket arm. It's not going back to Josh Allen. It's

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not that he But look, Texas still has, you know

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what with top two, top three defense, maybe the number

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one defense.

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Speaker 5: Their safeties. Yeah, give me one of them, get like,

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give me half of one of them.

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Speaker 7: They are out there hitting and covering, but hitting and

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like setting the tone for the game.

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Speaker 6: And the Texo line was great as well, leading the

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way for Wiser and Blue. So if they can run,

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Texas can win a championship. But if you stop them,

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I think you win the game. All Right, we get

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta.

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Speaker 3: It's off the bench with Hester and t Bob.

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Speaker 5: What's going on y'all?

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Speaker 6: Welcome back to OTB Hope you're having it very merry

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Christmas season.

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Speaker 5: Talking about this weekend's playoff games.

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Speaker 6: You don't get we haven't touched on yet the nightcap

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Tennessee Ohio State. And it was real interesting up to

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this point because up to this point everything had been

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about you know, I mean, lane Kiffin, every lane, lane lane,

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you look like a petulant child. But whatever, everything up

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until this point had been the sec basically saying see

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I told you like the strength of schedule, HIBE was

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very strong, even to the point where I tweeted out,

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like I basically bowed out, you know, because I was

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on the opposite side of that discussion throughout the selection process,

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and I basically tweeted something along the lines, if you know,

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sometimes just got to accept like like like it was

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going to be impossible to win hypothetical arguments with the

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games that we had gotten thus far, and so I

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basically said, Okay, I bow out of it. How then, though,

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if you are someone who is arguing that these three

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loss SEC teams should have gotten in and they were

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so much better and strength of schedules so much better, how.

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Speaker 5: Then do you make sense of the Tennessee game?

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Speaker 6: Because here you had a two loss SEC team that

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played a tough schedule, that was third in the SEC,

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Ohio state, third in the Big Ten, and you look

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as completely outclassed as anybody.

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Speaker 5: Over the weekend.

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Speaker 6: I mean it was, I mean like SMU was worse,

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Clemson was better. In Indiana maybe better, maybe I guess

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it's maybe a matter of opinion, But the point is,

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I like, how do how do these lesser SEC teams

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then still try to justify everything they were whining and

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complaining about when the team that finished third in the

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conference with two losses went got absolutely troutced to the

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third place Big Ten team who finished with two losses.

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And it was also real interesting to see Lane's Twitter

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go completely radio silent after after that, because like, here's

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here's the thing, Like, again, just just beat Kentucky, just

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beat Oklahoma, Like, if you really want to be there,

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we have never in this sport ever rewarded three loss

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seasons two loss Yeah, they gets you in the New year,

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six balls, this sort of stuff. So at the end

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of the day, I still think like, yeah, you know,

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when some of these two loss teams maybe have have

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been better, better quality games.

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Speaker 5: Potentially, it's not a guarantee, potentially, Uh, but.

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Speaker 6: Tennessee really knocked the wind out of the sales of

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just bumping up the SEC above everybody because it's the SEC.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I just I didn't like the same thing I didn't

474
00:24:22,039 --> 00:24:24,519
like over the weekend. It's like, oh man, this is intriguing,

475
00:24:24,599 --> 00:24:27,039
this is a grace is riveting. I just you don't

476
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,200
know what you would have done. And you're right about like,

477
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:30,920
if you want to be there, you you can't have

478
00:24:31,039 --> 00:24:33,839
the bad loss like if you'd had three good losses,

479
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:38,279
maybe maybe maybe it's a conversation because South Carolina maybe

480
00:24:38,319 --> 00:24:40,119
they got it, Like if they didn't lose to two

481
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,880
teams that were in front of them with the bad losses, Yeah,

482
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:44,759
maybe that looks a little bit different. Maybe if they

483
00:24:44,759 --> 00:24:47,720
would have lost to l s. U. Tennessee and Texas

484
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,400
and then they finished the way they did, beating the

485
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,440
teams they did, maybe it looks a little bit different.

486
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:57,519
I don't know, but yeah, you just you can't assume

487
00:24:57,599 --> 00:24:59,640
that you would have gone out there and done any better.

488
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,680
Speaker 5: I don't know. I didn't like to look very much either. No,

489
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:04,799
I mean, it was, it was.

490
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 6: It was annoying, but it was one of those deals

491
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,519
where it's like I can't even debate think Shane was

492
00:25:09,559 --> 00:25:10,440
doing any of that? Was he?

493
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,880
Speaker 5: I know Lane was. Was Shane Beamer doing any of that? No,

494
00:25:14,279 --> 00:25:16,640
I don't. I don't not that I saw. Lane was

495
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,839
the only coach. I don't think debor was either.

496
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,839
Speaker 7: More feels like somebody that doesn't use Twitter. I'm about

497
00:25:23,839 --> 00:25:26,160
to say he might have an account, but somebody else

498
00:25:26,279 --> 00:25:30,799
runs that account, like Shane and Lane for sure tweet

499
00:25:30,839 --> 00:25:31,079
from there.

500
00:25:31,559 --> 00:25:34,119
Speaker 5: Lane is the most twittered heavy coach there.

501
00:25:34,079 --> 00:25:38,119
Speaker 6: Is probably exist of co existing truths where yeah, those

502
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:42,480
teams would have performed better, but at the same time

503
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,119
they did not play well enough to get in the tournament.

504
00:25:45,559 --> 00:25:49,720
Like you don't get rewarded for underachieving, and those teams underachieved,

505
00:25:50,759 --> 00:25:53,440
maybe not South Carolina but actually by by by the

506
00:25:53,519 --> 00:25:55,240
talent level they eventually reached at the end of the

507
00:25:55,319 --> 00:25:57,519
year they did given how good they were playing.

508
00:25:57,599 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 5: So it's uh, I don't know.

509
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,400
Speaker 6: My bottom line is like whatever, if you believe that,

510
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,039
you believe that I can't argue against hypotheticals, you know,

511
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,880
like you you have the hypothetical love. Oh, well, we

512
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,720
would have won and the game wasn't played, so I

513
00:26:13,799 --> 00:26:14,279
can't tell you.

514
00:26:14,319 --> 00:26:19,839
Speaker 5: Yes, who know. What I do know is that Tennessee

515
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,119
did kind of take away. I think some of this

516
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:23,799
steam out of that argument.

517
00:26:23,799 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 6: As far as the game itself goes, though, this is

518
00:26:25,519 --> 00:26:31,160
another one where it feels like the difference is what

519
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:32,880
we said it was going to be going into the game.

520
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,839
Will Howard versus Nico Iamaliava. Will Howard's just better. He's

521
00:26:36,839 --> 00:26:39,079
been really good all year, saved for that Michigan game.

522
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,079
The one part of this game that I did not

523
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,079
expect to go so well for Ohio State, Jake. I

524
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,079
thought Ohio State's O line would struggle more, they would

525
00:26:47,079 --> 00:26:48,799
struggle to protect town at a time. I didn't think

526
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,400
High State would be able to run the ball like

527
00:26:50,519 --> 00:26:54,000
they did, and Ohio States O line completely dominated a

528
00:26:54,559 --> 00:26:57,680
very good Tennessee front seven and then obviously them losing

529
00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,240
Dylan SAMs is going to be a death now, No,

530
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:00,279
that's weird, matter what.

531
00:27:00,759 --> 00:27:03,599
Speaker 7: It's just like, it looked like he was trying to

532
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,200
warm up and then he looked like he was done.

533
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,720
He looked like he was trying to want to He's like, ah, man,

534
00:27:07,839 --> 00:27:11,480
that's tough. Like that guy's offensive player of the Year

535
00:27:11,559 --> 00:27:13,039
in the SEC. And I don't know that it really

536
00:27:13,079 --> 00:27:15,559
would have mattered, but that was tough just seeing him, like,

537
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,400
you know, try to get loose and then go back

538
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,000
to the sideline and that weather, it's almost impossible if

539
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,319
you're tweaked it all to kind of get back into

540
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,160
the game. It's kind of a you know, a bad

541
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,759
situation for him. But going back to the Tennessee rush,

542
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,799
I thought that was maybe going to be the difference

543
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,559
in the game. And I was like, look, I don't

544
00:27:33,599 --> 00:27:35,839
think they're going to have any upsets. But if I

545
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,559
had to pick one, I'll pick Tennessee sure because of that.

546
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,000
Because of their defensive line, their front seven, and they

547
00:27:41,079 --> 00:27:44,200
got one of the best corner tandems in the country.

548
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,000
I'm like, they'll be okay man Ohio State, and I

549
00:27:47,039 --> 00:27:48,680
think it was a lot of it was Chip Kelly

550
00:27:48,839 --> 00:27:51,160
and they watched a lot of Michigan film, and that

551
00:27:51,319 --> 00:27:54,039
team didn't run anything they did in the Michigan game.

552
00:27:54,519 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 5: I mean they were going over the top, pushing the

553
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:57,440
ball down the field.

554
00:27:57,519 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 7: You could tell Tennessee had a play to try to

555
00:27:59,279 --> 00:28:02,559
stop the run and intermediate passes and Ohio State did

556
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:03,000
none of that.

557
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:04,559
Speaker 5: They were going to go down the field.

558
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,880
Speaker 7: It was going to be, Hey, my freshman against your

559
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,000
top corner, and my freshman is going to win.

560
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:10,599
Speaker 5: Yeah.

561
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 6: I mean Jeremi Smith, is he the best weapon left

562
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:15,759
in these playoffs?

563
00:28:16,599 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 5: I mean, Ash and gent T would be up there. TJ.

564
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:23,400
Warren would be up there. Jeremih Smith's amazing, and Buck's

565
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,319
Ukah is amazing as well. Kataboo katabooy would be up there.

566
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:30,559
I was asking.

567
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:35,200
Speaker 6: I wasn't saying, but I mean, to me, the Jeremiah

568
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,599
Smith play that is not the biggest play, but that

569
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,319
I found me in some ways. The most impressive was

570
00:28:40,359 --> 00:28:43,160
the fourth down drag round where they're going against his

571
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,000
own defense and when the ball is thrown, he comes

572
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:51,559
back and attacks the ball, you know, coming underneath the

573
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,319
line to gain but naturally creating the space from the

574
00:28:55,359 --> 00:28:57,680
defenders to not just catching, not ever broken up, but

575
00:28:57,799 --> 00:28:59,440
then to be able to get around him and get

576
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,119
the first down. It's just such a natural in a

577
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:08,039
high level football Like you, very very jeremih Smith is awesome.

578
00:29:08,559 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 5: He is incredible. I mean, he was doing things that

579
00:29:11,799 --> 00:29:13,920
like a savvy fifth year senior does.

580
00:29:14,079 --> 00:29:16,279
Speaker 7: Like you're saying, that's a great breakdown tea of what

581
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,839
he did on that play, because you know a lot

582
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,839
of freshmen allow that ball to come to him maybe

583
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,079
or maybe they fade a little bit and they don't

584
00:29:23,079 --> 00:29:24,799
get Yeah, you don't get the first down.

585
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:25,039
Speaker 4: Man.

586
00:29:25,119 --> 00:29:27,559
Speaker 7: That is high level stuff. And he he's certainly in

587
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,559
the conversation for best playmaker left. This is not a

588
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:35,160
this is not like a heavy top tier receiver playoff. No,

589
00:29:35,759 --> 00:29:38,359
you know, like it hasn't been a year. Think think

590
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,440
about the teams that are still in it like, and

591
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:42,359
if Jordan Tyson doesn't come back, which I don't think

592
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,279
we you know, we expect him to come back like

593
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,720
he would have been in the conversation at Arizona State,

594
00:29:47,599 --> 00:29:50,119
like Texas has really good receivers at times, but it's

595
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,640
like not that one dominant guy. Golden's like a deep threat.

596
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,720
He's going to go get the go ball, but it's

597
00:29:55,720 --> 00:30:00,160
not running eighteen yard dig routes. But I mean he

598
00:30:00,279 --> 00:30:02,640
might be like, can we think of another one that

599
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:03,720
can take over a game?

600
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,839
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Like, I mean to Ohio

601
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,720
might be the only one game breaker? Does the state

602
00:30:09,759 --> 00:30:14,680
of the would better than He's not on the level

603
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,519
of I don't think no.

604
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,359
Speaker 7: But I'm saying, like, do we have another receiver at

605
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,440
all that can take a game break?

606
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, I don't think so. Is

607
00:30:24,799 --> 00:30:25,640
he the only other one?

608
00:30:25,799 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 7: And I don't even think he's on the same level

609
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,359
as his teammate. I mean, because they think about Notre Dame.

610
00:30:31,519 --> 00:30:33,720
I mean Notre Dame's a really good football team. They're

611
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,559
not going to get you with their weapons over a game.

612
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,720
Same thing with Penn State. I mean, Warren to tight

613
00:30:39,799 --> 00:30:43,640
end might be their best bet. In that conversation, I

614
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:48,200
think that's it, because Georgia certainly doesn't have it they

615
00:30:48,279 --> 00:30:49,480
need they need one.

616
00:30:50,279 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 5: George is looking for somebody to throw the football too. Yeah.

617
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 6: Uh open it as a slight favorite in that game,

618
00:30:56,519 --> 00:30:58,240
and then did bounce back George's way.

619
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 5: I just looked at it right now one and a half.

620
00:31:01,319 --> 00:31:07,000
I feel like this is a hellish first start for gunnery.

621
00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 7: Opened up Notre Dame minus one and the yelf, you're right,

622
00:31:10,599 --> 00:31:14,839
and now it's moved to Jaoujia minus one and a half.

623
00:31:18,039 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 5: Mm pick them, flip them.

624
00:31:20,519 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 6: Oh well, but look the bottom line again, not exciting games,

625
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,079
but I am excited about the teams who won. They

626
00:31:28,119 --> 00:31:31,240
all looked awesome, They all look championship caliber. Can't wait

627
00:31:31,319 --> 00:31:34,079
for this next round. All right, more OTB coming up,

628
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,400
keep it locked here on one of four five ESPN.

629
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 3: Off the Bench, Welcome back to more sports talk.

630
00:31:54,279 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 2: What's some other stuff mixed in off the bench with

631
00:31:56,799 --> 00:31:57,880
Hester Anti Bob.

632
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:05,079
Speaker 5: What's happening y'all?

633
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 6: Welcome back here to OTP and right now weird please

634
00:32:11,079 --> 00:32:14,039
be joined by you high director, mister Kevin George here

635
00:32:14,079 --> 00:32:16,720
on off the Bench talk a little you high as

636
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:21,160
uh Me and Jake, both proud Cubs but also going

637
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,759
to be hosting the gala this year.

638
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 5: Very excited, keV. We were killing it on the dance

639
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:28,519
floor last year's gala.

640
00:32:28,559 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 9: I'd say, yeah, we had a great time. I think

641
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,200
you and I did a little dance. I think we

642
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,079
got some rave review, some rave review.

643
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:35,799
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, I.

644
00:32:35,839 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 6: Also got a little trouble. Might have got a little

645
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,039
two sideways. Uh gone a little too you know, celebrate

646
00:32:41,039 --> 00:32:43,759
a little too hard. But no, stop shaking your head tailor. Okay,

647
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,400
as the MC this year, we're gonna keep it between

648
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,240
the lines and we are going to raise some money

649
00:32:50,319 --> 00:32:50,880
and have a.

650
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 5: Hell of a time.

651
00:32:52,079 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 6: You're costume, I am not. I am not wearing the

652
00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:00,599
ol Off costume. Uh I'll I'll be rocking by pierp Cat.

653
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:01,319
Speaker 5: What's going on though?

654
00:33:01,359 --> 00:33:01,519
Speaker 4: Man?

655
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 5: How are you doing this this Christmas season?

656
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 6: Bruh?

657
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:04,839
Speaker 5: Look?

658
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,079
Speaker 9: This Christmas season is great because right now, you know,

659
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,839
everyone goes home. We get we send your kids back

660
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,359
for a couple of weeks. But we we stay busy,

661
00:33:12,519 --> 00:33:15,279
right you know, with uh with all sorts of athletics

662
00:33:15,359 --> 00:33:17,960
going on right now. I mean our girls basketball team

663
00:33:18,039 --> 00:33:23,160
just went to Mobile this weekend. They're undefeated, undefeated, ranked

664
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,000
number one in Division two, and so we're just really

665
00:33:26,039 --> 00:33:27,880
excited about that basketball team right now.

666
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, they want a big tournament mobile over the weekend. Huh. Yeah,

667
00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:32,559
you know, looking real good. You know coach C. J.

668
00:33:32,759 --> 00:33:35,559
Speaker 9: Johnson, she's been there a long time form LSU women's

669
00:33:35,599 --> 00:33:38,079
basketball player. She does a great job her and our

670
00:33:38,119 --> 00:33:40,920
staff with our team. They were state runner ups last year,

671
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,519
lost our crosstown rivals Park View Baptists. But our girls

672
00:33:44,559 --> 00:33:46,920
are back and ready and they seem better than ever.

673
00:33:48,799 --> 00:33:51,279
Speaker 6: So as as you look forward to the spring, what

674
00:33:51,519 --> 00:33:54,440
is like, uh, what is the main goal right now?

675
00:33:54,599 --> 00:33:56,599
Like you say that y'all are working on over the

676
00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:00,119
break while our kids are are all back home and

677
00:34:00,519 --> 00:34:03,039
y'all are not having to take care of them for

678
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:04,279
us every single day.

679
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, no worries and and so one of the

680
00:34:07,279 --> 00:34:09,760
few things going on like right now again is real

681
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,079
busy we have. You know, we just talked about a

682
00:34:12,119 --> 00:34:15,639
girls basketball team. You know, our boys soccer team right

683
00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:18,400
now is undefeated as well. They're they're ranked number two

684
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,599
in the division right now. You know, our girls soccer

685
00:34:22,679 --> 00:34:25,599
team they're ranked number four right now. So you know,

686
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,400
Our coaches just do it a great, amazing job, and

687
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,840
they have tournaments all throughout the break leading up to

688
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,280
one of our big tournaments, the Wade Sims Tournament, our

689
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:37,000
boys basketball team would be participating in in January, second, third,

690
00:34:37,039 --> 00:34:37,480
and fourth.

691
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,079
Speaker 5: You know that raises a lot of money for that Wade.

692
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 9: Sims Foundation, one of the great clubs and so just

693
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:46,360
an incredible family. So we're super excited about supporting them

694
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:47,960
and what we're doing here at U High.

695
00:34:49,119 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 7: H Are you telling them about the Pink Pandas I

696
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,440
mean soccer, I mean, you're gonna have a cup playing

697
00:34:54,519 --> 00:34:56,280
soccer victory.

698
00:34:56,599 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 6: Unfortunately we're not the premiere high soccer club that belongs there.

699
00:35:02,559 --> 00:35:05,039
I think it is a Rainbow Union now the Rainbow Unicorns.

700
00:35:05,119 --> 00:35:07,440
It's something there. There's we're kind of we're kind of

701
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:08,840
the B team, but we're on the ride.

702
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:13,559
Speaker 5: But he's starting. No, I mean we went that doubt.

703
00:35:13,639 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 6: I went winless in Little League sports for I think

704
00:35:16,079 --> 00:35:19,440
three years and then uh and then we might have

705
00:35:19,559 --> 00:35:20,920
gone like nine and one or so.

706
00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:23,679
Speaker 5: So yeah about it.

707
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 7: It was.

708
00:35:24,039 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 6: It was.

709
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 5: It was a big turnaround for.

710
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 6: The Pandits and you know where we're committed to continuing

711
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,239
to strive for excellence and improving.

712
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 5: But it's been rough. Kep. Do you take any of

713
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:35,119
those playoff games this weekend?

714
00:35:35,639 --> 00:35:38,760
Speaker 9: Oh? Absolutely, I mean watching it, you know, of course

715
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,679
I had to watch my Pitstsburg Steelers, so in the

716
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:42,719
middle of all that kind of went.

717
00:35:42,679 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 5: Down a little bit and Russell had a couple of

718
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,960
bad turn overs there. But hey, yeah, I feel good.

719
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,280
I feel good. When George Pickens comes back, we're gonna

720
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,599
be all right. Yeah, you probably do feel good. You're

721
00:35:52,599 --> 00:35:53,480
a Steelers fan.

722
00:35:53,559 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 6: All you get to experience every single year is consistent winning, absolutely,

723
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:58,599
like you've never did.

724
00:35:58,679 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 5: How did you end up a Steelers fan?

725
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,639
Speaker 9: My son, who is thirty years old, have never experienced

726
00:36:03,679 --> 00:36:04,800
a losing Steeler season.

727
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:09,119
Speaker 5: Never, and so it is. He he doesn't understand why

728
00:36:09,639 --> 00:36:12,760
Rothlisberger retired. He's like, who's a quarter I don't even

729
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,039
know how to how to operate?

730
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,280
Speaker 9: But uh, you know, it's just a tremendous job that

731
00:36:16,559 --> 00:36:19,440
coach Tomlin and uh you know all the group does

732
00:36:19,559 --> 00:36:20,480
up there in Pittsburgh.

733
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 7: Immaculate reception was on this day in nineteen seventy two.

734
00:36:24,599 --> 00:36:28,159
It was today, yes from seventy two about Steelers up

735
00:36:28,159 --> 00:36:28,719
as a Steelers.

736
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,199
Speaker 5: Shed just growing up.

737
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 9: My dad was a Steelers fan, you know, growing up

738
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,119
in I grew up in Crowley, Louisiana. Yeah, the Cowboys

739
00:36:35,159 --> 00:36:37,840
and the Steelers were only teams on televisions. Uh in

740
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:43,559
the seventies, the Saints were, you know, and so you know,

741
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,559
you you fell into two groups. You either Cowboys Steelers

742
00:36:46,639 --> 00:36:48,400
fan and you know we were Steeler fans.

743
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,760
Speaker 5: Choose the right group. His family ended up in the Cowgirls.

744
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,159
Speaker 7: There is a large host of Steeler fans still in

745
00:36:55,199 --> 00:36:57,760
Shreeport because of Terry Bradshaw. That kind of the same

746
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:01,440
thing makes their TV h In the seventies, the Saints

747
00:37:01,559 --> 00:37:03,320
warn't as much and Saints were kind of you know,

748
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,880
rifles somewhat new and resting rifle from Shreveport.

749
00:37:08,639 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 5: Jones, Oh, that's not Terry Bradshaw. No, the this is

750
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:18,519
Sport High School, shreve Ford Slinger. Slinger. No, I mean

751
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,119
Terry Bradshaw's got it. Uh.

752
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:27,519
Speaker 7: A kind of an interstate named after him in Treeport,

753
00:37:27,599 --> 00:37:28,880
the Terry Bradshaw Passway.

754
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,039
Speaker 5: It's an inn loop. I know those are a lot

755
00:37:32,079 --> 00:37:34,199
of people. Yeah, it would be nice we had maybe

756
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,159
kept So what comes next for you? High football man?

757
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 6: Obviously a very good team, but disappointment and everything else

758
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:40,920
what comes next?

759
00:37:41,159 --> 00:37:43,079
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, we're moving forward. You know, it was

760
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,679
just a devastating blow to us. They have that season

761
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,239
in abruptly for us. You know, just working with our

762
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,599
with our squad and just trying to rebuild some things,

763
00:37:51,159 --> 00:37:53,000
working with the l s A to make sure we

764
00:37:53,079 --> 00:37:56,079
don't have any other issues. And you know, we're bringing

765
00:37:56,119 --> 00:37:59,519
back on oldie but goodie our You know, Jill White

766
00:37:59,599 --> 00:38:01,840
is athlete direct she was at like director for about

767
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,039
eighteen years. Uh, and so she's our interim ad to

768
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,320
get things in order to make sure that we are

769
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:08,840
cleared and ready to go.

770
00:38:09,119 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 5: I can tell you what this is.

771
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 4: Uh.

772
00:38:11,039 --> 00:38:13,199
Speaker 9: You know, for our seniors, obviously we bid them for

773
00:38:13,599 --> 00:38:16,119
Farewell and they were a great group of seniors. We

774
00:38:16,199 --> 00:38:18,159
wanted to see them in there on the on the field.

775
00:38:18,639 --> 00:38:18,760
Speaker 5: Uh.

776
00:38:19,119 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 9: But you know, for our underclassmen, they are ready. They

777
00:38:22,079 --> 00:38:25,119
are just ready to get back on that football field.

778
00:38:25,199 --> 00:38:27,360
So just look out come this fall.

779
00:38:27,519 --> 00:38:29,599
Speaker 6: Hell yeah, man, I can't wait. Very excited for the

780
00:38:29,679 --> 00:38:34,519
spring as well. Galla coming up? You ready to dance again?

781
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 9: I'm ready. I want to do your first dance and

782
00:38:39,039 --> 00:38:40,639
look it's gonna be in Tiger Stadium.

783
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,679
Speaker 5: So a new venue. He's going to build a Tiger Stadium.

784
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 9: You got that backdrop, that amazing backdrop to just a

785
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,760
wonderful night of Every year, it just gets bigger and better.

786
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,159
You know the first few years and we had it

787
00:38:51,199 --> 00:38:53,760
at the Laberge and you know, our chair said this year,

788
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,159
say look let's bring it to Tiger Stadium. We can

789
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:57,039
bring more people in.

790
00:38:57,519 --> 00:38:58,079
Speaker 5: That was the thing.

791
00:38:58,199 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 9: It just tickets sol out in hours, and so bringing

792
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,639
it to this bigger venue we would have be able

793
00:39:04,639 --> 00:39:06,280
to have more cubs to participate.

794
00:39:06,559 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 5: Yeah.

795
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 6: Man, you know it is the best education to money

796
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,639
racer out there. I love being a part of the

797
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:17,480
U High crew. Go Cubs, and thank you keV. Thank

798
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,440
you so much for hanging out with us this morning. Man, No,

799
00:39:19,639 --> 00:39:20,760
thank you and everything that you'll do.

800
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,079
Speaker 5: Thank you. Thanks for allowing me to be here. Thank you, Jack.

801
00:39:23,079 --> 00:39:24,079
Do you hike? Kevin George?

802
00:39:24,119 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 6: All right, moro GB closing out an hour one coming

803
00:39:27,039 --> 00:39:29,199
up next off the bench.

804
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:46,760
Speaker 2: Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, Welcome back to more sports talk. What's

805
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,360
some other stuff mixed in off the bench with Hester

806
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:50,159
Anti Bob.

807
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:55,159
Speaker 6: What's going on y'all? Welcome back to OTB Round Up.

808
00:39:55,199 --> 00:39:57,159
I number one one thing that was great about this

809
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:03,519
weekend playoff home game, right, electric atmospheres at all the

810
00:40:03,599 --> 00:40:06,079
home games. It's kind of funny because you know, I'm

811
00:40:06,199 --> 00:40:11,920
I I want to keep the legendary venues, so I

812
00:40:12,039 --> 00:40:14,199
love that this next games or the Sugar Bowl, and

813
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,760
what do we get Ohio State, Oregon in the Rose

814
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:21,119
Bowl and then Georgia. Who's at Georgia? Who in the

815
00:40:21,159 --> 00:40:24,960
Sugar bowlhy Am I blaking Georgia the Sugar Bowl? Like, okay,

816
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,400
incredible venues, incredible matchups. But damn, I'll be damned if

817
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,639
these home games aren't pretty awesome as well. And they uh,

818
00:40:33,519 --> 00:40:35,599
I mean, I don't know, Jake, we okay, since we've

819
00:40:35,639 --> 00:40:40,199
kind of been theming it throughout our one overall takeaway

820
00:40:40,679 --> 00:40:43,599
on the first round and any changes that you feel

821
00:40:43,679 --> 00:40:47,079
like with one round of evidence that you would make

822
00:40:47,199 --> 00:40:49,440
and obviously, like I had some of my friends like

823
00:40:49,519 --> 00:40:51,639
talking craft to me like oh seen you met, and

824
00:40:51,679 --> 00:40:55,960
I'm like, huh, you know, it's almost like the actual

825
00:40:56,079 --> 00:40:59,039
evidence in front of my face changed my opinion. Imagine

826
00:40:59,039 --> 00:41:01,679
that that you could see something and say, you know what,

827
00:41:02,039 --> 00:41:04,000
I was wrong, and I think actually this should maybe

828
00:41:04,039 --> 00:41:06,360
be fixed. But did you do you do you have

829
00:41:06,519 --> 00:41:09,519
any takeaways about things you would change in the future.

830
00:41:09,599 --> 00:41:15,440
Going for about the playoff, yeah, I mean I don't.

831
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 7: Okay, So just like the NCAA Tournament, just because you

832
00:41:19,039 --> 00:41:21,760
win your conference in basketball, it doesn't mean you get

833
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,800
a one seed like that probably would be okay. Hey,

834
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,400
let's do one through twelve, all right, and let's get

835
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:33,800
the twelve teams in there. And if you have to

836
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,760
knock one out because the ACC champs sixteenth like we

837
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,480
had with Clemson, Okay, then they get that.

838
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,159
Speaker 5: Yeah, they get the very bottom spot.

839
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 7: I'm okay with automatic qualifiers, I am, because like the

840
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:48,960
ACC and the Big twelve, like you want them represented

841
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,280
in the playoff, but they don't have to be in

842
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:52,880
consideration for a top four seed.

843
00:41:53,159 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 5: And if you earn one, you earn one. And even

844
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:57,000
look Notre Dame.

845
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:58,639
Speaker 7: And I know a lot of people are not gonna

846
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:00,840
like that, Like if if they're are a top four seed,

847
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:02,639
I have I really don't have a problem with them

848
00:42:02,679 --> 00:42:04,039
being a top four seed.

849
00:42:04,119 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 6: And by the end of the game, by the end

850
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:06,880
of the year, I think they came into what ranked

851
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,639
fifth overall, so they wouldn't have got it, but they

852
00:42:10,679 --> 00:42:13,639
are a top four seed caliber team this year. Even

853
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,280
they remind me so much of that Ohio State team

854
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,639
which had the inexplicable Virginia Tech loss, but then.

855
00:42:19,599 --> 00:42:21,119
Speaker 5: Just got better and better and better as the year

856
00:42:21,159 --> 00:42:21,360
went on.

857
00:42:21,559 --> 00:42:24,159
Speaker 6: Like, I know they lost to Northern Illinois, but if

858
00:42:24,199 --> 00:42:26,320
every time Notre Dame's brought up, you bring that up,

859
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,519
then at a certain like then we can have a

860
00:42:28,559 --> 00:42:31,960
conversation because Notre Dame has been awesome since then. And

861
00:42:32,079 --> 00:42:34,840
I still think this was nobody every nobody cares what

862
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:36,719
I think, but I still think it was a pretty

863
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:37,679
good Indiana team.

864
00:42:38,199 --> 00:42:39,519
Speaker 5: They completely dismantled.

865
00:42:39,559 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 6: But you know, maybe I'm wrong and I'm favoring them

866
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:46,039
slightly over over Georgia. I just think Gunner stocked. And

867
00:42:46,079 --> 00:42:48,239
there's a big difference between coming in halfway through a

868
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,320
game and entering, you know, and then Notre Dame and

869
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:55,360
Marcus Freeman having eleven days to know their game planning

870
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,519
for you, Jake, that's him. That's such a hard hand

871
00:42:58,559 --> 00:42:59,559
for him to have been dealt.

872
00:43:01,679 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 5: How much time? So how much times between right now

873
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:10,480
until we get to I mean like right now, like

874
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:13,400
nine days? Nine days?

875
00:43:13,519 --> 00:43:13,639
Speaker 6: Right?

876
00:43:14,519 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 5: Yeah?

877
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 7: Okay, So like that's that's going to be intriguing too. Like,

878
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,159
so the teams that had all that time and how

879
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:24,159
much they were preparing for two teams? Yeah, I know

880
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,199
Georgia was preparing more for Notre Dame. Yes, absolutely, you

881
00:43:27,199 --> 00:43:30,519
know what I'm saying. Like I know Oregon was probably well,

882
00:43:30,639 --> 00:43:32,480
they had a book out Ohio State, so maybe not

883
00:43:32,639 --> 00:43:36,039
in that scenario like Arizona State, I guarantee was working

884
00:43:36,119 --> 00:43:37,599
on Texas more than they were Clemson.

885
00:43:38,039 --> 00:43:40,599
Speaker 5: I want to see how much that helps them. Do

886
00:43:40,679 --> 00:43:42,719
you think Notre Dame was already doing some advance I

887
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,119
mean had some of their analysts.

888
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,360
Speaker 7: Maybe some yeah, maybe some for sure, But I know

889
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,800
Kirby was probably had the full eighty percent book on

890
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:51,360
Notre Dame twenty percent Indiana, yes.

891
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:56,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no without a DOB, without a that. And see,

892
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,840
I'm excited to see how that plays out again. One

893
00:43:59,039 --> 00:44:02,400
system that is posed for twenty twenty six that I

894
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,440
think we can make better decision about when we have

895
00:44:04,519 --> 00:44:07,320
two years of a twelve team playoffs. I do like

896
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:11,079
the idea of the fourteen team where it's top four

897
00:44:11,159 --> 00:44:14,199
teams in the SEC, top four in the Big ten,

898
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:16,639
top two in the Big twelve, and top two in

899
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:20,880
the ACC It takes all kind of judgment out of it,

900
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:22,960
and then you have to at large, but it takes

901
00:44:23,039 --> 00:44:24,719
kind of the judgment out of it's just win your

902
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:27,440
conference games. And it doesn't penalize you for scheduling hard

903
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:28,800
out of conference games because it's all.

904
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 5: About your conference standings. Uh, but whatever, I love it.

905
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,760
Speaker 6: It's college football suck at nerds. Okay, all y'all freaking

906
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,159
are pissed me off? Without negative you're.

907
00:44:39,039 --> 00:44:42,119
Speaker 3: Being We'll do it top to bench.

908
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 5: What are you gonna do?

909
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:46,519
Speaker 7: No, it's just gonna I want to see, like who

910
00:44:46,559 --> 00:44:49,239
you think is gonna have the biggest advantage as far

911
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,480
as the preparation for who there are appoint's going to

912
00:44:51,519 --> 00:44:53,880
be in this round. And it's kind of like I'm

913
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:55,880
just thinking like Dane Landing and Kirby Smart, like all

914
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,880
those coaches. Man, they prepare as well as anybody in

915
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,239
the country, and they've had some real extra time to

916
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:03,159
get ready for their opponent.

917
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:04,679
Speaker 5: How much it's going to play a factor into it.

918
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,239
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