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Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.

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Speaker 1: Now, here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.

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Speaker 2: What's having y'all? Welcome back to otb.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's having a wonderful day here today. Stay stafe out there.

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One more well, I'll get to it a little bit.

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to talk a little bit about link Atton college football topics.

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Big news for Ohio State fans as President Trump has

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actually signed an executive order he has pardoned all Buckeye

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fans for all of their fire Ryan Day tweets after

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November thirtieth. So gratulations to the Buckeyes. The fan base

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is healing. If you were in that number, you have

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now been given to presidential pardon. So congrats to you.

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You are no longer held accountable for your actions. Jake,

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what about the game itself? How was it there covering

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the National championship in Atlanta?

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Speaker 5: It was awesome.

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Speaker 6: I have to say that media day, both teams were incredible.

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Everyone that we talked with very well spoken, very team

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you know, every like every answer was like the perfect answer, right,

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I mean, And so it was a really good media day.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't just like fluff. I mean, it was just

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really good answers.

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Speaker 6: You know, everything, like I said, was team first, and

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so like Saturday, I believe was the media day. You know,

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that was a lot of fun to kind of get

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to know some of these players on both teams that

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had Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl, but I hadn't

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really had Ohio State, and so you know, getting to

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I had them after the Cotton Bowl, but that kind

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of crazy, and so getting a chance to kind of

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sit down and talk with them. Was able to interview

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Marcus Freeman, Mike Denbrock and some of the Notre Dame coaches,

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and then James Lernidis one of my good friends, and

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Brian Hartline who we played against it in two thousand

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and seven. It was kind of cool to catch up

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with them as well. So Saturday, like leading into the game,

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that was a lot of fun. And I do want

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to like give a shout out to both teams because

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I've done a lot of media days with a lot

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of different teams, and that was probably the most impressive

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I've done.

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Speaker 2: Wow, And it was an okay game. Ironically enough, it

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was actually the closest National Championship game from a final

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score perspective that you've had since that twenty three to

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twenty overtime game back in the seventeen eighteen season. So

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for whatever reason, it has been a while before he

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really had a great National Championship game. I thought that

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Notre Dame ecquitted themselves pretty well in terms of fighting

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back and making it making it okay. But yesterday we

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asked the question where the playoffs a bust because there

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were a lot of headlines about, you know, the average

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of twenty two million viewers, third lowest eriership since twenty

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fourteen for a championship game, twelve percent decrease from last

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year's game. But it does appear that you could argue

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that some of the people pushing that narrative maybe have

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a bit of an agenda, because also this game was

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the fifth most watched title game since the debut of

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the BCS in nineteen ninety eight. Remember it did not

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air on ABC, so it wasn't on your traditional easy

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to watch cable. It was the most watched non NFL

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sporting event since last year's Super Bowl, and it was

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the only second time last five years that the National

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Championship has been the most watched game of the season. Also,

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when you think about game flow, it did peak at

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twenty six million before it kind of got unexciting. It

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peaked at the beginning. Had it not been thirty one

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to seven in the third, you know, maybe that number

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gets bumped up a bit. The other thing is everybody's

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had the most watched Cotton Bowl ever, the second most

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watched Orange Bowl ever. And here's the main Here is

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the main point at all. But a lot of people,

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I don't know why, if it's sour grapes against teams

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who didn't get in or didn't give where they wanted,

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a failure. But the bottom line is that whatever reduction

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in viewership there was was vastly overwhelmed by the inventory

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they could sell by having more playoff games. So like, yes,

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had less, but they had way more ads to sell,

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because it made more money. And that's whow this is

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Speaker 5: Yeah, look, I think it was a success.

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Speaker 6: I mean I thoroughly enjoyed covering all these games, and

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like we see it in the second round of the NFL,

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like it happens at that level too. You're not going

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to have great games across the board, but the ones

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that you get are going to be great.

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Speaker 5: And we got some great ones.

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Speaker 6: We got Texas in Arizona State, we got Notre Dame

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in Penn State, even Ohio State in Texas. Right, you know,

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first and goal, you got to go score Texas, and

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you don't. Ohio State stops you, and then they go

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the other way. So the score line at the end

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might look different, but that was a great football game.

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here we go again, but Notre Dame fault like hell.

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Speaker 5: Like t being in the building and being on the sideline.

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Speaker 6: There was a point in that game where I mean

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the intensity was up to an eleven when it looked

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like it's Notre Dame going to figure out a way

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yet again to make this come back.

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Speaker 5: And so even that game it had some of that.

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brim of Mercedes Benz Stadium, and it was probably sixty

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forty for sure, maybe sixty five you know for the Buckeyes,

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thirty five for the Irish there.

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Speaker 6: Like I said, the fanfare deal was sold out, and

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Speaker 6: This is very hard to do in a big city

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like Atlanta, and you know this well to make it

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feel like you're there for a National championship game, because

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there's some like sometimes like it doesn't feel like that.

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game happens to just be there at the same time,

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but being in Atlanta, you felt like you were there

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for a national championship game. And so, like I said,

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I enjoyed it. I love more football. We're not going

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to get great games across the board. And it look

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I understand that, Like I think we can get rid

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of the ten days between games. Let's go, let's go

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to seven days like a normal rest period for these players,

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and maybe we can have one more round where it's

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on campus. I'm not saying it's perfect by any means,

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because I told you last week. I'm like, man, I'm

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tired from covering these games. I can't imagine what these

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coaches and players are kind of going through there. So

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you could adjust some of the things, but I thoroughly

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enjoyed all the extra football that we got.

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Speaker 5: I thought we had enough games. I thought we had

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star power.

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Speaker 6: I thought we had everything that we were kind of

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looking for as far as finding the one true national champion.

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And I know Ohio State lost a couple of games,

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but so did we and O seven, but we were

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the best team. We didn't have our best on some

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of those days, kind of like the Buck guys. But

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at the end of the day, they went through Tennessee, Oregon,

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Texas and Notre Dame to go win a national championship.

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Speaker 2: Well how about this, Jake. If you look at the

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final AP top twenty five from the regular season, Ohio

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State beat the number one team, the number three team,

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the number four team, the number five team, the number

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seven team, and the number nine team, and they themselves

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were the number sixteen. So you're looking at one, two, three, four, five,

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six of the top nine that they could have beaten.

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So yes, the most legendary run to a championship we've

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ever seen. Unfortunately, we do not grant them the rank

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of one of the greatest teams of all time because

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Speaker 5: I was like, hold up, wait a minute.

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Speaker 2: So do you know what happened fifteen years ago? Today?

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Speaker 6: I don't, but I'm looking forward to hearing the answer.

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Ohio State, are they the first two lost national champion?

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Speaker 5: Like is it just us and them?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah without one hundred percent else she

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was the only one in two thousand and seven. Something

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that should become, hopefully in a new era where we

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start scheduling harder out of conference games where hopefully everybody

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eventually gets the nine conference games, and where hopefully I

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twenty six or you do fourteen teams and it's all

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based on conference standings. This should become, uh, maybe not

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as singular as it's been in the past. But yeah,

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kind the kind of appropriate that the first champion of

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this new era with the expanded playoff would be one

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Speaker 6: Speaking sorry fifteen years ago today, Let's go Tae hit

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Speaker 5: Okay, hold I didn't know we were doing this.

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Speaker 2: Hold back in not saying anything.

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Speaker 4: Let's go to the super Bowl boys right here, come

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on baby, one time for your boy. Let's go to

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the super Bowl?

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the call in there? They have the rest of Jim

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Henderson's call in there? Oh man, I just assumed they would.

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Henderson was one of the most legendary calls ever. There.

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Pigs have flown, Hell has frozen over, the Saints are

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headed to the super Bowl. And I bring it up

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because it shows what the Saints can be, But it

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also shows how far you've fallen. I mean, if you

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were watching that in YouTube, if you're just listening, you

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can see everybody they showed. But they show Reggie Bush,

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you see Drew Brees, stay next to Sean Page. You

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see Jeremy shockey, and then you look at this year's

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team right and you see how far you have fallen. Now,

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for whatever it is worth, the Saints are on the

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cusp of kind of fully resetting. So right now the

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Saints lead the NFL. They are fifty two million dollars

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projected cap, and in twenty twenty seven two hundred and

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twenty one million under the projected cap. So sure to

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get out of this season, you may end up taking

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are in the process of doing that right now. You

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make it through this offseason, you get your new coach.

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I think you try to get as frisky as you

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can next year while doing it on a budget, and

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then next season it feels like you can finally start

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to rebuild and make moves and kind of reset the

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process of getting championship relevant once again.

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Speaker 5: All right, T Bob.

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Speaker 6: So I'm gonna need you to kind of, you know,

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catch me up with all the latest and greatest because

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I've you know, trying to find my way back to

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Baton Rouge. I haven't been as locked in maybe to

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the coaching search. But like real quick, like with everything

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that you just said there, I truly hope that these

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Saints are like, Okay, here is our opportunity. We tried

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to hold this thing together with duck tape and super

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glue with Dennis Allen. He was you know, with Sean Payton,

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and we're trying to have this same unit kind of

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move forward.

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Speaker 5: And they try to do it for a long time.

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And I understand, you know, for some of it, I understand.

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Speaker 6: Why, but like this is an opportunity to change the

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direction of their franchise, and so you know, can they

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get that done right now?

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Speaker 5: Will they actually do that?

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Speaker 6: Because I agree with you it's going to go through

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some growing pains, but you have an opportunity to kind

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of hit reset there.

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Speaker 5: They haven't done so in so long. But what is

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kind of the latest with the coaching search, So.

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Speaker 2: A few things have broken the Saints way here and

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that is that mainly they kind of don't have any

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competition left, so the guy said they might still want

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so of course, Aaron Glenn goes to the Jets all

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report so that Brian Schottenheimer looks like he will be

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the Dallas Cowboys head coach. The Raiders are apparently looking

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for more experienced options, like they're talking to Pete Carroll

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and Vance Joseph and Robert Sala. The Jaguars look like

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Liam Cohen's gonna be the guy. Of course, he interviewed

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to Jacksonville, said no, accepting an extension with the Bucks

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only for the Jags. Then fire Trent Balkey, saying no,

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we want you Liam more than we want Bulky. He

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comes back. He's now back in Jacksonville, flew in secretly

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to do negotiations with them. So like, honestly, you want

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Joe Brady, you want Mike McCarthy. There's nobody really in

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that market anymore. So you can choose your guy that

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you believe is the guy to lead you through this rebuild.

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It's just a question of whether or not they get

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correct and that will all I mean. And for a

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guy like Mickey Loomis, who's nearing seventy years old. His

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entire kind of reputation and legacy is on the line here,

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and it sucks because he was such a key part

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of the rise in the Golden era and you know,

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setting up for that Super Bowl again, the run in

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from seventeen eighteen nineteen where you were one of the

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winningest teams in the NFL. I think he might have

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been the winning this regular season team. But winning does

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make you kind of spoiled. And so although there was

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a time when we said, you know, pigs have flown

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and hell has frozen over, it's not really case anymore.

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Expectations have risen a bit in New Orleans. And although

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there is that good on Loomis's resume right now, nobody

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attributed it to him. They attributed to Peyton, they attributed

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it to Breeze. So if he can get this coaching

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decision correct, and maybe that's Joe Brady working with Spencer

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Ratler or car maybe that's Mike McCarthy, that would go

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a long way towards sending him out on a good note,

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as this is likely the last time that he gets

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to make a decision like this, So they really have

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a pretty unimpeded path to whoever they want.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So, like I keep telling myself, Okay, well, you know,

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as you continue to go down the road, it's probably

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gonna be Joe Brady, because if it was Mike McCarthy, Like,

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why would you not go ahead and just hire him?

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Because he's available. People are making their decision. You could

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do it right now. He could be moving forward, he

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could go to Mobile, he could be the coach, he

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could be scouting, and.

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Speaker 5: You haven't done so.

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Speaker 6: But like with everything you said about Mickey looms kind

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of you know, having one more opportunity, then it's kind

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of like, okay, well he's gonna have one more opportunities,

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probably gonna play it a little safe here, and I

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do feel like that would be the safe option.

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Speaker 5: But it's like, Okay, well he hasn't done it, so

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is it Joe Brady.

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Speaker 6: Joe Brady's still playing, and so that's why they haven't

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announced anything, And so you can kind of talk yourself.

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I guess into either one of those guys. But I

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do think like the farther we get down the road,

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it's probably going to lean, in my opinion, Joe Brady,

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because why would you not make the move if it

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was Mike McCarthy with all the things that you have

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kind of coming up. And again, I know it's not

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the say all be all, but with Mobile being next week,

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where you're going to have like most of your personnel

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there watching scouting, why would you not go ahead and

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have your head coach there.

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Speaker 2: It is one of the interesting quirks about the NFL

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schedule though, is like, do teams feel the need to

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go ahead and act on a guy that maybe you

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know that isn't coaching anymore because I feel like they

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got to go ahead and get a deal done, or

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if you really think a guy that is still the

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guy is the guy that you know he's still coaching,

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like are you willing to wait on him? And to

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your point, the Saints may be waiting on Joe Brady,

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but we'll continue to update and see over the next

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few days. The other fly in the oint men here

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that makes it hard to judge outside looking in, you say, well,

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why I'm not Hiv McCarthy yet. McCarthy probably hadn't able

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to get to town yet if you were trying to

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fly him in right, Like basically everything got frozen over

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for about three days, so that could affect the timeline,

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but either way, the Saints will have their pick of

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the letter. Like, sure, maybe Aeron Glynn was choice number one,

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but after that, the guys that you valued most are

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still available, and so maybe it's even Kingsburg or something

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if he comes to interview after the Jaden Daniels run.

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It remains to be seen. The more interesting thing to

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me will be when you get one of these coaches,

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what do they do at quarterback? Do they ride with

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Derek Carr for a year? Do they lean into Spencer Rattler?

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See what you have there so you know if you

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need to go to it the different quarterback next year,

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because like, yeah, Derek Carr is a good enough quarterback

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highest graded player on the Saints by the way, Derek

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Carr is a good enough quarterback where he's probably gonna

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win like seven to eight games at least, right Whereas

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Spencer Rattler you could be looking at like a disaster season.

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Maybe not, But is this the situation where you engage

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in a bit of pseudo tanking. You know, let's see

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what we have in Rattler and that if we don't

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like him and the season goes bad, that sucks. But

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you're set up with a great draft pick and maybe

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make a move this year. I don't know. Maybe the

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new coach manages Mickey loves to trade up, so maybe

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want to be a surprise in that regard that again,

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you need so much, this almost feels like a draft.

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Or you don't trade up, you wait on quarterback. You

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draft everybody that you can try to inject this team

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with some youth, and then you maybe look at quarterback

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after that. Some fascinating crossroads that the Neworleon Saints are

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currently at. All right, when we get back here on OTB,

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we can keep talking about that. We got some LSU

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the ninth ranked morning sports show in America.

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Off the Bench.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back into Off the Bench. I don't know where

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Tea Bob's at. Jake, Oh there he is. Why would

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I do that for two minutes?

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Speaker 2: I'm letting it.

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Speaker 5: Play right now.

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Speaker 2: Schedule a doctor appointment and that's fine.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna me and Jake and Taylor were gonna

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hold it down till you got back on y'all.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to O. T. B. H Alando. I know

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you'll be very excited. Baseball. Look at my sweatshirt going

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down this week and what is it? I can't see it.

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Speaker 3: It's the box.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to my shirt. Yeah, so uh Inn squad

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scrimmage is gonna take place.

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Speaker 6: Gets the doctor's appointments schedule. I know you've had that

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thing you've been trying to get a look at for

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you know.

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Speaker 2: You're paying someone to do this.

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Speaker 7: I have volunteered to do this for free, no less

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than four times.

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Speaker 2: I know, I know, But last Taylor, I don't know.

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If I don't know, if you have a medical degree,

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what's one of those.

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Speaker 7: Things where it's like do you want it done quickly

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or correctly? I totally understand that, but we could have

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been had this done.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that's true. But yeah, baseball preseason scrimmage is going

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down this weekend two pm Friday, one pm Saturday, one

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pm Sunday, three pm Monday. If you want to go

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be in that number. I'm sure you'll find Moose and

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Hunt at the box at some point this weekend. But

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gates will open fifteen minutes before first pitch. So this

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is a great opportunity. If you have a kid who's

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baseball obsessed, do you want to get eyes on this

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brand new very exciting LSU team, which in all the

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major polls where they ran basically top five and every

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single one.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, there'susually three.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's about two to three in the entire country.

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I mean just great transfer, portal class, great returners. This

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looks to me very But you want to go watch

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Chase Sore's throw a little bit everything else, It'll be

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good going down in the box this weekend as we

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are about roughly twenty something days from the season starting.

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Does it start on Valentine's Day? Maybe? I believe February fourteen? Yeah?

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Is anybody gonna go to the box this weekend? From here?

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Speaker 3: I was thinking about going, Yeah, okay, what are you

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what are you going to be looking for? If you

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end up going, I'm always looking at the bullpen. Yeah,

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Like I love pitching, rotate, I love pitching. So I'm

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going to be looking at the bullpen and the new

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transfers that we have that are supposed to be making

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a big impact on the team, like Daniel Dickinson that

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we talked about yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, third team All American according to d one

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Baseball and Daniel Dickson. A lot of people hyping up

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Allanson as well, even though I don't know if Ayensin's

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in this starting lineup right now?

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Speaker 5: Is he mix?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? We will. We will have to see Zax's will

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probably check out the box tomorrow. Again, guys, it's really fun.

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It's free, gates opened fifteen minutes before you go in,

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and you just enjoy yourself some baseball and get get

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hyped up. Also, I imagine the weather should be pretty

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nice this weekend. I don't know if it will for sure,

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but that's kind of what I would feel. So LSU

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baseball right around the corner. You can almost taste it.

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Speaker 6: It's fantastic, guys, everything like Hunt's feeling right now. Oh

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you know, is he at an eleven right now? I

478
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,920
mean you actually have it like he can feel it.

479
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,079
There's gonna be a scrimmage this weekend. I know he

480
00:24:25,319 --> 00:24:27,440
likes to go out there. What is it with a coke?

481
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:28,519
Speaker 5: Icy in? Something else?

482
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:30,279
Speaker 6: Like the fact that we all know what he likes

483
00:24:30,319 --> 00:24:32,920
to drink while he's going to baseball practice. Lets us

484
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:34,759
know how much he loves it because he talks about

485
00:24:34,799 --> 00:24:36,920
it so much and so like him.

486
00:24:37,319 --> 00:24:40,119
Speaker 5: Muso right now probably on cloud nine.

487
00:24:40,759 --> 00:24:42,799
Speaker 2: LSU baseball plus twelve hundred to win. It all, Sin

488
00:24:42,839 --> 00:24:45,000
Scott Dice. Not a bad value play there if you're

489
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:50,440
gonna rock with your tigers to go home as national champions. Yeah,

490
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,960
I mean a coke icy is one of the best

491
00:24:53,039 --> 00:24:56,319
pairings to enjoy any sort of entertainment.

492
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 6: Again, every favorite favorite flavor of ice, he's probably coked

493
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:00,000
for you, right.

494
00:25:00,319 --> 00:25:02,759
Speaker 2: Without a doubt. And every now and then I'll do

495
00:25:02,799 --> 00:25:06,480
a little coke blueberry mix, maybe a coke cherry mix

496
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,480
as well, Like there's room for that. But if you

497
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,039
were to give me just one with a bullet, it

498
00:25:11,079 --> 00:25:14,559
will always be a coke icy. Just too many good

499
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,400
movie memories, watching too many good movies with a buttery

500
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,079
popcorn and coke icy. It's one of my greatest pleasures

501
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:22,640
in life.

502
00:25:22,519 --> 00:25:25,759
Speaker 6: You know that, Like, yeah, I'm sorry, no, no, no,

503
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:27,960
a Landra, I bet you've got a pretty good answer

504
00:25:28,039 --> 00:25:30,640
to this as well. So for me, it's peach icy.

505
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,759
But you can't find it very many places. There's like

506
00:25:33,799 --> 00:25:36,079
two or three places in the Port City and have

507
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,599
a peach icy. It is s tire at is next level.

508
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:40,319
Speaker 5: And maybe it's.

509
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:41,920
Speaker 6: Because you can't find it, and you know, one of

510
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,720
those things where it's like because it's not just easy

511
00:25:44,759 --> 00:25:47,000
to get. Maybe you know, even taste even better. But

512
00:25:47,039 --> 00:25:49,200
I'm gonna go peach icy but a laundraft. Feel like

513
00:25:49,279 --> 00:25:50,640
you have a really good answer to this.

514
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,559
Speaker 3: I do cherry and coke mix together. That's that's my

515
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,119
go to every single time. But I do like mostly coke, yeah,

516
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,279
and then like a dash of Yeah, I just mix

517
00:26:01,319 --> 00:26:03,119
it up real good. But what I was gonna say was,

518
00:26:05,519 --> 00:26:08,759
actually I think I forgot what I was gonna say. Good, Oh,

519
00:26:08,839 --> 00:26:13,160
I remember, so, you know how like whenever I don't know,

520
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,799
I guess I'll use like football season for y'all as

521
00:26:15,839 --> 00:26:18,039
an example when y'all were players, and you can like

522
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,440
feel I don't know if I'm explaining this right, but

523
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,680
you can kind of like feel when it's coming up

524
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,880
and like the nostalgia or whatever. Yeah, that's if it's

525
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,519
any indication of like how Hunt feels. That's kind of

526
00:26:28,519 --> 00:26:31,000
how I feel right now, Like I'm like it's here,

527
00:26:31,319 --> 00:26:34,839
it's there, Like I feel like I'm at the box

528
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:35,559
right now.

529
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 2: As an adult feel it sports fan, I can smell it.

530
00:26:38,599 --> 00:26:44,200
I would rank the National Championship run as amazing, probably

531
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,440
some of my top five fan memories of all time.

532
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean yeah.

533
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:49,559
Speaker 4: The.

534
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 2: Just the terror and anxiety of every single pitch against

535
00:26:56,519 --> 00:27:02,039
Tennessee every single pitch again Wake Forest, every single pitch

536
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,799
against Florida. I mean, I've never lived in died like

537
00:27:06,039 --> 00:27:09,440
it was my first appreciation as an adult of just

538
00:27:09,759 --> 00:27:15,440
how insanely high stakes and locked in baseball can make you.

539
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,400
And I think that this team, and again, I know

540
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:24,640
last year is you know, on the whole disappointment, but

541
00:27:25,759 --> 00:27:28,839
you cannot lose sight of the way that that team

542
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,799
finished last year and what it says about Jay Johnson's

543
00:27:31,839 --> 00:27:37,279
ability to continuously tinker, continuously motivate, continue to get guys

544
00:27:37,319 --> 00:27:39,480
to not give up. I mean, that was a team

545
00:27:39,519 --> 00:27:42,559
that was dead and buried, that had no business whatsoever

546
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,039
even making the postseason. And not only did they make

547
00:27:45,079 --> 00:27:48,519
the postseason, but you were what two outs away from

548
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,680
was it winning the Super Right or was it the

549
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,480
regional in Carolina region? It was a regional Okay, you

550
00:27:53,519 --> 00:27:55,920
were two outs away. You had Carolina on the ropes,

551
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,880
Carolina team that objectively was much better than you, and

552
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,039
you were two outs away just couldn't quite get it done. Well,

553
00:28:02,039 --> 00:28:05,400
this LSU team should be much better than last year's.

554
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,279
Remember last year's was kind of wild because all of

555
00:28:08,319 --> 00:28:11,359
your preseason bets none of them paid off. The guys

556
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,319
that you thought would be great, almost to a man,

557
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,680
none of them were, meaning you had to kind of

558
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,279
scramble continue to find options squeezelood from the stones. Coming

559
00:28:19,319 --> 00:28:22,720
into this year, it would appear that Jay Johnson would

560
00:28:22,799 --> 00:28:26,559
have an overwhelming amount of options. And so when I

561
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,079
see a coach who managed to do what he did

562
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,920
last year that team, you even think back to year

563
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,119
one of Jay Johnson when he was managing that pitching

564
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:38,920
staff like like like like a like an OCD obsessive

565
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,079
doing Excel spreadsheets, I mean down to every single pitch

566
00:28:43,279 --> 00:28:46,440
right like now, you give him this new crop of talent,

567
00:28:46,599 --> 00:28:48,279
and you see why the ranked third, You see why

568
00:28:48,279 --> 00:28:52,680
you become incredibly excited about this, about this game or about.

569
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,359
Speaker 5: This Yeah, I am right there with y'all.

570
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 6: And you mentioned kind of the lead up for the

571
00:28:57,279 --> 00:29:01,440
National Championship game. I mean, Harlow was born like right

572
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,599
after Tommy White hit the walk off against Wake Forest,

573
00:29:04,599 --> 00:29:06,839
like I will that is a memory that I will

574
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:07,519
never forget.

575
00:29:07,519 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 5: We're in the hospital, we're all watching it.

576
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 6: I mean Katie's sitting there watching the game like intently

577
00:29:14,279 --> 00:29:16,759
like about to have a child and she's still watching it.

578
00:29:16,799 --> 00:29:20,599
And then when Tommy Tanks hits the walk off, it's like, okay, Harlowe,

579
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:21,319
you can come now.

580
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 5: So almost like we were waiting until it happened.

581
00:29:24,079 --> 00:29:27,319
Speaker 6: And so that run, like that's one of my greatest

582
00:29:27,359 --> 00:29:30,000
sports memories, like me being involved, not involved, And so

583
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,559
that LSU baseball team, Like if you didn't already love

584
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,240
LSU baseball, that was the one that probably did it

585
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,359
for a lot of people or maybe even tea. It

586
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,440
brought a lot of people back that have you know,

587
00:29:40,559 --> 00:29:43,279
loved LSU baseball in the past, but maybe you know

588
00:29:43,319 --> 00:29:45,519
it's a little bit of a drought to LSU standards

589
00:29:45,559 --> 00:29:48,519
for over a decade and that one brought you right back.

590
00:29:48,519 --> 00:29:51,680
And so like that for me, like I'll always have

591
00:29:51,799 --> 00:29:55,119
that and every baseball season like starting with that one

592
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,720
and then what we've had, you know, last year as well,

593
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,680
like that was you know, it was an exciting run

594
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,480
and they felt just short obviously there against North Carolina.

595
00:30:02,599 --> 00:30:04,039
Speaker 5: But I'm firing up.

596
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 6: For this baseball team and they've got so many new

597
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:07,640
faces and we're gonna have to learn them over time,

598
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,079
and we know the names, we know where they're.

599
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:13,839
Speaker 2: Coming from about baseball season, though, is my fact finding

600
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:15,799
mission of knowing who we're gonna fall in love with

601
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,000
last this year? Like, sure there was hype round Stephen Mylam,

602
00:30:19,039 --> 00:30:22,279
but I didn't expect Mylam to be the monster that

603
00:30:22,319 --> 00:30:24,880
he had become by the end of the year, consistent

604
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,319
clutch hits like it was. It was fantastic watching that rise,

605
00:30:28,359 --> 00:30:30,759
watching the massive jump that Bear Jones took and now

606
00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:33,319
wondering can he make a similar massive jump and what

607
00:30:33,359 --> 00:30:37,000
the hell would that mean for LSU. So yeah, it's fantastic.

608
00:30:37,279 --> 00:30:40,559
Alandra asks where were you and Tommy? What tanks hit

609
00:30:40,599 --> 00:30:43,000
the walk off? I remember where I was. I was

610
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,200
actually in the airport and I was coming back from

611
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,559
the beach with my wife's family, and there were a

612
00:30:48,559 --> 00:30:50,519
ton of LSU fans all on the gate. Everybody's watching

613
00:30:50,519 --> 00:30:54,160
on their phones. There was a giant, impromptu celebration in

614
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:55,680
the middle of the airport. Is one of the coolest

615
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:56,559
memories I've ever had.

616
00:30:57,279 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 7: Dude, that time on OTB was crazy too, not just

617
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,359
the baseball season. Jake was having a kid. You went

618
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,920
to a fake wedding in Florida, Like you were flying

619
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,440
back that day to uh God, I remember that you

620
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:09,599
lost this year.

621
00:31:10,599 --> 00:31:11,759
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think I might have just been

622
00:31:11,799 --> 00:31:13,799
on a family trip. You're talking about my brother's wedding

623
00:31:15,079 --> 00:31:17,599
three weeks before. It was a fake wedding because I

624
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,240
wasn't actually your saying fake wedding because they were already May.

625
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 5: Yeah.

626
00:31:21,519 --> 00:31:27,039
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh that was this year. That was this yeah. Yeah. Also,

627
00:31:27,119 --> 00:31:30,799
we had some insane whiskey and wines during that championship run,

628
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:35,160
just some really unhinged clips on the Morning show from

629
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,880
that run, after beating Florida, after beating Tennessee.

630
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 3: It was I was producing that game. So I was

631
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:46,759
like in the LSU studio losing my freaking mind, Like

632
00:31:46,799 --> 00:31:49,480
when I tell you, Tommy hit that home run and

633
00:31:49,519 --> 00:31:52,480
I literally started like yelling and jumping up and down

634
00:31:52,519 --> 00:31:55,519
in the studio. I was losing my mind, and I

635
00:31:55,559 --> 00:31:57,960
was standing up like the entire time because my nerves

636
00:31:57,960 --> 00:31:58,799
were just so bad.

637
00:31:59,319 --> 00:31:59,839
Speaker 5: That was the.

638
00:32:02,839 --> 00:32:05,559
Speaker 2: I forgot their miney, all right, my turn to forget

639
00:32:05,759 --> 00:32:08,559
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666
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Speaker 2: Mike Walla says, I swear walked into my middle son

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674
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great way to hype yourself up for LSU baseball. Speaking

675
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:08,920
of hyping up, how about the NFC and AFC Championships

676
00:34:09,039 --> 00:34:13,039
this weekend? And Jake Taylor just showed me a stat

677
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:17,320
that is legitimately mind blowing. Now, I want to talk

678
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:18,679
jays Ands. I want to start Commander. I want to

679
00:34:18,679 --> 00:34:23,480
talk Commander's Eagles, but let's start with Bill's Chiefs. Obviously,

680
00:34:24,039 --> 00:34:26,519
that is the kind of closest you know, that is

681
00:34:26,599 --> 00:34:30,480
the the the Tom Brady Peyton Manning matchup of our time.

682
00:34:30,559 --> 00:34:32,760
Of the new generation, right, Patrick Mahomes playing the role

683
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,760
of Brady, Josh Allen playing the role of Peyton, Manning

684
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:42,320
here and Taylor. So these teams have played. Give us

685
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:46,239
the numbers, so last ten times, ten times that these

686
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two teams.

687
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Speaker 7: Have played, Yes, I will show to you either, dear

688
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:52,000
break the last ten times they're five and five. So

689
00:34:52,119 --> 00:34:54,000
five wins for the Chiefs, five for the Bill.

690
00:34:54,119 --> 00:34:55,639
Speaker 2: You know that that's pretty good, that's pretty cool.

691
00:34:57,119 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 7: The Bills have scored two hundred and fifty one points

692
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:03,559
in those ten games. Okay, Kansas City Chiefs have scored

693
00:35:03,599 --> 00:35:06,599
two hundred and fifty one points in those ten games.

694
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 2: What I mean? Can you imagine that? So you have

695
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:15,440
a ten game sample size, nearly an entire NFL football season,

696
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:19,159
well over half of an NFL football season, and the

697
00:35:19,159 --> 00:35:22,239
two teams are split dead even on wins and losses

698
00:35:22,559 --> 00:35:28,000
and on points score. That's actually insane. Uh, who are

699
00:35:28,039 --> 00:35:32,199
we feeling? Obviously, being in Arrowhead is feels like a

700
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:37,719
massive advantage for the Chiefs. But the same way that

701
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,559
you saw Brady excuse me, Manning eventually break through a

702
00:35:41,639 --> 00:35:45,400
couple of times in the dominant Brady run. I don't know,

703
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,639
man this Chiefs team. Sure all they do is win.

704
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:49,559
I know they're faded. I know the referees are on

705
00:35:49,599 --> 00:35:51,880
their side. I got a good chuckle out of Gronk

706
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,679
on the Up and Adams Show yesterday saying one of

707
00:35:54,679 --> 00:35:56,440
the keys for the Bills be too If you sack

708
00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:01,159
Patrick Mahomes, don't sack him too hard, because otherwise you

709
00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:05,880
know you're going to screw yourself. But I have the

710
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,519
feeling that this is gonna be one of those times

711
00:36:08,559 --> 00:36:11,719
where the kind of lesser counterpart breaks through, and I

712
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,800
think Josh Allen and the Bills go on the road

713
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,239
and win an airhead.

714
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:21,119
Speaker 6: I hope, So I can certainly hope. So I am

715
00:36:21,159 --> 00:36:25,079
over the Chiefs. And I got a son that's right

716
00:36:25,119 --> 00:36:27,039
next to me in this next room that is probably

717
00:36:27,079 --> 00:36:28,000
not gonna like hearing that.

718
00:36:28,079 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 5: But I don't want them to win at all.

719
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 6: We have seen you, You've been here, You've done enough

720
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,599
at this point. And watching that Texans game and the

721
00:36:37,639 --> 00:36:40,599
way they protected Mahomes more than any other quarterback, I

722
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,360
am just over it.

723
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 2: I mean it's kind of insane, like two Texans knocked

724
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,360
each other out and they were like, flack on my Homes.

725
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm over man. Just give me the Bills. And

726
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:53,320
the Bills have been so close before.

727
00:36:53,519 --> 00:36:55,760
Speaker 6: And I was a critic of Josh Allen as far

728
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,320
as the playoffs, certainly over the last couple of years,

729
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:00,920
and he looks like he.

730
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,679
Speaker 5: Has truly turned a corner.

731
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 6: And his supporting cast compared to the others, it's not

732
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,159
even close. I mean, he has truly bettered himself, even

733
00:37:09,199 --> 00:37:12,199
though those around him aren't the same caliber that he's

734
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,679
had in the past. And so I can certainly get

735
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,840
behind that. And I hope the Bills, and I do

736
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,159
think they have a great opportunity with the way they're

737
00:37:19,199 --> 00:37:22,360
running the football with James Cook. Now they have a

738
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,559
chance to go into Arrowhead and do what not a

739
00:37:24,599 --> 00:37:26,440
lot of people can do, which is beat the Chiefs

740
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:27,239
in the playoffs.

741
00:37:27,599 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 2: The Bills deserve this, dude, The Bill's mafia, excuse me,

742
00:37:31,679 --> 00:37:35,559
deserves this. One of the most loyal, most exciting fan bases,

743
00:37:35,599 --> 00:37:38,519
one of the most long suffering fan bases in all

744
00:37:38,519 --> 00:37:41,199
of American sports, and the Bills. If you've been a

745
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:45,239
long time Bills fan, let's say you're forty something years old,

746
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,760
you've been a Bills fan your entire life. You have

747
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,360
suffered in a way that almost no one does. Where

748
00:37:51,559 --> 00:37:55,639
you suffered the ultimate heartbreak when you were awesome consistently

749
00:37:56,199 --> 00:37:58,800
losing the four Super Bowls, and then you didn't make

750
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,320
the playoffs for like twenty years. So you suffered while

751
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,960
at the top, and you suffered while buried at the bottom,

752
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,400
and you've been scratching and clawing and slowly climbing out

753
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,559
of that hole, and here is a golden opportunity to

754
00:38:12,639 --> 00:38:14,559
try and get back to super once again. It does

755
00:38:14,599 --> 00:38:16,360
show you, though, that the Chiefs, I mean, this game

756
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,159
is in hair awhead. Why because the Chiefs just always

757
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,119
find a way to win. Tay tay, what do you

758
00:38:22,159 --> 00:38:23,800
think you got? I got one minute, and then we'll

759
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,199
get to the next team, next segment.

760
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Speaker 7: Going Buffalo Bills on this one, guys, I think Josh

761
00:38:28,199 --> 00:38:30,199
Allen's on a different level right now. You were talking

762
00:38:30,199 --> 00:38:33,320
about the penalty discrepancy. Jake was Kansas City and the

763
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,679
playoffs plus and nine, next closest team plus two one

764
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,840
terms of penalties four and again. So there's a little

765
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:40,920
something to keep an eye on. But uh, look, I

766
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:42,880
think Josh Allen's on a mission this year. He hasn't

767
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,039
been all year. I mean any criticism that was thrown

768
00:38:45,079 --> 00:38:47,199
his way deservedly, so, I mean he had had a

769
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,880
turnover problem. I mean, he just looks like he's playing

770
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,639
on another level. I know it's going to be super

771
00:38:52,679 --> 00:38:54,519
tough to beat the Chiefs.

772
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:55,599
Speaker 2: You just get that.

773
00:38:55,559 --> 00:38:57,760
Speaker 7: Feeling in your gut that it's time that a team's

774
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,000
going to do it. And I think the Bills are

775
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,119
going to do it all right.

776
00:39:01,159 --> 00:39:03,039
Speaker 2: When we get back here on OTB, let's talky about

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Jaden and the commander is taking on Jalen Hurts in

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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the best morning sports this show around

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off the Bench with Hester and t BOBDN and y'all.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to O T B. Get ready to wrap

805
00:40:37,159 --> 00:40:40,079
up our number two and we're talking NFL playoffs. Just

806
00:40:40,119 --> 00:40:43,239
broke down a little Bill's Chiefs and Arrowhead. On the

807
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other side of the docket, Jaden Daniels and the Commanders

808
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,679
heading to the link take on Dalen Hurts and the

809
00:40:48,679 --> 00:40:52,119
Philadelphia Eagles. Elandra, how do you see this one playing out?

810
00:40:55,079 --> 00:40:56,960
Were Why weren't you weren't you ready on the mic?

811
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:57,519
There what's up.

812
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Speaker 3: Through you weren't going to it looks it looks like

813
00:41:03,679 --> 00:41:04,519
we I mean, it looks like it.

814
00:41:04,559 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 2: There's you first, so you know you gotta I'm like

815
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,159
pistol pete, you gotta stay ready. This past maybe coming

816
00:41:09,159 --> 00:41:11,239
from behind the bag and be coming from all different angles.

817
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,360
Get your hands up. Uh, what do you think though, comedy.

818
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:19,079
Speaker 3: Eagles are in commanders or Eagles commander PEPs So you can talk.

819
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 2: We kind of rehash it next hour.

820
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:24,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously, I really really want the commanders to win

821
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,079
this game. I actually think that they might have a

822
00:41:27,159 --> 00:41:31,039
chance to. Like, I'm kind of leaning toward the commanders

823
00:41:31,039 --> 00:41:33,760
on this one. I know they I know Saquon is

824
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:39,440
like unstoppable, but the commander's defense is kind of like

825
00:41:39,559 --> 00:41:42,199
better than we give them credit for. I feel like

826
00:41:42,199 --> 00:41:45,559
we don't talk about it enough, but like I kind

827
00:41:45,599 --> 00:41:47,440
of leaning toward the commanders on this one.

828
00:41:47,559 --> 00:41:51,639
Speaker 2: Here's the question, Jake, and I'll pose this to you.

829
00:41:52,559 --> 00:41:56,199
Is anybody in the playoffs right now playing better quarterback

830
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:57,079
than Jayden Daniels.

831
00:41:59,360 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 5: No, I don't.

832
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,679
Speaker 6: I don't think so T And I really don't think

833
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:05,519
that it's that close. I think with what he can

834
00:42:05,599 --> 00:42:07,280
do and you're starting to see like some of the

835
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:08,039
all time.

836
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 5: Greats just really brag on him.

837
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 6: And Tom Brady comes, they're even blown away with what

838
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,199
Jade's been able to do. And he can do it

839
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,000
so many different ways, and he's so cool, calm and

840
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,320
collected in the pocket. He's so good against pressure, and

841
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,840
so when his numbers are what they are against the

842
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:30,039
blitz and pressure and you like, you look at it, Okay, Well.

843
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 5: No, damn.

844
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:37,760
Speaker 3: I knew he was going to have a good answer too.

845
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 2: I know, I know he was rolling and they got

846
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,360
and then the internet came and reared to tuckyhead.

847
00:42:41,599 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 3: But no, I actually don't think that any of the

848
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,760
quarterbacks are playing better except for Josh Allen.

849
00:42:46,559 --> 00:42:51,320
Speaker 2: One thing I'm a bit terrified of for the Washington Commanders,

850
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,360
the thirtieth ranked rush defense in the league. Yeah, give

851
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,039
up over one hundred and thirty eight yards a game,

852
00:42:58,519 --> 00:43:04,679
and this is a team that obviously wants to beat

853
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,320
you down with say com Barkley, have Jalen Hurts add

854
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,280
in on the edges. Now, Jalen Hurts seems to be

855
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,960
a bit hobbled, So that's something definitely to watch going forward.

856
00:43:14,679 --> 00:43:17,119
But that's where that's where Jayden's going to be relied

857
00:43:17,199 --> 00:43:20,920
upon even more, is that their best bet may be

858
00:43:21,079 --> 00:43:23,679
to kind of disrupt gameflow if they can manage to

859
00:43:23,679 --> 00:43:26,639
put points on the board, disrupt game flow and try

860
00:43:26,679 --> 00:43:30,280
to force Philly out of being so run first. Like

861
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,000
if Philly is able to get an early lead, I

862
00:43:33,039 --> 00:43:34,679
think the Commanders, even though have been so good in

863
00:43:34,679 --> 00:43:38,119
clutch situations, I think they could be in trouble here. Also, yes,

864
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,480
the Commanders beat Philly to at the end of the year,

865
00:43:40,679 --> 00:43:43,639
but that was a game without Jalen Hurts. Sorry, Jake,

866
00:43:43,679 --> 00:43:45,440
you were talking about Tom Brady and everybody else bragging

867
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:46,559
on Jayden Daniels.

868
00:43:47,639 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they realized, like what he's done, and

869
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,519
it's like, okay, well, we're gonna pressure him because he's

870
00:43:53,559 --> 00:43:55,559
a young quarterback. We're gonna kind of get him off

871
00:43:55,639 --> 00:43:58,559
his marker a little bit and maybe he can't run.

872
00:43:58,639 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 5: It's like, oh, well, he's leaked against pressure, you know.

873
00:44:02,039 --> 00:44:04,079
Speaker 6: So it's like, okay, well we can't really do that

874
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:06,039
because he is dicing teams up.

875
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,159
Speaker 5: Well, let's just sit back and let's play coverage.

876
00:44:08,199 --> 00:44:10,559
Speaker 6: Well, the problem there is if you drop eight or

877
00:44:10,559 --> 00:44:13,400
whatever of my BT, as you know, then he has

878
00:44:13,519 --> 00:44:15,360
all day, and then if you give him all day,

879
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,159
he's either going to find the open receiver or he

880
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,119
is going to do it with his legs because you're

881
00:44:20,159 --> 00:44:22,719
not getting that pressure. He's faster than you. He might

882
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,199
be the fastest person on the field. I know we

883
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,559
never got an actual forty time from him, but there's

884
00:44:28,559 --> 00:44:31,400
nobody that really like catches up to him. And so

885
00:44:32,519 --> 00:44:34,559
you're damned if you do. Damned if you don't against

886
00:44:34,639 --> 00:44:37,840
Jaden and he is playing like in that like NBA

887
00:44:38,079 --> 00:44:42,800
jam he's heating up. He can't miss type situation right now.

888
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,159
And you mentioned that they beat him and it was

889
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,320
without Jalen Hurts, and that's true, that is factual. But

890
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,519
you also know this t from playing as long as

891
00:44:50,519 --> 00:44:55,079
you did. That gives you a confidence that, hey, we

892
00:44:55,079 --> 00:44:57,280
we came back on these guys. They tried to throw

893
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,320
the knockout punch like four times and we didn't allow it. Yeah,

894
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,159
we came back, we fall to the end, we beat them,

895
00:45:03,199 --> 00:45:04,360
not that long ago.

896
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 5: We can do it again.

897
00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:09,159
Speaker 6: And so it's a different team because of who's playing

898
00:45:09,199 --> 00:45:12,079
quarterback now, but it still doesn't change your belief in

899
00:45:12,119 --> 00:45:14,960
what you can do against the same uniform the same helmet.

900
00:45:15,159 --> 00:45:18,360
They still sharkly, they had aj Brownlake, they still had

901
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:21,800
Jimmies and Joe's out there. And with the way that

902
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,239
Jayden's playing right now, the way that everybody on that

903
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:27,320
team is stepping up, and Bobby Wagner and Austin Eckler

904
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finding the fountain of youth, it is a confident bunch

905
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right now. And when you go bully a bully like

906
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they did against the Detroit Lions and their building, man,

907
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,320
that goes a long way for me. I think they

908
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:42,880
have every opportunity to win this football game.

909
00:45:43,039 --> 00:45:45,480
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