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Speaker 6: And it's over, folks, the election is over. We now
Speaker 6: know who won. We know who's going to be the
Speaker 6: new well, the next president, new president. How would you
Speaker 6: word that? This is somebody that actually has been president before,
Speaker 6: which obviously has never happened.
Speaker 2: But here we are.
Speaker 6: I will say this, and I'm not going to share
Speaker 6: a whole lot because I know that's not what you
Speaker 6: came here to listen to. At least I don't think so.
Speaker 6: If so, you're in the wrong place. That's not really
Speaker 6: what we do. But I found myself fascinated by being
Speaker 6: able to and it's it's a teeny tiny percentage of
Speaker 6: of you know, the amount of people who vote right,
Speaker 6: but watching this whole thing play out last night was
Speaker 6: just it was entertaining to me and fascinating to see.
Speaker 6: As you know, the night went on, I think like
Speaker 6: around I don't know.
Speaker 2: Seven seven thirty ish both sides.
Speaker 6: And again it sounds like I'm I've got some like
Speaker 6: study or something like that. I'm talking about quite literally,
Speaker 6: like the talking heads you see on social media and
Speaker 6: like the people that you follow. Like that's what I
Speaker 6: was consuming last night as far as you know, other
Speaker 6: than watching the coverage of it and then just have
Speaker 6: my phone out on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram even like whatever
Speaker 6: people sharing, you know, people were live. I mean people
Speaker 6: were live on TikTok and all that, And I don't
Speaker 6: mean like average shows, but like obviously people who are
Speaker 6: who have a platform rather be independent or they work
Speaker 6: for a network like It's It's Selection Nights. So there
Speaker 6: was endless amounts of places you could go to hear
Speaker 6: reaction from what was going on. And obviously this day
Speaker 6: and age, you're either completely all in on your platform
Speaker 6: catering to the Democrats or you're all in on your
Speaker 6: platform catering to the Republicans, but both sides no matter
Speaker 6: where I went, felt really really confident. And I said
Speaker 6: that at the end of the show yesterday because it
Speaker 6: just seemed like that. But what I you know, was
Speaker 6: trying to gather as it became clear later into the
Speaker 6: night who was going to win, is how confident were
Speaker 6: they really?
Speaker 2: Like I'm thinking that.
Speaker 6: Those that did vote for Kamala Harris and felt confident,
Speaker 6: like I think they believed it, but it almost kind
Speaker 6: of felt like as the realization hit them that Donald
Speaker 6: Trump was going to win and Kamala Harris was going
Speaker 6: to lose, it almost felt like they realized that they
Speaker 6: should not have been quite as confident as they were.
Speaker 6: You know, again, I don't really have a whole lot
Speaker 6: to base it off of, but just a just a
Speaker 6: gut feeling that there were some that that, you know,
Speaker 6: once it became real that the thing was going to
Speaker 6: go in a direction they didn't want it to go in,
Speaker 6: that they maybe realized, hey, we shouldn't have been so confident.
Speaker 6: And you know, I think, I mean, I'll tell you
Speaker 6: real quick what I think, and that's this is this
Speaker 6: really isn't even like a political comment, and even if
Speaker 6: it was, I don't think it's a big deal. But
Speaker 6: I think that there was just the assumption that so
Speaker 6: many people loathed the man that is Donald Trump that
Speaker 6: they just wouldn't vote for him, and then that would
Speaker 6: be how Kamala Harris would win, because hey, just look
Speaker 6: at this guy, he's a real a hole. No way
Speaker 6: you're going to vote for him, right, Like, That's kind
Speaker 6: of what I mean. And to be honest, I didn't
Speaker 6: have a clue what was going to happen. Like it
Speaker 6: wouldn't have stunned me if, in fact, like it went
Speaker 6: the other way. But I felt all along that the
Speaker 6: really really cool and not even not even super quiet people,
Speaker 6: but like the majority those that are not loud mouths
Speaker 6: on social media about it. Those that are very much
Speaker 6: your average joes that you know, are thinking about what
Speaker 6: is best for them when they when they go vote,
Speaker 6: because they're thinking about themselves, their family. You know, you
Speaker 6: never really know where they are because you know, it's
Speaker 6: it's it's not something that you can Some people make
Speaker 6: their political party or the candidate that they support, make
Speaker 6: it their whole personality to where you know, but think
Speaker 6: about how many people where you really don't know unless
Speaker 6: you know a little bit about him. You may stereotype
Speaker 6: and just assume based off of honestly a lot of things, appearance, age,
Speaker 6: where you live, that kind of stuff, But you really
Speaker 6: never know until people go and they vote. And I mean,
Speaker 6: it really wasn't that close. And I think that there
Speaker 6: are many and well, I get this is just a guess.
Speaker 6: There are a lot of people across the country that
Speaker 6: don't necessarily care for Donald Trump, they voted for him,
Speaker 6: that realize, like it's kind of crazy, given you know,
Speaker 6: everything with him. And I don't mean to say that
Speaker 6: like he's the worst person in the world, but you know,
Speaker 6: when you're going to be the president, you know, there's
Speaker 6: some things that you can't really have on your record,
Speaker 6: you can't. You know, he's not necessarily been very presidential,
Speaker 6: and that's really just what just stands out. It stood
Speaker 6: out the first time he won the election, and kind
Speaker 6: of still stands out today, you know. So I think
Speaker 6: that that those people probably just knew going in, probably
Speaker 6: months leading into the election. Election day, I should say that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna.
Speaker 6: Vote that side, just because I feel like, given the options,
Speaker 6: that's the best case scenario. He's not presidential. I don't
Speaker 6: really like, you know, how he carries himself, clearly, you know,
Speaker 6: there's there's some baggage there. But I just don't think
Speaker 6: that there was a whole lot on the other side
Speaker 6: that that, you know, the average jokes could really relate to.
Speaker 6: And I think that they to me, at least it
Speaker 6: seemed and I shouldn't say that like the majority of
Speaker 6: their pitch was, Hey, I mean, look at this guy,
Speaker 6: he's an a hole. Don't vote for him, vote for me.
Speaker 6: But man, there was a lot of that, a lot
Speaker 6: more of that than I think people. You know, everybody
Speaker 6: was well aware this wasn't some new candidate that we
Speaker 6: had to like figure out who he was this and that.
Speaker 6: I mean, Donald Trump's been a celebrity for forever and
Speaker 6: he's already been the president once. So you know, from
Speaker 6: my perspective, I think they're just it fell flat their pitch,
Speaker 6: and I think.
Speaker 2: It led to people. There's probably people that.
Speaker 6: Voted Republican that will probably have never done it before
Speaker 6: and probably will never do it again, but they just
Speaker 6: considering the options they And it's not to say that,
Speaker 6: you know, Kamala Harris is the worst person ever.
Speaker 2: She may be nice.
Speaker 6: I mean, none of us know her personally, but like it,
Speaker 6: I'm not now that a day has passed, I guess
Speaker 6: not a full day since you know, we got results
Speaker 6: and started to see which way it was going to go. Like,
Speaker 6: I'm really not that surprised because when I felt like
Speaker 6: when he won the first time, it was the same thing.
Speaker 6: You just assume, well, surely people won't vote for this
Speaker 6: guy who you know, was on the Apprentice, and you
Speaker 6: know is I mean, it just it just seemed very
Speaker 6: very you know off as far as him not being presidential,
Speaker 6: he's a celebrity. This is unusual for somebody in this
Speaker 6: position to be on the ballot running to be the
Speaker 6: president of the United States. But sure enough, he reached
Speaker 6: enough people the first time he won and it worked out,
Speaker 6: and that's that's that's the way it played out here.
Speaker 6: So I've not necessar necesarily been monitoring, you know, national
Speaker 6: news to see if there's been any kind of big
Speaker 6: widespread reaction US on the losing side, But you know,
Speaker 6: I guess it wouldn't totally shock me if if if
Speaker 6: there was, But I do feel like there are you know,
Speaker 6: I tried to I tried to lay out how I
Speaker 6: you know, and I don't know for sure. It just
Speaker 6: kind of felt like those that were really really confident
Speaker 6: they ended up being wrong. It kind of felt like
Speaker 6: as it was playing out, they started to realize they
Speaker 6: should not have been as confident as as they actually were.
Speaker 6: But I'm sure there are still many that are just
Speaker 6: stunned and disbelief because they convinced themselves there's just no
Speaker 6: scenario that that America would vote him in again, and
Speaker 6: they did and it really wasn't close. Have you seen
Speaker 6: any crazy reactions yet, John.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's a number of people on social media that.
Speaker 6: You're talking like, like no, people are like okay, people
Speaker 6: you know, and I know actually from school that you
Speaker 6: went to high school with.
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to give names, of course, but
Speaker 1: there's people that I probably won't unfollow them because this
Speaker 1: will calm down, hopefully in a few days, I would hope.
Speaker 1: But just seeing the way that some people react and
Speaker 1: just let themselves lose their minds. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: why I mentioned that the day after election day or
Speaker 1: the days after election day or the worst, because you
Speaker 1: see people just completely It's like they don't.
Speaker 3: Know how to act.
Speaker 1: And I hate to put them that kind of little bubble,
Speaker 1: but like I just can't relate to that type of behavior,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this.
Speaker 6: You don't have to name anybody, but the first few
Speaker 6: that come to mind when I ask you, have you
Speaker 6: seen any kind of like really crazy off the wall,
Speaker 6: like you know, nothing that's going to get somebody arrested,
Speaker 6: but just people, you know, kind of showing their ass
Speaker 6: because they're upset about what happened. Is it mostly people
Speaker 6: that are in your age range?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 6: Oh sure, because I think that is a different demo,
Speaker 6: Like I think that that is a that's a base
Speaker 6: that probably did really well with.
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris.
Speaker 6: To be honest with you yeah, and you know, maybe
Speaker 6: they weren't aware that there's people that are you know,
Speaker 6: old enough to be their dad, their grandpa that you know,
Speaker 6: they've been voting a lot longer. They probably follow it
Speaker 6: maybe a little bit closer, and they decided. Again, I
Speaker 6: don't know if there's a way of knowing this, and
Speaker 6: maybe you know, maybe there is, and if so, I
Speaker 6: you know, not that I would make it a show
Speaker 6: topic or anything like that, but the amount of people
Speaker 6: who voted Republican for the first time in this election,
Speaker 6: like I bet I would would not be shocked if
Speaker 6: that number was really really high. So anyways, it'll continue
Speaker 6: to be, you know, a national story. Just the fact
Speaker 6: that we've got, you know, the election's over and Donald
Speaker 6: Trump's going to be the president again, which still sounds
Speaker 6: crazy to say out loud. And I don't mean because
Speaker 6: of you know, well I guess technically I do. I
Speaker 6: guess I do kind of mean because of him. But overall,
Speaker 6: like this is this is the whole thing before anybody
Speaker 6: placed to vote, Like, just seeing where we were as
Speaker 6: the election day was approaching, like it is still kind
Speaker 6: of like, wait, what how do we end up here?
Speaker 6: I saw a lot of people sharing the same joke
Speaker 6: if I knew who said it, and originally I would
Speaker 6: give them credit, but like a ton of people I
Speaker 6: saw sharing it as their own. So whoever came up
Speaker 6: with it, I thought it was pretty clever.
Speaker 2: But as you're.
Speaker 6: Waiting last night around dinner time just to kind of
Speaker 6: see you know, you knew it's it's it's crunch time
Speaker 6: as far as getting results, getting numbers and whatnot. And
Speaker 6: somebody said that it's like you are in the in
Speaker 6: court at a custody battle and you're the and you
Speaker 6: are the kid, and both parents are unfit, but the
Speaker 6: judge has to decide who's gonna get who's gonna get
Speaker 6: full custody. Like that's a little extreme, but like I
Speaker 6: could see the connection there. So anyways, we'll move on.
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Speaker 6: get into today. Obviously, the college football playoff rankings came out,
Speaker 6: and I'm a sucker for this because I really do
Speaker 6: enjoy hearing all the different cases being made for certain teams,
Speaker 6: and I'm aware that like none of it all matters,
Speaker 6: Like it might just be considered us wasting our breath
Speaker 6: debating about, well, how did this team end up at
Speaker 6: sevent team? Like you know, we all know it's going
Speaker 6: to play itself out and at the end of the day,
Speaker 6: nobody's gonna remember exactly where a team was this week
Speaker 6: or next week. It's going to be about where you
Speaker 6: are in the end. But I'm looking forward to getting
Speaker 6: into it. Obviously, we can talk. We'll talk about it
Speaker 6: throughout the show for you know, a good chunk of today.
Speaker 6: But we are going to be joined coming up at
Speaker 6: four h five by Zach Barnett fooballscoop dot com. Our
Speaker 6: first guest is going to join us, coming up here
Speaker 6: in about seven minutes or so. Once we get our
Speaker 6: first break out of the way, it'll be doctor Larry
Speaker 6: Bin's appropra have physical therapy. Looking forward to catching up
Speaker 6: with him, and I'm very tells of him. He was
Speaker 6: in Death Valley on Saturday night, so I'm going to
Speaker 6: have to live through him a little bit and have
Speaker 6: him share a little bit about that experience because I'm
Speaker 6: sure he's been before on one of Louisville's trips prior.
Speaker 6: But man to be there when they knock him off,
Speaker 6: that's an all time moment. And speaking of that, Louisville
Speaker 6: they came into number twenty two, the only three loss
Speaker 6: team in the college football playoff rankings. And you know,
Speaker 6: when it comes to best case scenario for you in football,
Speaker 6: right your goals with you having three losses, I still
Speaker 6: don't see a scenario where you get in the playoff,
Speaker 6: but you know, we'll see. I mean, I know, some
Speaker 6: people are thrown out a path that they see. I
Speaker 6: don't see it, but look, knock yourself out. You're ten
Speaker 6: spots away and there's three games left, so you know,
Speaker 6: maybe crazier things have in fact happened. But went out,
Speaker 6: and you will have into the streak against Kentucky. You
Speaker 6: already knocked off Clemson, and if you win a bowl game,
Speaker 6: that gives you back to back ten win seasons, that'll
Speaker 6: be the second time in program history that that's happened. Also,
Speaker 6: if you went out, you know what that means. You
Speaker 6: will have gone two straight seasons where every single week
Speaker 6: that the college Football Playoff rankings existed, you were in it.
Speaker 6: And I mean that's really plausible, And I don't know
Speaker 6: how you wouldn't say, Man, we still have a lot
Speaker 6: of momentum, Jeff brom two years in, this thing is
Speaker 6: working out in a major way. And I don't think
Speaker 6: there was a whole lot of doubt in regards to that,
Speaker 6: even whenever Louisville was losing games earlier this year and
Speaker 6: you felt like, man, why can't we get over the hump?
Speaker 6: We should be winning these games. We're making mistakes. You know,
Speaker 6: it happens, but right now to see them. I mean
Speaker 6: they have they're the best three loss team in the
Speaker 6: country according to the College Football Playoff Committee, which, hey,
Speaker 6: you don't hang a banner for that, but if you
Speaker 6: finish strong, it could still be a season that I'd
Speaker 6: have a hard time really understanding how anybody would say
Speaker 6: that it was, you know, disappointing him. Think you would,
Speaker 6: You'd have to say that it was not special maybe,
Speaker 6: but certainly a good season, and you've maintained momentum that
Speaker 6: you established in year one with Jeff brom. All Right,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna say this, and I'll I'll leave you in suspense.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's not like something crazy, but I'm just
Speaker 6: gonna tell you the honest truth. I think Tennessee basketball
Speaker 6: is mid like. I don't think that they're that. I mean,
Speaker 6: I looked up their roster, looked up their numbers, and
Speaker 6: I'm thinking, like man like, I think Louisville on paper
Speaker 6: is better. We'll find out soon enough, but we can
Speaker 6: certainly talk some hoops because no football this weekend, and
Speaker 6: we'll we'll have a Nune tip off at the Youm Center,
Speaker 6: and I'm hoping there's a big rowdy crowd there on
Speaker 6: the Kentucky side, Mark Stoops, he talked yesterday and he
Speaker 6: going anywhere. Guys'll you all just need to accept the
Speaker 6: fact that, like you're gonna have to trust him to
Speaker 6: get it fixed because he ain't walking away.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if you want him to, but
Speaker 2: I kind of feel like you do.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Quick break.
Speaker 6: Doctor Benz joins us on the other side right here
Speaker 6: on Sports Talk seven ninety. Welcome back in Coffee and
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Speaker 6: Thanks for joining us here on a Wednesday afternoon. And
Speaker 6: now joining us is our dear friend, doctor Larry Ben's
Speaker 6: of pro Reap Physical Therapy. How are we doing this afternoon,
Speaker 6: Doctor Ben's.
Speaker 5: We're doing wonderful. How are you doing, Nick?
Speaker 2: Doing good? Doing really really well.
Speaker 6: I'd be doing even better if I was able to
Speaker 6: say I was alongside doctor Ben's in Death Valley on Saturday,
Speaker 6: because that was one heck of a victory. And I
Speaker 6: imagine even though you're at someone else's place, it's not home,
Speaker 6: but you know, it's special to win there. What was
Speaker 6: that atmosphere like for the Cards fans that did make the.
Speaker 5: Trip, Well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 4: It's there are certain special stadiums around the country. You know,
Speaker 4: it's interesting, a lot of good games over the past
Speaker 4: few weeks. You saw the West Coast games that Oregon, Washington,
Speaker 4: certainly Penn State.
Speaker 5: Ohio State.
Speaker 4: But it's hard to beat, you know, the fan surroundings,
Speaker 4: the culture, the atmosphere of big time college football, and
Speaker 4: Death Valley brings.
Speaker 5: All that more.
Speaker 4: And let me tell you, there's nothing better than not
Speaker 4: only just beating them, but mauling them. You know, we've
Speaker 4: had two other chants at that valley and came up
Speaker 4: a little short. Actually probably more than two, but two
Speaker 4: we were very very close to leaving with a victory,
Speaker 4: and so it made this one even much more sweet.
Speaker 4: And you know, we played a complete game. It was
Speaker 4: just an absolute gem and a wonderful prep by the
Speaker 4: coaching and the players came to play. And the doubters
Speaker 4: who are still in doubt are still probably doubting today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I tell you what.
Speaker 6: The way they came out defensively, I mean it really
Speaker 6: was that they got I don't know what was said
Speaker 6: at halftime in Boston, but man, I tell you what,
Speaker 6: they came out and after giving up a score to
Speaker 6: Boston College early on in that third quarter. They really
Speaker 6: were dominant in that game. And you know, the time
Speaker 6: of possession I think really influenced the numbers to where
Speaker 6: you can't really look at what Clemson did offensively and
Speaker 6: feel like the Louisville defense had.
Speaker 2: A great game.
Speaker 6: But man, if you watched it, man, they were in control.
Speaker 6: They were the most consistent unit. Special teams came ready
Speaker 6: to play too. So yeah, when you've had some tough
Speaker 6: losses to really good teams, you really need that breakthrough
Speaker 6: win and they got it and you saw it last night.
Speaker 6: I mean, the only three lost team in the college
Speaker 6: football playoff rankings. That speaks to this resume.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And I think you know, for Losville fans who've
Speaker 4: been around for a while, there are two football games
Speaker 4: that brought back the same sense of a little bit
Speaker 4: of surprise but then an absolute mauling, and that would
Speaker 4: be the Teddy Bridgewater in our victory over Florida, you know,
Speaker 4: down in New Orleans.
Speaker 5: Heck, and you know how many how many outside kicks
Speaker 5: did that game have?
Speaker 4: Well, the game the other day, it had its fair share,
Speaker 4: but you know, it's just such a tribute to the
Speaker 4: University of the players, a team, the athletic department, administration,
Speaker 4: and you know, we'd like to say, take a fish
Speaker 4: smells from its head to its tail, and let me
Speaker 4: tell you whatever we've got going on some incredible momentum
Speaker 4: and it's it's unbelievable to see that. You know, the
Speaker 4: turnaround basketball the other night was you know, they said
Speaker 4: there was what twelve thirteen thousand people there, but it
Speaker 4: sure felt like more than that.
Speaker 5: And to see.
Speaker 4: Literally the exhilaration was just, you know, just incredible emotional
Speaker 4: feeling for all the.
Speaker 2: Fans, good energy.
Speaker 6: And I tell you what, I think this will be
Speaker 6: something I remember for a long time. Pat Kelsey's first game,
Speaker 6: Louisville was up fifty points and they forced a shot
Speaker 6: clock violation on defense with the relentless defense, and everybody
Speaker 6: that was there and those that came stayed, they wanted
Speaker 6: to stay till the end. They were all upstanding clapping
Speaker 6: like that was It was a moment because you realize, wow,
Speaker 6: like these guys are playing hard. You know, the fans
Speaker 6: that are going to be there, they're going to support
Speaker 6: him in Pat Kelsey's team, man, they certainly look like
Speaker 6: a reflection of him with their energy enthusiasm and overall efforts.
Speaker 2: So certainly some good vibes.
Speaker 6: Now, one thing I wanted to get you with this
Speaker 6: Louwell football team a late bye week. There's now an
Speaker 6: extra bye week for everybody because of the changes to
Speaker 6: the college football playoff format this late in the year.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's one of those things you hear people say, well,
Speaker 6: nobody's fully healthy because you've played a lot of football
Speaker 6: at this point, it's a physical sport.
Speaker 2: What do you think, you.
Speaker 6: Know, how how different would this bye week be made
Speaker 6: then the earlier by week, or maybe there's no difference
Speaker 6: at all. I just feel like this late in the year,
Speaker 6: maybe there would be a little more emphasis on rest
Speaker 6: recovery than maybe the first by week.
Speaker 4: Well, there's certainly a lot to be said for the
Speaker 4: timing of these breaks. I think if you look historically,
Speaker 4: you know, go back to the days when.
Speaker 5: There were no biber you know, there was no such
Speaker 5: a concept.
Speaker 4: Then there have been years where we've had two, and
Speaker 4: there's been those where we've had an early one and
Speaker 4: not a late one, and then there's years where we've
Speaker 4: had both. And there are two effects from it. The
Speaker 4: first is that you have kids who are injured going
Speaker 4: into the season who have now been able to get stronger,
Speaker 4: and that makes a big difference.
Speaker 5: And we've certainly had those, and then.
Speaker 4: You've had others who have more of an mid season
Speaker 4: injury and then they need the time off.
Speaker 5: So it is absolutely, you know, well needed.
Speaker 4: You probably saw on social media the locker room celebration
Speaker 4: and it sounded like he gave him a couple three
Speaker 4: days off, which was desperately needed because you're not worried
Speaker 4: at this stage of these kids being in You're not
Speaker 4: worried about their legs getting tired, You're not worried about
Speaker 4: building them into conditioning.
Speaker 5: They're in conditioning.
Speaker 4: They know the play sets, they've gone through, the cadence
Speaker 4: of week to week, what additional adjustments and tempo do
Speaker 4: they need to play with and all those things.
Speaker 5: And so it is incredible timing because.
Speaker 4: Now we go into you know, the sort of triad,
Speaker 4: right we go to out to Stanford, very very difficult
Speaker 4: and if you've looked at the acc our teams have
Speaker 4: not done great going to.
Speaker 5: The West Coast.
Speaker 4: You saw Rutgers have to play, you know, a game
Speaker 4: a few weeks ago was a usc where they just
Speaker 4: got malled they played a seven thirty pm, you know,
Speaker 4: West Coast game.
Speaker 6: Well, Miami was down a few touchdowns to Cal or
Speaker 6: good stretch.
Speaker 4: Of game, and they sure were, and they came back
Speaker 4: and they won that game against the Cal team that
Speaker 4: you know is questionable.
Speaker 5: So this is not an easy trip.
Speaker 4: But I believe they go out with an extra day early,
Speaker 4: probably on Thursday would be my guess.
Speaker 5: I'm actually going to that game, looking very much forward
Speaker 5: to it.
Speaker 4: I've never been in the Stanford Stadium. That's a kind
Speaker 4: of a historic place really, so looking forward to that.
Speaker 5: But it is much needed.
Speaker 4: Don't also forget you have by way gives you an
Speaker 4: opportunity for recruiting, and it gives the coaches an opportunity
Speaker 4: to spend some time with their family, you know, you know,
Speaker 4: regenerate themselves a little bit, remediate refresh and so it's
Speaker 4: it's good for everybody to get a break, no.
Speaker 2: Doubt about it.
Speaker 6: Doctor Larry Ben's and Promoria Physical Therapy is our guest
Speaker 6: joining us here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Let's switch
Speaker 6: gears here to the NFL. Christian McCaffrey one of the
Speaker 6: best players in the NFL when healthy. He's not been
Speaker 6: healthy hasn't played yet this year, it sounds like he
Speaker 6: could be returning sooner rather than later. If you are
Speaker 6: somebody that you know wisely drafted McCaffrey pretty early in
Speaker 6: your fantasy draft, and yeah, I've been able to utilize
Speaker 6: him yet, so maybe it wasn't so wise, but clearly
Speaker 6: a really good and productive player.
Speaker 2: What would you expect his.
Speaker 6: Workload to be when he is able to go? Achilles
Speaker 6: tendonitis is what he's recovering from. It's been a been
Speaker 6: one of the most talked about injuries in the NFL,
Speaker 6: I believe so far this year. The general manager John
Speaker 6: Lynch for the forty nine ers, he emphasized, you know,
Speaker 6: they're going to see if he can handle the volume
Speaker 6: of usage. But you know, I guess is it is
Speaker 6: it kind of a hey, we'll see how how good
Speaker 6: he They'll see how ready he is when they get
Speaker 6: him out there and let him give it a go.
Speaker 5: No, it's exactly you know the situation.
Speaker 4: So you know all of these sort of workers' comp
Speaker 4: regulations you have in the NFL. They don't call him that,
Speaker 4: but effectively he's got a twenty one day practice window,
Speaker 4: which which means he's got three weeks to prove himself.
Speaker 4: He's either going to be you know, he's either going
Speaker 4: to be activated and be on the roster.
Speaker 5: He's not.
Speaker 4: And so I hate to say if you're fantasy players,
Speaker 4: but they're still going to have to wait around a
Speaker 4: little bit. Yeah, they're not going to put him in
Speaker 4: unless he's a productive part of that offense. His injury
Speaker 4: was called achilles tendonitis. It's been it's been rumored to
Speaker 4: actually have been you know, some micro tears and some
Speaker 4: other things going on.
Speaker 5: If you remember, I think.
Speaker 4: He was even exploring overseas treatments and some alternative medicine
Speaker 4: for lack of a better term. He's an incredible athlete,
Speaker 4: has just been a tremendous performer, but he has also
Speaker 4: been you know, a train wreck literally in terms of
Speaker 4: the number of injuries that he's had. That's just the
Speaker 4: type of player that he is. But San Francisco needs him,
Speaker 4: as has been evidenced by the season, and you know,
Speaker 4: we'll see certainly they're not going to put him in
Speaker 4: before you know his time, as they say, So be
Speaker 4: patient on the fantasy, but you can rest assured that
Speaker 4: if that is a late swap going into an announcement
Speaker 4: where they're going to actually activate him, which you'll have
Speaker 4: plenty of time to do.
Speaker 5: You know, that would be the advice that I would
Speaker 5: offer up.
Speaker 6: Another injury in the NFL that certainly has been talked
Speaker 6: about as of late, just because this is a team that,
Speaker 6: no matter how good or bad, they are always going
Speaker 6: to be talked about.
Speaker 2: That's the Cowboys.
Speaker 6: Dak Prescott sounds like he could be heading to the
Speaker 6: IR with what I believe is a hamstring injury. I
Speaker 6: guess there's a lot, you know, I guess there's different
Speaker 6: layers I guess to to to those injuries as far
Speaker 6: as you know how how I guess what kind of
Speaker 6: injury it is to your hamstring. But when you hear
Speaker 6: I are this late in the year or I guess
Speaker 6: you know, midway through the year, is that more of
Speaker 6: a you know, the season's not going well for him
Speaker 6: or is it something that I guess you obviously haven't
Speaker 6: examined him or anything like that. But I don't know
Speaker 6: if Cowboy fans want this guy back or not. But
Speaker 6: if so, what do you think the likelihood is given
Speaker 6: that you know they're talking IR at.
Speaker 4: This point, Well, he signed a you know, Deshaun Watson
Speaker 4: type of contract. Oh yeah, I hate to make that analogy,
Speaker 4: but the reality is that he has been hurt several
Speaker 4: seasons for the Cowboys. I thought it was announced that
Speaker 4: he will actually land on injured reserve for this hamstring injury.
Speaker 5: That's my understanding.
Speaker 4: And it was MRI you know, I think about a
Speaker 4: week or so ago now, and so something else must
Speaker 4: have been happening there. It must have been a profound
Speaker 4: you know, you wouldn't typically go on IR if it
Speaker 4: was a strain. So I'm speculating, of course, but I
Speaker 4: think I think there must be some some aspect of
Speaker 4: a torn muscle there, and certainly on a quarterback. He
Speaker 4: can't back Pelly, he can't do anything. So that's my understanding,
Speaker 4: and we'll see what's happened. I think the one thing
Speaker 4: that I remind my fantasy colleagues about the NFL right now.
Speaker 5: Is what we're in Week nine. You know, we're ten.
Speaker 4: I mean, we're still at this point in the season
Speaker 4: where there's a lot of football left, you know, going
Speaker 4: into this and now teams have bye weeks, just like
Speaker 4: you know we're talking about with college.
Speaker 5: So be a little patient here and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 6: I know there's a lot of Bengals fans here in
Speaker 6: the area, or maybe just you know Bengals fans, I
Speaker 6: if you've got some of their guys on your fantasy team.
Speaker 6: But Te Higgins has has has been dealing with a
Speaker 6: quad injury. He's kind of been fifty to fifty, it
Speaker 6: seems like for the last week or so. I mean,
Speaker 6: it's been something they've been monitoring for quite some time. Obviously,
Speaker 6: he's a really good weapon for Joe Burrow at receiver.
Speaker 6: You know, when you hear quad and yet they haven't,
Speaker 6: you know, it's it's sort of a coin flip. It
Speaker 6: sounds like if he's going to play, doesn't seem to
Speaker 6: be super serious, but also one of those things where
Speaker 6: if you're going to start him, I guess just need
Speaker 6: to know there's a chance he may give it a
Speaker 6: go and they may pull him, or maybe he just
Speaker 6: isn't as effective if you've got it like I feel
Speaker 6: like the first time you're playing somebody coming off of
Speaker 6: an injury, you know, it might still make sense to
Speaker 6: put him out there, but maybe you shouldn't expect him
Speaker 6: to be as productive. Of course, depending on depending upon
Speaker 6: the injury, and I guess ending upon you know what
Speaker 6: position they play.
Speaker 5: Well, that's exactly right.
Speaker 4: I think what you see in the NFL is you know,
Speaker 4: sort of specialty you know, you know, type of plays
Speaker 4: and setups. So in his case, you know, he isn't
Speaker 4: practicing as of twenty four hours ago. He missed practice,
Speaker 4: you know, literally all last week, certainly didn't play you know, Sunday.
Speaker 4: And so if he is able to play, which it
Speaker 4: doesn't sound.
Speaker 2: Like it, but it's not looking good.
Speaker 4: You'll see it in special you know, situations and formations.
Speaker 4: I think the news for their left tackles a little
Speaker 4: bit better, you know, Orlando Brown, you know.
Speaker 5: Who they also need.
Speaker 4: He's he's evidently returned to some practice. So Bengals fans
Speaker 4: who are particularly you know, making sure that they protect
Speaker 4: their quarterback as they should Joe Burrows that, uh, you know,
Speaker 4: I think that's a that's a plus that.
Speaker 2: They're yeah, tackled him.
Speaker 6: Him being healthy, Uh, is a real factor in just
Speaker 6: how much it's gonna matter if the other guys aren't healthy,
Speaker 6: specially when it comes to a receiver. And obviously Burrow
Speaker 6: has been playing better, but yeah, the guys up front
Speaker 6: man they're so important and on both sides of the ball,
Speaker 6: and unless, you know, unless they're getting a big sack
Speaker 6: or they give up a big play, but it seems
Speaker 6: like they don't usually get the recognition that they deserve,
Speaker 6: especially on the offensive line. Right you see a guy
Speaker 6: break free for a big touchdown, or a quarterback that's
Speaker 6: got all kinds of time who makes a throw like
Speaker 6: even if of you know football, I just don't think
Speaker 6: the instincts are there for you to just say, hey,
Speaker 6: that was a great job out of the old line.
Speaker 6: But they are certainly certainly important real quick. The Bengals
Speaker 6: play the Ravens, and I'm telling you, Lamar Jackson, I
Speaker 6: didn't know if he could get much better, considering he
Speaker 6: already has two MVP trophies in his trophy case. But
Speaker 6: this season, I mean, he's hit a level to where
Speaker 6: I feel like there can't be many people out there
Speaker 6: still making the ridiculous claim that this guy is not
Speaker 6: one of the best quarterbacks in the league. And I
Speaker 6: mean he's on pace to maybe be one of the
Speaker 6: best ever. That sounds like in exaggeration because he's still
Speaker 6: pretty young, but man, he's off to such a great
Speaker 6: start and this year, he's taken it to a new level.
Speaker 4: He certainly has I mean certainly early talk on him
Speaker 4: being a so now a three time MVP. I think
Speaker 4: the only criticism that you hear that is legitimate is
Speaker 4: the playoffs. But in terms of his week to week playing,
Speaker 4: and remember last year, he came into the season after
Speaker 4: having a rough prior year.
Speaker 5: He had remembered the illness he had right.
Speaker 4: After visiting the contract situation, where he was honored the
Speaker 4: contract situation, and then he had an ankle.
Speaker 5: Injury where he missed several weeks.
Speaker 4: So I think he's incredible, not just because he's a
Speaker 4: Heisman Trophy winner in a u of L grad and player,
Speaker 4: but because he's incredible and he never disappoints in a game,
Speaker 4: and you're never out of reach with him in there,
Speaker 4: as evidenced by a few weeks ago, came down the
Speaker 4: last play against the Cleveland Browns, so you could certainly
Speaker 4: be rested shared I'm rooting for him, and it's it's
Speaker 4: exciting for not just not just the fans of u
Speaker 4: of L, but around the country.
Speaker 5: He is the talk of the league every week. It
Speaker 5: seems no.
Speaker 2: Doubt about it. Larry as always I appreciate you making
Speaker 2: time for us.
Speaker 6: Enjoy your trip to Stanford next week, and I know,
Speaker 6: I know you guys will be bringing back at.
Speaker 2: W absolutely go cards, cards, take care.
Speaker 6: That's doctor Larry Binn's Prori have physical therapy, good stuff there.
Speaker 2: Doctor Binn's goes to all the games.
Speaker 6: And you know, there's certain trips that I that I
Speaker 6: really would love to eventually take, and those are two
Speaker 6: of them. Clemson, of course, for obvious reasons, especially if
Speaker 6: Louisville is gonna win there.
Speaker 2: That was awesome. But man, go into the Bay Area.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure what the atmosphere would be like at
Speaker 6: a Stanford football game, but you could still have some
Speaker 6: fun there, that's for sure. All Right, quick break, We're
Speaker 6: gonna have some fun the rest of the way, So
Speaker 6: stick around. We'll talk about those college football playoff rankings
Speaker 6: coming up here on the other side, And at some point,
Speaker 6: I want to tell you why I I think Louisville
Speaker 6: is gonna beat Tennessee on Saturday. I mean, it's a
Speaker 6: second game of the season for both teams, but like
Speaker 6: I feel good about it. Stick around right here on
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Speaker 6: Last night, I'm sure a lot of people were keeping
Speaker 6: up with what was going on in the presidential election,
Speaker 6: or maybe you weren't, I'm not sure, but the college
Speaker 6: football playoff rankings were unveiled for the first time this season.
Speaker 6: Even a day later, it is kind of wild to
Speaker 6: believe that they went up against election coverage, because you know,
Speaker 6: it clearly was a big deal and it got talked about,
Speaker 6: but not to the level that it would have under
Speaker 6: really any other circumstance.
Speaker 1: But I love the fun fact that they mentioned that.
Speaker 1: Obviously they start this journey with with it being on
Speaker 1: election day and the college football National Championship is on
Speaker 1: an inauguration day.
Speaker 3: Oh really, yes? Would they weird to booking it like that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's no way they did that in like, I
Speaker 6: wouldn't think. So, you know, maybe they knew it, but
Speaker 6: that couldn't have been like, hey, let's do.
Speaker 3: It because of that.
Speaker 2: There's it just it's it's random. It's random's help.
Speaker 6: So look, when it comes to the playoff rankings, I
Speaker 6: was reminded last night that I really like the week
Speaker 6: check ins because you know, it's just interesting to see
Speaker 6: literally resume for resume like it kind of reminds me
Speaker 6: a little bit of bracketology, especially now that there's twelve teams,
Speaker 6: so we all know this is going to play out.
Speaker 6: It doesn't really matter where you are, but it does
Speaker 6: give you a reference point. It's the first time you
Speaker 6: get a chance to see truly what this committee thinks
Speaker 6: of you and your conference. And Louisville being the only
Speaker 6: three loss team in there that was that was awesome
Speaker 6: to see up at number twenty two. And they play
Speaker 6: another top twenty team in the next couple of weeks
Speaker 6: with Pittsburgh, so they've got a chance to move up
Speaker 6: a little bit. I look, we've already had a couple
Speaker 6: of people asking on the text line that if they
Speaker 6: were to knock off pit and maybe take their spot
Speaker 6: at eighteen, which I'm not really sure that would work
Speaker 6: out that way, but if they did, you know, could
Speaker 6: they be alive? And it's just I mean, I guess
Speaker 6: as far as like a possibility, yeah, but the amount
Speaker 6: of teams you would need to lose in the likelihood
Speaker 6: of that happening is just again seems you know, very
Speaker 6: much impossible, And I don't think that Louisville would just
Speaker 6: replace Pittsburgh if they beat them, like Pittsburgh would be
Speaker 6: seven to two or would have two losses then and
Speaker 6: Louisville of course would be three loss team. But again,
Speaker 6: the playoff rankings, and I think this is the way
Speaker 6: it should be done, but it's not how the AP
Speaker 6: poll or power rankings have typically ever been done. They're
Speaker 6: not going to just drop you because you lost. They're
Speaker 6: going to do a weekly check in. And Louisville beating Pittsburgh,
Speaker 6: maybe that would make Louisville's resume more impressive than theirs,
Speaker 6: because you know, they would have beaten a team that
Speaker 6: was in the top twenty, and Louisville's quality of loss
Speaker 6: is storially strong and Pittsburgh, pitt doesn't really have a
Speaker 6: win to speak of, like, so maybe it would happen,
Speaker 6: but again or maybe or maybe it would be you know,
Speaker 6: lois would be one spot behind them, but we'll worry
Speaker 6: about that when we get there. Again, I said this
Speaker 6: earlier in the show for Louisville. The playoff and not
Speaker 6: a reality now, but if you went out, you'll be
Speaker 6: able to say that you you finished with non regular
Speaker 6: season wins and you ended the street to Kentucky. Again,
Speaker 6: if you went out, you ended the street to Kentucky,
Speaker 6: you beat Clemson for the first time since joining the
Speaker 6: ACC and if you get a bowl win, you'd have
Speaker 6: ten wins and that would give you two straight seasons
Speaker 6: with double digit wins. It would be the second time
Speaker 6: ever that that's happened in Louisville football history. Another thing
Speaker 6: I think that you could include that I think is
Speaker 6: worth something that if you went out, there's no scenario
Speaker 6: that you're not in the rankings the rest of the way.
Speaker 6: So if you finish two years of the Jeff bram
Speaker 6: Era and you have been a ranked team in the
Speaker 6: College Football Playoff rankings throughout that entire experience, that you know,
Speaker 6: you don't hang a banner for that, but that would
Speaker 6: be another sign that, hey, this thing is working out
Speaker 6: really exactly how we want it. So, you know, a
Speaker 6: rough start to the season, not because you know they
Speaker 6: were losing every game and they were embarrassing. It's just
Speaker 6: it was frustrating because you were close in those games.
Speaker 6: But you know what, if you play good teams and
Speaker 6: you lose, you're not going to be given it as
Speaker 6: if you won. But it really doesn't hurt you that much.
Speaker 6: And I think that speaks to Louisville being ranked twenty
Speaker 6: second despite having three losses. They're two good teams and
Speaker 6: they're you know, they were close games. And look, the
Speaker 6: ACC I think has gotten better. I really do believe that.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's taking you know, miles and miles,
Speaker 6: you know, as far as progress, but I think the
Speaker 6: league has gotten better. I think Miami is a legitimate,
Speaker 6: you know, contender here, especially if they can get in
Speaker 6: a shootout with teams.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: I think SMU's for real. In fact, I think SMU
Speaker 6: might might have a claim to be the most upset
Speaker 6: team that's on the outside looking in of the top twelve.
Speaker 6: I mean SMU should be ahead of of Boise of yeah,
Speaker 6: Boise State. I mean, if you just look at Boise
Speaker 6: State right now, what they're benefiting from is their only
Speaker 6: loss being to the number one team and that's Oregon.
Speaker 6: Other than that, what's the best win. I mean, they
Speaker 6: haven't really beaten anybody we're talking about. I mean, UNLV
Speaker 6: I guess is a decent win, but not not really
Speaker 6: in the eyes of like how the Committee's going to
Speaker 6: view a valuable win. When it comes to ranking you
Speaker 6: in these rankings, Like, I don't understand Boise being I'm
Speaker 6: not saying that they're bad, but like, I don't know
Speaker 6: how you can justify having Boise ahead of SMU when SMU,
Speaker 6: I mean their only loss is on the road at BYU,
Speaker 6: who the Committee has sitting at. Let's see number nine,
Speaker 6: so their only loss is a close loss at home,
Speaker 6: or you know, to a BYU team that the Committee
Speaker 6: thinks is the ninth best team in the country. They
Speaker 6: beat Louisville at Louisville, who the Committee says is the
Speaker 6: you know, the twenty second best team, and then Pittsburgh,
Speaker 6: Pittsburgh was unbeaten. Pittsburgh is the eighteenth best team. Again
Speaker 6: according to the committee. The Committee believes that these are
Speaker 6: the that these teams should be ranked where they're ranked.
Speaker 6: It makes zero sense that as you is not higher
Speaker 6: than thirteenth. I mean again, I think, who knows if
Speaker 6: they play, maybe boys wins, but if you're just basing
Speaker 6: it off of resume, I don't I don't understand how
Speaker 6: Boise would be would even be where they are.
Speaker 2: But that's just me.
Speaker 6: We'll get into this a little bit more when we
Speaker 6: talk with Zach Barnetta FootballScoop dot com. He said to
Speaker 6: join us coming up here at about four oh five,
Speaker 6: and we'll get his thoughts. You know, see who he
Speaker 6: thinks is the team that's been snubbed the most.
Speaker 2: With Indiana.
Speaker 6: I'll say this really quickly because obviously they're a big
Speaker 6: talking point because they're undefeated. They're kicking everybody's ass. However,
Speaker 6: you know, they ended up and look, I think their
Speaker 6: spot is is fair. They're number eight, and I think
Speaker 6: most Indiana fans, probably even John would agree that you
Speaker 6: know that that that that's fine. There's no real gripe
Speaker 6: like eight eight makes sense. You know, that's fine. But
Speaker 6: with Indiana. Here's here, here's here's my thoughts on Indiana.
Speaker 2: Indiana.
Speaker 6: I believe that they're a really good team. I would
Speaker 6: not be shocked from what I've seen if they went out,
Speaker 6: But the resume doesn't tell me that. I'm just basing
Speaker 6: it off of what I've seen. So like, Indiana's resume
Speaker 6: is not great, but it doesn't matter because if they
Speaker 6: if they take care of business and keep playing the
Speaker 6: way they're playing and keep winning, it'll work itself out
Speaker 6: to where they're gonna be there.
Speaker 2: In the playoff.
Speaker 6: Like right now, Indiana, they have no rank wins just
Speaker 6: because they haven't they haven't played a ranked team, yet
Speaker 6: they're unbeaten. They have the one ZH six toughest schedule,
Speaker 6: and BYU you know, they've got two top twenty five
Speaker 6: wins and they have the sixtieth rank schedule. So you know,
Speaker 6: I don't think anybody would make the argument that, like
Speaker 6: as far as resume, because again, resume matters. But I
Speaker 6: can take a team whose resume looks whatever, but I've
Speaker 6: watched them and I know, like I've got no doubt
Speaker 6: that they're Like, let me give you an example, Michigan
Speaker 6: last year, did anybody think Michigan wasn't as good as advertised?
Speaker 6: Did anybody think Michigan legitimately wasn't a national championship contender?
Speaker 6: I mean, they ended up winning it, but Michigan's resume
Speaker 6: is stunk.
Speaker 2: The didn't pay anybody good to look very end.
Speaker 5: Of the year.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the one argument that people who
Speaker 1: are really saying Indiana is still getting disrespected.
Speaker 3: You're comparing them to that Michion.
Speaker 2: You were on the phone and you missed my entire
Speaker 2: whole thing that.
Speaker 3: I know disrespect to the person who is on the phone.
Speaker 6: But yes, no, he he means no disrespect. I mean
Speaker 6: disrespect though. Whoever that was well, just like that that,
Speaker 6: you know, I started talking Hoosiers and then the phone
Speaker 6: rang and I could I could tell just as soon
Speaker 6: as you started talking that it wasn't gonna be somebody
Speaker 6: that was going to come on the air. But again, Indiana,
Speaker 6: I don't. Again, I get that their resume is what
Speaker 6: it is. I'm not saying that like it's not.
Speaker 3: What it is.
Speaker 6: It's actually it's actually pretty simple to break down. There's
Speaker 6: really no gray area or real debate about the resume.
Speaker 6: It's it's mean, it's it's perfect because they haven't taken
Speaker 6: a loss, but as far as who they've beat, it's
Speaker 6: not really been anybody that impressive. But yet they're kicking
Speaker 6: everybody's ass. So I think Idian is really good, but
Speaker 6: the resume doesn't doesn't doesn't confirm that. But in the end,
Speaker 6: but in the end, it doesn't matter. You've got twelve teams,
Speaker 6: it doesn't matter as much. Now if you were in
Speaker 6: a four team playoff situation, still like it would be
Speaker 6: Indiana would have.
Speaker 3: To Yeah, it'd be case undefeated. To be in the playoffs.
Speaker 6: Look, if they get to the end of the year
Speaker 6: and they knock off Michigan, they knock off Ohio State,
Speaker 6: Ohio State, I mean Ohio State's the second to last game, right, Yes, however,
Speaker 6: you know it's the one that's I mean, y'all are
Speaker 6: going to kill Purdue.
Speaker 3: So it's so weird with that being like, yeah, you're
Speaker 3: into the season.
Speaker 6: So Ohio State is the second best team. If Indiana
Speaker 6: at number eight, is somehow able to win out and
Speaker 6: knock off that, I mean, only one win possible could
Speaker 6: be better than that one, right because Oregon's number one,
Speaker 6: then it'll all work out. So like it won't, It
Speaker 6: won't really matter at this point in Indiana isn't a
Speaker 6: unique spot because it just again't like they're there. Their schedule, well,
Speaker 6: their schedule was clearly more back you know, backloaded.
Speaker 3: Than it was meant to be.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but like in the Big Ten, I just feel like,
Speaker 6: you know, on paper, you know, there were a few
Speaker 6: games you probably thought, yeah, that's gonna be, like we
Speaker 6: could be pretty good. I mean, nobody thought they'd be
Speaker 6: this good, but you thought you could be pretty good
Speaker 6: and still find yourself in a position to where you're
Speaker 6: gonna you know, you know you're gonna lose to teams
Speaker 6: just because hey, that's what always happens. We're Indiana, they're Michigan,
Speaker 6: and they're Ohio State or even I don't know. Can't
Speaker 6: to give anybody else that you would have said that.
Speaker 1: About with the Big ten is it's so top heavy
Speaker 1: and pretty much everybody below below Indiana and the rankings
Speaker 1: is kind of mit, if.
Speaker 3: We're being honest, Yeah.
Speaker 6: It'll all work itself out though, and I probably shouldn't
Speaker 6: throw that disclaimer out there as much as I do,
Speaker 6: But like, I still think, even though we know it's
Speaker 6: all gonna work itself out, it's still you know, maybe
Speaker 6: I'm a nerd, but it's I think it's interesting and
Speaker 6: fun to kind of just go back and forth with
Speaker 6: each you know, when it comes to each team's resume,
Speaker 6: because you know, there are some some of these decisions
Speaker 6: that you see that you're like, wait, what the hell
Speaker 6: were they thinking? All right, quick break, we got two
Speaker 6: more hours left, so stick around. Zack Barnette Footballcoop dot
Speaker 6: COM's gonna join us coming up here. On the other side,
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